(MUSIC) 00:00:00.73\00:00:35.20 >>GOOD MORNING, FRIENDS. 00:00:35.23\00:00:36.43 WELCOME TO SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR, COMING TO YOU FROM THE 00:00:36.46\00:00:38.97 GRANITE BAY SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH IN 00:00:39.00\00:00:41.80 CALIFORNIA. I'D LIKE TO WELCOME OUR ONLINE 00:00:41.84\00:00:43.61 MEMBERS AND THOSE JOINING US ON THE VARIOUS TELEVISION NETWORKS. 00:00:43.64\00:00:47.14 WE HAVE, INDEED, AN INTERNATIONAL SABBATH SCHOOL 00:00:47.18\00:00:49.71 CLASS OF PEOPLE TUNING IN ALL OVER THE WORLD TO STUDY THE 00:00:49.74\00:00:53.62 WORD. WELL, WE'VE BEEN STUDYING 00:00:53.65\00:00:55.22 THROUGH OUR LESSON QUARTERLY DEALING WITH THE FIRST AND THE 00:00:55.25\00:00:57.79 SECOND BOOKS OF PETER. TODAY WE FIND OURSELVES IN 00:00:57.82\00:01:00.69 LESSON #10 ENTITLED PROPHECY AND SCRIPTURE. 00:01:00.72\00:01:04.79 NOW, BEFORE WE GET TO OUR LESSON, WE'D LIKE TO LET THOSE 00:01:04.83\00:01:06.66 WHO ARE VIEWING KNOW ABOUT OUR FREE RESOURCE FOR TODAY, A BOOK 00:01:06.70\00:01:10.17 CALLED ULTIMATE RESOURCE TALKING ABOUT THE BIBLE, WRITTEN BY 00:01:10.20\00:01:13.50 PASTOR DOUG. FOR ANYBODY WANTING TO RECEIVE 00:01:13.54\00:01:15.97 OUR FREE OFFER, GIVE US A CALL. THE NUMBER IS 866-788-3966 AND 00:01:16.00\00:01:22.11 YOU CAN ASK FOR OFFER #728. WE'LL BE HAPPY TO SEND THIS TO 00:01:22.14\00:01:26.45 ANYBODY WHO CALLS AND ASKS. NOW, FOR THOSE OUTSIDE OF NORTH 00:01:26.48\00:01:30.29 AMERICA, YOU CAN ALSO READ THE BOOK FOR FREE, JUST GO TO THE 00:01:30.32\00:01:33.39 AMAZING FACTS WEBSITE, JUST AMAZINGFACTS.ORG . 00:01:33.42\00:01:37.56 WELL, BEFORE WE GET TO OUR STUDY, WE ALWAYS LIKE TO BEGIN 00:01:37.59\00:01:40.60 BY LIFTING OUR VOICES IN SONG, SO WE'RE GOING TO HAVE OUR SONG 00:01:40.63\00:01:43.87 LEADERS LEAD US IN A MUSICAL ITEM. 00:01:43.90\00:01:46.53 (PIANO MUSIC) >>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS. 00:01:46.57\00:01:51.91 AND, LIKE HE SAID, WELCOMING THOSE FROM AROUND THE WORLD WHO 00:01:51.94\00:01:55.94 JOIN US EVERY WEEK. WE'RE GOING TO SING YOUR 00:01:55.98\00:01:58.48 FAVORITES - THEY'RE OURS AS WELL. 00:01:58.51\00:02:01.05 SO I WOULD LOVE FOR YOU TO TURN TO OUR FIRST SONG TODAY, #44 IN 00:02:01.08\00:02:06.62 YOUR HYMNAL. IF YOU HAVE THAT AT HOME, JOIN 00:02:06.65\00:02:08.22 WITH US - MORNING HAS BROKEN - I PICKED SOME OF MY CHILDHOOD 00:02:08.26\00:02:12.46 FAVORITES SO WE'RE GOING TO SING THOSE TODAY. 00:02:12.49\00:02:16.30 WE'RE GOING TO DO ALL THREE STANZAS - #44. 00:02:16.33\00:02:19.33 (PIANO MUSIC) 00:02:19.37\00:02:21.04 >>AT THIS TIME PASTOR ROSS IS GOING TO HAVE OUR OPENING 00:04:17.25\00:04:19.65 PRAYER. >>LET'S BOW OUR HEADS 00:04:19.69\00:04:21.76 FOR A WORD OF PRAYER. DEAR FATHER IN HEAVEN, WHAT A 00:04:21.79\00:04:24.26 PRIVILEGE TO BE ABLE TO GATHER TOGETHER HERE ON THE SABBATH TO 00:04:24.29\00:04:27.13 OPEN UP YOUR WORD AND STUDY. WE, INDEED, HAVE RECEIVED MUCH 00:04:27.13\00:04:31.27 INSTRUCTION AND BLESSING, SO FAR, IN OUR STUDY OF THE 00:04:31.30\00:04:34.34 BOOKS OF 1 AND 2 PETER. TODAY WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING 00:04:34.37\00:04:37.11 AT PROPHECY AS REVEALED IN THESE IMPORTANT BOOKS. 00:04:37.14\00:04:41.18 SO WE ASK FOR YOUR HOLY SPIRIT TO BE WITH US. 00:04:41.21\00:04:43.01 GUIDE OUR THOUGHTS - OUR HEARTS, LORD. 00:04:43.04\00:04:44.61 LEAD US INTO A CLEARER AND FULLER UNDERSTANDING OF YOUR 00:04:44.65\00:04:46.85 WORD, FOR WE ASK THIS IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. 00:04:46.88\00:04:51.15 OUR LESSON THIS MORNING IS GOING TO BE BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR 00:04:51.19\00:04:53.09 DOUG. >>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS. 00:04:53.12\00:04:59.49 I'M GLAD YOU MADE IT SAFELY BACK FROM SERBIA. 00:04:59.53\00:05:02.53 THAT'S ONE OF THE PLACES I'VE NEVER BEEN BEFORE. 00:05:02.56\00:05:05.23 GOOD MORNING. >>GOOD MORNING. 00:05:05.27\00:05:06.84 >>HOW IS EVERYBODY? THANK YOU FOR COMING. 00:05:06.87\00:05:08.54 I WANT TO WELCOME OUR VIEWING AUDIENCE - I GUESS YOU'VE BEEN 00:05:08.57\00:05:11.31 THOROUGHLY WELCOMED ALREADY AND - BUT I LIKE TO DO IT TOO - AND 00:05:11.34\00:05:15.98 WE KNOW THAT WE MEET PEOPLE JUST ALL OVER THE WORLD AND SOMETIMES 00:05:16.01\00:05:20.02 IT'S JUST - CAN I SAY 'MIND-BLOWING' IN CHURCH? 00:05:20.05\00:05:24.85 USED TO BE A WORD WE USED WHEN I WAS A HIPPIE. 00:05:24.89\00:05:26.89 IT HAD A DIFFERENT CONNOTATION, BUT IT IS KIND OF MIND-BLOWING 00:05:26.92\00:05:30.59 WHEN WE THINK ABOUT ALL THE PEOPLE THAT WE MEET ALL AROUND 00:05:30.63\00:05:33.36 THE WORLD THAT ARE PART OF THE CLASS. 00:05:33.40\00:05:35.66 WE ARE CONTINUING OUR STUDY IN 1 AND 2 PETER, THE LESSON DEALING 00:05:35.70\00:05:41.54 WITH FEEDING MY SHEEP . AND I KNOW I'VE SAID THIS 00:05:41.57\00:05:43.41 BEFORE, BUT I - I'D LIKE TO JUST SAY WHAT A PRIVILEGE IT IS - 00:05:43.44\00:05:46.51 IT'S A BLESSING FOR ME BECAUSE AS I STUDY THE LESSON, THEN I'M 00:05:46.54\00:05:52.21 LEARNING NEW THINGS ALL THE TIME. 00:05:52.25\00:05:54.32 AND, YOU KNOW, THE IDEA IS, THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH - 00:05:54.35\00:05:57.62 WE ARRANGE THINGS WHERE WE TAKE EVERYBODY THROUGH THE MAJOR 00:05:57.65\00:06:01.26 THEMES OF THE BIBLE OVER A PERIOD OF FIVE YEARS. 00:06:01.29\00:06:04.79 AND SO, IN FIVE YEARS' TIME, IF YOU'VE BEEN DOING YOUR STUDY 00:06:04.83\00:06:07.20 GUIDE, YOU ARE GOING TO GO THROUGH THE BIBLE. 00:06:07.23\00:06:09.33 ANY OF YOU EVER LISTEN TO A - THERE WAS A RADIO PREACHER, HE'S 00:06:09.36\00:06:12.90 GOT A VERY THICK SOUTHERN ACCENT - HE'S ACTUALLY PASSED AWAY, BUT 00:06:12.93\00:06:16.04 HIS PROGRAMS ARE STILL ON THE AIR - CALLED THROUGH THE 00:06:16.07\00:06:18.61 BIBLE - J. VERNON MCGEE? DO ANY OF YOU REMEMBER? 00:06:18.64\00:06:21.11 I SEE SOME OF YOU - J. VERNON MCGEE - 00:06:21.14\00:06:23.01 JUST A VERY INTERESTING PREACHER, BUT THAT 00:06:23.04\00:06:25.78 WAS HIS PROGRAM IS HE WOULD GO VERSE BY VERSE THROUGH THE 00:06:25.81\00:06:29.75 BIBLE, OVER A PERIOD OF FIVE YEARS. 00:06:29.78\00:06:32.75 AND I ENJOYED, SOMETIMES, LISTENING TO HIM - DIDN'T ALWAYS 00:06:32.79\00:06:37.46 AGREE WITH EVERYTHING HE SAID - HE KIND OF CAME FROM A 00:06:37.49\00:06:39.36 CALVINISTIC POINT OF VIEW, BUT HE'S FUN TO LISTEN TO BECAUSE, 00:06:39.39\00:06:42.23 BOY HE HAD A THICK SOUTHERN ACCENT. 00:06:42.26\00:06:44.53 MATTER OF FACT, ONE TIME HE SAID HE WAS IN A RESTAURANT AND, EVEN 00:06:44.57\00:06:47.67 THOUGH HE'S IN RADIO, YOU NEVER SEE HIS FACE, AND HE ORDERED 00:06:47.70\00:06:50.31 SOMETHING - ALL HE HAD TO DO WAS ORDER HIS FOOD AND SHE SAID, 00:06:50.34\00:06:52.51 'YOU'RE THAT PASTOR ON THE RADIO. (LAUGHTER) 00:06:52.54\00:06:56.21 ANYWAY, SO WE ARE LEARNING MORE ABOUT PETER. 00:06:56.24\00:06:59.65 WE'RE ON LESSON #10 TODAY, DEALING WITH THE SUBJECT OF 00:06:59.68\00:07:03.62 JESUS, PROPHECY, AND SCRIPTURE AND WE HAVE ONE SECTION THAT 00:07:03.65\00:07:08.52 TALKS ABOUT JESUS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. 00:07:08.56\00:07:10.19 PROPHECY AND SCRIPTURE - OUR MEMORY VERSE IS FROM 2 PETER 00:07:10.23\00:07:13.56 1:19 - 2 PETER 1:19 - IF YOU'D LIKE TO SAY THAT WITH ME, THAT'D 00:07:13.60\00:07:17.80 BE GREAT. ARE YOU READY? 00:07:17.83\00:07:19.80 "WE HAVE ALSO A MORE SURE WORD OF PROPHECY; WHEREUNTO YE DO 00:07:19.83\00:07:25.57 WELL THAT YE TAKE HEED, AS UNTO A LIGHT THAT SHINETH IN A DARK 00:07:25.61\00:07:30.58 PLACE, UNTIL THE DAY DAWN, AND THE DAY STAR ARISE IN YOUR 00:07:30.61\00:07:34.82 HEARTS:" NOW, I'M NOT GOING TO SAY A LOT ABOUT THE MEMORY VERSE 00:07:34.85\00:07:37.72 NOW, BECAUSE IT COMES UP LATER IN THE LESSON. 00:07:37.75\00:07:41.32 NOW THE FIRST SECTION, WE'RE GOING TO DIVE RIGHT INTO BECAUSE 00:07:41.36\00:07:43.63 IT'S A LONG ONE - AT LEAST I'M MAKING IT LONG - IS ABOUT JESUS 00:07:43.66\00:07:47.93 IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. ONE OF THE THEMES THAT PETER 00:07:47.96\00:07:51.50 ADDRESSES IN HIS LETTERS IS HOW INTEGRAL JESUS IS IN PROPHECY. 00:07:51.53\00:07:59.31 AND JUST TO BEGIN, WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT THAT VERSE THERE ON 1 00:07:59.34\00:08:04.25 PETER 1:10 - 1 PETER CHAPTER 1, VERSES 10 AND 11, "OF THIS 00:08:04.28\00:08:10.02 SALVATION THE PROPHETS HAVE INQUIRED AND SEARCHED CAREFULLY, 00:08:10.05\00:08:14.99 WHO PROPHESIED OF THE GRACE THAT WOULD COME TO YOU, SEARCHING 00:08:15.02\00:08:18.66 WHAT, OR WHAT MANNER OF TIME, THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST WHO WAS IN 00:08:18.69\00:08:23.37 THEM WAS INDICATING WHEN HE TESTIFIED BEFOREHAND THE 00:08:23.40\00:08:26.74 SUFFERINGS OF CHRIST AND THE GLORIES THAT WOULD FOLLOW." 00:08:26.77\00:08:29.67 SO WHAT PETER IS SAYING HERE - HE SAID, THE SALVATION I PREACH 00:08:29.70\00:08:32.77 TO YOU IS THE SALVATION THE PROPHETS LOVE TO LOOK INTO AND 00:08:32.81\00:08:37.48 THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST, IN THE PROPHETS, WAS PROPHESYING ABOUT 00:08:37.51\00:08:41.18 CHRIST AND NOW WE'RE THE ONES THAT GET TO SEE THE REALITY OF 00:08:41.22\00:08:45.12 ALL THE THINGS THEY PROPHESIED ABOUT. 00:08:45.15\00:08:47.02 SO WAY BACK IN PETER'S DAY, HE SAID, 'WHAT A BLESSED GENERATION 00:08:47.06\00:08:49.69 THAT WE'RE THE ONES WHO LIVE TO SEE AND WITNESS ALL THE 00:08:49.72\00:08:52.99 OLD TESTAMENT PROPHETS POINTED TO. 00:08:53.03\00:08:55.50 NOW, I BELIEVE THAT THE WHOLE BIBLE IS ABOUT JESUS. 00:08:55.53\00:09:00.97 THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE THEMES. 00:09:01.00\00:09:02.87 ALL THE BIBLE IS REALLY TELLING US ABOUT JESUS. 00:09:02.90\00:09:05.34 YOU LOOK, FOR INSTANCE, IN LUKE 24 AND YOU SEE IN LUKE 24, VERSE 00:09:05.37\00:09:09.74 27, "AND BEGINNING" - THESE - THIS IS TALKING ABOUT JESUS ON 00:09:09.78\00:09:14.25 THE ROAD TO EMMAUS - "AND BEGINNING AT MOSES" - WHAT'S THE 00:09:14.28\00:09:18.15 FIRST BOOK IN THE BIBLE? >>GENESIS. 00:09:18.19\00:09:20.69 >>GENESIS, WRITTEN BY? >>MOSES. 00:09:20.72\00:09:23.16 >>SO STARTING AT THE BEGINNING OF THE BIBLE - "AND ALL THE 00:09:23.19\00:09:25.69 PROPHETS, HE" - JESUS - "EXPOUNDED TO THEM IN ALL THE 00:09:25.73\00:09:30.40 SCRIPTURES THE THINGS CONCERNING HIMSELF." 00:09:30.43\00:09:34.27 ALL OF THE PROPHETS IN ALL OF THE SCRIPTURES TALK ABOUT WHO? 00:09:34.30\00:09:37.67 >>JESUS. >>SAME STORY, A LITTLE LATER IN 00:09:37.71\00:09:40.14 THAT CHAPTER - GO TO VERSE 44 - LUKE 24:44 - NOW JESUS IS IN THE 00:09:40.18\00:09:44.65 UPPER ROOM WITH HIS DISCIPLES AND HE SAYS, "THESE ARE THE 00:09:44.68\00:09:47.52 WORDS WHICH I SPOKE TO YOU WHILE I WAS STILL WITH YOU, THAT ALL 00:09:47.55\00:09:50.52 THINGS MUST BE FULFILLED WHICH WERE WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES 00:09:50.55\00:09:55.76 AND THE PROPHETS AND THE PSALMS CONCERNING ME." - LAW OF MOSES, 00:09:55.79\00:09:59.33 PROPHETS, PSALMS - ALL WERE WRITTEN CONCERNING ME. 00:09:59.36\00:10:02.60 SO THIS IDEA THAT YOU SEE JESUS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT DOESN'T 00:10:02.63\00:10:06.17 JUST COME FROM PETER, IT COMES FROM JESUS. 00:10:06.20\00:10:09.27 THAT WHEN YOU'RE READING THROUGH THE OLD TESTAMENT AND, YOU KNOW, 00:10:09.30\00:10:12.27 IF YOU'VE BEEN HERE ANY LENGTH OF TIME, THAT'S ONE OF MY 00:10:12.31\00:10:14.78 FAVORITE THINGS TO DO. LATER TODAY WE'RE 00:10:14.81\00:10:16.71 TALKING ABOUT DAVID. I WANT TO ALWAYS BE DRAWING 00:10:16.75\00:10:19.11 PEOPLE TO SEE JESUS IN ALL THESE STORIES. 00:10:19.15\00:10:22.02 AND THIS IS WHAT CHRIST DID. THE LAW OF MOSES, AND THE 00:10:22.05\00:10:25.72 PROPHETS, AND THE PSALMS - WHO WROTE MOST OF THE PSALMS? 00:10:25.75\00:10:28.39 >>DAVID. >>DAVID - "CONCERNING ME." 00:10:28.42\00:10:31.83 SO YOU HAVE A MANDATE - YOU'VE GOT A CHALLENGE FROM JESUS TO 00:10:31.86\00:10:35.80 FIND JESUS ALL THROUGH THESE STORIES IN THE BIBLE. 00:10:35.83\00:10:39.77 IT SAYS, "AND HE OPENED THEIR UNDERSTANDING, THAT THEY MIGHT 00:10:39.80\00:10:42.14 COMPREHEND THE SCRIPTURES." NOW, WHEN JESUS SAID THIS, IN 00:10:42.17\00:10:44.97 THE BOOK OF LUKE 24, HOW MUCH OF THE NEW TESTAMENT WAS WRITTEN? 00:10:45.01\00:10:53.15 THERE WAS NO NEW TESTAMENT YET - THIS WAS RIGHT AFTER THE 00:10:53.18\00:10:55.28 RESURRECTION. SO WHEN JESUS GAVE HIM UNDERSTANDING FOR THE 00:10:55.32\00:10:59.02 SCRIPTURES, WHAT PART OF THE BIBLE WERE THEY READING? 00:10:59.05\00:11:02.42 >>OLD TESTAMENT. >>THE OLD TESTAMENT. 00:11:02.46\00:11:04.03 DID THEY HAVE ALL OF THE OLD TESTAMENT AT THAT POINT? 00:11:04.06\00:11:06.90 THEY DID, BECAUSE THERE'S ABOUT 400 YEARS FROM MALACHI TO 00:11:06.93\00:11:10.33 MATTHEW. SO THE OLD TESTAMENT THAT YOU 00:11:10.37\00:11:12.40 AND I READ WAS THE SAME OLD TESTAMENT THE DISCIPLES 00:11:12.43\00:11:15.14 READ BACK THEN. IT WAS COMPLETE. 00:11:15.17\00:11:17.57 THE ARGUMENTS, TODAY, ABOUT DIFFERENT TRANSLATIONS AND 00:11:17.61\00:11:21.31 MISSING BOOKS AND STUFF, IT ALMOST NEVER HAS TO DO WITH THE 00:11:21.34\00:11:23.41 OLD TESTAMENT, IT'S ALMOST ALWAYS TALKING ABOUT THESE 00:11:23.45\00:11:25.35 APOCRYPHAL BOOKS FROM THE NEW TESTAMENT, BUT IT ALL TELLS US 00:11:25.38\00:11:29.02 ABOUT JESUS. IT'S A PICTURE OF JESUS, AND 00:11:29.05\00:11:33.19 ONCE YOU GET THE PICTURE OF JESUS, EVERYTHING ELSE 00:11:33.22\00:11:36.29 STARTS TO MAKE SENSE. AND SO, LOOK FOR 00:11:36.32\00:11:39.69 HIM, HE IS THERE. ALRIGHT, SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ 00:11:39.73\00:11:42.10 A VERSE FOR ME IN JUST A MOMENT. I THINK IT'S JOHN - THE GOSPEL 00:11:42.13\00:11:45.07 OF JOHN 5:39 - YOU'LL HAVE THAT HAFDIS? ALRIGHT, I'M 00:11:45.10\00:11:48.44 GOING TO READ JOHN 1:44. WHEN THE APOSTLES FIRST FOUND JESUS, 00:11:48.47\00:11:54.34 HOW DID THEY INTRODUCE THEIR FIND TO EACH OTHER? 00:11:54.38\00:11:57.98 AT THE BAPTISM OF JOHN IT TELLS YOU, "NOW PHILIP WAS FROM 00:11:58.01\00:12:01.38 BETHSAIDA, THE CITY OF ANDREW AND PETER." 00:12:01.42\00:12:04.02 WHOSE BOOK ARE WE STUDYING RIGHT NOW? 00:12:04.05\00:12:05.55 >>PETER. >>PETER. 00:12:05.59\00:12:07.29 HE "FOUND NATHANAEL AND SAID TO HIM, 'WE HAVE FOUND HIM OF WHOM 00:12:07.32\00:12:11.89 MOSES IN THE LAW, AND ALSO THE PROPHETS, WROTE - JESUS OF 00:12:11.93\00:12:17.83 NAZARETH, THE SON OF JOSEPH.'" SO WHEN THEY SAID 'WE FOUND THE 00:12:17.87\00:12:21.74 MESSIAH', HOW DID THEY KNOW THEY FOUND THE MESSIAH? 00:12:21.77\00:12:23.74 HE IS THE ONE THAT MOSES AND THE PROPHETS WROTE ABOUT. 00:12:23.77\00:12:27.94 IS THAT CLEAR? AND SO, DO WE HAVE JESUS 00:12:27.98\00:12:30.38 IN ALL THE PROPHECIES? THEY KNEW THAT BACK THEN. 00:12:30.41\00:12:33.78 NOW THIS IS - THE REASON I HARP ON THIS - I GO FROM CHURCH TO 00:12:33.82\00:12:37.22 CHURCH - I VISIT LOTS OF CHURCHES - I ALMOST NEVER HEAR A 00:12:37.25\00:12:40.09 SERMON ON CHRIST THROUGHOUT THE OLD TESTAMENT. IT'S PRETTY RARE. 00:12:40.12\00:12:46.70 AND, IF YOU GO, THAT'S TRUE IN OUR CHURCH, YOU GO TO YOUR 00:12:46.73\00:12:49.76 TYPICAL EVANGELICAL CHURCH THAT I OCCASIONALLY VISIT, OR I'M IN 00:12:49.80\00:12:53.17 A SERVICE WHERE THE EVANGELICALS ARE LEADING OUT, THEY JUST DON'T 00:12:53.20\00:12:56.77 SEE - I'VE BEEN TO SUNDAY CHURCHES WHERE THEY SUPPLY 00:12:56.81\00:12:59.54 BIBLES FOR THEIR PEOPLE; IT'S JUST THE NEW TESTAMENT. 00:12:59.57\00:13:02.81 THEY DON'T EVEN HAVE THE BIBLE THAT JESUS USED TO FIGHT THE 00:13:02.84\00:13:04.85 DEVIL. HOW DID JESUS RESIST TEMPTATION? 00:13:04.88\00:13:08.55 QUOTED SCRIPTURE TO THE DEVIL. WAS IT NEW TESTAMENT HE QUOTED? 00:13:08.58\00:13:12.55 NOW, YOU CERTAINLY CAN QUOTE THE NEW TESTAMENT, DON'T 00:13:12.59\00:13:14.36 MISUNDERSTAND, BUT WHAT A SAD THING TO LEAVE THE OLD TESTAMENT 00:13:14.39\00:13:18.73 OUT OF THE CHURCH. ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD, READ FOR US, PLEASE. 00:13:18.76\00:13:23.26 >>"YOU SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES FOR IN THEM YOU THINK YOU HAVE 00:13:23.30\00:13:26.77 ETERNAL LIFE AND THESE ARE THEY WHICH TESTIFY OF ME" 00:13:26.80\00:13:31.61 >>NOW, YOU KNOW WHY THIS IS SUCH AN IMPORTANT STATEMENT? 00:13:31.64\00:13:33.88 HERE, JESUS IS SPEAKING AND HE SAID, 'THE SCRIPTURES TESTIFY OF 00:13:33.91\00:13:37.61 ME'. WELL, EARLIER I SAID MOSES, 00:13:37.65\00:13:39.51 PSALMS, PROPHETS - JESUS DOES NOT EVEN IDENTIFY A PARTICULAR 00:13:39.55\00:13:44.42 BOOK; HE TALKS ABOUT THE SCRIPTURES AS A UNITED WHOLE. 00:13:44.45\00:13:47.62 HE SAID, 'THE SCRIPTURES TESTIFY'. SO WHICH SCRIPTURE 00:13:47.66\00:13:51.83 WOULD THAT BE? IT SAYS IN ALL THE SCRIPTURES. LET ME READ 00:13:51.86\00:13:57.00 SOMETHING TO YOU. I'VE GOT - WHENEVER I TEACH AN AFCOE CLASS, 00:13:57.03\00:14:01.84 ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS I DO WHEN I DO MY PRESENTATION IS I 00:14:01.87\00:14:05.37 READ SOME OF THESE QUOTES TO THEM. 00:14:05.41\00:14:06.61 SO, BEAR WITH ME, I'M GOING TO READ A LITTLE BIT TO YOU HERE. 00:14:06.64\00:14:09.84 THIS IS FROM A BOOK CALLED - IT'S A DEVOTIONAL - IT'S A QUOTE 00:14:09.88\00:14:13.55 FROM E.G. WHITE - THE BOOK IS CALLED THAT I MAY KNOW HIM - 00:14:13.58\00:14:16.99 IT'S PAGE 208 - IT'S A WHOLE DAY'S SPIRITUAL DEVOTIONAL AND 00:14:17.02\00:14:21.52 IT'S USING THE VERSE THAT WE JUST READ, "AND BEGINNING AT 00:14:21.56\00:14:24.16 MOSES" - LUKE 24:27 - "AND ALL THE PROPHETS HE EXPOUNDED UNTO 00:14:24.19\00:14:28.06 THEM IN ALL THE SCRIPTURES, THE THINGS CONCERNING HIMSELF." 00:14:28.10\00:14:30.90 ALRIGHT, I'M READING, "THERE IS ONE GREAT CENTRAL TRUTH TO BE 00:14:30.93\00:14:35.50 KEPT EVER BEFORE THE MIND IN SEARCHING THE SCRIPTURES" - WHAT 00:14:35.54\00:14:39.27 DO YOU SUPPOSE THAT MIGHT BE? - "CHRIST AND HIM CRUCIFIED. 00:14:39.31\00:14:43.31 EVERY OTHER TRUTH IS INVESTED WITH INFLUENCE AND POWER 00:14:43.35\00:14:46.82 CORRESPONDING TO ITS RELATION TO THIS THEME." - 00:14:46.85\00:14:49.52 THE WHOLE BIBLE IS ABOUT CHRIST AND HIM CRUCIFIED. 00:14:49.55\00:14:52.15 YOU REALIZE I'M DOING COMMENTARY AS I READ? 00:14:52.19\00:14:54.69 SORRY, I CAN'T HELP IT. IT'S CALLED A.D.D. 00:14:54.72\00:14:57.29 PREACHING - "IT IS ONLY IN THE LIGHT OF THE CROSS THAT WE CAN 00:14:57.33\00:15:01.00 DISCERN THE EXALTED CHARACTER OF THE LAW OF GOD. 00:15:01.03\00:15:04.13 THE SOUL PALSIED BY SIN CAN BE ENDOWED WITH LIFE ONLY THROUGH 00:15:04.17\00:15:08.04 THE WORK WROUGHT OUT UPON THE CROSS BY THE AUTHOR OF OUR 00:15:08.07\00:15:11.11 SALVATION. THE LOVE OF CHRIST CONSTRAINS 00:15:11.14\00:15:13.11 MAN TO UNITE WITH HIM IN HIS LABORS AND SACRIFICE. 00:15:13.14\00:15:16.48 THE REVELATION OF DIVINE LOVE AWAKENS IN THEM A SENSE OF THEIR 00:15:16.51\00:15:19.98 NEGLECTED OBLIGATION TO BE LIGHT BEARERS TO THE WORLD, AND 00:15:20.02\00:15:22.95 INSPIRES THEM WITH A MISSIONARY SPIRIT. 00:15:22.98\00:15:25.32 THIS TRUTH ENLIGHTENS THE MIND AND SANCTIFIES THE SOUL. 00:15:25.35\00:15:28.79 IT WILL BANISH UNBELIEF AND INSPIRE FAITH....WHEN CHRIST IN 00:15:28.82\00:15:32.39 HIS WORK OF REDEMPTION IS SEEN TO BE THE GREAT CENTRAL TRUTH OF 00:15:32.43\00:15:36.73 THE SYSTEM OF TRUTH, A NEW LIGHT IS SHED UPON ALL THE EVENTS OF 00:15:36.77\00:15:40.37 THE PAST AND THE FUTURE. THEY ARE SEEN IN A NEW RELATION, 00:15:40.40\00:15:43.24 AND POSSESS A NEW AND DEEPER SIGNIFICANCE. 00:15:43.27\00:15:46.17 THE OLD" - HERE'S THE PART I ESPECIALLY WANT YOU TO CATCH - 00:15:46.21\00:15:49.18 "THE OLD TESTAMENT IS AS VERILY THE GOSPEL IN ITS TYPES AND 00:15:49.21\00:15:53.42 SHADOWS AS THE NEW TESTAMENT IN ITS UNFOLDING POWER." 00:15:53.45\00:15:57.52 - THE OLD TESTAMENT'S THE GOSPEL TOO. 00:15:57.55\00:15:59.39 >>AMEN. >>"THE NEW TESTAMENT DOES NOT 00:15:59.42\00:16:02.26 PRESENT A NEW RELIGION; THE OLD TESTAMENT DOES NOT PRESENT A 00:16:02.29\00:16:06.29 RELIGION TO BE SUPERSEDED BY THE NEW. 00:16:06.33\00:16:08.76 THE NEW TESTAMENT IS ONLY THE ADVANCEMENT AND UNFOLDING OF THE 00:16:08.80\00:16:11.93 OLD. ABEL" - IN THE OLD TESTAMENT - 00:16:11.97\00:16:14.40 "WAS A BELIEVER IN CHRIST AND WAS AS VERILY SAVED BY HIS POWER 00:16:14.44\00:16:18.44 AS WAS...THE BELOVED DISCIPLE JOHN...THAT GOD WHO WALKED WITH 00:16:18.47\00:16:23.81 ENOCH WAS OUR LORD AND SAVIOR, JESUS CHRIST. 00:16:23.85\00:16:26.45 HE WAS THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD THEN, JUST AS HE IS NOW. 00:16:26.48\00:16:29.92 THE TRUTH FOR THIS TIME IS BROAD IN ITS OUTLINES, FAR 00:16:29.95\00:16:33.09 REACHING, EMBRACING MANY DOCTRINES, BUT THESE DOCTRINES 00:16:33.12\00:16:37.29 ARE NOT DETACHED ITEMS WHICH MEAN LITTLE; THEY ARE UNITED BY 00:16:37.33\00:16:40.43 GOLDEN THREADS, FORMING A COMPLETE WHOLE, WITH CHRIST AS 00:16:40.46\00:16:44.37 THE LIVING CENTER." AND SO, YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE IS 00:16:44.40\00:16:48.40 LIKE A TAPESTRY AND IF YOU LOOK AT A TAPESTRY FROM THE BACK 00:16:48.44\00:16:53.78 - HAVE YOU EVER DONE THAT? YOU JUST SEE ALL THESE KNOTS 00:16:53.81\00:16:56.98 TIED OFF AND THREADS KIND OF HANGING AND YOU'RE GOING, 00:16:57.01\00:16:59.35 'WHAT IN THE WORLD?' BUT, IF YOU GO AROUND THE OTHER 00:16:59.38\00:17:02.62 SIDE, IT STARTS TO MAKE SENSE WHEN YOU SEE THE 00:17:02.65\00:17:05.09 PICTURE OF THE TAPESTRY. AND SO, THE PICTURE IN THE 00:17:05.12\00:17:09.39 TAPESTRY OF THE BIBLE IS CHRIST. AND JESUS' SALVATION AND THE 00:17:09.42\00:17:14.36 CROSS IS THE GOLDEN THREAD THAT RUNS THROUGH THE WHOLE TAPESTRY. 00:17:14.40\00:17:18.63 YOU KNOW, THEY USED TO HAVE A LOT OF BEAUTIFUL TAPESTRIES IN 00:17:18.67\00:17:24.31 EUROPE THAT WERE VERY EXPENSIVE, VERY EXQUISITE, BECAUSE THERE 00:17:24.34\00:17:29.51 WAS A PERIOD OF TIME WHEN THESE TAPESTRIES MADE - I THINK THEY 00:17:29.54\00:17:32.08 WERE IN TURKEY - THEY WOVE - WHENEVER THEY WANTED SOMETHING 00:17:32.11\00:17:35.32 TO SHINE WITH GOLD, THESE ROYAL TAPESTRIES ACTUALLY WOVE GOLD 00:17:35.35\00:17:38.82 THREADS ALL THROUGHOUT THE TAPESTRY. 00:17:38.85\00:17:41.26 WELL, IN THE VARIOUS WARS, THEY WOULD BURN THE TAPESTRIES 00:17:41.29\00:17:44.19 TO GET THOSE FEW GOLD THREADS, AND SO, SO MANY OF THEM HAVE 00:17:44.23\00:17:47.03 BEEN LOST - IT'S VERY SAD. BUT CHRIST IS THAT GOLDEN 00:17:47.10\00:17:51.00 THREAD THAT SHE TALKS ABOUT. LET ME READ ANOTHER ONE TO YOU. 00:17:51.03\00:17:55.14 NOW THIS IS FROM CHARLES SPURGEON. 00:17:55.17\00:17:58.67 SOME OF YOU HAVE READ HIS FAMOUS DEVOTIONAL MORNING AND EVENING - 00:17:58.71\00:18:02.58 ANYONE CAN DOWNLOAD IT FOR FREE, BUT THIS IS PROBABLY MY FAVORITE 00:18:02.61\00:18:09.15 QUOTE FROM SPURGEON. HE'S A GREAT PREACHER. 00:18:09.18\00:18:14.29 JOHN 5:39 - IT'S A DAILY MORNING DEVOTIONAL AND THIS IS THE PART 00:18:14.32\00:18:18.79 WHERE IT SAYS, "THESE ARE THEY WHICH TESTIFY OF ME" - LISTEN, 00:18:18.83\00:18:21.93 "JESUS CHRIST IS THE ALPHA AND OMEGA OF THE BIBLE. HE IS THE 00:18:21.96\00:18:26.27 CONSTANT THEME OF ITS SACRED PAGES. FROM THE FIRST TO THE 00:18:26.30\00:18:30.14 LAST THEY TESTIFY OF HIM. AT THE CREATION WE AT ONCE 00:18:30.17\00:18:33.51 DISCERN HIM AS ONE OF THE SACRED TRINITY. 00:18:33.54\00:18:36.95 WE CATCH A GLIMPSE OF HIM IN THE PROMISE OF THE WOMAN'S SEED; WE 00:18:36.98\00:18:40.32 SEE HIM TYPIFIED IN THE ARK OF NOAH; WE WALK WITH ABRAHAM, AS 00:18:40.35\00:18:44.29 HE SEES MESSIAH'S DAY; WE DWELL IN THE TENTS OF ISAAC AND JACOB, 00:18:44.32\00:18:48.46 FEEDING UPON THE GRACIOUS PROMISE; WE HEAR THE VENERABLE 00:18:48.49\00:18:51.79 ISRAEL TALKING OF SHILOH; AND IN THE NUMEROUS TYPES OF THE LAW, 00:18:51.83\00:18:56.03 WE FIND THE REDEEMER ABUNDANTLY FORESHADOWED. 00:18:56.06\00:18:59.00 PROPHETS AND KINGS, PRIESTS AND PREACHERS, ALL LOOK ONE WAY - 00:18:59.03\00:19:03.04 THEY ALL STAND AS THE CHERUBS DID OVER THE ARK, DESIRING TO 00:19:03.07\00:19:06.44 LOOK WITHIN, AND TO READ THE MYSTERY OF GOD'S GREAT 00:19:06.47\00:19:09.04 PROPITIATION. STILL MORE MANIFESTLY IN THE NEW 00:19:09.08\00:19:12.61 TESTAMENT WE FIND OUR LORD THE ONE PERVADING SUBJECT. 00:19:12.65\00:19:16.79 IT IS NOT AN INGOT HERE AND THERE, OR DUST OF GOLD THINLY 00:19:16.82\00:19:21.32 SCATTERED, BUT HERE YOU STAND UPON A SOLID FLOOR OF GOLD; FOR 00:19:21.36\00:19:25.59 THE WHOLE SUBSTANCE OF THE NEW TESTAMENT IS JESUS CRUCIFIED, 00:19:25.63\00:19:28.60 AND EVEN ITS CLOSING SENTENCE IS BEJEWELED WITH THE REDEEMER'S 00:19:28.63\00:19:31.80 NAME. WE SHOULD ALWAYS READ SCRIPTURE 00:19:31.83\00:19:34.64 IN THIS LIGHT;" - THAT'S WHAT WE'VE BEEN SAYING, IT'S ALL 00:19:34.67\00:19:37.11 ABOUT JESUS - "WE SHOULD CONSIDER THE WORD TO BE AS A 00:19:37.14\00:19:42.28 MIRROR INTO WHICH CHRIST LOOKS DOWN FROM HEAVEN; AND THEN WE, 00:19:42.31\00:19:45.41 LOOKING INTO IT, SEE HIS FACE REFLECTED AS IN A GLASS-DARKLY, 00:19:45.45\00:19:48.78 IT IS TRUE, BUT STILL IN SUCH A WAY AS TO BE A BLESSED 00:19:48.82\00:19:52.29 PREPARATION FOR SEEING HIM AS WE SHALL SEE HIM FACE TO FACE. 00:19:52.32\00:19:56.22 THIS VOLUME" - THE BIBLE - "CONTAINS JESUS CHRIST'S LETTER 00:19:56.26\00:19:59.83 TO US, PERFUMED BY HIS LOVE. THESE PAGES ARE THE GARMENTS OF 00:19:59.86\00:20:04.00 OUR KING, AND THEY ALL SMELL OF MYRRH, AND ALOES, AND CASSIA. 00:20:04.03\00:20:07.94 SCRIPTURE IS THE ROYAL CHARIOT IN WHICH JESUS RIDES, AND IT IS 00:20:07.97\00:20:12.97 PAVED WITH LOVE FOR THE DAUGHTERS OF JERUSALEM. 00:20:13.01\00:20:16.11 THE SCRIPTURES ARE THE SWADDLING BANDS OF THE HOLY CHILD JESUS; 00:20:16.14\00:20:19.88 UNROLL THEM AND YOU FIND YOUR SAVIOR. 00:20:19.91\00:20:22.58 THE QUINTESSENCE OF THE WORD OF GOD IS CHRIST." 00:20:22.62\00:20:25.59 THAT LAST LINE IS - IT REALLY SAYS IT BEAUTIFULLY - THE 00:20:25.62\00:20:29.62 QUINTESSENCE - IT MEANS THE FINAL, MOST IMPORTANT ESSENCE OF 00:20:29.66\00:20:34.30 THE WORD OF GOD IS CHRIST. SO, THAT'S A LONG INTRODUCTION 00:20:34.36\00:20:38.10 TO THAT ONE SECTION WE WERE DOING. AND I HAVEN'T EVEN READ 00:20:38.13\00:20:40.87 IT ALL. BY THE WAY, THOSE WHO ARE WATCHING, IF YOU SAY, 00:20:40.90\00:20:43.51 'PASTOR DOUG, WHERE'D YOU GET THAT QUOTE?' 00:20:43.54\00:20:45.17 I'LL TRY AND REMEMBER TO POST THEM WITH OUR NOTES. 00:20:45.21\00:20:47.61 WE OFTEN POST OUR NOTES AT THE AMAZING FACTS AND GRANITE BAY 00:20:47.64\00:20:51.38 WEBSITES SO YOU CAN LOOK AT THEM. 00:20:51.41\00:20:53.05 ONE MORE, BEAR WITH ME - SOMEONE WROTE THIS...LET ME SEE - I 00:20:53.08\00:20:58.12 DON'T HAVE THE REFERENCE. A PASTOR WROTE THIS YEARS 00:20:58.15\00:21:00.49 AGO AND I BORROWED IT. HE GOES THROUGH THE BIBLE. 00:21:00.52\00:21:05.56 IT SAYS, "CHRIST IS THE THEME OF THE ENTIRE REVELATION OF GOD. 00:21:05.59\00:21:09.93 HE IS PROMISED IN GENESIS, REVEALED IN THE LAW, PREFIGURED 00:21:09.96\00:21:13.27 IN ITS HISTORY, PRAISED IN ITS POETRY, PROCLAIMED IN ITS 00:21:13.30\00:21:16.10 PROPHECY, PROVIDED IN ITS GOSPELS, PROVED IN ITS ACTS, AND 00:21:16.14\00:21:20.08 PREEMINENT IN ITS EPISTLES AND PREVAILING IN REVELATION. 00:21:20.11\00:21:24.75 HE IS SEEN IN EVERY BOOK OF THE BIBLE. 00:21:24.78\00:21:26.48 TAKE A JOURNEY THROUGH THE HALLS OF THE BIBLE AND IN EVERY ONE OF 00:21:26.51\00:21:28.85 THEM YOU WILL SEE CHRIST. IN GENESIS, HE IS THE SEED OF 00:21:28.88\00:21:32.55 THE WOMAN. IN EXODUS, HE IS THE LAMB FOR SINNERS SLAIN. 00:21:32.59\00:21:36.49 IN LEVITICUS, HE IS OUR HIGH PRIEST. 00:21:36.52\00:21:39.13 IN NUMBERS, HE IS THE STAR OF JACOB. 00:21:39.16\00:21:41.56 IN DEUTERONOMY, THE PROPHET LIKE UNTO MOSES AND THE GREAT ROCK. 00:21:41.60\00:21:45.30 IN JOSHUA, HE IS THE CAPTAIN OF THE LORD'S HOST. 00:21:45.33\00:21:48.30 IN JUDGES, HE IS THE MESSENGER OF JEHOVAH. 00:21:48.34\00:21:50.74 IN RUTH, OUR KINSMAN REDEEMER AND FAITHFUL BRIDEGROOM. 00:21:50.77\00:21:54.41 IN 1 SAMUEL HE IS SEEN AS A GREAT JUDGE. 00:21:54.44\00:21:57.35 IN 2 SAMUEL HE IS THE PRINCELY KING. 00:21:57.38\00:22:00.45 IN 1 KINGS, AS DAVID'S CHOICE. IN 2 KINGS, THE HOLIEST OF ALL. 00:22:00.48\00:22:05.42 IN 1 CHRONICLES HE IS THE KING BY BIRTH. 00:22:05.45\00:22:08.56 IN 2 CHRONICLES, A KING BY JUDGMENT. 00:22:08.59\00:22:11.46 IN EZRA HE IS SEEN AS THE LORD OF HEAVEN AND EARTH. 00:22:11.49\00:22:14.56 IN NEHEMIAH HE IS THE BUILDER. IN ESTHER HE IS OUR MORDECAI. 00:22:14.56\00:22:18.80 IN JOB HE IS THE DAYSMAN AND OUR RISEN RETURNING REDEEMER. 00:22:18.83\00:22:23.30 IN [PSALMS], THE SON OF GOD AND THE GOOD SHEPHERD. 00:22:23.34\00:22:26.37 IN PROVERBS, OUR WISDOM. IN ECCLESIASTES, THE 00:22:26.41\00:22:29.18 ONE ABOVE THE SUN. IN THE SONG OF SOLOMON HE IS THE 00:22:29.21\00:22:32.88 GREAT LOVER OF THE CHURCH AND ONE ALTOGETHER LOVELY. 00:22:32.91\00:22:36.89 IN ISAIAH HE IS THE SUFFERING AND GLORIFIED SERVANT. 00:22:36.92\00:22:39.72 IN JEREMIAH, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. 00:22:39.75\00:22:42.06 IN LAMENTATIONS, THE MAN OF SORROW. 00:22:42.09\00:22:44.06 IN EZEKIEL, JESUS IS THE GLORIOUS GOD. 00:22:44.09\00:22:46.90 IN DANIEL HE IS THE SMITING STONE AND THE MESSIAH. 00:22:46.93\00:22:50.90 IN HOSEA HE IS THE RISEN SUN OF GOD. 00:22:50.93\00:22:53.30 IN JOEL HE IS THE POURER OUT OF THE SPIRIT. 00:22:53.34\00:22:56.24 IN AMOS, THE ETERNAL CHRIST. IN OBADIAH, THE 00:22:56.27\00:22:58.94 FORGIVING CHRIST. IN JONAH, THE RISEN PROPHET. 00:22:58.97\00:23:01.68 IN MICAH, THE BETHLEHEMITE. IN NAHUM HE IS THE 00:23:01.71\00:23:04.91 BRINGER OF GOOD TIDINGS. IN HABUKKUK HE IS THE 00:23:04.95\00:23:07.38 LORD IN HIS HOLY TEMPLE. IN ZEPHANIAH, THE 00:23:07.42\00:23:09.58 MERCIFUL CHRIST. IN HAGGAI, THE DESIRE 00:23:09.62\00:23:12.09 OF ALL NATIONS. IN ZECHARIAH HE'S THE BRANCH. 00:23:12.12\00:23:14.56 IN MALACHI HE'S THE SON OF RIGHTEOUSNESS WITH HEALING IN 00:23:14.59\00:23:17.56 HIS WINGS." THAT'S JUST THE OLD TESTAMENT. 00:23:17.59\00:23:20.90 YOU WANT ME TO KEEP GOING? >>YES. 00:23:20.93\00:23:23.33 >>"IN MATTHEW HE IS THE KING OF THE JEWS. 00:23:23.37\00:23:26.30 IN MARK, THE SERVANT. IN LUKE, THE PERFECT SON OF MAN. 00:23:26.33\00:23:29.00 IN JOHN, THE SON OF GOD. IN ACTS, THE ASCENDED LORD. 00:23:29.04\00:23:32.61 IN ROMANS, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. 00:23:32.64\00:23:34.64 IN 1 CORINTHIANS, OUR RESURRECTION. 00:23:34.68\00:23:36.41 IN 2 CORINTHIANS HE'S OUR COMFORTER. 00:23:36.44\00:23:38.78 IN GALATIANS HE'S THE END OF THE LAW. 00:23:38.81\00:23:40.92 IN EPHESIANS HE'S THE HEAD OF THE CHURCH. 00:23:40.95\00:23:42.82 IN PHILIPPIANS HE'S THE SUPPLIER OF EVERY NEED. 00:23:42.85\00:23:45.42 IN COLOSSIANS, THE FULLNESS OF THE GODHEAD. 00:23:45.45\00:23:47.89 IN 1 THESSALONIANS, HE COMES FOR THE CHURCH. 00:23:47.92\00:23:50.09 IN 2 THESSALONIANS HE COMES WITH THE CHURCH. 00:23:50.13\00:23:53.43 IN 1 TIMOTHY HE IS THE MEDIATOR. 00:23:53.46\00:23:57.30 IN 2 TIMOTHY HE IS THE BESTOWER OF CROWNS. 00:23:57.33\00:23:59.90 IN TITUS HE IS THE GREAT GOD AND SAVIOR. 00:23:59.93\00:24:02.94 IN PHILEMON, HE IS THE PRAYER OF CROWNS. 00:24:02.97\00:24:07.58 IN HEBREWS, THE REST OF THE FAITH AND FULFILLER OF TYPES. 00:24:07.61\00:24:13.75 IN JAMES HE IS THE LORD DRAWING NIGH. 00:24:13.78\00:24:15.98 IN 1 PETER THE VICARIOUS SUFFERER. 00:24:16.02\00:24:18.72 IN 2 PETER, THE LORD OF GLORY. IN 1 JOHN HE IS THE WAY. 00:24:18.75\00:24:22.39 IN 2 JOHN HE'S THE TRUTH. IN 3 JOHN HE'S THE LIFE. 00:24:22.42\00:24:26.06 IN JUDE HE IS OUR SECURITY. IN REVELATION HE IS THE LION OF 00:24:26.09\00:24:29.30 THE TRIBE OF JUDAH, THE LAMB OF GOD, THE BRIGHT AND MORNING 00:24:29.33\00:24:31.57 STAR, THE KING OF KINGS, THE LORD OF LORDS" - ANYWAY - I 00:24:31.60\00:24:34.84 MIGHT HAVE DONE THESE DIFFERENT, BUT YOU GET THE POINT, WHICH IS 00:24:34.87\00:24:38.34 THAT YOU CAN SEE JESUS IN EVERY BOOK OF THE BIBLE. 00:24:38.37\00:24:40.91 I HAVEN'T EVEN READ ALL OF IT TO YOU, BUT I'M - SO I'LL PUT THIS 00:24:40.94\00:24:43.48 IN WITH MY NOTES. OKAY, WITH THAT, JESUS IN ALL 00:24:43.51\00:24:48.38 THE BIBLE - LET'S LOOK AT SOME OF THE PROPHECIES OF JESUS 00:24:48.42\00:24:51.95 IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. FOR INSTANCE, IF YOU GO TO 00:24:51.99\00:24:54.69 ZECHARIAH 12, VERSE 10, IT SAYS, "AND I WILL POUR ON THE HOUSE 00:24:54.72\00:24:59.59 OF DAVID AND ON THE INHABITANTS OF JERUSALEM THE SPIRIT OF GRACE 00:24:59.63\00:25:03.50 AND SUPPLICATION; THEN THEY WILL LOOK ON ME WHOM THEY PIERCED. 00:25:03.53\00:25:07.27 YES, THEY WILL MOURN FOR HIM AS ONE MOURNS FOR HIS ONLY SON, AND 00:25:07.30\00:25:11.27 GRIEVE FOR HIM AS ONE GRIEVES FOR A FIRSTBORN." 00:25:11.31\00:25:14.31 NOW, DO YOU SEE JESUS IN THAT SCRIPTURE? 00:25:14.34\00:25:17.21 >>AMEN. >>THE ONE WHO IS PIERCED - 00:25:17.25\00:25:18.98 TALKS ABOUT THE HOUSE OF DAVID - JESUS 00:25:19.01\00:25:21.35 IS FROM THE HOUSE OF DAVID - THE FIRSTBORN, THE ONLY SON, AND 00:25:21.38\00:25:25.65 GRIEVING FOR HIM. ZECHARIAH GOT THE PICTURE. 00:25:25.69\00:25:28.86 LOOK AT - THAT'S ZECHARIAH 12:10 - THIS IS ZECHARIAH 13:7, 00:25:28.89\00:25:32.39 "AWAKE, O SWORD, AGAINST MY SHEPHERD, AGAINST THE MAN WHO 00:25:32.43\00:25:35.23 [IS MY COMPANION]," - GOD SAYS 'MY SHEPHERD' - 00:25:35.26\00:25:38.10 "SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS. 'STRIKE THE SHEPHERD AND THE 00:25:38.13\00:25:40.60 SHEEP WILL BE SCATTERED;" - WAS THE SHEPHERD STRUCK? 00:25:40.64\00:25:45.21 NOW LOOK AT THE FULFILLMENT OF THIS. 00:25:45.24\00:25:47.18 OFTEN THE NEW TESTAMENT WRITERS, INCLUDING PETER, BY THE WAY, WHO 00:25:47.21\00:25:50.61 WROTE THE BOOK - OR THE GOSPEL OF MARK? 00:25:50.65\00:25:53.28 PROBABLY PETER DICTATED IT TO MARK. IT'S LARGELY THE GOSPEL OF 00:25:53.31\00:25:57.55 PETER - IS WHAT YOU FIND IN MARK. AND YOU READ 00:25:57.59\00:26:00.06 THERE IN MARK 14:27, "AND JESUS SAID TO THEM, 'YOU 00:26:00.09\00:26:03.36 WILL ALL FALL AWAY, FOR IT IS WRITTEN, 'I WILL STRIKE THE 00:26:03.39\00:26:06.29 SHEPHERD, AND THE SHEEP WILL BE SCATTERED.'" SO WHAT'S THE 00:26:06.33\00:26:08.93 SHEPHERD THAT WAS STRUCK? IT'S JESUS. 00:26:08.96\00:26:12.73 AND DID THEY FORSAKE HIM WHEN HE WAS ARRESTED AND THEY SCATTERED? 00:26:12.77\00:26:16.00 AND SO, BY THE WAY, THAT'S STILL TRUE. 00:26:16.04\00:26:17.87 THE DEVIL'S ALWAYS WORKING TO STRIKE THE SHEPHERDS AND SCATTER 00:26:17.91\00:26:20.04 THE SHEEP. GO TO DANIEL 7, VERSE 13, "I WAS 00:26:20.08\00:26:25.01 WATCHING IN THE NIGHT VISIONS, AND BEHOLD, ONE LIKE THE SON OF 00:26:25.05\00:26:28.62 MAN, COMING WITH THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN!" OKAY, 00:26:28.65\00:26:32.69 WHAT'S THAT TALKING ABOUT? DO WE SEE A PICTURE IN THE NEW 00:26:32.72\00:26:36.26 TESTAMENT OF ONE COMING WITH THE CLOUDS - ONE LIKE THE SON OF 00:26:36.29\00:26:38.59 MAN COMING WITH THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN? NOW THIS IS ACTUALLY NOT 00:26:38.63\00:26:41.70 TALKING ABOUT THE SECOND COMING OF JESUS. 00:26:41.73\00:26:43.80 YOU READ HERE, IT'S TALKING ABOUT A JUDGMENT - ONE COMING 00:26:43.83\00:26:46.47 WITH THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN AND THERE'S THIS GREAT JUDGMENT DAY 00:26:46.50\00:26:48.77 THAT TRANSPIRES AND - "AND THEY BROUGHT HIM NEAR BEFORE THE 00:26:48.80\00:26:55.98 ANCIENT OF DAYS...THEN TO HIM WAS GIVEN DOMINION AND GLORY AND 00:26:56.01\00:26:59.95 A KINGDOM, THAT ALL PEOPLES, NATIONS, AND LANGUAGES SHOULD 00:27:00.05\00:27:02.82 SERVE HIM. HIS DOMINION IS AN EVERLASTING 00:27:02.85\00:27:05.15 DOMINION, WHICH SHALL NOT PASS AWAY, AND HIS KINGDOM THE ONE 00:27:05.19\00:27:08.36 WHICH SHALL NOT BE DESTROYED." DO YOU SEE JESUS IN THAT VERSE? 00:27:08.39\00:27:12.96 ISN'T THAT A REALLY CLEAR PROPHECY ABOUT HIM? 00:27:12.99\00:27:15.73 LOOK IN ISAIAH 52 - YOU KNOW, I UNDERSTAND THAT SOME - SOME 00:27:15.76\00:27:22.24 RABBIS TELL THEIR PEOPLE 'YOU ARE FORBIDDEN TO READ ISAIAH 52 00:27:22.27\00:27:28.71 AND 53'. AND THEY SAY IT'S VERY CONFUSING. 00:27:28.74\00:27:33.82 WELL, THE REASON IS, IF YOU READ ISAIAH 52 AND 53 IT IS A VERY 00:27:33.85\00:27:37.99 CLEAR POINT OF JESUS. IT'S A VERY CLEAR PICTURE THAT JESUS 00:27:38.02\00:27:44.36 IS THE MESSIAH THAT WAS BEING FORETOLD. LET ME JUST READ A 00:27:44.39\00:27:48.16 LITTLE BIT OF THIS HERE - ISAIAH 52:13 - AND THIS IS IN YOUR 00:27:48.20\00:27:52.20 LESSON - "BEHOLD, MY SERVANT SHALL DEAL PRUDENTLY; 00:27:52.23\00:27:55.70 HE SHALL BE EXALTED AND EXTOLLED AND BE VERY 00:27:55.74\00:27:57.64 HIGH. JUST AS MANY WERE ASTONISHED AT 00:27:57.67\00:28:00.11 YOU, SO HIS VISAGE WAS MARRED MORE THAN ANY MAN, AND HIS FORM 00:28:00.14\00:28:04.11 MORE THAN THE SONS OF MEN; SO SHALL HE SPRINKLE MANY 00:28:04.15\00:28:07.38 NATIONS. KINGS SHALL SHUT THEIR MOUTHS AT HIM; FOR WHAT HAD NOT 00:28:07.42\00:28:10.95 BEEN TOLD THEM THEY SHALL SEE, AND WHAT THEY 00:28:10.99\00:28:12.85 HAD NOT HEARD THEY SHALL CONSIDER." 00:28:12.89\00:28:15.39 NOW, IF YOU LOOK IN ACTS 8:32 - YOU KNOW THE STORY, THERE'S AN 00:28:15.42\00:28:20.03 ETHIOPIAN TREASURER WHO'S RIDING ALONG IN HIS CHARIOT AND PHILIP 00:28:20.06\00:28:23.97 IS TOLD TO GO TO HIM - AND HE'S READING FROM ISAIAH AND HE'S 00:28:24.00\00:28:28.90 READING, ACTUALLY, FROM ISAIAH 53, VERSES 7 AND 8, "THE PLACE 00:28:28.94\00:28:32.31 IN THE SCRIPTURE WHICH HE READ WAS" - THIS IS ISAIAH 53, VERSES 00:28:32.34\00:28:36.68 7 AND 8 - "'HE WAS LED AS A SHEEP TO THE SLAUGHTER; AND AS A 00:28:36.71\00:28:39.31 LAMB BEFORE ITS SHEARER IS SILENT, SO HE OPENED NOT HIS 00:28:39.35\00:28:42.02 MOUTH. IN HIS HUMILIATION HIS JUSTICE 00:28:42.05\00:28:45.09 WAS TAKEN AWAY, AND WHO WILL DECLARE HIS GENERATION? 00:28:45.12\00:28:48.62 FOR HIS LIFE IS TAKEN FROM THE EARTH.' SO THE EUNUCH ANSWERED 00:28:48.66\00:28:51.79 PHILIP AND SAID, 'I ASK YOU, OF WHOM DOES THE PROPHET SAY 00:28:51.83\00:28:55.13 THIS,'" - WHO'S HE TALKING ABOUT? - "'OF HIMSELF OR SOME 00:28:55.16\00:28:58.00 OTHER MAN?' THEN PHILIP OPENED HIS MOUTH, 00:28:58.03\00:29:01.47 AND BEGINNING AT THIS SCRIPTURE, PREACHED JESUS TO HIM." 00:29:01.50\00:29:05.37 YOU EVER HAVE ONE OF THOSE EXPERIENCES LIKE PHILIP WHERE 00:29:05.41\00:29:09.14 YOU WONDER WHY YOU END UP WHERE YOU END UP? 00:29:09.18\00:29:11.81 I REMEMBER ONCE I WAS IN SAN FRANCISCO AND I WAS TRYING TO 00:29:11.85\00:29:14.05 CATCH A FLIGHT TO NEW YORK - AND I DON'T EVEN REMEMBER WHY I 00:29:14.08\00:29:16.28 WAS GOING TO NEW YORK - TO SPEAK SOMEWHERE - AND MISSED MY PLANE. 00:29:16.32\00:29:21.76 WELL, SAN FRANCISCO'S A LONG WAY FROM COVELO, AT THE TIME, AND I 00:29:21.79\00:29:26.06 COULDN'T GO HOME AND I JUST COULDN'T BRING MYSELF TO BUY A 00:29:26.09\00:29:28.60 HOTEL BECAUSE MY NEXT FLIGHT WAS LIKE LEAVING IN FIVE HOURS AND 00:29:28.63\00:29:32.90 IT COST SO MUCH TO BUY A HOTEL, I THOUGHT, 'OH, I'LL JUST WAIT 00:29:32.93\00:29:35.54 FIVE HOURS' - IT'S THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT. 00:29:35.57\00:29:38.01 SO I'M THINKING, 'WHY DID THIS HAPPEN, LORD? 00:29:38.04\00:29:39.64 WHY DID I MISS MY FLIGHT? WHY DID THIS...' AND I JUST - 00:29:39.67\00:29:41.88 WHY? WHY? WHY? - I WAS FEELING PRETTY SORRY FOR 00:29:41.91\00:29:44.18 MYSELF, YOU KNOW, WALKING AROUND THE AIRPORT IN SAN FRANCISCO AT 00:29:44.21\00:29:47.08 THREE IN THE MORNING IS A PRETTY LONELY PLACE, YOU KNOW, 00:29:47.12\00:29:49.25 PEOPLE ARE SLEEPING. IT'S AMAZING THE CONTORTED WAYS 00:29:49.28\00:29:51.79 PEOPLE CAN SLEEP WHEN THEY'RE TIRED. 00:29:51.82\00:29:54.06 THEY'RE LAYING ON THEIR BAGS AND ON THE COUNTERTOPS AND THINGS 00:29:54.09\00:29:57.29 AND I COULDN'T SLEEP SO I WALKED AROUND THE AIRPORT. 00:29:57.33\00:29:59.96 SO FINALLY I GOT MY FLIGHT TO NEW YORK AND I FELL ASLEEP FOR A 00:30:00.00\00:30:02.70 LITTLE WHILE. I WOKE UP AND THEN I GOT MY TAXI 00:30:02.73\00:30:06.17 AND WE GOT STUCK IN TRAFFIC AND IT JUST TOOK FOREVER. 00:30:06.20\00:30:10.11 WHILE WE'RE STUCK IN TRAFFIC, SOMEHOW THE CONVERSATION OF 00:30:10.14\00:30:13.84 RELIGION CAME UP WITH THE CAB DRIVER, AND I THINK HE BROUGHT 00:30:13.88\00:30:16.21 IT UP. I DIDN'T WANT TO WITNESS. I DIDN'T FEEL VERY GOOD. 00:30:16.24\00:30:18.71 I WAS FEELING SORRY FOR MYSELF. AND HE WAS FROM RUSSIA AND HE 00:30:18.75\00:30:24.85 WAS FROM, I THINK, A JEWISH BACKGROUND. 00:30:24.89\00:30:26.82 HE HAD A NAME LIKE MALACHI OR MICAH, OR SOMETHING, AND I 00:30:26.86\00:30:30.06 STARTED TALKING TO HIM ABOUT JESUS AND I SAID, 'WELL, YOU 00:30:30.09\00:30:34.63 KNOW, I'M A JEWISH CHRISTIAN.' 'HOW CAN THAT BE?' 00:30:34.66\00:30:37.10 AND SO THERE WE ARE STUCK IN TRAFFIC AND I JUST SHARED MY 00:30:37.13\00:30:39.07 TESTIMONY AND STARTED PREACHING TO THAT GUY AND IT JUST - I 00:30:39.10\00:30:41.60 COULD SEE IT REALLY SUNK IN. AND WHEN HE DROPPED ME OFF I 00:30:41.64\00:30:44.51 SAID, 'OH, THAT'S WHY I WAS DELAYED.' 00:30:44.54\00:30:48.54 I NEVER WOULD HAVE HAD THAT CAB DRIVER IF GOD HADN'T 00:30:48.58\00:30:51.65 ORCHESTRATED THINGS THAT WAY.' AND SO PHILIP, HE GETS DOWN IN 00:30:51.68\00:30:55.08 THE DESERT AND GOD TELLS HIM TO GO TO THE DESERT. 00:30:55.12\00:30:57.92 AND, ALL OF A SUDDEN, HE MEETS SOMEONE READING ISAIAH, READING 00:30:57.95\00:31:00.29 ABOUT JESUS, SAYING 'WHAT IN THE WORLD DOES THIS MEAN?' 00:31:00.32\00:31:02.69 PHILIP'S GOING, 'I'M GLAD YOU ASKED. 00:31:02.72\00:31:05.69 I KNEW THAT MAN THAT THIS IS ALL TALKING ABOUT AND I'M GOING TO 00:31:05.73\00:31:08.56 TELL YOU ABOUT IT.' AND SO, HE THEN PREACHED JESUS TO HIM. 00:31:08.60\00:31:11.90 SO PETER, OBVIOUSLY, DOES THIS TOO. 00:31:11.93\00:31:16.20 EYEWITNESSES OF HIS MAJESTY - OH, I'VE GOT SO MUCH TO SAY HERE 00:31:16.24\00:31:19.07 - LET ME READ THIS NEXT VERSE TO YOU. 00:31:19.11\00:31:20.91 SOMEONE IS GOING TO READ FOR ME, IN JUST A MOMENT, MALACHI 4:4 00:31:20.94\00:31:24.95 AND 5 - OKAY, JOHN. I WANT TO READ 2 PETER 1:16-18, 00:31:24.98\00:31:30.92 "FOR WE DID NOT FOLLOW CUNNINGLY DEVISED FABLES" - PETER SAID, 00:31:30.95\00:31:35.36 'WE DIDN'T MAKE UP FAIRY TALES WHEN WE TOLD YOU ABOUT THE POWER 00:31:35.39\00:31:38.66 AND THE COMING OF JESUS CHRIST' - "BUT WERE EYEWITNESSES 00:31:38.69\00:31:42.10 OF HIS MAJESTY." - WHAT'S PETER TALKING ABOUT? 00:31:42.13\00:31:45.80 PETER SAID - WELL, OF COURSE HE'S TALKING ABOUT JESUS, BUT 00:31:45.83\00:31:47.90 WHAT PARTICULAR EVENT? HE SAYS, 'WE WERE 00:31:47.94\00:31:50.44 EYEWITNESSES OF HIS MAJESTY. WE DID NOT SHARE FABLES WHEN WE 00:31:50.47\00:31:53.94 TALKED ABOUT THE SECOND COMING.' PETER SAYS, 'WE GOT A MINIATURE 00:31:53.98\00:31:56.88 PICTURE OF THE SECOND COMING. WE SAW WHAT IT'S GOING TO LOOK 00:31:56.91\00:31:59.61 LIKE WHEN HE COMES IN VISION.' WHAT IS HE TALKING ABOUT? 00:31:59.65\00:32:02.95 HE'S TALKING ABOUT THE MOUNT OF TRANSFIGURATION. 00:32:02.98\00:32:05.22 NOW, YOU FOLLOW ME, WE "WERE EYEWITNESSES OF HIS MAJESTY. 00:32:05.25\00:32:10.03 FOR HE RECEIVED FROM GOD THE FATHER HONOR AND GLORY WHEN SUCH 00:32:10.06\00:32:13.03 A VOICE CAME TO HIM FROM THE EXCELLENT GLORY: 'THIS IS MY 00:32:13.06\00:32:15.76 BELOVED SON, IN WHOM I AM WELL PLEASED.' AND WE HEARD THIS 00:32:15.80\00:32:19.27 VOICE WHICH CAME FROM HEAVEN WHEN WE WERE WITH HIM ON THE 00:32:19.30\00:32:21.80 HOLY MOUNTAIN." SO, WHAT IS HE TALKING ABOUT? 00:32:21.84\00:32:27.64 HE'S TALKING ABOUT THE MOUNT OF TRANSFIGURATION EXPERIENCE. 00:32:27.68\00:32:31.38 NOW, BEFORE I READ THAT TO YOU - IT'LL BE IN MARK 9 - I WANT JOHN 00:32:31.41\00:32:34.95 TO GO AHEAD AND READ MALACHI - THE LAST PROPHECY OF THE OLD 00:32:34.98\00:32:37.89 TESTAMENT - CATCH THIS - MALACHI 4:4 AND 5. 00:32:37.92\00:32:41.59 >>MALACHI 4:4-5, "REMEMBER THE LAW OF MOSES, MY SERVANT, WHICH 00:32:41.62\00:32:46.86 I COMMANDED HIM IN HOREB FOR ALL ISRAEL, WITH THE STATUTES AND 00:32:46.90\00:32:51.57 JUDGMENTS. BEHOLD I WILL SEND YOU ELIJAH 00:32:51.60\00:32:54.44 THE PROPHET BEFORE THE COMING OF THE GREAT AND DREADFUL 00:32:54.47\00:32:57.21 DAY OF THE LORD." >>ALRIGHT, LAST TWO CHARACTERS 00:32:57.24\00:33:01.64 OF ALL THE OLD TESTAMENT CHARACTERS THAT COULD BE CITED, 00:33:01.68\00:33:04.31 HE SAYS, 'REMEMBER THE LAW OF MOSES...BEHOLD I SEND YOU ELIJAH 00:33:04.35\00:33:09.15 THE PROPHET' - MOSES, LAW - ELIJAH, PROPHET. 00:33:09.18\00:33:13.36 THESE TWO CHARACTERS REPRESENT THE WORD OF GOD. 00:33:13.39\00:33:18.26 THEY ARE THE TWO WITNESSES OF REVELATION. 00:33:18.29\00:33:20.96 WHAT I MEANS IS THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS ARE THE TWO WITNESSES. 00:33:20.96\00:33:23.53 TWO CHARACTERISTICS THAT STAND OUT FOR GOD'S PEOPLE IN THE LAST 00:33:23.57\00:33:26.80 DAYS, IT SAYS 'THE DRAGON IS WROTH WITH THE WOMAN THAT KEEPS 00:33:26.84\00:33:31.37 THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD' - LAW - 'AND HAS THE TESTIMONY OF 00:33:31.41\00:33:35.21 JESUS'. YOU READ LATER IT SAYS THE 00:33:35.24\00:33:37.35 TESTIMONY OF JESUS IS THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY. 00:33:37.38\00:33:40.05 ISAIAH CHAPTER 8, VERSE 16 AND VERSE 20, "BIND UP THE 00:33:40.08\00:33:44.45 TESTIMONY, SEAL THE LAW AMONG MY DISCIPLES." 00:33:44.49\00:33:47.79 - THE LAW AND THE TESTIMONY - THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS. 00:33:47.82\00:33:50.29 THE BIBLE SAYS JESUS TAUGHT TO THEM FROM THE LAW AND THE 00:33:50.33\00:33:54.00 PROPHETS, RIGHT? SO, HE HAS THIS EXPERIENCE. 00:33:54.00\00:33:58.50 YOU GO TO MARK CHAPTER 9, VERSE 1 - MARK 9:1 - AND JESUS MAKES 00:33:58.53\00:34:05.37 THIS CRYPTIC STATEMENT. NOTICE WHAT HE SAYS: "ASSUREDLY, 00:34:05.41\00:34:08.78 I SAY TO YOU THAT THERE ARE SOME STANDING HERE WHO WILL NOT TASTE 00:34:08.81\00:34:12.48 DEATH TILL THEY SEE THE KINGDOM OF GOD PRESENT WITH POWER." 00:34:12.51\00:34:15.82 - SO JESUS TOLD THE DISCIPLES 'SOME OF YOU ARE NOT GOING TO 00:34:15.85\00:34:18.52 DIE UNTIL YOU SEE THE KINGDOM OF GOD COME WITH POWER.' HE'S 00:34:18.55\00:34:22.09 TALKING ABOUT, 'YOU'RE GOING TO SEE THE SECOND COMING.' 'OH,' - 00:34:22.12\00:34:23.76 THEY SAID - 'GREAT, LORD, WE'RE GOING TO LIVE TILL THE SECOND 00:34:23.79\00:34:25.59 COMING.' NO, THAT'S NOT WHAT HE SAID. 00:34:25.63\00:34:27.73 YOU'RE GOING TO GET A MICRO PICTURE OF IT. 00:34:27.76\00:34:30.10 THAT'S WHY PETER IS SAYING, 'WE WERE EYEWITNESSES OF HIS COMING. 00:34:30.13\00:34:33.44 WE DID NOT SHARE CUNNINGLY DEVISED FABLES WHEN WE TALKED 00:34:33.47\00:34:36.24 ABOUT THE COMING OF THE LORD. JESUS SAID, 'YOU'RE GOING 00:34:36.27\00:34:39.74 TO GET A MINI-PICTURE. SO HE TAKES THREE 00:34:39.77\00:34:41.58 DISCIPLES WITH HIM. WHO DOES HE TAKE? 00:34:41.61\00:34:43.61 >>PETER, JAMES, AND JOHN. >>PETER, JAMES, AND JOHN. 00:34:43.65\00:34:46.45 IT SAYS, 'AFTER SIX DAYS' - HE WAITS SIX DAYS BEFORE THIS 00:34:46.48\00:34:49.78 HAPPENS. HE TAKES PETER, JAMES, AND 00:34:49.82\00:34:52.32 JOHN AND LEADS THEM TO A HIGH MOUNTAIN, APART BY THEMSELVES. 00:34:52.35\00:34:55.22 YOU READ IN LUKE, IT SAYS THEY BEGAN TO PRAY - 00:34:55.26\00:34:57.79 AND HE'S TRANSFIGURED BEFORE THEM. HIS CLOTHING BECOMES 00:34:57.83\00:35:01.43 SHINING EXCEEDINGLY WHITE LIKE SNOW, SUCH AS NO LAUNDERER ON 00:35:01.46\00:35:04.73 EARTH CAN WHITEN THEM, AND ELIJAH APPEARED TO THEM WITH 00:35:04.77\00:35:07.84 MOSES - THE TWO CHARACTERS WE JUST READ ABOUT - AND THEY WERE 00:35:07.87\00:35:11.51 TALKING TO JESUS AND PETER ANSWERED AND SAID, 'RABBI, IT'S 00:35:11.54\00:35:15.41 GOOD FOR US TO BE HERE.' AND PETER'S THE ONE WHO SPEAKS 00:35:15.44\00:35:17.38 IN THIS STORY. 'LET US MAKE THREE TABERNACLES: ONE FOR 00:35:17.41\00:35:21.22 MOSES, AND ONE FOR ELIJAH' - AGAIN, MOSES AND ELIJAH ARE 00:35:21.25\00:35:25.15 MENTIONED, BUT HE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY. 00:35:25.19\00:35:26.69 THEY WERE GREATLY AFRAID. 00:35:26.72\00:35:28.36 A CLOUD CAME AND OVERSHADOWED THEM AND A VOICE CAME OUT OF THE 00:35:28.39\00:35:31.03 CLOUDS SAYING, 'THIS IS MY BELOVED SON' - HEAR HIM - BY 00:35:31.06\00:35:34.13 THE WAY, YOU NOTICE A LITTLE DIFFERENCE THERE? 00:35:34.20\00:35:36.97 IN MARK IT SAYS, 'THIS IS MY BELOVED SON, HEAR HIM.' WHEN 00:35:37.00\00:35:39.43 PETER QUOTES IT HE SAID, 'THIS IS MY BELOVED SON IN WHOM I AM 00:35:39.47\00:35:42.77 WELL PLEASED.' - ADDS A LITTLE SOMETHING - WHICH IS THE SAME 00:35:42.80\00:35:46.34 STATEMENT THAT'S MADE AT THE BAPTISM: 'THIS IS MY BELOVED SON 00:35:46.37\00:35:50.11 IN WHOM I AM WELL PLEASED.' SO GOD SAID THAT AGAIN AT THE 00:35:50.15\00:35:52.95 BEGINNING OF JESUS' MINISTRY, AT THE BAPTISM. 00:35:52.98\00:35:55.58 GOD SAYS IT AGAIN AT THE END OF HIS MINISTRY ON THE MOUNT OF 00:35:55.62\00:35:58.45 TRANSFIGURATION. THE CROSS CAME SHORTLY AFTER 00:35:58.49\00:36:01.66 THE MOUNT OF TRANSFIGURATION EXPERIENCE. 00:36:01.69\00:36:04.73 AND - SO ELIJAH REPRESENTS THE LAW - NO, MOSES REPRESENTS THE 00:36:04.76\00:36:12.43 LAW; ELIJAH REPRESENTS THE PROPHETS. 00:36:12.47\00:36:15.17 THEY ARE BOTH POINTING TO JESUS SAYING, 'HE IS THE MESSIAH WE'VE 00:36:15.20\00:36:18.14 BEEN WAITING FOR.' AND THEY SPOKE TO HIM OF HIS DECEASE HE 00:36:18.17\00:36:21.98 WAS ABOUT TO ACCOMPLISH. NOW, IF YOU'RE PETER AND YOU 00:36:22.01\00:36:24.25 SAW THAT, WOULD YOU EVER FORGET THAT? 00:36:24.28\00:36:25.65 >>NO. >>HE'S SAYING, 'LOOK, WE SAW, 00:36:25.68\00:36:28.42 WITH OUR OWN EYES, CHRIST IN GLORIFIED FORM - WHAT HE WILL 00:36:28.45\00:36:32.59 LOOK LIKE WHEN HE COMES - WE ARE EYEWITNESSES. 00:36:32.62\00:36:35.59 THESE ARE NOT CUNNINGLY DEVISED FABLES. 00:36:35.62\00:36:38.09 HE GAVE US THIS EXPERIENCE'. THE BIBLE SAYS IN TWO OR THREE 00:36:38.13\00:36:41.43 WITNESSES, LET EVERYTHING BE ESTABLISHED, RIGHT? 00:36:41.46\00:36:44.10 YOU NOTICE THERE ARE SEVEN INDIVIDUALS IN THIS EXPERIENCE: 00:36:44.13\00:36:47.80 THREE ON EARTH THAT ARE HUMAN - PETER, JAMES, AND JOHN; THREE IN 00:36:47.84\00:36:51.67 HEAVEN THAT ARE DIVINE - GOD, THE FATHER, MOSES, AND ELIJAH - 00:36:51.71\00:36:57.15 HAVE THEIR GLORIFIED BODIES; AND THEN JESUS WHO GOES THAT DAY 00:36:57.18\00:37:00.18 FROM HUMAN TO DIVINE, BACK TO HUMAN. HE IS THE BRIDGE BETWEEN 00:37:00.22\00:37:04.15 HEAVEN AND EARTH. YOU'VE GOT THREE ON EARTH, THREE 00:37:04.19\00:37:05.99 IN HEAVEN, AND THEN CHRIST IS THE BRIDGE. HE'S THE ONE WHO 00:37:06.02\00:37:08.89 CONNECTS US TO HEAVEN, RIGHT? AND HE GOES FROM HUMAN 00:37:08.92\00:37:11.69 TO DIVINE TO HUMAN. HE IS THE LADDER THAT WAS SEEN 00:37:11.73\00:37:16.10 THAT CONNECTS THE TWO - SEVEN. LET EVERYTHING BE ESTABLISHED 00:37:16.13\00:37:20.10 IN TWO OR THREE WITNESSES. PETER SAYS, 'LOOK, YOU'VE GOT 00:37:20.14\00:37:22.27 THE WITNESS OF PETER, JAMES, AND JOHN ON EARTH. 00:37:22.30\00:37:25.24 YOU'VE GOT THE WITNESS OF - GOD SAID, 'THIS IS MY SON', MOSES, 00:37:25.27\00:37:28.74 AND ELIJAH THAT SAYS 'HE'S THE ONE'. 00:37:28.78\00:37:30.48 IN HEAVEN - WHAT MORE WILL YOU ACCEPT, IF YOU'RE A JEW, THAN 00:37:30.51\00:37:33.88 THE WITNESS OF MOSES, ELIJAH, AND GOD? 00:37:33.92\00:37:37.85 AND THEN HE SAYS, 'WE'VE ALSO GOT THREE EARTHLY WITNESSES OF 00:37:37.89\00:37:40.19 THE APOSTLES THAT HE IS THE ONE. SO DOESN'T THAT GIVE 00:37:40.22\00:37:44.59 YOU LITTLE CHILLS? ALRIGHT, THE MORNING STAR IN OUR 00:37:44.63\00:37:49.10 HEARTS - NOW WE'RE GOING TO GO TO 2 PETER 1:19 AND SOMEONE, IN 00:37:49.13\00:37:55.47 A MOMENT, IS GOING TO READ FOR ME ISAIAH 8:20. 00:37:55.50\00:37:58.41 MATTER OF FACT, I THINK I JUMPED AHEAD OF YOU. 00:37:58.44\00:38:00.44 2 PETER 1:19, IT SAYS, "AND SO WE HAVE THE PROPHETIC WORD 00:38:00.48\00:38:04.81 CONFIRMED, WHICH YOU DO WELL TO HEED AS A LIGHT THAT SHINES IN A 00:38:04.85\00:38:10.42 DARK PLACE, UNTIL THE DAY DAWNS AND THE MORNING STAR RISES IN 00:38:10.45\00:38:14.69 YOUR HEARTS;" - HE'S TELLING US THAT THE PROPHETIC WORD - AGAIN, 00:38:14.72\00:38:18.19 HE'S TALKING ABOUT THE OLD TESTAMENT - WILL DO SOMETHING 00:38:18.23\00:38:21.46 THAT WILL ILLUMINATE YOUR PATH. IT LIGHTENS OUR WAY. 00:38:21.50\00:38:26.84 RIGHT IN THE BEGINNING OF THE BIBLE, DO WE SEE A CONFLICT 00:38:26.87\00:38:29.27 BETWEEN LIGHT AND DARKNESS? YEAH, GOD SAYS, 'AND GOD SAID 00:38:29.30\00:38:33.27 THE LIGHT THAT IT WAS GOOD. AND GOD DIVIDED THE LIGHT FROM 00:38:33.31\00:38:36.88 THE DARKNESS AND GOD CALLED THE LIGHT DAY AND THE DARKNESS HE 00:38:36.91\00:38:39.85 CALLED NIGHT AND THE EVENING AND THE MORNING WERE THE FIRST DAY.' 00:38:39.88\00:38:44.42 THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT WE'RE TO WALK IN THE LIGHT. 00:38:44.45\00:38:47.86 WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU WALK IN THE DARK? 00:38:47.89\00:38:52.06 ANY OF YOU WALK AROUND YOUR HOUSE SOMETIMES, YOU FORGET TO 00:38:52.09\00:38:53.66 TURN ON THE LIGHT AND YOU THINK YOU CAN USE YOUR MEMORY SYSTEM? 00:38:53.70\00:38:56.90 AND THINGS MOVED DURING THE NIGHT AND THERE'S A DOOR THAT 00:38:56.93\00:39:01.34 YOU DIDN'T KNOW WAS HALFWAY OPENED OR CLOSED - YOU WALK INTO 00:39:01.37\00:39:04.34 IT - OR SOMETHING LEFT ON THE FLOOR AND YOU TRIP OVER IT. 00:39:04.37\00:39:09.88 AND THEN YOU SHOUT AT SOMEBODY AND SAY, 'HOW COME YOU LEFT YOUR 00:39:09.91\00:39:12.58 LEGO IN THE' - YOU EVER STEP ON A LEGO WITH A BARE FOOT? 00:39:12.61\00:39:17.45 IT'S GOT SHARP EDGES. WE DO BETTER WALKING 00:39:17.49\00:39:21.19 IN THE LIGHT, DON'T WE? SPIRITUALLY, YOU WANT TO LIVE 00:39:21.22\00:39:25.79 WALKING IN THE LIGHT OF HIS WORD. 00:39:25.83\00:39:27.76 LOOK IN - WE'RE GOING TO BE READING ABOUT THIS TODAY. 00:39:27.83\00:39:30.63 THIS IS ACTUALLY A QUOTE FROM DAVID - IT SAYS, IN 2 SAMUEL 00:39:30.67\00:39:34.60 23:4, "AND HE SHALL BE LIKE THE LIGHT OF THE MORNING WHEN THE 00:39:34.64\00:39:38.51 SUN RISES, A MORNING WITHOUT CLOUDS" - TALKING ABOUT A 00:39:38.54\00:39:42.24 BEAUTIFUL DAY WHEN IT'S BRIGHT AND IT'S CLEAR. 00:39:42.28\00:39:45.55 THE PERSON WHO WALKS WITH THE LORD - PROVERBS 6:23, "FOR THE 00:39:45.58\00:39:49.72 COMMANDMENT IS A LAMP, AND THE LAW A LIGHT; REPROOFS OF 00:39:49.75\00:39:54.66 INSTRUCTION ARE THE WAY OF LIFE," - AND GO AHEAD, READ FOR 00:39:54.69\00:39:58.39 US ISAIAH 8:20, PLEASE. >>ISAIAH 8:20, "TO THE 00:39:58.43\00:40:02.63 LAW AND TO THE TESTIMONY! IF THEY DO NOT SPEAK ACCORDING 00:40:02.66\00:40:06.00 TO THIS WORD, IT IS BECAUSE THERE IS NO LIGHT IN THEM." 00:40:06.03\00:40:09.67 >>AGAIN, IT SAYS THE LAW AND THE TESTIMONY. 00:40:09.70\00:40:12.74 THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD AND THE WORDS OF THE PROPHETS, THEY ARE 00:40:12.77\00:40:17.51 A LIGHT. AND PETER IS SAYING THAT WHEN WE 00:40:17.55\00:40:20.38 READ THE WORD OF GOD, IT GIVES US UNDERSTANDING ABOUT 00:40:20.42\00:40:24.02 THE WAY THAT WE'RE GOING. IT HELPS US KNOW WHERE WE'VE 00:40:24.05\00:40:26.72 COME FROM, WHAT WE'RE DOING HERE, AND WHERE WERE GOING. 00:40:26.76\00:40:29.02 THAT'S THE WONDERFUL THING ABOUT BIBLE HISTORY IS IT JUST - IT 00:40:29.06\00:40:31.49 GIVES YOU THE WHOLE PERSPECTIVE. LET ME GIVE YOU ANOTHER ONE HERE 00:40:31.53\00:40:34.73 - JOHN - THE GOSPEL OF JOHN 1:4 AND 5, "IN HIM" - JESUS - "WAS 00:40:34.73\00:40:39.33 LIFE, AND THE LIFE WAS THE LIGHT OF MEN. 00:40:39.37\00:40:43.07 AND THE LIGHT SHINES IN THE DARKNESS, AND THE DARKNESS DID 00:40:43.10\00:40:46.51 NOT COMPREHEND IT." CAN DARKNESS PUT OUT LIGHT? 00:40:46.54\00:40:53.65 YOU KNOW, THEY'VE GOT ALL THESE QUANTUM THEORIES OF PHYSICS NOW 00:40:53.68\00:40:57.29 AND I THINK THEY'VE PRETTY MUCH PROVEN BLACK HOLES - THAT THERE 00:40:57.32\00:41:01.92 CAN BE - THERE IS MATTER THAT IS ACTUALLY SO DENSE THAT IT CAN 00:41:01.96\00:41:05.76 PULL LIGHT INTO IT. IF ANYTHING'S A BLACK HOLE, 00:41:05.79\00:41:10.73 IT WOULD BE LUCIFER, HIMSELF. HE JUST TRIES TO PUT 00:41:10.77\00:41:14.77 OUT ALL OF THE LIGHT. BUT, TYPICALLY, THE WAY YOU GET 00:41:14.80\00:41:18.77 RID OF DARKNESS IS YOU TURN ON LIGHT. 00:41:18.81\00:41:21.64 DARKNESS CANNOT OVERCOME LIGHT, LIGHT OVERCOMES DARKNESS. 00:41:21.68\00:41:25.55 IF YOU WANT TO GET THE DARKNESS OUT OF THE ROOM, YOU CANNOT USE 00:41:25.58\00:41:28.35 A SNOW SHOVEL. HAVE YOU EVER TRIED TO CAPTURE DARKNESS? 00:41:28.38\00:41:35.36 THE WAY TO GET RID OF THE DARKNESS IN YOUR LIFE IS TO 00:41:35.39\00:41:37.56 INTRODUCE LIGHT. AND SO, AS WE READ THE 00:41:37.59\00:41:41.13 PROPHECIES AND AS WE STUDY GOD'S WORD - WHAT DOES JESUS SAY IN 00:41:41.16\00:41:43.97 THE BEGINNING OF REVELATION? BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO HEAR AND 00:41:44.00\00:41:50.24 DO AND KEEP THE WORDS OF THIS PROPHECY. 00:41:50.27\00:41:52.34 IS THERE A BLESSING OF LIGHT THAT COMES INTO OUR LIVES AS WE 00:41:52.37\00:41:55.38 STUDY THE PROPHECIES? >>YES. 00:41:55.41\00:41:58.05 >>THIS IS WHAT PETER IS SAYING. "AND SO WE HAVE THIS PROPHETIC 00:41:58.08\00:42:00.38 WORD CONFIRMED, WHICH YOU DO WELL TO HEED" - NOW IS PROPHECY 00:42:00.42\00:42:03.95 JUST TO ENLIGHTEN US, OR IS IT SOMETHING TO BE FOLLOWED? 00:42:03.99\00:42:07.22 TAKE HEED TO THE PROPHECIES - "AS A LIGHT THAT SHINES IN A 00:42:07.26\00:42:10.16 DARK PLACE, UNTIL THE DAY DAWNS" - WHEN DOES YOUR BIBLICAL 00:42:10.19\00:42:14.40 KNOWLEDGE REACH TWELVE O'CLOCK NOON? YOU KNOW, PETER - AT THE 00:42:14.46\00:42:20.70 SECOND COMING OF THE LORD, THAT'LL BE TWELVE NOON. 00:42:20.74\00:42:23.20 UNTIL THEN, IT CONTINUES TO GET BRIGHTER. IF YOU'VE BEEN A 00:42:23.24\00:42:26.91 CHRISTIAN AND YOU'VE BEEN READING THE WORD FOR FIFTY 00:42:26.94\00:42:29.14 YEARS, YOU WILL ADMIT THAT YOU CONTINUE TO LEARN NEW THINGS. 00:42:29.18\00:42:34.32 NOW, THE ADVANTAGE OF GETTING OLDER IS I FORGET THAT I'VE 00:42:34.35\00:42:36.48 LEARNED SOMETHING, SO IT ALWAYS FEELS LIKE I'M LEARNING NEW 00:42:36.52\00:42:38.69 THINGS, WHETHER OR NOT - IT'S LIKE SOMEONE SAID ONCE, 'YOU 00:42:38.72\00:42:41.99 KNOW, I'VE GOTTEN TO THE AGE WHERE I CAN HIDE MY OWN EASTER 00:42:42.02\00:42:44.99 EGGS - IT'S JUST EXCITING TO TRY AND FIND THEM LATER.' BUT - BUT, 00:42:45.03\00:42:53.70 YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN, AS YOU CONTINUE TO STUDY - I'VE READ 00:42:53.74\00:42:55.84 THROUGH REVELATION AND DANIEL AND THESE PROPHECIES OVER AND 00:42:55.87\00:42:58.41 OVER AGAIN. I'M ALWAYS FINDING NEW THINGS. 00:42:58.44\00:43:00.61 IT IS - IT IS A BOTTOMLESS MINE OF TREASURE WHEN YOU STUDY THE 00:43:00.64\00:43:06.05 PROPHECIES - IT'S LIKE A DAY THAT'S ALWAYS DAWNING BRIGHTER 00:43:06.08\00:43:08.62 AND BRIGHTER AND BRIGHTER. OKAY, THE MORE SURE WORD OF 00:43:08.65\00:43:12.25 PROPHECY - LET'S GO TO THAT NEXT SECTION THAT'S UNDER THURSDAY. 00:43:12.29\00:43:15.62 AND HERE WE'RE LOOKING AT 2 PETER 1, VERSES 20 AND 21, "KNOW 00:43:15.66\00:43:21.03 THIS FIRST, THAT NO PROPHECY OF SCRIPTURE IS OF ANY PRIVATE 00:43:21.06\00:43:24.80 INTERPRETATION, FOR PROPHECY NEVER CAME BY THE WILL OF MAN, 00:43:24.83\00:43:29.47 BUT HOLY MEN OF GOD SPOKE AS THEY WERE MOVED BY THE HOLY 00:43:29.50\00:43:32.04 SPIRIT." NOW WHAT DOES PETER MEAN WHEN HE 00:43:32.07\00:43:34.14 SAYS 'PRIVATE INTERPRETATION? I THINK THERE'S - 00:43:34.18\00:43:37.55 >>THE BIBLE TRANSLATES ITSELF. >>LET THE BIBLE EXPLAIN ITSELF. 00:43:37.58\00:43:42.82 WHAT ARE SOME OTHER WAYS THAT YOU MIGHT INTERPRET A PRIVATE 00:43:42.85\00:43:46.45 INTERPRETATION? WHAT IS A PRIVATE 00:43:46.49\00:43:48.89 INTERPRETATION? >>USE WEBSTER'S. 00:43:48.92\00:43:51.86 >>SUSAN'S TELLING US WHAT IT'S NOT, BUT I WANT TO KNOW WHAT IS 00:43:51.89\00:43:54.30 A PRIVATE INTERPRETATION? >>USE WEBSTER'S. 00:43:54.36\00:43:57.47 >>USE THE DICTIONARY? ANY OF YOU EVER BEEN IN A BIBLE 00:43:57.50\00:44:01.34 STUDY BEFORE WHERE SOMEONE WILL READ A VERSE AND EVERYONE KIND 00:44:01.37\00:44:04.41 OF GOES AROUND AND THEY SAY, 'WELL, WHAT DO YOU 00:44:04.44\00:44:05.77 THINK IT MEANS?' AND PEOPLE SAY, 'WELL, YOU KNOW, 00:44:05.81\00:44:09.04 THIS SPEAKS TO ME ABOUT COSMIC BUTTERFLIES. 00:44:09.08\00:44:11.61 AND YOU GET THIS - AND - HAVE YOU EVER BEEN AT A BIBLE STUDY 00:44:11.65\00:44:15.28 LIKE THAT AND YOU'RE SAYING, 'THAT'S WHAT YOU GET OUT OF 00:44:15.32\00:44:17.39 THAT? I DIDN'T GET THAT. I'VE NEVER EVEN' - THAT'S ONE 00:44:17.42\00:44:21.46 THING THAT COULD BE - I DON'T REALLY THINK THAT'S WHAT 00:44:21.49\00:44:23.43 PETER IS TALKING ABOUT. I DON'T THINK WE SHOULD COME UP 00:44:23.46\00:44:25.23 WITH PRIVATE INTERPRETATIONS. I THINK THAT TRUTH IS TRUTH. 00:44:25.26\00:44:28.90 AND SO WHEN PEOPLE SAY, 'WELL, THE VERSE SAYS THIS TO YOU AND 00:44:28.93\00:44:31.33 IT SAYS THIS TO ME AND IT'S TRUE FOR YOU AND IT'S TRUE FOR ME AND 00:44:31.37\00:44:34.24 EVERYONE'S GOT THEIR OWN TRUTH AND PRETTY SOON YOU HAVE NO 00:44:34.27\00:44:35.97 ABSOLUTE TRUTH AND IT DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING TO ANYBODY BECAUSE 00:44:36.00\00:44:38.37 IT MEANS EVERYTHING TO EVERYBODY.' DID YOU GET THAT? 00:44:38.41\00:44:41.48 >>THAT'S RIGHT. >>THE BIBLE REALLY IS SAYING 00:44:41.51\00:44:43.88 SOMETHING AND THERE ARE TIMES THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL BRING TO 00:44:43.91\00:44:48.92 YOUR MIND THE TRUTH OF THE WORD, BUT IT IS WHAT IT IS. 00:44:48.95\00:44:53.66 WHAT PETER'S TALKING ABOUT - HE'S SAYING, 'THESE PROPHETS DID 00:44:53.69\00:44:57.26 NOT CONJURE UP THESE IDEAS PRIVATELY, BUT THE HOLY SPIRIT 00:44:57.29\00:45:03.53 TOLD THEM WHAT TO SAY. THIS IS WHAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT 00:45:03.57\00:45:06.63 WHEN HE TALKS ABOUT A PRIVATE INTERPRETATION. 00:45:06.67\00:45:08.24 HE SAYS, 'THE PROPHECY DID NOT COME BECAUSE THE PROPHET SAT 00:45:08.27\00:45:11.74 THERE AND JUST SAID, 'WHAT SHALL I PROPHESY TODAY?' 00:45:11.77\00:45:14.91 AND COME UP WITH A PRIVATE OR PERSONAL INTERPRETATION. 00:45:14.94\00:45:17.88 THE HOLY SPIRIT SAID, 'THIS IS WHAT I WANT YOU TO SAY.' 00:45:17.91\00:45:21.52 AND THEY WERE DIRECTED BY GOD. DOES THE HOLY SPIRIT THAT GAVE 00:45:21.55\00:45:26.69 THEM THE PROPHECY GIVE US THE UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT IT MEANS? 00:45:26.72\00:45:30.29 >>YES. >>"BUT THE HELPER," - THIS IS 00:45:30.33\00:45:32.99 JOHN 14:26, "THE HOLY SPIRIT, WHOM THE FATHER WILL SEND IN 00:45:33.03\00:45:36.70 MY NAME, HE WILL TEACH YOU ALL THINGS, AND BRING TO YOUR 00:45:36.73\00:45:40.67 REMEMBRANCE ALL THINGS THAT I SAID TO YOU." 00:45:40.70\00:45:42.47 AS WE COMPARE SCRIPTURE TO SCRIPTURE, THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL 00:45:42.50\00:45:45.21 HELP US TO UNDERSTAND THESE THINGS. 00:45:45.24\00:45:47.31 AND READ IN 1 CORINTHIANS 2, VERSES 13 AND 14, PAUL SAYS 00:45:47.34\00:45:51.81 HERE, "THESE THINGS WE ALSO SPEAK, NOT IN WORDS WHICH MAN'S 00:45:51.85\00:45:56.48 WISDOM TEACHES" - THAT'S THE PRIVATE INTERPRETATION - "BUT 00:45:56.52\00:45:59.49 WHICH THE HOLY SPIRIT TEACHES, COMPARING SPIRITUAL THINGS WITH 00:45:59.52\00:46:04.16 SPIRITUAL." - THIS IS WHAT SUSAN WAS TALKING 00:46:04.19\00:46:05.79 ABOUT - YOU COMPARE SCRIPTURE WITH SCRIPTURE - HERE A LITTLE, 00:46:05.83\00:46:07.93 THERE A LITTLE - AND PRETTY SOON YOU SAY, 'IN THE TESTIMONY OF 00:46:07.96\00:46:11.43 TWO OR THREE SCRIPTURES' - YOU COMPARE IT, YOU CAN KNOW 00:46:11.47\00:46:13.37 WHAT IT'S TALKING ABOUT. SOMETIMES PEOPLE READ ONE VERSE 00:46:13.40\00:46:16.10 - THERE'S A VERSE THAT TALKS ABOUT BAPTISM FOR THE DEAD, IN 00:46:16.14\00:46:18.57 THE BIBLE - YOU EVER SEEN THAT THERE IN, IN THINK IT'S IN 1 00:46:18.61\00:46:21.91 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 15 - BAPTISM FOR THE DEAD. 00:46:21.94\00:46:24.65 IT JUST THROWS PEOPLE FOR A LOOP. 00:46:24.68\00:46:26.58 SOME FOLKS HAVE BUILT A WHOLE DOCTRINE ABOUT BAPTISM FOR THE 00:46:26.61\00:46:29.18 DEAD BECAUSE THEY DON'T COMPARE IT WITH OTHER SCRIPTURES, 00:46:29.22\00:46:32.39 BECAUSE IF YOU DO, IT BECOMES AN OUTRAGEOUS DOCTRINE. 00:46:32.42\00:46:35.56 THE IDEA THAT YOU CAN LIVE ANY WAY YOU WANT AND SOMEONE'LL GET 00:46:35.59\00:46:37.83 BAPTIZED IN YOUR BEHALF WHEN YOU'RE DEAD - THAT DOESN'T TEACH 00:46:37.86\00:46:41.13 THAT. AND YOU'VE GOT TO COMPARE 00:46:41.16\00:46:43.43 SCRIPTURE WITH SCRIPTURE TO FIND OUT WHAT IS IT SAYING? 00:46:43.47\00:46:46.50 YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT? SOME PEOPLE HAVE BUILT A WHOLE 00:46:46.53\00:46:49.77 DOCTRINE ABOUT WOMEN COVERING THEIR HEADS. 00:46:49.80\00:46:52.57 NOW, I'M NOT GOING TO COMMENT ONE WAY OR THE OTHER ABOUT WOMEN 00:46:52.61\00:46:54.98 COVERING THEIR HEADS, I'M JUST GOING TO SAY YOU'VE GOT TO BE 00:46:55.01\00:46:57.41 CAREFUL ABOUT BUILDING A DOCTRINE ON SOMETHING WHERE YOU 00:46:57.45\00:46:59.68 HAVE ONE VERSE IN THE BIBLE. YOU NEED TO HAVE TWO 00:46:59.71\00:47:03.62 OR THREE WITNESSES. YOU START BUILDING WHAT YOU'RE 00:47:03.65\00:47:06.15 TEACHINGS ARE SO THAT YOU CAN KNOW WHAT IT'S TALKING ABOUT. 00:47:06.19\00:47:10.06 AMEN? >>AMEN. 00:47:10.09\00:47:11.83 >>ALRIGHT, WORDS - THE WORD IN OUR LIVES - THIS IS OUR LAST 00:47:11.86\00:47:16.40 SECTION FOR FRIDAY - THE WORD IN OUR LIVES . I WANT YOU TO NOTICE 00:47:16.43\00:47:20.40 HOW DID PETER USE THE OLD TESTAMENT? TAKE A LOOK, FOR 00:47:20.44\00:47:24.94 INSTANCE, AT PETER'S SERMON IN ACTS 2:14 THROUGH 17: HE STANDS 00:47:24.97\00:47:30.88 UP AT PENTECOST AND PETER BEGINS TO PREACH. 00:47:30.91\00:47:34.28 THIS IS ACTS 2:14, "BUT PETER, STANDING UP WITH THE ELEVEN, 00:47:34.32\00:47:37.42 RAISED HIS VOICE" - AND HE'S PROBABLY PREACHING IN ARAMAIC; 00:47:37.45\00:47:40.12 THE OTHERS ARE PREACHING IN OTHER LANGUAGES - 00:47:40.16\00:47:41.49 THEY'VE RECEIVED THE GIFT OF TONGUES - "...MEN OF JUDEA AND 00:47:41.52\00:47:44.46 ALL WHO DWELL IN JERUSALEM, LET THIS BE KNOWN TO YOU, AND HEED 00:47:44.49\00:47:48.00 MY WORDS. FOR THESE ARE NOT DRUNK, AS YOU 00:47:48.03\00:47:49.73 SUPPOSE, SINCE IT IS ONLY THE THIRD HOUR OF THE DAY. 00:47:49.76\00:47:52.40 BUT THIS IS WHAT WAS SPOKEN BY THE PROPHET JOEL:" - OKAY, PETER 00:47:52.43\00:47:57.11 HAS NOT PREACHED FOR THIRTY SECONDS - YOU CAN TIME HOW LONG 00:47:57.14\00:48:00.88 IT TOOK ME TO PREACH WHAT I JUST SAID - AND HE IS GOING INTO OLD 00:48:00.91\00:48:05.31 TESTAMENT PROPHECY. DID PETER USE THE OLD TESTAMENT 00:48:05.35\00:48:09.02 PROPHECIES TO PREACH ABOUT CHRIST? 00:48:09.05\00:48:11.52 >>FIRST SERMON AT PENTECOST - DID PETER SAY, 'JUST A MOMENT, 00:48:11.55\00:48:15.36 FOLKS, LET ME FIND MY NOTES'? NOW, I'M NOT AGAINST 00:48:15.39\00:48:19.29 NOTES, I'M USING NOTES. BUT A GOOD PREACHER OUGHT TO BE 00:48:19.33\00:48:22.66 ABLE TO PREACH IN SEASON AND OUT OF SEASON AND I JUST CAN'T 00:48:22.70\00:48:26.50 PICTURE THESE OLD TESTAMENT APOSTLES SAYING, 'OH - SOMEBODY 00:48:26.53\00:48:29.84 - MY COMPUTER CRASHED. I CAN'T PREACH TODAY.' HOW WAS 00:48:29.87\00:48:33.48 PETER ABLE TO PREACH THIS SERMON AT PENTECOST? 00:48:33.51\00:48:37.11 'THY WORD I'VE HIDDEN IN MY HEART' AND THE PROMISE OF JESUS 00:48:37.15\00:48:41.22 IS THE SPIRIT WILL BRING THOSE THINGS BACK TO REMEMBRANCE 00:48:41.25\00:48:44.62 AGAIN. YOU CAN'T REMEMBER WHAT YOU NEVER KNEW. 00:48:44.65\00:48:47.02 >>AMEN. >>ISN'T THAT RIGHT? 00:48:47.06\00:48:48.96 AND SO, AS WE READ THE BIBLE DAILY, THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL 00:48:48.99\00:48:53.03 BRING THOSE THINGS TO YOUR REMEMBRANCE EXACTLY WHEN YOU 00:48:53.06\00:48:55.46 NEED THEM. AND I CAN'T COUNT HOW MANY TIMES - I BET YOU HAVE HAD 00:48:55.50\00:48:58.87 THE SAME EXPERIENCE. SOMETHING THAT YOU READ IN YOUR 00:48:58.90\00:49:01.50 MORNING DEVOTIONS OR YOUR STUDY, THAT VERY DAY SOMEONE 00:49:01.54\00:49:04.67 NEEDS THAT VERSE. >>AMEN. 00:49:04.71\00:49:06.41 >>OR YOU NEED THAT VERSE TO DEFEND WHAT YOU BELIEVE AND YOU 00:49:06.44\00:49:08.98 THOUGHT 'I WOULD NEVER HAVE REMEMBERED THAT, BUT GOD SHOWED 00:49:09.01\00:49:10.75 THAT TO ME TODAY.' THAT HAPPENS TO ME ALL THE TIME. 00:49:10.78\00:49:13.65 IT JUST REMINDS ME THERE'S SOMETHING SUPERNATURAL GOING ON 00:49:13.68\00:49:16.58 WHEN WE DO OUR STUDIES. AND, IF YOU PRAY, AND YOU MAKE 00:49:16.62\00:49:20.72 THE MOST OF IT, GOD'LL GIVE YOU MORE OPPORTUNITIES LIKE THAT. 00:49:20.76\00:49:23.32 ALRIGHT, NOTICE: SO HE PREACHES FROM JOEL AND THREE OTHER TIMES 00:49:23.36\00:49:27.66 IN JUST HIS SERMON ON PENTECOST - NO - YEAH, THREE OTHER TIMES - 00:49:27.73\00:49:31.47 A TOTAL OF FOUR - PETER QUOTES OLD TESTAMENT PROPHETS IN HIS 00:49:31.50\00:49:36.10 PENTECOST SERMON. AND FROM PREACHING ABOUT CHRIST, THROUGH 00:49:36.14\00:49:40.18 THE OLD TESTAMENT, THEY SAY, 'WHAT SHALL WE DO?' HE SAYS, 00:49:40.21\00:49:44.15 'REPENT AND BE BAPTIZED. AND THERE'S A GREAT BAPTISM. 00:49:44.18\00:49:46.51 PETER IS A BIBLE PREACHER AND HE'S ABLE TO DO IT 00:49:46.55\00:49:49.72 EXTEMPORANEOUSLY BECAUSE HE'S HIDDEN THE WORD IN HIS HEART. 00:49:49.75\00:49:52.99 POINT IS, EVERY BELIEVER SHOULD BE FILLING THEIR MINDS WITH THE 00:49:53.02\00:49:58.43 WORD OF GOD. >>AMEN. 00:49:58.46\00:49:59.96 >>AND HAVE DAILY TIME WITH THE LORD. 00:50:00.00\00:50:03.23 IF SOME OF YOU ARE MORE - BETTER STUDENTS THAN OTHERS AND YOU CAN 00:50:03.26\00:50:09.90 MAYBE READ CHAPTERS A DAY; SOME OF YOU, READING IS HARDER. 00:50:09.94\00:50:15.11 READ A FEW VERSES. THERE'S A LOT OF 00:50:15.14\00:50:16.91 POWER IN A VERSE. MEDITATE UPON IT DURING THAT 00:50:16.95\00:50:20.05 DAY, BUT PUT THE WORD OF GOD IN YOUR MIND AND IN YOUR HEART. 00:50:20.08\00:50:24.29 IT SAYS, 'THY WORD I'VE HIDDEN IN MY HEART THAT I MIGHT NOT 00:50:24.32\00:50:26.92 SIN.' A LOT OF US SIN QUICKLY AND EASILY. 00:50:26.96\00:50:29.86 WE FALL BECAUSE WE ARE NOT FORTIFYING OUR MINDS WITH THE 00:50:29.89\00:50:33.43 AMMUNITION THAT JESUS USED TO FIGHT THE DEVIL. 00:50:33.46\00:50:36.40 AND, IF JESUS NEEDED THE WORD OF GOD TO FIGHT THE DEVIL, THEN 00:50:36.43\00:50:39.20 WHAT MAKES YOU THINK YOU CAN DO IT WITHOUT THE WORD OF GOD? 00:50:39.23\00:50:42.47 SO WE NEED THOSE PROMISES. WE NEED - PETER HAD THE WORD 00:50:42.50\00:50:44.97 IN HIS LIFE AND IN HIS HEART. SOMEONE READ FOR ME 2 TIMOTHY 00:50:45.01\00:50:48.41 3:15 - YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE THAT, MANJEET? 00:50:48.44\00:50:51.38 ALRIGHT, HANG ON, I'LL READ A VERSE FIRST SO THE CAMERA CAN 00:50:51.41\00:50:53.15 GET READY. I'M GOING TO READ ROMANS 12:2, 00:50:53.18\00:50:56.89 "AND DO NOT BE CONFORMED TO THIS WORLD, BUT BE TRANSFORMED BY THE 00:50:56.92\00:51:00.82 RENEWING OF YOUR MIND," - WHAT TRANSFORMS OUR MIND? 00:51:00.86\00:51:04.39 THE WORD OF GOD - "THAT YOU MAY PROVE WHAT IS THAT GOOD AND 00:51:04.43\00:51:07.60 ACCEPTABLE AND PERFECT WILL OF GOD." 00:51:07.66\00:51:10.13 AND, GO AHEAD, YOU CAN READ THE LAST VERSE. 00:51:10.17\00:51:12.30 >>"AND THAT FROM CHILDHOOD YOU HAVE KNOWN THE HOLY SCRIPTURES, 00:51:12.33\00:51:17.07 WHICH ARE ABLE TO MAKE YOU WISE FOR SALVATION THROUGH FAITH 00:51:17.11\00:51:22.48 WHICH IS IN CHRIST JESUS." >>'FROM CHILDHOOD YOU'VE KNOWN 00:51:22.51\00:51:27.08 THE HOLY SCRIPTURES' - WHEN SHOULD WE START TEACHING OUR 00:51:27.12\00:51:30.69 YOUNG PEOPLE TO HAVE DAILY DEVOTIONS? 00:51:30.72\00:51:32.59 >>WHEN THEY'RE BABIES. >>FROM CHILDHOOD. 00:51:32.62\00:51:35.29 SOMETIMES PARENTS COME TO ME AND THEY'VE GOT A YOUNG CHILD THEY 00:51:35.32\00:51:37.59 WANT TO GET BAPTIZED AND, YOU KNOW, THAT AGE MAY VARY, BUT ONE 00:51:37.63\00:51:41.20 OF THE QUESTIONS I ASK TO DETERMINE IF A CHILD IS OLD 00:51:41.23\00:51:43.87 ENOUGH TO BE BAPTIZED - I SAY, 'DO YOU HAVE A DAILY DEVOTIONAL 00:51:43.90\00:51:47.87 LIFE? ARE YOU SPENDING TIME, AS A 00:51:47.90\00:51:50.81 HABIT, EVERY DAY, READING A VERSE? YOU GET DOWN ON YOUR 00:51:50.84\00:51:54.08 KNEES - DO YOU PRAY? DO YOU COMMUNICATE WITH JESUS?' 00:51:54.11\00:51:56.78 IF THEY'RE NOT OLD ENOUGH TO HAVE A DAILY RELATIONSHIP WITH 00:51:56.81\00:51:59.41 JESUS - PROBABLY NOT OLD ENOUGH TO BE BAPTIZED YET. 00:51:59.45\00:52:03.42 AND SO, WE NEED TO INCULCATE THIS IN OUR YOUTH FROM THE VERY 00:52:03.45\00:52:07.72 BEGINNING, HAVE DAILY WORSHIP IN OUR FAMILIES, AND HAVE PERSONAL 00:52:07.76\00:52:11.69 DEVOTIONS AS WELL. THAT WHAT PETER DID. 00:52:11.73\00:52:14.50 WELL, WE HAVE RUN OUT OF TIME, BUT THAT'S A GOOD POINT TO END 00:52:14.56\00:52:16.83 ON, BECAUSE THE FREE OFFER THAT WE'RE MAKING AVAILABLE IS THE 00:52:16.87\00:52:20.34 BOOK CALLED THE ULTIMATE RESOURCE . 00:52:20.37\00:52:22.37 I'VE WRITTEN A BOOK ABOUT HOW IMPORTANT THE BIBLE IS IN OUR 00:52:22.40\00:52:24.44 LIVES EVERY DAY AND IT'S OFFER #728 - FREE IF YOU JUST CALL - 00:52:24.47\00:52:29.51 CALL THE RESOURCE NUMBER - 866-788-3966 - THAT'S 00:52:29.54\00:52:35.98 866-STUDY-MORE AND ASK FOR OFFER #728. 00:52:36.02\00:52:40.16 GOD BLESS YOU, FRIENDS. WE'LL LOOK FORWARD TO STUDYING 00:52:40.19\00:52:41.99 HIS WORD TOGETHER AGAIN NEXT WEEK. (MUSIC) 00:52:42.02\00:52:58.81 >>FOR OVER SIXTY YEARS JEEPNEYS HAVE BEEN THE VIRTUAL 00:52:58.84\00:53:01.98 KING OF THE ROAD, HERE IN THE PHILIPPINES. 00:53:02.01\00:53:04.31 THESE UNIQUE VEHICLES THAT ARE FESTIVE WITH COLORFUL STICKERS, 00:53:04.35\00:53:07.62 LIGHTS, AND CHROME HAVE GROWN INTO THE CHIEF SOURCE OF 00:53:07.65\00:53:10.49 TRANSPORTATION IN THE COUNTRY. LET'S GO! (MUSIC) 00:53:10.52\00:53:18.13 THESE ICONIC FOUR-WHEEL DRIVE MILITARY VEHICLES, MADE BY THE 00:53:18.16\00:53:21.36 WILLYS COMPANY, WERE KNOWN AS 'JEEPS' BECAUSE IT STOOD FOR 00:53:21.40\00:53:24.77 GENERAL PURPOSE, BUT IT ALSO CAME FROM A CHARACTER IN A 00:53:24.80\00:53:29.30 POPEYE CARTOON THAT WAS KNOWN AS 'EUGENE THE JEEP' 00:53:29.34\00:53:33.34 HE WAS AN IMAGINARY DOG THAT COULD CRAWL 00:53:33.38\00:53:35.11 ACROSS THE CEILINGS AND THE WALLS - AND THESE JEEPS 00:53:35.14\00:53:37.45 COULD GO ANYWHERE. WHEN THE AMERICANS LEFT THE 00:53:37.48\00:53:39.85 PHILIPPINES FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II, IT WAS JUST CHEAPER FOR THEM 00:53:39.88\00:53:43.45 TO LEAVE THESE THOUSANDS OF MILITARY VEHICLES BEHIND RATHER 00:53:43.49\00:53:46.45 THAN TO TRANSPORT THEM BACK TO THE STATES. 00:53:46.49\00:53:49.06 THE CREATIVE FILIPINO PEOPLE MODIFIED THESE MILITARY VEHICLES 00:53:49.09\00:53:52.63 BY EXTENDING THE FRAME ABOUT SIX FEET. 00:53:52.66\00:53:54.93 THEY ADDED A COUPLE OF OPPOSING BENCHES THAT ARE DESIGNED TO 00:53:54.96\00:53:57.60 CARRY ABOUT 18 PEOPLE, THEY PUT A CAB OVER IT TO PREVENT THE 00:53:57.63\00:54:01.97 WATER FROM COMING IN, BUT I'VE SEEN WHAT LOOKS LIKE ABOUT 20 TO 00:54:02.00\00:54:05.94 25 PEOPLE HANGING OFF EVERY POSSIBLE EDGE AND LEDGE OF A 00:54:05.97\00:54:09.18 JEEPNEY - JUMPING OFF AND JUMPING ON AS IT GOES THROUGH 00:54:09.21\00:54:12.78 CONGESTED MANILLA TRAFFIC. EVERY JEEPNEY IS A 00:54:12.81\00:54:17.42 LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT. SOME ARE JUST HELD TOGETHER WITH 00:54:17.45\00:54:20.26 PATCHES OF BALING WIRE AND BUBBLE GUM AND A LITTLE BIT OF 00:54:20.29\00:54:22.99 DUCT TAPE; SOME ARE A LITTLE MORE ORNATE AND MODERN - THEY'VE 00:54:23.02\00:54:26.09 GOT CHROME AND STAINLESS STEEL - AND THERE'S GOOD REASON THAT 00:54:26.13\00:54:29.36 THE CEILINGS ARE PADDED. WHEN ONE OF THE LOCAL FILIPINOS 00:54:29.40\00:54:35.00 WANTS A RIDE ON A JEEPNEY, THEY JUST FLAG THEM DOWN, THEY SHOUT, 00:54:35.04\00:54:38.37 THEY TAP ON THE HOOD, AND THEN THEY JUMP ON BOARD - THEY MAY 00:54:38.41\00:54:41.41 NOT EVEN SLOW DOWN WHEN THEY DO THIS - THEN THEY PAY ABOUT EIGHT 00:54:41.44\00:54:44.88 PESOS, WHICH IS THE EQUIVALENT OF 16 CENTS FOR US - IT'S, BY 00:54:44.91\00:54:48.45 FAR THE MOST ECONOMICAL WAY TO GET AROUND IN THE COUNTRY. 00:54:48.48\00:54:56.62 SOME JEEPNEYS ARE EVEN EQUIPPED WITH THEIR OWN EMERGENCY PRIVY. 00:54:56.66\00:55:02.63 ONE LITTLE DOWNSIDE TO THIS JEEPNEYS IS, BECAUSE THE CABS 00:55:02.66\00:55:05.17 ARE OPEN LIKE THIS, THEY'RE NOT AIR-CONDITIONED, IT GETS PRETTY 00:55:05.20\00:55:08.27 HOT IN THE SUMMERTIME AND ALL OF THE FUMES FROM THE STREET COME 00:55:08.30\00:55:11.27 IN, WHICH CAN MAKE IT AN EXHAUSTING EXPERIENCE - WHEW. 00:55:11.31\00:55:16.08 PART OF THE DOWNSIDE OF THE JEEPNEY IS THEY DON'T HAVE ALL 00:55:16.11\00:55:18.05 OF THE MODERN SAFETY FEATURES - NO SEAT BELTS - YOU HAVE TO TAKE 00:55:18.08\00:55:21.88 ADVANTAGE OF THE PADDING IF YOU HIT A HARD BUMP AND, IF YOU'RE 00:55:21.92\00:55:24.95 IN A SERIOUS ACCIDENT, THERE'S NO AIRBAGS OTHER THAN THE 00:55:24.99\00:55:27.79 FRIENDS THAT MIGHT BE SITTING AROUND YOU. 00:55:27.82\00:55:30.26 AND THAT'S THE UPSIDE OF THE JEEPNEY, BECAUSE YOU'RE UP CLOSE 00:55:30.29\00:55:32.86 AND PERSONAL WITH EVERYBODY, YOU MAKE SOME NEW FRIENDS. 00:55:32.89\00:55:36.40 RIDING ON A JEEPNEY REQUIRES TEAMWORK. 00:55:36.43\00:55:38.80 IF YOU BUY SOMETHING FROM ONE OF THE VENDORS, YOU ALL SORT OF 00:55:38.83\00:55:41.10 PASS IT BACK TO EACH OTHER AND WHEN PASSENGERS GET ON BOARD, 00:55:41.14\00:55:44.14 YOU JUST PASS YOUR MONEY UP FRONT. THANKS A LOT! 00:55:44.17\00:55:57.42 FRIENDS, IT'S SAFE TO SAY THERE ARE NO TWO JEEPNEYS THAT ARE 00:55:57.45\00:56:00.09 EXACTLY THE SAME - THEY'RE ALL UNIQUE AND DISTINCT - AND SO ARE 00:56:00.12\00:56:04.66 YOU. HAVE YOU EVER FELT THAT YOU GET 00:56:04.69\00:56:06.73 LOST IN THE MASS OF HUMANITY AND GOD DOESN'T NOTICE YOU? 00:56:06.76\00:56:10.77 THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT HE KNOWS YOUR NAME. 00:56:10.80\00:56:12.77 THE VERY HAIRS OF YOUR HEAD ARE NUMBERED AND HE HEARS YOUR 00:56:12.80\00:56:15.00 PRAYERS. MORE THAN THAT, THE LORD WANTS TO TAKE YOU TO HIS 00:56:15.04\00:56:18.21 KINGDOM - YOU JUST HAVE TO GET ON BOARD. (MUSIC) 00:56:18.24\00:56:34.16 >>LET'S FACE IT, IT'S NOT ALWAYS EASY TO UNDERSTAND 00:56:34.19\00:56:36.89 EVERYTHING YOU READ IN THE BIBLE. 00:56:36.93\00:56:38.86 WITH OVER 700,000 WORDS CONTAINED IN 66 BOOKS, THE BIBLE 00:56:38.89\00:56:42.96 CAN GENERATE A LOT OF QUESTIONS. 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