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00:35 >>GOOD MORNING, FRIENDS. 00:36 WELCOME TO SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR, COMING TO YOU FROM THE 00:39 GRANITE BAY SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH IN 00:41 CALIFORNIA. I'D LIKE TO WELCOME OUR ONLINE 00:43 MEMBERS AND THOSE JOINING US ON THE VARIOUS TELEVISION NETWORKS. 00:47 WE HAVE, INDEED, AN INTERNATIONAL SABBATH SCHOOL 00:49 CLASS OF PEOPLE TUNING IN ALL OVER THE WORLD TO STUDY THE 00:53 WORD. WELL, WE'VE BEEN STUDYING 00:55 THROUGH OUR LESSON QUARTERLY DEALING WITH THE FIRST AND THE 00:57 SECOND BOOKS OF PETER. TODAY WE FIND OURSELVES IN 01:00 LESSON #10 ENTITLED PROPHECY AND SCRIPTURE. 01:04 NOW, BEFORE WE GET TO OUR LESSON, WE'D LIKE TO LET THOSE 01:06 WHO ARE VIEWING KNOW ABOUT OUR FREE RESOURCE FOR TODAY, A BOOK 01:10 CALLED ULTIMATE RESOURCE TALKING ABOUT THE BIBLE, WRITTEN BY 01:13 PASTOR DOUG. FOR ANYBODY WANTING TO RECEIVE 01:16 OUR FREE OFFER, GIVE US A CALL. THE NUMBER IS 866-788-3966 AND 01:22 YOU CAN ASK FOR OFFER #728. WE'LL BE HAPPY TO SEND THIS TO 01:26 ANYBODY WHO CALLS AND ASKS. NOW, FOR THOSE OUTSIDE OF NORTH 01:30 AMERICA, YOU CAN ALSO READ THE BOOK FOR FREE, JUST GO TO THE 01:33 AMAZING FACTS WEBSITE, JUST AMAZINGFACTS.ORG . 01:37 WELL, BEFORE WE GET TO OUR STUDY, WE ALWAYS LIKE TO BEGIN 01:40 BY LIFTING OUR VOICES IN SONG, SO WE'RE GOING TO HAVE OUR SONG 01:43 LEADERS LEAD US IN A MUSICAL ITEM. 01:46 (PIANO MUSIC) >>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS. 01:51 AND, LIKE HE SAID, WELCOMING THOSE FROM AROUND THE WORLD WHO 01:55 JOIN US EVERY WEEK. WE'RE GOING TO SING YOUR 01:58 FAVORITES - THEY'RE OURS AS WELL. 02:01 SO I WOULD LOVE FOR YOU TO TURN TO OUR FIRST SONG TODAY, #44 IN 02:06 YOUR HYMNAL. IF YOU HAVE THAT AT HOME, JOIN 02:08 WITH US - MORNING HAS BROKEN - I PICKED SOME OF MY CHILDHOOD 02:12 FAVORITES SO WE'RE GOING TO SING THOSE TODAY. 02:16 WE'RE GOING TO DO ALL THREE STANZAS - #44. 02:19 (PIANO MUSIC) 04:17 >>AT THIS TIME PASTOR ROSS IS GOING TO HAVE OUR OPENING 04:19 PRAYER. >>LET'S BOW OUR HEADS 04:21 FOR A WORD OF PRAYER. DEAR FATHER IN HEAVEN, WHAT A 04:24 PRIVILEGE TO BE ABLE TO GATHER TOGETHER HERE ON THE SABBATH TO 04:27 OPEN UP YOUR WORD AND STUDY. WE, INDEED, HAVE RECEIVED MUCH 04:31 INSTRUCTION AND BLESSING, SO FAR, IN OUR STUDY OF THE 04:34 BOOKS OF 1 AND 2 PETER. TODAY WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING 04:37 AT PROPHECY AS REVEALED IN THESE IMPORTANT BOOKS. 04:41 SO WE ASK FOR YOUR HOLY SPIRIT TO BE WITH US. 04:43 GUIDE OUR THOUGHTS - OUR HEARTS, LORD. 04:44 LEAD US INTO A CLEARER AND FULLER UNDERSTANDING OF YOUR 04:46 WORD, FOR WE ASK THIS IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. 04:51 OUR LESSON THIS MORNING IS GOING TO BE BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR 04:53 DOUG. >>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS. 04:59 I'M GLAD YOU MADE IT SAFELY BACK FROM SERBIA. 05:02 THAT'S ONE OF THE PLACES I'VE NEVER BEEN BEFORE. 05:05 GOOD MORNING. >>GOOD MORNING. 05:06 >>HOW IS EVERYBODY? THANK YOU FOR COMING. 05:08 I WANT TO WELCOME OUR VIEWING AUDIENCE - I GUESS YOU'VE BEEN 05:11 THOROUGHLY WELCOMED ALREADY AND - BUT I LIKE TO DO IT TOO - AND 05:16 WE KNOW THAT WE MEET PEOPLE JUST ALL OVER THE WORLD AND SOMETIMES 05:20 IT'S JUST - CAN I SAY 'MIND-BLOWING' IN CHURCH? 05:24 USED TO BE A WORD WE USED WHEN I WAS A HIPPIE. 05:26 IT HAD A DIFFERENT CONNOTATION, BUT IT IS KIND OF MIND-BLOWING 05:30 WHEN WE THINK ABOUT ALL THE PEOPLE THAT WE MEET ALL AROUND 05:33 THE WORLD THAT ARE PART OF THE CLASS. 05:35 WE ARE CONTINUING OUR STUDY IN 1 AND 2 PETER, THE LESSON DEALING 05:41 WITH FEEDING MY SHEEP . AND I KNOW I'VE SAID THIS 05:43 BEFORE, BUT I - I'D LIKE TO JUST SAY WHAT A PRIVILEGE IT IS - 05:46 IT'S A BLESSING FOR ME BECAUSE AS I STUDY THE LESSON, THEN I'M 05:52 LEARNING NEW THINGS ALL THE TIME. 05:54 AND, YOU KNOW, THE IDEA IS, THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH - 05:57 WE ARRANGE THINGS WHERE WE TAKE EVERYBODY THROUGH THE MAJOR 06:01 THEMES OF THE BIBLE OVER A PERIOD OF FIVE YEARS. 06:04 AND SO, IN FIVE YEARS' TIME, IF YOU'VE BEEN DOING YOUR STUDY 06:07 GUIDE, YOU ARE GOING TO GO THROUGH THE BIBLE. 06:09 ANY OF YOU EVER LISTEN TO A - THERE WAS A RADIO PREACHER, HE'S 06:12 GOT A VERY THICK SOUTHERN ACCENT - HE'S ACTUALLY PASSED AWAY, BUT 06:16 HIS PROGRAMS ARE STILL ON THE AIR - CALLED THROUGH THE 06:18 BIBLE - J. VERNON MCGEE? DO ANY OF YOU REMEMBER? 06:21 I SEE SOME OF YOU - J. VERNON MCGEE - 06:23 JUST A VERY INTERESTING PREACHER, BUT THAT 06:25 WAS HIS PROGRAM IS HE WOULD GO VERSE BY VERSE THROUGH THE 06:29 BIBLE, OVER A PERIOD OF FIVE YEARS. 06:32 AND I ENJOYED, SOMETIMES, LISTENING TO HIM - DIDN'T ALWAYS 06:37 AGREE WITH EVERYTHING HE SAID - HE KIND OF CAME FROM A 06:39 CALVINISTIC POINT OF VIEW, BUT HE'S FUN TO LISTEN TO BECAUSE, 06:42 BOY HE HAD A THICK SOUTHERN ACCENT. 06:44 MATTER OF FACT, ONE TIME HE SAID HE WAS IN A RESTAURANT AND, EVEN 06:47 THOUGH HE'S IN RADIO, YOU NEVER SEE HIS FACE, AND HE ORDERED 06:50 SOMETHING - ALL HE HAD TO DO WAS ORDER HIS FOOD AND SHE SAID, 06:52 'YOU'RE THAT PASTOR ON THE RADIO. (LAUGHTER) 06:56 ANYWAY, SO WE ARE LEARNING MORE ABOUT PETER. 06:59 WE'RE ON LESSON #10 TODAY, DEALING WITH THE SUBJECT OF 07:03 JESUS, PROPHECY, AND SCRIPTURE AND WE HAVE ONE SECTION THAT 07:08 TALKS ABOUT JESUS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. 07:10 PROPHECY AND SCRIPTURE - OUR MEMORY VERSE IS FROM 2 PETER 07:13 1:19 - 2 PETER 1:19 - IF YOU'D LIKE TO SAY THAT WITH ME, THAT'D 07:17 BE GREAT. ARE YOU READY? 07:19 "WE HAVE ALSO A MORE SURE WORD OF PROPHECY; WHEREUNTO YE DO 07:25 WELL THAT YE TAKE HEED, AS UNTO A LIGHT THAT SHINETH IN A DARK 07:30 PLACE, UNTIL THE DAY DAWN, AND THE DAY STAR ARISE IN YOUR 07:34 HEARTS:" NOW, I'M NOT GOING TO SAY A LOT ABOUT THE MEMORY VERSE 07:37 NOW, BECAUSE IT COMES UP LATER IN THE LESSON. 07:41 NOW THE FIRST SECTION, WE'RE GOING TO DIVE RIGHT INTO BECAUSE 07:43 IT'S A LONG ONE - AT LEAST I'M MAKING IT LONG - IS ABOUT JESUS 07:47 IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. ONE OF THE THEMES THAT PETER 07:51 ADDRESSES IN HIS LETTERS IS HOW INTEGRAL JESUS IS IN PROPHECY. 07:59 AND JUST TO BEGIN, WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT THAT VERSE THERE ON 1 08:04 PETER 1:10 - 1 PETER CHAPTER 1, VERSES 10 AND 11, "OF THIS 08:10 SALVATION THE PROPHETS HAVE INQUIRED AND SEARCHED CAREFULLY, 08:15 WHO PROPHESIED OF THE GRACE THAT WOULD COME TO YOU, SEARCHING 08:18 WHAT, OR WHAT MANNER OF TIME, THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST WHO WAS IN 08:23 THEM WAS INDICATING WHEN HE TESTIFIED BEFOREHAND THE 08:26 SUFFERINGS OF CHRIST AND THE GLORIES THAT WOULD FOLLOW." 08:29 SO WHAT PETER IS SAYING HERE - HE SAID, THE SALVATION I PREACH 08:32 TO YOU IS THE SALVATION THE PROPHETS LOVE TO LOOK INTO AND 08:37 THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST, IN THE PROPHETS, WAS PROPHESYING ABOUT 08:41 CHRIST AND NOW WE'RE THE ONES THAT GET TO SEE THE REALITY OF 08:45 ALL THE THINGS THEY PROPHESIED ABOUT. 08:47 SO WAY BACK IN PETER'S DAY, HE SAID, 'WHAT A BLESSED GENERATION 08:49 THAT WE'RE THE ONES WHO LIVE TO SEE AND WITNESS ALL THE 08:53 OLD TESTAMENT PROPHETS POINTED TO. 08:55 NOW, I BELIEVE THAT THE WHOLE BIBLE IS ABOUT JESUS. 09:01 THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE THEMES. 09:02 ALL THE BIBLE IS REALLY TELLING US ABOUT JESUS. 09:05 YOU LOOK, FOR INSTANCE, IN LUKE 24 AND YOU SEE IN LUKE 24, VERSE 09:09 27, "AND BEGINNING" - THESE - THIS IS TALKING ABOUT JESUS ON 09:14 THE ROAD TO EMMAUS - "AND BEGINNING AT MOSES" - WHAT'S THE 09:18 FIRST BOOK IN THE BIBLE? >>GENESIS. 09:20 >>GENESIS, WRITTEN BY? >>MOSES. 09:23 >>SO STARTING AT THE BEGINNING OF THE BIBLE - "AND ALL THE 09:25 PROPHETS, HE" - JESUS - "EXPOUNDED TO THEM IN ALL THE 09:30 SCRIPTURES THE THINGS CONCERNING HIMSELF." 09:34 ALL OF THE PROPHETS IN ALL OF THE SCRIPTURES TALK ABOUT WHO? 09:37 >>JESUS. >>SAME STORY, A LITTLE LATER IN 09:40 THAT CHAPTER - GO TO VERSE 44 - LUKE 24:44 - NOW JESUS IS IN THE 09:44 UPPER ROOM WITH HIS DISCIPLES AND HE SAYS, "THESE ARE THE 09:47 WORDS WHICH I SPOKE TO YOU WHILE I WAS STILL WITH YOU, THAT ALL 09:50 THINGS MUST BE FULFILLED WHICH WERE WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES 09:55 AND THE PROPHETS AND THE PSALMS CONCERNING ME." - LAW OF MOSES, 09:59 PROPHETS, PSALMS - ALL WERE WRITTEN CONCERNING ME. 10:02 SO THIS IDEA THAT YOU SEE JESUS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT DOESN'T 10:06 JUST COME FROM PETER, IT COMES FROM JESUS. 10:09 THAT WHEN YOU'RE READING THROUGH THE OLD TESTAMENT AND, YOU KNOW, 10:12 IF YOU'VE BEEN HERE ANY LENGTH OF TIME, THAT'S ONE OF MY 10:14 FAVORITE THINGS TO DO. LATER TODAY WE'RE 10:16 TALKING ABOUT DAVID. I WANT TO ALWAYS BE DRAWING 10:19 PEOPLE TO SEE JESUS IN ALL THESE STORIES. 10:22 AND THIS IS WHAT CHRIST DID. THE LAW OF MOSES, AND THE 10:25 PROPHETS, AND THE PSALMS - WHO WROTE MOST OF THE PSALMS? 10:28 >>DAVID. >>DAVID - "CONCERNING ME." 10:31 SO YOU HAVE A MANDATE - YOU'VE GOT A CHALLENGE FROM JESUS TO 10:35 FIND JESUS ALL THROUGH THESE STORIES IN THE BIBLE. 10:39 IT SAYS, "AND HE OPENED THEIR UNDERSTANDING, THAT THEY MIGHT 10:42 COMPREHEND THE SCRIPTURES." NOW, WHEN JESUS SAID THIS, IN 10:45 THE BOOK OF LUKE 24, HOW MUCH OF THE NEW TESTAMENT WAS WRITTEN? 10:53 THERE WAS NO NEW TESTAMENT YET - THIS WAS RIGHT AFTER THE 10:55 RESURRECTION. SO WHEN JESUS GAVE HIM UNDERSTANDING FOR THE 10:59 SCRIPTURES, WHAT PART OF THE BIBLE WERE THEY READING? 11:02 >>OLD TESTAMENT. >>THE OLD TESTAMENT. 11:04 DID THEY HAVE ALL OF THE OLD TESTAMENT AT THAT POINT? 11:06 THEY DID, BECAUSE THERE'S ABOUT 400 YEARS FROM MALACHI TO 11:10 MATTHEW. SO THE OLD TESTAMENT THAT YOU 11:12 AND I READ WAS THE SAME OLD TESTAMENT THE DISCIPLES 11:15 READ BACK THEN. IT WAS COMPLETE. 11:17 THE ARGUMENTS, TODAY, ABOUT DIFFERENT TRANSLATIONS AND 11:21 MISSING BOOKS AND STUFF, IT ALMOST NEVER HAS TO DO WITH THE 11:23 OLD TESTAMENT, IT'S ALMOST ALWAYS TALKING ABOUT THESE 11:25 APOCRYPHAL BOOKS FROM THE NEW TESTAMENT, BUT IT ALL TELLS US 11:29 ABOUT JESUS. IT'S A PICTURE OF JESUS, AND 11:33 ONCE YOU GET THE PICTURE OF JESUS, EVERYTHING ELSE 11:36 STARTS TO MAKE SENSE. AND SO, LOOK FOR 11:39 HIM, HE IS THERE. ALRIGHT, SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ 11:42 A VERSE FOR ME IN JUST A MOMENT. I THINK IT'S JOHN - THE GOSPEL 11:45 OF JOHN 5:39 - YOU'LL HAVE THAT HAFDIS? ALRIGHT, I'M 11:48 GOING TO READ JOHN 1:44. WHEN THE APOSTLES FIRST FOUND JESUS, 11:54 HOW DID THEY INTRODUCE THEIR FIND TO EACH OTHER? 11:58 AT THE BAPTISM OF JOHN IT TELLS YOU, "NOW PHILIP WAS FROM 12:01 BETHSAIDA, THE CITY OF ANDREW AND PETER." 12:04 WHOSE BOOK ARE WE STUDYING RIGHT NOW? 12:05 >>PETER. >>PETER. 12:07 HE "FOUND NATHANAEL AND SAID TO HIM, 'WE HAVE FOUND HIM OF WHOM 12:11 MOSES IN THE LAW, AND ALSO THE PROPHETS, WROTE - JESUS OF 12:17 NAZARETH, THE SON OF JOSEPH.'" SO WHEN THEY SAID 'WE FOUND THE 12:21 MESSIAH', HOW DID THEY KNOW THEY FOUND THE MESSIAH? 12:23 HE IS THE ONE THAT MOSES AND THE PROPHETS WROTE ABOUT. 12:27 IS THAT CLEAR? AND SO, DO WE HAVE JESUS 12:30 IN ALL THE PROPHECIES? THEY KNEW THAT BACK THEN. 12:33 NOW THIS IS - THE REASON I HARP ON THIS - I GO FROM CHURCH TO 12:37 CHURCH - I VISIT LOTS OF CHURCHES - I ALMOST NEVER HEAR A 12:40 SERMON ON CHRIST THROUGHOUT THE OLD TESTAMENT. IT'S PRETTY RARE. 12:46 AND, IF YOU GO, THAT'S TRUE IN OUR CHURCH, YOU GO TO YOUR 12:49 TYPICAL EVANGELICAL CHURCH THAT I OCCASIONALLY VISIT, OR I'M IN 12:53 A SERVICE WHERE THE EVANGELICALS ARE LEADING OUT, THEY JUST DON'T 12:56 SEE - I'VE BEEN TO SUNDAY CHURCHES WHERE THEY SUPPLY 12:59 BIBLES FOR THEIR PEOPLE; IT'S JUST THE NEW TESTAMENT. 13:02 THEY DON'T EVEN HAVE THE BIBLE THAT JESUS USED TO FIGHT THE 13:04 DEVIL. HOW DID JESUS RESIST TEMPTATION? 13:08 QUOTED SCRIPTURE TO THE DEVIL. WAS IT NEW TESTAMENT HE QUOTED? 13:12 NOW, YOU CERTAINLY CAN QUOTE THE NEW TESTAMENT, DON'T 13:14 MISUNDERSTAND, BUT WHAT A SAD THING TO LEAVE THE OLD TESTAMENT 13:18 OUT OF THE CHURCH. ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD, READ FOR US, PLEASE. 13:23 >>"YOU SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES FOR IN THEM YOU THINK YOU HAVE 13:26 ETERNAL LIFE AND THESE ARE THEY WHICH TESTIFY OF ME" 13:31 >>NOW, YOU KNOW WHY THIS IS SUCH AN IMPORTANT STATEMENT? 13:33 HERE, JESUS IS SPEAKING AND HE SAID, 'THE SCRIPTURES TESTIFY OF 13:37 ME'. WELL, EARLIER I SAID MOSES, 13:39 PSALMS, PROPHETS - JESUS DOES NOT EVEN IDENTIFY A PARTICULAR 13:44 BOOK; HE TALKS ABOUT THE SCRIPTURES AS A UNITED WHOLE. 13:47 HE SAID, 'THE SCRIPTURES TESTIFY'. SO WHICH SCRIPTURE 13:51 WOULD THAT BE? IT SAYS IN ALL THE SCRIPTURES. LET ME READ 13:57 SOMETHING TO YOU. I'VE GOT - WHENEVER I TEACH AN AFCOE CLASS, 14:01 ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS I DO WHEN I DO MY PRESENTATION IS I 14:05 READ SOME OF THESE QUOTES TO THEM. 14:06 SO, BEAR WITH ME, I'M GOING TO READ A LITTLE BIT TO YOU HERE. 14:09 THIS IS FROM A BOOK CALLED - IT'S A DEVOTIONAL - IT'S A QUOTE 14:13 FROM E.G. WHITE - THE BOOK IS CALLED THAT I MAY KNOW HIM - 14:17 IT'S PAGE 208 - IT'S A WHOLE DAY'S SPIRITUAL DEVOTIONAL AND 14:21 IT'S USING THE VERSE THAT WE JUST READ, "AND BEGINNING AT 14:24 MOSES" - LUKE 24:27 - "AND ALL THE PROPHETS HE EXPOUNDED UNTO 14:28 THEM IN ALL THE SCRIPTURES, THE THINGS CONCERNING HIMSELF." 14:30 ALRIGHT, I'M READING, "THERE IS ONE GREAT CENTRAL TRUTH TO BE 14:35 KEPT EVER BEFORE THE MIND IN SEARCHING THE SCRIPTURES" - WHAT 14:39 DO YOU SUPPOSE THAT MIGHT BE? - "CHRIST AND HIM CRUCIFIED. 14:43 EVERY OTHER TRUTH IS INVESTED WITH INFLUENCE AND POWER 14:46 CORRESPONDING TO ITS RELATION TO THIS THEME." - 14:49 THE WHOLE BIBLE IS ABOUT CHRIST AND HIM CRUCIFIED. 14:52 YOU REALIZE I'M DOING COMMENTARY AS I READ? 14:54 SORRY, I CAN'T HELP IT. IT'S CALLED A.D.D. 14:57 PREACHING - "IT IS ONLY IN THE LIGHT OF THE CROSS THAT WE CAN 15:01 DISCERN THE EXALTED CHARACTER OF THE LAW OF GOD. 15:04 THE SOUL PALSIED BY SIN CAN BE ENDOWED WITH LIFE ONLY THROUGH 15:08 THE WORK WROUGHT OUT UPON THE CROSS BY THE AUTHOR OF OUR 15:11 SALVATION. THE LOVE OF CHRIST CONSTRAINS 15:13 MAN TO UNITE WITH HIM IN HIS LABORS AND SACRIFICE. 15:16 THE REVELATION OF DIVINE LOVE AWAKENS IN THEM A SENSE OF THEIR 15:20 NEGLECTED OBLIGATION TO BE LIGHT BEARERS TO THE WORLD, AND 15:22 INSPIRES THEM WITH A MISSIONARY SPIRIT. 15:25 THIS TRUTH ENLIGHTENS THE MIND AND SANCTIFIES THE SOUL. 15:28 IT WILL BANISH UNBELIEF AND INSPIRE FAITH....WHEN CHRIST IN 15:32 HIS WORK OF REDEMPTION IS SEEN TO BE THE GREAT CENTRAL TRUTH OF 15:36 THE SYSTEM OF TRUTH, A NEW LIGHT IS SHED UPON ALL THE EVENTS OF 15:40 THE PAST AND THE FUTURE. THEY ARE SEEN IN A NEW RELATION, 15:43 AND POSSESS A NEW AND DEEPER SIGNIFICANCE. 15:46 THE OLD" - HERE'S THE PART I ESPECIALLY WANT YOU TO CATCH - 15:49 "THE OLD TESTAMENT IS AS VERILY THE GOSPEL IN ITS TYPES AND 15:53 SHADOWS AS THE NEW TESTAMENT IN ITS UNFOLDING POWER." 15:57 - THE OLD TESTAMENT'S THE GOSPEL TOO. 15:59 >>AMEN. >>"THE NEW TESTAMENT DOES NOT 16:02 PRESENT A NEW RELIGION; THE OLD TESTAMENT DOES NOT PRESENT A 16:06 RELIGION TO BE SUPERSEDED BY THE NEW. 16:08 THE NEW TESTAMENT IS ONLY THE ADVANCEMENT AND UNFOLDING OF THE 16:11 OLD. ABEL" - IN THE OLD TESTAMENT - 16:14 "WAS A BELIEVER IN CHRIST AND WAS AS VERILY SAVED BY HIS POWER 16:18 AS WAS...THE BELOVED DISCIPLE JOHN...THAT GOD WHO WALKED WITH 16:23 ENOCH WAS OUR LORD AND SAVIOR, JESUS CHRIST. 16:26 HE WAS THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD THEN, JUST AS HE IS NOW. 16:29 THE TRUTH FOR THIS TIME IS BROAD IN ITS OUTLINES, FAR 16:33 REACHING, EMBRACING MANY DOCTRINES, BUT THESE DOCTRINES 16:37 ARE NOT DETACHED ITEMS WHICH MEAN LITTLE; THEY ARE UNITED BY 16:40 GOLDEN THREADS, FORMING A COMPLETE WHOLE, WITH CHRIST AS 16:44 THE LIVING CENTER." AND SO, YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE IS 16:48 LIKE A TAPESTRY AND IF YOU LOOK AT A TAPESTRY FROM THE BACK 16:53 - HAVE YOU EVER DONE THAT? YOU JUST SEE ALL THESE KNOTS 16:57 TIED OFF AND THREADS KIND OF HANGING AND YOU'RE GOING, 16:59 'WHAT IN THE WORLD?' BUT, IF YOU GO AROUND THE OTHER 17:02 SIDE, IT STARTS TO MAKE SENSE WHEN YOU SEE THE 17:05 PICTURE OF THE TAPESTRY. AND SO, THE PICTURE IN THE 17:09 TAPESTRY OF THE BIBLE IS CHRIST. AND JESUS' SALVATION AND THE 17:14 CROSS IS THE GOLDEN THREAD THAT RUNS THROUGH THE WHOLE TAPESTRY. 17:18 YOU KNOW, THEY USED TO HAVE A LOT OF BEAUTIFUL TAPESTRIES IN 17:24 EUROPE THAT WERE VERY EXPENSIVE, VERY EXQUISITE, BECAUSE THERE 17:29 WAS A PERIOD OF TIME WHEN THESE TAPESTRIES MADE - I THINK THEY 17:32 WERE IN TURKEY - THEY WOVE - WHENEVER THEY WANTED SOMETHING 17:35 TO SHINE WITH GOLD, THESE ROYAL TAPESTRIES ACTUALLY WOVE GOLD 17:38 THREADS ALL THROUGHOUT THE TAPESTRY. 17:41 WELL, IN THE VARIOUS WARS, THEY WOULD BURN THE TAPESTRIES 17:44 TO GET THOSE FEW GOLD THREADS, AND SO, SO MANY OF THEM HAVE 17:47 BEEN LOST - IT'S VERY SAD. BUT CHRIST IS THAT GOLDEN 17:51 THREAD THAT SHE TALKS ABOUT. LET ME READ ANOTHER ONE TO YOU. 17:55 NOW THIS IS FROM CHARLES SPURGEON. 17:58 SOME OF YOU HAVE READ HIS FAMOUS DEVOTIONAL MORNING AND EVENING - 18:02 ANYONE CAN DOWNLOAD IT FOR FREE, BUT THIS IS PROBABLY MY FAVORITE 18:09 QUOTE FROM SPURGEON. HE'S A GREAT PREACHER. 18:14 JOHN 5:39 - IT'S A DAILY MORNING DEVOTIONAL AND THIS IS THE PART 18:18 WHERE IT SAYS, "THESE ARE THEY WHICH TESTIFY OF ME" - LISTEN, 18:21 "JESUS CHRIST IS THE ALPHA AND OMEGA OF THE BIBLE. HE IS THE 18:26 CONSTANT THEME OF ITS SACRED PAGES. FROM THE FIRST TO THE 18:30 LAST THEY TESTIFY OF HIM. AT THE CREATION WE AT ONCE 18:33 DISCERN HIM AS ONE OF THE SACRED TRINITY. 18:36 WE CATCH A GLIMPSE OF HIM IN THE PROMISE OF THE WOMAN'S SEED; WE 18:40 SEE HIM TYPIFIED IN THE ARK OF NOAH; WE WALK WITH ABRAHAM, AS 18:44 HE SEES MESSIAH'S DAY; WE DWELL IN THE TENTS OF ISAAC AND JACOB, 18:48 FEEDING UPON THE GRACIOUS PROMISE; WE HEAR THE VENERABLE 18:51 ISRAEL TALKING OF SHILOH; AND IN THE NUMEROUS TYPES OF THE LAW, 18:56 WE FIND THE REDEEMER ABUNDANTLY FORESHADOWED. 18:59 PROPHETS AND KINGS, PRIESTS AND PREACHERS, ALL LOOK ONE WAY - 19:03 THEY ALL STAND AS THE CHERUBS DID OVER THE ARK, DESIRING TO 19:06 LOOK WITHIN, AND TO READ THE MYSTERY OF GOD'S GREAT 19:09 PROPITIATION. STILL MORE MANIFESTLY IN THE NEW 19:12 TESTAMENT WE FIND OUR LORD THE ONE PERVADING SUBJECT. 19:16 IT IS NOT AN INGOT HERE AND THERE, OR DUST OF GOLD THINLY 19:21 SCATTERED, BUT HERE YOU STAND UPON A SOLID FLOOR OF GOLD; FOR 19:25 THE WHOLE SUBSTANCE OF THE NEW TESTAMENT IS JESUS CRUCIFIED, 19:28 AND EVEN ITS CLOSING SENTENCE IS BEJEWELED WITH THE REDEEMER'S 19:31 NAME. WE SHOULD ALWAYS READ SCRIPTURE 19:34 IN THIS LIGHT;" - THAT'S WHAT WE'VE BEEN SAYING, IT'S ALL 19:37 ABOUT JESUS - "WE SHOULD CONSIDER THE WORD TO BE AS A 19:42 MIRROR INTO WHICH CHRIST LOOKS DOWN FROM HEAVEN; AND THEN WE, 19:45 LOOKING INTO IT, SEE HIS FACE REFLECTED AS IN A GLASS-DARKLY, 19:48 IT IS TRUE, BUT STILL IN SUCH A WAY AS TO BE A BLESSED 19:52 PREPARATION FOR SEEING HIM AS WE SHALL SEE HIM FACE TO FACE. 19:56 THIS VOLUME" - THE BIBLE - "CONTAINS JESUS CHRIST'S LETTER 19:59 TO US, PERFUMED BY HIS LOVE. THESE PAGES ARE THE GARMENTS OF 20:04 OUR KING, AND THEY ALL SMELL OF MYRRH, AND ALOES, AND CASSIA. 20:07 SCRIPTURE IS THE ROYAL CHARIOT IN WHICH JESUS RIDES, AND IT IS 20:13 PAVED WITH LOVE FOR THE DAUGHTERS OF JERUSALEM. 20:16 THE SCRIPTURES ARE THE SWADDLING BANDS OF THE HOLY CHILD JESUS; 20:19 UNROLL THEM AND YOU FIND YOUR SAVIOR. 20:22 THE QUINTESSENCE OF THE WORD OF GOD IS CHRIST." 20:25 THAT LAST LINE IS - IT REALLY SAYS IT BEAUTIFULLY - THE 20:29 QUINTESSENCE - IT MEANS THE FINAL, MOST IMPORTANT ESSENCE OF 20:34 THE WORD OF GOD IS CHRIST. SO, THAT'S A LONG INTRODUCTION 20:38 TO THAT ONE SECTION WE WERE DOING. AND I HAVEN'T EVEN READ 20:40 IT ALL. BY THE WAY, THOSE WHO ARE WATCHING, IF YOU SAY, 20:43 'PASTOR DOUG, WHERE'D YOU GET THAT QUOTE?' 20:45 I'LL TRY AND REMEMBER TO POST THEM WITH OUR NOTES. 20:47 WE OFTEN POST OUR NOTES AT THE AMAZING FACTS AND GRANITE BAY 20:51 WEBSITES SO YOU CAN LOOK AT THEM. 20:53 ONE MORE, BEAR WITH ME - SOMEONE WROTE THIS...LET ME SEE - I 20:58 DON'T HAVE THE REFERENCE. A PASTOR WROTE THIS YEARS 21:00 AGO AND I BORROWED IT. HE GOES THROUGH THE BIBLE. 21:05 IT SAYS, "CHRIST IS THE THEME OF THE ENTIRE REVELATION OF GOD. 21:09 HE IS PROMISED IN GENESIS, REVEALED IN THE LAW, PREFIGURED 21:13 IN ITS HISTORY, PRAISED IN ITS POETRY, PROCLAIMED IN ITS 21:16 PROPHECY, PROVIDED IN ITS GOSPELS, PROVED IN ITS ACTS, AND 21:20 PREEMINENT IN ITS EPISTLES AND PREVAILING IN REVELATION. 21:24 HE IS SEEN IN EVERY BOOK OF THE BIBLE. 21:26 TAKE A JOURNEY THROUGH THE HALLS OF THE BIBLE AND IN EVERY ONE OF 21:28 THEM YOU WILL SEE CHRIST. IN GENESIS, HE IS THE SEED OF 21:32 THE WOMAN. IN EXODUS, HE IS THE LAMB FOR SINNERS SLAIN. 21:36 IN LEVITICUS, HE IS OUR HIGH PRIEST. 21:39 IN NUMBERS, HE IS THE STAR OF JACOB. 21:41 IN DEUTERONOMY, THE PROPHET LIKE UNTO MOSES AND THE GREAT ROCK. 21:45 IN JOSHUA, HE IS THE CAPTAIN OF THE LORD'S HOST. 21:48 IN JUDGES, HE IS THE MESSENGER OF JEHOVAH. 21:50 IN RUTH, OUR KINSMAN REDEEMER AND FAITHFUL BRIDEGROOM. 21:54 IN 1 SAMUEL HE IS SEEN AS A GREAT JUDGE. 21:57 IN 2 SAMUEL HE IS THE PRINCELY KING. 22:00 IN 1 KINGS, AS DAVID'S CHOICE. IN 2 KINGS, THE HOLIEST OF ALL. 22:05 IN 1 CHRONICLES HE IS THE KING BY BIRTH. 22:08 IN 2 CHRONICLES, A KING BY JUDGMENT. 22:11 IN EZRA HE IS SEEN AS THE LORD OF HEAVEN AND EARTH. 22:14 IN NEHEMIAH HE IS THE BUILDER. IN ESTHER HE IS OUR MORDECAI. 22:18 IN JOB HE IS THE DAYSMAN AND OUR RISEN RETURNING REDEEMER. 22:23 IN [PSALMS], THE SON OF GOD AND THE GOOD SHEPHERD. 22:26 IN PROVERBS, OUR WISDOM. IN ECCLESIASTES, THE 22:29 ONE ABOVE THE SUN. IN THE SONG OF SOLOMON HE IS THE 22:32 GREAT LOVER OF THE CHURCH AND ONE ALTOGETHER LOVELY. 22:36 IN ISAIAH HE IS THE SUFFERING AND GLORIFIED SERVANT. 22:39 IN JEREMIAH, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. 22:42 IN LAMENTATIONS, THE MAN OF SORROW. 22:44 IN EZEKIEL, JESUS IS THE GLORIOUS GOD. 22:46 IN DANIEL HE IS THE SMITING STONE AND THE MESSIAH. 22:50 IN HOSEA HE IS THE RISEN SUN OF GOD. 22:53 IN JOEL HE IS THE POURER OUT OF THE SPIRIT. 22:56 IN AMOS, THE ETERNAL CHRIST. IN OBADIAH, THE 22:58 FORGIVING CHRIST. IN JONAH, THE RISEN PROPHET. 23:01 IN MICAH, THE BETHLEHEMITE. IN NAHUM HE IS THE 23:04 BRINGER OF GOOD TIDINGS. IN HABUKKUK HE IS THE 23:07 LORD IN HIS HOLY TEMPLE. IN ZEPHANIAH, THE 23:09 MERCIFUL CHRIST. IN HAGGAI, THE DESIRE 23:12 OF ALL NATIONS. IN ZECHARIAH HE'S THE BRANCH. 23:14 IN MALACHI HE'S THE SON OF RIGHTEOUSNESS WITH HEALING IN 23:17 HIS WINGS." THAT'S JUST THE OLD TESTAMENT. 23:20 YOU WANT ME TO KEEP GOING? >>YES. 23:23 >>"IN MATTHEW HE IS THE KING OF THE JEWS. 23:26 IN MARK, THE SERVANT. IN LUKE, THE PERFECT SON OF MAN. 23:29 IN JOHN, THE SON OF GOD. IN ACTS, THE ASCENDED LORD. 23:32 IN ROMANS, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. 23:34 IN 1 CORINTHIANS, OUR RESURRECTION. 23:36 IN 2 CORINTHIANS HE'S OUR COMFORTER. 23:38 IN GALATIANS HE'S THE END OF THE LAW. 23:40 IN EPHESIANS HE'S THE HEAD OF THE CHURCH. 23:42 IN PHILIPPIANS HE'S THE SUPPLIER OF EVERY NEED. 23:45 IN COLOSSIANS, THE FULLNESS OF THE GODHEAD. 23:47 IN 1 THESSALONIANS, HE COMES FOR THE CHURCH. 23:50 IN 2 THESSALONIANS HE COMES WITH THE CHURCH. 23:53 IN 1 TIMOTHY HE IS THE MEDIATOR. 23:57 IN 2 TIMOTHY HE IS THE BESTOWER OF CROWNS. 23:59 IN TITUS HE IS THE GREAT GOD AND SAVIOR. 24:02 IN PHILEMON, HE IS THE PRAYER OF CROWNS. 24:07 IN HEBREWS, THE REST OF THE FAITH AND FULFILLER OF TYPES. 24:13 IN JAMES HE IS THE LORD DRAWING NIGH. 24:16 IN 1 PETER THE VICARIOUS SUFFERER. 24:18 IN 2 PETER, THE LORD OF GLORY. IN 1 JOHN HE IS THE WAY. 24:22 IN 2 JOHN HE'S THE TRUTH. IN 3 JOHN HE'S THE LIFE. 24:26 IN JUDE HE IS OUR SECURITY. IN REVELATION HE IS THE LION OF 24:29 THE TRIBE OF JUDAH, THE LAMB OF GOD, THE BRIGHT AND MORNING 24:31 STAR, THE KING OF KINGS, THE LORD OF LORDS" - ANYWAY - I 24:34 MIGHT HAVE DONE THESE DIFFERENT, BUT YOU GET THE POINT, WHICH IS 24:38 THAT YOU CAN SEE JESUS IN EVERY BOOK OF THE BIBLE. 24:40 I HAVEN'T EVEN READ ALL OF IT TO YOU, BUT I'M - SO I'LL PUT THIS 24:43 IN WITH MY NOTES. OKAY, WITH THAT, JESUS IN ALL 24:48 THE BIBLE - LET'S LOOK AT SOME OF THE PROPHECIES OF JESUS 24:51 IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. FOR INSTANCE, IF YOU GO TO 24:54 ZECHARIAH 12, VERSE 10, IT SAYS, "AND I WILL POUR ON THE HOUSE 24:59 OF DAVID AND ON THE INHABITANTS OF JERUSALEM THE SPIRIT OF GRACE 25:03 AND SUPPLICATION; THEN THEY WILL LOOK ON ME WHOM THEY PIERCED. 25:07 YES, THEY WILL MOURN FOR HIM AS ONE MOURNS FOR HIS ONLY SON, AND 25:11 GRIEVE FOR HIM AS ONE GRIEVES FOR A FIRSTBORN." 25:14 NOW, DO YOU SEE JESUS IN THAT SCRIPTURE? 25:17 >>AMEN. >>THE ONE WHO IS PIERCED - 25:19 TALKS ABOUT THE HOUSE OF DAVID - JESUS 25:21 IS FROM THE HOUSE OF DAVID - THE FIRSTBORN, THE ONLY SON, AND 25:25 GRIEVING FOR HIM. ZECHARIAH GOT THE PICTURE. 25:28 LOOK AT - THAT'S ZECHARIAH 12:10 - THIS IS ZECHARIAH 13:7, 25:32 "AWAKE, O SWORD, AGAINST MY SHEPHERD, AGAINST THE MAN WHO 25:35 [IS MY COMPANION]," - GOD SAYS 'MY SHEPHERD' - 25:38 "SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS. 'STRIKE THE SHEPHERD AND THE 25:40 SHEEP WILL BE SCATTERED;" - WAS THE SHEPHERD STRUCK? 25:45 NOW LOOK AT THE FULFILLMENT OF THIS. 25:47 OFTEN THE NEW TESTAMENT WRITERS, INCLUDING PETER, BY THE WAY, WHO 25:50 WROTE THE BOOK - OR THE GOSPEL OF MARK? 25:53 PROBABLY PETER DICTATED IT TO MARK. IT'S LARGELY THE GOSPEL OF 25:57 PETER - IS WHAT YOU FIND IN MARK. AND YOU READ 26:00 THERE IN MARK 14:27, "AND JESUS SAID TO THEM, 'YOU 26:03 WILL ALL FALL AWAY, FOR IT IS WRITTEN, 'I WILL STRIKE THE 26:06 SHEPHERD, AND THE SHEEP WILL BE SCATTERED.'" SO WHAT'S THE 26:08 SHEPHERD THAT WAS STRUCK? IT'S JESUS. 26:12 AND DID THEY FORSAKE HIM WHEN HE WAS ARRESTED AND THEY SCATTERED? 26:16 AND SO, BY THE WAY, THAT'S STILL TRUE. 26:17 THE DEVIL'S ALWAYS WORKING TO STRIKE THE SHEPHERDS AND SCATTER 26:20 THE SHEEP. GO TO DANIEL 7, VERSE 13, "I WAS 26:25 WATCHING IN THE NIGHT VISIONS, AND BEHOLD, ONE LIKE THE SON OF 26:28 MAN, COMING WITH THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN!" OKAY, 26:32 WHAT'S THAT TALKING ABOUT? DO WE SEE A PICTURE IN THE NEW 26:36 TESTAMENT OF ONE COMING WITH THE CLOUDS - ONE LIKE THE SON OF 26:38 MAN COMING WITH THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN? NOW THIS IS ACTUALLY NOT 26:41 TALKING ABOUT THE SECOND COMING OF JESUS. 26:43 YOU READ HERE, IT'S TALKING ABOUT A JUDGMENT - ONE COMING 26:46 WITH THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN AND THERE'S THIS GREAT JUDGMENT DAY 26:48 THAT TRANSPIRES AND - "AND THEY BROUGHT HIM NEAR BEFORE THE 26:56 ANCIENT OF DAYS...THEN TO HIM WAS GIVEN DOMINION AND GLORY AND 27:00 A KINGDOM, THAT ALL PEOPLES, NATIONS, AND LANGUAGES SHOULD 27:02 SERVE HIM. HIS DOMINION IS AN EVERLASTING 27:05 DOMINION, WHICH SHALL NOT PASS AWAY, AND HIS KINGDOM THE ONE 27:08 WHICH SHALL NOT BE DESTROYED." DO YOU SEE JESUS IN THAT VERSE? 27:12 ISN'T THAT A REALLY CLEAR PROPHECY ABOUT HIM? 27:15 LOOK IN ISAIAH 52 - YOU KNOW, I UNDERSTAND THAT SOME - SOME 27:22 RABBIS TELL THEIR PEOPLE 'YOU ARE FORBIDDEN TO READ ISAIAH 52 27:28 AND 53'. AND THEY SAY IT'S VERY CONFUSING. 27:33 WELL, THE REASON IS, IF YOU READ ISAIAH 52 AND 53 IT IS A VERY 27:38 CLEAR POINT OF JESUS. IT'S A VERY CLEAR PICTURE THAT JESUS 27:44 IS THE MESSIAH THAT WAS BEING FORETOLD. LET ME JUST READ A 27:48 LITTLE BIT OF THIS HERE - ISAIAH 52:13 - AND THIS IS IN YOUR 27:52 LESSON - "BEHOLD, MY SERVANT SHALL DEAL PRUDENTLY; 27:55 HE SHALL BE EXALTED AND EXTOLLED AND BE VERY 27:57 HIGH. JUST AS MANY WERE ASTONISHED AT 28:00 YOU, SO HIS VISAGE WAS MARRED MORE THAN ANY MAN, AND HIS FORM 28:04 MORE THAN THE SONS OF MEN; SO SHALL HE SPRINKLE MANY 28:07 NATIONS. KINGS SHALL SHUT THEIR MOUTHS AT HIM; FOR WHAT HAD NOT 28:10 BEEN TOLD THEM THEY SHALL SEE, AND WHAT THEY 28:12 HAD NOT HEARD THEY SHALL CONSIDER." 28:15 NOW, IF YOU LOOK IN ACTS 8:32 - YOU KNOW THE STORY, THERE'S AN 28:20 ETHIOPIAN TREASURER WHO'S RIDING ALONG IN HIS CHARIOT AND PHILIP 28:24 IS TOLD TO GO TO HIM - AND HE'S READING FROM ISAIAH AND HE'S 28:28 READING, ACTUALLY, FROM ISAIAH 53, VERSES 7 AND 8, "THE PLACE 28:32 IN THE SCRIPTURE WHICH HE READ WAS" - THIS IS ISAIAH 53, VERSES 28:36 7 AND 8 - "'HE WAS LED AS A SHEEP TO THE SLAUGHTER; AND AS A 28:39 LAMB BEFORE ITS SHEARER IS SILENT, SO HE OPENED NOT HIS 28:42 MOUTH. IN HIS HUMILIATION HIS JUSTICE 28:45 WAS TAKEN AWAY, AND WHO WILL DECLARE HIS GENERATION? 28:48 FOR HIS LIFE IS TAKEN FROM THE EARTH.' SO THE EUNUCH ANSWERED 28:51 PHILIP AND SAID, 'I ASK YOU, OF WHOM DOES THE PROPHET SAY 28:55 THIS,'" - WHO'S HE TALKING ABOUT? - "'OF HIMSELF OR SOME 28:58 OTHER MAN?' THEN PHILIP OPENED HIS MOUTH, 29:01 AND BEGINNING AT THIS SCRIPTURE, PREACHED JESUS TO HIM." 29:05 YOU EVER HAVE ONE OF THOSE EXPERIENCES LIKE PHILIP WHERE 29:09 YOU WONDER WHY YOU END UP WHERE YOU END UP? 29:11 I REMEMBER ONCE I WAS IN SAN FRANCISCO AND I WAS TRYING TO 29:14 CATCH A FLIGHT TO NEW YORK - AND I DON'T EVEN REMEMBER WHY I 29:16 WAS GOING TO NEW YORK - TO SPEAK SOMEWHERE - AND MISSED MY PLANE. 29:21 WELL, SAN FRANCISCO'S A LONG WAY FROM COVELO, AT THE TIME, AND I 29:26 COULDN'T GO HOME AND I JUST COULDN'T BRING MYSELF TO BUY A 29:28 HOTEL BECAUSE MY NEXT FLIGHT WAS LIKE LEAVING IN FIVE HOURS AND 29:32 IT COST SO MUCH TO BUY A HOTEL, I THOUGHT, 'OH, I'LL JUST WAIT 29:35 FIVE HOURS' - IT'S THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT. 29:38 SO I'M THINKING, 'WHY DID THIS HAPPEN, LORD? 29:39 WHY DID I MISS MY FLIGHT? WHY DID THIS...' AND I JUST - 29:41 WHY? WHY? WHY? - I WAS FEELING PRETTY SORRY FOR 29:44 MYSELF, YOU KNOW, WALKING AROUND THE AIRPORT IN SAN FRANCISCO AT 29:47 THREE IN THE MORNING IS A PRETTY LONELY PLACE, YOU KNOW, 29:49 PEOPLE ARE SLEEPING. IT'S AMAZING THE CONTORTED WAYS 29:51 PEOPLE CAN SLEEP WHEN THEY'RE TIRED. 29:54 THEY'RE LAYING ON THEIR BAGS AND ON THE COUNTERTOPS AND THINGS 29:57 AND I COULDN'T SLEEP SO I WALKED AROUND THE AIRPORT. 30:00 SO FINALLY I GOT MY FLIGHT TO NEW YORK AND I FELL ASLEEP FOR A 30:02 LITTLE WHILE. I WOKE UP AND THEN I GOT MY TAXI 30:06 AND WE GOT STUCK IN TRAFFIC AND IT JUST TOOK FOREVER. 30:10 WHILE WE'RE STUCK IN TRAFFIC, SOMEHOW THE CONVERSATION OF 30:13 RELIGION CAME UP WITH THE CAB DRIVER, AND I THINK HE BROUGHT 30:16 IT UP. I DIDN'T WANT TO WITNESS. I DIDN'T FEEL VERY GOOD. 30:18 I WAS FEELING SORRY FOR MYSELF. AND HE WAS FROM RUSSIA AND HE 30:24 WAS FROM, I THINK, A JEWISH BACKGROUND. 30:26 HE HAD A NAME LIKE MALACHI OR MICAH, OR SOMETHING, AND I 30:30 STARTED TALKING TO HIM ABOUT JESUS AND I SAID, 'WELL, YOU 30:34 KNOW, I'M A JEWISH CHRISTIAN.' 'HOW CAN THAT BE?' 30:37 AND SO THERE WE ARE STUCK IN TRAFFIC AND I JUST SHARED MY 30:39 TESTIMONY AND STARTED PREACHING TO THAT GUY AND IT JUST - I 30:41 COULD SEE IT REALLY SUNK IN. AND WHEN HE DROPPED ME OFF I 30:44 SAID, 'OH, THAT'S WHY I WAS DELAYED.' 30:48 I NEVER WOULD HAVE HAD THAT CAB DRIVER IF GOD HADN'T 30:51 ORCHESTRATED THINGS THAT WAY.' AND SO PHILIP, HE GETS DOWN IN 30:55 THE DESERT AND GOD TELLS HIM TO GO TO THE DESERT. 30:57 AND, ALL OF A SUDDEN, HE MEETS SOMEONE READING ISAIAH, READING 31:00 ABOUT JESUS, SAYING 'WHAT IN THE WORLD DOES THIS MEAN?' 31:02 PHILIP'S GOING, 'I'M GLAD YOU ASKED. 31:05 I KNEW THAT MAN THAT THIS IS ALL TALKING ABOUT AND I'M GOING TO 31:08 TELL YOU ABOUT IT.' AND SO, HE THEN PREACHED JESUS TO HIM. 31:11 SO PETER, OBVIOUSLY, DOES THIS TOO. 31:16 EYEWITNESSES OF HIS MAJESTY - OH, I'VE GOT SO MUCH TO SAY HERE 31:19 - LET ME READ THIS NEXT VERSE TO YOU. 31:20 SOMEONE IS GOING TO READ FOR ME, IN JUST A MOMENT, MALACHI 4:4 31:24 AND 5 - OKAY, JOHN. I WANT TO READ 2 PETER 1:16-18, 31:30 "FOR WE DID NOT FOLLOW CUNNINGLY DEVISED FABLES" - PETER SAID, 31:35 'WE DIDN'T MAKE UP FAIRY TALES WHEN WE TOLD YOU ABOUT THE POWER 31:38 AND THE COMING OF JESUS CHRIST' - "BUT WERE EYEWITNESSES 31:42 OF HIS MAJESTY." - WHAT'S PETER TALKING ABOUT? 31:45 PETER SAID - WELL, OF COURSE HE'S TALKING ABOUT JESUS, BUT 31:47 WHAT PARTICULAR EVENT? HE SAYS, 'WE WERE 31:50 EYEWITNESSES OF HIS MAJESTY. WE DID NOT SHARE FABLES WHEN WE 31:53 TALKED ABOUT THE SECOND COMING.' PETER SAYS, 'WE GOT A MINIATURE 31:56 PICTURE OF THE SECOND COMING. WE SAW WHAT IT'S GOING TO LOOK 31:59 LIKE WHEN HE COMES IN VISION.' WHAT IS HE TALKING ABOUT? 32:02 HE'S TALKING ABOUT THE MOUNT OF TRANSFIGURATION. 32:05 NOW, YOU FOLLOW ME, WE "WERE EYEWITNESSES OF HIS MAJESTY. 32:10 FOR HE RECEIVED FROM GOD THE FATHER HONOR AND GLORY WHEN SUCH 32:13 A VOICE CAME TO HIM FROM THE EXCELLENT GLORY: 'THIS IS MY 32:15 BELOVED SON, IN WHOM I AM WELL PLEASED.' AND WE HEARD THIS 32:19 VOICE WHICH CAME FROM HEAVEN WHEN WE WERE WITH HIM ON THE 32:21 HOLY MOUNTAIN." SO, WHAT IS HE TALKING ABOUT? 32:27 HE'S TALKING ABOUT THE MOUNT OF TRANSFIGURATION EXPERIENCE. 32:31 NOW, BEFORE I READ THAT TO YOU - IT'LL BE IN MARK 9 - I WANT JOHN 32:34 TO GO AHEAD AND READ MALACHI - THE LAST PROPHECY OF THE OLD 32:37 TESTAMENT - CATCH THIS - MALACHI 4:4 AND 5. 32:41 >>MALACHI 4:4-5, "REMEMBER THE LAW OF MOSES, MY SERVANT, WHICH 32:46 I COMMANDED HIM IN HOREB FOR ALL ISRAEL, WITH THE STATUTES AND 32:51 JUDGMENTS. BEHOLD I WILL SEND YOU ELIJAH 32:54 THE PROPHET BEFORE THE COMING OF THE GREAT AND DREADFUL 32:57 DAY OF THE LORD." >>ALRIGHT, LAST TWO CHARACTERS 33:01 OF ALL THE OLD TESTAMENT CHARACTERS THAT COULD BE CITED, 33:04 HE SAYS, 'REMEMBER THE LAW OF MOSES...BEHOLD I SEND YOU ELIJAH 33:09 THE PROPHET' - MOSES, LAW - ELIJAH, PROPHET. 33:13 THESE TWO CHARACTERS REPRESENT THE WORD OF GOD. 33:18 THEY ARE THE TWO WITNESSES OF REVELATION. 33:20 WHAT I MEANS IS THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS ARE THE TWO WITNESSES. 33:23 TWO CHARACTERISTICS THAT STAND OUT FOR GOD'S PEOPLE IN THE LAST 33:26 DAYS, IT SAYS 'THE DRAGON IS WROTH WITH THE WOMAN THAT KEEPS 33:31 THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD' - LAW - 'AND HAS THE TESTIMONY OF 33:35 JESUS'. YOU READ LATER IT SAYS THE 33:37 TESTIMONY OF JESUS IS THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY. 33:40 ISAIAH CHAPTER 8, VERSE 16 AND VERSE 20, "BIND UP THE 33:44 TESTIMONY, SEAL THE LAW AMONG MY DISCIPLES." 33:47 - THE LAW AND THE TESTIMONY - THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS. 33:50 THE BIBLE SAYS JESUS TAUGHT TO THEM FROM THE LAW AND THE 33:54 PROPHETS, RIGHT? SO, HE HAS THIS EXPERIENCE. 33:58 YOU GO TO MARK CHAPTER 9, VERSE 1 - MARK 9:1 - AND JESUS MAKES 34:05 THIS CRYPTIC STATEMENT. NOTICE WHAT HE SAYS: "ASSUREDLY, 34:08 I SAY TO YOU THAT THERE ARE SOME STANDING HERE WHO WILL NOT TASTE 34:12 DEATH TILL THEY SEE THE KINGDOM OF GOD PRESENT WITH POWER." 34:15 - SO JESUS TOLD THE DISCIPLES 'SOME OF YOU ARE NOT GOING TO 34:18 DIE UNTIL YOU SEE THE KINGDOM OF GOD COME WITH POWER.' HE'S 34:22 TALKING ABOUT, 'YOU'RE GOING TO SEE THE SECOND COMING.' 'OH,' - 34:23 THEY SAID - 'GREAT, LORD, WE'RE GOING TO LIVE TILL THE SECOND 34:25 COMING.' NO, THAT'S NOT WHAT HE SAID. 34:27 YOU'RE GOING TO GET A MICRO PICTURE OF IT. 34:30 THAT'S WHY PETER IS SAYING, 'WE WERE EYEWITNESSES OF HIS COMING. 34:33 WE DID NOT SHARE CUNNINGLY DEVISED FABLES WHEN WE TALKED 34:36 ABOUT THE COMING OF THE LORD. JESUS SAID, 'YOU'RE GOING 34:39 TO GET A MINI-PICTURE. SO HE TAKES THREE 34:41 DISCIPLES WITH HIM. WHO DOES HE TAKE? 34:43 >>PETER, JAMES, AND JOHN. >>PETER, JAMES, AND JOHN. 34:46 IT SAYS, 'AFTER SIX DAYS' - HE WAITS SIX DAYS BEFORE THIS 34:49 HAPPENS. HE TAKES PETER, JAMES, AND 34:52 JOHN AND LEADS THEM TO A HIGH MOUNTAIN, APART BY THEMSELVES. 34:55 YOU READ IN LUKE, IT SAYS THEY BEGAN TO PRAY - 34:57 AND HE'S TRANSFIGURED BEFORE THEM. HIS CLOTHING BECOMES 35:01 SHINING EXCEEDINGLY WHITE LIKE SNOW, SUCH AS NO LAUNDERER ON 35:04 EARTH CAN WHITEN THEM, AND ELIJAH APPEARED TO THEM WITH 35:07 MOSES - THE TWO CHARACTERS WE JUST READ ABOUT - AND THEY WERE 35:11 TALKING TO JESUS AND PETER ANSWERED AND SAID, 'RABBI, IT'S 35:15 GOOD FOR US TO BE HERE.' AND PETER'S THE ONE WHO SPEAKS 35:17 IN THIS STORY. 'LET US MAKE THREE TABERNACLES: ONE FOR 35:21 MOSES, AND ONE FOR ELIJAH' - AGAIN, MOSES AND ELIJAH ARE 35:25 MENTIONED, BUT HE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY. 35:26 THEY WERE GREATLY AFRAID. 35:28 A CLOUD CAME AND OVERSHADOWED THEM AND A VOICE CAME OUT OF THE 35:31 CLOUDS SAYING, 'THIS IS MY BELOVED SON' - HEAR HIM - BY 35:34 THE WAY, YOU NOTICE A LITTLE DIFFERENCE THERE? 35:37 IN MARK IT SAYS, 'THIS IS MY BELOVED SON, HEAR HIM.' WHEN 35:39 PETER QUOTES IT HE SAID, 'THIS IS MY BELOVED SON IN WHOM I AM 35:42 WELL PLEASED.' - ADDS A LITTLE SOMETHING - WHICH IS THE SAME 35:46 STATEMENT THAT'S MADE AT THE BAPTISM: 'THIS IS MY BELOVED SON 35:50 IN WHOM I AM WELL PLEASED.' SO GOD SAID THAT AGAIN AT THE 35:52 BEGINNING OF JESUS' MINISTRY, AT THE BAPTISM. 35:55 GOD SAYS IT AGAIN AT THE END OF HIS MINISTRY ON THE MOUNT OF 35:58 TRANSFIGURATION. THE CROSS CAME SHORTLY AFTER 36:01 THE MOUNT OF TRANSFIGURATION EXPERIENCE. 36:04 AND - SO ELIJAH REPRESENTS THE LAW - NO, MOSES REPRESENTS THE 36:12 LAW; ELIJAH REPRESENTS THE PROPHETS. 36:15 THEY ARE BOTH POINTING TO JESUS SAYING, 'HE IS THE MESSIAH WE'VE 36:18 BEEN WAITING FOR.' AND THEY SPOKE TO HIM OF HIS DECEASE HE 36:22 WAS ABOUT TO ACCOMPLISH. NOW, IF YOU'RE PETER AND YOU 36:24 SAW THAT, WOULD YOU EVER FORGET THAT? 36:25 >>NO. >>HE'S SAYING, 'LOOK, WE SAW, 36:28 WITH OUR OWN EYES, CHRIST IN GLORIFIED FORM - WHAT HE WILL 36:32 LOOK LIKE WHEN HE COMES - WE ARE EYEWITNESSES. 36:35 THESE ARE NOT CUNNINGLY DEVISED FABLES. 36:38 HE GAVE US THIS EXPERIENCE'. THE BIBLE SAYS IN TWO OR THREE 36:41 WITNESSES, LET EVERYTHING BE ESTABLISHED, RIGHT? 36:44 YOU NOTICE THERE ARE SEVEN INDIVIDUALS IN THIS EXPERIENCE: 36:47 THREE ON EARTH THAT ARE HUMAN - PETER, JAMES, AND JOHN; THREE IN 36:51 HEAVEN THAT ARE DIVINE - GOD, THE FATHER, MOSES, AND ELIJAH - 36:57 HAVE THEIR GLORIFIED BODIES; AND THEN JESUS WHO GOES THAT DAY 37:00 FROM HUMAN TO DIVINE, BACK TO HUMAN. HE IS THE BRIDGE BETWEEN 37:04 HEAVEN AND EARTH. YOU'VE GOT THREE ON EARTH, THREE 37:06 IN HEAVEN, AND THEN CHRIST IS THE BRIDGE. HE'S THE ONE WHO 37:08 CONNECTS US TO HEAVEN, RIGHT? AND HE GOES FROM HUMAN 37:11 TO DIVINE TO HUMAN. HE IS THE LADDER THAT WAS SEEN 37:16 THAT CONNECTS THE TWO - SEVEN. LET EVERYTHING BE ESTABLISHED 37:20 IN TWO OR THREE WITNESSES. PETER SAYS, 'LOOK, YOU'VE GOT 37:22 THE WITNESS OF PETER, JAMES, AND JOHN ON EARTH. 37:25 YOU'VE GOT THE WITNESS OF - GOD SAID, 'THIS IS MY SON', MOSES, 37:28 AND ELIJAH THAT SAYS 'HE'S THE ONE'. 37:30 IN HEAVEN - WHAT MORE WILL YOU ACCEPT, IF YOU'RE A JEW, THAN 37:33 THE WITNESS OF MOSES, ELIJAH, AND GOD? 37:37 AND THEN HE SAYS, 'WE'VE ALSO GOT THREE EARTHLY WITNESSES OF 37:40 THE APOSTLES THAT HE IS THE ONE. SO DOESN'T THAT GIVE 37:44 YOU LITTLE CHILLS? ALRIGHT, THE MORNING STAR IN OUR 37:49 HEARTS - NOW WE'RE GOING TO GO TO 2 PETER 1:19 AND SOMEONE, IN 37:55 A MOMENT, IS GOING TO READ FOR ME ISAIAH 8:20. 37:58 MATTER OF FACT, I THINK I JUMPED AHEAD OF YOU. 38:00 2 PETER 1:19, IT SAYS, "AND SO WE HAVE THE PROPHETIC WORD 38:04 CONFIRMED, WHICH YOU DO WELL TO HEED AS A LIGHT THAT SHINES IN A 38:10 DARK PLACE, UNTIL THE DAY DAWNS AND THE MORNING STAR RISES IN 38:14 YOUR HEARTS;" - HE'S TELLING US THAT THE PROPHETIC WORD - AGAIN, 38:18 HE'S TALKING ABOUT THE OLD TESTAMENT - WILL DO SOMETHING 38:21 THAT WILL ILLUMINATE YOUR PATH. IT LIGHTENS OUR WAY. 38:26 RIGHT IN THE BEGINNING OF THE BIBLE, DO WE SEE A CONFLICT 38:29 BETWEEN LIGHT AND DARKNESS? YEAH, GOD SAYS, 'AND GOD SAID 38:33 THE LIGHT THAT IT WAS GOOD. AND GOD DIVIDED THE LIGHT FROM 38:36 THE DARKNESS AND GOD CALLED THE LIGHT DAY AND THE DARKNESS HE 38:39 CALLED NIGHT AND THE EVENING AND THE MORNING WERE THE FIRST DAY.' 38:44 THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT WE'RE TO WALK IN THE LIGHT. 38:47 WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU WALK IN THE DARK? 38:52 ANY OF YOU WALK AROUND YOUR HOUSE SOMETIMES, YOU FORGET TO 38:53 TURN ON THE LIGHT AND YOU THINK YOU CAN USE YOUR MEMORY SYSTEM? 38:56 AND THINGS MOVED DURING THE NIGHT AND THERE'S A DOOR THAT 39:01 YOU DIDN'T KNOW WAS HALFWAY OPENED OR CLOSED - YOU WALK INTO 39:04 IT - OR SOMETHING LEFT ON THE FLOOR AND YOU TRIP OVER IT. 39:09 AND THEN YOU SHOUT AT SOMEBODY AND SAY, 'HOW COME YOU LEFT YOUR 39:12 LEGO IN THE' - YOU EVER STEP ON A LEGO WITH A BARE FOOT? 39:17 IT'S GOT SHARP EDGES. WE DO BETTER WALKING 39:21 IN THE LIGHT, DON'T WE? SPIRITUALLY, YOU WANT TO LIVE 39:25 WALKING IN THE LIGHT OF HIS WORD. 39:27 LOOK IN - WE'RE GOING TO BE READING ABOUT THIS TODAY. 39:30 THIS IS ACTUALLY A QUOTE FROM DAVID - IT SAYS, IN 2 SAMUEL 39:34 23:4, "AND HE SHALL BE LIKE THE LIGHT OF THE MORNING WHEN THE 39:38 SUN RISES, A MORNING WITHOUT CLOUDS" - TALKING ABOUT A 39:42 BEAUTIFUL DAY WHEN IT'S BRIGHT AND IT'S CLEAR. 39:45 THE PERSON WHO WALKS WITH THE LORD - PROVERBS 6:23, "FOR THE 39:49 COMMANDMENT IS A LAMP, AND THE LAW A LIGHT; REPROOFS OF 39:54 INSTRUCTION ARE THE WAY OF LIFE," - AND GO AHEAD, READ FOR 39:58 US ISAIAH 8:20, PLEASE. >>ISAIAH 8:20, "TO THE 40:02 LAW AND TO THE TESTIMONY! IF THEY DO NOT SPEAK ACCORDING 40:06 TO THIS WORD, IT IS BECAUSE THERE IS NO LIGHT IN THEM." 40:09 >>AGAIN, IT SAYS THE LAW AND THE TESTIMONY. 40:12 THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD AND THE WORDS OF THE PROPHETS, THEY ARE 40:17 A LIGHT. AND PETER IS SAYING THAT WHEN WE 40:20 READ THE WORD OF GOD, IT GIVES US UNDERSTANDING ABOUT 40:24 THE WAY THAT WE'RE GOING. IT HELPS US KNOW WHERE WE'VE 40:26 COME FROM, WHAT WE'RE DOING HERE, AND WHERE WERE GOING. 40:29 THAT'S THE WONDERFUL THING ABOUT BIBLE HISTORY IS IT JUST - IT 40:31 GIVES YOU THE WHOLE PERSPECTIVE. LET ME GIVE YOU ANOTHER ONE HERE 40:34 - JOHN - THE GOSPEL OF JOHN 1:4 AND 5, "IN HIM" - JESUS - "WAS 40:39 LIFE, AND THE LIFE WAS THE LIGHT OF MEN. 40:43 AND THE LIGHT SHINES IN THE DARKNESS, AND THE DARKNESS DID 40:46 NOT COMPREHEND IT." CAN DARKNESS PUT OUT LIGHT? 40:53 YOU KNOW, THEY'VE GOT ALL THESE QUANTUM THEORIES OF PHYSICS NOW 40:57 AND I THINK THEY'VE PRETTY MUCH PROVEN BLACK HOLES - THAT THERE 41:01 CAN BE - THERE IS MATTER THAT IS ACTUALLY SO DENSE THAT IT CAN 41:05 PULL LIGHT INTO IT. IF ANYTHING'S A BLACK HOLE, 41:10 IT WOULD BE LUCIFER, HIMSELF. HE JUST TRIES TO PUT 41:14 OUT ALL OF THE LIGHT. BUT, TYPICALLY, THE WAY YOU GET 41:18 RID OF DARKNESS IS YOU TURN ON LIGHT. 41:21 DARKNESS CANNOT OVERCOME LIGHT, LIGHT OVERCOMES DARKNESS. 41:25 IF YOU WANT TO GET THE DARKNESS OUT OF THE ROOM, YOU CANNOT USE 41:28 A SNOW SHOVEL. HAVE YOU EVER TRIED TO CAPTURE DARKNESS? 41:35 THE WAY TO GET RID OF THE DARKNESS IN YOUR LIFE IS TO 41:37 INTRODUCE LIGHT. AND SO, AS WE READ THE 41:41 PROPHECIES AND AS WE STUDY GOD'S WORD - WHAT DOES JESUS SAY IN 41:44 THE BEGINNING OF REVELATION? BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO HEAR AND 41:50 DO AND KEEP THE WORDS OF THIS PROPHECY. 41:52 IS THERE A BLESSING OF LIGHT THAT COMES INTO OUR LIVES AS WE 41:55 STUDY THE PROPHECIES? >>YES. 41:58 >>THIS IS WHAT PETER IS SAYING. "AND SO WE HAVE THIS PROPHETIC 42:00 WORD CONFIRMED, WHICH YOU DO WELL TO HEED" - NOW IS PROPHECY 42:03 JUST TO ENLIGHTEN US, OR IS IT SOMETHING TO BE FOLLOWED? 42:07 TAKE HEED TO THE PROPHECIES - "AS A LIGHT THAT SHINES IN A 42:10 DARK PLACE, UNTIL THE DAY DAWNS" - WHEN DOES YOUR BIBLICAL 42:14 KNOWLEDGE REACH TWELVE O'CLOCK NOON? YOU KNOW, PETER - AT THE 42:20 SECOND COMING OF THE LORD, THAT'LL BE TWELVE NOON. 42:23 UNTIL THEN, IT CONTINUES TO GET BRIGHTER. IF YOU'VE BEEN A 42:26 CHRISTIAN AND YOU'VE BEEN READING THE WORD FOR FIFTY 42:29 YEARS, YOU WILL ADMIT THAT YOU CONTINUE TO LEARN NEW THINGS. 42:34 NOW, THE ADVANTAGE OF GETTING OLDER IS I FORGET THAT I'VE 42:36 LEARNED SOMETHING, SO IT ALWAYS FEELS LIKE I'M LEARNING NEW 42:38 THINGS, WHETHER OR NOT - IT'S LIKE SOMEONE SAID ONCE, 'YOU 42:42 KNOW, I'VE GOTTEN TO THE AGE WHERE I CAN HIDE MY OWN EASTER 42:45 EGGS - IT'S JUST EXCITING TO TRY AND FIND THEM LATER.' BUT - BUT, 42:53 YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN, AS YOU CONTINUE TO STUDY - I'VE READ 42:55 THROUGH REVELATION AND DANIEL AND THESE PROPHECIES OVER AND 42:58 OVER AGAIN. I'M ALWAYS FINDING NEW THINGS. 43:00 IT IS - IT IS A BOTTOMLESS MINE OF TREASURE WHEN YOU STUDY THE 43:06 PROPHECIES - IT'S LIKE A DAY THAT'S ALWAYS DAWNING BRIGHTER 43:08 AND BRIGHTER AND BRIGHTER. OKAY, THE MORE SURE WORD OF 43:12 PROPHECY - LET'S GO TO THAT NEXT SECTION THAT'S UNDER THURSDAY. 43:15 AND HERE WE'RE LOOKING AT 2 PETER 1, VERSES 20 AND 21, "KNOW 43:21 THIS FIRST, THAT NO PROPHECY OF SCRIPTURE IS OF ANY PRIVATE 43:24 INTERPRETATION, FOR PROPHECY NEVER CAME BY THE WILL OF MAN, 43:29 BUT HOLY MEN OF GOD SPOKE AS THEY WERE MOVED BY THE HOLY 43:32 SPIRIT." NOW WHAT DOES PETER MEAN WHEN HE 43:34 SAYS 'PRIVATE INTERPRETATION? I THINK THERE'S - 43:37 >>THE BIBLE TRANSLATES ITSELF. >>LET THE BIBLE EXPLAIN ITSELF. 43:42 WHAT ARE SOME OTHER WAYS THAT YOU MIGHT INTERPRET A PRIVATE 43:46 INTERPRETATION? WHAT IS A PRIVATE 43:48 INTERPRETATION? >>USE WEBSTER'S. 43:51 >>SUSAN'S TELLING US WHAT IT'S NOT, BUT I WANT TO KNOW WHAT IS 43:54 A PRIVATE INTERPRETATION? >>USE WEBSTER'S. 43:57 >>USE THE DICTIONARY? ANY OF YOU EVER BEEN IN A BIBLE 44:01 STUDY BEFORE WHERE SOMEONE WILL READ A VERSE AND EVERYONE KIND 44:04 OF GOES AROUND AND THEY SAY, 'WELL, WHAT DO YOU 44:05 THINK IT MEANS?' AND PEOPLE SAY, 'WELL, YOU KNOW, 44:09 THIS SPEAKS TO ME ABOUT COSMIC BUTTERFLIES. 44:11 AND YOU GET THIS - AND - HAVE YOU EVER BEEN AT A BIBLE STUDY 44:15 LIKE THAT AND YOU'RE SAYING, 'THAT'S WHAT YOU GET OUT OF 44:17 THAT? I DIDN'T GET THAT. I'VE NEVER EVEN' - THAT'S ONE 44:21 THING THAT COULD BE - I DON'T REALLY THINK THAT'S WHAT 44:23 PETER IS TALKING ABOUT. I DON'T THINK WE SHOULD COME UP 44:25 WITH PRIVATE INTERPRETATIONS. I THINK THAT TRUTH IS TRUTH. 44:28 AND SO WHEN PEOPLE SAY, 'WELL, THE VERSE SAYS THIS TO YOU AND 44:31 IT SAYS THIS TO ME AND IT'S TRUE FOR YOU AND IT'S TRUE FOR ME AND 44:34 EVERYONE'S GOT THEIR OWN TRUTH AND PRETTY SOON YOU HAVE NO 44:36 ABSOLUTE TRUTH AND IT DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING TO ANYBODY BECAUSE 44:38 IT MEANS EVERYTHING TO EVERYBODY.' DID YOU GET THAT? 44:41 >>THAT'S RIGHT. >>THE BIBLE REALLY IS SAYING 44:43 SOMETHING AND THERE ARE TIMES THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL BRING TO 44:48 YOUR MIND THE TRUTH OF THE WORD, BUT IT IS WHAT IT IS. 44:53 WHAT PETER'S TALKING ABOUT - HE'S SAYING, 'THESE PROPHETS DID 44:57 NOT CONJURE UP THESE IDEAS PRIVATELY, BUT THE HOLY SPIRIT 45:03 TOLD THEM WHAT TO SAY. THIS IS WHAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT 45:06 WHEN HE TALKS ABOUT A PRIVATE INTERPRETATION. 45:08 HE SAYS, 'THE PROPHECY DID NOT COME BECAUSE THE PROPHET SAT 45:11 THERE AND JUST SAID, 'WHAT SHALL I PROPHESY TODAY?' 45:14 AND COME UP WITH A PRIVATE OR PERSONAL INTERPRETATION. 45:17 THE HOLY SPIRIT SAID, 'THIS IS WHAT I WANT YOU TO SAY.' 45:21 AND THEY WERE DIRECTED BY GOD. DOES THE HOLY SPIRIT THAT GAVE 45:26 THEM THE PROPHECY GIVE US THE UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT IT MEANS? 45:30 >>YES. >>"BUT THE HELPER," - THIS IS 45:33 JOHN 14:26, "THE HOLY SPIRIT, WHOM THE FATHER WILL SEND IN 45:36 MY NAME, HE WILL TEACH YOU ALL THINGS, AND BRING TO YOUR 45:40 REMEMBRANCE ALL THINGS THAT I SAID TO YOU." 45:42 AS WE COMPARE SCRIPTURE TO SCRIPTURE, THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL 45:45 HELP US TO UNDERSTAND THESE THINGS. 45:47 AND READ IN 1 CORINTHIANS 2, VERSES 13 AND 14, PAUL SAYS 45:51 HERE, "THESE THINGS WE ALSO SPEAK, NOT IN WORDS WHICH MAN'S 45:56 WISDOM TEACHES" - THAT'S THE PRIVATE INTERPRETATION - "BUT 45:59 WHICH THE HOLY SPIRIT TEACHES, COMPARING SPIRITUAL THINGS WITH 46:04 SPIRITUAL." - THIS IS WHAT SUSAN WAS TALKING 46:05 ABOUT - YOU COMPARE SCRIPTURE WITH SCRIPTURE - HERE A LITTLE, 46:07 THERE A LITTLE - AND PRETTY SOON YOU SAY, 'IN THE TESTIMONY OF 46:11 TWO OR THREE SCRIPTURES' - YOU COMPARE IT, YOU CAN KNOW 46:13 WHAT IT'S TALKING ABOUT. SOMETIMES PEOPLE READ ONE VERSE 46:16 - THERE'S A VERSE THAT TALKS ABOUT BAPTISM FOR THE DEAD, IN 46:18 THE BIBLE - YOU EVER SEEN THAT THERE IN, IN THINK IT'S IN 1 46:21 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 15 - BAPTISM FOR THE DEAD. 46:24 IT JUST THROWS PEOPLE FOR A LOOP. 46:26 SOME FOLKS HAVE BUILT A WHOLE DOCTRINE ABOUT BAPTISM FOR THE 46:29 DEAD BECAUSE THEY DON'T COMPARE IT WITH OTHER SCRIPTURES, 46:32 BECAUSE IF YOU DO, IT BECOMES AN OUTRAGEOUS DOCTRINE. 46:35 THE IDEA THAT YOU CAN LIVE ANY WAY YOU WANT AND SOMEONE'LL GET 46:37 BAPTIZED IN YOUR BEHALF WHEN YOU'RE DEAD - THAT DOESN'T TEACH 46:41 THAT. AND YOU'VE GOT TO COMPARE 46:43 SCRIPTURE WITH SCRIPTURE TO FIND OUT WHAT IS IT SAYING? 46:46 YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT? SOME PEOPLE HAVE BUILT A WHOLE 46:49 DOCTRINE ABOUT WOMEN COVERING THEIR HEADS. 46:52 NOW, I'M NOT GOING TO COMMENT ONE WAY OR THE OTHER ABOUT WOMEN 46:55 COVERING THEIR HEADS, I'M JUST GOING TO SAY YOU'VE GOT TO BE 46:57 CAREFUL ABOUT BUILDING A DOCTRINE ON SOMETHING WHERE YOU 46:59 HAVE ONE VERSE IN THE BIBLE. YOU NEED TO HAVE TWO 47:03 OR THREE WITNESSES. YOU START BUILDING WHAT YOU'RE 47:06 TEACHINGS ARE SO THAT YOU CAN KNOW WHAT IT'S TALKING ABOUT. 47:10 AMEN? >>AMEN. 47:11 >>ALRIGHT, WORDS - THE WORD IN OUR LIVES - THIS IS OUR LAST 47:16 SECTION FOR FRIDAY - THE WORD IN OUR LIVES . I WANT YOU TO NOTICE 47:20 HOW DID PETER USE THE OLD TESTAMENT? TAKE A LOOK, FOR 47:24 INSTANCE, AT PETER'S SERMON IN ACTS 2:14 THROUGH 17: HE STANDS 47:30 UP AT PENTECOST AND PETER BEGINS TO PREACH. 47:34 THIS IS ACTS 2:14, "BUT PETER, STANDING UP WITH THE ELEVEN, 47:37 RAISED HIS VOICE" - AND HE'S PROBABLY PREACHING IN ARAMAIC; 47:40 THE OTHERS ARE PREACHING IN OTHER LANGUAGES - 47:41 THEY'VE RECEIVED THE GIFT OF TONGUES - "...MEN OF JUDEA AND 47:44 ALL WHO DWELL IN JERUSALEM, LET THIS BE KNOWN TO YOU, AND HEED 47:48 MY WORDS. FOR THESE ARE NOT DRUNK, AS YOU 47:49 SUPPOSE, SINCE IT IS ONLY THE THIRD HOUR OF THE DAY. 47:52 BUT THIS IS WHAT WAS SPOKEN BY THE PROPHET JOEL:" - OKAY, PETER 47:57 HAS NOT PREACHED FOR THIRTY SECONDS - YOU CAN TIME HOW LONG 48:00 IT TOOK ME TO PREACH WHAT I JUST SAID - AND HE IS GOING INTO OLD 48:05 TESTAMENT PROPHECY. DID PETER USE THE OLD TESTAMENT 48:09 PROPHECIES TO PREACH ABOUT CHRIST? 48:11 >>FIRST SERMON AT PENTECOST - DID PETER SAY, 'JUST A MOMENT, 48:15 FOLKS, LET ME FIND MY NOTES'? NOW, I'M NOT AGAINST 48:19 NOTES, I'M USING NOTES. BUT A GOOD PREACHER OUGHT TO BE 48:22 ABLE TO PREACH IN SEASON AND OUT OF SEASON AND I JUST CAN'T 48:26 PICTURE THESE OLD TESTAMENT APOSTLES SAYING, 'OH - SOMEBODY 48:29 - MY COMPUTER CRASHED. I CAN'T PREACH TODAY.' HOW WAS 48:33 PETER ABLE TO PREACH THIS SERMON AT PENTECOST? 48:37 'THY WORD I'VE HIDDEN IN MY HEART' AND THE PROMISE OF JESUS 48:41 IS THE SPIRIT WILL BRING THOSE THINGS BACK TO REMEMBRANCE 48:44 AGAIN. YOU CAN'T REMEMBER WHAT YOU NEVER KNEW. 48:47 >>AMEN. >>ISN'T THAT RIGHT? 48:48 AND SO, AS WE READ THE BIBLE DAILY, THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL 48:53 BRING THOSE THINGS TO YOUR REMEMBRANCE EXACTLY WHEN YOU 48:55 NEED THEM. AND I CAN'T COUNT HOW MANY TIMES - I BET YOU HAVE HAD 48:58 THE SAME EXPERIENCE. SOMETHING THAT YOU READ IN YOUR 49:01 MORNING DEVOTIONS OR YOUR STUDY, THAT VERY DAY SOMEONE 49:04 NEEDS THAT VERSE. >>AMEN. 49:06 >>OR YOU NEED THAT VERSE TO DEFEND WHAT YOU BELIEVE AND YOU 49:09 THOUGHT 'I WOULD NEVER HAVE REMEMBERED THAT, BUT GOD SHOWED 49:10 THAT TO ME TODAY.' THAT HAPPENS TO ME ALL THE TIME. 49:13 IT JUST REMINDS ME THERE'S SOMETHING SUPERNATURAL GOING ON 49:16 WHEN WE DO OUR STUDIES. AND, IF YOU PRAY, AND YOU MAKE 49:20 THE MOST OF IT, GOD'LL GIVE YOU MORE OPPORTUNITIES LIKE THAT. 49:23 ALRIGHT, NOTICE: SO HE PREACHES FROM JOEL AND THREE OTHER TIMES 49:27 IN JUST HIS SERMON ON PENTECOST - NO - YEAH, THREE OTHER TIMES - 49:31 A TOTAL OF FOUR - PETER QUOTES OLD TESTAMENT PROPHETS IN HIS 49:36 PENTECOST SERMON. AND FROM PREACHING ABOUT CHRIST, THROUGH 49:40 THE OLD TESTAMENT, THEY SAY, 'WHAT SHALL WE DO?' HE SAYS, 49:44 'REPENT AND BE BAPTIZED. AND THERE'S A GREAT BAPTISM. 49:46 PETER IS A BIBLE PREACHER AND HE'S ABLE TO DO IT 49:49 EXTEMPORANEOUSLY BECAUSE HE'S HIDDEN THE WORD IN HIS HEART. 49:53 POINT IS, EVERY BELIEVER SHOULD BE FILLING THEIR MINDS WITH THE 49:58 WORD OF GOD. >>AMEN. 50:00 >>AND HAVE DAILY TIME WITH THE LORD. 50:03 IF SOME OF YOU ARE MORE - BETTER STUDENTS THAN OTHERS AND YOU CAN 50:09 MAYBE READ CHAPTERS A DAY; SOME OF YOU, READING IS HARDER. 50:15 READ A FEW VERSES. THERE'S A LOT OF 50:16 POWER IN A VERSE. MEDITATE UPON IT DURING THAT 50:20 DAY, BUT PUT THE WORD OF GOD IN YOUR MIND AND IN YOUR HEART. 50:24 IT SAYS, 'THY WORD I'VE HIDDEN IN MY HEART THAT I MIGHT NOT 50:26 SIN.' A LOT OF US SIN QUICKLY AND EASILY. 50:29 WE FALL BECAUSE WE ARE NOT FORTIFYING OUR MINDS WITH THE 50:33 AMMUNITION THAT JESUS USED TO FIGHT THE DEVIL. 50:36 AND, IF JESUS NEEDED THE WORD OF GOD TO FIGHT THE DEVIL, THEN 50:39 WHAT MAKES YOU THINK YOU CAN DO IT WITHOUT THE WORD OF GOD? 50:42 SO WE NEED THOSE PROMISES. WE NEED - PETER HAD THE WORD 50:45 IN HIS LIFE AND IN HIS HEART. SOMEONE READ FOR ME 2 TIMOTHY 50:48 3:15 - YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE THAT, MANJEET? 50:51 ALRIGHT, HANG ON, I'LL READ A VERSE FIRST SO THE CAMERA CAN 50:53 GET READY. I'M GOING TO READ ROMANS 12:2, 50:56 "AND DO NOT BE CONFORMED TO THIS WORLD, BUT BE TRANSFORMED BY THE 51:00 RENEWING OF YOUR MIND," - WHAT TRANSFORMS OUR MIND? 51:04 THE WORD OF GOD - "THAT YOU MAY PROVE WHAT IS THAT GOOD AND 51:07 ACCEPTABLE AND PERFECT WILL OF GOD." 51:10 AND, GO AHEAD, YOU CAN READ THE LAST VERSE. 51:12 >>"AND THAT FROM CHILDHOOD YOU HAVE KNOWN THE HOLY SCRIPTURES, 51:17 WHICH ARE ABLE TO MAKE YOU WISE FOR SALVATION THROUGH FAITH 51:22 WHICH IS IN CHRIST JESUS." >>'FROM CHILDHOOD YOU'VE KNOWN 51:27 THE HOLY SCRIPTURES' - WHEN SHOULD WE START TEACHING OUR 51:30 YOUNG PEOPLE TO HAVE DAILY DEVOTIONS? 51:32 >>WHEN THEY'RE BABIES. >>FROM CHILDHOOD. 51:35 SOMETIMES PARENTS COME TO ME AND THEY'VE GOT A YOUNG CHILD THEY 51:37 WANT TO GET BAPTIZED AND, YOU KNOW, THAT AGE MAY VARY, BUT ONE 51:41 OF THE QUESTIONS I ASK TO DETERMINE IF A CHILD IS OLD 51:43 ENOUGH TO BE BAPTIZED - I SAY, 'DO YOU HAVE A DAILY DEVOTIONAL 51:47 LIFE? ARE YOU SPENDING TIME, AS A 51:50 HABIT, EVERY DAY, READING A VERSE? YOU GET DOWN ON YOUR 51:54 KNEES - DO YOU PRAY? DO YOU COMMUNICATE WITH JESUS?' 51:56 IF THEY'RE NOT OLD ENOUGH TO HAVE A DAILY RELATIONSHIP WITH 51:59 JESUS - PROBABLY NOT OLD ENOUGH TO BE BAPTIZED YET. 52:03 AND SO, WE NEED TO INCULCATE THIS IN OUR YOUTH FROM THE VERY 52:07 BEGINNING, HAVE DAILY WORSHIP IN OUR FAMILIES, AND HAVE PERSONAL 52:11 DEVOTIONS AS WELL. THAT WHAT PETER DID. 52:14 WELL, WE HAVE RUN OUT OF TIME, BUT THAT'S A GOOD POINT TO END 52:16 ON, BECAUSE THE FREE OFFER THAT WE'RE MAKING AVAILABLE IS THE 52:20 BOOK CALLED THE ULTIMATE RESOURCE . 52:22 I'VE WRITTEN A BOOK ABOUT HOW IMPORTANT THE BIBLE IS IN OUR 52:24 LIVES EVERY DAY AND IT'S OFFER #728 - FREE IF YOU JUST CALL - 52:29 CALL THE RESOURCE NUMBER - 866-788-3966 - THAT'S 52:36 866-STUDY-MORE AND ASK FOR OFFER #728. 52:40 GOD BLESS YOU, FRIENDS. WE'LL LOOK FORWARD TO STUDYING 52:42 HIS WORD TOGETHER AGAIN NEXT WEEK. (MUSIC) 52:58 >>FOR OVER SIXTY YEARS JEEPNEYS HAVE BEEN THE VIRTUAL 53:02 KING OF THE ROAD, HERE IN THE PHILIPPINES. 53:04 THESE UNIQUE VEHICLES THAT ARE FESTIVE WITH COLORFUL STICKERS, 53:07 LIGHTS, AND CHROME HAVE GROWN INTO THE CHIEF SOURCE OF 53:10 TRANSPORTATION IN THE COUNTRY. LET'S GO! (MUSIC) 53:18 THESE ICONIC FOUR-WHEEL DRIVE MILITARY VEHICLES, MADE BY THE 53:21 WILLYS COMPANY, WERE KNOWN AS 'JEEPS' BECAUSE IT STOOD FOR 53:24 GENERAL PURPOSE, BUT IT ALSO CAME FROM A CHARACTER IN A 53:29 POPEYE CARTOON THAT WAS KNOWN AS 'EUGENE THE JEEP' 53:33 HE WAS AN IMAGINARY DOG THAT COULD CRAWL 53:35 ACROSS THE CEILINGS AND THE WALLS - AND THESE JEEPS 53:37 COULD GO ANYWHERE. WHEN THE AMERICANS LEFT THE 53:39 PHILIPPINES FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II, IT WAS JUST CHEAPER FOR THEM 53:43 TO LEAVE THESE THOUSANDS OF MILITARY VEHICLES BEHIND RATHER 53:46 THAN TO TRANSPORT THEM BACK TO THE STATES. 53:49 THE CREATIVE FILIPINO PEOPLE MODIFIED THESE MILITARY VEHICLES 53:52 BY EXTENDING THE FRAME ABOUT SIX FEET. 53:54 THEY ADDED A COUPLE OF OPPOSING BENCHES THAT ARE DESIGNED TO 53:57 CARRY ABOUT 18 PEOPLE, THEY PUT A CAB OVER IT TO PREVENT THE 54:02 WATER FROM COMING IN, BUT I'VE SEEN WHAT LOOKS LIKE ABOUT 20 TO 54:05 25 PEOPLE HANGING OFF EVERY POSSIBLE EDGE AND LEDGE OF A 54:09 JEEPNEY - JUMPING OFF AND JUMPING ON AS IT GOES THROUGH 54:12 CONGESTED MANILLA TRAFFIC. EVERY JEEPNEY IS A 54:17 LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT. SOME ARE JUST HELD TOGETHER WITH 54:20 PATCHES OF BALING WIRE AND BUBBLE GUM AND A LITTLE BIT OF 54:23 DUCT TAPE; SOME ARE A LITTLE MORE ORNATE AND MODERN - THEY'VE 54:26 GOT CHROME AND STAINLESS STEEL - AND THERE'S GOOD REASON THAT 54:29 THE CEILINGS ARE PADDED. WHEN ONE OF THE LOCAL FILIPINOS 54:35 WANTS A RIDE ON A JEEPNEY, THEY JUST FLAG THEM DOWN, THEY SHOUT, 54:38 THEY TAP ON THE HOOD, AND THEN THEY JUMP ON BOARD - THEY MAY 54:41 NOT EVEN SLOW DOWN WHEN THEY DO THIS - THEN THEY PAY ABOUT EIGHT 54:44 PESOS, WHICH IS THE EQUIVALENT OF 16 CENTS FOR US - IT'S, BY 54:48 FAR THE MOST ECONOMICAL WAY TO GET AROUND IN THE COUNTRY. 54:56 SOME JEEPNEYS ARE EVEN EQUIPPED WITH THEIR OWN EMERGENCY PRIVY. 55:02 ONE LITTLE DOWNSIDE TO THIS JEEPNEYS IS, BECAUSE THE CABS 55:05 ARE OPEN LIKE THIS, THEY'RE NOT AIR-CONDITIONED, IT GETS PRETTY 55:08 HOT IN THE SUMMERTIME AND ALL OF THE FUMES FROM THE STREET COME 55:11 IN, WHICH CAN MAKE IT AN EXHAUSTING EXPERIENCE - WHEW. 55:16 PART OF THE DOWNSIDE OF THE JEEPNEY IS THEY DON'T HAVE ALL 55:18 OF THE MODERN SAFETY FEATURES - NO SEAT BELTS - YOU HAVE TO TAKE 55:21 ADVANTAGE OF THE PADDING IF YOU HIT A HARD BUMP AND, IF YOU'RE 55:24 IN A SERIOUS ACCIDENT, THERE'S NO AIRBAGS OTHER THAN THE 55:27 FRIENDS THAT MIGHT BE SITTING AROUND YOU. 55:30 AND THAT'S THE UPSIDE OF THE JEEPNEY, BECAUSE YOU'RE UP CLOSE 55:32 AND PERSONAL WITH EVERYBODY, YOU MAKE SOME NEW FRIENDS. 55:36 RIDING ON A JEEPNEY REQUIRES TEAMWORK. 55:38 IF YOU BUY SOMETHING FROM ONE OF THE VENDORS, YOU ALL SORT OF 55:41 PASS IT BACK TO EACH OTHER AND WHEN PASSENGERS GET ON BOARD, 55:44 YOU JUST PASS YOUR MONEY UP FRONT. THANKS A LOT! 55:57 FRIENDS, IT'S SAFE TO SAY THERE ARE NO TWO JEEPNEYS THAT ARE 56:00 EXACTLY THE SAME - THEY'RE ALL UNIQUE AND DISTINCT - AND SO ARE 56:04 YOU. HAVE YOU EVER FELT THAT YOU GET 56:06 LOST IN THE MASS OF HUMANITY AND GOD DOESN'T NOTICE YOU? 56:10 THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT HE KNOWS YOUR NAME. 56:12 THE VERY HAIRS OF YOUR HEAD ARE NUMBERED AND HE HEARS YOUR 56:15 PRAYERS. MORE THAN THAT, THE LORD WANTS TO TAKE YOU TO HIS 56:18 KINGDOM - YOU JUST HAVE TO GET ON BOARD. (MUSIC) 56:34 >>LET'S FACE IT, IT'S NOT ALWAYS EASY TO UNDERSTAND 56:36 EVERYTHING YOU READ IN THE BIBLE. 56:38 WITH OVER 700,000 WORDS CONTAINED IN 66 BOOKS, THE BIBLE 56:43 CAN GENERATE A LOT OF QUESTIONS. 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