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>>GOOD MORNING
AND HAPPY SABBATH.
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AS WE STUDY GOD'S WORD.
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NOW, AS WE LIKE TO DO ALWAYS,
BEFORE WE GET INTO OUR LESSON
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STUDY, WE LOVE TO
SING PRAISES TO OUR GOD.
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AND SO, I'D LIKE TO INVITE OUR
SONG LEADERS OUT THIS MORNING AS
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THEY LEAD US IN
PRAISE TO OUR CREATOR.
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(PIANO MUSIC)
>>THANK YOU, MARSHALL.
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WE LOVE TO SING TOGETHER, SO
THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE AT HOME,
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PULL OUT YOUR
HYMNALS - AND THOSE HERE.
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WE ARE GOING TO SING ABOUT
GOD'S BLESSINGS THIS MORNING.
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YOU KNOW, THIS WORLD IS
FALLING APART, BUT EVERY DAY WE
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EXPERIENCE BLESSINGS FROM GOD
JUST BY BREATHING AND BEING ABLE
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TO WITNESS FOR HIM. SENT
FORTH BY GOD'S BLESSINGS -
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THAT'S US, EVERY DAY - HYMN
#407 - WE'RE GOING TO SING BOTH
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VERSES. (PIANO MUSIC)
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>>AT THIS TIME,
MARSHALL WILL LEAD US IN PRAYER.
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>>LET'S PRAY TOGETHER BEFORE
WE DIVE INTO OUR LESSON THIS
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MORNING. FATHER IN
HEAVEN, WE THANK YOU
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SO MUCH FOR YOUR MANY BLESSINGS.
WE THANK YOU FOR THE SABBATH
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THAT YOU'VE GIVEN TO US
AND THIS OPPORTUNITY WE HAVE TO
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STUDY, LORD, YOUR WORD TOGETHER,
AS WE AGAIN GO INTO THE 2 BOOK
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OF PETER. JUST PRAY THAT YOU
WILL BE WITH DR. DAVID DEROSE
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THIS MORNING - BLESS HIM AS HE
SHARES WITH US AND AS WE STUDY
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YOUR WORD. IN JESUS' NAME
WE PRAY, AMEN. OUR LESSON THIS
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MORNING IS BROUGHT TO
US BY DR. DAVID DEROSE.
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>>THANK YOU, MARSHALL. AND
THANK YOU, FOR BEING HERE TO
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JOURNEY WITH US
THROUGH THE BOOK OF 2 PETER.
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WE'VE BEEN STUDYING 1 AND
2 PETER TOGETHER AND AS WE'RE
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EMBARKING ON LESSON 11,
THE AUTHOR OF THE LESSON TALKED
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ABOUT THE CONTEXT IN
WHICH PETER WAS WRITING.
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AND, AS I WAS THINKING ABOUT THE
SETTING - IT'S AN INTERESTING
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ONE - PETER, ONE OF THE DOMINANT
FIGURES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT,
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BUT REALLY THERE IS RELATIVELY
LITTLE THAT WE HAVE, FROM
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PETER'S HAND, IN THE NEW
TESTAMENT - JUST THESE TWO
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RELATIVELY SHORT BOOKS.
WHAT WOULD YOU WRITE IF YOU HAD
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AN OPPORTUNITY TO JUST SHARE
WHAT WAS ON YOUR HEARTS - TO
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GOD'S PEOPLE - FOR CENTURIES TO
COME? YOU KNOW, I WAS THINKING
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ABOUT THAT AND MY MIND
WENT BACK TO SOME YEARS AGO.
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MY WIFE AND I WERE ON A TRIP IN
EUROPE AND WE WENT TO VISIT THAT
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GREAT MUSEUM IN GERMANY - IN
BERLIN THERE'S A MUSEUM CALLED
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THE PERGAMON MUSEUM - AND
NOT ONLY IS THERE THE ALTAR FROM
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PERGAMON THAT IS MENTIONED IN
THE BOOK OF REVELATION, NOT ONLY
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DO YOU FIND THE WALL RELIEFS,
THE BRICKS FROM BABYLON, THE
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ISHTAR GATE (HAVING BEEN
RECREATED THERE IN BERLIN), BUT
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THERE IS ALSO THE RECONSTRUCTION
OF THE ENTRANCE TO THE CITY OF
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MILETUS. AND MY
MIND WAS DRAWN TO THAT
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SETTING AS I THOUGHT
ABOUT PETER'S MINISTRY IN 1 AND
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2 PETER, BECAUSE THERE'S
A PARALLEL MINISTRY THAT IS
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CONDENSED IN CHAPTER
20 OF THE BOOK OF ACTS.
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I INVITE YOU TO TURN
THERE. I THINK IT'S A FITTING
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INTRODUCTION TO WHERE WE'RE
GOING WITH 2 PETER AND HOW WE
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PULL IN THE CONTEXT THAT
PETER HAS BEEN SHARING WITH US
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THROUGHOUT HIS LETTERS.
IT'S ACTUALLY, IN ACTS 20,
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ANOTHER RAPID-FIRE PRESENTATION.
THIS TIME, IT'S A PRESENTATION -
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AN ORAL PRESENTATION -
GIVEN BY THE APOSTLE PAUL.
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PAUL IS HASTENING
BACK TO JERUSALEM.
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THERE IS NOT TIME FOR HIM TO
VENTURE TO THE CITY OF EPHESUS
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WHERE HE SPENT SO MUCH
TIME EARLIER IN HIS MINISTRY.
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AND SO, THE WORD GOES OUT FROM
THE LITTLE TOWN OF MILETUS, THAT
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PAUL WANTS TO SPEAK WITH
THE CHURCH LEADERS FROM EPHESUS.
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NOW THIS MAY NOT SOUND LIKE AN
UNUSUAL REQUEST, BUT EPHESUS WAS
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SOME 35 MILES FROM MILETUS,
WHERE PAUL IS BRIEFLY TARRYING.
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HOW LONG DID IT TAKE, IN
ANTIQUITY, TO TRAVEL 35 MILES?
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WE'RE TALKING AT LEAST A
GOOD DAY'S JOURNEY, RIGHT?
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35 MILES?
TRAVELING THAT ON FOOT?
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SO, PAUL SENDS OUT THIS MESSAGE
- I'M IN ACTS CHAPTER 20 IN
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VERSE 17. IT SAYS, "FROM MILETUS
HE" - PAUL - "SENT TO EPHESUS
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AND CALLED FOR THE
ELDERS OF THE CHURCH."
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- AND SO, WHAT
HAPPENS? THEY ACTUALLY COME.
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I MEAN, WOULD YOU TRAVEL THAT
FAR OUT OF YOUR WAY TO SEE A
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BELOVED PASTOR? WE
WON'T USE ANY PERSONAL
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EXAMPLES HERE - A - ONE DAY'S
TRAVEL - TO HEAR A FEW WORDS
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FROM THE APOSTLE PAUL - BUT
THEY WERE SO ENDEARED TO HIM.
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AND, AS PAUL BEGINS TO SHARE IN
THIS - JUST VERY SHORT ORDER, HE
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TOUCHES ON THE VERY SAME THEMES
THAT WE FIND IN 1 AND 2 PETER.
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THEY'RE THEMES OF
URGENCY. WHAT DOES PETER SPEAK
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ABOUT IN HIS
LETTERS? IT'S THE SAME THINGS
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WE FIND IN ACTS 20. LOOK
WHAT PAUL SAYS - I'M GOING
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TO JUST BRIEFLY
HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THESE THINGS.
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FIRST, IN VERSES 18 THROUGH 21,
HE SPEAKS ABOUT HOW HE PREACHED
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THE GOSPEL. HE
TESTIFIED ABOUT HOW WE NEED
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TO REPENT - HOW WE
NEED TO COME TO JESUS.
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AND THEN, IN VERSE 22, HE SAYS,
"AND SEE, NOW I GO BOUND IN THE
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SPIRIT TO JERUSALEM, NOT KNOWING
THE THINGS THAT WILL HAPPEN TO
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ME THERE, EXCEPT THAT THE HOLY
SPIRIT TESTIFIES IN EVERY CITY,
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SAYING THAT CHAINS AND
TRIBULATIONS AWAIT ME."
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SO LET'S JUST PAUSE RIGHT THERE.
AS WE STUDIED THROUGH 1 PETER,
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DID WE READ A LOT
ABOUT TRIBULATION?
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ABOUT PERSISTENCE IN SUFFERING?
THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT PAUL IS
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SHARING ABOUT HIS MINISTRY.
HE SEES, THROUGH THE HOLY
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SPIRIT, THAT
PERSECUTION IS COMING.
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AND A LOT OF 1 PETER
WAS DEVOTED TO THAT THEME.
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BUT NOT ONLY ARE THERE DANGERS
FROM WITHOUT, BUT THERE ARE ALSO
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DANGERS FROM WHERE? >>WITHIN.
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>>FROM WITHIN. SO NOT
ONLY ARE THE ENEMIES OF
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THE CHURCH ATTACKING THE
CHURCH, BUT THERE ARE ENEMIES
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INSIDE THE CHURCH. AND
SO, AS PAUL IN ACTS 20, GOES
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THROUGH WHAT THE HOLY SPIRIT HAS
REVEALED TO HIM, WE SEE THE VERY
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SAME THEMES THAT
PETER TOUCHES ON.
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LOOK WITH ME AT ACTS 20 NOW,
GOING TO VERSE 27, "FOR I HAVE
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NOT SHUNNED TO DECLARE TO
YOU THE WHOLE COUNSEL OF GOD.
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THEREFORE TAKE HEED TO
YOURSELVES AND TO ALL THE FLOCK,
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AMONG WHICH THE HOLY SPIRIT HAS
MADE YOU OVERSEERS, TO SHEPHERD
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THE CHURCH OF GOD WHICH HE
PURCHASED WITH HIS OWN BLOOD.
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FOR I KNOW THIS, THAT AFTER
MY DEPARTURE SAVAGE WOLVES WILL
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COME IN AMONG YOU,
NOT SPARING THE FLOCK.
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ALSO FROM AMONG YOURSELVES MEN
WILL RISE UP, SPEAKING PERVERSE
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THINGS, TO DRAW AWAY THE
DISCIPLES AFTER THEMSELVES.
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THEREFORE WATCH, AND REMEMBER
THAT FOR THREE YEARS I DID NOT
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CEASE TO WARN EVERYONE
NIGHT AND DAY WITH TEARS."
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SO HERE WE HAVE A
GLIMPSE OF ANOTHER APOSTLE.
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THIS TIME THE APOSTLE PAUL,
IN ACTS 20, DOING THE VERY SAME
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THING WE'VE BEEN STUDYING ABOUT
IN PETER'S LETTERS - VERY SHORT,
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IMPASSIONED PRESENTATIONS WHERE
AN APOSTLE IS SAYING, 'I HAVE A
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SPECIAL BURDEN FOR AT LEAST
THREE THINGS: ONE IS TO ANCHOR
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YOU IN THE GOSPEL, BUT THE
SECOND IS TO PREPARE YOU FOR
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TRIBULATION FROM WITHOUT -
ENEMIES WITHOUT THE CHURCH THAT
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ARE GOING TO BE PERSECUTING
YOU - ATTACKING YOU. BUT THEN,
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THIRD, DANGERS FROM WITHIN THE
CHURCH. WITH THAT BACKGROUND,
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NOW LET'S LOOK CAREFULLY AT
2 PETER CHAPTER 2, BECAUSE THE
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FOCUS IN 2 PETER 2 IS ON THESE
THREATS FROM WITHIN THE CHURCH.
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AND I ALWAYS LIKE TO REMIND
MYSELF OF WHERE WE'VE BEEN.
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THIS IS, AGAIN, A
VERY SOBERING CHAPTER.
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IN FACT, IF YOU WERE TO
WALK INTO A CHURCH AND THEY WERE
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PREACHING ON 2 PETER 2 - BY
THE WAY, THAT'S WHAT'S HAPPENING
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RIGHT HERE - (LAUGHTER) - IF YOU
WERE TO WALK IN AND YOU HEARD
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SOMEONE PREACHING ON THIS,
YOU WOULD SAY, 'WELL, THIS IS SO
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DISCOURAGING. I
WANT TO HEAR ABOUT JESUS.
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I WANT TO HEAR ABOUT THE
LOVING MINISTRY OF JESUS.
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I DON'T WANT TO READ ABOUT ALL
THESE BAD THINGS THAT ARE GOING
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TO HAPPEN.' WHY WAS
PETER - WHY WAS PAUL,
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UNDER THE INSPIRATION OF
THE HOLY SPIRIT, SO BURDENED
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TO SHARE THESE SOMBER MESSAGES?
WHY WOULD THEY DO THAT?
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WHY DON'T THEY JUST
SPEAK ABOUT THE LOVE OF JESUS?
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WHY DON'T THEY JUST SPEAK ABOUT
THE GOOD NEWS OF THE GOSPEL?
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IT - >>THEY WANT US TO BE READY.
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>>THAT'S RIGHT,
THEY WANT US TO BE READY.
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THEY WANT US TO BE PREPARED
BECAUSE DIFFICULT TIMES ARE
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COMING, IF THEY'RE NOT
ALREADY KNOCKING ON YOUR DOORS.
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AND GOD IS SAYING, IN A
WAY, THROUGH THESE MESSAGES, HE
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UNDERSTANDS OUR HEARTS.
HE KNOWS WHAT DIFFICULTIES WE
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FACE IN LIFE AND HE TRIES
TO PREPARE US IN HIS WORD.
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BY THE WAY, THERE IS A MAJOR
DIAGNOSES - A DIAGNOSIS - IN
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MEDICAL CIRCLES THAT WE TALK
A LOT ABOUT TODAY IN THE PUBLIC
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HEALTH COMMUNITY, AS WELL AS IN
THE MENTAL HEALTH COMMUNITY, AND
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IT'S SOMETHING CALLED
POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER -
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PTSD. AND THEY'VE
STUDIED A LOT ABOUT
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THIS CONDITION - YOU MAY
HAVE HEARD IT YEARS AGO, TALKING
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ABOUT SHELL-SHOCK AND COMBAT
VETERANS, BUT IT CAN HAPPEN
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WHEN ANY TERRIBLE THING -
ANY DRAMATIC THING HAPPENS.
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IT COULD BE A NATURAL DISASTER.
IT COULD BE A PERSONAL AFFRONT.
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IT COULD BE A
RAPE. IT COULD BE ABUSE.
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IT COULD BE COMBAT. IT
COULD BE A CAR ACCIDENT.
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FOLLOWING SUCH A TRAUMATIC
EVENT YOU COULD HAVE A MEDICAL
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CONDITION CALLED
POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER.
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ONE OF THE VERY INTERESTING
THINGS THEY'VE LEARNED ABOUT
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PTSD IS THERE IS SOMETHING THAT
ACTUALLY CAN PROTECT YOU FROM
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IT. >>GOD.
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>>WELL, GOD CAN PROTECT YOU FROM
IT, THAT IS TRUE, BUT ONE OF THE
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WAYS GOD PROTECTS US FROM
DIAGNOSES LIKE THIS, IS HE
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PREPARES US FOR WHAT'S COMING.
SO, ACTUALLY, PREPAREDNESS,
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INSTEAD OF WEAKENING
US, ACTUALLY STRENGTHENS US.
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SO, JUST LIKE THE FIRE DRILL OR
THE EARTHQUAKE DRILL IN SCHOOL,
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IT'S NOT MEANT TO SCARE YOU.
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IT'S MEANT TO HELP YOU
IF THAT CONDITION OCCURS.
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AND, IF IT DOES OCCUR, THE
RESEARCH SHOWS YOU ARE MORE
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LIKELY TO COME
THROUGH IT MENTALLY STRONGER.
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ISN'T THAT INTERESTING? >>AMEN.
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>>AND SO, HERE, GOD IS
MINISTERING TO US THROUGH THE
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WORDS OF PETER.
THEY ARE STERN WORDS.
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BUT LET'S REALIZE
WHERE WE'VE COME FROM.
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WE'VE COME FROM 1 PETER - NOW, I
KNOW SOMETIMES WHEN WE DO THIS,
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THE TEMPTATION IS, 'WELL,
DR. DEROSE, WE HAVE SUCH LITTLE
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TIME TO STUDY 2 PETER
CHAPTER 2, WHY ARE WE REVIEWING?
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WHY ARE YOU SO
BURDENED WITH REVIEWING?'
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I'M SO BURDENED WITH REVIEWING
BECAUSE NONE OF THESE LETTERS
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EVER CAME TO US OUT OF CONTEXT.
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WE HAVE ALL OF 1 PETER AND ALL
OF 2 PETER AND, AS WE'RE READING
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PETER'S SECOND LETTER, AS WE
STUDIED EARLIER RIGHT HERE IN
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THIS VERY VENUE, WE SAW THAT
HE BEGAN IN 2 PETER, CHAPTER 1,
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SPEAKING ABOUT THE GOSPEL -
GRACE AND PEACE - RIGHTEOUSNESS
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THAT COMES TO US THROUGH
OUR GOD AND SAVIOR, JESUS.
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AND SO, THIS IS
HOW THE LETTER STARTS.
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AND THEN, AS WE WENT THROUGH 2
PETER CHAPTER 1, HE GAVE US THIS
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IMAGE OF THE MOUNT
OF TRANSFIGURATION.
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JESUS, HIMSELF, REVEALED IN HIS
GLORY, SHADOWED TO SOME EXTENT,
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BUT STILL, IN SOME MEASURE
OF HIS GLORY, TO THOSE THREE
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DISCIPLES WHO WERE CLOSEST
TO HIM, PETER, JAMES, AND JOHN.
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BUT NOW WE COME TO CHAPTER 2
AND IT BEGINS THIS WAY - SO JUST
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HAVING READ ABOUT GOD'S GREAT
GLORY SHOWN AT THE MOUNT OF
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TRANSFIGURATION, WE READ
THIS: "BUT THERE WERE ALSO FALSE
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PROPHETS AMONG THE PEOPLE, EVEN
AS THERE WILL BE FALSE TEACHERS
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AMONG YOU, WHO WILL SECRETLY
BRING IN DESTRUCTIVE HERESIES,
00:15:40.24\00:15:44.44
EVEN DENYING THE LORD WHO BOUGHT
THEM, AND BRING ON THEMSELVES
00:15:44.47\00:15:49.01
SWIFT DESTRUCTION."
WE LOOKED AT ACTS 20.
00:15:49.04\00:15:56.85
WE SAW HOW THIS WAS A
BURDEN OF THE APOSTLE PAUL.
00:15:56.89\00:16:00.59
OUR LESSON, AS WE GO THROUGH
IT, POINTS US, IN WEDNESDAY, TO
00:16:00.62\00:16:05.36
ANOTHER INSPIRED MESSENGER, WHO
GAVE US SIMILAR COUNSEL AND IT'S
00:16:05.39\00:16:10.93
IN THE BOOK OF JUDE. THE ENTIRE
LETTER OF JUDE - IT'S JUST ONE
00:16:10.97\00:16:15.77
SHORT CHAPTER - IT BASICALLY IS
LIKE A MIRROR ON 2 PETER CHAPTER
00:16:15.80\00:16:22.38
2, THAT WE'RE STUDYING TODAY.
SO, IF YOU WANT TO REALLY GET
00:16:22.41\00:16:24.78
THE FULL IMPORT OF WHAT PETER
WAS SHARING, LOOK AT ACTS 20 AND
00:16:24.81\00:16:28.38
LOOK AT JUDE AND COMPARE IT
WITH 2 PETER, BECAUSE THE HOLY
00:16:28.42\00:16:31.89
SPIRIT, SPEAKING THROUGH
THREE DIFFERENT NEW TESTAMENT
00:16:31.92\00:16:34.26
INDIVIDUALS, IN VERY SHORT
FASHION, IS HIGHLIGHTING THE
00:16:34.29\00:16:39.09
IMPORTANCE OF RECOGNIZING THERE
WILL BE ERROR WITHIN THE CHURCH
00:16:39.13\00:16:44.00
- ERROR WITHIN THE CHURCH. WELL,
WE'RE GOING TO PICK UP SOME MORE
00:16:44.03\00:16:48.77
OF THESE STRANDS IN JUST A
COUPLE OF MINUTES, BUT I WANT
00:16:48.80\00:16:52.87
YOU TO NOTICE THAT THERE'S A
TENSION THAT BEGINS TO DEVELOP
00:16:52.91\00:16:56.88
IN 2 PETER. YOU NOTICE THERE, IN
VERSE 1, IT MENTIONS THAT THOSE
00:16:56.91\00:17:03.62
WHO BRING THESE DESTRUCTIVE
HERESIES INTO THE CHURCH WILL
00:17:03.65\00:17:07.46
EXPERIENCE A
TYPE OF DESTRUCTION.
00:17:07.49\00:17:10.53
WHAT IS THE ADJECTIVE USED TO
DESCRIBE THE TYPE OF DESTRUCTION
00:17:10.56\00:17:14.96
THAT THEY WILL EXPERIENCE?
THAT'S RIGHT, IT IS SWIFT.
00:17:15.00\00:17:20.44
IF YOU CAME INTO THE - ACTUALLY,
EVEN INTO MY MEDICAL OFFICE, AND
00:17:20.47\00:17:26.24
WE PUT YOU ONTO THE HEART
MONITOR - WE DO THAT NOW - IT'S
00:17:26.27\00:17:30.41
NOT A FORMAL HEART MONITOR,
LIKE AN INTENSIVE CARE UNIT, BUT
00:17:30.45\00:17:33.42
INSTEAD OF HAVING OUR MEDICAL
ASSISTANTS PUTTING A BLOOD
00:17:33.45\00:17:37.05
PRESSURE CUFF ON AND
CHECKING YOUR PULSE AND YOUR
00:17:37.09\00:17:40.12
RESPIRATIONS,
IT'S ALL AUTOMATED NOW.
00:17:40.16\00:17:42.22
THERE'S A DEVICE THAT THEY PLUG
YOU INTO AND IT WILL CHECK YOUR
00:17:42.26\00:17:45.69
PULSE. AND IF YOUR PULSE IS 120
00:17:45.73\00:17:49.33
ACTUALLY, IF IT'S ANYTHING ABOVE
100, WE HAVE A SPECIFIC NAME FOR
00:17:49.36\00:17:53.44
IT IN MEDICAL CIRCLES - DO
YOU KNOW WHAT WE CALL THAT?
00:17:53.47\00:17:56.84
THAT'S RIGHT, WE CALL IT
TACHYCARDIA - TACHYCARDIA.
00:17:56.87\00:18:01.44
THAT ROOT 'TACHY' IS A GREEK
WORD AND IT'S RIGHT HERE - THAT
00:18:01.48\00:18:06.72
ROOT 'TACHY' IS USED AND
IT'S TRANSLATED 'SWIFT' OKAY?
00:18:06.75\00:18:12.15
SWIFT. NOW, IT'S
SETTING US UP FOR
00:18:12.19\00:18:15.19
SOMETHING HERE AND, BY THE
WAY, THE BIBLE OFTEN DOES THIS.
00:18:15.22\00:18:19.39
THE THREE LAST TIMES THAT JESUS
SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE, IN THE BOOK
00:18:19.43\00:18:23.06
OF REVELATION, YOU MAY JUST
BE TURNING THERE - IT'S EASY IF
00:18:23.10\00:18:26.60
YOU'VE GOT A RED-LETTER EDITION
- THE THREE LAST TIMES JESUS
00:18:26.63\00:18:30.71
SPEAKS IN REVELATION CHAPTER
22, THERE IS A WORD, AGAIN, FROM
00:18:30.74\00:18:36.44
THIS GREEK ROOT 'TACHY' THAT
APPEARS AND IT'S TRANSLATED 'I
00:18:36.48\00:18:40.68
COME QUICKLY' OR 'I COME
SOON'. BY THE WAY, WHEN WAS THE
00:18:40.72\00:18:45.22
BOOK OF REVELATION
GIVEN? >>A LONG TIME AGO.
00:18:45.25\00:18:48.76
>>A LONG TIME
AGO. THAT'S RIGHT, A
00:18:48.79\00:18:50.83
LONG, LONG TIME AGO. SO
IT'S SPEAKING ABOUT A SWIFT
00:18:50.86\00:18:54.86
DESTRUCTION IN 2
PETER CHAPTER 2, VERSE 1.
00:18:54.93\00:18:58.27
JESUS SPEAKS ABOUT
COMING QUICKLY, ON COMING SOON.
00:18:58.30\00:19:02.34
IS THERE A TENSION THAT'S
ALREADY STARTING TO DEVELOP?
00:19:02.37\00:19:06.01
AND, IN FACT, WE'LL SEE
THIS TENSION PLAY OUT FULLY IN
00:19:06.04\00:19:08.14
CHAPTER 3 OF 2 PETER. THE
TENSION WILL PLAY OUT FULLY
00:19:08.18\00:19:11.91
BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE GOING TO SAY,
'WELL, WHERE IS HIS COMING?'
00:19:11.95\00:19:14.72
OKAY? 'WHERE IS HE?
WHERE IS THIS SOON COMING?'
00:19:14.75\00:19:18.45
AND WE COULD ASK IT IN CHAPTER 2
OF 2 PETER, 'WHERE IS THE SWIFT
00:19:18.49\00:19:22.56
DESTRUCTION?' JUST
KEEP READING IN VERSE 2 OF
00:19:22.59\00:19:25.86
2 PETER 2, "AND MANY WILL FOLLOW
THEIR DESTRUCTIVE WAYS, BECAUSE
00:19:25.89\00:19:29.70
OF WHOM THE WAY OF
TRUTH WILL BE BLASPHEMED."
00:19:29.73\00:19:32.13
- BY DECEPTIVE WORDS - THAT'S
RIGHT - AND COVETOUSNESS THEY
00:19:32.17\00:19:36.44
WILL EXPLOIT YOU - "FOR A LONG
TIME THEIR JUDGMENT HAS NOT BEEN
00:19:36.47\00:19:40.74
IDLE, AND THEIR
DESTRUCTION DOES NOT SLUMBER."
00:19:40.78\00:19:44.38
SO WE'RE CATCHING TWO
DIFFERENT GLIMPSES HERE.
00:19:44.41\00:19:46.82
THERE'S A TENSION THAT I HOPE
YOU'RE ALREADY STARTING TO PICK
00:19:46.85\00:19:48.88
UP, BECAUSE, ON ONE HAND,
WE'RE READING ABOUT A SWIFT
00:19:48.92\00:19:51.92
DESTRUCTION, AND THEN WE'RE ALSO
HEARING ABOUT SOMETHING THAT IS
00:19:51.95\00:19:55.86
NOT YET, BUT IT'S NOT
SLUMBERING, IT'S GOING TO
00:19:55.89\00:19:59.16
HAPPEN. DO YOU
CATCH THIS TENSION?
00:19:59.19\00:20:01.40
HOW CAN SOMETHING BE SWIFT
AND STILL NOT HAVE HAPPENED YET?
00:20:01.43\00:20:06.37
AND THIS IS WHAT
PETER IS SPEAKING ABOUT.
00:20:06.40\00:20:09.24
SO NOW HE GIVES SOME EXAMPLES.
AND, BY THE WAY, YOU WOULD SEE
00:20:09.27\00:20:12.54
THE VERY SAME EXAMPLES IN JUDE
AND, BECAUSE THIS IS SO SOMBER,
00:20:12.57\00:20:18.08
WE JUST HAVE TO KEEP
PUTTING THIS IN CONTEXT.
00:20:18.11\00:20:24.75
YOU KNOW, THERE'S A STRANGE
THING THAT HAPPENS IN LIFE.
00:20:24.79\00:20:27.82
WHEN WE'RE DELIVERED FROM
SOMETHING, WE'RE NOT IMMEDIATELY
00:20:27.86\00:20:33.83
AND ETERNALLY FREE FROM
THAT WHICH HAS OVERCOME US.
00:20:33.86\00:20:38.87
IN THE ADDICTIONS COMMUNITY
WE KNOW THIS VERY WELL.
00:20:38.90\00:20:43.10
THERE'S ANOTHER MEDICAL TERM
WE SOMETIMES USE, IT'S CALLED
00:20:43.14\00:20:45.91
'RECIDIVISM'. IT'S A
LONG WORD, BUT IT REFERS
00:20:45.94\00:20:49.81
TO SOMETHING THAT PETER ACTUALLY
ADDRESSES IN THIS VERY CHAPTER.
00:20:49.84\00:20:55.55
SO WE'RE GOING TO COME AND LOOK
AT THE NATURE OF THE PROBLEM AND
00:20:55.58\00:20:58.82
GET A LITTLE BIT MORE IDEA
OF IT, BUT I'M, AGAIN, TRYING TO
00:20:58.85\00:21:01.69
FRAME IT POSITIVELY, LEST WE
MISS THE EMPHASIS OF THE GOSPEL
00:21:01.72\00:21:07.86
WRITERS. I'M LOOKING AT THE VERY
LAST FEW VERSES NOW OF 2 PETER.
00:21:07.86\00:21:13.87
IT'S ACTUALLY HIGHLIGHTED
IN TUESDAY'S LESSON, IF YOU'RE
00:21:13.90\00:21:16.74
FOLLOWING ALONG THE
STRUCTURED LESSON STUDY.
00:21:16.77\00:21:21.14
2 PETER CHAPTER 2 AND VERSE
21 - HE IS SPEAKING OF THOSE
00:21:21.18\00:21:30.65
WHO HAVE BEEN SAVED BY JESUS.
00:21:30.69\00:21:32.89
LET'S PICK IT UP IN VERSE 20 -
2 PETER 2, VERSES 20 THROUGH 22,
00:21:32.92\00:21:37.63
"FOR IF, AFTER THEY HAVE ESCAPED
THE POLLUTIONS OF THE WORLD
00:21:37.66\00:21:42.23
THROUGH THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE
LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST,
00:21:42.26\00:21:45.73
THEY ARE AGAIN ENTANGLED IN THEM
AND OVERCOME, THE LATTER END IS
00:21:45.77\00:21:50.51
WORSE FOR THEM
THAN THE BEGINNING.
00:21:50.54\00:21:53.17
FOR IT WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER
FOR THEM NOT TO HAVE KNOWN THE
00:21:53.21\00:21:55.78
WAY OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, THAN
HAVING KNOWN IT, TO TURN FROM
00:21:55.81\00:21:58.18
THE HOLY
COMMANDMENT DELIVERED TO THEM.
00:21:58.21\00:22:00.72
BUT IT HAS HAPPENED TO THEM
ACCORDING TO THE TRUE PROVERB:
00:22:00.75\00:22:03.85
'A DOG RETURNS TO HIS OWN
VOMIT,' AND, 'A SOW, HAVING
00:22:03.89\00:22:07.79
WASHED, TO HER WALLOWING IN
THE MIRE.'" NOW LET'S LOOK AT A
00:22:07.82\00:22:13.43
PARALLEL - SOME PARALLEL
VERSES FROM THE GOSPELS.
00:22:13.46\00:22:16.53
I WANT YOU TO PICK UP THIS THEME
BECAUSE WHAT'S HAPPENING HERE IS
00:22:16.56\00:22:20.10
GOD IS TRYING TO POINT OUT
OUR DANGER TO US TO SAVE US.
00:22:20.14\00:22:24.01
WE'RE GOING TO LOOK
AT SOME WORDS OF JESUS.
00:22:24.04\00:22:25.81
SOMEONE IS GOING TO READ FOR US,
IN JUST A MOMENT, FROM JOHN 9,
00:22:25.84\00:22:28.94
VERSES 39 THROUGH 41, BUT
BEFORE THEY DO, TURN WITH ME TO
00:22:28.98\00:22:32.71
JOHN 15. JOHN 15 IS
A SECTION WHERE JESUS
00:22:32.75\00:22:37.82
IS BURDENED FOR US AND HIS
DISCIPLES. HE EVEN PRAYS FOR US
00:22:37.85\00:22:43.19
IN JOHN 17 - YOU CAN READ THAT
AGAIN IF YOU HAVEN'T READ IT
00:22:43.22\00:22:46.36
LATELY, BUT IN JOHN 15, HE'S
SPEAKING ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF
00:22:46.39\00:22:50.00
US ABIDING IN JESUS -
BEING CONNECTED TO THE VINE.
00:22:50.03\00:22:55.44
AND THERE'S A STRANGE PASSAGE
THAT COMES IN THIS CONTEXT,
00:22:55.47\00:22:58.74
WHERE JESUS, SPEAKING ABOUT THIS
PRIVILEGE OF US BEING INTIMATELY
00:22:58.77\00:23:02.04
CONNECTED WITH HIM AND HE GIVES
THIS VERY SOBERING MESSAGE.
00:23:02.08\00:23:10.45
IT TIES IN WITH 1 PETER AND 2
PETER. I'M IN JOHN CHAPTER 15,
00:23:10.49\00:23:14.59
BEGINNING WITH VERSE 18, "IF THE
WORLD HATES YOU, YOU KNOW THAT
00:23:14.62\00:23:18.73
IT HATED ME
BEFORE IT HATED YOU."
00:23:18.76\00:23:22.20
AND HE SPEAKS ABOUT THE
PERSECUTION THAT WILL COME TO
00:23:22.23\00:23:26.00
THE CHURCH, BUT THEN HE SAYS, IN
VERSE 22, SPEAKING TO THOSE WHO
00:23:26.03\00:23:32.34
DO THE PERSECUTING, "IF I
HAD NOT COME AND SPOKEN TO THEM,
00:23:32.37\00:23:36.61
THEY WOULD HAVE NO SIN, BUT NOW
THEY HAVE NO EXCUSE FOR THEIR
00:23:36.64\00:23:40.38
SIN. HE WHO HATES ME
HATES MY FATHER ALSO.
00:23:40.42\00:23:43.75
IF I HAD NOT DONE AMONG THEM
THE WORKS WHICH NO ONE ELSE DID,
00:23:43.79\00:23:47.39
THEY WOULD HAVE NO SIN; BUT NOW
THEY HAVE SEEN AND ALSO HATED
00:23:47.42\00:23:50.99
BOTH ME AND MY FATHER. BUT
THIS HAPPENED THAT THE WORD
00:23:51.03\00:23:54.46
MIGHT BE FULFILLED WHICH
IS WRITTEN IN THEIR LAW, 'THEY
00:23:54.46\00:23:56.87
HATED ME WITHOUT A CAUSE.'" NOW
LET'S LOOK AT ANOTHER STATEMENT
00:23:56.90\00:24:03.24
OF JESUS FROM JOHN 9 - THIS
IS AFTER JESUS HEALED A BLIND
00:24:03.27\00:24:06.47
MAN AND HE'S SPEAKING ABOUT
SPIRITUAL BLINDNESS - SO WE'LL
00:24:06.51\00:24:10.18
HEAR NOW FROM JOHN
9, VERSES 39 THROUGH 41.
00:24:10.21\00:24:15.32
>>"AND JESUS SAID, 'FOR JUDGMENT
I HAVE COME INTO THIS WORLD,
00:24:15.35\00:24:18.49
THAT THOSE WHO DO NOT SEE MAY
SEE, AND THAT THOSE WHO SEE MAY
00:24:18.52\00:24:22.96
BE MADE BLIND.' THEN SOME OF
THE PHARISEES WHO WERE WITH HIM
00:24:22.99\00:24:26.49
HEARD THESE WORDS, AND SAID
TO HIM, 'ARE WE BLIND ALSO?'
00:24:26.53\00:24:30.23
JESUS SAID TO THEM, 'IF YOU WERE
BLIND, YOU WOULD HAVE NO SIN;
00:24:30.27\00:24:34.50
BUT NOW YOU SAY, 'WE SEE.'
THEREFORE YOUR SIN REMAINS."
00:24:34.54\00:24:39.14
>>SO WHY DOES GOD ALLOW LIGHT
TO SHINE ON THE PATH OF THE
00:24:39.17\00:24:43.55
RIGHTEOUS AS WELL AS THE WICKED?
HE'S - THAT'S RIGHT, HE'S TRYING
00:24:43.58\00:24:49.82
TO PREPARE THE CHURCH FOR
DIFFICULTIES THAT WILL COME, BUT
00:24:49.85\00:24:54.42
HE'S ALSO TRYING TO SAVE THE
WICKED. HE'S TRYING TO POINT OUT
00:24:54.46\00:24:58.93
THEIR BEHAVIOR. NOW,
IT'S VERY INTERESTING WHAT
00:24:58.96\00:25:02.46
HAPPENS UNDER THE
INFLUENCE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
00:25:02.50\00:25:05.40
AND YOU'VE HEARD THE
ANALOGY, HAVEN'T YOU?
00:25:05.43\00:25:07.24
THE HOLY SPIRIT, SOMETIMES BEING
PERSONIFIED AS THE SUNSHINE -
00:25:07.27\00:25:11.67
YOU'VE HEARD
THIS ANALOGY, RIGHT?
00:25:11.71\00:25:13.94
WHERE YOU'VE
GOT BUTTER AND CLAY?
00:25:13.98\00:25:16.21
WHAT DOES THE
SUNSHINE DO THE BUTTER?
00:25:16.24\00:25:19.51
IT MELTS THE BUTTER.
IT SOFTENS THE BUTTER.
00:25:19.55\00:25:23.95
WHAT DOES IT DO TO
THE CLAY? IT HARDENS IT.
00:25:23.99\00:25:27.76
IT'S THE SAME SUNSHINE.
SO THE HOLY SPIRIT AND GOD IN
00:25:27.79\00:25:31.53
HIS GRACIOUSNESS, POURING OUT
HIS GRACIOUSNESS, IT IS OUR OWN
00:25:31.56\00:25:35.36
CHARACTER - WHAT'S IN US -
THAT DETERMINES HOW WE RESPOND.
00:25:35.40\00:25:40.84
WILL OUR HEART BE SOFTENED WHEN
THE HOLY SPIRIT POINTS THINGS
00:25:40.87\00:25:44.04
OUT, OR WILL WE
HARDEN OUR HEARTS?
00:25:44.07\00:25:48.84
WELL, LET'S COME BACK NOW,
WITH THAT KIND OF FRAME WORK.
00:25:48.88\00:25:52.95
WE SEE WHERE PETER BEGAN AND
WHERE HE'S GOING IN THIS CHAPTER
00:25:52.98\00:25:56.08
- MAYBE WE SHOULD
JUST DO THE SAME WITH JUDE.
00:25:56.12\00:25:58.52
GO IN YOUR BIBLES TO JUDE.
IT'S THE LAST BOOK IN THE BIBLE
00:25:58.55\00:26:01.82
BEFORE REVELATION -
BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN WRITTEN BY
00:26:01.86\00:26:05.06
ONE OF JESUS' BROTHERS.
JUST AS JAMES, ONE OF THE EARLY
00:26:05.09\00:26:09.30
CHURCH LEADERS - YOU KNOW, THERE
WERE TWO JAMESES - THERE WAS
00:26:09.33\00:26:13.27
JAMES THE DISCIPLE, WHO WAS
THE FIRST OF THE TWELVE TO BE
00:26:13.30\00:26:17.31
MARTYRED, AND THEN THERE WAS
JAMES, JESUS' BROTHER, WHO, WHEN
00:26:17.34\00:26:21.94
WE READ THINGS LIKE ACTS
15, JAMES, HE WAS THE VISIBLE
00:26:21.98\00:26:25.68
LEADER OF THE CHURCH.
BY THE WAY, NOT PETER.
00:26:25.71\00:26:28.35
IF YOU READ ACTS 15. JAMES
WAS BELIEVED TO BE THE LORD'S
00:26:28.38\00:26:33.15
BROTHER - JESUS' HALF BROTHER
THROUGH JOSEPH - JUDE, WHO HAS
00:26:33.19\00:26:38.63
ALSO WRITTEN A BOOK,
ALSO BELIEVED TO BE ONE OF THE
00:26:38.66\00:26:41.50
BROTHERS OF JESUS - ONE OF THE
HALF BROTHERS THROUGH JOSEPH.
00:26:41.53\00:26:45.87
SO LOOK AT HOW JUDE BEGINS HIS
LETTER - JUDE - I'M IN JUDE -
00:26:45.90\00:26:51.87
ONLY ONE CHAPTER, BEGINNING WITH
VERSE 1, "JUDE, A BONDSERVANT OF
00:26:51.91\00:26:57.58
JESUS CHRIST, AND BROTHER OF
JAMES, TO THOSE WHO ARE CALLED,
00:26:57.61\00:27:02.05
SANCTIFIED BY GOD THE FATHER,
AND PRESERVED IN JESUS CHRIST:
00:27:02.08\00:27:05.99
MERCY, PEACE, AND
LOVE BE MULTIPLIED TO YOU."
00:27:06.02\00:27:10.49
NOW, IN JUST A MOMENT, SOMEONE'S
GOING TO READ FOR US HOW JUDE
00:27:10.53\00:27:13.03
CLOSES HIS LETTER, IN JUDE
24 AND 25, BUT I WANT YOU TO
00:27:13.06\00:27:17.00
NOTICE: AS JUDE IS BEGINNING HIS
LETTER - JUST LIKE PETER - HE'S
00:27:17.03\00:27:20.24
ANCHORING US IN
THE TRUTHS OF THE WORD.
00:27:20.27\00:27:22.97
WE'RE SANCTIFIED -
WE'RE MADE HOLY BY GOD.
00:27:23.00\00:27:25.51
GOD LOVES US. HE CARES FOR US.
00:27:25.54\00:27:27.78
MERCY, PEACE, AND
LOVE ARE PROCLAIMED.
00:27:27.81\00:27:30.18
BY THE WAY, WHEN THE BIBLE
SPEAKS A BLESSING OF MERCY AND
00:27:30.21\00:27:33.95
PEACE AND LOVE, WHAT IS
WAITING FOR US TO RECEIVE?
00:27:33.98\00:27:39.79
THAT BLESSING, RIGHT? IF
GOD SAYS, 'I WANT YOU TO BE'
00:27:39.82\00:27:42.86
- 'I WANT MERCY TO GO OUT TO
YOU AND PEACE AND LOVE' - IT'S
00:27:42.89\00:27:46.46
WAITING FOR US TO
RECEIVE IT. OKAY, HOW DOES JUDE
00:27:46.49\00:27:51.13
CLOSE HIS LETTER? AND
WE'RE LOOKING AT THESE
00:27:51.17\00:27:53.97
THINGS - REMEMBER - BECAUSE
WE'RE GOING TO BE FOCUSING, IN
00:27:54.00\00:27:56.57
A MOMENT, ON SOME VERY, VERY
SOBERING THINGS IN THE BIBLE -
00:27:56.60\00:28:00.51
THINGS THAT ATHEISTS HAVE
USED TO CAST BLAME AGAINST GOD.
00:28:00.54\00:28:04.61
AND WE'RE TRYING TO SEE THAT IT
IS SET IN THE CONTEXT OF GOD'S
00:28:04.65\00:28:07.72
LOVE AND MERCY. AND
IF WE MISS THAT, WE'RE
00:28:07.75\00:28:10.22
MISSING THE EMPHASIS OF PETER'S
LETTER; WE'RE MISSING THE
00:28:10.25\00:28:12.95
EMPHASIS THAT GOD LAID ON PAUL'S
HEART IN ACTS 20; WE'RE MISSING
00:28:12.99\00:28:16.83
THE EMPHASIS THAT GOD LAID ON
JUDE. SO WE'RE GOING TO HEAR NOW
00:28:16.86\00:28:20.93
FROM JUDE'S CLOSING
VERSES, VERSES 24 AND 25.
00:28:20.96\00:28:26.40
>>"NOW TO HIM WHO IS ABLE TO
KEEP YOU FROM STUMBLING, AND TO
00:28:26.43\00:28:30.74
PRESENT YOU FAULTLESS BEFORE
THE PRESENCE OF HIS GLORY WITH
00:28:30.77\00:28:33.84
EXCEEDING JOY, TO GOD OUR
SAVIOR, WHO ALONE IS WISE, BE
00:28:33.88\00:28:38.55
GLORY AND MAJESTY, DOMINION
AND POWER, BOTH NOW AND FOREVER.
00:28:38.58\00:28:42.98
AMEN." >>SO JUDE
IS GOING TO COVER THE
00:28:43.02\00:28:46.19
SAME SOMBER GROUND
THAT PETER TAKES US OVER.
00:28:46.22\00:28:51.66
SOME OF THE VERY SAME EXAMPLES
WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT IN JUST A
00:28:51.69\00:28:54.40
MOMENT, BUT HOW DOES
JUDE END? HOW DOES IT END?
00:28:54.46\00:29:00.14
THAT'S RIGHT - GOOD
NEWS. HE IS ABLE TO KEEP
00:29:00.17\00:29:02.54
YOU FROM STUMBLING.
HAVE YOU STUMBLED THIS WEEK?
00:29:02.57\00:29:07.28
HAVE YOU HAD
CHALLENGES IN YOUR LIFE?
00:29:07.31\00:29:09.24
ARE YOU
STRUGGLING? GOD IS ABLE TO KEEP
00:29:09.28\00:29:11.91
YOU FROM FALLING.
HE'S ABLE TO PRESENT YOU
00:29:11.95\00:29:15.15
FAULTLESS BEFORE THE PRESENCE OF
HIS GLORY, WITH EXCEEDING JOY.
00:29:15.18\00:29:21.46
IS THAT GOOD NEWS? >>AMEN.
00:29:21.49\00:29:22.99
>>AND SO, BASICALLY, WE'RE NOT
- THE MESSAGES HERE, ALTHOUGH
00:29:23.02\00:29:26.43
THEY'RE SOLEMN, THEY'RE NOT
TO DRIVE US TO DESPAIR AND SAY,
00:29:26.46\00:29:29.93
'WELL, WOW, IF THOSE PEOPLE,
IN OLD TESTAMENT TIMES AND BIBLE
00:29:29.96\00:29:32.57
TIMES COULDN'T
STAND, HOW CAN I STAND?' NO,
00:29:32.60\00:29:35.47
THE MESSAGE IS THAT WHEN WE COME
TO JESUS HE IS ABLE TO KEEP US
00:29:35.50\00:29:40.24
FROM FALLING. AND THAT
IS EXTREMELY GOOD NEWS.
00:29:40.28\00:29:43.38
AND THAT IS THE CONTEXT IN
WHICH THESE MESSAGES ARE GIVEN.
00:29:43.41\00:29:46.21
WE'LL STUDY MORE IN 2 PETER
CHAPTER 3, AS WE FINISH UP THE
00:29:46.25\00:29:49.85
SERIES OVER THE NEXT
FEW WEEKS. BUT I WANT YOU TO
00:29:49.88\00:29:52.92
SEE WHERE IT'S GOING.
IT'S NOT GOING TO LEAVE US
00:29:52.95\00:29:55.19
HANGING IN CHAPTER 2 WITH THESE
SOLEMN JUDGMENTS, BUT WE NEED TO
00:29:55.22\00:30:00.50
LOOK AT THEM BECAUSE, IN
ACTS 20, PAUL SAID, 'I HAVE NOT
00:30:00.53\00:30:06.84
HESITATED FROM GIVING
YOU THE FULL COUNSEL OF GOD.'
00:30:06.87\00:30:11.97
PETER DOES IT NOW HERE TOO.
HE SPEAKS ABOUT JUDGMENT COMING
00:30:12.01\00:30:15.94
UPON THOSE IN THE CHURCH
AND HE GIVES US THIS EXAMPLE.
00:30:15.98\00:30:21.12
ARE YOU STRUGGLING WITH HOW
THERE CAN BE SWIFT DESTRUCTION
00:30:21.15\00:30:24.32
AND YET HOW IT CAN WAIT?
LET'S LOOK AT THESE EXAMPLES -
00:30:24.35\00:30:28.42
SAME EXAMPLES IN
JUDE, BY AND LARGE.
00:30:28.46\00:30:30.99
LOOK WITH ME IN 2 PETER CHAPTER
2, BEGINNING WITH VERSE 4, "FOR
00:30:31.03\00:30:35.46
IF GOD DID NOT SPARE THE ANGELS
WHO SINNED, BUT CAST THEM DOWN
00:30:35.50\00:30:40.07
TO HELL AND DELIVERED THEM
INTO CHAINS OF DARKNESS, TO BE
00:30:40.10\00:30:44.34
RESERVED FOR JUDGMENT; AND DID
NOT SPARE THE ANCIENT WORLD, BUT
00:30:44.37\00:30:48.81
SAVED NOAH, ONE OF EIGHT PEOPLE,
A PREACHER OF RIGHTEOUSNESS,
00:30:48.84\00:30:52.38
BRINGING IN THE FLOOD ON
THE WORLD OF THE UNGODLY; AND
00:30:52.41\00:30:55.38
TURNING THE CITIES OF SODOM AND
GOMORRAH INTO ASHES, CONDEMNED
00:30:55.42\00:30:59.15
THEM TO DESTRUCTION, MAKING
THEM AN EXAMPLE TO THOSE WHO
00:30:59.19\00:31:02.66
AFTERWARD WOULD LIVE UNGODLY;"
AND, BY THE WAY, I'M STOPPING
00:31:02.69\00:31:06.83
MID-SENTENCE, BECAUSE IT IS ONE
SENTENCE, IT JUST CONTINUES WITH
00:31:06.86\00:31:10.17
EXAMPLE AFTER
EXAMPLE. WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?
00:31:10.20\00:31:12.83
LET'S JUST STOP FOR A MINUTE.
FIRST OF ALL, WE ARE FOCUSING
00:31:12.87\00:31:17.77
ON THE ANGELS AND THERE'S THIS
TRANSLATION HERE - MY VERSION
00:31:17.81\00:31:24.05
IS SAYING, 'CAST
THEM DOWN TO HELL'.
00:31:24.08\00:31:27.28
IN THE GREEK IT'S A SINGLE WORD:
'TARTAROO' AND IT REFERS TO
00:31:27.32\00:31:34.06
TARTARIZING THEM.
TARTARUS WAS THE LOWEST HELL
00:31:34.09\00:31:38.33
IN GREEK MYTHOLOGY, WHERE
THE WICKED DEAD WERE CAST TO.
00:31:38.36\00:31:42.56
AND SO, IT'S - YOU ALMOST COULD
PARAPHRASE IT 'DAMNING' THEM,
00:31:42.60\00:31:47.44
OKAY? RELEGATING
THEM TO JUDGMENT.
00:31:47.47\00:31:53.51
IS THIS AN EXAMPLE
OF SWIFT DESTRUCTION?
00:31:53.54\00:31:59.55
I MEAN, LOOK AT
WHAT IT'S SAYING HERE.
00:31:59.58\00:32:02.62
IT IS MAKING IT CLEAR THAT THEY
HAVE NOT BEEN FULLY JUDGED YET.
00:32:02.65\00:32:06.02
BY THE WAY, SOME PEOPLE LOOK AT
THIS AND THEY SAY, 'WELL LOOK,
00:32:06.05\00:32:07.99
THERE'S OBVIOUSLY A BURNING HELL
RIGHT NOW BECAUSE IT SAYS THESE
00:32:08.02\00:32:12.23
ANGELS WERE CAST THERE.' NO,
IT SAYS THEY ARE RESERVED FOR
00:32:12.26\00:32:17.10
JUDGMENT IN CHAINS OF DARKNESS.
00:32:17.13\00:32:21.80
YOU SAY, 'WELL,
WHAT DOES THAT ALL MEAN?'
00:32:21.84\00:32:24.41
LOOK AT JUDE - WE WANT TO GET
A LITTLE BIT MORE WINDOW - THE
00:32:24.44\00:32:26.78
REASON WHY THESE PARALLEL
PASSAGES ARE SO HELPFUL, IF YOU
00:32:26.81\00:32:31.21
DON'T UNDERSTAND IT IN
ONE PLACE, YOU SOMETIMES GET A
00:32:31.25\00:32:34.15
LITTLE MORE
CLARITY IN THE OTHER.
00:32:34.18\00:32:36.18
SO, IN JUDE, AS HE WALKS THROUGH
SOME OF THESE SAME EXAMPLES -
00:32:36.22\00:32:39.82
LOOK WHAT IT SAYS HERE IN
VERSE 6 OF THE BOOK OF JUDE:
00:32:39.85\00:32:44.76
"AND THE ANGELS WHO DID
NOT KEEP...THEIR OWN ABODE," -
00:32:44.79\00:32:48.23
THAT'S HEAVEN - "HE
HAS RESERVED IN EVERLASTING
00:32:48.26\00:32:51.57
CHAINS UNDER DARKNESS FOR THE
JUDGMENT OF THE GREAT DAY;" -
00:32:51.60\00:32:56.24
THEY ARE NOT BEING JUDGED
NOW. THEY HAVE NOT RECEIVED
00:32:56.27\00:32:59.34
THEIR FINAL JUDGMENTS.
IT'S NOT IN A PLACE THAT'S
00:32:59.37\00:33:01.88
BURNING, CALLED 'HELL'.
THEY ARE CAST INTO DARKNESS,
00:33:01.91\00:33:07.62
AWAY FROM GOD'S PRESENCE. BY
THE WAY, IF YOU WANT TO STUDY
00:33:07.65\00:33:10.89
MORE ABOUT THAT, SOME GREAT
RESOURCES ON THE AMAZING FACTS
00:33:10.92\00:33:14.66
WEBSITE ABOUT
THE TRUTH ABOUT HELL.
00:33:14.69\00:33:18.33
YOU CAN STUDY IT ALL. WE
CAN'T - WE CAN'T GO INTO ALL
00:33:18.36\00:33:20.53
THE DETAIL, BUT THE POINT IS
THE VERY CONTEXT HERE IS SAYING
00:33:20.56\00:33:24.40
THEY'RE BEING
RESERVED FOR JUDGMENT.
00:33:24.43\00:33:25.90
THEY HAVE NOT
RECEIVED THEIR JUDGMENT.
00:33:25.93\00:33:27.54
THEY ARE NOT BURNING
IN A PLACE CALLED HELL.
00:33:27.57\00:33:30.24
THEY'RE CAST AWAY FROM
GOD'S LIGHT IN DARKNESS.
00:33:30.27\00:33:32.84
BY THE WAY, IN THE CONTEXT OF
2 PETER 1, WHAT WAS THE LIGHT OF
00:33:32.87\00:33:36.98
GOD? IN 2 PETER 1, WAS THERE ANY
00:33:37.01\00:33:41.32
REVELATION OF GOD'S
LIGHT? WELL, LOOK THERE WITH ME.
00:33:41.35\00:33:47.16
LOOK IN 2 PETER 1, VERSE
16, "...EYEWITNESSES OF HIS
00:33:47.19\00:33:53.43
MAJESTY." - WHAT DID
THEY SEE? THE TRANSFIGURATION.
00:33:53.46\00:33:59.30
AND THEN, IN VERSE 19, HE SPEAKS
- PETER - OF A LIGHT THAT SHINES
00:33:59.33\00:34:04.01
IN A DARK PLACE. WHAT IS IT?
IT'S THE WORD. IT IS THE BIBLE.
00:34:04.04\00:34:08.44
AND SO, JESUS, WHO IS THE WORD,
HE IS THIS BRIGHT SHINING LIGHT.
00:34:08.48\00:34:12.68
THEY ARE CAST
OUT OF HIS PRESENCE.
00:34:12.71\00:34:15.85
BUT THEN, THERE'S
ANOTHER EXAMPLE, RIGHT?
00:34:15.88\00:34:18.65
THE EXAMPLE OF
THE FLOOD AND NOAH.
00:34:18.69\00:34:21.86
IS THIS A SOMBER
STORY? THE STORY OF THE FLOOD?
00:34:21.89\00:34:27.56
IS THE FLOOD, AS SOME ATHEISTS
WOULD ARGUE, AN EXAMPLE OF A
00:34:27.60\00:34:35.10
TYRANT WHO IS WIPING
OUT MOST OF THE PLANET?
00:34:35.14\00:34:40.78
OR IS IT A MANIFESTATION
OF A GOD OF LOVE WHO WOULD DO
00:34:40.81\00:34:46.82
ANYTHING TO SAVE
HIS PEOPLE? WHICH IS IT?
00:34:46.85\00:34:51.99
YOU UNDERSTAND - HOW SWIFT WAS
THAT DESTRUCTION OF THE FLOOD?
00:34:52.02\00:34:55.56
WAS THE FLOOD SWIFT
DESTRUCTION? WELL, YES, BUT NO.
00:34:55.59\00:35:02.73
I MEAN, THE FLOOD, WHEN
IT CAME, WAS SWIFT, RIGHT?
00:35:02.76\00:35:06.00
BUT WHEN DID GOD START
WARNING THE PEOPLE OF A FLOOD?
00:35:06.03\00:35:09.47
>>120 YEARS. >>120 YEARS BEFORE.
00:35:09.50\00:35:13.78
AND NOAH IS PREACHING AND HE'S
NOT ONLY PREACHING WITH WORD,
00:35:13.81\00:35:18.15
HE'S PREACHING WITH A HAMMER.
HOW DO YOU PREACH WITH A HAMMER?
00:35:18.18\00:35:21.95
THAT'S RIGHT. WHEN
HE'S FOLLOWING GOD'S
00:35:21.98\00:35:23.79
COMMAND TO BUILD AN ARK.
AND, IF YOU READ GENESIS - YOU
00:35:23.82\00:35:27.42
READ GENESIS, THE ORIGINAL
CREATION, THERE WAS NO RAIN.
00:35:27.46\00:35:31.09
A MIST WOULD COME
UP FROM THE GROUND.
00:35:31.13\00:35:33.23
THIS WAS THE UTTER FOLLY, RIGHT?
GUY TALKING ABOUT WATER COMING
00:35:33.26\00:35:37.27
OUT OF THE SKIES AND
HE'S BUILDING A BOAT?
00:35:37.30\00:35:39.80
DID HE BELIEVE IN
WHAT HE WAS SAYING?
00:35:39.83\00:35:43.04
THERE WAS NO
QUESTION HE BELIEVED IT.
00:35:43.07\00:35:44.74
AND HE'S BUILDING
AN ARK FOR 120 YEARS.
00:35:44.77\00:35:47.24
SO, DID
DESTRUCTION COME SWIFTLY?
00:35:47.28\00:35:50.85
WELL, YES AND NO - YES
AND NO. SO NOW WE'RE READING
00:35:50.88\00:35:55.42
ABOUT THE FLOOD.
GOD DID NOT SPARE
00:35:55.45\00:35:59.12
THAT ANCIENT WORLD.
BY THE WAY, THERE WAS A
00:35:59.15\00:36:02.82
PLAGUE IN THAT ANCIENT
WORLD. THE PLAGUE IS CALLED SIN.
00:36:02.86\00:36:06.39
AND, AFTER 120 YEARS, ALL THOSE
THAT WERE ALIVE, EXCEPT FOR
00:36:06.43\00:36:10.23
EIGHT - THOSE OF NOAH'S FAMILY
- HAD BEEN INFECTED WITH THIS
00:36:10.27\00:36:15.50
TERMINAL VIRUS.
THEY HAD COMMITTED
00:36:15.54\00:36:20.91
THE UNPARDONABLE SIN. THEY
HAD CLOSED THEIR HEARTS FOR
00:36:20.94\00:36:24.68
120 YEARS - MANY OF THEM -
TO GOD'S MERCIFUL PLEADING.
00:36:24.71\00:36:29.35
THEY WERE GOING
TO DIE ETERNALLY.
00:36:29.38\00:36:33.15
IF GOD DID NOT SEND A FLOOD,
THE WHOLE EARTH WOULD HAVE BEEN
00:36:33.19\00:36:38.93
SWELLED UP IN INIQUITY. YOU
AND I ARE HERE TODAY - THOSE
00:36:38.96\00:36:43.53
OF YOU VIEWING TODAY ARE VIEWING
BECAUSE GOD WAS WILLING TO
00:36:43.57\00:36:48.04
DO HIS STRANGE ACT AND ALLOW
JUDGMENT TO BE METED OUT UPON
00:36:48.07\00:36:52.57
THOSE WHO HAD
CLOSED THEIR PROBATION.
00:36:52.61\00:36:55.74
DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT GOD
DID? HE SAVED EIGHT PEOPLE.
00:36:55.78\00:36:59.35
BY THE WAY, IF YOU THINK YOU'RE
RELATED TO ME ONLY BY ADAM,
00:36:59.38\00:37:03.42
YOU'RE MISTAKEN.
WE'RE ALL RELATED BY WHO?
00:37:03.45\00:37:06.69
>>NOAH. >>BY
NOAH. WE ARE ALL NOAH'S
00:37:06.72\00:37:09.52
RELATIVES - WE'RE BROTHERS
AND SISTERS THROUGH NOAH.
00:37:09.56\00:37:13.46
GOD, IN HIS MERCY, DESTROYED
THIS VIRUS OF SIN - NOT
00:37:13.50\00:37:18.13
COMPLETELY, BECAUSE, YOU KNOW,
NOAH AND HIS FAMILY WEREN'T
00:37:18.17\00:37:21.47
RENDERED PERFECT AND
SINLESS - THAT'S RIGHT.
00:37:21.50\00:37:27.01
AND THEY HAD THEIR SHARES OF
PROBLEMS AND STILL, WE ALL DO.
00:37:27.04\00:37:31.98
BUT, DO YOU
UNDERSTAND THE POINT?
00:37:32.01\00:37:33.85
WAS GOD BEING
MERCIFUL OR VINDICTIVE?
00:37:33.88\00:37:36.45
HE WAS BEING
MERCIFUL. LET'S CONTINUE NOW.
00:37:36.48\00:37:42.36
BY THE WAY, THERE'S A
SUBJECT TO ALL THESE CLAUSES.
00:37:42.39\00:37:48.86
THE SUBJECT IS GOD. GOD
CAST THE ANGELS OUT; GOD -
00:37:48.90\00:37:54.07
VERSE 5 - SAVED NOAH; GOD TURNED
THE CITIES OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH
00:37:54.10\00:37:58.47
INTO ASHES; GOD - IN
VERSE 7 - WE'RE COMING TO -
00:37:58.51\00:38:03.71
DELIVERED RIGHTEOUS LOT.
ARE YOU FOLLOWING ALONG HERE?
00:38:03.75\00:38:06.31
SO GOD IS THE ACTIVE
AGENT IN ALL OF THESE THINGS.
00:38:06.35\00:38:11.45
NOW, WE'VE TALKED A BIT
ABOUT CONTEXT AND PETER.
00:38:11.49\00:38:16.99
WE'VE TALKED ABOUT
CONTEXT IN THE SCRIPTURES.
00:38:17.03\00:38:19.69
CONTEXT IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT
WHENEVER WE READ ANYTHING THAT'S
00:38:19.73\00:38:25.17
INSPIRED. NOW, I
FEEL LIKE WE SHOULD JUST
00:38:25.20\00:38:30.01
TAKE ONE MORE STEP - AS
WE'RE LOOKING AT SOME OF THESE
00:38:30.04\00:38:34.04
EXAMPLES, AND LOOK A LITTLE BIT
MORE AT THIS NEXT EXAMPLE HERE.
00:38:34.08\00:38:39.91
SODOM AND GOMORRAH - BY THE WAY,
WAS IT JUST PETER AND JUDE THAT
00:38:39.95\00:38:46.99
USED THIS AS AN
EXAMPLE TO MODERN-DAY SAINTS?
00:38:47.02\00:38:51.59
WHO ELSE USED THE EXAMPLE OF
SODOM AND GOMORRAH AND THE FLOOD
00:38:51.63\00:38:55.03
AS THINGS THAT WE
SHOULD TAKE NOTE OF TODAY?
00:38:55.06\00:38:57.90
>>JESUS. >>THAT'S RIGHT,
00:38:57.93\00:38:59.20
JESUS - JESUS DID. YOU
THINK OF MATTHEW 24 - LET'S
00:38:59.23\00:39:02.90
TURN TO LUKE 17 - LUKE 17 -
AND WE'RE GOING TO SEE HOW JESUS
00:39:02.94\00:39:13.15
REFERRED TO THESE EXAMPLES.
SOMEONE'S GOING TO BE READING
00:39:13.18\00:39:16.28
FOR US IN A MOMENT FROM LUKE
17:28-32, BUT I'M GOING TO READ
00:39:16.32\00:39:20.82
SOME OF THE
VERSES THAT PRECEDE IT.
00:39:20.86\00:39:22.59
THESE ARE THE WORDS OF JESUS
- AND SOME OF THIS IS VERY CLEAR
00:39:22.62\00:39:28.73
AND SOME OF IT'S PERPLEXING.
REMEMBER, WE STARTED BY SAYING,
00:39:28.76\00:39:32.27
'WHY DON'T WE JUST TALK ABOUT
THE PLEASANT THINGS - ABOUT HOW
00:39:32.30\00:39:34.90
JESUS SAVES US AND LOVES US?
I JUST WANT TO HEAR ABOUT THE
00:39:34.94\00:39:37.34
LOVING MINISTRY OF
JESUS.' BY THE WAY, WHO IS
00:39:37.37\00:39:40.14
SPEAKING IN LUKE 17? IT'S JESUS.
00:39:40.18\00:39:44.55
SOMEHOW WE HAVE
SELECTIVE MEMORY, OKAY?
00:39:44.58\00:39:48.52
WHEN PEOPLE SAY, 'I JUST WANT TO
HEAR ABOUT JESUS AND HIS LOVE.'
00:39:48.55\00:39:51.22
THIS IS JESUS AND HIS LOVE, IN
LUKE 17, AND HE IS GIVING US A
00:39:51.25\00:39:55.12
VERY SOBERING MESSAGE
JUST LIKE PETER IS GIVING.
00:39:55.16\00:39:58.99
SO LET'S PICK IT UP IN LUKE
17 AND LET'S START - LET'S START
00:39:59.03\00:40:08.60
WITH VERSE 26 - VERSE 26.
I'LL READ VERSES 26 AND 27 AND
00:40:08.64\00:40:14.18
THEN WE'LL HAVE SOMEONE
ELSE READ VERSES 28 AND ONWARD.
00:40:14.21\00:40:17.61
SO, BEGINNING WITH LUKE 17,
VERSE 26 - JESUS IS SPEAKING
00:40:17.65\00:40:21.58
ABOUT HIS COMING. HE
SAYS - VERSE 26, "AND AS IT
00:40:21.62\00:40:26.39
WAS IN THE DAYS OF NOAH, SO
IT WILL BE ALSO IN THE DAYS OF
00:40:26.42\00:40:29.82
THE SON OF MAN: THEY ATE, THEY
DRANK, THEY MARRIED WIVES, THEY
00:40:29.86\00:40:33.46
WERE GIVEN IN MARRIAGE, UNTIL
THE DAY THAT NOAH ENTERED THE
00:40:33.50\00:40:36.13
ARK, AND THE FLOOD CAME
AND DESTROYED THEM ALL."
00:40:36.16\00:40:40.37
WE SAID THAT WAS
AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT?
00:40:40.40\00:40:42.80
SWIFT DESTRUCTION - THAT DIDN'T
HAPPEN SWIFTLY - 120 YEARS
00:40:42.84\00:40:47.81
BEFORE IT HAPPENED. NOW
WE HAVE SOMEONE TO READ FOR
00:40:47.84\00:40:51.91
US LUKE 17,
VERSES 28 THROUGH 32.
00:40:51.95\00:40:56.85
>>LUKE 17:28-32,
"LIKEWISE AS IT WAS ALSO IN
00:40:56.89\00:41:01.82
THE DAYS OF LOT: THEY ATE, THEY
DRANK, THEY BOUGHT, THEY SOLD,
00:41:01.86\00:41:06.96
THEY PLANTED, THEY BUILT;
BUT ON THE DAY THAT LOT WENT OUT
00:41:07.00\00:41:09.83
OF SODOM IT RAINED FIRE
AND BRIMSTONE FROM HEAVEN
00:41:09.86\00:41:13.30
AND DESTROYED THEM ALL.
EVEN SO WILL IT BE IN THE DAY
00:41:13.34\00:41:16.50
WHEN THE SON OF MAN IS REVEALED.
IN THAT DAY, HE WHO IS ON THE
00:41:16.54\00:41:20.58
HOUSETOP, AND HIS GOODS ARE
IN THE HOUSE, LET HIM NOT COME
00:41:20.61\00:41:24.41
DOWN TO TAKE THEM AWAY.
AND LIKEWISE, THE ONE WHO IS
00:41:24.45\00:41:27.55
IN THE FIELD, LET HIM NOT
TURN BACK. REMEMBER LOT'S WIFE."
00:41:27.58\00:41:34.19
>>DID JESUS THINK THESE WERE
REAL STORIES - REAL HISTORY?
00:41:34.22\00:41:38.49
YES, HE'S STATING IT -
REAL HISTORY - THE FLOOD, THE
00:41:38.53\00:41:42.80
DESTRUCTION OF SODOM AND
GOMORRAH - AND HE'S SAYING THAT
00:41:42.83\00:41:45.73
WE SHOULD REMEMBER LOT'S
WIFE. SO WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED
00:41:45.77\00:41:50.37
IN SODOM AND GOMORRAH?
WHAT WAS GOING ON THERE?
00:41:50.41\00:41:54.91
TURN WITH ME, IF YOU WOULD,
FIRST, TO GENESIS 13 - WE'RE
00:41:54.94\00:41:59.55
GOING TO HAVE SOMEONE, IN A
MINUTE, READ TO US THE END OF
00:41:59.58\00:42:03.82
SODOM AND GOMORRAH - GENESIS 19
- BUT I'M TURNING TO GENESIS 13.
00:42:03.85\00:42:08.76
AND, BY THE WAY, IF YOU'RE
FOLLOWING ALONG, SOME OF YOU,
00:42:08.79\00:42:11.86
PERHAPS, SOMEWHAT DISTURBED
BY MY COVERING THE WHOLE LESSON,
00:42:11.89\00:42:15.76
BUT NOT IN ORDER, ACTUALLY WE
DO HAVE SOME OF THESE VERY SAME
00:42:15.80\00:42:20.60
VERSES MENTIONED IN
THURSDAY'S LESSON, OKAY?
00:42:20.64\00:42:23.97
SO IF YOU'RE LOOKING WHERE IN
THE QUARTERLY WE'RE AT, GENESIS
00:42:24.01\00:42:27.28
13 IS MENTIONED THERE IN
THURSDAY'S LESSON AND THAT'S
00:42:27.31\00:42:30.55
WHERE I'M TURNING.
VERY, VERY INTERESTING.
00:42:30.58\00:42:34.32
WE'LL COME BACK TO
PETER'S WORDS IN A MINUTE.
00:42:34.35\00:42:36.15
WE'RE JUST TRYING TO
GET THE CONTEXT HERE.
00:42:36.18\00:42:38.62
YOU REMEMBER, GOD HAS PHYSICALLY
BLESSED - MATERIALLY BLESSED
00:42:38.65\00:42:43.39
ABRAHAM AS WELL AS HIS
RELATIVE NEAR-KINSMAN, LOT.
00:42:43.43\00:42:49.20
IN FACT, THEY ARE SO BLESSED, IT
SAYS IN VERSE 6 OF GENESIS 13,
00:42:49.23\00:42:54.77
"NOW THE LAND WAS NOT ABLE
TO SUPPORT THEM," - THEY HAD SO
00:42:54.80\00:42:58.14
MUCH LIVESTOCK - THEY WERE
SO RICH - THAT THEY HAD TO SAY,
00:42:58.17\00:43:03.38
'LOOK,' - VERSE 8 - "PLEASE LET
THERE BE NO STRIFE BETWEEN YOU
00:43:03.41\00:43:09.58
AND ME, AND BETWEEN MY HERDSMEN
AND YOUR HERDSMEN;" - YOU SEE,
00:43:09.62\00:43:12.62
THEIR HIRED HANDS WERE ARGUING,
'HEY, WE GOT HERE FIRST.
00:43:12.65\00:43:16.39
THIS LAND IS FOR OUR SHEEP.'
'NO, I MEAN, THERE'S ONLY SO
00:43:16.42\00:43:18.63
MUCH LAND. YOU'VE
GOT TO SHARE IT WITH US.'
00:43:18.66\00:43:20.63
YOU CAN IMAGINE THE CHALLENGES.
SO, IN VERSE 9, ABRAHAM SAYS
00:43:20.66\00:43:25.77
TO LOT, "IS NOT THE
WHOLE LAND BEFORE YOU?
00:43:25.80\00:43:28.60
PLEASE SEPARATE FROM ME.
IF YOU TAKE THE LEFT, THEN I
00:43:28.64\00:43:31.37
WILL GO TO THE RIGHT; OR,
IF YOU GO TO THE RIGHT, THEN
00:43:31.41\00:43:33.74
I WILL GO TO THE
LEFT." BY THE WAY, WHO WAS
00:43:33.78\00:43:35.84
THE SENIOR
PARTY? IT WAS ABRAHAM.
00:43:35.88\00:43:39.78
WHO - WHO IS ABRAHAM
GIVING THE CHOICE TO?
00:43:39.81\00:43:43.45
TO HIS NEPHEW LOT. SO
WHAT SHOULD LOT HAVE DONE?
00:43:43.49\00:43:47.36
WHAT DO YOU THINK
HE SHOULD HAVE DONE?
00:43:47.39\00:43:49.89
YEAH, DEFERRED TO
ABRAHAM. WOULDN'T THAT HAVE
00:43:49.92\00:43:51.43
BEEN A GOOD THING?
BUT, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES, IF
00:43:51.46\00:43:54.73
SOMEONE OFFERS YOU SOMETHING,
YOU SAY, 'WELL, BOY, THEY'RE
00:43:54.76\00:43:57.10
OFFERING IT TO ME, I BETTER TAKE
IT NOW BEFORE THEY CHANGE THEIR
00:43:57.13\00:43:59.57
MIND.' THAT'S A
DANGEROUS POSTURE, WE'LL SEE IN
00:43:59.60\00:44:04.94
A MINUTE, IN 2 PETER. BUT
SO LOT, IT SAYS IN VERSE 10,
00:44:04.97\00:44:08.98
LIFTS HIS EYES - HE SEES ALL
THE PLAIN OF THE JORDAN THAT WAS
00:44:09.01\00:44:11.88
WELL-WATERED EVERYWHERE.
WE'RE REMINDED THAT WAS BEFORE
00:44:11.91\00:44:15.48
THE LORD DESTROYED
SODOM AND GOMORRAH.
00:44:15.52\00:44:18.42
IT WAS LIKE THE GARDEN OF THE
LORD, LIKE THE LAND OF EGYPT.
00:44:18.45\00:44:21.66
IT WAS LIKE EDEN. AND
SO, WHAT DID LOT CHOOSE?
00:44:21.69\00:44:25.26
HE CHOSE THAT BEAUTIFUL LAND.
00:44:25.29\00:44:31.20
BUT WE HAVE THIS FOOTNOTE AT
THE END OF VERSE 13, IT SAYS HE
00:44:31.23\00:44:35.94
PITCHED HIS TENT AS FAR
AS SODOM (OR NEAR SODOM).
00:44:35.97\00:44:39.91
LATER WE FIND HE'S LIVING IN
SODOM, BUT VERSE 13 SAYS, "BUT
00:44:39.94\00:44:43.75
THE MEN OF SODOM WERE
EXCEEDINGLY WICKED AND SINFUL
00:44:43.78\00:44:48.22
AGAINST THE LORD."
OKAY, SO, WHAT HAPPENS
00:44:48.25\00:44:56.42
TO SODOM AND GOMORRAH?
WELL, QUITE A BIT HAPPENS.
00:44:56.46\00:44:59.66
WE CAN'T GO THROUGH THE WHOLE
- ALL THE OLD TESTAMENT DRAMA
00:44:59.69\00:45:03.30
ABOUT HOW THAT KINGDOM IS
OVERRUN BY ENEMIES, HOW ABRAHAM
00:45:03.33\00:45:08.04
DELIVERS THEM - AND THEN WE COME
TO CHAPTER 18 AND, IN CHAPTER
00:45:08.07\00:45:15.74
18, GOD HIMSELF, JESUS, AS
THE ANGEL OF THE LORD IS MEETING
00:45:15.78\00:45:23.08
WITH ABRAHAM - AS GENESIS
18 BEGINS IT SAYS, "THE LORD" -
00:45:23.12\00:45:27.22
THAT'S YAHWEH - THAT'S
THE SACRED NAME OF GOD.
00:45:27.26\00:45:29.66
JESUS COMING AS AN ANGEL, WITH
TWO OTHER ANGELIC BEINGS - AND
00:45:29.69\00:45:34.73
IT SAYS SOMETHING
VERY INTERESTING HAPPENS.
00:45:34.73\00:45:37.67
AFTER THE DIALOG ABOUT THE
PROMISED HEIR IN GENESIS CHAPTER
00:45:37.70\00:45:41.74
18, IT SAYS, IN VERSE 17, "AND
THE LORD SAID, 'SHALL I HIDE
00:45:41.77\00:45:48.84
FROM ABRAHAM WHAT I AM DOING?'"
00:45:48.88\00:45:53.21
- WHAT IS THE
LORD REFERRING TO HERE?
00:45:53.25\00:45:55.32
WHAT DOES GOD SAY HE IS IN
THE PROCESS OF DOING - OR HE IS
00:45:55.35\00:45:58.35
GOING TO DO? WHAT
IS HE ABOUT TO DO?
00:45:58.39\00:46:02.89
HE IS ABOUT TO
DESTROY SODOM AND GOMORRAH.
00:46:02.92\00:46:06.09
GOD IS TAKING RESPONSIBILITY
FOR DOING THE DESTRUCTION.
00:46:06.13\00:46:10.57
HE SAYS, 'SHALL I HIDE FROM
ABRAHAM WHAT I AM DOING - WHAT I
00:46:10.60\00:46:15.00
AM ABOUT TO DO?' WE'RE GOING
TO READ, NOW - SOMEONE HAS THIS
00:46:15.04\00:46:18.77
READING FOR US FROM
GENESIS 19, VERSES 24 TO 26.
00:46:18.81\00:46:23.48
YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENS IN 18, LOT
PLEADS WITH ABRAHAM - EXCUSE ME,
00:46:23.51\00:46:27.72
ABRAHAM PLEADS WITH GOD
ON BEHALF OF LOT AND THOSE IN
00:46:27.75\00:46:31.39
SODOM, AND HE SAYS, 'YOU KNOW,
IF THERE'S JUST 50 RIGHTEOUS
00:46:31.42\00:46:34.92
ONES' AND HE WORKS THE NUMBER
DOWN AND DOWN UNTIL, YOU KNOW,
00:46:34.96\00:46:38.86
THERE'S GOT TO BE
THAT MANY RIGHTEOUS PEOPLE.
00:46:38.89\00:46:40.90
HE'S CONCERNED - HE'S WORRIED
- ABRAHAM IS - THAT GOD WILL BE
00:46:40.93\00:46:45.97
MISUNDERSTOOD, IT SEEMS, DOESN'T
IT? HE'S ALSO CONCERNED ABOUT
00:46:46.00\00:46:51.31
THE RIGHTEOUS NOT BEING
DESTROYED WITH THE WICKED.
00:46:51.34\00:46:57.15
OKAY, WE'RE IN GENESIS 19,
VERSES 24 TO 26 - SOMEONE HAS
00:46:57.18\00:47:02.35
THAT FOR US.
LET'S SEE WHAT HAPPENS.
00:47:02.38\00:47:05.42
>>"THEN THE LORD RAINED
BRIMSTONE AND FIRE ON SODOM AND
00:47:05.45\00:47:09.22
GOMORRAH, FROM THE LORD OUT
OF THE HEAVENS. SO HE OVERTHREW
00:47:09.26\00:47:13.29
THOSE CITIES, ALL THE PLAIN, ALL
THE INHABITANTS OF THE CITIES,
00:47:13.33\00:47:17.53
AND WHAT GREW ON THE GROUND.
BUT HIS WIFE LOOKED BACK BEHIND
00:47:17.57\00:47:21.80
HIM, AND SHE
BECAME A PILLAR OF SALT."
00:47:21.84\00:47:27.71
>>SO HERE GOD TAKES
RESPONSIBILITY FOR WHAT THE
00:47:27.74\00:47:31.75
BIBLE CALLS HIS 'STRANGE
ACT'. GOD ACTING IN JUDGMENT.
00:47:31.78\00:47:39.19
GOD DESTROYING SODOM
AND GOMORRAH. NO, NO!
00:47:39.22\00:47:42.99
NO, NO, WAIT A MINUTE!
WAIT, WAIT, WAIT, WAIT, WAIT -
00:47:43.02\00:47:46.93
YOU'VE READ IT, HAVEN'T
YOU? HAVE YOU READ IT BEFORE?
00:47:46.96\00:47:50.10
YEAH, SOME OF YOU KNOW WHAT
I'M THINKING - WHERE I'M GOING.
00:47:50.13\00:47:52.77
THERE IS ACTUALLY A STATEMENT IN
THAT PROLIFIC ADVENTIST WRITER,
00:47:52.80\00:47:58.01
ELLEN WHITE, WHERE SHE USES THE
WORDS 'GOD DESTROYS' SOME PLACES
00:47:58.04\00:48:03.55
'NO ONE' - OTHER PLACES - 'GOD
DESTROYS NO MAN' - AND SO PEOPLE
00:48:03.58\00:48:08.95
SAY, 'NO, NO, SO GOD COULD
NOT HAVE DESTROYED SODOM AND
00:48:08.98\00:48:11.69
GOMORRAH.' BY THE WAY, IN JUDE,
FOR YOUR STUDY, IT ALSO MENTIONS
00:48:11.72\00:48:16.99
THE REBELLION OF KORAH.
DO YOU REMEMBER THAT ONE?
00:48:17.03\00:48:21.40
WHERE FIRE CAME DOWN FROM
HEAVEN AND DESTROYED A NUMBER OF
00:48:21.43\00:48:26.63
LEADERS WHO WERE OFFING INCENSE
BEFORE THE ALTAR, WITHOUT BEING
00:48:26.67\00:48:30.87
CALLED TO THE PRIESTHOOD?
AND THEN WHAT HAPPENED TO DATHAN
00:48:30.91\00:48:34.11
AND ABIRAM AND
THOSE AROUND THEM?
00:48:34.14\00:48:35.61
DO YOU REMEMBER WHAT
HAPPENED? THE EARTH OPENED UP.
00:48:35.64\00:48:39.15
MOSES SAID, 'IF THEY DIE
THE DEATH OF ANY COMMON PERSON,
00:48:39.18\00:48:42.55
YOU'RE GOING TO KNOW
THAT GOD DIDN'T SEND ME.
00:48:42.58\00:48:44.25
BUT IF YOU SEE A NEW THING AND
THE EARTH SWALLOWS THEM UP' -
00:48:44.29\00:48:46.49
AND WHAT HAPPENS? THE
EARTH SWALLOWS THEM UP.
00:48:46.52\00:48:53.09
GOD DESTROYS NO MAN
- GOD DESTROYS NO ONE.
00:48:53.13\00:48:56.06
BY THE WAY, IF YOU ACTUALLY READ
THE CONTEXT - YOU HEARD THAT
00:48:56.10\00:48:58.97
WORD BEFORE? THE
CONTEXT - THE CONTEXT OF
00:48:59.00\00:49:02.40
THOSE STATEMENTS HAS NOTHING
TO DO WITH GOD JUDGING EVIL.
00:49:02.44\00:49:06.98
YOU READ IT. AT
LEAST 8 TIMES - I'VE LOOKED
00:49:07.01\00:49:09.48
THROUGH THE REFERENCES -
READ THEM AGAIN RECENTLY.
00:49:09.51\00:49:12.25
IT'S SPEAKING ABOUT GOD DESTROYS
NO ONE, IN THE SENSE HE CONDEMNS
00:49:12.28\00:49:16.92
NO ONE TO
DESTRUCTION BY HIS OWN WHIMS.
00:49:16.95\00:49:20.06
GOD DOES NOT PREDESTINATE
ANYONE TO DESTRUCTION.
00:49:20.09\00:49:23.56
MOST OF THE TIME, WHEN
ELLEN WHITE MENTIONS THAT, 'GOD
00:49:23.59\00:49:26.70
DESTROYS NO ONE' OR
'GOD DESTROYS NO MAN' - SHE'S
00:49:26.73\00:49:28.93
SPEAKING OF PHARAOH AND
HOW PHARAOH HARDENED HIS HEART.
00:49:28.96\00:49:31.90
IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE
END-TIME JUDGMENT ON THE WICKED.
00:49:31.93\00:49:34.87
IT HAS NOTHING TO DO
WITH GOD SENDING THE FLOOD.
00:49:34.90\00:49:37.84
AND, BY THE WAY, READ IT IN
PATRIARCHS AND PROPHETS IF YOU
00:49:37.87\00:49:39.94
WANT TO TALK ABOUT ELLEN WHITE.
SATAN, HIMSELF, FEARED FOR
00:49:39.97\00:49:42.98
HIS LIFE DURING THE
FLOOD. IT'S PATRIARCHS AND
00:49:43.01\00:49:45.81
PROPHETS , PAGE 99. YOU
SAY, 'DR. DEROSE, THERE IS A
00:49:45.85\00:49:50.82
BIBLICAL ARGUMENT IN FAVOR OF
GOD NOT DESTROYING.' THERE IS -
00:49:50.85\00:49:54.99
THERE IS. WE WON'T LOOK AT IT
IN DETAIL, BUT IN THE STORY OF
00:49:55.02\00:49:58.99
SODOM THERE IS A BIBLICAL
ARGUMENT - YOU COULD PUT FORTH
00:49:59.03\00:50:02.06
AN ARGUMENT FROM THE
BIBLE THAT GOD DESTROYS NO ONE.
00:50:02.10\00:50:06.87
WHEN SODOM AND GOMORRAH WERE
GOING TO BE DESTROYED, LOT TRIED
00:50:06.90\00:50:11.47
TO WARN HIS FAMILY. ARE
YOU FOLLOWING ALONG WITH ME?
00:50:11.51\00:50:15.71
LOT TRIED TO WARN HIS
FAMILY. I WILL LOOK AT IT.
00:50:15.74\00:50:18.98
GENESIS 19, VERSE 15 - LOT SAYS
- VERSE 16 - ACTUALLY, VERSE 14
00:50:19.01\00:50:29.92
IS THE BEST VERSE, "SO
LOT WENT OUT AND SPOKE TO HIS
00:50:29.96\00:50:32.43
SONS-IN-LAW," - 19:14 -
GENESIS - "WHO HAD MARRIED HIS
00:50:32.46\00:50:36.16
DAUGHTERS, AND SAID, 'GET UP,
GET OUT OF THIS PLACE; FOR THE
00:50:36.20\00:50:38.50
LORD WILL'" - DO WHAT?
- "'DESTROY THIS CITY!'"
00:50:38.53\00:50:43.81
- BUT WHO SAID
GOD DIDN'T DESTROY?
00:50:43.84\00:50:47.38
LOT'S SONS-IN-LAW.
'GOD DOESN'T DESTROY.
00:50:47.41\00:50:50.61
IT'S A JOKE.' BY THE WAY,
WHO SAID GOD DIDN'T DESTROY WHEN
00:50:50.65\00:50:55.35
KORAH, DATHAN, AND ABIRAM
WERE SWALLOWED UP BY THE EARTH?
00:50:55.38\00:51:00.12
IT WAS THE WICKED INDIVIDUALS
WHO DID NOT ACCEPT GOD'S
00:51:00.16\00:51:02.99
JUDGMENT. THEY SAID,
'MOSES AND AARON DID THIS'.
00:51:03.02\00:51:06.46
THEY WERE
ATTRIBUTING THE POWER OF SATAN.
00:51:06.49\00:51:08.36
BY THE WAY, THIS IS WHAT THE SIN
OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IS, WHEN YOU
00:51:08.40\00:51:10.97
ATTRIBUTE - WHEN YOU ATTRIBUTE
THE HOLY SPIRIT'S WORK TO SATAN.
00:51:11.00\00:51:15.34
BE VERY, VERY, VERY
CAREFUL.' WE'RE BACK TO 2 PETER.
00:51:15.37\00:51:21.74
HE GIVES US THESE
SOBERING EXAMPLES.
00:51:21.78\00:51:24.95
YOU KNOW, I THOUGHT ABOUT
IT THIS WAY: IMAGINE YOU HAD A
00:51:24.98\00:51:28.82
LOVING GERMAN
SHEPHERD - PART OF THE FAMILY.
00:51:28.85\00:51:33.39
CAN YOU RELATE TO
THAT? MAYBE YOU HAVE A
00:51:33.42\00:51:34.96
DOG THAT YOU LOVE.
AND THIS DOG IS, I MEAN,
00:51:34.99\00:51:37.86
HE SLEEPS WITH YOU.
YOU HAVE THIS ORIGINAL NAME
00:51:37.89\00:51:40.53
FOR HIM - SHEP -
RIGHT? ISN'T THAT WHAT THEY
00:51:40.56\00:51:43.37
CALL GERMAN
SHEPHERDS? AND SO SHEP IS LIKE
00:51:43.40\00:51:45.47
ONE OF THE
FAMILY. HE EATS WITH YOU.
00:51:45.50\00:51:46.87
I MEAN, HE WON'T EVEN EAT UNLESS
YOU'RE EATING, SITTING AT THE
00:51:46.90\00:51:49.04
TABLE AND HIS
BOWL IS RIGHT THERE.
00:51:49.07\00:51:50.71
YOU FOLLOW ALONG WITH
THIS? AND SO THIS DOG IS JUST
00:51:50.74\00:51:53.98
- YOU LOVE THIS DOG.
HE'S PART OF THE FAMILY.
00:51:54.01\00:51:56.31
AND, AFTER MANY YEARS, ONE
DAY SHEP STARTS ACTING KIND OF
00:51:56.34\00:52:00.12
STRANGE AND HE'S NOT HIS NORMAL
PERSON - SOMETHING'S WRONG, BUT
00:52:00.15\00:52:04.05
YOU KNOW, YOU LOVE - AND YOU
START TO WONDER, I MEAN, HE USED
00:52:04.09\00:52:07.52
TO BE SO GOOD AROUND EVERYBODY
AND, FOR SOME REASON, YOU START
00:52:07.56\00:52:10.76
PUTTING HIM IN A CAGE.
HE'S KIND OF SNAPPING AT YOU -
00:52:10.79\00:52:13.70
SOME - YOU KNOW, 'IT COULDN'T
BE SHEP. HE COULDN'T BE DOING
00:52:13.73\00:52:16.20
THIS.' BY THE WAY, YOU'VE GOT
SHEEP TOO, YOU KNOW, AND SHEP
00:52:16.23\00:52:20.94
WOULD ALWAYS TAKE CARE
OF THE SHEEP AND WATCH THEM.
00:52:20.97\00:52:25.37
YOU LET SHEP OUT, EVEN IN
THIS STATE, AND YOU HEAR SOME
00:52:25.41\00:52:28.94
COMMOTION OUTSIDE AND YOU LOOK
OUT THERE AND YOU SEE SHEP HAS
00:52:28.98\00:52:32.81
KILLED ONE OF THE LAMBS AND
HE'S IN THE PROCESS OF KILLING
00:52:32.85\00:52:36.08
ANOTHER ONE AND, BY THE
WAY, YOUR FOUR-YEAR-OLD CHILD OR
00:52:36.12\00:52:40.56
GRANDSON - OR GREAT-GRANDSON
- HOWEVER OLD YOU ARE - IS OUT
00:52:40.59\00:52:43.12
THERE TOO. AND, ALL
OF A SUDDEN YOU CONNECT
00:52:43.16\00:52:45.89
ALL THE DOTS IN YOUR
MIND. 'WHAT'S GOING ON?
00:52:45.93\00:52:50.03
SHEP HAS RABIES, RIGHT?
AND SO, AS YOU SEE SHEP HEADING
00:52:50.07\00:52:54.40
OVER TO THE FOUR YEAR
OLD, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO?
00:52:54.44\00:52:58.81
I WAS TELLING THIS STORY TO SOME
PEOPLE - THIS ILLUSTRATION -
00:52:58.84\00:53:01.48
THEY SAID, 'WELL, IF YOU HAD
A GUN, YOU'D GET THE GUN OUT AND
00:53:01.51\00:53:03.18
YOU'D KILL THE DOG BEFORE HE
INFECTED THE CHILD WITH RABIES.'
00:53:03.21\00:53:08.42
AND MAYBE, EVEN AFTER YOU KILLED
THAT DOG, THE FIRST THING YOU
00:53:08.45\00:53:10.85
WOULD DO INSTEAD OF COMFORTING
THE CHILD, YOU'D RUN OUT TO THE
00:53:10.89\00:53:12.75
DOG AND SAY, 'OH,
SHEP, HOW COULD I DO IT?
00:53:12.79\00:53:15.16
OH, MY BELOVED DOG.' ARE
YOU FOLLOWING ALONG WITH ME?
00:53:15.19\00:53:19.23
WAS IT LOVE OR WAS IT
MERCY THAT KILLED THE RABID DOG?
00:53:19.26\00:53:24.80
WHEN PEOPLE HAVE CROSSED THE
LINE - WHEN THEY'VE SINNED THE
00:53:24.83\00:53:27.20
SIN AGAINST THE HOLY SPIRIT -
AND, BY THE WAY, IF ANY OF YOU
00:53:27.24\00:53:30.14
ARE CONCERNED THAT YOU'VE SINNED
THE SIN AGAINST THE HOLY SPIRIT,
00:53:30.17\00:53:32.64
YOU HAVEN'T DONE IT.
IF YOU'RE CONCERNED ABOUT
00:53:32.67\00:53:35.31
FOLLOWING JESUS AND SATAN
IS TELLING YOU YOU'RE TOO FAR
00:53:35.34\00:53:38.48
GONE, YOU'RE NOT, OKAY?
THAT'S A SIGN THE HOLY SPIRIT IS
00:53:38.51\00:53:41.38
STILL WORKING WITH YOU,
OKAY? BUT IF SOMEONE'S HEART IS
00:53:41.42\00:53:44.95
STEELED, SOMETIMES GOD
DOES BRING JUDGMENT AND MERCY.
00:53:44.99\00:53:48.92
NO, NO, NO, NO!'
THAT'S NOT THE WAY
00:53:48.96\00:53:50.76
IT WOULD HAPPEN. IF
IT WAS GOD, HE WOULD
00:53:50.79\00:53:52.16
JUST REMOVE HIS LIFE FORCE.
THE DOG WOULD BE RUNNING AND
00:53:52.19\00:53:54.56
THE DOG WOULD JUST FALL DEAD.
BUT THERE'S A PROBLEM WITH THAT.
00:53:54.60\00:53:59.23
IF THE DOG JUST FELL DEAD,
THE CHILD WOULDN'T KNOW THAT THE
00:53:59.27\00:54:03.54
FATHER OR THE GRANDFATHER OR THE
GREAT-GRANDFATHER HAD INTERVENED
00:54:03.57\00:54:07.91
TO SAVE THEM. >>AMEN.
00:54:07.94\00:54:09.78
>>YOU SEE? GOD IS INTERESTED IN
00:54:09.81\00:54:12.58
SAVING US FROM OURSELVES.
AND SOMETIMES HE HAS TO ACT
00:54:12.61\00:54:17.72
IN STERN WAYS IN JUDGMENT.
THAT'S WHAT THE BIBLE TEACHES.
00:54:17.75\00:54:21.72
AND I'D ENCOURAGE YOU TO REALIZE
THAT, BECAUSE 2 PETER IS BOTH AN
00:54:21.76\00:54:26.70
ENCOURAGEMENT AND A WARNING.
IT'S AN ENCOURAGEMENT THAT JESUS
00:54:26.73\00:54:30.80
HAS GIVEN EVERYTHING FOR
US. HE'S REVEALED HIMSELF.
00:54:30.83\00:54:34.04
HE'S GIVEN US HIS
WORD THAT'S A LIGHT.
00:54:34.07\00:54:36.37
WHEN JUDE IS WRITING THE SAME
THING, HE SAYS THAT GOD IS ABLE
00:54:36.40\00:54:39.87
TO KEEP YOU FROM FALLING.
YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE WORRIED
00:54:39.91\00:54:42.04
ABOUT FOLLOWING THE WAY
OF SODOM OR THOSE WHO WERE
00:54:42.08\00:54:45.18
REJECTORS OF THE FLOOD.
BUT THERE IS A JUDGMENT COMING.
00:54:45.21\00:54:48.98
IT'S A SOBERING
THING. IT'S COMING SWIFTLY.
00:54:49.02\00:54:51.42
AND, EVEN THOUGH - EVEN THOUGH
JUDGEMENT IS TARRYING, IT WILL
00:54:51.45\00:54:55.86
COME SWIFTLY. THE
GOOD NEWS IS JESUS IS BIG
00:54:55.89\00:55:00.63
ENOUGH TO SAVE ALL
OF US. AREN'T YOU GLAD?
00:55:00.66\00:55:04.00
HE'S NOT JUST LOOKING ON AS WE
SUFFER PAIN, HE HURTS WITH US.
00:55:04.03\00:55:09.74
HE FEELS WITH YOU TODAY AND
HE'S INTERESTED IN SAVING US.
00:55:09.77\00:55:14.04
WELL, WE'LL FIND THE CONCLUSION
TO 2 PETER, ON THIS ENCOURAGING
00:55:14.08\00:55:18.81
NOTE, AS WE GO TO2
PETER CHAPTER 3 NEXT WEEK.
00:55:18.85\00:55:22.88
WE'LL SEE HOW THE INSPIRED
APOSTLE PULLS ALL THESE THINGS
00:55:22.92\00:55:26.65
TOGETHER.
SOBERING REMINDERS, BUT
00:55:26.69\00:55:29.96
ENCOURAGEMENT THAT
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YOU READ IN THE BIBLE.
WITH OVER 700,000 WORDS
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>>HI FRIENDS, YOU KNOW,
THE MODERN FLAGS THAT WE SEE
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FLYING FROM THE TOP OF CAPITAL
BUILDINGS, OR OUT IN FRONT OF
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PATRIOTIC HOMES, REALLY STEM
BACK FROM THE TIMES OF BATTLES
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BEING FOUGHT
BETWEEN WARRING NATIONS.
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THESE BEAUTIFULLY DESIGNED AND
INTRICATELY COLORED BANNERS WERE
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FLOWN HIGH ABOVE THE
BATTLEFIELDS SO THE WARRING
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FORCES WERE ABLE TO IDENTIFY,
AMID THE CHAOS AND THE SMOKE AND
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THE FOG OF WAR, WHERE THEIR
FORCES WERE RALLIED AND WHERE
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THEY WERE FIGHTING THE BATTLE.
AND, IF YOU COULD CAPTURE YOUR
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ENEMY'S FLAG, IT WAS
CONSIDERED THE HIGHEST HONOR.
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I WONDER IF THAT'S WHERE WE
GOT THE GAME 'CAPTURE THE FLAG'.
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WITH THE CHANGES IN WAR,
NOW THESE FLAGS ALSO REPRESENT A
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LITTLE MORE OF A DEMARCATION
AND IDENTIFICATION OF DIFFERENT
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NATIONALITIES. TODAY,
THE FLAGS THAT REPRESENT
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THE DIFFERENT NATIONS OF
THE WORLD ARE VERY COLORFUL AND
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DIVERSE AND ALL OF THE
COLORS AND THE SHAPES HAVE
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A SPECIFIC MEANING.
THEY'RE EASY TO DISTINGUISH AND
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RECOGNIZE FROM ONE
ANOTHER. PERHAPS ONE OF THE MOST
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INTERESTING FLAGS IN THE WORLD
IS THE FLAG OF THE PHILIPPINES.
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THIS IS UNIQUE BECAUSE IT IS
FLOWN DIFFERENTLY IN TIMES OF
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PEACE THAN IT
IS IN TIMES OF WAR.
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DURING TIMES OF PEACE, THE
FILIPINO FLAG, THAT'S COMPOSED
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OF RED, WHITE, BLUE, AND YELLOW,
IS FLOWN WITH THE BLUE SIDE UP.
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BUT, IN TIMES OF WAR, THEY FLIP
IT AROUND AND THE RED SIDE IS UP
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BECAUSE THERE THEY'RE WILLING TO
MAKE SACRIFICES OF THEIR BLOOD
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TO DEFEND THE FREEDOM OF THE
COUNTRY. IN THE SAME WAY THAT AN
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EMBASSY THAT IS SITUATED IN A
FOREIGN COUNTRY FLIES THEIR FLAG
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WHILE STILL SURROUNDED BY
ANOTHER NATION, CHRISTIANS ARE
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SUPPOSED TO HAVE THE FLAG OF
GOD'S LOVE FLYING IN THIS FALLEN
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WORLD. YOU CAN READ IN THE BOOK
SONG OF SOLOMON CHAPTER 2, VERSE
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4, "HIS BANNER OVER ME IS LOVE."
LOVE IS THE FLAG THAT IDENTIFIES
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CHRISTIANS AS A UNIQUE
KINGDOM EVEN HERE IN THE WORLD.
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SO, FRIEND, THE BIG QUESTION IS:
HOW ARE YOU FLYING YOUR FLAG?
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