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>>GOOD MORNING
AND HAPPY SABBATH.
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WE'D LIKE TO WELCOME YOU TO OUR
SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR THIS
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MORNING. NOW,
WHETHER YOU'RE JOINING US
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ONLINE OR THROUGH THE VARIOUS
TELEVISION NETWORKS, WE'D LIKE
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TO EXTEND TO YOU A
WARM SABBATH WELCOME.
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WE'D ALSO LIKE TO WELCOME
OUR ONLINE MEMBERS AND OUR LOCAL
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MEMBERS RIGHT HERE AT
THE GRANITE BAY SEVENTH-DAY
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ADVENTIST CHURCH. NOW,
THIS QUARTER, WE'VE BEEN
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STUDYING THROUGH THE FIRST AND
SECOND BOOKS OF PETER AND THIS
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MORNING THE LESSON IS LESSON #12
ENTITLED THE DAY OF THE LORD .
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NOW THAT'S THE DAY WE'RE ALL
LOOKING FORWARD TO, ISN'T IT?
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WHEN JESUS COMES IN
THE CLOUDS OF GLORY.
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AND SO, IF YOU'RE VIEWING
FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME AND YOU
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DON'T HAVE THE LESSON
QUARTERLY, YOU CAN STILL GO TO
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AMAZINGFACTS.ORG AND JUST CLICK
ON THE SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY
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HOUR . THERE,
YOU'LL FIND A LITTLE LINK
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ENTITLED THE QUARTERLY
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LESSON FOR TODAY.
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ENTITLED THE DAY OF THE LORD .
YOU KNOW, IT'S ALWAYS A BLESSING
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WHEN WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY
TO HAVE AFCOE HERE - THAT'S
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OUR AMAZING FACTS CENTER OF
EVANGELISM - AND THEY TRAVEL ALL
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OVER AND THE LORD HAS BLESSED
THEM IN SO MANY WAYS AND I KNOW
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THAT THE LORD WILL
CONTINUE TO BLESS THEM.
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AND SO, WE HAVE CARISSA MCSHERRY
HERE AND SHE'S GOING TO SHARE
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WITH US - SHE'S THE ASSISTANT
DIRECTOR FOR AFCOE AND SHE'S
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GOING TO SHARE WITH US WHAT THE
LORD IS DOING AND WHAT HE WILL
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CONTINUE TO DO FOR
AFCOE. THANK YOU, CARISSA.
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>>GOOD MORNING. AND
TO OUR VIEWERS IN SERBIA
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AND MONTENEGRO, BOSHY
BOGOSLOV. IT IS A BLESSING TO BE
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BACK HERE IN CALIFORNIA.
THE AFCOE TEAM WAS JUST OVER IN
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SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO FOR
ABOUT TWO WEEKS, MEETING SOME
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INCREDIBLY BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE
THERE WHO ARE PASSIONATE ABOUT
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GOD AND ABOUT
EVANGELISM. WE ARE GLAD TO BE
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HERE WITH YOU, AGAIN. I
JUST WANT TO SHARE WITH YOU,
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BRIEFLY, ABOUT THE AFCOE PROGRAM
AND AN EXCITING OPPORTUNITY YOU
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HAVE HERE, AT THE GRANITE BAY
CHURCH. BACK IN 2006, I HAD THIS
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BURNING PASSION - I WANTED
TO BE INVOLVED IN EVANGELISM
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- BUT I DIDN'T KNOW HOW. I
REMEMBER HEARING ABOUT THIS
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FOUR-MONTH BIBLE COLLEGE CALLED
THE AMAZING FACTS CENTER OF
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EVANGELISM AND, BY THE GRACE
OF GOD, I WAS ABLE TO ATTEND.
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I WAS EXCITED BECAUSE I WAS
LOOKING FORWARD TO LEARNING MORE
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ABOUT HOMILETICS - HOW TO PREACH
- HERMANEUTICS - HOW TO STUDY
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THE BIBLE - DIGGING INTO
THOSE DEEPER DAILY DEVOTIONS.
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I WANTED TO KNOW HOW TO DO A
PUBLIC EVANGELISM SEMINAR, HOW
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TO SHARE MY FAITH WITH
MY FRIENDS, MY NEIGHBORS, MY
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COWORKERS - ALL OF THESE THINGS
I WAS EXPECTING TO LEARN FROM
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AFCOE AND I WAS BLESSED
BY DURING MY TIME AT AFCOE.
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BUT, IF YOU WOULD ASK ME TODAY,
'WHAT DID YOU LOVE THE MOST
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ABOUT YOUR TIME THERE AT
AFCOE, I WOULD TELL YOU THAT THE
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GREATEST BLESSING WAS BEING
CONSTANTLY IN THE PRESENCE OF
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JESUS CHRIST. YES,
HOMILETICS WAS WONDERFUL.
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YES, PUBLIC
EVANGELISM WAS GREAT.
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YES - BUT THE MOST INCREDIBLE
BLESSING WAS THE FACT THAT
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TWENTY-FOUR/SEVEN
WE WERE IN THE WORD.
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TWENTY-FOUR/SEVEN WE
ARE PRAYING TOGETHER.
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WE ARE GOING DEEPER WITH
GOD TOGETHER - AND THAT WAS THE
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EXPERIENCE THAT I
LOVED THE MOST ABOUT AFCOE.
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NOW, BY THE GRACE OF GOD, I HAVE
AN OPPORTUNITY TO WORK WITH THE
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AFCOE STAFF AND WE ARE EXCITED
BECAUSE THIS FALL, DO YOU KNOW
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WHERE AFCOE WILL BE?
HERE, AT GRANITE BAY CHURCH.
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WE ARE GOING TO BE PARTNERING
TOGETHER WITH YOU TO WORK IN
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THIS COMMUNITY TO
REACH SOULS FOR JESUS CHRIST.
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>>AMEN. >>ARE YOU
EXCITED ABOUT THAT?
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AMEN. THIS FALL,
WE HAVE OUR SENIOR
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EVANGELIST, DAVE STEWARD AND HE
WILL BE COMING HERE TO CONDUCT
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A FULL PROPHECY SEMINAR.
AS PART OF THE AFCOE PROGRAM
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THIS YEAR - YES, PREACHING
- YES, PUBLIC EVANGELISM - BUT
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THERE ARE OTHER COMPONENTS
THAT WE ARE ALSO ADDING.
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WE ARE GOING TO BE
STRENGTHENING THAT RIGHT ARM.
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WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A SPECIAL
EMPHASIS ON HEALTH EVANGELISM
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AND HOW TO USE THAT
TOOL IN OUR COMMUNITIES.
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GRANITE BAY CHURCH, HAVE YOU
HEARD ABOUT OUR 30-DAY HEALTH
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CHALLENGE?
YOU'VE HEARD, ALRIGHT.
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THAT IS COMING UP IN -
DO YOU KNOW WHAT MONTH?
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SEPTEMBER.
SEPTEMBER WE'LL BEGIN A 30-DAY
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HEALTH CHALLENGE HERE AT
GRANITE BAY, AND AFCOE WILL BE
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PARTNERING WITH THAT. ALL
OF THE AFCOE STUDENTS WILL
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BE TRAINED ON HOW TO
CONDUCT HEALTH EVANGELISM.
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ONE OF THE OTHER COMPONENTS OF
THE AFCOE PROGRAM, FOLLOWING OUR
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FOUR-MONTH COURSE, STUDENTS THEN
HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO TRAVEL TO
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A FOREIGN COUNTRY AND TO CONDUCT
THEIR OWN PUBLIC PROPHECY
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SEMINAR. THAT
WAY, YOU'RE NOT JUST
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LEARNING THEORY, BUT YOU
THEN GET TO GO AND APPLY IT.
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YOU GET TO GO ON VISITATION
- YOU'RE FOLLOWING UP WITH THE
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PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY
THAT ARE WANTING TO BE BAPTIZED.
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SO THERE'S A LOT OF NEW
AND EXCITING THINGS THAT WE'RE
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ADDING TO THE
PROGRAM FOR THIS SEMESTER.
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IN ADDITION TO ALL OF THAT,
OUR GOAL AT AFCOE IS NOT JUST TO
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HAVE STUDENTS COME AND LISTEN
AND BE EXCITED AND THINK, 'WOW,
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THIS IS GREAT!' OUR
GOAL, RATHER, IS TO SAY,
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'NO, WE ARE DISCIPLERS'.
NOT ONLY ARE WE DISCIPLES OF
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JESUS CHRIST, BUT WE WANT TO
TAKE THESE TOOLS - WE WANT TO
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GO BACK TO OUR CHURCH THE WEEK
AFTER GRADUATION AND PARTNER
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WITH THE PASTOR AND SAY, 'WE CAN
TRAIN THE CHURCH ON HOW TO BE
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MORE EFFECTIVE IN
REACHING OUR COMMUNITY.
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SO, NOT ONLY ARE YOU LEARNING
THESE THINGS FOR YOURSELF, BUT
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YOU ARE BEING SUPPLIED WITH THE
TOOLS SO THAT YOU, THEN, CAN GO
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BACK TO YOUR CHURCH AND ACTUALLY
APPLY IT THERE, DAY ONE AFTER
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GRADUATION. SO
THERE'S A LOT OF NEW AND
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EXCITING THINGS THAT WE'RE
INCLUDING IN THE AFCOE PROGRAM.
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IF YOU'VE EVER CONSIDERED,
PRAYED ABOUT IT, BEEN CONVICTED
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TO BE A PART OF THAT PROGRAM
- OR MAYBE YOU KNOW SOMEONE WHO
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YOU THINK WOULD BE BENEFITED BY
IT - SOMEONE THAT DOES WANT TO,
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AGAIN, BE MORE INVOLVED IN
MINISTRY AND YOUR COMMUNITY.
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I ATTENDED AFCOE BECAUSE SOMEONE
IN THE CHURCH SAID, 'HEY, I WANT
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TO SUPPORT YOU. I WILL
HELP PAY YOUR WAY TO GO
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THROUGH THAT FOUR-MONTH TRAINING
COURSE.' AND, BECAUSE OF HIS
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EXAMPLE - BECAUSE OF
HIS MENTORSHIP, THE LORD HAS
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CONTINUED TO USE ME IN MINISTRY
FROM THERE. SO WHO KNOWS?
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YOU MAY BE THAT
PERSON TO SOMEONE ELSE.
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TODAY I WANT TO SHARE WITH
YOU A BRIEF CLIP ABOUT THE AFCOE
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PROGRAM AND I WOULD ENCOURAGE
YOU AGAIN, CHECK OUT OUR WEBSITE
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- AFCOE.ORG - PRAY ABOUT HOW YOU
MIGHT LEAD SOMEONE TO THAT IF
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THEY WANT FURTHER
MINISTRY TRAINING, BUT ALSO FOR
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OURSELVES. HERE IN THE GRANITE
BAY CHURCH AREA WE HAVE A
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SPECIAL CHALLENGE. BY
THE GRACE OF GOD, THIS
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SEPTEMBER, OUR FAMILY, OUR
FRIENDS, OUR NEIGHBORS, OUR
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COWORKERS, ARE GOING TO RECEIVE
A SPECIAL INVITATION TO COME
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HERE AND TO HEAR THE
GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST.
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EVEN NOW MAY WE BE PRAYING
FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT TO WORK IN A
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MIGHTY WAY HERE IN
GRANITE BAY AND BEYOND.
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>>DOES YOUR HEART
BURN FOR A BETTER PURPOSE?
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DO YOU YEARN TO DO
MORE WITH YOUR FAITH?
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DO YOU DESIRE TO BE A POWERFUL
WITNESS ABLAZE FOR JESUS CHRIST?
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WHERE DO YOU START?
MAKE YOUR FIRST STEP AT AFCOE
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- THE AMAZING FACTS
CENTER OF EVANGELISM.
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>>HERE AT AFCOE I'VE LEARNED
SO MANY THINGS AND MY SPIRITUAL
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GROWTH HAS JUST SKYROCKETED.
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>>AFCOE HAS DISTILLED
FIFTY YEARS OF AMAZING FACTS
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EVANGELISTIC EXPERTISE INTO
A DYNAMIC, PROFESSIONAL, AND
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EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE THAT
TRANSFORMS THE NERVOUS CHRISTIAN
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INTO A PREPARED
AND BOLD WITNESS.
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>>AFCOE IS REALLY
ABOUT LEARNING WHILE DOING.
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IT'S A ONE-OF-A-KIND EXPERIENCE
FOR THOSE WHO ARE SERIOUS ABOUT
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ENTERING GOSPEL MINISTRY AND
THOSE WHO SIMPLY WANT TO MAKE AN
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IMPACT IN THEIR LOCAL
CHURCHES AND COMMUNITIES.
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>>GO TO AFCOE.ORG TODAY
AND EXPLORE THIS LIFE-CHANGING
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PROGRAM. AFCOE - EQUIPPING
SOUL WINNERS. SETTING THE WORLD
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ABLAZE FOR GOD. >>AMEN.
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LET'S HAVE A WORD OF PRAYER
AS WE GET INTO OUR LESSON THIS
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MORNING. FATHER IN
HEAVEN, WE THANK YOU,
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AGAIN, SO MUCH FOR
YOUR MANY BLESSINGS.
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WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR
LEADING AND GUIDING US HERE.
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LORD, WE THANK YOU THAT WE CAN
STUDY TOGETHER, WHEREVER WE ARE,
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YOUR WORD THIS MORNING.
AND WE JUST PRAY THAT YOUR
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SPIRIT WILL OPEN OUR EARS
THAT WE MAY HEAR, LORD, WHAT YOU
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WOULD HAVE US TO HEAR,
THAT WE MAY BE READY FOR
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THE DAY OF THE LORD. FOR
WE THANK YOU AND PRAISE YOU.
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IN JESUS' PRECIOUS AND
HOLY NAME WE PRAY, AMEN.
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OUR LESSON TODAY IS BROUGHT
TO US BY PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR.
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>>WHO ALSO FORGOT TO
TURN HIS MICROPHONE ON AGAIN.
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I WAS ENJOYING THE
PROGRAM SO MUCH THAT I FORGOT.
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WELCOME EVERYBODY. GOOD
TO SEE EACH PERSON HERE.
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WE'RE GLAD FOR
THOSE WHO MAY BE VISITING.
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I'M REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THE
AFCOE PROGRAM BECAUSE, I BELIEVE
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THAT AS THE GOSPEL GOES TO THE
WORLD, IT'S GOING TO BE NOT JUST
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PASTORS AND EVANGELISTS THAT DO
IT, I THINK THE MINISTERS NEED
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TO DO IT - THE MEMBERS, RATHER
- AND I THINK THAT AFCOE IS JUST
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ONE OF THE BEST PROGRAMS OUT
THERE TO TEACH MEMBERS 'HOW DO
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YOU GET INVOLVED IN EVANGELISM?'
SO THANK YOU FOR THAT.
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WE ARE CONTINUING OUR STUDY
IN THE FIRST AND SECOND BOOKS OF
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PETER - FEED MY SHEEP .
TODAY, ACTUALLY, WE'RE GOING TO
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BE READING THE LAST FEW VERSES
IN CHAPTER 2 - I'M SORRY, IN THE
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SECOND BOOK OF PETER AND - BUT
BEFORE WE DO, WE'RE GOING TO GET
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INTO OUR MEMORY
VERSE WITH OUR STUDY.
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THE STUDY TODAY IS
ON THE DAY OF THE LORD .
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WHEN YOU CALL THAT NUMBER ON
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WHICH IS 866-STUDY-MORE.
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AND SO, IT'S CALLED THE DAY
OF THE LORD - WE HAVE A MEMORY
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VERSE. THE MEMORY
VERSE COMES FROM 2
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PETER 3:11 AND YOU MIGHT WANT TO
FIND THAT - 2 PETER 3:11 - YOU
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CAN READ IT WITH ME TOGETHER
RIGHT OUT OF YOUR QUARTERLY.
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YOU READY? "SINCE
ALL OF THESE THINGS ARE
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TO BE DISSOLVED IN THIS
WAY, WHAT SORT OF PERSONS OUGHT
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YOU TO BE IN LEADING LIVES
OF HOLINESS AND GODLINESS?"
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AMEN. WELL, WE'VE
GOT A SECTION THAT
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GETS INTO THAT IN JUST A MINUTE.
BUT, BEFORE WE DO, I'D LIKE TO
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ENCOURAGE YOU - JUST
TURN WITH ME TO THE 2 BOOK OF
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PETER, CHAPTER 3. WE'RE
GOING TO READ CHAPTER 3.
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NOW THIS IS THE LAST VERSES IN
OUR STUDY ON PETER - THERE'S ONE
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MORE LESSON NEXT WEEK THAT
WILL BE COVERING, SORT OF, AN
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OVERVIEW OF THESE TWO BOOKS
AND WHAT WE LEARN FROM THEM, BUT
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RIGHT NOW WE'RE GOING TO KIND
OF TAKE THE LAST CHAPTER IN THE
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SECOND BOOK - 2 PETER CHAPTER 3
- AND I'M GOING TO READ THIS FOR
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YOU AND THEN WE'LL BACK UP AND
TAKE IT APART PIECE BY PIECE.
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ONE OF MY FAVORITE CHAPTERS,
"BELOVED, I NOW WRITE TO YOU
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THIS SECOND EPISTLE (IN BOTH OF
WHICH I STIR UP YOUR PURE MINDS
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BY WAY OF REMINDER) THAT YOU MAY
BE MINDFUL OF THE WORDS WHICH
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WERE SPOKEN BEFORE BY THE HOLY
PROPHETS, AND OF THE COMMANDMENT
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OF US, THE APOSTLES OF THE LORD
AND SAVIOR, KNOWING THIS FIRST:
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THAT SCOFFERS WILL COME IN THE
LAST DAYS, WALKING ACCORDING TO
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THEIR OWN LUSTS, AND SAYING,
'WHERE IS THE PROMISE OF HIS
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COMING? FOR
SINCE THE FATHERS FELL
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ASLEEP, ALL THINGS CONTINUE
AS THEY WERE FROM THE BEGINNING
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OF CREATION.' FOR
THIS THEY WILLFULLY FORGET:
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THAT BY THE WORD OF GOD THE
HEAVENS WERE OF OLD, AND THE
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EARTH STANDING OUT OF
WATER AND IN THE WATER, BY
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WHICH THE WORLD THAT THEN
EXISTED PERISHED, BEING FLOODED
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WITH WATER. BUT THE
HEAVENS AND THE EARTH
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WHICH ARE NOW PRESERVED BY THE
SAME WORD, ARE RESERVED FOR FIRE
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UNTIL THE DAY OF JUDGMENT
AND PERDITION OF UNGODLY MEN.
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BUT, BELOVED, DO NOT FORGET THIS
ONE THINGS, THAT WITH THE LORD
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ONE DAY IS AS A THOUSAND YEARS,
AND A THOUSAND YEARS AS ONE DAY.
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THE LORD IS NOT SLACK CONCERNING
HIS PROMISE, AS SOME COUNT
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SLACKNESS, BUT IS LONGSUFFERING
TOWARD US, NOT WILLING THAT ANY
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SHOULD PERISH BUT THAT
ALL SHOULD COME TO REPENTANCE.
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BUT THE DAY OF THE LORD WILL
COME AS A THIEF IN THE NIGHT, IN
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WHICH THE HEAVENS WILL PASS
AWAY WITH A GREAT NOISE, AND THE
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ELEMENTS WILL MELT WITH FERVENT
HEAT; BOTH THE EARTH AND THE
00:12:57.51\00:13:00.88
WORKS THAT ARE IN
IT WILL BE BURNED UP.
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THEREFORE, SINCE ALL THESE
THINGS WILL BE DISSOLVED, WHAT
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MANNER OF PERSONS OUGHT
YOU TO BE IN HOLY CONDUCT AND
00:13:06.61\00:13:09.32
GODLINESS, LOOKING FOR AND
HASTENING THE COMING OF THE DAY
00:13:09.35\00:13:12.92
OF GOD, BECAUSE OF WHICH THE
HEAVENS WILL BE DISSOLVED, BEING
00:13:12.95\00:13:16.12
ON FIRE, AND THE ELEMENTS
WILL MELT WITH FERVENT HEAT?
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NEVERTHELESS WE, ACCORDING
TO HIS PROMISE, LOOK FOR NEW
00:13:19.69\00:13:23.47
HEAVENS AND A NEW EARTH IN
WHICH RIGHTEOUSNESS DWELLS.
00:13:23.50\00:13:27.44
THEREFORE, BELOVED, LOOKING
FORWARD TO THESE THINGS, BE
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DILIGENT TO BE FOUND BY
HIM IN PEACE, WITHOUT SPOT AND
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BLAMELESS; AND CONSIDER THAT
THE LONGSUFFERING OF OUR LORD IS
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SALVATION - AS ALSO OUR BELOVED
BROTHER PAUL, ACCORDING TO THE
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WISDOM GIVEN TO HIM, HAS WRITTEN
TO YOU, AS ALSO IN ALL HIS
00:13:40.92\00:13:44.29
EPISTLES, SPEAKING IN THEM OF
THESE THINGS, IN WHICH ARE SOME
00:13:44.32\00:13:47.32
THINGS HARD TO UNDERSTAND, WHICH
UNTAUGHT AND UNSTABLE PEOPLE
00:13:47.36\00:13:51.06
TWIST TO THEIR OWN DESTRUCTION,
AS THEY DO ALSO THE REST OF THE
00:13:51.09\00:13:53.76
SCRIPTURES. YOU
THEREFORE, BELOVED, SINCE
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YOU KNOW THIS BEFOREHAND, BEWARE
LEST YOU ALSO FALL FROM YOUR OWN
00:13:56.60\00:14:00.54
STEADFASTNESS, BEING LED AWAY
WITH THE ERROR OF THE WICKED;
00:14:00.57\00:14:04.14
BUT GROW IN THE GRACE
AND KNOWLEDGE OF OUR LORD
00:14:04.17\00:14:07.28
AND SAVIOR JESUS
CHRIST. TO HIM BE THE GLORY
00:14:07.31\00:14:10.28
BOTH NOW AND FOREVER. AMEN."
00:14:10.31\00:14:13.72
ALRIGHT, THAT'S THE END
OF PETER'S WORDS TO US IN
00:14:13.75\00:14:16.99
SCRIPTURE. NOW, I
WANTED TO READ IT ALL AND
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JUST GET IT TOGETHER
SO WE'D HAVE THE CONTEXT.
00:14:19.39\00:14:22.42
NOW WE'RE GOING TO BACK UP AND
WE'RE GOING TO TAKE IT ALL APART
00:14:22.46\00:14:24.66
LITTLE BY LITTLE. THIS IS A VERY
00:14:24.69\00:14:26.96
IMPORTANT CHAPTER. IT
COVERS SO MUCH INFORMATION.
00:14:27.00\00:14:29.43
MATTER OF FACT, THOSE OF YOU
IN THE STUDIO - WE'VE GOT A GUY
00:14:29.46\00:14:33.27
BACK THERE THAT'S KIND OF
CRANKING AND HE'S FILMING - HE'S
00:14:33.30\00:14:35.47
GOING TO HAVE TO CRANK ABOUT
ANOTHER FOUR OR FIVE MINUTES
00:14:35.50\00:14:37.81
BECAUSE I'M JUST TELLING YOU,
I MIGHT GO A COUPLE MINUTES LONG
00:14:37.84\00:14:40.48
TODAY. THIS IS SUCH
AN IMPORTANT LESSON.
00:14:40.51\00:14:44.38
ALRIGHT, FIRST OF ALL,
THE LINE OF AUTHORITY .
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SOMETHING YOU'LL SEE EARLY ON
IN THIS LESSON IS THAT PETER IS
00:14:47.65\00:14:54.29
COMPARING THE TEACHINGS OF
THE APOSTLES WITH SCRIPTURE.
00:14:54.32\00:15:00.60
THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT BECAUSE
THE BIBLE THEY HAD BACK IN
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PETER'S DAY WAS THE OLD
TESTAMENT PROPHETS AND THE
00:15:02.96\00:15:06.17
PENTATEUCH AND THE PSALMS.
AND PETER, NOTICE WHAT HE SAYS,
00:15:06.20\00:15:10.47
IN 2 PETER 3, VERSES 1 AND
2, "BELOVED, I NOW WRITE TO YOU
00:15:10.51\00:15:14.28
THIS SECOND EPISTLE (IN BOTH OF
WHICH I STIR UP YOUR PURE MINDS
00:15:14.31\00:15:17.81
BY WAY OF REMINDER), THAT
YOU MAY BE MINDFUL OF THE WORDS
00:15:17.85\00:15:21.15
WHICH WERE SPOKEN BEFORE BY
THE HOLY PROPHETS, AND OF THE
00:15:21.18\00:15:24.09
COMMANDMENT OF US, THE APOSTLES
OF THE LORD AND SAVIOR," -
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NOTICE THE CONNECTION THAT HE'S
MAKING BETWEEN THE WORDS OF THE
00:15:28.62\00:15:31.39
APOSTLES AND THE
PROPHETS IN HIS EPISTLE.
00:15:31.43\00:15:34.93
THEY EVEN UNDERSTOOD BACK THEN
WHAT PAUL SAYS - AND PETER SAYS,
00:15:34.96\00:15:40.74
'HOLY MEN SPOKE AS THEY
WERE MOVED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT.
00:15:40.77\00:15:43.07
PETER KNEW THEY'D BEEN FILLED
WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT, HE KNEW
00:15:43.10\00:15:45.41
THAT GOD HAD INSPIRED HIM TO
WRITE THE THINGS HE WAS WRITING.
00:15:45.44\00:15:48.44
THEY, EVEN BACK THEN, BELIEVED
WHAT THEY WERE WRITING WAS
00:15:48.48\00:15:50.88
SCRIPTURE. ANOTHER
EXAMPLE FOR THIS IS THE
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END OF CHAPTER 3 -
I JUST READ IT TO YOU.
00:15:53.42\00:15:55.75
NOTICE WHAT PETER SAYS
ABOUT PAUL - YOU EVER HEARD THE
00:15:55.78\00:15:58.82
EXPRESSION 'PETER ROBBING
PAUL' - THIS IS NOT THAT.
00:15:58.85\00:16:03.16
BUT HERE PETER DOES TALK ABOUT
PAUL, "AND CONSIDER THAT THE
00:16:03.19\00:16:06.56
LONGSUFFERING OF OUR LORD IS
SALVATION - AS ALSO OUR BELOVED
00:16:06.59\00:16:11.53
BROTHER PAUL, ACCORDING TO
THE WISDOM GIVEN TO HIM, HAS
00:16:11.57\00:16:14.70
WRITTEN" - PAUL - "HAS WRITTEN
TO YOU, AS ALSO IN ALL HIS
00:16:14.74\00:16:18.64
EPISTLES," - THERE YOU'VE
GOT THAT WORD 'EPISTLES' AGAIN -
00:16:18.67\00:16:21.51
"SPEAKING IN THEM...IN
WHICH SOME THINGS ARE HARD TO
00:16:21.54\00:16:23.75
UNDERSTAND," - NOT THAT THEY'RE
WRONG, BUT HE SAYS, "THOSE WHO
00:16:23.78\00:16:26.78
ARE UNTAUGHT AND UNSTABLE" -
TWIST THE THINGS THAT PAUL SAYS.
00:16:26.82\00:16:30.09
WHAT PAUL SAYS IS TRUE, BUT IT
SAYS THEY DO THIS AS THEY DO THE
00:16:30.12\00:16:33.09
REST OF THE SCRIPTURE.
THEY CALL PAUL'S WRITING PART OF
00:16:33.12\00:16:37.73
THE SCRIPTURE BECAUSE, HE SAYS,
'THESE PEOPLE ARE TWISTING PAUL
00:16:37.76\00:16:41.00
AS THEY DO THE
REST OF THE SCRIPTURE.'
00:16:41.03\00:16:43.63
ISN'T THAT INTERESTING? SO
EVEN IN THEIR DAY, PETER IS
00:16:43.67\00:16:46.90
SAYING, 'WHAT I'M WRITING,
WHAT PAUL WROTE IS SCRIPTURE.
00:16:46.94\00:16:50.64
BE MINDFUL OF THE PROPHETS (OLD)
AND THE APOSTLES (NEW) - SEE
00:16:50.67\00:16:55.41
THAT? SO HE'S
GIVING US A LINE OF
00:16:55.44\00:16:57.15
AUTHORITY THAT - THEY DIDN'T
SAY, 'OH WE'RE JUST WRITING YOU
00:16:57.18\00:17:00.12
A LETTER. OH, WE HAD
NO IDEA SOMEBODY WOULD
00:17:00.15\00:17:01.98
CONSIDER THIS INSPIRED.' NO,
THEY DID KNOW IT WAS INSPIRED.
00:17:02.02\00:17:05.82
AND SO, EVEN BACK THEN, AS THEY
WERE WRITING IT, THEY KNEW THESE
00:17:05.85\00:17:09.72
WERE MESSAGES THAT
GOD HAD GIVEN THEM.
00:17:09.76\00:17:12.49
AND IT WAS JESUS THAT
TOLD PETER, 'I WANT YOU TO FEED
00:17:12.53\00:17:18.77
PEOPLE THE WORD OF GOD.' YOU
REMEMBER IN JOHN 21 JESUS KEPT
00:17:18.80\00:17:23.47
SAYING, 'SIMON, DO YOU LOVE ME?'
- SIMON WAS ANOTHER NAME FOR
00:17:23.51\00:17:26.91
PETER - HE SAID, 'LORD, YOU KNOW
I LOVE YOU.' WHAT DID JESUS SAY?
00:17:26.94\00:17:30.78
'FEED MY SHEEP.' AND HE ASKED
HIM ANOTHER TIME, 'SIMON, DO YOU
00:17:30.81\00:17:34.45
LOVE ME?' AND HE SAID, 'I LOVE
00:17:34.48\00:17:37.19
YOU.' WHAT DID
JESUS SAY? 'FEED MY LAMBS.
00:17:37.22\00:17:42.06
THEN HE ASKS HIM A
THIRD TIME, 'DO YOU LOVE ME?'
00:17:42.09\00:17:44.56
'I LOVE YOU.'
'OKAY, PROVE IT.' DO WHAT?
00:17:44.59\00:17:47.20
'FEED THE SHEEP.' SO HE SAYS,
'FEED THE SHEEP' 'FEED MY LAMBS'
00:17:47.23\00:17:51.13
'FEED THE SHEEP' -
WHAT DO YOU FEED THEM?
00:17:51.17\00:17:54.67
PETER SAYS, I DON'T WANT TO
CONTINUE TO FEED YOU FOREVER ON
00:17:54.70\00:17:58.24
THE MILK, I WANT TO GIVE
YOU THE MEAT OF THE WORD.
00:17:58.27\00:18:01.78
AND SO HE'S TALKING ABOUT THE
LAMBS GET THE MILK; THE GROWN-UP
00:18:01.81\00:18:06.48
SHEEP GET THE MEAT OR THE GRAIN
OF THE WORD AND THIS IS WHERE
00:18:06.51\00:18:11.15
THE AUTHORITY WAS. NOW
SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ, FOR
00:18:11.19\00:18:13.29
ME, I THINK 2 PETER
1:19 - WHO HAS THAT ONE?
00:18:13.32\00:18:18.43
OKAY, WE'LL GET A
MICROPHONE ON THAT.
00:18:18.46\00:18:20.06
WHILE THEY'RE DOING THAT,
I'M GOING TO GO ON TO THE NEXT
00:18:20.10\00:18:22.83
SECTION HERE IN - UNDER
THE SECTION ABOUT SCOFFERS.
00:18:22.86\00:18:27.14
IT TELLS US IN 2 PETER 3:3
AND 4, "KNOWING THIS FIRST: THAT
00:18:27.17\00:18:31.97
SCOFFERS WILL COME IN THE
LAST DAYS, WALKING ACCORDING TO
00:18:32.01\00:18:35.18
THEIR OWN LUSTS, AND SAYING,
'WHERE IS THE PROMISE OF HIS
00:18:35.21\00:18:38.05
COMING? FOR
SINCE THE FATHERS FELL
00:18:38.08\00:18:40.25
ASLEEP, ALL THINGS CONTINUE AS
THEY WERE FROM THE BEGINNING OF
00:18:40.28\00:18:43.85
CREATION.'" AND SO, EVEN THEN,
PETER SAID, 'THERE'S GOING TO BE
00:18:43.89\00:18:47.56
PEOPLE WHO ARE GOING TO MOCK AND
THEY'RE NOT GOING TO BELIEVE.
00:18:47.59\00:18:49.72
THEY'RE GOING TO SCOFF AT
THE WORD OF GOD' - AND DOES THAT
00:18:49.76\00:18:52.36
HAPPEN TODAY? IT DOES.
ALRIGHT, WE'RE GOING TO GO
00:18:52.39\00:18:55.73
AHEAD NOW, I THINK
WE'RE READY. 2 PETER 1:19.
00:18:55.76\00:18:59.33
>>"AND SO WE HAVE THE PROPHETIC
WORD CONFIRMED, WHICH YOU DO
00:18:59.37\00:19:03.27
WELL TO HEED AS A LIGHT THAT
SHINES IN A DARK PLACE, UNTIL
00:19:03.30\00:19:06.94
THE DAY DAWNS AND THE MORNING
STAR RISES IN YOUR HEARTS."
00:19:06.98\00:19:10.68
>>THAT WHAT WE HEAR - PETER
IS SAYING THAT THE WORD OF GOD -
00:19:10.71\00:19:14.08
THE WORD OF THE PROPHETS
IS SOMETHING THAT DAWNS.
00:19:14.12\00:19:16.62
NOW, DOES THE SUN GET
BRIGHTER DURING THE DAWN?
00:19:16.65\00:19:19.09
IT'S AN INCREASING LIGHT -
AND SO, WHAT BEGAN WITH THE
00:19:19.12\00:19:23.32
PENTATEUCH AND THE PROPHETS
AND THE PSALMS AND THE MINOR
00:19:23.36\00:19:27.23
PROPHETS THAT EXPANDS, IN THE
NEW TESTAMENT, TO THE APOSTLES
00:19:27.30\00:19:31.30
AND THE OTHER - THE LETTERS AND
THE EPISTLES AND THE WRITINGS.
00:19:31.33\00:19:35.90
SO, IT WAS A GROWING
LIGHT. AND THEN PETER WARNS THAT
00:19:35.94\00:19:38.67
SCOFFERS WILL
COME IN THE LAST DAYS.
00:19:38.71\00:19:40.14
AND WHERE DO THESE
SCOFFERS COME FROM?
00:19:40.18\00:19:42.31
ARE THESE SCOFFERS IN THE
WORLD THAT SAY, 'OH, WHERE'S THE
00:19:42.34\00:19:44.81
PROMISE OF HIS COMING?
YOU GUYS HAVE BEEN TALKING
00:19:44.85\00:19:46.72
ABOUT JESUS
COMING. HE'S NEVER COME'?
00:19:46.75\00:19:50.45
I DON'T THINK SO. I
THINK WHEN PETER SAYS
00:19:50.49\00:19:52.82
'SCOFFERS WILL ARISE IN THE
LAST DAYS, HE'S TALKING ABOUT
00:19:52.85\00:19:55.06
SCOFFERS IN THE CHURCH.
DOESN'T PAUL SAY 'EVEN FROM
00:19:55.09\00:20:00.53
AMONG YOUR OWN
SELVES THERE'LL BE WOLVES'?
00:20:00.56\00:20:04.23
AND I THINK WHAT PETER'S
PREDICTING IS EVEN AMONG THOSE
00:20:04.27\00:20:07.50
WHO CLAIM TO BELIEVE IN
THE COMING OF THE LORD, THEY'RE
00:20:07.54\00:20:09.70
GOING TO START DOUBTING AND
THEY'RE GOING TO SAY, 'OH YEAH,
00:20:09.74\00:20:11.91
WE'VE BEEN HEARING THIS FOR
A LONG TIME' AND 'HE'S NEVER
00:20:11.94\00:20:15.98
COMING'. YOU
KNOW, I THINK THERE WERE
00:20:16.01\00:20:17.21
SOME PEOPLE WHO STARTED OUT
HELPING NOAH BUILD THE ARK, BUT
00:20:17.25\00:20:21.28
AS THE YEARS WENT BY - AS THE
DECADES WENT BY AND THERE WAS
00:20:21.32\00:20:25.42
NO FLOOD AND THERE WAS NO RAIN,
THEY SAID, 'OH YEAH, FLOOD,
00:20:25.45\00:20:28.42
FLOOD, FLOOD YOU'VE BEEN TELLING
US ABOUT THE FLOOD - THERE'S
00:20:28.46\00:20:30.26
NEVER GOING TO BE A FLOOD.
EVER SINCE THE FATHERS FELL
00:20:30.29\00:20:32.26
ASLEEP IT'S BEEN DAY AFTER DAY
JUST BEAUTIFUL SUNNY SKIES.' AND
00:20:32.29\00:20:38.50
THAT'S WHY PETER THEN REFERS TO
THIS. HE SAID THEY'RE WILFULLY
00:20:38.53\00:20:42.40
IGNORANT OF WHAT HAPPENED BACK
IN THE DAYS OF THE FLOOD - THAT
00:20:42.44\00:20:45.01
GOD CAN CHANGE THINGS QUICKLY.
SO YOU'VE GOT SCOFFERS - 'WHERE
00:20:45.04\00:20:49.24
IS THE PROMISE OF HIS COMING?'
- NOW, YOU KNOW, ONE REASON
00:20:49.28\00:20:52.68
THERE ARE SCOFFERS IN THE
CHURCH - AND EVEN IN THE WORLD?
00:20:52.71\00:20:57.55
IS BECAUSE - HAVE THERE BEEN
PEOPLE WHO HAVE SET DATES FOR
00:20:57.59\00:21:00.72
THE SECOND
COMING, THROUGH HISTORY?
00:21:00.76\00:21:03.83
WHAT HAPPENS EVERY TIME ANOTHER
PREACHER COMES ALONG AND SAYS,
00:21:03.86\00:21:06.53
'I'VE FINALLY FIGURED IT OUT -
ABSOLUTELY IRON-CLAD - I'VE GOT
00:21:06.56\00:21:09.93
THE DATE WHEN JESUS IS COMING.'
AND, IN CASE YOU DIDN'T KNOW IT,
00:21:09.96\00:21:13.47
ALL OF THOSE DATES HAVE COME AND
GONE AND IT HASN'T HAPPENED YET.
00:21:13.50\00:21:16.74
NOW, THERE WAS ONE GROUP THAT
SET A DATE AND WHEN JESUS DIDN'T
00:21:16.77\00:21:19.74
COME, THEY SAID, 'WELL, HE DID
COME SPIRITUALLY.' DID YOU KNOW
00:21:19.77\00:21:24.08
THAT? YEAH, SO THE
WAY THEY GOT AROUND
00:21:24.11\00:21:26.78
THEIR FAILURE IS THEY SAY
HE CAME SPIRITUALLY AND - BUT
00:21:26.82\00:21:32.19
EVERYBODY THAT SETS DATES, THE
OTHER THING THAT HAPPENS, YOU
00:21:32.22\00:21:35.39
KNOW THE OLD PARABLE
ABOUT THE BOY WHO CRIES WOLF?
00:21:35.42\00:21:38.89
AND, BOY, JUST GETS A LAUGH
WHEN HE SHOUTS 'WOLF, WOLF!'
00:21:38.93\00:21:42.56
AND EVERYBODY FROM THE VILLAGE
WOULD COME UP TO HIM WHERE HE
00:21:42.60\00:21:44.60
WAS WATCHING THE SHEEP AND
THEY'D SAY, 'WHERE'S THE WOLF?'
00:21:44.63\00:21:46.30
AND HE'D LAUGH, 'HA
HA! THERE'S NO WOLF!'
00:21:46.33\00:21:48.30
AND A FEW DAYS LATER
HE'D CRY 'WOLF! WOLF! WOLF!'
00:21:48.34\00:21:50.44
AND ALL THE PEOPLE WOULD COME
UP WITH THEIR PITCHFORKS TO KILL
00:21:50.47\00:21:53.04
THE WOLF - THERE'S NO WOLF.
00:21:53.07\00:21:55.54
FINALLY THE WOLF DID COME AND
THE BOY CRIED AND NOBODY CAME.
00:21:55.58\00:21:59.05
AND WHAT THE DEVIL IS DOING
IS, THROUGH THESE FALSE PROPHETS
00:21:59.08\00:22:04.35
THAT HAVE SAID, 'I KNOW THE DATE
FOR THE LORD'S COMING' - AND
00:22:04.39\00:22:07.39
WHEN THE LORD DOESN'T COME
- NOW, WHEN PASTORS SAY 'GET
00:22:07.42\00:22:10.23
READY, THE LORD IS COMING SOON'
- NOT EVEN SETTING A DATE -
00:22:10.26\00:22:12.76
PEOPLE SAY, 'OH, WE'VE BEEN
HEARING THIS ALL OUR LIVES.'
00:22:12.79\00:22:15.70
'BACK DURING WORLD WAR I WE
HEARD THIS WAS IT - 'THE WHOLE
00:22:15.73\00:22:19.13
WORLD'S AT WAR. THIS
HAS GOT TO BE THE END.
00:22:19.17\00:22:21.10
WHAT COULD BE
WORSE?'' ANY OF YOU
00:22:21.14\00:22:23.17
REMEMBER WORLD WAR
I? NOT TOO MANY LEFT.
00:22:23.20\00:22:26.51
I KNEW PEOPLE THAT
FOUGHT IN WORLD WAR I.
00:22:26.54\00:22:28.91
THEY'VE ALL PASSED AWAY NOW.
AND THEN, WORLD WAR II - EVEN
00:22:28.94\00:22:34.05
MORE DEADLY - AND YOU'VE
GOT NUCLEAR WEAPONS - OR ATOMIC
00:22:34.08\00:22:37.39
WEAPONS - AND
EVERYONE SAID, 'THIS IS IT.
00:22:37.42\00:22:39.89
THIS IS IT. YOU
BETTER NOT EVEN BUY GREEN
00:22:39.92\00:22:43.43
BANANAS BECAUSE YOU'RE
NOT GOING TO HAVE TIME.
00:22:43.46\00:22:45.69
THE LORD'S COMING ANY DAY
NOW.' AND THEN HE DIDN'T COME.
00:22:45.73\00:22:50.57
AND THEN THERE HAVE BEEN ALL
KINDS OF OTHER THINGS, YOU KNOW,
00:22:50.60\00:22:52.40
THERE'S BEEN WARS, THERE'S BEEN
PLAGUES AND THEN THE PLANETS
00:22:52.43\00:22:57.81
LINED UP IN 1984 AND THEN
ISRAEL WAS REFORMED AS A NATION.
00:22:57.84\00:23:02.01
THEY SAID FORTY YEARS AFTER
ISRAEL FORMS AS A NATION THAT
00:23:02.04\00:23:04.45
WILL BE IT - 1988 -
THAT'S IT. HAL LINDSEY WROTE
00:23:04.48\00:23:07.68
A BOOK ABOUT THAT.
EVERYBODY WAS SURE.
00:23:07.72\00:23:10.12
IT DIDN'T HAPPEN. AND
SO, NOW YOU HEAR PEOPLE IN
00:23:10.15\00:23:13.05
THE CHURCH, WHEN YOU SAY, 'THE
LORD IS COMING AGAIN' - YOU HEAR
00:23:13.09\00:23:15.36
PEOPLE SAY, 'ALL THINGS
CONTINUE AS THEY WERE FROM THE
00:23:15.39\00:23:18.73
BEGINNING OF THE AGE.
SURE HE'S COMING - HE'S COMING.
00:23:18.76\00:23:22.03
YOU GO AHEAD, GET EXCITED.' AND
THAT'S WHY CHRIST SAID, 'IN SUCH
00:23:22.06\00:23:26.40
AN HOUR AS YOU THINK NOT,
THE SON OF MAN COMES. WHO IS HE
00:23:26.43\00:23:29.60
TALKING TO? THE WORLD OR THE
CHURCH? WHEN THE CHURCH GETS TO
00:23:29.64\00:23:34.08
THE PLACE WHERE THEY'RE
BLASÉ ABOUT THE IMMINENT SECOND
00:23:34.11\00:23:37.18
COMING, THAT'S WHEN
IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN.
00:23:37.21\00:23:39.71
WHEN EVEN PEOPLE WHO TAKE THE
NAME OF CHRIST - EVEN PEOPLE WHO
00:23:39.75\00:23:42.68
TAKE THE NAME 'ADVENTIST' WHO,
OSTENSIBLY, ARE THE ONES WHO
00:23:42.72\00:23:46.42
BELIEVE IN THE IMMINENT ADVENT,
WHEN THEY GET TO THE PLACE WHERE
00:23:46.45\00:23:49.46
THEY JUST REALLY DON'T GET
EXCITED ABOUT THE SECOND COMING,
00:23:49.49\00:23:52.36
THAT'S WHEN YOU MIGHT
FIND IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN.
00:23:52.39\00:23:55.80
THAT'S WHAT JESUS SAID, 'IN SUCH
AN HOUR AS YOU THINK NOT, THE
00:23:55.83\00:23:58.60
SON OF MAN IS COMING.' THE
DAY SHOULD NOT OVERTAKE US AS A
00:23:58.63\00:24:02.54
THIEF, BUT SO MANY
PEOPLE HAVE LOST FAITH.
00:24:02.57\00:24:07.88
THERE'S ANOTHER VERSE SIMILAR TO
2 PETER CHAPTER 3 - YOU NOTICE
00:24:07.91\00:24:11.21
JUDE, HE ACTUALLY PLAGIARIZED A
LITTLE BIT FROM PETER - I WONDER
00:24:11.25\00:24:15.18
IF THEY SUED HIM - JUDE 17
- THERE'S ONLY ONE CHAPTER -
00:24:15.22\00:24:18.89
THROUGH 19, "BUT YOU, BELOVED,
REMEMBER THE WORDS WHICH WERE
00:24:18.92\00:24:22.29
SPOKEN BEFORE BY THE APOSTLES OF
OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST: HOW THEY
00:24:22.32\00:24:25.73
TOLD YOU THAT THERE WOULD
BE MOCKERS IN THE LAST TIME WHO
00:24:25.76\00:24:28.56
WOULD WALK ACCORDING TO
THEIR OWN UNGODLY LUSTS.
00:24:28.60\00:24:31.47
THESE ARE SENSUAL PERSONS, WHO
CAUSE DIVISIONS," - NOTICE, DOES
00:24:31.50\00:24:35.87
HE TELL US THAT THEY'RE IN THE
CHURCH - "SENSUAL PERSONS WHO
00:24:35.90\00:24:39.87
CAUSE DIVISIONS,
NOT HAVING THE SPIRIT."
00:24:39.91\00:24:42.21
HE'S TALKING ABOUT PEOPLE WHO
ARE CLAIMING TO BE CHRISTIANS.
00:24:42.24\00:24:47.12
NOW, LET ME MAKE A SUGGESTION
TO YOU AND LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU
00:24:47.15\00:24:50.75
THINK OF THIS. I
THINK THE LORD - NOTHING
00:24:50.79\00:24:54.69
SURPRISES THE LORD - I THINK THE
LORD KNEW THAT THERE WOULD BE A
00:24:54.72\00:25:00.06
LOT OF FALSE ALARMS BEFORE THE
REAL THING HAPPENED BECAUSE THE
00:25:00.10\00:25:02.60
DEVIL WOULD DO THAT TO TRY
TO GET PEOPLE UNPREPARED - HAVE
00:25:02.63\00:25:05.80
ENOUGH FALSE ALARMS AND PRETTY
SOON NOTHING ALARMS ANYBODY.
00:25:05.83\00:25:08.70
YOU SLEEP THROUGH THE ALARM
CLOCK OFTEN ENOUGH YOU DON'T
00:25:08.74\00:25:10.71
HEAR IT ANYMORE.
AND JESUS FORETOLD -
00:25:10.74\00:25:16.41
WHEN HE TALKS ABOUT THE
SECOND COMING, IN MATTHEW 24, HE
00:25:16.44\00:25:20.32
FORETOLD, AT THE VERY END
OF THAT CHAPTER, IF THAT EVIL
00:25:20.35\00:25:24.75
SERVANT SAYS IN HIS HEART,
'MY LORD DELAYS HIS COMING' -
00:25:24.79\00:25:27.82
NOW WHO IS SAYING, 'MY
LORD DELAYS HIS COMING' -
00:25:27.86\00:25:29.69
THE WORLD OR THE
SERVANT? >>THE SERVANT.
00:25:29.72\00:25:31.93
>>AN EVIL SERVANT - HE'S LOST
FAITH - 'IF THAT EVIL SERVANT
00:25:31.96\00:25:35.36
SAYS IN HIS HEART' - HE DOESN'T
EVEN SAY IT OUTSIDE - OUT LOUD -
00:25:35.40\00:25:39.03
'MY LORD DELAYS HIS COMING' AND
BEGINS TO EAT AND DRINK WITH THE
00:25:39.07\00:25:42.37
DRUNKEN AND SMITE HIS FELLOW
SERVANTS, THE MASTER OF THAT
00:25:42.40\00:25:46.94
SERVANT, HE'LL COME IN A
DAY HE'S NOT LOOKING FOR HIM
00:25:46.98\00:25:49.34
AND IN AN HOUR
HE'S NOT AWARE OF.
00:25:49.38\00:25:51.88
AND THAT AWFUL - THAT SOUNDS
AN AWFUL LOT LIKE EXODUS 32:1.
00:25:51.91\00:25:57.85
IT SAYS, "NOW WHEN THE PEOPLE
SAW THAT MOSES DELAYED" - NOTICE
00:25:57.89\00:26:01.29
THE WORD 'DELAY'.
WHAT DOES DELAY MEAN?
00:26:01.32\00:26:04.56
IF A PERSON SAYS, 'WELL, I
DIDN'T MAKE IT BECAUSE I WAS
00:26:04.59\00:26:06.59
DELAYED.' IT MEANS THEY
CAME LATER THAN EXPECTED.
00:26:06.63\00:26:10.97
AND SO, WHEN JESUS WAS TALKING
ABOUT THE SECOND COMING, HE USES
00:26:11.00\00:26:14.57
THE LANGUAGE OF 'IT
COULD BE LATER THAN YOU THINK'.
00:26:14.60\00:26:17.37
IT MAY LOOK LIKE IT'S DELAYED
- IS THAT HOW IT LOOKS TODAY?
00:26:17.41\00:26:22.58
I MEAN, HOW MANY PEOPLE THOUGHT
IT WOULD HAVE BEEN BEFORE TODAY?
00:26:22.61\00:26:26.78
DIDN'T THE APOSTLE SAY,
'BEHOLD, I COME QUICKLY?'
00:26:26.82\00:26:30.69
SO IF THAT EVIL SERVANT SAYS,
'MY LORD DELAYS HIS COMING' -
00:26:30.72\00:26:34.06
MATTHEW 24 - WHAT'S
THE SUBJECT OF MATTHEW 24?
00:26:34.09\00:26:38.99
SECOND COMING AND
SIGNS OF JESUS, RIGHT?
00:26:39.03\00:26:41.83
MATTHEW 25 THERE'S A
PARABLE. SOMEONE READ THAT
00:26:41.86\00:26:45.97
FOR ME, MATTHEW 25:5.
OKAY, NATHAN, YOU GOT THAT?
00:26:46.00\00:26:49.94
GO AHEAD. >>"BUT
WHILE THE BRIDEGROOM WAS
00:26:49.97\00:26:52.51
DELAYED, THEY ALL
SLUMBERED AND SLEPT."
00:26:52.54\00:26:55.71
>>OH, YOU KNOW, THE
PARABLE OF THE TEN VIRGINS?
00:26:55.74\00:26:58.45
WHY DO THEY GO TO
SLEEP? >>THE BRIDEGROOM.
00:26:58.48\00:27:01.98
>>THE BRIDEGROOM -
WHO'S THE BRIDEGROOM?
00:27:02.02\00:27:04.79
COME ON, SAY IT. >>JESUS.
00:27:04.82\00:27:07.19
>>AND WHAT DOES
IT SAY ABOUT JESUS?
00:27:07.22\00:27:09.19
DOES HE SHOW UP
ON TIME? >>DELAYED.
00:27:09.22\00:27:11.33
>>OR DOES IT LOOK
LIKE HE'S DELAYED?
00:27:11.36\00:27:13.73
NOW I'VE BEEN AT SEVERAL
WEDDINGS WHERE THE BRIDE WAS
00:27:13.76\00:27:16.43
LATE, BUT NOT TOO
OFTEN THE BRIDEGROOM.
00:27:16.46\00:27:20.24
I WAS AT ONE WEDDING WHERE
THE BRIDE WAS AN HOUR LATE.
00:27:20.27\00:27:24.21
BUT USUALLY THE BRIDEGROOM'S
THERE, BUT HERE THE BRIDEGROOM
00:27:24.24\00:27:27.28
IS DELAYED. NOW, IT DOESN'T SAY
THAT HE JUST, YOU KNOW, FORGOT -
00:27:27.31\00:27:31.88
HE SLEPT IN.
SOMETHING HOLDS HIM UP.
00:27:31.91\00:27:35.42
WHY DOES PETER SAY THAT THE LORD
IS COMING LATER THAN WE THINK?
00:27:35.45\00:27:38.65
'NOT WILLING THAT ANY SHOULD
PERISH, BUT ALL SHOULD COME TO
00:27:38.69\00:27:43.32
REPENTANCE.' HE WANTS AS
MANY TO BE SAVED AS POSSIBLE.
00:27:43.36\00:27:46.73
BUT YOU NOTICE THE WORD
'DELAY' - 'DELAY' - 'DELAY'?
00:27:46.76\00:27:49.13
LET ME GIVE YOU ANOTHER ONE:
SAMUEL TOLD KING SAUL, 'GO DOWN
00:27:49.16\00:27:54.84
BEFORE ME TO GILGAL. I
WILL SURELY COME AND OFFER
00:27:54.87\00:27:59.84
BURNT OFFERINGS BEFORE YOU GO
TO BATTLE WITH THE PHILISTINES.
00:27:59.87\00:28:02.34
SEVEN DAYS YOU WAIT AND I WILL
COME AND SHOW YOU WHAT TO DO.'
00:28:02.38\00:28:06.65
WELL, SAUL, THEN GOES DOWN TO
THE BATTLE, THE PHILISTINES ARE
00:28:06.68\00:28:10.59
ALL GATHERED ON ONE SIDE AND THE
ARMY OF ISRAEL IS GATHERED ON
00:28:10.62\00:28:13.22
THE OTHER SIDE AND THEY'RE
GETTING ALL READY FOR THE BATTLE
00:28:13.25\00:28:16.06
AND SIX DAYS GO BY AND
THEY KEEP WAITING FOR SAMUEL.
00:28:16.09\00:28:18.26
SEVEN DAYS GO BY - AT THE
BEGINNING OF THE SEVENTH DAY,
00:28:18.29\00:28:20.76
SAMUEL'S NOT
THERE. SAUL SAID, 'I'M
00:28:20.80\00:28:23.93
TIRED OF WAITING. HE'S DELAYED.
00:28:23.97\00:28:26.07
I'M GOING TO GO AHEAD AND I'LL
OFFER SACRIFICE FOR MYSELF.' AND
00:28:26.10\00:28:30.71
HE WASN'T SUPPOSED TO DO
THAT BECAUSE ONLY THE PRIEST WAS
00:28:30.74\00:28:32.71
SUPPOSED TO DO
THAT. AND WHAT HAPPENED?
00:28:32.74\00:28:35.41
IN THE TIME THAT HE WAS
TESTED, THEN SAMUEL CAME.
00:28:35.44\00:28:42.68
THE PEOPLE SAW MOSES
DELAYED AND WHAT HAPPENED?
00:28:42.72\00:28:47.26
THEY WENT AND THEY
MADE A GOLDEN CALF.
00:28:47.29\00:28:49.29
THEY WERE BEING
TESTED. AND THEN MOSES CAME.
00:28:49.32\00:28:52.76
DID SAMUEL COME? YEAH.
00:28:52.79\00:28:55.16
LATER THAN THEY
THOUGHT, BUT HE CAME.
00:28:55.20\00:28:57.23
AND KING SAUL LOST
FAITH. DID MOSES COME?
00:28:57.27\00:29:01.17
YEAH, LATER THAN THEY
THOUGHT. AND WHAT DID HE FIND?
00:29:01.20\00:29:05.04
MANY OF THEM HAD LOST
FAITH. COULD THAT HAPPEN AGAIN?
00:29:05.07\00:29:09.64
>>YES. >>COULD WE BE LIVING
00:29:09.68\00:29:11.01
IN A TIME OF TESTING? AND
WHILE THE BRIDEGROOM TARRIED
00:29:11.05\00:29:14.28
FIVE WISE; FIVE FOOLISH -
SOME WERE PREPARED FOR THE
00:29:14.32\00:29:18.55
POSSIBILITY OF A DELAY.
ISN'T THAT WHAT IT'S SAYING?
00:29:18.59\00:29:22.62
THEY HAD STORED EXTRA OIL -
TALKING ABOUT THE PARABLE OF THE
00:29:22.66\00:29:25.03
TEN VIRGINS. THEY HAD STORED
EXTRA OIL - THEY WERE PREPARED.
00:29:25.06\00:29:27.50
THIS LANGUAGE OF A POTENTIAL
DELAY IS ALL THROUGH THE BIBLE.
00:29:27.56\00:29:32.03
HABAKKUK CHAPTER 2, VERSE 3,
"FOR THE VISION IS YET FOR AN
00:29:32.07\00:29:36.24
APPOINTED TIME; BUT AT THE END
IT WILL SPEAK, AND IT WILL NOT
00:29:36.27\00:29:39.57
LIE. THOUGH IT
TARRIES, WAIT FOR IT;
00:29:39.61\00:29:43.75
BECAUSE IT WILL SURELY
COME, IT WILL NOT TARRY."
00:29:43.78\00:29:45.91
IN OTHER WORDS, IT'LL
APPEAR THAT HE'S LATE.
00:29:45.95\00:29:48.58
HEBREWS 10:37, "FOR YET A LITTLE
WHILE, AND HE WHO IS COMING WILL
00:29:48.62\00:29:53.62
COME AND WILL NOT TARRY.
NOW THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY
00:29:53.66\00:29:56.96
FAITH; BUT IF ANYONE DRAWS
BACK," - HE'S TALKING ABOUT
00:29:56.99\00:29:59.53
PEOPLE WHO HAVE LOST
PATIENCE. AND WHAT DOES IT SAY?
00:29:59.56\00:30:02.20
'HERE IS THE
PATIENCE OF THE SAINTS'.
00:30:02.23\00:30:04.33
WHY WOULD YOU NEED PATIENCE
EXCEPT YOU'VE GOT TO WAIT?
00:30:04.37\00:30:07.20
AND SO, I GUESS WHAT I'M TRYING
TO EMPHASIZE - AND I'VE GOT MORE
00:30:07.24\00:30:09.40
VERSES ON THIS TOO, IS THAT WE
SHOULD NOT BE SURPRISED THAT IT
00:30:09.44\00:30:15.51
SEEMS LIKE IT'S TAKING LONGER
THAN WE THOUGHT BECAUSE JESUS
00:30:15.54\00:30:19.31
SAID THAT'S HOW IT WOULD BE WHEN
HE COMES - THAT THERE'D BE THE
00:30:19.35\00:30:22.88
APPEARANCE OF A DELAY, BUT
THE LORD WOULD COME - AMEN?
00:30:22.92\00:30:27.26
>>AMEN. >>HE'S
GOING TO COME ON TIME.
00:30:27.29\00:30:29.66
OH, HEY, LET ME
GIVE YOU ONE MORE.
00:30:29.69\00:30:32.76
IN REVELATION CHAPTER 10, VERSE
5 - AND I'LL POST THESE NOTES
00:30:32.79\00:30:37.40
ONLINE SO THAT - IF ANYONE WANTS
THE VERSES - REVELATION 10:5 AND
00:30:37.43\00:30:41.70
6, "THE ANGEL WHOM I SAW
STANDING ON THE SEA AND ON THE
00:30:41.74\00:30:45.11
LAND RAISED UP HIS HAND TO
HEAVEN AND SWORE BY HIM WHO
00:30:45.14\00:30:47.94
LIVES FOREVER AND EVER, WHO
CREATED HEAVEN AND THE THINGS
00:30:47.98\00:30:50.48
THAT ARE IN IT, THE EARTH AND
THE THINGS THAT ARE IN IT, THE
00:30:50.51\00:30:52.98
SEA AND THE THINGS THAT ARE IN
IT," - THE ANGEL ACTUALLY MAKES
00:30:53.01\00:30:56.02
REFERENCE TO HE WHO CREATED THE
HEAVEN, THE EARTH, AND THE SEA,
00:30:56.05\00:30:59.35
WHICH IS PART OF THE SABBATH
COMMANDMENT - BUT LISTEN TO WHAT
00:30:59.39\00:31:02.39
HE SAYS - "THAT THERE SHOULD
BE DELAY NO LONGER," - NOW, IF
00:31:02.42\00:31:06.03
YOU'VE GOT A KING JAMES VERSION
IT SAYS, 'TIME WOULD BE NO MORE'
00:31:06.06\00:31:08.73
- THE EXACT TRANSLATION FOR THAT
YOU'D FIND IN THE KING JAMES
00:31:08.76\00:31:11.53
VERSION - DELAY WILL BE NO MORE.
NOW WHY WOULD THE ANGEL SAY
00:31:11.57\00:31:15.80
THERE WOULD BE NO MORE
DELAY UNLESS THERE WAS DELAY?
00:31:15.84\00:31:19.17
RIGHT? WE FIND THIS
ALL THROUGH THE BIBLE.
00:31:19.21\00:31:22.11
WHY DOES JESUS SAY 'HE
THAT ENDURES TO THE END'?
00:31:22.14\00:31:25.21
THAT MEANS, 'YOU'D BETTER HANG
ON BECAUSE IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S
00:31:25.25\00:31:29.42
TAKING - DOESN'T GOD, SOMETIMES,
WAIT UNTIL THE LAST MINUTE?
00:31:29.45\00:31:32.45
I MEAN, YOU KNOW, HE GETS THE
CHILDREN OF ISRAEL TO THE RED
00:31:32.49\00:31:34.12
SEA AND THERE THEY ARE TRAPPED,
AND THE EGYPTIANS ARE COMING
00:31:34.16\00:31:37.43
FROM BEHIND AND, AT THE
FINAL MOMENT, GOD THEN BRINGS
00:31:37.46\00:31:40.63
DELIVERANCE. IT MAY
HAPPEN THAT WAY AGAIN.
00:31:40.66\00:31:43.97
AND THEN PETER SAYS, IN 2
PETER CHAPTER 3, VERSE 8 - NOW
00:31:44.00\00:31:47.44
SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ FOR ME
IN A MOMENT GENESIS 2:17 - JUST
00:31:47.47\00:31:51.34
GIVING YOU A HEAD'S UP - 2
PETER 3:8, "BUT, BELOVED, DO NOT
00:31:51.37\00:31:54.64
FORGET THIS ONE THING, THAT
WITH THE LORD ONE DAY IS AS A
00:31:54.68\00:31:57.98
THOUSAND YEARS, AND A
THOUSAND YEARS AS ONE DAY."
00:31:58.01\00:32:03.65
NOW WHY DOES PETER SAY THAT?
HE'S TALKING TO THOSE WHO SAY,
00:32:03.69\00:32:10.09
'WELL, WE'VE BEEN HEARING
ABOUT THE LORD'S COMING ALL THIS
00:32:10.13\00:32:12.39
TIME, WHY'S IT TAKING SO LONG?
YOU KNOW, MOST OF THE TIME IN
00:32:12.43\00:32:15.80
THE BIBLE IT SEEMS LIKE THE
APOSTLES ARE SAYING, 'EVEN SO,
00:32:15.83\00:32:18.70
COME LORD JESUS' - 'BEHOLD,
I COME QUICKLY' - AND WE'RE
00:32:18.73\00:32:21.74
THINKING, 'WHY IS IT TAKING
SO LONG?' HOW LONG HAS IT BEEN
00:32:21.77\00:32:24.87
SINCE JESUS SAID THAT?
ABOUT TWO THOUSAND YEARS?
00:32:24.91\00:32:28.48
NOT QUITE TWO
THOUSAND YEARS, BUT JUST ABOUT.
00:32:28.51\00:32:31.48
HE PROBABLY MADE THAT STATEMENT
IN 30 A.D., WHICH WOULD MEAN IN
00:32:31.51\00:32:35.72
2030 IT WOULD BE TWO THOUSAND
YEARS AFTER THE PROMISE.
00:32:35.75\00:32:39.69
THAT'S A LONG TIME TO SAY, 'I'LL
BE RIGHT BACK.' (LAUGHTER) AND -
00:32:39.72\00:32:44.76
SO WHY CAN HE SAY THAT?
PETER SAYS YOU'VE GOT TO
00:32:44.79\00:32:47.83
THINK LIKE GOD
THINKS. DOES GOD MEASURE
00:32:47.86\00:32:50.53
TIME THE WAY WE DO? HE
SAYS, 'WITH THE LORD A DAY
00:32:50.57\00:32:53.74
IS LIKE A THOUSAND YEARS, AND
A THOUSAND YEARS IS LIKE A DAY'.
00:32:53.77\00:32:57.74
I'M GOING TO READ YOU A
COUPLE MORE ON THAT THEME.
00:32:57.77\00:33:00.34
PETER, WHEN HE SAYS THIS, IS
ACTUALLY QUOTING PSALM 90, VERSE
00:33:00.38\00:33:03.98
4, "FOR A THOUSAND YEARS IN YOUR
SIGHT ARE LIKE YESTERDAY WHEN IT
00:33:04.01\00:33:07.95
IS PAST," - NOW,
DOES THAT MAKE SENSE?
00:33:07.98\00:33:09.72
FOR GOD, A THOUSAND YEARS IS
LIKE A DAY - THAT'S WHAT PETER'S
00:33:09.75\00:33:12.99
QUOTING. LOOK AT
PSALM 84, VERSE 10, "FOR
00:33:13.02\00:33:16.19
A DAY IN YOUR COURTS IS
BETTER THAN A THOUSAND."
00:33:16.22\00:33:19.79
AND ECCLESIASTES 6:6, "EVEN IF
HE LIVES A THOUSAND YEARS TWICE"
00:33:19.83\00:33:24.73
- IF HE DOES NOT ENJOY GOOD
THINGS - "DO NOT ALL GO TO ONE
00:33:24.77\00:33:27.54
PLACE?" NOW, BEFORE
YOU READ YOUR VERSE,
00:33:27.57\00:33:30.77
I WANT YOU TO THINK ABOUT
SOMETHING: GOD SAID TO ADAM AND
00:33:30.81\00:33:33.71
EVE, 'IN THE DAY YOU EAT
THEREOF YOU WILL SURELY DIE.'
00:33:33.74\00:33:38.81
ISN'T THAT WHAT HE SAID? >>YES.
00:33:38.85\00:33:41.58
>>AND ADAM AND EVE ATE THE
FORBIDDEN FRUIT AND THEY FELL
00:33:41.62\00:33:44.19
OVER THAT 24-HOUR PERIOD. >>NO.
00:33:44.22\00:33:47.79
>>NO? BUT IF A DAY IS AS A
THOUSAND YEARS AND A THOUSAND
00:33:47.82\00:33:53.03
YEARS IS A DAY - GO
AHEAD, READ YOUR VERSE.
00:33:53.06\00:33:58.30
>>"BUT OF THE TREE OF THE
KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL YOU
00:33:58.33\00:34:01.04
SHALL NOT EAT. FOR
IN THAT DAY THAT YOU EAT
00:34:01.07\00:34:03.51
OF IT YOU WILL SURELY DIE."
>>HOW OLD WAS THE OLDEST MAN?
00:34:03.54\00:34:09.41
(INAUDIBLE) METHUSELAH? I
ALWAYS - YOU'VE HEARD ME -
00:34:09.44\00:34:13.48
REALLY, THE OLDEST MAN IS
ENOCH BECAUSE HE'S STILL ALIVE.
00:34:13.52\00:34:16.72
BUT OF THE OLD - OF THE PEOPLE
WHO HAVE DIED, METHUSELAH WAS
00:34:16.75\00:34:20.39
WHAT? 969 YEARS?
AND ADAM, WHO REMEMBERS
00:34:20.42\00:34:23.83
HOW LONG HE LIVED? 930. THAT
WAS ALL THE ACCOUNTANTS WHO HAVE
00:34:23.86\00:34:29.13
NUMBERS IN THEIR
HEADS THAT REMEMBERED THAT.
00:34:29.16\00:34:31.27
HOW ABOUT NOAH?
I THINK IT WAS 960?
00:34:31.30\00:34:39.47
ANYWAY, THEY ALL
LIVED AROUND 900 YEARS.
00:34:39.51\00:34:42.31
DID ANY OF THEM
LIVE A THOUSAND ONE?
00:34:42.34\00:34:45.08
>>NO. >>SO IF A
DAY IS LIKE A THOUSAND
00:34:45.11\00:34:47.55
YEARS FOR THE LORD AND A
THOUSAND YEARS LIKE A DAY,
00:34:47.58\00:34:50.39
THEY ALL DIED IN THAT
DAY. YOU SEE WHAT I'M SAYING?
00:34:50.42\00:34:54.36
NOW SOMEONE ELSE - I'M NOT
THE FIRST ONE WHO'S DONE THIS -
00:34:54.39\00:34:58.03
G. ED REID WROTE
THIS IN HIS BOOK, J.N.
00:34:58.06\00:35:02.20
ANDREWS, ONE OF THE FIRST
MISSIONARIES IN THE ADVENTIST
00:35:02.23\00:35:05.10
CHURCH WROTE - THEY CALLED
IT THE SEVEN-THOUSAND-YEAR
00:35:05.13\00:35:07.87
THEORY - HAVE YOU
HEARD THIS BEFORE?
00:35:07.90\00:35:09.50
OR THE MILLENNIAL WEEK - AND,
BASICALLY, IT SAYS THAT IT LOOKS
00:35:09.54\00:35:13.48
LIKE THE HISTORY OF THE BIBLE IS
SUMMARIZED IN A MILLENNIAL WEEK
00:35:13.51\00:35:17.48
- MEANING THAT IF YOU JUST ADD
UP THE AGES IN THE BIBLE, THE
00:35:17.51\00:35:20.85
WORLD, BIBLICALLY, ACCORDING
TO THE HISTORY OF ADAM, IS RIGHT
00:35:20.88\00:35:24.45
NOW, ABOUT SIX THOUSAND YEARS
OLD. MATTER OF FACT, I WENT TO
00:35:24.49\00:35:27.72
THE E.G. WHITE DISC AND I
FOUND SEVENTY REFERENCES TO SIX
00:35:27.76\00:35:32.66
THOUSAND YEARS -
SEVEN-ZERO - IN THOSE WRITINGS.
00:35:32.69\00:35:38.23
FOR EXAMPLE - I'LL READ TWO
OR THREE OF THEM REAL QUICK.
00:35:38.27\00:35:40.54
IN THE BOOK GREAT CONTROVERSY
PAGE 518, "THE GREAT CONTROVERSY
00:35:40.57\00:35:44.27
BETWEEN CHRIST AND SATAN HAS
BEEN CARRIED FORWARD FOR NEARLY
00:35:44.31\00:35:47.21
SIX THOUSAND YEARS.
IT IS SOON TO CLOSE."
00:35:47.24\00:35:51.21
AND YOU CAN READ IN ADVENTIST
HOME , "FOR SIX THOUSAND YEARS
00:35:51.25\00:35:54.82
SATAN HAS STRUGGLED TO MAINTAIN
POSSESSION OF THE EARTH."
00:35:54.85\00:35:58.19
YOU CAN READ IN COUNSELS ON DIET
AND FOODS - IT SAYS HERE, "THE
00:35:58.22\00:36:03.19
CONTINUAL TRANSGRESSION OF
MAN FOR SIX THOUSAND YEARS HAS
00:36:03.22\00:36:06.93
BROUGHT SICKNESS, PAIN
AND DEATH AS ITS FRUITS."
00:36:06.96\00:36:10.23
THERE'S SEVENTY
REFERENCES LIKE THAT.
00:36:10.27\00:36:12.40
AND SO, WHEN YOU ADD UP THE
AGES IN THE BIBLE, IT COMES TO
00:36:12.43\00:36:16.64
APPROXIMATELY
SIX THOUSAND YEARS.
00:36:16.67\00:36:18.31
THERE'S A FEW - THERE'S A
FEW DIFFICULT PASSAGES IN THE
00:36:18.34\00:36:22.51
CHRONOLOGIES, LIKE WITH NOAH -
IT SAYS NOAH HAD SHEM, HAM, AND
00:36:22.54\00:36:26.25
JAPHETH, BUT IT DOESN'T
TELL WHICH WAS FIRST AND HOW OLD
00:36:26.28\00:36:28.52
UNTIL THE SECOND ONE - WE
DON'T BELIEVE THEY'RE TRIPLETS.
00:36:28.55\00:36:31.65
AND SO THERE'S A COUPLE PLACES
WHERE - AND YOU'RE ADDING UP THE
00:36:31.69\00:36:34.99
CHRONOLOGIES - ANY OF YOU EVER
TRY TO ADD UP THE CHRONOLOGIES
00:36:35.02\00:36:37.36
IN THE BIBLE? I DID
IT ONCE WITH A CALCULATOR
00:36:37.39\00:36:39.79
AND A FRIEND AND
IT'S KIND OF FUN.
00:36:39.83\00:36:42.36
EVERYBODY, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES
YOU MISS A FEW THINGS, BUT IT'S
00:36:42.40\00:36:45.37
APPROXIMATELY
SIX THOUSAND YEARS.
00:36:45.40\00:36:47.44
HOW LONG IS THE
MILLENNIUM? >>A THOUSAND.
00:36:47.47\00:36:50.11
>>ONE THOUSAND YEARS.
DOESN'T GOD WORK ON A BASIS,
00:36:50.14\00:36:52.54
OFTEN IN THE BIBLE, SIX
DAYS YOU WORK, ONE DAY YOU REST?
00:36:52.57\00:36:56.75
AND DOESN'T IT SAY SIX YEARS YOU
WILL SOW YOUR SEED AND THEN ONE
00:36:56.78\00:37:01.48
YEAR YOU'LL LET IT - YOU'LL
SOW YOUR SEED IN YOUR FIELD, ONE
00:37:01.52\00:37:04.52
YEAR YOU'LL LET IT REST.
FOR SIX THOUSAND YEARS JESUS
00:37:04.55\00:37:08.99
HAS BEEN SOWING
THE SEED OF THE GOSPEL.
00:37:09.02\00:37:11.26
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN
HE COMES IN REVELATION?
00:37:11.29\00:37:13.16
WHAT'S IT PICTURED
AS? IT'S A HARVEST.
00:37:13.19\00:37:15.90
AND, DURING THE ONE THOUSAND
YEARS WHEN WE'RE IN HEAVEN, IS
00:37:15.93\00:37:18.83
THERE ANY FARMING
GOING ON HERE ON EARTH?
00:37:18.87\00:37:21.34
PLANET'S RESTING.
THEY HAD A LAW AMONG THE
00:37:21.37\00:37:25.01
HEBREWS: FOR SIX YEARS YOU COULD
HAVE A HEBREW SLAVE, BUT THEN,
00:37:25.04\00:37:30.21
AT THE END OF THAT,
YOU HAD TO SET HIM FREE.
00:37:30.25\00:37:33.28
>>THE JUBILEE.
>>YEAH, THERE WAS A JUBILEE.
00:37:33.31\00:37:35.58
THEN HE WOULD GO FREE
AT THE END OF THAT TIME.
00:37:35.62\00:37:38.32
THERE'S A NUMBER OF STORIES LIKE
THIS THAT ARE ILLUSTRATED IN THE
00:37:38.35\00:37:41.39
BIBLE. MATTER OF FACT, I'VE
GOT A FEW OTHER EXAMPLES HERE.
00:37:41.42\00:37:44.63
AND, BY THE WAY, THAT'S EXODUS
21:2 - IF YOU HAVE A HEBREW
00:37:44.66\00:37:48.76
SERVANT HE'LL SERVE SIX YEARS,
THE SEVENTH HE'LL GO FREE.
00:37:48.80\00:37:52.20
THE SECOND COMING. SOW
YOUR LAND SIX YEARS - EXODUS
00:37:52.23\00:37:55.87
23:10 - AND THEN YOU CAN NOTICE
THERE'S A PATTERN - YOU'VE GOT
00:37:55.90\00:38:02.04
THREE EPOCHS IN THE BIBLE -
AND I'M NOT THE FIRST ONE WHO'S,
00:38:02.08\00:38:04.48
YOU KNOW, REALIZED THIS.
THIS IS PRETTY BASIC THEOLOGY.
00:38:04.51\00:38:08.48
YOU'VE GOT THE EPOCH OF
THE PATRIARCHS THAT GOES TWO
00:38:08.52\00:38:11.82
THOUSAND YEARS FROM CREATION
TO ABRAHAM - GOSPEL WAS PREACHED
00:38:11.85\00:38:16.26
THROUGH ADAM AND ENOCH AND
NOAH, METHUSELAH, SO FORTH - THE
00:38:16.29\00:38:19.93
PATRIARCHS - THEY WERE NOT JEWS.
00:38:19.96\00:38:22.50
EVERYBODY HERE IS
RELATED TO NOAH, RIGHT?
00:38:22.53\00:38:25.23
OKAY, THEN GOD CALLS ABRAHAM
AND THE NEXT TWO THOUSAND YEARS
00:38:25.27\00:38:28.94
YOU'VE GOT THE EPOCH OF ISRAEL
- THE HEBREWS - AND THEY ARE THE
00:38:28.97\00:38:34.28
GUARDIANS OF THE ORACLES OF
TRUTH. THEIR JOB IS TO INTRODUCE
00:38:34.31\00:38:38.15
THE MESSIAH TO THE
WORLD. AND THAT GOES UP UNTIL
00:38:38.18\00:38:40.68
THE TIME OF CHRIST.
ABRAHAM WAS BORN 2004 B.C.
00:38:40.72\00:38:44.72
AND THEN YOU'VE GOT
JESUS IS BORN 4 B.C.
00:38:44.75\00:38:47.62
- IT'S VERY INTERESTING - IT
REALLY IS TWO THOUSAND YEARS.
00:38:47.66\00:38:50.06
AND THEN YOU'VE GOT THE EPOCH OF
THE CHURCH - OR SPIRITUAL ISRAEL
00:38:50.09\00:38:53.73
- WHATEVER YOU WANT TO CALL IT -
IT'S OBVIOUSLY A DIFFERENT TIME.
00:38:53.76\00:38:58.20
AND THAT'S THE
LAST TWO THOUSAND YEARS.
00:38:58.23\00:38:59.60
YOU'VE GOT TWO THOUSAND,
TWO THOUSAND, TWO THOUSAND.
00:38:59.63\00:39:02.77
YOU KNOW, MOSES' LIFE WAS
DIVIDED INTO THREE GREAT EPOCHS:
00:39:02.80\00:39:06.61
YOU'VE GOT THE FORTY YEARS IN
EGYPT, THE FORTY YEARS ALONE IN
00:39:06.64\00:39:10.15
THE WILDERNESS, THE FORTY YEARS
LEADING PEOPLE FROM EGYPT TO THE
00:39:10.18\00:39:14.22
PROMISED LAND. THERE
WERE THREE KINGS OF ISRAEL
00:39:14.25\00:39:18.55
AS A UNITED KINGDOM - THREE
EPOCHS - AGAIN, THREE FORTIES.
00:39:18.59\00:39:22.56
YOU'VE GOT THE TIME OF SAUL -
FORTY YEARS, THE TIME OF DAVID -
00:39:22.59\00:39:26.73
FORTY YEARS, THE TIME
OF SOLOMON - FORTY YEARS.
00:39:26.76\00:39:28.66
ISN'T THAT INTERESTING?
ALL THREE, EXACTLY FORTY YEARS.
00:39:28.70\00:39:30.60
SOME NUMBERS DO MEAN SOMETHING -
AND I'M NOT - I THINK YOU SHOULD
00:39:30.63\00:39:33.27
STAY AWAY FROM ANYTHING THAT
SMACKS OF SAYING, 'I'VE FIGURED
00:39:33.30\00:39:36.47
OUT THE DAY OR THE HOUR OF THE
LORD'S COMING, BECAUSE WE DON'T
00:39:36.50\00:39:40.04
KNOW THAT. ONE
THING WE CAN BE SURE OF IS
00:39:40.08\00:39:42.84
THAT WE ARE NOT
SURE OF WHEN HE'S COMING.
00:39:42.88\00:39:45.51
MATTHEW 24:36, "BUT OF THAT DAY
AND HOUR NO ONE KNOWS, NOT EVEN
00:39:45.55\00:39:51.09
THE ANGELS OF
HEAVEN, BUT MY FATHER ONLY."
00:39:51.12\00:39:52.89
SO, LET'S SUPPOSE YOU GOT YOUR
CALCULATOR AND YOU WERE SURE YOU
00:39:52.92\00:39:56.22
FIGURED OUT WHEN THE LORD WAS
COMING - I HAVE PEOPLE TELL ME -
00:39:56.26\00:39:59.53
I'VE HAD PEOPLE TELLING ME
FOR YEARS - I CAN REMEMBER AFTER
00:39:59.56\00:40:01.73
JOINING THE CHURCH, YOU KNOW,
I WAS STUDYING WITH A LOT OF
00:40:01.76\00:40:05.53
GROUPS THAT WOULD SAY,
'OH, WE'VE FIGURED IT OUT!
00:40:05.57\00:40:08.47
IT'S GOING TO BE THIS DATE
BECAUSE THIS IS FORTY YEARS
00:40:08.50\00:40:10.67
AFTER ISRAEL.' IN 1988 -
AND THEN 'WHEN THE FIG TREE
00:40:10.71\00:40:13.98
BLOSSOMED - THAT WAS THE SIGN
- FORTY YEARS - THE GENERATION
00:40:14.01\00:40:16.95
AFTER ISRAEL' - AND
THEY HAD IT ALL FIGURED OUT.
00:40:16.98\00:40:19.65
THEN THEY SAID, 'THE PLANETS
ARE LINING UP' - IN 1986 - AND I
00:40:19.68\00:40:23.39
GUESS THEY'VE LINED UP
SEVERAL TIMES - 'THAT'S IT!'
00:40:23.42\00:40:25.99
AND EVERYONE GOT EXCITED -
AND THERE'S ALWAYS BEEN THE NEXT
00:40:26.02\00:40:28.96
THING, YOU KNOW?
THERE'S GOING TO BE SOME BLOOD
00:40:28.99\00:40:30.69
MOON - ANY OF YOU
REMEMBER THAT ONE?
00:40:30.73\00:40:32.66
A FEW YEARS AGO
EVERYONE SAID, 'THAT'S IT!'
00:40:32.69\00:40:34.46
AND - BUT LET'S SUPPOSE YOU GOT
YOUR CALCULATOR AND YOU COULD
00:40:34.46\00:40:38.63
FIGURE OUT THE DATE. NOW
PEOPLE ARE SAYING, 'IT'S NOT
00:40:38.67\00:40:44.01
TWO THOUSAND YEARS FROM JESUS'
BIRTH, IT'S TWO THOUSAND YEARS
00:40:44.04\00:40:47.74
FROM JESUS' DEATH, WHICH MEANS
2031 JESUS IS COMING.' LET'S
00:40:47.78\00:40:52.08
SUPPOSE YOU
COULD FIGURE THAT OUT.
00:40:52.11\00:40:56.48
YOU DON'T KNOW WHEN HE'S COMING
BECAUSE JESUS SAID, 'EXCEPT
00:40:56.52\00:40:59.29
THOSE DAYS BE SHORTENED, NO
FLESH WOULD BE SAVED.' WHICH
00:40:59.32\00:41:01.59
MEANS HE MAY COME SOONER
THAN THAT TIME OR NO ONE WILL
00:41:01.62\00:41:03.56
SURVIVE. AND THEN
THERE'S A VERSE THAT
00:41:03.59\00:41:06.39
SAYS THE LORD IS LONGSUFFERING -
HE WAITS LONGER AND HE'S DELAYED
00:41:06.43\00:41:10.13
SO IT MIGHT BE
LATER THAN THAT DATE.
00:41:10.17\00:41:11.77
AND SO THE DATE
DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING.
00:41:11.80\00:41:13.77
SO WHATEVER DATE YOU MIGHT
COME UP WITH, THE BIBLE'S PRETTY
00:41:13.80\00:41:15.94
CLEAR THAT HE COULD COME LATER
- HE COULD COME AFTER, SO WHAT
00:41:15.97\00:41:19.01
GOOD'S THE DATE? RIGHT?
THE ONLY THING YOU GET FROM
00:41:19.04\00:41:24.05
LOOKING AT THE SIGNS OF
THE TIMES IS JUST A SENSE
00:41:24.08\00:41:26.92
THAT IT IS IMMINENT.
NOW, DO WE SEE SIGNS IN THE
00:41:26.95\00:41:29.32
WORLD TODAY THAT LOOK
LIKE THE PROPHETIC SYMBOLS -
00:41:29.35\00:41:32.75
THE FLAGS ARE
THERE? I BELIEVE WE DO.
00:41:32.79\00:41:35.49
YOU CAN SEE IN MATTHEW 24:33,
"...WHEN YOU SEE ALL THESE
00:41:35.52\00:41:40.06
THINGS, KNOW THAT IT IS NEAR"
- WHEN WE SEE THESE THINGS, JUST
00:41:40.10\00:41:42.36
KNOW IT'S NEAR. AND
SO, WHAT SHOULD WE DO?
00:41:42.40\00:41:45.33
SO WHAT? IS THE
NEXT SECTION IN YOUR
00:41:45.37\00:41:46.80
LESSON - SO WHAT
YOU KNOW IT'S NEAR?
00:41:46.84\00:41:49.24
LET'S SUPPOSE THAT
YOU COULD FIGURE IT OUT.
00:41:49.27\00:41:52.37
WHAT WOULD YOU DO DIFFERENTLY?
YOU KNOW THE DANGER OF
00:41:52.41\00:41:57.25
SOMEONE KNOWING THE DATE?
IF YOU THOUGHT THE LORD WAS
00:41:57.28\00:42:00.18
COMING IN THREE YEARS, YOU'D
WAIT UNTIL THE LAST WEEK TO
00:42:00.22\00:42:02.95
GET READY - LIKE YOUR TAXES.
THAT'S HUMAN NATURE, RIGHT?
00:42:02.98\00:42:07.82
(LAUGHTER) YOU'D SAY, 'OH,
I'VE GOT A WEEK TO GET MY TAXES
00:42:07.86\00:42:10.43
DONE.' YOU'D
LIVE JUST LIKE YOU'VE
00:42:10.46\00:42:12.89
ALWAYS LIVED
UNTIL THAT WEEK BEFORE.
00:42:12.93\00:42:14.76
AND THEN, THROUGH FEAR, YOU'D
START GETTING READY FOR THE
00:42:14.83\00:42:17.27
LORD'S COMING. SO IF
YOU LOVE HIM, YOU WANT
00:42:17.30\00:42:20.30
TO BE READY ALL
THE TIME. >>AMEN.
00:42:20.34\00:42:22.34
>>BECAUSE BY THE WAY, WHEN THE
BIBLE SAYS, 'THE DAY OF THE LORD
00:42:22.37\00:42:25.01
IS COMING SOON' - IT IS COMING
SOON BECAUSE YOU DON'T KNOW HOW
00:42:25.04\00:42:28.18
LONG YOU'RE GOING TO LIVE AND
THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE GRAY HAIR
00:42:28.21\00:42:31.28
OUT THERE - OR NO
HAIR OUT THERE - (LAUGHTER)
00:42:31.31\00:42:34.02
IF I WERE TO ASK YOU 'DOES
IT SEEM LIKE LIFE WENT BY PRETTY
00:42:34.05\00:42:37.59
QUICKLY?' WHAT'S YOUR ANSWER?
00:42:37.62\00:42:39.12
>>YES. >>YEAH.
00:42:39.15\00:42:41.42
AND, YOU KNOW, ALL OF A SUDDEN
YOU'RE MAKING ARRANGEMENTS FOR
00:42:41.46\00:42:43.69
YOUR FUNERAL AND YOU'RE
GOING, 'WOW, IT'S ALMOST OVER.
00:42:43.73\00:42:48.00
IT WAS QUICK.' AND YOU KNOW, THE
NEXT THING YOU'RE AWARE OF, IF
00:42:48.03\00:42:51.07
YOU DIE A BELIEVER, IS
THE COMING OF THE LORD.
00:42:51.10\00:42:53.30
AND, IF YOU DIE AN UNBELIEVER,
THE NEXT THING YOU'RE AWARE OF
00:42:53.34\00:42:55.27
IS THE RESURRECTION AT
THE END OF THE MILLENNIUM.
00:42:55.30\00:42:58.54
SO, EITHER WAY,
IT'S GOING TO BE QUICK.
00:42:58.57\00:43:00.58
YOU CAN COUNT ON
THAT. AMEN? >>AMEN.
00:43:00.61\00:43:02.98
>>IT EVEN CAME QUICK FOR ADAM.
HE WAS HOPING TO LIVE FOREVER
00:43:03.01\00:43:05.88
AND HE ONLY GOT NINE HUNDRED AND
THIRTY YEARS. SO WHAT DO YOU DO?
00:43:05.91\00:43:10.79
HOW DOES THIS MAKE A DIFFERENCE?
PETER TELLS US, 'THEREFORE,' -
00:43:10.82\00:43:14.82
SINCE ALL OF THESE THINGS
THAT WE GET WORRIED ABOUT AND
00:43:14.86\00:43:18.33
DISTRACT ABOUT AND PAY FOR
AND FINANCE WILL BE DISSOLVED -
00:43:18.36\00:43:23.10
THEY'RE GOING TO BE BURNED UP
- 'WHAT MANNER OF PERSONS OUGHT
00:43:23.13\00:43:26.23
YOU BE IN ALL HOLY
CONDUCT AND GODLINESS?'
00:43:26.27\00:43:31.24
YOU KNOW, I'M FREQUENTLY
COMFORTED WITH THE TRUTH THAT
00:43:31.27\00:43:35.74
EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BURN
EXCEPT PEOPLE THAT ARE REDEEMED.
00:43:35.78\00:43:41.28
YOU'VE HEARD ME SAY BEFORE
KAREN I MOVED FROM ONE HOUSE TO
00:43:41.32\00:43:44.25
ANOTHER. WE DOWNSIZED. THE
PROBLEM IS, WHEN YOU LIVE IN
00:43:44.29\00:43:46.99
ONE HOUSE FOR TWENTY-THREE YEARS
AND THEN YOU DOWNSIZE BY THIRTY
00:43:47.02\00:43:49.86
PERCENT, YOU'VE
GOT A LOT OF STUFF.
00:43:49.89\00:43:52.33
DO YOU KNOW THERE'S A LAW
IN LIFE THAT WHATEVER SPACE YOU
00:43:52.36\00:43:55.06
HAVE IN YOUR HOME
WILL FILL WITH SOMETHING?
00:43:55.10\00:43:58.77
HOW MANY OF YOU
KNOW THAT? THIS IS A LAW.
00:43:58.80\00:44:01.37
SPACE FILLS. YOU
KNOW, EVEN GOD SAID, 'GO
00:44:01.40\00:44:05.21
FORTH AND FILL THE
EARTH.' AND - AND WE DID.
00:44:05.24\00:44:09.44
SO NOW WE STILL
HAVE A GARAGE OF STUFF.
00:44:09.48\00:44:11.95
THE HOUSE IS FULL - THE NEW
HOUSE IS FULL - WE MOVED INTO
00:44:11.98\00:44:15.28
AND WE DON'T KNOW WHAT
TO DO WITH ALL THE STUFF.
00:44:15.32\00:44:18.62
GARAGE SALES ARE HARD WHEN
YOU'RE AS BUSY AS I AM AND I -
00:44:18.65\00:44:21.36
I'M TELLING KAREN - I SAID,
'CAN I JUST GET A DUMPSTER AND
00:44:21.39\00:44:24.33
THROW IT OUT?' BUT SOME
OF IT'S WORTH SOMETHING.
00:44:24.36\00:44:26.49
I SAID, 'WELL, LOOK, WE'VE GOT
THREE CHOICES: WE'VE GOT TO GIVE
00:44:26.53\00:44:29.06
IT AWAY, YOU'VE GOT TO THROW IT
AWAY, OR YOU'VE GOT TO BURN IT -
00:44:29.10\00:44:33.64
SELL IT - I MEAN, OR YOU
KEEP IT, BUT YOU'VE GOT TO DO
00:44:33.67\00:44:36.81
SOMETHING. AND
CHANCES ARE, IF YOU HAVE
00:44:36.84\00:44:39.11
SOMETHING YOU HAVE NOT USED FOR
TWO YEARS, YOU DON'T NEED IT.
00:44:39.14\00:44:42.58
DID YOU KNOW THAT?
THERE'S THAT WIDGET OR THAT NUT
00:44:42.61\00:44:45.45
OR THAT BOLD THAT YOU MIGHT USE
ONCE EVERY FIVE YEARS - WE'LL
00:44:45.48\00:44:48.12
PUT IT IN AN ORGANIZING DRAWER,
BUT OTHERWISE, GET RID OF IT.
00:44:48.15\00:44:51.89
OTHERWISE YOU BECOME A SLAVE TO
YOUR CLUTTER AND IT IS ALL GOING
00:44:51.92\00:44:55.79
TO BURN. I'VE GOT
A FRIEND, HE OWNS A
00:44:55.82\00:44:57.73
STORAGE FACILITY IN A TOWN AND
HE SAID YOU'D BE SURPRISED HOW
00:44:57.76\00:45:02.06
MANY PEOPLE PAY THOUSANDS
OF DOLLARS OVER YEARS TO STORE
00:45:02.10\00:45:05.80
STUFF AND THEN THEY DIE AND
HE GOES AND THEY OPEN IT UP AND
00:45:05.83\00:45:08.77
THEY SPENT THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS
STORING STUFF THAT WASN'T
00:45:08.80\00:45:11.34
WORTH FIFTEEN
DOLLARS. BUT THEY CAN'T BRING
00:45:11.37\00:45:15.14
THEMSELVES TO THROW IT AWAY.
'SEEING THEN THAT ALL THESE
00:45:15.18\00:45:18.95
THINGS WILL BE DISSOLVED, WHAT
KIND OF PEOPLE OUGHT WE BE IN
00:45:18.98\00:45:24.49
ALL HOLY CONDUCT AND GODLINESS'
- THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS
00:45:24.52\00:45:28.02
IS NOT THESE THINGS,
IT'S BEING READY FOR ETERNITY.
00:45:28.06\00:45:31.59
HE SAYS, AGAIN, 2 PETER 3:14,
"THEREFORE, BELOVED, LOOKING
00:45:31.63\00:45:35.93
FORWARD TO THESE THINGS, BE
DILIGENT TO BE FOUND BY HIM IN
00:45:35.96\00:45:38.77
PEACE, WITHOUT SPOT AND
BLAMELESS;" - SOMEONE'S GOING TO
00:45:38.80\00:45:43.17
READ FOR ME LUKE 21:36
IN JUST A MOMENT, OKAY?
00:45:43.20\00:45:47.21
AND THEN YOU LOOK IN 1 PETER -
GOING BACK A BOOK - HE SAYS THE
00:45:47.24\00:45:50.65
SAME THING IN 1 PETER 1:15, "BUT
AS HE WHO CALLED YOU IS HOLY,
00:45:50.68\00:45:54.95
YOU ALSO BE HOLY IN ALL YOUR
CONDUCT, BECAUSE IT IS WRITTEN,
00:45:54.98\00:45:58.52
'BE HOLY, FOR I AM HOLY.'"
AND SO, HOW DO WE RESPOND TO THE
00:45:58.55\00:46:02.66
NEARNESS OF THE LORD'S COMING?
GODLY LIVING. THE LORD LOVES THE
00:46:02.69\00:46:07.30
PURE IN HEART. GO
AHEAD, READ FOR US LUKE.
00:46:07.36\00:46:11.47
>>LUKE 21:36, "WATCH THEREFORE,
AND PRAY ALWAYS THAT YOU MAY BE
00:46:11.50\00:46:16.81
COUNTED WORTHY TO ESCAPE ALL
THESE THINGS THAT WILL COME TO
00:46:16.84\00:46:20.44
PASS, AND TO STAND
BEFORE THE SON OF MAN."
00:46:20.48\00:46:23.75
>>HE SAYS TO WATCH AND TO PRAY
- 'WATCH THEREFORE, YOU DO NOT
00:46:23.78\00:46:27.65
KNOW WHAT HOUR
YOUR LORD IS COMING.
00:46:27.68\00:46:30.12
BUT KNOW THIS, THAT IF THE
MASTER OF THE HOUSE HAD KNOWN
00:46:30.15\00:46:32.59
WHAT HOUR THE THIEF WOULD COME,
HE WOULD'VE WATCHED AND NOT
00:46:32.62\00:46:35.19
ALLOWED HIS HOUSE
TO BE BROKEN INTO.
00:46:35.22\00:46:37.16
THEREFORE, BE READY.' NOW, YOU
KNOW, I LOVE WHENEVER I SEE THE
00:46:37.19\00:46:41.40
WORD 'BE' IN THE WRITINGS OF
JESUS BECAUSE THE WORD 'BE' IS
00:46:41.43\00:46:45.67
AN EMPOWERING WORD.
WHEN JESUS SAID TO THE LEPER
00:46:45.70\00:46:48.74
'BE CLEAN' HE WAS CLEANSED.
AND IF THE LORD SAYS 'BE READY'
00:46:48.77\00:46:52.81
DOESN'T THAT
MEAN WE CAN BE READY?
00:46:52.84\00:46:55.61
IT'S POSSIBLE TO DO WHAT
THE LORD IS COMMANDING US TO DO.
00:46:55.64\00:46:58.68
LET ME GIVE YOU ONE MORE FROM
THE BOOK OF TITUS 2, VERSES 11
00:46:58.71\00:47:01.82
THROUGH 14, "FOR THE GRACE
OF GOD THAT BRING SALVATION HAS
00:47:01.85\00:47:06.09
APPEARED TO ALL MEN, TEACHING
US THAT," - NOTICE - "DENYING
00:47:06.12\00:47:09.39
UNGODLINESS AND WORLDLY
LUSTS, WE SHOULD LIVE SOBERLY,
00:47:09.42\00:47:14.73
RIGHTEOUSLY, AND GODLY IN
THE PRESENT AGE," - LOOK WHAT HE
00:47:14.76\00:47:17.67
POPS IN THE MIDDLE OF THAT -
"LOOKING FOR THE BLESSED HOPE
00:47:17.70\00:47:20.74
AND GLORIOUS APPEARING OF
OUR GREAT GOD AND SAVIOR JESUS
00:47:20.77\00:47:23.47
CHRIST," - SO HE'S SAYING WHILE
YOU LOOK FOR THE BLESSED HOPE OF
00:47:23.51\00:47:27.94
JESUS, WE'RE TO LIVE
SOBERLY, RIGHTEOUSLY AND GODLY.
00:47:27.98\00:47:31.98
LOOK WHAT HE PUTS AFTERWARD -
"WHO GAVE HIMSELF FOR US, THAT
00:47:32.01\00:47:35.18
HE MIGHT REDEEM US FROM EVERY
LAWLESS DEED AND PURIFY FOR
00:47:35.22\00:47:39.19
HIMSELF HIS OWN SPECIAL PEOPLE"
- SO WHEN PAUL TALKS ABOUT THE
00:47:39.22\00:47:43.69
SECOND COMING - THE BLESSED HOPE
- HE DOES IT IN THE CONTEXT OF
00:47:43.73\00:47:46.86
GODLY LIVING. SO, AS
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS,
00:47:46.90\00:47:49.46
WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE ADVENT
OF THE LORD, WHAT'S THE WHOLE
00:47:49.50\00:47:52.77
THING THAT SHOULD SURROUND
THE TEACHING OF THE ADVENT?
00:47:52.80\00:47:56.30
A TEACHING OF GODLY
LIVING - BECAUSE ISN'T THAT WHAT
00:47:56.34\00:47:59.04
CHRISTIANITY IS ABOUT? THE
LORD SAVES US FROM OUR SINS
00:47:59.07\00:48:03.14
THAT WE ARE TO LIVE A DIFFERENT
KIND OF LIFE IN THIS WICKED
00:48:03.18\00:48:06.48
WORLD, SEEING THAT ALL
THESE THINGS WILL BE DISSOLVED.
00:48:06.51\00:48:10.15
THEN YOU'VE GOT PETER'S FINAL
APPEAL - 2 PETER 3:17 THROUGH
00:48:10.19\00:48:14.82
18, "YOU THEREFORE, BELOVED,
SINCE YOU KNOW THIS BEFOREHAND,
00:48:14.86\00:48:18.89
BEWARE LEST YOU ALSO FALL FROM
YOUR OWN STEADFASTNESS, BEING
00:48:18.93\00:48:24.50
LED AWAY WITH THE ERROR OF THE
WICKED; BUT GROW IN THE GRACE
00:48:24.53\00:48:28.44
AND KNOWLEDGE OF OUR
LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST."
00:48:28.47\00:48:31.37
- THERE'S TO BE A GROWING THERE
- "TO HIM BE THE GLORY BOTH NOW
00:48:31.41\00:48:34.54
AND FOREVER. AMEN." 1
THESSALONIANS 5:1 TO 6 - HE
00:48:34.58\00:48:39.15
SAYS, "BUT CONCERNING THE TIMES
AND THE SEASONS, BRETHREN, YOU
00:48:39.18\00:48:42.18
HAVE NO NEED THAT I
SHOULD WRITE TO YOU.
00:48:42.22\00:48:43.95
FOR YOU YOURSELVES KNOW
PERFECTLY THAT THE DAY OF THE
00:48:43.99\00:48:46.25
LORD SO COMES AS A
THIEF IN THE NIGHT.
00:48:46.29\00:48:48.72
FOR WHEN THEY SAY,
'PEACE AND SAFETY!'
00:48:48.76\00:48:51.19
THEN SUDDEN DESTRUCTION COMES
UPON THEM," - I'M GOING TO CLOSE
00:48:51.23\00:48:53.70
WITH THIS THOUGHT - I
THINK IT'S VERY IMPORTANT.
00:48:53.73\00:48:55.80
HERE I QUOTED FROM PAUL - 1
THESSALONIANS 5, WHERE HE TALKS
00:48:55.83\00:48:59.77
ABOUT THE DAY OF THE LORD
COMING AS A THIEF IN THE NIGHT.
00:48:59.80\00:49:02.14
SOME PEOPLE READ THE DAY OF THE
LORD COMING AS A THIEF IN THE
00:49:02.17\00:49:04.87
NIGHT - TALKING ABOUT THE
COMING OF THE LORD, RIGHT?
00:49:04.91\00:49:08.31
AND THEY BELIEVE THAT YOU'LL BE
WALKING DOWN THE STREET AND ALL
00:49:08.34\00:49:11.51
THESE PEOPLE WILL BE SITTING ON
A PLANE OR IN A CAR AND ALL OF A
00:49:11.55\00:49:15.12
SUDDEN - POP - POP - POP - POP
- POP - POP - POP - ALL THESE
00:49:15.15\00:49:17.69
PEOPLE DISAPPEAR. AND THEY'VE
BEEN RAPTURED UP. AND THEN, THE
00:49:17.72\00:49:23.19
TIME OF TRIBULATION BEGINS.
AND, FOR SEVEN YEARS THERE'S A
00:49:23.22\00:49:26.39
TRIBULATION AND A HUNDRED AND
FORTY-FOUR THOUSAND LITERAL JEWS
00:49:26.43\00:49:30.37
FROM ALL TWELVE TRIBES WILL
START TO PREACH THE GOSPEL AND,
00:49:30.40\00:49:34.67
IN THE MIDDLE OF THAT LAST SEVEN
YEARS OF TRIBULATION, THEY'LL
00:49:34.70\00:49:36.81
REBUILD THE TEMPLE AND
THE ANTICHRIST WILL SIT IN THE
00:49:36.84\00:49:38.54
TEMPLE - HOW MANY
OF YOU HAVE HEARD THIS?
00:49:38.57\00:49:40.98
I'D SAY OVER FIFTY PERCENT
OF EVANGELICALS IN NORTH AMERICA
00:49:41.01\00:49:44.48
BELIEVE THIS IDEA OF THE SECRET
RAPTURE, BUT WHEN YOU READ ABOUT
00:49:44.51\00:49:53.66
THE LORD COMING LIKE A THIEF -
THEY CALL IT THE SECRET RAPTURE
00:49:53.69\00:49:55.76
- 'HE'S COMING LIKE A THIEF'
- 'THEY JUST DISAPPEAR' - WHAT
00:49:55.79\00:49:59.33
DOES PETER SAY HAPPENS
WHEN HE COMES LIKE A THIEF?
00:49:59.36\00:50:02.53
NOTICE THIS: THE DAY OF THE
LORD WILL COME AS A THIEF IN THE
00:50:02.56\00:50:06.27
NIGHT IN THE WHICH" - YOU'VE GOT
TO READ THE REST OF THE SENTENCE
00:50:06.30\00:50:08.97
- PEOPLE STOP - "THE DAY OF THE
LORD WILL COME AS A THIEF IN THE
00:50:09.00\00:50:12.67
NIGHT IN THE WHICH THE HEAVENS
WILL PASS AWAY WITH A GREAT
00:50:12.71\00:50:15.84
NOISE AND THE ELEMENTS WILL MELT
WITH FERVENT HEAT AND THE EARTH
00:50:15.88\00:50:19.98
AND THE THINGS THAT ARE
IN IT WILL BE BURNED UP."
00:50:20.02\00:50:22.25
SO WHEN HE COMES LIKE A THIEF,
DOES IT SAY LIFE GOES ON FOR
00:50:22.28\00:50:24.65
SEVEN MORE YEARS, OR IS IT
PRETTY CLEAR THAT THAT IS IT?
00:50:24.69\00:50:29.02
WHEN HE COMES LIKE A THIEF
IT MEANS IT SURPRISES THE WORLD.
00:50:29.06\00:50:31.36
THAT'S WHY JESUS SAID HE'S
COMING IN A DAY THAT YOU DON'T
00:50:31.39\00:50:33.63
LOOK FOR HIM. SO, A
LOT OF THE - AND, BY THE
00:50:33.66\00:50:36.10
WAY, WHAT I'M SHARING
IS NOT A NEW THEOLOGY.
00:50:36.13\00:50:38.10
THIS IS WHAT CHRISTIANS
BELIEVED FOR TWO THOUSAND YEARS.
00:50:38.13\00:50:40.20
THE IDEA OF THE SECRET
RAPTURE IS NEW THEOLOGY.
00:50:40.24\00:50:43.54
YOU CAN TRACE THAT
BACK A HUNDRED YEARS.
00:50:43.57\00:50:45.17
AND SO, BUT MOST OF THE
CHRISTIAN WORLD NOW IS BELIEVING
00:50:45.21\00:50:48.48
THE REVERSE ABOUT
THE SECOND COMING.
00:50:48.51\00:50:51.48
FOLLOW ME: WHEN JESUS CAME THE
FIRST TIME - I'M ALMOST DONE -
00:50:51.51\00:50:55.95
WHEN JESUS CAME THE FIRST
TIME, WAS THE CHURCH READY?
00:50:55.98\00:50:58.25
>>NO. >>NO. WHY?
00:50:58.29\00:51:01.09
BECAUSE THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS
TOOK THE PROPHECIES ABOUT JESUS
00:51:01.12\00:51:04.39
COMING LIKE A LION AND
THEY CONFUSED THEM WITH THE
00:51:04.43\00:51:08.36
PROPHECIES OF
JESUS COMING AS A LAMB.
00:51:08.40\00:51:10.87
THEY WANTED HIM TO COME FIRST
- LOUD, KING, TAKE CONTROL,
00:51:10.90\00:51:14.90
OVERTHROW ENEMIES.
THEY GOT THE PROPHECIES
00:51:14.94\00:51:17.84
MIXED UP THROUGH
IGNORANCE. NOW WHAT'S HAPPENING?
00:51:17.87\00:51:21.81
THE DEVIL IS CONFUSING THE
CHURCH THE SAME WAY - THEY ARE
00:51:21.84\00:51:24.21
REVERSING WHERE CHRIST COMES
LIKE A LION AND THEY'VE GOT HIM
00:51:24.25\00:51:27.52
COMING QUIETLY -
PEOPLE JUST DISAPPEARING.
00:51:27.55\00:51:31.09
AND BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT PREPARED
- THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW HE'S
00:51:31.12\00:51:33.69
COMING, THEN THERE'S
GOING TO BE GREAT DECEPTION.
00:51:33.72\00:51:37.13
A LOT OF PEOPLE
AREN'T GOING TO BE READY.
00:51:37.16\00:51:38.26
LET ME TELL YOU HOW THIS WORKS.
00:51:38.29\00:51:41.06
A LOT OF PEOPLE - I'VE TALKED TO
THEM - THEY SAY, 'OH YEAH, WELL,
00:51:41.10\00:51:43.83
THERE'S GOING TO BE A SECRET
RAPTURE, BUT WE'LL HAVE ANOTHER
00:51:43.87\00:51:45.93
SEVEN YEARS TO HAVE A SECOND
CHANCE AND IF I'M NOT READY WHEN
00:51:45.97\00:51:49.70
PEOPLE START DISAPPEARING,
THAT'LL BE MY CUE TO START
00:51:49.74\00:51:52.67
GETTING SERIOUS.' AND SO THERE'S
A LOT OF PEOPLE OUT THERE THAT
00:51:52.71\00:51:56.18
BELIEVE THIS TEACHING -
THIS HAL - WHAT DO YOU CALL IT?
00:51:56.21\00:51:58.88
- THIS HAL LINDSEY/TIME
LEHAY LEFT BEHIND TEACHING?
00:51:58.91\00:52:01.75
THEY BELIEVE, 'WELL, WHEN WE
START SEEING PLANES FALL OUT OF
00:52:01.78\00:52:04.62
THE SKY BECAUSE THE CHRISTIAN
PILOT WAS RAPTURED, THEN WE'LL
00:52:04.65\00:52:08.02
KNOW IT REALLY WAS TRUE.
AND NOW WE'D BETTER GET READY.
00:52:08.06\00:52:11.43
IT'S GOING TO BE TOUGH BECAUSE
WE'VE GOT TO DO IT DURING THE
00:52:11.46\00:52:13.19
TRIBULATION, BUT AT LEAST THEN
WE'LL KNOW AND WE CAN GET READY
00:52:13.23\00:52:15.83
AND WE'LL BE SAVED.' THE DEVIL
LOVES THE IDEA TO GIVE PEOPLE
00:52:15.86\00:52:19.37
THE FALSE IDEA
THEY'VE GOT A SECOND CHANCE.
00:52:19.40\00:52:22.07
THERE IS NO SECOND
CHANCE. HE'S COMING.
00:52:22.10\00:52:24.77
NEXT TIME HE COMES
EVERY EYE IS GOING TO SEE HIM.
00:52:24.81\00:52:28.48
IT'S - IT'S GOING TO BE A
SURPRISE FOR MOST WHEN IT DOES
00:52:28.51\00:52:31.98
HAPPEN AND IT'S CERTAINLY
NOT GOING TO BE A SECRET.
00:52:32.01\00:52:34.82
ALRIGHT, I JUST WANT TO - IN
CLOSE - IN CLOSING WE HAVE ONE
00:52:34.85\00:52:37.69
MORE LESSON NEXT WEEK WHERE
WE'RE GOING TO DO AN OVERVIEW IN
00:52:37.72\00:52:39.75
PETER. I WANT TO
REMIND PEOPLE WE'VE
00:52:39.79\00:52:41.29
GOT A PREMIUM FREE GIFT
WE'RE GOING TO SEND TO ANYBODY.
00:52:41.32\00:52:43.69
IT'S THIS NEW MAGAZINE
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MAGAZINE - IT'S
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IT WOULD LOOK LIKE A COMMERCIAL
EXCEPT IT'S FREE - WE JUST
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WANTED YOU TO ORDER IT - CALLED
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WANT YOU TO READ IT AND THEN
SHARE IT WITH SOMEONE BECAUSE
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SOMEONE ELSE AND, WITH THAT, GOD
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WILLING WE'LL STUDY HIS
WORD TOGETHER AGAIN NEXT WEEK.
00:53:09.25\00:53:12.79
>>LET'S FACE IT, IT'S NOT ALWAYS
EASY TO UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING
00:53:12.82\00:53:15.89
YOU READ IN THE BIBLE.
WITH OVER 700,000 WORDS
00:53:15.92\00:53:19.39
CONTAINED IN 66 BOOKS, THE BIBLE
CAN GENERATE A LOT OF QUESTIONS.
00:53:19.43\00:53:23.97
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>>WE'RE HERE IN PONCE,
PUERTO RICO IN AN IGUANA PARK
00:53:57.87\00:54:01.04
SURROUNDED BY BIG LIZARDS OR
SMALL DINOSAURS - DEPENDS ON HOW
00:54:01.07\00:54:05.14
YOU LOOK AT IT. THESE
MAGNIFICENT CREATURES ARE
00:54:05.17\00:54:07.68
FOUND MOSTLY IN MEXICO, CENTRAL
AMERICA, AND SOUTH AMERICA
00:54:07.71\00:54:10.85
- AND THE CARIBBEAN ISLANDS.
HERE'S A FEW AMAZING FACTS ABOUT
00:54:10.88\00:54:14.15
IGUANAS: IGUANAS COME IN
A GREAT SPECTRUM OF COLORS.
00:54:14.18\00:54:18.12
THEY CAN BE BROWN, GREEN, BLUE
- AND THEIR SKIN WILL OFTEN WORK
00:54:18.15\00:54:22.79
AS CAMOUFLAGE, ALLOWING
THEM TO HIDE IN THE JUNGLE.
00:54:22.82\00:54:25.93
THEY'RE SOCIAL CREATURES WHO
LIKE TO EAT TOGETHER AND, WHAT'S
00:54:25.96\00:54:29.13
REALLY INTERESTING, EVEN THOUGH
THEY LOOK FIERCE, IGUANAS ARE
00:54:29.16\00:54:32.37
VEGAN/VEGETARIANS.
THEY'RE REGARDED AS POPULAR PETS
00:54:32.40\00:54:36.07
THOUGH, IF THEY'RE NOT CARED
FOR, THEY CAN ACTUALLY JUST STOP
00:54:36.10\00:54:38.91
EATING AND WILL
THEMSELVES TO DIE.
00:54:38.94\00:54:41.21
TYPICALLY IGUANAS JUST LAY
EGGS AND THEY ABANDON THEIR
00:54:41.24\00:54:43.85
OFFSPRING. SO THOSE
LITTLE IGUANAS HAVE TO
00:54:43.88\00:54:46.18
FEND FOR THEMSELVES
FROM THE TIME THEY'RE BORN.
00:54:46.21\00:54:49.08
IF THEY'RE ATTACKED, THEY'LL
FIGHT WITH THEIR TALE, EITHER
00:54:49.12\00:54:52.35
PUNCHING OR
WHIPPING THEIR OPPONENT.
00:54:52.39\00:54:54.32
IT'S INTERESTING SEEING A DOG
RUNNING FOR MERCY AFTER BEING
00:54:54.36\00:54:57.49
WHIPPED BY AN IGUANA.
ALSO, TO ENSURE A FAST ESCAPE,
00:54:57.53\00:55:03.33
THEY CAN DETACH THEIR TAIL
AND LATER GROW ANOTHER ONE.
00:55:03.37\00:55:07.07
IGUANAS GENERALLY LIKE TO LIVE
AROUND WATER AND THEY CAN SWIM
00:55:07.10\00:55:10.21
AWAY ESCAPING FROM PREDATORS.
GREEN IGUANAS, IN PARTICULAR,
00:55:10.24\00:55:13.94
ARE EXCELLENT SWIMMERS.
THEY HAVE THE ABILITY TO INFLATE
00:55:13.98\00:55:17.08
THEMSELVES AND SWIM
INCREDIBLE DISTANCES.
00:55:17.11\00:55:20.45
THIS IS ONE WAY THEY'VE BEEN
ABLE TO POPULATE THE DIFFERENT
00:55:20.48\00:55:22.88
ISLANDS OF THE CARIBBEAN.
WHAT'S INCREDIBLE IS THESE
00:55:22.92\00:55:26.82
CREATURES HAVE LUNGS
WHERE THEY'RE ABLE TO HOLD THEIR
00:55:26.86\00:55:29.16
BREATH FOR UP TO TWENTY-EIGHT
MINUTES, PUTTING EVEN
00:55:29.19\00:55:31.96
A CROCODILE TO SHAME. THEY
ALSO KNOW HOW TO COMPENSATE
00:55:31.99\00:55:36.33
FOR WHEN THINGS GET HOT OR COLD.
THEY CAN REGULATE THEIR BODY
00:55:36.36\00:55:39.90
TEMPERATURE USING THE LOOSE
FLAPS OF SKIN THEY HAVE UNDER
00:55:39.93\00:55:43.04
THEIR THROATS
AND UNDER THEIR LEGS.
00:55:43.07\00:55:45.27
YOU MIGHT EVEN SAY AN IGUANA HAS
ESP BECAUSE GOD MADE THEM WITH,
00:55:45.31\00:55:49.81
SORT OF, A THIRD EYE ON TOP
OF THEIR HEAD. THEY CAN'T REALLY
00:55:49.84\00:55:52.61
SEE WITH IT, BUT IT'S A PHOTO
RECEPTOR THAT HELPS THEM TO
00:55:52.65\00:55:55.88
REGULATE THEIR BODIES' CIRCADIAN
RHYTHMS. YOU KNOW, IN THE SAME
00:55:55.92\00:55:59.52
WAY THAT GOD MADE IGUANAS WHERE
THEY'RE SOME OF THE TOUGHEST
00:55:59.55\00:56:02.59
CREATURES IN GOD'S NATURAL
KINGDOM, CHRISTIANS NEED TO
00:56:02.62\00:56:05.73
LEARN TO BE RESILIENT
IN THE SPIRITUAL REALM.
00:56:05.76\00:56:08.40
THROUGH GOD'S GRACE WE CAN
LEARN TO BE GREAT SURVIVORS.
00:56:08.43\00:56:11.43
PAUL SAYS, IN 2 CORINTHIANS
4, VERSES 8 AND 9, "WE ARE HARD
00:56:11.47\00:56:15.40
PRESSED ON EVERY
SIDE YET NOT CRUSHED.
00:56:15.44\00:56:18.21
WE ARE PERPLEXED YET NOT
IN DESPAIR, PERSECUTED YET NOT
00:56:18.24\00:56:21.68
FORSAKEN, STRUCK DOWN BUT NOT
DESTROYED" - I THINK, FRIENDS,
00:56:21.71\00:56:26.55
WE ALL KNOW
SOMETIMES LIFE CAN BE TOUGH.
00:56:26.58\00:56:29.38
WE FEEL LIKE WE'RE BEING BEATEN
AND PRESSED ON EVERY SIDE.
00:56:29.42\00:56:32.12
SOMETIMES THERE'S HEALTH
PROBLEMS, RELATIONSHIP PROBLEMS,
00:56:32.15\00:56:35.76
FINANCIAL REVERSES - BUT IN
THE SAME WAY GOD MADE THE IGUANA
00:56:35.79\00:56:39.53
RESILIENT, GOD CAN
HELP YOU TO BOUNCE BACK.
00:56:39.56\00:56:42.80
JESUS SAID THAT THROUGH HIS HELP
WE CAN BE OVERCOMERS AND WE ARE
00:56:42.83\00:56:46.03
ABLE TO ENDURE. IF YOU
TURN TO HIM AND ASK HIM
00:56:46.07\00:56:48.80
FOR HIS HELP AND HIS SPIRIT HE
WILL RECREATE YOU AND MAKE YOU
00:56:48.84\00:56:52.37
EVEN TOUGHER THAN AN
IGUANA. WOULDN'T YOU LIKE
00:56:52.41\00:56:54.61
TO ASK HIM NOW? (MUSIC)
00:56:54.64\00:57:02.02
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OKAY, MAYBE HE WASN'T IN
THE ROOM, BUT HE WAS ALIVE AND
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