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>>GOOD MORNING, FRIENDS,
WELCOME TO SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY
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HOUR COMING TO YOU FROM
THE GRANITE BAY SEVENTH-DAY
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ADVENTIST CHURCH NEAR
SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA.
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I'D LIKE TO WARMLY WELCOME OUR
ONLINE MEMBERS AND THOSE JOINING
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US ACROSS THE
COUNTRY AND AROUND THE WORLD.
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I'D ALSO LIKE TO WELCOME THE
MEMBERS AND THE VISITORS OF THE
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GRANITE BAY CHURCH
RIGHT HERE. WELCOME TO SABBATH
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SCHOOL THIS MORNING.
NOW, OVER THE PAST FEW WEEKS,
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WE'VE BEEN STUDYING OUR LESSON
DEALING WITH THE FIRST AND
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SECOND BOOKS OF PETER.
TODAY WE FIND OURSELVES IN OUR
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FINAL STUDY ON THIS
THEME, LESSON #13 ENTITLED MAJOR
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THEMES IN 1 AND 2 PETER .
NOW, FOR OUR FRIENDS JOINING
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US, IF YOU DON'T HAVE A COPY OF
TODAY'S LESSON, YOU CAN JUST GO
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TO THE AMAZING FACTS WEBSITE
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DOWNLOAD LESSON #13 AND
YOU CAN STUDY ALONG WITH US.
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NEXT SABBATH, FOR THOSE OF
US HERE, WE'LL BE BEGINNING A
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BRAND-NEW SERIES OF
STUDIES DEALING WITH THE BOOK OF
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GALATIANS, AND I THINK WE'LL
TELL YOU A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT
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THAT LATER THIS MORNING.
FOR OUR ONLINE VIEWERS, IF YOU
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WOULD LIKE TO RECEIVE A FREE
COPY OF A BOOK THAT GOES ALONG
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WITH OUR STUDY, IT IS ENTITLED
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#159 AND WE'LL BE
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WELL, BEFORE WE GET TO OUR STUDY
THIS MORNING, WE'RE GOING TO
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INVITE OUR SONG LEADERS TO COME
UP AND THEY'LL BE LEADING US AS
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WE LIFT OUR VOICES
IN SONG. >>GOOD MORNING.
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WE'RE GOING TO BEGIN OUR SINGING
THIS MORNING WITH #367 IN YOUR
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ADVENTIST HYMNAL.
IT'S RESCUE THE PERISHING -
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WE'LL SING ALL THREE
VERSES. (PIANO MUSIC)
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>>THANK YOU, SONG LEADERS.
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WELL, FROM TIME TO TIME, DURING
SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR, WE
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LIKE TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE UPDATE
ON SOME MISSION ACTIVITY THAT
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CHURCH MEMBERS HERE AT GRANITE
BAY WERE INVOLVED IN OR MAYBE
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SOME ACTIVITY THAT
AMAZING FACTS IS DOING.
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SO, TODAY, WE HAVE A GROUP FROM
THE GRANITE BAY CHURCH AND ALSO,
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I THINK, FROM THE PLANT - THE
LOOMIS CHURCH PLANT - AND THEY
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DID SOME VERY CREATIVE OUTREACH
JUST A COUPLE OF DAYS AGO AND WE
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ASKED IF THEY WOULD SHARE SOME
OF THE THINGS THAT THEY DID.
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SO I'M GOING TO COME OFF TO THE
SIDE HERE. NOW A FEW DAYS AGO -
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A WEEK OR SO AGO - WE HAD
MEMORIAL DAY AND THE LADIES HAD
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AN IDEA AND SO, SHEMEKA,
TELL US WHAT DID YOU FOLKS DO?
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>>WELL, WE GOT TOGETHER A FEW
WEEKS BEFORE AND WE STARTED TO
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PRAY ABOUT WHAT WE COULD DO
FOR OUTREACH FOR MEMORIAL DAY
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BECAUSE WE KNEW WE'D
ALL HAVE THE DAY OFF.
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AND SO, AFTER PRAYING ABOUT
IT, WE FELT IMPRESSED TO FIND A
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LOCAL PARADE IN THE
AREA AND TO GIVE OUT THE
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HERO OF HACKSAW
RIDGE BOOKS AT THE PARADE.
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AND SO WE PURCHASED 300 BOOKS,
WE FOUND A SMALL PARADE THAT WAS
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CLOSE BY, AND WE WENT OUT AND WE
STARTED TO GIVE OUT THE BOOKS.
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AND WE WERE REALLY, LITERALLY,
ALMOST BLOWN AWAY BY HOW
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RECEPTIVE THE PEOPLE
WERE TO GETTING THESE BOOKS.
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LIKE DON SAID, IT WAS
LIKE GIVING OUT CANDY.
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WE WERE PROBABLY - WHEN WE
GOT THERE - WE GOT THERE ABOUT
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THIRTY MINUTES EARLY, WE BROKE
INTO TWO TEAMS, AND WE KIND OF
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WENT IN DIFFERENT
DIRECTIONS ALONG THE PARADE.
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AND WE JUST WENT UP TO PEOPLE
AND SAID, 'HERE'S A GIFT FOR YOU
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IN HONOR OF OUR VETS' AND
PEOPLE JUST GOBBLED THEM UP.
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THEY WERE ASKING US FOR THE
BOOKS. WE WERE OUT IN PROBABLY,
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I DON'T KNOW, TWENTY MINUTES OR
SO AFTER WE STARTED AND WE WERE
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JUST - WE WERE SO BLESSED TO SEE
HOW HUNGRY PEOPLE WERE AND HOW
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RECEPTIVE THEY WERE. OUT OF ALL
THE PEOPLE THAT I, PERSONALLY,
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GAVE THE BOOKS TO, ONLY MAYBE
TWO DECLINED. BUT EVERYONE ELSE
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TOOK THE BOOKS.
>>ALRIGHT SHEMEKA, WELL YOU HAD
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JUST ONE OR TWO EXPERIENCES,
THAT I THINK SOMEBODY'S GOING
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TO SHARE, ABOUT
HANDING OUT THE BOOK.
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>>YEAH, IT WAS
REALLY A BLESSING.
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WE GOT THERE AND WE THOUGHT IT
WAS GOING TO BE A SMALL PARADE,
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BUT IT TURNED OUT TO BE VERY
LARGE AND THERE WERE A LOT OF
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PEOPLE THERE. SO WE
HANDED OUT THE BOOKS VERY
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FAST - I THINK WE ALL
HAD PEOPLE ASKING FOR MORE.
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AT THE END, ALL I HAD LEFT
WAS SPANISH BOOKS AND SO WE WERE
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TRYING TO PASS
OUT OUR SPANISH BOOKS.
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AND IN THE PARADE WE SAW A GROUP
OF PEOPLE THAT WERE SELLING ICE
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CREAM AND THEY WERE ALL SPEAKING
SPANISH - THEY WERE IN THE
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PARADE SO I WAS LIKE, 'WELL, DO
I RUN OUT IN THE PARADE AND HAND
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OUT BOOKS?' AND THEY
ACTUALLY KIND OF CAME
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TO A STOP SO I RAN OUT THERE AND
GAVE THEM MY BOOKS AND CAME BACK
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AND I SAID I WASN'T BUYING ICE
CREAM, I WAS GIVING OUT BOOKS.
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SO, ANYWAY, IT WAS
A GREAT EXPERIENCE.
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>>ALRIGHT, WELL, MEMORIAL DAY
IS PASSED, SHEMEKA, BUT YOU GUYS
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HAD AN IDEA FOR ANOTHER UPCOMING
HOLIDAY, WHEN I THINK WE CAN,
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AGAIN, SHARE THE BOOK.
>>RIGHT. EXACTLY. WE WERE SO
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BLESSED BY HOW RECEPTIVE
THE PEOPLE WERE, THAT WE STARTED
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TALKING ABOUT DOING THE SAME
THING FOR THE FOURTH OF JULY.
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SO WE WANT TO ENCOURAGE THOSE
WHO ARE WATCHING TO GET YOUR
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PATHFINDERS TOGETHER, YOUR YOUTH
GROUPS, YOUR CHURCH, OR MAYBE
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JUST A BUNCH OF FRIENDS OR
NEIGHBORS, AND GET SOME BOOKS -
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CONTACT AMAZING FACTS AS QUICKLY
AS YOU CAN - GET AS MANY BOOKS
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AS YOU CAN AND FIND A PARADE IN
THE AREA AND JUST - JUST GO AND
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DO IT AND LET'S BE ABOUT
OUR FATHER'S BUSINESS, AMEN?
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>>NOW WE HAVE AN INSPIRING QUOTE
THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE SHARING
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WITH YOU ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF
SHARING THESE KIND OF MINISTRY
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TOOLS - THAT OF
BOOKS AND LITERATURE.
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SO WHY DON'T YOU
SHARE THAT AT THIS TIME.
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>>SURE, THIS QUOTE IS FROM
EVANGELISM PAGES 35 AND 36 AND
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IT READS, "I WAS GIVEN
INSTRUCTION THAT AS WE APPROACH
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THE END, THERE WILL BE LARGE
GATHERINGS IN OUR CITIES AND
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THAT PREPARATIONS MUST BE MADE
TO PRESENT THE TRUTH AT THESE
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GATHERINGS. WHEN
CHRIST WAS UPON THIS EARTH,
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HE TOOK ADVANTAGE
OF SUCH OPPORTUNITIES.
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AT ALL SUCH GATHERINGS, THERE
SHOULD BE PRESENT MEN WHOM GOD
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CAN USE. LEAFLETS
CONTAINING THE LIGHT
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OF PRESENT TRUTH SHOULD
BE SCATTERED AMONG THE PEOPLE
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LIKE THE LEAVES OF
AUTUMN. TO MANY WHO ATTEND THESE
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GATHERINGS, THESE LEAFLETS WOULD
BE AS THE LEAVES OF THE TREE OF
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LIFE, WHICH ARE FOR THE
HEALING OF THE NATIONS."
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>>AMEN, SO WE HAVE A GREAT
OPPORTUNITY TO BE ABLE TO SHARE
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WITH FOLKS AT THIS UPCOMING
FOURTH OF JULY, SO LET'S
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START THINKING AND PRAYING
ABOUT WAYS WE CAN SHARE THE
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WORD. THANK YOU
SO MUCH FOR SHARING
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WITH US THIS MORNING.
WELL, BEFORE WE GET TO OUR
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STUDY, WE WANT TO BEGIN WITH
A WORD OF PRAYER AND THEN WE'LL
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TURN THE TIME
OVER TO PASTOR DOUG.
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DEAR FATHER IN HEAVEN,
THANK YOU, ONCE AGAIN, FOR THE
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OPPORTUNITY TO OPEN YOUR WORD
AND STUDY THIS VERY IMPORTANT
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BOOK - THE BOOKS
OF 1 AND 2 PETER.
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THERE ARE SO MANY IMPORTANT
THEMES AND LESSONS APPLICABLE
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FOR US TODAY, SO WE ASK
YOUR BLESSING, GUIDE US BY YOUR
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SPIRIT, FOR WE ASK
THIS IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
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OUR LESSON THIS MORNING IS GOING
TO BE BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR
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DOUG. >>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS.
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WELL, THAT'S AN
INSPIRING TESTIMONY, AMEN?
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AN EASY WAY TO SHARE YOUR FAITH
- JUST TO GIVE OUT THOSE BOOKS -
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PEOPLE ARE WIDE OPEN DURING
A CELEBRATION, YOU KNOW, LIKE
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MEMORIAL DAY OR
THE FOURTH OF JULY.
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AND SOMETHING - I DON'T KNOW IF
THEY MENTIONED, IN THE BACK OF
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ALL OF THOSE BOOKS - OF COURSE
IT TELLS THAT DESMOND DOSS WAS A
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SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST - AND IN
THE BACK OF ALL THE BOOKS THEY
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CAN SIGN UP FOR BIBLE STUDIES.
SO, EVERY BOOK THAT YOU'RE
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GIVING TO A PERSON IS AN
OPPORTUNITY FOR THEM TO SIGN
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UP, STUDY, AND COME TO
CHRIST. AND SO, WE THOUGHT,
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WOW, YOU KNOW? FOURTH
OF JULY EVERYBODY'S GOING
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TO BE VERY INTERESTED IN THE
THINGS THAT TALK ABOUT HEROISM
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AND SACRIFICE AND
PATRIOTISM AND - BOY, WHAT A
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PERFECT OPPORTUNITY.
WE HOPE YOU'LL USE THAT.
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WELL, YOU KNOW, I'M ALMOST SAD
THAT WE'RE GETTING TO THE END,
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NOW, OF OUR LESSON.
WE'RE ON LESSON #13 NOW, IN THE
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STUDY WE'VE BEEN DOING ON
THE BOOKS OF 1 AND 2 PETER.
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AND THIS STUDY TODAY IS PRETTY
MUCH A SUMMARY OF WHAT WE'VE
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BEEN GOING THROUGH OVER THE
LAST THIRTEEN WEEKS TOGETHER.
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AND SO, IT'S TALKING ABOUT THE
MAJOR THEMES OF 1 AND 2 PETER.
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AND WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE - AND
THE MEMORY VERSE IS FROM 1 PETER
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CHAPTER 2, VERSE 24 - AND YOU
CAN READ IT RIGHT OUT OF YOUR
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LESSON WITH ME - 1 PETER 2,
VERSE 24 - WOULD YOU JOIN ME?
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"'HE HIMSELF BORE OUR SINS' IN
HIS BODY ON THE CROSS, SO THAT
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WE MIGHT DIE TO SINS AND
LIVE FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS; 'BY HIS
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WOUNDS YOU HAVE BEEN HEALED.'"
AND WE KNOW THAT THAT'S A QUOTE,
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THERE, FROM ISAIAH 53, 'WITH
HIS STRIPES WE ARE HEALED'.
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AND SO, LET'S GO AHEAD AND DELVE
OFF INTO THESE MAJOR THEMES.
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I'LL TELL YOU WHAT, I'LL TELL
YOU JUST WHAT THEY ARE, AS WE
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BEGIN. AND, AS WE GO THROUGH THE
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LESSON, I'VE GOT A FEW PEOPLE
HERE WHO ARE GOING TO HELP ME
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READ SOME OF THE KEY SCRIPTURES.
YOU HAVE 'THE SUFFERING OF JESUS
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AND SALVATION' IS ONE
OF THE THEMES YOU'LL FIND
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PETER DWELLS ON.
'HOW SHALL WE LIVE?
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GODLY LIVING AND SANCTIFICATION'
- THAT'S A BIG SECTION - 'HOPE
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IN THE SECOND COMING' AND
'A COMING JUDGMENT' IS ANOTHER
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THEME THAT PETER TALKS
ABOUT. AND THEN, 'ORDER IN
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SOCIETY AND THE
CHURCH'. FINALLY, 'THE PRIMACY
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OF SCRIPTURE'. AND
SO, WITH GOD'S HELP WE'RE
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GOING TO GET
THROUGH ALL OF THAT.
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LET'S START BY LOOKING AT 1
PETER - WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE
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SUFFERINGS OF JESUS AND
SALVATION - 1 PETER 1, VERSE 2 -
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AND A LOT OF THE VERSES, OF
COURSE, ARE FROM THE BOOKS 1 AND
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2 PETER, THIS TIME - 1 PETER
1:2, "ELECT ACCORDING TO THE
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FOREKNOWLEDGE OF GOD THE FATHER,
IN SANCTIFICATION OF THE SPIRIT,
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FOR OBEDIENCE AND SPRINKLING OF
THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST: GRACE
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TO YOU AND PEACE BE MULTIPLIED."
NOW PETER IS WRITING TO - MANY
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OF THEM ARE JEWS WHO'VE COME
TO BELIEVE IN JESUS AND SO HE'S
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USING THE LANGUAGE OF SPRINKLING
BECAUSE, DURING THE PASSOVER,
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THEY WOULD SPRINKLE
THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB.
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SO HE'S MAKING SURE THEY
UNDERSTAND THAT ALL THOSE OLD
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TESTAMENT LAMBS POINTED TO JESUS
WHO, JOHN THE BAPTIST SAID, IS
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THE LAMB OF GOD THAT
TAKES AWAY THE SIN OF THE WORLD.
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AND SO, YOU CAN UNDERSTAND, FOR
THE JEWISH NATION, WHOSE WHOLE
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ECONOMY WAS ROOTED IN THE
SACRIFICIAL SYSTEM, TO SAY THAT
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ALL OF THAT THEN POINTED TO THE
SPRINKLING OF JESUS, THE LAMB OF
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GOD. AND SO IT TALKS A LOT
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ABOUT THE BLOOD OF CHRIST.
NOW, WAS THE BLOOD OF CHRIST
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SUPPOSED TO BE
LITERALLY SPRINKLED ON ANYTHING?
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OR IS IT JUST USING THE OLD
TESTAMENT SACRIFICIAL SYSTEM TO
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SYMBOLIZE IT'S THROUGH HIS
BLOOD WE ARE CLEANSED FROM SIN?
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AND THEN HE GOES ON TO SAY, "IN
SANCTIFICATION OF THE SPIRIT,
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FOR OBEDIENCE" - NOW THIS IS
ANOTHER MAJOR THEME YOU'RE GOING
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TO FIND AND WE'LL GET TO IT MORE
A LITTLE LATER, BUT THE WHOLE
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PURPOSE OF THE PLAN OF SALVATION
WAS, THROUGH FAITH IN CHRIST'S
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BLOOD, WE CAN BE SANCTIFIED.
WHAT'S 'SANCTIFIED' MEAN?
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IT MEANS TO BE MADE HOLY
- SAINTS WERE HOLY ONES AND
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SANCTIFICATION IS THE PROCESS
- WHENEVER YOU SAY 'ICATION' -
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JUSTIF ICATION , GLOR IFICATION
, SANCTIF ICATION - IT'S TALKING
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ABOUT THE PROCESS OF
SOMETHING THAT'S HAPPENING.
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SO IT'S THE PROCESS OF
HIM MAKING US INTO SAINTS.
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AND THAT HAPPENS THROUGH THE
BLOOD OF JESUS AND THEN HE SAYS
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"GRACE TO YOU AND PEACE BE
MULTIPLIED" - AND SO THIS IS THE
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OPENING - OPENING BENEDICTION
STATEMENT IN PETER'S LETTER.
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HE'S TALKING ABOUT WHAT THE
PURPOSE OF THESE LETTERS ARE ALL
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ABOUT. AND THEN
YOU GO DOWN TO - SAME
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CHAPTER - VERSES 8 AND 9 - 1
PETER CHAPTER 1, VERSES 8 AND 9,
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"WHOM HAVING NOT SEEN
YOU LOVE." - LET'S JUST PAUSE
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THERE FOR A MINUTE.
WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING IN
00:14:07.24\00:14:12.15
OUR MESSAGE, LATER, ABOUT
THE IMPORTANCE OF SEEING AND
00:14:12.18\00:14:15.22
HERE HE'S TALKING ABOUT
THE IMPORTANCE OF LOVING
00:14:15.25\00:14:17.02
WITHOUT SEEING. WHAT
DID JESUS SAY TO THOMAS
00:14:17.05\00:14:20.72
WHEN THOMAS SAID, 'I'M NOT GOING
TO BELIEVE UNLESS I SEE THE
00:14:20.76\00:14:23.29
NAIL PRINT IN HIS HANDS'?
CHRIST APPEARS TO THOMAS ABOUT
00:14:23.32\00:14:26.53
A WEEK LATER, WHAT DOES HE SAY?
THOMAS FALLS DOWN, HE SAYS -
00:14:26.56\00:14:32.67
JESUS SAID TO
HIM, 'LOOK AT MY HANDS.
00:14:32.70\00:14:34.94
THRUST YOUR HAND IN MY SIDE,
HOLD MY SCARS' - AND THOMAS
00:14:34.97\00:14:39.04
FALLS DOWN AND SAYS,
'MY LORD AND MY GOD'.
00:14:39.07\00:14:42.98
AND WHAT DID JESUS
SAY NEXT TO THOMAS?
00:14:43.01\00:14:46.08
'YOU BELIEVE
BECAUSE YOU'VE SEEN.
00:14:46.11\00:14:49.52
BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO BELIEVE
WITHOUT SEEING.' NOW WHO IS THE
00:14:49.55\00:14:53.76
LORD TALKING ABOUT? YEAH.
AND HE SAID, 'BLESSED ARE THOSE
00:14:53.79\00:14:58.29
WHO BELIEVE - IF WE'VE GOT
TO SEE EVERYTHING - IF WE CAN'T
00:14:58.33\00:15:01.46
HAVE FAITH IN HIS WORD OR
HIS PROMISES, WE'RE IN TROUBLE.
00:15:01.50\00:15:04.50
HE SAYS, 'BLESSED ARE THOSE
WHO BELIEVE WITHOUT SEEING.' AND
00:15:04.53\00:15:07.40
THIS IS WHAT PETER IS SAYING.
BELIEVING IN HIM "THOUGH NOW YOU
00:15:07.44\00:15:11.21
DO NOT SEE HIM, YET
BELIEVING, YOU REJOICE WITH JOY
00:15:11.24\00:15:15.54
INEXPRESSIBLE AND FULL OF
GLORY," - HOW MANY OF YOU WOULD
00:15:15.58\00:15:19.35
LIKE TO HAVE THAT JOY THAT JUST
- YOU CAN'T FIND EXPRESSION FOR?
00:15:19.38\00:15:23.62
JOY IN THE FAITH - "JOY
INEXPRESSIBLE AND FULL OF GLORY,
00:15:23.65\00:15:28.19
RECEIVING THE END OF YOUR FAITH"
- WHAT'S THE FINAL GOAL IN OUR
00:15:28.22\00:15:31.13
FAITH? - "THE
SALVATION OF YOUR SOULS."
00:15:31.16\00:15:34.86
THROUGH FAITH, IN CHRIST'S
SACRIFICE, WE HAVE JOY NOW
00:15:34.93\00:15:40.74
THAT'S INEXPRESSIBLE AND WE'LL
REALIZE THE FINAL END OF OUR
00:15:40.77\00:15:44.91
FAITH, WHICH IS SALVATION.
NOW, THERE IS A NOBLER
00:15:44.94\00:15:50.95
GOAL THAN YOUR
SALVATION. IT'S RARE.
00:15:50.98\00:15:57.92
YOU WILL BE SAVED BY FAITH,
BUT THERE'S A FAITH THAT'S EVEN
00:15:57.95\00:16:03.56
RICHER THAN THAT
FAITH. YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS?
00:16:03.59\00:16:07.30
IT'S HAVING A FAITH THAT OTHERS
WILL BE SAVED, WHETHER YOU'RE
00:16:07.36\00:16:11.10
SAVED OR NOT. NOW,
I THINK THE HIGHEST
00:16:11.13\00:16:14.07
SPIRITUAL CRESCENDO THAT YOU CAN
REACH AS A CHRISTIAN IS WHERE
00:16:14.10\00:16:21.61
YOU GET TO THE PLACE WHERE YOU
NOT ONLY HAVE ENOUGH FAITH TO
00:16:21.64\00:16:25.05
BELIEVE THAT JESUS CAN SAVE
YOU, BUT WHERE YOUR FAITH IS SO
00:16:25.08\00:16:27.65
STRONG YOU DON'T CARE IF YOU'RE
SAVED, YOU WANT OTHERS TO BE
00:16:27.68\00:16:31.32
SAVED AND GOD TO BE GLORIFIED.
THE GLORY OF GOD AND THE
00:16:31.35\00:16:34.89
SALVATION OF OTHERS IS
MORE IMPORTANT TO YOU THAN
00:16:34.92\00:16:37.79
EVEN YOUR OWN SALVATION.
WHAT ARE THE GREAT COMMANDMENTS?
00:16:37.83\00:16:42.13
NOW, BY THE WAY, I'M NOT
CLAIMING TO HAVE ARRIVED THERE,
00:16:42.16\00:16:44.20
BUT I READ
ABOUT IT IN THE BIBLE.
00:16:44.23\00:16:46.50
WHAT ARE THE GREAT COMMANDMENTS?
LOVE THE LORD AND LOVE YOUR
00:16:46.53\00:16:50.14
NEIGHBOR AS YOU LOVE
YOUR - WHAT'S THE PRIORITYT?
00:16:50.17\00:16:53.98
LORD, NEIGHBOR, SELF
LAST. THE WORLD SPINS IT AROUND.
00:16:54.01\00:16:58.05
SELF COMES FIRST THEN, MAYBE
YOUR NEIGHBOR, THEN THE LORD -
00:16:58.08\00:17:02.18
OR YOUR GOVERNMENT - PATRIOTISM
- THERE'S ALL KINDS OF THINGS.
00:17:02.22\00:17:05.95
BUT MOSES GOT TO THE PLACE WHERE
HE REACHED THAT ZENITH OF FAITH
00:17:05.99\00:17:11.99
WHERE HE LOVED GOD SO MUCH AND
HE LOVED THE PEOPLE OF GOD SO
00:17:12.03\00:17:14.66
MUCH HE SAID, 'TAKE MY NAME OUT
OF YOUR BOOK - BUT WHAT ABOUT
00:17:14.73\00:17:19.60
YOUR NAME? WHAT
ABOUT YOUR PEOPLE?' RIGHT?
00:17:19.63\00:17:23.44
PAUL PRAYED, 'LORD, EVEN IF I AM
LOST, IF ISRAEL MIGHT BE SAVED.'
00:17:23.47\00:17:30.31
MOST IMPORTANT THING
WAS THE SALVATION OF OTHERS.
00:17:30.35\00:17:32.55
PAUL REACHED THAT ZENITH OF
FAITH WHERE HE REALIZED EVEN THE
00:17:32.58\00:17:35.58
SALVATION OF MY OWN SOUL IS NOT
AS IMPORTANT. IF I COULD ONLY
00:17:35.62\00:17:39.42
KNOW THAT OTHERS WOULD BE SAVED.
AND, OF COURSE, THEY GET THAT
00:17:39.45\00:17:42.79
FROM JESUS, WHO - JESUS, WHEN HE
WENT TO THE CROSS, HE COULD NOT
00:17:42.82\00:17:46.73
SEE BEYOND THE
PORTALS OF THE GRAVE.
00:17:46.76\00:17:48.73
BECAUSE SIN WAS SO BAD WHEN HE
WAS FINALLY BEARING THE WEIGHT
00:17:48.76\00:17:53.50
OF THE SINS OF THE WORLD, HE WAS
WILLING TO EXPERIENCE ETERNAL
00:17:53.54\00:17:57.64
SEPARATION FROM THE
FATHER THAT WE MIGHT BE SAVED.
00:17:57.67\00:18:00.78
THAT'S THE ULTIMATE LOVE -
THE KIND OF LOVE WHERE YOU ARE
00:18:00.81\00:18:04.18
WILLING TO DENY EVERYTHING
THAT OTHERS MIGHT BE SAVED.
00:18:04.21\00:18:08.55
BUT AT LEAST WE WOULD HOPE
THAT OUR FAITH WOULD BRING US
00:18:08.58\00:18:11.85
SALVATION OF OUR SOULS.
SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ FOR ME,
00:18:11.89\00:18:15.86
IN A MINUTE, 1 PETER 3:18
- AND YOU'LL HAVE THAT? OKAY.
00:18:15.89\00:18:20.80
I'M GOING TO READ 1 PETER -
AGAIN, I'M IN CHAPTER 1 STILL,
00:18:20.83\00:18:24.40
VERSES 18 AND 19, TALKING
ABOUT THIS THEME OF JESUS AND
00:18:24.43\00:18:27.60
SALVATION.
"KNOWING THAT YOU WERE NOT
00:18:27.64\00:18:29.80
REDEEMED WITH CORRUPTIBLE
THINGS, LIKE SILVER OR GOLD,
00:18:29.84\00:18:33.24
FROM YOUR AIMLESS CONDUCT
RECEIVED BY TRADITION FROM YOUR
00:18:33.27\00:18:36.01
FATHERS, BUT WITH THE PRECIOUS
BLOOD OF CHRIST, AS OF A LAMB
00:18:36.04\00:18:40.42
WITHOUT BLEMISH
AND WITHOUT SPOT."
00:18:40.45\00:18:43.25
WE'LL TALK LATER ABOUT 'WITHOUT
BLEMISH AND WITHOUT SPOT'.
00:18:43.28\00:18:47.16
YOU ARE NOT REDEEMED WITH
CORRUPTIBLE THINGS LIKE SILVER
00:18:47.19\00:18:50.99
AND GOLD. DOES
THE BIBLE SAY THAT
00:18:51.03\00:18:52.96
SILVER AND GOLD CAN CORRUPT?
FIRST OF ALL, THE LOVE OF
00:18:52.99\00:18:58.03
MONEY IS THE ROOT OF ALL
EVIL. PEOPLE CAN BE CORRUPTED BY
00:18:58.07\00:19:01.67
SILVER AND GOLD, BUT EVEN SILVER
AND GOLD - ISAIAH TALKS ABOUT
00:19:01.70\00:19:06.07
YOUR SILVER AND GOLD HAS BECOME
CORRUPTED. IT'S BECOME MOLDY.
00:19:06.11\00:19:09.58
NOW GOLD, NORMALLY, NEVER MOLDS.
GOLD DOESN'T TARNISH, BUT IT
00:19:09.61\00:19:14.28
SAYS - EVERYTHING'S GOING TO BE
DESTROYED WHEN THE LORD COMES,
00:19:14.32\00:19:17.52
EXCEPT PEOPLE WHO ARE SAVED.
00:19:17.55\00:19:19.55
JESUS SAID, 'DO NOT LAY UP FOR
YOURSELF TREASURE ON EARTH WHERE
00:19:19.59\00:19:21.99
THIEVES BREAK THROUGH AND STEAL
AND MOTH AND RUST DOTH CORRUPT.
00:19:22.02\00:19:27.03
BUT EVEN MORE THAN THAT, WERE
THEY SELLING SALVATION IN JESUS'
00:19:27.03\00:19:32.23
DAY? YEAH, THEY DID.
WAS MONEY CORRUPTING THEM?
00:19:32.27\00:19:39.01
DOES JESUS TALK ABOUT THE
SCRIBES AND PHARISEES THAT WOULD
00:19:39.04\00:19:42.68
PRAY LONG PRAYERS TO COVER THE
EXTORTION OF DEVOURING WIDOWS'
00:19:42.71\00:19:47.15
HOUSES? HAD THEY
DEVELOPED ANOTHER LAW
00:19:47.18\00:19:50.89
THAT YOU COULD GIVE TO THE
CHURCH AND YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO
00:19:50.92\00:19:53.66
TAKE CARE OF YOUR FATHER AND
MOTHER IN THEIR OLD AGE BECAUSE
00:19:53.69\00:19:56.06
YOU DECLARED CORBAN
OVER YOUR POSSESSIONS.
00:19:56.09\00:19:58.53
SO THEY HAD THESE LOOPHOLES.
LOVE OF MONEY WAS CAUSING
00:19:58.56\00:20:01.96
PROBLEMS IN THE
CHURCH BACK IN CHRIST'S DAY.
00:20:02.00\00:20:04.23
WHAT ABOUT
DURING THE REFORMATION?
00:20:04.27\00:20:06.67
WHAT DID MARTIN
LUTHER PROTEST AGAINST?
00:20:06.70\00:20:10.51
I HEARD SOMEONE SAY IT.
INDULGENCES. WHAT WAS THAT?
00:20:10.54\00:20:14.91
THAT YOU COULD PAY MONEY TO
THE CHURCH AND YOU COULD BUY A
00:20:14.94\00:20:16.88
LICENSE THAT COULD FORGIVE
PAST SINS AND EVEN YOU COULD GET
00:20:16.91\00:20:19.58
ADVANCE PARDON - YOU COULD GET
LIKE A COUPON FOR FUTURE SINS.
00:20:19.61\00:20:23.95
NOW, IF YOU THINK THAT ISN'T
TRUE, I ACTUALLY HAVE AN OLD
00:20:23.99\00:20:26.19
BOOK - I COULD SHOW YOU IN THE
BOOK WHERE THEY'VE GOT A PRICE
00:20:26.22\00:20:29.59
LIST FOR VARIOUS SINS. I
KNOW, IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE.
00:20:29.62\00:20:34.93
BUT THIS REALLY ANGERED PETER
- THAT PEOPLE THOUGHT THEY COULD
00:20:34.96\00:20:38.67
BUY THEIR SALVATION - BECAUSE
HE SAW WHEN JESUS - HE SAW JESUS
00:20:38.70\00:20:42.20
BEING BEATEN. REMEMBER
WHEN PETER DENIED CHRIST?
00:20:42.24\00:20:45.54
JESUS WAS IN THE JUDGMENT HALL -
HE WAS BEING BEATEN - AND PETER
00:20:45.57\00:20:48.74
SAW JESUS ON THE CROSS.
AND THE IDEA THAT SOMEONE
00:20:48.78\00:20:51.91
COULD OFFER MONEY FOR
THAT WAS OUTRAGEOUS TO HIM.
00:20:51.95\00:20:54.58
HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER WHEN
YOU READ IN ACTS CHAPTER 8 - I
00:20:54.62\00:20:57.65
THINK IT'S IN VERSE 18 -
SIMON THE MAGICIAN - HE SAW THE
00:20:57.69\00:21:01.09
DISCIPLES WERE LAYING HANDS ON
THE PEOPLE THERE IN SAMARIA AND
00:21:01.12\00:21:04.26
THEY WERE FILLED WITH THE
HOLY SPIRIT AND HE SAID, 'HERE'S
00:21:04.29\00:21:06.53
MONEY - I'LL GIVE YOU MONEY IF
YOU GIVE ME THIS GIFT SO I CAN
00:21:06.56\00:21:10.07
THEN - MAYBE I CAN BE, YOU KNOW,
I CAN HAVE A FRANCHISE AND THEY
00:21:10.10\00:21:14.14
CAN PAY ME MONEY AND I'LL
LAY HANDS ON THEM AND WE'LL SELL
00:21:14.17\00:21:16.30
IT.' ARE THERE STILL CHURCHES
00:21:16.34\00:21:20.18
TODAY THAT ACT LIKE SALVATION'S
ALL ABOUT RAISING MONEY?
00:21:20.21\00:21:25.05
I NEED TO BE CAREFUL WHAT I SAY
BECAUSE WE'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF A
00:21:25.08\00:21:26.58
CAPITAL CAMPAIGN - BUT WE KNOW
THAT, REALLY, SALVATION IS FREE.
00:21:26.61\00:21:32.75
JESUS SAID TO SIMON,
'YOUR MONEY PERISH WITH YOU'.
00:21:32.79\00:21:37.06
AND WHEN THEY WENT TO THE
BEAUTIFUL GATE - ACTS - ACTS
00:21:37.09\00:21:40.43
CHAPTER 3 - JOHN AND PETER
GO TO THE BEAUTIFUL GATE AND A
00:21:40.46\00:21:42.90
BEGGAR'S THERE WHO'S LAME, AND
PETER AND JOHN SAY, 'SILVER AND
00:21:42.93\00:21:46.84
GOLD WE DO NOT HAVE, BUT
WE'LL GIVE YOU SOMETHING BETTER.
00:21:46.87\00:21:49.47
WE'RE GOING TO TEACH YOU HOW TO
WALK THROUGH THE POWER OF GOD.'
00:21:49.50\00:21:52.07
AND THAT'S WHAT SALVATION IS
ABOUT - GOD GIVES US THE ABILITY
00:21:52.11\00:21:54.44
TO WALK A NEW WALK. RIGHT?
AND SO, AGAIN, IT TALKS ABOUT IT
00:21:54.48\00:21:58.71
BEING A GIFT. NOW I - I SPOKE A
LONG TIME HERE, BUT I WAS GOING
00:21:58.75\00:22:03.85
TO ASK YOU TO READ A VERSE
FOR US. ARE YOU READY? GO AHEAD.
00:22:03.89\00:22:08.72
>>1 PETER CHAPTER 3, VERSE 18,
"FOR CHRIST ALSO SUFFERED ONCE
00:22:08.76\00:22:13.13
FOR SINS, THE JUST FOR THE
UNJUST, THAT HE MIGHT BRING US
00:22:13.16\00:22:17.53
TO GOD, BEING PUT TO DEATH IN
THE FLESH BUT MADE ALIVE BY THE
00:22:17.57\00:22:21.74
SPIRIT". >>NOW ONE REASON PETER
00:22:21.77\00:22:24.17
EMPHASIZES JESUS SUFFERED ONCE
FOR SINS - YOU KNOW, THERE'S A
00:22:24.21\00:22:29.18
STATEMENT WHERE IT TALKS,
IN HEBREWS, ABOUT CRUCIFYING
00:22:29.21\00:22:31.68
THE SON OF GOD AFRESH.
THAT DOESN'T MEAN JESUS
00:22:31.71\00:22:33.68
LITERALLY IS CRUCIFIED AGAIN, IT
SIMPLY MEANS OUR SINS PAIN HIM
00:22:33.72\00:22:39.39
AND WE ARE
REMINDED OF HIS SUFFERING.
00:22:39.42\00:22:44.39
BUT IN THE OLD TESTAMENT AND ALL
THROUGH THE HEBREW ECONOMY, HOW
00:22:44.43\00:22:47.83
OFTEN DID THEY
HAVE TO SACRIFICE LAMBS?
00:22:47.86\00:22:49.73
ONCE? OR ALMOST DAILY?
THEY HAD DAILY SACRIFICES, THEY
00:22:49.76\00:22:54.57
HAD SPECIAL WEEKLY SACRIFICES
FOR THE SABBATH, THEY HAD ANNUAL
00:22:54.60\00:22:57.91
SACRIFICES FOR THE FEASTS,
AND THERE WAS A CONTINUAL
00:22:57.94\00:23:01.48
FLOW OF BLOOD. I WAS
AT THE DOME OF THE ROCK -
00:23:01.51\00:23:08.05
THE PLACE WHERE THE OLD TEMPLE
USED TO BE MANY YEARS AGO AND
00:23:08.08\00:23:11.02
- I DON'T EVEN KNOW IF YOU'RE
ALLOWED TO GO IN THERE NOW, BUT
00:23:11.05\00:23:13.29
WE WENT IN AND IN THE MIDDLE OF
THIS MOSQUE OF OMAR - THIS DOME
00:23:13.32\00:23:17.53
OF THE ROCK -
THEY'VE GOT AN ALTAR.
00:23:17.56\00:23:20.06
YOU CAN SEE THE CARVINGS IN THE
ROCK WHERE THERE USED TO BE AN
00:23:20.10\00:23:22.23
ALTAR AND THEN YOU CAN SEE
THERE'S A TUNNEL THAT IS DUG
00:23:22.26\00:23:25.20
FROM THERE THAT GOES OUT
AND EXITS IN THE KIDRON VALLEY.
00:23:25.23\00:23:28.77
AND THAT'S BECAUSE, WHEN THEY
SACRIFICED THESE LAMBS, THEY
00:23:28.80\00:23:31.47
ACTUALLY HAD A RIVER OF BLOOD
THAT FLOWED FROM THE TEMPLE TO
00:23:31.51\00:23:34.71
THE KIDRON VALLEY THAT WAS
ULTIMATELY CARRIED BY THE CREEK
00:23:34.74\00:23:38.01
DOWN TO THE DEAD
SEA. AND SO THERE WAS -
00:23:38.05\00:23:41.28
IT WAS CONSTANTLY. BUT
PETER WAS SAYING THAT THE
00:23:41.32\00:23:44.02
SACRIFICE OF JESUS WAS SO
POWERFUL, HE HAS SUFFERED FOR
00:23:44.05\00:23:47.36
SINS ONCE - THAT'S ALL IT TOOK.
SO WE, OF COURSE, ACCEPT THAT.
00:23:47.39\00:23:53.40
AND I WANT TO READ, AGAIN,
1 PETER CHAPTER 2 NOW, STILL
00:23:53.43\00:23:56.50
TALKING ABOUT THE SUFFERINGS OF
JESUS, VERSE 22 THROUGH VERSE 25
00:23:56.53\00:24:01.24
- 1 PETER 2:22-25.
YOU'VE GOT YOUR BIBLES YOU CAN
00:24:01.27\00:24:03.91
FOLLOW ALONG, "'WHO COMMITTED NO
SIN, NOR WAS DECEIT FOUND IN HIS
00:24:03.94\00:24:08.88
MOUTH';" - NOW THIS IS A VERY
IMPORTANT PASSAGE THAT YOU FIND
00:24:08.91\00:24:11.01
PETER - WAS
JESUS SINLESS? >>YES.
00:24:11.05\00:24:15.78
>>THERE'S ONLY A FEW PLACES
IN THE BIBLE THAT MAKES IT CLEAR
00:24:15.82\00:24:17.49
CHRIST WAS SINLESS, AND THIS
IS ONE OF THEM, SO YOU NEED TO
00:24:17.52\00:24:20.59
HIGHLIGHT THAT IN YOUR BIBLES.
00:24:20.62\00:24:23.39
"'WHO COMMITTED NO SIN, NOR WAS
DECEIT FOUND IN HIS MOUTH'; WHO,
00:24:23.43\00:24:27.86
WHEN HE WAS REVILED," - THERE,
WHEN HE WAS BEING, YOU KNOW,
00:24:27.86\00:24:30.50
TORTURED FOR HIS FAITH - "DID
NOT REVILE IN RETURN; WHEN HE
00:24:30.53\00:24:36.44
SUFFERED, HE DID NOT THREATEN,
BUT COMMITTED HIMSELF TO HIM WHO
00:24:36.47\00:24:40.08
JUDGES RIGHTEOUSLY; WHO HIMSELF
BORE OUR SINS IN HIS OWN BODY" -
00:24:40.11\00:24:44.15
HE DIDN'T DIE FOR HIS SINS
BECAUSE HE COMMITTED NO SIN - HE
00:24:44.18\00:24:46.72
"BORE OUR SINS IN HIS
OWN BODY ON THE TREE," -
00:24:46.75\00:24:50.79
NOW, WHEN PETER SAYS 'OUR
SINS' WHO DOES THAT INCLUDE?
00:24:50.82\00:24:55.32
>>EVERYBODY. >>ISN'T
THAT GOOD TO KNOW THAT
00:24:55.36\00:24:57.59
JESUS COVERED YOUR SINS IN HIS
OWN BODY ON THE TREE - ON THE
00:24:57.63\00:25:02.80
CROSS? - "BY HIS
STRIPES YOU WERE HEALED."
00:25:02.83\00:25:06.94
- IT SAYS, "FOR YOU WERE LIKE
SHEEP GOING ASTRAY," - AGAIN,
00:25:06.97\00:25:09.64
HE'S TALKING ABOUT ISAIAH
CHAPTER 53 - "FOR YOU WERE LIKE
00:25:09.67\00:25:14.08
SHEEP GOING ASTRAY, BUT HAVE
NOW RETURNED TO THE SHEPHERD AND
00:25:14.11\00:25:17.98
OVERSEER" - THE BISHOP - "OF
YOUR SOULS." AND SO THIS IS A
00:25:18.01\00:25:23.45
BEAUTIFUL PASSAGE
THAT COVERS SALVATION HERE.
00:25:23.49\00:25:26.09
NOW, UNDER THE NEXT SECTION,
IT TALKS ABOUT - WE UNDERSTAND
00:25:26.12\00:25:29.32
JESUS DIED FOR OUR SINS, SO
ONCE HE'S DIED FOR OUR SINS, HOW
00:25:29.36\00:25:33.53
SHOULD WE LIVE?
HOW SHOULD WE LIVE?
00:25:33.56\00:25:38.47
THIS IS A VERY MISUNDERSTOOD
TEACHING IN CHRISTIANITY.
00:25:38.50\00:25:44.77
THE WHOLE CONCEPT OF HOLINESS
IS NOT TAUGHT VERY OFTEN.
00:25:44.81\00:25:50.41
I SCANNED THROUGH RELIGIOUS
CHANNELS - I SOMETIMES LIKE TO
00:25:50.45\00:25:55.42
TUNE IN TO WHAT OTHER PASTORS
ARE SAYING, BOTH ON THE RADIO
00:25:55.45\00:25:59.09
AND ON THE TV. I'LL
WATCH OTHER SERVICES,
00:25:59.12\00:26:01.36
I'LL LISTEN TO OTHER SERMONS.
VERY RARELY DO YOU HEAR PASTORS
00:26:01.39\00:26:07.13
PREACH ABOUT HOLINESS, PURITY,
REPENTANCE, TURNING FROM SIN.
00:26:07.20\00:26:14.64
BUT, WHEN YOU READ IN THE BIBLE,
YOU'LL FIND THAT THE WHOLE ISSUE
00:26:14.67\00:26:17.17
WAS 'WE'VE GOT A PROBLEM CALLED
SIN - IT'S ALL BECAUSE OF OUR
00:26:17.21\00:26:20.74
SELFISHNESS AND OUR WICKEDNESS
AND OUR FALLEN NATURE AND JESUS
00:26:20.78\00:26:24.95
CAME TO SAVE US FROM OUR SINS,
NOT JUST FROM THE BAD RECORD,
00:26:24.98\00:26:31.22
BUT HE WANTS TO SAVE
US FROM THE BEHAVIOR.
00:26:31.25\00:26:34.69
NOW, WHAT WILL YOU BE ACCUSED OF
IF YOU'RE A PREACHER WHO TALKS
00:26:34.72\00:26:37.96
ABOUT BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION?
YOU'LL BE CALLED 'WORKS
00:26:37.99\00:26:43.67
ORIENTED'. YOU'LL BE
CALLED 'PHARISAICAL'.
00:26:43.70\00:26:46.30
YOU'LL BE CALLED 'LEGALIST'.
BUT THE BIG QUESTION IS: IS
00:26:46.33\00:26:51.14
OBEDIENCE A
BIBLICAL TEACHING? >>YES.
00:26:51.17\00:26:54.84
>>IS GOD CALLING US,
IN THE BIBLE, TO CHANGE?
00:26:54.88\00:26:58.61
TO REPENT? IS IT JUST ACCEPTING
THE SALVATION THAT WE'RE ALL
00:26:58.65\00:27:03.59
COVERED WITH THIS LOVELY GRACE?
OR DOES GOD GIVE US GRACE,
00:27:03.62\00:27:09.26
WHICH IS A HOLY POWER TO
LIVE A DIFFERENT KIND OF LIFE?
00:27:09.29\00:27:14.20
THE PURPOSE OF THAT GRACE
IS HE'S INVESTING US - HE'S
00:27:14.23\00:27:18.70
INJECTING US WITH A POWER
OF GRACE TO BE OVERCOMERS.
00:27:18.73\00:27:23.51
SO PETER TALKS ABOUT IT'S NOT
JUST GRACE AS A COVER UP, IT'S
00:27:23.54\00:27:27.24
GRACE AS A DYNAMIC THAT HELPS
US LIVE NEW, VICTORIOUS LIVES.
00:27:27.28\00:27:33.68
AND SO PETER SAYS QUITE A BIT
ABOUT THAT AND WE'RE GOING TO
00:27:33.72\00:27:36.05
TALK ABOUT IT. 1 PETER 1:15-17,
"BUT AS HE WHO CALLED YOU IS
00:27:36.08\00:27:43.29
HOLY, YOU ALSO BE HOLY
IN" - SOME OF YOUR CONDUCT.
00:27:43.32\00:27:50.37
ANYONE READING
ALONG WITH ME? (LAUGHTER)
00:27:50.40\00:27:52.77
YOU'VE GOT TO WATCH
PREACHERS, THEY'RE SNEAKY.
00:27:52.80\00:27:54.70
THEY LEAVE OUT ONE
WORD, IT CHANGES EVERYTHING.
00:27:54.74\00:27:56.91
YOU KNOW, I'VE BEEN - I'VE BEEN
IN SOME MEETINGS WHERE THEY'RE
00:27:56.94\00:28:00.11
TALKING ABOUT DIFFERENT
CONSTITUTIONS AND BYLAWS AND
00:28:00.14\00:28:03.45
SOMEONE WANTS TO CHANGE ONE
WORD - 'OH, IT'S JUST ONE WORD'.
00:28:03.48\00:28:05.68
WELL, THAT ONE
WORD CHANGED EVERYTHING.
00:28:05.71\00:28:08.72
THE WORD 'ALL'
CHANGES EVERYTHING.
00:28:08.75\00:28:12.19
HE SAYS, "BE HOLY IN ALL YOUR
CONDUCT," - WHAT IF HE SAID 'BE
00:28:12.22\00:28:16.29
HOLY IN MOST OF YOUR
CONDUCT'? HOW WOULD PEOPLE LIKE
00:28:16.32\00:28:19.96
TO INTERPRET THAT?
MOST IS SORT OF A - IT'S
00:28:20.00\00:28:24.43
A VAGUE WORD, ISN'T
IT? YOUR MOST IS DIFFERENT
00:28:24.47\00:28:26.87
FROM MY MOST. BUT
WHEN HE SAYS 'BE HOLY IN
00:28:26.90\00:28:29.80
ALL YOUR CONDUCT', WHO
CAN MISUNDERSTAND THAT?
00:28:29.84\00:28:33.01
THAT'S ALL-ENCOMPASSING.
EVERY LAWYER WOULD KNOW THAT
00:28:33.04\00:28:35.84
THERE'S A BIG DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
BE HOLY IN SOME OF YOUR CONDUCT
00:28:35.88\00:28:39.41
AND BE HOLY IN
ALL OF YOUR CONDUCT.
00:28:39.45\00:28:41.75
WHAT IS A
CHRISTIAN? WHY ARE CHRISTIANS
00:28:41.78\00:28:44.49
CALLED CHRISTIANS? WHY
ARE WE NOT CALLED BUDDHISTS?
00:28:44.52\00:28:48.99
BECAUSE WE DON'T FOLLOW THE
TEACHINGS OF BUDDHA OR CONFUCIUS
00:28:49.02\00:28:52.76
- THOUGH THEY MAY HAVE SAID SOME
IMPORTANT THINGS, WE FOLLOW THE
00:28:52.79\00:28:55.53
TEACHINGS OF JESUS, AND THAT
MEANS WE DON'T JUST READ THEM,
00:28:55.56\00:28:59.10
WE TRY TO LIVE
THEM OUT IN OUR LIVES.
00:28:59.13\00:29:01.00
A CHRISTIAN IS A
FOLLOWER OF CHRIST, RIGHT?
00:29:01.04\00:29:04.64
SO THE BIBLE SAYS JESUS WAS
HOLY; IT SAYS YOU BE HOLY IN ALL
00:29:04.67\00:29:08.68
OF YOUR CONDUCT. NOW,
DID PASTOR DOUG SAY THAT?
00:29:08.71\00:29:12.38
IS PASTOR DOUG A
LEGALIST OR IS PETER A LEGALIST?
00:29:12.41\00:29:14.85
LET'S JUST BLAME IT
WHERE THE BLAME BELONGS.
00:29:14.88\00:29:17.22
LET'S FACE IT,
PETER WAS A PHARISEE.
00:29:17.25\00:29:20.36
HE WAS A
LEGALIST. I'M BEING A LITTLE
00:29:20.39\00:29:23.66
BIT FACETIOUS HERE.
SORRY. LET ME READ SOME
00:29:23.69\00:29:26.86
MORE TO YOU ON THIS.
JESUS SAID, 'BLESSED ARE THE
00:29:26.90\00:29:29.60
PURE IN HEART FOR THEY WILL SEE
GOD.' SO, WHAT HAS TO CHANGE?
00:29:29.63\00:29:32.67
>>US. >>THE
HEART. AND WHAT HEARTS
00:29:32.70\00:29:36.47
WILL SEE THE
LORD? THE PURE IN HEART.
00:29:36.50\00:29:40.01
1 PETER 1:22, "SINCE YOU HAVE
PURIFIED YOUR SOULS IN OBEYING
00:29:40.04\00:29:46.41
THE TRUTH" - THERE YOU HAVE
IT AGAIN, HE'S BEING A LEGALIST.
00:29:46.45\00:29:49.58
OUR SOULS ARE PURIFIED THROUGH
OBEYING THE TRUTH, NOT JUST
00:29:49.62\00:29:52.65
READING THE TRUTH. THROUGH
THE SPIRIT - HOW DO WE OBEY?
00:29:52.69\00:29:55.66
- "THROUGH THE SPIRIT IN SINCERE
LOVE OF THE BRETHREN, LOVE ONE
00:29:55.69\00:29:59.76
ANOTHER FERVENTLY WITH A PURE
HEART," - THERE'S NO QUESTION
00:29:59.79\00:30:03.80
THAT PETER IS TALKING ABOUT
US BEING TRANSFORMED - BEING
00:30:03.83\00:30:07.37
CREATURES THAT ARE DRIVING
BY LOVE - LOVING GOD AND LOVING
00:30:07.40\00:30:10.24
EACH OTHER. GONNA KEEP READING
1 PETER 2, VERSES 1 THROUGH 3,
00:30:10.27\00:30:15.11
"THEREFORE, LAYING ASIDE" -
MOST MALICE AND MOST DECEIT,
00:30:15.14\00:30:20.88
>>ALL. >>OH, YOU'RE WATCHING ME.
00:30:20.92\00:30:24.02
"LAYING ASIDE ALL MALICE"
- THAT'S BAD FEELINGS - "ALL
00:30:24.05\00:30:28.62
DECEIT, HYPOCRISY, ENVY,
AND ALL EVIL SPEAKING," - SHOULD
00:30:28.66\00:30:33.46
CHRISTIANS ONLY
SPEAK A LITTLE EVIL?
00:30:33.50\00:30:35.73
OR IS OUR GOAL
TO BE LIKE CHRIST?
00:30:35.76\00:30:39.80
NOW, WHENEVER YOU SAY
THIS, PEOPLE GET NERVOUS.
00:30:39.83\00:30:47.98
WHO HERE WANTS TO
BE JUST LIKE JESUS.
00:30:48.01\00:30:53.38
ALL HANDS GO UP, OKAY.
WHO HERE WILL CLAIM THAT YOU
00:30:53.42\00:30:58.42
NOW ARE LIVING A PERFECTLY
HOLY LIFE? WELL THEN, IT MUST BE
00:30:58.45\00:31:06.56
IMPOSSIBLE - THAT'S
THE ARGUMENT THAT'S MADE.
00:31:06.59\00:31:10.77
YOU KNOW, WHETHER IT'S
IMPOSSIBLE OR NOT - NOW I
00:31:10.80\00:31:13.57
BELIEVE ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE
WITH GOD, BUT JUST FOR THE SAKE
00:31:13.60\00:31:15.84
OF ARGUMENT, WHETHER IT WAS
IMPOSSIBLE OR NOT, NOBODY SHOULD
00:31:15.87\00:31:20.08
BE CONFUSED THAT EVERYBODY'S
MISSION SHOULD BE AS MUCH LIKE
00:31:20.11\00:31:25.08
JESUS AS WE CAN BE - TO BE
JUST LIKE CHRIST - SO THAT HE
00:31:25.11\00:31:29.52
REPRODUCES HIS
LIFE IN OUR CHARACTER.
00:31:29.55\00:31:32.09
WE CAN'T BE CONFUSED ABOUT THAT.
00:31:32.12\00:31:34.36
HE GOES ON AND SAYS, ON THE
CONTRARY, INSTEAD OF RETURNING
00:31:34.39\00:31:39.16
EVIL FOR EVIL, BUT YOU RETURN
BLESSING, KNOWING THAT YOU ARE
00:31:39.19\00:31:44.97
CALLED TO THIS THAT YOU MIGHT
INHERIT A BLESSING, WE DON'T
00:31:45.00\00:31:47.84
OVERCOME EVIL WITH EVIL,
WE OVERCOME EVIL WITH GOOD.
00:31:47.87\00:31:50.97
AND YOU CAN READ HERE WHERE IT
SAYS IN 1 PETER 4:7-11, "BUT THE
00:31:51.01\00:31:56.64
END OF ALL THINGS IS AT HAND;"
- BOY, IF THAT WAS TRUE IN HIS
00:31:56.68\00:31:59.65
DAY, HOW MUCH MORE IN
OURS? - "THEREFORE BE SERIOUS" -
00:31:59.68\00:32:03.02
BE SOBER - BE
"WATCHFUL IN YOUR PRAYERS."
00:32:03.05\00:32:06.09
- WHAT ARE WE WATCHING AGAINST?
TEMPTATION - PETER SAID THE
00:32:06.12\00:32:10.16
DEVIL IS GOING AROUND AS A
ROARING LION - BE SOBER, BE
00:32:10.19\00:32:13.06
VIGILANT, BE
"WATCHFUL IN YOUR PRAYERS.
00:32:13.09\00:32:19.90
AND" - HE SAYS THAT - "ABOVE ALL
THINGS HAVE FERVENT LOVE FOR ONE
00:32:19.93\00:32:25.67
ANOTHER, FOR 'LOVE WILL COVER
A MULTITUDE OF SINS.'" - YOU
00:32:25.71\00:32:29.51
NOTICE HOW HE EMPHASIZES 1 PETER
1:22 - LOVE ONE ANOTHER - 1
00:32:29.54\00:32:33.38
PETER 3:8 AND 9, 'LOVE HIS
BROTHERS' - 1 PETER 4:7, "HAVE
00:32:33.42\00:32:37.25
FERVENT LOVE FOR ALL [ONE
ANOTHER], FOR 'LOVE WILL COVER A
00:32:37.29\00:32:40.36
MULTITUDE OF SINS.'" YOU KNOW,
WHEN I DO BUILDING, I'M NOT A
00:32:40.39\00:32:44.53
VERY GOOD FINISH CARPENTER,
BUT I'VE DONE - I'VE BUILT SOME
00:32:44.56\00:32:47.00
HOUSES AND I'M VERY THANKFUL
THAT YOU CAN GET PUTTY - YOU
00:32:47.03\00:32:55.74
KNOW, WHEN YOU'RE DOING SHEET
ROCK WORK AND YOU BANG THE WALLS
00:32:55.77\00:32:59.01
AND YOU SCUFF THE WALLS AND
YOU MAYBE DON'T GET YOUR JOINTS
00:32:59.04\00:33:01.71
STRAIGHT. I'VE
BECOME AN ARTIST AND I'VE
00:33:01.74\00:33:04.55
LEARNED THAT SPACKLING
WILL COVER A MULTITUDE OF SIN.
00:33:04.58\00:33:08.32
(LAUGHTER) AND, YOU KNOW, YOU
GET YOUR - YOUR TAPING SOMETIMES
00:33:08.35\00:33:14.49
IS ROUGH - YOU SAND IT DOWN,
YOU CAN SPACKLE - YOU CAN COVER
00:33:14.52\00:33:17.03
ALMOST ANYTHING. WELL,
YOU KNOW, LOVE, FOR THE
00:33:17.06\00:33:21.76
CHRISTIAN, COVERS
A MULTITUDE OF SINS.
00:33:21.80\00:33:24.03
IF WE JUST LOVE EACH OTHER MORE,
WE'D ALL GET ALONG BETTER ONCE
00:33:24.07\00:33:26.50
WE KNOW WE DIDN'T HAVE MALICE
AND WE REALLY LOVED EACH OTHER.
00:33:26.53\00:33:30.37
TALKING AGAIN ABOUT
'HOW SHALL WE LIVE?'
00:33:30.41\00:33:33.71
- HE SAYS, "BE HOSPITABLE TO ONE
ANOTHER" - TO OPEN OUR HOMES -
00:33:33.74\00:33:37.48
INVITE PEOPLE OVER FOR
LUNCH - "WITHOUT GRUMBLING."
00:33:37.51\00:33:40.95
- 'OH, THEY ATE ALL MY FOOD.'
THAT'S WHAT THEY'D GRUMBLE ABOUT
00:33:40.98\00:33:46.05
- "AS EACH ONE HAS RECEIVED
A GIFT, MINISTER IT TO ONE
00:33:46.09\00:33:49.29
ANOTHER, AS GOOD STEWARDS
OF THE MANIFOLD GRACE OF GOD."
00:33:49.32\00:33:53.50
- GOD GIVES US GRACE IN SO MANY
WAYS - MANIFOLD - SOME OF YOU'VE
00:33:53.53\00:33:57.00
GOT MANIFOLD ON YOUR CAR - IT
MEANS IT'S TAKING FROM SEVERAL
00:33:57.03\00:34:00.60
EXHAUSTS - YOU'VE GOT AN
8-CYLINDER, YOUR MANIFOLD'S
00:34:00.64\00:34:03.57
GOT EIGHT PORTS - IT
MEANS MANY - WE HAVE MANY
00:34:03.61\00:34:07.31
DIFFERENT WAYS THAT
GOD GIVES US HIS GRACE.
00:34:07.34\00:34:09.64
WELL, IN MANY DIFFERENT WAYS WE
SHOULD BE FREELY SHARING THOSE
00:34:09.68\00:34:12.75
BLESSINGS. AS
YOU'VE RECEIVED THE GIFT,
00:34:12.78\00:34:19.39
MINISTER TO ONE
ANOTHER AS GOOD STEWARDS OF THE
00:34:19.42\00:34:21.52
MANIFOLD GRACE OF GOD.
"IF ANYONE SPEAKS, LET HIM
00:34:21.56\00:34:24.33
SPEAK AS THE ORACLES OF GOD."
- SPEAK FROM THE WORD OF GOD -
00:34:24.36\00:34:28.00
"IF ANYONE MINISTERS, LET HIM
DO IT AS WITH THE ABILITY WHICH
00:34:28.03\00:34:30.30
GOD SUPPLIES, THAT IN ALL THINGS
GOD MAY BE GLORIFIED THROUGH
00:34:30.33\00:34:34.17
JESUS CHRIST, TO WHOM BELONG
THE GLORY AND THE DOMINION
00:34:34.20\00:34:37.74
FOREVER AND EVER. AMEN."
00:34:37.77\00:34:40.51
THEN YOU CAN READ IN 2 PETER
3:11, "THEREFORE, SINCE ALL
00:34:40.54\00:34:44.61
THESE THINGS WILL BE DISSOLVED,"
- TALKING ABOUT THE SECOND
00:34:44.65\00:34:46.92
COMING - "WHAT MANNER OF PERSONS
OUGHT YOU TO BE IN HOLY CONDUCT
00:34:46.95\00:34:51.62
AND GODLINESS," - SINCE
EVERYTHING IN THIS WORLD'S GOING
00:34:51.65\00:34:55.12
TO BURN UP, WHAT KIND
OF PEOPLE SHOULD WE BE?
00:34:55.16\00:34:58.49
I MEAN, IF WE REALLY BELIEVE -
IF YOU BELIEVED IT WAS ALL GOING
00:34:58.53\00:35:01.50
TO BE GONE TOMORROW,
HOW WOULD YOU LIVE TODAY?
00:35:01.53\00:35:05.30
WOULD YOU BE MOTIVATED A LITTLE
MORE IF YOU THOUGHT YOU HAD A
00:35:05.33\00:35:07.44
WEEK LEFT? OR A MONTH?
00:35:07.47\00:35:09.90
BECAUSE WE DON'T KNOW AND WE
THINK WE'VE GOT YEARS, WE BECOME
00:35:09.94\00:35:12.57
A LITTLE BIT SLOPPY - IT'S JUST
HUMAN NATURE - AS YOU ALWAYS
00:35:12.61\00:35:16.31
TEND TO WAIT FOR
TILL THE LAST MINUTE.
00:35:16.34\00:35:18.78
IF YOU KNOW COMPANY IS COMING
TO YOUR HOUSE SOMEDAY, BUT YOU
00:35:18.81\00:35:23.35
DON'T KNOW WHEN, THEY
MAY CATCH YOU BY SURPRISE.
00:35:23.39\00:35:27.99
BUT IF YOU KNOW THAT COMPANY -
IT'S AMAZING, PEOPLE ALWAYS SAY,
00:35:28.02\00:35:30.89
'PASTOR, PLEASE CALL ME BEFORE
YOU COME.' AND I FIND, YEAH,
00:35:30.93\00:35:35.96
WELL, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES WE'VE
GOT OUR REASONS FOR NOT WANTING
00:35:36.00\00:35:38.40
TO CALL BEFORE WE COME, BECAUSE
SOME PEOPLE ALWAYS MAKE AN
00:35:38.43\00:35:42.77
EXCUSE FOR NOT
LETTING US COME AT ALL.
00:35:42.80\00:35:45.91
SO A GOOD PASTOR,
SOMETIMES, JUST SHOWS UP.
00:35:45.94\00:35:49.14
BUT PEOPLE SAY, 'OH, I DIDN'T
HAVE A CHANCE TO CLEAN.' AND -
00:35:49.18\00:35:54.92
BE READY, IN SUCH AN HOUR AS YOU
THINK NOT - BUT JESUS - IF WE
00:35:54.95\00:36:00.76
KNOW THAT SOMEONE'S COMING AND
YOU DON'T KNOW WHEN, YOU WANT TO
00:36:00.79\00:36:03.26
BE READY ALL THE TIME, RIGHT?
00:36:03.29\00:36:07.20
HE SAYS, "SINCE ALL THESE THINGS
WILL BE DISSOLVED, WHAT MANNER
00:36:07.23\00:36:10.90
OF PERSONS OUGHT YOU TO BE
IN HOLY CONDUCT AND GODLINESS,".
00:36:10.93\00:36:15.70
1 PETER 1:15-16, "BUT AS HE WHO
CALLED YOU IS HOLY, YOU ALSO BE
00:36:15.74\00:36:22.04
HOLY IN ALL YOUR CONDUCT,
BECAUSE IT IS WRITTEN, 'BE HOLY,
00:36:22.08\00:36:25.18
FOR I AM HOLY.'" NOW, HOLINESS -
THAT'S TALKING ABOUT THE PURITY.
00:36:25.21\00:36:37.46
WE ALWAYS THINK ABOUT THIS -
THIS AURA OF LIGHT AND PURITY
00:36:37.49\00:36:42.46
THAT SURROUNDS GOD AND WE
ENVISION THAT AS HOLINESS.
00:36:42.50\00:36:46.47
BUT HOLINESS REALLY
MEANS 'SET ASIDE FOR'.
00:36:46.50\00:36:51.41
THIS BOOK IS
DIFFERENT FROM EVERY OTHER BOOK.
00:36:51.44\00:36:53.17
WHY IS IT DIFFERENT?
IT'S RIGHT THERE ON THE
00:36:53.21\00:36:56.34
TITLE - WHAT'S IT SAY? THE
WORD 'BIBLE' MEANS 'BIBLIOS'
00:36:56.38\00:37:00.15
- IT MEANS 'BOOKS' -
NOTHING SPECIAL ABOUT THAT.
00:37:00.18\00:37:01.95
WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT IS
THIS IS THE 'HOLY' COLLECTION OF
00:37:01.98\00:37:04.29
BOOKS OR THE COLLECTION
OF HOLY BOOKS - HOLY BIBLE.
00:37:04.32\00:37:06.89
SPANISH - SANTA BIBLIA -
YOU RECOGNIZE THE WORD 'SAINT'.
00:37:06.92\00:37:10.43
MARRIAGE IS CALLED 'HOLY
MATRIMONY' - WHY IS IT CALLED
00:37:10.46\00:37:13.86
'HOLY MATRIMONY'?
BECAUSE TWO PEOPLE BECOME, IN AN
00:37:13.90\00:37:18.50
EXCLUSIVE WAY, SET APART FOR
A UNIQUE RELATIONSHIP OF LOVE.
00:37:18.53\00:37:23.47
WHEN WE ARE CALLED TO BE HOLY
WITH GOD, WE ARE SET APART IN
00:37:23.51\00:37:27.41
THIS WORLD AS
UNIQUE. WE BELONG TO GOD.
00:37:27.44\00:37:29.84
WE HAVE A RELATIONSHIP THAT IS
HOLY WITH GOD AND WE LIVE IN A
00:37:29.88\00:37:34.52
WAY THAT SHOWS THAT WE ARE
SET ASIDE IN A DIFFERENT WAY.
00:37:34.55\00:37:39.65
NOW, PETER, IS HE BEING
LEGALISTIC OR IS PETER QUOTING
00:37:39.69\00:37:43.69
MOSES IN THE OLD TESTAMENT?
LEVITICUS 11:44, "FOR I
00:37:43.73\00:37:49.43
AM THE LORD YOUR GOD. YOU
SHALL THEREFORE CONSECRATE
00:37:49.46\00:37:54.50
YOURSELVES, AND YOU
SHALL BE HOLY; FOR I AM HOLY.
00:37:54.54\00:37:59.27
NEITHER SHALL YOU DEFILE
YOURSELVES WITH ANY CREEPING
00:37:59.31\00:38:02.51
THING THAT CREEPS ON THE
EARTH." AFTER ALL, WE ARE
00:38:02.54\00:38:04.81
THE CHILDREN OF GOD. IF
GOD SAYS, 'LOOK, I'M HOLY.
00:38:04.85\00:38:06.95
YOU'RE MY CHILDREN. I WANT
YOU TO BE LIKE YOUR FATHER.
00:38:06.98\00:38:09.92
YOU BE HOLY IN ALL OF YOUR
BEHAVIOR.' AND THEN HE GOES ON
00:38:09.95\00:38:14.89
AND HE TALKS ABOUT
'BE HOLY WITHOUT SPOT' -
00:38:14.92\00:38:17.39
NOW YOU'RE GOING TO
HEAR - YOU'RE GOING TO SEE
00:38:17.43\00:38:18.93
'SPOTS' BY THE TIME
I'M DONE WITH THIS SECTION.
00:38:18.96\00:38:22.26
SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ FOR ME,
IN A MOMENT, EPHESIANS 5:27 -
00:38:22.30\00:38:26.10
NATHAN BATCHELOR THE YOUNGER
WILL DO THAT IN JUST A MOMENT.
00:38:26.13\00:38:30.57
I'M GOING TO READ 2 PETER 3:14,
"THEREFORE, BELOVED, LOOKING
00:38:30.61\00:38:35.24
FORWARD TO THESE THINGS, BE
DILIGENT TO BE FOUND BY HIM IN
00:38:35.28\00:38:39.48
PEACE, WITHOUT SPOT AND
BLAMELESS;" - I MEAN, WHO HERE
00:38:39.51\00:38:45.05
WILL CLAIM SPOTLESSNESS?
BUT WHAT IS PETER SAYING?
00:38:45.09\00:38:50.09
BUT WITHOUT SPOT
AND BLAMELESS - HOW?
00:38:50.13\00:38:52.73
BE DILIGENT TO BE
FOUND OF HIM THAT WAY.
00:38:52.76\00:38:56.10
THE LORD IS CALLING
US TO LIVES OF HOLINESS.
00:38:56.13\00:38:59.03
NOW, HE DOESN'T SAY YOU'VE NEVER
HAD A SPOT; HE SAID BUT OUR JOB
00:38:59.07\00:39:03.27
IS TO TRY AND GET THE
SPOTS OUT BEFORE JESUS COMES.
00:39:03.30\00:39:07.61
IF YOU HAVE A WEDDING DRESS AND
YOU DISCOVER, BEFORE YOU GO IN
00:39:07.64\00:39:14.15
FOR THE WEDDING CEREMONY, THAT
THERE'S A LITTLE SPOT ON THE
00:39:14.18\00:39:17.99
DRESS, BUT YOU'VE GOT A
FRIEND THAT'S GOT SOME OF THE
00:39:18.02\00:39:21.42
HANDY-DANDY POCKET SPOT REMOVER
- YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING
00:39:21.46\00:39:24.39
ABOUT? I SEE LADIES NODDING.
THE MEN ARE GOING (LAUGHTER) -
00:39:24.43\00:39:30.93
WOULDN'T YOU WANT TO GET
THE SPOT OUT BEFORE YOU WENT IN?
00:39:30.97\00:39:34.44
'IT'S JUST A LITTLE SPOT.'
YOU SAY, 'BUT I WANT IT TO BE
00:39:34.47\00:39:36.20
SPOTLESS. THIS IS
THE WEDDING DRESS.
00:39:36.24\00:39:39.47
IT REPRESENTS PURITY.' WELL,
AREN'T WE SUPPOSED TO HAVE PURE
00:39:39.51\00:39:42.54
GARMENTS AS WE
APPROACH THE LAST DAYS?
00:39:42.58\00:39:45.65
GO AHEAD, READ FOR US, NATHAN
- NEXT ONE - EPHESIANS 5:27.
00:39:45.68\00:39:50.19
>>"THAT HE MIGHT PRESENT HER TO
HIMSELF A GLORIOUS CHURCH, NOT
00:39:50.22\00:39:53.99
HAVING SPOT OR WRINKLE OR ANY
SUCH THING, BUT THAT SHE SHOULD
00:39:54.02\00:39:58.09
BE HOLY AND WITHOUT BLEMISH."
>>SO THE CHURCH IS MADE UP OF
00:39:58.13\00:40:01.70
WHAT? >>PEOPLE.
00:40:01.73\00:40:03.60
>>PEOPLE. YOU ARE
THE BRIDE OF CHRIST -
00:40:03.63\00:40:05.83
ISN'T THAT WHAT THE BIBLE
SAYS? HUSBANDS, LOVE YOUR WIVES
00:40:05.87\00:40:08.04
AS CHRIST LOVES THE
CHURCH. WHAT KIND OF BRIDE DOES
00:40:08.07\00:40:11.17
HE WANT TO COME
BACK FOR? SPOTLESS BRIDE.
00:40:11.21\00:40:15.41
AND, YOU KNOW, IT'S ALSO - THIS
IS - THIS IS A REFERENCE - OR
00:40:15.44\00:40:19.15
HE'S ALLUDING TO THE FACT THAT
THEY WOULD WANT TO BE MARRYING A
00:40:19.18\00:40:24.02
VIRGIN. THIS IS A BIBLE
PRINCIPLE THAT'S SPOKEN OF.
00:40:24.05\00:40:27.19
AND SO, GOD WANTS
US TO HAVE THAT PURITY.
00:40:27.22\00:40:29.96
AGAIN, 1 TIMOTHY 6:14, "THAT YOU
KEEP THIS COMMANDMENT WITHOUT
00:40:29.99\00:40:35.96
SPOT, BLAMELESS UNTIL OUR LORD
JESUS CHRIST'S APPEARING," - HOW
00:40:36.00\00:40:43.20
MUCH MORE - HOW MUCH MORE
SHALL THE BLOOD OF CHRIST, WHO,
00:40:43.24\00:40:46.54
THROUGH THE ETERNAL SPIRIT,
OFFERED HIMSELF WITHOUT SPOT TO
00:40:46.57\00:40:52.31
GOD, CLEANSE YOUR CONSCIENCE
FROM DEAD WORKS TO SERVE THE
00:40:52.35\00:40:56.58
LIVING GOD? SO IT'S NOT JUST
PETER, IT'S MOSES, IT'S PAUL,
00:40:56.62\00:40:59.95
WHO WROTE HEBREWS HERE - THEY'RE
ALL SAYING GOD IS WANTING TO GET
00:41:00.06\00:41:04.23
THE SPOTS OUT. IS THAT
CLEAR? THE BIBLE SAYS JESUS WAS
00:41:04.26\00:41:08.03
A LAMB WITHOUT BLEMISH.
NOW, THE REASON YOU'RE FINDING
00:41:08.06\00:41:11.27
THIS WORD 'SPOT' APPEAR OVER
AND OVER IS BECAUSE 'SPOT' IS
00:41:11.30\00:41:14.24
LARGELY THE GREEK EQUIVALENT
FOR BLEMISH AND SO WE WOULD SAY
00:41:14.27\00:41:19.44
'WITHOUT BLEMISH' - YOU WOULD
SAY 'SPOTLESS' - AND SO THE
00:41:19.47\00:41:22.51
LORD IS WANTING TO
CLEANSE HIS PEOPLE.
00:41:22.54\00:41:24.48
NOW, THERE ARE THOSE OUT
THERE THAT ARE LISTENING.
00:41:24.51\00:41:26.41
SOME ARE OUTRAGED, ACTUALLY,
LISTENING TO THIS MESSAGE.
00:41:26.45\00:41:28.85
THEY'RE SAYING, 'DOUG, YOU'RE
TEACHING LEGALISM.' IS IT ME?
00:41:28.88\00:41:32.45
OR ARE WE READING IT IN THE
BIBLE THAT GOD IS CALLING US TO
00:41:32.49\00:41:36.06
PURITY AND OUR GOAL EVERY
DAY SHOULD BE TO BE LIKE JESUS.
00:41:36.09\00:41:42.00
WHO CAN ARGUE WITH A CHRISTIAN
WHO WANTS TO BE LIKE JESUS?
00:41:42.03\00:41:44.47
WAS JESUS WITHOUT SPOT?
YEAH - BLAMELESS AND UNDEFILED.
00:41:44.50\00:41:49.54
AND THE MORE THAT WE FIX OUR
EYES ON HIM, THE MORE WE BECOME
00:41:49.57\00:41:52.54
LIKE HIM. THAT'S
ACTUALLY THE SUBJECT
00:41:52.57\00:41:54.84
OF MY MESSAGE TO COME.
I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU ANOTHER
00:41:54.88\00:41:57.78
ONE - 1 PETER 1:19, "BUT WITH
THE PRECIOUS BLOOD OF CHRIST,
00:41:57.81\00:42:05.19
AS A LAMB WITHOUT
BLEMISH AND WITHOUT SPOT."
00:42:05.22\00:42:08.39
- SEE, PETER IS NOW
REFERRING TO THE OLD TESTAMENT.
00:42:08.42\00:42:10.03
THEY WOULD BRING THEIR PASSOVER
LAMB - MATTER OF FACT, I'M
00:42:10.06\00:42:13.13
GETTING TO THAT NOW -
EXODUS 12:5, "YOUR LAMB SHALL BE
00:42:13.16\00:42:16.60
WITHOUT BLEMISH, A
MALE OF THE FIRST YEAR."
00:42:16.63\00:42:19.00
WHY WAS THE LAMB TO BE SPOTLESS?
BECAUSE IT WAS A TYPE OF CHRIST.
00:42:19.03\00:42:25.07
YOU COULDN'T BRING A FLAWED OR
MAIMED LAMB IN THERE, IT NEEDED
00:42:25.11\00:42:28.48
TO BE A PURE ONE BECAUSE IT
REPRESENTED THE PURE SINLESS SON
00:42:28.51\00:42:32.15
OF GOD AND WE'RE CALLED, THEN,
TO BE BORN AGAIN TO LIVE NEW
00:42:32.18\00:42:36.25
LIVES - BE NEW
CREATURES - AMEN? >>AMEN.
00:42:36.28\00:42:39.49
>>ALRIGHT, THAT WAS AN IMPORTANT
POINT THAT'S OFTEN NEGLECTED SO
00:42:39.52\00:42:42.26
I WANTED TO SPEND A
LOT OF TIME ON THAT.
00:42:42.29\00:42:43.83
NOW WE'RE GOING TO GO ONTO
THE SECTION HOPE IN THE SECOND
00:42:43.86\00:42:46.39
COMING . PETER ALSO
TALKS A LOT ABOUT THE
00:42:46.43\00:42:49.23
SECOND COMING AND HE
TALKS ABOUT THE COMING JUDGMENT.
00:42:49.26\00:42:52.57
1 PETER 1, VERSE 4, WE
ARE CALLED "TO AN INHERITANCE
00:42:52.60\00:42:57.77
INCORRUPTIBLE AND UNDEFILED
AND THAT DOES NOT FADE AWAY,
00:42:57.81\00:43:02.18
RESERVED IN HEAVEN..." SO
PETER SAYS, IN ALL OF YOUR
00:43:02.21\00:43:05.55
LIVING,
REMEMBER, THIS IS NOT IT.
00:43:05.58\00:43:08.55
YOU KNOW, THE THINKING OF THE
WORLD, AND EVEN THE MARKETING,
00:43:08.58\00:43:11.25
IS ALWAYS 'YOU ONLY GO AROUND
ONCE IN LIFE' - 'YOU ONLY LIVE
00:43:11.29\00:43:13.92
ONCE' - YOU EVER
HEARD THAT BEFORE?
00:43:13.96\00:43:15.62
'YOU ONLY LIVE
ONCE' - IT'S NOT TRUE.
00:43:15.66\00:43:18.16
EVEN THE WICKED ARE GOING TO
GET RESURRECTED AND THERE'LL -
00:43:18.19\00:43:22.36
THERE'LL BE A JUDGMENT.
AND, FOR THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN
00:43:22.40\00:43:25.67
GOD THE IDEA THAT THIS IS IT
- THEY BASICALLY SAY, 'WELL, YOU
00:43:25.70\00:43:29.54
KNOW, YOU'VE GOT 70, 80, 90
YEARS - IF BY THREESCORE AND
00:43:29.57\00:43:35.51
TEN YOU MIGHT LIVE LONGER.'
IF YOU'RE A GOOD ADVENTIST YOU
00:43:35.54\00:43:38.48
MIGHT MAKE IT TO 100. I HAD A
MEMBER UP IN GRASS VALLEY - 105
00:43:38.51\00:43:43.85
- GOT A PICTURE WITH HER -
SHE WAS STILL UP AND AROUND.
00:43:43.89\00:43:47.32
BUT WHAT IS THAT
COMPARED TO ETERNITY?
00:43:47.36\00:43:49.99
TO SAY, 'I'M ONLY GOING TO PLAN
MY LIFE FOR WHAT I MIGHT ENJOY
00:43:50.03\00:43:53.46
HERE.' AND, YOU KNOW, AS YOU
00:43:53.50\00:43:56.50
GET A LITTLE OLDER, YOU
START THINKING ABOUT RETIREMENT.
00:43:56.53\00:43:59.33
'WHAT AM I GOING TO
DO DURING MY RETIREMENT?'
00:43:59.37\00:44:02.57
AND, I GUESS - MAYBE YOU'LL
THINK I'M MORBID, BUT I GUESS
00:44:02.60\00:44:05.97
THE IDEA OF RETIREMENT IS,
AS YOU'RE IN YOUR GOLDEN YEARS -
00:44:06.01\00:44:11.11
THAT'S A BEAUTIFUL WAY TO
SAY IT - AND YOU'RE INCREASINGLY
00:44:11.15\00:44:14.88
BECOMING MORE INFIRM AND
SLOWING DOWN, YOU WANT TO TRY TO
00:44:14.92\00:44:19.15
PLAN THINGS SO THAT YOU CAN
ENJOY THINGS AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE
00:44:19.19\00:44:21.79
UNTIL YOU GET TO THE POINT WHERE
YOU CAN'T DO VERY MUCH AND THEN
00:44:21.82\00:44:24.83
YOU DIE. KIND OF SAD WHEN
YOU THINK ABOUT IT THAT WAY.
00:44:24.86\00:44:29.00
I THINK THE BEST WAY TO PLAN
RETIREMENT IS TO PLAN ONE WHERE
00:44:29.03\00:44:31.80
YOU'D HAVE PERFECT STRENGTH
IN A NEW BODY THAT WILL LAST
00:44:31.83\00:44:34.90
FOREVER. >>AMEN.
00:44:34.94\00:44:37.04
>>THAT'S CALLED HEAVEN.
BUT PEOPLE SPEND SO MUCH TIME,
00:44:37.07\00:44:41.01
ENERGY, AND MONEY ON TRYING
TO BE COMFORTABLE BEFORE THEY
00:44:41.04\00:44:44.58
DIE AS THOUGH THAT'S IT.
BUT REALLY, THAT'S JUST THE
00:44:44.61\00:44:49.12
LAUNCHING PAD FOR ETERNITY
AND WE REALLY SHOULD BE THINKING
00:44:49.15\00:44:52.82
ABOUT THE LIFE
THAT WILL NOT END.
00:44:52.85\00:44:54.96
IF WE'RE LIVING OUR LIFE LIKE,
'WELL, I REALLY WANT TO GET ALL
00:44:54.99\00:44:57.43
MY JOY NOW BECAUSE YOU ONLY GO
AROUND ONCE IN LIFE' - A LOT OF
00:44:57.46\00:45:00.26
CHRISTIANS SAY, 'I BELIEVE IN
HEAVEN' BUT THEY LIVE, THOUGH -
00:45:00.30\00:45:02.63
'THIS IS IT' AND 'BE IT UNTO
YOU ACCORDING TO YOUR FAITH'.
00:45:02.66\00:45:08.14
IF YOU'RE LIVING LIKE
THIS IS IT, THEN THIS'LL BE IT.
00:45:08.17\00:45:12.27
BUT IF YOU'RE LIVING LIKE
ETERNITY IS YOUR GOAL, 'BE IT
00:45:12.31\00:45:17.15
UNTO YOU ACCORDING TO YOUR
FAITH. AND IT ALSO TALKS ABOUT
00:45:17.18\00:45:20.28
HIM COMING AND YET, HE'S
COMING AS A KING AND A JUDGE.
00:45:20.32\00:45:23.89
1 PETER 1:17, "AND IF YOU
CALL ON THE FATHER, WHO WITHOUT
00:45:23.92\00:45:28.62
PARTIALITY JUDGES ACCORDING
TO EACH ONE'S WORK, CONDUCT
00:45:28.66\00:45:32.29
YOURSELVES THROUGHOUT THE
TIME OF YOUR STAY HERE IN FEAR."
00:45:32.33\00:45:36.10
NOW, ARE CHRISTIANS SUPPOSED TO
LIVE IN FEAR, OR IS PETER SIMPLY
00:45:36.13\00:45:39.53
SAYING THERE SHOULD
BE A HEALTHY AWARENESS?
00:45:39.57\00:45:43.87
BE AFRAID TO SIN BECAUSE ALL
YOUR WORKS, THERE'S A JUDGMENT
00:45:43.91\00:45:49.38
DAY FOR. ISN'T
THAT WHAT HE JUST SAID?
00:45:49.41\00:45:51.55
HE JUDGES
ACCORDING TO EACH ONE'S WORK.
00:45:51.58\00:45:53.42
DOESN'T THE BIBLE SAY, 'BEHOLD,
THE LORD COMES TO REWARD
00:45:53.45\00:45:55.45
EVERYONE ACCORDING TO HIS
WORKS? WE'RE SAVED BY FAITH.
00:45:55.48\00:45:59.35
WE'RE SAVED BASED ON JESUS'
WORKS. BUT IF WE'RE SAVED, OUR
00:45:59.39\00:46:03.63
WORKS WILL CHANGE. AND IF YOU'RE
GENUINELY SAVED, THEN GOD IS
00:46:03.66\00:46:07.86
SAFE JUDGING YOU BY YOUR WORKS
BECAUSE, IF YOU ARE GENUINELY
00:46:07.93\00:46:12.47
SAVED, THERE WILL BE A
DIFFERENCE IN THE WORKS. THAT'S
00:46:12.50\00:46:15.04
WHY JESUS SAID YOU'LL KNOW THEM
BY THEIR - PROFESSION OR THEIR
00:46:15.07\00:46:18.04
WORKS? YOU CAN KNOW IF A
PERSON'S HEART IS CHANGED -
00:46:18.07\00:46:22.58
THEIR WORKS ARE GOING TO SHOW.
00:46:22.61\00:46:24.91
IS THIS GOOD THEOLOGY? >>YES.
00:46:24.95\00:46:27.38
>>I FIND IT'S WHAT THE
WORD IS TEACHING, FRIENDS.
00:46:27.42\00:46:29.95
SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ FOR ME
1 PETER 4:17 IN JUST A MOMENT.
00:46:29.98\00:46:33.59
I'M GOING TO READ 1 PETER
4:5 AND 6, "THEY WILL GIVE AN
00:46:33.62\00:46:37.93
ACCOUNT TO HIM WHO IS READY TO
JUDGE THE LIVING AND THE DEAD.
00:46:37.96\00:46:41.53
FOR THIS REASON THE GOSPEL
WAS PREACHED ALSO THOSE WHO ARE
00:46:41.56\00:46:43.87
DEAD, THAT THEY MIGHT BE JUDGED
ACCORDING TO MEN IN THE FLESH,
00:46:43.90\00:46:47.14
BUT LIVE ACCORDING
TO GOD IN THE SPIRIT."
00:46:47.17\00:46:49.40
HERE HE'S TALKING ABOUT
PEOPLE WHO ARE DEAD IN SIN.
00:46:49.44\00:46:51.84
THE GOSPEL WAS PREACHED TO THEM
AND THEN HE GOES BACK AND SAYS
00:46:51.87\00:46:53.81
EVEN BACK IN THE DAYS OF NOAH,
THROUGH THE POWER OF THE SPIRIT,
00:46:53.84\00:46:56.98
GOD PREACHED THROUGH NOAH TO
THOSE WHO WERE SPIRITS DEAD IN
00:46:57.01\00:47:00.95
PRISON. PEOPLE HAVE TOTALLY
MISUNDERSTOOD THAT VERSE.
00:47:00.98\00:47:03.95
READ FOR US, FIRST,
1 PETER 4:17, PLEASE.
00:47:03.99\00:47:06.89
>>1 PETER 4:17, "FOR THE TIME
HAS COME FOR JUDGMENT TO BEGIN
00:47:06.92\00:47:10.83
AT THE HOUSE OF GOD; AND IF IT
BEGINS WITH US FIRST, WHAT WILL
00:47:10.86\00:47:14.73
BE THE END OF THOSE WHO DO
NOT OBEY THE GOSPEL OF GOD?"
00:47:14.76\00:47:18.70
>>WOW, HE'S SAYING, 'BE SOBER.
JUDGMENT BEGINS AT THE HOUSE OF
00:47:18.73\00:47:22.10
GOD.' NOW, WHAT IS
PETER TALKING ABOUT THERE?
00:47:22.14\00:47:26.14
JUDGMENT BEGINS
AT THE HOUSE OF GOD?
00:47:26.17\00:47:27.94
FIRST OF ALL, THIS MAY BE A
REFERENCE TO EZEKIEL 9. EZEKIEL
00:47:27.98\00:47:33.35
9 TALKS ABOUT A VISION WHERE THE
ANCIENT MEN ARE IN THE HOUSE OF
00:47:33.38\00:47:37.65
THE LORD AND THEY ARE PRAYING
AND HE SAYS, 'I WANT YOU TO PUT
00:47:37.69\00:47:41.16
A MARK ON THOSE WHO SIGH AND CRY
FOR ALL THE ABOMINATIONS DONE IN
00:47:41.19\00:47:44.79
ISRAEL, AND BEGIN AT MY
SANCTUARY.' AND THOSE WHO DO NOT
00:47:44.83\00:47:50.00
HAVE THE MARK OR THE
SEAL OF GOD, DESTROY THEM.
00:47:50.03\00:47:54.54
EVERYBODY THAT DOESN'T HAVE
THE RIGHT MARK IS DESTROYED.
00:47:54.57\00:47:57.31
HE SAYS, 'BEGIN AT MY
SANCTUARY.' SO THERE'S A
00:47:57.34\00:47:58.77
JUDGMENT HERE IN EZEKIEL 9
THAT BEGINS AT THE HOUSE OF GOD.
00:47:58.81\00:48:02.24
I ALSO ALWAYS THOUGHT IT
WAS INTERESTING WHEN THAT WOMAN
00:48:02.28\00:48:05.21
CAUGHT IN ADULTERY - MAYBE IT'S
MARY MAGDALENE - BROUGHT INTO
00:48:05.25\00:48:08.72
THE TEMPLE - AND THEY WERE
SAYING THAT SHE SHOULD BE JUDGED
00:48:08.75\00:48:12.22
AND EXECUTED BECAUSE SHE
HAD BEEN CAUGHT IN THE ACT OF
00:48:12.25\00:48:14.69
ADULTERY AND JESUS SAID,
'HE THAT IS WITHOUT SIN, LET HIM
00:48:14.72\00:48:19.03
CAST THE FIRST STONE. AND
CHRIST, THERE IN THE HOUSE
00:48:19.06\00:48:20.83
OF GOD, BEGAN TO WRITE OUT THEIR
SINS - AT LEAST THAT'S WHAT MOST
00:48:20.86\00:48:23.33
BELIEVE - HE WAS
WRITING EITHER THE LAW OR THEIR
00:48:23.37\00:48:25.67
BREAKING OF THOSE LAWS.
WHEN JESUS WRITES SOMETHING IT'S
00:48:25.70\00:48:29.17
REALLY IMPORTANT - AND
ONE BY ONE THEY WENT OUT - A
00:48:29.20\00:48:32.21
JUDGMENT IN THE HOUSE OF
GOD. IT ALSO MEANS THAT THERE
00:48:32.24\00:48:35.98
IS A PRE-ADVENT JUDGMENT.
THERE IS A JUDGMENT THAT TAKES
00:48:36.01\00:48:38.78
PLACE BEFORE
JESUS COMES. FOLLOW ME.
00:48:38.81\00:48:42.18
IF THE LORD IS REWARDING
EVERYBODY ACCORDING TO THEIR
00:48:42.22\00:48:44.85
WORKS WHEN HE COMES.
DOES THE LORD KNOW WHO'S
00:48:44.89\00:48:47.96
SAVED WHEN HE COMES? DO
THE DEAD IN CHRIST RISE?
00:48:47.99\00:48:51.36
SO THE LORD'S DETERMINED THOSE
WHO ARE NOT IN CHRIST WHEN HE
00:48:51.39\00:48:53.43
COMES. SOME JUDGMENT TAKES
00:48:53.46\00:48:54.86
PLACE BEFORE HE COMES.
IF THE DEAD IN CHRIST RISE
00:48:54.93\00:48:57.60
FIRST, IF THE CHRISTIANS
ARE SAVED FIRST, THEN WHO
00:48:57.63\00:49:00.27
GETS JUDGED FIRST? CHRISTIANS.
JUDGMENT BEGINS AT THE HOUSE OF
00:49:00.30\00:49:05.21
GOD. SO THIS
INVESTIGATION THAT TAKES
00:49:05.24\00:49:07.58
PLACE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE
ANGELS AND THE UNFALLEN BEINGS
00:49:07.61\00:49:11.28
BEFORE THE COMING OF THE LORD,
BEGINS WITH THE HOUSE OF GOD -
00:49:11.31\00:49:15.02
THOSE WHO HAVE
TAKEN THE NAME OF CHRIST.
00:49:15.05\00:49:17.05
SOMETIMES IT'S CALLED
'THE PRE-ADVENT JUDGMENT'.
00:49:17.09\00:49:19.52
SO HE SAYS, "IF IT BEGINS WITH
US FIRST, WHAT WILL BE THE END
00:49:19.55\00:49:22.49
OF THOSE WHO DO NOT
OBEY THE GOSPEL OF GOD?"
00:49:22.52\00:49:25.69
WAIT A SECOND - I THOUGHT THE
GOSPEL MEANT YOU DON'T HAVE TO
00:49:25.73\00:49:27.30
OBEY. PETER SAYS,
'OBEY THE GOSPEL'.
00:49:27.36\00:49:31.10
IF YOU BELIEVE THE GOOD NEWS,
THERE'S OBEDIENCE IN DOING WHAT
00:49:31.13\00:49:34.40
JESUS SAID, AMEN? >>AMEN.
00:49:34.44\00:49:37.84
>>ALRIGHT, AND THEN HE GOES ON
TALKING ABOUT THE SECOND COMING,
00:49:37.87\00:49:41.98
'BUT THE DAY OF THE LORD WILL
COME AS A THIEF IN THE NIGHT IN
00:49:42.01\00:49:44.48
THE WHICH THE HEAVENS PASS
AWAY WITH A GREAT NOISE AND THE
00:49:44.51\00:49:47.45
ELEMENTS WILL MELT WITH FERVENT
HEAT AND THE EARTH AND THE
00:49:47.48\00:49:50.82
THINGS THAT ARE IN IT WILL BE
BURNED UP' - AND IT GOES ON TO
00:49:50.85\00:49:53.09
SAY, 'SEEING THEN THAT ALL THESE
THINGS WILL BE DISSOLVED' -
00:49:53.12\00:49:56.49
SEEING THAT THERE'S A JUDGMENT
COMING - 'WHAT KIND OF PERSONS
00:49:56.52\00:49:59.83
OUGHT WE BE IN ALL HOLY
CONVERSATION AND GODLINESS?'
00:49:59.86\00:50:03.77
ALRIGHT, NEXT SECTION: LIVING
BEFORE THE WORLD:  - ORDER IN
00:50:03.80\00:50:08.80
SOCIETY AND THE CHURCH - 1 PETER
1, VERSE 2 - I'M SORRY, 1 PETER
00:50:08.84\00:50:15.78
CHAPTER 2, VERSES
11-21, "BELOVED, I BEG YOU AS
00:50:15.81\00:50:21.22
SOJOURNERS AND PILGRIMS" - WHY
DOES HE CALL THEM SOJOURNERS?
00:50:21.25\00:50:24.75
WHAT'S A SOJOURNER?
WHEN YOU SOJOURN SOMEWHERE IT
00:50:24.79\00:50:28.56
MEANS YOU'RE TEMPORARILY
HANGING OUT IN A STRANGE PLACE.
00:50:28.59\00:50:32.23
AND PILGRIMS - WHAT'S A PILGRIM?
A PILGRIM IS A PERSON WHO'S
00:50:32.26\00:50:36.60
ON THEIR WAY TO SOMETHING.
IF YOU'RE ON A HOLY PILGRIMAGE,
00:50:36.63\00:50:41.04
YOU'RE ON YOUR
WAY TO A HOLY PLACE.
00:50:41.07\00:50:43.37
AND EVEN ABRAHAM WAS CALLED A
SOJOURNER AND A PILGRIM BECAUSE
00:50:43.41\00:50:46.64
HE LOOKED FOR A CITY
THAT HAD FOUNDATIONS.
00:50:46.68\00:50:49.04
THIS WORLD IS NOT OUR HOME,
WE'RE JUST PASSING THROUGH -
00:50:49.08\00:50:51.78
WE'RE PILGRIMS. ANY OF
YOU EVER SUNG THAT SONG?
00:50:51.81\00:50:55.05
WE DON'T SING IT VERY OFTEN
BECAUSE I THINK IT'S 6-6-6 IN
00:50:55.08\00:50:57.89
THE HYMNAL AND
PEOPLE THINK IT'S BAD LUCK.
00:50:57.92\00:50:59.95
IT SAYS 'I'M A PILGRIM AND I'M
A STRANGER, I CAN TARRY I CAN
00:51:00.06\00:51:03.59
TARRY BUT A NIGHT' -
ANY OF YOU KNOW THAT SONG?
00:51:03.63\00:51:05.53
IT'S A GREAT SONG.
I DON'T KNOW, MAYBE
00:51:05.56\00:51:08.20
IT WAS THE OLD
HYMNAL. SOMEONE CHECK FOR ME
00:51:08.23\00:51:10.03
- IS IT STILL 6-6-6?
>>I'M CHECKING ON YOU.
00:51:10.07\00:51:12.40
>>IT MIGHT HAVE
BEEN THE OLD HYMNAL, IT -
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>>NO, IT'S NOT.
>>IT'S NOT ANYMORE.
00:51:13.87\00:51:15.07
IT USED TO BE 6-6-6. YEAH, WE
DON'T SING THAT ONE EITHER, DO
00:51:15.10\00:51:18.81
WE? (LAUGHTER) IT USED TO
BE 6-6-6 IN THE OLD HYMNAL.
00:51:18.84\00:51:23.61
ALRIGHT, SO WE WANT TO BE HOLY
IN THE WORLD - TO BE WITNESSES -
00:51:23.65\00:51:28.52
"HAVING YOUR CONDUCT HONORABLE
AMONG THE GENTILES," - GENTILES,
00:51:28.55\00:51:32.15
MEANING ANYONE WHO WAS NOT A JEW
- "THAT WHEN THEY SPEAK AGAINST
00:51:32.19\00:51:35.29
YOU AS EVILDOERS, THEY MAY,
BY YOUR GOOD WORKS WHICH THEY
00:51:35.32\00:51:38.66
OBSERVE, GLORIFY GOD
IN THE DAY OF VISITATION."
00:51:38.69\00:51:41.40
PEOPLE MIGHT MOCK YOU BECAUSE
OF YOUR FAITH AND THEY MIGHT
00:51:41.43\00:51:43.60
FALSELY ACCUSE YOU, BUT THEY'RE
GOING TO KNOW IN THEIR HEARTS,
00:51:43.63\00:51:45.70
IN THE DAY OF JUDGMENT, WHEN
THINGS HAPPEN, THEY'RE GOING TO
00:51:45.73\00:51:48.10
TURN TO YOU AND SAY,
'TELL US ABOUT YOUR GOD'.
00:51:48.14\00:51:51.41
AND THEN IT TALKS ABOUT
SUBMISSION TO GOVERNMENT.
00:51:51.44\00:51:54.84
PETER SAID, "THEREFORE SUBMIT
YOURSELVES TO EVERY ORDINANCE OF
00:51:54.88\00:51:58.01
MAN FOR THE LORD'S SAKE," -
CHRISTIANS OUGHT TO BE OBEYING
00:51:58.05\00:52:01.62
THE LAWS OF THE LAND - "WHETHER
TO THE KING AS SUPREME, OR TO
00:52:01.65\00:52:06.19
GOVERNORS, AS TO THOSE WHO ARE
SENT BY HIM FOR THE PUNISHMENT
00:52:06.22\00:52:08.69
OF EVILDOERS AND FOR THE
PRAISE OF THOSE WHO DO GOOD.
00:52:08.72\00:52:12.06
FOR THIS IS THE WILL OF GOD,
THAT BY DOING GOOD YOU MAY PUT
00:52:12.09\00:52:15.16
TO SILENCE THE IGNORANCE OF
FOOLISH MEN - AS FREE, YET NOT
00:52:15.20\00:52:20.30
USING LIBERTY AS A CLOAK
FOR VICE," - THIS IS WHAT SOME
00:52:20.34\00:52:22.87
PEOPLE HAVE DONE. WE
ARE FREE IN CHRIST BUT WE
00:52:22.90\00:52:24.67
DON'T USE THAT LIBERTY
AS AN EXCUSE FOR SIN - "BUT
00:52:24.71\00:52:27.38
AS BONDSERVANTS OF
GOD. HONOR ALL PEOPLE.
00:52:27.41\00:52:31.51
LOVE THE BROTHERHOOD.
FEAR GOD. HONOR THE KING."
00:52:31.55\00:52:35.52
CHRISTIANS OUGHT TO BE
THE VERY BEST CITIZENS.
00:52:35.55\00:52:38.72
THE ONLY TIMES WE'RE NOT
GOOD CITIZENS IS WHEN THERE'S A
00:52:38.75\00:52:41.22
GOVERNMENT LAW THAT FORCES US
TO OBEY - OR DISOBEY THE LAW OF
00:52:41.26\00:52:45.03
GOD. IN EVERY
OTHER WAY, CHRISTIANS
00:52:45.06\00:52:47.23
OUGHT TO BE MODEL
CITIZENS. WE OUGHT TO BE
00:52:47.23\00:52:49.13
RESPECTFUL OF THE
LAWS. WE OUGHT TO BE LIVING
00:52:49.16\00:52:52.63
WITHOUT REPROACH. AMEN? >>AMEN.
00:52:52.67\00:52:56.07
>>AND THEN HE TALKS
ABOUT SUBMISSION TO MASTERS.
00:52:56.10\00:53:00.58
NOW A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE
STRUGGLED WITH THIS SECTION
00:53:00.61\00:53:02.01
BECAUSE IT'S BASICALLY TALKING
ABOUT SLAVES OBEYING THEIR SLAVE
00:53:02.04\00:53:06.38
OWNERS. DO YOU KNOW WHEN PETER
WROTE THIS, AS MANY AS ONE IN
00:53:06.41\00:53:10.79
THREE PEOPLE IN ITALY WERE
SLAVES AND ONE IN FIVE, ACROSS
00:53:10.82\00:53:14.59
THE ROMAN EMPIRE, WERE SLAVES.
AND A LOT OF CHRISTIANS WERE
00:53:14.62\00:53:18.53
SLAVES AND THEY
THOUGHT, 'WHAT SHOULD WE DO?'
00:53:18.56\00:53:21.43
SLAVERY WAS INHERENTLY WRONG,
THEY BELIEVED AND - BUT, IF YOU
00:53:21.46\00:53:25.27
WERE A SLAVE, PETER DIDN'T SAY
RUN AWAY, HE DIDN'T SAY REBEL,
00:53:25.30\00:53:28.94
HE DIDN'T SAY RISE UP WITH
SPARTICUS, HE SAID, "SERVANTS,
00:53:28.97\00:53:32.27
BE SUBMISSIVE TO YOUR MASTERS
WITH ALL FEAR, NOT ONLY TO THE
00:53:32.31\00:53:36.48
GOOD AND GENTLE,
BUT ALSO TO THE HARSH."
00:53:36.51\00:53:39.78
NOW, IN OUR DAY AND AGE WE WOULD
SAY, 'EMPLOYEES, WORK WELL FOR
00:53:39.81\00:53:46.22
YOUR EMPLOYER, EVEN IF - YOUR
BOSS OR YOUR MANAGER OR YOUR
00:53:46.25\00:53:49.96
SUPERVISOR IS GOOD, THAT'S
GREAT - BUT EVEN IF THEY'RE A
00:53:49.99\00:53:53.46
KNUCKLEHEAD - KNUCKLEHEAD IS
GREEK FOR DIFFICULT (LAUGHTER) -
00:53:53.50\00:53:59.67
STILL BE CHEERFUL AND OBEDIENT
AND COOPERATIVE, ISN'T THAT
00:53:59.70\00:54:05.37
RIGHT? AND EVERYBODY IS GOING TO
00:54:05.41\00:54:08.11
GET TESTED ON THIS POINT.
HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE HAD TO WORK
00:54:08.14\00:54:10.28
WITH SOMEONE DIFFICULT
BEFORE? IN THE MILITARY - ANY
00:54:10.31\00:54:13.95
OF YOU EVER
BEEN IN THE MILITARY?
00:54:13.98\00:54:15.18
DID YOU HAVE TO TAKE ORDERS FROM
SOMEBODY THAT YOU KNEW WAS AN
00:54:15.22\00:54:17.22
IMBECILE? THAT'S
REALLY HARD, ISN'T IT?
00:54:17.25\00:54:22.52
AND YOU LEARN HUMILITY.
BUT, AS CHRISTIANS, WE'VE GOT
00:54:22.56\00:54:26.66
TO LEARN THAT WE ARE
MADE OF DIFFERENT STUFF.
00:54:26.70\00:54:30.93
AND THEN, FINALLY, IT
SAYS, THE PRIMACY OF SCRIPTURE .
00:54:30.97\00:54:34.97
NOW I WANT TO JUMP DOWN -
SOMEONE READ FOR ME 2 PETER 2 -
00:54:35.00\00:54:39.27
I'M SORRY - 2 PETER 3, VERSE
2 - WHO'S GOING TO HAVE THAT?
00:54:39.31\00:54:42.14
YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE THAT, BILL?
00:54:42.18\00:54:43.21
2 PETER 3:2 - GO AHEAD,
TURN UP BILL'S MICROPHONE.
00:54:43.24\00:54:46.75
>>"THAT YOU MIGHT BE MINDFUL
OF THE WORDS WHICH WERE SPOKEN
00:54:46.78\00:54:50.05
BEFORE BY THE HOLY PROPHETS, AND
OF THE COMMANDMENT OF US, THE
00:54:50.09\00:54:55.39
APOSTLES OF OUR
LORD AND SAVIOR."
00:54:55.42\00:54:58.09
>>AGAIN, HE'S PUTTING THE HOLY
PROPHETS - THE WORDS OF GOD - IN
00:54:58.13\00:55:02.76
CONNECTION WITH THE
WORDS OF THE APOSTLES.
00:55:02.80\00:55:05.17
THEY REALIZED THEY WERE BEING
INSPIRED BY THE LORD TO WROTE
00:55:05.20\00:55:07.54
WHAT THEY WROTE - TO
WRITE WHAT THEY WROTE.
00:55:07.57\00:55:10.47
THE LAST THING I WANT TO JUST
TOUCH ON - 2 PETER 3:16 - AND
00:55:10.51\00:55:14.71
PETER GOES ON TO SAY - AND
- LISTEN TO "...OUR BELOVED
00:55:14.74\00:55:18.18
BROTHER PAUL...AS ALSO IN ALL OF
HIS EPISTLES, SPEAKING IN THEM
00:55:18.21\00:55:24.89
OF THESE THINGS, IN WHICH ARE
SOME THINGS HARD TO UNDERSTAND,"
00:55:24.92\00:55:30.23
- PAUL WAS THE MOST EDUCATED
OF THE APOSTLES AND HE SAID SOME
00:55:30.26\00:55:33.86
THINGS THAT WERE DEEP AND PETER
EVEN ACKNOWLEDGED, PAUL WRITES
00:55:33.90\00:55:37.00
SOME THINGS THAT CAN BE HARD TO
UNDERSTAND - "WHICH UNTAUGHT AND
00:55:37.03\00:55:41.70
UNSTABLE PEOPLE TWIST TO THEIR
OWN DESTRUCTION, AS THEY DO ALSO
00:55:41.74\00:55:46.34
THE REST OF THE SCRIPTURES."
HE CALLED PAUL'S WRITING
00:55:46.37\00:55:49.81
SCRIPTURE, BUT PETER,
ACTUALLY, SAYS SOMETHING I'M
00:55:49.84\00:55:52.05
VERY THANKFUL FOR.
WHEN SOMEONE WANTS TO
00:55:52.08\00:55:54.38
MISCONSTRUE SALVATION BY GRACE -
TO MAKE IT SOUND LIKE YOU DON'T
00:55:54.42\00:56:00.69
HAVE TO OBEY
ANYMORE, WHO DO THEY QUOTE?
00:56:00.72\00:56:02.99
>>PAUL. >>THEY GO TO PAUL.
00:56:03.02\00:56:04.63
IF SOMEONE WANTS TO START
TEACHING PREDESTINATION - THE
00:56:04.66\00:56:07.96
IDEA ONCE SAVED/ALWAYS SAVED -
DO THEY EVER QUOTE FROM MATTHEW
00:56:08.00\00:56:11.93
OR JAMES OR PETER
OR JUDE? WHO DO THEY
00:56:11.97\00:56:15.90
TYPICALLY QUOTE
FROM? THEY QUOTE FROM PAUL.
00:56:15.94\00:56:18.84
AND SO, PAUL SAYS A LOT OF
WONDERFUL, BEAUTIFUL THINGS.
00:56:18.87\00:56:21.84
MATTER OF FACT, IN OUR NEXT
QUARTER, BEGINNING NEXT WEEK,
00:56:21.88\00:56:24.41
I'M REALLY LOOKING FORWARD
TO THE GOSPEL IN GALATIANS.
00:56:24.45\00:56:26.85
BUT EVEN IN GALATIANS YOU'LL
FIND PEOPLE HAVE TAKEN SOME
00:56:26.88\00:56:29.38
THINGS THAT PAUL SAYS AND
THEY'VE TWISTED THEM, SO THAT'S
00:56:29.42\00:56:32.49
WHY IT'S SO IMPORTANT
WE STUDY THESE THINGS.
00:56:32.52\00:56:34.69
ANYWAY, PETER CLOSES WITH THE
PRIMACY OF SCRIPTURE AND I'VE
00:56:34.72\00:56:39.59
REALLY ENJOYED OUR QUARTER
THAT WE'VE BEEN STUDYING PETER.
00:56:39.63\00:56:43.60
I CAN RELATE TO PETER. I
DON'T KNOW HOW YOU FEEL, BUT
00:56:43.63\00:56:46.07
HE'S ONE OF MY
FAVORITE BIBLE CHARACTERS.
00:56:46.10\00:56:48.00
BUT WE ARE OUT OF TIME AND
WE'RE OUT OF LESSON FOR TODAY.
00:56:48.04\00:56:50.77
GOD BLESS YOU, FRIENDS, WE LOOK
FORWARD TO STUDYING HIS WORD
00:56:50.81\00:56:53.31
TOGETHER AGAIN NEXT WEEK.
>>LET'S FACE IT, IT'S NOT ALWAYS
00:56:53.34\00:56:57.38
EASY TO UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING
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00:56:57.41\00:57:00.62
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