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>>HELLO, FRIENDS, AND WELCOME TO
SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR COMING
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TO YOU HERE FROM THE GRANITE
BAY SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH
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VISITORS RIGHT HERE AT THE
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TO SEE YOU WEEK AFTER WEEK.
THANK YOU FOR COMING OUT TO
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STUDY DURING SABBATH SCHOOL.
OUR SABBATH SCHOOL LESSON
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QUARTERLY DEALS WITH THE BOOK
OF GALATIANS AND TODAY WE'RE ON
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LESSON #2 ENTITLED PAUL'S
AUTHORITY AND THE GOSPEL .
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WELL, BEFORE WE GET TO OUR STUDY
THIS MORNING, AS WE NORMALLY DO,
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WE'D LIKE TO BEGIN BY LIFTING
OUR VOICES IN SONG AND I'D LIKE
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TO INVITE OUR SONG LEADERS
TO COME OUT AND JOIN ME ONSTAGE.
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(PIANO MUSIC) >>THANK YOU,
PASTOR ROSS, WE ARE EXCITED TO
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OPEN UP HYMNALS AND SING
WITH YOU WHEREVER YOU ARE - OUR
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EXTENDED FAMILY AROUND THE WORLD
- WE KNOW YOU LOVE THE SAME
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SONGS THAT WE DO AND SO WE ARE
GOING TO START WITH ONE OF OUR
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FAVORITES, #229 - ALL HAIL
THE POWER OF JESUS' NAME - WE'RE
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GOING TO DO THE FIRST, SECOND,
AND FOURTH STANZAS - #229.
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(PIANO MUSIC)
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>>THANK YOU SO MUCH
FOR SINGING ALONG WITH US
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HERE AND THOSE OF YOU AT
HOME. AND, AT THIS TIME, PASTOR
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ROSS'LL BE HAVING
OUR OPENING PRAYER.
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>>LET'S BOW OUR
HEADS FOR A WORD OF PRAYER.
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DEAR FATHER IN HEAVEN, WHAT A
PRIVILEGE TO BE ABLE TO OPEN UP
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YOUR WORD AND
STUDY THIS MORNING.
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WE WANT TO INVITE YOUR PRESENCE
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TO COME AND MOVE UPON
OUR HEARTS AND OUR MINDS.
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LORD, WE KNOW THERE ARE SO MANY
IMPORTANT LESSONS RELEVANT FOR
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US TODAY IN THIS VERY IMPORTANT
BOOK, THE BOOK OF GALATIANS, SO
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GUIDE OUR THOUGHTS 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, AND
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OUR MUSICIANS AND
SINGERS. MORNING EVERYBODY.
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I WANT TO WELCOME OUR FRIENDS
THAT ARE STUDYING WITH US, THOSE
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WHO ARE PART OF OUR
INTERNATIONAL CLASS, AS WELL AS
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THOSE WHO MAY BE SOME
OF OUR ONLINE MEMBERS.
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WE'VE GOT A LOT OF
PEOPLE THAT ARE OUT THERE.
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WE MEET THEM AS WE TRAVEL.
THEY SAY THERE IS NO LOCAL
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SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH
WE CAN ATTEND, FOR SOME REASON -
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SOME ARE SHUT INS AND THEY
SAY, YOU KNOW, 'HOW DO WE BECOME
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ONE OF YOUR ONLINE MEMBERS?'
WE TRY TO CONNECT WITH THOSE
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PEOPLE AS WELL AS YOU CAN,
EVEN THOUGH THERE'S DISTANCE.
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AND SO, WE WANT TO
WELCOME THEM AS WELL.
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WE HAVE A VERY
INTERESTING LESSON TODAY.
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WE'RE GOING THROUGH OUR
NEW QUARTERLY DEALING WITH
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GALATIANS. THIS IS
MY FIRST CHANCE TO TEACH
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BECAUSE I WAS GONE LAST WEEK,
SO I'M GOING TO BE GOING INTO
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LESSON #2 THAT'S TALKING ABOUT
PAUL'S AUTHORITY IN THE GOSPEL.
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AND WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE -
MEMORY VERSE IS FROM GALATIANS
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1, VERSE 10 - IF YOU'VE GOT YOUR
BIBLES YOU CAN FOLLOW ALONG WITH
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ME - GALATIANS 1:10 - AND
THIS IS FROM THE NEW KING JAMES
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VERSION. ARE YOU
READY? "FOR DO I NOW
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PERSUADE MEN, OR GOD?
OR DO I SEEK TO PLEASE MEN?
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FOR IF I STILL PLEASED MEN,
I WOULD NOT BE A BONDSERVANT OF
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CHRIST." CAN YOU
BE A BONDSERVANT OF
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CHRIST AND LIVE TO PLEASE MEN?
NO, THAT DOESN'T WORK VERY WELL.
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AND SO, BOY, THERE'S A LOT
OF - THIS IS A VERY STRONG BOOK.
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NOW JUST A LITTLE BACKGROUND:
GALATIA IS A REGION THAT YOU
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WOULD FIND
BETWEEN SYRIA AND GREECE.
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IT'S IN THE AREA OF MODERN
TURKEY TODAY, BUT IT WASN'T ALL
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OF TURKEY. WE GET
THE NAME 'GALATIANS'
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BECAUSE THERE WERE SOME OF
THE CELTIC PEOPLE THAT HAD - THE
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ROMANS REFERRED TO THEM AS
BARBARIANS AND FOR YEARS THE
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ROMANS BATTLED THE BARBARIAN
CELTIC PEOPLE, SOMETIMES
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KNOWN AS THE GAULS. AND
THEY FINALLY GOT THEM TO
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BEHAVE THEMSELVES BUT
THEY RESTRICTED THEM TO AN
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AREA A LITTLE NORTH OF THE
MEDITERRANEAN THERE IN TURKEY
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AND A LITTLE BIT SOUTH OF THE
OTHER SEA TO THE NORTH AND THEY
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CALL THAT AREA THE AREA OF
THE GAULS OR THE GALATIANS.
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AND PAUL, ON HIS MISSIONARY
TRIP, MADE SEVERAL FORAYS
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THROUGH THAT AREA PREACHING
AND RAISED UP SOME CHURCHES.
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AND WE'LL TALK MORE ABOUT THAT.
NOW, THE BOOK OF GALATIANS, THE
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OLDEST COPY WE HAVE OF THE BOOK
OF GALATIANS - THERE'S A FEW
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PIECES MISSING - I THINK
IT'S CALLED P 46 AND THAT MEANS
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PAPYRUS 46 - IS FROM 200
AD. NOW THAT'S PRETTY GOOD.
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IF YOU HAVE A SCRIPTURE THAT
DATES BACK TO 200 AD, THAT MEANS
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IT WAS ONLY 150 OLDER
THAN WHEN IT WAS WRITTEN.
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FOR INSTANCE, TODAY, WE'RE 150
YEARS AFTER ABRAHAM LINCOLN, BUT
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WE FEEL PRETTY CONFIDENT
THE THINGS THAT WERE WRITTEN BY
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN, WE HAVE
ACCURATE COPIES. AND THERE WERE
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STILL ENOUGH WITNESSES OF
WITNESSES AROUND THAT YOU CAN
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GET A PRETTY GOOD IDEA. WELL,
WHEN THE BOOK OF GALATIANS WAS
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WRITTEN, NOBODY QUESTIONED THAT
IT WAS WRITTEN BY PAUL AND THAT
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IT WAS AN AUTHENTIC
BOOK. BUT IT IS A UNIQUE BOOK.
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THE BOOK OF GALATIANS IS
THE ONLY BOOK OF ALL OF PAUL'S
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LETTERS - AND, YOU KNOW, HE
WROTE NEARLY HALF OF THE NEW
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TESTAMENT - THAT HE
WRITES TO THE CHURCHES.
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THE OTHER BOOKS ARE WRITTEN TO
GROUPS - OR TO A SPECIFIC CHURCH
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OR TO TIMOTHY OR
PHILEMON OR TITUS.
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SO - BUT THIS ONE IS
SPECIFICALLY WRITTEN AND
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ADDRESSED TO THE
CHURCHES OF GALATIA.
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NOW, YOU LOOK IN ACTS 16, YOU'RE
GOING TO FIND TWO EXAMPLES IN
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THE BOOK OF ACTS WHEN PAUL MADE
THESE JOURNEYS THROUGH THE AREA
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OF GALATIA AND HE BEGAN
TO RAISE UP THOSE CHURCHES.
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IT'S KIND OF INTERESTING BECAUSE
ONE'S ACTS 16:6 AND THE OTHER'S
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ACTS 18:23. IN ONE
IT SAYS, "NOW WHEN THEY
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HAD GONE THROUGH PHRYGIA AND
THE REGION OF GALATIA, THEY WERE
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FORBIDDEN BY THE HOLY SPIRIT
TO PREACH THE WORD IN ASIA."
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THE NEXT ONE, ACTS 18:23 IT
SAYS, "AFTER HE HAD SPENT SOME
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TIME THERE, HE DEPARTED AND WENT
OVER THE REGION OF GALATIA AND
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PHRYGIA IN ORDER, STRENGTHENING
ALL THE DISCIPLES."
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SO IT'S TALKING ABOUT HE'S DOING
A REGIONAL WORK - HE'S IN THIS
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REGION - HE WENT TO SEVERAL
CHURCHES IN THAT REGION - THE
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FIRST ONE, YOU NOTICE, IT SAYS
PHRYGIA/GALATIA; THE OTHER ONE
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IT SAYS GALATIA/PHRYGIA. WHY?
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BECAUSE HE PREACHED THIS
WAY ON THE WAY TO ROME - OR THAT
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DIRECTION - AND THEN HE PREACHED
THIS WAY ON THE WAY BACK.
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SO ON THE REVERSE
JOURNEY HE HIT THEM IN REVERSE.
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THAT'S WHY THEY'RE
MENTIONED THAT WAY.
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SO YOU'VE GOT THE RECORD THERE
IN THE BIBLE, PROVIDED BY LUKE,
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THAT TELLS ABOUT
HIS MINISTRY THERE.
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NOW, WHEN WE GET INTO THE
BEGINNING - AND THIS IS UNDER
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THE SECTION FOR THE FIRST
DAY, PAUL, THE LETTER WRITER .
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THERE'S SOMETHING DIFFERENT
- IT'S KIND OF INTERESTING, WE
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JUST GOT DONE STUDYING 1 AND 2
PETER AND I DWELT ON THIS VERSE,
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BUT IT REALLY PLAYS HERE.
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2 PETER 3:15 AND 16 - PETER,
HERE, SAYS, "AND CONSIDER THAT
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THE LONGSUFFERING OF OUR LORD IS
SALVATION - AS ALSO OUR BELOVED
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BROTHER PAUL, ACCORDING TO THE
WISDOM GIVEN TO HIM, HAS WRITTEN
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TO YOU, AS ALSO IN ALL HIS
EPISTLES," - SO EVEN IN THE TIME
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OF PETER, WAS PAUL
KNOWN AS A PROLIFIC WRITER?
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>>YES. >>HE DOESN'T SAY, 'PAUL'S
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EPISTLE', HE
SAYS, HIS 'EPISTLES'.
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"AS ALSO IN ALL OF HIS EPISTLES,
SPEAKING IN THEM OF THESE
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THINGS, IN WHICH ARE SOME THINGS
HARD TO UNDERSTAND," - AGAIN,
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ONLY TIME IN THE BIBLE YOU
REALLY HAVE ONE BIBLE WRITER,
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UNDER INSPIRATION, SAYING THAT
THE WRITINGS OF ANOTHER BIBLE
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WRITER CAN BE
DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND.
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IT DOESN'T SAY THEY'RE NOT
TRUE, JUST SAYING THEY'RE DEEP -
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WHICH THOSE WHO ARE UNTAUGHT
AND UNSTABLE "TWIST TO THEIR OWN
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DESTRUCTION, AS THEY DO ALSO
THE REST OF THE SCRIPTURES."
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THE OTHER IMPORTANT THING HERE
- HE'S CALLING PAUL'S EPISTLES
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SCRIPTURE. AND SO
THAT'S PRETTY CLEAR -
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SOME OF THE HIGHER CRITICS, THEY
DISMISS SOME OF PAUL'S WRITINGS.
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THEY SAY, 'OH WELL, YOU KNOW,
YOU CAN'T TAKE PAUL SERIOUSLY
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HERE OR THERE AND HE WAS JUST
RANTING AND HE DIDN'T REALLY
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MEAN IT. BUT I
BELIEVE ALL SCRIPTURE IS
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GIVEN BY
INSPIRATION OF GOD, AMEN?
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>>AMEN. ALRIGHT,
SO SOMEONE IS GOING TO
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READ FOR ME, IN JUST A
MOMENT, COLOSSIANS 4:16.
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YOU'LL HAVE THAT HAFDIS? OKAY.
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BEFORE YOU DO, I'M GOING TO READ
- NOW WE'RE LOOKING AT SOME OF
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THE INTRODUCTIONS THAT
PAUL HAS IN SOME OF HIS LETTERS.
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IF YOU LOOK, FOR INSTANCE, IN 1
THESSALONIANS 5:27 - I'M NOT IN
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THE - I'M NOT TALKING, RATHER,
ABOUT THE INTRODUCTIONS, BUT
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THAT - THE
PURPOSE OF HIS LETTERS.
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1 THESSALONIANS 5:27 PAUL SAID,
'I CHARGE YOU BY THE LORD THAT
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THIS EPISTLE BE READ
TO ALL THE HOLY BRETHREN.
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NOW HOW DID THEY
COMMUNICATE TRUTH BACK THEN?
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YOU KNOW, WE GOT A NEAT FEATURE
- MANY OF YOU WHO ARE MEMBERS
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HERE AND SOME OF OUR ONLINE
MEMBERS, HAVE SENT IN YOUR
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E-MAIL, SO IF THERE'S SOME
IMPORTANT EVENT, WE JUST DO A
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BATCH E-MAIL AND WRITE A LITTLE
NOTE, WITH A CLICK OF A BUTTON,
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IT POPS UP, YOU
ALL GET THE MESSAGE.
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KIND OF NEAT.
SOMETIMES THEY WANT TO
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COMMUNICATE - PEOPLE
WILL DO IT THROUGH TV.
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SOME CHILD GOES MISSING, THEY'VE
GOT BILLBOARDS ON THE HIGHWAY.
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THEY CALL THEM AMBER ALERTS.
WE'VE GOT A LOT OF MODERN
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SOPHISTICATED WORDS OF
DOING MASS COMMUNICATION.
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BUT, IN BIBLE TIMES, IF YOU
WANTED TO GET A MESSAGE OUT TO A
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REGION OF CHURCHES, WHAT
DID YOU DO? YOU WROTE A LETTER.
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THEY DIDN'T HAVE
PRINTING PRESSES.
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YOU EITHER HAD TO HAVE, THEN,
SCRIBES - AND NOT EVERYONE COULD
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EVEN WRITE - THAT WOULD RE-WRITE
THAT LETTER AND CIRCULATE IT -
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ANY OF YOU REMEMBER THE OLD
MIMEOGRAPH MACHINES WHERE YOU
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HAD LIKE A BLUE
COPY AND YOU'D CRANK IT?
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AND ONCE YOU MADE THE BLUE COPY,
ALL THE COPIES CAME OUT IN BLUE.
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AND DO YOU ALL
REMEMBER THE CARBON COPIES?
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I USED TO BE - I WAS A COMPANY
CLERK IN MILITARY SCHOOL AND I'D
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TYPE THINGS WHERE YOU COULDN'T
DO MORE THAN THREE - YOU PUT
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THREE PAGES IN YOUR TYPEWRITER
ON THIS CARBON PAPER - AND EVERY
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LETTER THAT YOU PUNCH -
HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER?
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YOU HAD TO SLAM IT OR IT
DIDN'T MAKE THREE COPIES.
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SO YOU'RE TYPING - POP -
POP - POP - EVERY LETTER.
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THEN YOU'D GET THREE
COPIES OF YOUR LETTER.
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THEN THEY GOT THE XEROX MACHINE.
AND NOW WE'VE GOT THE HIGH SPEED
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COPIERS AND HIGH SPEED PRESS
AND THE DIGITAL COMMUNICATION.
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BACK THEN IT WAS A LOT TOUGHER.
I MEAN, EVEN PAPER - OR PAPYRUS
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- OR THE VELLUM - THE SKIN THEY
WROTE ON WAS HARD TO COME BY.
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SO HE SAID, 'LOOK, IF I'M GOING
TO WRITE A LETTER, READ IT TO
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ALL OF THE CHURCHES.
HE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THE
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MESSAGE GOT OUT THERE. GO AHEAD,
READ, FOR US, COLOSSIANS 4:16.
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>>"NOW WHEN THIS EPISTLE IS READ
AMONG YOU, SEE THAT IT IS READ
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ALSO IN THE CHURCH OF
THE LAODICEANS, AND THAT YOU
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LIKEWISE READ THE
EPISTLE FROM LAODICEA."
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>>SO HE TELLS THEM SEVERAL
TIMES, 'READ, READ, READ - THIS
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LETTER'S NO GOOD
UNLESS YOU READ IT.
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SPREAD IT AROUND.' AND IF YOU GO
TO 2 THESSALONIANS 3:14, "AND IF
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ANYONE DOES NOT OBEY OUR WORD IN
THIS EPISTLE, NOTE THAT PERSON
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AND DO NOT KEEP COMPANY WITH
HIM, THAT HE MAY BE ASHAMED."
00:13:54.56\00:13:57.67
SO IT WASN'T JUST A LETTER THAT
WAS JUST KIND OF GIVING TRIVIAL
00:13:57.70\00:14:00.57
INFORMATION; WHEN THEY WROTE
AN EPISTLE - PETER CALLS IT
00:14:00.60\00:14:04.07
SCRIPTURE. PAUL IS SAYING,
'IF YOU DON'T LISTEN TO THIS
00:14:04.11\00:14:07.61
EPISTLE, THIS IS THE LAW OF
THE LAND FOR THE CHURCH" - THESE
00:14:07.64\00:14:11.68
EPISTLES FROM THE APOSTLES WERE
VERY IMPORTANT. ALRIGHT, AND
00:14:11.71\00:14:15.88
THEN THE BOOK OF
REVELATION - WHO IS IT WRITTEN
00:14:15.92\00:14:18.19
TO? >>THE SAINTS.
00:14:18.22\00:14:21.29
>>REVELATION 1, "I AM THE ALPHA
AND THE OMEGA, THE FIRST AND THE
00:14:21.32\00:14:25.56
LAST, WHAT YOU SEE WRITE IN
A BOOK AND SEND IT TO THE SEVEN
00:14:25.59\00:14:30.27
CHURCHES THAT ARE IN ASIA"
- AND HE SAYS EPHESUS, SMYRNA,
00:14:30.30\00:14:33.87
PERGAMOS, THYATIRA, SARDIS,
PHLADELLPHIA, AND LAODICEA - SO
00:14:33.90\00:14:37.27
EVEN JESUS, IN THE BOOK OF
REVELATION, THROUGH JOHN, HE
00:14:37.31\00:14:39.87
SAYS, 'I'M GIVING YOU AN
AUTHORIZED LETTER - THIS EPISTLE
00:14:39.91\00:14:43.04
- THIS PROPHECY
- READ IT TO THEM.
00:14:43.08\00:14:45.45
SPREAD IT AROUND.'
ALRIGHT, NEXT SECTION -
00:14:45.48\00:14:49.78
WE'RE GOING TO TALK A
LITTLE BIT ABOUT PAUL'S CALLING
00:14:49.82\00:14:52.62
AND, ACTUALLY, WE'RE
DELVING NOW, AFTER LAST WEEK'S
00:14:52.65\00:14:55.36
INTRODUCTION AND MY
INTRODUCTION, WE'RE ACTUALLY
00:14:55.39\00:14:57.39
GETTING INTO CHAPTER 1. MY
MISSION TODAY, IF YOU SHOULD
00:14:57.43\00:15:00.96
CHOOSE TO ACCEPT IT, IS TO
COVER CHAPTER 1 OF GALATIANS.
00:15:00.96\00:15:05.80
AND I'M SURE THERE'LL BE TIMES
WE BACK UP, BUT WE'RE GOING TO
00:15:05.83\00:15:08.10
TRY TO COVER
CHAPTER 1 OF GALATIANS.
00:15:08.14\00:15:10.44
SO GALATIANS 1:1 AND 2, "PAUL,
AN APOSTLE (NOT FROM MEN NOR
00:15:10.47\00:15:17.38
THROUGH MAN, BUT THROUGH JESUS
CHRIST AND GOD THE FATHER WHO
00:15:17.41\00:15:21.65
RAISED HIM FROM THE DEAD), AND
ALL THE BRETHREN WHO ARE WITH
00:15:21.68\00:15:25.12
ME, TO THE CHURCHES OF
GALATIA:" - SO HE STARTS WITH AN
00:15:25.15\00:15:28.36
INTRODUCTION. AND,
YOU KNOW, IT WAS PRETTY
00:15:28.39\00:15:30.69
TYPICAL BACK THEN, FOR THEM
TO BEGIN THEIR LETTERS WITH A
00:15:30.73\00:15:34.00
SALUTATION THAT SAYS WHO
IS THIS FROM AND WHO IS IT
00:15:34.03\00:15:38.90
TO - THAT'S NORMAL.
NOW, YOU NOTICE THAT HE MAKES
00:15:38.93\00:15:41.90
A POINT THAT I THINK A LOT OF
PEOPLE MISS HERE, IN THE FIRST
00:15:41.94\00:15:44.27
VERSE, "AN APOSTLE (NOT FROM
MEN NOR THROUGH MAN, BUT THROUGH
00:15:44.31\00:15:48.31
JESUS CHRIST...)" - WHY
DOES HE DISTINGUISH JESUS
00:15:48.34\00:15:51.45
CHRIST FROM MAN? WAS
JESUS CHRIST JUST A MAN?
00:15:51.48\00:15:55.82
OR WAS JESUS MORE THAN A MAN?
HE SAID, 'THIS ISN'T FROM MAN.
00:15:55.85\00:16:00.26
IT ISN'T THROUGH MAN, IT'S
THROUGH JESUS.' SEE, I BELIEVE
00:16:00.29\00:16:03.89
JESUS IS GOD THE SON; WHAT YOU
WOULD CALL THE SECOND MEMBER OF
00:16:03.93\00:16:07.56
THE TRINITY. AND
SO, THIS IS ONE OF THE
00:16:07.60\00:16:10.03
PLACES WHERE YOU'RE USING, I
GUESS, AT LEAST A CIRCUMSTANTIAL
00:16:10.07\00:16:12.53
ARGUMENT THAT PAUL IS SAYING
JESUS IS NOT JUST A MAN. OKAY?
00:16:12.57\00:16:19.47
AND HE SAYS, "JESUS [CHRIST] AND
GOD THE FATHER" - AGAIN, MAKING
00:16:19.51\00:16:24.18
A DISTINCTION - "WHO RAISED HIM
FROM THE DEAD" - THROUGH GOD THE
00:16:24.21\00:16:27.78
SPIRIT - "AND ALL THE
BRETHREN WHO ARE WITH ME, TO THE
00:16:27.82\00:16:31.15
CHURCHES" - NOT ONE CHURCH, BUT
- "THE CHURCHES OF GALATIA:" -
00:16:31.19\00:16:35.22
NOW, WHEN YOU READ IN THE BIBLE,
YOU'LL FIND THERE ARE FOUR
00:16:35.26\00:16:37.96
CHURCHES THAT WE KNOW OF
THAT PAUL VISITED AT LEAST THREE
00:16:37.99\00:16:41.20
TIMES ON - YOU'VE HEARD OF THE
- ANY OF YOU - YOU GOT MAPS IN
00:16:41.23\00:16:45.60
YOUR BIBLE? SOME OF YOU?
SOME OF YOU, IN YOUR BIBLES,
00:16:45.63\00:16:49.37
WILL HAVE MAPS THAT WILL HAVE
A MAP THAT TALKS ABOUT PAUL'S
00:16:49.40\00:16:52.24
MISSIONARY JOURNEYS. AND
YOU'LL NOTICE, ON THAT MAP,
00:16:52.27\00:16:55.88
SOME OF YOU'RE CHECKING RIGHT
NOW TO SEE IF YOU HAVE THOSE.
00:16:55.91\00:16:57.85
YOU'LL NOTICE ON THAT MAP
THEY'LL LIKE, SOMETIMES, A GOOD
00:16:57.88\00:16:59.91
ONE'LL HAVE THREE DIFFERENT
COLORED LINES AND THE BLUE IS
00:16:59.95\00:17:02.15
HIS FIRST JOURNEY AND THE YELLOW
IS SECOND JOURNEY AND THE RED'S
00:17:02.18\00:17:04.72
HIS THIRD JOURNEY. AND
YOU CAN SEE - BECAUSE HE
00:17:04.75\00:17:07.16
TELLS WHERE THEY WENT - SOME OF
IT IS STILL MYSTERIOUS, BUT WE
00:17:07.19\00:17:11.56
KNOW A NUMBER OF PLACES HE WENT.
ON ALL THREE OF THOSE JOURNEYS,
00:17:11.59\00:17:16.20
HE WENT TO LYSTRA, DERBE,
ICONIUM, AND THE ANTIOCH - IT'S
00:17:16.23\00:17:21.37
CALLED THE PISIDIAN ANTIOCH
- THERE WERE TWO PLACES CALLED
00:17:21.40\00:17:23.67
ANTIOCH. THIS IS THE
ONE THAT WAS IN GALATIA.
00:17:23.71\00:17:26.04
SO THERE'S FOUR CITIES OF
GALATIA HE WENT TO AT LEAST
00:17:26.07\00:17:29.08
THREE TIMES: LYSTRA, DERBE,
ICONIUM, AND PISIDIAN ANTIOCH.
00:17:29.11\00:17:33.45
NOW THERE MAY HAVE BEEN
OTHERS THAT AREN'T MENTIONED.
00:17:33.48\00:17:35.98
THERE MAY HAVE BEEN OTHER
SMALLER GROUPS, BUT WE KNOW OF
00:17:36.02\00:17:37.55
AT LEAST THOSE FOUR. AND
SO, HE'S WRITING AND HE'S
00:17:37.59\00:17:40.46
SENDING THE LETTERS TO BE
READ AMONG THESE CHURCHES.
00:17:40.49\00:17:44.43
ACTS 9:15 - WHAT IS - WHAT IS
PAUL GIVING AS HIS CRITERIA TO
00:17:44.46\00:17:53.64
WRITE THIS
EPISTLE WITH AUTHORITY?
00:17:53.67\00:17:56.27
PAUL IS GETTING
READY TO PULL RANK.
00:17:56.30\00:17:58.51
I DON'T KNOW ANY
OTHER WAY TO SAY IT.
00:17:58.54\00:18:00.44
LET ME BACK UP AND
TELL YOU WHAT HAPPENED.
00:18:00.48\00:18:05.51
HE RAISED UP THESE CHURCHES.
HE WENT THROUGH GREAT SUFFERING
00:18:05.55\00:18:08.68
TO RAISE UP THESE CHURCHES.
IT WAS IN CONNECTION WITH THESE
00:18:08.72\00:18:11.45
CHURCHES THEY
NEARLY STONED HIM TO DEATH.
00:18:11.49\00:18:13.72
SOME ARGUED THEY DID STONE HIM
TO DEATH AND GOD RAISED HIM UP -
00:18:13.76\00:18:16.49
IT'S HARD TO PROVE
ONE WAY OR THE OTHER.
00:18:16.52\00:18:17.89
THEY THOUGHT HE WAS
DEAD AND HE JUST GOT UP.
00:18:17.93\00:18:20.86
MAYBE THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN
PRAYING THE LORD RAISED HIM, BUT
00:18:20.90\00:18:22.63
SINCE THEY DIDN'T PRAY, GOD
JUST DID IT. BUT ANYWAY, HE WENT
00:18:22.66\00:18:25.63
THROUGH GREAT SUFFERING TO RAISE
UP THESE CHURCHES. HE SPENT A
00:18:25.67\00:18:28.20
LOT OF TIME WITH THEM. HE WAS
STRUGGLING PHYSICALLY WHEN IT
00:18:28.24\00:18:31.67
HAPPENED - WE'LL
SHOW YOU THAT LATER.
00:18:31.71\00:18:33.68
AND THEN AFTER HE LEAVES TOWN -
DO YOU REMEMBER WHERE PAUL SAYS,
00:18:33.71\00:18:37.28
'I KNOW THAT AFTER MY DEPARTURE
GRIEVOUS WOLVES WILL COME IN
00:18:37.31\00:18:39.75
AMONG YOU NOT SPARING THE SHEEP
TO RAISE UP DISCIPLES AFTER
00:18:39.78\00:18:43.28
THEMSELVES.' THAT VERY
THING HAPPENED IN GALATIA.
00:18:43.32\00:18:46.22
AFTER PAUL LEFT, SOME OTHER
BELIEVERS IN JESUS, WHO WERE
00:18:46.25\00:18:51.89
PROBABLY FROM AMONG THE
PHARISEES OR, AT LEAST THEY WERE
00:18:51.93\00:18:54.63
JEWISH BELIEVERS IN JESUS, THEY
STARTED SHOWING UP IN GALATIA
00:18:54.66\00:18:58.87
AND SAID, 'HEY, WHAT'S UP GUYS?
00:18:58.90\00:19:00.70
YOU'RE NOT KEEPING THE LAWS OF
MOSES AND YOU'RE NOT PRACTICING
00:19:00.74\00:19:04.67
CIRCUMCISION.' AND THEY - AND
THESE, YOU KNOW, NEW BELIEVERS
00:19:04.71\00:19:08.34
ARE VULNERABLE AND THEY STARTED
HAVING BIBLE STUDIES AND TELLING
00:19:08.38\00:19:11.05
THEM, 'OH, LOOK, YOU'VE GOT TO
DO THESE THINGS.' AND THEN THEY
00:19:11.08\00:19:14.38
GOT SO INVOLVED IN PHARISAICAL
LEGALISM THAT WHEN PAUL HEARD
00:19:14.42\00:19:18.42
WHAT WAS GOING ON THERE HE'S
GOING, 'OH NO, HAVE YOU SO SOON
00:19:18.45\00:19:21.76
DEPARTED FROM THE
FAITH?' SO HE'S GETTING READY,
00:19:21.79\00:19:24.06
BASICALLY, TO LOWER THE HAMMER
ON THEM AND YOU'LL SEE IN WHAT
00:19:24.09\00:19:27.66
WE EVEN READ IN CHAPTER 1, THE
FIRST THING HE HAS TO DO IS SAY,
00:19:27.66\00:19:31.20
'WHAT AUTHORITY DO I HAVE
TO SAY WHAT I'M ABOUT TO SAY?'
00:19:31.23\00:19:35.67
YOU SEE WHERE HE'S COMING
FROM? 'WHAT RIGHT DO I HAVE?'
00:19:35.70\00:19:38.24
SO PAUL IS SAYING, 'I'M AN
APOSTLE.' NOW WHAT - WHAT DOES
00:19:38.27\00:19:43.55
THE WORD 'APOSTLE' MEAN? WHO
KNOWS? YOU'VE BEEN SAYING THAT
00:19:43.58\00:19:48.92
ALL YOUR LIFE AND DON'T
EVEN KNOW WHAT IT MEANS.
00:19:48.95\00:19:51.35
AN APOSTLE IS SOMEONE WHO IS
SENT - AN EMISSARY, A MESSENGER,
00:19:51.39\00:19:56.56
AN AMBASSADOR IN
BEHALF OF SOMEONE ELSE.
00:19:56.59\00:19:59.13
IT'S A VERY SIMPLE, VERY
BASIC WORD USED MANY TIMES.
00:19:59.16\00:20:02.00
BUT FOR THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH,
WHEN THEY SAY APOSTLE, THEY
00:20:02.03\00:20:06.10
GENERALLY WERE THINKING OF THE
ORIGINAL TWELVE WHO JESUS SET
00:20:06.13\00:20:11.71
ASIDE - HE
APPOINTED - HE ORDAINED.
00:20:11.74\00:20:14.88
ONE OF THEM COMMITTED SUICIDE.
THE DISCIPLES WENT THROUGH
00:20:14.91\00:20:18.71
A CEREMONY CASTING
LOTS. THEY REPLACED JUDAS
00:20:18.75\00:20:22.52
WITH MATTHIAS. YOU
NEVER REALLY HEAR OF
00:20:22.55\00:20:25.49
MATTHIAS OTHER THAN ACTS CHAPTER
1, BUT GOD SEEMED TO PICK
00:20:25.52\00:20:29.09
ANOTHER APOSTLE, IF
NOT TWO. ONE BEING PAUL,
00:20:29.12\00:20:33.66
ANOTHER BEING APOLLOS.
NOW HOW DID GOD PICK PAUL?
00:20:33.70\00:20:39.07
DO YOU KNOW, IN ORDER TO BE
AN APOSTLE YOU NEEDED TO HAVE -
00:20:39.10\00:20:43.20
YOU NEEDED TO BE
PERSONALLY CHOSEN BY JESUS.
00:20:43.24\00:20:47.64
DID PAUL HAVE A
PERSONAL ENCOUNTER WITH JESUS?
00:20:47.68\00:20:51.15
AND YOU NEEDED TO BE
PERSONALLY TAUGHT BY JESUS.
00:20:51.18\00:20:55.48
PAUL SAID, 'I WASN'T TAUGHT BY
MAN, BUT I WAS TAUGHT BY GOD.'
00:20:55.52\00:20:58.95
GOD GAVE PAUL DIVINE
REVELATION AND KNOWLEDGE.
00:20:58.99\00:21:04.39
WE IN THE ADVENTIST MOVEMENT
BELIEVE THE LORD, IN A SPECIAL
00:21:04.43\00:21:09.83
WAY, INSTRUCTED ELLEN WHITE.
00:21:09.86\00:21:12.73
THERE WAS UNIQUE INSTRUCTION
BEYOND WHAT YOU WOULD GET
00:21:12.77\00:21:14.90
THROUGH BOOK LEARNING -
SUPERNATURALLY REVEALED.
00:21:14.94\00:21:18.04
PAUL HAD SUPERNATURAL
REVELATIONS FROM JESUS.
00:21:18.07\00:21:20.54
THAT'S WHY HE SAID, 'NOT TAUGHT
OF MAN BUT TAUGHT BY JESUS' AND
00:21:20.58\00:21:27.58
HE SAYS, 'I'M NOT AN APOSTLE
FROM MAN OR THROUGH MAN, BUT
00:21:27.62\00:21:30.95
THROUGH JESUS CHRIST.' AND
YOU CAN READ WHERE PAUL SAYS, 'I
00:21:30.99\00:21:33.86
KNEW A MAN WHO SAW THINGS CAUGHT
UP TO THE THIRD HEAVEN YOU CAN'T
00:21:33.89\00:21:36.99
EVEN UTTER.' HE WAS
TALKING ABOUT HIMSELF.
00:21:37.03\00:21:41.00
AND HE GOES ON TO SAY THAT - HE
QUALIFIES HIMSELF THAT HE'S AN
00:21:41.03\00:21:45.03
APOSTLE - LOOK IN ACTS 9:15 WHEN
HE TELLS ANANIAS PAUL'S HAD THIS
00:21:45.07\00:21:50.84
VISION ON THE ROAD TO DAMASCUS
AND JESUS SPEAKS TO ANANIAS AND
00:21:50.87\00:21:56.44
SAYS, "GO, FOR HE IS A CHOSEN
VESSEL OF MINE TO BEAR MY NAME
00:21:56.48\00:22:01.58
BEFORE GENTILES, KINGS,
AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL."
00:22:01.62\00:22:05.85
- NOT JUST AN APOSTLE TO THE
GENTILES, BUT ALSO THE CHILDREN
00:22:05.89\00:22:08.82
OF ISRAEL - "FOR I WILL SHOW HIM
HOW MANY THINGS HE MUST SUFFER
00:22:08.86\00:22:12.29
FOR MY NAME'S SAKE." SO PAUL
GOES THROUGH A LOT OF SUFFERING.
00:22:12.33\00:22:16.13
NOW SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ FOR
ME GALATIANS 6:17 - KELLY YOU'LL
00:22:16.16\00:22:21.87
HAVE THAT? OKAY. I WANT
TO READ TO YOU GALATIANS
00:22:21.90\00:22:24.57
4, VERSES 12 AND 13, "BRETHREN,
I URGE YOU TO BECOME LIKE
00:22:24.61\00:22:29.84
ME, FOR I BECAME LIKE YOU.
YOU HAVE NOT INJURED MME AT ALL.
00:22:29.88\00:22:34.58
YOU KNOW THAT BECAUSE OF
PHYSICAL INFIRMITY I PREACHED
00:22:34.62\00:22:37.52
THE GOSPEL TO YOU AT
THE FIRST." AND SO HE TALKS
00:22:37.55\00:22:41.39
ABOUT BEING
INJURED. HE TALKS ABOUT
00:22:41.42\00:22:42.86
PHYSICAL INFIRMITY. THEN
YOU READ IN GALATIANS 5:2
00:22:42.89\00:22:46.80
AND 3 - HE, AGAIN, INVOKES
'IT IS ME, I AM AN AUTHORIZED
00:22:46.83\00:22:51.13
APOSTLE.' "INDEED, I, PAUL
SAY TO YOU THAT IF YOU BECOME
00:22:51.17\00:22:55.37
CIRCUMCISED, CHRIST
WILL PROFIT YOU NOTHING."
00:22:55.40\00:22:58.01
AND, AGAIN, "I TESTIFY
AGAIN TO EVERY MAN WHO BECOMES
00:22:58.04\00:23:02.01
CIRCUMCISED THAT HE IS A
DEBTOR TO KEEP THE WHOLE LAW."
00:23:02.04\00:23:04.68
SO WHEN HE GIVES THEM A COMMAND
- HE SAYS, 'YOU'RE GOING BACK TO
00:23:04.71\00:23:07.55
THIS - THESE OLD TYPES AND
SHADOWS' - HE SAID, 'YOU'RE
00:23:07.58\00:23:12.25
GETTING THIS FROM ME.'
AND HE MAKES SOME VERY STRONG
00:23:12.29\00:23:14.72
STATEMENTS. GO AHEAD,
READ FOR US GALATIANS 6:17.
00:23:14.76\00:23:18.79
>>GALATIANS 6:17, "FROM
HENCEFORTH LET NO MAN TROUBLE
00:23:18.83\00:23:24.07
ME, FOR I BEAR IN MY BODY
THE MARKS OF THE LORD JESUS."
00:23:24.10\00:23:29.34
>>ALRIGHT, SO, YOU NOTICE,
EVEN HERE IN THE VERY END OF
00:23:29.37\00:23:32.97
GALATIANS, PAUL IS TALKING
ABOUT WHEN HE WAS WHIPPED.
00:23:33.01\00:23:36.71
DO YOU KNOW THAT WOULD SCAR
YOU? PAUL SAYS HE WAS WHIPPED 39
00:23:36.75\00:23:40.32
TIMES THREE TIMES IN HIS
LIFE, IF YOU COULD IMAGINE THAT.
00:23:40.35\00:23:44.65
SO HE WAS SCARRED.
WHEN YOU WERE STONED
00:23:44.69\00:23:47.86
YOU MIGHT GET SCARRED.
AND A LOT OF THE SUFFERINGS
00:23:47.89\00:23:50.56
HAPPENED TO PAUL WHEN HE WAS
GOING THROUGH THAT PART OF ASIA.
00:23:50.59\00:23:53.96
AND SO, HE'S TELLING THE
GALATIANS - HE'S SAYING, 'LOOK'
00:23:54.00\00:23:57.60
- HE'S USING THE SAME THING THAT
TOUCHED HIM IN SERVING JESUS.
00:23:57.63\00:24:00.97
HE SAW HOW MUCH JESUS SUFFERED
FOR HIM SO HE LOVED JESUS AND HE
00:24:01.00\00:24:04.21
LISTENED. PAUL IS
SAYING, 'LOOK HOW MUCH
00:24:04.24\00:24:06.04
I'VE SUFFERED FOR
YOU.' SEE WHAT HE'S DOING?
00:24:06.07\00:24:08.84
HE SAYS, 'IF YOU LOVE ME, LISTEN
TO MY COMMAND.' AND SO HE'S
00:24:08.88\00:24:12.38
MAKING THESE COMMANDS TO THEM
NOT TO FALL BACK INTO THIS OLD
00:24:12.41\00:24:15.65
LEGALISM THAT THEY
HAD BEEN DELIVERED FROM.
00:24:15.68\00:24:19.35
AND THEN A COUPLE OF OTHER
VERSES REAL QUICK WHERE IT TALKS
00:24:19.39\00:24:22.69
ABOUT OTHER INTRODUCTIONS OF
PAUL'S LETTERS WHERE HE TALKS
00:24:22.72\00:24:26.26
ABOUT HIS QUALIFICATIONS.
YOU CAN READ IN EPHESIANS 1:1,
00:24:26.29\00:24:31.33
"PAUL, AN APOSTLE OF JESUS
CHRIST BY THE WILL OF GOD, TO
00:24:31.37\00:24:35.64
THE SAINTS WHO ARE IN EPHESUS,
AND FAITHFUL IN CHRIST JESUS:" -
00:24:35.67\00:24:39.47
SO HIS OPENING SALUTATION TO THE
GALATIANS IS A LITTLE BIT LONGER
00:24:39.51\00:24:44.35
BUT, AGAIN, HE'S
USING THIS SAME LANGUAGE.
00:24:44.38\00:24:46.75
YOU CAN GO AGAIN TO PHILIPPIANS
1:1, "PAUL AND TIMOTHY,
00:24:46.78\00:24:50.05
BONDSERVANTS OF JESUS CHRIST,
TO ALL THE SAINTS IN CHRIST
00:24:50.09\00:24:54.12
JESUS WHO ARE IN PHILIPPI, WITH
THE BISHOPS AND DEACONS:" NOW,
00:24:54.16\00:24:57.89
SOMETHING YOU NOTICE, WHEN HE
MAKES HIS INTRODUCTIONS - MATTER
00:24:57.93\00:25:03.00
OF FACT, I'LL SAVE
THAT FOR THE NEXT SECTION.
00:25:03.03\00:25:05.47
IF YOU GO OVER TO PAUL'S
GOSPEL - GO TO GALATIANS 1.
00:25:05.50\00:25:12.14
WE'RE GOING TO READ VERSES
3 THROUGH 5, "GRACE TO YOU AND
00:25:12.17\00:25:17.21
PEACE FROM GOD THE FATHER AND
OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, WHO GAVE
00:25:17.25\00:25:21.28
HIMSELF FOR OUR SINS, THAT
HE MIGHT DELIVER US FROM THIS
00:25:21.32\00:25:25.89
PRESENT EVIL AGE, ACCORDING TO
THE WILL OF OUR GOD AND FATHER,
00:25:25.92\00:25:30.03
TO WHOM BE GLORY
FOREVER AND EVER. AMEN."
00:25:30.06\00:25:33.83
WELL, THERE YOU
HAVE IT, FRIENDS.
00:25:33.86\00:25:35.60
YOU'VE GOT THE WHOLE
GOSPEL IN THREE VERSES.
00:25:35.63\00:25:39.43
DID YOU NOTICE THAT? HE
SAYS 'GRACE AND PEACE', SO
00:25:39.47\00:25:43.81
HE'S BASICALLY SAYING 'IT IS
THROUGH GRACE WE FIND PEACE' -
00:25:43.84\00:25:50.75
THROUGH THE GRACE
OF GOD WE FIND SHALOM.
00:25:50.78\00:25:53.21
HE'S USING A WORD THAT WAS OFTEN
USED IN WRITING TO THE GREEKS
00:25:53.25\00:25:56.38
AND HE'S USING A WORD THAT WAS
IN EVERY JEWISH LETTER - ALL THE
00:25:56.42\00:25:59.62
JEWISH LETTERS. YOU
KNOW, IN HEBREW, THE WORD
00:25:59.65\00:26:02.49
'SHALOM' IS LIKE 'ALOHA' IN
HAWAII. HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE
00:26:02.52\00:26:06.09
BEEN TO HAWAII? THEY
SAY, 'ALOHA' WHEN YOU COME
00:26:06.13\00:26:08.96
AND THEY SAY
'ALOHA' WHEN YOU'RE GOING.
00:26:09.00\00:26:10.90
IT JUST SORT OF MEANT 'LOVE' AND
IN HEBREW THEY'D SAY 'SHALOM'
00:26:10.93\00:26:14.94
AND THEY'D SAY 'SHALOM' HELLO
AND THEY'D SAY 'SHALOM' GOODBYE.
00:26:14.97\00:26:18.24
AND SO, PAUL IS USING A GREETING
OF GRACE AND PEACE THAT WAS VERY
00:26:18.27\00:26:24.38
COMMON BACK THEN
IN BOTH THOSE WORLDS.
00:26:24.41\00:26:27.35
SO HE SAYS 'GRACE AND PEACE FROM
GOD THE FATHER OF OUR LORD JESUS
00:26:27.38\00:26:30.85
CHRIST WHO GAVE HIMSELF
FOR OUR SINS' - WHY DID HE DIE?
00:26:30.89\00:26:37.16
HE GAVE HIS LIFE FOR OUR SINS.
WHY? THAT HE MIGHT DELIVER US.
00:26:37.19\00:26:41.13
WHAT DO WE SAY IN
THE LORD'S PRAYER?
00:26:41.16\00:26:43.13
'DELIVER US FROM EVIL' -
FROM THIS PRESENT EVIL AGE -
00:26:43.16\00:26:48.77
'ACCORDING TO THE WILL OF OUR
GOD' - IT'S GOD'S WILL THAT WE
00:26:48.80\00:26:52.37
BE SAVED; IT'S NOT GOD'S WILL
THAT ANY SHOULD PERISH - 'OUR
00:26:52.41\00:26:58.45
GOD AND FATHER TO WHOM
BE GLORY FOR EVER AND EVER.
00:26:58.48\00:27:01.65
AMEN.' EVEN THE LORD'S
PRAYER ENDS THAT WAY TOO.
00:27:01.68\00:27:05.15
SO THE WORD 'GRACE', IT'S
A SIMILAR SOUNDING WORD TO
00:27:05.19\00:27:10.03
'CHARIS' - I THINK THAT'S
RELATED TO THE WORD 'CHARITY'
00:27:10.06\00:27:13.53
TOO. YOU LOOK IN EPHESIANS 1:2,
00:27:13.56\00:27:17.87
"GRACE TO YOU AND PEACE
FROM GOD OUR FATHER AND THE
00:27:17.90\00:27:21.24
LORD JESUS CHRIST."
PHILIPPIANS 1:2, "GRACE TO YOU
00:27:21.27\00:27:25.11
AND PEACE FROM GOD OUR FATHER
AND THE LORD JESUS CHRIST."
00:27:25.14\00:27:28.68
COLOSSIANS 1, VERSE 2, "TO THE
SAINTS AND FAITHFUL BRETHREN IN
00:27:28.71\00:27:32.28
CHRIST WHO ARE IN COLOSSE: GRACE
TO YOU AND PEACE FROM GOD OUR
00:27:32.31\00:27:36.15
FATHER AND THE
LORD JESUS CHRIST."
00:27:36.18\00:27:39.19
NOW ANY OF YOU, WHEN YOU USE
YOUR COMPUTER, USE THE CUT AND
00:27:39.22\00:27:42.32
COPY FEATURE - CUT AND
PASTE? - COPY AND PASTE
00:27:42.36\00:27:45.56
FEATURE, YOU KNOW? A
LOT OF TIMES, IF I WANT TO -
00:27:45.59\00:27:49.10
WELL, WHEN I DO IT WHEN I GET
THESE NOTES, I GO TO THE BIBLE -
00:27:49.13\00:27:51.77
I'VE GOT THE DIGITAL BIBLE AND
I COPY THE VERSES I WANT - I CUT
00:27:51.80\00:27:54.60
'EM AND I PASTE 'EM IN MY NOTES
SO, INSTEAD OF FLIPPING THROUGH
00:27:54.64\00:27:57.44
THE BIBLE, I SAVE TIME BY
PRINTING OUT THE VERSES HERE.
00:27:57.47\00:28:00.64
YOU ALWAYS WONDER, 'WHY IS HE
NOT READING OUT OF HIS BIBLE?'
00:28:00.68\00:28:02.88
WELL, I PRINTED ALL THE VERSES I
WANT TO READ HERE - COPY/PASTE.
00:28:02.91\00:28:05.95
PAUL DOES A COPY/PASTE.
ALL OF HIS LETTERS INTRODUCE -
00:28:05.98\00:28:09.98
ARE INTRODUCED - NOT ALL,
BUT MANY OF THEM - WITH THIS
00:28:10.02\00:28:12.92
WORD-FOR-WORD GREETING, 'GRACE
TO YOU AND PEACE FROM GOD OUR
00:28:12.95\00:28:16.96
FATHER AND THE LORD JESUS
CHRIST.' SO I EXPECT TO HEAR ALL
00:28:16.99\00:28:19.83
OF YOU GREET EACH
OTHER THAT WAY AFTER CHURCH.
00:28:19.86\00:28:23.00
AND IN ALL YOUR LETTERS,
FROM NOW ON, YOU'VE GOT - IN THE
00:28:23.03\00:28:25.43
MOUTH OF TWO OR THREE WITNESSES
- YOU WONDER - THAT'D BE KIND OF
00:28:25.47\00:28:28.94
A LONG GREETING, HUH? BUT
THIS IS HOW HE DID IT. NOW WE'RE
00:28:28.97\00:28:33.44
GOING TO DIVE INTO THE - SOME
OF THE TOUGH STUFF IN THIS BOOK.
00:28:33.48\00:28:39.71
THE NEXT VERSES - VERSES 1 -
CHAPTER 1, VERSES 6 THROUGH 9 -
00:28:39.75\00:28:45.22
HE DOES NOT - HE GIVES A NICE
INTRODUCTION, BY THE TIME HE
00:28:45.25\00:28:47.86
GETS TO - THERE'S ABOUT SIX
CHAPTERS IN THE BOOK - BY THE
00:28:47.89\00:28:50.79
TIME HE GETS TO VERSE 6, HE
BASICALLY TAKES OFF THE GLOVES
00:28:50.83\00:28:55.36
AND HE GETS
RIGHT TO HIS CONCERN.
00:28:55.40\00:28:59.23
"I MARVEL THAT YOU ARE TURNING
AWAY SO SOON FROM HIM" - WELL
00:28:59.27\00:29:04.91
THAT RIGHT THERE OUGHT TO ARREST
THEIR ATTENTION - SAYING 'WHAT'S
00:29:04.94\00:29:07.28
HAPPENING NOW IS YOU'RE TURNING
AWAY FROM' - WHO'S THE HIM?
00:29:07.31\00:29:10.21
MY BIBLE SAYS CAPITAL H-I-M -
IT'S TALKING ABOUT GOD THE SON,
00:29:10.25\00:29:14.25
JESUS - YOU'RE TURNING AWAY
FROM HIM. THEY'RE GOING 'WHAT?'
00:29:14.28\00:29:17.29
- 'I MARVEL' - 'I'M AMAZED THAT
YOU'RE TURNING AWAY FROM HIM
00:29:17.32\00:29:20.76
"WHO CALLED YOU IN THE GRACE OF
CHRIST, TO A DIFFERENT GOSPEL,
00:29:20.79\00:29:26.33
WHICH IS NOT ANOTHER; BUT THERE
ARE SOME WHO TROUBLE YOU AND
00:29:26.36\00:29:31.23
WANT TO PERVERT THE GOSPEL
OF CHRIST. NOW DO WE HAVE THAT
00:29:31.27\00:29:33.97
PROBLEM IN THE WORLD
TODAY? DO WE HAVE THAT PROBLEM
00:29:34.00\00:29:36.54
IN THE CHURCH TODAY? >>AMEN.
00:29:36.57\00:29:38.41
>>THERE ARE TWO EXTREMES - IT
ALSO SAYS THIS IN THE BOOK STEPS
00:29:38.44\00:29:43.28
TO CHRIST - THERE ARE TYPICALLY
TWO EXTREMES THAT YOU HAVE IN
00:29:43.31\00:29:48.52
THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, INTO
WHICH PEOPLE FALL - THEY'RE TWO
00:29:48.55\00:29:51.02
DITCHES. YOU CAN BE A PHARISEE
OR A SADDUCEE. YOU'VE GOT THE
00:29:51.05\00:29:57.33
RIGHT OR THE LEFT, WE SAY IN OUR
CULTURE. YOU'VE GOT THOSE WHO
00:29:57.36\00:30:02.10
BELIEVE IN RIGHTEOUSNESS THROUGH
LEGALISM AND THEN THOSE WHO
00:30:02.13\00:30:06.67
BELIEVE IN RIGHTEOUSNESS
THROUGH PRESUMPTION.
00:30:06.70\00:30:10.57
ONE GROUP BELIEVES THEY'RE
GOING TO WORK THEIR WAY TO THE
00:30:10.61\00:30:13.98
KINGDOM, THE OTHER GROUP
BELIEVES, 'BECAUSE WE'RE SAVED
00:30:14.01\00:30:16.41
BY GRACE, I'M JUST GOING TO
CONTINUE IN SIN, FEEL NO REMORSE
00:30:16.44\00:30:19.71
FOR MY SIN, AND JUST SAY A
LITTLE PRAYER AND GO ON MY MERRY
00:30:19.75\00:30:24.29
WAY.' AND THEY LIVE WORLDLY
LIVES. YOU'VE GOT THOSE TWO
00:30:24.32\00:30:29.12
EXTREMES. WELL, PAUL, NOW IS
DEALING WITH THE FORMER - THE
00:30:29.16\00:30:34.40
LEGALISM THAT HAD CREPT IN HERE.
AND IT'S OFTEN BROUGHT BY PEOPLE
00:30:34.46\00:30:38.97
WHO COME AND THEY
PREACH A FALSE GOSPEL.
00:30:39.00\00:30:42.87
'THERE ARE SOME WHO TROUBLE YOU
AND WANT TO PERVERT THE GOSPEL
00:30:42.90\00:30:45.64
OF CHRIST, BUT' - AND LISTEN
TO THE LANGUAGE - HE SAYS, 'BUT
00:30:45.67\00:30:49.24
EVEN IF WE OR AN ANGEL FROM
HEAVEN PREACH ANY OTHER GOSPEL
00:30:49.28\00:30:54.72
TO YOU THAN THAT WHICH WE HAVE
PREACHED TO YOU - THAT GOSPEL
00:30:54.75\00:30:58.02
THAT WE FIRST PREACHED TO
YOU THAT CHANGED YOUR LIFE AND
00:30:58.05\00:31:00.26
BROUGHT ABOUT YOUR CONVERSION
- LET HIM BE ACCURSED.' THAT'S
00:31:00.29\00:31:04.89
PRETTY STRONG LANGUAGE.
IT'S STRONG LANGUAGE FOR THE
00:31:04.93\00:31:07.76
LISTENER AND IT'S STRONG
LANGUAGE FOR THE SPEAKER.
00:31:07.83\00:31:11.07
PAUL IS SAYING, 'I'VE GOT A
RESPONSIBILITY TO PREACH THE
00:31:11.10\00:31:13.80
RIGHT GOSPEL BECAUSE IF I'M
PREACHING THE WRONG GOSPEL, NOT
00:31:13.84\00:31:16.30
ONLY AM I RESPONSIBLE FOR YOU
POTENTIALLY BEING LOST, BUT I
00:31:16.34\00:31:20.48
WILL BE LOST. AND I'M
EVEN WORSE ACCOUNTABLE
00:31:20.51\00:31:23.91
IN THE JUDGMENT BECAUSE
I'M INFLUENCING MANY OTHERS.
00:31:23.95\00:31:27.85
PAUL IS SAYING, 'IF ANYBODY'S
PREACHING THE WRONG GOSPEL, THEY
00:31:27.88\00:31:31.39
WILL BE ACCURSED. IT'S
PRETTY SERIOUS - THERE'S NO
00:31:31.42\00:31:34.29
STRONGER TERM THAT HE CAN USE.
AND HE'S SAYING, 'YOU'LL BE LOST
00:31:34.32\00:31:38.76
FOR LISTENING TO IT BECAUSE
IT'S NOT THE TRUE GOSPEL, IT'S A
00:31:38.79\00:31:41.50
FALSE GOSPEL AND THERE'S PLENTY
OF FALSE GOSPELS AND THEY'RE
00:31:41.53\00:31:43.67
NOT GOING TO SAVE ANYBODY.
AND, BY THE WAY, I HEAR PEOPLE
00:31:43.70\00:31:49.37
EVERY NOW AND THEN CALLING THE
TRUE GOSPEL THE FALSE GOSPEL.
00:31:49.40\00:31:53.81
SO YOU CAN CALL ANYTHING
ANYTHING YOU WANT - YOU CAN SPIN
00:31:53.84\00:31:56.28
IT - I KNOW THAT THERE ARE SOME
OTHER MINISTERS OUT THERE THAT
00:31:56.31\00:31:59.15
WOULD CALL WHAT I BELIEVE THE
FALSE GOSPEL - AND I CALL WHAT
00:31:59.18\00:32:02.18
THEY BELIEVE THE FALSE GOSPEL.
AND EVERYBODY SAYS, 'I'VE GOT
00:32:02.22\00:32:05.12
THE REAL THING.'
SO HOW DO YOU KNOW?
00:32:05.15\00:32:09.39
PAUL SAYS, 'IF YOU ARE BELIEVING
ANYTHING OTHER THAN WHAT I FIRST
00:32:09.42\00:32:12.96
SHARED WITH YOU' - AND THAT'S
CONTAINED IN THE GOSPEL IN THE
00:32:12.99\00:32:15.50
EPISTLES, WHICH ARE THE INSPIRED
WORD OF THE APOSTLES - HE SAID,
00:32:15.53\00:32:21.34
'LET THEM BE ACCURSED.
IT SAYS, 'EVEN IF WE OR
00:32:21.37\00:32:23.47
AN ANGEL FROM HEAVEN'.
SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ
00:32:23.51\00:32:26.01
FOR ME 2 CORINTHIANS
11:14. ALRIGHT, KATRINA?
00:32:26.04\00:32:30.55
I THINK WE'RE
PROBABLY READY FOR THAT.
00:32:30.58\00:32:31.78
WHY DOES PAUL - WHY DOES PAUL
WARN AGAINST 'EVEN IF AN ANGEL
00:32:31.81\00:32:35.48
FROM HEAVEN'? GO
AHEAD. >>2 CORINTHIANS
00:32:35.52\00:32:38.82
11:14, "AND NO WONDER!
FOR SATAN HIMSELF TRANSFORMS
00:32:38.85\00:32:43.83
HIMSELF INTO AN ANGEL OF LIGHT."
>>NOW DON'T MISS THE POINT THAT
00:32:43.86\00:32:49.56
IN REVELATION, THE MESSAGE
OF REVELATION IS GIVEN TO THE
00:32:49.60\00:32:54.04
SEEVEN ANGELS OF
THE SEVEN CHURCHES.
00:32:54.07\00:32:58.44
AND SOME HAVE WONDERED, IS THAT
TALKING ABOUT THE MESSENGERS OF
00:32:58.47\00:33:01.11
THE CHURCHES, LIKE IN
THE PASTORS OF THE CHURCHES?
00:33:01.14\00:33:03.28
ARE THESE SEVEN ANGELS?
BUT YOU'LL FIND, SOMETIMES, IN
00:33:03.31\00:33:07.08
THE NEW TESTAMENT, THE
WORD FOR 'ANGEL' AND 'MESSENGER'
00:33:07.12\00:33:10.32
ARE INTERCHANGEABLE.
CAN SATAN BE TRANSFORMED
00:33:10.35\00:33:14.19
INTO AN ANGEL OF LIGHT? >>YES.
00:33:14.22\00:33:16.46
>>WHEN THE DEVIL CAME TO TEMPT
JESUS IN THE WILDERNESS - IN OUR
00:33:16.49\00:33:19.13
MESSAGE LATER TODAY, WE'RE
TALKING ABOUT TEMPTATION AND
00:33:19.16\00:33:21.40
THIS MAY COME UP AGAIN. BUT
WHEN THE DEVIL CAME TO TEMPT
00:33:21.43\00:33:24.60
JESUS IN THE WILDERNESS - I'VE
SEEN ARTISTS - THE - DISPLAY
00:33:24.63\00:33:28.34
THIS BEFORE, WHERE JESUS IS OUT
IN THE WILDERNESS AND HE LOOKS
00:33:28.37\00:33:31.14
FAMISHED AND HUNGRY AND THIRSTY
AND, LEANING OVER HIS SHOULDER,
00:33:31.17\00:33:35.41
IS THIS TYPICAL SATANIC-LOOKING
CREATURE, YOU KNOW, THE DEVIL,
00:33:35.44\00:33:38.55
AND HE'S GOT THE - HE'S GOT THE
GOATEE AND HE'S, YOU KNOW, GOT
00:33:38.58\00:33:42.08
THE SHARP EARS - IT LOOKS LIKE A
VULCAN - AND HE'S GOT, YOU KNOW,
00:33:42.12\00:33:45.29
THE HIGH FOREHEAD AND THE LITTLE
PINACLE OF HAIR THAT COMES DOWN
00:33:45.32\00:33:52.26
REAL SHARP - IT
MAKES HIM LOOK SINISTER.
00:33:52.29\00:33:54.30
AND, SOMETIMES, YOU KNOW, BAT
WINGS AND ALL KINDS OF THINGS.
00:33:54.30\00:33:57.93
AND, IF YOU WERE JESUS IN
THE WILDERNESS AND YOU'RE GOING
00:33:57.97\00:34:01.74
THROUGH TEMPTATION AND THIS
CREATURE PLOPS DOWN IN FRONT OF
00:34:01.77\00:34:05.41
YOU, AND HE'S GOT RED LEOTARDS
ON AND, YOU KNOW, HE LOOKS LIKE
00:34:05.44\00:34:10.55
THESE TYPICAL PICTURES OF THE
DEVIL AND HE SAYS, 'LOOK, I'VE
00:34:10.58\00:34:13.62
GOT A PROPOSITION FOR YOU.' WHO
WOULD LISTEN TO ANYBODY LOOKING
00:34:13.65\00:34:16.62
LIKE THAT? HOW DO YOU THINK THE
00:34:16.65\00:34:19.92
DEVIL APPEARED TO
CHRIST? AS AN ANGEL OF LIGHT.
00:34:19.95\00:34:25.63
HE SAID, 'I'VE BEEN
SENT FROM THE FATHER.
00:34:25.66\00:34:27.40
I'VE GOT WORDS
FOR ENCOURAGEMENT.
00:34:27.46\00:34:30.20
YOU JUST NEED TTO DEMONSTRATE
YOU STILL BELIEVE YOU'RE THE SON
00:34:30.23\00:34:32.53
OF GOD AND, IF YOU'RE THE
SON OF GOD, DO THIS MIRACLE.'
00:34:32.57\00:34:35.77
AND SO, IT'S VERY
IT WAS VERY SUBTLE.
00:34:35.80\00:34:38.47
HE THOUGHT, 'OH, WELL,
THIS LOOKS LIKE AN ANGEL.
00:34:38.51\00:34:40.44
SO EVEN WHEN HE CAME TO JESUS,
HE APPEARED AS AN ANGEL OF
00:34:40.48\00:34:42.91
LIGHT. DO
COUNTERFEIT PREACHERS LOOK
00:34:42.94\00:34:47.98
LIKE THE DEVIL OR ARE THEY
SOMETIMES - THEY'RE ELOQUENT,
00:34:48.02\00:34:51.89
THEY'RE GOOD LOOKING, THEY
DO SHARE SOME TRUTH, THEY SMILE,
00:34:51.92\00:34:56.42
THEY SEEM LOVING,
THEY SEEM SINCERE?
00:34:56.46\00:35:00.56
EVERY FALSE RELIGION AND EVERY
FALSE GOSPEL HAS GOOD THINGS TO
00:35:00.60\00:35:04.77
IT AND THAT'S WHAT
MAKES IT ATTRACTIVE.
00:35:04.80\00:35:07.60
IF YOU'RE GOING TO POISON
SOMEBODY, YOU DON'T JUST HAND
00:35:07.64\00:35:10.97
THEM A BROWN BOTTLE WITH A LABEL
THAT HAS A SKULL AND CROSSBONES
00:35:11.01\00:35:13.94
ON IT AND SAY, 'HERE,
WOULD YOU LIKE SOME POISON.
00:35:13.98\00:35:16.04
NOBODY'S GOING TO GO FOR
THAT. WHAT YOU DO IS YOU TAKE
00:35:16.08\00:35:18.98
SOMETHING THAT'S VERY GOOD AND
NUTRITIOUS AND APPETIZING AND
00:35:19.01\00:35:21.95
YOU PUT A LITTLE
POISON IN WHAT'S APPETIZING.
00:35:21.98\00:35:24.59
MOST FALSE GOSPELS HAVE A LOT
OF GOOD THINGS, BUT THEN THEY'VE
00:35:24.62\00:35:28.99
GOT A DOCTRINE BURIED
IN THERE THAT IS LETHAL.
00:35:29.02\00:35:32.26
AND SO, PAUL - MANY OF THE
THINGS THAT PAUL TAUGHT THEY
00:35:32.29\00:35:35.10
STILL BELIEVED, BUT SOMETHING
FALSE HAD BEEN INTRODUCED THAT
00:35:35.13\00:35:38.53
WAS DISTRACTING
THEM. AND - WHAT WAS IT?
00:35:38.57\00:35:43.91
WHAT WAS THE MAIN - WHO KNOWS
WHAT'S THE MAIN THING IN THE
00:35:43.94\00:35:47.58
BOOK OF GALATIANS
THAT BECAME THE BIG ISSUE?
00:35:47.61\00:35:50.65
WHEN SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS HEAR
GALATIANS, WE'RE OFTEN HEARING
00:35:50.68\00:35:54.12
GALATIANS READ TO US BECAUSE
WE TALK ABOUT KEEPING THE TEN
00:35:54.15\00:35:57.99
COMMANDMENTS AND THEY QUOTE THE
PARTS OF GALATIANS WHERE PAUL
00:35:58.02\00:36:00.99
TALKS ABOUT THE LAW - NOT BEING
UNDER THE LAW - IN THE CONTEXT
00:36:01.02\00:36:04.96
OF SABBATH KEEPING.
HOW MANY TIMES IS THE WORD
00:36:04.99\00:36:08.03
'SABBATH' USED IN THE
BOOK OF GALATIANS? NOT AT ALL.
00:36:08.06\00:36:13.54
BUT WHAT IS THE WORD THAT IS
USED THE MOST THAT WAS THE POINT
00:36:13.57\00:36:17.34
OF CONTROVERSY? WHO KNOWS?
00:36:17.37\00:36:20.31
>>CIRCUMCISION. >>CIRCUMCISION.
00:36:20.34\00:36:22.71
I THINK TWELVE OR THIRTEEN TIMES
YOU'RE GOING TO FIND MORE THAN
00:36:22.74\00:36:26.08
ANY OTHER BOOK IN THE BIBLE
- MAYBE EXCEPT OLD TESTAMENT.
00:36:26.11\00:36:29.85
MAYBE EVEN MORE THAN THAT.
CERTAINLY MORE THAN ANY BOOK IN
00:36:29.88\00:36:32.62
THE NEW TESTAMENT PAUL
TALKS ABOUT CIRCUMCISION.
00:36:32.65\00:36:35.42
THERE IS NO QUESTION ABOUT WHAT
THE PROBLEM WAS. LET ME GIVE YOU
00:36:35.46\00:36:38.53
JUST SOME VERSES SO YOU GET
THE BACKGROUND. GO WITH ME TO
00:36:38.56\00:36:42.03
ACTS 15, VERSE 1. YOU
OUGHT TO READ THIS ACTS 15:1.
00:36:42.06\00:36:46.30
SOMETIMES YOU SIT AND LISTEN
TO ME TEACH AND YOU DON'T REALLY
00:36:46.33\00:36:48.80
LOOK ANYTHING UP, BUT YOU
MIGHT WANT TO LOOK THIS ONE UP.
00:36:48.84\00:36:52.11
"AND CERTAIN MEN CAME DOWN FROM
JUDEA AND TAUGHT THE BRETHREN,
00:36:52.14\00:36:57.98
'UNLESS YOU ARE CIRCUMCISED
ACCORDING TO THE CUSTOM OF
00:36:58.01\00:37:00.72
MOSES, YOU CANNOT BE
SAVED.'" - WELL, THAT WOULD PUT
00:37:00.75\00:37:03.18
CIRCUMCISION RIGHT UP THERE
AS A PRETTY IMPORTANT DOCTRINE.
00:37:03.22\00:37:05.85
UNLESS YOU DO THIS,
YOU CANNOT BE SAVED.
00:37:05.89\00:37:08.26
IT'S A SALVATION ISSUE.
YOU NOTICE WHAT THEY DID?
00:37:08.29\00:37:12.13
IT SAYS THERE WERE CERTAIN MEN
THAT CAME FROM JUDEA AND BEGAN
00:37:12.16\00:37:17.97
TO GO TO THE CHURCHES WHERE PAUL
HAD LABORED AND BARNABUS HAD
00:37:18.00\00:37:22.24
LABORED AND THEY BEGAN TO
INTRODUCE THIS NEW TEACHING AND
00:37:22.27\00:37:26.17
IT WAS TEARING
THE CHURCHES APART.
00:37:26.21\00:37:28.81
SO WHAT WAS THE TEACHING
ABOUT? WAS IT THE SABBATH
00:37:28.84\00:37:30.48
OR CIRCUMCISION? THEY
HAD NO PROBLEM KEEPING THE
00:37:30.51\00:37:34.05
SABBATH, THAT WAS ONE
OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
00:37:34.08\00:37:35.85
CIRCUMCISION CAME LATER. IT
WAS A COVENANT WITH ABRAHAM.
00:37:35.88\00:37:37.99
NOW, DID THEY
HAVE A GOOD ARGUMENT?
00:37:38.02\00:37:41.76
DID THESE JUDIAZERS OR THESE
PHARISEES WHO HAD CONVERTED TO
00:37:41.79\00:37:45.56
CHRISTIANITY - BY THE WAY, PAUL
WAS A PHARISEE WHO CONVERTED TO
00:37:45.59\00:37:47.96
CHRISTIANITY. HE SAYS, 'I
WAS A PHARISEE OF THE PHARISEES.
00:37:48.00\00:37:52.07
DID THEY HAVE GOOD ARGUMENTS FOR
SAYING YOU SHOULD CONTINUE TO
00:37:52.10\00:37:56.24
PRACTICE CIRCUMCISION?
LET ME READ SOMETHING TO YOU.
00:37:56.27\00:38:00.81
GO TO GENESIS 17:13. GOD
SAYS TO ABRAHAM, "HE WHO IS
00:38:00.84\00:38:06.65
BORN IN YOUR HOUSE AND HE WHO IS
BOUGHT WITH YOUR MONEY MUST BE
00:38:06.68\00:38:10.69
CIRCUMCISED, AND MY COVENANT
SHALL BE IN YOUR FLESH FOR
00:38:10.72\00:38:13.82
AN EVERLASTING COVENANT."
IT'S AN EVERLASTING COVENANT.
00:38:13.86\00:38:20.20
THAT WAS THEIR
ARGUMENT. THEY SAID, 'WELL,
00:38:20.23\00:38:21.93
EVERLASTING COVENANT. HOW
DO YOU GET AWAY FROM THAT?'
00:38:21.96\00:38:26.13
BEFORE I EVEN ANSWER THAT
QUESTION, DON'T MISS THE PART
00:38:26.17\00:38:29.00
WHERE PAUL MAKES IT VERY
CLEAR, 'CIRCUMCISION IS NOTHING,
00:38:29.04\00:38:33.34
UNCIRCUMCISION IS NOTHING, BUT
KEEPING THE COMMANDMENTS IS WHAT
00:38:33.38\00:38:36.95
MATTERS.' NOW I
JUST QUOTED THE BIBLE.
00:38:36.98\00:38:39.41
THAT WASN'T PARAPHRASE.
PAUL SAYS 'CIRCUMCISION IS
00:38:39.45\00:38:42.65
NOTHING, UNCIRCUMCISION
IS NOTHING, BUT KEEPING THE
00:38:42.68\00:38:46.15
COMMANDMENTS.' SO DOES
PAUL MAKE A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
00:38:46.19\00:38:48.82
CIRCUMCISION AND THE
COMMANDMENTS? YOU GOT THAT?
00:38:48.86\00:38:56.46
IS IT WRONG - IS IT AGAINST
THE LAW FOR A BELIEVER TO BE
00:38:56.50\00:39:00.20
CIRCUMCISED? DOES PAUL
OR ANYONE EVER SAY THAT?
00:39:00.24\00:39:03.37
NO, THAT WAS OPTIONAL.
MATTER OF FACT, PAUL, REALIZING
00:39:03.41\00:39:05.77
THAT TIMOTHY NOT BEING
CIRCUMCISED, WHEN TIMOTHY BEGAN
00:39:05.81\00:39:08.28
TO PREACH WITH AND ALONGSIDE
PAUL, HE SAID, 'THIS IS GOING TO
00:39:08.31\00:39:11.35
BE A STUMBLING
BLOCK FOR OTHER PEOPLE'.
00:39:11.38\00:39:13.42
PAUL CIRCUMCISED TIMOTHY EVEN
THOUGH HE WAS AN ADULT, SO IT
00:39:13.45\00:39:16.35
WOULD NO LONGER BOTHER THE JEWS
WHERE PAUL WENT TO MINISTER.
00:39:16.38\00:39:19.12
IT WASN'T REQUIRED, BUT HE
DID IT JUST SO IT WOULDN'T BE AN
00:39:19.15\00:39:22.79
OBSTACLE. YOU GOT THAT?
00:39:22.82\00:39:24.56
AND THERE MAY BE SOME MEDICAL OR
HEALTH BENEFITS, BUT THERE IS NO
00:39:24.59\00:39:28.70
BIBLE COMMAND THAT YOU
NEED TO DO THAT TO BE SAVED.
00:39:28.73\00:39:31.87
IS THAT CLEAR TO EVERYBODY?
PAUL SAYS, 'VERY, VERY CLEAR.'
00:39:31.90\00:39:34.44
ALRIGHT, CAN I BRING THIS AND
MAKE THIS RELEVANT FOR US TODAY?
00:39:34.47\00:39:39.11
THERE ARE A LOT OF DEAR PEOPLE
IN OUR CHURCH AND SOME OTHER
00:39:39.14\00:39:42.31
CHURCHES THAT ARE SAYING THAT IF
YOU WANT TO BE SAVED YOU NEED TO
00:39:42.34\00:39:47.15
KEEP THE JEWISH
FEASTS. HAVE YOU RUN INTO THAT?
00:39:47.18\00:39:51.65
>>YES. >>AND, YOU
KNOW, THEY'LL POINT
00:39:51.69\00:39:53.92
TO EXODUS WHERE IT SAYS THAT
THESE FEASTS - AND LEVITICUS
00:39:53.96\00:39:59.49
- ARE EVERLASTING COVENANTS.
SAME EXACT WORDING THAT
00:39:59.53\00:40:02.96
IT USES FOR CIRCUMCISION.
AND THEY SAY, 'WE NEED TO KEEP
00:40:03.00\00:40:06.40
THE FEAST DAYS.' WELL, THE
FEAST DAYS FALL IN THE SAME
00:40:06.43\00:40:10.07
CATEGORY AS CIRCUMCISION.
AND THIS IS WHY WHEN YOU READ -
00:40:10.11\00:40:14.98
GO WITH ME IN YOUR BIBLE - THIS
IS A VERY RELEVANT LESSON TODAY.
00:40:15.01\00:40:19.21
NOW, I DON'T QUESTION THE
SINCERITY OF THESE PEOPLE, BUT I
00:40:19.25\00:40:21.38
THINK IF PAUL WAS ALIVE TODAY,
HE'D SAY TO THEM THE SAME THING
00:40:21.42\00:40:24.55
HE SAID TO THE GALATIANS
'WHY ARE YOU PREACHING ANOTHER
00:40:24.59\00:40:27.59
GOSPEL?' LOOK IN
ROMANS CHAPTER 14
00:40:27.62\00:40:32.16
- IF YOU'VE GOT YOUR BIBLE.
"ONE PERSON ESTEEMS ONE DAY
00:40:32.19\00:40:37.60
ABOVE ANOTHER; ANOTHER
ESTEEMS EVER DAY ALIKE.
00:40:37.63\00:40:39.97
LET EACH ONE BE FULLY
CONVINCED IN HIS OWN MIND.
00:40:40.00\00:40:42.97
HE WHO OBSERVES THE DAY,
OBSERVES IT TO THE LORD; AND HE
00:40:43.00\00:40:45.61
WHO DOES NOT OBSERVE THE DAY
TO THE LORD HE DOES NOT OBSERVE
00:40:45.64\00:40:48.01
IT." WHAT IS PAUL TALKING ABOUT?
00:40:48.04\00:40:52.51
IS HE TALKING
ABOUT THE SABBATH? >>NO.
00:40:52.55\00:40:54.58
>>NO, I'VE HEARD PEOPLE USE THIS
FOR THE SABBATH. YOU KNOW, IT'S
00:40:54.62\00:40:57.19
INTERESTING - THIS ALWAYS
STRIKES ME AS FUNNY. I'LL HEAR
00:40:57.22\00:41:01.19
SUNDAY PASTORS, THEIR MEMBERS
WILL LEARN THE SABBATH TRUTH AND
00:41:01.22\00:41:04.53
THE SUNDAY PASTORS WILL POINT TO
THIS VERSE AND SAY, 'IF ONE MAN
00:41:04.56\00:41:07.03
REGARDS THE DAY OF THE LORD, HE
REGARDS THE DAY OF THE LORD; IF
00:41:07.03\00:41:09.30
HE DOESN'T, HE DOESN'T.' AND I
SAY, 'PASTOR, ARE YOU TELLING ME
00:41:09.33\00:41:11.53
I DON'T HAVE TO COME
TO CHURCH SUNDAY ANYMORE?'
00:41:11.57\00:41:13.60
'NO, NO, I DIDN'T MEAN THAT.'
SO THEY NEVER USE THAT VERSE TO
00:41:13.64\00:41:16.67
TALK ABOUT SUNDAY - THAT YOU
CAN KEEP WHATEVER DAY YOU WANT.
00:41:16.71\00:41:20.51
YOU CAN COME TO
CHURCH WHENEVER YOU WANT.
00:41:20.54\00:41:22.14
THEY TALK TO THEM WHEN
THEY LEARN THE SABBATH TRUTH.
00:41:22.18\00:41:25.18
IS HE TALKING ABOUT THE
SEVENTH-DAY SABBATH OR IS HE
00:41:25.21\00:41:28.08
TALKING ABOUT
CEREMONIAL SABBATHS?
00:41:28.12\00:41:31.22
HE'S NOT TALKING ABOUT THE
SABBATH THAT WAS PART OF THE TEN
00:41:31.25\00:41:33.66
COMMANDMENTS THAT CAME EVERY
WEEK, AS PART OF A WEEKLY CYCLE,
00:41:33.69\00:41:37.49
HE WAS TALKING ABOUT ANNUAL
FEASTS THAT WERE PART OF AN
00:41:37.53\00:41:41.86
ANNUAL CYCLE. IT WAS
- HE'S NOT TALKING ABOUT
00:41:41.90\00:41:45.53
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS THAT
GO ALL THE WAY BACK TO GENESIS,
00:41:45.57\00:41:49.67
BEFORE THERE WAS EVEN SIN.
YOU SEE, THE SABBATH EXISTED
00:41:49.70\00:41:52.14
BEFORE MAN EVEN SINNED -
PART OF GOD'S PERFECT PLAN.
00:41:52.17\00:41:54.98
HE BLESSED AND HALLOWED IT
WAY BACK IN GENESIS 2, RIGHT?
00:41:55.01\00:41:57.81
>>YES. >>THE
CEREMONIAL SABBATHS,
00:41:57.85\00:41:59.71
WHEN DID THEY COME? THEY WERE
CONNECTED WITH THE DELIVERANCE
00:41:59.75\00:42:02.35
OF ISRAEL. THEY WERE SIGNS
AND SHADOWS POINTING TO JESUS.
00:42:02.38\00:42:06.86
GO WITH ME TO COLOSSIANS.
YOU KNOW, I ALWAYS HEAR THESE
00:42:06.89\00:42:11.23
THINGS QUOTED OUT OF CONTEXT.
I JUST THINK IT'S ENCOURAGING
00:42:11.26\00:42:14.76
TO BE ABLE TO
QUOTE THESE IN CONTEXT.
00:42:14.83\00:42:17.83
IF YOU GO TO COLOSSIANS CHAPTER
2 AND YOU'LL - YOU'LL SEE THAT
00:42:17.87\00:42:25.54
THIS WAS A PROBLEM ALL
ALONG THE WAY HERE - HERE WE GO.
00:42:25.57\00:42:32.71
I THOUGHT
COLOSSIANS HAD LEFT MY BIBLE.
00:42:32.75\00:42:36.38
GO TO VERSE 13, "AND YOU, BEING
DEAD IN YOUR TRESPASSES AND THE
00:42:36.42\00:42:43.69
UNCIRCUMCISION OF YOUR FLESH," -
NOTICE, HE'S MAKING AN ALLUSION,
00:42:43.73\00:42:47.66
RIGHT HERE, TO WHAT THE BIG
ISSUE OF THE DAY WAS - "HE HAS
00:42:47.66\00:42:50.80
MADE ALIVE TOGETHER WITH
HIM, HAVING FORGIVEN YOU ALL
00:42:50.83\00:42:53.37
TRESPASSES, HAVING WIPED OUT
THE HANDWRITING OF REQUIREEMENTS
00:42:53.40\00:42:58.37
THAT WAS AGAINST US,
WHICH WAS CONTRARY TO US."
00:42:58.41\00:43:02.58
BY THE WAY, THE CEREMONIAL LAWS
WERE WRITTEN ON PAPER AND PLACED
00:43:02.61\00:43:06.48
IN A POCKET OUTSIDE THE ARK.
AND MOSES SAID THAT THEY MIGHT
00:43:06.51\00:43:09.78
BE A WITNESS AGAINST
YOU. HE SAID THAT REGARDING
00:43:09.82\00:43:12.15
THE CEREMONIAL LAWS. HE
SAYS, 'TAKING' - AND IT WAS
00:43:12.19\00:43:15.89
WRITTEN BY THE HAND OF MAN, NOT
BY THE FINGER OF GOD - "...WIPED
00:43:15.92\00:43:21.50
OUT THE HANDWRITING OF
REQUIREMENTS THAT WAS AGAINST
00:43:21.53\00:43:24.33
US, WHICH WAS CONTRARY TO US.
AND HE HAS TAKEN IT OUT OF THE
00:43:24.37\00:43:27.27
WAY, HAVING
NAILED IT TO THE CROSS.
00:43:27.30\00:43:29.44
HAVING DISARMED PRINCIPALITIES
AND POWERS, HE MADE A PUBLIC
00:43:29.47\00:43:32.57
SPECTACLE OF THEM,
TRIUMPHING OVER THEM IN IT.
00:43:32.61\00:43:35.74
SO LET NO ONE JUDGE YOU IN FOOD
OR IN DRINK," - THESE THINGS
00:43:35.78\00:43:39.91
WERE CONNECTED WITH THE
SANCTUARY - AND ITS FOOD - DRINK
00:43:39.95\00:43:42.12
OFFERINGS - FOOD OFFERINGS - "OR
REGARDING A FESTIVAL OR A NEW
00:43:42.15\00:43:45.39
MOON OR SABBATHS," - NOW WE
ALWAYS STOP THERE AFTER 16, BUT
00:43:45.42\00:43:50.89
YOU NOTICE IT'S A
COMMA; THE SENTENCE ISN'T DONE.
00:43:50.93\00:43:53.09
IT SAYS DON'T LET ANYONE JUDGE
YOU REGARDING "...SABBATHS,
00:43:53.13\00:43:56.70
WHICH ARE A SHADOW..." THAT'S
ONE SENTENCE. NOT ANY SABBATH,
00:43:56.73\00:44:02.47
BUT THE SABBATHS - NOTICE IT'S
NOT A BIG 'S', IT'S A SMALL 'S'.
00:44:02.50\00:44:05.51
THE "SABBATHS, WHICH ARE A
SHADOW OF THINGS TO COME," - THE
00:44:05.54\00:44:10.81
ONLY THING YOU CAN ASSUME FROM A
VERSE LIKE THIS - WHAT SABBATHS
00:44:10.85\00:44:13.68
WERE SHADOWS? THE ANNUAL
SABBATHS YOU FIND IN LEVITICUS
00:44:13.72\00:44:17.59
23, TALKING ABOUT THE
FEAST DAYS. AND SO, I'M ALWAYS
00:44:17.62\00:44:23.79
SADDENED WHEN I SEE, YOU KNOW,
CHURCHES GET SO DISTRACTED FROM
00:44:23.83\00:44:28.63
THE GOSPEL AND THE MESSAGE WE
HAVE AND THEY START TO SAY, 'NO,
00:44:28.66\00:44:33.54
WE'VE GOT TO GO BACK AND KEEP
THE JEWISH FEASTS. THESE ARE
00:44:33.57\00:44:35.74
EVERLASTING COVENANTS.' IT
IS SO CLEAR FROM THE BIBLE.
00:44:35.77\00:44:38.77
THE BIG PROBLEM THAT THEY HAD IN
ACTS - YOU LOOK IN ACTS CHAPTER
00:44:38.81\00:44:42.38
15, VERSE 4, "AND WHEN THEY
HAD COME TO JERUSALEM, THEY WERE
00:44:42.41\00:44:48.62
RECEIVED BY THE CHURCH AND
THE APOSTLES AND THE ELDERS; AND
00:44:48.65\00:44:51.39
THEY REPORTED ALL THINGS
THAT GOD HAD DONE WITH THEM.
00:44:51.42\00:44:54.06
BUT SOME OF THE SECT OF THE
PHARISEES WHO BELIEVED ROSE UP
00:44:54.09\00:44:57.59
SAYING, 'IT IS NECESSARY TO
CIRCUMCISE THEM, AND TO COMMAND
00:44:57.63\00:45:00.73
THEM TO KEEP THE LAW OF MOSES.'"
IT BECAME SUCH A PROBLEM BACK IN
00:45:00.76\00:45:04.00
THE EARLY CHURCH, THEY HAD
TO HAVE A CHURCH COUNCIL IN
00:45:04.03\00:45:06.20
JERUSALEM TO SETTLE THAT
THE GENTILES DID NOT NEED TO
00:45:06.23\00:45:10.04
PRACTICE THOSE THINGS.
AND SO - BUT, YOU KNOW,
00:45:10.07\00:45:13.61
TIMES HAVEN'T CHANGED.
THERE ARE STILL BELIEVERS THAT
00:45:13.64\00:45:17.11
GO AROUND AND THEY ARE PREACHING
ANOTHER GOSPEL WITH ANOTHER
00:45:17.15\00:45:19.91
EMPHASIS AND I NOTICE
THEY GENERALLY ARE NOT REALLY
00:45:19.95\00:45:24.99
WINNING SOULS OFF THE STREET.
THEY'RE - THEY GO IN AMONG THE
00:45:25.02\00:45:29.06
ESTABLISHED
CHURCHES TO CREATE CONFUSION.
00:45:29.09\00:45:33.03
THEY DON'T GO PLANT THEIR OWN
NEW CHURCH, THEY GO AMONG THE
00:45:33.06\00:45:35.43
ESTABLISHED CHURCHES
AND THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED.
00:45:35.46\00:45:38.70
PAUL ESTABLISHED THESE CHURCHES
AND, LIKE WOLVES, THEY CAME IN
00:45:38.73\00:45:40.90
TO EXPLOIT THAT
AND CAUSE CONFUSION.
00:45:40.94\00:45:43.91
ALRIGHT, BACK TO THE LESSON.
WE'RE GOING TO SAY MORE ABOUT
00:45:43.94\00:45:46.07
THAT BECAUSE I KNOW WE'RE
GOING TO GET SOME QUESTIONS
00:45:46.11\00:45:47.98
ON THAT LATER. THE
ORIGIN OF PAUL'S GOSPEL -
00:45:48.01\00:45:55.25
GALATIANS CHAPTER 1, STILL -
WE'RE READING, NOW, VERSES 11
00:45:55.28\00:45:58.49
TO 14, "BUT I MAKE KNOWN TO YOU,
BRETHREN, THAT THE GOSPEL WHICH
00:45:58.52\00:46:04.33
WAS PREACHED BY ME
IS NOT ACCORDING TO MAN.
00:46:04.36\00:46:07.13
FOR I NEITHER RECEIVED IT FROM
MAN, NOR WAS I TAUGHT IT, BUT IT
00:46:07.20\00:46:10.70
CAME THROUGH THE REVELATION
OF JESUS CHRIST." - I MENTIONED
00:46:10.73\00:46:13.40
THAT EARLIER. IS THERE ANY
DOUBT THAT'S TRUE? PAUL SAID, 'I
00:46:13.44\00:46:16.54
DIDN'T LEARN THIS FROM MAN, BUT
JESUS TOLD ME, LIKE HE TAUGHT
00:46:16.57\00:46:19.31
THE OTHER APOSTLES - "FOR YOU
HAVE HEARD OF MY FORMER CONDUCT
00:46:19.34\00:46:23.45
IN JUDAISM, HOW I PERSECUTED THE
CHURCH OF GOD BEYOND MEASURE AND
00:46:23.48\00:46:27.78
TRIED TO DESTROY IT. AND
I ADVANCED IN JUDAISM BEYOND
00:46:27.82\00:46:31.95
MANY OF MY CONTEMPORARIES
IN MY OWN NATION, BEING MORE
00:46:31.99\00:46:35.52
EXCEEDINGLY ZEALOUS FOR
THE TRADITIONS OF MY FATHERS."
00:46:35.56\00:46:38.99
PAUL SAYS, 'LOOK, YOU'RE BEING
CONFUSED BY PEOPLE - I USED TO
00:46:39.03\00:46:43.23
BE ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE.' HE
SAYS, 'YOU'RE BEING CONFUSED BY
00:46:43.26\00:46:46.13
PEOPLE THAT ARE
ZEALOUS OF THE LAW.
00:46:46.17\00:46:48.04
THEY THINK THEY'RE BEING SAVED
BY THE LAW' - AND HE'S TALKING,
00:46:48.07\00:46:51.51
IN PARTICULAR, ABOUT THE
CEREMONIAL LAWS BUT, BY THE WAY,
00:46:51.54\00:46:53.98
WE'RE NOT SAVED BY THE TEN
COMMANDMENTS EITHER, ARE WE?
00:46:54.01\00:46:57.05
WE'RE SAVED BY GRACE ALONE.
WE KEEP THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
00:46:57.08\00:47:00.32
- THEY'RE THE WILL OF GOD
- BECAUSE WE LOVE THE LORD.
00:47:00.35\00:47:04.55
BUT HE SAID, 'I KNOW THE PEOPLE
THAT YOU'RE TALKING TO - I USED
00:47:04.59\00:47:07.99
TO BE ONE OF THEM.' I'LL VISIT
WITH FOLKS, SOMETIMES, THAT GET
00:47:08.02\00:47:14.76
MIXED UP IN SOME OF THE VARIOUS
CHARISMATIC TRENDS AND I LIKE TO
00:47:14.83\00:47:20.27
REMIND THEM - I SAY, 'I
UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'RE GOING
00:47:20.30\00:47:22.30
THROUGH. BEFORE
I WAS A SEVENTH-DAY
00:47:22.34\00:47:23.84
ADVENTIST, I
WORSHIPED WITH CHARISMATICS.
00:47:23.87\00:47:26.01
I DIDN'T KNOW WHO ADVENTISTS
WERE.' I SAID, 'I KNOW ABOUT
00:47:26.04\00:47:28.74
SPEAKING IN TONGUES.' I SAID,
'I KNOW ABOUT THEIR VIEWS ON
00:47:28.78\00:47:32.88
SALVATION AND STUFF. I -
I WAS ONE, SO I UNDERSTAND
00:47:32.91\00:47:36.42
THAT.' A LOT OF LOVELY PEOPLE
IN THOSE CHURCHES, BUT IT'S A
00:47:36.45\00:47:42.49
DISTRACTION
FROM THE TRUE GOSPEL.
00:47:42.52\00:47:45.19
"FOR YOU HAVE HEARD OF MY FORMER
CONDUCT...I PERSECUTED THE
00:47:45.23\00:47:48.93
CHURCH OF GOD BEYOND MEASURE
AND TRIED TO DESTROY IT."
00:47:48.96\00:47:53.10
NOW, YOU KNOW,
THAT'S ENCOURAGING.
00:47:53.13\00:47:57.71
CAN A PERSON BE REACHED WHEN
THEY'RE AN ENEMY OF THE CROSS?
00:47:57.74\00:48:02.08
DID THE LORD REACH PAUL?
SOMETIMES YOU MEET PEOPLE THAT
00:48:02.11\00:48:06.11
NOT ONLY ARE RESISTENT TO THE
GOSPEL, BUT THEY'RE FIGHTING IT.
00:48:06.15\00:48:11.52
THERE ARE SOME GROUPS
THAT ARE VERY HARD TO REACH.
00:48:11.55\00:48:15.19
BUT PAUL SAID, 'LOOK, I WAS
THE HARDEST NUT IN THE WORLD TO
00:48:15.22\00:48:18.33
CRACK. I WAS OUT
KILLING CHRISTIANS.
00:48:18.36\00:48:20.33
I HATED CHRISTIANITY SO MUCH,
I THOUGHT IT WAS THE BIGGEST
00:48:20.36\00:48:22.73
THREAT TO OUR RELIGION, AND
I WAS BENT ON KILLING THEM.'
00:48:22.76\00:48:26.60
HE SAID, 'BUT GOD GOT MY
ATTENTION.' I THINK ONE REASON
00:48:26.63\00:48:29.84
IS PAUL WAS SINCERE.
"AND I ADVANCED IN JUDAISM
00:48:29.87\00:48:33.84
BEYOND MANY OF MY CONTEMPORARIES
IN MY OWN NATION, BEING MORE
00:48:33.88\00:48:36.85
EXCEEDINGLY ZEALOUS FOR
THE TRADIDTIONS OF MY FATHERS."
00:48:36.88\00:48:41.55
THEN HE GOES ON AND HE SAYS -
YOU GO TO VERSE 15 - SOMEONE'S
00:48:41.58\00:48:44.52
GOING TO READ FOR ME, IN JUST
A MOMENT, JEREMIAH 1:5 - OKAY?
00:48:44.55\00:48:50.73
AND IF YOU READ IN VERSE 15
- GALATIANS 1:15, "BUT WHEN IT
00:48:50.76\00:48:56.13
PLEASED GOD, WHO SEPARATED ME
FROM MY MOTHER'S WOMB AND CALLED
00:48:56.16\00:48:59.63
ME THROUGH HIS GRACE," - HE
SAYS, 'I WAS CALLED FROM - THE
00:48:59.67\00:49:03.74
LORD KNEW WHAT MY CALLING WOULD
BE, WAY BACK AT THE BEGINNING.
00:49:03.77\00:49:07.04
HE DOESN'T SAY I WOULD BE
FAITHFUL FROM THE BEGINNING, BUT
00:49:07.08\00:49:10.48
WAY BACK WHEN I WAS BORN, GOD
KNEW THAT HE WAS GOING TO TURN
00:49:10.51\00:49:13.42
MY LIFE AROUND. YOU
CAN ALSO READ ISAIAH 49:1,
00:49:13.45\00:49:18.39
"...THE LORD HAS CALLED ME FROM
THE WOMB FROM THE MATRIX OF MY
00:49:18.42\00:49:22.59
MOTHER HE HAS MADE
MENTION OF MY NAME."
00:49:22.62\00:49:25.83
NOW SOME OF THESE ALLUSIONS TO
THE LORD CALLING FROM THE WOMB,
00:49:25.86\00:49:29.66
DATE BACK TO - ARE ECHOES
OF WHAT GOD DID FOR JESUS.
00:49:29.70\00:49:34.87
GO AHEAD, READ FOR
ME JEREMIAH 1, VERSE 5.
00:49:34.90\00:49:38.37
>>JEREMIAH 1:5, "BEFORE I FORMED
YOU IN THE WOMB I KNEW YOU;
00:49:38.41\00:49:43.38
BEFORE YOU WERE BORN I
SANCTIFIED YOU I ORDAINED YOU A
00:49:43.41\00:49:48.38
PROPHET TO THE NATIONS."
>>NOW ISAIAH AND JEREMIAH
00:49:48.42\00:49:52.29
DIDN'T REALLY GET THEIR CALL
TO PROPHECY UNTIL LATER IN THEIR
00:49:52.32\00:49:55.26
LIVES, BUT GOD WAS TELLING THEM
'I'VE HAD A PLAN FOR YOUR LIFE.'
00:49:55.29\00:49:59.89
>>AMEN. >>AND YOU
CAN EVEN READ LUKE
00:49:59.93\00:50:02.50
1:15 - NOW THIS IS SOMETHING
THAT IS A REAL CONUNDRUM
00:50:02.53\00:50:07.40
FOR THEOLOGIANS. IT
SAYS, "FOR HE WILL BE GREAT
00:50:07.44\00:50:11.34
IN THE SIGHT OF THE
LORD, AND SHALL DRINK NEITHER
00:50:11.37\00:50:13.61
WINE NOR STRONG DRINK.
HE WILL ALSO BE FILLED WITH
00:50:13.64\00:50:16.98
THE HOLY SPIRIT, EVEN
FROM HIS MOTHER'S WOMB."
00:50:17.01\00:50:20.08
HOW MANY OF YOU WISH YOU
COULD HAVE BABIES LIKE THAT?
00:50:20.12\00:50:21.95
(LAUGHTER) FILLED
WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT.
00:50:21.98\00:50:25.12
HOW COME WE DON'T ALL
HAVE BABIES LIKE THAT?
00:50:25.15\00:50:28.36
WAS THAT FAIR FOR GOD
TO GIVE ELIZABETH A BABY?
00:50:28.39\00:50:33.23
I MEAN, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES
SOMEONE HAS A BABY, A FEW WEEKS
00:50:33.26\00:50:35.06
LATER THEY SAY,
'IS IT A GOOD BABY?
00:50:35.10\00:50:36.33
DOES IT SLEEP AT NIGHT OR IS IT,
YOU KNOW, IS IT A CRYING BABY?'
00:50:36.36\00:50:39.20
WE ALL HAVE DIFFERENT KINDS OF
BABIES AND - HOW'D YOU LIKE TO
00:50:39.23\00:50:42.40
HAVE A SPIRIT-FILLED
BABY FROM THE BEGINNING?
00:50:42.44\00:50:45.94
DON'T MOST OF US PRAY
THAT GOD GIVES US THE SPIRIT?
00:50:45.97\00:50:49.58
WE SURRENDER OUR
LIVES, HE GIVES US THE SPIRIT.
00:50:49.61\00:50:51.65
HOW COME JOHN GOT IT
WITH NO CHOICE ON HIS?
00:50:51.68\00:50:54.92
IT ALMOST SMACKS OF
PREDESTINATION, DOESN'T IT?
00:50:54.95\00:50:58.89
BUT GOD CAN DO THAT ON
OCCASION IF HE WANTS TO.
00:50:58.92\00:51:01.76
AND JESUS, OF COURSE, WAS FILLED
WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT FROM HIS
00:51:01.79\00:51:04.36
MOTHER'S WOMB. GO TO
VERSE 16 - GALATIANS 1:16
00:51:04.39\00:51:08.13
- "TO REVEAL HIS SON IN ME,
THAT I MIGHT" - NOW, WHAT'S THE
00:51:08.16\00:51:11.20
PURPOSE OF A CHRISTIAN? TO
REVEAL CHRIST IN OUR LIVES.
00:51:11.23\00:51:14.97
TO FOLLOW CHRIST, RIGHT?
- "TO REVEAL HIS SON IN ME,
00:51:15.00\00:51:17.91
THAT I MIGHT PREACH HIM AMONG
THE GENTILES," - WHO WAS THE
00:51:17.94\00:51:21.51
FIRST APOSTLE TO
THE GENTILES? >>PAUL.
00:51:21.54\00:51:24.55
>>PETER. >>PETER.
WHEN HE WENT IN ACTS
00:51:24.58\00:51:28.38
CHAPTER 10, HE BEGAN TO
PREACH IN CORNELIUS' HOUSE.
00:51:28.42\00:51:31.22
BUT PAUL WAS SPECIFICALLY
CALLED TO GO TO THE GENTILES.
00:51:31.25\00:51:34.36
THEY BOTH WENT TO BOTH - "TO
PREACH HIM AMONG THE GENTILES, I
00:51:34.39\00:51:39.49
DID NOT IMMEDIATELY CONFER WITH
FLESH AND BLOOD, NOR DID I GO TO
00:51:39.53\00:51:43.13
JERUSALEM TO THOSE WHO WERE
APOSTLES BEFORE ME;" - HE SAYS,
00:51:43.16\00:51:47.10
'I DIDN'T GET THIS
FROM THE OTHER APOSTLES.
00:51:47.14\00:51:48.40
THAT'S WHY PAUL'S
WRITINGS ARE A LITTLE DIFFERENT.
00:51:48.44\00:51:50.37
HE SAID, "BUT I WENT TO ARABIA,
AND RETURNED AGAIN TO DAMASCUS."
00:51:50.41\00:51:54.14
NOW, THIS IS THE ONLY
TIME THIS IS MENTIONED.
00:51:54.18\00:51:56.81
PAUL TALKS
ABOUT GOING TO ARABIA.
00:51:56.85\00:51:58.25
LUKE DOES NOT MENTION THAT AFTER
PAUL'S CONVERSION HE WENT TO
00:51:58.28\00:52:01.25
ARABIA. ARABIA IS NOT
TALKING ABOUT SAUDI ARABIA.
00:52:01.28\00:52:05.39
ARABIA - THE WORD ACTUALLY MEANS
'ARABA - A PLAIN OR DESERT' - HE
00:52:05.42\00:52:10.06
WENT FROM DAMASCUS OUT INTO THE
DESERT AND HE SPENT SOME TIME
00:52:10.09\00:52:13.66
WITH GOD. IT
DOESN'T SAY HOW LONG HE WAS
00:52:13.70\00:52:15.76
THERE, BUT HE WENT, REALLY,
TO FAST AND PRAY AND PREPARE.
00:52:15.80\00:52:19.37
AND THEN IT SAYS, AFTER THREE
YEARS HE CAME BACK TO DAMASCUS
00:52:19.40\00:52:22.24
AND THEN AFTER THREE YEARS,
IT SAYS HE WENT TO MEET WITH THE
00:52:22.27\00:52:24.97
DISCIPLES. MATTER OF FACT,
I'M GETTING AHEAD OF MYSELF.
00:52:25.01\00:52:28.11
IF YOU GO TO - GO TO
GALATIANS 1:17, "NOR DID I GO TO
00:52:28.14\00:52:35.98
JEERUSALEM TO THOSE WHO WERE
APOSTLES BEFORE ME; BUT I WENT
00:52:36.02\00:52:39.29
TO ARABIA, AND
RETURNED AGAIN TO DAMASCUS.
00:52:39.32\00:52:42.19
THEN AFTER THREE YEARS" -
SOME PEOPLE SAY HE WAS IN ARABIA
00:52:42.22\00:52:44.76
THREE YEARS - IT
DOESN'T SAY THAT.
00:52:44.79\00:52:46.56
HE WENT OUT IN THE WILDERNESS,
SPENT SOME TIME THERE - WE DON'T
00:52:46.59\00:52:49.43
KNOW HOW LONG - IT SAYS THEN HE
WENT BACK TO DAMASCUS WHERE HE
00:52:49.46\00:52:51.97
WAS ORIGINALLY CONVERTED.
'THEN AFTER THREE YEARS I WENT
00:52:52.00\00:52:55.10
TO JERUSALEM - AFTER THREE
YEARS IN DAMASCUS.' TO SEE - NOW
00:52:55.14\00:52:58.84
WHY DID HE SPEND SO LONG
IN DAMASCUS? THE LEADERS IN
00:52:58.87\00:53:01.88
JERUSALEM HAD SENT HIM ON A
MISSION TO KILL CHRISTIANS IN
00:53:01.91\00:53:04.25
DAMASCUS. INSTEAD OF KILLING
00:53:04.28\00:53:05.95
CHRISTIANS, HE
BECAME ONE. TALK ABOUT MAD.
00:53:05.98\00:53:10.05
HERE, YOU KNOW, THEY PAY HIM AND
THEY SEND HIM TO GO TO ARREST
00:53:10.09\00:53:13.69
AND PERSECUTE CHRISTIANS AND ALL
OF A SUDDEN THEY GET WORD FROM
00:53:13.72\00:53:16.39
DAMASCUS, 'WOW, THE CHURCH
IS REALLY GROWING IN DAMASCUS.'
00:53:16.42\00:53:19.66
'WELL, WE SENT
PAUL THERE TO KILL THEM.
00:53:19.69\00:53:21.20
WHAT'S GOING
ON?' 'WELL, PAUL'S THE
00:53:21.23\00:53:22.86
ONE WHO'S PREACHING.
HE'S MAKING CHRISTIANS.' SO
00:53:22.90\00:53:26.07
HE COULDN'T GO RIGHT BACK TO
JERUSALEM BECAUSE THEY PROBABLY
00:53:26.10\00:53:28.10
HAD A PRICE ON
HIS HEAD RIGHT AWAY.
00:53:28.14\00:53:30.17
THREE YEARS LATER HE
FINALLY CREEPS INTO THE CITY.
00:53:30.21\00:53:33.64
HE DIDN'T EVER HANG AROUND A LOT
IN JERUSALEM AND WHEN HE WENT TO
00:53:33.68\00:53:36.08
JERUSALEM DID THEY ARREST
HIM, EVENTUALLY, IN JERUSALEM?
00:53:36.11\00:53:39.91
YEAH, SO THEY DIDN'T LIKE
PAUL VERY MUCH IN JERUSALEM.
00:53:39.95\00:53:42.62
THEY EVEN SENT REPRESENTATIVES
FROM JERUSALEM TO ROME TO ACCUSE
00:53:42.65\00:53:46.09
PAUL BEFORE NERO.
THAT'S A LONG TRIP BACK THEN,
00:53:46.12\00:53:50.56
SO YOU'VE REALLY GOT TO
HATE A PERSON TO DO THAT.
00:53:50.59\00:53:53.76
SO HE SAID, "AFTERWARD I WENT
INTO THE REGIONS OF SYRIA AND
00:53:53.80\00:53:59.27
CILICIA. AND I WAS
UNKNOWN BY FACE TO THE
00:53:59.30\00:54:02.94
CHURCHES OF JUDEA
WHICH WERE IN CHRIST."
00:54:02.97\00:54:05.74
THEY DIDN'T KNOW WHO THIS
NEW WHIPPERSNAPPER WAS WHO WAS
00:54:05.77\00:54:08.34
PREACHING - "BUT THEY WERE
HEARING ONLY, 'HE WHO FORMERLY
00:54:08.38\00:54:12.21
PERSECUTED US NOW PREACHES
THE FAITH WHICH HE ONCE TRIED TO
00:54:12.25\00:54:15.92
DESTROY." AND THAT
GOES DOWN TO VERSE 24.
00:54:15.95\00:54:20.76
I MEAN, HERE HE IS TRYING
TO DESTROY IT AND HE ENDS UP
00:54:20.79\00:54:23.96
PREACHING THE FAITH
HE ONCE TRIED TO DESTROY.
00:54:23.99\00:54:26.26
WELL, WE'RE OUT OF TIME,
BUT WE'RE GOING TO SAY MORE.
00:54:26.29\00:54:28.96
GALATIANS - I - THIS IS
GOING TO BE A GOOD STUDY.
00:54:29.00\00:54:30.97
I THINK IT'S GOING TO
BE VERY RELEVANT FOR US.
00:54:31.00\00:54:32.53
I WANT TO REMIND THOSE WHO ARE
WATCHING AT HOME THAT WE DO HAVE
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WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO
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STUDYING HIS
WORD TOGETHER AGAIN.
00:54:56.62\00:54:58.59
NEXT WEEK WE'LL BE IN SECTION
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00:54:58.63\00:55:03.87
>>LET'S FACE IT, IT'S NOT ALWAYS
EASY TO UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING
00:55:03.90\00:55:06.94
YOU READ IN THE BIBLE.
WITH OVER 700,000 WORDS
00:55:06.97\00:55:10.51
CONTAINED IN 66 BOOKS, THE BIBLE
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>>FRIENDS, WE'RE OUT HERE IN THE
PACIFIC OCEAN NOT TOO FAR FROM
00:55:47.71\00:55:50.35
THE ISLAND OF FIJI, AND WE'RE
GETTING READY TO LOOK AT SOME
00:55:50.38\00:55:52.98
WONDERS IN THE DEEP.
THE BIBLE SAYS GOD MADE THE
00:55:53.01\00:55:57.19
HEAVEN AND THE
EARTH AND THE SEA.
00:55:57.22\00:55:58.82
AND THERE ARE THINGS UNDER THE
SEA THAT ARE BEAUTIFUL THAT MANY
00:55:58.85\00:56:01.26
PEOPLE HAVE NEVER SEEN.
SOME FOLKS MIGHT JUST SKIM ALONG
00:56:01.29\00:56:04.36
- SNORKLE ON THE SURFACE, BUT IF
YOU WANT TO SEE THE REAL MAJESTY
00:56:04.39\00:56:07.83
OF THE OCEAN, YOU'VE GOT
TO GO DEEPER. (LIVELY MUSIC)
00:56:07.86\00:56:24.55
>>BECAUSE PEOPLE DON'T HAVE
GILLS LIKE FISH, WE HAVE TO DO
00:56:24.58\00:56:27.25
SOMETHING EXTRAORDINARY
TO BREATHE BELOW THE SURFACE.
00:56:27.28\00:56:30.92
BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO BREATHE ALL
THE TIME, WE NEED THIS SPECIAL
00:56:30.95\00:56:33.79
EQUIPMENT. (SOUND OF BREATHING
APARATUS) IN THE SAME WAY, THE
00:56:33.82\00:56:38.49
BIBLE SAYS A CHRISTIAN
NEEDS TO PRAY WITHOUT CEASING.
00:56:38.53\00:56:41.40
WE NEED TO ALWAYS BE BREATHING
THE ATMOSPHERE OF HEAVEN IF
00:56:41.43\00:56:44.57
WE'RE GOING TO LIVE A CHRISTIAN
LIFE IN THIS WORLD BELOW.
00:56:44.60\00:56:48.34
(MUSIC) >>WOW,
WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD.
00:56:48.37\00:57:16.80
(MUSIC)
00:57:16.83\00:57:31.85