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>>HELLO, FRIENDS, AND
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RIGHT HERE AT THE
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IT'S GOOD TO SEE YOU WEEK AFTER
WEEK COMING TO SABBATH SCHOOL TO
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STUDY THE WORD TOGETHER.
NOW, WE HAVE STARTED A BRAND-NEW
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SET OF LESSONS ON
THE BOOK OF GALATIANS.
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THAT'S ACTUALLY THE TITLE
OF OUR QUARTERLY: THE GOSPEL IN
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GALATIANS . TODAY
WE FIND OURSELVES ON
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LESSON #3, WHICH IS ENTITLED
THE UNITY OF THE GOSPEL.
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WELL, BEFORE WE GET TO OUR
STUDY, WE ALWAYS LIKE TO BEGIN
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BY LIFTING OUR VOICES IN SONG,
I'D LIKE TO INVITE THE SONG
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LEADERS TO COME FORWARD.
>>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS.
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WE HAVE AN EXTENDED FAMILY ALL
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SING TOGETHER AND PART
OF OUR NAME IS 'ADVENTIST'.
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WHY IS THAT? BECAUSE
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TO HIS SOON COMING AND WE ARE
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SO THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE AT
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SING WITH US HYMN #633 - WHEN WE
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GOING TO SING THE FIRST,
THE SECOND, AND THE LAST VERSES.
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(LIVELY PIANO MUSIC)
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>>AT THIS TIME PASTOR
ROSS WILL LEAD US IN PRAYER.
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>>DEAR FATHER IN HEAVEN, WHAT
A PRIVILEGE AND A JOY TO BE ABLE
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TO MEET TOGETHER IN YOUR
PRESENCE ON THIS, YOUR SABBATH,
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AND OPEN UP YOUR WORD AND STUDY
THIS FANTASTIC GOSPEL THAT'S
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REVEALED IN THE
BOOK OF GALATIANS.
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LORD, WE ASK FOR THE SPIRIT
TO COME AND GUIDE OUR HEARTS AND
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OUR MINDS, AS ALWAYS.
LEAD US INTO A CLEARER AND
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FULLER UNDERSTANDING OF
THE GOOD NEWS, FOR WE ASK THIS
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IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
OUR LESSON TODAY WILL BE
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BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR
DOUG. >>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS.
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GOOD MORNING. >>GOOD MORNING.
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>>EVERYBODY - I WANT TO WELCOME,
AGAIN, NOT ONLY THOSE WHO MIGHT
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BE WORSHIPING WITH US HERE AT
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AROUND THE WORLD THAT STUDIES
VIA THE VARIOUS TELEVISION,
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SATELLITE
NETWORKS, INTERNET SITES.
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WE'RE CONTINUING OUR
STUDY IN THE BOOK OF GALATIANS.
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AND LET ME JUST SAY SOMETHING
TO EXPLAIN TO THOSE WHO ARE
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WATCHING ONLINE OR SOME WHO ARE
WATCHING THE STREAM RIGHT NOW -
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SOME ARE WATCHING, NOW, I
THINK WE'VE JUST BEGUN TODAY TO
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STREAM LIVE, NOW, ON FACEBOOK.
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AT THIS MOMENT OF THE BROADCAST
WE STUDY THE LESSON HERE AT
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GRANITE BAY THREE WEEKS
IN ADVANCE OF THE REST OF THE
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COUNTRY BECAUSE THEN WHEN THEY
EDIT THE PROGRAMS AND THEY PUT
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IN CLOSED CAPTIONING, BY
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VARIOUS NETWORKS, IT JUST TAKES
A LITTLE WHILE TO GET IT TO
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THEM. AND SO, IN
ORDER FOR US TO THEN
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BROADCAST IT ON TELEVISION,
ON THE RIGHT DATE WITH EVERYONE
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ELSE, THE LIVE
RECORDING IS EARLY.
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BUT SOME PEOPLE ENJOY TUNING
INTO THE LIVE EARLY STUDY, SO WE
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STARTED MAKING THAT AVAILABLE.
SO THAT'S WHY WE'RE IN GALATIANS
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- THE LESSON ON GALATIANS -
LESSON #3 - AND IT'S THE UNITY
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OF THE GOSPEL TODAY - A
VERY IMPORTANT STUDY - THE UNITY
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OF THE GOSPEL - AND
WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE.
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AND THE MEMORY VERSE IS FROM
PHILIPPIANS 2, VERSE 2, AND THIS
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IS FROM THE ENGLISH STANDARD
VERSION - PHILIPPIANS 2,
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VERSE 2. IF YOU SAY IT WITH ME,
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I'D REALLY
APPRECIATE IT. YOU READY?
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"COMPLETE MY JOY BY BEING OF THE
SAME MIND, HAVING THE SAME LOVE,
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BEING IN FULL
ACCORD AND OF ONE MIND."
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SO WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT
THIS VERY DELICATE LINE - THIS
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BALANCE - AND THE IMPORTANCE OF
HAVING UNITY AS CHRISTIANS, BUT
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NOT SACRIFICING TRUTH
IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE UNITY.
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AND YOU WILL FACE THIS
MANY TIMES IN YOUR LIFE AS A
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CHRISTIAN. WELL,
LET'S BEGIN WITH OUR FIRST
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SECTION HERE, TALKING
ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF UNITY.
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I'VE GOT A LOT TO COVER.
NORMALLY, WHEN I PREPARE MY
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NOTES, I'VE GOT LIKE ONE PAGE
- BOTH SIDES; TODAY I'VE GOT TWO
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PAGES - BOTH SIDES -
SO I KNOW I'M IN TROUBLE.
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ALRIGHT, FIRST OF ALL, THE
IMPORTANCE OF UNITY - YOU READ
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IN ECCLESIASTES 4, VERSE 12,
"THOUGH ONE MAY BE OVERPOWERED
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BY ANOTHER, TWO
CAN WITHSTAND HIM.
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AND A THREEFOLD CORD
IS NOT QUICKLY BROKEN."
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AND SO, IT JUST EXPLAINS HERE
THAT, OBVIOUSLY, THERE'S GREATER
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STRENGTH IN UNITY, RIGHT? WE ALL
KNOW THAT. SOMEONE'S GOING TO
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READ FOR ME, IN A MOMENT, 1
PETER 1:22 - WHO WILL THAT BE?
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JUST - IN A
MOMENT WE'LL GET TO YOU.
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EPHESIANS 4:3 - HERE PAUL SAYS,
"ENDEAVORING TO KEEP THE UNITY
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OF THE SPIRIT IN
THE BOND OF PEACE."
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YOU EVER TAKE YOUR CAR IN
FOR SCHEDULED MAINTAIN - ENCE?
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MAINTENANCE - IT MEANS SOMETHING
YOU GIVE ONGOING ATTENTION TO.
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WELL, WHEN IT COMES TO UNITY IN
THE CHURCH, IT REQUIRES ONGOING
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ATTENTION. >>AMEN.
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>>IT'S THAT WAY IN MARRIAGES.
AND A CHURCH IS, ACTUALLY, A
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BUNCH OF PEOPLE WORKING TOGETHER
AND IT REQUIRES ATTENTION
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TO MAINTAIN THAT UNITY. IF
THERE ARE OFFENSES, WE HOPE
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THEY'RE ALL UNINTENTIONAL, BUT
IF THERE ARE OFFENSES BETWEEN
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BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN
THE CHURCH, WHAT SHOULD YOU DO?
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DEAL WITH IT
RIGHT AWAY. GO TO THEM.
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JESUS SAID, 'BE RECONCILED WITH
YOUR BROTHER AND YOUR SISTER.
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APOLOGIZE AS FAR AS POSSIBLE.
LIVE PEACEABLY WITH EVERYBODY.'
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AND IT DOESN'T MEAN YOU'RE
ALWAYS GOING TO AGREE WITH
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EVERYONE, BUT YOU CAN
STILL HAVE UNITY IN THOSE AREAS.
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GO AHEAD, READ FOR ME -
WHAT DID I SAY? 1 PETER 1:22.
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>>"SINCE YOU HAVE PURIFIED
YOUR SOULS IN OBEYING THE TRUTH
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THROUGH THE SPIRIT IN SINCERE
LOVE OF THE BRETHREN, LOVE ONE
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ANOTHER FERVENTLY
WITH A PURE HEART.'
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>>SO HE TALKS ABOUT OBEYING
THE TRUTH AND THEN HE IS ALSO
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TALKING ABOUT A UNITY. HE'S
TALKING ABOUT THERE SHOULD BE
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SINCERE LOVE OF THE BRETHREN.
SO NOTICE THE - THE MARRYING
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BETWEEN THE UNITY AND THE LOVE.
IF YOU READ IN EPHESIANS 4:13,
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HERE PAUL SAYS, "TILL WE ALL
COME INTO THE UNITY OF THE FAITH
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AND OF THE KNOWLEDGE" - NOTICE
THE CONNECTION BETWEEN UNITY AND
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KNOWLEDGE - WHAT YOU KNOW -
"OF THE SON OF GOD, TO A PERFECT
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MAN, TO THE MEASURE OF
THE STATURE OF THE FULLNESS OF
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CHRIST;" COLOSSIANS 3:15, "AND
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LET THE PEACE OF GOD RULE IN
YOUR HEARTS, TO WHICH ALSO YOU
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WERE CALLED IN ONE
BODY; AND BE THANKFUL."
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SO WE'RE CALLED TO THIS UNITY,
WE'RE CALLED TO THIS ONENESS -
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BUT HERE'S THE IMPORTANT PART:
WHEN YOU THINK OF A CHAPTER THAT
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DEALS WITH THE SUBJECT OF UNITY,
WHAT CHAPTER DO YOU THINK OF?
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CHAPTER IN THE GOSPELS - A
PRAYER OF JESUS - GIVING YOU
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HINTS. >>JOHN 17?
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>>JOHN 17 IS THE GREAT PRAYER OF
CHRIST, BUT WHAT'S THE CENTRAL
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THEME? HE'S
PRAYING FOR UNITY, SAYING,
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'I'M PRAYING THAT THEY MAY
BE ONE, FATHER, AS YOU AND I ARE
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ONE.' THAT'S A
PRETTY TALL ORDER, ISN'T IT?
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BUT IT'S A GREAT PRAYER FOR
UNITY BECAUSE HE KNEW - YOU'VE
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HEARD 'DIVIDE AND
CONQUER', ISN'T THAT RIGHT?
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>>YES. >>AND ISN'T
THAT WHAT THE DEVIL
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DOES? YOU KNOW HOW WOLVES GET
THE SHEEP IS THEY SCATTER THE
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FLOCK AND THEY SINGLE
THEM OUT BY BREAKING THEM UP.
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WHEN A SCHOOL OF FISH IS
TOGETHER OR WHEN A FLOCK IS
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TOGETHER, THEY HAVE MORE
PROTECTION. THE DEVIL KNOWS THAT
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AND HE TRIES TO
SCATTER US AND DIVIDE US.
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E. PLURIBUS UNUM -
YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS?
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THAT'S LATIN FOR A DISEASE YOU
GET FROM EATING THE WRONG THING
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IN URUGUAY. NO, E. PLURIBUS
UNUM - OUT OF MANY, ONE.
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WE'RE UNITED, RIGHT? >>YES.
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>>AND SO LISTEN TO WHAT
JESUS SAYS NOW IN JOHN 17:17,
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"SANCTIFY THEM BY YOUR
TRUTH. YOUR WORD IS TRUTH.
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AS YOU SENT ME INTO THE WORLD,
I ALSO HAVE SENT THEM INTO THE
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WORLD. AND FOR
THEIR SAKES I SANCTIFY
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MYSELF, THAT THEY ALSO MAY
BE SANCTIFIED BY THE TRUTH."
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- NOTICE THE EMPHASIS -
WHAT WORD KEEPS APPEARING?
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>>TRUTH. >>TRUTH, TRUTH, TRUTH,
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TRUTH - JOHN 17. NOW
JUMP TO JOHN 17, VERSE 22.
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JESUS IS PRAYING: "AND THE GLORY
WHICH YOU GAVE ME I HAVE GIVEN
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THEM, THAT THEY MAY BE ONE JUST
AS WE ARE ONE: I IN THEM, AND
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YOU IN ME; THAT THEY MAY BE MADE
PERFECT IN ONE, AND THAT THE
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WORLD MAY KNOW THAT YOU HAVE
SENT ME, AND HAVE LOVED THEM AS
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YOU HAVE LOVED ME." SO
FIRST YOU NOTICE JESUS IS
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TALKING ABOUT TRUTH AND
THEN HE'S TALKING ABOUT ONENESS.
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SO, HOW DO WE, AS
CHRISTIANS, ARRIVE AT UNITY?
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I WILL TELL YOU THAT BEFORE YOU
CAN HAVE UNITY, YOU NEED TO HAVE
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TRUTH, BECAUSE
TRUTH IS WHAT UNITES US.
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MATTER OF FACT, ME TALKING
TO YOU RIGHT NOW ABOUT THE
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IMPORTANCE OF UNITY IS A TRUTH.
SO IF IT CLICKS WITH YOU AND YOU
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SAY, 'OH YEAH, WE NEED TO BE
UNITED.' THAT'S BECAUSE I HAVE
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FIRST COMMUNICATED A TRUTH ABOUT
UNITY. SO THE FIRST THING THAT
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IS GOING TO UNITE
PEOPLE IS WHAT HAPPENS HERE.
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IT'S A KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH
- A LOVE OF THE TRUTH - YOU'VE
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PROBABLY HEARD IT SAID BEFORE
- IN MARRIAGE COUNSELING I'LL
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OFTEN TELL A COUPLE, 'THE CLOSER
YOU COME TO A COMMON OBJECT, THE
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CLOSER YOU WILL
INEVITABLY COME TO EACH OTHER.
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IN OTHER WORDS, IF YOU'VE
GOT TWO PEOPLE AND THEY ARE BOTH
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DRAWING CLOSER TO CHRIST, THEY
WILL BE DRAWING CLOSER TO EACH
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OTHER. ISN'T THAT RIGHT?
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AND SO, IF JESUS IS THE TRUTH,
THE CLOSER WE ALL COME IN UNITY
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TO THE TRUTH, WHAT
HAPPENS? UNITY COMES TOGETHER.
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WE'RE COMING CLOSER TO THE
TRUTH. WE CAN'T HELP BUT COME
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CLOSER TO EACH OTHER. SO
THE MORE WE STUDY THE TRUTH
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AND THE MORE WE STUDY CHRIST,
IT IS TO BRING US TOGETHER.
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AND IT DOESN'T MEAN WE'RE ALWAYS
GOING TO UNDERSTAND AND SEE
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EVERY VERSE THE SAME WAY -
WE'LL GET TO THAT IN A MINUTE.
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LET ME READ A
COUPLE OF QUOTES TO YOU.
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HERE'S SOME FROM GOSPEL WORKERS
- I THINK THIS IS A SECTION FROM
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PAGE 92 AND 391.1, "THROUGH THE
HOLY SPIRIT WILL" - I'M SORRY,
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"THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT CHRIST
WILL OPEN MORE CLEARLY TO THOSE
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WHO BELIEVE ON HIM THAT WHICH
HE HAS INSPIRED HOLY MEN TO
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WRITE CONCERNING THE TRUTH.
AND IT IS THUS THAT THE UNITY
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FOR WHICH CHRIST PRAYED" -
WE'RE JUST READING JOHN - JESUS'
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PRAYER IN JOHN 17 - "AND
IT IS THUS THAT THE UNITY FOR
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WHICH CHRIST
PRAYED IS TO BE EFFECTED."
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- NOTICE, IT'S THROUGH
THE TRUTH - "WE ARE TO RECEIVE
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SANCTIFICATION THROUGH OBEDIENCE
TO THE WORD AND THE SPIRIT OF
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TRUTH. WE CANNOT
SURRENDER THE TRUTH IN
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ORDER TO ACCOMPLISH THIS
UNION, FOR THE VERY MEANS BY
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WHICH IT IS TO BE
GAINED IS SANCTIFICATION
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THROUGH THE TRUTH." -
THE UNITY - THE UNION IS -
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COMES THROUGH
SANCTIFICATION THROUGH TRUTH.
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- "MEN WOULD EFFECT A UNION
THROUGH CONFORMITY TO POPULAR
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OPINIONS, THROUGH A
COMPROMISE WITH THE WORLD.
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BUT TRUTH IS GOD'S BASIS
FOR THE UNITY OF HIS PEOPLE."
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ALRIGHT, SO UPON
WHAT ARE WE UNITED?
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>>TRUTH. >>TRUTH.
AND, YOU KNOW, IT'S
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WONDERFUL THAT, AS KAREN AND
I TRAVEL AROUND THE WORLD AND WE
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GO TO DIFFERENT COUNTRIES WITH
VERY DIFFERENT CUSTOMS - AND,
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YOU KNOW, WE'VE BEEN EVERYWHERE.
WE JUST CAME BACK FROM NEW
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GUINEA AND THEY HAD A LOT
OF INTERESTING CUSTOMS THERE.
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BUT IT WAS AMAZING, THEY - WHEN
WE WORSHIPED WITH THEM, THEY
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BELIEVED THE
TRUTH THAT WE BELIEVE.
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THERE WERE, OF COURSE - THERE'S
CUSTOMS DIFFERENCES, BUT WHEN IT
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COMES TO THEIR WORLD VIEW ABOUT
THE PRIORITIES OF CHRIST AND THE
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CHRISTIAN LIFE, THEY BELIEVE
LIKE US. AND, IN JAPAN, AND IN
00:14:27.50\00:14:32.87
KOREA, AND AUSTRALIA AND RUSSIA
AND ALL OVER THE WORLD WE GO,
00:14:32.90\00:14:37.27
THERE IS A UNITY BECAUSE
OF A COMMON BELIEF IN TRUTH.
00:14:37.31\00:14:42.74
>>AMEN. >>THAT UNITES.
00:14:42.78\00:14:44.75
BUT YOU'LL HEAR VOICES IN THE
CHURCH TODAY, AND THEY'VE BEEN
00:14:44.78\00:14:49.25
AROUND FOR MILLENNIA, THAT WILL
SAY 'UNITY IS MORE IMPORTANT -
00:14:49.28\00:14:54.62
YOU SHOULD SACRIFICE YOUR
PARTICULAR DOCTRINAL VIEWS TO
00:14:54.66\00:14:58.99
ACHIEVE UNITY.' NOW THERE MIGHT
BE SOME AREAS WHERE THAT'S TRUE.
00:14:59.03\00:15:04.67
NOW I'M JUST GOING TO
GIVE YOU A LITTLE QUIZ.
00:15:04.70\00:15:06.30
I WANT TO STIR UP YOUR PURE
MINDS A LITTLE BIT - AND LET ME
00:15:06.33\00:15:11.41
GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE: DO WE HAVE
A LOT OF UNUSUAL BELIEFS EVEN
00:15:11.44\00:15:16.61
WITHIN THE CHURCH TODAY?
I MEAN, THERE'S MAYBE SOME
00:15:16.64\00:15:18.98
DIVERGENT IDEAS AND THERE'S
SOME CONFLICT OVER CERTAIN
00:15:19.01\00:15:22.38
THEOLOGICAL POINTS. YOU
KNOW, THERE ARE MEMBERS OF
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OUR CHURCH THAT DON'T AGREE ON
THE SUBJECT OF THE TRINITY, AND
00:15:27.16\00:15:32.93
THERE'S PROBABLY THREE
OR FOUR VARIATIONS OF THAT.
00:15:32.96\00:15:36.87
CAN WE BE UNITED IF WE DON'T
AGREE ON THAT? DON'T - YOU DON'T
00:15:36.90\00:15:40.94
HAVE TO ANSWER ME.
WHAT ABOUT EVOLUTION?
00:15:40.97\00:15:49.41
I KNOW VERY DEAR PEOPLE, THEY
BELIEVE OUR MESSAGE IN EVERY
00:15:49.44\00:15:54.68
POINT EXCEPT THEY CANNOT BRING
THEMSELVES TO BELIEVE THAT GOD
00:15:54.72\00:15:58.29
CREATED THE WORLD
IN SIX LITERAL DAYS.
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THAT IS THE ONE STICKING POINT.
'PASTOR DOUG,' - AND I'VE ASKED
00:16:00.32\00:16:03.99
SEVERAL PASTORS THIS TO SEE
HOW THEY WOULD DEAL WITH IT.
00:16:04.03\00:16:07.96
I TOLD THIS LOVELY FAMILY,
I SAID, 'YOU KNOW, I'M NOT
00:16:08.00\00:16:10.67
COMFORTABLE BAPTIZING YOU INTO
MEMBERSHIP' - THEY WORSHIPED
00:16:10.70\00:16:15.84
WITH US FOR YEARS AND WE'RE
STILL DEAR FRIENDS, BUT THEY -
00:16:15.87\00:16:18.14
BECAUSE THEY COULDN'T AGREE
WITH THIS BECAUSE I SAID PRETTY
00:16:18.17\00:16:23.51
CLEAR, 'IF YOU'RE A SEVENTH-DAY
ADVENTIST AND YOU BELIEVE THE
00:16:23.55\00:16:25.48
LORD MADE THE WORLD IN SIX
LITERAL DAYS AND THEN HE HAS THE
00:16:25.51\00:16:28.08
SABBATH, IF THE SABBATH IS
REALLY SOME LONG, MILLION YEAR -
00:16:28.12\00:16:31.55
MULTI-THOUSAND YEAR EPOCH OF
TIME, THEN IT'S DIFFERENT.' I
00:16:31.59\00:16:35.42
SAID, 'THIS IS A PROBLEM.' AND
THE WORD IS REALLY CLEAR THAT
00:16:35.46\00:16:38.73
GOD MADE - JESUS
SAID IT AND MOSES SAID IT.
00:16:38.76\00:16:43.57
JESUS SAID, 'IF YOU DON'T
BELIEVE MOSES, YOU DON'T BELIEVE
00:16:43.60\00:16:45.07
ME.' THERE ARE SEVENTH-DAY
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ADVENTISTS THAT BELIEVE
THE FIRST ELEVEN CHAPTERS OF
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GENESIS ARE FABLES THAT
ARE DESIGNED TO TEACH LESSONS.
00:16:49.97\00:16:53.81
UP UNTIL THE TOWER OF BABEL THEY
THINK - AFTER THE TOWER OF BABEL
00:16:53.84\00:16:56.48
THEN IT STARTS
GETTING LITERAL WITH ABRAHAM.
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BEFORE THAT IT'S ALL
LEGENDS. CAN THEY BE UNITED IN
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FELLOWSHIP?
THERE ARE SOME WHO HAVE
00:17:05.29\00:17:08.96
DIFFERING VIEWS
ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE.
00:17:08.99\00:17:14.93
BAPTISM BY IMMERSION - THEY
SAY, 'YOU KNOW, IT'S A SYMBOL.
00:17:14.96\00:17:18.23
BAPTISM IS A SYMBOL SO WHY
WOULD YOU PREVENT A PERSON FROM
00:17:18.27\00:17:21.24
JOINING BY PROFESSION OF
FAITH IF THEY WERE BAPTIZED BY
00:17:21.27\00:17:24.17
SPRINKLING OR
ANOTHER METHOD OF BAPTISM?
00:17:24.21\00:17:27.18
THEY'RE SINCERE. ON
ONE - THAT LITTLE POINT?
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CAN'T WE BE UNITED WITHOUT
MAKING THAT ONE LITTLE STICKING
00:17:30.51\00:17:33.01
POINT?' I THINK
THAT EVERYBODY KNOWS
00:17:33.05\00:17:34.85
THAT THE WOMEN'S ORDINATION
IS A BIG ISSUE ALSO - WHAT
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THE DIFFERENT ROLES
ARE. IS IT THE EGALITARIAN OR
00:17:38.45\00:17:41.46
THE COMPLEMENTARIAN
VIEWS? VEGETARIANISM?
00:17:41.49\00:17:46.23
CAN PEOPLE HAVE FELLOWSHIP
IF THEY HAVE DIFFERENT VIEWS ON
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THAT? FOOT WASHING? I
KNOW SOME PEOPLE, THEY SAY,
00:17:50.00\00:17:55.37
'YOU KNOW, I BELIEVE - I AGREE
WITH EVERYTHING, BUT I THINK
00:17:55.40\00:17:57.61
FOOT WASHING WAS
JUST FOR JESUS BACK THEN.
00:17:57.64\00:17:59.67
HE DIDN'T REALLY MEAN FOR
EVERYBODY TO DO IT TODAY BECAUSE
00:17:59.71\00:18:02.04
MOST OF US WEAR SHOES AND SOCKS
AND' - SO HOW DO YOU KNOW WHERE
00:18:02.08\00:18:06.95
YOU SHOULD SAY, 'WE'RE WILLING
TO NOT DEBATE OR DIVIDE OVER A
00:18:06.98\00:18:13.15
CERTAIN ISSUE? WOULD
EVERYONE AGREE WITH ME
00:18:13.19\00:18:17.23
THERE ARE SOME THINGS THAT WE
SHOULD NOT MAKE STICKING POINTS?
00:18:17.26\00:18:24.33
>>YES. >>AND THERE
ARE SOME THINGS THAT
00:18:24.37\00:18:26.70
WE SHOULD MAKE STICKING POINTS.
HOW DO YOU DRAW THE LINE?
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YOU'VE REALLY GOT TO STUDY
AND YOU'VE GOT TO HAVE WISDOM TO
00:18:32.94\00:18:37.95
KNOW WHAT ARE THE PRIORITIES.
NOW, FOR SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS,
00:18:37.98\00:18:40.65
A LOT OF THAT
HOMEWORK'S BEEN DONE.
00:18:40.68\00:18:42.75
WE HAVE SOMETHING CALLED
OUR '28 FUNDAMENTALS' AND SO A
00:18:42.78\00:18:46.76
PERSON, IF THEY'RE GOING
TO BE UNITED IN FELLOWSHIP AND
00:18:46.79\00:18:49.76
MEMBERSHIP - IT DOESN'T
MEAN PEOPLE CAN'T - EVERYONE CAN
00:18:49.79\00:18:51.86
WORSHIP TOGETHER
AND WORK TOGETHER.
00:18:51.89\00:18:53.60
AND WE DO AT THIS CHURCH - WE'VE
GOT A LOT OF GUESTS AND VISITORS
00:18:53.63\00:18:56.30
THAT COME THAT ARE PART OF
THE FAMILY BUT MAYBE THEY'RE NOT
00:18:56.33\00:18:58.67
BAPTIZED YET OR MAYBE THEY'RE
STUCK ON SOME POINT, BUT IF
00:18:58.70\00:19:03.41
YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE - BE UNITED
IN MEMBERSHIP, WE'VE GOT THE 28
00:19:03.44\00:19:06.21
FUNDAMENTALS, YOU SHOULD
BE ABLE TO SAY YES TO THOSE.
00:19:06.24\00:19:08.98
AS SOON AS YOU START TO GET
MUSHY ABOUT THOSE, AND YOU SAY,
00:19:09.01\00:19:14.55
'WELL, FOR THE SAKE OF UNITY,
LET'S NOT MAKE THIS A BIG DEAL.'
00:19:14.58\00:19:18.15
PRETTY - IT'S LIKE SAND IN
A STORM. IT JUST WASHES AWAY.
00:19:18.19\00:19:25.36
YOU LOSE YOUR FOUNDATION.
AND SO, THAT'S A - JUST
00:19:25.39\00:19:28.00
A - DOES THAT
MAKE SENSE? >>AMEN.
00:19:28.03\00:19:29.96
>> UNITY IN TRUTH - VERY
IMPORTANT. ALRIGHT, NOW, IN - AS
00:19:30.00\00:19:34.94
WE DELVE A LITTLE DEEPER NOW
INTO GALATIANS, I'M GOING TO GO
00:19:34.97\00:19:41.91
TO 1 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER
1, VERSE 10. PAUL SAYS, "NOW I
00:19:41.94\00:19:47.58
PLEAD WITH YOU, BRETHREN, BY THE
NAME OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST,
00:19:47.62\00:19:51.69
THAT YOU ALL SPEAK
THE SAME THINGS," -
00:19:51.72\00:19:54.29
NOW DOESN'T THAT SOUND A
LITTLE DOGMATIC FOR A PASTOR
00:19:54.32\00:19:56.89
TO SAY TO HIS CONGREGATION?
00:19:56.93\00:19:58.73
'YOU ALL SPEAK THE SAME THING.'
I REMEMBER ANOTHER PASTOR FROM
00:19:58.76\00:20:02.73
ANOTHER DENOMINATION, HE SAYS,
'BROTHER DOUG,' - HE SAYS - 'YOU
00:20:02.76\00:20:05.70
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS,
YOU'RE COOKIE CUTTERS.
00:20:05.73\00:20:08.34
YOU ALL WANT EVERYONE
TO BELIEVE THE SAME THING.
00:20:08.37\00:20:10.64
WE CAN HAVE UNITY IN THE
BODY OF CHRIST AND HAVE GREATLY
00:20:10.67\00:20:13.07
DIFFERENT BELIEFS.' I THINK WE
CAN LOVE EACH OTHER AND RESPECT
00:20:13.11\00:20:15.98
PEOPLE AS CHRISTIANS, BUT, I
MEAN, YOU KNOW, WHEN ONE PERSON
00:20:16.01\00:20:19.25
THINKS THAT JESUS IS CREATED
AND ANOTHER PERSON BELIEVES THAT
00:20:19.28\00:20:23.49
JESUS IS GOD, I THINK
THAT'S A VERY BIG DIFFERENCE.
00:20:23.52\00:20:26.89
AND I THINK THAT
THOSE THINGS MATTER.
00:20:26.92\00:20:29.76
WHEN ONE PERSON SAYS THE FRUIT
OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IS LOVE AND
00:20:29.79\00:20:33.26
SOMEONE ELSE SAYS THE FRUIT OF
THE HOLY SPIRIT IS SPEAKING IN
00:20:33.29\00:20:35.23
TONGUES, THAT'S
A BIG DIFFERENCE.
00:20:35.26\00:20:38.73
AND SO THERE ARE SOME
THINGS THAT REALLY ARE CRITICAL.
00:20:38.77\00:20:42.00
BUT IS PAUL A COOKIE CUTTER WHEN
HE SAID, 'I PLEAD WITH YOU, THAT
00:20:42.04\00:20:47.31
YOU ALL SPEAK THE SAME THING'?
DOES THAT MEAN HE ALL WANTS US
00:20:47.34\00:20:49.74
TO GO AROUND
ECHOING THE SAME MANTRAS?
00:20:49.78\00:20:52.55
NO. HE MEANS BE UNITED.
THERE WAS DIVISION IN THE
00:20:52.58\00:20:55.78
CORINTHIAN CHURCH - "BUT THAT
YOU BE PERFECTLY JOINED TOGETHER
00:20:55.82\00:21:00.12
IN THE SAME MIND AND
IN THE SAME JUDGMENT.
00:21:00.16\00:21:03.83
FOR IT HAS BEEN DECLARED TO ME
CONCERNING YOU, MY BRETHREN, BY
00:21:03.86\00:21:06.73
THOSE OF CHLOE'S HOUSEHOLD,
THAT THERE ARE CONTENTIONS AMONG
00:21:06.76\00:21:10.53
YOU." NOW WHAT
WAS THE CONTENTION?
00:21:10.57\00:21:14.60
WAS THE CONTENTION PAUL'S
TALKING ABOUT IS JESUS DIVINE OR
00:21:14.64\00:21:18.97
IS HE A MAN? NO. THE
CONTENTION WAS, THEY WERE
00:21:19.01\00:21:21.88
CHOOSING FAVORITE
PASTORS AND EVANGELISTS.
00:21:21.91\00:21:26.01
HE GOES ON TO SAY, 'SOME OF YOU
ARE SAYING, 'I AM OF PAUL' OR 'I
00:21:26.05\00:21:30.75
AM OF APOLLOS' OR 'I AM OF
PETER' - CEPHAS - OR 'I AM OF
00:21:30.79\00:21:34.32
CHRIST'' - HE'S
SAYING, 'IS CHRIST DIVIDED?
00:21:34.36\00:21:37.33
WAS PAUL CRUCIFIED FOR
YOU? WERE YOU BAPTIZED IN
00:21:37.36\00:21:40.63
THE NAME OF PAUL?'
PEOPLE WERE SAYING, 'WELL I'M A
00:21:40.66\00:21:42.46
- I WAS BAPTIZED BY PAUL SO I'M
OF THIS GROUP.' AND SOMEONE ELSE
00:21:42.50\00:21:45.30
SAID, 'WELL, I WAS
BAPTIZED BY APOLLOS' -
00:21:45.33\00:21:46.70
'I WAS BAPTIZED BY PETER.
PETER'S MORE IMPORTANT THAT PAUL
00:21:46.74\00:21:49.00
OR APOLLOS' - AND
THEY ALL BEGAN TO ARGUE.
00:21:49.04\00:21:51.51
NOW, IS THAT THE KIND OF THING
YOU'D DIVIDE A CHURCH OVER?
00:21:51.54\00:21:54.58
PAUL IS SAYING,
'THAT'S NONSENSE'.
00:21:54.61\00:21:56.68
DO WE SOMETIMES GET
DIVIDED OVER SIMILAR THINGS?
00:21:56.71\00:22:00.75
NOW THIS IS A GREAT
CHURCH. THIS IS A LOVING CHURCH.
00:22:00.78\00:22:03.22
BUT I HAVE KNOWN OF CHURCHES
WHERE THERE WAS A TERRIBLE RIFT
00:22:03.25\00:22:06.39
IN THE CHURCH AND IT STARTED
WITH THE DECORATING COMMITTEE.
00:22:06.42\00:22:09.52
(LAUGHTER) AND I KNOW A CHURCH
WHERE IT GOT - THE ARCHITECT AND
00:22:09.56\00:22:16.87
DECORATING AND DESIGN GOT SO
SEVERE THAT THEY SPLIT AND BUILT
00:22:16.90\00:22:20.24
TWO SEPARATE CHURCHES
BECAUSE THEY COULD NOT AGREE.
00:22:20.27\00:22:23.14
RIGHT HERE IN TOWN.
AND THE LORD WORKED IT FOR
00:22:23.17\00:22:26.78
GOOD - THEY ENDED UP WITH TWO
CHURCHES. YOU KNOW, THERE ARE
00:22:26.81\00:22:30.25
ACTUALLY TIMES WHERE GOD TAKES
THE DIVISIONS THAT HAPPENED AND
00:22:30.28\00:22:34.05
HE WORKS IT FOR GOOD.
WAS THERE A DIVISION BETWEEN
00:22:34.08\00:22:35.72
PAUL AND BARNABAS
AT ONE POINT? >>YES.
00:22:35.75\00:22:38.22
>>THEY COULDN'T AGREE WHETHER OR
NOT TO TAKE MARK WITH THEM AND
00:22:38.25\00:22:41.69
IT TURNS OUT, IN THAT
ONE, PAUL WAS ACTUALLY WRONG.
00:22:41.72\00:22:45.26
BARNABAS SAID, 'WELL I'LL TAKE
MARK' AND PAUL SAID, 'I'LL TAKE
00:22:45.29\00:22:48.80
SILAS' AND SO THEY WENT AND THEY
ENDED UP WITH TWO MISSIONARY
00:22:48.83\00:22:51.20
GROUPS INSTEAD OF ONE. SO
GOD WORKED IT TOGETHER FOR GOOD.
00:22:51.23\00:22:54.17
BUT THIS IS THE KIND OF
THING THEY WERE ARGUING ABOUT.
00:22:54.20\00:22:57.37
NOW, WITH THAT LENGTHY
INTRODUCTION, OUR MISSION TODAY
00:22:57.41\00:23:00.74
IS TO DO THE FIRST FOURTEEN
VERSES IN GALATIANS CHAPTER 2 -
00:23:00.78\00:23:05.41
GALATIANS 2:1-14. WE
MAY NOT GET TO IT ALL, BUT
00:23:05.45\00:23:08.08
WE'LL DO OUR BEST.
LET'S READ VERSES 1 AND
00:23:08.12\00:23:10.29
2 IN GALATIANS CHAPTER 2.
PAUL IS SPEAKING, WE ALREADY
00:23:10.32\00:23:14.26
COVERED GALATIANS 1, "THEN AFTER
FOURTEEN YEARS I WENT UP AGAIN
00:23:14.29\00:23:18.19
TO JERUSALEM WITH BARNABAS,
AND ALSO TOOK TITUS WITH ME."
00:23:18.23\00:23:21.03
- WHAT IS HE TALKING ABOUT?
FOURTEEN YEARS AFTER WHAT?
00:23:21.06\00:23:23.80
>>HIS CONVERSION.
>>PROBABLY IT'S FOURTEEN YEARS
00:23:23.83\00:23:27.04
AFTER HIS CONVERSION OR
HIS FIRST VISIT TO JERUSALEM
00:23:27.07\00:23:30.91
AFTER HIS CONVERSION.
HE HAD BEEN OUT DOING
00:23:30.94\00:23:33.07
MISSIONARY WORK. THEY
CAME BACK TO JERUSALEM
00:23:33.11\00:23:35.94
BECAUSE THERE WAS A BIG DISPUTE
ABOUT CIRCUMCISION, AMONG OTHER
00:23:35.98\00:23:39.81
THINGS, AND PAUL SAYS, 'I TOOK
TITUS WITH ME.' THIS IS ONE OF
00:23:39.85\00:23:43.32
THE FIRST REFERENCES
YOU WOULD FIND THERE.
00:23:43.35\00:23:47.09
IF YOU READ IN ACTS 15, VERSE 2,
IT TALKS ABOUT PAUL AND BARNABAS
00:23:47.12\00:23:52.29
GOING DOWN FROM ANTIOCH TO
JERUSALEM, TO GET SOME WORD FROM
00:23:52.33\00:23:57.10
THE COUNSEL IN JERUSALEM ABOUT
WHAT THEY WERE TO DO ABOUT THE
00:23:57.13\00:24:00.34
SUBJECT OF CIRCUMCISION AND
THE DIVISION THAT WAS HAPPENING,
00:24:00.37\00:24:03.44
BECAUSE HE SAYS THAT - YOU
CAN READ HERE IN ACTS 15:1, "AND
00:24:03.47\00:24:09.88
CERTAIN MEN CAME DOWN FROM JUDEA
AND TAUGHT THE BRETHREN," - THEY
00:24:09.91\00:24:13.52
CAME FROM JUDEA TO ANTIOCH
- "UNLESS YOU ARE CIRCUMCISED
00:24:13.55\00:24:17.12
ACCORDING TO THE CUSTOMS OF
MOSES, YOU CANNOT BE SAVED."
00:24:17.15\00:24:20.66
THAT'S PRETTY SERIOUS BUSINESS.
00:24:20.69\00:24:22.19
IT WASN'T LIKE, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE
A LITTLE BETTER OFF - THEY SAID,
00:24:22.22\00:24:24.29
'YOU CAN'T BE SAVED.' NOW
THEY'RE NOT TELLING THE JEWS
00:24:24.33\00:24:26.33
THIS, THEY'RE TELLING THE
NEW GENTILES - AND THE GREEKS -
00:24:26.36\00:24:29.93
'UNLESS YOU'RE CIRCUMCISED' -
AND IT CREATED A BIG DIVISION.
00:24:29.96\00:24:33.20
PAUL SAID, 'LOOK, LET'S SETTLE
THIS.' NOW THEY DIDN'T JUST GET
00:24:33.23\00:24:35.77
ON THE PHONE - THEY
DIDN'T HAVE A TELECONFERENCE.
00:24:35.80\00:24:38.41
THEY DIDN'T GET ONLINE FOR ONE
OF THESE 'GOTOMEETING' THINGS
00:24:38.44\00:24:41.74
WHERE YOU'VE GOT WEB CAMERAS,
THEY HAD TO TAKE A SHIP AND IT
00:24:41.78\00:24:45.21
TOOK THEM WEEKS, IF NOT MONTHS,
TO COME DOWN TO JERUSALEM AND IT
00:24:45.25\00:24:51.12
SAYS, 'AND OTHERS WENT WITH US',
SO IT WAS PAUL, BARNABAS AND
00:24:51.15\00:24:54.56
OTHERS. PROBABLY ONE OF THE
00:24:54.59\00:24:56.16
OTHERS WAS TITUS.
WHY DID PAUL TAKE TITUS?
00:24:56.19\00:24:59.63
HE TOOK TITUS BECAUSE TITUS
WAS A GREEK AND TITUS WAS NOT
00:24:59.66\00:25:02.50
CIRCUMCISED, BUT HE WAS A
THOROUGHLY CONVERTED CHRISTIAN.
00:25:02.53\00:25:05.77
AND TITUS, IF YOU READ ALL
THE REFERENCES TO TITUS, WAS A
00:25:05.80\00:25:08.84
PREACHER AND A COWORKER WITH
PAUL - BUT HE WAS A GREEK AND HE
00:25:08.87\00:25:12.64
WAS UNCIRCUMCISED. SO
PAUL KIND OF TOOK HIM ALONG
00:25:12.67\00:25:15.24
AS EXHIBIT A, THAT'S WHAT WE'RE
GATHERING, AND HE SAYS, 'TITUS
00:25:15.28\00:25:19.65
WAS WITH ME' - "AND I WENT UP BY
REVELATION, AND COMMUNICATED TO
00:25:19.68\00:25:25.62
THEM THAT GOSPEL WHICH I
PREACH AMONG THE GENTILES, BUT
00:25:25.65\00:25:28.62
PRIVATELY" - IT WASN'T A PUBLIC
HEARING; HE MET WITH THE ELDERS
00:25:28.66\00:25:31.53
- THE LEADERS - "BUT
PRIVATELY TO THOSE WHO WERE OF
00:25:31.56\00:25:34.83
REPUTATION," - SOME OF THE
LEADERS IN THE CHURCH - "LEST BY
00:25:34.83\00:25:37.30
ANY MEANS I MIGHT
RUN, OR HAD RUN, IN VAIN."
00:25:37.33\00:25:39.80
- HE SAYS, 'IF I WAS DOING
SOMETHING WRONG, I WANTED THEM
00:25:39.83\00:25:41.64
TO TELL ME AND THEY
COULD DO IT PRIVATELY.
00:25:41.67\00:25:44.81
AND I BROUGHT ALONG TITUS'
- AND SO - AND THEN YOU GO TO
00:25:44.84\00:25:48.51
GALATIANS - AND THIS, NOW,
LEADS INTO THE NEXT SECTION -
00:25:48.54\00:25:53.45
GALATIANS CHAPTER 2, VERSE 3,
"YET NOT EVEN TITUS WHO WAS WITH
00:25:53.48\00:25:57.95
ME, BEING A GREEK, WAS
COMPELLED TO BE CIRCUMCISED."
00:25:57.99\00:26:01.39
IN OTHER WORDS, PAUL IS SAYING,
TO THE GALATIANS, 'WHY ARE YOU
00:26:01.42\00:26:05.83
GETTING ALL MIXED UP ON
THIS ISSUE OF CIRCUMCISION?
00:26:05.86\00:26:07.93
I WENT AND MET WITH THE CHURCH
LEADERS AT JERUSALEM AND THEY
00:26:07.96\00:26:10.17
DID NOT EVEN TELL ME THAT TITUS,
WHO WAS WITH ME, WHO THEY KNEW
00:26:10.20\00:26:13.23
WAS A GREEK, HAD TO BE
CIRCUMCISED AND YET NOW YOU'RE
00:26:13.27\00:26:16.94
SAYING YOU CAN'T BE SAVED UNLESS
YOU'RE CIRCUMCISED.' AND HE'S
00:26:16.97\00:26:20.51
SAYING, 'THAT DOESN'T
MAKE SENSE.' "AND THIS OCCURRED
00:26:20.54\00:26:24.51
BECAUSE OF FALSE BRETHREN
SECRETLY BROUGHT IN (WHO CAME
00:26:24.55\00:26:28.45
IN BY STEALTH TO SPY OUT OUR
LIBERTY WHICH WE HAVE IN CHRIST
00:26:28.48\00:26:31.42
JESUS, THAT THEY MIGHT BRING
US INTO BONDAGE), TO WHOM WE DID
00:26:31.45\00:26:35.46
NOT YIELD SUBMISSION EVEN FOR
AN HOUR, THAT THE TRUTH OF THE
00:26:35.49\00:26:38.99
GOSPEL MIGHT CONTINUE WITH YOU."
NOW, I MENTIONED THIS BRIEFLY
00:26:39.03\00:26:46.77
LAST WEEK; I'M GOING TO SAY A
LITTLE MORE ABOUT IT NOW BECAUSE
00:26:46.80\00:26:50.84
IT CAN BE EASILY MISUNDERSTOOD.
THE BIG DEBATE WAS OVER THE
00:26:50.87\00:26:56.41
CEREMONIAL LAWS AND
THE LAWS OF ORDINANCES.
00:26:56.44\00:27:01.62
WHEN I WAS A KID WE USED TO TELL
A DUMB JOKE IN NEW YORK CITY.
00:27:01.65\00:27:04.85
WE WOULD ASK OUR FRIENDS,
'WHO'S BURIED IN GRANT'S TOMB?'
00:27:04.89\00:27:09.62
AND THEY'D GET ALL MIXED UP
AND THEY'D THINK IT WAS A TRICK
00:27:09.66\00:27:12.29
QUESTION AND THEY'D START
GUESSING, 'ABRAHAM LINCOLN?'
00:27:12.33\00:27:15.36
THEY DIDN'T KNOW.
AND WE'D SAY, 'GRANT!'
00:27:15.40\00:27:17.87
AND THEN WE'D LAUGH AT
THEM. OF COURSE GRANT IS
00:27:17.90\00:27:19.33
BURIED IN GRANT'S TOMB.
OR WE'D ASK ANOTHER DUMB
00:27:19.37\00:27:21.10
QUESTION: 'WHAT COLOR WAS GEORGE
WASHINGTON'S WHITE HORSE?'
00:27:21.14\00:27:25.81
AND, AGAIN, THEY WERE SURE
THAT IT WAS A RIDDLE - A TRICK
00:27:25.84\00:27:28.01
QUESTION - AND SO
THEY'D THINK - 'BROWN?'
00:27:28.04\00:27:30.88
'BLACK?' 'GRAY?' WE'D
SAY, 'NO, WHITE.' ALRIGHT,
00:27:30.91\00:27:37.42
SO HOW MANY LAWS ARE
IN THE TEN COMMANDMENTS?
00:27:37.45\00:27:40.76
>>TEN. >>DO YOU GET THE POINT?
00:27:40.79\00:27:45.46
SOME PEOPLE TRIED TO MELT
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS IN WITH THE
00:27:45.49\00:27:49.50
ORDINANCES AND THE STATUTES AND
THE OTHER LAWS, BUT YOU CAN'T
00:27:49.53\00:27:54.10
GET AROUND THE FACT
THAT GOD SAYS, 'TEN'.
00:27:54.14\00:27:58.27
HE USES THE NUMBER TEN, AND SO,
HE SETS THEM ASIDE AS SEPARATE.
00:27:58.31\00:28:03.35
SO, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE
LAWS OF MOSES, WE'RE NOT TALKING
00:28:03.38\00:28:06.41
ABOUT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
WRITTEN BY GOD, BUT THERE WERE A
00:28:06.45\00:28:09.82
LOT OF CEREMONIAL LAWS THAT CAME
AFTER SIN, THAT WERE SHADOWS AND
00:28:09.85\00:28:14.56
TYPES THAT SHOWED CHRIST.
AND, ONCE CHRIST CAME, IT WASN'T
00:28:14.59\00:28:20.20
NECESSARY ANYMORE TO IMPOSE
CIRCUMCISION ON THEM, AS WELL AS
00:28:20.23\00:28:24.33
SOME OF THE OTHER CEREMONIES.
DO WE NOW SACRIFICE LAMBS?
00:28:24.37\00:28:28.70
DO WE NOW HAVE TO GO TO A
LEVITE TO FIND FORGIVENESS?
00:28:28.74\00:28:33.71
THE BIBLE SAYS, SINCE THE
TIME OF CHRIST, WE HAVE A ROYAL
00:28:33.74\00:28:36.34
PRIESTHOOD. THE
DAY THAT JESUS WAS
00:28:36.38\00:28:38.75
CRUCIFIED, THE HIGH
PRIEST TORE HIS GARMENTS.
00:28:38.78\00:28:41.82
REMEMBER CAIPHAS? WE
HAVE A NEW PRIESTHOOD
00:28:41.85\00:28:43.92
NOW - A ROYAL PRIESTHOOD.
WE HAVE A NEW NATION NOW.
00:28:43.95\00:28:48.16
IN THE SAME WAY,
WHAT ABOUT A TEMPLE?
00:28:48.19\00:28:51.83
DO WE HAVE TO GO
TO THE JEWISH TEMPLE?
00:28:51.86\00:28:53.73
OR DID JESUS SAY, 'DESTROY THIS
TEMPLE MADE WITH HANDS AND I'LL
00:28:53.76\00:28:56.10
MAKE ONE WITHOUT
HANDS. HE SPOKE OF THE BODY
00:28:56.13\00:28:58.60
OF CHRIST - THE CHURCH.
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE JEWISH
00:28:58.63\00:29:01.64
TEMPLE WHEN JESUS DIED?
WAS THERE A TEARING THERE?
00:29:01.67\00:29:06.84
PRIESTS GARMENTS WERE
TORN - NEW PRIESTHOOD.
00:29:06.88\00:29:09.01
TEMPLE VEIL WAS
TORN - NEW TEMPLE.
00:29:09.04\00:29:11.48
'WHAT? DON'T YOU KNOW
YOU ARE THE TEMPLE OF GOD?'
00:29:11.51\00:29:13.95
AND SO, FROM THE SACRIFICE
OF CHRIST, THE SHADOWS AND TYPES
00:29:13.98\00:29:17.69
WERE FULFILLED. WE NOW HAVE THE
00:29:17.72\00:29:19.82
SUBSTANCE IN CHRIST.
AND SO, DO WE NOW REQUIRE
00:29:19.85\00:29:23.59
PHYSICAL
CIRCUMCISION? WHAT DO YOU THINK?
00:29:23.63\00:29:27.76
LET ME READ THIS
TO YOU - ACTS 10:45.
00:29:27.83\00:29:31.33
"AND THOSE OF THE CIRCUMCISION
WHO BELIEVED" - THESE ARE
00:29:31.37\00:29:34.87
CHRISTIANS; THEY BELIEVE IN
CHRIST - "WERE ASTONISHED, AS
00:29:34.90\00:29:38.84
MANY AS CAME WITH PETER, BECAUSE
THE GIFT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT HAD
00:29:38.87\00:29:42.24
BEEN POURED OUT ON THE GENTILES
ALSO." NOW, YOU AND I CAN'T
00:29:42.28\00:29:46.41
APPRECIATE - BECAUSE WE NOW
KNOW, AFTER TWO THOUSAND YEARS
00:29:46.45\00:29:49.45
OF SEEING THAT CHRISTIANS
NOW ARE LARGELY NON-JEWS.
00:29:49.48\00:29:52.92
THE EARLY CHURCH - ALL
CHRISTIANS - WERE JEWS.
00:29:52.95\00:29:56.26
WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS POURED
OUT AT PENTECOST, IT SAYS, 'NOW
00:29:56.29\00:29:59.66
THAT WE'RE DWELLING IN
JERUSALEM, DEVOUT MEN OF EVERY
00:29:59.69\00:30:02.06
NATION UNDER HEAVEN,' - JEWS OUT
OF EVERY NATION UNDER HEAVEN.
00:30:02.10\00:30:07.00
THIS ARE THE JEWS THAT HAD
COME TO WORSHIP AT PENTECOST.
00:30:07.04\00:30:09.50
THOUSANDS WERE BAPTIZED - THREE
THOUSAND THE FIRST TIME; FIVE
00:30:09.54\00:30:12.71
THOUSAND THE NEXT TIME - ALL
JEWS. SOME CONVERTED TO JUDAISM.
00:30:12.74\00:30:16.81
SO THE EARLY
CHURCH WAS LARGELY JEWISH.
00:30:16.85\00:30:19.65
WHEN PETER GOES TO
CORNELIUS' HOUSE - HE'S A ROMAN,
00:30:19.68\00:30:22.85
UNCIRCUMCISED, GENTILE - AND THE
HOLY SPIRIT FALLS ON CORNELIUS,
00:30:22.88\00:30:27.29
YOU CAN UNDERSTAND WHY
IT SAID THE BELIEVERS OF THE
00:30:27.32\00:30:30.26
CIRCUMCISION WERE
ASTONISHED 'THEY CAN BE SAVED?'
00:30:30.29\00:30:35.96
THAT WAS AMAZING TO THEM,
BECAUSE THE GIFT OF THE HOLY
00:30:36.00\00:30:39.03
SPIRIT HAD BEEN POURED ON
THE GENTILES. WHAT? GENTILES?
00:30:39.07\00:30:42.74
THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF
DISCRIMINATION GOING ON,
00:30:42.77\00:30:45.37
WOULDN'T YOU SAY? THEY
THOUGHT THAT IT WAS JUST,
00:30:45.41\00:30:49.94
YOU KNOW, 'WE'RE THE CHOSEN
PEOPLE.'"? BUT THEY HAD BEEN
00:30:49.98\00:30:53.92
INFORMED ABOUT YOU THAT
YOU TEACH ALL THE JEWS THAT ARE
00:30:53.95\00:30:57.12
AMONG THE
GENTILES, TO FORSAKE MOSES.'
00:30:57.15\00:30:59.89
NOW HE'S NOT SAYING
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
00:30:59.92\00:31:02.06
HE'S TALKING
ABOUT THE MOSAIC LAWS.
00:31:02.09\00:31:03.46
TO FORSAKE MOSES, SAYING THAT
THEY OUGHT TO - OUGHT NOT TO
00:31:03.49\00:31:07.50
CIRCUMCISE THEIR CHILDREN OR
WALK ACCORDING TO THE CUSTOMS.
00:31:07.50\00:31:10.73
THERE WAS A BIG DISPUTE WHEN
PAUL CAME TO JERUSALEM, THEY
00:31:10.77\00:31:13.50
SAID, 'BOY, RUMOR'S OUT
THAT YOU'RE TELLING EVERYBODY TO
00:31:13.54\00:31:15.90
FORSAKE THE LAWS OF MOSES.' PAUL
SAID, 'THAT'S NOT EXACTLY TRUE.
00:31:15.94\00:31:20.24
I'M TELLING THE GENTILES
THEY ARE NOT REQUIRED.' AND THIS
00:31:20.28\00:31:24.58
ENDED UP GETTING PAUL ARRESTED.
NOW, THE BIG DEBATE IN ACTS 15
00:31:24.61\00:31:28.95
HAD NOTHING TO DO
WITH THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
00:31:28.98\00:31:32.09
MATTER OF FACT, TAKE YOUR BIBLE
- AFTER THIS COUNSEL THEY MEET
00:31:32.12\00:31:35.36
TOGETHER AND THEY FINALLY
COME UP WITH A RESOLUTION.
00:31:35.39\00:31:38.43
GO TO ACTS 15 - I THINK IT'S
IN VERSE 20 - IT APPEARS TWICE,
00:31:38.46\00:31:42.36
ACTUALLY, IN ACTS AND I WANT TO
MAKE SURE I GIVE YOU THE RIGHT
00:31:42.40\00:31:44.17
ONE. YEAH, ACTS 15:20.
00:31:44.20\00:31:48.74
SO FINALLY, AFTER THE COUNCIL
MET, "THEREFORE" - JAMES IS
00:31:48.77\00:31:54.11
SPEAKING, I BELIEVE - VERSE
19, "I JUDGE THAT WE SHOULD NOT
00:31:54.14\00:31:57.95
TROUBLE THOSE FROM AMONG THE
GENTILES WHO ARE TURNING TO GOD,
00:31:57.98\00:32:03.92
BUT THAT WE WRITE TO THEM TO
ABSTAIN FROM THINGS POLLUTED BY
00:32:03.95\00:32:07.22
IDOLS," - THEY WERE SAYING,
'DON'T EAT THINGS OFFERED TO
00:32:07.26\00:32:10.69
IDOLS - "FROM SEXUAL
IMMORALITY," - FROM FORNICATION
00:32:10.73\00:32:15.06
- "FROM THINGS STRANGLED" - THEY
WERE TO OBSERVE THE HEALTH LAWS
00:32:15.10\00:32:18.43
AND NOT EAT THINGS WITH
THE BLOOD AND FROM BLOOD.
00:32:18.47\00:32:21.00
YOU KNOW, I NEVER - THIS IS
SOMETHING THAT ALWAYS IS AMAZING
00:32:21.04\00:32:24.04
TO ME: I'VE BEEN IN A LOT
OF CHURCHES, A LOT OF DIFFERENT
00:32:24.07\00:32:28.44
DENOMINATIONS - I'VE YET TO HEAR
A SUNDAY PASTOR PREACH FROM ACTS
00:32:28.48\00:32:34.15
15 AND TELL HIS CONGREGATION
THEY MUST ABSTAIN FROM BLOOD,
00:32:34.18\00:32:38.15
BUT THAT WAS CLEARLY GIVEN
TO THE GENTILES IN THIS VERSE.
00:32:38.19\00:32:42.49
HE'S SAYING - SO DOES THAT MEAN,
NOW, THEY DON'T HAVE TO KEEP THE
00:32:42.52\00:32:45.39
TEN COMMANDMENTS? I'VE
HAD PEOPLE READ THIS BEFORE
00:32:45.43\00:32:47.60
SAYING, 'SEE, HE
DOESN'T MENTION THE SABBATH.
00:32:47.66\00:32:49.23
WE DON'T HAVE TO KEEP IT.' WELL,
HE ALSO DIDN'T SAY, 'HONOR YOUR
00:32:49.26\00:32:52.70
FATHER AND MOTHER' - HE ALSO
DIDN'T SAY, 'DON'T HAVE OTHER
00:32:52.73\00:32:55.44
GODS' - HE ALSO DIDN'T SAY,
'DON'T TAKE GOD'S' - HE'S NOT
00:32:55.47\00:32:57.91
ADDRESSING THE
TEN COMMANDMENTS HERE.
00:32:57.94\00:33:00.24
HE'S TALKING ABOUT THE OTHER
THINGS THAT WERE ISSUES AMONG
00:33:00.28\00:33:03.88
THE GENTILES. AND
SO, THIS WAS DEALING WITH
00:33:03.91\00:33:06.18
SPECIFIC QUESTIONS
THEY HAD AMONG THE GENTILES.
00:33:06.21\00:33:08.75
OKAY, WITH THAT, YOU KNOW, I'VE
GOT TO BE CAREFUL HOW I DO THIS,
00:33:08.78\00:33:14.89
BUT I THINK IT'S - IT'S ALMOST
IMPOSSIBLE TO STUDY GALATIANS
00:33:14.92\00:33:19.06
WITHOUT SAYING A FEW WORDS
ON THE SUBJECT OF CIRCUMCISION.
00:33:19.09\00:33:23.00
CIRCUMCISION - THE COVENANT
FIRST SHOWS UP IN GENESIS.
00:33:23.03\00:33:27.64
I THINK IT'S MENTIONED
SIXTEEN TIMES IN GENESIS.
00:33:27.67\00:33:30.57
CIRCUMCISION IS MENTIONED MORE
IN GALATIANS THAN ANY OTHER BOOK
00:33:30.61\00:33:33.54
IN THE BIBLE - TWELVE TIMES.
THE PURPOSE OF CIRCUMCISION - IT
00:33:33.58\00:33:39.31
REPRESENTED A COVENANT WITH GOD.
THERE WAS A SPIRITUAL MEANING
00:33:39.35\00:33:43.69
BEHIND IT, THAT THE PROMISED
SEED - AND THE ANALOGY WILL BE
00:33:43.72\00:33:48.09
OBVIOUS TO YOU - THE PROMISED
SEED OF THE MESSIAH WAS GOING
00:33:48.12\00:33:51.43
TO COME THROUGH THE JEWS.
IT ALSO REPRESENTED NOT BEING
00:33:51.46\00:33:55.96
CONTROLLED BY THE FLESH, BUT
BEING CONTROLLED BY THE SPIRIT.
00:33:56.00\00:33:59.60
IT WAS A CUTTING
AWAY OF THE FLESH.
00:33:59.63\00:34:02.90
THE FIRST TIME JESUS SHED THE
BLOOD WAS WHEN HE WAS EIGHT DAYS
00:34:02.94\00:34:07.14
OLD AND HE WAS NAMED,
AND HE WAS CIRCUMCISED.
00:34:07.18\00:34:11.38
AND THAT'S INTERESTING THAT WHEN
HE GOT HIS NAME 'HE WILL SAVE
00:34:11.41\00:34:14.52
HIS PEOPLE FROM THEIR SINS' IS
WHEN HE ALSO - THE FIRST TIME -
00:34:14.55\00:34:18.02
THEY SHED BLOOD. THE
REASON THAT THE LORD TOLD
00:34:18.05\00:34:22.72
THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL THE
BOY WAS TO BE CIRCUMCISED ON THE
00:34:22.76\00:34:24.99
EIGHTH DAY WAS BECAUSE THE
VITAMIN K, I UNDERSTAND, THAT
00:34:25.03\00:34:29.60
HELPS THE CLOTTING FACTOR,
DOESN'T FULLY FORM UNTIL THE
00:34:29.63\00:34:33.54
BACTERIA DEVELOP IN THE STOMACH
AND THAT'S USUALLY ABOUT THE
00:34:33.57\00:34:36.34
EIGHTH DAY - OR AT LEAST
IT'S SAFE BY THE EIGHTH DAY.
00:34:36.37\00:34:39.51
AND SO, IT WAS A
VERY IMPORTANT THING.
00:34:39.54\00:34:42.41
NOW, WHILE IT IS MANIFESTLY
CLEAR IN THE NEW TESTAMENT,
00:34:42.44\00:34:48.32
THROUGH THE WRITINGS OF PAUL
AND OTHERS, CIRCUMCISION IS NOT
00:34:48.35\00:34:53.19
REQUIRED FOR ANY
SPIRITUAL REASON.
00:34:53.22\00:34:56.96
THERE IS NO SPIRITUAL
VALUE IN CIRCUMCISION.
00:34:56.99\00:35:00.33
PAUL SAYS CIRCUMCISION IS
NOTHING; UNCIRCUMCISION IS
00:35:00.36\00:35:03.67
NOTHING. BUT SOME
PEOPLE TAKE THAT TO
00:35:03.70\00:35:06.74
MEAN THAT THE PRACTICE OF
CIRCUMCISION WAS SOMETHING
00:35:06.77\00:35:10.54
BARBARIC - I'VE ACTUALLY READ
THIS BEFORE - THAT ABRAHAM GOT
00:35:10.57\00:35:15.01
FROM THE PAGANS AND THEY BLAMED
GOD FOR IT. AND PEOPLE HAVE
00:35:15.04\00:35:21.75
OFTEN ASKED, 'WHY IN THE WORLD
WOULD GOD DESIGN A HUMAN BODY A
00:35:21.78\00:35:28.12
CERTAIN WAY AND THEN SAY, 'I'M
GOING TO MAKE AN IMPROVEMENT BY
00:35:28.16\00:35:32.19
DOING SOMETHING THAT WOULD SEEM
LIKE SOME FORM OF MUTILATION.
00:35:32.23\00:35:36.33
OF COURSE, THE WORLD
CHANGED BECAUSE OF SIN.
00:35:36.36\00:35:39.50
WELL, LET ME JUST SHARE
SOMETHING WITH YOU HERE.
00:35:39.53\00:35:42.17
THERE WAS - THERE'S SOME NOTES I
THOUGHT I'D READ TO YOU - THERE
00:35:42.20\00:35:45.91
WERE, ACTUALLY MEDICAL BENEFITS
CONNECTED WITH CIRCUMCISION.
00:35:45.94\00:35:50.58
THIS IS AN ARTICLE BY JESSICA
FIRGER, CBS NEWS, APRIL 2, 2014,
00:35:50.61\00:35:57.75
"CIRCUMCISION FOR MALE INFANTS
IS BECOMING LESS COMMON IN THE
00:35:57.79\00:36:01.19
U.S., RAISING MEDICAL RISKS,
ACCORDING TO NEW DATA PUBLISHED
00:36:01.22\00:36:05.96
BY THE MAYO CLINIC PROCEEDINGS."
AND SO, IT WASN'T BARBARIC,
00:36:05.99\00:36:11.47
THERE WAS
ACTUALLY MEDICAL VALUE.
00:36:11.50\00:36:14.80
THEIR FINDINGS FURTHER BACK UP
A 2012 PUBLIC STATEMENT FROM THE
00:36:14.84\00:36:18.87
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS,
IN SUPPORT OF WIDESPREAD
00:36:18.91\00:36:22.78
EDUCATION INITIATIVES AND ACCESS
TO INFANT MALE CIRCUMCISION.
00:36:22.81\00:36:27.85
THE REASONS THAT THESE
NON-RELIGIOUS DOCTORS ARE SAYING
00:36:27.88\00:36:32.02
THAT THERE'S VALUE IN IT -
MATTER OF FACT, ONE DOCTOR FROM
00:36:32.05\00:36:36.09
THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY,
BRIAN MORRIS, HE SAID, "INFANT
00:36:36.12\00:36:43.53
CIRCUMCISION SHOULD BE REGARDED
AS EQUIVALENT TO CHILDHOOD
00:36:43.57\00:36:46.70
VACCINATION"
BECAUSE OF THE ADVANTAGES.
00:36:46.74\00:36:50.41
HIS COLLEAGUES FOUND THAT
CIRCUMCISION RATES IN NEWBORNS
00:36:50.44\00:36:53.27
IN AMERICA HAD DECLINED FROM 83%
IN 1960 - THIS KIND OF SURPRISED
00:36:53.31\00:36:59.45
ME, AND IT HAD NOTHING -
OBVIOUSLY 83% OF MALES IN NORTH
00:36:59.48\00:37:03.25
AMERICA WERE NOT
JEWS. IS THAT CLEAR TO YOU?
00:37:03.28\00:37:07.49
83% IN 1960 TO 77% IN 2010.
IT WAS DECLINING, WHICH CAUSED
00:37:07.52\00:37:13.93
CONCERN AMONG THE
MEDICAL COMMUNITY.
00:37:13.96\00:37:16.87
THE STUDY SAYS THE BENEFITS
TO NEWBORN - BOYS OBVIOUSLY - OF
00:37:16.90\00:37:20.77
CIRCUMCISION EXCEEDS
THE RISKS BY 100 TO 1.
00:37:20.80\00:37:25.07
CLINIC - NOW HERE'S SOME OF
THE REASONS FOR THAT - CLINICAL
00:37:25.11\00:37:27.91
RESEARCH HAS FOUND THAT
CIRCUMCISION CAN SAFEGUARD AN
00:37:27.94\00:37:30.55
INFANT FROM A NUMBER OF HEALTH
COMPLICATIONS, MOST NOTABLY
00:37:30.58\00:37:33.92
URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS, KIDNEY
DAMAGE, FOR INFANTS, CAN BE VERY
00:37:33.95\00:37:39.09
SEVERE CONNECTED WITH THAT
INFECTION. CIRCUMCISION HAS BEEN
00:37:39.12\00:37:43.93
FOUND TO LOWER ONE'S RISK
FOR CONTACTING HIV AND HPV.
00:37:43.96\00:37:49.43
ANOTHER STUDY PUBLISHED IN
THE JOURNAL OF AMERICAN MEDICAL
00:37:49.46\00:37:51.77
ASSOCIATION REVIEWED MORE
THAN 500 STUDIES, FINDING THAT
00:37:51.80\00:37:55.74
CIRCUMCISION REDUCED THE
RISK FOR HIV TRANSMISSION.
00:37:55.77\00:38:00.51
SOME SUGGESTED THAT CIRCUMCISION
IN INFANCY ACTUALLY LOWERS THE
00:38:00.54\00:38:04.71
RISK FOR PROSTATE CANCER. I
DON'T UNDERSTAND IT, I'M JUST
00:38:04.75\00:38:07.35
READING THE STUDY - CBS NEWS
- MAYO CLINIC. SO THE REASON I'M
00:38:07.38\00:38:11.95
SHARING THAT WITH YOU IS
TO LET YOU KNOW THAT IT WASN'T
00:38:11.99\00:38:15.52
BARBARIC, THERE WAS ACTUALLY
- GOD KNEW WHAT HE WAS DOING.
00:38:15.56\00:38:19.96
BUT EVEN THOUGH THERE MIGHT BE
MEDICAL ADVANTAGES, IS THERE ANY
00:38:20.00\00:38:23.73
SALVATION ADVANTAGE
TO CIRCUMCISION? NO.
00:38:23.77\00:38:28.37
PAUL IS SAYING, 'CIRCUMCISION
IS NOTHING; UNCIRCUMCISION IS
00:38:28.40\00:38:31.31
NOTHING, BUT KEEPING THE
COMMANDMENTS IS WHAT MATTERS.'
00:38:31.34\00:38:34.74
MATTER OF FACT, I
WANT TO READ THAT TO YOU.
00:38:34.78\00:38:36.21
GO - 1 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 7,
VERSE 19 - YOU GOT YOUR BIBLES?
00:38:36.24\00:38:43.72
I'M GOING TO READ YOU
SEVERAL VERSES VERY QUICKLY.
00:38:43.75\00:38:47.36
"CIRCUMCISION IS NOTHING AND
UNCIRCUMCISION IS NOTHING, BUT
00:38:47.39\00:38:51.73
KEEPING THE COMMANDMENTS
OF GOD IS WHAT MATTERS."
00:38:51.76\00:38:54.73
ALRIGHT, NOW WAIT A SECOND,
I THOUGHT CIRCUMCISION WAS A
00:38:54.73\00:38:58.13
COMMAND. SO IF
HE'S SAYING CIRCUMCISION
00:38:58.17\00:39:01.54
IS NOTHING, BUT KEEPING
THE COMMANDS IS WHAT MATTERS,
00:39:01.57\00:39:06.27
DOESN'T THAT MEAN THERE MUST BE
SOME COMMANDS THAT HAVE NOTHING
00:39:06.31\00:39:08.61
TO DO WITH CIRCUMCISION?
CIRCUMCISION WAS PART
00:39:08.64\00:39:12.08
OF THE ORDINANCES.
THE COMMANDMENTS ARE
00:39:12.11\00:39:14.48
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
LISTEN TO PAUL IN GALATIANS -
00:39:14.52\00:39:17.89
I'M GOING TO READ GALATIANS
5:2, 5:6, AND GALATIANS 6:15.
00:39:17.92\00:39:22.66
PAUL SAYS, "INDEED I, PAUL,
SAY TO YOU THAT IF YOU BECOME
00:39:22.69\00:39:27.03
CIRCUMCISED, CHRIST
WILL PROFIT YOU NOTHING."
00:39:27.03\00:39:29.56
- IN OTHER WORDS, IF YOU'RE
GETTING CIRCUMCISED - HE'S
00:39:29.60\00:39:30.83
TELLING THE GALATIANS - GENTILES
- FOR THE BENEFIT OF SALVATION,
00:39:30.87\00:39:34.00
YOU DON'T
UNDERSTAND SALVATION BY FAITH.
00:39:34.04\00:39:36.67
GALATIANS 5:6, "FOR IN CHRIST
JESUS NEITHER CIRCUMCISION NOR
00:39:36.71\00:39:40.64
UNCIRCUMCISION AVAILS ANYTHING,
BUT FAITH WORKING THROUGH LOVE."
00:39:40.68\00:39:45.21
SO ONE TIME HE SAYS, 'BUT
KEEPING THE COMMANDMENTS'; THE
00:39:45.25\00:39:47.98
OTHER TIME HE SAYS, 'BUT
FAITH WORKING THROUGH LOVE.
00:39:48.02\00:39:50.75
GALATIANS 6:15, "FOR IN CHRIST
JESUS NEITHER CIRCUMCISION NOR
00:39:50.79\00:39:54.62
UNCIRCUMCISION AVAILS
ANYTHING, BUT A NEW CREATION."
00:39:54.66\00:39:59.66
SO WHAT - IF WE'VE GOT A
SPIRITUAL PRIESTHOOD NOW - IF
00:39:59.69\00:40:06.43
WE'VE GOT A SPIRITUAL TEMPLE -
IF WE'RE NOW THE BODY OF CHRIST,
00:40:06.47\00:40:11.17
DO WE SACRIFICE LAMBS
ANYMORE? JESUS IS OUR LAMB.
00:40:11.21\00:40:14.51
SO, DO YOU SEE HOW THINGS
WENT THROUGH A BIG CHANGE WITH
00:40:14.54\00:40:16.28
CHRIST'S COMING?
WHAT ABOUT CIRCUMCISION?
00:40:16.31\00:40:18.95
IS THERE A SPIRITUAL EQUIVALENT?
00:40:18.98\00:40:21.38
MOSES IS SPEAKING HERE AND
HE SAYS, 'THE LORD YOUR GOD WILL
00:40:21.42\00:40:27.89
CIRCUMCISE YOUR HEART AND
THE HEART OF YOUR DESCENDENTS TO
00:40:27.92\00:40:32.43
LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL
OF YOUR HEART AND WITH ALL OF
00:40:32.46\00:40:35.76
YOUR SOUL, THAT YOU MAY LIVE."
NOW, WHAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT IS
00:40:35.80\00:40:40.64
NOT HAVING A HARD
HEART, BUT A SENSITIVE HEART.
00:40:40.67\00:40:45.27
YOU'LL ALSO FIND IT AGAIN IN
DEUTERONOMY 10:16, "THEREFORE
00:40:45.31\00:40:49.41
CIRCUMCISE THE FORESKIN OF YOUR
HEART, AND BE STIFF-NECKED NO
00:40:49.44\00:40:53.21
LONGER." JEREMIAH
4, VERSES 3 AND 4, "FOR
00:40:53.25\00:40:57.45
THUS SAYS THE LORD TO THE MEN OF
JUDAH AND JERUSALEM: 'BREAK UP
00:40:57.49\00:41:01.16
YOUR FALLOW GROUND AND
DO NOT SOW AMONG THORNS.
00:41:01.19\00:41:04.03
CIRCUMCISE YOURSELVES TO
THE LORD, AND TAKE AWAY THE
00:41:04.06\00:41:06.39
FORESKINS OF YOUR HEARTS, YOU
MEN OF JUDAH AND INHABITANTS OF
00:41:06.43\00:41:09.33
JERUSALEM, LEST MY FURY COME
FORTH LIKE FIRE, AND BURN SO
00:41:09.36\00:41:13.77
THAT NO ONE CAN QUENCH IT,
BECAUSE OF THE EVIL OF YOUR
00:41:13.80\00:41:16.40
DOINGS.'" NOW THOSE ARE OLD
TESTAMENT THERE - GOING BACK TO
00:41:16.44\00:41:19.94
ANOTHER NEW TESTAMENT EXAMPLE -
PAUL SPEAKING - ROMANS 2, VERSE
00:41:19.97\00:41:23.88
28, "FOR HE IS NOT A JEW WHO
IS ONE OUTWARDLY," - NOW WHAT DO
00:41:23.91\00:41:28.45
YOU THINK HE'S TALKING ABOUT?
OUTWARDLY - MEANING SKIN IS YOUR
00:41:28.48\00:41:33.05
OUTER ORGAN OF YOUR BODY -
"HE IS NOT A JEW WHO IS ONE
00:41:33.09\00:41:36.73
OUTWARDLY, NOR IS CIRCUMCISION
THAT WHICH IS OUTWARD IN THE
00:41:36.76\00:41:40.40
FLESH; BUT HE IS A JEW WHO IS
ONE INWARDLY; AND CIRCUMCISION
00:41:40.43\00:41:46.33
IS THAT OF THE HEART, IN THE
SPIRIT, NOT IN THE LETTER; WHOSE
00:41:46.37\00:41:49.70
PRAISE IS NOT
FROM MEN BUT FROM GOD."
00:41:49.74\00:41:53.27
SO, IF YOU HAD TO CHOOSE BETWEEN
BEING SPIRITUALLY CONVERTED OR
00:41:53.31\00:42:01.08
PHYSICALLY CONVERTED, WHAT
IS PAUL SAYING THE PRIORITY IS?
00:42:01.12\00:42:04.29
>>SPIRITUALLY. >>YEAH.
LET ME READ GALATIANS -
00:42:04.32\00:42:08.09
I ALREADY READ THAT TO
YOU - YEAH, I READ THAT ONE.
00:42:08.12\00:42:12.53
ALRIGHT, LET'S GO TO THE NEXT
SECTION: UNITY IN DIVERSITY .
00:42:12.56\00:42:16.33
SO I PROBABLY SAID A LOT MORE
ABOUT CIRCUMCISION THAN YOU EVEN
00:42:16.36\00:42:19.30
WANT TO KNOW, BUT THAT JUST -
IT'S THE PROBLEM IN GALATIANS,
00:42:19.33\00:42:22.40
CAN EVERYBODY SEE THAT? OKAY.
00:42:22.44\00:42:25.31
I DIDN'T PICK THE LESSON,
I'M JUST TEACHING THE LESSON.
00:42:25.34\00:42:30.35
UNITY IN DIVERSITY - AMOS 3:3,
"CAN TWO WALK TOGETHER UNLESS
00:42:30.38\00:42:36.92
THEY ARE AGREED?"
THIS IS GOING BACK TO THAT
00:42:36.95\00:42:40.26
QUESTION WE TALKED ABOUT A
MINUTE AGO. HOW DO WE HAVE THIS
00:42:40.29\00:42:44.73
UNITY, YET WHEN WE'RE -
THERE'S SUCH A DIFFERENCE?
00:42:44.76\00:42:50.10
GALATIANS 2 - NOW WE'RE READING
VERSES 4 AND 5, "AND THIS
00:42:50.13\00:42:54.10
OCCURRED BECAUSE OF
FALSE BRETHREN SECRETLY BROUGHT
00:42:54.14\00:42:56.54
IN...BY STEALTH" - AND I TALKED
ABOUT THIS - "(...TO SPY OUT OUR
00:42:56.57\00:42:59.74
LIBERTY...)" - WHAT
LIBERTY IS HE TALKING ABOUT?
00:42:59.77\00:43:03.45
- (...WHICH WE HAVE IN CHRIST
JESUS, THAT THEY MIGHT BRING US
00:43:03.48\00:43:06.51
INTO BONDAGE), TO WHOM WE DID
NOT YIELD SUBMISSION EVEN FOR AN
00:43:06.55\00:43:10.85
HOUR," - THESE JEWS WERE COMING
BACK TRYING TO TACK THEM BACK
00:43:10.89\00:43:15.36
AND KEEP THESE OLD CEREMONIAL
LAWS AND THAT JUST MADE THE
00:43:15.39\00:43:20.40
RELIGION A
DRUDGERY. GO TO - DID I GIVE
00:43:20.43\00:43:24.90
SOMEBODY JOHN 8:31?
YOU'VE GOT JOHN 8:31, OKAY.
00:43:24.93\00:43:30.01
>>JOHN 8:31-32, "THEN JESUS SAID
TO THOSE JEWS WHO BELIEVED HIM,
00:43:30.04\00:43:36.24
'IF YOU ABIDE IN MY WORD, YOU
ARE MY DISCIPLES INDEED. AND YOU
00:43:36.28\00:43:42.82
SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH, AND
THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE.'"
00:43:42.85\00:43:46.92
>>SO THERE'S SOMETHING
LIBERATING ABOUT THE TRUTH.
00:43:46.96\00:43:52.29
IGNORANCE CAN ENSLAVE YOU. I
JUST READ A STUDY THIS WEEK -
00:43:52.33\00:43:59.30
SOMEONE SENT ME AN E-MAIL, THEY
SAID THAT CIGARETTE SMOKING IS
00:43:59.33\00:44:05.01
BECOMING A DISEASE, PRINCIPALLY,
OF THE POOR. THAT PEOPLE WHO MAY
00:44:05.04\00:44:11.68
NOT HAVE THE SAME EDUCATIONAL
ADVANTAGES ARE BEING PREYED UPON
00:44:11.71\00:44:19.25
BY THE TOBACCO COMPANIES, BUT
CIGARETTE SMOKING AMONG WEALTHY
00:44:19.29\00:44:23.99
AND EDUCATED PEOPLE IS VERY
LOW. WHY DO YOU THINK THAT IS?
00:44:24.03\00:44:29.13
IF A PERSON'S EDUCATED ABOUT
THAT, THEY KNOW THE DANGERS OF
00:44:29.16\00:44:31.73
IT, THEY KNOW THAT IT'S JUST
GOING TO COST THEM - IT'S GOING
00:44:31.77\00:44:34.17
TO TAKE AWAY THEIR LIFE -
THERE'S ALL - IT'S SOCIALLY,
00:44:34.20\00:44:36.60
NOW, UNACCEPTABLE AND PEOPLE,
BECAUSE OF THE TRUTH THEY'RE
00:44:36.64\00:44:39.87
LEARNING, THEY FIND
VICTORY AND THEY GIVE IT UP.
00:44:39.91\00:44:43.35
BUT PEOPLE WHO ARE IN IGNORANCE
ARE OFTEN HELD IN BONDAGE.
00:44:43.38\00:44:47.35
AND SO, TRUTH -
KNOWLEDGE LIBERATES PEOPLE.
00:44:47.38\00:44:51.25
THAT'S WHY
EDUCATION IS SO IMPORTANT.
00:44:51.29\00:44:53.69
IN JOHN 8:34 JESUS SAID, "MOST
ASSUREDLY, I SAY TO YOU, WHOEVER
00:44:53.72\00:45:00.96
COMMITS SIN IS A SLAVE OF SIN.
AND A SLAVE DOES NOT ABIDE IN
00:45:00.96\00:45:05.13
THE [HOUSE FOREVER]
BUT A SON ABIDES FOREVER.
00:45:05.17\00:45:07.70
THEREFORE IF THE SON MAKES YOU
FREE, YOU SHALL BE FREE INDEED."
00:45:07.74\00:45:12.51
>>AMEN. >>HOW MANY
OF YOU REMEMBER WHEN
00:45:12.54\00:45:14.31
THERE WAS A BIG
DISPUTE AMONG THE DISCIPLES?
00:45:14.34\00:45:16.81
AND THIS PASSAGE IS OFTEN
MISQUOTED IN MARK CHAPTER 7,
00:45:16.85\00:45:20.88
WHERE SOME OF THE PHARISEES
BECAME INDIGNANT BECAUSE THE
00:45:20.92\00:45:24.49
DISCIPLES SAT DOWN TO EAT LUNCH
ON THE ROAD AND THEY DID NOT
00:45:24.52\00:45:27.49
CEREMONIALLY WASH THEIR HANDS.
NOW, THE PHARISEES, WHEN - I
00:45:27.52\00:45:31.73
MEAN, WE ALL THINK IT'S A
GOOD IDEA TO WASH YOUR HANDS
00:45:31.76\00:45:33.46
WHEN YOU EAT, RIGHT?
I'M NOT GOING TO ASK YOU TO
00:45:33.50\00:45:36.30
RAISE YOUR HANDS, BUT HAVE ANY
OF YOU EATEN, EVEN THOUGH THERE
00:45:36.33\00:45:39.53
WAS NO PLACE TO WASH YOUR HANDS
BEFORE? YEAH, AND YOU SURVIVED.
00:45:39.57\00:45:46.44
SO HOW MANY OF YOU AND YOUR
KIDS ATE A LITTLE BIT OF DIRT?
00:45:46.47\00:45:53.15
HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE SEEN - YOUR
KIDS OR OTHER KIDS - EAT A WHOLE
00:45:53.18\00:45:55.98
LOT OF DIRT? I KNOW
YOU WOULD NEVER ADMIT TO
00:45:56.02\00:45:58.05
THAT, BUT MAYBE SOMEONE
ELSE - AND HERE YOU ARE.
00:45:58.09\00:46:03.09
BUT WHEN THE PHARISEES SAW THAT
THE DISCIPLES DID NOT GO THROUGH
00:46:03.12\00:46:07.66
THE REGULAR POURING AND WASHING
OF HANDS - AND IT WAS MORE
00:46:07.66\00:46:11.50
CEREMONY THAN ANYTHING -
THEY SAID, 'HOW IS IT THAT YOUR
00:46:11.53\00:46:14.67
DISCIPLES EAT
WITHOUT WASHING THEIR HANDS?'
00:46:14.70\00:46:16.54
AND JESUS SAID, 'IT'S NOT WHAT
GOES IN YOUR MOUTH THAT DEFILES
00:46:16.57\00:46:19.97
YOU, BUT IT'S WHAT COMES OUT OF
YOUR MOUTH.' NOW, DOES THAT MEAN
00:46:20.01\00:46:24.11
THAT JESUS IS SAYING IT DOESN'T
MATTER WHAT GOES IN YOUR MOUTH?
00:46:24.15\00:46:29.38
HAVE YOU HEARD
PEOPLE USE IT THAT WAY?
00:46:29.42\00:46:31.35
>>YES. >>I USED IT
THAT WAY, YEARS AGO.
00:46:31.39\00:46:34.46
CHRISTIAN FRIENDS WERE TELLING
ME, 'DOUG' - YOU SEE, WHEN I WAS
00:46:34.49\00:46:37.06
A CHRISTIAN, I ACCEPTED
JESUS BUT I KEPT SMOKING.
00:46:37.09\00:46:40.56
AND I WAS NOT A MEMBER OF
THIS CHURCH, BUT I WAS GOING TO
00:46:40.60\00:46:42.93
CHURCH, I WAS SMOKING - I SAID,
'LOOK, JESUS SAID IT'S NOT WHAT
00:46:42.96\00:46:45.17
GOES IN MY MOUTH THAT DEFILES
ME.' (LAUGHTER) 'AND SO, THERE'S
00:46:45.20\00:46:49.27
NOTHING WRONG WITH THIS.' AND
I USED THAT AS MY ARGUMENT FOR
00:46:49.30\00:46:51.74
AWHILE. AND THEN I
EVEN ARGUED - I SAID,
00:46:51.77\00:46:54.54
'GOD MADE ALL THE HERBS OF THE
FIELD FOR US TO USE AND ENJOY.
00:46:54.58\00:46:57.81
HE MADE TOBACCO.' I HAD
ALL THESE DUMB ARGUMENTS.
00:46:57.85\00:47:00.68
I PICKED UP A GUY HITCHHIKING
ONE TIME AND HE JUST REEKED FROM
00:47:00.72\00:47:03.85
MARIJUANA AND HE
ASKED ME IF I HAD ANY.
00:47:03.89\00:47:05.82
I SAID, 'NO, I DON'T SMOKE.'
AND I SAID, 'I DON'T THINK YOU
00:47:05.85\00:47:07.79
SHOULD.' HE SAID, 'OH NO,
GOD MADE THESE HERBS FOR US TO
00:47:07.82\00:47:10.63
ENJOY.' (LAUGHTER) AND THEN HE
QUOTED, 'IT'S NOT WHAT GOES IN
00:47:10.66\00:47:14.56
YOUR MOUTH THAT DEFILES YOU,
IT'S WHAT COMES OUT.' WAS JESUS
00:47:14.60\00:47:18.23
TALKING ABOUT EATING ANYTHING
THAT CRAWLS ACROSS YOUR PLATE OR
00:47:18.27\00:47:23.14
WAS THE CONTEXT TALKING ABOUT
EATING WITHOUT CEREMONIALLY
00:47:23.17\00:47:27.54
WASHING YOUR HANDS? THAT'S WHAT
JESUS IS TALKING ABOUT THERE.
00:47:27.58\00:47:31.51
HE SAYS, 'YOU'RE NOT GOING TO
HAVE YOUR HEART DEFILED BECAUSE
00:47:31.55\00:47:35.25
YOU TOUCHED SOMETHING AND DIDN'T
WASH YOUR HANDS.' SO, KNOWING
00:47:35.28\00:47:41.46
THESE THINGS
ACTUALLY SETS YOU FREE.
00:47:41.49\00:47:44.59
ALRIGHT, NOW I'M NOT SUGGESTING
YOU ALL WASH - EAT WITHOUT
00:47:44.63\00:47:47.30
WASHING YOUR HANDS, YOU
UNDERSTAND WHAT I'M SAYING?
00:47:47.30\00:47:49.43
ROMANS 6, VERSES 6 AND 7,
"KNOWING THIS, THAT OUR OLD MAN
00:47:49.46\00:47:53.87
WAS CRUCIFIED WITH HIM, THAT THE
BODY OF SIN MIGHT BE DONE AWAY
00:47:53.90\00:47:56.74
WITH, THAT WE SHOULD NO
LONGER BE SLAVES OF SIN."
00:47:56.77\00:48:00.51
SO WHAT IS IT THAT
JESUS SETS US FREE FROM?
00:48:00.54\00:48:02.68
>>SIN. >>SIN.
WHAT DOES THE TRUTH SET
00:48:02.71\00:48:05.35
US FREE FROM? >>SIN.
00:48:05.38\00:48:07.08
>>FROM SIN. WE ARE
SAVED FROM SIN. AND THEN,
00:48:07.12\00:48:14.16
LET'S SEE, WHERE AM I?
ROMANS 8:2, "FOR THE LAW OF THE
00:48:14.19\00:48:17.43
SPIRIT OF LIFE IN CHRIST
JESUS HAS MADE ME FREE FROM THE
00:48:17.46\00:48:21.73
LAW OF SIN AND DEATH."
AND IN 1 PETER 2:16, "AS FREE,
00:48:21.76\00:48:27.14
YET NOT USING LIBERTY
AS A CLOAK FOR VICE, BUT AS
00:48:27.17\00:48:31.57
BONDSERVANTS OF GOD."
NOW THIS IS ANOTHER SUBJECT
00:48:31.61\00:48:35.44
I'VE OFTEN HEARD MISAPPLIED
AND MISUNDERSTOOD, IS THAT THE
00:48:35.48\00:48:41.85
FREEDOM WE ENJOY THROUGH
CHRIST IS NOT A LICENSE FOR SIN.
00:48:41.88\00:48:48.62
WE HAVE BEEN SET FREE
FROM THE CURSE OF THE LAW.
00:48:48.66\00:48:52.33
THE CURSE OF THE LAW IS A
PENALTY FOR SIN, BUT WHEN YOU'RE
00:48:52.36\00:48:55.00
SET FREE FROM THE PENALTY OF THE
LAW, IT DOES NOT MEAN, NOW, THAT
00:48:55.03\00:48:58.60
YOU ARE FREE TO
SIN. BUT I'VE HEARD SOME
00:48:58.63\00:49:00.97
USE IT THAT WAY. PAUL
SAID, 'WE ARE FREE, YET NOT
00:49:01.00\00:49:05.27
USING LIBERTY AS
A CLOAK FOR VICE'.
00:49:05.31\00:49:10.05
I'VE MET PEOPLE BEFORE, THEY'RE
DRINKING ALCOHOL AND I'LL SAY,
00:49:10.08\00:49:13.38
'I DON'T BELIEVE A CHRISTIAN
SHOULD DRINK ALCOHOL.' AND THEY
00:49:13.42\00:49:16.38
SAY, 'WELL, I AM NOW FREE
IN CHRIST.' I SAID, 'WELL, WHAT
00:49:16.42\00:49:20.36
YOU'RE DOING KILLS PEOPLE.' I
SAID, 'IT'S THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE
00:49:20.39\00:49:24.76
DRUG IN NORTH AMERICA.' 'OH,
DON'T PUT THAT BURDEN ON ME.
00:49:24.79\00:49:28.20
I AM FREE IN CHRIST AND I DO
THIS WITH A CLEAR CONSCIENCE.' I
00:49:28.23\00:49:31.37
SAID, 'WELL, YOU MIGHT TALK
YOURSELF INTO HAVING A CLEAR
00:49:31.40\00:49:34.80
CONSCIENCE BUT, BY YOUR EXAMPLE,
YOU'RE GOING TO MAKE YOUR
00:49:34.84\00:49:37.27
BROTHER STUMBLE AND SOME PEOPLE
BECOME ALCOHOLICS AND THEIR
00:49:37.31\00:49:39.74
LIVES ARE DESTROYED BY ALCOHOL.
00:49:39.77\00:49:41.24
SO YOU KEEP TALKING ABOUT YOUR
FREEDOM, BUT YOU'RE USING IT AS
00:49:41.28\00:49:43.88
A CLOAK FOR VICE.'
YOU SEE WHAT I'M SAYING?
00:49:43.91\00:49:48.28
PEOPLE DO IT WITH OTHER
DOCTRINES - THEY SAY, 'I'M FREE'
00:49:48.32\00:49:52.55
- THEY'RE NOT VERY CAREFUL ABOUT
MAYBE KEEPING THE SABBATH - 'OH,
00:49:52.59\00:49:55.19
I'M NOT UNDER
THE BOND - I'M FREE.
00:49:55.22\00:49:56.66
I KEEP IT IN MY
SPIRIT. I'M FREE.' AND SO, JUST
00:49:56.69\00:50:02.53
DISOBEYING IS WHAT THEY'RE
DOING, BUT THEY'RE CLAIMING THE
00:50:02.56\00:50:05.23
FREEDOM CARD
AND THAT'S NOT GOOD.
00:50:05.27\00:50:09.40
ALRIGHT, GALATIANS 2, VERSES 11
TO 13, "NOW WHEN PETER HAD COME
00:50:09.44\00:50:13.17
TO ANTIOCH," - PAUL IS SPEAKING
- "I WITHSTOOD HIM TO HIS FACE,
00:50:13.21\00:50:16.78
BECAUSE HE WAS TO BE BLAMED;
FOR BEFORE CERTAIN MEN CAME FROM
00:50:16.81\00:50:20.05
JAMES," - IN JERUSALEM - THIS IS
JAMES, THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD
00:50:20.08\00:50:23.72
FOR THE CHURCH IN JERUSALEM -
"HE WOULD EAT WITH THE GENTILES;
00:50:23.75\00:50:28.52
BUT WHEN THEY CAME, HE WITHDREW
AND SEPARATED HIMSELF, FEARING
00:50:28.56\00:50:31.83
THOSE WHO WERE OF
THE CIRCUMCISION."
00:50:31.86\00:50:34.20
- WHEN THE JEWS CAME AND THEY
SAW, UP HERE IN ANTIOCH, HOW
00:50:34.23\00:50:37.10
PETER WAS HOBNOBBING WITH THE
GENTILES - REMEMBER WHAT PETER
00:50:37.13\00:50:40.60
SAID? 'WE'RE NOT
EVEN SUPPOSED TO GO
00:50:40.64\00:50:42.74
IN AND EAT WITH A GENTILE' - SO
WHEN THE JEWS CAME HE SAID, 'I'D
00:50:42.77\00:50:45.94
BETTER NOT LET
THEM SEE WHAT I'M DOING.
00:50:45.97\00:50:48.04
THEY MIGHT NOT UNDERSTAND.' PAUL
SAID, 'YOU'RE BEING A HYPOCRITE,
00:50:48.08\00:50:50.31
PETER. YOU'RE
TRYING TO LOOK LIKE YOU
00:50:50.35\00:50:54.35
AGREE WITH THE ONES WHO HAVE
COME FROM JERUSALEM, BUT YOU
00:50:54.38\00:50:56.69
KNOW AS SOON AS THEY LEAVE TOWN
YOU'RE HANGING OUT AND EATING
00:50:56.72\00:50:58.99
WITH THE GENTILES AND GOING INTO
THEIR HOMES AND' - SO PAUL, HERE
00:50:59.02\00:51:04.36
IN GALATIANS, IS ACTUALLY -
THIS IS ONE PLACE WHERE YOU FIND
00:51:04.39\00:51:06.93
ONE APOSTLE
CHASTISING ANOTHER APOSTLE.
00:51:06.96\00:51:11.20
BUT WAS PAUL TOTALLY
INNOCENT OF THAT HIMSELF?
00:51:11.23\00:51:16.14
YOU REMEMBER THE STORY WHERE
PAUL WENT TO JERUSALEM AND -
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THIS WAS BEFORE HE WAS ARRESTED.
THEY SAID, 'LOOK, SOME OF THE
00:51:19.04\00:51:21.81
JEWS HERE IN JERUSALEM, THEY
HEAR THAT YOU'RE UP THERE AND
00:51:21.84\00:51:24.55
YOU'VE CAST
ASIDE THE LAW OF MOSES.
00:51:24.58\00:51:26.58
AND WE DON'T WANT TO GET THESE
RUMORS OUT THERE, SO TELL YOU
00:51:26.61\00:51:28.82
WHAT, YOU NEED
TO DO A VOW WITH US.
00:51:28.85\00:51:31.15
YOU NEED TO SHAVE YOUR HEAD, YOU
NEED TO PAY YOUR VOWS - WE'LL
00:51:31.19\00:51:33.46
SUPPLY THE MONEY FOR IT - YOU
NEED TO GO TO THE TEMPLE AND GO
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THROUGH THESE RITUALS AND SHOW
THAT YOU STILL KEEP THE LAW.'
00:51:35.99\00:51:38.69
YOU REMEMBER THAT?
THEN HE GOT ARRESTED IN THE
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TEMPLE BECAUSE THEY
ALREADY KNEW THAT - WHAT HE WAS
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DOING UP IN ASIA.
LISTEN TO WHAT ELLEN WHITE SAYS
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ABOUT THAT IN THE BOOK
ACTS OF THE APOSTLES P. 404,
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"THE BRETHREN HOPED THAT
PAUL, BY FOLLOWING THE COURSE
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SUGGESTED, MIGHT GIVE A DECISIVE
CONTRADICTION TO THE FALSE
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REPORTS CONCERNING HIM.
THEY ASSURED HIM THAT THE
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DECISION OF THE FORMER COUNCIL
CONCERNING THE GENTILE CONVERTS
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AND THE CEREMONIAL
LAW, STILL HELD GOOD.
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BUT THE ADVICE NOW GIVEN WAS NOT
CONSISTENT WITH THAT DECISION.
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THE SPIRIT OF GOD DID
NOT PROMPT THIS INSTRUCTION.
00:52:11.03\00:52:15.03
IT WAS THE FRUIT OF COWARDICE
AND THE LEADERS OF THE CHURCH IN
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JERUSALEM KNEW THAT BY
NON-CONFORMITY TO THE CEREMONIAL
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LAW, CHRISTIANS WOULD BRING UPON
THEMSELVES THE HATRED OF THE
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JEWS AND EXPOSE
THEMSELVES TO PERSECUTION."
00:52:26.81\00:52:29.54
SO TRYING TO COMPROMISE AND
GET RID OF THE PERSECUTION - SHE
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CALLS IT AN ACT OF COWARDICE.
PAUL GOT CAUGHT UP IN THAT AND
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HE ENDED UP GETTING ARRESTED.
WHO HERE CAN SAY THAT WE
00:52:36.52\00:52:40.52
ARE IMMUNE FROM, SOMETIMES,
HYPOCRISY OR BEING TWO-FACED
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- WHICH MEANS THE SAME THING?
HAVE YOU EVER BEEN IN A GROUP
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AND PEOPLE ARE CLAPPING BUT YOU
DON'T FEEL LIKE CLAPPING BUT YOU
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WANT TO LOOK LIKE
EVERYBODY ELSE SO YOU CLAP?
00:52:53.00\00:52:59.17
THERE'S THE BANDWAGON EFFECT
AND WE'VE ALL FALLEN FOR THAT
00:52:59.21\00:53:03.35
BEFORE. WE'VE
TRIED TO LOOK LIKE THOSE
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AROUND US AND ACT LIKE THOSE
AROUND US AND FIT IN AND SO,
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SOMETIMES WE'LL COMPROMISE
WHAT WE KNOW IS RIGHT AND OUR
00:53:07.85\00:53:11.49
CONVICTIONS BECAUSE WE DON'T
WANT TO LOOK LIKE WE STAND OUT.
00:53:11.52\00:53:15.56
AND THAT'S WHERE
IT TAKES REAL COURAGE.
00:53:15.59\00:53:19.66
I THINK I'M OUT OF
TIME. LET ME JUST READ FOR YOU
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GALATIANS 2:14 TO 16 -
WE'RE ALMOST DONE HERE.
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"BUT WHEN I SAW THAT THEY WERE
NOT STRAIGHTFORWARD ABOUT THE
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TRUTH OF THE GOSPEL, I SAID TO
PETER BEFORE THEM ALL, 'IF YOU,
00:53:28.90\00:53:32.37
BEING A JEW, LIVE IN THE MANNER
OF GENTILES AND NOT AS THE JEWS,
00:53:32.41\00:53:35.38
WHY DO YOU COMPEL
GENTILES TO LIVE AS JEWS?'
00:53:35.41\00:53:38.68
WE WHO ARE JEWS BY NATURE," -
PHYSICALLY - "AND NOT SINNERS OF
00:53:38.71\00:53:42.15
THE GENTILES,  KNOWING THAT
A MAN IS NOT JUSTIFIED BY THE
00:53:42.18\00:53:45.39
WORKS OF THE LAW" - CEREMONIAL
LAW - "BUT BY FAITH IN JESUS" -
00:53:45.42\00:53:48.76
ACTUALLY, WE'RE NOT JUSTIFIED BY
ANY LAW - "BUT BY FAITH IN JESUS
00:53:48.79\00:53:53.06
CHRIST, EVEN WE HAVE BELIEVED IN
CHRIST JESUS, THAT WE MIGHT BE
00:53:53.09\00:53:56.46
JUSTIFIED BY FAITH IN CHRIST AND
NOT BY THE WORKS OF THE LAW; FOR
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BY THE WORKS OF THE LAW
NO FLESH SHALL BE JUSTIFIED."
00:54:00.30\00:54:04.87
NO PEOPLE ARE JUSTIFIED. IT
DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOU DO TO
00:54:04.91\00:54:08.08
YOUR FLESH, IT DOES NOT JUSTIFY
YOU, IS WHAT HE'S SAYING THERE.
00:54:08.11\00:54:12.28
ALRIGHT, WELL WE PRETTY
MUCH COVERED THE LESSON.
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THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
AND I WANT TO, AGAIN, THANK
00:54:14.25\00:54:16.42
THOSE WHO ARE
WATCHING ONLINE. GOD BLESS YOU.
00:54:16.45\00:54:18.69
WE LOOK FORWARD TO STUDYING HIS
WORD TOGETHER AGAIN NEXT WEEK.
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>>LET'S FACE IT, IT'S NOT ALWAYS
EASY TO UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING
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YOU READ IN THE BIBLE.
WITH OVER 700,000 WORDS
00:54:26.43\00:54:30.13
CONTAINED IN 66 BOOKS, THE BIBLE
CAN GENERATE A LOT OF QUESTIONS.
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>>WE'RE HERE IN PONCE,
PUERTO RICO IN AN IGUANA PARK
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SURROUNDED BY BIG LIZARDS OR
SMALL DINOSAURS - DEPENDS ON HOW
00:55:09.07\00:55:13.04
YOU LOOK AT IT. THESE
MAGNIFICENT CREATURES ARE
00:55:13.07\00:55:15.81
FOUND MOSTLY IN MEXICO, CENTRAL
AMERICA, AND SOUTH AMERICA
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- AND THE CARIBBEAN ISLANDS.
HERE'S A FEW AMAZING FACTS ABOUT
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IGUANAS: IGUANAS COME IN
A GREAT SPECTRUM OF COLORS.
00:55:22.05\00:55:26.05
THEY CAN BE BROWN, GREEN, BLUE
- AND THEIR SKIN WILL OFTEN WORK
00:55:26.09\00:55:30.76
AS CAMOUFLAGE, ALLOWING
THEM TO HIDE IN THE JUNGLE.
00:55:30.79\00:55:34.40
THEY'RE SOCIAL CREATURES WHO
LIKE TO EAT TOGETHER AND, WHAT'S
00:55:34.46\00:55:37.27
REALLY INTERESTING, EVEN THOUGH
THEY LOOK FIERCE, IGUANAS ARE
00:55:37.30\00:55:40.27
VEGAN/VEGETARIANS.
THEY'RE REGARDED AS POPULAR PETS
00:55:40.30\00:55:43.87
THOUGH, IF THEY'RE NOT CARED
FOR, THEY CAN ACTUALLY JUST STOP
00:55:43.91\00:55:46.94
EATING AND WILL
THEMSELVES TO DIE.
00:55:46.98\00:55:49.38
TYPICALLY IGUANAS JUST LAY
EGGS AND THEY ABANDON THEIR
00:55:49.41\00:55:51.75
OFFSPRING. SO THOSE
LITTLE IGUANAS HAVE TO
00:55:51.78\00:55:54.22
FEND FOR THEMSELVES
FROM THE TIME THEY'RE BORN.
00:55:54.25\00:55:57.12
IF THEY'RE ATTACKED, THEY'LL
FIGHT WITH THEIR TAIL, EITHER
00:55:57.15\00:56:00.76
PUNCHING OR WHIPPING
THEIR OPPONENT. IT'S INTERESTING
00:56:00.79\00:56:03.19
SEEING A DOG RUNNING FOR
MERCY AFTER BEING WHIPPED BY AN
00:56:03.22\00:56:06.19
IGUANA. ALSO, TO ENSURE A FAST
ESCAPE, THEY CAN DETACH THEIR
00:56:06.23\00:56:12.37
TAIL AND LATER GROW ANOTHER ONE.
IGUANAS GENERALLY LIKE TO LIVE
00:56:12.40\00:56:16.34
AROUND WATER AND THEY CAN SWIM
AWAY ESCAPING FROM PREDATORS.
00:56:16.37\00:56:20.54
GREEN IGUANAS, IN PARTICULAR,
ARE EXCELLENT SWIMMERS.
00:56:20.58\00:56:23.61
THEY HAVE THE ABILITY TO INFLATE
THEMSELVES AND SWIM INCREDIBLE
00:56:23.65\00:56:27.28
DISTANCES. THIS IS ONE WAY
THEY'VE BEEN ABLE TO POPULATE
00:56:27.32\00:56:30.49
THE DIFFERENT
ISLANDS OF THE CARIBBEAN.
00:56:30.52\00:56:32.59
WHAT'S INCREDIBLE IS
THESE CREATURES HAVE LUNGS WHERE
00:56:32.62\00:56:36.06
THEY'RE ABLE TO HOLD THEIR
BREATH FOR UP TO TWENTY-EIGHT
00:56:36.09\00:56:38.59
MINUTES, PUTTING EVEN A
CROCODILE TO SHAME. THEY ALSO
00:56:38.63\00:56:43.43
KNOW HOW TO COMPENSATE FOR WHEN
THINGS GET HOT OR COLD. THEY CAN
00:56:43.47\00:56:46.84
REGULATE THEIR BODY TEMPERATURE
USING THE LOOSE FLAPS OF SKIN
00:56:46.87\00:56:50.21
THEY HAVE UNDER THEIR
THROATS AND UNDER THEIR LEGS.
00:56:50.24\00:56:53.48
YOU MIGHT EVEN SAY AN IGUANA HAS
ESP BECAUSE GOD MADE THEM WITH,
00:56:53.51\00:56:57.78
SORT OF, A THIRD EYE
ON TOP OF THEIR HEAD.
00:56:57.81\00:57:00.05
THEY CAN'T REALLY SEE WITH IT,
BUT IT'S A PHOTO RECEPTOR THAT
00:57:00.08\00:57:03.39
HELPS THEM TO REGULATE
THEIR BODIES' CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS.
00:57:03.42\00:57:06.69
YOU KNOW, IN THE SAME WAY THAT
GOD MADE IGUANAS WHERE THEY'RE
00:57:06.72\00:57:09.49
SOME OF THE TOUGHEST CREATURES
IN GOD'S NATURAL KINGDOM,
00:57:09.52\00:57:13.06
CHRISTIANS NEED TO LEARN TO
BE RESILIENT IN THE SPIRITUAL
00:57:13.09\00:57:15.40
REALM. THROUGH
GOD'S GRACE WE CAN
00:57:15.43\00:57:17.20
LEARN TO BE GREAT SURVIVORS.
PAUL SAYS, IN 2 CORINTHIANS 4,
00:57:17.23\00:57:21.30
VERSES 8 AND 9, "WE
ARE HARD PRESSED ON EVERY
00:57:21.34\00:57:24.11
SIDE YET NOT CRUSHED.
WE ARE PERPLEXED YET NOT IN
00:57:24.14\00:57:27.61
DESPAIR, PERSECUTED YET NOT
FORSAKEN, STRUCK DOWN BUT NOT
00:57:27.64\00:57:31.81
DESTROYED" - I THINK,
FRIENDS, WE ALL KNOW SOMETIMES
00:57:31.85\00:57:35.35
LIFE CAN BE TOUGH. WE
FEEL LIKE WE'RE BEING BEATEN
00:57:35.38\00:57:38.35
AND PRESSED ON EVERY
SIDE. SOMETIMES THERE'S HEALTH
00:57:38.39\00:57:41.12
PROBLEMS, RELATIONSHIP PROBLEMS,
FINANCIAL REVERSES - BUT IN THE
00:57:41.16\00:57:46.03
SAME WAY GOD MADE THE
IGUANA RESILIENT, GOD CAN HELP
00:57:46.06\00:57:49.26
YOU TO BOUNCE BACK. JESUS
SAID THAT THROUGH HIS HELP
00:57:49.30\00:57:52.33
WE CAN BE OVERCOMERS
AND WE ARE ABLE TO ENDURE.
00:57:52.37\00:57:55.90
IF YOU TURN TO HIM AND ASK HIM
FOR HIS HELP AND HIS SPIRIT HE
00:57:55.94\00:57:58.47
WILL RECREATE YOU AND MAKE
YOU EVEN TOUGHER THAN AN IGUANA.
00:57:58.51\00:58:02.31
WOULDN'T YOU
LIKE TO ASK HIM NOW?
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