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00:35 >>HELLO FRIENDS, WELCOME TO SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR 00:37 COMING TO YOU HERE FROM THE GRANITE BAY SEVENTH-DAY 00:39 ADVENTIST CHURCH NEAR A VERY WARM SACRAMENTO. 00:42 I'D LIKE TO WELCOME OUR ONLINE MEMBERS AND ALSO THOSE JOINING 00:45 US ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND AROUND THE WORLD ON THE VARIOUS 00:48 TELEVISION NETWORKS AND ALSO ON FACEBOOK AND SOME OF THE OTHER 00:51 OUTLETS. AND, AGAIN, I WANT TO WELCOME 00:53 OUR MEMBERS AND VISITORS RIGHT HERE IN GRANITE BAY. 00:56 A VERY WARM WELCOME TO ALL OF YOU - GOOD TO SEE YOU HERE THIS 00:58 MORNING. WE'VE BEEN STUDYING THROUGH OUR 01:00 LESSON QUARTERLY ON THE BOOK OF GALATIANS. 01:03 TODAY WE FIND OURSELVES ON LESSON #5 ENTITLED OLD TESTAMENT 01:07 FAITH - THAT'LL BE THE THEME OF OUR STUDY THIS MORNING. 01:11 FOR OUR FRIENDS ONLINE, IF YOU'D LIKE TO FOLLOW ALONG WITH US AND 01:13 YOU DON'T HAVE A COPY OF THE LESSON, YOU CAN DOWNLOAD TODAY'S 01:16 LESSON BY JUST GOING TO THE AMAZING FACTS WEBSITE - IT'S 01:20 JUST AMAZINGFACTS.ORG . WE HAVE A FREE OFFER THAT GOES 01:23 ALONG WITH OUR STUDY TODAY, A BOOK WRITTEN BY JOE CREWS - 01:27 THREE STEPS TO HEAVEN - THIS IS THE FREE OFFER FOR TODAY. 01:30 IF YOU'D LIKE TO RECEIVE THIS BOOK, GIVE US A CALL ON OUR 01:33 RESOURCE PHONE NUMBER. IT'S 866-788-3966 - AND 01:38 YOU CAN ASK FOR OFFER #102. OUTSIDE OF NORTH AMERICA YOU CAN 01:43 READ THE BOOK FOR FREE BY JUST GOING TO THE AMAZING FACTS 01:46 WEBSITE - JUST AMAZINGFACTS.ORG . WELL, BEFORE WE GET TO OUR 01:50 LESSON, WE ALWAYS LIKE TO START BY LIFTING OUR VOICES IN SONG. 01:53 I'D LIKE TO INVITE THE SONG LEADERS TO COME AND LEAD US THIS 01:55 MORNING. >>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS, AND 02:00 WE ARE READY TO SING WITH YOU AROUND THE WORLD. 02:03 WE'RE GOING TO DO ONE OF OUR FAVORITES AND I KNOW IT'S ONE OF 02:06 YOURS - #12 - JOYFUL, JOYFUL WE ADORE THEE - AND WE WILL 02:11 DO ALL THREE STANZAS OF #12. (PIANO MUSIC) 04:09 >>THANK YOU FOR SINGING ALONG WITH US AND, AT THIS TIME, 04:11 PASTOR ROSS WILL HAVE OUR OPENING PRAYER. 04:13 (SOFT PIANO MUSIC) >>LET'S BOW OUR HEADS FOR 04:21 PRAYER. DEAR FATHER IN HEAVEN, THANK YOU 04:24 FOR ANOTHER BEAUTIFUL SABBATH WHERE WE CAN GATHER TOGETHER TO 04:26 OPEN UP YOUR WORD AND STUDY. WE'RE LOOKING AT A VERY 04:28 IMPORTANT SUBJECT. WE'RE LOOKING AT FAITH AS 04:31 REVEALED IN THE BIBLE AS REVEALED IN THE OLD 04:33 TESTAMENT AND THE NEW. SO WE ASK FOR YOUR SPECIAL 04:35 LEADING OF YOUR HOLY SPIRIT. GUIDE US, LORD, INTO A CLEARER, 04:39 FULLER UNDERSTANDING OF THAT VERY IMPORTANT EXPERIENCE OF 04:42 KNOWING YOU DAY BY DAY, FOR WE ASK THIS IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. 04:46 OUR LESSON TODAY IS GOING TO BE BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR DOUG. 04:54 >>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS, AND OUR SINGERS AND MUSICIANS. 04:58 MORNING, FRIENDS. >>GOOD MORNING. 05:00 >>THOSE OF YOU GATHERED HERE AT GRANITE BAY, WE'RE VERY GLAD TO 05:03 HAVE YOU HERE. I WANT TO WELCOME THOSE OF 05:05 YOU WHO ARE WATCHING VIA THE INTERNET OR SATELLITE. 05:09 WE KNOW WE HAVE A WHOLE NEW GROUP OF PEOPLE THAT ARE 05:11 WATCHING VIA FACEBOOK LIVE. WE CHECKED THE STATS THE LAST 05:16 COUPLE WEEKS AND WE'VE HAD OVER 2 - 300,000 PEOPLE THAT EITHER 05:21 LINK ON IT OR PASS IT ON TO SOMEBODY ELSE, SO I WANT YOU TO 05:25 ALL LOOK AS FRIENDLY AS POSSIBLE IN CASE WE GET ANY 05:27 AUDIENCE SHOTS, OKAY? (THERE ARE) A LOT OF PEOPLE 05:30 THAT ARE STUDYING WITH US. AND WE WANT TO WELCOME THOSE WHO 05:32 ARE SOME OF OUR ONLINE GRANITE BAY MEMBERS. 05:35 WE HAVE PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD WHO HAVE NO LOCAL CHURCH, FOR 05:37 SOME REASON, THAT THEY CAN WORSHIP WITH AND WE HAVE A 05:40 PROCESS WHERE WE CAN VOTE YOU IN AND HAVE YOU BE ONE OF OUR 05:43 ONLINE MEMBERS. IF YOU WANT TO NO MORE ABOUT 05:46 THAT, JUST E-MAIL US THERE AT THE GRANITE BAY SDA CHURCH 05:50 WEBSITE AND WE'LL TELL YOU MORE ABOUT THAT. 05:53 GOING THROUGH OUR STUDY OF GALATIANS, TODAY WE'RE ON LESSON 05:57 #5 THAT DEALS WITH OLD TESTAMENT FAITH, AND OUR MEMORY VERSE IS 06:02 GALATIANS 3, VERSE 13 - THIS IS THE ENGLISH STANDARD VERSION - 06:07 GALATIANS 3, VERSE 13 - IF YOU WANT TO SAY THIS WITH ME, I 06:10 APPRECIATE IT. READY? "CHRIST REDEEMED US FROM THE 06:15 CURSE OF THE LAW BY BECOMING A CURSE FOR US - FOR IT IS 06:20 WRITTEN, 'CURSED IS EVERYONE WHO IS HANGED ON A TREE.'" AND, OF 06:25 COURSE, IT SAYS TWO TIMES IN THE BOOK OF ACTS THAT WHEN JESUS 06:28 WAS CRUCIFIED, IT SAYS, 'ON THE TREE'. 06:31 WE ALWAYS USE THE TERM 'THE CROSS' BUT THERE WAS VERY LITTLE 06:35 THAT SEPARATED THOSE ANCIENT CROSSES FROM JUST A RUDIMENTARY 06:39 TREE THAT WAS CUT INTO A COUPLE OF SECTIONS. 06:42 AND SO, THEY BASICALLY SAID IT THAT WAY. 06:44 ANOTHER REASON THEY SAY 'CRUCIFIED ON' OR 'HANGED ON A 06:48 TREE' IS BECAUSE SOMETIMES THE ROMANS WOULD CRUCIFY A PERSON ON 06:53 A TREE WITHOUT EVEN UPROOTING THE TREE. 06:56 AND THEN, IF YOU READ IN THE BOOK OF JUDGES, SOME OF THE 06:58 KINGS THAT THEY FOUGHT AGAINST THEY KILLED BY HANGING ON A 07:02 TREE. THAT'S WHY IT'S QUOTING THAT 07:04 WHEN IT SAYS 'CURSED IS EVERYONE THAT IS HANGED UPON A TREE'. 07:08 JESUS DYING ON A CROSS TOOK THAT CURSE FOR US. 07:12 WELL, YOU KNOW, OUR ASSIGNMENT TODAY - LET ME TELL YOU WHAT WE 07:15 WANT TO DO IS WE, TODAY, HAVE THE ASSIGNMENT OF READING 07:18 GALATIANS CHAPTER 3, VERSES 1 THROUGH 14 - THAT'S THE PASSAGE 07:22 WE WANT TO STUDY. SO I THOUGHT, IT'S NOT THAT BIG. 07:25 WHY DON'T WE JUST READ THROUGH IT THEN LET'S BACK UP. 07:27 GET IT ALL IN CONTEXT, THEN WE'LL BACK UP AND WE'LL STUDY IT 07:31 TOGETHER. SO GO WITH ME IN YOUR BIBLES TO 07:33 GALATIANS CHAPTER 3 AND I'M JUST GOING TO READ VERSES 1 THROUGH 07:36 14 AND IF YOU FAST AND PRAY, I WILL TRY TO DO IT WITHOUT MAKING 07:40 A COMMENT THE FIRST TIME AROUND. IT'S GOING TO BE HARD THOUGH. 07:44 "O FOOLISH GALATIANS! WHO HAS BEWITCHED YOU THAT YOU 07:49 SHOULD NOT OBEY THE TRUTH, BEFORE WHOSE EYES JESUS CHRIST 07:52 WAS CLEARLY PORTRAYED AMONG YOU AS CRUCIFIED? 07:55 THIS ONLY I WANT TO LEARN FROM YOU: DID YOU RECEIVE THE SPIRIT 07:59 BY THE WORKS OF THE LAW, OR BY THE HEARING OF FAITH? 08:02 ARE YOU SO FOOLISH? HAVING BEGUN IN THE SPIRIT, ARE 08:06 YOU NOW BEING MADE PERFECT BY THE FLESH? 08:09 HAVE YOU SUFFERED SO MANY THINGS IN VAIN-IF INDEED IT WAS IN 08:12 VAIN? THEREFORE HE WHO SUPPLIES THE 08:16 SPIRIT TO YOU AND WORKS MIRACLES AMONG YOU, DOES HE DO IT BY THE 08:20 WORKS OF THE LAW, OR BY THE HEARING OF FAITH? 08:23 - JUST AS ABRAHAM "BELIEVED GOD, AND IT WAS ACCOUNTED TO HIM FOR 08:26 RIGHTEOUSNESS." THEREFORE KNOW THAT ONLY THOSE 08:31 WHO ARE OF FAITH ARE SONS OF ABRAHAM. 08:34 AND THE SCRIPTURE, FORESEEING THAT GOD WOULD JUSTIFY THE 08:37 GENTILES BY FAITH, PREACHED THE GOSPEL TO ABRAHAM BEFOREHAND, 08:41 SAYING, "IN YOU ALL THE NATIONS SHALL BE BLESSED." 08:46 SO THEN THOSE WHO ARE OF FAITH ARE BLESSED WITH BELIEVING 08:48 ABRAHAM. FOR AS MANY AS ARE OF THE WORKS 08:52 OF THE LAW ARE UNDER THE CURSE; FOR IT IS WRITTEN, "CURSED IS 08:55 EVERYONE WHO DOES NOT CONTINUE IN ALL THINGS WHICH ARE WRITTEN 08:58 IN THE BOOK OF THE LAW, TO DO THEM." BUT THAT NO ONE IS 09:02 JUSTIFIED BY THE LAW IN THE SIGHT OF GOD IS EVIDENT, FOR 09:05 "THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY FAITH." YET THE LAW IS NOT OF FAITH, BUT 09:11 "THE MAN WHO DOES THEM SHALL LIVE BY THEM." 09:14 CHRIST HAS REDEEMED US FROM THE CURSE OF THE LAW, HAVING BECOME 09:17 A CURSE FOR US (FOR IT IS WRITTEN, "CURSED IS EVERYONE WHO 09:21 HANGS ON A TREE"), THAT THE BLESSING OF ABRAHAM MIGHT COME 09:25 UPON THE GENTILES IN CHRIST JESUS, THAT WE MIGHT RECEIVE THE 09:29 PROMISE OF THE SPIRIT THROUGH FAITH." 09:32 ALRIGHT, THAT'S OUR PASSAGE. NOW I CAN BREATH. 09:37 LET ME BACK UP AND JUST REVIEW, BECAUSE IF WE JUST TAKE A - JUST 09:40 DIVE IN HERE - THERE ARE ALWAYS PEOPLE WHO ARE, MAYBE, HERE OR 09:43 WHO ARE STUDYING OUT THERE WITH US THAT DIDN'T GET, SORT OF, THE 09:46 PREAMBLE TO WHAT'S HAPPENING HERE IN GALATIANS, YOU NEED TO 09:49 KNOW THE BACKGROUND. GALATIA THERE - ASIA MINOR - 09:52 NAMED AFTER THE GAULS - THEY SPOKE A GAUL-LIKE LANGUAGE 09:58 AND ALSO SPOKE GREEK. THEY HAD BEEN SUBDUED BY THE 10:02 ROMANS BEFORE THE TIME OF CHRIST, BUT THEY SORT OF HAD 10:04 THEIR OWN PROVINCE - THEY WERE GENTILES. 10:08 THEY WORSHIPED PAGAN GODS. THEY HAD A LOT OF DEBASING 10:11 THINGS THEY DID IN THEIR WORSHIP. 10:13 PAUL WENT UP AND PREACHED TO THEM SALVATION. 10:16 THEY ACCEPTED IT BASED ON, YOU KNOW, WHAT THE GENTILES NEEDED 10:21 TO KNOW. HE DID NOT TALK ABOUT, 'NOW YOU 10:23 NEED TO BE CIRCUMCISED' AND 'YOU NEED TO KEEP THE CEREMONIAL 10:26 FEAST DAYS' AND HE DID NOT, YOU KNOW, TALK ABOUT 'YOU 10:29 HAVE TO SACRIFICE LAMBS'. HE TALKED ABOUT THE BASICS THAT 10:33 A GENTILE NEEDS TO KNOW TO ACCEPT THE GOSPEL. 10:36 THAT HAD BEEN DEBATED AND CLARIFIED IN ACTS CHAPTER 15. 10:41 AFTER - AND THE CHURCH GREW - IT TOOK OFF - HUNDREDS BELIEVED. 10:45 BUT THEN, AFTER PAUL LEAVES, SOME DEVOUT - MAYBE WELL-MEANING 10:52 - JEWISH CHRISTIANS CAME UP FROM JERUSALEM AND BEGAN TO SAY, 'HOW 10:57 COME YOU'RE NOT KEEPING THE FEAST DAYS?' 10:59 'I UNDERSTAND YOU'RE NOT CIRCUMCISING YOUR MALE 11:03 CHILDREN.' AND THEY BEGAN TO START TELLING THEM - AND THEY 11:06 SHOWED IT TO THEM IN THE BIBLE AND THEY SAID, 'OH, IT'S IN THE 11:08 BIBLE.' AND THEY STARTED GETTING ALL BOGGED DOWN WITH THE LAWS 11:13 AND THE RITES AND THE CEREMONIAL WASHINGS THAT THE PHARISEES 11:16 PRESCRIBED. AND THE JOY THAT THEY HAD 11:20 EARLIER, THEY'D LOST IT. PAUL GOT WORD OF THIS AND SO HE, 11:25 NO HOLDS BARRED, HE WRITES A LETTER THAT IS PROBABLY ONE OF 11:30 THE STRONGEST LETTERS THAT YOU FIND IN THE BIBLE. 11:32 NOW HOW WOULD YOU LIKE IT IF SOMEONE WRITES YOU A LETTER AND 11:35 SAYS, 'OH, FOOLISH GRANITE BAY PEOPLE'? - (LAUGHTER) - 11:39 'WHO HAS MESMERIZED YOU? HOW CAN YOU BE SO FOOLISH?' 11:43 AND THE WORD FOR FOOL THERE, IT'S EVEN STRONGER THAN OUR 11:48 ENGLISH TRANSLATION FOR FOOL, IT'S 'IMBECILES' - 'IDIOTS' - 11:55 YOU EVEN HATE SAYING THAT IN CHURCH. 11:57 BUT THAT'S WHAT HE'S SAYING. HE SAID, 'WHAT IN THE WORLD CAME 11:59 OVER YOU THAT YOU'VE FALLEN FOR THIS?' 12:03 BUT HAVE YOU SEEN THIS HAPPEN TO CHURCHES BEFORE? 12:05 WHERE THEY'RE GROWING IN THE SPIRIT, THEY ACCEPT JESUS, 12:08 THEY'RE MOTIVATED BY LOVE, THEY'RE SHARING THE GOSPEL, IT'S 12:11 SPREADING, AND, ALL OF A SUDDEN THEY GET DISTRACTED WITH SOME 12:15 LEGALISTIC CUL-DE-SAC. HAVE YOU SEEN THAT? 12:21 AND THERE'S NO LIMIT TO THEM. 12:22 I REMEMBER ONCE, WHEN I WAS LIVING IN TEXAS YEARS AGO, I WAS 12:26 IN SOME BIBLE STUDY GROUP AND WE WERE GROWING IN THE SPIRIT AND 12:30 EVERYTHING WAS GREAT AND SOMEONE CAME ALONG AND THEY STARTED 12:33 SAYING THAT WE NEEDED TO - THE MEN NEEDED TO ALL GROW BEARDS. 12:38 THAT, IF YOU DID NOT HAVE A BEARD - AND THEY QUOTED THE 12:40 VERSE - THEY WENT TO THE OLD TESTAMENT THAT SAID THAT YOU 12:43 SHALL NOT CUT THE CORNERS OF YOUR BEARD. 12:46 AND I WAS A YOUNG CHRISTIAN AND I THOUGHT, 'OH, IT'S IN THE 12:49 BIBLE, YOU KNOW, I DON'T WANT TO MISS OUT ON ANYTHING BECAUSE I'M 12:52 SUPPOSED TO BE DOING THIS.' AND IT WAS AMAZING TO ME THAT I GOT 12:56 INTO A WHOLE BIBLE STUDY ON BEARDS AND I WENT THROUGH THE 13:00 BIBLE AND I READ EVERYTHING I COULD ON BEARDS. 13:03 YOU'LL BE HAPPY TO KNOW, I DISCOVERED, AS YOU CAN SEE FROM 13:05 LOOKING AT ME, YOU DON'T HAVE TO HAVE A BEARD TO BE SAVED. 13:07 (LAUGHTER) BUT, MATTER OF FACT, THE WORD 'BEARD' DOES NOT APPEAR 13:13 IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, YOU'LL BE HAPPY TO KNOW. 13:15 AND THEN IT TALKS ABOUT, YOU KNOW, JOSEPH SHAVED HIMSELF AND 13:20 MEPHIOBSHETH TRIMMED HIS MUSTACHE AND - ANYWAY, I GOT 13:23 INTO THE NITTY GRITTY OF BEARD STUDY - MAN'S FACIAL HAIR. 13:27 CAN YOU IMAGINE THAT YOU COULD GET SO WRAPPED UP IN ALL THAT? 13:31 WELL, THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS. IT JUST BECAME A BIG DIVERSION. 13:35 AND THIS IS WHAT WAS GOING ON. 13:36 THEY'D STOP SPREADING THE GOSPEL. 13:38 THEY WERE STUDYING ALL THESE THINGS NOW AND PAUL WAS SAYING, 13:42 'WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU? HOW COULD YOU GET SO DISTRACTED? 13:47 SO I'VE SEEN THAT HAPPEN MANY DIFFERENT WAYS. 13:51 IT DISGUISES ITSELF IN MANY DIFFERENT FORMS, WHERE PEOPLE 13:56 CAN GET SO BOGGED DOWN IN SOME DIVERSIONARY STUDY, THAT THEY 14:00 MISS THE GOSPEL. AND SO, PAUL WAS BROKEN HEARTED. 14:04 AND SO, HE CAME DOWN ON THEM PRETTY HARD. 14:09 NOW, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU HAVE DIFFERENT CHILDREN, THEY RESPOND 14:13 DIFFERENT WAYS TO DIFFERENT KINDS OF DISCIPLINE. 14:18 WHAT YOU MIGHT SAY TO ONE CHILD, YOU MIGHT NOT SAY TO ANOTHER 14:20 CHILD, BECAUSE THEY'LL REACT IN A TOTALLY REBELLIOUS WAY. 14:23 YOU COME DOWN STRONG ON ONE CHILD AND IT'LL BREAK THEM AND 14:27 THEY'LL HUMBLE THEMSELVES. PAUL KNEW THIS IS WHAT THE 14:29 GALATIANS NEEDED. IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO 14:32 START WRITING LETTERS AND CALLING EVERYONE A FOOL. 14:35 PAUL KNEW THAT HE KNEW THIS CHURCH, HE KNEW HOW THEY WOULD 14:39 OPERATE, HE KNEW THE ELDERS AND LEADERS THERE, AND HE KNEW WHAT 14:41 HE NEEDED FOR THEM. AND SO, JUST KEEP THAT IN MIND. 14:46 SO LET'S GO AHEAD AND WE'LL GET INTO THE FIRST SECTION HERE - 14:49 THIS IS JUST A LITTLE BACKGROUND OF WHAT WAS GOING ON. 14:52 AND SO, WHEN HE SAYS 'FOOLISH' - FIRST OF ALL, DOESN'T JESUS SAY, 14:58 SOMEWHERE IN THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT, 'DON'T CALL ANYBODY A 15:00 FOOL'? WELL, THAT WORD THAT JESUS USED 15:04 AND THE WORD HERE, I THINK, ARE TWO DIFFERENT WORDS. 15:06 AND, THE WORD THAT JESUS USED - DID JESUS EVER CALL ANYONE A 15:09 FOOL? IN LUKE, REMEMBER, HE TOLD THE 15:13 DISCIPLES, 'O FOOLS, AND SLOW OF HEART TO BELIEVE ALL THAT 15:18 THE PROPHETS HAVE SPOKEN'? AND, WHEN THE DISCIPLES WERE IN 15:21 THE BOAT AND HE SAID, 'O FOOLISH ONES, WHERE IS YOUR FAITH?' 15:27 AND SO YOU CAN THINK OF OH, MAYBE THREE, FOUR TIMES, WHERE 15:30 JESUS TURNED TO THE APOSTLES AND HE CALLED THEM FOOLISH. 15:35 AND SO WHEN JESUS SAID, 'DON'T CALL ANY MAN A FOOL OR YOU'RE IN 15:38 DANGER OF HELLFIRE, THAT WORD THAT HE USED THERE MEANS 'DON'T 15:42 TELL ANYONE THEY'RE WORTHLESS'. AND SO, IT'S A LITTLE DIFFERENT. 15:47 AND SO, YOU MIGHT WONDER WHEN YOU SEE THAT, YOU KNOW, IS THAT 15:49 APPROPRIATE OR NOT? BUT - SO HE SAYS THERE, 'O 15:55 FOOLISH GALATIANS, WHO HAS BEWITCHED YOU?' 15:58 NOW, WHEN SOMEONE IS BEWITCHED IT'S A LITTLE DIFFERENT THAN 16:02 BEING MESMERIZED. YOU CAN DRIVE DOWN THE ROAD AND, 16:07 IN SOME PARTS OF THE COUNTRY, THE ROADS ARE PAVED WITH 16:11 CONCRETE AND THEY POUR IT IN SECTIONS AND, AS - IT'S BECAUSE 16:14 IT GETS SO COLD THAT IF THEY'RE ASPHALT, THEY CRACK UNDER 16:17 THE HEAT AND THE COLD. SO THEY POUR CONCRETE ROADS. 16:20 BUT WITH CONCRETE, BECAUSE IT EXPANDS AND CONTRACTS, YOU HAVE 16:23 TO HAVE SECTIONS. AND SO, AS YOU'RE DRIVING DOWN 16:25 THESE CONCRETE INTERSTATES, YOU'LL BE HEARING 'KACHUNK, 16:29 KACHUNK, KACHUNK, KACHUNK' - YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT? 16:33 AS THE TIRES GO OVER THE LITTLE LINES IN THE ROAD. 16:35 NOW, IF YOU DO THAT WITH YOUR WINDSHIELD WIPERS ON, YOU MIGHT 16:39 GET 'SHLOP, CLOP, DUNG, CHUNK, SHLOP, CLOP, DUNG, CHUNK, CLOP, 16:42 CLOP, DUNG, CLUNK' - AND IT CAN PUT YOU TO SLEEP. 16:46 IT CAN PUT YOU IN A HYPNOTIC TRANCE. 16:49 AND I HAVE BEEN GOING DOWN THE ROAD BEFORE WHERE I WENT 16:53 COMPLETELY BY MY TURN OFF. I WAS SO EMBARRASSED ONE TIME, I 16:57 WAS WITH BONNIE - SHE'S SITTING HERE - AND KAREN AND WE'RE ON 17:00 OUR WAY TO THE AIRPORT TO CATCH A FLIGHT AND WE'RE A LITTLE LATE 17:02 - I'M ALREADY FRUSTRATED, BUT I GOT MESMERIZED BY SOMETHING AND 17:07 I WENT RIGHT PAST THE AIRPORT EXIT. 17:09 NOW, THOSE OF YOU IN SACRAMENTO, DO YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENS IF 17:11 YOU MISS THE EXIT TO THE AIRPORT? 17:12 (LAUGHTER) YOU HAVE TO GO TO WOODLAND. 17:15 (LAUGHTER) YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT? 17:17 BEFORE YOU CAN TURN - YOU HAVE TO DRIVE ALL THE WAY ACROSS THAT 17:19 - THAT CAUSEWAY AND - OH, I WAS ALREADY LATE - AND I HAD TWO 17:24 WOMEN IN THE CAR REMINDING ME THAT I MISSED MY TURN. 17:26 THAT WAS THE WORST PART OF ALL. BUT I WAS MESMERIZED 17:31 BY SOMETHING. BUT YOU'RE NOT GUILTY - WHEN 17:35 YOU'RE MESMERIZED - I MEAN, IT CAN HAPPEN - YOU CAN BE TIRED, 17:37 YOU COULD BE DISTRACTED. BEWITCHED IS DIFFERENT. 17:42 IT IS A SATANIC SPELL AND SO HE'S, BASICALLY, NOT ONLY SAYING 17:47 'WHAT DISTRACTED YOU?', HE'S SAYING, 'YOU'VE BEEN POSSESSED. 17:52 WHAT KIND OF SATANIC SPELL HAS BEEN CAST UPON YOU THAT YOU 17:57 WOULD MISS THE SIMPLICITY OF THE GOSPEL AND GET CAUGHT UP IN THIS 18:02 WORKS-ORIENTED FORM OF THE GOSPEL?' 18:04 NOW, DO NOT THINK THAT WHAT PAUL IS SAYING - WHEN SOMEONE IS 18:10 TALKING ABOUT SALVATION BY FAITH AND NOT BY WORKS, WHAT BOOK DO 18:13 THEY GO TO? GALATIANS, OFTEN - THEY GO TO GALATIANS. 18:16 WHEN SOMEONE IS TRYING TO SAY THAT WE'RE NOT UNDER THE LAW BUT 18:19 WE'RE UNDER FAITH, WHERE DO THEY GO? THEY GO TO GALATIANS. 18:22 BEFORE YOU FORGET THAT, GO WITH ME TO GALATIANS 5. 18:26 THIS MAY COME UP IN OUR LATER MESSAGE TODAY - VERSE 22 - NO, I 18:34 WANT TO BACK UP - VERSE 17 - NO, I WANT TO GO TO VERSE 16 - I 18:41 LOVE ALL THE WORD OF GOD - "I SAY THEN: WALK IN THE SPIRIT, 18:44 AND YOU SHALL NOT FULFILL THE LUST OF THE FLESH. 18:47 FOR THE FLESH LUSTS AGAINST THE SPIRIT, AND THE SPIRIT AGAINST 18:49 THE FLESH; AND THESE ARE CONTRARY TO ONE ANOTHER, SO THAT 18:53 YOU DO NOT DO THE THINGS THAT YOU WISH. 18:55 BUT IF YOU ARE LED BY THE SPIRIT, YOU ARE NOT UNDER THE 18:57 LAW." - THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT - "NOW 19:00 THE WORKS OF THE FLESH ARE EVIDENT, WHICH ARE: ADULTERY, 19:03 FORNICATION, UNCLEANNESS, LEWDNESS, IDOLATRY," - HE'S 19:06 CITING THINGS THAT WOULD MEAN BREAKING THE LAW. 19:09 HE CALLS THEM WORKS OF THE FLESH. 19:11 PAUL SAYS THAT THE WORKS OF THE FLESH ARE BREAKING THE LAW. 19:16 SOME PEOPLE THINK, 'WELL, I'M SPIRIT MINDED; THAT MEANS I CAN 19:19 BREAK THE LAW.' PAUL SAYS, 'NO, IF YOU'RE BREAKING THE LAW, 19:21 THOSE ARE THE WORKS OF THE FLESH. 19:23 YOU'RE FLESH-MINDED.' YOU SEE WHAT I'M SAYING? 19:26 "IDOLATRY, SORCERY, HATRED, CONTENTIONS, JEALOUSIES, 19:30 OUTBURSTS OF WRATH, SELFISH AMBITIONS, DISSENSIONS, 19:33 HERESIES, ENVY, MURDERS, DRUNKENNESS, REVELRIES, AND THE 19:36 LIKE; OF WHICH I TELL YOU BEFOREHAND, JUST AS I ALSO TOLD 19:39 YOU IN TIME PAST," - DON'T MISS THIS - "THAT THOSE WHO PRACTICE 19:42 SUCH THINGS WILL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD." 19:46 PAUL IS SAYING IF YOU ARE LIVING A LIFE OF SIN, IF YOU ARE LIVING 19:49 A LIFE OF LAWLESSNESS, YOU WILL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD. 19:54 DON'T EVER TRY TO USE GALATIANS TO SAY THAT PAUL SUPPORTS 19:58 LAWLESSNESS. HE DOES NOT. 20:01 HE'S SAYING THAT YOU MUST BE SPIRIT LED AND IF YOU ARE SPIRIT 20:04 LED YOU WILL KEEP THE LAW. >>AMEN. 20:09 >>BUT TO JUST BE FOCUSED ON THE LAW, YOU'RE GOING TO MISS THE 20:11 WHOLE IDEA OF THE SPIRIT AND THE LOVE THAT MOBILIZES US. 20:15 ALRIGHT, SO, IN - WE READ GALATIANS CHAPTER 3, VERSE 1, 20:21 "...WHO HAS BEWITCHED YOU THAT YOU SHOULD NOT OBEY THE TRUTH," 20:25 - DOES THE TRUTH REQUIRE OBEDIENCE? 20:26 DOES FAITH REQUIRE OBEDIENCE? - "BEFORE WHOSE EYES JESUS 20:30 CHRIST WAS CLEARLY PORTRAYED AMONG YOU" - NOW THE WORD 20:32 'PORTRAYED' HE USES THERE IS LIKE - EVEN BACK IN BIBLE TIMES 20:36 THEY WOULD MAKE A BILLBOARD AND THEY WOULD PUT UP A BIG SIGN 20:39 ANNOUNCING SOME NEW STATE EVENT OR SOMETHING THAT WAS HAPPENING, 20:43 AND THEY'D HAVE ROADSIDE SIGNS. EVEN ABOVE JESUS' HEAD, 20:46 DID THEY HAVE A SIGN? A PLACARD WAS THERE. 20:49 A BILLBOARD WAS EVEN BIGGER. HE'S SAYING THAT JESUS WAS 20:52 PORTRAYED - HE'S SAYING, 'I CLEARLY PUT UP A BILLBOARD 20:57 EXPLAINING THAT WE ARE SAVED BY FAITH IN THE CROSS. 21:00 HOW COME YOU'RE NOW THINKING WE ARE SAVED BY CIRCUMCISION?' 21:03 AGAIN, I WANT TO REPEAT - I SAID WAY TOO MUCH ABOUT THIS IN AN 21:06 EARLIER STUDY, BUT I JUST WANT TO MAKE IT CLEAR - THE PRINCIPLE 21:10 ISSUE OF ARGUMENT IN GALATIANS IS NOT THE SABBATH. 21:15 PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT LAW AND FAITH ALWAYS ARE ARGUING AGAINST 21:18 THE SABBATH. SABBATH DOES NOT APPEAR - 21:21 THE WORD - IN GALATIANS. WHAT WAS THE PRINCIPLE 21:25 ARGUMENT ABOUT? WHAT LAW? 21:27 CIRCUMCISION. THAT WAS THE BIG ARGUMENT. 21:30 SO THE PEOPLE WHO CAME FROM JERUSALEM WERE ARGUING THE 21:33 GENTILES NEEDED TO BE CIRCUMCISED. 21:35 THAT'D ALREADY BEEN SETTLED: THEY DID NOT. 21:37 SO - JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT'S CLEAR. 21:43 "...CLEARLY PORTRAYED AMONG YOU AS CRUCIFIED? 21:46 THIS ONLY I WANT TO LEARN FROM YOU: DID YOU RECEIVE THE SPIRIT 21:49 BY THE WORKS OF THE LAW, OR BY THE HEARING OF FAITH?" 21:53 YOU KNOW, REVELATION DESCRIBES WHAT HAD HAPPENED TO THE 21:55 GALATIANS: THEY HAD LOST THEIR FIRST LOVE AND, INSTEAD OF BEING 22:01 MOTIVATED BY LOVE FOR GOD, IT NOW BECAME 'I'VE GOT TO DO THIS' 22:05 AND 'I'VE GOT TO DO THAT.' 'ARE YOU DOING THIS?' 22:07 AND 'ARE YOU DOING THAT?' INSTEAD OF 'ARE YOU BELIEVING 22:09 THAT YOU CAN BE FORGIVEN FOR YOUR LIFE OF SIN. 22:13 AND SO, HE'S CALLING THEM FOOLISH. 22:16 AND, BY THE WAY, THAT VERSE THAT I WAS TELLING YOU ABOUT EARLIER, 22:19 MATTHEW 5:22, "BUT I SAY TO YOU THAT WHOEVER IS ANGRY WITH HIS 22:22 BROTHER WITHOUT A CAUSE SHALL BE IN DANGER OF THE JUDGMENT. 22:28 AND WHOEVER SAYS TO HIS BROTHER, 'RACA!' 22:29 SHALL BE IN DANGER OF THE COUNCIL. 22:31 BUT WHOEVER SAYS, 'YOU FOOL!' 22:33 SHALL BE IN DANGER OF HELL FIRE." 22:35 GO AHEAD, SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ, FOR ME, LUKE 24:25 - I 22:38 THINK I TOUCHED ON IT - YOU'LL HAVE THAT IN JUST A MOMENT? 22:40 LET ME READ ONE MORE VERSE HERE. MATTHEW 23:17, "FOOLS AND BLIND! 22:47 FOR WHICH IS GREATER, THE GOLD OR THE TEMPLE THAT SANCTIFIES 22:50 THE GOLD?" AND MATTHEW 23:23, JESUS IS 22:53 TALKING TO THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES - "HYPOCRITES!" 22:55 HE CALLS THEM FOOLS. LOOK - I'LL READ ONE MORE - LUKE 22:58 19 - SORRY, LUKE 12:19, "AND I WILL SAY TO MY SOUL, 'SOUL, YOU 23:04 HAVE MANY GOODS LAID UP FOR MANY YEARS; TAKE YOUR EASE; EAT, 23:08 DRINK, AND BE MERRY.' BUT GOD SAID TO HIM, 'FOOL! 23:11 THIS NIGHT YOUR SOUL WILL BE REQUIRED OF YOU; THEN WHOSE WILL 23:15 THOSE THINGS BE WHICH YOU HAVE PROVIDED?'" 23:17 - THAT'S THE PARABLE OF THE MAN WHO BUILDS THE BARN AND WANTS 23:19 THE CRAM THE BARN WITH MORE THINGS BUT HE DOESN'T HAVE ROOM 23:21 SO HE BUILDS BIGGER BARNS SO HE CAN JUST LIVE SELFISHLY AND GOD 23:25 SAYS, 'YOU'RE A FOOL.' GO AHEAD, READ FOR US LUKE 24:25. 23:30 >>"THEN HE SAID TO THEM, 'O FOOLISH ONES, AND SLOW OF HEART 23:34 TO BELIEVE IN ALL THAT THE PROPHETS HAVE SPOKEN! 23:37 OUGHT NOT THE CHRIST TO HAVE SUFFERED THESE THINGS AND TO 23:39 ENTER INTO HIS GLORY?'" >>SO, WHEN PAUL CALLS THE 23:43 GALATIANS FOOLS, DOES HE LOVE THEM? 23:46 NOW WHEN JESUS CALLED THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES FOOLS, 23:49 SOME MIGHT ARGUE, 'WELL, THEY WERE HIS ENEMIES, THEY TRIED TO 23:51 KILL HIM.' AND WHEN JESUS CALLS THE BARN BUILDER A FOOL, WELL, 23:54 THAT'S A PARABLE ABOUT A FOOL. AND, OF COURSE, THE BIBLE SAYS 23:57 'THE FOOL HAS SAID IN HIS HEART THERE IS NO GOD' - BUT THE 24:00 GALATIANS BELIEVE THERE IS A GOD - THEY'RE CHURCH MEMBERS. 24:04 THEN JESUS CALLED THE APOSTLES FOOLS. 24:07 HE DID IN THIS VERSE. HE'S TALKING TO CLEOPAS AND HIS 24:10 COMPANION THAT ARE ON THE ROAD TO EMMAUS. AND SO, YOU KNOW, 24:18 SOMETIMES THE LORD HAS TO EVEN TELL THOSE HE LOVES. 24:22 ROMANS 2:17, "INDEED YOU ARE CALLED A JEW, AND REST ON THE 24:27 LAW, AND MAKE YOUR BOAST IN GOD, AND KNOW HIS WILL, AND APPROVE 24:30 THE THINGS THAT ARE EXCELLENT, BEING INSTRUCTED OUT OF THE LAW, 24:33 AND ARE CONFIDENT THAT YOU YOURSELF ARE A GUIDE TO THE 24:36 BLIND, A LIGHT TO THOSE WHO ARE IN DARKNESS, AN INSTRUCTOR OF 24:39 THE FOOLISH, A TEACHER OF BABES," - YOU KNOW, THE WORD 24:45 'FOOL' IS OFTEN APPLIED TO CHILDREN. 24:49 HAVE YOU EVER READ THAT PROVERB 'FOOLISHNESS IS BOUND UP IN THE 24:53 HEART OF A CHILD'? ANYONE SAY 'AMEN' TO THAT? 24:57 YOU SEE KIDS PLAYING WITH SHARP OBJECTS AND FIRE AND, YOU KNOW, 25:02 THEY'RE JUST NOT REALLY THINKING VERY CLEARLY. 25:05 SO WHEN PAUL CALLS THE GALATIANS FOOLS, HE'S SPEAKING AS HE WOULD 25:08 TO HIS CHILDREN. I JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW 25:09 IT'S - HE STILL LOVES THEM. HE'S NOT INSULTING THEM, OKAY? 25:15 2 CORINTHIANS 4, VERSES 4 AND 5, "WHOSE MINDS THE GOD OF THIS AGE 25:21 HAS BLINDED, WHO DO NOT BELIEVE, LEST THE LIGHT OF THE GOSPEL OF 25:24 THE GLORY OF CHRIST, WHO IS THE IMAGE OF GOD, SHOULD SHINE ON 25:27 THEM. FOR WE DO NOT PREACH OURSELVES, 25:30 BUT CHRIST JESUS THE LORD, AND OURSELVES YOUR BONDSERVANTS 25:32 FOR JESUS' SAKE." AND SO HERE, HE'S SAYING THAT 25:37 THE GODS OF THIS AGE - WHO IS THE GOD OF THIS AGE? 25:42 SATAN - THE ONE WHOSE PRINCIPALITY AND POWER AND 25:45 HEAVENLY PLACES HAD BLINDED THEM. 25:47 PAUL IS SAYING, TO THE GALATIANS, 'YOU'VE BEEN BLINDED. 25:51 YOU'VE BEEN MESMERIZED BY THE DEVIL. YOU'VE BEEN DISTRACTED.' 25:55 I'M GOING TO PREACH A SERMON - YOU WATCH FOR IT. 25:58 IT'S GOING TO BE CALLED CAN I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION, PLEASE? 26:04 ALRIGHT, WE'RE GOING TO READ GALATIANS CHAPTER 3, VERSE 6, 26:07 "JUST AS ABRAHAM 'BELIEVED GOD, AND IT WAS ACCOUNTED TO HIM FOR 26:12 RIGHTEOUSNESS.'" SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ, FOR ME, ROMANS 10:16 26:16 AND 17 - YOU'LL HAVE THAT, KELLY? 26:17 ALRIGHT, I'M GOING TO READ GALATIANS - I'M GOING TO READ 26:19 ROMANS 1, VERSE 2, "WHICH HE PROMISED BEFORE THROUGH HIS 26:24 PROPHETS IN THE HOLY SCRIPTURES," - SO PAUL - WHERE 26:28 DOES HE APPEAL AS HIS FINAL AUTHORITY FOR PROVING A POINT TO 26:31 THE GALATIANS? TO THE SCRIPTURES. 26:34 HOW MUCH NEW TESTAMENT DID PAUL READ? 26:39 I HEARD SOMEONE SAY, ONCE, 'IF THE KING JAMES VERSION WAS GOOD 26:42 ENOUGH FOR PAUL, IT'S GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME.' (LAUGHTER) AND, 26:46 OF COURSE, HE DIDN'T HAVE THE KING JAMES VERSION - HE DIDN'T 26:49 READ ENGLISH. AND PAUL DID NOT READ THE NEW 26:55 TESTAMENT BECAUSE THE NEW TESTAMENT WAS NOT COMPILED. 26:58 SO ALL THE APOSTLES, WHEN THEY APPEALED TO SCRIPTURE, THERE'S 27:02 ONE PLACE WHERE PETER APPEALS TO THE WRITINGS OF PAUL AND JUDE 27:06 APPEALS TO THE WRITINGS OF PETER AS SCRIPTURE, SO THEY STARTED TO 27:09 QUOTE EACH OTHER AS SCRIPTURE, A LITTLE BIT, BUT NINETY-NINE 27:12 PERCENT OF THE TIME, WHEN THEY'RE REFERRING TO SCRIPTURE 27:14 IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT THE OLD TESTAMENT. 27:18 GO AHEAD, READ FOR ME, PLEASE, ROMANS 10:16 AND 17. 27:23 >>"BUT THEY HAVE NOT ALL OBEYED THE GOSPEL. 27:26 FOR ISAIAH SAYS, 'LORD, WHO HAS BELIEVED OUR REPORT?' 27:31 SO THEN FAITH COMES BY HEARING, AND HEARING BY THE WORD OF GOD." 27:36 >>SO WHAT IS PAUL SAYING, HERE IN ROMANS, IS THE FINAL ARBITER? 27:41 WHAT IS THE FINAL EVIDENCE? WHERE DO YOU POINT TO AS THE 27:45 ULTIMATE PROOF THAT SOMETHING IS TRUE? SCRIPTURE. 27:49 DID JESUS DO THAT? YOU KNOW, I UNDERSTAND THAT TEN 27:53 PERCENT OF WHAT JESUS SAID, HE WAS QUOTING FROM 27:56 THE OLD TESTAMENT. AND EVERY TIME JESUS WAS TEMPTED 28:00 BY THE DEVIL WHAT DID HE SAY? 'IT IS WRITTEN' - AND 28:03 WHERE DID HE QUOTE? DEUTERONOMY, IN PARTICULAR, 28:06 BUT THE OLD TESTAMENT, RIGHT? AND SO, JESUS USED - AND, YOU 28:10 KNOW, I GET - IT ALWAYS MAKES ME SAD. 28:13 I VISIT DIFFERENT CHURCHES AND I'LL SEE THEY SOMETIMES SUPPLY A 28:16 BIBLE FOR THE MEMBERS, AND IT'S JUST THE NEW TESTAMENT. 28:20 SOMETIMES IT'LL BE A NEW TESTAMENT AND PSALMS. 28:22 SOME OF YOU REMEMBER, BEFORE WE BECAME HYPER POLITICALLY 28:25 CORRECT, IN THE MILITARY THEY USED TO GIVE ALL THE SOLDIERS 28:30 THE NEW TESTAMENT WITH PSALMS. DOES ANYONE REMEMBER THAT? 28:33 I'VE STILL GOT MY FATHER'S VERSION FROM WORLD WAR II AND 28:37 THEY FIGURED, WELL, WE'VE GOT THE PSALMS FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE 28:39 AND WE'VE GOT THE NEW TESTAMENT FOR THE GENTILES - FOR THE 28:42 CHRISTIANS - AND - BUT, NO, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU CAN DO THAT 28:46 NOW. THEY WERE - I GUESS YOU CAN STILL GET THEM, BUT IT WAS 28:49 MILITARY ISSUE TO EVERYBODY BACK THEN. OKAY, SO HE'S SAYING HERE 28:56 THAT THE SCRIPTURE IS WHERE WE GET THE EVIDENCE. 29:00 LOOK IN GALATIANS 3, VERSE 8, "AND THE SCRIPTURE, FORESEEING 29:04 THAT GOD WOULD JUSTIFY THE GENTILES BY FAITH, PREACHED THE 29:08 GOSPEL TO ABRAHAM BEFOREHAND, SAYING, 'IN YOU ALL THE NATIONS 29:12 SHALL BE BLESSED.'" NOW HAVE YOU EVER HEARD IT SAID BEFORE - 'IN 29:21 THE NEW TESTAMENT WE'VE GOT THE DISPENSATION OF FAITH - IN THE 29:25 OLD TESTAMENT IT WAS THE DISPENSATION OF LAW' - OR 29:28 SOMETHING LIKE THAT? HAVE YOU HEARD THAT BEFORE? 29:30 THAT NOW WE ARE SAVED BY GRACE THROUGH FAITH, BUT GOD HAD THE 29:35 LAW COVENANT WITH THE JEWS - THEY WERE SAVED BY LAW.' 29:39 WAS ANYBODY EVER SAVED BY LAW? >>NO. 29:43 >>NO. THERE MAY HAVE BEEN PEOPLE IN THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS 29:45 THAT THOUGHT THAT, BUT WHAT IS PAUL SAYING HERE? 29:50 ISN'T PAUL SAYING THAT EVEN ABRAHAM, BACK IN GENESIS - 29:53 THAT'S ABOUT AS FAR BACK AS YOU CAN GET IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, 29:56 BELIEVED HE WAS SAVED BY GRACE. HE WAS SAVED BY FAITH. 30:00 DO WE HAVE OTHER SCRIPTURES THAT SAY THAT? ROMANS 4:3, "FOR WHAT 30:04 DOES THE SCRIPTURE SAY? 'ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD, AND 30:07 IT WAS ACCOUNTED TO HIM FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS.'" NOW, BY THE 30:09 WAY, VERY IMPORTANT POINT - TAKE YOUR BIBLES, GO TO THE 30:13 BOOK OF GENESIS CHAPTER 12. I WANT TO LOOK AT THIS WITH YOU 30:19 AND THEN I WANT TO BRING OUT A POINT, IF I MAY. 30:23 YOU GO TO GENESIS CHAPTER 12 AND HERE IS THIS PASSAGE THAT WE'VE 30:26 REFERRED TO IT ALREADY IN PRIOR STUDIES, "NOW THE LORD HAD SAID 30:35 TO ABRAM: 'GET OUT OF YOUR COUNTRY, FROM YOU FAMILY AND 30:38 FROM YOUR FATHER'S HOUSES, TO A LAND THAT I WILL SHOW YOU. 30:40 I WILL MAKE YOU A GREAT NATION; I WILL BLESS YOU AND MAKE YOUR 30:43 NAME GREAT; AND YOU SHALL BE A BLESSING. 30:46 I WILL BLESS THOSE WHO BLESS YOU AND CURSE HIM WHO CURSES YOU; 30:49 AND IN YOU ALL THE FAMILIES OF THE EARTH SHALL BE BLESSED.' SO 30:53 ABRAM DEPARTED." ABRAHAM WENT OUT NOT KNOWING WHERE HE WENT. 30:58 HE WENT OUT BY FAITH. GOD ACCEPTS ABRAHAM. 31:03 HE CALLS ABRAHAM BECAUSE ABRAHAM IS A JEW. 31:07 WAS ABRAHAM A JEW? >>NO. 31:11 >>AFTER ABRAHAM WAS CIRCUMCISED, DID HE THEN BECOME A JEW? 31:17 SO WHEN GOD CALLED ABRAHAM, WAS HE CIRCUMCISED? 31:20 HE CALLED HIM FROM THE GENTILES AND HE ACCEPTED HIM BY FAITH 31:23 BEFORE HE WAS CIRCUMCISED. THAT IS A VERY IMPORTANT 31:26 POINT THAT PAUL IS MAKING IN GALATIANS. 31:29 HE'S SAYING ABRAHAM WAS SAVED BY FAITH IN GOD. 31:33 IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH CIRCUMCISION, IT HAD TO DO WITH 31:36 BELIEVING. ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD, IT WAS 31:38 COUNTED TO HIM FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS BEFORE CIRCUMCISION. 31:43 SO WHEN THEY SHOW UP FROM JERUSALEM AND THEY'RE 31:45 TELLING THE GALATIANS 'YOU ALL NEED TO BE CIRCUMCISED TO BE 31:47 SAVED, PAUL'S SAYING, 'NOW WAIT A SECOND, WE'RE GOING BACK TO 31:50 THE SAME FAITH THAT SAVED ABRAHAM.' AND THIS IS ONE OF THE 31:54 CENTRAL POINTS IN THIS LESSON, IS THAT WE ARE SAVED BY FAITH. 31:59 NOW, IF WE ARE SAVED BY FAITH, DOES THE LAW HAVE ANY PART OF 32:07 THAT? THERE'S A - AN INTERESTING QUOTE 32:12 IN THE BOOK STEPS TO CHRIST - I THINK IT'S PAGE 60, BUT DON'T 32:16 QUOTE ME ON THAT, YOU HAVE TO LOOK IT UP. 32:18 AND IT BASICALLY SAYS - I'LL PARAPHRASE - THAT THERE'RE TWO 32:23 ERRORS AGAINST WHICH A NEW BELIEVER IN CHRIST NEEDS TO 32:27 ESPECIALLY GUARD. ONE IS THE NOTION THAT WE ARE 32:31 SAVED BY KEEPING OF THE LAW AND ANYTHING WE MIGHT DO TO SAVE 32:36 OURSELVES IS GOING TO BE POLLUTED BY SELFISHNESS. 32:38 THEN SHE GOES ON TO SAY, THE OTHER, NO LESS DANGEROUS NOTION 32:42 IS THAT, BECAUSE WE BELIEVE THAT WE ARE RELEASED FROM AN 32:44 OBLIGATION TO OBEY, WHICH IS EQUALLY DANGEROUS. 32:48 BUT YOU ARE SAVED BY FAITH ALONE, BUT IF YOU ARE SAVED BY 32:53 FAITH ALONE, AND YOU CONTINUE LIVING, THERE WILL BE A CHANGE 32:58 SEEN IN THE LIFE. YOUR FAITH WILL BE SEEN, AS 33:01 JAMES SAYS, IN YOUR WORKS. THE THIEF ON THE CROSS WHO 33:06 TURNED TO JESUS AND SAID, 'LORD, REMEMBER ME WHEN YOU COME INTO 33:10 YOUR KINGDOM.' AND JESUS SAID, 'I AM PROMISING 33:12 YOU TODAY, YOU WILL BE WITH ME IN PARADISE.' WAS HE SAVED? 33:16 HE WAS SAVED BY FAITH IN THE CROSS. HE LOOKED AT JESUS ON THE 33:19 CROSS - HE WAS SAVED. WAS HE SAVED BY HIS WORKS? 33:23 WELL, ONE WORK - THE WORK OF BELIEVING. 33:28 WHEN THEY SAID TO JESUS, 'HOW SHALL WE WORK THE WORKS OF GOD, 33:31 JESUS SAID, 'THIS IS THE WORK OF GOD, THAT YOU BELIEVE.' THAT 33:34 SOUNDS LIKE JESUS IS DOING A PLAY ON WORDS. 33:36 HE SAID, 'HERE'S THE WORK I WANT YOU TO DO: BELIEVE.' SO THE 33:40 THIEF WAS NOT SAVED AT ALL BY WORKS, HE WAS SAVED ENTIRELY BY 33:44 LOOKING TO THE CROSS IN FAITH. THAT'S A WONDERFUL STORY. 33:47 I'M SO GLAD THAT'S IN LUKE - YOU DON'T FIND IT IN JOHN, YOU DON'T 33:50 FIND IT IN MATTHEW, YOU DON'T FIND IT IN MARK. I'M SO GLAD 33:52 LUKE TALKED ABOUT THAT THIEF THAT WAS SAVED ENTIRELY BY FAITH 33:57 FOR LOOKING TO CHRIST AND BELIEVING. I'M GLAD FOR THE 34:01 STORY OF ZACCHEUS, WHO, HE SAW CHRIST UP IN A TREE - THERE'S AN 34:08 ANALOGY THERE SOMEWHERE - IT WAS FROM THE TREE THAT THE THIEF SAW 34:13 JESUS AND I'M CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST. 34:18 IF I'M LIFTED UP - JESUS SAID WE ARE CRUCIFIED WITH HIM. 34:22 ZACCHEUS CLIMBED A TREE AND HE SAW JESUS. 34:24 WE TAKE UP OUR CROSS AND WE SEE JESUS. 34:26 IMMEDIATELY, WHEN HE REPENTS AND CONFESSES, GOD SAYS, 'YOU ARE A 34:29 CHILD OF ABRAHAM.' BUT I JUST PULLED OUT A FEW REFERENCES HERE 34:34 THAT TALK ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF FAITH. 34:36 AND, LET ME SEE, AM I GETTING AHEAD OF MYSELF? 34:40 PROBABLY. I'M GOING TO DO IT ANYWAY. 34:44 GENESIS 15:6 - WE JUST READ GENESIS 12 - "AND HE BELIEVED IN 34:48 THE LORD, AND HE ACCOUNTED IT TO HIM FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS." 34:51 RIGHTEOUSNESS BY FAITH. 2 SAMUEL 22:31, "AS FOR GOD, HIS 34:58 WAY IS PERFECT; THE WORD OF THE LORD IS PROVEN; HE IS A SHIELD 35:01 TO ALL WHO TRUST" - OR HAVE FAITH - "IN HIM." 35:05 "BLESSED IS THE MAN WHO TRUSTS IN THE LORD, WHOSE HOPE IS IN 35:07 THE LORD." THAT WAS JEREMIAH 17:7. 35:10 SO I'VE JUST BEEN READING OLD TESTAMENT. 35:12 WERE THEY SAVED BY WORKS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT OR WERE THEY SAVED 35:15 BY FAITH? >>FAITH. 35:17 >>NOBODY IS GOING TO GET TO HEAVEN BECAUSE OF THEIR WORKS. 35:21 SO I'VE GOT A QUIZ FOR YOU. IS ANYBODY IN HEAVEN NOW? 35:25 >>YES. >>WHO'S THERE? 35:27 >>MOSES, ENOCH - >>ENOCH, MOSES, ELIJAH - 35:32 >>JESUS - >>JESUS - 35:34 >>THE PEOPLE HE RAISED. >>THE PEOPLE THAT WERE 35:36 RESURRECTED - MATTHEW 28 - WITH JESUS - THAT WENT TO - THE 35:39 GRAVES WERE OPENED AROUND JERUSALEM, SOME OF THEM. 35:43 OKAY, BUT LET'S TALK ABOUT MOSES, ENOCH, AND ELIJAH. 35:49 IS ANYONE IN HEAVEN GOING TO SAY THAT 'I'M HERE BASED ON MY GOOD 35:52 WORKS'? HOW DO WE GET THERE? >>FAITH. 35:56 >>FAITH IN WHAT? >>JESUS. 35:58 >>AND HIS SACRIFICE ON THE CROSS. 36:00 HOW COULD MOSES, ELIJAH, AND ENOCH GET TO HEAVEN BEFORE THE 36:03 CROSS? >>BY FAITH. 36:06 >>BUT JESUS HADN'T DIED YET. THEY WERE SAVED BY FAITH. 36:11 ANY OF YOU - YOU DON'T HAVE TO RAISE YOUR HANDS - YOU EVER ASK 36:14 FOR AN ADVANCE ON YOUR PAYCHECK? (LAUGHTER) YOU RAN OUT OF MONEY 36:19 BEFORE YOU RAN OUT OF MONTH AND YOU ASKED FOR AN ADVANCE. 36:25 YOU GET THAT ADVANCE BASED ON WORK YOU HAVE NOT DONE YET. 36:29 MOSES, ELIJAH, ENOCH - THEY GOT TO HEAVEN BASED ON A WORK JESUS 36:33 HAD NOT DONE YET BUT PROPHECY SAID HE WOULD DO. 36:37 WOULDN'T IT HAVE BEEN TERRIBLE FOR THEM IF JESUS HAD FAILED AND 36:41 THE ANGEL SAID, 'LOOK, GUYS, I'VE GOT BAD NEWS.' (LAUGHTER) 36:44 'YOU'VE GOT TO LEAVE HEAVEN.' THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN TERRIBLE. 36:49 BUT THEY WERE NOT SAVED BY THEIR WORKS. 36:51 NOW THE BIBLE SAYS ENOCH WALKED WITH GOD BUT HE WASN'T - IT WAS 36:53 A WALK OF FAITH, WASN'T IT? SO WHEN YOU GO TO HEBREWS AND IT 36:57 TALKS ABOUT ELIJAH AND IT TALKS ABOUT MOSES, DOESN'T IT 37:00 TALK ABOUT THEIR FAITH? I DON'T KNOW THAT IT 37:02 SPECIFICALLY TALKS ABOUT ENOCH'S - YEAH IT DOES - NOT THERE IN 37:06 HEBREWS, BUT MOSES, IT SAYS, WAS SAVED BY FAITH. 37:11 AND SO NOBODY IN THE OLD TESTAMENT IS SAVED BY WORKS - 37:14 I JUST WANT THAT TO BE CLEAR. 37:15 ALRIGHT, LET'S KEEP GOING WITH OUR STUDY HERE. 37:19 2 TIMOTHY 3:16 AND 17, "ALL SCRIPTURE IS GIVEN BY 37:24 INSPIRATION OF GOD, AND IS PROFITABLE FOR DOCTRINE, FOR 37:27 REPROOF, FOR CORRECTION, FOR INSTRUCTION IN RIGHTEOUSNESS, 37:31 THAT THE MAN OF GOD MAY BE COMPLETE, THOROUGHLY EQUIPPED 37:34 FOR EVERY GOOD WORK." - I THOUGHT WE'RE 37:37 SAVED BY FAITH. THESE ARE GOOD WORKS OF FAITH. 37:41 THE VERY WORD 'INSPIRATION' MEANS 'GOD BREATHE' - ALL 37:45 SCRIPTURE IS GOD BREATHE. LET ME SEE HERE, IF YOU LOOK IN 37:53 ACTS 15 - MATTER OF FACT, I WANT YOU TO READ GALATIANS CHAPTER 3, 38:02 VERSE 9 - IS THAT THE ONE I'M LOOKING FOR? ALRIGHT, LET ME - I 38:09 WANT TO READ SOMETHING TO YOU FROM ACTS 15 - ACTS 15, VERSE 38:12 15, "AND WITH THIS THE WORDS OF THE PROPHETS AGREE, JUST AS IT 38:18 IS WRITTEN: 'AFTER THIS I WILL RETURN AND WILL REBUILD THE 38:22 TABERNACLE OF DAVID, WHICH HAS FALLEN DOWN; I WILL REBUILD ITS 38:25 RUINS, AND I WILL SET IT UP; SO THAT THE REST OF MANKIND MAY 38:29 SEEK THE LORD, EVEN ALL THE GENTILES WHO ARE CALLED BY MY 38:33 NAME," - SO PAUL ACTUALLY REFERS TO THIS IN GALATIANS. 38:37 ALL OF THE GENTILES - IN ACTS 15 - WHAT ARE THEY SAYING? 38:43 THEY'RE QUOTING THE OLD TESTAMENT. 38:46 THAT'S WHAT HE SAID: 'THIS IS WHAT IS WRITTEN' AND THEY QUOTE 38:49 AMOS 9, VERSES 11-12 AND THEY SAY, 'ALL OF THE GENTILES WILL 38:54 COME TO THE TABERNACLE OF DAVID. ISN'T JESUS THE SON OF DAVID 38:59 THAT WAS TO REBUILD THE TABERNACLE? 39:01 SO THEY ALWAYS KNEW THE GENTILES WOULD COME - IT DIDN'T SAY 39:03 THEY'D BECOME JEWS - NOT AS FAR AS CIRCUMCISION. 39:07 NOW, DOES EVERY BELIEVER BECOME A SPIRITUAL JEW? 39:13 >>YES. >>IS THERE A SALVATION 39:15 COVENANT MADE WITH GENTILES? THE NEW COVENANT - 'A NEW 39:21 COVENANT I WILL MAKE AFTER THOSE DAYS,' SAYS THE LORD, 'WITH THE 39:24 HOUSE OF ISRAEL AND THE HOUSE OF JUDAH.' WHO IS THE NEW 39:28 COVENANT MADE WITH? WITH JEWS. 39:31 ARE THE GENTILES TO BE A DIFFERENT TREE THAN THE JEWS, OR 39:36 ARE THEY GRAFTED IN TO THE STALK OF ISRAEL? 39:40 ROMANS 9 SAYS THEY'RE GRAFTED IN. SO DOES THE LORD HAVE TWO 39:43 SEPARATE CHURCHES? HE'S GOT A JEWISH CHURCH 39:46 AND A GENTILE CHURCH? IT'S ALL ONE CHURCH. 39:51 HE'S GOT - THERE'S ONE LORD, ONE FAITH, ONE BAPTISM, ONE CHURCH, 39:55 ONE SPIRIT - RIGHT? AND SO, WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? 39:59 IS IT A GENTILE CHURCH OR IS IT A JEWISH CHURCH? 40:03 NOW, THAT'S A TRICK QUESTION. WE ARE ALL SPIRITUALLY JEWS. 40:11 CAN YOU BE A PHYSICAL JEW AND A SPIRITUAL JEW? 40:16 CAN YOU BE SAVED JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE A PHYSICAL JEW? 40:19 ARE YOU SAVED BECAUSE YOU'RE A GENTILE? 40:23 OR ARE YOU ONLY SAVED BECAUSE OF YOUR SPIRITUAL FAITH? 40:27 JEW OR GENTILE, IT'S BASED ON FAITH. NOW, IF YOU'RE A JEW, YOU 40:31 MAY WANT TO FOLLOW SOME OF THE JEWISH CUSTOMS, BUT YOU'RE NOT 40:34 SAVED BY THOSE THINGS, RIGHT? DID PAUL, SOMETIMES, ACCOMMODATE 40:39 THE JEWS THAT HE COULD REACH THE JEWS? 40:42 DOESN'T THE BIBLE SAY PAUL SAID, 'I BECAME ALL THINGS TO ALL MEN 40:45 THAT I MIGHT WIN SOME TO CHRIST'? 40:47 AND SO, YOU KNOW, YOU TRY TO IDENTIFY WITH PEOPLE AS MUCH AS 40:50 YOU COULD, NOT BEING - YOU KNOW, YOU DON'T WANT TO IDENTIFY 40:54 WHERE, LIKE, 'IN ROME DO AS THE ROMANS' AND SO YOU HAVE ORGIES. 40:57 THAT DOESN'T MEAN YOU DISOBEY THE LAW TO BE LIKE PEOPLE. 41:00 BUT, AS FAR AS YOU CAN TRY TO IDENTIFY WITH PEOPLE TO REACH 41:04 THEM, YOU CREATE THAT BRIDGE AND MAKE IT EASIER. 41:07 ALRIGHT, MOVING ALONG HERE, WE'RE GOING TO GO TO THE NEXT 41:09 SECTION TALKING ABOUT RECKONED AS RIGHTEOUS AND SOMEONE'S GOING 41:12 TO READ, FOR ME, JOHN 3 - I'M SORRY, JOHN 8, VERSE 39 - YOU'LL 41:17 HAVE THAT? OKAY. I'M GOING TO READ ROMANS 4, 41:21 VERSES 1-5, "WHAT THEN SHALL WE SAY THAT ABRAHAM OUR FATHER HAS 41:26 FOUND ACCORDING TO THE FLESH? FOR IF ABRAHAM WAS JUSTIFIED BY 41:30 WORKS, HE HAS SOMETHING TO BOAST ABOUT, BUT NOT BEFORE GOD. 41:35 FOR WHAT DOES THE SCRIPTURE SAY? 'ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD, AND 41:39 IT WAS ACCOUNTED TO HIM FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS.' NOW TO HIM WHO 41:42 WORKS, THE WAGES ARE NOT COUNTED AS GRACE BUT AS DEBT. 41:46 BUT TO HIM WHO DOES NOT WORK BUT BELIEVES ON HIM WHO JUSTIFIES 41:49 THE UNGODLY, HIS FAITH IS ACCOUNTED FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS," - 41:53 WHAT PAUL IS REALLY SAYING HERE IS YOU WORK ALL WEEK LONG AT 41:58 YOUR JOB, AT THE END OF THE WEEK THE BOSS CALLS YOU IN AND SAYS, 42:03 'I'VE GOT GOOD NEWS. I'VE GOT A GIFT FOR YOU.' AND HE 42:06 HANDS YOU AN ENVELOPE AND YOU OPEN IT AND YOU THINK IT'S A 42:09 BONUS, BUT IT'S NOT, IT'S YOUR PAYCHECK. AND YOU LOOK PUZZLED 42:14 AT YOUR BOSS AND YOU SAY, 'WHY ARE YOU TELLING ME THIS IS A 42:16 GIFT? THIS IS NOT A GIFT, I EARNED THIS. 42:19 THIS IS MINE. YOU OWE IT TO ME, RIGHT? 42:23 YOU TOLD ME YOU WERE GIVING ME A GIFT. 42:25 THAT'S WHY PAUL IS SAYING THAT, 'IF YOU WORK FOR IT, IT'S NOT 42:28 FAITH'. YOU SEE WHAT HE'S SAYING HERE? 42:31 "NOW TO TIME WHO WORKS, THE WAGES ARE NOT COUNTED AS GRACE 42:35 BUT AS DEBT. BUT TO HIM WHO DOES NOT WORK BUT 42:39 BELIEVES ON HIM WHO JUSTIFIES THE UNGODLY, HIS FAITH IS 42:42 ACCOUNTED FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS". SO, AFTER MANESSEH - DO WE ALL 42:47 KNOW WHO MANESSEH WAS - THE KING? WICKED KING - KILLED 42:51 ISAIAH THE PROPHET - OFFERED SOME OF HIS CHILDREN AS 42:54 SACRIFICES TO PAGAN GODS. HE WAS A WICKED KING. 42:57 GOT CARRIED OFF - PUT IN PRISON IN ASSYRIA. 43:00 HE TURNED TO THE LORD. HE REPENTED AND GOD FORGAVE HIM. 43:06 COULD MANESSEH BOAST THAT HE WAS FORGIVEN BECAUSE OF HIS GOOD 43:08 WORKS? OR WAS IT ENTIRELY BECAUSE OF HIS GRACE? 43:12 YOU KNOWN, THERE WAS A WONDERFUL PROMISE IN THE BIBLE - IN 43:17 EZEKIEL - WAIT A SECOND - I'LL READ THAT IN A SECOND - 43:19 JOHN, GO AHEAD, READ YOUR VERSE. 43:20 >>JOHN 8:39-40, "THEY ANSWERED AND SAID TO HIM, 'ABRAHAM IS OUR 43:28 FATHER.' JESUS SAID TO THEM, 'IF YOU WERE ABRAHAM'S CHILDREN, YOU 43:32 WOULD DO THE WORKS OF ABRAHAM. BUT NOW YOU SEEK TO KILL ME, A 43:36 MAN WHO HAS TOLD YOU THE TRUTH WHICH I HEARD FROM GOD. 43:40 ABRAHAM DID NOT DO THIS." >>YEAH, HE'S SAYING, 'ABRAHAM, 43:46 HE WOULD HAVE BELIEVED ME.' IT SAYS 'ABRAHAM LONGED TO 43:48 SEE MY DAY AND HE SAW IT. ABRAHAM WAS SAVED BY FAITH, IF 43:51 YOU'RE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM, ABRAHAM LOOKED TO 43:54 CHRIST IN FAITH. WHEN ABRAHAM WAS ON THE MOUNTAIN 43:57 WITH HIS SON AND [ABRAHAM] SAID, 'GOD'LL PROVIDE HIMSELF A 44:00 SACRIFICE', HE LOOKED BEYOND THAT AND HE SAW THE GOSPEL. 44:06 JESUS REVEALED THE GOSPEL TO HIM. 44:08 GOD PREACHED THE GOSPEL TO ABRAHAM. 44:11 AND SO, HE SAID, 'YOU WOULD BELIEVE WHAT ABRAHAM BELIEVED, 44:14 BUT YOU'RE NOT ABRAHAM'S CHILDREN.' 44:18 YOU KNOW, ABRAHAM IS MENTIONED 74 TIMES IN THE NEW 44:22 TESTAMENT. AND SO, HE IS REALLY A CHARACTER 44:26 - AN OLD TESTAMENT CHARACTER WHO'S AN EXAMPLE OF FAITH. 44:29 NOW I WAS GOING TO READ SOMETHING TO YOU - EZEKIEL 18:21 44:31 - I WAS TALKING ABOUT MANESSEH A MOMENT AGO, "BUT IF A WICKED MAN 44:36 TURNS FROM ALL OF HIS SINS WHICH HE HAS COMMITTED, KEEPS" - NOW, 44:41 PICK ANY WICKED MAN YOU WANT - HAVE YOU - YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD 44:46 OF SOME THINGS YOU JUST DON'T THINK CAN BE FORGIVEN. 44:50 'ALL MANNER OF SIN AND BLASPHEMY WILL BE FORGIVEN TO THE CHILDREN 44:53 OF MEN' - THERE'S ONLY ONE THING IT SAYS CANNOT BE FORGIVEN. 44:56 WILL THERE BE MURDERERS THAT ARE FORGIVEN? 45:01 >>YES. >>WILL THERE BE ADULTERERS 45:05 THAT ARE FORGIVEN? >>YES. 45:07 >>DOES GOD FORGIVE EXTORTIONERS AND GLUTTONS? 45:13 DOES THE LORD FORGIVE PEDOPHILES? 45:18 IT JUST SEEMS SO SINISTER IT'S HARD FOR US, YOU KNOW? 45:21 BUT I'M GOING TO - COME ON, LET'S SEE IF YOU CAN DO IT. 45:23 TRY AND SAY 'YES'. (LAUGHTER) I KNOW IT'S 45:26 HARD TO GET IT OUT. IT'S SOMETHING WE - WE WOULD 45:30 HAVE A HARD TIME FORGIVING. ALL MANNER OF SIN AND BLASPHEMY. 45:37 SO GOD FORGIVES ALL KINDS OF THINGS. 45:38 SO YOU'VE GOT A PERSON WHO IS GUILTY OF ALL THESE THINGS 45:40 TOGETHER, LIKE MANESSEH, AND THEY REPENT - THEY SINCERELY 45:45 REPENT AND THEY'RE FORGIVEN, DO THEY EVER HAVE ANY RIGHT TO SAY 45:49 'I WAS FORGIVEN BECAUSE OF MY GOOD WORKS'? 45:52 CAN ANYONE REALLY SAY THEY'RE FORGIVEN BY THEIR GOOD WORKS? 45:57 JOB WAS A PERFECT AND UPRIGHT MAN WHO FEARED GOD AND HATED 46:00 EVIL - 'PERFECT AND UPRIGHT'. ZECHARIAH AND ELIZABETH WERE 46:04 PERFECT BEFORE THE LORD, KEEPING - WALKING IN ALL THE 46:06 COMMANDMENTS OF THE LORD. WERE JOB, ZECHARIAH, AND 46:10 ELIZABETH - ARE THEY GOING TO BE SAVED BY THEIR GOOD WORKS? 46:14 DID THEY SIN? HOW MANY HAVE SINNED? 46:18 >>ALL. >>ALL EXCEPT WHO? 46:20 >>JESUS. >>THE BIBLE SAYS HE DID NO SIN. 46:22 EVERYONE ELSE HAS SINNED. WHAT'S THE PENALTY FOR SIN? 46:25 >>DEATH. >>SO EVEN IF THE MOST MORAL, 46:28 WELL-BEHAVED PERSON YOU CAN FIND IN THE BIBLE - THAT MIGHT BE 46:32 DANIEL, THAT MIGHT BE JOSEPH - ALL OF THEM DESERVE DEATH 46:36 BECAUSE ALL OF THEM SINNED. SO NONE OF THEM CAN BOAST 46:40 ANYTHING BUT GRACE. I REMEMBER TALKING TO SOMEONE 46:45 ONCE AND TALKED ABOUT SALVATION. THEY SAID, 'WELL, I'M 46:49 NOT WORRIED ABOUT IT. I FIGURE, I'VE DONE MORE GOOD 46:52 THINGS THAN BAD THINGS AND SO GOD'S GOING TO FORGIVE ME. 46:54 THEIR IDEA OF THE JUDGMENT DAY WAS GOD WAS GOING TO TAKE ALL 46:56 THE BAD THINGS YOU DID - AND THEY ADMITTED THERE WERE PLENTY 46:58 THEY HAD DONE - AND THEN HE'D TAKE THE GOOD THINGS - AND HE 47:01 SAID, 'WELL, I THINK MY LIST OF GOOD THINGS OUTWEIGHS MY LIST OF 47:03 BAD THINGS, SO I'M OKAY.' ALL YOU NEED IS ONE BAD THING AND 47:08 THE PENALTY'S DEATH. YOU CAN'T, THEN, SAY, 'I'VE DONE 47:11 ALL THESE GOOD THINGS.' AND SO, EVERYBODY NEEDS TO 47:14 DEPEND ON GRACE, AMEN? >>AMEN. 47:18 >>ALRIGHT, GOING TO THE GOSPEL IN THE OLD TESTAMENT - LEVITICUS 47:23 17 - MATTER OF FACT, WHAT'S YOUR VERSE? 47:27 >>DEUTERONOMY 27:26. >>OH, OKAY, I'LL GET 47:29 YOU IN JUST A MINUTE. LEVITICUS 17:11, "FOR THE LIFE 47:33 OF THE FLESH IS IN THE BLOOD, AND I HAVE GIVEN IT TO YOU UPON 47:36 THE ALTAR TO MAKE ATONEMENT FOR YOUR SOULS; FOR IT IS THE BLOOD 47:41 THAT MAKES ATONEMENT FOR THE SOUL." 47:43 SO WHAT WAS IT THAT PROVIDED FORGIVENESS FOR PEOPLE? 47:47 WAS IS THE GOOD WORKS OR WAS IT THE BLOOD? 47:50 THE IDEA OF BEING SAVED BY GRACE THROUGH FAITH IN THE BLOOD IS 47:55 NOT A NEW TESTAMENT CONCEPT. IT'S AN OLD TESTAMENT CONCEPT. 47:58 DID THEY REALLY THINK THE BLOOD OF LAMBS WOULD WASH AWAY THEIR 48:01 SIN? DOESN'T GOD SAY, IN THE BOOK 48:04 OF MICAH, 'WHAT HAS THE LORD REQUIRED OF YOU? 48:08 DOES HE WANT RIVERS OF BLOOD? TEN THOUSAND BURNT OFFERINGS?' 48:11 - I'M PARAPHRASING NOW - HE SAYS, 'NO, NONE OF THAT.' HE 48:15 SAYS, 'WILL I GIVE MY CHILD FOR THE SIN OF MY SOUL?' 48:18 AND IT'S AN ALLUSION TO WHAT GOD DID WITH JESUS BUT - 48:21 HE SAID, 'NO.' DAVID SAID, 'IF IT WAS THE FAT OF RAMS AND GOATS 48:27 THAT YOU DESIRED, I WOULD OFFER IT.' 48:29 BUT WHAT DOES THE LORD WANT? A CONTRITE SPIRIT. 48:32 HE WANTS US TO HUMBLE OURSELVES BEFORE THE LORD AND TO REPENT. 48:35 IT'S BY FAITH - BY HUMBLING OURSELVES - BY REPENTING - 48:38 THAT'S HOW WE RECEIVE FORGIVENESS. 48:40 GENESIS 12:1 THROUGH 3 - I ALREADY READ THIS TO YOU - SORRY 48:45 - LET'S GO TO ZECHARIAH 3, VERSES 1 THROUGH 4, "THEN HE 48:48 SHOWED ME JOSHUA THE HIGH PRIEST STANDING BEFORE THE ANGEL OF 48:51 THE LORD, AND SATAN STANDING AT HIS RIGHT HAND TO OPPOSE HIM." 48:55 - OR TO ACCUSE HIM - YOU KNOW, IT TELLS US IN REVELATION SATAN 48:58 IS CALLED THE WHAT? THE ACCUSER - REVELATION 12 49:02 - HE'S THE ACCUSER OF THE BRETHREN. 49:04 HE POINTS TO OUR SINS AND HE ACCUSES US. 49:06 HERE YOU'VE GOT ZECHARIAH 3 - SATAN IS LOOKING AT THE SINS OF 49:10 GOD'S PEOPLE THAT WERE BORNE ON THE GARMENTS OF THE HIGH PRIEST 49:14 - AND SO SATAN'S STANDING THERE. THE PRIEST WAS SUPPOSED TO MAKE 49:17 ATONEMENT AND SO, LIKE CHRIST, HE'S OUR HIGH PRIEST. 49:21 AND HE'S "...STANDING AT HIS RIGHT HAND TO OPPOSE HIM. 49:25 AND THE LORD SAID TO SATAN, 'THE LORD REBUKE YOU, SATAN! 49:29 THE LORD WHO HAS CHOSEN JERUSALEM REBUKE YOU! 49:32 IS THIS NOT A BRAND PLUCKED FROM THE FIRE?' 49:35 NOW JOSHUA WAS CLOTHED WITH FILTHY GARMENTS, AND WAS 49:38 STANDING BEFORE THE ANGEL. THEN HE ANSWERED AND SPOKE TO 49:41 THOSE WHO STOOD BEFORE HIM, SAYING, 'TAKE AWAY THE FILTHY 49:44 GARMENTS FROM HIM.' AND TO HIM HE SAID, 'SEE, I HAVE REMOVED 49:47 YOUR INIQUITY FROM YOU, AND I WILL CLOTHE YOU WITH RICH 49:50 ROBES.'" AND THIS IS WHAT THE LORD DOES WITH SALVATION. 49:53 HE MAKES A TRADE WITH US. HE TAKES AWAY OUR 49:55 FILTHY GARMENTS. HE GIVES US HIS ROBES 49:58 OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. HOW ARE THE SAVED 50:00 DESCRIBED IN REVELATION? THEY HAVE WASHED THEIR ROBES 50:04 AND MADE THEM WHITE IN WHAT? THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB. 50:07 IS THAT A NEW TESTAMENT CONCEPT OR AN OLD TESTAMENT CONCEPT? 50:12 IT GOES ALL THE WAY BACK TO THE BEGINNING. 50:14 ALRIGHT, READ, FOR US, PLEASE DEUTERONOMY 27. 50:18 >>DEUTERONOMY 27:26, "CURSED IS THE ONE WHO DOES NOT CONFIRM ALL 50:24 THE WORDS OF THIS LAW...' AND ALL THE PEOPLE SHALL SAY, 50:27 'AMEN!'" >>ALRIGHT, NOW THIS IS UNDER 50:29 THE SECTION REDEEMED FROM THE CURSE . 50:31 WE READ IN GALATIANS THAT IT SAYS THAT CURSED IS EVERYONE 50:34 WHO HANGS UPON A TREE. CURSED IS EVERYONE WHO DOES 50:37 NOT CONTINUE IN ALL THINGS THAT ARE WRITTEN IN THE LAW. 50:41 THE BIBLE SAYS THAT THE LAW IS THERE AS A WITNESS AGAINST US, 50:44 ACCORDING TO GALATIANS CHAPTER 2. 50:47 AND SO, IF WE'RE HOPING THAT WE CAN STAND JUST IN THE LIGHT OF 50:50 THE LAW AND FIND RIGHTEOUSNESS, NOT UNLESS WE'RE FIRST WASHED. 50:55 NOW, WILL PEOPLE BE JUDGED BY THE LAW? 50:58 'SO DO AND SO SPEAK AS THOSE THAT WILL BE JUDGED BY THE LAW 51:03 OF LIBERTY.' - THAT'S IN JAMES CHAPTER 2 - SO THERE IS A 51:06 JUDGMENT ON THE LAW, BUT WE'RE NOT SAVED BY THAT. 51:09 WE'RE SAVED BY GRACE. IT'S THE GRACE THAT FORGIVES 51:11 US FROM ALL OUR LAWLESSNESS. 2 CORINTHIANS 5, VERSE 21, "FOR 51:18 HE MADE HIM WHO KNEW NO SIN TO BE SIN FOR US, THAT WE MIGHT 51:24 BECOME THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD IN HIM." 51:28 CHRIST WHO WAS SINLESS BECAME SIN FOR US. 51:32 IT'S LIKE WHEN MOSES LIFTED UP THE SERPENT. 51:34 WHEN MOSES WAS ON THE MOUNTAIN AND THE PEOPLE WERE FIGHTING A 51:37 BATTLE AND HE WAS TOLD TO INTERCEDE AND HE LIFTED UP HIS 51:41 ARMS; AND WHEN HIS ARMS WENT DOWN, THEY LOST AND WHEN HIS 51:44 ARMS WENT UP THEY WON. THEY WON THE BATTLE BASED ON 51:48 BELIEVING IN THE INTERCESSION OF MOSES, NOT IN THEIR 51:52 PROWESS AS SOLDIERS. WHEN DAVID WENT AGAINST GOLIATH, 51:58 WERE THERE WORKS INVOLVED? HE USED THE SLING, HE USED THE 52:01 SWORD, BUT TO WHAT DID HE GIVE THE CREDIT? 52:05 HE SAID, 'I'M COMING IN THE NAME OF THE LORD.' WHEN JOSEPH WAS 52:08 SOLD BY HIS BROTHERS AND HE SUFFERED FOR YEARS BECAUSE OF 52:15 THEIR GREED - BECAUSE OF THEIR JEALOUSY - DID HE FORGIVE HIS 52:19 BROTHERS? DID HE NOT ONLY FORGIVE 52:21 THEM, BUT DID HE FEED THEM? AND DID HE BLESS THEM? 52:25 HE GAVE THEM THE BEST OF THE LAND. 52:27 ISN'T THAT A TYPE OF CHRIST? JUST BY THE GRACE OF JOSEPH. 52:33 HE COULD HAVE - HE COULD HAVE GOTTEN EVEN WITH THEM. 52:36 AND YOU FIND ALL THROUGH THE OLD TESTAMENT YOU SEE THESE EXAMPLES 52:40 - THESE STORIES - OF GRACE. YOU CAN - WHEN ESTHER COMES 52:45 BEFORE KING AHASUERAS - WHAT'S THE PENALTY IF YOU COME 52:48 BEFORE THE KING UNINVITED? >>DEATH. 52:51 >>DEATH. BUT HE COMES AND HE HOLDS OUT THE SCEPTER - SHE 52:54 TOUCHES IT - A SYMBOL OF GRACE - UNMERITED FAVOR. 52:58 ALL THROUGH THE BIBLE, IN THE OLD TESTAMENT - WHEN ABSALOM 53:04 KILLED HIS BROTHER AND HE CAME BACK TO THE KINGDOM AND DAVID 53:07 FINALLY, HE EMBRACED HIM AND FORGAVE HIM - ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF 53:13 GOD'S GRACE. YOU JUST GO ON AND ON THROUGH THE OLD TESTAMENT. 53:18 CAN YOU THINK OF ANY? OLD TESTAMENT EXAMPLES OF 53:21 SALVATION BY FAITH - IN THE MULTITUDE OF SABBATH SCHOOL 53:27 MEMBERS THERE IS WISDOM. COME ON, I DIDN'T COVER THEM 53:30 ALL. >>GIDEON? 53:32 >>GIDEON - OH, RAHAB - GIDEON, YEAH, GOD JUST HAD MERCY ON HIM 53:38 AND - THROUGH FAITH IN GOD THROUGH BLOWING THE TRUMPET. 53:41 RAHAB: ALL THOSE WHO WERE IN THE HOUSE WITH THE SIGN OF RED - A 53:45 SYMBOL OF THE GRACE OF GOD - WOULD BE FORGIVEN. 53:48 JOSHUA JUST SHOWED THEM MERCY. OH, I GUESS SOMEONE COULD ARGUE 53:52 - YOU KNOW, IT'S INTERESTING ABOUT RAHAB. 53:54 RAHAB'S THE ONE CHARACTER IN THE BIBLE IT SAYS SHE WAS SAVED BY 53:56 FAITH, IN HEBREWS, AND JAMES SAYS SHE'S SAVED BY WORKS. 54:01 DID YOU KNOW THAT? BUT IT WAS DEFINITELY - HEBREWS 54:05 SAYS SHE WAS SAVED BY FAITH IN THAT SHE BELIEVED THAT JOSHUA 54:08 - IN THE GOD OF JOSHUA - AND SHE RECEIVED THE MESSENGERS. 54:12 ANYONE ELSE? >>ABEL. 54:14 >>I HEARD TWO. WHAT? ADAM AND EVE WERE 54:17 SAVED BY GRACE. THEY BROKE THE LAW. 54:19 THEY - GOD GAVE THEM THE SKINS OF LAMBS. 54:22 THE LAMBS DIED TO COVER THEIR NAKEDNESS. 54:25 IT WAS GRACE. WHO ELSE DID I HEAR? 54:27 >>ABEL. >>ABEL. HE WAS SAVED BY FAITH IN 54:30 THE BLOOD. THAT'S RIGHT. WAY BACK THERE IN THE BEGINNING. 54:32 DID I HEAR ANOTHER ONE? DANIEL? NOAH WAS SAVED BY GRACE. 54:38 NOAH FOUND GRACE - VERY GOOD - IN THE EYES OF THE LORD. 54:40 SO THIS IS THE MAIN POINT OF THIS LESSON. 54:42 I JUST THOUGHT WE'D TIE IT OFF WITH YOU HELPING ME. 54:44 WERE THEY SAVED IN THE OLD TESTAMENT BY WORKS OR WERE THEY 54:47 SAVED BY GRACE? >>GRACE. 54:49 >>WAS NOAH A JEW OR A GENTILE? (LAUGHTER) HE WAS UNCIRCUMCISED. 54:55 HOW ABOUT ENOCH? NOT CIRCUMCISED - AND 54:58 HE MADE IT TO HEAVEN. YOU SEE WHAT PAUL WAS 55:00 SAYING TO THE GALATIANS? HOW CAN YOU GO BACK TO THINKING 55:02 YOU'VE GOT TO BE CIRCUMCISED TO BE SAVED? 55:04 LOOK AT THESE HEROES IN THE BIBLE THAT - FROM THE OLD 55:07 TESTAMENT - THAT ARE GOING TO BE IN HEAVEN - SOME ARE ALREADY IN 55:10 HEAVEN - THAT DIDN'T GO THROUGH THESE CEREMONIAL LAWS. 55:14 AND SO, HE SAID, 'YOU'VE BEGUN IN THE SPIRIT AND YOU'RE GETTING 55:17 DISTRACTED BY THE LAW.' THAT'S WHY HE CALLED THEM FOOLISH 55:19 GALATIANS. ANYWAY, HOPEFULLY WE'VE LEARNED 55:21 SOMETHING FROM TODAY'S LESSON. I WANT TO REMIND OUR FRIENDS, 55:24 WE DO HAVE A FREE GIFT AND WE'D LIKE YOU TO KNOW ABOUT THAT 55:27 GRACE AND THAT FAITH AND SO WE'VE GOT A CLASSIC 55:30 BOOK BY JOE CREWS. IT'S CALLED THREE STEPS TO 55:32 HEAVEN AND WE'LL SEND IT TO YOU FOR FREE. 55:34 ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS CALL THE NUMBER 866-788-3966. 55:38 MAKE SURE AND ASK FOR OFFER #102 WHEN YOU CALL. 55:43 AND THE BOOK IS CALLED THREE STEPS TO HEAVEN - READ IT AND 55:45 SHARE IT WITH A FRIEND. 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