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>>HELLO FRIENDS, AND
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SCHOOL TODAY TO
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NOW WE'VE BEEN STUDYING THROUGH
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HERE, YOU KNOW ABOUT THE LESSON
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DURING THE WEEK IN PREPARATION
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WELL, BEFORE WE GET TO
OUR STUDY, WE LIKE TO BEGIN BY
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LIFTING OUR VOICES IN SONG.
I'D LIKE TO INVITE THE SONG
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LEADERS TO COME AND JOIN
ME. >>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS.
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(LIGHT PIANO MUSIC) FOR THOSE OF
YOU THAT ARE JOINING US AT HOME,
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WHEREVER YOU ARE, GRAB YOUR
HYMNALS. WE LOVE TO SING WITH
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YOU EVERY WEEK BEFORE WE
STUDY AND GET INTO GOD'S WORD.
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THIS WEEK WE'RE GOING TO BE
SINGING ABOUT LISTENING TO GOD'S
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VOICE WHEN HE CALLS US, DOING
WHAT HE ASKS, WHICH IS TO GO
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INTO ALL THE WORLD AND TO PREACH
HIS GOSPEL, LETTING OTHER PEOPLE
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KNOW WE LOVE HIM AND
WHAT HE'S DONE FOR US.
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OUR FIRST SONG THAT WE'RE GOING
TO SING THIS MORNING IS HYMN
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#369 - BRINGING IN THE SHEAVES -
WE'RE GOING TO SING THE FIRST -
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ALL THREE VERSES - FIRST,
SECOND, AND THIRD. (PIANO MUSIC)
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>>JUST A FEW PAGES BACK TO HYMN
#361 - HARK TO THE SHEPHERD'S
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VOICE I HEAR - DID YOU
HEAR HIM CALLING YOU THIS WEEK?
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IF YOU DID, I HOPE YOU
ANSWERED. IF NOT, HE'S GOING TO
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GIVE YOU ANOTHER
CHANCE. LET'S SING ALL THREE
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VERSES OF HYMN
#361. (PIANO MUSIC)
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>>AT THIS TIME PASTOR
ROSS WILL LEAD US IN PRAYER.
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(SOFT PIANO MUSIC)
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>>LET US BOW OUR
HEADS FOR A WORD OF PRAYER.
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DEAR FATHER IN HEAVEN,
ONCE AGAIN, THANK YOU FOR THE
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OPPORTUNITY TO GATHER TOGETHER
IN YOUR HOUSE AND OPEN UP YOUR
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WORD TO STUDY THIS VERY
INSPIRING STUDY, IN THE BOOK OF
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GALATIANS, ABOUT FAITH AND YOUR
WILLINGNESS TO FORGIVE AND TO
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CLEANSE AND THE
POWER OF YOUR GRACE.
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SO BLESS OUR
TIME, ONCE AGAIN, TODAY.
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WE ASK THAT YOU BE WITH PASTOR
DOUG AS HE OPENS THE SCRIPTURES.
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IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. OUR
LESSON TODAY IS GOING TO BE
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BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR
DOUG. >>WELCOME FRIENDS.
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WE'D LIKE TO THANK YOU FOR
JOINING US HERE AT GRANITE BAY
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SABBATH SCHOOL PROGRAM
AND DURING OUR STUDY HOUR.
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WE ARE CONTINUING IN OUR STUDY
OF GALATIANS AND THIS HAS BEEN
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JUST A VERY ENRICHING STUDY
AND IT'S CHALLENGED ME AS WELL.
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OUR STUDY TODAY IS ON THE
PRIORITY OF THE PROMISE - THE
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PRIORITY OF THE PROMISE -
AND WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE.
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THE MEMORY VERSE IS GALATIANS
3:18, AND THIS COMES TO US FROM
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THE ENGLISH STANDARD
VERSION. IF YOU'D SAY IT WITH
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ME, GALATIANS
3:18. ARE YOU READY?
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"FOR IF THE INHERITANCE COMES BY
THE LAW, IT NO LONGER COMES BY
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PROMISE; BUT GOD GAVE IT
TO ABRAHAM BY A PROMISE."
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NOW THIS IS THE - THE REAL THEME
IN THE SECTION WE'RE GOING TO BE
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TALKING ABOUT TODAY, IT'S
TALKING ABOUT THE PROMISES OF
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GOD. AND, TO
BEGIN WITH, WHY DON'T WE
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GO TO THE BOOK OF GALATIANS
AND I'M JUST GOING TO READ OUR
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ASSIGNMENT. OUR MISSION FOR
TODAY IS THAT WE WANT TO STUDY
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GALATIANS CHAPTER 3,
VERSES 15 THROUGH 20.
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NEXT WEEK IT GOES FROM 20
ON, BUT RIGHT NOW WE'RE GOING TO
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READ GALATIANS 3:15 THROUGH 20.
I'LL JUST READ IT THROUGH FOR
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YOU SO, NO MATTER HOW FAR WE GET
WITH THE DIFFERENT POINTS, AT
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LEAST WE'LL BE ABLE TO SAY,
'WE MADE IT THROUGH THE ASSIGNED
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TEXT.' ARE YOU READY?
"BRETHREN, I SPEAK IN THE MANNER
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OF MEN: THOUGH IT IS ONLY A
MAN'S COVENANT, YET IF IT IS
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CONFIRMED, NO ONE
ANNULS OR ADDS TO IT.
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NOW TO ABRAHAM AND HIS
SEED WERE THE PROMISES MADE.
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HE DOES NOT SAY, 'AND TO SEEDS,'
AS OF MANY, BUT AS OF ONE, 'AND
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TO YOUR SEED,' WHO IS CHRIST.
AND THIS I SAY, THAT THE LAW,
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WHICH WAS FOUR HUNDRED
AND THIRTY YEARS LATER, CANNOT
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ANNUL THE COVENANT THAT
WAS CONFIRMED BEFORE BY GOD IN
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CHRIST, THAT IT SHOULD
MAKE THE PROMISE OF NO EFFECT.
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FOR IF THE INHERITANCE IS OF THE
LAW, IT IS NO LONGER OF PROMISE;
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BUT GOD GAVE IT TO
ABRAHAM BY PROMISE.
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WHAT PURPOSE THEN
DOES THE LAW SERVE?
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IT WAS ADDED BECAUSE OF
TRANSGRESSIONS, TILL THE SEED
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SHOULD COME TO WHOM THE PROMISE
WAS MADE; AND IT WAS APPOINTED
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THROUGH ANGELS BY
THE HAND OF A MEDIATOR.
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NOW A MEDIATOR DOES NOT MEDIATE
FOR ONE ONLY, BUT GOD IS ONE."
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THAT'S OUR ASSIGNMENT - THAT'S
OUR PASSAGE OF VERSES - AND
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WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING
ABOUT THE PROMISES OF GOD.
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LET'S GET INTO OUR STUDY FOR
TODAY, WHERE WE'RE DEALING WITH
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SOME OF THESE VERY IMPORTANT
ISSUES REGARDING GALATIANS
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CHAPTER 3, VERSES 15 THROUGH 20.
IF YOU LOOK IN CHAPTER 3, VERSE
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15, IT SAYS, 'BRETHREN, NOW I
SPEAK IN THE MANNER OF MEN:' -
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IN OTHER WORDS, 'I'M GOING TO
TALK IN HUMAN TERMS' - 'THOUGH
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IT'S ONLY A MAN'S COVENANT,'
- IF TWO MEN MAKE A COVENANT -
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'YET IF IT IS CONFIRMED,
YOU CANNOT ANNUL IT' - EVEN
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CONTRACTS BETWEEN MEN,
HE'S SAYING, CANNOT BE ANNULLED.
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"NOW TO ABRAHAM AND HIS
SEED, WERE THE PROMISES MADE."
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- NOTICE IT
DOES NOT SAY 'SEEDS'?
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PAUL IS EMPHASIZING 'IT'S NOT -
LOTS - A PLURAL, LIKE 'LOTS' OF
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MEN OR 'LOTS' OF SEEDS - AS TO
MANY - AND HE SAYS, 'AND TO YOUR
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SEED' - HE'S REFERRING BACK
TO GENESIS WHERE GOD MAKES HIS
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PROMISE TO
ABRAHAM - "WHO IS CHRIST.
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AND THIS I SAY, THAT THE
LAW, WHICH WAS FOUR HUNDRED AND
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THIRTY YEARS LATER, CANNOT ANNUL
THE COVENANT THAT WAS CONFIRMED
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BEFORE BY GOD IN CHRIST," - LET
ME JUST SEE IF I COULD BACK UP A
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LITTLE BIT AND GIVE YOU THE
IDEA OF WHAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT.
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THE BIG ARGUMENT HERE
IN GALATIANS IS 'O FOOLISH
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GALATIANS, WHO
HAS BEWITCHED YOU?
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HOW DO YOU THINK YOU
CAN BE SAVED BY THESE LAWS?'
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NOW, WHEN HE TALKS ABOUT
THE LAWS, HE'S TALKING ABOUT TWO
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THINGS: THE LAW, IN A BIG
GENERAL SENSE THAT ENCOMPASSES
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ALL LAW, BECAUSE
WE'RE NOT SAVED BY ANY LAW.
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BUT, MORE SPECIFICALLY, IN
GALATIANS, HE'S TALKING ABOUT
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THE CEREMONIAL LAWS CONTAINED
IN ORDINANCES, AND CIRCUMCISION.
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CIRCUMCISION IS THE BIG DEBATE
ISSUE THAT YOU FIND MENTIONED IN
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GALATIANS. PAUL IS
MAKING A POINT THAT GOD
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MADE A PROMISE TO ABRAHAM FOUR
HUNDRED AND THIRTY YEARS BEFORE
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THE TEN COMMANDMENTS WERE GIVEN.
SO, WAS ANYONE SAVED BETWEEN
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ABRAHAM AND MOUNT SINAI? >>YEAH.
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>>YEAH, A LOT OF PEOPLE.
YOU'VE GOT ISAAC, JACOB, THE
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PATRIARCHS, MANY
OF THEIR DESCENDANTS.
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THERE WAS A LOT OF GOD'S
PEOPLE THAT WOULD BE SAVED THEN.
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THEY HADN'T HEARD GOD SPEAK
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS YET, BUT
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THEY'RE STILL GOING TO BE SAVED.
NOW, DID THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
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EXIST BEFORE MOUNT SINAI?
YES. HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT?
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IT'S EASY TO SAY, 'OF COURSE'
- I MEAN, YOUR NATURAL COMMON
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SENSE WOULD TELL YOU, 'OF COURSE
IT WAS WRONG TO KILL BEFORE THE
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TEN COMMANDMENTS WERE ANNOUNCED
ON MOUNT SINAI, YOU KNOW, IN 14
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- WHATEVER IT WAS -
1446 - ABOUT 1446 B.C.
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SO, WAS IT WRONG
TO COMMIT ADULTERY?
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WAS IT WRONG TO STEAL
BEFORE THEY WERE ANNOUNCED?
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HOW DO YOU KNOW
THAT? >>LOVE GOD; LOVE MAN.
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>>WELL THOSE -
THAT CAME LATER, THOUGH.
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YEAH, I KNOW, BUT - SO I
HEARD SOMEONE SAY 'JOSEPH'.
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DID GOD SAY TO JOSEPH - OR DID
JOSEPH SAY, 'HOW CAN I DO THIS
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THING AND SIN AGAINST
GOD?' HE WAS BEING TEMPTED
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TO COMMIT
ADULTERY. DID JOSEPH KNOW
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ADULTERY WAS A SIN? >>YES.
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>>HOW FAR BACK DO WE
KNOW THAT MURDER WAS A SIN?
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>>CAIN AND ABEL.
>>YEAH, GOD SAID, 'SIN
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LIES AT YOUR DOOR'.
MURDER WAS A SIN BACK FOR CAIN.
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AND, OF COURSE, YOU
COULD PROBABLY FIND CASES WHERE
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STEALING AND
OTHER THINGS WERE SIN.
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BEFORE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
WERE GIVEN THEY KNEW THAT.
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BUT THE CEREMONIAL LAW IS IN
A LITTLE DIFFERENT VEIN IN THAT
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CIRCUMCISION
WASN'T GIVEN TO ANYBODY.
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WAS ABRAHAM SAVED WHEN GOD
CALLED HIM OUT OF UR OF THE
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CHALDEES? GOD
SAID, 'FOLLOW ME.' WAS
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HE - DID HE GO BY FAITH? >>YEAH.
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>>YEAH. DID HE HAVE A
RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD?
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WAS HE CIRCUMCISED
WHEN HE WAS FIRST CALLED?
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SO, PAUL IS TRYING TO MAKE
THE POINT USING A LOT OF LOGICAL
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SEQUENCE THAT
SALVATION IS NOT BASED UPON LAW.
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THE SALVATION THAT GOD OFFERS -
ADAM - DID ADAM HAVE A MEANS OF
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SALVATION? NOW,
WE'LL GET TO THIS LATER.
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WHAT WAS THE SIGN OF
ADAM'S BEING FORGIVEN?
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WAS IT BECAUSE
ADAM SACRIFICED A LAMB?
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OR WAS IT THE PROMISE OF GOD?
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WAS ANYONE SAVED BY THE
BLOOD OF LAMBS AND GOATS?
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>>NO. >>OR WAS THAT ALL A SYMBOL
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POINTING TO SOMETHING? OKAY.
SO THIS IS WHERE PAUL IS GOING.
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SO, WHEN GOD MAKES A PROMISE,
DOES HE KEEP HIS PROMISE?
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SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ
A COUPLE OF VERSES FOR ME.
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LET ME SEE, WHO'S
GOT NUMBERS 23:19?
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JUST A MOMENT,
WE'LL GET YOU NEXT, JOHN.
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I WANT TO READ ISAIAH
46;11, "INDEED, I HAVE SPOKEN.
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I WILL ALSO BRING IT TO
PASS. I HAVE PURPOSED IT.
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I WILL ALSO DO IT.' GOD
IS SPEAKING - 'WHEN I MAKE A
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PROMISE I KEEP MY PROMISE.' IN
THE SAME VEIN, GO AHEAD, PLEASE,
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READ NUMBERS 23:19.
>>NUMBERS 23:19, "GOD IS NOT A
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MAN, THAT HE SHOULD LIE,
NOR A SON OF MAN, THAT HE SHOULD
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REPENT. HAS HE
SAID, AND WILL HE NOT DO?
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OR HAS HE SPOKEN, AND
WILL HE NOT MAKE IT GOOD?"
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>>HERE MOSES IS ASKING A
RHETORICAL QUESTION: 'IS GOD
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GOING TO MAKE A
PROMISE AND NOT KEEP IT?'
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CAN GOD BE TRUSTED? KAREN
AND I WENT OUT CAR SHOPPING.
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SHE HAD A
BIRTHDAY ABOUT A WEEK AGO.
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IN THE PROCESS OF CAR
SHOPPING WE BOUGHT A CAR.
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WE HAD TO DO A CREDIT - YOU'RE
SITTING THERE WITH THE CAR GUY
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AND HE HAS TO DO A
CREDIT CHECK ON YOU.
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AND, ACTUALLY, DID A CREDIT
CHECK ON BOTH OF US AND I WAS A
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LITTLE BIT CONCERNED THAT KAREN
HAD A BETTER CREDIT SCORE THAN
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ME AND HERE WE'VE BEEN
MARRIED ALL THESE YEARS.
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I DON'T KNOW HOW THAT
HAPPENED. I HAVE A SUSPICION
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HOW IT HAPPENED.
(LAUGHTER) SO WE ASKED THE GUY
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- WE HAVE GOOD CREDIT, BUT -
WE ASKED THE GUY, 'WHAT'S THE
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HIGHEST CREDIT
SCORE YOU CAN HAVE?'
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AND HE SAID, 'IT'S 850' -
I THINK HE TOLD US 900, BUT I
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LOOKED IT UP, IT'S 850.
AND THE LOWEST CREDIT SCORE YOU
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COULD POSSIBLY HAVE IS 300.
SO OUR NEXT QUESTION WAS, 'IN
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ALL THE TIME OF YOUR PROCESSING
APPLICATIONS FOR BUYING CARS,
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DID YOU EVER MEET
ANYBODY WITH AN 850 SCORE?
00:16:44.67\00:16:49.40
HE SAID, 'NO, BUT I'VE HEARD
OF THEM.' I SAID, 'HAVE YOU EVER
00:16:49.44\00:16:52.81
MET ANYBODY WITH
THE LOWEST SCORE?'
00:16:52.84\00:16:55.01
HOW'D YOU LIKE TO HAVE
THE LOWEST CREDIT SCORE?
00:16:55.04\00:16:58.11
HE SAID, 'NO, I HAD ONE GUY THAT
WAS VERY CLOSE AND HE - YOU HAVE
00:16:58.15\00:17:01.32
TO WORK AT IT TO GET
YOUR CREDIT SCORE THAT LOW.
00:17:01.35\00:17:05.95
YOU HAVE TO BREAK EVERY
PROMISE. YOU HAVE TO VIOLATE
00:17:05.99\00:17:08.89
EVERY PAYMENT. YOU'VE
GOT TO TAKE OUT CARDS AND
00:17:08.92\00:17:11.39
NEVER PAY ON THEM.' HE SAID,
'YOU'VE JUST GOT TO DO IT ALL
00:17:11.43\00:17:13.46
WRONG.' AND SO, IF GOD HAD A
CREDIT SCORE, WHAT WOULD IT BE?
00:17:13.50\00:17:21.97
DOES HE KEEP -
CAN HE BE TRUSTED?
00:17:22.00\00:17:25.51
DOES HE MAKE A PROMISE - DOES
HE MAKE A COVENANT - DOES HE PAY
00:17:25.54\00:17:28.41
WHAT HE OWES? >>AMEN.
00:17:28.44\00:17:30.18
>>HE DOES. AND SO
GOD CAN BE TRUSTED.
00:17:30.21\00:17:33.78
AND THIS IS WHAT IT'S SAYING.
SO, ROMANS - LET'S LOOK AT A
00:17:33.82\00:17:38.19
FEW OTHER VERSES HERE - TALKING
ABOUT THE PROMISES OF GOD.
00:17:38.22\00:17:40.69
ROMANS 4:13 AND 14, "FOR
THE PROMISE THAT HE WOULD BE THE
00:17:40.72\00:17:45.23
HEIR OF THE WORLD WAS NOT TO
ABRAHAM OR TO HIS SEED THROUGH
00:17:45.26\00:17:48.76
THE LAW," - THIS IS PAUL
SAYING THE SAME THING HE SAYS IN
00:17:48.80\00:17:51.53
GALATIANS - IT'S NOT THROUGH
THE LAW - "BUT THROUGH THE
00:17:51.57\00:17:55.30
RIGHTEOUSNESS OF FAITH.
FOR IF THOSE WHO ARE OF THE LAW
00:17:55.34\00:17:59.41
ARE HEIRS, FAITH IS MADE
VOID AND THE PROMISE MADE OF NO
00:17:59.44\00:18:02.98
EFFECT," - IT IS NOT FROM
THE LAW, BUT IT'S THROUGH FAITH.
00:18:03.01\00:18:06.38
SIMILAR TO THAT, YOU READ
IN HEBREWS 6:17, "THUS GOD,
00:18:06.41\00:18:10.25
DETERMINING TO SHOW MORE
ABUNDANTLY TO THE HEIRS OF
00:18:10.29\00:18:12.75
PROMISE THE IMMUTABILITY OF
HIS COUNSEL, CONFIRMED IT BY AN
00:18:12.79\00:18:17.63
OATH, THAT BY TWO
IMMUTABLE THINGS, IN WHICH IT IS
00:18:17.66\00:18:20.96
IMPOSSIBLE FOR GOD TO LIE, WE
MIGHT HAVE STRONG CONSOLATION,
00:18:20.96\00:18:26.67
WHO HAVE FLED FOR REFUGE TO LAY
HOLD OF THE HOPE SET BEFORE US."
00:18:26.70\00:18:31.94
GOD HAS MADE A PROMISE AND
OUR SALVATION IS BASED ON HIS
00:18:31.97\00:18:35.84
PROMISE; IT'S NOT
BASED ON OUR WORKS.
00:18:35.88\00:18:38.81
IT'S BASED ON
TRUSTING IN HIS PROMISE.
00:18:38.85\00:18:40.98
SO, LET'S JUST TALK
ABOUT IT FOR A MINUTE.
00:18:41.02\00:18:43.69
WHY IS IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR
ANYONE TO BE SAVED BY THE LAW?
00:18:43.72\00:18:47.59
WHAT IS THE PENALTY
FOR BREAKING THE LAW?
00:18:47.62\00:18:49.76
>>DEATH. >>DEATH,
RIGHT? WE ALL AGREE?
00:18:49.79\00:18:53.53
>>YES. >>HOW MANY HAVE SINNED?
00:18:53.56\00:18:56.53
>>ALL. >>AND
BROKEN THE LAW? ALL.
00:18:56.56\00:18:58.87
EVERYBODY STILL AGREE
THAT'S ALL INCLUDED HERE?
00:18:58.90\00:19:02.07
SO, IF YOU ARE - HAVE TO KEEP
THE LAW PERFECTLY TO BE SAVED,
00:19:02.10\00:19:05.97
AND IF EVERYBODY HAS BROKEN THE
LAW, THEN WE ARE ALL CONDEMNED.
00:19:06.01\00:19:08.71
SO, IF ANYONE MAKES IT TO
HEAVEN, IT'S NOT BECAUSE OF YOUR
00:19:08.74\00:19:10.61
LAW KEEPING - >>TRUE.
00:19:10.65\00:19:12.21
>>BECAUSE YOU'VE
ALREADY FAILED AT THAT.
00:19:12.25\00:19:13.98
IT'S GOT TO BE
DEPENDANT ON GRACE.
00:19:14.02\00:19:15.85
NOW HERE'S WHERE IT
GETS A LITTLE DICEY.
00:19:15.88\00:19:17.69
SOME PEOPLE SAY, 'WELL, WE DO
ACCEPT THE SALVATION OF JESUS -
00:19:17.72\00:19:20.86
THAT HE DIED IN OUR PLACE AND
THAT'S TO FORGIVE OUR PAST SINS,
00:19:20.89\00:19:23.43
BUT NOW WE MUST KEEP THE
LAW TO KEEP OUR SALVATION.'
00:19:23.46\00:19:27.83
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THAT?
SO DO WE GET TO BREAK OUR LAW
00:19:27.86\00:19:33.57
NOW? WE NEVER
ARE SAVED BY KEEPING
00:19:33.60\00:19:39.51
THE LAW, BUT IF OUR HEARTS
HAVE BEEN RENEWED, WE WILL KEEP
00:19:39.54\00:19:43.65
THE LAW BECAUSE
WE ARE SAVED. >>AMEN.
00:19:43.68\00:19:46.61
>>THE SALVATION STORY IS A
GREAT ANALOGY TO EXPLAIN THIS.
00:19:46.65\00:19:51.02
THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL - DID
MOSES COME TO THEM IN EGYPT AND
00:19:51.05\00:19:55.96
SAY, 'LOOK, GOD SENT ME TO TELL
YOU HE'S GOING TO DO ALL THESE
00:19:55.99\00:19:59.03
SIGNS AND WONDERS TO SET YOU
FREE IF YOU'LL KEEP THESE TEN
00:19:59.06\00:20:01.96
LAWS. LET ME TELL
YOU WHAT THEY ARE.
00:20:02.00\00:20:03.43
YOU KEEP THESE TEN COMMANDMENTS
AND GOD WILL THEN SAVE YOU OUT
00:20:03.47\00:20:05.90
OF EGYPT. WAS THERE
SALVATION FROM SLAVERY
00:20:05.93\00:20:09.07
BASED UPON OBEDIENCE, OR
WAS IT BASED UPON THE LAMB?
00:20:09.10\00:20:14.18
IT WAS THROUGH FAITH IN THE
BLOOD OF THE PASSOVER LAMB THEY
00:20:14.21\00:20:17.75
BEGAN THEIR JOURNEY. BUT
AFTER THEY WERE SAVED OUT OF
00:20:17.78\00:20:21.78
THE SLAVERY, GOD BRINGS THEM
TO MOUNT SINAI AND HE SAYS, 'I
00:20:21.82\00:20:25.89
AM THE LORD WHO SAVED YOU.
IF YOU LOVE ME, HERE'S MY LAW.
00:20:25.92\00:20:28.59
FIRST COMMANDMENT: I AM THE LORD
WHO BROUGHT YOU OUT OF THE HOUSE
00:20:28.62\00:20:30.79
OF EGYPT - OUT OF THE HOUSE OF
BONDAGE - OUT OF EGYPT, OUT OF
00:20:30.83\00:20:33.63
THE HOUSE OF BONDAGE' -
HE'S SAYING, 'I'VE SAVED YOU' -
00:20:33.66\00:20:36.30
IMPLIED THERE IS, 'IF YOU
LOVE ME, KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS'.
00:20:36.33\00:20:40.70
SO THEY WERE NOT SAVED BY
OBEYING THE TEN COMMANDMENTS,
00:20:40.74\00:20:44.24
BUT IF THEY CONTINUED TO BREAK
THE LAW AFTER HE SAVED THEM, DID
00:20:44.27\00:20:49.58
THEY MAKE IT TO
THE PROMISED LAND?
00:20:49.61\00:20:52.38
NO, BECAUSE IT WAS EVIDENCE THAT
THEY DIDN'T REALLY TRUST HIM.
00:20:52.41\00:20:58.62
HOW MANY TIMES DID THEY SAY,
'OH, I WISH WE COULD GO BACK TO
00:20:58.65\00:21:01.12
EGYPT' - 'IT WAS BETTER BACK IN
EGYPT'? THEY LOST FAITH THAT GOD
00:21:01.16\00:21:04.93
COULD FINISH WHAT HE
STARTED. THEY DID NOT BELIEVE
00:21:04.96\00:21:07.96
THE PROMISES OF GOD.
SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING?
00:21:08.00\00:21:11.20
WHEN THEY MURMURED AND THEY
COMPLAINED, THEY WERE SHOWING
00:21:11.23\00:21:13.57
DISBELIEF IN
THE PROMISES OF GOD.
00:21:13.60\00:21:16.10
SO THAT'S WHY THAT'S SO
CRUCIAL FOR ALL OF THAT.
00:21:16.14\00:21:19.91
ALRIGHT, FAITH IN THE LAW IS OUR
NEXT SECTION - FAITH IN THE LAW.
00:21:19.94\00:21:23.18
SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ FOR
ME, IN A MOMENT, GALATIANS 3:21.
00:21:23.21\00:21:28.25
THAT'LL BE YOU, PASTOR
LUKE? ALRIGHT, I'M GOING TO READ
00:21:28.28\00:21:30.42
ROMANS 2:13, "(FOR NOT THE
HEARERS OF THE LAW ARE JUST IN
00:21:30.45\00:21:35.49
THE SIGHT OF GOD, BUT
THE DOERS OF THE LAW WILL BE
00:21:35.52\00:21:38.59
JUSTIFIED;...)" NOW THAT'S A
VERY INTERESTING VERSE FOR PAUL,
00:21:38.63\00:21:41.83
BECAUSE PEOPLE USUALLY TRY
TO GET PAUL TO SAY THE OPPOSITE.
00:21:41.86\00:21:45.40
THEY LIKE TO SAY THAT YOU ARE
JUSTIFIED ONLY BY FAITH AND HERE
00:21:45.43\00:21:48.34
YOU'VE GOT PAUL SAYING, 'NOT THE
HEARERS OF THE LAW BUT THE DOERS
00:21:48.37\00:21:51.54
OF THE LAW WILL BE JUSTIFIED'
BECAUSE THE - ARE WE JUDGED BY
00:21:51.57\00:21:55.18
OUR FAITH OR OUR WORKS? >>FAITH.
00:21:55.21\00:22:01.95
>>EVERY MAN WAS JUDGED
ACCORDING TO HIS...WORKS.
00:22:01.98\00:22:05.89
JESUS SAID, 'YOU
WILL KNOW THEM BY THEIR' -
00:22:05.92\00:22:07.46
>>FRUITS.
>>'FRUITS' - THEY'RE WORKS -
00:22:07.49\00:22:10.39
BECAUSE YOU CAN LOOK AT A
PERSON'S WORKS AND TELL IF THEY
00:22:10.43\00:22:13.93
HAVE FAITH. ISN'T THAT WHAT
JAMES SAID? HE SAID, 'YOU CAN
00:22:13.96\00:22:17.37
SHOW ME YOUR FAITH BY YOUR
WORDS, BUT I'LL SHOW YOU MY
00:22:17.40\00:22:21.07
FAITH BY MY WORKS. AND SO,
TRUE FAITH WILL BE SEEN IN A
00:22:21.10\00:22:26.24
DIFFERENT LIFE. ISN'T THAT
RIGHT? COME ON, FRIENDS, WE HEAR
00:22:26.27\00:22:31.11
SO MANY PEOPLE SAY 'IT'S
JUST FAITH. IT'S JUST FAITH.
00:22:31.15\00:22:33.31
IT'S JUST FAITH.' - THEY FORGET
THAT THE BIBLE TEACHES REAL
00:22:33.35\00:22:36.08
FAITH IS GOING TO BE
EVIDENT IN A CHANGED BEHAVIOR.
00:22:36.12\00:22:39.59
>>AMEN. >>WHY DOES
PAUL SAY, 'LET EVERY
00:22:39.62\00:22:41.66
MAN EXAMINE HIMSELF
WHETHER HE BE IN THE FAITH'?
00:22:41.69\00:22:44.79
HOW DO YOU EXAMINE YOURSELF?
LOOK AT WHAT YOU'RE DOING AND
00:22:44.83\00:22:48.73
THAT'LL TELL YOU IF
YOU'RE IN THE FAITH.
00:22:48.76\00:22:51.57
DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? >>IT DOES.
00:22:51.60\00:22:53.37
>>WHAT I'M SAYING IS ACTUALLY
NOT POPULAR, BUT IT'S - THIS IS
00:22:53.40\00:22:55.80
OLD-FASHIONED BIBLICAL THEOLOGY.
THIS IS REFORMATION THEOLOGY,
00:22:55.84\00:23:00.48
THAT IF YOU REALLY ARE
SAVED BY FAITH, IT WILL BE SEEN.
00:23:00.51\00:23:03.35
MARTIN LUTHER SAID THAT TOO.
ALRIGHT, ROMANS 3:31, "DO WE
00:23:03.38\00:23:09.38
THEN MAKE VOID THE LAW
THROUGH FAITH? CERTAINLY NOT!
00:23:09.42\00:23:13.92
ON THE CONTRARY,
WE ESTABLISH THE LAW."
00:23:13.96\00:23:17.19
ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD. READ,
FOR US, PLEASE GALATIANS 3:21.
00:23:17.23\00:23:22.33
>>GALATIANS 3:21, "IS THE
LAW THEN AGAINST THE PROMISES OF
00:23:22.36\00:23:26.87
GOD? CERTAINLY NOT!"
00:23:26.90\00:23:29.74
>>THAT'S THE SAME TERM THAT
HE USED EARLIER WHERE HE SAYS,
00:23:29.77\00:23:33.21
'GOD FORBID! CERTAINLY NOT!'
00:23:33.24\00:23:35.21
SO EVEN IN GALATIANS HE SAYS
THAT SAME THING THAT YOU HEAR
00:23:35.24\00:23:37.78
HIM SAYING IN ROMANS.
HE'S SAYING, 'DON'T THINK FOR A
00:23:37.81\00:23:40.62
MOMENT THAT, BECAUSE OF
FAITH, THAT SOMEHOW THE LAW IS
00:23:40.65\00:23:44.59
DELETED.' NOW, BY THE
LAW IS THE KNOWLEDGE OF SIN.
00:23:44.62\00:23:51.39
SO NOW THAT JESUS HAS DIED FOR
OUR SINS, DO WE STILL NEED THE
00:23:51.43\00:23:55.03
LAW? >>YES.
00:23:55.06\00:23:57.10
>>DO PEOPLE STILL NEED TO BE
AWARE OF THE MIRROR THAT SHOWS
00:23:57.13\00:24:00.97
THEM SIN - THAT
SENDS THEM TO JESUS?
00:24:01.00\00:24:03.64
YEAH, BUT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT
TWO LAWS: ONE IS A CEREMONIAL
00:24:03.67\00:24:07.84
LAW AND ONE IS
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
00:24:07.88\00:24:11.91
ROMANS 7:7, "WHAT
SHALL WE SAY THEN?
00:24:11.95\00:24:14.85
IS THE LAW SIN? CERTAINLY NOT!"
00:24:14.88\00:24:17.62
- THERE YOU'VE
GOT THAT PHRASE AGAIN.
00:24:17.65\00:24:18.89
IT'S THE THIRD 'CERTAINLY NOT'
WE'VE READ. - "ON THE CONTRARY,
00:24:18.92\00:24:22.02
I WOULD NOT HAVE KNOWN
SIN EXCEPT THROUGH THE LAW.
00:24:22.06\00:24:25.36
FOR I WOULD NOT HAVE KNOWN
COVETOUSNESS UNLESS THE LAW HAD
00:24:25.39\00:24:27.60
SAID, 'YOU SHALL NOT COVET.'"
YOU KNOW WHY PAUL PICKED THAT
00:24:27.60\00:24:30.70
ONE COMMANDMENT?
WHICH COMMANDMENT IS THAT?
00:24:30.73\00:24:33.74
THOU SHALL NOT COVET - OF
COURSE, THAT'S NOT THE WHOLE
00:24:33.77\00:24:35.90
THING - 'THOU SHALL NOT COVET
THY NEIGHBOR'S HOUSE, HIS WIFE,
00:24:35.94\00:24:38.74
DONKEY,' SO
FORTH. WHY DOES HE PICK
00:24:38.77\00:24:41.54
THAT COMMANDMENT? SOME
PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE THAT
00:24:41.58\00:24:45.71
SIN IS NOT JUST AN
ACTION, IT'S AN ATTITUDE.
00:24:45.75\00:24:48.72
COVETOUSNESS IS NOT DOING
ANYTHING WRONG, IT IS THINKING
00:24:48.75\00:24:53.15
WRONG AND IT SHOWS THAT IT
IS WRONG THINKING THAT LEADS TO
00:24:53.19\00:24:56.89
WRONG DOING. AND
WHEN PAUL LOOKED AT THAT
00:24:56.93\00:25:00.96
LAW, HE SAID, 'I'VE GOT THE
WRONG ATTITUDE IN MY HEART.' SO,
00:25:01.00\00:25:05.77
BY THE LAW IS
THE KNOWLEDGE OF SIN.
00:25:05.80\00:25:07.77
SO WE STILL NEED THE LAW.
ROMANS 7:12, "THEREFORE THE LAW
00:25:07.80\00:25:12.31
IS HOLY, AND THE COMMANDMENT
HOLY AND JUST AND GOOD."
00:25:12.34\00:25:16.44
LET ME READ YOU A QUOTE - THIS
IS IN YOUR LESSON - SELECTED
00:25:16.48\00:25:19.28
MESSAGES PAGE 334, "THIS FAITH
WORKS BY LOVE AND PURIFIES THE
00:25:19.31\00:25:25.82
SOUL. IT WORKS
IN THE LIFE OF THE
00:25:25.85\00:25:27.82
FOLLOWER OF CHRIST
TRUE OBEDIENCE TO GOD'S
00:25:27.86\00:25:30.43
COMMANDMENTS." - A
FAITH THAT WILL WORK TRUE
00:25:30.46\00:25:33.60
OBEDIENCE TO GOD'S COMMANDMENTS
- "FOR LOVE TO GOD AND LOVE TO
00:25:33.63\00:25:37.60
MAN WILL BE THE RESULT OF A
VITAL CONNECTION WITH CHRIST.
00:25:37.63\00:25:41.04
IF WE HAVE A REAL FAITH, VITAL
CONNECTION WITH CHRIST IT WILL
00:25:41.07\00:25:45.07
PLAY ITSELF OUT IN LOVE FOR
GOD AND LOVE FOR OUR FELLOW MAN,
00:25:45.11\00:25:48.28
WHICH FULFILS
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
00:25:48.31\00:25:51.18
ROMANS 8:3 AND 4, "FOR WHAT THE
LAW COULD NOT DO IN THAT IT WAS
00:25:51.21\00:25:55.22
WEAK THROUGH THE FLESH, GOD DID
BY SENDING HIS OWN SON IN THE
00:25:55.25\00:25:59.59
LIKENESS OF SINFUL FLESH, ON
ACCOUNT OF SIN: HE CONDEMNED SIN
00:25:59.62\00:26:04.16
IN THE FLESH, THAT THE RIGHTEOUS
REQUIREMENT OF THE LAW MIGHT BE
00:26:04.19\00:26:08.46
FULFILLED IN US WHO DO NOT
WALK ACCORDING TO THE FLESH BUT
00:26:08.50\00:26:12.97
ACCORDING TO THE SPIRIT."
NOTICE THAT: "THE RIGHTEOUS
00:26:13.00\00:26:15.74
REQUIREMENT OF THE LAW
MIGHT BE FULFILLED IN US."
00:26:15.77\00:26:19.41
WELL, I THOUGHT THAT JESUS
FULFILLED THE LAW SO THAT WE
00:26:19.44\00:26:22.01
DON'T HAVE TO. HAVE
YOU HEARD THAT BEFORE?
00:26:22.04\00:26:25.68
MATTHEW 5:17, JESUS SAID, "DO
NOT THINK THAT I CAME TO DESTROY
00:26:25.71\00:26:30.12
THE LAW OR THE
PROPHETS. I DID NOT COME TO
00:26:30.15\00:26:32.12
DESTROY BUT TO FULFILL."
AND THEN PAUL SAYS THE RIGHTEOUS
00:26:32.15\00:26:35.79
REQUIREMENT OF THE LAW SHOULD
BE FULFILLED IN US BECAUSE WE NO
00:26:35.82\00:26:38.86
LONGER WALK AFTER THE FLESH, BUT
NOW AFTER THE SPIRIT, BY FAITH.
00:26:38.89\00:26:45.03
WE RECEIVE THE
GIFT OF THE SPIRIT.
00:26:45.07\00:26:47.17
AGAIN, JESUS SAID, "FOR
ASSUREDLY" - I'M STILL BACK IN
00:26:47.20\00:26:49.94
MATTHEW 5, VERSE 18, "FOR
ASSUREDLY, I SAY TO YOU, TILL
00:26:49.97\00:26:54.31
HEAVEN AND EARTH PASS AWAY,
ONE JOT OR ONE TITTLE WILL BY NO
00:26:54.34\00:26:58.45
MEANS PASS FROM THE
LAW TILL ALL IS FULFILLED."
00:26:58.48\00:27:02.85
- THAT MEANS FILLED FULL -
"WHOEVER THEREFORE BREAKS ONE OF
00:27:02.88\00:27:05.59
THE LEAST OF THESE COMMANDMENTS,
AND TEACHES MEN SO, SHALL BE
00:27:05.62\00:27:09.49
CALLED THE LEAST IN THE KINGDOM
OF HEAVEN; BUT WHOEVER DOES AND
00:27:09.52\00:27:13.26
TEACHES THEM, HE SHALL BE CALLED
GREAT IN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN."
00:27:13.29\00:27:16.60
ALL OF GOD'S LAW IS STILL
ESTABLISHED, AND JESUS SAID EVEN
00:27:16.63\00:27:19.73
WHAT YOU MIGHT THINK ARE THE
LEAST, THOSE WHO DO AND TEACH
00:27:19.77\00:27:22.84
THEM, GOD CALLS
GREAT IN THE KINGDOM.
00:27:22.87\00:27:27.44
HERE'S A QUOTE FROM ADAM CLARKE.
THIS IS A GREAT COMMENTATOR I
00:27:27.48\00:27:30.91
REALLY RESPECT - HE'S ONE OF
THE BIBLE SCHOLARS - A METHODIST
00:27:30.95\00:27:35.85
FROM THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT.
HE COULD READ SEVEN LANGUAGES.
00:27:35.88\00:27:39.25
JUST A GREAT - I READ
HIS COMMENTARY - I'M ALWAYS
00:27:39.29\00:27:41.76
IMPRESSED BY HIS INSIGHTS.
ADAM CLARKE SAID, "THOUGH CHRIST
00:27:41.79\00:27:47.56
IS SAID TO HAVE FULFILLED THE
LAW FOR US, YET IT IS NOWHERE
00:27:47.60\00:27:51.13
INTIMATED IN THE SCRIPTURE THAT
HE HAS SO FULFILLED THESE TEN
00:27:51.17\00:27:54.24
LAWS" - WHAT DO YOU THINK HE'S
TALKING ABOUT? TEN COMMANDMENTS
00:27:54.27\00:27:57.47
- "AS TO EXEMPT US FROM THE
NECESSITY AND THE PRIVILEGE OF
00:27:57.51\00:28:01.64
BEING NO IDOLATERS, SWEARERS,
SABBATH BREAKERS, DISOBEDIENT,
00:28:01.68\00:28:07.32
CRUEL CHILDREN, MURDERERS,
ADULTERERS, THIEVES, AND CORRUPT
00:28:07.35\00:28:10.29
WITNESSES." - HE
SAID BECAUSE CHRIST
00:28:10.32\00:28:11.85
FULFILLED THE LAW, IT DOES NOT
FREE US FROM OBEDIENCE - "ALL
00:28:11.89\00:28:16.56
THESE COMMANDMENTS, IT IS TRUE,
HE PUNCTUALLY FULFILLED HIMSELF,
00:28:16.59\00:28:21.83
AND ALL THESE HE WRITES
ON THE HEART OF EVERY SOUL
00:28:21.86\00:28:25.93
REDEEMED BY HIS
BLOOD." THAT'S VERY WELL PUT.
00:28:25.97\00:28:29.40
THE LAW WAS THE NEW
COVENANT. 'I WILL WRITE MY LAW
00:28:29.44\00:28:32.17
ON THEIR HEARTS.' AMEN? >>AMEN.
00:28:32.21\00:28:35.58
>>SOMEONE ONCE SAID, 'JESUS DID
NOT COME TO FREE US TO SIN, BUT
00:28:35.61\00:28:39.58
FROM SIN.' TALKING ABOUT THE
PROMISES OF GOD, I READ ONE TIME
00:28:39.61\00:28:44.32
ABRAHAM LINCOLN WAS RIDING IN A
BUGGY WITH ONE OF HIS COLONELS,
00:28:44.35\00:28:48.39
DURING THE CIVIL WAR, AND THE
COLONEL OFFERED HIM A CIGAR AND
00:28:48.42\00:28:54.10
HE DECLINED. AND
THEN THEY RODE A LITTLE
00:28:54.10\00:28:56.80
FURTHER AND THE COLONEL OFFERED
HIM A DRINK FROM HIS BOTTLE OF
00:28:56.83\00:29:00.80
WHISKEY, AND LINCOLN DECLINED.
AND HE SAID, 'YOU'RE SHOWING' -
00:29:00.84\00:29:06.41
YOU KNOW, THE COLONEL SAID, 'YOU
SHOW GREAT RESTRAINT.' HE SAID,
00:29:06.44\00:29:08.88
'NO, IT'S SOMETHING I
SETTLED A LONG TIME AGO.
00:29:08.91\00:29:12.35
AND LINCOLN SAID, 'WHEN MY
MOTHER WAS DYING' - YOU KNOW HIS
00:29:12.38\00:29:14.62
MOTHER DIED WHEN HE WAS
VERY YOUNG, AND SHE WAS A VERY
00:29:14.65\00:29:17.39
RELIGIOUS WOMAN - 'SHE SAID,
'PROMISE ME - PROMISE ME YOU
00:29:17.42\00:29:22.22
WILL NEVER DRINK OR USE
TOBACCO.' AND HE TOLD THE
00:29:22.26\00:29:25.69
COLONEL - HE SAID, 'THAT IS
A PROMISE I MADE TO MY MOTHER I
00:29:25.73\00:29:29.30
HAVE NEVER BROKEN.' AND
THE COLONEL, HE RESPONDED, 'YOU
00:29:29.33\00:29:33.74
KNOW, I WISH I HAD MADE A
PROMISE LIKE THAT' - (LAUGHTER)
00:29:33.77\00:29:36.91
- 'IT WOULD HAVE SAVED ME A LOT
OF TROUBLE.' BUT HE TOOK THAT
00:29:36.94\00:29:39.91
PROMISE SERIOUSLY AND WHEN WE
ACCEPT THE PROMISES OF GOD, HE
00:29:39.94\00:29:44.68
PROMISES TO GIVE US HIS
SPIRIT AND LIVE DIFFERENTLY TOO.
00:29:44.71\00:29:48.15
ALRIGHT, SO WE LEARNED A LITTLE
BIT ABOUT FAITH AND THE LAW.
00:29:48.18\00:29:54.06
NOW I WANT TO TALK
ABOUT THE LAW OF LIBERTY.
00:29:54.09\00:29:58.33
YOU FIND A PHRASE IN JAMES
1:25 - AND IN A MOMENT SOMEONE'S
00:29:58.36\00:30:02.70
GOING TO BE
READING PSALM 1:19, OKAY?
00:30:02.73\00:30:06.27
IN JAMES 1:25 IT SAYS, "BUT HE
WHO LOOKS INTO THE PERFECT LAW
00:30:06.30\00:30:10.87
OF LIBERTY AND CONTINUES IN IT,
AND IS NOT A FORGETFUL HEARER
00:30:10.91\00:30:14.68
BUT A DOER OF THE WORK, THIS
ONE WILL BE BLESSED IN WHAT HE
00:30:14.71\00:30:18.05
DOES." WHAT LAW IS
JAMES TALKING ABOUT
00:30:18.08\00:30:21.12
WHEN HE TALKS
ABOUT THE LAW OF LIBERTY?
00:30:21.15\00:30:24.25
I MEAN, YOU THINK THE TEN
COMMANDMENTS - THAT'S A LAW OF
00:30:24.29\00:30:26.52
BONDAGE, RIGHT?
NO? KEEP READING.
00:30:26.55\00:30:30.39
LOOK AT JAMES CHAPTER 2, VERSE
11 - LET THE BIBLE INTERPRET
00:30:30.43\00:30:34.13
ITSELF - "FOR HE WHO SAID,
'DO NOT COMMIT ADULTERY,' ALSO
00:30:34.20\00:30:38.37
SAID, 'DO NOT MURDER.'" - NOW,
HE'S JUST NAMED TWO LAWS FROM
00:30:38.40\00:30:41.27
WHAT COLLECTION OF
LAWS? >>TEN COMMANDMENTS.
00:30:41.30\00:30:44.51
>>TEN COMMANDMENTS. "FOR
HE WHO SAID, 'DO NOT COMMIT
00:30:44.54\00:30:46.81
ADULTERY,' ALSO SAID, 'DO
NOT MURDER.' NOW IF YOU DO NOT
00:30:46.84\00:30:49.08
COMMIT ADULTERY, BUT YOU
DO MURDER, YOU HAVE BECOME A
00:30:49.11\00:30:52.18
TRANSGRESSOR OF THE LAW. SO
SPEAK AND SO DO AS THOSE WHO
00:30:52.21\00:30:55.62
WILL BE JUDGED BY
THE LAW OF LIBERTY."
00:30:55.65\00:30:58.65
SO WE'RE NOT JUDGED BY
FAITH, WE'RE JUDGED BY THE LAW.
00:30:58.69\00:31:01.49
THE LAW SHOWS IF WE HAVE FAITH.
00:31:01.52\00:31:03.39
BUT HE CALLS THE
LAW A LAW OF LIBERTY.
00:31:03.43\00:31:06.59
WHY DOES HE CALL
IT A LAW OF LIBERTY?
00:31:06.63\00:31:08.86
GO AHEAD, READ
FOR US, PSALM 119:44.
00:31:08.90\00:31:12.40
>>"SO SHALL I KEEP YOUR LAW
CONTINUALLY, FOREVER AND EVER.
00:31:12.43\00:31:17.07
AND I WILL WALK AT LIBERTY,
FOR I SEEK YOUR PRECEPTS."
00:31:17.11\00:31:22.31
>>WE ARE FREE BECAUSE
WE OBEY GOD'S PRECEPTS.
00:31:22.34\00:31:27.15
THERE'S LAWS RIGHT NOW, IN TOWN,
THAT SAY BURGLARY IS AGAINST THE
00:31:27.18\00:31:32.42
LAW. YOU LIVE IN A COMMUNITY, IF
YOU DIDN'T KNOW THIS, BURGLARY
00:31:32.45\00:31:36.12
IS AGAINST THE LAW.
BURGLARS ARE PUT IN JAIL.
00:31:36.16\00:31:41.46
THEY HAVE LOST THEIR LIBERTY
BECAUSE THEY BREAK THE LAW.
00:31:41.50\00:31:44.83
THAT LAW THAT BREAKS - BREAKING
THAT LAW TAKES AWAY THEIR
00:31:44.87\00:31:50.51
LIBERTY, BUT THAT
SAME LAW GIVES YOU LIBERTY.
00:31:50.54\00:31:54.01
I WOKE UP THIS MORNING TO OPEN
THE DOORS TO LET SOME COOLER AIR
00:31:54.04\00:31:57.18
IN BEFORE THE HEAT WAVE.
I FOUND OUT WE HAD LEFT THE
00:31:57.21\00:32:00.15
FRONT DOOR OPEN ALL
NIGHT. I WASN'T TOO WORRIED.
00:32:00.18\00:32:03.49
I DON'T THINK, IN OUR
NEIGHBORHOOD, PEOPLE ARE GOING
00:32:03.52\00:32:05.45
UP AND DOWN THE STREET CHECKING
YOUR DOORKNOBS ALL HOURS OF THE
00:32:05.49\00:32:07.76
NIGHT, BECAUSE THERE'S A LAW
THAT PUTS MOST OF THOSE PEOPLE
00:32:07.79\00:32:11.23
IN JAIL - WE'RE HOPING - RIGHT?
AREN'T YOU GLAD FOR THAT LAW?
00:32:11.26\00:32:15.60
>>OH YEAH. >>THAT
LAW GIVES YOU LIBERTY
00:32:15.63\00:32:17.67
BUT IT LOCKS THEM
UP. SO THE LAW BREAKER IS
00:32:17.70\00:32:23.44
ENSLAVED BECAUSE OF HIS SIN.
'THEY'RE HOLDEN BY THE CORDS OF
00:32:23.47\00:32:27.18
THE SIN.' THE LAW
KEEPER - THE LAW IS A MEANS OF
00:32:27.21\00:32:30.35
LIBERTY FOR THEM. LET ME
GIVE YOU ANOTHER EXAMPLE.
00:32:30.38\00:32:33.01
GO TO JOHN 8:34 - JESUS IS
SPEAKING HERE - JESUS ANSWERED
00:32:33.05\00:32:39.52
AND SAID TO THEM, 'MOST
ASSUREDLY I SAY TO YOU, 'WHOEVER
00:32:39.55\00:32:42.32
COMMITS SIN IS A SLAVE OF SIN.
AND A SLAVE DOES NOT ABIDE IN
00:32:42.36\00:32:47.03
THE HOUSE FOREVER,
BUT A SON ABIDES FOREVER.
00:32:47.10\00:32:50.20
THEREFORE IF THE SON MAKES YOU
FREE, YOU SHALL BE FREE INDEED."
00:32:50.23\00:32:56.37
WHY DID JESUS COME? IT SAYS HE
CAME TO SET THE CAPTIVES FREE.
00:32:56.40\00:33:00.78
IF YOU LOOK, FOR INSTANCE, IN
LUKE 4:18, CHRIST STOOD UP AND
00:33:00.81\00:33:04.58
PREACHED HIS FIRST
SERMON IN NAZARETH.
00:33:04.61\00:33:06.78
HERE'S WHAT HE SAID - HE QUOTES
FROM ISAIAH 61 - AND HE QUOTES -
00:33:06.82\00:33:10.59
HE SAYS, "THE SPIRIT OF THE
LORD IS UPON ME, BECAUSE HE HAS
00:33:10.62\00:33:13.62
ANOINTED ME" - THAT'S WHAT
THE WORD 'CHRIST' MEANS - TO BE
00:33:13.66\00:33:16.42
ANOINTED - JESUS IS THE MESSIAH
- THE ANOINTED - "...BECAUSE HE
00:33:16.46\00:33:19.89
HAS ANOINTED ME TO PREACH THE
GOSPEL TO THE POOR; HE HAS SENT
00:33:19.93\00:33:23.43
ME TO HEAL THE BROKENHEARTED,
TO PROCLAIM LIBERTY TO THE
00:33:23.47\00:33:27.34
CAPTIVES" -
CAPTIVES OF WHAT? >>SIN
00:33:27.37\00:33:29.84
>>SIN - "AND RECOVERY OF
SIGHT TO THE BLIND, TO SET AT
00:33:29.87\00:33:34.04
LIBERTY THOSE WHO ARE
OPPRESSED;" - OPPRESSED BY WHO?
00:33:34.08\00:33:37.98
BY THE DEVIL. AND SO JESUS CAME
TO SET US FREE. AND THERE'S A
00:33:38.01\00:33:42.85
FREEDOM THAT COMES THROUGH
OBEDIENCE. WHEN JESUS RAISED
00:33:42.88\00:33:47.26
LAZARUS FROM THE DEAD, HE
NOT ONLY COMMANDED THAT HE COME
00:33:47.29\00:33:51.93
FORTH, HE COMMANDED THAT HE
BE LOOSED. DO YOU REMEMBER THAT?
00:33:51.96\00:33:56.77
HE SAID, 'COME FORTH AND COME
HITHER' AND HE CAME OUT OF THE
00:33:56.80\00:33:59.83
GRAVE BUT HE WAS ALL BOUND
AND HE SAID TO THOSE STANDING
00:33:59.87\00:34:03.30
AROUND, 'LOOSE HIM.' SO JESUS
SAVES US - HE RESURRECTS US AND
00:34:03.34\00:34:08.58
HE FREES US. HE
DOESN'T WANT US TO BE BOUND
00:34:08.61\00:34:11.55
BY THE CORDS OF OUR SIN. >>AMEN.
00:34:11.58\00:34:14.55
>>THIS WAS ALSO A BEAUTIFUL
QUOTE THAT'S IN YOUR LESSON,
00:34:14.58\00:34:16.99
FROM SIGNS OF THE TIMES, JULY
23, - IF YOU TAKE NOTES - 1902 ,
00:34:17.02\00:34:22.39
"AS A RESULT OF ADAM'S
DISOBEDIENCE, EVERY HUMAN BEING
00:34:22.42\00:34:26.13
IS A TRANSGRESSOR OF THE
LAW SOLD UNDER SIN. UNLESS HE
00:34:26.16\00:34:29.76
REPENTS AND IS CONVERTED, HE
IS UNDER THE BONDAGE TO THE LAW,
00:34:29.80\00:34:34.67
SERVING SATAN, FALLING
INTO DECEPTIONS OF THE ENEMY AND
00:34:34.70\00:34:38.11
BEARING WITNESS AGAINST
THE PRECEPTS OF JEHOVAH, BUT BY
00:34:38.14\00:34:41.41
PERFECT OBEDIENCE TO THE
REQUIREMENTS OF THE LAW, MAN IS
00:34:41.44\00:34:44.68
JUSTIFIED. ONLY THROUGH FAITH
IN CHRIST IS SUCH OBEDIENCE
00:34:44.71\00:34:48.68
POSSIBLE." IT'S - BEING AN
OBEDIENT CHRISTIAN IS A MIRACLE.
00:34:48.72\00:34:53.32
IT IS IMPOSSIBLE, AS I'VE OFTEN
SAID, 'IT'S JUST AS IMPOSSIBLE
00:34:53.36\00:34:57.03
AS IT IS FOR PETER TO WALK
ON WATER - OR FOR YOU TO WALK ON
00:34:57.06\00:35:00.46
WATER - BUT THROUGH FAITH
AND KEEPING YOUR EYES ON CHRIST,
00:35:00.50\00:35:04.97
WITH GOD ALL
THINGS ARE POSSIBLE.'
00:35:05.00\00:35:07.24
>>AMEN. >>AND,
YOU KNOW, WHENEVER
00:35:07.27\00:35:09.70
SOMEONE TALKS
ABOUT BEING OBEDIENT,
00:35:09.74\00:35:16.08
NOBODY HERE, I'M
ASSUMING, WOULD CLAIM PERFECT
00:35:16.11\00:35:18.25
OBEDIENCE,
INCLUDING THE SPEAKER TODAY.
00:35:18.28\00:35:22.02
AND SOMEONE WILL, THEN, POINT
TO THAT AND THEY'LL SAY, 'WELL
00:35:22.05\00:35:24.45
THAT'S PROOF THAT
IT'S NOT POSSIBLE.
00:35:24.49\00:35:27.59
BUT I THINK ALL OF US SHOULD
BE STRIVING FOR WHAT GOD SAYS IS
00:35:27.62\00:35:32.46
IMPOSSIBLE.
THAT'S WHAT A MIRACLE IS.
00:35:32.49\00:35:36.30
DO NOT BE SATISFIED
SAYING YOU HAVE EXCUSES FOR SIN.
00:35:36.33\00:35:40.80
NOBODY NEEDS ANY HELP WITH THAT.
WE ALL KNOW HOW TO DO THAT.
00:35:40.84\00:35:43.84
LOOK AT CHRIST, WHO IS
PERFECT, AND HE IS OUR STANDARD.
00:35:43.87\00:35:46.94
IS THAT RIGHT? >>YES.
00:35:46.98\00:35:48.18
>>AND SO, ALWAYS STRIVE TO
BE LIKE CHRIST, WHO WAS PERFECT.
00:35:48.21\00:35:52.85
DO WE AGREE? >>YES.
00:35:52.88\00:35:54.25
>>WHO DID KNOW SIN.
AND SO THAT'S - THAT'S
00:35:54.28\00:35:56.65
WHAT OUR STANDARD IS.
IT'S A PERFECT SAVIOR.
00:35:56.69\00:35:58.82
ALRIGHT, LET ME SEE,
WHAT DID I LEAVE OUT?
00:35:58.85\00:36:01.76
ALRIGHT, LET'S JUMP ON,
NOW, TO THE PURPOSE OF THE LAW.
00:36:01.79\00:36:05.63
GALATIANS 3:19 AND VERSE 20,
"WHAT PURPOSE THEN DOES THE LAW
00:36:05.66\00:36:11.70
SERVE?" - NOW I'M GOING TO READ
THIS VERSE TWICE BECAUSE THERE'S
00:36:11.73\00:36:13.97
A COUPLE DIFFERENT THINGS I'M
GOING TO PULL OUT OF IT - "WHAT
00:36:14.00\00:36:16.00
PURPOSE THEN DOES THE LAW
SERVE? IT WAS ADDED BECAUSE OF
00:36:16.04\00:36:18.91
TRANSGRESSIONS, TILL THE SEED
SHOULD COME" - YOU KNOW, WHAT
00:36:18.94\00:36:24.58
ARE LEGISLATORS IN OUR
COUNTRY? THEY MAKE LAWS.
00:36:24.61\00:36:29.32
AT WHAT POINT DO WE HAVE ENOUGH
LAWS? DO WE EVER GET TO THE
00:36:29.35\00:36:34.36
POINT WHERE WE DON'T
NEED LEGISLATORS ANYMORE?
00:36:34.39\00:36:37.39
HOW MANY LAWS WILL IT TAKE
BEFORE WE THINK WE HAVE ENOUGH?
00:36:37.43\00:36:40.83
DO YOU KNOW WHY THEY KEEP
MAKING MORE AND MORE LAWS?
00:36:40.86\00:36:44.80
DO YOU KNOW THERE'S A LAW -
I FORGET WHAT STATE IT IS - IT
00:36:44.83\00:36:46.90
MIGHT BE MINNESOTA - THAT
YOU CANNOT PUT A SKUNK IN YOUR
00:36:46.94\00:36:50.01
BOSS' DESK DRAWER.
(LAUGHTER) HOW DO YOU
00:36:50.04\00:36:53.88
THINK THAT LAW
DEVELOPED? >>SOMEBODY DID IT.
00:36:53.91\00:36:59.45
>>I'VE HEARD SOME VERY
INTERESTING LAWS AND CITY
00:36:59.48\00:37:02.28
ORDINANCES AROUND THE COUNTRY
AND YOU THINK, 'WHERE IN THE
00:37:02.32\00:37:04.79
WORLD DID THAT LAW COME FROM?'
SOMEBODY DID SOMETHING - THERE
00:37:04.82\00:37:09.56
ARE SOME TOWNS WHERE YOU
CAN'T USE FIREWORKS. WHY?
00:37:09.59\00:37:14.50
PEOPLE WERE RECKLESS
AND IT STARTED A FIRE.
00:37:14.56\00:37:18.90
THERE ARE SOME PLACES YOU
CAN'T USE A TRAMPOLINE. WHY?
00:37:18.93\00:37:22.34
SOMEONE BOUNCED OFF A TRAMPOLINE
AND GOT HURT. AND THE MORE LAWS
00:37:22.37\00:37:26.04
THEY MAKE IT'S BECAUSE -
WHENEVER THERE'S A LAW IT'S
00:37:26.07\00:37:27.71
BECAUSE SOMEBODY BROKE A LAW
- OR THERE WAS SOME - SOMEBODY
00:37:27.74\00:37:30.68
SUED SOMEBODY ELSE AND THEY -
THEY WANTED IT TO BE PROTECTED.
00:37:30.71\00:37:34.48
WHY DO WE ALL HAVE TO GO THROUGH
METAL DETECTORS ON AIRPLANES?
00:37:34.52\00:37:38.05
WE DIDN'T DO THAT - WHEN I
STARTED FLYING - WE FLEW FOR
00:37:38.09\00:37:40.06
TWENTY YEARS, I NEVER HAD -
WELL, LONGER THAN THAT - THIRTY
00:37:40.09\00:37:43.12
YEARS I FLEW - NEVER HAD TO
GET SEARCHED BEFORE I WENT ON AN
00:37:43.16\00:37:46.93
AIRPLANE. 9/11, RIGHT?
00:37:46.96\00:37:51.80
AND, YOU KNOW, EVENTUALLY -
SOMEONE ONCE SAID, 'THE MORE
00:37:51.83\00:37:56.04
LAWS THAT' - NO, I TAKE THAT
BACK - I'LL SAY IT DIFFERENTLY -
00:37:56.07\00:38:02.68
'THE MORE LAWLESS A PEOPLE
BECOME, THE MORE LAWS THEY
00:38:02.71\00:38:04.85
REQUIRE. >>THAT'S RIGHT.
00:38:04.88\00:38:06.78
>>AND THE REASON THAT YOU'RE
SEEING MORE AND MORE LAWS ALWAYS
00:38:06.82\00:38:09.58
BEING ENACTED IS
BECAUSE OF LAWLESSNESS.
00:38:09.62\00:38:12.29
>>AMEN. >>THERE
WAS A TIME WHEN THE TEN
00:38:12.32\00:38:14.92
COMMANDMENTS WERE NOT
WRITTEN ON STONE BECAUSE THEY
00:38:14.96\00:38:16.99
WERE WRITTEN IN
HEARTS. >>THAT'S RIGHT.
00:38:17.03\00:38:19.39
>>THEY WERE PASSED ON FROM
FATHERS TO CHILDREN AND MOTHERS
00:38:19.43\00:38:22.26
TO CHILDREN ORALLY, BUT WHEN
PEOPLE BEGAN TO BREAK THEM, GOD
00:38:22.30\00:38:27.40
CODIFIED IT - AND IT'S
USUALLY A SIGN OF LAWLESSNESS.
00:38:27.44\00:38:30.87
SO, TO WHAT
PURPOSE DOES THE LAW SERVE?
00:38:30.91\00:38:33.54
IT WAS ADDED
BECAUSE OF TRANSGRESSIONS.
00:38:33.58\00:38:35.38
ISN'T THAT WHAT WE
JUST LEARNED? >>YES.
00:38:35.41\00:38:37.21
>>THAT'S WHY YOU'VE GOT A LAW
- NO SKUNKS IN YOUR BOSS' DRAWER
00:38:37.25\00:38:41.38
- "TILL THE SEED SHOULD COME TO
WHOM THE PROMISE WAS MADE; AND
00:38:41.42\00:38:45.75
IT WAS APPOINTED THROUGH ANGELS
BY THE HAND OF A MEDIATOR.
00:38:45.79\00:38:50.23
NOW A MEDIATOR DOES NOT MEDIATE
FOR ONE ONLY, BUT GOD IS ONE."
00:38:50.26\00:38:55.23
ALRIGHT, THE FIRST PART OF THIS,
I WANT TO EMPHASIZE, IS WHERE DO
00:38:55.26\00:38:59.93
YOU SEE ANGELS AT MOUNT SINAI
TEN COMMANDMENT EXPERIENCE?
00:39:00.04\00:39:05.07
ARE YOU AWARE ABOUT THAT?
ISN'T THAT WHAT PAUL JUST SAID?
00:39:05.11\00:39:07.54
IT SAYS IT WAS APPOINTED
THROUGH ANGELS BY THE HAND OF A
00:39:07.58\00:39:10.18
MEDIATOR. SOMEONE'S GOING
TO READ FOR ME, IN A MINUTE,
00:39:10.21\00:39:14.12
ACTS 7:53 - YOU'LL HAVE
THAT? I'LL TELL YOU WHEN.
00:39:14.15\00:39:17.75
I'M GOING TO READ PSALM 68:17,
"THE CHARIOTS OF GOD ARE TWENTY
00:39:17.79\00:39:22.92
THOUSAND, EVEN THOUSANDS OF
ANGELS; THE LORD IS AMONG THEM
00:39:22.96\00:39:27.03
AS IN SINAI, THE HOLY
PLACE." THERE YOU'VE GOT
00:39:27.10\00:39:30.10
ANGELS - MOUNT SINAI.
DEUTERONOMY 33, VERSE 2, "AND HE
00:39:30.13\00:39:35.57
SAID: 'THE LORD CAME FROM SINAI,
AND DAWNED ON THEM FROM SEIR; HE
00:39:35.60\00:39:40.21
SHONE FORTH FROM MOUNT PARAN,
AND HE CAME WITH TEN THOUSANDS
00:39:40.24\00:39:43.85
OF SAINTS; FROM HIS RIGHT HAND
CAME A FIERY LAW FOR THEM.'" SO
00:39:43.88\00:39:48.58
WHEN THE LORD DESCENDED ON
MOUNT SINAI AND HIS GLORY WAS
00:39:48.62\00:39:52.79
SURROUNDED BY DARK
CLOUDS, WAS HE ALONE?
00:39:52.82\00:39:56.22
DOES GOD EVER TRAVEL
WITHOUT HIS ENTOURAGE?
00:39:56.26\00:40:00.03
>>NO. >>GOD, IN HIS GLORY - IS
00:40:00.06\00:40:02.76
JESUS COMING WITH
HIS ANGELS? >>OH YEAH.
00:40:02.80\00:40:04.93
>>DO YOU THINK, WHEN HE
DESCENDED ON MOUNT SINAI AND
00:40:04.97\00:40:07.44
DELIVERED THE LAW,
HE HAD ANGELS WITH HIM?
00:40:07.47\00:40:09.30
>>YEAH. >>THE BIBLE SAYS HE DID.
00:40:09.34\00:40:11.51
IF YOU READ - THIS IS THE SERMON
OF STEPHEN, BEFORE HE DIED -
00:40:11.54\00:40:14.78
ACTS 7:38, "THIS IS HE WHO
WAS IN THE CONGREGATION IN THE
00:40:14.81\00:40:19.31
WILDERNESS WITH THE ANGEL WHO
SPOKE TO HIM ON MOUNT SINAI, AND
00:40:19.35\00:40:23.62
WITH OUR FATHERS, THE ONE WHO
RECEIVED THE LIVING ORACLES TO
00:40:23.65\00:40:26.65
GIVE TO US," - AND THEN YOU
GO AHEAD, PLEASE, AND READ ACTS
00:40:26.69\00:40:30.39
7:53. >>"WHO HAVE
RECEIVED THE LAW BY
00:40:30.43\00:40:33.73
THE DIRECTION OF
ANGELS AND HAVE NOT KEPT IT."
00:40:33.76\00:40:37.67
>>SO EVEN ANGELS WERE INVOLVED
IN THE GIVING OF THE LAW OF GOD.
00:40:37.70\00:40:42.24
BUT GOING BACK, AGAIN, AND
READING WHAT THE LORD SAYS HERE
00:40:42.27\00:40:45.41
IN GALATIANS 3:19, 20, "WHAT
PURPOSE THEN DOES THE LAW SERVE?
00:40:45.44\00:40:50.25
IT WAS ADDED BECAUSE OF
TRANSGRESSIONS," - SO WHAT'S THE
00:40:50.28\00:40:52.41
PURPOSE? THE LAW IS
THERE TO SERVE AS THE
00:40:52.45\00:40:55.38
MIRROR TO SHOW US - "TILL
THE SEED SHOULD COME TO WHOM
00:40:55.42\00:40:58.72
THE PROMISE WAS MADE." SO
WHAT LAW IS HE TALKING ABOUT?
00:40:58.75\00:41:01.52
DO WE STILL NEED
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS?
00:41:01.56\00:41:03.02
>>YES. >>IT SAYS, 'TILL THE SEED
00:41:03.06\00:41:04.73
SHOULD COME' - WHAT
IS THE SEED? >>JESUS.
00:41:04.76\00:41:07.56
>>THE MESSIAH.
WHAT LAW ENDED WHEN THE
00:41:07.60\00:41:09.70
MESSIAH DIED ON THE
CROSS? >>CEREMONIAL.
00:41:09.73\00:41:13.34
>>WERE THERE LAWS
REGARDING SACRIFICES?
00:41:13.37\00:41:16.10
SO WE DON'T NEED TO
WORRY ABOUT THE SACRIFICES.
00:41:16.14\00:41:20.68
DID CIRCUMCISION END WITH THAT?
BECAUSE THE NEW COVENANT IS ALL
00:41:20.71\00:41:26.25
ABOUT BEING WRITTEN ON THE HEART
- IT TALKS ABOUT 'CIRCUMCISE
00:41:26.28\00:41:29.42
YOUR HEART' - AND THAT'S THE NEW
COVENANT MEANING HAVING A TENDER
00:41:29.45\00:41:32.15
HEART MOTIVATED BY LOVE -
AND SO, DO WE STILL NEED THE TEN
00:41:32.19\00:41:36.73
COMMANDMENTS AS A MIRROR? >>YES.
00:41:36.76\00:41:39.23
>>OKAY. SO THERE'S A
DISTINCTION THAT'S MADE THERE.
00:41:39.26\00:41:41.80
AND, BY THE WAY, IF YOU LOOK
IN - WOAH, I'M GETTING AHEAD OF
00:41:41.83\00:41:48.00
MYSELF. I WON'T READ THAT YET.
00:41:48.04\00:41:49.27
LET ME READ GALATIANS 3 - STILL
TALKING ABOUT THE PURPOSE OF THE
00:41:49.30\00:41:51.71
LAW - GALATIANS 3:24, "THEREFORE
THE LAW WAS OUR TUTOR TO BRING
00:41:51.74\00:41:57.85
US TO CHRIST, THAT WE
MIGHT BE JUSTIFIED BY FAITH.
00:41:57.88\00:42:02.12
BUT AFTER FAITH HAS COME, WE
ARE NO LONGER UNDER A TUTOR."
00:42:02.15\00:42:05.99
PAUL IS USING A WORD THERE
BECAUSE HE TALKS ABOUT US BEING
00:42:06.02\00:42:09.02
HEIRS OF A PROMISE.
AN HEIR IS SOMEONE WHO'S
00:42:09.06\00:42:13.09
GOING TO INHERIT THE PROMISE.
YOU USUALLY INHERIT THAT FROM
00:42:13.13\00:42:16.93
YOUR PARENTS, BUT A TUTOR, THIS
IS BASICALLY SAYING - YOU KNOW,
00:42:16.97\00:42:24.07
IT MIGHT BE USING THE WORD, LIKE
A NANNY - AN OVERSEER - SOMEONE
00:42:24.11\00:42:27.58
WHO HELPS RAISE THE CHILDREN
OR WATCH THE CHILDREN WHILE YOU
00:42:27.61\00:42:30.45
ARE AT WORK AND THEY
MIGHT BE TEACHING THE CHILDREN.
00:42:30.48\00:42:33.28
IT'S SOMEONE WHO
IS INSTRUCTING THEM.
00:42:33.31\00:42:35.35
BUT WHEN SOMEONE IS MATURE, THEY
DON'T NEED THAT PERSON ANYMORE.
00:42:35.38\00:42:38.69
IT'S GOT A LIMITED FUNCTION -
AND THAT'S THE WAY IT WAS WITH
00:42:38.72\00:42:42.32
THESE CEREMONIAL LAWS. IT
WAS A LIMITED FUNCTION, THEY
00:42:42.36\00:42:45.29
SHOWED US CHRIST - THEY HELPED
US RECOGNIZE CHRIST - BUT WHEN
00:42:45.33\00:42:48.06
THE SEED IS COME WE NO
LONGER NEED THE TUTOR - WE NO
00:42:48.10\00:42:51.03
LONGER NEED THESE THINGS.
DURATION OF THE LAW - GALATIANS
00:42:51.07\00:42:56.77
3:19, "WHAT PURPOSE
THEN DOES THE LAW SERVE?
00:42:56.81\00:43:01.34
IT WAS ADDED BECAUSE OF
TRANSGRESSIONS, TILL THE SEED
00:43:01.38\00:43:04.55
SHOULD COME TO WHOM THE PROMISE
WAS MADE;" - WHAT'S THE FIRST
00:43:04.58\00:43:09.12
PROPHECY IN THE
BIBLE? GENESIS - >>3:15.
00:43:09.15\00:43:14.59
>>3:15 AND IT SAYS -
>>"I WILL PUT ENMITY" -
00:43:14.62\00:43:18.76
>>GOD SAYS, "I WILL
PUT ENMITY BETWEEN THE AND
00:43:18.79\00:43:21.36
THE WOMAN; BETWEEN
THY SEED AND HER SEED."
00:43:21.40\00:43:24.23
SO RIGHT THERE IN THE BEGINNING
IS A PROMISE ABOUT THE SEED OF
00:43:24.27\00:43:28.00
THE WOMAN. AND THAT WOMAN, IS IT
EVE? OR IS IT TALKING ABOUT THE
00:43:28.04\00:43:30.17
CHURCH? >>THE CHURCH.
00:43:30.21\00:43:31.44
>>WHAT'S HAPPENING IN
REVELATION CHAPTER 12?
00:43:31.47\00:43:34.01
A WOMAN IS TRAVAILING TO BRING
FORTH AND SHE BRINGS FORTH THE
00:43:34.04\00:43:38.15
PROMISED SEED - A MAN CHILD WHO
IS TO RULE ALL NATIONS WITH A
00:43:38.18\00:43:42.32
ROD OF IRON AND THE DRAGON WANTS
TO DESTROY THAT CHILD, RIGHT?
00:43:42.35\00:43:47.26
THAT CHILD IS
WHO? >>IT'S CHRIST.
00:43:47.29\00:43:49.02
>>YOU'VE HEARD ME SAY THIS,
PROBABLY AD NAUSEAM, BUT THERE
00:43:49.06\00:43:52.59
ARE SEVEN MIRACLE
BIRTHS IN THE BIBLE.
00:43:52.63\00:43:56.00
THEY ARE ALL BABY BOYS.
THEY ARE ALL TYPES OF CHRIST -
00:43:56.03\00:44:01.74
SAMSON, ISAAC, JOSEPH, JACOB AND
ESAU - JACOB, IN PARTICULAR -
00:44:01.77\00:44:11.61
SAMUEL, JOHN THE BAPTIST,
THE SHUNAMITE WOMAN'S SON, AND -
00:44:11.65\00:44:18.95
YEAH, THAT'S ALL OF THEM -
THAT'S SEVEN. THEY WERE ALL
00:44:18.99\00:44:21.82
TYPES OF CHRIST. I WON'T TAKE
THE TIE TO GO THROUGH AND SHOW
00:44:21.86\00:44:24.03
YOU, BUT I THINK YOU UNDERSTAND
THAT. THAT WAS - THERE ARE TYPES
00:44:24.06\00:44:27.50
OF CHRIST WHO WAS
THE SEED OF THE WOMAN.
00:44:27.56\00:44:29.96
AND SO, THIS IS WHO
THE PROMISE WAS MADE TO.
00:44:30.00\00:44:32.97
AND SO, IF YOU READ IN ROMANS
10:4, "FOR CHRIST IS THE END OF
00:44:33.00\00:44:38.71
THE LAW FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS
TO EVERYONE WHO BELIEVES."
00:44:38.74\00:44:43.11
WELL, THAT'S A STATEMENT
THAT COULD BE MISUNDERSTOOD.
00:44:43.14\00:44:45.55
CHRIST IS THE END OF
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
00:44:45.58\00:44:49.55
DOES GOD MAKE A DISTINCTION
BETWEEN THE TEN COMMANDMENTS AND
00:44:49.58\00:44:51.69
THE OTHER LAWS? >>YES.
00:44:51.72\00:44:53.46
>>CHRIST IS AN END TO
THE LAWS ABOUT SANITATION.
00:44:53.49\00:44:57.36
YOU NO LONGER
HAVE TO BE SANITARY.
00:44:57.39\00:44:59.73
HOW MANY OF YOU WOULD WANT TO BE
IN A CHURCH THAT BELIEVED THAT?
00:44:59.76\00:45:03.00
THERE WERE SANITATION LAWS.
DO THOSE LAWS STILL MAKE SENSE?
00:45:03.03\00:45:09.50
CHRIST WAS THE END OF CIVIL LAW.
THE BIBLE HAS SOME CIVIL LAW
00:45:09.54\00:45:14.78
- LAWS ABOUT BEING A GOOD
NEIGHBOR, LAWS ABOUT STEALING,
00:45:14.81\00:45:17.45
LAWS ABOUT MURDER, SO ONCE YOU
- ONCE CHRIST CAME THERE WAS NO
00:45:17.48\00:45:21.15
LONGER CIVIL LAW - IS
THAT WHAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT?
00:45:21.18\00:45:23.75
>>NO. >>DO WE
STILL NEED CIVIL LAW?
00:45:23.79\00:45:25.99
CHRIST WAS THE END OF THE LAW
- WHAT LAW IS THE ONLY LAW LEFT
00:45:26.02\00:45:30.06
THAT HE WAS TALKING
ABOUT? THE SACRIFICIAL SYSTEM,
00:45:30.09\00:45:34.96
CIRCUMCISION, THE CEREMONIAL
LAWS AND FEAST DAYS THAT
00:45:35.00\00:45:38.33
ALL POINTED TO JESUS.
HE'S THE END FOR ALL OF THAT
00:45:38.37\00:45:42.17
BECAUSE HE IS
THE SEED THAT CAME.
00:45:42.20\00:45:44.87
HEBREWS 10:4 - LOOK AT THIS -
IT SAYS, "FOR IT IS NOT POSSIBLE
00:45:44.91\00:45:51.78
THAT THE BLOOD OF BULLS AND
GOATS COULD TAKE AWAY SINS."
00:45:51.81\00:45:55.45
YOU KNOW, THAT VERSE
'WHAT CAN WASH AWAY MY SIN?'
00:45:55.48\00:45:58.92
NOTHING BUT THE
BLOOD OF JESUS, AMEN?
00:45:58.95\00:46:02.42
"THEREFORE, WHEN HE CAME INTO
THE WORLD, HE SAID: 'SACRIFICE
00:46:02.46\00:46:06.19
AND OFFERING YOU DID NOT DESIRE,
BUT A BODY YOU HAVE PREPARED FOR
00:46:06.23\00:46:10.30
ME. IN BURNT OFFERINGS AND
00:46:10.33\00:46:12.43
SACRIFICES FOR SIN
YOU HAD NO PLEASURE.
00:46:12.47\00:46:15.47
THEN I SAID, 'BEHOLD, I HAVE
COME-IN THE VOLUME OF THE BOOK
00:46:15.50\00:46:19.17
IT IS WRITTEN OF ME-TO DO YOUR
WILL, O GOD.'" SO TWICE THERE HE
00:46:19.21\00:46:23.28
SAYS, 'SACRIFICE AND OFFERINGS
YOU DID NOT DESIRE', 'SACRIFICE
00:46:23.31\00:46:27.45
AND OFFERINGS YOU HAVE
NO PLEASURE IN' - ALL OF THE
00:46:27.48\00:46:30.55
SACRIFICE AND OFFERINGS, FROM
THE TIME OF THE INSTITUTION OF
00:46:30.59\00:46:33.89
THE SACRIFICIAL SYSTEM WAY BACK
IN THE DAYS OF ADAM WHEN HE AND
00:46:33.92\00:46:36.42
EVE SINNED AND GOD CLOTHED THEM
WITH ROBES OF SKIN, FROM THAT
00:46:36.46\00:46:40.56
DAY, UNTIL CHRIST SAID, 'IT IS
FINISHED' AND THE VEIL AND THE
00:46:40.60\00:46:43.33
CURTAIN WAS TORN, WHEN THE SEED
CAME THE PURPOSE FOR ALL THOSE
00:46:43.37\00:46:48.57
THINGS MET ITS FULFILLMENT.
GOD DOES NOT DESIRE THAT.
00:46:48.60\00:46:51.34
WHAT DOES IS MEAN - IF WE WERE
TO GO BACK IN TIME NOW - I WAS
00:46:51.37\00:46:55.84
TRYING TO TEACH SOMETHING ABOUT
THE PASSOVER, IN A LITTLE CHURCH
00:46:55.88\00:46:58.81
WHERE I WAS PASTORING AND
WE HAD A COMMUNION SERVICE.
00:46:58.85\00:47:03.95
AND SO, BEFORE THE COMMUNION
SERVICE I WAS YOUNG AND A LITTLE
00:47:03.99\00:47:06.62
BIT DRAMATIC, AND SO I - JUST
HAPPENED TO BE LAMBING SEASON -
00:47:06.65\00:47:13.29
SO I TALKED TO A FRIEND IN TOWN
AND SAID, 'CAN I BORROW A LAMB?'
00:47:13.33\00:47:15.80
IT WAS A CUTE
LITTLE LAMB, JUST ADORABLE.
00:47:15.83\00:47:19.27
A LITTLE WHITE LAMB. SO
WE BROUGHT IT INTO THE CHURCH
00:47:19.30\00:47:21.47
AND I BROUGHT IT UP FRONT AND
I WAS TALKING TO THEM ABOUT THE
00:47:21.50\00:47:23.41
PASSOVER AND I SAID, AND I
GOT TO THE POINT IN MY DISCOURSE
00:47:23.44\00:47:26.81
WHERE I SAID, 'AND AT THIS POINT
THEN YOU TIED THE LAMB' - AND I
00:47:26.84\00:47:30.15
TIED THE LITTLE LAMB'S FEET AND
I PUT IT ON ITS BACK - AND THEY
00:47:30.18\00:47:32.55
BECOME VERY
COMPLIANT WHEN YOU DO THAT.
00:47:32.58\00:47:35.02
FOR SOME REASON, SOMETHING ABOUT
THEIR ANATOMY, YOU PUT A LAMB ON
00:47:35.05\00:47:36.92
THEIR BACK - YOU EVER HEARD THE
EXPRESSION 'AS A SHEEP BEFORE
00:47:36.95\00:47:40.26
HER SHEARERS IS DUMB'?
THEY'LL BLEAT AND CRY, BUT YOU
00:47:40.29\00:47:43.73
PUT THEM ON
THEIR BACK, THEY CAN'T.
00:47:43.76\00:47:45.96
AND I FLIPPED IT UP WHERE ITS
FEET WERE KIND OF IN THE AIR AND
00:47:45.99\00:47:49.23
IT JUST PUTS ITS NECK BACK AND
IT GETS REAL QUIET, AND THEN I
00:47:49.26\00:47:52.33
PULLED OUT A KNIFE, AND I HELD
UP THE KNIFE AND SOME OF OUR
00:47:52.37\00:47:57.11
MEMBERS WERE REALLY WORRIED
AND THEY THOUGHT, 'HOW FAR IS HE
00:47:57.14\00:47:59.24
GOING TO TAKE THIS?'
HOW'D YOU LIKE TO DO THAT EVERY
00:47:59.27\00:48:03.55
TIME YOU WANTED FORGIVENESS?
IT'S KIND OF BARBARIC, HUH?
00:48:03.58\00:48:08.02
AND THAT WHOLE IDEA OF
SACRIFICING EVEN A LAMB SHOULD
00:48:08.05\00:48:11.89
HAVE BROKEN THE HEARTS OF GOD'S
PEOPLE, MUCH LESS THE LAMB OF
00:48:11.92\00:48:14.99
GOD, GOD'S SON. NO, I
DIDN'T HURT THE LAMB, BUT
00:48:15.02\00:48:20.36
I DID TAKE THE KNIFE AND
GO LIKE THIS - AND PRETEND
00:48:20.40\00:48:23.60
AND SCARED EVERYBODY.
I WON'T DO THAT AGAIN.
00:48:23.63\00:48:26.84
(LAUGHTER) SO, HE DOESN'T WANT
THE SACRIFICE AND OFFERINGS.
00:48:26.87\00:48:34.61
THE SUPERIORITY OF THE
PROMISE IS OUR LAST SECTION.
00:48:34.64\00:48:37.78
HEBREWS 1, VERSES 1 AND 2, "GOD,
WHO AT VARIOUS TIMES AND IN
00:48:37.81\00:48:42.58
VARIOUS WAYS SPOKE IN TIME PAST
TO THE FATHERS BY THE PROPHETS,"
00:48:42.62\00:48:46.25
- AND EVEN BY ANGELS - "HAS IN
THESE LAST DAYS SPOKEN TO US BY
00:48:46.29\00:48:49.96
HIS SON, WHOM HE HAS APPOINTED
HEIR OF ALL THINGS, THROUGH WHOM
00:48:49.99\00:48:54.10
ALSO HE MADE THE WORLDS;" -
EVERYTHING WAS MADE BY JESUS,
00:48:54.13\00:48:58.50
AND SO, IN THE OLD TESTAMENT,
YOU KNOW, HE'S GIVING THESE
00:48:58.53\00:49:00.97
THINGS THROUGH
MEDIATORS. THAT'S WHAT PAUL IS
00:49:01.00\00:49:03.47
SAYING HERE IN GALATIANS.
SO THESE THINGS WERE GIVEN BY
00:49:03.51\00:49:06.31
ANGELS AND MEDIATORS,
BUT NOT NOW A MEDIATOR -
00:49:06.34\00:49:09.01
DIRECTLY GOD HIMSELF. SO
IT'S A SUPERIOR SACRIFICE
00:49:09.04\00:49:13.95
THAT'S BEING MADE, GIVEN
BY A SUPERIOR INDIVIDUAL.
00:49:13.98\00:49:20.46
ARE SOME PROMISES
OF GOD CONDITIONAL?
00:49:20.49\00:49:22.96
>>YES. >>ANY EXAMPLES?
00:49:22.99\00:49:27.30
>>JERUSALEM.
>>PROMISES HE MADE FOR JERUSALEM
00:49:27.36\00:49:31.97
TO LAST FOREVER,
THEY WERE CONDITIONAL.
00:49:32.00\00:49:35.84
WHEN HE SAID TO SOLOMON, HE
SAID, 'IF YOU WALK IN MY WAYS I
00:49:35.87\00:49:37.84
WILL BLESS YOU AND KEEP - YOUR
SONS WILL NOT FAIL TO SIT UPON
00:49:37.87\00:49:41.78
THE THRONE.' WELL, THEY FAILED
THAT AND THE SONS OF DAVID WERE
00:49:41.81\00:49:46.31
DETHRONED, EVENTUALLY.
JONAH, YEAH, THEIR REPENTANCE.
00:49:46.35\00:49:52.49
BUT WHEN GOD PROMISED THAT
CHRIST HIS SON WOULD COME, WAS
00:49:52.52\00:49:56.49
THAT A CONDITIONAL PROMISE?
THE PROMISE HE GAVE TO ABRAHAM
00:49:56.52\00:49:59.96
WAS AN UNCONDITIONAL
PROMISE. THERE WAS NO CONDITIONS
00:50:00.00\00:50:02.66
CONNECTED WITH THE
PROMISE HE GAVE TO ABRAHAM.
00:50:02.70\00:50:05.73
AND SO, GOD IS
GOING TO KEEP HIS PROMISE.
00:50:05.77\00:50:08.80
JOSHUA 23:14, "BEHOLD," - JOSHUA
SAID - THIS IS THE END OF HIS
00:50:08.84\00:50:14.34
BOOK - "...I AM GOING
THE WAY OF ALL THE EARTH.
00:50:14.38\00:50:18.15
AND YOU KNOW IN ALL YOUR HEARTS
AND IN ALL YOUR SOULS THAT NOT
00:50:18.18\00:50:22.78
ONE THING HAS FAILED OF ALL THE
GOOD THINGS WHICH THE LORD YOUR
00:50:22.82\00:50:27.22
GOD SPOKE CONCERNING YOU.
ALL HAVE COME TO PASS FOR YOU;
00:50:27.26\00:50:30.96
NOT ONE WORD OF THEM HAS FAILED.
JOSHUA, AT THE END OF HIS LIFE,
00:50:30.99\00:50:35.10
WHAT DOES HE WANT TO
EMPHASIZE? YOU CAN TRUST THE
00:50:35.13\00:50:38.77
PROMISES OF GOD. BUT
LOOK AT HOW MANY MORE
00:50:38.80\00:50:41.17
PROMISES CAME TRUE
AFTER THE TIME OF JOSHUA.
00:50:41.20\00:50:44.51
I MEAN, GOD EVEN PROMISED,
THROUGH MOSES, NOT ONLY THE WAYS
00:50:44.54\00:50:47.14
HE WOULD BLESS THEM - YOU READ
IN DEUTERONOMY 28, YOU KNOW,
00:50:47.18\00:50:51.15
IT'S A CHAPTER
THAT'S VERY TROUBLING.
00:50:51.18\00:50:52.85
IT'S ALSO VERY ENCOURAGING.
IT'S CALLED THE CHAPTER OF
00:50:52.88\00:50:54.45
BLESSINGS AND CURSINGS. AND
YOU READ THE BLESSINGS - AND
00:50:54.48\00:50:57.59
I REALLY LIKE THAT PART, BUT I'D
LIKE TO STOP THERE IF I COULD.
00:50:57.62\00:51:00.82
IT SAYS, 'BLESSED YOU'LL BE WHEN
YOU GO OUT, BLESSED YOU'LL BE
00:51:00.86\00:51:02.96
WHEN YOU COME IN, BLESSED YOUR
CHILDREN WILL BE, BLESSED YOUR
00:51:02.99\00:51:05.46
BARN WILL BE, YOUR BASKET, YOUR
LIVESTOCK - EVERYTHING BLESSED,
00:51:05.49\00:51:08.30
BLESSED, BLESSED,
BLESSED, - AND THEN HE SAYS,
00:51:08.33\00:51:10.87
'BUT, IF YOU DISOBEY AND FORSAKE
MY COMMANDMENTS, CURSED YOU'LL
00:51:10.90\00:51:16.71
BE WHEN YOU GO OUT, CURSED
YOU'LL BE WHEN YOU COME IN.'
00:51:16.74\00:51:19.31
MATTER OF FACT, WHEN YOU READ
IT, THE CURSES ARE A LOT LONGER
00:51:19.34\00:51:23.35
THAN THE BLESSINGS, BECAUSE GOD
WAS TRYING TO DISCOURAGE THEM -
00:51:23.38\00:51:29.42
NOT DISCOURAGE - YEAH, HE WAS
TRYING TO DISCOURAGE THEM FROM
00:51:29.45\00:51:31.32
DISOBEYING. HE WAS
TRYING TO STEER THEM AWAY
00:51:31.35\00:51:33.99
FROM DISOBEDIENCE AND
MOTIVATE THEM FOR THE BLESSING.
00:51:34.02\00:51:37.96
AND - BUT NOT ONE
WORD FAILED. GOD HAS GOT A
00:51:37.99\00:51:41.23
PERFECT CREDIT SCORE.
PSALM 89:34, GOD SAYS, "MY
00:51:41.26\00:51:46.07
COVENANT I WILL NOT BREAK,
NOR ALTER THE WORD THAT HAS
00:51:46.10\00:51:50.71
GONE OUT OF MY LIPS." I
REMEMBER READING YEARS AGO
00:51:50.74\00:51:53.94
ABOUT THERE WAS THIS OLD INDIAN
CHIEF IN THE EARLY 1800S AND HE
00:51:53.98\00:52:00.52
ALWAYS WORE A RED RIBBON AROUND
HIS NECK WITH A LEATHER POUCH
00:52:00.55\00:52:05.39
- LARGE LEATHER POUCH -
AND SOMEONE SAID, 'WHAT IS IT?'
00:52:05.42\00:52:09.16
- THEY FIGURED IT WAS SOME KIND
OF CHARMS OR SOME KIND OF, YOU
00:52:09.19\00:52:11.43
KNOW, MEDICINE BAG - IT
WASN'T UNCOMMON TO SEE THAT.
00:52:11.46\00:52:18.10
THEY SAID, 'WHAT HAVE YOU GOT
THERE, CHIEF, ON YOUR POUCH?'
00:52:18.13\00:52:20.67
HE SAID, 'YOUR GREAT CHIEF GAVE
THIS TO ME.' NOW THE CHIEF, THIS
00:52:20.70\00:52:24.04
INDIAN, HAD BEEN
LIVING IN POVERTY FOR YEARS.
00:52:24.07\00:52:26.41
HE KIND OF LIVED ON THE
OUTSKIRTS OF ONE OF THE TOWNS
00:52:26.44\00:52:28.28
AND THEY SAID, 'WHAT DO
YOU MEAN 'YOUR GREAT CHIEF'?
00:52:28.31\00:52:31.31
'YOUR GREAT CHIEF, WASHINGTON,
GAVE THIS TO ME.' 'WELL, WHAT IS
00:52:31.35\00:52:34.12
IT?' HE SAID, 'IT'S A LETTER.'
AND THEY SAID, 'CAN WE SEE IT?'
00:52:34.15\00:52:38.75
AND HE PULLED IT OUT OF HIS
POUCH AND SHOWED IT TO THEM.
00:52:38.79\00:52:42.42
EVIDENTLY, THIS CHIEF HAD HELPED
GEORGE WASHINGTON DURING THE
00:52:42.46\00:52:45.39
REVOLUTIONARY WAR AND WASHINGTON
HAD WRITTEN A PERSONAL PROMISE
00:52:45.43\00:52:49.86
FOR A PENSION TO BE PAID TO HIM
FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE, BUT HE
00:52:49.90\00:52:55.34
HAD NEVER TURNED
IT IN. HE DIDN'T KNOW
00:52:55.37\00:52:58.91
WHAT A PENSION WAS. ALL
HE HAD TO DO WAS PRESENT
00:52:58.94\00:53:01.94
THAT TO THE PAY MASTER AT THE
ARMY AND HE WOULD HAVE BEEN PAID
00:53:01.98\00:53:06.31
A REGULAR PENSION FOR THE REST
OF HIS LIFE. INSTEAD, HE LIVED
00:53:06.35\00:53:09.35
IN POVERTY BECAUSE - HERE HE'S
CARRYING THE PROMISE AROUND HIS
00:53:09.38\00:53:11.62
NECK AND GOING HUNGRY AND HE HAD
IT FROM THE HIGHEST AUTHORITY.
00:53:11.65\00:53:16.56
ARE WE MUCH DIFFERENT?
DO WE HAVE A SURE PROMISE
00:53:16.59\00:53:21.63
FROM GOD AT OUR
FINGERTIPS? >>AMEN.
00:53:21.66\00:53:24.40
>>AND WE SOMETIMES FORGET
TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THAT.
00:53:24.43\00:53:26.74
WELL, JESUS SAID, 'HEAVEN
AND EARTH WILL PASS AWAY, BUT MY
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WORDS WILL BY NO MEANS PASS
AWAY.' AND WE READ IN PETER,
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'GOD HAS GIVEN TO US EXCEEDING
GREAT AND PRECIOUS PROMISES,
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THAT BY THESE - THROUGH THESE -
WE MIGHT BECOME PARTAKERS OF THE
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DIVINE NATURE.' THROUGH
THE PROMISES OF GOD WE CAN HAVE
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PEACE, WE CAN HAVE FAITH,
AND WE CAN BE TRANSFORMED.
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BUT WE NEED TO BELIEVE
THEM. WE ARE MADE RIGHTEOUS
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(MUSIC) >>WHAT CAN
BE MORE IRRESISTIBLE
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THAN A KITTEN? THESE
GUYS MIGHT LOOK CUTE NOW,
00:54:48.12\00:54:50.95
BUT SOME OF THEIR ANCESTORS
HAVE GROWN INTO MAN EATERS.
00:54:50.99\00:54:54.32
(BIG CATS ROARING) WE'RE HERE
IN A LION PARK IN SOUTH AFRICA,
00:54:54.36\00:55:00.76
NOW, WHERE WE CAN VIEW THESE
CREATURES IN RELATIVE SAFETY.
00:55:00.80\00:55:03.83
BUT THERE'S A REASON THEY'RE
KNOWN AS THE KING OF BEASTS.
00:55:03.87\00:55:07.54
SO WHAT IS IT THAT PEOPLE FIND
SO ENCHANTING AND FRIGHTENING
00:55:07.57\00:55:10.17
ABOUT LIONS? IS IT
THEIR SPEED? THEIR CLAWS?
00:55:10.21\00:55:13.27
THEIR SHARP TEETH?
OR ALL OF THE ABOVE?
00:55:13.31\00:55:16.08
IT MIGHT ALSO BE SOME OF THE
STORIES ABOUT MAN-EATING LIONS,
00:55:16.11\00:55:19.11
LIKE IN 1898 RIGHT HERE IN
AFRICA, THEY WERE BUILDING A
00:55:19.15\00:55:23.22
BRIDGE OVER THE SABO RIVER
IN KENYA AND TWO BROTHER LIONS
00:55:23.25\00:55:26.62
TERRORIZED THE CONSTRUCTION
PROCESS, EATING 135 WORKERS.
00:55:26.65\00:55:33.13
DID YOU KNOW LIONS ARE MENTIONED
IN THE BIBLE OVER 100 TIMES AND
00:55:33.16\00:55:37.23
YOU CAN FIND THEM ALL THE
WAY FROM GENESIS TO REVELATION.
00:55:37.27\00:55:40.24
IT'S USUALLY IN REFERENCE TO
THEIR FEROCITY AND HOW DANGEROUS
00:55:40.27\00:55:43.30
THEY ARE. OF
COURSE, SAMSON KILLED A
00:55:43.34\00:55:45.64
LION WITH HIS BARE
HANDS. DAVID KILLED A LION.
00:55:45.67\00:55:48.71
THERE ARE
MAN-EATING LIONS IN THE BIBLE.
00:55:48.74\00:55:50.75
THE WAY THAT THEY PUNISHED
CRIMINALS WAS BY THROWING THEM
00:55:50.78\00:55:53.08
IN THE LIONS DEN - AND EARLY
CHRISTIANS WERE EVEN FED TO
00:55:53.11\00:55:56.45
LIONS. BUT,
AMAZINGLY, AS THE BIBLE
00:55:56.48\00:55:59.25
MENTIONS, NOT ALL
LIONS ARE TO BE FEARED.
00:55:59.29\00:56:02.06
THERE HAVE BEEN A FEW
FRIENDLY LIONS IN HISTORY.
00:56:02.09\00:56:04.89
FOR EXAMPLE, IN THE 1950S
A COUPLE, GEORGE AND MARGARET
00:56:04.93\00:56:09.03
WESTBEAU, WHO LIVED UP AT A
RANCH NEAR SEATTLE, WASHINGTON,
00:56:09.06\00:56:12.93
ADOPTED AN ABANDONED LION
CUB. THEY NAMED IT LITTLE TYKE
00:56:12.97\00:56:17.04
BECAUSE THEY FELT SORRY FOR
IT. BUT THEY DISCOVERED, AS THEY
00:56:17.07\00:56:19.87
TRIED TO FEED HER, SHE
REFUSED TO EAT ANY MEAT AT ALL.
00:56:19.91\00:56:24.71
THEY WERE CONCERNED, THINKING
THERE WAS NO HOPE FOR THIS
00:56:24.75\00:56:27.02
LITTLE LIONESS TO SURVIVE - AND
EVERYBODY TOLD THEM THE SAME,
00:56:27.05\00:56:30.19
BECAUSE WE KNOW, IN THE
WILD, LIONS SURVIVE ON ALMOST AN
00:56:30.22\00:56:33.05
ENTIRELY MEAT DIET.
THEN SOMEONE SHOWED THE
00:56:33.09\00:56:36.22
WESTBEAUS THAT VERSE IN
THE BIBLE THAT TALKS ABOUT, IN
00:56:36.26\00:56:39.13
HEAVEN, THE ANIMALS ARE
VEGETARIANS AND THE LION
00:56:39.16\00:56:42.26
WILL EAT STRAW LIKE THE OX.
THAT ENCOURAGED THEM AND SO THEY
00:56:42.30\00:56:46.57
BEGAN TO FEED LITTLE
TYKE A PURELY VEGETARIAN DIET.
00:56:46.60\00:56:50.57
NOT ONLY DID SHE SURVIVE,
SHE THRIVED, GROWING INTO A LION
00:56:50.61\00:56:54.54
THAT WAS OVER 352
POUNDS AND OVER TEN FEET LONG.
00:56:54.58\00:56:59.28
IN FACT, ZOOLOGISTS THAT
EXAMINED LITTLE TYKE, WHEN SHE
00:56:59.31\00:57:02.02
WAS FULL GROWN, SAID THEY
HAD NEVER SEEN SUCH A PERFECT
00:57:02.05\00:57:05.09
SPECIMEN OF A LIONESS IN
THEIR LIFE - A PURE VEGETARIAN.
00:57:05.12\00:57:10.06
YOU KNOW, WHEN WE HEAR
INCREDIBLE STORIES ABOUT THAT OF
00:57:10.09\00:57:12.19
LITTLE TYKE, IT REMINDS US THAT
GOD'S ORIGINAL PLAN WAS TO MAKE
00:57:12.23\00:57:16.13
A WORLD OF TOTAL PEACE.
IT DESCRIBES IT HERE IN THE
00:57:16.16\00:57:19.30
BIBLE IN ISAIAH CHAPTER 11,
VERSE 6, "THE WOLF ALSO SHALL
00:57:19.33\00:57:23.17
DWELL WITH THE LAMB, THE LEOPARD
SHALL LIED DOWN WITH THE YOUNG
00:57:23.20\00:57:26.07
GOAT, THE CALF AND THE YOUNG
LION AND THE FATLING TOGETHER;
00:57:26.11\00:57:29.68
AND A LITTLE
CHILD SHALL LEAD THEM."
00:57:29.71\00:57:32.15
NOTHING IS GOING TO HURT AND
DESTROY IN THE NEW HEAVENS AND
00:57:32.18\00:57:34.85
THE NEW EARTH THAT
GOD IS GOING TO CREATE.
00:57:34.88\00:57:36.85
WOULDN'T YOU LIKE TO LIVE IN
A KINGDOM WHERE THERE'S PERFECT
00:57:36.89\00:57:38.99
PEACE - WHERE THERE'S NO
MORE DEATH OR KILLING OR PAIN?
00:57:39.02\00:57:42.29
GOD SAYS THAT HE
WANTS YOU IN THAT KINGDOM.
00:57:42.32\00:57:45.33
THE LAMB OF GOD MADE IT POSSIBLE
FOR YOU TO HAVE AN ENCOUNTER
00:57:45.36\00:57:49.26
WITH THE LION OF
THE TRIBE OF JUDAH.
00:57:49.30\00:57:51.70
WOULDN'T YOU LIKE TO
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