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00:35 >>HELLO FRIENDS, AND WELCOME TO SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY 00:37 HOUR, COMING TO YOU HERE FROM THE GRANITE BAY SEVENTH-DAY 00:39 ADVENTIST CHURCH NEAR SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA. 00:42 I'D LIKE TO WARMLY WELCOME OUR ONLINE MEMBERS AND ALSO THOSE 00:45 WATCHING ON THE VARIOUS TELEVISION NETWORKS. 00:47 THANK YOU FOR JOINING US FOR OUR SPECIAL STUDY TIME TODAY. 00:52 AND, TO THE MEMBERS AND THE VISITORS RIGHT HERE AT THE 00:54 GRANITE BAY CHURCH, AS ALWAYS, A VERY WARM WELCOME. 00:56 IT'S NICE TO SEE YOU. THANK YOU FOR COMING TO SABBATH 00:58 SCHOOL TODAY TO STUDY THE SCRIPTURES. 01:01 NOW WE'VE BEEN STUDYING THROUGH THE BOOK OF GALATIANS AND, THOSE 01:03 HERE, YOU KNOW ABOUT THE LESSON QUARTERLY AND HOW YOU CAN STUDY 01:07 DURING THE WEEK IN PREPARATION FOR OUR TIME HERE EVERY SABBATH 01:10 MORNING. TODAY WE'RE ON LESSON #6 AND 01:13 IT'S ENTITLED THE PRIORITY OF THE PROMISE . 01:17 IT LOOKS LIKE A GOOD STUDY FOR TODAY. 01:19 FOR OUR ONLINE FRIENDS, IF YOU DON'T HAVE A COPY OF TODAY'S 01:22 LESSON, YOU JUST - YOU CAN DOWNLOAD IT BY JUST GOING TO THE 01:25 AMAZING FACTS WEBSITE - AMAZINGFACTS.ORG - YOU CAN 01:29 DOWNLOAD LESSON #6 AND STUDY ALONG WITH US. 01:32 IN ADDITION TO THE STUDY RESOURCES IN THE LESSON 01:35 QUARTERLY, WE DO HAVE A FREE OFFER FOR THOSE WATCHING IN 01:38 NORTH AMERICA, WE'LL BE SENDING THIS OUT TO ANYBODY WHO CALLS 01:41 AND ASKS. IT'S A STUDY GUIDE ENTITLED 01:44 IS THERE ANYTHING LEFT YOU CAN TRUST? 01:46 IF YOU'D LIKE TO RECEIVE THIS, JUST CALL US ON OUR RESOURCE 01:49 PHONE NUMBER - AND THAT NUMBER IS 866-788-3966 - AND YOU CAN 01:55 ASK FOR OFFER #103, THE STUDY GUIDE ENTITLED IS THERE ANYTHING 01:59 LEFT YOU CAN TRUST? AND WE'LL BE HAPPY TO SEND THIS 02:02 TO ANYBODY IN NORTH AMERICA. IF YOU'RE OUTSIDE OF NORTH 02:04 AMERICA AND WOULD LIKE TO READ THE STUDY GUIDE, JUST GO TO THE 02:07 AMAZING FACTS WEBSITE - JUST AMAZINGFACTS.ORG . 02:12 WELL, BEFORE WE GET TO OUR STUDY, WE LIKE TO BEGIN BY 02:14 LIFTING OUR VOICES IN SONG. I'D LIKE TO INVITE THE SONG 02:17 LEADERS TO COME AND JOIN ME. >>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS. 02:24 (LIGHT PIANO MUSIC) FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE JOINING US AT HOME, 02:27 WHEREVER YOU ARE, GRAB YOUR HYMNALS. WE LOVE TO SING WITH 02:31 YOU EVERY WEEK BEFORE WE STUDY AND GET INTO GOD'S WORD. 02:36 THIS WEEK WE'RE GOING TO BE SINGING ABOUT LISTENING TO GOD'S 02:39 VOICE WHEN HE CALLS US, DOING WHAT HE ASKS, WHICH IS TO GO 02:44 INTO ALL THE WORLD AND TO PREACH HIS GOSPEL, LETTING OTHER PEOPLE 02:47 KNOW WE LOVE HIM AND WHAT HE'S DONE FOR US. 02:50 OUR FIRST SONG THAT WE'RE GOING TO SING THIS MORNING IS HYMN 02:52 #369 - BRINGING IN THE SHEAVES - WE'RE GOING TO SING THE FIRST - 02:58 ALL THREE VERSES - FIRST, SECOND, AND THIRD. (PIANO MUSIC) 05:09 >>JUST A FEW PAGES BACK TO HYMN #361 - HARK TO THE SHEPHERD'S 05:14 VOICE I HEAR - DID YOU HEAR HIM CALLING YOU THIS WEEK? 05:18 IF YOU DID, I HOPE YOU ANSWERED. IF NOT, HE'S GOING TO 05:21 GIVE YOU ANOTHER CHANCE. LET'S SING ALL THREE 05:24 VERSES OF HYMN #361. (PIANO MUSIC) 07:30 >>AT THIS TIME PASTOR ROSS WILL LEAD US IN PRAYER. 07:33 (SOFT PIANO MUSIC) 07:41 >>LET US BOW OUR HEADS FOR A WORD OF PRAYER. 07:43 DEAR FATHER IN HEAVEN, ONCE AGAIN, THANK YOU FOR THE 07:46 OPPORTUNITY TO GATHER TOGETHER IN YOUR HOUSE AND OPEN UP YOUR 07:49 WORD TO STUDY THIS VERY INSPIRING STUDY, IN THE BOOK OF 07:52 GALATIANS, ABOUT FAITH AND YOUR WILLINGNESS TO FORGIVE AND TO 07:57 CLEANSE AND THE POWER OF YOUR GRACE. 08:00 SO BLESS OUR TIME, ONCE AGAIN, TODAY. 08:02 WE ASK THAT YOU BE WITH PASTOR DOUG AS HE OPENS THE SCRIPTURES. 08:05 IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. OUR LESSON TODAY IS GOING TO BE 08:08 BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR DOUG. >>WELCOME FRIENDS. 08:12 WE'D LIKE TO THANK YOU FOR JOINING US HERE AT GRANITE BAY 08:15 SABBATH SCHOOL PROGRAM AND DURING OUR STUDY HOUR. 08:18 WE ARE CONTINUING IN OUR STUDY OF GALATIANS AND THIS HAS BEEN 08:22 JUST A VERY ENRICHING STUDY AND IT'S CHALLENGED ME AS WELL. 08:27 OUR STUDY TODAY IS ON THE PRIORITY OF THE PROMISE - THE 08:31 PRIORITY OF THE PROMISE - AND WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE. 08:34 THE MEMORY VERSE IS GALATIANS 3:18, AND THIS COMES TO US FROM 08:39 THE ENGLISH STANDARD VERSION. IF YOU'D SAY IT WITH 08:41 ME, GALATIANS 3:18. ARE YOU READY? 08:45 "FOR IF THE INHERITANCE COMES BY THE LAW, IT NO LONGER COMES BY 08:50 PROMISE; BUT GOD GAVE IT TO ABRAHAM BY A PROMISE." 08:56 NOW THIS IS THE - THE REAL THEME IN THE SECTION WE'RE GOING TO BE 08:59 TALKING ABOUT TODAY, IT'S TALKING ABOUT THE PROMISES OF 09:03 GOD. AND, TO BEGIN WITH, WHY DON'T WE 09:05 GO TO THE BOOK OF GALATIANS AND I'M JUST GOING TO READ OUR 09:07 ASSIGNMENT. OUR MISSION FOR TODAY IS THAT WE WANT TO STUDY 09:11 GALATIANS CHAPTER 3, VERSES 15 THROUGH 20. 09:15 NEXT WEEK IT GOES FROM 20 ON, BUT RIGHT NOW WE'RE GOING TO 09:18 READ GALATIANS 3:15 THROUGH 20. I'LL JUST READ IT THROUGH FOR 09:21 YOU SO, NO MATTER HOW FAR WE GET WITH THE DIFFERENT POINTS, AT 09:24 LEAST WE'LL BE ABLE TO SAY, 'WE MADE IT THROUGH THE ASSIGNED 09:27 TEXT.' ARE YOU READY? "BRETHREN, I SPEAK IN THE MANNER 09:31 OF MEN: THOUGH IT IS ONLY A MAN'S COVENANT, YET IF IT IS 09:35 CONFIRMED, NO ONE ANNULS OR ADDS TO IT. 09:44 NOW TO ABRAHAM AND HIS SEED WERE THE PROMISES MADE. 09:47 HE DOES NOT SAY, 'AND TO SEEDS,' AS OF MANY, BUT AS OF ONE, 'AND 09:52 TO YOUR SEED,' WHO IS CHRIST. AND THIS I SAY, THAT THE LAW, 09:56 WHICH WAS FOUR HUNDRED AND THIRTY YEARS LATER, CANNOT 09:59 ANNUL THE COVENANT THAT WAS CONFIRMED BEFORE BY GOD IN 10:02 CHRIST, THAT IT SHOULD MAKE THE PROMISE OF NO EFFECT. 10:05 FOR IF THE INHERITANCE IS OF THE LAW, IT IS NO LONGER OF PROMISE; 10:09 BUT GOD GAVE IT TO ABRAHAM BY PROMISE. 10:11 WHAT PURPOSE THEN DOES THE LAW SERVE? 10:14 IT WAS ADDED BECAUSE OF TRANSGRESSIONS, TILL THE SEED 10:17 SHOULD COME TO WHOM THE PROMISE WAS MADE; AND IT WAS APPOINTED 10:21 THROUGH ANGELS BY THE HAND OF A MEDIATOR. 10:24 NOW A MEDIATOR DOES NOT MEDIATE FOR ONE ONLY, BUT GOD IS ONE." 10:30 THAT'S OUR ASSIGNMENT - THAT'S OUR PASSAGE OF VERSES - AND 10:33 WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT THE PROMISES OF GOD. 10:36 LET'S GET INTO OUR STUDY FOR TODAY, WHERE WE'RE DEALING WITH 10:41 SOME OF THESE VERY IMPORTANT ISSUES REGARDING GALATIANS 10:45 CHAPTER 3, VERSES 15 THROUGH 20. IF YOU LOOK IN CHAPTER 3, VERSE 10:52 15, IT SAYS, 'BRETHREN, NOW I SPEAK IN THE MANNER OF MEN:' - 10:55 IN OTHER WORDS, 'I'M GOING TO TALK IN HUMAN TERMS' - 'THOUGH 10:58 IT'S ONLY A MAN'S COVENANT,' - IF TWO MEN MAKE A COVENANT - 11:01 'YET IF IT IS CONFIRMED, YOU CANNOT ANNUL IT' - EVEN 11:05 CONTRACTS BETWEEN MEN, HE'S SAYING, CANNOT BE ANNULLED. 11:09 "NOW TO ABRAHAM AND HIS SEED, WERE THE PROMISES MADE." 11:13 - NOTICE IT DOES NOT SAY 'SEEDS'? 11:15 PAUL IS EMPHASIZING 'IT'S NOT - LOTS - A PLURAL, LIKE 'LOTS' OF 11:19 MEN OR 'LOTS' OF SEEDS - AS TO MANY - AND HE SAYS, 'AND TO YOUR 11:23 SEED' - HE'S REFERRING BACK TO GENESIS WHERE GOD MAKES HIS 11:26 PROMISE TO ABRAHAM - "WHO IS CHRIST. 11:30 AND THIS I SAY, THAT THE LAW, WHICH WAS FOUR HUNDRED AND 11:33 THIRTY YEARS LATER, CANNOT ANNUL THE COVENANT THAT WAS CONFIRMED 11:37 BEFORE BY GOD IN CHRIST," - LET ME JUST SEE IF I COULD BACK UP A 11:41 LITTLE BIT AND GIVE YOU THE IDEA OF WHAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT. 11:46 THE BIG ARGUMENT HERE IN GALATIANS IS 'O FOOLISH 11:50 GALATIANS, WHO HAS BEWITCHED YOU? 11:51 HOW DO YOU THINK YOU CAN BE SAVED BY THESE LAWS?' 11:55 NOW, WHEN HE TALKS ABOUT THE LAWS, HE'S TALKING ABOUT TWO 11:57 THINGS: THE LAW, IN A BIG GENERAL SENSE THAT ENCOMPASSES 12:01 ALL LAW, BECAUSE WE'RE NOT SAVED BY ANY LAW. 12:03 BUT, MORE SPECIFICALLY, IN GALATIANS, HE'S TALKING ABOUT 12:06 THE CEREMONIAL LAWS CONTAINED IN ORDINANCES, AND CIRCUMCISION. 12:12 CIRCUMCISION IS THE BIG DEBATE ISSUE THAT YOU FIND MENTIONED IN 12:15 GALATIANS. PAUL IS MAKING A POINT THAT GOD 12:19 MADE A PROMISE TO ABRAHAM FOUR HUNDRED AND THIRTY YEARS BEFORE 12:24 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS WERE GIVEN. SO, WAS ANYONE SAVED BETWEEN 12:29 ABRAHAM AND MOUNT SINAI? >>YEAH. 12:33 >>YEAH, A LOT OF PEOPLE. YOU'VE GOT ISAAC, JACOB, THE 12:35 PATRIARCHS, MANY OF THEIR DESCENDANTS. 12:38 THERE WAS A LOT OF GOD'S PEOPLE THAT WOULD BE SAVED THEN. 12:40 THEY HADN'T HEARD GOD SPEAK THE TEN COMMANDMENTS YET, BUT 12:44 THEY'RE STILL GOING TO BE SAVED. NOW, DID THE TEN COMMANDMENTS 12:48 EXIST BEFORE MOUNT SINAI? YES. HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT? 12:55 IT'S EASY TO SAY, 'OF COURSE' - I MEAN, YOUR NATURAL COMMON 12:58 SENSE WOULD TELL YOU, 'OF COURSE IT WAS WRONG TO KILL BEFORE THE 13:01 TEN COMMANDMENTS WERE ANNOUNCED ON MOUNT SINAI, YOU KNOW, IN 14 13:07 - WHATEVER IT WAS - 1446 - ABOUT 1446 B.C. 13:15 SO, WAS IT WRONG TO COMMIT ADULTERY? 13:19 WAS IT WRONG TO STEAL BEFORE THEY WERE ANNOUNCED? 13:21 HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT? >>LOVE GOD; LOVE MAN. 13:24 >>WELL THOSE - THAT CAME LATER, THOUGH. 13:27 YEAH, I KNOW, BUT - SO I HEARD SOMEONE SAY 'JOSEPH'. 13:30 DID GOD SAY TO JOSEPH - OR DID JOSEPH SAY, 'HOW CAN I DO THIS 13:35 THING AND SIN AGAINST GOD?' HE WAS BEING TEMPTED 13:37 TO COMMIT ADULTERY. DID JOSEPH KNOW 13:38 ADULTERY WAS A SIN? >>YES. 13:40 >>HOW FAR BACK DO WE KNOW THAT MURDER WAS A SIN? 13:43 >>CAIN AND ABEL. >>YEAH, GOD SAID, 'SIN 13:45 LIES AT YOUR DOOR'. MURDER WAS A SIN BACK FOR CAIN. 13:49 AND, OF COURSE, YOU COULD PROBABLY FIND CASES WHERE 13:51 STEALING AND OTHER THINGS WERE SIN. 13:52 BEFORE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS WERE GIVEN THEY KNEW THAT. 13:57 BUT THE CEREMONIAL LAW IS IN A LITTLE DIFFERENT VEIN IN THAT 14:03 CIRCUMCISION WASN'T GIVEN TO ANYBODY. 14:05 WAS ABRAHAM SAVED WHEN GOD CALLED HIM OUT OF UR OF THE 14:09 CHALDEES? GOD SAID, 'FOLLOW ME.' WAS 14:12 HE - DID HE GO BY FAITH? >>YEAH. 14:14 >>YEAH. DID HE HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD? 14:16 WAS HE CIRCUMCISED WHEN HE WAS FIRST CALLED? 14:20 SO, PAUL IS TRYING TO MAKE THE POINT USING A LOT OF LOGICAL 14:23 SEQUENCE THAT SALVATION IS NOT BASED UPON LAW. 14:28 THE SALVATION THAT GOD OFFERS - ADAM - DID ADAM HAVE A MEANS OF 14:33 SALVATION? NOW, WE'LL GET TO THIS LATER. 14:36 WHAT WAS THE SIGN OF ADAM'S BEING FORGIVEN? 14:40 WAS IT BECAUSE ADAM SACRIFICED A LAMB? 14:43 OR WAS IT THE PROMISE OF GOD? 14:45 WAS ANYONE SAVED BY THE BLOOD OF LAMBS AND GOATS? 14:49 >>NO. >>OR WAS THAT ALL A SYMBOL 14:51 POINTING TO SOMETHING? OKAY. SO THIS IS WHERE PAUL IS GOING. 14:56 SO, WHEN GOD MAKES A PROMISE, DOES HE KEEP HIS PROMISE? 15:00 SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ A COUPLE OF VERSES FOR ME. 15:02 LET ME SEE, WHO'S GOT NUMBERS 23:19? 15:05 JUST A MOMENT, WE'LL GET YOU NEXT, JOHN. 15:07 I WANT TO READ ISAIAH 46;11, "INDEED, I HAVE SPOKEN. 15:12 I WILL ALSO BRING IT TO PASS. I HAVE PURPOSED IT. 15:15 I WILL ALSO DO IT.' GOD IS SPEAKING - 'WHEN I MAKE A 15:19 PROMISE I KEEP MY PROMISE.' IN THE SAME VEIN, GO AHEAD, PLEASE, 15:23 READ NUMBERS 23:19. >>NUMBERS 23:19, "GOD IS NOT A 15:29 MAN, THAT HE SHOULD LIE, NOR A SON OF MAN, THAT HE SHOULD 15:32 REPENT. HAS HE SAID, AND WILL HE NOT DO? 15:36 OR HAS HE SPOKEN, AND WILL HE NOT MAKE IT GOOD?" 15:39 >>HERE MOSES IS ASKING A RHETORICAL QUESTION: 'IS GOD 15:42 GOING TO MAKE A PROMISE AND NOT KEEP IT?' 15:44 CAN GOD BE TRUSTED? KAREN AND I WENT OUT CAR SHOPPING. 15:53 SHE HAD A BIRTHDAY ABOUT A WEEK AGO. 15:55 IN THE PROCESS OF CAR SHOPPING WE BOUGHT A CAR. 15:57 WE HAD TO DO A CREDIT - YOU'RE SITTING THERE WITH THE CAR GUY 16:02 AND HE HAS TO DO A CREDIT CHECK ON YOU. 16:05 AND, ACTUALLY, DID A CREDIT CHECK ON BOTH OF US AND I WAS A 16:08 LITTLE BIT CONCERNED THAT KAREN HAD A BETTER CREDIT SCORE THAN 16:12 ME AND HERE WE'VE BEEN MARRIED ALL THESE YEARS. 16:14 I DON'T KNOW HOW THAT HAPPENED. I HAVE A SUSPICION 16:16 HOW IT HAPPENED. (LAUGHTER) SO WE ASKED THE GUY 16:20 - WE HAVE GOOD CREDIT, BUT - WE ASKED THE GUY, 'WHAT'S THE 16:24 HIGHEST CREDIT SCORE YOU CAN HAVE?' 16:26 AND HE SAID, 'IT'S 850' - I THINK HE TOLD US 900, BUT I 16:30 LOOKED IT UP, IT'S 850. AND THE LOWEST CREDIT SCORE YOU 16:34 COULD POSSIBLY HAVE IS 300. SO OUR NEXT QUESTION WAS, 'IN 16:39 ALL THE TIME OF YOUR PROCESSING APPLICATIONS FOR BUYING CARS, 16:44 DID YOU EVER MEET ANYBODY WITH AN 850 SCORE? 16:49 HE SAID, 'NO, BUT I'VE HEARD OF THEM.' I SAID, 'HAVE YOU EVER 16:52 MET ANYBODY WITH THE LOWEST SCORE?' 16:55 HOW'D YOU LIKE TO HAVE THE LOWEST CREDIT SCORE? 16:58 HE SAID, 'NO, I HAD ONE GUY THAT WAS VERY CLOSE AND HE - YOU HAVE 17:01 TO WORK AT IT TO GET YOUR CREDIT SCORE THAT LOW. 17:05 YOU HAVE TO BREAK EVERY PROMISE. YOU HAVE TO VIOLATE 17:08 EVERY PAYMENT. YOU'VE GOT TO TAKE OUT CARDS AND 17:11 NEVER PAY ON THEM.' HE SAID, 'YOU'VE JUST GOT TO DO IT ALL 17:13 WRONG.' AND SO, IF GOD HAD A CREDIT SCORE, WHAT WOULD IT BE? 17:22 DOES HE KEEP - CAN HE BE TRUSTED? 17:25 DOES HE MAKE A PROMISE - DOES HE MAKE A COVENANT - DOES HE PAY 17:28 WHAT HE OWES? >>AMEN. 17:30 >>HE DOES. AND SO GOD CAN BE TRUSTED. 17:33 AND THIS IS WHAT IT'S SAYING. SO, ROMANS - LET'S LOOK AT A 17:38 FEW OTHER VERSES HERE - TALKING ABOUT THE PROMISES OF GOD. 17:40 ROMANS 4:13 AND 14, "FOR THE PROMISE THAT HE WOULD BE THE 17:45 HEIR OF THE WORLD WAS NOT TO ABRAHAM OR TO HIS SEED THROUGH 17:48 THE LAW," - THIS IS PAUL SAYING THE SAME THING HE SAYS IN 17:51 GALATIANS - IT'S NOT THROUGH THE LAW - "BUT THROUGH THE 17:55 RIGHTEOUSNESS OF FAITH. FOR IF THOSE WHO ARE OF THE LAW 17:59 ARE HEIRS, FAITH IS MADE VOID AND THE PROMISE MADE OF NO 18:03 EFFECT," - IT IS NOT FROM THE LAW, BUT IT'S THROUGH FAITH. 18:06 SIMILAR TO THAT, YOU READ IN HEBREWS 6:17, "THUS GOD, 18:10 DETERMINING TO SHOW MORE ABUNDANTLY TO THE HEIRS OF 18:12 PROMISE THE IMMUTABILITY OF HIS COUNSEL, CONFIRMED IT BY AN 18:17 OATH, THAT BY TWO IMMUTABLE THINGS, IN WHICH IT IS 18:20 IMPOSSIBLE FOR GOD TO LIE, WE MIGHT HAVE STRONG CONSOLATION, 18:26 WHO HAVE FLED FOR REFUGE TO LAY HOLD OF THE HOPE SET BEFORE US." 18:31 GOD HAS MADE A PROMISE AND OUR SALVATION IS BASED ON HIS 18:35 PROMISE; IT'S NOT BASED ON OUR WORKS. 18:38 IT'S BASED ON TRUSTING IN HIS PROMISE. 18:41 SO, LET'S JUST TALK ABOUT IT FOR A MINUTE. 18:43 WHY IS IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR ANYONE TO BE SAVED BY THE LAW? 18:47 WHAT IS THE PENALTY FOR BREAKING THE LAW? 18:49 >>DEATH. >>DEATH, RIGHT? WE ALL AGREE? 18:53 >>YES. >>HOW MANY HAVE SINNED? 18:56 >>ALL. >>AND BROKEN THE LAW? ALL. 18:58 EVERYBODY STILL AGREE THAT'S ALL INCLUDED HERE? 19:02 SO, IF YOU ARE - HAVE TO KEEP THE LAW PERFECTLY TO BE SAVED, 19:06 AND IF EVERYBODY HAS BROKEN THE LAW, THEN WE ARE ALL CONDEMNED. 19:08 SO, IF ANYONE MAKES IT TO HEAVEN, IT'S NOT BECAUSE OF YOUR 19:10 LAW KEEPING - >>TRUE. 19:12 >>BECAUSE YOU'VE ALREADY FAILED AT THAT. 19:14 IT'S GOT TO BE DEPENDANT ON GRACE. 19:15 NOW HERE'S WHERE IT GETS A LITTLE DICEY. 19:17 SOME PEOPLE SAY, 'WELL, WE DO ACCEPT THE SALVATION OF JESUS - 19:20 THAT HE DIED IN OUR PLACE AND THAT'S TO FORGIVE OUR PAST SINS, 19:23 BUT NOW WE MUST KEEP THE LAW TO KEEP OUR SALVATION.' 19:27 WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THAT? SO DO WE GET TO BREAK OUR LAW 19:33 NOW? WE NEVER ARE SAVED BY KEEPING 19:39 THE LAW, BUT IF OUR HEARTS HAVE BEEN RENEWED, WE WILL KEEP 19:43 THE LAW BECAUSE WE ARE SAVED. >>AMEN. 19:46 >>THE SALVATION STORY IS A GREAT ANALOGY TO EXPLAIN THIS. 19:51 THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL - DID MOSES COME TO THEM IN EGYPT AND 19:55 SAY, 'LOOK, GOD SENT ME TO TELL YOU HE'S GOING TO DO ALL THESE 19:59 SIGNS AND WONDERS TO SET YOU FREE IF YOU'LL KEEP THESE TEN 20:02 LAWS. LET ME TELL YOU WHAT THEY ARE. 20:03 YOU KEEP THESE TEN COMMANDMENTS AND GOD WILL THEN SAVE YOU OUT 20:05 OF EGYPT. WAS THERE SALVATION FROM SLAVERY 20:09 BASED UPON OBEDIENCE, OR WAS IT BASED UPON THE LAMB? 20:14 IT WAS THROUGH FAITH IN THE BLOOD OF THE PASSOVER LAMB THEY 20:17 BEGAN THEIR JOURNEY. BUT AFTER THEY WERE SAVED OUT OF 20:21 THE SLAVERY, GOD BRINGS THEM TO MOUNT SINAI AND HE SAYS, 'I 20:25 AM THE LORD WHO SAVED YOU. IF YOU LOVE ME, HERE'S MY LAW. 20:28 FIRST COMMANDMENT: I AM THE LORD WHO BROUGHT YOU OUT OF THE HOUSE 20:30 OF EGYPT - OUT OF THE HOUSE OF BONDAGE - OUT OF EGYPT, OUT OF 20:33 THE HOUSE OF BONDAGE' - HE'S SAYING, 'I'VE SAVED YOU' - 20:36 IMPLIED THERE IS, 'IF YOU LOVE ME, KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS'. 20:40 SO THEY WERE NOT SAVED BY OBEYING THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, 20:44 BUT IF THEY CONTINUED TO BREAK THE LAW AFTER HE SAVED THEM, DID 20:49 THEY MAKE IT TO THE PROMISED LAND? 20:52 NO, BECAUSE IT WAS EVIDENCE THAT THEY DIDN'T REALLY TRUST HIM. 20:58 HOW MANY TIMES DID THEY SAY, 'OH, I WISH WE COULD GO BACK TO 21:01 EGYPT' - 'IT WAS BETTER BACK IN EGYPT'? THEY LOST FAITH THAT GOD 21:04 COULD FINISH WHAT HE STARTED. THEY DID NOT BELIEVE 21:08 THE PROMISES OF GOD. SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING? 21:11 WHEN THEY MURMURED AND THEY COMPLAINED, THEY WERE SHOWING 21:13 DISBELIEF IN THE PROMISES OF GOD. 21:16 SO THAT'S WHY THAT'S SO CRUCIAL FOR ALL OF THAT. 21:19 ALRIGHT, FAITH IN THE LAW IS OUR NEXT SECTION - FAITH IN THE LAW. 21:23 SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ FOR ME, IN A MOMENT, GALATIANS 3:21. 21:28 THAT'LL BE YOU, PASTOR LUKE? ALRIGHT, I'M GOING TO READ 21:30 ROMANS 2:13, "(FOR NOT THE HEARERS OF THE LAW ARE JUST IN 21:35 THE SIGHT OF GOD, BUT THE DOERS OF THE LAW WILL BE 21:38 JUSTIFIED;...)" NOW THAT'S A VERY INTERESTING VERSE FOR PAUL, 21:41 BECAUSE PEOPLE USUALLY TRY TO GET PAUL TO SAY THE OPPOSITE. 21:45 THEY LIKE TO SAY THAT YOU ARE JUSTIFIED ONLY BY FAITH AND HERE 21:48 YOU'VE GOT PAUL SAYING, 'NOT THE HEARERS OF THE LAW BUT THE DOERS 21:51 OF THE LAW WILL BE JUSTIFIED' BECAUSE THE - ARE WE JUDGED BY 21:55 OUR FAITH OR OUR WORKS? >>FAITH. 22:01 >>EVERY MAN WAS JUDGED ACCORDING TO HIS...WORKS. 22:05 JESUS SAID, 'YOU WILL KNOW THEM BY THEIR' - 22:07 >>FRUITS. >>'FRUITS' - THEY'RE WORKS - 22:10 BECAUSE YOU CAN LOOK AT A PERSON'S WORKS AND TELL IF THEY 22:13 HAVE FAITH. ISN'T THAT WHAT JAMES SAID? HE SAID, 'YOU CAN 22:17 SHOW ME YOUR FAITH BY YOUR WORDS, BUT I'LL SHOW YOU MY 22:21 FAITH BY MY WORKS. AND SO, TRUE FAITH WILL BE SEEN IN A 22:26 DIFFERENT LIFE. ISN'T THAT RIGHT? COME ON, FRIENDS, WE HEAR 22:31 SO MANY PEOPLE SAY 'IT'S JUST FAITH. IT'S JUST FAITH. 22:33 IT'S JUST FAITH.' - THEY FORGET THAT THE BIBLE TEACHES REAL 22:36 FAITH IS GOING TO BE EVIDENT IN A CHANGED BEHAVIOR. 22:39 >>AMEN. >>WHY DOES PAUL SAY, 'LET EVERY 22:41 MAN EXAMINE HIMSELF WHETHER HE BE IN THE FAITH'? 22:44 HOW DO YOU EXAMINE YOURSELF? LOOK AT WHAT YOU'RE DOING AND 22:48 THAT'LL TELL YOU IF YOU'RE IN THE FAITH. 22:51 DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? >>IT DOES. 22:53 >>WHAT I'M SAYING IS ACTUALLY NOT POPULAR, BUT IT'S - THIS IS 22:55 OLD-FASHIONED BIBLICAL THEOLOGY. THIS IS REFORMATION THEOLOGY, 23:00 THAT IF YOU REALLY ARE SAVED BY FAITH, IT WILL BE SEEN. 23:03 MARTIN LUTHER SAID THAT TOO. ALRIGHT, ROMANS 3:31, "DO WE 23:09 THEN MAKE VOID THE LAW THROUGH FAITH? CERTAINLY NOT! 23:13 ON THE CONTRARY, WE ESTABLISH THE LAW." 23:17 ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD. READ, FOR US, PLEASE GALATIANS 3:21. 23:22 >>GALATIANS 3:21, "IS THE LAW THEN AGAINST THE PROMISES OF 23:26 GOD? CERTAINLY NOT!" 23:29 >>THAT'S THE SAME TERM THAT HE USED EARLIER WHERE HE SAYS, 23:33 'GOD FORBID! CERTAINLY NOT!' 23:35 SO EVEN IN GALATIANS HE SAYS THAT SAME THING THAT YOU HEAR 23:37 HIM SAYING IN ROMANS. HE'S SAYING, 'DON'T THINK FOR A 23:40 MOMENT THAT, BECAUSE OF FAITH, THAT SOMEHOW THE LAW IS 23:44 DELETED.' NOW, BY THE LAW IS THE KNOWLEDGE OF SIN. 23:51 SO NOW THAT JESUS HAS DIED FOR OUR SINS, DO WE STILL NEED THE 23:55 LAW? >>YES. 23:57 >>DO PEOPLE STILL NEED TO BE AWARE OF THE MIRROR THAT SHOWS 24:01 THEM SIN - THAT SENDS THEM TO JESUS? 24:03 YEAH, BUT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TWO LAWS: ONE IS A CEREMONIAL 24:07 LAW AND ONE IS THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. 24:11 ROMANS 7:7, "WHAT SHALL WE SAY THEN? 24:14 IS THE LAW SIN? CERTAINLY NOT!" 24:17 - THERE YOU'VE GOT THAT PHRASE AGAIN. 24:18 IT'S THE THIRD 'CERTAINLY NOT' WE'VE READ. - "ON THE CONTRARY, 24:22 I WOULD NOT HAVE KNOWN SIN EXCEPT THROUGH THE LAW. 24:25 FOR I WOULD NOT HAVE KNOWN COVETOUSNESS UNLESS THE LAW HAD 24:27 SAID, 'YOU SHALL NOT COVET.'" YOU KNOW WHY PAUL PICKED THAT 24:30 ONE COMMANDMENT? WHICH COMMANDMENT IS THAT? 24:33 THOU SHALL NOT COVET - OF COURSE, THAT'S NOT THE WHOLE 24:35 THING - 'THOU SHALL NOT COVET THY NEIGHBOR'S HOUSE, HIS WIFE, 24:38 DONKEY,' SO FORTH. WHY DOES HE PICK 24:41 THAT COMMANDMENT? SOME PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE THAT 24:45 SIN IS NOT JUST AN ACTION, IT'S AN ATTITUDE. 24:48 COVETOUSNESS IS NOT DOING ANYTHING WRONG, IT IS THINKING 24:53 WRONG AND IT SHOWS THAT IT IS WRONG THINKING THAT LEADS TO 24:56 WRONG DOING. AND WHEN PAUL LOOKED AT THAT 25:01 LAW, HE SAID, 'I'VE GOT THE WRONG ATTITUDE IN MY HEART.' SO, 25:05 BY THE LAW IS THE KNOWLEDGE OF SIN. 25:07 SO WE STILL NEED THE LAW. ROMANS 7:12, "THEREFORE THE LAW 25:12 IS HOLY, AND THE COMMANDMENT HOLY AND JUST AND GOOD." 25:16 LET ME READ YOU A QUOTE - THIS IS IN YOUR LESSON - SELECTED 25:19 MESSAGES PAGE 334, "THIS FAITH WORKS BY LOVE AND PURIFIES THE 25:25 SOUL. IT WORKS IN THE LIFE OF THE 25:27 FOLLOWER OF CHRIST TRUE OBEDIENCE TO GOD'S 25:30 COMMANDMENTS." - A FAITH THAT WILL WORK TRUE 25:33 OBEDIENCE TO GOD'S COMMANDMENTS - "FOR LOVE TO GOD AND LOVE TO 25:37 MAN WILL BE THE RESULT OF A VITAL CONNECTION WITH CHRIST. 25:41 IF WE HAVE A REAL FAITH, VITAL CONNECTION WITH CHRIST IT WILL 25:45 PLAY ITSELF OUT IN LOVE FOR GOD AND LOVE FOR OUR FELLOW MAN, 25:48 WHICH FULFILS THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. 25:51 ROMANS 8:3 AND 4, "FOR WHAT THE LAW COULD NOT DO IN THAT IT WAS 25:55 WEAK THROUGH THE FLESH, GOD DID BY SENDING HIS OWN SON IN THE 25:59 LIKENESS OF SINFUL FLESH, ON ACCOUNT OF SIN: HE CONDEMNED SIN 26:04 IN THE FLESH, THAT THE RIGHTEOUS REQUIREMENT OF THE LAW MIGHT BE 26:08 FULFILLED IN US WHO DO NOT WALK ACCORDING TO THE FLESH BUT 26:13 ACCORDING TO THE SPIRIT." NOTICE THAT: "THE RIGHTEOUS 26:15 REQUIREMENT OF THE LAW MIGHT BE FULFILLED IN US." 26:19 WELL, I THOUGHT THAT JESUS FULFILLED THE LAW SO THAT WE 26:22 DON'T HAVE TO. HAVE YOU HEARD THAT BEFORE? 26:25 MATTHEW 5:17, JESUS SAID, "DO NOT THINK THAT I CAME TO DESTROY 26:30 THE LAW OR THE PROPHETS. I DID NOT COME TO 26:32 DESTROY BUT TO FULFILL." AND THEN PAUL SAYS THE RIGHTEOUS 26:35 REQUIREMENT OF THE LAW SHOULD BE FULFILLED IN US BECAUSE WE NO 26:38 LONGER WALK AFTER THE FLESH, BUT NOW AFTER THE SPIRIT, BY FAITH. 26:45 WE RECEIVE THE GIFT OF THE SPIRIT. 26:47 AGAIN, JESUS SAID, "FOR ASSUREDLY" - I'M STILL BACK IN 26:49 MATTHEW 5, VERSE 18, "FOR ASSUREDLY, I SAY TO YOU, TILL 26:54 HEAVEN AND EARTH PASS AWAY, ONE JOT OR ONE TITTLE WILL BY NO 26:58 MEANS PASS FROM THE LAW TILL ALL IS FULFILLED." 27:02 - THAT MEANS FILLED FULL - "WHOEVER THEREFORE BREAKS ONE OF 27:05 THE LEAST OF THESE COMMANDMENTS, AND TEACHES MEN SO, SHALL BE 27:09 CALLED THE LEAST IN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN; BUT WHOEVER DOES AND 27:13 TEACHES THEM, HE SHALL BE CALLED GREAT IN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN." 27:16 ALL OF GOD'S LAW IS STILL ESTABLISHED, AND JESUS SAID EVEN 27:19 WHAT YOU MIGHT THINK ARE THE LEAST, THOSE WHO DO AND TEACH 27:22 THEM, GOD CALLS GREAT IN THE KINGDOM. 27:27 HERE'S A QUOTE FROM ADAM CLARKE. THIS IS A GREAT COMMENTATOR I 27:30 REALLY RESPECT - HE'S ONE OF THE BIBLE SCHOLARS - A METHODIST 27:35 FROM THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT. HE COULD READ SEVEN LANGUAGES. 27:39 JUST A GREAT - I READ HIS COMMENTARY - I'M ALWAYS 27:41 IMPRESSED BY HIS INSIGHTS. ADAM CLARKE SAID, "THOUGH CHRIST 27:47 IS SAID TO HAVE FULFILLED THE LAW FOR US, YET IT IS NOWHERE 27:51 INTIMATED IN THE SCRIPTURE THAT HE HAS SO FULFILLED THESE TEN 27:54 LAWS" - WHAT DO YOU THINK HE'S TALKING ABOUT? TEN COMMANDMENTS 27:57 - "AS TO EXEMPT US FROM THE NECESSITY AND THE PRIVILEGE OF 28:01 BEING NO IDOLATERS, SWEARERS, SABBATH BREAKERS, DISOBEDIENT, 28:07 CRUEL CHILDREN, MURDERERS, ADULTERERS, THIEVES, AND CORRUPT 28:10 WITNESSES." - HE SAID BECAUSE CHRIST 28:11 FULFILLED THE LAW, IT DOES NOT FREE US FROM OBEDIENCE - "ALL 28:16 THESE COMMANDMENTS, IT IS TRUE, HE PUNCTUALLY FULFILLED HIMSELF, 28:21 AND ALL THESE HE WRITES ON THE HEART OF EVERY SOUL 28:25 REDEEMED BY HIS BLOOD." THAT'S VERY WELL PUT. 28:29 THE LAW WAS THE NEW COVENANT. 'I WILL WRITE MY LAW 28:32 ON THEIR HEARTS.' AMEN? >>AMEN. 28:35 >>SOMEONE ONCE SAID, 'JESUS DID NOT COME TO FREE US TO SIN, BUT 28:39 FROM SIN.' TALKING ABOUT THE PROMISES OF GOD, I READ ONE TIME 28:44 ABRAHAM LINCOLN WAS RIDING IN A BUGGY WITH ONE OF HIS COLONELS, 28:48 DURING THE CIVIL WAR, AND THE COLONEL OFFERED HIM A CIGAR AND 28:54 HE DECLINED. AND THEN THEY RODE A LITTLE 28:56 FURTHER AND THE COLONEL OFFERED HIM A DRINK FROM HIS BOTTLE OF 29:00 WHISKEY, AND LINCOLN DECLINED. AND HE SAID, 'YOU'RE SHOWING' - 29:06 YOU KNOW, THE COLONEL SAID, 'YOU SHOW GREAT RESTRAINT.' HE SAID, 29:08 'NO, IT'S SOMETHING I SETTLED A LONG TIME AGO. 29:12 AND LINCOLN SAID, 'WHEN MY MOTHER WAS DYING' - YOU KNOW HIS 29:14 MOTHER DIED WHEN HE WAS VERY YOUNG, AND SHE WAS A VERY 29:17 RELIGIOUS WOMAN - 'SHE SAID, 'PROMISE ME - PROMISE ME YOU 29:22 WILL NEVER DRINK OR USE TOBACCO.' AND HE TOLD THE 29:25 COLONEL - HE SAID, 'THAT IS A PROMISE I MADE TO MY MOTHER I 29:29 HAVE NEVER BROKEN.' AND THE COLONEL, HE RESPONDED, 'YOU 29:33 KNOW, I WISH I HAD MADE A PROMISE LIKE THAT' - (LAUGHTER) 29:36 - 'IT WOULD HAVE SAVED ME A LOT OF TROUBLE.' BUT HE TOOK THAT 29:39 PROMISE SERIOUSLY AND WHEN WE ACCEPT THE PROMISES OF GOD, HE 29:44 PROMISES TO GIVE US HIS SPIRIT AND LIVE DIFFERENTLY TOO. 29:48 ALRIGHT, SO WE LEARNED A LITTLE BIT ABOUT FAITH AND THE LAW. 29:54 NOW I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE LAW OF LIBERTY. 29:58 YOU FIND A PHRASE IN JAMES 1:25 - AND IN A MOMENT SOMEONE'S 30:02 GOING TO BE READING PSALM 1:19, OKAY? 30:06 IN JAMES 1:25 IT SAYS, "BUT HE WHO LOOKS INTO THE PERFECT LAW 30:10 OF LIBERTY AND CONTINUES IN IT, AND IS NOT A FORGETFUL HEARER 30:14 BUT A DOER OF THE WORK, THIS ONE WILL BE BLESSED IN WHAT HE 30:18 DOES." WHAT LAW IS JAMES TALKING ABOUT 30:21 WHEN HE TALKS ABOUT THE LAW OF LIBERTY? 30:24 I MEAN, YOU THINK THE TEN COMMANDMENTS - THAT'S A LAW OF 30:26 BONDAGE, RIGHT? NO? KEEP READING. 30:30 LOOK AT JAMES CHAPTER 2, VERSE 11 - LET THE BIBLE INTERPRET 30:34 ITSELF - "FOR HE WHO SAID, 'DO NOT COMMIT ADULTERY,' ALSO 30:38 SAID, 'DO NOT MURDER.'" - NOW, HE'S JUST NAMED TWO LAWS FROM 30:41 WHAT COLLECTION OF LAWS? >>TEN COMMANDMENTS. 30:44 >>TEN COMMANDMENTS. "FOR HE WHO SAID, 'DO NOT COMMIT 30:46 ADULTERY,' ALSO SAID, 'DO NOT MURDER.' NOW IF YOU DO NOT 30:49 COMMIT ADULTERY, BUT YOU DO MURDER, YOU HAVE BECOME A 30:52 TRANSGRESSOR OF THE LAW. SO SPEAK AND SO DO AS THOSE WHO 30:55 WILL BE JUDGED BY THE LAW OF LIBERTY." 30:58 SO WE'RE NOT JUDGED BY FAITH, WE'RE JUDGED BY THE LAW. 31:01 THE LAW SHOWS IF WE HAVE FAITH. 31:03 BUT HE CALLS THE LAW A LAW OF LIBERTY. 31:06 WHY DOES HE CALL IT A LAW OF LIBERTY? 31:08 GO AHEAD, READ FOR US, PSALM 119:44. 31:12 >>"SO SHALL I KEEP YOUR LAW CONTINUALLY, FOREVER AND EVER. 31:17 AND I WILL WALK AT LIBERTY, FOR I SEEK YOUR PRECEPTS." 31:22 >>WE ARE FREE BECAUSE WE OBEY GOD'S PRECEPTS. 31:27 THERE'S LAWS RIGHT NOW, IN TOWN, THAT SAY BURGLARY IS AGAINST THE 31:32 LAW. YOU LIVE IN A COMMUNITY, IF YOU DIDN'T KNOW THIS, BURGLARY 31:36 IS AGAINST THE LAW. BURGLARS ARE PUT IN JAIL. 31:41 THEY HAVE LOST THEIR LIBERTY BECAUSE THEY BREAK THE LAW. 31:44 THAT LAW THAT BREAKS - BREAKING THAT LAW TAKES AWAY THEIR 31:50 LIBERTY, BUT THAT SAME LAW GIVES YOU LIBERTY. 31:54 I WOKE UP THIS MORNING TO OPEN THE DOORS TO LET SOME COOLER AIR 31:57 IN BEFORE THE HEAT WAVE. I FOUND OUT WE HAD LEFT THE 32:00 FRONT DOOR OPEN ALL NIGHT. I WASN'T TOO WORRIED. 32:03 I DON'T THINK, IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD, PEOPLE ARE GOING 32:05 UP AND DOWN THE STREET CHECKING YOUR DOORKNOBS ALL HOURS OF THE 32:07 NIGHT, BECAUSE THERE'S A LAW THAT PUTS MOST OF THOSE PEOPLE 32:11 IN JAIL - WE'RE HOPING - RIGHT? AREN'T YOU GLAD FOR THAT LAW? 32:15 >>OH YEAH. >>THAT LAW GIVES YOU LIBERTY 32:17 BUT IT LOCKS THEM UP. SO THE LAW BREAKER IS 32:23 ENSLAVED BECAUSE OF HIS SIN. 'THEY'RE HOLDEN BY THE CORDS OF 32:27 THE SIN.' THE LAW KEEPER - THE LAW IS A MEANS OF 32:30 LIBERTY FOR THEM. LET ME GIVE YOU ANOTHER EXAMPLE. 32:33 GO TO JOHN 8:34 - JESUS IS SPEAKING HERE - JESUS ANSWERED 32:39 AND SAID TO THEM, 'MOST ASSUREDLY I SAY TO YOU, 'WHOEVER 32:42 COMMITS SIN IS A SLAVE OF SIN. AND A SLAVE DOES NOT ABIDE IN 32:47 THE HOUSE FOREVER, BUT A SON ABIDES FOREVER. 32:50 THEREFORE IF THE SON MAKES YOU FREE, YOU SHALL BE FREE INDEED." 32:56 WHY DID JESUS COME? IT SAYS HE CAME TO SET THE CAPTIVES FREE. 33:00 IF YOU LOOK, FOR INSTANCE, IN LUKE 4:18, CHRIST STOOD UP AND 33:04 PREACHED HIS FIRST SERMON IN NAZARETH. 33:06 HERE'S WHAT HE SAID - HE QUOTES FROM ISAIAH 61 - AND HE QUOTES - 33:10 HE SAYS, "THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS UPON ME, BECAUSE HE HAS 33:13 ANOINTED ME" - THAT'S WHAT THE WORD 'CHRIST' MEANS - TO BE 33:16 ANOINTED - JESUS IS THE MESSIAH - THE ANOINTED - "...BECAUSE HE 33:19 HAS ANOINTED ME TO PREACH THE GOSPEL TO THE POOR; HE HAS SENT 33:23 ME TO HEAL THE BROKENHEARTED, TO PROCLAIM LIBERTY TO THE 33:27 CAPTIVES" - CAPTIVES OF WHAT? >>SIN 33:29 >>SIN - "AND RECOVERY OF SIGHT TO THE BLIND, TO SET AT 33:34 LIBERTY THOSE WHO ARE OPPRESSED;" - OPPRESSED BY WHO? 33:38 BY THE DEVIL. AND SO JESUS CAME TO SET US FREE. AND THERE'S A 33:42 FREEDOM THAT COMES THROUGH OBEDIENCE. WHEN JESUS RAISED 33:47 LAZARUS FROM THE DEAD, HE NOT ONLY COMMANDED THAT HE COME 33:51 FORTH, HE COMMANDED THAT HE BE LOOSED. DO YOU REMEMBER THAT? 33:56 HE SAID, 'COME FORTH AND COME HITHER' AND HE CAME OUT OF THE 33:59 GRAVE BUT HE WAS ALL BOUND AND HE SAID TO THOSE STANDING 34:03 AROUND, 'LOOSE HIM.' SO JESUS SAVES US - HE RESURRECTS US AND 34:08 HE FREES US. HE DOESN'T WANT US TO BE BOUND 34:11 BY THE CORDS OF OUR SIN. >>AMEN. 34:14 >>THIS WAS ALSO A BEAUTIFUL QUOTE THAT'S IN YOUR LESSON, 34:17 FROM SIGNS OF THE TIMES, JULY 23, - IF YOU TAKE NOTES - 1902 , 34:22 "AS A RESULT OF ADAM'S DISOBEDIENCE, EVERY HUMAN BEING 34:26 IS A TRANSGRESSOR OF THE LAW SOLD UNDER SIN. UNLESS HE 34:29 REPENTS AND IS CONVERTED, HE IS UNDER THE BONDAGE TO THE LAW, 34:34 SERVING SATAN, FALLING INTO DECEPTIONS OF THE ENEMY AND 34:38 BEARING WITNESS AGAINST THE PRECEPTS OF JEHOVAH, BUT BY 34:41 PERFECT OBEDIENCE TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE LAW, MAN IS 34:44 JUSTIFIED. ONLY THROUGH FAITH IN CHRIST IS SUCH OBEDIENCE 34:48 POSSIBLE." IT'S - BEING AN OBEDIENT CHRISTIAN IS A MIRACLE. 34:53 IT IS IMPOSSIBLE, AS I'VE OFTEN SAID, 'IT'S JUST AS IMPOSSIBLE 34:57 AS IT IS FOR PETER TO WALK ON WATER - OR FOR YOU TO WALK ON 35:00 WATER - BUT THROUGH FAITH AND KEEPING YOUR EYES ON CHRIST, 35:05 WITH GOD ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE.' 35:07 >>AMEN. >>AND, YOU KNOW, WHENEVER 35:09 SOMEONE TALKS ABOUT BEING OBEDIENT, 35:16 NOBODY HERE, I'M ASSUMING, WOULD CLAIM PERFECT 35:18 OBEDIENCE, INCLUDING THE SPEAKER TODAY. 35:22 AND SOMEONE WILL, THEN, POINT TO THAT AND THEY'LL SAY, 'WELL 35:24 THAT'S PROOF THAT IT'S NOT POSSIBLE. 35:27 BUT I THINK ALL OF US SHOULD BE STRIVING FOR WHAT GOD SAYS IS 35:32 IMPOSSIBLE. THAT'S WHAT A MIRACLE IS. 35:36 DO NOT BE SATISFIED SAYING YOU HAVE EXCUSES FOR SIN. 35:40 NOBODY NEEDS ANY HELP WITH THAT. WE ALL KNOW HOW TO DO THAT. 35:43 LOOK AT CHRIST, WHO IS PERFECT, AND HE IS OUR STANDARD. 35:46 IS THAT RIGHT? >>YES. 35:48 >>AND SO, ALWAYS STRIVE TO BE LIKE CHRIST, WHO WAS PERFECT. 35:52 DO WE AGREE? >>YES. 35:54 >>WHO DID KNOW SIN. AND SO THAT'S - THAT'S 35:56 WHAT OUR STANDARD IS. IT'S A PERFECT SAVIOR. 35:58 ALRIGHT, LET ME SEE, WHAT DID I LEAVE OUT? 36:01 ALRIGHT, LET'S JUMP ON, NOW, TO THE PURPOSE OF THE LAW. 36:05 GALATIANS 3:19 AND VERSE 20, "WHAT PURPOSE THEN DOES THE LAW 36:11 SERVE?" - NOW I'M GOING TO READ THIS VERSE TWICE BECAUSE THERE'S 36:14 A COUPLE DIFFERENT THINGS I'M GOING TO PULL OUT OF IT - "WHAT 36:16 PURPOSE THEN DOES THE LAW SERVE? IT WAS ADDED BECAUSE OF 36:18 TRANSGRESSIONS, TILL THE SEED SHOULD COME" - YOU KNOW, WHAT 36:24 ARE LEGISLATORS IN OUR COUNTRY? THEY MAKE LAWS. 36:29 AT WHAT POINT DO WE HAVE ENOUGH LAWS? DO WE EVER GET TO THE 36:34 POINT WHERE WE DON'T NEED LEGISLATORS ANYMORE? 36:37 HOW MANY LAWS WILL IT TAKE BEFORE WE THINK WE HAVE ENOUGH? 36:40 DO YOU KNOW WHY THEY KEEP MAKING MORE AND MORE LAWS? 36:44 DO YOU KNOW THERE'S A LAW - I FORGET WHAT STATE IT IS - IT 36:46 MIGHT BE MINNESOTA - THAT YOU CANNOT PUT A SKUNK IN YOUR 36:50 BOSS' DESK DRAWER. (LAUGHTER) HOW DO YOU 36:53 THINK THAT LAW DEVELOPED? >>SOMEBODY DID IT. 36:59 >>I'VE HEARD SOME VERY INTERESTING LAWS AND CITY 37:02 ORDINANCES AROUND THE COUNTRY AND YOU THINK, 'WHERE IN THE 37:04 WORLD DID THAT LAW COME FROM?' SOMEBODY DID SOMETHING - THERE 37:09 ARE SOME TOWNS WHERE YOU CAN'T USE FIREWORKS. WHY? 37:14 PEOPLE WERE RECKLESS AND IT STARTED A FIRE. 37:18 THERE ARE SOME PLACES YOU CAN'T USE A TRAMPOLINE. WHY? 37:22 SOMEONE BOUNCED OFF A TRAMPOLINE AND GOT HURT. AND THE MORE LAWS 37:26 THEY MAKE IT'S BECAUSE - WHENEVER THERE'S A LAW IT'S 37:27 BECAUSE SOMEBODY BROKE A LAW - OR THERE WAS SOME - SOMEBODY 37:30 SUED SOMEBODY ELSE AND THEY - THEY WANTED IT TO BE PROTECTED. 37:34 WHY DO WE ALL HAVE TO GO THROUGH METAL DETECTORS ON AIRPLANES? 37:38 WE DIDN'T DO THAT - WHEN I STARTED FLYING - WE FLEW FOR 37:40 TWENTY YEARS, I NEVER HAD - WELL, LONGER THAN THAT - THIRTY 37:43 YEARS I FLEW - NEVER HAD TO GET SEARCHED BEFORE I WENT ON AN 37:46 AIRPLANE. 9/11, RIGHT? 37:51 AND, YOU KNOW, EVENTUALLY - SOMEONE ONCE SAID, 'THE MORE 37:56 LAWS THAT' - NO, I TAKE THAT BACK - I'LL SAY IT DIFFERENTLY - 38:02 'THE MORE LAWLESS A PEOPLE BECOME, THE MORE LAWS THEY 38:04 REQUIRE. >>THAT'S RIGHT. 38:06 >>AND THE REASON THAT YOU'RE SEEING MORE AND MORE LAWS ALWAYS 38:09 BEING ENACTED IS BECAUSE OF LAWLESSNESS. 38:12 >>AMEN. >>THERE WAS A TIME WHEN THE TEN 38:14 COMMANDMENTS WERE NOT WRITTEN ON STONE BECAUSE THEY 38:17 WERE WRITTEN IN HEARTS. >>THAT'S RIGHT. 38:19 >>THEY WERE PASSED ON FROM FATHERS TO CHILDREN AND MOTHERS 38:22 TO CHILDREN ORALLY, BUT WHEN PEOPLE BEGAN TO BREAK THEM, GOD 38:27 CODIFIED IT - AND IT'S USUALLY A SIGN OF LAWLESSNESS. 38:30 SO, TO WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE LAW SERVE? 38:33 IT WAS ADDED BECAUSE OF TRANSGRESSIONS. 38:35 ISN'T THAT WHAT WE JUST LEARNED? >>YES. 38:37 >>THAT'S WHY YOU'VE GOT A LAW - NO SKUNKS IN YOUR BOSS' DRAWER 38:41 - "TILL THE SEED SHOULD COME TO WHOM THE PROMISE WAS MADE; AND 38:45 IT WAS APPOINTED THROUGH ANGELS BY THE HAND OF A MEDIATOR. 38:50 NOW A MEDIATOR DOES NOT MEDIATE FOR ONE ONLY, BUT GOD IS ONE." 38:55 ALRIGHT, THE FIRST PART OF THIS, I WANT TO EMPHASIZE, IS WHERE DO 39:00 YOU SEE ANGELS AT MOUNT SINAI TEN COMMANDMENT EXPERIENCE? 39:05 ARE YOU AWARE ABOUT THAT? ISN'T THAT WHAT PAUL JUST SAID? 39:07 IT SAYS IT WAS APPOINTED THROUGH ANGELS BY THE HAND OF A 39:10 MEDIATOR. SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ FOR ME, IN A MINUTE, 39:14 ACTS 7:53 - YOU'LL HAVE THAT? I'LL TELL YOU WHEN. 39:17 I'M GOING TO READ PSALM 68:17, "THE CHARIOTS OF GOD ARE TWENTY 39:22 THOUSAND, EVEN THOUSANDS OF ANGELS; THE LORD IS AMONG THEM 39:27 AS IN SINAI, THE HOLY PLACE." THERE YOU'VE GOT 39:30 ANGELS - MOUNT SINAI. DEUTERONOMY 33, VERSE 2, "AND HE 39:35 SAID: 'THE LORD CAME FROM SINAI, AND DAWNED ON THEM FROM SEIR; HE 39:40 SHONE FORTH FROM MOUNT PARAN, AND HE CAME WITH TEN THOUSANDS 39:43 OF SAINTS; FROM HIS RIGHT HAND CAME A FIERY LAW FOR THEM.'" SO 39:48 WHEN THE LORD DESCENDED ON MOUNT SINAI AND HIS GLORY WAS 39:52 SURROUNDED BY DARK CLOUDS, WAS HE ALONE? 39:56 DOES GOD EVER TRAVEL WITHOUT HIS ENTOURAGE? 40:00 >>NO. >>GOD, IN HIS GLORY - IS 40:02 JESUS COMING WITH HIS ANGELS? >>OH YEAH. 40:04 >>DO YOU THINK, WHEN HE DESCENDED ON MOUNT SINAI AND 40:07 DELIVERED THE LAW, HE HAD ANGELS WITH HIM? 40:09 >>YEAH. >>THE BIBLE SAYS HE DID. 40:11 IF YOU READ - THIS IS THE SERMON OF STEPHEN, BEFORE HE DIED - 40:14 ACTS 7:38, "THIS IS HE WHO WAS IN THE CONGREGATION IN THE 40:19 WILDERNESS WITH THE ANGEL WHO SPOKE TO HIM ON MOUNT SINAI, AND 40:23 WITH OUR FATHERS, THE ONE WHO RECEIVED THE LIVING ORACLES TO 40:26 GIVE TO US," - AND THEN YOU GO AHEAD, PLEASE, AND READ ACTS 40:30 7:53. >>"WHO HAVE RECEIVED THE LAW BY 40:33 THE DIRECTION OF ANGELS AND HAVE NOT KEPT IT." 40:37 >>SO EVEN ANGELS WERE INVOLVED IN THE GIVING OF THE LAW OF GOD. 40:42 BUT GOING BACK, AGAIN, AND READING WHAT THE LORD SAYS HERE 40:45 IN GALATIANS 3:19, 20, "WHAT PURPOSE THEN DOES THE LAW SERVE? 40:50 IT WAS ADDED BECAUSE OF TRANSGRESSIONS," - SO WHAT'S THE 40:52 PURPOSE? THE LAW IS THERE TO SERVE AS THE 40:55 MIRROR TO SHOW US - "TILL THE SEED SHOULD COME TO WHOM 40:58 THE PROMISE WAS MADE." SO WHAT LAW IS HE TALKING ABOUT? 41:01 DO WE STILL NEED THE TEN COMMANDMENTS? 41:03 >>YES. >>IT SAYS, 'TILL THE SEED 41:04 SHOULD COME' - WHAT IS THE SEED? >>JESUS. 41:07 >>THE MESSIAH. WHAT LAW ENDED WHEN THE 41:09 MESSIAH DIED ON THE CROSS? >>CEREMONIAL. 41:13 >>WERE THERE LAWS REGARDING SACRIFICES? 41:16 SO WE DON'T NEED TO WORRY ABOUT THE SACRIFICES. 41:20 DID CIRCUMCISION END WITH THAT? BECAUSE THE NEW COVENANT IS ALL 41:26 ABOUT BEING WRITTEN ON THE HEART - IT TALKS ABOUT 'CIRCUMCISE 41:29 YOUR HEART' - AND THAT'S THE NEW COVENANT MEANING HAVING A TENDER 41:32 HEART MOTIVATED BY LOVE - AND SO, DO WE STILL NEED THE TEN 41:36 COMMANDMENTS AS A MIRROR? >>YES. 41:39 >>OKAY. SO THERE'S A DISTINCTION THAT'S MADE THERE. 41:41 AND, BY THE WAY, IF YOU LOOK IN - WOAH, I'M GETTING AHEAD OF 41:48 MYSELF. I WON'T READ THAT YET. 41:49 LET ME READ GALATIANS 3 - STILL TALKING ABOUT THE PURPOSE OF THE 41:51 LAW - GALATIANS 3:24, "THEREFORE THE LAW WAS OUR TUTOR TO BRING 41:57 US TO CHRIST, THAT WE MIGHT BE JUSTIFIED BY FAITH. 42:02 BUT AFTER FAITH HAS COME, WE ARE NO LONGER UNDER A TUTOR." 42:06 PAUL IS USING A WORD THERE BECAUSE HE TALKS ABOUT US BEING 42:09 HEIRS OF A PROMISE. AN HEIR IS SOMEONE WHO'S 42:13 GOING TO INHERIT THE PROMISE. YOU USUALLY INHERIT THAT FROM 42:16 YOUR PARENTS, BUT A TUTOR, THIS IS BASICALLY SAYING - YOU KNOW, 42:24 IT MIGHT BE USING THE WORD, LIKE A NANNY - AN OVERSEER - SOMEONE 42:27 WHO HELPS RAISE THE CHILDREN OR WATCH THE CHILDREN WHILE YOU 42:30 ARE AT WORK AND THEY MIGHT BE TEACHING THE CHILDREN. 42:33 IT'S SOMEONE WHO IS INSTRUCTING THEM. 42:35 BUT WHEN SOMEONE IS MATURE, THEY DON'T NEED THAT PERSON ANYMORE. 42:38 IT'S GOT A LIMITED FUNCTION - AND THAT'S THE WAY IT WAS WITH 42:42 THESE CEREMONIAL LAWS. IT WAS A LIMITED FUNCTION, THEY 42:45 SHOWED US CHRIST - THEY HELPED US RECOGNIZE CHRIST - BUT WHEN 42:48 THE SEED IS COME WE NO LONGER NEED THE TUTOR - WE NO 42:51 LONGER NEED THESE THINGS. DURATION OF THE LAW - GALATIANS 42:56 3:19, "WHAT PURPOSE THEN DOES THE LAW SERVE? 43:01 IT WAS ADDED BECAUSE OF TRANSGRESSIONS, TILL THE SEED 43:04 SHOULD COME TO WHOM THE PROMISE WAS MADE;" - WHAT'S THE FIRST 43:09 PROPHECY IN THE BIBLE? GENESIS - >>3:15. 43:14 >>3:15 AND IT SAYS - >>"I WILL PUT ENMITY" - 43:18 >>GOD SAYS, "I WILL PUT ENMITY BETWEEN THE AND 43:21 THE WOMAN; BETWEEN THY SEED AND HER SEED." 43:24 SO RIGHT THERE IN THE BEGINNING IS A PROMISE ABOUT THE SEED OF 43:28 THE WOMAN. AND THAT WOMAN, IS IT EVE? OR IS IT TALKING ABOUT THE 43:30 CHURCH? >>THE CHURCH. 43:31 >>WHAT'S HAPPENING IN REVELATION CHAPTER 12? 43:34 A WOMAN IS TRAVAILING TO BRING FORTH AND SHE BRINGS FORTH THE 43:38 PROMISED SEED - A MAN CHILD WHO IS TO RULE ALL NATIONS WITH A 43:42 ROD OF IRON AND THE DRAGON WANTS TO DESTROY THAT CHILD, RIGHT? 43:47 THAT CHILD IS WHO? >>IT'S CHRIST. 43:49 >>YOU'VE HEARD ME SAY THIS, PROBABLY AD NAUSEAM, BUT THERE 43:52 ARE SEVEN MIRACLE BIRTHS IN THE BIBLE. 43:56 THEY ARE ALL BABY BOYS. THEY ARE ALL TYPES OF CHRIST - 44:01 SAMSON, ISAAC, JOSEPH, JACOB AND ESAU - JACOB, IN PARTICULAR - 44:11 SAMUEL, JOHN THE BAPTIST, THE SHUNAMITE WOMAN'S SON, AND - 44:18 YEAH, THAT'S ALL OF THEM - THAT'S SEVEN. THEY WERE ALL 44:21 TYPES OF CHRIST. I WON'T TAKE THE TIE TO GO THROUGH AND SHOW 44:24 YOU, BUT I THINK YOU UNDERSTAND THAT. THAT WAS - THERE ARE TYPES 44:27 OF CHRIST WHO WAS THE SEED OF THE WOMAN. 44:30 AND SO, THIS IS WHO THE PROMISE WAS MADE TO. 44:33 AND SO, IF YOU READ IN ROMANS 10:4, "FOR CHRIST IS THE END OF 44:38 THE LAW FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS TO EVERYONE WHO BELIEVES." 44:43 WELL, THAT'S A STATEMENT THAT COULD BE MISUNDERSTOOD. 44:45 CHRIST IS THE END OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. 44:49 DOES GOD MAKE A DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE TEN COMMANDMENTS AND 44:51 THE OTHER LAWS? >>YES. 44:53 >>CHRIST IS AN END TO THE LAWS ABOUT SANITATION. 44:57 YOU NO LONGER HAVE TO BE SANITARY. 44:59 HOW MANY OF YOU WOULD WANT TO BE IN A CHURCH THAT BELIEVED THAT? 45:03 THERE WERE SANITATION LAWS. DO THOSE LAWS STILL MAKE SENSE? 45:09 CHRIST WAS THE END OF CIVIL LAW. THE BIBLE HAS SOME CIVIL LAW 45:14 - LAWS ABOUT BEING A GOOD NEIGHBOR, LAWS ABOUT STEALING, 45:17 LAWS ABOUT MURDER, SO ONCE YOU - ONCE CHRIST CAME THERE WAS NO 45:21 LONGER CIVIL LAW - IS THAT WHAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT? 45:23 >>NO. >>DO WE STILL NEED CIVIL LAW? 45:26 CHRIST WAS THE END OF THE LAW - WHAT LAW IS THE ONLY LAW LEFT 45:30 THAT HE WAS TALKING ABOUT? THE SACRIFICIAL SYSTEM, 45:35 CIRCUMCISION, THE CEREMONIAL LAWS AND FEAST DAYS THAT 45:38 ALL POINTED TO JESUS. HE'S THE END FOR ALL OF THAT 45:42 BECAUSE HE IS THE SEED THAT CAME. 45:44 HEBREWS 10:4 - LOOK AT THIS - IT SAYS, "FOR IT IS NOT POSSIBLE 45:51 THAT THE BLOOD OF BULLS AND GOATS COULD TAKE AWAY SINS." 45:55 YOU KNOW, THAT VERSE 'WHAT CAN WASH AWAY MY SIN?' 45:58 NOTHING BUT THE BLOOD OF JESUS, AMEN? 46:02 "THEREFORE, WHEN HE CAME INTO THE WORLD, HE SAID: 'SACRIFICE 46:06 AND OFFERING YOU DID NOT DESIRE, BUT A BODY YOU HAVE PREPARED FOR 46:10 ME. IN BURNT OFFERINGS AND 46:12 SACRIFICES FOR SIN YOU HAD NO PLEASURE. 46:15 THEN I SAID, 'BEHOLD, I HAVE COME-IN THE VOLUME OF THE BOOK 46:19 IT IS WRITTEN OF ME-TO DO YOUR WILL, O GOD.'" SO TWICE THERE HE 46:23 SAYS, 'SACRIFICE AND OFFERINGS YOU DID NOT DESIRE', 'SACRIFICE 46:27 AND OFFERINGS YOU HAVE NO PLEASURE IN' - ALL OF THE 46:30 SACRIFICE AND OFFERINGS, FROM THE TIME OF THE INSTITUTION OF 46:33 THE SACRIFICIAL SYSTEM WAY BACK IN THE DAYS OF ADAM WHEN HE AND 46:36 EVE SINNED AND GOD CLOTHED THEM WITH ROBES OF SKIN, FROM THAT 46:40 DAY, UNTIL CHRIST SAID, 'IT IS FINISHED' AND THE VEIL AND THE 46:43 CURTAIN WAS TORN, WHEN THE SEED CAME THE PURPOSE FOR ALL THOSE 46:48 THINGS MET ITS FULFILLMENT. GOD DOES NOT DESIRE THAT. 46:51 WHAT DOES IS MEAN - IF WE WERE TO GO BACK IN TIME NOW - I WAS 46:55 TRYING TO TEACH SOMETHING ABOUT THE PASSOVER, IN A LITTLE CHURCH 46:58 WHERE I WAS PASTORING AND WE HAD A COMMUNION SERVICE. 47:03 AND SO, BEFORE THE COMMUNION SERVICE I WAS YOUNG AND A LITTLE 47:06 BIT DRAMATIC, AND SO I - JUST HAPPENED TO BE LAMBING SEASON - 47:13 SO I TALKED TO A FRIEND IN TOWN AND SAID, 'CAN I BORROW A LAMB?' 47:15 IT WAS A CUTE LITTLE LAMB, JUST ADORABLE. 47:19 A LITTLE WHITE LAMB. SO WE BROUGHT IT INTO THE CHURCH 47:21 AND I BROUGHT IT UP FRONT AND I WAS TALKING TO THEM ABOUT THE 47:23 PASSOVER AND I SAID, AND I GOT TO THE POINT IN MY DISCOURSE 47:26 WHERE I SAID, 'AND AT THIS POINT THEN YOU TIED THE LAMB' - AND I 47:30 TIED THE LITTLE LAMB'S FEET AND I PUT IT ON ITS BACK - AND THEY 47:32 BECOME VERY COMPLIANT WHEN YOU DO THAT. 47:35 FOR SOME REASON, SOMETHING ABOUT THEIR ANATOMY, YOU PUT A LAMB ON 47:36 THEIR BACK - YOU EVER HEARD THE EXPRESSION 'AS A SHEEP BEFORE 47:40 HER SHEARERS IS DUMB'? THEY'LL BLEAT AND CRY, BUT YOU 47:43 PUT THEM ON THEIR BACK, THEY CAN'T. 47:45 AND I FLIPPED IT UP WHERE ITS FEET WERE KIND OF IN THE AIR AND 47:49 IT JUST PUTS ITS NECK BACK AND IT GETS REAL QUIET, AND THEN I 47:52 PULLED OUT A KNIFE, AND I HELD UP THE KNIFE AND SOME OF OUR 47:57 MEMBERS WERE REALLY WORRIED AND THEY THOUGHT, 'HOW FAR IS HE 47:59 GOING TO TAKE THIS?' HOW'D YOU LIKE TO DO THAT EVERY 48:03 TIME YOU WANTED FORGIVENESS? IT'S KIND OF BARBARIC, HUH? 48:08 AND THAT WHOLE IDEA OF SACRIFICING EVEN A LAMB SHOULD 48:11 HAVE BROKEN THE HEARTS OF GOD'S PEOPLE, MUCH LESS THE LAMB OF 48:15 GOD, GOD'S SON. NO, I DIDN'T HURT THE LAMB, BUT 48:20 I DID TAKE THE KNIFE AND GO LIKE THIS - AND PRETEND 48:23 AND SCARED EVERYBODY. I WON'T DO THAT AGAIN. 48:26 (LAUGHTER) SO, HE DOESN'T WANT THE SACRIFICE AND OFFERINGS. 48:34 THE SUPERIORITY OF THE PROMISE IS OUR LAST SECTION. 48:37 HEBREWS 1, VERSES 1 AND 2, "GOD, WHO AT VARIOUS TIMES AND IN 48:42 VARIOUS WAYS SPOKE IN TIME PAST TO THE FATHERS BY THE PROPHETS," 48:46 - AND EVEN BY ANGELS - "HAS IN THESE LAST DAYS SPOKEN TO US BY 48:49 HIS SON, WHOM HE HAS APPOINTED HEIR OF ALL THINGS, THROUGH WHOM 48:54 ALSO HE MADE THE WORLDS;" - EVERYTHING WAS MADE BY JESUS, 48:58 AND SO, IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, YOU KNOW, HE'S GIVING THESE 49:01 THINGS THROUGH MEDIATORS. THAT'S WHAT PAUL IS 49:03 SAYING HERE IN GALATIANS. SO THESE THINGS WERE GIVEN BY 49:06 ANGELS AND MEDIATORS, BUT NOT NOW A MEDIATOR - 49:09 DIRECTLY GOD HIMSELF. SO IT'S A SUPERIOR SACRIFICE 49:13 THAT'S BEING MADE, GIVEN BY A SUPERIOR INDIVIDUAL. 49:20 ARE SOME PROMISES OF GOD CONDITIONAL? 49:22 >>YES. >>ANY EXAMPLES? 49:27 >>JERUSALEM. >>PROMISES HE MADE FOR JERUSALEM 49:32 TO LAST FOREVER, THEY WERE CONDITIONAL. 49:35 WHEN HE SAID TO SOLOMON, HE SAID, 'IF YOU WALK IN MY WAYS I 49:37 WILL BLESS YOU AND KEEP - YOUR SONS WILL NOT FAIL TO SIT UPON 49:41 THE THRONE.' WELL, THEY FAILED THAT AND THE SONS OF DAVID WERE 49:46 DETHRONED, EVENTUALLY. JONAH, YEAH, THEIR REPENTANCE. 49:52 BUT WHEN GOD PROMISED THAT CHRIST HIS SON WOULD COME, WAS 49:56 THAT A CONDITIONAL PROMISE? THE PROMISE HE GAVE TO ABRAHAM 50:00 WAS AN UNCONDITIONAL PROMISE. THERE WAS NO CONDITIONS 50:02 CONNECTED WITH THE PROMISE HE GAVE TO ABRAHAM. 50:05 AND SO, GOD IS GOING TO KEEP HIS PROMISE. 50:08 JOSHUA 23:14, "BEHOLD," - JOSHUA SAID - THIS IS THE END OF HIS 50:14 BOOK - "...I AM GOING THE WAY OF ALL THE EARTH. 50:18 AND YOU KNOW IN ALL YOUR HEARTS AND IN ALL YOUR SOULS THAT NOT 50:22 ONE THING HAS FAILED OF ALL THE GOOD THINGS WHICH THE LORD YOUR 50:27 GOD SPOKE CONCERNING YOU. ALL HAVE COME TO PASS FOR YOU; 50:30 NOT ONE WORD OF THEM HAS FAILED. JOSHUA, AT THE END OF HIS LIFE, 50:35 WHAT DOES HE WANT TO EMPHASIZE? YOU CAN TRUST THE 50:38 PROMISES OF GOD. BUT LOOK AT HOW MANY MORE 50:41 PROMISES CAME TRUE AFTER THE TIME OF JOSHUA. 50:44 I MEAN, GOD EVEN PROMISED, THROUGH MOSES, NOT ONLY THE WAYS 50:47 HE WOULD BLESS THEM - YOU READ IN DEUTERONOMY 28, YOU KNOW, 50:51 IT'S A CHAPTER THAT'S VERY TROUBLING. 50:52 IT'S ALSO VERY ENCOURAGING. IT'S CALLED THE CHAPTER OF 50:54 BLESSINGS AND CURSINGS. AND YOU READ THE BLESSINGS - AND 50:57 I REALLY LIKE THAT PART, BUT I'D LIKE TO STOP THERE IF I COULD. 51:00 IT SAYS, 'BLESSED YOU'LL BE WHEN YOU GO OUT, BLESSED YOU'LL BE 51:02 WHEN YOU COME IN, BLESSED YOUR CHILDREN WILL BE, BLESSED YOUR 51:05 BARN WILL BE, YOUR BASKET, YOUR LIVESTOCK - EVERYTHING BLESSED, 51:08 BLESSED, BLESSED, BLESSED, - AND THEN HE SAYS, 51:10 'BUT, IF YOU DISOBEY AND FORSAKE MY COMMANDMENTS, CURSED YOU'LL 51:16 BE WHEN YOU GO OUT, CURSED YOU'LL BE WHEN YOU COME IN.' 51:19 MATTER OF FACT, WHEN YOU READ IT, THE CURSES ARE A LOT LONGER 51:23 THAN THE BLESSINGS, BECAUSE GOD WAS TRYING TO DISCOURAGE THEM - 51:29 NOT DISCOURAGE - YEAH, HE WAS TRYING TO DISCOURAGE THEM FROM 51:31 DISOBEYING. HE WAS TRYING TO STEER THEM AWAY 51:34 FROM DISOBEDIENCE AND MOTIVATE THEM FOR THE BLESSING. 51:37 AND - BUT NOT ONE WORD FAILED. GOD HAS GOT A 51:41 PERFECT CREDIT SCORE. PSALM 89:34, GOD SAYS, "MY 51:46 COVENANT I WILL NOT BREAK, NOR ALTER THE WORD THAT HAS 51:50 GONE OUT OF MY LIPS." I REMEMBER READING YEARS AGO 51:53 ABOUT THERE WAS THIS OLD INDIAN CHIEF IN THE EARLY 1800S AND HE 52:00 ALWAYS WORE A RED RIBBON AROUND HIS NECK WITH A LEATHER POUCH 52:05 - LARGE LEATHER POUCH - AND SOMEONE SAID, 'WHAT IS IT?' 52:09 - THEY FIGURED IT WAS SOME KIND OF CHARMS OR SOME KIND OF, YOU 52:11 KNOW, MEDICINE BAG - IT WASN'T UNCOMMON TO SEE THAT. 52:18 THEY SAID, 'WHAT HAVE YOU GOT THERE, CHIEF, ON YOUR POUCH?' 52:20 HE SAID, 'YOUR GREAT CHIEF GAVE THIS TO ME.' NOW THE CHIEF, THIS 52:24 INDIAN, HAD BEEN LIVING IN POVERTY FOR YEARS. 52:26 HE KIND OF LIVED ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF ONE OF THE TOWNS 52:28 AND THEY SAID, 'WHAT DO YOU MEAN 'YOUR GREAT CHIEF'? 52:31 'YOUR GREAT CHIEF, WASHINGTON, GAVE THIS TO ME.' 'WELL, WHAT IS 52:34 IT?' HE SAID, 'IT'S A LETTER.' AND THEY SAID, 'CAN WE SEE IT?' 52:38 AND HE PULLED IT OUT OF HIS POUCH AND SHOWED IT TO THEM. 52:42 EVIDENTLY, THIS CHIEF HAD HELPED GEORGE WASHINGTON DURING THE 52:45 REVOLUTIONARY WAR AND WASHINGTON HAD WRITTEN A PERSONAL PROMISE 52:49 FOR A PENSION TO BE PAID TO HIM FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE, BUT HE 52:55 HAD NEVER TURNED IT IN. HE DIDN'T KNOW 52:58 WHAT A PENSION WAS. ALL HE HAD TO DO WAS PRESENT 53:01 THAT TO THE PAY MASTER AT THE ARMY AND HE WOULD HAVE BEEN PAID 53:06 A REGULAR PENSION FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE. INSTEAD, HE LIVED 53:09 IN POVERTY BECAUSE - HERE HE'S CARRYING THE PROMISE AROUND HIS 53:11 NECK AND GOING HUNGRY AND HE HAD IT FROM THE HIGHEST AUTHORITY. 53:16 ARE WE MUCH DIFFERENT? DO WE HAVE A SURE PROMISE 53:21 FROM GOD AT OUR FINGERTIPS? >>AMEN. 53:24 >>AND WE SOMETIMES FORGET TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THAT. 53:26 WELL, JESUS SAID, 'HEAVEN AND EARTH WILL PASS AWAY, BUT MY 53:31 WORDS WILL BY NO MEANS PASS AWAY.' AND WE READ IN PETER, 53:38 'GOD HAS GIVEN TO US EXCEEDING GREAT AND PRECIOUS PROMISES, 53:42 THAT BY THESE - THROUGH THESE - WE MIGHT BECOME PARTAKERS OF THE 53:46 DIVINE NATURE.' THROUGH THE PROMISES OF GOD WE CAN HAVE 53:50 PEACE, WE CAN HAVE FAITH, AND WE CAN BE TRANSFORMED. 53:52 BUT WE NEED TO BELIEVE THEM. WE ARE MADE RIGHTEOUS 53:54 THROUGH FAITH. AMEN? >>AMEN. 53:56 >>WELL, I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO OUR NEXT WEEK'S STUDY DEALING, 54:00 AGAIN, IN GALATIANS. AND I WANT TO REMIND THOSE WHO 54:03 ARE WATCHING, WE DO HAVE A FREE OFFER. 54:05 THIS IS A FIRST IN THE STUDY GUIDES - BY THE WAY, YOU MAY 54:08 NOTICE IT'S NEW - THIS IS A BRAND-NEW UPDATED STUDY GUIDE. 54:11 IT'S CALLED IS THERE ANYTHING LEFT YOU CAN TRUST? 54:14 - IT'S FREE. ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS CALL 54:15 866-788-3966 AND WE'LL SEND THAT TO YOU - IT'S ACTUALLY 54:22 866-STUDY-MORE - ASK FOR OFFER #103 WHEN YOU DO. 54:25 WE ONLY ASK THAT YOU LOOK IT OVER AND THEN SHARE IT WITH A 54:28 FRIEND. WELL, FRIENDS, GOD BLESS YOU. 54:30 WE ARE OUT OF TIME FOR TODAY'S STUDY, AND WE'LL LOOK FORWARD TO 54:33 STUDYING HIS WORD WITH YOU AGAIN NEXT WEEK. 54:36 (MUSIC) >>WHAT CAN BE MORE IRRESISTIBLE 54:48 THAN A KITTEN? THESE GUYS MIGHT LOOK CUTE NOW, 54:50 BUT SOME OF THEIR ANCESTORS HAVE GROWN INTO MAN EATERS. 54:54 (BIG CATS ROARING) WE'RE HERE IN A LION PARK IN SOUTH AFRICA, 55:00 NOW, WHERE WE CAN VIEW THESE CREATURES IN RELATIVE SAFETY. 55:03 BUT THERE'S A REASON THEY'RE KNOWN AS THE KING OF BEASTS. 55:07 SO WHAT IS IT THAT PEOPLE FIND SO ENCHANTING AND FRIGHTENING 55:10 ABOUT LIONS? IS IT THEIR SPEED? THEIR CLAWS? 55:13 THEIR SHARP TEETH? OR ALL OF THE ABOVE? 55:16 IT MIGHT ALSO BE SOME OF THE STORIES ABOUT MAN-EATING LIONS, 55:19 LIKE IN 1898 RIGHT HERE IN AFRICA, THEY WERE BUILDING A 55:23 BRIDGE OVER THE SABO RIVER IN KENYA AND TWO BROTHER LIONS 55:26 TERRORIZED THE CONSTRUCTION PROCESS, EATING 135 WORKERS. 55:33 DID YOU KNOW LIONS ARE MENTIONED IN THE BIBLE OVER 100 TIMES AND 55:37 YOU CAN FIND THEM ALL THE WAY FROM GENESIS TO REVELATION. 55:40 IT'S USUALLY IN REFERENCE TO THEIR FEROCITY AND HOW DANGEROUS 55:43 THEY ARE. OF COURSE, SAMSON KILLED A 55:45 LION WITH HIS BARE HANDS. DAVID KILLED A LION. 55:48 THERE ARE MAN-EATING LIONS IN THE BIBLE. 55:50 THE WAY THAT THEY PUNISHED CRIMINALS WAS BY THROWING THEM 55:53 IN THE LIONS DEN - AND EARLY CHRISTIANS WERE EVEN FED TO 55:56 LIONS. BUT, AMAZINGLY, AS THE BIBLE 55:59 MENTIONS, NOT ALL LIONS ARE TO BE FEARED. 56:02 THERE HAVE BEEN A FEW FRIENDLY LIONS IN HISTORY. 56:04 FOR EXAMPLE, IN THE 1950S A COUPLE, GEORGE AND MARGARET 56:09 WESTBEAU, WHO LIVED UP AT A RANCH NEAR SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, 56:12 ADOPTED AN ABANDONED LION CUB. THEY NAMED IT LITTLE TYKE 56:17 BECAUSE THEY FELT SORRY FOR IT. BUT THEY DISCOVERED, AS THEY 56:19 TRIED TO FEED HER, SHE REFUSED TO EAT ANY MEAT AT ALL. 56:24 THEY WERE CONCERNED, THINKING THERE WAS NO HOPE FOR THIS 56:27 LITTLE LIONESS TO SURVIVE - AND EVERYBODY TOLD THEM THE SAME, 56:30 BECAUSE WE KNOW, IN THE WILD, LIONS SURVIVE ON ALMOST AN 56:33 ENTIRELY MEAT DIET. THEN SOMEONE SHOWED THE 56:36 WESTBEAUS THAT VERSE IN THE BIBLE THAT TALKS ABOUT, IN 56:39 HEAVEN, THE ANIMALS ARE VEGETARIANS AND THE LION 56:42 WILL EAT STRAW LIKE THE OX. THAT ENCOURAGED THEM AND SO THEY 56:46 BEGAN TO FEED LITTLE TYKE A PURELY VEGETARIAN DIET. 56:50 NOT ONLY DID SHE SURVIVE, SHE THRIVED, GROWING INTO A LION 56:54 THAT WAS OVER 352 POUNDS AND OVER TEN FEET LONG. 56:59 IN FACT, ZOOLOGISTS THAT EXAMINED LITTLE TYKE, WHEN SHE 57:02 WAS FULL GROWN, SAID THEY HAD NEVER SEEN SUCH A PERFECT 57:05 SPECIMEN OF A LIONESS IN THEIR LIFE - A PURE VEGETARIAN. 57:10 YOU KNOW, WHEN WE HEAR INCREDIBLE STORIES ABOUT THAT OF 57:12 LITTLE TYKE, IT REMINDS US THAT GOD'S ORIGINAL PLAN WAS TO MAKE 57:16 A WORLD OF TOTAL PEACE. IT DESCRIBES IT HERE IN THE 57:19 BIBLE IN ISAIAH CHAPTER 11, VERSE 6, "THE WOLF ALSO SHALL 57:23 DWELL WITH THE LAMB, THE LEOPARD SHALL LIED DOWN WITH THE YOUNG 57:26 GOAT, THE CALF AND THE YOUNG LION AND THE FATLING TOGETHER; 57:29 AND A LITTLE CHILD SHALL LEAD THEM." 57:32 NOTHING IS GOING TO HURT AND DESTROY IN THE NEW HEAVENS AND 57:34 THE NEW EARTH THAT GOD IS GOING TO CREATE. 57:36 WOULDN'T YOU LIKE TO LIVE IN A KINGDOM WHERE THERE'S PERFECT 57:39 PEACE - WHERE THERE'S NO MORE DEATH OR KILLING OR PAIN? 57:42 GOD SAYS THAT HE WANTS YOU IN THAT KINGDOM. 57:45 THE LAMB OF GOD MADE IT POSSIBLE FOR YOU TO HAVE AN ENCOUNTER 57:49 WITH THE LION OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH. 57:51 WOULDN'T YOU LIKE TO MEET HIM TODAY? (MUSIC) 58:00 >>FOR LIFE-CHANGING CHRISTIAN RESOURCES VISIT 58:03 AFBOOKSTORE.COM OR CALL 1-800-538-7275. 58:11 (MUSIC) |
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