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>>HELLO FRIENDS, AND
WELCOME TO SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY
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HOUR COMING TO YOU HERE
FROM THE GRANITE BAY SEVENTH-DAY
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ADVENTIST CHURCH NEAR
SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA.
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WE'D LIKE TO WELCOME OUR ONLINE
MEMBERS AND ALSO THOSE WATCHING
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ON THE VARIOUS TELEVISION
NETWORKS AND ONLINE AND, ALSO,
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OF COURSE, THE MEMBERS AND
THE VISITORS RIGHT HERE AT THE
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GRANITE BAY
CHURCH. GOOD TO SEE YOU
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HERE THIS MORNING.
WELL, OUR LESSON STUDY FOR
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THIS QUARTER IS ON THE BOOK OF
GALATIANS. OUR LESSON QUARTERLY
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IS CALLED THE GOSPEL IN
GALATIANS . TODAY WE FIND
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OURSELVES ABOUT HALFWAY THROUGH
OUR STUDY - LESSON #7 - AND THE
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TITLE FOR OUR STUDY
TODAY IS THE ROAD TO FAITH .
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NOW, FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE
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COPY OF OUR STUDY FOR TODAY, YOU
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WELL, BEFORE WE GET TO OUR
STUDY, AS WE NORMALLY DO, WE
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LIKE TO LIFT OUR VOICES IN SONG.
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I'D LIKE TO INVITE OUR SONG
LEADERS TO JOIN ME ON STAGE.
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(LIGHT PIANO MUSIC)
>>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS.
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WE'RE GLAD TO BE HERE TO SING
SONGS WITH YOU, THOSE OF YOU
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HERE AND THOSE OF
YOU AROUND THE WORLD.
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WE'RE GOING TO START WITH #602 -
O BROTHER BE FAITHFUL - #602 AND
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WE'RE GOING TO DO THE FIRST,
SECOND, AND FOURTH STANZAS.
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(PIANO MUSIC)
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>>THANK YOU SO MUCH
FOR SINGING ALONG WITH US
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AND, AT THIS TIME, PASTOR ROSS
WILL HAVE OUR OPENING PRAYER.
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>>LET US BOW OUR
HEADS FOR PRAYER.
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DEAR FATHER, ONCE AGAIN, THANK
YOU FOR THE PRIVILEGE OF BEING
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ABLE TO GATHER IN YOUR PRESENCE
ON THIS, THE SABBATH, TO OPEN UP
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YOUR WORD AND STUDY TOGETHER.
AND TODAY, AS WE TALK ABOUT THE
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IMPORTANCE OF FAITH AND HOW
WE CAN EXERCISE FAITH IN OUR
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DAY-BY-DAY LIFE, WE ASK FOR
THE SPIRIT TO COME AND GUIDE OUR
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HEARTS AND OUR MINDS, FOR WE
ASK THIS IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
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OUR LESSON TODAY IS GOING TO
BE BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR DOUG.
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>>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS,
AND WELCOME, FRIENDS, TO GRANITE
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BAY. I WANT TO WELCOME THOSE WHO
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JOINED US FOR OUR
SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR.
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WE KNOW THAT WE'VE GOT PEOPLE
ALL OVER THE WORLD - WE MEET
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THEM EVERYWHERE - MANY ARE IN
OTHER ENGLISH-SPEAKING COUNTRIES
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- YOU KNOW, WE CAN LOOK AT A MAP
AND SEE, FROM THE RESPONSES THAT
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WE GET, WHERE
PEOPLE ARE WATCHING.
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AND, OF COURSE, NUMBER ONE IS
NORTH AMERICA AND THEN WE HAVE,
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I THINK, GREAT BRITAIN, CANADA -
THESE AREN'T IN EXACT SEQUENCE,
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BUT NOT TOO FAR OFF - SOUTH
AFRICA, INDIA, A LOT IN JAMAICA
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- IT'S AMAZING - AND, YOU KNOW,
YOU GO TO JUST ABOUT EVERY OTHER
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ENGLISH-SPEAKING PLACE BUT,
THEN, IT'S THE MIDDLE EAST, THE
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PHILIPPINES - OF COURSE ENGLISH
IS A SECOND LANGUAGE THERE -
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SOUTH AMERICA AND JUST ALL
OVER THE WORLD WE GET RESPONSES.
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SO WE WANT TO
WELCOME OUR FRIENDS.
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IT'S ALWAYS HUMBLING TO THINK
HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE ABLE TO JOIN
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US IN OUR LITTLE STUDY HERE.
AGAIN, AS PASTOR ROSS SAID,
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'WE'RE CONTINUING IN OUR STUDY
ON GALATIANS AND TODAY WE'RE IN
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GALATIANS CHAPTER - WE'RE IN
CHAPTER 3, BUT WE'RE IN LESSON
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#7 - THE ROAD TO FAITH .
MAYBE I SHOULD JUST GET A LITTLE
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PREFACE HERE: WE DO THIRTEEN
WEEKS OF SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY.
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THERE ARE SIXTEEN
CHAPTERS IN GALATIANS.
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THAT MEANS THERE IS SOME OVERLAP
AS WE GO FROM WEEK TO WEEK AND
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SO, YOU KNOW, YOU
CAN UNDERSTAND THAT.
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OUR MEMORY VERSE TODAY IS
FROM GALATIANS 2 - I'M SORRY,
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GALATIANS 3, VERSE 22 - THIS IS
FROM THE NEW KING JAMES VERSION
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- YOU CAN READ IT RIGHT OUT OF
YOUR QUARTERLY. I INVITE YOU TO
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SAY IT WITH ME - GALATIANS
3, VERSE 22 - YOU READY?
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"BUT THE SCRIPTURE HAS CONFINED
ALL UNDER SIN, THAT THE PROMISES
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BY FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST MIGHT
BE GIVEN TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE."
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OF COURSE, THE SCRIPTURE TELLS
US ALL HAVE SINNED - WE'RE ALL
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CONSIGNED UNDER SIN
- SO ANYBODY'S SAVED.
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JEW - GENTILE -
WE'RE ALL SAVED BY FAITH.
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>>AMEN. >>AND SO, HE'S
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EMPHASIZING THAT HERE.
NOW, IN THE BEGINNING OF THE
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LESSON IT TELLS
AN INTERESTING STORY.
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HOMING PIGEONS HAVE THE ABILITY
TO, OF COURSE, FIND HOME.
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I THINK I TOLD YOU AN
ILLUSTRATION A FEW WEEKS AGO
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THAT THE ARABS, YEARS AGO,
BEFORE THEY HAD GPS AND EVEN A
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COMPASS, WHEN THEY WOULD BE
IN THE DESERT, SOMETIMES THERE
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WOULD BE DAYS OF SANDSTORM
WHERE THEY COULD NOT TELL WHICH
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DIRECTION WAS THE WAY HOME.
AND THE SUN WAS BLOCKED OUT AND
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ALL THEY COULD SEE WAS THIS
BROWN HAZE IN EVERY DIRECTION
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AND THEY DIDN'T
KNOW WHICH WAY TO GO.
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THERE WAS NO PATHS, IT'S
TRACKLESS DESERT, AND THEY WOULD
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OFTEN KEEP A DOVE OR HOMING
PIGEON WITH THEM - YOU KNOW,
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DOVES AND PIGEONS - PRETTY MUCH
THE SAME BIRD - AND THEY WOULD
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RELEASE IT WITH A STRING
TIED TO IT AND IT WOULD CIRCLE A
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MINUTE AND THEN IT WOULD BEGIN
TO FLY IN THE DIRECTION OF HOME
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AND THEY COULD
ALMOST ALWAYS TRUST IT.
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BUT IN THE LESSON THEY SAID
THAT EVEN HOMING PIGEONS CAN
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SOMETIMES GET THEIR WIRES
CROSSED AND IT TALKS ABOUT ONE
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TIME IN ENGLAND THAT, FOR SOME
REASON THEY USED TO, YOU KNOW,
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BREED AND KEEP ALL THESE HOMING
PIGEONS THERE - 20,000 BIRDS
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WERE RELEASED
AND NEVER CAME BACK.
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THEY GOT LOST. THEY
WERE WONDERING IF IT HAD
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SOMETHING TO DO WITH SOLAR
FLARES THAT AFFECT THE MAGNETIC
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FIELDS AROUND THE
EARTH DURING THAT TIME.
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AND SO, SOMETIMES WE CAN GET
MIXED UP ABOUT FINDING OUR WAY
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HOME. AND SO,
HERE HE'S TALKING ABOUT
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THE ROAD TO FAITH AND IF YOU
CAN'T TRUST A COMPASS AND YOU
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CAN'T TRUST THE DOVE, YOU CAN
ALWAYS TRUST THE BIBLE, AMEN?
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>>AMEN. >> THE
LAW AND THE PROMISE -
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NOW, ONE OF THE
REASONS THAT PEOPLE
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GET MIXED UP IS THERE ARE SOME
VERSES IN THE BIBLE THAT, READ
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OUT OF CONTEXT OR BY THEMSELVES
COULD LEAD A PERSON TO BELIEVE
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THAT SOMEHOW WE WORK
OUR WAY TO THE KINGDOM.
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I'VE GOT A FEW
EXAMPLES OF THOSE HERE.
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OH, YOU KNOW WHAT I WANT TO
DO FIRST BEFORE I GET TO THAT?
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I WANT TO JUST READ
THROUGH OUR ASSIGNMENT.
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GO WITH ME TO GALATIANS CHAPTER
3 - LET ME TELL YOU THE VERSES
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WE'RE GOING TO
TRY AND COVER TODAY.
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I THINK THE LESSONS HAVE VERSES
19 THROUGH 26, BUT I'M GOING TO
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GO AHEAD AND READ ALL THE WAY TO
THE END OF THE CHAPTER, JUST FOR
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CONTINUITY. SO, IF
YOU START WITH GALATIANS
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CHAPTER 3 AND I'LL
START WITH VERSE 19.
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SO HERE'S WHAT WE'RE GOING
TO TRY TO TACKLE TODAY - THESE
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VERSES, "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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IS THE LAW THEN
AGAINST THE PROMISES OF GOD?
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CERTAINLY NOT! FOR
IF THERE HAD BEEN A LAW
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GIVEN WHICH COULD HAVE
GIVEN LIFE, TRULY RIGHTEOUSNESS
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WOULD HAVE BEEN BY THE LAW.
BUT THE SCRIPTURE HAS CONFINED
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ALL UNDER SIN, THAT THE PROMISE
BY FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST MIGHT
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BE GIVEN TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE.
BUT BEFORE FAITH CAME, WE WERE
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KEPT UNDER GUARD BY THE
LAW, KEPT FOR THE FAITH WHICH
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WOULD AFTERWARD BE REVEALED.
THEREFORE THE LAW WAS OUR TUTOR
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TO BRING US TO CHRIST, THAT
WE MIGHT BE JUSTIFIED BY FAITH.
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BUT AFTER FAITH HAS COME,
WE ARE NO LONGER UNDER A TUTOR.
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FOR YOU ARE ALL SONS OF GOD
THROUGH FAITH IN CHRIST JESUS.
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FOR AS MANY OF YOU AS WERE
BAPTIZED INTO CHRIST HAVE PUT ON
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CHRIST. THERE IS
NEITHER JEW NOR GREEK,
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THERE IS NEITHER SLAVE NOR
FREE, THERE IS NEITHER MALE NOR
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FEMALE; FOR YOU ARE
ALL ONE IN CHRIST JESUS.
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AND IF YOU ARE CHRIST'S,
THEN YOU ARE ABRAHAM'S SEED, AND
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HEIRS ACCORDING TO THE PROMISE."
THAT, OF COURSE, IS ONE OF THE
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MOST IMPORTANT PARTS
THERE - RIGHT THERE AT THE END.
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IF YOU ARE CHRIST'S
THEN YOU ARE ABRAHAM'S SEED.
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SO JUST TO REVIEW - WE ALWAYS
HAVE PEOPLE TUNING IN THAT MAYBE
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DIDN'T HEAR IT BEFORE AND
THEN THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO MAYBE
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HAVEN'T BEEN PART OF THIS
STUDY. PAUL, IN WRITING TO THE
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GALATIANS IS DEALING
WITH A SPECIFIC PROBLEM.
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YOU'VE GOT JEWISH BELIEVERS
IN JESUS WHO WERE TELLING THE
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GENTILES WHO HAD TURNED TO JESUS
THAT THEY NOW NEEDED TO KEEP ALL
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THE MOSAIC LAWS TO BE FORGIVEN.
THEY NEEDED TO KEEP THE
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LAW OF CIRCUMCISION.
THEY NEEDED TO KEEP THE LAWS
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OF - REGARDING THE
FEASTS. CIRCUMCISION IS
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THE PRINCIPAL LAW. MANY
HAVE USED THE THINGS THAT
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PAUL SAYS IN GALATIANS TO TRY TO
SAY WE ARE NOT UNDER THE LAW NOW
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AND SO THAT MEANS WE
DON'T NEED TO KEEP THE SABBATH.
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THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
ARE REALLY NEVER THE ISSUE.
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THERE WAS NO DEBATE BETWEEN THE
JEWS AND THE GENTILES - WHETHER
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OR NOT THEY NEEDED TO KEEP THE
TEN COMMANDMENTS, THE BIG DEBATE
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WAS TALKING ABOUT, SPECIFICALLY,
THE CEREMONIAL LAWS.
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THERE WAS NO DEBATE
DEALING WITH THE MORAL LAW.
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THERE WAS NO DEBATE
DEALING WITH THE CIVIL LAW.
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THERE WAS NO DEBATE
DEALING WITH THE HEALTH LAWS.
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IT HAD TO DO WITH THE LAWS
THAT PRINCIPALLY DEALT WITH THE
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SACRIFICE OF LAMBS, CIRCUMCISION
- LIKE ONCE YOU HAVE JESUS,
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DO YOU NEED TO KILL A
LAMB FOR THE PASSOVER?
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BUT PAUL CONTINUED TO GO
THE PASSOVERS BECAUSE IT SAYS HE
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BECAME A JEW THAT HE
MIGHT REACH THE JEWS.
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HE BECAME ALL THINGS TO ALL MEN
THAT, BY SOME MEANS, HE MIGHT
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REACH SOME FOR CHRIST.
AND DON'T WE ALL DO THAT?
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WHEN YOU VISIT PEOPLE, DON'T YOU
TRY TO FIND COMMON GROUND SO YOU
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CAN TALK TO THEM?
WHENEVER I START A CONVERSATION
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WITH SOMEBODY I TRY AND FIND
OUT - THEY USE THIS ACRONYM WHEN
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THEY TEACH EVANGELISM - FORT
- F-O-R-T - SOME GUIDELINES FOR
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CONVERSATION - F - FAMILY;
O - OCCUPATION; R - RELIGION;
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T - TESTIMONY.
WHEN YOU'RE SITTING IN A
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PERSON'S HOUSE AND YOU'RE
LOOKING FOR COMMON GROUND TO
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TALK TO THEM, ASK
THEM ABOUT THEIR FAMILY.
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SAY, 'OH, THOSE PICTURES ON THE
WALL, ARE THOSE YOUR FAMILY?'
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OR, YOU KNOW - AND PEOPLE ARE
ALWAYS HAPPY TO TALK ABOUT THEIR
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FAMILY, THAT USUALLY DRAWS
THEM OUT. 'AND WHAT DO YOU DO?'
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I'M ON A AIRPLANE, SOMETIMES
YOU'RE FLYING ALONG AND
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'WHERE ARE YOU
GOING? WHAT DO YOU DO?'
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AND THE YOU - I - IF - I TELL
YOU, NO MATTER WHAT A PERSON
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SAYS, I TRY TO FIND
SOME WAY TO IDENTIFY.
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THEY SAY, 'WELL, I'M A BRAIN
SURGEON.' I SAID, 'OH, I'VE GOT
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A BRAIN.' (LAUGHTER) TRY
AND FIND SOME COMMON GROUND, YOU
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KNOW, THAT YOU CAN
TALK TO THEM ABOUT.
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AND SO, THEN - AND THEN YOU HAVE
- F-O-R - RELIGION - AND THAT'S
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A LITTLE MORE DELICATE -
'DO YOU GO TO CHURCH SOMEWHERE?'
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'WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE?'
AND THEN TESTIMONY - YOU SHOW
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YOUR PERSONAL TESTIMONY.
AND THAT USUALLY OPENS THE
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DOOR INTO SPIRITUAL THINGS.
OR THEY JUST MAY LIFT THE PAPER
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UP AND SAY, 'I'M DONE TALKING.'
AND SO YOU DO WHAT YOU CAN.
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BUT PAUL WOULD TRY TO BECOME ALL
THINGS TO ALL MEN THAT HE MIGHT
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REACH SOME FOR CHRIST.
NOW, WHY DID THEY MISUNDERSTAND?
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A COUPLE OF VERSES - AND THESE
ARE IN YOUR LESSON - SOMEONE'S
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GOING TO READ FOR ME, IN
A MOMENT, DEUTERONOMY 6:25.
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YOU'LL HAVE THAT, HAFDIS?
OKAY, BEFORE YOU GET TO THAT,
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I'M GOING TO READ LEVITICUS
18:5 - NOTICE THIS - IT SAYS IN
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LEVITICUS 18:5, "YOU SHALL
THEREFORE KEEP MY STATUTES AND
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MY JUDGMENTS, WHICH IF A
MAN DOES, HE SHALL LIVE BY
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THEM: I AM THE LORD."
OH, THERE YOU HAVE IT.
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KEEP THE LAW AND YOU
LIVE. SALVATION BY WORKS.
00:14:50.69\00:14:54.39
COULD YOU SEE HOW SOME
PEOPLE, ON AN ELEMENTARY BASIS,
00:14:54.42\00:14:56.96
MIGHT READ THAT AND GET THE IDEA
'KEEP MY STATUTES AND YOU'LL
00:14:56.99\00:15:00.53
LIVE'? HERE'S ANOTHER ONE:
EZEKIEL 20:11, "AND I GAVE THEM
00:15:00.56\00:15:06.37
MY STATUTES AND SHOWED THEM
MY JUDGMENTS, 'WHICH, IF A MAN
00:15:06.40\00:15:09.70
DOES, HE SHALL LIVE BY THEM.'"
THERE YOU HAVE IT AGAIN -
00:15:09.74\00:15:14.31
DO THE LAW AND LIVE. AND SO THEY
WOULD READ SOME OF THESE AND
00:15:14.34\00:15:17.71
THEY'D SAY, 'OH, YEAH, OBEDIENCE
IS THE MEANS OF SALVATION.'
00:15:17.75\00:15:23.52
WELL, DOES GOD
WANT US TO OBEY? >>YES.
00:15:23.55\00:15:27.69
>>IF WE TRULY
OBEY, WILL WE BE SAVED?
00:15:27.72\00:15:34.36
I GAVE YOU A VERY IMPORTANT
QUALIFYING WORD - 'IF WE TRULY
00:15:34.40\00:15:38.43
OBEY' - >>YEAH.
00:15:38.47\00:15:40.67
>>WILL TRULY
OBEYING INCLUDE FAITH?
00:15:40.70\00:15:43.57
OKAY. SO, OF
COURSE, IF YOU TRULY OBEY
00:15:43.61\00:15:47.34
- IF YOU'RE OBEYING THE
TRUTH YOU WILL BE SAVED.
00:15:47.38\00:15:51.05
BUT ARE WE SAVED BECAUSE
WE PRINCIPALLY KEEP THE LAW?
00:15:51.08\00:15:54.58
>>NO. >>DID THE
PEOPLE WHO CRUCIFIED
00:15:54.62\00:15:57.39
JESUS RUN HOME
AND KEEP THE SABBATH?
00:15:57.42\00:16:00.89
WELL THEY TRIED, BUT CAN YOU
REALLY KEEP THE SABBATH AFTER
00:16:00.92\00:16:03.09
YOU CRUCIFY THE SAVIOR?
YOU'RE OBVIOUSLY NOT KEEPING
00:16:03.12\00:16:06.26
THE SPIRIT OF THE LAW, RIGHT?
AND SO, THEY WERE TRYING TO KEEP
00:16:06.29\00:16:10.80
THE LAW OUTWARDLY AND PAUL
SAYS IT'S NOT THROUGH OUTWARD
00:16:10.83\00:16:13.94
OBEDIENCE, IT'S
THROUGH FAITH WE'RE SAVED.
00:16:13.97\00:16:16.40
ALRIGHT, HAFDIS, YOU
HAVE ANOTHER EXAMPLE.
00:16:16.44\00:16:18.31
GO AHEAD AND READ YOURS.
>>"THEN IT WILL BE RIGHTEOUSNESS
00:16:18.34\00:16:21.98
FOR US IF WE ARE CAREFUL TO
OBSERVE ALL THESE COMMANDMENTS
00:16:22.01\00:16:27.08
BEFORE THE LORD OUR GOD
AS HE HAS COMMANDED US."
00:16:27.12\00:16:31.69
>>WELL, NOW, THAT
SEEMS PRETTY PLAIN.
00:16:31.72\00:16:33.42
HOW DO WE GET RIGHTEOUSNESS?
BY KEEPING THE COMMANDMENTS.
00:16:33.46\00:16:38.06
WELL, IF WE'RE KEEPING THE
COMMANDMENTS, IF YOU'RE TRULY
00:16:38.09\00:16:41.80
KEEPING THE COMMANDMENTS,
IT WILL BE DONE BY THE POWER OF
00:16:41.83\00:16:44.23
FAITH BECAUSE YOU CANNOT REALLY
KEEP THE LAW UNLESS YOU LOVE.
00:16:44.27\00:16:50.24
YOU CANNOT REALLY KEEP
THE LAW UNLESS YOU TRUST.
00:16:50.27\00:16:54.14
AND SO IT WILL ALWAYS GO BACK TO
STARTING WITH FAITH, BUT THEY'RE
00:16:54.18\00:16:58.88
MAKING A BASIC STATEMENT.
WHEN YOU'RE TEACHING CHILDREN
00:16:58.91\00:17:03.59
WHY THEY'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO
STICK THE PAPER CLIP INSIDE THE
00:17:03.62\00:17:07.69
OUTLET, CAN THEY UNDERSTAND
ALL THE RAMIFICATIONS OF
00:17:07.72\00:17:13.50
ELECTRONS AND ELECTRICITY? NO.
THEY CAN UNDERSTAND 'DON'T DO
00:17:13.53\00:17:19.23
THAT AND YOU WILL LIVE.' AND SO,
SOMETIMES WHEN YOU'RE TALKING
00:17:19.27\00:17:23.34
TO CHILDREN YOU SPEAK
ON AN ELEMENTARY BASIS.
00:17:23.37\00:17:25.91
WELL, GOD MADE SOME
PRETTY BASIC STATEMENTS IN HERE.
00:17:25.94\00:17:28.48
HERE'S ANOTHER ONE - DEUTERONOMY
24:13, "YOU SHALL IN ANY CASE
00:17:28.51\00:17:33.38
RETURN THE PLEDGE TO HIM
AGAIN WHEN THE SUN GOES DOWN,
00:17:33.42\00:17:36.52
THAT HE MAY SLEEP IN HIS
OWN GARMENT AND BLESS YOU;
00:17:36.55\00:17:39.52
AND IT SHALL BE RIGHTEOUSNESS TO
YOU BEFORE THE LORD YOUR GOD."
00:17:39.55\00:17:43.83
GOD SAID, 'LOOK, IF YOU DO THE
RIGHT THING IT'S RIGHTEOUSNESS.'
00:17:43.86\00:17:46.90
IT DOESN'T MEAN WE ARE SAVED BY
OUR WORKS, HE'S JUST SAYING IT'S
00:17:46.93\00:17:50.33
THE RIGHT THING. BACK
THEN, JUST TO GIVE YOU THE
00:17:50.37\00:17:52.70
CONTEXT, WHEN SOMEONE MADE A
PLEDGE TO YOU, THEY WOULD MAYBE
00:17:52.73\00:17:58.04
GIVE YOU THEIR COAT OR THEIR
MANTLE - SOME OUTER GARMENT OR
00:17:58.07\00:18:01.24
SOMETHING - AND IT WAS
SECURITY. A LOT OF PEOPLE, BACK
00:18:01.28\00:18:04.18
THEN, HAD ONE GARMENT.
MATTER OF FACT, SOME BILLS
00:18:04.21\00:18:06.92
WERE PAID IN GARMENTS. HOW
MANY OF YOU REMEMBER, IN THE
00:18:06.95\00:18:10.92
STORY OF SAMSON, THAT HE MADE A
BET WITH THE PHILISTINES AND HE
00:18:10.95\00:18:15.12
SAID, 'IF I WIN YOU'VE GOT
TO GIVE ME SO MANY GARMENTS.'
00:18:15.16\00:18:18.96
AND WHEN HE LOST, HE HAD
TO GO PAY THEM IN GARMENTS.
00:18:18.99\00:18:22.43
AND HE ACTUALLY KILLED
SOME PHILISTINES AND TOOK THEIR
00:18:22.46\00:18:23.83
GARMENTS AND PAID THEM.
BUT - SO A GARMENT WAS LIKE A
00:18:23.87\00:18:27.74
PLEDGE, BUT IT SAID, 'IF
THIS POOR PERSON GIVES YOU THEIR
00:18:27.77\00:18:30.84
GARMENT AS A PLEDGE, GIVE IT
BACK TO THEM BEFORE THE SUN GOES
00:18:30.87\00:18:34.21
DOWN, LEST THEY SHIVER
ALL NIGHT LONG AND IT WILL BE
00:18:34.24\00:18:37.45
RIGHTEOUSNESS FOR
YOU.' IT'S THE RIGHT THING
00:18:37.48\00:18:39.61
TO DO. YOU SEE
WHAT HE'S SAYING HERE?
00:18:39.65\00:18:42.38
HE'S NOT SAYING YOU'RE SAVED
BECAUSE YOU'VE DONE THAT, IT
00:18:42.42\00:18:44.95
MEANS YOUR HEART'S IN THE
RIGHT PLACE IF YOU'VE DONE THAT.
00:18:44.99\00:18:48.22
BUT, AS PAUL WAS GOING THROUGH
ASIA AND TEACHING - WE'RE
00:18:48.26\00:18:52.19
STUDYING THE BOOK OF GALATIA -
INCLUDING GALATIA IN THE BOOK OF
00:18:52.23\00:18:56.87
GALATIANS, NOTICE WHAT THE
COMMON ACCUSATION WAS THAT WAS
00:18:56.90\00:19:00.24
MADE AGAINST PAUL. LOOK,
FOR INSTANCE, IN ACTS 21,
00:19:00.27\00:19:04.01
VERSE 20, "AND WHEN THEY HEARD
IT, THEY GLORIFIED THE LORD.
00:19:04.04\00:19:08.34
AND THEY SAID TO HIM, 'YOU SEE,
BROTHER, HOW MANY MYRIADS OF
00:19:08.38\00:19:12.05
JEWS THERE ARE WHO HAVE
BELIEVED,'" - ALL THE MANY, MANY
00:19:12.08\00:19:14.88
JEWS HAVE BELIEVED IN JESUS -
"'AND THEY ARE ALL ZEALOUS FOR
00:19:14.92\00:19:17.99
THE LAW; BUT THEY HAVE BEEN
INFORMED'" - THEY'VE HEARD -
00:19:18.02\00:19:21.69
"'ABOUT YOU THAT YOU TEACH
ALL THE JEWS WHO ARE AMONG THE
00:19:21.72\00:19:25.49
GENTILES TO FORSAKE MOSES,
SAYING THAT THEY OUGHT NOT TO
00:19:25.53\00:19:29.66
CIRCUMCISE THEIR CHILDREN NOR TO
WALK ACCORDING TO THE CUSTOMS.'"
00:19:29.70\00:19:33.77
ALRIGHT, WHAT WAS THE RUMOR
THAT WAS CIRCULATING ABOUT PAUL?
00:19:33.80\00:19:38.54
THAT HE WAS TEACHING THE
GENTILES NOT TO OBEY THE LAW?
00:19:38.57\00:19:44.05
DID YOU CATCH THAT? SEE,
YOU DIDN'T TURN - LOOK IT
00:19:44.08\00:19:46.15
UP - THAT YOU'RE TEACHING
THE JEWS - DID PAUL TEACH THE
00:19:46.18\00:19:51.22
GENTILES NOT TO OBEY THE LAWS?
HE DID TEACH THEM YOU DON'T
00:19:51.25\00:19:55.06
HAVE TO BE CIRCUMCISED.
DID HE TEACH THE JEWS THAT? NO.
00:19:55.09\00:19:59.59
AND SEE, THIS WAS THE
RUMOR THAT WAS GOING AROUND.
00:19:59.63\00:20:01.70
HE SAYS, 'YOU'RE TEACHING ALL
THE JEWS, AMONG THE GENTILES, TO
00:20:01.73\00:20:05.03
FORSAKE MOSES, SAYING THEY OUGHT
NOT CIRCUMCISE THEIR CHILDREN OR
00:20:05.07\00:20:08.37
WALK ACCORDING TO THE CUSTOMS.'
ANOTHER EXAMPLE: WHEN PAUL WAS
00:20:08.40\00:20:12.27
IN THE TEMPLE AND THEY FINALLY
ARRESTED HIM, THEY NEARLY TORE
00:20:12.31\00:20:15.21
HIM LIMB FROM LIMB. THIS
MOB FOUND HIM IN THE TEMPLE.
00:20:15.24\00:20:18.75
SOMEONE CRIED OUT,
'HELP! MEN OF ISRAEL!
00:20:18.78\00:20:20.85
THIS IS THE ONE WHO IS
PERVERTING OUR RELIGION ALL
00:20:20.88\00:20:23.92
THROUGH ASIA!' AND
THERE WAS A BIG MOB AND THEY
00:20:23.95\00:20:26.22
GOT ALL EXCITED AND LISTEN
TO WHAT THEY SAID - ACTS 21,
00:20:26.25\00:20:30.46
VERSE 28, "CRYING
OUT, 'MEN OF ISRAEL, HELP!
00:20:30.49\00:20:35.16
THIS IS THE MAN WHO TEACHES
ALL MEN EVERYWHERE'" - JEW AND
00:20:35.20\00:20:39.10
GENTILE - "'AGAINST THE
PEOPLE,'" - MEANING THE JEWISH
00:20:39.13\00:20:42.37
PEOPLE - "'THE LAW, AND THIS
PLACE;'" - THE TEMPLE - "'AND
00:20:42.40\00:20:46.78
FURTHERMORE HE ALSO BROUGHT
GREEKS INTO THE TEMPLE AND HAS
00:20:46.81\00:20:49.74
DEFILED THIS HOLY PLACE.'"
- WHICH PAUL SAYS, 'I HAD NOT
00:20:49.78\00:20:52.51
DONE.' THEY SAW HIM WALKING
THROUGH THE CITY EARLIER WITH A
00:20:52.55\00:20:55.48
GREEK AND THEY THOUGHT
THAT HE HAD SMUGGLED HIM IN.
00:20:55.52\00:20:58.59
YOU KNOW, I UNDERSTAND THAT THE
ANCIENT CITY OF PETRA - ANY OF
00:20:58.62\00:21:03.09
YOU BEEN TO ISRAEL? ANY OF YOU
BEEN TO PETRA? BONNIE AND ED -
00:21:03.12\00:21:08.60
I'VE BEEN THERE - I WENT WITH
BONNIE AND ED. IT'S A CITY THAT
00:21:08.63\00:21:13.67
WAS HIDDEN. IT'S THE CAPITAL FOR
THE EDOMITES - THE NABATEANS -
00:21:13.70\00:21:17.14
FOR MANY YEARS, AND THEY -
IT WAS OCCUPIED BY MUSLIMS AFTER
00:21:17.17\00:21:21.11
THE EDOMITES DIED OUT - AND NO
MUSLIM WAS ALLOWED - I'M SORRY,
00:21:21.14\00:21:25.18
NO NON-MUSLIM WAS ALLOWED IN.
IT'S LIKE MECCA - NOT TOO MANY
00:21:25.21\00:21:31.25
NON-MUSLIMS HAVE MANAGED TO
SNEAK INTO MECCA WHEN THEY HAVE
00:21:31.29\00:21:35.69
THEIR GREAT HAJJ AND THEY DO
THEIR PILGRIMAGE, BUT A FEW HAVE
00:21:35.72\00:21:39.46
AND THEY'VE TAKEN PICTURES OF
WHEN THEY ALL GO ROTATING AROUND
00:21:39.49\00:21:42.36
THAT STONE IN THE MIDDLE.
BUT THIS ONE MAN, HE WAS A
00:21:42.40\00:21:45.90
EUROPEAN BUT HE
SPOKE PERFECT ARABIC.
00:21:45.93\00:21:48.50
HE DID GO INTO PETRA AND HE
FOUND THE CITY THAT HAD BEEN
00:21:48.54\00:21:51.24
LOST TO THE
WESTERN WORLD FOR AGES.
00:21:51.27\00:21:53.88
WELL, GENTILES WERE NOT SUPPOSED
TO GO IN - NON-BELIEVERS WERE
00:21:53.91\00:21:58.25
NOT SUPPOSED TO
GO INTO THE TEMPLE.
00:21:58.28\00:22:00.88
AND SO THEY
ACCUSED PAUL OF THIS.
00:22:00.92\00:22:02.48
BUT YOU CAN SEE PAUL HAD GOTTEN
A REPUTATION THAT HE HAD BEEN
00:22:02.52\00:22:06.86
TEACHING JEWS NOT TO BELIEVE THE
CUSTOMS AND NOT TO CIRCUMCISE,
00:22:06.89\00:22:12.03
AND HE WAS TRYING
TO ABOLISH THE LAW.
00:22:12.06\00:22:15.46
WHAT DID JESUS SAY?
'THINK NOT THAT I AM COME
00:22:15.50\00:22:19.47
TO DESTROY THE
LAW AND THE PROPHETS.
00:22:19.50\00:22:21.10
I'M NOT COME TO DESTROY, BUT
FULFILL.' SO THE ONLY LAWS THAT
00:22:21.14\00:22:24.64
PAUL WAS TEACHING AGAINST - IT
WAS NOT THE HEALTH LAW, IT WAS
00:22:24.67\00:22:27.41
NOT THE CIVIL LAW, IT
WAS NOT THE SOCIAL LAW.
00:22:27.44\00:22:31.08
LET ME GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE:
MOSES SAID, 'IF YOU SPOT YOUR
00:22:31.11\00:22:35.85
NEIGHBOR'S DONKEY HAS ESCAPED
FROM THE BARN, HE'S WANDERING
00:22:35.88\00:22:38.65
DOWN THE ROAD, YOU WILL TAKE
YOUR NEIGHBOR'S DONKEY AND BRING
00:22:38.69\00:22:42.22
IT BACK TO HIM - EVEN IF HE'S
YOUR ENEMY.' NOW, WHEN JESUS
00:22:42.26\00:22:46.33
DIED ON THE CROSS, WE'RE NO
LONGER OBLIGATED TO FOLLOW THAT.
00:22:46.36\00:22:49.53
YOUR NEIGHBOR'S DOG GETS OUT OF
THEIR YARD AND HE'S RUNNING DOWN
00:22:49.56\00:22:52.43
THE STREET WITH HIS LEASH
ON, YOU KNOW HE DOESN'T BITE BUT
00:22:52.47\00:22:55.40
YOU'RE STILL NOT GOING TO TAKE
YOUR NEIGHBOR'S DOG BACK BECAUSE
00:22:55.44\00:22:57.97
YOU'RE NO LONGER UNDER
THE LAW, YOU'RE UNDER GRACE.
00:22:58.01\00:23:00.58
AND THAT WAS WRITTEN BY MOSES.
DO WE STILL KEEP THAT LAW?
00:23:00.61\00:23:05.35
YEAH, THAT'S JUST
GOOD COMMON SENSE, RIGHT?
00:23:05.38\00:23:07.78
SO THOSE LAWS WERE NOT ISSUES.
ONCE JESUS DIED ON THE CROSS IT
00:23:07.82\00:23:12.15
DOESN'T MATTER WHETHER OR NOT
YOU EAT SKUNK OR COCKROACHES -
00:23:12.19\00:23:18.46
'YOU CAN EAT ANYTHING YOU
WANT NOW, JUST PRAY OVER IT.
00:23:18.49\00:23:20.73
MATTER OF FACT, YOU CAN EAT
BANANA SPLITS THREE TIMES A DAY
00:23:20.76\00:23:23.47
BECAUSE GOD'LL BLESS IT, RIGHT?
IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT GOES IN
00:23:23.50\00:23:26.30
THE MOUTH.' YOU ALL KNOW THAT'S
FOOLISHNESS TO SAY IT DOESN'T
00:23:26.33\00:23:30.44
MATTER WHAT YOU
EAT - SURE IT DOES.
00:23:30.47\00:23:33.24
SO JESUS DIDN'T DIE
TO ABOLISH THAT LAW.
00:23:33.27\00:23:37.28
THE LAWS WERE THE CEREMONIAL
LAWS THAT POINTED TO CHRIST.
00:23:37.31\00:23:40.48
THEY WERE - AND I'M GETTING
AHEAD OF MYSELF - THE SCHOOL
00:23:40.52\00:23:42.58
MASTERS THAT
BROUGHT US TO HIM. >>AMEN.
00:23:42.62\00:23:45.29
>>NOW, ONE REASON WE KNOW THAT
IT WAS REALLY GOD THAT GIVES
00:23:45.32\00:23:49.16
LIFE - LIFE DOES NOT COME FROM
THE LAW - LET ME JUST GIVE YOU A
00:23:49.19\00:23:51.56
FEW VERSES ON THAT. 2
KINGS 5:7 - YOU REMEMBER WHEN
00:23:51.59\00:23:54.83
NAAMAN SENT A MESSENGER TO THE
KING OF ISRAEL AND THE KING OF
00:23:54.83\00:23:58.33
ISRAEL READ THE LETTER - 2 KINGS
5:7 - HE TORE HIS CLOTHES - HE
00:23:58.37\00:24:02.30
SAID, "AM I GOD, TO
KILL AND MAKE ALIVE...?"
00:24:02.34\00:24:06.44
SEE, EVEN IN THE OLD TESTAMENT,
DID THEY BELIEVE THAT GOD COULD
00:24:06.47\00:24:08.88
MAKE ALIVE? HAD ELIJAH
RESURRECTED A BOY? YEAH.
00:24:08.91\00:24:14.82
AND, DURING THE TIME
OF ELISHA, HE MADE ALIVE.
00:24:14.85\00:24:18.55
AND, EVEN WHEN ELISHA DIED, THEY
BURIED SOMEONE ON HIS BONES AND
00:24:18.59\00:24:21.82
HE CAME ALIVE.
LOOK IN PSALM 32 - WHERE
00:24:21.86\00:24:26.03
DID FORGIVENESS COME
FROM? FROM OBEDIENCE?
00:24:26.06\00:24:28.56
PSALM 32:1 AND 2, "BLESSED IS HE
WHOSE TRANSGRESSION IS FORGIVEN,
00:24:28.60\00:24:32.43
WHOSE SIN IS COVERED.
BLESSED IS THE MAN TO WHOM THE
00:24:32.47\00:24:36.20
LORD DOES NOT IMPUTE
INIQUITY, AND IN WHOSE SPIRIT
00:24:36.24\00:24:38.91
THERE IS NO DECEIT." THEY
KNEW THAT SALVATION CAME BY
00:24:38.94\00:24:42.11
THE GRACE OF GOD THROUGH
FAITH - THROUGH HIS BLESSING.
00:24:42.14\00:24:46.48
ALRIGHT, SO I THINK
WE'VE ESTABLISHED THAT.
00:24:46.51\00:24:48.32
NOW GO TO THE NEXT SECTION HERE
WHERE WE JUST TALKED ABOUT THE
00:24:48.35\00:24:51.89
LAW - THE PROMISE. UNDER THE
LAW - KEPT UNDER THE LAW - WHAT
00:24:51.92\00:24:57.13
DOES THAT MEAN? ALRIGHT, TAKE
A DEEP BREATH. SOMETHING VERY
00:24:57.16\00:25:00.53
IMPORTANT I WANT YOU TO NOTICE:
AS YOU'RE READING THROUGH
00:25:00.56\00:25:02.43
GALATIANS YOU'RE GOING TO
FIND THE WORDS 'WE' AND 'YOU'.
00:25:02.46\00:25:07.40
WHAT DOES PAUL
MEAN WHEN HE SAYS 'WE'?
00:25:07.44\00:25:10.01
AND WHAT DOES PAUL
MEAN WHEN HE SAYS 'YOU'?
00:25:10.04\00:25:11.81
LET ME READ YOU
A FEW VERSES HERE.
00:25:11.84\00:25:13.74
GALATIANS 3:23, "BUT BEFORE
FAITH CAME, WE WERE KEPT UNDER
00:25:13.78\00:25:20.18
GUARD BY THE LAW, KEPT FOR THE
FAITH WHICH WOULD AFTERWARD BE
00:25:20.22\00:25:25.12
REVEALED." WHO
DOES HE MEAN BY 'WE'?
00:25:25.15\00:25:27.22
TALKING ABOUT THE JEWS.
AND THEN YOU GO TO GALATIANS
00:25:27.26\00:25:30.46
2:15 HE SAYS, "WE WHO ARE JEWS
BY NATURE, AND NOT SINNERS OF
00:25:30.49\00:25:36.97
THE GENTILES," - SO WHEN
HE SAYS 'WE', HE'S TALKING
00:25:37.00\00:25:38.93
ABOUT THE JEWS. IS THAT CLEAR?
00:25:38.97\00:25:40.80
BUT NOW LOOK IN GALATIANS
CHAPTER 3, VERSE 26, "FOR YOU
00:25:40.84\00:25:45.24
ARE ALL SONS OF GOD
THROUGH FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST."
00:25:45.27\00:25:49.04
HE'S WRITING TO THE GENTILES
NOW. AND SO, HE REALIZES THAT
00:25:49.08\00:25:53.25
THERE'S A DISTINCTION BETWEEN
THE JEW AND THE GENTILE BUT HE'S
00:25:53.28\00:25:57.39
SAYING, THROUGH CHRIST,
WE ALL HAVE EQUAL ACCESS.
00:25:57.42\00:26:00.79
NOW, WITH THIS AS A BACKGROUND,
I'M GOING TO READ THROUGH A
00:26:00.82\00:26:03.86
SCRIPTURE - THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO
HAVE BEEN STUDYING THIS LESSON
00:26:03.89\00:26:07.40
ON GALATIANS AND THEY'VE BEEN
WAITING FOR THE MOMENT WHEN WE
00:26:07.40\00:26:11.03
GET TO GALATIANS 3:28, BECAUSE
THIS IS A VERSE THAT - IT'S A
00:26:11.07\00:26:15.64
VERY IMPORTANT VERSE, FULL
OF WONDERFUL PROMISES - OFTEN
00:26:15.67\00:26:19.11
MISUNDERSTOOD - OFTEN
ABUSED. BUT LET'S READ IT NOW.
00:26:19.14\00:26:23.85
GALATIANS - I'M GOING TO READ
VERSES 26 THROUGH THE REST OF
00:26:23.88\00:26:26.51
THE CHAPTER - GALATIANS 3:26,
"FOR YOU ARE ALL SONS OF GOD
00:26:26.55\00:26:32.35
THROUGH FAITH IN CHRIST JESUS.
FOR AS MANY OF YOU AS WERE
00:26:32.39\00:26:36.36
BAPTIZED INTO
CHRIST HAVE PUT ON CHRIST."
00:26:36.39\00:26:38.79
- HE'S TALKING ABOUT THE
GENTILES WHO HAVE BEEN BAPTIZED
00:26:38.83\00:26:41.46
- WHO HAVE ACCEPTED CHRIST
- YOU "HAVE PUT ON CHRIST.
00:26:41.50\00:26:44.53
THERE IS NEITHER JEW NOR GREEK,
THERE IS NEITHER SLAVE NOR FREE,
00:26:44.57\00:26:50.14
THERE IS NEITHER MALE NOR
FEMALE; FOR YOU ARE ALL ONE IN
00:26:50.17\00:26:54.11
CHRIST JESUS. AND IF
YOU ARE CHRIST'S, THEN
00:26:54.14\00:26:57.15
YOU ARE ABRAHAM'S SEED, AND
HEIRS ACCORDING TO THE PROMISE."
00:26:57.18\00:27:01.02
SO THE EMPHASIS OF WHAT PAUL
IS SAYING HERE IS THAT, THROUGH
00:27:01.05\00:27:06.02
CHRIST, WE ARE BROUGHT TOGETHER.
LET ME GIVE YOU ANOTHER EXAMPLE
00:27:06.05\00:27:09.69
OF WHAT HE'S SAYING. GO
TO EPHESIANS - WE'LL BACK UP
00:27:09.72\00:27:12.83
AND LOOK AT THAT VERSE AGAIN.
GO TO EPHESIANS CHAPTER 2,
00:27:12.86\00:27:15.73
VERSE 14. PAUL HAD
THE SAME ISSUE WITH THE
00:27:15.76\00:27:19.40
EPHESIANS; HE'S TRYING TO MAKE
IT CLEAR - EPHESIANS 2:14, "FOR
00:27:19.43\00:27:24.51
HE HIMSELF IS OUR PEACE,
WHO HAS MADE BOTH ONE, AND HAS
00:27:24.54\00:27:29.68
BROKEN DOWN" - BOTH OF WHAT?
THE JEW AND THE GENTILE - "AND
00:27:29.71\00:27:33.05
HAS BROKEN DOWN THE MIDDLE WALL
OF SEPARATION, HAVING ABOLISHED
00:27:33.08\00:27:36.32
IN HIS FLESH THE ENMITY,
THAT IS, THE LAW OF COMMANDMENTS
00:27:36.35\00:27:40.06
CONTAINED IN ORDINANCES," -
WHAT LAWS WERE DONE AWAY WITH?
00:27:40.09\00:27:43.49
THE COMMANDMENTS
CONTAINED IN ORDINANCES.
00:27:43.53\00:27:46.23
IS THAT CLEAR?
SAY 'AMEN'. >>AMEN.
00:27:46.26\00:27:47.96
>>"SO AS TO CREATE IN HIMSELF
ONE NEW MAN FROM THE TWO, THUS
00:27:47.96\00:27:52.70
MAKING PEACE," - AND HE'S EVEN
TALKING ABOUT ONENESS AND OUR
00:27:52.73\00:27:54.87
BEING JOINED TO GOD - "...THUS
MAKING PEACE, THAT HE MIGHT
00:27:54.90\00:27:58.51
RECONCILE THEM BOTH TO GOD
IN ONE BODY THROUGH THE CROSS,
00:27:58.54\00:28:02.68
THEREBY PUTTING
TO DEATH THE ENMITY.
00:28:02.71\00:28:05.98
AND HE CAME AND PREACHED PEACE
TO YOU" - THE GENTILES - "WHO
00:28:06.01\00:28:09.25
WERE AFAR OFF AND
TO THOSE WHO WERE NEAR.
00:28:09.28\00:28:12.19
FOR THROUGH HIM WE BOTH
HAVE ACCESS BY ONE SPIRIT TO THE
00:28:12.22\00:28:16.86
FATHER." SO THE
MESSAGE OF GALATIANS
00:28:16.89\00:28:19.06
CHAPTER 3, VERSE 28, IS THAT IT
DOESN'T MATTER WHETHER YOU ARE A
00:28:19.09\00:28:23.93
JEW OR A GREEK, A SLAVE OR FREE,
A MALE OR A FEMALE, WE ALL HAVE
00:28:23.97\00:28:31.27
EQUAL ACCESS TO
GOD THROUGH CHRIST.
00:28:31.31\00:28:35.18
WE ALL HAVE EQUAL
VALUE TO GOD THROUGH CHRIST.
00:28:35.21\00:28:39.01
OKAY? "FOR
THROUGH HIM WE BOTH HAVE
00:28:39.05\00:28:41.42
ACCESS BY ONE
SPIRIT TO THE FATHER.
00:28:41.45\00:28:43.65
NOW, THEREFORE, YOU
ARE NO LONGER STRANGERS AND
00:28:43.69\00:28:46.09
FOREIGNERS," - THESE GENTILES
WHO WERE CALLED STRANGERS AND
00:28:46.12\00:28:49.86
FOREIGNERS - "BUT FELLOW
CITIZENS WITH THE SAINTS" -
00:28:49.89\00:28:53.80
MEANING WITH THE JEWS -
"AND MEMBERS OF THE HOUSEHOLD OF
00:28:53.83\00:28:56.77
GOD," - AND SO
THAT'S PRETTY CLEAR.
00:28:56.80\00:28:59.57
NOW I'M GOING TO GO BACK AGAIN;
I WANT TO READ GALATIANS CHAPTER
00:28:59.60\00:29:02.44
3, VERSES 26
THROUGH, WELL, MOSTLY 28.
00:29:02.47\00:29:06.61
IT SAYS, "THERE IS NEITHER JEW
NOR GREEK...NEITHER SLAVE NOR
00:29:06.64\00:29:09.78
FREE, THERE IS NEITHER MALE NOR
FEMALE; FOR YOU ARE ALL ONE IN
00:29:09.81\00:29:12.91
CHRIST JESUS."
ALRIGHT, NOW, DID PAUL MEAN -
00:29:12.95\00:29:16.72
LET'S LOOK AT THIS - WHEN PAUL
SAID, 'THERE IS NEITHER JEW NOR
00:29:16.75\00:29:19.39
GREEK, DID HE MEAN, FROM THAT
POINT ON, THERE WAS NO LONGER
00:29:19.42\00:29:22.89
ANY DISTINCTION - THERE WAS
NO IDENTITY, NO WAY TO TELL IF A
00:29:22.92\00:29:28.83
PERSON WAS A JEW
OR A GREEK? >>NO.
00:29:28.86\00:29:31.17
>>I DON'T THINK SO, BECAUSE
LISTEN TO WHAT ELSE PAUL SAYS -
00:29:31.20\00:29:33.37
LET THE SCRIPTURE COMPARE THE
SCRIPTURE - PAUL SAYS, "FOR I AM
00:29:33.40\00:29:38.44
NOT ASHAMED OF THE GOSPEL" -
ROMANS 1:16 - "...FOR IT IS THE
00:29:38.47\00:29:43.31
POWER OF GOD TO SALVATION FOR
EVERYONE WHO BELIEVES, FOR THE
00:29:43.35\00:29:47.05
JEW FIRST AND ALSO FOR
THE GREEK." THE JEW FIRST?
00:29:47.08\00:29:51.29
THAT SOUNDS A
LITTLE BIT DISCRIMINATORY.
00:29:51.32\00:29:54.49
WHEN PAUL SAID - DID PAUL
IDENTIFY THERE'S A DISTINCTION
00:29:54.52\00:29:57.06
BETWEEN THE JEW?
HOW? HE TELLS YOU.
00:29:57.09\00:30:00.86
GO TO ROMANS CHAPTER 3, VERSE
1, "WHAT ADVANTAGE THEN HAS THE
00:30:00.90\00:30:04.97
JEW, OR WHAT IS THE
PROFIT OF CIRCUMCISION?"
00:30:05.00\00:30:07.80
- 'NONE, THERE ISN'T ANY'
- THAT'S NOT WHAT HE SAYS.
00:30:07.84\00:30:10.57
I MISQUOTED.
HOPEFULLY YOU KNOW THAT.
00:30:10.61\00:30:13.91
HE SAYS, "WHAT ADVANTAGE HAS THE
JEW, OR WHAT IS THE PROFIT OF
00:30:13.94\00:30:16.38
CIRCUMCISION? MUCH IN EVERY
WAY!" - NOW WAS PAUL SAYING
00:30:16.41\00:30:20.28
THERE'S NO DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN JEW AND GENTILE?
00:30:20.32\00:30:22.68
HE SAYS 'MUCH IN EVERY
WAY' AND THEN HE TELLS YOU WHY -
00:30:22.72\00:30:25.02
"CHIEFLY" - PRIMARILY - "BECAUSE
TO THEM WERE COMMITTED THE
00:30:25.05\00:30:28.76
ORACLES OF GOD." - GOD
CHOSE THE JEWISH NATION.
00:30:28.79\00:30:31.43
HE COMMITTED THE ORACLES OF GOD
TO THEM THAT THEY SHOULD BE THE
00:30:31.46\00:30:34.30
ONES TO ANNOUNCE THE MESSIAH
AND TO PRESENT THE GOSPEL, WHICH
00:30:34.36\00:30:38.33
THEY DID AT PENTECOST AND
THE FIRST THREE AND A HALF YEARS
00:30:38.37\00:30:41.27
AFTER CHRIST. SO WHEN PAUL
SAYS, IN GALATIANS CHAPTER 3,
00:30:41.30\00:30:45.61
VERSE 28, 'THERE IS NEITHER
JEW NOR GREEK', DID HE MEAN THAT
00:30:45.64\00:30:48.98
THOSE DISTINCTIONS DISSOLVED?
NO, HE MEANT JEW AND GREEK NOW
00:30:49.01\00:30:53.45
HAVE EQUAL ACCESS TO
SALVATION THROUGH CHRIST.
00:30:53.48\00:30:57.95
>>AMEN. >>THEN HE
GOES TO THE NEXT PART.
00:30:57.99\00:30:59.75
HE SAYS, 'THERE IS NEITHER SLAVE
NOR FREE'. DID PAUL NOW MEAN,
00:30:59.79\00:31:05.99
WHEN HE SAID THAT, SLAVES SHOULD
ALL GATHER AROUND SPARTACUS AND
00:31:06.03\00:31:10.27
REVOLT AGAINST THE ROMANS?
OF COURSE SPARTACUS WAS ALREADY
00:31:10.30\00:31:13.23
DEAD AT THIS POINT, BUT
IS THAT WHAT HE'S SAYING?
00:31:13.27\00:31:18.54
LET THE BIBLE EXPLAIN ITSELF
- EPHESIANS 6, VERSES 5 AND 6,
00:31:18.57\00:31:23.01
"BONDSERVANTS, BE OBEDIENT
TO THOSE WHO ARE YOUR MASTERS" -
00:31:23.04\00:31:26.41
NOW HOW - AND THAT WORD
'SERVANT' THERE, IT'S TALKING
00:31:26.45\00:31:28.72
ABOUT SLAVES - BE
OBEDIENT TO YOUR MASTERS.
00:31:28.75\00:31:31.05
WOULDN'T CHRISTIANITY TELL THE
SLAVES TO ALL RISE UP AND RUN?
00:31:31.09\00:31:34.99
PAUL KNEW THAT THE GOSPEL WOULD
NEVER SPREAD IN THE ROMAN WORLD
00:31:35.02\00:31:38.19
IF THAT WAS THE
MESSAGE THAT WAS NOTED.
00:31:38.23\00:31:40.60
AND SO, THEY NEEDED TO SAY,
'LOOK, IF YOU'RE GOING TO BE A
00:31:40.63\00:31:43.20
SERVANT, BE A GOOD
ONE. WHAT DID JOSEPH DO WHEN
00:31:43.23\00:31:45.43
HE WAS SOLD AS A SLAVE?
DID HE SUBMIT TO POTIPHAR
00:31:45.47\00:31:49.07
AND WAS HE A GOOD SLAVE? >>YES.
00:31:49.10\00:31:50.87
>>AND DID GOD BLESS HIM FOR
THAT? COLO - IT DOESN'T MEAN
00:31:50.91\00:31:55.18
SLAVERY IS GOOD; I'M JUST
TELLING YOU WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS.
00:31:55.21\00:31:58.01
DON'T INTERPRET THIS VERSE TO
MEAN THAT HE WAS TELLING SLAVES
00:31:58.05\00:32:00.92
TO RISE UP AND
REBEL AGAINST THE ROMANS.
00:32:00.95\00:32:03.55
COLOSSIANS 3:22, "BONDSERVANTS,
OBEY IN ALL THINGS YOUR MASTERS
00:32:03.59\00:32:08.76
ACCORDING TO THE FLESH, NOT WITH
EYE SERVICE, AS MEN-PLEASERS,
00:32:08.79\00:32:12.49
BUT IN SINCERITY OF
HEART, FEARING GOD."
00:32:12.53\00:32:15.23
PETER SAYS, 'SERVANTS, OBEY YOUR
MASTERS, NOT JUST THE GOOD ONES,
00:32:15.26\00:32:17.97
BUT EVEN THE CRANKY ONES.'
THAT'S DOUG'S TRANSLATION.
00:32:18.00\00:32:22.10
SO ALL THROUGH THE NEW TESTAMENT
THEY WERE PRETTY CLEAR THAT
00:32:22.14\00:32:26.11
THERE WERE STILL OBVIOUS
DISTINCTIONS BETWEEN THE SLAVE
00:32:26.14\00:32:29.51
AND THE FREE IN
THE ROMAN EMPIRE.
00:32:29.54\00:32:31.88
BUT WAS THE FREE PERSON - DID HE
HAVE MORE ACCESS TO JESUS THAN
00:32:31.91\00:32:35.82
THE SLAVE? NO.
MATTER OF FACT, HAVE YOU
00:32:35.85\00:32:39.39
READ THE BOOK PHILEMON?
AND THE WHOLE MESSAGE IN THE
00:32:39.42\00:32:42.02
BOOK OF PHILEMON IS RUNAWAY
SLAVE, ONESIMUS, HE'S TOLD TO
00:32:42.06\00:32:47.50
SUBMIT TO PHILEMON, BUT NOW
HE'S NOT JUST A SERVANT, HE'S
00:32:47.56\00:32:51.20
A BROTHER THROUGH CHRIST.
AND PAUL CONVERTED THIS RUNAWAY
00:32:51.23\00:32:54.80
SLAVE AND TOLD HIM TO
GO BACK TO YOUR MASTER.
00:32:54.84\00:32:57.04
AND SO, WHEN HE SAYS THERE'S
NEITHER SLAVE NOR FREE, HE'S NOT
00:32:57.07\00:33:01.38
SAYING 'SLAVES, ALL RUN AWAY'
AND THAT THERE'S NO DISTINCTION
00:33:01.41\00:33:03.85
ANYMORE. WHICH
LEADS US TO THE NEXT PART:
00:33:03.88\00:33:07.45
THERE'S NEITHER MALE NOR FEMALE.
WAS PAUL FROM CALIFORNIA?
00:33:07.48\00:33:11.89
(LAUGHTER) WAS PAUL ADVOCATING
WE ALL SHARE THE SAME RESTROOM?
00:33:11.92\00:33:17.29
IS THAT WHAT HE MEANT BY THAT
STATEMENT, THERE'S NEITHER MALE
00:33:17.33\00:33:20.20
NOR FEMALE? DOES
HIS STATEMENT SUGGEST
00:33:20.23\00:33:24.40
THAT ALL THE OTHER BIBLICAL
DISTINCTIONS THAT ARE MADE
00:33:24.43\00:33:26.90
BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN HAVE ALL
NOW EVAPORATED BECAUSE OF JESUS?
00:33:26.94\00:33:31.67
WHO IS THE MOST OUTSPOKEN
ADVOCATE FOR THE DISTINCTIONS
00:33:31.71\00:33:36.41
BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN
IN THE NEW TESTAMENT? PAUL.
00:33:36.44\00:33:40.62
IF YOU WANT TO FIND A DIFFICULT
STATEMENT - AND THERE'S SOME I
00:33:40.65\00:33:43.45
DON'T UNDERSTAND - ABOUT WOMEN
SUBMIT, WOMEN KEEP SILENT - THE
00:33:43.49\00:33:51.46
STATEMENTS THAT ARE THE MOST
POWERFUL ABOUT DISTINCTIONS,
00:33:51.49\00:33:56.10
WHETHER YOU AGREE OR DISAGREE,
RIGHT OR WRONG, THE ONE WHO IS
00:33:56.13\00:33:58.43
THE LOUDEST ABOUT THERE
BEING DISTINCTIONS IS PAUL.
00:33:58.47\00:34:01.84
SO TO TAKE THIS STATEMENT -
WHATEVER IT DOES MEAN, IT DOES
00:34:01.87\00:34:05.34
NOT MEAN - IT'S DISHONEST
TO MAKE IT SAY THERE'S NOW NO
00:34:05.37\00:34:09.14
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MEN AND
WOMEN - THERE ARE NO BIBLICAL
00:34:09.18\00:34:11.61
DISTINCTIONS, THERE'S NO ROLE
DISTINCTIONS BETWEEN MEN AND
00:34:11.65\00:34:14.25
WOMEN IN THE BIBLE ANY MORE
THAN THE OTHER TWO THAT WERE
00:34:14.28\00:34:17.55
MENTIONED. WHAT
HE IS SAYING - LET'S
00:34:17.59\00:34:19.79
FIND OUT, WHAT DOES HE
SAY? SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ,
00:34:19.82\00:34:22.79
FOR ME, ROMANS 3:22 - OKAY?
AND BEFORE YOU DO THAT, I'M
00:34:22.82\00:34:26.73
GOING TO READ ROMANS
10:12. OBVIOUSLY, THESE
00:34:26.76\00:34:29.33
ARE NOT IN SEQUENCE.
"FOR THERE IS NO DISTINCTION
00:34:29.36\00:34:33.87
BETWEEN JEW AND GREEK, FOR
THE SAME LORD OVER ALL IS RICH
00:34:33.90\00:34:38.01
TO ALL WHO CALL UPON HIM."
HE IS SAYING, 'JEW OR GREEK, THE
00:34:38.04\00:34:42.04
SAME LORD IS GOING TO BE
RICH TOWARDS ALL.' ALRIGHT, GO
00:34:42.08\00:34:45.38
AHEAD, READ ROMANS 3:22.
>>"EVEN THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF
00:34:45.41\00:34:49.68
GOD, THROUGH FAITH IN
JESUS CHRIST, TO ALL AND
00:34:49.72\00:34:53.62
ON ALL WHO BELIEVE. FOR
THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE;" -
00:34:53.66\00:34:56.89
>>ALRIGHT, THERE YOU HAVE
IT. THIS SECTION IS ABOUT FAITH.
00:34:56.93\00:34:59.13
ALL WHO BELIEVE - IT DOESN'T
MATTER IF YOU ARE FREE OR BOND;
00:34:59.16\00:35:05.20
IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU ARE
THE EMPLOYEE OR THE EMPLOYER; IT
00:35:05.23\00:35:08.20
DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU ARE A MAN
OR A WOMAN OR A CHILD OR A GREEK
00:35:08.24\00:35:12.91
- JEW OR GENTILE - EVERYBODY IS
ON EQUAL GROUND WHEN IT COMES TO
00:35:12.94\00:35:18.11
SALVATION BY FAITH IN JESUS.
00:35:18.15\00:35:21.45
THIS IS SO IMPORTANT AND, YOU
KNOW, I MEET PEOPLE STILL TODAY
00:35:21.48\00:35:25.42
- SOME OF MY CHARISMATIC
DISPENSATIONAL FRIENDS WHO
00:35:25.45\00:35:29.62
BELIEVE THAT GOD HAD ONE
DISPENSATION OF SALVATION FOR
00:35:29.66\00:35:33.63
THE JEWS - THEY WERE SAVED BY
KEEPING THE LAW - THEN HE'S GOT
00:35:33.66\00:35:36.33
A DISPENSATION OF
SALVATION FOR THE GENTILES.
00:35:36.36\00:35:40.47
AND THEY BASICALLY SAY THAT
GOD HAD, REALLY, TWO DIFFERENT
00:35:40.50\00:35:44.44
MODELS OF SALVATION.
THAT IS PATENTLY FALSE.
00:35:44.47\00:35:48.44
NOBODY IN THE OLD
TESTAMENT WAS SAVED BY WORKS.
00:35:48.48\00:35:52.08
SOMETIMES THEY
PLED THEIR GOOD WORKS.
00:35:52.11\00:35:54.48
I SHOWED YOU IN AN EARLIER STUDY
WHERE HEZEKIAH PRAYED AND SAID,
00:35:54.52\00:35:57.15
'LOOK AT ALL THE GOOD WORKS I'VE
DONE.' NEHEMIAH POINTED BACK TO
00:35:57.19\00:36:00.26
'ALL THE GOOD WORKS I'VE DONE.'
IT DOESN'T MEAN GOD SAVED ANY OF
00:36:00.29\00:36:02.96
THEM BY THEIR WORKS.
DOESN'T GOD SAY, ABOUT ABRAHAM -
00:36:02.99\00:36:06.09
NOW YOU HELP ME - ABRAHAM
SAVED BY FAITH OR BY OBEDIENCE?
00:36:06.13\00:36:10.07
>>FAITH. >>BY
FAITH. BUT, YOU KNOW,
00:36:10.10\00:36:12.87
GOD SAYS, 'ABRAHAM KEPT MY
COMMANDMENTS, MY LAWS, AND MY
00:36:12.90\00:36:16.71
STATUTES.' HE HIGHLIGHTS THAT
ABOUT ABRAHAM, BUT DID THAT SAVE
00:36:16.74\00:36:21.48
HIM, OR WAS ABRAHAM
DECLARED RIGHTEOUS BY FAITH?
00:36:21.51\00:36:25.81
NEW AND OLD TESTAMENT
ARE VERY CLEAR ON THIS.
00:36:25.85\00:36:28.55
AND THAT'S ALL THAT PAUL IS
SAYING THERE IN THOSE VERSES
00:36:28.58\00:36:30.72
THERE IN GALATIANS
CHAPTER 3. ALRIGHT, LET'S GO
00:36:30.75\00:36:34.19
AHEAD TO VERSE 20.
WE'RE GOING TO GO BACK AND - I
00:36:34.22\00:36:36.62
TOLD YOU WE'D GO FORWARD
AND WE'D BACK UP A LITTLE BIT -
00:36:36.66\00:36:38.29
GALATIANS 3:23 - WHAT
DOES IT MEAN WHEN IT SAYS
00:36:38.33\00:36:42.63
'UNDER THE LAW'? HOW
MANY OF YOU HAVE HEARD IT
00:36:42.66\00:36:45.73
SAID BEFORE, 'OH, I DON'T
NEED TO KEEP THE SABBATH ANYMORE
00:36:45.77\00:36:48.87
BECAUSE I'M NOT UNDER THE
LAW NOW, I'M UNDER GRACE.'
00:36:48.90\00:36:52.07
HAVE YOU HEARD THAT? DO
THEY EVER SAY THAT ABOUT
00:36:52.11\00:36:55.44
THE COMMANDMENT
OF STEALING? WHY NOT?
00:36:55.48\00:37:01.02
DO THEY EVER SAY, 'IT'S OKAY,
NOW, FOR ME TO COMMIT ADULTERY
00:37:01.05\00:37:05.49
BECAUSE I'M NOT UNDER
THE LAW, I'M UNDER GRACE'?
00:37:05.52\00:37:10.43
DO YOU KNOW OF ANY SPOUSE, MALE
OR FEMALE, WOULD ACCEPT THAT
00:37:10.46\00:37:13.66
ARGUMENT FOR INFIDELITY?
NO, SO IT'S ABSURD TO SAY,
00:37:13.70\00:37:18.60
'WELL, I DON'T NEED TO
KEEP THE SABBATH ANYMORE.
00:37:18.63\00:37:19.83
WE'RE NOT UNDER THE LAW, WE'RE
UNDER GRACE.' SO, WHAT DOES PAUL
00:37:19.87\00:37:22.07
MEAN BY 'NOT UNDER LAW'?
YOU FIND THE PHRASE 'NOT UNDER
00:37:22.10\00:37:25.87
LAW' EIGHT TIMES IN THE BIBLE.
IT'S IN THE NEW TESTAMENT.
00:37:25.91\00:37:29.61
AND WE'RE NOT GOING TO LOOK
AT THEM ALL, BUT WE'LL LOOK AT A
00:37:29.64\00:37:31.08
FEW EXAMPLES OF THAT.
FOR EXAMPLE - AND SOMEONE, I
00:37:31.11\00:37:35.15
THINK, HERE IS GOING TO READ,
FOR ME, IN 1 CORINTHIANS 9:20.
00:37:35.18\00:37:40.19
YOU'LL HAVE THAT IN
JUST A MOMENT, JOHN?
00:37:40.22\00:37:41.76
LET ME READ, FOR YOU, GALATIANS
3:23, "BUT BEFORE FAITH CAME,
00:37:41.79\00:37:46.16
WE WERE KEPT UNDER GUARD BY THE
LAW, KEPT FOR THE FAITH WHICH
00:37:46.19\00:37:49.80
WOULD AFTERWARD BE REVEALED."
NOW, TO BE HONEST, I THINK THE
00:37:49.83\00:37:54.10
PHRASE 'UNDER LAW' CAN BE
USED A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT WAYS.
00:37:54.14\00:37:58.51
JUST BECAUSE YOU FIND A PHRASE
IN THE BIBLE, DOESN'T MEAN IT
00:37:58.54\00:38:00.31
ALWAYS MEANS THE SAME THING.
YOU HAVE TO LOOK AT THE CONTEXT
00:38:00.34\00:38:04.31
OF HOW IT'S BEING USED.
AND SO, WHEN PAUL IS SAYING
00:38:04.35\00:38:07.15
HERE, 'BEFORE FAITH CAME, WE
WERE KEPT UNDER THE LAW,' HE'S
00:38:07.18\00:38:10.55
REALLY TALKING ABOUT THE
LAW AS, SORT OF, SOMETHING OF A
00:38:10.59\00:38:12.59
GUARDRAIL THAT WOULD GUIDE.
IT'S GOOD TO DO THE RIGHT THING
00:38:12.62\00:38:19.53
EVEN IF IT'S FOR
THE WRONG REASON.
00:38:19.56\00:38:22.30
AND GOD GAVE THE LAW - WHY
DOES IT SAY THE COMMANDMENT CAME
00:38:22.33\00:38:24.80
BECAUSE OF DISOBEDIENCE?
AND SO, GOD GIVES THE LAW
00:38:24.83\00:38:28.17
BECAUSE IT'S IMPORTANT
FOR US TO BE LAW ABIDING.
00:38:28.20\00:38:33.21
YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES A PERSON
MIGHT DO THE RIGHT THING, AND
00:38:33.24\00:38:37.01
NOT UNDERSTAND WHY THEY'RE DOING
THE RIGHT THING UNTIL LATER.
00:38:37.05\00:38:41.28
DO WE TEACH OUR CHILDREN,
SOMETIMES, YOU KNOW, TO PRAY ON
00:38:41.32\00:38:45.39
A REGULAR BASIS AND READ THEIR
BIBLES EVERY DAY, AND TO ALWAYS
00:38:45.42\00:38:48.62
CLEAN THEIR ROOM, AND - THERE'S
A LOT OF THINGS THAT YOU TEACH
00:38:48.66\00:38:50.39
THEM AND SOMETIMES IT'S YEARS
BEFORE THEY FINALLY SAY, 'YOU
00:38:50.43\00:38:53.96
KNOW, NOW I SEE WHY THEY TAUGHT
ME THAT.' AND SO, WE KEEP THEM
00:38:54.00\00:39:00.07
UNDER LAW - WE HAVE RULES
FOR THEIR GOOD. YOU WANT THEM TO
00:39:00.10\00:39:04.44
FINALLY GET IT AND DO IT
BECAUSE IT IS THE RIGHT THING.
00:39:04.47\00:39:08.41
AND SO, GOD DID THAT WITH
HIS PEOPLE - WITH HIS CHILDREN.
00:39:08.44\00:39:11.28
ROMANS 3:19 - "NOW WE KNOW THAT
WHATEVER THE LAW SAYS, IT SAYS
00:39:11.31\00:39:16.45
TO THOSE WHO ARE UNDER THE
LAW, THAT EVERY MOUTH MAY BE
00:39:16.48\00:39:19.42
STOPPED, AND ALL THE WORLD
MAY BECOME GUILTY BEFORE GOD.
00:39:19.45\00:39:23.29
THEREFORE BY THE DEEDS OF THE
LAW NO FLESH WILL BE JUSTIFIED
00:39:23.32\00:39:27.30
IN HIS SIGHT, FOR BY THE
LAW IS THE KNOWLEDGE OF SIN."
00:39:27.30\00:39:31.10
GOD GAVE THE LAW ALSO SO PEOPLE
WOULD KNOW WHAT WAS RIGHT OR
00:39:31.13\00:39:33.97
WRONG. ROMANS 6:13, "AND
DO NOT PRESENT YOUR MEMBERS AS
00:39:34.00\00:39:38.24
INSTRUMENTS OF UNRIGHTEOUSNESS
TO SIN, BUT PRESENT YOURSELVES
00:39:38.27\00:39:42.38
TO GOD AS BEING ALIVE FROM
THE DEAD, AND YOUR MEMBERS AS
00:39:42.41\00:39:46.51
INSTRUMENTS OF
RIGHTEOUSNESS TO GOD.
00:39:46.55\00:39:48.75
FOR SIN SHALL NOT HAVE DOMINION
OVER YOU, FOR YOU ARE NOT UNDER
00:39:48.78\00:39:52.09
LAW BUT UNDER GRACE."
NOW WHAT IS THE GREATER POWER
00:39:52.12\00:39:56.06
TO OBEY, FEAR OF
PUNISHMENT OR GRACE?
00:39:56.09\00:40:02.56
IF THE REASON WE'RE OBEYING
GOD IS BECAUSE OF FEAR OF THE
00:40:02.60\00:40:06.50
CONSEQUENCES OF LAW BREAKING,
THEN WHEN THAT PENALTY IS
00:40:06.53\00:40:10.37
REMOVED, WE WON'T
WANT TO OBEY ANYMORE.
00:40:10.41\00:40:12.61
IN HEAVEN WILL WE NEED
TO BE AFRAID OF JUDGMENT?
00:40:12.64\00:40:16.81
SO IF WE'RE NOT OBEYING GOD FOR
LOVE, WHEN WE GET TO HEAVEN, WE
00:40:16.85\00:40:21.15
WON'T HAVE THE
RIGHT REASON TO OBEY HIM.
00:40:21.18\00:40:23.32
WE NEED TO LEARN TO OBEY HIM
FOR THE RIGHT REASON NOW SO THAT
00:40:23.35\00:40:26.62
MOTIVE STAYS
PURE THROUGH ETERNITY.
00:40:26.65\00:40:29.16
DID THAT MAKE SENSE?
ALRIGHT, "FOR SIN SHALL NOT HAVE
00:40:29.19\00:40:34.56
DOMINION OVER YOU, FOR
YOU ARE NOT UNDER THE LAW
00:40:34.56\00:40:37.83
BUT UNDER GRACE." NOW
WHEN HE SAYS YOU'RE NOT
00:40:37.87\00:40:41.44
UNDER THE LAW, IT
DOESN'T MEAN YOU CAN NOW SIN.
00:40:41.47\00:40:43.20
HE SAYS SIN WILL NOT
HAVE DOMINION OVER YOU.
00:40:43.24\00:40:45.24
AND YOU READ THE PRIOR VERSE
- I'M STILL IN ROMANS 6, HE SAYS
00:40:45.27\00:40:48.31
NOW, "PRESENT YOURSELVES TO GOD
AS BEING ALIVE FROM THE DEAD,
00:40:48.34\00:40:52.88
AND YOUR MEMBERS" - YOUR BODY
- YOUR LIFE - "AS INSTRUMENTS OF
00:40:52.91\00:40:55.58
RIGHTEOUSNESS TO GOD."
BECAUSE YOU ARE UNDER GRACE.
00:40:55.62\00:41:00.06
BECAUSE YOU HAVE BEEN FORGIVEN,
YOU ARE SO GRATEFUL YOU'VE BEEN
00:41:00.09\00:41:03.22
FORGIVEN, BECAUSE YOU ARE UNDER
GRACE, YOU DON'T WANT TO DO
00:41:03.26\00:41:05.93
ANYTHING THAT
WILL HURT THE LORD.
00:41:05.96\00:41:08.06
THAT'S WHAT HE'S SAYING.
GALATIANS 4:21, "TELL ME" - AND
00:41:08.10\00:41:13.47
NOW I'M JUMPING AHEAD - THIS
IS FOR ANOTHER STUDY, BUT JUST
00:41:13.50\00:41:15.67
USING THE TERM 'UNDER THE LAW'
- "TELL ME, YOU WHO DESIRE TO BE
00:41:15.70\00:41:18.74
UNDER THE LAW, DO YOU NOT HEAR
THE LAW?" HE SAID, 'THERE'S SOME
00:41:18.77\00:41:22.78
PEOPLE WHO DESIRE TO BE
UNDER THE LAW'. YOU KNOW, I WAS
00:41:22.81\00:41:28.72
LISTENING TO AN OLD SERMON
YESTERDAY, I WAS DOING A LITTLE
00:41:28.75\00:41:31.45
MAINTENANCE AROUND THE HOUSE
AND POPPED IN THE OLD CD OF JOE
00:41:31.49\00:41:36.69
CREWS READING HIS CLASSIC
BOOK CREEPING COMPROMISE .
00:41:36.73\00:41:40.60
HAVE YOU EVER READ THAT BOOK?
IF YOU'VE NOT READ THAT BOOK,
00:41:40.63\00:41:44.57
YOU SHOULD AT LEAST GET
THE CD AND LISTEN TO IT.
00:41:44.60\00:41:46.74
I THINK YOU COULD
PROBABLY GET IT ON JUMP DRIVE.
00:41:46.77\00:41:48.87
AND I KNOW THERE'S A FEW THINGS
THAT ARE DATED BECAUSE THE BOOK
00:41:48.90\00:41:50.94
WAS WRITTEN MANY YEARS AGO, BUT
IT'S AMAZING HOW RELEVANT IT IS.
00:41:50.97\00:41:54.58
AND, ANYWAY, HE WAS
TALKING ABOUT MARRIAGE.
00:41:54.61\00:41:59.51
AND JOE WAS ILLUSTRATING
- HE SAID WHEN PEOPLE START
00:41:59.55\00:42:04.39
COMPLAINING ABOUT THE LAW AND
THE RULES OF BEING A CHRISTIAN,
00:42:04.42\00:42:07.99
YOU'D ALWAYS MAKE SOME KIND
OF CHUCKLE BECAUSE HE SAID, 'I
00:42:08.02\00:42:11.19
PERFORMED A LOT OF WEDDINGS AND
WHEN I'VE GOT THE BRIDE AND THE
00:42:11.23\00:42:14.03
GROOM BEFORE - HE SAID
IT'S ONE OF THE MOST RESTRICTIVE
00:42:14.10\00:42:17.23
COVENANTS THAT YOU CAN
MAKE. HE SAID, 'BUT THEY'RE NOT
00:42:17.27\00:42:20.90
UNHAPPY, THEY'RE HAPPY' - AT
LEAST, NORMALLY, THEY'RE HAPPY.
00:42:20.94\00:42:23.71
IF THEY'RE NOT HAPPY ON THEIR
WEDDING DAY, YOU'VE GOT PROBLEMS
00:42:23.74\00:42:25.27
COMING LATER, RIGHT? LIKE A
SHOTGUN WEDDING OR SOMETHING.
00:42:25.31\00:42:29.58
HE SAID, 'BUT THAT GUY SITTING
THERE, HE'S SMILING' - AND HE
00:42:29.61\00:42:33.25
SAYS, 'DO YOU TAKE THIS WOMAN?'
AND WHEN HE SAYS, 'I DO,' HE
00:42:33.28\00:42:35.38
JUST GAVE HER FIFTY PERCENT
OF HIS PROPERTY (LAUGHTER) AND
00:42:35.42\00:42:40.06
HE'S STILL SMILING. AND
HE NOW CAN NO LONGER DATE
00:42:40.09\00:42:44.69
ANY OTHER GIRLS.' TALK ABOUT THE
RESTRICTIONS, WHY IS HE SMILING?
00:42:44.73\00:42:50.93
AND WHEN SHE SAYS, 'I DO,'
THEY'RE THE SAME RESTRICTIONS.
00:42:50.97\00:42:57.01
AND, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE PROMISING
IN SICKNESS AND HEALTH AND LOVE
00:42:57.04\00:43:00.14
THROUGH ALL THESE TRIALS AND -
AND THE COVENANT OF MARRIAGE IS
00:43:00.18\00:43:06.58
VERY RESTRICTIVE,
BUT WHY ARE THEY SMILING?
00:43:06.61\00:43:08.95
BECAUSE WHEN YOU
LOVE, YOU'RE HAPPY TO OBEY.
00:43:08.98\00:43:12.15
PEOPLE WHO ARE CHAFING UNDER
OBEDIENCE ARE TRYING TO OBEY
00:43:12.19\00:43:18.06
BECAUSE THEY SEE IT AS A
LAW INSTEAD OF LOVE AND GRACE.
00:43:18.09\00:43:22.30
WHEN THEY KNOW THAT GOD HAS
LOVED THEM AND FORGIVEN THEM AND
00:43:22.33\00:43:25.53
THAT THEY ARE SAVED BY GRACE,
THEY WANT TO OBEY BECAUSE THEY
00:43:25.57\00:43:28.50
LOVE GOD. THE LAW
AS OUR GUARD - THIS IS
00:43:28.54\00:43:33.24
THE NEXT SECTION - OR THE LAW AS
OUR GUARDRAIL - GALATIANS 3:19,
00:43:33.27\00:43:38.75
"WHAT PURPOSE THEN DOES THE LAW
SERVE? IT WAS ADDED BECAUSE OF
00:43:38.78\00:43:42.75
TRANSGRESSIONS, TILL THE SEED
SHOULD COME TO WHOM THE PROMISE
00:43:42.78\00:43:46.32
WAS MADE; AND IT WAS
APPOINTED THROUGH ANGELS BY THE
00:43:46.35\00:43:48.89
HAND OF A MEDIATOR." AND
YOU READ IN ROMANS CHAPTER
00:43:48.92\00:43:52.16
4:15, "BECAUSE THE LAW
BRINGS ABOUT WRATH; FOR WHERE
00:43:52.19\00:43:55.53
THERE IS NO LAW
THERE IS NO TRANSGRESSION."
00:43:55.56\00:43:59.07
LET ME SEE IF I CAN ILLUSTRATE
THIS WAY: PARENTS JUST HAD THEIR
00:43:59.10\00:44:06.68
CARPET CLEANED AND THEY'RE ALSO
HAVING SOME LANDSCAPING DONE IN
00:44:06.71\00:44:11.98
THE BACKYARD.
INSTEAD OF GRASS IN THE
00:44:12.01\00:44:13.68
BACKYARD, THERE'S A LOT OF MUD
UNTIL THE LANDSCAPING'S DONE.
00:44:13.72\00:44:18.15
THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF TIME
WHERE THE KIDS GET HOME BEFORE
00:44:18.19\00:44:20.19
THE PARENTS GET HOME FROM WORK
AND THE PARENTS COME HOME AND
00:44:20.22\00:44:24.76
THEY SEE BLACK
TRACKS ALL OVER THE CARPET.
00:44:24.79\00:44:29.10
AND THE KIDS WERE OUT PLAYING
IN THE BACKYARD AND THEY DIDN'T
00:44:29.13\00:44:31.90
THOROUGHLY WIPE THEIR
FEET AND THERE'S BLACK TRACKS.
00:44:31.93\00:44:35.90
AND SO THE PARENTS SAY, 'LOOK,
GUYS, WE JUST SHAMPOOED THE
00:44:35.94\00:44:39.17
CARPET. WE'RE
HAVING LANDSCAPING DONE.
00:44:39.21\00:44:41.91
YOU'VE GOT TO STAY
OUT OF THE BACKYARD.
00:44:41.94\00:44:43.45
YOU'RE GETTING MUD ALL OVER YOUR
FEET. STAY OUT OF THE BACKYARD
00:44:43.48\00:44:45.95
UNTIL WE GET THE LANDSCAPING
DONE.' AND THEY BRING OVER THE
00:44:45.98\00:44:50.72
CARPET CLEANER, THEY CLEAN
THE CARPET AGAIN, THEY SAY,
00:44:50.75\00:44:52.59
'ALRIGHT, GUYS, STAY OUT OF THE
BACKYARD.' THEY COME BACK HOME
00:44:52.62\00:44:56.49
FROM WORK. THE KIDS HAVE GONE
OUT IN THE BACKYARD AND THEY SEE
00:44:56.52\00:45:00.73
BLACK TRACKS ALL OVER THE CARPET
AGAIN. NOW THE FIRST TIME, KIDS
00:45:00.76\00:45:07.27
MAYBE WERE BEING KIDS - THEY
WEREN'T USING COMMON SENSE -
00:45:07.30\00:45:09.60
THEY DIDN'T REALIZE, YOU KNOW,
THERE'S GOING TO BE CONSEQUENCES
00:45:09.64\00:45:11.84
FOR THE SOD BEING GONE, YOU'RE
TRAMPLING ALL OVER THE BACKYARD,
00:45:11.87\00:45:15.14
AND YOU'RE GOING TO GET IT ALL
ON THE FLOOR, AND SO YOU LET IT
00:45:15.18\00:45:18.85
SLIDE. BUT THEN
YOU MADE A LAW AND YOU
00:45:18.88\00:45:22.58
SAID, 'DO NOT GO IN THE BACKYARD
UNTIL THE WORK IS DONE.'
00:45:22.62\00:45:27.29
THEY DIDN'T LISTEN. ARE
THEY, NOW, RESPONSIBLE IN A
00:45:27.32\00:45:31.26
DIFFERENT WAY,
BECAUSE YOU WARNED THEM?
00:45:31.29\00:45:33.70
>>YES. >>SEE? AND
SO, SIN IS KNOWING TO
00:45:33.73\00:45:39.30
DO GOOD AND NOT DOING IT. WHERE
THERE'S NO LAW THERE'S NO SIN.
00:45:39.33\00:45:44.07
NOW THERE WAS A LAW - DON'T
GO IN THE BACKYARD - NOW THEY'VE
00:45:44.11\00:45:47.11
BROKEN THE LAW - THE
CONSEQUENCES ARE GOING TO BE
00:45:47.14\00:45:49.54
MORE SEVERE BECAUSE YOU
STRAIGHTLY TOLD THEM, 'DON'T DO
00:45:49.58\00:45:53.48
IT.' THAT'S WHAT GOD IS SAYING,
IS HE NEEDED TO MAKE A LAW
00:45:53.52\00:45:57.35
BECAUSE THEY KEPT
GETTING TRACKS EVERYWHERE.
00:45:57.39\00:46:00.29
SEE WHAT I'M SAYING?
THEY KEPT TRACKING MUD
00:46:00.32\00:46:02.19
EVERYWHERE SO GOD SAID THE LAW
WAS BECAUSE OF TRANSGRESSION.
00:46:02.22\00:46:05.96
IT'S A GUARDRAIL.
IT SHOULDN'T BOTHER US.
00:46:05.99\00:46:09.40
WHEN YOU DRIVE DOWN THE ROAD
ON A WINDING ROAD AND THERE'S A
00:46:09.43\00:46:11.63
CLIFF AND YOU SEE A GUARDRAIL,
DO YOU FEEL LIKE YOUR FREEDOM IS
00:46:11.67\00:46:14.74
BEING INHIBITED? I
SAW A FUNNY CARTOON.
00:46:14.77\00:46:19.84
IT HAD A CAR - SHOWED A MINI VAN
DRIVING DOWN THIS WINDING ROAD
00:46:19.87\00:46:25.35
WHERE THERE'S A CLIFF AND THE
MINI VAN DRIVES OFF THE CLIFF,
00:46:25.38\00:46:31.42
THROUGH THE GUARDRAIL, AND
YOU CAN SEE IT'S FALLING THROUGH
00:46:31.45\00:46:33.36
MID-AIR AND A LITTLE SOUND
CAPTION COMES FROM THE MINI VAN
00:46:33.39\00:46:37.66
AND IT SAYS, 'RECALCULATING'.
(LAUGHTER) ALRIGHT.
00:46:37.69\00:46:48.17
YOU KNOW, I WAS READING
THE COMMENTARY OF JOHN GILL ON
00:46:48.20\00:46:50.61
GALATIANS CHAPTER 3:19 AND
JOHN GILL WAS AN OLD BAPTIST
00:46:50.64\00:46:53.94
THEOLOGIAN - A VERY
CONSERVATIVE, BRILLIANT BIBLE
00:46:53.98\00:46:57.88
COMMENTATOR - HERE'S WHAT HE
WROTE ABOUT THAT PASSAGE - THAT
00:46:57.91\00:47:01.48
ONE VERSE IN GALATIANS 3:19,
"THE LAW WAS ADDED, BECAUSE OF
00:47:01.52\00:47:05.82
TRANSGRESSIONS, 430
YEARS AFTER THE COVENANT." -
00:47:05.85\00:47:09.32
SO AFTER GOD MADE A COVENANT
AND ABRAHAM BELIEVED AND HE WAS
00:47:09.36\00:47:12.83
DECLARED RIGHTEOUS BY FAITH,
YEARS AFTER THAT, GOD MADE THE
00:47:12.86\00:47:17.60
OTHER LAWS THERE
AT MOUNT SINAI. -
00:47:17.63\00:47:20.94
"IT DID NOT SUCCEED IT NOR TAKE
THE PLACE OF IT, AND SO, MAKE IT
00:47:20.97\00:47:24.77
NULL AND VOID, BUT IT WAS OVER
AND ABOVE AND ADDED TO IT FOR
00:47:24.81\00:47:28.41
THE SAKE OF RESTRAINING
TRANSGRESSIONS, WHICH, HAD THERE
00:47:28.44\00:47:32.61
BEEN NO LAW, MEN COULD NOT HAVE
BEEN ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEM AND
00:47:32.65\00:47:36.48
THEY WOULD HAVE GONE INTO THEM
WITHOUT FEAR AND WITH IMPUNITY."
00:47:36.52\00:47:39.79
- THEY WOULD HAVE CONTINUED
DISOBEYING WITHOUT FEAR AND
00:47:39.82\00:47:41.52
IMPUNITY - "BUT THE LAW WAS
GIVEN TO LAY RESTRAINT ON MEN BY
00:47:41.56\00:47:45.56
FORBIDDING SUCH AND SUCH
A THINGS ON PAIN OF DEATH."
00:47:45.59\00:47:48.46
AND SO GOD HAD TO MAKE THE
LAW AND WHERE THERE IS MUCH
00:47:48.50\00:47:51.47
TRANSGRESSION THERE IS MUCH
LAW. THAT'S WHY WE'VE GOT SO
00:47:51.50\00:47:54.20
MANY LAWS ON OUR
BOOKS. OKAY, THE LAW AS OUR
00:47:54.24\00:47:57.94
SCHOOLMASTER - AND
I'M RUNNING OUT OF TIME.
00:47:57.97\00:48:00.24
IT'S OKAY, I'M
RUNNING OUT OF LESSON TOO.
00:48:00.28\00:48:03.48
SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ, FOR ME,
GALATIANS 3:24 - MANJEET, GET
00:48:03.51\00:48:06.95
READY BECAUSE YOU'RE
NEXT. A SCHOOLMASTER COMES
00:48:06.98\00:48:10.99
FROM THE WORD PAIDAGOGOS.
YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU'VE GOT
00:48:11.02\00:48:16.26
SOMEONE WHO TAKES CARE OF
CHILDREN AND THEY'RE A DOCTOR,
00:48:16.29\00:48:18.53
WHAT DO YOU CALL
THEM? >>PEDIATRICIAN.
00:48:18.56\00:48:20.36
>>PEDIA-TRICIAN. AND A
PAIDAGOGOS - THAT WORD IS
00:48:20.40\00:48:24.53
SIMILAR AND IT
MEANS 'A CHILD TRAINER'.
00:48:24.57\00:48:28.87
NOW, WITH THAT IN MIND,
READ, PLEASE, GALATIANS 3:24.
00:48:28.90\00:48:32.11
>>GALATIANS 3:24, "THEREFORE THE
LAW WAS OUR TUTOR TO BRING US TO
00:48:32.14\00:48:37.81
CHRIST, THAT WE MIGHT
BE JUSTIFIED BY FAITH."
00:48:37.85\00:48:42.38
>>IT WAS VERY COMMON IN THE
ANCIENT WORLD - IT STILL HAPPENS
00:48:42.42\00:48:44.92
TODAY - THEY DIDN'T HAVE PUBLIC
SCHOOLS BUT THE EDUCATED PEOPLE
00:48:44.95\00:48:47.96
OFTEN HAD SOMEONE THAT WOULD
SERVE AS AN INSTRUCTOR SOMETIMES
00:48:47.99\00:48:52.26
FOR ONE FAMILY WITH MANY
CHILDREN, SOMETIMES SEVERAL
00:48:52.29\00:48:54.93
FAMILIES WOULD WORK TOGETHER
- THEY WOULD KIND OF HIRE THEIR
00:48:54.93\00:48:57.47
TEACHERS. IF YOU
WERE ALEXANDER THE GREAT
00:48:57.50\00:49:01.04
AND YOU HAD A WEALTHY FATHER
LIKE KING PHILLIP, YOU WERE
00:49:01.07\00:49:03.64
LUCKY BECAUSE YOUR TUTOR -
YOUR PAIDAGOGOS - WAS ARISTOTLE.
00:49:03.67\00:49:09.94
ALEXANDER THE GREAT HAD
ARISTOTLE AS HIS TEACHER.
00:49:09.98\00:49:13.95
YOU KNOW, I SEE A COUPLE OF
EXAMPLES - AND I'M STRETCHING IT
00:49:13.98\00:49:16.25
A LITTLE BUT, YOU KNOW,
THE BIBLE MAKES AN INTERESTING
00:49:16.28\00:49:20.06
STATEMENT. IT TALKS
ABOUT, IN GENESIS 35:8,
00:49:20.09\00:49:24.06
IT SAYS, "NOW DEBORAH," -
THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THE NAME
00:49:24.09\00:49:26.83
APPEARS IN THE BIBLE - "NOW
DEBORAH, REBEKAH'S NURSE, DIED,
00:49:26.86\00:49:31.60
AND SHE WAS BURIED BELOW
BETHEL UNDER THE TEREBINTH TREE.
00:49:31.63\00:49:35.00
SO THE NAME OF IT WAS
CALLED ALLON BACHUTH."
00:49:35.04\00:49:37.84
IT MEANS 'TREE OF WEEPING'.
IT'S AN INTERESTING FOOTNOTE.
00:49:37.87\00:49:40.71
DID YOU EVER NOTICE THAT OUT OF
THE BLUE IT MENTIONS THE DEATH
00:49:40.74\00:49:43.65
OF REBEKAH'S MAIDSERVANT WHO,
I BELIEVE, OUTLIVED REBEKAH,
00:49:43.68\00:49:47.92
BECAUSE SHE HAD BEEN NURSE -
SHE HAD BEEN THE TEACHER AND THE
00:49:47.95\00:49:51.72
TRAINER OF THE TWIN
BOYS, JACOB AND ESAU.
00:49:51.75\00:49:55.79
AND SO, THE BIBLE WRITERS NOTED
HER DEATH BECAUSE SHE HAD HAD
00:49:55.82\00:49:59.09
SUCH A BIG
INFLUENCE ON THEIR LIVES.
00:49:59.13\00:50:00.96
IT DOESN'T NOTE THAT ABOUT
ZIPPORAH OR SOME OF THE OTHER
00:50:01.00\00:50:07.37
WIVES OF - NOT ZIPPORAH - NO, IT
DOESN'T NOTE THAT ABOUT ZIPPORAH
00:50:07.40\00:50:11.24
EITHER, ACTUALLY, THOUGH OTHER
WIVES OF - BILHAH AND ZILPA - IS
00:50:11.27\00:50:15.71
WHAT I WAS GOING TO
SAY. READ, IN 2 SAMUEL 12:25,
00:50:15.74\00:50:20.92
DAVID HAD A LOT OF SONS.
DO YOU THINK DAVID TOOK TIME
00:50:20.95\00:50:23.49
TO HOMESCHOOL THEM EVERY DAY?
WHO DO YOU THINK TAUGHT SOLOMON?
00:50:23.52\00:50:28.46
I'VE GOT A THEORY: 2 SAMUEL
12:25, "AND HE SENT WORD BY THE
00:50:28.49\00:50:32.96
HAND OF NATHAN" - DAVID CALLED
HIM SOLOMON - NATHAN THE PROPHET
00:50:32.99\00:50:35.93
CALLED HIM "...JEDIDIAH,
BECAUSE OF THE LORD."
00:50:35.96\00:50:38.53
IT SAYS THE LORD LOVED HIM.
NATHAN THE PROPHET WAS PROBABLY
00:50:38.57\00:50:43.04
THE PAIDAGOGOS FOR
SOLOMON AND IT KEPT HIM VERY
00:50:43.07\00:50:48.18
CLOSE TO THE LORD.
THOSE TEACHERS, BACK THEN, NOT
00:50:48.21\00:50:52.45
ONLY TAUGHT THEM, THEY WATCHED
OVER THEM, THE MIGHT HAVE
00:50:52.48\00:50:55.08
COOKED THEIR MEALS,
THEY COULD DISCIPLINE THEM.
00:50:55.12\00:50:57.79
DOES ANYONE HERE REMEMBER THE
DAYS WHEN YOUR TEACHERS HAD THE
00:50:57.82\00:51:02.69
FULL SUPPORT OF PARENTS TO SPANK
YOU OR RAP YOUR KNUCKLES IN
00:51:02.72\00:51:07.30
SCHOOL AND YOU SURVIVED?
HOW MANY OF YOU NOW LIVE DURING
00:51:07.30\00:51:13.07
A TIME WHEN THAT IS ILLEGAL?
I WENT TO MILITARY SCHOOL AND
00:51:13.10\00:51:20.28
THEY'D JUST LEAN YOU OVER THE
DESK AND WHIP YOU WITH A FIELD
00:51:20.31\00:51:23.01
BELT AND YOU HAD TO - THEY'D
SAY, 'ASSUME THE POSITION'.
00:51:23.04\00:51:26.98
AND SOME OF YOU WENT TO - WHEN I
WAS IN CATHOLIC SCHOOL THE NUNS
00:51:27.02\00:51:31.22
WOULD COME BY AND
THEY'D RAP YOUR KNUCKLES.
00:51:31.25\00:51:33.89
THEN - AND, YOU KNOW, I'M SURE
THERE WERE OCCASIONS OF ABUSE,
00:51:33.92\00:51:38.33
BUT I THINK, IN THE BIG PICTURE,
IT PROBABLY DID MOST OF US MORE
00:51:38.36\00:51:40.83
GOOD THAN HARM. >>AMEN.
00:51:40.86\00:51:43.40
>>BUT THAT'S SOMETHING THAT THEY
DID. SO THE SCHOOLMASTER WAS NOT
00:51:43.43\00:51:48.40
ONLY TO LEAD, TO GUIDE,
TO TEACH, BUT TO DISCIPLINE.
00:51:48.44\00:51:51.94
IT SAYS THE LAW WAS A TUTOR
- IT WOULD ALSO DISCIPLINE US.
00:51:51.97\00:51:55.84
AND THEN, FINALLY,
THE LAW AND THE BELIEVER .
00:51:55.88\00:51:58.51
GALATIANS 3:25, "BUT AFTER FAITH
HAS COME, WE ARE NO LONGER UNDER
00:51:58.55\00:52:03.28
A TUTOR." THE
CHILDREN WOULD EVENTUALLY
00:52:03.32\00:52:05.22
REACH MATURITY AND
THEY LAUNCHED ON THEIR OWN.
00:52:05.25\00:52:07.79
YOU KNOW, PAUL SAYS, 'WHEN I WAS
A CHILD I THOUGHT LIKE A CHILD,
00:52:07.82\00:52:10.53
I ACTED LIKE A CHILD, BUT WHEN I
BECAME A MAN I PUT AWAY CHILDISH
00:52:10.56\00:52:13.16
THINGS.' AT SOME POINT, WHEN YOU
MATURE AS A CHRISTIAN, YOU MAY
00:52:13.19\00:52:16.46
START OUT AS A CHILD
SAYING, 'DON'T DO THIS.
00:52:16.50\00:52:19.33
YOU'RE GOING TO GET SPANKED.'
BUT WHEN YOU MATURE, YOU SAY,
00:52:19.37\00:52:21.94
'DON'T DO THIS
BECAUSE IT'S NOT GOOD.
00:52:21.97\00:52:24.47
BECAUSE IT DISPLEASES THE
LORD. BECAUSE I TRUST GOD.'
00:52:24.51\00:52:27.74
YOU GET THE MATURE MOTIVES.
PAUL WAS NOT SAYING THAT ONCE WE
00:52:27.78\00:52:32.51
HAVE FAITH WE NO LONGER NEED THE
LAW. IS THE LAW STILL THERE TO
00:52:32.55\00:52:36.02
SHOW US SIN? >>YES.
00:52:36.05\00:52:38.02
>>DOESN'T PAUL SAY, 'LET EVERY
ONE OF US EXAMINE OURSELVES,
00:52:38.05\00:52:40.72
WHETHER WE BE IN THE FAITH'?
AND THAT LAW NEEDS TO BE,
00:52:40.76\00:52:44.09
THEN, WRITTEN IN OUR
HEART. JESUS SAID WHOEVER SINS
00:52:44.13\00:52:47.56
BREAKS THE LAW AND
HE IS A TRANSGRESSOR.
00:52:47.60\00:52:51.13
YOU'RE NOT FREE
IF YOU'RE IN SIN.
00:52:51.17\00:52:53.03
WE ARE OUT OF TIME FOR
THIS STUDY TODAY, BUT I WANT TO
00:52:53.07\00:52:55.70
REMIND EVERYBODY WE
DO HAVE A FREE STUDY.
00:52:55.74\00:52:57.84
IF YOU HAVE NOT RECEIVED
THIS LESSON BEFORE, IT IS OUR
00:52:57.87\00:53:00.44
BRAND-NEW STUDY GUIDE DEALING
WITH THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD AND
00:53:00.48\00:53:03.75
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LAW AND
GRACE, AND IT'S CALLED WRITTEN
00:53:03.78\00:53:06.78
IN STONE . IT
ALSO TALKS ABOUT IT
00:53:06.82\00:53:08.65
BEING WRITTEN IN THE HEART.
IF YOU CALL 866-788-3966 THEY'LL
00:53:08.68\00:53:14.82
SEND THAT TO YOU FOR
FREE. PLEASE READ IT AND THEN
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THAT'S 866-STUDY-MORE - AND ASK
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FOR OFFER #111 WHEN YOU
DO. WELL, WE'RE OUT OF TIME FOR
00:53:19.46\00:53:23.20
TODAY'S STUDY AND THANK YOU VERY
MUCH FOR JOINING US, FRIENDS.
00:53:23.23\00:53:26.40
WE WILL STUDY HIS WORD WITH
YOU AGAIN TOGETHER NEXT WEEK.
00:53:26.43\00:53:30.71
>>DID YOU KNOW THAT NOAH WAS
PRESENT AT THE BIRTH OF ABRAHAM?
00:53:30.74\00:53:34.31
OKAY, MAYBE HE WASN'T IN
THE ROOM, BUT HE WAS ALIVE AND
00:53:34.34\00:53:38.21
PROBABLY TELLING
STORIES ABOUT HIS FLOATING ZOO.
00:53:38.25\00:53:41.42
FROM THE CREATION OF THE
WORLD TO THE LAST-DAY EVENTS OF
00:53:41.45\00:53:44.45
REVELATION, 'BIBLEHISTORY.COM'
IS A FREE RESOURCE WHERE YOU CAN
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EXPLORE MAJOR BIBLE
EVENTS AND CHARACTERS.
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ENHANCE YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE
BIBLE AND DRAW CLOSER TO GOD'S
00:53:51.76\00:53:54.83
WORD. GO DEEPER. VISIT
'BIBLEHISTORY.COM'. (MUSIC)
00:53:54.86\00:54:08.71
>>YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD
THE EXPRESSION BEFORE, 'IF YOU
00:54:08.74\00:54:10.75
DON'T LIKE THE WEATHER IN TEXAS,
JUST WAIT; IT'LL CHANGE.' AND
00:54:10.78\00:54:14.52
YOU'VE ALSO HEARD, 'EVERYTHING
IS BIGGER IN TEXAS - THE
00:54:14.55\00:54:17.05
RANCHES, THE BELT BUCKLES,
THE COWBOY HATS...' BUT THE MOST
00:54:17.09\00:54:21.12
FAMOUS SLOGAN ABOUT
TEXAS IS 'REMEMBER THE ALAMO!'
00:54:21.16\00:54:29.00
THE VIOLENT BATTLES AND BRAVERY
OF ICONIC HEROES, HAVE BEEN THE
00:54:29.03\00:54:32.07
STUFF OF LEGENDS, THROUGHOUT
WHICH ENTIRE CULTURES OFTEN DRAW
00:54:32.10\00:54:35.50
THEIR IDENTITY AND PRIDE, EVEN
LONG AFTER CENTURIES ARE PAST.
00:54:35.54\00:54:39.07
AND IN TEXAS, THE STORY OF THE
ALAMO HAS BEEN A RALLYING CRY OF
00:54:39.11\00:54:42.71
TEXAS
INDEPENDENCE FOR 200 YEARS.
00:54:42.74\00:54:46.25
ONE REASON THAT TEXANS LOVE TO
BRAG THAT EVERYTHING IS BIGGER
00:54:46.28\00:54:48.78
IN TEXAS IS, OF COURSE, BECAUSE
TEXAS IS THE LARGEST OF THE
00:54:48.82\00:54:52.42
LOWER 48 U.S. STATES.
IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE THAT THIS
00:54:52.45\00:54:56.12
MASSIVE STATE GOT ITS BEGINNING
IN A VERY SMALL CHRISTIAN
00:54:56.16\00:54:59.66
MISSION DURING THE
BATTLE OF THE ALAMO.
00:54:59.69\00:55:03.20
EVERY YEAR THIS FAMOUS MISSION
MUSEUM RECEIVES OVER TWO AND A
00:55:03.23\00:55:06.23
HALF MILLION VISITORS FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE PLANET, THAT ARE
00:55:06.27\00:55:09.50
EAGER TO GET A GOOD
LOOK AT THIS LEGENDARY SITE.
00:55:09.54\00:55:13.14
THE ALAMO PLAYED A CRITICAL
ROLE IN THE TEXAS REVOLUTION.
00:55:13.17\00:55:16.95
IN DECEMBER 1835, TEXANS
AND TEJANO VOLUNTEERS BATTLED
00:55:16.98\00:55:21.45
MEXICAN TROOPS QUARTERED IN
THE CITY, FORCING GENERAL MARTIN
00:55:21.48\00:55:24.59
PERFECTO DE COS TO SURRENDER.
THE VICTORIOUS VOLUNTEERS
00:55:24.62\00:55:27.92
THEN OCCUPIED THE ALAMO
AND STRENGTHENED ITS DEFENSES.
00:55:27.96\00:55:32.46
FAMOUS AMERICANS LIKE DAVY
CROCKETT, JIM BOWIE, AND COLONEL
00:55:32.49\00:55:35.26
WILLIAM TRAVIS MADE THIS
LOCATION - THIS ANCIENT MISSION
00:55:35.30\00:55:38.53
- THE BEACHHEAD - THE LAST
STAND IN AN EPIC BATTLE TO WIN
00:55:38.57\00:55:42.74
INDEPENDENCE OF
TEXAS FROM MEXICO.
00:55:42.77\00:55:46.37
ON FEBRUARY 23, 1836, THE
ARRIVAL OF GENERAL ANTONIO LOPEZ
00:55:46.41\00:55:51.18
SANTA ANA NEARLY
CAUGHT THEM BY SURPRISE.
00:55:51.21\00:55:54.18
UNDAUNTED, THE TEXANS AND
TEJANOS PREPARED TO DEFEND THE
00:55:54.22\00:55:57.42
ALAMO. FOR THIS
SMALL RAG-TAG GROUP OF
00:55:57.45\00:55:59.82
REBELS, THE YOUNGEST OF WHOM
WAS ABOUT SIXTEEN AND THE OLDEST
00:55:59.85\00:56:02.92
SEVENTY-FIVE, WAS AGAINST
THE WELL-TRAINED AND ORGANIZED
00:56:02.96\00:56:06.13
MEXICAN ARMY OF SIX
THOUSAND-PLUS SOLDIERS.
00:56:06.16\00:56:09.46
IT WAS A FIERCE AND LOPSIDED
BATTLE, YET THE SMALL FORCE OF
00:56:09.50\00:56:12.67
REBELS WAS ABLE TO REPEL
THE TROOPS FOR THIRTEEN DAYS.
00:56:12.70\00:56:17.21
LEGEND HOLDS THAT WITH THE
POSSIBILITY OF ADDITIONAL HELP
00:56:17.24\00:56:20.61
FADING, COLONEL TRAVIS DREW A
LINE IN THE GROUND WITH A SWORD
00:56:20.64\00:56:24.31
AND ASKED ANY MAN WILLING TO
STAY AND FIGHT TO STEP OVER THE
00:56:24.35\00:56:28.02
LINE. ALL EXCEPT
ONE CROSSED OVER.
00:56:28.05\00:56:31.79
THE FINAL ASSAULT
CAME BEFORE DAYBREAK.
00:56:31.82\00:56:34.29
ON THE MORNING OF MARCH 6, 1836,
THE THIRTEENTH DAY OF THE SIEGE,
00:56:34.32\00:56:39.03
CANON AND SMALL ARMS FIRE
FROM INSIDE THE ALAMO BEAT BACK
00:56:39.06\00:56:42.50
SEVERAL MEXICAN ATTACKS.
REGROUPING, SANTA ANA'S SOLDIERS
00:56:42.53\00:56:46.84
SCALED THE WALLS AND RUSHED
INTO THE COMPOUND. THE DESPERATE
00:56:46.87\00:56:50.67
STRUGGLE CONTINUED UNTIL
THE DEFENDERS WERE OVERWHELMED.
00:56:50.71\00:56:53.88
BY SUNRISE, THE BATTLE HAD ENDED
AND THE GARRISON WAS SLAIN.
00:56:53.91\00:56:58.31
YOU KNOW, HISTORIANS MAY DEBATE
SOME OF THE DETAILS REGARDING
00:56:58.35\00:57:01.08
THE BATTLE OF THE ALAMO,
BUT NONE OF THEM QUESTION THE
00:57:01.12\00:57:03.82
INCREDIBLE SACRIFICE THAT WAS
MADE AND THE COURAGE THAT WAS
00:57:03.85\00:57:06.39
DISPLAYED DURING
THAT INTENSE CONFLICT.
00:57:06.42\00:57:09.09
THEY MADE THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE
- GIVING THEIR LIVES - AND THIS
00:57:09.12\00:57:12.96
IS WHY THE STORY OF THE ALAMO IS
SO INSPIRING AND SO ENCOURAGING,
00:57:12.99\00:57:17.33
YOU KNOW? AND
THAT'S WHY THE BIBLE IS SO
00:57:17.37\00:57:18.57
INSPIRING, FRIENDS, BECAUSE
SOMEONE WAS WILLING TO MAKE THE
00:57:18.60\00:57:21.20
ULTIMATE SACRIFICE AND
GIVE HIS LIFE SO YOU COULD HAVE
00:57:21.24\00:57:24.34
FREEDOM AND ETERNAL LIFE.
DON'T YOU THINK YOU COULD TRUST
00:57:24.37\00:57:27.51
YOUR LIFE TO A FRIEND LIKE THAT,
THAT WOULD GIVE EVERYTHING?
00:57:27.54\00:57:30.75
THE STORY OF THE GOSPEL IS
A STORY OF COURAGE AND HOPE.
00:57:30.78\00:57:33.78
IT'S THE STORY OF GOD WHO WILL
NEVER LEAVE YOU WITHOUT DEFENSE
00:57:33.82\00:57:36.48
AND SUPPORT. JESUS
IS THE GOOD NEWS AND
00:57:36.52\00:57:39.69
THE GOSPEL IS A STORY
WORTH REMEMBERING. (MUSIC)
00:57:39.72\00:57:57.87
>>TOGETHER WE HAVE SPREAD THE
GOSPEL MUCH FARTHER THAN EVER
00:57:57.91\00:58:01.84
BEFORE. THANK
YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT.
00:58:01.88\00:58:10.45
(MUSIC)
00:58:10.49\00:58:25.47