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00:36 >>HELLO FRIENDS, AND WELCOME TO SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY 00:37 HOUR COMING TO YOU HERE FROM THE GRANITE BAY SEVENTH-DAY 00:40 ADVENTIST CHURCH NEAR SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA. 00:43 WE'D LIKE TO WELCOME OUR ONLINE MEMBERS AND ALSO THOSE WATCHING 00:45 ON THE VARIOUS TELEVISION NETWORKS AND ONLINE AND, ALSO, 00:49 OF COURSE, THE MEMBERS AND THE VISITORS RIGHT HERE AT THE 00:51 GRANITE BAY CHURCH. GOOD TO SEE YOU 00:53 HERE THIS MORNING. WELL, OUR LESSON STUDY FOR 00:55 THIS QUARTER IS ON THE BOOK OF GALATIANS. OUR LESSON QUARTERLY 00:58 IS CALLED THE GOSPEL IN GALATIANS . TODAY WE FIND 01:02 OURSELVES ABOUT HALFWAY THROUGH OUR STUDY - LESSON #7 - AND THE 01:06 TITLE FOR OUR STUDY TODAY IS THE ROAD TO FAITH . 01:10 NOW, FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE WATCHING, IF YOU DON'T HAVE A 01:13 COPY OF OUR STUDY FOR TODAY, YOU CAN DOWNLOAD LESSON #7 JUST BY 01:17 GOING TO THE AMAZING FACTS WEBSITE, JUST AMAZINGFACTS.ORG 01:21 AND YOU CAN STUDY ALONG WITH US. WE ALSO HAVE A FREE OFFER THAT 01:24 GOES ALONG WITH OUR STUDY FOR TODAY. 01:26 IT IS AN AMAZING FACTS STUDY GUIDE THAT YOU CAN RECEIVE FOR 01:30 FREE SIMPLY BY CALLING OUR RESOURCE PHONE NUMBER. 01:33 IT'S WRITTEN IN STONE - IS THE NAME OF THE STUDY GUIDE - THE 01:36 NUMBER TO CALL IS 866-788-3966 AND YOU CAN ASK FOR OFFER #111. 01:43 THAT NUMBER, AGAIN, IS 866-788-3966. 01:47 ASK FOR THE STUDY GUIDE #111 OR ASK BY NAME - WRITTEN IN STONE - 01:52 WE'LL BE HAPPY TO SEND THIS TO ANYBODY WHO CALLS AND ASKS. 01:56 WELL, BEFORE WE GET TO OUR STUDY, AS WE NORMALLY DO, WE 01:58 LIKE TO LIFT OUR VOICES IN SONG. 02:00 I'D LIKE TO INVITE OUR SONG LEADERS TO JOIN ME ON STAGE. 02:02 (LIGHT PIANO MUSIC) >>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS. 02:08 WE'RE GLAD TO BE HERE TO SING SONGS WITH YOU, THOSE OF YOU 02:12 HERE AND THOSE OF YOU AROUND THE WORLD. 02:14 WE'RE GOING TO START WITH #602 - O BROTHER BE FAITHFUL - #602 AND 02:20 WE'RE GOING TO DO THE FIRST, SECOND, AND FOURTH STANZAS. 02:24 (PIANO MUSIC) 04:39 >>THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SINGING ALONG WITH US 04:40 AND, AT THIS TIME, PASTOR ROSS WILL HAVE OUR OPENING PRAYER. 04:53 >>LET US BOW OUR HEADS FOR PRAYER. 04:54 DEAR FATHER, ONCE AGAIN, THANK YOU FOR THE PRIVILEGE OF BEING 04:57 ABLE TO GATHER IN YOUR PRESENCE ON THIS, THE SABBATH, TO OPEN UP 04:59 YOUR WORD AND STUDY TOGETHER. AND TODAY, AS WE TALK ABOUT THE 05:02 IMPORTANCE OF FAITH AND HOW WE CAN EXERCISE FAITH IN OUR 05:06 DAY-BY-DAY LIFE, WE ASK FOR THE SPIRIT TO COME AND GUIDE OUR 05:09 HEARTS AND OUR MINDS, FOR WE ASK THIS IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. 05:13 OUR LESSON TODAY IS GOING TO BE BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR DOUG. 05:21 >>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS, AND WELCOME, FRIENDS, TO GRANITE 05:25 BAY. I WANT TO WELCOME THOSE WHO 05:26 JOINED US FOR OUR SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR. 05:28 WE KNOW THAT WE'VE GOT PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD - WE MEET 05:32 THEM EVERYWHERE - MANY ARE IN OTHER ENGLISH-SPEAKING COUNTRIES 05:36 - YOU KNOW, WE CAN LOOK AT A MAP AND SEE, FROM THE RESPONSES THAT 05:39 WE GET, WHERE PEOPLE ARE WATCHING. 05:42 AND, OF COURSE, NUMBER ONE IS NORTH AMERICA AND THEN WE HAVE, 05:46 I THINK, GREAT BRITAIN, CANADA - THESE AREN'T IN EXACT SEQUENCE, 05:51 BUT NOT TOO FAR OFF - SOUTH AFRICA, INDIA, A LOT IN JAMAICA 05:57 - IT'S AMAZING - AND, YOU KNOW, YOU GO TO JUST ABOUT EVERY OTHER 06:01 ENGLISH-SPEAKING PLACE BUT, THEN, IT'S THE MIDDLE EAST, THE 06:07 PHILIPPINES - OF COURSE ENGLISH IS A SECOND LANGUAGE THERE - 06:10 SOUTH AMERICA AND JUST ALL OVER THE WORLD WE GET RESPONSES. 06:13 SO WE WANT TO WELCOME OUR FRIENDS. 06:14 IT'S ALWAYS HUMBLING TO THINK HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE ABLE TO JOIN 06:19 US IN OUR LITTLE STUDY HERE. AGAIN, AS PASTOR ROSS SAID, 06:23 'WE'RE CONTINUING IN OUR STUDY ON GALATIANS AND TODAY WE'RE IN 06:27 GALATIANS CHAPTER - WE'RE IN CHAPTER 3, BUT WE'RE IN LESSON 06:30 #7 - THE ROAD TO FAITH . MAYBE I SHOULD JUST GET A LITTLE 06:34 PREFACE HERE: WE DO THIRTEEN WEEKS OF SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY. 06:41 THERE ARE SIXTEEN CHAPTERS IN GALATIANS. 06:44 THAT MEANS THERE IS SOME OVERLAP AS WE GO FROM WEEK TO WEEK AND 06:49 SO, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN UNDERSTAND THAT. 06:51 OUR MEMORY VERSE TODAY IS FROM GALATIANS 2 - I'M SORRY, 06:55 GALATIANS 3, VERSE 22 - THIS IS FROM THE NEW KING JAMES VERSION 06:58 - YOU CAN READ IT RIGHT OUT OF YOUR QUARTERLY. I INVITE YOU TO 07:02 SAY IT WITH ME - GALATIANS 3, VERSE 22 - YOU READY? 07:06 "BUT THE SCRIPTURE HAS CONFINED ALL UNDER SIN, THAT THE PROMISES 07:11 BY FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST MIGHT BE GIVEN TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE." 07:17 OF COURSE, THE SCRIPTURE TELLS US ALL HAVE SINNED - WE'RE ALL 07:19 CONSIGNED UNDER SIN - SO ANYBODY'S SAVED. 07:22 JEW - GENTILE - WE'RE ALL SAVED BY FAITH. 07:24 >>AMEN. >>AND SO, HE'S 07:25 EMPHASIZING THAT HERE. NOW, IN THE BEGINNING OF THE 07:30 LESSON IT TELLS AN INTERESTING STORY. 07:33 HOMING PIGEONS HAVE THE ABILITY TO, OF COURSE, FIND HOME. 07:37 I THINK I TOLD YOU AN ILLUSTRATION A FEW WEEKS AGO 07:40 THAT THE ARABS, YEARS AGO, BEFORE THEY HAD GPS AND EVEN A 07:44 COMPASS, WHEN THEY WOULD BE IN THE DESERT, SOMETIMES THERE 07:47 WOULD BE DAYS OF SANDSTORM WHERE THEY COULD NOT TELL WHICH 07:52 DIRECTION WAS THE WAY HOME. AND THE SUN WAS BLOCKED OUT AND 07:57 ALL THEY COULD SEE WAS THIS BROWN HAZE IN EVERY DIRECTION 07:59 AND THEY DIDN'T KNOW WHICH WAY TO GO. 08:00 THERE WAS NO PATHS, IT'S TRACKLESS DESERT, AND THEY WOULD 08:04 OFTEN KEEP A DOVE OR HOMING PIGEON WITH THEM - YOU KNOW, 08:08 DOVES AND PIGEONS - PRETTY MUCH THE SAME BIRD - AND THEY WOULD 08:13 RELEASE IT WITH A STRING TIED TO IT AND IT WOULD CIRCLE A 08:17 MINUTE AND THEN IT WOULD BEGIN TO FLY IN THE DIRECTION OF HOME 08:19 AND THEY COULD ALMOST ALWAYS TRUST IT. 08:21 BUT IN THE LESSON THEY SAID THAT EVEN HOMING PIGEONS CAN 08:24 SOMETIMES GET THEIR WIRES CROSSED AND IT TALKS ABOUT ONE 08:28 TIME IN ENGLAND THAT, FOR SOME REASON THEY USED TO, YOU KNOW, 08:32 BREED AND KEEP ALL THESE HOMING PIGEONS THERE - 20,000 BIRDS 08:36 WERE RELEASED AND NEVER CAME BACK. 08:38 THEY GOT LOST. THEY WERE WONDERING IF IT HAD 08:41 SOMETHING TO DO WITH SOLAR FLARES THAT AFFECT THE MAGNETIC 08:44 FIELDS AROUND THE EARTH DURING THAT TIME. 08:48 AND SO, SOMETIMES WE CAN GET MIXED UP ABOUT FINDING OUR WAY 08:54 HOME. AND SO, HERE HE'S TALKING ABOUT 08:56 THE ROAD TO FAITH AND IF YOU CAN'T TRUST A COMPASS AND YOU 09:02 CAN'T TRUST THE DOVE, YOU CAN ALWAYS TRUST THE BIBLE, AMEN? 09:06 >>AMEN. >> THE LAW AND THE PROMISE - 09:07 NOW, ONE OF THE REASONS THAT PEOPLE 09:09 GET MIXED UP IS THERE ARE SOME VERSES IN THE BIBLE THAT, READ 09:14 OUT OF CONTEXT OR BY THEMSELVES COULD LEAD A PERSON TO BELIEVE 09:18 THAT SOMEHOW WE WORK OUR WAY TO THE KINGDOM. 09:22 I'VE GOT A FEW EXAMPLES OF THOSE HERE. 09:25 OH, YOU KNOW WHAT I WANT TO DO FIRST BEFORE I GET TO THAT? 09:27 I WANT TO JUST READ THROUGH OUR ASSIGNMENT. 09:29 GO WITH ME TO GALATIANS CHAPTER 3 - LET ME TELL YOU THE VERSES 09:32 WE'RE GOING TO TRY AND COVER TODAY. 09:34 I THINK THE LESSONS HAVE VERSES 19 THROUGH 26, BUT I'M GOING TO 09:40 GO AHEAD AND READ ALL THE WAY TO THE END OF THE CHAPTER, JUST FOR 09:44 CONTINUITY. SO, IF YOU START WITH GALATIANS 09:46 CHAPTER 3 AND I'LL START WITH VERSE 19. 09:49 SO HERE'S WHAT WE'RE GOING TO TRY TO TACKLE TODAY - THESE 09:51 VERSES, "WHAT PURPOSE THEN DOES THE LAW SERVE? 09:55 IT WAS ADDED BECAUSE OF TRANSGRESSIONS, TILL THE SEED 09:58 SHOULD COME TO WHOM THE PROMISE WAS MADE; AND IT WAS APPOINTED 10:02 THROUGH ANGELS BY THE HAND OF A MEDIATOR. 10:04 NOW A MEDIATOR DOES NOT MEDIATE FOR ONE ONLY, BUT GOD IS ONE. 10:09 IS THE LAW THEN AGAINST THE PROMISES OF GOD? 10:13 CERTAINLY NOT! FOR IF THERE HAD BEEN A LAW 10:16 GIVEN WHICH COULD HAVE GIVEN LIFE, TRULY RIGHTEOUSNESS 10:19 WOULD HAVE BEEN BY THE LAW. BUT THE SCRIPTURE HAS CONFINED 10:22 ALL UNDER SIN, THAT THE PROMISE BY FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST MIGHT 10:27 BE GIVEN TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE. BUT BEFORE FAITH CAME, WE WERE 10:31 KEPT UNDER GUARD BY THE LAW, KEPT FOR THE FAITH WHICH 10:34 WOULD AFTERWARD BE REVEALED. THEREFORE THE LAW WAS OUR TUTOR 10:38 TO BRING US TO CHRIST, THAT WE MIGHT BE JUSTIFIED BY FAITH. 10:41 BUT AFTER FAITH HAS COME, WE ARE NO LONGER UNDER A TUTOR. 10:45 FOR YOU ARE ALL SONS OF GOD THROUGH FAITH IN CHRIST JESUS. 10:50 FOR AS MANY OF YOU AS WERE BAPTIZED INTO CHRIST HAVE PUT ON 10:54 CHRIST. THERE IS NEITHER JEW NOR GREEK, 10:58 THERE IS NEITHER SLAVE NOR FREE, THERE IS NEITHER MALE NOR 11:01 FEMALE; FOR YOU ARE ALL ONE IN CHRIST JESUS. 11:04 AND IF YOU ARE CHRIST'S, THEN YOU ARE ABRAHAM'S SEED, AND 11:07 HEIRS ACCORDING TO THE PROMISE." THAT, OF COURSE, IS ONE OF THE 11:11 MOST IMPORTANT PARTS THERE - RIGHT THERE AT THE END. 11:13 IF YOU ARE CHRIST'S THEN YOU ARE ABRAHAM'S SEED. 11:16 SO JUST TO REVIEW - WE ALWAYS HAVE PEOPLE TUNING IN THAT MAYBE 11:20 DIDN'T HEAR IT BEFORE AND THEN THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO MAYBE 11:25 HAVEN'T BEEN PART OF THIS STUDY. PAUL, IN WRITING TO THE 11:28 GALATIANS IS DEALING WITH A SPECIFIC PROBLEM. 11:32 YOU'VE GOT JEWISH BELIEVERS IN JESUS WHO WERE TELLING THE 11:37 GENTILES WHO HAD TURNED TO JESUS THAT THEY NOW NEEDED TO KEEP ALL 11:41 THE MOSAIC LAWS TO BE FORGIVEN. THEY NEEDED TO KEEP THE 11:44 LAW OF CIRCUMCISION. THEY NEEDED TO KEEP THE LAWS 11:48 OF - REGARDING THE FEASTS. CIRCUMCISION IS 11:51 THE PRINCIPAL LAW. MANY HAVE USED THE THINGS THAT 11:54 PAUL SAYS IN GALATIANS TO TRY TO SAY WE ARE NOT UNDER THE LAW NOW 11:58 AND SO THAT MEANS WE DON'T NEED TO KEEP THE SABBATH. 12:01 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ARE REALLY NEVER THE ISSUE. 12:05 THERE WAS NO DEBATE BETWEEN THE JEWS AND THE GENTILES - WHETHER 12:08 OR NOT THEY NEEDED TO KEEP THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, THE BIG DEBATE 12:11 WAS TALKING ABOUT, SPECIFICALLY, THE CEREMONIAL LAWS. 12:14 THERE WAS NO DEBATE DEALING WITH THE MORAL LAW. 12:17 THERE WAS NO DEBATE DEALING WITH THE CIVIL LAW. 12:21 THERE WAS NO DEBATE DEALING WITH THE HEALTH LAWS. 12:26 IT HAD TO DO WITH THE LAWS THAT PRINCIPALLY DEALT WITH THE 12:30 SACRIFICE OF LAMBS, CIRCUMCISION - LIKE ONCE YOU HAVE JESUS, 12:35 DO YOU NEED TO KILL A LAMB FOR THE PASSOVER? 12:38 BUT PAUL CONTINUED TO GO THE PASSOVERS BECAUSE IT SAYS HE 12:42 BECAME A JEW THAT HE MIGHT REACH THE JEWS. 12:44 HE BECAME ALL THINGS TO ALL MEN THAT, BY SOME MEANS, HE MIGHT 12:47 REACH SOME FOR CHRIST. AND DON'T WE ALL DO THAT? 12:52 WHEN YOU VISIT PEOPLE, DON'T YOU TRY TO FIND COMMON GROUND SO YOU 12:55 CAN TALK TO THEM? WHENEVER I START A CONVERSATION 12:59 WITH SOMEBODY I TRY AND FIND OUT - THEY USE THIS ACRONYM WHEN 13:03 THEY TEACH EVANGELISM - FORT - F-O-R-T - SOME GUIDELINES FOR 13:09 CONVERSATION - F - FAMILY; O - OCCUPATION; R - RELIGION; 13:17 T - TESTIMONY. WHEN YOU'RE SITTING IN A 13:21 PERSON'S HOUSE AND YOU'RE LOOKING FOR COMMON GROUND TO 13:23 TALK TO THEM, ASK THEM ABOUT THEIR FAMILY. 13:25 SAY, 'OH, THOSE PICTURES ON THE WALL, ARE THOSE YOUR FAMILY?' 13:27 OR, YOU KNOW - AND PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS HAPPY TO TALK ABOUT THEIR 13:30 FAMILY, THAT USUALLY DRAWS THEM OUT. 'AND WHAT DO YOU DO?' 13:34 I'M ON A AIRPLANE, SOMETIMES YOU'RE FLYING ALONG AND 13:35 'WHERE ARE YOU GOING? WHAT DO YOU DO?' 13:38 AND THE YOU - I - IF - I TELL YOU, NO MATTER WHAT A PERSON 13:42 SAYS, I TRY TO FIND SOME WAY TO IDENTIFY. 13:45 THEY SAY, 'WELL, I'M A BRAIN SURGEON.' I SAID, 'OH, I'VE GOT 13:47 A BRAIN.' (LAUGHTER) TRY AND FIND SOME COMMON GROUND, YOU 13:50 KNOW, THAT YOU CAN TALK TO THEM ABOUT. 13:53 AND SO, THEN - AND THEN YOU HAVE - F-O-R - RELIGION - AND THAT'S 13:58 A LITTLE MORE DELICATE - 'DO YOU GO TO CHURCH SOMEWHERE?' 14:02 'WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE?' AND THEN TESTIMONY - YOU SHOW 14:05 YOUR PERSONAL TESTIMONY. AND THAT USUALLY OPENS THE 14:09 DOOR INTO SPIRITUAL THINGS. OR THEY JUST MAY LIFT THE PAPER 14:12 UP AND SAY, 'I'M DONE TALKING.' AND SO YOU DO WHAT YOU CAN. 14:16 BUT PAUL WOULD TRY TO BECOME ALL THINGS TO ALL MEN THAT HE MIGHT 14:19 REACH SOME FOR CHRIST. NOW, WHY DID THEY MISUNDERSTAND? 14:25 A COUPLE OF VERSES - AND THESE ARE IN YOUR LESSON - SOMEONE'S 14:27 GOING TO READ FOR ME, IN A MOMENT, DEUTERONOMY 6:25. 14:31 YOU'LL HAVE THAT, HAFDIS? OKAY, BEFORE YOU GET TO THAT, 14:33 I'M GOING TO READ LEVITICUS 18:5 - NOTICE THIS - IT SAYS IN 14:39 LEVITICUS 18:5, "YOU SHALL THEREFORE KEEP MY STATUTES AND 14:43 MY JUDGMENTS, WHICH IF A MAN DOES, HE SHALL LIVE BY 14:46 THEM: I AM THE LORD." OH, THERE YOU HAVE IT. 14:50 KEEP THE LAW AND YOU LIVE. SALVATION BY WORKS. 14:54 COULD YOU SEE HOW SOME PEOPLE, ON AN ELEMENTARY BASIS, 14:56 MIGHT READ THAT AND GET THE IDEA 'KEEP MY STATUTES AND YOU'LL 15:00 LIVE'? HERE'S ANOTHER ONE: EZEKIEL 20:11, "AND I GAVE THEM 15:06 MY STATUTES AND SHOWED THEM MY JUDGMENTS, 'WHICH, IF A MAN 15:09 DOES, HE SHALL LIVE BY THEM.'" THERE YOU HAVE IT AGAIN - 15:14 DO THE LAW AND LIVE. AND SO THEY WOULD READ SOME OF THESE AND 15:17 THEY'D SAY, 'OH, YEAH, OBEDIENCE IS THE MEANS OF SALVATION.' 15:23 WELL, DOES GOD WANT US TO OBEY? >>YES. 15:27 >>IF WE TRULY OBEY, WILL WE BE SAVED? 15:34 I GAVE YOU A VERY IMPORTANT QUALIFYING WORD - 'IF WE TRULY 15:38 OBEY' - >>YEAH. 15:40 >>WILL TRULY OBEYING INCLUDE FAITH? 15:43 OKAY. SO, OF COURSE, IF YOU TRULY OBEY 15:47 - IF YOU'RE OBEYING THE TRUTH YOU WILL BE SAVED. 15:51 BUT ARE WE SAVED BECAUSE WE PRINCIPALLY KEEP THE LAW? 15:54 >>NO. >>DID THE PEOPLE WHO CRUCIFIED 15:57 JESUS RUN HOME AND KEEP THE SABBATH? 16:00 WELL THEY TRIED, BUT CAN YOU REALLY KEEP THE SABBATH AFTER 16:03 YOU CRUCIFY THE SAVIOR? YOU'RE OBVIOUSLY NOT KEEPING 16:06 THE SPIRIT OF THE LAW, RIGHT? AND SO, THEY WERE TRYING TO KEEP 16:10 THE LAW OUTWARDLY AND PAUL SAYS IT'S NOT THROUGH OUTWARD 16:13 OBEDIENCE, IT'S THROUGH FAITH WE'RE SAVED. 16:16 ALRIGHT, HAFDIS, YOU HAVE ANOTHER EXAMPLE. 16:18 GO AHEAD AND READ YOURS. >>"THEN IT WILL BE RIGHTEOUSNESS 16:22 FOR US IF WE ARE CAREFUL TO OBSERVE ALL THESE COMMANDMENTS 16:27 BEFORE THE LORD OUR GOD AS HE HAS COMMANDED US." 16:31 >>WELL, NOW, THAT SEEMS PRETTY PLAIN. 16:33 HOW DO WE GET RIGHTEOUSNESS? BY KEEPING THE COMMANDMENTS. 16:38 WELL, IF WE'RE KEEPING THE COMMANDMENTS, IF YOU'RE TRULY 16:41 KEEPING THE COMMANDMENTS, IT WILL BE DONE BY THE POWER OF 16:44 FAITH BECAUSE YOU CANNOT REALLY KEEP THE LAW UNLESS YOU LOVE. 16:50 YOU CANNOT REALLY KEEP THE LAW UNLESS YOU TRUST. 16:54 AND SO IT WILL ALWAYS GO BACK TO STARTING WITH FAITH, BUT THEY'RE 16:58 MAKING A BASIC STATEMENT. WHEN YOU'RE TEACHING CHILDREN 17:03 WHY THEY'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO STICK THE PAPER CLIP INSIDE THE 17:07 OUTLET, CAN THEY UNDERSTAND ALL THE RAMIFICATIONS OF 17:13 ELECTRONS AND ELECTRICITY? NO. THEY CAN UNDERSTAND 'DON'T DO 17:19 THAT AND YOU WILL LIVE.' AND SO, SOMETIMES WHEN YOU'RE TALKING 17:23 TO CHILDREN YOU SPEAK ON AN ELEMENTARY BASIS. 17:25 WELL, GOD MADE SOME PRETTY BASIC STATEMENTS IN HERE. 17:28 HERE'S ANOTHER ONE - DEUTERONOMY 24:13, "YOU SHALL IN ANY CASE 17:33 RETURN THE PLEDGE TO HIM AGAIN WHEN THE SUN GOES DOWN, 17:36 THAT HE MAY SLEEP IN HIS OWN GARMENT AND BLESS YOU; 17:39 AND IT SHALL BE RIGHTEOUSNESS TO YOU BEFORE THE LORD YOUR GOD." 17:43 GOD SAID, 'LOOK, IF YOU DO THE RIGHT THING IT'S RIGHTEOUSNESS.' 17:46 IT DOESN'T MEAN WE ARE SAVED BY OUR WORKS, HE'S JUST SAYING IT'S 17:50 THE RIGHT THING. BACK THEN, JUST TO GIVE YOU THE 17:52 CONTEXT, WHEN SOMEONE MADE A PLEDGE TO YOU, THEY WOULD MAYBE 17:58 GIVE YOU THEIR COAT OR THEIR MANTLE - SOME OUTER GARMENT OR 18:01 SOMETHING - AND IT WAS SECURITY. A LOT OF PEOPLE, BACK 18:04 THEN, HAD ONE GARMENT. MATTER OF FACT, SOME BILLS 18:06 WERE PAID IN GARMENTS. HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER, IN THE 18:10 STORY OF SAMSON, THAT HE MADE A BET WITH THE PHILISTINES AND HE 18:15 SAID, 'IF I WIN YOU'VE GOT TO GIVE ME SO MANY GARMENTS.' 18:18 AND WHEN HE LOST, HE HAD TO GO PAY THEM IN GARMENTS. 18:22 AND HE ACTUALLY KILLED SOME PHILISTINES AND TOOK THEIR 18:23 GARMENTS AND PAID THEM. BUT - SO A GARMENT WAS LIKE A 18:27 PLEDGE, BUT IT SAID, 'IF THIS POOR PERSON GIVES YOU THEIR 18:30 GARMENT AS A PLEDGE, GIVE IT BACK TO THEM BEFORE THE SUN GOES 18:34 DOWN, LEST THEY SHIVER ALL NIGHT LONG AND IT WILL BE 18:37 RIGHTEOUSNESS FOR YOU.' IT'S THE RIGHT THING 18:39 TO DO. YOU SEE WHAT HE'S SAYING HERE? 18:42 HE'S NOT SAYING YOU'RE SAVED BECAUSE YOU'VE DONE THAT, IT 18:44 MEANS YOUR HEART'S IN THE RIGHT PLACE IF YOU'VE DONE THAT. 18:48 BUT, AS PAUL WAS GOING THROUGH ASIA AND TEACHING - WE'RE 18:52 STUDYING THE BOOK OF GALATIA - INCLUDING GALATIA IN THE BOOK OF 18:56 GALATIANS, NOTICE WHAT THE COMMON ACCUSATION WAS THAT WAS 19:00 MADE AGAINST PAUL. LOOK, FOR INSTANCE, IN ACTS 21, 19:04 VERSE 20, "AND WHEN THEY HEARD IT, THEY GLORIFIED THE LORD. 19:08 AND THEY SAID TO HIM, 'YOU SEE, BROTHER, HOW MANY MYRIADS OF 19:12 JEWS THERE ARE WHO HAVE BELIEVED,'" - ALL THE MANY, MANY 19:14 JEWS HAVE BELIEVED IN JESUS - "'AND THEY ARE ALL ZEALOUS FOR 19:18 THE LAW; BUT THEY HAVE BEEN INFORMED'" - THEY'VE HEARD - 19:21 "'ABOUT YOU THAT YOU TEACH ALL THE JEWS WHO ARE AMONG THE 19:25 GENTILES TO FORSAKE MOSES, SAYING THAT THEY OUGHT NOT TO 19:29 CIRCUMCISE THEIR CHILDREN NOR TO WALK ACCORDING TO THE CUSTOMS.'" 19:33 ALRIGHT, WHAT WAS THE RUMOR THAT WAS CIRCULATING ABOUT PAUL? 19:38 THAT HE WAS TEACHING THE GENTILES NOT TO OBEY THE LAW? 19:44 DID YOU CATCH THAT? SEE, YOU DIDN'T TURN - LOOK IT 19:46 UP - THAT YOU'RE TEACHING THE JEWS - DID PAUL TEACH THE 19:51 GENTILES NOT TO OBEY THE LAWS? HE DID TEACH THEM YOU DON'T 19:55 HAVE TO BE CIRCUMCISED. DID HE TEACH THE JEWS THAT? NO. 19:59 AND SEE, THIS WAS THE RUMOR THAT WAS GOING AROUND. 20:01 HE SAYS, 'YOU'RE TEACHING ALL THE JEWS, AMONG THE GENTILES, TO 20:05 FORSAKE MOSES, SAYING THEY OUGHT NOT CIRCUMCISE THEIR CHILDREN OR 20:08 WALK ACCORDING TO THE CUSTOMS.' ANOTHER EXAMPLE: WHEN PAUL WAS 20:12 IN THE TEMPLE AND THEY FINALLY ARRESTED HIM, THEY NEARLY TORE 20:15 HIM LIMB FROM LIMB. THIS MOB FOUND HIM IN THE TEMPLE. 20:18 SOMEONE CRIED OUT, 'HELP! MEN OF ISRAEL! 20:20 THIS IS THE ONE WHO IS PERVERTING OUR RELIGION ALL 20:23 THROUGH ASIA!' AND THERE WAS A BIG MOB AND THEY 20:26 GOT ALL EXCITED AND LISTEN TO WHAT THEY SAID - ACTS 21, 20:30 VERSE 28, "CRYING OUT, 'MEN OF ISRAEL, HELP! 20:35 THIS IS THE MAN WHO TEACHES ALL MEN EVERYWHERE'" - JEW AND 20:39 GENTILE - "'AGAINST THE PEOPLE,'" - MEANING THE JEWISH 20:42 PEOPLE - "'THE LAW, AND THIS PLACE;'" - THE TEMPLE - "'AND 20:46 FURTHERMORE HE ALSO BROUGHT GREEKS INTO THE TEMPLE AND HAS 20:49 DEFILED THIS HOLY PLACE.'" - WHICH PAUL SAYS, 'I HAD NOT 20:52 DONE.' THEY SAW HIM WALKING THROUGH THE CITY EARLIER WITH A 20:55 GREEK AND THEY THOUGHT THAT HE HAD SMUGGLED HIM IN. 20:58 YOU KNOW, I UNDERSTAND THAT THE ANCIENT CITY OF PETRA - ANY OF 21:03 YOU BEEN TO ISRAEL? ANY OF YOU BEEN TO PETRA? BONNIE AND ED - 21:08 I'VE BEEN THERE - I WENT WITH BONNIE AND ED. IT'S A CITY THAT 21:13 WAS HIDDEN. IT'S THE CAPITAL FOR THE EDOMITES - THE NABATEANS - 21:17 FOR MANY YEARS, AND THEY - IT WAS OCCUPIED BY MUSLIMS AFTER 21:21 THE EDOMITES DIED OUT - AND NO MUSLIM WAS ALLOWED - I'M SORRY, 21:25 NO NON-MUSLIM WAS ALLOWED IN. IT'S LIKE MECCA - NOT TOO MANY 21:31 NON-MUSLIMS HAVE MANAGED TO SNEAK INTO MECCA WHEN THEY HAVE 21:35 THEIR GREAT HAJJ AND THEY DO THEIR PILGRIMAGE, BUT A FEW HAVE 21:39 AND THEY'VE TAKEN PICTURES OF WHEN THEY ALL GO ROTATING AROUND 21:42 THAT STONE IN THE MIDDLE. BUT THIS ONE MAN, HE WAS A 21:45 EUROPEAN BUT HE SPOKE PERFECT ARABIC. 21:48 HE DID GO INTO PETRA AND HE FOUND THE CITY THAT HAD BEEN 21:51 LOST TO THE WESTERN WORLD FOR AGES. 21:53 WELL, GENTILES WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO GO IN - NON-BELIEVERS WERE 21:58 NOT SUPPOSED TO GO INTO THE TEMPLE. 22:00 AND SO THEY ACCUSED PAUL OF THIS. 22:02 BUT YOU CAN SEE PAUL HAD GOTTEN A REPUTATION THAT HE HAD BEEN 22:06 TEACHING JEWS NOT TO BELIEVE THE CUSTOMS AND NOT TO CIRCUMCISE, 22:12 AND HE WAS TRYING TO ABOLISH THE LAW. 22:15 WHAT DID JESUS SAY? 'THINK NOT THAT I AM COME 22:19 TO DESTROY THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS. 22:21 I'M NOT COME TO DESTROY, BUT FULFILL.' SO THE ONLY LAWS THAT 22:24 PAUL WAS TEACHING AGAINST - IT WAS NOT THE HEALTH LAW, IT WAS 22:27 NOT THE CIVIL LAW, IT WAS NOT THE SOCIAL LAW. 22:31 LET ME GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE: MOSES SAID, 'IF YOU SPOT YOUR 22:35 NEIGHBOR'S DONKEY HAS ESCAPED FROM THE BARN, HE'S WANDERING 22:38 DOWN THE ROAD, YOU WILL TAKE YOUR NEIGHBOR'S DONKEY AND BRING 22:42 IT BACK TO HIM - EVEN IF HE'S YOUR ENEMY.' NOW, WHEN JESUS 22:46 DIED ON THE CROSS, WE'RE NO LONGER OBLIGATED TO FOLLOW THAT. 22:49 YOUR NEIGHBOR'S DOG GETS OUT OF THEIR YARD AND HE'S RUNNING DOWN 22:52 THE STREET WITH HIS LEASH ON, YOU KNOW HE DOESN'T BITE BUT 22:55 YOU'RE STILL NOT GOING TO TAKE YOUR NEIGHBOR'S DOG BACK BECAUSE 22:58 YOU'RE NO LONGER UNDER THE LAW, YOU'RE UNDER GRACE. 23:00 AND THAT WAS WRITTEN BY MOSES. DO WE STILL KEEP THAT LAW? 23:05 YEAH, THAT'S JUST GOOD COMMON SENSE, RIGHT? 23:07 SO THOSE LAWS WERE NOT ISSUES. ONCE JESUS DIED ON THE CROSS IT 23:12 DOESN'T MATTER WHETHER OR NOT YOU EAT SKUNK OR COCKROACHES - 23:18 'YOU CAN EAT ANYTHING YOU WANT NOW, JUST PRAY OVER IT. 23:20 MATTER OF FACT, YOU CAN EAT BANANA SPLITS THREE TIMES A DAY 23:23 BECAUSE GOD'LL BLESS IT, RIGHT? IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT GOES IN 23:26 THE MOUTH.' YOU ALL KNOW THAT'S FOOLISHNESS TO SAY IT DOESN'T 23:30 MATTER WHAT YOU EAT - SURE IT DOES. 23:33 SO JESUS DIDN'T DIE TO ABOLISH THAT LAW. 23:37 THE LAWS WERE THE CEREMONIAL LAWS THAT POINTED TO CHRIST. 23:40 THEY WERE - AND I'M GETTING AHEAD OF MYSELF - THE SCHOOL 23:42 MASTERS THAT BROUGHT US TO HIM. >>AMEN. 23:45 >>NOW, ONE REASON WE KNOW THAT IT WAS REALLY GOD THAT GIVES 23:49 LIFE - LIFE DOES NOT COME FROM THE LAW - LET ME JUST GIVE YOU A 23:51 FEW VERSES ON THAT. 2 KINGS 5:7 - YOU REMEMBER WHEN 23:54 NAAMAN SENT A MESSENGER TO THE KING OF ISRAEL AND THE KING OF 23:58 ISRAEL READ THE LETTER - 2 KINGS 5:7 - HE TORE HIS CLOTHES - HE 24:02 SAID, "AM I GOD, TO KILL AND MAKE ALIVE...?" 24:06 SEE, EVEN IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, DID THEY BELIEVE THAT GOD COULD 24:08 MAKE ALIVE? HAD ELIJAH RESURRECTED A BOY? YEAH. 24:14 AND, DURING THE TIME OF ELISHA, HE MADE ALIVE. 24:18 AND, EVEN WHEN ELISHA DIED, THEY BURIED SOMEONE ON HIS BONES AND 24:21 HE CAME ALIVE. LOOK IN PSALM 32 - WHERE 24:26 DID FORGIVENESS COME FROM? FROM OBEDIENCE? 24:28 PSALM 32:1 AND 2, "BLESSED IS HE WHOSE TRANSGRESSION IS FORGIVEN, 24:32 WHOSE SIN IS COVERED. BLESSED IS THE MAN TO WHOM THE 24:36 LORD DOES NOT IMPUTE INIQUITY, AND IN WHOSE SPIRIT 24:38 THERE IS NO DECEIT." THEY KNEW THAT SALVATION CAME BY 24:42 THE GRACE OF GOD THROUGH FAITH - THROUGH HIS BLESSING. 24:46 ALRIGHT, SO I THINK WE'VE ESTABLISHED THAT. 24:48 NOW GO TO THE NEXT SECTION HERE WHERE WE JUST TALKED ABOUT THE 24:51 LAW - THE PROMISE. UNDER THE LAW - KEPT UNDER THE LAW - WHAT 24:57 DOES THAT MEAN? ALRIGHT, TAKE A DEEP BREATH. SOMETHING VERY 25:00 IMPORTANT I WANT YOU TO NOTICE: AS YOU'RE READING THROUGH 25:02 GALATIANS YOU'RE GOING TO FIND THE WORDS 'WE' AND 'YOU'. 25:07 WHAT DOES PAUL MEAN WHEN HE SAYS 'WE'? 25:10 AND WHAT DOES PAUL MEAN WHEN HE SAYS 'YOU'? 25:11 LET ME READ YOU A FEW VERSES HERE. 25:13 GALATIANS 3:23, "BUT BEFORE FAITH CAME, WE WERE KEPT UNDER 25:20 GUARD BY THE LAW, KEPT FOR THE FAITH WHICH WOULD AFTERWARD BE 25:25 REVEALED." WHO DOES HE MEAN BY 'WE'? 25:27 TALKING ABOUT THE JEWS. AND THEN YOU GO TO GALATIANS 25:30 2:15 HE SAYS, "WE WHO ARE JEWS BY NATURE, AND NOT SINNERS OF 25:37 THE GENTILES," - SO WHEN HE SAYS 'WE', HE'S TALKING 25:38 ABOUT THE JEWS. IS THAT CLEAR? 25:40 BUT NOW LOOK IN GALATIANS CHAPTER 3, VERSE 26, "FOR YOU 25:45 ARE ALL SONS OF GOD THROUGH FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST." 25:49 HE'S WRITING TO THE GENTILES NOW. AND SO, HE REALIZES THAT 25:53 THERE'S A DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE JEW AND THE GENTILE BUT HE'S 25:57 SAYING, THROUGH CHRIST, WE ALL HAVE EQUAL ACCESS. 26:00 NOW, WITH THIS AS A BACKGROUND, I'M GOING TO READ THROUGH A 26:03 SCRIPTURE - THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN STUDYING THIS LESSON 26:07 ON GALATIANS AND THEY'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THE MOMENT WHEN WE 26:11 GET TO GALATIANS 3:28, BECAUSE THIS IS A VERSE THAT - IT'S A 26:15 VERY IMPORTANT VERSE, FULL OF WONDERFUL PROMISES - OFTEN 26:19 MISUNDERSTOOD - OFTEN ABUSED. BUT LET'S READ IT NOW. 26:23 GALATIANS - I'M GOING TO READ VERSES 26 THROUGH THE REST OF 26:26 THE CHAPTER - GALATIANS 3:26, "FOR YOU ARE ALL SONS OF GOD 26:32 THROUGH FAITH IN CHRIST JESUS. FOR AS MANY OF YOU AS WERE 26:36 BAPTIZED INTO CHRIST HAVE PUT ON CHRIST." 26:38 - HE'S TALKING ABOUT THE GENTILES WHO HAVE BEEN BAPTIZED 26:41 - WHO HAVE ACCEPTED CHRIST - YOU "HAVE PUT ON CHRIST. 26:44 THERE IS NEITHER JEW NOR GREEK, THERE IS NEITHER SLAVE NOR FREE, 26:50 THERE IS NEITHER MALE NOR FEMALE; FOR YOU ARE ALL ONE IN 26:54 CHRIST JESUS. AND IF YOU ARE CHRIST'S, THEN 26:57 YOU ARE ABRAHAM'S SEED, AND HEIRS ACCORDING TO THE PROMISE." 27:01 SO THE EMPHASIS OF WHAT PAUL IS SAYING HERE IS THAT, THROUGH 27:06 CHRIST, WE ARE BROUGHT TOGETHER. LET ME GIVE YOU ANOTHER EXAMPLE 27:09 OF WHAT HE'S SAYING. GO TO EPHESIANS - WE'LL BACK UP 27:12 AND LOOK AT THAT VERSE AGAIN. GO TO EPHESIANS CHAPTER 2, 27:15 VERSE 14. PAUL HAD THE SAME ISSUE WITH THE 27:19 EPHESIANS; HE'S TRYING TO MAKE IT CLEAR - EPHESIANS 2:14, "FOR 27:24 HE HIMSELF IS OUR PEACE, WHO HAS MADE BOTH ONE, AND HAS 27:29 BROKEN DOWN" - BOTH OF WHAT? THE JEW AND THE GENTILE - "AND 27:33 HAS BROKEN DOWN THE MIDDLE WALL OF SEPARATION, HAVING ABOLISHED 27:36 IN HIS FLESH THE ENMITY, THAT IS, THE LAW OF COMMANDMENTS 27:40 CONTAINED IN ORDINANCES," - WHAT LAWS WERE DONE AWAY WITH? 27:43 THE COMMANDMENTS CONTAINED IN ORDINANCES. 27:46 IS THAT CLEAR? SAY 'AMEN'. >>AMEN. 27:47 >>"SO AS TO CREATE IN HIMSELF ONE NEW MAN FROM THE TWO, THUS 27:52 MAKING PEACE," - AND HE'S EVEN TALKING ABOUT ONENESS AND OUR 27:54 BEING JOINED TO GOD - "...THUS MAKING PEACE, THAT HE MIGHT 27:58 RECONCILE THEM BOTH TO GOD IN ONE BODY THROUGH THE CROSS, 28:02 THEREBY PUTTING TO DEATH THE ENMITY. 28:06 AND HE CAME AND PREACHED PEACE TO YOU" - THE GENTILES - "WHO 28:09 WERE AFAR OFF AND TO THOSE WHO WERE NEAR. 28:12 FOR THROUGH HIM WE BOTH HAVE ACCESS BY ONE SPIRIT TO THE 28:16 FATHER." SO THE MESSAGE OF GALATIANS 28:19 CHAPTER 3, VERSE 28, IS THAT IT DOESN'T MATTER WHETHER YOU ARE A 28:23 JEW OR A GREEK, A SLAVE OR FREE, A MALE OR A FEMALE, WE ALL HAVE 28:31 EQUAL ACCESS TO GOD THROUGH CHRIST. 28:35 WE ALL HAVE EQUAL VALUE TO GOD THROUGH CHRIST. 28:39 OKAY? "FOR THROUGH HIM WE BOTH HAVE 28:41 ACCESS BY ONE SPIRIT TO THE FATHER. 28:43 NOW, THEREFORE, YOU ARE NO LONGER STRANGERS AND 28:46 FOREIGNERS," - THESE GENTILES WHO WERE CALLED STRANGERS AND 28:49 FOREIGNERS - "BUT FELLOW CITIZENS WITH THE SAINTS" - 28:53 MEANING WITH THE JEWS - "AND MEMBERS OF THE HOUSEHOLD OF 28:56 GOD," - AND SO THAT'S PRETTY CLEAR. 28:59 NOW I'M GOING TO GO BACK AGAIN; I WANT TO READ GALATIANS CHAPTER 29:02 3, VERSES 26 THROUGH, WELL, MOSTLY 28. 29:06 IT SAYS, "THERE IS NEITHER JEW NOR GREEK...NEITHER SLAVE NOR 29:09 FREE, THERE IS NEITHER MALE NOR FEMALE; FOR YOU ARE ALL ONE IN 29:12 CHRIST JESUS." ALRIGHT, NOW, DID PAUL MEAN - 29:16 LET'S LOOK AT THIS - WHEN PAUL SAID, 'THERE IS NEITHER JEW NOR 29:19 GREEK, DID HE MEAN, FROM THAT POINT ON, THERE WAS NO LONGER 29:22 ANY DISTINCTION - THERE WAS NO IDENTITY, NO WAY TO TELL IF A 29:28 PERSON WAS A JEW OR A GREEK? >>NO. 29:31 >>I DON'T THINK SO, BECAUSE LISTEN TO WHAT ELSE PAUL SAYS - 29:33 LET THE SCRIPTURE COMPARE THE SCRIPTURE - PAUL SAYS, "FOR I AM 29:38 NOT ASHAMED OF THE GOSPEL" - ROMANS 1:16 - "...FOR IT IS THE 29:43 POWER OF GOD TO SALVATION FOR EVERYONE WHO BELIEVES, FOR THE 29:47 JEW FIRST AND ALSO FOR THE GREEK." THE JEW FIRST? 29:51 THAT SOUNDS A LITTLE BIT DISCRIMINATORY. 29:54 WHEN PAUL SAID - DID PAUL IDENTIFY THERE'S A DISTINCTION 29:57 BETWEEN THE JEW? HOW? HE TELLS YOU. 30:00 GO TO ROMANS CHAPTER 3, VERSE 1, "WHAT ADVANTAGE THEN HAS THE 30:05 JEW, OR WHAT IS THE PROFIT OF CIRCUMCISION?" 30:07 - 'NONE, THERE ISN'T ANY' - THAT'S NOT WHAT HE SAYS. 30:10 I MISQUOTED. HOPEFULLY YOU KNOW THAT. 30:13 HE SAYS, "WHAT ADVANTAGE HAS THE JEW, OR WHAT IS THE PROFIT OF 30:16 CIRCUMCISION? MUCH IN EVERY WAY!" - NOW WAS PAUL SAYING 30:20 THERE'S NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN JEW AND GENTILE? 30:22 HE SAYS 'MUCH IN EVERY WAY' AND THEN HE TELLS YOU WHY - 30:25 "CHIEFLY" - PRIMARILY - "BECAUSE TO THEM WERE COMMITTED THE 30:28 ORACLES OF GOD." - GOD CHOSE THE JEWISH NATION. 30:31 HE COMMITTED THE ORACLES OF GOD TO THEM THAT THEY SHOULD BE THE 30:34 ONES TO ANNOUNCE THE MESSIAH AND TO PRESENT THE GOSPEL, WHICH 30:38 THEY DID AT PENTECOST AND THE FIRST THREE AND A HALF YEARS 30:41 AFTER CHRIST. SO WHEN PAUL SAYS, IN GALATIANS CHAPTER 3, 30:45 VERSE 28, 'THERE IS NEITHER JEW NOR GREEK', DID HE MEAN THAT 30:49 THOSE DISTINCTIONS DISSOLVED? NO, HE MEANT JEW AND GREEK NOW 30:53 HAVE EQUAL ACCESS TO SALVATION THROUGH CHRIST. 30:57 >>AMEN. >>THEN HE GOES TO THE NEXT PART. 30:59 HE SAYS, 'THERE IS NEITHER SLAVE NOR FREE'. DID PAUL NOW MEAN, 31:06 WHEN HE SAID THAT, SLAVES SHOULD ALL GATHER AROUND SPARTACUS AND 31:10 REVOLT AGAINST THE ROMANS? OF COURSE SPARTACUS WAS ALREADY 31:13 DEAD AT THIS POINT, BUT IS THAT WHAT HE'S SAYING? 31:18 LET THE BIBLE EXPLAIN ITSELF - EPHESIANS 6, VERSES 5 AND 6, 31:23 "BONDSERVANTS, BE OBEDIENT TO THOSE WHO ARE YOUR MASTERS" - 31:26 NOW HOW - AND THAT WORD 'SERVANT' THERE, IT'S TALKING 31:28 ABOUT SLAVES - BE OBEDIENT TO YOUR MASTERS. 31:31 WOULDN'T CHRISTIANITY TELL THE SLAVES TO ALL RISE UP AND RUN? 31:35 PAUL KNEW THAT THE GOSPEL WOULD NEVER SPREAD IN THE ROMAN WORLD 31:38 IF THAT WAS THE MESSAGE THAT WAS NOTED. 31:40 AND SO, THEY NEEDED TO SAY, 'LOOK, IF YOU'RE GOING TO BE A 31:43 SERVANT, BE A GOOD ONE. WHAT DID JOSEPH DO WHEN 31:45 HE WAS SOLD AS A SLAVE? DID HE SUBMIT TO POTIPHAR 31:49 AND WAS HE A GOOD SLAVE? >>YES. 31:50 >>AND DID GOD BLESS HIM FOR THAT? COLO - IT DOESN'T MEAN 31:55 SLAVERY IS GOOD; I'M JUST TELLING YOU WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS. 31:58 DON'T INTERPRET THIS VERSE TO MEAN THAT HE WAS TELLING SLAVES 32:00 TO RISE UP AND REBEL AGAINST THE ROMANS. 32:03 COLOSSIANS 3:22, "BONDSERVANTS, OBEY IN ALL THINGS YOUR MASTERS 32:08 ACCORDING TO THE FLESH, NOT WITH EYE SERVICE, AS MEN-PLEASERS, 32:12 BUT IN SINCERITY OF HEART, FEARING GOD." 32:15 PETER SAYS, 'SERVANTS, OBEY YOUR MASTERS, NOT JUST THE GOOD ONES, 32:18 BUT EVEN THE CRANKY ONES.' THAT'S DOUG'S TRANSLATION. 32:22 SO ALL THROUGH THE NEW TESTAMENT THEY WERE PRETTY CLEAR THAT 32:26 THERE WERE STILL OBVIOUS DISTINCTIONS BETWEEN THE SLAVE 32:29 AND THE FREE IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE. 32:31 BUT WAS THE FREE PERSON - DID HE HAVE MORE ACCESS TO JESUS THAN 32:35 THE SLAVE? NO. MATTER OF FACT, HAVE YOU 32:39 READ THE BOOK PHILEMON? AND THE WHOLE MESSAGE IN THE 32:42 BOOK OF PHILEMON IS RUNAWAY SLAVE, ONESIMUS, HE'S TOLD TO 32:47 SUBMIT TO PHILEMON, BUT NOW HE'S NOT JUST A SERVANT, HE'S 32:51 A BROTHER THROUGH CHRIST. AND PAUL CONVERTED THIS RUNAWAY 32:54 SLAVE AND TOLD HIM TO GO BACK TO YOUR MASTER. 32:57 AND SO, WHEN HE SAYS THERE'S NEITHER SLAVE NOR FREE, HE'S NOT 33:01 SAYING 'SLAVES, ALL RUN AWAY' AND THAT THERE'S NO DISTINCTION 33:03 ANYMORE. WHICH LEADS US TO THE NEXT PART: 33:07 THERE'S NEITHER MALE NOR FEMALE. WAS PAUL FROM CALIFORNIA? 33:11 (LAUGHTER) WAS PAUL ADVOCATING WE ALL SHARE THE SAME RESTROOM? 33:17 IS THAT WHAT HE MEANT BY THAT STATEMENT, THERE'S NEITHER MALE 33:20 NOR FEMALE? DOES HIS STATEMENT SUGGEST 33:24 THAT ALL THE OTHER BIBLICAL DISTINCTIONS THAT ARE MADE 33:26 BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN HAVE ALL NOW EVAPORATED BECAUSE OF JESUS? 33:31 WHO IS THE MOST OUTSPOKEN ADVOCATE FOR THE DISTINCTIONS 33:36 BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN IN THE NEW TESTAMENT? PAUL. 33:40 IF YOU WANT TO FIND A DIFFICULT STATEMENT - AND THERE'S SOME I 33:43 DON'T UNDERSTAND - ABOUT WOMEN SUBMIT, WOMEN KEEP SILENT - THE 33:51 STATEMENTS THAT ARE THE MOST POWERFUL ABOUT DISTINCTIONS, 33:56 WHETHER YOU AGREE OR DISAGREE, RIGHT OR WRONG, THE ONE WHO IS 33:58 THE LOUDEST ABOUT THERE BEING DISTINCTIONS IS PAUL. 34:01 SO TO TAKE THIS STATEMENT - WHATEVER IT DOES MEAN, IT DOES 34:05 NOT MEAN - IT'S DISHONEST TO MAKE IT SAY THERE'S NOW NO 34:09 DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN - THERE ARE NO BIBLICAL 34:11 DISTINCTIONS, THERE'S NO ROLE DISTINCTIONS BETWEEN MEN AND 34:14 WOMEN IN THE BIBLE ANY MORE THAN THE OTHER TWO THAT WERE 34:17 MENTIONED. WHAT HE IS SAYING - LET'S 34:19 FIND OUT, WHAT DOES HE SAY? SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ, 34:22 FOR ME, ROMANS 3:22 - OKAY? AND BEFORE YOU DO THAT, I'M 34:26 GOING TO READ ROMANS 10:12. OBVIOUSLY, THESE 34:29 ARE NOT IN SEQUENCE. "FOR THERE IS NO DISTINCTION 34:33 BETWEEN JEW AND GREEK, FOR THE SAME LORD OVER ALL IS RICH 34:38 TO ALL WHO CALL UPON HIM." HE IS SAYING, 'JEW OR GREEK, THE 34:42 SAME LORD IS GOING TO BE RICH TOWARDS ALL.' ALRIGHT, GO 34:45 AHEAD, READ ROMANS 3:22. >>"EVEN THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF 34:49 GOD, THROUGH FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST, TO ALL AND 34:53 ON ALL WHO BELIEVE. FOR THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE;" - 34:56 >>ALRIGHT, THERE YOU HAVE IT. THIS SECTION IS ABOUT FAITH. 34:59 ALL WHO BELIEVE - IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU ARE FREE OR BOND; 35:05 IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU ARE THE EMPLOYEE OR THE EMPLOYER; IT 35:08 DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU ARE A MAN OR A WOMAN OR A CHILD OR A GREEK 35:12 - JEW OR GENTILE - EVERYBODY IS ON EQUAL GROUND WHEN IT COMES TO 35:18 SALVATION BY FAITH IN JESUS. 35:21 THIS IS SO IMPORTANT AND, YOU KNOW, I MEET PEOPLE STILL TODAY 35:25 - SOME OF MY CHARISMATIC DISPENSATIONAL FRIENDS WHO 35:29 BELIEVE THAT GOD HAD ONE DISPENSATION OF SALVATION FOR 35:33 THE JEWS - THEY WERE SAVED BY KEEPING THE LAW - THEN HE'S GOT 35:36 A DISPENSATION OF SALVATION FOR THE GENTILES. 35:40 AND THEY BASICALLY SAY THAT GOD HAD, REALLY, TWO DIFFERENT 35:44 MODELS OF SALVATION. THAT IS PATENTLY FALSE. 35:48 NOBODY IN THE OLD TESTAMENT WAS SAVED BY WORKS. 35:52 SOMETIMES THEY PLED THEIR GOOD WORKS. 35:54 I SHOWED YOU IN AN EARLIER STUDY WHERE HEZEKIAH PRAYED AND SAID, 35:57 'LOOK AT ALL THE GOOD WORKS I'VE DONE.' NEHEMIAH POINTED BACK TO 36:00 'ALL THE GOOD WORKS I'VE DONE.' IT DOESN'T MEAN GOD SAVED ANY OF 36:02 THEM BY THEIR WORKS. DOESN'T GOD SAY, ABOUT ABRAHAM - 36:06 NOW YOU HELP ME - ABRAHAM SAVED BY FAITH OR BY OBEDIENCE? 36:10 >>FAITH. >>BY FAITH. BUT, YOU KNOW, 36:12 GOD SAYS, 'ABRAHAM KEPT MY COMMANDMENTS, MY LAWS, AND MY 36:16 STATUTES.' HE HIGHLIGHTS THAT ABOUT ABRAHAM, BUT DID THAT SAVE 36:21 HIM, OR WAS ABRAHAM DECLARED RIGHTEOUS BY FAITH? 36:25 NEW AND OLD TESTAMENT ARE VERY CLEAR ON THIS. 36:28 AND THAT'S ALL THAT PAUL IS SAYING THERE IN THOSE VERSES 36:30 THERE IN GALATIANS CHAPTER 3. ALRIGHT, LET'S GO 36:34 AHEAD TO VERSE 20. WE'RE GOING TO GO BACK AND - I 36:36 TOLD YOU WE'D GO FORWARD AND WE'D BACK UP A LITTLE BIT - 36:38 GALATIANS 3:23 - WHAT DOES IT MEAN WHEN IT SAYS 36:42 'UNDER THE LAW'? HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE HEARD IT 36:45 SAID BEFORE, 'OH, I DON'T NEED TO KEEP THE SABBATH ANYMORE 36:48 BECAUSE I'M NOT UNDER THE LAW NOW, I'M UNDER GRACE.' 36:52 HAVE YOU HEARD THAT? DO THEY EVER SAY THAT ABOUT 36:55 THE COMMANDMENT OF STEALING? WHY NOT? 37:01 DO THEY EVER SAY, 'IT'S OKAY, NOW, FOR ME TO COMMIT ADULTERY 37:05 BECAUSE I'M NOT UNDER THE LAW, I'M UNDER GRACE'? 37:10 DO YOU KNOW OF ANY SPOUSE, MALE OR FEMALE, WOULD ACCEPT THAT 37:13 ARGUMENT FOR INFIDELITY? NO, SO IT'S ABSURD TO SAY, 37:18 'WELL, I DON'T NEED TO KEEP THE SABBATH ANYMORE. 37:19 WE'RE NOT UNDER THE LAW, WE'RE UNDER GRACE.' SO, WHAT DOES PAUL 37:22 MEAN BY 'NOT UNDER LAW'? YOU FIND THE PHRASE 'NOT UNDER 37:25 LAW' EIGHT TIMES IN THE BIBLE. IT'S IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. 37:29 AND WE'RE NOT GOING TO LOOK AT THEM ALL, BUT WE'LL LOOK AT A 37:31 FEW EXAMPLES OF THAT. FOR EXAMPLE - AND SOMEONE, I 37:35 THINK, HERE IS GOING TO READ, FOR ME, IN 1 CORINTHIANS 9:20. 37:40 YOU'LL HAVE THAT IN JUST A MOMENT, JOHN? 37:41 LET ME READ, FOR YOU, GALATIANS 3:23, "BUT BEFORE FAITH CAME, 37:46 WE WERE KEPT UNDER GUARD BY THE LAW, KEPT FOR THE FAITH WHICH 37:49 WOULD AFTERWARD BE REVEALED." NOW, TO BE HONEST, I THINK THE 37:54 PHRASE 'UNDER LAW' CAN BE USED A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT WAYS. 37:58 JUST BECAUSE YOU FIND A PHRASE IN THE BIBLE, DOESN'T MEAN IT 38:00 ALWAYS MEANS THE SAME THING. YOU HAVE TO LOOK AT THE CONTEXT 38:04 OF HOW IT'S BEING USED. AND SO, WHEN PAUL IS SAYING 38:07 HERE, 'BEFORE FAITH CAME, WE WERE KEPT UNDER THE LAW,' HE'S 38:10 REALLY TALKING ABOUT THE LAW AS, SORT OF, SOMETHING OF A 38:12 GUARDRAIL THAT WOULD GUIDE. IT'S GOOD TO DO THE RIGHT THING 38:19 EVEN IF IT'S FOR THE WRONG REASON. 38:22 AND GOD GAVE THE LAW - WHY DOES IT SAY THE COMMANDMENT CAME 38:24 BECAUSE OF DISOBEDIENCE? AND SO, GOD GIVES THE LAW 38:28 BECAUSE IT'S IMPORTANT FOR US TO BE LAW ABIDING. 38:33 YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES A PERSON MIGHT DO THE RIGHT THING, AND 38:37 NOT UNDERSTAND WHY THEY'RE DOING THE RIGHT THING UNTIL LATER. 38:41 DO WE TEACH OUR CHILDREN, SOMETIMES, YOU KNOW, TO PRAY ON 38:45 A REGULAR BASIS AND READ THEIR BIBLES EVERY DAY, AND TO ALWAYS 38:48 CLEAN THEIR ROOM, AND - THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS THAT YOU TEACH 38:50 THEM AND SOMETIMES IT'S YEARS BEFORE THEY FINALLY SAY, 'YOU 38:54 KNOW, NOW I SEE WHY THEY TAUGHT ME THAT.' AND SO, WE KEEP THEM 39:00 UNDER LAW - WE HAVE RULES FOR THEIR GOOD. YOU WANT THEM TO 39:04 FINALLY GET IT AND DO IT BECAUSE IT IS THE RIGHT THING. 39:08 AND SO, GOD DID THAT WITH HIS PEOPLE - WITH HIS CHILDREN. 39:11 ROMANS 3:19 - "NOW WE KNOW THAT WHATEVER THE LAW SAYS, IT SAYS 39:16 TO THOSE WHO ARE UNDER THE LAW, THAT EVERY MOUTH MAY BE 39:19 STOPPED, AND ALL THE WORLD MAY BECOME GUILTY BEFORE GOD. 39:23 THEREFORE BY THE DEEDS OF THE LAW NO FLESH WILL BE JUSTIFIED 39:27 IN HIS SIGHT, FOR BY THE LAW IS THE KNOWLEDGE OF SIN." 39:31 GOD GAVE THE LAW ALSO SO PEOPLE WOULD KNOW WHAT WAS RIGHT OR 39:34 WRONG. ROMANS 6:13, "AND DO NOT PRESENT YOUR MEMBERS AS 39:38 INSTRUMENTS OF UNRIGHTEOUSNESS TO SIN, BUT PRESENT YOURSELVES 39:42 TO GOD AS BEING ALIVE FROM THE DEAD, AND YOUR MEMBERS AS 39:46 INSTRUMENTS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS TO GOD. 39:48 FOR SIN SHALL NOT HAVE DOMINION OVER YOU, FOR YOU ARE NOT UNDER 39:52 LAW BUT UNDER GRACE." NOW WHAT IS THE GREATER POWER 39:56 TO OBEY, FEAR OF PUNISHMENT OR GRACE? 40:02 IF THE REASON WE'RE OBEYING GOD IS BECAUSE OF FEAR OF THE 40:06 CONSEQUENCES OF LAW BREAKING, THEN WHEN THAT PENALTY IS 40:10 REMOVED, WE WON'T WANT TO OBEY ANYMORE. 40:12 IN HEAVEN WILL WE NEED TO BE AFRAID OF JUDGMENT? 40:16 SO IF WE'RE NOT OBEYING GOD FOR LOVE, WHEN WE GET TO HEAVEN, WE 40:21 WON'T HAVE THE RIGHT REASON TO OBEY HIM. 40:23 WE NEED TO LEARN TO OBEY HIM FOR THE RIGHT REASON NOW SO THAT 40:26 MOTIVE STAYS PURE THROUGH ETERNITY. 40:29 DID THAT MAKE SENSE? ALRIGHT, "FOR SIN SHALL NOT HAVE 40:34 DOMINION OVER YOU, FOR YOU ARE NOT UNDER THE LAW 40:37 BUT UNDER GRACE." NOW WHEN HE SAYS YOU'RE NOT 40:41 UNDER THE LAW, IT DOESN'T MEAN YOU CAN NOW SIN. 40:43 HE SAYS SIN WILL NOT HAVE DOMINION OVER YOU. 40:45 AND YOU READ THE PRIOR VERSE - I'M STILL IN ROMANS 6, HE SAYS 40:48 NOW, "PRESENT YOURSELVES TO GOD AS BEING ALIVE FROM THE DEAD, 40:52 AND YOUR MEMBERS" - YOUR BODY - YOUR LIFE - "AS INSTRUMENTS OF 40:55 RIGHTEOUSNESS TO GOD." BECAUSE YOU ARE UNDER GRACE. 41:00 BECAUSE YOU HAVE BEEN FORGIVEN, YOU ARE SO GRATEFUL YOU'VE BEEN 41:03 FORGIVEN, BECAUSE YOU ARE UNDER GRACE, YOU DON'T WANT TO DO 41:05 ANYTHING THAT WILL HURT THE LORD. 41:08 THAT'S WHAT HE'S SAYING. GALATIANS 4:21, "TELL ME" - AND 41:13 NOW I'M JUMPING AHEAD - THIS IS FOR ANOTHER STUDY, BUT JUST 41:15 USING THE TERM 'UNDER THE LAW' - "TELL ME, YOU WHO DESIRE TO BE 41:18 UNDER THE LAW, DO YOU NOT HEAR THE LAW?" HE SAID, 'THERE'S SOME 41:22 PEOPLE WHO DESIRE TO BE UNDER THE LAW'. YOU KNOW, I WAS 41:28 LISTENING TO AN OLD SERMON YESTERDAY, I WAS DOING A LITTLE 41:31 MAINTENANCE AROUND THE HOUSE AND POPPED IN THE OLD CD OF JOE 41:36 CREWS READING HIS CLASSIC BOOK CREEPING COMPROMISE . 41:40 HAVE YOU EVER READ THAT BOOK? IF YOU'VE NOT READ THAT BOOK, 41:44 YOU SHOULD AT LEAST GET THE CD AND LISTEN TO IT. 41:46 I THINK YOU COULD PROBABLY GET IT ON JUMP DRIVE. 41:48 AND I KNOW THERE'S A FEW THINGS THAT ARE DATED BECAUSE THE BOOK 41:50 WAS WRITTEN MANY YEARS AGO, BUT IT'S AMAZING HOW RELEVANT IT IS. 41:54 AND, ANYWAY, HE WAS TALKING ABOUT MARRIAGE. 41:59 AND JOE WAS ILLUSTRATING - HE SAID WHEN PEOPLE START 42:04 COMPLAINING ABOUT THE LAW AND THE RULES OF BEING A CHRISTIAN, 42:08 YOU'D ALWAYS MAKE SOME KIND OF CHUCKLE BECAUSE HE SAID, 'I 42:11 PERFORMED A LOT OF WEDDINGS AND WHEN I'VE GOT THE BRIDE AND THE 42:14 GROOM BEFORE - HE SAID IT'S ONE OF THE MOST RESTRICTIVE 42:17 COVENANTS THAT YOU CAN MAKE. HE SAID, 'BUT THEY'RE NOT 42:20 UNHAPPY, THEY'RE HAPPY' - AT LEAST, NORMALLY, THEY'RE HAPPY. 42:23 IF THEY'RE NOT HAPPY ON THEIR WEDDING DAY, YOU'VE GOT PROBLEMS 42:25 COMING LATER, RIGHT? LIKE A SHOTGUN WEDDING OR SOMETHING. 42:29 HE SAID, 'BUT THAT GUY SITTING THERE, HE'S SMILING' - AND HE 42:33 SAYS, 'DO YOU TAKE THIS WOMAN?' AND WHEN HE SAYS, 'I DO,' HE 42:35 JUST GAVE HER FIFTY PERCENT OF HIS PROPERTY (LAUGHTER) AND 42:40 HE'S STILL SMILING. AND HE NOW CAN NO LONGER DATE 42:44 ANY OTHER GIRLS.' TALK ABOUT THE RESTRICTIONS, WHY IS HE SMILING? 42:50 AND WHEN SHE SAYS, 'I DO,' THEY'RE THE SAME RESTRICTIONS. 42:57 AND, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE PROMISING IN SICKNESS AND HEALTH AND LOVE 43:00 THROUGH ALL THESE TRIALS AND - AND THE COVENANT OF MARRIAGE IS 43:06 VERY RESTRICTIVE, BUT WHY ARE THEY SMILING? 43:08 BECAUSE WHEN YOU LOVE, YOU'RE HAPPY TO OBEY. 43:12 PEOPLE WHO ARE CHAFING UNDER OBEDIENCE ARE TRYING TO OBEY 43:18 BECAUSE THEY SEE IT AS A LAW INSTEAD OF LOVE AND GRACE. 43:22 WHEN THEY KNOW THAT GOD HAS LOVED THEM AND FORGIVEN THEM AND 43:25 THAT THEY ARE SAVED BY GRACE, THEY WANT TO OBEY BECAUSE THEY 43:28 LOVE GOD. THE LAW AS OUR GUARD - THIS IS 43:33 THE NEXT SECTION - OR THE LAW AS OUR GUARDRAIL - GALATIANS 3:19, 43:38 "WHAT PURPOSE THEN DOES THE LAW SERVE? IT WAS ADDED BECAUSE OF 43:42 TRANSGRESSIONS, TILL THE SEED SHOULD COME TO WHOM THE PROMISE 43:46 WAS MADE; AND IT WAS APPOINTED THROUGH ANGELS BY THE 43:48 HAND OF A MEDIATOR." AND YOU READ IN ROMANS CHAPTER 43:52 4:15, "BECAUSE THE LAW BRINGS ABOUT WRATH; FOR WHERE 43:55 THERE IS NO LAW THERE IS NO TRANSGRESSION." 43:59 LET ME SEE IF I CAN ILLUSTRATE THIS WAY: PARENTS JUST HAD THEIR 44:06 CARPET CLEANED AND THEY'RE ALSO HAVING SOME LANDSCAPING DONE IN 44:12 THE BACKYARD. INSTEAD OF GRASS IN THE 44:13 BACKYARD, THERE'S A LOT OF MUD UNTIL THE LANDSCAPING'S DONE. 44:18 THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF TIME WHERE THE KIDS GET HOME BEFORE 44:20 THE PARENTS GET HOME FROM WORK AND THE PARENTS COME HOME AND 44:24 THEY SEE BLACK TRACKS ALL OVER THE CARPET. 44:29 AND THE KIDS WERE OUT PLAYING IN THE BACKYARD AND THEY DIDN'T 44:31 THOROUGHLY WIPE THEIR FEET AND THERE'S BLACK TRACKS. 44:35 AND SO THE PARENTS SAY, 'LOOK, GUYS, WE JUST SHAMPOOED THE 44:39 CARPET. WE'RE HAVING LANDSCAPING DONE. 44:41 YOU'VE GOT TO STAY OUT OF THE BACKYARD. 44:43 YOU'RE GETTING MUD ALL OVER YOUR FEET. STAY OUT OF THE BACKYARD 44:45 UNTIL WE GET THE LANDSCAPING DONE.' AND THEY BRING OVER THE 44:50 CARPET CLEANER, THEY CLEAN THE CARPET AGAIN, THEY SAY, 44:52 'ALRIGHT, GUYS, STAY OUT OF THE BACKYARD.' THEY COME BACK HOME 44:56 FROM WORK. THE KIDS HAVE GONE OUT IN THE BACKYARD AND THEY SEE 45:00 BLACK TRACKS ALL OVER THE CARPET AGAIN. NOW THE FIRST TIME, KIDS 45:07 MAYBE WERE BEING KIDS - THEY WEREN'T USING COMMON SENSE - 45:09 THEY DIDN'T REALIZE, YOU KNOW, THERE'S GOING TO BE CONSEQUENCES 45:11 FOR THE SOD BEING GONE, YOU'RE TRAMPLING ALL OVER THE BACKYARD, 45:15 AND YOU'RE GOING TO GET IT ALL ON THE FLOOR, AND SO YOU LET IT 45:18 SLIDE. BUT THEN YOU MADE A LAW AND YOU 45:22 SAID, 'DO NOT GO IN THE BACKYARD UNTIL THE WORK IS DONE.' 45:27 THEY DIDN'T LISTEN. ARE THEY, NOW, RESPONSIBLE IN A 45:31 DIFFERENT WAY, BECAUSE YOU WARNED THEM? 45:33 >>YES. >>SEE? AND SO, SIN IS KNOWING TO 45:39 DO GOOD AND NOT DOING IT. WHERE THERE'S NO LAW THERE'S NO SIN. 45:44 NOW THERE WAS A LAW - DON'T GO IN THE BACKYARD - NOW THEY'VE 45:47 BROKEN THE LAW - THE CONSEQUENCES ARE GOING TO BE 45:49 MORE SEVERE BECAUSE YOU STRAIGHTLY TOLD THEM, 'DON'T DO 45:53 IT.' THAT'S WHAT GOD IS SAYING, IS HE NEEDED TO MAKE A LAW 45:57 BECAUSE THEY KEPT GETTING TRACKS EVERYWHERE. 46:00 SEE WHAT I'M SAYING? THEY KEPT TRACKING MUD 46:02 EVERYWHERE SO GOD SAID THE LAW WAS BECAUSE OF TRANSGRESSION. 46:05 IT'S A GUARDRAIL. IT SHOULDN'T BOTHER US. 46:09 WHEN YOU DRIVE DOWN THE ROAD ON A WINDING ROAD AND THERE'S A 46:11 CLIFF AND YOU SEE A GUARDRAIL, DO YOU FEEL LIKE YOUR FREEDOM IS 46:14 BEING INHIBITED? I SAW A FUNNY CARTOON. 46:19 IT HAD A CAR - SHOWED A MINI VAN DRIVING DOWN THIS WINDING ROAD 46:25 WHERE THERE'S A CLIFF AND THE MINI VAN DRIVES OFF THE CLIFF, 46:31 THROUGH THE GUARDRAIL, AND YOU CAN SEE IT'S FALLING THROUGH 46:33 MID-AIR AND A LITTLE SOUND CAPTION COMES FROM THE MINI VAN 46:37 AND IT SAYS, 'RECALCULATING'. (LAUGHTER) ALRIGHT. 46:48 YOU KNOW, I WAS READING THE COMMENTARY OF JOHN GILL ON 46:50 GALATIANS CHAPTER 3:19 AND JOHN GILL WAS AN OLD BAPTIST 46:53 THEOLOGIAN - A VERY CONSERVATIVE, BRILLIANT BIBLE 46:57 COMMENTATOR - HERE'S WHAT HE WROTE ABOUT THAT PASSAGE - THAT 47:01 ONE VERSE IN GALATIANS 3:19, "THE LAW WAS ADDED, BECAUSE OF 47:05 TRANSGRESSIONS, 430 YEARS AFTER THE COVENANT." - 47:09 SO AFTER GOD MADE A COVENANT AND ABRAHAM BELIEVED AND HE WAS 47:12 DECLARED RIGHTEOUS BY FAITH, YEARS AFTER THAT, GOD MADE THE 47:17 OTHER LAWS THERE AT MOUNT SINAI. - 47:20 "IT DID NOT SUCCEED IT NOR TAKE THE PLACE OF IT, AND SO, MAKE IT 47:24 NULL AND VOID, BUT IT WAS OVER AND ABOVE AND ADDED TO IT FOR 47:28 THE SAKE OF RESTRAINING TRANSGRESSIONS, WHICH, HAD THERE 47:32 BEEN NO LAW, MEN COULD NOT HAVE BEEN ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEM AND 47:36 THEY WOULD HAVE GONE INTO THEM WITHOUT FEAR AND WITH IMPUNITY." 47:39 - THEY WOULD HAVE CONTINUED DISOBEYING WITHOUT FEAR AND 47:41 IMPUNITY - "BUT THE LAW WAS GIVEN TO LAY RESTRAINT ON MEN BY 47:45 FORBIDDING SUCH AND SUCH A THINGS ON PAIN OF DEATH." 47:48 AND SO GOD HAD TO MAKE THE LAW AND WHERE THERE IS MUCH 47:51 TRANSGRESSION THERE IS MUCH LAW. THAT'S WHY WE'VE GOT SO 47:54 MANY LAWS ON OUR BOOKS. OKAY, THE LAW AS OUR 47:57 SCHOOLMASTER - AND I'M RUNNING OUT OF TIME. 48:00 IT'S OKAY, I'M RUNNING OUT OF LESSON TOO. 48:03 SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ, FOR ME, GALATIANS 3:24 - MANJEET, GET 48:06 READY BECAUSE YOU'RE NEXT. A SCHOOLMASTER COMES 48:11 FROM THE WORD PAIDAGOGOS. YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU'VE GOT 48:16 SOMEONE WHO TAKES CARE OF CHILDREN AND THEY'RE A DOCTOR, 48:18 WHAT DO YOU CALL THEM? >>PEDIATRICIAN. 48:20 >>PEDIA-TRICIAN. AND A PAIDAGOGOS - THAT WORD IS 48:24 SIMILAR AND IT MEANS 'A CHILD TRAINER'. 48:28 NOW, WITH THAT IN MIND, READ, PLEASE, GALATIANS 3:24. 48:32 >>GALATIANS 3:24, "THEREFORE THE LAW WAS OUR TUTOR TO BRING US TO 48:37 CHRIST, THAT WE MIGHT BE JUSTIFIED BY FAITH." 48:42 >>IT WAS VERY COMMON IN THE ANCIENT WORLD - IT STILL HAPPENS 48:44 TODAY - THEY DIDN'T HAVE PUBLIC SCHOOLS BUT THE EDUCATED PEOPLE 48:47 OFTEN HAD SOMEONE THAT WOULD SERVE AS AN INSTRUCTOR SOMETIMES 48:52 FOR ONE FAMILY WITH MANY CHILDREN, SOMETIMES SEVERAL 48:54 FAMILIES WOULD WORK TOGETHER - THEY WOULD KIND OF HIRE THEIR 48:57 TEACHERS. IF YOU WERE ALEXANDER THE GREAT 49:01 AND YOU HAD A WEALTHY FATHER LIKE KING PHILLIP, YOU WERE 49:03 LUCKY BECAUSE YOUR TUTOR - YOUR PAIDAGOGOS - WAS ARISTOTLE. 49:09 ALEXANDER THE GREAT HAD ARISTOTLE AS HIS TEACHER. 49:13 YOU KNOW, I SEE A COUPLE OF EXAMPLES - AND I'M STRETCHING IT 49:16 A LITTLE BUT, YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE MAKES AN INTERESTING 49:20 STATEMENT. IT TALKS ABOUT, IN GENESIS 35:8, 49:24 IT SAYS, "NOW DEBORAH," - THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THE NAME 49:26 APPEARS IN THE BIBLE - "NOW DEBORAH, REBEKAH'S NURSE, DIED, 49:31 AND SHE WAS BURIED BELOW BETHEL UNDER THE TEREBINTH TREE. 49:35 SO THE NAME OF IT WAS CALLED ALLON BACHUTH." 49:37 IT MEANS 'TREE OF WEEPING'. IT'S AN INTERESTING FOOTNOTE. 49:40 DID YOU EVER NOTICE THAT OUT OF THE BLUE IT MENTIONS THE DEATH 49:43 OF REBEKAH'S MAIDSERVANT WHO, I BELIEVE, OUTLIVED REBEKAH, 49:47 BECAUSE SHE HAD BEEN NURSE - SHE HAD BEEN THE TEACHER AND THE 49:51 TRAINER OF THE TWIN BOYS, JACOB AND ESAU. 49:55 AND SO, THE BIBLE WRITERS NOTED HER DEATH BECAUSE SHE HAD HAD 49:59 SUCH A BIG INFLUENCE ON THEIR LIVES. 50:01 IT DOESN'T NOTE THAT ABOUT ZIPPORAH OR SOME OF THE OTHER 50:07 WIVES OF - NOT ZIPPORAH - NO, IT DOESN'T NOTE THAT ABOUT ZIPPORAH 50:11 EITHER, ACTUALLY, THOUGH OTHER WIVES OF - BILHAH AND ZILPA - IS 50:15 WHAT I WAS GOING TO SAY. READ, IN 2 SAMUEL 12:25, 50:20 DAVID HAD A LOT OF SONS. DO YOU THINK DAVID TOOK TIME 50:23 TO HOMESCHOOL THEM EVERY DAY? WHO DO YOU THINK TAUGHT SOLOMON? 50:28 I'VE GOT A THEORY: 2 SAMUEL 12:25, "AND HE SENT WORD BY THE 50:32 HAND OF NATHAN" - DAVID CALLED HIM SOLOMON - NATHAN THE PROPHET 50:35 CALLED HIM "...JEDIDIAH, BECAUSE OF THE LORD." 50:38 IT SAYS THE LORD LOVED HIM. NATHAN THE PROPHET WAS PROBABLY 50:43 THE PAIDAGOGOS FOR SOLOMON AND IT KEPT HIM VERY 50:48 CLOSE TO THE LORD. THOSE TEACHERS, BACK THEN, NOT 50:52 ONLY TAUGHT THEM, THEY WATCHED OVER THEM, THE MIGHT HAVE 50:55 COOKED THEIR MEALS, THEY COULD DISCIPLINE THEM. 50:57 DOES ANYONE HERE REMEMBER THE DAYS WHEN YOUR TEACHERS HAD THE 51:02 FULL SUPPORT OF PARENTS TO SPANK YOU OR RAP YOUR KNUCKLES IN 51:07 SCHOOL AND YOU SURVIVED? HOW MANY OF YOU NOW LIVE DURING 51:13 A TIME WHEN THAT IS ILLEGAL? I WENT TO MILITARY SCHOOL AND 51:20 THEY'D JUST LEAN YOU OVER THE DESK AND WHIP YOU WITH A FIELD 51:23 BELT AND YOU HAD TO - THEY'D SAY, 'ASSUME THE POSITION'. 51:27 AND SOME OF YOU WENT TO - WHEN I WAS IN CATHOLIC SCHOOL THE NUNS 51:31 WOULD COME BY AND THEY'D RAP YOUR KNUCKLES. 51:33 THEN - AND, YOU KNOW, I'M SURE THERE WERE OCCASIONS OF ABUSE, 51:38 BUT I THINK, IN THE BIG PICTURE, IT PROBABLY DID MOST OF US MORE 51:40 GOOD THAN HARM. >>AMEN. 51:43 >>BUT THAT'S SOMETHING THAT THEY DID. SO THE SCHOOLMASTER WAS NOT 51:48 ONLY TO LEAD, TO GUIDE, TO TEACH, BUT TO DISCIPLINE. 51:51 IT SAYS THE LAW WAS A TUTOR - IT WOULD ALSO DISCIPLINE US. 51:55 AND THEN, FINALLY, THE LAW AND THE BELIEVER . 51:58 GALATIANS 3:25, "BUT AFTER FAITH HAS COME, WE ARE NO LONGER UNDER 52:03 A TUTOR." THE CHILDREN WOULD EVENTUALLY 52:05 REACH MATURITY AND THEY LAUNCHED ON THEIR OWN. 52:07 YOU KNOW, PAUL SAYS, 'WHEN I WAS A CHILD I THOUGHT LIKE A CHILD, 52:10 I ACTED LIKE A CHILD, BUT WHEN I BECAME A MAN I PUT AWAY CHILDISH 52:13 THINGS.' AT SOME POINT, WHEN YOU MATURE AS A CHRISTIAN, YOU MAY 52:16 START OUT AS A CHILD SAYING, 'DON'T DO THIS. 52:19 YOU'RE GOING TO GET SPANKED.' BUT WHEN YOU MATURE, YOU SAY, 52:21 'DON'T DO THIS BECAUSE IT'S NOT GOOD. 52:24 BECAUSE IT DISPLEASES THE LORD. BECAUSE I TRUST GOD.' 52:27 YOU GET THE MATURE MOTIVES. PAUL WAS NOT SAYING THAT ONCE WE 52:32 HAVE FAITH WE NO LONGER NEED THE LAW. IS THE LAW STILL THERE TO 52:36 SHOW US SIN? >>YES. 52:38 >>DOESN'T PAUL SAY, 'LET EVERY ONE OF US EXAMINE OURSELVES, 52:40 WHETHER WE BE IN THE FAITH'? AND THAT LAW NEEDS TO BE, 52:44 THEN, WRITTEN IN OUR HEART. JESUS SAID WHOEVER SINS 52:47 BREAKS THE LAW AND HE IS A TRANSGRESSOR. 52:51 YOU'RE NOT FREE IF YOU'RE IN SIN. 52:53 WE ARE OUT OF TIME FOR THIS STUDY TODAY, BUT I WANT TO 52:55 REMIND EVERYBODY WE DO HAVE A FREE STUDY. 52:57 IF YOU HAVE NOT RECEIVED THIS LESSON BEFORE, IT IS OUR 53:00 BRAND-NEW STUDY GUIDE DEALING WITH THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD AND 53:03 THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LAW AND GRACE, AND IT'S CALLED WRITTEN 53:06 IN STONE . IT ALSO TALKS ABOUT IT 53:08 BEING WRITTEN IN THE HEART. IF YOU CALL 866-788-3966 THEY'LL 53:14 SEND THAT TO YOU FOR FREE. PLEASE READ IT AND THEN 53:16 GIVE IT TO A FRIEND. THAT'S 866-STUDY-MORE - AND ASK 53:19 FOR OFFER #111 WHEN YOU DO. WELL, WE'RE OUT OF TIME FOR 53:23 TODAY'S STUDY AND THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR JOINING US, FRIENDS. 53:26 WE WILL STUDY HIS WORD WITH YOU AGAIN TOGETHER NEXT WEEK. 53:30 >>DID YOU KNOW THAT NOAH WAS PRESENT AT THE BIRTH OF ABRAHAM? 53:34 OKAY, MAYBE HE WASN'T IN THE ROOM, BUT HE WAS ALIVE AND 53:38 PROBABLY TELLING STORIES ABOUT HIS FLOATING ZOO. 53:41 FROM THE CREATION OF THE WORLD TO THE LAST-DAY EVENTS OF 53:44 REVELATION, 'BIBLEHISTORY.COM' IS A FREE RESOURCE WHERE YOU CAN 53:48 EXPLORE MAJOR BIBLE EVENTS AND CHARACTERS. 53:51 ENHANCE YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE BIBLE AND DRAW CLOSER TO GOD'S 53:54 WORD. GO DEEPER. VISIT 'BIBLEHISTORY.COM'. (MUSIC) 54:08 >>YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD THE EXPRESSION BEFORE, 'IF YOU 54:10 DON'T LIKE THE WEATHER IN TEXAS, JUST WAIT; IT'LL CHANGE.' AND 54:14 YOU'VE ALSO HEARD, 'EVERYTHING IS BIGGER IN TEXAS - THE 54:17 RANCHES, THE BELT BUCKLES, THE COWBOY HATS...' BUT THE MOST 54:21 FAMOUS SLOGAN ABOUT TEXAS IS 'REMEMBER THE ALAMO!' 54:29 THE VIOLENT BATTLES AND BRAVERY OF ICONIC HEROES, HAVE BEEN THE 54:32 STUFF OF LEGENDS, THROUGHOUT WHICH ENTIRE CULTURES OFTEN DRAW 54:35 THEIR IDENTITY AND PRIDE, EVEN LONG AFTER CENTURIES ARE PAST. 54:39 AND IN TEXAS, THE STORY OF THE ALAMO HAS BEEN A RALLYING CRY OF 54:42 TEXAS INDEPENDENCE FOR 200 YEARS. 54:46 ONE REASON THAT TEXANS LOVE TO BRAG THAT EVERYTHING IS BIGGER 54:48 IN TEXAS IS, OF COURSE, BECAUSE TEXAS IS THE LARGEST OF THE 54:52 LOWER 48 U.S. STATES. IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE THAT THIS 54:56 MASSIVE STATE GOT ITS BEGINNING IN A VERY SMALL CHRISTIAN 54:59 MISSION DURING THE BATTLE OF THE ALAMO. 55:03 EVERY YEAR THIS FAMOUS MISSION MUSEUM RECEIVES OVER TWO AND A 55:06 HALF MILLION VISITORS FROM ALL PARTS OF THE PLANET, THAT ARE 55:09 EAGER TO GET A GOOD LOOK AT THIS LEGENDARY SITE. 55:13 THE ALAMO PLAYED A CRITICAL ROLE IN THE TEXAS REVOLUTION. 55:16 IN DECEMBER 1835, TEXANS AND TEJANO VOLUNTEERS BATTLED 55:21 MEXICAN TROOPS QUARTERED IN THE CITY, FORCING GENERAL MARTIN 55:24 PERFECTO DE COS TO SURRENDER. THE VICTORIOUS VOLUNTEERS 55:27 THEN OCCUPIED THE ALAMO AND STRENGTHENED ITS DEFENSES. 55:32 FAMOUS AMERICANS LIKE DAVY CROCKETT, JIM BOWIE, AND COLONEL 55:35 WILLIAM TRAVIS MADE THIS LOCATION - THIS ANCIENT MISSION 55:38 - THE BEACHHEAD - THE LAST STAND IN AN EPIC BATTLE TO WIN 55:42 INDEPENDENCE OF TEXAS FROM MEXICO. 55:46 ON FEBRUARY 23, 1836, THE ARRIVAL OF GENERAL ANTONIO LOPEZ 55:51 SANTA ANA NEARLY CAUGHT THEM BY SURPRISE. 55:54 UNDAUNTED, THE TEXANS AND TEJANOS PREPARED TO DEFEND THE 55:57 ALAMO. FOR THIS SMALL RAG-TAG GROUP OF 55:59 REBELS, THE YOUNGEST OF WHOM WAS ABOUT SIXTEEN AND THE OLDEST 56:02 SEVENTY-FIVE, WAS AGAINST THE WELL-TRAINED AND ORGANIZED 56:06 MEXICAN ARMY OF SIX THOUSAND-PLUS SOLDIERS. 56:09 IT WAS A FIERCE AND LOPSIDED BATTLE, YET THE SMALL FORCE OF 56:12 REBELS WAS ABLE TO REPEL THE TROOPS FOR THIRTEEN DAYS. 56:17 LEGEND HOLDS THAT WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF ADDITIONAL HELP 56:20 FADING, COLONEL TRAVIS DREW A LINE IN THE GROUND WITH A SWORD 56:24 AND ASKED ANY MAN WILLING TO STAY AND FIGHT TO STEP OVER THE 56:28 LINE. ALL EXCEPT ONE CROSSED OVER. 56:31 THE FINAL ASSAULT CAME BEFORE DAYBREAK. 56:34 ON THE MORNING OF MARCH 6, 1836, THE THIRTEENTH DAY OF THE SIEGE, 56:39 CANON AND SMALL ARMS FIRE FROM INSIDE THE ALAMO BEAT BACK 56:42 SEVERAL MEXICAN ATTACKS. REGROUPING, SANTA ANA'S SOLDIERS 56:46 SCALED THE WALLS AND RUSHED INTO THE COMPOUND. THE DESPERATE 56:50 STRUGGLE CONTINUED UNTIL THE DEFENDERS WERE OVERWHELMED. 56:53 BY SUNRISE, THE BATTLE HAD ENDED AND THE GARRISON WAS SLAIN. 56:58 YOU KNOW, HISTORIANS MAY DEBATE SOME OF THE DETAILS REGARDING 57:01 THE BATTLE OF THE ALAMO, BUT NONE OF THEM QUESTION THE 57:03 INCREDIBLE SACRIFICE THAT WAS MADE AND THE COURAGE THAT WAS 57:06 DISPLAYED DURING THAT INTENSE CONFLICT. 57:09 THEY MADE THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE - GIVING THEIR LIVES - AND THIS 57:12 IS WHY THE STORY OF THE ALAMO IS SO INSPIRING AND SO ENCOURAGING, 57:17 YOU KNOW? AND THAT'S WHY THE BIBLE IS SO 57:18 INSPIRING, FRIENDS, BECAUSE SOMEONE WAS WILLING TO MAKE THE 57:21 ULTIMATE SACRIFICE AND GIVE HIS LIFE SO YOU COULD HAVE 57:24 FREEDOM AND ETERNAL LIFE. DON'T YOU THINK YOU COULD TRUST 57:27 YOUR LIFE TO A FRIEND LIKE THAT, THAT WOULD GIVE EVERYTHING? 57:30 THE STORY OF THE GOSPEL IS A STORY OF COURAGE AND HOPE. 57:33 IT'S THE STORY OF GOD WHO WILL NEVER LEAVE YOU WITHOUT DEFENSE 57:36 AND SUPPORT. JESUS IS THE GOOD NEWS AND 57:39 THE GOSPEL IS A STORY WORTH REMEMBERING. (MUSIC) 57:57 >>TOGETHER WE HAVE SPREAD THE GOSPEL MUCH FARTHER THAN EVER 58:01 BEFORE. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT. 58:10 (MUSIC) |
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