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HELLO FRIENDS, AND WELCOME
TO SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR,
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FROM SABBATH TO SABBATH.
WE'RE GLAD YOU CAME A LITTLE
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EARLY TODAY TO
PARTICIPATE IN OUR BIBLE STUDY.
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WE'VE BEEN STUDYING THROUGH THE
BOOK OF GALATIANS FOR OUR LESSON
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QUARTER AND, TODAY, WE FIND
OURSELVES ON LESSON #10 ENTITLED
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THE TWO COVENANTS AND WE'LL BE
GETTING TO THAT HERE IN JUST A
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FEW MOMENTS. WE DO
HAVE A FREE OFFER THAT
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GOES ALONG WITH OUR STUDY OF
THE TWO COVENANTS - IT'S A BOOK
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WRITTEN BY JOE CREWS -
WHY THE OLD COVENANT FAILED .
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ASK FOR OFFER #716. WELL,
BEFORE WE GET TO OUR STUDY
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TODAY, WE HAVE
SOMETHING VERY SPECIAL.
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ONE OF OUR OWN MEMBERS, JAMIE
WILSON WILL BE BRINGING US A
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SPECIAL MUSICAL
ITEM AT THIS TIME.
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FOLLOWING THAT WE WILL HAVE
OUR PRAYER AND GET RIGHT TO OUR
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LESSON STUDY. (PIANO MUSIC)
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>>THERE ARE DAYS OF
TAKING MORE THAN I CAN GIVE
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AND THERE ARE CHOICES THAT I
MADE THAT I WOULDN'T MAKE AGAIN
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I'VE HAD MY SHARE OF LAUGHTER
OF TEARS AND TROUBLED TIMES
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THIS HAS BEEN
THE STORY OF MY LIFE
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I HAVE WON AND I HAVE
LOST I GOT IT RIGHT SOMETIMES
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BUT SOMETIMES I DID NOT LIFE'S
BEEN A JOURNEY I'VE SEEN JOY,
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I'VE SEEN REGRET OH AND YOU HAVE
BEEN MY GOD THROUGH ALL OF IT
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YOU WERE THERE WHEN IT ALL CAME
DOWN ON ME AND I WAS BLINDED
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BY MY FEAR AND I
STRUGGLED TO BELIEVE
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BUT IN THOSE UNCLEAR MOMENTS YOU
WERE THE ONE KEEPING ME STRONG
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THIS IS HOW MY STORY'S ALWAYS
GONE I HAVE WON AND I HAVE LOST
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I GOT IT RIGHT SOMETIMES
BUT SOMETIMES I DID NOT
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LIFE'S BEEN A JOURNEY
I'VE SEEN JOY, I'VE SEEN REGRET
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OH AND YOU HAVE BEEN
MY GOD THROUGH ALL OF IT
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THROUGH ALL OF IT
AND THIS IS WHO YOU ARE
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MORE CONSTANT THAN
THE STARS UP IN THE SKY
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ALL THESE YEARS OF MY LIFE I,
I LOOK BACK AND I SEE YOU RIGHT
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NOW I STILL DO AND
I'M ALWAYS GOING TO
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I HAVE WON AND I HAVE
LOST I GOT IT RIGHT SOMETIMES
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BUT SOMETIMES I DID
NOT LIFE'S BEEN A JOURNEY
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I'VE SEEN JOY I'VE SEEN REGRET
OH AND YOU HAVE BEEN MY GOD
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THROUGH ALL OF IT OH
AND YOU HAVE BEEN MY GOD
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THROUGH ALL OF IT OH
AND YOU HAVE BEEN MY GOD
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THROUGH ALL OF IT.
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>>LET'S BOW OUR HEADS FOR A
WORD OF PRAYER. DEAR FATHER IN
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HEAVEN, WHAT A PRIVILEGE TO BE
ABLE TO OPEN YOUR WORD AND STUDY
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THIS VERY IMPORTANT PASSAGE IN
GALATIANS. HELP US TO UNDERSTAND
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THE NEW COVENANT AND HOW YOU
WANT TO WRITE YOUR LAW UPON OUR
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HEARTS AND UPON OUR MINDS - THAT
WE WOULD KEEP YOUR COMMANDMENTS,
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NOT JUST FROM AN OUTWARD
OBSERVANCE, BUT FROM A CHANGE OF
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HEART. FATHER, WE
THANK YOU FOR YOUR
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GRACE, WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR
SPIRIT THAT EVER WORKS WITHIN
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US, AND WE ASK YOUR SPECIAL
BLESSING NOW AS WE OPEN UP THE
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SCRIPTURES AND STUDY
TOGETHER, FOR WE ASK THIS IN
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JESUS' NAME, AMEN. >>AMEN.
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>>OUR LESSON STUDY THIS MORNING
IS GOING TO BE BROUGHT TO US BY
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PASTOR DOUG.
>>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS,
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AND GOOD MORNING,
FRIENDS. >>GOOD MORNING.
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>>MORNING - I WANT TO WELCOME
THOSE WHO ARE PART OF THE WIDER
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GRANITE BAY
SABBATH SCHOOL CLASS.
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IT'S EXCITING TO SEE HOW THE
CLASS KEEPS GROWING, AS PASTOR
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ROSS WAS SAYING EARLIER, IN A
WEEK'S TIME WE MAY HAVE AS MANY
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AS A MILLION PEOPLE THAT WILL
TUNE IN EITHER FOR THE CHURCH -
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WHEN YOU COMBINE THE CHURCH
SERVICE, THE PRAYER MEETING,
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THE SABBATH SCHOOL AND
SOME OF THE OTHER AMAZING FACTS
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WEBSITES, AND IT'S JUST REALLY
EXCITING TO KNOW THAT WHAT'S
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HAPPENING IN THIS COMPARATIVELY
HUMBLE SPOT IS REACHING SO MANY
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PARTS OF THE WORLD. AND
WE ARE CONTINUING OUR STUDY
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ON A VERY CHALLENGING BOOK
OF GALATIANS. SOME PASTORS HAVE
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DEDICATED THEIR CAREERS TO
TRYING TO UNPACK WHAT SOME OF
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THE MEANING WAS IN
JUST THE BOOK OF GALATIANS.
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IT'S A GREAT
BOOK. IT'S A DEEP BOOK.
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AND WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE. NOW
WE'RE ON LESSON #10 TODAY AND
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THE LESSON TITLE
IS THE TWO COVENANTS .
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WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE AND THE
MEMORY VERSE COMES TO US FROM
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GALATIANS 4:26 - WE'LL GET TO IT
IN A MINUTE, BUT WHY DON'T YOU
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SAY IT WITH ME NOW?
GALATIANS 4:26 - YOU READY?
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"BUT THE JERUSALEM THAT IS ABOVE
IS FREE, AND SHE IS OUR MOTHER."
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WHAT DOES THAT
MEAN? HOLD THAT THOUGHT.
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WE'LL GET TO IT IN A LITTLE BIT.
NOW, AS WE DELVE INTO THE STUDY
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OF THE TWO COVENANTS, MAYBE IT
WOULD BE GOOD TO START AND TALK
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ABOUT WHAT A COVENANT IS, AGAIN.
WE'VE DEALT WITH THIS A LITTLE
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BIT IN EARLIER STUDIES, BUT I
KNOW THAT THERE'S ALWAYS PEOPLE
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WHO ARE JOINING US FOR THE FIRST
TIME, AND THE WORD 'COVENANT'
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BASICALLY IS AN AGREEMENT.
YOU HAVE COVENANTS ALL THE TIME.
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EVERY TIME YOU DOWNLOAD
SOFTWARE, YOU KNOW IT'S GOT A
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LITTLE BOX THAT YOU CLICK THAT
SAYS, 'I AGREE TO THE TERMS'?
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YOU KNOW, YOU'RE MAKING A
COVENANT AND THERE'S ALL KINDS
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OF LAWYERS THAT LOOK INTO
THE LANGUAGE, BECAUSE IF THAT
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SOFTWARE CRASHES YOUR COMPUTER,
YOU CAN'T SUE THE COMPANY.
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HAVE YOU EVER READ THE
FINE PRINT ON SOME OF THOSE?
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WE DO COVENANTS IF YOU BUY A
HOUSE - IF YOU BUY A CAR - IT'S
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ALMOST AS MANY PAGES YOU SIGN IN
BUYING A CAR AS BUYING A HOUSE
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THESE DAYS. IT'S
AMAZING. MARRIAGE IS A COVENANT.
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THE WORD THAT'S TYPICALLY
TRANSLATED 'COVENANT' IN HEBREW
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IS 'BERITH'. IT
OCCURS NEARLY THREE HUNDRED
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TIMES IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, AND
IT'S TALKING ABOUT A CONTRACT,
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AN AGREEMENT, OR A TREATY
BETWEEN AT LEAST TWO PARTIES.
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NOW, YOU'VE GOT SOME EXAMPLES OF
COVENANTS THAT GOD MADE - SOME
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OF THE GREAT COVENANTS IN THE
BIBLE. YOU'VE GOT THE COVENANT
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GOD MADE WITH ADAM, YOU'VE GOT
THE COVENANT GOD MADE WITH NOAH,
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WITH DAVID - AND WE'RE GOING TO
BE STUDYING, TODAY, THE COVENANT
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GOD MADE, IN
PARTICULAR, WITH ABRAHAM.
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BUT IF YOU LOOK, FOR INSTANCE,
IN GENESIS 1:28, HERE YOU HAVE
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GOD'S COVENANT WITH ADAM, "THEN
GOD BLESSED THEM, AND GOD SAID
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TO THEM, 'BE FRUITFUL AND
MULTIPLY; FILL THE EARTH AND
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SUBDUE IT; HAVE DOMINION OVER
THE FISH OF THE SEA, OVER THE
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BIRDS OF THE AIR, AND OVER EVERY
LIVING THING THAT MOVES ON THE
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EARTH.'" SO, ORIGINALLY,
GOD MADE A COVENANT WITH MAN AND
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WOMAN AND HE SAID, 'I'M MAKING
YOU STEWARDS OF THIS WORLD,
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YOU'LL BE GIVEN
DOMINION OVER ALL THE CREATURES.
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ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS FLY OVER
WITH AN AIRPLANE, YOU CAN TELL
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WHICH OF THE MILLIONS OF SPECIES
ON THE WORLD HAS DOMINION.
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PRETTY CLEAR TO SEE, NOT TOO
MANY LIONS KEEP PEOPLE IN CAGES.
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IT'S A PRETTY - IT'S A ONE-WAY
ARRANGEMENT AROUND THE PLANET.
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YOU DON'T SAVE THE PEOPLE FROM
WHALES, YOU SAVE THE WHALES FROM
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THE PEOPLE. I'M NOT
SAYING THAT MAN HAS DONE
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A VERY GOOD JOB BEING
A STEWARD OF THE PLANET.
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GOD PUT MAN IN THE GARDEN
TO DRESS AND TO KEEP IT, BUT I
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THINK WE ALL KNOW THAT THINGS
HAVE BEEN OVER-EXPLOITED, AND -
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BUT THE LORD MADE A COVENANT
THAT MAN WOULD HAVE DOMINION.
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NOW THE ULTIMATE DOMINION OF
THE WORLD WAS LOST, BECAUSE THE
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BIBLE SAYS, 'WHOEVER YOU OBEY,
THAT'S WHOSE SERVANT YOU ARE.'
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AND WHEN GOD PUT A TEST IN THE
GARDEN, BETWEEN THE GOOD TREE
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AND THE BAD TREE - LIFE - THE
TREE OF KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND
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EVIL - THE TREE OF LIFE -
GOD SAYS, 'IF YOU EAT FROM THIS
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TREE, YOU'LL LIVE. DO
NOT EAT FROM THIS FORBIDDEN
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TREE' - AND WHEN MAN CHOSE
TO BELIEVE THE TEMPTATION OF THE
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DEVIL INSTEAD OF THE TEMPTATION
OF GOD, ROMANS CHAPTER 6 SAYS,
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'WHOEVER YOU OBEY, THAT'S
WHOSE SERVANT YOU ARE.' AND MAN
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SURRENDERED THE DOMINION
OF THE WORLD TO THE ENEMY.
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THAT'S WHY, WHEN THE DEVIL CAME,
HE CALLED - EVEN JESUS CALLS HIM
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'THE PRINCE OF THIS WORLD'.
AND SO, THAT WAS AN ORIGINAL
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COVENANT, BUT IT WAS A
CONDITIONAL COVENANT THAT
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GOD MADE IN THE
BEGINNING. THEN YOU'VE GOT THE
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COVENANT WITH NOAH.
GENESIS 9, "SO GOD BLESSED NOAH
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AND HIS SONS, AND SAID TO THEM:
'BE FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLY,'"
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- NOW, YOU NOTICE IN THESE
COVENANTS HE'S TELLING ADAM AND
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EVE 'BE FRUITFUL', HE'S TELLING
NOAH TO BE FRUITFUL, THEN HE
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LATER TELLS ABRAHAM, 'I'LL MAKE
YOU FRUITFUL', SO IT'S SOMETHING
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INTERESTING THERE THAT
HE WOULD MULTIPLY THEM.
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"BE FRUITFUL AND
MULTIPLY, AND FILL THE EARTH.
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AND THE FEAR OF YOU AND THE
DREAD OF YOU SHALL BE ON EVERY
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BEAST OF THE EARTH, ON EVERY
BIRD OF THE AIR, ON ALL THAT
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MOVE ON THE EARTH, AND
ON ALL THE FISH OF THE SEA.
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THEY ARE GIVEN INTO YOUR HAND."
AND, OF COURSE, THEN HE HAS THE
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COVENANT OF THE RAINBOW
THAT HE SET IN THE HEAVENS.
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AND THEN YOU HAVE A COVENANT
THAT GOD MAKES WITH DAVID - AND
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THIS IS IN 2 SAMUEL 7, VERSE 12
- GOD SAYS TO DAVID, "WHEN YOUR
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DAYS ARE FULFILLED AND YOU REST
WITH YOUR FATHERS, I WILL SET UP
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YOUR SEED AFTER YOU," - YOUR
DESCENDANTS - "WHO WILL COME
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FROM YOU BODY, AND I
WILL ESTABLISH HIS KINGDOM."
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WHO IS GOD TALKING
ABOUT? THE SEED OF DAVID AND HIS
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KINGDOM WOULD BE
ESTABLISHED. IT'S A TRICK
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QUESTION; IT'S
BOTH. IT'S BOTH SOLOMON
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AND IT'S JESUS. THIS
IS WHAT YOU CALL A DUAL
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PROPHECY IN THE BIBLE, BECAUSE
DAVID, HIS DESIRE WAS 'I WANT TO
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BUILD A TEMPLE FOR THE LORD' AND
GOD SAID, 'YOU'RE NOT GOING TO
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BUILD IT, BUT YOUR SEED
WILL BUILD THE TEMPLE FOR ME.
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DAVID HAD A SON NAMED SOLOMON
WHO DID BUILD THE TEMPLE.
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DAVID HAD A GREAT, GREAT, GREAT,
GREAT, GREAT, GREAT GRANDSON
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NAMED JESUS WHO SAID, 'DESTROY
THIS TEMPLE MADE WITH HANDS AND
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IN THREE DAYS I'LL MAKE ONE
WITHOUT HANDS.' AND THE BODY OF
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CHRIST - THE CHURCH - IS THE
TEMPLE - AND SO, YOU'VE GOT THE
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SON OF DAVID - JESUS IS CALLED
THE SON OF DAVID - SOLOMON'S
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CALLED THE SON OF DAVID -
SO THIS WOULD BE ONE OF THE
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EXAMPLES OF A DUAL PROPHECY.
BUT GOD MADE A COVENANT WITH
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DAVID THAT 'THROUGH YOUR
DESCENDANTS THE MESSIAH WOULD
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COME'. AND, OF
COURSE, THE MESSIAH CAME
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THROUGH ADAM, THROUGH NOAH,
THROUGH DAVID - AND OUR STUDY
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TODAY IS REALLY THROUGH ABRAHAM.
NOW, IN OUR - THAT WAS JUST
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INTRODUCTION - IN OUR STUDY
OF GALATIANS TODAY, WE'VE BEEN
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BREAKING DOWN THE BOOK.
HERE'S - OUR ASSIGNMENT IS - YOU
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GO TO GALATIANS 4 AND I'M GOING
TO JUST READ THROUGH IT SO YOU
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KNOW WHAT WE WANT TO TRY TO
EXPLAIN - GALATIANS 4, VERSE 21
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THROUGH THE END OF THE CHAPTER,
VERSE 31 - 21 TO 31 - AND PAUL
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PICKS UP WITH HIS THEME ABOUT DO
YOU WANT TO BE UNDER LAW OR DO
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YOU WANT TO BE UNDER GRACE?
YOU WANT THE OLD COVENANT OR DO
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YOU WANT THE NEW COVENANT.
SO LET ME READ THIS TO YOU:
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"TELL ME, YOU WHO DESIRE TO BE
UNDER THE LAW, DO YOU NOT HEAR
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THE LAW? FOR IT IS WRITTEN THAT
ABRAHAM HAD TWO SONS: THE ONE BY
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A BONDWOMAN, THE OTHER BY A
FREEWOMAN. BUT HE WHO WAS OF THE
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BONDWOMAN WAS BORN ACCORDING
TO THE FLESH, AND HE OF THE
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FREEWOMAN THROUGH PROMISE," -
YOU REALIZE HE'S TALKING ABOUT
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HAGAR AND SARAH, ISAAC AND
ISHMAEL - HE'S CONTRASTING THESE
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TWO WOMEN AND THE TWO CHILDREN
- "WHICH THINGS ARE SYMBOLIC."
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- NOW SOME OF YOU HAVE GOT THE
KING JAMES VERSION; DOES IT SAY
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'ALLEGORY' THERE? >>YES.
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>>YEAH, IT - I DON'T KNOW
WHETHER TO SAY IT NOW OR LATER.
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I'LL WAIT - JUST WANT
TO MAKE SURE I REMEMBER -
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"WHICH THINGS ARE SYMBOLIC.
FOR THESE ARE THE TWO COVENANTS:
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THE ONE FROM MOUNT SINAI WHICH
GIVES BIRTH TO BONDAGE, WHICH IS
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HAGAR - FOR THIS HAGAR IS MOUNT
SINAI IN ARABIA, AND CORRESPONDS
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TO JERUSALEM WHICH NOW IS, AND
IS IN BONDAGE WITH HER CHILDREN
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- BUT THE JERUSALEM
ABOVE IS FREE, WHICH IS THE
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MOTHER OF US ALL. FOR
IT IS WRITTEN: 'REJOICE, O
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BARREN, YOU WHO DO NOT
BEAR! BREAK FORTH AND SHOUT,
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YOU WHO ARE NOT IN LABOR!
FOR THE DESOLATE HAS MANY MORE
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CHILDREN THAN SHE WHO HAS
A HUSBAND.' NOW WE, BRETHREN,
00:14:35.84\00:14:40.98
AS ISAAC WAS, ARE CHILDREN OF
PROMISE. BUT, AS HE WHO WAS BORN
00:14:41.01\00:14:44.68
ACCORDING TO THE FLESH
THEN PERSECUTED HIM WHO WAS BORN
00:14:44.71\00:14:47.08
ACCORDING TO THE
SPIRIT, EVEN SO IT IS NOW.
00:14:47.12\00:14:50.12
NEVERTHELESS WHAT
DOES THE SCRIPTURE SAY?
00:14:50.15\00:14:52.82
'CAST OUT THE BONDWOMAN
AND HER SON, FOR THE SON OF THE
00:14:52.85\00:14:55.56
BONDWOMAN SHALL NOT BE HEIR WITH
THE SON OF THE FREEWOMAN.' SO
00:14:55.59\00:14:59.23
THEN, BRETHREN, WE ARE NOT
CHILDREN OF THE BONDWOMAN BUT OF
00:14:59.26\00:15:02.46
THE FREE." ALRIGHT,
SO HE'S TAKING THESE
00:15:02.50\00:15:05.07
TWO PRINCIPLE WIVES THAT ABRAHAM
HAD - ONE WAS A SERVANT - A
00:15:05.10\00:15:09.17
CONCUBINE - HAGAR -
SHE WAS A SURROGATE.
00:15:09.20\00:15:12.54
AND, YOU KNOW, THE IDEA OF
HAVING A SURROGATE MOTHER AND -
00:15:12.57\00:15:16.95
DID NOT BEGIN IN
THE LAST TWENTY YEARS.
00:15:16.98\00:15:19.98
IT GOES WAY BACK. AND
THEN YOU HAD SARAH, WHO WAS
00:15:20.02\00:15:24.15
THE REAL WIFE, AND THEY
BOTH ENDED UP HAVING CHILDREN.
00:15:24.19\00:15:27.86
HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE KNOWN
SOMEONE THAT TRIED AND TRIED - A
00:15:27.89\00:15:29.99
COUPLE - THEY TRIED AND TRIED TO
HAVE CHILDREN AND THEY COULDN'T,
00:15:30.03\00:15:32.79
SO THEY ADOPTED, AND
THEN THE MOTHER GETS PREGNANT?
00:15:32.83\00:15:36.16
HAVE YOU SEEN
THAT HAPPEN BEFORE?
00:15:36.20\00:15:38.73
IT'S JUST, YOU KNOW, GOD'S
GOT A COSMIC SENSE OF HUMOR.
00:15:38.77\00:15:41.97
BUT I HAVE A FRIEND THAT THAT
HAPPENED TO; HE AND HIS WIFE, I
00:15:42.00\00:15:46.31
MEAN, THEY WERE MARRIED 15 YEARS
- NO CHILDREN - THEY ADOPTED
00:15:46.34\00:15:49.58
THEN SHE GOT PREGNANT.
AND YOU ALWAYS HOPE THAT THEY
00:15:49.61\00:15:53.58
LOVE THE ADOPTED ONE AS MUCH
AS THE NATURAL ONE, BUT WITH
00:15:53.62\00:15:57.15
ABRAHAM - ABRAHAM DID - HE LOVED
BOTH SONS. BUT ABRAHAM, HE HAD
00:15:57.19\00:16:00.99
TO MAKE A DECISION BETWEEN
THE TWO, SO WE'LL GET TO THAT.
00:16:01.02\00:16:03.89
ALRIGHT, SO GETTING BACK TO THE
COVENANT - NOW YOU'VE GOT, IN
00:16:03.93\00:16:06.83
THE BIBLE, A NEW
COVENANT AND AN OLD COVENANT.
00:16:06.86\00:16:09.83
LET'S JUST
ESTABLISH, AGAIN, WHAT THAT IS.
00:16:09.86\00:16:12.17
DEUTERONOMY 4 - AND SOMEONE'S
GOING TO READ, FOR ME, EXODUS
00:16:12.20\00:16:15.20
24:7 - JOHN, YOU'LL HAVE THAT IN
JUST A MOMENT - DEUTERONOMY 4,
00:16:15.24\00:16:19.27
VERSE 7, "THEN HE TOOK THE BOOK
OF THE COVENANT AND READ IN THE
00:16:19.31\00:16:24.68
HEARING OF THE PEOPLE. AND
THEY SAID" - NO, I'M SORRY -
00:16:24.71\00:16:28.15
DEUTERONOMY 4:13, IS WHAT I WANT
FIRST, "SO HE DECLARED TO YOU
00:16:28.18\00:16:32.42
HIS COVENANT WHICH HE COMMANDED
YOU TO PERFORM, EVEN TEN
00:16:32.45\00:16:35.36
COMMANDMENTS; AND HE WROTE
THEM ON TWO TABLETS OF STONE."
00:16:35.39\00:16:38.56
SO WHAT IS THE
FIRST, OR PRIMARY, COVENANT?
00:16:38.59\00:16:41.10
"HE DECLARED TO YOU HIS
COVENANT. HE COMMANDED YOU TO
00:16:41.13\00:16:43.40
PERFORM, EVEN TEN COMMANDMENTS;
AND HE WROTE THEM ON TWO TABLES
00:16:43.43\00:16:47.34
OF STONE." ORIGINAL
COVENANT - TEN COMMANDMENTS.
00:16:47.37\00:16:51.94
WHY WOULD YOU HAVE A
SECOND COVENANT, UNLESS THERE'S
00:16:51.97\00:16:54.38
SOMETHING WRONG WITH THE FIRST?
NOW, WAS THE FIRST COVENANT THE
00:16:54.41\00:16:59.11
TEN COMMANDMENTS? TEN
COMMANDMENTS WERE PART OF
00:16:59.15\00:17:03.99
THE COVENANT, THEY WERE NOT
THE COVENANT, THE COVENANT IS AN
00:17:04.02\00:17:06.02
AGREEMENT. SO, IF YOU BUY A CAR,
IS THE CAR THE COVENANT, OR IS
00:17:06.05\00:17:12.79
THE CONTRACT THE
COVENANT? >>CONTRACT.
00:17:12.83\00:17:15.23
>>THE CONTRACT'S THE COVENANT.
THE CAR IS NOT THE COVENANT.
00:17:15.26\00:17:18.43
AND SO, THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
WERE NOT DONE AWAY WITH.
00:17:18.47\00:17:22.40
THERE WAS NOTHING WRONG
WITH THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
00:17:22.44\00:17:24.77
THEY'RE THE MORAL LAW.
THE BIBLE SAYS THE LAW OF GOD
00:17:24.81\00:17:28.14
IS JUST AND PERFECT AND HOLY.
THE LAW OF GOD IS GOOD - THE
00:17:28.18\00:17:32.68
BIBLE SAYS - THE LAW OF THE LORD
IS PERFECT, CONVERTING THE SOUL.
00:17:32.71\00:17:36.82
THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH WHAT
GOD SPEAKS WITH HIS VOICE AND
00:17:36.85\00:17:39.85
WRITES WITH HIS FINGER.
HE DID NOT MAKE A MISTAKE.
00:17:39.89\00:17:42.46
THE LAW WAS GOOD. THE
AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE TWO
00:17:42.49\00:17:45.76
PARTIES - THERE WAS A FLAW.
NOW LISTEN TO WHAT THAT WAS: IN
00:17:45.79\00:17:49.46
EXODUS 19:8 - AFTER THE PEOPLE
HEAR THE LAW THEY SAID, "ALL
00:17:49.50\00:17:54.27
THAT THE LORD HAS
SPOKEN WE WILL DO."
00:17:54.30\00:17:57.67
NOW THEY MADE A
PROMISE TO KEEP THE LAW.
00:17:57.71\00:17:59.41
THEY'VE GOT AN AGREEMENT.
GOD SAYS, 'HERE'S WHAT I WANT
00:17:59.44\00:18:01.48
YOU TO DO' AND THEY SAID, 'ALL
YOU SAID WE'LL DO' - AND MOSES
00:18:01.51\00:18:04.55
RETURNED "THE WORDS OF
THE PEOPLE TO THE LORD."
00:18:04.58\00:18:09.25
- NOW, GO AHEAD, READ YOUR
PART, JOHN - IN EXODUS 24:7.
00:18:09.28\00:18:13.99
>>"THEN HE TOOK THE BOOK OF THE
COVENANT AND READ IN THE HEARING
00:18:14.02\00:18:17.23
OF THE PEOPLE. AND
THEY SAID, 'ALL THAT THE
00:18:17.26\00:18:19.79
LORD HAS SAID WE WILL
DO, AND BE OBEDIENT.'"
00:18:19.83\00:18:22.90
>>ALRIGHT, NOW THE PEOPLE
HEARD THE TEN COMMANDMENTS,
00:18:22.93\00:18:25.40
THEY PROMISED - WHAT'S
THE SECOND COMMANDMENT?
00:18:25.43\00:18:31.71
COME ON, YOU GUYS
CAN DO BETTER THAN THAT.
00:18:31.74\00:18:35.11
>>THOU SHALT HAVE NO
OTHER GODS BEFORE ME.
00:18:35.14\00:18:36.85
>>THOU SHALT NOT MAKE UNTO THEE
ANY GRAVEN IMAGE, THE LIKENESS
00:18:36.88\00:18:39.08
OF ANYTHING IN THE
HEAVEN ABOVE - RIGHT?
00:18:39.11\00:18:41.52
THOU SHALL HAVE NO OTHER
GODS BEFORE ME IS THE FIRST
00:18:41.55\00:18:45.25
COMMANDMENT. THE SECOND
COMMANDMENT IS IDOLATRY.
00:18:45.29\00:18:48.49
WHEN THE LORD WAS UP ON THE
MOUNTAIN RECEIVING THE WRITTEN
00:18:48.52\00:18:51.56
TRANSCRIPT OF THE COVENANT -
FIRST HE SPOKE IT - THEY HEARD
00:18:51.59\00:18:54.00
IT - THEY AGREED. WHILE
HE'S ON THE MOUNTAIN, NOW,
00:18:54.00\00:18:56.30
GETTING THE TEN COMMANDMENTS,
JOSHUA COMES AND SAYS, 'THERE'S
00:18:56.33\00:18:58.63
THE SOUND OF WAR IN THE CAMP.'
WAS IT WAR OR WAS IT A PARTY?
00:18:58.67\00:19:02.57
>>PARTY. >>IT WAS A PARTY.
00:19:02.60\00:19:04.74
ISN'T IT INTERESTING, IT'S HARD
TO TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
00:19:04.77\00:19:06.94
(LAUGHTER) THE TWO? ANY
OF YOU EVER HAD NEIGHBORS
00:19:06.98\00:19:10.01
THAT SOUND LIKE WAR NEXT DOOR?
(LAUGHTER) SO, THEY COME DOWN
00:19:10.05\00:19:16.99
AND THEY HAVE
BROKEN THE COVENANT.
00:19:17.02\00:19:19.79
THEY HAD JUST PROMISED, 'ALL THE
LORD HAS SAID, WE WILL DO' - BUT
00:19:19.82\00:19:22.82
DID THEY DO IT?
SO THERE'S A PROBLEM.
00:19:22.86\00:19:25.46
THEY VIOLATED THE COVENANT.
IS THE PROBLEM WITH THE TEN
00:19:25.49\00:19:27.86
COMMANDMENTS OR IS THE PROBLEM
WITH THE PROMISE OF THE PEOPLE.
00:19:27.86\00:19:31.83
SEE, THE FIRST COVENANT IS
THE PEOPLE SAID, 'WE WILL DO' -
00:19:31.87\00:19:36.04
WE WILL DO - NOW
WHAT'S THE NEW COVENANT?
00:19:36.07\00:19:39.04
YOU LOOK IN JEREMIAH - BY THE
WAY, WHERE DO YOU FIRST FIND THE
00:19:39.07\00:19:41.14
NEW COVENANT -
OLD OR NEW TESTAMENT?
00:19:41.18\00:19:42.98
>>OLD. >>YOU
THINK 'NEW COVENANT' -
00:19:43.01\00:19:45.28
NEW TESTAMENT. NO,
NEW COVENANT'S FIRST
00:19:45.31\00:19:47.68
IN THE OLD
TESTAMENT. IT'S PROPHESIED.
00:19:47.72\00:19:50.15
JEREMIAH 31:31, "BEHOLD, THE
DAYS ARE COMING, SAYS THE LORD,
00:19:50.19\00:19:54.49
WHEN I WILL MAKE A NEW COVENANT
WITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL AND
00:19:54.52\00:19:58.66
WITH THE HOUSE OF JUDAH - NOT
ACCORDING TO THE COVENANT THAT I
00:19:58.69\00:20:01.03
MADE WITH THEIR FATHERS IN THE
DAY THAT I TOOK THEM BY THE HAND
00:20:01.06\00:20:03.00
TO LEAD THEM OUT OF THE LAND
OF EGYPT, MY COVENANT WHICH THEY
00:20:03.03\00:20:06.87
BROKE," - >>AMEN.
00:20:06.90\00:20:08.64
>>SO WAS THERE A PROBLEM
WITH THE COVENANT OR WITH THEIR
00:20:08.67\00:20:10.01
BREAKING IT? -
"'THOUGH I WAS A HUSBAND TO
00:20:10.04\00:20:12.97
THEM,' SAYS THE LORD.
'BUT THIS IS THE COVENANT THAT
00:20:13.01\00:20:15.28
I WILL MAKE WITH THE HOUSE
OF ISRAEL AFTER THOSE DAYS, SAYS
00:20:15.31\00:20:18.01
THE LORD: 'I WILL PUT MY
LAW IN THEIR MINDS, AND WRITE
00:20:18.05\00:20:21.88
IT ON THEIR HEARTS; AND I WILL
BE THEIR GOD, AND THEY SHALL BE
00:20:21.92\00:20:25.35
MY PEOPLE.'" ALRIGHT,
NOTICE THE DIFFERENCE?
00:20:25.39\00:20:27.92
THE OLD COVENANT THEY
SAID, 'WE WILL, WE WILL' - NEW
00:20:27.96\00:20:30.46
COVENANT GOD SAYS, 'I WILL'.
SO ONE IS THE WORKS OF MAN - OLD
00:20:30.49\00:20:34.86
COVENANT - ONE
IS THE WORKS OF GOD.
00:20:34.93\00:20:36.63
ONE IS OBEDIENCE THROUGH 'WE
WILL DO IT' - IT'S OF THE FLESH
00:20:36.67\00:20:40.60
- THE OTHER ONE IS THE SPIRIT
- 'I WILL PUT MY LAW IN YOUR
00:20:40.64\00:20:42.67
HEARTS AND I WILL
WRITE THEM ON YOUR HEARTS'.
00:20:42.70\00:20:46.21
SAME LAW - THE LAW
OF THE LORD IS LOVE.
00:20:46.24\00:20:49.91
IT'S THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, BUT
IT'S NOT WRITTEN ON THE HEART -
00:20:49.94\00:20:52.78
AND GOD SAYS, 'I WILL TAKE THE
INITIATIVE' - THIS IS THE NEW
00:20:52.81\00:20:55.18
BIRTH - SOMETHING
THAT HAPPENS INSIDE.
00:20:55.22\00:20:57.59
IT'S WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT COMES
IN. HE EMPOWERS US. LET ME GIVE
00:20:57.62\00:21:00.46
YOU ANOTHER VERSE BECAUSE YOU
ALL LOOK VERY AUSTERE RIGHT NOW
00:21:00.49\00:21:03.56
AND YOU'RE THINKING OR YOU'RE
NOT CONVINCED. EZEKIEL 36:26,
00:21:03.59\00:21:09.70
"I WILL GIVE YOU A NEW HEART
AND PUT A NEW SPIRIT WITHIN YOU;
00:21:09.73\00:21:13.70
I WILL TAKE THE HEART OF STONE
OUT OF YOUR FLESH AND GIVE YOU
00:21:13.74\00:21:16.07
A HEART OF FLESH. I
WILL PUT MY SPIRIT WITHIN YOU
00:21:16.10\00:21:19.57
AND CAUSE YOU TO WALK IN
MY STATUTES, AND YOU WILL KEEP
00:21:19.61\00:21:22.64
MY JUDGMENTS AND DO THEM.
THEN YOU SHALL DWELL IN THE LAND
00:21:22.68\00:21:26.18
THAT I GAVE TO YOUR
FATHERS; YOU SHALL BE MY PEOPLE,
00:21:26.21\00:21:28.15
AND I WILL BE YOUR
GOD." AGAIN, WHO'S TAKING
00:21:28.18\00:21:29.98
THE INITIATIVE
HERE? GOD SAYS, 'I WILL.'
00:21:30.02\00:21:33.25
BUT THE NEW COVENANT IS 'I WILL
PUT MY SPIRIT IN YOU AND I'LL
00:21:33.29\00:21:36.32
CAUSE YOU TO WALK IN MY
WAYS, BECAUSE YOU LOVE ME.'
00:21:36.36\00:21:39.19
ISN'T THAT THE
REASON TO OBEY? >>AMEN.
00:21:39.23\00:21:41.16
>>GOD SAYS, 'IF YOU LOVE ME,
KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS.' SO WE'RE
00:21:41.20\00:21:44.27
JUST, YOU KNOW, TRYING TO
ESTABLISH, HERE, WHAT IS THIS
00:21:44.30\00:21:46.80
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE OLD
COVENANT AND THE NEW COVENANT?
00:21:46.84\00:21:50.67
NOW, WITH THAT IN MIND, LET'S
GO BACK AND READ GALATIANS 4:21
00:21:50.71\00:21:55.31
AGAIN. SOMEONE'S
GOING TO READ, FOR ME,
00:21:55.34\00:21:56.85
IN JUST A MOMENT - DAN, MAYBE
THAT'S YOU - HEBREWS 8:6 - OKAY?
00:21:56.88\00:22:00.98
LET'S READ OUR OPENING VERSE -
GALATIANS 4:21, 23 - "TELL ME,"
00:22:01.02\00:22:05.89
- PAUL IS SAYING TO THE
GALATIANS - "YOU WHO DESIRE TO
00:22:05.92\00:22:08.19
BE UNDER THE LAW, DO
YOU NOT HEAR THE LAW?"
00:22:08.22\00:22:10.96
NOW, WHEN YOU SAY 'LAW' IN
THE BIBLE, IT COULD BE ONE OF
00:22:10.99\00:22:15.23
SEVERAL LAWS. IT COULD
MEAN THE CEREMONIAL LAW.
00:22:15.26\00:22:19.20
IT COULD MEAN THE
MORAL TEN COMMANDMENT LAW.
00:22:19.23\00:22:21.60
SOMETIMES THEY
CALLED THE TORAH THE LAW.
00:22:21.64\00:22:24.91
THE FIVE BOOKS OF
MOSES WERE CALLED THE LAW.
00:22:24.94\00:22:26.91
SOMETIMES THEY REFERRED TO IT AS
THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS - IT'S
00:22:26.94\00:22:29.04
THE FIVE BOOKS OF MOSES AND THEN
YOU HAD THE PROPHETS - IT'S A
00:22:29.08\00:22:31.11
VERY GENERAL TERM. SO
NOW PAUL IS USING A MORE
00:22:31.15\00:22:34.25
GENERAL TERM WHEN HE
SAYS, 'DO YOU HEAR THE LAW?'
00:22:34.28\00:22:36.48
- HE'S REFERRING TO THE FIRST
OF THE FIVE BOOKS OF MOSES.
00:22:36.52\00:22:39.35
WHAT'S THAT BOOK
CALLED? >>GENESIS.
00:22:39.39\00:22:41.09
>>GENESIS. FIRST
OF THE FIVE BOOKS -
00:22:41.12\00:22:43.32
GENESIS, EXODUS, LEVITICUS,
NUMBERS, DEUTERONOMY, RIGHT?
00:22:43.36\00:22:47.50
AND SO, HE SAYS, "DO
YOU NOT HEAR THE LAW?"
00:22:47.50\00:22:49.76
- AND THEN HE, NOW, REFERS TO
THAT - "FOR IT IS WRITTEN THAT
00:22:49.80\00:22:53.54
ABRAHAM HAD TWO SONS:"
- THAT'S GENESIS, RIGHT?
00:22:53.57\00:22:56.24
- "THE ONE BY A BONDWOMAN,"
- HAGAR - "THE OTHER BY A
00:22:56.27\00:22:58.94
FREEWOMAN." - SARAH -
"BUT HE WHO WAS OF THE
00:22:58.97\00:23:01.61
BONDWOMAN" - HAGAR - "WAS
BORN ACCORDING TO THE FLESH, AND
00:23:01.64\00:23:05.11
HE OF THE
FREEWOMAN THROUGH PROMISE."
00:23:05.15\00:23:08.05
SO, GO AHEAD, READ HEBREWS 8:6
AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO GO BACK
00:23:08.08\00:23:12.39
AND WE'RE GOING TO
LOOK AT WHAT HAPPENED THERE.
00:23:12.42\00:23:15.39
>>"BUT NOW HE HAS OBTAINED
A MORE EXCELLENT MINISTRY,
00:23:15.42\00:23:18.39
INASMUCH AS HE IS ALSO MEDIATOR
OF A BETTER COVENANT, WHICH WAS
00:23:18.43\00:23:22.33
ESTABLISHED ON BETTER PROMISES."
>>ALRIGHT, SO, REMEMBER WE READ
00:23:22.36\00:23:27.20
THE PROMISES OF THE PEOPLE -
OLD COVENANT - 'WE WILL WALK IN
00:23:27.24\00:23:31.11
HIS WAYS'; PROMISES OF THE
NEW COVENANT - BETTER PROMISES
00:23:31.14\00:23:35.11
THROUGH THE SPIRIT - 'I WILL
CAUSE YOU TO WALK IN MY WAYS'.
00:23:35.14\00:23:39.78
NOW, BECAUSE THIS SAYS GOD'LL
CAUSE YOU TO WALK IN HIS WAYS,
00:23:39.81\00:23:42.15
DOESN'T MEAN THERE'S NO
EFFORT INVOLVED IN OBEDIENCE.
00:23:42.18\00:23:45.32
SOMETIMES THERE'S AN EFFORT,
BUT NOW WE'RE WANTING TO OBEY
00:23:45.35\00:23:48.46
BECAUSE OF LOVE. WE'RE
NOT DOING IT IN OUR OWN
00:23:48.49\00:23:51.39
STRENGTH, WE'RE DEPENDING ON HIS
POWER. BUT THERE MAY STILL BE A
00:23:51.43\00:23:54.40
STRUGGLE SO DON'T -
DON'T MISUNDERSTAND THAT.
00:23:54.46\00:23:57.00
SO, WHEN YOU GO BACK IN THE
BIBLE - AND WE'LL GO ON TO THE
00:23:57.03\00:24:01.27
NEXT SECTION HERE WHERE IT TALKS
ABOUT THE ABRAHAMIC COVENANT.
00:24:01.30\00:24:06.11
GOD MAKES THIS COVENANT WITH
ABRAHAM - YOU LOOK IN GENESIS
00:24:06.14\00:24:08.71
12:1, "NOW THE LORD HAD SAID
TO ABRAM:" - HIS NAME ISN'T EVEN
00:24:08.74\00:24:13.35
ABRAHAM YET. HE'S
COMING OUT OF THE LAND OF
00:24:13.38\00:24:15.92
MESOPOTAMIA - "GET OUT OF YOUR
COUNTRY, FROM YOUR FAMILY AND
00:24:15.95\00:24:20.69
FROM YOUR FATHER'S HOUSE,
TO A LAND THAT I WILL SHOW YOU.
00:24:20.72\00:24:24.33
I WILL MAKE YOU A GREAT NATION;
I WILL BLESS YOU AND MAKE YOUR
00:24:24.36\00:24:28.33
NAME GREAT; AND YOU
SHALL BE A BLESSING.
00:24:28.36\00:24:30.83
I WILL BLESS THOSE WHO BLESS
YOU, AND I WILL CURSE HIM WHO
00:24:30.87\00:24:34.17
CURSES YOU; AND IN YOU ALL THE
FAMILIES OF THE EARTH SHALL BE
00:24:34.20\00:24:38.34
BLESSED." NOW, NOT
ONLY DID GOD SAY THAT
00:24:38.37\00:24:40.94
IT WOULD BE THROUGH THE LINE
OF DAVID AND THEN IT WAS THROUGH
00:24:40.98\00:24:43.14
THE LINE OF JUDAH BUT,
OF COURSE, IT STARTS WITH
00:24:43.18\00:24:45.98
THE LINE OF ABRAHAM.
ALL THE DESCENDANTS OF THE
00:24:46.01\00:24:48.55
WORLD WOULD BE
BLESSED. HOW IS ALL THE WORLD
00:24:48.58\00:24:51.42
BLESSED THROUGH ABRAHAM?
LET'S JUST MAKE THIS CLEAR.
00:24:51.45\00:24:53.79
>>JESUS. >>THE
MESSIAH - THE SAVIOR OF
00:24:53.82\00:24:56.32
THE WORLD WOULD
COME THROUGH HIM.
00:24:56.36\00:24:58.03
AND SO HE MADE THIS PROMISE -
'IN YOU ALL THE FAMILIES OF THE
00:24:58.06\00:25:00.73
WORLD WOULD BE BLESSED.' NOW,
ABRAHAM'S PROBABLY WONDERING -
00:25:00.76\00:25:03.93
WHEN GOD MAKES THAT
PROMISE TO HIM, HE'S 75.
00:25:03.97\00:25:07.00
NOW, GRANTED, ABRAHAM LIVED
A LOT LONGER THAN WE DO TODAY.
00:25:07.04\00:25:11.81
LIFE SPANS WERE
LONGER BACK THEN.
00:25:11.84\00:25:13.78
THE BIBLE SAYS
ABRAHAM LIVED 175 YEARS.
00:25:13.81\00:25:17.51
BUT, EVEN BACK THEN, WHEN YOU
GOT TO BE 75 AND YOUR WIFE HAS
00:25:17.55\00:25:21.85
PASSED THE AGE OF BEARING,
IT DIDN'T LOOK VERY HOPEFUL
00:25:21.88\00:25:27.56
ANYMORE. BUT
ABRAHAM DOESN'T DOUBT.
00:25:27.59\00:25:30.43
HE BELIEVES GOD AND GOD COUNTS
IT TO HIM FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
00:25:30.46\00:25:32.93
AT LEAST, MOST OF
THE TIME HE BELIEVED GOD.
00:25:32.96\00:25:34.86
SO HE TAKES OFF WITHOUT
HAVING ANY INTERNET TO SEARCH.
00:25:34.93\00:25:38.63
HE COULDN'T GO ON TRAVELOCITY OR
ANY WEBSITE AND FIND OUT 'WHAT
00:25:38.67\00:25:41.30
DOES THIS LAND OF
ISRAEL LOOK LIKE?'
00:25:41.34\00:25:42.80
HE COULDN'T DOWNLOAD
PICTURES. HE HAD NO IDEA.
00:25:42.84\00:25:45.31
THE BIBLE SAYS HE WENT OUT
IN FAITH, NOT KNOWING WHERE HE
00:25:45.34\00:25:48.28
WENT. HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE
00:25:48.31\00:25:50.05
PLANNED A VACATION THAT WAY?
(LAUGHTER) DON'T YOU ALWAYS LIKE
00:25:50.08\00:25:53.21
TO KNOW WHERE
YOU'RE GOING? SEE PICTURES?
00:25:53.25\00:25:55.78
KNOW WHERE YOU'RE
STAYING? READ THE REVIEWS?
00:25:55.82\00:25:59.59
ABRAHAM PROBABLY WOULDN'T HAVE
GONE IF HE HAD READ SOME OF THE
00:25:59.62\00:26:02.19
REVIEWS BECAUSE THE CANAANITES
WERE IN THE LAND BACK THEN.
00:26:02.22\00:26:06.66
AND THEN,
FINALLY, GO TO GENESIS 15.
00:26:06.70\00:26:09.76
NOW WE'RE STILL READING
WHAT PAUL IS REFERRING TO.
00:26:09.80\00:26:12.77
AND ABRAHAM - GENESIS 15:2 -
ABRAHAM SAYS, "LORD GOD, WHAT
00:26:12.80\00:26:18.14
WILL YOU GIVE, SEEING I GO
CHILDLESS," - HE'S MADE IT TO
00:26:18.17\00:26:21.91
THE PROMISED LAND; HE STILL HAS
NO CHILDREN - "AND THE HEIR OF
00:26:21.94\00:26:25.01
MY HOUSE IS
ELIEZER OF DAMASCUS?"
00:26:25.05\00:26:29.15
NOW, THE CHIEF SERVANT IN
ABRAHAM'S HOUSE - IF YOU HAD NO
00:26:29.18\00:26:33.62
SON, YOU WOULD THEN WILL
YOUR POSSESSIONS TO YOUR CHIEF
00:26:33.66\00:26:38.33
SERVANT. AND HE HAD
NO SON - YOU KNOW, I
00:26:38.36\00:26:42.66
LEARNED A FEW YEARS AGO ABOUT
INHERITANCE LAW, A LITTLE BIT.
00:26:42.70\00:26:49.87
AND IF YOU HAVE NO CHILDREN
THEN IT MAY GO TO YOUR SIBLINGS.
00:26:49.90\00:26:55.94
IT MAY GO BACK
UP TO YOUR PARENTS.
00:26:55.98\00:26:57.98
IT MAY GO TO UNCLES AND NIECES.
IT'S A VERY INTERESTING LAW
00:26:58.01\00:27:01.28
THAT'S WRITTEN OUT
ABOUT A LINE OF INHERITANCE.
00:27:01.32\00:27:04.39
IF NOTHING'S WRITTEN OUT, THE
COURTS HAVE TO DECIDE IT SO THEY
00:27:04.42\00:27:06.59
NEED A TEMPLATE. HOW DO
YOU SPREAD OUT A PERSON'S
00:27:06.62\00:27:08.96
ASSETS IF THEY DIE
AND IT'S NOT WRITTEN OUT.
00:27:08.99\00:27:11.76
AND SO, THEY HAD AN ANCIENT
CUSTOM FOR THAT AND HE SAID -
00:27:11.79\00:27:14.13
YOU KNOW, HE LEFT HIS FATHER'S
HOUSE, HE'S GOT NOBODY - I GUESS
00:27:14.20\00:27:17.37
HE'S GOT LOT THERE - HE SAID,
'BUT IN MY FAMILY, ALL I'VE GOT
00:27:17.40\00:27:20.14
IS ELIEZER, MY CHIEF
STEWARD.' WAS HE A GOOD GUY?
00:27:20.17\00:27:24.67
>>YES. >>WHERE
ELSE DOES ELIEZER APPEAR
00:27:24.71\00:27:27.71
IN THE BIBLE IN A
PROMINENT WAY? >>ISAAC.
00:27:27.74\00:27:31.05
>>HE'S THE ONE THAT ABRAHAM
TRUSTS SO MUCH HE SENDS HIM TO -
00:27:31.08\00:27:35.72
BACK TO HARAN WITH A CARAVAN AND
A LOT OF MONEY - TO FIND A BRIDE
00:27:35.75\00:27:41.29
FOR ISAAC - WHO
ENDS UP BEING REBEKAH.
00:27:41.32\00:27:44.09
AND HE PRAYS - HE'S A GODLY MAN
- AND GOD ANSWERS HIS PRAYER.
00:27:44.13\00:27:47.86
SO HE'S A GOOD MAN, BUT HE SAID,
'YOU KNOW, THE ONLY ONE I CAN
00:27:47.93\00:27:51.13
SEE THAT I COULD LEAVE
EVERYTHING TO IS ELIEZER OF
00:27:51.17\00:27:53.44
DAMASCUS.' AND ABRAHAM SAID,
"LOOK, YOU HAVE GIVEN ME NO
00:27:53.47\00:27:56.81
OFFSPRING; INDEED ONE BORN IN MY
HOUSE" - ELIEZER, EVIDENTLY, HAD
00:27:56.84\00:28:00.51
BEEN BORN IN HIS
HOUSE - "'IS MY HEIR!'
00:28:00.54\00:28:03.28
AND BEHOLD, THE WORD OF THE LORD
CAME TO HIM, SAYING, 'THIS ONE
00:28:03.31\00:28:06.95
SHALL NOT BE YOUR HEIR, BUT ONE
WHO WILL COME FROM YOUR OWN BODY
00:28:06.98\00:28:11.29
SHALL BE YOUR HEIR.'" NOW, I
WANT TO TAKE A LITTLE DETOUR.
00:28:11.32\00:28:15.16
ANOTHER REASON YOU KNOW ELIEZER
WAS AN EXTRAORDINARY MAN: HE WAS
00:28:15.19\00:28:18.73
IN LINE TO RECEIVE EVERYTHING
ABRAHAM OWNED BUT HE WAS HAPPY
00:28:18.76\00:28:23.16
WHEN ISAAC WAS BORN AND HE EVEN
HELPED PICK - BECAUSE HE KNEW IT
00:28:23.20\00:28:27.04
WAS OF GOD - HE HELPED PRAY
AND PICK THE WIFE FOR ISAAC.
00:28:27.07\00:28:31.94
ISN'T THAT INTERESTING?
WHEN HE'S GOING THROUGH ALL
00:28:31.97\00:28:33.91
THAT, DON'T FORGET, HE WAS BEING
CONSIDERED AS THE HEIR UNTIL
00:28:33.94\00:28:39.08
- WOULDN'T YOU
BE A LITTLE JEALOUS?
00:28:39.11\00:28:40.85
'ALL OF IT WAS GOING TO BE
MINE AND THIS BABY COMES ALONG.'
00:28:40.88\00:28:43.02
(LAUGHTER) RUINED EVERYTHING.
BUT HE HAD A GOOD ATTITUDE.
00:28:43.05\00:28:47.86
HE SAID, 'THIS IS GOD'S WILL.
THIS IS GOD'S PLAN.' AND HE JUST
00:28:47.89\00:28:50.53
WANTED HIS MASTER TO
PROSPER. HE'S AN EXAMPLE
00:28:50.56\00:28:53.06
OF A GOOD SERVANT. HE
SAID, "THIS ONE SHALL NOT BE
00:28:53.09\00:28:55.13
YOUR HEIR, BUT ONE WHO
WILL COME FROM YOUR OWN BODY
00:28:55.16\00:28:56.90
SHALL BE YOUR HEIR."
ALRIGHT, SO HE SAID, 'OKAY,
00:28:56.93\00:28:59.63
THAT'S NOT HOW IT'S GOING TO
HAPPEN.' BUT IT DIDN'T HAPPEN.
00:28:59.67\00:29:02.84
SO SARAH SAID, 'LOOK, ABRAHAM,
GOD SAID IT'S GOING TO COME FROM
00:29:02.87\00:29:06.68
YOUR BODY, BUT HE DIDN'T
SPECIFICALLY SAY MY BODY.' SO,
00:29:06.71\00:29:10.21
AT FIRST HE DIDN'T, AND SO SHE
SAID, 'I'VE GOT A PLAN.' NOW YOU
00:29:10.25\00:29:14.55
GO TO GENESIS 17 AND - OH NO,
ACTUALLY, BEFORE GENESIS 17 -
00:29:14.58\00:29:21.99
I'M SORRY - IN GENESIS 16 - "NOW
SARAI," - HER NAME HADN'T BEEN
00:29:22.02\00:29:26.06
CHANGED YET - "ABRAM'S
WIFE, HAD BORNE HIM NO CHILDREN.
00:29:26.09\00:29:29.66
AND SHE HAD AN EGYPTIAN
MAIDSERVANT WHOSE NAME WAS
00:29:29.70\00:29:32.40
HAGAR." HOW DID THAT HAPPEN?
00:29:32.43\00:29:34.74
YOU'VE GOT TO JUMP BACK TO
GENESIS CHAPTER 12 - THERE'S A
00:29:34.77\00:29:37.61
FAMINE, AND ABRAHAM GOES BACK TO
EGYPT DURING THE FAMINE, BECAUSE
00:29:37.64\00:29:43.41
THERE'S NO FOOD IN CANAAN, AND
HE'S A LITTLE WORRIED THAT, EVEN
00:29:43.45\00:29:47.28
THOUGH SHE'S LIKE 60 - 65
YEARS OLD, SARAH IS DROP-DEAD
00:29:47.32\00:29:52.52
BEAUTIFUL, AS THEY
SAY. AND, KEEP IN MIND, THEY
00:29:52.55\00:29:55.49
LIVED A LOT LONGER THEN.
THEY RETAINED THEIR RESILIENCE
00:29:55.52\00:29:59.09
AND THEIR BEAUTY LONGER, I'M
ASSUMING. YOU KNOW, I'M ASSUMING
00:29:59.13\00:30:03.06
THAT IF YOU LIVE TO 175, THAT
YOU DON'T START LOOKING 75 WHEN
00:30:03.10\00:30:06.60
YOU'RE 75 - THAT YOU LOOK BETTER
LONGER. AND SO, EVEN THOUGH SHE
00:30:06.63\00:30:12.54
HAD TECHNICALLY GONE THROUGH
MENOPAUSE - BECAUSE SHE SAID
00:30:12.57\00:30:15.31
'THE TIME OF BEARING IS PAST',
SHE WAS STILL VERY BEAUTIFUL.
00:30:15.34\00:30:19.31
AND ABRAHAM WAS AFRAID THAT -
MAYBE SHE HAD, YOU KNOW, THESE
00:30:19.35\00:30:24.79
BEAUTIFUL SKY BLUE EYES OR
JUST SOMETHING VERY STRIKING AND
00:30:24.82\00:30:28.19
UNUSUAL - AND SOME OF THE
COMMENTATORS THAT I'VE READ SAID
00:30:28.22\00:30:31.73
THE PEOPLE LIVING IN EGYPT THEN
WERE A LITTLE MORE SWARTHY AND
00:30:31.76\00:30:34.63
SHE STOOD OUT AS SOMEONE
WHO WOULD BE A REAL PRIZE IN A
00:30:34.66\00:30:37.83
HAREM. SO ABRAHAM
WAS - HE MUST HAVE
00:30:37.87\00:30:41.10
KNOWN IT TOO,
BECAUSE HE WAS AFRAID.
00:30:41.14\00:30:43.71
AND HE SAYS TO SARAH, 'LOOK,
I KNOW YOU'RE A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN.
00:30:43.74\00:30:47.24
AND WHEN WE GO TO EGYPT, THEY'RE
GOING TO SEE YOU AND THEY -
00:30:47.28\00:30:50.85
THEY'RE NOT AS
CIVILIZED AS SOME PLACES.
00:30:50.88\00:30:52.58
THEY'RE GOING TO
KILL ME AND TAKE YOU.
00:30:52.61\00:30:55.48
SO, DO ME A FAVOR,
YOU ARE MY HALF SISTER.
00:30:55.52\00:30:58.29
LET'S FORGET THE HUSBAND
AND WIFE PART, JUST MENTION THE
00:30:58.32\00:31:00.49
SISTER/BROTHER PART WHEN WE GO
DOWN.' HE SAID, 'YOU KNOW, IT'S
00:31:00.52\00:31:03.73
NOT A TOTAL LIE, JUST 50% TRUE.'
WHICH MEANS THE OTHER 50% IS
00:31:03.76\00:31:08.03
WHAT? >>A LIE.
00:31:08.06\00:31:09.13
>>A LIE. YEAH, I MEAN,
WOULDN'T YOU HAVE A DIFFERENT
00:31:09.16\00:31:12.37
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN YOUR
WIFE AND YOUR SISTER? WE HOPE.
00:31:12.40\00:31:15.10
(LAUGHTER) SO IT'S NOT BEING
- IT'S NOT COMMUNICATING THE
00:31:15.14\00:31:18.84
TRUTH. SO THEY GO DOWN THERE AND
00:31:18.87\00:31:22.48
PHARAOH, SURE ENOUGH, THE PEOPLE
IN PHARAOH'S HOUSE SAY, 'WOW,
00:31:22.51\00:31:24.98
THAT - HAVE YOU SEEN THAT GUY'S
[SISTER]? SHE IS' - HE TAKES HER
00:31:25.01\00:31:28.45
INTO HIS HAREM, BUT HE HASN'T
KNOWN HER YET - AND ALL THESE
00:31:28.48\00:31:32.45
PLAGUES FALL ON HIS HOUSE
AND, FINALLY, THE LORD SAYS, YOU
00:31:32.49\00:31:35.09
KNOW, 'DON'T TOUCH THAT MAN'S
WIFE. THAT'S HIS WIFE.' AND
00:31:35.12\00:31:37.69
PHARAOH SAID, 'YOU KNOW,
SHE SHOULD HAVE VEILED HERSELF.
00:31:37.73\00:31:39.79
TAKE HER OUT OF THE LAND AND'
- HE GIVES ABRAHAM ALL THESE
00:31:39.83\00:31:43.13
REWARDS AND SAYS, 'LOOK, I KNOW
GOD'S WITH YOU SO I'M GOING TO
00:31:43.16\00:31:46.33
GIVE YOU THESE THINGS.' AND,
AMONG THE THINGS HE GIVES HIM,
00:31:46.37\00:31:49.10
IT SAYS - YOU READ IN GENESIS
12:15-16, "THE PRINCES OF
00:31:49.14\00:31:53.48
PHARAOH ALSO SAW HER AND
COMMENDED HER TO PHARAOH.
00:31:53.51\00:31:56.11
AND THE WOMAN WAS
TAKEN TO PHARAOH'S HOUSE.
00:31:56.14\00:31:57.81
HE TREATED ABRAM
WELL FOR HER SAKE.
00:31:57.85\00:32:00.62
HE HAD SHEEP, OXEN,
MALE DONKEYS, MALE AND FEMALE
00:32:00.65\00:32:04.72
SERVANTS, FEMALE
DONKEYS, AND CAMELS."
00:32:04.75\00:32:06.79
- NOTICE WHERE IT
SAYS 'FEMALE SERVANTS'.
00:32:06.82\00:32:09.02
SOMEWHERE ALONG THE WAY, PHARAOH
GAVE ABRAHAM FEMALE SERVANTS.
00:32:09.06\00:32:12.96
LATER, WE HEAR ABOUT A SERVANT
NAMED HAGAR WHO WAS AN EGYPTIAN.
00:32:12.99\00:32:16.00
THAT'S PROBABLY
WHERE SHE WAS ACQUIRED.
00:32:16.03\00:32:19.00
HE DIDN'T BRING HER FROM
MESOPOTAMIA WHERE HE HAD COME
00:32:19.03\00:32:21.77
FROM. NOW YOU GO
TO GENESIS 16:1, "NOW
00:32:21.80\00:32:26.84
SARAI, ABRAM'S WIFE,
HAD BORNE HIM NO CHILDREN.
00:32:26.88\00:32:29.48
AND SHE HAD AN EGYPTIAN
MAIDSERVANT WHOSE NAME WAS
00:32:29.51\00:32:32.45
HAGAR." - SHE'S YOUNG,
SHE'S VIBRANT, SHE'S HEALTHY -
00:32:32.48\00:32:37.19
"SO SARAI SAID TO ABRAM, 'SEE
NOW, THE LORD HAS RESTRAINED ME
00:32:37.22\00:32:40.39
FROM BEARING CHILDREN.'" -
'HE SAID HE'S GOING TO HAVE
00:32:40.42\00:32:42.19
CHILDREN THROUGH YOUR OWN
BODY, BUT MAYBE NOT THROUGH
00:32:42.22\00:32:44.46
MY BODY.' - AT LEAST NOT
YET SHE HADN'T HEARD THAT -
00:32:44.49\00:32:47.13
"PLEASE, GO IN TO MY MAID;" -
BACK THEN, THEY DIDN'T USE THE
00:32:47.20\00:32:51.03
TEST TUBE, THEY DID
IT THE OLD-FASHIONED WAY.
00:32:51.07\00:32:53.54
BUT SHE WAS GOING TO BE A
SURROGATE - "PLEASE, GO IN TO MY
00:32:53.57\00:32:56.37
MAID; PERHAPS I SHALL
OBTAIN CHILDREN BY HER."
00:32:56.40\00:33:00.91
- NOW THIS ISN'T THE
ONLY TIME THAT HAPPENED.
00:33:00.94\00:33:03.11
WHO ELSE WENT FOR
THE SURROGATE IDEA?
00:33:03.14\00:33:07.15
>>JACOB.
>>JACOB'S WIVES, WHEN THEY
00:33:07.18\00:33:11.89
STOPPED BEARING THEY ATTEMPTED
TO HAVE CHILDREN THROUGH THEIR
00:33:11.92\00:33:14.19
HANDMAIDS AND
DID THE SAME THING.
00:33:14.22\00:33:17.29
SO THIS IS NOT
UNHEARD OF BACK THEN.
00:33:17.33\00:33:20.90
RATHER THAN ADOPT THEY SAID,
'WELL, AT LEAST THE CHILD WILL
00:33:20.93\00:33:24.20
BE 50%' - YOU COULD ADOPT, BUT
THEY SAID, 'AT LEAST THE CHILD
00:33:24.23\00:33:28.87
WILL BE 50% BECAUSE IT'LL BE
HALF OF THE HUSBAND'S - MAYBE
00:33:28.90\00:33:33.71
NOT THE WIFE'S - BUT THAT WAS
HOW THEY DEALT WITH IT BACK THEN
00:33:33.74\00:33:39.78
- "THEN SARAI, ABRAM'S
WIFE, TOOK HAGAR HER MAID, THE
00:33:39.81\00:33:44.29
EGYPTIAN, AND GAVE HER TO HER
HUSBAND ABRAM TO BE HIS WIFE,
00:33:44.32\00:33:47.99
AFTER ABRAM HAD DWELT TENT
YEARS IN THE LAND OF CANAAN."
00:33:48.02\00:33:51.16
- NOW HE'S 85, NOTHING'S
HAPPENED - NO CHILDREN YET - "SO
00:33:51.19\00:33:54.13
HE WENT IN TO HAGAR, AND SHE
CONCEIVED. AND WHEN SHE SAW THAT
00:33:54.20\00:33:58.83
SHE HAD CONCEIVED, HER MISTRESS
BECAME DESPISED IN HER EYES."
00:33:58.87\00:34:02.60
NOW, YOU'VE GOT TO FACE IT, YOU
KNOW, IF SHE IS THE SERVANT GIRL
00:34:02.64\00:34:07.18
OF SARAH AND SHE
SAID, 'YES, MA'AM.
00:34:07.21\00:34:09.04
YES, MA'AM.' AND SHE'S DOING
WHATEVER SARAH SAYS, AND I'M
00:34:09.08\00:34:12.11
SURE, AT FIRST, SARAH WAS VERY
KIND TO HER, BUT NOW SHE HAS
00:34:12.15\00:34:17.72
BEEN INTIMATE WITH SARAH'S
HUSBAND, SHE'S PREGNANT, SHE'S
00:34:17.75\00:34:21.06
GOING TO HAVE THE BABY - SHE
PROBABLY BEGINS TO STRUT AROUND
00:34:21.09\00:34:24.16
AND SHOW OFF HER TUMMY AND SARAH
KEEPS - STILL ORDERS HER AROUND,
00:34:24.19\00:34:30.30
AS IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS,
BUT HAGAR SAYS, 'WAIT A SECOND.
00:34:30.33\00:34:33.74
I'M NOT JUST A SLAVE, I'M A
WIFE.' DID YOU NOTICE THAT WORD
00:34:33.77\00:34:37.17
THERE? IT SAYS,
'TO BE HIS WIFE' - SHE
00:34:37.21\00:34:42.38
GAVE HER TO HER HUSBAND TO
BE HIS WIFE - HER STATUS HAS
00:34:42.41\00:34:46.18
CHANGED BUT SARAH IS STILL
TREATING HER LIKE A SERVANT.
00:34:46.21\00:34:47.92
SO HAGAR, YOU CAN UNDERSTAND -
SHE BECAME DESPISED IN HER EYES.
00:34:47.95\00:34:53.12
SO THERE WAS A TENSION THAT
DEVELOPS HERE, AT THIS POINT.
00:34:53.15\00:35:01.36
ABRAHAM HAS ISHMAEL; GOD SAYS
TO ABRAHAM, 'HE IS NOT THE ONE.'
00:35:01.40\00:35:08.20
AND YOU GO TO GENESIS 17:19,
"THEN GOD SAID: 'NO, SARAH YOUR
00:35:08.24\00:35:12.91
WIFE SHALL BEAR YOU A SON, AND
YOU SHALL CALL HIS NAME ISAAC; I
00:35:12.94\00:35:17.38
WILL ESTABLISH MY COVENANT WITH
HIM FOR AN EVERLASTING COVENANT,
00:35:17.41\00:35:21.72
AND WITH HIS DESCENDANTS AFTER
HIM. AND AS FOR ISHMAEL, I HAVE
00:35:21.75\00:35:25.19
HEARD YOU. BEHOLD, I
HAVE BLESSED HIM, AND
00:35:25.22\00:35:27.06
WILL MAKE HIM FRUITFUL, AND
WILL MULTIPLY HIM EXCEEDINGLY.
00:35:27.09\00:35:30.46
HE SHALL BEGET TWELVE PRINCES,"
- NOW, HOW MANY SONS DID JACOB
00:35:30.49\00:35:34.20
HAVE? >>TWELVE.
00:35:34.20\00:35:35.83
>>ISN'T IT INTERESTING THAT
TWO MAJOR RELIGIONS IN THE WORLD
00:35:35.86\00:35:38.23
TODAY - YOU HEARD MY SERIES
EARLIER IN THE YEAR - SOME OF
00:35:38.27\00:35:40.54
YOU - ON CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM
- THAT THE TWO MAJOR RELIGIONS
00:35:40.57\00:35:45.04
IN THE WORLD TODAY BEGAN WITH
JACOB HAVING TWELVE SONS - IT
00:35:45.07\00:35:49.34
STARTS, ACTUALLY, WITH ISHMAEL
HAVING TWELVE PRINCES - TWELVE
00:35:49.38\00:35:52.05
SONS. JACOB - ONE BECOMES
A FATHER OF THE HEBREWS AND -
00:35:52.08\00:35:55.92
CHRISTIANITY COMES THROUGH THE
LINE OF JACOB - AND ISLAM COMES
00:35:55.95\00:36:00.12
THROUGH THE LINE OF
ISHMAEL. AND SO, I THINK THAT'S
00:36:00.16\00:36:04.73
JUST MORE THAN COINCIDENCE.
BOTH CHILDREN, SONS OF ABRAHAM,
00:36:04.76\00:36:10.47
AND - NOW WHAT IS -
GETTING BACK TO PAUL, WHAT IS HE
00:36:10.50\00:36:13.64
SAYING ABOUT ALL OF THIS.
SO GOD, THEN, HE VISITS SARAH,
00:36:13.67\00:36:19.24
SARAH HAS A SON -
HIS NAME IS ISAAC.
00:36:19.27\00:36:22.24
BUT YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENS, IS
ISAAC IS PERSECUTED BY ISHMAEL.
00:36:22.28\00:36:29.68
MAYBE I'M
GETTING AHEAD OF MYSELF.
00:36:29.72\00:36:31.49
ONE IS BORN BY PROMISE,
ONE IS BORN AFTER THE FLESH.
00:36:31.52\00:36:37.66
WHEN ABRAHAM COULD NOT HAVE
CHILDREN AND SARAH SAID, 'LOOK,
00:36:37.69\00:36:41.93
LET'S TAKE MATTERS
INTO OUR OWN HANDS.
00:36:41.96\00:36:45.73
SLEEP WITH MY SERVANT.'
AND HE SAYS, 'WELL, MAYBE WE'RE
00:36:45.77\00:36:50.11
SUPPOSED TO HELP GOD FULFILL
HIS PROMISE.' SO THEY USED THE
00:36:50.14\00:36:53.44
OLD-FASHIONED CARNAL
METHOD. THEY DO HAVE A SON, BUT
00:36:53.48\00:36:57.01
THIS IS A SON OF THE FLESH.
GOD SAID, 'NO, IT WAS TO BE A
00:36:57.05\00:37:00.95
MIRACLE.' IT WAS
TO BE A SON OF THE
00:37:00.98\00:37:03.18
SPIRIT. HOW WAS JESUS BORN?
00:37:03.22\00:37:07.42
MARY WAS CONCEIVED OF
WHAT? THE HOLY SPIRIT.
00:37:07.46\00:37:11.03
ISAAC WAS TO BE A TYPE OF
CHRIST. DIDN'T ABRAHAM OFFER
00:37:11.06\00:37:13.73
ISAAC ON THE
MOUNTAIN? ISAAC WAS A TYPE OF
00:37:13.76\00:37:16.23
THE SPIRITUAL BIRTH. >>AMEN.
00:37:16.26\00:37:18.40
>>JESUS WAS A
SPIRITUAL, SUPERNATURAL BIRTH.
00:37:18.43\00:37:21.50
WE ARE TO EXPERIENCE
THAT SPIRITUAL NEW BIRTH;
00:37:21.54\00:37:24.11
IT'S CALLED BEING BORN AGAIN.
00:37:24.14\00:37:25.57
BUT THEY WANTED TO HELP GOD OUT
AND THEY SAID, 'WE'RE GOING TO
00:37:25.61\00:37:28.08
MAKE IT HAPPEN, BUT WE'RE GOING
TO DO IT THROUGH THE FLESH.
00:37:28.11\00:37:30.61
AND WHAT YOU SEE HERE, AND WHAT
PAUL IS SAYING IS, YOU'VE GOT
00:37:30.65\00:37:32.81
ONE THAT IS THE LAW OF THE
OLD COVENANT - 'WE WILL DO IT' -
00:37:32.85\00:37:37.62
'OUR OWN POWER' - 'IN OUR
STRENGTH' - 'OUR WAY' - IT'S THE
00:37:37.65\00:37:41.72
LAW OF THE FLESH AND THE OTHER
ONE IS THE LAW OF THE SPIRIT.
00:37:41.76\00:37:44.16
YOU SEE THESE TWO CONTRASTED
ALL THROUGH THE BIBLE.
00:37:44.19\00:37:46.93
SOMEONE IS GOING TO READ FOR
ME, IN A MOMENT, ROMANS 8:1 -
00:37:46.96\00:37:50.70
MANJEET, YOU'LL HAVE
THAT? JUST - WE'LL GET
00:37:50.73\00:37:53.20
TO YOU IN A SECOND. I
WANT TO READ MATTHEW 26,
00:37:53.23\00:37:55.67
VERSE 41 - A VERY
IMPORTANT STATEMENT JESUS MAKES.
00:37:55.70\00:37:58.81
WHEN THE DISCIPLES ARE WITH
HIM IN THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE,
00:37:58.84\00:38:02.74
JESUS SAYS, 'COME PRAY WITH ME.'
AND THEY START TO TRY TO PRAY
00:38:02.78\00:38:05.95
BUT HOW LONG DID IT
LAST? WHAT HAPPENED?
00:38:05.98\00:38:08.78
>>THEY FELL
ASLEEP. >>THEY FELL ASLEEP.
00:38:08.82\00:38:11.42
AND JESUS SAID, "WATCH AND PRAY,
LEST YOU ENTER INTO TEMPTATION.
00:38:11.45\00:38:17.19
THE SPIRIT INDEED IS
WILLING, BUT THE FLESH IS WEAK."
00:38:17.23\00:38:21.76
NOW, IS THERE ANYONE
HERE - CAN YOU RELATE TO THAT?
00:38:21.80\00:38:26.30
HAVE YOU EVER STRUGGLED BETWEEN
THE SPIRIT AND THE FLESH?
00:38:26.33\00:38:30.31
IT MIGHT BE IN - WITH A TEMPER,
WHERE THE SPIRIT IS SAYING,
00:38:30.34\00:38:34.38
'DON'T SAY IT'
BUT THE FLESH IS MAD.
00:38:34.41\00:38:36.58
IT MIGHT BE WITH A DIET WHERE
THE SPIRIT IS WILLING BUT THE
00:38:36.61\00:38:41.38
FLESH IS WEAK. IT
COULD BE WITH ALL MANNER
00:38:41.42\00:38:46.45
OF DIFFERENT TEMPTATIONS.
WE FEEL A BATTLE THAT GOES ON
00:38:46.49\00:38:49.66
BETWEEN THE
SPIRIT AND THE FLESH.
00:38:49.69\00:38:52.39
PAUL IS SAYING, 'HERE YOU'VE GOT
THAT IN THE SONS OF ABRAHAM.'
00:38:52.43\00:38:55.43
YOU'VE GOT ONE THAT IS THE FLESH
AND ONE THAT IS THE SPIRIT.
00:38:55.46\00:38:59.83
1 CORINTHIANS 3:1, "AND I,
BRETHREN, COULD NOT SPEAK TO YOU
00:38:59.87\00:39:03.14
AS TO SPIRITUAL PEOPLE BUT AS TO
CARNAL, AS TO BABES IN CHRIST."
00:39:03.17\00:39:07.34
HE SAYS - YOU
KNOW WHAT CARNAL MEANS?
00:39:07.38\00:39:09.48
CARNE - ANYONE SPEAK
SPANISH? WHAT DOES CARNE MEAN?
00:39:09.51\00:39:13.38
>>MEAT. >>IT MEANS THE FLESH.
00:39:13.42\00:39:15.88
SO NEXT TIME YOU GO TO A
CARNIVAL (LAUGHTER) DO YOU KNOW
00:39:15.92\00:39:19.79
WHERE THAT WORD COMES FROM?
THE WORD 'CARNIVAL' IS THEY USED
00:39:19.82\00:39:24.16
TO HAVE THESE ROMAN PARTIES
AND IT WOULD OFTEN INVOLVE THE
00:39:24.19\00:39:27.40
GLADIATOR SCENES AND BLOODSHED
AND VIOLENCE AND - THEY
00:39:27.40\00:39:34.17
WERE ENTERTAINED BY GORE. WE
USE THE WORD 'CARNIVAL' TODAY
00:39:34.20\00:39:40.44
- IT HAS, HOPEFULLY, A
LITTLE DIFFERENT MEANING, BUT
00:39:40.48\00:39:42.01
THAT'S WHERE IT COMES FROM.
AND SO, YOU'VE GOT THE BATTLE
00:39:42.04\00:39:44.68
BETWEEN THE CARNAL
SIDE AND THE SPIRITUAL SIDE.
00:39:44.71\00:39:48.02
DO YOU KNOW, YOUR BRAIN IS
DIVIDED IN - YOUR CEREBELLUM AND
00:39:48.05\00:39:50.82
YOUR CEREBRUM AND THEY SAY, YOU
KNOW, YOUR HIGHER POWERS ARE IN
00:39:50.85\00:39:54.49
THE FRONTAL LOBES - I ALWAYS GET
THE TWO MIXED UP, WHICH ONE IS
00:39:54.52\00:39:56.89
THIS? >>FRONTAL.
00:39:56.93\00:39:58.63
>>CEREBRUM?
CEREBELLUM. >>CEREBRUM.
00:39:58.66\00:40:02.26
>>CEREBRUM. CEREBELLUM.
BUT ANIMALS HAVE THE SAME TWO
00:40:02.30\00:40:07.17
PARTS OF THE BRAIN, BUT THEIR
FRONTAL LOBE IS VERY SMALL.
00:40:07.20\00:40:10.81
THEY ARE CONTROLLED BY
THE ANIMALISTIC INSTINCTS.
00:40:10.84\00:40:14.11
MOST OF THE WAY YOU TEACH
AN ANIMAL IS YOU REWARD THEM
00:40:14.14\00:40:16.58
PHYSICALLY WHEN YOU GIVE
THEM SOME FOOD OR THERE'S SOME
00:40:16.61\00:40:20.92
SATISFACTION OR YOU PRAISE THEM
- YOU PET THEM - AND THEY'RE
00:40:20.95\00:40:24.82
KIND OF CARNALLY TRAINED.
NOT TOO MANY OF THEM REASON VERY
00:40:24.85\00:40:30.16
FAR AND AHEAD THAT 'THIS IS
MORALLY THE RIGHT THING TO DO
00:40:30.19\00:40:34.40
AND SO IT'S WHAT I'M GOING TO
DO.' THEY HAVE FOUND THAT SOME
00:40:34.46\00:40:37.83
ANIMALS DO SEEM TO EXHIBIT
VERY UNSELFISH BEHAVIORS, BUT -
00:40:37.87\00:40:45.04
ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD,
READ ROMANS 8:1 AND 2.
00:40:45.07\00:40:48.81
>>"THERE IS THEREFORE NOW NO
CONDEMNATION TO THOSE WHO ARE IN
00:40:48.84\00:40:54.35
CHRIST JESUS, WHO DO NOT
WALK ACCORDING TO THE FLESH, BUT
00:40:54.38\00:40:59.25
ACCORDING TO THE SPIRIT.
FOR THE LAW OF THE SPIRIT OF
00:40:59.29\00:41:03.49
LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS HAS
MADE ME FREE FROM THE LAW
00:41:03.53\00:41:08.16
OF SIN AND DEATH."
>>THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
00:41:08.20\00:41:11.87
I GAVE YOU ONE OF THE MOST
IMPORTANT SCRIPTURES IN OUR
00:41:11.90\00:41:13.34
STUDY TODAY. YOU
NOTICE THE WORDS 'LAW',
00:41:13.37\00:41:16.10
'SPIRIT', 'LAW', 'FLESH' - WE'RE
TALKING ABOUT TWO COVENANTS
00:41:16.14\00:41:21.61
- WE'RE TALKING ABOUT OLD
COVENANT/NEW COVENANT - OLD
00:41:21.64\00:41:24.21
COVENANT - 'WE WILL' - NEW
COVENANT - GOD SAYS, 'I WILL'.
00:41:24.25\00:41:27.35
AND HERE IT'S TELLING US THAT
THERE'S NO CONDEMNATION TO THOSE
00:41:27.38\00:41:32.15
WHO ARE IN JESUS WHO DO NOT WALK
AFTER THE FLESH BUT AFTER THE
00:41:32.19\00:41:35.86
SPIRIT. IT'S NOT
BEING PHARISAICAL,
00:41:35.89\00:41:39.36
IT'S BEING SPIRIT-MINDED.
"FOR THE LAW OF THE SPIRIT OF
00:41:39.39\00:41:42.90
LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS HAS
MADE ME FREE FROM THE LAW
00:41:42.93\00:41:45.47
OF SIN AND DEATH."
MATTER OF FACT, IF YOU READ
00:41:45.50\00:41:48.10
ROMANS 7:14, "FOR WE KNOW
THAT THE LAW IS SPIRITUAL, BUT I
00:41:48.14\00:41:51.51
AM CARNAL, SOLD UNDER
SIN." YOU'VE GOT THIS TENSION
00:41:51.54\00:41:53.91
BETWEEN THE TWO IN OUR LIVES.
GO TO ROMANS 8:4, "THAT THE
00:41:53.94\00:41:57.98
RIGHTEOUS REQUIREMENT OF THE LAW
MIGHT BE FULFILLED IN US WHO DO
00:41:58.01\00:42:01.48
NOT WALK ACCORDING TO THE FLESH
BUT ACCORDING TO THE SPIRIT.
00:42:01.52\00:42:05.25
FOR THOSE THAT ARE AFTER THE
FLESH, DO MIND THE THINGS OF THE
00:42:05.29\00:42:07.92
FLESH, BUT THOSE THE SPIRIT,
THE THINGS OF THE SPIRIT."
00:42:07.96\00:42:10.86
AND THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT
VERSE, "FOR TO BE CARNALLY
00:42:10.89\00:42:14.40
MINDED" - TO BE FLESHLY MINDED -
"IS DEATH, BUT TO BE SPIRITUALLY
00:42:14.46\00:42:18.67
MINDED IS LIFE AND PEACE."
IF WE GO THROUGH OUR LIVES UNDER
00:42:18.70\00:42:22.90
THE OLD COVENANT, THINKING 'I
WILL DO IT', OUR RELIGION WILL
00:42:22.94\00:42:26.47
BE DRUDGERY,
MISERY, AND END IN DEATH.
00:42:26.51\00:42:28.98
IT HAS TO BE GOD DOING IT IN US.
THE LORD SAYS, 'I WILL.' NOW,
00:42:29.01\00:42:34.92
WERE PEOPLE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT
SAVED BY THE OLD COVENANT?
00:42:34.95\00:42:39.55
THAT'S A TRICK QUESTION.
WERE THE PEOPLE IN THE OLD
00:42:39.59\00:42:42.16
TESTAMENT SAVED
BY THE OLD COVENANT?
00:42:42.19\00:42:44.59
>>NO. >>IS ANYBODY SAVED
00:42:44.63\00:42:46.36
BY THE OLD COVENANT? >>NO.
00:42:46.39\00:42:47.96
>>THE IDEA THAT 'I WILL' - WHO
DELIVERS? WHAT HUMAN IS INVOLVED
00:42:48.00\00:42:52.53
IN DELIVERING THE OLD
COVENANT? MOSES, RIGHT?
00:42:52.57\00:42:56.24
LISTEN TO WHAT MOSES SAYS:
'CIRCUMCISE, THEREFORE, THE
00:42:56.27\00:42:59.31
FORESKIN OF YOUR HEART AND BE
NO MORE STIFF-NECKED.' HE ALWAYS
00:42:59.34\00:43:03.91
KNEW THAT IT WAS SOMETHING
THAT HAPPENED IN THE HEART, EVEN
00:43:03.95\00:43:07.18
THOUGH THEY HAD THE SIGNS AND
THE SYMBOLS AND THE CEREMONIES
00:43:07.22\00:43:09.92
AND THE FEASTS AND THINGS,
THAT WERE ALL PORTRAYING THE OLD
00:43:09.95\00:43:13.72
COVENANT, THEY WERE
SYMBOLIC OF THE TRUE.
00:43:13.76\00:43:16.42
ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD AND IT WAS
COUNTED HIM FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
00:43:16.46\00:43:19.79
THEY WERE SAVED
BY THE NEW COVENANT.
00:43:19.83\00:43:21.36
NOW, WE'RE GOING ON FURTHER - GO
TO GALATIANS 4:26 AND IT SAYS,
00:43:21.40\00:43:26.94
"BUT THE JERUSALEM ABOVE IS
FREE, WHICH IS THE MOTHER OF US
00:43:26.97\00:43:32.54
ALL." I'VE HEARD ALL KINDS OF
00:43:32.57\00:43:34.91
INTERESTING
EXPOSÉS ON WHAT THAT MEANS.
00:43:34.94\00:43:38.41
SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ, FOR ME,
HEBREWS 12:22, IN JUST A MOMENT.
00:43:38.45\00:43:41.98
I'LL START OUT BY READING
- WHAT IS IT TALKING ABOUT?
00:43:42.02\00:43:43.99
'JERUSALEM, WHICH IS ABOVE,
IS FREE, THE MOTHER OF US ALL'?
00:43:44.02\00:43:47.52
LOOK IN COLOSSIANS CHAPTER
3, VERSES 1 AND 2, "IF THEN YOU
00:43:47.56\00:43:54.93
WERE RAISED WITH CHRIST, SEEK
THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE ABOVE,
00:43:54.93\00:43:58.60
WHERE CHRIST IS, SITTING
AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD.
00:43:58.63\00:44:01.34
SET YOUR MIND ON THINGS ABOVE,
NOT ON THINGS ON THE EARTH."
00:44:01.37\00:44:05.97
SO WHEN IT TALKS ABOUT
THE JERUSALEM WHICH IS ABOVE -
00:44:06.01\00:44:08.94
GO AHEAD READ,
FOR ME, HEBREWS 12:22.
00:44:08.98\00:44:12.28
>>"BUT YOU HAVE COME TO MOUNT
ZION AND TO THE CITY OF THE
00:44:12.31\00:44:15.55
LIVING GOD, THE HEAVENLY
JERUSALEM TO AN INNUMERABLE
00:44:15.58\00:44:19.85
COMPANY OF ANGELS," -
>>NOW, MOST OF THE TIME, WHEN I
00:44:19.89\00:44:23.49
SAY 'THE NEW JERUSALEM',
WHAT BOOK IN THE BIBLE DO YOU GO
00:44:23.53\00:44:25.46
TO? >>REVELATION.
00:44:25.49\00:44:27.46
>>YOU GO TO REVELATION - THE
LAST BOOK IN THE BIBLE, WHERE WE
00:44:27.50\00:44:29.33
HEAR ABOUT THE NEW
JERUSALEM COMING DOWN FROM GOD.
00:44:29.36\00:44:31.60
BUT FOR THE JEWS IN PAUL'S
DAY, WAS THE IDEA OF A SPIRITUAL
00:44:31.63\00:44:34.90
JERUSALEM A NEW CONCEPT
OR DID THEY UNDERSTAND THAT?
00:44:34.94\00:44:38.34
WHEN THE BIBLE SAYS
THAT - WAS IT MOSES?
00:44:38.37\00:44:41.51
HE LOOKED FOR A CITY THAT HAD
FOUNDATIONS WHOSE BUILDER AND
00:44:41.54\00:44:44.21
MAKER IS GOD. HE WASN'T LOOKING
FOR THE EARTHLY JERUSALEM.
00:44:44.25\00:44:49.32
HE WAS LOOKING FOR
THE HEAVENLY JERUSALEM.
00:44:49.35\00:44:52.82
WHEN JESUS SAID, 'THE KINGDOM
OF HEAVEN IS AT HAND', DID THAT
00:44:52.85\00:44:56.06
KINGDOM HAVE A
CAPITOL? IT'S THE NEW JERUSALEM.
00:44:56.09\00:44:59.69
WHY DOES HE CONTRAST THE
NEW AND THE OLD JERUSALEM?
00:44:59.73\00:45:02.73
AND DON'T - DON'T MISS WHAT IT'S
SAYING HERE IN GALATIANS, HE
00:45:02.76\00:45:05.03
SAYS 'FOR THE JERUSALEM
THAT NOW IS, IS UNDER BONDAGE.'
00:45:05.07\00:45:08.00
WHEN PAUL WROTE THAT,
WHAT FLAG FLEW ABOVE JERUSALEM?
00:45:08.04\00:45:12.24
WAS IT A HEBREW FLAG?
OR WAS IT A ROMAN FLAG?
00:45:12.27\00:45:15.91
EVEN THE LITERAL JERUSALEM WAS
OCCUPIED DURING THAT TIME, SO
00:45:15.94\00:45:20.52
THEY ALL LOOKED FOR THE NEW
KINGDOM - THE MESSIAH'S KINGDOM
00:45:20.55\00:45:23.89
- 'THE HEAVENLY
JERUSALEM' THEY CALLED IT.
00:45:23.92\00:45:26.29
AND SO, IT'S JUST BASICALLY
SAYING YOU NEED TO THINK ABOUT
00:45:26.32\00:45:29.99
THE SPIRITUAL
SIDE OF THESE THINGS.
00:45:30.03\00:45:33.16
AND THEN, IF YOU GO TO THE NEXT
VERSE - VERSE 27, HE SAYS, "FOR
00:45:33.19\00:45:36.90
IT IS WRITTEN: 'REJOICE, THOU
BARREN THAT BEAREST NOT; BREAK
00:45:36.93\00:45:40.94
FORTH AND CRY," - I'M IN
GALATIANS 4:27 - THIS IS THE
00:45:40.97\00:45:43.84
NEXT VERSE - "REJOICE, THOU
BARREN THAT BEAREST NOT; BREAK
00:45:43.87\00:45:47.48
FORTH AND CRY, THOU THAT
TRAVAILEST NOT: FOR THE DESOLATE
00:45:47.51\00:45:51.21
HATH MANY MORE CHILDREN
THAN SHE WHICH HATH AN HUSBAND."
00:45:51.25\00:45:55.12
NOW, YOU REALIZE WHAT HAPPENED
WITH ABRAHAM AND HAGAR AND SARAH
00:45:55.15\00:46:00.16
AND ISAAC AND ISHMAEL IS, AFTER
ISAAC WAS BORN, WHEN HE WAS
00:46:00.19\00:46:05.46
WEANED THEY HAD A PARTY, YOU
KNOW, THERE WAS A CELEBRATION -
00:46:05.49\00:46:09.03
IF YOU'RE JEWISH YOU KNOW,
THEY HAVE A BRIS - THEY HAVE A
00:46:09.06\00:46:12.07
CELEBRATION WHEN THE CHILD IS
EIGHT DAYS OLD AND THEY NAME HIM
00:46:12.10\00:46:14.24
AND HE'S CIRCUMCISED.
THEY HAD A CELEBRATION WHEN THE
00:46:14.27\00:46:17.51
CHILD WAS WEANED AND, OF
COURSE, THEY WOULD NURSE THEM
00:46:17.54\00:46:21.74
A LOT LONGER THEN.
THEY WERE USUALLY UP
00:46:21.78\00:46:23.21
AND WALKING AROUND.
REMEMBER, MOSES, HE STAYED WITH
00:46:23.24\00:46:27.45
HIS MOTHER UNTIL HE WAS WEANED
AND HE WAS OLD ENOUGH TO BE
00:46:27.48\00:46:30.02
TAUGHT IN PHARAOH'S HOUSE.
SAMUEL STAYED WITH HANNAH UNTIL
00:46:30.05\00:46:33.02
HE WAS WEANED AND HE WAS OLD
ENOUGH TO TAKE CARE OF HIMSELF
00:46:33.05\00:46:35.12
IN THE TEMPLE WITH ELI. AND
SO, YOU KNOW, THEY SOMETIMES
00:46:35.16\00:46:42.16
NURSED THEM UNTIL THEY
WERE FOUR OR FIVE YEARS OLD.
00:46:42.20\00:46:44.90
I KNOW, THAT SEEMS UNBELIEVABLE,
BUT YOU GO TO SOME COUNTRIES AND
00:46:44.93\00:46:48.37
YOU STILL SEE THAT.
THEY WANTED TO MAKE SURE THEY
00:46:48.40\00:46:51.97
HAD ALL OF THEIR
MINERALS, I GUESS.
00:46:52.01\00:46:55.44
ANYWAY, WE WON'T TALK ABOUT THAT
ANYMORE, BUT - SO THEY HAVE A
00:46:55.48\00:47:01.52
PARTY AND, AT THE PARTY
EVERYBODY IS GUSHING OVER ISAAC
00:47:01.55\00:47:09.26
AND HE'S THE
CENTER OF ATTENTION.
00:47:09.29\00:47:11.36
NOW, HOW DO YOU
THINK ISHMAEL FEELS?
00:47:11.39\00:47:13.96
HE'S NOT LIKING THIS VERY MUCH.
HAGAR HAS PROBABLY INSTILLED IN
00:47:14.00\00:47:17.67
HIM SOME DISDAIN FOR THIS
OTHER CHILD OF THE SPIRIT - THIS
00:47:17.70\00:47:21.87
MIRACLE BABY THAT'S
CALLED 'LAUGHTER' AND
00:47:21.90\00:47:23.91
EVERYBODY'S LAUGHING. AND
HE BEGINS TO MAKE FUN OF AND
00:47:23.94\00:47:27.38
TO MOCK HIS YOUNGER BROTHER AND
SARAH SEES THAT AND SAYS, 'OH, I
00:47:27.41\00:47:32.38
CAN SEE HOW THIS IS AND WE
ARE NOT GOING TO HAVE THAT.' AND
00:47:32.41\00:47:35.82
SARAH GOES TO ABRAHAM AND SAYS,
'DIVORCE THE BONDWOMAN.' THE
00:47:35.85\00:47:41.36
TERM THAT IS USED IS 'PUT HER
AWAY' - IT'S THE TERM THAT IS
00:47:41.39\00:47:44.69
USED, LATER IN THE
BIBLE, FOR DIVORCE.
00:47:44.73\00:47:47.13
ABRAHAM NEEDS TO SEPARATE -
A PERMANENT SEPARATION - FROM
00:47:47.13\00:47:51.43
HAGAR. AND THAT BROKE HIS HEART.
HE SAID, 'LOOK, YOU TOLD ME TO
00:47:51.47\00:47:54.64
DO THIS, NOW YOU'RE
TELLING ME TO DIVORCE HER.
00:47:54.67\00:47:56.94
YOU STARTED THE WHOLE
THING.' AND 'HE'S MY SON.
00:47:56.97\00:48:00.94
I LOVE HIM.' AND ABRAHAM IS MUCH
TROUBLED OVER THIS AND GOD SAYS
00:48:00.98\00:48:05.01
TO ABRAHAM, 'LISTEN TO THE VOICE
OF SARAH.' NOW, IF HE HAD NOT
00:48:05.05\00:48:09.55
LISTENED TO SARAH THE FIRST
TIME, THEY WOULDN'T HAVE THIS
00:48:09.58\00:48:11.35
PROBLEM, BUT NOW HE'S GOT
TO LISTEN TO SARAH AND HE SAYS,
00:48:11.39\00:48:16.02
'SEND AWAY THE BONDWOMAN
AND ISAAC.' NOW THIS IS VERY
00:48:16.06\00:48:18.89
IMPORTANT - >>ISHMAEL.
00:48:18.93\00:48:20.13
>>ISHMAEL - THANK YOU. 'SEND
AWAY HAGAR AND ISHMAEL' BECAUSE
00:48:20.16\00:48:25.13
HAGAR AND ISHMAEL DID NOT GET
THE INHERITANCE. DON'T YOU AND I
00:48:25.17\00:48:31.57
WANT THE ETERNAL
INHERITANCE? >>AMEN.
00:48:31.61\00:48:34.64
>>THE INHERITANCE OF CHRIST
DID NOT COME THROUGH THEM.
00:48:34.68\00:48:37.85
SO PAUL IS USING
THIS AS AN ALLEGORY.
00:48:37.88\00:48:40.35
PAUL USES A LOT OF OLD
TESTAMENT STORIES AS ALLEGORIES.
00:48:40.38\00:48:43.85
HAVE YOU READ, IN 1 CORINTHIANS
10, WHERE PAUL TALKS ABOUT THE
00:48:43.89\00:48:47.49
CHILDREN OF ISRAEL AND SAYS WHAT
HAPPENED TO THEM IS AN ALLEGORY
00:48:47.52\00:48:50.83
OF SALVATION AND SAYS, 'CHRIST
IS THE ROCK' - 'CHRIST IS THE
00:48:50.86\00:48:54.13
BREAD' - 'THE RED SEE REPRESENTS
BAPTISM' - 'THE PILLAR OF FIRE
00:48:54.20\00:48:57.73
REPRESENTS
BAPTISM IN THE SPIRIT'?
00:48:57.77\00:49:00.24
AND PAUL OFTEN TAKES THESE OLD
TESTAMENT STORIES - THIS IS ONE
00:49:00.27\00:49:03.34
OF MY FAVORITE THINGS TO DO,
IS LOOK FOR CHRIST IN ALL THE
00:49:03.37\00:49:05.81
STORIES OF THE BIBLE. HE
TAKES THESE OLD TESTAMENT
00:49:05.84\00:49:08.64
STORIES AND SAYS THEY
ARE ALLEGORIES OF SALVATION.
00:49:08.68\00:49:12.18
IT'S VERY IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER
THAT HAGAR IS SENT AWAY.
00:49:12.21\00:49:15.12
SHE DOES NOT
INHERIT IT. THEY DO NOT GET
00:49:15.15\00:49:17.85
THE PROMISED LAND.
THEY GO OFF INTO ARABIA.
00:49:17.89\00:49:20.36
THEY GO OFF INTO THE DESERTS.
THEY'RE CALLED 'THE PEOPLE OF
00:49:20.39\00:49:22.36
THE EAST' - THE
DESCENDENTS OF ISHMAEL.
00:49:22.39\00:49:25.83
AND - AND SO, GOING BACK
AND READING THIS AGAIN, IT SAYS
00:49:25.86\00:49:30.63
'REJOICE THOSE WHO WERE BARREN'
- BECAUSE YOU'VE HAD MORE
00:49:30.67\00:49:34.60
CHILDREN THAN THE ONE WHO BORE.
00:49:34.64\00:49:37.57
DO YOU REMEMBER THE
STORY OF HANNAH AND PENINNAH?
00:49:37.61\00:49:39.87
YOU'VE GOT THESE TWO MOTHERS AND
THEY'RE FIGHTING OVER WHICH ONE
00:49:39.91\00:49:42.54
IS GOING TO HAVE AN
ABUNDANCE OF CHILDREN.
00:49:42.58\00:49:45.71
AND, AT FIRST, PENINNAH,
BUT LATER, HANNAH NOT ONLY HAS
00:49:45.75\00:49:49.52
SAMUEL THROUGH PRAYER, SHE HAS
A MIRACLE BIRTH AND SHE ENDS UP
00:49:49.55\00:49:53.12
HAVING, I THINK, FIVE OR
SIX MORE CHILDREN AFTER SAMUEL.
00:49:53.15\00:49:57.89
AND SO - DO YOU REMEMBER THE
STORY OF THE TWO WOMEN WHO CAME
00:49:57.93\00:50:01.46
TO SOLOMON? THEY'RE
FIGHTING OVER THE BABY
00:50:01.50\00:50:05.43
AND HE HAS TO MAKE A
SPIRITUAL JUDGMENT, WHICH ONE
00:50:05.47\00:50:06.94
IS THE REAL MOTHER? DO
YOU REMEMBER THE STORY WHERE
00:50:06.97\00:50:11.01
RACHEL AND LEAH ARE FIGHTING
OVER JACOB'S ATTENTION AND WHO'S
00:50:11.04\00:50:14.58
GOING TO HAVE THE CHILDREN?
DO YOU REMEMBER THE STORY - IT'S
00:50:14.61\00:50:17.91
NOT A VERY PLEASANT ONE - 2
KINGS, DURING A TIME OF FAMINE,
00:50:17.95\00:50:22.82
TWO MOTHERS COME TO THE KING,
THEY'RE FIGHTING OVER THEIR SON.
00:50:22.85\00:50:26.52
YOU SEE THIS HAPPENING ALL
THROUGH THE BIBLE AND IT'S THE
00:50:26.55\00:50:30.06
TENSION BETWEEN
THE TRUE AND THE FALSE.
00:50:30.09\00:50:32.86
WHO IS BURIED WITH
JACOB, RACHEL OR LEAH?
00:50:32.89\00:50:38.33
>>LEAH. >>LEAH.
ISN'T THAT RIGHT?
00:50:38.37\00:50:42.74
IT'S NOT RACHEL.
RACHEL WAS THE ONE HE LOVED.
00:50:42.77\00:50:44.71
RACHEL IS BURIED IN
BETHLEHEM. SHE DIES GIVING BIRTH
00:50:44.74\00:50:47.04
TO BENJAMIN. LEAH IS
BURIED. WHICH ONE DID
00:50:47.08\00:50:50.25
JESUS COME
THROUGH? LEAH, NOT RACHEL.
00:50:50.28\00:50:54.02
RACHEL HAD A GREAT SON NAMED
JOSEPH, BUT JESUS DIDN'T COME
00:50:54.05\00:50:56.69
THROUGH JOSEPH, JESUS CAME
THROUGH JUDAH - THROUGH LEAH'S
00:50:56.72\00:51:01.66
SON. AND SO, YOU CAN SEE THIS
HAPPENING THROUGH THE BIBLE,
00:51:01.69\00:51:05.29
THERE'S THE PROMISED CHILD.
ALRIGHT, BACK TO GALATIANS HERE.
00:51:05.33\00:51:09.00
AND SO, I BETTER JUST GO BACK TO
THE BOOK OF GALATIANS AND FINISH
00:51:09.03\00:51:11.80
THIS UP WITH YOU HERE.
NOW GO TO VERSE 28, "NOW WE,
00:51:11.83\00:51:16.17
BRETHREN, AS ISAAC WAS,
ARE THE CHILDREN OF PROMISE."
00:51:16.20\00:51:19.54
NOW IS THAT SELF-EXPLANATORY?
HE SAID, 'WE'RE NOT THE CHILDREN
00:51:19.57\00:51:22.88
OF ISHMAEL, WHERE IT'S WE'RE
TRYING TO HELP GOD OUT AND DO IT
00:51:22.91\00:51:25.38
BY WORKS, WE'RE THE CHILDREN OF
FAITH AND IT'S A MIRACLE BIRTH.
00:51:25.41\00:51:29.22
WHEN ISAAC WAS BORN,
IT IS A MIRACLE BIRTH.
00:51:29.25\00:51:31.32
WHEN YOU ARE BORN
AGAIN IT IS A MIRACLE BIRTH.
00:51:31.35\00:51:34.09
WHAT THAT MEANS IS
GOD HAS TO DO IT IN YOU.
00:51:34.12\00:51:37.69
>>AMEN. >>GOD SAYS, 'I WILL'.
00:51:37.73\00:51:39.19
AND IF YOU FEEL LIKE, 'I'VE
NEVER HAD THAT MIRACLE BIRTH',
00:51:39.23\00:51:41.86
YOU NEED TO BE PRAYING FOR IT
BECAUSE IT DOESN'T COME THROUGH
00:51:41.90\00:51:44.90
YOUR WORKS, IT COMES
THROUGH YOUR PRAYERS.
00:51:44.93\00:51:47.47
YOU NEED TO BE PRAYING
FOR A GENUINE CONVERSION.
00:51:47.50\00:51:49.60
OR, IF YOU'VE LOST IT,
YOU NEED TO FIND IT AGAIN.
00:51:49.64\00:51:52.54
REVELATION SAYS IF YOU'VE LOST
THAT FIRST LOVE - THAT NEW BIRTH
00:51:52.57\00:51:55.08
EXPERIENCE - PRAY FOR IT AGAIN.
SEEK FOR IT. YOU KNOW, THE
00:51:55.11\00:52:00.05
METHODISTS WERE REALLY BIG
ON PRAYING UNTIL THEY HAD THAT
00:52:00.08\00:52:02.35
ASSURANCE OF CONVERSION - THAT
THEY EXPERIENCED THE NEW BIRTH.
00:52:02.38\00:52:06.22
ALRIGHT, GOING BACK TO GALATIANS
AGAIN, "BUT, AS HE WHO WAS BORN
00:52:06.25\00:52:10.56
ACCORDING TO THE FLESH
THEN PERSECUTED HIM WHO WAS BORN
00:52:10.59\00:52:13.63
ACCORDING TO THE SPIRIT," - AND
HERE, PAUL IS SAYING HE THAT IS
00:52:13.66\00:52:17.53
BORN ACCORDING TO THE FLESH -
ISHMAEL - THERE AT THE WEANING
00:52:17.57\00:52:21.14
BIRTHDAY PARTY -
PERSECUTED ISAAC.
00:52:21.17\00:52:24.51
HE SAID THAT'S WHAT HAPPENING
TODAY, THE SCRIBES AND THE
00:52:24.54\00:52:27.51
PHARISEES AND THE SADDUCEES AND
THE LAWYERS ALL PERSECUTED THE
00:52:27.54\00:52:30.98
APOSTLES AND THOSE WHO
SAY, 'WE ARE BORN OF CHRIST.
00:52:31.01\00:52:33.72
WE ARE BORN OF THE SPIRIT.' THEY
SAID, 'OH NO.' AND THE ONES WHO
00:52:33.75\00:52:36.85
BELIEVED IN - THAT THE GOSPEL
COULD GO TO THE GENTILES WERE
00:52:36.89\00:52:40.56
PERSECUTED BY THOSE WHO SAID,'
OH, NO NO, WE'RE SAVED BY THE
00:52:40.59\00:52:43.69
LAWS OF MOSES.' REMEMBER,
THE WHOLE THEME OF GALATIANS IS,
00:52:43.73\00:52:48.03
'IS IT THE NEW BIRTH?
IS IT THE CEREMONIAL LAWS?
00:52:48.06\00:52:51.47
OR IS IT THE LAW OF THE SPIRIT?'
SO THIS IS THE BIG BATTLE
00:52:51.50\00:52:54.70
THAT'S TAKING PLACE
HERE. NEVERTHELESS, WHAT
00:52:54.74\00:52:58.34
DOES THE SCRIPTURE SAY?
"'CAST OUT THE BONDWOMAN AND
00:52:58.37\00:53:02.14
HER SON, FOR THE SON OF THE
BONDWOMAN SHALL NOT BE HEIR WITH
00:53:02.18\00:53:06.48
THE SON OF THE FREEWOMAN.'
SO THEN, BRETHREN, WE ARE NOT
00:53:06.51\00:53:11.59
CHILDREN OF THE
BONDWOMAN BUT OF THE FREE."
00:53:11.62\00:53:14.59
SO THAT'S HIS WHOLE POINT IS,
HE'S MAKING - ALL THROUGH THIS
00:53:14.62\00:53:17.49
CHAPTER HE'S MAKING A VERY
IMPORTANT ALLEGORY BETWEEN THOSE
00:53:17.53\00:53:22.30
WHO ARE BORN OF THE SPIRIT AND
THOSE WHO ARE BORN OF THE FLESH.
00:53:22.33\00:53:24.77
I THINK I HAD ONE MORE THOUGHT
HERE I WAS GOING TO SHARE WITH
00:53:24.80\00:53:27.90
YOU ON THIS POINT.
YEAH, AND SO, YOU CAN SEE -
00:53:27.94\00:53:37.31
THERE WAS ONE VERSE HERE I
WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT THAT IT SAYS
00:53:37.35\00:53:43.52
- GO TO VERSE 25 -
I WENT RIGHT BY IT.
00:53:43.55\00:53:46.29
"FOR THIS HAGAR IS MOUNT SINAI
IN ARABIA, AND CORRESPONDS TO
00:53:46.32\00:53:51.26
JERUSALEM WHICH NOW IS, AND IS
IN BONDAGE WITH HER CHILDREN -"
00:53:51.29\00:53:54.66
WHERE IS MOUNT
SINAI? >>SAUDI ARABIA.
00:53:54.73\00:53:57.77
>>WE USUALLY SAY IT'S IN THE
SINAI PENINSULA AND, IF YOU GO
00:53:57.80\00:54:00.80
ON A TOUR OF THE MIDDLE EAST AND
YOU SAY, 'I WANT TO SEE WHERE
00:54:00.84\00:54:03.57
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS WERE
GIVEN', THEY'RE GOING TO TAKE
00:54:03.61\00:54:05.67
YOU TO A MOUNTAIN THEY
CALL MOUNT SINAI, IN THE SINAI
00:54:05.71\00:54:08.34
PENINSULA, AND IT'S BECAUSE IT
WAS NAMED THAT DURING THE TIME
00:54:08.38\00:54:13.11
OF CONSTANTINE. THEY
PICKED OUT A MOUNTAIN AND
00:54:13.15\00:54:15.85
SAID, 'THIS IS WHERE IT IS'
AND THEY BUILD ST. CATHERINE'S
00:54:15.88\00:54:18.85
MONASTERY, I THINK, AT THE BASE
OF IT, AND THEY'VE BEEN TAKING
00:54:18.89\00:54:22.26
TOURS UP THIS
MOUNTAIN EVER SINCE.
00:54:22.29\00:54:24.09
BUT THAT'S NOT IN ARABIA AND
IT'S CERTAINLY NOT FORTY DAYS -
00:54:24.13\00:54:28.76
YOU REMEMBER WHEN ELIJAH
FLED FORTY DAYS TO MOUNT SINAI?
00:54:28.80\00:54:32.73
IT'S NOT A FORTY-DAY JOURNEY,
IT'S COMPARATIVELY CLOSE.
00:54:32.77\00:54:36.20
A LOT OF PEOPLE NOW BELIEVE THAT
MOUNT SINAI IS, ACTUALLY, IN THE
00:54:36.24\00:54:40.61
ARABIAN PENINSULA. IT
IS MUCH FURTHER SOUTH.
00:54:40.64\00:54:43.95
AND SO, I JUST WANTED
TO HIGHLIGHT THAT FOR YOU.
00:54:43.98\00:54:46.45
I THOUGHT THAT WAS
AN INTERESTING POINT.
00:54:46.48\00:54:47.98
PAUL WAS ONE WHO SAYS, 'MOUNT
SINAI, IN ARABIA, CORRESPONDS TO
00:54:48.02\00:54:53.79
JERUSALEM THAT NOW IS IN BONDAGE
WITH HER CHILDREN' - EVEN
00:54:53.82\00:54:56.83
JERUSALEM TODAY, IN THE DAYS OF
THE ROMANS, IT WAS IN BONDAGE -
00:54:56.86\00:54:59.39
'BUT THE JERUSALEM ABOVE' - THIS
IS A NEW ONE - 'IS FREE, THE
00:54:59.43\00:55:02.60
MOTHER OF US ALL.'
ALRIGHT, WELL, I THINK THAT
00:55:02.63\00:55:04.87
WE'VE COVERED
MOST OF OUR LESSON.
00:55:04.90\00:55:06.10
I WANT TO REMIND OUR FRIENDS,
IF YOU DID NOT JOIN US AT THE
00:55:06.13\00:55:09.10
BEGINNING OF THE STUDY, I'D LIKE
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00:55:09.14\00:55:11.41
OFFER. THIS IS
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00:55:11.44\00:55:13.71
IF YOU'VE NOT READ THIS,
EVERYBODY HERE - EVERYBODY
00:55:13.74\00:55:16.48
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00:55:31.56\00:55:33.86
TOGETHER WITH YOU
AGAIN NEXT WEEK. (MUSIC)
00:55:33.90\00:55:47.34
>>FRIENDS, WE'RE OUT
HERE IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN NOT
00:55:47.38\00:55:49.51
TOO FAR FROM THE ISLAND OF FIJI,
AND WE'RE GETTING READY TO LOOK
00:55:49.54\00:55:52.38
AT SOME WONDERS IN THE DEEP.
THE BIBLE SAYS GOD MADE THE
00:55:52.41\00:55:56.75
HEAVEN AND THE
EARTH AND THE SEA.
00:55:56.79\00:55:58.62
AND THERE ARE THINGS UNDER THE
SEA THAT ARE BEAUTIFUL THAT MANY
00:55:58.65\00:56:01.06
PEOPLE HAVE NEVER SEEN.
SOME FOLKS MIGHT JUST SKIM ALONG
00:56:01.09\00:56:03.93
- SNORKEL ON THE SURFACE, BUT IF
YOU WANT TO SEE THE REAL MAJESTY
00:56:03.96\00:56:07.40
OF THE OCEAN, YOU'VE GOT
TO GO DEEPER. (LIVELY MUSIC)
00:56:07.46\00:56:23.58
>>BECAUSE PEOPLE DON'T
HAVE GILLS LIKE FISH, WE
00:56:23.61\00:56:26.41
HAVE TO DO SOMETHING
EXTRAORDINARY TO BE ABLE TO
00:56:26.45\00:56:28.52
BREATHE BELOW THE SURFACE.
BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO BREATHE ALL
00:56:28.55\00:56:31.69
THE TIME, WE NEED
THIS SPECIAL EQUIPMENT.
00:56:31.72\00:56:34.66
(SOUND OF BREATHING APPARATUS)
IN THE SAME WAY, THE BIBLE SAYS
00:56:34.69\00:56:38.63
A CHRISTIAN NEEDS TO PRAY
WITHOUT CEASING. WE NEED TO
00:56:38.66\00:56:41.60
ALWAYS BE BREATHING THE
ATMOSPHERE OF HEAVEN IF WE'RE
00:56:41.63\00:56:44.37
GOING TO LIVE A CHRISTIAN LIFE
IN THIS WORLD BELOW. (MUSIC)
00:56:44.40\00:57:13.70
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