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>>GOOD MORNING, FRIENDS
AND WELCOME TO SABBATH SCHOOL
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STUDY HOUR COMING TO YOU HERE
FROM THE GRANITE BAY SEVENTH-DAY
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ADVENTIST CHURCH NEAR
SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA.
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I'D LIKE TO EXTEND A VERY WARM
WELCOME TO THOSE WHO ARE JOINING
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US ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND AROUND
THE WORLD - OUR ONLINE MEMBERS -
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THANK YOU FOR
TUNING IN TO STUDY WITH US.
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ALSO, THOSE OF YOU WHO
ARE WATCHING ON THE VARIOUS
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TELEVISION NETWORKS, THANK YOU
FOR BEING A PART OF OUR STUDY
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TIME, AND TO THE MEMBERS
AND VISITORS RIGHT HERE AT THE
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GRANITE BAY CHURCH. I
ALSO WANT TO EXTEND A VERY
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WARM WELCOME TO
OUR AFCOE STUDENTS.
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AFCOE IS THE AMAZING
FACTS CENTER OF EVANGELISM.
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WE HAVE A FOUR-MONTH TRAINING
PROGRAM AND I UNDERSTAND THAT WE
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HAVE A NUMBER OF OUR
AFCOE STUDENTS WHO ARE HERE THIS
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MORNING AND THEY'RE
STARTING FOUR MONTHS OF SPECIAL
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EVANGELISM
TRAINING. SO, AFCOE STUDENTS,
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JUST RAISE YOUR HANDS.
THERE WE GO, LOOK AT THAT.
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WELCOME TO THE
GRANITE BAY CHURCH.
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IT'S GOING TO BE YOUR CHURCH
HOME FOR THE NEXT FOUR MONTHS,
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SO WELCOME.
GOOD TO SEE YOU HERE.
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WELL, WE'VE BEEN STUDYING
THROUGH THE BOOK OF GALATIANS
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FOR OUR LESSON STUDY.
TODAY WE FIND OURSELVES ON
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LESSON #11; IT'S ENTITLED
FREEDOM IN CHRIST AND, FOR OUR
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FRIENDS WHO ARE WATCHING, IF
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YOU CAN DOWNLOAD LESSON #11
ENTITLED FREEDOM IN CHRIST AND
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ALSO HAVE A FREE OFFER THAT
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GOES ALONG WITH
OUR STUDY FOR TODAY.
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IT'S AN AMAZING FACTS STUDY
GUIDE ENTITLED IS OBEDIENCE
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LEGALISM? AND
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YOU CAN LOOK THAT UP RIGHT THERE
ONLINE AND YOU CAN READ IT FOR
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YOURSELF. WELL,
BEFORE WE GET TO OUR
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STUDY, WE ALWAYS LIKE TO BEGIN
BY LIFTING OUR VOICES IN SONG.
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I'D LIKE TO INVITE OUR SONG
LEADERS TO COME AND JOIN ME ON
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STAGE AND THEY'LL BE LEADING
US IN SINGING THIS MORNING.
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(SOFT PIANO MUSIC)
>>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS.
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IT IS OUR PLEASURE, ALWAYS,
TO SING WITH OUR AUDIENCE RIGHT
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HERE IN OUR SANCTUARY AND WITH
ALL OF YOU THAT JOIN US AROUND
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THE COUNTRY AND ACROSS THE WORLD
EVERY WEEK TO STUDY AND SING
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TOGETHER PRAISES TO OUR
GOD. WE'RE GOING TO SING ABOUT
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KNOWING NOT THE HOUR. WE
NEED TO BE READY EVERY SINGLE
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MINUTE OF EVERY SINGLE
DAY, BECAUSE WE DON'T KNOW
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WHEN OUR TIME IS UP.
WE'RE GOING TO SING HYMN #604
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THIS MORNING - WE KNOW
NOT THE HOUR - WE'LL SING
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ALL THREE VERSES. (PIANO MUSIC)
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>>AT THIS TIME, PASTOR ROSS
WILL LEAD US IN OPENING PRAYER.
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(PIANO MUSIC) >>LET'S BOW
OUR HEADS FOR A WORD OF PRAYER.
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DEAR FATHER IN HEAVEN, WHAT A
PRIVILEGE TO BE ABLE TO GATHER
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TOGETHER TO STUDY
YOUR WORD THIS MORNING.
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THANK YOU FOR THE HOPE THAT WE
HAVE THAT, YES, JESUS IS COMING
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- AND HE'S COMING
SOON, TO TAKE US HOME.
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FATHER, WE THANK YOU FOR THAT
GREAT HOPE THAT BURNS WITHIN OUR
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HEARTS. WE ALSO
THANK YOU FOR THE GRACE
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THAT HAS BEEN PROVIDED SO THAT
WE COULD BE FOUND IN YOU AND
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HAVE THAT HOPE OF ETERNAL
LIFE. BLESS OUR TIME TODAY AS WE
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TALK ABOUT THIS GRACE AND THIS
PROMISE THAT YOU HAVE EXTENDED
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TO ALL OF US, IF WE
WOULD BUT COME TO YOU.
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YOU WILL WORK WITHIN US BOTH TO
WILL AND TO DO ACCORDING TO YOUR
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GOOD PLEASURE. SO WE COMMIT THIS
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TIME IN YOUR
KEEPING. IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
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OUR LESSON TODAY IS GOING TO
BE BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR DOUG.
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>>WELCOME TO SABBATH SCHOOL.
YOU KNOW, BEFORE WE GET INTO THE
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LESSON TODAY, I WANT TO MAKE
AN ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT SOMETHING
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VERY EXCITING THAT IS COMING AND
I THINK THAT OUR STUDIO IS GOING
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TO PLAY A QUICK VIDEO FOR YOU
AND THEN I'LL SAY MORE ABOUT IT.
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>>FIVE HUNDRED YEARS AGO, GOD
USED MARTIN LUTHER TO INSPIRE A
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GREAT REFORMATION, CALLING
PEOPLE BACK TO THE FOUNDATIONAL
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TEACHINGS OF SCRIPTURE; HOWEVER,
IN THE CENTURIES THAT FOLLOWED,
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THE CHURCH HAS SLIPPED OFF THE
BEDROCK OF TRUTH INTO THE VALLEY
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OF LUKEWARM WORLDLINESS.
THAT'S WHY, THIS FALL, I'LL BE
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PRESENTING A BRAND-NEW NINE-PART
SERIES CALLED FOUNDATIONS OF
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FAITH - A PERFECT SERIES
FOR ANYONE SEEKING A PERSONAL
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REVIVAL AND RENEWAL IN
THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH CHRIST.
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PLEASE PLAN, NOW, TO JOIN ME IN
PERSON, ONLINE, OR ON TELEVISION
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AND BE SURE TO INVITE
OTHERS TO JOIN YOU AS WELL.
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THE REFORMATION CONTINUES.
>>SO WE'RE JUST NOW BEGINNING TO
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LET PEOPLE KNOW AND - HERE
AT THE SABBATH SCHOOL, YOU'RE
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KNOWING EARLY - AND THOSE WHO
ARE WATCHING LIVE, BECAUSE THIS
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PROGRAM IS RECORDED THREE
WEEKS IN ADVANCE OF WHEN IT AIRS
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ON SATELLITE TELEVISION.
AND BY THE TIME THIS AIRS, THIS
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PROGRAM'S ONLY GOING TO
BE A COUPLE OF MONTHS AWAY.
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WE'RE LETTING PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT
SOMETHING VERY EXCITING THAT'S
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COMING. IT'S GOING TO BE AN
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INTERNATIONAL REVIVAL
EVENT THAT'S WILL BE BROADCAST
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LIVE FROM THE GENERAL
CONFERENCE HEADQUARTERS.
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AND, WITH EVERYTHING HAPPENING
IN THE WORLD AND HERE ON THE -
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THE ANNIVERSARY - 500-YEAR
ANNIVERSARY OF THE CELEBRATION
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OF THE REFORMATION OR THE
COMMENCEMENT, I SHOULD SAY, OF
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THE REFORMATION, WHEN A NUMBER
OF CHURCHES, NOW, ARE SAYING THE
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REFORMATION IS OVER AND THAT
WE REALLY DIDN'T NEED TO HAVE A
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REFORMATION, AND WITH THE
TURMOIL YOU SEE IN THE WORLD
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TODAY, IN CHRISTIANITY -
THINGS THAT ARE EVEN HAPPENING
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POLITICALLY, THE THREATS OF WAR,
EVEN A LITTLE TURMOIL IN OUR OWN
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CHURCH, WE NEED TO GET TOGETHER
AND PRAY AND HAVE THIS REVIVAL
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SERIES. SO WE'RE
GOING TO BE LOOKING
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AT, AGAIN, THE FOUNDATIONAL
TEACHINGS OF CHRISTIANITY.
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IT'S CALLED
FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH .
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IT'S FROM
NOVEMBER 3 TO THE 11TH.
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IF YOU GO TO THE AMAZING
FACTS WEBSITE YOU'LL FIND MORE
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INFORMATION THERE. WE
ENCOURAGE YOU TO SIGN UP.
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IF YOU'RE PART OF A CHURCH GROUP
THAT WANTS TO COME TOGETHER AND
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WATCH IT, IT'LL BE ON HOPE
CHANNEL, 3ABN, AFTV, STREAMING
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ON YOUTUBE,
FACEBOOK, AND ALL THE MEDIUMS -
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SO IT'S GOING TO
BE GOING FAR AND WIDE.
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PLEASE BE PRAYING FOR THE
FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH EVENT.
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SO WE WANTED TO LET
YOU KNOW ABOUT THAT.
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AGAIN, WELCOME
TO SABBATH SCHOOL.
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I WANT TO WELCOME THOSE
WHO ARE WATCHING ON SATELLITE.
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WELCOME THE - WE HAVE A NUMBER
OF ONLINE MEMBERS AROUND THE
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WORLD, FOLKS THAT MAYBE HAVE
NO LOCAL CHURCH THAT THEY CAN
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ATTEND AND THEY ARE MEMBERS OF
THE GRANITE BAY CHURCH THAT ARE
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ONLINE MEMBERS - I
WANT TO WELCOME THEM.
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I ENJOY HEARING FROM THEM
THROUGH THE WEEK AND WE'RE
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CONTINUING OUR
STUDY IN GALATIANS.
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TODAY WE'RE ON GALATIANS -
OR LESSON #11, I SHOULD SAY,
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DEALING WITH GALATIANS CHAPTER
5, VERSES 1 THROUGH 15, AND THE
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TITLE OF THE LESSON
IS FREEDOM IN CHRIST .
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NOW WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE,
AND THE MEMORY VERSE IS FROM
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GALATIANS 5:13 AND, IF YOU'D
FIND THAT - IF YOU WANT TO READ
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IT RIGHT OUT OF YOUR LESSON
BOOK, IT'S FROM THE ENGLISH
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STANDARD VERSION -
GALATIANS 5:13 - ARE YOU READY?
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"FOR YOU WERE CALLED
TO FREEDOM, BROTHERS.
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ONLY DO NOT USE YOUR FREEDOM
AS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE FLESH,
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BUT THROUGH LOVE
SERVE ONE ANOTHER."
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THROUGH LOVE SERVE ONE ANOTHER
- NOW, YOU KNOW WHAT I'D LIKE TO
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DO? AS OUR
CUSTOM HAS BEEN - WE'RE
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BREAKING UP DIFFERENT
PARTS OF GALATIANS AS WE STUDY.
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TODAY, OUR ASSIGNMENT IS TO
STUDY AND GO, KIND OF, PIECE BY
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PIECE THROUGH GALATIANS
5, VERSES 1 THROUGH 15.
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I'M JUST GOING TO READ IT -
TRY AND DO IT WITHOUT COMMENT.
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NOW, IN THEORY, WHEN WE GET TO
THE END OF THIS QUARTER, WE'LL
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HAVE READ THROUGH THE WHOLE BOOK
OF GALATIANS, EVEN IF WE TAKE A
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FEW MOMENTS AT EACH
SABBATH SCHOOL CLASS TO DO IT.
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BUT WHY DON'T WE LOOK
THERE - GALATIANS 1 - I'M SORRY,
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GALATIANS 5, VERSE 1 -
AND I'LL READ IT FOR YOU -
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THROUGH VERSE 15.
"STAND FAST THEREFORE IN THE
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LIBERTY BY WHICH CHRIST HAS MADE
US FREE, AND DO NOT BE ENTANGLED
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AGAIN WITH A YOKE OF BONDAGE.
INDEED I, PAUL, SAY TO YOU THAT
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IF YOU BECOME CIRCUMCISED,
CHRIST WILL PROFIT YOU NOTHING.
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AND I TESTIFY AGAIN TO EVERY MAN
WHO BECOMES CIRCUMCISED THAT HE
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IS A DEBTOR TO
KEEP THE WHOLE LAW.
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YOU HAVE BECOME ESTRANGED FROM
CHRIST, YOU WHO ATTEMPT TO BE
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JUSTIFIED BY LAW; YOU
HAVE FALLEN FROM GRACE.
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FOR WE THROUGH THE SPIRIT
EAGERLY WAIT FOR THE HOPE OF
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RIGHTEOUSNESS BY FAITH.
FOR IN CHRIST JESUS NEITHER
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CIRCUMCISION NOR UNCIRCUMCISION
AVAILS ANYTHING, BUT FAITH
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WORKING THROUGH
LOVE. YOU RAN WELL.
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WHO HINDERED YOU
FROM OBEYING THE TRUTH?
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THIS PERSUASION DOES NOT
COME FROM HIM WHO CALLS YOU.
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A LITTLE LEAVEN
LEAVENS THE WHOLE LUMP.
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I HAVE CONFIDENCE IN YOU, IN
THE LORD, THAT YOU WILL HAVE NO
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OTHER MIND; BUT HE WHO TROUBLES
YOU SHALL BEAR HIS JUDGMENT,
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WHOEVER HE IS. AND
I, BRETHREN, IF I STILL
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PREACH CIRCUMCISION, WHY
DO I STILL SUFFER PERSECUTION?
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THEN THE OFFENSE OF
THE CROSS HAS CEASED.
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I COULD WISH THAT THOSE
WHO TROUBLE YOU WOULD EVEN CUT
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THEMSELVES OFF! FOR
YOU, BRETHREN, HAVE BEEN
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CALLED TO LIBERTY; ONLY DO NOT
USE LIBERTY AS AN OPPORTUNITY
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FOR THE FLESH, BUT
THROUGH LOVE SERVE ONE ANOTHER.
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FOR ALL THE LAW IS FULFILLED
IN ONE WORD, EVEN IN THIS: 'YOU
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SHALL LOVE YOUR
NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.'
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BUT IF YOU BITE AND
DEVOUR ONE ANOTHER, BEWARE LEST
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YOU BE CONSUMED BY ONE
ANOTHER!" POWERFUL WORDS.
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PAUL DOES NOT, AS THEY WOULD
SAY IN THE BOXING METAPHORS, HE
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DOESN'T PULL ANY
PUNCHES IN WHAT HE'S SAYING.
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AND JUST, FOR THOSE WHO MAYBE
HAVE JOINED US - WE HAVE SOME
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VISITORS HERE - THERE'S ALWAYS
NEW PEOPLE ONLINE - PAUL, IN
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GALATIANS, IS
ADDRESSING A PROBLEM.
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HE HAD GONE INTO THE REGIONS OF
GALATIA, HE HAD ESTABLISHED SOME
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STRONG BIBLICAL CHURCHES, THEY
WERE THRIVING, AND THEN SOME,
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VERY LIKELY, JEWISH CONVERTS TO
CHRISTIANITY, WENT IN, FOUND OUT
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THE GENTILES WERE NEGLECTING
TO KEEP SOME OF THE JEWISH
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CEREMONIAL LAWS - THEY
WEREN'T PRACTICING OR URGING
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CIRCUMCISION ON THEIR CHILDREN,
AND HE SAID, 'THIS IS NO GOOD.
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YOU CAN'T DO THAT.' AND SO
THEY BEGAN TO PUSH THEM TO BE
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CIRCUMCISED AND TO START
PRACTICING THE JEWISH CEREMONIAL
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LAWS. AND THE
CHURCH IN JERUSALEM
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HAD SAID THAT'S NOT REQUIRED.
AND SO, BASICALLY, IT WAS A
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DISTRACTING HERESY THAT HAD COME
IN AND IT REALLY ANGERED PAUL.
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INSTEAD OF BELIEVING THAT THEY
WERE SAVED BY FAITH IN CHRIST -
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THEY NOW WERE - SOMEHOW BELIEVED
THAT THEY WERE SAVED BY THINGS
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THAT THEY DID - OPERATIONS
AND PROCEDURES AND - IT'S LIKE
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SAYING, YOU KNOW, IF YOU GO GET
THIS TATTOO, YOU'LL BE SAVED.
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WELL, ARE WE SAVED BY A TATTOO?
AND SO, IN THE SAME WAY, HE'S
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SAYING, 'YOU'RE
NOT SAVED BY THIS'.
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OR, ANOTHER PROBLEM THEY WERE
HAVING IS THE JEWISH BELIEVERS
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IN CHRIST, WHO HAD BEGUN
TO INFILTRATE THESE GENTILE
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CHURCHES WERE SAYING, 'YOU CAN'T
EAT ANY OF THE MEAT THAT'S SOLD
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IN THE MARKETS OF GALATIA
BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THE PAGAN
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BUTCHERS OFFER IT TO
IDOLS BEFORE THEY SACRIFICE IT.
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SO YOU'RE SUPPORTING IDOLATRY
IF YOU BUY ANY OF YOUR LAMB,
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CHICKEN, OR GOAT IN THE
LOCAL MARKET - YOU BECOME AN
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IDOLATER.' WELL, THEY
HADN'T EVEN THOUGHT ABOUT THAT.
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AND, UP UNTIL THEN,
THEY WERE GOING, 'WHAT?'
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AND SO THEY WERE
PUTTING ALL THESE LAWS ON THEM.
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NOW, LET ME JUST GET YOU TO
BRING THIS UP INTO MODERN TERMS.
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AS A CHRISTIAN, IS IT
OKAY TO DRINK ORANGE JUICE?
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>>YES. >>OKAY.
HOW MANY OF YOU BUY
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ORANGE JUICE AT
THE SUPERMARKET? OKAY.
00:14:52.85\00:14:57.43
DO LIQUOR STORES
SELL ORANGE JUICE?
00:14:57.46\00:14:59.63
>>YES. >>HOW DO YOU KNOW?
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(LAUGHTER) YES,
THEY DO. I KNOW THAT.
00:15:01.60\00:15:09.07
IF YOU WANT TO MAKE A
SCREWDRIVER, IT REQUIRES ORANGE
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JUICE AND VODKA. DON'T
ASK ME HOW I KNOW THAT,
00:15:11.37\00:15:15.38
BUT IT GOES WAY
BACK, I PROMISE YOU.
00:15:15.41\00:15:18.71
DO YOU BUY YOUR ORANGE
JUICE AT THE LIQUOR STORE?
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DO ANY OF YOU FEEL A LITTLE BIT
- IF, FOR SOME REASON, YOU HAVE
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TO GO - YOU KNOW,
THERE ARE A FEW THINGS AT THE
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LIQUOR STORE - THEY SELL SOME
CONVENIENCE THINGS - LET'S ALL
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ADMIT IT, SOMETIMES YOU
RUSH IN THERE AND YOU MIGHT GRAB
00:15:29.86\00:15:31.83
SOMETHING. BUT DO YOU EVER FEEL
00:15:31.86\00:15:33.56
GOOD DOING THAT? YOU
KNOW, YOU GO IN - LIKE BARS
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ON THE WINDOWS, YOU KNOW, AND
THERE'S CAMERAS EVERYWHERE - IT
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NEVER SMELLS GOOD OUT
FRONT, AND YOU DON'T WANT TO GO.
00:15:40.34\00:15:42.94
BUT YOU BUY YOUR ORANGE
JUICE AT THE SUPERMARKET.
00:15:42.97\00:15:46.34
DO YOU KNOW, THE
SUPERMARKET SELLS LIQUOR TOO.
00:15:46.37\00:15:50.15
SO ARE YOU SUPPORTING
ALCOHOLISM WHEN YOU BUY?
00:15:50.18\00:15:54.38
BUT YOU'RE SUPPORTING A BUSINESS
THAT IS NOT ONLY SELLING
00:15:54.42\00:15:58.99
ALCOHOL, IT'S SELLING TOBACCO.
SO, IF YOU BUY YOUR GROCERIES AT
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THE LOCAL SUPERMARKET, YOU ARE
SUPPORTING ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO.
00:16:04.39\00:16:12.63
NOW, THERE ARE PEOPLE WHOSE
CONSCIENCES ARE SO AUSTERE, THEY
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THINK THAT WAY. AND I
DON'T KNOW WHERE THEY'RE
00:16:19.21\00:16:21.94
BUYING ANYTHING, BUT
THEY STRUGGLE LIKE THAT.
00:16:21.98\00:16:24.58
THEIR CONSCIENCE
IS VERY SENSITIVE.
00:16:24.61\00:16:26.88
YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING? SO
YOU CAN MAKE THOSE ARGUMENTS.
00:16:26.92\00:16:30.49
HOW MANY OF YOU WOULD, IF
YOU INVEST IN STOCKS, WOULD YOU
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INVEST IN A TOBACCO STOCK?
HOW MANY OF YOU WOULD DO THAT?
00:16:33.62\00:16:37.99
GLAD TO HEAR IT.
I WOULDN'T EITHER.
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DON'T DO IT. THAT'S NOT
GOOD. HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE
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YOUR MONEY IN THE
BANK? HOW DO YOU THINK A
00:16:44.47\00:16:48.50
BANK MAKES MONEY?
THEY INVEST IN STOCKS.
00:16:48.54\00:16:54.11
DO YOU KNOW YOUR BANK PROBABLY
IS INVESTED, IN PART, IN SOME
00:16:54.14\00:16:57.45
STOCKS THAT WOULD
BE CALLED 'SIN STOCKS'.
00:16:57.48\00:17:00.85
THERE ARE STOCKS THAT
HAVE THINGS TO DO WITH THE
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ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY OR THEY
HAVE TO DO WITH TOBACCO BUT, AT
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SOME POINT, YOU'VE GOT TO HAVE
FREEDOM IN CHRIST WHERE YOUR
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CONSCIENCE IS NOT CONSTANTLY
WORRIED ABOUT - I LIKE THAI
00:17:09.66\00:17:15.66
FOOD. I LIKE CHINESE FOOD.
HAVE YOU EVER GONE INTO ONE
00:17:15.70\00:17:19.83
OF THOSE RESTAURANTS WHERE
SOMEWHERE NEAR THE CASH REGISTER
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THEY'VE GOT A LITTLE
BUDDHA WITH INCENSE BURNING?
00:17:22.40\00:17:26.57
ARE YOU SUPPORTING THE WORSHIP
OF PAGAN GODS IF YOU GET YOUR -
00:17:26.61\00:17:30.68
YOUR LO MEIN, OR WHATEVER
IT IS, THAT YOU GET THERE?
00:17:30.71\00:17:36.79
NOW, SUPPOSE YOU'RE WITH A
BROTHER OR SISTER AND YOU SAY,
00:17:36.82\00:17:41.12
'LET'S GO OUT TO EAT.' THEY SAY,
'GREAT.' YOU SAY, 'I KNOW THIS
00:17:41.16\00:17:44.39
GREAT RESTAURANT.'
'GREAT.' YOU WALK IN THE LOBBY
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AND THERE'S THE CHINESE FOOD AND
THEY'VE GOT A PICTURE OF BUDDHA
00:17:46.70\00:17:49.56
ON THE WALL AND THEY SAY, 'OH,
BROTHER DOUG, WE CAN'T EAT HERE.
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THEY WORSHIP
IDOLS.' WHAT DO YOU DO?
00:17:53.37\00:17:58.41
IF IT OFFENDS YOUR WEAK
BROTHER'S CONSCIENCE, YOU SAY,
00:17:58.44\00:18:01.24
'OH, LET'S GO TO SUBWAY.'
(LAUGHTER) 'LET'S GO SOMEWHERE
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ELSE.' RIGHT? WHERE
YOU'RE PROBABLY NOT GOING
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TO SEE ANY IDOLS ON
THE WALL. WOULDN'T THAT BE
00:18:08.68\00:18:12.52
THE THING TO DO? NOW,
WHEN THEY'RE NOT AROUND,
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YOU'RE GOING RIGHT
BACK TO THAT RESTAURANT.
00:18:15.09\00:18:18.09
YOU SEE WHAT I'M - THESE
PROBLEMS WERE HAPPENING BACK
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THEN IN PAUL'S DAY, WHERE HIGHLY
SENSITIVE - THAT'S WHY PAUL SAYS
00:18:20.96\00:18:26.13
IN ROMANS, 'LOOK, FOR HE
WHOSE FAITH IS WEAK, JUST EAT
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VEGETABLES.' IT HAD NOTHING TO
DO WITH VEGETARIANISM, IT HAD TO
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DO WITH EATING
THINGS OFFERED TO IDOLS.
00:18:32.87\00:18:35.58
AND SOME OF THE VERY SENSITIVE
JEWISH BELIEVERS, THEY SAID,
00:18:35.61\00:18:38.05
'OH, DANIEL WOULDN'T EAT
ANYTHING THAT WAS DEFILED BY
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BABYLON AND' - THEY'D MISAPPLY
THAT VERSE - AND THEY SAID, 'WE
00:18:39.98\00:18:42.75
CAN'T EITHER.' DANIEL DIDN'T
BECAUSE IT WAS UNCLEAN FOOD.
00:18:42.78\00:18:47.52
AND SO, THESE WERE SOME OF
THE PROBLEMS THEY WERE HAVING IN
00:18:47.56\00:18:50.59
GALATIA - THEY WERE LOSING THEIR
FREEDOM BECAUSE THESE LEGALISTIC
00:18:50.63\00:18:56.77
JEWISH BELIEVERS -
NOW, THERE WERE SOME JEWISH
00:18:56.80\00:18:58.33
BELIEVERS THAT HAD THE VICTORY,
JUST LIKE PAUL DID - THEY WERE
00:18:58.37\00:19:01.97
FREE IN CHRIST, BUT THE ONES WHO
WERE STILL SAYING, 'WE NEED TO
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ADHERE TO THESE CEREMONIAL LAWS,
THEY WERE BRINGING THAT INTO THE
00:19:06.44\00:19:10.11
CHURCHES OF GALATIA AND
THEY TOTALLY STOPPED GROWING.
00:19:10.15\00:19:14.45
THEY STARTED JUST FALLING - YOU
KNOW SOMETHING, I FOUND, THERE
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ARE DIFFERENT HERESY
GROUPS IN EVERY CHURCH.
00:19:20.29\00:19:26.86
THERE ARE GROUPS - I REMEMBER,
THERE WAS A GROUP, THEY WERE
00:19:26.90\00:19:30.03
CALLED ELEVENTH-HOUR ADVENTISTS
- I DON'T EVEN KNOW IF THEY
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EXIST ANYMORE - HAVEN'T HEARD
FROM THEM LATELY - AND THEY WENT
00:19:33.34\00:19:36.67
AROUND AND THEY WERE URGING
PEOPLE TO KEEP THE FEASTS AND
00:19:36.71\00:19:40.34
THE MEN HAD TO GROW BEARDS.
I'M ASHAMED TO SAY I DID A STUDY
00:19:40.38\00:19:44.45
ON BEARDS JUST TO DEAL WITH
IT. THEN THERE'S OTHER GROUPS,
00:19:44.48\00:19:49.52
THEY'RE MIXED UP ON THE TRINITY.
THEN YOU'VE GOT GROUPS CALLED
00:19:49.55\00:19:53.05
SHEPHERD'S ROD
AND - WHERE WAS I?
00:19:53.09\00:19:57.46
I WAS JUST PREACHING
SOMEWHERE AND THEY CAME.
00:19:57.49\00:19:59.09
THEY STOOD OUTSIDE WHERE I
WAS PREACHING, THEY HANDED OUT
00:19:59.13\00:20:01.16
LITERATURE.
SOMETHING YOU'LL NOTICE ABOUT
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THESE GROUPS, THEY NEVER WIN
SOULS OFF THE STREET TO CHRIST.
00:20:03.16\00:20:08.04
THEY INFILTRATE EXISTING
CHURCHES AND TRY TO DRAW OVER
00:20:08.07\00:20:12.27
EXISTING BELIEVERS.
YOU WILL NEVER SEE THEM OUT
00:20:12.31\00:20:15.04
THERE TRYING TO WIN JUST
SOME PAGAN LOST PERSON TO JESUS
00:20:15.08\00:20:18.35
BECAUSE THOSE PEOPLE OUT THERE -
YOU'RE NEVER GOING TO GET THOSE
00:20:18.38\00:20:20.82
PEOPLE OUT THERE TO BELIEVE
SOME OF THESE KOOKY THINGS.
00:20:20.85\00:20:25.05
BUT THE DEVIL SENDS THEM IN TO
GET THE CHURCHES SO PREOCCUPIED
00:20:25.09\00:20:30.33
WITH THESE LITTLE THINGS THAT
THEY STOP SHARING CHRIST WITH
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OTHERS. THEY LOSE THEIR FREEDOM.
00:20:34.00\00:20:36.36
AND I DON'T KNOW TOO MANY
CHURCHES THAT ARE IMMUNE TO THIS
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KIND OF DISTRACTION.
WELL, THAT'S WHAT WAS HAPPENING.
00:20:40.00\00:20:42.84
PAUL SAID, 'LOOK,
YOU'RE LOSING YOUR FREEDOM.
00:20:42.87\00:20:46.04
SO, WITH THAT LONG INTRODUCTION,
LET'S GET BACK TO OUR STUDY NOW.
00:20:46.07\00:20:50.95
FIRST SECTION: CHRIST HAS SET
US FREE - SET US FREE FROM WHAT?
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WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE FREE?
SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ FOR
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ME, IN A MOMENT, JOHN 8:36. WHO
HAS THAT? YOU WILL? OKAY, JUST
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HOLD ONE MOMENT AND I'M GOING
TO READ A COUPLE OF VERSES.
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FIRST, LUKE 4:18, WHEN CHRIST
STOOD UP AND STARTED PREACHING,
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WHAT WAS THE
FIRST THING HE SAID?
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THIS IS IN HIS HOMETOWN OF
NAZARETH, "THE SPIRIT OF THE
00:21:11.57\00:21:14.47
LORD IS UPON ME, BECAUSE HE HAS
ANOINTED ME TO PREACH THE GOSPEL
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TO THE POOR; HE HAS SENT ME
TO HEAL THE BROKENHEARTED, TO
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PROCLAIM LIBERTY TO THE CAPTIVES
AND RECOVERY OF SIGHT TO THE
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BLIND, TO SET AT LIBERTY
THOSE WHO ARE OPPRESSED..."
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SO ONE OF THE THINGS JESUS CAME
TO DO IS TO SET PEOPLE FREE.
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THE WHOLE BIBLE IS THE STORY
OF A NATION WHO IS SAVED FROM
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SLAVERY AND
BROUGHT TO THEIR OWN LAND.
00:21:40.63\00:21:43.70
THEY'RE SAVED FROM SLAVERY
TO PHARAOH SO THEY CAN SERVE THE
00:21:43.73\00:21:48.57
LORD. NOW, DID
GOD SAVE THE CHILDREN
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OF ISRAEL FROM SLAVERY? >>YES.
00:21:50.61\00:21:52.81
>>DID HE SET THEM FREE FROM
SLAVERY SO THEY WOULDN'T HAVE TO
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SERVE ANYBODY? NO.
YOU REMEMBER WHAT MOSES
00:21:56.21\00:22:00.78
SAID TO THE PHARAOH?
'LET THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL GO
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THAT THEY MAY SERVE ME.'
SO EVERYBODY'S GOING TO SERVE
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SOMEBODY, BUT HE - AND,
YOU KNOW, WHEN THE CHILDREN OF
00:22:08.12\00:22:11.73
ISRAEL STOPPED SERVING GOD AND
THEY STARTED SERVING PAGAN GODS,
00:22:11.76\00:22:15.73
THE LORD SAID, 'LOOK, I'M GOING
TO WITHDRAW MY PROTECTION FROM
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YOU AND YOU'LL FIND
OUT WHAT HARD LABOR IS.
00:22:17.97\00:22:20.34
I'M GOING TO LET THESE OTHER
NATIONS CONQUER YOU AND YOU'LL
00:22:20.37\00:22:22.60
SERVE THEM, AND YOU'LL SAY, 'OH,
I WISH WE COULD SERVE THE LORD
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AGAIN. IT WAS MUCH BETTER.'
SO WHENEVER THEY WERE OVERCOME
00:22:24.84\00:22:28.24
BY THE PHILISTINES OR BY THE
BABYLONIANS OR BY THE ASSYRIANS
00:22:28.28\00:22:31.75
OR BY THE MOABITES OR WHOEVER IT
WAS, GOD WAS BASICALLY SAYING,
00:22:31.78\00:22:35.55
'SO YOU THINK
IT'S HARD SERVING ME?'
00:22:35.58\00:22:37.85
I'LL LET YOU
SERVE THEM FOR AWHILE.
00:22:37.89\00:22:39.62
LET ME KNOW HOW THAT GOES.
BUT YOU EITHER SERVE THE LORD -
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DIDN'T JESUS
SAY, 'COME AFTER ME.
00:22:43.86\00:22:45.76
TAKE UP MY CROSS.
I'M MEEK AND LOWLY.
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YOU'LL FIND MY
YOKE' - WHAT IS A YOKE?
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IT'S AN INSTRUMENT OF SERVICE.
SO WHEN YOU FOLLOW CHRIST, YOU
00:22:53.50\00:22:57.84
ARE YOKED TO JESUS -
YOU SERVE WITH JESUS.
00:22:57.87\00:23:01.58
BUT HE SAYS, 'MY YOKE
IS' - WHAT? IT'S EASY.
00:23:01.61\00:23:05.35
'MY BURDEN IS LIGHT.' HOW MUCH
EASIER WAS IT FOR THE CHILDREN
00:23:05.38\00:23:08.98
OF ISRAEL TO BE GOING THROUGH
THE LAND OF THE WILDERNESS
00:23:09.02\00:23:13.89
THERE, ON THEIR WAY TO THE
PROMISED LAND, WITH A GOD THAT
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LOVES THEM? HE FEEDS
THEM BREAD FROM HEAVEN.
00:23:17.06\00:23:19.19
THEY'RE NOT TROMPING DOWN UNDER
THE HOT SUN, MAKING BRICKS FOR
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THE EGYPTIANS ANYMORE.
REMEMBER IT KEPT SAYING,
00:23:22.33\00:23:24.87
'THE HARD LABOR'?
THE PHARAOH MADE THEM
00:23:24.90\00:23:27.70
SERVE WITH RIGOR. HE
SAID, 'I'M GOING TO INCREASE
00:23:27.74\00:23:29.80
YOUR WORK - YOU'VE GOT TO MAKE
BRICKS WITHOUT STRAW, NOW' AND
00:23:29.84\00:23:32.17
THEY TRIED TO GRIND THEM
DOWN SO THEY WOULDN'T GROW.
00:23:32.21\00:23:35.91
YOU REMEMBER? HE SAID
THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL,
00:23:35.94\00:23:37.11
THEY'RE MULTIPLYING, IF THEY
JOIN OUR ENEMIES WE'RE DONE FOR.
00:23:37.15\00:23:41.15
SO THEY TRIED TO KILL THEM
OFF BY WORKING THEM TO DEATH.
00:23:41.18\00:23:43.89
BUT THE MORE THEY OPPRESSED
THEM, THE MORE THEY GREW.
00:23:43.92\00:23:46.86
WHICH, BY THE WAY, IS
STILL TRUE WITH CHRISTIANITY.
00:23:46.89\00:23:49.46
IT SEEMS LIKE, IN TIMES OF GREAT
PERSECUTION, THE CHURCH THRIVES.
00:23:49.49\00:23:54.56
HAVE YOU EVER
NOTICED THAT IN HISTORY?
00:23:54.56\00:23:56.77
SO THE WHOLE BIBLE STORY IS ONE
OF SAVING A NATION FROM SLAVERY
00:23:56.80\00:24:02.27
TO THE ENEMY, THAT
THEY CAN SERVE GOD WITH JOY.
00:24:02.30\00:24:06.88
JOHN 8:32, "AND YOU SHALL KNOW
THE TRUTH, AND THE TRUTH SHALL
00:24:06.91\00:24:11.51
MAKE YOU FREE." GO
AHEAD, READ FOR US, THEN,
00:24:11.55\00:24:14.78
THE NEXT VERSE, JOHN 8:36.
>>"THEREFORE IF THE SON MAKES
00:24:14.82\00:24:19.59
YOU FREE, YOU
SHALL BE FREE INDEED."
00:24:19.62\00:24:23.32
>>NOW, WHEN THE RELIGIOUS
LEADERS JESUS WAS SPEAKING TO
00:24:23.36\00:24:25.53
HEARD HIM SAY THAT, THAT REALLY
BOTHERED THEM AND THEY SAID,
00:24:25.56\00:24:28.70
'WE'RE ABRAHAM'S CHILDREN.
WE'VE NEVER BEEN SLAVES TO
00:24:28.73\00:24:30.77
ANYBODY.' JESUS TOLD THEM, 'FOR
ONE THING,' - HE SAID - 'YOU'RE
00:24:30.80\00:24:33.64
NOT CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM BECAUSE
YOU'RE TRYING TO KILL ME.
00:24:33.67\00:24:36.17
YOU'RE CHILDREN OF YOUR FATHER
THE DEVIL.' BUT HE WENT ON TO
00:24:36.20\00:24:39.54
SAY, 'WHOEVER SINS IS A SLAVE OF
SIN.' SO THE LORD WANTS TO SET
00:24:39.57\00:24:45.45
US FREE FROM THE
BONDAGE AND THE SLAVERY OF SIN.
00:24:45.48\00:24:49.08
LOOK, FOR INSTANCE, AT ROMANS
CHAPTER 6, VERSE 6, "KNOWING
00:24:49.12\00:24:53.02
THIS, THAT OUR OLD MAN WAS
CRUCIFIED WITH HIM, THAT THE
00:24:53.05\00:24:56.99
BODY OF SIN MIGHT BE DONE AWAY
WITH, THAT WE SHOULD NO LONGER
00:24:57.03\00:25:00.40
BE SLAVES OF SIN." YOU KNOW,
ONE WAY A SLAVE IS SET FREE?
00:25:00.43\00:25:06.40
THROUGH DEATH.
WHEN WE ARE DEAD, WE
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ARE FREE FROM SIN. HOW
DO WE FIND FREEDOM FROM SIN?
00:25:12.74\00:25:18.28
I AM - IT'S NOT I THAT LIVE
BUT CHRIST LIVES IN ME.' 'I AM
00:25:18.31\00:25:22.82
CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST.' JESUS
SAID, 'COME TAKE UP YOUR CROSS
00:25:22.85\00:25:26.59
AND FOLLOW ME.' WHEN WE ARE
CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST WE DIE
00:25:26.62\00:25:30.23
WITH CHRIST. WE NO LONGER
HAVE TO LIVE LIVES OF SIN.
00:25:30.26\00:25:34.93
DO YOU NOTICE THAT - HAVE YOU
EVER BEEN TO A FUNERAL AND, YOU
00:25:34.96\00:25:38.37
KNOW, THE COFFIN IS THERE IN THE
FRONT AND PEOPLE GET UP AND THEN
00:25:38.40\00:25:40.87
THEY SAY ALL THESE
THINGS ABOUT THE DECEASED?
00:25:40.90\00:25:43.27
AND I'VE SEEN SOME
INTERESTING TESTIMONY SERVICES.
00:25:43.30\00:25:46.84
I'M ALWAYS A LITTLE NERVOUS AT
FUNERALS WHEN YOU OPEN THE FLOOR
00:25:46.88\00:25:49.58
AND SAY, 'WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO
SAY ANYTHING ABOUT OUR BELOVED
00:25:49.61\00:25:51.98
BROTHER OR SISTER?'
BECAUSE YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT
00:25:52.01\00:25:55.45
PEOPLE ARE GOING TO
SAY. MOST OF THESE FOLKS ARE
00:25:55.48\00:25:57.15
NOT TRAINED SPEAKERS.
AND I REMEMBER, I WAS AT THIS
00:25:57.19\00:26:03.26
ONE CHRISTIAN -
OSTENSIBLY CHRISTIAN - FUNERAL.
00:26:03.29\00:26:06.03
EVERYBODY THOUGHT THIS GENTLEMAN
THAT WAS IN THE COFFIN WAS JUST
00:26:06.06\00:26:08.50
A WONDERFUL PERSON. AND
THEN THEY OPENED THE FLOOR
00:26:08.53\00:26:12.33
AND ONE BUDDY GOT UP AND SAID,
'BOY, YOU KNOW, WE USED TO HAVE
00:26:12.37\00:26:16.60
SO MUCH FUN WHEN WE WENT OUT
FISHIN' AND DRINKIN'.' AND 'BOY,
00:26:16.64\00:26:20.41
COULD HE TELL SOME JOKES.'
AND HE STARTED TALKING ABOUT HIS
00:26:20.44\00:26:24.05
JOKES AND WE'RE GOING, 'OH -
CAN YOU HURRY THIS UP, PLEASE?'
00:26:24.08\00:26:29.72
EVERYBODY WAS A LITTLE BIT
MORTIFIED. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT?
00:26:29.75\00:26:32.79
THE GUY IN THE
COFFIN DIDN'T COMPLAIN.
00:26:32.82\00:26:34.26
(LAUGHTER) IT DIDN'T EMBARRASS
HIM AT ALL BECAUSE HE WAS DEAD.
00:26:34.29\00:26:40.36
NO MATTER WHAT YOU SAY ABOUT
THE PERSON WHO'S DEAD, THEY'RE
00:26:40.40\00:26:42.56
NEVER OFFENDED
BECAUSE THEY'RE DEAD.
00:26:42.60\00:26:44.87
YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE EASILY
OFFENDED BECAUSE OF WHAT PEOPLE
00:26:44.90\00:26:47.10
SAY, YOU'RE PROBABLY
NOT CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST.
00:26:47.14\00:26:50.94
BUT WHEN YOU'RE CRUCIFIED WITH
CHRIST AND YOU'RE MEEK, YOU JUST
00:26:50.97\00:26:56.04
SAY, 'OH WELL, YOU
KNOW, THAT PERSON'S DEAD.
00:26:56.08\00:26:58.08
YOU CAN THROW ROCKS ALL YOU
WANT.' IT'S VERY LIBERATING WHEN
00:26:58.11\00:27:02.95
YOU'RE DEAD - WHEN YOU DON'T
LIVE UNTO THE FLESH BECAUSE
00:27:02.98\00:27:05.22
YOU'RE CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST.
THAT'S WHERE YOU FIND THAT
00:27:05.25\00:27:07.79
FREEDOM. 1
CORINTHIANS 6:20, "FOR YOU
00:27:07.82\00:27:12.36
WERE BOUGHT AT A PRICE;" -
THIS IS ANOTHER WAY WE'RE FREED.
00:27:12.39\00:27:16.10
NOT ONLY ARE WE FREED BECAUSE
WE'RE CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST,
00:27:16.13\00:27:18.30
WE'VE BEEN REDEEMED. I
WAS WRITING AN APPEAL LETTER
00:27:18.33\00:27:21.77
THIS WEEK AND I DID - THE
LETTER'S ABOUT REDEMPTION -
00:27:21.80\00:27:24.51
AND I DID A LITTLE SEARCH -
I WONDERED WHAT THE HIGHEST -
00:27:24.54\00:27:28.14
HIGHEST RANSOM EVER
PAID FOR SOMEBODY KIDNAPPED.
00:27:28.18\00:27:32.35
ANYONE WANT TO VENTURE A
GUESS? YOU REMEMBER WHEN PATTY
00:27:32.38\00:27:36.89
HEARST WAS KIDNAPPED? I
THINK HE PAID - RANDOLPH
00:27:36.92\00:27:39.32
HEARST PAID LIKE
TWO MILLION DOLLARS.
00:27:39.35\00:27:43.36
AND THEN THE GETTY - GETTY
SON WAS KIDNAPPED IN ITALY AND,
00:27:43.39\00:27:50.20
AGAIN, HE PAID
SEVERAL MILLION DOLLARS.
00:27:50.23\00:27:53.40
WELL, A FEW YEARS AGO THE SON
OF A HONG KONG BILLIONAIRE WAS
00:27:53.44\00:27:57.57
KIDNAPPED AND THEY
PAID 135 MILLION DOLLARS.
00:27:57.61\00:28:03.14
I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU
GET ALL THAT IN CASH.
00:28:03.18\00:28:06.35
MAYBE THEY TOOK CREDIT CARDS.
I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU DO THAT,
00:28:06.38\00:28:10.49
BUT A HUNDRED - THAT'S THE
HIGHEST RANSOM THAT WAS EVER
00:28:10.52\00:28:12.75
PAID 135 [MILLION]
DOLLARS. THE QUESTION IS, WAS
00:28:12.79\00:28:17.33
THE SON WORTH IT?
HE WAS TO THE FATHER.
00:28:17.36\00:28:22.36
HOW MUCH WAS
PAID FOR YOUR RANSOM?
00:28:22.40\00:28:25.60
MORE THAN 135
BILLION - OR MILLION, RATHER?
00:28:25.63\00:28:28.40
IT WAS 135 MILLION
DOLLARS - HE WAS A BILLIONAIRE.
00:28:28.44\00:28:33.34
ARE YOU WORTH IT?
WE ARE TO THE FATHER.
00:28:33.38\00:28:38.38
THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU'RE WORTH.
00:28:38.41\00:28:40.68
AND HE DID THAT - NOW, DOES A
FATHER PAY THAT RANSOM TO LOCK
00:28:40.72\00:28:45.12
THE SON IN A ROOM SOMEWHERE ELSE
SO HE WOULDN'T BE KIDNAPPED?
00:28:45.15\00:28:48.36
OR DOES HE PAY THE
RANSOM TO SET HIM FREE?
00:28:48.39\00:28:51.79
WHY DOES GOD PAY THIS
RANSOM? TO SET US FREE.
00:28:51.83\00:28:57.67
NOW, I KNOW IT MIGHT SEEM LIKE
A CONTRADICTION, BUT THE TRUE
00:28:57.70\00:29:01.84
FREEDOM ONLY COMES TO
THOSE WHO ARE CHRIST'S SLAVES.
00:29:01.87\00:29:07.68
TRUE FREEDOM IN LIFE WILL ONLY
COME TO THOSE WHO ARE SLAVES TO
00:29:07.71\00:29:12.88
JESUS. HOW DOES PAUL
BEGIN ALL OF HIS LETTERS?
00:29:12.91\00:29:16.89
PAUL, SERVANT OF JESUS
CHRIST. IF YOU LOOK AT THAT WORD
00:29:16.92\00:29:21.42
'SERVANT' THERE, IT IS THE SAME
WORD THAT IS USED FOR 'SLAVE'.
00:29:21.46\00:29:25.23
BUT MOST OF THE ENGLISH
COMMENTATORS, UNDERSTANDING THAT
00:29:25.26\00:29:28.30
THAT'S A VERY VOLATILE WORD,
THEY USED THE WORD 'SERVANT'.
00:29:28.33\00:29:31.93
BUT IT'S NOT - PAUL IS
NOT THE EMPLOYEE OF JESUS.
00:29:31.97\00:29:36.91
THE WAY HE PUTS IT DOWN, HE
SAYS, 'PAUL THE SLAVE OF JESUS'.
00:29:36.94\00:29:41.08
WAS HE A WILLING SLAVE? >>YES.
00:29:41.11\00:29:44.58
>>HE LOVED HIS
MASTER. IT'S BY CHOICE.
00:29:44.61\00:29:48.48
GALATIANS 5:1, LET'S START
PLOWING OUR WAY, NOW, THROUGH
00:29:48.52\00:29:51.99
THESE VERSES THAT WE'VE BEEN
GIVEN. "STAND FAST THEREFORE IN
00:29:52.02\00:29:56.32
THE LIBERTY BY WHICH CHRIST
HAS MADE US FREE, AND DO NOT BE
00:29:56.36\00:30:01.00
ENTANGLED AGAIN WITH A YOKE
OF BONDAGE." NOW, WHEN HE SAYS
00:30:01.03\00:30:05.23
'STAND FAST', PAUL, IN VERSE
1 - CHAPTER 5, VERSE 1 - HE IS
00:30:05.27\00:30:10.47
REFERRING BACK TO WHAT WE
READ LAST WEEK. YOU REALIZE THAT
00:30:10.51\00:30:14.08
THERE'S NO VERSES - THERE'S
NOT CHAPTERS IN THE ORIGINAL.
00:30:14.11\00:30:17.28
IF YOU LOOK IN CHAPTER 4, VERSE
- LET'S READ VERSES 30 AND 31,
00:30:17.31\00:30:23.95
"NEVERTHELESS WHAT
DOES THE SCRIPTURE SAY?
00:30:23.99\00:30:25.95
'CAST OUT THE BONDWOMAN
AND HER SON, FOR THE SON OF THE
00:30:25.99\00:30:28.86
BONDWOMAN SHALL NOT BE HEIR WITH
THE SON OF THE FREEWOMAN.'" -
00:30:28.89\00:30:31.96
TALKING, AGAIN, ABOUT ISAAC AND
ISHMAEL - "SO THEN, BRETHREN, WE
00:30:31.99\00:30:34.96
ARE NOT CHILDREN OF THE
BONDWOMAN BUT OF THE FREE."
00:30:35.00\00:30:38.27
- NOW YOU TRANSITION INTO
CHAPTER 5, "STAND FAST THEREFORE
00:30:38.30\00:30:41.74
IN THE LIBERTY" - IN THAT
FREEDOM - "BY WHICH CHRIST HAS
00:30:41.77\00:30:44.94
MADE US FREE," - SEE, HE'S
REFERENCING BACK TO THAT FORMER
00:30:44.97\00:30:48.21
VERSE, SO WE ARE NO LONGER
CHILDREN OF THE BONDWOMAN.
00:30:48.24\00:30:54.12
WE'RE NO LONGER
UNDER THE OLD TASKMASTER.
00:30:54.15\00:30:58.19
AND READING ON IN VERSE 3, "AND
I TESTIFY AGAIN TO EVERY MAN WHO
00:30:58.22\00:31:02.82
BECOMES CIRCUMCISED THAT HE IS
A DEBTOR TO KEEP THE WHOLE LAW."
00:31:02.86\00:31:06.96
NOW WAIT, WHAT IT PAUL SAYING?
DOES THAT MEAN THAT YOU HAVE
00:31:07.00\00:31:11.70
FALLEN FROM GRACE IF YOU
WERE BORN AND, BECAUSE OF THE
00:31:11.73\00:31:15.14
HOSPITAL YOU WERE BORN IN,
AND YOUR PARENTS PREFERENCE,
00:31:15.17\00:31:18.31
SPEAKING TO THE MALES AMONG US,
IF YOU WERE CIRCUMCISED, DOES
00:31:18.34\00:31:22.84
THAT MEAN YOU CANNOT BE SAVED?
IS PAUL SPEAKING AGAINST THE
00:31:22.88\00:31:26.05
ACT OF CIRCUMCISION OR IS HE
SPEAKING AGAINST CIRCUMCISION
00:31:26.08\00:31:29.52
AS A MEANS OF SALVATION?
HE'S SPEAKING AGAINST IT AS A
00:31:29.55\00:31:33.79
MEANS OF SALVATION BECAUSE PAUL,
OF COURSE, WAS CIRCUMCISED.
00:31:33.82\00:31:37.46
AND PAUL, LATER, CIRCUMCISED
TIMOTHY SO IT WOULD NOT BE A
00:31:37.49\00:31:41.26
STUMBLING BLOCK FOR THE
OTHERS HE WAS PREACHING TO.
00:31:41.30\00:31:43.67
SO PAUL WAS NOT SAYING THERE WAS
ANYTHING INHERENTLY WRONG WITH
00:31:43.70\00:31:46.43
CIRCUMCISION, HE'S SAYING,
'IF YOU PEOPLE IN GALATIA ARE
00:31:46.47\00:31:49.27
THINKING, 'OH, I BETTER GET
CIRCUMCISED SO I CAN BE FORGIVEN
00:31:49.30\00:31:51.71
BY JESUS' YOU HAVE
FALLEN FROM GRACE'.
00:31:51.74\00:31:54.68
AND THAT'S A
PRETTY STRONG STATEMENT.
00:31:54.71\00:31:57.41
'FALLEN FROM GRACE' IS
NOT LIKE A THEOLOGICAL HICCUP.
00:31:57.45\00:32:01.52
FALLEN FROM GRACE - IT SAYS,
"YOU WHO ATTEMPT TO BE JUSTIFIED
00:32:01.55\00:32:05.72
BY LAW; YOU HAVE
FALLEN FROM GRACE."
00:32:05.75\00:32:09.32
CAN A PERSON BE IN HEAVEN
WHO HAS FALLEN FROM GRACE?
00:32:09.36\00:32:12.83
>>YES. >>HOW ARE WE SAVED?
00:32:12.86\00:32:15.06
WE ARE SAVED BY - >>GRACE.
00:32:15.10\00:32:16.90
>>GRACE THROUGH
FAITH. SO, IF YOU'VE FALLEN
00:32:16.93\00:32:19.20
FROM GRACE, YOU'RE LOST.
SO, DO YOU UNDERSTAND HOW STRONG
00:32:19.23\00:32:22.97
THE WORDS ARE THAT PAUL
IS USING TO THE GALATIANS?
00:32:23.00\00:32:26.14
MATTER OF FACT, GALATIANS IS
PROBABLY THE STRONGEST LANGUAGE
00:32:26.17\00:32:29.31
PAUL EMPLOYS ANYWHERE
IN ANY OF HIS WRITINGS.
00:32:29.34\00:32:32.88
YOU JUST LOOK AT SOME OF THE
STATEMENTS THAT HE MAKES WHERE
00:32:32.91\00:32:36.48
HE SAID, 'LOOK,' 'LISTEN TO
MY WORDS,' 'I, PAUL, AM TELLING
00:32:36.52\00:32:41.79
YOU,' 'IF YOU'RE
HEARING ANY OTHER GOSPEL,'
00:32:41.82\00:32:45.79
'FALLEN FROM GRACE,' 'WHO
HAS BEWITCHED YOU?' I MEAN,
00:32:45.83\00:32:49.90
PAUL, YOU KNOW, HE - HE REALLY
GETS ON THE EDGE OF BEING AS
00:32:49.93\00:32:56.20
EMOTIONAL IN HIS
LETTER AS HE CAN BE.
00:32:56.24\00:32:59.04
HE SAYS SOME PRETTY STRONG
THINGS TO THE CORINTHIANS IN
00:32:59.07\00:33:01.41
1 CORINTHIANS, TOO, BUT
THIS IS PROBABLY THE STRONGEST.
00:33:01.44\00:33:05.91
PAUL WAS SAYING, IF A PERSON
IS CIRCUMCISED AS A MEANS OF
00:33:05.95\00:33:10.25
THINKING THEY'RE OBTAINING
SALVATION, THEY HAVE MISSED THE
00:33:10.29\00:33:12.75
WHOLE POINT OF CHRIST'S
COMING. PRETTY STRONG LANGUAGE.
00:33:12.79\00:33:18.63
HEBREWS 2, VERSES 14 AND 15,
"INASMUCH THEN AS THE CHILDREN
00:33:18.66\00:33:22.96
HAVE PARTAKEN OF FLESH
AND BLOOD, HE HIMSELF LIKEWISE
00:33:23.00\00:33:26.20
SHARED IN THE SAME," - SPEAKING
OF JESUS - "THAT THROUGH DEATH
00:33:26.23\00:33:30.14
HE MIGHT DESTROY HIM WHO HAD
THE POWER OF DEATH, THAT IS, THE
00:33:30.17\00:33:33.61
DEVIL, AND RELEASE" - SET FREE -
"THOSE WHO THROUGH FEAR OF DEATH
00:33:33.64\00:33:39.25
WERE ALL THEIR
LIFETIME SUBJECT TO BONDAGE."
00:33:39.28\00:33:42.48
WHAT IS ANOTHER WAY
THAT JESUS SETS US FREE?
00:33:42.52\00:33:45.45
WELL, HE SETS US
FREE THROUGH THE GOSPEL.
00:33:45.49\00:33:50.43
HE SETS US FREE FROM SIN.
HE SETS US FREE FROM FEAR.
00:33:50.46\00:33:58.07
MANY PEOPLE SPEND
THEIR LIVES IN FEAR.
00:33:58.10\00:34:00.54
THEY'RE ALWAYS
WORRIED ABOUT DYING.
00:34:00.57\00:34:02.40
THEY DON'T KNOW
WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS.
00:34:02.44\00:34:03.77
YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU'RE IN
CHRIST, AND YOU'RE IN A SAVED
00:34:03.81\00:34:06.17
RELATIONSHIP WITH
JESUS, CHRISTIANS DON'T DIE.
00:34:06.21\00:34:10.31
CHRISTIANS GO TO SLEEP.
YOU HAVE NOTHING - ARE YOU
00:34:10.35\00:34:13.52
AFRAID WHEN YOU
GO TO SLEEP AT NIGHT?
00:34:13.55\00:34:16.22
YOU PRAY THAT PRAYER, 'IF I DIE
BEFORE I WAKE' YOU'RE WORRIED?
00:34:16.25\00:34:20.56
YOU CAN SLEEP
PEACEFULLY AS A CHRISTIAN.
00:34:20.59\00:34:24.69
I WANT TO READ SOMETHING TO
YOU FROM THE BOOK ACTS OF THE
00:34:24.73\00:34:26.93
APOSTLES . "PAUL
HAD EVER EXALTED THE
00:34:26.96\00:34:30.30
DIVINE LAW" - WE'RE GOING
TO TALK ABOUT RIGHTEOUSNESS BY
00:34:30.33\00:34:32.27
FAITH, HERE - "PAUL HAD
EVER EXALTED THE DIVINE LAW.
00:34:32.30\00:34:38.17
HE HAD SHOWN THAT, IN THE LAW,
THERE IS NO POWER TO SAVE MEN
00:34:38.21\00:34:42.51
FROM THE
PENALTY OF DISOBEDIENCE.
00:34:42.54\00:34:44.35
WRONGDOERS MUST REPENT OF
THEIR SINS AND HUMBLE THEMSELVES
00:34:44.38\00:34:47.82
BEFORE GOD, WHOSE JUST WRATH
THEY HAVE INCURRED BY BREAKING
00:34:47.85\00:34:51.69
HIS LAW AND THEY MUST ALSO
EXERCISE FAITH IN THE BLOOD OF
00:34:51.72\00:34:54.99
CHRIST AS THE
ONLY MEANS OF PARDON."
00:34:55.02\00:34:58.69
THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT.
SHE SAYS IT IS ONLY THROUGH
00:34:58.73\00:35:01.20
FAITH IN CHRIST - THAT'S
THE ONLY MEANS OF PARDON - "THE
00:35:01.23\00:35:03.77
SON OF GOD HAS DIED AS THEIR
SACRIFICE AND HAS ASCENDED TO
00:35:03.80\00:35:07.00
HEAVEN TO STAND BEFORE
THE FATHER AS THE ADVOCATE.
00:35:07.04\00:35:09.87
BY REPENTANCE AND FAITH,
THEY MIGHT BE FREED FROM THE
00:35:09.90\00:35:13.44
CONDEMNATION OF SIN THROUGH
THE GRACE OF CHRIST, BEING ABLE,
00:35:13.48\00:35:17.11
HENCEFORTH, TO RENDER
OBEDIENCE TO THE LAW OF GOD.
00:35:17.15\00:35:20.98
NOW, THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT.
SOME PEOPLE THINK THAT WE GET
00:35:21.02\00:35:23.12
GRACE SO THAT WE DON'T HAVE
TO OBEY WHEN, IN REALITY, GOD
00:35:23.15\00:35:28.42
GIVES US GRACE TO OBEY.
HAVE YOU EVER HEARD PEOPLE SAY,
00:35:28.46\00:35:32.83
'WELL, WE'RE SAVED BY
GRACE. WE DON'T NEED TO OBEY'?
00:35:32.86\00:35:34.93
>>YES. >>THAT'S A CONTRADICTION.
00:35:34.96\00:35:38.10
PAUL IS NOT SAYING THAT.
HE'S TALKING, IN GALATIANS,
00:35:38.13\00:35:40.80
ABOUT ANYBODY WHO THINKS THEY'RE
JUSTIFIED BY KEEPING ANY LAW.
00:35:40.84\00:35:45.14
NOBODY'S JUSTIFIED
BY KEEPING ANY LAW.
00:35:45.17\00:35:47.34
BUT, BREAKING IT DOWN A LITTLE
FARTHER, THE SPECIFIC PROBLEM
00:35:47.38\00:35:50.08
THAT HE'S ADDRESSING
IS THE CEREMONIAL LAWS AND
00:35:50.11\00:35:52.35
CIRCUMCISION. SOME
PEOPLE HAVE TRIED TO USE
00:35:52.38\00:35:55.25
GALATIANS TO SAY WE DON'T
NEED TO KEEP THE SABBATH DAY.
00:35:55.28\00:35:58.25
HOW MANY TIMES DOES THE WORD
'SABBATH' APPEAR IN THE BOOK
00:35:58.29\00:36:00.46
GALATIANS? NOT AT ALL.
00:36:00.49\00:36:03.83
HOW MANY TIMES DOES THE WORD
'CIRCUMCISION' APPEAR IN THE
00:36:03.86\00:36:06.36
BOOK? ABOUT A DOZEN TIMES, I
00:36:06.39\00:36:08.56
FORGET, BUT IT'S QUITE A BIT.
AND SO THE BIG ISSUE - THERE'S
00:36:08.60\00:36:11.87
NO QUESTION ABOUT WHAT
THE BIG ISSUE WAS THERE.
00:36:11.90\00:36:14.50
IT'S TALKING ABOUT THE
CEREMONIAL LAWS OF MOSES.
00:36:14.54\00:36:16.64
IT'S NOT TALKING ABOUT THE TEN
COMMANDMENTS, SAYING WE'RE FREE
00:36:16.67\00:36:18.61
TO BREAK THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
ALRIGHT, NEXT SECTION.
00:36:18.64\00:36:23.11
SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ, FOR ME,
ROMANS 6:14, BUT I'M GOING TO
00:36:23.14\00:36:27.68
READ, FIRST, ROMANS 6:12.
THEREFORE, DO NOT LET SIN REIGN
00:36:27.72\00:36:33.89
IN YOUR MORTAL BODY THAT
YOU SHOULD OBEY IT IN ITS LUSTS.
00:36:33.92\00:36:37.76
ALRIGHT, THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT
AND I'M PRAYING THAT I CAN SAY
00:36:37.79\00:36:41.23
IT CAREFULLY SO THAT
THERE'S NO CONFUSION.
00:36:41.26\00:36:45.87
GOD IS CALLING
US TO BE LIKE JESUS.
00:36:45.90\00:36:49.64
JESUS IS PERFECT. I
THINK MOST OF US ARE HERE
00:36:49.67\00:36:53.24
BECAUSE WE'VE MADE A DECISION TO
FOLLOW JESUS, BUT HOW MANY HERE
00:36:53.27\00:36:56.88
BELIEVE THAT WE'RE PERFECT? SO,
SEEING NO HANDS, I'M ASSUMING
00:36:56.91\00:37:02.38
THAT YOU'RE IN
THE SAME BOAT I'M IN.
00:37:02.42\00:37:04.09
BUT DOES THAT MEAN
YOU'RE NOT A CHRISTIAN?
00:37:04.12\00:37:06.45
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
THOSE THAT ARE OUT THERE IN THE
00:37:06.49\00:37:11.09
WORLD AND THOSE THAT
ARE GENUINE CHRISTIANS?
00:37:11.13\00:37:14.20
A CHRISTIAN IS NOT A CHRISTIAN
BECAUSE OF THE OCCASIONAL GOOD
00:37:14.23\00:37:17.93
DEED OR THE OCCASIONAL MISDEED,
BUT IT'S THE HABITUAL WORDS AND
00:37:17.97\00:37:22.30
ACTS. BEFORE YOU ARE SAVED, SIN
00:37:22.34\00:37:25.71
HAS DOMINION OVER YOU.
SIN RULES IN YOUR LIFE.
00:37:25.74\00:37:30.88
WE ARE HOLDEN BY
THE CORDS OF OUR SIN.
00:37:30.91\00:37:34.02
AFTER YOU ARE SAVED, IT DOESN'T
MEAN YOU WILL NEVER SIN, IT
00:37:34.05\00:37:37.89
MEANS THAT SIN NO
LONGER HAS DOMINION OVER YOU.
00:37:37.92\00:37:40.79
YOUR LIFE IS NOT
GOVERNED BY THIS SLAVERY TO SIN.
00:37:40.82\00:37:44.09
YOU HAVE BEEN SET FREE.
WHEN A COUNTRY IS HELD IN
00:37:44.13\00:37:50.60
BONDAGE BY A DESPOT, AND HE'S
ON THE THRONE, AND THEN ANOTHER
00:37:50.63\00:37:56.07
COUNTRY COMES AND LIBERATES THEM
- WHEN AMERICA WENT INTO FRANCE
00:37:56.10\00:38:01.84
DURING WORLD WAR II AND THE
NAZIS HAD OCCUPIED THE COUNTRY
00:38:01.88\00:38:07.18
AND THERE WERE TERRIBLE THINGS
THAT WERE HAPPENING THERE, THE
00:38:07.22\00:38:11.29
ALLIES CAME IN, THEY LIBERATED
THE FRENCH, THE NAZIS NO LONGER
00:38:11.32\00:38:16.99
HAD DOMINION - THEY NO LONGER
HAD RULE - THEY WERE DRIVEN OUT.
00:38:17.03\00:38:20.83
AND THAT MEANS, FROM THAT POINT
ON, THE FRENCH NO LONGER NEEDED
00:38:20.86\00:38:23.37
A POLICE DEPARTMENT FOR
THE OCCASIONAL CRIMINAL.
00:38:23.40\00:38:27.47
IS THAT WHAT IT
MEANT? THE PEOPLE WERE FREE.
00:38:27.50\00:38:31.07
THEY'D BEEN LIBERATED FROM THE
DOMINION OF THE NAZIS, BUT IT
00:38:31.11\00:38:35.34
DIDN'T MEAN THAT YOU DIDN'T,
OCCASIONALLY, HAVE SOME PETTY
00:38:35.38\00:38:38.21
THIEF OR A CRIME. DO
YOU SEE WHAT I'M SAYING?
00:38:38.25\00:38:42.65
WHO IS ON THE
THRONE IN YOUR LIFE?
00:38:42.68\00:38:46.22
ONCE YOU'RE SAVED,
CHRIST IS ON THE THRONE.
00:38:46.25\00:38:47.89
GO AHEAD, READ, FOR US,
THAT VERSE - ROMANS 6:14.
00:38:47.92\00:38:51.76
>>"FOR SIN SHALL NOT HAVE
DOMINION OVER YOU, FOR YOU ARE
00:38:51.79\00:38:56.26
NOT UNDER LAW BUT UNDER
GRACE. >>SIN IS NOT RULING.
00:38:56.30\00:39:01.54
IT DOESN'T HAVE
DOMINION ANYMORE.
00:39:01.57\00:39:02.67
AND, AGAIN, YOU READ THE -
VERSE 12 - SIN DOES NOT REIGN -
00:39:02.70\00:39:05.71
IT DOESN'T HAVE CONTROL. SO
IF YOU'RE A CHRISTIAN AND YOU
00:39:05.74\00:39:09.61
KNOW THAT JESUS IS THE LORD OF
YOUR LIFE, BUT YOU OCCASIONALLY
00:39:09.64\00:39:13.42
SIN - IT DOESN'T MEAN I'M
JUSTIFYING IT; GOD WANTS YOU TO
00:39:13.45\00:39:15.38
GET THE VICTORY OVER ALL THOSE
THINGS, BUT IT DOESN'T MEAN
00:39:15.42\00:39:18.82
YOU'RE NOT A CHRISTIAN
BECAUSE, OTHERWISE, WHO HERE
00:39:18.85\00:39:22.26
IS A CHRISTIAN? DO
YOU SEE THE DIFFERENCE
00:39:22.29\00:39:25.09
WE'RE TALKING
ABOUT? WHO HAS DOMINION?
00:39:25.13\00:39:27.50
WHO IS THE LORD? WHO
IS GUIDING YOUR LIFE?
00:39:27.50\00:39:29.23
WHEN YOU WAKE UP AND YOU WANT TO
KNOW WHAT TO DO, WHOSE WILL DO
00:39:29.26\00:39:32.00
YOU PURSUE? DO
YOU SAY, IN YOUR LIFE,
00:39:32.03\00:39:34.67
'LORD, YOUR WILL BE DONE.
I WANT TO FOLLOW YOUR WILL.
00:39:34.70\00:39:37.01
I WANT TO LOOK IN YOUR WORD
AND FIND OUT WHAT YOU WANT'?
00:39:37.04\00:39:39.31
HE IS YOUR LORD. THE DEVIL IS NO
00:39:39.34\00:39:41.08
LONGER YOUR
LORD. YOU'RE NOT LIVING
00:39:41.11\00:39:43.18
BECAUSE OF SELFISHNESS.
YOU'RE NOT BEING DRIVEN BY PRIDE
00:39:43.21\00:39:47.08
AND THE TYPICAL THINGS THAT
DRIVE THE LOST IN THE WORLD.
00:39:47.12\00:39:51.92
ROMANS 8:2, "FOR THE LAW OF THE
SPIRIT OF LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS
00:39:51.95\00:39:56.79
HAS MADE ME FREE FROM
THE LAW OF SIN AND DEATH."
00:39:56.83\00:40:00.90
ALL OF US SHOULD BE ABLE TO
CLAIM THAT EXPERIENCE, AMEN?
00:40:00.93\00:40:05.53
REFERRING BACK TO GALATIANS 4,
VERSES 3 TO 5, IT SAYS, "EVEN SO
00:40:05.57\00:40:11.31
WE, WHEN WE WERE CHILDREN, WERE
IN BONDAGE UNDER THE ELEMENTS
00:40:11.34\00:40:15.18
OF THE WORLD. BUT
WHEN THE FULLNESS OF THE
00:40:15.21\00:40:17.51
TIME HAD COME, GOD SENT FORTH
HIS SON, BORN OF A WOMAN, BORN
00:40:17.55\00:40:21.22
UNDER THE LAW, TO REDEEM THOSE
WHO WERE UNDER THE LAW, THAT WE
00:40:21.25\00:40:25.09
MIGHT RECEIVE THE
ADOPTION AS SONS."
00:40:25.12\00:40:27.96
NOW, DOES THE SON STILL
NEED TO OBEY THEIR FATHER?
00:40:27.99\00:40:31.33
DOES THE SON STILL
SERVE THEIR PARENTS?
00:40:31.36\00:40:35.33
IF THEY'RE GOOD CHILDREN, THEY
KNOW HOW TO DO SOME CHORES, BUT
00:40:35.36\00:40:39.67
THERE'S A FAMILY RELATIONSHIP.
SO WE SERVE THE LORD,
00:40:39.70\00:40:43.07
BUT WE DO IT AS CHILDREN.
YOU REMEMBER WE STUDIED,
00:40:43.10\00:40:45.14
LAST WEEK, THE PRODIGAL SON?
WHAT DID THAT PRODIGAL SON SAY?
00:40:45.17\00:40:48.78
MY FATHER'S SERVANTS ARE EATING
BETTER THAN ME.' AND HE COMES
00:40:48.81\00:40:53.08
BACK AND HE SAYS, 'FATHER,
MAKE ME AS ONE OF YOUR HIRED
00:40:53.11\00:40:55.85
SERVANTS.' HE SAYS,
'NO, I'M ADOPTING YOU BACK.
00:40:55.88\00:40:58.62
YOU'RE MY COMPLETE SON.' THE
OTHER SON - THE OLDER BROTHER -
00:40:58.65\00:41:02.29
HE SAYS, 'ALL THESE YEARS I'VE
SERVED YOU.' SO, DO SONS SERVE?
00:41:02.32\00:41:08.60
YEAH. SO, PAUL IS SAYING, 'LOOK,
00:41:08.63\00:41:11.33
YOU'VE BEEN ADOPTED.
EVEN THOUGH YOU ARE GENTILES,
00:41:11.37\00:41:15.60
YOU ARE ADOPTED INTO THE FAMILY.
YOU BECOME PART OF THE STOCK OF
00:41:15.64\00:41:18.91
ISRAEL.' I REMEMBER, ONE TIME,
HEARING ABOUT A TEACHER IN A
00:41:18.94\00:41:24.78
SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS AND SHE WAS
REGISTERING - NEW SEASON - AND
00:41:24.81\00:41:27.62
TWO BOYS HAD JUST JOINED THE
CLASS AND THEY WERE BROTHERS.
00:41:27.65\00:41:30.65
SHE ASKED FOR THEIR BIRTHDAYS -
SHE WANTED TO ALWAYS WRITE DOWN
00:41:30.69\00:41:32.92
THEIR BIRTHDAYS SO SHE COULD
CELEBRATE THEIR BIRTHDAYS WHEN
00:41:32.95\00:41:35.09
THE TIME CAME, AND THEY
SAID, WELL, WE'RE BOTH SEVEN.
00:41:35.12\00:41:40.16
ONE OF THEM SAID, 'MY BIRTHDAY'S
APRIL 8, 1976 AND MY BROTHER'S
00:41:40.20\00:41:44.73
IS APRIL 20TH, 1976.' AND
THE TEACHER DIDN'T HAVE TO THINK
00:41:44.77\00:41:49.60
VERY LONG BEFORE SHE THOUGHT,
'WELL, NO, THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE.'
00:41:49.64\00:41:53.27
'NO IT'S NOT', ANSWERED THE
QUIETER BROTHER, 'ONE OF US IS
00:41:53.31\00:41:56.41
ADOPTED.' WITHOUT THINKING,
THE TEACHER SAID, 'WHICH ONE?'
00:41:56.44\00:42:00.55
THE BOYS LOOKED AT EACH OTHER
AND SMILED AND SAID, 'WE DON'T
00:42:00.58\00:42:03.42
KNOW. WE ASKED
OUR FATHER AND HE SAID
00:42:03.45\00:42:04.85
IT'S BEEN SO LONG HE CAN'T
REMEMBER AND HE LOVES US BOTH.'
00:42:04.89\00:42:07.56
(LAUGHTER) AND THAT'S
HOW IT IS WITH THE LORD.
00:42:07.59\00:42:13.93
HE ADOPTS US AND HE
LOOKS UPON US AS HIS CHILDREN.
00:42:13.96\00:42:17.73
HE LOOKS UPON
US AS HIS OWN SONS.
00:42:17.77\00:42:20.57
HE LOVES US THE WAY
HE LOVES HIS OWN SON.
00:42:20.60\00:42:22.80
AMEN? NEXT
SECTION TALKS ABOUT THE
00:42:22.84\00:42:26.01
DANGEROUS
CONSEQUENCES OF LEGALISM .
00:42:26.04\00:42:30.55
IN A MOMENT SOMEONE WILL READ,
FOR ME, GALATIANS 6:15, AND I'M
00:42:30.58\00:42:35.58
GOING TO READ 1
CORINTHIANS 7:19.
00:42:35.62\00:42:38.32
NOTICE HOW MANY TIMES YOU'RE
GOING TO FIND THIS PHRASE - AT
00:42:38.35\00:42:41.26
LEAST FIVE TIMES IN THE
BIBLE, MAYBE MORE, WHERE IT SAYS
00:42:41.29\00:42:44.83
"CIRCUMCISION IS NOTHING AND
UNCIRCUMCISION IS NOTHING," - I
00:42:44.86\00:42:49.73
CORINTHIANS 7:19, "CIRCUMCISION
IS NOTHING AND UNCIRCUMCISION IS
00:42:49.76\00:42:52.90
NOTHING," - BUT EVERY TIME PAUL
SAYS IT, HE THEN FOLLOWS THAT
00:42:52.93\00:42:56.30
STATEMENT WITH SOMETHING
DIFFERENT. NONE OF THEM ARE THE
00:42:56.34\00:42:59.27
SAME, BUT HE'LL MAKE THAT
STATEMENT AND HE MAKES, THEN,
00:42:59.31\00:43:02.71
AFTER THAT STATEMENT,
ANOTHER STATEMENT THAT'S UNIQUE.
00:43:02.74\00:43:06.98
HE SAYS "CIRCUMCISION IS NOTHING
AND UNCIRCUMCISION IS NOTHING,
00:43:07.02\00:43:09.55
BUT KEEPING THE COMMANDMENTS
OF GOD IS WHAT MATTERS."
00:43:09.58\00:43:13.49
NOW, THE REASON THAT'S SO
IMPORTANT - I MENTION IT FIRST -
00:43:13.52\00:43:15.36
FIRST OF ALL, IT'S LISTED FIRST
- 1 CORINTHIANS 7:19 - IT'S
00:43:15.39\00:43:19.36
BECAUSE SOME PEOPLE SAY, 'WE'RE
UNDER GRACE, WE'RE NOT UNDER THE
00:43:19.39\00:43:21.86
LAW. WE DON'T NEED TO KEEP THE
00:43:21.90\00:43:23.00
COMMANDMENTS.' THEY TAKE
GALATIANS TO MEAN, BECAUSE PAUL
00:43:23.03\00:43:27.64
SPEAKS AGAINST THE LAW
THERE, WE DON'T NEED TO KEEP
00:43:27.67\00:43:29.57
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
PAUL IS TALKING ABOUT THE
00:43:29.60\00:43:31.27
CEREMONIAL LAW, PRINCIPALLY,
IN GALATIANS, RIGHT?
00:43:31.31\00:43:34.34
BECAUSE WHY ELSE WOULD PAUL SAY,
'CIRCUMCISION DOESN'T MATTER,
00:43:34.38\00:43:36.44
UNCIRCUMCISION DOESN'T MATTER,
WHAT MATTERS IS KEEPING THE
00:43:36.48\00:43:38.98
COMMANDMENTS.' BUT WHAT
COMMANDMENTS IS HE TALKING
00:43:39.01\00:43:41.12
ABOUT? MUST BE TALKING ABOUT THE
MORAL LAW THERE, RIGHT? ALRIGHT,
00:43:41.15\00:43:45.52
NEXT ONE IS GALATIANS 5:6,
"FOR IN CHRIST JESUS NEITHER
00:43:45.55\00:43:49.29
CIRCUMCISION NOR
UNCIRCUMCISION AVAILS ANYTHING,
00:43:49.32\00:43:52.36
BUT FAITH WORKING THROUGH
LOVE." - ISN'T THAT INTERESTING?
00:43:52.39\00:43:56.60
ONE TIME HE SAYS, 'KEEPING THE
COMMANDMENTS', THE NEXT TIME HE
00:43:56.63\00:43:58.37
SAYS, 'FAITH
WORKING THROUGH LOVE'.
00:43:58.40\00:44:01.20
DOES THAT SOUND LIKE
TWO OPPOSITE EXTREMES?
00:44:01.24\00:44:04.04
NO, NOT FOR A REAL CHRISTIAN.
YOU UNDERSTAND KEEPING THE
00:44:04.07\00:44:07.44
COMMANDMENTS IS FAITH
WORKING BY LOVE. SEE THAT?
00:44:07.48\00:44:11.88
LET ME GIVE YOU ONE MORE -
COLOSSIANS 3:11, "WHERE THERE IS
00:44:11.91\00:44:16.65
NEITHER GREEK NOR JEW,
CIRCUMCISED NOR UNCIRCUMCISED,
00:44:16.69\00:44:20.92
BARBARIAN, SCYTHIAN, SLAVE NOR
FREE, BUT CHRIST IS ALL AND IN
00:44:20.96\00:44:25.66
ALL." THERE, AGAIN, HE SAYS
'CIRCUMCISED/UNCIRCUMCISED THAT
00:44:25.69\00:44:28.23
DOESN'T MATTER - GREEK/JEW,
DOESN'T MATTER, BUT CHRIST IS
00:44:28.26\00:44:32.13
ALL IN ALL.' SO THE BIG EMPHASIS
WITH PAUL - THAT'S WHY HE USES
00:44:32.17\00:44:37.81
THESE STRONG WORDS, 'LOOK,
LISTEN, MARK MY WORDS, I, PAUL,
00:44:37.84\00:44:41.01
SAY TO YOU' - HE IS LETTING
US KNOW HE DOESN'T WANT TO MISS
00:44:41.04\00:44:45.15
THIS IMPORTANT POINT: DON'T LOSE
YOUR FREEDOM THAT YOU HAVE IN
00:44:45.18\00:44:49.55
CHRIST. ALRIGHT, NEXT SECTION:
LIBERTY NOT LICENTIOUSNESS .
00:44:49.58\00:44:56.19
NOW PAUL SAYS, IN GALATIANS
CHAPTER 5, VERSE 13, "FOR YOU,
00:44:56.22\00:45:00.26
BRETHREN, HAVE BEEN CALLED
TO LIBERTY;' - IT TALKS ABOUT US
00:45:00.30\00:45:03.50
BEING FREE - "ONLY DO NOT USE
LIBERTY AS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR
00:45:03.53\00:45:07.90
THE FLESH, BUT THROUGH
LOVE SERVE ONE ANOTHER."
00:45:07.94\00:45:11.61
ONE OF THE FALSE DOCTRINES
THEY HAD GOING AROUND BACK THEN
00:45:11.64\00:45:13.91
THAT'S REAPPEARED MANY TIMES IN
HISTORY, IS THE DOCTRINE OF THE
00:45:13.94\00:45:17.61
NICOLATIANS - 'THE
THING WHICH I HATE'.
00:45:17.65\00:45:21.55
YOU'VE HEARD - JESUS REFERS TO
THIS IN REVELATION - WHAT IS THE
00:45:21.58\00:45:24.29
DOCTRINE OF THE NICOLATIANS?
THE WAY WE UNDERSTAND IT - IT'S
00:45:24.32\00:45:28.22
NOT RECORDED IN THE BIBLE - BUT
WE DO SEE, IN ACTS CHAPTER 7,
00:45:28.26\00:45:31.03
THERE WAS A DEACON NAMED NICOLAS
OF ANTIOCH - YOU'LL LOOK AT THE
00:45:31.06\00:45:36.20
DIFFERENT DEACONS - THERE WERE
SEVEN - ONE OF THEM WAS STEPHEN,
00:45:36.23\00:45:39.73
ONE OF THEM WAS PHILIP,
ONE OF THEM WAS NICOLAS.
00:45:39.77\00:45:42.37
CHURCH HISTORY TELLS
US NICOLAS APOSTATIZED.
00:45:42.40\00:45:46.94
HE DIDN'T JUST LEAVE, HE
BEGAN TO TEACH A GOSPEL AND,
00:45:46.98\00:45:50.55
BASICALLY, JUST SAY, 'BECAUSE WE
ARE SAVED BY GRACE AND BECAUSE
00:45:50.58\00:45:53.31
WE ARE FREE IN CHRIST,
AND BECAUSE WE ARE SPIRITUAL
00:45:53.35\00:45:57.02
CREATURES, DON'T GET THE
SPIRIT MIXED UP WITH THE FLESH.
00:45:57.05\00:46:00.92
WHATEVER YOU DO WITH
YOUR BODY, THAT'S ONE THING.
00:46:00.96\00:46:02.69
YOU CAN DO WHATEVER YOU WANT
WITH YOUR BODY, IT WON'T MATTER
00:46:02.72\00:46:06.29
- THE BODY'S THE BODY - JUST AS
LONG AS YOU LOVE THE LORD WITH
00:46:06.33\00:46:09.43
YOUR SPIRIT AND YOUR MIND.' AND
SO THEY BEGAN TO USE THAT AS A
00:46:09.46\00:46:12.57
LICENSE. THEY SAYS,
'WE'RE FREE IN CHRIST'.
00:46:12.60\00:46:14.50
THEY SAID, 'DON'T WORRY ABOUT
THE BIBLE' - AND THEY BEGAN TO
00:46:14.54\00:46:16.50
DO ALL KINDS OF SINFUL,
DESPICABLE THINGS WITH THEIR
00:46:16.54\00:46:19.04
BODIES - LIVING VERY IMMORALLY -
BUT THEY SAID, 'OH, BUT WE'RE -
00:46:19.07\00:46:22.11
IN THE SPIRIT WE'RE PURE.' ELLEN
WHITE DEALT WITH THAT - SHE
00:46:22.14\00:46:26.61
DEALT WITH A SIMILAR HERESY, AND
WE STILL HAVE IT TODAY, WHERE
00:46:26.65\00:46:30.42
PEOPLE SAID, 'OH,
WE'RE SAVED BY GRACE.
00:46:30.45\00:46:32.19
BECAUSE WE'RE SAVED BY GRACE,
DON'T WORRY ABOUT OBEYING.'
00:46:32.22\00:46:35.49
IF YOU TALK ABOUT OBEYING,
WHAT ARE YOU ACCUSED OF BEING?
00:46:35.52\00:46:38.63
>>A LEGALIST. >>A LEGALIST.
00:46:38.66\00:46:40.80
NOBODY WANTS TO BE
ACCUSED OF BEING A LEGALIST.
00:46:40.83\00:46:44.37
YOU KNOW, IF YOU SAY,
TODAY, THAT YOU THINK THAT
00:46:44.40\00:46:46.43
HOMOSEXUALITY IS - BEHAVIOR AND
PRACTICE - IS INAPPROPRIATE, IF
00:46:46.47\00:46:53.58
YOU SAY THAT YOU BELIEVE THAT
MEN SHOULD MARRY WOMEN AND WOMEN
00:46:53.61\00:46:58.58
SHOULD MARRY MEN, YOU
WILL BE CALLED A HOMOPHOBE.
00:46:58.61\00:47:03.35
THEY'VE GOT A LABEL FOR IT AND
IT'S DESIGNED BY THE MEDIA TO
00:47:03.39\00:47:06.86
INTIMIDATE YOU.
NOW, WHAT IS A PHOBIA?
00:47:06.89\00:47:12.19
>>FEAR. >>A PHOBIA
IS SOMETHING - IT'S
00:47:12.23\00:47:13.63
NOT JUST A FEAR,
IT'S AN EXTREME FEAR.
00:47:13.66\00:47:18.37
I DON'T PICK UP BLACK WIDOWS.
I WAS IN AN OLD BUILDING THE
00:47:18.40\00:47:23.91
OTHER DAY AND I LOOKED AROUND
FOR BLACK WIDOWS BECAUSE I'D SEE
00:47:23.94\00:47:26.21
THEM THERE BEFORE
BUT, YOU KNOW WHAT?
00:47:26.24\00:47:27.68
I DO NOT HAVE ARACHNOPHOBIA.
DO YOU KNOW WHAT ARACHNOPHOBIA?
00:47:27.71\00:47:31.81
ARACHNOPHOBIA IS A PERSON WHO IS
SO SCARED OF SPIDERS THAT THEY
00:47:31.85\00:47:34.65
SEE A SPIDER, THEY SCREAM, THE
JUMP ON A CHAIR, THEY CALL THE
00:47:34.68\00:47:38.59
EXTERMINATOR, AND THEY CAN'T
EVEN LOOK AT THEM ON TELEVISION.
00:47:38.62\00:47:43.49
THERE ARE ALL THESE DIFFERENT
KINDS OF PHOBIAS. I'M NOT -
00:47:43.53\00:47:46.76
I DON'T HAVE ARACHNOPHOBIA, I
JUST DON'T PICK UP BLACK WIDOWS.
00:47:46.80\00:47:51.50
SO TO SAY A PERSON IS HOMOPHOBIC
BECAUSE YOU SAY YOU BELIEVE IN
00:47:51.53\00:47:55.14
TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE,
THAT IS SLANDEROUS - TRYING TO
00:47:55.17\00:47:59.64
INTIMIDATE - WELL THERE'S
A DIFFERENT KIND OF CHRISTIAN
00:47:59.67\00:48:02.18
SLANDER TODAY WHERE YOU CALL
A PERSON A PHARISEE - YOU CALL
00:48:02.21\00:48:06.31
THEM A LEGALIST IF THEY TALK
ABOUT OBEDIENCE - 'LEGALIST!'
00:48:06.35\00:48:11.52
'PHARISEE!' - 'OH, I'M SORRY.
NOT ME, PLEASE DON'T CALL ME
00:48:11.55\00:48:15.16
THAT.' AND EVERYBODY'S AFRAID OF
SAYING THE TRUTH BECAUSE THEY'RE
00:48:15.19\00:48:20.96
GOING TO GET CALLED A NAME.
AND SO, IF WE - THEY'VE GOT THE
00:48:21.00\00:48:26.90
WHOLE LIST OF THESE PC
NAMES THAT PEOPLE ARE CALLED
00:48:26.94\00:48:29.40
BECAUSE YOU TELL THE
TRUTH. THAT'S JUST AMAZING.
00:48:29.44\00:48:34.08
ANYWAY, WHAT
WAS I TALKING ABOUT?
00:48:34.11\00:48:36.81
OH, YEAH, I WAS TALKING
ABOUT THIS FALSE LIBERTY.
00:48:36.85\00:48:40.55
LET ME READ
SOMETHING TO YOU, HERE.
00:48:40.58\00:48:43.15
TALKING ABOUT THE FALSE FREEDOM
- 2 PETER 2:18 - PETER TALKS
00:48:43.18\00:48:46.92
ABOUT THIS MINDSET, "FOR WHEN
THEY SPEAK GREAT SWELLING WORDS
00:48:46.96\00:48:50.96
OF EMPTINESS, THEY ALLURE
THROUGH THE LUSTS OF THE FLESH,
00:48:50.99\00:48:53.76
THROUGH LEWDNESS, THE ONES WHO
HAVE ACTUALLY ESCAPED FROM THOSE
00:48:53.80\00:48:57.03
WHO LIVE IN ERROR. WHILE
THEY PROMISE THEM LIBERTY,
00:48:57.07\00:49:01.90
THEY THEMSELVES ARE SLAVES OF
CORRUPTION;" - SO EVEN BACK IN
00:49:01.94\00:49:05.44
PETER'S DAY THEY HAD PEOPLE
IN THE CHURCH THAT SAID, 'WE'RE
00:49:05.47\00:49:07.91
FREE IN CHRIST.' BUT HE TALKS
ABOUT THEIR CORRUPTION - THE
00:49:07.94\00:49:11.51
LUSTS OF THE FLESH -
LEWDNESS IN THE CHURCH -
00:49:11.55\00:49:14.18
BUT THEY'RE FREE IN CHRIST.
SO THE DEVIL - THIS IS AN OLD
00:49:14.22\00:49:16.58
TACTIC - "WHILE THEY PROMISED
THEM LIBERTY, THEY THEMSELVES
00:49:16.62\00:49:20.92
ARE SLAVES OF CORRUPTION; FOR
BY WHOM A PERSON IS OVERCOME, BY
00:49:20.96\00:49:24.73
HIM ALSO HE IS
BROUGHT INTO BONDAGE.
00:49:24.76\00:49:27.40
FOR IF, AFTER THEY HAVE ESCAPED
THE POLLUTIONS OF THE WORLD
00:49:27.40\00:49:29.80
THROUGH THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE
LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST,
00:49:29.83\00:49:32.20
THEY ARE AGAIN ENTANGLED IN THEM
AND OVERCOME, THE LATTER END IS
00:49:32.23\00:49:36.24
WORSE FOR THEM THAN THE
BEGINNING...BUT IT HAS HAPPENED
00:49:36.27\00:49:38.31
TO THEM ACCORDING TO THE TRUE
PROVERB: 'A DOG RETURNS TO HIS
00:49:38.34\00:49:41.28
OWN VOMIT,' AND 'A SOW, HAVING
WASHED, TO HER WALLOWING IN THE
00:49:41.31\00:49:43.21
MIRE.'" LIBERTY, NOT
LICENTIOUSNESS - FREEDOM IN
00:49:43.24\00:49:48.38
CHRIST IS NOT FREEDOM TO
SIN. IT'S NOT FREEDOM FROM LAW,
00:49:48.42\00:49:52.72
BECAUSE YOU'RE
NOT SAVED BY THE LAW.
00:49:52.75\00:49:55.49
ROMANS 2:13, "(FOR NOT THE
HEARERS OF THE LAW ARE JUST IN
00:49:55.52\00:50:00.36
THE SIGHT OF GOD, BUT THE DOERS
OF THE LAW WILL BE JUSTIFIED;" -
00:50:00.40\00:50:04.57
WHO SAID THAT? WHAT
BIBLE WRITER WROTE THAT?
00:50:04.60\00:50:07.80
>>PAUL. >>PAUL - ROMANS, RIGHT?
00:50:07.84\00:50:11.57
SO EVERYBODY WHO TRIES TO GET
PAUL TO SAY THAT, BECAUSE WE ARE
00:50:11.61\00:50:14.11
RIGHTEOUS THROUGH FAITH, THAT
MEANS THAT WHEN YOU'RE RIGHTEOUS
00:50:14.14\00:50:16.95
THROUGH FAITH, YOU DON'T OBEY
- LET ME READ IT TO YOU AGAIN.
00:50:16.98\00:50:20.85
"(FOR NOT THE HEARERS OF THE LAW
ARE JUST IN THE SIGHT OF GOD,
00:50:20.88\00:50:23.22
BUT THE DOERS OF THE LAW WILL BE
JUSTIFIED;" - WE ARE JUDGED BY
00:50:23.25\00:50:27.02
OUR WORKS BECAUSE, IF YOU ARE
SAVED BY FAITH, YOU WILL OBEY.
00:50:27.06\00:50:31.26
SO YOU CAN LOOK AT THE OBEDIENCE
AND SEE IF THEY'RE SAVED BY
00:50:31.29\00:50:33.73
FAITH. KIND OF
LIKE A PASTOR CAN LOOK
00:50:33.76\00:50:38.13
AT THE GIVING PATTERNS IN
A CONGREGATION TO TELL HOW
00:50:38.17\00:50:42.37
HEALTHY THEY ARE, SPIRITUALLY.
IF A CONGREGATION IS STINGY,
00:50:42.40\00:50:47.84
THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND
THE SACRIFICE OF JESUS.
00:50:47.88\00:50:50.41
THE GIVING IS A THERMOMETER THAT
SHOWS WHAT'S HAPPENED IN THE
00:50:50.45\00:50:55.05
HEART. >>AMEN.
00:50:55.08\00:50:56.89
>>AND THAT'S HOW IT IS WITH
THE LAW AND THE COMMANDMENTS.
00:50:56.92\00:51:00.99
IF YOU'RE OBEYING, IT'S AN EV -
NOT TO BE SAVED, BUT BECAUSE YOU
00:51:01.02\00:51:04.73
LOVE THE LORD. READ,
FOR ME - SOMEONE'S GOING
00:51:04.76\00:51:07.30
TO READ ROMANS
6:1 AND 2 - MANJEET?
00:51:07.30\00:51:10.37
OH, LET ME READ ONE
MORE VERSE AND THEN YOU.
00:51:10.40\00:51:12.47
ROMANS 3:8, "AND WHY NOT SAY,
'LET US DO EVIL THAT GOOD MAY
00:51:12.50\00:51:16.94
COME'? - AS WE ARE SLANDEROUSLY
REPORTED AND AS SOME AFFIRM THAT
00:51:16.97\00:51:21.51
WE SAY. THEIR
CONDEMNATION IS JUST."
00:51:21.54\00:51:24.35
PEOPLE SAYING, 'OH, WELL,
BECAUSE WE'RE SAVED BY GRACE,
00:51:24.38\00:51:25.98
LET'S JUST DO MORE EVIL -
WE'LL HAVE MORE GRACE.' CRAZY
00:51:26.01\00:51:28.98
THINKING, ISN'T IT? GO AHEAD,
READ, FOR US, ROMANS 6:1 AND 2.
00:51:29.02\00:51:32.82
>>ROMANS 6:1 AND 2,
"WHAT SHALL WE SAY THEN?
00:51:32.85\00:51:36.32
SHALL WE CONTINUE IN SIN THAT
GRACE MAY ABOUND? CERTAINLY NOT!
00:51:36.36\00:51:42.30
HOW SHALL WE WHO DIED TO
SIN LIVE ANY LONGER IN IT?"
00:51:42.33\00:51:48.44
>>AND SIN IS THE
TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW.
00:51:48.47\00:51:51.61
HOW SHALL WE WHO ARE SAVED FROM
OUR LAWLESSNESS TURN BACK TO
00:51:51.64\00:51:55.14
LAWLESSNESS AND CLAIM WE'RE
DOING IT IN THE NAME OF GRACE?
00:51:55.18\00:51:58.61
VERY SIMPLY, SHOULD CHRISTIANS
BE OBEDIENT? ABSOLUTELY.
00:51:58.65\00:52:02.78
IS OBEDIENCE LEGALISM?
NO. WHY ARE YOU DOING IT?
00:52:02.82\00:52:07.36
PAUL WASN'T SAYING CIRCUMCISION
WAS BAD, HE SAID, 'IF YOU'RE
00:52:07.39\00:52:09.76
BEING CIRCUMCISED BECAUSE YOU
THINK YOU'RE EARNING SALVATION,
00:52:09.79\00:52:13.26
YOU HAVE FALLEN FROM GRACE.
IF YOU'RE KEEPING THE SABBATH
00:52:13.29\00:52:17.07
BECAUSE YOU'RE EARNING
SALVATION, YOU'VE FALLEN FROM
00:52:17.10\00:52:20.90
GRACE. 'PASTOR
DOUG, HOW DARE YOU?'
00:52:20.94\00:52:23.87
- IT'S THE SAME
PRINCIPLE, ISN'T IT?
00:52:23.91\00:52:25.91
IF YOU'RE DOING ANY OF THESE
LAWS BECAUSE YOU THINK YOU'RE
00:52:25.94\00:52:29.08
SAVED BY DOING THE LAW, YOU
DON'T UNDERSTAND, YOU'RE ALREADY
00:52:29.11\00:52:33.05
- YOU'RE ON DEATH ROW BECAUSE OF
YOUR SINS - YOU'VE ALL SINNED,
00:52:33.08\00:52:35.52
THE PENALTY IS DEATH.
YOU ARE SAVED BY GRACE.
00:52:35.55\00:52:38.19
IF ANYONE'S SAVED, IT'S
GOING TO BE ONLY BY GRACE, AMEN?
00:52:38.22\00:52:41.92
>>AMEN. >>ROMANS
6:15, HERE'S ANOTHER
00:52:41.96\00:52:44.66
ONE, "WHAT THEN? SHALL WE SIN
BECAUSE WE ARE NOT UNDER LAW BUT
00:52:44.69\00:52:47.50
UNDER GRACE?" - GOD FORBID! -
"CERTAINLY NOT!" 1 CORINTHIANS
00:52:47.50\00:52:51.27
8:9, "BUT BEWARE LEST SOMEHOW
THIS LIBERTY" - THIS FREEDOM -
00:52:51.30\00:52:55.97
"...BECOME A STUMBLING
BLOCK TO THOSE WHO ARE WEAK."
00:52:56.00\00:52:58.61
GO TO THE CHINESE RESTAURANT AND
THAT BUDDHA BOTHERS THEM, GO TO
00:52:58.64\00:53:01.91
A DIFFERENT RESTAURANT.
DON'T OFFEND YOUR WEAK BROTHER.
00:53:01.94\00:53:07.12
1 PETER 2:16, YOU'RE "AS FREE,
YET NOT USING LIBERTY AS A CLOAK
00:53:07.15\00:53:13.15
FOR VICE," - HAVE YOU
SEEN THAT DONE BEFORE?
00:53:13.19\00:53:16.12
I'VE - I HAVE KNOWN OF PASTORS
THAT WENT AND BOUGHT A BEER AT
00:53:16.16\00:53:22.63
THE LOCAL 7-11 AND ONE OF THEIR
MEMBERS SAID, 'PASTOR, WHY WOULD
00:53:22.66\00:53:25.73
YOU?' - 'WE'RE FREE IN CHRIST.'
'BUT THAT'S A DRUG THAT PEOPLE
00:53:25.77\00:53:31.27
GET ADDICTED TO THAT DESTROYS
LIVES. WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?'
00:53:31.31\00:53:34.51
- THEY SAY, 'OH, BUT I'M FREE
IN CHRIST.' USING LIBERTY AS A
00:53:34.54\00:53:37.38
CLOAK FOR VICE.
IF YOU DON'T KNOW IT,
00:53:37.41\00:53:39.51
ALCOHOL IS A
VICE. YOU STILL WITH ME?
00:53:39.55\00:53:44.69
AND THEN IT TALKS ABOUT -
FULFILLING THE WHOLE LAW IS OUR
00:53:44.72\00:53:47.49
LAST SECTION HERE, AND I WANT
TO READ GALATIANS 5:13-15, "FOR
00:53:47.52\00:53:51.83
YOU, BRETHREN, HAVE BEEN CALLED
TO LIBERTY; ONLY DO NOT USE
00:53:51.86\00:53:54.73
LIBERTY AS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR
THE FLESH BUT THROUGH LOVE SERVE
00:53:54.76\00:53:59.03
ONE ANOTHER FOR ALL THE LAW
IS FULFILLED IN ONE WORD," - HE
00:53:59.07\00:54:03.77
DOESN'T USE ONE WORD, HE
MEANS ONE STATEMENT - "EVEN IN
00:54:03.81\00:54:06.14
THIS: 'YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR
NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.' BUT IF
00:54:06.17\00:54:10.05
YOU BITE AND DEVOUR ONE ANOTHER,
BEWARE LEST YOU BE CONSUMED BY
00:54:10.08\00:54:13.18
ONE ANOTHER!" WHEN
HE TALKS ABOUT BITING
00:54:13.21\00:54:15.08
AND DEVOURING, HE'S MAKING AN
ALLUSION TO THESE BEASTS OF PREY
00:54:15.12\00:54:20.12
THAT FALL ON AND DEVOUR ONE
ANOTHER AND HE'S SAYING THAT, IN
00:54:20.16\00:54:24.13
THE CHURCH, THEY HAD BECOME
SO CONTENTIOUS OVER THIS ISSUE
00:54:24.16\00:54:27.76
OF THE CEREMONIAL LAW AND
CIRCUMCISION, HE SAYS, 'YOU'RE
00:54:27.83\00:54:31.17
JUST DEVOURING ONE ANOTHER - THE
DEVIL'S GOT YOU ALL TURNING ON
00:54:31.20\00:54:34.17
EACH OTHER OVER THIS ISSUE.
YOU'VE LOST YOUR FREEDOM. YOU
00:54:34.20\00:54:36.94
NEED TO GO BACK TO THE FREEDOM
YOU HAD AND BE SHARING THE
00:54:36.97\00:54:40.21
GOSPEL WITH THE LOST OUT THERE.
PAUL SUMS THIS UP AGAIN IN
00:54:40.24\00:54:44.88
ROMANS 13:8, "OWE NO ONE
ANYTHING EXCEPT TO LOVE ONE
00:54:44.91\00:54:49.75
ANOTHER, FOR HE WHO LOVES
ANOTHER HAS FULFILLED THE LAW.
00:54:49.78\00:54:53.15
FOR THE COMMANDMENTS, 'YOU SHALL
NOT COMMIT ADULTERY,' 'YOU SHALL
00:54:53.19\00:54:56.56
NOT MURDER,' 'YOU SHALL
NOT STEAL,' 'YOU SHALL NOT BEAR
00:54:56.59\00:54:59.46
FALSE WITNESS,' 'YOU SHALL
NOT COVET,' AND IF THERE IS ANY
00:54:59.49\00:55:02.26
OTHER COMMANDMENT, ARE
ALL SUMMED UP IN THIS SAYING,
00:55:02.30\00:55:05.03
NAMELY, 'YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR
NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.'" IS PAUL
00:55:05.07\00:55:08.70
SAYING THAT IT'S OKAY TO COMMIT
ADULTERY AS LONG AS YOU JUST
00:55:08.74\00:55:10.57
LOVE EACH OTHER? OR IS
HE SAYING, 'IF YOU LOVE
00:55:10.61\00:55:13.44
EACH OTHER YOU
WILL NOT BREAK THOSE'?
00:55:13.48\00:55:15.71
THEY'RE ALL SUMMED UP
IN LOVING YOUR NEIGHBOR.
00:55:15.74\00:55:18.91
SO I THINK THAT
YOU GET THE POINT.
00:55:18.95\00:55:21.65
LISTEN FRIENDS, I WANT TO REMIND
THOSE WHO ARE WATCHING, IF YOU
00:55:21.68\00:55:24.59
MISSED IT AT THE BEGINNING, BY
THE WAY, YOU MIGHT BE WONDERING
00:55:24.62\00:55:26.69
WHAT'S HAPPENING
UP HERE ON THE SET.
00:55:26.72\00:55:28.72
IF YOU TUNED IN LATE, WE'RE
RECORDING OUR SABBATH SCHOOL
00:55:28.76\00:55:31.23
THIS WEEK, RIGHT IN THE MIDST
OF A SPECIAL AMAZING DISCIPLES
00:55:31.26\00:55:34.56
SEMINAR - YOU'LL FIND OUT MORE
ABOUT THAT AT THE AMAZING FACTS
00:55:34.56\00:55:37.37
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PEOPLE HOW TO MAKE DISCIPLES.
00:55:37.40\00:55:40.80
BUT, IF YOU DIDN'T KNOW
ABOUT OUR FREE OFFER, IT'S
00:55:40.84\00:55:43.51
IS OBEDIENCE LEGALISM?
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00:55:43.54\00:55:46.71
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00:55:55.05\00:55:57.42
WITH SOMEBODY ELSE. GOD
BLESS YOU, FRIENDS, WE ARE
00:55:57.45\00:55:59.75
OUT OF TIME FOR TODAY'S
STUDY. WE'LL STUDY HIS WORD
00:55:59.79\00:56:02.49
TOGETHER AGAIN
NEXT WEEK. (MUSIC)
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>>HI FRIENDS, THIS IS
PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR.
00:56:17.41\00:56:20.14
WOULD YOU LIKE TO
HEAR AN AMAZING FACT?
00:56:20.18\00:56:22.08
MORE AND MORE OF THE WORLD IS
TURNING, NOW, TO NATURAL FORMS
00:56:22.11\00:56:25.05
OF ENERGY TO TRY AND FIND THEIR
POWER AND THEY'RE RESORTING TO
00:56:25.08\00:56:28.48
THINGS LIKE THE WIND FARM
THAT WE HAVE HERE IN JAMAICA AT
00:56:28.52\00:56:30.99
WIGTON. YOU KNOW,
I REMEMBER YEARS AGO,
00:56:31.02\00:56:33.39
MY WIFE AND I GOING TO VISIT THE
BIG ISLAND OF HAWAII AND WE WERE
00:56:33.42\00:56:36.79
AMAZED AT ALL THE POTENTIAL
THERE FOR NATURAL POWER,
00:56:36.83\00:56:40.03
BUT THEY WEREN'T USING
IT. THERE AT THE SOUTH PART OF
00:56:40.06\00:56:42.30
THE ISLAND THERE
WAS VOLCANIC ACTIVITY.
00:56:42.33\00:56:45.83
YOU CAN MAKE
GEOTHERMAL POWER THERE.
00:56:45.87\00:56:48.07
IF YOU WENT TO WAIMEA, THE WIND
WAS CONSTANTLY BLOWING, BUT THEY
00:56:48.10\00:56:51.71
HAD NO WINDMILLS THERE.
IF YOU WENT OVER TO KONA, SUN
00:56:51.74\00:56:54.98
ALWAYS SHINES - SOLAR ELECTRIC
- BUT THEY DIDN'T HAVE VERY MUCH
00:56:55.01\00:56:58.58
SOLAR ELECTRIC THERE. AND
IF YOU WENT TO HILO, IT WAS
00:56:58.61\00:57:01.72
ALWAYS RAINING - HYDROELECTRIC.
AND IN SPITE OF ALL THAT
00:57:01.75\00:57:04.99
POTENTIAL FOR POWER THERE ON THE
BIG ISLAND OF HAWAII, THEY WERE
00:57:05.02\00:57:08.46
POWERING THE ISLAND BACK THEN
WITH DIRTY DIESEL GENERATORS.
00:57:08.49\00:57:12.43
IT MADE ME THINK ABOUT HOW
WE SOMETIMES WASTE THE POWER OF
00:57:12.46\00:57:15.03
GOD'S SPIRIT THAT HE'S
MAKING AVAILABLE TO US.
00:57:15.06\00:57:17.60
AND EACH OF US CAN HAVE
THAT SPIRIT IF WE SIMPLY ASK.
00:57:17.63\00:57:20.84
YOU CAN READ IN ZECHARIAH
CHAPTER 10 - WHAT DO WE DO?
00:57:20.87\00:57:24.01
'ASK OF THE LORD RAIN IN THE
TIME OF THE LATTER RAIN AND HE
00:57:24.04\00:57:27.14
WILL SEND FLASHING CLOUDS.'
JESUS ALSO SAID, IN THE BOOK OF
00:57:27.18\00:57:30.48
LUKE, 'IF YOU THEN BEING EVIL
KNOW HOW TO GIVE GOOD GIFTS TO
00:57:30.51\00:57:34.08
YOUR CHILDREN, HOW MUCH MORE
WILL YOUR FATHER IN HEAVEN GIVE
00:57:34.12\00:57:36.92
THE HOLY SPIRIT
TO THEM THAT ASK?'
00:57:36.95\00:57:39.99
WHEN YOU LOOK IN THE BOOK OF
ACTS, WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS
00:57:40.02\00:57:43.32
POURED OUT, IT SAYS THERE WAS A
SOUND OF A MIGHTY RUSHING WIND.
00:57:43.36\00:57:47.23
AND THAT POWER THAT LAUNCHED THE
CHURCH BACK THEN CAN STILL POWER
00:57:47.23\00:57:50.23
YOUR LIFE TODAY, FRIENDS.
SO WHY DON'T YOU ASK HIM?
00:57:50.27\00:57:53.77
(MUSIC)
00:57:53.80\00:58:08.88