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00:35 >>GOOD MORNING, FRIENDS AND WELCOME TO SABBATH SCHOOL 00:37 STUDY HOUR COMING TO YOU HERE FROM THE GRANITE BAY SEVENTH-DAY 00:40 ADVENTIST CHURCH NEAR SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA. 00:43 I'D LIKE TO EXTEND A VERY WARM WELCOME TO THOSE WHO ARE JOINING 00:46 US ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND AROUND THE WORLD - OUR ONLINE MEMBERS - 00:50 THANK YOU FOR TUNING IN TO STUDY WITH US. 00:52 ALSO, THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE WATCHING ON THE VARIOUS 00:54 TELEVISION NETWORKS, THANK YOU FOR BEING A PART OF OUR STUDY 00:57 TIME, AND TO THE MEMBERS AND VISITORS RIGHT HERE AT THE 01:01 GRANITE BAY CHURCH. I ALSO WANT TO EXTEND A VERY 01:03 WARM WELCOME TO OUR AFCOE STUDENTS. 01:06 AFCOE IS THE AMAZING FACTS CENTER OF EVANGELISM. 01:08 WE HAVE A FOUR-MONTH TRAINING PROGRAM AND I UNDERSTAND THAT WE 01:12 HAVE A NUMBER OF OUR AFCOE STUDENTS WHO ARE HERE THIS 01:15 MORNING AND THEY'RE STARTING FOUR MONTHS OF SPECIAL 01:18 EVANGELISM TRAINING. SO, AFCOE STUDENTS, 01:20 JUST RAISE YOUR HANDS. THERE WE GO, LOOK AT THAT. 01:23 WELCOME TO THE GRANITE BAY CHURCH. 01:24 IT'S GOING TO BE YOUR CHURCH HOME FOR THE NEXT FOUR MONTHS, 01:27 SO WELCOME. GOOD TO SEE YOU HERE. 01:30 WELL, WE'VE BEEN STUDYING THROUGH THE BOOK OF GALATIANS 01:32 FOR OUR LESSON STUDY. TODAY WE FIND OURSELVES ON 01:35 LESSON #11; IT'S ENTITLED FREEDOM IN CHRIST AND, FOR OUR 01:39 FRIENDS WHO ARE WATCHING, IF YOU DON'T HAVE A COPY OF TODAY'S 01:41 LESSON, YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THE LESSON BY GOING TO THE 01:44 AMAZING FACTS WEBSITE - JUST AMAZINGFACTS.ORG . 01:48 YOU CAN DOWNLOAD LESSON #11 ENTITLED FREEDOM IN CHRIST AND 01:51 YOU CAN STUDY WITH US. WE ALSO HAVE A FREE OFFER THAT 01:53 GOES ALONG WITH OUR STUDY FOR TODAY. 01:55 IT'S AN AMAZING FACTS STUDY GUIDE ENTITLED IS OBEDIENCE 02:00 LEGALISM? AND THIS IS OUR FREE OFFER 02:02 FOR THOSE IN NORTH AMERICA. IF YOU'D LIKE TO RECEIVE THIS, 02:05 JUST GIVE US A CALL ON OUR RESOURCE PHONE LINE, IT'S 02:07 866-788-3966 AND YOU CAN ASK FOR OFFER #706. 02:15 THAT NUMBER, AGAIN, IS 866-788-3966 - ASK FOR OFFER 02:19 #706 - WE'LL BE HAPPY TO SEND THIS TO ANYBODY HERE IN NORTH 02:23 AMERICA. IF YOU'RE OUTSIDE OF NORTH 02:25 AMERICA, JUST GO TO THE AMAZING FACTS WEBSITE. 02:27 YOU CAN LOOK THAT UP RIGHT THERE ONLINE AND YOU CAN READ IT FOR 02:30 YOURSELF. WELL, BEFORE WE GET TO OUR 02:32 STUDY, WE ALWAYS LIKE TO BEGIN BY LIFTING OUR VOICES IN SONG. 02:35 I'D LIKE TO INVITE OUR SONG LEADERS TO COME AND JOIN ME ON 02:37 STAGE AND THEY'LL BE LEADING US IN SINGING THIS MORNING. 02:42 (SOFT PIANO MUSIC) >>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS. 02:47 IT IS OUR PLEASURE, ALWAYS, TO SING WITH OUR AUDIENCE RIGHT 02:51 HERE IN OUR SANCTUARY AND WITH ALL OF YOU THAT JOIN US AROUND 02:54 THE COUNTRY AND ACROSS THE WORLD EVERY WEEK TO STUDY AND SING 02:58 TOGETHER PRAISES TO OUR GOD. WE'RE GOING TO SING ABOUT 03:01 KNOWING NOT THE HOUR. WE NEED TO BE READY EVERY SINGLE 03:04 MINUTE OF EVERY SINGLE DAY, BECAUSE WE DON'T KNOW 03:07 WHEN OUR TIME IS UP. WE'RE GOING TO SING HYMN #604 03:11 THIS MORNING - WE KNOW NOT THE HOUR - WE'LL SING 03:14 ALL THREE VERSES. (PIANO MUSIC) 06:08 >>AT THIS TIME, PASTOR ROSS WILL LEAD US IN OPENING PRAYER. 06:13 (PIANO MUSIC) >>LET'S BOW OUR HEADS FOR A WORD OF PRAYER. 06:21 DEAR FATHER IN HEAVEN, WHAT A PRIVILEGE TO BE ABLE TO GATHER 06:23 TOGETHER TO STUDY YOUR WORD THIS MORNING. 06:26 THANK YOU FOR THE HOPE THAT WE HAVE THAT, YES, JESUS IS COMING 06:29 - AND HE'S COMING SOON, TO TAKE US HOME. 06:31 FATHER, WE THANK YOU FOR THAT GREAT HOPE THAT BURNS WITHIN OUR 06:35 HEARTS. WE ALSO THANK YOU FOR THE GRACE 06:37 THAT HAS BEEN PROVIDED SO THAT WE COULD BE FOUND IN YOU AND 06:40 HAVE THAT HOPE OF ETERNAL LIFE. BLESS OUR TIME TODAY AS WE 06:44 TALK ABOUT THIS GRACE AND THIS PROMISE THAT YOU HAVE EXTENDED 06:48 TO ALL OF US, IF WE WOULD BUT COME TO YOU. 06:50 YOU WILL WORK WITHIN US BOTH TO WILL AND TO DO ACCORDING TO YOUR 06:53 GOOD PLEASURE. SO WE COMMIT THIS 06:55 TIME IN YOUR KEEPING. IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. 06:58 OUR LESSON TODAY IS GOING TO BE BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR DOUG. 07:03 >>WELCOME TO SABBATH SCHOOL. YOU KNOW, BEFORE WE GET INTO THE 07:07 LESSON TODAY, I WANT TO MAKE AN ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT SOMETHING 07:11 VERY EXCITING THAT IS COMING AND I THINK THAT OUR STUDIO IS GOING 07:16 TO PLAY A QUICK VIDEO FOR YOU AND THEN I'LL SAY MORE ABOUT IT. 07:20 >>FIVE HUNDRED YEARS AGO, GOD USED MARTIN LUTHER TO INSPIRE A 07:24 GREAT REFORMATION, CALLING PEOPLE BACK TO THE FOUNDATIONAL 07:28 TEACHINGS OF SCRIPTURE; HOWEVER, IN THE CENTURIES THAT FOLLOWED, 07:31 THE CHURCH HAS SLIPPED OFF THE BEDROCK OF TRUTH INTO THE VALLEY 07:35 OF LUKEWARM WORLDLINESS. THAT'S WHY, THIS FALL, I'LL BE 07:39 PRESENTING A BRAND-NEW NINE-PART SERIES CALLED FOUNDATIONS OF 07:43 FAITH - A PERFECT SERIES FOR ANYONE SEEKING A PERSONAL 07:47 REVIVAL AND RENEWAL IN THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH CHRIST. 07:50 PLEASE PLAN, NOW, TO JOIN ME IN PERSON, ONLINE, OR ON TELEVISION 07:54 AND BE SURE TO INVITE OTHERS TO JOIN YOU AS WELL. 07:57 THE REFORMATION CONTINUES. >>SO WE'RE JUST NOW BEGINNING TO 08:03 LET PEOPLE KNOW AND - HERE AT THE SABBATH SCHOOL, YOU'RE 08:05 KNOWING EARLY - AND THOSE WHO ARE WATCHING LIVE, BECAUSE THIS 08:08 PROGRAM IS RECORDED THREE WEEKS IN ADVANCE OF WHEN IT AIRS 08:12 ON SATELLITE TELEVISION. AND BY THE TIME THIS AIRS, THIS 08:15 PROGRAM'S ONLY GOING TO BE A COUPLE OF MONTHS AWAY. 08:18 WE'RE LETTING PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT SOMETHING VERY EXCITING THAT'S 08:20 COMING. IT'S GOING TO BE AN 08:22 INTERNATIONAL REVIVAL EVENT THAT'S WILL BE BROADCAST 08:25 LIVE FROM THE GENERAL CONFERENCE HEADQUARTERS. 08:28 AND, WITH EVERYTHING HAPPENING IN THE WORLD AND HERE ON THE - 08:31 THE ANNIVERSARY - 500-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE CELEBRATION 08:38 OF THE REFORMATION OR THE COMMENCEMENT, I SHOULD SAY, OF 08:41 THE REFORMATION, WHEN A NUMBER OF CHURCHES, NOW, ARE SAYING THE 08:44 REFORMATION IS OVER AND THAT WE REALLY DIDN'T NEED TO HAVE A 08:47 REFORMATION, AND WITH THE TURMOIL YOU SEE IN THE WORLD 08:51 TODAY, IN CHRISTIANITY - THINGS THAT ARE EVEN HAPPENING 08:55 POLITICALLY, THE THREATS OF WAR, EVEN A LITTLE TURMOIL IN OUR OWN 08:59 CHURCH, WE NEED TO GET TOGETHER AND PRAY AND HAVE THIS REVIVAL 09:05 SERIES. SO WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING 09:06 AT, AGAIN, THE FOUNDATIONAL TEACHINGS OF CHRISTIANITY. 09:10 IT'S CALLED FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH . 09:11 IT'S FROM NOVEMBER 3 TO THE 11TH. 09:14 IF YOU GO TO THE AMAZING FACTS WEBSITE YOU'LL FIND MORE 09:16 INFORMATION THERE. WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO SIGN UP. 09:18 IF YOU'RE PART OF A CHURCH GROUP THAT WANTS TO COME TOGETHER AND 09:21 WATCH IT, IT'LL BE ON HOPE CHANNEL, 3ABN, AFTV, STREAMING 09:25 ON YOUTUBE, FACEBOOK, AND ALL THE MEDIUMS - 09:28 SO IT'S GOING TO BE GOING FAR AND WIDE. 09:29 PLEASE BE PRAYING FOR THE FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH EVENT. 09:33 SO WE WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW ABOUT THAT. 09:34 AGAIN, WELCOME TO SABBATH SCHOOL. 09:37 I WANT TO WELCOME THOSE WHO ARE WATCHING ON SATELLITE. 09:39 WELCOME THE - WE HAVE A NUMBER OF ONLINE MEMBERS AROUND THE 09:42 WORLD, FOLKS THAT MAYBE HAVE NO LOCAL CHURCH THAT THEY CAN 09:45 ATTEND AND THEY ARE MEMBERS OF THE GRANITE BAY CHURCH THAT ARE 09:47 ONLINE MEMBERS - I WANT TO WELCOME THEM. 09:50 I ENJOY HEARING FROM THEM THROUGH THE WEEK AND WE'RE 09:53 CONTINUING OUR STUDY IN GALATIANS. 09:55 TODAY WE'RE ON GALATIANS - OR LESSON #11, I SHOULD SAY, 09:59 DEALING WITH GALATIANS CHAPTER 5, VERSES 1 THROUGH 15, AND THE 10:02 TITLE OF THE LESSON IS FREEDOM IN CHRIST . 10:05 NOW WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE, AND THE MEMORY VERSE IS FROM 10:09 GALATIANS 5:13 AND, IF YOU'D FIND THAT - IF YOU WANT TO READ 10:13 IT RIGHT OUT OF YOUR LESSON BOOK, IT'S FROM THE ENGLISH 10:17 STANDARD VERSION - GALATIANS 5:13 - ARE YOU READY? 10:21 "FOR YOU WERE CALLED TO FREEDOM, BROTHERS. 10:25 ONLY DO NOT USE YOUR FREEDOM AS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE FLESH, 10:29 BUT THROUGH LOVE SERVE ONE ANOTHER." 10:33 THROUGH LOVE SERVE ONE ANOTHER - NOW, YOU KNOW WHAT I'D LIKE TO 10:36 DO? AS OUR CUSTOM HAS BEEN - WE'RE 10:40 BREAKING UP DIFFERENT PARTS OF GALATIANS AS WE STUDY. 10:44 TODAY, OUR ASSIGNMENT IS TO STUDY AND GO, KIND OF, PIECE BY 10:47 PIECE THROUGH GALATIANS 5, VERSES 1 THROUGH 15. 10:50 I'M JUST GOING TO READ IT - TRY AND DO IT WITHOUT COMMENT. 10:54 NOW, IN THEORY, WHEN WE GET TO THE END OF THIS QUARTER, WE'LL 10:56 HAVE READ THROUGH THE WHOLE BOOK OF GALATIANS, EVEN IF WE TAKE A 10:59 FEW MOMENTS AT EACH SABBATH SCHOOL CLASS TO DO IT. 11:02 BUT WHY DON'T WE LOOK THERE - GALATIANS 1 - I'M SORRY, 11:05 GALATIANS 5, VERSE 1 - AND I'LL READ IT FOR YOU - 11:08 THROUGH VERSE 15. "STAND FAST THEREFORE IN THE 11:12 LIBERTY BY WHICH CHRIST HAS MADE US FREE, AND DO NOT BE ENTANGLED 11:16 AGAIN WITH A YOKE OF BONDAGE. INDEED I, PAUL, SAY TO YOU THAT 11:22 IF YOU BECOME CIRCUMCISED, CHRIST WILL PROFIT YOU NOTHING. 11:26 AND I TESTIFY AGAIN TO EVERY MAN WHO BECOMES CIRCUMCISED THAT HE 11:29 IS A DEBTOR TO KEEP THE WHOLE LAW. 11:32 YOU HAVE BECOME ESTRANGED FROM CHRIST, YOU WHO ATTEMPT TO BE 11:35 JUSTIFIED BY LAW; YOU HAVE FALLEN FROM GRACE. 11:38 FOR WE THROUGH THE SPIRIT EAGERLY WAIT FOR THE HOPE OF 11:42 RIGHTEOUSNESS BY FAITH. FOR IN CHRIST JESUS NEITHER 11:47 CIRCUMCISION NOR UNCIRCUMCISION AVAILS ANYTHING, BUT FAITH 11:51 WORKING THROUGH LOVE. YOU RAN WELL. 11:54 WHO HINDERED YOU FROM OBEYING THE TRUTH? 11:56 THIS PERSUASION DOES NOT COME FROM HIM WHO CALLS YOU. 12:00 A LITTLE LEAVEN LEAVENS THE WHOLE LUMP. 12:02 I HAVE CONFIDENCE IN YOU, IN THE LORD, THAT YOU WILL HAVE NO 12:06 OTHER MIND; BUT HE WHO TROUBLES YOU SHALL BEAR HIS JUDGMENT, 12:09 WHOEVER HE IS. AND I, BRETHREN, IF I STILL 12:12 PREACH CIRCUMCISION, WHY DO I STILL SUFFER PERSECUTION? 12:16 THEN THE OFFENSE OF THE CROSS HAS CEASED. 12:18 I COULD WISH THAT THOSE WHO TROUBLE YOU WOULD EVEN CUT 12:20 THEMSELVES OFF! FOR YOU, BRETHREN, HAVE BEEN 12:23 CALLED TO LIBERTY; ONLY DO NOT USE LIBERTY AS AN OPPORTUNITY 12:27 FOR THE FLESH, BUT THROUGH LOVE SERVE ONE ANOTHER. 12:31 FOR ALL THE LAW IS FULFILLED IN ONE WORD, EVEN IN THIS: 'YOU 12:34 SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.' 12:37 BUT IF YOU BITE AND DEVOUR ONE ANOTHER, BEWARE LEST 12:41 YOU BE CONSUMED BY ONE ANOTHER!" POWERFUL WORDS. 12:46 PAUL DOES NOT, AS THEY WOULD SAY IN THE BOXING METAPHORS, HE 12:50 DOESN'T PULL ANY PUNCHES IN WHAT HE'S SAYING. 12:53 AND JUST, FOR THOSE WHO MAYBE HAVE JOINED US - WE HAVE SOME 12:56 VISITORS HERE - THERE'S ALWAYS NEW PEOPLE ONLINE - PAUL, IN 12:58 GALATIANS, IS ADDRESSING A PROBLEM. 13:01 HE HAD GONE INTO THE REGIONS OF GALATIA, HE HAD ESTABLISHED SOME 13:04 STRONG BIBLICAL CHURCHES, THEY WERE THRIVING, AND THEN SOME, 13:09 VERY LIKELY, JEWISH CONVERTS TO CHRISTIANITY, WENT IN, FOUND OUT 13:14 THE GENTILES WERE NEGLECTING TO KEEP SOME OF THE JEWISH 13:16 CEREMONIAL LAWS - THEY WEREN'T PRACTICING OR URGING 13:20 CIRCUMCISION ON THEIR CHILDREN, AND HE SAID, 'THIS IS NO GOOD. 13:24 YOU CAN'T DO THAT.' AND SO THEY BEGAN TO PUSH THEM TO BE 13:30 CIRCUMCISED AND TO START PRACTICING THE JEWISH CEREMONIAL 13:32 LAWS. AND THE CHURCH IN JERUSALEM 13:35 HAD SAID THAT'S NOT REQUIRED. AND SO, BASICALLY, IT WAS A 13:39 DISTRACTING HERESY THAT HAD COME IN AND IT REALLY ANGERED PAUL. 13:43 INSTEAD OF BELIEVING THAT THEY WERE SAVED BY FAITH IN CHRIST - 13:47 THEY NOW WERE - SOMEHOW BELIEVED THAT THEY WERE SAVED BY THINGS 13:51 THAT THEY DID - OPERATIONS AND PROCEDURES AND - IT'S LIKE 13:55 SAYING, YOU KNOW, IF YOU GO GET THIS TATTOO, YOU'LL BE SAVED. 13:58 WELL, ARE WE SAVED BY A TATTOO? AND SO, IN THE SAME WAY, HE'S 14:03 SAYING, 'YOU'RE NOT SAVED BY THIS'. 14:05 OR, ANOTHER PROBLEM THEY WERE HAVING IS THE JEWISH BELIEVERS 14:10 IN CHRIST, WHO HAD BEGUN TO INFILTRATE THESE GENTILE 14:13 CHURCHES WERE SAYING, 'YOU CAN'T EAT ANY OF THE MEAT THAT'S SOLD 14:16 IN THE MARKETS OF GALATIA BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THE PAGAN 14:19 BUTCHERS OFFER IT TO IDOLS BEFORE THEY SACRIFICE IT. 14:22 SO YOU'RE SUPPORTING IDOLATRY IF YOU BUY ANY OF YOUR LAMB, 14:25 CHICKEN, OR GOAT IN THE LOCAL MARKET - YOU BECOME AN 14:28 IDOLATER.' WELL, THEY HADN'T EVEN THOUGHT ABOUT THAT. 14:31 AND, UP UNTIL THEN, THEY WERE GOING, 'WHAT?' 14:33 AND SO THEY WERE PUTTING ALL THESE LAWS ON THEM. 14:36 NOW, LET ME JUST GET YOU TO BRING THIS UP INTO MODERN TERMS. 14:42 AS A CHRISTIAN, IS IT OKAY TO DRINK ORANGE JUICE? 14:49 >>YES. >>OKAY. HOW MANY OF YOU BUY 14:52 ORANGE JUICE AT THE SUPERMARKET? OKAY. 14:57 DO LIQUOR STORES SELL ORANGE JUICE? 14:59 >>YES. >>HOW DO YOU KNOW? 15:01 (LAUGHTER) YES, THEY DO. I KNOW THAT. 15:09 IF YOU WANT TO MAKE A SCREWDRIVER, IT REQUIRES ORANGE 15:11 JUICE AND VODKA. DON'T ASK ME HOW I KNOW THAT, 15:15 BUT IT GOES WAY BACK, I PROMISE YOU. 15:18 DO YOU BUY YOUR ORANGE JUICE AT THE LIQUOR STORE? 15:22 DO ANY OF YOU FEEL A LITTLE BIT - IF, FOR SOME REASON, YOU HAVE 15:25 TO GO - YOU KNOW, THERE ARE A FEW THINGS AT THE 15:27 LIQUOR STORE - THEY SELL SOME CONVENIENCE THINGS - LET'S ALL 15:29 ADMIT IT, SOMETIMES YOU RUSH IN THERE AND YOU MIGHT GRAB 15:31 SOMETHING. BUT DO YOU EVER FEEL 15:33 GOOD DOING THAT? YOU KNOW, YOU GO IN - LIKE BARS 15:37 ON THE WINDOWS, YOU KNOW, AND THERE'S CAMERAS EVERYWHERE - IT 15:40 NEVER SMELLS GOOD OUT FRONT, AND YOU DON'T WANT TO GO. 15:42 BUT YOU BUY YOUR ORANGE JUICE AT THE SUPERMARKET. 15:46 DO YOU KNOW, THE SUPERMARKET SELLS LIQUOR TOO. 15:50 SO ARE YOU SUPPORTING ALCOHOLISM WHEN YOU BUY? 15:54 BUT YOU'RE SUPPORTING A BUSINESS THAT IS NOT ONLY SELLING 15:59 ALCOHOL, IT'S SELLING TOBACCO. SO, IF YOU BUY YOUR GROCERIES AT 16:04 THE LOCAL SUPERMARKET, YOU ARE SUPPORTING ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO. 16:12 NOW, THERE ARE PEOPLE WHOSE CONSCIENCES ARE SO AUSTERE, THEY 16:19 THINK THAT WAY. AND I DON'T KNOW WHERE THEY'RE 16:21 BUYING ANYTHING, BUT THEY STRUGGLE LIKE THAT. 16:24 THEIR CONSCIENCE IS VERY SENSITIVE. 16:26 YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING? SO YOU CAN MAKE THOSE ARGUMENTS. 16:30 HOW MANY OF YOU WOULD, IF YOU INVEST IN STOCKS, WOULD YOU 16:33 INVEST IN A TOBACCO STOCK? HOW MANY OF YOU WOULD DO THAT? 16:38 GLAD TO HEAR IT. I WOULDN'T EITHER. 16:39 DON'T DO IT. THAT'S NOT GOOD. HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE 16:44 YOUR MONEY IN THE BANK? HOW DO YOU THINK A 16:48 BANK MAKES MONEY? THEY INVEST IN STOCKS. 16:54 DO YOU KNOW YOUR BANK PROBABLY IS INVESTED, IN PART, IN SOME 16:57 STOCKS THAT WOULD BE CALLED 'SIN STOCKS'. 17:00 THERE ARE STOCKS THAT HAVE THINGS TO DO WITH THE 17:02 ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY OR THEY HAVE TO DO WITH TOBACCO BUT, AT 17:06 SOME POINT, YOU'VE GOT TO HAVE FREEDOM IN CHRIST WHERE YOUR 17:09 CONSCIENCE IS NOT CONSTANTLY WORRIED ABOUT - I LIKE THAI 17:15 FOOD. I LIKE CHINESE FOOD. HAVE YOU EVER GONE INTO ONE 17:19 OF THOSE RESTAURANTS WHERE SOMEWHERE NEAR THE CASH REGISTER 17:22 THEY'VE GOT A LITTLE BUDDHA WITH INCENSE BURNING? 17:26 ARE YOU SUPPORTING THE WORSHIP OF PAGAN GODS IF YOU GET YOUR - 17:30 YOUR LO MEIN, OR WHATEVER IT IS, THAT YOU GET THERE? 17:36 NOW, SUPPOSE YOU'RE WITH A BROTHER OR SISTER AND YOU SAY, 17:41 'LET'S GO OUT TO EAT.' THEY SAY, 'GREAT.' YOU SAY, 'I KNOW THIS 17:44 GREAT RESTAURANT.' 'GREAT.' YOU WALK IN THE LOBBY 17:46 AND THERE'S THE CHINESE FOOD AND THEY'VE GOT A PICTURE OF BUDDHA 17:49 ON THE WALL AND THEY SAY, 'OH, BROTHER DOUG, WE CAN'T EAT HERE. 17:53 THEY WORSHIP IDOLS.' WHAT DO YOU DO? 17:58 IF IT OFFENDS YOUR WEAK BROTHER'S CONSCIENCE, YOU SAY, 18:01 'OH, LET'S GO TO SUBWAY.' (LAUGHTER) 'LET'S GO SOMEWHERE 18:05 ELSE.' RIGHT? WHERE YOU'RE PROBABLY NOT GOING 18:08 TO SEE ANY IDOLS ON THE WALL. WOULDN'T THAT BE 18:12 THE THING TO DO? NOW, WHEN THEY'RE NOT AROUND, 18:15 YOU'RE GOING RIGHT BACK TO THAT RESTAURANT. 18:18 YOU SEE WHAT I'M - THESE PROBLEMS WERE HAPPENING BACK 18:20 THEN IN PAUL'S DAY, WHERE HIGHLY SENSITIVE - THAT'S WHY PAUL SAYS 18:26 IN ROMANS, 'LOOK, FOR HE WHOSE FAITH IS WEAK, JUST EAT 18:28 VEGETABLES.' IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH VEGETARIANISM, IT HAD TO 18:32 DO WITH EATING THINGS OFFERED TO IDOLS. 18:35 AND SOME OF THE VERY SENSITIVE JEWISH BELIEVERS, THEY SAID, 18:38 'OH, DANIEL WOULDN'T EAT ANYTHING THAT WAS DEFILED BY 18:39 BABYLON AND' - THEY'D MISAPPLY THAT VERSE - AND THEY SAID, 'WE 18:42 CAN'T EITHER.' DANIEL DIDN'T BECAUSE IT WAS UNCLEAN FOOD. 18:47 AND SO, THESE WERE SOME OF THE PROBLEMS THEY WERE HAVING IN 18:50 GALATIA - THEY WERE LOSING THEIR FREEDOM BECAUSE THESE LEGALISTIC 18:56 JEWISH BELIEVERS - NOW, THERE WERE SOME JEWISH 18:58 BELIEVERS THAT HAD THE VICTORY, JUST LIKE PAUL DID - THEY WERE 19:02 FREE IN CHRIST, BUT THE ONES WHO WERE STILL SAYING, 'WE NEED TO 19:06 ADHERE TO THESE CEREMONIAL LAWS, THEY WERE BRINGING THAT INTO THE 19:10 CHURCHES OF GALATIA AND THEY TOTALLY STOPPED GROWING. 19:14 THEY STARTED JUST FALLING - YOU KNOW SOMETHING, I FOUND, THERE 19:20 ARE DIFFERENT HERESY GROUPS IN EVERY CHURCH. 19:26 THERE ARE GROUPS - I REMEMBER, THERE WAS A GROUP, THEY WERE 19:30 CALLED ELEVENTH-HOUR ADVENTISTS - I DON'T EVEN KNOW IF THEY 19:33 EXIST ANYMORE - HAVEN'T HEARD FROM THEM LATELY - AND THEY WENT 19:36 AROUND AND THEY WERE URGING PEOPLE TO KEEP THE FEASTS AND 19:40 THE MEN HAD TO GROW BEARDS. I'M ASHAMED TO SAY I DID A STUDY 19:44 ON BEARDS JUST TO DEAL WITH IT. THEN THERE'S OTHER GROUPS, 19:49 THEY'RE MIXED UP ON THE TRINITY. THEN YOU'VE GOT GROUPS CALLED 19:53 SHEPHERD'S ROD AND - WHERE WAS I? 19:57 I WAS JUST PREACHING SOMEWHERE AND THEY CAME. 19:59 THEY STOOD OUTSIDE WHERE I WAS PREACHING, THEY HANDED OUT 20:01 LITERATURE. SOMETHING YOU'LL NOTICE ABOUT 20:03 THESE GROUPS, THEY NEVER WIN SOULS OFF THE STREET TO CHRIST. 20:08 THEY INFILTRATE EXISTING CHURCHES AND TRY TO DRAW OVER 20:12 EXISTING BELIEVERS. YOU WILL NEVER SEE THEM OUT 20:15 THERE TRYING TO WIN JUST SOME PAGAN LOST PERSON TO JESUS 20:18 BECAUSE THOSE PEOPLE OUT THERE - YOU'RE NEVER GOING TO GET THOSE 20:20 PEOPLE OUT THERE TO BELIEVE SOME OF THESE KOOKY THINGS. 20:25 BUT THE DEVIL SENDS THEM IN TO GET THE CHURCHES SO PREOCCUPIED 20:30 WITH THESE LITTLE THINGS THAT THEY STOP SHARING CHRIST WITH 20:34 OTHERS. THEY LOSE THEIR FREEDOM. 20:36 AND I DON'T KNOW TOO MANY CHURCHES THAT ARE IMMUNE TO THIS 20:40 KIND OF DISTRACTION. WELL, THAT'S WHAT WAS HAPPENING. 20:42 PAUL SAID, 'LOOK, YOU'RE LOSING YOUR FREEDOM. 20:46 SO, WITH THAT LONG INTRODUCTION, LET'S GET BACK TO OUR STUDY NOW. 20:50 FIRST SECTION: CHRIST HAS SET US FREE - SET US FREE FROM WHAT? 20:56 WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE FREE? SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ FOR 20:58 ME, IN A MOMENT, JOHN 8:36. WHO HAS THAT? YOU WILL? OKAY, JUST 21:03 HOLD ONE MOMENT AND I'M GOING TO READ A COUPLE OF VERSES. 21:05 FIRST, LUKE 4:18, WHEN CHRIST STOOD UP AND STARTED PREACHING, 21:09 WHAT WAS THE FIRST THING HE SAID? 21:11 THIS IS IN HIS HOMETOWN OF NAZARETH, "THE SPIRIT OF THE 21:14 LORD IS UPON ME, BECAUSE HE HAS ANOINTED ME TO PREACH THE GOSPEL 21:18 TO THE POOR; HE HAS SENT ME TO HEAL THE BROKENHEARTED, TO 21:21 PROCLAIM LIBERTY TO THE CAPTIVES AND RECOVERY OF SIGHT TO THE 21:24 BLIND, TO SET AT LIBERTY THOSE WHO ARE OPPRESSED..." 21:29 SO ONE OF THE THINGS JESUS CAME TO DO IS TO SET PEOPLE FREE. 21:34 THE WHOLE BIBLE IS THE STORY OF A NATION WHO IS SAVED FROM 21:40 SLAVERY AND BROUGHT TO THEIR OWN LAND. 21:43 THEY'RE SAVED FROM SLAVERY TO PHARAOH SO THEY CAN SERVE THE 21:48 LORD. NOW, DID GOD SAVE THE CHILDREN 21:50 OF ISRAEL FROM SLAVERY? >>YES. 21:52 >>DID HE SET THEM FREE FROM SLAVERY SO THEY WOULDN'T HAVE TO 21:56 SERVE ANYBODY? NO. YOU REMEMBER WHAT MOSES 22:00 SAID TO THE PHARAOH? 'LET THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL GO 22:04 THAT THEY MAY SERVE ME.' SO EVERYBODY'S GOING TO SERVE 22:08 SOMEBODY, BUT HE - AND, YOU KNOW, WHEN THE CHILDREN OF 22:11 ISRAEL STOPPED SERVING GOD AND THEY STARTED SERVING PAGAN GODS, 22:15 THE LORD SAID, 'LOOK, I'M GOING TO WITHDRAW MY PROTECTION FROM 22:17 YOU AND YOU'LL FIND OUT WHAT HARD LABOR IS. 22:20 I'M GOING TO LET THESE OTHER NATIONS CONQUER YOU AND YOU'LL 22:22 SERVE THEM, AND YOU'LL SAY, 'OH, I WISH WE COULD SERVE THE LORD 22:24 AGAIN. IT WAS MUCH BETTER.' SO WHENEVER THEY WERE OVERCOME 22:28 BY THE PHILISTINES OR BY THE BABYLONIANS OR BY THE ASSYRIANS 22:31 OR BY THE MOABITES OR WHOEVER IT WAS, GOD WAS BASICALLY SAYING, 22:35 'SO YOU THINK IT'S HARD SERVING ME?' 22:37 I'LL LET YOU SERVE THEM FOR AWHILE. 22:39 LET ME KNOW HOW THAT GOES. BUT YOU EITHER SERVE THE LORD - 22:43 DIDN'T JESUS SAY, 'COME AFTER ME. 22:45 TAKE UP MY CROSS. I'M MEEK AND LOWLY. 22:48 YOU'LL FIND MY YOKE' - WHAT IS A YOKE? 22:53 IT'S AN INSTRUMENT OF SERVICE. SO WHEN YOU FOLLOW CHRIST, YOU 22:57 ARE YOKED TO JESUS - YOU SERVE WITH JESUS. 23:01 BUT HE SAYS, 'MY YOKE IS' - WHAT? IT'S EASY. 23:05 'MY BURDEN IS LIGHT.' HOW MUCH EASIER WAS IT FOR THE CHILDREN 23:09 OF ISRAEL TO BE GOING THROUGH THE LAND OF THE WILDERNESS 23:13 THERE, ON THEIR WAY TO THE PROMISED LAND, WITH A GOD THAT 23:17 LOVES THEM? HE FEEDS THEM BREAD FROM HEAVEN. 23:19 THEY'RE NOT TROMPING DOWN UNDER THE HOT SUN, MAKING BRICKS FOR 23:22 THE EGYPTIANS ANYMORE. REMEMBER IT KEPT SAYING, 23:24 'THE HARD LABOR'? THE PHARAOH MADE THEM 23:27 SERVE WITH RIGOR. HE SAID, 'I'M GOING TO INCREASE 23:29 YOUR WORK - YOU'VE GOT TO MAKE BRICKS WITHOUT STRAW, NOW' AND 23:32 THEY TRIED TO GRIND THEM DOWN SO THEY WOULDN'T GROW. 23:35 YOU REMEMBER? HE SAID THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, 23:37 THEY'RE MULTIPLYING, IF THEY JOIN OUR ENEMIES WE'RE DONE FOR. 23:41 SO THEY TRIED TO KILL THEM OFF BY WORKING THEM TO DEATH. 23:43 BUT THE MORE THEY OPPRESSED THEM, THE MORE THEY GREW. 23:46 WHICH, BY THE WAY, IS STILL TRUE WITH CHRISTIANITY. 23:49 IT SEEMS LIKE, IN TIMES OF GREAT PERSECUTION, THE CHURCH THRIVES. 23:54 HAVE YOU EVER NOTICED THAT IN HISTORY? 23:56 SO THE WHOLE BIBLE STORY IS ONE OF SAVING A NATION FROM SLAVERY 24:02 TO THE ENEMY, THAT THEY CAN SERVE GOD WITH JOY. 24:06 JOHN 8:32, "AND YOU SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH, AND THE TRUTH SHALL 24:11 MAKE YOU FREE." GO AHEAD, READ FOR US, THEN, 24:14 THE NEXT VERSE, JOHN 8:36. >>"THEREFORE IF THE SON MAKES 24:19 YOU FREE, YOU SHALL BE FREE INDEED." 24:23 >>NOW, WHEN THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS JESUS WAS SPEAKING TO 24:25 HEARD HIM SAY THAT, THAT REALLY BOTHERED THEM AND THEY SAID, 24:28 'WE'RE ABRAHAM'S CHILDREN. WE'VE NEVER BEEN SLAVES TO 24:30 ANYBODY.' JESUS TOLD THEM, 'FOR ONE THING,' - HE SAID - 'YOU'RE 24:33 NOT CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM BECAUSE YOU'RE TRYING TO KILL ME. 24:36 YOU'RE CHILDREN OF YOUR FATHER THE DEVIL.' BUT HE WENT ON TO 24:39 SAY, 'WHOEVER SINS IS A SLAVE OF SIN.' SO THE LORD WANTS TO SET 24:45 US FREE FROM THE BONDAGE AND THE SLAVERY OF SIN. 24:49 LOOK, FOR INSTANCE, AT ROMANS CHAPTER 6, VERSE 6, "KNOWING 24:53 THIS, THAT OUR OLD MAN WAS CRUCIFIED WITH HIM, THAT THE 24:57 BODY OF SIN MIGHT BE DONE AWAY WITH, THAT WE SHOULD NO LONGER 25:00 BE SLAVES OF SIN." YOU KNOW, ONE WAY A SLAVE IS SET FREE? 25:06 THROUGH DEATH. WHEN WE ARE DEAD, WE 25:12 ARE FREE FROM SIN. HOW DO WE FIND FREEDOM FROM SIN? 25:18 I AM - IT'S NOT I THAT LIVE BUT CHRIST LIVES IN ME.' 'I AM 25:22 CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST.' JESUS SAID, 'COME TAKE UP YOUR CROSS 25:26 AND FOLLOW ME.' WHEN WE ARE CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST WE DIE 25:30 WITH CHRIST. WE NO LONGER HAVE TO LIVE LIVES OF SIN. 25:34 DO YOU NOTICE THAT - HAVE YOU EVER BEEN TO A FUNERAL AND, YOU 25:38 KNOW, THE COFFIN IS THERE IN THE FRONT AND PEOPLE GET UP AND THEN 25:40 THEY SAY ALL THESE THINGS ABOUT THE DECEASED? 25:43 AND I'VE SEEN SOME INTERESTING TESTIMONY SERVICES. 25:46 I'M ALWAYS A LITTLE NERVOUS AT FUNERALS WHEN YOU OPEN THE FLOOR 25:49 AND SAY, 'WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO SAY ANYTHING ABOUT OUR BELOVED 25:52 BROTHER OR SISTER?' BECAUSE YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT 25:55 PEOPLE ARE GOING TO SAY. MOST OF THESE FOLKS ARE 25:57 NOT TRAINED SPEAKERS. AND I REMEMBER, I WAS AT THIS 26:03 ONE CHRISTIAN - OSTENSIBLY CHRISTIAN - FUNERAL. 26:06 EVERYBODY THOUGHT THIS GENTLEMAN THAT WAS IN THE COFFIN WAS JUST 26:08 A WONDERFUL PERSON. AND THEN THEY OPENED THE FLOOR 26:12 AND ONE BUDDY GOT UP AND SAID, 'BOY, YOU KNOW, WE USED TO HAVE 26:16 SO MUCH FUN WHEN WE WENT OUT FISHIN' AND DRINKIN'.' AND 'BOY, 26:20 COULD HE TELL SOME JOKES.' AND HE STARTED TALKING ABOUT HIS 26:24 JOKES AND WE'RE GOING, 'OH - CAN YOU HURRY THIS UP, PLEASE?' 26:29 EVERYBODY WAS A LITTLE BIT MORTIFIED. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? 26:32 THE GUY IN THE COFFIN DIDN'T COMPLAIN. 26:34 (LAUGHTER) IT DIDN'T EMBARRASS HIM AT ALL BECAUSE HE WAS DEAD. 26:40 NO MATTER WHAT YOU SAY ABOUT THE PERSON WHO'S DEAD, THEY'RE 26:42 NEVER OFFENDED BECAUSE THEY'RE DEAD. 26:44 YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE EASILY OFFENDED BECAUSE OF WHAT PEOPLE 26:47 SAY, YOU'RE PROBABLY NOT CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST. 26:50 BUT WHEN YOU'RE CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST AND YOU'RE MEEK, YOU JUST 26:56 SAY, 'OH WELL, YOU KNOW, THAT PERSON'S DEAD. 26:58 YOU CAN THROW ROCKS ALL YOU WANT.' IT'S VERY LIBERATING WHEN 27:02 YOU'RE DEAD - WHEN YOU DON'T LIVE UNTO THE FLESH BECAUSE 27:05 YOU'RE CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST. THAT'S WHERE YOU FIND THAT 27:07 FREEDOM. 1 CORINTHIANS 6:20, "FOR YOU 27:12 WERE BOUGHT AT A PRICE;" - THIS IS ANOTHER WAY WE'RE FREED. 27:16 NOT ONLY ARE WE FREED BECAUSE WE'RE CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST, 27:18 WE'VE BEEN REDEEMED. I WAS WRITING AN APPEAL LETTER 27:21 THIS WEEK AND I DID - THE LETTER'S ABOUT REDEMPTION - 27:24 AND I DID A LITTLE SEARCH - I WONDERED WHAT THE HIGHEST - 27:28 HIGHEST RANSOM EVER PAID FOR SOMEBODY KIDNAPPED. 27:32 ANYONE WANT TO VENTURE A GUESS? YOU REMEMBER WHEN PATTY 27:36 HEARST WAS KIDNAPPED? I THINK HE PAID - RANDOLPH 27:39 HEARST PAID LIKE TWO MILLION DOLLARS. 27:43 AND THEN THE GETTY - GETTY SON WAS KIDNAPPED IN ITALY AND, 27:50 AGAIN, HE PAID SEVERAL MILLION DOLLARS. 27:53 WELL, A FEW YEARS AGO THE SON OF A HONG KONG BILLIONAIRE WAS 27:57 KIDNAPPED AND THEY PAID 135 MILLION DOLLARS. 28:03 I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU GET ALL THAT IN CASH. 28:06 MAYBE THEY TOOK CREDIT CARDS. I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU DO THAT, 28:10 BUT A HUNDRED - THAT'S THE HIGHEST RANSOM THAT WAS EVER 28:12 PAID 135 [MILLION] DOLLARS. THE QUESTION IS, WAS 28:17 THE SON WORTH IT? HE WAS TO THE FATHER. 28:22 HOW MUCH WAS PAID FOR YOUR RANSOM? 28:25 MORE THAN 135 BILLION - OR MILLION, RATHER? 28:28 IT WAS 135 MILLION DOLLARS - HE WAS A BILLIONAIRE. 28:33 ARE YOU WORTH IT? WE ARE TO THE FATHER. 28:38 THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU'RE WORTH. 28:40 AND HE DID THAT - NOW, DOES A FATHER PAY THAT RANSOM TO LOCK 28:45 THE SON IN A ROOM SOMEWHERE ELSE SO HE WOULDN'T BE KIDNAPPED? 28:48 OR DOES HE PAY THE RANSOM TO SET HIM FREE? 28:51 WHY DOES GOD PAY THIS RANSOM? TO SET US FREE. 28:57 NOW, I KNOW IT MIGHT SEEM LIKE A CONTRADICTION, BUT THE TRUE 29:01 FREEDOM ONLY COMES TO THOSE WHO ARE CHRIST'S SLAVES. 29:07 TRUE FREEDOM IN LIFE WILL ONLY COME TO THOSE WHO ARE SLAVES TO 29:12 JESUS. HOW DOES PAUL BEGIN ALL OF HIS LETTERS? 29:16 PAUL, SERVANT OF JESUS CHRIST. IF YOU LOOK AT THAT WORD 29:21 'SERVANT' THERE, IT IS THE SAME WORD THAT IS USED FOR 'SLAVE'. 29:25 BUT MOST OF THE ENGLISH COMMENTATORS, UNDERSTANDING THAT 29:28 THAT'S A VERY VOLATILE WORD, THEY USED THE WORD 'SERVANT'. 29:31 BUT IT'S NOT - PAUL IS NOT THE EMPLOYEE OF JESUS. 29:36 THE WAY HE PUTS IT DOWN, HE SAYS, 'PAUL THE SLAVE OF JESUS'. 29:41 WAS HE A WILLING SLAVE? >>YES. 29:44 >>HE LOVED HIS MASTER. IT'S BY CHOICE. 29:48 GALATIANS 5:1, LET'S START PLOWING OUR WAY, NOW, THROUGH 29:52 THESE VERSES THAT WE'VE BEEN GIVEN. "STAND FAST THEREFORE IN 29:56 THE LIBERTY BY WHICH CHRIST HAS MADE US FREE, AND DO NOT BE 30:01 ENTANGLED AGAIN WITH A YOKE OF BONDAGE." NOW, WHEN HE SAYS 30:05 'STAND FAST', PAUL, IN VERSE 1 - CHAPTER 5, VERSE 1 - HE IS 30:10 REFERRING BACK TO WHAT WE READ LAST WEEK. YOU REALIZE THAT 30:14 THERE'S NO VERSES - THERE'S NOT CHAPTERS IN THE ORIGINAL. 30:17 IF YOU LOOK IN CHAPTER 4, VERSE - LET'S READ VERSES 30 AND 31, 30:23 "NEVERTHELESS WHAT DOES THE SCRIPTURE SAY? 30:25 'CAST OUT THE BONDWOMAN AND HER SON, FOR THE SON OF THE 30:28 BONDWOMAN SHALL NOT BE HEIR WITH THE SON OF THE FREEWOMAN.'" - 30:31 TALKING, AGAIN, ABOUT ISAAC AND ISHMAEL - "SO THEN, BRETHREN, WE 30:35 ARE NOT CHILDREN OF THE BONDWOMAN BUT OF THE FREE." 30:38 - NOW YOU TRANSITION INTO CHAPTER 5, "STAND FAST THEREFORE 30:41 IN THE LIBERTY" - IN THAT FREEDOM - "BY WHICH CHRIST HAS 30:44 MADE US FREE," - SEE, HE'S REFERENCING BACK TO THAT FORMER 30:48 VERSE, SO WE ARE NO LONGER CHILDREN OF THE BONDWOMAN. 30:54 WE'RE NO LONGER UNDER THE OLD TASKMASTER. 30:58 AND READING ON IN VERSE 3, "AND I TESTIFY AGAIN TO EVERY MAN WHO 31:02 BECOMES CIRCUMCISED THAT HE IS A DEBTOR TO KEEP THE WHOLE LAW." 31:07 NOW WAIT, WHAT IT PAUL SAYING? DOES THAT MEAN THAT YOU HAVE 31:11 FALLEN FROM GRACE IF YOU WERE BORN AND, BECAUSE OF THE 31:15 HOSPITAL YOU WERE BORN IN, AND YOUR PARENTS PREFERENCE, 31:18 SPEAKING TO THE MALES AMONG US, IF YOU WERE CIRCUMCISED, DOES 31:22 THAT MEAN YOU CANNOT BE SAVED? IS PAUL SPEAKING AGAINST THE 31:26 ACT OF CIRCUMCISION OR IS HE SPEAKING AGAINST CIRCUMCISION 31:29 AS A MEANS OF SALVATION? HE'S SPEAKING AGAINST IT AS A 31:33 MEANS OF SALVATION BECAUSE PAUL, OF COURSE, WAS CIRCUMCISED. 31:37 AND PAUL, LATER, CIRCUMCISED TIMOTHY SO IT WOULD NOT BE A 31:41 STUMBLING BLOCK FOR THE OTHERS HE WAS PREACHING TO. 31:43 SO PAUL WAS NOT SAYING THERE WAS ANYTHING INHERENTLY WRONG WITH 31:46 CIRCUMCISION, HE'S SAYING, 'IF YOU PEOPLE IN GALATIA ARE 31:49 THINKING, 'OH, I BETTER GET CIRCUMCISED SO I CAN BE FORGIVEN 31:51 BY JESUS' YOU HAVE FALLEN FROM GRACE'. 31:54 AND THAT'S A PRETTY STRONG STATEMENT. 31:57 'FALLEN FROM GRACE' IS NOT LIKE A THEOLOGICAL HICCUP. 32:01 FALLEN FROM GRACE - IT SAYS, "YOU WHO ATTEMPT TO BE JUSTIFIED 32:05 BY LAW; YOU HAVE FALLEN FROM GRACE." 32:09 CAN A PERSON BE IN HEAVEN WHO HAS FALLEN FROM GRACE? 32:12 >>YES. >>HOW ARE WE SAVED? 32:15 WE ARE SAVED BY - >>GRACE. 32:16 >>GRACE THROUGH FAITH. SO, IF YOU'VE FALLEN 32:19 FROM GRACE, YOU'RE LOST. SO, DO YOU UNDERSTAND HOW STRONG 32:23 THE WORDS ARE THAT PAUL IS USING TO THE GALATIANS? 32:26 MATTER OF FACT, GALATIANS IS PROBABLY THE STRONGEST LANGUAGE 32:29 PAUL EMPLOYS ANYWHERE IN ANY OF HIS WRITINGS. 32:32 YOU JUST LOOK AT SOME OF THE STATEMENTS THAT HE MAKES WHERE 32:36 HE SAID, 'LOOK,' 'LISTEN TO MY WORDS,' 'I, PAUL, AM TELLING 32:41 YOU,' 'IF YOU'RE HEARING ANY OTHER GOSPEL,' 32:45 'FALLEN FROM GRACE,' 'WHO HAS BEWITCHED YOU?' I MEAN, 32:49 PAUL, YOU KNOW, HE - HE REALLY GETS ON THE EDGE OF BEING AS 32:56 EMOTIONAL IN HIS LETTER AS HE CAN BE. 32:59 HE SAYS SOME PRETTY STRONG THINGS TO THE CORINTHIANS IN 33:01 1 CORINTHIANS, TOO, BUT THIS IS PROBABLY THE STRONGEST. 33:05 PAUL WAS SAYING, IF A PERSON IS CIRCUMCISED AS A MEANS OF 33:10 THINKING THEY'RE OBTAINING SALVATION, THEY HAVE MISSED THE 33:12 WHOLE POINT OF CHRIST'S COMING. PRETTY STRONG LANGUAGE. 33:18 HEBREWS 2, VERSES 14 AND 15, "INASMUCH THEN AS THE CHILDREN 33:23 HAVE PARTAKEN OF FLESH AND BLOOD, HE HIMSELF LIKEWISE 33:26 SHARED IN THE SAME," - SPEAKING OF JESUS - "THAT THROUGH DEATH 33:30 HE MIGHT DESTROY HIM WHO HAD THE POWER OF DEATH, THAT IS, THE 33:33 DEVIL, AND RELEASE" - SET FREE - "THOSE WHO THROUGH FEAR OF DEATH 33:39 WERE ALL THEIR LIFETIME SUBJECT TO BONDAGE." 33:42 WHAT IS ANOTHER WAY THAT JESUS SETS US FREE? 33:45 WELL, HE SETS US FREE THROUGH THE GOSPEL. 33:50 HE SETS US FREE FROM SIN. HE SETS US FREE FROM FEAR. 33:58 MANY PEOPLE SPEND THEIR LIVES IN FEAR. 34:00 THEY'RE ALWAYS WORRIED ABOUT DYING. 34:02 THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS. 34:03 YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU'RE IN CHRIST, AND YOU'RE IN A SAVED 34:06 RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS, CHRISTIANS DON'T DIE. 34:10 CHRISTIANS GO TO SLEEP. YOU HAVE NOTHING - ARE YOU 34:13 AFRAID WHEN YOU GO TO SLEEP AT NIGHT? 34:16 YOU PRAY THAT PRAYER, 'IF I DIE BEFORE I WAKE' YOU'RE WORRIED? 34:20 YOU CAN SLEEP PEACEFULLY AS A CHRISTIAN. 34:24 I WANT TO READ SOMETHING TO YOU FROM THE BOOK ACTS OF THE 34:26 APOSTLES . "PAUL HAD EVER EXALTED THE 34:30 DIVINE LAW" - WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT RIGHTEOUSNESS BY 34:32 FAITH, HERE - "PAUL HAD EVER EXALTED THE DIVINE LAW. 34:38 HE HAD SHOWN THAT, IN THE LAW, THERE IS NO POWER TO SAVE MEN 34:42 FROM THE PENALTY OF DISOBEDIENCE. 34:44 WRONGDOERS MUST REPENT OF THEIR SINS AND HUMBLE THEMSELVES 34:47 BEFORE GOD, WHOSE JUST WRATH THEY HAVE INCURRED BY BREAKING 34:51 HIS LAW AND THEY MUST ALSO EXERCISE FAITH IN THE BLOOD OF 34:55 CHRIST AS THE ONLY MEANS OF PARDON." 34:58 THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT. SHE SAYS IT IS ONLY THROUGH 35:01 FAITH IN CHRIST - THAT'S THE ONLY MEANS OF PARDON - "THE 35:03 SON OF GOD HAS DIED AS THEIR SACRIFICE AND HAS ASCENDED TO 35:07 HEAVEN TO STAND BEFORE THE FATHER AS THE ADVOCATE. 35:09 BY REPENTANCE AND FAITH, THEY MIGHT BE FREED FROM THE 35:13 CONDEMNATION OF SIN THROUGH THE GRACE OF CHRIST, BEING ABLE, 35:17 HENCEFORTH, TO RENDER OBEDIENCE TO THE LAW OF GOD. 35:21 NOW, THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT. SOME PEOPLE THINK THAT WE GET 35:23 GRACE SO THAT WE DON'T HAVE TO OBEY WHEN, IN REALITY, GOD 35:28 GIVES US GRACE TO OBEY. HAVE YOU EVER HEARD PEOPLE SAY, 35:32 'WELL, WE'RE SAVED BY GRACE. WE DON'T NEED TO OBEY'? 35:34 >>YES. >>THAT'S A CONTRADICTION. 35:38 PAUL IS NOT SAYING THAT. HE'S TALKING, IN GALATIANS, 35:40 ABOUT ANYBODY WHO THINKS THEY'RE JUSTIFIED BY KEEPING ANY LAW. 35:45 NOBODY'S JUSTIFIED BY KEEPING ANY LAW. 35:47 BUT, BREAKING IT DOWN A LITTLE FARTHER, THE SPECIFIC PROBLEM 35:50 THAT HE'S ADDRESSING IS THE CEREMONIAL LAWS AND 35:52 CIRCUMCISION. SOME PEOPLE HAVE TRIED TO USE 35:55 GALATIANS TO SAY WE DON'T NEED TO KEEP THE SABBATH DAY. 35:58 HOW MANY TIMES DOES THE WORD 'SABBATH' APPEAR IN THE BOOK 36:00 GALATIANS? NOT AT ALL. 36:03 HOW MANY TIMES DOES THE WORD 'CIRCUMCISION' APPEAR IN THE 36:06 BOOK? ABOUT A DOZEN TIMES, I 36:08 FORGET, BUT IT'S QUITE A BIT. AND SO THE BIG ISSUE - THERE'S 36:11 NO QUESTION ABOUT WHAT THE BIG ISSUE WAS THERE. 36:14 IT'S TALKING ABOUT THE CEREMONIAL LAWS OF MOSES. 36:16 IT'S NOT TALKING ABOUT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, SAYING WE'RE FREE 36:18 TO BREAK THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. ALRIGHT, NEXT SECTION. 36:23 SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ, FOR ME, ROMANS 6:14, BUT I'M GOING TO 36:27 READ, FIRST, ROMANS 6:12. THEREFORE, DO NOT LET SIN REIGN 36:33 IN YOUR MORTAL BODY THAT YOU SHOULD OBEY IT IN ITS LUSTS. 36:37 ALRIGHT, THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT AND I'M PRAYING THAT I CAN SAY 36:41 IT CAREFULLY SO THAT THERE'S NO CONFUSION. 36:45 GOD IS CALLING US TO BE LIKE JESUS. 36:49 JESUS IS PERFECT. I THINK MOST OF US ARE HERE 36:53 BECAUSE WE'VE MADE A DECISION TO FOLLOW JESUS, BUT HOW MANY HERE 36:56 BELIEVE THAT WE'RE PERFECT? SO, SEEING NO HANDS, I'M ASSUMING 37:02 THAT YOU'RE IN THE SAME BOAT I'M IN. 37:04 BUT DOES THAT MEAN YOU'RE NOT A CHRISTIAN? 37:06 WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THOSE THAT ARE OUT THERE IN THE 37:11 WORLD AND THOSE THAT ARE GENUINE CHRISTIANS? 37:14 A CHRISTIAN IS NOT A CHRISTIAN BECAUSE OF THE OCCASIONAL GOOD 37:17 DEED OR THE OCCASIONAL MISDEED, BUT IT'S THE HABITUAL WORDS AND 37:22 ACTS. BEFORE YOU ARE SAVED, SIN 37:25 HAS DOMINION OVER YOU. SIN RULES IN YOUR LIFE. 37:30 WE ARE HOLDEN BY THE CORDS OF OUR SIN. 37:34 AFTER YOU ARE SAVED, IT DOESN'T MEAN YOU WILL NEVER SIN, IT 37:37 MEANS THAT SIN NO LONGER HAS DOMINION OVER YOU. 37:40 YOUR LIFE IS NOT GOVERNED BY THIS SLAVERY TO SIN. 37:44 YOU HAVE BEEN SET FREE. WHEN A COUNTRY IS HELD IN 37:50 BONDAGE BY A DESPOT, AND HE'S ON THE THRONE, AND THEN ANOTHER 37:56 COUNTRY COMES AND LIBERATES THEM - WHEN AMERICA WENT INTO FRANCE 38:01 DURING WORLD WAR II AND THE NAZIS HAD OCCUPIED THE COUNTRY 38:07 AND THERE WERE TERRIBLE THINGS THAT WERE HAPPENING THERE, THE 38:11 ALLIES CAME IN, THEY LIBERATED THE FRENCH, THE NAZIS NO LONGER 38:17 HAD DOMINION - THEY NO LONGER HAD RULE - THEY WERE DRIVEN OUT. 38:20 AND THAT MEANS, FROM THAT POINT ON, THE FRENCH NO LONGER NEEDED 38:23 A POLICE DEPARTMENT FOR THE OCCASIONAL CRIMINAL. 38:27 IS THAT WHAT IT MEANT? THE PEOPLE WERE FREE. 38:31 THEY'D BEEN LIBERATED FROM THE DOMINION OF THE NAZIS, BUT IT 38:35 DIDN'T MEAN THAT YOU DIDN'T, OCCASIONALLY, HAVE SOME PETTY 38:38 THIEF OR A CRIME. DO YOU SEE WHAT I'M SAYING? 38:42 WHO IS ON THE THRONE IN YOUR LIFE? 38:46 ONCE YOU'RE SAVED, CHRIST IS ON THE THRONE. 38:47 GO AHEAD, READ, FOR US, THAT VERSE - ROMANS 6:14. 38:51 >>"FOR SIN SHALL NOT HAVE DOMINION OVER YOU, FOR YOU ARE 38:56 NOT UNDER LAW BUT UNDER GRACE. >>SIN IS NOT RULING. 39:01 IT DOESN'T HAVE DOMINION ANYMORE. 39:02 AND, AGAIN, YOU READ THE - VERSE 12 - SIN DOES NOT REIGN - 39:05 IT DOESN'T HAVE CONTROL. SO IF YOU'RE A CHRISTIAN AND YOU 39:09 KNOW THAT JESUS IS THE LORD OF YOUR LIFE, BUT YOU OCCASIONALLY 39:13 SIN - IT DOESN'T MEAN I'M JUSTIFYING IT; GOD WANTS YOU TO 39:15 GET THE VICTORY OVER ALL THOSE THINGS, BUT IT DOESN'T MEAN 39:18 YOU'RE NOT A CHRISTIAN BECAUSE, OTHERWISE, WHO HERE 39:22 IS A CHRISTIAN? DO YOU SEE THE DIFFERENCE 39:25 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT? WHO HAS DOMINION? 39:27 WHO IS THE LORD? WHO IS GUIDING YOUR LIFE? 39:29 WHEN YOU WAKE UP AND YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT TO DO, WHOSE WILL DO 39:32 YOU PURSUE? DO YOU SAY, IN YOUR LIFE, 39:34 'LORD, YOUR WILL BE DONE. I WANT TO FOLLOW YOUR WILL. 39:37 I WANT TO LOOK IN YOUR WORD AND FIND OUT WHAT YOU WANT'? 39:39 HE IS YOUR LORD. THE DEVIL IS NO 39:41 LONGER YOUR LORD. YOU'RE NOT LIVING 39:43 BECAUSE OF SELFISHNESS. YOU'RE NOT BEING DRIVEN BY PRIDE 39:47 AND THE TYPICAL THINGS THAT DRIVE THE LOST IN THE WORLD. 39:51 ROMANS 8:2, "FOR THE LAW OF THE SPIRIT OF LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS 39:56 HAS MADE ME FREE FROM THE LAW OF SIN AND DEATH." 40:00 ALL OF US SHOULD BE ABLE TO CLAIM THAT EXPERIENCE, AMEN? 40:05 REFERRING BACK TO GALATIANS 4, VERSES 3 TO 5, IT SAYS, "EVEN SO 40:11 WE, WHEN WE WERE CHILDREN, WERE IN BONDAGE UNDER THE ELEMENTS 40:15 OF THE WORLD. BUT WHEN THE FULLNESS OF THE 40:17 TIME HAD COME, GOD SENT FORTH HIS SON, BORN OF A WOMAN, BORN 40:21 UNDER THE LAW, TO REDEEM THOSE WHO WERE UNDER THE LAW, THAT WE 40:25 MIGHT RECEIVE THE ADOPTION AS SONS." 40:27 NOW, DOES THE SON STILL NEED TO OBEY THEIR FATHER? 40:31 DOES THE SON STILL SERVE THEIR PARENTS? 40:35 IF THEY'RE GOOD CHILDREN, THEY KNOW HOW TO DO SOME CHORES, BUT 40:39 THERE'S A FAMILY RELATIONSHIP. SO WE SERVE THE LORD, 40:43 BUT WE DO IT AS CHILDREN. YOU REMEMBER WE STUDIED, 40:45 LAST WEEK, THE PRODIGAL SON? WHAT DID THAT PRODIGAL SON SAY? 40:48 MY FATHER'S SERVANTS ARE EATING BETTER THAN ME.' AND HE COMES 40:53 BACK AND HE SAYS, 'FATHER, MAKE ME AS ONE OF YOUR HIRED 40:55 SERVANTS.' HE SAYS, 'NO, I'M ADOPTING YOU BACK. 40:58 YOU'RE MY COMPLETE SON.' THE OTHER SON - THE OLDER BROTHER - 41:02 HE SAYS, 'ALL THESE YEARS I'VE SERVED YOU.' SO, DO SONS SERVE? 41:08 YEAH. SO, PAUL IS SAYING, 'LOOK, 41:11 YOU'VE BEEN ADOPTED. EVEN THOUGH YOU ARE GENTILES, 41:15 YOU ARE ADOPTED INTO THE FAMILY. YOU BECOME PART OF THE STOCK OF 41:18 ISRAEL.' I REMEMBER, ONE TIME, HEARING ABOUT A TEACHER IN A 41:24 SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS AND SHE WAS REGISTERING - NEW SEASON - AND 41:27 TWO BOYS HAD JUST JOINED THE CLASS AND THEY WERE BROTHERS. 41:30 SHE ASKED FOR THEIR BIRTHDAYS - SHE WANTED TO ALWAYS WRITE DOWN 41:32 THEIR BIRTHDAYS SO SHE COULD CELEBRATE THEIR BIRTHDAYS WHEN 41:35 THE TIME CAME, AND THEY SAID, WELL, WE'RE BOTH SEVEN. 41:40 ONE OF THEM SAID, 'MY BIRTHDAY'S APRIL 8, 1976 AND MY BROTHER'S 41:44 IS APRIL 20TH, 1976.' AND THE TEACHER DIDN'T HAVE TO THINK 41:49 VERY LONG BEFORE SHE THOUGHT, 'WELL, NO, THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE.' 41:53 'NO IT'S NOT', ANSWERED THE QUIETER BROTHER, 'ONE OF US IS 41:56 ADOPTED.' WITHOUT THINKING, THE TEACHER SAID, 'WHICH ONE?' 42:00 THE BOYS LOOKED AT EACH OTHER AND SMILED AND SAID, 'WE DON'T 42:03 KNOW. WE ASKED OUR FATHER AND HE SAID 42:04 IT'S BEEN SO LONG HE CAN'T REMEMBER AND HE LOVES US BOTH.' 42:07 (LAUGHTER) AND THAT'S HOW IT IS WITH THE LORD. 42:13 HE ADOPTS US AND HE LOOKS UPON US AS HIS CHILDREN. 42:17 HE LOOKS UPON US AS HIS OWN SONS. 42:20 HE LOVES US THE WAY HE LOVES HIS OWN SON. 42:22 AMEN? NEXT SECTION TALKS ABOUT THE 42:26 DANGEROUS CONSEQUENCES OF LEGALISM . 42:30 IN A MOMENT SOMEONE WILL READ, FOR ME, GALATIANS 6:15, AND I'M 42:35 GOING TO READ 1 CORINTHIANS 7:19. 42:38 NOTICE HOW MANY TIMES YOU'RE GOING TO FIND THIS PHRASE - AT 42:41 LEAST FIVE TIMES IN THE BIBLE, MAYBE MORE, WHERE IT SAYS 42:44 "CIRCUMCISION IS NOTHING AND UNCIRCUMCISION IS NOTHING," - I 42:49 CORINTHIANS 7:19, "CIRCUMCISION IS NOTHING AND UNCIRCUMCISION IS 42:52 NOTHING," - BUT EVERY TIME PAUL SAYS IT, HE THEN FOLLOWS THAT 42:56 STATEMENT WITH SOMETHING DIFFERENT. NONE OF THEM ARE THE 42:59 SAME, BUT HE'LL MAKE THAT STATEMENT AND HE MAKES, THEN, 43:02 AFTER THAT STATEMENT, ANOTHER STATEMENT THAT'S UNIQUE. 43:07 HE SAYS "CIRCUMCISION IS NOTHING AND UNCIRCUMCISION IS NOTHING, 43:09 BUT KEEPING THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD IS WHAT MATTERS." 43:13 NOW, THE REASON THAT'S SO IMPORTANT - I MENTION IT FIRST - 43:15 FIRST OF ALL, IT'S LISTED FIRST - 1 CORINTHIANS 7:19 - IT'S 43:19 BECAUSE SOME PEOPLE SAY, 'WE'RE UNDER GRACE, WE'RE NOT UNDER THE 43:21 LAW. WE DON'T NEED TO KEEP THE 43:23 COMMANDMENTS.' THEY TAKE GALATIANS TO MEAN, BECAUSE PAUL 43:27 SPEAKS AGAINST THE LAW THERE, WE DON'T NEED TO KEEP 43:29 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. PAUL IS TALKING ABOUT THE 43:31 CEREMONIAL LAW, PRINCIPALLY, IN GALATIANS, RIGHT? 43:34 BECAUSE WHY ELSE WOULD PAUL SAY, 'CIRCUMCISION DOESN'T MATTER, 43:36 UNCIRCUMCISION DOESN'T MATTER, WHAT MATTERS IS KEEPING THE 43:39 COMMANDMENTS.' BUT WHAT COMMANDMENTS IS HE TALKING 43:41 ABOUT? MUST BE TALKING ABOUT THE MORAL LAW THERE, RIGHT? ALRIGHT, 43:45 NEXT ONE IS GALATIANS 5:6, "FOR IN CHRIST JESUS NEITHER 43:49 CIRCUMCISION NOR UNCIRCUMCISION AVAILS ANYTHING, 43:52 BUT FAITH WORKING THROUGH LOVE." - ISN'T THAT INTERESTING? 43:56 ONE TIME HE SAYS, 'KEEPING THE COMMANDMENTS', THE NEXT TIME HE 43:58 SAYS, 'FAITH WORKING THROUGH LOVE'. 44:01 DOES THAT SOUND LIKE TWO OPPOSITE EXTREMES? 44:04 NO, NOT FOR A REAL CHRISTIAN. YOU UNDERSTAND KEEPING THE 44:07 COMMANDMENTS IS FAITH WORKING BY LOVE. SEE THAT? 44:11 LET ME GIVE YOU ONE MORE - COLOSSIANS 3:11, "WHERE THERE IS 44:16 NEITHER GREEK NOR JEW, CIRCUMCISED NOR UNCIRCUMCISED, 44:20 BARBARIAN, SCYTHIAN, SLAVE NOR FREE, BUT CHRIST IS ALL AND IN 44:25 ALL." THERE, AGAIN, HE SAYS 'CIRCUMCISED/UNCIRCUMCISED THAT 44:28 DOESN'T MATTER - GREEK/JEW, DOESN'T MATTER, BUT CHRIST IS 44:32 ALL IN ALL.' SO THE BIG EMPHASIS WITH PAUL - THAT'S WHY HE USES 44:37 THESE STRONG WORDS, 'LOOK, LISTEN, MARK MY WORDS, I, PAUL, 44:41 SAY TO YOU' - HE IS LETTING US KNOW HE DOESN'T WANT TO MISS 44:45 THIS IMPORTANT POINT: DON'T LOSE YOUR FREEDOM THAT YOU HAVE IN 44:49 CHRIST. ALRIGHT, NEXT SECTION: LIBERTY NOT LICENTIOUSNESS . 44:56 NOW PAUL SAYS, IN GALATIANS CHAPTER 5, VERSE 13, "FOR YOU, 45:00 BRETHREN, HAVE BEEN CALLED TO LIBERTY;' - IT TALKS ABOUT US 45:03 BEING FREE - "ONLY DO NOT USE LIBERTY AS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR 45:07 THE FLESH, BUT THROUGH LOVE SERVE ONE ANOTHER." 45:11 ONE OF THE FALSE DOCTRINES THEY HAD GOING AROUND BACK THEN 45:13 THAT'S REAPPEARED MANY TIMES IN HISTORY, IS THE DOCTRINE OF THE 45:17 NICOLATIANS - 'THE THING WHICH I HATE'. 45:21 YOU'VE HEARD - JESUS REFERS TO THIS IN REVELATION - WHAT IS THE 45:24 DOCTRINE OF THE NICOLATIANS? THE WAY WE UNDERSTAND IT - IT'S 45:28 NOT RECORDED IN THE BIBLE - BUT WE DO SEE, IN ACTS CHAPTER 7, 45:31 THERE WAS A DEACON NAMED NICOLAS OF ANTIOCH - YOU'LL LOOK AT THE 45:36 DIFFERENT DEACONS - THERE WERE SEVEN - ONE OF THEM WAS STEPHEN, 45:39 ONE OF THEM WAS PHILIP, ONE OF THEM WAS NICOLAS. 45:42 CHURCH HISTORY TELLS US NICOLAS APOSTATIZED. 45:46 HE DIDN'T JUST LEAVE, HE BEGAN TO TEACH A GOSPEL AND, 45:50 BASICALLY, JUST SAY, 'BECAUSE WE ARE SAVED BY GRACE AND BECAUSE 45:53 WE ARE FREE IN CHRIST, AND BECAUSE WE ARE SPIRITUAL 45:57 CREATURES, DON'T GET THE SPIRIT MIXED UP WITH THE FLESH. 46:00 WHATEVER YOU DO WITH YOUR BODY, THAT'S ONE THING. 46:02 YOU CAN DO WHATEVER YOU WANT WITH YOUR BODY, IT WON'T MATTER 46:06 - THE BODY'S THE BODY - JUST AS LONG AS YOU LOVE THE LORD WITH 46:09 YOUR SPIRIT AND YOUR MIND.' AND SO THEY BEGAN TO USE THAT AS A 46:12 LICENSE. THEY SAYS, 'WE'RE FREE IN CHRIST'. 46:14 THEY SAID, 'DON'T WORRY ABOUT THE BIBLE' - AND THEY BEGAN TO 46:16 DO ALL KINDS OF SINFUL, DESPICABLE THINGS WITH THEIR 46:19 BODIES - LIVING VERY IMMORALLY - BUT THEY SAID, 'OH, BUT WE'RE - 46:22 IN THE SPIRIT WE'RE PURE.' ELLEN WHITE DEALT WITH THAT - SHE 46:26 DEALT WITH A SIMILAR HERESY, AND WE STILL HAVE IT TODAY, WHERE 46:30 PEOPLE SAID, 'OH, WE'RE SAVED BY GRACE. 46:32 BECAUSE WE'RE SAVED BY GRACE, DON'T WORRY ABOUT OBEYING.' 46:35 IF YOU TALK ABOUT OBEYING, WHAT ARE YOU ACCUSED OF BEING? 46:38 >>A LEGALIST. >>A LEGALIST. 46:40 NOBODY WANTS TO BE ACCUSED OF BEING A LEGALIST. 46:44 YOU KNOW, IF YOU SAY, TODAY, THAT YOU THINK THAT 46:46 HOMOSEXUALITY IS - BEHAVIOR AND PRACTICE - IS INAPPROPRIATE, IF 46:53 YOU SAY THAT YOU BELIEVE THAT MEN SHOULD MARRY WOMEN AND WOMEN 46:58 SHOULD MARRY MEN, YOU WILL BE CALLED A HOMOPHOBE. 47:03 THEY'VE GOT A LABEL FOR IT AND IT'S DESIGNED BY THE MEDIA TO 47:06 INTIMIDATE YOU. NOW, WHAT IS A PHOBIA? 47:12 >>FEAR. >>A PHOBIA IS SOMETHING - IT'S 47:13 NOT JUST A FEAR, IT'S AN EXTREME FEAR. 47:18 I DON'T PICK UP BLACK WIDOWS. I WAS IN AN OLD BUILDING THE 47:23 OTHER DAY AND I LOOKED AROUND FOR BLACK WIDOWS BECAUSE I'D SEE 47:26 THEM THERE BEFORE BUT, YOU KNOW WHAT? 47:27 I DO NOT HAVE ARACHNOPHOBIA. DO YOU KNOW WHAT ARACHNOPHOBIA? 47:31 ARACHNOPHOBIA IS A PERSON WHO IS SO SCARED OF SPIDERS THAT THEY 47:34 SEE A SPIDER, THEY SCREAM, THE JUMP ON A CHAIR, THEY CALL THE 47:38 EXTERMINATOR, AND THEY CAN'T EVEN LOOK AT THEM ON TELEVISION. 47:43 THERE ARE ALL THESE DIFFERENT KINDS OF PHOBIAS. I'M NOT - 47:46 I DON'T HAVE ARACHNOPHOBIA, I JUST DON'T PICK UP BLACK WIDOWS. 47:51 SO TO SAY A PERSON IS HOMOPHOBIC BECAUSE YOU SAY YOU BELIEVE IN 47:55 TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE, THAT IS SLANDEROUS - TRYING TO 47:59 INTIMIDATE - WELL THERE'S A DIFFERENT KIND OF CHRISTIAN 48:02 SLANDER TODAY WHERE YOU CALL A PERSON A PHARISEE - YOU CALL 48:06 THEM A LEGALIST IF THEY TALK ABOUT OBEDIENCE - 'LEGALIST!' 48:11 'PHARISEE!' - 'OH, I'M SORRY. NOT ME, PLEASE DON'T CALL ME 48:15 THAT.' AND EVERYBODY'S AFRAID OF SAYING THE TRUTH BECAUSE THEY'RE 48:21 GOING TO GET CALLED A NAME. AND SO, IF WE - THEY'VE GOT THE 48:26 WHOLE LIST OF THESE PC NAMES THAT PEOPLE ARE CALLED 48:29 BECAUSE YOU TELL THE TRUTH. THAT'S JUST AMAZING. 48:34 ANYWAY, WHAT WAS I TALKING ABOUT? 48:36 OH, YEAH, I WAS TALKING ABOUT THIS FALSE LIBERTY. 48:40 LET ME READ SOMETHING TO YOU, HERE. 48:43 TALKING ABOUT THE FALSE FREEDOM - 2 PETER 2:18 - PETER TALKS 48:46 ABOUT THIS MINDSET, "FOR WHEN THEY SPEAK GREAT SWELLING WORDS 48:50 OF EMPTINESS, THEY ALLURE THROUGH THE LUSTS OF THE FLESH, 48:53 THROUGH LEWDNESS, THE ONES WHO HAVE ACTUALLY ESCAPED FROM THOSE 48:57 WHO LIVE IN ERROR. WHILE THEY PROMISE THEM LIBERTY, 49:01 THEY THEMSELVES ARE SLAVES OF CORRUPTION;" - SO EVEN BACK IN 49:05 PETER'S DAY THEY HAD PEOPLE IN THE CHURCH THAT SAID, 'WE'RE 49:07 FREE IN CHRIST.' BUT HE TALKS ABOUT THEIR CORRUPTION - THE 49:11 LUSTS OF THE FLESH - LEWDNESS IN THE CHURCH - 49:14 BUT THEY'RE FREE IN CHRIST. SO THE DEVIL - THIS IS AN OLD 49:16 TACTIC - "WHILE THEY PROMISED THEM LIBERTY, THEY THEMSELVES 49:20 ARE SLAVES OF CORRUPTION; FOR BY WHOM A PERSON IS OVERCOME, BY 49:24 HIM ALSO HE IS BROUGHT INTO BONDAGE. 49:27 FOR IF, AFTER THEY HAVE ESCAPED THE POLLUTIONS OF THE WORLD 49:29 THROUGH THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST, 49:32 THEY ARE AGAIN ENTANGLED IN THEM AND OVERCOME, THE LATTER END IS 49:36 WORSE FOR THEM THAN THE BEGINNING...BUT IT HAS HAPPENED 49:38 TO THEM ACCORDING TO THE TRUE PROVERB: 'A DOG RETURNS TO HIS 49:41 OWN VOMIT,' AND 'A SOW, HAVING WASHED, TO HER WALLOWING IN THE 49:43 MIRE.'" LIBERTY, NOT LICENTIOUSNESS - FREEDOM IN 49:48 CHRIST IS NOT FREEDOM TO SIN. IT'S NOT FREEDOM FROM LAW, 49:52 BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT SAVED BY THE LAW. 49:55 ROMANS 2:13, "(FOR NOT THE HEARERS OF THE LAW ARE JUST IN 50:00 THE SIGHT OF GOD, BUT THE DOERS OF THE LAW WILL BE JUSTIFIED;" - 50:04 WHO SAID THAT? WHAT BIBLE WRITER WROTE THAT? 50:07 >>PAUL. >>PAUL - ROMANS, RIGHT? 50:11 SO EVERYBODY WHO TRIES TO GET PAUL TO SAY THAT, BECAUSE WE ARE 50:14 RIGHTEOUS THROUGH FAITH, THAT MEANS THAT WHEN YOU'RE RIGHTEOUS 50:16 THROUGH FAITH, YOU DON'T OBEY - LET ME READ IT TO YOU AGAIN. 50:20 "(FOR NOT THE HEARERS OF THE LAW ARE JUST IN THE SIGHT OF GOD, 50:23 BUT THE DOERS OF THE LAW WILL BE JUSTIFIED;" - WE ARE JUDGED BY 50:27 OUR WORKS BECAUSE, IF YOU ARE SAVED BY FAITH, YOU WILL OBEY. 50:31 SO YOU CAN LOOK AT THE OBEDIENCE AND SEE IF THEY'RE SAVED BY 50:33 FAITH. KIND OF LIKE A PASTOR CAN LOOK 50:38 AT THE GIVING PATTERNS IN A CONGREGATION TO TELL HOW 50:42 HEALTHY THEY ARE, SPIRITUALLY. IF A CONGREGATION IS STINGY, 50:47 THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND THE SACRIFICE OF JESUS. 50:50 THE GIVING IS A THERMOMETER THAT SHOWS WHAT'S HAPPENED IN THE 50:55 HEART. >>AMEN. 50:56 >>AND THAT'S HOW IT IS WITH THE LAW AND THE COMMANDMENTS. 51:01 IF YOU'RE OBEYING, IT'S AN EV - NOT TO BE SAVED, BUT BECAUSE YOU 51:04 LOVE THE LORD. READ, FOR ME - SOMEONE'S GOING 51:07 TO READ ROMANS 6:1 AND 2 - MANJEET? 51:10 OH, LET ME READ ONE MORE VERSE AND THEN YOU. 51:12 ROMANS 3:8, "AND WHY NOT SAY, 'LET US DO EVIL THAT GOOD MAY 51:16 COME'? - AS WE ARE SLANDEROUSLY REPORTED AND AS SOME AFFIRM THAT 51:21 WE SAY. THEIR CONDEMNATION IS JUST." 51:24 PEOPLE SAYING, 'OH, WELL, BECAUSE WE'RE SAVED BY GRACE, 51:26 LET'S JUST DO MORE EVIL - WE'LL HAVE MORE GRACE.' CRAZY 51:29 THINKING, ISN'T IT? GO AHEAD, READ, FOR US, ROMANS 6:1 AND 2. 51:32 >>ROMANS 6:1 AND 2, "WHAT SHALL WE SAY THEN? 51:36 SHALL WE CONTINUE IN SIN THAT GRACE MAY ABOUND? CERTAINLY NOT! 51:42 HOW SHALL WE WHO DIED TO SIN LIVE ANY LONGER IN IT?" 51:48 >>AND SIN IS THE TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW. 51:51 HOW SHALL WE WHO ARE SAVED FROM OUR LAWLESSNESS TURN BACK TO 51:55 LAWLESSNESS AND CLAIM WE'RE DOING IT IN THE NAME OF GRACE? 51:58 VERY SIMPLY, SHOULD CHRISTIANS BE OBEDIENT? ABSOLUTELY. 52:02 IS OBEDIENCE LEGALISM? NO. WHY ARE YOU DOING IT? 52:07 PAUL WASN'T SAYING CIRCUMCISION WAS BAD, HE SAID, 'IF YOU'RE 52:09 BEING CIRCUMCISED BECAUSE YOU THINK YOU'RE EARNING SALVATION, 52:13 YOU HAVE FALLEN FROM GRACE. IF YOU'RE KEEPING THE SABBATH 52:17 BECAUSE YOU'RE EARNING SALVATION, YOU'VE FALLEN FROM 52:20 GRACE. 'PASTOR DOUG, HOW DARE YOU?' 52:23 - IT'S THE SAME PRINCIPLE, ISN'T IT? 52:25 IF YOU'RE DOING ANY OF THESE LAWS BECAUSE YOU THINK YOU'RE 52:29 SAVED BY DOING THE LAW, YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND, YOU'RE ALREADY 52:33 - YOU'RE ON DEATH ROW BECAUSE OF YOUR SINS - YOU'VE ALL SINNED, 52:35 THE PENALTY IS DEATH. YOU ARE SAVED BY GRACE. 52:38 IF ANYONE'S SAVED, IT'S GOING TO BE ONLY BY GRACE, AMEN? 52:41 >>AMEN. >>ROMANS 6:15, HERE'S ANOTHER 52:44 ONE, "WHAT THEN? SHALL WE SIN BECAUSE WE ARE NOT UNDER LAW BUT 52:47 UNDER GRACE?" - GOD FORBID! - "CERTAINLY NOT!" 1 CORINTHIANS 52:51 8:9, "BUT BEWARE LEST SOMEHOW THIS LIBERTY" - THIS FREEDOM - 52:56 "...BECOME A STUMBLING BLOCK TO THOSE WHO ARE WEAK." 52:58 GO TO THE CHINESE RESTAURANT AND THAT BUDDHA BOTHERS THEM, GO TO 53:01 A DIFFERENT RESTAURANT. DON'T OFFEND YOUR WEAK BROTHER. 53:07 1 PETER 2:16, YOU'RE "AS FREE, YET NOT USING LIBERTY AS A CLOAK 53:13 FOR VICE," - HAVE YOU SEEN THAT DONE BEFORE? 53:16 I'VE - I HAVE KNOWN OF PASTORS THAT WENT AND BOUGHT A BEER AT 53:22 THE LOCAL 7-11 AND ONE OF THEIR MEMBERS SAID, 'PASTOR, WHY WOULD 53:25 YOU?' - 'WE'RE FREE IN CHRIST.' 'BUT THAT'S A DRUG THAT PEOPLE 53:31 GET ADDICTED TO THAT DESTROYS LIVES. WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?' 53:34 - THEY SAY, 'OH, BUT I'M FREE IN CHRIST.' USING LIBERTY AS A 53:37 CLOAK FOR VICE. IF YOU DON'T KNOW IT, 53:39 ALCOHOL IS A VICE. YOU STILL WITH ME? 53:44 AND THEN IT TALKS ABOUT - FULFILLING THE WHOLE LAW IS OUR 53:47 LAST SECTION HERE, AND I WANT TO READ GALATIANS 5:13-15, "FOR 53:51 YOU, BRETHREN, HAVE BEEN CALLED TO LIBERTY; ONLY DO NOT USE 53:54 LIBERTY AS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE FLESH BUT THROUGH LOVE SERVE 53:59 ONE ANOTHER FOR ALL THE LAW IS FULFILLED IN ONE WORD," - HE 54:03 DOESN'T USE ONE WORD, HE MEANS ONE STATEMENT - "EVEN IN 54:06 THIS: 'YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.' BUT IF 54:10 YOU BITE AND DEVOUR ONE ANOTHER, BEWARE LEST YOU BE CONSUMED BY 54:13 ONE ANOTHER!" WHEN HE TALKS ABOUT BITING 54:15 AND DEVOURING, HE'S MAKING AN ALLUSION TO THESE BEASTS OF PREY 54:20 THAT FALL ON AND DEVOUR ONE ANOTHER AND HE'S SAYING THAT, IN 54:24 THE CHURCH, THEY HAD BECOME SO CONTENTIOUS OVER THIS ISSUE 54:27 OF THE CEREMONIAL LAW AND CIRCUMCISION, HE SAYS, 'YOU'RE 54:31 JUST DEVOURING ONE ANOTHER - THE DEVIL'S GOT YOU ALL TURNING ON 54:34 EACH OTHER OVER THIS ISSUE. YOU'VE LOST YOUR FREEDOM. YOU 54:36 NEED TO GO BACK TO THE FREEDOM YOU HAD AND BE SHARING THE 54:40 GOSPEL WITH THE LOST OUT THERE. PAUL SUMS THIS UP AGAIN IN 54:44 ROMANS 13:8, "OWE NO ONE ANYTHING EXCEPT TO LOVE ONE 54:49 ANOTHER, FOR HE WHO LOVES ANOTHER HAS FULFILLED THE LAW. 54:53 FOR THE COMMANDMENTS, 'YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT ADULTERY,' 'YOU SHALL 54:56 NOT MURDER,' 'YOU SHALL NOT STEAL,' 'YOU SHALL NOT BEAR 54:59 FALSE WITNESS,' 'YOU SHALL NOT COVET,' AND IF THERE IS ANY 55:02 OTHER COMMANDMENT, ARE ALL SUMMED UP IN THIS SAYING, 55:05 NAMELY, 'YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.'" IS PAUL 55:08 SAYING THAT IT'S OKAY TO COMMIT ADULTERY AS LONG AS YOU JUST 55:10 LOVE EACH OTHER? OR IS HE SAYING, 'IF YOU LOVE 55:13 EACH OTHER YOU WILL NOT BREAK THOSE'? 55:15 THEY'RE ALL SUMMED UP IN LOVING YOUR NEIGHBOR. 55:18 SO I THINK THAT YOU GET THE POINT. 55:21 LISTEN FRIENDS, I WANT TO REMIND THOSE WHO ARE WATCHING, IF YOU 55:24 MISSED IT AT THE BEGINNING, BY THE WAY, YOU MIGHT BE WONDERING 55:26 WHAT'S HAPPENING UP HERE ON THE SET. 55:28 IF YOU TUNED IN LATE, WE'RE RECORDING OUR SABBATH SCHOOL 55:31 THIS WEEK, RIGHT IN THE MIDST OF A SPECIAL AMAZING DISCIPLES 55:34 SEMINAR - YOU'LL FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THAT AT THE AMAZING FACTS 55:37 WEBSITE - TEACHING PEOPLE HOW TO MAKE DISCIPLES. 55:40 BUT, IF YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT OUR FREE OFFER, IT'S 55:43 IS OBEDIENCE LEGALISM? - IS OBEDIENCE LEGALISM? 55:46 - A GREAT STUDY - JUST CALL THE NUMBER ON YOUR SCREEN - 55:49 866-788-3966. WE WILL SEND IT TO YOU FOR FREE 55:55 WITH THE PROMISE YOU'LL READ IT AND THEN SHARE IT 55:57 WITH SOMEBODY ELSE. GOD BLESS YOU, FRIENDS, WE ARE 55:59 OUT OF TIME FOR TODAY'S STUDY. WE'LL STUDY HIS WORD 56:02 TOGETHER AGAIN NEXT WEEK. (MUSIC) 56:17 >>HI FRIENDS, THIS IS PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR. 56:20 WOULD YOU LIKE TO HEAR AN AMAZING FACT? 56:22 MORE AND MORE OF THE WORLD IS TURNING, NOW, TO NATURAL FORMS 56:25 OF ENERGY TO TRY AND FIND THEIR POWER AND THEY'RE RESORTING TO 56:28 THINGS LIKE THE WIND FARM THAT WE HAVE HERE IN JAMAICA AT 56:31 WIGTON. YOU KNOW, I REMEMBER YEARS AGO, 56:33 MY WIFE AND I GOING TO VISIT THE BIG ISLAND OF HAWAII AND WE WERE 56:36 AMAZED AT ALL THE POTENTIAL THERE FOR NATURAL POWER, 56:40 BUT THEY WEREN'T USING IT. THERE AT THE SOUTH PART OF 56:42 THE ISLAND THERE WAS VOLCANIC ACTIVITY. 56:45 YOU CAN MAKE GEOTHERMAL POWER THERE. 56:48 IF YOU WENT TO WAIMEA, THE WIND WAS CONSTANTLY BLOWING, BUT THEY 56:51 HAD NO WINDMILLS THERE. IF YOU WENT OVER TO KONA, SUN 56:55 ALWAYS SHINES - SOLAR ELECTRIC - BUT THEY DIDN'T HAVE VERY MUCH 56:58 SOLAR ELECTRIC THERE. AND IF YOU WENT TO HILO, IT WAS 57:01 ALWAYS RAINING - HYDROELECTRIC. AND IN SPITE OF ALL THAT 57:05 POTENTIAL FOR POWER THERE ON THE BIG ISLAND OF HAWAII, THEY WERE 57:08 POWERING THE ISLAND BACK THEN WITH DIRTY DIESEL GENERATORS. 57:12 IT MADE ME THINK ABOUT HOW WE SOMETIMES WASTE THE POWER OF 57:15 GOD'S SPIRIT THAT HE'S MAKING AVAILABLE TO US. 57:17 AND EACH OF US CAN HAVE THAT SPIRIT IF WE SIMPLY ASK. 57:20 YOU CAN READ IN ZECHARIAH CHAPTER 10 - WHAT DO WE DO? 57:24 'ASK OF THE LORD RAIN IN THE TIME OF THE LATTER RAIN AND HE 57:27 WILL SEND FLASHING CLOUDS.' JESUS ALSO SAID, IN THE BOOK OF 57:30 LUKE, 'IF YOU THEN BEING EVIL KNOW HOW TO GIVE GOOD GIFTS TO 57:34 YOUR CHILDREN, HOW MUCH MORE WILL YOUR FATHER IN HEAVEN GIVE 57:36 THE HOLY SPIRIT TO THEM THAT ASK?' 57:40 WHEN YOU LOOK IN THE BOOK OF ACTS, WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS 57:43 POURED OUT, IT SAYS THERE WAS A SOUND OF A MIGHTY RUSHING WIND. 57:47 AND THAT POWER THAT LAUNCHED THE CHURCH BACK THEN CAN STILL POWER 57:50 YOUR LIFE TODAY, FRIENDS. SO WHY DON'T YOU ASK HIM? 57:53 (MUSIC) |
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