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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. I'D
LIKE TO WELCOME OUR ONLINE
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MEMBERS AND THOSE OF YOU
WHO ARE WATCHING ON THE VARIOUS
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TELEVISION NETWORKS - ALWAYS
A JOY TO BE ABLE TO GET TOGETHER
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ON SABBATH MORNING
AND STUDY THE WORD OF GOD.
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I'D ALSO LIKE TO WELCOME
OUR REGULAR MEMBERS AND OUR
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VISITORS, ALWAYS HERE SABBATH
MORNING - GOOD TO SEE YOU TODAY.
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WE'RE WORKING OUR WAY THROUGH
OUR LESSON QUARTERLY DEALING
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WITH THE GOSPEL IN GALATIANS.
ACTUALLY, TODAY, WE FIND
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OURSELVES AT THE VERY END.
]WE'RE ON LESSON #14 ENTITLED
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BOASTING IN THE
CROSS - THAT'S LESSON #14.
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USUALLY THERE ARE 13 LESSONS IN
A QUARTER, BUT WE HAVE AN EXTRA
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ONE THIS QUARTER.
OUR FINAL ONE TODAY IS
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BOASTING IN THE CROSS . WE
WILL BE STARTING A NEW LESSON
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STUDY NEXT WEEK, AND
I'M VERY EXCITED ABOUT THIS.
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THIS ONE'S ON
THE BOOK OF ROMANS.
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SO, FOR OUR MEMBERS RIGHT HERE
AND THOSE WHO ARE VISITING, YOU
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MIGHT WANT TO GET A COPY OF OUR
STUDY GUIDE FOR NEXT QUARTER.
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ALSO, FOR OUR FRIENDS WHO
ARE WATCHING, I ENCOURAGE YOU TO
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CONTACT THE LOCAL ADVENTIST
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WEEKS' STUDY ON
THE BOOK OF ROMANS.
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READ IT THERE. IT'S
TIME FOR US TO SING SO I
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HOPE YOU'RE READY TO
LIFE YOUR VOICES IN SONG.
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I'D LIKE TO INVITE OUR
SONG LEADERS TO COME FORWARD AND
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WE'LL START BY SINGING
TOGETHER. (PIANO MUSIC)
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>>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS, AND WE
HAVE BEEN WARMING UP OUR VOICES
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HERE AT GRANITE BAY AND SO
WE ARE READY TO JOIN WITH YOU
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AROUND THE WORLD. SO, I
ENCOURAGE YOU, IF YOU HAVE
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A HYMNAL, PULL IT OUT AND JOIN
WITH US ON #306 - DRAW ME NEARER
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- THIS GOES ALONG WITH THE THEME
OF OUR LESSON TODAY, AND WE'RE
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GOING TO DO ALL
THREE STANZAS - #306.
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(PIANO MUSIC)
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>>IS THAT YOUR PRAYER
TODAY - AND EVERY DAY?
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DRAW ME NEARER,
NEARER, NEARER BLESSED LORD.
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CONTINUING WITH THIS THEME,
WE'RE GOING TO SING, I KNOW, A
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FAVORITE AROUND THE WORLD - NEAR
THE CROSS - THIS BEAUTIFUL HYMN
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YOU CAN FIND ON #312 IN YOUR
HYMNAL AND WE'RE GOING TO SING
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THE FIRST, SECOND,
AND FOURTH STANZAS - #312.
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(PIANO MUSIC)
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>>THAT DAY IS COMING VERY SOON,
WHEN YOU SEE WHAT IS GOING ON IN
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THIS CRAZY WORLD - VERY SOON.
REST BEYOND THE RIVER. AT THIS
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TIME PASTOR ROSS IS GOING TO
HAVE OUR OPENING PRAYER FOR US.
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>>LET'S BOW OUR HEADS FOR A
WORD OF PRAYER. DEAR FATHER IN
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HEAVEN, WHAT A PRIVILEGE TO
BE ABLE TO GATHER IN YOUR HOUSE
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THIS SABBATH MORNING AND OPEN
UP YOUR WORD AND STUDY TOGETHER.
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FATHER, WE RECOGNIZE THE BIBLE
IS YOUR BOOK AND IN ORDER TO
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CORRECTLY UNDERSTAND IT, WE NEED
THE LEADING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
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SO WE'D ASK, ONCE AGAIN, THAT
YOU WOULD COME AND SPEAK TO OUR
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HEARTS AND OUR MINDS AS WE LOOK
AT THIS GREAT THEME OF THE CROSS
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- ABOUT THAT PLAN OF REDEMPTION
THAT'S BEEN PROVIDED FOR EACH OF
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US THAT WE MIGHT BE SAVED. BLESS
OUR TIME TOGETHER, TODAY, FOR WE
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ASK THIS IN JESUS'
NAME, AMEN. >>AMEN.
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>>OUR LESSON TODAY IS GOING
TO BE BROUGHT TO US BY OUR NEW
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FAMILY LIFE PASTOR HERE
AT THE GRANITE BAY CHURCH.
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WE'RE DELIGHTED THAT PASTOR
SHAWN BRUMMUND IS WITH US AND
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HE'LL BE BRINGING US OUR
LESSON. THANK YOU, SHAWN.
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>>GOOD MORNING. >>GOOD MORNING.
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>>IT'S GOOD TO SEE YOU ALL HERE
IN GRANITE BAY, OUR FAMILY'S NEW
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CHURCH. AND IT IS
SUCH A BLESSING TO BE
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ABLE TO COME TOGETHER ON SABBATH
SCHOOL AND TO BE ABLE TO STUDY,
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ONE MORE TIME, THIS GREAT BOOK
THAT GOD HAS GIVEN TO US - THE
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BOOK OF GALATIANS - AND IT'S
ALSO GOOD TO BE ABLE TO STUDY
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WITH ALL OUR ONLINE MEMBERS, AS
WELL AS THOSE WHO ARE WATCHING
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ON TV AND I WANT TO START BY
SHARING A BIT OF A STORY, AND
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THIS PARTICULAR STORY JUST
HAPPENED A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO
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AND MY WIFE SHARED WITH ME,
AS SHE CAME TO ME WITH A VERY
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SERIOUS LOOK ON HER FACE,
BECAUSE SHE HAD RECEIVED A VERY
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DISTURBING TEXT ON HER CELL
PHONE. AND THIS PARTICULAR TEXT
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HAD COME TO HER
FROM A RANDOM STRANGER.
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AS WE LOOKED IT UP ONLINE OR
SEARCHED IT SOMEHOW ON GOOGLE
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AND DISCOVERED WHERE THIS
PHONE NUMBER HAD COME FROM, WE
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DISCOVERED THAT IT WAS
SOMEBODY IN THE BAY AREA.
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SOMEBODY IN THE SAN FRANCISCO
BAY AREA HAD TEXTED HER.
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NOW, I HAVE TO SAY THAT
EVERYTHING ON THAT TEXT IS NOT
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REPEATABLE HERE IN
OUR LESSON STUDY TODAY.
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THE BEGINNING OF THE TEXT
STARTED TO TELL DENISE THAT SHE
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NEEDS TO GET HER ACT TOGETHER
AND THEN IT WENT ON TO USE SOME
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VERY COLORFUL LANGUAGE THAT,
AGAIN, I WON'T BE REPEATING HERE
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TODAY. THE MOST
DISTURBING PART OF THAT
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PARTICULAR TEXT IS THAT IT
WENT ON, THEN, TO THREATEN HER
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LIFE AND ALSO THE
LIFE OF HER CHILDREN.
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AND SO, NOT EXACTLY THE
NICEST 'WELCOME TO AMERICA'.
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SOME OF YOU KNOW THAT I'M FROM
CANADA AND OUR FAMILY HAS MOVED
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HERE FROM CANADA BUT, EVEN AS I
SAY THAT, I HAVE TO SAY THAT ON
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EVERY OTHER FRONT, COMING HERE
TO AMERICA HAS BEEN POSITIVE AND
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I'M JUST SO THANKFUL FOR
THE WARM WELCOME THAT WE HAVE
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RECEIVED FROM THE
GRANITE BAY CHURCH.
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WE HAVE BEAUTIFUL NEIGHBORS -
WONDERFUL NEIGHBORHOOD THAT WE
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LIVE IN HERE IN
CARMICHAEL, AT THE TIME.
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AND, YOU KNOW, ON EVERY
OTHER FRONT, SINCE WE'VE BEEN TO
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AMERICA, WE HAVE SEEN NOTHING
BUT POSITIVE AND WE'RE VERY,
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VERY THANKFUL FOR THAT.
BUT THIS PARTICULAR EXPERIENCE
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WAS NOT QUITE AS POSITIVE.
NOW, AS YOU CAN IMAGINE, WHEN
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DENISE SHOWED ME THAT PARTICULAR
TEXT, IT WAS NOT ONLY DISTURBING
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TO HER, BUT IT GOT MY GOAT VERY
QUICKLY AND MY BLOOD PRESSURE
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WENT UP, MY TEMPERATURE
WENT UP, AND I FOUND MYSELF VERY
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DISTURBED AND VERY
CONCERNED BY THE WORDING OF THIS
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PARTICULAR TEXT. AT THE
SAME TIME, I HAVE TO SAY
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THAT WHAT LIT ME UP, AT THE
MOMENT AND, ESPECIALLY AFTER THE
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DAY HAD COME WHEN WE RECEIVED
THIS TEXT, IS THE KNEE-JERK
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REACTION THAT I SOON DISCOVERED
DENISE HAD ALREADY TEXTED BACK
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TO THIS PARTICULAR CULPRIT.
AND WHEN I LOOKED AT HER
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RESPONSE, I WAS SURPRISED AND
A LITTLE BIT - FOUND IT HUMOROUS
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- THAT HER FIRST WORD WITH AN
EXCLAMATION MARK WAS "WHATEVER!"
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(LAUGHTER) AND I THOUGHT TO
MYSELF - IN FACT, OUR FAMILY HAS
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BEEN KIND OF GIGGLING AND MAKING
LIGHT OF IT SINCE, BECAUSE WE'VE
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BEEN, KIND OF, IMAGINING THIS
KIND OF HARDENED, PSYCHOTIC,
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CRIMINAL HIDING IN SOME DARK
ROOM IN HIS HOUSE IN THE BAY
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AREA, TEXTING DEATH THREATS
TO RANDOM DIFFERENT PEOPLE, AND
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THEN WHEN DENISE HAD RESPONDED,
HIS HEAD'S COCKED AND HE'S
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LOOKING A LITTLE BIT PUZZLED
AS HE LOOKS AT IT AND HE SAYS,
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'I'VE NEVER GOTTEN A RESPONSE
TO A DEATH THREAT THIS WAY -
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'WHATEVER!' (LAUGHTER) NOW, I
HAVE TO SAY THAT WHEN I WENT ON
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AND CONTINUED TO READ THAT
PARTICULAR TEXT, DENISE WENT ON
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AND SAID, YOU KNOW, 'LISTEN, I
THINK IT'S IMPORTANT FOR YOU TO
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UNDERSTAND THAT YOU ARE NEVER TO
TEXT THIS NUMBER AGAIN AND THAT
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YOU HAVE BEEN REPORTED.' IT'S
INTERESTING, OVER THE NEXT DAY,
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HE ENDED UP TEXTING HER AGAIN
ANYWAY, BUT THIS TIME WITH AN
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APOLOGY AND, AS IT TURNS OUT,
DENISE HAD JUST RECEIVED THIS
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NEW NUMBER AS WE GOT OUR CELL
PACKAGE HERE IN SACRAMENTO, AND
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SO IT MUST HAVE BEEN A PREVIOUS
OWNER OF THAT PARTICULAR CELL
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NUMBER AND HE WAS INTENDING
TO REACH A WOMAN BY THE NAME OF
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BLAINEY, HE SAID, AND 'I
APOLOGIZE, IT WASN'T INTENDED
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FOR YOU.' THE OTHER THING
THAT WE HAD DISCOVERED AS WE HAD
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RESEARCHED AND LOOKED AT WHAT
THE AUTHORITIES DO ON SUCH AN
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EVENT AS THIS BECAUSE WE
WERE NOT ONLY CONCERNED FOR OUR
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LIVES, BUT THEN WE BEGAN TO
BE CONCERNED ABOUT THIS OTHER
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WOMAN. YOU KNOW, SURE IT'S
NOT INTENDED FOR US - APOLOGY
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ACCEPTED, I SUPPOSE - BUT WHAT
ABOUT THIS OTHER POOR WOMAN?
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AS IT TURNS OUT, THE AUTHORITIES
DON'T RESPOND TO DEATH THREATS
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UNLESS IT COMES AT LEAST TWO
TIMES - AT LEAST TWO TIMES - SO
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I GUESS THE RATIONALE BEHIND
IT IS THAT MOST OR, I'M GUESSING
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AND HOPING, ALL OF THEM SURVIVE
BETWEEN THE FIRST DEATH THREAT
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AND THE SECOND DEATH THREAT.
AND I HOPE THAT'S THE CASE, IN
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EVERY CASE, WHEN IT
COMES TO THIS KIND OF ACTIVITY.
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WHEN THE APOSTLE PAUL LEARNED
THAT THE NEW CHURCHES IN THE
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AREA OF GALATIA WERE
BEING MISLED WITH A VERY SERIOUS
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HERESY, WHILE HE WAS AWAY FROM
THAT PARTICULAR AREA, AWAY FROM
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THOSE CHURCHES IN WHICH HE HAD
PLANTED AND, ON TOP OF IT, AND
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EVEN WORSE, PAUL HAD DISCOVERED
THAT THE BULK OF THE NEW
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BELIEVERS WERE FALLING FOR IT,
HE, TOO, WAS VERY UNDERSTANDABLY
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UPSET. HE, TOO,
WAS ALSO DISTURBED.
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HE, TOO, WAS ALSO VERY CONCERNED
ABOUT WHAT WAS GOING ON IN THESE
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PRECIOUS CHURCHES THAT HE,
HIMSELF, AGAIN, HAD PLANTED.
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NOW, RATHER THAN TEXTING BACK,
HE HAD DONE SOMETHING DIFFERENT.
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THE LORD HAD CALLED HIM TO BE
A PROPHET AND SO HE - THE LORD
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SENT HIM TO PEN AND PAPER - AND
WHEN HE WENT TO PEN AND PAPER,
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HE WROTE OUT A VERY INSPIRED,
IMPORTANT LETTER TO STRAIGHTEN
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THINGS OUT AS BEST AS HE
COULD IN THAT PARTICULAR AREA.
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I'D LIKE TO INVITE YOU, AS WE
OPEN UP TO GALATIANS - GALATIANS
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CHAPTER 6 - GALATIANS CHAPTER 6
- AS WE WRAP UP THE LAST VERSES
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OF THIS IMPORTANT BOOK OF
THE NEW TESTAMENT - GALATIANS
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CHAPTER 6 - AND WE'RE GOING TO
START WITH VERSE 11 - RIGHT TO
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THE END OF THE CHAPTER - RIGHT
THROUGH TO THE END OF THE BOOK.
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AGAIN, AS WE HAVE ALREADY HEARD
THROUGH OUR INTRODUCTION, WE'RE
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IN THE BOOK OF GALATIANS.
WE'RE FINISHING THE LAST STUDY,
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FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO MIGHT
BE JUST TUNING IN, THE GOSPEL IN
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GALATIANS IS THE BOOK THAT WE'RE
READING, OR AT LEAST THE STUDY
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GUIDE THAT WE'VE BEEN GOING
THROUGH AND IT'S THE LAST STUDY
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GUIDE - #14 -
BOASTING IN THE CROSS.
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AND SO, WE'RE JUST GOING TO GO
AHEAD AND READ THOSE LAST SEVEN
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OR EIGHT VERSES.
VERSE 11, IT SAYS THIS: "SEE
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WITH WHAT LARGE LETTERS I HAVE
WRITTEN TO YOU WITH MY OWN HAND!
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AS MANY AS DESIRE TO MAKE A
GOOD SHOWING IN THE FLESH, THESE
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WOULD COMPEL YOU TO BE
CIRCUMCISED, ONLY THAT THEY MAY
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NOT SUFFER PERSECUTION
FOR THE CROSS OF CHRIST.
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FOR NOT EVEN THOSE WHO ARE
CIRCUMCISED KEEP THE LAW, BUT
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THEY DESIRE TO HAVE YOU
CIRCUMCISED THAT THEY MAY BOAST
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IN YOUR FLESH. BUT
GOD FORBID THAT I SHOULD
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BOAST EXCEPT IN THE CROSS OF OUR
LORD JESUS CHRIST, BY WHOM THE
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WORLD HAS BEEN CRUCIFIED
TO ME, AND I TO THE WORLD.
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FOR IN CHRIST JESUS NEITHER
CIRCUMCISION NOR UNCIRCUMCISION
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AVAILS ANYTHING,
BUT A NEW CREATION.
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AND AS MANY AS WALK ACCORDING
TO THIS RULE, PEACE AND MERCY BE
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UPON THEM, AND
UPON THE ISRAEL OF GOD.
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FROM NOW ON LET NO ONE TROUBLE
ME, FOR I BEAR IN MY BODY THE
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MARKS OF THE LORD JESUS.
BRETHREN, THE GRACE OF OUR
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LORD JESUS CHRIST BE
WITH YOUR SPIRIT. AMEN."
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NOW, AS WE COME TO VERSE 11, IN
PARTICULAR, AS WE LOOK AT THIS
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LAST PASSAGE - BUT NOT JUST THE
LAST VERSES, IN PARTICULAR, BUT
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STARTING WITH THE VERY FIRST
VERSES AND ALL THE WAY THROUGH
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THE LETTER. IF
THERE'S ONE THING WE
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DISCOVERED VERY QUICKLY, IS THAT
THE AUTHOR, IN THIS CASE THE
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APOSTLE PAUL, WAS A VERY RILED
UP SHEPHERD - A SHEPHERD OF A
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FLOCK IN WHICH HE, HIMSELF, HAD
BIRTHED MANY OF THOSE BELIEVERS
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WHICH HE WAS WRITING TO, WHICH
HE WAS CONCERNED ABOUT - AND
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THE REASON HE WAS A RILED UP
SHEPHERD IS BECAUSE WOLVES HAD
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COME IN AMONG THE SHEEP AND HE
HAD A VERY PERSONAL INVESTMENT
00:17:22.67\00:17:26.91
IN THESE PARTICULAR
BELIEVERS AND SHEEP.
00:17:26.94\00:17:29.94
AND SO, PAUL MAKES IT VERY CLEAR
THAT HE WASN'T GOING TO STAND BY
00:17:29.98\00:17:32.51
AND LET THEM BE DEVOURED
WITH THE HERESY THAT WOULD
00:17:32.55\00:17:34.85
EFFECTIVELY BRING THEM INTO THE
VERY EXPERIENCE THAT CHRIST HAD
00:17:34.88\00:17:39.62
DELIVERED PAUL FROM
SEVERAL YEARS BEFOREHAND.
00:17:39.65\00:17:44.19
NOW, AS WE COME TO VERSE 11, WE
FIND HERE THAT IT POINTS OUT TO
00:17:44.23\00:17:47.86
ITS READERS - TO ITS LISTENERS
- IT'S ORIGINAL READERS - IT'S
00:17:47.86\00:17:51.23
ORIGINAL LISTENERS - TO
HOW PERSONALLY INVOLVED AND
00:17:51.27\00:17:54.50
CONCERNED PAUL WAS FOR THEM.
IT'S A VERY UNIQUE STATEMENT
00:17:54.54\00:17:59.31
THAT I DON'T BELIEVE PAUL
MAKES IN ANY OTHER PART OF HIS
00:17:59.34\00:18:01.64
WRITINGS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT.
IN THE BIBLE, VERSE 11, AGAIN,
00:18:01.68\00:18:05.61
SAYS, "SEE WITH WHAT
LARGE LETTERS I HAVE WRITTEN
00:18:05.65\00:18:08.02
TO YOU WITH MY OWN HAND!"
YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES, WHEN WE'RE
00:18:08.05\00:18:14.76
E-MAILING SOMEBODY AND WE'RE NOT
USING AUDIBLE VOICES, OBVIOUSLY
00:18:14.79\00:18:18.89
WHEN WE E-MAIL, PERHAPS EVEN
WHEN WE'RE TEXTING, BUT PROBABLY
00:18:18.93\00:18:21.93
MORE OFTEN WHEN WE'RE E-MAILING
AND WE'RE REALLY EXCITED ABOUT
00:18:21.96\00:18:25.77
SOMETHING OR WE'RE UPSET ABOUT
SOMETHING, AND SO WHAT DO WE DO?
00:18:25.80\00:18:31.87
WE DON'T JUST USE THE REGULAR
FONT, WE TAKE THE REGULAR FONT
00:18:31.91\00:18:35.44
OF 10 OR 12 SIZE AND WE MIGHT
BUMP THAT UP TO 14 OR MAYBE EVEN
00:18:35.48\00:18:40.48
A 16 SIZE, AND THEN IF WE REALLY
WANT TO SAY SOMETHING JUST A
00:18:40.52\00:18:44.29
LITTLE BIT LOUDER
THAN THAT, WHAT DO WE DO?
00:18:44.32\00:18:47.36
>>BOLD IT.
>>ALRIGHT, SOMEBODY SAYS WE
00:18:47.39\00:18:48.86
CLICK ON THE BOLD, ALRIGHT?
SO WE CHOOSE THE BOLD OPTION
00:18:48.89\00:18:52.26
- AND THEN SOMEBODY ELSE
SAYS HERE, ALSO, THE CAPITALS.
00:18:52.29\00:18:54.76
SO WE CHOOSE THE CAPITALS.
SO NOW WE HAVE BOLD CAPITALS
00:18:54.83\00:18:57.47
WITH AN ENLARGED FONT. WHAT HAVE
WE DONE WHEN WE'VE DONE THAT?
00:18:57.50\00:19:01.57
WHAT DO WE HEAR
WHEN WE READ THAT?
00:19:01.60\00:19:05.34
ALRIGHT, WE HEAR SOMEBODY
RAISING THE VOLUME, DON'T WE?
00:19:05.37\00:19:08.28
SOMEBODY SAID, 'SHOUTING'
ALRIGHT? SO HERE, MOST LIKELY -
00:19:08.31\00:19:11.88
THE MOST REASONABLE
INTERPRETATION HERE IS THAT PAUL
00:19:11.91\00:19:13.92
IS SAYING, AS HE WRAPS UP
THIS PARTICULAR LETTER, HE SAYS,
00:19:13.95\00:19:17.02
'LISTEN, I'M POINTING TO
THE FACT THAT I'M USING LARGE,
00:19:17.05\00:19:19.35
CAPITAL, BOLD LETTERS BECAUSE
I'M TRYING TO RAISE THE VOLUME.
00:19:19.39\00:19:26.80
WE FIND THAT SAME PRINCIPLE KIND
OF FOUND - NOW, OF COURSE, THEY
00:19:26.83\00:19:29.30
DIDN'T USE BOLD, THEY DIDN'T
USE LARGER FONTS AND CAPITALS -
00:19:29.33\00:19:33.00
IN FACT, THERE
WERE NO CAPITALS -
00:19:33.03\00:19:34.24
THERE WAS NO PUNCTUATION IN
THE ORIGINAL GREEK THAT PAUL WAS
00:19:34.27\00:19:36.27
WRITING IN, AND SO, THEIR
WRITING STYLE WAS MUCH DIFFERENT
00:19:36.30\00:19:40.31
THAN OURS, BUT THEY USED
WORDS TO BE ABLE TO SAY THAT.
00:19:40.34\00:19:45.25
AND SO, HE POINTS
OUT TO HIS LARGE LETTERS.
00:19:45.28\00:19:47.95
IN THIS CASE, REVELATION CHAPTER
13 IS ANOTHER PASSAGE THAT CAME
00:19:47.98\00:19:51.69
TO MIND. AND
THERE IS AN INTRODUCTION
00:19:51.72\00:19:54.49
THERE AS WE COME TO
THE FIRST ANGEL'S MESSAGE.
00:19:54.52\00:19:57.16
'AND I SAW ANOTHER ANGEL FLYING
IN THE MIDST OF HEAVEN HAVING
00:19:57.19\00:20:00.40
THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL TO PREACH
TO THOSE WHO DWELL ON THE EARTH,
00:20:00.43\00:20:03.33
TO EVERY NATION, TRIBE, TONGUE
AND PEOPLE SAYING WITH A' -
00:20:03.37\00:20:06.47
>>LOUD VOICE. >>OKAY,
MANY OF YOU KNOW IT OFF
00:20:06.50\00:20:08.37
BY HEART. THAT'S GOOD.
'...SAYING WITH A LOUD VOICE,
00:20:08.40\00:20:11.07
'FEAR GOD AND GIVE GLORY TO
HIM'...' AND SO ON AND SO ON.
00:20:11.11\00:20:13.64
AND THEN, AS WE COME DOWN TO THE
THIRD ANGELS MESSAGE, HERE WE
00:20:13.68\00:20:16.48
FIND THAT THE VOLUME IS ALSO
REVEALED TO BE TURNED UP 'AND A
00:20:16.51\00:20:21.25
THIRD ANGEL FOLLOWED SAYING
WITH A' - 'LOUD VOICE' - AND I
00:20:21.28\00:20:25.15
BELIEVE THAT'S VERSE 8 AS WE
CONTINUE ON TO VERSE 9, AS WE
00:20:25.19\00:20:27.62
CONTINUE ON DOWN TO
THAT THIRD ANGEL'S MESSAGE.
00:20:27.66\00:20:31.49
AND SO, WHY DO YOU SUPPOSE THAT
GOD WOULD WANT TO TURN UP THE
00:20:31.53\00:20:35.30
VOLUME WHEN IT COMES TO
THE THIRD ANGEL'S MESSAGE?
00:20:35.33\00:20:38.73
THE THREE ANGELS'
MESSAGES I GENERAL? WHY?
00:20:38.77\00:20:41.10
BECAUSE IT'S A LIFE AND DEATH
ISSUE, ISN'T IT? IN FACT, BY THE
00:20:41.14\00:20:43.10
TIME YOU COME TO THE THIRD
ANGEL'S MESSAGE, HE VERY CLEARLY
00:20:43.14\00:20:46.04
TELLS US, IN THE STRONGEST
LANGUAGE, 'HEY, THIS IS LIFE AND
00:20:46.07\00:20:49.01
DEATH.' AND GOD WANTS US
TO CHOOSE LIFE, DOESN'T HE?
00:20:49.04\00:20:52.78
AND SO HE SAYS, 'LISTEN,
I'M GOING TO TURN UP THE VOLUME
00:20:52.81\00:20:54.52
BECAUSE WHAT I'M SAYING RIGHT
NOW IS OF UTMOST IMPORTANCE,
00:20:54.55\00:20:58.02
ESPECIALLY IN THE
VERY LAST YEARS OF HISTORY.
00:20:58.05\00:21:00.72
AND SO, WE NEED TO TURN UP THE
VOLUME AS A CHURCH, DON'T WE?
00:21:00.76\00:21:03.53
WITH THE THIRD ANGEL'S MESSAGE.
WE DON'T NEED TO START TO PUT IT
00:21:03.56\00:21:06.39
ASIDE AND TRY TO COME
UP WITH SOMETHING ELSE.
00:21:06.43\00:21:09.43
NO, GOD WANTS US TO TURN
IT UP LOUDER THAN EVER BEFORE.
00:21:09.46\00:21:13.07
IN FACT, PROPHECY TELLS US THAT
THAT'S WHAT WE'LL BE DOING AS
00:21:13.10\00:21:15.60
THE SPIRIT RAINS DOWN UPON
US AND WE COME INTO THE LATTER
00:21:15.64\00:21:18.11
RAIN. THERE'S
GOING TO BE A POWERFUL
00:21:18.14\00:21:20.28
INCREASE IN THE VOLUME OF
THE THREE ANGELS' MESSAGE.
00:21:20.31\00:21:26.61
ONE OF THE LARGEST CHALLENGES
THAT THE ORIGINAL CHRISTIAN
00:21:26.65\00:21:29.88
CHURCH FACED WAS HOW MANY - WAS
HOW THE MANY THOUSANDS OF FIRST
00:21:29.92\00:21:36.06
CHRISTIANS - THE
ORIGINAL CHRISTIANS WHO WERE ALL
00:21:36.09\00:21:38.49
PREDOMINANTLY JEWISH, BY THE
WAY, WERE GOING TO ACCEPT AND
00:21:38.53\00:21:41.76
DEAL WITH A GROWING POPULATION
OF GENTILES OR NON-JEWISH PEOPLE
00:21:41.80\00:21:48.04
THAT WERE ALSO ACCEPTING CHRIST
AS THE MESSIAH WHO WERE ALSO
00:21:48.07\00:21:51.04
BECOMING CHRISTIANS AND
BECOMING MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH.
00:21:51.07\00:21:55.08
AND THIS WAS NO SMALL CHALLENGE,
IN FACT, THIS CHALLENGE WAS SO
00:21:55.11\00:21:57.81
LARGE THAT IT
ALMOST SPLIT THE CHURCH.
00:21:57.85\00:22:01.02
AND SO, THE VERY FIRST SERIOUS
CHALLENGE TO THE UNITY OF THE
00:22:01.05\00:22:04.92
CHURCH, TOOK PLACE OVER THE
ISSUE THAT'S BEING DISCUSSED, IN
00:22:04.95\00:22:08.42
A LARGE MANNER, IN
THE BOOK OF GALATIANS.
00:22:08.46\00:22:13.19
THERE WAS A NUMBER - A GROWING
NUMBER OF GENTILES THAT WERE
00:22:13.23\00:22:15.36
COMING IN. GOD
WAS CHOOSING DIFFERENT
00:22:15.40\00:22:17.40
EVANGELISTS AND MISSIONARIES,
SUCH AS PHILIP, PAUL, BARNABAS,
00:22:17.43\00:22:22.00
AND SEVERAL OTHERS THAT
WERE BRINGING IN THIS GROWING
00:22:22.04\00:22:24.77
POPULATION OF GENTILE
CHRISTIANS. NOW, THE REASON THAT
00:22:24.81\00:22:29.34
THIS WAS SUCH A CHALLENGE
FOR THE CHURCH THAT WAS
00:22:29.38\00:22:31.61
PREDOMINANTLY JEWISH IS
THAT A GOOD JEWISH FAMILY ALWAYS
00:22:31.65\00:22:35.42
RAISED THEIR CHILDREN IN THAT
GENERATION TO LOOK DOWN THEIR
00:22:35.45\00:22:38.62
NOSES AT THOSE WHO WERE
NOT JEWISH BY RACE OR BY FAITH.
00:22:38.65\00:22:43.46
AND SO, IN FACT, THEY EVEN
REFERRED TO - QUITE OFTEN - TO
00:22:43.49\00:22:46.86
NON-JEWISH PEOPLE AS DOGS
AND THEY WERE UNCLEAN ANIMALS IN
00:22:46.90\00:22:52.30
THEIR MINDS AND IN THEIR HEARTS.
AND SO THERE WAS SOME VERY REAL
00:22:52.33\00:22:57.34
PREJUDICE THAT WAS TAKING
PLACE FROM THAT OF THE JEWS
00:22:57.37\00:23:01.14
TOWARDS THOSE WHO WERE
NOT. IN FACT, IF YOU KIND OF
00:23:01.18\00:23:06.05
BRUSHED UP AGAINST THE
NON-JEWISH OR GENTILE PERSON OR
00:23:06.08\00:23:09.55
MAYBE YOU ENDED UP INADVERTENTLY
DRINKING FROM THE SAME CUP OR,
00:23:09.58\00:23:13.12
GOD FORBID, YOU ENDED UP AT THE
SAME TABLE EATING WITH THEM, WHY
00:23:13.15\00:23:16.83
YOU WOULD BECOME RELIGIOUSLY
AND SPIRITUALLY DEFILED.
00:23:16.86\00:23:21.23
AND SO, THE JEWISH FATHERS
HAD DEVELOPED A WHOLE SYSTEM OF
00:23:21.26\00:23:25.00
TRADITIONS AND PRACTICES TO BE
ABLE TO DEAL WITH THIS AND SO,
00:23:25.03\00:23:28.90
THEY CAME UP WITH THIS KIND OF
CEREMONIAL WASHING WHERE YOU HAD
00:23:28.94\00:23:31.77
TO GO BEFORE YOU ATE AND WASH,
YOU KNOW, WITH THIS KIND OF
00:23:31.81\00:23:35.28
SPECIAL CONSECRATED WATER UP TO
THE ELBOW AND DOWN TO THE BOTTOM
00:23:35.31\00:23:39.45
OF YOUR HAND BEFORE YOU
ATE A MEAL SO THAT YOU COULD
00:23:39.48\00:23:42.58
RE-UNDEFILE YOURSELF JUST
IN CASE YOU HAD INADVERTENTLY
00:23:42.62\00:23:48.06
TOUCHED SOMETHING THAT A
NON-JEWISH PERSON HAD TOUCHED.
00:23:48.09\00:23:54.46
AND SO, THAT WAS A BIG CHALLENGE
FOR THE JEWISH CHRISTIANS.
00:23:54.46\00:23:57.87
THIS WAS NO SMALL THING TO BE
ABLE TO UNDO, IN THEIR MINDS AND
00:23:57.90\00:24:00.60
THEIR HEARTS. NOW, ON
TOP OF THAT, THE SECOND
00:24:00.64\00:24:02.94
QUESTION THAT THEY HAD IS
'SHOULD WE BE COMPELLING -
00:24:02.97\00:24:05.67
SHOULD WE BE TELLING THESE
NEW CONVERTS TO OBSERVE THE
00:24:05.71\00:24:09.04
CEREMONIAL LAW OF MOSES?'
OKAY? SHOULD THEY OBSERVE THE
00:24:09.08\00:24:13.88
CEREMONIAL LAW OF
MOSES, INCLUDING THE ACT
00:24:13.92\00:24:16.18
OF CIRCUMCISION?
WHICH WAS ALSO WRAPPED UP IN
00:24:16.22\00:24:19.35
THAT, STARTING WITH ABRAHAM, BUT
IT WAS ALSO IN THE COVENANT WITH
00:24:19.39\00:24:22.06
MOSES AND WITH THE
ISRAELITES AT SINAI.
00:24:22.09\00:24:26.70
NOW IN ADDITION TO THAT, I
THINK IT'S ALSO IMPORTANT TO
00:24:26.73\00:24:28.50
UNDERSTAND THAT THEY WERE ALSO
ASKING THEMSELVES - AND WRAPPED
00:24:28.53\00:24:31.73
UP VERY INSEPARABLY IN THE MIND
OF A RELIGIOUS JEW BACK IN THAT
00:24:31.77\00:24:36.24
GENERATION WAS THE TRADITIONS
OF THE FATHERS, SUCH AS THE
00:24:36.27\00:24:39.51
CEREMONIAL WASHING - THE VERY
WASHING THAT JESUS SNUBBED HIS
00:24:39.54\00:24:44.35
NOSE AT AND SAID, REALLY, THAT'S
IRRELEVANT - IT'S MAN MADE -
00:24:44.38\00:24:48.22
IT'S NOT INSPIRED - IT'S NOT
IN THE BIBLE AND - BUT IT'S A
00:24:48.25\00:24:52.22
SYSTEM OF WORKS THAT HAD BEEN
DEVELOPED IN ADDITION TO THE
00:24:52.25\00:24:55.76
CEREMONIAL LAW OF MOSES THAT
MOSES, HIMSELF, HAD WRITTEN IN
00:24:55.79\00:24:58.69
THE TORAH. AND SO, THIS WAS
ESSENTIALLY INSEPARABLE IN THE
00:24:58.73\00:25:03.73
MINDS OF THE JEWS AND EVEN
OF THESE EARLY CHRISTIANS AND,
00:25:03.77\00:25:06.87
PROBABLY, EVEN TO A LARGE
DEGREE, IN THE APOSTLES AS THEY
00:25:06.90\00:25:09.30
WERE WORKING
THROUGH THIS AS WELL.
00:25:09.34\00:25:13.21
AND SO, SHOULD WE COMPEL THEM
TO FOLLOW THE TRADITIONS OF THE
00:25:13.24\00:25:15.61
FATHERS? SHOULD WE
COMPEL THEM TO FOLLOW
00:25:15.64\00:25:18.05
THE LAWS OF MOSES AND THE
CEREMONIES AND THE SACRIFICES
00:25:18.08\00:25:21.25
AND THE FEASTS THAT WERE
FOUND IN THE WRITINGS OF MOSES?
00:25:21.28\00:25:26.82
NOW, AS IT TURNS OUT,
CIRCUMCISION - CIRCUMCISION IS
00:25:26.86\00:25:31.16
ONE OF THOSE VISIBLE SIGNS
THAT IS VERY EASY TO BE ABLE TO
00:25:31.19\00:25:34.36
DISCOVER, AT LEAST
FROM A MAN TO A MAN.
00:25:34.36\00:25:37.30
AND THE REASON I SAY THAT
IS, BACK THEN, THE MEN, MORE
00:25:37.33\00:25:40.34
COMMONLY THAN NOT, FOUND
THEMSELVES CLEANSING THEMSELVES
00:25:40.37\00:25:43.34
IN PUBLIC BATHHOUSES - ROMAN
BATHHOUSES. MAYBE THE JEWS HAD
00:25:43.37\00:25:46.47
SEPARATE BATHHOUSES - I'M
NOT QUITE EXACTLY EDUCATED ON IF
00:25:46.51\00:25:51.41
THERE WAS A SEPARATION
THERE, BUT THE MEN WOULD SHARE
00:25:51.45\00:25:53.62
GYMNASIUMS AND BATHHOUSES, AND
SO ON, AND SO THEY WERE ABLE TO
00:25:53.65\00:25:57.15
SEE EACH OTHER IN THEIR
BIRTHDAY SUITS QUITE OFTEN.
00:25:57.19\00:26:00.52
AND SO, IF THE MAN - IF A MAN
SEES YOU IN THE SHOWER OR IN THE
00:26:00.56\00:26:05.86
BATHHOUSE AND YOU'RE
CIRCUMCISED, WHY THAT WAS AN
00:26:05.89\00:26:08.83
IMMEDIATE SIGN THAT WOULD TELL
THAT OBSERVER THAT YOU HAD BOTH
00:26:08.86\00:26:12.70
ACCEPTED AND SUBMITTED TO THE
OLD TESTAMENT COVENANT OF MOSES
00:26:12.73\00:26:16.40
AND OF THE
ISRAELITE AND JUDAISM.
00:26:16.44\00:26:19.44
AND SO, IT WAS A VERY FITTING
SYMBOL - CIRCUMCISION - TO
00:26:19.47\00:26:24.21
REALLY REPRESENT
THE WHOLE PACKAGE DEAL.
00:26:24.25\00:26:26.38
AND SO, WHEN PAUL MENTIONS
CIRCUMCISION, I THINK IT'S
00:26:26.41\00:26:28.52
IMPORTANT FOR US TO UNDERSTAND
THAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT MORE
00:26:28.55\00:26:31.52
THAN JUST CIRCUMCISION, BUT HE'S
USING THAT AS A SYMBOL OF THE
00:26:31.55\00:26:36.26
WHOLE PACKAGE OF BOTH THE
TRADITIONAL FATHERS' THEOLOGIES
00:26:36.29\00:26:39.79
THAT THEY HAD ADDED TO THE
BIBLE, AS WELL AS THE WRITINGS
00:26:39.83\00:26:42.43
OF MOSES AND THE CEREMONIAL
LAW ITSELF. GOD HAD LED PAUL AND
00:26:42.46\00:26:50.77
BARNABAS TO UNDERSTAND THAT
GENTILES WERE NOT UNCLEAN DOGS
00:26:50.81\00:26:54.28
INFERIOR TO THE JEWS.
NOW, THIS IS A NATURAL THING,
00:26:54.31\00:26:57.11
BECAUSE PAUL AND BARNABAS HAD
BEEN COMMISSIONED BY GOD - HAD
00:26:57.15\00:27:00.12
BEEN ORDAINED BY GOD TO
GO AND TO BRING THE GOSPEL TO
00:27:00.15\00:27:03.82
THE GENTILE POPULATIONS.
THEY WENT WAY BEYOND THE BORDERS
00:27:03.85\00:27:06.96
OF ISRAEL, LEFT THE MAJORITY
OF THE POPULATIONS OF THE JEWS
00:27:06.99\00:27:10.53
BEHIND, AND THEY, PREDOMINANTLY,
LABORED AND WERE WINNING PEOPLE
00:27:10.56\00:27:15.23
FROM THE GENTILE
POPULATIONS TO CHRIST.
00:27:15.26\00:27:17.53
AND SO, IT WAS A VERY NATURAL
THING FOR GOD TO WORK WITH THEM
00:27:17.57\00:27:19.73
FIRST, RIGHT? AND SO,
THEY WERE THE FIRST ONES
00:27:19.77\00:27:22.24
TO SEE THE LIGHT CLEARER THAN
THE REST OF THE CHURCH, EVEN THE
00:27:22.27\00:27:25.11
APOSTLES IN REGARDS TO THE
FACT THAT GOD IS NO - GOD HAS NO
00:27:25.14\00:27:29.28
PARTIALITY TO ANY
SINGLE HUMAN BEING.
00:27:29.31\00:27:31.65
EVERY SINGLE PERSON, NO MATTER
WHAT YOUR RACE, YOUR ETHNICITY,
00:27:31.68\00:27:34.95
YOUR CULTURE - NO MATTER WHAT IT
IS, GOD SEES US ALL EQUAL, ON AN
00:27:34.98\00:27:38.49
EQUAL PLANE, AMEN? >>AMEN.
00:27:38.52\00:27:40.22
>>AND SO, PAUL AND BARNABAS
WERE ONE OF THE FIRST ONES TO
00:27:40.26\00:27:43.73
UNDERSTAND THIS AND SEE IT
IN ITS CLEAREST LIGHT. THEY ALSO
00:27:43.76\00:27:48.56
WERE BROUGHT TO UNDERSTAND THAT
OBSERVING THE LAW OF MOSES WAS
00:27:48.60\00:27:51.40
NOT PART OF GOD'S PLAN
FOR THE NON-JEWISH CHRISTIAN.
00:27:51.43\00:27:55.34
AND SO THEY CONTINUED ON
BAPTIZING GENTILE PEOPLE, BUT
00:27:55.37\00:27:59.67
NOT INSTRUCTING THEM TO KEEP
THE CEREMONIAL FEASTS AND THE
00:27:59.71\00:28:03.01
SACRIFICES AND THE DIFFERENT
LAWS THAT WERE WRITTEN UP, BOTH
00:28:03.04\00:28:06.35
IN THE WRITING OF MOSES, AS
WELL, AGAIN, IN THAT GENERATION,
00:28:06.38\00:28:09.58
ALSO THE WRITINGS OF THE FATHERS
THAT WAS ALSO A VERY REAL PART
00:28:09.62\00:28:13.52
OF THE JUDAIC EXPERIENCE.
NOW THE PROBLEM THAT THE CHURCH
00:28:13.56\00:28:18.33
FACED IS THAT NOT ALL
WERE ON BOARD AT THE SAME TIME.
00:28:18.36\00:28:20.76
EVEN SOME OF THE APOSTLES
WERE STILL WORKING THROUGH THIS.
00:28:20.80\00:28:24.17
AND SO, IT ALL LED TO A VERY
HEATED CONVERSATION - A VERY
00:28:24.20\00:28:28.34
HEATED CONFERENCE THAT TOOK
PLACE IN THE CITY OF JERUSALEM,
00:28:28.37\00:28:31.24
AMONG THE LEADERS, INCLUDING
PAUL, THAT EVENTUALLY CONCLUDED
00:28:31.27\00:28:34.58
THAT GENTILES WERE NOT REQUIRED
TO OBSERVE THE WRITINGS - OR NOT
00:28:34.61\00:28:39.71
THE WRITINGS, I SHOULD SAY, BUT
TO OBSERVE THE CEREMONIAL LAW OF
00:28:39.75\00:28:45.15
MOSES, NOR THE TRADITIONS
OF THE JEWISH FATHERS.
00:28:45.19\00:28:50.03
NOW, WE CAN READ ALL THAT IN THE
BOOK OF ACTS, SO IF YOU'VE NEVER
00:28:50.06\00:28:52.19
READ THE BOOK OF ACTS, IT'S
A GOOD BOOK TO GO TO BE ABLE TO
00:28:52.23\00:28:54.30
SEE THE BACKGROUND OF THAT,
BECAUSE EVERY DETAIL OF THAT DAY
00:28:54.36\00:28:57.53
THAT TOOK PLACE IS WRITTEN
IN THAT IMPORTANT CHAPTER.
00:28:57.57\00:29:01.20
NOW, AS A RESULT OF THAT
PARTICULAR CONFERENCE, THE
00:29:01.24\00:29:03.27
APOSTLES THEN COMMISSIONED -
DESCRIBED - TO BE ABLE TO WRITE
00:29:03.30\00:29:05.64
UP A LETTER THAT CONFIRMED THIS
CONCLUSION, AND THEN THEY SENT
00:29:05.67\00:29:09.68
THOSE LETTERS OUT TO
THE EXISTING CHURCHES.
00:29:09.71\00:29:11.91
NOW THIS IS A GOOD LESSON FOR US
IN REGARDS TO GOD'S PLAN FOR AN
00:29:11.95\00:29:15.45
ORGANIZED CHURCH. GOD
HAS ALWAYS INTENDED FOR ALL
00:29:15.48\00:29:19.62
OF US TO WORK TOGETHER, NOT JUST
AS A LOCAL CONGREGATION, BUT AS
00:29:19.65\00:29:23.49
A WORLD-WIDE
CONGREGATION, AMEN? >>AMEN.
00:29:23.53\00:29:26.80
>>AND SO GOD HAS CALLED US INTO
A WORLDWIDE FAMILY OF BELIEVERS,
00:29:26.83\00:29:30.87
AND SO, JERUSALEM DIDN'T JUST
KIND OF DECIDE THIS AND SAY,
00:29:30.90\00:29:33.84
'YOU KNOW WHAT? YOU GUYS IN
ANTIOCH, DO WHATEVER YOU WANT.
00:29:33.87\00:29:36.10
WE'RE GOING TO DO WHAT WE WANT
HERE.' NO, THEY SENT LETTERS TO
00:29:36.14\00:29:39.57
ALL THE EXISTING CHURCHES FROM
JERUSALEM, WHICH, AT THAT TIME,
00:29:39.61\00:29:42.71
WAS WHAT WE WOULD CALL THE
GC OR GENERAL CONFERENCE OF THE
00:29:42.74\00:29:45.58
CHURCH, AND THEN THE REST OF THE
CHURCH WOULD TAKE HEED TO THAT A
00:29:45.61\00:29:50.62
DECISION THAT WAS MADE AT THIS
HIGHEST LEVEL AND CONFERENCE.
00:29:50.65\00:29:57.23
NOW, AS A RESULT OF RECEIVING
THIS, DIFFERENT MEMBERS THAT
00:29:57.26\00:30:00.30
WERE HEARING THIS LETTER BEING
READ IN THEIR CHURCHES FOR THE
00:30:00.33\00:30:03.03
FIRST TIME, SPREAD OUT THROUGH
ISRAEL AND BEYOND EVEN ISRAEL AT
00:30:03.06\00:30:06.47
THAT TIME, BUT THE JEWS,
IN PARTICULAR, THAT WERE OF A
00:30:06.50\00:30:10.34
HUMBLE AND OF A TEACHABLE
SPIRIT, CAME TO SEE THE LIGHT IN
00:30:10.37\00:30:13.68
THIS AND THEY ALLOWED THE HOLY
SPIRIT TO LEAD THEM TO OVERCOME
00:30:13.71\00:30:19.71
THIS PREJUDICE THAT THEY HAD
BEEN CONDITIONED IN, IN REGARD
00:30:19.75\00:30:22.08
TO THEIR VIEW OF NON-JEWISH
POPULATIONS - NON-JEWISH PEOPLE
00:30:22.12\00:30:26.92
- THAT THEY WEREN'T SUPERIOR
SIMPLY BY RACE, BUT THEY WERE
00:30:26.96\00:30:30.63
EQUAL WITH GENTILES AND
ALSO, JUST AS IMPORTANTLY, THEY
00:30:30.66\00:30:34.20
ALLOWED THE HOLY SPIRIT TO HELP
THEM TO UNDERSTAND THAT, INDEED,
00:30:34.23\00:30:37.83
THE SACRIFICIAL SYSTEM HAD BEEN
FULFILLED IN CHRIST TO ALLOW
00:30:37.87\00:30:41.74
THEM TO START TO SEE THAT
THE OLD TESTAMENT TEMPLE HAD
00:30:41.77\00:30:44.71
FULFILLED ITS PURPOSE AND NOW
WAS A VERY INTERESTING SACRED
00:30:44.74\00:30:48.94
RELIC. BUT
REALLY, NOW, WE HAVE A NEW
00:30:48.98\00:30:51.51
TESTAMENT SANCTUARY IN HEAVEN,
IN WHICH CHRIST, HIMSELF, IS OUR
00:30:51.55\00:30:55.42
HIGH PRIEST - HE'S OUR
PRIEST, HE'S OUR SACRIFICE, AND
00:30:55.45\00:30:58.92
HE'S IN A HEAVENLY
TEMPLE. AND SO, ALL THOSE THREE
00:30:58.95\00:31:01.66
ELEMENTS THAT ARE WRAPPED
UP, THEN, AT THE VERY CENTER OF
00:31:01.69\00:31:04.63
THE CEREMONIAL LAW, WAS
NOW FULFILLED IN CHRIST.
00:31:04.66\00:31:07.50
>>AMEN. >>AND WE
HAVE A NEW TESTAMENT
00:31:07.50\00:31:09.76
SYSTEM THAT'S IN HEAVEN, NOT ON
EARTH. AND SO, THEY ALLOWED THE
00:31:09.80\00:31:14.20
HOLY SPIRIT TO GUIDE THEM INTO
UNDERSTANDING AND TO COMING TO
00:31:14.24\00:31:16.81
A FULL COMPREHENSION OF THIS.
NOW, UNFORTUNATELY, BOTH THE
00:31:16.84\00:31:22.41
BOOK OF ACTS, AS WELL AS MANY
OF THE WRITINGS IN THE BOOK AND
00:31:22.44\00:31:25.08
LETTERS OF PAUL, WE FIND THAT
THERE WERE MANY THAT WERE NOT ON
00:31:25.11\00:31:31.35
BOARD WITH THIS - THEY WERE
NOT SO HUMBLE - THEY WERE NOT SO
00:31:31.39\00:31:34.46
TEACHABLE - AND SO, NOT
ALL WERE ON THE SAME PAGE.
00:31:34.49\00:31:42.56
AND SO, WHEN WE COME TO BOOKS
LIKE GALATIANS AND SOME OF THE
00:31:42.60\00:31:45.20
WRITINGS IN EPHESIANS AND OTHER
PLACES - MANY PLACES, ACTUALLY,
00:31:45.23\00:31:48.10
IN THE LETTERS OF PAUL, WE -
IT REVEALS THAT THERE WERE SOME
00:31:48.14\00:31:52.54
WITHIN THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH,
AMONG THE ORIGINAL CHRISTIANS,
00:31:52.57\00:31:56.41
THAT ACCEPTED JESUS AS THE
MESSIAH AND SAVIOR OF THE WORLD,
00:31:56.44\00:32:01.15
BUT THEY ONLY DID IT
ON AN INTELLECTUAL BASIS.
00:32:01.18\00:32:04.92
IN OTHER WORDS, THEY HAD ONLY
ALLOWED IT TO ENTER INTO HERE,
00:32:04.95\00:32:08.99
BUT NOT DOWN IN HERE.
AND SO THERE'S A WHOLE WORLD
00:32:09.02\00:32:12.99
OF DIFFERENCE, ISN'T THERE?
AND SO, PERHAPS A CHRISTIAN HAD
00:32:13.03\00:32:16.73
FAITHFULLY BROUGHT HIM THROUGH,
LIKE WE DO IN OUR PROPHECY
00:32:16.77\00:32:19.43
SEMINARS - THEY HAD
BROUGHT DIFFERENT INDIVIDUALS -
00:32:19.47\00:32:22.67
DIFFERENT JEWISH COUNTERPARTS IN
ISRAEL - AND WALKED THEM THROUGH
00:32:22.70\00:32:27.88
ALL THOSE DOZENS OF PROPHECIES
IN THE OLD TESTAMENT THAT SHOWS
00:32:27.91\00:32:30.71
ALL THESE AMAZING DETAILS
HUNDREDS OF YEARS BEFOREHAND, IN
00:32:30.75\00:32:35.38
THE BIRTH, THE DEATH - THE LIFE,
THE DEATH, AND THE RESURRECTION
00:32:35.42\00:32:39.75
OF JESUS. AND WHEN
THEY SAW THAT, THEY
00:32:39.79\00:32:41.62
WERE INTELLECTUALLY COMPELLED TO
SEE THAT THERE WAS NO ONE THAT
00:32:41.66\00:32:44.36
COULD FULFILL THIS EXCEPT
JESUS, THE PROMISED MESSIAH.
00:32:44.39\00:32:48.36
AND SO, THEY INTELLECTUALLY
ACCEPTED JESUS AS THE MESSIAH,
00:32:48.40\00:32:51.47
BUT THEY DIDN'T OPEN
THEIR HEART TO JESUS.
00:32:51.50\00:32:55.80
AND SO THERE WAS A
WORLD OF DIFFERENCE.
00:32:55.84\00:32:57.27
AND THAT WORLD OF
DIFFERENCE BROUGHT SOME VERY
00:32:57.31\00:32:59.11
SERIOUS CHALLENGES TO THE
CHURCH. AND SO THERE WERE TWO
00:32:59.14\00:33:05.85
SERIOUS THREATS THAT WERE
BROUGHT TO THE CHURCH, BECAUSE
00:33:05.88\00:33:08.05
THERE WERE SOME THAT DIDN'T HAVE
THIS HEART EXPERIENCE - THEY
00:33:08.08\00:33:12.09
WEREN'T REALLY BORN AGAIN,
AS JESUS HAD TAUGHT, IN JOHN
00:33:12.12\00:33:15.12
CHAPTER 3 - THEY WEREN'T FULLY
IN THAT CONVERSION EXPERIENCE.
00:33:15.16\00:33:19.86
WHAT ARE THE TWO THREATS THAT
THEY BROUGHT TO THE CHURCHES IN
00:33:19.89\00:33:21.90
THE PROVINCE OF GALATIA
THAT PAUL IS WRITING SO STRONGLY
00:33:21.93\00:33:24.53
AGAINST? WELL,
THE FIRST CHALLENGE IS
00:33:24.57\00:33:27.14
THIS: THAT THEY APPOINTED
THEMSELVES - THEY WOULD GO INTO
00:33:27.17\00:33:29.70
THESE CHURCHES AND THEY WOULD
APPOINT THEMSELVES TO COMPEL
00:33:29.74\00:33:32.34
ALL NEW BELIEVERS TO OBSERVE
A CEREMONIAL LAW OF MOSES, OF
00:33:32.37\00:33:36.51
COURSE, INCLUDING
THAT OF CIRCUMCISION.
00:33:36.54\00:33:40.05
NUMBER TWO, THEY WERE ALSO
CONVINCING THE CHURCH MEMBERS
00:33:40.08\00:33:43.05
THAT THE OBSERVANCE OF THE
LAW - THE WORKS OF THE LAW AS IT
00:33:43.08\00:33:46.42
SOMETIMES ALSO REFERRED TO, WAS
A POWER IN AND OF ITSELF TO SAVE
00:33:46.45\00:33:50.53
US AND TO CHANGE US.
NOW PAUL WAS VERY CONCERNED
00:33:50.56\00:33:55.13
ABOUT BOTH OF THESE CHALLENGES,
TO BE SURE. IN FACT, BOTH OF
00:33:55.16\00:33:58.63
THESE THREATS HE SAW AS A VERY
SERIOUS THREAT TO THE CHURCH AND
00:33:58.67\00:34:01.50
TO HIS NEW CONVERTS AND TO HIS
NEW BELIEVERS IN, NOT ONLY THE
00:34:01.54\00:34:04.51
PROVINCE OF GALATIA, BUT IN
ALL AREAS IN WHICH HE HAD BEEN
00:34:04.54\00:34:07.14
WINNING DIFFERENT PEOPLE
TO CHRIST AND TO THE GOSPEL.
00:34:07.18\00:34:13.08
BUT I BELIEVE THAT PAUL WAS MORE
CONCERNED ABOUT THREAT #2 THAN
00:34:13.11\00:34:16.65
EVEN THREAT #1 AND, THUS,
WE FIND THAT HE'S WRITING MORE
00:34:16.69\00:34:20.69
CONCERNING THAT THAN EVEN
CONCERNING THE FIRST THREAT.
00:34:20.72\00:34:25.93
SO, AGAIN, WITH TODAY BEING
A NATURAL SUMMARY AND THE STUDY
00:34:25.96\00:34:28.03
CONCLUSION OF THIS PARTICULAR
BOOK, WE CAN SAFELY SAY THAT THE
00:34:28.06\00:34:31.33
BOOK OF GALATIANS WAS A POWERFUL
DEFENSE OF TRUE INTERNAL
00:34:31.37\00:34:35.20
CONVERSION ABOVE ALL
THINGS. IN OTHER WORDS, PAUL SAW
00:34:35.24\00:34:39.17
THAT THAT SECOND THREAT
WAS THREATENING THE CONVERSION
00:34:39.21\00:34:42.28
EXPERIENCE - THE
BORN-AGAIN EXPERIENCE OF THESE
00:34:42.31\00:34:46.08
PRECIOUS BELIEVERS.
PAUL KNEW, BY PERSONAL
00:34:46.11\00:34:55.86
EXPERIENCE, THAT THE LAW WAS
POWERLESS TO CHANGE THE HEART.
00:34:55.89\00:35:00.53
HE KNEW THAT ONLY CHRIST,
THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT, CAN DO
00:35:00.56\00:35:05.27
THAT SPECIAL WORK. HE
KNEW THAT WE NEEDED CHRIST.
00:35:05.30\00:35:09.00
HE KNEW THAT WAS ESSENTIAL
FOR US TO HAVE THE HOLY SPIRIT.
00:35:09.04\00:35:13.68
AND NOW, THERE WERE JUDAIZERS
IN THE CAMP THAT WERE POINTING
00:35:13.71\00:35:16.98
PEOPLE TO THE
RELIGION OF THE FLESH.
00:35:17.01\00:35:20.35
AND THAT'S WHY WE SEE TWO KEY
WORDS THAT CONTINUE TO COME UP
00:35:20.38\00:35:22.65
ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE BOOK OF
REVELATION - REVELATION, ARE WE
00:35:22.68\00:35:26.29
IN REVELATION? NO, WE'RE IN THE
BOOK OF GALATIANS, AREN'T WE?
00:35:26.32\00:35:29.46
OKAY, SO ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE
BOOK OF GALATIANS WE FIND THAT
00:35:29.49\00:35:32.83
FLESH AND SPIRIT ARE REPEATED
OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
00:35:32.86\00:35:38.00
AND SO, IN SUMMARY, WE FIND,
HERE, THAT THERE WERE THOSE WHO
00:35:38.03\00:35:41.20
WERE TRYING TO RECONVERT THOSE
WHO WERE IN THE CHURCH BACK TO A
00:35:41.24\00:35:45.01
RELIGION OF THE FLESH, RATHER
THAN A RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE IN
00:35:45.04\00:35:49.34
THE SPIRIT. AND
THIS IS VERY CRITICAL FOR
00:35:49.38\00:35:51.91
US TO BE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND
AND PULL AWAY FROM THE
00:35:51.95\00:35:53.92
BOOK OF GALATIANS. AND
I'M JUST SUMMARIZING MANY
00:35:53.95\00:35:56.72
OF WHAT THE OTHER PASTORS AND
TEACHERS HAVE TAUGHT ALREADY,
00:35:56.75\00:35:59.75
OVER THE LAST THREE MONTHS.
THERE'S A POPULAR TEACHING TODAY
00:35:59.79\00:36:06.39
AND WE FIND IT IN OUR POPULAR
TALK SHOWS, WE CAN FIND ALL
00:36:06.43\00:36:09.60
KINDS OF BOOKS THAT HAVE
BEEN MAKING MONEY FOR DIFFERENT
00:36:09.63\00:36:12.10
AUTHORS OVER THE
LAST FEW DECADES.
00:36:12.13\00:36:13.87
IN FACT, I CAN STILL REMEMBER,
I WAS ONLY JUST A TEENAGER SOME
00:36:13.90\00:36:17.17
THIRTY, FORTY YEARS AGO
AND ALREADY IT WAS A POPULAR
00:36:17.21\00:36:21.71
MOVEMENT - IT'S CALLED
THE 'NEW AGE' MOVEMENT.
00:36:21.74\00:36:23.71
EVERYBODY'S HEARD OF
THE NEW AGE MOVEMENT.
00:36:23.75\00:36:25.28
IN FACT, IT'S BEEN AROUND SO
LONG IT'S NOT REALLY ALL THAT
00:36:25.31\00:36:28.02
NEW, IS IT? IN FACT,
EVEN WHEN IT CAME OUT
00:36:28.05\00:36:30.55
AND CALLED ITSELF THE NEW AGE
MOVEMENT, THE FACT OF THE MATTER
00:36:30.59\00:36:33.96
IS THE DEVIL'S BEEN RECYCLING
THAT TEACHING SINCE THE GARDEN
00:36:33.99\00:36:37.29
OF EDEN. SO IT'S
ACTUALLY AN IRONIC NAME
00:36:37.33\00:36:42.23
FOR IT - IT'S A FALSE NAME
BECAUSE IT'S REALLY NOT ALL THAT
00:36:42.26\00:36:46.77
NEW. FINDING THE
GOD WITH IN YOU -
00:36:46.80\00:36:49.10
HAVE YOU EVER HEARD THAT TERM?
OKAY, I REMEMBER WATCHING OPRAH,
00:36:49.14\00:36:53.34
OR SOMETHING, ONE DAY AND, YOU
KNOW, SHE'S GOT A GUEST ON THERE
00:36:53.38\00:36:55.94
TRYING TO CONVINCE US ALL THAT
'ALL OF US, YOU KNOW, IF WE JUST
00:36:55.98\00:36:59.28
FIND THE GOD WITHIN
US, WE'RE ALL GOING TO BE
00:36:59.31\00:37:02.32
WAY BETTER PEOPLE.
WE'RE GOING TO FIND PERFECT
00:37:02.35\00:37:04.45
HARMONY AROUND THE WORLD.
YOU'RE GOING TO BE PROSPEROUS.
00:37:04.49\00:37:06.76
EVERYTHING IS GOING TO FALL INTO
PLACE, AND EVERYTHING'S GOING TO
00:37:06.79\00:37:08.66
BE WONDERFUL IN YOUR LIFE IF YOU
JUST FIND THE GOD WITHIN YOU.
00:37:08.69\00:37:12.93
TAP INTO YOUR INNER POWER
AND FOLLOW YOUR HEART.' OKAY?
00:37:12.96\00:37:18.53
NOW THIS IS ALL AT THE HEART
OF THIS VERY POPULAR TEACHING.
00:37:18.57\00:37:22.04
AND, BY THE WAY, THIS IS NOT
ONLY FOUND OUTSIDE OF CHRISTIAN
00:37:22.07\00:37:24.41
CIRCLES, BUT IT'S ALSO MADE ITS
WAY, SOMETIMES, INTO CHRISTIAN
00:37:24.44\00:37:27.71
CIRCLES AS WELL. AND
SO, WE'RE NOT SAFE JUST
00:37:27.74\00:37:30.21
WITHIN THE CHURCH, WE NEED TO
BE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND THAT SOME
00:37:30.25\00:37:32.91
OF THESE THINGS ARE ALSO
CHALLENGING US FROM WITHIN, SO
00:37:32.95\00:37:35.52
WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO KNOW
WHAT IS BEING TALKED ABOUT HERE.
00:37:35.55\00:37:38.62
AND THE REASON I'M BRINGING IT
UP NOW IS BECAUSE IT REALLY, IN
00:37:38.65\00:37:40.42
PRINCIPLE, IS REALLY THE SAME
AS WHAT THE JUDAIC RELIGION HAD
00:37:40.46\00:37:44.46
BECOME BY THE TIME PAUL AND HIS
GENERATION WERE LIVING IN BIBLE
00:37:44.49\00:37:47.86
TIMES AND IN NEW TESTAMENT
TIMES, AND SO, IT'S IMPORTANT
00:37:47.93\00:37:51.07
FOR US TO BE ABLE
TO UNDERSTAND THAT.
00:37:51.10\00:37:53.84
NOW, I'VE GOT A TEXT THAT, KIND
OF, JUST SAYS THE EXACT OPPOSITE
00:37:53.87\00:37:56.84
OF FOLLOW YOUR
HEART. NOW, I KNOW IT SOUNDS
00:37:56.87\00:37:58.61
ROMANTIC, IT SOUNDS WONDERFUL.
I FEEL ALL WARM INSIDE WHEN I
00:37:58.64\00:38:03.21
HEAR, YOU KNOW, 'JUST FOLLOW
YOUR HEART'. YOU, YOU KNOW, SEE
00:38:03.24\00:38:06.41
IT SOME OF OUR FAMILY MOVIES AND
SO ON, YOU KNOW, 'IF YOU JUST
00:38:06.45\00:38:09.35
FOLLOW YOUR HEART
EVERYTHING'S GOING TO BE OKAY.
00:38:09.38\00:38:12.39
WELL, THIS IS WHAT THE BIBLE HAS
TO SAY ABOUT THE HUMAN HEART:
00:38:12.42\00:38:15.86
JEREMIAH CHAPTER 17 AND VERSE
9 SAYS IT THE MOST BLUNTLY AND
00:38:15.89\00:38:21.53
THAT IS, IT SAYS, "THE HEART IS
DECEITFUL ABOVE ALL THINGS, AND
00:38:21.56\00:38:27.44
DESPERATELY
WICKED; WHO CAN KNOW IT?"
00:38:27.47\00:38:29.87
NOW DOES THAT MAKE YOU
FEEL ALL WARM AND FUZZY INSIDE?
00:38:29.90\00:38:33.14
>>NOT AT ALL.
>>NOT AT ALL, DOES IT?
00:38:33.17\00:38:35.04
OKAY, SO IT'S NOT NEARLY AS
POPULAR AS THE, KIND OF, DISNEY
00:38:35.08\00:38:41.02
SLOGAN AND LINES THAT WE FIND SO
OFTEN BEING PROPAGATED - 'IF YOU
00:38:41.05\00:38:45.42
JUST FOLLOW YOUR HEART
EVERYTHING'S GOING TO BE WARM
00:38:45.45\00:38:47.06
AND FUZZY AND EVERYTHING'S GOING
TO BE OKAY.' BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT
00:38:47.09\00:38:49.92
THE BIBLE SAYS. THE
BIBLE SAYS, 'DON'T FOLLOW
00:38:49.96\00:38:51.36
YOUR HEART,
FOLLOW JESUS.' >>AMEN.
00:38:51.39\00:38:54.63
>>RIGHT? OKAY, SO
THE DEVIL COMES ALONG
00:38:54.66\00:38:57.47
AND SAYS, 'OH,
JUST FOLLOW YOUR HEART.
00:38:57.50\00:38:59.07
LET'S BE ALL WARM AND FUZZY
TOGETHER.' GOD SAYS, 'NO, DON'T
00:38:59.10\00:39:01.64
FOLLOW YOUR HEARTS - FOLLOW
JESUS - IF YOU FOLLOW JESUS
00:39:01.67\00:39:06.07
YOU'RE IN GOOD
STEAD. THEN YOU'RE SAFE.
00:39:06.11\00:39:08.84
THEN THINGS ARE GOING TO GO MUCH
BETTER FOR YOU AND, NOT ONLY
00:39:08.88\00:39:11.61
THAT, THEN YOU'RE GOING TO LIVE
FOREVER IN PERFECT HARMONY AND
00:39:11.65\00:39:13.88
LOVE FOR ALL OF
ETERNITY. AND SO, DON'T LET THE
00:39:13.92\00:39:17.52
DEVIL DECEIVE YOU. AND
SO, THERE'S MODERN VERSIONS
00:39:17.55\00:39:21.26
OF THAT IN WHICH PAUL, IN
GALATIANS, IS SPEAKING AGAINST
00:39:21.29\00:39:23.89
FOR US, EVEN AS WE LOOK
UP THIS IMPORTANT SUBJECT.
00:39:23.93\00:39:29.23
SO I THINK IT'S HELPFUL FOR US
TO UNDERSTAND THAT PAUL WAS ONCE
00:39:29.26\00:39:31.93
A VERY ZEALOUS FOLLOWER OF THE
RELIGION, ACCORDING TO THE FLESH
00:39:31.97\00:39:34.97
AND NOT ACCORDING TO
THE SPIRIT. PAUL WAS THERE.
00:39:35.00\00:39:38.31
HE HAD ALREADY EXPERIENCED THAT
FOR THE BULK OF HIS LIFE, AT
00:39:38.34\00:39:41.08
LEAST AS A GROWING BOY AND THEN,
IN THE EARLY YEARS OF HIS LIFE
00:39:41.11\00:39:44.08
AS A MAN. HE KNEW ALL ABOUT THAT
EXPERIENCE. IN FACT, LET'S JUST
00:39:44.11\00:39:47.42
REVIEW THAT. WE'RE IN GALATIANS
ALREADY. LET'S BACK UP TO A
00:39:47.45\00:39:50.22
CHAPTER THAT WE
STUDIED JUST THREE MONTHS AGO.
00:39:50.25\00:39:52.42
IN GALATIANS CHAPTER 1 AND
VERSES 13 THROUGH 14 - GALATIANS
00:39:52.45\00:39:59.93
CHAPTER 1, VERSES 13 THROUGH 14
AND IT SAYS THIS: "FOR YOU HAVE
00:39:59.96\00:40:06.47
HEARD OF MY FORMER CONDUCT
IN JUDAISM, HOW I PERSECUTED THE
00:40:06.50\00:40:11.77
CHURCH OF GOD BEYOND
MEASURE AND TRIED TO DESTROY IT.
00:40:11.81\00:40:15.48
AND I ADVANCED IN JUDAISM BEYOND
MANY OF MY CONTEMPORARIES" - IN
00:40:15.51\00:40:19.01
OTHER WORDS, HE'S SAYING,
'LISTEN, I WAS A STAR STUDENT.'
00:40:19.05\00:40:21.45
IN FACT, IN OTHER LETTERS HE
WRITES THAT HE WAS AT THE FEET
00:40:21.48\00:40:24.45
OF THE MOST - THE MOST
PRESTIGIOUS RABBI AND TEACHER OF
00:40:24.49\00:40:29.52
HIS GENERATION, GAMALIEL.
AND SO, HIS PARENTS MUST HAVE
00:40:29.56\00:40:32.99
BEEN VERY WEALTHY AND HAD
INVESTED OR SACRIFICED A LOT
00:40:33.03\00:40:36.10
TO BE ABLE TO PUT THEIR
BOY AT THE FEET OF THE MOST
00:40:36.13\00:40:38.43
EXPENSIVE, MOST PRESTIGIOUS
JUDAIC TEACHER THERE WAS.
00:40:38.47\00:40:42.10
AND THEN HE SAYS, 'LISTEN, I WAS
AT THE TOP OF MY CLASS WHEN IT
00:40:42.14\00:40:46.34
COMES TO THE JUDAIC RELIGION AND
EXPERIENCE' - "IN MY OWN NATION,
00:40:46.37\00:40:50.31
BEING MORE EXCEEDINGLY
ZEALOUS FOR THE TRADITIONS OF MY
00:40:50.35\00:40:55.42
FATHERS." OKAY?
00:40:55.45\00:40:57.19
SO THERE'S THE TRADITION AND
THERE'S, AGAIN, A VERY IMPORTANT
00:40:57.22\00:41:00.22
CLUE THAT TELLS US THAT JUDAISM
WAS MORE THAN JUST WHAT MOSES
00:41:00.26\00:41:03.66
WROTE BY THE
TIME PAUL CAME ALONG.
00:41:03.69\00:41:05.73
A LARGE PART OF THE JUDAIC
EXPERIENCE WAS A LOT OF THIS
00:41:05.76\00:41:09.33
EXTRACURRICULAR STUFF THAT HAD
BEEN DEVELOPED FOR THE CENTURIES
00:41:09.36\00:41:12.40
BEFORE PAUL,
THROUGH THE FATHERS.
00:41:12.43\00:41:14.84
AND SO, THERE'S A LOT OF
TRADITIONAL JUNK, IF I COULD PUT
00:41:14.87\00:41:18.31
IT FRANKLY, THAT CAME WITH WHAT
MOSES HAD BROUGHT TO THE PEOPLE
00:41:18.34\00:41:22.81
AT MOUNT SINAI. AND
SO, PAUL AND JESUS, BEFORE
00:41:22.84\00:41:26.98
THAT, WERE SPEAKING AND
PREACHING AND TEACHING VERY
00:41:27.02\00:41:29.65
STRONGLY AGAINST THAT.
AND SO, ONCE UPON A TIME, IN
00:41:29.68\00:41:33.56
FACT, NO - SORRY,
I WANT TO GO BACK.
00:41:33.59\00:41:35.56
LET'S GO TO
PHILIPPIANS BEFORE WE GO AHEAD.
00:41:35.59\00:41:37.86
PHILIPPIANS CHAPTER THREE -
WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT TWO TEXTS
00:41:37.89\00:41:41.00
- TWO DIFFERENT PASSAGES THAT
GIVE US SOME CLUES ON WHERE PAUL
00:41:41.03\00:41:45.10
WAS AT BEFORE HE -
BEFORE HE FOUND CHRIST.
00:41:45.13\00:41:52.74
AND SO, PHILIPPIANS CHAPTER
3 AND WE'RE GOING TO START WITH
00:41:52.77\00:41:55.78
VERSE 2. IT SAYS,
"BEWARE OF DOGS," - NOW
00:41:55.81\00:41:58.15
HE'S NOT TALKING ABOUT GENTILES
IN THIS CASE - WE JUST TALKED
00:41:58.18\00:42:00.32
ABOUT GENTILES AND DOGS -
IT'S NOT - HE'S REFERRING, NOW,
00:42:00.35\00:42:03.32
TO DOGS AS FALSE BRETHREN.
HE'S TALKING ABOUT WOLVES WITHIN
00:42:03.35\00:42:07.29
THE SHEEP OF THE CHURCH AND
THE CHURCHES - "BEWARE OF EVIL
00:42:07.32\00:42:13.90
WORKERS, BEWARE
OF THE MUTILATION!"
00:42:13.93\00:42:15.70
- NOW HE'S TALKING
ABOUT CIRCUMCISION.
00:42:15.73\00:42:17.43
NOW, HE'S NOT INTO MUTILATION,
BUT HE'S REFERRING TO
00:42:17.47\00:42:20.34
CIRCUMCISION IN A NEGATIVE WAY,
NOW, BECAUSE OF THE WAY THAT
00:42:20.37\00:42:23.54
IT'S BEEN ABUSED AMONG THE
GENTILES - "FOR WE ARE OF THE
00:42:23.57\00:42:27.11
CIRCUMCISION," - NOW HE'S
NOT TALKING ABOUT PHYSICAL
00:42:27.14\00:42:29.64
CIRCUMCISION, NOW, BUT
HE'S TALKING ABOUT SPIRITUAL
00:42:29.68\00:42:32.18
CIRCUMCISION AND WE'RE GOING
TO LOOK AT SOME TEXTS IF WE HAVE
00:42:32.21\00:42:34.52
TIME BEFORE OUR TIME IS UP FOR
STUDY, TODAY, AND LOOK AT SOME
00:42:34.55\00:42:37.55
TEXTS THAT EXPLAIN THAT - "FOR
WE ARE OF THE CIRCUMCISION WHO
00:42:37.59\00:42:40.99
WORSHIP GOD IN THE SPIRIT,"
- THERE'S THAT KEY WORD AGAIN -
00:42:41.02\00:42:44.73
SPIRIT - REMEMBER, FLESH
AND SPIRIT ARE THE KEY WORDS OF
00:42:44.76\00:42:48.33
GALATIANS - "REJOICE IN CHRIST
JESUS, AND HAVE NO CONFIDENCE IN
00:42:48.36\00:42:52.13
THE FLESH," - SO THERE'S
THE OTHER KEY WORD, ISN'T IT?
00:42:52.17\00:42:56.97
- "THOUGH I MIGHT ALSO
HAVE CONFIDENCE IN THE FLESH.
00:42:57.01\00:43:00.61
IF ANYONE ELSE THINKS HE MAY
HAVE CONFIDENCE IN THE FLESH, I
00:43:00.64\00:43:03.85
MORE SO." - HE'S SAYING,
'LISTEN, IF ANYONE CAN BRAG
00:43:03.88\00:43:06.05
ABOUT HAVING CONFIDENCE IN THE
FLESH, I WAS A STAR - I WAS A
00:43:06.08\00:43:08.78
CHAMPION, OKAY? I WAS THE' -
WHAT DO THEY CALL IT - THE MVP -
00:43:08.82\00:43:13.89
MOST VALUABLE PLAYER - 'I
WAS THE MVP OF JUDAISM.' -
00:43:13.92\00:43:19.09
"CIRCUMCISED THE EIGHTH DAY,
OF THE STOCK OF ISRAEL, OF THE
00:43:19.13\00:43:23.10
TRIBE OF BENJAMIN, A HEBREW
OF THE HEBREWS;" - HE WAS ONE OF
00:43:23.13\00:43:25.73
THE RARE REMAINING PUREBREDS OF
ONE TRIBE - "CONCERNING THE LAW,
00:43:25.77\00:43:31.07
A PHARISEE" - THE STRICTEST SECT
OF JUDAISM - "CONCERNING ZEAL,
00:43:31.11\00:43:35.34
PERSECUTING THE CHURCH;
CONCERNING THE RIGHTEOUSNESS
00:43:35.38\00:43:37.48
WHICH IS IN THE LAW, BLAMELESS."
- HE SAID, 'I WAS A CHAMPION OF
00:43:37.51\00:43:41.22
THE LAW' - "BUT WHAT THINGS
WERE GAIN TO ME, THESE I HAVE
00:43:41.25\00:43:44.59
COUNTED LOSS FOR CHRIST.
YET INDEED I ALSO COUNT ALL
00:43:44.62\00:43:49.06
THINGS LOSS FOR THE EXCELLENCE
OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF CHRIST
00:43:49.09\00:43:51.46
JESUS MY LORD, FOR WHOM I HAVE
SUFFERED THE LOSS OF ALL THINGS,
00:43:51.49\00:43:54.76
AND COUNT THEM AS RUBBISH, THAT
I MAY GAIN CHRIST AND BE FOUND
00:43:54.83\00:43:59.27
IN HIM, NOT HAVING MY OWN
RIGHTEOUSNESS," - AND ISAIAH, OF
00:43:59.30\00:44:04.87
COURSE, CALLS OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS
LIKE FILTHY RAGS, DOESN'T HE?
00:44:04.91\00:44:08.38
- "NOT HAVING MY OWN
RIGHTEOUSNESS WHICH IS FROM THE
00:44:08.41\00:44:10.15
LAW, BUT THAT WHICH IS
THROUGH FAITH IN CHRIST, THE
00:44:10.18\00:44:13.68
RIGHTEOUSNESS WHICH IS FROM
GOD BY FAITH;" - NOW, I HAVE TO
00:44:13.72\00:44:18.69
CONFESS, WHEN I CAME TO
THIS PARTICULAR PASSAGE, I WAS
00:44:18.72\00:44:20.66
TEMPTED TO GO INTO THE IMPUTED
AND THE IMPARTED RIGHTEOUSNESS
00:44:20.69\00:44:23.89
OF CHRIST AND THE
GOSPEL OF JESUS, AND SO ON.
00:44:23.93\00:44:26.86
AND THEN I REMEMBERED THAT,
NOT ONLY DO WE NOT HAVE TIME FOR
00:44:26.90\00:44:29.20
THAT TODAY, BUT THERE'S LOTS OF
TIME TO STUDY THIS IN THE NEXT
00:44:29.23\00:44:33.44
QUARTERLY, AND SO I DON'T WANT
TO STEAL THE THUNDER OF THE NEXT
00:44:33.47\00:44:36.50
QUARTERLY AS WE LOOK IN THE
FIRST CHAPTERS OF ROMANS AND WE
00:44:36.54\00:44:39.11
LOOK AT THE INS AND OUTS OF
THE IMPUTED AND THE IMPARTED
00:44:39.14\00:44:41.74
RIGHTEOUSNESS OF CHRIST
AND HOW THAT GIVES US VICTORY.
00:44:41.78\00:44:47.75
BUT TODAY, LET'S STICK WITH
CONVERSION - LET'S JUST STICK
00:44:47.78\00:44:50.42
WITH CONVERSION TODAY.
ONCE UPON A TIME, PAUL WAS
00:44:50.45\00:44:55.52
WITHOUT THE HOLY SPIRIT AND
HE LOOKED TO THE LAW, BOTH THE
00:44:55.56\00:44:58.29
CEREMONIAL LAW, THE MORAL LAW -
THE TRADITIONS OF THE FATHERS -
00:44:58.33\00:45:02.10
AND HE LOOKED TO THE
WORKS OF THE LAW TO FIND
00:45:02.13\00:45:04.43
FULFILLMENT AND SALVATION.
AND, ESSENTIALLY, IF WE WERE
00:45:04.47\00:45:07.80
TO BOIL ALL OF THE BOOK OF
GALATIANS DOWN INTO ONE SAYING
00:45:07.84\00:45:11.71
THAT PAUL, PERHAPS, IF HE WAS
SPEAKING TODAY IN OUR MODERATE
00:45:11.74\00:45:14.61
LANGUAGE, WOULD SAY, 'BEEN
THERE, DONE THAT, NEVER GO BACK
00:45:14.64\00:45:18.95
AGAIN.' AND SO PAUL IS TAKING
THIS VERY PERSONALLY, AS WELL AS
00:45:18.98\00:45:22.92
THEOLOGICALLY, WHEN HE'S WRITING
TO HIS GALATIAN CHURCHES.
00:45:22.95\00:45:26.82
I WANT TO HAVE A BIT OF
AN EXERCISE WITH THE LAST FEW
00:45:26.86\00:45:29.42
MINUTES THAT WE HAVE HERE,
TOGETHER, AND THE EXERCISE IS
00:45:29.46\00:45:33.26
LOOKING AT PAUL BEFORE AND AFTER
HE FINDS CHRIST IN THE SPIRIT.
00:45:33.29\00:45:37.07
AND SO I COULD START WITH THE
QUESTION, 'WHAT KIND OF PERSON
00:45:37.10\00:45:40.00
DID PAUL BECOME IN HIS
PREVIOUS RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE?
00:45:40.04\00:45:43.74
WHAT KIND OF PERSON DID
PAUL BECOME WITH HIS PREVIOUS
00:45:43.77\00:45:46.78
RELIGIOUS
EXPERIENCE - BEFORE CHRIST?
00:45:46.81\00:45:49.24
M'KAY, ZEALOUS IS
WHAT HE SAYS, YES.
00:45:49.28\00:45:51.61
LET'S LOOK AT SOME SCRIPTURES
ON THAT. NOW, THERE'S MANY
00:45:51.65\00:45:54.45
SCRIPTURES IN THE BOOK OF
ACTS AND THE LETTERS OF PAUL,
00:45:54.48\00:45:56.58
HIMSELF, BUT I WANT TO INVITE
YOU TO COME WITH ME TO ACTS
00:45:56.62\00:45:58.82
CHAPTER 7 AND LUKE WAS INSPIRED
TO WRITE A VERY IMPORTANT
00:45:58.85\00:46:03.12
MILESTONE IN THE HISTORY OF
CHURCH, AS WELL AS IN PROPHECY.
00:46:03.16\00:46:05.63
IN FACT, ACTS CHAPTER 7 IS THE
RECORDING THE EVENT THAT REALLY
00:46:05.66\00:46:10.50
IS THE CULMINATION AND THE LAST
- THE END OF ONE OF THE LONGEST
00:46:10.53\00:46:16.71
TIME PROPHECIES IN DANIEL 9
- WE'VE BEEN STUDYING THAT ON
00:46:16.74\00:46:19.01
TUESDAY NIGHTS, FOR THOSE OF YOU
WHO HAVE BEEN COMING - THOSE OF
00:46:19.04\00:46:22.01
YOU WHO HAVE BEEN WATCHING
ON FACEBOOK ONLINE - WE'VE BEEN
00:46:22.04\00:46:23.98
LOOKING AT DANIEL 9 AND
DISCOVERING THAT THAT LAST
00:46:24.01\00:46:26.35
SEVENTIETH WEEK OF THE
SEVENTY-WEEK PROPHECY THAT
00:46:26.38\00:46:28.82
REPRESENTS SEVEN LITERAL YEARS,
CAME TO ITS CONCLUSION THREE AND
00:46:28.85\00:46:33.15
A HALF YEARS AFTER
CHRIST DIED AND RESURRECTED.
00:46:33.19\00:46:35.96
AND THIS IS THE LAST APPEAL THAT
GOD IS MAKING TO THE COUNCIL AND
00:46:35.99\00:46:40.26
THE REPRESESNTATIVES
OF THE NATIONS OF ISRAEL.
00:46:40.30\00:46:43.80
SO THE CONTEXT THAT WE COME TO
IN ACTS CHAPTER 7 AND THE EVENT
00:46:43.83\00:46:47.94
THAT'S TAKING PLACE, IS THAT
GOD HAD INSTILLED ON ONE OF THE
00:46:47.97\00:46:51.31
FIRST DEACONS - HIS NAME WAS
STEPHEN - AND STEPHEN WAS CALLED
00:46:51.34\00:46:55.64
TO BE A DEACON, BUT GOD HAD
ALSO WORKED THROUGH HIM TO WORK
00:46:55.68\00:46:58.15
MIRACLES, AND WE FIND THAT
IN THE FIRST VERSES OF THAT
00:46:58.18\00:47:00.62
CHAPTER. AND SO, HE
WAS DOING MANY SIGNS
00:47:00.65\00:47:03.28
AND WONDERS - MOST OF
THOSE SIGNS, LIKE JESUS, WERE
00:47:03.32\00:47:05.82
INEVITABLY HEALING
PEOPLE SUPERNATURALLY.
00:47:05.85\00:47:09.06
NOW STEPHEN WAS JUST LIKE JESUS
AND HE WAS LIKE PAUL AND PETER
00:47:09.09\00:47:13.40
AND THE OTHERS THAT WERE ALSO
GIVEN THIS GIFT AND WERE WORKING
00:47:13.43\00:47:16.40
MIRACLES. THEY
WEREN'T DOING IT FOR A
00:47:16.43\00:47:18.80
SHOW - THEY WEREN'T DOING IT TO
ENTERTAIN THE PEOPLE - IT WASN'T
00:47:18.83\00:47:22.20
A LAS VEGAS MAGICIAN SHOW
THAT THEY WERE TRYING TO ACT.
00:47:22.24\00:47:25.84
NO, THEY WERE DOING THAT TO
SHOW, FIRST OF ALL, THAT THERE
00:47:25.87\00:47:27.98
IS A LIVING SUPERNATURAL
GOD THAT EXISTS AND THEY ARE THE
00:47:28.01\00:47:31.91
ONES THAT ARE WORSHIPING
THE REAL GOD. BUT, JUST AS
00:47:31.95\00:47:35.65
IMPORTANTLY, IT WAS REVEALING
THAT THAT SAME GOD LOVES YOU AND
00:47:35.68\00:47:39.85
THAT HE CARES ABOUT YOU AND
THAT HE WANTS YOU TO BE WHOLE.
00:47:39.89\00:47:44.53
AND SO WE FIND HERE THAT JESUS
IS REVEALING THAT GOD CARES AND
00:47:44.56\00:47:49.06
LOVES THE PEOPLE THAT
STEPHEN WAS INTERACTING WITH.
00:47:49.10\00:47:52.67
AND THEN, AFTER THEY GOT THEIR
TRUST AND SHOWED THAT, NOT ONLY
00:47:52.70\00:47:56.74
DID THEY CARE, BUT STEPHEN
CARED, THEN STEPHEN WOULD GO AND
00:47:56.77\00:47:59.54
PREACH THE GOSPEL
TO THOSE SAME PEOPLE.
00:47:59.57\00:48:01.91
AND SO, THIS WAS AN INROAD TO
BE ABLE TO BE ABLE TO BRING THE
00:48:01.94\00:48:04.41
GOSPEL TO ITS LISTENERS AND
TO THOSE WHO WERE SEEING AND
00:48:04.45\00:48:06.95
RECEIVING THE
MIRACLES. WELL, THERE WAS A VERY
00:48:06.98\00:48:09.95
PRESTIGIOUS SYNAGOGUE THAT
WAS EXISTING IN JERUSALEM AT
00:48:09.98\00:48:12.89
THAT TIME, IT WAS CALLED
THE SYNAGOGUE OF THE FREED MEN,
00:48:12.92\00:48:15.32
AND IT WAS AN INTERNATIONAL
SYNAGOGUE THAT HAD DIFFERENT,
00:48:15.36\00:48:18.36
VERY PRESTIGIOUS JEWS AND
LEADERS - RELIGIOUS, POLITICAL
00:48:18.39\00:48:23.00
PROBABLY, I'M SURE, IN THERE AS
WELL, THAT CAME FROM DIFFERENT
00:48:23.03\00:48:25.80
NATIONS AND CITIES, EVEN AS PAUL
WAS LIKELY IN THAT SYNAGOGUE AS
00:48:25.83\00:48:31.34
WELL, AS HE WAS
FROM TARSUS WAY UP NORTH.
00:48:31.37\00:48:34.41
AND SO PAUL WAS A STAR JEW - HE
WAS A STAR PHARISEE - AND HE WAS
00:48:34.44\00:48:39.41
ALSO ON THE COUNCIL OF THE
SANHEDRIN OF JERUSALEM AND OF
00:48:39.45\00:48:42.68
ISRAEL. AND THEY
HEARD ABOUT THIS GREAT
00:48:42.72\00:48:45.45
PREACHING AND POWER OF STEPHEN
AND THEY WENT TO PUBLICLY
00:48:45.49\00:48:47.76
DISPUTE AND PAUL WAS KIND
OF LIKE, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THESE
00:48:47.79\00:48:52.99
GREAT DEBATORS AND HE
WOULD START TO DEBATE.
00:48:53.03\00:48:55.66
HE THOUGHT, 'OKAY, I'M GOING TO
CLEAN THIS GUY UP AND WIPE HIM
00:48:55.70\00:48:59.90
OFF THE TABLE.' AND HE LOST.
THE BIBLE TELLS US, IN VERSE 2,
00:48:59.93\00:49:04.54
THAT HE LOST AND THE
OTHERS THAT TRIED LOST AS WELL.
00:49:04.57\00:49:07.71
AND SO, THEIR PRIDE WAS BROKEN
AND THEY WENT BACK AND THEY DID
00:49:07.74\00:49:13.35
PLAN B, JUST LIKE THEY DID WITH
JESUS, THEY WENT AND GOT SOME
00:49:13.38\00:49:16.38
FALSE RUMORS GOING AMONGST THE
PEOPLE AND THEY ROUNDED UP SOME
00:49:16.42\00:49:19.39
FALSE WITNESSES AND THEN
THEY CALLED STEPHEN BEFORE THE
00:49:19.42\00:49:22.39
COUNCIL AND SAID, 'HEY, LISTEN,
YOU KNOW, WE'VE GOT WITNESSES,
00:49:22.42\00:49:25.53
WE'VE GOT RUMORS, YOU KNOW, THIS
IS IT. YOU'RE CHARGED.' SO GOD
00:49:25.56\00:49:31.97
INSPIRED STEPHEN TO GIVE THIS
LAST APPEAL TO THIS COUNSEL THAT
00:49:32.00\00:49:35.80
REPRESENTED ISRAEL AND HE STARTS
TO TRACE THE COVENANT FROM
00:49:35.84\00:49:39.91
ABRAHAM AND HE'S GOING TO
MOVE ALL THE WAY TO JESUS AS THE
00:49:39.94\00:49:43.55
PROMISED SEED OF ABRAHAM.
BUT HE DIDN'T GET PAST SAUL.
00:49:43.58\00:49:47.45
HE STARTED TO TRACE ALL THE WAY
THROUGH THIS VERY LONG CHAPTER -
00:49:47.48\00:49:50.85
BY THE TIME WE GET TO VERSE 51,
WE FIND, HERE, THAT THE PEOPLE -
00:49:50.89\00:49:54.76
THE LISTENERS - WERE BECOMING
SO UPSET - THEIR COUNTENANCE -
00:49:54.79\00:49:58.29
THEIR EXPRESSIONS WERE BECOMING
SO MEAN LOOKING AND, LIKELY,
00:49:58.33\00:50:03.50
EVEN VERBALLY INTERRUPTING
STEPHEN, THAT STEPHEN JUST KNEW
00:50:03.53\00:50:07.74
HE WASN'T GOING TO
GET TO THE PUNCH LINE.
00:50:07.77\00:50:09.50
AND SO, HE CUTS
HIS SPEECH SHORT.
00:50:09.54\00:50:11.97
IN VERSE 51 HE
ADDRESSES THEM VERY FRANKLY.
00:50:12.01\00:50:14.24
HE SAID, "YOU STIFF-NECKED AND
UNCIRCUMCISED IN HEART AND EARS!
00:50:14.28\00:50:18.15
YOU ALWAYS RESIST THE HOLY
SPIRIT; AS YOUR FATHERS DID,
00:50:18.18\00:50:22.05
SO DO YOU." AND SO,
THIS IS DESCRIBING PAUL
00:50:22.08\00:50:25.32
- HE'S PART OF THE GROUP
THAT STEPHEN IS ADDRESSING.
00:50:25.35\00:50:29.86
AND SO, WE FIND THAT PAUL IS
STIFF-NECKED AND UNCIRCUMCISED
00:50:29.89\00:50:34.20
IN HEART AND EARS. AND SO,
HE WAS A VERY HARD-HEARTED MAN.
00:50:34.23\00:50:37.57
SO THAT'S THE FIRST THING THAT
WE FIND THAT PAUL WAS - THE KIND
00:50:37.60\00:50:41.37
OF PERSON HE WAS. NUMBER
TWO - HE RESISTED THE HOLY
00:50:41.40\00:50:44.27
SPIRIT, AND SO, HE WAS IN THE
HABIT OF PUSHING BACK THE VOICE
00:50:44.31\00:50:47.91
OF THE CONSCIENCE AND OF
THE HOLY SPIRIT IN HIS LIFE.
00:50:47.94\00:50:51.11
AND THEN WE COME TO VERSE 53; IT
SAYS, "WHO HAVE RECEIVED THE LAW
00:50:51.15\00:50:55.02
BY THE DIRECTION OF
ANGELS AND HAVE NOT KEPT IT."
00:50:55.05\00:51:00.42
AND SO, NOW STEPHEN IS, KIND OF,
SPEAKING MORE FRANKLY THAN EVER
00:51:00.46\00:51:02.69
AND HE'S, KIND OF, PUTTING
HIMSELF ON THE LINE NOW BECAUSE
00:51:02.72\00:51:04.79
HE'S EXPOSING THE LIVES OF
THOSE AND WHO ARE LISTENING.
00:51:04.83\00:51:08.70
NOW, YOU DON'T EXPOSE THE MOST
POWERFUL, THE MOST PRESTIGIOUS
00:51:08.73\00:51:12.67
RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL LEADERS
AND EMBARRASS THEM IN THIS WAY.
00:51:12.70\00:51:18.21
YOUR LIFE IS ON THE LINE IF YOU
DO IT, AND THE FOLLOWING VERSES
00:51:18.24\00:51:21.41
PROVE THAT, DON'T THEY?
THEY DEMONSTRATE THAT BECAUSE
00:51:21.44\00:51:23.58
THEY WENT OUT AND THEY
KILLED STEPHEN THAT DAY.
00:51:23.61\00:51:27.92
WHAT PARTS OF THE LAW
DID PAUL NOT KEEP THAT DAY?
00:51:27.95\00:51:32.22
WHAT PARTS OF THE
LAW DID PAUL NOT KEEP?
00:51:32.25\00:51:34.52
WELL, IN THE VERY HEART OF THE
LAW - LEVITICUS - THE WRITINGS
00:51:34.56\00:51:37.56
OF MOSES, ITSELF - LEVITICUS 19,
VERSE 18 SAYS LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR
00:51:37.59\00:51:42.30
AS YOURSELF. NOW,
WAS PAUL LOVING HIS
00:51:42.33\00:51:44.83
NEIGHBOR AS HIMSELF?
NO, NOT THAT DAY, ANYWAY.
00:51:44.87\00:51:49.04
DID HE LOVE HIS NEIGHBOR
AS HIMSELF AFTERWARDS, WHEN HE
00:51:49.07\00:51:51.97
PERSECUTED AND IMPRISONED
CHRISTIANS SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY
00:51:52.01\00:51:54.28
BELIEVED IN SOMETHING DIFFERENT,
ON A RELIGIOUS BASIS, THAN HE
00:51:54.31\00:51:57.11
DID? NO. SO HE WAS
BREAKING THE SECOND
00:51:57.15\00:52:00.12
GREATEST COMMANDMENT IN THE
LAW OF MOSES. NUMBER THREE -
00:52:00.15\00:52:05.12
JESUS PUT IT ANOTHER WAY, HE
SAID, 'THE GOLDEN RULE IS 'DO
00:52:05.15\00:52:07.22
UNTO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD HAVE
DONE UNTO YOURSELVES.' NOW, IF
00:52:07.26\00:52:11.39
WE SWITCHED THE TABLES THAT DAY,
AND STEPHEN AND HIS DEACONS AND
00:52:11.43\00:52:14.50
CHRISTIANS HAD THE UPPER HAND
AND THEY WERE THE AUTHORITIES,
00:52:14.56\00:52:17.20
AND THEY DRAGGED PAUL IN FRONT
OF THEM AND SAID, 'LISTEN, YOU
00:52:17.23\00:52:20.60
EITHER ACCEPT CHRIST AS THE
MESSIAH, OR WE KILL YOU.' OKAY,
00:52:20.64\00:52:24.54
DO YOU THINK HE
WOULD APPRECIATE THAT?
00:52:24.57\00:52:27.31
NO, PAUL WOULDN'T
APPRECIATE THAT AT ALL.
00:52:27.34\00:52:28.88
SO, WAS PAUL DOING UNTO OTHERS
AS HE WOULD HAVE DONE UNTO HIM?
00:52:28.91\00:52:32.51
NO, NO, NOT AT ALL. OKAY?
00:52:32.55\00:52:36.08
AND THEN, WHAT ABOUT DO
GOOD - LOVE YOUR ENEMIES?
00:52:36.12\00:52:39.19
DID PAUL DO GOOD
AND LOVE HIS ENEMIES?
00:52:39.22\00:52:41.02
NO, HE COUNTED STEPHEN AND THE
CHRISTIANS AS AN ENEMY AND HE
00:52:41.06\00:52:43.63
WASN'T DOING
GOOD TO THEM AT ALL.
00:52:43.66\00:52:45.23
PROVERBS 25, VERSE 21 SAYS THIS:
"IF YOUR ENEMY IS HUNGRY, GIVE
00:52:45.26\00:52:50.80
HIM BREAD TO EAT; AND IF HE
IS THIRSTY, GIVE HIM WATER TO
00:52:50.83\00:52:53.80
DRINK;" - IN THE HEART OF THE
LAW OF MOSES, EXODUS CHAPTER 23
00:52:53.84\00:52:57.77
AND VERSE 4, IT SAYS, "IF
YOU MEET YOUR ENEMY'S OX OR HIS
00:52:57.81\00:53:02.08
DONKEY GOING ASTRAY, YOU SHALL
SURELY BRING IT BACK TO HIM
00:53:02.11\00:53:05.21
AGAIN." AND SO,
THESE PRINCIPLES THAT
00:53:05.25\00:53:08.42
JESUS DREW OUT IN THE SERMON
ON THE MOUNT WERE NOT NEW.
00:53:08.45\00:53:11.82
THEY WERE NEW TO THEIR
LISTENERS, BUT THEY WEREN'T NEW
00:53:11.85\00:53:13.72
TO MOSES OR TO THE
BIBLE. PAUL SHOULD HAVE BEEN
00:53:13.76\00:53:17.46
ACQUAINTED WITH THEM AS WELL.
AND THEN, OF COURSE, THE FOURTH
00:53:17.49\00:53:20.43
PART OF THE LAW THAT PAUL
WAS BREAKING ON A SERIOUS MATTER
00:53:20.46\00:53:23.73
WAS THE SIXTH COMMANDMENT.
IN EXODUS 20, VERSE 13, IT SAYS,
00:53:23.77\00:53:28.14
"YOU SHALL NOT" -
"YOU SHALL NOT MURDER."
00:53:28.17\00:53:31.64
WAS PAUL
MURDERING THAT DAY? SURE.
00:53:31.67\00:53:34.31
OKAY, ACCORDING TO OUR JUSTICE
SYSTEM, HERE IN AMERICA, HE
00:53:34.34\00:53:37.01
WOULD BE AN ACCOMPLICE
TO MURDER, WOULDN'T HE?
00:53:37.05\00:53:39.25
OKAY? CHAPTER 8,
VERSE 1, IT SAYS,
00:53:39.28\00:53:41.18
"NOW SAUL WAS
CONSENTING TO HIS DEATH."
00:53:41.22\00:53:44.45
PAUL WAS THE ONE THAT WAS
WATCHING THE COATS OF THOSE WHO
00:53:44.49\00:53:46.59
WERE PICKING UP THE ROCKS AND
THROWING THE STONES AT STEPHEN
00:53:46.62\00:53:49.66
UNTIL STEPHEN WAS KILLED.
AND SO, PAUL WAS GUILTY OF
00:53:49.69\00:53:53.53
AN ACCOMPLICE TO MURDER.
AFTER THAT, HE WAS DIRECTLY
00:53:53.56\00:53:55.73
INVOLVED IN HAVING CHRISTIANS
MURDERED AND IMPRISONED AS WELL.
00:53:55.76\00:54:02.04
AND SO, HE WAS A LAW
BREAKER, EVEN THOUGH HE CLAIMED
00:54:02.07\00:54:06.57
HIMSELF TO BE A
CHAMPION OF THE LAW.
00:54:06.61\00:54:09.74
AND SO, THE FOLLOWING VERSES
GO ON AND EXPLAIN HOW THEY
00:54:09.78\00:54:13.18
RESPONDED AND THE GROUP
EVENTUALLY DRAGGED STEPHEN OUT
00:54:13.21\00:54:20.62
AND HAD HIM STONED UNTIL HE
WAS ABSOLUTELY, COMPLETELY GONE.
00:54:20.66\00:54:26.90
AND THEN THERE WAS A PERSECUTION
- VERSE 3, IT SAYS, "AS FOR
00:54:26.93\00:54:28.90
SAUL, HE MADE HAVOC OF THE
CHURCH, ENTERING EVERY HOUSE,
00:54:28.93\00:54:32.23
AND DRAGGING OFF MEN AND WOMEN,
COMMITTING THEM TO PRISON."
00:54:32.27\00:54:35.20
AND SO, HE WAS ARROGANT, HE WAS
ZEALOUS, HE WAS INTOLERANT TO
00:54:35.24\00:54:38.71
RELIGIOUS DISAGREEMENT,
HE WAS EASILY ANGERED.
00:54:38.74\00:54:41.78
AND JESUS CALLS THAT KIND OF
CONDITION LIKE A WHITE-WASHED
00:54:41.81\00:54:46.38
SEPULCHER, OR TOMB.
YOU'RE ALL BEAUTIFUL ON THE
00:54:46.41\00:54:49.45
OUTSIDE, BUT ON THE INSIDE
YOU HAVE DEAD MEN'S BONES AND
00:54:49.48\00:54:51.82
ALL KINDS OF UNCLEANNESS.
AND JESUS, HIMSELF, SPOKE TO THE
00:54:51.85\00:54:55.86
PAULS OF HIS GENERATION
WHILE JESUS WAS ON THE EARTH.
00:54:55.89\00:54:59.26
SO WHAT CHANGED
PAUL SO DRAMATICALLY?
00:54:59.29\00:55:02.26
THE VERY NEXT CHAPTER - VERSES
17 AND 18 - IS WHAT WE'RE GOING
00:55:02.30\00:55:05.27
TO HAVE TO CLOSE
WITH HERE, TODAY.
00:55:05.30\00:55:07.67
VERSES 17 AND 18 IT SAYS, "AND
ANANIAS WENT HIS WAY AND ENTERED
00:55:07.70\00:55:11.14
THE HOUSE; AND LAYING HIS HANDS
ON HIM HE SAID, 'BROTHER SAUL,
00:55:11.17\00:55:13.78
THE LORD JESUS, WHO APPEARED TO
YOU ON THE ROAD AS YOU CAME, HAS
00:55:13.81\00:55:20.55
SENT ME THAT YOU MAY RECEIVE
YOUR SIGHT AND BE FILLED WITH
00:55:20.58\00:55:22.88
THE HOLY SPIRIT.'
IMMEDIATELY THERE FELL FROM HIS
00:55:22.92\00:55:25.32
EYES SOMETHING LIKE SCALES, AND
HE RECEIVED HIS SIGHT AT ONCE;
00:55:25.35\00:55:27.82
AND HE AROSE AND WAS BAPTIZED."
00:55:27.86\00:55:30.13
WHAT'S THE KEY INGREDIENT
THAT HE RECEIVED THAT DAY?
00:55:30.16\00:55:32.36
>>THE HOLY
SPIRIT. >>THE HOLY SPIRIT.
00:55:32.39\00:55:34.56
NOW HE WAS OF THE
EXPERIENCE OF THE SPIRIT.
00:55:34.56\00:55:37.77
DO YOU SEE, THE POWER IS NOT IN
THE LAW ITSELF TO CHANGE US, THE
00:55:37.80\00:55:40.27
POWER IS IN
CHRIST, THE GOD OF THE LAW.
00:55:40.30\00:55:42.90
AND ONCE YOU HAVE THE GOD OF THE
LAW IN YOUR HEART, THEN GOD IS
00:55:42.94\00:55:45.61
ABLE TO WRITE HIS
LAW UPON YOUR HEART.
00:55:45.64\00:55:47.51
AND THAT'S THE
WHOLE GOAL, ISN'T IT?
00:55:47.54\00:55:48.94
FOR US TO BE ABLE TO KEEP
THE LAW FROM THE INSIDE OUT.
00:55:48.98\00:55:51.48
AND THAT'S WHAT
PAUL WAS CONCERNED OF.
00:55:51.51\00:55:53.55
THAT'S WHAT GOD WAS
CONCERNED OF, AS WELL.
00:55:53.58\00:55:56.65
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>>FIVE HUNDRED YEARS AGO, GOD
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GREAT REFORMATION; HOWEVER, IN
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