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>>GOOD MORNING, AND
WELCOME TO ANOTHER EDITION OF
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THE SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR
THAT'S TAKING PLACE RIGHT HERE
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IN THE GRANITE BAY SEVENTH-DAY
ADVENTIST CHURCH IN THE GREATER
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SACRAMENTO AREA OF
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA.
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WE WANT TO WELCOME ALL WHO ARE
WATCHING ONLINE TODAY AND THOSE
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WHO ARE ALSO WATCHING FROM THE
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NETWORKS. WHAT A
PRIVILEGE IT IS TO BE
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ABLE TO SHARE AND TO BE ABLE TO
STUDY THE WORD OF GOD AS WE COME
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TOGETHER AND GROW CLOSER
TOGETHER AND UNDERSTAND GOD'S
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WORD THAT MUCH BETTER AS WELL.
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BEFORE WE START SINGING, WE ALSO
WANT TO BRING BEFORE YOU OUR
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SO, WE'D LIKE TO INVITE OUR SONG
LEADERS FORWARD AT THIS TIME, AS
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WE SPEND SOME TIME
SINGING TO THE LORD.
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GOD BLESS YOU. (PIANO MUSIC)
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>>THANK YOU, PASTOR BRUMMOND.
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FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DIDN'T
KNOW, HE IS OUR NEW PASTOR -
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FAMILY LIFE PASTOR - HERE
AT GRANITE BAY, AND WE ARE JUST
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EXCITED TO HAVE THE BRUMMOND
FAMILY JOINING WITH US AT
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GRANITE BAY.
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THEY COME ALL THE WAY FROM
CANADA AND THEY'RE GOING TO BE A
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BLESSING, WE
KNOW, AT THIS CHURCH.
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WE'RE GOING TO START OUR SONG
SERVICE, LIKE WE DO EVERY WEEK,
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SINGING YOUR FAVORITES, AND
WE'RE GOING TO START WITH #286 -
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WONDERFUL WORDS OF LIFE - #286 -
AND WE'RE GOING TO DO ALL THREE
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STANZAS. (PIANO MUSIC)
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>>AT THIS TIME, PASTOR
BRUMMOND IS GOING TO HAVE
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OUR OPENING
PRAYER. (SOFT PIANO MUSIC)
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>>LET'S CLOSE OUR EYES
AND BOW OUR HEADS AS WE PRAY.
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FATHER IN HEAVEN, WE THANK
YOU FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY THIS
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MORNING TO BE ABLE TO OPEN YOUR
WORD AND FREELY BE ABLE TO STUDY
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THIS GREAT BOOK
CALLED THE BOOK OF ROMANS.
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WE THANK YOU FOR THE
GOSPEL THAT IS FOUND IN IT.
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WE THANK YOU FOR THE GREAT
TRUTHS THAT YOU HAVE REVEALED TO
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US. WE PRAY FOR A SPECIAL
BLESSING UPON OUR TEACHER TODAY,
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OUR LEAD PASTOR, DOUG BATCHELOR,
AS HE IS GOING TO BE SHARING
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WITH US. WE PRAY,
AS ALWAYS, THAT YOUR
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HOLY SPIRIT WILL CONTINUE TO
GUIDE US AND LEAD US AND GIVE US
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UNDERSTANDING, AS YOU WOULD
HAVE US UNDERSTAND IT, LORD.
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AND SO, GOD, AGAIN WE CONSECRATE
THIS PARTICULAR TIME BEFORE YOU
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AND ASK FOR YOUR
BLESSING. IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
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>>AMEN. >>AND NOW
WE WANT TO WELCOME
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PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR.
>>THANK YOU, PASTOR SHAWN, AND
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OUR MUSICIANS - MICHELLE
ON PIANO - I APPRECIATE THAT.
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MORNING. >>MORNING.
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>>HAPPY
SABBATH. >>HAPPY SABBATH.
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>>GOOD TO SEE EACH OF YOU HERE
AT GRANITE BAY AND WE KNOW THERE
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ARE ALWAYS THOUSANDS THAT ARE
WATCHING, VIA THE INTERNET OR
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FACEBOOK, AND WE'RE REALLY GLAD
THAT YOU'RE TUNING IN AS WELL.
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AND, AMONG THOSE THAT ARE
WATCHING, SOME OF YOU ARE OUR
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ONLINE MEMBERS - WE
WANT TO WELCOME YOU AS WELL.
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WE HAVE PEOPLE THAT ARE
SCATTERED IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF
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THE WORLD - MANY OF THEM IN
DIFFERENT ENGLISH-SPEAKING PARTS
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OF THE WORLD - AUSTRALIA,
SOUTH AFRICA, CANADA, INDIA,
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PHILIPPIINES, AND THERE'S NO
LOCAL CHURCH THEY CAN ATTEND,
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BUT THEY CAN WATCH ONLINE OR VIA
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MECHANISM WHERE THEY CAN BE
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INTERESTED IN THAT, CONTACT US.
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IF THERE'S A LOCAL CHURCH WE
CAN RECOMMEND TO YOU, WE WILL DO
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THAT AS WELL. JUST
BEFORE WE GET INTO OUR
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LESSON, I WANT TO
MAKE AN ANNOUNCEMENT.
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IN A FEW WEEKS - THAT'S A
FEW WEEKS FROM THIS BROADCAST -
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WE'RE GOING TO BE DOING
SOMETHING VERY IMPORTANT.
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AMAZING FACTS WILL BE BACK
IN MARYLAND, AT THE GENERAL
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CONFERENCE HEADQUARTERS AND, YOU
KNOW, WE'RE HEADING UP ON THE
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500-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF
THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION, AND
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WE'RE GOING TO BE DOING A
MEETING THERE - A SERIES OF
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MEETINGS SOMETHING LIKE
A REVIVAL - A LITTLE BIT OF
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EVANGELISM INVOLVED AND IT'S
CALLED FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH .
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WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT
IF THE REFORMERS WERE STILL
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ALIVE TODAY, WOULD THE
REFORMATION BE GOING ANY FARTHER
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THAN THEY TOOK IT?
IN OTHER WORDS, DOES THE
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REFORMATION
STILL NEED TO CONTINUE?
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YOU KNOW, SOME ARE
ARGUING THE REFORMATION IS OVER.
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AND SO, WE'RE GOING TO
BE TALKING ABOUT SOME OF THE
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FOUNDATIONAL TEACHINGS THAT HAVE
BEEN LOST SIGHT OF BY MUCH OF
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THE CHRISTIAN WORLD. AND
SO, PLEASE PLAN ON TUNING IN.
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IT WILL BE ON, PROBABLY, MANY
OF THE CHANNELS YOU'RE WATCHING
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RIGHT NOW - HOPE CHANNEL, 3ABN,
AMAZING FACTS TV, FACEBOOK LIVE,
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AND ALL OF THE OTHERS.
AND SO, FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH -
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IT'S NOVEMBER 3 THROUGH 11 -
NOVEMBER 3 THROUGH 11 - YOU MAY
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WANT TO GATHER IN YOUR HOMES AND
CHURCHES - BRING YOUR FRIENDS
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TOGETHER AND PRAY FOR REVIVAL.
AND THAT'S A GREAT SEGUE INTO
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OUR NEW SERIES
THAT WE'RE BEGINNING.
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OUR NEW LESSON IS FROM THE
BOOK OF ROMANS AND WE REALLY ARE
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STEPPING ON HOLY GROUND.
ROMANS IS ONE OF THE GREAT
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BOOKS OF THE BIBLE - NOW DON'T
MISUNDERSTAND, BECAUSE IT'S LIKE
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WHEN SOMEONE ASKS YOU
'WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE VERSE?'
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DOES IT MEAN THE
OTHER ONES AREN'T GOOD?
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AND SO, WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT
A GREAT BOOK OF THE BIBLE, DOES
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THAT MEAN THAT THE
OTHER BOOKS ARE LESS GREAT?
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WELL, MAYBE - THEY'RE ALL
INSPIRED. I MEAN, ALL THE STARS
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IN THE SKY ARE OUT OF
YOUR REACH. DO WE AGREE?
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BUT DO YOU AGREE SOME
SHINE BRIGHTER THAN OTHERS?
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AND THE BOOK OF ROMANS IS ONE
OF THE GREAT BOOKS IN THE BIBLE
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BECAUSE IT JUST REALLY TAKES
THE GOSPEL AND IT LAYS IT OUT SO
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THAT EVERYBODY
COULD UNDERSTAND IT.
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AND I PROBABLY OUGHT TO START
BY JUST INTRODUCING THE STUDY.
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THE SERIES, OF COURSE, IS
CALLED SALVATION BY FAITH ALONE:
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THE BOOK OF ROMANS .
WE'RE IN LESSON #1 TODAY THAT IS
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CALLED THE APOSTLE PAUL IN ROME
. WE'RE REALLY GOING TO BE DOING
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SORT OF AN OVERVIEW OF
THE BOOK OF ROMANS, AND WE
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HAVE A MEMORY VERSE.
THE MEMORY VERSE COMES FROM
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CHAPTER 1 IN ROMANS, VERSE 8,
AND IT'S IN THE NEW KING JAMES
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VERSION IN OUR LESSON HERE,
IF YOU WANT TO SAY IT WITH ME.
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LET ME REPEAT THAT - ROMANS 1:8,
IF YOU WANT TO FIND THAT, LET'S
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ALL SAY IT TOGETHER. ARE YOU
READY? "FIRST, I THANK MY GOD
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THROUGH JESUS CHRIST FOR YOU
ALL, THAT YOUR FAITH IS SPOKEN
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OF THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE WORLD."
A LITTLE LATER IN OUR LESSON
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WE'LL DELVE INTO WHY
PAUL IS SAYING THAT JUST
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THE WAY HE SAYS IT.
NOW, I TOLD YOU THAT I THINK
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THAT ROMANS MAY BE ONE
OF THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS.
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YOU'VE GOT, YOU KNOW, MATTHEW,
MARK, LUKE, AND JOHN IN THE NEW
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TESTAMENT, THEN YOU HAVE
ACTS. THOSE ARE ALL BOOKS OF,
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REALLY, HISTORY OF THE GOSPEL.
WHEN YOU GET INTO ROMANS, YOU'RE
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GETTING INTO THE THEOLOGY OF THE
GOSPEL. IT IS - OF THE LETTERS
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OF PAUL, IT IS THE LONGEST
LETTER, AND IT IS A MASTERPIECE.
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IT IS SO WONDERFUL BECAUSE - I
DON'T EVEN REALLY FEEL WORTHY TO
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TEACH IT, BECAUSE YOU
REALLY ARE ON HOLY GROUND.
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ROMANS IS SO SIMPLE THAT A CHILD
CAN UNDERSTAND IT, AND YET, IT
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IS SO DEEP THAT THERE ARE MORE
BOOKS WRITTEN ON THE THEOLOGY OF
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ROMANS THAN PROBABLY
ANY OTHER BOOK IN THE BIBLE.
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IT IS A VERY POWERFUL BOOK.
NOW, I'M VERY EXCITED ABOUT
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TALKING TO YOU ABOUT ROMANS
BECAUSE, THROUGH THE STUDY
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OF ROMANS, GREAT THINGS HAVE
HAPPENED IN THE COURSE OF TIME.
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I THINK IT'S INTERESTING THAT WE
ARE EMBARKING ON THIS STUDY OF
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ROMANS, RIGHT HERE ON THE CUSP
OF THE 500-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF
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THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION.
YOU KNOW, IT WAS THROUGH THE
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STUDY OF ROMANS THAT
LUTHER WAS CONVERTED.
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THE STUDY OF ROMANS HAD
SOMETHING TO DO WITH A REAL
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UNDERSTANDING OF
THE GOSPEL FOR HUSS.
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LET ME READ TO YOU WHAT
LUTHER WROTE ABOUT ROMANS.
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KIND OF A BRIEF SEGMENT OF A
PERSONAL TESTIMONY: "AT LAST, BY
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THE MERCY OF GOD, MEDITATING DAY
AND NIGHT, I GAVE HEED TO THE
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CONTEXT OF THE WORDS, NAMELY, IN
IT THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD IS
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REVEALED AS IT IS WRITTEN.
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HE, THROUGH FAITH, IS
RIGHTEOUS SHALL LIVE."
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- NOW HE'S QUOTING THAT
VERSE OF ROMANS 1:17, SORT OF.
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IT'S BEEN TRANSLATED FROM GERMAN
- "THEN I BEGAN TO UNDERSTAND
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THAT THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD
THAT IS BY FAITH - THE RIGHTEOUS
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LIVE BY A GIFT OF
GOD, NAMELY, BY FAITH.
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AND THIS IS THE MEANING: THE
RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD IS REVEALED
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BY THE GOSPEL, NAMELY THE PASS
OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, WHICH MERCIFUL
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GOD JUSTIFIES US BY
FAITH, AS IT IS WRITTEN.
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HE, THROUGH FAITH, IS RIGHTEOUS,
SHALL LIVE. HERE I FELT THAT I
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WAS ALTOGETHER BORN AGAIN AND
HAD ENTERED PARADISE, ITSELF,
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THROUGH OPEN GATES.
THERE, A TOTALLY OTHER FACE OF
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THE ENTIRE SCRIPTURE
SHOWED ITSELF TO ME."
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HE LOOKS AT THIS AS THE TURNING
POINT IN HIS EXPERIENCE IN
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READING AND FINALLY
UNDERSTANDING SALVATION BY
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FAITH, AS IT WAS
PORTRAYED IN THE BOOK OF ROMANS.
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UP TIL THEN, HE SAID, 'I
WAS, YOU KNOW, THE MOST OBEDIENT
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LEGALISTIC MONK THERE WAS.' AND
HE USED TO FLOG HIMSELF AND PRAY
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CEASELESS HOURS AND CONFESS,
FOR HOURS, ALL OF HIS SINS, AND
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DOING EVERYTHING HE COULD TO
FIND RIGHTEOUSNESS WITH GOD, BUT
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HE SAID HE HATED THE
CONCEPT OF A RIGHTEOUS GOD.
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HE ADMITS THAT
IN THIS TESTIMONY.
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I DIDN'T READ THE
WHOLE THING TO YOU.
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BUT FINALLY, WHEN HE UNDERSTOOD
THAT HE COULD BE RIGHTEOUS
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THROUGH FAITH, AND IT WAS BEING
GIVEN AS A GIFT, THAT SEED OF
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TRUTH DAWNED IN HIS MIND AND
IT JUST EXPLODED WITH LIGHT THAT
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SHONE UPON EVERY
OTHER ASPECT OF THE BIBLE.
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IT WAS THROUGH COMPREHENDING
ROMANS THAT LUTHER WAS BORN
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AGAIN. WE JUST READ IT - HIS OWN
TESTIMONY. HE ENDED UP - A WHOLE
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DENOMINATION GREW OUT OF MARTIN
LUTHER, KNOWN AS THE LUTHERANS.
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WHAT ABOUT WESLEY?
LET ME READ YOU A LITTLE
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TESTIMONY ABOUT
THE WESLEY BROTHERS.
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NOW, YOU REALIZE SUSANNA WESLEY
- I THINK SHE HAD 18 CHILDREN.
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MANY OF THEM DID GREAT THINGS,
TWO OF THEM - CHARLES WESLEY
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WROTE ABOUT SIX TO SEVEN
THOUSAND CHRISTIAN HYMNS; MANY
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OF THEM ARE IN YOUR
HYMNAL. THAT'S A LOT OF HYMNS.
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HE'S CONSIDERED ONE OF
THE GREATEST, IF NOT THE MOST
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PROLIFIC HYMN WRITER IN
CHRISTIAN HISTORY - MORE THAN
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FANNY CROSBY AND
MANY OTHERS PUT TOGETHER.
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AND THEN HIS BROTHER JOHN,
OF COURSE, FOUNDED THE METHODIST
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CHURCH - WELL, THE TWO OF
THEM TOGETHER - BUT THEY DIDN'T
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BELIEVE THEY
WERE REALLY CONVERTED.
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HERE'S A TESTIMONY. IN
1735 THE WESLEY BROTHERS
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SAILED TO GEORGIA, BUT EVEN IN
THIS MISSIONARY SERVICE, THE OLD
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DOUBTS ABOUT THEIR EXPERIENCE
OF SALVATION SURFACED."
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- THEY WERE YOUNG AT THIS TIME -
"NEITHER JOHN, NOR CHARLES COULD
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FIND ASSURANCE THAT HE WAS,
INDEED, A CHILD OF GOD BY GRACE.
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THEY RETURNED TO ENGLAND
BELIEVING THEIR LIVES AND
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MINISTRY HAD FAILED." -
JOHN WESLEY WROTE OF THIS
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EXPERIENCE IN GEORGIA, "I
WENT TO AMERICA TO CONVERT THE
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INDIANS BUT OH,
WHO SHALL CONVERT ME?"
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- I CAN TELL YOU A LOT OF
STORIES ABOUT MISSIONARIES THAT
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GO TO THE MISSION FIELD AND
FOUND OUT THEY ARE CONVERTED IN
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THE MISSION FIELD - "AT SEVEN
IN THE EVENING, SAILING BACK, I
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WENT TO THE GERMANS." - THE
MORAVIAN GERMANS WERE HAVING
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A PRAYER MEETING ON THE SHIP -
"IN THE MIDST OF THE PSALM THAT
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THEY WERE SINGING, WHEREWITH
THEIR SERVICE BEGAN, THE SEA
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BROKE OVER" - A STORM WAS
BREWING - "IT SPLIT THE MAIN
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SAIL IN PIECES, COVERED THE
SHIP, AND POURED IN BETWEEN THE
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DECKS AS IF THE GREAT DEEP
HAD ALREADY SWALLOWED US UP.
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A TERRIBLE SCREAMING
BEGAN AMONG THE ENGLISH.
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THE GERMANS CALMLY SANG ON.
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I ASKED ONE OF THEM AFTERWARDS,
'WAS NOT YOU AFRAID?'"
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- THAT'S HOW HE WRITES IT -
"HE ANSWERED, 'I THANK GOD, NO.'
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I ASKED, 'BUT WERE NOT
YOUR WOMEN AND CHILDREN AFRAID?'
00:14:29.53\00:14:32.70
HE REPLIED, MILDLY, 'NO,
OUR WOMEN AND CHILDREN ARE NOT
00:14:32.73\00:14:35.60
AFRAID TO DIE.'" - SHORTLY AFTER
HIS RETURN TO AMERICA, BOTH HE,
00:14:35.64\00:14:39.47
JOHN, AND CHARLES WERE
INFLUENCED BY MORAVIAN FRIENDS.
00:14:39.51\00:14:42.68
- MORAVIANS ARE LIKE A PRIMITIVE
BAPTIST GERMAN GROUP, BUT
00:14:42.71\00:14:47.32
THEY'RE JUST VERY DEDICATED
- KNEW THE WORD INSIDE OUT.
00:14:47.35\00:14:51.79
AND THEY WENT TO STUDY WITH
SOME MORAVIAN FRIENDS - "CHARLES
00:14:51.82\00:14:56.02
WESLEY WAS THE FIRST OF THE TWO
TO BE JUSTIFIED BY FAITH AND ON
00:14:56.06\00:14:59.86
WHIT SUNDAY" - THAT'S WHAT THEY
CALLED IT - "MAY 21, 1738, HE
00:14:59.89\00:15:04.10
EXPERIENCED PENTECOST.
HE WROTE IN HIS JOURNAL THAT
00:15:04.13\00:15:07.04
'THE SPIRIT OF GOD CHASED AWAY
THE DARKNESS OF MY UNBELIEF'.
00:15:07.07\00:15:10.21
THE PROLIFIC HYMNIST" - WROTE
SIX TO SEVEN THOUSAND HYMNS -
00:15:10.24\00:15:14.24
"WROTE A HYMN TO COMMEMORATE
THIS DAY OF HIS SALVATION."
00:15:14.28\00:15:18.01
- MANY BELIEVE IT WAS A HYMN
- 'AND CAN IT BE THAT I SHOULD
00:15:18.05\00:15:22.18
GAIN' - IT'S IN YOUR HYMNAL,
I WON'T SING IT - AND SO IT WAS
00:15:22.22\00:15:25.82
THROUGH THE STUDY OF ROMANS
- "THREE DAYS LATER, ON MAY 24,
00:15:25.85\00:15:29.79
1738, JOHN, SEEKING FOR THE
GRACE OF GOD, ENDED IN A MEETING
00:15:29.82\00:15:34.30
HOUSE IN
ALDERSGATE STREET IN LONDON.
00:15:34.30\00:15:36.40
HE WROTE IN HIS JOURNAL
THAT NOW-FAMOUS ACCOUNT OF HIS
00:15:36.43\00:15:39.63
CONVERSION. 'IN
THE EVENING I WENT VERY
00:15:39.67\00:15:41.94
UNWILLINGLY TO THE SOCIETY AT
ALDERSGATE STREET.'" - CHARLES
00:15:41.97\00:15:46.34
PERSUADED HIM TO GO
TO THIS MORAVIAN MEETING.
00:15:46.37\00:15:49.34
THEY DIDN'T AGREE WITH
THE MORAVIANS ON BAPTISM BY
00:15:49.38\00:15:52.48
IMMERSION, YOU KNOW.
THE METHODISTS BELIEVED IN
00:15:52.51\00:15:54.25
BAPTISM BY SPRINKLING AT THAT
TIME OR - JOHN - HE WAS FROM THE
00:15:54.28\00:15:57.12
CHURCH OF ENGLAND, SO THEY HAD
SOME PROBLEMS WITH SOME OF THEIR
00:15:57.15\00:15:59.52
DOCTRINES, BUT HE - RELUCTANTLY
HE WENT - AND THEY WERE READING
00:15:59.55\00:16:04.56
MARTIN LUTHER'S PREFACE TO
THE EPISTLE OF ROMANS, WHICH, OF
00:16:04.59\00:16:09.20
COURSE, CONVERTED HIM - "'ABOUT
A QUARTER TO NINE, WHILE HE WAS
00:16:09.23\00:16:13.64
DESCRIBING THE CHANGE WHICH GOD
WORKS IN THE HEART THROUGH FAITH
00:16:13.67\00:16:17.41
IN CHRIST, I FELT MY
HEART STRANGELY WARMED.'
00:16:17.44\00:16:21.54
JOHN IMMEDIATELY SHARED
THE GOOD NEWS WITH CHARLES.
00:16:21.58\00:16:24.08
CHARLES WROTE: 'TOWARDS TEN MY
BROTHER WAS BROUGHT IN TRIUMPH
00:16:24.11\00:16:27.42
BY A TROOP OF OUR FRIENDS
AND DECLARED, 'I BELIEVE!'
00:16:27.45\00:16:30.69
WE SANG A HYMN WITH GREAT
JOY AND PARTED WITH PRAYER.'
00:16:30.72\00:16:33.32
UNTIL THEIR CONVERSIONS, THE
WESLEYS HAD, WHAT JOHN DESCRIBED
00:16:33.36\00:16:37.19
AS, A FAIR SUMMER RELIGION.
00:16:37.23\00:16:39.79
THEY WERE BOTH ORDAINED, THEY
BOTH PREACHED, THEY TAUGHT, THEY
00:16:39.83\00:16:42.23
WROTE, THEY COMPOSED HYMNS,
THEY EVEN GAVE THEMSELVES TO
00:16:42.26\00:16:44.93
MISSIONARY
WORK, ALL TO NO AVAIL.
00:16:44.97\00:16:47.17
THEY HAD NOT CHRIST OR, RATHER,
CHRIST DID NOT HAVE THEM.
00:16:47.20\00:16:50.77
THEY LIVED BY GOOD
WORKS AND NOT BY FAITH."
00:16:50.81\00:16:53.91
NOW, I SAY ALL THIS BECAUSE,
AS WE GET READY TO EMBARK ON
00:16:53.94\00:16:56.51
ROMANS, MOST OF THOSE WHO TUNE
IN TO SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR
00:16:56.54\00:17:00.22
ARE CHRISTIANS. WE
GO THROUGH THE MOTIONS.
00:17:00.25\00:17:03.35
MANY HAVE GONE
TO CHURCH FOR YEARS.
00:17:03.39\00:17:04.59
SADLY, THOSE WHO GO TO SABBATH
SCHOOL ARE USUALLY LONG-TIME,
00:17:04.62\00:17:08.79
DIED-IN-THE-WOOL CHRISTIANS.
LET'S FACE IT, A LOT OF PEOPLE
00:17:08.82\00:17:15.03
DON'T EVEN COME TO
SABBATH SCHOOL ANYMORE.
00:17:15.06\00:17:16.70
LOOK AROUND. AND SO,
YOU'RE SORT OF PREACHING
00:17:16.73\00:17:19.70
TO THE CHOIR WHEN
YOU TEACH SABBATH SCHOOL.
00:17:19.73\00:17:22.37
BUT I SUSPECT THERE MAY BE
MANY OF YOU WHO, LIKE LUTHER AND
00:17:22.40\00:17:29.51
WESLEY, HAVE GONE THROUGH ALL
THE MOTIONS OF CHRISTIANITY FOR
00:17:29.54\00:17:32.25
YEARS, BUT YOU REALLY DON'T HAVE
THAT JOY OF BEING BORN AGAIN,
00:17:32.28\00:17:37.92
WHERE YOU FEEL LIKE THE
GATES OF PARADISE HAVE OPENED.
00:17:37.95\00:17:40.46
I AM PRAYING - I HOPE YOU ARE
PRAYING - THAT AS WE GO THROUGH
00:17:40.49\00:17:44.03
THE BOOK OF ROMANS, WOULDN'T
IT BE WONDERFUL IF THERE WAS A
00:17:44.06\00:17:47.13
REVIVAL IN THE CHURCH, THAT YOU
COULD HAVE A SECOND REFORMATION?
00:17:47.20\00:17:52.50
BECAUSE WE FINALLY UNDERSTAND
THE POWER OF THE GOSPEL AS WE
00:17:52.53\00:17:55.60
STUDY WHAT THEY
STUDIED. SO THAT'S MY PRAYER.
00:17:55.64\00:18:00.04
YOU PRAY FOR ME AS I SHARE
IT. LET'S GO AHEAD AND GET INTO
00:18:00.08\00:18:04.45
OUR LESSON WITH THAT
LENGTHY INTRODUCTION.
00:18:04.48\00:18:08.05
FIRST UNDER SUNDAY, THE
APOSTLE'S LETTER - THE APOSTLE
00:18:08.08\00:18:11.42
PAUL'S LETTER. SO,
AS WE TALK ABOUT ROMANS,
00:18:11.45\00:18:14.96
NOW, I JUST WANT TO LET YOU
KNOW THIS FIRST STUDY TODAY IS
00:18:14.99\00:18:17.43
REALLY AN INTRODUCTION.
WE'RE PAVING THE WAY FOR WHAT'S
00:18:17.46\00:18:19.89
GOING TO COME IN
THE NEXT THIRTEEN WEEKS.
00:18:19.93\00:18:22.86
FIRST OF ALL, WE'RE GOING TO BE
TALKING ABOUT THE WHO, THE WHEN,
00:18:22.90\00:18:25.50
THE WHERE, THE WHY,
OF THE BOOK OF ROMANS.
00:18:25.53\00:18:29.00
WHO? WHO WROTE ROMANS?
00:18:29.04\00:18:31.47
LET'S READ CHAPTER 1, VERSE
1, "PAUL," - THERE YOU HAVE IT -
00:18:31.51\00:18:37.18
"PAUL, A BONDSERVANT OF JESUS
CHRIST, CALLED TO BE AN APOSTLE,
00:18:37.21\00:18:41.62
SEPARATED TO THE GOSPEL OF GOD"
- NOW, FOR THOSE WHO MAY NOT
00:18:41.65\00:18:45.15
KNOW - YOU DO HAVE SOME VISITORS
- LET ME GIVE YOU A LITTLE
00:18:45.19\00:18:47.42
OVERVIEW ACCORDING TO THE NEW
TESTAMENT OF PAUL AND WHO HE IS.
00:18:47.46\00:18:50.99
HIS FIRST NAME WAS
NOT PAUL, IT WAS WHAT?
00:18:51.03\00:18:52.79
>>SAUL. >>SAUL OF TARSUS.
00:18:52.83\00:18:55.66
WAS BORN IN TARSUS, A CITY OF
CICILIA, OF JEWISH PARENTS WHO
00:18:55.70\00:19:01.24
POSSESSED THE RIGHT OF ROMAN
CITIZENS THAT, WHEN YOUNG, HE
00:19:01.27\00:19:05.17
WAS SENT TO JERUSALEM FOR THE
PURPOSE OF RECEIVING A JEWISH
00:19:05.21\00:19:07.64
EDUCATION THAT HE WAS THERE PUT
UNDER THE TRAINING OF THE FAMOUS
00:19:07.68\00:19:11.88
RABBI, GAMALIEL, AND HE WAS
INCORPORATED WITH THE SECT OF
00:19:11.91\00:19:15.55
THE PHARISEES, WHOSE SYSTEM
HE IMBIBED OF ALL THE PRIDE AND
00:19:15.58\00:19:19.62
SELF-CONFIDENCE,
AND INTOLERANCE, AND HE
00:19:19.65\00:19:21.99
DISTINGUISHED HIMSELF AS ONE
OF THE MOST INGRAINED ENEMIES OF
00:19:22.02\00:19:25.19
THE CHRISTIAN CAUSE.
00:19:25.23\00:19:26.86
BUT BEING CONVERTED BY A MOST
SINGULAR INTERPOSITION OF DIVINE
00:19:26.90\00:19:30.13
PROVIDENCE ON THE ROAD TO
DAMASCUS, HE BECAME ONE OF THE
00:19:30.17\00:19:33.07
MOST ZEALOUS PROMOTERS AND
SUCCESSFUL DEFENDERS OF THE
00:19:33.10\00:19:35.94
CAUSE WHICH HE HAD, BEFORE,
SO VIGOROUSLY PERSECUTED.
00:19:35.97\00:19:39.81
THAT'S A QUICK SUMMARY
OF WHO THE AUTHOR IS, PAUL.
00:19:39.84\00:19:44.48
HE WAS NOT SOMEONE WHO FOLLOWED
JESUS, BUT HE WAS CONVERTED
00:19:44.51\00:19:47.05
AFTER THE FACT, DURING
THE PERSECUTION - THE FIRST
00:19:47.08\00:19:50.82
PERSECUTION OF THE CHURCH DURING
THE TIME THEY WERE - HE WAS
00:19:50.85\00:19:53.96
THERE. IT'S
INTERESTING, HE'S A WITNESS
00:19:53.99\00:19:56.46
OF THE EXECUTION OF STEPHEN AND,
IN ONE CHAPTER, HE'S CONVERTED.
00:19:56.49\00:20:01.90
AND HE, BASICALLY, TAKES THE
PLACE OF THE ONE THAT HE KILLED,
00:20:01.93\00:20:06.07
MAYBE EVEN TAKING THE PLACE
OF JUDAS, BECOMING AN APOSTLE,
00:20:06.10\00:20:09.94
HIMSELF. NOBODY -
YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU
00:20:09.97\00:20:12.44
START READING THE HISTORY OF
THE BIBLE, THERE ARE SOME OF THE
00:20:12.47\00:20:14.51
EARLY CHURCH FATHERS AND THERE'S
QUESTIONS ABOUT DIFFERENT BOOKS
00:20:14.54\00:20:17.75
AND WHO WROTE IT AND WHAT'S THE
TITLE, BUT OF ALL THE BOOKS IN
00:20:17.78\00:20:21.68
THE NEW TESTAMENT THERE IS,
VIRTUALLY, NO DOUBT OR QUESTION
00:20:21.72\00:20:24.45
ABOUT ROMANS
BEING WRITTEN BY PAUL.
00:20:24.49\00:20:29.32
YOU GO BACK TO SOME OF THE
EARLY CHURCH FATHERS THAT WERE
00:20:29.36\00:20:32.26
CONTEMPORARIES WITH THE APOSTLE
JOHN - THEY LIVED DURING THE
00:20:32.29\00:20:35.40
TIME OF THE APOSTLES - THEY
ATTRIBUTED THE BOOK OF ROMANS TO
00:20:35.43\00:20:40.54
PAUL. SO, IT'S
REALLY UNDISPUTED.
00:20:40.57\00:20:43.27
AND YOU LOOK AT SOME OF THE
EARLY FATHERS, LIKE CLEMENT OF
00:20:43.30\00:20:48.08
ROME, POLYCARP, JUSTIN MARTYR,
IGNACIOUS AND IRANAEUS - THEY
00:20:48.11\00:20:52.55
ALL, UNIFORMLY, AGREE THE BOOK
OF ROMANS WAS WRITTEN BY PAUL.
00:20:52.58\00:20:58.59
AND NOW LET'S TALK, NEXT,
ABOUT WHERE IT WAS WRITTEN.
00:20:58.62\00:21:02.89
PROBABLY HE WROTE THE BOOK
OF PAUL - THE BOOK OF ROMANS -
00:21:02.92\00:21:07.20
WHILE HE WAS IN CORINTH AND HE
WAS ACTUALLY ON THE EASTERN PORT
00:21:07.23\00:21:11.60
OF CORINTH, WHICH IS CALLED
CENCHREA, AND YOU LOOK THERE IN
00:21:11.63\00:21:15.57
CHAPTER 16 - NOW WE'RE GOING
FROM THE FIRST CHAPTER OF ROMANS
00:21:15.60\00:21:18.24
- GO TO THE LAST CHAPTER OF
ROMANS, BECAUSE IN HIS FAREWELL
00:21:18.27\00:21:21.38
HE GIVES US SOME CLUES - ROMANS
16:1, "I COMMEND YOU PHOEBE OUR
00:21:21.41\00:21:27.25
SISTER, WHO IS A SERVANT OF THE
CHURCH IN CENCHREA, THAT YOU MAY
00:21:27.28\00:21:32.42
RECEIVE HER IN THE LORD IN A
MANNER WORTHY OF THE SAINTS, AND
00:21:32.45\00:21:36.42
ASSIST HER IN WHATEVER BUSINESS
SHE HAS NEED OF YOU; FOR INDEED
00:21:36.46\00:21:40.53
SHE HAS BEEN A HELPER OF
MANY AND OF MYSELF ALSO."
00:21:40.56\00:21:44.27
WELL, IT INDICATES THAT PAUL
WROTE FROM THIS GREEK CITY OF
00:21:44.30\00:21:49.34
CENCHREA, WHICH WAS NEAR
CORINTH - HE PROBABLY WROTE FROM
00:21:49.37\00:21:53.24
CORINTH. HE
MENTIONS PHOEBE, WHO'S A
00:21:53.27\00:21:55.91
RESIDENT OF GREATER CORINTH, AND
HELPS ESTABLISH THAT PLACE AS
00:21:55.94\00:22:00.75
THE BACKGROUND FOR THE LETTER.
NOW, ALSO, IF YOU LOOK - YOU'RE
00:22:00.78\00:22:04.12
STILL IN ROMANS 16 -
THERE'S TWO OTHER CLUES ABOUT
00:22:04.15\00:22:06.55
WHERE HE WROTE IT. I
JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW HOW THE
00:22:06.59\00:22:08.22
- HOW THE BIBLE SCHOLARS
ARRIVE AT THEIR CONCLUSION.
00:22:08.26\00:22:12.33
THEY'VE GOT GOOD EVIDENCE.
ROMANS 16:23 - PAUL IS WRITING -
00:22:12.36\00:22:17.23
HE SAYS, "GAIUS, MY HOST
AND THE HOST OF THE WHOLE
00:22:17.27\00:22:21.57
CHURCH, GREETS YOU.
ERASTUS, THE TREASURER OF THE
00:22:21.60\00:22:24.31
CITY, GREETS YOU,
AND QUARTUS, A BROTHER."
00:22:24.34\00:22:27.71
NOW, WITH THAT INFORMATION, YOU
GO TO 1 CORINTHIANS - OF COURSE,
00:22:27.74\00:22:32.05
WRITTEN TO THOSE WHO LIVE IN
CORINTH - CHAPTER 1, VERSE 14 -
00:22:32.08\00:22:35.65
HE SAYS, "I THANK GOD THAT
I BAPTIZED NONE OF YOU EXCEPT
00:22:35.68\00:22:38.15
CRISPUS AND GAIUS," - NOW, HE'S
TALKING ABOUT WHAT HE DID THERE
00:22:38.19\00:22:42.12
WHILE HE WAS IN CORINTH.
SO GAIUS IS ALSO IN CORINTH,
00:22:42.16\00:22:45.76
PHOEBE, WE ESTABLISHED, WAS IN
CORINTH, AND - GO TO 2 TIMOTHY
00:22:45.79\00:22:51.00
4:19 - AGAIN, AT ITS CONCLUSION,
PAUL SAYS, "GREET PRISCILLA AND
00:22:51.03\00:22:57.44
AQUILA, AND THE
HOUSEHOLD OF ONESIPHORUS.
00:22:57.47\00:23:00.78
ERASTUS STAYED IN CORINTH,"
- THERE YOU HAVE IT AGAIN.
00:23:00.81\00:23:04.85
PAUL SAYS, IN ROMANS 16,
'ERASTUS'; HERE HE SAYS 'ERASTUS
00:23:04.88\00:23:08.68
STAYED IN CORINTH'.
AND SO, IT'S PRETTY WELL
00:23:08.72\00:23:11.92
ESTABLISHED THAT HE
WAS IN THE CITY OF CORINTH
00:23:11.95\00:23:13.92
WHEN HE WROTE IT.
ALRIGHT, LET'S GO NEXT TO THE
00:23:13.96\00:23:15.69
- WHEN WAS THE
BOOK OF ROMANS WRITTEN?
00:23:15.72\00:23:19.13
PROBABLY AT THE END OF
HIS THIRD MISSIONARY TOUR.
00:23:19.16\00:23:22.80
MATTER OF FACT, I'M GOING TO ASK
- GIVE YOU SOMETHING VISUAL HERE
00:23:22.83\00:23:25.90
- STUDIO, GO AHEAD AND PUT THAT
MAP UP ON THE SCREEN - HOPEFULLY
00:23:25.93\00:23:29.17
IT WILL BE BIG
ENOUGH. OH, IT'S SMALLER.
00:23:29.20\00:23:33.58
YOU CAN SEE THE - THE THIRD
MISSIONARY JOURNEY OF PAUL - HE
00:23:33.61\00:23:39.15
STARTS OUT IN ANTIOCH - I DON'T
KNOW HOW WELL YOU CAN SEE IT
00:23:39.18\00:23:42.68
HERE - HE WRAPS
AROUND THROUGH ASIA.
00:23:42.72\00:23:44.99
HE GOES - THE FARTHEST PART OF
THERE ON THE FAR LEFT OF THE HIS
TRIP IS IN CORINTH, WHICH IS
00:23:45.02\00:23:51.36
SCREEN - STILL ABOUT, OH, BY
AIR, 630 MILES TO ROME, FROM
WHERE HE WROTE THE LETTER.
00:23:51.39\00:23:55.63
HE HAD NOT BEEN THERE YET.
00:23:55.66\00:23:57.00
IF HE HAD GONE BY WATER,
IT WAS UP TO A THOUSAND MILES.
00:23:57.03\00:24:00.10
AND HE CAME BACK - WHEN HE GOT
TO CORINTH, HE UNDERSTOOD THE
00:24:00.14\00:24:05.01
CHURCH IN JERUSALEM WAS HAVING A
LOT OF PROBLEMS WITH FINANCES -
00:24:05.04\00:24:08.61
THERE WAS A FAMINE - AND HE
BROUGHT A GIFT BACK WITH HIM.
00:24:08.64\00:24:11.68
AND SO, JUST BEFORE HE BRINGS
A GIFT, HE SENDS THIS LETTER OFF
00:24:11.71\00:24:15.92
TO THE
CHRISTIANS THAT ARE IN ROME.
00:24:15.95\00:24:18.69
NOW, THAT BRINGS US TO THE WHY
- WHY DID HE WRITE THE LETTER?
00:24:18.72\00:24:22.19
NOW SOMEBODY'S GOING TO READ
A VERSE FOR ME - ACTS 18:18 -
00:24:22.22\00:24:25.76
OKAY, LET'S GET -
YOU GOT A MICROPHONE?
00:24:25.79\00:24:29.00
I'M GOING TO JUST HAVE YOU GO
AHEAD. I DIDN'T GET YOU SET UP
00:24:29.03\00:24:32.13
SO, HOPEFULLY,
THEY'RE FOCUSED. GO AHEAD.
00:24:32.17\00:24:35.17
>>"SO PAUL STILL
REMAINED A GOOD WHILE.
00:24:35.20\00:24:37.67
THEN HE TOOK LEAVE OF THE
BRETHREN AND SAILED FOR SYRIA,
00:24:37.71\00:24:41.21
AND PRISCILLA AND
AQUILA WERE WITH HIM..."
00:24:41.24\00:24:44.21
>>ALRIGHT, SO WHY
DOES HE WRITE THE LETTER?
00:24:44.25\00:24:47.05
YOU REMEMBER, PRISCILLA AND
AQUILA, THEY WERE KICKED OUT OF
00:24:47.08\00:24:51.79
ROME - SO THEY WERE CHRISTIANS
IN ROME - AND THEY HAD COME - ON
00:24:51.82\00:24:56.62
THEIR WAY BACK, THEY HAD
MET PAUL AND THEY BEGAN TO STUDY
00:24:56.66\00:24:59.53
WITH PAUL AND I GUESS THEY WERE
ALSO MAKING TENTS WITH PAUL AND
00:24:59.56\00:25:03.37
THEY BECAME SOME OF HIS
FRIENDS. THEY FILLED HIM IN ON
00:25:03.40\00:25:06.30
WHAT WAS GOING ON IN ROME.
NOW, EVIDENTLY, IN ROME - ROME
00:25:06.33\00:25:11.21
WAS A CITY OF ABOUT A MILLION
PEOPLE - IN THE DAYS OF PAUL -
00:25:11.24\00:25:15.58
STRETCHED OVER ABOUT TEN SQUARE
MILES. AND, IN THAT CITY, THERE
00:25:15.61\00:25:20.78
WAS A LOT OF DIFFERENT PEOPLE
FROM ALL OVER THE ROMAN EMPIRE.
00:25:20.82\00:25:26.35
SOME OF THE EARLY CHRISTIANS,
WHO WERE NOT JEWS, WERE BEING
00:25:26.39\00:25:31.93
TOLD BY THE JEWISH CHRISTIANS
THEY NEEDED TO KEEP SOME OF THE
00:25:31.96\00:25:34.93
JEWISH LAWS. WE
STUDIED THIS LAST QUARTER
00:25:34.96\00:25:36.80
IN OUR SECTION ON GALATIANS.
THEY WERE SAYING 'YOU NEED TO BE
00:25:36.83\00:25:40.94
CIRCUMCISED' - 'YOU NEED
TO KEEP THE LAW OF MOSES' -
00:25:40.97\00:25:43.24
'GOD LOVES JEWS MORE
THAN HE DOES GENTILES' -
00:25:43.27\00:25:45.91
'YOU'RE SECOND CLASS
CHRISTIANS' - AND THERE WERE
00:25:45.94\00:25:48.51
SOME PROBLEMS THAT WERE ARISING.
00:25:48.54\00:25:50.48
ALSO, THEY WERE MIXING IN SOME
OF THEIR PAGAN TEACHINGS AND
00:25:50.51\00:25:53.58
HE THOUGHT, 'LOOK, I BETTER
SEND A LETTER TO THEM.' THERE
00:25:53.62\00:25:57.69
PROBABLY WAS NO APOSTLE THAT
HAD BEEN THERE YET AND PAUL WAS
00:25:57.72\00:26:01.59
THINKING, 'I'D BETTER SEND A
LETTER TO THE EARLY CHRISTIANS,
00:26:01.62\00:26:03.99
THERE IN ROME, TO JUST OUTLINE,
FOR THEM, WHAT THE PLAN OF
00:26:04.03\00:26:08.26
SALVATION IS.' SO HE WRITES THIS
LETTER THAT IS JUST A BEAUTIFUL
00:26:08.30\00:26:12.03
ILLUSTRATION - BOOK OF ROMANS
IS REALLY DIVIDED UP IN FOUR OR
00:26:12.07\00:26:15.37
FIVE SECTIONS - IT DEPENDS ON IF
YOU WANT TO CALL THE CONCLUSION
00:26:15.40\00:26:19.14
AND THE FAREWELL A WHOLE SECTION
- WHERE HE TALKS ABOUT THE
00:26:19.17\00:26:22.14
RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD AND HE
TALKS ABOUT THE UNRIGHTEOUSNESS
00:26:22.18\00:26:25.38
OF MAN. HE TALKS
ABOUT THE STRUGGLE FOR
00:26:25.41\00:26:28.48
RIGHTEOUSNESS IN ROMANS 6 AND
7 AND YOU FINALLY GET TO TWELVE
00:26:28.52\00:26:32.12
AND HE TALKS ABOUT THE TRIUMPH
OF HOW TO LIVE THAT LIFE.
00:26:32.15\00:26:36.22
AND SO, IT'S REALLY DIVIDED UP
IN THESE DIFFERENT SEGMENTS, BUT
00:26:36.26\00:26:39.79
A BEAUTIFUL THEME RUNS THROUGH
IT BECAUSE HE'S, BASICALLY,
00:26:39.83\00:26:42.56
OUTLINING THE GOSPEL AND HE'S
TALKING ABOUT THE PRACTICAL WAYS
00:26:42.60\00:26:46.57
TO LIVE THE CHRISTIAN LIFE.
HE'S CONTRASTING WHAT RIGHTS
00:26:46.60\00:26:49.94
DO THE JEWS HAVE
ABOVE THE GENTILES.
00:26:49.97\00:26:52.77
AND THEN HE ALSO TALKS ABOUT GOD
EVEN SPEAKING TO THE GENTILES
00:26:52.81\00:26:57.28
WITHOUT HAVING THE WORD
OF GOD, IN ROMANS CHAPTER 1.
00:26:57.31\00:27:01.55
SO HE JUST
ANSWERS SO MANY QUESTIONS.
00:27:01.58\00:27:04.95
MATTER OF FACT, ANY OF YOU EVER
HEARD OF 'THE ROMAN'S ROAD'?
00:27:04.99\00:27:10.46
NOW I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT A
ROAD IN ITALY THAT'S PAVED WITH
00:27:10.49\00:27:13.36
STONE, IT'S A TERM THAT'S USED
FOR LEADING A PERSON TO CHRIST.
00:27:13.40\00:27:18.97
A LOT OF EVANGELISTS AND A
LOT OF LAY BIBLE WORKERS, IF YOU
00:27:19.00\00:27:22.40
HAVE A FRIEND AND THEY WANT
TO KNOW, 'WHAT DO I DO TO BE
00:27:22.44\00:27:24.27
SAVED?' THERE ARE
SEVERAL VERSES YOU
00:27:24.31\00:27:26.51
TAKE THEM THROUGH AND YOU
CAN LEAD THEM TO CHRIST RIGHT
00:27:26.54\00:27:30.58
THERE IN THE BOOK OF ROMANS.
FIRST OF ALL, YOU SAY, 'ALL HAVE
00:27:30.61\00:27:32.81
SINNED AND FALLEN
SHORT OF THE GLORY OF GOD.
00:27:32.85\00:27:34.65
WE'RE ALL SINNERS.' THEN
YOU SAY, 'THE WAGES OF SIN IS
00:27:34.68\00:27:36.95
DEATH.' AND YOU TAKE THEM TO
THE VERSE THAT SAYS, 'BUT, YOU
00:27:36.99\00:27:40.62
KNOW, GOD GIVES THE GIFT OF LIFE
TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE.' AND 'HE
00:27:40.66\00:27:45.29
WHO IS DEAD IS FREED FROM SIN.'
YOU TAKE THEM THROUGH ROMANS
00:27:45.33\00:27:47.76
CHAPTER 3, 6, AND 8 AND
THEY CALL IT 'THE ROMAN'S ROAD'.
00:27:47.83\00:27:52.40
ANY OF YOU EVER
HEARD THAT BEFORE?
00:27:52.43\00:27:54.14
NOT NEARLY ENOUGH
OF YOU HAVE HEARD THAT.
00:27:54.17\00:27:56.27
YOU OUGHT TO KNOW HOW TO LEAD
SOMEONE TO CHRIST BY TAKING THEM
00:27:56.30\00:27:58.61
DOWN THE ROMAN'S ROAD.
00:27:58.64\00:28:00.31
BUT THE BOOK OF ROMANS REALLY
HAD THE WHOLE GOSPEL IN IT AND
00:28:00.34\00:28:03.81
THAT'S WHY IT'S SUCH
A WONDERFUL BOOK FOR US.
00:28:03.85\00:28:05.55
MAYBE IN OUR STUDY NEXT WEEK OR
ANOTHER TIME, I'LL JUST OUTLINE,
00:28:05.58\00:28:08.55
FOR YOU, WHAT IS
THE ROMAN'S ROAD.
00:28:08.58\00:28:11.02
OKAY - AND HE'S WRITING THIS
BOOK TO HELP THEM UNDERSTAND
00:28:11.05\00:28:15.46
WHAT'S GOING ON AND ROMANS
IS ACTUALLY A BOOK THAT IS
00:28:15.49\00:28:21.03
SATURATED WITH SCRIPTURE.
YOU'LL FIND IN THE BOOK OF
00:28:21.06\00:28:24.57
ROMANS - OF ALL THE BOOKS OF
PAUL - HE QUOTES OLD TESTAMENT
00:28:24.60\00:28:29.37
- OF COURSE, THAT WAS THE
ONLY OTHER SCRIPTURE THEN.
00:28:29.40\00:28:31.31
NEW TESTAMENT WASN'T WRITTEN -
HE QUOTES THE OLD TESTAMENT MORE
00:28:31.34\00:28:34.64
THAN ANY OTHER
BOOK IN THE BIBLE.
00:28:34.68\00:28:37.05
SO HE'S REALLY TYING TOGETHER
THE OLD TESTAMENT WITH THE NEW
00:28:37.08\00:28:40.05
TESTAMENT, IN
THE BOOK OF ROMANS.
00:28:40.08\00:28:42.55
AND YOU CAN READ IN ACTS OF THE
APOSTLES , PAGE 373, THERE ELLEN
00:28:42.58\00:28:51.36
WHITE WRITES - I'M NOT TALKING
ABOUT THE BOOK OF ACTS, I'M
00:28:51.39\00:28:54.03
TALKING ABOUT ELLEN WHITE'S BOOK
ACTS OF THE APOSTLES - "IN HIS
00:28:54.10\00:28:56.40
EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS, PAUL SETS
FORTH THE GREAT PRINCIPLES OF
00:28:56.43\00:29:00.20
THE GOSPEL. HE
STATES HIS POSITION ON THE
00:29:00.24\00:29:03.30
QUESTIONS WHICH WERE AGITATING
THE JEWISH AND THE GENTILE
00:29:03.34\00:29:06.21
CHURCH AND HE SHOWS THAT THE
HOPES AND THE PROMISES, WHICH
00:29:06.24\00:29:09.41
HAD ONCE BELONGED ESPECIALLY
TO THE JEWS, ARE NOW BEING
00:29:09.44\00:29:12.78
OFFERED TO THE GENTILES, ALSO.
AND SO, IT'S REALLY INTERESTING
00:29:12.81\00:29:18.69
- WHO'S THE FIRST
APOSTLE TO THE GENTILES?
00:29:18.72\00:29:22.59
>>PETER. >>PETER.
00:29:22.62\00:29:24.26
THAT'S A TRICK QUESTION.
YOU REMEMBER WHEN PETER GOES TO
00:29:24.29\00:29:29.96
CORNELIUS AND HE SAID, 'OH' -
YOU KNOW, HE'S SO SCARED ABOUT
00:29:30.00\00:29:33.70
DOING IT, HE SAYS, 'IT'S
NOT LAWFUL FOR ME BEING A JEW
00:29:33.74\00:29:35.67
TO COME INTO THE
HOUSE OF A GENTILE.
00:29:35.70\00:29:37.77
I'M RISKING BEING CONTAMINATED.'
AND REMEMBER GOD GAVE HIM THE
00:29:37.81\00:29:41.01
VISION OF THE SHEEP AND SAID
'DON'T CALL ANY MAN UNCLEAN,
00:29:41.04\00:29:44.28
WHAT I HAVE CLEANED.'? IT
HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH FOOD,
00:29:44.31\00:29:46.45
IT HAD TO DO WITH THE GOSPEL
WAS NOW TO GO TO THE GENTILES.
00:29:46.48\00:29:53.52
AND REMEMBER, WHEN THE JEWS
FIRST - WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS
00:29:53.56\00:29:56.22
FIRST POURED OUT, WHERE
DID JESUS TELL THEM TO GO, AND
00:29:56.26\00:29:58.83
WHERE'D HE TELL THEM NOT TO GO?
00:29:58.86\00:30:00.63
HE SAID, 'GO NOT IN THE WAY OF
THE GENTILES, BUT GO, RATHER, TO
00:30:00.66\00:30:05.50
THE LOST SHEEP OF
THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL.
00:30:05.53\00:30:08.10
SO, WHY DID THE LORD NOT WANT
THEM TO GO TO THE GENTILES RIGHT
00:30:08.14\00:30:12.51
AWAY? YOU
REALIZE CHRIST DID NOT GO
00:30:12.54\00:30:15.11
PREACHING TO THE GENTILES.
THERE'S A COUPLE OF EXCEPTIONS.
00:30:15.14\00:30:17.91
WHEN DID JESUS PREACH TO
THE GENTILES? THERE WAS A
00:30:17.95\00:30:21.45
CYROPHOENECIAN WOMAN WHOSE
DAUGHTER - HE WENT UP TO TYRE
00:30:21.48\00:30:26.15
AND, LIKE ELIJAH, HE WENT UP
TO - THERE WAS A WOMAN IN TYRE,
00:30:26.19\00:30:30.66
JUST LIKE WHEN ELIJAH STAYED
WITH A WOMAN IN TYRE AND RAISED
00:30:30.69\00:30:33.16
HER SON, JESUS MET A WOMAN
IN TYRE AND HEALED HER DAUGHTER.
00:30:33.19\00:30:37.60
AND SO, HE WAS UP THERE AND HE
SAID, 'IT'S NOT APPROPRIATE FOR
00:30:37.63\00:30:40.50
ME TO TAKE THE CHILDREN'S
FOOD AND GIVE IT TO THE DOGS.'
00:30:40.54\00:30:43.81
BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT THE
JEWS CALLED THE GENTILES.
00:30:43.84\00:30:45.84
JESUS WAS SAYING THAT WITH - IT
WAS WITH IRONY - HE WAS SHOWING
00:30:45.87\00:30:50.15
THE APOSTLES HOW AWFUL THEY
SOUNDED. AND THEN, ANDREW CAME
00:30:50.18\00:30:55.98
AND SAID THERE'S SOME GREEKS
THAT WANTED TO SPEAK TO JESUS.
00:30:56.02\00:30:58.45
WELL, THESE WERE PROSELYTES -
THEY WERE CONVERTS TO JUDAISM.
00:30:58.49\00:31:00.82
BUT JESUS DID NOT
PREACH TO THE GENTILES.
00:31:00.86\00:31:03.59
HE WENT TO THE LOST
SHEEP OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL.
00:31:03.63\00:31:06.46
AND THEN, WHEN HE ROSE FROM THE
DEAD, HE TOLD THE DISCIPLES, 'DO
00:31:06.49\00:31:09.66
NOT GO TO THE GENTILES YET.
FIRST GO TO THE LOST SHEEP OF
00:31:09.70\00:31:13.80
THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL.'
WHAT WAS THE SIGNAL FOR THEM
00:31:13.84\00:31:16.77
TO GO TO THE
GENTILES? >>STEPHEN'S DEATH.
00:31:16.81\00:31:19.74
>>AFTER STEPHEN MADE HIS FINAL,
BEST PRESENTATION OF THE GOSPEL
00:31:19.77\00:31:24.08
TO THE SANHEDRIN - THE OFFICIAL
BODY THAT REPRESENTED THE NATION
00:31:24.11\00:31:27.62
- THEIR SUPREME COURT.
HE PREACHES A SPIRIT-FILLED
00:31:27.65\00:31:29.88
MESSAGE, HIS FACE IS GLOWING,
HE'S IN THE PRESENCE OF AN
00:31:29.92\00:31:32.29
ANGEL, AND THEY PLUGGED THEIR
EARS AND THEY EXECUTED HIM -
00:31:32.32\00:31:37.43
JUST LIKE AFTER THREE AND A HALF
YEARS OF JESUS PREACHING - THEY
00:31:37.46\00:31:42.10
TRIED HIM - THE SANHEDRIN TRIED
HIM, THEY TOOK HIM OUT OF THE
00:31:42.13\00:31:44.97
CITY - TRUMPED UP CHARGES - THEY
EXECUTED HIM. THEY REJECTED.
00:31:45.00\00:31:49.94
JESUS SAID, 'I'M GOING
TO GIVE YOU ANOTHER CHANCE.
00:31:49.97\00:31:51.37
FOR ANOTHER THREE AND A HALF
YEARS, THROUGH THOSE WHO HEARD
00:31:51.41\00:31:53.48
ME, I WILL CONFIRM IT.' AND
THEN STEPHEN PREACHES TO THE
00:31:53.51\00:31:57.78
SANHEDRIN, THEY PLUG THEIR EARS,
THEY HAVE FALSE WITNESSES THAT
00:31:57.81\00:32:01.38
ACCUSE STEPHEN OF SOMETHING HE
HADN'T DONE, HE'S TAKEN OUT OF
00:32:01.42\00:32:05.05
THE CITY, CLOTHES ARE LAID DOWN
- REMEMBER, THERE'S CLOTHES AT
00:32:05.09\00:32:07.69
THE CROSS -
THERE'S CLOTHES AT STEPHEN.
00:32:07.72\00:32:09.66
JESUS SAYS, 'FATHER FORGIVE
THEM.' STEPHEN SAYS, 'FATHER,
00:32:09.69\00:32:11.89
FORGIVE THEM.'
JESUS DIES. STEPHEN DIES.
00:32:11.93\00:32:15.30
AND, AT THAT POINT, GOD SAID,
'OKAY, THE 490 YEARS OF DANIEL
00:32:15.33\00:32:20.14
CHAPTER 9 ARE UP.' NOW THE
GOSPEL GOES, NOT JUST TO THE
00:32:20.17\00:32:23.51
JEWS, BUT TO EVERYBODY.
AND WHO IS THE WITNESS OF
00:32:23.54\00:32:27.34
THE STONING OF STEPHEN?
THEY LAY THEIR [CLOTHES] DOWN -
00:32:27.38\00:32:30.88
>>SAUL. >>SAUL.
00:32:30.91\00:32:31.98
IT'S INTERESTING, THERE'S
CLOTHES LAID DOWN BY A ROMAN
00:32:32.01\00:32:34.45
CENTURION AND, AFTER JESUS
DIES ON THE CROSS, THAT ROMAN
00:32:34.48\00:32:37.59
CENTURION, A GENTILE, SAYS,
'SURELY THIS WAS THE SON OF
00:32:37.62\00:32:41.29
GOD.' RIGHT?
00:32:41.32\00:32:43.59
PAUL, WHO'S THE WITNESS AT THE
EXECUTION OF STEPHEN, HE'S GOING
00:32:43.63\00:32:47.23
OUT TO GATHER UP MORE CHRISTIANS
AND HE IS - EVEN AGAINST HIS
00:32:47.30\00:32:50.47
WILL - HE IS CONVERTED AND,
AFTER SOME TIME OF PREPARATION,
00:32:50.50\00:32:54.74
HE BECOMES A GREAT GENTILE - A
GREAT MINISTER TO THE GENTILES -
00:32:54.77\00:32:59.44
PETER'S FIRST. PAUL
REALLY TAKES UP THE WORK
00:32:59.47\00:33:03.01
AND PAUL EVEN SAYS, LATER, 'GOD
HAS SENT ME TO THE GENTILES.
00:33:03.04\00:33:06.75
HE SENT PETER TO THE
CIRCUMCISION; HE SENT ME TO THE
00:33:06.78\00:33:09.58
GENTILES.' WHY
DID GOD CHOOSE PAUL?
00:33:09.62\00:33:15.36
HE WAS A 50/50. DID
PAUL UNDERSTAND THE GENTILES?
00:33:15.39\00:33:20.60
WAS PAUL BORN IN JERUSALEM
OR WAS HE BORN IN A GREEK CITY?
00:33:20.63\00:33:24.37
WHAT WAS HIS CITIZENSHIP,
JEW OR HALF JEW AND ROMAN?
00:33:24.40\00:33:28.87
DID HE ALSO HAVE
ROMAN CITIZENSHIP?
00:33:28.90\00:33:30.84
DID HE ONLY SPEAK HEBREW OR DID
HE ALSO SPEAK LATIN AND GREEK?
00:33:30.87\00:33:35.64
DOESN'T PAUL SAY, 'I SPEAK WITH
TONGUES MORE THAN YOU ALL.'?
00:33:35.68\00:33:38.78
IT DOESN'T MEAN HE BABBLED -
THAT'S HOW SOME PEOPLE INTERPRET
00:33:38.81\00:33:42.38
THAT - THEY THINK IT MEANS HE
BABBLED MORE THAN ANYONE ELSE.
00:33:42.42\00:33:45.59
NO, IT MEANS PAUL
WAS MORE WIDELY EDUCATED.
00:33:45.62\00:33:48.46
HE SPOKE MORE LANGUAGES BECAUSE
HE WAS MORE WIDELY TAUGHT.
00:33:48.49\00:33:51.93
AND SO, PAUL WAS A PERFECT ONE
TO SAY, 'I AM GOING TO TAKE A
00:33:51.96\00:33:57.23
RELIGION THAT HAS JEWISH
ROOTS, BUT I UNDERSTAND HOW THE
00:33:57.27\00:34:00.70
GENTILES THINK I COULD
SPEAK THEIR LANGUAGE, AND I WILL
00:34:00.74\00:34:03.44
PREACH IT.' AND PAUL COULD MARCH
RIGHT INTO A GREEK AMPHITHEATER
00:34:03.47\00:34:07.38
AND START TALKING TO GREEKS
ABOUT A JEWISH GOD, BECAUSE HE
00:34:07.41\00:34:10.61
UNDERSTOOD THEM. AND SO, IT'S
JUST PERFECT THAT HE WAS THE ONE
00:34:10.65\00:34:16.52
WHO WAS CHOSEN TO DO THIS.
ALRIGHT, LET'S CONTINUE ON.
00:34:16.55\00:34:19.59
NOW THAT WAS ALL JUST
SECTION ONE OF OUR LESSON.
00:34:19.62\00:34:22.19
UNDER SECTION 2 IT SAYS,
PAUL'S DESIRE TO VISIT ROME .
00:34:22.22\00:34:25.89
IF YOU LOOK IN ROMANS CHAPTER
15 - I KNOW WE'RE JUMPING AROUND
00:34:25.93\00:34:28.86
THE BOOK, BUT IT GIVES YOU, SORT
OF, WE'RE DOING WHAT THEY CALL
00:34:28.90\00:34:31.60
THE TEN THOUSAND-FOOT
VIEW - YOU GET THE OVERVIEW.
00:34:31.63\00:34:37.21
I LOVE A PARTICULAR PROGRAM.
IT'S CALLED GOOGLE EARTH.
00:34:37.24\00:34:42.04
ANY OF YOU EVER
PLAY WITH GOOGLE EARTH?
00:34:42.08\00:34:45.35
I'M A VERY VISUAL PERSON.
00:34:45.38\00:34:46.95
IN PREPARING FOR THIS STUDY,
WHEN I - I WENT TO GOOGLE EARTH
00:34:46.98\00:34:51.22
AND I SAID, 'ALRIGHT, PAUL WAS
IN CORINTH' - I FOUND CORINTH.
00:34:51.25\00:34:53.39
AND I SAID, 'HOW
FAR WAS HE FROM ROME?
00:34:53.42\00:34:55.02
HOW COME HE DIDN'T GO ALL THE
WAY TO ROME?' I LOOKED AT IT AND
00:34:55.06\00:34:57.76
I MEASURED HOW FAR YOU
CAN - GOT A MEASURING TOOL -
00:34:57.79\00:34:59.69
I SAID, 'AH, HE STILL HAD
- IF HE TOOK AN AIRPLANE HE
00:34:59.73\00:35:02.40
STILL HAD 630 MILES AND
THEY DIDN'T HAVE AIRPLANES.
00:35:02.43\00:35:05.90
AND BY BOAT, IT'D
BE CLOSE TO A THOUSAND.
00:35:05.93\00:35:07.60
IT DEPENDS ON IF HE WENT THROUGH
THE ISTHMUS OF CORINTH OR NOT.
00:35:07.64\00:35:10.11
SO I LOVE LOOKING AT THE VISUAL.
00:35:10.14\00:35:12.04
SOMETIMES KAREN'LL COME IN
THE OFFICE AND I'M DOING GOOGLE
00:35:12.07\00:35:14.98
EARTH AND SHE'LL
SAY, 'WHAT ARE YOU DOING?'
00:35:15.01\00:35:17.01
'I'M GOING ALL OVER THE WORLD.'
I SAY, 'I'M LOOKING FOR A
00:35:17.05\00:35:19.05
DESERTED ISLAND NOBODY'S FOUND
YET.' (LAUGHTER) YOU CAN ZOOM IN
00:35:19.08\00:35:23.72
ON GOOGLE EARTH AND SEE
IF THERE'S ANY SETTLEMENTS.
00:35:23.75\00:35:25.69
I'VE FOUND A FEW ISLANDS - I'M
NOT TELLING YOU WHERE THEY ARE.
00:35:25.72\00:35:28.79
(LAUGHTER) AND I SAID, 'KAREN,
LET'S SELL EVERYTHING AND GET A
00:35:28.82\00:35:31.49
BOAT AND LET'S JUST GO.' YOU
KNOW, I USED TO LIKE TO RUN AWAY
00:35:31.53\00:35:35.33
- THAT'S HOW I ENDED UP IN THE
CAVE - I SAID 'JUST RUN AWAY AND
00:35:35.36\00:35:38.17
GO TO AN ISLAND. LET THE
WORLD END.' BUT - SO, IT'S FUN.
00:35:38.20\00:35:41.74
ANYWAY, WHY DID I SAY ALL THAT?
OH, PAUL WANTED TO GO TO ROME.
00:35:41.77\00:35:45.24
SO YOU READ THIS - WE'RE DOING
THE TEN THOUSAND-FOOT VIEW -
00:35:45.27\00:35:47.71
GOOGLE EARTH YOU CAN ZOOM OUT
AND GET THE BIG VIEW - SO ROMANS
00:35:47.74\00:35:51.68
15:20 - I'M GOING TO READ
THROUGH 26, SO BEAR WITH ME
00:35:51.71\00:35:55.58
HERE. "AND SO I HAVE MADE IT
MY AIM TO PREACH THE GOSPEL, NOT
00:35:55.62\00:36:01.32
WHERE CHRIST WAS NAMED," - NOW
THIS IS GOING TO COME UP LATER,
00:36:01.36\00:36:05.19
BECAUSE SOME SAY, 'WHO WAS THE
FIRST APOSTLE TO GO TO ROME?'
00:36:05.23\00:36:10.00
SOME HAVE ARGUED THAT IT
WAS PETER - THE ROMAN CATHOLIC
00:36:10.03\00:36:12.47
CHURCH SAYS PETER WAS
THE FIRST TO PREACH IN ROME.
00:36:12.50\00:36:14.80
THERE'S NOTHING IN
THE BIBLE THAT SAYS THAT.
00:36:14.84\00:36:17.47
WE DO KNOW PETER, THROUGH CHURCH
TRADITION, ANYWAY, PETER DID,
00:36:17.51\00:36:20.68
LATER, GO TO ROME AND
HE WAS EXECUTED THERE.
00:36:20.71\00:36:22.98
WE DO BELIEVE HE WAS
KILLED UNDER NERO'S PERSECUTION.
00:36:23.01\00:36:26.08
BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN HE
WAS THE FIRST TO PREACH THERE.
00:36:26.11\00:36:29.28
MOST OF THE EVIDENCE SUGGESTS
PAUL WAS THERE BEFORE PETER WAS
00:36:29.32\00:36:33.66
THERE. AND SO, YOU KNOW,
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH LOVES TO SAY
00:36:33.69\00:36:37.33
PETER WAS THE FIRST POPE AND HE
WAS THE FIRST IN ROME - THERE'S
00:36:37.36\00:36:39.53
NO EVIDENCE FOR THAT, REALLY.
SO PAUL WAS PROBABLY THERE.
00:36:39.56\00:36:42.60
ONE REASON WE SAY THAT IS PAUL
SAYS, 'I DON'T WANT TO BUILD ON
00:36:42.63\00:36:46.53
THE FOUNDATION OF SOMEONE ELSE.'
HE SAYS, 'I DON'T WANT TO GO
00:36:46.57\00:36:48.77
WHERE OTHER
PEOPLE HAVE ALREADY BEEN.
00:36:48.80\00:36:50.41
I WANT TO GO WHERE NO OTHER
APOSTLES HAVE BEEN YET.' SO
00:36:50.44\00:36:53.84
THAT'S ONE REASON WE ALSO THINK
HE WAS THE FIRST IN ROME - "LEST
00:36:53.88\00:36:57.71
I SHOULD BUILD ON ANOTHER MAN'S
FOUNDATION," - I'M STILL IN
00:36:57.75\00:37:00.52
ROMANS 15, VERSE 20 - "BUT AS IT
IS WRITTEN: 'TO WHOM HE WAS NOT
00:37:00.55\00:37:05.55
ANNOUNCED, THEY SHALL SEE; AND
THOSE WHO HAVE NOT HEARD SHALL
00:37:05.59\00:37:08.69
UNDERSTAND.' FOR THIS REASON
I ALSO HAVE BEEN MUCH HINDERED
00:37:08.72\00:37:13.23
FROM COMING TO YOU." -
HE'S WRITING TO THE ROMANS -
00:37:13.26\00:37:14.83
'I WANT TO COME TO YOU BUT I'VE
BEEN HINDERED.' YOU KNOW, THEY -
00:37:14.83\00:37:19.83
THE JEWS WERE REBELLING AND
NERO DECLARED JUDAISM 'RELIGIO
00:37:19.87\00:37:22.97
ILLICITA' - THEY WERE
ALL EVICTED FROM ROME.
00:37:23.00\00:37:25.64
THAT'S WHEN PRISCILLA AND
AQUILA WERE KICKED OUT OF ROME.
00:37:25.67\00:37:27.51
THEY TOLD PAUL ABOUT EVERYTHING
GOING ON IN ROME - "BUT NOW NO
00:37:27.54\00:37:31.88
LONGER HAVING A PLACE IN
THESE PARTS," - HE WAS NOW BEING
00:37:31.91\00:37:34.32
PERSECUTED BY EVEN THE JEWS IN
CORINTH - HE HAD TO HEAD BACK -
00:37:34.35\00:37:37.75
'I CAN'T STAY HERE ANYMORE' -
"AND HAVING A GREAT DESIRE THESE
00:37:37.79\00:37:40.86
MANY YEARS TO COME TO YOU,
WHENEVER I JOURNEY TO SPAIN,
00:37:40.89\00:37:44.86
I SHALL COME TO YOU."
- NOW THIS RAISES ANOTHER
00:37:44.89\00:37:47.40
QUESTION THAT'S ONLY
FOUND IN THE BOOK OF ROMANS.
00:37:47.40\00:37:52.67
PAUL'S PRETTY CLEAR HE WENT
TO ANTIOCH AND HE WENT TO, YOU
00:37:52.70\00:37:55.44
KNOW, EPHASUS AND HE WENT ALL
THROUGH ASIA. HE SAYS, 'I WANT
00:37:55.47\00:37:58.47
TO GO TO SPAIN.' DID HE EVER
MAKE IT TO SPAIN? DO WE KNOW? WE
00:37:58.51\00:38:06.75
DON'T KNOW. THERE'S LEGEND THAT
HE DID. THERE'S NOTHING IN THE
00:38:06.78\00:38:10.55
BIBLE THAT SAYS HE DID.
THERE'S NOTHING IN HISTORY THAT
00:38:10.59\00:38:14.29
SAYS HE DID, BUT YOU
CAN'T PROVE HE DIDN'T.
00:38:14.32\00:38:16.96
AND THE ARGUMENT IS THAT WHEN
HE WAS RELEASED FROM PRISON THE
00:38:16.99\00:38:21.90
FIRST TIME - YOU REMEMBER
WHEN THE BOOK OF ACTS ENDS - AND
00:38:21.93\00:38:24.23
WE'RE GOING TO GET THERE IN A
MINUTE - WHEN THE BOOK OF ACTS
00:38:24.27\00:38:25.83
ENDS, PAUL IS IN JAIL
IN ROME - HE'S PREACHING.
00:38:25.87\00:38:28.84
NERO, BASICALLY, LET HIM
OFF THE HOOK THE FIRST TIME.
00:38:28.87\00:38:31.91
SOME ARGUE HE GOT ON A BOAT
THERE, BECAUSE HE SAID, 'AFTER
00:38:31.94\00:38:34.98
ROME I WANT TO GO TO SPAIN.'
THEY SAY HE GOT ON A BOAT THERE,
00:38:35.01\00:38:38.48
HE WENT TO SPAIN. HE DID
A SHORT WORK IN SPAIN AND
00:38:38.51\00:38:40.85
THEN HE WENT VIA TARSHISH, WHICH
IS A COASTAL CITY IN SPAIN,
00:38:40.88\00:38:46.92
ALL THE WAY BACK TO JERUSALEM.
AND YOU COULD MAKE A PRETTY
00:38:46.96\00:38:50.93
QUICK TRIP OF IT IN THAT WAY.
AND THERE'S NOTHING HE WROTE
00:38:50.96\00:38:54.36
ABOUT IT - OR
THOSE WRITINGS WERE LOST.
00:38:54.40\00:38:56.70
YOU KNOW, NOT EVERYTHING
THE BIBLE WRITERS WROTE WAS
00:38:56.73\00:38:59.50
PRESERVED, WE
PRESUME. SO WE DON'T KNOW.
00:38:59.53\00:39:03.27
THAT'S ALL YOU CAN SAY IS, 'WE
DON'T KNOW IF HE EVER MADE IT TO
00:39:03.30\00:39:05.34
SPAIN, BUT HE CERTAINLY MADE IT
CLEAR HE WANTED TO GO TO SPAIN.'
00:39:05.37\00:39:09.31
NOW SOMEONE - I THINK IT
WAS CLEMENT - ONE OF THE EARLY
00:39:09.34\00:39:12.88
CHURCH FATHERS ARGUES
THAT HE DID GO TO SPAIN.
00:39:12.91\00:39:15.22
HIS ARGUMENT IS THAT IT SAYS
THAT HE SAYS, 'THE GOSPEL HAS
00:39:15.25\00:39:19.22
GONE OUT INTO ALL THE EARTH.'
AND THEN ANOTHER PLACE PAUL
00:39:19.25\00:39:23.12
SAYS, 'THE GOSPEL WAS PREACHED
TO EVERY CREATURE.' THEY USED TO
00:39:23.16\00:39:27.73
USE THAT AS A TERM
FOR THE ROMAN EMPIRE.
00:39:27.76\00:39:30.57
THE ROMAN EMPIRE STRETCHED TO
SPAIN. AND SO, SOME HAVE ARGUED,
00:39:30.60\00:39:35.00
'WELL, THE FACT IS HE
SAYS THEY MADE IT TO EVERY
00:39:35.04\00:39:37.41
CREATURE.' HE WENT - AS FAR
AS YOU COULD GO WEST, BACK THEN,
00:39:37.44\00:39:39.64
WAS SPAIN - WITHOUT FALLING OFF
THE END OF THE EARTH - AND THE
00:39:39.67\00:39:43.95
OTHER DISCIPLES WENT INTO INDIA
- THOMAS WENT ALL THE WAY TO
00:39:43.98\00:39:46.82
INDIA. AND SO,
THEY WENT THROUGHOUT
00:39:46.85\00:39:48.65
THE REALMS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE.
SO THAT WAS ONE ARGUMENT THAT HE
00:39:48.68\00:39:51.89
MADE IT TO SPAIN,
BUT WE DON'T KNOW.
00:39:51.92\00:39:53.86
HE SAYS, "WHENEVER I JOURNEY
TO SPAIN, I SHALL COME TO YOU.
00:39:53.89\00:39:56.12
FOR I HOPE TO SEE YOU ON MY
JOURNEY, AND TO BE HELPED ON MY
00:39:56.16\00:39:59.46
WAY THERE BY YOU, IF FIRST I MAY
ENJOY YOUR COMPANY FOR A WHILE.
00:39:59.49\00:40:03.33
BUT NOW I AM GOING TO JERUSALEM
TO MINISTER TO THE SAINTS."
00:40:03.37\00:40:06.23
- HE WAS GOING FROM CORINTH TO
BRING A GIFT BACK TO THE CHURCH
00:40:06.27\00:40:10.37
IN JERUSALEM - THEY WERE
SUFFERING UNDER A TERRIBLE
00:40:10.41\00:40:12.34
FAMINE - BY THE WAY, THAT FAMINE
WAS FORETOLD BY A PROPHET NAMED
00:40:12.37\00:40:15.91
AGABUS, THAT YOU'LL READ ABOUT
IN THE BOOK OF ACTS - IT WAS
00:40:15.94\00:40:19.81
FORETOLD IN ADVANCE - "BUT
NOW I AM GOING TO JERUSALEM TO
00:40:19.85\00:40:25.99
MINISTER TO THE SAINTS FOR IT
PLEASED THOSE FROM MACEDONIA AND
00:40:26.02\00:40:28.86
ACHAIA TO MAKE A CERTAIN
CONTRIBUTION FOR THE POOR AMONG
00:40:28.89\00:40:32.33
THE SAINTS WHO ARE IN
JERUSALEM." SO WHY DID HE NOT GO
00:40:32.36\00:40:35.70
DIRECTLY FROM CORINTH
TO ROME? HE WAS SO CLOSE.
00:40:35.73\00:40:40.04
BECAUSE THERE WAS AN
EMERGENCY IN JERUSALEM.
00:40:40.07\00:40:42.40
HE WAS BEING PERSECUTED, HE
WANTED TO CHECK ON THE CHURCHES
00:40:42.44\00:40:44.57
HE'D ALREADY ESTABLISHED,
HE SAID, 'I'LL BRING THIS MONEY
00:40:44.61\00:40:46.91
BACK, THEN I'LL COME BACK TO
YOU.' ALRIGHT, SO THAT'S JUST A
00:40:46.94\00:40:49.91
LITTLE OVERVIEW ABOUT PAUL'S
DESIRE - WHY DID HE WANT TO GO
00:40:49.94\00:40:52.51
TO ROME? I'LL TELL
YOU, VERY RARELY IN
00:40:52.55\00:40:59.82
YOUR LIFE DO YOU KNOW
YOU'RE LIVING IN THE MOMENT.
00:40:59.85\00:41:04.36
HAVE YOU EVER LOOKED BACK WITH
NOSTALGIA AND SAID, 'OH, DIDN'T
00:41:04.39\00:41:07.76
KNOW IT THEN, BUT THOSE WERE THE
GOOD DAYS.' EVER THOUGHT THAT?
00:41:07.76\00:41:12.23
AND I'VE - I'VE HAD SOME PEOPLE
SEND ME SOME REALLY INTERESTING
00:41:12.27\00:41:16.30
THINGS. THEY SAID, 'THE GREAT
GENERATION - WE RODE AROUND ON
00:41:16.34\00:41:20.61
OUR BICYCLES WITHOUT HELMETS.
WE SLEPT WITHOUT SEATBELTS.
00:41:20.64\00:41:24.45
WE JUMPED ON TRAMPOLINES.' WAIT,
NO, I MEAN, WE SLEPT IN CARS -
00:41:24.48\00:41:29.28
WE DROVE IN CARS WITHOUT
SEATBELTS. THANK YOU, DEAR.
00:41:29.32\00:41:31.79
(LAUGHTER) AND YEAH, I JUST
REMEMBER - I DON'T KNOW IF ANY
00:41:31.82\00:41:36.69
OF YOU, WHEN YOU WERE
GROWING UP, YOU CLIMBED IN THE
00:41:36.73\00:41:38.59
BACK OF THE CAR WITH THE DASH -
THE BACK DASH AND YOU JUST SLEEP
00:41:38.63\00:41:42.03
UP THERE, YOU KNOW, THE
KIDS WERE ALL OVER THE PLACE.
00:41:42.06\00:41:45.00
HOW MANY OF YOU PARENTS, WHEN
YOU STEPPED ON YOUR BRAKES YOU
00:41:45.03\00:41:46.80
STUCK OUT YOUR RIGHT ARM TO KEEP
THE KID FROM FLYING FORWARD.
00:41:46.84\00:41:49.80
IT WAS INSTINCTIVE FOR YEARS -
I HIT THE BRAKES, I STUCK MY ARM
00:41:49.84\00:41:52.27
OUT. AND IT JUST TALKS ABOUT HOW
IT WAS SO SHELTERED NOW IN SO
00:41:52.31\00:41:58.05
MANY WAYS AND SO MANY RULES AND
THINGS THAT - OUR PARENTS USED
00:41:58.08\00:42:02.38
TO TELL US, 'COME HOME WHEN IT'S
DARK.' YOU KNOW, 'GO OUT AND
00:42:02.42\00:42:07.19
PLAY.' THEY NEVER SAID,
YOU KNOW, 'WHERE ARE YOU GOING?
00:42:07.22\00:42:08.96
ARE YOU GOING TO BE ACCOMPANIED
BY ANOTHER' - I WAS A KID IN NEW
00:42:08.99\00:42:12.36
YORK - MY MOTHER SENT ME AND MY
BROTHER - SIX, SEVEN YEARS OLD -
00:42:12.39\00:42:16.26
WE WENT OUT TO PLAY -
JUST GO PLAY IN THE PARK.
00:42:16.30\00:42:19.10
WE COULD GO AS FAR
AS WE FELT WE'D SURVIVE.
00:42:19.13\00:42:22.50
AND NOW PARENTS GET ARRESTED IF
YOU'VE GOT A SIX-YEAR-OLD THAT'S
00:42:22.54\00:42:25.77
OUTSIDE WITHOUT A PARENT - FOR
BEING, YOU KNOW, WHAT DO THEY
00:42:25.81\00:42:29.41
CALL IT? TAKING CARE OF
YOUR CHILD - BUT IT WAS A WHOLE
00:42:29.44\00:42:33.52
DIFFERENT THING BACK THEN.
ANYWAY, WHY'D I SAY ALL THAT?
00:42:33.55\00:42:36.28
OH YEAH, YOU VERY RARELY REALIZE
WHEN YOU'RE LIVING IN THE
00:42:36.32\00:42:38.99
MOMENT, BUT WHEN WE WENT TO NEW
YORK IN 1999, I TOLD KAREN, I
00:42:39.02\00:42:44.39
SAID, 'THIS IS A POINT - THIS IS
A HIGH POINT IN OUR LIVES THAT
00:42:44.43\00:42:47.60
WILL NEVER BE REPEATED.' THAT
HERE, WE'RE - YOU KNOW, NEW YORK
00:42:47.60\00:42:51.73
IS, IN MANY WAYS, THE
CROSSROADS OF THE WORLD.
00:42:51.77\00:42:54.90
YOU KNOW, IT'S ADVERTISING
CENTER, IT'S A FINANCIAL CENTER
00:42:54.94\00:42:58.87
- THAT'S WHY 9/11 WAS ATTACKED
- THEY ATTACKED NEW YORK.
00:42:58.91\00:43:01.91
IT'S AN INTERNATIONAL CITY.
I MEAN, YOU KNOW, KING KONG
00:43:01.94\00:43:05.38
ATTACKED NEW YORK - GODZILLA
ATTACKED NEW YORK - THEY ALL
00:43:05.41\00:43:07.45
KNOW THAT NEW YORK IS
THE CENTER OF EVERYTHING.
00:43:07.48\00:43:10.85
AND SO, WHEN WE WERE IN NEW
YORK, RIGHT THERE ON THE CUSP OF
00:43:10.89\00:43:14.06
THE NEXT MILLENNIUM AND Y2K AND
ALL THOSE THINGS HAPPENING AND
00:43:14.09\00:43:16.56
THE METS WERE PLAYING THE
YANKEES - TWO NEW YORK CITIES
00:43:16.59\00:43:19.49
AND HILLARY CLINTON'S RUNNING
FOR SENATE, AND THE NEW YORK
00:43:19.53\00:43:21.93
MARATHON - ALL THIS STUFF IS
HAPPENING AND IT'S A CROSSROADS
00:43:21.96\00:43:25.13
OF THE WORLD AND I THOUGHT, 'WE
WANT TO PREACH THE GOSPEL HERE
00:43:25.17\00:43:28.30
BECAUSE ALL ROADS LEAD TO
NEW YORK. YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN.
00:43:28.34\00:43:31.77
AND PAUL WANTED TO GO TO ROME
BECAUSE, IF YOU CAN INFLUENCE
00:43:31.81\00:43:37.18
THE PLACES OF INFLUENCE,
THE MESSAGE SPREADS FARTHER.
00:43:37.21\00:43:42.25
AND SO, YOU DROP THE DIE OF
THE GOSPEL IN THE FOUNTAIN THAT
00:43:42.28\00:43:47.26
FEEDS THE WORLD AND
IT SPREADS EVERYWHERE.
00:43:47.29\00:43:50.03
SO HE SAID, 'I WANT TO GO TO
ROME, BECAUSE IF WE CAN REALLY
00:43:50.06\00:43:52.26
HAVE A REVIVAL IN ROME, IT'LL
SPREAD EVERYWHERE FROM THERE.
00:43:52.29\00:43:55.66
THAT'S WHY CALVIN, WHO ALSO
WAS CONVERTED BY READING ROMANS,
00:43:55.70\00:44:00.57
WENT TO GENEVA. SWITZERLAND WAS
LIKE A CROSSROADS IN EUROPE BACK
00:44:00.60\00:44:04.07
THEN AND THE GOSPEL WAS GOING
EVERYWHERE FROM SWITZERLAND.
00:44:04.11\00:44:07.48
SO PAUL HAD A GREAT DESIRE
TO GO TO ROME DURING THAT.
00:44:07.51\00:44:10.51
NOW I'M GOING TO
TALK ABOUT PAUL IN ROME.
00:44:10.55\00:44:12.65
SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ, FOR ME,
IN A MOMENT, PHILIPPIANS 1:12,
00:44:12.68\00:44:15.98
OKAY? I'M GOING
TO READ ACTS 25:11.
00:44:16.02\00:44:20.19
HE SAID, "FOR IF I AM AN
OFFENDER" - PAUL WAS ARRESTED
00:44:20.22\00:44:23.02
AND HE WAS MAKING HIS CASE
THERE, BEFORE THE LEADERS IN THE
00:44:23.06\00:44:28.20
JERUSALEM COURT - "FOR IF I AM
AN OFFENDER, OR HAVE COMMITTED
00:44:28.23\00:44:32.03
ANYTHING DESERVING OF DEATH,
I DO NOT OBJECT TO DYING; BUT IF
00:44:32.07\00:44:35.27
THERE IS NOTHING IN THESE THINGS
OF WHICH THESE MEN ACCUSE ME, NO
00:44:35.30\00:44:38.67
ONE CAN DELIVER ME TO
THEM. I APPEAL TO CAESAR."
00:44:38.71\00:44:41.81
NOW THE JEWS HAD ACCUSED PAUL
OF DOING ALL KINDS OF TERRIBLE
00:44:41.84\00:44:45.58
THINGS AND BEING SEDITIOUS AND
EVERYTHING. HE SAID, 'I'VE NOT
00:44:45.61\00:44:49.02
DONE ANY OF THAT.' YOU DID HAVE,
AS A ROMAN CITIZEN - PAUL WAS A
00:44:49.05\00:44:52.35
ROMAN CITIZEN - YOU HAD
THE RIGHT TO APPEAL TO CAESAR.
00:44:52.39\00:44:54.82
PAUL SAID, 'LOOK, I WANT TO GO
TO ROME.' AND HE THOUGHT, 'MAYBE
00:44:54.86\00:44:59.29
I'LL GET CAESAR TO PAY FOR IT.'
SO HE WAS IN JAIL IN CAESAREA,
00:44:59.33\00:45:05.63
WHICH IS OUTSIDE, YOU KNOW, IT'S
IN ISRAEL, AND HE SAYS, 'I'M
00:45:05.67\00:45:09.17
GOING TO APPEAL.' THEY
SAID, 'LOOK, HE'S APPEALED.
00:45:09.20\00:45:10.87
HE'S A ROMAN, HE GETS TO APPEAL
TO CAESAR.' THAT WAS THE SUPREME
00:45:10.91\00:45:12.94
COURT. SO THEY
ACTUALLY HAD TO PAY - HE
00:45:12.97\00:45:15.78
GOT THEM TO PAY TO TAKE HIM TO
ROME. YOU KNOW, SOMETHING REALLY
00:45:15.81\00:45:21.62
NEAT HAPPENED TO ME A FEW YEARS
AGO. I REALLY WANTED TO GO VISIT
00:45:21.65\00:45:23.55
MY CAVE AND I DID THIS SPECIAL
WITH NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC.
00:45:23.59\00:45:27.89
AND THEY WERE INTERVIEWING ME
ABOUT THE END OF THE WORLD AND
00:45:27.92\00:45:33.09
SOMEONE GAVE THEM
MY TESTIMONY BOOK.
00:45:33.13\00:45:35.03
AND, EVEN THOUGH IT WASN'T THE
REASON FOR THE INTERVIEW, THEY
00:45:35.06\00:45:37.73
SAID, 'THIS IS A GREAT
SIDE STORY.' AND THEY SAID,
00:45:37.77\00:45:40.84
'COULD WE GET YOU TO
GO BACK TO YOUR CAVE?
00:45:40.87\00:45:42.87
WE'D LIKE TO TAPE YOU UP THERE.'
I SAID, 'WELL, I'D LIKE TO GO
00:45:42.90\00:45:45.17
BUT, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN'T GET IN
THERE WITHOUT A HELICOPTER NOW
00:45:45.21\00:45:47.61
BECAUSE THEY'VE BLOCKED OFF
THE ENTRANCE.' THEY SAID, 'WELL
00:45:47.64\00:45:51.61
WE'LL RENT THE HELICOPTER.' I
GOT NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC - THIS
00:45:51.65\00:45:55.75
ATHEISTIC ORGANIZATION - TO PAY
TO TAKE ME BACK TO MY CAVE AND
00:45:55.78\00:45:59.69
VIDEOTAPE MY TESTIMONY.
(LAUGHTER) ISN'T THAT GREAT?
00:45:59.72\00:46:04.76
I GOT A BIG KICK OUT OF THAT.
AND I HAVEN'T BEEN THERE SINCE.
00:46:04.79\00:46:10.27
ANYWAY, HE GOT ROME TO PAY TO
SEND HIM TO ROME TO PREACH ABOUT
00:46:10.30\00:46:14.87
JESUS IN THIS PAGAN WORLD.
AND HE WAS PREACHING IN CAESAR'S
00:46:14.90\00:46:18.67
HOUSEHOLD AND - BEING GUARDED BY
A ROMAN SOLDIER, PAID BY ROMAN
00:46:18.71\00:46:25.21
TAX MONEY, AND HE'S PREACHING TO
THE SOLDIERS. THIS IS GREAT THE
00:46:25.25\00:46:29.78
WAY THE LORD
DOES THINGS. >>AMEN.
00:46:29.82\00:46:31.89
>>AND SO, IT SAYS - NOW IN VERSE
- ACTS 28:16, "NOW WHEN WE CAME
00:46:31.92\00:46:38.39
TO ROME, THE CENTURION DELIVERED
THE PRISONERS TO THE CAPTAIN OF
00:46:38.43\00:46:41.70
THE GUARD; BUT PAUL WAS
PERMITTED TO DWELL BY HIMSELF
00:46:41.73\00:46:45.40
WITH THE SOLDIER
WHO GUARDED HIM."
00:46:45.43\00:46:47.44
AND YOU GO TO THE VERY
LAST WORDS IN ACTS - ACTS 28:31,
00:46:47.47\00:46:51.41
"THEN PAUL DWELT TWO WHOLE YEARS
IN HIS OWN RENTED HOUSE, AND
00:46:51.44\00:46:56.95
RECEIVED ALL WHO CAME TO
HIM," - HE'S GOT A ROMAN SOLDIER
00:46:56.98\00:46:59.05
GUARDING HIM ALL THIS TIME,
BUT HE'S GOT HIS OWN HOME - "AND
00:46:59.08\00:47:02.05
RECEIVED ALL WHO CAME TO HIM,
PREACHING THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND
00:47:02.08\00:47:05.52
TEACHING THE THINGS WHICH
CONCERN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST
00:47:05.55\00:47:08.22
WITH ALL CONFIDENCE,
NO ONE FORBIDDING HIM."
00:47:08.26\00:47:11.13
HE'S WAITING TO BE HEARD BY
CAESAR - THERE'S A LONG CASELOAD
00:47:11.16\00:47:14.20
- YOU KNOW, YOU COULD BE ON
DEATH ROW FOR YEARS IN AMERICA
00:47:14.20\00:47:16.70
AND, BACK THEN, IN ROME, CAESAR
WAS SO BUSY HEARING THESE FINAL
00:47:16.73\00:47:19.87
APPEAL CASES, THEY WERE TWO
YEARS BACKED UP, WHICH WAS GREAT
00:47:19.90\00:47:22.80
FOR GOD AND GREAT FOR PAUL.
HE HAD TWO YEARS, AT GOVERNMENT
00:47:22.84\00:47:26.01
EXPENSE, PREACHING THE GOSPEL
IN A RENTED HOUSE WITH A ROMAN
00:47:26.04\00:47:29.11
SOLDIER GUARDING HIM -
HE'S PREACHING TO THE SOLDIER.
00:47:29.14\00:47:31.55
GO AHEAD, READ TO US
PHILIPPIANS 1:12 AND 13.
00:47:31.58\00:47:35.78
>>PHILIPPIANS 1:12 AND 13, "BUT
I WANT YOU TO KNOW, BRETHREN,
00:47:35.82\00:47:40.39
THAT THE THINGS WHICH HAPPENED
TO ME HAVE ACTUALLY TURNED OUT
00:47:40.42\00:47:43.63
FOR THE FURTHERANCE FOR THE
GOSPEL, SO THAT IT HAS BECOME
00:47:43.66\00:47:47.10
EVIDENT TO THE WHOLE PALACE
GUARD, AND TO ALL THE REST, THAT
00:47:47.13\00:47:50.73
MY CHAINS ARE IN CHRIST;"
>>SO WHILE HE'S THERE, NOT FAR
00:47:50.77\00:47:55.34
AWAY FROM THE DWELLING PLACE OF
NERO - CAESAR - HE'S PREACHING
00:47:55.37\00:48:00.91
TO THE WHOLE PALACE GUARD,
BECAUSE HE'D HAVE ONE SOLDIER,
00:48:00.94\00:48:02.94
YOU KNOW, ASSIGNED FOR A WEEK OR
WHATEVER, AND THEN THEY'D ROTATE
00:48:02.98\00:48:05.15
AND ANOTHER SOLDIER WAS
GUARDING. SO OVER A TWO-YEAR
00:48:05.18\00:48:07.08
PERIOD HE'S PREACHING
TO ALL THESE SOLDIERS.
00:48:07.12\00:48:10.02
AND THE PAGAN RELIGIONS OF ROME,
00:48:10.05\00:48:11.62
THEY HAD NOTHING TO OFFER.
THERE WERE SO MANY GODS IN ROME
00:48:11.65\00:48:14.99
THAT THEY WERE MORE
THAN THE PIGEONS ON THE ROOF.
00:48:15.02\00:48:17.96
I MEAN, THEY HAD ALL
THESE - THEY WERE JUST EMPTY.
00:48:17.99\00:48:22.00
AND SO, PAUL WAS JUST PREACHING
TO THEM ALL AND HE HAD CONVERTS
00:48:22.03\00:48:24.60
IN THE HOUSE. LOOK AT
PHILIPPIANS 4:21 AND 22
00:48:24.63\00:48:30.57
- AT THE END OF PHILIPPIANS
HE SAID, "GREET EVERY
00:48:30.61\00:48:32.41
SAINT IN CHRIST
JESUS. THE BRETHREN WHO ARE
00:48:32.44\00:48:35.74
WITH ME GREET YOU. ALL
THE SAINTS GREET YOU, BUT
00:48:35.78\00:48:38.81
ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO
ARE OF CAESAR'S HOUSEHOLD."
00:48:38.85\00:48:42.12
SO HE'S NOT ONLY PREACHING TO
THE PALACE GUARDS, THE GUARDS,
00:48:42.15\00:48:45.62
THEN, GO INTO THE PALACE -
THEY'RE PREACHING TO THE FAMILY
00:48:45.65\00:48:49.39
OF CAESAR AND THE SERVANTS
OF CAESAR AND THERE WAS A LITTLE
00:48:49.42\00:48:53.63
MINI CHURCH THAT WAS
FROM CAESAR'S HOUSEHOLD.
00:48:53.66\00:48:57.40
AND SO, WHAT YOU WOULD THINK
WOULD BE A BAD THING - HERE,
00:48:57.43\00:49:00.74
PAUL'S ARRESTED, HE SPENDS
TWO YEARS IN JAIL IN JERUSALEM -
00:49:00.77\00:49:05.51
HE'S ACTUALLY IN CAESAREA
- BUT WHAT IS HE DOING THERE?
00:49:05.54\00:49:08.08
HE'S PREACHING TO HEROD
AND FELIX AND THE RULERS -
00:49:08.11\00:49:12.48
HE'S PREACHING
TO THE GUARDS THERE.
00:49:12.51\00:49:14.25
AND THEN HE'S PUT IN JAIL IN
ROME - HE'S TWO YEARS IN PRISON
00:49:14.28\00:49:17.19
THERE - KIND OF HOUSE ARREST
- HE'S, YOU KNOW, IT'S PRETTY
00:49:17.22\00:49:19.59
COMFORTABLE - AND HE'S PREACHING
- HE COULD RECEIVE GUESTS SO
00:49:19.62\00:49:22.66
HE'S PREACHING TO THE JEWS
THAT COME, HE'S PREACHING TO THE
00:49:22.69\00:49:24.49
GENTILES THAT COME, HE'S
PREACHING TO THE ROMAN SOLDIERS,
00:49:24.53\00:49:26.49
THEY'RE THEN PREACHING TO THOSE
IN THE PALACE, AND THE GOSPEL -
00:49:26.53\00:49:29.20
TWO YEARS OF THE BEST EVANGELIST
IN THE WORLD, WHO SPEAKS ALL
00:49:29.23\00:49:32.83
THEIR LANGUAGES, I MEAN,
THIS WAS A WONDERFUL THING.
00:49:32.87\00:49:35.84
NOW SOMEONE WOULD SAY, 'WHY
WOULD GOD ALLOW PAUL TO BE IN
00:49:35.87\00:49:39.24
PRISON?' HE DID HIS BEST WORK
IN PRISON. AND WHEN HE WASN'T
00:49:39.27\00:49:45.45
TRAVELING, HE WAS WRITING.
AND SO, HE'S WRITING ALL
00:49:45.48\00:49:49.08
THESE LETTERS TO EVERYBODY.
MANY, WE PROBABLY DON'T HAVE.
00:49:49.12\00:49:51.85
AREN'T YOU THANKFUL FOR
THE BOOK PILGRIM'S PROGRESS ?
00:49:51.89\00:49:55.72
DO YOU REALIZE, IF JOHN BUNYAN
HADN'T BEEN IN PRISON, YOU
00:49:55.76\00:49:58.36
WOULDN'T HAVE
PILGRIM'S PROGRESS ?
00:49:58.39\00:50:00.73
HE WROTE IT BECAUSE HE WAS
BORED OUT OF HIS MIND IN PRISON.
00:50:00.76\00:50:04.27
AND HE STARTED TO BE INSPIRED
ABOUT THIS ALLEGORY OF THE
00:50:04.30\00:50:07.40
CHRISTIAN LIFE AND HE WROTE THIS
WHOLE INCREDIBLE ALLEGORY THAT
00:50:07.44\00:50:10.77
HAS BEEN ONE OF THE BEST SELLERS
NEXT TO THE BIBLE - DID YOU KNOW
00:50:10.81\00:50:13.94
THAT? PILGRIM'S PROGRESS.
00:50:13.98\00:50:15.34
IF YOU'VE NOT READ
IT, YOU NEED TO READ THAT.
00:50:15.38\00:50:17.68
ALRIGHT, MOVING ALONG, THE
SAINTS IN ROME - ROMANS 1:7, "TO
00:50:17.71\00:50:23.52
ALL WHO ARE IN ROME, BELOVED OF
GOD, CALLED TO BE SAINTS: GRACE
00:50:23.55\00:50:26.96
TO YOU AND PEACE FROM GOD
OUR FATHER AND THE LORD JESUS
00:50:26.99\00:50:30.29
CHRIST." HIS INTENT WAS FOR THE
00:50:30.33\00:50:34.56
CHRISTIANS IN ALL OF
ROME TO READ THE EPISTLE.
00:50:34.56\00:50:37.00
HE CLEARLY SAYS THIS
IS FOR EVERYONE TO READ.
00:50:37.03\00:50:39.33
NOW SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ,
FOR ME, HEBREWS 2:9 - IN JUST A
00:50:39.37\00:50:42.57
MOMENT. I'M GOING
TO READ EPHESIANS 4 -
00:50:42.60\00:50:45.27
1:4, "JUST AS HE CHOSE US IN
HIM BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE
00:50:45.31\00:50:50.68
WORLD, THAT WE SHOULD BE HOLY
AND WITHOUT BLAME BEFORE HIM
00:50:50.71\00:50:54.32
IN LOVE," - SO THOSE HE CALLS
'SAINTS IN ROME' - THOSE ARE
00:50:54.35\00:51:00.19
DESIGNATED SAINTS - THAT MEANS
THOSE CALLED TO BE HOLY ONES.
00:51:00.22\00:51:04.39
AND HE SHOWS THAT GOD HAD CALLED
THE GENTILES, AS MUCH AS THE
00:51:04.43\00:51:06.76
JEWS, TO BE HOLY ONES.
AND THE BLESSING OF THE GOSPEL
00:51:06.80\00:51:10.33
IS FREELY TO GO TO THEM ALL.
GOD WANTS EVERYONE TO BE SAVED.
00:51:10.37\00:51:14.27
GO AHEAD, READ,
PLEASE, HEBREWS 2:9.
00:51:14.30\00:51:16.71
>>"BUT WE SEE JESUS, WHO
WAS MADE A LITTLE LOWER THAN THE
00:51:16.74\00:51:19.17
ANGELS, FOR THE SUFFERING
OF DEATH CROWNED WITH GLORY AND
00:51:19.21\00:51:22.58
HONOR, THAT HE, BY THE GRACE
OF GOD, MIGHT TASTE DEATH FOR
00:51:22.61\00:51:26.68
EVERYONE." >>HE
MIGHT TASTE DEATH FOR WHO?
00:51:26.72\00:51:29.42
>>EVERYONE. >>I
THOUGHT IT WAS ONLY FOR
00:51:29.45\00:51:31.55
JEWS - OR ONLY FOR CHRISTIANS.
SOME PEOPLE SAY JESUS
00:51:31.59\00:51:36.19
ONLY DIED FOR THE ELECT.
IN OTHER WORDS, THE ONES WHO
00:51:36.22\00:51:38.63
WOULD ACCEPT SALVATION - HE
DIDN'T REALLY SUFFER FOR THE
00:51:38.66\00:51:40.50
SINS OF THE LOST, BUT IT
SAYS HE TASTED DEATH FOR WHO?
00:51:40.53\00:51:44.50
>>EVERYONE. >>EVERYONE.
00:51:44.53\00:51:45.97
WHOSOEVER WILL - WHOSOEVER
BELIEVES IN HIM - THE GOSPEL'S
00:51:46.00\00:51:50.81
FOR EVERYONE. AND THEN
YOU CAN LOOK AT 2 PETER
00:51:50.84\00:51:52.41
3:9, "THE LORD...NOT WILLING
THAT ANY SHOULD PERISH BUT THAT
00:51:52.44\00:51:57.05
ALL SHOULD COME TO REPENTANCE."
SO EVEN BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF
00:51:57.08\00:52:01.48
THE WORLD HE WANTS
EVERYONE TO COME TO HIM.
00:52:01.52\00:52:05.79
AND, HOPEFULLY,
YOU'RE HEEDING THAT CALL.
00:52:05.82\00:52:07.62
ALRIGHT, THE BELIEVERS IN ROME
. NOW SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ
00:52:07.66\00:52:11.79
FOR ME ROMANS 1:8,
OKAY? JUST A MOMENT.
00:52:11.83\00:52:15.40
IF PAUL HASN'T BEEN TO ROME, WHY
IS HE WRITING TO THE BELIEVERS
00:52:15.43\00:52:18.37
IN ROME? HOW DID
YOU GET BELIEVERS IN
00:52:18.40\00:52:20.04
ROME IF PAUL AND PETER
HAD NOT BEEN THERE YET?
00:52:20.07\00:52:23.57
THE ANSWER IS ACTS CHAPTER
2. YOU GO BACK TO PENTECOST -
00:52:23.61\00:52:28.54
NOTICE WHAT IT SAYS, "AND THERE
WERE" - "THEN THEY WERE ALL
00:52:28.58\00:52:31.55
AMAZED AND MARVELED, SAYING TO
ONE ANOTHER" - THE HOLY SPIRIT'S
00:52:31.58\00:52:33.95
POURED OUT, THE APOSTLES
ARE PREACHING - "'LOOK, ARE NOT
00:52:33.98\00:52:37.59
ALL THESE WHO SPEAK GALILEANS?
AND HOW IS IT THAT WE HEAR, EACH
00:52:37.62\00:52:41.32
IN OUR OWN LANGUAGE
IN WHICH WE WERE BORN?
00:52:41.36\00:52:44.16
PARTHIANS AND MEDES AND
ELAMITES, THOSE DWELLING IN
00:52:44.19\00:52:47.10
MESOPOTAMIA, JUDEA AND
CAPPADOCIA, PONTUS AND ASIA,
00:52:47.13\00:52:50.63
PHRYGIA AND PAMPHULIA, EGYPT
AND THE PARTS OF LIBYA ADJOINING
00:52:50.67\00:52:54.64
CYRENE, VISITORS FROM ROME, BOTH
JEWS AND PROSELYTES, CRETAN AND
00:52:54.67\00:52:59.87
ARABS - WE HEAR THEM SPEAKING
IN OUR OWN TONGUES THE WONDERFUL
00:52:59.91\00:53:03.35
WORKS OF GOD.'" WHEN YOU READ IN
ACTS CHAPTER 2, IT SAYS, 'THERE
00:53:03.38\00:53:06.51
WERE DWELLING IN ROME DEVOUT
PEOPLE OUT OF EVERY NATION
00:53:06.55\00:53:10.85
UNDER' - I'M SORRY, 'DWELLING
IN JERUSALEM DEVOUT PEOPLE FROM
00:53:10.89\00:53:13.79
EVERY NATION' - THERE WERE
JEWS THAT CAME FROM ROME FOR
00:53:13.82\00:53:17.93
PENTECOST. THEY
WERE CONVERTED UNDER THE
00:53:17.96\00:53:20.00
PREACHING OF THE APOSTLES.
AFTER PENTECOST THEY WENT
00:53:20.03\00:53:22.83
HOME TO ROME, BELIEVERS.
THOSE EARLY JEWS, WHO WERE
00:53:22.86\00:53:27.47
CONVERTED AT PENTECOST, WENT
BACK TO ROME AND THEY BEGAN TO
00:53:27.50\00:53:31.84
SHARE THEIR FAITH
AND IT BEGAN TO SPREAD.
00:53:31.87\00:53:35.01
AND BY THE TIME THAT PETER SAID
IT WAS OKAY TO PREACH TO THE
00:53:35.04\00:53:37.65
GENTILES, THAT
WORD REACHED THEM.
00:53:37.68\00:53:39.55
KEEP IN MIND, IF YOU'RE
FAITHFUL JEWS AND THEY CAME FOR
00:53:39.58\00:53:41.72
PENTECOST, THEY CAME FOR
OTHER FEASTS, DIDN'T THEY?
00:53:41.75\00:53:44.09
SO, PERIODICALLY, THE BELIEVERS
WERE COMING BACK TO JERUSALEM.
00:53:44.12\00:53:48.09
AND THEN THEY'D GO BACK TO ROME.
00:53:48.12\00:53:49.99
AND THEY SAID, 'HEY, THEY SAY
THE GOSPEL, NOW, IS NOT JUST FOR
00:53:50.03\00:53:52.53
US, BUT IT CAN ALSO GO TO
GENTILES.' BUT THEY SAID, 'BUT
00:53:52.56\00:53:55.46
WE'RE SPECIAL.' AND SO PAUL HAD
TO EXPLAIN WHAT THE RELATIONSHIP
00:53:55.50\00:53:59.43
BETWEEN JEW AND GENTILE WAS,
AND HE DOES THIS IN THE BOOK OF
00:53:59.47\00:54:01.97
ROMANS. HE SAYS THE
GOSPEL IS FOR EVERYBODY.
00:54:02.00\00:54:05.21
ANYWAY, FRIENDS, WE HOPE THAT
YOU HAVE BEEN BLESSED BY THAT.
00:54:05.24\00:54:09.31
I WOULD LIKE TO REITERATE
THAT, AT THE BEGINNING OF OUR
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BROADCAST THERE IS A FREE OFFER.
00:54:12.95\00:54:14.58
WE'D INVITE YOU TO SEND FOR
THAT, AND IT IS CALLED IS IT
00:54:14.62\00:54:18.25
EASIER TO BE SAVED OR LOST?
ASK FOR #124 WHEN YOU CALL.
00:54:18.29\00:54:23.32
THE NUMBER TO CALL -
866-788-3966 - THAT'S ACTUALLY
00:54:23.36\00:54:28.16
AN ACRONYM FOR
866-STUDY-MORE. I LIKE THAT.
00:54:28.20\00:54:32.03
WE'LL SEND IT TO YOU FOR FREE.
00:54:32.07\00:54:33.50
IT'S A GREAT BOOK - IS IT
EASIER TO BE SAVED OR LOST?
00:54:33.54\00:54:36.47
IT GOES WELL WITH
THE BOOK OF ROMANS.
00:54:36.50\00:54:38.07
READ IT AND SHARE IT WITH
SOMEBODY ELSE. GOD BLESS YOU.
00:54:38.11\00:54:40.58
WE'LL STUDY HIS WORD
TOGETHER AGAIN NEXT WEEK.
00:54:40.61\00:54:44.35
>>FIVE HUNDRED YEARS AGO, GOD
USED MARTIN LUTHER TO INSPIRE A
00:54:44.38\00:54:48.45
GREAT REFORMATION, CALLING
PEOPLE BACK TO THE FOUNDATIONAL
00:54:48.48\00:54:52.22
TEACHINGS OF SCRIPTURE; HOWEVER,
IN THE CENTURIES THAT FOLLOWED,
00:54:52.25\00:54:56.19
THE CHURCH HAS SLIPPED OFF THE
BEDROCK OF TRUTH INTO THE VALLEY
00:54:56.22\00:54:59.66
OF LUKEWARM WORLDLINESS.
THAT'S WHY, THIS FALL, I'LL BE
00:54:59.69\00:55:03.50
PRESENTING A BRAND-NEW NINE-PART
SERIES CALLED FOUNDATIONS OF
00:55:03.53\00:55:08.24
FAITH - A PERFECT SERIES
FOR ANYONE SEEKING A PERSONAL
00:55:08.27\00:55:11.74
REVIVAL AND RENEWAL IN
THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH CHRIST.
00:55:11.77\00:55:15.11
PLEASE PLAN, NOW, TO JOIN ME IN
PERSON, ONLINE, OR ON TELEVISION
00:55:15.14\00:55:19.15
AND BE SURE TO INVITE
OTHERS TO JOIN YOU AS WELL.
00:55:19.18\00:55:22.18
THE REFORMATION
CONTINUES. (MUSIC)
00:55:22.22\00:55:37.57
>>HELLO FRIENDS, WE'RE
HERE IN THE PHILIPPINES
00:55:37.60\00:55:39.70
OVERLOOKING THE TAAL VOLCANO AND
LAKE, WHICH IS ONE OF THE MOST
00:55:39.73\00:55:43.84
INTERESTING PIECES OF
GEOGRAPHY IN THE WHOLE WORLD.
00:55:43.87\00:55:47.04
FOR ONE THING, THIS GREAT
CALDARA WAS ONCE THE BIGGEST
00:55:47.08\00:55:50.48
VOLCANO IN THE WORLD, AND NOW IT
HOLDS A LAKE THAT HOLDS ANOTHER
00:55:50.51\00:55:54.72
VOLCANO THAT HAS A LITTLE LAKE
IN IT THAT HAS ANOTHER LITTLE
00:55:54.75\00:55:59.15
ISLAND IN IT. THIS
VOLCANO HAS ERUPTED SIX
00:55:59.19\00:56:02.22
TIMES, IN A MAJOR WAY, SINCE THE
1500S AND, EVEN IN 1911, THERE
00:56:02.26\00:56:08.03
WAS AN ERUPTION WHERE OVER
1300 PEOPLE DIED - KILLED BY THE
00:56:08.06\00:56:12.00
SMOKE AND THE ASH
THAT COVERED THE COMMUNITY.
00:56:12.03\00:56:15.07
THERE WERE TSUNAMIS THAT CAME
FROM THE LAKE AND DESTROYED THE
00:56:15.10\00:56:18.14
VILLAGES THAT SURROUNDED
THE BORDERS OF THE LAKE.
00:56:18.17\00:56:20.84
IN FACT, THIS IS ONE OF THE
MOST CAREFULLY MONITORED SEISMIC
00:56:20.88\00:56:24.08
PLACES IN THE PHILIPPINES.
THIS VOLCANO IS BEING WATCHED
00:56:24.11\00:56:27.58
ALL THE TIME AND THEY'VE
NOTICED, AS OF 2006, THAT
00:56:27.62\00:56:31.02
IT APPEARS THAT THE WATER
TEMPERATURES ARE GOING UP.
00:56:31.05\00:56:34.39
THERE'S INCREASED SEISMIC
ACTIVITY. IN OTHER WORDS, THEY
00:56:34.42\00:56:37.73
KNOW THAT THIS VOLCANO IS A
TICKING TIME BOMB PREPARED TO
00:56:37.76\00:56:41.43
BLOW. AND IT'S VERY INTERESTING,
BECAUSE THIS PLACE IS A PLACE OF
00:56:41.46\00:56:44.87
GREAT SEISMIC ACTIVITY,
BUT IN SPITE OF THE FACT THAT
00:56:44.90\00:56:48.40
VULCANOLOGISTS KNOW THIS IS
GOING TO BLOW AGAIN SOMEDAY, IT
00:56:48.44\00:56:51.44
IS A POPULAR
TOURIST DESTINATION.
00:56:51.47\00:56:53.48
THEY'RE FIGHTING FOR THE REAL
ESTATE, THEY'RE BUILDING LIKE
00:56:53.51\00:56:55.68
MAD, AND SIT ON
THE EDGE OF DISASTER.
00:56:55.71\00:56:58.65
IT MAKES US THINK ABOUT HOW GOD
HAS GIVEN US SO MANY WARNINGS IN
00:56:58.68\00:57:02.45
HIS WORD THAT THE WORLD IS GOING
TO END, THAT JESUS IS GOING TO
00:57:02.48\00:57:05.95
COME, THAT THE HEAVENS WILL
DISSOLVE WITH A GREAT NOISE AND
00:57:05.99\00:57:09.06
THE ELEMENTS WILL MELT WITH
FERVENT HEAT, SEEING THEN THAT
00:57:09.09\00:57:12.23
ALL THESE THINGS WILL BE
DISSOLVED, WHAT KIND OF PEOPLE
00:57:12.26\00:57:14.63
SHOULD WE BE IN ALL HOLY
CONVERSATION AND GODLINESS.
00:57:14.66\00:57:18.93
FRIENDS, ARE YOU BECOMING
DISTRACTED WITH THE TRANQUIL
00:57:18.97\00:57:21.27
VIEWS OF THE WORLD OR ARE YOU
PREPARING FOR THE NEXT WORLD?
00:57:21.30\00:57:25.21
ARE YOU GETTING READY
FOR THE BIG BANG? (MUSIC)
00:57:25.24\00:57:34.02
>>LET'S FACE IT, IT'S NOT ALWAYS
EASY TO UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING
00:57:34.05\00:57:37.22
YOU READ IN THE BIBLE.
WITH OVER 700,000 WORDS
00:57:37.25\00:57:40.62
CONTAINED IN 66 BOOKS, THE BIBLE
CAN GENERATE A LOT OF QUESTIONS.
00:57:40.66\00:57:45.23
TO GET BIBLICAL STRAIGHTFORWARD
ANSWERS CALL IN TO BIBLE ANSWERS
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