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>>GOOD MORNING, FRIENDS.
WELCOME, AGAIN, TO SABBATH
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SCHOOL STUDY HOUR, COMING TO
YOU HERE FROM THE GRANITE BAY
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SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH
NEAR SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA.
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A VERY WARM WELCOME TO THOSE
JOINING US ONLINE AND OUR ONLINE
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MEMBERS, AND THOSE WATCHING ON
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A VERY WARM WELCOME TO YOU.
ALSO, TO THE MEMBERS AND THE
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VISITORS RIGHT HERE AT
THE CHURCH, ALWAYS GOOD TO
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SEE YOU WEEK AFTER WEEK.
VERY EXCITED ABOUT OUR LESSON
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FOR THIS QUARTER
DEALING WITH THE BOOK OF ROMANS.
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WE ACTUALLY STARTED A BRAND-NEW
LESSON QUARTERLY LAST WEEK
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ENTITLED SALVATION BY FAITH
ALONE: THE BOOK OF ROMANS - AND
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TODAY WE'RE ON LESSON #2 IN OUR
STUDY, CALLED THE CONTROVERSY .
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NOW, FOR OUR FRIENDS WHO ARE
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CAN DOWNLOAD LESSON #2 ENTITLED
THE CONTROVERSY AND YOU CAN
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AGAIN, IT'S CALLED
FEAST DAYS AND SABBATHS .
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WELL, BEFORE WE GET TO OUR STUDY
THIS MORNING, I'D LIKE TO INVITE
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OUR SONG LEADERS AND THEY'LL
COME FORWARD AND LEAD US IN
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LIFTING OUR VOICES IN
SONG. >>THANK YOU PASTOR ROSS.
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EVERY WEEK WE SING TOGETHER AS
PART OF OUR WORSHIP TO OUR LORD
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AND SAVIOR. TODAY
WE'RE GOING TO SING ABOUT
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THE MIGHTY POWER OF GOD
- HYMN #88 - WE'RE GOING TO
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SING ALL THREE
VERSES. (PIANO MUSIC)
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>>YOU KNOW, WE CAN TAKE REST AND
ASSURANCE IN THE FACT THAT THERE
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IS NOTHING THAT PASSES ON THIS
EARTH WITHOUT GOD'S PERMISSION.
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THIS IS HIS WORLD - HE CREATED
IT - IT IS STILL HIS WORLD AND
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HE IS ABOUT TO COME AND RESTORE
IT TO ITS PERFECTION, RESTORING
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US TO
PERFECTION TO TAKE US HOME.
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I'M SO GRATEFUL TO
OUR SAVIOR AND OUR LORD.
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AT THIS TIME, PASTOR ROSS
WILL LEAD US IN OPENING PRAYER.
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>>LET US BOW OUR
HEADS FOR PRAYER.
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DEAR FATHER IN HEAVEN, THANK
YOU, ONCE AGAIN, THAT WE ARE
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ABLE TO GATHER TOGETHER AND OPEN
YOUR WORD AND STUDY THIS VERY
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IMPORTANT BOOK - THE BOOK OF
ROMANS - TALKING ABOUT SALVATION
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BY GRACE THROUGH FAITH.
AND WE ASK THE HOLY SPIRIT TO
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COME AND GUIDE OUR HEARTS,
OUR MINDS - SUCH AN IMPORTANT
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SUBJECT, LORD, THAT WE NEED
TO UNDERSTAND AND WE NEED TO BE
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ABLE TO SHARE THESE TRUTHS
WITH OTHERS. SO BLESS OUR TIME
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TOGETHER, FOR WE ASK
THIS IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
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OUR LESSON THIS MORNING IS GOING
TO BE BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR
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DOUG. >>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS.
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AND THANK YOU TO OUR SINGERS AND
OUR SONG LEADERS - AND WELCOME
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EVERYBODY - THOSE HERE -
PART OF OUR REGULAR CLASS.
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WE'RE GLAD TO SEE
EACH OF YOU HERE TODAY.
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AND WE KNOW THAT WE HAVE A FEW
VISITORS TODAY AND A FEW OF OUR
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REGULAR FOLK ARE PROBABLY OVER
AT THE MARANATHA CELEBRATION
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THAT THEY'RE HAVING TODAY.
BUT WE'RE GLAD THAT YOU'RE HERE.
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WE'RE GLAD FOR OUR EXTENDED
CLASS THAT IS WATCHING WITH US.
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WE KNOW THAT WE'VE GOT, NOT ONLY
SOME STUDENTS, WE HAVE SOME OF
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OUR GRANITE BAY MEMBERS WHO ARE
TUNING IN FROM AROUND THE WORLD.
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WE'VE TRIED TO DEVELOP A MEANS
HERE, AT GRANITE BAY, WHERE
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PEOPLE WHO ARE ISOLATED CAN BE
PART OF OUR CHURCH AND IF YOU'D
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LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THAT,
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AND WE'LL BE
HAPPY TO TALK TO YOU.
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WE DON'T WANT FOLKS TO BE
DISCONNECTED AND ISOLATED OUT
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THERE. JUST BEFORE WE GET TO OUR
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LESSON, WHICH IS A GOOD
ONE, ON ROMANS, I WANT TO REMIND
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EVERYBODY THAT WE'RE
HAVING A SPECIAL PROGRAM.
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YOU KNOW, IN THE INTRODUCTION
OF ROMANS, WE TALK A LITTLE BIT
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ABOUT MARTIN LUTHER AND, AS SOME
OF YOU KNOW, OCTOBER 31 IS GOING
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TO BE THE FIVE-HUNDRED-YEAR
ANNIVERSARY FOR THAT PIVOTAL
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POINT WHEN MARTIN LUTHER NAILED
HIS THESES ON THE DOORS OF THE
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WITTENBERG CHURCH AND IT, KIND
OF, CREATED A SHAKING IN THE
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CHRISTIAN WORLD THAT UNRAVELED
INTO THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION.
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WE ARE GOING TO BE DOING A
SPECIAL SERIES RIGHT AFTER THAT
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ANNIVERSARY - AMAZING FACTS
IS GOING TO BE AT THE GENERAL
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CONFERENCE WORSHIP AUDITORIUM;
WE'RE DOING A SPECIAL REVIVAL
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SERIES - IT'S CALLED FOUNDATIONS
OF FAITH , AND IT'LL BE AIRING
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ON MOST OF THE CHANNELS WHERE
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ENCOURAGE YOU TO THINK, NOW,
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ABOUT PLANNING AND JOINING US
FOR THAT FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH .
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WE'RE GOING TO BE GOING
THROUGH SOME OF THE FOUNDATIONAL
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TEACHINGS AND, IF THE
REFORMATION WAS TO CONTINUE
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TODAY, WERE THERE SOME THINGS
THAT THE GREAT REFORMERS MISSED
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THAT MAYBE THE WORLD -
THE CHRISTIAN WORLD - NEEDS TO
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REDISCOVER? WE'LL BE
TALKING ABOUT THOSE ISSUES.
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IT'S NOVEMBER 3 THROUGH 11
- NOVEMBER 3 THROUGH 11 - AND
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PROBABLY ON THIS NETWORK
YOU'RE WATCHING RIGHT NOW.
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WE HOPE THAT YOU'LL PRAY
FOR THAT AND PLAN ON TUNING IN.
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OKAY, WITH THAT LENGTHY
INTRODUCTION, I WANT TO GET TO
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OUR STUDY TODAY,
ON THE BOOK OF ROMANS.
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TODAY WE'RE IN THE SECOND
SECTION - SECOND LESSON - IT'S
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CALLED THE CONTROVERSY .
AND WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE AND
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THE MEMORY VERSE COMES FROM
JOHN - THE GOSPEL OF JOHN - 1:17
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- JOHN 1:17 - AND WE INVITE YOU
TO SAY THIS TOGETHER. YOU READY?
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"FOR THE LAW WAS GIVEN THROUGH
MOSES, BUT GRACE AND TRUTH CAME
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THROUGH JESUS CHRIST."
NOW - AND THAT'S NOT A HARD
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VERSE TO MEMORIZE, IS IT?
THIS LESSON, TODAY, IS NOT GOING
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TO BE DELVING DEEPLY
INTO THE BOOK OF ROMANS.
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WHAT WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING
ABOUT IS WHY WAS THE BOOK OF
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ROMANS WRITTEN AND
WHO IS IT WRITTEN TO?
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YOU REALLY NEED TO UNDERSTAND
THAT BECAUSE THEN, AS YOU GO
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THROUGH THE VARIOUS CHAPTERS IN
THE BOOK OF ROMANS, YOU'LL SAY,
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'AH, NOW I KNOW WHY HE SAID
THAT.' TURN WITH ME TO THE BOOK
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OF HEBREWS - HEBREWS CHAPTER
11 AND, IF YOU GO TO HEBREWS 11
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AND, OH, LET'S SEE,
YOU CAN START IN VERSE 37.
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PAUL, HERE, IS TALKING ABOUT THE
GREAT HEROES OF THE FAITH, ALL
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THROUGH HEBREWS 11. HE
ITEMIZES THESE GREAT HEROES
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OF FAITH AND THEN HE, SORT OF,
SUMMARIZES THAT DISCOURSE AND HE
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SAYS, "THERE WERE STONED, THEY
WERE SAWN IN TWO, WERE TEMPTED,
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WERE SLAIN WITH THE
SWORD. THEY WANDERED ABOUT IN
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SHEEPSKINS AND GOATSKINS, BEING
DESTITUTE, AFFLICTED, TORMENTED
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- OF WHOM THE WORLD WAS NOT
WORTHY. THEY WANDERED IN DESERTS
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AND MOUNTAINS, IN DENS AND CAVES
OF THE EARTH. AND ALL THESE,
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HAVING OBTAINED A GOOD
TESTIMONY THROUGH FAITH, DID NOT
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RECEIVE THE PROMISE," - ALL
THESE GREAT HEROES OF FAITH AND
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HE ITEMIZES - HE TALKS ABOUT
GIDEON AND HE TALKS ABOUT ELIJAH
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AND HE TALKS
ABOUT SARAH AND ABRAHAM.
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HE SAID, 'THEY HAD A GREAT
TESTIMONY, BUT THEY DID NOT
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RECEIVE THE PROMISE - "GOD
HAVING PROVIDED SOMETHING BETTER
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FOR US," - NOW, HE
SAYS, 'THEY' AND 'US'.
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WHO'S THE 'THEY' AND THE
'US' THAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT?
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THE PEOPLE WHO LIVED BEFORE
CHRIST'S SACRIFICE AND US,
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WHO HAVE NOW SEEN THE SACRIFICE.
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THERE IS A - SOMETHING OF A RIFT
THAT HAPPENS IN THE BIBLE, IN
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THAT EVERYTHING YOU READ BEFORE
THE NEW TESTAMENT, THEY ARE
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LOOKING FORWARD IN FAITH
TO THE COMING OF THE MESSIAH.
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THEN, IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, -
'RIFT' IS NOT THE RIGHT WORD -
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THERE'S A DIVISION, I SHOULD SAY
- IN THE NEW TESTAMENT - WORD,
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TESTAMENT, COVENANT - SAME WORD
- YOU SEE THE REALITY - IT TALKS
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ABOUT THE ADVENT OR THE FIRST
COMING OF JESUS - HIS BIRTH.
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VERY FIRST THINGS YOU READ
IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, IT SAYS,
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'THIS IS THE
GENEALOGY OF JESUS CHRIST'.
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IT TELLS ABOUT HIS HERITAGE AND
HOW HE CAME AND HIS BIRTH, AND
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YOU GET THE DETAILS ON HIS BIRTH
IN MATTHEW AND LUKE; MARK AND
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JOHN DON'T REALLY TALK
ABOUT THAT, THEY TALK ABOUT HIS
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MINISTRY, BUT YOU SEE THAT
SOME - THERE'S SOMETHING THAT
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HAPPENS. NOW, WHAT'S GOING
ON? GO TO THE BOOK OF ROMANS, WE
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WILL READ JUST A
LITTLE BIT OF ROMANS TODAY.
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ROMANS CHAPTER 1 AND IT SAYS,
"PAUL," - IT INTRODUCES THE
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AUTHOR - "A BONDSERVANT OF JESUS
CHRIST, CALLED TO BE AN APOSTLE,
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SEPARATED TO THE GOSPEL OF GOD"
- AND HE TALKS A LITTLE ABOUT
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THE GOSPEL - "WHICH HE PROMISED
BEFORE THROUGH HIS PROPHETS" -
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BEFORE THE ADVENT OF JESUS - "IN
THE HOLY SCRIPTURES, CONCERNING
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HIS SON JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD,
WHO WAS BORN OF THE SEED OF
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DAVID" - AND THAT'S THERE
IN MATTHEW - "ACCORDING TO THE
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FLESH, AND DECLARED TO BE THE
SON OF GOD WITH POWER ACCORDING
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TO THE SPIRIT" - THAT'S HOW YOU
BEGIN THE GOSPEL OF JOHN - "OF
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HOLINESS, BY THE
RESURRECTION FROM THE DEAD."
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- ALL THE GOSPELS END WITH THAT
- "THROUGH HIM WE HAVE RECEIVED
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GRACE AND APOSTLESHIP FOR
OBEDIENCE TO THE FAITH AMONG ALL
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NATIONS" - NOW CATCH THAT
PHRASE, THERE - "FOR HIS NAME,"
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- BECAUSE SOME OF THE EARLY
CHRISTIANS, THAT WERE ALL JEWS,
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BELIEVED THAT THE GOSPEL
WAS REALLY FOR THE JEWS, AND SO,
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WHEN THEY WENT TO ROME, THE
EARLY CHRISTIANS, WE LEARN, WENT
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TO ROME AND THEY BEGAN TO TELL
THE OTHER JEWS IN ROME ABOUT
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JESUS, GRADUALLY THE GOSPEL
THEN SEEPED INTO THE GENTILES
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AND THE JEWS WERE SAYING, 'WELL,
YOU NEED TO KEEP ALL OF THE
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JEWISH LAWS' OR 'YOU ARE
SECOND-CLASS CHRISTIANS BECAUSE
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IF WE ARE A JEWISH CHRISTIAN, WE
REALLY HAVE, SORT OF, SUPERIOR
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PRIVILEGES TO THE GOSPEL.'
NOW, CAN YOU UNDERSTAND THAT?
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I MEAN, EVEN PAUL SAID, 'TO THE
JEW FIRST.' JESUS SAID TO THE
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WOMAN AT THE WELL - SHE SAID,
'SHOULD WE WORSHIP ON MOUNT
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GERIZIM? AND YOU
SAY IT'S IN JERUSALEM'
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- AND JESUS SAID TO HER,
'SALVATION IS OF THE JEWS.'
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THAT'S WHAT HE SAID.
AND SO, THERE WAS THIS BIG
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DISPUTE THAT WAS HAPPENING IN
ROME, AMONG THE BELIEVERS THERE,
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THAT PAUL NEEDED TO SETTLE -
AND THE WAY HE SETTLES IT, HE
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WRITES THE BOOK OF ROMANS.
AND, IN THE BOOK OF ROMANS, HE
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LAYS OUT THE GOSPEL AND THAT
THE GOSPEL IS FOR EVERYBODY.
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HE EXPLAINS THE DIFFERENCES
BETWEEN THE OLD COVENANT AND THE
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NEW COVENANT AND HE TALKS,
AT LENGTH, ABOUT THE JEW AND THE
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GENTILE, AND HE EXPLAINS THAT
ALL OF US ARE RELATED TO ADAM,
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JESUS BEING THE SECOND
ADAM - ALL THAT'S IN ROMANS.
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AND SO, WHEN YOU UNDERSTAND THE
BACKGROUND, THE BOOK OF ROMANS
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REALLY COMES ALIVE
AND SO IT'S VERY HELPFUL.
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AND SO, IF YOU GO TO THE FIRST
SECTION - UNDER SUNDAY - AND
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WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT A
BETTER COVENANT - AND, AS YOU'RE
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FINDING THAT, YOU KNOW, I
THOUGHT I'D JUST READ SOMETHING
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TO YOU FROM MARTIN
LUTHER'S COMMENTARY ON ROMANS.
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WE'RE, AS I MENTIONED LAST WEEK,
WE ARE REALLY DELVING INTO HOLY
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GROUND - ALL OF THE BIBLE IS
HOLY - BUT WHEN YOU GET INTO THE
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BOOK OF ROMANS, YOU'VE REALLY
GOT - THE GOSPEL IS CONSOLIDATED
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HERE - IT'S CONCENTRATED - IT
IS THE CREAM OF THE MILK OF THE
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WORD, WHEN YOU GET INTO ROMANS.
HERE'S WHAT MARTIN LUTHER SAID
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ABOUT IT IN HIS INTRODUCTION
TO HIS COMMENTARY ON ROMANS.
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OF COURSE, THIS IS THE ENGLISH
TRANSLATION, BECAUSE HE WROTE IT
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IN GERMAN: "THE EPISTLE IS
REALLY THE CHIEF PART OF THE NEW
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TESTAMENT, AND THE VERY PUREST
GOSPEL, AND IS WORTHY THAT NOT
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ONLY EVERY CHRISTIAN SHOULD KNOW
IT WORD FOR WORD" - DO YOU KNOW
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THE BOOK OF ROMANS WORD FOR
WORD? - "EVERY CHRISTIAN SHOULD
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KNOW IT WORD FOR WORD, BY HEART,
BUT OCCUPY HIMSELF WITH IT EVERY
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DAY, AS THE DAILY
BREAD OF THE SOUL."
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SO HOW DID MARTIN LUTHER
FEEL ABOUT THE BOOK OF ROMANS?
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IT'S THE PUREST GOSPEL - YOU
OUGHT TO KNOW IT WORD BY WORD.
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I'M TRYING TO REMEMBER WHETHER
IT WAS POLYCARP OR CLEMENT, BUT
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ONE OF THE EARLY CHURCH FATHERS
HAD THE BOOK OF ROMANS READ TO
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HIM EVERY WEEK - THE ENTIRE
BOOK - THEY THOUGHT IT WAS THAT
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IMPORTANT. AND SO, I
BET I MADE YOU ALL SIT
00:14:19.59\00:14:22.92
UP A LITTLE MORE, RIGHT NOW,
WITH THAT INTRODUCTION, RIGHT?
00:14:22.96\00:14:25.99
'WOW, I BETTER PAY ATTENTION TO
THIS.' THEY BELIEVED THAT IT WAS
00:14:26.03\00:14:29.93
- THE ESSENCE OF THE
GOSPEL WAS FOUND IN THIS BOOK.
00:14:29.96\00:14:32.63
NOW, HE'S WRITING THE
BOOK BECAUSE THERE'S A
00:14:32.67\00:14:36.27
MISUNDERSTANDING OF THE COVENANT
AND WHO THE GOSPEL IS FOR.
00:14:36.30\00:14:41.68
UNDER THE SECTION A BETTER
COVENANT , I'M GOING TO READ TO
00:14:41.71\00:14:45.15
YOU A FEW STATEMENTS - GO
TO HEBREWS CHAPTER 8, VERSE 6 -
00:14:45.18\00:14:49.75
HEBREWS 8, VERSE 6 - "BUT NOW
HE HAS OBTAINED A MORE EXCELLENT
00:14:49.78\00:14:55.36
MINISTRY, INASMUCH AS HE IS ALSO
MEDIATOR OF A BETTER COVENANT,"
00:14:55.39\00:15:01.40
- ALRIGHT, SO WHAT
COVENANTS DO WE HAVE?
00:15:01.43\00:15:04.93
YOUR BIBLE'S DIVIDED
IN TWO PRINCIPLE SECTIONS.
00:15:04.97\00:15:07.04
WHAT ARE THEY
CALLED? OLD AND NEW WHAT?
00:15:07.07\00:15:10.37
>>TESTAMENT. >>TESTAMENT.
00:15:10.41\00:15:11.87
THE WORD 'TESTAMENT' AND THE
WORD 'COVENANT' - SAME THING.
00:15:11.91\00:15:14.88
SO YOU'VE GOT THE OLD AND THE
NEW COVENANT - USUALLY I DON'T
00:15:14.91\00:15:16.95
SAY IT THAT WAY. IF I
TELL YOU, 'WE'RE GOING TO
00:15:16.98\00:15:18.65
TURN TO THE OLD COVENANT, NOW',
YOU PROBABLY THINK WE'RE GOING
00:15:18.68\00:15:21.32
TO, LIKE, YOU KNOW, EXODUS.
IF I SAY, 'NOW, LET'S GO TO THE
00:15:21.35\00:15:24.79
NEW COVENANT', YOU WOULDN'T KNOW
WHETHER OR NOT TO GO TO JEREMIAH
00:15:24.82\00:15:27.36
OR HEBREWS, BUT THE NEW
COVENANT/OLD COVENANT - NEW
00:15:27.39\00:15:31.56
TESTAMENT/OLD TESTAMENT - THOSE
REALLY MEAN THE SAME THING.
00:15:31.59\00:15:35.33
AND SO, WHEN IT SAYS HE'S A
MEDIATOR OF A BETTER COVENANT -
00:15:35.36\00:15:39.13
BETTER THAN WHAT? THAN
THE OLD. WHO IS THE HE?
00:15:39.17\00:15:42.60
JESUS - MEDIATOR OF A BETTER
COVENANT, BECAUSE HE IS THE HIGH
00:15:42.64\00:15:47.64
PRIEST, HE IS THE
SACRIFICE, AND IT'S HIS BLOOD.
00:15:47.68\00:15:51.65
IT'S NOT A MARBLE BUILDING
THAT WAS TORN DOWN, IT'S NOT THE
00:15:51.68\00:15:55.25
BLOOD OF A CALF OR A GOAT OR A
SHEEP, AND IT'S NOT THE SONS OF
00:15:55.28\00:15:59.65
LEVI, WHO WERE
OFTEN FLAWED PEOPLE.
00:15:59.69\00:16:02.66
AND SO, THAT'S WHY
IT'S A BETTER COVENANT.
00:16:02.69\00:16:04.96
AND IT'S BASED ON, THE
BIBLE SAYS, BETTER PROMISES.
00:16:04.99\00:16:07.30
WE'LL GET TO
THAT IN JUST A MINUTE.
00:16:07.36\00:16:09.76
IF YOU LOOK - NOW, IF I WERE TO
ASK YOU - OKAY, LET ME JUST TAKE
00:16:09.80\00:16:14.24
MY BIBLE HERE AND SEE IF I CAN
ILLUSTRATE THIS AND BE SOMEWHAT
00:16:14.27\00:16:16.94
- ALRIGHT, THAT'S CLOSE ENOUGH -
NEW TESTAMENT - OLD TESTAMENT -
00:16:16.97\00:16:24.05
DO YOU SEE A DIFFERENCE?
NOW, MY BIBLE'S GOT SOME, YOU
00:16:24.08\00:16:27.35
KNOW, NOTES AND COMMENTARY
IN THE BEGINNING - IT'S GOT SOME
00:16:27.38\00:16:29.58
IN THE END, SO IT
SORT OF EVENS OUT.
00:16:29.62\00:16:31.45
BUT, IF YOU TAKE A BIBLE WITHOUT
ANY COMMENTARY AND NOTES AND
00:16:31.49\00:16:33.36
CONCORDANCE, YOU'RE GOING TO
SEE ABOUT THREE QUARTERS OF THE
00:16:33.39\00:16:36.79
BIBLE IS OLD TESTAMENT,
ONE QUARTER IS NEW TESTAMENT.
00:16:36.83\00:16:41.06
SO WHERE DO YOU READ THE NEW
COVENANT? YOU FIND IT FIRST IN
00:16:41.10\00:16:49.14
THE OLD TESTAMENT. THAT
KIND OF SURPRISES PEOPLE.
00:16:49.17\00:16:52.64
LET ME READ IT TO YOU - JEREMIAH
31:31 - YOU ACTUALLY FIND IT A
00:16:52.67\00:16:55.34
FEW PLACES IN THE OLD TESTAMENT.
JEREMIAH - YOU CAN REMEMBER THAT
00:16:55.38\00:16:59.95
- JEREMIAH 31:31 - IT'S
LIKE THE DAYS IN A MONTH, OKAY?
00:17:00.05\00:17:04.72
"'BEHOLD, THE DAYS ARE COMING,'
SAYS THE LORD, 'WHEN I WILL MAKE
00:17:04.75\00:17:08.59
A NEW COVENANT WITH THE HOUSE
OF ISRAEL AND WITH THE HOUSE OF
00:17:08.62\00:17:11.49
JUDAH'" - A COUPLE OF THINGS I
WANT YOU TO NOTICE: FIRST OF ALL
00:17:11.53\00:17:13.56
HE SAYS 'A NEW COVENANT' - HE
SAYS THESE AREN'T THE DAYS YET,
00:17:13.60\00:17:16.36
BUT THEY'RE COMING. HE'S
PROPHESYING WHEN THE MESSIAH
00:17:16.40\00:17:18.47
WOULD COME, OKAY? WHO DOES
HE MAKE THE NEW COVENANT WITH?
00:17:18.50\00:17:23.84
YOU KNOW, A LOT OF
PEOPLE OUT THERE THAT ARE
00:17:23.87\00:17:26.04
DISPENSATIONALISTS BELIEVE THAT
THE NEW COVENANT IS MADE WITH
00:17:26.07\00:17:28.94
GENTILES AND I'VE MET PEOPLE,
THEY SAY, 'WELL, YOU KNOW, THE
00:17:28.98\00:17:34.48
OLD COVENANT WAS FOR THE JEWS,
THE NEW COVENANT IS FOR THE
00:17:34.52\00:17:37.19
GENTILES.' IT SEEMS INTUITIVE
YOU WOULD THINK THAT, BUT IT'S
00:17:37.22\00:17:41.66
NOT TRUE. BECAUSE
WHEN - WE JUST READ, THE
00:17:41.69\00:17:44.89
NEW COVENANT IS NOT MADE WITH
GENTILES, IT'S MADE WITH JEWS.
00:17:44.93\00:17:48.93
IN FACT, I CHALLENGE YOU TO SHOW
ME WHERE IN THE BIBLE IT SAYS
00:17:48.96\00:17:52.03
GOD HAS MADE A
COVENANT WITH THE GENTILES.
00:17:52.07\00:17:56.67
NOW, THERE ARE PROMISES TO THE
GENTILES, BUT YOU DON'T SEE A
00:17:56.71\00:17:58.61
COVENANT. AND SO, IN
ORDER FOR ANY GENTILE
00:17:58.64\00:18:03.88
TO BE SAVED, HE IS GRAFTED
IN, PAUL SAYS IN ROMANS, HE IS
00:18:03.91\00:18:08.18
GRAFTED INTO THE COVENANT
THAT GOD MADE WITH THE JEWS.
00:18:08.22\00:18:11.79
SO YOU CAN UNDERSTAND WHY THE
JEWS WOULD GO TO THE GENTILES IN
00:18:11.82\00:18:15.39
ROME AND SAY, 'LOOK, ONLY
WAY YOU'RE GETTING TO HEAVEN IS
00:18:15.42\00:18:18.76
THROUGH THE JEWISH BIBLE AND
THROUGH THE JEWISH COVENANT, AND
00:18:18.79\00:18:23.57
SO YOU'VE GOT TO KEEP THE JEWISH
FEASTS.' AND SO THERE WAS A
00:18:23.60\00:18:26.63
GREAT DEAL OF CONFUSION.
PAUL HAD TO CLARIFY ALL THAT AND
00:18:26.67\00:18:29.40
WE'RE GETTING INTO THAT
NOW. SO DON'T MISS THAT.
00:18:29.44\00:18:32.11
WHO DOES HE MAKE
THE COVENANT WITH?
00:18:32.14\00:18:33.34
'I WILL MAKE A COVENANT WITH THE
HOUSE OF ISRAEL AND THE HOUSE OF
00:18:33.38\00:18:36.44
JUDAH.' GO TO VERSE 33, "'BUT
THIS IS THE COVENANT I WILL MAKE
00:18:36.48\00:18:41.25
WITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL AFTER
THOSE DAYS,'" - HE SAID, 'NOT
00:18:41.28\00:18:43.52
YET, BUT IT'S COMING - "SAYS
THE LORD: 'I WILL PUT MY LAW IN
00:18:43.55\00:18:47.62
THEIR MINDS, AND WRITE IT
ON THEIR HEARTS; AND I SHALL BE
00:18:47.66\00:18:51.33
THEIR GOD AND THEY SHALL BE
MY PEOPLE.'" ALRIGHT, TYPICALLY
00:18:51.36\00:18:54.63
WHEN YOU'RE MAKING A COVENANT
WITH PEOPLE - I'M INVOLVED IN
00:18:54.66\00:18:57.30
DOING A CONTRACT WITH SOMEBODY
RIGHT NOW - I'M NOT GOING TO
00:18:57.33\00:19:00.47
TELL YOU ABOUT IT, BUT THIS
IS HOW THE CONTRACT WORKS: THIS
00:19:00.50\00:19:04.37
PERSON E-MAILED ME AND THEY
SAID, 'FIRST LET'S GET A VERBAL
00:19:04.41\00:19:06.57
AGREEMENT BETWEEN BOTH PARTIES.
00:19:06.61\00:19:09.18
THEY SAID, 'NO SENSE WRITING IT
ALL UP - IT'S A LOT OF WORK - IF
00:19:09.21\00:19:11.18
YOU DON'T HAVE, AT LEAST, A
VERBAL AGREEMENT OF WHAT WE'RE
00:19:11.21\00:19:12.88
GOING TO WRITE UP.' AND YOU
MIGHT EVEN START WITH, WHAT THEY
00:19:12.91\00:19:15.62
CALL, AN M.O.U - A
MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING.
00:19:15.65\00:19:18.72
THAT MEANS, HERE'S THE COVENANT
TERMS - HERE'S THE TERMS, YOU
00:19:18.75\00:19:21.49
AGREE TO THE TERMS -
THEN YOU GET THE LAWYERS.
00:19:21.52\00:19:23.76
THEY'RE EXPENSIVE SO YOU DON'T
GET THEM UNTIL THE LAST THING.
00:19:23.79\00:19:25.89
THEN THEY WRITE UP THE CONTRACT
AND, IF THERE'S TWO PARTIES
00:19:25.93\00:19:30.03
INVOLVED, YOU HAVE AT
LEAST TWO PARTIES SIGN IT.
00:19:30.07\00:19:33.97
NOW, IF FOR SOME REASON I SAID,
'LOOK, THIS IS NOT WORKING OUT.
00:19:34.00\00:19:36.97
I DON'T WANT TO GO BY THIS
COVENANT ANYMORE.' AND THEY SAY,
00:19:37.01\00:19:39.24
'YOU'RE RIGHT, IT
ISN'T WORKING OUT.
00:19:39.27\00:19:40.48
I DON'T WANT TO GO BY IT ANYMORE
EITHER.' I'D SAY, 'OKAY, LOOK,
00:19:40.51\00:19:42.31
IF I'M GOING TO TEAR UP
MINE, YOU NEED TO TEAR UP YOURS,
00:19:42.34\00:19:45.38
BECAUSE IF I TEAR UP MINE
AND YOU'VE STILL GOT YOURS, I'M
00:19:45.41\00:19:47.18
STILL ACCOUNTABLE BECAUSE YOU'VE
GOT A WRITTEN DOCUMENT THAT
00:19:47.22\00:19:49.58
PROVES I MADE AN AGREEMENT.
BUT I'LL TEAR UP MINE, YOU TEAR
00:19:49.62\00:19:52.72
UP YOURS - THAT'S
GONE.' OKAY? WHEN WAS THE OLD
00:19:52.75\00:19:59.66
COVENANT TORN UP? DO YOU
SEE ANY TEARING HAPPENING
00:19:59.69\00:20:05.10
AROUND THE TIME OF
THE CROSS? WHAT GETS TORN?
00:20:05.13\00:20:09.44
>>THE VEIL. >>WHEN JESUS DIES,
00:20:09.47\00:20:11.77
THE VEIL IS TORN. IS
IT TORN BY MAN OR BY GOD?
00:20:11.81\00:20:16.98
BY GOD - IT'S IN THE
TEMPLE - IT'S IN GOD'S HOUSE.
00:20:17.01\00:20:19.65
AND, DURING THE TRIAL, THE
HIGH PRIEST TORE HIS GARMENTS.
00:20:19.68\00:20:24.22
THOSE WERE THE ROBES THAT MAN
WORE, AND IT WAS DONE BY MAN.
00:20:24.25\00:20:29.19
SO YOU HAVE A NEW PRIESTHOOD AND
A NEW TEMPLE - THE OLD IS TORN.
00:20:29.22\00:20:34.30
IT IS PASSED AWAY,
HEBREWS SAID. WE ARE NOT UNDER
00:20:34.36\00:20:37.23
THE OLD COVENANT. WE
DO NOT SACRIFICE LAMBS.
00:20:37.27\00:20:40.64
WE DO NOT KEEP THE
CEREMONIAL PARTS OF THE LAW.
00:20:40.67\00:20:44.64
THE TEN COMMANDMENT PART OF THE
LAW IS ETERNAL IN NATURE - IT'S
00:20:44.67\00:20:48.98
IN THE NEW AND
THE OLD TESTAMENTS.
00:20:49.01\00:20:50.91
THE CEREMONIAL PARTS OF THE LAW
BEGAN WITH THE COVENANT GOD MADE
00:20:50.95\00:20:53.95
WITH ABRAHAM -
WITH CIRCUMCISION.
00:20:53.98\00:20:56.22
IT WAS EXPANDED WITH THE EXODUS
- WITH THE JEWISH FEASTS - THOSE
00:20:56.25\00:21:00.16
THINGS WERE NAILED TO THE CROSS.
WE'RE GOING TO GET TO THAT
00:21:00.19\00:21:02.22
IN JUST A MINUTE HERE. SO,
HE SAID, "I WILL PUT MY LAW
00:21:02.26\00:21:05.96
IN THEIR MINDS," - SO, IS THE
NEW COVENANT A DIFFERENT LAW?
00:21:05.99\00:21:10.90
SAME LAW, DIFFERENT PLACE.
SAME LAW - BETTER PROMISES.
00:21:10.93\00:21:16.71
THE OLD PROMISE, GOD GAVE THE
TEN COMMANDMENTS AND THE PEOPLE
00:21:16.74\00:21:19.04
SAID, 'ALL THAT THE LORD HAS
SAID, WE PROMISE WE WILL DO.'
00:21:19.07\00:21:22.28
THEY SAID, 'WE WILL DO IT.' IT'S
BASED ON THEIR PROMISES - BAD
00:21:22.31\00:21:24.98
PROMISES - NEW COVENANT, GOD
SAYS, 'I WILL' - OLD COVENANT,
00:21:25.01\00:21:29.38
THE PEOPLE SAID, 'WE WILL' -
NEW COVENANT, GOD SAYS, 'IT'S MY
00:21:29.42\00:21:32.62
PROMISE, WHICH IS
BETTER THAN A HUMAN PROMISE.
00:21:32.65\00:21:34.92
I WILL WRITE MY LAW IN
YOUR HEART.' SO ITS BASED ON HIS
00:21:34.96\00:21:38.36
PROMISE. THE LAW IS THE SAME.
YOU SEE, THE PROBLEM IS WE'VE
00:21:38.39\00:21:41.53
SINNED AND BROKEN GOD'S LAW.
SO GOD DOESN'T SAY, 'I'LL MAKE
00:21:41.56\00:21:43.70
A NEW COVENANT - I'M GOING TO
THROW OUT THE LAW.' THAT DOESN'T
00:21:43.73\00:21:46.60
SOLVE OUR PROBLEM,
WE'VE STILL GOT SIN.
00:21:46.63\00:21:49.00
THE NEW COVENANT IS, 'I'M GOING
TO HELP YOU KEEP THE LAW BY
00:21:49.04\00:21:52.51
PUTTING IT IN YOUR HEART.'
AND SO YOU KEEP IT THROUGH LOVE.
00:21:52.54\00:21:56.75
'I'LL PUT MY LAW IN THEIR MINDS
AND WRITE THEM IN THEIR HEARTS.
00:21:56.78\00:22:00.15
I WILL BE THEIR GOD AND THEY
WILL BE MY PEOPLE.' HERE'S THE
00:22:00.18\00:22:02.82
OTHER PLACE WHERE YOU FIND
THE NEW COVENANT IN THE OLD
00:22:02.85\00:22:05.65
TESTAMENT - GO TO EZEKIEL
36:25 - THIS IS ALL JUST REALLY
00:22:05.69\00:22:10.59
IMPORTANT FOUNDATION TO
UNDERSTAND ROMANS - EZEKIEL
00:22:10.63\00:22:13.60
36:25 - AND IN A MINUTE
SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ, FOR ME,
00:22:13.63\00:22:16.70
REVELATION 14:12, OKAY? IT
SAYS, "THEN I WILL SPRINKLE
00:22:16.73\00:22:21.80
CLEAN WATER ON YOU, AND YOU
SHALL BE CLEAN; I WILL CLEANSE
00:22:21.84\00:22:24.27
YOU FROM ALL YOUR FILTHINESS
AND FROM ALL YOUR IDOLS.
00:22:24.31\00:22:27.01
I WILL GIVE YOU" - BY THE
WAY, IS IDOLATRY ONE OF THE TEN
00:22:27.04\00:22:29.71
COMMANDMENTS? - "I
WILL GIVE YOU A NEW HEART
00:22:29.74\00:22:32.55
AND PUT A NEW SPIRIT WITHIN YOU;
I WILL TAKE THE HEART OF STONE
00:22:32.58\00:22:36.52
OUT OF YOUR FLESH AND
GIVE YOU A HEART OF FLESH.
00:22:36.55\00:22:38.49
I WILL PUT MY SPIRIT WITHIN YOU
AND CAUSE YOU" - I WILL CAUSE
00:22:38.52\00:22:42.12
YOU - "TO WALK IN MY STATUTES,"
- THE COMMANDMENTS - "AND YOU
00:22:42.16\00:22:45.56
WILL KEEP MY
JUDGMENTS AND DO THEM."
00:22:45.59\00:22:47.76
YOU SEE THIS NEW
COVENANT THERE? SAME PRINCIPLE.
00:22:47.76\00:22:50.93
NOW, I'M GOING TO, HOPEFULLY,
NOT CONFUSE YOU, BUT I PROBABLY
00:22:50.97\00:22:53.54
WILL. SO WHEN DID
PEOPLE START GETTING
00:22:53.57\00:22:56.24
SAVED UNDER THE NEW COVENANT,
IN THE NEW TESTAMENT OR
00:22:56.27\00:23:00.94
THE OLD TESTAMENT?
YOU WOULD THINK THEY START
00:23:00.98\00:23:07.05
GETTING SAVED UNDER THE NEW
COVENANT IN THE NEW TESTAMENT.
00:23:07.08\00:23:09.82
NO, EVERYBODY IS SAVED UNDER THE
NEW COVENANT, AND IT STARTS IN
00:23:09.85\00:23:14.52
THE OLD TESTAMENT, BECAUSE YOU
ARE NOT SAVED ON YOUR PROMISES
00:23:14.56\00:23:19.29
AND YOUR WORKS, YOU ARE SAVED ON
FAITH OF HIS PUTTING THE LAW IN
00:23:19.33\00:23:23.33
YOUR HEART. DID ABRAHAM KEEP THE
LAW OF GOD TO SAVE HIMSELF, OR
00:23:23.37\00:23:28.34
BECAUSE OF LOVE? DIDN'T MOSES
SAY, IN THE OLD COVENANT, 'I
00:23:28.37\00:23:33.58
COMMAND YOU, TODAY, TO
LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD'?
00:23:33.61\00:23:36.78
ISN'T THAT THE NEW
COVENANT WRITTEN IN THE HEART?
00:23:36.81\00:23:39.48
IN FACT, IN THE TEN
COMMANDMENTS, DO YOU FIND THE
00:23:39.51\00:23:41.68
WORDS, 'SHOWING MERCY UNTO
THOUSANDS OF THEM THAT LOVE ME
00:23:41.72\00:23:46.09
AND KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS'?
ISN'T THAT RIGHT IN
00:23:46.12\00:23:48.49
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS?
THE KEY'S RIGHT THERE.
00:23:48.52\00:23:51.79
LOVE ME AND
KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS.
00:23:51.83\00:23:53.93
AND SO, WHEN THE LOVE OF GOD
IS SHED ABROAD IN OUR HEARTS, -
00:23:53.96\00:23:58.03
JESUS SAID, 'IF YOU LOVE ME,
KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS.' THE BIBLE
00:23:58.07\00:24:01.10
SAYS, 'HEREIN IS THE
LOVE OF GOD, THAT WE KEEP HIS
00:24:01.14\00:24:04.97
COMMANDMENTS AND THEY ARE NOT A
BURDEN.' AND SO, YOU DO FIND THE
00:24:05.01\00:24:10.38
OLD COVENANT WHERE THE PEOPLE
SAID, 'WE'LL BE YOUR PEOPLE',
00:24:10.41\00:24:13.18
BUT NO ONE WAS REALLY SAVED
UNDER THEIR PROMISES TO OBEY.
00:24:13.21\00:24:17.32
WE'RE SAVED BASED ON GOD'S
PROMISE TO WRITE HIS LAW ON OUR
00:24:17.35\00:24:20.12
HEART. THE
SACRIFICE OF JESUS DOES NOT
00:24:20.16\00:24:22.69
HAPPEN UNTIL THE
NEW TESTAMENT, RIGHT?
00:24:22.72\00:24:26.66
IT BECOMES A REALITY THERE.
JUST LOOK AT IT THIS WAY: THE
00:24:26.70\00:24:29.56
PEOPLE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT
WERE SAVED BY THE NEW COVENANT,
00:24:29.60\00:24:32.33
LOOKING FORWARD IN FAITH,
TO WHEN THE MESSIAH WOULD COME.
00:24:32.37\00:24:37.21
THE PEOPLE IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
WERE SAVED BY THE NEW COVENANT,
00:24:37.24\00:24:41.38
SEEING THE REALITY - BUT
THEY'RE SAVED BY FAITH TOO.
00:24:41.41\00:24:44.58
YOU AND I ARE SAVED BY FAITH
LOOKING BACK AT THE CROSS, BUT
00:24:44.61\00:24:47.48
EVERYONE IS SAVED BY THE
CROSS. NOBODY GOT TO HEAVEN
00:24:47.52\00:24:49.92
BY THEIR WORKS. SO, IS
IT STILL IMPORTANT, SINCE
00:24:49.95\00:24:54.39
WE'RE UNDER THE NEW COVENANT,
TO KEEP THE TEN COMMANDMENTS?
00:24:54.42\00:24:58.69
LET'S LOOK AT A FEW EXAMPLES: GO
AHEAD, DAN, WHY DON'T YOU READ
00:24:58.73\00:25:01.03
YOURS FOR US? >>"HERE
IS THE PATIENCE OF THE
00:25:01.06\00:25:03.33
SAINTS; HERE ARE THOSE WHO
KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD
00:25:03.37\00:25:06.90
AND THE FAITH OF
JESUS." >>NOW, WOULD YOU AGREE
00:25:06.94\00:25:09.50
REVELATION 14 IS
TALKING ABOUT THE LAST DAYS?
00:25:09.54\00:25:12.97
IF YOU READ THE NEXT FEW VERSES
IN REVELATION 14, IT SAYS, 'AND
00:25:13.01\00:25:15.84
I SAW ONE LIKE THE SON OF MAN
COMING ON THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN'
00:25:15.88\00:25:20.28
JUST A FEW VERSES LATER. SO
IT'S OBVIOUSLY IN THE CONTEXT
00:25:20.32\00:25:22.55
OF JUST BEFORE THE SECOND
COMING, HE SAYS, 'HERE YOU'VE
00:25:22.58\00:25:25.69
GOT - ONE GROUP KEEPS THE
LAWS OF THE BEAST - IT'S GOT
00:25:25.72\00:25:28.29
THE MARK OF THE BEAST.
ANOTHER PERSON KEEPS THE
00:25:28.32\00:25:30.13
COMMANDMENTS OF GOD - THEY'VE
GOT THE SEAL OF GOD AND THEY'RE
00:25:30.16\00:25:33.26
SAVED.' IT'S REALLY CLEAR
IN REVELATION. LET ME GIVE YOU
00:25:33.29\00:25:35.70
ANOTHER ONE - REVELATION 12:17,
"AND THE DRAGON" - WHO IS THAT?
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>>SATAN. >>"WAS ENRAGED WITH THE
00:25:39.90\00:25:42.17
WOMAN," - WHO'S THE
WOMAN? >>THE CHURCH.
00:25:42.20\00:25:44.74
>>IT MUST BE THE TRUE CHURCH,
BECAUSE SHE'S CLOTHED WITH LIGHT
00:25:44.77\00:25:48.08
- "AND HE WENT TO MAKE WAR"
- YOU'VE HEARD OF THE BATTLE OF
00:25:48.11\00:25:50.58
ARMAGEDDON - "WITH THE
REMNANT OF HER OFFSPRING," - THE
00:25:50.61\00:25:54.82
REMAINDER OF HER SEED - THE
REMAINDER IS THE REMNANT OF THE
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LAST DAYS. TWO GREAT
CHARACTERISTICS - "WHO KEEP THE
00:25:58.39\00:26:01.26
COMMANDMENTS OF GOD AND HAVE
THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS CHRIST."
00:26:01.29\00:26:05.53
SO THE VERY FACT THE DEVIL
IS ANGRY WITH THOSE WHO KEEP THE
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COMMANDMENTS
MEANS IT'S A GOOD THING.
00:26:07.40\00:26:10.20
OBVIOUSLY, THE DEVIL'S NOT
GOING TO ENCOURAGE YOU TO OBEY.
00:26:10.23\00:26:13.40
BUT TWO THINGS: SHE'S GOT
THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS -
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COMMANDMENTS OF GOD
AND THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS.
00:26:17.61\00:26:21.44
AND IF YOU LOOK IN 1 JOHN 2 -
FIRST LETTER OF JOHN CHAPTER 2,
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VERSE 3 - "NOW BY THIS WE KNOW
THAT WE KNOW HIM, IF WE KEEP HIS
00:26:25.01\00:26:28.85
COMMANDMENTS. HE WHO
SAYS, 'I KNOW HIM,' AND
00:26:28.88\00:26:32.02
DOES NOT KEEP HIS
COMMANDMENTS, IS A LIAR, AND THE
00:26:32.05\00:26:34.29
TRUTH IS NOT IN HIM." I
WAS DOING A BIBLE STUDY WITH
00:26:34.32\00:26:37.03
SOMEONE, ONCE, AND THEY SAID,
'I'M UNDER THE NEW COVENANT, I
00:26:37.06\00:26:39.19
DON'T NEED TO KEEP THE LAW.' HE
SAYS, 'I LOVE THE LORD AND I'M
00:26:39.23\00:26:43.70
SAVED, BUT I'M NOT UNDER THAT
OLD JEWISH LAW. I'M UNDER THE
00:26:43.73\00:26:47.54
NEW COVENANT: JUST LOVE THE
LORD AND LOVE NEIGHBOR.' I SAID,
00:26:47.57\00:26:49.77
'WELL, IF YOU LOVE THE LORD,
YOU'LL KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS.'
00:26:49.80\00:26:51.27
HE SAYS, 'NO, YOU DON'T NEED TO
KEEP THE TEN ANYMORE, YOU JUST
00:26:51.31\00:26:52.94
NEED TO LOVE.' I SAID,
'WELL, WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?'
00:26:52.97\00:26:55.28
I SAID, 'DOES THAT ME YOU SAY,
'WELL, I LOVE, BUT I CAN NOW
00:26:55.31\00:26:58.58
STEAL, I CAN LIE' - 'OH NO,
NO, NO, NO.' HE REALLY HAD NO
00:26:58.61\00:27:01.35
PROBLEM WITH THE TEN
COMMANDMENTS EXCEPT ONE.
00:27:01.38\00:27:03.55
YOU KNOW WHICH ONE
IT WAS. THE SABBATH.
00:27:03.59\00:27:07.36
AND, WHILE I WAS TALKING TO HIM,
I READ HIM THIS VERSE: "NOW BY
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THIS WE KNOW THAT WE KNOW HIM,
IF WE KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS.
00:27:10.79\00:27:13.90
HE WHO SAYS, 'I KNOW HIM,' AND
DOES NOT KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS,
00:27:13.93\00:27:16.33
IS A LIAR, AND THE
TRUTH IS NOT IN HIM."
00:27:16.36\00:27:19.03
HE HAD NO ANSWER FOR THAT.
SO, CONTINUING WITH TALKING
00:27:19.07\00:27:24.74
ABOUT - OH, LET ME GIVE YOU
ONE MORE VERSE HERE - GO TO THE
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BOOK OF JAMES - THIS IS
IN YOUR LESSON, I JUST DIDN'T
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HAVE IT IN MY
NOTES. JAMES, OF COURSE, IS
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JUST BEFORE REVELATION.
I'M SAYING THAT FOR MY BENEFIT
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BECAUSE I'M HAVING
TROUBLE FINDING IT.
00:27:34.98\00:27:36.75
ALRIGHT, HERE WE GO - IT'S JUST
BEFORE - WELL, IT'S NOT JUST
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BEFORE REVELATION -
BEFORE - AFTER 2 PETER?
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1 JOHN - JAMES - I WANT TO GO TO
JAMES CHAPTER 2 - WHAT DID I SAY
00:27:44.29\00:27:51.20
- IT'S BEFORE HEBREWS?
WHY'D YOU DO THAT TO ME?
00:27:51.23\00:27:57.54
I WAS RIGHT - HERE WE GO -
ALRIGHT, JAMES CHAPTER 2, GO TO
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VERSE 10, "FOR WHOEVER SHALL
KEEP THE WHOLE LAW, AND YET
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STUMBLE IN ONE POINT HE IS
GUILTY OF ALL." - NOW, WHAT LAW
00:28:06.18\00:28:08.58
IS HE TALKING ABOUT? -
"FOR HE WHO SAID, 'DO NOT COMMIT
00:28:08.62\00:28:11.49
ADULTERY,' ALSO SAID, 'DO
NOT MURDER.' NOW IF YOU DO NOT
00:28:11.52\00:28:14.89
COMMIT ADULTERY, BUT YOU
DO MURDER, YOU HAVE BECOME A
00:28:14.92\00:28:17.06
TRANSGRESSOR OF THE LAW.
SO SPEAK AND SO DO AS ONE WHO
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WILL BE JUDGED BY
THE LAW OF LIBERTY."
00:28:21.56\00:28:24.53
SO THE TEN COMMANDMENTS IS
EVEN CALLED THE LAW OF LIBERTY.
00:28:24.57\00:28:28.00
SO DOES HE WANT US TO
JUST HEAR IT OR DO IT?
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SO THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
ARE STILL IN EFFECT FOR BIBLE
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CHRISTIANS. ALRIGHT,
NOW I WANT TO GO TO THE
00:28:33.71\00:28:35.91
SECTION THAT SAYS JEWISH LAWS
AND REGULATIONS AND YOU REALLY
00:28:35.94\00:28:39.95
NEED TO KEY IN ON WHAT I'M GOING
TO BE SHARING WITH YOU HERE.
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GO IN YOUR BIBLE TO EXODUS -
LET'S JUST TAKE EXODUS 21 - "
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NOW THESE ARE THE JUDGMENTS
WHICH YOU SHALL SET BEFORE THEM:
00:28:52.19\00:28:57.70
IF YOU BUY A HEBREW SERVANT,
HE SHALL SERVE SIX YEARS; AND IN
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THE SEVENTH HE
SHALL GO OUT FREE..."
00:29:00.57\00:29:02.24
IF YOU GO TO CHAPTER 22 OF
EXODUS - "IF A MAN STEAL AN OX
00:29:02.27\00:29:06.14
OR SHEEP, AND SLAUGHTERS IT OR
SELLS IT, HE SHALL RESTORE FIVE
00:29:06.17\00:29:09.61
OXEN FOR AN OX..." -
HERE YOU'VE GOT JUST SOME
00:29:09.64\00:29:12.38
STATUTES AND THEN THEY HAD
SOME CEREMONIAL LAWS - YOU GO TO
00:29:12.41\00:29:16.42
LEVITICUS 23, IT TALKS ABOUT
ALL THE DIFFERENT SABBATHS -
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EVERYTHING FROM PASSOVER
TO THE DAY OF ATONEMENT.
00:29:21.16\00:29:23.73
AND SO, IN THE BIBLE, THE LAW
WAS SORT OF AN ALL-ENCOMPASSING
00:29:23.76\00:29:27.60
WORD. IT IS ALL
BLENDED TOGETHER.
00:29:27.60\00:29:32.87
I LOVE TO TELL YOU THE TEN
COMMANDMENTS ARE CLEAR AND THEY
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DO STAND ALONE. IT'S
IN ONE SEGMENT ALTOGETHER.
00:29:35.20\00:29:38.21
A LOT OF THE OTHER STATUTES
AND JUDGMENTS - CEREMONIAL LAW,
00:29:38.24\00:29:41.38
HEALTH LAW, CIVIL LAW -
IT'S KIND OF ALL CO-MINGLED.
00:29:41.41\00:29:47.65
AND SO, IT'S NOT CLEAR
DELINEATION, BUT THE HEALTH LAW
00:29:47.68\00:29:54.42
IS TRUE ALL THE TIME. IS
IT ALWAYS A GOOD IDEA TO WASH
00:29:54.46\00:29:57.66
AFTER YOU'VE
TOUCHED SOMETHING DEAD?
00:29:57.69\00:30:02.03
IS IT A GOOD IDEA IF YOU FIND
ONE OF YOUR POTS - IT'S A CLAY
00:30:02.06\00:30:06.43
POT - AND THERE'S A RAT IN IT
THAT'S MADE ITS NEST - YOU MIGHT
00:30:06.47\00:30:09.94
THROW THAT POT AWAY BECAUSE
IT'S HARD TO CLEAN IT OUT OF THE
00:30:09.97\00:30:12.14
POROUS CLAY? BUT IF
IT'S A STEEL POT YOU CAN
00:30:12.17\00:30:15.28
GO CLEANSE IT AND
BOIL IT AND MAYBE REUSE IT?
00:30:15.31\00:30:18.65
YOU KNOW, IT'S IN THE
BIBLE. THEY HAD A LOT OF REALLY
00:30:18.68\00:30:21.28
PRACTICAL HEALTH LAWS THAT
ARE STILL TRUE TODAY - THE LAWS
00:30:21.32\00:30:24.42
OF SANITATION - THINGS YOU'RE
SUPPOSED TO EAT AND NOT SUPPOSED
00:30:24.45\00:30:27.62
TO EAT IT'S STILL TRUE TODAY.
IF YOU LOOK AT THE BLOOD TYPE
00:30:27.66\00:30:31.63
AND THE STOMACH OF A JEW, IT'S
NOT GOING TO BE ANY DIFFERENT
00:30:31.66\00:30:34.00
THAN THE BLOOD TYPE
AND STOMACH OF A GENTILE.
00:30:34.03\00:30:37.03
MATTER OF FACT, THERE'S A LOT
OF JEWS, THEIR BLOOD TYPES ARE
00:30:37.07\00:30:40.70
GOING TO BE INTERCHANGEABLE WITH
ALL KINDS OF DIFFERENT GENTILE
00:30:40.74\00:30:43.51
BLOOD TYPES. AND SO,
THE IDEA THAT, 'WELL,
00:30:43.54\00:30:47.14
GOD HAD HEALTH LAWS FOR JEWS
AND YEAH, THEY'LL LIVE LONGER
00:30:47.18\00:30:49.28
BECAUSE THEY FOLLOW
THEM, THAT DOESN'T APPLY TO
00:30:49.31\00:30:51.11
GENTILES' - THAT'S ABSURD.
SO THE LAWS THAT WORD - AND
00:30:51.15\00:30:55.22
CIVIL LAW - NOW IT DEPENDS
ON WHAT GOVERNMENT YOU'RE IN.
00:30:55.25\00:30:58.22
A LOT OF THE CIVIL LAW AROUND
THE WORLD IS BASED ON THE LAW OF
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MOSES. THE
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FIRST,
00:31:00.42\00:31:03.76
SECOND, THIRD DEGREE MURDER,
YOU FIRST FIND IN THE BIBLE.
00:31:03.79\00:31:07.30
IF THERE WAS NOT MURDER WITH
INTENT, YOU COULD FLEE TO THE
00:31:07.36\00:31:09.33
CITY OF REFUGE.
IF IT WAS ACCIDENTAL
00:31:09.36\00:31:12.20
MANSLAUGHTER, THERE WAS HOPE.
AND SO, THEY HAD DIFFERENT LAWS
00:31:12.23\00:31:15.90
THAT WERE SOME CIVIL LAWS. BUT
LET ME GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE HERE.
00:31:15.94\00:31:20.41
GO TO COLOSSIANS CHAPTER 2. I
WANT TO READ SOMETHING TO YOU.
00:31:20.44\00:31:24.01
THIS IS OFTEN USED WHEN PEOPLE
LEARN THE SABBATH TRUTH AND THEY
00:31:24.05\00:31:27.12
QUOTE IT BACK TO SEVENTH-DAY
ADVENTISTS - COLOSSIANS 2:14,
00:31:27.15\00:31:32.75
"HAVING WIPED OUT THE
HANDWRITING OF REQUIREMENTS THAT
00:31:32.79\00:31:36.59
WAS AGAINST US," - NOW
THERE'S TWO THINGS I WANT YOU TO
00:31:36.62\00:31:38.73
REMEMBER - HANDWRITING
- CAN YOU PLEASE SAY THAT?
00:31:38.76\00:31:42.43
>>HANDWRITING.
>>HANDWRITING OF REQUIREMENTS
00:31:42.46\00:31:44.63
THAT WAS AGAINST US. CAN
YOU PLEASE SAY 'AGAINST US'?
00:31:44.67\00:31:48.00
>>AGAINST US. >>I WANT
IT TO STAND OUT IN YOUR
00:31:48.04\00:31:50.07
MIND BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO READ
IT. IT'S VERY IMPORTANT BECAUSE
00:31:50.11\00:31:53.21
HE'S TALKING ABOUT SOMETHING WAS
WIPED OUT - TAKING IT OUT OF THE
00:31:53.24\00:31:58.11
WAY - NAILING IT TO THE CROSS.
THE TERMS ARE PRETTY CLEAR:
00:31:58.15\00:32:02.12
WIPED OUT, OUT OF THE
WAY, NAILED TO THE CROSS -
00:32:02.15\00:32:04.95
SOMETHING'S GOING
AWAY. WHAT IS GOING AWAY?
00:32:04.99\00:32:08.22
WELL, HE SAID IT'S
HANDWRITING AGAINST US.
00:32:08.26\00:32:10.73
LET'S FIND OUT WHAT HE'S TALKING
ABOUT HERE - HAVING NAILED IT TO
00:32:10.76\00:32:14.36
THE CROSS - IF YOU LOOK IN
NEHEMIAH - NOW HERE'S WHAT I'M
00:32:14.36\00:32:16.97
GOING TO - HERE'S MY HYPOTHESIS
I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU ON THAT.
00:32:17.00\00:32:21.90
HE'S NOT TALKING ABOUT THE
TEN COMMANDMENTS, AS SOME HAVE
00:32:21.94\00:32:24.47
SUGGESTED. HE'S
TALKING ABOUT THE
00:32:24.51\00:32:27.38
CEREMONIAL LAWS.
THERE'S A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
00:32:27.41\00:32:32.01
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
AND THE CEREMONIAL LAWS.
00:32:32.05\00:32:34.88
IF YOU LOOK, FOR INSTANCE, IN
DEUTERONOMY 4 - I'M GOING TO GO
00:32:34.92\00:32:38.32
TO DEUTERONOMY 4:13 FIRST - "SO
HE DECLARED TO YOU HIS COVENANT
00:32:38.35\00:32:42.82
WHICH HE COMMANDED YOU TO
PERFORM, THE TEN COMMANDMENTS;
00:32:42.86\00:32:45.86
AND HE WROTE THEM ON
TWO TABLETS OF STONE.
00:32:45.89\00:32:49.23
AND" - THREE-LETTER WORD I'M
STRETCHING OUT THERE - "THE LORD
00:32:49.26\00:32:53.30
COMMANDED ME" - MOSES IS
SPEAKING - "AT THAT TIME TO
00:32:53.34\00:32:55.80
TEACH YOU STATUTES AND
JUDGMENTS," - SO HE SAID, 'YOU
00:32:55.84\00:32:59.84
GOT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS AND THE
LORD TOLD ME TO WRITE DOWN FOR
00:32:59.87\00:33:04.21
YOUR STATUTES AND JUDGMENTS.
THEY WERE WRITTEN BY MOSES.
00:33:04.25\00:33:08.52
WHO WROTE THE TEN
COMMANDMENTS? >>GOD. BY HAND.
00:33:08.55\00:33:10.55
>>GOD. LOOK IN - YEAH, BY HAND -
HANDWRITING - THERE YOU HAVE IT.
00:33:10.59\00:33:13.39
NEHEMIAH 9:13 AND 14, "YOU CAME
DOWN ALSO ON MOUNT SINAI, AND
00:33:13.42\00:33:19.26
SPOKE WITH THEM FROM HEAVEN, AND
GAVE THEM JUST ORDINANCES AND
00:33:19.29\00:33:23.37
TRUE LAWS, GOOD
STATUTES AND COMMANDMENTS.
00:33:23.40\00:33:26.43
YOU MADE KNOWN TO THEM YOUR HOLY
SABBATH," - OKAY, SO THAT'S ALL
00:33:26.47\00:33:29.14
PART OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
- "AND COMMANDED THEM PRECEPTS,
00:33:29.17\00:33:34.81
STATUTES AND LAWS, BY
THE HAND" - BY THE WHAT?
00:33:34.84\00:33:37.85
>>HAND. >>HAND
IS WHAT YOU USE FOR
00:33:37.88\00:33:39.88
HANDWRITING - "OF MOSES YOUR
SERVANT." SO YOU'VE GOT THE LAW
00:33:39.91\00:33:43.45
WRITTEN BY GOD'S FINGER ON
STONE, AND YOU'VE GOT THE THINGS
00:33:43.49\00:33:48.42
BY THE HAND OF MOSES.
LET ME GIVE YOU ONE MORE.
00:33:48.46\00:33:51.93
2 CHRON - SOMEONE'S GOING TO
READ, FOR ME, DEUTERONOMY 31:26,
00:33:51.96\00:33:55.40
IN A MINUTE, OKAY? 2
CHRONICLES - THIS IS VERY
00:33:55.43\00:33:58.13
IMPORTANT - 2
CHRONICLES 33, VERSE 8, "AND I
00:33:58.17\00:34:04.24
WILL NOT AGAIN REMOVE THE FOOT
OF ISRAEL FROM THE LAND WHICH I
00:34:04.27\00:34:06.91
HAVE APPOINTED FOR YOUR FATHERS
- ONLY IF THEY ARE CAREFUL TO DO
00:34:06.94\00:34:09.88
ALL THAT I HAVE COMMANDED THEM,
ACCORDING TO THE WHOLE LAW AND
00:34:09.91\00:34:14.98
THE STATUTES AND THE ORDINANCES
BY THE HAND OF MOSES."
00:34:15.02\00:34:18.02
NOW I'VE GIVEN YOU THREE VERSES
- THE BIBLE SAYS IN THE MOUTH OF
00:34:18.05\00:34:20.09
THREE WITNESSES, AT LEAST,
THAT THESE THINGS SHOULD BE
00:34:20.12\00:34:23.59
ESTABLISHED - WHERE HE MAKES
A DISTINCTION - TEN COMMANDMENTS
00:34:23.63\00:34:27.50
AND BY THE HAND OF
MOSES - I JUST READ THAT.
00:34:27.56\00:34:31.90
SO, WHAT ABOUT
THE WORD AGAINST US?
00:34:31.93\00:34:36.34
PLEASE READ, FOR
ME, DEUTERONOMY 31:26.
00:34:36.37\00:34:40.04
>>"TAKE THIS BOOK OF THE LAW,
AND PUT IT BESIDE THE ARK OF THE
00:34:40.08\00:34:43.04
COVENANT OF THE LORD YOUR
GOD, THAT IT MAY BE THERE AS A
00:34:43.08\00:34:47.08
WITNESS AGAINST
YOU;" >>A WITNESS WHAT?
00:34:47.12\00:34:50.19
>>AGAINST YOU. >>AGAINST YOU.
00:34:50.22\00:34:52.45
SO WHAT WAS THE
WITNESS AGAINST THEM?
00:34:52.49\00:34:54.46
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS IN THE ARK
OR THE BOOK OF CEREMONIAL LAWS
00:34:54.49\00:34:58.53
THAT WERE PUT IN A POCKET
OR COMPARTMENT OUTSIDE THE ARK?
00:34:58.56\00:35:02.93
SO THERE'S A DISTINCTION
GOD MADE: ONE IS HANDWRITING OF
00:35:02.96\00:35:05.67
MOSES OUTSIDE THE ARK; TEN
COMMANDMENTS WRITTEN BY GOD
00:35:05.70\00:35:09.57
INSIDE THE ARK. WHAT'S
INSIDE THE ARK IS HOLY,
00:35:09.60\00:35:12.74
IS ETERNAL, IT'S STONE - THE
OTHER WAS PAPER, WRITTEN BY THE
00:35:12.77\00:35:17.78
HAND OF MAN - TAKING IT
OUT OF THE WAY, WIPING IT OUT,
00:35:17.81\00:35:20.65
NAILING IT TO THE CROSS.
THERE'S A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
00:35:20.68\00:35:23.39
THE CEREMONIAL LAW
AND THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
00:35:23.42\00:35:25.62
THIS DIFFERENCE THE
ROMANS DID NOT UNDERSTAND.
00:35:25.65\00:35:30.03
PAUL NEEDED TO EXPLAIN TO THEM
WHAT THEY NEEDED TO KEEP AND
00:35:30.06\00:35:33.06
WHAT THEY NO
LONGER NEEDED TO KEEP.
00:35:33.09\00:35:35.76
NOW, WITH THAT LENGTHY
INTRODUCTION, I WANT TO READ THE
00:35:35.80\00:35:39.40
REST OF COLOSSIANS 2. GO
BACK TO COLOSSIANS, PLEASE -
00:35:39.43\00:35:42.34
YOU'LL BE GLAD YOU DID -
GO TO COLOSSIANS 2, VERSE 15.
00:35:42.37\00:35:45.17
I'M GOING TO RE-READ
VERSE 14, "HAVING WIPED OUT THE
00:35:45.21\00:35:47.61
HANDWRITING OF REQUIREMENTS
THAT WAS AGAINST US, WHICH WAS
00:35:47.64\00:35:50.58
CONTRARY TO US." -
NOTICE, AGAINST AND CONTRARY
00:35:50.61\00:35:53.31
TO US - WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
I'LL TELL YOU LATER - "AND HE
00:35:53.35\00:35:56.35
HAS TAKEN IT OUT OF THE WAY,
HAVING NAILED IT TO THE CROSS"
00:35:56.38\00:35:58.72
- AND THEN YOU KEEP READING
IN COLOSSIANS VERSE 15 - 2:15,
00:35:58.75\00:36:03.06
"HAVING DISARMED PRINCIPALITIES
AND POWERS, HE MADE A PUBLIC
00:36:03.09\00:36:06.56
SPECTACLE OF THEM,
TRIUMPHING OVER THEM IN IT.
00:36:06.59\00:36:09.76
SO LET NO ONE JUDGE YOU IN
FOOD OR IN DRINK, OR REGARDING A
00:36:09.80\00:36:14.14
FESTIVAL" - NOW WHEN HE SAYS
'FOOD OR DRINK', HE'S TALKING
00:36:14.17\00:36:16.44
ABOUT CEREMONIAL
FOOD AND DRINK OFFERINGS.
00:36:16.47\00:36:19.34
HE'S NOT TALKING ABOUT 'YOU CAN
EAT ANYTHING', BECAUSE PAUL WAS
00:36:19.37\00:36:22.28
PRETTY CLEAR YOU CAN'T EAT
ANYTHING - "SO LET NO ONE JUDGE
00:36:22.31\00:36:24.98
YOU IN FOOD OR IN DRINK, OR
REGARDING A FESTIVAL" - THEY HAD
00:36:25.01\00:36:27.85
FOOD AND DRINK
OFFERINGS WITH THE FESTIVALS -
00:36:27.88\00:36:29.65
"OR A NEW MOON OR
SABBATHS," - ANY SABBATH?
00:36:29.68\00:36:34.39
- "SABBATHS WHICH ARE A SHADOW"
- TEN COMMANDMENT SABBATH WAS
00:36:34.42\00:36:38.89
NOT A SHADOW. IT
CAME AT CREATION.
00:36:38.93\00:36:42.36
THE CEREMONIAL SABBATHS WERE
SHADOWS OF THE GOSPEL - THEY
00:36:42.40\00:36:46.33
WERE PART OF THE FEAST DAYS -
"WHICH ARE A SHADOWS OF THINGS
00:36:46.37\00:36:48.97
TO COME," - THEY WERE SHADOWS
FORWARD - LOOKING FORWARD TO
00:36:49.00\00:36:51.64
SOMETHING THAT WAS GOING TO COME
- JESUS - YOU STILL WITH ME?
00:36:51.67\00:36:54.91
- "BUT THE SUBSTANCE IS
OF CHRIST." CHRIST IS NOT THE
00:36:54.94\00:36:57.65
SHADOW, HE IS THE SUBSTANCE
THAT CREATES THE SHADOW.
00:36:57.68\00:37:01.05
SO PAUL IS SAYING, 'DON'T LET
ANYONE JUDGE YOU ABOUT KEEPING'
00:37:01.08\00:37:05.39
- NOW DO SOME PEOPLE STILL GO
AROUND AND SAY, 'YOU'VE GOT TO
00:37:05.42\00:37:07.29
KEEP THE FEAST DAYS'?
I MEAN, THEY HAD THE SAME
00:37:07.32\00:37:10.03
PROBLEM THEN WE
STILL HAVE TODAY.
00:37:10.06\00:37:12.09
HE SAYS THOSE THINGS WERE
TAKEN OUT OF THE WAY, THEY'RE
00:37:12.13\00:37:14.03
HANDWRITING,
NAILED TO THE CROSS.
00:37:14.10\00:37:16.46
THAT'S WHY PAUL SAYS, IN ROMANS
14, 'ONE MAN REGARDS ONE DAY
00:37:16.50\00:37:19.17
ABOVE ANOTHER; ANOTHER
MAN REGARDS EVERY DAY ALIKE.
00:37:19.20\00:37:21.54
IF YOU'RE GOING TO REGARD THE
DAY TO THE LORD, YOU REGARD IT.'
00:37:21.57\00:37:23.71
HE NEVER MENTIONS SABBATH IN
ROMANS 14, HE'S TALKING ABOUT
00:37:23.74\00:37:27.21
THE CEREMONIAL DISPUTES.
LOOK IN LEVITICUS 23, THERE'S
00:37:27.24\00:37:31.08
LIKE SIX OR SEVEN CEREMONIAL
SABBATHS AND HE SPECIFIES THE
00:37:31.11\00:37:36.32
SEVENTH - OR THE SEVENTH DAY OF
THE WEEK COMMANDMENT SEPARATELY.
00:37:36.35\00:37:41.32
ALRIGHT, AND HERE WE'RE GOING
TO NOW DELVE INTO THE CUSTOM OF
00:37:41.36\00:37:45.79
MOSES, UNDER THIS NEXT SECTION -
THIS WOULD BE TUESDAY - IN ACTS
00:37:45.83\00:37:51.93
15 YOU READ, "AND CERTAIN MEN
CAME DOWN FROM JUDEA AND TAUGHT
00:37:51.97\00:37:57.21
THE BRETHREN, 'UNLESS YOU
ARE CIRCUMCISED ACCORDING TO THE
00:37:57.24\00:38:00.81
CUSTOM OF MOSES, YOU CANNOT
BE SAVED.'" NOW WE'VE TOUCHED ON
00:38:00.84\00:38:06.18
THIS JUST - FRIENDS, I
KNOW THOSE OF YOU WHO JUST WENT
00:38:06.21\00:38:08.88
THROUGH 14 WEEKS OF GALATIANS
WITH ME, YOU'RE THINKING,
00:38:08.92\00:38:13.22
'DIDN'T WE JUST TALK
ABOUT THIS?' YES WE DID.
00:38:13.25\00:38:15.96
AND SO I KNOW SOME OF THIS
IS REVIEWING SOME OF WHAT WE
00:38:15.99\00:38:19.13
COVERED WHEN WE WENT THROUGH
GALATIANS - SOME OF THE VERY
00:38:19.16\00:38:22.13
SAME VERSES, BUT IT WAS A
PROBLEM, ALSO, IN ROMANS, WE
00:38:22.16\00:38:24.67
NEED TO UNDERSTAND. SO
THERE WAS A DISPUTE IN THE
00:38:24.70\00:38:29.50
EARLY CHURCH AND IT DELVES -
IT GOES ALL THE WAY INTO ACTS 15
00:38:29.54\00:38:34.28
AND THEY'RE SAYING, 'UNLESS
YOU KEEP THESE CEREMONIAL LAWS -
00:38:34.31\00:38:37.41
THINGS LIKE CIRCUMCISION
- YOU CANNOT BE SAVED.
00:38:37.45\00:38:40.45
WELL, THAT'S HEAVY STUFF.
I MEAN, YOU AND I MIGHT ARGUE
00:38:40.48\00:38:43.28
ABOUT THE SEVEN TRUMPETS,
HUNDRED AND FORTY-FOUR THOUSAND
00:38:43.32\00:38:48.39
- LAST WEEK I TAUGHT A CLASS
ON DANIEL 11 - A LOT OF DISPUTES
00:38:48.42\00:38:53.09
ABOUT SOME OF THE
DETAILS IN DANIEL 11.
00:38:53.13\00:38:55.63
YOU AND I MIGHT DISAGREE,
BUT I'M NEVER GOING TO TELL YOU,
00:38:55.66\00:38:57.97
'UNLESS YOU AGREE WITH ME ON
DANIEL 11, YOU CANNOT BE SAVED.'
00:38:58.00\00:39:04.87
THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE OUT THERE,
NOW, NOT TOO MANY, BUT THERE ARE
00:39:04.91\00:39:07.38
A FEW PEOPLE OUT THERE THAT ARE
SAYING THAT THE LOST TRUTH THE
00:39:07.41\00:39:11.81
CHURCH NEEDS TO REDISCOVER
BEFORE JESUS COMES BACK IS THE
00:39:11.85\00:39:16.38
FEAST DAYS - AND UNLESS YOU
KEEP THEM, YOU CANNOT BE SAVED.
00:39:16.42\00:39:20.39
THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE OUT THERE
THAT ARE SAYING THE TRINITY IS
00:39:20.42\00:39:23.19
NOT BIBLICAL AND UNLESS YOU
UNDERSTAND THE NEW TRUTH ABOUT
00:39:23.22\00:39:25.99
THE HOLY SPIRIT AND THAT
JESUS WAS CREATED, YOU CANNOT BE
00:39:26.03\00:39:29.40
SAVED. THEY'RE MAKING
IT A SALVATION DOCTRINE.
00:39:29.43\00:39:32.47
WELL THAT GETS PRETTY SERIOUS.
YOU HAVE TO DEAL WITH IT WHEN
00:39:32.50\00:39:34.64
PEOPLE START SAYING 'YOU CANNOT
BE SAVED UNLESS YOU AGREE WITH
00:39:34.67\00:39:37.01
ME.' RIGHT? AND YOU AND I
MIGHT DISAGREE ON A LOT OF MINOR
00:39:37.04\00:39:41.54
POINTS, BUT IT'S PRETTY HEAVY
WHEN THEY SAY, 'YOU CAN'T BE
00:39:41.58\00:39:45.08
SAVED.' WELL, THAT BECAME A BIG
ISSUE. WHY DID THEY SAY THAT?
00:39:45.11\00:39:53.49
GO TO GENESIS 17:10 - "THIS IS
MY COVENANT" - GOD TOLD ABRAHAM
00:39:53.52\00:39:59.53
- "WHICH YOU SHALL KEEP, BETWEEN
ME AND YOU AND YOUR DESCENDANTS
00:39:59.56\00:40:02.10
AFTER YOU: EVERY MALE
CHILD AMONG YOU SHALL BE
00:40:02.13\00:40:04.97
CIRCUMCISED;" - AND HE LATER
SAYS 'AN ETERNAL COVENANT' - AND
00:40:05.00\00:40:09.00
YOU THINK, 'WOW' - WHY
DID HE SAY IT WAS ETERNAL?
00:40:09.04\00:40:12.71
BECAUSE IT IS, IN THE SENSE
THAT, UNLESS YOU ARE BORN AGAIN
00:40:12.74\00:40:17.08
AND YOU EXPERIENCE THE NEW
BIRTH, WHICH IS CIRCUMCISION OF
00:40:17.11\00:40:20.38
THE HEART - DO YOU KNOW EVEN
MOSES SAID THAT CIRCUMCISION WAS
00:40:20.42\00:40:23.99
A SYMBOL OF THE HEART
- WAY BACK IN HIS DAY.
00:40:24.02\00:40:28.12
THAT'S REPEATED SEVERAL
TIMES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT.
00:40:28.16\00:40:31.06
THE PASSOVER IS
CALLED AN ETERNAL COVENANT.
00:40:31.09\00:40:33.29
WHY WOULD HE SAY THAT IF YOU
DON'T NEED TO ALWAYS KEEP THE
00:40:33.33\00:40:34.76
PASSOVER? CAN WE
STILL SACRIFICE LAMBS
00:40:34.83\00:40:37.10
AND BRING THEM TO THE TEMPLE?
BUT WHENEVER YOU CELEBRATE THE
00:40:37.13\00:40:40.20
LORD'S SUPPER,
ISN'T THAT A PASSOVER?
00:40:40.24\00:40:45.87
WHEN JESUS HAD THE FIRST LORD'S
SUPPER, DIDN'T HE SAY, 'WITH
00:40:45.91\00:40:49.11
LONGING I'VE LONGED TO
EAT THIS PASSOVER WITH YOU'?
00:40:49.14\00:40:52.58
WE DON'T CALL IT A
PASSOVER. HE'S CHANGED IT.
00:40:52.61\00:40:55.58
HE MADE - JESUS
MADE A VERY CLEAR CHANGE.
00:40:55.62\00:40:58.22
HE SAID, 'AS LONG AS YOU DRINK
THIS CUP AND EAT THIS BREAD, YOU
00:40:58.25\00:41:01.32
DO SHOW MY DEATH UNTIL
IT COMES.' AND SO, THERE'S
00:41:01.36\00:41:04.46
SPIRITUAL VALUE IN THE OTHER
FEASTS, BUT WE DON'T NEED TO
00:41:04.49\00:41:07.13
KEEP THOSE DATES. IT
SAYS, 'AS OFTEN AS YOU DO
00:41:07.20\00:41:10.23
IT.' HE DIDN'T SAY ONCE A
YEAR, JUST, WHENEVER YOU DO IT.
00:41:10.27\00:41:14.60
AND SO, GOD MADE IT PRETTY CLEAR
THAT THE REALITY WAS HERE AND
00:41:14.64\00:41:18.77
WHAT THE
SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE WAS.
00:41:18.81\00:41:22.44
JOHN CHAPTER 7, VERSE 21,
JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID TO THEM,
00:41:22.48\00:41:26.61
'MOSES THEREFORE GAVE YOU
CIRCUMCISION (NOT THAT IT IS
00:41:26.65\00:41:29.52
FROM MOSES,...'" - BECAUSE GOD
GAVE IT TO ABRAHAM - "'(BUT FROM
00:41:29.55\00:41:32.19
THE FATHERS), AND YOU
CIRCUMCISE A MAN ON THE SABBATH.
00:41:32.22\00:41:35.26
IF A MAN RECEIVES CIRCUMCISION
ON THE SABBATH, SO THAT THE LAW
00:41:35.29\00:41:37.96
OF MOSES SHOULD NOT BE BROKEN,
ARE YOU ANGRY WITH ME BECAUSE I
00:41:37.99\00:41:41.13
MADE A MAN COMPLETELY
WELL ON THE SABBATH?'"
00:41:41.16\00:41:43.37
JESUS WAS TELLING THE
RELIGIOUS LEADERS 'YOU BREAK THE
00:41:43.40\00:41:47.04
SABBATH IN ORDER THAT YOU MIGHT
KEEP THE LAW OF MOSES AND WHERE
00:41:47.07\00:41:51.14
ARE YOUR PRIORITIES?'
ACTS CHAPTER - OH, ACTUALLY -
00:41:51.17\00:41:55.14
I'M SORRY, THIS IS A QUOTE FROM
THE BOOK ACTS OF THE APOSTLES ,
00:41:55.18\00:41:58.78
PAGE 200, "WHILE LOOKING TO GOD
FOR DIRECT GUIDANCE, HE, PAUL,
00:41:58.81\00:42:05.19
WAS EVER READY TO RECOGNIZE
THE AUTHORITY VESTED IN THE BODY
00:42:05.22\00:42:08.22
OF BELIEVERS UNITED
IN CHURCH FELLOWSHIP.
00:42:08.26\00:42:11.19
HE FELT THE NEED OF COUNSEL
AND, WHEN MATTERS OF IMPORTANCE
00:42:11.23\00:42:14.23
AROSE, HE WAS GLAD TO LAY THESE
BEFORE THE CHURCH AND UNITE WITH
00:42:14.30\00:42:17.63
THE BRETHREN IN SEEKING
GOD FOR WISDOM IN MAKING RIGHT
00:42:17.67\00:42:20.17
DECISIONS." SO - I
SHOULDN'T HAVE READ THAT
00:42:20.20\00:42:23.27
YET, I SHOULD HAVE READ ACTS 15
FIRST AND THEN READ THAT QUOTE.
00:42:23.30\00:42:26.07
GO WITH ME TO ACTS CHAPTER
15 - AND I'M GOING TO START WITH
00:42:26.11\00:42:30.25
VERSE 2, BECAUSE I THINK I READ
VERSE 1 - THE BOOK OF ACTS 15 -
00:42:30.28\00:42:33.98
THIS IS IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND,
"THEREFORE, WHEN PAUL AND
00:42:34.02\00:42:38.05
BARNABAS HAD NO SMALL DISSENSION
AND DISPUTE WITH THEM, " - WHAT
00:42:38.09\00:42:45.59
DOES LUKE - I LIKE WHEN
LUKE SAYS THAT - LIKE WHEN PETER
00:42:45.63\00:42:49.63
DISAPPEARED FROM THE ROMAN JAIL,
IT SAYS, 'THERE WAS NO SMALL
00:42:49.66\00:42:52.20
STIR AMONG THE SOLDIERS WHAT
HAD HAPPENED TO PETER.' WHEN HE
00:42:52.23\00:42:55.64
SAYS, 'NO SMALL,' THAT
MEANS A VERY BIG, RIGHT?
00:42:55.67\00:42:59.34
AND IT SAYS WHEN THERE WAS
NO SMALL DISSENSION, THAT MEANS
00:42:59.37\00:43:02.44
THEY WERE ALL STANDING UP
ON THE TABLE, THEY WERE ALL
00:43:02.48\00:43:04.41
YELLING AT EACH OTHER, THERE'S
BLOOD ON THE WALLS - NOT QUITE -
00:43:04.45\00:43:06.25
BUT THEY HAD A BIG DISPUTE ABOUT
WHETHER OR NOT YOU HAD TO BE
00:43:06.28\00:43:10.95
CIRCUMCISED TO BE SAVED -
"THEY DETERMINED THAT PAUL AND
00:43:10.99\00:43:14.66
BARNABAS AND CERTAIN OTHERS OF
THEM" - THEY'RE GOING TO SEND A
00:43:14.69\00:43:17.06
DELEGATION BECAUSE THEY DON'T
WANT ONE PERSON COMING BACK,
00:43:17.09\00:43:19.23
THEY WANT TO KNOW WHAT THE
OFFICIAL WORD IS - "SHOULD GO UP
00:43:19.26\00:43:22.36
TO JERUSALEM, TO THE
APOSTLES AND ELDERS, ABOUT THIS
00:43:22.40\00:43:24.83
QUESTION." - THEY'VE
GOT THE APOSTLES THAT
00:43:24.87\00:43:27.00
WERE THERE AND ELDERS, LIKE
JAMES, WHO WAS THE BROTHER OF
00:43:27.04\00:43:29.80
JESUS - "SO, BEING SENT ON THEIR
WAY BY THE CHURCH, THEY PASSED
00:43:29.84\00:43:33.58
THROUGH PHOENICIA AND SAMARIA,
DESCRIBING THE CONVERSION OF THE
00:43:33.61\00:43:36.18
GENTILES; AND THEY CAUSED
GREAT JOY TO ALL THE BRETHREN."
00:43:36.21\00:43:39.51
- SO THIS - A LOT OF GENTILES
ARE BEING CONVERTED - "AND WHEN
00:43:39.55\00:43:42.42
THEY HAD COME TO JERUSALEM, THEY
WERE RECEIVED BY THE CHURCH AND
00:43:42.45\00:43:44.95
THE APOSTLES AND THE ELDERS; AND
THEY REPORTED ALL THINGS THAT
00:43:44.99\00:43:47.36
GOD HAD DONE WITH THEM.
BUT SOME OF THE SECT OF THE
00:43:47.39\00:43:49.89
PHARISEES WHO BELIEVED"
- YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS?
00:43:49.92\00:43:52.96
THERE WERE PHARISEES THAT
HAD ACCEPTED JESUS, RIGHT?
00:43:52.99\00:43:57.53
NOT ONLY DOES IT SAY IN ACTS,
SOME PRIESTS ACCEPTED JESUS,
00:43:57.57\00:44:00.24
SOME PHARISEES ACCEPTED JESUS.
00:44:00.27\00:44:01.87
BY THE WAY, PAUL WAS A FORMER
PHARISEE WHO HAD ACCEPTED JESUS.
00:44:01.90\00:44:06.14
- "BUT SOME OF THE SECT OF THE
PHARISEES WHO BELIEVED ROSE UP,
00:44:06.17\00:44:09.24
SAYING, 'IT IS NECESSARY TO
CIRCUMCISE THEM, AND TO COMMAND
00:44:09.28\00:44:12.11
THEM TO KEEP THE LAW OF MOSES.'"
- NOW ARE THEY TALKING ABOUT THE
00:44:12.15\00:44:15.02
TEN COMMANDMENTS
OR THE CEREMONIAL LAW?
00:44:15.05\00:44:18.42
ISN'T THAT CLEAR? -
"NOW THE APOSTLES AND THE
00:44:18.45\00:44:20.79
ELDERS CAME TOGETHER
TO CONSIDER THIS MATTER.
00:44:20.82\00:44:23.76
AND WHEN THERE HAD BEEN MUCH
DISPUTE," - NOT ONLY WAS THERE
00:44:23.79\00:44:27.66
DISPUTE UP IN ASIA, THERE'S
DISPUTE IN JERUSALEM - "PETER
00:44:27.66\00:44:30.90
ROSE UP AND SAID TO THEM: 'MEN
AND BRETHREN, YOU KNOW THAT A
00:44:30.93\00:44:35.27
GOOD WHILE AGO GOD CHOSE
AMONG US, THAT BY MY MOUTH THE
00:44:35.30\00:44:38.77
GENTILES SHOULD HEAR THE WORD'"
- HE'S TALKING ABOUT WHEN HE
00:44:38.81\00:44:40.88
WENT TO CORNELIUS'
HOUSE - "AND BELIEVE.
00:44:40.91\00:44:43.71
SO GOD WHO KNOW THE HEART,
ACKNOWLEDGED THEM BY GIVING
00:44:43.75\00:44:46.48
THEM THE HOLY SPIRIT, JUST
AS HE DID TO US, AND MADE NO
00:44:46.51\00:44:50.39
DISTINCTION BETWEEN US AND
THEM, PURIFYING THEIR HEARTS BY
00:44:50.42\00:44:53.59
FAITH." - IT'S BY
FAITH, NOT BY WORKS -
00:44:53.62\00:44:55.79
"NOW THEREFORE, WHY DO YOU TEST
GOD BY PUTTING A YOKE ON THE
00:44:55.82\00:45:00.86
NECK OF THE DISCIPLES" -
SPEAKING OF THE GENTILES -
00:45:00.90\00:45:03.53
"WHICH NEITHER OUR FATHER
NOR WE WERE ABLE TO BEAR?"
00:45:03.57\00:45:07.34
- OKAY, NOW
THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT.
00:45:07.37\00:45:08.90
PETER, AN APOSTLE, IS SAYING
'YOU'RE PUTTING A YOKE ON THEM
00:45:08.94\00:45:12.61
THAT WE WEREN'T EVEN ABLE TO
BEAR.' WHAT DOES JESUS MEAN BY
00:45:12.64\00:45:15.21
THAT? LOOK IN
MATTHEW 23, VERSE 1.
00:45:15.24\00:45:19.65
NOW SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ
GALATIANS 5:1, FOR ME - YOU'LL
00:45:19.68\00:45:22.35
HAVE THAT, MANJEET? I
WANT TO READ MATTHEW 23, VERSE
00:45:22.38\00:45:24.95
1, "THEN JESUS SPOKE TO THE
MULTITUDES AND TO HIS DISCIPLES,
00:45:24.99\00:45:30.16
SAYING: 'THE SCRIBES AND THE
PHARISEES SIT IN MOSES' SEAT.
00:45:30.19\00:45:33.63
THEREFORE WHATEVER THEY TELL
YOU TO OBSERVE, THAT OBSERVE AND
00:45:33.66\00:45:37.67
DO, BUT DO NOT DO ACCORDING TO
THEIR WORKS; FOR THEY SAY, AND
00:45:37.70\00:45:41.24
DO NOT DO. FOR
THEY BIND HEAVY BURDENS,
00:45:41.27\00:45:45.01
HARD TO BEAR, AND LAY THEM
ON MEN'S SHOULDERS; BUT THEY
00:45:45.04\00:45:48.28
THEMSELVES WILL NOT MOVE THEM
WITH ONE OF THEIR FINGERS.'" -
00:45:48.31\00:45:51.81
THEY CREATE ALL THESE LAWS AND
THESE CEREMONIES AND THEY PUT IT
00:45:51.85\00:45:55.58
ON PEOPLE AND - SO WERE
THERE LAWS THAT WERE A BURDEN?
00:45:55.62\00:45:59.82
THAT'S WHY PETER SAYS,
'OUR FATHERS COULD NOT BEAR IT.'
00:45:59.85\00:46:02.72
THAT'S WHY IT SAID IN COLOSSIANS
'THAT WAS CONTRARY TO US'
00:46:02.76\00:46:07.76
'TAKING IT OUT OF THE
WAY' 'NAILING IT TO THE CROSS'.
00:46:07.76\00:46:11.07
ALRIGHT, PLEASE READ
FOR US, GALATIANS 5:1.
00:46:11.10\00:46:14.90
>>"STAND FAST THEREFORE IN THE
LIBERTY BY WHICH CHRIST HAS MADE
00:46:14.94\00:46:21.24
US FREE, AND DO NOT BE ENTANGLED
AGAIN WITH A YOKE OF BONDAGE."
00:46:21.28\00:46:27.65
>>SO THERE WERE SO MANY LAWS
THAT THEY HAD ATTACHED TO THE
00:46:27.68\00:46:31.45
LAWS OF GOD - YOU NOT ONLY HAD
THE CEREMONIAL LAW, YOU HAD ALL
00:46:31.49\00:46:34.99
THE MAN-MADE LAWS. THEY
HAD LAWS ABOUT THE SABBATH
00:46:35.02\00:46:37.79
- THEY MEASURED OUT HOW FAR
YOU COULD WALK ON THE SABBATH.
00:46:37.83\00:46:41.43
THEY HAD A BALL OF STRING THAT
WAS YOUR SABBATH BALL OF YARN -
00:46:41.46\00:46:43.90
YOU'D TIE IT AT ONE LOCATION
AND YOU'D UNROLL IT TO THE OTHER
00:46:43.93\00:46:47.64
LOCATION AND YOU'D
MEASURE HOW FAR YOU COULD GO.
00:46:47.67\00:46:50.44
THEY SAID, 'YOU CAN'T CARRY A
BURDEN.' AND SO THEY SPENT HOURS
00:46:50.47\00:46:54.38
AND DAYS
DISCUSSING 'WHAT IS A BURDEN?'
00:46:54.41\00:46:56.54
AND THEY FINALLY SAID, 'ANYTHING
NOT YOUR CLOTHING IS A BURDEN.'
00:46:56.58\00:46:59.85
SO, IF YOU HAD A HANDKERCHIEF IT
WAS CONSIDERED CARRYING A BURDEN
00:46:59.88\00:47:03.15
ON THE SABBATH DAY. SO,
IF YOU HAD A COLD ON THE
00:47:03.18\00:47:05.02
SABBATH, YOU HAD TO SEW YOUR
HANKY TO YOUR CLOTHES SO IT WAS
00:47:05.05\00:47:08.29
ACTUALLY PART OF YOUR GARMENT;
THEN YOU COULD BLOW YOUR NOSE IN
00:47:08.32\00:47:11.66
YOUR CLOTHES AND
YOU'D BE OKAY. THEY DID.
00:47:11.69\00:47:15.63
THEY REALLY HAD LAWS LIKE
THIS. AND SO, THEY HAD ALL THESE
00:47:15.66\00:47:19.27
BURDENS THAT THEY WOULDN'T
LIFT WITH ONE OF THEIR FINGERS.
00:47:19.30\00:47:21.70
LET ME CONTINUE
READING IN ACTS 15.
00:47:21.74\00:47:23.61
GO BACK THERE, FOR ME.
AND SO, PETER SAID - FINISHING
00:47:23.64\00:47:28.41
VERSE 7 - "...GOD CHOSE
AMONG US, THAT BY MY MOUTH THE
00:47:28.44\00:47:31.85
GENTILES SHOULD HEAR THE
WORD OF THE GOSPEL AND BELIEVE.
00:47:31.88\00:47:34.38
SO GOD, WHO KNOWS THE HEART,
ACKNOWLEDGED THEM BY GIVING THEM
00:47:34.42\00:47:37.29
THE HOLY SPIRIT, JUST AS HE DID
TO US, AND MADE NO DISTINCTION
00:47:37.32\00:47:40.66
BETWEEN US AND THEM, PURIFYING
THEIR HEARTS BY FAITH."
00:47:40.69\00:47:44.23
- HOW ARE OUR HEARTS
PURIFIED? >>BY FAITH.
00:47:44.26\00:47:46.26
>>BY FAITH. "NOW
THEREFORE, WHY DO YOU TEST
00:47:46.29\00:47:48.73
GOD BY PUTTING A YOKE ON
THE NECK OF THE DISCIPLES WHICH
00:47:48.76\00:47:51.47
NEITHER OUR FATHERS
NOR WE WERE ABLE TO BEAR?
00:47:51.50\00:47:53.67
BUT WE BELIEVE THAT THROUGH THE
GRACE OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST
00:47:53.70\00:47:57.87
WE SHALL BE SAVED IN
THE SAME MANNER AS THEY."
00:47:57.91\00:48:01.28
- NOW PAUL IS SAYING, 'WE' -
JEWS - 'WE'LL BE SAVED THE SAME
00:48:01.31\00:48:05.55
WAY THEY'RE SAVED.
WE'RE SAVED BY FAITH.' - "THEN
00:48:05.58\00:48:08.52
ALL THE MULTITUDE KEPT SILENT"
- THE DISPUTE FINALLY ENDED.
00:48:08.55\00:48:11.22
PETER, SORT OF, HAD THE LAST
WORD - "AND LISTENED TO BARNABAS
00:48:11.25\00:48:13.66
AND PAUL DECLARING HOW MANY
MIRACLES AND WONDERS GOD HAD
00:48:13.69\00:48:17.09
WORKED THROUGH THEM
AMONG THE GENTILES."
00:48:17.13\00:48:18.86
- GOD WAS WORKING - "AND AFTER
THEY HAD BECOME SILENT, JAMES
00:48:18.89\00:48:23.50
ANSWERED, SAYING, 'MEN AND
BRETHREN, LISTEN TO ME: SIMON
00:48:23.53\00:48:27.20
HAD DECLARED HOW GOD AT THE
FIRST VISITED THE GENTILES TO
00:48:27.24\00:48:30.27
TAKE OUT OF THEM A PEOPLE'"
- SO WHO WAS THE FIRST ONE?
00:48:30.31\00:48:33.61
PETER - SIMON - SAME ONE -
THROUGH PETER THE GOSPEL CAME TO
00:48:33.64\00:48:37.88
THE GENTILES - AND CORNELIUS -
"AND WITH THIS THE WORDS OF THE
00:48:37.91\00:48:42.15
PROPHETS AGREE, JUST AS IT
IS WRITTEN: 'AFTER THIS I WILL
00:48:42.18\00:48:46.25
RETURN AND WILL REBUILD THE
TABERNACLE OF DAVID, WHICH HAS
00:48:46.29\00:48:48.72
FALLEN DOWN; I WILL REBUILD ITS
RUINS, AND I WILL SET IT UP; SO
00:48:48.76\00:48:51.96
THE REST OF MANKIND'" - MEANING
THE GENTILES - "'MAY SEEK THE
00:48:51.99\00:48:55.70
LORD,'" - COME TO JESUS AND I
WILL BUILD - DESTROY MY BODY AND
00:48:55.73\00:48:59.57
I'LL RAISE A TABERNACLE TO DAVID
- CHRIST'S OWN BODY - "EVEN ALL
00:48:59.60\00:49:05.04
THE GENTILES WHO ARE CALLED BY
MY NAME, SAYS THE LORD WHO DOES
00:49:05.07\00:49:09.58
ALL THESE THINGS.' KNOWN TO GOD
FROM ETERNITY ARE ALL HIS WORKS.
00:49:09.61\00:49:17.39
THEREFORE I JUDGE" - NOW HERE'S
WHAT THEY FINALLY COME UP WITH -
00:49:17.42\00:49:21.29
"THAT WE SHOULD NOT TROUBLE
THOSE FROM AMONG THE GENTILES
00:49:21.32\00:49:24.56
WHO ARE TURNING TO GOD," -
TO JESUS - "BUT THAT WE WRITE TO
00:49:24.59\00:49:27.76
THEM TO ABSTAIN FROM THINGS
POLLUTED BY IDOLS, FROM SEXUAL
00:49:27.76\00:49:31.80
IMMORALITY, FROM THINGS
STRANGLED, AND FROM BLOOD."
00:49:31.83\00:49:35.54
SO THEN THEY SPECIFY THAT, THEY
WRITE IT IN A LETTER, THEY SEND
00:49:35.57\00:49:38.17
IT BACK BY PAUL AND BARNABAS,
THEY SEND IT WITH WITNESSES, AND
00:49:38.21\00:49:41.71
THEY SAID - NOW WERE THEY SAYING
THE GENTILES, THEY DON'T NEED TO
00:49:41.74\00:49:44.78
KEEP THE SABBATH, IT'S
OKAY FOR THEM TO STEAL AND LIE?
00:49:44.81\00:49:50.62
BECAUSE THEY DON'T MENTION THE
TEN COMMANDMENTS SPECIFICALLY.
00:49:50.65\00:49:52.85
WHAT THEY TALKED ABOUT WAS THE
THINGS THAT THE GENTILES WERE
00:49:52.89\00:49:55.69
HAVING ISSUES WITH. FOR
ONE THING, THEY DO MENTION
00:49:55.72\00:49:58.53
THE HEALTH LAWS BECAUSE THEY
SAY, 'DON'T EAT BLOOD.' SO WHY
00:49:58.56\00:50:02.03
WOULD YOU SAY, 'YOU CAN EAT
PORK, JUST DON'T EAT THE BLOOD'?
00:50:02.06\00:50:04.47
SO, OF COURSE, - AND, YOU KNOW,
I NEVER HEAR A GOOD ANSWER WHEN
00:50:04.50\00:50:07.60
I TALK TO MY CHARISMATIC FRIENDS
OR FRIENDS FROM EVANGELICAL
00:50:07.64\00:50:10.57
CHURCHES, THEY SAY, 'WHY DOES
IT SAY THAT GENTILES CAN'T EAT
00:50:10.61\00:50:13.48
BLOOD?' I MEAN, OBVIOUSLY,
THAT'S PART OF THE HEALTH LAW.
00:50:13.51\00:50:18.41
AND MOST OF THE - I MEAN, YOU
GO BUY YOUR BEEF THAT'S THERE AT
00:50:18.45\00:50:21.68
THE MARKET, PICK IT UP IN ITS
STYROFOAM CONTAINER, IT'S OFTEN
00:50:21.72\00:50:24.09
SWIMMING IN BLOOD.
IT'S NOT KOSHER BUTCHERING
00:50:24.12\00:50:26.55
THAT GOES ON
THERE. AND SO, YOU DON'T
00:50:26.59\00:50:30.33
HEAR THEM SAY THAT.
SO, OBVIOUSLY, IT INCLUDED
00:50:30.36\00:50:32.03
THE HEALTH LAWS; CERTAINLY IT
INCLUDED THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
00:50:32.06\00:50:34.93
THEY WERE HAVING PROBLEMS WITH
MULTIPLE MARRIAGES - THAT'S WHY
00:50:34.93\00:50:37.73
PAUL SAID, 'HUSBAND OF ONE WIFE'
AND THEY ALSO HAD PROBLEMS WITH
00:50:37.77\00:50:42.87
IDOLATRY. AND SO
THEY SPECIFIED THE
00:50:42.90\00:50:45.37
ISSUES, BUT THEY DIDN'T SAY
YOU HAD TO KEEP THE FEASTS, THEY
00:50:45.41\00:50:49.01
DIDN'T SAY YOU HAD TO BE
CIRCUMCISED, AND THAT'S WHY THEY
00:50:49.04\00:50:52.11
WROTE THOSE THINGS TO - ROMANS
14 AND COLOSSIANS CHAPTER 2.
00:50:52.15\00:50:56.12
ALRIGHT, I'M
RUNNING OUT OF TIME HERE.
00:50:56.15\00:51:00.09
SO, LET ME - LET ME JUMP AHEAD
HERE - SO THEY SEND THAT MESSAGE
00:51:00.12\00:51:03.66
TO THEM - ACTS 15:21 - SOMETHING
ELSE I WANT YOU TO NOTICE -
00:51:03.69\00:51:14.17
RIGHT AFTER HE GIVE THIS - THESE
LAWS - DID THEY UNDERSTAND THE
00:51:14.20\00:51:18.14
SABBATH SHOULD STILL BE KEPT?
IN THE SAME CHAPTER - LOOK AT
00:51:18.17\00:51:21.14
ACTS 15:21 - "FOR MOSES HAS
HAD THROUGHOUT MANY GENERATIONS
00:51:21.18\00:51:25.78
THOSE WHO PREACH HIM IN EVERY
CITY," - SPEAKING OF THE GENTILE
00:51:25.81\00:51:30.55
WORLD - "BEING READ IN
THE SYNAGOGUES EVERY SABBATH."
00:51:30.59\00:51:34.86
- SO WERE THE GENTILES
ACQUAINTED WITH THE SABBATH?
00:51:34.89\00:51:38.96
RIGHT AFTER THEY TALKED ABOUT
THE THINGS THE GENTILES SHOULD
00:51:38.99\00:51:41.13
REMEMBER, THEY MENTION 'EVERY
SABBATH IN THE SYNAGOGUES.' AND
00:51:41.16\00:51:46.94
WHY DID PAUL GO LOOKING IN THE
SYNAGOGUES TO ARREST THE JEWS?
00:51:46.97\00:51:51.97
BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE THEY WERE
PREACHING ON THE SABBATH DAYS.
00:51:52.01\00:51:54.31
SO THAT WAS PRETTY CLEAR.
ANYWAY, I'VE RUN OUT OF TIME.
00:51:54.34\00:51:57.28
I THINK I PRETTY WELL COVERED
WHAT THE ISSUE WAS THAT PAUL WAS
00:51:57.31\00:52:02.25
DEALING WITH IN ROME.
HE'S THEN GIVING THE GOSPEL -
00:52:02.28\00:52:05.72
THE PURE GOSPEL - IN THIS LETTER
TO THE ROMANS IN A WAY THAT JEW
00:52:05.75\00:52:09.99
AND GENTILE CAN UNDERSTAND - AND
YOU'LL HEAR HIM OFTEN REFERENCE
00:52:10.03\00:52:13.63
THE JEWS AND REFERENCE THE
GENTILES IN THE LETTER AS HE
00:52:13.66\00:52:16.56
THEN GOES THROUGH THE BOOK OF
ROMANS BECAUSE HE'S WANTING THEM
00:52:16.60\00:52:19.33
TO BE ONE CHURCH - AND HE
STILL WANTS THAT TODAY, AMEN?
00:52:19.37\00:52:22.97
ALRIGHT, I WANT TO REMIND OUR
FRIENDS JUST BEFORE WE SIGN OFF,
00:52:23.00\00:52:25.11
WE DO HAVE A BOOK YOU'LL REALLY
ENJOY, IT'S CALLED FEAST DAYS
00:52:25.14\00:52:27.84
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00:52:39.45\00:52:41.79
WE WILL STUDY HIS WORD TOGETHER
WITH YOU AGAIN NEXT WEEK.
00:52:41.82\00:52:45.79
>>FIVE HUNDRED YEARS AGO, GOD
USED MARTIN LUTHER TO INSPIRE A
00:52:45.83\00:52:49.70
GREAT REFORMATION, CALLING
PEOPLE BACK TO THE FOUNDATIONAL
00:52:49.73\00:52:53.70
TEACHINGS OF SCRIPTURE; HOWEVER,
IN THE CENTURIES THAT FOLLOWED,
00:52:53.74\00:52:57.31
THE CHURCH HAS SLIPPED OFF THE
BEDROCK OF TRUTH INTO THE VALLEY
00:52:57.34\00:53:01.11
OF LUKEWARM WORLDLINESS.
THAT'S WHY, THIS FALL, I'LL BE
00:53:01.14\00:53:04.95
PRESENTING A BRAND-NEW NINE-PART
SERIES CALLED FOUNDATIONS OF
00:53:04.98\00:53:09.72
FAITH - A PERFECT SERIES
FOR ANYONE SEEKING A PERSONAL
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REVIVAL AND RENEWAL IN
THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH CHRIST.
00:53:13.19\00:53:16.56
PLEASE PLAN, NOW, TO JOIN ME IN
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AND BE SURE TO INVITE
OTHERS TO JOIN YOU AS WELL.
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THE REFORMATION CONTINUES.
>>LET'S FACE IT, IT'S NOT ALWAYS
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EASY TO UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING
YOU READ IN THE BIBLE.
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>>YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD
THE EXPRESSION BEFORE, 'IF YOU
00:54:11.75\00:54:13.78
DON'T LIKE THE WEATHER IN TEXAS,
JUST WAIT; IT'LL CHANGE.' AND
00:54:13.82\00:54:17.65
YOU'VE ALSO HEARD, 'EVERYTHING
IS BIGGER IN TEXAS - THE
00:54:17.69\00:54:20.26
RANCHES, THE BELT BUCKLES,
THE COWBOY HATS...' BUT THE MOST
00:54:20.29\00:54:24.29
FAMOUS SLOGAN ABOUT
TEXAS IS 'REMEMBER THE ALAMO!'
00:54:24.33\00:54:32.17
THE VIOLENT BATTLES AND BRAVERY
OF ICONIC HEROES, HAVE BEEN THE
00:54:32.20\00:54:35.37
STUFF OF LEGENDS, THROUGHOUT
WHICH ENTIRE CULTURES OFTEN DRAW
00:54:35.40\00:54:38.37
THEIR IDENTITY AND PRIDE, EVEN
LONG AFTER CENTURIES HAVE PAST.
00:54:38.41\00:54:42.41
AND IN TEXAS, THE STORY OF THE
ALAMO HAS BEEN A RALLYING CRY OF
00:54:42.44\00:54:45.88
TEXAS
INDEPENDENCE FOR 200 YEARS.
00:54:45.91\00:54:49.42
ONE REASON THAT TEXANS LOVE TO
BRAG THAT EVERYTHING IS BIGGER
00:54:49.45\00:54:51.99
IN TEXAS IS, OF COURSE, BECAUSE
TEXAS IS THE LARGEST OF THE
00:54:52.02\00:54:55.56
LOWER 48 U.S. STATES.
IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE THAT THIS
00:54:55.59\00:54:59.26
MASSIVE STATE GOT ITS BEGINNING
IN A VERY SMALL CHRISTIAN
00:54:59.29\00:55:02.96
MISSION DURING THE
BATTLE OF THE ALAMO.
00:55:03.00\00:55:05.97
EVERY YEAR THIS FAMOUS MISSION
MUSEUM RECEIVES OVER TWO AND A
00:55:06.00\00:55:09.57
HALF MILLION VISITORS FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE PLANET, THAT ARE
00:55:09.60\00:55:12.81
EAGER TO GET A GOOD
LOOK AT THIS LEGENDARY SITE.
00:55:12.84\00:55:16.14
THE ALAMO PLAYED A CRITICAL
ROLE IN THE TEXAS REVOLUTION.
00:55:16.18\00:55:20.02
IN DECEMBER 1835, TEXANS
AND TEJANO VOLUNTEERS BATTLED
00:55:20.05\00:55:24.59
MEXICAN TROOPS QUARTERED IN
THE CITY, FORCING GENERAL MARTIN
00:55:24.62\00:55:27.52
PERFECTO DE COS TO SURRENDER.
THE VICTORIOUS VOLUNTEERS
00:55:27.56\00:55:30.99
THEN OCCUPIED THE ALAMO
AND STRENGTHENED ITS DEFENSES.
00:55:31.03\00:55:34.73
FAMOUS AMERICANS LIKE DAVY
CROCKETT, JIM BOWIE, AND COLONEL
00:55:34.76\00:55:38.50
WILLIAM TRAVIS MADE THIS
LOCATION - THIS ANCIENT MISSION
00:55:38.53\00:55:41.97
- THE BEACHHEAD - THE LAST
STAND IN AN EPIC BATTLE TO WIN
00:55:42.00\00:55:45.87
INDEPENDENCE OF
TEXAS FROM MEXICO.
00:55:45.91\00:55:49.24
ON FEBRUARY 23, 1836, THE
ARRIVAL OF GENERAL ANTONIO LOPEZ
00:55:49.28\00:55:54.35
SANTA ANA NEARLY
CAUGHT THEM BY SURPRISE.
00:55:54.38\00:55:57.32
UNDAUNTED, THE TEXANS AND
TEJANOS PREPARED TO DEFEND THE
00:55:57.35\00:56:00.69
ALAMO. FOR THIS
SMALL RAG-TAG GROUP OF
00:56:00.72\00:56:03.02
REBELS, THE YOUNGEST OF WHOM
WAS ABOUT SIXTEEN AND THE OLDEST
00:56:03.06\00:56:06.23
SEVENTY-FIVE, WAS AGAINST
THE WELL-TRAINED AND ORGANIZED
00:56:06.26\00:56:09.36
MEXICAN ARMY OF SIX
THOUSAND-PLUS SOLDIERS.
00:56:09.40\00:56:12.57
IT WAS A FIERCE AND LOPSIDED
BATTLE, YET THE SMALL FORCE OF
00:56:12.60\00:56:15.80
REBELS WAS ABLE TO REPEL
THE TROOPS FOR THIRTEEN DAYS.
00:56:15.84\00:56:20.21
LEGEND HOLDS THAT WITH THE
POSSIBILITY OF ADDITIONAL HELP
00:56:20.24\00:56:23.75
FADING, COLONEL TRAVIS DREW A
LINE IN THE GROUND WITH A SWORD
00:56:23.78\00:56:27.32
AND ASKED ANY MAN WILLING TO
STAY AND FIGHT TO STEP OVER THE
00:56:27.35\00:56:31.12
LINE. ALL EXCEPT
ONE CROSSED OVER.
00:56:31.15\00:56:34.76
THE FINAL ASSAULT
CAME BEFORE DAYBREAK.
00:56:34.79\00:56:37.39
ON THE MORNING OF MARCH 6, 1836,
THE THIRTEENTH DAY OF THE SIEGE,
00:56:37.43\00:56:42.13
CANON AND SMALL ARMS FIRE
FROM INSIDE THE ALAMO BEAT BACK
00:56:42.16\00:56:45.80
SEVERAL MEXICAN ATTACKS.
REGROUPING, SANTA ANA'S SOLDIERS
00:56:45.83\00:56:49.77
SCALED THE WALLS AND
RUSHED INTO THE COMPOUND.
00:56:49.80\00:56:53.07
THE DESPERATE STRUGGLE CONTINUED
UNTIL THE DEFENDERS WERE
00:56:53.11\00:56:55.68
OVERWHELMED. BY
SUNRISE, THE BATTLE HAD ENDED
00:56:55.71\00:56:59.48
AND THE GARRISON WAS SLAIN.
YOU KNOW, HISTORIANS MAY DEBATE
00:56:59.51\00:57:02.92
SOME OF THE DETAILS REGARDING
THE BATTLE OF THE ALAMO, BUT
00:57:02.95\00:57:06.02
NONE OF THEM QUESTION THE
INCREDIBLE SACRIFICE THAT WAS
00:57:06.05\00:57:08.32
MADE AND THE COURAGE
THAT WAS DISPLAYED DURING THAT
00:57:08.36\00:57:10.56
INTENSE CONFLICT. THEY
MADE THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE
00:57:10.59\00:57:14.73
- GIVING THEIR LIVES - AND THIS
IS WHY THE STORY OF THE ALAMO IS
00:57:14.76\00:57:17.57
SO INSPIRING AND SO
ENCOURAGING, YOU KNOW?
00:57:17.60\00:57:20.94
AND THAT'S WHY THE BIBLE IS
SO INSPIRING, FRIENDS, BECAUSE
00:57:20.97\00:57:23.27
SOMEONE WAS WILLING TO MAKE THE
ULTIMATE SACRIFICE AND GIVE HIS
00:57:23.30\00:57:25.97
LIFE SO YOU COULD HAVE
FREEDOM AND ETERNAL LIFE.
00:57:26.01\00:57:29.48
DON'T YOU THINK YOU COULD TRUST
YOUR LIFE TO A FRIEND LIKE THAT,
00:57:29.51\00:57:32.65
THAT WOULD GIVE EVERYTHING?
THE STORY OF THE GOSPEL IS A
00:57:32.68\00:57:35.22
STORY OF COURAGE AND HOPE.
IT'S THE STORY OF GOD WHO WILL
00:57:35.25\00:57:37.95
NEVER LEAVE YOU
WITHOUT DEFENSE AND SUPPORT.
00:57:37.99\00:57:40.96
JESUS IS THE GOOD NEWS AND
THE GOSPEL IS A STORY WORTH
00:57:40.99\00:57:44.63
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