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>>GOOD MORNING, FRIENDS,
WELCOME TO SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY
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HOUR HERE AT THE GRANITE BAY
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH.
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I'D LIKE TO WELCOME OUR ONLINE
MEMBERS AND ALSO THOSE WHO ARE
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JOINING US ACROSS THE COUNTRY
AND AROUND THE WORLD - OUR STUDY
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GROUP - THANK YOU
FOR TUNING IN TODAY.
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ALSO I'D LIKE TO WELCOME THE
MEMBERS AND THE VISITORS RIGHT
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HERE AT THE GRANITE BAY CHURCH.
IT'S ALWAYS GOOD TO SEE YOU
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SABBATH MORNING COMING TO
STUDY GOD'S WORD TOGETHER.
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NOW IF YOU WERE HERE LAST WEEK
YOU KNOW THAT WE STARTED A NEW
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LESSON QUARTERLY DEALING
WITH THE SUBJECT OF STEWARDSHIP.
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IT'S ACTUALLY ENTITLED
STEWARDSHIP: MOTIVES OF THE
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HEART . AND FOR OUR FRIENDS WHO
ARE JOINING US IF YOU DON'T HAVE
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A COPY OF THIS LESSON YOU CAN GO
TO THE AMAZING FACTS WEBSITE -
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JUST AMAZINGFACTS.ORG - YOU CAN
DOWNLOAD LESSON #3 IS OUR STUDY
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FOR TODAY. IT'S
ENTITLED GOD OR MAMMON?
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AND BY THE END OF OUR STUDY YOU
WILL UNDERSTAND WHAT MAMMON IS.
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SOMETIMES PEOPLE ASK
FOR WHAT EXACTLY IS THAT?
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WELL HOPEFULLY WE WILL HAVE THAT
EXPLAINED TO US DURING OUR TIME
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OF STUDY. WE HAVE A
FREE OFFER THAT GOES
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ALONG WITH OUR STUDY
TODAY ENTITLED THE FLESH
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AND THE SPIRIT .
THIS IS OUR FREE OFFER.
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FOR THOSE IN NORTH AMERICA, JUST
GIVE US A CALL ON OUR RESOURCE
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PHONE ONLINE THAT'S 866-788-3966
AND YOU CAN ASK FOR OFFER #792.
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AGAIN THAT
NUMBER IS 866-788-3966.
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ASK FOR OFFER #792 - A
BOOK ENTITLED THE FLESH AND THE
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SPIRIT . WE'LL BE
HAPPY TO SEND THIS TO
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ANYBODY IN NORTH
AMERICA THAT CALLS AND ASKS.
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IF YOU'RE OUTSIDE OF NORTH
AMERICA, YOU CAN ALSO READ THE
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BOOK BY JUST GOING TO
THE AMAZING FACTS WEB SITE.
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THAT WEB ADDRESS ONCE
AGAIN IS AMAZINGFACTS.ORG .
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WELL BEFORE WE GET TO OUR STUDY
THIS MORNING WE USUALLY SET -
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TAKE SOME TIME TO SING SOME
SONGS TOGETHER BUT WE HAVE A
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SPECIAL TREAT FOR YOU TODAY.
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INSTEAD OF HAVING OUR GENERAL
CONGREGATIONAL SINGING AT THIS
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TIME WE GOT A SPECIAL QUARTET
FROM SACRAMENTO CENTRAL WHO ARE
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GOING TO BE BRINGING
US A SPECIAL MUSICAL ITEM.
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THE GROUP IS CALLED AFRICAN
STYLE AND ALL OF THOSE SINGING
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IN THE GROUP ARE
ORIGINALLY FROM ANGOLA.
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SO WE WANT TO WELCOME
THEM HERE THIS MORNING.
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>>SO WE'RE GONNA - THE SONG
WE ARE ABOUT TO SING, IT IS - IT
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TALKS ABOUT THE PLACE THAT JESUS
IS PREPARING FOR US, AND HE SAY
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VERY SOON I WILL COME
AND I WILL TAKE YOU WITH ME.
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AND HE SAID THAT PLACE IS VERY
BEAUTIFUL AND WE'RE GOING TO BE
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SINGING IN BUNDU, THAT'S ONE
OF THE DIALECTS SPOKEN SOUTH OF
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ANGOLA. AND THEY
SAY 'IM BOLU APOSOKA
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YULU' - THAT MEANS THE
PLACE THAT JESUS IS PREPARED
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FOR US IS VERY BEAUTIFUL.
(A CAPELLA - IN BUNDU)
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>>AMEN. AMEN. BEAUTIFUL.
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I'D LIKE TO INVITE YOU TO
BOW YOUR HEADS AS WE OPEN WITH A
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WORD OF PRAYER DEAR FATHER
IN HEAVEN, ONCE AGAIN, WE ARE
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GRATEFUL THAT WE CAN GATHER
TOGETHER AND OPEN UP YOUR WORD
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AND STUDY THIS IMPORTANT THEME
OF SETTING OUR PRIORITIES ON THE
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THINGS OF HEAVEN, NOT
ON THE THINGS OF EARTH.
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PRAY LORD THAT YOU GOT OUR MINDS
OUR HEARTS AS WE STUDY TOGETHER
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TODAY FOR WE ASK
THIS IN JESUS' NAME. AMEN.
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OUR LESSON THIS MORNING IS
GOING TO BE BROUGHT TO US BY OUR
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FAMILY LIFE PASTOR HERE
AT GRANITE BAY, PASTOR SHAWN
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BRUMMOND. THANK YOU SHAWN.
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>>GOOD MORNING
EVERYONE. >>GOOD MORNING.
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>>IT'S GOOD TO SEE
YOU ALL HERE THIS MORNING.
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AND ALWAYS GOOD TO BE ABLE
TO JOIN WITH THE SABBATH SCHOOL
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STUDY HOUR IT'S ALWAYS A
PRIVILEGE TO BE ABLE TO STAND UP
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HERE AND BE ABLE TO SHARE WITH
YOU SOME OF THE EXCITING AND
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LIFE-CHANGING AND - SOMETIMES
LIFE CHANGE - SAVING THINGS THAT
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GOD HAS REVEALED IN HIS WORD
THAT HE WANTS TO TEACH US. AND
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SOME OF US SO STUDY THE LESSONS
STUDY ALREADY OVER THE WEEK AND
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SOME OF US ARE JUST PLAYING
CATCH UP AS WE COME TOGETHER AND
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AS WE LOOK AT THIS -
PERHAPS, FOR YOU, FOR THE VERY
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FIRST TIME ON THIS TOPIC.
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I WANT TO ALSO THANK EVERYBODY
THAT'S JOINING US ONLINE AND OUR
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ONLINE CHURCH MEMBERS, AS WELL,
AS THEY COME TO BE ABLE TO STUDY
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WITH US HERE THIS MORNING
SO WELCOME TO YOU AS WELL.
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WELL YOU KNOW I BETTER
START WITH YOU KNOW I WAS
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SET UP BY OUR HOST PASTOR JËAN
ROSS HERE THIS MORNING AND HE
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SAID YOU KNOW HOPEFULLY
TODAY STUDY WILL EXPLAIN A VERY
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MYSTERIOUS WORD THAT AT
LEAST WAS MYSTERIOUS FOR ME.
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AND I KNOW IT'S MYSTERIOUS FOR
MANY PEOPLE WHEN THEY FIRST READ
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A STATEMENT AND WE'RE GOING
TO LOOK AT THAT STATEMENT THAT
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JESUS HAD SHARED DURING
THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT.
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WHEN HE TALKED
ABOUT GOD AND MAMMON.
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AND, WHEN I FIRST READ
THAT STATEMENT, I ALSO HAVE TO
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CONFESS THAT I WENT STRAIGHT
TO MY CLOSEST DICTIONARY AND I
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PULLED THAT
DICTIONARY OFF THE SHELF.
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I QUICKLY LOOKED UNDER 'M' AND I
LOOKED UP 'MAMMON' - WHAT IN THE
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WORLD IS THAT WORD?
BECAUSE WE JUST DON'T USE IT IN
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OUR NORMAL EVERYDAY
LANGUAGE - AT LEAST IN OUR
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DAY AND AGE TODAY.
SO MAMMON ITSELF JUST
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SIMPLY MEANS RICHES.
IT MEANS WEALTH, MONEY,
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THAT TYPE OF THING. SO
THE TITLE HOPEFULLY WILL MAKE
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A LITTLE BIT MORE SENSE TO
YOU AS WE LOOK AT LESSON #3.
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LESSON #3 IS INDEED
ENTITLED GOD OR MAMMON?
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WITH A QUESTION MARK AND WE'RE
GOING TO EXPAND AND UNPACK THAT.
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WHAT DOES THAT MEAN AND WHY IS
THE TITLE OF THIS WEEK'S STUDY
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ENTITLED GOD OR MAMMON ? -
QUESTION MARK - NOW I HAVE TO
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CONFESS THAT WHEN I WENT THROUGH
THIS PARTICULAR STUDY - LESSON
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STUDY FOR THIS WEEK AND, AS I
WAS LOOKING AT IT AND STUDIED IT
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AND PREPARING FOR A STUDY HERE
TODAY, I REALIZED THAT THIS IS
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ONE OF THE BEST WEEKLY
LESSON STUDIES I'VE STUDIED.
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NOT ONLY THAT, BUT IT WAS PACKED
FULL WITH ALL KINDS OF RICH AND
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PRICELESS COUNSEL AND
TRUTH THAT WE CAN FIND THERE.
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AND ONE OF THE THINGS I ALSO
QUICKLY DISCOVERED IS THAT WE
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ARE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO
COVER EVERYTHING THAT WE FIND IN
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THIS PARTICULAR LESSON STUDY
WITH THE TIME LIMIT THAT WE HAVE
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HERE TODAY. AND SO
ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS I
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WANT TO DO IS RECOMMEND THAT
IF YOU HAVEN'T READ THROUGH THE
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LESSON STUDY YOURSELF
BEFORE TODAY THAT YOU'LL
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MAKE AN EFFORT. AND
I JUST WANT TO HIGHLY
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RECOMMEND THAT YOU TAKE THE
LESSON STUDY AND YOU MAKE YOUR
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WAY THROUGH IT AFTERWARDS.
PERHAPS IF YOU'RE HERE ALIVE IN
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PERSON ON SABBATH AFTERNOON
YOU CAN MAKE THAT PART OF YOUR
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SABBATH AFTERNOON ACTIVITIES
AND JUST SPEND SOME EXTRA TIME
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FILLING IN THE BLANKS IN
DIFFERENT WAYS AND PLACES THAT
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WE JUST DON'T HAVE
TIME TO LOOK AT HERE TODAY.
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IT'S GOOD TO BE ABLE TO LOOK AT
THIS SUBJECT AND I WANT TO START
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BY INVITING EVERYONE TO OPEN
THEIR BIBLES OR OPEN THEIR APPS
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ON THEIR PHONES IF THAT'S WHAT
YOU'RE GETTING YOUR SCRIPTURE
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FROM. AND WE'RE
GOING TO GO TO THE
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BOOK OF MATTHEW, THE 19TH
CHAPTER SO, AGAIN, THAT'S THE
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BOOK OF MATTHEW,
THE 19TH CHAPTER.
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AND WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT A
MEETING THAT TOOK PLACE THAT WAS
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A SPONTANEOUS MEANING. IT
WAS A MEETING THAT WE MIGHT
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BE TEMPTED TO THINK JESUS DIDN'T
KNOW WAS COMING BECAUSE THERE
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WAS NO APPOINTMENT THAT WAS MADE
WITH HIM BUT, OF COURSE, WE'RE
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TALKING ABOUT JESUS AREN'T WE?
AND SO EVEN THOUGH THERE WAS AN
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APPOINTMENT MADE THERE WAS NO
EARLY CONTACT AT LEAST AS FAR AS
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THE BIBLE RECORD GOES IN CONCERN
TO JESUS' MEETING WITH THIS
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PARTICULAR INDIVIDUAL.
JESUS KNOWS THE BEGINNING FROM
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THE END AND SO THE
MEETING WAS NO SURPRISE FOR HIM.
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WHEN HE GOT UP IN THE MORNING,
HE KNEW THAT THAT WAS GOING TO
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BE PART OF HIS DAY BECAUSE,
AGAIN, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT JESUS
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HERE, AREN'T WE? SO
WE'RE PICKING IT UP WITH
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VERSE 16 AND WE'RE JUST GOING TO
LOOK AT A VERY INTERESTING AND
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INTRIGUING BUT ALSO A VERY
REVEALING MEETING THAT TOOK
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PLACE BETWEEN JESUS AND A YOUNG
MAN HE WAS A VERY WEALTHY MAN
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AS WE WILL SOON
DISCOVER THE SCRIPTURES REVEAL.
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THE BIBLE EVIDENCE ALSO SEEMS TO
REVEAL THAT HE WAS A YOUNG MAN
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AND THAT HE WAS ALSO A LEADER
IN ISRAEL AND SO HE WAS NO SMALL
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INDIVIDUAL IN THE PICTURE OF
ISRAEL DURING THE TIME OF JESUS.
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IN VERSE 16 IT SAYS, "NOW BEHOLD
ONE CAME AND SAID TO HIM 'GOOD
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TEACHER WHAT GOOD THING SHALL
I DO THAT I MAY INHERIT'" -
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OR HAVE - "'ETERNAL LIFE?'"
NOW THAT'S AN IMPORTANT QUESTION
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ISN'T IT? YOU KNOW WHAT
IS IT THAT I NEED TO LOOK AT?
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WHAT IS INVOLVED WHEN IT
COMES TO MY ETERNAL LIFE?
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NOW ONE OF THE INTERESTING
THINGS ABOUT THIS PARTICULAR
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MEETING IS THAT GOD NOT ONLY
INSPIRED THE [APOSTLE] MATTHEW
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TO RECORD THIS PARTICULAR
MEETING BUT HE ALSO HAD INSPIRED
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MARK TO RECORD IT AS
WELL IN HIS GOSPEL RECORD.
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AND WHEN WE GO TO HIS GOSPEL
RECORD IN CHAPTER 10 IN VERSE 17
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THERE IT RECORDS THE SAME WORDS
THAT WE READ IN VERSE 16, EXCEPT
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THAT HE ADDS THAT THE YOUNG MAN
HAD APPROACHED JESUS HERE ON THE
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ROADSIDE AND AS JESUS AND HIS
DISCIPLES WERE JOURNEYING FROM
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TOWN TO TOWN AND THE YOUNG
MAN KNELT DOWN BEFORE JESUS.
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NOW THE REASON THAT I'M POINTING
THAT OUT IS BECAUSE I THINK
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THAT ADDS A VERY IMPORTANT
ELEMENT FOR US IN UNDERSTANDING
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WHERE THIS YOUNG MAN WAS AT.
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IT REVEALS THAT THIS YOUNG MAN
WAS NOT YOUR TYPICAL ISRAELITE
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THAT WE READ SO OFTEN IN
THE OTHER PARTS OF THE GOSPELS.
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IN SOME OF THE OTHER PARTS OF
THE GOSPELS WE FIND THERE THAT
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MOST OF THE TIME WHEN AN
ISRAELITE, A SCRIBE, A PRIEST, A
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LEVITE AND SO ON, IS IN THE
CROWD AND - OR IF THEY MEET WITH
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JESUS, TYPICALLY WHEN
THEY'RE ASKING JESUS A QUESTION
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THEY'RE TRYING TO TRIP JESUS UP,
THEY'RE TRYING TO DISCREDIT HIM,
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THEY'RE TRYING TO EMBARRASS
HIM. THEIR MOTIVES ARE ULTERIOR.
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BUT WITH THIS PARTICULAR YOUNG
MAN THE VERY FACT THAT HE CAME
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UP TO JESUS AND HE KNELT DOWN
BEFORE HIM, REVEALS THAT HE WAS
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UNDER SOME VERY DEEP CONVICTION
AND IT REVEALS TO US HIS MOTIVES
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WERE VERY PURE
WHEN HE CAME TO JESUS.
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SO HERE WE HAVE THIS RICH YOUNG
RULER - A LEADER IN ISRAEL - HE
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KNEELS DOWN BEFORE JESUS.
NOW THE RESPONSE THAT JESUS
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GIVES TO THE YOUNG MAN'S
QUESTION REVEALS THAT HE DIDN'T
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FULLY COME TO COMPREHEND
EVERYTHING THAT JESUS WAS.
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JESUS KNEW WHO HE
WAS. WE KNOW WHO JESUS IS.
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THE BIBLE MAKES IT VERY CLEAR
THAT CHRIST WAS THE ALMIGHTY
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ONE; HE WAS EQUAL WITH THE
FATHER; HE IS GOD HIMSELF -
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THE SON OF GOD ON EARTH.
BUT THIS MAN DIDN'T QUITE
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UNDERSTAND THAT BUT, YET,
IT'S INTERESTING THAT WHEN HE
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APPROACHED JESUS, HE APPROACHED
HIM WITH AN ATTITUDE OF -
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>>SUBMISSION >>OF
WORSHIP OR SUBMISSION AS
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SOMEBODY HAD ALSO POINTED OUT
HERE. YES, THANK YOU JULIANA.
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SO HERE WE HAVE THIS YOUNG MAN.
HE KNEELS DOWN BEFORE JESUS IN
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SUBMISSION IN A - IN
AN ATTITUDE OF WORSHIP.
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NOW, OF COURSE, IN OTHER PARTS
OF THE SCRIPTURES WHERE EVEN AN
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ANGEL FINDS HIMSELF - WITH
JOHN THE REVELATOR FALLING DOWN
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BEFORE THE ANGEL - THE ANGEL
QUICKLY, YOU KNOW, BRINGS HIM
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BACK TO HIS FEET AND SAYS 'NO,
NO NO, NO, NO, YOU DON'T WANT TO
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DO THAT. WORSHIP
GOD ALONE.' OF COURSE,
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JESUS IS GOD AND SO
JESUS DOESN'T TELL HIM NOT TO.
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AND SO THE MAN IS VERY
CLOSE - IS VERY CLOSE TO FULLY
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COMPREHENDING
EVERYTHING THAT JESUS IS.
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HE'S UNDER DEEP CONVICTION
AND HE UNDERSTANDS THAT THIS MAN
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REALLY HAS THE
KEYS OF THE KINGDOM.
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THIS IS THE MAN THAT REALLY
HAS THE ANSWERS IN REGARDS TO
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ETERNAL LIFE. AND SO
WHEN HE APPROACHES HIM ON
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HIS KNEES HE SAYS 'GOOD TEACHER
WHAT GOOD THING SHALL I DO
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THAT I CAN HAVE ETERNAL
LIFE?' THEN WE GO TO VERSE 17.
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IN VERSE 17 IT GOES ON AND SAYS,
"SO HE SAID TO HIM, 'WHY DO YOU
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CALL ME GOOD? NO ONE IS
GOOD BUT ONE, THAT IS GOD.
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BUT IF YOU WANT TO ENTER INTO
LIFE KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS.'"
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AND SO HERE WE HAVE JESUS AND
HE KIND OF REFERENCES THE YOUNG
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MAN'S REFERENCE TO JESUS
CALLING HIM GOOD TEACHER.
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NOW HE SAYS THERE ONLY
ONE WHO GOOD AND THAT'S GOD.
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NOW WAS JESUS GOD?
YES. DID THE YOUNG MAN
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FULLY UNDERSTAND THAT?
WELL, APPARENTLY NOT, BECAUSE
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JESUS IS PLAIN ON THAT.
HE UNDERSTANDS THAT THE MAN
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DOESN'T FULLY UNDERSTAND THAT
JESUS IS GOD AT THIS POINT AND
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SO HE SAYS 'WHY DO YOU CALL ME
GOOD? THERE IS NO ONE GOOD BUT
00:16:41.60\00:16:45.07
GOD.' BUT THEN HE GOES ON
AND HE SAYS 'IF YOU WANT TO HAVE
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ETERNAL LIFE, DON'T FORGET TO
KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS.' ALRIGHT?
00:16:47.74\00:16:51.74
NOW, OF COURSE, KEEPING
THE COMMANDMENTS IS AND OF
00:16:51.77\00:16:53.71
THEMSELVES
DOESN'T SAVE US, DOES IT?
00:16:53.74\00:16:56.01
WE JUST SPENT A WHOLE QUARTER
LOOKING AT THE GOSPEL BOOK OF
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ROMANS THAT MADE
THAT VERY CLEAR FOR US.
00:16:59.15\00:17:01.95
THAT IT IS THROUGH
CHRIST AND OUR FAITH IN HIM -
00:17:01.98\00:17:03.79
JUSTIFIED BY FAITH ALONE -
THAT WE HAVE OUR ETERNAL LIFE.
00:17:03.82\00:17:08.26
BUT IN THE SAME LIGHT WE ALSO
STATED VERY CLEARLY THAT JESUS
00:17:08.29\00:17:11.83
AND THE APOSTLE PAUL TAUGHT THAT
IF WE ARE NOT WILLING TO GIVE
00:17:11.86\00:17:15.56
OUR FULL SURRENDER AND OUR FULL
WILLING OBEDIENCE TO JESUS, THEN
00:17:15.60\00:17:21.17
WE DON'T MEET THE CONDITION THAT
IS NECESSARY TO RECEIVE THAT
00:17:21.20\00:17:24.74
GIFT THAT JESUS GIVES TO US.
00:17:24.77\00:17:27.71
SO JESUS IS TALKING ABOUT THE
IMPORTANCE OF GIVING A WILLING
00:17:27.74\00:17:31.85
OBEDIENCE TO THE
COMMANDMENTS OF GOD.
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VERSE 18 HE GOES ON AND
HE SAID TO HIM, 'WHICH ONES?'
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AND THIS IS, OF COURSE,
THE RESPONSE OF THE YOUNG MAN:
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'WHICH ONES?' JESUS
SAYS 'YOU SHALL NOT MURDER.
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YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT
ADULTERY. YOU SHALL NOT STEAL.
00:17:45.66\00:17:47.66
YOU SHALL NOT
BEAR FALSE WITNESS.
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HONOR YOUR FATHER AND YOUR
MOTHER.' NOW IS THIS A WHOLE
00:17:49.66\00:17:54.14
EXHAUSTIVE LIST OF ALL
THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD?
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NO IT ISN'T, IS IT?
THIS IS A SAMPLING THAT JESUS
00:17:56.77\00:18:00.71
IS OBVIOUSLY GIVING
HERE. NOW HE LISTS FIVE OF THE
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ORIGINAL TEN COMMANDMENTS THAT
GOD HAD ACTUALLY CARVED WITH HIS
00:18:04.85\00:18:07.98
OWN FINGER IN THE TABLETS OF
STONE THAT HE'D GIVEN TO MOSES.
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AND THE REASON I'M STOPPING HERE
AND ADDRESSING THIS LITTLE BIT
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IS BECAUSE THERE ARE SOME
THAT ARE LOOKING FOR ANY KIND OF
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LOOPHOLE THEY CAN POSSIBLY FIND
TO BE ABLE TO AVOID THE FACT
00:18:20.60\00:18:25.63
THAT JESUS CALLS US, WHEN WE
COME TO PUT OUR FAITH IN HIM, TO
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GIVE OUR FULL
WILLING OBEDIENCE TO HIM.
00:18:29.00\00:18:31.51
AND SO WE'RE LOOKING FOR ANY
KIND OF LOOPHOLE THAT MIGHT BE
00:18:31.54\00:18:34.31
ABLE TO RELEASE US FROM AS MUCH
OBEDIENCE AS WE POSSIBLY CAN
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FIND. NOW THIS
KIND OF ATTITUDE IS
00:18:37.68\00:18:41.15
VERY QUESTIONABLE AND WE
NEED TO ASK OUR HEARTS, 'DO
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WE REALLY LOVE JESUS?'
BECAUSE IF WE LOVE HIM WE WILL
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KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS,
JESUS SAYS, AND SO IT'S REALLY
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AN ACID TEST FOR OUR LOVE.
VERY OBVIOUSLY JESUS HERE IS NOT
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TALKING ABOUT THESE ARE
THE ONLY COMMANDMENTS THAT ARE
00:18:54.03\00:18:56.63
APPLICABLE NOW FOR THE
CHRISTIAN AND FOR A BELIEVER.
00:18:56.67\00:18:59.30
HE LEFT OUT SOME VERY KEY ONES
THAT WE - YOU AND I - I DON'T
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THINK I HAVE TO THINK VERY FAR
OR VERY LONG TO UNDERSTAND THAT
00:19:03.24\00:19:06.78
HE STILL WANTS TO KEEP THEM.
THE ONES THAT ARE MISSING ARE?
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WHAT'S THE TENTH ONE. >>COVET.
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>>YOU SHALL NOT COVET.
ALRIGHT, COVETOUSNESS IS A
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BIG PART OF THE
SUBJECT WE'RE LOOKING AT HERE
00:19:15.95\00:19:17.72
IN THIS QUARTERLY.
LAST WEEK, WE LOOKED AT
00:19:17.75\00:19:19.39
COVETOUSNESS IN SOME
GREAT AND IMPORTANT DETAIL.
00:19:19.42\00:19:22.32
DOES GOD SAY IT'S OKAY TO
COVET NOW, JUST COVET AWAY?
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NO, THAT'S NOT WHAT
JESUS WAS IMPLICATING.
00:19:25.96\00:19:27.86
WHAT ABOUT THE FIRST
COMMANDMENT, 'YOU SHALL HAVE NO
00:19:27.93\00:19:30.57
OTHER GODS BEFORE YOU'?
NOW IS GOD SAYING- IS JESUS
00:19:30.60\00:19:33.90
SAYING, 'HEY,
LISTEN, JUST WORSHIP A WHOLE
00:19:33.94\00:19:35.94
PLETHORA OF GODS. YOU
KNOW IT'S ALL OPEN SEASON
00:19:35.97\00:19:38.41
NOW'? NO, OF COURSE NOT.
DOES HE SAY - DOES HE MEAN THAT
00:19:38.44\00:19:41.31
YOU SHOULDN'T USE HIS
NAME IN VAIN NOW - OR YOU CAN
00:19:41.34\00:19:44.08
USE HIS NAME IN
VAIN? WELL, OF COURSE NOT.
00:19:44.11\00:19:46.31
AND SO THIS IS NOT AN EXHAUSTIVE
LIST BUT JESUS IS VERY OBVIOUSLY
00:19:46.35\00:19:49.38
HERE GIVING A SAMPLING OF SOME
OF THE KEY COMMANDMENTS THAT WE
00:19:49.42\00:19:53.69
ARE TO LIVE BY WHEN WE PUT
OUR FAITH AND HEART IN JESUS.
00:19:53.72\00:19:57.99
AND IT'S NO COINCIDENCE, I
BELIEVE, THAT HE ALSO FOLLOWS UP
00:19:58.03\00:20:00.16
WITH THE LAST COMMANDMENT IN
VERSE 19 WHICH, HE, BY THE WAY,
00:20:00.20\00:20:04.67
IN ANOTHER PART OF THE
SCRIPTURES, TELL US IS THE
00:20:04.70\00:20:06.90
SECOND MOST IMPORTANT AND
GREATEST COMMANDMENT IN ALL OF
00:20:06.94\00:20:10.57
THE SCRIPTURES, AND THAT IS
YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS
00:20:10.61\00:20:15.41
YOURSELF. AND SO
JESUS, HERE, IS GIVING
00:20:15.44\00:20:18.61
THIS SECOND GREAT COMMANDMENT.
WHICH, BY THE WAY, HAPPENS TO BE
00:20:18.65\00:20:21.35
A VERY FITTING SUMMARY FOR THE
PREVIOUS FOUR THAT HE HAD JUST
00:20:21.38\00:20:25.29
SHARED OR THE PREVIOUS
FIVE FROM THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
00:20:25.32\00:20:28.29
ALL OF THE FIVE THAT HE HAD
CHOSEN THAT PARTICULAR DAY IS IN
00:20:28.32\00:20:31.96
REGARDS TO OUR LOVE AND OUR
RELATIONSHIP WITH ONE ANOTHER AS
00:20:31.99\00:20:34.60
HUMAN BEINGS. AND SO
HE SAYS 'YOU SHALL LOVE
00:20:34.63\00:20:38.90
YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.'
ALRIGHT THEN WE GO TO VERSE 20.
00:20:38.93\00:20:44.67
IT SAYS "THE YOUNG MAN SAID
TO HIM, 'ALL THESE THINGS I HAVE
00:20:44.71\00:20:47.14
KEPT FROM MY YOUTH.
WHAT DO I STILL LACK?'"
00:20:47.18\00:20:51.48
NOW THIS IS REVEALING TWO
THINGS TO US THAT ARE KEY IN
00:20:51.51\00:20:55.62
UNDERSTANDING THIS MEETING
BETWEEN JESUS AND THIS YOUNG
00:20:55.65\00:20:58.05
MAN. AND THAT HE
IS THAT THIS YOUNG
00:20:58.09\00:21:01.62
MAN REVEALS HIMSELF
TO BE AN HONEST MAN.
00:21:01.66\00:21:05.16
JUST BEFORE HE MADE THAT
STATEMENT, 'I'VE KEPT ALL THESE
00:21:05.19\00:21:07.13
SINCE MY YOUTH.' JESUS
SAYS, 'YOU SHALL NOT BEAR FALSE
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WITNESS.' AND SO WE FIND THAT
THIS YOUNG MAN WAS AN HONEST
00:21:10.83\00:21:14.70
BUSINESS MAN. WAS HE SUCCESSFUL?
00:21:14.74\00:21:17.14
YES HE WAS. DID HE DO VERY WELL?
00:21:17.17\00:21:19.44
YES HE DID. DID HE DO
IT WITH DISHONEST GAIN?
00:21:19.47\00:21:23.38
WELL, APPARENTLY, THE EVIDENCE
TELLS US THAT NO, HE WAS ONE
00:21:23.41\00:21:26.25
THAT VALUED THE MORAL OF BEING
HONEST IN HIS BUSINESS DEALINGS.
00:21:26.28\00:21:33.22
AND SO WHEN A CUSTOMER WAS
DEALING WITH THIS PARTICULAR
00:21:33.25\00:21:35.42
ISRAELITE, THEY KNEW THAT
THEY WERE GETTING A GOOD DEAL;
00:21:35.46\00:21:38.49
THEY WEREN'T GETTING A RAW DEAL.
00:21:38.53\00:21:40.00
AS SOMETIMES WE DO WITH OTHERS
THAT AREN'T SO HONEST IN THEIR
00:21:40.03\00:21:42.73
BUSINESS DEALINGS WITH US NOR
IN THE TIME OF ISRAEL AND JESUS'
00:21:42.76\00:21:46.67
DAY. SO HERE WE HAVE A
VERY HONEST BUSINESS MAN.
00:21:46.70\00:21:50.34
THIS WAS A BUSINESS MAN THAT
DIDN'T STEAL FROM HIS CUSTOMERS
00:21:50.37\00:21:54.11
OR FROM HIS BUSINESS PARTNERS
AND SO IF SOMEBODY WAS TO GO
00:21:54.14\00:21:57.05
INTO PARTNERSHIP WITH THIS
PARTICULAR YOUNG MAN IN ISRAEL,
00:21:57.08\00:22:00.35
WHY THEY KNEW THAT THEY COULD
TRUST HIM - HE WAS HONEST - BUT
00:22:00.38\00:22:03.79
THAT HE ALSO WOULDN'T TRY TO
SWINDLE, YOU KNOW, A LITTLE BIT
00:22:03.82\00:22:06.99
EXTRA FOR HIS POCKET AT
THE EXPENSE OF HIS BUSINESS
00:22:07.02\00:22:10.46
PARTNER'S EFFORTS. AND
SO HERE WE FIND THAT HE WAS
00:22:10.49\00:22:16.53
AN HONEST MAN AND HE
VALUED THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS
00:22:16.56\00:22:20.40
THAT BELONGED TO THEM.
AND SO HE WAS A FAITHFUL
00:22:20.44\00:22:23.54
GOOD BUSINESSMAN TO
GO INTO PARTNERSHIP WITH.
00:22:23.57\00:22:27.31
BUT IN SPITE OF ALL OF
THESE MORALS THAT JESUS HAD LAID
00:22:27.34\00:22:30.81
BEFORE HIM AND - PERHAPS THAT'S
WHY JESUS HAD CHOSEN THOSE
00:22:30.85\00:22:34.08
PARTICULAR COMMANDMENTS BECAUSE,
OF COURSE, WHEN JESUS MET WITH
00:22:34.12\00:22:37.25
THIS MAN NOT ONLY DID HE KNOW
THE APPOINTMENT BEFORE IT CAME
00:22:37.29\00:22:39.72
TO PASS EVEN THOUGH IT WAS
SPONTANEOUS FOR THE YOUNG MAN AS
00:22:39.75\00:22:42.69
HE HEARD THAT THE RABBI JESUS
WAS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND HE
00:22:42.72\00:22:45.96
WENT OUT TO FOLLOW HIM AND FIND
HIM AND BE ABLE TO PLEAD WITH
00:22:45.99\00:22:50.03
HIM AND ASK THESE IMPORTANT
QUESTIONS, WE FIND HERE THAT
00:22:50.07\00:22:53.90
JESUS IS IN
CONVERSATION WITH HIM.
00:22:53.94\00:22:59.74
AND YET JESUS KNOWS
HIS HEART, DOESN'T HE?
00:22:59.77\00:23:03.81
YOU SEE, ONE OF THE THINGS
- AND THE THINGS THAT ALWAYS
00:23:03.85\00:23:06.28
FASCINATES ME ABOUT EVERY
ENCOUNTER THAT WE READ IN THE
00:23:06.31\00:23:09.52
SCRIPTURES CONCERNING JESUS,
IS THAT WHEN JESUS WENT INTO A
00:23:09.55\00:23:13.99
CONVERSATION WITH YOU NOT ONLY
COULD HE SEE WHAT YOU LOOK LIKE
00:23:14.02\00:23:17.66
ON THE OUTSIDE.
BUT HE COULD LOOK RIGHT
00:23:17.69\00:23:20.43
THROUGH YOU COULDN'T HE? >>AMEN.
00:23:20.46\00:23:22.66
>>AND SO YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO
TELL HIM WHERE YOU WERE BORN.
00:23:22.70\00:23:25.57
YOU DON'T HAVE TO TELL HIM ABOUT
YOUR LIFE AND HOW SCHOOL WENT AS
00:23:25.60\00:23:28.40
YOU WERE GROWING UP.
YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO TELL HIM
00:23:28.44\00:23:30.67
ABOUT YOUR MARRIAGE, AND SO
ON -LIKE THE WOMAN AT THE WELL -
00:23:30.71\00:23:34.04
YOU KNOW, HE SAYS 'YES, YOU'RE
RIGHT. YOU DON'T HAVE A HUSBAND.
00:23:34.08\00:23:37.01
IN FACT, YOU'VE BEEN MARRIED
SEVERAL TIMES AND THE ONE THAT
00:23:37.05\00:23:42.32
YOU'RE LIVING WITH NOW ISN'T
EVEN MARRIED TO YOU.' AND THEN
00:23:42.35\00:23:45.65
SHE BEGAN TO - MOST LIKELY SHE
BEGAN TO TREMBLE BECAUSE, ALL OF
00:23:45.69\00:23:49.89
A SUDDEN, SHE REALIZED 'THIS
MAN CAN LOOK RIGHT THROUGH ME.
00:23:49.92\00:23:52.43
HE KNOWS EVERYTHING ABOUT ME.'
WELL, LATER ON SHE WAS EXCITED
00:23:52.46\00:23:55.36
ABOUT IT, WASN'T SHE?
SHE SAID, 'THIS MAN TOLD ME
00:23:55.40\00:23:57.53
EVERYTHING THAT I EVER DID.' -
ONCE SHE REALIZED THAT HE WASN'T
00:23:57.57\00:24:01.07
GOING TO REJECT HER OVER THAT
BUT RATHER HE WANTED TO SAVE HER
00:24:01.10\00:24:04.01
FROM IT AND TO GIVE HER
A BETTER VICTORIOUS LIFE.
00:24:04.04\00:24:08.44
WELL, THE SAME THING WITH THIS
RICH YOUNG RULER: HERE WE HAVE
00:24:08.48\00:24:11.31
THIS RICH YOUNG RULER THAT, WHEN
JESUS THREW OUT THOSE PARTICULAR
00:24:11.35\00:24:14.18
COMMANDMENTS HE PROBABLY KNEW
- WELL, HE DID KNOW, BUT THE
00:24:14.22\00:24:17.39
REASON THAT HE CHOSE THOSE WAS
BECAUSE HE KNEW THIS YOUNG MAN
00:24:17.42\00:24:21.59
WAS FAITHFUL IN THESE AREAS.
AND THEN HE GAVE THE YOUNG MAN
00:24:21.62\00:24:26.46
AN OPPORTUNITY TO REALLY DIG
INTO JESUS AND ASK HIM WHY HE
00:24:26.49\00:24:30.07
REALLY HAD APPROACHED HIM.
IT REVEALS TO US THAT THE YOUNG
00:24:30.10\00:24:35.57
MAN UNDERSTOOD THAT EVEN
THOUGH HE WAS FAITHFUL IN THE
00:24:35.60\00:24:37.91
COMMANDMENTS THAT JESUS
HAD SHARED, THERE WAS STILL A
00:24:37.94\00:24:41.34
VERY SERIOUS BREACH IN
HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS.
00:24:41.38\00:24:45.98
WHAT WAS THE VERY HEART AND
THE ROOT OF THE BREACH OF HIS
00:24:46.01\00:24:51.09
RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS?
NOW HE REVEALED IT - THE YOUNG
00:24:51.12\00:24:54.19
MAN REVEALED THAT HE UNDERSTOOD
IT BECAUSE HE SAID 'WHAT GOOD
00:24:54.22\00:24:56.86
THING DO I STILL - >>LACK.
00:24:56.89\00:24:59.83
>>LACK?' NOW, HE
WOULDN'T ASK THAT UNLESS
00:24:59.86\00:25:02.73
HE UNDERSTOOD THAT THERE WAS
SOMETHING SERIOUSLY WRONG WITH
00:25:02.76\00:25:05.97
HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS GOD.
NOW JESUS, WHEN HE LOOKED AT
00:25:06.00\00:25:09.84
HIM, OF COURSE, UNDERSTOOD
VERY CLEARLY WHAT HAD HAPPENED.
00:25:09.87\00:25:13.27
HE UNDERSTOOD THAT IT WAS MOST
LIKELY THAT THIS YOUNG MAN GREW
00:25:13.31\00:25:16.44
UP IN THE SYNAGOGUE, HE HAD
SOME, PERHAPS, SOME FAITHFUL
00:25:16.48\00:25:18.68
PARENTS AND WOULD PRAY WITH HIM
IN THE MORNING AND PRAY WITH HIM
00:25:18.71\00:25:22.58
IN THE EVENING AND THAT LITTLE
BOY'S HEART, AS MOST BOY'S
00:25:22.62\00:25:27.22
HEARTS DO, OPEN UP WIDE TO
GOD AND WANT TO PRAY AND PRAY
00:25:27.26\00:25:32.09
SINCERELY AND INNOCENTLY AS
JESUS HAD EVEN SAID, 'YOU KNOW
00:25:32.13\00:25:35.83
UNLESS YOU COME TO GOD AND INTO
THE KINGDOM AS A LITTLE CHILD.'
00:25:35.86\00:25:40.07
AND SO HERE WE HAVE THIS YOUNG
MAN THAT MOST LIKELY HAD A VERY
00:25:40.10\00:25:43.34
SINCERE RELATIONSHIP IN HIS
BOYHOOD. THEN, WHEN HE REACHED
00:25:43.37\00:25:46.74
MANHOOD, HE BEGAN TO REALIZE,
AS HE STARTED TO DELVE INTO THE
00:25:46.78\00:25:50.11
BUSINESS WORLD, THAT HE
HAD A REAL GOOD KNACK FOR IT.
00:25:50.15\00:25:52.45
HE WAS GOOD AT IT. AND
NOT ONLY THAT, HE BECAME
00:25:52.48\00:25:56.02
PROBABLY
SUCCESSFUL VERY QUICKLY.
00:25:56.05\00:25:58.12
AND IF HE DIDN'T, HE WAS VERY
PERSISTENT AND VERY DETERMINED
00:25:58.15\00:26:00.72
AND SO HE LEARNED
SOME HARD LESSONS.
00:26:00.76\00:26:02.39
PERHAPS HE DIDN'T HAVE A KNACK
AT IT, BUT WHATEVER THE PATHWAY
00:26:02.42\00:26:05.23
WAS THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT
HE EVENTUALLY FOUND SUCCESS.
00:26:05.26\00:26:10.40
BUT WHAT HAPPENED WAS HE HAD
ALLOWED THIS MOUNTAIN TO GROW IN
00:26:10.43\00:26:14.94
HIS LIFE. THAT TOTALLY ECLIPSED
HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD THAT
00:26:14.97\00:26:19.41
HE KNEW - PROBABLY
KNEW - IN HIS CHILDHOOD.
00:26:19.44\00:26:22.74
AND HE KNEW THAT THERE
WAS SOMETHING SERIOUSLY WRONG.
00:26:22.78\00:26:27.05
THERE WAS THIS MOUNTAIN THAT HAD
EMERGED THAT TOTALLY ECLIPSED OR
00:26:27.08\00:26:30.65
BLOCKED HIS CONNECTION
WITH THE GOD OF HIS CHILDHOOD.
00:26:30.69\00:26:36.93
NOW THE CHANCES ARE, AS WE LOOK
AT THE CONTEXT HERE, THAT THIS
00:26:36.96\00:26:40.60
PARTICULAR YOUNG RULER
UNDERSTOOD WHAT HE LACKED.
00:26:40.63\00:26:43.80
PERHAPS HE WAS COMING TO JESUS
THAT JESUS MIGHT CONFIRM THAT TO
00:26:43.83\00:26:47.70
HIM AND HELP HIM TO BE
ABLE TO MAKE THAT DECISION.
00:26:47.74\00:26:50.54
PERHAPS IT WAS THAT HE WAS
HOPEFUL THAT THIS - THAT THIS
00:26:50.57\00:26:53.58
PARTICULAR MAN, KNOWING THAT HE
WAS MUCH MORE THAN THE AVERAGE
00:26:53.61\00:26:56.71
RABBI - MUCH MORE THAN THE
AVERAGE PROPHET, EVEN, AND SUCH
00:26:56.75\00:27:01.22
THAT HE MIGHT BE ABLE TO SHOW
HIM A PATHWAY THAT WOULD ALLOW
00:27:01.25\00:27:05.62
HIM TO KEEP THE MOUNTAIN STILL,
BUT THAT HE WOULD STILL BE ABLE
00:27:05.65\00:27:10.49
TO HAVE ETERNAL
LIFE, SOMEHOW, AS WELL.
00:27:10.53\00:27:13.46
PERHAPS IF YOU COULD JUST FIND
A ROUTE THAT JESUS COULD TEACH
00:27:13.50\00:27:16.03
HIM WHERE HE COULD KIND OF
GO AROUND THE MOUNTAIN BUT STILL
00:27:16.06\00:27:18.70
KEEP THE MOUNTAIN.
NOW WHAT WAS THE MOUNTAIN?
00:27:18.73\00:27:22.04
>>MONEY. >>OKAY, MONEY, WEALTH,
00:27:22.07\00:27:25.44
POSSESSIONS - YES. OKAY,
THIS YOUNG MAN - NOW LAST
00:27:25.47\00:27:29.11
WEEK - PASTOR DOUG - WE
HAD TALKED MORE EXTENSIVELY
00:27:29.14\00:27:32.45
ABOUT 'IS IT WRONG TO BE RICH?
OKAY. IS IT WRONG TO BE WEALTHY?
00:27:32.48\00:27:37.65
OKAY IT'S NOT IMMORAL OR AGAINST
THE PRINCIPLES OF GOD TO HAVE
00:27:37.69\00:27:42.56
WEALTH OR TO ACCUMULATE WEALTH,
AS LONG AS WE'RE IN THE RIGHT
00:27:42.59\00:27:46.73
MINDSET, OF COURSE.
ALRIGHT, SO HOW YOU LOOK AT
00:27:46.76\00:27:50.03
THAT WEALTH, HOW YOU DEAL
WITH THAT WEALTH, IS WHAT MAKES
00:27:50.07\00:27:53.87
THE WORLD OF DIFFERENCE.
WITH THIS PARTICULAR YOUNG MAN,
00:27:53.90\00:27:57.01
HE HAD MADE THE MISTAKE
OF STARTING TO INVEST HIS
00:27:57.04\00:27:59.87
HEART INTO THE WEALTH.
AND ONCE WE START TO INVEST
00:27:59.91\00:28:04.58
OUR HEART AND OUR AFFECTIONS
INTO THE WEALTH, THAT'S WHEN
00:28:04.61\00:28:08.35
WE FIND OURSELVES GETTING
IN TROUBLE, DON'T WE? OKAY?
00:28:08.38\00:28:11.79
THERE'S ONLY ONE WAY - ONLY
ONE PLACE THAT WE CAN PUT OUR
00:28:11.82\00:28:14.49
AFFECTIONS AND OUR FIRST
AFFECTIONS AND THE FIRST PLACE
00:28:14.52\00:28:18.13
THAT WE ARE TO SET OUR
HEART, WHICH IS IN GOD.
00:28:18.16\00:28:20.60
AND SO, BECAUSE THIS MAN MADE
THE MISTAKE OF INVESTING HIS
00:28:20.63\00:28:22.86
HEART INTO BUILDING A PERSONAL
KINGDOM HERE ON EARTH, THROUGH
00:28:22.90\00:28:27.57
HIS RICHES, WEALTH, AND HE'S
ALSO A RULER, SO THAT WEALTH
00:28:27.60\00:28:30.87
THEN LED TO HAVING POSITIONS OF
INFLUENCE AND POWER WHICH ALMOST
00:28:30.91\00:28:36.28
ALWAYS COMES HAND IN
HAND WITH GREAT WEALTH.
00:28:36.31\00:28:39.61
WE FIND HERE THAT HE'S ALSO
A RULER - A LEADER IN ISRAEL.
00:28:39.65\00:28:44.55
NOW THAT CAN BE A
VERY FUN PLACE TO BE.
00:28:44.59\00:28:48.42
I HAVEN'T TALKED TO ANYBODY
YET OR HEARD AN INTERVIEW WITH
00:28:48.46\00:28:51.36
ANYBODY YET THAT IS EXTREMELY
WEALTHY THAT HAS FOUND THIS REAL
00:28:51.39\00:28:55.93
POWER AND INFLUENCE THAT COMES
WITH IT AND SAY 'I JUST HATE
00:28:55.96\00:28:58.63
IT.' NO, MOST OF THE TIME PEOPLE
SAY 'WOW' - YOU KNOW, IN FACT,
00:28:58.67\00:29:02.50
I'VE HEARD SOME VERY WEALTHY
BILLIONAIRES TELL ME THAT YOU
00:29:02.54\00:29:04.91
KNOW THE MONEY IS NOTHING.
ONCE YOU GET THE POWER AND THE
00:29:04.94\00:29:07.94
INFLUENCE THAT'S WAY
BETTER THAN THE MONEY.
00:29:07.98\00:29:10.38
AND SO, MOST LIKELY, THIS
MAN WAS STARTING TO ENJOY THE
00:29:10.41\00:29:15.08
INFLUENCE AND THE POWER
THAT CAME WITH THE WEALTH IN THE
00:29:15.12\00:29:19.15
KINGDOM THAT HE HAD MADE THE
MISTAKE OF GIVING HIS HEART TO
00:29:19.19\00:29:23.06
FIRST. JESUS KNEW
THAT HE HAD FALLEN
00:29:23.09\00:29:32.43
INTO A TRAP OF BUILDING HIS
KINGDOM HERE AND WAS INVESTING
00:29:32.47\00:29:36.47
IN THIS WORLD FIRST. AND
SO, JESUS MAKES AN INVITATION
00:29:36.50\00:29:40.11
- I DON'T THINK WE READ
IT YET, HAVE WE? VERSE 21.
00:29:40.14\00:29:43.98
IN VERSE 21 IT SAYS "JESUS
SAID TO HIM, 'IF YOU WANT TO BE
00:29:44.01\00:29:47.48
PERFECT GO AND SELL WHAT YOU
HAVE AND GIVE TO THE POOR AND
00:29:47.52\00:29:51.95
YOU WILL HAVE TREASURE IN
HEAVEN AND COME FOLLOW ME."
00:29:51.99\00:29:58.29
NOW, I JUST WANT TO RECAP A
LITTLE BIT FROM LAST WEEK AND
00:29:58.33\00:30:00.66
THAT IS IN REGARDS TO - AND THAT
IN REGARDS TO THE COUNCIL THAT
00:30:00.70\00:30:07.74
JESUS GAVE BECAUSE, REALLY,
THERE'S TWO THINGS THAT JESUS
00:30:07.77\00:30:10.17
HAD BROUGHT BEFORE THE YOUNG
MAN IN RESPONSE TO HIS QUESTION,
00:30:10.21\00:30:13.04
'WHAT DO I STILL LACK?'
- AND THAT IS #1, HE SAID,
00:30:13.07\00:30:15.58
'LISTEN, GO AND SELL ALL THAT
YOU HAVE.' NOW NOTICE THAT - YOU
00:30:15.61\00:30:18.95
KNOW, THIS IS ONE THING
I LIKE ABOUT JESUS AND THE
00:30:18.98\00:30:20.95
CONVERSATIONS THAT HE HAD,
HE JUST GETS RIGHT TO THE POINT.
00:30:20.98\00:30:23.69
HAVE YOU EVER NOTICED THAT?
YOU KNOW, NICODEMUS COMES IN THE
00:30:23.72\00:30:26.25
NIGHT AND HE SAYS, 'YOU KNOW,
LISTEN, I KNOW WHO YOU ARE.
00:30:26.29\00:30:29.29
WE KNOW WHO YOU ARE' - AND
HE SAYS, 'LISTEN, YOU NEED TO BE
00:30:29.32\00:30:31.53
BORN AGAIN.' YOU KNOW, NICODEMUS
IS LOOKING AROUND AND SAYING,
00:30:31.56\00:30:34.10
'WHERE DID THAT COME FROM?
YOU KNOW, I HAVE TO BE BORN
00:30:34.10\00:30:36.56
AGAIN.' YOU KNOW, JESUS JUST
LOOKED RIGHT THROUGH NICODEMUS;
00:30:36.60\00:30:39.10
HE KNEW EXACTLY WHAT HE WAS
LACKING, AND HE SAID 'THIS IS
00:30:39.13\00:30:41.34
WHAT YOU NEED.' AND SO HE JUST
GETS RIGHT TO THE POINT AND WE
00:30:41.37\00:30:45.61
SEE THAT - WE SEE THAT - WE
FIND THAT WITH JESUS AS WELL.
00:30:45.64\00:30:48.38
JESUS DOESN'T GIVE THIS KIND OF
BIG DISCOURSE ON, YOU KNOW, GOD
00:30:48.41\00:30:51.38
AND MAMMON AND SO ON, HE SAYS
'LISTEN THIS IS WHAT YOU NEED
00:30:51.41\00:30:53.55
TO GO AND SO
EVERYTHING.' HE'S LIKE, 'WHAT?'
00:30:53.58\00:30:56.12
'GO AND SELL EVERYTHING JUST GET
RID OF THE WHOLE MOUNTAIN.' AND
00:30:56.15\00:30:59.12
HE SAYS WHAT? NO, NO, NO!
00:30:59.15\00:31:00.66
I WAS HOPIN' I COULD GET SOME
KIND OF, YOU KNOW, ROUTE AROUND
00:31:00.69\00:31:02.66
THE MOUNTAIN.' HE GOES,
'NO, YOU'VE GOT TO JUST CHOP THE
00:31:02.69\00:31:04.73
MOUNTAIN RIGHT DOWN -
RIGHT AT THE VERY FOUNDATION.
00:31:04.76\00:31:06.59
GO AND GET RID OF IT ALL AND
GIVE IT ALL TO THE POOR AND THEN
00:31:06.63\00:31:09.33
HIT THE ROAD WITH ME AND MY
DISCIPLES.' NOW THAT'S PRETTY
00:31:09.36\00:31:12.60
RADICAL, ISN'T IT? >>RADICAL.
00:31:12.63\00:31:14.24
>>OKAY. JESUS CALLS
US SOMETIMES TO MAKE
00:31:14.27\00:31:16.64
RADICAL CHANGES IN OUR LIFE
IF HE KNOWS THAT IT HAS BEEN A
00:31:16.67\00:31:21.11
SERIOUS BREACH OR A THREAT
TO OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS.
00:31:21.14\00:31:26.28
AND SO HE GETS
RIGHT TO THE POINT.
00:31:26.31\00:31:28.12
AND THEN HE REPLACES IT AND
HE SAYS 'NOW LISTEN' - AND HE
00:31:28.15\00:31:31.02
DOESN'T SAY THIS BUT HE SAYS IT
BY HIS PRESCRIPTION - ISN'T IT?
00:31:31.05\00:31:34.36
BASICALLY, HE DOESN'T SAY 'THIS
IS WHAT YOU LACK,' HE JUST SAYS
00:31:34.39\00:31:36.26
'THIS IS A PRESCRIPTION FOR THE
PROBLEM.' HE SAYS, 'GO, GET RID
00:31:36.29\00:31:39.23
OF THE MOUNTAIN JUST LOP IT OFF.
00:31:39.26\00:31:40.83
GET RID OF IT ALL' - HE SAYS
- 'AND THEN START TO INVEST YOUR
00:31:40.86\00:31:44.50
HEART INTO THE
TREASURE IN HEAVEN.
00:31:44.53\00:31:48.30
AND SO HE DIDN'T CHOOSE THE
WORD TREASURE BY MISTAKE OR JUST
00:31:48.34\00:31:52.11
COINCIDENTALLY, HE OFFERS HIM
THE TREASURES IN HEAVEN BECAUSE
00:31:52.14\00:31:55.88
JESUS KNEW THAT HE HAD PUT
HIS HEART INTO THE TREASURES OF
00:31:55.91\00:31:59.38
EARTH BY MISTAKE. THAT
WAS HIS BIG MISTAKE WASN'T IT?
00:31:59.41\00:32:04.22
AND SO JESUS SAYS 'GET RID OF
THE MISTAKE AND REPLACE IT WITH
00:32:04.25\00:32:06.62
TREASURES IN HEAVEN.
COME AND FOLLOW ME AND YOU CAN
00:32:06.65\00:32:09.96
JOIN MY ENTOURAGE OF OTHER
DISCIPLES THAT ARE TRAVELING
00:32:09.99\00:32:12.16
FROM VILLAGE TO VILLAGE
AND MINISTERING THE GOSPEL.
00:32:12.19\00:32:14.93
AND YOU CAN HAVE THE PEACE AND
THE POWER AND THE GIFT THAT IS
00:32:14.93\00:32:19.13
FOUND IN THE GOSPEL THAT I
AM PREACHING AND BRINGING TO YOU
00:32:19.17\00:32:22.57
AND TO ISRAEL.' SO AGAIN
RECAPPING ON LAST WEEK; DOES
00:32:22.60\00:32:28.41
THAT MEAN THE JESUS HERE IS
PRESCRIBING THAT EVERYONE THAT
00:32:28.44\00:32:30.78
COMES TO CHRIST AND FOLLOWS
HIM SHOULD SELL EVERYTHING AND
00:32:30.81\00:32:33.21
FOLLOW HIM AND
HIT THE ROAD? >>NO.
00:32:33.25\00:32:35.62
>>NO, OF COURSE NOT. OKAY?
SO WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO TAKE
00:32:35.65\00:32:38.42
THIS IN CONTEXT IN RELATIONSHIP
TO THE REST OF THE BIBLE.
00:32:38.45\00:32:41.96
AND AS WE RECAP AGAIN - THIS IS
A RECAP FROM LAST WEEK, BUT LAST
00:32:41.99\00:32:45.36
WEEK WE TALKED ABOUT THE FACT
THAT THE BIBLE HAS A WHOLE LONG
00:32:45.39\00:32:47.86
LIST OF SOME OF THE MOST
FAITHFUL MEN IN THE WORLD THAT
00:32:47.86\00:32:51.47
WERE VERY WEALTHY.
WE HAVE ABRAHAM, WE HAVE
00:32:51.50\00:32:53.47
JOB, WE HAVE NICODEMUS.
THERE IS A NUMBER OF VERY FAITH
00:32:53.50\00:32:57.34
- SOME OF THE MOST FAITHFUL MEN
IN ALL OF HISTORY, GOD HAD ALSO
00:32:57.37\00:33:01.01
BLESSED WITH GREAT
PROSPERITY. NOT ALL OF THEM.
00:33:01.04\00:33:04.48
YOU KNOW, THE APOSTLES WERE NOT
ONE OF THOSE AND OF COURSE WE
00:33:04.51\00:33:07.38
HAVE OTHERS AS WELL, IN THE
BIBLE, THAT WEREN'T WEALTHY.
00:33:07.42\00:33:11.39
AND SO, WEALTH ISN'T EQUIVALENT
TO BEING FAITHFUL TO GOD, BUT
00:33:11.42\00:33:14.82
YOU CAN BE WEALTHY AND FAITHFUL
TO GOD AT THE SAME TIME, AS LONG
00:33:14.86\00:33:19.43
AS YOU ARE SEING AND ABLE TO
HANDLE THAT WEALTH IN A HEALTHY
00:33:19.46\00:33:25.00
WAY. I ONCE HAD A
FRIEND, YEARS AGO,
00:33:25.03\00:33:27.50
AND HE SAID, 'YOU KNOW, ONE
OF THE REASONS I THINK THAT I'VE
00:33:27.54\00:33:29.64
NEVER REALLY SUCCEEDED IN BEING
SUPER PROSPEROUS IN THIS WORLD
00:33:29.67\00:33:32.74
IS BECAUSE I PROBABLY CAN'T
HANDLE IT.' AND YOU KNOW THERE'S
00:33:32.77\00:33:36.18
A GOOD CHANCE
THAT HE MAY BE RIGHT.
00:33:36.21\00:33:38.58
YOU KNOW, NOT ALL OF US CAN
HANDLE WEALTH IN A HEALTHY WAY
00:33:38.61\00:33:41.32
AND GOD DOESN'T WANT US TO END
UP IN THE SAME PLACE AS THE RICH
00:33:41.35\00:33:43.72
YOUNG RULER. SO JESUS GIVES HIM
A PRESCRIPTION AND HE SAYS THIS
00:33:43.75\00:33:48.42
IS WHAT YOU NEED TO DO.
YOU NEED TO JUST DIG DEEP YOU
00:33:48.46\00:33:50.59
NEED TO JUST CUT IT OUT
OF YOUR LIFE ALTOGETHER.
00:33:50.63\00:33:53.53
REMINDS ME OF JOHN THE BAPTIST
ONCE, WHEN IN - YOU KNOW, SOME
00:33:53.56\00:33:55.66
OF THE APOSTLES - NOT THE
APOSTLES, I SHOULD SAY, BUT SOME
00:33:55.70\00:33:57.77
OF THE PHARISEES AND SCRIBES AND
SO ON, THEY CAME TO JESUS AS HE
00:33:57.80\00:34:02.24
WAS BAPTIZING AND SO - NO, JOHN
THE BAPTIST AS HE'S BAPTIZING,
00:34:02.27\00:34:06.01
AND JOHN THE BAPTIST SAYS, 'YOU
NEED TO - YOU NEED TO CHOP -
00:34:06.04\00:34:09.74
CHOP - YOU KNOW, I'VE COME IN
WITH JESUS IN THE SPIRIT TO BE
00:34:09.78\00:34:13.95
ABLE TO CHOP THINGS RIGHT DOWN
AT THE ROOT.' AND SO WE NEED TO
00:34:13.98\00:34:18.32
BE ABLE TO DO THAT IN OUR LIVES
SOMETIMES AS WELL JUST LIKE THIS
00:34:18.35\00:34:21.12
RICH YOUNG RULER.
ANOTHER PLACE IN WHICH JESUS WAS
00:34:21.16\00:34:24.73
SPEAKING AND HE WAS SHARING
SOME COUNSEL THAT'S IN DIRECT
00:34:24.76\00:34:29.13
RELATION TO THE PRESCRIPTION
HERE, AND THAT IS WHEN HE USED
00:34:29.16\00:34:32.47
SOME VERY EXAGGERATED LANGUAGE
THAT ENGLISH GRAMMAR TEACHERS
00:34:32.50\00:34:36.40
TELL ME IS CALLED HYPERBOLE
ANYONE KNOW WHAT HYPERBOLE IS?
00:34:36.44\00:34:41.54
OKAY. IT'S HYPER - OKAY?
00:34:41.58\00:34:44.75
IT STARTS WITH THE WORD
'HYPER' BECAUSE IT MEANS - IT'S
00:34:44.78\00:34:46.92
EXAGGERATED. IT'S
HYPED UP, AS WE MIGHT SAY.
00:34:46.95\00:34:51.19
AND SO JESUS USED SOME HYPERBOLE
TO BE ABLE TO GET ACROSS, AS
00:34:51.22\00:34:55.32
STRONG AS HE POSSIBLY COULD,
A VERY NEEDFUL COUNSEL THAT
00:34:55.36\00:34:59.96
SOMETIMES WE NEED. HE
SAYS, 'IF YOUR RIGHT EYE
00:35:00.06\00:35:02.16
CAUSES YOU TO SIN' -
WHAT SHOULD YOU DO WITH IT?
00:35:02.20\00:35:05.83
- 'PLUCK IT OUT.' SOME
OF YOU KNOW THE COUNCIL.
00:35:05.87\00:35:08.14
HE SAYS, 'IF YOUR RIGHT HAND
IS CAUSING YOU TO SIN' - WHAT
00:35:08.17\00:35:10.57
SHOULD YOU DO? - >>CUT IT OFF.
00:35:10.61\00:35:11.94
>>OKAY, LOP IT OFF. NOW,
IS JESUS TELLING US, WHEN
00:35:11.97\00:35:15.14
HE USED THAT LANGUAGE THAT HE
WAS ENCOURAGING SELF-MUTILATION
00:35:15.18\00:35:18.48
AND AMPUTATION? >>NO.
00:35:18.51\00:35:20.18
>>NO, OF COURSE NOT.
00:35:20.22\00:35:21.45
EVEN THE FACT THAT HE SAID JUST
CHOOSE YOUR RIGHT EYE TELLS US
00:35:21.48\00:35:25.02
THAT HE WANTED US TO KNOW,
'LISTEN, I'M NOT TALKING IN
00:35:25.05\00:35:27.76
LITERAL SENSE,
HERE, I'M USING HYPERBOLE.
00:35:27.79\00:35:29.99
AND I WANT YOU TO KNOW
THAT BECAUSE I DON'T WANT YOU
00:35:30.03\00:35:32.86
ACTUALLY LITERALLY PLUCKING
OUT ANY EYES.' YOU KNOW, IF YOUR
00:35:32.89\00:35:36.26
RIGHT EYE IS CAUSING YOU TO SIN
AND YOU'RE LOOKING AT AND GAZING
00:35:36.30\00:35:39.23
UPON THINGS THAT YOU KNOW YOU
SHOULDN'T, AND - SO YOU PLUCK
00:35:39.27\00:35:42.64
YOUR RIGHT EYE OUT, YOUR LEFT
EYE CAN DO A REALLY GOOD JOB OF
00:35:42.67\00:35:45.37
MAKING UP FOR YOUR RIGHT EYE.
00:35:45.41\00:35:48.18
AND SO, IT'S REALLY NOT GOING TO
SOLVE THE PROBLEM FULLY IS IT?
00:35:48.21\00:35:51.45
IN FACT, IT'S NOT GOING TO SOLVE
IT AT ALL, IT JUST MEANS THAT
00:35:51.48\00:35:53.95
YOUR LEFT HAS TO WORK A
LITTLE BIT HARDER, THAT'S ALL.
00:35:53.98\00:35:57.35
AND SO, JESUS - AND
SAME WITH THE HANDS.
00:35:57.39\00:35:59.92
SO JESUS, I THINK, WANTED
TO MAKE IT CLEAR TO US THAT HE
00:35:59.95\00:36:02.82
ISN'T LITERALLY
TALKING ABOUT SELF-AMPUTATION.
00:36:02.86\00:36:06.09
BUT HE'S USING THE MOST
EXAGGERATED LANGUAGE THAT HE
00:36:06.13\00:36:08.66
POSSIBLY COULD TO BE ABLE TO
COMMUNICATE TO US THAT SOMETIMES
00:36:08.70\00:36:12.90
THERE ARE THINGS IN OUR LIFE
THAT ARE SO SERIOUSLY EITHER
00:36:12.93\00:36:17.24
JEOPARDIZING, OR ALREADY HAVE
BREACHED OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH
00:36:17.27\00:36:20.24
GOD, THAT THE ONLY PRESCRIPTION
OR SOLUTION THAT HE HAS FOR US
00:36:20.28\00:36:24.21
IS TO CHOP IT OFF. I WAS
VISITING WITH A YOUNG MAN
00:36:24.25\00:36:28.42
YEARS AGO AND WE ARE DOING AN
EVANGELISM OR PROPHECY SERIES.
00:36:28.45\00:36:32.95
THIS YOUNG MAN WAS UNDER DEEP
CONVICTION THAT GOD WAS CALLING
00:36:32.99\00:36:36.66
HIM TO BE ABLE TO REPENT
OF SOME SINS IN HIS LIFE.
00:36:36.69\00:36:39.29
SOME VERY SERIOUS ONES AND ONE
OF THEM WAS HE GOT WRAPPED UP IN
00:36:39.33\00:36:42.33
DRUGS - NARCOTICS - AND SO HE
SAID, 'LISTEN, YOU KNOW, I WAS
00:36:42.36\00:36:47.24
BAPTIZED SEVERAL YEARS AGO AND
- IN THIS CITY - MY HOME CITY -
00:36:47.27\00:36:51.74
AND I WAS VERY SINCERE -
I WANTED TO FOLLOW THE LORD.
00:36:51.77\00:36:54.44
I GAVE MY HEART TO HIM AND SO
ON. BUT, YOU KNOW, THE PROBLEM
00:36:54.48\00:36:57.75
IS THAT MY FRIENDS THAT I WAS
HANGING OUT WITH KEPT DRAWING ME
00:36:57.78\00:37:01.28
BACK TO THE NARCOTICS AND
THEN I'D GET HOOKED AGAIN.
00:37:01.32\00:37:03.99
AND HERE I AM BACK IN ANOTHER
PROPHECY SERIES AND I WANT TO
00:37:04.02\00:37:07.06
LEAVE THIS BEHIND ME BUT I
HAVE FAILED ONCE ALREADY AND I'M
00:37:07.09\00:37:11.59
AFRAID THAT IF I GET BAPTIZED,
I'M GOING TO FAIL AGAIN.'
00:37:11.63\00:37:16.46
WELL, THE VERY FIRST COUNSEL
THAT CAME TO MY MIND WAS THE
00:37:16.50\00:37:19.30
HYPERBOLE THAT JESUS HAD SHARED
DURING HIS PUBLIC MINISTRY, IN
00:37:19.33\00:37:23.44
WHICH HE SAYS SOMETIMES THERE'S
THINGS IN YOUR LIFE THAT YOU
00:37:23.47\00:37:25.94
JUST NEED TO CUT OFF COMPLETELY.
AND SO, FOR THIS YOUNG MAN THE
00:37:25.97\00:37:30.65
VERY BEST THING THAT HE
COULD DO, AT MINIMUM, IS CUT OFF
00:37:30.68\00:37:33.82
THOSE RELATIONSHIPS WITH
THOSE PARTICULAR FRIENDS.
00:37:33.85\00:37:36.05
I SAID, 'LISTEN, YOU KNOW,
'DO NOT BE DECEIVED. BAD COMPANY
00:37:36.08\00:37:39.19
CORRUPTS GOOD HABITS' THE
APOSTLE PAUL SAID, DIDN'T HE?'
00:37:39.22\00:37:42.19
SO HE SAID THAT, YOU KNOW,
YOU NEED TO JUST CUT THAT OFF.
00:37:42.22\00:37:44.43
IF YOU NEED TO MOVE TO ANOTHER
CITY AND THAT'S THE ONLY WAY
00:37:44.46\00:37:47.03
THAT YOU CAN ESCAPE THESE -
THESE FRIENDS' - BECAUSE THEY
00:37:47.10\00:37:49.40
WOULD FOLLOW HIM AND HOUND
HIM AND SHOW UP AT HIS DOOR AND
00:37:49.43\00:37:51.77
SUCH, AS WELL - 'IS MOVE TO
ANOTHER CITY.' DOES THAT SOUND
00:37:51.80\00:37:56.27
RADICAL? >>YES.
00:37:56.30\00:37:58.01
>>SURE, IT IS PRETTY RADICAL.
I SAID, 'PICK UP - UPROOT
00:37:58.04\00:38:00.34
YOURSELF FROM YOUR HOME
CITY AND MOVE TO ANOTHER CITY.
00:38:00.38\00:38:03.04
MOVE TO ANOTHER CITY - MAYBE
ANOTHER STATE - WHATEVER IT
00:38:03.08\00:38:05.25
TAKES TO BE ABLE TO SEPARATE
YOURSELF FROM THAT SO THAT YOU
00:38:05.28\00:38:08.78
CAN FIND YOURSELF ABLE TO FIND
YOURSELF IN AN ENVIRONMENT THAT
00:38:08.82\00:38:12.52
WILL ALLOW YOU TO HAVE A
SUCCESSFUL RELATIONSHIP WITH
00:38:12.55\00:38:16.19
JESUS CHRIST. AND
THAT'S WHAT WE FIND HERE AS
00:38:16.22\00:38:20.70
JESUS IS TALKING TO
THE RICH YOUNG RULER.
00:38:20.73\00:38:26.84
ALL RIGHT, SO THEN VERSE 22 - WE
FINISH UP THE MEETING, IT SAYS,
00:38:26.87\00:38:30.14
"BUT WHEN THE YOUNG MAN
HEARD THAT SAYING, HE WENT AWAY
00:38:30.17\00:38:32.57
SORROWFUL FOR HE
HAD GREAT POSSESSIONS."
00:38:32.61\00:38:38.08
DID HE DECIDE TO
FOLLOW JESUS? >>NO.
00:38:38.11\00:38:40.28
>>NO. WHAT DID HE DO
INSTEAD? HE WALKED, DIDN'T HE?
00:38:40.32\00:38:48.46
OKAY? HE WALKED AWAY.
00:38:48.49\00:38:50.06
NOW THE BIBLE SAYS
THAT HE WALKED AWAY SAD.
00:38:50.09\00:38:54.36
THE BIBLE SAYS
THAT HE WALKED AWAY SAD.
00:38:54.36\00:39:00.40
THE YOUNG MAN WAS BROUGHT FACE
TO FACE WITH THE CHOICE AND OF
00:39:00.44\00:39:04.61
COURSE THAT CHOICE WAS A
CRITICAL CHOICE THAT HE MADE
00:39:04.64\00:39:06.84
THAT DAY BECAUSE THIS WAS
A CHOICE THAT WAS GOING TO
00:39:06.88\00:39:09.81
DETERMINE HIS ETERNAL DESTINY.
AND JESUS, HERE, WAS WORKING AS
00:39:09.84\00:39:14.38
HARD AS HE POSSIBLY COULD TO
BE ABLE TO REACH THIS YOUNG MAN
00:39:14.42\00:39:17.65
AND HELP HIM TO MAKE THE RIGHT
CHOICE. NOW THE CHOICE THAT HE
00:39:17.69\00:39:22.76
MADE THAT DAY REVEALED THAT
HIS HEART WAS SO SOLD ON THE
00:39:22.79\00:39:25.46
TREASURES OF THIS WORLD THAT IT
WAS NEXT TO IMPOSSIBLE TO BREAK
00:39:25.49\00:39:28.96
FREE. IN FACT,
WHEN I CAME TO THE END
00:39:29.00\00:39:31.00
OF THIS I THOUGHT TO MYSELF,
'WOW, YOU KNOW, HERE'S A YOUNG
00:39:31.03\00:39:34.17
MAN AND, IN THE END, YOU KNOW,
HE HAD EVERYTHING AS FAR AS
00:39:34.20\00:39:40.31
WHAT THIS WORLD COULD OFFER.
BUT HE WAS MISSING THE MOST
00:39:40.34\00:39:42.98
IMPORTANT THING AND MAYBE
HIS HEART WAS SO SOLD, BY THAT
00:39:43.01\00:39:47.68
POINT, ON THE WEALTH AND
THE RICHES AND THE POWER AND THE
00:39:47.72\00:39:52.09
INFLUENCE THAT CAME WITH THAT,
THAT HE WAS BEYOND REACHING.
00:39:52.12\00:39:55.36
MAYBE HE WAS UNREACHABLE BY
THE TIME JESUS WAS TALKING WITH
00:39:55.39\00:39:58.06
HIM.' BUT THEN I THOUGHT TO
MYSELF, 'NOW, WAIT A MINUTE.
00:39:58.09\00:40:00.80
IF THAT'S TRUE THEN WHY DID
JESUS SPEND SO MUCH TIME WITH
00:40:00.83\00:40:04.13
HIM ON THE ROAD LABORING WITH
HIM WORKING WITH HIM, INVITING
00:40:04.17\00:40:08.87
HIM TO BE ABLE TO COME
INTO A SAVING RELATIONSHIP?'
00:40:08.90\00:40:12.17
IF JESUS KNOWS THE HEART HE
WOULD KNOW HE'S ALREADY TOO FAR
00:40:12.21\00:40:14.94
GONE, HE'S COMMITTED
THE UNPARDONABLE SIN - HIS
00:40:14.98\00:40:16.95
CONSCIENCE IS SO SEARED AND HE'S
SO SOLD IN THE RICHES OF THIS
00:40:16.98\00:40:20.18
WORLD THAT
THERE'S NO HOPE FOR HIM.
00:40:20.22\00:40:22.12
BUT JESUS SAW THAT THERE WAS
HOPE - THERE WAS STILL ROOM FOR
00:40:22.15\00:40:25.42
A CHOICE. IN FACT,
THE FOLLOWING VERSES
00:40:25.45\00:40:28.22
EXPLAIN THAT FOR US
AND ANSWERED MY QUESTION.
00:40:28.26\00:40:31.06
HAVE YOU EVER FOUND THAT SO
OFTEN WHEN YOU'RE GOING ALONG IN
00:40:31.09\00:40:33.80
THE BIBLE AND THEN YOU HAVE
A COUPLE OF BIG QUESTION MARKS
00:40:33.83\00:40:36.80
THAT COME UP, YOU KNOW, AND
YOU'RE THINKING 'WHAT DOES THAT
00:40:36.83\00:40:38.63
MEAN? WHAT'S ALL THAT ABOUT?'
00:40:38.67\00:40:40.67
YOU KNOW, AND THEN YOU'RE SAYING
'I WONDER IF THERE'S A BIBLE
00:40:40.70\00:40:42.74
ANSWER.' 90 PERCENT OF THE TIME
I FIND THAT IF I JUST READ THE
00:40:42.77\00:40:46.31
NEXT ONE, TWO, THREE OR FOUR OR
FIVE VERSES, THAT THE ANSWER IS
00:40:46.34\00:40:52.38
RIGHT THERE IN THE BIBLE AND THE
BIBLE WILL ANSWER OUR QUESTIONS
00:40:52.41\00:40:55.75
FOR US. IN VERSE 23
IT SAYS, "THEN JESUS
00:40:55.78\00:40:59.69
SAID TO HIS DISCIPLES,
'ASSUREDLY I SAY TO YOU THAT IT
00:40:59.72\00:41:02.39
IS HARD FOR A RICH MAN TO
ENTER THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.
00:41:02.42\00:41:06.39
AND AGAIN I SAY TO YOU IT IS
EASIER FOR A CAMEL TO GO THROUGH
00:41:06.43\00:41:08.50
THE EYE OF A NEEDLE FOR -
THAN FOR A RICH MAN TO ENTER THE
00:41:08.53\00:41:11.27
KINGDOM OF GOD.'" AND, OF
COURSE, THAT VERSE IN THAT
00:41:11.30\00:41:13.97
STATEMENT HAS OPENED
UP VARIOUS INTERPRETATION.
00:41:14.00\00:41:17.14
AS PASTOR DOUG SHARED IT, YOU
KNOW, THERE'S THIS - YOU KNOW,
00:41:17.17\00:41:20.61
THEY CALLED THE EYE OF THE
NEEDLE PERHAPS WHERE THE SHEEP
00:41:20.64\00:41:25.85
WERE KIND OF FUNNELED ONE
BY ONE INTO THE PEN AS THE
00:41:25.88\00:41:28.25
SHEPHERDS WERE COUNTING THEIR
SHEEP, AND PERHAPS THAT IS -
00:41:28.28\00:41:31.55
THAT A CAMEL CAN GO THROUGH
IT BUT HAS TO GO ON ITS KNEES.
00:41:31.59\00:41:34.59
AND THAT'S VERY WELL POSSIBLE.
THE OTHER POSSIBILITY IS THAT
00:41:34.62\00:41:39.29
THIS WAS A HYPERBOLE AGAIN.
JUST LIKE WHEN HE SAID, YOU
00:41:39.33\00:41:43.57
KNOW, IF YOUR RIGHT HAND IS
SINNING, YOU KNOW, CHOP IT OFF.
00:41:43.60\00:41:46.94
PERHAPS JESUS IS SAYING HERE,
'LISTEN, YOU KNOW, IT'S NEXT TO
00:41:46.97\00:41:51.31
IMPOSSIBLE FOR A RICH MAN TO
ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN
00:41:51.34\00:41:55.38
EVEN AS IT LITERALLY - WELL, YOU
KNOW, YOU CAN TRY ALL DAY BUT
00:41:55.41\00:41:58.68
YOU'LL NEVER GET A CAMEL THROUGH
THE EYE OF A - OF A SEWING
00:41:58.71\00:42:01.32
NEEDLE, WILL YOU?
"WHEN HIS DISCIPLES HEARD IT
00:42:01.35\00:42:04.95
THEY WERE GREATLY ASTONISHED
AND THEN SAID, 'WELL, WHO
00:42:04.99\00:42:06.69
CAN BE SAVED THEN?'"
AND THEN JESUS GIVES THAT
00:42:06.72\00:42:10.29
VERY IMPORTANT HOPEFUL ANSWER.
HE LOOKED AT THEM AND SAID,
00:42:10.33\00:42:13.09
"WITH MEN THIS IS
IMPOSSIBLE BUT WITH GOD" -
00:42:13.13\00:42:16.20
>>ALL. >>"ALL
THINGS ARE POSSIBLE."
00:42:16.23\00:42:19.87
SO WAS THERE A POSSIBILITY
WITH THE RICH YOUNG RULER?
00:42:19.90\00:42:22.44
>>YES. >>SURE THERE WAS.
00:42:22.47\00:42:23.71
THAT'S WHY JESUS HAD LABORED SO
PASSIONATELY FOR THIS YOUNG MAN,
00:42:23.74\00:42:28.38
BECAUSE HE KNEW THAT
THERE WAS STILL HOPE.
00:42:28.41\00:42:30.91
HE KNEW THAT IF HE HAD JUST
OPENED THE DOOR TO HIS HEART AND
00:42:30.95\00:42:33.82
ALLOWED JESUS IN, THAT
JESUS WOULD HAVE GIVEN THEM THE
00:42:33.85\00:42:37.05
COURAGE AND THE TRUST TO BE ABLE
TO KNOW THAT, 'HEY, AS MUCH AS
00:42:37.09\00:42:40.22
YOU ARE ENJOYING AND LEANING
UPON THESE RICHES IN YOUR LIFE,
00:42:40.26\00:42:43.96
IF YOU JUST CUT IT OUT OF YOUR
LIFE AND GET RID OF IT ALL, AND
00:42:43.99\00:42:47.20
REPLACE IT WITH ME, YOU'RE GOING
TO BE MUCH BETTER OFF.' AND IT'S
00:42:47.23\00:42:51.40
POSSIBLE FOR YOU
TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT.
00:42:51.43\00:42:53.34
THAT WAS THE BEST PRESCRIPTION
FOR THIS PARTICULAR YOUNG MAN.
00:42:53.37\00:43:00.81
AND SO IT'S POSSIBLE.
SO THAT'S THE GOOD NEWS.
00:43:00.84\00:43:04.78
JESUS CAN
ACHIEVE THE IMPOSSIBLE.
00:43:04.81\00:43:09.15
NOW, COMING BACK TO THE MAN
WALKING AWAY SAD, HE WASN'T SAD
00:43:09.18\00:43:13.52
BECAUSE HE WAS LOSING HIS
POSSESSIONS. WAS HE? OKAY.
00:43:13.56\00:43:17.16
IN FACT THE CHOICE THAT HE
MADE THAT DAY DETERMINED THAT HE
00:43:17.19\00:43:19.89
WOULD KEEP HIS POSSESSIONS SO WE
KNOW HE'S NOT SAD BECAUSE HE WAS
00:43:19.93\00:43:22.86
LOSING ALL OF HIS
POSSESSIONS AND HIS WEALTH. NO.
00:43:22.90\00:43:26.27
BUT MOST LIKELY THE REASON THAT
HE WAS SAD AND HE WALKED AWAY
00:43:26.30\00:43:30.07
SORROWFUL, WAS BECAUSE JESUS
CONFIRMED SOMETHING THAT HE
00:43:30.11\00:43:34.04
PROBABLY KIND OF KNEW IN
THE BOTTOM OF HIS HEART - IN HIS
00:43:34.08\00:43:36.98
HEART OF HEARTS - THAT IF HE
CONTINUES TO PUT HIS AFFECTIONS
00:43:37.01\00:43:41.08
AND CONTINUES DOWN THE ROAD
OF BUILDING HIS PERSONAL KINGDOM
00:43:41.12\00:43:45.29
HERE ON EARTH, HE'S GOING
TO LOSE OUT IN THE KINGDOM OF
00:43:45.32\00:43:47.62
HEAVEN. HE WAS SAD
BECAUSE HE REALIZED
00:43:47.66\00:43:51.03
THAT YOU CAN'T SERVE GOD AND
SERVE RICHES AT THE SAME TIME.
00:43:51.06\00:43:57.10
AND HE WAS HOPING SOMEHOW THAT
JESUS WAS BEING ABLE TO GIVE HIM
00:43:57.13\00:44:00.64
A SOLUTION THAT WOULD
ALLOW HIM TO HAVE BOTH.
00:44:00.67\00:44:06.04
NOW, BECAUSE OF THE MEETING
WITH JESUS TOOK PLACE IN MATTHEW
00:44:06.07\00:44:10.11
CHAPTER 19, AND BECAUSE JESUS
TALKS ABOUT GOD AND MAMMON IN
00:44:10.15\00:44:13.68
MATTHEW CHAPTER 6, WHICH IS
QUITE A BIT FURTHER BEFORE JESUS
00:44:13.72\00:44:18.85
IS HAVING THIS MEETING, YOU KNOW
THERE'S A REAL CHANCE THAT JESUS
00:44:18.89\00:44:23.09
ACTUALLY - WE'RE GOING TO GO
TO MATTHEW 6 IF YOU WANT TO GET
00:44:23.12\00:44:25.53
AHEAD AND MOVE THERE - MATTHEW
6:24 - THERE'S A GOOD CHANCE
00:44:25.56\00:44:30.53
THAT THIS PARTICULAR RICH YOUNG
RULER JUST HAPPENED TO BE IN
00:44:30.57\00:44:33.87
THAT CROWD. PERHAPS
GOD HAD PROVIDENTIALLY
00:44:33.90\00:44:36.40
MADE SURE THAT HE WAS IN THE
AREA WHEN JESUS WAS NEAR THE SEA
00:44:36.44\00:44:40.48
OF GALILEE WHERE THE SERMON
ON THE MOUNT - AND OF COURSE THE
00:44:40.51\00:44:43.38
MOUNT WHEN YOU GET TO ISRAEL,
REALLY IS NOT A MOUNTAIN IN
00:44:43.41\00:44:45.85
REGARDS TO WHAT WE THINK OF HERE
IN AMERICA AND SO ON BUT - BUT
00:44:45.88\00:44:48.82
A MOUNT - MOUNTAIN BACK THEN IS
WHAT WE CALL HILL, BY THE WAY.
00:44:48.85\00:44:52.95
BUT A MOUNTAIN - THE MOUNT
THAT HE WAS ON WAS ACTUALLY JUST
00:44:52.99\00:44:57.79
WHERE THE PLANE OF JEZREEL OF -
IN GALILEE KIND OF DROPPED DOWN
00:44:57.83\00:45:03.06
SEVERAL HUNDRED FEET TO THE
SEA OF GALILEE - TO THE SHORE OF
00:45:03.10\00:45:05.80
GALILEE. AND SO,
WHEN HE WAS ON THE TOP
00:45:05.83\00:45:09.07
OF THE MOUNT, OF COURSE, THEN IT
WAS KIND OF LIKE AN AMPHITHEATER
00:45:09.10\00:45:11.74
BUT, IN REVERSE, WE FIND
THAT ALL THE AUDIENCE WAS
00:45:11.77\00:45:14.54
KIND OF DOWN THE HILL. SO
THEY ALL HAD A VIEW AS THEY
00:45:14.58\00:45:18.01
LOOKED UP AT THE -
AT THE MESSIAH, JESUS.
00:45:18.05\00:45:24.25
AND, SO THIS YOUNG MAN MAY HAVE
HEARD THAT COUNSEL AND HAD THIS
00:45:24.29\00:45:27.12
SEED GERMINATING IN HIS MIND,
FOR THE LAST SEVERAL MONTHS OR
00:45:27.16\00:45:30.69
EVEN A COUPLE OF YEARS, SINCE HE
HEARD THAT SERMON ON THE MOUNT.
00:45:30.73\00:45:33.26
AND THAT'S WHY HE WAS
UNDER SUCH DEEP CONVICTION.
00:45:33.29\00:45:38.00
MATTHEW 6 VERSE 24 JESUS SAYS,
"NO ONE CAN SERVE TWO MASTERS
00:45:38.03\00:45:43.94
FOR EITHER HE WILL HATE THE ONE
AND LOVE THE OTHER OR ELSE HE
00:45:43.97\00:45:46.34
WILL BE LOYAL TO THE
ONE AND DESPISE THE OTHER.
00:45:46.37\00:45:49.78
YOU CANNOT
SERVE GOD AND MAMMON."
00:45:49.81\00:45:53.95
YOU CANNOT SERVE GOD AND MAMMON.
00:45:53.98\00:45:56.95
AND, OF COURSE, WE'VE
ALREADY DEFINED WHAT MAMMON IS.
00:45:56.99\00:45:59.25
AND SO YOU CAN ONLY SERVE
GOD OR THE RICHES AND BUILD YOUR
00:45:59.29\00:46:02.39
KINGDOM HERE ON THIS
EARTH. YOU CANNOT GIVE YOUR
00:46:02.42\00:46:04.33
AFFECTIONS OUT TO BOTH.
THERE IS NO FENCE SITTING AND
00:46:04.36\00:46:07.30
THERE IS NO
HOLDING HANDS WITH BOTH.
00:46:07.30\00:46:09.40
THERE IS ONLY ONE OR THE OTHER
AND JESUS WANTED TO MAKE THAT
00:46:09.43\00:46:12.67
CRYSTAL CLEAR FOR THEM AS WELL
AS FOR US, OF COURSE, AS WELL.
00:46:12.70\00:46:17.97
YOU KNOW MANY YEARS AGO I WAS
CONTEMPLATING THIS PARTICULAR
00:46:18.01\00:46:20.61
TRUTH IN REGARDS TO WHERE
MY HEART WAS AND WHEN MY MEMORY
00:46:20.64\00:46:24.61
GOES BACK TO THE TIME WHEN IT'S
MOST LIKELY THAT GOD GAVE ME
00:46:24.65\00:46:28.55
THIS KIND OF SELF-TEST -
THIS KIND OF A WAY OF KEEPING MY
00:46:28.58\00:46:34.26
HEART IN CHECK - WAS DURING
MY COLLEGE YEARS WHEN I WAS
00:46:34.29\00:46:38.33
STUDYING FOR THE MINISTRY.
AND WHEN I WAS AT COLLEGE, YOU
00:46:38.36\00:46:42.73
KNOW, I DIDN'T OWN A WHOLE LOT
AND MY WIFE AND I WERE LIVING
00:46:42.76\00:46:46.80
ON A SHOESTRING BUDGET, BUT
NEVERTHELESS, REGARDLESS OF ALL
00:46:46.84\00:46:50.11
THE MONEY THAT WE'RE POURING
INTO TUITION THAT IT COST TO GO
00:46:50.14\00:46:52.81
TO A PRIVATE CHRISTIAN COLLEGE
AND SO ON, YOU KNOW, GOD STILL
00:46:52.84\00:46:57.41
GAVE US ENOUGH AND PROSPERED
US ENOUGH THAT WE WERE ABLE TO
00:46:57.45\00:47:00.08
STILL ACCUMULATE SOME THINGS
THAT WE HAD NEVER OWNED BEFORE.
00:47:00.12\00:47:03.39
YOU KNOW, A HOME STEREO
OR SOME FURNITURE AND SO ON.
00:47:03.42\00:47:07.52
SO WHEN YOU'RE JUST 20, 22,
23 YEARS OR LIKE WE WERE AT THAT
00:47:07.56\00:47:12.09
TIME, THOSE ARE BIG THINGS YOU
KNOW YOU'VE NEVER OWNED THOSE
00:47:12.13\00:47:15.60
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN YOUR LIFE.
SO I STARTED THINKING, YOU KNOW,
00:47:15.63\00:47:19.17
'AM I STARTING TO GET ATTACHED
TO ALL THESE, YOU KNOW, THESE
00:47:19.20\00:47:23.30
POSSESSIONS THAT
I'VE NEVER OWNED BEFORE?'
00:47:23.34\00:47:26.44
AND IT'S LIKE THE HOLY SPIRIT
SAID, 'SHAWN, YOU KNOW, IF SOME
00:47:26.47\00:47:32.11
GOVERNMENT AUTHORITIES CAME' -
YOU KNOW, IT WAS AT NIGHT WHEN I
00:47:32.15\00:47:34.28
WAS GOING THROUGH THESE
EXPERIENCES - AND HE SAID, YOU
00:47:34.32\00:47:36.92
KNOW, 'SHAWN, IF SOME GOVERNMENT
AUTHORITIES CAME IN AND THEY HAD
00:47:36.95\00:47:40.69
THE FIRE POWER AND THE AUTHORITY
TO BE ABLE TO COME IN' -
00:47:40.72\00:47:47.56
OBVIOUSLY IN A DIFFERENT CONTEXT
AND TIME THAT WE LIVE IN - AND
00:47:47.60\00:47:50.83
THEY CAME IN UNANNOUNCED,
UNEXPECTED AND THEY SAID 'SHAWN,
00:47:50.87\00:47:55.60
TONIGHT YOU NEED
TO MAKE A CHOICE.
00:47:55.64\00:47:58.67
EITHER RENOUNCE YOUR FAITH
IN CHRIST - YOU'LL LEAVE BEHIND
00:47:58.71\00:48:02.11
YOUR COMMITMENT TO CHRIST -
OR WE JUST TAKE EVERYTHING.'
00:48:02.14\00:48:06.38
EVERYTHING. 'WHAT WOULD YOUR
CHOICE BE?' AND IT REALLY FORCED
00:48:06.41\00:48:11.89
ME AND HELPED ME TO DO SOME SOUL
SEARCHING AND SAY 'WOULD I BE
00:48:11.92\00:48:15.49
WILLING TO LET EVERYTHING GO
TONIGHT IF I HAD THAT CHOICE -
00:48:15.52\00:48:20.93
IF I WAS FORCED AND
COMPELLED INTO THAT CHOICE.
00:48:20.96\00:48:23.60
AND SO, EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE I
COME BACK TO THAT CHOICE AND SAY
00:48:23.63\00:48:27.97
'SHAWN, YOU KNOW, IF THAT
SCENARIO WERE TO HAPPEN TODAY -
00:48:28.00\00:48:31.04
UNANNOUNCED - AT ANY TIME WOULD
YOU BE WILLING TO LET IT GO?'
00:48:31.07\00:48:35.84
AND I FIND THAT VERY HELPFUL AS
A KIND OF A WAY TO KEEP MY HEART
00:48:35.88\00:48:39.08
IN CHECK AND MAKE SURE THAT,
EVEN THOUGH GOD HAS BLESSED ME
00:48:39.11\00:48:42.85
TO BE ABLE TO ACCUMULATE
DIFFERENT ADDITIONAL POSSESSIONS
00:48:42.88\00:48:46.92
OVER THE YEARS, THAT MY HEART'S
IN THE RIGHT PLACE - THAT MY
00:48:46.96\00:48:50.53
AFFECTIONS ARE NOT IN THOSE
THINGS AND THAT I CAN LET THEM
00:48:50.56\00:48:52.89
GO TOMORROW IF I NEED TO.
I CAME INTO THIS WORLD WITH
00:48:52.93\00:48:58.00
NOTHING AND I LEAVE THIS WORLD
WITH NOTHING AND I NEED TO MAKE
00:48:58.03\00:49:03.97
SURE THAT MY HEART IS BEING SET
INTO THE TREASURES OF HEAVEN.
00:49:04.01\00:49:11.71
WELL THIS WEEK'S LESSON SUGGESTS
THAT THE BEST WAY TO ENSURE THAT
00:49:11.75\00:49:13.98
WE KEEP CHOOSING JESUS BEFORE
MONEY AND RICHES IS FOCUS ON WHO
00:49:14.02\00:49:16.99
GOD IS AND WHAT
HE HAS DONE FOR US.
00:49:17.02\00:49:19.92
NOW THAT PARTICULAR TOPIC, OF
COURSE, COULD TAKE UP THE WHOLE
00:49:19.95\00:49:22.99
QUARTERLY, COULDN'T IT?
WE COULD EASILY FILL A WHOLE
00:49:23.02\00:49:25.93
THREE-MONTH'S STUDY
JUST ON THAT TOPIC ALONE.
00:49:25.96\00:49:28.26
WHO IS GOD AND WHAT HAS HE DONE
FOR US THAT WE MIGHT MAKE GOOD
00:49:28.30\00:49:31.63
CHOICES FOR HIM INCLUDING
CHOOSING HIM OVER RICHES?
00:49:31.67\00:49:35.40
BUT SUNDAY LOOKS
AT JESUS AS CREATOR.
00:49:35.44\00:49:37.77
SO LET'S LOOK AT THAT QUICKLY
AND SEE IF I CAN JUST LOOK AT
00:49:37.81\00:49:41.01
SOMETHING INTERESTING
THERE. LET'S GO TO GENESIS
00:49:41.04\00:49:44.55
QUICKLY - CHAPTER 1.
WE'RE GOING TO THE FIRST FOUR
00:49:44.58\00:49:47.78
VERSES OF THE BIBLE AND WE'LL
LOOK AT THE FIRST FOUR VERSES.
00:49:47.82\00:49:52.19
GENESIS 1 VERSE 1 SAYS, "IN
THE BEGINNING GOD CREATED THE
00:49:52.22\00:49:55.02
HEAVENS AND THE
EARTH." NOW THAT'S NO
00:49:55.06\00:49:57.53
SMALL VERSE, IS IT?
THAT'S A VERY IMPORTANT VERSE.
00:49:57.56\00:50:00.96
WE LIVE IN A DAY AND AGE WHEN
IT'S MORE IMPORTANT AND NEEDFUL
00:50:01.00\00:50:03.23
THAN EVER - "THE EARTH
WAS WITHOUT FORM AND VOID AND
00:50:03.26\00:50:05.77
DARKNESS WAS OVER THE FACE OF
THE DEEP AND THE SPIRIT OF GOD
00:50:05.80\00:50:08.10
WAS HOVERING OVER THE FACE
OF THE WATERS AND THEN GOD SAID
00:50:08.14\00:50:10.47
'LET THERE BE LIGHT AND
THERE WAS - THERE WAS LIGHT."
00:50:10.51\00:50:14.44
AND THEN GOD SOMETHING - DID
SOMETHING WITH THE LIGHT AND THE
00:50:14.48\00:50:16.98
DARKNESS -"GOD SAW THE
LIGHT THAT IT WAS GOOD.
00:50:17.01\00:50:18.68
HE DIVIDED THE
LIGHT FROM THE DARKNESS."
00:50:18.71\00:50:24.62
JESUS SAID SOMETHING INTERESTING
WHEN HE WAS ON THE EARTH.
00:50:24.65\00:50:27.12
HE SAYS, 'I AM THE LIGHT OF THE
WORLD.' COME WITH ME NOW TO JOHN
00:50:27.16\00:50:32.39
CHAPTER 1 - THE GOSPEL OF JOHN.
00:50:32.43\00:50:35.70
THE GOSPEL OF JOHN CHAPTER
1 AND STARTING WITH VERSE 1.
00:50:35.73\00:50:42.64
AND LO AND BEHOLD WE FIND THAT
GOD HAD INSPIRED JOHN IN A VERY
00:50:42.67\00:50:46.17
POWERFUL, VERY POETIC WAY TO
BE ABLE TO REFLECT THAT WHICH WE
00:50:46.21\00:50:50.91
HAVE JUST READ IN THE
FIRST VERSES OF THE BIBLE.
00:50:50.95\00:50:54.18
LO AND BEHOLD IT
STARTS WITH "IN THE" -
00:50:54.22\00:50:56.22
>>BEGINNING. >>"IN
THE BEGINNING." WHAT DOES
00:50:56.25\00:50:58.82
THE BIBLE START WITH? IN THE
- "IN THE BEGINNING GOD CREATED
00:50:58.85\00:51:02.29
THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH" - "IN
THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD AND
00:51:02.32\00:51:04.93
THE WORD WAS WITH GOD AND
THE WORD WAS GOD." HE WAS IN THE
00:51:04.96\00:51:08.13
BEGINNING WITH GOD.
NOW THE WORD THERE IN MOST
00:51:08.16\00:51:11.87
TRANSLATIONS STARTS WITH A
CAPITAL W AND THAT'S BECAUSE THE
00:51:11.90\00:51:14.70
TRANSLATORS KNEW THAT VERSE 14
REVEALED, IN THE SAME CHAPTER,
00:51:14.74\00:51:18.27
VERY CLEARLY THAT JOHN WAS
TALKING ABOUT JESUS AND HE WAS
00:51:18.31\00:51:22.21
USING 'WORD' AS
A TITLE FOR JESUS.
00:51:22.24\00:51:26.38
AND SO WE CAN SAY 'IN THE
BEGINNING WAS JESUS AND JESUS
00:51:26.41\00:51:30.99
WAS WITH GOD AND JESUS WAS GOD.'
THEN IN VERSE 3 HE GOES ON.
00:51:31.02\00:51:37.93
"ALL THINGS WERE MADE THROUGH
HIM AND WITHOUT HIM NOTHING THAT
00:51:37.96\00:51:40.33
WAS MADE WAS MADE."
AND SO HERE WE HAVE JOHN
00:51:40.36\00:51:44.63
REFLECTING AGAIN AND LIFTING
UP JESUS AS THE CREATOR AND HE'S
00:51:44.67\00:51:48.20
PLUGGING JESUS INTO THE FIRST
VERSES OF THE BIBLE, ISN'T HE?
00:51:48.24\00:51:52.44
AND HE'S DOING THAT ON
PURPOSE IN A VERY POWERFUL WAY.
00:51:52.47\00:51:55.74
THEN A VERSE 4 HE GOES, "IN HIM
WAS LIFE AND THE LIFE WAS THE
00:51:55.78\00:51:58.61
LIGHT OF MEN AND THE LIGHT
SHINES IN THE DARKNESS AND THE
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DARKNESS DID NOT COMPREHEND
IT.' AND SO HERE WE HAVE GOD THE
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CREATOR, JESUS. WE
HAVE ALL THINGS MADE THROUGH
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HIM - HEAVENS AND EARTH - AND WE
HAVE JESUS AS THE SOURCE OF ALL
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LIFE - IN HIM WAS LIFE - AND
THEN WE FIND THAT JESUS COMES
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AND HE SHINES AND SEPARATES
THE LIGHT FROM THE FROM THE -
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>>DARKNESS. >>FROM
THE DARKNESS. ISN'T THAT
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A POWERFUL, BEAUTIFUL PARALLEL
BETWEEN THE FIRST VERSES OF THE
00:52:24.04\00:52:27.81
BIBLE AND THE FIRST VERSES OF
THE GOSPEL OF JOHN? AND THEN, OF
00:52:27.84\00:52:31.85
COURSE, THE REST OF THE GOSPEL
OF JOHN IS UNPACKING THOSE
00:52:31.88\00:52:34.05
VERSES BECAUSE JOHN, IN A VERY
POWERFUL, POETIC WAY, INTRODUCES
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JESUS THIS WAY VERY CLEARLY,
FOR THE JEWISH MIND WOULD HAVE
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IMMEDIATELY BROUGHT THEIR
MIND BACK TO THE FIRST VERSES OF
00:52:40.49\00:52:42.32
GENESIS. AND THEN HE SAYS AND
THIS IS THE EVIDENCE AND THEN HE
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UNPACKS THE REST OF THE GOSPEL
AND THE MAIN THRUST AND PURPOSE
00:52:45.86\00:52:48.73
OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN - THE
GODHEAD INSPIRED JOHN TO WRITE -
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WAS TO BE ABLE TO DEMONSTRATE
THAT JESUS WAS GOD, HIMSELF -
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THE SAME JESUS THAT CREATED
THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH IN THE
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BEGINNING. AND SO VERY CLEARLY
THE BIBLE - AND, NOT ONLY HERE,
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BUT IN MANY OTHER
POINTS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT AND
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THE OLD TESTAMENT, REVEALED
JESUS IS ONE WITH THE FATHER.
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HE IS THE ONE THAT IS JUST
AS RESPONSIBLE FOR CREATING THE
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HEAVENS AND THE EARTH AS THE
FATHER AND THE HOLY SPIRIT WERE,
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AND THAT'S IMPORTANT FOR
US TO BE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND.
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I WANT TO COME BACK TO VERSE 4
AS WE CLOSE UP TODAY IN OUR LAST
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FEW MINUTES AND THAT IS THE
FIRST FOUR WORDS IN VERSE 4 -
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AND THE FIRST FOUR WORDS OF
VERSE 4, IT SAYS, "IN HIM WAS -
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>>LIFE. >>LIFE.
NOW THOSE ARE NO SMALL
00:53:29.87\00:53:33.24
WORDS. THAT'S A
POWERFUL, NEEDFUL
00:53:33.27\00:53:35.74
STATEMENT BECAUSE IT
REVEALS TO US THAT JESUS IS THE
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ULTIMATE SOURCE OF ALL LIFE.
JESUS IS THE SOURCE OF LIFE,
00:53:38.98\00:53:43.79
UNBORROWED AND UNDERIVED
- THE ONLY SOURCE OF LIFE.
00:53:43.82\00:53:50.13
NOW, THIS FLIES STRAIGHT INTO
THE FACE OF A PRIMARY PREMISE OF
00:53:50.16\00:53:55.80
THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION WHICH IS
CALLED SPONTANEOUS GENERATION.
00:53:55.83\00:54:00.30
NOW THE IRONY OF THIS PARTICULAR
PREMISE IN ACCEPTING AND
00:54:00.34\00:54:04.34
BELIEVING IN OUR ORIGINS THROUGH
DARWIN'S THEORY OF EVOLUTION
00:54:04.37\00:54:09.51
THAT REQUIRES YOU TO ACCEPT
THE PREMISE THAT SPONTANEOUS
00:54:09.54\00:54:14.78
GENERATION IS TRUE. NOW THE
IRONY OF THIS WHOLE THING IS
00:54:14.82\00:54:19.35
THAT THERE WAS A FAMOUS
FRENCH SCIENTIST BY THE NAME OF
00:54:19.39\00:54:21.92
LOUIS PASTEUR.
00:54:21.96\00:54:23.59
AND LOUIS PASTEUR WAS A FRENCH
SCIENTIST THAT IS FAMOUS FOR A
00:54:23.63\00:54:28.36
NUMBER OF DIFFERENT THINGS, BUT
HIS MOST FAMOUS THING THAT HE
00:54:28.40\00:54:30.57
DID WAS HE WAS THE ONE THAT CAME
UP WITH THE EXPERIMENTS THAT
00:54:30.60\00:54:34.34
DEBUNKED THE COMMON BELIEF AMONG
SCIENTISTS IN HIS DAY THAT THERE
00:54:34.37\00:54:39.11
IS SUCH THING AS SPONTANEOUS
GENERATION OF LIFE - THAT LIFE
00:54:39.14\00:54:42.74
CAN GENERATE IN A MICROSCOPIC
LEVEL SPONTANEOUSLY AND
00:54:42.78\00:54:46.58
MYSTERIOUSLY ON ITS
OWN WITHOUT PARENTS.
00:54:46.61\00:54:49.42
AND WE FIND HERE THAT,
OF COURSE, HE DISPROVED THAT
00:54:49.45\00:54:54.32
THROUGH HIS SCIENTISTS - THROUGH
HIS SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTS.
00:54:54.36\00:54:59.29
JUST WANT TO CLOSE
WITH THE STATEMENT HE MADE.
00:54:59.33\00:55:01.10
HE SAID, NEVER WILL THE DOCTRINE
OF SPONTANEOUS GENERATION
00:55:01.13\00:55:03.67
RECOVER FROM THE MORTAL
BLOW OF THIS SIMPLE EXPERIMENT.
00:55:03.70\00:55:07.67
THERE IS NO KNOWN CIRCUMSTANCE
IN WHICH IT CAN BE CONFIRMED
00:55:07.70\00:55:11.04
THAT MICROSCOPIC BEINGS CAME
INTO THE WORLD WITHOUT GERMS AND
00:55:11.07\00:55:14.14
WITHOUT PARENTS
SIMILAR TO THEMSELVES."
00:55:14.18\00:55:18.45
AND SO HERE WE STAND 150 YEARS
LATER, DOZENS OF SCIENTISTS,
00:55:18.48\00:55:21.68
HUNDREDS OF EXPERIMENTS AND
ATTEMPTS TO BE ABLE TO REPLICATE
00:55:21.72\00:55:24.92
SPONTANEOUS GENERATION IN A
LABORATORY AND MR. PASTEUR'S
00:55:24.95\00:55:28.52
STATEMENT STILL
HOLDS TRUE. >>AMEN.
00:55:28.56\00:55:31.36
>>WHY? BECAUSE THE BIBLE
TELLS US, AMONG OTHER PLACES,
00:55:31.39\00:55:34.86
IN VERSE 4, "IN HIM
WAS LIFE." IN HIM WAS LIFE.
00:55:34.93\00:55:41.24
WELL, I HOPE THAT HELPS OUT AND
I HOPE THAT BRINGS YOU CLOSER TO
00:55:41.27\00:55:44.24
JESUS AS THE CREATOR.
NOT ONLY THAT BUT ALSO AS THE
00:55:44.27\00:55:46.91
LOVING CREATOR AS WE
SEE HIM IN ALL OF CREATION.
00:55:46.94\00:55:50.25
NOT ONLY SHOULD WE SEE HIM
AS THE CREATOR BUT, JUST AS
00:55:50.28\00:55:52.68
IMPORTANTLY, TO SEE HIS LOVE
IN ALL CREATION AND YOU CAN FIND
00:55:52.71\00:55:55.45
SOME GREAT QUOTES IN
THE QUARTERLY AS WELL.
00:55:55.48\00:55:58.02
AND AGAIN I WISH WE HAD TWO
HOURS BECAUSE THERE IS A GOOD
00:55:58.05\00:56:01.22
TWO HOURS' WORTH
OF MATERIAL HERE.
00:56:01.26\00:56:02.86
SO DON'T ROB YOURSELF; MAKE SURE
YOU GO THROUGH THE QUARTERLY
00:56:02.89\00:56:04.76
STUDY IN ITS FULLNESS,
IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY.
00:56:04.79\00:56:07.76
I WANT TO JUST REMIND ALL
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>>GOD IS REALLY DOING THIS.
>>THE LIFE THAT HE'S GIVEN ME.
00:56:48.94\00:56:50.84
>>THIS MESSAGE WAS SO
POWERFUL. >>I'LL FOLLOW CHRIST
00:56:50.87\00:56:52.71
WHEREVER HE
GOES. >>AMAZING FACTS.
00:56:52.74\00:56:56.68
MORE THAN 45 YEARS OF
PROCLAIMING GOD'S MESSAGE AROUND
00:56:56.71\00:57:00.48
THE WORLD >>AND
THEN THE LOGO POPS ACROSS
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- AMAZING FACTS
PRESENTS - I'VE LISTENED TO A
00:57:03.72\00:57:06.29
LOT OF DIFFERENT MINISTERS BUT
HERE - THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME
00:57:06.32\00:57:09.26
THAT HE'S ACTUALLY SAYING
SOMETHING THAT I HAD TO GRAB MY
00:57:09.29\00:57:12.19
BIBLE - ACTUALLY PICK IT UP AND
I'VE NEVER HEARD THIS BEFORE.
00:57:12.23\00:57:16.13
LET ME LOOK
THROUGH AND FIND THIS.
00:57:16.16\00:57:18.10
THEN I JUST COULDN'T
GET ENOUGH. >>SO I STARTED
00:57:18.13\00:57:19.93
DOING BIBLE STUDIES.
EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE GUYS
00:57:19.97\00:57:23.34
STARTED BEING
CHANGED, INCLUDING MYSELF.
00:57:23.37\00:57:25.94
>>MY QUESTION WAS 'WHY
DID THAT HAPPEN TO ME, GOD?'
00:57:25.97\00:57:29.71
THE LORD WAS ABLE TO REACH
OUT AND I ACTUALLY SAW HIM AS A
00:57:29.74\00:57:33.08
FATHER. >>I LOST
EVERYTHING AND THAT WAS
00:57:33.11\00:57:36.32
WHEN I REALIZED THAT IT
WAS GOD MISSING IN MY LIFE.
00:57:36.35\00:57:39.39
>>I WENT TO A PROPHECY
SEMINAR WHICH KNOCKED ME OUT.
00:57:39.42\00:57:43.39
THIS MESSAGE WAS SO
POWERFUL AND SO IRREFUTABLE.
00:57:43.43\00:57:47.23
I JUST WENT THIS IS REAL.
THIS IS - THIS IS AMAZING.
00:57:47.30\00:57:54.17
>>TOGETHER WE HAVE SPREAD THE
GOSPEL MUCH FARTHER THAN EVER
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BEFORE. THANK
YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT.
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