Hello, friends, and welcome
to Sabbath School Study Hour
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coming to you here from the
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Granite Bay
Seventh-day Adventist Church
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in Sacramento, California.
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Over the past few
weeks, we've been studying
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just a really
important and fascinating lesson
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dealing with
preparation for the end times.
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Today, we have a
very important subject
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that we're going
to be looking at,
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and it's entitled,
it's lesson number six
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if you are following along.
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It's entitled The
Change of the Law.
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And it's lesson number six.
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Well, before we
get to our lesson,
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I'd like to again
invite our song leaders to come
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and they will lead us
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as we lift our voices in praise.
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Above all powers
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Above all kings
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Above all nature
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And all created things
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Above all wisdom
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And all the ways of man
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You were here
before the world began
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Above all kingdoms
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Above all thrones
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Above all wonders
the world has ever known
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Above all wealth and
treasures of the earth
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There's no way to
measure what You're worth
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Crucified
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Laid behind the stone
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You lived to die
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Rejected and alone
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Like a rose
trampled on the ground
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You took the fall
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And thought of me
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Above all
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Above all powers
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Above all kings
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Above all nature
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And all created things
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Above all wisdom
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And all the ways of man
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You were here
before the world began
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Above all kingdoms
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Above all thrones
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Above all wonders
the world has ever known
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Above all wealth and
treasures of the earth
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There's no way to
measure what You're worth
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Crucified
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Laid behind the stone
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You lived to die
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Rejected and alone
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Like a rose
trampled on the ground
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You took the fall
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And thought of me
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Above all
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Crucified
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Laid behind the stone
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You lived to die
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Rejected and alone
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Like a rose
trampled on the ground
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You took the fall
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And thought of me
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Above all
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Like a rose
trampled on the ground
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You took the fall
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And thought of me
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Above all
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At this time, Pastor
Ross will lead us in prayer.
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Dear Father in
heaven, once again,
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we are grateful
for the opportunity
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to gather in your
house and open up Your Word
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and study these very
important prophetic truths
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that relate to our time.
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Father, we ask
of the Holy Spirit
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to come and guide our hearts,
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lead us into a
clear understanding
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of Your will for our lives,
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and where we are
in the stream of time,
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how we can be ready
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for that glorious
day when Jesus comes.
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Thank You for Your
promise to be with us,
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in Jesus' name, amen.
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Our lesson this morning
is going to be brought to us
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by our AFCO Direct.
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AFCO is the amazing
facts center of evangelists,
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Pastor Marshall
McKenzie, he is not a stranger
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to the Granite Bay church,
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he's actually a
member right here.
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So, Pastor McKenzie, welcome.
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Thank you for
sharing with us today.
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Well, we have quite
the topic to study today,
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The Change of the Law.
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Have you ever,
I'm sure you have,
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been to a buffet or
you've been to a party
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where they're serving
lots of food or church...
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you've been to a church potluck,
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and you just see
all kinds of food,
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and your eyes get really big,
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and you kind of
fill that plate full.
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And then you get
back to your seat
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and you look at all the
food that's on your plate,
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and you think, "I
might have overdone it."
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But it's on your plate,
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and so you have to
figure out a way to, what?
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Get through it, and finish it,
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and eat all that
food that's on your plate.
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Today's lesson is
kind of like that,
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entitled The Change of the Law.
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And what we're
going to be talking about
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is a lot of different things.
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You could have actually
taken this whole lesson book
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on the
preparation for the end time,
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and we could have taken
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this over a
longer period of time.
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But they're crunching so
much information together,
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and so I've been prayerful
this week about this lesson
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because we talk
about the little horn,
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we talk about the moral law,
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we talk about the
Seventh-day Sabbath,
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we talk about
this perceived change
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which doesn't
actually exist in scripture
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but is believed out
there, that's a lot to chew on.
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Matter of fact, we
would study these things
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over a series of
meetings together,
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so I would like
you to bear with me,
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we're going to jump right
in, and there's lots of things
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that we're going to
cover in this lesson,
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The Change of the Law.
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Now the backdrop
for this end time issue
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is Daniel 7.
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Now Daniel 7 is a
parallel of Daniel 2.
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And in lesson number
two, we kind of briefly touch
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on Daniel 2 and this image,
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this image that
has head of gold,
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that has these
chest in arms of silver,
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that has thighs of bronze,
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and that has these legs of iron,
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which we clearly
knows Babylon, Medo-Persia,
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Greece, and Rome.
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And then we
finally get to the feet,
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which has 10 toes.
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And then those
10 toes represents
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the divisions of Europe
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because Rome was never conquered
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by another power historically.
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It was actually
divided from the inside out.
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And this is the
backdrop for actually getting
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into The Change of the Law
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because in Daniel 7
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we see what is inanimate,
in Daniel 2 become animate.
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In Daniel 7, we have
a lion, we have a bear,
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we have a leopard with
four heads and four wings,
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and then all of a
sudden you get to the iron,
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okay, of Daniel 2.
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It's described in
Daniel 7 as this terrible,
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ferocious beast that
has these iron teeth.
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You kind of
think that's something
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right out of Hollywood,
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but it's actually something
right out of the Bible.
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And in the midst,
you have these 10 horns
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that are on its head,
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which go back to the 10
toes of the image in Daniel 2.
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And notice with me,
we're going to open our Bibles
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and actually read the scripture
reading for today's lesson.
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This is where
we're going to start.
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Daniel 7,
describing these 10 horns,
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Daniel actually zeroes in
on specifically a little horn.
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Okay, Daniel 7:24, 25,
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we're going to look at this.
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It says, "The 10
horns are 10," what?
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"Kings."
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Who shall arise
from this kingdom,"
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that fourth kingdom,
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which is
represented as Rome, Papal Rome.
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And I saw him.
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Oops, excuse me,
I jumped too far.
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"And another
shall arise after them,
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and he shall be
different from the first ones."
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Now you might ask yourself,
"How is this little horn
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different than
those other 10 horns
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that represent
these kings in kingdoms
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or Rome as it was divided into
what we know is Europe today."
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Okay, notice it says,
"And shall subdue three kings."
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So this little
horn has this attachment
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to these three kings
as a political power,
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but it's not only
political, in other words,
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it uses the state to
accomplish its purposes
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and 3 of these 10 were
taken down by this little horn.
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And then it goes on in verse 25,
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as we get into our
scripture reading, it says,
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"He shall speak pompous
words against the Most High."
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Notice this, all of a
sudden this horizontal attack
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that is occurring
by subduing three kings
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by this little horn, all
of a sudden goes vertical.
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And who is this
little horn after ultimately?
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God.
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It says, "He shall
speak pompous words
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against the Most High.
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And he shall persecute
the saints of the Most High,
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and shall intend to
change times and law.
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Then the saints shall
be given into his hand
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for a times time
and half a time."
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So there's a little
horn, This little horn power
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not only attacks
politically, horizontally,
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but attacks vertically,
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specifically focusing
on God and God's people.
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What's one way to
really get to God?
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You attack His people, right?
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And so the goal of
this little horn is,
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"Listen, my goal
is to attack God,
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but as I do so, I'm
going to attack His people."
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You know, if Satan changes
our ideas, he changes, what?
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Us.
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He realizes that, "If I
can mess with your mind,
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then I can mess
with how you believe,
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how you live, how you act."
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And so not only
we're going to find
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with this change of the
law as that he's going to go
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after the very
heart of God's law.
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God's law in general,
and the Fourth Commandment.
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Now as we get into this,
specifically this attack,
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the little
horn's greatest attack
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is Satan's greatest deception.
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To literally take it to God
if we're to put it that way,
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and he's going to do
so, he does so by going
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after His people,
but he does this in a way
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of intending to
change times and laws.
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I'm actually going to
start with Thursday's lesson.
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Thursday, kind
of, breaks this down.
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But I'm going to
start here with this phrase.
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It's an important phrase.
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This concept to think or
intend to change times and laws.
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Daniel 7:25.
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Now it's interesting
that the word "Times"
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is used twice
here in Daniel 7:25
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and there are
two different words
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that are used in relationship
to this word "times."
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The first word "times"
is the one we would say,
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it actually in the Aramaic
and in the Hebrews, úiddan.
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Okay, it's used to
describe the duration
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of the little horn's
persecution of the saints.
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So we're talking about time,
the first definition is úiddan,
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which talks
about a span of time.
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Okay, notice we
see this in Daniel 25,
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at the very end, it says,
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"For a times,
times and half a time."
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Now we don't have time
to go into all of that,
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but that's actually
1,260 days or 1,260 years.
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This is a span of time.
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Now the other word
used in relationship
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to this phrase is a
little different than úiddan.
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It's the word Z@man.
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And in the
plural form, it's Z@men,
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which is very interesting.
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This Aramaic word
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has more of a
function of point in time,
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not a span of time.
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But in the plural form,
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it's actually
repeated points in time.
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Now this little
horn is attacking, who?
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Attacking God's people
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and ultimately
through the process
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is attacking, who?
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It's attacking God.
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Remember when Paul was
on the road to Damascus.
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And he was on the road to
Damascus to persecute, who?
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The people of God.
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He was going
after the Christians,
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this is before it was
Saul, before he was Paul,
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and Jesus meets him on the road,
00:17:10.53\00:17:13.06
and says very clearly,
"Why are you persecuting Me?"
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So in other words, by
attacking God's people,
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God relates
intimately with His people.
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This is what that
covenant relationship,
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right, is all about,
that connection with God.
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God is so intimately
connected to His people
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that when you attack His people,
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you attack God directly.
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And Jesus made that very
clear in relationship to Paul
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on his way to Damascus.
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Now I'm getting back to
this repeated point in time.
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He's attacking God.
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Now notice the word
here, in Daniel 7:25 says,
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"Intend to
change times and," what?
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"Law." Okay.
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"Intend to
change times and law."
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The word law here is singular.
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We're talking
about the law of God.
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This fits best
in this description.
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And the repeated point of time
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that you find in
God's law is what law?
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What commandment do we
find has to do with time,
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specifically a
repeated point in time?
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The Fourth Commandment.
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So we know this
is a direct attack
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on God's moral law,
but even more than that,
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it's a direct attack on
the Seventh-day Sabbath,
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the only commandment
you find that deals with
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a repeated point of time, okay?
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Matter of fact, when
you go back to creation
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and God creates all these things
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in six literal days,
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what does God
ultimately do at the end?
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He rests on the
Seventh-day Sabbath.
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Now after this, He what?
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He blesses and sanctifies
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the Seventh-day
Sabbath for all time.
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And this is why
Daniel points us out
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that he is attacking
this repeated point in time.
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You know, it wasn't just
that Sabbath that God blessed,
00:19:15.72\00:19:18.59
it was Sabbaths
throughout eternity
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that God was blessing
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and continuing to prove to
us is valid even in our day.
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This is an end time prophecy.
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This is a prophecy that relates
to you and I in this day.
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And so we should take note
of specifically this attack.
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Now we're going to
talk about in this lesson,
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the law of God
and its importance.
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Today, we're going
to look at this issue
00:19:46.72\00:19:50.39
of under law verses under grace,
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you know, we
hear that a lot, okay?
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Some people kind of do
away with the law, why,
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because we're under grace,
we're no longer under the law.
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Well, Paul has some very
interesting things to say
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that we're going
to take a look at.
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We're also...
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Some people have kind
of pushed away the Seventh
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or the Fourth
Commandment, right?
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They've set away the Sabbath.
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While you're under grace
and they specifically say,
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"There's no need for
the Sabbath anymore."
00:20:15.38\00:20:17.38
Remember Jesus
nailed that to the cross.
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He kind of did away with it.
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Well, not according to
Paul, when we actually look at
00:20:21.68\00:20:24.69
all that Paul has to say.
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And then we're going to look
00:20:27.29\00:20:28.32
specifically at
this change, okay?
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There's a lot of
our Christian friends,
00:20:31.39\00:20:34.23
who are keeping Sunday instead
of the Seventh-day Sabbath.
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Well, there is a
change that this little horn
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has brought about
00:20:42.54\00:20:44.47
to make people
think it was changed.
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But scripture
doesn't actually change it.
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And we're going to
look at the passages
00:20:48.81\00:20:51.21
in relationship to this also.
00:20:51.25\00:20:54.18
So getting back
to the background
00:20:54.22\00:20:55.72
and this attack,
so this little horn
00:20:55.75\00:20:57.79
is attacking the
very moral law of God,
00:20:57.82\00:21:01.19
specifically the
Fourth Commandment,
00:21:01.22\00:21:03.56
the Commandment
that has to do with time.
00:21:03.59\00:21:06.13
Now I have some readers,
00:21:06.16\00:21:07.73
and I've asked to
read some passages.
00:21:07.76\00:21:09.43
In just a moment,
we're going to read
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the first one from Romans 7.
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And so we get back
to Sunday's lesson.
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Sunday's lesson is
entitled The Promise.
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This lesson as it
is entitled The Promise
00:21:22.38\00:21:25.75
is really
identifying the human struggle
00:21:25.78\00:21:29.38
that we all face,
that fleshly struggle,
00:21:29.42\00:21:32.69
the pull of the flesh.
00:21:32.72\00:21:35.72
See, one must
understand the reality of sin,
00:21:35.76\00:21:39.36
and what sin is,
00:21:39.39\00:21:40.93
and what sin is the opposite of.
00:21:40.96\00:21:44.33
If they're going to
understand the existence,
00:21:44.37\00:21:47.10
purpose, and
blessing of God's Law.
00:21:47.14\00:21:51.64
Speaking about
this, Paul writes,
00:21:51.67\00:21:54.24
Romans 7:17, 18, 20, 21.
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"But now, it is no
longer I who do it,
00:22:02.28\00:22:04.89
but sin that dwells in me.
00:22:04.92\00:22:07.49
For I know that in
me, that is, in my flesh,
00:22:07.52\00:22:10.59
nothing good dwells, for
to will is present with me,
00:22:10.63\00:22:14.36
but how to perform
what is good I do not find.
00:22:14.36\00:22:19.23
Now if I do what
I will not to do,
00:22:19.27\00:22:22.24
it is no longer I who do
it, but sin that dwells in me.
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I find then a law, that
evil is present with me,
00:22:26.81\00:22:30.78
the one who wills to do good."
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This is a powerful
passage as we start the series
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of lessons going
through this lesson,
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The Change of the Law.
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Paul, from the
beginning, starts to identify
00:22:43.56\00:22:46.63
what his flesh is like,
00:22:46.66\00:22:48.56
and he's not just
talking about himself,
00:22:48.60\00:22:51.93
he's actually
talking about all of us.
00:22:51.97\00:22:54.77
Remember in Romans 3:23,
It says, "All have," what?
00:22:54.80\00:22:59.67
"All have sinned
00:22:59.71\00:23:01.54
and come short of
the glory of God."
00:23:01.58\00:23:04.01
And I'm sure we all have stories
00:23:04.05\00:23:06.28
where we have fallen
short of the glory of God.
00:23:06.31\00:23:09.75
And we could talk about
them over and over again.
00:23:09.78\00:23:12.45
While Paul says,
here in Romans 7,
00:23:12.49\00:23:15.06
as was read,
you're going to notice
00:23:15.09\00:23:17.76
he uses these phrases
like, "Sin dwells in me.
00:23:17.79\00:23:23.67
In me, nothing good dwells."
00:23:23.70\00:23:27.70
And then he says,
"Evil is present with me."
00:23:27.74\00:23:31.54
So he's talking about
his life without Christ here.
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And he's saying the
human flesh, right...
00:23:37.51\00:23:41.28
"Sin dwells in me,
nothing good in me dwells,"
00:23:41.32\00:23:45.79
and then he says,
"Evil is present with me."
00:23:45.82\00:23:47.96
Sin is the presence of evil,
00:23:47.99\00:23:51.39
where nothing good dwells, okay?
00:23:51.43\00:23:56.70
We see this again.
Notice with me Romans 7:8.
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Notice with me in
your Bibles, Romans 7:8.
00:24:01.04\00:24:06.68
We see this again.
00:24:06.71\00:24:08.64
Paul writes, "But
sin taking opportunity
00:24:08.68\00:24:14.55
by the commandment produced
in me all manner of," what?
00:24:14.58\00:24:19.32
"Of evil desires."
What did sin produce?
00:24:19.35\00:24:22.42
All manner of evil desire, okay?
00:24:22.46\00:24:26.76
Not the commandment,
he's talking about sin.
00:24:26.80\00:24:29.56
But Commandments reveal what?
00:24:29.60\00:24:32.57
The moral law
reveals sin. It reveals evil.
00:24:32.60\00:24:36.60
But it's sin
that produces in him
00:24:36.64\00:24:39.47
all manner of evil desires.
00:24:39.51\00:24:43.41
For apart from
the law sin was what?
00:24:43.45\00:24:46.58
Sin is dead.
00:24:46.61\00:24:48.02
So if you didn't have the law,
00:24:48.05\00:24:49.72
you wouldn't have
a knowledge of what?
00:24:49.75\00:24:51.95
You wouldn't have
a knowledge of sin.
00:24:51.99\00:24:54.59
You know, we have
rules in our homes.
00:24:54.62\00:24:56.66
I'm sure you have
rules in your homes, right?
00:24:56.69\00:24:59.03
Especially those of you
that have children, okay?
00:24:59.06\00:25:02.50
You know, if you
didn't have some sort of rule
00:25:02.53\00:25:05.00
or some sort of
standard, what would there be?
00:25:05.03\00:25:09.04
There would be chaos.
00:25:09.07\00:25:10.77
And the kids would
know that chaos is chaos,
00:25:10.81\00:25:15.64
have you noticed that?
00:25:15.68\00:25:16.88
Children can be
chaotic and not even know
00:25:16.91\00:25:19.11
they're being chaotic,
until you stop and say,
00:25:19.15\00:25:22.88
"Wait a second,
let's go back to the rule."
00:25:22.92\00:25:25.59
And then they say,
00:25:25.62\00:25:26.69
"Oh, maybe I was being chaotic."
00:25:26.72\00:25:30.53
Here Paul talks about
sin and its relationship
00:25:30.56\00:25:33.63
with the Commandment, but
he talks about it as evil.
00:25:33.66\00:25:36.80
So he says, "Sin dwells
in me, nothing good dwells,"
00:25:36.83\00:25:40.90
where sin is, "And
evil is present with me."
00:25:40.94\00:25:44.54
Sin produced in me
all manner of evil desire.
00:25:44.57\00:25:50.71
Now thankfully
Paul also writes...
00:25:50.75\00:25:53.85
Now this is interesting,
00:25:53.88\00:25:54.88
notice with me
verse 7 of Romans 7.
00:25:54.92\00:25:59.82
He says, "What
shall we say then?
00:25:59.85\00:26:02.96
Is the law sin?"
00:26:02.99\00:26:05.73
Is the law what? Sin?
00:26:05.76\00:26:08.20
"Certainly not!"
00:26:08.23\00:26:10.67
He's emphatic on
making this point
00:26:10.70\00:26:13.60
that the law is not sin.
00:26:13.64\00:26:18.24
He says, "On the contrary,
I would not have known sin
00:26:18.27\00:26:22.11
except through the law.
00:26:22.14\00:26:23.85
For I would not
have known covetousness
00:26:23.88\00:26:26.45
unless the law had
said, "You shall not covet.'"
00:26:26.48\00:26:30.75
So Paul's making it very clear
that the law points out sin.
00:26:30.79\00:26:37.09
And, friends, all
of us have fallen,
00:26:37.13\00:26:39.86
all of us have fallen
short, all of us without Christ,
00:26:39.89\00:26:43.73
you know, sin dwells in us,
00:26:43.77\00:26:45.70
there is nothing good in us
and evil is present with us.
00:26:45.73\00:26:50.51
We need Jesus.
00:26:50.54\00:26:55.24
We also need His moral law.
00:26:55.28\00:27:01.25
So what is sin?
00:27:01.28\00:27:02.88
Sin is evil, where
nothing good dwells.
00:27:02.92\00:27:05.92
Now we're going to
read here in just a minute
00:27:05.95\00:27:07.59
another passage of
scripture in 1 John 3:4,
00:27:07.62\00:27:12.63
but I want us to grasp
00:27:12.66\00:27:14.30
and understand
that without Christ,
00:27:14.30\00:27:16.90
that human nature,
that fall in fleshly nature
00:27:16.93\00:27:21.94
is one that is inhabit...
00:27:21.97\00:27:23.84
That sin inhabits,
that evil inhabits,
00:27:23.87\00:27:27.58
that nothing good inhabits.
00:27:27.61\00:27:30.61
So sin is evil,
where nothing good dwells.
00:27:30.65\00:27:33.82
Another biblical
definition is lawlessness.
00:27:33.85\00:27:39.29
What law are we talking about?
00:27:39.32\00:27:41.09
We're talking about
the moral law, okay?
00:27:41.12\00:27:44.86
The law, that by the
way has always existed,
00:27:44.89\00:27:48.50
we're going to
take a look at this,
00:27:48.53\00:27:49.56
that has always existed.
00:27:49.60\00:27:50.97
It didn't just come
into being on Mount Sinai,
00:27:51.00\00:27:56.84
that wasn't its first place.
00:27:56.87\00:28:00.11
It actually came before
that. But you know what?
00:28:00.14\00:28:03.88
I thank God for the
promise. What is the promise?
00:28:03.91\00:28:08.35
"There is therefore
no condemnation to those,
00:28:08.38\00:28:12.99
who are in Christ
Jesus, who do not walk
00:28:13.02\00:28:16.83
according to the
flesh, but," what?
00:28:16.86\00:28:20.13
"They walk
according to the spirit."
00:28:20.16\00:28:22.93
Okay, now when Paul
talks about the flesh,
00:28:22.96\00:28:25.90
he's talking about
those sinful desires,
00:28:25.93\00:28:29.24
that evil that
is present with us,
00:28:29.27\00:28:32.27
and where no good dwells.
00:28:32.31\00:28:35.28
So now we're going to
jump into Monday's lesson.
00:28:35.31\00:28:37.88
I'm, kind of, moving
fast and I'm looking.
00:28:37.91\00:28:40.28
So we're going to have
to go through this quickly.
00:28:40.32\00:28:42.72
But you'll notice with me,
00:28:42.75\00:28:44.22
Paul, in his
writings is actually,
00:28:44.25\00:28:48.19
okay, writing
consistently on the law.
00:28:48.22\00:28:51.96
And he writes from two
different perspectives.
00:28:51.99\00:28:56.13
You know, Paul is very
balanced in his writing.
00:28:56.16\00:28:59.37
The first perspective is that
00:28:59.40\00:29:02.10
of a wrong
relationship to the law,
00:29:02.14\00:29:05.67
which is like pre-conversion.
00:29:05.71\00:29:08.78
Now these are key
phrases, pre-conversion.
00:29:08.81\00:29:11.38
There's a wrong
relationship to the law.
00:29:11.41\00:29:14.18
But then he also
writes in support
00:29:14.22\00:29:16.82
of a right
relationship to the law,
00:29:16.85\00:29:19.92
which is post-conversion.
00:29:19.95\00:29:23.39
So when we talk about the law
00:29:23.43\00:29:25.29
and we talk
about Paul's writings,
00:29:25.33\00:29:27.03
we need to understand
he's writing with a balance,
00:29:27.10\00:29:30.23
pre-conversion, post-conversion,
00:29:30.27\00:29:32.70
which one is he
writing about, at what time.
00:29:32.73\00:29:36.94
And so he breaks this down.
00:29:36.97\00:29:38.37
Pre-conversion, we
read such verses like this,
00:29:38.41\00:29:42.14
"I would not have known
sin except through the law,"
00:29:42.18\00:29:45.28
Romans 7:7.
00:29:45.31\00:29:48.28
He also writes,
"Moreover the law entered
00:29:48.32\00:29:51.29
that the offence
might abound," Romans 5:20.
00:29:51.32\00:29:56.83
He also writes
in Galatians 3:23,
00:29:56.86\00:29:59.89
"But before faith came,
we were under the guard,"
00:29:59.93\00:30:04.27
"We were under
guard by the law."
00:30:04.30\00:30:09.07
Another way to put this is
as he writes in Romans 7:14,
00:30:09.10\00:30:13.27
"We were all sold under sin."
00:30:13.31\00:30:18.68
And being under sin means that
an individual is under the law,
00:30:18.71\00:30:25.39
the condemnation of the law,
00:30:25.42\00:30:28.36
this is how
somebody relates to the law
00:30:28.39\00:30:31.76
who is living contrary
to the words of Christ,
00:30:31.79\00:30:36.73
to the teachings of Christ.
00:30:36.77\00:30:41.10
"To be under the
condemnation of the law,
00:30:41.14\00:30:43.17
sin being seen as it
is exceeding sinful."
00:30:43.20\00:30:49.21
Now it's interesting,
notice with me in Romans 7:12,
00:30:49.24\00:30:52.98
and in just a
minute we're going to have
00:30:53.01\00:30:54.05
another verse read,
but notice Romans 7:12,
00:30:54.08\00:31:00.06
Paul, in talking about the law,
00:31:00.09\00:31:02.79
consistently, in
these different ways...
00:31:02.82\00:31:06.83
Notice what he
says kind of in the end,
00:31:06.86\00:31:09.40
summarizing the law.
00:31:09.43\00:31:11.80
He says,
"Therefore, the law is holy,
00:31:11.83\00:31:15.10
and the commandment
holy, just, and," what?
00:31:15.14\00:31:19.01
Good. "Good."
00:31:19.04\00:31:20.08
So the law is good,
00:31:20.11\00:31:22.08
but sin is where
nothing good dwells.
00:31:22.11\00:31:26.21
Are you understanding?
They're literally separate.
00:31:26.25\00:31:29.15
Sin and the law
are not together,
00:31:29.18\00:31:31.82
they are separate.
00:31:31.85\00:31:32.99
Sin is where
nothing good dwells,
00:31:33.02\00:31:35.19
and yet Paul
says the law is, what?
00:31:35.22\00:31:37.33
Good. The law is good.
00:31:37.36\00:31:39.29
And it's shown as good
00:31:39.33\00:31:41.76
because it shows me what sin is.
00:31:41.80\00:31:44.83
Therefore, I understand it
to be good, holy, and just.
00:31:44.87\00:31:51.41
Now notice with me, we're
going to look at post-conversion
00:31:51.44\00:31:54.84
and one passage
I'd like to read,
00:31:54.88\00:31:56.75
we have a reader reading
it, Romans 8:3,4, and 10.
00:31:56.78\00:32:02.42
"For what the law could not do,
00:32:02.45\00:32:04.19
in that it was
weak through the flesh,
00:32:04.22\00:32:05.82
God sending his own Son in
the likeness of sinful flesh,
00:32:05.85\00:32:09.32
and for sin,
condemned sin in the flesh.
00:32:09.36\00:32:12.33
That the
righteousness of the law
00:32:12.36\00:32:13.60
might be fulfilled in us,
00:32:13.63\00:32:15.16
who walk not after the
flesh, but after the Spirit.
00:32:15.20\00:32:18.50
And if Christ be in you,
00:32:18.53\00:32:20.10
the body is dead because of sin,
00:32:20.14\00:32:22.14
but the Spirit is life
because of righteousness."
00:32:22.17\00:32:25.31
Now this is a powerful passage
because notice the promise
00:32:25.34\00:32:28.81
from this lesson
comes out of Romans 8.
00:32:28.84\00:32:31.35
And if you continue reading,
when he talks about this
00:32:31.38\00:32:34.15
walking in the
Spirit and not in the flesh,
00:32:34.18\00:32:38.25
he talks about
fulfilling the, what?
00:32:38.29\00:32:41.32
The righteous
requirements of the law.
00:32:41.36\00:32:45.43
He says that they
might be fulfilled in us
00:32:45.46\00:32:48.46
who do not walk
according to the flesh
00:32:48.50\00:32:51.30
but according to the Spirit.
00:32:51.33\00:32:53.20
So here he is
talking about what?
00:32:53.23\00:32:55.00
Post-conversion.
00:32:55.04\00:32:57.07
He's talking about
someone who has come to Christ,
00:32:57.11\00:32:59.81
they have given
their lives to Christ,
00:32:59.84\00:33:01.64
they have laid all
on the altar for Christ,
00:33:01.68\00:33:04.31
and now they live by
faith and they do live by grace.
00:33:04.35\00:33:10.65
But in the process,
they are fulfilling by faith
00:33:10.69\00:33:14.22
and by grace through Christ...
00:33:14.26\00:33:16.19
What are they fulfilling?
00:33:16.22\00:33:18.23
They're fulfilling the righteous
00:33:18.26\00:33:20.13
requirements of the law.
00:33:20.16\00:33:22.46
Now notice with me
Psalms 119:172, okay.
00:33:22.50\00:33:26.84
Psalm 119:172.
00:33:26.87\00:33:30.44
Not only does the
Bible define sin for us,
00:33:30.47\00:33:34.04
but it also
defines the opposite,
00:33:34.08\00:33:36.91
which is righteousness,
00:33:36.95\00:33:38.91
and this is what
Paul speaks about.
00:33:38.95\00:33:41.12
He says...
00:33:41.15\00:33:42.38
The psalmist writes,
00:33:42.42\00:33:43.59
"My tongue shall
speak of Your word,
00:33:43.62\00:33:46.35
for all Your
commandments are," what?
00:33:46.39\00:33:49.36
"The righteousness." Okay?
00:33:49.39\00:33:52.53
So when we, by faith,
walk according to Christ
00:33:52.56\00:33:58.03
and His example,
believing, trusting in Him,
00:33:58.07\00:34:00.44
He gives us the grace
that enables us to, what?
00:34:00.47\00:34:04.14
Fulfill the
law, which our flesh,
00:34:04.17\00:34:06.24
by the way, couldn't do.
00:34:06.27\00:34:09.21
There was no way.
It's not possible, okay?
00:34:09.24\00:34:14.25
Now you'll
notice, the law is good.
00:34:14.28\00:34:17.45
And this is important.
00:34:17.49\00:34:18.72
Matter of fact,
let's go to Deuteronomy,
00:34:18.75\00:34:20.29
I want to show you something.
00:34:20.32\00:34:21.36
See, this is the basis
of the covenant by the way.
00:34:21.39\00:34:24.66
Notice with me,
Deuteronomy 4:13, okay?
00:34:24.69\00:34:29.56
We always talk about
00:34:29.60\00:34:30.60
this covenant
relationship, okay?
00:34:30.63\00:34:34.10
That the Bible
consistently speaks about
00:34:34.14\00:34:36.27
God formed that covenant,
by the way, with Adam and Eve,
00:34:36.30\00:34:39.21
He formed the same
covenant with Noah,
00:34:39.24\00:34:41.48
He formed the same
covenant with Abraham,
00:34:41.51\00:34:44.08
and thereafter
He continues to form
00:34:44.11\00:34:46.98
the covenant with His people.
00:34:47.02\00:34:50.02
Now He says what the
basis of that covenant is.
00:34:50.05\00:34:55.09
Deuteronomy 4:13 says,
00:34:55.12\00:34:57.23
"So He declared
to you His covenant
00:34:57.26\00:35:00.70
which He
commanded you to perform..."
00:35:00.73\00:35:03.97
The what?
00:35:04.00\00:35:05.50
"The Ten Commandments,
00:35:05.53\00:35:07.70
and He wrote them
on tables of stone."
00:35:07.74\00:35:10.57
So what is the
basis of the covenant,
00:35:10.61\00:35:13.24
this relationship,
00:35:13.27\00:35:14.54
this right
relationship to Jesus Christ?
00:35:14.58\00:35:18.15
You know, there's
a wrong relationship
00:35:18.18\00:35:19.45
to Jesus Christ,
00:35:19.48\00:35:20.68
and there is a
right relationship
00:35:20.72\00:35:22.25
to Jesus Christ,
00:35:22.28\00:35:23.72
just like Paul's
talking about here.
00:35:23.75\00:35:25.42
And he's talking
about this and the law.
00:35:25.45\00:35:28.46
And notice it says here,
00:35:28.49\00:35:29.62
the basis of that
right relationship
00:35:29.66\00:35:32.33
or a relationship that
is based upon righteousness
00:35:32.36\00:35:37.03
has the law at
the foundation, okay?
00:35:37.07\00:35:41.77
So as we believe in
Christ, Christ teaches us
00:35:41.80\00:35:45.57
more and more of His law.
00:35:45.61\00:35:47.28
You know, what is the
man, in Psalms it's told,
00:35:47.31\00:35:49.71
we're told in Psalms
1, "Blessed is the man..."
00:35:49.74\00:35:52.58
and then it
goes on to talk about
00:35:52.61\00:35:53.78
how they meditate on
the law day and night,
00:35:53.82\00:35:57.79
it's like looking at Jesus.
00:35:57.82\00:36:00.06
By the way, Jesus
is the, what shepherd?
00:36:00.09\00:36:03.39
He's the Good Shepherd.
00:36:03.43\00:36:05.39
Notice, He's the good shepherd,
00:36:05.43\00:36:07.50
there is no sin
that surrounds Jesus.
00:36:07.56\00:36:10.37
Now He became sin
for us who knew no sin.
00:36:10.40\00:36:15.44
Therefore, He's the
Good Shepherd, okay?
00:36:15.47\00:36:18.64
He's the shepherd that
keeps the commandments of God
00:36:18.67\00:36:22.44
and all of His sheep
hear His voice, okay?
00:36:22.48\00:36:27.38
Matter of fact,
notice with me Matthew 25:21.
00:36:27.42\00:36:32.72
Matthew 25:21,
00:36:32.75\00:36:36.79
this is a powerful passage,
00:36:36.83\00:36:40.33
it's in the context of
the Second Coming of Christ.
00:36:40.36\00:36:44.23
Now Matthew 24 talks
about the signs of His coming.
00:36:44.27\00:36:48.24
At the end of Matthew 24,
what Jesus does is He says,
00:36:48.27\00:36:52.51
listen, He asks a question.
00:36:52.54\00:36:54.41
He says, "Who then
is wise and faithful?"
00:36:54.44\00:36:57.18
You find this in
verse 45 of Matthew 24.
00:36:57.21\00:37:00.55
And then Matthew 25
breaks down in parable form
00:37:00.58\00:37:05.49
the answers to that question.
00:37:05.52\00:37:08.26
The wise, is the first
parable and the unwise,
00:37:08.29\00:37:10.69
the faithful and the unfaithful
is the second parable,
00:37:10.73\00:37:13.46
and the blessed and the
cursed are the third parable,
00:37:13.50\00:37:16.56
but now, going back
to the second parable
00:37:16.60\00:37:18.73
when Jesus comes,
00:37:18.77\00:37:20.20
notice how He
identifies His children.
00:37:20.24\00:37:25.34
Notice with me Matthew
25:21, "His lord said to him,
00:37:25.37\00:37:31.15
'Well done, good
and faithful servant.
00:37:31.18\00:37:33.92
You are faithful
over a few things,
00:37:33.95\00:37:36.18
I will make you
ruler over many things.
00:37:36.22\00:37:37.75
Enter into the
joy of your lord.'"
00:37:37.79\00:37:39.82
He's talking about the faithful.
00:37:39.85\00:37:41.79
And notice what
He declares them.
00:37:41.82\00:37:43.73
He says, "Well done thou," what?
00:37:43.76\00:37:46.59
He doesn't use the
word "Good" by accident.
00:37:46.63\00:37:50.83
If He is the good
Shepherd and the law is good,
00:37:50.87\00:37:54.70
when Jesus Christ comes again,
00:37:54.74\00:37:56.77
He's going to
declare His children, what?
00:37:56.81\00:37:59.41
Good. How can He do that?
00:37:59.44\00:38:01.38
What's the standard
for good? The moral law.
00:38:01.41\00:38:06.85
So in other words,
He's in essence saying,
00:38:06.88\00:38:09.35
"My people at the
end will be like Me.
00:38:09.38\00:38:12.79
They will be good as I am good."
00:38:12.82\00:38:14.96
God is not a liar.
00:38:14.99\00:38:16.59
He's not going to make a
declaration that isn't true.
00:38:16.62\00:38:22.40
And so He's
waiting for those people
00:38:22.43\00:38:24.43
who will live
by faith and grace,
00:38:24.47\00:38:26.40
we're going to get
into that in just a minute,
00:38:26.43\00:38:28.80
that keep the
commandments of God.
00:38:28.84\00:38:31.34
This is what Revelation 14:12...
00:38:31.37\00:38:35.38
When we talk about Revelation,
00:38:35.41\00:38:36.78
God identifies
this group of people
00:38:36.81\00:38:39.58
that have the
patience of the saints
00:38:39.61\00:38:41.48
who keep the
commandments of God, okay,
00:38:41.52\00:38:45.75
and the faith of Jesus.
00:38:45.79\00:38:47.76
These two things
are linked together,
00:38:47.79\00:38:50.76
faith and commandment keeping.
00:38:50.79\00:38:54.63
Now I'm going to
run really quickly
00:38:54.66\00:38:56.80
to the Seventh-day Sabbath.
00:38:56.83\00:39:00.44
This is huge.
00:39:00.47\00:39:02.67
Because if we're
keeping the commandments,
00:39:02.70\00:39:05.41
we're keeping, what?
00:39:05.44\00:39:06.78
All of them because
all of them are good.
00:39:06.81\00:39:11.75
Now when God created the earth,
00:39:11.78\00:39:13.38
right, what did
He say the earth was?
00:39:13.42\00:39:16.38
It was good.
There was no sin in it.
00:39:16.42\00:39:19.69
You can go to Deuteronomy 32:4,
00:39:19.72\00:39:21.72
and He defines
His work right there.
00:39:21.76\00:39:24.49
And He's actually
talking about creation,
00:39:24.53\00:39:26.29
"This is My work,"
okay, "My work is good."
00:39:26.33\00:39:30.60
So in other
words, to call it good,
00:39:30.63\00:39:33.40
that law had to exist
because what is the law?
00:39:33.44\00:39:37.27
The law is good. Jesus is good.
00:39:37.31\00:39:40.61
God's people, when He comes back
00:39:40.64\00:39:42.68
will be declared by Him as what?
00:39:42.71\00:39:45.98
Good.
00:39:46.01\00:39:47.28
You can't get away from the law,
00:39:47.32\00:39:49.32
you just can't, and
neither can you get away
00:39:49.35\00:39:52.39
from the Fourth Commandment.
00:39:52.42\00:39:54.79
Now I want you to
notice, go with me to Acts.
00:39:54.82\00:39:58.39
Because of time, we
can't really dive into
00:39:58.43\00:40:00.06
all the passages, okay,
that this lesson brings out.
00:40:00.10\00:40:03.70
But I want you
to notice Acts 13.
00:40:03.73\00:40:06.33
I thought this was a
very interesting point.
00:40:06.37\00:40:08.74
Acts 13, and then we're going
to actually go to Ephesians,
00:40:08.77\00:40:13.51
okay?
00:40:13.54\00:40:15.04
But I want to go to Acts
13, and then I have someone else
00:40:15.08\00:40:18.31
that will read
Ephesians in just a minute.
00:40:18.35\00:40:20.35
But notice with me, Acts 13,
00:40:20.38\00:40:22.48
all throughout
the New Testament,
00:40:22.52\00:40:24.25
Jesus, what was His custom?
00:40:24.29\00:40:26.82
Since being a little
boy, what was His custom?
00:40:26.86\00:40:28.99
In Luke 4, it was to
keep the Seventh-day Sabbath.
00:40:29.02\00:40:33.40
That was His custom.
00:40:33.43\00:40:34.40
You would always
find Him in the synagogue,
00:40:34.46\00:40:36.53
like you and I
here are in church
00:40:36.56\00:40:38.43
today on the Sabbath,
you'd always find Him, right,
00:40:38.47\00:40:41.60
in the sanctuary on
the Seventh-day Sabbath.
00:40:41.64\00:40:46.51
Paul is no different.
00:40:46.54\00:40:47.81
You can go to
Acts 17 and you'll read
00:40:47.84\00:40:50.51
right in the
very beginning there,
00:40:50.55\00:40:51.91
verses 1-3 how Paul as his...
00:40:51.95\00:40:55.62
Now get this,
Paul's custom as a Jew
00:40:55.65\00:40:58.79
was to keep the
Sabbath, was it not?
00:40:58.82\00:41:01.42
And when he became
a follower of Christ,
00:41:01.46\00:41:03.46
by the way, Acts 17
00:41:03.49\00:41:05.96
is after he became
a follower of Christ,
00:41:05.99\00:41:08.96
and in this context,
what is he living by?
00:41:09.00\00:41:11.60
He's living by grace.
00:41:11.63\00:41:13.37
He's living by faith,
00:41:13.40\00:41:14.70
but what does he continue to do?
00:41:14.74\00:41:17.04
And he teaches us
about grace and faith,
00:41:17.07\00:41:19.34
but what does he continue to do?
00:41:19.37\00:41:21.34
Keep the Seventh-day Sabbath.
00:41:21.38\00:41:24.45
Now notice how this
is all brought together
00:41:24.48\00:41:25.91
right here in Acts 13.
00:41:25.95\00:41:27.98
I thought this was phenomenal.
00:41:28.02\00:41:29.62
If you go to
verse 14 first, it says,
00:41:29.65\00:41:32.12
"But when they
departed from Perga,
00:41:32.15\00:41:34.79
they came to
Antioch in Pisidia..."
00:41:34.82\00:41:38.36
I may mispronounce
that, so forgive me.
00:41:38.39\00:41:41.50
"And He went into
the synagogue on," what?
00:41:41.53\00:41:44.33
"The Sabbath day."
Notice "the Sabbath day."
00:41:44.37\00:41:48.47
He's not talking about
00:41:48.50\00:41:49.54
all the feast
Sabbaths and all these...
00:41:49.57\00:41:50.87
He's talking about
the Seventh-day Sabbath.
00:41:50.91\00:41:53.88
Now if you turn from
there, so he's teaching,
00:41:53.91\00:41:57.55
okay, in the
synagogue on the Sabbath.
00:41:57.58\00:41:59.75
And then you go
to verse 42, okay?
00:41:59.78\00:42:02.88
Notice with me
verse 42, it says,
00:42:02.92\00:42:05.92
"So when the Jews
went out of the synagogue,
00:42:05.95\00:42:09.39
the Gentiles
begged that these words
00:42:09.42\00:42:12.09
might be
preached to them," what?"
00:42:12.13\00:42:14.36
The next Sabbath."
00:42:14.40\00:42:15.53
So Paul's making it a point
00:42:15.56\00:42:17.00
to keep the Seventh-day Sabbath,
00:42:17.03\00:42:19.60
a teacher of
grace, a teacher of faith,
00:42:19.63\00:42:22.74
who is keeping the commandments.
00:42:22.77\00:42:24.97
By the way, Noah found grace
in the eyes of the Lord, right?
00:42:25.01\00:42:28.81
He also was a
commandment keeper,
00:42:28.84\00:42:30.45
and that's Old Testament grace,
00:42:30.48\00:42:32.08
same as New
Testament grace, okay?
00:42:32.11\00:42:34.92
Every time, by the
way, God forms a covenant,
00:42:34.95\00:42:39.02
you can go back
in the Old Testament,
00:42:39.05\00:42:40.06
it's very interesting.
00:42:40.09\00:42:41.09
Every time God forms a
covenant with His people,
00:42:41.12\00:42:42.96
like Noah, Abraham,
the children of Israel,
00:42:42.99\00:42:45.79
deliverance always came first.
00:42:45.83\00:42:49.73
God delivered
Noah from the flood.
00:42:49.76\00:42:53.10
What would we call that? Grace.
00:42:53.13\00:42:55.07
And then He forms
a covenant with him.
00:42:55.10\00:42:57.37
He delivers
Abraham from the land of Ur
00:42:57.41\00:43:00.78
and then He forms
a covenant with him.
00:43:00.81\00:43:03.14
And then all of a sudden
He delivers the Egyptians
00:43:03.18\00:43:06.98
from bondage,
right, by His great power
00:43:07.02\00:43:10.55
and His great might,
and then what did He do?
00:43:10.59\00:43:12.75
He gives them the basis
again of the covenant, the law,
00:43:12.79\00:43:17.13
and then forms a
covenant with them.
00:43:17.16\00:43:18.96
In every case,
you always see grace,
00:43:18.99\00:43:22.16
in every single
example, you always see grace,
00:43:22.20\00:43:25.67
and it's no different here.
00:43:25.70\00:43:26.97
Notice with me
what happens, verse 43,
00:43:27.00\00:43:30.17
"Now when the
congregation had broken up,
00:43:30.21\00:43:32.21
many of the Jews
and devout proselytes
00:43:32.24\00:43:35.58
followed Paul and
Barnabas, who, speaking to them,
00:43:35.61\00:43:38.88
persuaded them to
continue in," what?
00:43:38.91\00:43:40.95
Grace of God. I love this.
00:43:40.98\00:43:43.75
I'm keeping the
Seventh-day Sabbath,
00:43:43.79\00:43:46.05
and I'm going to encourage
you to continue in, what?
00:43:46.09\00:43:48.92
The grace of God.
00:43:48.96\00:43:51.96
So the grace of
God is synonymous
00:43:51.99\00:43:54.00
with Sabbath keeping here.
00:43:54.03\00:43:56.90
They're not separate.
00:43:56.93\00:43:58.17
They're actually
one and the same.
00:43:58.20\00:44:00.70
If you live by
grace, through faith,
00:44:00.74\00:44:03.54
you will keep the commandments.
00:44:03.57\00:44:05.91
You will be encouraged,
as you continue in grace,
00:44:05.94\00:44:08.84
to continue in the
Fourth Commandment,
00:44:08.88\00:44:12.28
the Seventh-day Sabbath.
00:44:12.31\00:44:16.22
Now Ephesians, we have someone
00:44:16.25\00:44:17.92
that's going to
read Ephesians for us.
00:44:17.95\00:44:20.09
Now here's another passage
I want to break down for you
00:44:20.12\00:44:22.22
just briefly, Ephesians 2:8, 9.
00:44:22.26\00:44:26.56
"For by grace are
ye saved through faith,
00:44:26.59\00:44:29.73
and that not of yourselves,
it is the gift of God,
00:44:29.76\00:44:33.27
not of works lest
any man should boast."
00:44:33.30\00:44:36.91
Now we love these verses.
00:44:36.94\00:44:39.07
And many of my Christian friends
00:44:39.11\00:44:40.54
will quote this,
listen, they bring out the fact
00:44:40.58\00:44:43.55
that we are saved by, what?
00:44:43.58\00:44:46.25
By grace, through faith.
00:44:46.28\00:44:48.62
And then he says,
"It's not of yourselves
00:44:48.65\00:44:51.69
but is the gift of
God, not of works."
00:44:51.72\00:44:55.29
Now I want you to
notice what Paul's going to do,
00:44:55.32\00:44:58.59
and I don't want
to miss verse 10,
00:44:58.63\00:45:00.16
this is why I have
asked only the two to be read,
00:45:00.20\00:45:02.10
because that's
what most of the time
00:45:02.13\00:45:03.90
we point to verse 8 and 9,
00:45:03.93\00:45:05.37
but notice with
me verse 10, okay?
00:45:05.40\00:45:08.64
Ephesians 2:10,
and I'll get there.
00:45:08.67\00:45:15.58
Here we go.
00:45:15.61\00:45:16.71
It says, "For we
are His workmanship
00:45:16.75\00:45:21.02
created in
Christ Jesus for," what?
00:45:21.05\00:45:25.05
Notice, we're back to
this good works thing again.
00:45:25.09\00:45:28.26
The law is good.
00:45:28.29\00:45:30.13
Jesus is the
good shepherd, okay?
00:45:30.16\00:45:33.33
And notice, through Christ
what are we enabled to do?
00:45:33.36\00:45:38.23
Good works.
00:45:38.27\00:45:39.83
And He talks about His
creative power in the life
00:45:39.87\00:45:44.27
that actually fashions
us to walk in good works.
00:45:44.31\00:45:48.28
Notice He's
making a distinction.
00:45:48.31\00:45:50.18
Listen, you're not
saved by your works,
00:45:50.21\00:45:53.01
by your fleshly works,
00:45:53.05\00:45:55.18
you're only saved by Christ
and you're saved through grace.
00:45:55.22\00:45:59.69
By the way, this
grace, through this grace,
00:45:59.72\00:46:02.82
He does a creative work in
you that produces good works
00:46:02.86\00:46:08.06
that you could
never produce on your own.
00:46:08.10\00:46:11.33
But what's the standard of good?
00:46:11.37\00:46:15.07
How do we know it's good works?
00:46:15.10\00:46:17.84
Because it's
according to a good law, okay?
00:46:17.87\00:46:21.98
Notice He goes on.
00:46:22.01\00:46:23.68
He says, and it takes us
back to creation even, he says,
00:46:23.71\00:46:26.78
"For we are His workmanship,
00:46:26.82\00:46:28.35
created in Christ
Jesus for good works,
00:46:28.38\00:46:31.75
which God prepared beforehand
that we should walk in them."
00:46:31.79\00:46:36.29
Where did God prepare beforehand
00:46:36.32\00:46:38.29
that we should
walk in good works?
00:46:38.33\00:46:41.70
At creation.
00:46:41.73\00:46:43.37
When God created
everything and He created us,
00:46:43.40\00:46:46.33
there was no evil,
00:46:46.37\00:46:47.87
God only wanted us to know good,
00:46:47.90\00:46:50.97
God only wanted us to walk good.
00:46:51.01\00:46:54.84
But of course, we
made a bad decision,
00:46:54.88\00:46:58.45
and we chose to bring
evil and sin into the picture.
00:46:58.48\00:47:03.05
And so later through
Israel's experience, later,
00:47:03.08\00:47:08.22
what God has to
do is remind them,
00:47:08.26\00:47:10.43
first He delivers them
and then He reminds them
00:47:10.46\00:47:13.83
of that standard of good again.
00:47:13.86\00:47:15.96
And says just
like I delivered you
00:47:16.00\00:47:18.23
out of the
bondage of the Egyptians,
00:47:18.27\00:47:20.24
I can create in you by My grace
00:47:20.27\00:47:23.87
the ability to follow
my moral law even the what?
00:47:23.91\00:47:30.41
The Fourth Commandment.
The Fourth Commandment.
00:47:30.45\00:47:34.32
There are so many
passages that we could look at.
00:47:34.35\00:47:38.39
I want to end with
one here in Hebrews 4.
00:47:38.42\00:47:43.26
Hebrews 4, Paul writes,
00:47:43.29\00:47:46.96
"For we who
believe do enter that rest,
00:47:47.00\00:47:51.97
for He has spoken
in a certain place
00:47:52.00\00:47:54.10
of the seventh day in this way.
00:47:54.14\00:47:57.91
And God rested
on the seventh day
00:47:57.94\00:48:00.91
from all his works that
remains therefore a rest."
00:48:00.94\00:48:05.38
And this word rest, by the way,
00:48:05.41\00:48:07.08
means a special religiously
significant period for rest.
00:48:07.12\00:48:14.02
What's he talking
about? The seventh day.
00:48:14.06\00:48:17.83
This repeated point in time
that God has given us to rest
00:48:17.86\00:48:24.40
and to focus on our Creator
that He's going to do the work.
00:48:24.43\00:48:29.00
According to His law, we
shall walk and be like Him.
00:48:29.04\00:48:32.54
Then it says, "For
the people of God..."
00:48:32.57\00:48:35.94
Paul writes, "For
he who has entered
00:48:35.98\00:48:38.18
into His rest has himself
00:48:38.21\00:48:40.78
also ceased from his
works as God did from His."
00:48:40.82\00:48:45.95
Hebrews 4:9, 10,
00:48:45.99\00:48:49.06
the Sabbath Paul
says still remains
00:48:49.09\00:48:52.96
because as we rest on
the Seventh-day Sabbath
00:48:52.99\00:48:56.20
and we break
from all of our work,
00:48:56.23\00:48:58.30
it's a representation of
our faith in Christ that,
00:48:58.33\00:49:01.64
you know what, I
can't earn my way to heaven.
00:49:01.67\00:49:05.07
But through faith
in Christ and by grace,
00:49:05.11\00:49:07.48
He can do a work in me
and I can live righteously
00:49:07.51\00:49:11.01
in Christ Jesus according
to all of the moral law.
00:49:11.05\00:49:16.65
And yet in the new
heaven and new earth,
00:49:16.69\00:49:20.22
where shall we meet?
00:49:20.26\00:49:21.99
From one Sabbath to another,
from one new moon to another.
00:49:22.02\00:49:26.16
Isaiah 66.
00:49:26.19\00:49:29.30
Friends, the papacy
wants people to think
00:49:29.33\00:49:31.43
that Sunday is the new Sabbath.
00:49:31.47\00:49:34.40
But, you know, when you
read scripture everywhere
00:49:34.44\00:49:36.94
where we talked
about the first day,
00:49:36.97\00:49:39.21
never do you see it
ever making a change
00:49:39.24\00:49:43.18
from the seventh day to
Sunday being the first day.
00:49:43.21\00:49:48.18
Everywhere the
first day is spoken about
00:49:48.22\00:49:50.19
in the New Testament,
00:49:50.22\00:49:51.29
there is no
evidence of any change by God
00:49:51.32\00:49:53.99
or by His disciples.
00:49:54.02\00:49:56.66
And regarding the papacy,
00:49:56.69\00:49:58.99
lesson 10 gets
more into that power.
00:49:59.03\00:50:03.03
But no, the law is
just as valid today
00:50:03.06\00:50:06.20
as it ever has been in
relationship to Jesus Christ
00:50:06.23\00:50:09.60
our relationship with Him,
and the Seventh-day Sabbath
00:50:09.64\00:50:14.41
is linked with grace
and is just as vital today
00:50:14.44\00:50:19.95
as it always has been.
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00:51:10.60\00:51:13.60
as we end this lesson together.
00:51:13.64\00:51:16.34
Father in heaven,
we thank You so much
00:51:16.37\00:51:18.04
for Your many blessings.
00:51:18.07\00:51:21.11
There's so much
food on this plate today.
00:51:21.14\00:51:26.05
And, Lord, I pray that we
will spend our times studying,
00:51:26.08\00:51:29.38
growing closer to You,
00:51:29.42\00:51:31.09
drawing closer in our
relationship with You.
00:51:31.12\00:51:33.39
We thank You for
Your law, we thank You
00:51:33.42\00:51:35.36
for the Seventh-day Sabbath,
and we thank You for Jesus
00:51:35.39\00:51:39.26
who enables each
of us to follow it.
00:51:39.29\00:51:42.70
Lord, we thank You
that we can come together
00:51:42.73\00:51:44.47
on this Sabbath to worship You,
00:51:44.50\00:51:45.70
may You be
glorified in all that we do
00:51:45.73\00:51:48.47
and say and thank,
in Jesus' name we pray.
00:51:48.50\00:51:51.14
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Friends, we're out
here in the Pacific Ocean,
00:52:32.71\00:52:34.98
not too far from
the island of Fiji,
00:52:35.02\00:52:36.99
and we're getting ready to look
at some wonders in the deep.
00:52:37.02\00:52:41.19
The Bible says God
made the heaven, the earth,
00:52:41.22\00:52:43.26
and the sea,
and there are things
00:52:43.29\00:52:44.76
under the sea that are beautiful
00:52:44.79\00:52:46.16
that many
people have never seen.
00:52:46.19\00:52:47.96
Some folks might just skim
along snorkel on the surface.
00:52:48.00\00:52:51.20
But if you want to see
the real majesty of the ocean,
00:52:51.23\00:52:54.10
you've got to go deeper.
00:52:54.14\00:52:55.70
Because people don't
have gills like fish,
00:53:09.25\00:53:11.75
we have to do
something extraordinary
00:53:11.79\00:53:13.39
to be able to
breathe below the surface,
00:53:13.42\00:53:15.86
and because you have to
breathe all of the time,
00:53:15.89\00:53:18.13
we need this special equipment.
00:53:18.16\00:53:22.36
In the same way, the Bible says,
00:53:22.40\00:53:24.10
"A Christian needs to
pray without ceasing."
00:53:24.13\00:53:26.53
We need to always be breathing
the atmosphere of heaven,
00:53:26.57\00:53:29.60
if we're going to
lead a Christian life
00:53:29.64\00:53:31.11
in this world below.
00:53:31.14\00:53:32.57
Wow, what a wonderful world.
00:53:59.33\00:54:01.30
Let's face it.
00:54:13.75\00:54:14.88
It's not always easy
00:54:14.92\00:54:16.25
to understand everything
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00:54:16.28\00:54:18.65
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00:54:18.69\00:54:22.49
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What can be more
irresistible than a kitten?
00:55:00.23\00:55:02.50
These guys might look cute now
00:55:02.53\00:55:04.13
but some of their ancestors
have grown into man-eaters.
00:55:04.17\00:55:07.34
We're here in a lion
park in South Africa now
00:55:11.81\00:55:13.98
where we can
view these creatures
00:55:14.01\00:55:15.51
in rail of the
safety, but there's a reason
00:55:15.54\00:55:17.68
they're known as
the king of beasts.
00:55:17.71\00:55:20.48
So what is it that people find
00:55:20.52\00:55:21.65
so enchanting and
frightening about lions?
00:55:21.68\00:55:23.99
Is it their speed, their
claws, their sharp teeth,
00:55:24.02\00:55:27.29
or all of the above?
00:55:27.32\00:55:29.19
Might also be
some of the stories
00:55:29.22\00:55:30.63
about man-eating lions.
00:55:30.66\00:55:32.39
Like in 1898,
right here in Africa,
00:55:32.43\00:55:35.20
they were building a bridge
over the Tsavo River in Kenya,
00:55:35.23\00:55:38.67
and two brother lions terrorized
00:55:38.70\00:55:40.80
the construction
process eating a 135 workers.
00:55:40.84\00:55:46.81
Did you know lions
are mentioned in the Bible
00:55:46.84\00:55:48.81
over a hundred times?
00:55:48.84\00:55:50.31
And you can
find them all the way
00:55:50.35\00:55:51.65
from Genesis to Revelation.
00:55:51.68\00:55:53.62
It's usually in
reference to their ferocity
00:55:53.65\00:55:55.78
and how dangerous they are.
00:55:55.82\00:55:57.55
Of course, Samson killed
a lion with his bare hands,
00:55:57.59\00:56:00.42
David killed a lion,
00:56:00.46\00:56:01.86
there are
man-eating lions in the Bible.
00:56:01.89\00:56:03.89
The way that
they punish criminals
00:56:03.93\00:56:05.59
was by throwing
them in the lion's den.
00:56:05.63\00:56:07.86
And early Christians
were even fed to Lions.
00:56:07.93\00:56:10.83
But amazingly, as
the Bible mentions
00:56:10.87\00:56:12.93
not all Lions are to be feared,
00:56:12.97\00:56:15.27
there have been a few
friendly lions in history.
00:56:15.30\00:56:17.91
For example, in
the 1950s, a couple,
00:56:17.94\00:56:21.38
George and Margaret
Westbeau who lived up at a ranch
00:56:21.41\00:56:24.41
near Seattle, Washington
adopted and abandoned lion cub.
00:56:24.45\00:56:28.95
They named it Little Tyke
'cause they felt sorry for it.
00:56:28.98\00:56:31.79
But they discovered as
they tried to feed her,
00:56:31.82\00:56:34.62
she refused to
eat any meat at all.
00:56:34.66\00:56:37.73
They were concerned
thinking there was no hope
00:56:37.76\00:56:39.66
for this little
lioness to survive
00:56:39.69\00:56:41.50
and everybody told them the same
00:56:41.53\00:56:43.00
because we know in the wild,
00:56:43.03\00:56:44.70
lion survive on
almost entirely meat diet.
00:56:44.73\00:56:48.40
Then someone
showed the Westbeaus
00:56:48.44\00:56:49.90
that verse in the Bible
that talks about in heaven,
00:56:49.94\00:56:52.84
the animals are vegetarians,
00:56:52.87\00:56:54.54
and the lion will
eat straw like the ox.
00:56:54.58\00:56:58.01
That encouraged them,
and so they began to feed
00:56:58.05\00:57:00.78
little Tyke a
purely vegetarian diet.
00:57:00.82\00:57:03.75
Not only did she survive,
she thrived growing into a lion
00:57:03.79\00:57:07.76
that was over 352
pounds and over 10 feet long.
00:57:07.79\00:57:12.66
In fact, zoologist
that examined Little Tyke
00:57:12.69\00:57:14.93
when she was full grown
said, they had never seen
00:57:14.96\00:57:17.43
such a perfect specimen
of a lioness in their life,
00:57:17.47\00:57:20.74
a pure vegetarian.
00:57:20.77\00:57:23.10
You know, when we
hear incredible stories
00:57:23.14\00:57:24.74
about that of Little Tyke,
00:57:24.77\00:57:26.44
it reminds us that
God's original plan
00:57:26.47\00:57:28.68
was to make a
world of total peace.
00:57:28.71\00:57:31.35
It describes it
here in the Bible
00:57:31.38\00:57:32.78
on Isaiah chapter 11:6,
00:57:32.81\00:57:35.12
"The wolf also will
dwell with the lamb,
00:57:35.15\00:57:37.72
the leopard will lie
down with the young goat.
00:57:37.75\00:57:39.99
The calf and the young
lion and the fatling together,
00:57:40.02\00:57:42.82
and a little
child will lead them."
00:57:42.86\00:57:45.13
Nothing is going
to hurt and destroy
00:57:45.16\00:57:46.86
in the new
heavens and the new earth
00:57:46.90\00:57:48.40
that God is going to create.
00:57:48.43\00:57:49.83
Wouldn't you likes
to live in a kingdom
00:57:49.86\00:57:51.37
with His perfect
peace where there is no more
00:57:51.40\00:57:53.03
death, or killing, or pain?
00:57:53.07\00:57:55.94
God says that He
wants you in that kingdom.
00:57:55.97\00:57:58.57
The Lamb of God made it possible
00:57:58.61\00:58:01.14
for you to have an encounter
00:58:01.18\00:58:02.74
with the lion of
the tribe of Judah.
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Wouldn't you like
to meet Him today?
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