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Jean Ross: Good morning,
friends, and welcome to "Sabbath
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School Study Hour," coming to
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Today, our lesson dealing
with the Bible is lesson number
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seven, and it's entitled
"Language, Text, and Context,"
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a very important study.
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But Pastor Doug,
before we get to our study,
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let's start with prayer.
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Doug Batchelor: Amen.
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Jean: Dear Father, once
again, we thank You that we're
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able to gather
together and open up Your Word
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studying about the Word.
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And Father, we know
there is power in the Bible.
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But in order for us to correctly
understand the Bible, we always
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want the Holy Spirit to come
and guide our minds, our hearts,
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so we invite Your
presence in a special way.
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Be with us here in the studio
and also be with those who are
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joining us around the world,
that You might also speak to
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their hearts as we open
up Your Word, for we ask this
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in Jesus's name, amen.
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Doug: Amen.
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Jean: Well, Pastor Doug,
an important and an exciting
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lesson, we're talking
about languages and context
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when studying the Bible.
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Doug: Yeah, this is--it's
really so exciting to consider.
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The main theme is, how
do we understand the Bible?
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If the Bible is the message
of God to us, clearly there are
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some misunderstandings out there
because you've got one Bible,
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the Bible says one
Lord, one truth, one baptism,
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there's one Jesus.
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And yet you have hundreds
of major denominations that say
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they're Christian, they'll read
the passages and they come up
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with different ideas.
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Why does that happen?
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Jean: Well, you know, I think
one of the key things that's
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brought to view is context.
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We need to recognize that the
Bible is written in a particular
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context, and we need to
see what the Bible says about a
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particular subject
through its entirety.
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We don't want to build a
doctrine on just one verse.
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And that sort of leads into our
memory text that we're going to
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be talking about, Deuteronomy
chapter 31, verse 26.
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And this is coming from the
New King James version, it says,
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"Take the book of the law
and put it beside the Ark of the
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Covenant of the Lord your God,
that it might there be a witness
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against you."
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Now, a little bit of the
context, this is God speaking to
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Moses when Moses was instructed
to build the tabernacle.
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And the most holy place of
the sanctuary or the tabernacle
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contained the
Ark of the Covenant.
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And there were some things that
were put in the ark, and then
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there things that
were put next to the ark.
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The things in the ark, you got
the Ten Commandments written on
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two tables of stone.
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We've got the rod
that budded, Aaron's rod.
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We've got a bowl of
manna inside the ark.
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But on the outside of the ark
in sort of a--you might say a
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little bag or a pocket
of some kind was the law.
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And when it talks about the
law, Pastor Doug, we're not just
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talking about the
Ten Commandments here.
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When it says, "Put the law next
to the ark," what is that law?
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Doug: Well, some have
wondered, "Was this just the
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book of Deuteronomy?"
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that actually where
you find this verse.
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And we do have that story in
where Josiah during the--Hilkiah
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the priest was cleaning out
the sanctuary and they found
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the book of Moses,
the book of the law.
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They wondered, was this
the book of Deuteronomy?
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Did it include the whole
Torah, the five books of Moses
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beginning with Genesis?
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It's hard to say.
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In both cases, the
quotes that were taken were from
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Deuteronomy, and so it may
have been that specifically
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Deuteronomy, which was
the repeating of the law, the
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summary of their experience,
that was to be put there as a
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witness against them.
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Paul refers that in
Colossians too, when he said,
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"There was a law that was nailed
to the cross that was witnessed
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against them."
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And--
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Jean: I think it also--Paul
says handwritten oracles.
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Doug: Yeah.
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Jean: So, it was handwritten,
it didn't include the Ten
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Commandments,
which was God written.
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Doug: And that was in the
ark, the handwritten part that
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contained the levitical laws and
the ordinances was in a pocket
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outside the ark.
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But yeah, and so, you know,
it's so important for us to
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understand how to
approach the Bible.
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God wants the
truth to be understood.
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I think one reason there's so
much misunderstanding is because
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the truth of God's
Word sets people free.
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And so, if there is any document
that the devil is seeking to
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confuse and
confound, it is the Scriptures.
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And so, the devil's got
so many people out there
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that are wolves.
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You know, Paul said, "Be careful
because after my departure,
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grievous wolves
will come in among you."
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And that they'd be teaching
things to draw away disciples
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after themselves.
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And we've seen a lot of the
misinterpretations of the Bible,
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all right, they come from, you
know, cultish leaders that are
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trying
to--they've got an agenda.
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But if you read the Bible
for what it's--let me throw
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in a story real quick.
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This helps illustrate it.
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So, I'm living up in the
mountains, I'm reading the
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Bible, don't know
much about Christianity.
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I'm reading
pretty much by myself.
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I learned the Sabbath truth,
I learned the truth about the
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state of the dead, and so
I haven't committed my life
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to the Lord yet.
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I'm wondering
about these things.
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I'm going to church on
Sunday, but I've learned
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the Sabbath truth.
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But I'm convicted every Sunday,
I said, "This is not the seventh
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day."
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While this is happening,
I'm driving down the road
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selling sandwiches.
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I work for a company,
they're out of business now,
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called Darsan.
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We sold premade
sandwiches to the 7-Elevens.
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And I'm delivering
sandwiches in the desert.
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There's this African-American
gentleman walking down this
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desert highway by himself with
a bag, and it's 100 degrees out.
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So, I pull over and I
say, "Would you like a ride?"
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He says, "Absolutely."
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He hops in and he goes, "Praise
the Lord," because it's an air
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conditioned van.
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And I said, "Are
you a Christian?"
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He said, "Yes."
He said, "Are you?"
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I said, "Yes." He
said, "Praise the Lord."
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And we don't drive for 60
seconds before he says, "Do you
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know what day the Sabbath is?"
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Well, that's an awful odd
question to ask me right while
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I'm driving down the road
and I am convicted about keeping
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the Sabbath day.
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I said, "Yeah."
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He said, "Well, what
day do you go to church?"
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I said, "Sunday."
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He said, "You know
what day the Sabbath is?"
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I said, "Saturday."
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He said, "Praise the Lord."
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And I started talking to
this guy, and I was so intrigued
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by--he knew all the
things I'd been studying.
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So, I said, "Are you a
Seventh Day Adventist?"
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He said, "A what?"
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I said, "Seventh Day Adventist."
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He said, "Never heard of them."
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And I stopped, we
stopped and I bought him lunch,
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we talked together.
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He had a bag full of books that
he had been reading on prophecy,
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and he had been reading the same
books, he'd been reading like
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Daniel and the Revelation
and these different things.
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The Lord was leading him down
the same path, but he's reading
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the Bible and coming
to the same conclusions.
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And I got--I was really
convicted and convinced that day
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that if people are
seeking--Jesus said if you're
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seeking and you're open, He
will give you the understanding.
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He said, "If any man is willing
to do My will, he will know of
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the doctrine
whether it be of God."
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And so, we don't have to
worry about everybody say,
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"Well, you've got your
truth, I've got my truth."
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There is one absolute truth.
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God is trying to tell
us something in the Bible.
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It can be understood.
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Don't let the confusion in
Christianity discourage you.
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Jean: Amen.
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Talking about that, some
of those who are watching, you
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might have some questions.
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And we're going to try and
take some live questions in our
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lesson study time today.
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If you have a question, just
go ahead and make a comment on
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Facebook, and they'll be
emailing those comments to us,
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and we'll try to
take some of them.
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Pastor Doug, we have a question
that just came in, it kind of
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ties in with the
story that you told.
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Here is somebody that is looking
to know what the Bible teaches,
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and Lorraine is asking,
"Is there a specific time when
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Sabbath begins and ends?"
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Doug: Yeah, now using
what we learn in this lesson,
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how do you figure it out?
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Do you flip a coin?
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Do you do a survey
of different churches?
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What does the Bible say?
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The Bible's very clear, it says,
"From even unto even," that's
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sundown to sundown, "you
shall celebrate your Sabbaths,"
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all right?
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So, that's one verse.
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Then you go in the New
Testament, it says, "And after
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the Sabbath, after the sun had
set, then they brought all the
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sick to Jesus to be healed."
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Because even then, they
were concerned about His healing
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on the Sabbath.
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So, the Sabbath begins and ends
not at 12 midnight, that's Roman
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timing, not at sunrise.
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But when the sun goes
down, that was when they marked
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the beginning and
the end of the day.
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And in Genesis, it says,
"The evening and the morning."
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Jean: Right, so the
first--the dark part of the day
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was the first part, and the
light part of the day was the
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second part of
the 24-hour period.
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Usually, we think
of it the other way.
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We think the light part first,
but no, the day began at sunset.
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So, from the Bible, the Sabbath
is Friday evening at sunset, and
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it goes all the way through
till Saturday evening at sunset.
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That would be
the biblical Sabbath.
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Now, in our lesson,
we're talking about how
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to interpret the Bible.
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And it's interesting to
note that there are about 6,000
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languages that are
in the world today.
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And of these, the Bible has been
translated in its entirety into
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about 600 of these languages.
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The New Testament has
been translated into more than
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2,5000 languages.
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Now, when we say 6,000
languages, it doesn't mean that
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that's the only language
that those people understand.
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Many of those who speak some
of these 6,000 languages, they
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might have a second
language that they understand.
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So the Bible, for the most part,
is available in all of the main
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languages that are
spoken around the world.
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Doug: Karen and I were in
New Guinea, I think we've been
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there twice now.
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And of those 6,000 languages,
800 of them are in New Guinea.
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All the people are divided
by very steep mountains and
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valleys, and they just spent
generations kind of developing
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their own variations.
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But they understand
each other by speaking
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a certain pigeon English.
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And so, the Scriptures are
translated in a language that
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most New Guineans understand.
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Jean: Now, of course, we
take the Bible for granted.
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Today in English, I don't
know how many translations and
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versions there might be in the
English language, but it wasn't
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always the case.
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Matter of fact, just less than
1,000 years ago, 600, 700 years
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ago, it was difficult for the
average person to find a copy
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of the Bible in Europe.
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But really thanks to the
Reformation, the printing press,
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and just the explosion of
missionary activity that we see
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especially in the early 1800s,
the Bible now is available just
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about to anyone who is wanting
to discover truth, wanting to
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seek the Lord
through reading His Word.
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And we can be grateful for that,
really the Reformation had an
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important part to play in the
translating of the Bible in all
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these different languages.
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Doug: That's
right. Oh, go ahead.
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Jean: Yeah, just lead to
our next section here, if you're
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following along with your
lesson, we're looking at Sunday.
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And Sunday's lesson is
"Understanding the Scriptures."
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We have a key passage
of Scripture in 2 Timothy
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chapter 3, verse 16.
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And it says, "All Scripture
is given by the inspiration
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of God."
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Now, Pastor Doug, some people
have asked, what does this
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inspiration mean?
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I think the word "inspiration"
there means God-breathed.
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Doug: Yeah.
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Yeah, the Lord through the
Spirit, He gave life to His
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Word, and using human
instrumentalities who might
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incorporate their vocabulary and
experience, but the message was
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the message of God
He gave through them.
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Jean: It almost seems like
the same breath of life that
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brought life to Adam when God
formed him out of the clay, that
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same breath, that spirit
is present in the Word of God.
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That as we read,
there is life found in it.
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So, 2 Timothy says all Scripture
is given by the inspiration of
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God.
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It's profitable for doctrine,
that would be of teaching.
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It is for reproof, telling
us where we are going wrong.
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Also for correction, how
do we get on the right path.
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And for instruction in
righteousness or right doing.
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And then I like verse 17, "That
the man or the woman of God may
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be complete, thoroughly
equipped for every good work."
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Sometimes, Pastor Doug, people
say, "Well, how do you know that
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everything in the Bible--maybe
there's some important parts
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that are missing that's not in
the Bible that we really need?"
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Well, this verse says everything
we need spiritually to be
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complete, to be a fully mature
Christian, is found in the
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Scripture, is
found in the Bible.
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Doug: Yeah, I always
like to keep it simple.
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And I love the Bible
verses that keep it simple.
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It's like in Micah, where he
says, "He's shown the old man
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what is good, and what
does the Lord require of thee?
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Do justly, love mercy,
walk humbly with your God."
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Well, there's three things, you
can break it down to two things.
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Love the Lord with all
your heart, love your neighbor.
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If we have the principles right,
then everything else goes right.
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But the Bible then
breaks things down.
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The love your God, love
your neighbor, Ten Commandments.
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But then you start going through
the laws in Leviticus and in
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Exodus, it goes into more detail
about what does it mean to love
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God and to love your neighbor.
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And it says, "Well, if
you're--even if your enemy's ox
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wanders off, bring it back.
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That's how you
love your neighbor."
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And so, it continues to get
broader, wider, more detail,
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more specific.
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And you know, Jesus, the Sermon
on the Mount, of course He goes
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into beautiful detail.
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And what He's really doing
is Christ is expounding on the
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principles of Moses's law
using the principles of love.
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You know, he said,
"You've heard it say, you know,
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you're not to kill.
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So, I say don't even be
angry with your brother without
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a cause," you know?
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Jean: Commit murder
in your heart, yeah.
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Doug: And so, the Scriptures
just continue with the main
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principle, love, God is love.
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And it continues
to fan out like that.
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Jean: Now, we do have a
question that Jean has emailed
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to us, and the question
is regarding the book of Job.
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And she asks, "Is the book of
Job literal or is it a parable?"
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Doug: Well, we think the book
of Job is literal because it
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gives the very specific names.
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These individuals lived in
the area of Edom and you do find
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their names appearing other
times in the genealogy of Esau.
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So, we have every reason--and
the context of the story,
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the specifics.
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Now, there's incredible poetry
in the way that Job is written.
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Job was probably the first
book that was written by Moses.
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And, but it really--the whole
great controversy is in the book
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of Job, so I don't
think it's just a parable.
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There are certain allegory
lessons in Job, but it's a real
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story, just like there's
an allegory in the experience
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of Joseph.
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Joseph really lived, but
Joseph's life was somewhat an
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allegory of Christ, sold by
his brothers, yet he forgave.
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The experience of Job shows the
battle between Christ and Satan,
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where you've got a person's
heart is the battleground.
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And so, it's a very
real story, but there's a lot
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of lessons in there.
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Jean: Do we have any idea,
Pastor Doug, as to the timeframe
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when the story of
Job might've taken place?
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Doug: Based on how long Job
lived, you look at Abraham's,
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you know, father
lived about 200 years.
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And Job, he probably lived just
shortly after the time of Esau
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because you've got
Isaac is living 185 years.
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It talks about the length
of their lives in the wording,
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the vocabulary.
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You know, probably he's living
I'm guessing 100, 150 years
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after Esau is pretty close.
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Jean: Close to the time that
Israel was or the children of
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Israel were in Egypt,
sometime during there.
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Doug: And so, Moses may
have gotten some of that story
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from his father-in-law.
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Jean: Yeah,
yeah, very interesting.
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All right, so when we're talking
about the Bible, we find that
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the Bible gives us three
clear emphasis or guidelines.
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First, it witnesses to us of
God's work, what God has done
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throughout human history.
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It reveals to us
the way of salvation.
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I think that's the most
important part of the Bible,
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shows us how we can be saved.
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It also thirdly then instructs
us in the ways of righteousness.
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How do we live as Christians?
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How do we live a life that
brings honor and glory to God?
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So, these are the three
main themes that you can find
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throughout the Bible.
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It talks about
God's dealing with nations
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and individuals in history.
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It talks about how it can
be saved and how we can live a
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righteous life.
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Doug: Yeah, absolutely.
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One of my favorite verses in
the Bible, well, if you go to
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Deuteronomy
chapter 32, here, you know,
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Moses is at the end of his life.
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He's written at this point the
book of Job, Exodus, Leviticus,
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Genesis, Numbers, Deuteronomy.
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I got my order wrong there,
but he's got--you got those six
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books.
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He's about to die, he's going
to climb a mountain and die,
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God has told him.
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And he says in chapter 32, "Set
your heart on all the words that
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I testify among you today, that
you shall command your children
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to be careful to observe them,
all the words of this law."
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And that word
there means the Torah.
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"For it is not a futile thing
for you because it is your life.
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By these words you will prolong
your days in the land you cross
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over Jordan to possess."
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This is a life and death
issue that they understood.
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You can't do them if
you don't understand them.
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So, understanding the
teaching of the Bible,
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rightly interpreting
the Bible is life and death.
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And then I love--and this isn't
in the lesson, but it's one of
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my favorite verses in
the Bible, Deuteronomy 5:29.
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It says, "Oh."
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I like that word, "Oh."
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It's kind of like John 3:16,
"So, God so loved the world."
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And here God says, "Oh, that
they had such a heart in them
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that they would fear Me and keep
all of My commandments always,
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that it might be well with them
and their children forever."
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It says, "Forever that
they might love Me, keep My
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commandments," not some of them,
"all of them for their good and
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their children."
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And that's really what He
said also in Deuteronomy 32.
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Jean: Now, a lot of
the Old Testament has to do
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with the nation of Israel.
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And people have wondered, well,
why do we have so much about
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Israel?
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You got the whole Old Testament,
you got the prophets speaking to
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Israel primarily, and it just
seems like a focus on a nation.
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Well, I think Paul gives us
a very good answer to this in
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Romans chapter 3, verse 1 to 2.
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And he's talking to the Gentile
believers, but he's also talking
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to some Jewish believers.
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He says, "What
advantage then has the Jew?
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Or what profit
has circumcision?"
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Then he says in verse 2, Romans
3, "Much in every way, chiefly
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because to them were
committed the oracles of God."
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So, why do we find so
much emphasis on Israel
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in the Old Testament?
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Well, God was
giving His will, his Word
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through the Jewish nation.
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They were to be His
missionaries to take the gospel
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to the whole world.
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Now, of course, the New
Testament times that God has a
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spiritual Israel, those who
believe in Christ, they become
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part of spiritual Israel.
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What is our mission today?
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Well, similar to the mission of
those living before Christ came,
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that is to prepare the world now
for the second coming of Jesus.
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In the Old Testament,
they were to prepare the world
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for the first coming.
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Our work now is to prepare
the world for the second coming.
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Doug: Jesus makes a stunning
statement when He's talking
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to the woman at the well.
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She starts to argue with him
about, "Well, you know, should
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we worship on Mount Gerizim?"
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And the Samaritans believed
in the five books of Moses.
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And Moses had said, "When
you enter the Promised Land,
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you're to go to Mount Gerizim
and declare the blessings
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and the cursings."
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Mount Ebal, Mount Gerizim.
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And so, they thought,
"We've got Scripture for this."
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And you know, Jesus of course
said, "Well, it's Jerusalem."
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Because in Samuel, that
was the place that was chosen
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for David to build the temple.
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And Jesus said,
"Salvation is of the Jews."
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In other words, the Jewish
nation, God had given to them to
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be the guardians of
the oracles of truth.
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It didn't mean God
was saving every Jew.
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Certainly there was
good and bad in every people.
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God told Israel, "I'm not
saving you because you're better
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than other nations."
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He said, "In fact,
you're a stubborn and
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a stiff-necked people."
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He probably would've
said that if He had saved
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Scandinavians or Australians.
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It doesn't matter who it
was, human hearts are the same
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pretty much everywhere.
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But He needed to take a nation.
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He chose Abraham because of his
faithfulness, his descendants.
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They would be the ones to be the
recipients, the guardians of the
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Word, and that they would then
declare that Word and announce
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the Messiah when he came.
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And at Pentecost, really it
was Jews announcing the Messiah
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to Jews, who then
took it to every nation.
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Jean: Right.
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And we have a question that
came in, it's a little off the
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subject, but it's kind
of an interesting question,
00:22:04.89\00:22:06.86
so I'm going to ask it.
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Venus is asking, "What is the
significance of Aaron's walking
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stick in the ark of the--in
the ark of God or the Ark
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of the Covenant?"
00:22:14.73\00:22:16.20
Why did God instruct Aaron to
put his walking stick or Moses
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to put Aaron's
walking stick in the ark,
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where the Ten Commandments is?
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You can't think of anything
more holy or sacred than the Ten
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Commandments, but what
is Aaron's rod doing there?
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Doug: You know, the patriarch
of a clan, they were the kings,
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the nomads back then.
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And the staff was
really the authority,
00:22:36.22\00:22:39.45
it was sometimes
used for discipline.
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You'll remember that when Judah
wanted to give a pledge to Tamar
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that he was going to send
the money, he gave his staff,
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which was a big mistake.
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And whenever they did a miracle
in the days of Noah--or Moses
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and Aaron, they
threw down the staff.
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It represented authority.
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Well, one day, some leaders, I
think it was Naboth and Abirim,
00:23:00.81\00:23:03.95
they were challenging
the authority of Moses.
00:23:03.98\00:23:06.82
And he said, "I want
the 12 leaders of Israel
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to bring their staffs."
00:23:09.92\00:23:11.22
Well, these were the
patriarchs of each tribe.
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And God did a miracle for--they
brought their staffs and put
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them in the--in the tabernacle.
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And overnight, the staff
of Aaron, it put forth shoots,
00:23:20.40\00:23:27.07
leaves, blossoms, and
bore almonds in 24 hours.
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And here this dead stick
came to life and bore fruit.
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They all
recognized that is a miracle.
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And they all had unique
insignias on their staff of
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their tribes.
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And so, it was a
symbol of authority.
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And that's why it says, "Thy rod
and thy staff, they comfort me,"
00:23:44.25\00:23:47.46
Psalm 23.
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So, the rod of Moses or
Aaron, it's interchangeable.
00:23:48.99\00:23:52.29
Being put inside the ark, it
meant that God speaks through
00:23:52.33\00:23:57.00
and he designates leadership.
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Jean: Yes, and of
course Aaron was the priest,
00:23:58.90\00:24:01.54
the levitical
priest, it was in the family.
00:24:01.57\00:24:04.61
And that was part of
the controversy that arose.
00:24:04.64\00:24:06.68
It says, "Well, why are you
just the one that does the work
00:24:06.71\00:24:09.01
of the priest?"
00:24:09.04\00:24:10.55
Doug: We're also
holy. Jean: We're also holy.
00:24:10.58\00:24:12.25
We're a whole
nation of holy people.
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And God said, "No, I've
chosen the tribe of Levi to do a
00:24:14.08\00:24:15.68
special work in the priesthood."
00:24:15.72\00:24:17.12
It's also interesting that you
have a dead stick that in the
00:24:17.15\00:24:19.89
sanctuary suddenly
buds and brings forth fruit.
00:24:19.92\00:24:23.96
Likewise spiritually,
without Christ, we're dead.
00:24:23.99\00:24:27.73
But connected to Christ,
we're able to produce fruit,
00:24:27.76\00:24:30.80
and that would be
the fruit of the Spirit.
00:24:30.83\00:24:32.53
Doug: Come alive, that's right.
00:24:32.57\00:24:33.90
Jean: A life that
brings glory to God.
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Monday, the title of
the lesson there is entitled
00:24:35.60\00:24:37.67
"Words and Their Meaning."
00:24:37.71\00:24:39.11
And for us to correctly
understand the words in the
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Bible, it's helpful for us to
study their usage in other parts
00:24:41.68\00:24:45.28
of the Bible.
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Doug: Yeah, and looking
where--I think it was Dr. Leslie
00:24:46.82\00:24:51.15
Harding who taught for
years at the Andrews Seminary.
00:24:51.19\00:24:55.46
He said one of the best ways
to understand how to interpret
00:24:55.49\00:24:58.03
a word in the Bible
is look at the first time
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the word is introduced.
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It sort of becomes a
template for other times
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you find those words.
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So, that's one principle.
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And then compare it with other
verses where the word is used.
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Now, I think you've got some
examples there for we're going
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to look at the word
"mercy" and then "shalom."
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Why don't you take
mercy and I'll do shalom?
00:25:14.81\00:25:17.05
Jean: Yeah, the word "mercy."
00:25:17.08\00:25:18.41
Of course, we find it throughout
the Bible, but just a couple of
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passages that give us a broader
understanding of God's mercy,
00:25:20.68\00:25:24.35
1 Kings chapter 3, verse 6.
00:25:24.39\00:25:26.19
Solomon is praying and he
said, "You show great mercy to
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Your servant David, my father."
00:25:29.32\00:25:30.93
And that, of course, is at
the dedication of the temple.
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And you can see in the life of
David how God revealed His mercy
00:25:33.93\00:25:37.90
time and time again when David
would make a mistake and he'd
00:25:37.93\00:25:40.44
repent, God would show mercy.
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And God used him in a mighty way
to build up the nation of Israel
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and to prepare for the
building of the sanctuary.
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You've got Psalm 66, verse
20, "Blessed be God, who has not
00:25:49.11\00:25:52.38
turned away my prayer,
nor His mercy from me."
00:25:52.41\00:25:56.45
You know, Pastor Doug, I think
one of the most favorite phrases
00:25:56.48\00:25:59.12
or most common phrases
that's found in the Psalms
00:25:59.15\00:26:01.89
is the phrase "his
mercy abides forever."
00:26:01.92\00:26:04.89
His mercy abides forever.
00:26:04.93\00:26:06.59
So, God is a God of
mercy, and we can see that even
00:26:06.63\00:26:08.80
in Old Testament times.
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And then Micah chapter 7, verse
20, "You will give truth to
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Jacob and mercy to Abraham,
which He has sworn to your
00:26:13.23\00:26:17.81
fathers from days of old."
00:26:17.84\00:26:19.67
So, there we find God giving
mercy to those who trust in Him,
00:26:19.71\00:26:23.21
those who follow
His commandments.
00:26:23.24\00:26:26.28
Doug: Yeah, and that's I
think the key that you said,
00:26:26.31\00:26:27.95
followed His commandments.
00:26:27.98\00:26:29.28
In those verses you
read, 1 Kings 3:6, it says,
00:26:29.32\00:26:32.95
"Mercy in truth."
00:26:32.99\00:26:35.36
You go to Psalm 57, verse 3,
it says, "He'd send His mercy
00:26:35.39\00:26:39.69
and His truth."
00:26:39.73\00:26:41.26
And then you just read another
one where it talked about--it's
00:26:41.30\00:26:43.70
Micah 7, it said, "Mercy
to Abraham and truth, truth to
00:26:43.73\00:26:47.50
Jacob and mercy to--" So,
one way God connects His mercy
00:26:47.54\00:26:51.47
is the Word of truth.
00:26:51.51\00:26:53.58
He's showing mercy and truth.
00:26:53.61\00:26:55.58
I said I'd let you
teach and I jumped in,
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I couldn't help myself.
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Jean: No, that's
good. Doug: I'm sorry.
00:26:59.15\00:27:01.02
And then we've
got a famous word.
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You know, people around the
word know the word "shalom."
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And I heard someone say once
that one of the best ways to
00:27:06.15\00:27:10.39
understand shalom for the
Jew is to understand aloha
00:27:10.43\00:27:13.46
for the Hawaiian.
00:27:13.50\00:27:15.13
So, aloha was it's
hello, it's goodbye, it's love.
00:27:15.16\00:27:20.14
And now shalom is a little
different, of course, than that,
00:27:20.17\00:27:22.50
but it is a word
that has many meanings.
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When you greet
someone you say shalom.
00:27:25.44\00:27:28.08
And when you say
goodbye, you say shalom.
00:27:28.11\00:27:30.95
Jerusalem is named
City of Peace, Jeru-Shalom.
00:27:30.98\00:27:36.95
You've got even
Absalom was the son of peace.
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Solomon, his name is similar
also to the word "shalom."
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It was--it was a greeting of
blessing that was incorporated.
00:27:45.76\00:27:49.73
And when God said--and this
is very famous, many people know
00:27:49.76\00:27:52.90
the levitical blessing.
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You find if in Numbers 6:24
through 26, said, "This is the
00:27:54.94\00:27:58.77
blessing to put on my people.
00:27:58.81\00:28:00.64
The Lord bless you and keep you.
00:28:00.68\00:28:02.48
The Lord make His face to shine
upon you and be gracious to you.
00:28:02.51\00:28:06.25
The Lord lift up His countenance
upon you and give you peace."
00:28:06.28\00:28:10.42
And it ends with
that word "shalom."
00:28:10.45\00:28:13.32
And the Lord--Psalm 29:11,
"The Lord will give strength
00:28:13.36\00:28:16.66
to His people.
00:28:16.69\00:28:17.99
The Lord will bless
His people with peace."
00:28:18.03\00:28:20.06
Now, for the Jew who spent
many years wandering, they never
00:28:20.10\00:28:24.90
could settle down it seems
like, and then they were slaves
00:28:24.93\00:28:27.87
for years.
00:28:27.90\00:28:29.50
Their longing of their heart was
to settle down, every man to be
00:28:29.54\00:28:32.24
under his vine and his fig
tree, to have springs of water,
00:28:32.27\00:28:36.38
and to live in peace.
00:28:36.41\00:28:38.28
And so, it's a picture of
heaven, but it's also a picture
00:28:38.31\00:28:41.68
of the peace.
00:28:41.72\00:28:43.02
Jesus is called
the prince of peace.
00:28:43.05\00:28:45.25
And Isaiah 9:6, "Unto us a child
is born, unto us a son is given.
00:28:45.29\00:28:51.06
The government
will be on His shoulder.
00:28:51.09\00:28:52.89
His name will be called
wonderful counselor, the mighty
00:28:52.93\00:28:56.40
God, the everlasting
Father, the prince of peace."
00:28:56.43\00:29:01.10
So, Jesus is the
essence, he embodies that peace.
00:29:01.14\00:29:05.41
And one more thing while
we're talking about words,
00:29:05.44\00:29:08.44
when you're--you
know, big word is love when
00:29:08.48\00:29:11.68
we're talking about words.
00:29:11.71\00:29:13.35
And I think just in the Greek,
not even going to the Hebrew,
00:29:13.38\00:29:16.75
there are four words
that are used for love.
00:29:16.79\00:29:20.16
And you've got eros, and that's
more like a romantic love,
00:29:20.19\00:29:24.49
it's where we get
the word "erotic."
00:29:24.53\00:29:26.03
It was a romantic love.
00:29:26.06\00:29:27.66
Phileo, and that meant a
brotherly love, where you
00:29:27.66\00:29:31.83
have--you know, it was
William Penn, he established
00:29:31.87\00:29:35.90
Philadelphia, he wanted it to
be the city of brotherly love.
00:29:35.94\00:29:39.47
Then you have storge, that meant
an unconditional or a family, a
00:29:39.51\00:29:43.35
familial love.
00:29:43.38\00:29:45.21
And then the famous one is
the agape, the sacrificial, the
00:29:45.25\00:29:49.15
emphatic love, where
you're feeling for another one,
00:29:49.18\00:29:54.89
a self-sacrificing love.
00:29:54.92\00:29:56.73
Now, you had the
example there in John--
00:29:56.76\00:29:59.53
Jean: Yeah, it's an amazing
example that you find in John
00:29:59.56\00:30:01.86
chapter 21 of how
in the original Greek,
00:30:01.90\00:30:05.10
different words
are used for love.
00:30:05.13\00:30:07.44
It's a fairly well known story.
00:30:07.47\00:30:09.20
This is after the resurrection,
where Jesus met with the
00:30:09.24\00:30:11.14
disciples by the sea of Galilee.
00:30:11.17\00:30:13.84
And Peter, along with all
the other disciples, are there.
00:30:13.88\00:30:17.01
And after that had breakfast
together, Jesus asked Peter--and
00:30:17.05\00:30:20.28
this is John
chapter 21, verse 15.
00:30:20.32\00:30:23.02
Jesus said to Peter, "Simon son
of Jonah, do you love Me more
00:30:23.05\00:30:26.32
than these?"
00:30:26.35\00:30:27.66
Now, you'll remember Peter
had said before the crucifixion,
00:30:27.69\00:30:30.39
"Though all men shall desert
Thee, I'll never leave You.
00:30:30.43\00:30:33.43
I'm ready to die for You."
00:30:33.46\00:30:34.83
Now, of course,
you know what happened.
00:30:34.83\00:30:36.26
Peter did deny Jesus, so Jesus
says, "Peter, do you love Me
00:30:36.30\00:30:39.57
more than these?" more
than the other disciples.
00:30:39.60\00:30:42.20
Now, the word that Jesus
uses here for "do you love Me?"
00:30:42.24\00:30:46.07
he uses the word "agape."
00:30:46.11\00:30:48.11
And as you say, Pastor
Doug, that is the love of God.
00:30:48.14\00:30:50.55
That is this unselfish,
self-sacrificing love.
00:30:50.58\00:30:54.25
Peter responds to what Jesus
says and says, "Yes Lord, you
00:30:54.28\00:30:58.05
know that I love You."
00:30:58.09\00:30:59.72
But he doesn't use the word
"agape," he uses the word for
00:30:59.75\00:31:02.22
brotherly love, philos.
00:31:02.26\00:31:04.39
And it's kind of interesting
that each time Jesus asked, he
00:31:04.43\00:31:08.03
said, "Do you agape Me?"
00:31:08.06\00:31:10.03
Peter responded and
said, "Lord, I philos Thee.
00:31:10.07\00:31:12.73
I, you know, brotherly love.
00:31:12.77\00:31:14.20
The best human love that
I can have, I give to You.
00:31:14.24\00:31:17.71
But my love does not come
close to Your love for me."
00:31:17.74\00:31:21.14
And Jesus asked twice,
"Peter, do you agape Me?"
00:31:21.18\00:31:24.68
And Peter says, "I philos You."
00:31:24.71\00:31:27.18
And then the third time,
Jesus says, "Do you philos Me?"
00:31:27.22\00:31:30.29
Peter says, "Yes
Lord, I philos You."
00:31:30.32\00:31:31.89
So, it's as if Jesus is trying
to draw Peter's understanding
00:31:31.92\00:31:35.42
to His love.
00:31:35.46\00:31:37.53
"And do you know
how much I love you?"
00:31:37.56\00:31:39.46
is in essence
what Jesus is saying.
00:31:39.49\00:31:40.86
So, you can find that by looking
at the original words, and it
00:31:40.90\00:31:43.77
just brings a whole lot
more meaning to the Word of God.
00:31:43.80\00:31:46.67
Doug: Yeah.
00:31:46.70\00:31:48.00
And just jump in if you
get a question from someone.
00:31:48.04\00:31:51.07
In the next section, it talks
about repetition, word patterns,
00:31:51.11\00:31:55.34
and meanings.
00:31:55.38\00:31:57.11
And it's very helpful to know
that there was no punctuation in
00:31:57.15\00:32:01.22
the Hebrew.
00:32:01.25\00:32:02.98
So, when you're reading--as
well as the Greek, actually.
00:32:03.02\00:32:06.02
And so, they had different ways
of creating emphasis starting
00:32:06.05\00:32:09.79
and stopping.
00:32:09.82\00:32:11.33
There's no problem if you
understand and you read Hebrew
00:32:11.36\00:32:12.96
to know what the text is saying.
00:32:12.99\00:32:15.66
But one of the ways, you know,
we when we say something--and
00:32:15.70\00:32:18.90
it's interesting today where
everybody texting everybody,
00:32:18.93\00:32:21.90
we've kind of
created a whole new language.
00:32:21.94\00:32:23.47
But you know, instead of saying,
"This is so funny, I just
00:32:23.51\00:32:28.54
couldn't help myself,"
you just say LOL, that means
00:32:28.58\00:32:31.28
I laughed out loud.
00:32:31.31\00:32:32.81
And so, we've got
these abbreviations.
00:32:32.85\00:32:35.12
Or you just put
an exclamation mark.
00:32:35.15\00:32:37.29
You might just say
exclamation mark and we know
00:32:37.32\00:32:39.72
that's emphasis.
00:32:39.75\00:32:42.42
One of the ways they would
emphasize something is through
00:32:42.46\00:32:44.79
the repetition of words.
00:32:44.83\00:32:47.03
And maybe you could read,
for instance, Genesis 1:26,
00:32:47.03\00:32:50.37
Pastor Ross.
00:32:50.40\00:32:51.77
Jean: You know, before I read
that, just you're reminding me
00:32:51.80\00:32:53.10
of something.
00:32:53.13\00:32:54.54
Today, we speak with texting
and different--like you said,
00:32:54.57\00:32:56.57
different things
mean different things.
00:32:56.60\00:32:58.01
LOL is supposed to be laugh out
loud, but I guess a teenage girl
00:32:58.04\00:33:02.21
was texting her mother and
telling her about something sad
00:33:02.24\00:33:05.75
that had occurred.
00:33:05.78\00:33:07.08
And the mother
responded with LOL.
00:33:07.12\00:33:08.98
And the daughter
said, "Mom, that's not the
00:33:09.02\00:33:10.42
appropriate response."
00:33:10.45\00:33:12.12
Well, the mother thought LOL was
love--lots of love, thank you.
00:33:12.15\00:33:18.43
Yeah, lots of love.
00:33:18.46\00:33:19.86
And the daughter's
saying laugh out loud.
00:33:19.89\00:33:21.43
So, if you don't understand the
context, you can get yourself in
00:33:21.46\00:33:23.77
trouble, you can
be misunderstood.
00:33:23.80\00:33:26.40
And of course, knowing
the right meaning of the words
00:33:26.43\00:33:28.90
and the context in the
Bible also makes a difference.
00:33:28.94\00:33:31.37
Doug: Oh yeah, big difference.
00:33:31.41\00:33:32.77
Jean: Now, in
Genesis chapter 1, verse 27--
00:33:32.81\00:33:35.41
Doug: Twenty-six
and twenty-seven, yeah.
00:33:35.44\00:33:37.71
Jean: Twenty-six?
00:33:37.75\00:33:39.05
Talks about God
created man in his own image.
00:33:39.08\00:33:40.88
"In the image of God
created him, male and female
00:33:40.92\00:33:42.95
He created them."
00:33:42.98\00:33:44.65
Now, the word
there for man is Adam.
00:33:44.69\00:33:47.06
And of course, that's
the name of the first man
00:33:47.09\00:33:49.29
that was created.
00:33:49.32\00:33:50.76
But we find Adam also meaning
man or mankind, as well as the
00:33:50.79\00:33:55.36
individual Adam, which
is kind of interesting.
00:33:55.40\00:33:58.13
Then you also brought up
about Adam being connected
00:33:58.17\00:34:00.80
to the ground or the earth.
00:34:00.84\00:34:02.64
Doug: Yeah, it's a similar
word for in Hebrew Edom, where,
00:34:02.67\00:34:06.07
you know, the Edomites,
it was this red porridge
00:34:06.11\00:34:10.71
that was given.
00:34:10.75\00:34:12.05
And Edom and
Adam--and some people say,
00:34:12.08\00:34:13.85
"What race was Adam?"
00:34:13.88\00:34:16.15
And I heard one scholar
say, well, he was Indian.
00:34:16.18\00:34:20.49
I said, "Well,
how do you say that?"
00:34:20.52\00:34:21.96
He said, "Well, red,
yellow, black, and white."
00:34:21.99\00:34:23.76
You know, they used to say
the American Indians were red.
00:34:23.79\00:34:25.46
Well, they weren't really red,
they used to put some clay on
00:34:25.49\00:34:27.66
them that made
them look that way.
00:34:27.66\00:34:29.66
But the word
really is red or ruddy.
00:34:29.70\00:34:33.20
And it says that about
David, it says he was ruddy.
00:34:33.23\00:34:35.80
And that word there meant
that he kind of had a rosy
00:34:35.84\00:34:39.84
or glowing complexion.
00:34:39.87\00:34:41.31
So, who knows?
00:34:41.34\00:34:43.31
Adam might have been kind
of a magenta or I don't know.
00:34:43.35\00:34:48.85
Jean: But you have
Adam meaning mankind,
00:34:48.88\00:34:50.85
also the name of an individual.
00:34:50.89\00:34:52.22
Now, that's kind of significant.
00:34:52.25\00:34:53.66
When we go to the New Testament,
you read in Romans chapter 5,
00:34:53.69\00:34:57.06
verse 5, "But the free gift is
not like the offense, for if by
00:34:57.09\00:35:00.20
one man's offense," that would
be Adam, "many die, so much more
00:35:00.23\00:35:04.37
the grace of God and the
gift by one man, Jesus Christ."
00:35:04.40\00:35:08.40
And Jesus is
called the second Adam.
00:35:08.44\00:35:10.71
So, in the first Adam
comes death because of sin.
00:35:10.74\00:35:14.28
In the second Adam,
we have life in Jesus.
00:35:14.31\00:35:17.58
Doug: Right.
00:35:17.61\00:35:18.98
And going back and talking more
about the context of how you
00:35:19.01\00:35:21.18
read those things, if you look
for instance in--when it talks
00:35:21.22\00:35:25.09
in Genesis about God created man
in his own image, in the image
00:35:25.12\00:35:29.82
of God created him, male
and female created He them."
00:35:29.86\00:35:33.03
So, you're looking at
God as making them, plural.
00:35:33.06\00:35:37.57
So the word "Adam"
there means humanity, mankind.
00:35:37.60\00:35:42.27
But then it says, "This is
the genealogy of Adam in the day
00:35:42.30\00:35:46.61
that God created man.
00:35:46.64\00:35:48.41
He made him in
the likeness of God.
00:35:48.44\00:35:50.65
He created them male and
female," so that's still talking
00:35:50.68\00:35:54.22
about Adam means humanity.
00:35:54.25\00:35:56.25
This is Genesis 5:1.
00:35:56.28\00:35:57.82
Then it says, "And
Adam lived 130 years,
00:35:57.85\00:36:01.02
and he begat his first son."
00:36:01.06\00:36:05.39
Adam there, does
it mean humanity?
00:36:05.43\00:36:07.60
Or well, it could be Adam
and Eve because they're both the
00:36:07.60\00:36:09.70
same age, aren't they?
00:36:09.73\00:36:11.23
But then later it says that
he lived 930 years and he died.
00:36:11.27\00:36:15.40
Now, it's probably talking
about the individual Adam.
00:36:15.44\00:36:19.31
So, that's why it's so
important to read the context.
00:36:19.34\00:36:23.01
Going back to the repetition
that you emphasize things,
00:36:23.04\00:36:26.01
you'll notice that when--the
verse you just read, it says God
00:36:26.05\00:36:30.79
created, created, created.
00:36:30.82\00:36:33.99
And this is back
in Genesis chapter 1.
00:36:34.02\00:36:36.83
Says, "Let Us
make man in our image.
00:36:36.86\00:36:40.50
And so, God created him.
00:36:40.53\00:36:42.26
In the image of God He
created him, male and female
00:36:42.30\00:36:44.40
He created them."
00:36:44.43\00:36:46.13
If we ever have any doubts
about the origin of humanity,
00:36:46.17\00:36:48.77
the Jew is saying
God created, God created,
00:36:48.80\00:36:52.94
God created in His own image.
00:36:52.97\00:36:55.28
So, it's really an insult
to Bible truth to say that, you
00:36:55.31\00:37:00.32
know, man evolved from some
primordial soup because then
00:37:00.35\00:37:06.19
you're calling God, you
know, a rock or primordial soup.
00:37:06.22\00:37:09.99
God in a fiat way created
man, and it's very important.
00:37:10.03\00:37:14.83
Jean: Now, talking about
repetition, in the original
00:37:14.83\00:37:17.13
language, they didn't have
capitalized or exclamation mark.
00:37:17.17\00:37:20.87
But if they wanted to emphasize
something, as you said,
00:37:20.90\00:37:23.61
Pastor Doug,
they would repeat it.
00:37:23.64\00:37:25.44
Probably one of the most
beautiful verses that you find
00:37:25.47\00:37:27.84
in the Old Testament is
Isaiah chapter 6, verse 3.
00:37:27.88\00:37:31.21
It's talking about these angels
who are in the very presence
00:37:31.25\00:37:33.95
of God.
00:37:33.98\00:37:35.58
And they have six wings.
00:37:35.62\00:37:37.22
With two wings they cover their
feet, with two wings they cover
00:37:37.25\00:37:39.39
their faces, with
two wings they fly.
00:37:39.42\00:37:41.22
And their constant cry
is, "Holy, holy, holy, Lord of
00:37:41.26\00:37:45.46
hosts, the earth is
filled with your glory."
00:37:45.49\00:37:47.66
Here are the angels saying,
"Holy, holy, holy," in the very
00:37:47.66\00:37:50.80
presence of God.
00:37:50.83\00:37:52.20
Some have seen in that holy for
the Father, holy for the Son,
00:37:52.23\00:37:55.27
holy for the Holy Spirit, sort
of a triune holiness that we
00:37:55.30\00:38:00.04
find described in the Bible.
00:38:00.08\00:38:01.48
So, it's emphasis.
00:38:01.51\00:38:02.88
And of course, often you read
Jesus saying, "Verily, verily,"
00:38:02.91\00:38:06.08
if you're looking at
the King James version.
00:38:06.11\00:38:08.18
Or, "Verily,
verily I say unto you."
00:38:08.22\00:38:10.05
Again, it's providing
emphasis by repeating.
00:38:10.09\00:38:13.29
Doug: If a child is walking
down a path and the parent says,
00:38:13.32\00:38:18.53
"Be careful. Child, be careful."
00:38:18.56\00:38:21.80
But if the parent says, "Be
careful, be careful," they're
00:38:21.83\00:38:26.27
going, "Oh, that repetition."
00:38:26.30\00:38:28.40
If the parent says, "Be careful,
be careful, be careful,"
00:38:28.44\00:38:33.01
kid's going, "Oh."
00:38:33.04\00:38:34.54
I mean, so we even understand
that repetition and emphasis can
00:38:34.58\00:38:39.28
be just, you know,
increasing the intensity.
00:38:39.31\00:38:42.58
So, when the angels say God
is holy, but when they say He is
00:38:42.62\00:38:45.69
holy, holy, and then they say He
is holy, holy, holy, the three
00:38:45.72\00:38:51.83
really was like
an eternal emphasis.
00:38:51.86\00:38:55.10
That it's compete and full as
it can be, the holiness of God.
00:38:55.13\00:39:00.90
Jean: Pastor Doug, we've
got a question that's come
00:39:00.94\00:39:02.27
in from Nancy.
00:39:02.30\00:39:03.77
And you're talking about the
importance of reading something
00:39:03.81\00:39:05.24
in its context, she's asking,
"What about Mark 7, where Jesus
00:39:05.27\00:39:09.81
purged all meat?
00:39:09.84\00:39:11.85
What does this mean?"
00:39:11.88\00:39:13.45
I guess she has a friend
that's saying, well, we can eat
00:39:13.48\00:39:14.98
anything now because of Mark
chapter 7, where Jesus purged
00:39:15.02\00:39:18.49
all meat, where He says don't
call anything unclean, or it's
00:39:18.52\00:39:21.89
not that which goes into
the mouth that defiles the man.
00:39:21.92\00:39:25.53
Doug: Yeah, this is a verse
that has been misunderstood, and
00:39:25.56\00:39:28.20
it's actually unfortunate that
the--they're probably looking at
00:39:28.23\00:39:31.60
the New International Version.
00:39:31.63\00:39:33.97
The translators there--and one
of the things we've learned as
00:39:34.00\00:39:36.67
we've been studying how to
interpret the Scriptures, Bible
00:39:36.71\00:39:39.87
readers come to the Scripture
with certain presuppositions,
00:39:39.91\00:39:43.55
with certain bias.
00:39:43.58\00:39:46.68
And some people have a bias,
an assumption when they come to
00:39:46.72\00:39:49.28
reading the New Testament.
00:39:49.32\00:39:51.59
And they assume that, yeah,
Jesus declared all foods clean.
00:39:51.62\00:39:54.96
This was what you call a
parenthetical statement, where
00:39:54.99\00:39:58.43
it actually is saying when Jesus
said, "It's not what goes in
00:39:58.46\00:40:02.46
your mouth that defiles
you, but what comes out."
00:40:02.50\00:40:06.80
Because what goes in your mouth
is eliminated in the ditch,
00:40:06.84\00:40:11.81
purging all meats.
00:40:11.84\00:40:13.64
There's a
certain purging influence
00:40:13.68\00:40:16.34
of the digestive system.
00:40:16.38\00:40:17.88
Jesus is talking about if you
eat food without ceremonially
00:40:17.91\00:40:22.35
washing your hands, that
is not what defiles a person.
00:40:22.38\00:40:26.79
He said it's not what goes in
your mouth, but what comes out
00:40:26.82\00:40:28.72
of your mouth.
00:40:28.76\00:40:30.29
And the words that you speak,
reflecting what's in your heart,
00:40:30.33\00:40:33.86
that's what's defiling.
00:40:33.90\00:40:35.33
If a child eats without washing
their hands, most of us have
00:40:35.36\00:40:38.60
somehow survived childhood,
where that often happened.
00:40:38.63\00:40:42.30
He said that's not
what defiles a heart.
00:40:42.34\00:40:44.64
So, no particular
food is ever mentioned.
00:40:44.67\00:40:48.28
The NIV translators took a
great liberty here, they took a
00:40:48.31\00:40:51.35
parenthetical
statement, where it said,
00:40:51.38\00:40:53.15
"Thus purging all foods."
00:40:53.18\00:40:55.45
They then translate
that in saying this,
00:40:55.48\00:40:58.09
Jesus declared all foods clean.
00:40:58.12\00:41:00.09
I have had friends from other
denominations, they will freely
00:41:00.12\00:41:02.92
admit that is not in the Greek.
00:41:02.96\00:41:05.79
So, it's not even
in the original text.
00:41:05.83\00:41:07.40
It is a very unfortunate liberty
that the translators took there.
00:41:07.46\00:41:12.67
That is not found
in the original text.
00:41:12.70\00:41:15.10
You don't find it in the
King James, New King James,
00:41:15.14\00:41:17.77
New American Standard.
00:41:17.81\00:41:19.34
But it's
confused a lot of people.
00:41:19.37\00:41:20.84
And what's the verse again?
00:41:20.88\00:41:22.48
female: It's in verse 20.
00:41:22.51\00:41:24.18
Doug: It's verse 20, yeah, 19
and 20 is where you're going to
00:41:24.21\00:41:25.91
find that in Mark chapter 7.
00:41:25.95\00:41:28.38
Jean: All right,
thank you, Pastor Doug.
00:41:28.42\00:41:29.75
We have another question
that somebody has sent in.
00:41:29.78\00:41:31.89
And again, we thank you for all
of the questions that's come in.
00:41:31.92\00:41:34.22
This person is asking, is
tithe and offering only applied
00:41:34.26\00:41:38.23
to money?
00:41:38.26\00:41:39.89
Do we pay tithes and
offerings only for money?
00:41:39.93\00:41:42.30
Doug: Another good
place where we can apply
00:41:42.33\00:41:43.83
the Bible hermeneutics.
00:41:43.87\00:41:45.80
When Jesus--or when Malachi
says, God in his Word, in
00:41:45.83\00:41:51.04
chapter 3 of Malachi, he says,
"Bring all the tithe into the
00:41:51.07\00:41:55.34
storehouse, that there
may be food in my house."
00:41:55.38\00:41:59.21
But when they went to the feast,
if they didn't want to carry
00:41:59.25\00:42:01.72
wagonloads of grain or sheep,
it says you can convert that to
00:42:01.75\00:42:06.19
money and carry the money.
00:42:06.22\00:42:07.86
It was much easier and smaller,
and pay your tithe when you come
00:42:07.89\00:42:10.79
to the feast using money.
00:42:10.83\00:42:12.69
So, it could be done using
agricultural tithe, if they
00:42:12.73\00:42:16.23
would literally bring to the
sanctuary or to the synagogue
00:42:16.26\00:42:21.27
where they happened to meet in
their tribal area to help cover
00:42:21.30\00:42:23.91
the costs for the Levites.
00:42:23.94\00:42:25.67
Or they could go to the national
feast, they would convert it
00:42:25.71\00:42:28.61
to money.
00:42:28.64\00:42:30.18
It could be either one.
00:42:30.21\00:42:31.88
Jean: Somebody asked--else is
asking Pastor Doug about why is
00:42:31.91\00:42:34.32
there so many genealogies that
we find in the Old Testament?
00:42:34.35\00:42:37.49
And they're speaking
specifically here about
00:42:37.52\00:42:39.65
Chronicles, where it says
so and so begat so and so.
00:42:39.69\00:42:41.56
Why is that so important?
00:42:41.59\00:42:42.99
Doug: I used to wonder that.
00:42:43.02\00:42:44.49
And I was reading through the
Bible and I would just struggle
00:42:44.53\00:42:46.03
through saying these names.
00:42:46.06\00:42:47.60
And it was always embarrassing
for me when I got into ministry
00:42:47.60\00:42:51.00
and I tried to read the names.
00:42:51.03\00:42:53.30
And I'll just give you a little
tip while we're at that point.
00:42:53.34\00:42:57.07
I spent years listening to the
Bible on tape, driving, going to
00:42:57.11\00:43:00.68
sleep at night, every night
listening to Alexander Scourby,
00:43:00.71\00:43:04.98
who read the Bible
with just perfect diction.
00:43:05.01\00:43:07.98
So, I don't know how he
did it, but his pronunciation.
00:43:08.02\00:43:10.65
And there's a few other programs
where they--the Bible readers
00:43:10.69\00:43:13.52
read with just extraordinary
pronunciations, very accurate.
00:43:13.56\00:43:17.26
Hearing him say those names made
it much easier for me to start
00:43:17.29\00:43:20.83
repeating those names
in years that followed.
00:43:20.86\00:43:24.63
But I used to think,
why all the chronologies?
00:43:24.67\00:43:27.47
Then as you start going through
the different characters in the
00:43:27.50\00:43:30.81
Bible like we just talked about
Job, reading the chronology of
00:43:30.84\00:43:34.24
Esau, I said, "Aha, some
of these friends of Job appear
00:43:34.28\00:43:38.55
in this chronology."
00:43:38.58\00:43:39.88
And it helped you understand
where the story took place, who
00:43:39.91\00:43:42.52
he's talking to, who
their ancestors were.
00:43:42.55\00:43:45.09
And it tells about
Jesus being the Messiah.
00:43:45.12\00:43:47.92
You look at the chronology in
Luke that goes all the way from
00:43:47.96\00:43:51.63
Jesus back to Adam, it's
one of the most extraordinary
00:43:51.66\00:43:54.20
in the Bible that
Jesus is the Son of God.
00:43:54.23\00:43:57.47
And so, it tells that
Jesus would be the Son of David.
00:43:57.50\00:44:00.97
You've got the chronology
of Jesse and the tribe of Judah
00:44:01.00\00:44:04.07
because it says the
Messiah would come through that.
00:44:04.11\00:44:06.57
So, a lot of it is so we
can trace the chronology of the
00:44:06.61\00:44:09.91
Messiah when He came.
00:44:09.94\00:44:11.28
Jean: Absolutely.
00:44:11.31\00:44:12.68
Thursday's lesson talks
about books and their messages.
00:44:12.71\00:44:15.58
And of course, you
have 66 books in the Bible.
00:44:15.62\00:44:18.95
Divided up into different
categories, you have prophetic
00:44:18.99\00:44:21.59
messages through some
of the prophetic books
00:44:21.62\00:44:23.73
like Isaiah, Jeremiah.
00:44:23.76\00:44:26.43
There are some books
that are described as being a
00:44:26.46\00:44:28.96
compilation, where
you've got, for example, Psalms,
00:44:29.00\00:44:32.30
which is compilation of songs.
00:44:32.33\00:44:34.74
Then you got
Ecclesiastes, a compilation
00:44:34.77\00:44:37.17
of different sayings.
00:44:37.21\00:44:39.34
You've got historical books like
1 and 2 Kings and Chronicles.
00:44:39.37\00:44:42.94
And then you've
got letter books.
00:44:42.98\00:44:44.85
Many of the New
Testament books are letters.
00:44:44.88\00:44:47.22
Paul wrote a lot of letters.
00:44:47.25\00:44:48.78
The book of Revelation is really
a letter to the seven churches.
00:44:48.82\00:44:51.95
So, different categories of
books, and that's helpful to
00:44:51.99\00:44:54.42
bear in mind when you're
studying a particular book
00:44:54.46\00:44:56.49
in the Bible.
00:44:56.52\00:44:57.96
Doug: Yeah.
00:44:57.99\00:44:59.53
Now, Revelation is a letter that
was deliberately given to be
00:44:59.56\00:45:01.20
read in many churches, so it's
a little more comprehensive.
00:45:01.23\00:45:04.37
It's really for
the church even today
00:45:04.40\00:45:06.43
'cause it's for many churches.
00:45:06.47\00:45:08.40
Whereas when Paul writes a
letter to the 1 Corinthians and
00:45:08.44\00:45:12.94
he's giving special counsel for
a particular problem, or in 2
00:45:12.97\00:45:17.31
Corinthians, he's talking about
a problem in 1 Corinthians,
00:45:17.35\00:45:19.98
you then have to
say, "What is the culture?
00:45:20.02\00:45:22.82
What's the historical context?
00:45:22.85\00:45:24.45
What's going on in that city?
00:45:24.49\00:45:26.59
What was the
problem he's addressing?"
00:45:26.62\00:45:28.36
Then reading and understanding
those teachings, it's important
00:45:28.39\00:45:31.43
to get the context of the
town, the history, the culture.
00:45:31.46\00:45:37.23
Like you and I get questions all
the time about 1 Corinthians 11,
00:45:37.27\00:45:40.74
where it talks
about a woman not praying
00:45:40.77\00:45:43.20
unless her head is covered.
00:45:43.24\00:45:45.04
And people say, "Well, is that
something we're to apply today,
00:45:45.07\00:45:47.91
that no Christian
woman should pray publicly
00:45:47.94\00:45:50.55
unless her head is covered?"
00:45:50.58\00:45:52.08
Well, reading the context of
what was happening in Corinth
00:45:52.11\00:45:54.82
at that time, we realize that
was really more of a tradition.
00:45:54.85\00:45:59.09
And he's saying, you know,
we need to be respectful of that
00:45:59.12\00:46:01.19
tradition in that context.
00:46:01.22\00:46:03.26
And even later in the
own--in that same book,
00:46:03.29\00:46:05.93
I forget where in the chapter,
what verse it is, he says,
00:46:05.96\00:46:09.53
"But we have no such tradition."
00:46:09.56\00:46:12.50
He uses the word "tradition."
00:46:12.53\00:46:14.30
Jean: Contentious, but we
don't have such tradition.
00:46:14.34\00:46:16.57
So, dealing with the specific
situation it sounds like that
00:46:16.60\00:46:19.87
was taking place at the church.
00:46:19.91\00:46:21.64
And maybe that's why we don't
want to build a doctrine on just
00:46:21.68\00:46:23.38
simply one verse.
00:46:23.41\00:46:25.01
In the mouth of
two or three witnesses.
00:46:25.05\00:46:27.22
And unfortunately, there
are some people, pastor, that'll
00:46:27.25\00:46:29.08
take one verse and ignore
the rest of the Bible as to what
00:46:29.12\00:46:32.59
it's saying, and they'll build a
whole theology out of one verse.
00:46:32.62\00:46:35.79
And often, it's
taken out of its context.
00:46:35.82\00:46:38.96
So, not only do you recognize
that the Bible has different
00:46:38.99\00:46:41.96
books written for different
audiences at different times, we
00:46:42.00\00:46:45.23
want to bear that in mind, but
of course there are different
00:46:45.27\00:46:47.47
writers, about 36 at least that
we know of, 36 different authors
00:46:47.50\00:46:52.31
that wrote
different parts of the Bible.
00:46:52.34\00:46:54.78
This is
interesting, Pastor Doug.
00:46:54.81\00:46:57.11
Some of the
authorship is not given.
00:46:57.15\00:47:00.25
Sometimes, you read Paul, it
states that Paul wrote the book.
00:47:00.28\00:47:02.95
Or in Revelation, John
says he wrote the book.
00:47:02.98\00:47:05.15
But there are books in the Bible
where we're not quite sure who
00:47:05.19\00:47:07.82
the person is that
actually wrote the book.
00:47:07.86\00:47:10.03
And here are some examples.
00:47:10.06\00:47:12.23
For example, the book of
Ruth, we're not quite sure
00:47:12.26\00:47:14.23
who wrote Ruth.
00:47:14.30\00:47:16.03
The book of Esther, you had an
idea and I thought that was kind
00:47:16.06\00:47:18.33
of interesting.
00:47:18.37\00:47:19.60
Even though it doesn't say who
wrote the book of Esther, but
00:47:19.63\00:47:21.57
you thought maybe Mordecai.
00:47:21.60\00:47:23.17
Doug: Mordecai would have
been intimately acquainted with
00:47:23.20\00:47:24.97
the language and what happened
in the palace on that occasion.
00:47:25.01\00:47:28.21
Jean: Right.
00:47:28.24\00:47:29.78
Doug: You wonder who in that
story saw everything from all
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perspectives, and
he was probably--so,
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we don't know, but.
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Jean: The book of Job,
even though it doesn't say
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specifically in the book, I
think there's enough tradition
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and suggestions that that
was probably written by Moses.
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Doug: Stylistically, you
look at the way Moses wrote
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and it's very similar.
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And he would've been
acquainted with that story
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being related to Jethro.
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Jean: Mm-hmm,
there's a connection there.
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So, it's helpful to
take into consideration.
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And another amazing thing about
that is you've got authors with
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totally different backgrounds.
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And God used fishermen,
and scholars, and all kinds
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of different people
in giving us the Bible.
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Doug: I'm so thankful.
00:48:05.98\00:48:07.48
When you look at the four
gospels of Jesus that God used
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Matthew, a tax collector.
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He used Mark, who's
really Peter, a fisherman.
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Mark wrote it for Peter.
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You've got Luke, who's a
Gentile, who's writing to an
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educated leader, Theophilus.
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And then John, who's that
beloved disciple, evidently
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related somehow to the
priesthood 'cause he knew the
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family in the priesthood.
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And so, those
perspectives really help us
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know Jesus better.
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Why don't you tell us
about the free offer again
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before we run off the air?
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male: We were going to
church every other week.
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About 19 years
old, things really start
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to make sense for me.
00:49:21.22\00:49:22.56
I started to go
to church for myself.
00:49:22.59\00:49:24.59
And the pastor
wanted to study with me.
00:49:24.63\00:49:28.00
We came to the
study about baptism.
00:49:28.03\00:49:30.97
And I kind of just
shrugged, put my head down,
00:49:31.00\00:49:33.27
and I said, "I'm not ready."
00:49:33.30\00:49:34.84
He looked me in the eye and
said, "Jason, you'll never make
00:49:34.87\00:49:39.47
yourself ready.
00:49:39.51\00:49:41.71
You know, this is
something you have to do."
00:49:41.74\00:49:44.61
I put a lot of things behind me,
the drinking and smoking, all
00:49:44.65\00:49:46.92
that stuff stopped.
00:49:46.95\00:49:48.32
All throughout the time when I'd
been learning about God, it was
00:49:48.35\00:49:51.32
just me and God.
00:49:51.35\00:49:53.52
Comes around up to about
August and I meet this girl.
00:49:53.56\00:49:58.39
About two years into the
relationship, we're talking
00:49:58.43\00:50:00.83
about marriage and everything.
00:50:00.86\00:50:02.20
We didn't pray, we didn't study
together, we were arguing a lot.
00:50:02.23\00:50:08.30
But we were engaged.
00:50:08.34\00:50:10.94
I started drinking again, and
that was a slow downward spiral
00:50:10.97\00:50:14.68
into different things,
and my devotional life started
00:50:14.71\00:50:16.48
really weaseling away.
00:50:16.51\00:50:18.81
We broke up in 2008.
00:50:18.85\00:50:20.58
It was heavy for me 'cause,
again, being with somebody for
00:50:20.62\00:50:23.55
that long, it's
almost like a divorce.
00:50:23.59\00:50:28.56
I started to fall
back away even more.
00:50:28.59\00:50:31.76
I remember looking in the
mirror, just looking at myself
00:50:31.79\00:50:33.83
and saying, "What are you doing?
00:50:33.86\00:50:36.13
How can you do this to God?
00:50:36.16\00:50:37.97
He's brought you so far."
00:50:38.00\00:50:41.34
And you know, God
really heard my cry.
00:50:41.37\00:50:46.81
There was a testimony telling at
my church, and there's a call,
00:50:46.84\00:50:51.15
and kids started getting
up, a bunch of high school kids
00:50:51.18\00:50:53.08
started getting up
for calls of baptism.
00:50:53.11\00:50:55.72
I'm back doing the PA system at
this time, and I feel just like
00:50:55.75\00:50:58.62
this urge, just my heart just
started ripping out of my chest.
00:50:58.65\00:51:02.66
And I just had this
feeling just to go up.
00:51:02.69\00:51:05.36
I get to the front and I
meet the pastor with open arms.
00:51:05.39\00:51:11.53
I realized that there's so much
more to life than just living
00:51:11.57\00:51:13.94
life for myself.
00:51:13.97\00:51:16.04
And you know, falling away, it's
not a necessity, but God can
00:51:16.07\00:51:21.28
work through anything in
the bad to make it the good,
00:51:21.31\00:51:25.18
that's a promise He makes.
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female: It wasn't my
choice to be a Catholic.
00:52:00.62\00:52:03.12
It was my parents' choice.
00:52:03.15\00:52:04.89
My mom, she's
very, very religious.
00:52:04.92\00:52:09.49
My father, he was made the
presidential trouble shooter
00:52:09.52\00:52:14.40
during the martial law.
00:52:14.46\00:52:17.67
I guess having seven kids would
not be able to make my mother to
00:52:17.70\00:52:22.50
be--you know, be there
for each and every one of us.
00:52:22.54\00:52:25.87
But what is really very hard for
me was I was always told to be
00:52:25.91\00:52:30.08
the ugliest, to be the darkest.
00:52:30.11\00:52:32.78
You know, here
in the Philippines,
00:52:32.81\00:52:34.65
you're
beautiful if you're white.
00:52:34.68\00:52:37.09
But if you're brown
or a little bit darker,
00:52:37.12\00:52:39.95
which I was, you're ugly.
00:52:39.99\00:52:43.93
All of us had about seven
maids, one for each child.
00:52:43.96\00:52:48.63
The maids would say, "My baby,"
or the one she's taking care of,
00:52:48.66\00:52:53.07
"is a lot better than
yours," referring to me.
00:52:53.10\00:52:57.37
I believed because I was
ugly, I believed I was stupid.
00:52:57.41\00:53:00.81
I believed I was good for
nothing, so I attracted all the
00:53:00.84\00:53:04.88
bad things in my life.
00:53:04.91\00:53:07.52
I had to believe that God
is fair, so I said maybe that's
00:53:07.55\00:53:12.69
because I was bad
in my previous lives.
00:53:12.72\00:53:17.46
So, I believe in, of
course, reincarnation.
00:53:17.49\00:53:21.33
And when I was
young, my mom told me
00:53:21.36\00:53:24.63
that I could really see ghosts.
00:53:24.67\00:53:27.10
I went into a lot of seance.
00:53:27.14\00:53:31.77
And there was even a time
when we did a ouija board.
00:53:31.81\00:53:35.31
And then in front of me
really--it really happened for
00:53:35.34\00:53:38.65
the four of us, the
glass, which is a wine glass,
00:53:38.68\00:53:43.05
it just--you
know, it just went up.
00:53:43.08\00:53:48.29
So, because this is
my life, I do believe
00:53:48.32\00:53:50.73
that I was
attracted to the wrong man.
00:53:50.76\00:53:53.90
There's anything that really
happened very good was to have
00:53:53.93\00:53:57.20
my two adorable children, but I
was really abused in all areas,
00:53:57.23\00:54:04.14
physically, emotionally,
of course spiritually.
00:54:04.17\00:54:09.01
And you will
think, "Where is God?"
00:54:09.04\00:54:17.45
I began to search, and
unfortunately my church doesn't
00:54:17.49\00:54:20.69
have a Bible study.
00:54:20.72\00:54:22.69
So, I was able to go to a
Baptist Bible study, and there I
00:54:22.72\00:54:27.13
had a classmate, her name is Lu.
00:54:27.13\00:54:30.90
She gave me the DVDs, and that
is where I learned about Pastor
00:54:30.93\00:54:36.07
Doug and "Amazing Facts."
00:54:36.10\00:54:40.68
That Baptist church saw my
eagerness, so when I started
00:54:40.71\00:54:45.78
asking for the Sabbath worship
on a Saturday, they took me out.
00:54:45.81\00:54:54.06
They even got a meeting and
they said that I was a stumbling
00:54:54.09\00:54:57.63
block, me and Lu,
and that is how we left.
00:54:57.66\00:55:02.70
Our friends are all from the
Baptist and we love them dearly,
00:55:02.73\00:55:07.17
but the truth
cannot be compromised.
00:55:07.20\00:55:13.38
So, that is when we
started having a Bible study,
00:55:13.41\00:55:18.21
every four
o'clock at Club Filipino,
00:55:18.25\00:55:21.08
and I invite all my friends.
00:55:21.12\00:55:25.32
It pains me to think
that I was really lost.
00:55:25.35\00:55:29.36
Why is it that I'd find
teaching through a foreigner,
00:55:29.39\00:55:34.86
from Pastor Doug?
00:55:34.93\00:55:37.00
What if nobody
gave me the message?
00:55:37.03\00:55:40.17
Because my growth happened
because of the DVDs that I watch
00:55:40.20\00:55:48.31
every night, every morning.
00:55:48.34\00:55:52.05
And even my friends,
who happened to have master
00:55:52.08\00:55:56.05
degree, they say, "Why
are you so much better?
00:55:56.08\00:55:59.79
Maybe your teachers are good."
00:55:59.82\00:56:02.52
Yes, my teachers are
from the "Amazing Facts."
00:56:02.56\00:56:06.26
I owe my salvation really to all
the teachings that I've learned
00:56:06.29\00:56:11.07
from your DVDs
and from your books.
00:56:11.10\00:56:14.70
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Doug: Friends, we're out here
in the Pacific Ocean, not too
00:56:31.25\00:56:33.25
far from the island of Fiji.
00:56:33.29\00:56:35.32
And we're getting ready to look
at some wonders in the deep.
00:56:35.36\00:56:39.63
The Bible says God made the
heaven, the earth, and the sea.
00:56:39.66\00:56:42.63
And there are things under the
sea that are beautiful that many
00:56:42.66\00:56:44.90
people have never seen.
00:56:44.93\00:56:46.53
Some folks might just skim
along, snorkel on the surface.
00:56:46.57\00:56:49.74
But if you want to see
the real majesty of the ocean,
00:56:49.77\00:56:52.04
you've got to go deeper.
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Doug: Because people don't
have gills like fish, we have to
00:57:07.82\00:57:10.49
do something extraordinary
to be able to breathe
00:57:10.53\00:57:12.99
below the surface.
00:57:13.03\00:57:14.46
And because you have to breathe
all the time, we need this
00:57:14.46\00:57:16.80
special equipment.
00:57:16.83\00:57:20.84
In the same way, the Bible
says a Christian needs to pray
00:57:20.87\00:57:23.27
without ceasing.
00:57:23.30\00:57:24.87
We need to always be breathing
the atmosphere of heaven if
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we're going to live a Christian
life in this world below.
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Doug: Wow, what
a wonderful world.
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