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J螁n Ross: Good morning,
everyone, and we'd like to
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welcome you once again to
"Sabbath School Study Hour,"
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coming to you from the Granite
Bay Seventh-day Adventist Church
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in Sacramento, California.
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Like to welcome our online
members and our friends who are
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joining us across the
country and around the world.
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We started a new
lesson series talking about
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the everlasting covenant.
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It's entitled "The Promise," and
today we're on lesson number 3
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that's entitled "All Future
Generations," so that is going
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to be our study for today.
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But before we get to the lesson
just a few announcements we want
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to let you know about.
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Today, we're doing our regular
Sabbath School lesson, but next
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Sabbath, in place of our regular
Sabbath School lesson--now, I
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know some of you are watching
this three weeks after the live
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recording, so that will actually
be April the--I believe the 3rd.
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We'll be having--April the
2nd, we'll be having a special
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program during our Sabbath
School time, and we're going to
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have a focus on the sanctuary, a
special sanctuary presentation,
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so you're welcome
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That will be the live broadcast
next Sabbath at 10 a.m., and
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we'll be recording the lesson
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evening, so just wanted to give
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But before we get to our lesson
today, we have a wonderful,
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special musical item that's
going to be brought to us by
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some young people.
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It's entitled "'Tis So
Sweet to Trust in Jesus."
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J螁n: Let's begin
with a word of prayer.
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Dear Father, how grateful we
are to be able to gather in Your
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house to worship You
today on this beautiful Sabbath.
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You've given us the blue skies,
the warming weather, and, Lord,
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we invite Your Holy
Spirit to come and be present.
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That the warmth of Your Spirit
would fill our hearts and guide
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our minds as we open up and
look at the great promise, this
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covenant, You have made
with mankind and what our
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responsibility
is as part of that.
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So, Father, we ask your
blessing upon our time together.
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Be with Pastor Doug
as he opens up the Word.
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And we ask this in Jesus's name.
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Amen.
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Our lesson this morning is going
to be brought to us by Pastor
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Doug Batchelor.
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Doug Batchelor: Good morning.
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We're continuing with our study
in the new quarterly dealing
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with the subject of the promise
of God's everlasting covenant.
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We're going to be looking at a
number of the covenants that God
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makes through His Word, and
today we're on lesson number 3,
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dealing with all future
generations that are impacted by
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these initial
covenants that you're going
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to find here in Genesis.
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And we have a memory
verse, and the memory verse is
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from Genesis 6, verse 8.
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If you have your Bibles, you
might want to go there and look
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with me.
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Genesis 6, verse 8, and it says,
together, "But Noah found grace
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in the eyes of the Lord."
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Sounds like a song, huh?
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Some of you have heard that
quartet song, "Noah found grace
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in the eyes of the Lord," so
we're going to be talking about
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the covenant that God made with
Noah and why that happened and
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what happened in the world
in those first generations.
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And I'd like to start by
encouraging you turn to the book
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of Genesis.
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Go to Genesis chapter 3, and
we're going to talk a little bit
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about why we need these
covenants to save, and it's
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because of section number 1 for
Monday, "The Sin Principle," or,
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actually, this is
in Sunday's lesson.
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The sin principle.
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And you read in Genesis 3, verse
6, "So when the woman saw that
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the tree was good for food,
and that it was pleasant to the
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eyes, and a tree desirable to
make one wise, she took of its
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fruit and ate.
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She also gave to her
husband with her, and he ate."
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Notice right away
something you notice about sin.
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Your decision to sin
never affects you alone.
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It always seems
to involve others.
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Sin always hurts God, sin
hurts you, and sin hurts others.
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It's basically the inverse
of the great commandment,
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"Love the Lord.
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Love your neighbor
as you love yourself."
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Sin hurts the Lord,
hurts your neighbor.
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It hurts yourself.
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People cannot sin and think,
"Well, this is just between me,
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myself, and I."
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Whenever you sin it engages
others, and no sooner had she
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sinned than she wanted to
commiserate with the experience
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with her husband.
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She gave it to him.
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And all of us are
witnesses one way or the other.
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We're either witnessing for
God or we're witnessing for the
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devil, but you are going to be
a witness one way or the other.
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So, you can see right away
through disobedience that God
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promised--He said that "in the
day that you eat thereof, you
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will surely die."
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Did Adam and Eve fall
over and drop dead the day they
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ate the forbidden fruit?
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No.
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Physically, you didn't see them
fall over and die, but in the
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original, when it says, "In
the day that you eat thereof you
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will die," it really says
"in dying, you will die," or we
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would say in English "you
will begin to experience death."
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And as soon as they
sinned, I think that they died
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spiritually, something happened.
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See, up until the point when
Adam and Eve sinned, God created
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man in His own image, right?
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If I was to define
God in three words,
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you could say God is love.
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So, if man was made in His
image, what was the motive in
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man's heart?
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Before sin, man
was full of love.
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After sin, the compass broke.
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And instead of the needle
pointing a way to others unto
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God, the needle now pointed to
self, and now the first thought
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that everyone thinks
is, "What's in it for me?"
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WIIFM.
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You've heard that
expression before, WIIFM.
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"What's in it for me?"
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And man began
to think selfishly.
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Adam loved Eve, and Eve loved
Adam, but after sin they start
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to blame each
other for everything.
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So, man began
to die spiritually.
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Something was damaged, for lack
of a better term, in our DNA,
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and then that selfish nature
was passed on to everybody else
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following Adam and Eve.
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And, you know,
that's why we're all born
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with these sinful tendencies.
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And another way, that it
says, "In the day that you eat
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thereof, you will surely die."
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You read in Psalms 90 and you
read in 2 Peter chapter 3 a day
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with the Lord is as what?
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Thousand years.
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How long did Adam live?
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Nine hundred and thirty years.
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How long did Eve live?
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Bible doesn't say.
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We don't know.
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We believe that she died
before Adam, but you look
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at the early patriarchs.
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Did any of them live
beyond a thousand years?
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Only Enoch, who went to heaven,
but in their mortal bodies none
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of them lived in that first
millennial day--"In the day you
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eat thereof you will
surely die," so that whole first
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generation, they all died before
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that first
thousand years went by.
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So, it was literally fulfilled,
and they literally began to
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experience death.
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Their light went out.
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They suddenly became painfully
aware of their nakedness.
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You go to Genesis 3, verse
10, and it says, "So he said, 'I
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heard Your voice in the garden,
and I was afraid because I was
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naked; and I hid myself.'"
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Now, were Adam and Eve streaking
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around the garden in the
beginning oblivious to their
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nudity, and then after they
eat the forbidden fruit suddenly
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they became more perceptive?
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Well, what
happened when Jesus was
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on the mountain talking to God?
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What happened to His clothing?
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Began to glow.
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When Moses was up on the
mountain talking with God, what
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happened to his face?
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It was shining so much
he had to veil his face.
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When man was in Holy Communion
with God, he had these robes of
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righteousness, He would glow.
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But when they sinned what
happened to their glowing robes?
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The light went out and all of
a sudden they became painfully
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aware of a cool breeze,
and they felt this need.
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They had this kind of natural
idea to cover themselves, and
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they felt shame.
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So, what else does sin do?
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We learned sin spreads.
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Sin causes shame.
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Go back to that sin spreads.
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You know, in the introduction to
your lesson it talks about how a
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bacterium--once a single
solitary bacterium is introduced
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into a favorable host, it
can multiply to the point where
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there's about 42
million in 24 hours.
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Going from 1 to 42
million in 24 hours.
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We've seen how a virus never --
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They're trying to back
study and figure out where
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the coronavirus
first originated.
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I'm not going to get into any of
the conspiracies and, yeah, you
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know, I'm not
trying to blame anybody.
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I'm just saying they know that
it originated somewhere, but,
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boy, look at how it spread.
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And the immunologists and
people who specialize in the
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transmission of disease,
they said, "We'll stop all the
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airplanes and everything."
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And they said,
"You can't stop it."
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They said, "It
is going to spread,
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and it is going to go global."
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And you watched in
those first few months.
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They said, "Well, it's gone
here, and it's gone there, and
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it's gone there,
and it's gone there."
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We thought, well, maybe
South America will be safe.
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Maybe Africa.
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Maybe India.
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And I think there's a couple
of islands in the Pacific that
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still don't have any
cases, but you basically have
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to live on an island.
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But it just choo.
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It spread.
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That's what sin does.
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Why can't we go and
visit other unfallen worlds?
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Because sin is contagious,
and this world is infected.
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And you might say that, you
know, we've got this disease
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that is contagious and God
has quarantined our planet.
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After we are cleansed from
sin, will we be able to soar
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to worlds unknown?
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Sure.
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Right now, we can't see God
and the angels face to face.
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That just the very glory of it
would destroy us, but after sin
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is dealt with
that will be resolved.
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So, sin spreads.
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We see sin causes shame.
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Now, you go to Genesis 3, verse
11, and I'll read verse 13.
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"And God said, 'Who
told you, you were naked?
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Have you--'" now, did God
ever ask a question because He
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doesn't know?
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Does God know all things?
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Yeah.
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So, when God said to
Adam, "Where are you?"
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was that for God because God
really was wanting Adam to say,
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you know, "Olly,
olly, all come free.
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Here I am"?
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Or does God know everything?
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So, when He said,
"What have you done?"
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did God know?
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He's running out
of it to think about,
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"Where am I now
that I've sinned?
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Where has it brought me?"
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Sometimes, you need to evaluate,
"What has this done to me?"
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And why did you do it?
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What did you do?
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Why did you do it?
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So, God is
asking these questions.
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Jesus asked questions.
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He asked the
disciples, "What were you
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arguing about on the road?"
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Did He know what
they were arguing about?
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He asked blind Bartimaeus, "What
do you want Me to do for you?"
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He knew what he wanted
Him to do, but He said,
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"I want you to ask."
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Does God know what things you
have need of before you pray?
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So, why pray?
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He wants you to ask.
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"Who told you, you were naked?
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Have you eaten the
tree that I commanded you,
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you should not eat?"
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And the man says, "The
woman who You gave me--"
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"I was having a beautiful nap.
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I woke up and all of a
sudden I'm married, God.
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It's all Your fault.
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You didn't ask.
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You opened up my side and You
took out a wife, and now look at
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all the trouble she's caused.
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Well, it's her
fault, and it's Your fault."
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Notice how blame comes into it.
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You got shame,
and you got blame.
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"'The woman that You gave me to
be with me, she gave me of the
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tree, and I ate.'
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And the Lord God said
to the woman, 'What is
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this you have done?'"
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Again, another
rhetorical question.
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He knows.
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"The woman said,
'Lord, who made the serpent?
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Whoever made the serpent, it's
the serpent that beguiled me."
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So, what's she doing?
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Adam blames God,
and he blames the woman.
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The woman blames God
and blames the serpent.
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And then, God turns to the
serpent and suddenly he doesn't
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have a leg to stand on.
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That's a joke.
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I can't resist. I'm sorry.
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Serpent then gets
cursed, says--and he, of course,
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serpent, you know, he just
was possessed by the devil.
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So then, you see
sin causes blame.
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Genesis 4, verse 5, and
it says--and this is now the
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conflict between Cain and Abel.
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You see it also goes off
into their family and their
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posterity, and said, "He did not
respect Cain and his offering.
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And Cain was angry,
and his countenance fell."
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His pride was offended, and
he became angry at his brother.
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Now, the story that you see here
at the beginning with Cain and
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Abel plays itself
out to the end of time.
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You've got two brothers, one
who is truly surrendered to God,
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and one who is not.
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One who wants to do it his
own way, one who wants to do it
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God's way.
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The one who is worshiping the
way God prescribes is persecuted
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by the one who's
manufacturing his own worship.
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And when God
shows approval to Abel,
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Cain wants to kill his brother.
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You get to the end of time,
and you have the same situation.
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There's two groups.
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They both claim to worship God.
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One worships the true way,
one worships the false way.
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The beast power is
compelling everyone
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to worship the way he says.
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If you don't, you'll be killed.
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And they both claim
to worship the same God.
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That's what a lot of
people don't understand.
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They think in the last days the
beast power is going to be some
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green-horned monster,
and everyone's going to be
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encouraged to worship the devil.
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They'll think
they are serving God.
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Jesus said in John 16, "Those
who kill you will think they're
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offering God service," just like
Paul thought that he was serving
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God when he was
killing Christians.
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And so, because of his anger and
his pride he--his brother tried
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to reason with him, and he rose
up, and he slew his brother.
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He became filled with the devil.
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And, by the way, when you lose
your temper, that's typically
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what's behind it, is
you've surrendered to demons
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that control your behavior.
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"The serpent
deceived me, and I ate."
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Then, Cain says he
was--his countenance fell.
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And you go to Genesis 4:19.
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Then, of course,
Cain takes his sister.
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Says he took his wife.
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No doubt took one of his
sisters, and I know everyone
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thinks that's really odd, but
keep in mind that Adam and Eve
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were technically
sister and brother.
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I mean, God made them both, and
before there were any defects in
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the genetics there
was nothing wrong with
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a person marrying
his direct sister.
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I'm sure that's what Seth did
and all the other patriarchs,
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and then they
started marrying cousins.
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Yeah, first cousins.
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Jacob married a first cousin.
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Isn't that right?
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Isaac married a
first cousin, and so it was
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not considered a sin.
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It wasn't until the time of
Moses that He--you know, God
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instructed him this
could cause genetic problems.
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"Do not marry close
to the family tree."
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And I think there are even some
states in North America where
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you are allowed
to marry your cousin.
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There are different laws, have
different states about this.
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But so, he took his wife, and he
went off, and he began to build
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in a city and populated it.
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And then, you read in Genesis
4:19 one of the descendants of
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Cain, Lamech, he took
for himself two wives.
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The name of one was Adah, the
name of the second was Zillah,
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and so now you have bigamy,
technically, and that it ends up
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going on into
polygamy, many wives.
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And then, you have
ignomy that comes after that.
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All this, and it says
you know what happened?
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It says then Lamech killed a
man, but maybe because there was
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a fight over a woman.
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And so, you now see that
there is the violence, polygamy,
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selfishness, Genesis 6,
and this is where you really
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see the tables turning.
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Genesis 6, chapter 1.
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I'm sorry.
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Genesis 6, verse 1, "And it
came to pass, when men began to
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multiply on the face of the
earth, and daughters were born
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to them, that the sons of God
saw the daughters of men, that
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they were fair; and they took
them wives of all they chose."
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Now, you know, some of you
probably have a Bible right
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here, some of you
sitting here today.
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And depending on what your
translation is, some of those
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Bibles, if you've got, like, a
Good News Bible or something, it
00:21:05.96\00:21:09.40
will say that these
fallen angels married
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the daughters of men.
00:21:12.40\00:21:14.77
And it makes it seem like
angels, demons intermarried with
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humans and were
able to procreate.
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That is totally
ludicrous and unbiblical.
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Angels do not
marry even other angels.
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Angels are not wired that way.
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The Bible says they
are ministering spirits.
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They are not flesh and blood.
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They do not procreate.
00:21:34.39\00:21:36.46
Angels do not have babies.
00:21:36.49\00:21:38.03
They do not nurse babies.
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Jesus said they neither marry
nor are they given in marriage.
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Angels are not born.
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They are created.
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Every one of them is an
original, and so this whole
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idea--and I've just have
heard pastors preach about it.
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One reason that God destroyed
the world is because you had
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these half-human half-demons
running around the world.
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No, no, no.
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It's not what
it's talking about.
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You've got two groups.
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After Cain killed Abel, God
gave Adam and Eve another son.
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His name was Seth, and he was
born in the image of his father,
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and he loved the Lord,
and he worshiped the Lord.
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And he and his posterity,
they were the godly line.
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They were
called the sons of God.
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You can read in 1 John chapter
1, verse 3, "Behold what manner
00:22:20.84\00:22:25.44
of love the Father has
bestowed on us, that we should
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be called sons of God!"
00:22:28.34\00:22:30.31
We are adopted
into the family of God.
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"As many as received Him,
to them He gave power to become
00:22:33.25\00:22:35.92
sons of God," and so
the Bible is really clear.
00:22:35.95\00:22:38.72
And even in the Old Testament
Isaiah says we will be sons and
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daughters of God.
00:22:41.42\00:22:43.09
Seth and his
posterity were the sons of God.
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Now, I need to
say this in fairness.
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There are a couple of places
that it talks about the sons of
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God shouted for joy, and it's
talking about unfallen angels
00:22:49.30\00:22:52.07
when the world was created.
00:22:52.10\00:22:54.20
But here in Genesis it's talking
about the--in the classical
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sense, it's talking about the
believers, and it says they saw
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the daughters of men.
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See, Cain and his family
didn't have eternal life.
00:23:02.94\00:23:06.45
The word there is--I think it's
"enos," and it means mortal man.
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They're dying, and they were
supposed to maintain separation.
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You know, the Bible says,
00:23:15.36\00:23:16.66
"Do not be
unequally yoked together."
00:23:16.69\00:23:18.59
And when the sons of Gods
said--you know, they had to
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every now and then go to
the valley, and they would get
00:23:21.00\00:23:22.60
involved in trade
with the children of Cain.
00:23:22.63\00:23:25.33
And this may be hundreds of
years after creation, you know?
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People multiplied very quickly.
00:23:29.27\00:23:30.67
They lived a long time.
00:23:30.71\00:23:32.01
Adam and Eve were probably
bearing children for nearly 200
00:23:32.04\00:23:34.44
years, or longer.
00:23:34.48\00:23:36.41
We don't know.
00:23:36.44\00:23:37.95
And so, they had
enormous families.
00:23:37.98\00:23:41.15
I heard there's one Orthodox
family, Jewish family, in
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Israel, and there's one--the
father is dead now, but the one
00:23:47.32\00:23:50.83
grandmother has
900 living descendants.
00:23:50.86\00:23:56.50
They all had, like, big,
big families, because in their
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faith, you know, they believe
be fruitful and multiply.
00:24:00.80\00:24:03.17
And they did.
00:24:03.20\00:24:04.51
They got married very young.
00:24:04.54\00:24:05.87
Can you imagine that?
00:24:05.91\00:24:07.14
And that's in our time, so can
you imagine how quickly humans
00:24:07.18\00:24:11.38
populated in the
days of Adam and Eve?
00:24:11.41\00:24:17.12
And so, the sons of God,
the children of Seth saw the
00:24:17.15\00:24:20.32
daughters of Cain, that they
were fair, and they said, "Oh,
00:24:20.36\00:24:25.36
well, let's get married," kind
of like Samson said, "I'd like a
00:24:25.39\00:24:28.30
Philistine wife."
00:24:28.33\00:24:29.63
And his parents said, "No, no.
00:24:29.66\00:24:31.77
You need to marry a Jewish girl,
you know, even if she's from
00:24:31.80\00:24:35.37
another tribe."
00:24:35.40\00:24:37.57
And Samson said, "Oh,
but she pleases me well.
00:24:37.61\00:24:40.11
Get her for me," and
they gave into the complaining
00:24:40.14\00:24:43.18
of their son.
00:24:43.21\00:24:44.81
And he married a Philistine,
and it ended badly, didn't it?
00:24:44.85\00:24:48.65
Do you know when you read in the
Bible one of the most glorious
00:24:48.68\00:24:51.42
time was the time of Solomon,
when the Queen of Sheba came?
00:24:51.45\00:24:54.79
And everything was gold,
and God's people were godly.
00:24:54.82\00:24:57.03
They built the temple and--but
then it says Solomon loved many
00:24:57.06\00:25:01.63
foreign women and
made marriages with them.
00:25:01.66\00:25:05.03
And spiritually,
right after that statement,
00:25:05.07\00:25:07.17
the kingdom goes down.
00:25:07.20\00:25:09.44
When we begin to compromise our
faith with the world, it ends up
00:25:09.47\00:25:15.24
spreading that disease of sin.
00:25:15.28\00:25:17.15
And after that happened you can
read where God says in verse 3,
00:25:17.18\00:25:21.85
"My Spirit will not always
strive with man, for he is
00:25:21.88\00:25:24.92
indeed flesh; yet his
days will be one hundred
00:25:24.95\00:25:27.69
and twenty years."
00:25:27.72\00:25:29.02
That's why it says
that God then goes to Noah.
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Noah builds the ark 120 years.
00:25:31.66\00:25:33.96
He preaches 120 years.
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That's where that
time period comes.
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By the way, don't ever forget
God says, "My Spirit will not
00:25:37.27\00:25:40.10
always strive with man."
00:25:40.14\00:25:42.04
Every person in their life,
there's a period of time God's
00:25:42.07\00:25:44.97
Spirit will strive with you.
00:25:45.01\00:25:47.08
He wants to save you.
00:25:47.11\00:25:48.74
If we continue to put off and
resist the Spirit of God, the
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volume goes down.
00:25:52.41\00:25:54.25
It's very dangerous.
00:25:54.28\00:25:55.58
You can get to the point where
you grieve away the Holy Spirit.
00:25:55.62\00:25:58.32
And God is extremely patient
and compassionate, but you don't
00:25:58.35\00:26:01.79
ever want to
temper with His mercy.
00:26:01.82\00:26:04.53
Don't ever presume on His mercy.
00:26:04.56\00:26:06.43
His Spirit will
not always strive.
00:26:06.46\00:26:09.26
Sometimes, He will
give us up to our choices.
00:26:09.30\00:26:13.54
And then, it goes on to say--oh,
by the way, some of you are
00:26:13.57\00:26:15.97
going to ask in verse 4, "If
the children of Seth married the
00:26:16.00\00:26:19.94
children of Cain and they were
just humans, then why does it
00:26:19.97\00:26:22.91
say in verse 4 there were giants
on the earth in those days?
00:26:22.94\00:26:26.45
And also afterward, when
the sons of God came in to the
00:26:26.48\00:26:29.12
daughters of men,
they bore children to them.
00:26:29.15\00:26:31.52
They were mighty men who
were of old, men of renown."
00:26:31.55\00:26:34.12
They say, "Well, if they're
just human, why are they giants?
00:26:34.16\00:26:36.62
Why are they men of renown?"
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That is a very simple principle
called genetic vitality.
00:26:38.73\00:26:42.00
Do you know if you
cross a lion with a tiger,
00:26:42.03\00:26:44.67
you know what you get?
00:26:44.70\00:26:46.27
A liger.
00:26:46.30\00:26:47.97
Do you know that it will be
bigger than a lion or a tiger?
00:26:48.00\00:26:52.01
It's called genetic vitality.
00:26:52.04\00:26:53.84
If you cross a
zebra and a donkey,
00:26:53.88\00:26:56.08
do you know what you get?
00:26:56.11\00:26:58.08
A zonkey.
00:26:58.11\00:27:00.52
It's true, and it will
be bigger than a donkey.
00:27:00.55\00:27:05.12
If you cross--and you know you
can cross a donkey and a horse,
00:27:05.15\00:27:08.09
and you get a mule.
00:27:08.12\00:27:10.46
And you can cross a dolphin and
a whale, and you get a wholphin.
00:27:10.49\00:27:15.70
They've done it.
00:27:15.73\00:27:17.03
This is true, and there are
certain people--that in America
00:27:17.07\00:27:20.40
you've got a lot of examples of
what they call genetic vitality,
00:27:20.44\00:27:23.30
because people that have, kind
of, married within particular
00:27:23.34\00:27:25.21
races and then come to America,
and there's more commingling
00:27:25.24\00:27:28.11
here from
different parts of the world.
00:27:28.14\00:27:30.18
And people end
up getting taller.
00:27:30.21\00:27:32.58
I remember my father saying--you
know, my father was my height,
00:27:32.61\00:27:35.68
and he said, "When I was a
man," said, "and I was in the
00:27:35.72\00:27:37.95
Service," he says,
"I was considered tall."
00:27:37.99\00:27:40.92
He said, "Then all these
kids came along eating nuclear
00:27:40.96\00:27:43.19
cereal, and I don't
know what happened."
00:27:43.22\00:27:44.79
He said, "They all got bigger."
00:27:44.83\00:27:50.20
Three out of our
four boys taller than me.
00:27:50.23\00:27:53.27
One's the same size, and
so just genetic vitality.
00:27:53.30\00:27:56.14
That's all that's saying.
00:27:56.17\00:27:57.47
They weren't aliens.
00:27:57.51\00:27:59.77
They weren't half-demon.
00:27:59.81\00:28:02.68
Anyway, and so it says then,
"Afterward, after the sons of
00:28:02.71\00:28:08.18
God came in to the daughters
of men," verse 5, "the Lord saw
00:28:08.22\00:28:11.82
that wickedness of man
was great in the earth."
00:28:11.85\00:28:14.12
You know what happens
after the intermarriage?
00:28:14.16\00:28:16.16
They lose their distinctness.
00:28:16.19\00:28:19.16
Now, the balance for a Christian
is you want to be holy--the
00:28:19.19\00:28:22.36
Bible says come
out and be separate.
00:28:22.40\00:28:24.07
He wants us to maintain
our holiness, but don't be so
00:28:24.10\00:28:26.43
separate you can't be a witness.
00:28:26.47\00:28:28.57
We must be in the
world as witnesses without
00:28:28.60\00:28:31.57
the world being in us.
00:28:31.61\00:28:32.91
And if you're parents, boy, it's
really delicate to know how to
00:28:32.94\00:28:36.01
raise your children in
an environment where they're
00:28:36.04\00:28:39.35
shielded from a lot of the evil
in the world, but you also need
00:28:39.38\00:28:41.98
to prepare them spiritually
because they're going to get hit
00:28:42.02\00:28:44.99
with it someday.
00:28:45.02\00:28:46.45
They'll be out in it, and you
need to know how to help them
00:28:46.49\00:28:49.12
fortify their own faith.
00:28:49.16\00:28:50.66
But there's a lot of ways you
should try to insulate them and
00:28:50.69\00:28:54.10
maintain that holiness and beat
it into your kids--I don't mean
00:28:54.13\00:28:57.70
that
literally--when they're young.
00:28:57.73\00:29:01.50
"You're going to marry a
Christian, and you're going to
00:29:01.54\00:29:04.31
go to Christian school."
00:29:04.34\00:29:05.81
You want to prepare them to
know that "you know, this is
00:29:05.84\00:29:09.48
something--this is God's plan."
00:29:09.51\00:29:11.61
If they start thinking, "Oh, you
know, I'll marry them, and I'll
00:29:11.65\00:29:14.05
convert them later," that's
where all the trouble comes in.
00:29:14.08\00:29:17.89
All right, so they
began to compromise, so sin
00:29:17.92\00:29:19.89
brings in--sin spreads.
00:29:19.92\00:29:22.46
It brings shame.
00:29:22.49\00:29:23.79
It brings blame, pride,
anger, polygamy, compromise, and
00:29:23.83\00:29:27.96
ultimately corruption.
00:29:27.96\00:29:29.46
God says man is violent,
corruption filled the world, and
00:29:29.50\00:29:33.30
now He must destroy it.
00:29:33.34\00:29:35.17
All right, we'll get on
to the next section here.
00:29:35.20\00:29:37.34
Says "the man Noah," but Genesis
chapter 6, verse 8, "Noah found
00:29:37.37\00:29:44.85
grace in the eyes of the Lord."
00:29:44.88\00:29:47.42
Here, it introduces this hero.
00:29:47.45\00:29:49.95
"This is the genealogy of Noah.
00:29:49.98\00:29:52.09
Noah was a just man,
perfect in his generations.
00:29:52.12\00:29:55.89
Noah walked with God.
00:29:55.92\00:29:58.09
And Noah begot three
sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth."
00:29:58.13\00:30:01.30
Now, it never really tells us
what years those sons were born,
00:30:01.33\00:30:05.67
but I don't think
they were triplets.
00:30:05.70\00:30:08.57
And Shem was
probably the oldest.
00:30:08.60\00:30:10.61
Now, here's a question for you.
00:30:10.64\00:30:13.71
Did Noah--notice it
says he was blameless.
00:30:13.74\00:30:17.81
He walked with God.
00:30:17.85\00:30:19.15
He was righteous.
00:30:19.18\00:30:21.02
Was Noah righteous, blameless,
and walking with God because he
00:30:21.05\00:30:23.75
found grace, or did Noah find
grace because he was blameless,
00:30:23.79\00:30:28.29
righteous, and walking with God?
00:30:28.32\00:30:33.80
It's a very--that's--this
is a deep theological question.
00:30:33.83\00:30:37.53
It tells us that Noah was a just
man, perfect in his generations,
00:30:37.57\00:30:40.50
walked with God.
00:30:40.54\00:30:41.84
He found grace in the Lord.
00:30:41.87\00:30:44.24
Did he find grace because
God said, "Here's somebody that
00:30:44.27\00:30:47.14
trusts me," or did God suddenly
give this person grace to be all
00:30:47.18\00:30:51.25
those good things and
then that's why he did it?
00:30:51.28\00:30:55.65
I'll suggest to you that God's
Spirit moved on Noah's heart
00:30:55.68\00:31:01.02
like everybody.
00:31:01.06\00:31:02.36
Didn't we just read, "My
Spirit will strive with man"?
00:31:02.39\00:31:04.96
Noah responded to the
striving of God's Spirit.
00:31:04.99\00:31:08.46
He chose to walk with God.
00:31:08.50\00:31:10.30
He chose to commune with God.
00:31:10.33\00:31:11.80
He chose to do what was just and
walk meekly and humbly with his
00:31:11.83\00:31:15.57
God, and so God said, "Here's
someone who is responding to me.
00:31:15.60\00:31:19.71
I'm going to extend further
grace to him, that through him
00:31:19.74\00:31:23.51
the whole world will
be saved and repopulated."
00:31:23.55\00:31:27.02
And so, it's, sort of, a mix.
00:31:27.05\00:31:28.68
It's like what comes
first, the chicken or the egg?
00:31:28.72\00:31:30.55
I think Noah responded to the
goodness of God and the Spirit
00:31:30.59\00:31:33.25
of God, and because he responded
he found grace above the others
00:31:33.29\00:31:36.83
around him.
00:31:36.86\00:31:38.16
He was willing to obey.
00:31:38.19\00:31:39.49
God needed someone who was
willing to obey to fulfill these
00:31:39.53\00:31:41.93
very important requirements of
building a boat on dry land in a
00:31:41.96\00:31:45.90
wicked, violent world.
00:31:45.93\00:31:48.27
He was going to be persecuted
for that, and to do it for 120
00:31:48.30\00:31:50.61
years he needed someone
that was going to trust Him.
00:31:50.64\00:31:55.11
2 Peter 2, verse 5 says, "God
did not spare the ancient world,
00:31:55.14\00:31:59.68
but he saved Noah,
one of eight people,
00:31:59.71\00:32:03.08
a preacher of righteousness."
00:32:03.12\00:32:06.39
Now, when we think of Noah,
we think of him as a carpenter.
00:32:06.42\00:32:08.86
By the way, Noah
is a type of Christ.
00:32:08.89\00:32:10.69
Was Christ a carpenter?
00:32:10.73\00:32:13.96
But it says Noah was also a
preacher, so Noah was preaching.
00:32:14.00\00:32:18.67
He was telling the world
to turn from their wickedness.
00:32:18.70\00:32:20.80
God was going to
destroy the world.
00:32:20.84\00:32:22.24
He said, "I'm building a boat,
and all that want to get on
00:32:22.27\00:32:24.34
board, there'll be room.
00:32:24.37\00:32:25.77
Everybody can get on board."
00:32:25.81\00:32:27.21
Noah not only
preached with his mouth,
00:32:27.24\00:32:29.11
he preached with his hammer.
00:32:29.14\00:32:32.65
You know, there's a lot of
preachers that preach with their
00:32:32.68\00:32:34.92
mouth but they don't preach with
their life, and you want your
00:32:34.95\00:32:39.92
life to match
what you're preaching.
00:32:39.95\00:32:44.16
You know, it's like
some of the televangelists.
00:32:44.19\00:32:45.86
They're asking everybody to make
tremendous sacrifices for their
00:32:45.89\00:32:49.96
ministry, and they're driving
Bentleys, and you wonder, "How
00:32:50.00\00:32:54.57
are they preaching with their
life the same they're preaching
00:32:54.60\00:32:56.57
with their mouth,"
you know what I'm saying?
00:32:56.60\00:33:00.84
And so, Noah was preaching
with his hammer, and he took the
00:33:00.88\00:33:03.41
persecution, and he was
consistently building this boat.
00:33:03.45\00:33:06.11
And I think a lot of people
believed Noah, but when they
00:33:06.15\00:33:09.62
finally came time to get
on board, they gave in to the
00:33:09.65\00:33:11.99
mocking of the
crowd, because there
00:33:12.02\00:33:13.69
was not a cloud in the sky.
00:33:13.72\00:33:15.66
They waited until
they had physical evidence.
00:33:15.69\00:33:17.83
And you had to get on
board by faith, in the Word.
00:33:17.86\00:33:20.96
They waited until they said, "I
want to see signs and wonders.
00:33:20.96\00:33:23.47
I want to see some rain."
00:33:23.50\00:33:25.80
They did have one sign: all
the animals came to the ark.
00:33:25.83\00:33:28.24
That should have been a
clue, but there's no rain yet.
00:33:28.27\00:33:31.84
They said, "It's never rained."
00:33:31.87\00:33:34.08
Some people are going to wait
until they see Christ coming in
00:33:34.11\00:33:36.31
the clouds before they repent.
00:33:36.34\00:33:37.65
It's too late then.
00:33:37.68\00:33:39.61
Matthew chapter 24.
00:33:39.65\00:33:41.72
Some other lessons
Jesus gives us about Noah.
00:33:41.75\00:33:44.29
Verse 37, "But as the days
of Noah were, so also will the
00:33:44.32\00:33:48.79
coming of the Son of Man be.
00:33:48.82\00:33:50.59
For as in the days before
the flood, they were eating and
00:33:50.63\00:33:53.43
drinking, marrying and giving
in marriage, until the day that
00:33:53.46\00:33:56.83
Noah entered the ark, and they
did not know until the flood
00:33:56.87\00:33:59.70
came and took them all away."
00:33:59.73\00:34:01.40
Now, is there anything--so will
the coming of the Son of Man be.
00:34:01.44\00:34:05.47
Is there anything wrong with
planting and building and eating
00:34:05.51\00:34:08.74
and drinking and marrying?
00:34:08.78\00:34:10.11
Is it okay to plant and
build and eat and drink?
00:34:10.15\00:34:13.72
They were
preoccupied with these things.
00:34:13.75\00:34:16.89
They were preoccupied.
00:34:16.92\00:34:18.22
Jesus said, "Do not be
overwhelmed with the cares of
00:34:18.25\00:34:20.62
this life so that the
day comes upon you unaware."
00:34:20.66\00:34:23.36
Something else about that.
00:34:23.39\00:34:25.33
Do you plant if you
think you have no future?
00:34:25.36\00:34:29.96
What good is planting if
you have no--do you marry if you
00:34:30.00\00:34:32.57
think you have no future?
00:34:32.60\00:34:34.14
Isn't married--marriage
predicated on the idea you're
00:34:34.17\00:34:36.71
going to have time together
with the person you're marrying?
00:34:36.74\00:34:38.41
What about building?
00:34:38.44\00:34:39.74
Do you build if you don't think
you're going to have time to
00:34:39.77\00:34:41.18
live in what you're building?
00:34:41.21\00:34:43.24
So, everything they were doing
back then, it's basically they
00:34:43.28\00:34:45.95
were saying, "Oh,
we got plenty of time.
00:34:45.98\00:34:47.95
Noah, you just
keep on preaching."
00:34:47.98\00:34:50.65
And they really didn't never
make any realistic preparation.
00:34:50.69\00:34:54.89
Jesus said, "As it was in the
days of Noah--" And, you know, I
00:34:54.92\00:34:57.69
might add He not only said
as it was in the days of Noah.
00:34:57.73\00:35:01.43
He said as it was
in the days of Lot.
00:35:01.46\00:35:04.73
You know what?
00:35:04.77\00:35:06.07
The days of Lot
have arrived, friends,
00:35:06.10\00:35:07.40
if you didn't know it, amen?
00:35:07.44\00:35:10.81
I know you can't say that or
you're going to get canceled,
00:35:10.84\00:35:15.14
but you know it's true.
00:35:15.18\00:35:16.88
And I've got to
preach the truth.
00:35:16.91\00:35:18.98
That's right.
00:35:19.01\00:35:20.75
I was flying back from
somewhere couple weeks ago.
00:35:20.78\00:35:23.02
Oh, it's Mexico.
00:35:23.05\00:35:24.75
And I read an email somebody
sent me where now it's not just
00:35:24.79\00:35:30.73
men marrying men and women
marrying women, but now they've
00:35:30.76\00:35:34.00
got three people getting
married and adopting children.
00:35:34.03\00:35:40.00
I just said, "We
knew this was coming."
00:35:40.04\00:35:43.00
And, you know, the
thoughts of men's hearts
00:35:43.04\00:35:45.67
are only evil continually.
00:35:45.71\00:35:49.04
And who would have
thought, 40 years ago,
00:35:49.08\00:35:51.75
this could happen so quickly?
00:35:51.78\00:35:53.85
That a 5,000-year-old
institution of marriage would
00:35:53.88\00:35:57.65
just vaporize, and churches,
some churches, would support it.
00:35:57.69\00:36:04.09
That's the shocking thing.
00:36:04.13\00:36:05.79
We are living in the days
of Noah and the days of Lot.
00:36:05.83\00:36:08.33
Can you say amen?
00:36:08.36\00:36:09.96
So, because wickedness
filled the earth, God was going
00:36:10.00\00:36:12.77
to save the world.
00:36:12.80\00:36:14.10
He's going to destroy the world.
00:36:14.14\00:36:15.44
He destroyed it
by water back then.
00:36:15.47\00:36:17.21
Peter tells us when He comes the
next time He's going to destroy
00:36:17.24\00:36:20.04
it by fire, but Noah found
grace in the eyes of the Lord.
00:36:20.08\00:36:24.25
Now we're looking at
the covenant with Noah.
00:36:24.28\00:36:25.81
Look at verse 16.
00:36:25.85\00:36:27.38
I'm sorry,
verse 17 of Genesis 6.
00:36:27.42\00:36:30.22
"And behold, I Myself am
bringing floodwaters on the
00:36:30.25\00:36:33.52
earth, to destroy from under
heaven all flesh that is on the
00:36:33.56\00:36:37.16
breath--that has
the breath of life;
00:36:37.19\00:36:38.83
everything that is
on the earth will die.
00:36:38.86\00:36:41.66
But I will establish My covenant
with you; and you will go into
00:36:41.70\00:36:46.77
the ark--you and
your sons and your wife
00:36:46.80\00:36:49.47
and your sons' wives with you."
00:36:49.50\00:36:52.24
It's pretty clear about
God's arrangement about sons
00:36:52.27\00:36:54.48
and wives back then, right?
00:36:54.51\00:36:57.08
This was a covenant
that was made based on grace,
00:36:57.11\00:37:01.75
but it was
established by action.
00:37:01.78\00:37:04.19
So, when God makes this covenant
with Noah, and Noah says,
00:37:04.22\00:37:06.55
"Praise the Lord. I'm saved.
00:37:06.59\00:37:08.39
God's going to save me.
He's going to save my son.
00:37:08.42\00:37:10.29
He's going to save their wives,
and I guess everything's okay
00:37:10.33\00:37:11.99
and I don't have to worry."
00:37:12.03\00:37:13.63
Is that the attitude Noah had?
00:37:13.66\00:37:15.00
Or Noah said, "Lord, I believe
Your Word," and then he started
00:37:15.03\00:37:18.10
building a boat?
00:37:18.13\00:37:20.17
So, Noah was saved by grace, but
he showed that he was saved by
00:37:20.20\00:37:24.27
grace by getting out
his hammer and his saw.
00:37:24.31\00:37:27.84
See what I'm saying?
00:37:27.88\00:37:29.58
And so, when David
killed Goliath, he said, "I come
00:37:29.61\00:37:32.98
against you in
the name of the Lord."
00:37:33.01\00:37:34.32
He was trusting in God,
but he also had a sling.
00:37:34.35\00:37:37.69
So, some people just
believe the grace part.
00:37:37.72\00:37:39.65
They don't believe the
practical aspects of grace.
00:37:39.69\00:37:43.56
If you really believed--it's
like James says, "You can show
00:37:43.59\00:37:46.86
me your faith without your
works, and I will show you my
00:37:46.90\00:37:49.70
faith by my works."
00:37:49.73\00:37:51.27
This is exactly what Noah did,
and it mentions this in Hebrews,
00:37:51.30\00:37:55.34
as well, Hebrews 11.
00:37:55.37\00:37:58.24
So, God's grace kept
Noah from the wrath of man.
00:37:58.27\00:38:03.14
He preserved him that 120 years.
00:38:03.18\00:38:04.88
The world was full of violence
and, let's admit it, Noah was
00:38:04.91\00:38:09.18
doing something
very odd and different
00:38:09.22\00:38:10.75
from the rest of the world.
00:38:10.79\00:38:12.09
He was going against
the tide of wickedness.
00:38:12.12\00:38:15.02
God protected Noah from
the wrath of beast and from the
00:38:15.06\00:38:19.33
storm, and so these
are some ways we see
00:38:19.36\00:38:22.60
God showed him grace.
00:38:22.63\00:38:25.33
Now, are we saved based
on a covenant with Jews?
00:38:25.37\00:38:30.44
Was Noah saved
because he was Jewish?
00:38:30.47\00:38:33.54
I'll just check here real quick.
00:38:33.58\00:38:35.01
How many of you have
had your ancestry DNA done?
00:38:35.04\00:38:38.65
I have. My kids did it for me.
00:38:38.68\00:38:40.42
Okay, we see some.
00:38:40.45\00:38:41.75
How many of you
were related to Noah?
00:38:41.78\00:38:43.08
Did it show?
00:38:43.12\00:38:46.49
It didn't show up?
00:38:46.52\00:38:47.82
It really ought to, because,
you know, all of us are here
00:38:47.86\00:38:51.69
because of Noah.
00:38:51.73\00:38:53.03
The whole world was saved.
00:38:53.06\00:38:54.50
Anyone alive in the world today
is because of the grace and the
00:38:54.56\00:38:57.33
covenant of Noah, all flesh,
00:38:57.37\00:39:00.40
because of the
faith of that man.
00:39:00.44\00:39:02.57
All right, the
sign of the rainbow.
00:39:02.60\00:39:05.81
Boy, I see--I thought--my
time went so quickly.
00:39:05.84\00:39:09.31
Let's talk about this.
00:39:09.34\00:39:11.05
Genesis 9:12.
00:39:11.08\00:39:13.11
After the flood, of course,
he preserved them from that
00:39:13.15\00:39:15.78
terrible deluge, the flood.
00:39:15.82\00:39:19.69
By the way, you know, I
think it's interesting all the
00:39:19.72\00:39:23.43
paleontologists, they look
at the fossil record around the
00:39:23.46\00:39:27.23
world, and they say, "All
of these bones we see are the
00:39:27.23\00:39:31.53
result of a cataclysmic
flood on almost a global scale
00:39:31.57\00:39:38.84
caused by an asteroid."
00:39:38.87\00:39:42.34
They can tell from the evidence
in the fossils there was a
00:39:42.38\00:39:45.18
cataclysmic flood that altered
the surface of the earth, and
00:39:45.21\00:39:49.12
all these things died very
suddenly, but they can't accept
00:39:49.15\00:39:53.15
that it was God-caused.
00:39:53.19\00:39:54.82
They say it was
from an asteroid,
00:39:54.86\00:39:56.39
and they're only speculating.
00:39:56.42\00:39:57.76
They think, well, maybe it
landed in the Gulf of Mexico.
00:39:57.79\00:40:00.56
They don't know where it landed.
00:40:00.60\00:40:01.86
That part they haven't quite
found yet, because they can't
00:40:01.90\00:40:05.47
believe that God sent a flood.
00:40:05.50\00:40:07.47
Anyway.
00:40:07.50\00:40:08.80
All right.
00:40:08.84\00:40:10.07
After that he preserves them,
and God then puts this bow in
00:40:10.11\00:40:12.97
the heavens.
00:40:13.01\00:40:14.31
Now, it had never rained before,
so they'd never seen this
00:40:14.34\00:40:16.78
phenomenon that you
and I take for granted.
00:40:16.81\00:40:18.31
You know, we see a rainbow.
00:40:18.35\00:40:19.65
We get our cameras
out, say, "Isn't it pretty?"
00:40:19.68\00:40:20.98
and we send it to our friends.
00:40:21.02\00:40:22.62
But it is so pretty, but
it's--they'd never seen that.
00:40:22.65\00:40:27.66
It'd never rained.
00:40:27.69\00:40:30.13
"This is the sign of the
covenant that I'll make between
00:40:30.16\00:40:32.39
Me and you, and every
living creature," so this is a
00:40:32.43\00:40:34.73
covenant, another covenant God
makes not just with Noah, but
00:40:34.76\00:40:37.70
even the animals.
00:40:37.73\00:40:39.83
"A perpetual covenant for
generations: I set My rainbow in
00:40:39.87\00:40:43.44
the cloud, and it shall be for
the sign of the covenant between
00:40:43.47\00:40:46.14
Me and the earth.
00:40:46.17\00:40:47.71
And it will be that when I bring
a cloud over the earth, that the
00:40:47.74\00:40:50.68
rainbow will be seen in the
cloud; and I will remember My
00:40:50.71\00:40:53.25
covenant which is between Me and
you and every living creature of
00:40:53.28\00:40:57.39
all flesh; the waters
will never again become a flood
00:40:57.42\00:41:00.66
to destroy all flesh."
00:41:00.69\00:41:02.32
Are there still
floods that destroy?
00:41:02.36\00:41:05.19
But they're not global
floods, is what He's saying.
00:41:05.23\00:41:07.96
"The rainbow will be in the
cloud, and I'll look for it to
00:41:07.96\00:41:11.00
remember the everlasting
covenant--" Now, does God need
00:41:11.03\00:41:13.23
to look at the
rainbow and go, "Oh, yeah.
00:41:13.27\00:41:15.00
I promised I
wouldn't wipe them out"?
00:41:15.04\00:41:17.21
It's just a sign, this, sort of,
poetic way of God saying, "I'm
00:41:17.24\00:41:20.34
going to see that.
00:41:20.38\00:41:21.68
I'll remember the covenant."
00:41:21.71\00:41:23.01
God never forgets anything.
00:41:23.04\00:41:25.05
"'Between you--God and every
living creature and all flesh
00:41:25.08\00:41:28.15
that is on the earth.'
00:41:28.18\00:41:29.48
And God said to
Noah, 'This is the sign
00:41:29.52\00:41:30.85
of the covenant that I've
established between Me and all
00:41:30.89\00:41:34.12
flesh that is on the earth.'"
00:41:34.16\00:41:35.46
So, God gave us that sign, and
00:41:35.49\00:41:37.43
every time we see a rainbow,
even if it's just the sun-shower
00:41:37.46\00:41:40.30
on a nice day, whenever you
see a rainbow we're reminded
00:41:40.33\00:41:43.16
of the mercy of God.
00:41:43.20\00:41:44.67
Every day of life is because
of the mercy of God He extends.
00:41:44.70\00:41:48.97
The rainbow also reminds us He
did destroy the world once with
00:41:49.00\00:41:52.74
water, and He will
do it again with fire.
00:41:52.77\00:41:54.84
It's what 2 Peter
chapter 3 tells us.
00:41:54.88\00:41:58.48
Now, you know a rainbow is
just an interesting scientific
00:41:58.51\00:42:01.62
phenomenon of the light hits
those droplets of water and it
00:42:01.65\00:42:06.42
refracts and bounces off the
dense material, and it has that
00:42:06.45\00:42:10.79
prism effect where it separates
the different wavelengths into
00:42:10.83\00:42:14.30
those colors of a rainbow.
00:42:14.30\00:42:15.96
And it's really phenomenal.
00:42:16.00\00:42:17.23
Some of you probably played with
a prism before, and you can see
00:42:17.27\00:42:20.44
how a prism will break down the
different spectrum of light, and
00:42:20.47\00:42:25.94
it is really
fascinating how that happens.
00:42:25.97\00:42:28.44
You know, rainbows
appear other times in the Bible.
00:42:28.48\00:42:31.18
Look in Ezekiel 1:26.
00:42:31.21\00:42:33.88
It's talking
about the throne of God.
00:42:33.92\00:42:35.38
"And above the firmament over
their heads was the likeness of
00:42:35.42\00:42:38.05
a throne, in appearance like a
sapphire stone; on the likeness
00:42:38.09\00:42:42.59
of the throne was a likeness
of--with the appearance of a man
00:42:42.62\00:42:46.43
high above it.
00:42:46.46\00:42:48.13
Also from the appearance of His
waist and upward I saw, as it
00:42:48.16\00:42:51.03
were, the color of amber
with the appearance of fire all
00:42:51.07\00:42:54.30
around within it; and from the
appearance of His waist downward
00:42:54.34\00:42:57.71
I saw, as it were, the
appearance of fire with
00:42:57.74\00:42:59.87
brightness all around.
00:42:59.91\00:43:01.28
Like the appearance of a rainbow
in a cloud on a rainy day, so
00:43:01.31\00:43:05.48
was the appearance of
the brightness all around it.
00:43:05.51\00:43:08.45
This was the appearance,
00:43:08.48\00:43:09.78
the likeness of
the glory of the Lord.
00:43:09.82\00:43:12.42
So when I saw it, I fell down on
my face, and I heard the voice
00:43:12.45\00:43:15.66
of One speaking."
00:43:15.69\00:43:17.56
You can also look here
in Revelation 4, verse 3.
00:43:17.59\00:43:21.73
"He who sat there was like
jasper and a sardius stone in
00:43:21.76\00:43:25.87
appearance; and there was a
rainbow all around the throne,
00:43:25.90\00:43:29.44
in appearance like an emerald,"
speaking of the throne of God.
00:43:29.47\00:43:32.54
So, this is a symbol.
00:43:32.57\00:43:34.14
Now, I don't know how you feel,
but I--I'm sometime saddened
00:43:34.18\00:43:38.05
when I see that this beautiful
biblical symbol of God's grace
00:43:38.08\00:43:41.88
and holiness has been
hijacked by, you know, militant
00:43:41.92\00:43:46.65
homosexuals to be a symbol for
them, and I, kind of, wish that
00:43:46.69\00:43:52.39
Christians would, sort
of, take it back again.
00:43:52.43\00:43:54.73
I can promise you if Christians
started putting rainbows all out
00:43:54.73\00:43:57.57
in front of their churches, the
militant homosexuals would stop
00:43:57.60\00:44:02.27
using it, because they
wouldn't want that association.
00:44:02.30\00:44:07.91
You didn't know I was going to
say things that were so plain.
00:44:07.94\00:44:11.85
It's interesting.
00:44:11.88\00:44:13.18
If you read in Sumerian
myths--now, the Sumerian myths,
00:44:13.21\00:44:17.72
you know, there is some
similarity between biblical
00:44:17.75\00:44:19.69
truth, and they've got this
story about a Sumerian hero.
00:44:19.72\00:44:24.09
His name was Gilgamesh and
in the "Epic of Gilgamesh" talks
00:44:24.13\00:44:27.66
about this great flood
that wiped out the whole world.
00:44:27.73\00:44:30.47
And he was to build a boat and
bring the animals on board, very
00:44:30.50\00:44:32.80
much like the story of Noah.
00:44:32.83\00:44:34.40
He even sends out ravens and
doves at the end of the story,
00:44:34.44\00:44:37.77
and it says, "The god Ishtar
created the rainbow and placed
00:44:37.81\00:44:41.78
it in the sky as a reminder to
the gods and a pledge to mankind
00:44:41.81\00:44:45.91
there would be no more floods."
00:44:45.95\00:44:47.45
Isn't it interesting that some
of these ancient myths mirror
00:44:47.48\00:44:51.75
aspects--they're drawn
from the truth of the Bible?
00:44:51.79\00:44:55.39
All right.
00:44:55.42\00:44:56.73
Then you finally get
to the last section here.
00:44:56.76\00:44:58.09
It says, "Only Noah
was left," meaning Noah,
00:44:58.13\00:45:00.73
his house, his family.
00:45:00.76\00:45:02.86
Genesis 7, verse 23, "So
He," God, "destroyed all living
00:45:02.90\00:45:07.74
things that were on the face of
the ground: both man and cattle,
00:45:07.77\00:45:10.77
creeping things
and birds of the air.
00:45:10.81\00:45:12.94
They were
destroyed from the earth.
00:45:12.97\00:45:14.91
Only Noah and those who
were with him in the ark
00:45:14.94\00:45:17.38
remained alive."
00:45:17.41\00:45:18.88
What does that teach
us about the last days?
00:45:18.91\00:45:21.42
Only those in the ark
survived in the last days.
00:45:21.45\00:45:24.29
Only those in
Christ will survive.
00:45:24.32\00:45:28.39
There was a--side
of Jesus was pierced.
00:45:28.42\00:45:32.26
There was an opening from
which came blood and water.
00:45:32.29\00:45:35.13
There was only
one door in the ark.
00:45:35.16\00:45:37.00
I think I mentioned
these things last week.
00:45:37.03\00:45:38.87
Christ said, "I am the door.
00:45:38.90\00:45:40.54
Anyone who goes around any other
way is a thief and a robber.
00:45:40.57\00:45:43.77
I am the way. I am the truth.
00:45:43.81\00:45:45.47
I am life."
There's only one way.
00:45:45.51\00:45:47.18
One of the favorite
phrases of the apostle Paul
00:45:47.21\00:45:49.44
was to say "in Christ."
00:45:49.48\00:45:51.75
Over and over, Paul talks about
being in Christ, and as we are
00:45:51.78\00:45:56.55
in Christ, we are in
that ark of salvation.
00:45:56.58\00:46:00.52
You get several
arks in the Bible.
00:46:00.56\00:46:01.86
You know, God's holy
law was put in an ark.
00:46:01.89\00:46:04.06
It's a box.
00:46:04.09\00:46:07.36
And then, the Savior, Moses
was put in an ark and preserved.
00:46:07.40\00:46:14.20
God's law, His Word was
preserved, and then, of course,
00:46:14.24\00:46:17.24
Noah, the human race was
preserved in this ark, and we
00:46:17.27\00:46:21.44
need to treat our brains like an
ark and hide His Word in there
00:46:21.48\00:46:25.68
and have the Savior in there.
00:46:25.71\00:46:28.08
So, Noah was the remnant.
00:46:28.12\00:46:30.85
Everyone is wiped out, but He
saved a remnant of humanity, a
00:46:30.89\00:46:33.66
remnant of the animals.
00:46:33.69\00:46:35.76
All of the elephants you see in
the world today, probably even
00:46:35.79\00:46:39.79
the woolly mammoths and
mastodons, all those derivatives
00:46:39.83\00:46:42.00
of elephants, from two
elephant-like animals that Noah
00:46:42.03\00:46:45.00
took on the ark.
00:46:45.03\00:46:46.33
They were the remnants
that saved everything else.
00:46:46.37\00:46:48.90
When God called Abraham
out from Ur of the Chaldees,
00:46:48.94\00:46:53.41
he was the remnant.
00:46:53.44\00:46:55.04
God saved a remnant from
the people that came from
00:46:55.08\00:46:57.78
Mesopotamia, and He rose up a
holy nation from that remnant,
00:46:57.81\00:47:02.32
as He had done with Noah.
00:47:02.35\00:47:05.02
Now, the word "remnant,"
according to "Webster's
00:47:05.05\00:47:06.82
Dictionary"--and,
by the way, you find it
00:47:06.86\00:47:09.52
85 times in the Bible.
00:47:09.56\00:47:12.33
It means "something that is left
over," "a remainder," like a
00:47:12.36\00:47:16.00
leftover piece of a fabric
after the rest has been used, "a
00:47:16.03\00:47:20.04
surviving trace or vestige."
00:47:20.07\00:47:22.34
Any remnant that you might
see or use is going to have some
00:47:22.37\00:47:25.17
similarity to the original.
00:47:25.21\00:47:26.81
If you get a remnant cloth, that
last piece that comes off the
00:47:26.84\00:47:29.34
bolt of cloth, it's
going to look something
00:47:29.38\00:47:30.95
like the original, right?
00:47:30.98\00:47:32.75
In the last days, God is going
to have a remnant that's going
00:47:32.78\00:47:35.75
to be saved, and that remnant
that he calls out of Babylon is
00:47:35.78\00:47:40.62
going to be like the original,
00:47:40.66\00:47:42.26
as it was in the
days of the apostles.
00:47:42.29\00:47:45.03
You can have the faith that was
once delivered to the saints.
00:47:45.06\00:47:49.33
Abraham was a remnant.
00:47:49.36\00:47:50.83
Joseph.
00:47:50.87\00:47:52.33
He said in Genesis 45:7,
"So God sent me before you
00:47:52.37\00:47:55.97
to preserve you a
remnant in the earth,
00:47:56.00\00:47:58.91
to save your life
by great deliverance."
00:47:58.94\00:48:02.54
You remember when Athaliah
wanted to kill all the royal
00:48:02.58\00:48:04.75
seat of David?
00:48:04.78\00:48:06.25
And Joash was the only
descendant that was saved, and
00:48:06.28\00:48:10.32
from that
remnant, that one baby,
00:48:10.35\00:48:12.95
the line of David was preserved.
00:48:12.99\00:48:15.79
And, of course, Jesus
comes through the line of David.
00:48:15.82\00:48:19.36
And then, you've got,
of course, Jeremiah 23.
00:48:19.39\00:48:22.40
"But I will gather the remnant
of My flock out of all countries
00:48:22.43\00:48:26.33
where I've driven them, and
bring them back to their folds;
00:48:26.37\00:48:30.17
and they will be
fruitful and increase."
00:48:30.21\00:48:32.71
In the last days, God is calling
His people back to the Word.
00:48:32.74\00:48:35.64
He's going to save a
remnant from the blizzard of
00:48:35.68\00:48:40.82
Christianity that is
around the world right now.
00:48:40.85\00:48:43.62
Well, friends, I can see
that I'm just about out of time.
00:48:43.65\00:48:46.09
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I was a sophomore in high
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00:50:03.87\00:50:07.24
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00:50:07.27\00:50:08.94
And I had some idea about
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00:50:08.97\00:50:12.64
Christian home, but to know Him
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00:50:12.67\00:50:16.95
I was really poor in math, so
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00:50:16.98\00:50:19.85
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00:50:19.88\00:50:23.62
And one particular Sunday
morning we were watching those
00:50:23.65\00:50:26.59
Sunday-morning TV shows where
the preachers are preaching, and
00:50:26.62\00:50:29.76
Doug Batchelor
happened to be on.
00:50:29.79\00:50:31.33
I paid attention.
00:50:31.36\00:50:32.66
I'm like, "Mom, makes pretty
good sense, though," because he
00:50:32.69\00:50:34.73
was backing up with Scripture.
00:50:34.76\00:50:36.00
So, once Doug Batchelor finished
his sermon, the announcer said,
00:50:36.03\00:50:39.50
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So, I said, "I got
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00:50:45.91\00:50:48.24
Might as well just do it because
I have nothing else to do."
00:50:48.28\00:50:51.68
Well, I did it for
about two, three days nonstop.
00:50:51.71\00:50:53.38
I was up until 2, 3 in the
morning doing the Bible study
00:50:53.42\00:50:56.18
guides, and when I
was done I was like, "Wow!
00:50:56.22\00:50:59.92
I have no idea about God.
00:50:59.95\00:51:02.09
I thought I did, but I don't."
00:51:02.12\00:51:03.96
So, as I was beginning to learn
all these things, my mom was
00:51:03.99\00:51:07.86
open, because she's the one who
was actually watching the shows.
00:51:07.93\00:51:12.00
And so, she began to study
alongside with me after my first
00:51:12.03\00:51:15.17
lessons were done, and she
embraced the truth because she
00:51:15.20\00:51:18.81
was open to the truth.
00:51:18.84\00:51:20.18
But what the real
problem was, was my grandmother.
00:51:20.21\00:51:23.21
Growing up in an Armenian home,
if you ever go away from your
00:51:23.24\00:51:26.38
own religion, from your own
Christianity, it's like you're
00:51:26.41\00:51:29.75
an heretic, so there was a war
between myself and my grandma.
00:51:29.78\00:51:33.89
So, I had to study with her in
her own language, in Armenian to
00:51:33.92\00:51:38.09
show from her Bible the things
that I was learning was actually
00:51:38.13\00:51:40.50
from the truth.
00:51:40.53\00:51:41.80
So, as my mom and I began
to attend the church, we made a
00:51:41.83\00:51:44.33
decision to get baptized as
members, and so we got baptized
00:51:44.37\00:51:48.60
some months
later after doing some
00:51:48.64\00:51:50.04
Bible studies with the pastor.
00:51:50.07\00:51:51.77
And then, I went to school,
and I said to my friends, "I'm
00:51:51.81\00:51:55.04
officially a
Seventh-day Adventist,"
00:51:55.08\00:51:56.95
with a big grin on my face.
00:51:56.98\00:51:58.78
And they said to
me, "What is that?"
00:51:58.81\00:52:00.98
It dawned on me I'm a
teenager going to high school.
00:52:01.02\00:52:04.42
I'm not ordained.
00:52:04.45\00:52:05.75
I'm not a professor.
00:52:05.79\00:52:07.09
I don't know much.
00:52:07.12\00:52:08.42
I just know that I did some
Bible studies, I learned about
00:52:08.46\00:52:11.16
Christ, and now I'm sharing
with those friends of mine, so I
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began to study with some of
my friends in the school bus, in
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the class about the
things I was learning.
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And I began to share the Bible
study guides from Amazing Facts
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with them, and I
gave them some DVDs
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from Amazing Facts, as well.
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And I began to read and read,
because as I was sharing things
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with people they asked me
questions about God, to which I
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said, "Let me get back to you."
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So, I had to go back and
purchase some more books and
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study out those topics
so I can give them a answer.
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I probably ordered over a
thousand dollars' worth of books
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from Amazing Facts, books
on Revelation and Daniel and
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prophecy and the law and
grace and all sorts of things.
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And so, Amazing Facts was really
crucial at that stage, where it
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provided the resources I
needed to know the Bible better
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and to share my
faith with others.
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But it's funny how God
works, because years later they
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themselves got
baptized in church.
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And when they came to me,
they said, "I am officially a
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Seventh-day Adventist myself."
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To this very day, every Sabbath
morning--my mom isn't able to go
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to church, but she watches
Amazing Facts online every
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Sabbath as her divine worship.
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If it wasn't for Amazing Facts,
I would have not known Christ.
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I would have not had that peace
that He offers, and all these
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people who came to
know Christ would have
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not had the opportunity.
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My name is Taron Hovsepyan.
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I want to thank you
for changing my life.
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announcer: Amazing
facts. Changed lives.
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Josh: Our family was
Christian, to begin with.
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Mom and Dad were
involved at the church at times.
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On the inside our family wasn't
really Christian, I guess.
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It was just--it was
a front that we put on.
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My dad suffered
from bipolar disorder.
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Instead of
taking his medication,
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he turned to alcohol.
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He could be mad one second and
the next second he'd be happy,
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and it was so confusing for us.
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Most of the time, we'd be
upstairs to try to avoid them.
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I made good grades all
the way up until high school.
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High school, I started
struggling because my mom was a
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single parent at the
time, and I had to get a job.
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I was working
every day after school.
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I didn't have many
friends to talk to,
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so I was getting depressed.
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I was always tired.
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I started failing my assignments
because I would fall asleep
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during class, and I
couldn't listen to the teachers.
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I couldn't comprehend
what they were saying.
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By my 11th-grade year, I dropped
out, and I tried homeschooling.
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I just ended up
working full-time.
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I had lots of girlfriends
growing up, but I was always
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terrified of talking to guys.
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Like, my hands
would start to sweat.
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I would tense up.
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I couldn't talk.
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I guess that's when I started
developing an attraction.
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Gay guys weren't
scary to talk to,
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so I started talking to them.
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And then, I started meeting
them, and then it just went from
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there, and then I started
having relationships with them.
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I just wanted to find
someone who would care.
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After high school, most
of my friends were gone,
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but there were a few left home.
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We all started
getting into drugs
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and smoking weed and drinking.
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I was able to leave
my depression behind,
00:55:25.02\00:55:27.36
and I wasn't shy anymore.
00:55:27.39\00:55:28.76
I was able to talk
to anyone I wanted to.
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It wasn't real, but
it felt real at the time.
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During this time, I
felt like God had left me.
00:55:34.63\00:55:38.03
I'd hear conversations at church
talking about gays and people on
00:55:38.07\00:55:41.64
drugs and stuff, and, you know,
they'd talk so bad about them.
00:55:41.67\00:55:44.67
It drove me to leave church.
00:55:44.71\00:55:46.01
I eventually just left church.
00:55:46.04\00:55:47.34
I left God.
00:55:47.38\00:55:48.68
I just didn't care anymore.
00:55:48.71\00:55:50.01
I didn't care what
God thought because
00:55:50.05\00:55:51.75
I didn't think
He cared about me.
00:55:51.78\00:55:54.35
At the beginning of this year,
I moved in with my boyfriend.
00:55:54.38\00:55:57.15
I still felt empty.
00:55:57.19\00:55:58.49
I still wasn't happy.
00:55:58.52\00:55:59.82
I thought I had what I wanted.
00:55:59.85\00:56:01.22
I had a guy that I could love,
and I thought he loved me, but I
00:56:01.26\00:56:03.43
was still empty.
00:56:03.46\00:56:04.76
I still felt like if I died
today I wasn't sure where I was
00:56:04.79\00:56:07.23
going to go, and I
wasn't sure if I'd be
00:56:07.23\00:56:08.96
a disappointment to everyone.
00:56:09.00\00:56:12.37
My grandma texted me.
00:56:13.64\00:56:15.47
She told me that an Amazing
Facts evangelist was coming to
00:56:15.50\00:56:18.17
our church to do
a prophecy seminar.
00:56:18.21\00:56:20.74
I didn't really want to
go because I've been to those
00:56:20.78\00:56:22.68
before, and they were
normally pretty boring,
00:56:22.71\00:56:24.65
and I'd fall asleep.
00:56:24.68\00:56:25.98
I was planning on
making excuses for every night,
00:56:26.01\00:56:27.78
but she was dedicated.
00:56:27.82\00:56:29.12
She really wanted me
to go, and so did my mom,
00:56:29.15\00:56:31.19
so I ended up going to church.
00:56:31.22\00:56:32.59
And the evangelist that
was speaking, he was speaking
00:56:32.62\00:56:34.92
on the sanctuary that morning.
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It made sense to me that
there was someone up in heaven
00:56:37.19\00:56:39.73
pleading my cause.
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I've never heard
Jesus this way before.
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I went back all the
nights that I could,
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except the nights that I worked.
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At the end of it, I
ended up getting re-baptized.
00:56:46.74\00:56:49.64
I made a decision to
leave this life behind.
00:56:49.67\00:56:51.91
I was still attracted to men,
00:56:51.94\00:56:53.44
but I wanted to
leave the lifestyle.
00:56:53.48\00:56:56.08
I didn't want to live
in it anymore, any longer,
00:56:56.11\00:56:58.18
because I knew it was wrong.
00:56:58.21\00:56:59.78
The evangelist that was at
our church that did the prophecy
00:56:59.81\00:57:02.55
seminar became my mentor.
00:57:02.58\00:57:04.15
He told me about
this school called AFCOE.
00:57:04.19\00:57:06.15
It stands for Amazing Facts
Center of Evangelism, and I was
00:57:06.19\00:57:09.42
like, "Well, I want
that, because I want to learn
00:57:09.46\00:57:11.29
how to share Jesus.
00:57:11.33\00:57:12.63
I want to learn how to
be able to help others."
00:57:12.66\00:57:14.36
I prayed about
it. I applied online.
00:57:14.36\00:57:16.63
They accepted my application,
00:57:16.67\00:57:17.97
but I still had
the money problem left.
00:57:18.00\00:57:20.07
That night, right before I left,
He provided over $3,000, and
00:57:20.10\00:57:24.84
He's been
providing for me ever since.
00:57:24.87\00:57:26.78
The tools that I've learned here
are tools that will stick with
00:57:26.81\00:57:29.41
me forever, and it was
life-changing to be able
00:57:29.44\00:57:31.85
to come here, to AFCOE.
00:57:31.88\00:57:34.12
I would love to help other
people in my situation because a
00:57:34.15\00:57:36.99
lot of people have prayed that
God would take this stuff away,
00:57:37.02\00:57:40.52
and then they get
discouraged when He doesn't.
00:57:40.56\00:57:42.66
But what they don't
know is that Jesus is there.
00:57:42.69\00:57:45.19
He'll help you through it.
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My name is Josh, and Amazing
Facts helped change my life.
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