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Shawn Brummund: Good morning,
and welcome to another edition
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of the Sabbath
School Study Hour.
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My name is
Pastor Shawn Brummund,
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and I have the privilege
of welcoming and opening
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our session here with prayer.
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But before we open with prayer,
we want to talk a little bit
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about the Quarterly.
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Today we're going to be looking
at the Quarterly we've been
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studying, which is "The Promise:
God's Everlasting Covenant."
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And we're looking
at lesson number seven.
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So, if you have a copy of the
Quarterly, make sure that you
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have it with you.
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If you have your Bible--if you
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make sure that
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This is going to be an in-depth
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we're going to invite
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and then we're
going to open with prayer.
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Nice to have you.
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¤ When I think I'm going under ¤
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¤ most gracious Lord ¤
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¤ No tender voice like Thine ¤
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¤ Oh, bless me now, my Savior ¤
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¤ Every hour I need Thee ¤
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¤ Oh, bless me now, my Savior ¤
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¤ I come to Thee ¤
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Shawn: I want to
invite you to close your eyes,
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as we ask the
Lord to be with us.
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Father in heaven, we come before
You as the eternal God of the
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universe, the One that gave
us life and continues to sustain
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our lives by Your grace.
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As we come to You this morning,
we want to pray that Your
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Holy Spirit will be with us.
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We claim the promise, Lord
Jesus, that You gave to Your
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first disciples and extended to
us, that when we ask for it with
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sincerity, that You will give
us the Holy Spirit, that Your
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presence will truly abide
with us and dwell in our minds,
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in our hearts, and that
You will be our teacher,
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that You will help us to be able
to learn all things in concern
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to what You want us to know.
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Father, we thank
You for your Bible.
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And as we open it
today, we want to pray, God,
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that You will truly help us to
be able to understand it better,
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that we might be able to
see You for all that You are.
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Please bless our teacher,
Pastor Doug Batchelor, today.
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And Lord, we thank You
for him and for his ministry,
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and we count on
being blessed once again.
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We pray it all in
Christ's name, amen.
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Doug Batchelor: Happy Sabbath.
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congregation: Happy Sabbath.
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Doug: Good to see each of you.
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Now, they reminded me in
the studio, they said, you know,
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a lot of times when this program
airs on various satellite
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networks, it is not on Sabbath,
because a lot of teachers watch
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it in advance, and so they might
be watching it on Thursday.
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And so I'm supposed
to say, "Good morning."
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And so whatever time
it is you're watching it,
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of course, it's
Sabbath here during this time.
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And wow, we're living in some
fascinating times, and I'm just
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so thankful that as
much as the world changes,
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the Word of God does not change.
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Flowers fade, and the heavens
and the earth might pass away
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before the Word
of God passes away.
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We're going to be talking today,
continuing in our study dealing
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with the promise, talking
about the covenants of salvation
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that God made with His people.
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And our lesson today
is lesson number seven.
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It's the "Covenant at Sinai."
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And we have a memory
verse, and the memory verse is
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from Exodus 19, verse 4.
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It says, "You have seen what
I did to the Egyptians and how
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I bore you on eagle's
wings and brought you to myself.
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You know, the story of
the Exodus is the story of
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salvation, and it is
just a wonderful analogy.
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It's a living metaphor of
how God saves us, brings us from
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that slavery to sin
into the promised land.
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We're going to talk a little bit
about that later in the lesson.
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I want to greet those who
are worshiping with us online.
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We know we have folks that
are watching on a couple of
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different Facebook channels,
on YouTube, on satellite,
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and we know you're here.
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We also have some
members, there's some members
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that can't attend locally.
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They're part of
our online members.
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And we have members in other
countries that have no local
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church that they can worship
with, and so we want to welcome
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you, as well,
those of you who are part
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of the Granite Bay online group.
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In our first section
dealing with the subject
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of "On Eagles' Wings."
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And this is based upon a couple
of scriptures in the Bible.
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Now, you realize the Ten
Commandments--what chapter?
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I'll repeat what you say.
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Where do you find
the Ten Commandments?
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Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5,
and Jesus gives a partial list
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in Mark chapter 10,
and there's other places
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in the New Testament.
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But you find your complete
list there in Exodus 20.
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So, in Exodus 19, the Lord
is leading up to the giving
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or delivery of
the Ten Commandments,
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and that's why
we're studying this.
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He's telling you, really,
what the prerequisites are
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for the covenant.
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God reminds them how He
took care of them as an eagle
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protects its young.
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And these are the passages here.
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Exodus 19, verse 4, "You've seen
what I did to the Egyptians and
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how I bore you on eagles' wings
and brought you to myself."
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Now, when you
say eagle in America,
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what's our national symbol?
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But it's a bald eagle.
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Now, the eagle that
they had in Palestine
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was not that same eagle.
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Now, I think we've got an
eagle we're going to put up
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on the screen here, or two.
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One says, "I bore
you on eagles' wings."
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There's a bald eagle, but it's
not a baby eagle on his back.
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Someone snapped
this picture of a crow.
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Looked like--it
looks like he's hitchhiking
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on the back of an eagle.
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Now, you've probably seen before
where crows and eagles kind of
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harass each other in
the air, mostly the crows
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harassing the eagles.
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It looks to me like they're not
necessarily friends, but this
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crow is just sort of like
landing on the back of the eagle
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to mock him a little bit.
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The behavior of eagles bearing
their young on their backs
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is very rarely a witness,
and there have been a few
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ornithologists--Karen, and I
had a next door neighbor across
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the street for
20-something years who was
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a world famous ornithologist.
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And I used to take advantage of
Ed Harper and ask him questions.
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When I had
Amazing Facts about birds,
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he always knew
everything about birds.
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And there's really no journal or
documentation of eagles bearing
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their babies on their backs.
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There is one report of an
ornithologist traveling in
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another country that saw an
eagle dive under its young on
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its first flight, when it
realized it was not getting its
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wings and caught it on its
back and got it lifted up again,
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and it fluttered down eventually
and learned how to fly.
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But that's very rare.
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So, what does this mean?
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He bore you on
His back as eagles.
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By the way, the eagles
that you find in Israel
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are not the American eagle.
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It's the imperial eagle.
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I think we have
a picture of that.
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There it is.
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And you would also
find those in Sinai.
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It's also a
majestic-looking bird.
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When you think about the eagles
in the Bible, keep in mind,
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what was the ensign
on the Roman standard?
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An eagle.
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That's interesting, because
Moses told the children of
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Israel that, "If you turn away
from me, and you do not obey me,
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and you worship other gods,
and do not keep my commandments,
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I'll send another nation from
afar, whose language you do not
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understand and they will swoop
down on you like an eagle."
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And when the Romans
came and surrounded Jerusalem
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with their standards,
and they had eagles on them.
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So, I thought
that was interesting.
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But let me read to you
Deuteronomy chapter 32 before I
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go too far with the eagles here.
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Deuteronomy 32,
verse 10 through 12.
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"He found him in a desert land
and in the wasteland a howling
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wilderness; He encircled him, He
instructed him," talking about
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God with His people, "He kept
him as the apple of His eye,"
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meaning the focus of your pupil.
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"And as an eagle stirs up
its nest, hovers over its young,
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spreading out its
wings, taking them up,
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carrying them on its wings."
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Here you have it again.
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God's talking about an eagle
carrying them on its wings.
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And he says, "So the
Lord led him, and there was
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no foreign god with him."
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You know, we have several
pictures of the tenderness
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of God in the
Bible, and it uses birds.
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You know, Jesus
wept over Jerusalem.
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And he says in Matthew 23:37,
"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the
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one who kills the
prophets and stones those
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who are sent to her.
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How often I wanted to gather
your children together, as a hen
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gathers her
chicks under her wings,
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but you were not willing."
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Now, I've seen this many times.
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I was walking through the woods
one time, and I came upon a
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quail, and its chicks had just
hatched out there on the dirt
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road, and they were
off in the distance.
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I was a little bit
away, but I could see them.
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And the little chicks
were all scattered around.
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They looked like
insects, they were so small.
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And they're pecking away,
getting their first meals after
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they hatched out, and the
mother saw me, and she clucked,
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and they all
scurried under her wings,
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and she spread
her wings over them.
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And then they got off into
the grass, and then she came
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towards me and started flapping
around like she was wounded,
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wanting me to chase her.
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Have any of you
ever seen this before?
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Yeah, they will act like they're
wounded to direct you away from
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where the nest is
or where the young are.
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And so--I don't know why
people call chickens, chickens.
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They're sometimes
very brave when it comes
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to their babies, right?
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That just isn't fair.
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And so God uses this picture
of taking us under His wings.
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We sing that song, "Under
His wings, I am safely abiding."
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And so it's a picture
of God's loving protection
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and sacrificial
protection for us.
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It says, "As an
eagle stirs up its nest."
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You know, when an eagle first
builds its nest, and it lays its
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egg, it's got a lot of
down and soft materials
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that it's collected in the nest.
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And as the little fledglings
begin to grow and start getting
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developed, and they're
stretching their wings,
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and eagles--I forget what--
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I think 20% of eagles do
not survive their first flight.
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I think that's
what the percentage is.
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After all that time in feeding
and rearing them, they are not
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like some birds that if they
miss out on their first flight,
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they'll just flop on the ground.
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Do you know an owl, if it
messes up on its first flight,
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it climbs the
tree with its talons.
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It can climb right
back up to the nest.
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But eagles, they can't do that.
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Sometimes they nest way
up on these rocky crags.
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And if they don't make it
through the first flight and
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figure out how to use
their wings, they're in trouble.
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So, what the mother does, she
makes the nest uncomfortable,
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while their wings are
developing, and they get up,
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and they just stretch
their muscles, and they flap,
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and they might catch a
breeze and hover above the nest,
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and they flop back down on it.
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So, most of the time, they've
sort of gotten the hang of
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aerodynamics
before they launch out,
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because their first
flight is pretty scary.
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Any of you ever
gone hang gliding before?
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I have.
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I still own two hang gliders.
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I haven't used
them in a long time.
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But our boys used
to-- we'd go hang gliding.
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Now it's pretty
dangerous with people.
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Most people have
given it up, but I remember
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the first time I
jumped off a hill.
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I was with an instructor,
and he said, "Trust your wings;
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it'll hold you."
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And boy, I was so scared because
I knew as soon as I launched off
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this hill, there was, you
know, a thousand feet below me.
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If anything failed,
that was the end of Doug.
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And one of the hardest
things--but I had to do it
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because my 13-year-old
son was watching at the time.
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And I thought, "He's
going to think dad's a chicken."
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But that first
flight, that was pretty scary.
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You feel like a
pterodactyl has captured you.
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You jump out and something's
holding you up from behind.
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But that's too much
about eagles, sorry, all right?
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Eagles are a symbol of God,
because they're also strong.
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Isaiah 40:31, "Those
who wait upon the Lord
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shall renew their strength.
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They will mount up
with wings like eagles.
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They will run and not be weary.
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They shall walk and not faint."
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And then in Ezekiel 1, verse 10,
it says "For as the likeness--"
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Another place where God is
compared--or one of the aspects
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of His character is
compared to an eagle.
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You see both in Ezekiel and in
Revelation, the four creatures
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around the throne of God.
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What are they?
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You've got a man, got a
calf, got a lion and an eagle.
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You see this both
in Ezekiel chapter 1
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and in Revelation chapter 4.
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The first living
creature was like a lion.
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The second was like a calf.
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The third had the face of a man.
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The fourth was
like a flying eagle--
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not just an eagle.
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What kind of eagle?
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A flying eagle.
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Why does God use an eagle as--
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those four creatures all
are giving different aspects--
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you realize
Revelation is full of symbols.
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These are symbolic prophecies.
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They're giving
aspects of God's character.
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And some have wondered if
Matthew is the lion, the Gospel
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of Matthew is the
lion, and Luke is the man,
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and John is the sacrifice.
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He is the calf.
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And Mark is the eagle.
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Mark is that fast gospel.
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Eagles are
known for their speed.
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They're known for their sight.
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They can see things
so far or so far away.
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And when God said, "I bore you,"
speaking of Israel, "I bore you
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like an eagle does his
young," saving them from Egypt.
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Something else about an eagle
is they could fly so high and so
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far that there's no mountain,
there's no army, no river,
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no ocean is an obstacle.
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No mater what the obstacles were
for the children of Israel, God
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removed all obstacles and
delivered them from slavery.
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So, there's
nothing that can keep God
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from saving us from slavery.
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And eagles have
incredible vision as well.
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So, he uses this analogy.
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You can also look
here in Deuteronomy 1:29.
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It says in verse
29, "Then I said to you,
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'Do not be
terrified or afraid of them.
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The Lord your God who goes
before you, He will fight for
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you, according to all that Ge
did for you in Egypt before your
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eyes in the wilderness, where
ye saw how the Lord your God
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carried you as a man
carries his son, in all the way
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that you went, until
you came to this place."
00:20:04.17\00:20:07.47
You know, there's a
real challenging age in the
00:20:07.50\00:20:11.61
development of a child, where
they're not crawling anymore.
00:20:11.64\00:20:16.85
They just start to walk, but
they're not walking fast enough
00:20:16.88\00:20:19.11
to keep up with the parents.
00:20:19.15\00:20:21.05
And you've either gotta,
you know, hold your hand down,
00:20:21.08\00:20:22.78
unless they grab hold of your
finger, 'cause they can't get
00:20:22.82\00:20:24.42
their hand
around your whole hand.
00:20:24.45\00:20:26.52
And you've gotta walk slow,
or you've gotta pick them up
00:20:26.55\00:20:29.02
and carry them.
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And sometimes, you know,
especially if you're going
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across the street, they'll
see a parent pick up their child
00:20:34.40\00:20:37.17
and carry them.
00:20:37.20\00:20:38.57
They said, "Look, I'm
not taking any chances."
00:20:38.60\00:20:40.17
And when there's danger,
00:20:40.20\00:20:41.50
the parent picks up
the child and carries them.
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And this is what God is saying.
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He's got this
picture of parental love.
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And so this is what is being
highlighted there under Sunday.
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Also, Psalm 103, verse 13, "As
a father pities his children,
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so the Lord pities
those who fear Him,
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for He knows our frame.
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He remembers that we are dust."
00:21:02.12\00:21:04.19
God is so
patient and so merciful.
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Has He been patient with you?
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Is He patient with me?
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I just thank God
for His patience.
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So, under Monday, it
says, "A Pattern for Salvation."
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Exodus 6:6, "Therefore
say to the children of Israel,
00:21:18.31\00:21:22.61
'I am the Lord.
00:21:22.64\00:21:24.28
I will bring you out from under
the burdens of the Egyptians.
00:21:24.31\00:21:27.15
I will rescue you from their
bondage, and I will redeem you
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with an outstretched arm
and with great judgments.
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And I will take
you as my people.
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I will be your God.
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Then you will know that I am the
Lord your God, who brings you
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out from under the
burdens of the Egyptians."
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You know, this was all foretold.
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God had told Abraham
hundreds of years earlier--
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it's very interesting.
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Abraham went down to Egypt
because there was a famine.
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And he brought his wife, and he
was afraid to tell the Egyptians
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his relationship with his wife,
because Sarah was so beautiful
00:22:02.15\00:22:05.89
that he thought that maybe
they'd kill him and take her
00:22:05.92\00:22:09.46
to be part of the
harem of the Pharaoh.
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And so what happened is
God told Abraham, he said,
00:22:12.83\00:22:17.83
"Your descendants are going to
be slaves in a strange land and
00:22:17.87\00:22:23.37
they will afflict them
400 years, and then I will
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visit them with plagues.
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And after that, they will
come out with great abundance.
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What happened to Abraham?
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Plagues fell on the Pharaoh when
he took Sarah into his house.
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And no one ever touched
her, but he did take Sarah
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into his house.
00:22:40.82\00:22:42.42
Plagues fell on the house of
Pharaoh, and then Pharaoh sent
00:22:42.46\00:22:44.56
Abraham away with great wealth.
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He gave him possessions
and treasures 'cause God spoke
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to him, and he saw
this was a prophet of God,
00:22:48.40\00:22:51.23
and he sent him away.
00:22:51.27\00:22:53.10
What happened to the Israelites?
00:22:53.13\00:22:55.14
Plagues fell on the Egyptians,
and it says they spoiled
00:22:55.17\00:22:59.04
the Egyptians.
00:22:59.07\00:23:00.68
God sent them
away with great wealth.
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So, did you catch that?
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What happened to Abraham in
his personal experience happened
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to his descendants later.
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Now, this is also going to come
up in our lesson, because in the
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same way that God called
Israel out of Egypt--it says,
00:23:12.75\00:23:18.73
"Out of Egypt
I've called my son."
00:23:18.76\00:23:20.96
Did Jesus go down to
Egypt when He was a young baby?
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And was He called out of Egypt
back into the promised land
00:23:25.90\00:23:28.57
when Herod died?
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He was.
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So, the Bible refers to that as
sort of an allegory of what had
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happened to the people.
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"I've called my
son out of Egypt."
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All right, going to Monday and
looking at Exodus 6, it says,
00:23:37.08\00:23:42.52
"Therefore say to the children
of Israel, 'I am the Lord.
00:23:42.55\00:23:45.69
I'll bring you out from
the burdens of the Egyptians.
00:23:45.72\00:23:47.99
I'll rescue you."
00:23:48.02\00:23:49.62
This is talking about, again,
the salvation from the bondage.
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What happened there is a
pattern of how God saves us.
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Look at Romans 15, verse 4.
00:23:57.80\00:24:00.34
"For whatever things were
written before are written for
00:24:00.37\00:24:03.20
our learning, that we through
the patience and the comfort
00:24:03.24\00:24:06.51
of the
scriptures might have hope."
00:24:06.54\00:24:09.68
Everything that's
written in the Bible is written
00:24:09.71\00:24:11.58
for our understanding.
00:24:11.61\00:24:13.58
I remember reading in
Luke chapter 24, when Jesus is
00:24:13.62\00:24:18.82
talking to the
disciples on the road to Emmaus,
00:24:18.85\00:24:22.49
and they don't know it's Jesus.
00:24:22.52\00:24:24.26
He visits them after the
resurrection, and they're
00:24:24.29\00:24:26.13
walking along, and they're
talking about how terrible
00:24:26.16\00:24:29.03
the weekend had been.
00:24:29.06\00:24:30.67
Messiah had been executed,
and the body is missing,
00:24:30.70\00:24:34.47
and Jesus
listens to them complain.
00:24:34.50\00:24:38.64
And He finally says, "Oh, fools
and slow of heart to believe,
00:24:38.67\00:24:42.04
all the prophets have spoken,
'Ought not the Christ to have
00:24:42.08\00:24:45.48
suffered these things
and entered into glory?'
00:24:45.51\00:24:48.75
And then beginning at Moses and
all the prophets, He expounded
00:24:48.78\00:24:52.22
unto them in all the scriptures
the things concerning Himself."
00:24:52.25\00:24:56.49
All the scriptures the
things concerning Jesus.
00:24:56.52\00:25:00.66
How much Bible was
written when Christ was alive?
00:25:00.70\00:25:05.73
Just the Old Testament, right?
00:25:05.77\00:25:07.84
So, when Jesus is
talking about Himself in all of
00:25:07.87\00:25:11.57
the scriptures, what
scriptures is He using?
00:25:11.61\00:25:14.58
Genesis to Malachi.
00:25:14.61\00:25:16.71
Can you find Jesus
in the Old Testament?
00:25:16.75\00:25:20.15
Is the gospel only
in the New Testament,
00:25:20.18\00:25:22.38
or do you find the
gospel in the Old Testament?
00:25:22.42\00:25:25.45
Were they saved by works in the
Old Testament, but were saved
00:25:25.49\00:25:28.06
by faith in the New Testament?
00:25:28.09\00:25:30.29
No, nobody is saved by works.
00:25:30.33\00:25:32.99
Everybody--Abraham believed
God, and it was counted to him
00:25:33.03\00:25:36.00
for righteousness.
00:25:36.03\00:25:37.57
Abraham was righteous
not by works but by faith.
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Everybody is saved by faith.
00:25:40.10\00:25:41.70
Read Hebrews.
00:25:41.74\00:25:43.17
When Paul writes the book
of Hebrews, and he's got this
00:25:43.20\00:25:45.27
chronicle of how the great
patriarchs were saved by faith,
00:25:45.31\00:25:48.98
does he mention any
New Testament characters?
00:25:49.01\00:25:52.71
He's highlighting all
these Old Testament characters.
00:25:52.75\00:25:54.62
They were all saved by faith.
00:25:54.65\00:25:55.95
Everybody is saved by Jesus.
00:25:55.98\00:25:57.92
They were saved back
then looking forward in faith
00:25:57.95\00:26:00.49
to the cross.
00:26:00.52\00:26:02.12
We are saved by faith,
looking back to the cross.
00:26:02.16\00:26:04.39
Everybody is saved by the cross.
00:26:04.43\00:26:06.56
So, the story of the Exodus is
an allegory of how God saves us.
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1 Corinthians
chapter 10, verse 1.
00:26:12.17\00:26:15.10
If you have your Bibles, you
might want to turn to this one.
00:26:15.14\00:26:17.31
Sometimes I read you a real
quick scripture, and by the time
00:26:17.34\00:26:19.37
I'm done, then you find
it, but you'll have time
00:26:19.41\00:26:21.08
to find this one.
00:26:21.11\00:26:23.75
"Moreover," 1 Corinthians
10, start with the first verse.
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"Moreover, brethren, I do not
want you to be aware that our
00:26:28.22\00:26:31.75
fathers," Paul is writing to
the Jews, "were under the cloud,
00:26:31.79\00:26:36.26
and they all
passed through the sea."
00:26:36.29\00:26:38.36
Now, Paul is talking about the
cloud of glory that shaded them
00:26:38.39\00:26:41.83
during the day.
00:26:41.86\00:26:43.43
It was a pillar
of fire at night.
00:26:43.47\00:26:45.07
And they went
through the sea, the Red Sea.
00:26:45.10\00:26:47.44
All were baptized into Moses.
00:26:47.47\00:26:50.87
Anyone ever say,
"Come follow Jesus
00:26:50.91\00:26:52.67
and be baptized into Moses?"
00:26:52.71\00:26:54.48
Who was ever
baptized into Moses?
00:26:54.51\00:26:56.41
He's saying when they went
through the Red Sea, it was
00:26:56.44\00:26:58.41
a symbol of being baptized
into Moses, into his teachings,
00:26:58.45\00:27:01.45
into following him, the way
we are baptized into Christ,
00:27:01.48\00:27:04.85
into His
teachings, into following Him.
00:27:04.89\00:27:07.09
See the analogies
that Paul was making here?
00:27:07.12\00:27:10.06
"They were baptized into Moses
in the cloud and in the sea."
00:27:10.09\00:27:13.86
Cloud and sea.
00:27:13.90\00:27:15.43
There's a pillar of
fire at night, and they went
00:27:15.46\00:27:17.67
through the sea.
00:27:17.70\00:27:19.20
We must be born of the water.
00:27:19.23\00:27:20.80
We must be born of the Spirit.
00:27:20.84\00:27:23.64
The pillar of fire
is born of the fire.
00:27:23.67\00:27:27.08
The Red Sea is a symbol of
being baptized in the water.
00:27:27.11\00:27:29.64
We need both
baptisms, or you cannot enter
00:27:29.68\00:27:31.78
the kingdom of heaven.
00:27:31.81\00:27:34.82
"And they passed
through the sea."
00:27:34.85\00:27:37.15
All were baptized into Moses,
and the cloud, and the sea.
00:27:37.19\00:27:39.62
They all ate the
spiritual food, and they drank
00:27:39.65\00:27:41.99
that same spiritual drink.
00:27:42.02\00:27:43.86
"For they drank of that
spiritual rock that followed
00:27:43.89\00:27:45.86
them, and that rock was Christ."
00:27:45.89\00:27:48.26
Now, was Jesus masquerading
as a rock in the Old Testament?
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Or is Paul simply saying
that rock is a symbol of Christ?
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The bread that came down from
heaven, we don't have to guess.
00:27:57.34\00:28:00.41
Jesus said, "Moses
didn't give you that bread.
00:28:00.44\00:28:02.54
I gave you that bread.
00:28:02.58\00:28:04.08
I am the bread that
came down from heaven.
00:28:04.11\00:28:06.01
They ate manna,
and they're dead now.
00:28:06.05\00:28:07.72
But if you want to eat a bread
that will last forever, you must
00:28:07.75\00:28:10.89
eat my flesh and drink my blood,
or you have no life in you."
00:28:10.92\00:28:13.89
So, Jesus gave us so
many examples of how He
00:28:13.92\00:28:16.79
is the bread of life.
00:28:16.83\00:28:18.39
Can you say amen?
00:28:18.43\00:28:20.00
"Man does not live by
bread alone, but by every word,"
00:28:20.03\00:28:21.96
and Christ is the Word that
proceeds from the mouth of God.
00:28:22.00\00:28:25.40
And so here Paul is
showing us how to read the story
00:28:25.43\00:28:27.97
of the Exodus, that it's
really an allegory of salvation.
00:28:28.00\00:28:32.81
I'm not done.
00:28:32.84\00:28:34.34
Go to verse 4.
00:28:34.38\00:28:36.01
"And they all drank the same--"
1 Corinthians 10, verse 4--
00:28:36.04\00:28:38.85
"they drank the same
spiritual drink, for they drank
00:28:38.88\00:28:40.92
of that spiritual
rock that followed them.
00:28:40.95\00:28:43.15
That rock was Christ.
00:28:43.18\00:28:44.79
But with most of them,
God was not well-pleased."
00:28:44.82\00:28:48.99
Now, there are a lot of
them that were saved from Egypt,
00:28:49.02\00:28:51.26
but they didn't make
it to the promised land,
00:28:51.29\00:28:53.90
because they lost
faith along the way.
00:28:53.93\00:28:57.90
"With most of them,
God was not pleased."
00:28:57.93\00:28:59.63
Is everybody that says they're
a Christian really a Christian?
00:28:59.67\00:29:03.84
Do you think it is the majority,
or the minority of people who
00:29:03.87\00:29:07.51
claim to be Christians
that are real Christians?
00:29:07.54\00:29:11.45
Show of hands, how many of
you think it is the minority
00:29:11.48\00:29:13.78
of people who
claim to be Christians?
00:29:13.82\00:29:17.12
You're right.
00:29:17.15\00:29:18.82
I hope that doesn't make you
lose faith that you can make it.
00:29:18.85\00:29:21.59
You can't, but Jesus is pretty
clear many go in the wide gate,
00:29:21.62\00:29:27.03
few go in the straight
gate, and because people
00:29:27.03\00:29:31.10
are not searching for it.
00:29:31.13\00:29:33.67
All these
things-- look at verse 6.
00:29:33.70\00:29:36.67
I want to read back to verse 5.
00:29:36.71\00:29:38.41
"Most of them God
was not well pleased.
00:29:38.44\00:29:40.01
Their bodies were
scattered in the wilderness,
00:29:40.04\00:29:41.74
meaning they died along the way.
00:29:41.78\00:29:43.38
Now, these things became our
examples to the intent that we
00:29:43.41\00:29:47.88
should not lust after
evil things, as they lusted,
00:29:47.92\00:29:50.82
that we do not become
idolators, as were some of them.
00:29:50.85\00:29:53.99
As it is written, the people
sat down to eat and drink,
00:29:54.02\00:29:56.19
and they rose up to play.
00:29:56.22\00:29:58.23
Nor let us
commit sexual immorality
00:29:58.26\00:30:00.13
as some of them did."
00:30:00.16\00:30:01.76
They had problems with other
gods, they had problems with
00:30:01.80\00:30:03.47
evil, they had
problems with sexual immorality.
00:30:03.50\00:30:06.13
Those things would never appear
in the church today, right?
00:30:06.17\00:30:10.74
And it says, "In
that day, 23,000 fell.
00:30:10.77\00:30:14.58
Nor let us tempt Christ, as
some of them were also tempted,
00:30:14.61\00:30:17.45
and were destroyed by serpents."
00:30:17.48\00:30:19.45
Talking about
the book of Numbers.
00:30:19.48\00:30:21.32
"Nor complain, as some of
them murmured and complained,
00:30:21.35\00:30:23.65
and they were
destroyed by the destroyer.
00:30:23.69\00:30:26.59
Now, all of these things
happened to them as examples,
00:30:26.62\00:30:31.69
and they are written for our
admonition upon whom the ends
00:30:31.73\00:30:34.56
of the ages have come."
00:30:34.60\00:30:36.20
And if that was true then,
how much more have the ends
00:30:36.23\00:30:38.03
of the age has come now?
00:30:38.07\00:30:39.37
So, can we look at the Exodus
experience and find out some
00:30:39.40\00:30:43.24
lessons to keep us
out of trouble today?
00:30:43.27\00:30:46.47
First of all, Moses
comes, and he says to Pharaoh,
00:30:46.51\00:30:50.48
"Let my people go."
00:30:50.51\00:30:52.11
Who does Moses represent?
00:30:52.15\00:30:54.62
That's easy.
00:30:54.65\00:30:55.95
They were baptized into Moses.
00:30:55.98\00:30:57.29
He's a type of Christ.
00:30:57.32\00:30:58.79
The Pharaoh.
00:30:58.82\00:31:00.62
Do you have to think very long?
00:31:00.66\00:31:02.16
Who does he represent?
00:31:02.19\00:31:03.69
He's the devil.
00:31:03.73\00:31:05.09
We all still together?
00:31:05.13\00:31:06.70
I know it's early, okay?
00:31:06.73\00:31:09.60
Does the Pharaoh
want to let go of them?
00:31:09.63\00:31:12.30
No.
00:31:12.33\00:31:14.07
Does the devil
want to let go of you?
00:31:14.10\00:31:15.64
No.
00:31:15.67\00:31:17.47
Does Moses tell
the children of Israel,
00:31:17.51\00:31:19.14
"I'll make a covenant with you.
00:31:19.17\00:31:20.74
Keep the Ten Commandments, and
I will save you out of Egypt"?
00:31:20.78\00:31:26.45
What happens first?
00:31:26.48\00:31:27.88
The Ten
Commandments, or the lamb?
00:31:27.92\00:31:30.89
Is it the Law or the lamb?
00:31:30.92\00:31:33.12
He says, "First
sacrifice this lamb.
00:31:33.15\00:31:34.99
Then we'll begin a
journey to Mount Sinai."
00:31:35.02\00:31:38.56
Were they saved from Egypt
because they were obedient?
00:31:38.59\00:31:43.03
Or were they saved from
Egypt because of the blood
00:31:43.06\00:31:44.90
of the lamb?
00:31:44.93\00:31:46.47
Some people think
you're saved because you keep
00:31:46.50\00:31:48.27
the Ten Commandments.
00:31:48.30\00:31:49.80
No, you keep
the Ten Commandments
00:31:49.84\00:31:51.31
because He saved you first.
00:31:51.34\00:31:52.81
That is so
important to get that right.
00:31:52.84\00:31:55.18
Because if you're waiting until
you keep the Ten Commandments,
00:31:55.21\00:31:57.78
before you accept Jesus,
you're never going to get there.
00:31:57.81\00:32:02.75
That's like telling a
person to clean up before
00:32:02.78\00:32:04.62
they take a bath.
00:32:04.65\00:32:06.39
That doesn't make any sense.
00:32:06.42\00:32:08.26
First, they were--they
took the Passover lamb.
00:32:08.29\00:32:12.09
They applied the
blood of the lamb.
00:32:12.13\00:32:14.00
God said, "Now pack up.
00:32:14.03\00:32:15.50
We're beginning a journey."
00:32:15.53\00:32:16.97
The journey begins with
the sacrifice of the lamb.
00:32:17.00\00:32:20.44
After they left Egypt,
they went through the Red Sea.
00:32:20.47\00:32:23.34
He brings them to
Israel, the promised land?
00:32:23.37\00:32:25.47
No, they head south.
00:32:25.51\00:32:28.28
They go to Mount Sinai.
00:32:28.31\00:32:29.78
And there's some
debate about where that is.
00:32:29.81\00:32:31.41
I'm personally more inclined
to think it's a mountain more in
00:32:31.45\00:32:34.42
Saudi Arabia than it was right
there in the Sinai Peninsula,
00:32:34.45\00:32:38.15
because the New
Testament says in Arabia.
00:32:38.19\00:32:41.12
And when it says that Elijah
went 40 days and 40 nights to
00:32:41.16\00:32:44.29
get to Mount Sinai, it would not
have taken him that long to get
00:32:44.33\00:32:46.83
to the popular Sinai location,
but it would've taken him much
00:32:46.86\00:32:53.00
longer to get to
the one in Saudi Arabia.
00:32:53.03\00:32:55.14
Anyway, we won't go there,
but we'll love you either way,
00:32:55.17\00:32:59.24
whatever you
believe on that one.
00:32:59.27\00:33:01.14
Either way, He took
them to Mount Sinai, right?
00:33:01.18\00:33:04.68
And it was not north.
00:33:04.71\00:33:07.82
And He says, "If you love me--"
00:33:07.85\00:33:09.35
How do the Ten
Commandments begin?
00:33:09.38\00:33:10.92
What's the first commandment?
00:33:10.95\00:33:15.62
People always start
with the actual commandment.
00:33:15.66\00:33:18.03
They don't include the preamble.
00:33:18.06\00:33:19.49
The preamble is
something that God wrote.
00:33:19.53\00:33:21.76
It says, "God spake
all these words, saying--"
00:33:21.80\00:33:24.33
Now you begin to write.
00:33:24.37\00:33:25.90
This is where
the writing begins.
00:33:25.93\00:33:27.44
This is where the
commandment begins.
00:33:27.47\00:33:28.90
"I am the Lord your God
that brought you out of the land
00:33:28.94\00:33:31.71
of Egypt, out of
the house of bondage."
00:33:31.74\00:33:34.54
What is God saying there?
00:33:34.58\00:33:36.78
"I am the God who saved you."
00:33:36.81\00:33:39.05
Then He's implying, "If you love
me, here are my commandments."
00:33:39.08\00:33:43.22
You see Jesus on the
cross dying for your sins.
00:33:43.25\00:33:45.52
You see how much He saves you.
00:33:45.55\00:33:46.92
He gives you bread from heaven.
00:33:46.96\00:33:48.42
He provides your needs,
water from a rock, defeats you
00:33:48.46\00:33:50.49
from your enemies.
00:33:50.53\00:33:51.93
He did all those things for
them before they ever made it
00:33:51.96\00:33:53.56
to Mount Sinai.
00:33:53.60\00:33:55.26
Then He brings them to Mount
Sinai, and He says, "I've shown
00:33:55.30\00:33:57.30
you, I've born you on eagles'
wings, I've shown you my love.
00:33:57.33\00:34:00.14
I want to make a covenant.
00:34:00.17\00:34:01.60
I will be your God
if you'll be my people.
00:34:01.64\00:34:03.10
Do you trust me?
00:34:03.14\00:34:04.51
Do you know I love you?
00:34:04.54\00:34:06.07
Will you love me and obey me?"
00:34:06.11\00:34:07.91
The phrase, "Love God
and keep his commandments,"
00:34:07.94\00:34:10.21
do you realize that is
in the Ten Commandments?
00:34:10.25\00:34:14.28
In the commandment about
idolatry, showing mercy unto
00:34:14.32\00:34:17.12
thousands of them that love
Him and keep His commandments.
00:34:17.15\00:34:20.46
So, it tells you right there
that is the key to keeping the
00:34:20.49\00:34:22.69
Ten Commandments, amen?
00:34:22.72\00:34:25.26
So, everything that happened
to them are an allegory.
00:34:25.29\00:34:29.60
Now, were they
saved by keeping the Law?
00:34:29.63\00:34:35.37
No.
00:34:35.40\00:34:37.11
Did they go into the
promised land breaking it?
00:34:37.14\00:34:40.74
No.
00:34:40.78\00:34:42.41
While they were not saved from
Egypt by keeping the Law, they
00:34:42.44\00:34:44.81
did not go into the
promised land if they persisted
00:34:44.85\00:34:47.55
in breaking it.
00:34:47.58\00:34:50.65
So, people say, "Well, are
you saying that I must obey
00:34:50.69\00:34:52.69
the law to be saved?"
00:34:52.72\00:34:54.62
You're saved because
of the grace of Jesus.
00:34:54.66\00:34:57.29
But if you are saved by the
grace of Jesus, you will obey.
00:34:57.33\00:34:59.69
If you persist in disobedience
after God gives you your
00:34:59.73\00:35:02.70
wilderness time to learn to
obey, He cannot bring you into
00:35:02.73\00:35:07.14
heaven deliberately sinning.
00:35:07.17\00:35:09.07
If the devil was kicked out
for sinning, he is not going
00:35:09.10\00:35:11.34
to bring you in sinning.
00:35:11.37\00:35:13.48
That's what the Bible says.
00:35:13.51\00:35:15.14
You sinned and
you were cast out.
00:35:15.18\00:35:17.51
So, the purpose of
the plan of salvation,
00:35:17.55\00:35:20.05
"You will call His name
Jesus," for He will what?
00:35:20.08\00:35:24.22
Save His people
from-- in their sins?
00:35:24.25\00:35:27.72
From their sins.
00:35:27.76\00:35:29.26
Do you want to be
saved in your sin?
00:35:29.29\00:35:31.26
Or don't you want to
be saved from your sin?
00:35:31.29\00:35:32.86
My sin is a problem.
00:35:32.89\00:35:34.36
I want to saved from
my sin, not in my sin.
00:35:34.36\00:35:37.20
But a lot of
churches are teaching it
00:35:37.23\00:35:38.93
that He just kind of saves us.
00:35:38.97\00:35:40.47
We just bundle our
sins with who we are.
00:35:40.50\00:35:42.24
We thank Him for His grace, and
we're going to heaven that way.
00:35:42.27\00:35:45.21
Now I think there needs to
be a transformation in the life,
00:35:45.24\00:35:48.11
but it must happen because
of the blood of the Lamb,
00:35:48.14\00:35:51.68
because of love for the Lord.
00:35:51.71\00:35:53.31
See how the story helps
us understand the theology
00:35:53.35\00:35:57.29
of how that works.
00:35:57.32\00:35:59.22
Timothy 2, verse 6, "God, who
gave Himself a ransom for all,
00:35:59.25\00:36:05.09
to be testified in due time."
00:36:05.13\00:36:07.60
In Mark 10:44 and 45, "And
whoever of you desires to be
00:36:07.60\00:36:11.60
first shall be slave of all.
00:36:11.63\00:36:14.17
For even the Son of Man did
not come to serve, but to serve
00:36:14.20\00:36:17.44
and to give His
life a ransom for many."
00:36:17.47\00:36:19.91
So, it's a question
of who we want to serve.
00:36:19.94\00:36:22.74
Do we want to serve the Lord?
00:36:22.78\00:36:24.65
Or do we want
to serve the devil?
00:36:24.68\00:36:26.65
Now, think about it.
00:36:26.68\00:36:28.28
When a person says, "It's tough
being a Christian, I think I'd
00:36:28.32\00:36:30.82
like to give up," did the
children of Israel ever say,
00:36:30.85\00:36:33.62
"We want to go back to Egypt"?
00:36:33.66\00:36:36.79
You and I looking back on that
right now, we think, "Why in the
00:36:36.83\00:36:40.10
world would you want to go back
and worship the Pharaoh's gods
00:36:40.13\00:36:43.83
and serve the pharaoh and make
his bricks, buildings and work
00:36:43.87\00:36:49.37
in the clay pits of Egypt?
00:36:49.40\00:36:51.24
Why would you want that?"
00:36:51.27\00:36:52.94
It's amazing that
here they are on their way
00:36:52.97\00:36:54.91
to the promised land.
00:36:54.94\00:36:56.51
God's feeding them with
miracle bread every day.
00:36:56.54\00:36:58.48
They got water out of a rock.
00:36:58.51\00:37:00.18
His very presence
is in their midst.
00:37:00.22\00:37:01.98
And they said, "We
want to go back to Egypt."
00:37:02.02\00:37:04.69
And yet we know people who say,
"I'm tired of following Jesus.
00:37:04.72\00:37:07.46
The Christian life is hard."
00:37:07.49\00:37:09.02
Well, I'll tell
you, friends, it is hard.
00:37:09.06\00:37:10.43
Life is hard.
00:37:10.46\00:37:11.96
It is a lot harder to
be lost than to be saved.
00:37:11.99\00:37:14.46
"The way of the transgressor
is hard," the Bible says.
00:37:14.46\00:37:18.57
There is no rest for the wicked.
00:37:18.60\00:37:21.17
It is much harder to be lost.
00:37:21.20\00:37:23.34
Trust me. I've tried both.
00:37:23.37\00:37:25.57
It's harder to be
lost, to have no peace.
00:37:25.61\00:37:29.01
It is so much
better--life is tough.
00:37:29.04\00:37:30.78
It doesn't matter whether you're
a Christian or an unbeliever.
00:37:30.81\00:37:32.75
There's going to be challenges,
but it's a lot better
00:37:32.78\00:37:34.85
being a Christian.
00:37:34.88\00:37:36.28
Don't go back to Egypt.
00:37:36.32\00:37:37.92
So, all those
things they went through,
00:37:37.95\00:37:39.45
they're lessons for us.
00:37:39.49\00:37:40.79
In Tuesday's lesson, it
talks about the Sinai covenant.
00:37:40.82\00:37:44.63
Look at it.
00:37:44.66\00:37:46.09
It gives like an outline of
eight things that happened there
00:37:46.13\00:37:48.26
in Exodus chapter
19 and on through 24.
00:37:48.30\00:37:52.53
It says, first they arrived at
the encampment at Mount Sinai.
00:37:52.57\00:37:55.80
They had been
delivered by the Lord,
00:37:55.84\00:37:57.67
and that's Exodus 19:1 and 2.
00:37:57.71\00:37:59.47
God proposes a
covenant with Israel.
00:37:59.51\00:38:01.58
This is after
they've been saved.
00:38:01.61\00:38:03.14
He's given them water.
00:38:03.18\00:38:04.48
He's given them bread.
00:38:04.51\00:38:06.08
He delivered them from the
Amalekites who attacked them.
00:38:06.11\00:38:07.58
So, He's shown
His love for them.
00:38:07.62\00:38:09.95
He's given them leadership.
00:38:09.98\00:38:12.05
Israel's response and
acceptance of the covenant,
00:38:12.09\00:38:15.62
they're willing to listen.
00:38:15.66\00:38:17.83
Preparations for formally
receiving the covenant--
00:38:17.86\00:38:20.76
you know, God said,
"I'm going to speak to you.
00:38:20.80\00:38:22.86
Wash yourselves.
Wash your clothes.
00:38:22.90\00:38:25.67
Husbands and wives, you
need to fast from intimacy."
00:38:25.70\00:38:29.44
You know, that was part of it.
00:38:29.47\00:38:31.37
And this is a special occasion.
00:38:31.41\00:38:33.07
By the way, Paul refers to that.
00:38:33.11\00:38:34.78
He said husbands and
wives should not deny each other
00:38:34.81\00:38:37.21
unless they agree mutually.
00:38:37.25\00:38:40.78
And further, it should be
limited, lest they're tempted.
00:38:40.82\00:38:44.85
But there was a
time when God says,
00:38:44.89\00:38:46.65
"You're about to hear God speak.
00:38:46.69\00:38:49.82
You must present
yourselves pure before the Lord
00:38:49.86\00:38:54.40
and not be distracted."
00:38:54.46\00:38:56.30
And then it says--so, there's
a preparation for receiving
00:38:56.33\00:38:58.47
the Ten Commandments.
00:38:58.50\00:39:00.27
The proclamation of
the Ten Commandments,
00:39:00.30\00:39:01.90
before God gives him the written
transcript, he speaks it.
00:39:01.94\00:39:04.91
First they get
the audio version.
00:39:04.94\00:39:06.94
Then they get
the written version.
00:39:06.98\00:39:08.74
That's how
covenants usually work.
00:39:08.78\00:39:10.38
You and I are
going to make a covenant.
00:39:10.41\00:39:11.71
I'm going to buy your car.
00:39:11.75\00:39:13.11
So, you come to my house.
00:39:13.15\00:39:14.75
I advertised it on Craig's List.
00:39:14.78\00:39:16.38
I say I want 6,000.
00:39:16.42\00:39:17.95
You say, "Well, Doug,
there's a couple of scratches
00:39:17.99\00:39:19.59
in the bumper," and so forth.
00:39:19.62\00:39:21.22
And you say, "I'll
probably give you 5,500."
00:39:21.26\00:39:23.73
And I say, "No, I'll take 57."
00:39:23.76\00:39:28.36
And you act
like that's too much.
00:39:28.40\00:39:30.07
You're really actually very
happy, but you don't want to pay
00:39:30.10\00:39:32.17
more than you have to.
00:39:32.20\00:39:33.67
And so finally you kick
the ground and say, "Okay."
00:39:33.70\00:39:36.07
I say, "All right,
let me write it up."
00:39:36.10\00:39:39.17
So first you have
the verbal agreement.
00:39:39.21\00:39:41.31
No sense making a
contract if you haven't got
00:39:41.34\00:39:43.35
anything verbal, right?
00:39:43.38\00:39:45.11
Anyone in the law knows that.
00:39:45.15\00:39:46.51
First get a verbal agreement, or
you'll be writing all the time.
00:39:46.55\00:39:48.38
Then you write it up.
00:39:48.42\00:39:49.88
So, God announces it verbally.
00:39:49.92\00:39:51.75
Then the Ten Commandments
is the covenant that they have
00:39:51.79\00:39:54.12
agreed to at this point.
00:39:54.16\00:39:56.12
So, they get a written
copy of what they've agreed to
00:39:56.16\00:39:59.06
in the covenant.
00:39:59.09\00:40:01.86
So then you've
got the covenants.
00:40:01.90\00:40:03.73
The principals are spelled
out in Exodus 20, and the
00:40:03.77\00:40:06.84
ratification of the covenant
is Exodus 24, 1 through 18.
00:40:06.87\00:40:13.14
Matter of fact, let me
look at the clock here.
00:40:13.17\00:40:15.71
Ah, I don't have
time to read all that.
00:40:15.74\00:40:17.75
In Deuteronomy 29:10, "All of
you stand today before the Lord
00:40:17.78\00:40:22.22
your God, your leaders, and your
tribes, and all your elders,
00:40:22.25\00:40:25.19
and all your officers,
and all the men of Israel,
00:40:25.22\00:40:27.52
your little ones,
and your wives, also,
00:40:27.56\00:40:29.22
and the stranger
who is in your camp."
00:40:29.26\00:40:30.93
So, He includes everybody.
00:40:30.96\00:40:32.56
"From the one who
cuts your wood to the one
00:40:32.59\00:40:34.63
who draws your water."
00:40:34.66\00:40:36.50
The wood was for fire.
00:40:36.53\00:40:37.97
The water--notice that.
00:40:38.00\00:40:39.67
Baptism in the fire,
baptism in the water.
00:40:39.70\00:40:41.97
"That you might enter into
covenant with the Lord God, into
00:40:42.00\00:40:44.91
His oath, which the Lord your
God makes with you this day,
00:40:44.94\00:40:48.51
that He may establish you today
as a people for himself, that He
00:40:48.54\00:40:52.45
might be God to you, just as He
has spoken to you and just as He
00:40:52.48\00:40:56.82
has sworn to your fathers,
to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob."
00:40:56.85\00:41:00.42
Does God still today
have a covenant with Israel?
00:41:00.46\00:41:05.73
Well, it says they
broke the covenant.
00:41:06.23\00:41:09.23
But didn't God
renew the covenant?
00:41:09.26\00:41:11.60
Well, that's a
covenant with Gentiles.
00:41:11.63\00:41:13.54
Show me that.
00:41:13.57\00:41:15.24
It says, "A new covenant
I will make after those days
00:41:15.27\00:41:17.27
with the house of Israel."
00:41:17.31\00:41:19.87
So, we're all still living
under the new covenant, right?
00:41:19.91\00:41:22.21
It's still based on
the Ten Commandments.
00:41:22.24\00:41:24.38
Says, "My law I will
put in their hearts."
00:41:24.41\00:41:27.32
And it says it's
based upon better promises.
00:41:27.35\00:41:29.52
We'll get to
that in just a minute.
00:41:29.55\00:41:30.85
So, looking under Wednesday,
"God and Israel," you read in
00:41:30.89\00:41:34.66
Exodus 19:5 and 6, "Now
therefore if you will indeed
00:41:34.69\00:41:38.79
obey my voice and keep my
covenant, you will be a special
00:41:38.83\00:41:42.70
treasure to me above all people.
00:41:42.73\00:41:46.27
For all the earth is mine, and
you will be to me a kingdom of
00:41:46.30\00:41:49.54
priests and a holy nation."
00:41:49.57\00:41:52.07
These are the
words that you will speak
00:41:52.11\00:41:53.91
to the children of Israel."
00:41:53.94\00:41:55.48
Now, what good would we be if we
were a church full of pastors,
00:41:55.51\00:41:59.85
if every one of
you was a pastor?
00:41:59.88\00:42:01.98
And we all got together, and
we talked about how good it is
00:42:02.02\00:42:04.02
to pastor?
00:42:04.05\00:42:05.82
What would we know
about pastoring if we were all
00:42:05.85\00:42:07.52
pastors, and we just
kind of pastored each other?
00:42:07.56\00:42:11.99
The idea of being a pastor is
that you then go pastor sheep.
00:42:12.03\00:42:16.36
If all the shepherds get
together and talk about how
00:42:16.40\00:42:18.17
wonderful it is to be shepherds,
and you have no sheep--
00:42:18.20\00:42:21.37
so when He calls them a
nation of kings and priests,
00:42:21.40\00:42:23.77
what's the implication?
00:42:23.81\00:42:26.31
Israel was to be a
light to the world.
00:42:26.34\00:42:29.61
They were to be priests
like in the days of Solomon,
00:42:29.64\00:42:32.61
when all nations came to
Israel to learn about their God.
00:42:32.65\00:42:36.08
And all the people that--see,
God strategically located Israel
00:42:36.12\00:42:39.72
at a land bridge between
Asia and Africa and Europe,
00:42:39.75\00:42:45.89
and all the traffic went
through the land of Israel.
00:42:45.93\00:42:48.70
That's why some of the
kings became very, very wealthy
00:42:48.73\00:42:51.43
from the tolls and
tariffs that went through there.
00:42:51.47\00:42:54.34
That's why the
Romans wanted Israel.
00:42:54.37\00:42:55.97
You think, "Why
would they want that place?
00:42:56.00\00:42:57.47
Everyone is fighting over it."
00:42:57.51\00:42:58.94
It was the land bridge,
and it was very important
00:42:58.97\00:43:00.94
territory--not to mention,
back then it was a land flowing
00:43:00.98\00:43:03.21
with milk and honey.
00:43:03.24\00:43:04.95
So, the idea was as the nations
of the world were on their
00:43:04.98\00:43:08.02
trade, and they'd come through
Israel, every Israelite was
00:43:08.05\00:43:11.12
to be a priest, to
tell the others about God.
00:43:11.15\00:43:15.26
And Moses said, "The
other nations will see you, and
00:43:15.29\00:43:17.83
they'll say, 'What nation is
there that has such just laws,
00:43:17.86\00:43:20.93
that has God in their midst?'"
00:43:20.96\00:43:22.83
They were to be witnesses.
00:43:22.86\00:43:24.57
That's why He said, "You're
to be a nation of priests."
00:43:24.60\00:43:26.84
Now, was that just for Israel,
or is that for us today?"
00:43:26.87\00:43:30.21
Well, you are Israel
today, if you're a Christian.
00:43:30.24\00:43:33.48
I mean, I think God still has
a special plan for the Jewish
00:43:33.51\00:43:35.71
people and Israel, but
I think you are Israel.
00:43:35.74\00:43:39.95
If you are Christ's,
you are Abraham's seed.
00:43:39.98\00:43:41.92
He is not a Jew
which is one outwardly.
00:43:41.95\00:43:43.99
He is a Jew who is one inwardly.
00:43:44.02\00:43:46.42
And it is not
circumcision in the flesh.
00:43:46.45\00:43:48.32
It is circumcision in the heart.
00:43:48.36\00:43:49.92
This is what the
scripture teaches, right?
00:43:49.96\00:43:51.63
We are grafted in.
00:43:51.66\00:43:53.09
Paul says you and I are grafted
into the stalk of Israel.
00:43:53.13\00:43:56.26
We're grafted into that tree.
00:43:56.30\00:43:58.30
The book we read is a
book written by Jewish authors.
00:43:58.33\00:44:01.57
There are a couple of
very minor exceptions.
00:44:01.60\00:44:03.97
And so the
covenant that they made,
00:44:04.01\00:44:06.31
we get the benefit from that.
00:44:06.34\00:44:09.44
And so we are to be a
nation of kings and priests.
00:44:09.48\00:44:12.88
And look at how Peter says it.
00:44:12.91\00:44:14.22
1 Peter 2:9, "But you are
a chosen generation, a royal
00:44:14.25\00:44:17.92
priesthood, a holy
nation, His own special people."
00:44:17.95\00:44:21.26
Is Peter talking to
Jews or to Christians?
00:44:21.29\00:44:24.79
Christians.
00:44:24.83\00:44:26.26
We are a nation of priests.
00:44:26.29\00:44:27.76
It's the same
thing God said to Moses.
00:44:27.83\00:44:29.76
This is His plan, that
His church, we become priests
00:44:29.80\00:44:33.90
to the world.
00:44:33.94\00:44:35.44
I say priests, I
don't mean in the sense
00:44:35.47\00:44:37.11
that you're carrying on rituals.
00:44:37.14\00:44:38.54
I mean in that you're advocates,
you're teachers, you're like the
00:44:38.57\00:44:40.71
ancient Levites in that
you're sharing the Word of God.
00:44:40.74\00:44:45.01
It says we are a holy nation.
00:44:45.05\00:44:49.72
You read in
Revelation 1:5 and 6,
00:44:49.75\00:44:52.15
"And from Jesus
Christ, the faithful witness,
00:44:52.19\00:44:54.36
the firstborn from the
dead, and ruler over the kings
00:44:54.39\00:44:57.03
of the earth, to Him who
loved us and washed us from
00:44:57.06\00:44:59.83
our sins in His own blood and
has made us kings and priests
00:44:59.86\00:45:05.13
to His God and Father.
00:45:05.17\00:45:07.60
To Him be glory and
dominion forever and ever."
00:45:07.64\00:45:09.70
Is that clear?
00:45:09.74\00:45:12.17
Does that just happen when we
get to heaven, or are we to be a
00:45:12.21\00:45:14.48
nation of priests now?
00:45:14.51\00:45:16.71
Romans 3, verse 19, "We know
that whatever the law says, it
00:45:16.75\00:45:20.58
says to those who are under the
law, that every mouth might be
00:45:20.62\00:45:23.12
stopped, and all the world
might become guilty before God.
00:45:23.15\00:45:26.79
Therefore by the deeds of
the law, no flesh is justified
00:45:26.82\00:45:29.92
in His sight.
00:45:29.96\00:45:31.26
For by the law is the
knowledge of sin, but now the
00:45:31.29\00:45:34.76
righteousness of God apart
from the law is revealed, being
00:45:34.83\00:45:38.30
witnessed by the law and the
prophets, even the righteousness
00:45:38.33\00:45:41.87
of God through faith in Jesus
Christ and on all who believe.
00:45:41.90\00:45:46.41
For there is no difference.
00:45:46.44\00:45:48.14
For all have sinned and fallen
short of the glory of God."
00:45:48.18\00:45:50.51
It doesn't matter whether
you are a Jew or a Gentile.
00:45:50.55\00:45:53.15
We're all saved now by
that promise, that covenant.
00:45:53.18\00:45:56.32
That's our last section, under
Thursday, "Promises, Promises."
00:45:56.35\00:46:02.02
So, Moses gives
the Ten Commandments.
00:46:02.06\00:46:04.86
Now first let's go
to Exodus 19, verse 7.
00:46:04.89\00:46:08.66
"So Moses came, and he called
the elders of the people, and he
00:46:08.70\00:46:11.50
laid before them all the
words the Lord commanded him.
00:46:11.53\00:46:15.07
Then all the people answered and
said, 'All the Lord has spoken,
00:46:15.10\00:46:19.14
we will do.'"
00:46:19.17\00:46:20.74
All right, so they
are making a promise.
00:46:20.78\00:46:23.21
Did they keep their promise?
00:46:23.24\00:46:25.61
One of those promises says,
"Do not make graven images."
00:46:25.65\00:46:28.68
While Moses is
getting the Ten Commandments,
00:46:28.72\00:46:30.65
did they make a graven image?
00:46:30.69\00:46:32.85
And it said, you know, don't
commit adultery, but it says
00:46:32.89\00:46:34.92
that Aaron--the
people were naked.
00:46:34.96\00:46:37.79
And they had a--it
says they worshiped,
00:46:37.83\00:46:39.56
and then they rose up to play.
00:46:39.59\00:46:42.30
And you leave it to your
mind what happened there,
00:46:42.33\00:46:44.40
but it wasn't a
traditional worship service.
00:46:44.43\00:46:50.91
Yeah, I won't say anymore.
00:46:50.94\00:46:54.94
So, the people promised, "All
the Lord has said, we will do."
00:46:54.98\00:46:57.28
Now go to Exodus 24.
00:46:57.31\00:47:00.25
"Now he said to Moses, 'Come
up to the Lord, you and Aaron,
00:47:00.28\00:47:02.68
Nadab, and Abihu, and
the 70 elders of Israel
00:47:02.72\00:47:05.25
and worship from afar."
00:47:05.29\00:47:07.12
They weren't to come as close.
00:47:07.16\00:47:09.32
"And Moses alone shall
come up near the Lord."
00:47:09.36\00:47:11.69
Moses was a mediator.
00:47:11.73\00:47:13.83
What is Jesus?
00:47:13.86\00:47:15.56
He's our mediator.
00:47:15.60\00:47:17.53
Some of you remember the old gas
stoves that had three settings.
00:47:17.57\00:47:21.34
Low, high, and what?
00:47:21.37\00:47:24.31
Medium.
00:47:24.34\00:47:25.64
In the middle.
00:47:25.67\00:47:26.98
That's where you
get the word medium.
00:47:27.01\00:47:28.41
It's in the middle.
00:47:28.44\00:47:29.98
And Moses is in the middle
between God and the people.
00:47:30.01\00:47:32.01
Jesus is the mediator.
00:47:32.05\00:47:34.38
I love that story
where Christ is transfigured.
00:47:34.42\00:47:36.62
And one day he goes from
talking with the disciples
00:47:36.65\00:47:38.79
to talking to God.
00:47:38.82\00:47:40.52
Moses and Elijah and back again.
00:47:40.56\00:47:42.36
It's like Jesus is the
ladder that goes between heaven
00:47:42.39\00:47:44.96
and earth, which of course,
is what Jacob dreamed about.
00:47:44.99\00:47:48.50
And so he says,
"Come up to the Lord.
00:47:48.53\00:47:51.03
Moses alone will come near me,
but you shall not come near nor
00:47:51.07\00:47:55.04
shall the people go up with him.
00:47:55.07\00:47:57.17
So, Moses came and told
the people all the words of the
00:47:57.21\00:48:00.11
Lord, and all the judgments,
and all the people answered
00:48:00.14\00:48:03.51
with one voice--"
00:48:03.55\00:48:05.25
Here's the
promise of the people.
00:48:05.28\00:48:07.25
They're saying, "We
agree to the covenant.
00:48:07.28\00:48:09.15
All the words the
Lord has said, we will do."
00:48:09.18\00:48:12.29
When I do a wedding, and the
bride is there, and the groom is
00:48:12.32\00:48:15.49
there, and at some
point I will look at them,
00:48:15.52\00:48:17.66
and everything gets real
quiet, and they'll say, "I do."
00:48:17.69\00:48:21.40
Why?
00:48:21.43\00:48:23.10
Because there's a covenant.
00:48:23.13\00:48:24.67
And I'll look at the
man, and he'll say, "I do."
00:48:24.70\00:48:27.10
And usually, hopefully
they're real excited to
00:48:27.14\00:48:28.94
say, "I do," right?
00:48:28.97\00:48:30.91
If they're not happy about it,
00:48:30.94\00:48:32.61
then I ought to
tell them to pause.
00:48:32.64\00:48:34.58
So, that's a covenant.
00:48:34.61\00:48:36.75
God has given the Ten
Commandments, making a covenant
00:48:36.78\00:48:39.78
with the people, but the
people's promises broke down.
00:48:39.81\00:48:44.85
Now we're under the same
law, but better promises,
00:48:44.89\00:48:48.59
God's promise.
00:48:48.62\00:48:50.23
He says, "I will write
my law in their hearts.
00:48:50.26\00:48:52.59
Same law, but instead of
the people saying, "I will,"
00:48:52.63\00:48:55.53
God says, "I will do it."
00:48:55.56\00:48:57.83
It's based on His promise.
00:48:57.87\00:48:59.17
Can you say amen?
00:48:59.20\00:49:00.84
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have more I could say,
00:49:00.87\00:49:02.57
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00:51:03.39\00:51:05.43
in the same position.
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He tried to wake me up,
and he couldn't wake me up.
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When my parents found me, they
found me curled up in the fetal
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position in my hospital room,
unconscious still, and I stayed
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unconscious in this coma-like
state for the next week.
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I stayed the next month in the
hospital, slowly getting better,
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to where I could sit up
in bed, and I had to learn
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to walk again.
00:51:35.56\00:51:37.33
But my parents found this
one facility out in the hills
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of Tennessee.
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I had to admit that I liked the
place, but they were Christian.
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And even worse than that,
I said yes when they asked me
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if I wanted to go
to church that week.
00:51:50.41\00:51:52.97
Before the pastor said the
benediction, I was so excited
00:51:53.01\00:51:55.78
because I was
planning my escape.
00:51:55.81\00:51:58.28
And so after everybody was all
in bed that night, I made sure
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that they were snoring
and that they were asleep.
00:52:02.12\00:52:05.55
I went into the kitchen
and stole a few bananas,
00:52:05.59\00:52:08.32
got my backpack ready.
00:52:08.36\00:52:10.96
I figured I could
get sober on my own.
00:52:10.99\00:52:13.76
My favorite song
was, "I Did It My Way."
00:52:13.80\00:52:16.70
Of course, my definition
of sober was a nice supply
00:52:16.73\00:52:22.57
of marijuana each day
and alcohol on the weekends.
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And of course, if I had a
bad hangover, I might need some
00:52:26.31\00:52:29.01
of those relaxing pills to take.
00:52:29.04\00:52:31.51
But other than
that, that would be it.
00:52:31.55\00:52:35.22
So, here I am, stranded
on the street in the big city
00:52:35.25\00:52:38.12
of Houston, my bag
of clothes is gone.
00:52:38.15\00:52:41.72
My cell phone was gone.
00:52:41.76\00:52:43.26
My wallet, my bus ticket's gone.
00:52:43.29\00:52:45.06
I don't have anything
but the shirt on my back.
00:52:45.09\00:52:47.56
It's at that point that
this man comes up to me,
00:52:47.60\00:52:50.20
this mysterious man.
00:52:50.23\00:52:52.03
He's actually very short
and appears to be homeless.
00:52:52.07\00:52:55.24
And he led me to some food and
even a place to stay that night.
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Looking back, it is
my firm conclusion that
00:52:59.71\00:53:03.38
that was an angel.
00:53:03.41\00:53:05.28
So my dad was able to come
down to Houston and pick me up
00:53:05.31\00:53:08.85
and take me back up to
the health retreat at Wildwood
00:53:08.88\00:53:11.82
in Tennessee.
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They had a satellite.
00:53:13.69\00:53:16.36
On this channel there was
a man named Doug Batchelor.
00:53:16.39\00:53:19.69
I liked what I heard.
00:53:19.73\00:53:21.56
I liked the way he
explained the Bible.
00:53:21.60\00:53:23.57
It was so simple, and
he also had an experience
00:53:23.60\00:53:25.77
similar to mine.
00:53:25.80\00:53:28.17
And I talked to Lou about
him, and they happened to have
00:53:28.20\00:53:30.41
a whole set of cassette tapes.
00:53:30.44\00:53:33.44
I would wake up at 4 in the
morning sometimes, and I would
00:53:33.48\00:53:36.91
get up, and I would watch two of
those videos before breakfast.
00:53:36.95\00:53:40.85
I would sit this close to the
TV watching what Doug Batchelor
00:53:40.88\00:53:44.49
was saying, just
eating up every word of it.
00:53:44.52\00:53:46.89
I was so tired of hearing lies
and even believing my own lies,
00:53:46.92\00:53:50.23
that it was so wonderful to
find something that was solid
00:53:50.26\00:53:55.16
and that I could rely on.
00:53:55.20\00:53:57.20
And so when I got home
from rehab, in my local church,
00:53:57.23\00:54:02.14
Eric Flickinger from
Amazing Facts was holding
00:54:02.17\00:54:04.71
an evangelistic series.
00:54:04.74\00:54:06.78
They solidified my conviction,
and it was then I made
00:54:06.81\00:54:10.98
the absolute
decision to follow Jesus.
00:54:11.01\00:54:14.78
I praise the Lord Jesus
Christ for Amazing Facts.
00:54:14.82\00:54:18.92
I praise God for Amazing Facts
because they're so Bible based.
00:54:18.95\00:54:23.79
They send out evangelists
who are willing to teach
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the truth to people.
00:54:26.49\00:54:28.53
I'm thankful that they're
preaching right now all over
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the world, changing lives,
just as they changed mine.
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announcer: Together,
we have spread the gospel
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much farther than ever before.
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Casey: I would go
out and go drinking,
00:54:55.96\00:54:57.96
and I just wanted to have fun.
00:54:57.99\00:54:59.96
I was working a lot at the
time, going to school and just
00:55:00.06\00:55:04.07
wasn't really interested
in really following God.
00:55:04.10\00:55:07.90
I would have people tell me,
"Why don't you just have faith?"
00:55:07.94\00:55:10.07
if I was going through some
type of trial during my life.
00:55:10.11\00:55:13.74
I didn't
understand what that meant.
00:55:13.78\00:55:15.74
I would pray, but I didn't
feel any less stressed about
00:55:15.78\00:55:21.35
or worried about a situation.
00:55:21.38\00:55:23.39
I didn't understand God's Word.
00:55:23.42\00:55:25.39
It seemed like it
contradicted itself,
00:55:25.42\00:55:28.36
and so I
struggled with that a lot.
00:55:28.39\00:55:31.19
My ex-husband and
I, we had began dating.
00:55:31.23\00:55:35.23
And within seven months, we got
married, which was really fast.
00:55:35.26\00:55:40.10
After we got married,
he was very disrespectful,
00:55:40.14\00:55:43.94
and he was cheating a lot.
00:55:43.97\00:55:49.04
Found out he was cheating when I
was pregnant with my first son.
00:55:49.08\00:55:52.41
I tried to get him
help, and he checked himself
00:55:52.45\00:55:55.25
out of rehab a week later.
00:55:55.28\00:55:57.29
Living homeless in our hometown,
he was saying and doing things
00:55:57.32\00:56:02.32
that he shouldn't be doing.
00:56:02.36\00:56:04.23
He was committing crimes.
00:56:04.26\00:56:06.13
It always started with alcohol
and then pot or marijuana,
00:56:06.16\00:56:09.90
and then he
would go to the meth.
00:56:09.93\00:56:12.20
So, it was just a really ugly
chain of things, and that's why
00:56:12.23\00:56:16.77
I moved in with my sister.
00:56:16.81\00:56:18.97
We were staying with her, and
her husband and I started doing
00:56:19.01\00:56:25.98
studies with my sister.
00:56:26.01\00:56:27.78
She was studying
with some people,
00:56:27.82\00:56:29.35
and I joined the studies.
00:56:29.38\00:56:31.52
And I learned a lot of different
things that I had never known
00:56:31.55\00:56:35.46
about the Bible, and it
started opening up to me
00:56:35.49\00:56:38.23
and making sense.
00:56:38.26\00:56:40.03
So, my sister had
installed the satellite,
00:56:40.06\00:56:43.97
and I found Amazing Facts.
00:56:44.00\00:56:46.47
The one thing I love about Doug
Batchelor is he uses his own
00:56:46.50\00:56:50.31
life situations, and he uses
really good stories to connect,
00:56:50.34\00:56:56.78
stories from the
Bible or teachings.
00:56:56.81\00:57:00.65
I didn't understand why he was
always bringing up the Sabbath
00:57:00.68\00:57:03.05
and why it was so important.
00:57:03.08\00:57:04.79
And I was asking my sister,
"Why does he keep talking
00:57:04.82\00:57:06.89
about the Sabbath?"
00:57:06.92\00:57:09.29
And later on I found out,
through studying more, and
00:57:09.32\00:57:13.70
listening to his teachings about
it, the truth about the Sabbath.
00:57:13.73\00:57:18.33
I know that I
started changing as a person.
00:57:18.37\00:57:20.64
I wanted to follow the truth.
00:57:20.67\00:57:22.67
I wanted to have a
closer relationship with Christ
00:57:22.70\00:57:27.04
and be closer to God.
00:57:27.08\00:57:28.78
So, after doing the studies and
learning the truths that I had
00:57:28.81\00:57:32.05
been learning, I decided to take
that next step and give my life
00:57:32.08\00:57:36.75
to Christ through baptism.
00:57:36.79\00:57:39.39
Besides learning these messages,
these truths about the Bible
00:57:39.42\00:57:43.46
through Amazing Facts, all
of these wonderful people from
00:57:43.49\00:57:47.96
Amazing Facts, the way they've
reached out to me, they really
00:57:48.00\00:57:51.13
showed me that they have
caring hearts, that they're
00:57:51.17\00:57:54.44
Christ-like, because
that's what a Christian is.
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My name is Casey.
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Thank you for changing my life.
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