As you're well aware,
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we're living in
unprecedented times.
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Join us now for
Today special program.
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Removing pain
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Lord, let my words
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Heal a heart that hurts
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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Hello, family, and welcome
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to another 3ABN
Today Bible Q and A.
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I'm Jason Bradley,
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and perhaps this is
your first time joining us.
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I want you to know
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how you can send in
your Bible questions,
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because we have panelists
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that love to answer
those questions for you.
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Text your
questions to 618-228-3975,
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or send an email
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to BibleQA@3abn.org
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We have Shelley Quinn with us.
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Shelley, it's great to have you.
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It's just a joy to be here
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and just love being
able to share some things
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from the Bible with y'all.
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Amen.
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We've got Pastor Ryan Day,
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you answer
questions all day long.
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That's right.
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But you know what?
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It's a blessing and an
honor to be able to do it
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and we've got
some great questions
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and some great answers
for those questions today.
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Amen.
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And we have
Pastor John Lomacang,
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it's always great
to have you on as well.
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It's always fun,
and always enlightening.
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That's what God's
Word does even for us.
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Amen. Amen. Amen.
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Shelley, before we
dive into the Word of God,
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would you have prayer for us?
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Absolutely.
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Heavenly Father, we
are very grateful to You
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for our Lord and
Savior, Jesus Christ,
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for Your Holy
Spirit and Your Word.
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And we ask now, Lord,
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get us out of the
way empty us of us
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and, Lord, speak through us
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by the power of
Your Holy Spirit,
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and give us all ears to
hear what the Spirit says,
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and help us to put
your Word into practice.
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We ask this in Jesus' holy Name.
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Amen. Amen.
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Amen. Amen.
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I want to share this
verse real quick with you
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from Psalm 119:105, and it says,
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"Your word is a lamp to my
feet and a light to my path."
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Amen.
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And so we're
going to be spending
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quite a bit of time
in the Word of God today.
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Shelley, this first
question is going to you.
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This is from Ronald out
of Maryland and it says,
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"Is keeping the
Sabbath, more important
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than the blood of Jesus?"
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And you have three
minutes to answer this.
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Okay.
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Nothing is more important
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than the blood
of Jesus, nothing.
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His blood is how God fulfilled
His plan of redemption.
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God became a man in
the person of Jesus Christ,
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and He died for us,
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He was the lamb slain
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from the
foundation of the world.
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When you look at Revelation,
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or excuse me,
Hebrews 13:20, it says that,
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"Jesus' blood is the blood
of the everlasting covenant,
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it was His sacrifice for sin."
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It made it possible
to cleanse us from sin,
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Revelation 1:5, says,
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"Christ loved us, and
washed us from our sins
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in His own blood."
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Hebrews 9:22, says,
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"Without the shedding of blood
there is no remission of sin."
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Romans 3:24-25 says,
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"We were
justified freely by grace
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through the redemption
that is in Christ Jesus,
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whom God set forth
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as a propitiation by His blood."
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This is, it remind
you when the high priest
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would take the blood
into the Holy of Holies
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on the Day of Atonement
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and put it on the mercy seat.
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And Romans 5:9 says,
"Having been justified," how?
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"By His blood,
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we shall be saved
from wrath through him.
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Keeping this
Sabbath will not save you."
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There's nothing that we
can do to save ourselves.
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Ephesians 2:8-10 says that,
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"We are saved by
grace through faith,
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not of works that
anyone should boast."
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But having said that,
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the blood of Jesus
Christ ratified the New Covenant
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and God calls us
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into covenant
relationship with Him,
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which is a relationship
of love and loyalty.
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There is an
expectancy of obedience.
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The Ten Commandments
is God's law of love.
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Did you know
that Ten Commandments
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are a covenant?
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In Deuteronomy 4:13, Moses says,
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"He declared to
you His covenant,
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which he commanded you to
perform the Ten commandments
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He wrote them
on tables of stone,
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put them inside the ark,"
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but they are not
the old covenant.
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You find the Old
Covenant in Exodus 24:7-8,
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where Moses wrote it
the Old Covenant in a book,
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and then it ended up
on the side of the ark.
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The Ten Commandments
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were the heart
of the Old Covenant,
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the Ten Commandments
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are the heart of
the New Covenant.
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Hebrews 8:8-10, says,
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"God says, 'I will
put My laws in your mind,
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write them on your heart." '
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In Hebrews 5:9 says,
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"Jesus became the
author of eternal salvation
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to all who obey Him."
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Amen. Thank you
for your explanation.
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Ryan, what do
the 10 toes represent
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in Daniel Chapter 2?
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Amen.
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That's a great question,
great prophetic question
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that usually will
take about a few minutes
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during an
evangelistic series to answer
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but you know what we're
going to do our best now.
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Let's go to Daniel 2:41-42
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to read what the
Bible says there,
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and then we'll reveal
directly what that is.
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It says, "Where as
you saw the feet and toes,
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partly of potter's
clay and partly of iron,
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the kingdom shall be divided.
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Yet the strength of
the iron shall be in it,
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just as you saw the iron
mixed with ceramic clay."
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In verse 42,
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"And as the toes of the feet
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were partly of
iron and partly of clay
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so the kingdom
shall be partly strong
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and partly fragile."
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So we know that the leg those...
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in that metal man in Daniel 2,
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"The head of gold,
chest and arms of silver,
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the belly and thighs of
bronze, the legs of iron."
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They all represent the
four successive kingdoms
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the world empires that
ruled from Daniel's day
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unto the end of the world.
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In this case we know
Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece,
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and of course those legs of iron
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would be the pagan
civil kingdom of Rome.
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Now in this case
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the iron continues into the feet
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so does Rome's influence
continue into the feet?
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Yes.
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Yes, it does,
but the only thing is
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Babylon was conquered,
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Medo-Persia was conquered,
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Greece was pretty
much conquered by Rome
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in the sense that
they overtook in dominion.
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Rome was not really conquered,
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but Rome became
divided in the sense that
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they allow
themselves to become divided
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with the world.
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In this case,
those 10 toes represent
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the 10 divisional
kingdoms or nations
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that Rome became
divided into by the year 476 AD.
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So from 168 BC until 476 AD,
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Rome ruled
dominantly but by 476 AD,
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they were divided
into 10 different regions.
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So just as you see the 10 toes,
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those represent the
10 different regions
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or nations or kingdoms
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that Rome was made up, the
empire of Rome at the time,
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of course, those were,
I'm gonna list them here.
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The Alamanni which became
known as the Germans today,
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the Burgundians,
the Swiss, the Franks,
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of course, became
known as the French,
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the Lombards were the Italians,
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the Saxons, of
course, the English,
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the Suave or the Suavi,
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of course became
known as the Portuguese,
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the Visigoths were the Spanish,
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and of course the other three,
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the Herulis, the
Vandals and the Ostrogoths,
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those are all extinct today.
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So seven of them continued
on, three of them did not.
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Wow, thank you for unpacking
that for us in two minutes,
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that's incredible.
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Very good.
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Pastor Lomacang,
this question is for you,
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it's from Isabel.
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And she says,
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"I understand that the
battle started in heaven,
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Lucifer was cast out
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for slandering the
character of Jehovah,
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the Almighty God Creator.
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The evil one was
selfish and self centered,
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and was rebellious,
and the master liar,
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deceiver and destroyer.
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Was the devil on
this planet are ready
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when God created this
beautiful perfect world
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and everything
within, like, man and woman?"
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Well, the answer,
unfortunately, is yes,
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but he wasn't down here,
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waiting around
while God was creating
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because you find in Genesis,
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that when the Bible describes
the presentation of earth.
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It says,
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"The earth was
without form and void
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and darkness was upon
the face of the deep."
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So from the fresh, clean
slate, no one was on the planet.
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But during that time
you find in Revelations,
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"This challenge
of God's authority,
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this challenge of
the government of God.
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This Lucifer turned Satan
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attempted to overthrow
the government of God."
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The Bible says
in Revelation 12:7,
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"And war broke out in
heaven Michael and his angels,
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Michael and his
angels fought with the dragon
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and the dragon
and his angels fought,
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but they did not prevail,
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nor was a place found for
them in heaven any longer."
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So, if there is no
place for them in heaven,
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the question is where are they?
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The Bible will tell us.
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Verse 9,
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"So the great
dragon was cast out,
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that serpent of old
called the Devil and Satan,
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who deceives the whole world."
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Where was he?
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"He was cast to the earth,
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and his angels
were cast out with him."
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And so, unfortunately
in the middle of creation,
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if, if he wasn't here,
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there would have
been no reason for God
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to tell Adam what he did.
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In Genesis 2:17,
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"He said, 'You can eat
everything of a garden,
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but of the tree of the knowledge
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of good and evil
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you shall not eat.
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For in the day you eat of
it, you shall surely die."
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Now death couldn't be possible
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if there was not
a possibility of sin
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entering the world and
we know in Romans 5:12,
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Adam failed that test,
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knowingly and
willingly failed the test.
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But here's why we
know that Satan was here
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because 2 Corinthians 11:3 says,
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"But I fear, lest somehow,
as the serpent deceived Eve
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by his craftiness,
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so your minds may be corrupted
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from the
simplicity that is in Christ."
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So the answer
is, yes, he was here.
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Thank you, Pastor.
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Shelley?
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Is the name of Prophet
Muhammad mentioned in Quran
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also mentioned in
Hebrew or Greek Bible?
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No. Okay.
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Is it okay for a
Christian to marry a Muslim?
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Whoa!
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That's a difficult
one, not too difficult.
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Interfaith marriage
is a very serious matter
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because there can be
eternal consequences.
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In Matthew 19:4-6,
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"Jesus depicts marriage
between a man and a woman
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that they shall
become one flesh."
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And this is representative
of God's union with His church.
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The Word of God
strongly discourages
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any kind of
union between someone
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who believes in
Christ as the Messiah,
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and someone who does not.
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Let me give you a scripture,
2 Corinthians 6:14, says,
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"Do not be unequally
yoked together with unbelievers.
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For what
fellowship has righteousness
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with lawlessness?
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And what communion
has light with darkness?"
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Now, in that context,
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he is not specifically
speaking of marriage,
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but we know that Paul
in 1 Corinthians 7:39,
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had an expectation
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that Christians
should only marry Christians.
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1 Corinthians 7:39,
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"A wife is bound by law
as long as her husband lives.
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But if her husband dies
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she is at liberty to be
married to whom she wishes,
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only in the Lord."
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So that means
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they had to also be
a believer in the Lord.
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Amos 3:3 says,
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"Can two walk
together, unless they agreed?"
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I know people who have
married into other denominations
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or into other faiths,
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and it's never
been a happy union.
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It is particularly
bad if you have a child,
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because it affects more
than just you and your partner,
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it's going to affect
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how your
children will be reared.
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Luke 6 is a good,
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something to
build on, that says,
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"If you build your house
on the rock, Christ Jesus,
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it's gonna stand."
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Amen. Amen.
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Amen. Very good.
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Ryan, "Did Adam and Eve keep
their first ever Sabbath holy?"
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This is from Carol.
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Oh, absolutely.
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I believe that's very
clear because obviously,
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in this case, God
created them on the sixth day,
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the very next day
would have been Sabbath.
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And so here's, here's
where it gets kind of tricky
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because there's kind of a
couple of views out there.
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Some people say yes,
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they would have
kept Sabbath the next day
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because, you know,
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the Lord
created the Sabbath day,
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He rests on the
seventh day and therefore,
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they would have
kept that as well,
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and I believe that, I
don't believe they violated,
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you know, the very
next day that they lived.
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I don't believe that,
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that they violated
the Sabbath at all,
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but I also believe that
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Genesis 2:1-3, is a record of,
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"God keeping the Sabbath
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to give them an
example of how they are to rest
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and keep that Sabbath holy."
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Someone once said,
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"Well technically
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they would have
been listening to God
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and watching God in His example
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the very first ever Sabbath."
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And then, you know,
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they couldn't have actually
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kept their Sabbath by themselves
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until the next week because, of
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course, the commandment says,
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"Six days thou shall
work, and the seventh day
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is the Sabbath of
the Lord, thy God."
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And so some
people argue and say,
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well, it would have
been the next Sabbath
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that they would have
kept their first Sabbath.
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I think the most important thing
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is whether it was
that very next day,
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or it was the next
week, the answer is yes
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because they were
sinless beings at that point.
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They were in communion
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and in covenant
relationship with God.
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And we can even
give some support to this
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by simply stating the fact that,
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for instance,
Abraham, Genesis 26:5, it says,
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"And Abraham obeyed My
voice and kept My charge,
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My commandments, My
statutes and My laws."
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Some people argue that
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because the Ten Commandments
don't come until Exodus 20,
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that, you know,
that's a Jewish thing,
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The Sabbath is a Jewish thing,
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so Adam and Eve wouldn't
have had to keep the Sabbath
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because it
didn't come until later.
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But the fact that
we see evidence that
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Abraham obeyed God's
voice and kept His commandments.
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If God shared
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His law and His
commandments with Abraham
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before there ever was a
record of the Ten Commandments,
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an official record at that time,
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then you better
believe He would have shared
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His law and His commandments,
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obviously with
Adam and Eve as well.
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And you certainly wouldn't
have imagined God saying,
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you know, I'm
creating them on the sixth day
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and then the
very next day saying,
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oh, you know what?
00:15:55.52\00:15:56.85
I'm going to
rest and keep Sabbath
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but you don't have to,
it's not for you, right?
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We know for sure that they
would have kept that Sabbath.
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God would have taught
them to keep that Sabbath.
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And, of course,
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even Exodus 16:28 where he says,
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"How long refuse you
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to keep My
commandments and My laws"
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That's another indication
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that before the Ten
Commandments were there,
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He still expected them
to keep His commandments,
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and of course that would
have included the Sabbath.
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Amen. Excellent explanation.
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Pastor Lomacang? Yeah.
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My question is for Pastor John.
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"Jesus left us an
example for us to follow,
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because He is our example.
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My question is now that
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we are encountering
this difficult situation
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with this virus,
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is it okay for each
member to buy their own bread
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and wine which is grape
juice, and be in their home,
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and the pastor is at his home
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and conduct the
communion service.
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If yes, what
about the foot washing?
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Okay now, this
one is a beautiful.
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I mean that's
very, very creative
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and I
appreciate your creativity.
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One of the things
we did in our church
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we've had communion
service during COVID,
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but we did not do
the foot washing service
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because of the fact that
social distancing is impossible
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from holding your foot.
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All right, that's
the obvious answer.
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There may...
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There are a lot of
people that are very perturbed
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and thrown off schedule
00:17:13.63\00:17:14.96
by the fact that
they can't go to church.
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This is an
ordinance of specificity
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and the fellowship
aspects of this here is
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as important as
the ordinance itself.
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Now, the conditions
under which we say that
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you're in your home
and you have communion
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is when a person
is sick and shut in.
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Well now under COVID,
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they may not be
sick, but they are shut in.
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So there is no
injunction against it,
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and there is no instruction
to do it that way either.
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The only instruction
we have in the Bible is
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as often as you eat this
bread and drink this cup,
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you do show the
Lord's death till He comes.
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If your pastor decided
to get creative and said,
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"Tomorrow, I mean on
Friday, stop by the church,
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we'll give you a
prepackaged communion cup,
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prepackaged unfermented
wine and unleavened bread,
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and tomorrow we're
gonna have a Zoom communion."
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I don't see that
God is going to say,
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you know what?
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You guys just
violated the principles
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of the communion service
00:18:10.39\00:18:11.75
because I think the spirit of it
00:18:11.79\00:18:13.46
is we want to have
communion fellowship.
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We want to
still be able to enjoy
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these sacred sacraments
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that God established
00:18:21.53\00:18:22.86
to recommit ourselves to Christ,
00:18:22.90\00:18:24.70
and thereby
strengthen our fellowship
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one with another,
00:18:27.67\00:18:29.00
and our
recommitment one to Christ.
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So creativity is acceptable,
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and I don't think that
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God is going to
turn His back and say,
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well, guys you
forgot the foot washing,
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it doesn't count.
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We're gonna put
off foot washing back
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when circumstances allow.
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Amen. Amen. Thank you for that.
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Now perhaps you're
just now joining us
00:18:45.95\00:18:48.49
and you want to
send in your questions,
00:18:48.52\00:18:51.06
please text
them to 618-228-3975,
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or you can send an
email to BibleQA@3abn.org
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and we'd be happy to
answer those for you.
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Shelley,
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"What are ways
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that I can build my
relationship with God?"
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This comes from Diane.
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Oh, Diane, what a
wonderful question
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and I'm gonna give
you seven quick ways.
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One, pray daily to be
filled with the Holy Spirit.
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We see in Ephesians
3:16-19, that we are,
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"When the Holy Spirit is in us,
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we're strengthened
with the power of God,
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and we can
understand the love of God
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and we can only love Him
because He first loved us."
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Secondly, pray daily
for a divine awareness
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of God's presence.
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He said in Hebrews 13:5,
00:19:40.98\00:19:42.91
"I never leave
you or forsake you."
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But some people forget that
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He's with them
every moment of the day.
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Third,
communicate with the Lord,
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communication is
the relationship.
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Let God speak to
you through His Word,
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you read the Word.
00:20:01.00\00:20:02.70
And Hebrews 1:3 says that,
00:20:02.73\00:20:04.77
"He sustains and
upholds all things by His word."
00:20:04.83\00:20:09.04
But then you speak
to God through prayer,
00:20:09.07\00:20:11.97
and it's something
that I suggest that
00:20:12.01\00:20:14.74
you return God's
word to Him in prayer.
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Look at His promises and say,
00:20:17.51\00:20:19.61
"Oh, thank you, Lord,
00:20:19.65\00:20:20.98
that I'm a new
creation in Christ Jesus."
00:20:21.02\00:20:23.28
It helps you,
00:20:23.32\00:20:25.49
come to understand
your new identity in Him,
00:20:25.52\00:20:28.42
as you pray the
word back to Him.
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Number four, be loyal to God,
00:20:30.79\00:20:34.36
put His Word into practice.
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What am I
talking about? Obedience.
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Number five, abide in
Christ, Jesus said in John 15:5,
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"Apart from Me
you can do nothing."
00:20:45.97\00:20:49.01
So learn to depend
totally on His power, His wisdom
00:20:49.04\00:20:54.95
and His ability to save you.
00:20:54.98\00:20:58.85
Six, join a church
of likeminded believers.
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And number seven, get
involved in Christian service,
00:21:04.23\00:21:08.73
so you can share Jesus
and His love with others.
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Amen. I love
that, be loyal to God.
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I love that point, excellent.
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Pastor Day, we're coming to you
00:21:17.14\00:21:19.64
and you'll have three
minutes to answer this question.
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"Are there deciphers
of speaking in tongues.
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Meaning, are there
people that can interpret
00:21:25.68\00:21:28.28
what is being said?"
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Amen, I think
that's a great question.
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Certainly something
that needs to be clarified
00:21:31.85\00:21:33.56
and we're going to
try to do that right now
00:21:33.59\00:21:34.92
in the time given.
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First of all, let's
identify what tongues is, okay?
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There is...
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Tongues are
simply means languages,
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when you hear somebody
00:21:41.20\00:21:42.53
it's old English
word for languages
00:21:42.56\00:21:43.90
so you know, you have,
you speak in a foreign tongue
00:21:43.93\00:21:45.80
you might hear someone say,
00:21:45.83\00:21:47.17
talking about a
foreign language.
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So, speaking in tongues,
00:21:48.57\00:21:50.41
referring to the gift of
speaking in tongues by God,
00:21:50.44\00:21:53.24
of course, is the ability
to supernaturally in this case,
00:21:53.27\00:21:56.68
says the Bible gives evidence
00:21:56.71\00:21:58.55
and gives witness to
three different occasions.
00:21:58.58\00:22:00.95
Acts Chapter 2, Acts Chapter 10,
00:22:00.98\00:22:02.78
Acts Chapter 19,
00:22:02.82\00:22:04.15
in which someone
00:22:04.19\00:22:05.52
was
supernaturally given the ability
00:22:05.55\00:22:06.89
to speak in a tongue
that was easily understood
00:22:06.92\00:22:10.13
by the hearers around them
or someone within the distance,
00:22:10.16\00:22:13.50
hearing distance
could understand them.
00:22:13.53\00:22:16.03
So that being said,
00:22:16.06\00:22:17.40
I want to kind of actually
make something very clear here
00:22:17.43\00:22:19.90
because this is huge.
00:22:19.93\00:22:21.47
There is a gift
of interpretation
00:22:21.54\00:22:24.21
and there's a gift
of speaking in tongues.
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They're two separate gifts,
00:22:25.71\00:22:27.24
and never do we find
evidence in Scripture
00:22:27.28\00:22:29.74
where those two gifts
are used at the same time,
00:22:29.78\00:22:32.38
interlocked with each other.
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Let me give an example.
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I grew up and was raised
00:22:35.52\00:22:36.85
in the Apostolic
Pentecostal churches
00:22:36.89\00:22:39.29
where someone would
get up and they would speak
00:22:39.32\00:22:41.76
in some type of babbling tongue,
00:22:41.79\00:22:44.19
something that no one in
the room could understand
00:22:44.23\00:22:46.46
and then moments later,
someone else would stand up
00:22:46.49\00:22:48.56
and they would say
thus saith the Lord,
00:22:48.60\00:22:50.33
and they would
give an interpretation
00:22:50.37\00:22:52.03
and claim that
God had given them
00:22:52.07\00:22:53.40
that interpretation.
00:22:53.44\00:22:54.77
We don't see that in the Bible,
00:22:54.80\00:22:56.14
in every single instance
Acts 2, Acts 10, Acts 19.
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When God gives the
supernatural ability
00:22:59.71\00:23:02.21
for someone to
speak in a tongue,
00:23:02.28\00:23:04.75
it is heard and
understood by someone else
00:23:04.78\00:23:07.22
within distance of them,
00:23:07.25\00:23:08.72
and there's no need for
an interpretation, okay?
00:23:08.75\00:23:11.15
So in that case if
someone has been truly given
00:23:11.19\00:23:13.19
the gift of tongues by God,
00:23:13.22\00:23:15.16
there's going to be no
need for an interpreter
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because the listeners
are going to understand it.
00:23:16.89\00:23:19.49
However, there is the
gift of interpretation
00:23:19.53\00:23:22.16
and that means
that someone else,
00:23:22.20\00:23:23.80
let's say Pastor Lomacang
started speaking in Hindi.
00:23:23.83\00:23:27.07
And, you know,
they didn't know Hindi
00:23:27.10\00:23:29.84
but I knew Hindi and
God gives me the ability
00:23:29.87\00:23:31.91
to interpret that,
00:23:31.97\00:23:33.31
that's the gift
of interpretation,
00:23:33.34\00:23:34.94
so never do we see
the gift of tongues
00:23:34.98\00:23:37.05
and interpretation
00:23:37.08\00:23:38.55
exercised
together or used together
00:23:38.61\00:23:40.48
because it's redundant,
it's kind of unnecessary,
00:23:40.52\00:23:43.02
either he's gonna
give the gift of tongues
00:23:43.05\00:23:45.45
for the purpose of
communicating the gospel
00:23:45.49\00:23:47.52
to someone in
their native tongue,
00:23:47.56\00:23:49.39
or He's going to give someone
the gift of interpretation,
00:23:49.42\00:23:52.56
so that they can
interpret to two people
00:23:52.59\00:23:55.90
who don't speak
the same language
00:23:55.93\00:23:57.27
for the purpose of
communicating the gospel.
00:23:57.30\00:23:59.83
I love Acts Chapter 2
there because Acts 2:8, it says,
00:23:59.87\00:24:03.61
"And how is it that we hear
each one in our own language
00:24:03.64\00:24:07.01
in which we were born?"
00:24:07.04\00:24:08.44
That was the day
that God poured out
00:24:08.48\00:24:10.25
the gift of the Holy Spirit
00:24:10.28\00:24:11.61
for the purpose of
communicating the gospel
00:24:11.65\00:24:13.58
and He used the gift of tongues,
00:24:13.62\00:24:15.72
but there's no
mention of an interpreter
00:24:15.78\00:24:17.45
there in Acts Chapter 2,
00:24:17.49\00:24:18.85
just like there's
not in Acts Chapter 10
00:24:18.89\00:24:21.09
when, with Cornelius's house
00:24:21.12\00:24:22.46
and they're certainly not
with the 12 Ephesians disciples
00:24:22.49\00:24:24.79
in Acts Chapter 19.
00:24:24.83\00:24:26.16
So, yes it is a real gift,
but they're not used together,
00:24:26.19\00:24:30.07
it's two separate gifts.
00:24:30.10\00:24:31.80
Amen. Amen.
00:24:31.83\00:24:33.44
Pastor Lomacang.
00:24:33.47\00:24:34.80
"Will the Bible still
lists recorded sins in heaven?
00:24:34.87\00:24:38.44
All the sins of the
past will be erased,
00:24:38.47\00:24:40.88
but will we be able
to still read about sins
00:24:40.91\00:24:43.98
made by characters in the Bible?
00:24:44.01\00:24:46.35
I feel bad if we can
always read about David's
00:24:46.38\00:24:50.49
and Peter's embarrassing sins
00:24:50.52\00:24:52.12
while every other Christian
gets their sins deleted."
00:24:52.15\00:24:55.82
This comes from
Derek out of Minneapolis.
00:24:55.86\00:24:57.99
Thank you, Derek,
for that question.
00:24:58.03\00:24:59.89
I don't want to be little
00:24:59.93\00:25:01.30
but I want to
just say thank the Lord
00:25:01.33\00:25:02.73
that he has a delete
button, and from the Bible...
00:25:02.76\00:25:06.57
Bible ensures us.
00:25:06.60\00:25:08.20
I know someone here, a
good friend of ours said,
00:25:08.27\00:25:10.87
one of the
reasons I want to be saved
00:25:10.91\00:25:12.37
because I want anybody to
read about what I used to do.
00:25:12.44\00:25:15.31
And so let me
give me encouragement.
00:25:15.34\00:25:17.41
Let me walk you
through four scriptures
00:25:17.45\00:25:18.98
that will give us the assurance
00:25:19.01\00:25:20.72
that there's not
going to be some...
00:25:20.75\00:25:22.25
Can I, can I, can I,
could you have Ryan Day's file.
00:25:22.28\00:25:26.92
I know he's up here,
00:25:26.96\00:25:28.29
but I just want to
see what he used to do
00:25:28.32\00:25:29.99
before he met you,
00:25:30.03\00:25:31.36
that's not gonna
be the case in heaven.
00:25:31.39\00:25:33.09
Praise the Lord,
Ryan. Amen to that, brother.
00:25:33.13\00:25:35.00
1 John 1-9, the Bible says,
00:25:35.03\00:25:36.83
"If we confess our sins,
00:25:36.87\00:25:38.20
He is faithful and
just to forgive us our sins
00:25:38.27\00:25:42.07
and to cleanse us
from all unrighteousness."
00:25:42.14\00:25:45.31
When I wash my
car and cleanse it.
00:25:45.34\00:25:47.11
You won't find any soap on
it because it's been cleansed.
00:25:47.14\00:25:49.91
Acts 3:19,
00:25:49.94\00:25:51.41
"Repent therefore and
be converted, get this,
00:25:51.45\00:25:53.78
that your sins
may be blotted out."
00:25:53.82\00:25:56.18
If you spill juice on
my rug and I had to clean,
00:25:56.22\00:25:58.02
you don't see
the juice any longer.
00:25:58.05\00:25:59.39
That's what blotting out means.
00:25:59.42\00:26:01.16
So the times of refreshing
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may come from the
presence of the Lord.
00:26:02.79\00:26:05.16
Micah 7:19,
00:26:05.19\00:26:07.23
"He will again
have compassion on us,
00:26:07.30\00:26:10.73
and will subdue our iniquities.
00:26:10.77\00:26:13.94
He will cast our sins
into the depths of the sea."
00:26:13.97\00:26:17.24
Hallelujah.
00:26:17.27\00:26:18.61
And I add, "And put
out a no fishing sign."
00:26:18.64\00:26:20.64
Hey, Hallelujah.
00:26:20.68\00:26:22.11
Finally, Isaiah 65:17,
00:26:22.18\00:26:25.55
"For behold,
00:26:25.58\00:26:26.98
I create new
heavens and the new earth,
00:26:27.02\00:26:29.55
and the former things
shall not be remembered
00:26:29.58\00:26:33.42
nor come to mind."
00:26:33.46\00:26:35.76
What did you do on earth?
00:26:35.79\00:26:37.49
I don't remember.
00:26:37.53\00:26:39.26
What did Ryan do on
earth? I don't remember.
00:26:39.29\00:26:41.30
It will not be remembered
nor even come to mind.
00:26:41.33\00:26:44.93
Hallelujah. Why?
00:26:44.97\00:26:46.30
There'll be no more sorrow,
no more death, no more crying,
00:26:46.33\00:26:49.00
neither shall
there be any more pain.
00:26:49.04\00:26:50.91
In Nahum 1:9,
00:26:50.94\00:26:52.27
"Affliction will not
rise up a second time."
00:26:52.31\00:26:55.18
Amen. So don't worry about it.
00:26:55.24\00:26:56.95
Praise the Lord.
00:26:56.98\00:26:58.31
Accept Christ,
you'll be in the clear.
00:26:58.35\00:26:59.68
Praise God. I'm
looking forward to that day.
00:26:59.71\00:27:01.12
Amen. It better
come soon enough.
00:27:01.15\00:27:03.32
Shelley, "How
significant is baptism?"
00:27:03.35\00:27:06.25
Whoa! Okay.
00:27:06.29\00:27:08.06
Christ gave only two
ordinances to the church.
00:27:08.09\00:27:11.09
The Lord's Supper
00:27:11.13\00:27:12.46
which acknowledges
the death of Christ,
00:27:12.53\00:27:14.73
and baptism which
acknowledges His burial
00:27:14.76\00:27:18.53
and resurrection.
00:27:18.57\00:27:20.04
Together, they depict
00:27:20.07\00:27:23.17
and tell the story of Christ
atoning work for His people.
00:27:23.20\00:27:28.54
In Matthew 28:18-20,
00:27:28.58\00:27:32.51
Jesus we call is
the Great Commission,
00:27:32.55\00:27:35.08
but He commanded
His disciples, He said,
00:27:35.12\00:27:38.69
"Go and make
disciples in all the nations."
00:27:38.75\00:27:42.42
And He said,
00:27:42.46\00:27:43.79
"Baptizing them in
the name of the Father
00:27:43.83\00:27:45.79
and the Son and
the Holy Spirit."
00:27:45.83\00:27:48.53
Baptism is a
crucial act of obedience.
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If you go to Romans
6, read this tonight,
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Romans 6:3-6.
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You see what
baptism is all about.
00:27:58.97\00:28:01.44
Baptism is like
the dead, the burial,
00:28:01.48\00:28:03.75
the resurrection of Jesus.
00:28:03.78\00:28:05.61
And so, as Christians,
it's an outward visible sign
00:28:05.65\00:28:09.85
of an inward work that
God has been doing in us.
00:28:09.88\00:28:13.42
It is a public confession
of our faith in Jesus Christ,
00:28:13.46\00:28:18.69
that we have
accepted salvation by grace
00:28:18.73\00:28:21.53
that we trust
in His forgiveness,
00:28:21.56\00:28:23.67
that the penalty has been paid.
00:28:23.70\00:28:25.70
As we are fully
buried in the water,
00:28:25.73\00:28:29.37
we are burying
our past, if you will,
00:28:29.40\00:28:32.67
and we come up in
resurrection of new life
00:28:32.71\00:28:37.75
to walk in that newness of life,
00:28:37.78\00:28:40.12
empowered by the Spirit.
00:28:40.15\00:28:42.68
Baptism is crucial.
00:28:42.72\00:28:45.62
It is the sign
of the New Covenant,
00:28:45.65\00:28:49.92
that we have a
circumcised heart.
00:28:49.96\00:28:53.50
Now, the thief on the
cross couldn't be baptized.
00:28:53.53\00:28:57.23
But if you are a Christian,
and you have accepted Christ,
00:28:57.27\00:29:01.34
you should seek
00:29:01.37\00:29:02.77
the very first
opportunity possible
00:29:02.80\00:29:05.54
to be baptized.
00:29:05.57\00:29:06.91
Amen. Amen.
00:29:06.94\00:29:08.28
And I'm glad that you touched
on the thief on the cross too
00:29:08.31\00:29:10.01
because that question
comes up a lot as well.
00:29:10.05\00:29:13.01
Pastor Day, Leviticus 3:17,
00:29:13.05\00:29:16.75
"If we do eat meat,
00:29:16.79\00:29:18.65
should we not eat rare
meat or bloody meat or fat?
00:29:18.72\00:29:23.66
Absolutely.
00:29:23.69\00:29:25.03
And then that Leviticus
3:17 makes that very, very clear
00:29:25.06\00:29:29.53
as far as the
blood aspect of things,
00:29:29.56\00:29:31.80
it makes it very clear,
00:29:31.87\00:29:33.20
in fact, I'll just read it here,
00:29:33.23\00:29:34.57
Leviticus 3:17 says,
00:29:34.60\00:29:35.94
"This shall be a
perpetual statute
00:29:35.97\00:29:37.31
throughout your generations
00:29:37.34\00:29:38.67
in all your dwellings
00:29:38.71\00:29:40.04
that you shall eat
neither fat nor blood."
00:29:40.08\00:29:42.81
So it covers both of
them there very, very clearly.
00:29:42.84\00:29:45.48
And so, yeah when you
have those certain meats
00:29:45.55\00:29:47.88
where people, I mean they choose
00:29:47.92\00:29:49.48
the bloodiest part of the animal
00:29:49.52\00:29:50.89
and then they don't put it
through its proper processes
00:29:50.92\00:29:53.12
and trying to get rid
of that blood and that fat,
00:29:53.15\00:29:55.26
but rather some people just
00:29:55.29\00:29:56.62
throw it on a grill
or throw it in a pan
00:29:56.66\00:29:57.99
and they'll sear it,
00:29:58.03\00:29:59.36
and then in the middle of it,
00:29:59.43\00:30:00.76
it's just drenching and
blood and it's marbled in fat.
00:30:00.80\00:30:02.73
We have to be very careful
00:30:02.76\00:30:04.10
because the Bible
makes it very clear that
00:30:04.13\00:30:05.47
God, there's these,
there's a certain meaning
00:30:05.53\00:30:08.70
behind these things.
00:30:08.74\00:30:10.07
For instance, let's considered
the blood for a moment.
00:30:10.11\00:30:11.81
Leviticus 17:11 tells us,
00:30:11.87\00:30:14.41
"For the life of the
flesh is in the blood,
00:30:14.44\00:30:16.78
and I have given it
to you upon the altar,
00:30:16.81\00:30:19.61
notice, not for
food but upon the altar,
00:30:19.65\00:30:21.62
to make atonement for your souls
00:30:21.65\00:30:23.05
for it is the blood
00:30:23.08\00:30:24.42
that makes
atonement for your soul."
00:30:24.45\00:30:26.29
So that was to be offered
as an offering for atonement,
00:30:26.32\00:30:29.52
not necessarily for
you to ingest or to digest.
00:30:29.56\00:30:32.79
Also Leviticus 4:35
referring to the fat, okay?
00:30:32.83\00:30:36.60
It says,
00:30:36.63\00:30:37.97
"He shall remove all its fat
00:30:38.00\00:30:39.73
as the fat of the lamb
00:30:39.77\00:30:41.10
is removed from the
sacrifice of the peace offering.
00:30:41.14\00:30:43.10
Then the priest shall
burn it up on the altar,
00:30:43.14\00:30:45.44
according to the offerings
made by fire to the Lord.
00:30:45.47\00:30:47.94
So the priest shall
make atonement for his sin,
00:30:47.98\00:30:51.15
that has that he has committed
and it shall be forgiven him."
00:30:51.18\00:30:54.98
And, of course, tie that to
Leviticus 16:25, which says,
00:30:55.02\00:30:58.82
"The fat of the sin offering
he shall burn up on the altar.
00:30:58.85\00:31:02.16
So this was a sin offering,
it's representative of sin,
00:31:02.19\00:31:05.23
and of course, these are things
that, again, Leviticus 3:17,
00:31:05.29\00:31:08.83
I believe is very, very clear.
00:31:08.86\00:31:10.47
And so when we
make our food choices,
00:31:10.50\00:31:12.60
if you are a meat eater
00:31:12.63\00:31:13.97
and you do choose to
eat even those clean meats
00:31:14.00\00:31:16.60
that God has said is
permissible for you to eat,
00:31:16.64\00:31:19.44
then in that case
make sure you're choosing
00:31:19.47\00:31:21.34
and properly
preparing these things
00:31:21.38\00:31:23.75
to where you're not
consuming the blood, or the fat
00:31:23.78\00:31:26.38
of that animal.
00:31:26.41\00:31:27.75
Amen. Thank you.
00:31:27.78\00:31:29.68
Pastor Lomacang,
00:31:29.72\00:31:31.05
"Is it possible
00:31:31.09\00:31:32.42
that even though the Bible
00:31:32.45\00:31:33.79
does not seem to
indicate for sure
00:31:33.82\00:31:35.92
that Joseph and Mary
could have had another child
00:31:35.99\00:31:38.86
or children after Jesus?"
00:31:38.89\00:31:41.60
And then it said,
00:31:41.63\00:31:42.96
"Air hugs to pastor
Lomacang knows who I am."
00:31:43.00\00:31:46.13
This is Rhonda from Minnesota.
00:31:46.17\00:31:48.17
How you doing, Rhonda really?
00:31:48.20\00:31:49.74
I have a few Rhonda in
our lives from churches
00:31:49.77\00:31:52.11
and even when I was
in the Heritage Singers,
00:31:52.14\00:31:53.61
so I got to figure
out which one that is,
00:31:53.64\00:31:55.78
but praise the Lord,
00:31:55.81\00:31:57.71
you know, let me
just go and begin
00:31:57.75\00:31:59.08
with the obvious answer
00:31:59.15\00:32:00.55
Joseph was not a
natural father of Jesus.
00:32:00.58\00:32:02.98
The Bible makes
it very, very clear.
00:32:03.02\00:32:04.99
It says Matthew 1:21,
00:32:05.02\00:32:07.89
"She will bring forth a son
00:32:07.92\00:32:09.89
and you shall
call His name Jesus,
00:32:09.92\00:32:12.19
for He will save His
people from their sins."
00:32:12.26\00:32:14.40
But it also says Matthew 1:18,
00:32:14.46\00:32:18.00
"Now the birth of
Jesus Christ was as follows
00:32:18.03\00:32:21.04
after his mother Mary
was betrothed to Joseph,
00:32:21.07\00:32:24.37
that's engage, a little
more advance than engage,
00:32:24.41\00:32:27.01
before they came together,
00:32:27.04\00:32:28.38
before they had sexual relation,
00:32:28.41\00:32:29.74
she was found with
child of the Holy Spirit."
00:32:29.78\00:32:32.75
So Joseph is not the
natural father of Jesus.
00:32:32.78\00:32:36.92
And the Bible made it
clear in Matthew 1:24,
00:32:36.95\00:32:39.32
that verse 25
He did not know her
00:32:39.39\00:32:41.86
until she brought
forth her firstborn son.
00:32:41.89\00:32:45.09
Now the reason
why it says firstborn,
00:32:45.13\00:32:47.66
it would have said only son,
00:32:47.66\00:32:49.00
but first one is significant
00:32:49.06\00:32:50.40
because you find
Jesus did have siblings.
00:32:50.43\00:32:52.77
Let me go ahead and
give you some examples.
00:32:52.83\00:32:54.70
Mark 6:3, the Bible says,
00:32:54.74\00:32:58.37
"Is not this the
carpenter, the son of Mary,
00:32:58.41\00:33:01.94
the brother of James, Joses,
00:33:02.01\00:33:05.45
and of Judah, and Simon.
00:33:05.48\00:33:07.52
It mentions four
brothers but it didn't stop,
00:33:07.55\00:33:10.19
and are not His
sisters here with us."
00:33:10.22\00:33:14.52
So it says that Jesus
had James, Joses, Judah,
00:33:14.56\00:33:19.33
some translations say Judas,
00:33:19.36\00:33:21.30
but it's in fact
that's Jude and Simon,
00:33:21.33\00:33:24.50
so it mentions four brothers.
00:33:24.53\00:33:26.40
Let's go to Galatians 1:19,
00:33:26.43\00:33:29.20
Paul the Apostle
also makes this connection
00:33:29.24\00:33:32.17
that Jesus was
not an only child.
00:33:32.21\00:33:34.94
It says,
00:33:34.98\00:33:36.31
"But I saw no, I saw
none of the other apostles,
00:33:36.34\00:33:40.75
except James,
the Lord's brother."
00:33:40.78\00:33:44.05
So clearly, and
then we find Jude 1.
00:33:44.09\00:33:46.39
It says,
00:33:46.42\00:33:47.76
"Jude, a
bondservant of Jesus Christ,
00:33:47.79\00:33:52.03
and brother of James."
00:33:52.09\00:33:54.00
So James is his brother,
00:33:54.00\00:33:56.03
Jesus Christ is
his brother also.
00:33:56.06\00:33:58.50
And finally, Acts 1:14, it says,
00:33:58.53\00:34:01.77
"All these continued
with one accord in prayer
00:34:01.80\00:34:04.74
and supplication,
with them, with a woman,
00:34:04.77\00:34:07.94
and Mary, the mother of
Jesus, and with his brothers."
00:34:07.98\00:34:13.52
So the Bible makes
it very, very clear.
00:34:13.55\00:34:15.25
So here's the siblings of Jesus.
00:34:15.28\00:34:17.72
James, Joses, Simon,
Judah, also known as Jude,
00:34:17.75\00:34:22.92
and at least two sisters,
so He did have siblings.
00:34:22.96\00:34:26.90
Amen. Amen. Amen.
00:34:26.93\00:34:29.63
Shelley, we're
coming to you on this one.
00:34:29.66\00:34:31.90
This is precious.
00:34:31.93\00:34:33.27
"I'm 12 years old, and
I love reading my Bible.
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Praise God.
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But I noticed Jesus
always says He's coming back,
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but it's been centuries.
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I believe in Christ
100%, but if He's coming back,
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why hasn't He?"
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This comes from Daisy.
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Oh, darling, Daisy, I
am so proud of you, honey.
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In 2 Peter 3:8,
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the Bible says
that a thousand years
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is like a day to the Lord.
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You know God is perfect
in wisdom and knowledge,
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and we got to trust His timing.
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Did you know that
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when Adam and Eve
were in the garden,
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God announced that the
Messiah would be coming?
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And look how long it
took for the Messiah,
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Jesus Christ to arrive.
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It took thousands of years,
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and even His
arrival time was prophesied.
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Daniel 9:24-25, we knew
exactly when He was coming.
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But the Apostle Paul says
it this way in Galatians 4-4.
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He said, "In the
fullness of time."
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What that means, Daisy,
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is that God has
a perfect timing.
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He knew exactly
when Jesus should come.
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He knew when the
world would be ready
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to hear Him
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and now He's waiting
for the fullness of time
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for His second coming.
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What's God waiting for?
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Matthew 24:14,
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"God's waiting for the
gospel to go to all the world."
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2 Peter 3:9 says that,
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"God is waiting
patiently for people to repent.
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He doesn't want
anyone to perish."
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In John 13:35, it says that,
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"God is waiting for Christians
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to be known by their love that
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they're supposed to
be loving everyone."
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And Matthew 24:36 says that,
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"We're waiting
for God's perfect time
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to be fulfilled."
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Jesus said,
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"Of that day and
hour, no one knows,
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not even the angels in
heaven, but my Father only."
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But Hebrews 7:25 tells us that,
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"While Jesus is waiting.
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He's not just sitting by, Daisy.
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It says that,
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"He is interceding,
He is praying for you,
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and He is able to
save you completely."
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And then one day He's
gonna stand up and say,
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"Behold, I come quickly."
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Amen. Amen. Well said.
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Praise God for
that intercession.
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Amen.
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Pastor Day,
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"Should we have
communion once a year
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at Passover as Christ did,
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or should we have it
as often as we feel?"
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This comes from
Veronica out of Tampa.
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Yeah, that's a
great question, Veronica.
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I actually want to
give you two answers
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to the two parts
of your question.
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The first answer would
be, "No" to the Passover
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and "Yes" to as
often as Christ said,
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"As often as you do it,
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do it in remembrance of Me."
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Let's go back to
the Passover point.
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Any Christian, again,
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that professes
Christ as their Savior.
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If that person is
doing or taking communion
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in connection with Passover,
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then they're kind of shooting
themselves in the foot per se,
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because you're
pretty much denying
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the work that Christ has done,
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in the sense that
you're acknowledging Passover
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which Christ has
already fulfilled.
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You know, the fact that
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the Passover date
still exists every year
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that's according to the Jewish
Orthodox religious calendar,
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and the fact that that Jewish
Orthodox religious calendar
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even exists is a
witness to the fact that
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that entire nation,
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that series of
Jewish Orthodox religion,
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we're talking about that
original Judaistic religion,
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they deny Jesus
Christ as Messiah,
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they deny Jesus
Christ as the Son of God.
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And so in that case
if you are keeping up
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with that Jewish
religious calendar to do it
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as you think you're doing it
in following Christ's example.
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You have to remember,
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Christ did it because
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He had not yet fulfilled it all.
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He had not yet went to the cross
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as that Passover lamb,
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but if you're
going to keep Passover
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according to the
way it should be,
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you have to have the
lamb, you'd have to shed blood.
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And, of course, Jesus
Christ as John the Baptist said
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when Jesus was
coming in John 1:29,
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"Behold the Lamb of God
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who takes away
the sin of the world."
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Jesus has
already fulfilled that.
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Even the great
Jewish historian Josephus
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records in his writings that
when Christ died on the cross,
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that when that veil
was rent in the temple,
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that the high priest that
Caiaphas came out screaming,
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"Ichabod Ichabod,
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the glory of the
Lord had left the temple."
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He had dropped the
knife and the lamb escape
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because Jesus
Christ was that sacrifice
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so no, do not
keep or take communion
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in honor or in
connection with Passover
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because that's kind of redundant
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and unnecessary.
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Christ has
fulfilled that He is our lamb,
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and, yes, you should do it
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in accordance
with 1 Corinthians 11,
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as Pastor mentioned
earlier, verse 25 and 26,
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"As often as you do it, do
it in remembrance of Jesus."
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Amen. Thank you Pastor Day.
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Pastor Lomacang,
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"Was Leah, the wife,
chosen by God for Jacob,
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or was it Rachel?
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I know polygamy was
not sanctioned by God,
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even though he allowed it.
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Without Leah, we
wouldn't have Judah,
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in which tribe
Jesus came through."
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This comes from
Judine from Jamaica.
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I like this question, Judine,
for I'm in a similar situation,
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I was born out of wedlock.
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But look at me today,
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and I want to make this
point by going on and saying,
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it shows, and I'm going
to give you the lineage.
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I'm going to give a talk about
where the children came from,
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who the woman was,
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it shows that God still
works in spite of our choices,
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not in support of our choices.
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Hallelujah.
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And this is something
that we have to keep in mind
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while God does
not support polygamy,
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you go back and you see,
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by the time of Lamech
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polygamy began to
enter into the world,
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and it was highly practiced.
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One of the biggest transgressors
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in that area was Solomon.
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He loved many strange women.
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What a life,
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but the Lord
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while He did not honor polygamy
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He honored every
child that Jacob had.
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Let's look at how
many children he had,
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and from whom they came.
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We know that Rachel had a
difficulty bearing a child,
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and she was without child.
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Leah was not that attractive
but the Lord looked upon her,
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and opened her
wound, and she bore six,
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she bore Reuben,
Simeon, Levi, Judah,
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Issachar and
Zebulun, six children.
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Then Zilpah,
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which is Leah's
maid Gad, and Asher.
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Then Bilhah, Dan and Naphtali,
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and then Rachel
finally had two sons,
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which is Joseph and Benjamin.
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Benjamin
unfortunately was the last one.
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He was called Benoni.
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She named him
Benoni, before she died.
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But Jacob called him Benjamin.
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So, four women, 12 sons.
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Once again, God did
not support the method,
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but God chose and
supported the children.
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Amen. Amen. Praise the Lord.
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Thank you, great, great saying.
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We are entering
into our bonus round,
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so I will throw
out some questions
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and whoever chooses
to answer may do so.
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"Where are we in
terms of the seals?"
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This comes from Diane.
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Go ahead.
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Well, I'll give
what I've have studied
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and what I understand
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as being and of
course pastor can clean it up
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and correct me if on
anything that I may miss, miss,
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please speak on.
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I personally after
studying the seals through
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because we did a
few years ago we done.
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I think it was a
couple of years ago
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we did whole
Sabbath School lesson
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on the Book of Revelation.
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And I believe we're in
that transitioning period
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soon from the fifth
seal into the sixth seal,
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and when you get
to the sixth seal
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and you read the contents of it,
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it clearly within the context
of this coming of Christ.
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For instance, if you read there,
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it talks about
these cosmic disturbances,
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I looked in...
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This is Revelation
Chapter 6, I apologize for that.
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Revelation Chapter 6
beginning with verse 12,
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so, again, that fifth seal
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as you see the
souls on the altar
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crying out for justice,
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God, you know,
bring justice to us
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and He says
sleep a little longer.
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But then as it's transitioning
into the sixth seal,
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look what happens
in verse 12, it says,
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"I looked when he
opened the sixth seal
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and behold there
was a great earthquake
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and the sun became
black as sackcloth of hair,
00:43:07.02\00:43:09.92
and the moon became like blood
00:43:09.95\00:43:11.45
and the stars of
heaven fell from the earth
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as a fig tree
drops its late figs
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when it is shaken
by a mighty wind."
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Then, okay, we'll
stop there for a moment
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so all of that, some people look
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and they compare
that to Matthew 24
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and they say, oh,
that's the same thing
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that happened back,
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you know, during
that Dark Ages time period
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after we were transitioning
out of the Dark Ages,
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you know, before
the 1844 time period,
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and that indeed did happen.
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We did have see the moon
turn as blood and the sun
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didn't give its light and
the stars fall from heaven,
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but in this instance
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I believe this is
within the context
00:43:39.25\00:43:40.58
of the very last events
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prior to the
Second Coming of Jesus.
00:43:42.18\00:43:43.62
I believe we're gonna
see these things happen
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once again on a
very large global scale.
00:43:45.49\00:43:48.12
And so when you get to verse 14,
00:43:48.16\00:43:49.82
notice what happens immediately
following these events.
00:43:49.86\00:43:51.99
It says,
00:43:52.03\00:43:53.40
"In the sky receded as a
scroll when it is rolled up
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and every mountain and island
00:43:55.23\00:43:56.56
was moved away out of its place.
00:43:56.63\00:43:58.13
And the kings of the
earth and the great men,
00:43:58.17\00:43:59.80
the rich men and the commanders,
00:43:59.83\00:44:01.24
the mighty men,
00:44:01.27\00:44:02.64
every slave and every free
man hid themselves in the caves,
00:44:02.67\00:44:05.57
and in the rocks
of the mountains."
00:44:05.61\00:44:07.21
I believe this was during that
great Revelation 16 time period
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when those plagues
are being poured out.
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But then notice what
also happens it says,
00:44:13.62\00:44:15.05
"And said to the
mountains and the rocks,
00:44:15.08\00:44:17.25
'Fall on us the weeping
and the gnashing of teeth,
00:44:17.29\00:44:19.99
fall on us and hide
us from the face of Him
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who sits on the throne
00:44:22.06\00:44:23.43
and from the wrath of the Lamb."
00:44:23.46\00:44:25.16
That wrath of the Lamb,
00:44:25.19\00:44:26.53
that is the
Revelation 16 plagues.
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Now verse 17,
00:44:28.36\00:44:29.73
"For the great day of His wrath,
00:44:29.76\00:44:31.10
notice, has come, and
who is able to stand."
00:44:31.13\00:44:34.74
I believe this is approaching,
00:44:34.77\00:44:36.81
this is
approaching that time period
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right before the
Second Coming of Christ.
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This is during that time
00:44:40.61\00:44:41.94
when the wrath of
God is being poured out
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from those seven vials
in Revelation Chapter 16
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and the sky is
receding as a scroll
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because Christ
is about to return.
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Amen. Wonderful, wonderful.
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Anybody want to add to that?
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I just wanted to
go back real quickly
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and add a text to
what I talked about
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all those sons of Jacob.
00:44:59.33\00:45:01.83
Romans 8:28,
00:45:01.86\00:45:03.20
"We know that all
things work together for good
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to those who love God
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and are called
according to His purpose."
00:45:06.13\00:45:07.74
Jacob surely was a call
according to God's purpose,
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definitely.
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Amen. Yeah.
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I just want to add one too
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because we were
talking about those
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who are running and hiding.
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But in Isaiah 25:9, it says,
00:45:18.75\00:45:23.25
"And it will be
said in that day,
00:45:23.28\00:45:24.85
these are the
believers in the Lord,
00:45:24.89\00:45:27.09
even though some
are running and hiding."
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What we're
going to be saying is,
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"Behold, this is our God.
00:45:31.79\00:45:35.80
We have waited for
Him, and He will save us.
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This is the Lord."
00:45:40.84\00:45:42.17
So that is precious to me too.
00:45:42.20\00:45:45.21
Amen. Amen.
00:45:45.24\00:45:47.11
"Why does God choose to heal
some people but not others?"
00:45:47.14\00:45:50.35
This comes from
Carla, out of Michigan.
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Sovereignty,
00:45:53.45\00:45:54.78
that's something
we can't question
00:45:54.82\00:45:56.22
God's sovereignty.
00:45:56.25\00:45:58.25
You know, He says in James,
00:45:58.29\00:45:59.62
"If anyone among you is sick,
let him call for the elders,
00:45:59.69\00:46:01.82
let them pray over him,
00:46:01.86\00:46:03.22
and the prayer of
faith will save the sick
00:46:03.26\00:46:05.29
and if he has
committed any sins,
00:46:05.33\00:46:07.13
He will raise him,
He would forgive him
00:46:07.20\00:46:09.13
and raise him up
at the last day."
00:46:09.16\00:46:10.93
I always like what Mollie said
00:46:10.97\00:46:12.30
and Mollie is
resting in Jesus now.
00:46:12.33\00:46:14.54
Mollie was a lady who
we all respected, highly,
00:46:14.57\00:46:18.24
she had a lot of Mollie-isms
00:46:18.27\00:46:19.61
and she had cancer and she said,
00:46:19.64\00:46:21.81
"Well, God is going to
heal me, one way or another,
00:46:21.84\00:46:25.15
either now or in
the resurrections."
00:46:25.18\00:46:26.58
That's right.
00:46:26.65\00:46:27.98
And there are some
people that God lays to rest
00:46:28.02\00:46:29.72
for a particular reason.
00:46:29.75\00:46:31.22
But I want to
read Isaiah 57:1-2,
00:46:31.25\00:46:34.99
and I wanna
read this in the NIV.
00:46:35.02\00:46:37.83
This is a passage
00:46:37.86\00:46:39.26
that a lot of people don't
really take into consideration.
00:46:39.29\00:46:42.13
Isaiah 57,
00:46:42.16\00:46:43.87
and this is something that comes
00:46:43.90\00:46:45.23
because of God's merciful heart,
00:46:45.27\00:46:47.87
and I'm reading this in
the NIV for a particular reason
00:46:47.90\00:46:50.41
because I love
the way it says it
00:46:50.44\00:46:52.67
whether you support
that translation or not.
00:46:52.71\00:46:55.18
This is Isaiah 57:1,
00:46:55.21\00:46:57.25
"The righteous perish
00:46:57.28\00:46:58.61
and no one ponders in His heart,
00:46:58.65\00:47:00.72
devout men are taken away,
00:47:00.75\00:47:02.88
and no one understands
00:47:02.95\00:47:04.52
that the
righteous are taken away
00:47:04.55\00:47:06.62
to be spared from evil."
00:47:06.69\00:47:10.16
There are some people
that are not ready physically
00:47:10.19\00:47:13.23
to handle what's
coming down the road.
00:47:13.26\00:47:14.56
That's right.
00:47:14.60\00:47:15.93
And you know we
don't have a clue,
00:47:15.96\00:47:17.30
but we do know that it's
going to be a time of trouble
00:47:17.33\00:47:18.70
such as never was.
00:47:18.73\00:47:20.07
And for those who God
knows in His sovereignty
00:47:20.14\00:47:22.57
are not able to handle that,
00:47:22.60\00:47:24.51
even if it was 100 years ago,
00:47:24.54\00:47:26.47
God sees the end
from the beginning,
00:47:26.51\00:47:28.61
and sometimes God's mercy means
00:47:28.64\00:47:30.35
I'm gonna laid to rest now
00:47:30.38\00:47:32.45
like He did for
my brother's wife
00:47:32.48\00:47:34.18
when she died at 34 years old.
00:47:34.22\00:47:36.38
She came back to life,
00:47:36.42\00:47:37.75
literally after being
declared dead for 15 minutes
00:47:37.79\00:47:40.36
and she said, as
everybody was crying,
00:47:40.39\00:47:42.72
why didn't God heal you
and she told my brother,
00:47:42.76\00:47:45.26
"God allow me to
be laid to rest now
00:47:45.29\00:47:47.20
so that I would not
go back out in the world,
00:47:47.23\00:47:49.13
I'll see you in the morning."
00:47:49.16\00:47:50.67
Amen.
00:47:50.70\00:47:52.03
So verse 2 says of Isaiah 57,
00:47:52.07\00:47:55.34
"Those who walk
uprightly enter into peace.
00:47:55.37\00:47:58.94
They find rest, as
they lie in death."
00:47:58.97\00:48:01.88
So God is sovereign.
00:48:01.91\00:48:04.15
One day there's gonna be
no more death until then,
00:48:04.18\00:48:06.31
only God understands
how this whole thing works.
00:48:06.35\00:48:08.48
Amen. Amen.
00:48:08.52\00:48:09.88
I'd like to just
add something to that
00:48:09.92\00:48:12.02
that takes it a little
bit different direction.
00:48:12.05\00:48:14.56
It totally agrees
with what you're saying
00:48:14.59\00:48:16.26
but you know there are people
who say, if you're not healed,
00:48:16.32\00:48:20.60
you don't have enough faith,
it has nothing to do with that.
00:48:20.63\00:48:24.27
You'll recall in
the Book of Acts,
00:48:24.30\00:48:26.90
that God used Paul
00:48:26.94\00:48:29.90
in such an amazing way to heal
00:48:29.97\00:48:33.07
that even he had a little hanky.
00:48:33.14\00:48:36.11
And he touched it,
and they took it out,
00:48:36.14\00:48:38.95
and it would heal people.
00:48:38.98\00:48:40.75
So Paul, people say,
00:48:40.78\00:48:42.12
"Oh, Paul had
the gift of healing."
00:48:42.15\00:48:44.22
Listen to this.
00:48:44.25\00:48:45.75
Paul is writing in
2 Timothy Chapter 20,
00:48:45.79\00:48:49.99
he's finishing, I
mean, 2 Timothy 4:20,
00:48:50.03\00:48:55.36
he's finishing up
his letter to Timothy
00:48:55.40\00:48:57.23
saying greet so and so.
00:48:57.27\00:48:59.13
But then listen to what he says,
00:48:59.17\00:49:01.47
"Erastus stayed in Corinth,
00:49:01.50\00:49:04.17
but Trophimus I have
left in Miletus sick."
00:49:04.21\00:49:10.21
So, just, you
know, the Apostle Paul
00:49:10.25\00:49:14.08
who was used for healing.
00:49:14.12\00:49:16.89
And you know he prayed
for this work for Trophimus
00:49:16.95\00:49:21.46
to be healed
00:49:21.49\00:49:22.96
yet as you said,
God's sovereign will,
00:49:22.99\00:49:26.39
for some reason,
Trophimus wasn't heal.
00:49:26.46\00:49:30.20
We have to trust that
00:49:30.23\00:49:31.57
God knows the end
from the beginning
00:49:31.60\00:49:34.27
and just trust.
00:49:34.30\00:49:35.64
Sure, I just
want to add to that,
00:49:35.67\00:49:37.04
you know, again, just
kind of a third element,
00:49:37.07\00:49:38.87
and that is you know sometimes
the Lord cannot heal a person
00:49:38.91\00:49:43.08
because of their own
rebellious choices in lifestyle.
00:49:43.11\00:49:46.55
Let me give you, for example,
00:49:46.58\00:49:48.72
there I've met many people
00:49:48.75\00:49:50.35
who have heard the
truth in regards to
00:49:50.42\00:49:52.65
what God has declared
to be clean and unclean,
00:49:52.69\00:49:54.79
and yet they still say, well,
00:49:54.82\00:49:56.39
you know I know
that God says that
00:49:56.46\00:49:57.79
you know, eating
swine meat is not good,
00:49:57.83\00:49:59.73
but I'm not going
to give up my bacon.
00:49:59.76\00:50:02.30
I'm certainly not
trying to pass judgment
00:50:02.33\00:50:04.00
but with that type
of rebellious attitude,
00:50:04.03\00:50:05.80
there are some people
00:50:05.83\00:50:07.17
that still will
call out on the Lord
00:50:07.24\00:50:08.57
and say, Lord save me, heal me,
00:50:08.60\00:50:09.94
but still continue to by choice
live in that rebellious state
00:50:09.97\00:50:13.58
un-repented and unchanged.
00:50:13.61\00:50:15.04
And that's where I believe,
00:50:15.08\00:50:16.64
1 Corinthians
3:16-17 comes and it says,
00:50:16.68\00:50:20.15
"Do you not know that
you are the temple of God,
00:50:20.22\00:50:21.88
that the Spirit
of God dwells in you.
00:50:21.92\00:50:23.72
If anyone defiles
the temple of God,
00:50:23.79\00:50:25.75
God will destroy him for
the temple of God is holy,
00:50:25.79\00:50:28.46
which temple you are."
00:50:28.49\00:50:30.03
I got to add something to
this 'cause this is too good.
00:50:30.06\00:50:32.99
I was at...
00:50:33.03\00:50:34.60
I was speaking
at this big church,
00:50:34.63\00:50:36.73
big meeting,
00:50:36.77\00:50:38.10
and a woman came up to me
00:50:38.13\00:50:39.47
and wanted me to
pray for her for healing.
00:50:39.50\00:50:41.70
Boy, I was
praying for her healing,
00:50:41.74\00:50:44.37
I'm claiming
God's promises over her,
00:50:44.41\00:50:47.08
and all of a sudden,
there's still small voice,
00:50:47.14\00:50:49.34
the Lord impresses
this thought upon my mind,
00:50:49.38\00:50:51.71
who is this that
darkens my counsel
00:50:51.75\00:50:53.58
with words without wisdom.
00:50:53.62\00:50:55.75
You talk about, shut your mouth.
00:50:55.78\00:50:57.25
I shut my mouth.
00:50:57.29\00:50:58.62
And then God said,
"Ask her if she's smoking."
00:50:58.65\00:51:01.92
She was asking to be
healed from lung cancer
00:51:01.96\00:51:04.46
and I looked at her and I said,
00:51:04.49\00:51:05.83
"Sister, do you smoke?
00:51:05.86\00:51:07.40
And she said, "Two packs a day."
00:51:07.40\00:51:08.73
And I said,
00:51:08.76\00:51:10.13
"God can't heal you,
00:51:10.17\00:51:11.63
while you are
trying to kill yourself."
00:51:11.67\00:51:15.44
That's right. Wow.
00:51:15.47\00:51:16.81
Have to work in
harmony with the Lord.
00:51:16.87\00:51:18.21
Wow. Yeah.
00:51:18.24\00:51:19.57
Yes. Absolutely, Yeah.
Have to work in harmony.
00:51:19.61\00:51:20.94
There's another one
but on the other side.
00:51:20.98\00:51:22.31
Yes, absolutely.
00:51:22.34\00:51:23.68
Yeah, I've got another question.
00:51:23.71\00:51:25.05
Well actually, we've
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00:51:25.08\00:51:26.41
but we'll try and get it in.
00:51:26.45\00:51:27.78
Jesus at age 12, that one.
00:51:27.82\00:51:29.32
Yes, yes.
00:51:29.35\00:51:30.92
Looking forward
to getting there.
00:51:30.95\00:51:32.29
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