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 and welcome to 3ABN
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Bible Question
and Answer program.
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This is an hour program.
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My name is John Dinzey.
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It's a pleasure
for me to be with you
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during this hour.
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And we have what
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we would call an
hour of blessing,
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that's what I could
call, an hour of blessing.
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And so we want
to introduce to you
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the family members
that are here with us.
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We start with
Pastor John Lomacang,
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Pastor of the Thompsonville
Seventh-day Adventist Church
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and Director of World
Evangelism for 3ABN, welcome.
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My Spanish
brother John, I'm john.
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There's very little
difference between us.
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We both love the Lord,
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and always appreciate
being on this program.
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Thank you pastor Dinzey.
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And we have
Pastor Ryan Day with us.
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We are glad that you're here.
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I'm blessed. It's a
blessing to be here.
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And I'm looking forward
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to answering
some Bible questions.
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Amen. Amen.
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And Sister Shelley Quinn,
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a joy and a
blessing to have you here.
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Oh, it's always.
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It's fun to dive into the Bible.
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Amen.
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I believe that, I've
heard from each one of you.
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This is,
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it's like a joy and a
blessing to study God's Word,
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but to share, to share.
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And, of course, we know that
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you could add a lot
more to the answers.
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But we have so many questions,
we have to limit the time.
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But we ask for God's grace
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so that He can help us
answer these questions.
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So we're going to
ask Pastor Ryan Day,
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you can lead us
in prayer, please.
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Absolutely. Let's pray.
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Dear Father in heaven, Lord,
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we are so privileged
and honored as always
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to be here to be
alive during these times
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and to be a part of
this incredible panel.
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As your people are
sending in questions,
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Lord, it's such an
honor and a privilege
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to be able to have Your Word
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and to be able to not have
to depend on our own thoughts
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and our own ideas,
our own failed wisdom.
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But, Lord, Your
Word has all the answers.
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And so, today, Lord,
if You would empower us
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with Your Spirit,
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that we could simply
just be able to rightly divide
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the word of truth today.
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That's what we're asking.
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So as this program goes out,
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may it bless so many people
and may it draw all of us,
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viewers and panel members
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to Jesus Christ, our Savior.
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We praise You and thank You.
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And we ask this
in Jesus' name, amen.
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Amen. Amen.
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Amen. Praise the Lord.
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Well, we want to let you know
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how you can
participate in this program.
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These questions were
asked by people like you
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that are watching and
listening to this program.
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And so we want to let
you know how you can do that,
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we're going to
share a phone number
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where you can
text in your questions
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and you may have a phone
right in your hand right now.
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Who knows, you may
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that you'd like to send.
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So we'd like to
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It's (618) 228-3975.
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(618) 228-3975.).
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(618) 228-3975.
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Email if you prefer that.
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It's BibleQA@3abn.org
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BibleQA@3abn.org
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You can send in your questions
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so that we can
present it to our panel.
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And we are going to
start with ladies first,
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ladies first.
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Ladies first, yeah.
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I was going to say
in Spanish caballeros,
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last, gentlemen last this time.
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Okay, Sister Shelley Quinn,
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this question actually came
specifically directed to you.
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And this person says,
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"Sister Shelley,
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what can be said
about Zechariah 5:1-11?
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Well, let's just set this up
first by saying in Zechariah,
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there are eight visions
in the first six chapters,
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the prophetic
visions of encouragement
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of what God is
going to do for His people
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after their return from Babylon
all the way down to Jesus.
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In Zechariah 3,
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of course, is the most important
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and well-known
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when this is where
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God is changing the
filthy clothes from Joshua
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and putting on the rich robes.
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And He's showing here that
He has a provision for people
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who will be repentant,
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that they will be clothed
with the robe of righteousness.
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Then in Zechariah Chapter 4,
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He shows that He's going
to empower people by a Spirit,
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not by might but
by My Spirit He says.
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Now the fixed vision
in Zechariah Chapter 5
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is about the purging
of sinners from the land.
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And this is what's interesting.
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This is what's
going to happen to people
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who won't repent,
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who refuse the
robe of righteousness,
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who refuse to be
led by the Holy Spirit.
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Zechariah sees
this flying scroll,
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it's 30x15,
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same dimensions as
the Most Holy Place.
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So what happens?
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This is
depicting the Word of God
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because it's unfurled,
this scroll is unfurled,
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there's writing on both sides,
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and it specifically mentions
two of the Ten Commandments,
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I believe they
were all on there,
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but stealing
and false testimony.
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Now, the Bible does not
tell us what that scroll is,
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I believe
personally, that it could be
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because it has the curse in it,
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this could be the
scroll of the book of the law,
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the book of the covenant
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that was on the side of the ark.
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And so that was a
scroll that had a curse in it,
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stood there as a
witness against them.
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But an unavoidable
curse is pronounced,
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saying it will
even follow the people
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into their home.
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And what God is just warning
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that His judgment is going
to be according to His Word.
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He's got to root out
and destroy the sinners.
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Now in Zachariah 5:7-11,
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we have the
seventh vision of Him
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removing iniquity from the land.
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And there's a woman in a basket,
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I think this is so fascinating.
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And she
personifies an evil system.
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It could be that this
is secular, commercialism
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like we see in Revelation 18,
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but she's covered
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with a lid of lead, a heavy lid,
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keep sin in there.
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And then she's
carried off by two women
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with wings like storks,
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which are unclean animals,
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which were
obviously agents of evil,
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but she's taken to Shinar
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which is an old
name for Babylon.
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So God calls His
people out of Babylon,
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but those who refuse
to repent, He sends back.
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Well, thank you very much.
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I know there's a lot
to share in short time.
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And we now go
to Pastor Ryan Day.
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Question for you is,
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"How do I defend
God's dietary laws to others
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in light of Deuteronomy 12:15,
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which seems to allow
the eating of all flesh
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as long as the
blood isn't eaten."
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This is from
Julie, from Wisconsin.
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Okay. Now, this is a
great, great question.
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In fact, if you read
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Deuteronomy
12:15 a little closer,
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then you'll find some context
clues in there very clearly,
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in which is very much in harmony
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with the rest of
what God has to say,
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and His attitude towards the,
you know, the differentiation
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between the
clean and the unclean.
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So let's read
that passage there.
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This is Deuteronomy 12:15.
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And actually, I did
not put that in my notes.
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So let's go to
Deuteronomy 12:15, real quickly,
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and I thought I had copied
and pasted into my notes there,
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but that's okay.
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So Deuteronomy 12:15, again,
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God is outlining
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what is okay for
the children of Israel,
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and what is not okay
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in reference to
what they can eat.
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And so Deuteronomy 12:15, says,
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"However, you may
slaughter and eat meat
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within all your gates,
whatever your heart desires,
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according to the
blessing of the Lord your God
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which He has given you,
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the unclean and the
clean may eat of it,
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of the gazelle
and the deer alike."
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So there's a couple of things
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you have to
understand here in this
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within this particular text.
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First of all, notice
what it says, it says,
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whatever your heart desires,
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according to the
blessing of the Lord your God,
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which He has given you.
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Now what, notice
this is Deuteronomy,
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so the Deuteronomy
would have been written
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and given after
probably the Book of Leviticus,
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and even so the Lord's
not going to say over here
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in Deuteronomy11,
and also excuse me,
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in Leviticus
Chapter 11, and also,
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two chapters later in
Deuteronomy Chapter 14,
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what can be eaten
and what cannot be eaten.
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And then in this chapter, say,
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oh, you know, just eat
whatever you want, right?
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We know God is not
the author of confusion.
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So whatever your heart desires,
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according to the
blessing of the Lord,
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God only made a
distinction between that
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which is clean and unclean.
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If you read
Leviticus Chapter 11,
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and as I mentioned
earlier, Deuteronomy Chapter 14,
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God makes a very
clear distinction
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between those animals
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that are labeled
or considered clean
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and those animals that are not,
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so where a lot of
people get confused
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is they
misinterpret or misapply,
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where it says here in verse 15.
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It says,
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"The unclean and
the clean may eat of it,
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of the gazelle
and the deer alike."
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So a lot of people
read those words and think,
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"Oh, He's telling me that
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I can eat
anything unclean or clean."
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Well, if you look at
this particular translation
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and compare it to even
other Bible translations,
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the unclean and
clean alike may eat of it.
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Not that you may eat of it,
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but the unclean and
clean alike may eat of it.
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That's what the
scripture actually says.
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It's referring
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to the
ceremonially unclean people
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and the
ceremonially clean people.
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There was a differentiation
between that as well.
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In fact, you will read this
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in the New
International Version,
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the
International Standard Version,
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the New English Translation,
New Living Translation,
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Common English Bible
and other translations
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that make this very, very clear
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that that
unclean and clean alike
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is speaking of the
people, not the food.
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In fact, right there in
that verse, in verse 15,
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it ends with of the
gazelle and the deer alike.
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Both gazelle and deer
are ceremonially clean meats.
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In this case, they
have the split hoof,
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and they chew the cud.
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So if you read this verse,
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this verse does not
give anyone permission
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to go outside
of the dietary laws
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that God gave.
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It is within those dietary laws.
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And God says,
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"You can eat
whatever your heart desires,
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according to the
blessing of the Lord."
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And God only
blessed the clean meats.
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Thank you very much.
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Well, Pastor Lomacang,
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we now come to you
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and this
question, this question is,
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"Why are there so many
denominations in the world?
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What in the world is going on?"
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This is Morris from Virginia.
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Well, the simple reality
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can be best contributed to
the Protestant Reformation.
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You find, prior to the
Protestant Reformation,
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you find that the Old Testament,
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the Lord chose
the nation of Israel
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to proliferate the
gospel to the world.
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And then you had the
Jews and the Gentiles.
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This is primarily
designating two groups,
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meaning those
who followed Christ
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and those who didn't.
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In the Old Testament,
those who followed God
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and those who
the adverse nations
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to the worship of God.
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But as the church
began to progress,
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past the death of
all the disciples,
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then you have the persecution
of the Jews and the Christians
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under the Roman
Emperor Diocletian
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from 303-313 AD.
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Then the church
continued to progress
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and begin to metamorphosize
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and surely later
part of the 300s,
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the church
received the reprieve.
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As Roman Emperor Constantine
gave the church a reprieve,
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and then the Bible
began to be openly discussed,
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but the church
continued under the rule of Rome
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until the Dark
Ages in 538 AD 1798 AD,
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and the church went
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into a very strong
time of persecution.
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But during that time,
God preserved His message
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and reformers
like Martin Luther,
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Calvin Hus,
Zwingli, Jerome Wycliffe,
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and many others
rose up in protest
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against the
Roman Catholic Church.
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They broke off
and never intended
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to start their own movements,
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but the Lutherans
came out of Martin Luther.
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The different
doctrines that resurfaced
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where the precursor
to movement starting
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in favor or in
honor of these men
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who started to break away
from the Roman Catholic Church.
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In recognition, Jesus is
a forward looking prognostic
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position on the
duplicity of Christianity
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is pointed out in John 10:16.
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Jesus says,
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"Other sheep I have
which are not of this fold,
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them also I must bring,
and they will hear My voice,
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and they will be one
fold and one shepherd."
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So before Jesus comes back,
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there is going to be
a gathering together.
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Revelation 12:17 tells you
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the movement that
Satan is angry with.
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The Lord is going to
say in Revelation 18,
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"Come out of her, My people."
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So we are living
in the day and age
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where the
gathering of God's people,
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wherever they are, is underway.
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And when Jesus comes,
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once again, there
will only be two groups,
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those who worship Him
in spirit and in truth,
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and those who do not.
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Amen. Thank you very much.
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Thank you.
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We now come back to
Sister Shelley Quinn.
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Okay.
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Question for you is,
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"Why did it have to take so long
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before Jesus was born?
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Why wasn't he born
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right after sin had
entered this world?"
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This is from
Arlene, from Sweden.
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Arlene, it's a great question.
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There are many
theological theories as to why,
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but I'm just going to
tell you, I can't tell you.
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Isaiah 55:9 says that God says,
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"My thoughts are
higher than your thoughts,
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My ways are
higher than your ways."
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We know that He
introduced the deliverer,
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the promised
seed in Genesis 3:15,
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right after sin.
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And you know what?
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We just have to
trust God's timing.
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God is a God
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who operates by
love, by free will,
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and according to
certain time periods
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and appointed times.
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So I believe He
has His good reasons
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and too for His delays.
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And you know, it
could be that, Arlene,
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that what He's doing is
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trying to help the
world truly understand
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the magnitude of sin,
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and through the progressive
revelation of His plan,
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but here's what I want
to have you hold on to.
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Sin will come to an end
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in Nahum 1:9, He says,
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"The Lord is good,
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a stronghold in
the day of trouble.
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He knows those who trust in Him.
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But with an overflowing flood,
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He will make an
utter end of its place
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and darkness will
pursue His enemies.
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What do you
conspire against the Lord?
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He will make an utter end of it.
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Affliction will not
rise a second time."
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So we know in
Malachi that it says
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the wicked will be
ashes under our feet.
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God's not going to
leave them root or branch.
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But we know 2
Peter 3:12-13 says that
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we look forward
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to a new heavens and a new earth
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where righteousness dwells.
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Amen. Amen.
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Thank you very much.
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Praise the Lord.
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Well, we see this
question tells me that
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people are
studying the prophecies.
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And we are going to go
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to Pastor Ryan Day for this one.
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In Matthew 24:29, it says,
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"The sun will grow dark,
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and the moon will
not give its light."
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"I learned," she says,
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"that this
happened in May, 1780.
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Will this happen
again before Jesus returns?"
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This is from
Jennifer from Jamaica.
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Absolutely, there is
an overwhelming evidence
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to show that this
will happen again.
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We got to recognize that
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these signs happening in
the heavens and on earth.
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These follow the Great
Tribulation time periods.
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We saw a first Great
Tribulation time period.
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And it's lengthened 1260
years during the Dark Ages.
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And as you were
referencing there, Jennifer,
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this series of happenings
that happened in the moon
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and the sun and the stars,
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and you know, the
heavens be shaken.
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That it was
mentioned in Matthew 24,
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and then again also
in Revelation Chapter 6.
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And, of course,
there's also some mentioning
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of the same things
happening in the Book of Joel.
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We have to understand that
there is a dual application
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to many of these things.
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Just because there was a
Great Tribulation time period
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in the Dark Ages
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does not mean there's not going
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to be another Great
Tribulation time period.
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In fact, we know it
because the Bible confirms that
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there will be an even
greater tribulation time period,
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mentioned there in Daniel 12:1.
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And, of course, we see that
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great global tribulation
time period happening
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in Revelation Chapter 16,
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with this pouring out
of the seven last plagues.
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But this sin,
these are the signs
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and He's in the heavens,
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for instance, the earthquake
that you're mentioning
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happened in 1755,
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the sun turning
black or dark in 1780,
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the moon did not give its light
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or actually turned to
blood, red blood in 1780,
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and the stars in 1833.
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And I've had some
people suggest that
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perhaps the mentioning of
this in Revelation 6:12-13,
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could actually be referring
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because it's in the exact order
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that these events happened
back after the Dark Ages,
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and that the ones in Matthew 24
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referring to
the very end of time
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right before the
Second Coming of Jesus.
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You know, it really
doesn't matter either way,
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because it's still, we
still know there's going
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to be some sign
to happen in the sun,
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some stars or a lot of
stars are going to fall,
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we know that the moon
whether it turns blood,
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or does not give its light.
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We know very, very much
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so that these exact same signs
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according to both Matthew
24 and Revelation 6:12-13.
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It will happen again
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right before the
Second Coming of Jesus.
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Thank you, Pastor Ryan.
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And, Pastor Lomacang,
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we have a delicate
question here for you.
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And it's coming from
Kenya, Christopher from Kenya.
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He says,
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"First, I know life is sacred
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and should be treated as such.
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I've always been
against abortion,
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regardless of the circumstances
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surrounding the
conception of the child,
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i.e., rape, incest, etc.
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However, I have
always supported the notion
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that if the life of
the mother is at risk,
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then termination of
the pregnancy is permitted.
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Recently, this
position has been challenged
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and I would like
clarity on this issue
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from the Bible."
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Okay.
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Now, this is a delicate issue.
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And I want to make
that very clear to those
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who are
listening to my response.
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I'm going to deal with
this from the scriptures
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and then also deal
with it from the parameters
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as the individual
asking the question
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said this is a delicate,
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he says, the position
has been challenged recently.
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When you talk about
the issue of abortion,
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you open up a can of
worms that are not easily,
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you don't put a lid back on it.
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But before I
answer the question,
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I need to make it very
clear that the issue of abortion
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has been a hotly debated issue.
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By no means does
the Bible support
00:19:55.79\00:19:57.83
the taking of the life
of the unborn or the born.
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Either way you look at that,
murder is murder either way.
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Somebody might say,
00:20:06.94\00:20:08.30
well, the unborn child
doesn't have the choice.
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And that is exactly correct.
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Also, the same case
could be made when you go,
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we had some school
shootings up in Connecticut
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where little children in
the second or third grade,
00:20:17.08\00:20:20.28
they had no choice either.
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So what's the difference?
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One is already alive, the
other one is not born yet.
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The Bible makes it
clear that thou shalt not kill
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does not just
apply to the unborn.
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Thou shalt not kill
applies across the board.
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And so when
people look at abortion,
00:20:36.26\00:20:38.60
making that a
separate issue altogether,
00:20:38.63\00:20:40.97
and they ignore
the life of those
00:20:41.00\00:20:42.34
who are already alive,
00:20:42.37\00:20:43.71
you find issues
such as people that say,
00:20:43.74\00:20:45.37
well, doctors should
not perform abortions.
00:20:45.44\00:20:48.84
But they go ahead
and kill the doctor
00:20:48.88\00:20:50.21
that performed abortion.
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In both cases, it's
murder. That's right.
00:20:51.61\00:20:53.68
So let's make this very
clear that the abortion issue
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is not the only issue
00:20:55.95\00:20:57.29
on which thou
shalt not kill hinges.
00:20:57.32\00:20:59.85
And when it talks about choice,
00:20:59.89\00:21:03.36
this is the issue I
think that was addressed,
00:21:03.39\00:21:05.29
I believe in his question,
00:21:05.33\00:21:06.66
because he said, if
it's incest or rape,
00:21:06.70\00:21:08.73
then she cannot
terminate the pregnancy.
00:21:08.76\00:21:11.03
Well, that depends on
00:21:11.07\00:21:12.40
whether you're
the one that's raped,
00:21:12.43\00:21:13.77
or you're the one that
have to go through incest.
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In some parts of the world,
00:21:15.57\00:21:16.91
we're living in a world
00:21:16.94\00:21:18.27
where child trafficking, babies,
00:21:18.34\00:21:21.14
literally girls 11, 12, 13
00:21:21.18\00:21:22.71
have been
impregnated by crazy men,
00:21:22.74\00:21:25.08
militia groups,
00:21:25.11\00:21:26.45
and they're saying if
we impregnate these girls,
00:21:26.48\00:21:27.82
they better have that child.
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If that's you,
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I think you'll have
quite a different position.
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Let me go to a story now.
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When my, when I was born,
when my mother was pregnant,
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she was unwed.
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She was not married.
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I was born out of wedlock.
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The world calls that
00:21:43.93\00:21:45.37
and I'm going
to use a term here.
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They call that a bastard child.
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I'm not a bastard child.
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No, you're not.
00:21:50.71\00:21:52.14
I didn't do anything wrong.
00:21:52.17\00:21:53.74
The illegitimate
ones were my parents.
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I was simply born
based on the process
00:21:56.95\00:21:58.85
that the Lord has ordained.
00:21:58.88\00:22:00.62
What we have to keep in mind
is the Lord, life is sacred.
00:22:00.65\00:22:05.32
Jeremiah 1:5,
00:22:05.35\00:22:07.66
"Before I
formed you in the womb,
00:22:07.69\00:22:10.33
I knew you.
00:22:10.36\00:22:11.69
Before you were
born, I sanctified you,
00:22:11.76\00:22:15.00
I ordained you a
prophet to the nations."
00:22:15.03\00:22:17.13
And I believe before I was born,
00:22:17.17\00:22:19.37
the Lord saw my
situation and says,
00:22:19.40\00:22:20.94
"I got a special plan for you."
00:22:20.97\00:22:22.57
I praise God, my mother
did not believe in abortion.
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And also, you find in the Bible,
00:22:25.77\00:22:28.61
that when Mary and Elizabeth met
00:22:28.68\00:22:32.81
in Luke 1:41, and it says,
00:22:32.85\00:22:35.02
"And it happened
when Elizabeth heard
00:22:35.05\00:22:36.45
the greeting of Mary,
00:22:36.48\00:22:37.82
that the babe
leaped in her womb,
00:22:37.85\00:22:39.29
then Elizabeth was
filled with the Holy Spirit."
00:22:39.32\00:22:41.36
So there was some
point of the child
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not even being outside the womb
00:22:43.49\00:22:45.03
was affected by
what was taking place
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outside the womb.
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Make the point very clear.
00:22:48.16\00:22:49.86
Choice is something
the Lord never rescinded
00:22:49.90\00:22:52.37
from any human being.
00:22:52.40\00:22:53.94
I placed before you two
rows, life and blessings,
00:22:53.97\00:22:56.30
death and cursings.
00:22:56.34\00:22:57.67
He says, choose life.
00:22:57.71\00:22:59.31
But we still
have to make a choice.
00:22:59.34\00:23:01.34
So unless you're
in that position,
00:23:01.41\00:23:03.48
I don't believe that
00:23:03.51\00:23:04.85
we can enforce
this law on someone,
00:23:04.88\00:23:06.55
but we can surely
stand for what is right
00:23:06.58\00:23:08.42
according to God's Word.
00:23:08.45\00:23:09.85
And thou shalt
not kill is murder,
00:23:09.88\00:23:11.79
whether you're alive,
00:23:11.82\00:23:13.15
or whether you
have not been born yet.
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Thank you very much.
00:23:15.29\00:23:16.79
We now want to offer you again,
00:23:16.83\00:23:18.86
the opportunity to
send in your questions
00:23:18.93\00:23:21.66
so that we can
present it to our panel.
00:23:21.70\00:23:23.57
You may even as
some people are doing,
00:23:23.60\00:23:25.43
address this specifically
to someone on the panel.
00:23:25.47\00:23:28.30
And so, if you would
like to text your question,
00:23:28.34\00:23:30.91
the number is (618) 228-3975.
00:23:30.94\00:23:34.94
(618) 228-3975.
00:23:34.98\00:23:37.95
I'll say that
again, (618) 228-3975.
00:23:37.98\00:23:41.82
By email, it's very
easy, just BibleQA@3abn.org
00:23:41.88\00:23:47.39
BibleQA@3abn.org
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And so we continue
with our questions.
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And we go to Pastor
Ryan Day in this one.
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"How do I prepare to
have the character of Jesus
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as I believe and
follow the Sabbath day,
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as an elder of 65 years?"
00:24:05.77\00:24:08.08
Absolutely.
00:24:08.14\00:24:09.48
Well, to be honest
with you, my brother,
00:24:09.51\00:24:12.25
if I believe
this is coming from,
00:24:12.31\00:24:14.45
maybe it's not our
brother, I don't know.
00:24:14.48\00:24:16.55
But either way, I
want you to understand that
00:24:16.58\00:24:18.35
it doesn't matter
00:24:18.39\00:24:19.72
whether you have kept
the Sabbath all your life
00:24:19.75\00:24:22.26
or you haven't,
00:24:22.32\00:24:24.23
to prepare to have
the character of Jesus
00:24:24.26\00:24:25.99
is the same for
every single person.
00:24:26.03\00:24:28.03
And we have to understand that
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the only way that
00:24:29.43\00:24:30.77
that character
can be developed is
00:24:30.80\00:24:32.13
if we are
beholding Jesus Christ.
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It really is as simple as that.
00:24:35.60\00:24:37.31
And obviously, what
we mean by beholding,
00:24:37.34\00:24:39.54
in a literal sense,
00:24:39.57\00:24:40.91
people
obviously are thinking of,
00:24:40.94\00:24:42.31
you know, looking and staring
or beholding simply means
00:24:42.34\00:24:46.45
completely
surrendering your will
00:24:46.48\00:24:48.65
to the will of God,
00:24:48.68\00:24:50.02
placing the life
of Christ before you,
00:24:50.05\00:24:52.62
His example, His
teachings, His word,
00:24:52.65\00:24:55.59
and meditating on that,
00:24:55.62\00:24:57.03
making that word
a part of your life
00:24:57.06\00:24:59.73
and feeling your inner man
00:24:59.76\00:25:01.66
with that of the
mind of Jesus Christ,
00:25:01.70\00:25:04.57
just as Jesus
had the conversation
00:25:04.60\00:25:06.50
with Nicodemus there.
00:25:06.53\00:25:07.87
He said,
00:25:07.90\00:25:09.24
"As Moses lifted up the
serpent in the wilderness,
00:25:09.27\00:25:10.61
so shall also the
Son of man be lifted up."
00:25:10.64\00:25:13.31
And so we must behold,
00:25:13.34\00:25:14.68
there is life in a
look at the Savior.
00:25:14.71\00:25:16.61
So that's the
most important thing.
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First, we behold the Lord.
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And, of course, when we do this,
00:25:19.85\00:25:21.45
as we behold Him,
00:25:21.48\00:25:22.82
you've heard that
saying, as by beholding,
00:25:22.85\00:25:24.39
we become change,
00:25:24.42\00:25:25.89
and that is certainly the
case, we become sons of God.
00:25:25.92\00:25:29.76
And then, and
according to Romans 8:14,
00:25:29.79\00:25:32.59
if we are, if we are
led by the Spirit of God,
00:25:32.63\00:25:35.63
then we are sons of God.
00:25:35.70\00:25:37.37
So we need to be led by
the Spirit of God daily,
00:25:37.40\00:25:40.14
as we take up our cross daily.
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Luke 9:23, that
if we deny ourselves
00:25:42.27\00:25:45.61
and take up our
cross daily and follow Him,
00:25:45.64\00:25:48.18
then we are His indeed,
00:25:48.21\00:25:49.81
we are abiding
00:25:49.84\00:25:51.18
in a daily
relationship with Christ.
00:25:51.21\00:25:52.95
It is that ongoing
life of faithful work
00:25:52.98\00:25:56.05
each and every day
00:25:56.08\00:25:57.42
as we surrender our will to Him,
00:25:57.45\00:25:58.79
that the mind of Christ
is being pressed upon us,
00:25:58.82\00:26:01.52
He increases and we decrease.
00:26:01.56\00:26:04.49
And before you know
what the old man is gone,
00:26:04.53\00:26:06.83
and the new man
that is Christ in you,
00:26:06.86\00:26:09.43
the hope of glory is there.
00:26:09.46\00:26:11.43
And, of course, ultimately,
the character of Christ
00:26:11.47\00:26:13.80
is very, very much
put on a clear display
00:26:13.84\00:26:15.97
in Galatians 5:22-23.
00:26:16.00\00:26:18.61
And that is you begin to show
forth the fruits of the Spirit
00:26:18.64\00:26:22.64
that is leading and guiding you.
00:26:22.68\00:26:24.01
Amen. Thank you very much.
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Thank you.
00:26:25.45\00:26:26.78
Sister Shelley
Quinn, are you ready?
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I'm ready. All right.
00:26:28.45\00:26:30.25
"Can you
explain Exodus 22:29-30,
00:26:30.29\00:26:34.79
about the
firstborn of your sons."
00:26:34.82\00:26:37.46
This is from Ron and
Debbie from Wisconsin.
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Okay, Ron and Debbie.
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Exodus 22:29 says,
00:26:41.16\00:26:43.26
"You shall not
delay to offer the first
00:26:43.30\00:26:46.27
of your ripe
produce, and your juices.
00:26:46.30\00:26:48.70
The firstborn of your
sons you shall give to Me,"
00:26:48.74\00:26:51.57
the Lord says."
00:26:51.61\00:26:52.94
So the firstborn
of man and beast,
00:26:52.97\00:26:54.51
the firstborn of
all of their produce
00:26:54.54\00:26:57.15
was required of the people.
00:26:57.18\00:26:59.01
Now with the child,
the firstborn of a couple
00:26:59.05\00:27:02.82
was dedicated at one month old,
00:27:02.85\00:27:06.49
they were then
redeemed by a money payment.
00:27:06.52\00:27:10.99
We'll see Numbers 18:16 says,
00:27:11.03\00:27:14.73
"Those redeemed
of the devoted things
00:27:14.76\00:27:18.03
you shall redeem
when one month old
00:27:18.07\00:27:23.71
for five shekels of silver."
00:27:23.74\00:27:27.04
The rest was
offered in sacrifice.
00:27:27.08\00:27:29.41
This is in memory
of Egypt's firstborn.
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Let me show you this.
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Because when the tenth
plague was put on Egypt,
00:27:36.12\00:27:40.62
there was a preservation
of the firstborn of Israel.
00:27:40.66\00:27:44.96
And in Exodus 13:13-15,
this is what the Lord says,
00:27:44.99\00:27:49.83
"All the firstborn
of man among your sons
00:27:49.86\00:27:52.23
you shall redeem.
00:27:52.30\00:27:53.94
So it shall be,
when your son asks you
00:27:53.97\00:27:55.97
in time to come, saying,
00:27:56.00\00:27:57.51
'What is this?'
00:27:57.54\00:27:58.87
Then you shall say to him,
00:27:58.94\00:28:00.34
'By strength of hand
00:28:00.38\00:28:01.98
the Lord
brought us out of Egypt,
00:28:02.01\00:28:04.15
out of the house of bondage.
00:28:04.18\00:28:05.71
And it came to pass,
00:28:05.75\00:28:07.12
when Pharaoh was
stubborn about letting us go,
00:28:07.15\00:28:09.82
that the Lord
killed all the firstborn
00:28:09.85\00:28:13.02
in the land of Egypt
00:28:13.05\00:28:15.36
and the firstborn of beast.
00:28:15.42\00:28:17.66
Therefore sacrifice,
I sacrifice to the Lord,
00:28:17.69\00:28:21.73
all males that open the womb,
00:28:21.76\00:28:24.13
and all the firstborn
of my sons, I redeem."
00:28:24.17\00:28:28.67
One further thought,
00:28:28.70\00:28:30.11
firstborns had
a priority status,
00:28:30.14\00:28:33.48
double portion
of the inheritance,
00:28:33.51\00:28:35.51
extra responsibilities,
00:28:35.54\00:28:37.31
but firstborn is
also a covenant term.
00:28:37.35\00:28:41.75
In Exodus 4:22-23,
00:28:41.78\00:28:44.99
God called
Israel, His firstborn son.
00:28:45.02\00:28:48.89
Jesus Christ is
called firstborn,
00:28:48.92\00:28:52.06
not because He was issued forth
from the bosom of the Lord,
00:28:52.09\00:28:56.03
but it means preeminent.
00:28:56.06\00:28:59.80
Thank you very much.
Very good, thank you.
00:28:59.83\00:29:02.40
Well, Pastor
Lomacang, we now come to you.
00:29:02.44\00:29:04.71
And this question is,
00:29:04.74\00:29:08.51
"How do I address this argument?
00:29:08.54\00:29:11.05
Is God really fair and just?
00:29:11.08\00:29:13.52
I didn't ask to be
born into this mess.
00:29:13.55\00:29:16.22
I have no
control on my existence.
00:29:16.25\00:29:18.42
Is it fair and just
that I could be forced...
00:29:18.45\00:29:20.42
I should be forced into a world
00:29:20.46\00:29:22.19
in which I must
serve someone or something,
00:29:22.22\00:29:24.93
and if I choose wrong,
I'm subject to a second death.
00:29:24.96\00:29:27.73
I didn't ask to be born."
00:29:27.76\00:29:29.40
This is from CW.
00:29:29.43\00:29:30.93
When I read that question,
I chuckled a little bit
00:29:30.97\00:29:32.87
because, you know,
one thing we can do,
00:29:32.90\00:29:35.44
one thing we can't
change is what already happened.
00:29:35.47\00:29:38.51
But one thing we can change
is what we're going to do next.
00:29:38.54\00:29:42.18
And the Israelites
felt the very same way.
00:29:42.21\00:29:44.98
They had this
recalcitrant spirit
00:29:45.01\00:29:47.65
that they were blaming
God for all their adversities.
00:29:47.68\00:29:50.85
First, you're saying
please free us from Egypt.
00:29:50.89\00:29:54.46
You got us out, now you're going
00:29:54.49\00:29:55.86
to kill us in the wilderness.
00:29:55.89\00:29:57.23
We're starving. We
don't have any water.
00:29:57.26\00:29:58.59
Give us some quail to eat.
00:29:58.63\00:30:00.43
Oh, our children
and our grandchildren
00:30:00.46\00:30:02.56
and our wives cannot
handle the heat out here.
00:30:02.60\00:30:05.33
And Moses, why do you cry to me?
00:30:05.37\00:30:07.70
Well, let me make a point.
00:30:07.74\00:30:09.47
Ezekiel 18:29.
00:30:09.50\00:30:11.97
If you think that
your life is unfair,
00:30:12.01\00:30:14.58
what's even more
unfair is you have a choice
00:30:14.61\00:30:17.15
for eternal life
and you don't make it.
00:30:17.18\00:30:19.91
That's worse than
saying you had no choice.
00:30:19.95\00:30:23.62
You didn't have choice about
where you're going to be born,
00:30:23.65\00:30:25.95
who your mom and
dad were going to be.
00:30:25.99\00:30:27.69
You didn't have a
choice about your nationality
00:30:27.72\00:30:29.42
nor your gender.
00:30:29.46\00:30:30.79
Those were decided by
you from birth issues.
00:30:30.83\00:30:33.76
For like me,
00:30:33.80\00:30:35.13
I was born and
left at a babysitter
00:30:35.16\00:30:37.43
at three-months-old.
00:30:37.47\00:30:38.83
I didn't choose to be
abandoned at three-months-old.
00:30:38.90\00:30:41.57
But one day I
heard a radio program
00:30:41.60\00:30:43.10
where one radio talk show host,
00:30:43.14\00:30:45.24
a woman said to a young girl
00:30:45.27\00:30:46.68
complaining that she didn't
get anything from her parents.
00:30:46.71\00:30:48.51
She said,
00:30:48.54\00:30:49.88
"Young lady, what did
your parents give you?"
00:30:49.91\00:30:53.28
Finally, she led
her to say "Life."
00:30:53.31\00:30:55.18
She said, "Then shut up
and do something about it."
00:30:55.25\00:30:57.95
Now I'm not
telling you to shut up
00:30:57.99\00:30:59.32
and do something about it.
00:30:59.35\00:31:00.76
I'm telling you that
you are at the pivotal point
00:31:00.79\00:31:02.46
where the next decision you make
00:31:02.49\00:31:03.99
can alter your life here
00:31:04.03\00:31:06.03
and give to you the
gift of eternal life.
00:31:06.09\00:31:08.96
The Bible says,
00:31:09.03\00:31:10.37
"For God so loved the world
00:31:10.40\00:31:11.77
that He gave His
only begotten Son,
00:31:11.80\00:31:14.20
that whosoever regardless
of the unfair circumstances,
00:31:14.24\00:31:17.51
that you are now
called to shoulder
00:31:17.54\00:31:20.24
that whosoever believeth
in Him should not perish,
00:31:20.28\00:31:23.08
but have everlasting life."
00:31:23.11\00:31:25.31
If you were to
turn to the Lord now,
00:31:25.38\00:31:28.18
all that has happened
to you that sounds unfair,
00:31:28.22\00:31:31.19
will be replaced with something
you don't even deserve.
00:31:31.22\00:31:34.42
And that's the
gift of eternal life.
00:31:34.46\00:31:36.36
Take advantage and
embrace that today.
00:31:36.39\00:31:39.26
Amen. Amen.
00:31:39.29\00:31:40.63
Thank you very much. Thank you.
00:31:40.66\00:31:42.23
Well, then, let's go back
to Sister Shelley Quinn here
00:31:42.30\00:31:45.17
and bring you this question
from Julie, South Dakota.
00:31:45.20\00:31:47.60
Okay.
00:31:47.64\00:31:48.97
"When God is determining
00:31:49.04\00:31:50.37
who gets to spend
eternity with Him in heaven,
00:31:50.41\00:31:52.94
what criteria does He use
to make that determination?"
00:31:52.97\00:31:57.18
Julie, there is a clear path
to eternal life in Scripture.
00:31:57.21\00:32:00.85
Ephesians 2:8-10 says that
00:32:00.88\00:32:04.12
we are saved by
grace through faith
00:32:04.15\00:32:05.72
not of works
that any should boast,
00:32:05.75\00:32:07.59
but we were saved for
good works in Christ Jesus.
00:32:07.62\00:32:10.43
We were created in Christ Jesus
00:32:10.46\00:32:12.56
for good works that the
Lord prepared in advance.
00:32:12.59\00:32:15.90
And what we have to understand
good works don't save us,
00:32:15.93\00:32:19.50
but they're
evidence of our salvation.
00:32:19.53\00:32:23.20
Now, it's important
that we do God's will.
00:32:23.24\00:32:26.98
Jesus said that in
Matthew 7:20-21, He said,
00:32:27.01\00:32:31.71
"You call Me Lord, Lord,
00:32:31.75\00:32:33.15
but only those who do the
will of My Father in heaven,
00:32:33.18\00:32:39.02
will enter the
kingdom of heaven."
00:32:39.09\00:32:41.62
And Hebrews 5:9 says that
00:32:41.66\00:32:43.73
"He became the
author of eternal salvation
00:32:43.76\00:32:47.30
to all who obey Him."
00:32:47.30\00:32:50.33
So let me give
you four quick steps.
00:32:50.37\00:32:52.67
First, we have to
recognize that we're sinners.
00:32:52.73\00:32:55.24
Romans 3:23-24,
00:32:55.30\00:32:57.77
"All sinned and fallen
short of the glory of God,
00:32:57.81\00:33:01.54
being justified
freely by His grace
00:33:01.58\00:33:05.75
through the
redemption in Christ Jesus."
00:33:05.78\00:33:08.18
Second, we have to
confess that we are sinners.
00:33:08.22\00:33:11.22
1 John 1:9 says that,
if He is faithful and just,
00:33:11.25\00:33:15.66
if we confess our sin,
He forgives us of our sin,
00:33:15.69\00:33:20.10
and He cleanses us
of all unrighteousness.
00:33:20.13\00:33:23.47
Third, you've got
to receive God's gift.
00:33:23.50\00:33:25.93
Romans 6:23 says,
00:33:25.97\00:33:27.87
"The wages of sin is death,
00:33:27.90\00:33:30.27
but the free gift of God
00:33:30.31\00:33:33.51
is eternal life
in Christ Jesus."
00:33:33.54\00:33:36.04
And then fourth,
00:33:36.08\00:33:37.41
you've got to be
led by the Spirit.
00:33:37.45\00:33:38.91
Romans 8:13-17 says,
00:33:38.95\00:33:42.08
"If you live according
to the flesh, you'll die,
00:33:42.12\00:33:44.22
but if by the Spirit,
00:33:44.25\00:33:46.65
you put to death,
the deeds of the body,
00:33:46.69\00:33:49.02
you will live,
00:33:49.06\00:33:50.59
for as many as are
led by the Spirit of God,
00:33:50.63\00:33:54.36
these are the sons of God
and if we're the children,
00:33:54.36\00:33:58.53
then heirs, heirs of God,
and joint heirs with Christ."
00:33:58.60\00:34:02.14
Amen. Amen.
00:34:02.17\00:34:03.57
Thank you. Thank you very much.
00:34:03.61\00:34:05.41
Pastor Ryan
Day, Pastor Ryan Day,
00:34:05.47\00:34:07.28
we have another
question for you.
00:34:07.31\00:34:08.64
"Will the people who perished
in the flood be in heaven?
00:34:08.68\00:34:13.31
Please give Bible references
whether they will or will not."
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This is from
Jacqueline in India.
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Sure, absolutely.
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Well, I can say with certainty,
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based on what the Bible teaches
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that these people
who perished in the flood
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will not be in
the kingdom of God.
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And there's a
couple of Bible texts,
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few Bible passages
that we can find that in.
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First of all, let's
go to Genesis Chapter 6,
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and look at verses 5 and 6.
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That says,
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"Then the Lord saw
that the wickedness of man
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was great in the earth,
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and that every intent of
the thoughts of his heart
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were only evil continually."
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So what kind of
people were these?
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These were evil people,
and how often were they evil?
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They were evil continually
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because their
thoughts were evil continually.
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In fact, it even
goes on to say in verse 6.
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It says,
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"And the Lord was sorry
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that He had made
man on the earth,
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and He was
grieved in His heart."
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And so He goes, we
know this story very clear,
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He goes to Noah
and he tells Noah,
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"Noah build an ark
because I'm going to flood,
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I'm going to
destroy this earth."
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And there was only one means
of salvation from that flood
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and that was they had to
trust in the word of the Lord
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that was preached
through Noah to get on that ark.
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So anyone who was
on the ark was saved,
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anyone who was not on the ark,
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well, they had
their ultimate finish.
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If you also compare
that to 1 Peter 3:20,
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speaking of these people
who were evil continually.
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It says, who were formerly,
who formerly were disobedient,
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so they were disobedient,
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when once the divine
long suffering waited
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in the days of Noah,
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while the ark
was being prepared,
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in which a few
that is eight souls
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were saved through water.
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So only eight people
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were accounted
righteous by faith.
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Really, it was by
the faith of Noah,
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his family was even saved.
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But eight people listened
and obeyed the word of the Lord
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and got on that ark,
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and therefore it was accounted
to them as righteousness.
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And, of course, I'm
not going to be able
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to read the whole
passage given the time here.
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But if you go
read 2 Peter 2:4-6,
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you see an
interesting comparison.
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God compares the people
in Noah's day that were,
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that perished in the flood
to the fallen angels of heaven.
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Are the fallen angels
in heaven going to make it
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in the kingdom of God?
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No, they will be
destroyed, as the Bible says,
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in the lake of fire.
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And also he compares
them to the wicked people
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of Sodom and Gomorrah.
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Are the Sodom,
people of Sodom and Gomorrah
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are going to go back,
they're going to be allowed
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in the kingdom of heaven?
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Those who
perished in that city? No.
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So this is very clear,
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the Bible makes
it very, very clear
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that those who
perished in the flood
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during Noah's days,
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they were evil,
they were not saved,
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and therefore they will
not be in the kingdom of God.
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Amen.
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Very good. Very clear.
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All right. Pastor
Lomacang, are you ready?
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I think so.
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We have one for you as well.
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We have,
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"Can someone repent
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without knowing how bad sin is?
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Like the story
of the prodigal son,
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when he realized
there was nothing out there,
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then, he then
appreciated his father's home.
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So can someone who
hasn't experienced the badness
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or evilness of
sin truly repent?"
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This apparently was
sent from Instagram.
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I am so glad that...
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Wow, that's a great question.
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But it's a pretty easy answer.
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And I put, make three
very quick bullet points here.
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You don't have to experience
the depth of sin to repent.
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Amen.
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Some people wish
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they could reverse
the decisions they made
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to go out into the world.
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And as it were
experienced what they thought
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was some kind of trophy.
00:37:31.51\00:37:33.25
Some people look at sin
as well, it's pleasurable,
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I need to get an
experience of it.
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And when I have had my fill,
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then I will give
my life to the Lord.
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Many of them never make it back.
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The world you have to understand
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sin is not some
kind of excursion
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that you go on.
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And when you go in
the roller coaster,
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it has an end you get
off and then go back to life,
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as you usually does.
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Years ago, I heard a
statement in the movie,
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God is not dead.
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The older lady said to
her son who was recalcitrant,
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refused to give
his life to the Lord
00:38:03.75\00:38:05.61
and she said sin
is like a jail cell.
00:38:05.65\00:38:09.08
You can go in and
out of that every day
00:38:09.12\00:38:11.39
until one day the door
closes and you can't get out.
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And I thought
and he, he wondered,
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how could that possibly be?
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You don't want to
experience the depth of sin.
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The Bible says in Romans
6:23, the wages of sin is death.
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And by the way, sin
doesn't have any age limit.
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The teenager, the
middle age, the older person,
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to make it to
60, 70, 80 years old
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nowadays is a gift.
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Because the world is replete
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with young people that are dying
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because they
wanted to experience
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the goodness of sin
or the depth of sin.
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There is no such thing
as a reprieve from that.
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The point I want to make is
appreciate something about sin.
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Sin is not
stronger than salvation.
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The greater gift is salvation.
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And the Lord said,
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or do you not
despise, Romans 2:4,
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or do you not despise
the riches of His goodness,
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His forbearance and suffering,
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not knowing not
the badness of sin,
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but the goodness of God
leads you to repentance.
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Focus on God's
goodness and repent,
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not the badness of sin.
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Amen. Amen.
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Praise the Lord.
Thank you very much.
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Now we go to
Sister Shelley Quinn.
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"I would like to
have more understanding
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of the order of Melchizedek,
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and the difference
between him and Jesus Christ."
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This is from Sirius in Maryland.
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In two minutes.
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In Genesis 14,
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we are first
introduced to Melchizedek.
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He is the king of Salem.
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He comes out,
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he meets Abraham
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who's coming
back from a victory,
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victorious war battle.
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He blesses Abraham.
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Abraham pays him a
tenth of all his war booty.
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Beside that one
place in Genesis,
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there's only one more
time in the Old Testament
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that he's mentioned
and that's Psalm 110:4
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where the psalmist
says you are priest forever,
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according to the
order of Melchizedek.
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Now, he's only
mentioned in the New Testament
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briefly in Hebrews 5
and then in Hebrews 7.
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But the writer of Hebrews
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only sees that
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Jesus fits the
Psalmist's description
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as the priest of the
order of Melchizedek.
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Hebrews 7:2 says,
00:40:24.12\00:40:26.05
"Melchizedek was the
king of righteousness,
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the king of peace."
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And by the way, he was,
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this was the first time
in the history of Israel
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that a king simultaneously
served as high priest.
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So Melchizedek
prefigured Christ.
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He was a type of Christ.
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And the writer of Hebrews
draws significant parallels
00:40:47.18\00:40:51.15
between Melchizedek and Christ.
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But Jesus is the
ultimate King of righteousness,
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the ultimate King of
beast, and ideal high priest
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who has sacrificed once for all.
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In Hebrews 7:1-8,
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this is where a lot of people
00:41:06.86\00:41:10.03
have a lot of funny ideas.
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It says in verse 3, Hebrews 7:3,
00:41:13.03\00:41:16.71
that Melchizedek
was without father,
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without mother,
without genealogy,
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having no record of...
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He had no record
of ancestral line.
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And, you know, the
Jews were very careful,
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especially the priest
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about recording all of their...
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I mean, he's their first priest,
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but he is not of
the Levitical order,
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just as Jesus would not
be of the Levitical order.
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And my two minutes are up.
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I fell like an auctioneer.
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Well, we have one more
question for Pastor Ryan Day,
00:41:52.01\00:41:55.64
"In the Garden of Eden,
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Adam and Eve had free
access to the tree of life.
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Were there angels
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that prevented
Satan and his demons
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from having access
to the tree of life?
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I know that after they
left the garden paradise
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that cherubims guarded the tree,
00:42:09.62\00:42:11.46
so they would not go
back in to eat of it.
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So my question deals
with prior to them having,
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prior to them
leaving the Garden of Eden.
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"This is from Devon.
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Yeah, so, Devon,
00:42:21.50\00:42:23.17
this is actually
a great question.
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But it's a simple answer.
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The Bible just simply
does not say explicitly
00:42:27.11\00:42:29.68
how Satan was kept
out of that garden.
00:42:29.71\00:42:31.91
But we know that he
was, because obviously,
00:42:31.95\00:42:34.38
that was the garden of Paradise,
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only those who have not
sinned could be in that garden.
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And so we know
that for the same reason
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that Satan was kicked
out of the kingdom of heaven
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and not been
able to get access to,
00:42:44.59\00:42:47.86
you know, immortality,
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we see that also Adam and Eve
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kicked out of the
garden because of sin.
00:42:51.33\00:42:53.57
The only way he was
able to access Adam and Eve
00:42:53.60\00:42:55.80
was through that tree of
knowledge of good and evil.
00:42:55.84\00:42:59.11
But obviously, he
was not allowed access
00:42:59.17\00:43:00.94
to anywhere else in the garden,
especially that tree of life
00:43:00.98\00:43:03.71
as to how he was kept
out could have been angels,
00:43:03.75\00:43:06.45
could have been
some spiritual hedge
00:43:06.48\00:43:07.82
of protection of
some type, I don't know.
00:43:07.85\00:43:09.62
The Bible just
simply does not say,
00:43:09.65\00:43:11.15
but we know he was kept out.
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Actually, I have about a
minute and 10 seconds here,
00:43:13.29\00:43:16.06
I want to go back and
take the remaining time
00:43:16.09\00:43:18.09
and mention
something really quickly
00:43:18.13\00:43:19.46
on one of my previous questions,
00:43:19.53\00:43:20.86
which was,
00:43:20.90\00:43:22.20
"Will the people who
perished in the flood
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be in heaven?"
00:43:23.97\00:43:25.30
I just want to
say something quickly,
00:43:25.33\00:43:26.67
because I was thinking of
this as I only had two minutes
00:43:26.74\00:43:28.80
to talk about that before.
00:43:28.84\00:43:30.21
But I just want to take
the remaining time to say that
00:43:30.24\00:43:31.84
I feel like the reason
00:43:31.87\00:43:33.21
why a lot of
people ask that question
00:43:33.27\00:43:34.94
is based on a
passage in 1 Peter Chapter 3,
00:43:34.98\00:43:38.25
where, you know,
it's seems to say
00:43:38.28\00:43:40.72
from some people's
perspective that Jesus,
00:43:40.75\00:43:42.72
you know, He was crucified,
He went down into hell,
00:43:42.78\00:43:46.45
and He preached to
the spirits in prison,
00:43:46.49\00:43:48.59
who were once
disobedient during the flood.
00:43:48.62\00:43:50.66
And it sounds
like Jesus went down
00:43:50.69\00:43:52.69
into the depths of hellfire.
00:43:52.73\00:43:54.36
And He preached all
those people that were,
00:43:54.40\00:43:56.03
you know, perished in the flood,
00:43:56.06\00:43:57.40
who were sent to hell.
00:43:57.43\00:43:58.77
That's just how people
misinterpret that passage.
00:43:58.80\00:44:00.44
In fact, I want to
encourage someone at home
00:44:00.47\00:44:02.00
to send in a
question about that,
00:44:02.04\00:44:03.37
send in a question
about 1 Peter 3:18-20 and 21,
00:44:03.44\00:44:08.41
asking about that, because
we'd like to clarify that
00:44:08.44\00:44:10.48
more in the future
00:44:10.51\00:44:11.85
as to who are the spirits
00:44:11.88\00:44:13.21
and did Jesus really
go into hell and all that?
00:44:13.25\00:44:15.55
That'd be a great
question to address here
00:44:15.58\00:44:17.95
on the panel in the future.
00:44:17.99\00:44:19.65
I decided since I
had a few more seconds,
00:44:19.69\00:44:21.56
I would take up the
time since the first one
00:44:21.59\00:44:23.43
didn't really require much more
than an answer of what I gave.
00:44:23.46\00:44:25.69
So thank you so much.
00:44:25.73\00:44:27.03
Very good. Thank you.
00:44:27.10\00:44:28.40
I like that.
00:44:28.43\00:44:29.76
Well, the
challenge is out there,
00:44:29.83\00:44:31.17
whoever wants to
send in that question.
00:44:31.20\00:44:33.10
Pastor Lomacang,
this one is for you.
00:44:33.13\00:44:35.24
"I've been wondering
why a lot is said in Acts
00:44:35.27\00:44:38.21
about Paul appealing to Caesar.
00:44:38.24\00:44:39.87
And then it's a major theme
in the final chapters of Acts.
00:44:39.94\00:44:43.24
So the reader
with great anticipation
00:44:43.31\00:44:45.18
reads forward to
find out about the climax.
00:44:45.21\00:44:47.75
What is Paul going to
say in front of Caesar,
00:44:47.78\00:44:50.35
but then nothing is said
about Paul meeting Caesar.
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I wonder why the end of
Acts kind of fizzles out
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in this respect and
not and how Paul ends up
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waiting for death in 2 Timothy."
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This is from,
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I think you say
Yuka from Finland.
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Okay.
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Well, the story of
Paul appealing to Caesar
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had a two-fold purpose.
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One, he was preventing the Jews
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from carrying out the execution
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because he was a Roman citizen.
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If he had appealed
to his Hebrew identity,
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they could have
carried out the sentence
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of whatever they
wanted to do to Paul.
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But Paul says,
I'm a citizen of Rome,
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you can't do anything
until I appealed to Caesar.
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So they said, okay,
you'd have been okay,
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if you had not
appealed to Caesar.
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So Acts Chapter 27,
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the focus of Acts
27 is not the purpose
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of giving all the details
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of what he's going to talk about
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when he gets to Caesar.
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Which brings me to this point,
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the same that I've
adopted throughout the years,
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it's not what we become
when we reach our destination,
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but what we
become in our journey,
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and the journey is more powerful
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than its destination,
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because they never
got to appeal to Caesar
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the ship was broken
up in the great storm,
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that I did a sermon on
this, a couple of sermons,
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one called I believe God,
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and the focal point of the story
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of the appeal of Caesar
to appeal of Paul to Caesar
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was verse 25 of Acts Chapter 27.
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This to me was the
apex of the entire story.
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Because while Paul
is a prisoner in chains,
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it's hard to believe a
preacher that looks like
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he's at a terrible disadvantage.
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Paul said,
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"Do not, do not
take this journey,
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I perceive, it'll result
in a great loss of life."
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But then later on, the
Lord reveals to Paul that
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nobody is going
to lose their life.
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But there are
certain parameters, He said,
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"Don't let anybody, don't
let anybody get off board.
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We're all necessary
for the safety of others,"
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meaning we all
need each other says,
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"Lighten the ship
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so that the storms
could be more easy to handle."
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That's what we have to
do in the burdens of life
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when they come,
lighten the loads in our lives.
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But then Paul
said, "I believe God,"
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that means it's
going to turn out
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the way God said,
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it's going to
turn out in Acts 27:25.
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He said,
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"Therefore take heart men,
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for I believe God
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that it will be
just as it was told me."
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So the greater
lesson in life is this.
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Often while we
are planning life,
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life happens.
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It is important to
pay as much attention
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to our journey,
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as it is to
desire our destination.
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What happened to
Paul in the journey
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was a greater lesson
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because he never made it to Rome
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on that boat.
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It broke up before
they got to Caesar.
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Okay.
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I just want to say
one thing, because to me,
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I remember the first
time I ever read Acts
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when I was a teenager.
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You know, Acts is the first,
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the history of the
first 30 years of the church.
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And boy, you're just going along
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and the Holy Spirit's doing
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all of these wonderful
things and everything's going,
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then it just stops.
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It's kind of like,
well, what happens?
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So I don't know
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if there was
something that interrupted,
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but I understand your question.
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