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, friends,
and welcome again
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to another
edition of 3ABN Today,
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Bible Q and A, that's right.
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During this time, we are
taking your Bible questions
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and we're providing an answer
straight from the Word of God.
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And we are so
thankful that you're joining us
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during this time.
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We know you could
probably be anywhere else
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or doing anything else,
but you're here joining us.
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And it's a blessing.
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We know you're gonna receive
a blessing during this hour.
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Of course, as
always wanna remind you
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that you can send in
your Bible questions.
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And I'll probably
give a few reminders
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throughout this program,
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but we wanna tell you
exactly how you can do that.
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There's two
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First is by text.
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And so you can
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to (618) 228-3975.
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Again, that
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So text in your questions
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And the email address is
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BibleQA@3abn.org
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Again, that's BibleQA@3abn.org
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So send in those questions.
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We've received hundreds of
questions and you know what?
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We're just working through them
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as we do more and
more of these episodes,
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we're just...
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We're just
ciphering through them all
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and just scooping
them up as we go through
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and answering
them as we go along.
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And so, again,
we thank you so much
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for sending in those questions.
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I guess, before we pray
and get right into our program,
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I wanna introduce
this incredible panel
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as always.
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Directly to my right,
we have Miss Shelley Quinn,
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and it's always a
blessing to have you, Sister.
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It's a delight to be here.
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And I just have to tell you,
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I don't know if
you know at home,
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but we're limited to
two minutes on our answers.
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So when we talk
really fast, that's why.
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Amen. It's fun.
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Sometimes it feels like
you're an auctioneer, right?
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But it's good.
It's all in good fun.
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Pastor John Dinzey,
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it's a blessing to
have you as well, Brother.
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Amen.
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It's a blessing
to be here and is,
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good questions are coming in.
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And I praise the Lord that
people are studying the Bible.
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Amen. Praise the Lord.
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And all the way
across this table,
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Pastor John Lomacang,
love your wisdom and certainly
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appreciate all that you
have to share with us today.
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As each one of
our panelists said,
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it's an enjoyable time.
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But once again, remember,
we only got two minutes.
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Sometimes the questions
are longer than the answers.
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That is the case
in a couple of...
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in a couple of situations.
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But before we go
right into our questions,
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I'm gonna ask
Miss Shelley Quinn,
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if you would just give us a
word of prayer at this time.
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Absolutely.
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Our loving heavenly Father,
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we come before You
with praise in our hearts.
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We praise You for
Jesus, Your Holy Spirit,
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and we praise You
for Your Word, Father.
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You did not leave us as orphans.
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You sent Your Spirit.
You gave us Your Word.
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And, Father, we thank
You that Your Word is alive
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and active and
relevant in our lives today.
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And we pray that You'll help
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each one of us to answer.
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Lead us by Your Spirit as
we answer these questions.
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And may we all be blessed.
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We love You. We thank You.
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In Jesus' name, amen. Amen.
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Amen. Praise the Lord.
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Well, Pastor John Dinzey,
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it looks like we're
coming to you first.
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Okay.
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And this question is
coming from Marisol in Erling.
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And the question is,
"Please explain Isaiah 65.
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The word die makes me question.
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If we will die in the new earth,
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can we die in paradise
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if we misbehave
or are we secure?"
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That is a good question.
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And, Marisol, I
say, you would say
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that in Spanish
Marisol in Erling.
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Yes.
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This passage is
sometimes confusing to people
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because Isaiah 65:17-20,
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speak to us of a condition,
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a blessing the Lord will
give to the people of Israel
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had they been faithful.
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And I want to encourage you
to read Deuteronomy Chapter 11,
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to see all the
blessings the Lord said,
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if you do this,
I'm gonna do this.
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And you're gonna be blessed
in your home, in your field.
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You're gonna be fruitful.
You're gonna have children.
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And it's a
marvelous, marvelous passage.
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However, not all the
elements of Isaiah 65
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can be applied
to the future life,
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after sin is done away with.
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Had the people of Israel,
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it seems like the
Lord, had they been faithful.
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It seems like the
Lord would bless them
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with like a heaven on earth.
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And so, Isaiah Chapter 65,
I'm gonna read verses 17 to 20,
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"For behold, I create
new heavens and a new earth,
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and the former
shall not be remembered
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or come to mind,
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but be glad and rejoice
forever in what I create for.
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Behold, I create
Jerusalem as a rejoicing
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and her people a joy.
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I will rejoice in
Jerusalem and joy in my people,
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the voice of weeping
shall no longer be heard in her
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nor the voice of crying."
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And now it says, "No
more shall an infant dare die
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but a few days nor an old man
who has not fulfilled his days.
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A child shall die 100 years
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but the sinner
being 100 years old
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shall be a cursed."
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So the word die is in here
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because it's
talking about before sin.
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Now, when we talk
about the New Jerusalem
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after sin is over,
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we have the
promise in Revelation 21,
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which I will read now.
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"I saw a new
heaven and a new earth,
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for the first heaven
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and the first
earth had passed away."
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Notice that they
had now passed away.
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This is after sin.
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"Also there was no more sea.
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And then I, John
saw the holy city,
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New Jerusalem coming
down out of heaven from God
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prepared as a bride
adorned for her husband.
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And I heard a loud
voice from heaven saying,
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'Behold, the
tabernacle of God is with men
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and He will dwell with them
and they shall be His people.
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God Himself will be
with them and be their God.
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And God will wipe away
every tear from their eyes,
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there shall be no more
death nor sorrow nor crying,
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neither shall
there be any more pain
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for the former
things have passed away."
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No, there will be no death
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or suffering in
heaven or the New Jerusalem.
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Amen. Amen.
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Thank you, Brother, so much.
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All right, Miss Shelley Quinn,
we're coming to you at this one
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This question
comes from Chandler...
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Okay.
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And Chandler
says, "Why did God put
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the tree of knowledge
of good and evil there
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if He knew
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that people would
partake of the fruit of it?
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Also, why did He...
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Why didn't He kill
Satan right then and there
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so that He
wouldn't annoy us now?"
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That's a good
question, Chandler.
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God...
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When God created Adam and Eve,
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He set them
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in the Garden of Eden, Chandler.
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And it was, that
means garden of pleasure.
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It was a garden of
delight. It was a paradise.
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Everything was very good.
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There were many beautiful
trees from which they could eat.
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Only one tree was prohibited.
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The knowledge,
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the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil.
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God created Adam and
Eve as free will beings.
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He even made His
angels creatures a free will.
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And there is a cosmic
conflict that is going on.
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We know that Satan
got his heart lifted up.
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He was a covering
cherub. His heart was lifted up.
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Isaiah 14 says, "He
trafficked lies about God."
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Ezekiel 28 says,
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"And he got
one-third of the angels
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to believe in his lies."
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You know, God can't lie.
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Satan's got an advantage.
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He was the father of all lies.
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He was a liar and a
murderer from the beginning.
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So what happened is,
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even though God
is a sovereign being,
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He is omniscient.
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He knows all.
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The Bible tells us that
God shares His governance
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with a divine
council, a heavenly council.
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We see it in
Psalm 82:89, Psalm 89,
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Nehemiah 9:6, Job 1:6,
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1 Kings 22:19 and Daniel 4:17.
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So here's what I
believe happened.
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I believe the reason
God didn't zap Satan,
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as soon as the sin was because
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then people
might believe the lies.
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The other
creatures would have said,
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well, maybe he was right.
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God isn't fair. Right.
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God is too restrictive.
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So then when He
created Adam and Eve,
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He put that one tree in there
as a test of their loyalty.
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They had,
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they abused their
freewill just as Satan did,
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but God had to let
this cosmic conflict.
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The heavenly council said,
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"We're gonna give
Satan a short time to see
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if he knows
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or if he can
prove what he's saying."
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He can't. Wow.
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You really needed two
minutes for the first part
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and two minutes
for the second part
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of that question,
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but you did a fantastic job,
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summing it up in
such a short time.
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Great. Thank you.
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Pastor Lomacang,
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we're coming to
you at this time.
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This question is
dealing with Mark 13:32,
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and this person says,
"Mark 13:32 says no one knows,
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not even the Son of God
who or when Jesus is returning.
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Would it be a lie
to say that the Son
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who is God does not know?"
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Well, that
statement in Mark was recorded
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when Jesus was in
His earthly ministry,
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in the condescended
form before His crucifixion,
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before His resurrection,
before His ascension.
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And He was speaking
from the human perspective.
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Remember the Bible says
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the Lord
prepared a body for Him.
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So He came forth into
the world in the birth,
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even though the seed was
planted by the Holy Spirit,
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He experienced the
birth as you and I are,
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you and I have experienced.
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In the human
sense He did not know.
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However, when He rose to life,
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He made a
declaration that makes it clear.
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He does know now.
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First of all, Matthew 28:18,
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we start when Jesus came
and spoke to them, saying,
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'All authority is given
me in heaven and in earth.'"
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So He talks about the authority
now in heaven and on earth.
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How could you
have all authority,
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but still be in the dark?
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That's the first point.
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Secondly, Isaiah 46:9-10
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is not a
declaration of the Father
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as much as it is a
declaration of the Creator.
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He said, "Remember
the former things of old,
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for I'm God and
there is no other.
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I am God, and
there is none like Me."
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What did He say?
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Declaring the end
from the beginning.
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When He condescended,
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that knowledge was withheld
from Him in His human form.
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However, He started making
it very clear to the disciples
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in His earthly ministry.
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He says, "Learn the
parable of the fig tree.
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When you see all these
things know that it is near."
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Right.
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But after His ascension,
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John the Revelator contains in,
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in the Book of Revelation,
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which is the
revelation of Jesus Christ.
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A statement that I
now know He does know.
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Jesus couldn't say
in Revelation 22:12,
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these words, "And
behold, I am coming quickly.
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And My reward is with
Me to give to everyone,
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according to his work."
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He couldn't say
I am coming quickly
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if He didn't know
when He was returning.
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Right.
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So the condescended statement,
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no one knows the day
nor the hour was the frailty
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and the limitations of humanity.
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But when all
authority was returned to Him,
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He did know.
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Right. Wonderful.
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Praise the Lord for that.
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Pastor Dinzey,
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coming back to you for this one.
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And this is
coming from Marjorie,
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from Massachusetts.
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And she says,
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"I know we aren't
supposed to work on the Sabbath.
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However, since the
Sabbath is from sunset on Friday
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to sunset on Saturday,
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does that mean, for example,
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those who work
from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
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during the winter season,
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when the sun sets around 4:00 PM
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are breaking the
fourth commandment?
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To be more general
when the Sabbath hits,
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does all work need
to cease immediately,
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no matter how
long or short it is?"
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Okay, well, I have to say
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that we
sympathize with Marjorie,
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and this is a good
question and a challenge
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that many Christians
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that want to observe
the seventh day Sabbath
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according to God's commandment,
as found in Exodus 20:8-11.
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And I believe
based on your question
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that, you know,
already the answer, Marjorie,
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because you say, you know,
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that you're not
supposed to work on the Sabbath.
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Unfortunately,
society does not conform
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to God's requirements.
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We're living in a sinful world.
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So the hours of work
are not exactly the hours
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that as God would
have it, let's say.
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So this is, this
presents a challenge.
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And I know you
want to do God's will
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because you are concerned.
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So I would encourage you to pray
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and ask the Lord to help you
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in this challenge
that you're facing.
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But I must say
that the answer is yes,
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all work is supposed
to stop when the sun sets
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and the Sabbath begins.
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It is the time of the Lord
that is supposed to be sacred.
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It's supposed to be holy.
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And so I encourage you to pray
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and ask the Lord to
help you as you request.
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And my suggestion is you
request to your supervisor
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to allow you to
leave earlier by working,
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perhaps starting
earlier on that day
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or some other way
to work out for you
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so that you can keep
God's Sabbath day holy.
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And this way you will be
in harmony with the Lord,
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because it is better to
obey God rather than man.
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Now, the wonderful
thing is I have faced this.
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And a wonderful thing is I
can tell you from experiences
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that God somehow
will work it out for you.
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He will bless you.
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He wants to know
that you are willing
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to cooperate with Him in
this, and He will help you.
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And you may be surprised
at how God works it out.
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You may be challenged.
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Some people have
even lost their jobs
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and they think it's all
over because supervisor demands.
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You've got to be here
or you're gonna be fired.
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Some people have been fired,
some have been hired back,
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and then some find a better job
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because God is gonna
be looking out for you.
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Very, very nice.
Appreciate that answer.
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In fact, I can
give a testimony to that
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because I once
was let go of a job
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because I didn't
really understand
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my rights and all that.
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And I asked my boss off
to be off on the Sabbath
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from sundown Friday night,
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sundown
Saturday, and he let me go.
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But it wasn't a
couple of weeks later,
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the Lord gave me a
better job with more money
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and better hours
and every Sabbath off.
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So just ask the
Lord, follow the Lord.
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And He will always
bless you. Praise the Lord.
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All right, Pastor Lomacang,
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I'm gonna come back to
you for this next question.
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And this is coming
from Erling of Sweden.
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I hope I'm
saying that correctly.
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E-R-L-I-N-G, Erling or Erling.
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This person says,
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"I hear that some or a
lot of Adventists claim
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that we just shall
worship one day of the week
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on Sabbath or on the Sabbath.
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I hope they are wrong,
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but I can't find it in the Bible
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that we shall worship every day.
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Please help me with this one?"
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Sure.
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Thank you for
the question, Erling.
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First of all, the
question comes down
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to the interpretation
of what worship means.
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Now corporate worship, I
think is what you're talking
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about, where we gather
together one day a week,
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and the Bible supports that.
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First and foremost,
it was a convocation
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throughout the Old
Testament among the Jews,
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and then the life of Jesus.
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Luke 4:16.
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He went into the
synagogue every Sabbath,
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and stood up to read.
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And you find in the Book of Acts
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or many references.
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I'll share those
with you in just a moment,
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but let's get back
first to the issue of worship.
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The Christian doesn't
worship the Lord one day,
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and this has been
a big stumbling block
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among people that say,
well, I worship on the Sabbath.
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Well, if your life is not
an act of worship every day,
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then you don't
know who the Lord is.
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You know, when Paul
says in Romans 12:2,
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that we should
present our bodies
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as a living sacrifice
holy and acceptable to God,
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which is our reasonable service.
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The New
International Version says
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which is our
spiritual act of worship.
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You say, we see we
are a living sacrifice...
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Sacrifices brought to the
Lord for the purpose of worship.
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Your life every day should
be an act of worship to the God
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that you claim to be
your Lord and Savior.
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Let me translate
that differently.
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We don't live one
way during the week
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and then another way.
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We just switch
when the sun goes down
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and say, okay,
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now I hope my life is
a living sacrifice holy
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and acceptable to God.
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Well, let me also translate
the other part of that.
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The Bible doesn't
establish that we should honor
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the Sabbath every day either
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because the Sabbath is
only one day of the week
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that is blessed.
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And that's the
day that the Lord says
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thou shalt not do any work,
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that is specifically laid aside
for that corporate worship,
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that gathering together.
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And you find not only
in the life of Christ,
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but in the Book
of Acts 13:42-44.
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The Bible says, "So
when the Jews went out
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of the synagogue,
the Gentiles begged
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that these words
might be preached to them
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the next Sabbath."
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So they knew there was a sermon,
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the next Sabbath.
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And the Bible
says also in verse 44,
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"On the next Sabbath,
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almost the whole
city came together
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to hear the Word of God."
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In Acts Chapter 13,
then in Acts Chapter 18.
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And by the way, this is
after the ascension of Jesus,
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the Apostle Paul
met every Sabbath
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with the Greeks and the Jews.
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And the Bible
says in Acts 18:11,
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"He continued there
a year and six months."
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That's 78 weeks in a row
that the Apostle Paul spoke
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to the Jews and the
Greeks and the Bible said,
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what did he do in Acts 18:4?
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He reasoned in the
synagogue every Sabbath
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and persuaded
both Jews and Greeks.
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So the day of
worship as a corporate body
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was not disputed in Scripture.
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We also find that Paul taught
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and spoke for
three Sabbaths in a row.
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And this is talked about
in Amphipolis and Apollonia
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where they came to
Thessalonica in Acts 17:1-3.
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Here's the point I want to make.
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Every day we
should live our lives
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as a spiritual act of
worship to the true God.
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We don't turn off on
worship and turn it off.
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We should be a
living sacrifice holy
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and acceptable
to God in our acts,
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our words, our deeds,
and our choices every day.
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And then we will
be a living sacrifice
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and an acceptable attitude
of worship towards our Lord.
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But He only blessed one day
as a day of corporate worship.
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Amen. Praise the
Lord for that. Thank you.
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All right, Miss Shelley Quinn,
00:20:09.74\00:20:11.27
coming back to you
for this next question.
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And this comes from Yvonne
from Harlem, and she says,
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"Jesus is called the Son of man.
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So why does God refer to
Ezekiel as the son of man?"
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You know, it's
interesting, Yvonne,
00:20:23.49\00:20:25.29
Ezekiel is referred to
as the son of man, 90 times,
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this just
indicates his humanness.
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Ezekiel was a
member of the human race
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through whom
God was going to try
00:20:35.06\00:20:37.00
to reach other
lost perishing souls.
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Now the Messiah,
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Son of man is a Messianic
title for Jesus Christ.
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You're right.
00:20:47.78\00:20:49.11
Because Jesus was
the seed of a woman,
00:20:49.14\00:20:53.75
Jesus became God,
became a human being,
00:20:53.78\00:20:58.39
took on our flesh in
the person of Jesus Christ.
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And you know what?
00:21:02.76\00:21:04.39
Son of man, I'm
gonna come back to that
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'cause He identified
with us as in our humanity,
00:21:07.60\00:21:12.37
when He took on our flesh.
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Son of man is used 107
times in the Old Testament.
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Only once to
Jesus in Daniel 7:13-14.
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Daniel says, "Behold,
00:21:23.81\00:21:25.15
one like the Son of man coming
with the clouds of heaven.
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He came to the Ancient of Days,
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and they brought
Him near before them.
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Then to Him was given dominion
and glory and a kingdom.
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And His dominion is
an everlasting dominion.
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His kingdom is the one
which shall not be destroyed."
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Jesus favorite title
for Himself was Son of man.
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He used it over 80 times.
00:21:48.80\00:21:50.81
In Mark 10:45, he says,
00:21:50.84\00:21:53.21
"Even the Son of man
did not come to be served,
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but to serve
00:21:56.31\00:21:57.65
and to give His
life a ransom for many."
00:21:57.68\00:22:01.05
The Son of man is
used as a term 88 times
00:22:01.08\00:22:06.59
in the New Testament.
00:22:06.62\00:22:08.02
And only once does it
refer to a natural born human.
00:22:08.06\00:22:13.03
So it's a
messianic title of Jesus.
00:22:13.06\00:22:16.00
Jesus was called
Messiah, Christ, the Seed,
00:22:16.03\00:22:19.43
the Son of man, last
Adam, the only begotten,
00:22:19.47\00:22:23.57
the first born, a
Lamb of God, Son of God,
00:22:23.61\00:22:26.74
and the surety of the covenant.
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Amen. Praise the Lord.
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Thank you, Miss
Shelley. All right.
00:22:30.38\00:22:31.71
Pastor John Dinzey,
00:22:31.75\00:22:33.08
I'm gonna be coming to
you for this next question.
00:22:33.11\00:22:34.52
This is a
question coming from Tony
00:22:34.55\00:22:36.28
and Tony says,
00:22:36.32\00:22:37.65
I hear many say
that the end is near
00:22:37.69\00:22:39.65
where the Christ's
return could be any day.
00:22:39.69\00:22:42.82
I get that.
00:22:42.86\00:22:44.19
I get the sense that they
think the end will be any day,
00:22:44.23\00:22:47.96
certainly before
the end of this year,
00:22:48.00\00:22:50.33
is this correct or
am I misunderstanding?
00:22:50.37\00:22:54.34
Yes. This is a
good question, indeed.
00:22:54.37\00:22:56.20
And I believe many people
are wondering the same thing.
00:22:56.24\00:22:59.54
There are all
kinds of doctrines.
00:22:59.57\00:23:01.54
The Bible says that
every wind of doctrine
00:23:01.58\00:23:03.24
will be blowing.
00:23:03.28\00:23:04.61
And so where do we go?
00:23:04.65\00:23:05.98
We've heard people talk about
the Lord is coming any day now.
00:23:06.01\00:23:08.35
And then we hear
some people saying,
00:23:08.38\00:23:09.72
projecting it into the future.
00:23:09.75\00:23:11.09
So what is it?
00:23:11.12\00:23:12.99
So let's go to
Matthew Chapter 24.
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In Matthew Chapter 24,
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you have Jesus giving signs
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that would come
just before His coming.
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And I remember as we went...
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As you study
Matthew 24, you will...
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You can probably
do like a checklist.
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Yes, this has been fulfilled.
Yes, this has been fulfilled.
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Yes, this has been fulfilled.
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But when you get
to Matthew 24:14,
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it is difficult to measure
when this is exactly done.
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Only God knows.
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Notice what it says, "And
this gospel of the kingdom
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will be
preached in all the world
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as a witness to all nations,
and then the end will come."
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So how do we know
when that is done?
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God knows.
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However, we can pretty much
look at the situation and say,
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"Wow, 3ABN is on
satellite all over the world.
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We're covering the
world via the internet,
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and books and
pamphlets have been printed
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and practically in
every language of the world
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the gospel has gone through,
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but there are some
unreached people they say.
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And I can tell you
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that a lot of
work needs to be done.
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God's people need
to get on the ball
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and cooperate with the Lord
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and bring this gospel
message to the whole world.
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Now, your question is,
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you get the sense
that it could be any day.
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Looking at the prophecies.
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When you look at Matthew 24:25,
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look at the Book of
Daniel, look at Revelation,
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especially beginning
in Revelation Chapter 13
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and onward.
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You see that
there are some things
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that are talked
about in the Bible
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that seem to be coming soon.
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When you talk about
an image to the beast,
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and when you talk
about a mark of the beast
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and life and death sentence,
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whoever doesn't take the mark,
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the idea that this
could happen any day,
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you have to put that aside
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because Jesus
cannot come tomorrow
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based on this, or
maybe the next day.
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However, we can
see that these things
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can happen rather quickly,
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perhaps who knows,
perhaps during a year,
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all this can take place,
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but we don't know
the day nor the hour.
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And so our part is to
be watching and praying
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and cooperating with the Lord,
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sharing the
gospel with other people.
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You're not gonna be able to say
the Lord is coming next month
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or the month after that.
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However, we are
supposed to be ready.
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And so I encourage
you to read Matthew 24,
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Revelation 12 and onward,
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and you will see that
Jesus Christ is coming soon.
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You can look at the science.
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I read now from
Matthew 24:42-44,
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"Watch, therefore
for you do not know
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what hour your Lord
is coming, but know this,
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that if the master
of the house had known
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what hour the thief would come,
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he would have watched
and not allow his house
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to be broken into.
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Therefore you also be ready,
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for the Son of man is coming
at an hour you do not expect.
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So be ready, place yourself
in the hands of the Lord
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and you will be ready.
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Praise the Lord.
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Thank you,
Pastor Dinzey, for that.
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All right, Miss Quinn,
I'm coming back to you,
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and this person is
asking all the way from India.
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This is Samuel from
India, and Samuel says,
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"Adventists
believe in God the Father,
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God the Son, and
God the Holy Spirit,
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and three are equally God.
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My question is, Revelation 4:2
and he quotes the verse here.
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"And immediately
I was in the spirit
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and behold a
throne was set in heaven
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and One sat on the throne."
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And then the question is,
why is there only one throne?
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What about the other two Gods?"
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Samuel, we only
believe in one God,
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it is not God the
Father, plus God the Son,
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plus God the Holy Spirit.
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It is God, the
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
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rather than one
plus one plus one,
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which equals three,
it's one times one times one,
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which equals one.
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So the second fundamental belief
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of the
Seventh-day Adventist Church
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is the Trinity,
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one God Father,
Son, and Holy Spirit,
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a unity of three
co-eternal persons.
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We believe that these
three there's one being
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three divine persons that exp...
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They have the same nature.
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They express the same purpose
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and everything
about their personality
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and character are the same.
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Now, let's look at chapter...
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Your question in Revelation
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in Chapters 1
to 3 of Revelation,
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we see a prophetic vision
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of the condition of the Church.
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Chapter 4,
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we see a symbolic vision
of God's throne in heaven.
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Everything is symbolic,
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but just because God
the Father is on the throne,
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don't think that
Jesus is not coming
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because in Chapter 5,
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Christ appears as the
lamb as though it were slain
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with seven heads and seven eyes.
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So here's the point.
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Just go to Google
and look up my sermon,
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His presence is in the
cube, and you'll get more.
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Here's a
two-minute juiced version.
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Go watch that sermon.
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Praise the Lord.
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Because that's
a difficult topic.
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Oh, yeah. Tough in two minutes.
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Yeah, that's one of those
atom, what was atom bomb topics.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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What's the title of
that sermon just in case?
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His presence in the cube.
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Praise the Lord.
By Shelley Quinn.
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Amen. Amen.
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Wonderful. All right.
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Pastor John Lomacang,
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I'm coming to you
for this next question.
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This question is coming
from Cabrera and they ask,
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"Why is it that the disobedience
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of Adam and Eve is
passed on to their offspring?
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Yet one can argue
that we had no part
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in their decision making."
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Hmm.
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We've had a few questions
over the course of our time
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about people that were concerned
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about the things that
we didn't have a part in.
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And I just wanna reiterate
just in case you missed it.
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We didn't have a part in
where we were being born,
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who our parents were,
00:29:31.90\00:29:33.27
what our
nationality was going to be,
00:29:33.30\00:29:35.57
what our gender is.
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We didn't have a
part in any of that.
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Those were decisions
and choices made for us,
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but there's one
major decision and choice
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that affects the
entire human race.
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And that is the nature of Adam.
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We know in Acts...
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In 1 Corinthians Chapter 5,
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1 Corinthians 15:22.
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The Bible says, "For
as in Adam, all die."
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Well, how's that Romans 5:12,
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it gives us a picture
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just as through one
man sin entered the world
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and death through sin
and thus death spread to all
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because all have sinned.
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Now, what that
mean is not saying
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that everybody
did something wrong
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to fall into the category,
but as is the DNA code,
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one of the ways
that we can tell,
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I can tell my
father or mother is
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as we have the
identity in our DNA.
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And there's a sin DNA
that Adam communicated to us.
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The good news I believe
is in 1 Corinthians 15:45.
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The Bible says,
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"As we have borne the
image of the man of dust,
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we shall also bear the
image of the heavenly man."
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Amen.
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You see this nature
that Adam gave to us
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which condemns us to
death, for all have sinned
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and fallen short
of the glory of God.
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Romans 3:23
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is not the thing that we
should focus the most on.
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We can't change
where we came from,
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but we could show a
change where we're headed.
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And I wanna give
you the encouragement
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is to say, well,
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I could say, well, I
had nothing to do with this.
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I'm just an innocent victim.
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Well, the victimization
is not going to change,
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but you've got the
power in your own hand
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to choose, to give
your life to Christ,
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put on His nature so
that when He does return,
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you would have a gift that
even Adam could not give you.
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And that is the
gift of eternal life.
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Amen.
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Well said. I like that.
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And perhaps
you're watching right now
00:31:27.45\00:31:29.08
and tuning in
for the first time,
00:31:29.12\00:31:30.45
from somewhere
around the world and asking
00:31:30.49\00:31:32.05
what in the world am I watching?
00:31:32.09\00:31:34.06
You're watching
one of the newest
00:31:34.09\00:31:35.56
3ABN Today programs entitled
3ABN Today, Bible Q and A,
00:31:35.59\00:31:40.70
in which we take
your Bible questions
00:31:40.73\00:31:43.26
and we answer them
according to the Bible.
00:31:43.30\00:31:45.57
And so actually
there's a couple of ways
00:31:45.60\00:31:47.00
you can send in
your Bible questions,
00:31:47.04\00:31:48.90
and in a future program,
00:31:48.94\00:31:50.27
we will try to take
on your Bible questions.
00:31:50.31\00:31:53.14
So if you want to do
that, there's a couple of ways.
00:31:53.17\00:31:54.98
The first time...
00:31:55.01\00:31:56.34
First way to do that
is via a text message.
00:31:56.38\00:31:59.75
And, of course, that
number is (618) 228-3975,
00:31:59.78\00:32:05.45
or you can email that in to
00:32:05.49\00:32:08.66
BibleQA@3abn.org
00:32:08.69\00:32:14.06
One quick
correction, 1 Corinthians 15:49,
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the image of the heavenly
and the image of Christ.
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Adam's image and Christ's image.
00:32:22.84\00:32:24.17
Just wanna correct that
before we go any further.
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Oh yeah, no, I appreciate that.
00:32:25.77\00:32:27.11
Thank you so much.
00:32:27.14\00:32:28.48
So send in your questions
and we're gonna continue
00:32:28.51\00:32:30.48
on with our
questions during this hour.
00:32:30.51\00:32:32.35
'Cause we have so
many more left here
00:32:32.38\00:32:34.88
and I'm actually
gonna go back to you,
00:32:34.92\00:32:36.72
Pastor John Dinzey,
00:32:36.75\00:32:38.15
and we're gonna be
taking this question
00:32:38.19\00:32:40.19
from F. Campbell
and this person says,
00:32:40.22\00:32:43.26
"How can I or anyone be
able to memorize God's Word,
00:32:43.29\00:32:47.33
especially in this world
that keeps us busy with work,
00:32:47.36\00:32:50.93
school and
unforeseen circumstances.
00:32:50.97\00:32:53.80
I always admire how
the Bible is memorized.
00:32:53.84\00:32:56.20
And I would love to
learn." Praise the Lord.
00:32:56.24\00:32:58.91
I praise the
Lord for this question
00:32:58.94\00:33:00.28
because it is a
wonderful question
00:33:00.31\00:33:02.21
and I congratulate you,
00:33:02.24\00:33:04.68
but now you
have to take the step
00:33:04.71\00:33:06.05
and make an effort
00:33:06.08\00:33:07.42
because without the effort,
then doesn't come the blessing.
00:33:07.45\00:33:10.82
Yes, this is wonderful to do.
00:33:10.85\00:33:12.99
In Psalm 119:11 says,
00:33:13.02\00:33:14.89
"Your word I have
hidden in my heart
00:33:14.92\00:33:17.89
that I might not
sin against You."
00:33:17.93\00:33:19.36
You remember that
when Jesus was tempted,
00:33:19.39\00:33:21.23
He said it is
written or Jesus took time
00:33:21.26\00:33:23.93
to try to
memorize the scriptures.
00:33:23.97\00:33:25.30
Well, how do you do that?
00:33:25.33\00:33:26.67
That's the question.
00:33:26.70\00:33:28.04
So first you have to
read, meditate upon God's Word.
00:33:28.07\00:33:31.51
That's step number one,
00:33:31.54\00:33:33.07
and a method
that most people use,
00:33:33.11\00:33:36.44
a lot of people
use is to repeat it.
00:33:36.48\00:33:38.48
What I like to do is
to take bites, you know?
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For God so loved the world.
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I take that bite
and I meditate upon it.
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I think about it.
00:33:46.12\00:33:47.46
And then I add a little more,
00:33:47.49\00:33:48.82
that He gave His
only begotten Son.
00:33:48.86\00:33:50.76
So I consider those
two and think about those
00:33:50.79\00:33:54.46
and repeat them several times.
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For God so loved the world
00:33:56.50\00:33:58.10
that He gave His
only begotten Son.
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Then you add a little more
and you repeat and you repeat.
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This is one of the
best methods to learn.
00:34:03.37\00:34:06.31
This is what many people use.
00:34:06.34\00:34:07.91
There's some people
memorize some Bible verses,
00:34:07.94\00:34:09.74
but some people
memorize chapters
00:34:09.78\00:34:13.21
on this method and others.
00:34:13.25\00:34:14.95
Another method
is scripture songs.
00:34:14.98\00:34:17.49
Many people have
written scripture songs
00:34:17.52\00:34:20.12
just going to the
internet type scripture songs.
00:34:20.16\00:34:23.32
And you will see that
some people have put to music,
00:34:23.36\00:34:26.76
some of the scriptures,
00:34:26.80\00:34:28.13
and this is a wonderful
way to memorize scripture.
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So I encourage
you to make an effort.
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And by the way, a
lot of people have
00:34:33.57\00:34:35.57
these smartphones these days.
00:34:35.60\00:34:38.07
You can have the Bible there,
glance at it from time to time
00:34:38.11\00:34:41.68
and little by
little you will see
00:34:41.71\00:34:43.21
that you're memorizing
more and more of God's Word
00:34:43.24\00:34:45.55
and you'll be
strengthened as you do so.
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Amen. Amen.
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Praise the Lord for that.
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Pastor Lomacang,
00:34:51.39\00:34:52.92
this next question is
coming from Ronald in Maryland.
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Okay.
00:34:56.22\00:34:57.56
And Ronald actually
asked a very good question,
00:34:57.59\00:34:59.13
which as evangelist
00:34:59.16\00:35:00.93
I think we all have heard
this at some point but he says,
00:35:00.96\00:35:04.27
"Jesus being the
Lord of the Sabbath.
00:35:04.30\00:35:06.87
When I accept Jesus, am
I not accepting the Sabbath
00:35:06.90\00:35:10.94
And as long as I pray...
00:35:10.97\00:35:12.77
As long as I
praise and worship Jesus.
00:35:12.81\00:35:15.11
He is my Sabbath."
00:35:15.14\00:35:17.25
So... I like that way.
00:35:17.28\00:35:19.98
That's a good,
that's a good point.
00:35:20.02\00:35:21.35
Yeah. That's great
spiritual acrobats.
00:35:21.38\00:35:23.39
I really wanna appreciate
you for trying to do that,
00:35:23.42\00:35:26.69
but I guess you
better have a net
00:35:26.72\00:35:28.99
because you're gonna
land on some hard ground
00:35:29.02\00:35:30.76
trying to just
land on your feet.
00:35:30.79\00:35:32.73
This is a...
00:35:32.76\00:35:34.10
This is something that
a lot of people struggle
00:35:34.13\00:35:35.53
with spiritually
00:35:35.56\00:35:36.93
and we're
living in a day and age
00:35:36.97\00:35:38.53
where I asked the question,
how can we accept Jesus,
00:35:38.57\00:35:43.34
but reject the Sabbath
00:35:43.37\00:35:45.67
and still think
it's praise and worship.
00:35:45.71\00:35:48.48
You cannot accept Jesus
and reject the very thing
00:35:48.51\00:35:51.28
He says, remember.
00:35:51.31\00:35:52.65
That's right.
00:35:52.68\00:35:54.02
Remember the
Sabbath day to keep it holy.
00:35:54.05\00:35:55.38
Just imagine
saying, Lord, I love you.
00:35:55.42\00:35:57.29
And I worship You,
00:35:57.32\00:35:58.65
but I am not
keeping Your Sabbath.
00:35:58.69\00:36:00.29
I know you said
I should remember,
00:36:00.32\00:36:02.46
but I'm choosing to forget,
00:36:02.49\00:36:03.83
but I love You anyway.
00:36:03.86\00:36:05.39
Now try that on your wife.
00:36:05.43\00:36:07.76
If you're married and
see how far that goes.
00:36:07.80\00:36:10.70
And I'm just being
very candid with you
00:36:10.73\00:36:12.33
because there's a new
kind of religion nowadays.
00:36:12.37\00:36:14.87
We have this atmosphere
of praise and worship.
00:36:14.90\00:36:16.84
If we lift our hands and we say,
00:36:16.87\00:36:18.31
I love you Lord,
that, that omits obedience.
00:36:18.34\00:36:21.28
Friends, we cannot
do that. That's right.
00:36:21.31\00:36:22.94
The Sabbath is one of
God's Ten Commandments,
00:36:22.98\00:36:25.21
try breaking the other nine
00:36:25.25\00:36:26.75
and still try to convince
the Lord that you love Him.
00:36:26.78\00:36:29.52
It's not going to work.
00:36:29.55\00:36:30.92
The Ten
Commandments are commandments,
00:36:30.95\00:36:32.65
not suggestions and
not multiple choice.
00:36:32.69\00:36:35.72
Jesus made it clear.
00:36:35.76\00:36:37.09
Luke 6:46, "Why
do you call me Lord,
00:36:37.13\00:36:39.19
Lord and do not do
the things which I say."
00:36:39.23\00:36:41.63
Jesus kept the Sabbath.
00:36:41.66\00:36:43.00
Luke 4:16, His
disciples kept the Sabbath.
00:36:43.03\00:36:45.07
The apostles kept the Sabbath.
00:36:45.10\00:36:46.60
There's nothing
wrong with the Sabbath.
00:36:46.63\00:36:48.30
The Sabbath is not the issue.
00:36:48.34\00:36:49.67
Jesus said in 1 John 2:6,
00:36:49.70\00:36:52.14
"He who says he abides in Me,
00:36:52.17\00:36:54.08
ought himself also to
walk just as He walked."
00:36:54.11\00:36:57.31
You will never be lost
00:36:57.35\00:36:59.05
if Jesus is your perfect example
00:36:59.08\00:37:01.08
and you do what He did.
00:37:01.12\00:37:02.45
But if you say I
know what He did,
00:37:02.48\00:37:04.12
but I'm gonna do the opposite.
00:37:04.15\00:37:06.09
And I'm gonna just
say, I love you, Lord.
00:37:06.12\00:37:08.19
I'm gonna praise You.
00:37:08.22\00:37:09.56
I'll sing my heart out to You.
00:37:09.59\00:37:11.26
Here's what He will say to you.
00:37:11.29\00:37:12.63
Matthew 15:8,
00:37:12.66\00:37:14.23
"These people draw
near to Me with their mouth,
00:37:14.26\00:37:16.70
they honor Me with their lips,
00:37:16.73\00:37:18.23
but their hearts
are far from Me."
00:37:18.27\00:37:20.24
So, brethren, let
me make it very clear,
00:37:20.27\00:37:22.50
if you love the Lord,
prove it by how you live,
00:37:22.54\00:37:26.64
walk as He walked.
00:37:26.68\00:37:28.61
Hmm.
00:37:28.64\00:37:29.98
Amen. Amen. Praise
the Lord. All right.
00:37:30.01\00:37:32.58
Miss Shelley
Quinn coming to you.
00:37:32.61\00:37:35.08
This is from Stephanie
in Washington and she says,
00:37:35.12\00:37:37.82
"Did Jesus lose His
omnipresence for eternity?
00:37:37.85\00:37:41.59
Or did He get it back
after His resurrection?
00:37:41.62\00:37:44.66
Can you please share
where you find your answers?"
00:37:44.69\00:37:47.43
Certainly, let me set this up
00:37:47.46\00:37:49.23
because what
Stephanie is referring to is
00:37:49.26\00:37:52.07
Philippians 2:5-8
refers to Christ as God
00:37:52.10\00:37:56.57
who humbled
Himself to become a man.
00:37:56.60\00:37:58.94
He took on our flesh.
00:37:58.97\00:38:01.54
He emptied Himself in a...
00:38:01.58\00:38:04.48
It's kenosis in the
Greek, not of His deity,
00:38:04.51\00:38:07.68
but of His divine
prerogative is His glory
00:38:07.72\00:38:12.02
and His eternal riches.
00:38:12.05\00:38:13.49
So we know that
when He was in the flesh,
00:38:13.52\00:38:16.86
He was limited to being
in one place at one time,
00:38:16.89\00:38:20.23
He was resurrected in the flesh.
00:38:20.26\00:38:21.96
Luke 24:36-39.
00:38:22.00\00:38:25.10
He shows them
His, the nail wounds.
00:38:25.13\00:38:26.94
And He says, hey,
00:38:26.97\00:38:28.30
a spirit doesn't have
flesh and bones as you see here.
00:38:28.34\00:38:31.34
He walked for 40
days on the earth
00:38:31.37\00:38:33.41
after the resurrection,
00:38:33.44\00:38:34.88
then He ascended in the flesh.
00:38:34.91\00:38:37.75
And in Acts1:11,
00:38:37.78\00:38:39.55
the angel said,
hey, the same Jesus
00:38:39.58\00:38:41.92
you're seeing taken up.
00:38:41.95\00:38:43.28
He's gonna come
back in the same manner.
00:38:43.32\00:38:45.65
In 1 Corinthians 15:45,
00:38:45.69\00:38:48.12
we know that Christ
is in His human flesh,
00:38:48.16\00:38:52.36
His glorified human flesh.
00:38:52.39\00:38:54.70
He is the last Adam,
00:38:54.73\00:38:58.10
the new
representative of humanity.
00:38:58.13\00:39:02.00
And He said in
Genesis 16:7 to His disciples,
00:39:02.04\00:39:07.34
"Hey, it is to your
advantage that I go away,
00:39:07.38\00:39:11.41
because if I do not go
away, the helper will not come.
00:39:11.45\00:39:15.52
But if I depart, I
will send him to you."
00:39:15.55\00:39:17.82
What He is
saying is in My flesh,
00:39:17.85\00:39:20.39
I can't be with you everywhere,
00:39:20.42\00:39:22.56
but I'm going to
send the Holy Spirit.
00:39:22.59\00:39:25.59
And Ephesians 3:16-17
00:39:25.63\00:39:29.40
says that Christ
lives in our heart
00:39:29.43\00:39:31.40
by the power of the Holy Spirit.
00:39:31.43\00:39:33.77
He says, Paul prays
that you'll be strengthened
00:39:33.80\00:39:37.27
with might through His spirit,
00:39:37.31\00:39:38.77
in the inner man that
Christ may dwell in your heart
00:39:38.81\00:39:42.18
through faith.
00:39:42.21\00:39:43.58
So through the Holy
Spirit, who is one with Jesus,
00:39:43.61\00:39:49.02
Jesus still has
His omnipresence.
00:39:49.05\00:39:51.15
That's right.
00:39:51.19\00:39:52.52
Very well said. Thank you.
00:39:52.55\00:39:54.06
Pastor John Dinzey,
00:39:54.09\00:39:55.42
this question comes from Rachel.
00:39:55.46\00:39:57.69
And she says, "What does it mean
00:39:57.73\00:39:59.26
that the unpardonable sin
00:39:59.29\00:40:01.46
is blasphemy of the Holy Spirit?
00:40:01.50\00:40:03.83
How do you
blaspheme the Holy Spirit?
00:40:03.87\00:40:07.24
Okay. That's a
very good question.
00:40:07.27\00:40:08.90
And one that
sometimes brings people
00:40:08.94\00:40:11.84
into some great concern
00:40:11.87\00:40:13.88
and they fear they have a
blasphemed the Holy Spirit.
00:40:13.91\00:40:18.15
I would like to say
first that it is not a word
00:40:18.18\00:40:21.68
that you say or an act
that you say at one time,
00:40:21.72\00:40:25.62
this is a continue...
00:40:25.65\00:40:27.66
The continued
resistance of the Holy Spirit
00:40:27.69\00:40:32.03
to the degree of
resisting to the point
00:40:32.06\00:40:35.13
that the Lord can
do no more for you.
00:40:35.16\00:40:37.37
Because the
resistance you have made
00:40:37.40\00:40:39.40
is you have rejected God.
00:40:39.43\00:40:42.54
How soon does that happen?
00:40:42.57\00:40:45.24
We cannot say,
00:40:45.27\00:40:46.61
but look at the
scriptures reveal
00:40:46.64\00:40:51.25
that God is patient
with us, forgiving and kind,
00:40:51.28\00:40:56.12
willing to forgive
us practically anything.
00:40:56.15\00:40:58.35
And now let's go
to the scriptures.
00:40:58.39\00:41:00.96
Notice how this is used
here in Matthew 12:24 first.
00:41:00.99\00:41:06.43
"Now when the
Pharisees heard, they said,
00:41:06.46\00:41:08.46
'This fellow does
not cast out demons
00:41:08.50\00:41:10.67
except by Beelzebub,
the ruler of the demons.'"
00:41:10.70\00:41:13.60
So they were
talking about Jesus,
00:41:13.64\00:41:15.74
that He was doing something
through the ruler of the demons
00:41:15.77\00:41:18.51
when He had done it
through the power of God,
00:41:18.54\00:41:21.41
through the power
of the Holy Spirit.
00:41:21.44\00:41:23.14
So this is when you enter
in not attributing to God,
00:41:23.18\00:41:26.78
acknowledging the
work of the Holy Spirit.
00:41:26.82\00:41:29.52
You are beginning the process
00:41:29.55\00:41:31.25
of rejecting the
work of the Holy Spirit.
00:41:31.29\00:41:33.82
And unless you repent
00:41:33.86\00:41:36.16
and you continue
resisting God's grace
00:41:36.19\00:41:39.26
and God's offer a mercy.
00:41:39.29\00:41:41.03
Eventually your
heart is hardened
00:41:41.06\00:41:43.47
and you will not
listen to God's voice
00:41:43.50\00:41:45.73
and you just
reject God completely.
00:41:45.77\00:41:48.54
Now, if you are concerned
00:41:48.57\00:41:50.54
that you have
committed the unpardonable sin,
00:41:50.57\00:41:52.84
you are worried about it,
00:41:52.87\00:41:54.61
then you have not
committed the unpardonable sin.
00:41:54.64\00:41:57.18
You are still
concerned about your salvation.
00:41:57.21\00:42:00.65
Therefore, come to the Lord,
repent of your sins and say,
00:42:00.68\00:42:04.45
Lord, come into my heart
because it's still there.
00:42:04.49\00:42:07.59
Revelation 3:20, "Behold, I
stand at the door and knock.
00:42:07.62\00:42:09.76
If any man hears my
voice and opens the door,
00:42:09.79\00:42:11.53
I will come into him
00:42:11.56\00:42:12.89
and sup with
him and he with Me."
00:42:12.93\00:42:14.26
The door of mercy is still open.
00:42:14.30\00:42:15.90
Praise the Lord.
00:42:15.93\00:42:17.27
Amen. Praise the Lord.
00:42:17.30\00:42:18.63
Thank you, Brother.
00:42:18.67\00:42:20.00
Pastor Lomacang,
coming back to you.
00:42:20.04\00:42:21.67
And this question
is coming based on,
00:42:21.70\00:42:25.54
I guess 1 Corinthians 2:9,
00:42:25.57\00:42:27.71
they say,
"Should I love my enemies
00:42:27.74\00:42:29.74
even though they
continue to falsely accuse me
00:42:29.78\00:42:32.68
of the same thing
that I didn't do?"
00:42:32.71\00:42:35.42
Okay.
00:42:35.45\00:42:37.15
Well, nobody
knows that frustration
00:42:37.19\00:42:40.49
better than Jesus,
because they confused Him
00:42:40.52\00:42:45.43
with so many
adverse personalities,
00:42:45.46\00:42:49.30
but we don't love people
because they are lovable.
00:42:49.33\00:42:54.37
We love people
00:42:54.40\00:42:55.74
because our hearts
have been transformed
00:42:55.77\00:42:58.54
and the love of God
has been poured into us.
00:42:58.57\00:43:02.78
Now, if you fill up a glass,
00:43:02.81\00:43:04.15
I do this illustration on our...
00:43:04.18\00:43:05.51
We have a Zoom worship each week
00:43:05.55\00:43:07.78
with a group of people.
00:43:07.82\00:43:09.88
I had my wife get me
a full glass of water.
00:43:09.92\00:43:12.39
And then I had to get
me an empty glass of water.
00:43:12.42\00:43:14.59
And when Paul
says the love of God
00:43:14.62\00:43:15.99
has been poured out into us,
00:43:16.02\00:43:18.69
I said, now I
have something here
00:43:18.73\00:43:20.20
that I could pour
out into something else.
00:43:20.23\00:43:23.03
If you try to serve
God with an empty heart,
00:43:23.06\00:43:25.90
thinking that the
love stems from you.
00:43:25.93\00:43:28.00
They're not gonna
understand your frustration.
00:43:28.04\00:43:30.01
But if Jesus
Christ is living in you,
00:43:30.04\00:43:32.31
then this is not
an act of futility,
00:43:32.34\00:43:35.24
nor is it an
effort that you put forth
00:43:35.28\00:43:36.95
that you finally accomplish,
00:43:36.98\00:43:39.21
but it is God
working in you both to will
00:43:39.25\00:43:41.45
and to do of His good pleasure.
00:43:41.48\00:43:43.28
But notice this command
of love is not something
00:43:43.32\00:43:46.29
that's arbitrary nor
it's not even optional.
00:43:46.32\00:43:48.92
It's an evidence that
we are disciples of Christ.
00:43:48.96\00:43:51.96
Jesus says, John
13:35, "By this all will know
00:43:51.99\00:43:55.76
that you are My disciples
00:43:55.80\00:43:57.13
if you have love
for one another."
00:43:57.17\00:43:59.10
But what about your enemies?
00:43:59.13\00:44:00.74
Matthew 5:43, "You
have heard that it was said,
00:44:00.77\00:44:04.11
'You shall love your
neighbor and hate your enemy.'
00:44:04.14\00:44:06.64
But I say to you
love your enemies,
00:44:06.68\00:44:08.94
bless those who curse you,
00:44:08.98\00:44:10.65
do good to those who
hate you and pray for those
00:44:10.68\00:44:13.35
who spitefully use
you and persecute you."
00:44:13.38\00:44:17.35
That's where you're
having a difficulty.
00:44:17.39\00:44:19.79
However, once again, when
the love of God is in you,
00:44:19.82\00:44:23.73
why do you love?
00:44:23.76\00:44:25.09
We love because
He first loved us.
00:44:25.13\00:44:28.03
Amen.
00:44:28.06\00:44:29.40
1 John 4:19.
00:44:29.43\00:44:30.77
So if you
appreciate the love of God
00:44:30.80\00:44:33.20
while you are a sinner,
00:44:33.23\00:44:35.04
let that be evidence in
you that you love others
00:44:35.07\00:44:37.61
because Christ
has loved you first.
00:44:37.64\00:44:39.17
Amen.
00:44:39.21\00:44:40.54
Amen. Thank
you, pastor for that.
00:44:40.58\00:44:42.44
All right.
00:44:42.48\00:44:43.81
Miss Shelley Quinn,
00:44:43.85\00:44:45.18
this question is
coming to you and it says,
00:44:45.21\00:44:47.52
"I hear so much about
once saved, always saved,
00:44:47.55\00:44:51.52
but in 1 John, you have to
obey the commandments of God.
00:44:51.55\00:44:55.16
Are people saved if they return
to their old sinful habits
00:44:55.19\00:44:59.23
or were they never saved?"
00:44:59.26\00:45:01.10
I'm gonna sound like
I'm tooting my own horn,
00:45:01.13\00:45:03.20
but I just got through doing
an hour long sermon on this.
00:45:03.23\00:45:06.30
And it is called the real truth
00:45:06.33\00:45:09.30
of once saved, always saved.
00:45:09.34\00:45:11.07
If you Google the real
truth, once saved, always saved.
00:45:11.11\00:45:15.01
You can see all of
this biblical support.
00:45:15.04\00:45:18.01
You got to add my
name, Shelley Quinn.
00:45:18.05\00:45:20.65
Salvation is by grace
through faith, we know this,
00:45:20.68\00:45:25.62
but the covenant of redemption,
00:45:25.65\00:45:28.09
there's three stages
that we're going through.
00:45:28.12\00:45:30.86
We have been saved.
00:45:30.89\00:45:32.23
We're justified.
We are being saved.
00:45:32.26\00:45:34.23
We're sanctified
and we will be saved.
00:45:34.26\00:45:36.67
We will be glorified. Yes.
00:45:36.70\00:45:38.63
God has conditions to
this covenant of redemption.
00:45:38.67\00:45:43.64
He does ask that we
walk motivated by love
00:45:43.67\00:45:49.11
in obedience to His will
00:45:49.14\00:45:51.58
and stay in covenant
relationship with Him.
00:45:51.61\00:45:54.25
The Bible clearly says
00:45:54.28\00:45:55.62
that God keeps
covenant with those
00:45:55.65\00:45:58.49
who keep covenant with Him.
00:45:58.52\00:46:00.16
And you know, by the
way, Malachi 4:6, God says,
00:46:00.19\00:46:04.49
"Hey, I'm the
Lord, I change not."
00:46:04.53\00:46:07.00
So the same God
of the Old Testament
00:46:07.03\00:46:09.86
is the God of the new.
00:46:09.90\00:46:11.37
Spiritual
principles of the Old Testament
00:46:11.40\00:46:14.14
are echoed in the new.
00:46:14.17\00:46:15.70
In Ezekiel 33:18,
00:46:15.74\00:46:18.57
God says when the righteous
turns from his righteousness
00:46:18.61\00:46:22.34
and commits iniquity, he
shall die because of it."
00:46:22.38\00:46:25.78
In John 15:6, Jesus echoes this.
00:46:25.81\00:46:28.95
"If anyone does not abide in Me,
00:46:28.98\00:46:30.85
if he doesn't remain in
Me, he is cast out as a branch
00:46:30.89\00:46:34.72
and withered
and they gather them
00:46:34.76\00:46:36.12
and throw them into
fire and they're burned."
00:46:36.16\00:46:38.79
God's message is
consistent throughout Scripture.
00:46:38.83\00:46:41.90
God told Moses in Exodus 32:32,
00:46:41.93\00:46:45.53
He said, "Whoever
has sinned against Me,
00:46:45.57\00:46:48.64
I will blot him out of My book."
00:46:48.67\00:46:51.71
This is the
book of the redeemed,
00:46:51.74\00:46:53.24
the Book of Life.
00:46:53.27\00:46:54.71
And then in Revelation 3:5,
00:46:54.74\00:46:56.95
Jesus repeats
this same idea in an...
00:46:56.98\00:47:00.35
In a reverse way.
00:47:00.38\00:47:02.32
He says, "He who overcomes,"
this is Revelation 3:5,
00:47:02.35\00:47:07.56
"shall be clothed
in white garments.
00:47:07.59\00:47:10.39
And I will not blot out his name
00:47:10.43\00:47:14.40
from the book of Life.
00:47:14.43\00:47:16.06
See, Paul said, and
everybody's always quoting
00:47:16.10\00:47:19.10
this in Romans 8:38-39,
00:47:19.13\00:47:22.30
"Nothing can separate
us from the love of God."
00:47:22.34\00:47:25.31
How true that is.
00:47:25.34\00:47:26.68
Amen.
00:47:26.71\00:47:28.04
But we can separate ourselves.
00:47:28.08\00:47:29.58
Jesus said in Matthew 7:21,
00:47:29.61\00:47:32.55
"Not everyone who says to me,
00:47:32.58\00:47:34.22
Lord, Lord will enter
the kingdom of heaven,
00:47:34.25\00:47:36.75
but he who does
the will of My Father."
00:47:36.79\00:47:40.22
And He says,
there's gonna be some
00:47:40.26\00:47:41.86
who come up to Him and say,
00:47:41.89\00:47:43.56
didn't we do this, and
this, and this in Your name.
00:47:43.59\00:47:46.23
And guess what He's gonna say?
00:47:46.26\00:47:47.83
Depart from Me you
who practice lawlessness.
00:47:47.86\00:47:50.70
I never knew you.
00:47:50.73\00:47:52.43
So we know from 1 John 3:4,
00:47:52.47\00:47:54.30
"Lawlessness is
transgression of the law.
00:47:54.34\00:47:58.11
Sin is lawlessness."
00:47:58.14\00:48:00.11
He tells us, Paul
told Timothy, "Hey,
00:48:00.14\00:48:02.61
if we deny Him,
He's gonna deny us."
00:48:02.64\00:48:05.55
Right. So we've
got, go to Google.
00:48:05.58\00:48:09.68
The real truth of one saved
always saved by Shelley Quinn.
00:48:09.72\00:48:14.62
Well, chances are at this point.
00:48:14.66\00:48:15.99
Look, you send in
those Bible questions
00:48:16.02\00:48:17.53
if we can't answer it,
00:48:17.56\00:48:18.89
Shelley is probably
got a sermon about it.
00:48:18.93\00:48:21.93
No, that's a blessing though.
00:48:21.96\00:48:23.30
Thank you so
much for joining us.
00:48:23.33\00:48:24.83
If you're just now tuning
into the last few minutes,
00:48:24.87\00:48:26.77
but we have just enough time
00:48:26.80\00:48:28.34
perhaps, maybe to throw out
00:48:28.37\00:48:29.70
a couple of
these bonus questions.
00:48:29.74\00:48:31.41
You know, I was just
playing with you by the way.
00:48:31.44\00:48:32.94
Oh, no. That was a joke.
00:48:32.97\00:48:34.48
But you certainly are a
blessing to this program.
00:48:34.51\00:48:36.51
We know, we love your
sermons, Miss Shelley.
00:48:36.54\00:48:38.45
Thank you.
00:48:38.48\00:48:40.62
This question comes from
Lisa in Ontario and she says,
00:48:40.65\00:48:43.62
"Can someone please
explain Matthew 5:19?"
00:48:43.65\00:48:46.86
All right. Matthew 5â |
00:48:46.89\00:48:48.22
And I'll go ahead and read that
if you guys would like me to,
00:48:48.26\00:48:50.09
Matthew 5:19.
00:48:50.13\00:48:51.69
Well, here it is.
00:48:51.73\00:48:53.06
Okay, go ahead and
read it then, Brother.
00:48:53.09\00:48:54.43
"Whoever therefore
breaks one of these
00:48:54.46\00:48:56.53
the least of these
commandments and teaches men
00:48:56.56\00:48:58.33
so shall be called least
in the kingdom of heaven,
00:48:58.37\00:49:01.10
but whoever does
and teaches them,
00:49:01.14\00:49:02.47
he shall be called great
in the kingdom of heaven.
00:49:02.50\00:49:04.94
This is not
talking about the order
00:49:04.97\00:49:06.37
in which you're
gonna be called like,
00:49:06.41\00:49:07.74
well, you're number
four, five six, seven.
00:49:07.78\00:49:09.84
The word there least means you.
00:49:09.88\00:49:12.15
The least you will be is
called in the kingdom of heaven.
00:49:12.18\00:49:15.05
The Lord is saying
that if anyone teaches you
00:49:15.08\00:49:17.15
to disobey the
commandments, which He says,
00:49:17.19\00:49:19.25
if you love Me,
keep My commandments.
00:49:19.29\00:49:22.02
Then the chances of you
being in the kingdom of heaven,
00:49:22.06\00:49:24.36
it's the least thing
that's going to happen.
00:49:24.39\00:49:26.73
So when you look at that,
00:49:26.76\00:49:28.10
the Lord is saying
all of my commandments,
00:49:28.13\00:49:29.90
10 of them, I wanna say 10,
00:49:29.93\00:49:31.70
because many people think that
00:49:31.73\00:49:33.07
there are 640
that we have to keep
00:49:33.10\00:49:34.44
and we have to keep
the Jewish ceremonies
00:49:34.47\00:49:36.04
and all that.
00:49:36.07\00:49:37.41
No, I'm just talking
about the Ten Commandments,
00:49:37.44\00:49:38.77
the first four, our
relationship to God,
00:49:38.81\00:49:40.71
the last six in our relationship
00:49:40.74\00:49:42.08
to our fellow men.
00:49:42.11\00:49:43.55
So let's not be
led down the path
00:49:43.58\00:49:45.61
to violate these thinking
00:49:45.65\00:49:47.42
that somehow our relationship
with Christ is still secure.
00:49:47.45\00:49:51.09
Amen.
00:49:51.12\00:49:52.45
Anybody else want to
add to that before we move?
00:49:52.49\00:49:54.62
Yes.
00:49:54.66\00:49:55.99
Because when you go
here to Matthew 5:20,
00:49:56.02\00:49:59.06
remember it says,
"For I say unto you
00:49:59.09\00:50:00.43
that unless your righteousness
exceeds the righteousness
00:50:00.46\00:50:03.03
of the scribes and Pharisees,
00:50:03.06\00:50:04.40
you will by no means
enter the kingdom of heaven.
00:50:04.43\00:50:07.00
So you cannot enter
the kingdom of heaven
00:50:07.04\00:50:10.21
being a violator
of God's commandments.
00:50:10.24\00:50:11.97
Amen.
00:50:12.01\00:50:13.34
Good point. Good
point. All right.
00:50:13.38\00:50:15.48
We have just enough
time for this next question.
00:50:15.51\00:50:18.11
And this person says in
the Book of Numbers 21:8-9.
00:50:18.15\00:50:22.48
Moses made a bronze snake
and the Israelites looked at it
00:50:22.52\00:50:25.85
and got healed
from the snake bites.
00:50:25.89\00:50:27.92
Did the Israelites
break the commandment
00:50:27.96\00:50:29.82
in Exodus 20:4-5?"
00:50:29.86\00:50:33.60
The second commandment is that
you shall not worship idols.
00:50:33.63\00:50:37.10
Actually in Numbers 21:8,
00:50:37.13\00:50:39.33
we see God told Moses
to create the serpent,
00:50:39.37\00:50:44.11
to have the people
look at this bronze serpent
00:50:44.14\00:50:47.81
on the pole in looking to
him for provision of healing.
00:50:47.84\00:50:53.65
They were not worshiping.
00:50:53.68\00:50:55.82
However, by the time Hezekiah
comes along, he has to...
00:50:55.85\00:51:00.16
In Kings 18:4, it shows
He had to destroy the serpent
00:51:00.19\00:51:05.03
because the people
had begun to worship
00:51:05.06\00:51:07.96
and they were
burning incense to it.
00:51:08.00\00:51:11.03
There's nothing wrong.
00:51:11.07\00:51:12.40
God had cherubs at the altar.
00:51:12.43\00:51:16.00
He had them in the
embroidery of the curtains.
00:51:16.04\00:51:19.91
There's nothing wrong
with religious images.
00:51:19.94\00:51:23.48
Hmm. Amen. Thank you for that.
00:51:23.51\00:51:25.85
Well, my friends,
00:51:25.88\00:51:27.38
we basically
have come to the end
00:51:27.42\00:51:29.08
of our question and answer time.
00:51:29.12\00:51:30.52
We still have a little...
00:51:30.55\00:51:31.89
We have a couple of
minutes on the other side
00:51:31.92\00:51:33.25
of the break that
we're about to take.
00:51:33.29\00:51:34.82
We're gonna tell
you one more time,
00:51:34.86\00:51:36.66
how you can send in
those Bible questions
00:51:36.69\00:51:39.49
right now at this time.
00:51:39.53\00:51:40.86
So don't go anywhere.
00:51:40.90\00:51:42.23
We'll be back for
some closing thoughts.
00:51:42.26\00:51:45.03
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00:51:45.07\00:51:47.87
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00:51:49.50\00:51:51.94
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00:51:51.97\00:51:54.21
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00:51:54.24\00:51:57.35
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00:51:57.38\00:51:59.65
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