1 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:12,860 I was afraid he was going to forget 2 00:00:12,860 --> 00:00:13,500 my name. 3 00:00:15,280 --> 00:00:16,560 Wouldn't be unusual. 4 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:18,260 I'm the fellow who says I want you 5 00:00:18,260 --> 00:00:19,260 to meet my wife. 6 00:00:19,360 --> 00:00:20,040 What's her name? 7 00:00:22,860 --> 00:00:25,480 She doesn't think that's particularly nice. 8 00:00:26,280 --> 00:00:27,660 Names do cause a problem. 9 00:00:27,660 --> 00:00:32,060 I was in a Bible conference up in 10 00:00:32,060 --> 00:00:36,720 Muskoka Lakes in Canada some years ago, and 11 00:00:36,720 --> 00:00:39,420 one of the brethren asked for the privilege 12 00:00:39,420 --> 00:00:43,240 of introducing me, and he went at great 13 00:00:43,240 --> 00:00:43,700 lengths. 14 00:00:44,540 --> 00:00:48,080 And finally, when he finished with his long 15 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:52,000 list of things, he said, I now want 16 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:55,300 to present my brother Paris Green. 17 00:00:58,380 --> 00:01:00,920 And I don't think anybody knew the difference. 18 00:01:04,060 --> 00:01:05,300 Let's bow in prayer. 19 00:01:05,440 --> 00:01:09,320 Father, we thank and praise Thee for what 20 00:01:09,320 --> 00:01:13,100 we've heard tonight, for the truth that centers 21 00:01:13,100 --> 00:01:16,760 our minds and our hearts, and what we've 22 00:01:16,760 --> 00:01:17,580 seen and felt. 23 00:01:17,580 --> 00:01:20,660 We would ask Thee that this may be 24 00:01:20,660 --> 00:01:24,180 nourished by us, and that what thou we 25 00:01:24,180 --> 00:01:28,920 experience in these next minutes together are going 26 00:01:28,920 --> 00:01:31,700 to tie into and be and build upon 27 00:01:31,700 --> 00:01:34,000 that which we've seen. 28 00:01:34,960 --> 00:01:38,060 We do rejoice that Thou art here, that 29 00:01:38,060 --> 00:01:40,760 Thou art the Teacher, that the very Holy 30 00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:45,060 Spirit that inspired the Word is here with 31 00:01:45,060 --> 00:01:48,120 us and in us to illumine our minds 32 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:51,940 and hearts, and to enable us to appropriate 33 00:01:51,940 --> 00:01:52,780 that Word. 34 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:56,080 So bless each of us according to our 35 00:01:56,080 --> 00:01:56,440 needs. 36 00:01:57,380 --> 00:01:58,720 No two of us are in the same 37 00:01:58,720 --> 00:02:02,080 place in our relationship with Thee. 38 00:02:02,900 --> 00:02:04,840 No two of us have quite the same 39 00:02:04,840 --> 00:02:05,480 needs. 40 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:26,600 Many years ago, during the time when the 41 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:30,600 Second World War was raging in Europe and 42 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:35,480 our nation was so involved in it, I 43 00:02:35,480 --> 00:02:38,980 was talking to a university student, and he 44 00:02:38,980 --> 00:02:42,500 raised this question, you know, we had the 45 00:02:42,500 --> 00:02:46,360 bombing of Pearl Harbor, we discovered about the 46 00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:51,460 killing of the Jews by Hitler and his 47 00:02:51,460 --> 00:02:56,100 people, and the whole scene was one of 48 00:02:56,100 --> 00:03:00,960 grave sadness and sickness and heartache. 49 00:03:01,100 --> 00:03:02,340 The world was on fire. 50 00:03:02,340 --> 00:03:08,100 And this young university student said, why did 51 00:03:08,100 --> 00:03:13,860 God ever make man in the first place, 52 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:18,620 if he had any idea that man could 53 00:03:18,620 --> 00:03:23,780 be capable of doing what we see him 54 00:03:23,780 --> 00:03:24,780 doing now? 55 00:03:27,140 --> 00:03:29,940 Well, we talked about it, I gave him 56 00:03:29,940 --> 00:03:32,160 the best answer I was able to give 57 00:03:32,160 --> 00:03:36,320 that he was prepared to receive, and yet 58 00:03:36,320 --> 00:03:41,000 it was one that stayed with me, and 59 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:43,240 it forced me to do a lot of 60 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:47,020 thinking, a lot of study, a lot of 61 00:03:47,020 --> 00:03:49,260 praying, waiting on the Lord. 62 00:03:50,070 --> 00:03:52,700 Why did God make man? 63 00:03:54,020 --> 00:03:58,600 What's the purpose that he has in this 64 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:00,680 being we call man? 65 00:04:01,720 --> 00:04:02,800 Why are we here? 66 00:04:03,500 --> 00:04:06,100 Well, we have to find out something about 67 00:04:06,100 --> 00:04:08,740 the nature of God to answer the question. 68 00:04:09,920 --> 00:04:12,800 We have some statements that are made about 69 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:17,760 God, and we put them in order, not 70 00:04:17,760 --> 00:04:19,760 in terms of where they occur in the 71 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:23,360 Scripture, but just so that we can see 72 00:04:23,360 --> 00:04:24,820 them in perspective. 73 00:04:24,820 --> 00:04:30,360 First, the Bible tells us that God is 74 00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:31,060 love. 75 00:04:32,820 --> 00:04:35,420 Now, we know a little bit about love, 76 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:35,960 don't we? 77 00:04:36,860 --> 00:04:42,780 We know that love is incomplete without an 78 00:04:42,780 --> 00:04:43,160 object. 79 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:46,620 God has always been love. 80 00:04:46,740 --> 00:04:48,880 There never was a time when he began 81 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:49,860 to be love. 82 00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:53,540 It's the essence of his being. 83 00:04:53,740 --> 00:04:56,280 It's as eternal as he is. 84 00:04:56,480 --> 00:04:57,300 God is love. 85 00:04:58,260 --> 00:05:02,000 This means that God the Father is love, 86 00:05:02,140 --> 00:05:06,020 and God the Son is love, and so 87 00:05:06,020 --> 00:05:07,340 is God the Holy Spirit. 88 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:11,900 And that tells us something about God, tells 89 00:05:11,900 --> 00:05:13,360 us something about the Trinity. 90 00:05:15,060 --> 00:05:17,500 None of us really understand the Trinity, but 91 00:05:17,500 --> 00:05:20,080 it helps a bit at this point to 92 00:05:20,080 --> 00:05:23,360 know, bring into focus some of the things 93 00:05:23,360 --> 00:05:24,160 we do know. 94 00:05:24,160 --> 00:05:28,560 For instance, we know that the Father is 95 00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:29,000 God. 96 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:32,840 But God is not God only as Father. 97 00:05:33,900 --> 00:05:36,320 He is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. 98 00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:38,900 And the Son is God. 99 00:05:40,360 --> 00:05:43,040 But God is not God only as Son. 100 00:05:44,160 --> 00:05:47,260 He is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. 101 00:05:47,260 --> 00:05:50,160 And the Holy Spirit is God. 102 00:05:50,940 --> 00:05:53,960 But God is not God only as Holy 103 00:05:53,960 --> 00:05:54,360 Spirit. 104 00:05:55,680 --> 00:05:58,960 He is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. 105 00:05:59,080 --> 00:06:04,160 Now, wherever the Father is revealed, there the 106 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:06,980 Son and the Spirit are. 107 00:06:06,980 --> 00:06:11,140 And wherever God is revealed as Son, there 108 00:06:11,140 --> 00:06:13,760 the Father and the Spirit are. 109 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:17,220 And wherever God is revealed as Holy Spirit, 110 00:06:18,280 --> 00:06:22,060 there the Son and the Father are. 111 00:06:22,060 --> 00:06:26,440 Now, try unity. 112 00:06:27,080 --> 00:06:32,420 God as Father from eternity past has yearned 113 00:06:32,420 --> 00:06:35,620 and longed for children. 114 00:06:36,820 --> 00:06:41,940 Children, some of us ourselves, flesh of our 115 00:06:41,940 --> 00:06:45,840 flesh, bone of our bone, nature of our 116 00:06:45,840 --> 00:06:46,220 nature. 117 00:06:47,240 --> 00:06:50,340 And always in the part of the Father, 118 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:54,500 there's the hope and the yearning and the 119 00:06:54,500 --> 00:06:58,640 aspiration that something that the Father has become 120 00:06:58,640 --> 00:07:04,960 or acquired or done will be respected and 121 00:07:04,960 --> 00:07:08,700 appreciated and enjoyed by the children. 122 00:07:11,540 --> 00:07:19,920 God as Son yearned from eternity past for 123 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:24,060 brethren, elder brother, longing for brethren. 124 00:07:25,060 --> 00:07:28,460 And He also is called the Bridegroom. 125 00:07:29,880 --> 00:07:34,320 And you know that the Bridegroom is incomplete 126 00:07:34,320 --> 00:07:36,300 without the Bride. 127 00:07:37,980 --> 00:07:41,620 Love, therefore, demands an object. 128 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:43,840 Oh, we know the Father loved the Son 129 00:07:43,840 --> 00:07:46,220 and the Spirit. 130 00:07:46,820 --> 00:07:49,860 But we're talking now about a love from 131 00:07:49,860 --> 00:07:55,240 the triune God for someone outside of himself. 132 00:07:56,560 --> 00:07:59,240 For God being Father, Son, and Holy Spirit 133 00:07:59,240 --> 00:08:02,100 is no less one God than three Gods. 134 00:08:03,100 --> 00:08:07,580 And so, God whose love in the fullness 135 00:08:07,580 --> 00:08:12,860 of time purposed to bring to himself and 136 00:08:12,860 --> 00:08:17,000 for himself a being made in his image 137 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:22,200 and made in his likeness for the express 138 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:28,360 purpose of being the object of God's love. 139 00:08:29,340 --> 00:08:31,860 God as Father wanted children. 140 00:08:32,120 --> 00:08:34,580 God as Son wanted brethren. 141 00:08:35,260 --> 00:08:37,159 God is eternal Bridegroom. 142 00:08:37,900 --> 00:08:39,480 He yearned for a Bride. 143 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:39,980 Why? 144 00:08:40,940 --> 00:08:43,540 That the Father could reveal to the children 145 00:08:43,540 --> 00:08:46,360 all the Father is and the elder brother 146 00:08:46,360 --> 00:08:49,300 could reveal to the brethren all the elder 147 00:08:49,300 --> 00:08:50,020 brother is. 148 00:08:50,120 --> 00:08:53,140 And the Bridegroom could reveal to the Bride 149 00:08:53,140 --> 00:08:57,200 all of his plans and purposes and intentions 150 00:08:57,200 --> 00:09:02,520 that they might be enjoyed and appreciated and 151 00:09:02,520 --> 00:09:05,900 understood by the Bride. 152 00:09:07,020 --> 00:09:12,000 And so, in the fullness of time, God 153 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:16,820 began this process of preparing a place for 154 00:09:16,820 --> 00:09:17,420 his beloved. 155 00:09:19,360 --> 00:09:21,580 In the beginning we are told God created 156 00:09:21,580 --> 00:09:22,760 the heaven and the earth. 157 00:09:24,240 --> 00:09:26,540 We're not quite sure when, but we do 158 00:09:26,540 --> 00:09:28,480 know that it is in connection with this 159 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:29,340 love story. 160 00:09:30,940 --> 00:09:33,120 And then in verse 2 we are told 161 00:09:33,120 --> 00:09:35,880 that the earth became without form and void. 162 00:09:36,700 --> 00:09:40,020 That's not the way it was created. 163 00:09:41,180 --> 00:09:44,560 My personal metaphysics, with which you needn't agree 164 00:09:44,560 --> 00:09:47,740 as any test of fellowship, I won't hold 165 00:09:47,740 --> 00:09:48,340 you to it. 166 00:09:48,340 --> 00:09:52,980 My own personal metaphysics tells me that there 167 00:09:52,980 --> 00:09:58,180 could be a vast time span between Genesis 168 00:09:58,180 --> 00:10:00,640 1-1 and Genesis 1-2. 169 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:04,660 It could be long enough for all the 170 00:10:04,660 --> 00:10:08,700 eons of time that the archaeologists have found 171 00:10:08,700 --> 00:10:11,100 and the paleontologists have asked for. 172 00:10:12,200 --> 00:10:13,360 I don't know. 173 00:10:13,540 --> 00:10:14,940 The only thing I know is that something 174 00:10:14,940 --> 00:10:18,240 happened and so that the earth, which was 175 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:22,180 created by God, made out of nothing, became 176 00:10:22,180 --> 00:10:25,240 without form and void. 177 00:10:25,440 --> 00:10:28,300 Now, I got a little bit of metaphysics 178 00:10:28,300 --> 00:10:29,620 I'll put into this. 179 00:10:29,760 --> 00:10:31,100 When did it become? 180 00:10:32,380 --> 00:10:33,480 When did it become? 181 00:10:34,820 --> 00:10:37,840 In Isaiah we are told by the prophet, 182 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:43,320 speaking by inspiration, that Lord Jesus could say, 183 00:10:43,600 --> 00:10:45,600 for it was of him the prophet spoke, 184 00:10:46,060 --> 00:10:51,240 I saw Lucifer, Satan, fall as lightning from 185 00:10:51,240 --> 00:10:51,580 heaven. 186 00:10:52,580 --> 00:10:55,840 Where do you think he fell to? 187 00:10:57,100 --> 00:11:00,220 Well, he was put on an island in 188 00:11:00,220 --> 00:11:06,460 space, like Devil's Island was a penitentiary prison 189 00:11:06,460 --> 00:11:08,700 for the French government. 190 00:11:08,700 --> 00:11:12,960 There was a little speck of matter in 191 00:11:12,960 --> 00:11:17,840 space and God apparently decided that he would 192 00:11:17,840 --> 00:11:21,940 turn that speck of island, that speck in 193 00:11:21,940 --> 00:11:24,160 space, into a penitentiary. 194 00:11:24,160 --> 00:11:31,580 Apparently, Lucifer and those who rebelled with him 195 00:11:31,580 --> 00:11:35,520 were cast out of heaven and sent to 196 00:11:35,520 --> 00:11:37,780 this little island we call earth. 197 00:11:39,060 --> 00:11:41,820 That's what could have happened in Genesis 1 198 00:11:41,820 --> 00:11:46,160 -2 when the earth became without form and 199 00:11:46,160 --> 00:11:46,620 void. 200 00:11:46,620 --> 00:11:46,860 Why? 201 00:11:49,620 --> 00:11:53,100 Well, let's go back to what caused the 202 00:11:53,100 --> 00:11:53,620 problem. 203 00:11:54,120 --> 00:11:54,620 Remember? 204 00:11:56,100 --> 00:12:01,260 Here's an intelligent being that's been created apparently 205 00:12:01,260 --> 00:12:05,220 because God in his wisdom and in his 206 00:12:05,220 --> 00:12:10,340 love anticipated that this beloved was going to 207 00:12:10,340 --> 00:12:12,340 need some help. 208 00:12:12,340 --> 00:12:15,420 And so he created some messengers. 209 00:12:16,520 --> 00:12:21,120 We call them angels, seraphim, cherubim, whatever. 210 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:24,420 He created them to be servants. 211 00:12:26,340 --> 00:12:30,880 And in one of these he invested more 212 00:12:30,880 --> 00:12:35,620 of intelligence and beauty and power because there 213 00:12:35,620 --> 00:12:38,520 was an administrative task to be performed. 214 00:12:39,330 --> 00:12:41,460 And so he gave to this one son 215 00:12:41,460 --> 00:12:44,100 of the morning he was called the superior 216 00:12:44,100 --> 00:12:47,100 endowment so that he could serve as a 217 00:12:47,100 --> 00:12:52,980 prime minister over the angels, over these beings. 218 00:12:52,980 --> 00:12:57,580 And we find that he had certain powers 219 00:12:57,580 --> 00:13:02,020 given to him and he used those powers. 220 00:13:02,180 --> 00:13:08,560 He thought, imagined, and he obviously felt. 221 00:13:09,580 --> 00:13:12,560 He had emotion and desire and he had 222 00:13:12,560 --> 00:13:13,200 choice. 223 00:13:14,300 --> 00:13:17,480 He began by ruminating, saying, if I were 224 00:13:17,480 --> 00:13:18,940 God, I'd do so and so. 225 00:13:19,820 --> 00:13:22,080 And that quickly moved into the next step. 226 00:13:22,700 --> 00:13:25,400 I will set my throne above the throne 227 00:13:25,400 --> 00:13:27,000 of the most high. 228 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:31,180 Now, as an intelligent being, he had to 229 00:13:31,180 --> 00:13:36,160 have weapons and tools, armaments. 230 00:13:36,900 --> 00:13:39,040 If he was to succeed in this, don't 231 00:13:39,040 --> 00:13:42,360 you think, he knew that God is love. 232 00:13:42,460 --> 00:13:43,960 How's he going to get God on the 233 00:13:43,960 --> 00:13:44,360 throne? 234 00:13:45,040 --> 00:13:47,420 Is he going to out-love God? 235 00:13:49,140 --> 00:13:50,260 No. 236 00:13:51,780 --> 00:13:55,520 You see, as an intelligent being, Lucifer understood 237 00:13:55,520 --> 00:14:01,680 that every thesis has its antithesis. 238 00:14:03,660 --> 00:14:07,840 Or, if you will, every positive has its 239 00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:08,400 negative. 240 00:14:10,380 --> 00:14:15,660 Or still again, every front has its back. 241 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:19,360 If you see what looks like the front 242 00:14:19,360 --> 00:14:21,600 of the hand and you quickly run around 243 00:14:21,600 --> 00:14:23,420 behind it and go back, you didn't see 244 00:14:23,420 --> 00:14:23,960 a hand. 245 00:14:25,620 --> 00:14:27,840 Because if there's a front, there has to 246 00:14:27,840 --> 00:14:28,600 be a back. 247 00:14:29,320 --> 00:14:32,140 And if there's a positive, the negative could 248 00:14:32,140 --> 00:14:32,820 be somewhere. 249 00:14:33,420 --> 00:14:37,800 And if there's a thesis, the antithesis exists 250 00:14:37,800 --> 00:14:38,840 or could exist. 251 00:14:40,420 --> 00:14:43,160 Now, we've already seen one of the attributes 252 00:14:43,160 --> 00:14:44,360 of God, God's love. 253 00:14:44,760 --> 00:14:48,840 But the Lord Jesus said, I am the 254 00:14:48,840 --> 00:14:50,920 way, and then he said, I am the 255 00:14:50,920 --> 00:14:51,520 truth. 256 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:54,460 I am the truth. 257 00:14:55,520 --> 00:14:56,740 This is an attribute. 258 00:14:57,860 --> 00:14:58,840 God is truth. 259 00:15:00,260 --> 00:15:04,700 And then he said, I am the way, 260 00:15:04,860 --> 00:15:06,480 the truth, and the life. 261 00:15:07,560 --> 00:15:09,660 God is life. 262 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:17,440 And so, the enemy, who's now decided to 263 00:15:17,440 --> 00:15:20,440 put his throne above the throne of the 264 00:15:20,440 --> 00:15:26,080 Most High, has decided that the only way 265 00:15:26,080 --> 00:15:30,220 he can do that is to take the 266 00:15:30,220 --> 00:15:33,480 antithesis, the negative, the back. 267 00:15:35,700 --> 00:15:42,640 And so, this one who is life and 268 00:15:42,640 --> 00:15:50,100 truth and love, and then he said, I 269 00:15:50,100 --> 00:15:53,080 am the light of the world. 270 00:15:53,080 --> 00:15:58,700 So, we'll take those four, light and life 271 00:15:58,700 --> 00:16:02,360 and truth and love. 272 00:16:02,460 --> 00:16:04,000 These are attributes of God. 273 00:16:04,860 --> 00:16:06,360 Now, look what is happening. 274 00:16:06,600 --> 00:16:13,460 The enemy is saying, against light, I will 275 00:16:13,460 --> 00:16:15,380 take the antithesis, darkness. 276 00:16:17,440 --> 00:16:21,240 And against truth, I'll take the negative, the 277 00:16:21,240 --> 00:16:21,680 lie. 278 00:16:23,760 --> 00:16:26,920 And against love, I'll take the very opposite, 279 00:16:27,120 --> 00:16:27,340 hate. 280 00:16:29,100 --> 00:16:32,640 And against life, I'll take the more powerful 281 00:16:32,640 --> 00:16:34,560 thing, death. 282 00:16:34,560 --> 00:16:37,880 So, now here's one who's going to set 283 00:16:37,880 --> 00:16:40,620 his throne above the throne of the Most 284 00:16:40,620 --> 00:16:47,720 High, armed with powerful weapons, darkness, the lie, 285 00:16:48,580 --> 00:16:50,960 hate, and death. 286 00:16:52,920 --> 00:16:55,060 Now, notice the problem. 287 00:16:56,560 --> 00:16:59,460 God, who is love and light and life 288 00:16:59,460 --> 00:17:02,760 and truth, cannot say, I hate this rebel, 289 00:17:03,540 --> 00:17:07,119 and take hate to overcome hate. 290 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:10,920 For if he did, he's destroyed himself. 291 00:17:11,880 --> 00:17:16,140 So, there had to be a battle in 292 00:17:16,140 --> 00:17:19,240 which love and light and life and truth 293 00:17:19,240 --> 00:17:25,740 met in conflict, and Christ said, I saw 294 00:17:25,740 --> 00:17:31,900 Satan fall as lightning from heaven, and I 295 00:17:31,900 --> 00:17:37,080 sink to earth, and earth became without form 296 00:17:37,080 --> 00:17:38,820 and void. 297 00:17:38,820 --> 00:17:44,640 And darkness covered the face of the deep. 298 00:17:46,100 --> 00:17:49,140 Death and darkness, every living thing died. 299 00:17:51,300 --> 00:17:55,260 Now, when the time comes when God is 300 00:17:55,260 --> 00:18:01,840 going to make this beloved, he has a 301 00:18:01,840 --> 00:18:06,720 whole universe from which he can pick the 302 00:18:06,720 --> 00:18:07,080 seed. 303 00:18:08,500 --> 00:18:10,480 He's created it all. 304 00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:13,780 He could have gone anywhere. 305 00:18:15,320 --> 00:18:17,380 Where did he choose to come? 306 00:18:19,760 --> 00:18:25,360 Well, he picked out that little grain of 307 00:18:25,360 --> 00:18:31,420 sand in the great universe called earth, and 308 00:18:31,420 --> 00:18:35,220 he came here, to this penitentiary, this penal 309 00:18:35,220 --> 00:18:35,880 colony. 310 00:18:38,360 --> 00:18:40,840 And he started to work on it. 311 00:18:41,840 --> 00:18:44,100 And six days he labored. 312 00:18:45,660 --> 00:18:49,000 First, he brooded over it the way God 313 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:54,460 the Holy Ghost broods over sinner souls, and 314 00:18:54,460 --> 00:18:57,400 the first thing that happened is God said, 315 00:18:57,860 --> 00:18:59,020 let me. 316 00:19:00,600 --> 00:19:07,260 And likewise, just as God first awakened sinners 317 00:19:07,260 --> 00:19:12,440 from their sleep of death, and then God 318 00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:15,460 recreated and prepared. 319 00:19:16,540 --> 00:19:19,340 And when it was fit and ready and 320 00:19:19,340 --> 00:19:26,320 everything was there, he formed man from the 321 00:19:26,320 --> 00:19:30,220 dust of the ground, and he breathed into 322 00:19:30,220 --> 00:19:33,420 him the breath of life, and man became 323 00:19:33,420 --> 00:19:34,740 a living soul. 324 00:19:37,120 --> 00:19:39,260 And he looked at the being that he 325 00:19:39,260 --> 00:19:40,060 had created. 326 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:43,100 In his image, in his likeness. 327 00:19:43,160 --> 00:19:46,280 I do not know where and how cherubim 328 00:19:46,280 --> 00:19:49,240 and seraphim differ from the image and likeness 329 00:19:49,240 --> 00:19:49,720 of God. 330 00:19:49,720 --> 00:19:51,680 Only thing I know is the only being 331 00:19:51,680 --> 00:19:54,620 described as made in his image and likeness 332 00:19:54,620 --> 00:19:55,620 is man. 333 00:19:56,720 --> 00:19:58,900 He doesn't say it about the cherubim. 334 00:19:59,080 --> 00:20:00,700 I don't know where the difference is. 335 00:20:01,220 --> 00:20:02,220 He didn't tell us. 336 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:04,740 Anything I do from that would be just 337 00:20:04,740 --> 00:20:05,420 speculation. 338 00:20:08,100 --> 00:20:10,080 And I don't know why it is that 339 00:20:10,080 --> 00:20:12,240 he loved man, but the only being that 340 00:20:12,240 --> 00:20:16,760 God ever made that he said was in 341 00:20:16,760 --> 00:20:18,800 his image and likeness is the one that 342 00:20:18,800 --> 00:20:21,100 he said that he loved with an everlasting 343 00:20:21,100 --> 00:20:21,340 love. 344 00:20:22,120 --> 00:20:24,540 I don't know how he feels about cherubim 345 00:20:24,540 --> 00:20:25,920 or seraphim. 346 00:20:26,040 --> 00:20:28,400 Doesn't tell us, but it tells us he 347 00:20:28,400 --> 00:20:29,240 loved man. 348 00:20:31,020 --> 00:20:35,680 And so, what we have then is a 349 00:20:35,680 --> 00:20:38,640 being made in the image and likeness of 350 00:20:38,640 --> 00:20:41,380 God in this recreated environment. 351 00:20:42,840 --> 00:20:45,800 And what does he have as he stands 352 00:20:45,800 --> 00:20:47,440 there before God? 353 00:20:47,500 --> 00:20:49,840 What are the attributes he has? 354 00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:53,080 What are the characteristics of man? 355 00:20:53,080 --> 00:21:00,460 First, he has certain appetites, or urges, or 356 00:21:00,460 --> 00:21:04,320 drives, or propensities. 357 00:21:05,020 --> 00:21:06,660 Follow what you will. 358 00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:09,000 Desires. 359 00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:10,880 Let's look at them. 360 00:21:10,880 --> 00:21:18,020 Number one, he has an appetite for food 361 00:21:18,020 --> 00:21:23,740 because man is to be nourished by the 362 00:21:23,740 --> 00:21:26,060 frequent intake of food. 363 00:21:27,500 --> 00:21:30,000 Some of us apparently got carried away a 364 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:30,360 little bit. 365 00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:38,220 But when I see the way that some 366 00:21:38,220 --> 00:21:42,000 people are who don't seem to have a 367 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:44,380 problem, I clinker up just looking through a 368 00:21:44,380 --> 00:21:44,820 magazine. 369 00:21:44,820 --> 00:21:48,180 Some people can clear off the buffet table 370 00:21:48,180 --> 00:21:50,260 twice, three times a day and never gain 371 00:21:50,260 --> 00:21:50,740 an ounce. 372 00:21:51,320 --> 00:21:53,200 I weigh three ounces more when I put 373 00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:54,320 good housekeeping down. 374 00:21:54,420 --> 00:21:55,020 I have been. 375 00:21:58,560 --> 00:22:01,240 Anyway, he made man so the man has 376 00:22:01,240 --> 00:22:04,500 to have frequent intake of food. 377 00:22:04,740 --> 00:22:06,420 He gave him what some may call an 378 00:22:06,420 --> 00:22:07,680 appetite, call it hunger. 379 00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:12,000 And then we learn in sequence. 380 00:22:13,540 --> 00:22:16,540 And so he gave us a thirst for 381 00:22:16,540 --> 00:22:20,320 knowledge, an appetite to learn. 382 00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:26,060 And then he gave us an appetite for 383 00:22:26,060 --> 00:22:30,480 status because he was going to have man 384 00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:32,640 rule over everything he created. 385 00:22:33,640 --> 00:22:36,280 So he had to put something into man 386 00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:40,440 to stand erect and to exercise authority. 387 00:22:41,500 --> 00:22:45,280 And then he put into man an appetite 388 00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:50,320 for sex because he had created one and 389 00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:51,620 then the wife. 390 00:22:51,620 --> 00:22:54,880 And from that pair would come this whole 391 00:22:54,880 --> 00:22:56,940 family of his children. 392 00:22:58,300 --> 00:23:00,680 And so he put in an appetite, a 393 00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:04,820 drive, a propensity, an urge for sex. 394 00:23:05,690 --> 00:23:09,740 And then he put into man an appetite 395 00:23:09,740 --> 00:23:15,220 for pleasure because he'd done such a marvelous 396 00:23:15,220 --> 00:23:17,660 job in recreating this world. 397 00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:25,060 He took the whole spectrum of colors to 398 00:23:25,060 --> 00:23:27,720 paint the sky at night and in the 399 00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:28,240 morning. 400 00:23:30,060 --> 00:23:32,000 So that man could enjoy it. 401 00:23:32,060 --> 00:23:34,160 And he put blue sky in the day 402 00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:38,540 and green flowers and watermelon. 403 00:23:41,100 --> 00:23:44,100 Have you ever thought about it? 404 00:23:45,860 --> 00:23:46,740 Watermelon. 405 00:23:47,340 --> 00:23:48,220 Why? 406 00:23:49,820 --> 00:23:51,220 You don't paint it. 407 00:23:51,980 --> 00:23:56,460 It's not considered the greatest source of vitamins 408 00:23:56,460 --> 00:23:57,280 in the world. 409 00:23:58,100 --> 00:24:01,060 You get more vitamins eating parsley than you 410 00:24:01,060 --> 00:24:01,760 do watermelon. 411 00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:03,960 But I never seen anybody sit down to 412 00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:06,600 a plate of parsley and chuck it away. 413 00:24:08,540 --> 00:24:10,500 So we have a little watermelon. 414 00:24:13,300 --> 00:24:15,520 It's pretty to look at. 415 00:24:15,740 --> 00:24:16,720 It's fragrant. 416 00:24:17,180 --> 00:24:18,340 It tastes good. 417 00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:19,680 Why? 418 00:24:19,800 --> 00:24:22,300 Just a little extra thing God threw in 419 00:24:22,300 --> 00:24:24,700 so he'd enjoy it. 420 00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:26,620 He gave us an appetite for pleasure. 421 00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:30,020 And what did he say when he looked 422 00:24:30,020 --> 00:24:32,640 at this being that stood there with this 423 00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:36,040 drive or urge or appetite for food and 424 00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:39,500 for knowledge and for status, for security, for 425 00:24:39,500 --> 00:24:41,140 sex and for pleasure? 426 00:24:41,140 --> 00:24:42,340 What did he say? 427 00:24:42,420 --> 00:24:43,340 It's bad. 428 00:24:45,620 --> 00:24:48,080 He said it is good. 429 00:24:49,460 --> 00:24:52,460 He looked at all that he had made 430 00:24:52,460 --> 00:24:55,400 and he said it is good. 431 00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:58,400 Now what happens? 432 00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:08,780 In about 48 hours from this time, God 433 00:25:08,780 --> 00:25:11,600 is going to have one of the angels 434 00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:16,600 of heaven come down and guard the entrance 435 00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:17,700 into the garden. 436 00:25:18,700 --> 00:25:21,760 Now why didn't he send that angel there 437 00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:28,300 48 hours earlier to keep Lucifer out of 438 00:25:28,300 --> 00:25:28,500 it? 439 00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:33,520 Well why didn't he pick another spot somewhere 440 00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:34,700 where he couldn't go? 441 00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:37,120 He was in penitentiary. 442 00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:39,900 He wasn't free to roam the universe. 443 00:25:39,900 --> 00:25:47,720 Why did God stand by and let this 444 00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:54,220 ancient foe come in to the garden and 445 00:25:54,220 --> 00:25:58,340 get to this beloved one? 446 00:25:58,340 --> 00:26:01,640 Well you see God had put Adam under 447 00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:03,700 moral government. 448 00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:09,160 He said everything I've made is yours. 449 00:26:10,340 --> 00:26:14,880 But this one thing, if you eat of 450 00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:17,940 it, you'll surely die. 451 00:26:17,940 --> 00:26:27,440 God placed law, responsibility and obligation 452 00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:33,820 upon man and he 453 00:26:33,820 --> 00:26:41,060 permitted his ancient foe to come. 454 00:26:42,120 --> 00:26:44,500 Now you see God might have put his 455 00:26:44,500 --> 00:26:47,340 man somewhere else or he might have kept 456 00:26:47,340 --> 00:26:47,960 him out. 457 00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:49,680 But what would he have done? 458 00:26:49,740 --> 00:26:53,720 He just postponed the day of encounter? 459 00:26:57,230 --> 00:26:58,750 What would happen? 460 00:26:59,750 --> 00:27:04,190 What would happen to you parents if the 461 00:27:04,190 --> 00:27:08,350 only way you could make sure that your 462 00:27:08,350 --> 00:27:11,330 children were going to continue to love you 463 00:27:11,330 --> 00:27:14,530 was that you built about a 50 foot 464 00:27:14,530 --> 00:27:18,510 high wall around your yard and cut the 465 00:27:18,510 --> 00:27:21,390 television wire so they could not see anybody 466 00:27:21,390 --> 00:27:23,110 or hear anybody? 467 00:27:23,110 --> 00:27:25,610 No one could get in and no one 468 00:27:25,610 --> 00:27:26,530 could get out. 469 00:27:27,070 --> 00:27:29,830 And you were there because you wanted their 470 00:27:29,830 --> 00:27:33,350 love so badly that you wouldn't let any 471 00:27:33,350 --> 00:27:36,030 attempting influence touch them. 472 00:27:37,630 --> 00:27:39,630 What would their love mean to you if 473 00:27:39,630 --> 00:27:42,710 you'd gone to those lengths to preserve anything 474 00:27:42,710 --> 00:27:44,470 less? 475 00:27:45,870 --> 00:27:49,110 Well what if parent father who works in 476 00:27:49,110 --> 00:27:52,630 the factory all day comes home at night 477 00:27:52,630 --> 00:27:55,030 and has to set his little 4, 5, 478 00:27:55,110 --> 00:27:57,610 6 year old child on a chair and 479 00:27:57,610 --> 00:28:00,610 take out his pocket watch and get it 480 00:28:00,610 --> 00:28:03,870 going and hypnotize his child? 481 00:28:06,730 --> 00:28:11,090 So that when his will controls the will 482 00:28:11,090 --> 00:28:13,370 of the child he can say to the 483 00:28:13,370 --> 00:28:16,550 little one, get down from your chair and 484 00:28:16,550 --> 00:28:18,350 walk across to me. 485 00:28:19,570 --> 00:28:21,830 Crawl up on my lap. 486 00:28:22,550 --> 00:28:25,270 Put your arms around my neck. 487 00:28:25,870 --> 00:28:29,310 Put your lips on my cheek and say, 488 00:28:30,090 --> 00:28:31,750 I love you father. 489 00:28:33,850 --> 00:28:37,850 Do you think that would give any gratification 490 00:28:37,850 --> 00:28:39,750 to a father's heart? 491 00:28:40,810 --> 00:28:41,590 No. 492 00:28:44,330 --> 00:28:48,870 So he permitted his ancient foe to come 493 00:28:48,870 --> 00:28:52,210 with lies because that's his nature. 494 00:28:52,550 --> 00:28:54,110 He's a father of lies. 495 00:28:54,750 --> 00:28:55,370 He's a liar. 496 00:28:55,610 --> 00:28:56,590 That's his weapon. 497 00:28:56,590 --> 00:29:00,850 To come with darkness, that's his weapon. 498 00:29:01,390 --> 00:29:04,230 To come with hatred, that's his weapon. 499 00:29:05,230 --> 00:29:09,410 To come with death, that's his weapon. 500 00:29:09,950 --> 00:29:10,970 That's his tool. 501 00:29:11,850 --> 00:29:14,190 And so he comes with all that he 502 00:29:14,190 --> 00:29:19,110 is to Mother Eve and he lies to 503 00:29:19,110 --> 00:29:19,430 her. 504 00:29:20,010 --> 00:29:22,390 Did God say you will not die? 505 00:29:22,530 --> 00:29:23,350 That's a lie. 506 00:29:25,890 --> 00:29:30,010 She wasn't going to fall over stiff, instantaneous 507 00:29:30,010 --> 00:29:32,570 poison as though she were bitten by a 508 00:29:32,570 --> 00:29:32,910 cobra. 509 00:29:33,590 --> 00:29:37,530 She died as a result of it. 510 00:29:39,930 --> 00:29:41,510 He lied to her. 511 00:29:41,610 --> 00:29:43,590 He brought darkness to her. 512 00:29:43,950 --> 00:29:46,350 He claimed to bring enlightenment but he brought 513 00:29:46,350 --> 00:29:50,110 her into bondage, brought her into death, brought 514 00:29:50,110 --> 00:29:51,370 her into hatred. 515 00:29:53,710 --> 00:29:56,070 And then she left and went to her 516 00:29:56,070 --> 00:29:58,290 husband and said, now you've got a choice 517 00:29:58,290 --> 00:29:59,410 to make, old friend. 518 00:30:00,590 --> 00:30:03,510 God comes every afternoon at 5 o'clock 519 00:30:03,510 --> 00:30:05,570 and I'm with you 24 hours a day. 520 00:30:05,570 --> 00:30:06,830 Who's it going to be? 521 00:30:06,890 --> 00:30:08,270 You going to go with him for a 522 00:30:08,270 --> 00:30:10,310 few minutes in the afternoon or with me? 523 00:30:10,670 --> 00:30:11,590 All 24 hours. 524 00:30:14,210 --> 00:30:16,350 And he'd gotten addicted to her in a 525 00:30:16,350 --> 00:30:18,230 couple of days and so he said, well, 526 00:30:18,310 --> 00:30:20,870 I guess I'll hang around with you. 527 00:30:22,570 --> 00:30:27,890 And so he deliberately, deliberately, she might have 528 00:30:27,890 --> 00:30:31,130 been deceived but he made a sovereign choice, 529 00:30:31,490 --> 00:30:33,890 as she had, no excuse for her. 530 00:30:34,790 --> 00:30:35,810 Made a choice. 531 00:30:39,710 --> 00:30:40,810 Isn't it interesting? 532 00:30:42,110 --> 00:30:44,770 He cringes, hides in the bushes. 533 00:30:46,870 --> 00:30:49,390 Adam, where art thou? 534 00:30:50,270 --> 00:30:56,450 And finally Adam is drawn out and he 535 00:30:56,450 --> 00:31:02,270 hears the first words from Adam's lips was, 536 00:31:02,670 --> 00:31:08,810 I was afraid for I was naked. 537 00:31:10,150 --> 00:31:12,510 I was afraid. 538 00:31:14,150 --> 00:31:18,190 Now I want to ask you, why did 539 00:31:18,190 --> 00:31:19,390 Mother Eve sin? 540 00:31:20,410 --> 00:31:25,650 What did she have that made her? 541 00:31:26,230 --> 00:31:29,950 Anything in her nature that made her sin? 542 00:31:31,850 --> 00:31:33,450 Anything that she had. 543 00:31:34,530 --> 00:31:36,250 Well, let's go back, what did she have? 544 00:31:36,510 --> 00:31:40,330 She had an appetite for food, a presence 545 00:31:40,330 --> 00:31:44,750 to look at, and for knowledge, make you 546 00:31:44,750 --> 00:31:45,230 wise. 547 00:31:45,230 --> 00:31:49,370 And for faith, and for status, you shall 548 00:31:49,370 --> 00:31:50,610 be as God. 549 00:31:53,130 --> 00:31:55,010 She had appetites and urges. 550 00:31:55,710 --> 00:31:59,390 Now what did Lucifer do? 551 00:31:59,530 --> 00:32:01,530 What did the enemy do? 552 00:32:02,530 --> 00:32:06,930 What he did was to appeal to her 553 00:32:06,930 --> 00:32:10,570 appetites and to stimulate her imagination. 554 00:32:11,250 --> 00:32:15,050 All she had was appetites and urges and 555 00:32:15,050 --> 00:32:15,930 imagination. 556 00:32:18,110 --> 00:32:19,710 And she was tempted. 557 00:32:20,050 --> 00:32:21,690 Now let me give you a definition of 558 00:32:21,690 --> 00:32:22,210 temptation. 559 00:32:23,270 --> 00:32:30,930 Temptation is a proposition presented to the intellect 560 00:32:30,930 --> 00:32:36,590 to satisfy a good appetite in a bad 561 00:32:36,590 --> 00:32:37,010 way. 562 00:32:39,610 --> 00:32:41,010 I'll repeat that. 563 00:32:41,290 --> 00:32:45,370 Temptation is a proposition presented to the intellect 564 00:32:45,370 --> 00:32:49,910 to satisfy a good appetite in a bad 565 00:32:49,910 --> 00:32:50,310 way. 566 00:32:50,790 --> 00:32:52,610 Now let me give you a definition of 567 00:32:52,610 --> 00:32:52,970 sin. 568 00:32:54,390 --> 00:33:01,050 Sin is the decision of the will to 569 00:33:01,050 --> 00:33:06,270 satisfy a good appetite in a bad way, 570 00:33:07,010 --> 00:33:08,150 a forbidden way. 571 00:33:10,310 --> 00:33:12,730 There's no guilt in temptation. 572 00:33:14,790 --> 00:33:17,650 Our Lord Jesus was tempted in all points 573 00:33:17,650 --> 00:33:20,350 like as we are, yet without sin. 574 00:33:22,970 --> 00:33:26,690 There is no guilt associated with temptation. 575 00:33:28,790 --> 00:33:33,950 Guilt is from the decision, not the execution, 576 00:33:35,010 --> 00:33:40,070 the decision of the will to gratify a 577 00:33:40,070 --> 00:33:44,670 good appetite in a bad way, a forbidden 578 00:33:44,670 --> 00:33:45,030 way. 579 00:33:46,390 --> 00:33:51,170 Now, all that Mother Eve had was appetites 580 00:33:51,170 --> 00:33:53,610 with intelligence. 581 00:33:58,790 --> 00:33:59,510 Right? 582 00:33:59,910 --> 00:34:02,150 Any teachers here in the front row? 583 00:34:03,430 --> 00:34:04,270 Who's a teacher? 584 00:34:04,710 --> 00:34:06,130 Who can write in the blackboard? 585 00:34:06,940 --> 00:34:07,670 All of us. 586 00:34:09,610 --> 00:34:12,190 You just talked yourself into it. 587 00:34:13,469 --> 00:34:16,150 Would you come and draw a triangle there 588 00:34:16,150 --> 00:34:16,690 for us? 589 00:34:18,190 --> 00:34:21,370 About 18 inches on each side. 590 00:34:21,370 --> 00:34:22,969 Equilateral triangle. 591 00:34:25,130 --> 00:34:26,690 There you go. 592 00:34:27,770 --> 00:34:30,370 Not quite equilateral, but we'll accept it. 593 00:34:31,610 --> 00:34:35,710 Now, on the left-hand side, going up, 594 00:34:35,810 --> 00:34:37,230 put mental. 595 00:34:40,429 --> 00:34:46,130 Big enough to be seen by Connie Baxter 596 00:34:46,130 --> 00:34:47,050 on the table. 597 00:34:47,050 --> 00:34:50,830 Down the right-hand side, put emotional. 598 00:34:57,450 --> 00:35:00,310 And across the bottom, put volitional. 599 00:35:11,330 --> 00:35:13,930 Now, I have a privilege most of you 600 00:35:13,930 --> 00:35:14,530 don't have. 601 00:35:14,770 --> 00:35:17,050 There's a pitcher of water there. 602 00:35:17,290 --> 00:35:19,470 Oh, I got a beautiful pitcher of water 603 00:35:19,470 --> 00:35:20,070 right here. 604 00:35:20,530 --> 00:35:21,310 Look at it. 605 00:35:26,710 --> 00:35:31,150 Now, you can see that. 606 00:35:32,070 --> 00:35:33,950 And you may be thirsty as all get 607 00:35:33,950 --> 00:35:35,310 up, but you don't have a glass of 608 00:35:35,310 --> 00:35:35,510 water. 609 00:35:37,790 --> 00:35:40,310 Now, you know how to pour it into 610 00:35:40,310 --> 00:35:40,890 a glass. 611 00:35:41,670 --> 00:35:44,170 And you know how to lift the glass 612 00:35:44,170 --> 00:35:44,950 to your lips. 613 00:35:45,930 --> 00:35:49,150 And you know how to swallow it. 614 00:35:49,970 --> 00:35:51,810 And you know how good it feels and 615 00:35:51,810 --> 00:35:53,950 how nice it is to have a glass 616 00:35:53,950 --> 00:35:54,310 of water. 617 00:35:55,270 --> 00:35:58,010 But because you know all about it doesn't 618 00:35:58,010 --> 00:35:59,430 mean you've had a glass of water. 619 00:36:01,370 --> 00:36:02,250 Doesn't mean it. 620 00:36:03,350 --> 00:36:06,630 The mental aspect does not give you a 621 00:36:06,630 --> 00:36:07,690 completed act. 622 00:36:10,790 --> 00:36:13,190 Now, you may want a glass of water. 623 00:36:13,830 --> 00:36:16,150 You may be ever so thirsty for it. 624 00:36:16,170 --> 00:36:18,630 Your tongue may be feeling like cotton in 625 00:36:18,630 --> 00:36:19,390 your mouth. 626 00:36:20,110 --> 00:36:22,170 But because you're sitting there in your place, 627 00:36:22,330 --> 00:36:23,490 you're not going to get up and take 628 00:36:23,490 --> 00:36:24,370 these out of my hand. 629 00:36:26,690 --> 00:36:31,490 Your emotions are not overcoming your volition. 630 00:36:33,230 --> 00:36:35,710 Now, when you get to the point that 631 00:36:35,710 --> 00:36:38,250 you've got to have a glass of water, 632 00:36:39,450 --> 00:36:41,170 you've made up your mind, if you won't 633 00:36:41,170 --> 00:36:43,010 give me the one in your hand, I'm 634 00:36:43,010 --> 00:36:44,670 going out and get one from the pump. 635 00:36:46,450 --> 00:36:49,610 Now, that's the decision of the will. 636 00:36:49,990 --> 00:36:54,090 You can't have a drink of water without 637 00:36:54,090 --> 00:36:58,850 having the mental, emotional, and the volitional aspects. 638 00:36:59,890 --> 00:37:03,010 You can't get married or go to work. 639 00:37:03,210 --> 00:37:06,110 You can't do anything in life and have 640 00:37:06,110 --> 00:37:12,290 a totality experience unless all three elements are 641 00:37:12,290 --> 00:37:12,870 involved. 642 00:37:17,130 --> 00:37:19,130 I talked myself into it. 643 00:37:21,810 --> 00:37:24,970 Years ago, I was the first church I 644 00:37:24,970 --> 00:37:25,530 ever passed. 645 00:37:25,990 --> 00:37:28,570 We had the Armstrong Air Conditioner. 646 00:37:28,630 --> 00:37:29,590 You know what that is. 647 00:37:30,450 --> 00:37:33,210 They're the fans from the local mortuary. 648 00:37:34,510 --> 00:37:36,330 They put them in the church pew. 649 00:37:37,150 --> 00:37:42,230 It was a July day, very warm, flowers 650 00:37:42,230 --> 00:37:45,250 outside, smell a little after, you know, the 651 00:37:45,250 --> 00:37:46,670 breeze is carrying the odor. 652 00:37:48,430 --> 00:37:51,670 And me would buzz in and buzz out 653 00:37:51,670 --> 00:37:54,450 and fly out of this little country church 654 00:37:54,450 --> 00:37:56,190 up to the head of Lake Osakis. 655 00:37:56,810 --> 00:37:59,350 You could see Lake Osakis and Little Osakis 656 00:37:59,350 --> 00:38:01,890 through the windows and the people never looked 657 00:38:01,890 --> 00:38:02,250 at me. 658 00:38:07,050 --> 00:38:11,630 And, well, the Armstrong Air Conditioners were just 659 00:38:11,630 --> 00:38:13,510 a pshh, pshh, pshh, pshh, pshh, pshh, pshh, 660 00:38:13,610 --> 00:38:16,250 pshh, pshh, pshh, pshh, pshh, 661 00:38:17,810 --> 00:38:32,210 pshh. 662 00:38:32,210 --> 00:38:35,590 Back and forth with these fans. 663 00:38:36,410 --> 00:38:38,610 Well, I said, how much of this is 664 00:38:38,610 --> 00:38:42,570 just social conformity and how much is need 665 00:38:42,570 --> 00:38:43,150 for air? 666 00:38:43,950 --> 00:38:46,570 So I had an illustration that I hadn't 667 00:38:46,570 --> 00:38:48,230 used but I could make it seem as 668 00:38:48,230 --> 00:38:49,130 though it were appropriate. 669 00:38:49,130 --> 00:38:53,310 And I told them about this boy that 670 00:38:53,310 --> 00:38:57,050 had been skating on the river and the 671 00:38:57,050 --> 00:38:59,890 wolves came to chase him out of the 672 00:38:59,890 --> 00:39:02,230 forest and he would skate and get around 673 00:39:02,230 --> 00:39:04,510 them and he went a little too far 674 00:39:04,510 --> 00:39:07,590 and an ice flow broke off and he 675 00:39:07,590 --> 00:39:08,990 was in the running river. 676 00:39:08,990 --> 00:39:13,950 And it was falls and it was cold 677 00:39:13,950 --> 00:39:18,650 and the snow was blowing and the colder 678 00:39:18,650 --> 00:39:22,050 the boy got, the slower the pain was. 679 00:39:25,630 --> 00:39:29,310 And just before the boy froze stiff, there 680 00:39:29,310 --> 00:39:30,510 wasn't a fan moving. 681 00:39:34,730 --> 00:39:38,390 They were all right with me. 682 00:39:38,850 --> 00:39:41,750 You see, what I'd done, I didn't say, 683 00:39:41,850 --> 00:39:43,850 stop fanning, what good would that have done? 684 00:39:45,670 --> 00:39:47,670 I said, you're not really hot. 685 00:39:48,650 --> 00:39:49,370 I didn't do that. 686 00:39:49,610 --> 00:39:51,210 I just worked on their mind. 687 00:39:52,790 --> 00:39:55,390 I worked on their mind and I got 688 00:39:55,390 --> 00:39:57,050 through that, I got the other. 689 00:39:58,410 --> 00:40:03,130 Now, that what happened to Mother Eve, presented 690 00:40:03,130 --> 00:40:06,030 to the Italy and she thought about it 691 00:40:06,030 --> 00:40:09,170 and she felt that she made a choice. 692 00:40:10,150 --> 00:40:12,830 She thought and she felt and she made 693 00:40:12,830 --> 00:40:13,450 a choice. 694 00:40:17,050 --> 00:40:18,670 What did he do? 695 00:40:18,890 --> 00:40:22,350 He thought about it and he felt something 696 00:40:22,350 --> 00:40:23,730 and he made a choice. 697 00:40:24,890 --> 00:40:26,010 What did you do? 698 00:40:26,210 --> 00:40:27,030 What did you do? 699 00:40:27,470 --> 00:40:28,370 What did I do? 700 00:40:29,770 --> 00:40:31,350 We all did the same thing. 701 00:40:33,530 --> 00:40:36,710 We chose to satisfy good appetites in a 702 00:40:36,710 --> 00:40:37,330 bad way. 703 00:40:37,330 --> 00:40:40,110 Scripture said, all have sinned. 704 00:40:40,390 --> 00:40:45,150 One hundred percent of all the people alive 705 00:40:45,150 --> 00:40:51,390 in the whole world sin without having a 706 00:40:51,390 --> 00:40:52,810 fallen sinful nature. 707 00:40:55,090 --> 00:40:56,850 Now, the fact that we're only two doesn't 708 00:40:56,850 --> 00:40:57,690 change anything. 709 00:40:57,850 --> 00:40:59,130 No, it's still a hundred percent. 710 00:41:01,410 --> 00:41:07,870 But it proves conclusively to me that the 711 00:41:07,870 --> 00:41:13,970 issue is one of choice, not of compulsion. 712 00:41:16,270 --> 00:41:22,950 God dealt with man as a morally responsible 713 00:41:22,950 --> 00:41:29,110 being who recognized the intrinsic rightness of the 714 00:41:29,110 --> 00:41:31,890 law that God imposed. 715 00:41:37,570 --> 00:41:41,490 The foundation of moral government is in the 716 00:41:41,490 --> 00:41:45,410 nature of God and in the nature of 717 00:41:45,410 --> 00:41:49,730 man and God is as he is because 718 00:41:49,730 --> 00:41:50,690 he must be. 719 00:41:51,050 --> 00:41:53,870 It isn't right because God said it. 720 00:41:54,090 --> 00:41:56,070 God said it because it is right. 721 00:41:59,010 --> 00:42:06,810 Man has an instinctive illumination within himself that 722 00:42:06,810 --> 00:42:12,230 enables him to test the rightness of the 723 00:42:12,230 --> 00:42:12,630 law. 724 00:42:14,650 --> 00:42:17,050 I went into a tribe of people in 725 00:42:17,050 --> 00:42:20,070 the Sudan years ago. 726 00:42:20,330 --> 00:42:22,910 The year would have been 1946. 727 00:42:24,470 --> 00:42:29,570 They had never seen a missionary, nor heard 728 00:42:29,570 --> 00:42:32,970 the name of Jesus, nor had seen an 729 00:42:32,970 --> 00:42:35,710 idol, but I was told by them. 730 00:42:37,270 --> 00:42:40,010 But I learned that they knew the name 731 00:42:40,010 --> 00:42:40,850 for God. 732 00:42:42,250 --> 00:42:45,630 And they knew that God had made the 733 00:42:45,630 --> 00:42:46,030 world. 734 00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:51,060 And they knew that God was holy. 735 00:42:52,740 --> 00:42:58,280 And they knew that God's enemy, for whom 736 00:42:58,280 --> 00:43:01,200 they had a name as distinctive as they 737 00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:03,560 had for God, was evil. 738 00:43:05,080 --> 00:43:08,720 And they knew that this evil person whose 739 00:43:08,720 --> 00:43:11,080 name they gave had not made the world, 740 00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:16,100 but that he was in charge of certain 741 00:43:16,100 --> 00:43:16,960 parts of it. 742 00:43:17,980 --> 00:43:20,660 He was in charge of how many of 743 00:43:20,660 --> 00:43:24,960 your goats stayed alive and how much grain 744 00:43:24,960 --> 00:43:27,940 you got from the seed you planted. 745 00:43:28,540 --> 00:43:33,300 And he demanded chickens and he demanded goats 746 00:43:33,300 --> 00:43:35,780 to be brought to the witch doctor and 747 00:43:35,780 --> 00:43:40,160 sacrificed to keep the spirits that controlled the 748 00:43:40,160 --> 00:43:42,060 goats and the chickens satisfied. 749 00:43:43,540 --> 00:43:46,260 They knew that certain things were wrong. 750 00:43:46,340 --> 00:43:47,760 And I said, what's wrong? 751 00:43:48,120 --> 00:43:50,640 And without my coaching them, they said, it 752 00:43:50,640 --> 00:43:51,840 is wrong to lie. 753 00:43:52,360 --> 00:43:54,020 It is wrong to steal. 754 00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:56,740 It is wrong to commit murder. 755 00:43:57,120 --> 00:44:01,320 It is wrong not to care for your 756 00:44:01,320 --> 00:44:03,160 ancient parents. 757 00:44:03,560 --> 00:44:04,520 It is wrong. 758 00:44:04,600 --> 00:44:06,780 And they went right through the list. 759 00:44:07,820 --> 00:44:09,220 Who taught them? 760 00:44:09,720 --> 00:44:10,940 I said, who taught you? 761 00:44:12,360 --> 00:44:14,580 They said, what do you mean, taught us? 762 00:44:15,760 --> 00:44:17,540 Our stomachs taught us. 763 00:44:18,760 --> 00:44:20,240 We know it in here. 764 00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:24,920 Has anybody talked to your ears about these 765 00:44:24,920 --> 00:44:25,220 things? 766 00:44:25,300 --> 00:44:27,640 They said, why should they talk through our 767 00:44:27,640 --> 00:44:30,240 ears when our stomachs yell at us? 768 00:44:31,580 --> 00:44:34,340 Because they had the seat of personality, not 769 00:44:34,340 --> 00:44:36,660 in the heart, but in the stomach. 770 00:44:37,900 --> 00:44:39,760 We had one tribe when we did the 771 00:44:39,760 --> 00:44:43,780 translation, be not afraid of desire. 772 00:44:43,940 --> 00:44:45,500 The only way we could put it in 773 00:44:45,500 --> 00:44:48,780 the parlance they'd understand was, don't get a 774 00:44:48,780 --> 00:44:50,440 shiver in your liver, it's only me. 775 00:44:52,520 --> 00:44:54,380 Who was going to punish them when they 776 00:44:54,380 --> 00:44:54,780 died? 777 00:44:56,060 --> 00:44:56,600 Horse! 778 00:45:01,460 --> 00:45:03,660 So I invited them into the prayer room, 779 00:45:03,800 --> 00:45:05,520 which was over under the next tree. 780 00:45:06,240 --> 00:45:08,460 And they came over and sat down there. 781 00:45:09,340 --> 00:45:11,980 And I taught them a nice little prayer. 782 00:45:13,640 --> 00:45:18,840 And they prayed it after me. 783 00:45:21,680 --> 00:45:23,760 And I went right back to my tent 784 00:45:23,760 --> 00:45:26,220 and wrote a letter to send home as 785 00:45:26,220 --> 00:45:27,680 soon as I got there, because I wanted 786 00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:29,080 the church at home to know what a 787 00:45:29,080 --> 00:45:30,240 great missionary they had. 788 00:45:32,320 --> 00:45:34,580 I didn't know why these fellas took so 789 00:45:34,580 --> 00:45:34,840 long. 790 00:45:34,940 --> 00:45:37,260 I made one visit, and I had seven 791 00:45:37,260 --> 00:45:37,840 converts. 792 00:45:39,880 --> 00:45:41,300 It was a lucky thing I did. 793 00:45:41,380 --> 00:45:42,560 If I had to do it while they 794 00:45:42,560 --> 00:45:43,780 were out, it would have never been. 795 00:45:43,780 --> 00:45:46,280 At any rate, I got my letter off 796 00:45:46,280 --> 00:45:48,480 and got all the publicity value from the 797 00:45:48,480 --> 00:45:51,260 decisions, but three and a half months later, 798 00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:52,440 I was back there. 799 00:45:53,740 --> 00:45:56,460 And I asked where the Jesus boys were, 800 00:45:56,500 --> 00:45:58,740 because that's what they decided they called themselves, 801 00:45:58,860 --> 00:46:00,060 and they came to see me. 802 00:46:00,060 --> 00:46:03,840 They were still going to the Tina dance. 803 00:46:04,380 --> 00:46:07,260 They were still sacrificing to the evil spirits. 804 00:46:08,280 --> 00:46:10,480 They were still going to all the evil 805 00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:11,340 beer feasts. 806 00:46:12,540 --> 00:46:14,460 But you see, I fixed them up with 807 00:46:14,460 --> 00:46:18,320 a neat, clever, tricky little health insurance policy 808 00:46:18,320 --> 00:46:20,800 so they could have more risk of having 809 00:46:20,800 --> 00:46:21,200 food. 810 00:46:23,600 --> 00:46:28,240 And all of a sudden, I decided that 811 00:46:28,240 --> 00:46:31,160 I didn't know anything in this world, even 812 00:46:31,160 --> 00:46:33,400 though I'd been a pastor at home and 813 00:46:33,400 --> 00:46:35,200 had graduated from Bible school. 814 00:46:35,440 --> 00:46:39,760 I didn't know anything in this world about 815 00:46:39,760 --> 00:46:41,820 getting people prepared for grace. 816 00:46:43,560 --> 00:46:49,760 But God, in His sovereignty, that afternoon there 817 00:46:49,760 --> 00:46:53,820 in the garden, brought Adam and he brought 818 00:46:53,820 --> 00:46:56,040 Eve out, and they stood before Him. 819 00:46:58,560 --> 00:47:01,100 And the first blood that was shed on 820 00:47:01,100 --> 00:47:03,700 the recreated earth came from the hand of 821 00:47:03,700 --> 00:47:06,200 God, because it says that the Lord God 822 00:47:06,200 --> 00:47:07,620 made coats of skin. 823 00:47:07,840 --> 00:47:10,120 Now, friend, you can make coats of wool 824 00:47:10,120 --> 00:47:13,520 and not hurt the goat or the sheep, 825 00:47:13,680 --> 00:47:15,380 but when you make a coat of skin, 826 00:47:16,220 --> 00:47:17,500 somebody dies. 827 00:47:19,460 --> 00:47:24,340 And He slew the lamb and took the 828 00:47:24,340 --> 00:47:27,900 skin and made aprons for them, and by 829 00:47:27,900 --> 00:47:31,260 it He pointed a finger down across the 830 00:47:31,260 --> 00:47:34,980 century when someone would say of Him, The 831 00:47:34,980 --> 00:47:38,660 Lord God in the garden that day is 832 00:47:38,660 --> 00:47:40,640 the one of whom John will one day 833 00:47:40,640 --> 00:47:43,940 say, You are the Lamb of God, that 834 00:47:43,940 --> 00:47:45,520 made the way for the sin of the 835 00:47:45,520 --> 00:47:45,720 world. 836 00:47:47,900 --> 00:47:51,000 So the whole thing begins right there with 837 00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:52,940 who God is, and the kind of a 838 00:47:52,940 --> 00:47:55,280 being He is, and the kind of responsibility 839 00:47:55,280 --> 00:47:59,520 He expects, and the kind of justice that 840 00:47:59,520 --> 00:48:02,180 He requires, and the vindication of His holiness, 841 00:48:02,860 --> 00:48:05,200 and the upholding of His law, the whole 842 00:48:05,200 --> 00:48:09,840 thing in microcosm is right there before us. 843 00:48:11,800 --> 00:48:14,220 And it moves us to understand the kind 844 00:48:14,220 --> 00:48:16,080 of beings we are, the kind of being 845 00:48:16,080 --> 00:48:20,120 God is, what God expects and what God 846 00:48:20,120 --> 00:48:20,740 requires. 847 00:48:22,440 --> 00:48:24,420 No, I've never gone back. 848 00:48:25,200 --> 00:48:28,020 Oh, how I'd like to go back, and 849 00:48:28,020 --> 00:48:30,100 if any of those men that were there 850 00:48:30,100 --> 00:48:36,540 that listened to my childish, puerile, incomplete, inadequate 851 00:48:36,540 --> 00:48:42,040 misrepresentation of God's grace were still around me, 852 00:48:42,620 --> 00:48:44,480 how I'd like to remind them to flee 853 00:48:44,480 --> 00:48:48,540 from the rapture call, and call upon Him 854 00:48:48,540 --> 00:48:50,040 whom to know as life eternal. 855 00:48:54,700 --> 00:48:56,200 Shall we bow in prayer? 856 00:48:56,360 --> 00:49:02,460 Father, we lift our hearts to Thee tonight, 857 00:49:04,340 --> 00:49:08,020 thanking Thee with all of our great wisdom 858 00:49:08,020 --> 00:49:13,280 and love, paying for the good of the 859 00:49:13,280 --> 00:49:17,000 entire universe, throughout eternity. 860 00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:24,600 Thou wouldst have a people who would praise 861 00:49:24,600 --> 00:49:28,320 Thee, glorify Thee, and honor Thee. 862 00:49:28,580 --> 00:49:30,780 As Father, Thou wouldst have children. 863 00:49:32,020 --> 00:49:34,740 As eternal pride grew, Thou wouldst have a 864 00:49:34,740 --> 00:49:35,120 bride. 865 00:49:35,980 --> 00:49:39,200 And so Thou wouldst hazard all that the 866 00:49:39,200 --> 00:49:43,320 world has seen, that this good might come 867 00:49:43,320 --> 00:49:47,580 into the universe, and that Thou wouldst fulfill 868 00:49:47,580 --> 00:49:51,060 all that Thou art as the God with 869 00:49:51,060 --> 00:49:54,260 love and light and life and truth. 870 00:49:55,320 --> 00:49:58,180 And tonight our hearts go out to Thee 871 00:49:58,180 --> 00:50:02,680 for some who, perhaps like these whom I 872 00:50:02,680 --> 00:50:10,700 so immaturely and presumptuously misrepresented the gospel to. 873 00:50:11,600 --> 00:50:15,000 Maybe there are some even here who've had 874 00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:17,920 others just as genuine and sincere as I 875 00:50:17,920 --> 00:50:22,060 was, and just as mistaken, who've led them 876 00:50:22,060 --> 00:50:27,420 to make a presumption without ever knowing Him 877 00:50:27,420 --> 00:50:30,160 or to know His life eternal. 878 00:50:30,160 --> 00:50:32,320 And so, if that be the case, Father, 879 00:50:33,240 --> 00:50:36,080 we're now leaving Thy presence when we leave 880 00:50:36,080 --> 00:50:39,060 each other, and we'll be alone with Thee 881 00:50:39,060 --> 00:50:42,440 throughout the night hours, and speak to our 882 00:50:42,440 --> 00:50:44,360 hearts concerning our needs. 883 00:50:44,360 --> 00:50:47,760 And bring us back on Memorial, Father, prepared 884 00:50:47,760 --> 00:50:51,040 to think further and go on with Thee 885 00:50:51,040 --> 00:50:54,160 in our understanding of who Thou art and 886 00:50:54,160 --> 00:50:57,140 what Thou dost ask of us, and Thy 887 00:50:57,140 --> 00:50:58,820 plan and purpose for us. 888 00:50:59,640 --> 00:51:02,540 We ask with thanksgiving in Jesus' name. 889 00:51:03,520 --> 00:51:04,060 Amen.