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We are in the final week of the

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life of Jesus.

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He is now in Jerusalem.

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This is the week in which pilgrims are

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coming from all over the world to celebrate

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the Feast of the Passover.

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He has made his triumphant entry, that is

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on Sunday.

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He was officially rejected.

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He did cleanse the temple, driving out the

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money changers, taking authority in his father's house.

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And he taught daily in the temple.

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We read in verse 47 of chapter 19.

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So it came to pass that on one

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of those days, the days that he was

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teaching in the temple from Sunday through Wednesday

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or Thursday, one of those days as he

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was teaching in the temple and preaching the

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gospel, proclaiming to man God's good news, the

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chief priests and the scribes came upon him

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with the elders.

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So this august body of religious authority, the

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chief priests who were mainly Sadducees, the scribes

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and the elders, and they spake unto him

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saying, tell us by what authority do you

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do these things?

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And who is he that gave you this

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authority?

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They're probably still a little upset over the

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fact that he cleansed the temple.

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He drove out the money changers.

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He came in and took over and said,

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this is my father's house, and he took

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over.

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And they were upset because the high priest

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was in league with the money changers.

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They made a rake off of the money

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changers and those that sold the doves and

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the oxen and all there in the temple

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grounds.

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And so what authority?

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Now they were expecting, or at least hoping,

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you see, they're looking now for charges whereby

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they might put him to death.

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And they were hoping that at this point

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he would say, I am the Messiah.

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God is my father.

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He gave me the authority.

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He referred to the temple as my father's

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house.

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And so they were hoping that he would

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make the claim of messiahship in order that

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they might accuse him of blasphemy and immediately

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try him.

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But his hour was not yet come.

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So he did not answer them directly, but

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he answered them indirectly saying, I will ask

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you one thing and you answer me.

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The baptism of John, was it from heaven

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or of men?

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And they reasoned with themselves saying, if we

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shall say from heaven, he will say, why

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did you not believe him?

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If we say of men, all of the

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people will stone us for they're persuaded that

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John was a prophet.

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And they answered that they could not tell

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whence it was.

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And Jesus said unto them, neither tell I

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you by what authority I do these things.

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Now, John had testified concerning Jesus Christ that

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this is he that was.

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Before me or was after me, but who

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was preferred before me, the latchet of who

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shoes I'm unworthy to unloose.

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John had declared concerning Jesus Christ, behold, the

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lamb of God that taketh away the sins

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of the world.

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So John, who the people had had accepted

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as from God, they recognize that John's authority

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was from the Lord.

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And John being recognized by the people as

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a prophet of God had declared that Jesus

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was indeed the lamb of God to take

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away the sins of the world.

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So had they said, well, John was of

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the Lord, then Jesus would say, all right,

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that's the authority that I have, the same

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authority of John.

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And basically he was saying this.

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I came with the same authority that John

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came.

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Now, it is interesting to me how that

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so often there is that challenge today concerning

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authority for men have set up their systems

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by which they recognize authority.

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If you go to our college and graduate

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and then attend our seminary, then we will

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recognize your authority.

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To teach the word of God or to

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proclaim God's truth and the authority that man

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bestows upon man.

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I would like to offer my opinion that

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men have ordained many men to the ministry

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who have never been ordained by God.

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They've been ordained to the ministry purely on

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the basis that they have fulfilled a certain

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requirement of studies, but there is absolutely no

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anointing of God upon their lives or upon

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their ministries.

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And they'd be better off selling shoes or

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I should say, maybe repairing shoes.

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And that's a better way that they could

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save souls.

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We have made it a policy here at

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Calvary Chapel in the ordination board to

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observe a person's ministry and to see if

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their ministry bears witness that God's anointing is

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upon their life.

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For we are convinced that only God ordains

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a man for the work of the Lord.

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And the best we can do is ratify

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what God has done.

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So basically we haven't ordained anybody to the

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ministry, nor do we ordain anybody to the

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ministry, but we like to recognize those that

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God has ordained and ratify that work of

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God in their lives.

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So recognizing that God has ordained this man,

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God's anointing is upon his life.

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God is using him.

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We give to them that recognition that they

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need by the state.

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But it is interesting also how that so

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many of these young men who have gone

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out with the obvious work of God in

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and through their lives are challenged.

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Who gave you the authority?

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Greg Laurie has been challenged so many times.

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Raul Reese has been challenged so many times.

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Where did you go to seminary, you know?

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Who gave you the authority?

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It's sort of disconcerting and upsetting to these

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men with their doctrines and theology that some

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young kid can come into town and start

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a Bible study that grows into a church

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of over 5,000 members when with all

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of their degrees and learning and knowledge of

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the Greek and Hebrew and so forth, they

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have a hard time through pushing and programming

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and every guise and device that you can

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think maintaining, you know, four or five hundred

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people.

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It's just not fair.

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After all, I've been trained the authority.

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Now, the Mormons quite often ask this question

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because they believe that God has restored the

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authority to the church through Joseph Smith and

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that the 12 apostles of the Mormon church

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are the only ones who can actually bestow

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authority upon a person to minister the gospel.

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And so they do not recognize the authority

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of anyone who has not been sanctioned by

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the 12 apostles of the Mormon church for

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everybody knows that they are the only true

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church.

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And so they quite often challenge by what

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authority.

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So Jesus went through the same thing.

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Then he began to speak to them a

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parable, a certain man planted a vineyard and

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he let it out to husbandmen and he

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went into a far country for a long

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time.

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Note, Jesus is now giving a parable that

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relates to his going away, letting out.

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It's a twofold, actually, interpretation because it also

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is a parable against these Pharisees at the

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season.

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He sent a servant to the husbandmen that

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they should give him of the fruit of

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the vineyard.

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But the husbandmen beat him and sent him

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away empty.

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And again, he sent another servant and they

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beat him also and then treated him shamefully.

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And they sent him away empty.

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And again, he sent a third and they

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wounded him also and cast him out.

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Then said the Lord of the vineyard, what

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shall I do?

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I will send my beloved son.

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It may be that they will reverence him

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when they see him.

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But when the husbandmen saw him, they reasoned

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among themselves, saying, this is the air.

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Come, let us kill him that the inheritance

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may be ours.

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So they cast him out of the vineyard

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and killed him.

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And what, therefore, shall the Lord of the

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vineyard do unto them?

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He shall come and destroy these husbandmen and

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shall give the vineyard to others.

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And when they heard it, they said, God

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forbid.

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And he beheld them and said, what is

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this then that is written?

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The stone which the builders rejected, the same

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has become the head of the corner.

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Whosoever shall fall upon that stone shall be

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broken, but on whomsoever it shall fall, it

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will grind him to powder.

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Now, in the fifth chapter of Isaiah, the

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Lord speaks there a parable through Isaiah of

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a vineyard and the vineyard was the nation

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of Israel.

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How that this man planted a vineyard, he

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put the choicest vines in it.

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He built a hedge around it and he

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put a wine press in the middle and

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when the time came to gather fruit from

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the vineyard, there was nothing but wild grapes

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on the vine.

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And so he let the vineyard go.

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And the prophet was speaking about how that

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God had set apart the nation Israel that

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it might bring forth fruit unto God.

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But their failure to bring forth that fruit

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that God was desiring from them would bring

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actually a rejection by God or just being

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let go by God and their demise.

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So when Jesus began to speak the parable

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of the vineyard, aware of the prophecy of

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Isaiah, their minds flip back and they realize

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that he's talking now about the nation of

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Israel, God's vineyard.

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The servants that were sent to the vineyard

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were the prophets who were rejected by the

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people.

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Some of them were stoned.

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Others of them were killed.

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Isaiah was actually sought into.

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And so these are the prophets that God

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sent to the nation.

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Finally, God sent his only begotten son.

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Surely they will reverence him.

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But the husband, when they saw him, said,

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this is the heir.

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Let's kill him that the inheritance may be

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ours.

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And so Jesus here is predicting his death

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at their hands.

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Now, the result of their rejection of the

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son, the commandment of the Lord, destroy the

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husband man.

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The nation of Israel was destroyed by Titus.

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Josephus said that he killed 1,100,000

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Jews and they carried 97,000 away as

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slaves to Rome.

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When they heard this, they said, God forbid,

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for they recognize that Jesus was speaking about

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them.

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And so then he asked them, what does

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this parable mean?

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That which is written, the stone which the

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builders have set up, not the same has

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become the chief cornerstone.

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Psalm 118.

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Now, Peter, in the fourth chapter of Acts,

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when he was standing before the elders and

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the scribes and the high priest, this same

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group that was challenging Jesus here, when Peter

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stood before them in Acts, the fourth chapter,

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they were asking Peter, by what authority did

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you work this miracle on this lame man?

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By what name or by what power have

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you done this?

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So they were giving him much the same

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business as they gave to Jesus.

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We want to know by what power did

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you do this?

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By what name?

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And Peter said, Amen of Israel.

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If we have been examined this day because

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of the good deed that has been done

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to this lame man, you judge for yourselves

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on that.

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But be it known unto you that it

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is by the name of Jesus Christ that

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this man stands here before you whole.

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And this is the stone which was set

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up, not by you builders, but he has

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become the chief cornerstone and neither is there

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salvation in any other.

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For there is no other name given among

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men whereby we must be saved.

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So Peter was here when Jesus was challenged

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concerning authority.

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He remembered the answer of Jesus to these

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men.

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He remembered this parable that Jesus ended by

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saying unto them, what does this mean?

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The stone that was set up, not by

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the builders, the same has become the chief

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cornerstone.

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And so Peter brings it right back to

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them very forcibly, declaring of Jesus, this is

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the stone which was set up, not by

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you builders, but the same has become the

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chief cornerstone.

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Now Jesus declaring concerning that stone said, whosoever

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shall fall upon that stone shall be broken.

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But upon whomsoever that stone shall fall, it

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will grind him to powder.

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You have one of two relationships to Jesus

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Christ.

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Either that of submitting to him, falling upon

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the stone, or resisting him and ultimately being

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ground to powder.

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Woe unto him who strives with his maker.

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Many people are so foolish as to fight

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against Jesus Christ.

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Fall upon the stone, fall upon Jesus Christ.

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You'll find you'll be broken.

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Better that you do that than in judgment

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have him fall upon you and be ground

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to powder.

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Now the chief priests and the scribes the

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same hour sought to lay hands on him,

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but they feared the people for they perceived

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that he had spoken this parable against them.

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They got the message.

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They knew that he was referring to them

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and so they were actually wanting desperately to

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arrest him at this point.

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And yet because of the popular acclaim of

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the people, they did not do it.

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And so they watched him and they sent

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forth spies which should feign themselves to be

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just men.

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That they might take hold of his words

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in order that they might deliver him to

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the powers and authorities of the governor.

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They're now going to try and trap him

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so that they can accuse him of sedition

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or of rebellion against Rome and turn him

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over to the governor.

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And so they asked him saying, Master, we

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know that you say and teach the truth

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and you do not accept the person of

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any, but you teach the way of God

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truly.

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In other words, you're no respecter of man's

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persons.

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You are a straight shooter.

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We know this.

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We know that you don't bow to man.

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That you tell the truth.

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You speak the truth.

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Therefore, is it lawful for us to give

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taxes to Caesar or not?

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If Jesus says no, it is not lawful

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for you to give taxes to Caesar.

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Immediately, they'll run to the Antonio fortress, call

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for the Roman centurion, and have him come

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down and arrest Jesus for advocating a tax

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rebellion against Caesar.

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If Jesus says, yes, it is lawful for

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you to pay taxes to Caesar, these zealots

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who would not recognize the power of the

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Roman government, who hated these taxes that were

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levied by Rome.

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And there was a certain tax that was

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levied upon every man just for the privilege

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of living.

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This is the tax they were referring to.

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It wasn't much of a tax, but it

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was just to show the Roman authority.

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And so they felt that they had Jesus

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cleverly trapped.

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Either way, he's wrong.

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And so he said, show me a coin,

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show me a penny.

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And he said, whose image, superscription does it

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have on it?

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And they answered and said, Caesar's.

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And he said unto them, render therefore unto

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Caesar the things that are Caesar's.

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And unto God, the things that are God's.

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It's got Caesar's image on it, give it

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to Caesar.

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But he added, you should be rendering unto

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God the things that are God's.

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And they could not take hold of his

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words before the people, and they marveled at

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his answer and they held their peace.

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And then there came certain to him who

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were Sadducees, who deny that there is any

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resurrection.

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And they asked him saying, Master Moses, now

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the Sadducees were materialist.

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They accepted as authority, as authoritative, only the

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five books of Moses.

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They rejected the prophets.

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They would not accept them as a part

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of the scriptures.

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Only the five books of Moses did they

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consider to be divinely inspired.

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And so if you would get into an

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argument with them, and you would quote from

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the Psalms or quote from the prophets, they

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would reject it.

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As not being authoritative, only the five books

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of Moses.

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So they said, Moses wrote unto us, if

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any man's brother die having a wife and

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he die without children, that his brother should

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take his wife and raise up a seed

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unto his brother.

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Now there were therefore seven brothers.

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And the first took a wife and he

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died without children.

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And the second took her to a wife

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and he died childless.

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And the third, and in like manner, the

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seven also.

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And they left no children and they all

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died.

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Last of all, the poor woman died too.

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Therefore, in the resurrection, whose wife of them

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is she?

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For all seven had her as their wife.

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Now, the endeavor was to make the resurrection

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seem so ridiculous that people say, well, that's

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that's stupid.

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That's foolish, you know.

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And thoroughly discount the idea of the resurrection.

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There have been those who have done the

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same thing today, only a little different way.

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They hypothesize that back in the days of

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the Wild West, when a man was shot

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in a gun battle and they went out

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and just dug a shallow grave and buried

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his body, that as his body decomposed, we

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know the body is made up of chemicals

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and elements.

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And as the body decomposed, these chemicals just

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actually went into the soil, became a part

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of the soil.

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And the prairie grass, its little roots went

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down into the soil and the chemicals of

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this decomposed body were picked up in the

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roots of the prairie grass.

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And, of course, came up through the root

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system and into the grass itself, nourishing the

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grass.

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And the cows came and ate the prairie

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grass that has the chemicals of the decomposed

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body of this man who was shot in

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the gun battle.

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And the cows gave their milk that contained

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a part of the chemicals from the decomposed

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body.

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And I drank that milk.

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And thus, those chemicals have become a part

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of my body now.

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So that in the resurrection, in what body

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are these chemicals going to go?

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Because they've been a part of many bodies.

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And they've tried to make the idea of

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the resurrection seem ridiculous by these hypotheses that

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they have created.

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Now, Jesus said, you err because you do

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not know the resurrection or the power of

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God.

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In the resurrection, there will be no marrying

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or giving in marriage.

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But we will be as the angels who

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neither marry nor are given in marriage.

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As I understand God's purpose for marriage, it

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is to establish a beautiful, healthy environment for

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children to be raised, to be brought into

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the world.

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The basic plan for marriage that we might

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reproduce, that we might be fruitful and multiply

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and replenish the earth.

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Now, in heaven, the angels do not reproduce.

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Thus, no need for marriage.

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We will not be reproducing.

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Thus, no need for marriage.

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We will be as the angels are.

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A lot of questions.

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Will we know each other then in heaven?

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Of course we will.

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We're not going to be more stupid there

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than we are here.

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The Bible says we will know even as

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we are known.

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Well, what kind of relationships will we have?

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Deeper, richer than any we could ever experience

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on the earth.

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Now, just how in all of these relationships

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God has not really gone into details with

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us.

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He just told us that we'll be as

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the angels.

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Now, there are some poor people that feel,

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well, if I can't be married, I don't

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want to go there.

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Well, the alternative is not so pleasant.

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There's nothing that says you're going to be

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married there either.

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You say, but what about that milk I'm

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drinking?

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I'm not going to have this body in

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heaven.

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We know that when the earthly tent, this

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body is dissolved, we have a building of

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God, not made with hands, eternal in the

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heavens.

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I'm going to get a new body.

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A building of God, not made with hands.

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So, whatever happens to this body, I could

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care less.

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Some say, well, what about cremation?

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They can do what they want.

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We know that when this earthly tent is

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dissolved, and if they do it by cremation,

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it'll be dissolved in 37 minutes.

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If they let the natural processes go, it'll

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take a little longer.

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But I will have moved out and have

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moved in to my new house.

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The building of God, not made with hands,

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00:32:58,940 --> 00:32:59,960
eternal in the heavens.

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00:33:01,320 --> 00:33:03,100
Jesus said, in my father's house are many

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mansions.

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If it were not so, I would have

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told you, I'm going to prepare a place

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for you.

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You say, oh, but what about the resurrection

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of our bodies?

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00:33:12,700 --> 00:33:13,580
Well, what about them?

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Paul the Apostle said, some will say, how

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are the dead raised and what kind of

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00:33:21,710 --> 00:33:23,170
a body will they have?

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And he said, don't you realize that God

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00:33:27,130 --> 00:33:29,150
teaches resurrection in nature?

550
00:33:29,150 --> 00:33:30,990
For when you plant a seed into the

551
00:33:30,990 --> 00:33:33,490
ground, the seed does not come forth into

552
00:33:33,490 --> 00:33:35,630
new life until it first of all dies.

553
00:33:36,090 --> 00:33:38,450
And then the body, and listen carefully, the

554
00:33:38,450 --> 00:33:40,670
body that comes out of the ground is

555
00:33:40,670 --> 00:33:42,950
not the body that you planted.

556
00:33:47,980 --> 00:33:49,920
I feel sorry for you who are so

557
00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:51,560
in love with your body that you want

558
00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:53,360
to carry it on into the new kingdom.

559
00:33:56,290 --> 00:33:57,970
For the body that comes out of the

560
00:33:57,970 --> 00:34:00,190
ground is not the body that you planted

561
00:34:00,190 --> 00:34:02,610
because all you planted was a bare grain

562
00:34:02,610 --> 00:34:05,390
and God gives it a body that pleases

563
00:34:05,390 --> 00:34:05,850
him.

564
00:34:08,770 --> 00:34:10,989
And if it pleases God, you can be

565
00:34:10,989 --> 00:34:13,330
sure it's going to please me.

566
00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:21,820
So is the resurrection from the dead, Paul

567
00:34:21,820 --> 00:34:22,320
asserts.

568
00:34:23,260 --> 00:34:25,159
For we are planted in corruption.

569
00:34:25,300 --> 00:34:26,880
We will be raised in incorruption.

570
00:34:27,060 --> 00:34:28,480
We are planted in weakness.

571
00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:29,880
We'll be raised in power.

572
00:34:29,980 --> 00:34:31,920
We are sown in dishonor.

573
00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:33,380
We'll be raised in glory.

574
00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:35,500
We are planted as a natural body, but

575
00:34:35,500 --> 00:34:37,679
we'll be raised as a spiritual body where

576
00:34:37,679 --> 00:34:38,560
there's a natural body.

577
00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:39,980
And there is a spiritual body in the

578
00:34:39,980 --> 00:34:42,380
glory of the terrestrial differs from the glory

579
00:34:42,380 --> 00:34:43,139
of the celestial.

580
00:34:43,380 --> 00:34:44,980
And even as we have borne the image

581
00:34:44,980 --> 00:34:46,960
of the earth and have been earthy, so

582
00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:48,639
shall we bear the image of the heavens.

583
00:34:50,679 --> 00:34:53,760
So the body that comes out is not

584
00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:54,940
the body that was planted.

585
00:34:55,060 --> 00:34:56,920
All we planted was a bare grain.

586
00:34:58,160 --> 00:35:00,420
God gives it a body that pleases him.

587
00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:04,540
So I'm really quite interested in that new

588
00:35:04,540 --> 00:35:12,380
model and all of the gadgets, the capacities

589
00:35:12,380 --> 00:35:14,340
of that new body.

590
00:35:14,420 --> 00:35:21,630
Probably just fantastic as this corruption puts on

591
00:35:21,630 --> 00:35:25,270
incorruption and this mortal puts on immortality where

592
00:35:25,270 --> 00:35:25,690
you see.

593
00:35:27,050 --> 00:35:29,150
God created this body out of the earth

594
00:35:29,150 --> 00:35:30,570
for the earth of the earth, earthy.

595
00:35:32,630 --> 00:35:34,710
Designed it for the environmental conditions of the

596
00:35:34,710 --> 00:35:34,970
earth.

597
00:35:36,570 --> 00:35:38,570
The earth is made up of 79 parts,

598
00:35:38,650 --> 00:35:40,630
the atmosphere on the earth, the 79 parts

599
00:35:40,630 --> 00:35:46,810
of nitrogen, 20 parts of oxygen and one

600
00:35:46,810 --> 00:35:50,790
part of neon and other gases.

601
00:35:54,340 --> 00:35:56,580
Now, when God made my body, he designed

602
00:35:56,580 --> 00:36:01,760
it so that it needed this 79 20.

603
00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:08,220
Ratio in the atmosphere operates well under it.

604
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:10,340
If he put more oxygen in my heart

605
00:36:10,340 --> 00:36:15,240
would beat faster and I would die sooner.

606
00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:20,100
More nitrogen, I would have the opposite effect,

607
00:36:21,700 --> 00:36:23,380
but I'd still die sooner.

608
00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:25,000
My heart would go slower.

609
00:36:28,190 --> 00:36:31,970
If he put equal parts of nitrogen and

610
00:36:31,970 --> 00:36:34,190
oxygen in the atmosphere, we'd all go around

611
00:36:34,190 --> 00:36:37,950
like a bunch of laughing maniacs, because that's

612
00:36:37,950 --> 00:36:41,010
nitric oxide, which is laughing gas in the

613
00:36:41,010 --> 00:36:41,590
dentist chair.

614
00:36:42,510 --> 00:36:44,890
So we'd all go around with uncontrollable laughter.

615
00:36:47,740 --> 00:36:51,520
So he designed the body for the conditions

616
00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:53,020
of the environment of the earth.

617
00:36:58,300 --> 00:37:02,640
But to come into the heavenly scene, I

618
00:37:02,640 --> 00:37:05,140
need a body that's designed for that environment.

619
00:37:06,720 --> 00:37:08,880
So God has a new body prepared for

620
00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:09,040
me.

621
00:37:09,100 --> 00:37:11,260
And one day my spirit and soul are

622
00:37:11,260 --> 00:37:12,680
going to move out of this body into

623
00:37:12,680 --> 00:37:14,200
the new body that God has.

624
00:37:19,450 --> 00:37:21,390
And with Paul, I'll say, oh, death, where

625
00:37:21,390 --> 00:37:22,130
is your sting?

626
00:37:22,210 --> 00:37:24,030
Oh, grave, where is your victory?

627
00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:30,020
We have been caused to triumph over them

628
00:37:30,020 --> 00:37:31,320
through Jesus Christ.

629
00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:35,100
Thanks be unto God who gives us that

630
00:37:35,100 --> 00:37:37,940
continual victory through Jesus our Lord.

631
00:37:39,140 --> 00:37:41,480
So they did not understand.

632
00:37:45,810 --> 00:37:47,910
And so Jesus said, the children of this

633
00:37:47,910 --> 00:37:50,690
world marry.

634
00:37:51,150 --> 00:37:53,830
That is in this age, in this time,

635
00:37:53,950 --> 00:37:56,570
they marry and are given in marriage.

636
00:37:57,430 --> 00:38:01,290
But they which shall be accounted worthy to

637
00:38:01,290 --> 00:38:06,050
obtain that age or that world and the

638
00:38:06,050 --> 00:38:10,130
resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are

639
00:38:10,130 --> 00:38:12,190
given in marriage.

640
00:38:14,610 --> 00:38:17,170
Neither can they die anymore.

641
00:38:17,290 --> 00:38:21,710
My new body is indestructible, eternal in the

642
00:38:21,710 --> 00:38:21,970
heavens.

643
00:38:22,530 --> 00:38:24,050
The building of God not made with hands,

644
00:38:24,230 --> 00:38:25,670
eternal in the heavens.

645
00:38:26,610 --> 00:38:28,650
So you better like your new one because

646
00:38:28,650 --> 00:38:30,050
that's where you're going to be.

647
00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:38,160
For they are equal unto the angels.

648
00:38:39,940 --> 00:38:43,060
And are the children of God being the

649
00:38:43,060 --> 00:38:45,700
children of the resurrection.

650
00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:46,760
Oh, wait a minute.

651
00:38:47,040 --> 00:38:48,100
You said something, Jesus.

652
00:38:48,240 --> 00:38:49,940
These guys don't believe in the resurrection.

653
00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:58,340
Now that the dead are raised, even Moses

654
00:38:58,340 --> 00:38:59,560
showed at the bush.

655
00:38:59,620 --> 00:39:03,660
You see, these men only accepting the first

656
00:39:03,660 --> 00:39:05,480
five books of the Old Testament.

657
00:39:07,220 --> 00:39:09,560
Held the position that there was no resurrection.

658
00:39:10,740 --> 00:39:14,620
And though there were many arguments prior to

659
00:39:14,620 --> 00:39:18,400
the time of Christ, as others were seeking

660
00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:22,940
to prove the resurrection to them, because they

661
00:39:22,940 --> 00:39:28,200
only accepted Moses as authoritative, no one had

662
00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:31,300
ever offered them from the writings of Moses

663
00:39:31,300 --> 00:39:34,400
any proof of the resurrection.

664
00:39:38,030 --> 00:39:40,930
So Jesus goes right back to Moses.

665
00:39:43,380 --> 00:39:47,420
Now that the dead are raised, even Moses

666
00:39:47,420 --> 00:39:49,000
showed at the bush.

667
00:39:50,640 --> 00:39:55,360
When he calleth the Lord, the God of

668
00:39:55,360 --> 00:39:58,660
Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God

669
00:39:58,660 --> 00:39:59,660
of Jacob.

670
00:40:01,700 --> 00:40:03,840
Jacob at the time that Moses stood before

671
00:40:03,840 --> 00:40:06,520
the bush had been dead for 400 years.

672
00:40:07,340 --> 00:40:09,540
Isaac and Abraham even longer.

673
00:40:11,620 --> 00:40:14,000
And yet God, when he spoke to Moses

674
00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:15,780
out of the bush, said, I am the

675
00:40:15,780 --> 00:40:16,140
Lord.

676
00:40:16,420 --> 00:40:18,640
I am the God of Abraham, the God

677
00:40:18,640 --> 00:40:20,380
of Isaac and the God of Jacob.

678
00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:24,120
And Jesus adds, he is not the God

679
00:40:24,120 --> 00:40:25,940
of the dead, but of the living.

680
00:40:28,320 --> 00:40:32,720
Declaring that 400 years after their recorded deaths,

681
00:40:33,540 --> 00:40:38,850
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were still alive in

682
00:40:38,850 --> 00:40:42,790
another dimension, another sphere, but still alive because

683
00:40:42,790 --> 00:40:45,870
God is the God of the living, not

684
00:40:45,870 --> 00:40:46,970
the God of the dead.

685
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:53,960
And the scribes, when they heard that, they

686
00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:56,300
said, hey, that's all right.

687
00:40:56,820 --> 00:41:00,020
They had never been able to argue their

688
00:41:00,020 --> 00:41:03,480
case with the Sadducees.

689
00:41:04,080 --> 00:41:06,200
But when they heard that argument, they were

690
00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:07,300
really pleased with that.

691
00:41:07,500 --> 00:41:09,260
That, hey, that's all right.

692
00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:10,780
You nailed them, you know, you got them.

693
00:41:11,580 --> 00:41:16,320
And so they answered Jesus saying, master, you

694
00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:18,060
have said, well, that's good.

695
00:41:20,030 --> 00:41:22,810
And after that, they dared not to ask

696
00:41:22,810 --> 00:41:24,110
him any more questions.

697
00:41:25,290 --> 00:41:30,700
And so he said unto them, how say

698
00:41:30,700 --> 00:41:34,040
they that Christ is David's son?

699
00:41:35,500 --> 00:41:37,920
Now, one of the titles for the Messiah

700
00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:39,140
was son of David.

701
00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:41,760
Last week, you remember when we were in

702
00:41:41,760 --> 00:41:47,260
Jericho and Jesus was entering the city, there

703
00:41:47,260 --> 00:41:49,620
was the blind man who cried out, Jesus,

704
00:41:50,120 --> 00:41:53,180
thou son of David, have mercy on me.

705
00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:57,160
Son of David was a messianic title because

706
00:41:57,160 --> 00:42:00,740
they were looking for some descendant of David

707
00:42:00,740 --> 00:42:05,020
to arise in power and in authority to

708
00:42:05,020 --> 00:42:08,480
establish the kingdom and to overthrow the Roman

709
00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:08,920
rule.

710
00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:13,600
Thou son of David, a common title of

711
00:42:13,600 --> 00:42:14,220
the Messiah.

712
00:42:17,010 --> 00:42:19,110
So he said unto them, how is it

713
00:42:19,110 --> 00:42:21,390
that you say that the Messiah and the

714
00:42:21,390 --> 00:42:25,030
word Christ is the Greek for the Hebrew

715
00:42:25,030 --> 00:42:25,610
Messiah?

716
00:42:26,010 --> 00:42:27,710
So how is it that you say the

717
00:42:27,710 --> 00:42:30,390
Messiah is David's son?

718
00:42:33,170 --> 00:42:35,990
And David himself said in the book of

719
00:42:35,990 --> 00:42:41,070
the Psalms, that is in Psalms 110, The

720
00:42:41,070 --> 00:42:46,170
Lord, that is Yahweh, said unto my Lord,

721
00:42:46,290 --> 00:42:51,850
my Adonai, sit thou on my right hand,

722
00:42:52,790 --> 00:42:57,010
till I make thine enemies thy footstool.

723
00:42:57,650 --> 00:43:00,070
David therefore called him Lord.

724
00:43:00,550 --> 00:43:01,990
How then could he be his son?

725
00:43:04,430 --> 00:43:06,850
You are dealing with a culture that is

726
00:43:06,850 --> 00:43:11,390
a very strong patriarchal culture.

727
00:43:12,200 --> 00:43:13,710
The father rules.

728
00:43:15,270 --> 00:43:17,490
No matter how old he is, as long

729
00:43:17,490 --> 00:43:20,210
as he's living, he rules over the household.

730
00:43:22,120 --> 00:43:23,980
You can be married and have your own

731
00:43:23,980 --> 00:43:24,880
grandkids.

732
00:43:26,180 --> 00:43:28,860
But if your dad's still alive, he rules.

733
00:43:32,700 --> 00:43:37,740
No son would ever call his, or no

734
00:43:37,740 --> 00:43:40,140
father would ever call his son Lord.

735
00:43:40,140 --> 00:43:42,380
That was a title for the father, for

736
00:43:42,380 --> 00:43:43,580
the patriarch of the family.

737
00:43:44,440 --> 00:43:45,400
He ruled.

738
00:43:46,700 --> 00:43:49,440
So no father would ever say to his

739
00:43:49,440 --> 00:43:52,340
son, Lord, using that title.

740
00:43:53,980 --> 00:43:56,120
So Jesus said, look, if he's the son

741
00:43:56,120 --> 00:43:57,840
of David, how is it that David called

742
00:43:57,840 --> 00:43:58,400
him Lord?

743
00:43:59,480 --> 00:44:00,580
If he's his son.

744
00:44:03,300 --> 00:44:06,160
And of course, they had no answer.

745
00:44:07,120 --> 00:44:10,040
And then in the audience of all the

746
00:44:10,040 --> 00:44:12,400
people, he said to his disciples, you know,

747
00:44:12,540 --> 00:44:15,200
this is, he turns to his disciples now,

748
00:44:15,740 --> 00:44:17,380
all the people listening in.

749
00:44:18,140 --> 00:44:22,160
He said, beware of the scribes, which desire

750
00:44:22,160 --> 00:44:26,640
to walk in long robes and love greetings

751
00:44:26,640 --> 00:44:30,580
in the markets and the highest seats in

752
00:44:30,580 --> 00:44:33,980
the synagogues and the chief rooms in the

753
00:44:33,980 --> 00:44:41,220
feast, which devour widows' houses and for a

754
00:44:41,220 --> 00:44:43,980
show make long prayers.

755
00:44:45,020 --> 00:44:49,880
The same shall receive greater damnation.

756
00:44:51,360 --> 00:44:54,020
Beware of those who seek to make a

757
00:44:54,020 --> 00:45:03,550
public show for a pretense, make long

758
00:45:03,550 --> 00:45:11,960
prayers, devour widows' houses, send out computerized letters

759
00:45:15,890 --> 00:45:19,030
filled with deceit and fraud to the little

760
00:45:19,030 --> 00:45:21,830
women and so on social security, ask him

761
00:45:21,830 --> 00:45:23,050
to go down to the bank and borrow

762
00:45:23,050 --> 00:45:24,870
some money to send to them to help

763
00:45:24,870 --> 00:45:26,270
them out of this emergency.

764
00:45:41,270 --> 00:45:47,210
Who love the honor and the greetings and

765
00:45:47,210 --> 00:45:48,690
the palavering of man.

766
00:45:59,540 --> 00:46:01,640
Pray for them because Jesus said they will

767
00:46:01,640 --> 00:46:03,340
receive the greater damnation.

768
00:46:06,740 --> 00:46:09,800
And he looked up and he saw the

769
00:46:09,800 --> 00:46:12,820
rich men casting their gifts into the treasury.

770
00:46:15,240 --> 00:46:17,980
And he saw also a certain poor widow

771
00:46:17,980 --> 00:46:24,860
casting in thither two mites, a mite was

772
00:46:24,860 --> 00:46:26,840
one sixteenth of a penny.

773
00:46:28,180 --> 00:46:29,920
In other words, it took 16 mites to

774
00:46:29,920 --> 00:46:30,420
make a penny.

775
00:46:32,750 --> 00:46:34,830
Two mites would be an eighth of a

776
00:46:34,830 --> 00:46:35,010
penny.

777
00:46:36,650 --> 00:46:39,810
Now, here are these rich people putting in

778
00:46:39,810 --> 00:46:41,570
their great gifts.

779
00:46:42,530 --> 00:46:46,670
And this certain poor little widow goes up

780
00:46:46,670 --> 00:46:51,710
and they're in the temple there, the offering

781
00:46:51,710 --> 00:46:53,410
things were sort of like a horn and

782
00:46:53,410 --> 00:46:54,430
they would drop them in.

783
00:46:55,530 --> 00:46:59,850
Poor little widow casting in her two mites

784
00:46:59,850 --> 00:47:04,830
and he said of a truth I say

785
00:47:04,830 --> 00:47:09,970
unto you that this poor widow has cast

786
00:47:09,970 --> 00:47:13,090
in more than all of them.

787
00:47:14,410 --> 00:47:17,510
For all of these have of their abundance

788
00:47:17,510 --> 00:47:23,400
cast into the offerings of God, but she

789
00:47:23,400 --> 00:47:27,720
of her penury hath cast in all of

790
00:47:27,720 --> 00:47:29,560
the living that she had.

791
00:47:32,030 --> 00:47:36,410
So, an interesting thing in God's economy is

792
00:47:36,410 --> 00:47:39,870
not the amount that you give, but what

793
00:47:39,870 --> 00:47:41,490
it costs you to give.

794
00:47:45,390 --> 00:47:48,550
So, many who are giving less in God's

795
00:47:48,550 --> 00:47:50,090
economy are giving more.

796
00:47:50,330 --> 00:47:52,570
The amount is immaterial.

797
00:47:54,090 --> 00:47:55,630
What's the sacrifice?

798
00:47:56,110 --> 00:47:57,750
What's it costing you to give?

799
00:47:59,250 --> 00:48:08,990
When David was wanting to buy

800
00:48:08,990 --> 00:48:13,550
the threshing floor of Arunah because the angel

801
00:48:13,550 --> 00:48:16,190
of the Lord had stopped the plague, it

802
00:48:16,190 --> 00:48:18,070
stopped there at the threshing floor of Arunah

803
00:48:18,070 --> 00:48:21,030
and David wanted to buy it and to

804
00:48:21,030 --> 00:48:22,810
offer a sacrifice unto God.

805
00:48:23,230 --> 00:48:24,890
Arunah says, take it, man, it's yours.

806
00:48:24,990 --> 00:48:27,190
And David said, no, I will not give

807
00:48:27,190 --> 00:48:29,230
to God that which cost me nothing.

808
00:48:32,380 --> 00:48:34,360
And David insisted on buying it.

809
00:48:37,110 --> 00:48:39,370
He wouldn't take it as a gift because

810
00:48:39,370 --> 00:48:40,730
he wanted to give it to God.

811
00:48:40,990 --> 00:48:42,610
And he said, I won't offer to God

812
00:48:42,610 --> 00:48:43,950
that which cost me nothing.

813
00:48:45,670 --> 00:48:47,530
What does it cost you to give?

814
00:48:49,370 --> 00:48:52,010
That's what God measures the gift by.

815
00:48:54,220 --> 00:48:56,540
And as some of them speak of the

816
00:48:56,540 --> 00:49:02,720
temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones

817
00:49:02,720 --> 00:49:03,480
and gifts.

818
00:49:04,040 --> 00:49:09,600
In the Wars of the Jews by Josephus,

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book number five and chapter five, he gives

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an interesting description of the temple in Jerusalem.

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Of these great white columns of solid marble,

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each column, a single stone of solid white

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marble and how along the fascia.

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All of these gold shields so that if

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you would look at the temple, the reflection

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of the gold was so tremendous that it

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was like looking at the sun itself.

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And you couldn't you couldn't just look at

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the temple because of these gold plates when

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the sun was reflecting off of it.

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It would be hard in your eyes like

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looking in a mirror.

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And he describes the beauty and the glory

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of this temple that was built by Herod.

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Describing some of the stones as weighing as

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much as 180 tons.

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And so some of them were speaking to

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Jesus of the temple, how it was adorned

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rather with these goodly stones, these beautiful marble

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towers and the gifts, the gold and the

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silver and the brass gates and all that

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were around it.

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And he said, as for these things which

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you are looking at, the days will come

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in the which there shall not be left

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one stone upon another that shall not be

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thrown down.

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Today, when you go to Jerusalem, as you

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go up the walk next to the western

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wall that leads on to the Temple Mount

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area, they have excavated the area to the

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right side of this walk.

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They have excavated down to the pavement that

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was the Roman street that went through the

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bottom of the Turopian Valley.

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And as they have excavated down to this

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Roman street, street level at the time of

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Christ, down there on the pavement, which was

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made of great huge stones, there are these

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huge stones that have been pushed over the

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wall and that cracked the pavement down below.

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And you see them as they are just

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lying there in disarray as they fell and

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were pushed over the wall and crashed into

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the valley several hundred feet below, breaking the

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pavement down below.

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I've climbed down in to that area and

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I've touched these big stones and I've marveled

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at them because as I looked at them,

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I realized I was seeing the fulfillment of

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the prophecy of Jesus Christ.

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Not one stone was left standing upon another.

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They filled the Turopian Valley with stones that

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they pushed over from the temple.

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Watching them crash below.

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When we were up in the Grand Canyon,

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there was one area that I had a

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bunch of kids and they were starting to

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push stones over this canyon cliff because there

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was about a 3,000 foot drop before

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they hit.

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And it was terrifying to see the momentum

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that these stones would develop before they hit

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the bottom and the crash and of course

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coming echoing up the canyon.

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But here were the Roman soldiers when they

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destroyed the temple pushing the stones over and

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that whole Turopian Valley was filled with the

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debris and the stones that they pushed over

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the wall at the time of the destruction

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of the temple.

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But it fulfilled literally the prophecy of Jesus

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as he said, you look at these stones,

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but there shall not be one left standing

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upon another that will not be thrown down.

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Thus, as you go up on the Temple

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Mount, there is no evidence anywhere of where

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the Temple of Solomon stood.

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The Temple Mount that he built is there.

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But there is no evidence at all of

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the place of the temple because not one

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stone was left standing on another.

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And so they asked him saying, Master, when

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shall these things be?

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What things?

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When the temple is destroyed and the stones

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are thrown down.

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And what sign will there be when these

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things, that is the destruction of the temple

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in Jerusalem, what will be the sign when

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these things come to pass?

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And so he said unto them, Take heed

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that you be not deceived.

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For many shall come in my name saying,

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I am.

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And that the time is drawing near, but

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go ye not therefore after them.

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But when you shall hear of wars and

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commotions, don't be terrified.

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For these things must first come to pass

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and the end is not yet.

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Then he said unto them, Nation shall rise

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against nation, kingdom against kingdom.

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And there will be great earthquakes in different

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places and famines and pestilences and fearful signs

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and great signs shall there be from heaven.

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But before now these he's going on to

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the times of the end with these signs

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of the great earthquakes in different places, the

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famines, the pestilences, the fearful signs in heaven

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and the worldwide state of wars.

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But before all of these.

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They shall lay their hands on you coming

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back to the destruction of the temple.

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And they will persecute you, delivering you up

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into the synagogues and into the prisons.

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And you'll be brought before kings and rulers

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for my name's sake.

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And it shall turn to you for a

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testimony.

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Jesus said, look, you're going to get arrested.

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You're going to be hauled before the kings

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and all for my name's sake.

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But that's all right.

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It's going to give you a chance to

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witness.

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And I find it fascinating.

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That every time Paul was brought before a

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judge or before the king.

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He took the opportunity to give a witness

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for Jesus Christ.

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Oh, King Agrippa, I counted a privilege to

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be able to share with you what's happened

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to me, because I know that you've studied

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the law of the Jews and you understand

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these things.

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And the things that Jesus did weren't in

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a corner.

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Now, I myself was like you.

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I thought, you know, to be against this

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man.

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And I was commissioned to arrest him and

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so forth.

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And and he went on and he gave

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a heavy witness to King Agrippa.

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King Agrippa, do you believe?

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I know you believe.

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And oh, wait a minute, Paul, wait a

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minute.

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You know, your much learning has made you

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mad.

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And Agrippa said, hey, wait a minute.

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Hold on.

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You think that you're going to persuade me

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to be a Christian?

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But Paul was trying.

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Jesus said, hey, they're going to bring you

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before kings.

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But don't worry, it's going to give you

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a chance to witness.

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And Paul used it every time he got

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before the king.

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Now, Paul was taken before Nero.

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There is nothing in the biblical account that

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tells us what Paul said.

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But as we study secular history, it would

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seem that Nero wasn't too bad a fellow.

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He was actually very anxious to leave his

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mark upon Rome and to build some monuments

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in Rome.

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His castle is a great monument in itself

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that has been uncovered recently.

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But Nero wasn't really too awful a fellow

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until in history, until he met this fellow,

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Paul the Apostle.

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The first time that Paul was imprisoned in

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Rome, he had his opportunity.

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You remember when he was before Festus, he

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appealed to Caesar.

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And so he was sent to Rome, placed

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there in prison, where he wrote his Philippian

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epistle, and he had his chance to go

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before Nero.

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Now, you think that the witness he laid

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on Agrippa was heavy.

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You can be sure that Paul thought, man,

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if I can convert this pagan to Christianity,

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what that would do.

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And I'm sure that Paul laid on Nero

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a witness second to none in the history

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of the church.

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Secular history records this dramatic personality change of

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Nero right after the time that Paul laid

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the witness on him.

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It was at that same period of time

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in history that Nero went through a drastic

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personality change and became a beast.

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He burned Rome because he wanted to rebuild

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a new glorious Rome for his credit.

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And then he blamed the Christians for it.

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But he became almost a man possessed, insane.

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I feel that personally, that he became demon

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possessed after Paul's witness and his rejection of

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Paul's witness.

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I believe that he opened his heart and

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life to demon possession.

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And I believe that the things that he

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did can only be ascribed to a man

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possessed by an evil spirit.

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But up until that time of Paul's witness,

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he wasn't that bad of a fellow historically.

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So Jesus said, now, don't worry about it.

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It's going to give you a chance to

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witness.

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And Paul took that chance every time he

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got it.

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And he said, don't make up a little

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speech in advance in your own heart what

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you're going to say.

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01:00:52,340 --> 01:00:53,640
Well, now I'm going to say this and

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01:00:53,640 --> 01:00:54,000
that and the other.

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01:00:54,200 --> 01:00:57,180
But he said, for I will give you

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a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries

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01:01:01,220 --> 01:01:03,160
shall not be able to gain, say, nor

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resist.

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01:01:03,580 --> 01:01:05,000
Now, don't worry about what you're going to

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01:01:05,000 --> 01:01:06,660
say because I'll give you the words in

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that time and you can wipe them out.

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And you will be betrayed both by your

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parents and your brothers and your kinfolk and

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your friends.

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And some of you, they will cause you

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to be put to death.

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Fox's Book of Martyrs relates to us that

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sad portion of the history of the church.

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And you shall be hated of all men

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for my name's sake.

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But there shall not a hair of your

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head perish.

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They may kill your body.

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But after that, they have no power.

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And in your patience, possess ye your souls.

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What an important bit of instruction.

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In patience.

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God, help us.

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We're so impatient when it comes to the

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things of God.

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In your patience, possess ye your souls.

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God, give me patience.

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And when you will see Jerusalem encircled with

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armies, which happen within forty years, then know

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that the desolation is near.

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Let them which are in Judea flee to

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the mountains.

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And let them which are in the midst

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of it depart out.

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And let them that are in the countries

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enter in thereto.

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For these are the days of vengeance.

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Rome is going to take out her vengeance

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upon the rebellion.

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And all of the things which are written

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may be fulfilled.

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But woe unto them that are with child

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and to those that are nursing in those

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days.

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For there shall be great distress in the

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01:03:05,950 --> 01:03:09,410
land and wrath upon this people.

1089
01:03:10,030 --> 01:03:12,490
And they shall fall by the edge of

1090
01:03:12,490 --> 01:03:13,050
the sword.

1091
01:03:13,190 --> 01:03:14,970
And they will be led away captive to

1092
01:03:14,970 --> 01:03:15,810
all nations.

1093
01:03:16,870 --> 01:03:20,030
And Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the

1094
01:03:20,030 --> 01:03:24,370
Gentiles until the time of the Gentiles be

1095
01:03:24,370 --> 01:03:25,010
fulfilled.

1096
01:03:25,970 --> 01:03:29,590
So, in 70 A.D., when Titus came

1097
01:03:29,590 --> 01:03:32,750
with the Roman troops and besieged Jerusalem, killed

1098
01:03:32,750 --> 01:03:35,970
1,100,000 Jews, carried away the remaining

1099
01:03:35,970 --> 01:03:39,950
97,000 as captive, Israel ceased to be

1100
01:03:39,950 --> 01:03:40,630
a nation.

1101
01:03:41,050 --> 01:03:43,790
They were carried away captive into all nations.

1102
01:03:44,290 --> 01:03:47,230
And the prophecy of Jesus was fulfilled.

1103
01:03:47,650 --> 01:03:50,850
And Jerusalem from that day have been trodden

1104
01:03:50,850 --> 01:03:55,770
down by the Gentiles until June of 1967.

1105
01:04:00,360 --> 01:04:06,620
Now, as I understand prophecy, in June of

1106
01:04:06,620 --> 01:04:13,240
1967, the time of the Gentiles came to

1107
01:04:13,240 --> 01:04:13,740
an end.

1108
01:04:16,430 --> 01:04:18,250
You say, well, what are we in now?

1109
01:04:18,430 --> 01:04:20,110
Just a space gap.

1110
01:04:22,670 --> 01:04:29,200
I believe that the Lord is going to

1111
01:04:29,200 --> 01:04:32,260
begin a very special work with the nation

1112
01:04:32,260 --> 01:04:34,740
of Israel very soon.

1113
01:04:35,800 --> 01:04:39,520
There is a seven-year period of prophecy

1114
01:04:39,520 --> 01:04:41,640
that has not yet been fulfilled.

1115
01:04:43,100 --> 01:04:44,980
Daniel's 70th week.

1116
01:04:46,280 --> 01:04:49,360
And that seven-year period of God's Spirit

1117
01:04:49,360 --> 01:04:51,440
upon the nation of Israel and dealing with

1118
01:04:51,440 --> 01:04:53,860
them and their restoration must come.

1119
01:04:56,460 --> 01:04:58,760
That period has not yet begun.

1120
01:05:00,800 --> 01:05:08,220
But in 1967, for all practical purposes, when

1121
01:05:08,220 --> 01:05:14,240
Jerusalem became again the territory of the nation

1122
01:05:14,240 --> 01:05:17,660
of Israel, when they drove out the Jordanian

1123
01:05:17,660 --> 01:05:21,200
troops and they took the city of Jerusalem.

1124
01:05:22,900 --> 01:05:25,840
At that point, according to the words of

1125
01:05:25,840 --> 01:05:29,300
Jesus, Jerusalem shall be trodden down by the

1126
01:05:29,300 --> 01:05:32,620
Gentiles until the time of the Gentiles be

1127
01:05:32,620 --> 01:05:33,160
fulfilled.

1128
01:05:34,100 --> 01:05:36,380
Since that time has just been a short

1129
01:05:36,380 --> 01:05:39,900
period of God's grace, giving others that opportunity

1130
01:05:39,900 --> 01:05:42,680
to become a part of God's kingdom before

1131
01:05:42,680 --> 01:05:45,320
he gathers his church together unto himself.

1132
01:05:46,760 --> 01:05:51,160
So we're just living in a period of

1133
01:05:51,160 --> 01:05:53,500
God's extended grace to man.

1134
01:05:54,380 --> 01:05:56,620
But even as God said in the time

1135
01:05:56,620 --> 01:06:01,460
of Noah, my spirit will not always strive

1136
01:06:01,460 --> 01:06:02,180
with man.

1137
01:06:02,580 --> 01:06:06,100
I believe that God's striving with men has

1138
01:06:06,100 --> 01:06:07,720
just about come to an end.

1139
01:06:08,840 --> 01:06:11,040
The time of the Gentiles fulfilled.

1140
01:06:14,600 --> 01:06:17,560
And now Jesus goes ahead to give signs

1141
01:06:17,560 --> 01:06:18,440
of his return.

1142
01:06:19,480 --> 01:06:21,320
And he said, there shall be signs in

1143
01:06:21,320 --> 01:06:23,180
the sun and in the moon and in

1144
01:06:23,180 --> 01:06:27,080
the stars and upon the earth, distress of

1145
01:06:27,080 --> 01:06:29,580
nations with perplexity, signs in the heavens.

1146
01:06:32,600 --> 01:06:36,680
We know that the comet known as Halley's

1147
01:06:36,680 --> 01:06:42,150
Comet will be returning into our area of

1148
01:06:42,150 --> 01:06:45,750
the solar system in just a couple of

1149
01:06:45,750 --> 01:06:46,370
years.

1150
01:06:47,970 --> 01:06:50,470
And with the advent of the return of

1151
01:06:50,470 --> 01:06:55,540
Halley's Comet, there's been a lot of writing

1152
01:06:55,540 --> 01:07:00,580
in the astronomy magazines and a lot of

1153
01:07:00,580 --> 01:07:06,200
speculation about asteroids and about comets and the

1154
01:07:06,200 --> 01:07:10,080
possibilities of a comet or an asteroid striking

1155
01:07:10,080 --> 01:07:10,880
the earth.

1156
01:07:14,180 --> 01:07:18,380
And it is interesting that a large part

1157
01:07:18,380 --> 01:07:21,680
of the physical makeup of comets is cyanide.

1158
01:07:24,820 --> 01:07:27,840
And it is also interesting that in the

1159
01:07:27,840 --> 01:07:30,280
book of Revelation, he saw a star fall

1160
01:07:30,280 --> 01:07:32,160
from heaven and strike the earth.

1161
01:07:32,440 --> 01:07:35,260
That is, and all of the fresh waters

1162
01:07:35,260 --> 01:07:36,320
became bitter.

1163
01:07:36,520 --> 01:07:38,960
They were called wormwood because they were bitter.

1164
01:07:41,220 --> 01:07:43,040
It sounds like it could almost be a

1165
01:07:43,040 --> 01:07:46,440
comet striking the earth and that cyanide poisoning

1166
01:07:46,440 --> 01:07:49,040
the fresh water systems, turning them bitter.

1167
01:07:49,180 --> 01:07:51,660
The cyanide taste, of course, is a bitter

1168
01:07:51,660 --> 01:07:52,200
taste.

1169
01:07:55,360 --> 01:07:58,380
You might pick up the astronomy magazine.

1170
01:07:58,500 --> 01:07:59,380
I think it was December's issue.

1171
01:07:59,500 --> 01:08:02,920
It had an interesting article on comets and

1172
01:08:02,920 --> 01:08:03,960
their makeup.

1173
01:08:04,380 --> 01:08:07,520
And of course, a lot of, as I

1174
01:08:07,520 --> 01:08:09,500
say, because Halley's is returning, there's just a

1175
01:08:09,500 --> 01:08:12,120
lot of things that you can read now

1176
01:08:12,120 --> 01:08:14,860
in the astronomy journals and all about asteroids

1177
01:08:14,860 --> 01:08:15,560
and comets.

1178
01:08:15,819 --> 01:08:19,479
And there is always that likelihood that an

1179
01:08:19,479 --> 01:08:20,920
asteroid is going to strike the earth.

1180
01:08:23,810 --> 01:08:28,870
In fact, our government is making contingency plans.

1181
01:08:31,010 --> 01:08:33,970
If there seems to be some threat of

1182
01:08:33,970 --> 01:08:36,490
a large asteroid striking the earth, of sending

1183
01:08:36,490 --> 01:08:39,250
a rocket out with a nuclear warhead to

1184
01:08:39,250 --> 01:08:41,950
try and explode it in space so that

1185
01:08:41,950 --> 01:08:43,029
it won't get to the earth.

1186
01:08:44,950 --> 01:08:47,090
And these kinds of things are things that

1187
01:08:47,090 --> 01:08:48,910
are being thought of by the scientists.

1188
01:08:52,010 --> 01:08:54,090
Signs in the sun, in the moon, in

1189
01:08:54,090 --> 01:08:54,609
the stars.

1190
01:08:54,609 --> 01:08:58,350
On the earth, there'll be distress of nations

1191
01:08:58,350 --> 01:08:59,450
with perplexity.

1192
01:08:59,630 --> 01:09:04,430
That means that the distress of nations is

1193
01:09:04,430 --> 01:09:06,390
problems that nations will be facing.

1194
01:09:06,550 --> 01:09:08,550
The word perplexity in the Greek is no

1195
01:09:08,550 --> 01:09:09,109
way out.

1196
01:09:14,229 --> 01:09:16,090
Now the government is searching for a way

1197
01:09:16,090 --> 01:09:16,410
out.

1198
01:09:20,510 --> 01:09:22,770
We're going to cut taxes and we're going

1199
01:09:22,770 --> 01:09:25,029
to, you know, balance the budget.

1200
01:09:33,609 --> 01:09:38,350
Government has become burdensome.

1201
01:09:38,990 --> 01:09:42,710
In fact, government has become so expensive, we

1202
01:09:42,710 --> 01:09:44,130
can't afford it anymore.

1203
01:09:44,290 --> 01:09:45,729
And that's the problem that we've hit.

1204
01:09:47,149 --> 01:09:49,950
There's no way that we can afford government

1205
01:09:49,950 --> 01:09:50,649
any longer.

1206
01:09:52,960 --> 01:09:55,480
It's a monster that has just continued to

1207
01:09:55,480 --> 01:09:59,540
grow, gobbling up everything until it has grown

1208
01:09:59,540 --> 01:10:07,150
to such an extent that there are not

1209
01:10:07,150 --> 01:10:09,590
enough people left to support the government workers.

1210
01:10:13,830 --> 01:10:17,830
I read a statistic someplace and this, I

1211
01:10:17,830 --> 01:10:19,590
don't know the accuracy of it, but it

1212
01:10:19,590 --> 01:10:21,850
said some 49% of the people are

1213
01:10:21,850 --> 01:10:24,230
on the government payroll somewhere or other.

1214
01:10:27,080 --> 01:10:29,520
Either through welfare or through jobs that are

1215
01:10:29,520 --> 01:10:30,520
related to the government.

1216
01:10:31,800 --> 01:10:34,060
So 51% of the people are productive

1217
01:10:34,060 --> 01:10:35,340
and the rest are working for the government,

1218
01:10:38,550 --> 01:10:39,470
supporting the 49.

1219
01:10:45,540 --> 01:10:46,720
What are we going to do?

1220
01:10:47,980 --> 01:10:49,040
What's the answer?

1221
01:10:50,560 --> 01:10:51,600
There is none.

1222
01:10:53,840 --> 01:10:55,310
So what shall we do?

1223
01:10:55,550 --> 01:10:56,750
Well, have heart failure.

1224
01:11:01,150 --> 01:11:03,210
I thought that this was interesting that it

1225
01:11:03,210 --> 01:11:03,930
came this week.

1226
01:11:04,070 --> 01:11:06,210
The sea and the waves roaring.

1227
01:11:11,230 --> 01:11:13,170
Any of you live at Sunset Beach?

1228
01:11:14,750 --> 01:11:15,530
Seal Beach?

1229
01:11:18,280 --> 01:11:22,940
Men's hearts failing them for fear and for

1230
01:11:22,940 --> 01:11:24,600
the looking after of those things which are

1231
01:11:24,600 --> 01:11:27,340
coming upon the earth and the powers of

1232
01:11:27,340 --> 01:11:28,680
the heaven will be shaken.

1233
01:11:30,340 --> 01:11:34,660
And then, of course, he's describing events of

1234
01:11:34,660 --> 01:11:36,260
the Great Tribulation period here.

1235
01:11:37,440 --> 01:11:41,420
And then, after this Great Tribulation, shall they

1236
01:11:41,420 --> 01:11:44,500
see the Son of Man coming in a

1237
01:11:44,500 --> 01:11:48,060
cloud with power and great glory.

1238
01:11:50,830 --> 01:11:54,550
And when these things begin to come to

1239
01:11:54,550 --> 01:11:56,110
pass, then look up and lift up your

1240
01:11:56,110 --> 01:11:58,230
head for your redemption is drawing close.

1241
01:11:59,810 --> 01:12:09,560
Now, last October,

1242
01:12:13,190 --> 01:12:18,420
in one of the shopping malls, towards the

1243
01:12:18,420 --> 01:12:21,280
end of October, I saw them putting up

1244
01:12:21,280 --> 01:12:23,380
Christmas decorations.

1245
01:12:24,440 --> 01:12:28,080
And I said, well, Thanksgiving must be getting

1246
01:12:28,080 --> 01:12:28,600
close.

1247
01:12:32,170 --> 01:12:32,510
Why?

1248
01:12:33,950 --> 01:12:37,590
Because I know that Thanksgiving comes before Christmas.

1249
01:12:38,650 --> 01:12:41,570
And if they're putting up Christmas decorations and

1250
01:12:41,570 --> 01:12:44,470
Thanksgiving hasn't come yet, then Thanksgiving must be

1251
01:12:44,470 --> 01:12:45,170
getting close.

1252
01:12:45,670 --> 01:12:47,550
Because it's got to come before Christmas.

1253
01:12:50,050 --> 01:12:52,270
Now, Jesus is giving you signs of his

1254
01:12:52,270 --> 01:12:52,770
return.

1255
01:12:55,700 --> 01:12:58,160
Signs that will happen before his second coming.

1256
01:12:59,880 --> 01:13:02,160
But if the rapture of the church is

1257
01:13:02,160 --> 01:13:04,940
to precede the second coming by seven years,

1258
01:13:05,140 --> 01:13:06,620
then when we see the signs of the

1259
01:13:06,620 --> 01:13:08,100
coming of the Lord, we have to say,

1260
01:13:08,200 --> 01:13:10,140
hey, the rapture must be getting close.

1261
01:13:12,700 --> 01:13:15,260
I see the signs of the Lord's return.

1262
01:13:16,520 --> 01:13:19,280
That makes the rapture that much closer.

1263
01:13:21,500 --> 01:13:24,320
So, when you see these things beginning to

1264
01:13:24,320 --> 01:13:25,900
come to pass, then you look up and

1265
01:13:25,900 --> 01:13:27,700
lift up your head for your redemption is

1266
01:13:27,700 --> 01:13:28,380
drawing nigh.

1267
01:13:30,040 --> 01:13:31,660
And he spake to them a parable.

1268
01:13:31,800 --> 01:13:33,700
Behold, the fig tree and all of the

1269
01:13:33,700 --> 01:13:40,230
trees, when they now shoot forth and you

1270
01:13:40,230 --> 01:13:42,870
see and you know of your own selves

1271
01:13:42,870 --> 01:13:44,750
that summer is now near at hand.

1272
01:13:45,070 --> 01:13:47,450
And Jesus is basically saying the same thing.

1273
01:13:47,450 --> 01:13:48,990
You see the trees start to blossom out

1274
01:13:48,990 --> 01:13:49,710
and leaf out.

1275
01:13:49,830 --> 01:13:52,490
You say, oh, summer must be getting close

1276
01:13:54,510 --> 01:13:57,010
because I see the trees leaving out.

1277
01:13:57,550 --> 01:13:58,470
I see the blossoms.

1278
01:13:59,510 --> 01:14:00,690
Summer must be getting close.

1279
01:14:03,010 --> 01:14:07,530
Verily, I say unto you, this generation shall

1280
01:14:07,530 --> 01:14:10,670
not pass away till all is fulfilled.

1281
01:14:11,930 --> 01:14:14,790
Now, heaven and earth shall pass away, but

1282
01:14:14,790 --> 01:14:17,890
my words shall not pass away.

1283
01:14:18,550 --> 01:14:21,790
We have the solid word of Christ.

1284
01:14:21,970 --> 01:14:25,290
Now, even as Jerusalem was destroyed and not

1285
01:14:25,290 --> 01:14:28,010
one stone was left standing upon another and

1286
01:14:28,010 --> 01:14:31,550
the Jews were decimated and the remainder were

1287
01:14:31,550 --> 01:14:38,000
made slaves throughout the earth and Jerusalem went

1288
01:14:38,000 --> 01:14:40,000
under the hand of the Gentiles.

1289
01:14:41,120 --> 01:14:43,840
Just as all of that was fulfilled, you

1290
01:14:43,840 --> 01:14:46,900
can be sure that Jesus is coming again.

1291
01:14:47,160 --> 01:14:49,400
The rest of the prophecies will be fulfilled.

1292
01:14:50,760 --> 01:14:53,700
God didn't bring it along this far to

1293
01:14:53,700 --> 01:14:54,520
drop it now.

1294
01:14:55,620 --> 01:14:58,740
We are moving towards the end.

1295
01:15:00,860 --> 01:15:03,880
The whole system is moving towards this climax,

1296
01:15:06,840 --> 01:15:09,280
return of Jesus Christ in power and glory.

1297
01:15:09,780 --> 01:15:11,440
But when we see the signs of that

1298
01:15:11,440 --> 01:15:14,580
return, we know that our redemption is so

1299
01:15:14,580 --> 01:15:15,060
close.

1300
01:15:16,300 --> 01:15:17,320
And Jesus affirms.

1301
01:15:17,400 --> 01:15:18,860
He said, now look, heaven and earth will

1302
01:15:18,860 --> 01:15:21,060
pass away, but not my words.

1303
01:15:21,620 --> 01:15:25,460
So, take heed to yourselves.

1304
01:15:26,060 --> 01:15:28,060
Now, this is a message for you.

1305
01:15:30,290 --> 01:15:33,510
Take heed, be careful, lest at any time

1306
01:15:33,510 --> 01:15:43,190
your hearts are overcharged with surfeiting, drunkenness, partying,

1307
01:15:44,490 --> 01:15:48,370
the cares of this life and that they

1308
01:15:48,370 --> 01:15:50,310
overtake you unaware.

1309
01:15:50,310 --> 01:15:50,970
Unaware.

1310
01:15:53,750 --> 01:15:55,530
There is a party spirit in the world

1311
01:15:55,530 --> 01:15:55,950
today.

1312
01:15:58,740 --> 01:16:00,520
Be careful you're not caught up in it.

1313
01:16:03,020 --> 01:16:04,680
And that day of the Lord catch you

1314
01:16:04,680 --> 01:16:05,580
by surprise.

1315
01:16:07,650 --> 01:16:10,750
Be careful of these things.

1316
01:16:10,890 --> 01:16:13,790
Jesus warned you that these things are going

1317
01:16:13,790 --> 01:16:15,670
to be like a trap for men.

1318
01:16:21,490 --> 01:16:26,530
Drunkenness, surfeiting, gourmet type of eating, cares of

1319
01:16:26,530 --> 01:16:27,490
this life.

1320
01:16:29,360 --> 01:16:31,180
So that that day is coming will come

1321
01:16:31,180 --> 01:16:31,740
on you unaware.

1322
01:16:31,740 --> 01:16:34,620
For as a snare is a trap, shall

1323
01:16:34,620 --> 01:16:36,360
it come upon all of them that dwell

1324
01:16:36,360 --> 01:16:37,780
upon the face of the whole earth.

1325
01:16:39,360 --> 01:16:41,400
Watch ye therefore.

1326
01:16:42,800 --> 01:16:44,540
Watch ye therefore.

1327
01:16:45,620 --> 01:16:48,360
The Lord's command to his church to watch

1328
01:16:50,310 --> 01:16:55,410
and pray always that ye may be accounted

1329
01:16:55,410 --> 01:16:59,510
worthy to escape all these things, all what

1330
01:16:59,510 --> 01:17:00,170
things.

1331
01:17:01,330 --> 01:17:04,330
These things of God's judgment that will be

1332
01:17:04,330 --> 01:17:06,830
coming to pass upon the earth as there

1333
01:17:06,830 --> 01:17:08,430
are the signs in the sun and the

1334
01:17:08,430 --> 01:17:10,430
moon and the stars and the heavens shaken

1335
01:17:10,430 --> 01:17:13,230
and the earthquakes and the pestilences and famines.

1336
01:17:13,730 --> 01:17:16,370
Pray that you'll be accounted worthy to escape

1337
01:17:16,370 --> 01:17:18,130
all of these things.

1338
01:17:19,430 --> 01:17:23,710
That shall come to pass and to stand

1339
01:17:23,710 --> 01:17:25,750
before the Son of Man.

1340
01:17:28,720 --> 01:17:33,030
Now in the book of Revelation chapter five,

1341
01:17:33,250 --> 01:17:36,030
John saw a scroll in the right hand

1342
01:17:36,030 --> 01:17:38,130
of him who was sitting upon the throne

1343
01:17:38,130 --> 01:17:41,210
sealed with seven seals and it had writing

1344
01:17:41,210 --> 01:17:42,310
both within and without.

1345
01:17:43,030 --> 01:17:44,750
And he heard an angel proclaim with a

1346
01:17:44,750 --> 01:17:46,330
loud voice who is worthy to take the

1347
01:17:46,330 --> 01:17:47,590
scroll and loose the seals.

1348
01:17:48,110 --> 01:17:49,590
And when no one was found worthy in

1349
01:17:49,590 --> 01:17:51,970
heaven or earth, John began to sob compulsively

1350
01:17:51,970 --> 01:17:53,770
until the elder said, don't sob.

1351
01:17:54,130 --> 01:17:56,410
John behold, the lion of the tribe of

1352
01:17:56,410 --> 01:17:58,930
Judah hath prevailed to take the scroll and

1353
01:17:58,930 --> 01:17:59,750
loose the seals.

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01:18:00,170 --> 01:18:01,990
And I turned and I saw him as

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01:18:01,990 --> 01:18:03,450
a lamb that had been slaughtered.

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01:18:03,590 --> 01:18:05,030
And he took the scroll out of the

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01:18:05,030 --> 01:18:06,750
right hand of him who sat upon the

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01:18:06,750 --> 01:18:07,010
throne.

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01:18:07,310 --> 01:18:08,910
And when he did, the twenty-four elders

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01:18:08,910 --> 01:18:10,890
came forth with their golden vials full of

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01:18:10,890 --> 01:18:12,650
odors, which are the prayers of the saints.

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01:18:12,690 --> 01:18:14,930
And they offered them before the throne of

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01:18:14,930 --> 01:18:15,270
God.

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01:18:15,450 --> 01:18:18,350
And they sang a new song saying, worthy

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01:18:18,350 --> 01:18:20,790
is the lamb to take the scroll and

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01:18:20,790 --> 01:18:21,810
to loose the seals.

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01:18:21,950 --> 01:18:24,250
For he was slain, but he is redeemed

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01:18:24,250 --> 01:18:26,790
by his blood out of every nation and

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01:18:26,790 --> 01:18:29,270
tribe and kindred and tongue and people.

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01:18:29,410 --> 01:18:31,230
And he has made us unto our God,

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01:18:31,370 --> 01:18:33,910
kings and priests, and we shall reign with

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01:18:33,910 --> 01:18:35,530
him upon the earth.

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01:18:38,820 --> 01:18:40,980
Listen to the lyric of the song in

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01:18:40,980 --> 01:18:41,300
heaven.

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01:18:42,280 --> 01:18:43,220
Worthy is the lamb.

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01:18:43,300 --> 01:18:43,960
He was slain.

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01:18:44,060 --> 01:18:46,620
He has redeemed us by his blood.

1378
01:18:47,660 --> 01:18:49,640
Out of all of the nations, tribes, tongues

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01:18:49,640 --> 01:18:52,100
and people made us under our God, kings

1380
01:18:52,100 --> 01:18:53,860
and priests, and we shall reign with him

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01:18:53,860 --> 01:18:54,440
upon the earth.

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01:18:54,600 --> 01:18:57,720
These are those who are standing before the

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01:18:57,720 --> 01:18:58,380
son of man.

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01:19:04,300 --> 01:19:07,700
And the great tribulation does not begin until

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01:19:07,700 --> 01:19:09,380
the beginning of chapter six.

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01:19:09,740 --> 01:19:13,040
And when he loosed the first seal, the

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01:19:13,040 --> 01:19:14,480
angel said unto me, come.

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01:19:14,600 --> 01:19:18,040
And I saw a white horse coming forth

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01:19:18,040 --> 01:19:21,200
upon the earth, conquering and to conquer with

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01:19:21,200 --> 01:19:26,880
his rider and begins the great tribulation period

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01:19:26,880 --> 01:19:31,040
when after the book is opened.

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01:19:31,960 --> 01:19:34,020
But while the book is there in the

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01:19:34,020 --> 01:19:36,600
right hand of the father, and when Jesus

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01:19:36,600 --> 01:19:40,160
steps forth to take it, that glorious song

1395
01:19:40,160 --> 01:19:42,840
of the church worthy is the lamb sung

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01:19:42,840 --> 01:19:45,660
by those who are standing before the son

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01:19:45,660 --> 01:19:46,040
of man.

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01:19:46,380 --> 01:19:49,500
Jesus is saying, look, you pray always watch

1399
01:19:49,500 --> 01:19:52,040
and pray always that you'll be accounted worthy

1400
01:19:52,040 --> 01:19:54,020
to escape all of these things that are

1401
01:19:54,020 --> 01:19:55,480
going to be happening upon the earth, that

1402
01:19:55,480 --> 01:19:57,240
you'll be standing before the son of man.

1403
01:19:57,920 --> 01:20:02,640
It is my prayer and anticipation that I

1404
01:20:02,640 --> 01:20:05,420
will be accounted worthy to be standing with

1405
01:20:05,420 --> 01:20:09,020
the company of God's redeemed saints in heaven,

1406
01:20:09,600 --> 01:20:11,580
singing of the worthiness of the lamb to

1407
01:20:11,580 --> 01:20:13,880
take the title deed to the earth and

1408
01:20:13,880 --> 01:20:15,880
to lay claim to it.

1409
01:20:18,880 --> 01:20:20,780
I want to be standing before the son

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01:20:20,780 --> 01:20:21,000
of man.

1411
01:20:21,080 --> 01:20:22,960
I surely do not want to be down

1412
01:20:22,960 --> 01:20:25,980
here on this earth when God's wrath is

1413
01:20:25,980 --> 01:20:28,520
poured out as Jesus has described a portion

1414
01:20:28,520 --> 01:20:30,220
of it here, but you find the full

1415
01:20:30,220 --> 01:20:33,780
description in Revelation chapter six through 18.

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01:20:37,150 --> 01:20:39,210
And in the daytime, that's the end of

1417
01:20:39,210 --> 01:20:39,590
the message.

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01:20:39,730 --> 01:20:42,650
Now in the daytime, he was teaching in

1419
01:20:42,650 --> 01:20:45,670
the temple and in night he went out

1420
01:20:45,670 --> 01:20:48,070
and stayed at the Mount, which is called

1421
01:20:48,070 --> 01:20:49,330
the Mount of Olives.

1422
01:20:49,670 --> 01:20:52,410
So he crossed the Kidron Valley and went

1423
01:20:52,410 --> 01:20:54,490
in up into the Mount of Olives in

1424
01:20:54,490 --> 01:20:55,030
the evening.

1425
01:20:55,490 --> 01:20:57,790
And all of the people came early in

1426
01:20:57,790 --> 01:21:01,170
the morning to him in the temple to

1427
01:21:01,170 --> 01:21:01,630
hear him.

1428
01:21:02,050 --> 01:21:05,110
So there was a popular movement towards Jesus

1429
01:21:05,110 --> 01:21:08,770
by the common people as the chief priests

1430
01:21:08,770 --> 01:21:11,430
and the scribes and the elders were plotting

1431
01:21:11,430 --> 01:21:13,090
his death.

1432
01:21:13,870 --> 01:21:16,310
And so we move into the final chapters

1433
01:21:16,310 --> 01:21:20,230
as we get into chapter 22 and Judas's

1434
01:21:20,230 --> 01:21:23,190
betrayal, the last supper, and we're moving into

1435
01:21:23,190 --> 01:21:25,950
the final events of Jesus' life, which we

1436
01:21:25,950 --> 01:21:28,970
will complete next Sunday night as we finish

1437
01:21:28,970 --> 01:21:29,870
the book of Luke.

1438
01:21:30,250 --> 01:21:31,150
Shall we pray?

1439
01:21:39,420 --> 01:21:42,960
Father, as we look around the world in

1440
01:21:42,960 --> 01:21:47,850
which we live and as we look at

1441
01:21:47,850 --> 01:21:54,670
your word and as we see these things

1442
01:21:54,670 --> 01:22:00,370
beginning to come to pass, we see the

1443
01:22:00,370 --> 01:22:04,090
nation of Israel existing once again.

1444
01:22:04,890 --> 01:22:09,050
We see the city of Jerusalem under the

1445
01:22:09,050 --> 01:22:15,470
control of the nation of Israel, and we

1446
01:22:15,470 --> 01:22:19,250
see the distress of nations and the perplexities.

1447
01:22:23,810 --> 01:22:27,510
We see the nation against nation, kingdom against

1448
01:22:27,510 --> 01:22:37,490
kingdom, the increased earthquakes, these pestilences and famines.

1449
01:22:39,740 --> 01:22:43,630
Oh Lord, help us that we will be

1450
01:22:43,630 --> 01:22:46,910
accounted worthy to escape all of these things

1451
01:22:46,910 --> 01:22:48,530
that are going to come to pass.

1452
01:22:49,470 --> 01:22:52,050
Oh God, we want to stand in that

1453
01:22:52,050 --> 01:22:57,890
heavenly throng around the throne of God, proclaiming

1454
01:22:57,890 --> 01:23:01,350
the worthiness of Jesus, our Lord and Savior,

1455
01:23:01,350 --> 01:23:04,910
who died for us, who redeemed us by

1456
01:23:04,910 --> 01:23:07,930
his blood and has made us unto our

1457
01:23:07,930 --> 01:23:09,990
God, kings and priests.

1458
01:23:10,850 --> 01:23:13,770
Thank you, Jesus, for that redemption that we

1459
01:23:13,770 --> 01:23:14,550
have tonight.

1460
01:23:16,500 --> 01:23:23,660
Oh Lord, may we be worthy to be

1461
01:23:23,660 --> 01:23:26,160
in that throng.

1462
01:23:27,200 --> 01:23:30,640
In Jesus' name, Amen.