Amazing Facts with Doug Batchelor

The Unchangeable Law

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00:03 BY THE FRIENDS OF THE AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY.
00:14 >>IF THERE ARE ANY WORDS IMPORTANT,
00:15 IT WOULD BE THE WORDS OF GOD ENGRAVEN IN STONE.
00:18 CHRIST WAS THE EMBODIMENT OF THE WORD.
00:20 HIS LIFE WAS OBEDIENCE TO THE LAW OF GOD.
00:28 >>WELCOME ONCE AGAIN TO LANDMARKS OF PROPHECY.
00:31 WE'RE SO THANKFUL THAT YOU'RE HERE. AND TONIGHT WE'RE
00:34 CONTINUING OUR SERIES WITH A VERY IMPORTANT STUDY.
00:36 IT'S THE TOPIC OF THE UNCHANGEABLE LAW .
00:41 WELL, AS WE ALWAYS DO, WE'RE GOING TO USE A BIBLE STORY
00:44 SORT OF AS A SPRINGBOARD INTO THIS SUBJECT.
00:47 IF YOU LOOK INTO YOUR BIBLE IN DANIEL CHAPTER 6, YOU'LL
00:50 RECOGNIZE THE STORY THERE. IT'S ABOUT DANIEL.
00:53 ONE OF THE GREAT STORIES WE OFTEN SAVE FOR THE CHILDREN,
00:56 DANIEL IN THE LION'S DEN.
00:58 YOU SEE, AFTER THE BABYLONIAN KINGDOM FELL TO THE PERSIANS,
01:01 THE NEW PERSIAN KING, DARIUS, WAS SO IMPRESSED WITH DANIEL'S
01:05 ABILITY AND HIS WONDERFUL SPIRIT HE HAD, THAT HE THOUGHT ABOUT
01:10 MAKING HIM THE PRIME MINISTER OF HIS NEW KINGDOM. WELL, YOU CAN
01:15 IMAGINE THAT DIDN'T GO OVER VERY WELL WITH THE OTHER MEMBERS OF
01:19 DARIUS' CABINET BECAUSE DANIEL WAS A FORMER SERVANT OF
01:22 NEBUCHADNEZZAR. THAT WAS THE ENEMY.
01:25 DANIEL WAS A FORMER CAPTIVE FROM AMONG THE ISRAELITES.
01:28 WHY WOULD THE KING WANT TO PROMOTE SOMEBODY WHO WAS BOTH
01:32 A FOREIGNER AND A MEMBER OF THE FORMER KINGDOM TO BE
01:35 THE NEW PRIME MINISTER? SO THEY CAME UP WITH A PLOT.
01:38 THEY WENT TO KING DARIUS AND THEY SAID, 'YOUR HIGHNESS,
01:42 IT'S A NEW KINGDOM. WE'VE CONQUERED SEVERAL OTHER
01:44 EMPIRES; IN ORDER TO GET EVERYONE TOGETHER - THE BEST WAY
01:46 TO DO THAT IS THROUGH COMMON WORSHIP.' THAT'S TRUE, THE DEVIL
01:51 OFTEN DOES THAT. WHEN YOU CAN'T GET PEOPLE TO
01:54 JOIN TOGETHER BECAUSE OF COMMON LANGUAGE OR COMMON CULTURE,
01:59 COMMON RELIGION IS OFTEN THE BEST WAY TO DO IT.
02:03 AND SO, THEY SAID, 'IF YOU MAKE A LAW - IT DOESN'T HAVE TO LAST
02:07 LONG, JUST 30 DAYS - THAT NOBODY WORSHIPS ANY GOD EXCEPT FOR YOU,
02:12 THAT'LL SOLIDIFY THE KINGDOM.' YOU CAN READ IN DANIEL 6:8,
02:17 HE SIGNED THE DECREE - YOU CAN'T PRAY TO ANY GOD OR MAN FOR 30
02:21 DAYS AND, BY THE WAY, THERE'S A PENALTY IF YOU BREAK IT: YOU GO
02:24 TO THE LION'S DEN.' BUT THE KING NEVER DREAMED ANYBODY WOULD
02:27 BREAK IT AND HE DIDN'T REALIZE WHAT THEY WERE UP TO,
02:30 SO HE SIGNED IT. AND IT SAYS, 'ACCORDING TO
02:32 THE LAW OF THE MEDES AND THE PERSIANS WHICH DOES NOT ALTER.'
02:36 ONCE YOU SIGN THE KING'S LAW, YOU CAN'T CHANGE IT.
02:40 SO, THE BIBLE - HERE'S ONE OF THE GREAT VERSES IN THE BIBLE:
02:45 DANIEL 6, VERSE 10, "NOW WHEN DANIEL KNEW THAT THE WRITING WAS
02:48 SIGNED, HE WENT INTO HIS HOUSE; AND HIS WINDOWS BEING OPEN IN
02:51 HIS CHAMBER TOWARD JERUSALEM, HE KNEELED UPON HIS KNEES THREE
02:56 TIMES A DAY, AND PRAYED, AND GAVE THANKS BEFORE HIS GOD," -
03:02 DID DANIEL KNOW WHAT THE PENALTY WAS FOR THIS LAW?
03:04 IT SAYS HE KNEW ABOUT IT AND HE'S STILL THANKING GOD.
03:06 HE DID NOTHING TO HIDE HIS LIGHT UNDER A BUSH.
03:10 BUT HE THOUGHT, 'I'M NOT GOING TO HIDE MY FAITH FROM ANYBODY.'
03:13 AND SO HE OPENED HIS WINDOWS.
03:16 WELL, SOON THESE ENEMIES,
03:18 THEY WENT TO THE KING AND THEY SAID,
03:20 'YOU KNOW THAT LAW THAT YOU SIGNED?'
03:22 THE KING SAID, 'YEP, LAW OF THE MEDES AND THE PERSIANS - IT
03:24 CANNOT CHANGE.' THEY SAID, 'WELL, THERE'S SOMEONE IN YOUR
03:26 KINGDOM THAT JUST DOESN'T CARE ABOUT YOUR LAW, IT'S DANIEL.
03:29 HE'S PRAYING THREE TIMES A DAY.' KING DARIUS SAID, 'OH NO!'
03:36 THE BIBLE SAYS HE LABORED TIL THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN TO
03:39 DELIVER DANIEL BUT HE COULDN'T BECAUSE HE COULDN'T CHANGE HIS
03:42 OWN LAW. SO RIGHT ABOUT THE GOING DOWN OF
03:45 THE SUN, HE HAD DANIEL BROUGHT TO THE LION'S DEN. DANIEL SAID
03:50 - THE KING SPOKE TO DANIEL AND HE PUT HIM IN THE LION'S
03:53 DEN AND HE SAID, 'I KNOW THAT YOUR GOD THAT YOU SERVE
03:55 CONTINUALLY, HE WILL DELIVER YOU.' AND THEY PUT A STONE OVER
04:00 THE LION'S DEN AND THEY SEALED IT WITH A GOVERNMENT SEAL.
04:04 AND THEN THE NEXT DAY IT TELLS US THAT EARLY IN THE MORNING,
04:08 THE KING CAME TO THE TOMB AND HE SAID - THEY ROLLED AWAY THE
04:14 STONE - 'DANIEL, HAS YOUR GOD THAT YOU SERVE CONTINUALLY BEEN
04:16 ABLE TO DELIVER YOU FROM THE LIONS?'
04:19 AND DANIEL SAID, 'MY GOD HAS SENT HIS ANGEL AND SHUT
04:22 THE LIONS' MOUTHS.' AND NO FORM OF HARM OR HURT WAS ON DANIEL,
04:26 THE BIBLE SAYS, BECAUSE HE BELIEVED IN HIS GOD.
04:29 WELL, HE HAD AN INTERESTING WAY OF BELIEVING - HE SHOWED HIS
04:32 BELIEF, DIDN'T HE? THAT'S WHAT IT SAYS - HE BELIEVED IN GOD.
04:35 NOW THIS STORY TELLS US THAT DANIEL SAID THERE ARE TEN
04:39 COMMANDMENTS AND ONE COMMANDMENT SAYS, 'THOU SHALT NOT HAVE OTHER
04:42 GODS BEFORE ME' - NOT EVEN KING DARIUS. NOT EVEN FOR 30 DAYS.
04:47 AND HE WAS WILLING TO DIE RATHER THAN DISOBEY. WHAT KIND OF FAITH
04:54 AND DETERMINATION DO GOD'S PEOPLE NEED IN THE LAST DAYS?
04:57 IS THERE GOING TO BE A LAW THAT SAYS 'HE WHO DOES NOT WORSHIP
05:00 THE BEAST AND HIS IMAGE SHOULD BE KILLED? FIRST THEY CAN'T
05:03 BUY OR SELL, BUT ULTIMATELY IT SAYS THEY SHOULD BE KILLED.
05:06 AND WORSHIPING THE BEAST AND HIS IMAGE IS GOING TO REQUIRE
05:09 BREAKING ONE OF GOD'S COMMANDMENTS.
05:11 DO YOU LOVE THE LORD AND HIS WORD SO MUCH THAT YOU WOULD
05:14 RATHER DIE - RATHER GO HUNGRY - THAN DISOBEY?
05:19 THIS IS A TEST THAT WE NEED TO KNOW THAT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
05:23 ARE NOT MULTIPLE CHOICE AND THAT'S OUR SUBJECT.
05:27 NUMBER 1: CAN GOD'S MORAL LAW BE AMENDED OR REPEALED?
05:34 ANSWER: JESUS TELLS US IN LUKE 16, VERSE 17 - HE SAYS,
05:39 "IT IS EASIER FOR HEAVEN AND EARTH TO" - WHAT?
05:42 >>PASS AWAY.
05:44 >>"PASS AWAY THAN FOR ONE TITTLE OF THE LAW TO FAIL."
05:47 THAT'S A HEBREW TERM - IT'S TALKING ABOUT THE LITTLE
05:50 CROSSING OF A 'T' - IT'S EVEN SMALLER THAN THE CROSSING OF A
05:52 'T' - EVEN THE SLIGHTEST THING - A JOT OR A TITTLE IS LIKE A
05:55 LITTLE PERIOD OR A LITTLE CROSSING OF A 'T' - IT SAYS
05:58 HEAVEN AND EARTH WILL PASS AWAY BEFORE EVEN THAT MUCH OF THE LAW
06:01 PASSES AWAY. YOU CAN ALSO READ IN PSALM 89,
06:06 VERSE 34, GOD SAYS, "MY COVENANT I WILL NOT BREAK, NOR ALTER THE
06:15 WORD THAT HAS GONE OUT OF MY LIPS."
06:17 GOD IS NOT GOING TO
06:18 BREAK HIS COVENANT. IT'S FOREVER AND EVER.
06:22 AND THEN YOU HAVE ONE MORE IN PSALM 111, VERSES 7 AND 8,
06:27 "ALL HIS PRECEPTS ARE SURE. THEY STAND FAST FOREVER AND EVER."
06:35 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS DID NOT SUDDENLY APPEAR IN EXODUS.
06:39 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS HAVE ALWAYS EXISTED BECAUSE THEY ARE A
06:43 REFLECTION OF GOD'S NATURE. HOW DO I KNOW THAT? WHEN THE WOMAN -
06:48 POTIPHAR'S WIFE - TEMPTED JOSEPH TO COMMIT ADULTERY IN THE
06:52 BOOK OF GENESIS, JOSEPH SAID, 'I CAN'T DO THAT. IT'S A SIN.'
06:57 DID THEY KNOW, EVEN IN GENESIS, THAT ADULTERY WAS A SIN?
07:00 WHEN CAIN KILLED ABEL, GOD TOLD HIM, 'SIN LIES AT YOUR DOOR.'
07:08 AND SIN IS THE BREAKING OF GOD'S LAW.
07:09 WAS MURDER A SIN EVEN IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN?
07:12 OR DID MURDER - MURDER WASN'T A SIN UNTIL GOD WROTE IT DOWN
07:15 AT MOUNT SINAI? OF COURSE IT WAS.
07:18 WAS IT WRONG TO LIE ALL THE WAY FROM THE BEGINNING?
07:21 AND SO, SEE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS GO ALL THE WAY BACK.
07:24 GOD SIMPLY CODIFIED IT SO THAT THEY WOULD ALL KNOW - VERY
07:26 CLEAR, NO MISUNDERSTANDING, APPROXIMATELY 300 WORDS -
07:30 THIS IS MY PERFECT WILL. THAT LAW IS COMPREHENSIVE FOR
07:34 ALL MAN - IT'S NOT FOR ONE NATION, IT'S FOR PEOPLE
07:37 EVERYWHERE. WHEN YOU DO AWAY WITH THE LAW OF
07:40 GOD, YOU'RE DOING AWAY WITH THE NATURE OF GOD.
07:43 NOW, IF YOU LOOK IN YOUR LESSON YOU'LL SEE, FOR INSTANCE,
07:45 THE BIBLE SAYS, 'GOD IS GOOD.' DO YOU KNOW THE BIBLE SAYS ALSO,
07:51 'THE LAW IS GOOD'? THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT GOD IS HOLY.
07:55 THE BIBLE ALSO SAYS THAT THE LAW IS HOLY.
07:59 YOU CAN READ WHERE IT SAYS GOD IS RIGHTEOUS, GOD IS TRUTH, GOD
08:03 IS PURE, GOD IS SPIRITUAL, GOD IS UNCHANGEABLE, GOD IS ETERNAL.
08:06 THESE ARE ALSO ALL THE SAME CHARACTERISTICS OF THE LAW SO
08:11 WE'VE GOT TO BE VERY CAREFUL ABOUT TRYING TO DO AWAY WITH THE
08:13 LAW BECAUSE IT REPRESENTS THE VERY NATURE OF GOD.
08:18 JESUS WAS THE WORD BECAME FLESH. CHRIST SAID, 'HE THAT HEARS
08:23 THESE WORDS OF MINE IS BUILDING ON A' - WHAT?
08:26 - WISE MAN BUILDING ON... >>THE ROCK.
08:28 >>THE ROCK. WHAT WERE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
08:30 WRITTEN ON? IF THERE ARE ANY WORDS
08:32 IMPORTANT, IT WOULD BE THE WORDS OF GOD ENGRAVEN IN STONE.
08:35 CHRIST WAS THE EMBODIMENT OF THE WORD.
08:37 HIS LIFE WAS OBEDIENCE TO THE LAW OF GOD.
08:42 AND THEN, AS CHRISTIANS, HE SAYS, 'FOLLOW ME.' NOW,
08:46 ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE, WHAT IS SIN?
08:50 I MEAN, JESUS CAME TO SAVE US FROM SIN.
08:53 WHAT IS IT THAT HE'S SAVING US FROM?
08:55 1 JOHN 3, VERSE 4 - THE BIBLE SAYS, "SIN IS THE TRANSGRESSION
09:02 OF" - WHAT? OF THE LAW. SIN IS - IT'S LIKE A DICTIONARY
09:05 DEFINITION: 'SIN IS THE BREAKING OF - OR THE TRANSGRESSION OF -
09:09 THE LAW.' ROMANS 3:20 SAID, "BY THE LAW IS THE KNOWLEDGE OF
09:15 SIN." WE DON'T REALLY KNOW WHAT SIN IS
09:18 EXCEPT BY THE LAW. GOD'S LAW REVEALS WHAT SIN IS.
09:21 NOW, THE PURPOSE OF THE LAW, THOUGH, AND THIS IS A VERY
09:25 IMPORTANT POINT I WANT TO EMPHASIZE, IS NOT TO SAVE US.
09:28 THE BIBLE SAYS THAT THE PURPOSE OF THE LAW IS TO SIMPLY SHOW US
09:31 OUR NEED OF SALVATION. NOW I'M GOING TO JUST ILLUSTRATE THIS.
09:35 NOW I JUST DID SOMETHING TO CHANGE MY APPEARANCE.
09:39 I DON'T SEE ANYTHING DIFFERENT. YOU SEE SOMETHING DIFFERENT.
09:46 WOULD IT DISTRACT YOU IF I WENT THROUGH THE REST OF THE PROGRAM
09:48 LIKE THIS? IT WOULD. SO WHAT DO I NEED?
09:53 AH, HOW CONVENIENT. SO I FEEL FINE.
09:59 I DON'T SEE THAT THERE'S A PROBLEM.
10:00 I LOOK IN THIS DEVICE AND I GO, 'EW!'
10:02 IT REALLY IS THE FIRST TIME I LOOKED.
10:04 THAT'S KIND OF EMBARRASSING.
10:06 SO SINCE THE MIRROR SHOWED ME I'VE GOT A PROBLEM, IT OBVIOUSLY
10:11 SHOULD BE THE MEANS OF REMOVING THE PROBLEM, RIGHT?
10:14 SO IF I JUST WHACK MYSELF IN THE HEAD WITH THE MIRROR IT'LL ALL
10:17 GO AWAY. WOULD THAT FIX IT? IF I RUB THE MIRROR ON THE MARK
10:21 OR THE TAPE, WILL THAT TAKE IT AWAY?
10:24 THIS SHOWS US THE PROBLEM, BUT IT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO TAKE THE
10:27 PROBLEM AWAY. YOU ARE NOT SAVED BY KEEPING THE
10:30 LAW, THE LAW DOESN'T SAVE YOU FROM ANYTHING.
10:31 THE LAW IS THERE TO SHOW US OUR NEED OF SALVATION. BUT THEN,
10:35 IF I TAKE THIS AND USE THE BLOOD, IT TAKES AWAY THE SIN.
10:39 NOW THE REASON I MENTION THIS - IT SAYS IN THE BOOK OF JAMES,
10:43 'WHOEVER LOOKS INTO THE PERFECT LAW THAT GIVES LIBERTY AND
10:46 CONTINUES THEREIN, BEING NOT JUST A HEARER BUT A DOER OF THE
10:50 WORD, THIS MAN WILL BE BLESSED.' THE LAW OF GOD IS COMPARED TO A
10:53 MIRROR. IT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO TAKE AWAY
10:57 OUR SIN, IT'S SUPPOSED TO SHOW US OUR NEED.
10:59 THEN YOU GO TO JESUS FOR CLEANSING.
11:00 BUT, IF IT'S NOT A SIN TO BREAK THE LAW - IF THERE'S NO LAW,
11:07 THERE'S NO SIN, RIGHT? THE BIBLE SAYS, 'WHERE THERE IS
11:10 NO LAW THERE IS NO TRANSGRESSION.' THAT'S WHAT PAUL
11:13 SAID, 'WHERE THERE IS NO LAW, THERE'S NO TRANSGRESSION.' SO IF
11:15 THERE IS NO LAW THERE'S NO TRANSGRESSION.
11:18 IF THERE'S NO SIN, THEN WHO NEEDS A SAVIOR?
11:21 CAN YOU SEE WHY THE DEVIL WOULD BE ATTACKING THE LAW?
11:25 BECAUSE IF THERE'S NO LAW THEN THERE'S NO SIN.
11:28 IF THERE'S NO SIN YOU DON'T NEED JESUS.
11:29 AND SO, THAT'S THE LOGIC BEHIND IT.
11:32 NUMBER 3: TO WHAT LAW IS JOHN REFERRING?
11:36 PAUL TELLS US IN ROMANS CHAPTER 7, VERSE 7 - HE SAID, 'I HAD NOT
11:41 KNOWN SIN BUT BY THE LAW. FOR I HAD NOT KNOWN LUST EXCEPT
11:46 THE LAW HAD SAID, 'THOU SHALT NOT COVET.' HERE HE IS QUOTING
11:50 FROM THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, ISN'T HE?
11:52 HE'S SAYING, 'I BECOME AWARE OF WHAT MY SIN IS
11:56 BY LOOKING AT THE LAW.'
11:58 >>DON'T GO ANYWHERE, FRIENDS. IN JUST A FEW MOMENTS WE'LL
12:00 RETURN AND COMPLETE THIS PRESENTATION.
12:03 YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE BIG DEBATES IN THE CHRISTIAN WORLD TODAY HAS
12:06 TO DO WITH 'HOW DOES A CHRISTIAN RELATE TO THE LAW OF GOD?'
12:10 NOW, CLEARLY, SOME THINGS WERE NAILED TO THE CROSS AND A
12:12 CHRISTIAN DOES NOT NEED TO KEEP THE OLD COVENANT.
12:15 BUT WHAT ABOUT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS?
12:17 AFTER ALL, THEY'RE NOT CALLED 'THE TEN RECOMMENDATIONS' OR
12:20 'THE TEN SUGGESTIONS' OR 'GOD'S TEN GOOD IDEAS.' WE HAVE A
12:24 SPECIAL LESSON WE'D LIKE TO SHARE WITH YOU AND IT'S CALLED
12:27 WRITTEN IN STONE . EVEN IN THE TITLE YOU CAN
12:30 UNDERSTAND THE TEN COMMANDMENTS WERE WRITTEN BY THE FINGER OF
12:33 GOD IN STONE SO, OBVIOUSLY, THIS IS IMPORTANT.
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12:52 LET'S GET BACK NOW TO TODAY'S PRESENTATION AND LEARN SOME
12:55 MORE AMAZING FACTS ABOUT THE WORD OF GOD.
12:59 DID JESUS KEEP THE TEN COMMANDMENTS?
13:02 JOHN 15, VERSE 10 HE SAID, "I HAVE" - WHAT? - "I HAVE KEPT
13:08 MY FATHER'S COMMANDMENTS AND ABIDE IN HIS LOVE."
13:12 WE'VE GOT TO HAVE - 'THY WORD I HAVE HIDDEN IN MY HEART THAT
13:17 I MIGHT NOT SIN.' WE NEED TO HAVE THE LAW OF GOD
13:19 IN OUR HEADS AND IN OUR HEARTS OR WE'RE GOING TO GET MIXED UP
13:22 IN THIS CULTURE, AMEN? >>AMEN.
13:23 >>NUMBER 5: WHAT IS THE PUNISHMENT FOR LIVING A LIFE
13:27 OF SIN? ROMANS 6:23, "FOR THE WAGES
13:30 OF SIN IS DEATH." PRETTY SERIOUS.
13:33 SIN IS A DEADLY, CONTAGIOUS DISEASE AND GOD HAS TO USE
13:36 DRASTIC MEASURES. WE'VE SEEN IN THE NEWS LATELY
13:40 WHAT HAPPENED WHEN SOMEONE EVEN THOUGHT SOMEONE ELSE MIGHT HAVE
13:43 EBOLA BECAUSE IT'S A DEADLY DISEASE - ROUGHLY 50 TO
13:47 60 PERCENT, DEPENDING ON WHAT COUNTRY YOU'RE IN WHEN YOU GET
13:50 IT - THAT THEY QUICKLY QUARANTINE PEOPLE.
13:52 WELL, SIN IS EVEN MORE DEADLY THAN EBOLA.
13:54 AND SO GOD SAYS, 'WE CAN'T ALLOW IT TO SPREAD THROUGH THE
13:56 UNIVERSE. THE PENALTY IS DEATH. UNLESS WE GET A TRANSFUSION
14:00 OF THE BLOOD OF JESUS, WE'RE IN TROUBLE.
14:03 SOME SAY THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ARE NOT BINDING FOR
14:06 NEW TESTAMENT CHRISTIANS. WHAT DOES JESUS SAY ABOUT THIS?
14:10 MATTHEW 19, VERSE 17 - HE SAID, "BUT IF YOU WILL ENTER INTO
14:15 LIFE, KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS." WELL OBVIOUSLY, FOR A STARTING
14:20 POINT, HE WOULD BE TALKING ABOUT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
14:24 YOU CAN READ IN JOHN 14, VERSE 15, JESUS SAID, "IF YOU LOVE ME
14:29 KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS." A LOT OF PASTORS SAY TODAY,
14:35 'WE DON'T HAVE TO KEEP THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ANYMORE BECAUSE
14:37 JESUS FULFILLED THE LAW.' WELL, WHAT DOES 'FULFILL' MEAN?
14:41 WHEN CHRIST CAME TO JOHN THE BAPTIST TO BE BAPTIZED, JOHN
14:44 SAID TO JESUS, 'NO, YOU NEED TO BAPTIZE ME BECAUSE YOU'RE THE
14:50 MESSIAH.' JESUS SAID, 'NO, JOHN, ALLOW IT TO BE THIS WAY NOW
14:53 FOR THUS IT BECOMES US TO FULFILL ALL RIGHTEOUSNESS.'
14:57 SO WHEN JESUS SAID, 'FULFILL ALL RIGHTEOUSNESS,'
14:59 DOES THAT MEAN DO AWAY WITH ALL RIGHTEOUSNESS?
15:02 SOME PEOPLE READ THAT VERSE: 'THINK NOT THAT I'VE COME TO
15:05 DESTROY THE LAW.' THEY CHANGE IT WHERE JESUS SAYS 'THINK NOT THAT
15:09 I'VE COME TO DESTROY THE LAW, I'VE ACTUALLY COME TO DO AWAY
15:11 WITH IT.' THAT WOULDN'T MAKE ANY SENSE.
15:13 HE OBVIOUSLY WANTS US TO KEEP THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
15:17 HOW IS IT POSSIBLE TO KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS?
15:19 NOW, SIN IS THE TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW.
15:23 I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, BUT I AM TEMPTED EVERY DAY.
15:26 AM I ALONE? EVERY DAY I HAVE OPPORTUNITIES
15:29 TO DO THE WRONG THING. AND EVERY DAY I HAVE
15:32 OPPORTUNITIES TO FOLLOW JESUS AND MAKE THE RIGHT DECISIONS.
15:35 IS IT POSSIBLE FOR US TO DO WHAT GOD ASKS US TO DO?
15:40 ROMANS 8, VERSE 3 - GOD, SENDING HIS OWN SON, IN THE LIKENESS OF
15:47 SINFUL FLESH, CONDEMNED SIN IN THE FLESH THAT THE RIGHTEOUSNESS
15:52 OF THE LAW MIGHT BE FULFILLED IN US WHICH WALK NOT AFTER THE
15:57 FLESH BUT AFTER THE SPIRIT. IT IS POSSIBLE.
16:00 PHILIPPIANS 1, VERSE 6, "HE WHO HAS BEGUN A GOOD WORK IN YOU
16:05 WILL COMPLETE IT UNTIL THE DAY OF JESUS CHRIST." YOU KNOW,
16:10 A FEW YEARS AGO, MATTER OF FACT, JOHN LOMACANG WAS WITH ME.
16:14 WE WERE DOING A DEBATE - A FRIENDLY DEBATE ON TELEVISION
16:17 WITH JOHN AND I AND TWO OTHER MINISTERS AND THE SUBJECT OF THE
16:21 DEBATE WAS THE LAW OF GOD AND THE MINISTERS WERE SAYING
16:26 THAT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS WAS PART OF THE OLD COVENANT AND
16:29 NOBODY COULD REALLY KEEP THE LAW AND GOD DIDN'T EXPECT US TO.
16:33 AND SO I ASKED, 'CAN THE DEVIL TEMPT US TO SIN?'
16:39 THEY SAID, 'WELL, OF COURSE.' AND I SAID, 'SO YOU BELIEVE THE
16:42 DEVIL HAS THE POWER TO GET US TO SIN, BUT YOU DON'T BELIEVE THAT
16:46 GOD HAS THE POWER TO KEEP US FROM SIN?
16:48 SO IN EFFECT, YOU'RE SAYING YOUR DEVIL'S MORE POWERFUL THAN YOUR
16:52 GOD.' ISN'T THAT WHAT - I MEAN, THAT'S WHERE THAT GOES.
16:55 HOW MUCH CAN I DO THROUGH CHRIST?
16:58 WITHOUT HIM HOW MUCH CAN WE DO? NOTHING.
17:01 THROUGH CHRIST, ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE.
17:03 WHAT IS THE OLD COVENANT AND WHY DID IT FAIL?
17:06 ALRIGHT, FIRST LET'S LOOK AND FIND OUT WHAT THAT WAS.
17:08 YOU GO TO DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 4, VERSE 13 AND YOU'LL FIND THE OLD
17:12 COVENANT MENTIONED THERE. "SO HE DECLARED TO YOU HIS
17:16 COVENANT WHICH HE COMMANDED YOU TO PERFORM, EVEN" - HOW MANY?
17:22 >>TEN. >>"TEN COMMANDMENTS; AND HE
17:24 WROTE THEM ON TWO TABLETS OF STONE."
17:26 AND SO IT TELLS US THAT THE OLD COVENANT WAS THE TEN
17:29 COMMANDMENTS WRITTEN ON THESE TWO TABLES OF STONE -
17:32 WRITTEN BY THE FINGER OF GOD.
17:34 NOW, RIGHT AFTER THE LORD MADE THE COVENANT WITH THE PEOPLE -
17:38 YOU KNOW WHAT A COVENANT IS - IT'S AN AGREEMENT.
17:39 GOD SPOKE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, THERE IN EXODUS 20.
17:42 MOSES LATER BRINGS DOWN THE WRITTEN COPY, BUT WHILE HE'S UP
17:46 ON THE HILL GETTING THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, WHAT DO THE
17:48 CHILDREN OF ISRAEL DO? AND SO THE BIBLE SAYS IN HEBREWS
17:52 8, VERSE 8, "BECAUSE FINDING FAULT WITH THEM."
17:57 NOW WAS THE FAULT OF THE OLD COVENANT WITH THE COVENANT AND
18:00 THE LAW OR WAS IT WITH THE PEOPLE WHO MADE A PROMISE?
18:03 YOU SEE, THE NEW COVENANT IS BASED ON BETTER PROMISES.
18:07 THE OLD COVENANT WAS BASED ON THE PROMISE OF THE PEOPLE.
18:10 'ALL THE LORD HAS SAID, WE WILL DO IT.' THE NEW COVENANT IS
18:13 BASED ON THE PROMISE OF THE LORD.
18:15 IT SAYS, IN HEBREWS 8, VERSE 10, "FOR THIS IS THE COVENANT THAT I
18:21 WILL MAKE WITH (THEM) SAYS THE LORD: I WILL PUT MY LAWS
18:26 IN THEIR MINDS AND WRITE THEM ON THEIR HEARTS."
18:30 INHERENT IN EVERY COMMAND OF GOD IS BUILT THE POWER TO PERFORM
18:35 WHAT HE'S ASKING. THAT IS A SIMPLE - IF GOD SAYS,
18:38 'I WANT YOU TO WALK ACROSS THAT OCEAN THERE.' DON'T ARGUE.
18:41 YOU'LL EITHER WALK ON WATER LIKE PETER OR HE'LL PART THE OCEAN.
18:44 I MEAN, WHEN GOD ASKS YOU TO DO SOMETHING, YOU DO IT.
18:47 AND THAT'S CALLED OBEDIENCE AND WE'RE LIVING IN AN AGE WHERE,
18:52 EVEN IN SOME CHURCHES, THEY'RE ACTING LIKE OBEDIENCE IS
18:55 LEGALISM. OBEDIENCE IS NOT LEGALISM. THE DEVIL IS TRYING TO
18:59 INTIMIDATE CHRISTIANS. AS SOON AS YOU TALK ABOUT THE
19:02 LAW, YOU KNOW WHAT YOU GET CALLED?
19:04 A DIRTY WORD AMONG CHRISTIANS - LEGALIST, PHARISEE - AND SO WHAT
19:08 HAPPENED IS PEOPLE IN THE CHURCH HAVE BEEN SO INTIMIDATED BY
19:11 THOSE TERMS, THE PENDULUM HAS SWUNG TO THE OTHER SIDE AND NOW
19:13 EVERYBODY IS SO AFRAID TO BE ACCUSED OF BEING A PHARISEE OR
19:16 LEGALIST, NOBODY TALKS ABOUT THE LAW. JESUS DID.
19:20 DOESN'T LIVING UNDER GRACE BY FAITH MAKE KEEPING GOD'S LAW
19:24 NON-ESSENTIAL? ROMANS 6:15, "WHAT THEN?
19:29 SHALL WE SIN BECAUSE WE ARE NOT UNDER LAW BUT UNDER GRACE?"
19:32 - WHAT DOES HE SAY? >>CERTAINLY NOT!
19:33 >>"GOD FORBID!" AND AGAIN, IN ROMANS 3, VERSE
19:37 31, "DO WE THEN MAKE VOID THE LAW THROUGH FAITH?"
19:40 - AGAIN, HE USES THAT PHRASE - "GOD FORBID!
19:43 YEA, WE ESTABLISH THE LAW."
19:45 PAUL SAYS, IN ROMANS CHAPTER 2:13 - "IT'S NOT THE HEARERS OF
19:49 THE LAW THAT WILL BE JUST BEFORE GOD, BUT THE DOERS OF THE LAW
19:51 WILL BE JUSTIFIED." THAT'S WHAT PAUL SAID.
19:54 ARE PEOPLE SAVED BY KEEPING THE LAW? REMEMBER MY ILLUSTRATION?
19:58 IS ANYONE SAVED BY KEEPING THE LAW? NO.
20:01 EPHESIANS 2, VERSES 8 AND 9, IT SAYS VERY CLEARLY, "FOR BY GRACE
20:07 ARE WE SAVED THROUGH FAITH AND THAT NOT OF YOURSELVES; IT IS
20:11 THE GIFT OF GOD, NOT OF WORKS, LEST ANYONE SHOULD BOAST."
20:15 WE'RE NOT SAVED BY OUR OBEDIENCE, BUT IF WE LOVE THE
20:19 LORD WE'LL WANT TO OBEY HIM. YOU KNOW, IF YOU GO TO THE BILLY
20:22 GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION WEBSITE, HE ANSWERS QUESTIONS
20:25 THERE. I JUST COPIED THIS OFF THE
20:26 WEBSITE BECAUSE DR. GRAHAM STILL HAS THIS RIGHT.
20:29 QUESTION: DOES GOD EXPECT US TO KEEP THE TEN COMMANDMENTS?
20:33 ANSWER: THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ARE JUST AS VALID TODAY AS WHEN GOD
20:38 GAVE THEM TO MOSES OVER THREE THOUSAND YEARS AGO.
20:41 JESUS SAID, 'I TELL YOU THE TRUTH, UNTIL HEAVEN AND EARTH
20:44 DISAPPEAR, NOT THE SMALLEST LETTER, NOT THE LEAST STROKE OF
20:47 THE PEN, WILL BY ANY MEANS DISAPPEAR FROM THE LAW."
20:50 AND HE'S GOT A NUMBER OF OTHER STATEMENTS LIKE THAT.
20:54 THERE'S NOT A LOT OF PREACHERS THAT ARE STILL SAYING THAT.
20:57 THEY'RE ALL SAYING, 'WE'RE NOT UNDER THE LAW.' AND THAT IS A
21:00 REALLY STRANGE THING BECAUSE IT MAKES IT SOUND LIKE SIN IS BEING
21:03 ENDORSED. ARE THERE SOME OLD TESTAMENT
21:06 LAWS NO LONGER BINDING UPON NEW TESTAMENT CHRISTIANS?
21:10 YES. AND IT TELLS YOU WHICH ONES THEY ARE.
21:13 YOU CAN READ IN EPHESIANS 2:15, "HAVING ABOLISHED...THE LAW
21:16 OF COMMANDMENTS CONTAINED IN ORDINANCES."
21:20 AND IT EXPLAINS WHAT THESE THINGS ARE.
21:23 THIS IS TALKING ABOUT YOUR, LIKE, YOUR YEARLY SABBATHS, MEAT
21:26 OFFERINGS, DRINK OFFERINGS - IT'S TALKING ABOUT THINGS LIKE
21:30 THE PASSOVER CEREMONY, CIRCUMCISION - THESE ARE ALL
21:33 CEREMONIAL LAWS. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ARE OF
21:36 AN ETERNAL NATURE. NOW DON'T FORGET THIS:
21:38 TEN COMMANDMENTS, WRITTEN BY GOD'S FINGER.
21:41 CEREMONIAL LAW, WRITTEN BY MOSES.
21:44 TEN COMMANDMENTS, SPOKEN BY GOD'S VOICE.
21:46 CEREMONIAL LAW, SPOKEN BY MOSES OR THE VOICE OF OTHER JUDGES.
21:50 THEY ARE TWO COMPLETELY DISTINCT - OR SEPARATE - LAWS.
21:54 AND SO THE LAWS THAT WERE NAILED TO THE CROSS WERE THE
21:56 CEREMONIAL LAWS, NOT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
21:59 WHAT ARE SOME OF THE GLORIOUS REWARDS OF KEEPING GOD'S LAW?
22:04 PROVERBS 29, VERSE 18 - THIS IS AS SIMPLE AS IT GETS.
22:09 HOW CAN YOU MISUNDERSTAND THIS ONE?
22:11 HE THAT KEEPS THE LAW, HAPPY IS HE."
22:15 ANYONE HERE WANT TO BE HAPPY? >>AMEN.
22:17 >>THE BIBLE SAYS THERE'S JOY, THERE'S BLESSING, THERE'S
22:21 HAPPINESS, THERE'S ABUNDANCE. THIS DOESN'T COME FROM
22:24 DISOBEDIENCE, IT COMES FROM TRUSTING THE LORD AND OBEYING
22:27 HIM. AND THAT'S WHAT I WANT TO DO.
22:30 THAT'S WHERE I WANT TO BE. FURTHERMORE, PSALM 119,
22:34 VERSE 165, NOT ANY KIND OF PEACE, BUT WHAT KIND OF PEACE?
22:37 >>GREAT. >>"GREAT PEACE HAVE THEY THAT
22:40 LOVE THY LAW. NOTHING WILL OFFEND THEM."
22:43 DON'T YOU WANT TO HAVE THAT KIND OF PEACE?
22:46 WHEN YOU SAY - AND YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE STRUGGLING, AS WE ALL DO,
22:48 YOU JUST TELL THE LORD, 'LORD, I WANT TO OBEY YOU.
22:52 I WANT TO BE YOUR CHILD. I WANT TO BE WILLING TO DO YOUR WILL.
22:55 YOU KNOW, GOD SENDS THIS MESSAGE TO US BECAUSE HE WANTS TO SAVE
22:59 US, BUT HE CAN'T FORCE US. BACK IN 1995, A YOUNG MAN DID
23:06 SOMETHING AWFUL - JUST IMMATURE JEALOUSY.
23:11 THERE WERE A COUPLE THAT WERE PARKED OUT IN AN ISOLATED SPOT
23:14 IN A CAR AND, I GUESS, THIS YOUNG MAN, ALLEN - ANDREW ALLEN
23:21 COOK - FELT JILTED BUT HE SHOT TO DEATH THESE YOUNG COLLEGE
23:27 STUDENTS AND - THE GIRL - AND NOBODY KNEW WHAT HAPPENED.
23:31 IT WAS A MYSTERY. THE FBI GOT INVOLVED.
23:34 THEY COULDN'T FIGURE OUT WHO DID IT OR WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE.
23:36 BUT AT ONE POINT, THE BUREAU - THE BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION IN
23:42 GEORGIA - BEGAN TO ASK SOME QUESTIONS AND THEY CALLED A GUY
23:46 NAMED JOHN COOK AND THEY SAID, 'COULD YOU HAVE YOUR SON ANDREW
23:49 GIVE US A CALL? WE WANT TO ASK HIM SOME
23:51 QUESTIONS AND SEE IF HE KNOWS ANYTHING ABOUT THAT MURDER THAT
23:53 TOOK PLACE.' AND SO JOHN CALLED HIS SON.
23:56 HE SAID, 'ANDREW,' HE SAYS, 'THEY'RE - THE BUREAU OF
23:59 INVESTIGATION IN GEORGIA IS WANTING TO ASK YOU SOME
24:02 QUESTIONS ABOUT THAT MURDER AND' - HE SAID, 'YEAH, DAD, I DID
24:06 IT.' NOW I DIDN'T TELL YOU THAT HIS FATHER WAS AN FBI AGENT.
24:12 THEY HAD NO EVIDENCE ON HIM. THERE WERE NO WITNESSES.
24:19 THE ONLY ONE WHO KNEW WAS THE FATHER. THE FATHER WAS A
24:24 CHRISTIAN - LOVED HIS SON - HE HAD TO MAKE A DECISION.
24:28 HE KNEW HE'D GET THE DEATH PENALTY.
24:30 AND HE SAID, 'DO I PUT THE LAW ABOVE THE LOVE FOR MY SON?'
24:38 AND HE REALIZED THERE IS NO LOVE IF THERE ISN'T LAW.
24:42 AND WHAT ABOUT THE PARENTS THAT LOST THEIR CHILDREN?
24:45 AND HE SAID, 'SON, YOU KNOW WHAT I HAVE TO DO.' THE PRIMARY
24:50 WITNESS DURING THAT TRIAL WAS JOHN COOK, WITNESSING AGAINST
24:55 HIS SON THAT HE DESPERATELY LOVED. AND - 2013 - ANDREW WAS
25:01 EXECUTED FOR HIS MURDERS. GOD WANTS TO SAVE YOU.
25:06 HE'S DESPERATE TO SAVE YOU, BUT HE ALSO IS A JUST GOD AND HE
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