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00:11 Lions, and tigers, and bears, oh, my!
00:14 Are you afraid of being eaten by a lion? 00:16 In most cases you don't need to worry. 00:18 They like eating other things. 00:20 But every now and then in history, 00:22 lions do get a taste for people. 00:25 There's one case back in 1899, when a couple of lions called 00:29 the man-eating lions of Tsavo 00:31 began to terrorize a camp of workers 00:33 that were trying to build a bridge for England. 00:36 As the death toll from the lions continued to rise, 00:39 construction was brought to a virtual standstill. 00:42 Finally, the British sent in 00:44 Lieutenant Colonel J. H. Patterson, 00:46 he succeeded in tracking down 00:47 and killing the two man-eating lions, 00:49 who by now had devoured 135 men. 00:54 The lions are now on display in the Field Museum in Chicago. 00:57 But even more deadly, a tigress in India 01:01 was before being shot was reported to have kill 01:03 and eaten 436 people between 1906 and 1907. 01:10 But there is one lion that has eaten 01:13 even more people than all the others put together. 01:15 It's the devil. 01:17 The Bible says, "The devil goes around 01:18 as a roaring lion seeking whom he might devour." 01:22 But I've got good news, in the Word of God, 01:24 we find the tools to defeat this deadly lion. 01:27 So join me now, let's get on board, 01:29 we're gonna take an amazing adventure. 01:49 Hello, friends. 01:51 Welcome again to an Amazing Adventure, 01:53 A Journey for Life with Jesus. 01:55 I'd like to welcome, boys and girls, 01:57 right here in Michigan 01:59 and also those who are joining us 02:00 across the country, 02:02 part of our extended discovery team. 02:05 And over the next few programs together, 02:06 we're gonna be looking at some very important 02:08 and fascinating truths in the Bible. 02:11 Well, before we get to our message this evening, 02:15 I'd like to invite Pastor Doug Batchelor 02:17 who will be helping guiding us in our discovery. 02:20 So, Pastor Doug, why don't you come out? 02:25 Hello, boys and girls. Welcome to the HMS Adventure. 02:31 This is A Journey for Life with Jesus, 02:33 and we're gonna be talking about things that are gonna 02:35 really help you in your walk with Christ, 02:38 and help you know how to get to heaven. 02:40 We're so thankful that you're part of this program. 02:42 Well, we're gonna begin by singing our theme song, 02:44 "Life is an Adventure." 02:46 I'd like to invite our song leaders to come forward, 02:47 and Pastor Doug is gonna grab his guitar, 02:50 and why don't we all stand as we sing together 02:52 our theme song Life is an Adventure. 03:00 Life is an adventure following the King 03:05 Every day with Jesus makes us want to sing 03:10 Walking in the spirit he will lead the way 03:15 With his words who guide us scrolling deep inside us 03:20 Nothing can divide us following the King 03:27 Life is an adventure following the King 03:33 Every day with Jesus makes us want to sing 03:38 Conquering with kindness everywhere we go 03:44 Voices we are raising Jesus we are praising 03:49 Life is so amazing following the King 03:55 Life is so amazing 03:59 Following the King 04:05 Amen. And thank you, Pastor Ross. 04:08 Well, friends, I want to welcome you 04:09 to this special Amazing Adventure program. 04:12 And before each program 04:13 we take some questions from kids 04:16 that are literally around the world. 04:18 All right, well, 04:19 we're ready for our first video question that's come in. 04:21 So we will take a look at that now. 04:24 Hi, Pastor Doug, I'm Audrey and I live in Manikonda, India. 04:29 And my Bible question is, 04:31 how many miracles did Jesus perform in His life? 04:34 All right, so the question is, 04:36 how many miracles did Jesus perform in His life? 04:40 Well, Jesus performed about 37 miracles in His life. 04:44 And some of these miracles were miracles of healing, 04:47 or they were miracles of multiplying the bread, 04:50 or walking on the water, but someone added up, 04:52 now sometimes you'll find the same miracle 04:54 in several gospels, so that would count for one. 04:56 He probably multiplied the bread two times, 04:59 and so all together about 37 miracles. 05:02 Now it's interesting not only did Jesus perform miracles 05:04 when He was on the earth, but as you know, 05:06 Jesus performs miracles even today 05:09 in the hearts and the lives of people. 05:12 So Christ's miracle, they're ongoing and, of course, 05:14 before Jesus came, 05:16 He was still performing miracles. 05:17 All right, I think we're ready for our next video question. 05:21 Hi, I'm Asel. 05:23 I'm 11 years old from the Philippines. 05:26 My question is, how can I focus 05:28 when I am in the middle of worship? 05:32 All right, how do we focus 05:33 when we're studying or reading the Bible? 05:36 How many of you sometimes you're praying, 05:38 and you're talking to God, but your mind begins to wander, 05:42 you think, "Oh, I'm supposed to be praying. 05:44 And I'm thinking about my homework 05:45 or I'm thinking about 05:47 what my brother or sister said." 05:48 Or you thinking some crazy goofy thing 05:51 and you're thinking, "Oh, Lord, I'm sorry. 05:53 I'm supposed to be praying and my mind is wandering." 05:55 You ever have that problem? 05:58 You're praying for the food. 06:01 And you can't wait for the prayer to be over 06:02 so you can eat. 06:05 I remember when our children were little, 06:07 one of them, whenever we say, amen after the food prayer, 06:10 he'd say, "Eat now." 06:12 He couldn't wait for the prayer to be over, 06:14 so we could eat. 06:15 And that's not really prayer. 06:17 Prayer's when you're giving God your mind and your thoughts. 06:20 It's normal for your mind to wander, 06:24 but you bring it back. 06:26 You know, when you're real little as a child. 06:29 Sometimes it's hard to control what you're thinking or saying. 06:32 And one of the signs that you're growing up 06:34 is you gain more and more control 06:37 over your thoughts and your actions. 06:39 It's a sign of maturity. 06:40 You don't say everything you think, 06:42 you think about what you're gonna say, 06:44 what you're gonna do. 06:45 And when you're praying, it takes practice, 06:48 just like everything in life. 06:50 Your mind wanders, bring it back. 06:51 If it wanders, bring it back and you'll get good at it. 06:54 And if you ever take a dog for a walk 06:56 and he keeps wanting to run off, 06:57 and he pulls you on the leash 06:58 and he pulls on the leash. 07:00 Yeah, well, eventually the dog will learn 07:04 if you teach it to heal, 07:05 to stay with the master when you're walking. 07:08 You can train your mind to stay with your master 07:11 when you're praying, when you're reading His Word. 07:14 Don't become discouraged if, you know, 07:16 your mind begins to wander a little bit. 07:18 It happens to everybody. Just bring it back. 07:21 All right, be ready for our next video question. 07:24 Hi, my name is Philip Simmons IV. 07:26 I live in Crofton, Maryland, and my... 07:28 And I am 11 years old. 07:30 My Bible question is, how can you tell 07:32 if God or the devil is talking to you? 07:34 All right. 07:36 So I think his question is to do with 07:37 those thoughts or impressions that we get 07:39 and sometimes we wonder, 07:40 "Is this God telling me something 07:42 or is this coming from a bad angel?" 07:44 So how do you know the difference? 07:47 Well, first of all, if you are in doubt, 07:52 The Bible says if you commit your way to the Lord, 07:55 He will direct your paths, and so ask God for wisdom. 07:59 The other thing is, look at what is happening 08:02 or what the impressions are 08:03 and make sure that it fits with the Word of God. 08:06 Now I can think of somebody in the Bible, 08:08 he heard a voice speak to him. 08:10 And it must have been real difficult for him to know. 08:14 One time God said to Abraham, "Take your son, your only son, 08:19 Isaac, who you love, 08:20 bring him to the mountains of Moriah 08:22 and offer him there as a burnt offering." 08:25 How did he know that was God? 08:27 You think, well, maybe 08:29 that would be the devil telling you to do that. 08:31 You know how he knows. 08:33 Because he had spent so much time listening to God, 08:36 he knew God's voice. 08:39 You know, whenever Mrs.Batchelor calls me, 08:42 she doesn't need to say very much 08:44 when she gets on the phone. 08:46 And she just says, "Hi." I know her voice so well. 08:49 That's all she needs to say is, "Hi." 08:52 And I know it's her. 08:54 And when you spend a lot of time with people, 08:56 you know their voice. 08:58 And so as you walk with the Lord 09:00 and the Bible tells us in 1 John, 09:02 we will know when it is His spirit. 09:05 The spirit teaches us, 09:06 but that comes from walking in the spirit 09:08 and from studying the Word. 09:10 All right, our last video question for this morning. 09:13 My name is Matt, I am from Michigan. 09:16 My question is, 09:18 why do we go to church if God is everywhere? 09:21 Well, that's a good question. 09:23 If God is everywhere, 09:24 is it important for us to go to a specific place? 09:27 Do we need to go to church? 09:29 Well, that's a good question because God is everywhere. 09:32 Is God here now? Yes. 09:34 For us this is a special day. 09:35 And so we come together into church, 09:37 not just for a program, but this is a day of worship. 09:40 If God is everywhere, 09:43 but sometimes when we're out doing our work 09:45 and doing our business, we forget about God. 09:47 And so when we set aside those things, 09:49 and we come in a special way to a special place 09:52 at a special time, 09:54 to give God our special focus, that's different. 09:58 And so, yes, God is everywhere 10:00 and we should worship Him all the time 10:02 and talk to Him all the time. 10:03 But we have work to do, we have school, 10:05 we have homework, we have chores. 10:07 And when we set aside a special time and say, 10:10 "No work, no chores, I'm gonna come 10:12 and I'm gonna talk to you. 10:14 "And, you know, we don't... 10:15 Not only come to church, because of God, 10:18 we come to church to be with God's family, 10:21 that you're not with all the time, 10:23 that aren't everywhere. 10:24 And so it's a time for us to fellowship with others 10:27 when we come to church, as well as worship God. 10:29 All right. 10:30 Well, that is it for our Bible questions today. 10:33 All right, Pastor Doug, our study today is entitled 10:36 "Slaying the Dragon." 10:38 Thank you very much. 10:40 You know, the Bible is a book 10:43 that talks about a battle between good and evil. 10:47 And we're going to be talking about those 10:49 two great forces of good and evil in this study, 10:52 and they're everywhere in the world. 10:55 Matter of fact, even here, 10:57 you got God and you got the devil. 10:59 God is speaking to our hearts. 11:01 The devil is trying to distract all the time. 11:03 He doesn't want us to hear the voice of God. 11:06 In the Bible, God is invisible. 11:09 He's a spirit, but the devil is sometimes portrayed 11:13 as a serpent, a dragon. 11:16 He's called the devil. He's called Satan. 11:19 He's called the deceiver. 11:21 Now where did he get the idea? 11:23 Where does the idea come from 11:24 that the devil is like a serpent? 11:26 You can see on the screen. 11:27 It talks in Isaiah 14:29, it says, 11:31 "And its offspring will be a fiery flying serpent." 11:36 We've had a lot of movies 11:37 come out in the last few years about dragons 11:39 and making friends with dragons, 11:41 and how to train a dragon, 11:42 and everybody's preoccupied with dragons, 11:45 but, you know, dragons go way back. 11:48 And there are a number of reptiles 11:51 that actually do glide, not fly. 11:55 There's a mammal that flies, it's called a bat. 11:57 Here's a lizard 11:59 and it looks like that lizard's got wings, 12:00 but it actually, it jumps from tree to tree, 12:02 it spreads out its rib cage and it makes wings 12:06 and it glides. 12:08 There's a snake in Indonesia that can jump from one tree 12:12 and glide to another tree. 12:13 It spreads out its rib cage, 12:15 and it almost looks like it's swimming through the air. 12:18 It floats from tree to tree, it'll crawl up another tree 12:21 and it'll jump in, it'll glide down to another tree. 12:24 And it's amazing 12:25 how some of these creatures God has made them to fly. 12:28 There's even squirrels that fly or they glide. 12:31 They don't flap. 12:33 But you know, when we look at the fossil record 12:35 in the world around us, there's a lot of evidence 12:38 for some of these giant reptiles 12:41 that used to be able to fly. 12:43 They've got big wings, one of them, 12:45 they got some petrosaurus, 12:46 you've heard of the pterodactyls 12:48 and one of these extinct creatures 12:51 had a wingspan like a small plane 12:54 weighed hundreds of pounds. 12:56 They were huge and in some of their skeletons 12:59 and the bones that they found, 13:01 they've got big fins on their head. 13:02 And some scientists and paleontologists thought, 13:05 "Was that like the rudder on a plane 13:06 to help them turn through the air." 13:08 And some of them, they have these big heads, 13:10 and they had empty chambers in their heads 13:12 and they thought, "What were those for?" 13:14 With those empty chambers 13:15 so that they could make a loud roar or a honk? 13:19 Or they wondered maybe the empty chambers were there 13:22 because they would mix chemicals. 13:24 How many of you have heard of a bombardier beetle? 13:26 These beetles that can send out scorching hot fluid to burn. 13:31 They thought, maybe they call them fiery dragons 13:33 because they could blow out this hot fluid. 13:35 We don't know. 13:37 It's a lot of theories out there. 13:38 But all around the world, 13:40 all of the ancient civilizations 13:42 had stories about dragons and often flying dragons 13:46 and some dragons that could breathe fire. 13:48 And it's just interesting. 13:49 There are so many legends, 13:51 and they wonder if they're based upon 13:52 some of these extinct dinosaurs that once lived. 13:56 Well, you know, in the Bible, 13:58 it talks about a serpent that is our enemy. 14:01 It says, "In that day the Lord with his sore and his great 14:05 and strong sword will punish the crooked serpent." 14:08 This is Isaiah 27:1, 14:11 "And he will slay the dragon, the serpent, 14:13 the dragon in the sea." 14:15 So the Bible talks about this serpent 14:17 right there in the Garden of Eden 14:19 the first time the devil manifested himself, 14:21 he was in the form of a serpent, 14:23 which is sometimes called the dragon. 14:25 A lot of these cold blooded reptiles are that way. 14:27 So we're gonna learn about the enemy. 14:29 Now I don't want to spend our time 14:31 talking about the enemy just for the sake of that, 14:34 but Jesus tells us about the devil 14:37 so we can be on our guard, 14:39 and we will not be deceived. 14:41 So we're gonna learn what the Bible says about this, 14:43 and how to slay the dragon. 14:46 First of all, who is the dragon and where did he come from? 14:51 You can read the answer in Luke 10:18. 14:55 Jesus said, "I saw Satan like lightning fall from" where? 15:00 Heaven. "From Heaven." 15:01 Why would there be a devil in heaven? 15:06 These are the words of Jesus. 15:07 Jesus says, "I was there when he was cast out." 15:10 You can read in Revelation 12:9. 15:13 "So the great dragon was cast out, 15:16 that serpent of old, called the devil and Satan, 15:20 who deceives the whole world." 15:21 How much of the world is being deceived by the devil? 15:25 Just about everybody. 15:26 In fact, Jesus called the devil, 15:30 the prince of this world. 15:33 The Apostle Paul calls him, the prince of this world, 15:37 because most people in the world 15:38 are not listening to God and Jesus in His spirit. 15:41 They're listening to the enemy. 15:43 And it says that he was cast out of heaven, 15:46 the one who deceives him. 15:47 "He was cast to the earth..." 15:49 Now was the devil cast out by himself? 15:52 No, it says, "And His angels were cast out with him." 15:56 There were a lot of angels that left heaven with Lucifer 16:01 when he was cast out. 16:03 Question number two, who made the devil? 16:08 And was he really a dragon? 16:10 Did God make a dragon, 16:11 a fire breathing dragon to bother us all? 16:14 No, he wasn't a dragon. 16:15 It says, "You were created the anointed cherub 16:19 who covers, for I established you." 16:22 You know, the Bible tells us, 16:23 you know, what a covering cherub is? 16:25 By the throne of God in heaven, 16:27 it speaks of there being two great angels. 16:30 You can read about this in the Book of Isaiah. 16:33 Isaiah said, I saw the Lord sitting on His throne 16:35 and the seraphim on the right and the left, 16:37 each had six wings and they say, 16:39 holy, holy, these are the greatest, 16:41 the highest of the angels of God. 16:43 And there was an angel 16:44 that held one of these great positions in heaven. 16:48 And he was an angel when God made him. 16:52 Where did sin start with? 1 John 3:8. 16:56 It says, "The devil sins from the beginning." 17:00 But God did not make a devil. Everything God makes is good. 17:05 But he turned into a devil. 17:06 You can read it again in Revelation 12:9, 17:09 "That old serpent, called the devil, and Satan." 17:13 The word Satan means the enemy, the adversary. 17:17 And he's the one that starts all the problems in the world. 17:22 People say, if God is good... 17:24 If God is good, why is there so much evil? 17:28 If God is good, 17:30 why is there pain and suffering? 17:32 Do you sometimes know someone who was born sick? 17:35 What did they do wrong? 17:37 They were born sick, they didn't deserve it. 17:40 If God is powerful, 17:42 why doesn't God destroy the devil? 17:44 Is God more powerful than the devil? 17:47 Yes. 17:49 Why doesn't He just destroy him? 17:50 Why is there suffering in the world? 17:52 If God is love, if God is good, if God is powerful, 17:55 why does He allow the devil to cause so many problems? 17:59 This lesson today is gonna help explain those things. 18:03 Number two, 18:04 what was Satan's name before he sinned? 18:07 And where was he living at the time? 18:09 Well, his name wasn't Satan back then. 18:11 God did not make a creature called Satan. 18:13 This is Isaiah 14:12-14. 18:16 "How you are fallen from heaven. 18:18 O..." What was his name? 18:21 "Lucifer, son of the morning. 18:24 For you said in your heart, 18:26 I will exalt my throne above the stars of God, 18:29 I will be like the Most High." 18:31 Lucifer wanted God's position. 18:34 So, one of the first and the most powerful 18:38 of all of God's creatures was this leader of His angels. 18:43 See, God has an army, they're called angels. 18:45 They're ministering spirits. How many angels are there? 18:50 Well, let's think about it. 18:51 You know, the Bible seems to say 18:53 that there's a guardian angel for each one of you. 18:55 So if we've got 250 young people in here, 18:59 there's 250 angels, there's good angels. 19:03 The Bible says God has angels recording 19:05 every idle word that you speak. 19:07 God says He records. 19:09 You know, you got cameras everywhere, you're going out, 19:11 they're recording everything. 19:12 God's been recording for a long time. 19:14 So you might have guardian angels, 19:15 you might have recording angels. 19:18 And there are how many people in the world? 19:21 7.8 billion so far. 19:25 So that's at least 7.8 billion good angels. 19:30 And God's got other worlds that are unfallen. 19:32 There are billions and billions of angels 19:34 and God knows every one of them by name. 19:37 The Bible says, God knows every star by name, 19:40 the God says... 19:41 God knows, He's numbered the hairs of your head. 19:44 God numbered the hairs of my head, 19:45 but that's not so important because I did too. 19:47 Not that many. 19:49 And so there are millions and billions of angels. 19:52 The highest of the angels was a beautiful angel. 19:55 You would have loved him. He was good. 19:59 Every good and perfect gift comes from God. 20:01 God made all of His creatures good. 20:04 And his name was Lucifer. 20:06 Now, it was a good name. It means light-bearer. 20:09 But now it's not a good name. 20:11 You might name your dog Lucifer. 20:12 It's probably not a good dog if you name him Lucifer. 20:15 I don't know too many people. 20:17 You know, actually, I take that back. 20:19 I was doing a meeting like this, 20:21 I was in a laundromat washing my clothes. 20:23 And while I was waiting for my clothes 20:24 to dry watching them, I saw there was a boy, 20:27 he was playing with a little matchbox car 20:29 on the linoleum, on the floor. 20:31 I said, "Hi, how you doing?" "Fine." 20:34 "What's your name?" 20:36 Without even looking up he said, "Lucifer." 20:39 Little boy told me his name was Lucifer. 20:42 I said, "I guess your folks don't go to church, huh?" 20:45 No, I didn't say that. 20:46 That's what I was thinking though. 20:48 But it was a good name at one point, 20:51 but Lucifer went bad and it became associated with evil. 20:54 Now, if I was to ask you... 20:57 All right, just close your eyes for a moment. 20:59 Everybody, you can close your eyes, trust me. 21:00 Just close your eyes, all right. 21:02 Picture what the devil looks like. 21:05 When you close your eyes and you think of the devil, 21:07 now, I'm not wanting you to, you know, pray to the devil, 21:09 but if you were to picture what he looks like, 21:11 what did you see? 21:13 First of all, what color is he? Red. 21:15 Red how many said red? 21:17 Does he have a beard? No. 21:21 No, my devil, I always pictured had a beard. 21:24 What's on top of his head? Horns. 21:27 You see, he got horns. 21:28 What's he holding in his hand? Pitchfork. 21:31 Pitchfork, is that because that the devil is a farmer 21:34 and he's using it for hay. 21:37 No, they say that the devil... 21:40 The devil, he's in charge of hell, 21:43 some people think he is not, and they use the pitchfork 21:45 to make sure people get cooked evenly in hell, 21:48 but that's not true. 21:50 So many people when they think about the devil, 21:51 you know what they see? 21:55 They think the devil looks like a Halloween costume 21:59 where you got this guy. 22:00 He's wearing, he's got a black cape 22:02 and he's got bat wings and he's got a goatee. 22:06 And he's got horns and he's got the pitchfork 22:08 and he's got goat feet, and they got all these ugly, 22:11 terrible, strange looking grotesque 22:14 pictures of the devil. 22:16 But what does the Bible say Lucifer was really like? 22:20 He was a beautiful angel. All right, so question three. 22:25 How did Lucifer change? 22:27 It says in Ezekiel 28:15, 22:31 "You were perfect in your ways 22:33 from the day that you were created, 22:35 until iniquity was found in you." 22:37 Did God make an ugly devil 22:38 or did He make a beautiful devil? 22:41 He was a perfect, beautiful devil. 22:44 But he began to want God's position, 22:47 something changed in his heart. 22:48 Now, listen to what happened? 22:50 Lucifer was so beautiful, so powerful. 22:54 Bible says, he was covered and adorned 22:56 with the most majestic looking garments, 22:59 powerful, intelligent, you look at him, 23:02 the light that streamed out of him. 23:03 He was the most glorious of God's creatures. 23:06 But then he saw all the other angels 23:07 worshiping God, the Father and Jesus, the Son. 23:10 And he started thinking, 23:12 "How come they're not worshiping me?" 23:14 And then he saw God, the Father, 23:15 the Son and the Spirit creating things. 23:17 He thought, how come I can't make life? 23:21 And he started thinking, I should be God, 23:23 I should have more power. 23:26 And he'd look at himself in the mirror 23:28 and he'd think, "I'm so beautiful, 23:29 people should worship me." 23:32 And Lucifer, 23:34 he began to encourage selfishness in his heart. 23:37 So he wanted the position of God. 23:41 You know, some people are beautiful, 23:44 they're handsome. 23:46 But if they think they're handsome, 23:47 and they think about it, it kind of makes them proud. 23:50 It's okay to be attractive. 23:53 But you need to be humble, the Bible says. 23:55 But Lucifer, he became proud 23:57 and he could make beautiful music. 23:58 Lucifer understands music and he could probably sing 24:01 five part harmony all by himself. 24:03 He was a leader of the heavenly choir. 24:05 And the devil still knows how to use music today. 24:08 The Bible tells us in Ezekiel 28, 24:10 "You corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor." 24:15 His beauty became corrupted. 24:18 Isaiah 14:13, "You have said in your heart: 24:21 'I will exalt my throne above the stars of God, 24:25 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, 24:28 I will be like the Most High.' 24:32 " Lucifer said, "I want to be God." 24:34 Now was Lucifer, the creator, or a creation? 24:40 He was a creation, 24:41 but he wanted to be the Creator. 24:43 And how can you destroy your Creator? 24:45 It's kind of crazy to think about it. 24:47 So here's the big question. 24:49 If God is good, did God make a devil? 24:53 No. 24:54 God made a beautiful angel, but some of you are thinking, 24:58 "Did God know that 25:00 Lucifer was going to become selfish and proud?" 25:02 Yes. 25:04 Why did God still make him if He knew? 25:08 Did God make a mistake? 25:10 No. 25:11 God doesn't make mistakes. 25:13 Why did God make Lucifer 25:14 if He knew that Lucifer would become selfish and proud? 25:16 Was there a defect at the factory 25:19 when Lucifer came off the assembly line? 25:22 All right. 25:23 I want to illustrate this to somebody. 25:26 I need a volunteer. 25:29 Hi, friends, you know, the most important decision 25:32 a young person can make is that decision 25:34 to follow Jesus and begin that amazing adventure to eternity. 25:38 That's why we're so excited to tell you about 25:40 the new Amazing Adventure programs that are available. 25:43 During these nearly 10 hours 25:45 of exciting high definition programs, 25:47 the young people will do science experiments, 25:49 learn about history, nature, encounter some wild animals, 25:53 and most of all, they'll learn about Jesus 25:55 from the Word of God. 25:57 What's really neat 25:59 is there's a beautifully illustrated Bible Study Guide 26:01 to go along with each of the video presentations. 26:05 These beautiful illustrated study guides 26:07 are full of pictures, and puzzles, 26:08 and Bible stories. 26:10 They'll lead your kids 26:11 through an incredible journey with Jesus 26:13 while they learn about Bible doctrines 26:15 like heaven, hell, 26:16 and how to be ready for Jesus coming. 26:19 And for me, the most exciting thing 26:21 is this new Amazing Adventure series 26:23 goes along with the Amazing Facts, 26:25 Adventure Bible. 26:26 And this is a Bible, I'll tell you, 26:27 it's full of studies, 26:29 illustrations, puzzles, special tools 26:32 that make studying the Bible, fun and interesting. 26:35 This new Amazing Adventure series is the best ever. 26:38 The Bible, the study guides, the DVDs are all designed 26:42 to lead your young person on a Journey 26:44 for Life with Jesus. 26:46 To find out more how you can get yours, 26:48 call the number on your screen 26:50 or contact us at afbookstore.com. 27:00 Young man, someone who hasn't yet... 27:01 You haven't been up already. Have you been up yet? 27:03 All right, come on up now. 27:05 No, this gentleman right here. 27:07 Okay, you can both come up. 27:08 I'll tell you what, why don't you both come up here. 27:10 What's your name? 27:12 You forget your name, huh? 27:14 Arlie. Arlie? 27:16 And your name? Levi. 27:17 Levi. That's a good name. 27:19 All right, look in the treasure chest 27:20 and see if you can find a dog. 27:25 You can do that together. 27:26 All right, Levi, look on the bottom of the dog. 27:28 Look on the bottom of dog. Do you see an off/on switch? 27:31 Turn them, turn them on. 27:36 Okay, this is Gizmo. 27:41 Gizmo is called an artificial intelligence dog. 27:46 Gizmo, sit. 27:51 Gizmo, rollover. 28:02 Gizmo, fetch. 28:05 You don't know what that means, do you? 28:12 All right, Gizmo, get up. 28:16 Gizmo, you're free. 28:21 Do you want to go anywhere? 28:27 Gizmo, can you do anything else? 28:32 Gizmo, go to sleep. 28:41 Go to sleep. 28:48 That's not what I said. 28:52 Okay. 28:55 So, we're gonna... 28:56 You're not cooperating, I'm turning you off. 28:59 Now, this looks like a fun dog, huh? 29:03 No. Yeah. 29:07 This would be a fun dog for about a half an hour. 29:12 But you would get tired of it 29:13 because he does the same four or five tricks. 29:17 But what's more exciting, this or what about a real dog? 29:25 All right, so I wonder where we're gonna find 29:27 a real puppy dog. 29:29 Do we got a real... 29:30 Mrs. Batchelor gonna bring out... 29:32 Oh, look, someone's coming out of the captain's lodge. 29:37 So... 29:43 So here we've got Gizmo, and here we've got... 29:46 Oreo. Oreo. 29:48 This is a little girl puppy, 29:50 and they're both black and white. 29:53 And which one would be more fun? 29:55 Oreo. 29:59 Which one is gonna cause more... 30:02 Which one is gonna cause more problems? 30:04 Oreo. 30:06 Which one's gonna need more care? 30:07 Oreo. 30:09 Why would you want Oreo rather than Gizmo? 30:13 Because he's a real dog. 30:17 I wonder what Oreo will do here. 30:20 Let's put Oreo down, who knows? 30:26 Gizmo, go to sleep. 30:28 Gizmo, dance. 30:34 We better hang on to Oreo, 30:35 we don't know what could happen. 30:37 Thank you. 30:39 Thank you very much, guys. 30:41 Now, let me tell you why I showed you this. 30:46 Let me tell you why I showed you this, 30:48 is, what's the difference between 30:50 a robot puppy and a real puppy? 30:55 The robot... 30:57 Are you robots or are you free? 30:59 Free! 31:01 You make your own intelligent decisions with your wills. 31:04 You know, even a dog has some freedom 31:07 to make decisions. 31:08 Dogs can even have personality, in one puppy litter, 31:12 all of them can be different and act differently. 31:15 And you know that dog, if he chooses to love you, 31:18 it's gonna be real. 31:19 He has real affection for you. 31:20 He'll want to come to you. He want to be with you. 31:22 He'll want to snuggle, he want to lick you. 31:24 It's real. 31:26 God wants to make His creatures with real love. 31:28 Now, if God... Does God make robots? 31:30 No. No. 31:33 God does not make robots. 31:35 God makes His creatures real and He gives them freedom. 31:39 God could have made Lucifer as a robot. 31:43 But would he have love? 31:46 Can a robot love? No. 31:50 Now when your parents decided to have you? 31:53 Did your parents get a written guarantee from the doctor 31:56 that you would always be good, and obedient, and loving? 32:02 Have you sometimes been disobedient and difficult? 32:08 Why did your parents still have you? 32:12 Because they want to love you and they want you to love them. 32:16 To have love, you must choose, you must be free. 32:20 Are you getting the idea here? 32:22 God makes all of His creatures free 32:24 and He knew that one day some of them 32:26 would choose not to love Him. 32:27 So He made Lucifer even though 32:29 He knew Lucifer was not gonna love Him. 32:31 God chose us freedom, but we get to choose. 32:33 Right, next question. 32:35 Let's move back to our lesson now. 32:36 How many angels joined Lucifer in his rebellion against God? 32:39 So what happened is, 32:41 in heaven, Lucifer went around, he told all the angels, 32:44 "You know, God, He makes all these rules. 32:46 We don't need His laws and rules. 32:48 We're smart enough to take care of ourselves." 32:51 And so, the devil began to get one third of the angels, 32:55 he wanted all of them. 32:57 One third of the angels followed Satan 32:59 in his rebellion. 33:00 You can read in Revelation 12:3, 4. 33:03 "Another sign appeared in heaven, 33:05 a great red dragon and his tail drew 33:08 a third of the stars of heaven." 33:10 Those angels in Revelation are often called stars, 33:13 a third of His angels. 33:15 The Bible tells us that Satan and his angels were cast out. 33:20 And they ended up breaking this, 33:22 the devil and his angels all fighting against God, 33:25 and protesting against God turned into rebellion. 33:29 So the next question is, 33:31 what was the result of Lucifer's rebellion? 33:34 Finally, it broke out into an all out war, where? 33:39 In heaven. 33:40 It's hard to imagine a war in heaven. 33:42 What kind of instruments 33:43 and what kind of weapons would they use? 33:45 There was war in heaven, 33:47 and Michael and his angels fought against the dragon 33:50 and the dragon fought and his angels. 33:54 The Bible says, the devil was cast out 33:56 and drew one third of those angels to earth with him. 33:59 So how did Satan trick humans to join his rebellion? 34:05 See what happened was 34:06 once the devil was cast out of heaven, 34:09 he had no home base. 34:11 The devil went roaming through the universe 34:12 looking for other creatures of God to follow him. 34:16 See, I think God not only has life on this planet, 34:19 the universe is so infinite. 34:20 God probably has other unfallen, 34:23 perfect, intelligent creatures in other worlds, 34:26 they may have lasted for millions of years. 34:28 We can't see them 34:29 because we got a sickness called sin on this planet. 34:31 So we're quarantined. 34:33 Just like when you're sick, 34:35 your parents don't want you getting around someone else 34:37 so they catch your cold. 34:38 Our whole planet's got a really bad disease. 34:41 So we can't communicate with the other unfallen worlds 34:43 but the devil was given an opportunity. 34:45 Just like God gave the devil freedom 34:47 to talk to the other angels. 34:49 He said, "If they want to follow you, 34:51 they can follow you. 34:52 I will not force you to follow Me." 34:53 See, God will not force you to follow Him. 34:56 You must choose to follow Him. 34:58 He gives you freedom. 35:00 So the devil went to these other worlds, 35:01 and the devil... 35:03 God said to the devil, 35:04 "You can't hassle them everywhere. 35:05 But I'll pick one spot on the planet 35:07 where you could talk to them." 35:09 God told Adam and Eve now, 35:11 I've given you all these trees to eat from in the garden. 35:14 But don't go near this tree 35:15 of the knowledge of good and evil. 35:18 I don't want you to experience the evil with good, 35:20 I only want you to have good. 35:22 He said in Genesis 2:17. 35:25 "God warned them of the tree 35:26 of the knowledge of good and evil, 35:28 you shall not eat of it. 35:31 For in the day that you eat of it, 35:32 you will surely die." 35:35 And then it introduces an interesting character. 35:38 One day as Eve was walking through the garden, 35:41 doing her pleasant work and training the vines 35:43 and maybe gathering some fruit, 35:45 she saw the forbidden tree. 35:47 It was a beautiful tree, and it had beautiful, 35:49 luscious looking fruit on it. 35:51 And she was looking at the tree and the devil saw his chance. 35:54 So the devil possessed a serpent 35:58 and he spoke through this serpent 36:00 which was a beautiful creature at the time. 36:03 And it says, the serpent was more cunning, 36:05 more beautiful than any beasts of the field 36:08 which the Lord God had made. 36:10 And the serpent said to the woman, 36:13 "Has God said, 'You can't eat from the trees.' 36:14 " And she said, "No, we can eat from the trees. 36:16 We're just not supposed to eat from this tree 36:18 or even touch it, lest we die." 36:20 And the devil said, "He lied, you will not surely die." 36:24 You know the first question in the Bible. 36:27 The first question in the Bible is asked by the devil, 36:30 he says, "Has God said..." 36:33 The devil is questioning the Word of God. 36:35 The devil wants you to doubt the Word of God. 36:38 And after Adam and Eve began to doubt the Word of God, 36:40 all kinds of problems came in. 36:43 He said, "You will not surely die." 36:45 So Adam and Eve have to... 36:46 They've got to make a decision. 36:48 The devil said, you're not gonna die. 36:49 God said, you will die. 36:51 They have to decide who are we gonna follow? 36:54 The Bible says whoever you follow, 36:56 that's whose servant you become. 36:58 Are you gonna follow the serpent 37:00 or you gonna follow God? 37:02 I need a volunteer. 37:04 All right, let me see, we get a girl. 37:07 On the end here. 37:08 Young lady, you had your hand up. 37:10 Yeah. You're the one. All right. 37:11 I want you to look. 37:12 Are you afraid of snakes? No. 37:15 All right, you're gonna find a little snake in there. 37:17 Go ahead and grab, grab the snake. 37:20 Take your pick. 37:21 We can get another girl up here. 37:23 Or you can come up. 37:24 There's another snake in there. 37:26 You can go in the treasure chest. 37:33 You know what kind of snake you've got there? 37:35 You, you know what kind of snake that is? 37:38 Shake it. 37:40 It's a rattlesnake. 37:41 It rattles. Now I'm just teasing. 37:42 Okay. What's your name? 37:44 Lucia. Lucia. 37:46 Elena. Elena? 37:48 Yeah. All right. 37:50 Now, are some people scared of snakes? 37:52 Yes. Why? 37:54 Because they are venomous and they can kill... 37:56 Some snakes are venomous and they can kill you. 37:59 Are some snakes beautiful? Yes. 38:02 Can snakes be hypnotic? 38:04 Yes, snakes, sometimes they're weary, 38:07 they move and they slither 38:09 and they've got beautiful designs. 38:11 They can camouflage themselves so that you can't see them. 38:15 And they hide, and they wait for something, 38:17 and they have heat sinking in there. 38:19 They can smell when there's something warm, 38:22 and they strike very suddenly. 38:25 Now I used to live up in the mountains 38:26 where there was a lot of snakes, 38:28 and I used to watch out for rattlesnakes. 38:29 Matter of fact, I killed several rattlesnakes, 38:32 and before I knew better, 38:35 I ate one or two rattlesnakes, too. 38:37 You don't want to do that because there's no, 38:39 doesn't taste very good and it's not worth it anyway. 38:42 But snakes are cold blooded. 38:45 Snakes don't care about their babies, 38:47 typically, they'll have their babies, 38:48 they crawl away and they leave them. 38:50 The devil is cold blooded. 38:52 He uses camouflage. 38:54 He's hypnotic. 38:55 He does not care about anybody but himself. 38:59 And the devil spoke through this serpent. 39:02 And he used it because from that point 39:04 in the Garden of Eden all the way to Revelation 39:06 where it says the serpent. 39:08 The devil is a symbol for the serpent. 39:10 You know, it says in the Bible, you can put that snake down 39:12 on the ground there for a second. 39:15 One of the first prophecies in the Bible talks about 39:17 stepping on the head of the serpent. 39:19 You want to step on the head of the serpent? 39:21 Oh! No, he didn't say that. 39:24 And it says that's what Jesus is gonna do to the devil. 39:28 But it says the devil bit his heel... 39:31 Do you know? 39:32 I've got a friend, he's stood on a snake's head 39:35 and he thought that he could pick it up 39:37 and it was able to spin around and bite him. 39:40 So even when you think you've hurt them, 39:42 you got to be very careful because they're tenacious. 39:45 I heard about a man, 39:46 he saw a poor little snake on the road, 39:49 and it was winter 39:50 and it got cold, it got too cold. 39:52 You know, snakes are cold blooded, 39:53 they can't move if it gets too cold. 39:55 And he saw that snake could not move, 39:56 he was so cold. 39:57 He felt sorry for the snake. 39:59 So he picked up the snake and he put it under his shirt 40:01 to warm it up. 40:03 And you know what it did? 40:05 It warmed up, and then it bit him. 40:09 The devil will tell you to do something wrong. 40:12 He'll try and get you to feel sorry for him 40:13 and he'll bite you. 40:14 He does not care about you. 40:16 He'll tempt you to sin and then he will turn you in 40:18 and accuse you before God. 40:19 All right, you get to keep that. 40:21 I don't know if that's okay with your parents, 40:22 you can keep that one too. 40:24 Thank you very much. 40:25 You know, the most important decision 40:27 a young person can make 40:28 is that decision to follow Jesus 40:30 and begin that amazing adventure to eternity. 40:33 That's why we're so excited to tell you about 40:35 the new Amazing Adventure programs that are available. 40:38 During these nearly 10 hours 40:40 of exciting high definition programs, 40:42 the young people will do science experiments, 40:44 learn about history, nature, encounter some wild animals, 40:48 and most of all, they'll learn about Jesus 40:50 from the Word of God. 40:52 There's a beautifully illustrated Bible Study Guide 40:54 to go along with each of the video presentations. 40:57 These beautiful illustrated study guides 40:59 are full of pictures, and puzzles, 41:01 and Bible stories. 41:02 They'll lead your kids 41:04 through an incredible journey with Jesus. 41:06 But for me the most exciting, 41:07 is this new Amazing Adventure series 41:09 goes along with the Amazing Facts Adventure Bible. 41:12 The Bible, the study guides, the DVDs are all designed 41:16 to lead your young person 41:17 on a Journey for Life with Jesus. 41:20 Call the number on your screen 41:21 or contact us at afbookstore.com. 41:25 Well, let's get back to our lesson. 41:28 Why didn't Adam and Eve die 41:29 as soon as they ate the forbidden fruit? 41:32 Well, they did die spiritually. 41:36 As soon as they sinned, the robes of light went away, 41:38 they saw their nakedness and they were scared. 41:43 And the Bible says, a day with the Lord 41:45 is like 1000 years and 1000 years like a day. 41:47 How long did Adam live? 41:49 Who knows? 41:51 930 years. 41:54 The man who lived the longest, what was his name? 41:57 How long did he live? 41:59 969, very good. 42:03 Technically, Methuselah wasn't the man 42:05 who's lived the longest, Methuselah's father, 42:07 Enoch is still alive. 42:09 He is the longest living man, 42:11 the man who died after living the longest was Methuselah. 42:15 So God said, "In the day you eat thereof, you'll die." 42:17 No man lived 1000 years. 42:19 See, God made man to live forever. 42:21 So when you die after 900 years, 42:22 you're dying in that first millennial day, 42:24 but he began to die spiritually that day. 42:27 But why are we not dead now? 42:29 If the penalty for sin is death and if everybody has sinned? 42:33 Oh, the answer is on the screen. 42:36 Do you know this verse? 42:38 You want to say it with me? 42:39 "For God so loved the world 42:43 that He gave His only begotten Son, 42:47 that whoever believes in Him should not perish 42:52 but have everlasting life." 42:55 So you got two choices, the devil brings death 42:58 and God sent His Son. 43:00 Jesus said, "I will take the venom of the serpent." 43:03 You know, there's a prophecy in the Bible. 43:08 And it says, "As Moses lifted up the serpent 43:12 in the wilderness, 43:14 even so the Son of man must be lifted up. 43:16 You know all of the shepherds in the Bible, 43:19 they were worried about snakes 43:21 because snakes would kill their sheep. 43:23 And so, when you kill a serpent... 43:25 I've killed a lot of snakes. 43:26 I had a snake stick when I lived in the cave, 43:28 and I'd whack it over the head 43:30 and then I'd pick it up with a noose 43:31 on the end of the stick 43:32 because you don't want to grab it. 43:34 You may think it's dead, 43:35 and even after you've broken it up, 43:37 it'll spin around and bite you, they're very tenacious. 43:39 So the shepherds when they killed a snake, 43:41 they pick it up on a stick. 43:43 And all these people in Israel had been bitten by serpents 43:46 and God said, "Make a bronze serpent, 43:49 put it up on a pole. 43:51 And whoever looks at that, 43:52 it'll represent a defeated serpent. 43:55 He will live." 43:56 When Jesus died on the cross, 43:58 the blood of Christ is the anti-venom 44:01 for the bite of the serpent. 44:03 You can be healed from the deadly disease of sin 44:07 by realizing Jesus destroyed the power of the serpent 44:10 there on the cross. 44:11 And the serpent was crushed because of Christ. 44:15 But the devil, even after a serpent's wounded, 44:18 can it still bite? 44:20 Even though he's defeated, 44:21 you don't want to play with snakes, 44:23 because it can be dangerous. 44:26 The Bible says, "Be sober, be vigilant, 44:29 because your adversary the devil, 44:31 is going around not only like a serpent, 44:33 but like" what? 44:35 "A roaring lion seeking whom he might devour." 44:38 He's a man-eater, you might say. 44:40 Devil is going around looking for someone to destroy. 44:44 And the Lord said to Satan, "Where did you come from?" 44:48 And he said, "I have come from going to and fro on the earth 44:51 and walking up and down in it." 44:54 Satan is always looking for ways to hurt people. 44:56 Now why does the devil want to hurt humans? 45:00 The devil doesn't really care about you. 45:02 The devil used to be just under God. 45:04 But the devil knows that God so loves you. 45:09 And the way to hurt you 45:11 or to hurt God is by hurting you. 45:13 If I was gonna hurt your parents, 45:16 the best way to hurt your parents 45:17 is by hurting you because they love you. 45:20 When did it hurt you to see someone else 45:21 in your family suffer. 45:23 The devil wants to hurt God and so he hurts his children. 45:29 The devil is cold blooded. 45:32 "The dragon was wroth with the woman," 45:34 it says in Revelation 12:17, 45:36 "And he goes to make war with the remnant of her seed 45:40 that keep the commandments of God 45:42 and have the testimony of Jesus." 45:44 That woman represents God's church. 45:46 The dragon is trying to destroy those who obey God, 45:49 who have the faith of Christ 45:51 and they obey the commandments of God. 45:53 The devil hates God's bride, God's church, 45:56 and you are part of God's people. 45:58 Once you accept Jesus, you become part of His church. 46:02 But do we need to be afraid of the devil? 46:04 Well, you don't want to pick up snakes, 46:05 but I'm not afraid of snakes. 46:08 It says, "Greater is He that is in you 46:11 than he that is in the devil. 46:12 So you've probably seen these cartoons before 46:14 where you've got, someone is tempted. 46:17 And they got a little good angel on the right side 46:19 and he's saying, "Don't do it. 46:20 This is bad." 46:22 Then you got a little evil angel on the other side. 46:24 "Ah, do it. It'll be fun, who cares?" 46:26 And it's like you got this battle going on inside 46:29 between these two forces? 46:30 Well, that's sort of real, 46:32 we get tempted sometimes to do things 46:34 and we hear a voice to our conscience. 46:36 Holy Spirit says, "No, don't do that." 46:37 And the devil says, "Nobody will know." 46:40 And you get to make decisions every day what to do? 46:43 Can you do the right thing if you ask God for help? 46:47 As soon as you're tempted, 46:48 you pray and then He will send His angels to help you. 46:53 You know when sailors go to sea, 46:56 they often have one of these. 46:58 You know what this is? 47:00 You know why? 47:01 'Cause if sailors have to jump off the ship in the night 47:03 and they need to find each other 47:05 and they're in a lifeboat, 47:06 they send out a distress signal. 47:11 And they use these loud whistles on boats. 47:13 So, you whistle and it sends help, 47:17 you know on all the airplanes you fly, 47:19 there's a life jacket. 47:20 You know the life jackets on the airplanes 47:21 you fly have a whistle. 47:23 So if the plane goes down in the water, 47:24 people can whistle and they can come together, 47:25 find each other in the dark. 47:29 What's our whistle? 47:31 Prayer. 47:32 Whenever we're in trouble, 47:34 what do we do when we're tempted? 47:36 Pray, and God will send help to you right away. 47:40 What will be Satan's final punishment? 47:44 The devil who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire. 47:48 The devil wanted to be God but he's going to lake of fire. 47:51 The Bible says also in Matthew 25:41, 47:54 "Depart for me ye cursed, 47:56 into everlasting fire prepared for the devil, 48:00 and" who? 48:02 "Satan's angels." 48:03 Now, does God wants you to be destroyed in the fires of hell. 48:05 No. 48:07 Who are the fires of hell prepared for? 48:09 For Satan's angels. 48:11 But if you choose to reject God, 48:15 God gives you the freedom to say no to God. 48:17 You can choose to love God 48:19 or you can choose to love yourself first. 48:21 You see, Satan is perfect evil. 48:26 Jesus is perfect good. 48:28 Satan is perfect selfishness. 48:31 Jesus is perfect love. 48:33 It's not that God made evil, God is light. 48:38 What happens when you take away the light? 48:39 What do you have? Darkness. 48:42 What happens when you take away the warmth? 48:46 Cold. It's not that God made a devil. 48:48 It's that when you reject the light of God, 48:50 you end up in darkness. 48:52 When you reject the warmth of God, 48:54 you end up in the cold. 48:55 When you reject the love of God, 48:57 you end up selfish and you will self destruct. 49:01 God wants to save you from the devil. 49:03 He wants to save you from sin. 49:05 All you have to do is choose to invite Him 49:08 into your heart. 49:09 Otherwise, Satan is gonna be destroyed. 49:11 You can read in Ezekiel 28, 49:13 those who follow Him will be destroyed. 49:15 "I will bring you to ashes upon the earth 49:17 in the sight of all them that behold you." 49:20 Says, you will be a terror and never will you be anymore. 49:24 But until Jesus comes, until the devil is destroyed, 49:27 how can we be protected from the devil? 49:31 Answer, "Put on," what? 49:34 "The whole armor of God 49:36 that you might be able to stand against the wiles," 49:38 the wiles mean the tricks, "of the devil." 49:41 And then what else do we do? 49:43 It says, "The sword of the spirit, 49:45 which is The word of God." 49:48 All right, I need a volunteer. 49:51 All right, well, we picked a couple girls last time, 49:53 we'll pick a boy. 49:55 Let me see here. 49:57 Young man, right there, yeah, yeah. 49:59 Well, yeah. 50:00 Let's bring both of you here. Two with the glasses. 50:02 All right, come on up here. You related. 50:05 What your name? 50:07 Joshua. Joshua and... 50:09 Benjamin. Good Bible names. 50:11 All right. 50:12 So how do we fight the devil? 50:14 All right, Benjamin, this one's for you. 50:16 Oh, hang on to that for a second. 50:17 Okay. Hang on. 50:19 I gotta go check back here in the captain's deck. 50:27 Now this is Goliath sword. 50:30 That's quite a sword, huh? 50:31 Be careful. Don't hit the stage with that. 50:33 That's sharp. 50:34 Now, I can't let you take those home, 50:36 mom and dad may not allow it. 50:38 The Bible says, that the Bible... 50:40 Your mom would allow? 50:43 The Bible says, "The Word of God is quick, 50:44 and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword." 50:46 In Revelation, Jesus appears, 50:48 He's coming with a sword in His mouth. 50:50 Does Jesus really have a sword in His mouth? 50:52 It's a symbol for what? 50:53 The Word of God. 50:55 Why is the Bible compared to a two edged sword? 50:58 Well, you know the Bible is made up 50:59 and it's got the law and the prophets, 51:02 the commandments of God and the testimony of Jesus. 51:06 It's got the two witnesses. 51:08 When you're tempted by the devil, 51:10 how do you fight the temptations of the devil? 51:13 How did Jesus fight the temptations of the devil? 51:16 He said, what did he say? What's it on the screen? 51:19 "It is written." 51:20 All three times Jesus turned to the Word of God, 51:23 you can resist the devil, claim the promises of God. 51:27 You can claim the power of God, when the devil tempts you, 51:29 if you hide God's Word in your heart, 51:31 it becomes a weapon to fight the enemy. 51:36 You feel a little safer against the devil 51:37 if you had something like that. 51:41 So what do we do with the sword when we're tempted? 51:46 There you go, chop off the head of snake, okay. 51:49 I'll tell you what? 51:51 I'll let you hold those for me when you go back to your seats. 51:53 You just got to put them down though. 51:54 You can carry those back to you seats, 51:56 but I can't let you take them home. 51:57 There'd probably be some liability issues on that. 52:01 All right, so how do we fight the devil? 52:04 This was our scripture we started with, 52:06 "Therefore submit to God. 52:08 Resist the devil" and what will the devil do? 52:11 "He'll run from you." 52:12 And Jesus resisted the devil, he ran. 52:14 "Draw near to God, 52:16 and He will draw near to you." 52:19 You know, I remember hearing it number of years ago. 52:21 A boat was sailing off 52:25 the south eastern shore of South Africa. 52:27 Now Pastor Ross, he's from South Africa. 52:30 They've got a lot of sharks, 52:31 they got great white sharks out there. 52:34 They actually take people out and put them in cages 52:36 and let them feed the sharks. 52:38 And the boat, the motor died. 52:39 There's a whole family 52:41 and some friends out in this boat 52:42 and they were about 15 miles offshore 52:44 trying to fish them out. 52:45 The inboard motor died and then they tried to get 52:47 the outboard motor too, and it died, 52:49 and they were stuck and their radio stopped working 52:52 and nobody knew where they were. 52:54 And then after about a day, 52:55 the weather changed and the waves got really big 52:58 and the water started coming into the boat. 52:59 The boat started leaking 53:01 because of where the motor broke, 53:04 and eventually the boat was swamped with water. 53:06 The boat was capsized. 53:10 And it looked like everybody was gonna drown 53:12 because the water was cold out in that part of the ocean. 53:15 After a day and the night in the water, 53:18 one person drowned. 53:19 And there was a young girl, her name was Yvonne. 53:21 She was 17 years old. 53:23 She said, "Our only hope is for me to swim for help." 53:25 She was on a swimming team, 53:27 and she was a really good swimmer. 53:29 They could tell from the sun 53:31 which way to go towards the shore. 53:33 And she took off swimming. 53:35 And she swam and she swam 53:37 and she claimed the promise in the Bible. 53:40 It was a promise. 53:41 It says when I pass through the waters you will be with me. 53:46 And she was swimming and then she saw sharks. 53:49 She knew that sharks were there. 53:50 There are a lot of sharks in that water. 53:52 And they started to circle. 53:53 And she started praying. 53:55 She said, "Oh, Lord, when you pass through the waters, 53:56 you'll be with me." 53:58 And then she saw the sharks were... 53:59 more were gathering. 54:01 And she thought, and she had swum now for hours. 54:05 And she saw, eventually they're closing the circle 54:07 and she was praying, "Lord, don't let me die slowly. 54:09 Don't let them bite off an arm and then a leg, 54:11 help me die quickly." 54:13 But she kept swimming. 54:14 And she kept claiming that promise 54:16 when I pass through the waters, you will be with me. 54:19 And she saw one of the sharks was coming in, 54:21 and it was gonna attack, it was swimming very quickly. 54:24 And then out of nowhere, boom, 54:26 a dolphin came and banged against the shark. 54:29 And another shark started coming. 54:31 Another dolphin came and banged against the shark. 54:33 And then Yvonne fainted. 54:36 The next thing she knew there was a Coast Guard ship. 54:41 And they picked her up and they came over 54:43 and they found there were two dolphins 54:45 that were holding her up out of the water 54:48 protecting her and they were witnesses. 54:50 They saved her. 54:52 They found that she had swam 15 miles. 54:55 By the time they picked her up and they went back 54:57 and they rescued the rest of the party. 54:58 How did she fight against the devil? 55:02 She claimed the promises of God. 55:04 It doesn't mean there won't be temptation. 55:06 It doesn't mean there might not be some times of fear. 55:08 But when we're in trouble, if we come to Jesus, 55:11 will He let the devil hurt us? 55:14 You might be tempted, 55:16 you might be tested like Job was, 55:17 but if you put your trust in the Lord, 55:19 He will save you now, 55:21 and He will save you for eternity. 55:23 Now the devil is like a serpent. 55:25 Bible says he's like a scorpion, 55:27 says he's like a lion. 55:29 He's an evil. 55:30 He's bent on your destruction. 55:32 Your only safety 55:34 is to put your life in God's hands 55:36 and Jesus will take care of you. 55:38 So here's my question for you. 55:40 You have an opportunity right now. 55:43 Do you want to follow Jesus and put on His armor 55:46 and be protected from the dragon? 55:48 Are you willing to accept Jesus' sacrifice 55:50 and His blood to save you from the venom of sin 55:53 to wash away all of your sins? 55:55 Is that your desire? 55:57 And to guard you, God will send His angels. 55:59 The angel of the Lord encamps around 56:01 about those that serve him." 56:03 How many of you want God's angels to watch over you, 56:05 protect you from the devil and his angels? 56:59 Hi, friends, you know, the most important decision 57:02 a young person can make 57:03 is that decision to follow Jesus 57:05 and begin that amazing adventure to eternity. 57:08 That's why we're so excited 57:10 to tell you about the new Amazing Adventure programs 57:12 that are available. 57:14 During these nearly 10 hours 57:15 of exciting high definition programs, 57:18 the young people will do science experiments, 57:20 learn about history, nature, encounter some wild animals, 57:23 and most of all, they'll learn about Jesus 57:26 from the Word of God. 57:28 What's really neat 57:29 is there's a beautifully illustrated Bible Study Guide 57:32 to go along with each of the video presentations. 57:35 These beautiful illustrated study guides 57:37 are full of pictures, and puzzles, and Bible stories. 57:40 They'll lead your kids 57:41 through an incredible journey with Jesus 57:43 while they learn about Bible doctrines 57:45 like heaven, hell, 57:46 and how to be ready for Jesus coming. 57:50 And for me, the most exciting thing 57:51 is this new Amazing Adventure series 57:53 goes along with the Amazing Facts, 57:55 Adventure Bible. 57:56 And this is a Bible, I'll tell you, 57:58 it's full of studies, illustrations, 58:01 puzzles, special tools 58:02 that make studying the Bible, fun and interesting. 58:06 This new Amazing Adventure series is the best ever. 58:09 The Bible, the study guides, the DVDs are all designed 58:12 to lead your young person 58:14 on a Journey for Life with Jesus. 58:16 To find out more how you can get yours, 58:19 call the number on your screen 58:21 or contact us at afbookstore.com. |
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