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00:14 >>Eric Flickinger: Welcome to "Sabbath School," 00:16 brought to you by It Is Written. 00:18 We're glad you're joining us today. 00:19 We are on a journey through the book of John, looking at 00:23 some of these great themes that string all the way 00:26 from the first chapter to the very end. 00:29 And this week, this is lesson number 9, 00:31 looking at "The Source of Life." 00:34 What is the source of life? Well, we're about to find out. 00:36 Let's begin with prayer. 00:38 Father, we want to thank You for being with us today. 00:40 We thank You for guiding us through our previous lessons 00:44 on the book of John. 00:46 And today we ask that You'll do the same. 00:47 As we look at something incredibly significant, 00:49 the source of life, help us to come away from our study 00:53 today connected with that source. 00:55 We thank You, in Jesus' name, amen. 00:58 We're also grateful to have with us one of the coauthors 01:01 of this quarter's "Sabbath School" lesson, 01:02 Dr. Tom Shepherd. He's the senior research professor 01:05 of New Testament at the Theological Seminary, 01:07 Andrews University. Tom, thanks for being here. 01:10 >>Thomas Shepherd: It's good to be here. 01:11 >>Eric: The source of life, what is this concept of life 01:15 in the Gospel of John? 01:16 What does he mean when he talks about life? 01:19 >>Tom: Okay, so, it's really good when you're studying this 01:22 to go through and look at the texts that talk about life 01:26 and try to get a feel for the context and what he's 01:31 focusing on. 01:34 At home, you can easily do this by using a Bible software, 01:39 or you can use even "Strong's Concordance" 01:43 and look up the word "life." 01:45 And then you can look up the--find the terms that are 01:49 used in the Gospel of John. 01:51 And it can be a fun kind of experience to be 01:55 a Bible detective and look for yourself at what's going on 01:59 in the Gospel of John. So, we'll sort of give you 02:02 a little experiment on that, 02:03 a little way of trying to show that some of the texts in John 02:09 that talk about this. 02:10 All right, so, our first passage that talks about life is 02:14 actually in the prologue. 02:15 It's in the very first verses of the book, so we're gonna read-- 02:18 you know, I always like to read more than just one verse, 02:22 so I'm going to read verses 1 through 5 02:25 of John, chapter 1. 02:27 "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, 02:31 "and the Word was God. 02:33 "He was in the beginning with God. 02:35 "All things were made through Him, and without Him 02:39 "was not any thing made that was made. 02:42 "In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. 02:47 "The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness 02:51 has not overcome it." 02:53 All right, so, when you see that word "life" 02:56 there in verse 4, you say to yourself, 03:00 "Well, what does it mean, 'In Him was life'?" 03:05 I mean, He was alive. 03:07 You know, you would say a person is alive. 03:09 But you get the feel that this is more than just kind of like 03:14 everyday life, you know? There's something else going on. 03:17 So, maybe we should read some other of the verses to get 03:22 a feeling for what is this idea of life. 03:25 Let's read John 3:16, of course, a very famous verse 03:31 of the New Testament. 03:34 >>Eric: "For God so loved the world that He gave His only 03:37 "begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him 03:40 should not perish but have everlasting life." 03:43 >>Tom: Okay, so here the word "everlasting," or eternal, 03:46 is added to it, and it gives us the idea that the kind of life 03:50 that's being described here is eternal life. 03:54 It's not our daily life here now but that which goes all the way 04:00 into eternity. Of course, the book of 1 John tells us 04:04 that eternal life actually begins here 04:08 in our life today. 04:09 All right, let's look at another text that talks about this, 04:13 John 10, verse 10. 04:17 >>Eric: "The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, 04:20 "and to destroy. 04:22 "I have come that they may have life, 04:24 and that they may have it more abundantly." 04:28 >>Tom: Okay, so Jesus contrasts Himself with a thief who comes 04:32 along to steal and to kill and to destroy. 04:35 That's just the opposite of life and life-giving. 04:40 And so, He's giving eternal life to those who trust in Him, 04:45 all right? So, we're starting to get some feel for this idea 04:49 of life and what it involves. 04:51 Now let's look at another passage we've looked at before. 04:55 It's John 6, verses 61 to 68. 05:00 We'll see a contrast 05:02 between Jesus' disciples 05:07 and those who left Him. 05:12 >>Eric: "When Jesus knew in Himself that His disciples 05:15 "complained about this, He said to them, 'Does this offend you? 05:18 "'What then if you should see the Son of Man ascend 05:21 "'where He was before? 05:23 "'It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. 05:26 "'The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life. 05:30 "But there are some of you who do not believe.' 05:32 "For Jesus knew from the beginning 05:34 "who they were who did not believe, 05:36 "and who would betray Him. 05:38 "And He said, 'Therefore I have said to you that no one can come 05:42 "to me unless it has been granted to him by my Father.' 05:45 "From that time many of His disciples went back and walked 05:48 "with Him no more. 05:49 "Then Jesus said to the twelve, 'Do you also want to go away?' 05:53 "But Simon Peter answered Him, 'Lord, to whom shall we go? 05:56 You have the words of eternal life.'" 05:59 >>Tom: Okay, so, we see here 06:01 the very kind of thing that Jesus is talking about, 06:05 the words of eternal life. 06:07 Now remember, back in chapter 1, it said that "in Him was life." 06:12 So, life is not simply a concept, 06:17 it is not simply words, but it is something that is embodied 06:22 in Jesus Himself: "In Him was life." 06:25 This is eternal life. He is the--this is the life of God. 06:28 This is the unborrowed, underived kind of concept. 06:35 Ellen White talks about that, about that in Him was this life. 06:40 He has the power to lay down His life, He says. 06:43 He has the power to take it back up. 06:45 So, He is the source of eternal life. 06:48 And then, of course, the words that He speaks are also tied 06:53 with this idea of life. 06:55 And He says, "It is the Spirit who gives life; 06:58 "the flesh is no help at all. 07:00 "The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life," 07:05 all right? So, the disciples that, you know, were 07:09 fair-weather disciples, 07:11 they decided that they need to go away. 07:13 They want to go away from Him because they don't like 07:18 His words when He says, "You must eat my flesh 07:20 and drink my blood." It's seems like, "Ew." 07:22 And they didn't think more deeply about 07:26 the symbolism that's involved there. 07:28 And so, when He asked the disciples, 07:31 the 12 disciples, if they want to go away, Simon responds, 07:34 "Lord, to whom should we go? 07:36 You have the words of eternal life." 07:40 So, we're getting the sense that life in the Gospel of John 07:45 is found in Jesus, found in His words. 07:48 The Spirit is what applies it to our life. 07:51 And what's being promised here is eternal life, eternal life 07:55 that begins now as we accept Jesus 07:58 and continues into eternity, all right? 08:01 >>Eric: So we've got this concept of life, that it's 08:03 much broader than just day-to-day life. 08:06 It's intended to be all-encompassing. 08:09 It sounds like this is something that we should want to have. 08:13 How do we get this life that John is trying to bring out 08:18 in his gospel? 08:20 >>Tom: Right, this is like the question 08:21 of the Philippians jailer: "What must I do to be saved?" 08:26 All right? "What must I do?" 08:27 So, if we go back to John 3, and we read 08:32 verses 14 through 16 again, 08:35 we'll see, get a little more context: 08:37 "And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, 08:41 "so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes 08:44 "in Him may have eternal life. 08:48 "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, 08:51 "that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have 08:55 eternal life." 08:57 So, there it is. 08:59 This life is found by believing in Jesus, 09:02 so we have this theme of life. 09:03 We have this theme of believing that comes 09:06 throughout the whole book. It's tied to the theme 09:09 of light and trusting in God. 09:12 Now, if you turn over to John 5, verse 24--actually, I think 09:16 verse 24 and 25 are good to read. 09:19 >>Eric: “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears my word 09:23 "and believes in Him who sent me 09:24 "has everlasting life, 09:26 "and shall not come into judgment, but has passed 09:29 "from death into life. 09:30 "Most assuredly, I say to you, the hour is coming, and now is, 09:34 "when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God; 09:37 and those who hear will live." 09:40 >>Tom: Yeah, it's a beautiful passage, 09:42 and it talks about, again, 09:44 this idea of life and believing, and when you believe on Him, 09:49 you have eternal life. 09:50 Now, we should pause for a moment and talk about, 09:53 you know, what does it mean to believe? 09:55 It's not just saying--it's not just agreeing to the truths 10:01 of the gospel; it's actually making a commitment of your life 10:05 to Christ and entering into a relationship with Him. 10:08 There's a interesting story about a man by the name 10:13 of Blondin. 10:15 He was a tightrope walker, and, believe it or not, 10:20 he walked across Niagara Falls from the American side, 10:24 I think, over to the Canadian side. 10:27 Well, he probably went back and forth. He did this many times, 10:30 and he tried different things. 10:34 He went out there and sat down and ate a meal, and he did it 10:40 at night, and one time, what he did was he offered to carry, 10:46 actually, the Prince of Wales on his back across the chasm 10:52 of Niagara Falls. 10:54 The Prince of Wales declined, but his manager, actually, 11:01 did--the name of Harry-- did agree to do this. 11:05 And he went to walk with him. 11:09 He put on a, you know, like, tuxedo. 11:12 If he was gonna die, he was gonna go in style. 11:16 And he climbed onto his back, and Blondin walked across 11:20 Niagara Falls with him on his back. 11:22 He actually had him get off like six or seven times 11:25 so he could rest, [chuckles] so-- 11:28 but they made it across, and that's true faith. 11:30 You know, he really trusted his life to Blondin, and Blondin 11:34 never fell, never fell the whole time, so it's quite an amazing 11:38 kind of an experience. 11:39 Now, we can read some other texts here as well. 11:43 Let's read John 6:47-51, and it says, "Truly, truly, 11:51 "I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life. 11:54 "I am the bread of life. 11:56 "Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. 11:59 "This is the bread that comes down from heaven, 12:01 "so that one may eat of it and not die. 12:04 "I am the living bread that came down from heaven. 12:06 "If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. 12:09 "And the bread that I will give for the life of the world 12:14 is my flesh." 12:16 >>Eric: So we're getting a deeper picture 12:19 of what this life is. Now, we're not done yet. 12:23 We're continuing looking at the source of life here. 12:26 But there--if somebody wants to dig more deeply 12:28 into this subject, we have a companion book. 12:31 Share with us a little bit about that companion book. 12:33 >>Tom: The companion book is written by--sometimes 12:38 by the lesson author, sometimes by some other person, usually 12:42 a knowledgeable scholar-- and it has information in it 12:47 that will help you to understand, 12:48 go deeper than what you find in the "Sabbath School" lesson, 12:51 go deeper than what you find in the teacher's lesson, 12:54 gives you added information 12:56 for studying, for teaching, or for sharing in class, 12:59 and it's just good to, you know, go deeper into the text and get 13:04 a greater understanding. 13:05 >>Eric: So if you'd like to pick up that companion book, 13:08 it's easy to do. Just go to itiswritten.shop. 13:11 Again, that is itiswritten.shop. 13:13 You will find the companion book 13:15 to this quarter's "Sabbath School" lesson there. 13:17 Pick it up, read through it, study it, delve into it, 13:21 and you will get a lot 13:22 out of it that just adds to your understanding 13:25 of the great themes in the book of John. 13:27 We're going to be coming back in just a moment as we continue 13:30 looking at the concept of life here on "Sabbath School," 13:33 brought to you by It Is Written. 13:35 ♪♪♪ 13:40 >>John Bradshaw: How easy is it to be thankful? 13:42 Well, we both know the answer to that question. 13:45 It's easy when the weather's good, and there's money 13:48 in your pocket, and there's food on the table, and your parents 13:52 are well, and the children are great, and grandma and grandpa 13:55 say they're coming by to visit, when your job is going okay. 14:00 Certainly, you're thankful, and those sort of thanks 14:03 come easy, but how easy is it to be grateful 14:08 when things aren't going so well? 14:10 How can we be thankful to God when our lives are shaken? 14:14 How can we be thankful in difficult times? 14:17 You know, the Bible says, in all things "give thanks," that 14:20 "all things work together for good to [those who] love God." 14:24 Don't miss "Grateful," where you'll learn how you can be 14:27 biblically thankful, where you'll discover how you can 14:30 thank God and trust Him in all things at all times. 14:34 "Grateful," brought to you by It Is Written TV. 14:40 ♪♪♪ 14:44 >>Eric: Welcome back to "Sabbath School," 14:46 brought to you by It Is Written. 14:47 We're looking at lesson number 9, 14:50 understanding life and who life is, what life is. 14:55 Tom, as we go through this, I'm gonna read a statement here 14:58 in the book of John, John 1, verses 9 through 13, 15:04 and I want to ask you the question, 15:05 what's the difference between those who believe 15:07 and those who don't believe? 15:09 Some people are going to have life. 15:10 Some people are not going to have life. 15:12 So, I'm going to read John 1:9-13. 15:17 "That was the true Light which gives light to every man coming 15:20 "into the world. 15:22 "He was in the world, and the world was made 15:24 "through Him, and the world did not know Him. 15:26 "He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. 15:29 "But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right 15:33 "to become children of God, to those who believe on His name: 15:37 "who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, 15:40 nor of the will of man, but of God." 15:43 >>Tom: Okay, so, first of all, 15:45 we notice that the true Light gives light to everyone. 15:49 So every person coming into the world gets some light. 15:52 Some people get more light, some people get less light, 15:55 but the question always is: 15:56 What will you do with the light that God gives you? 16:00 If you follow the light, you get more light. 16:02 We saw this with the woman at the well, you know. 16:05 She saw the light, and she couldn't look at it 16:07 quite straight on. 16:09 It was too bright, but she didn't run away, see? 16:13 That's kind of encouraging because, you know, sometimes God 16:18 will show us things that we are like, [sighs] 16:22 "Can I accept that?" you know? 16:24 And He brings us around and helps us to do it. 16:28 You better listen to God, but, you know, He's patient too. 16:32 He's gonna work with you. 16:33 So, the true Light gives light to everyone. 16:36 And notice here in verse 10: He was in the world, the world 16:40 was made through Him, yet the world did not know Him. 16:43 Why didn't they know Him? 16:45 'Cause they didn't want to know Him, all right? 16:47 He came to His own people, 16:49 and His own people did not receive Him. 16:51 Well, why didn't they receive Him? Well, 16:52 we've seen some of that already in the gospel studies. 16:56 Because He was a threat to their power, and He said things that, 17:00 you know, just, they found it very difficult to accept. 17:05 It says, "But to those who did receive Him"--all right, 17:08 so it's knowing Him; it's receiving Him; 17:12 it's believing in Him. 17:13 He gave them the right to become children of God. 17:16 Now, it's not just their choice that's involved here, 17:21 because it says, "Who were born, not of blood, nor the will 17:25 of the flesh, nor the will of man, but of God." 17:28 So, when you and I open our hearts to God, 17:31 He does something in our life. 17:34 We don't create the new birth, He does, within our life. 17:38 Let's turn over to John, chapter 3. 17:41 I want to look at a text here 17:43 as well that helps to explain this, and it's John 3, 17:50 starting in verse 18 and going through verse 21: 17:55 “Whoever believes in Him"-- 17:57 "Whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever 18:00 "does not believe is condemned already, because he has 18:04 "not believed in the name of the only Son of God. 18:06 "And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, 18:10 "and people loved the darkness 18:12 "rather than the light because their works were evil. 18:16 "For everyone who does wicked things hates the light 18:19 "and does not come to the light, 18:20 "lest his works should be exposed. 18:22 "But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that 18:26 "it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out 18:30 in God," all right? 18:31 So there's two groups. 18:33 There's those who love evil, and there's those who love God. 18:38 Those who love evil love the darkness. 18:41 Those who love God love the light. 18:43 Now, it's not just, like, the light of day or the dark 18:46 of night, but it's the concept or the symbolism of darkness 18:50 as that which goes with evil and that which goes with light. 18:54 Now, we have an Old Testament story that illustrates this 18:58 quite nicely. 19:00 It's found over in the book of Numbers, 19:03 Numbers, chapter 13 19:06 and verses 25 through 33, 19:11 Numbers, chapter 13, 19:17 verses 25 through 33. 19:21 Now, this is the story of the spies sent into Canaan. 19:26 So, if you read chapter 13, verse 1, it says, 19:29 "The Lord spoke to Moses, saying"--and here's verse 2-- 19:32 "'Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, 19:35 "'which I am giving to the people of Israel. 19:36 "'From each tribe of their fathers you shall send a man, 19:39 every one a chief among them.'" 19:43 All right, so these are the chiefs. 19:46 Now, they go out, and they spy out the land, and then they 19:51 come back at the end of 40 days to give their report. 19:55 So now let's read Numbers, chapter 13, verses 25 to 33. 20:00 >>Eric: "And they returned from spying out the land 20:02 "after forty days. 20:03 "Now they departed and came back to Moses and Aaron 20:06 "and all the congregation of the children of Israel 20:08 "in the Wilderness of Paran, [to] Kadesh; 20:11 "they brought back word to them and to all the congregation, 20:14 "and showed them the fruit of the land. 20:17 "Then they told him, and said: 'We went to the land 20:20 "'where you sent us. It truly flows with milk and honey, 20:23 "'and this is its fruit. 20:25 "'Nevertheless the people who dwell in the land are strong; 20:28 "'the cities are fortified and very large; 20:31 "'moreover we saw the descendants of Anak there. 20:34 "'The Amalekites dwell in the land of the South; 20:37 "'the Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites 20:39 "'dwell in the mountains; and the Canaanites dwell by the sea 20:42 "and along the banks of the Jordan.' 20:45 "Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, 20:48 "'Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able 20:52 "to overcome it.' 20:54 "But the men who had gone up with him said, 20:56 "'We are not able to go up against the people, 20:58 "for they are stronger than we.' 21:00 "And they gave the children of Israel 21:02 "a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, 21:06 "'The land through which we have gone as spies is a land 21:09 "'that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw 21:12 "'in it are men of great stature. 21:15 "'There we saw the giants (the descendants of Anak 21:17 "'came from the giants); and we were like grasshoppers 21:20 in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.'" 21:24 >>Tom: [chuckling] Okay. 21:27 Now, the children have a song they sing, "Twelve Spies." 21:31 I don't know if you've ever sung this song. 21:34 Do you remember the names of the 12 spies? 21:39 Well, they're all listed in the Bible, but there's only two 21:44 that we remember their names, and those are 21:47 Joshua, son of Nun, and Caleb. 21:51 And, of course, Caleb is the one who speaks up here, and he says, 21:54 "Let us go up at once and occupy it, for we are well able 21:58 to overcome them." 22:01 He brings them a good report about the land. 22:04 Now, you know, they started their report--all 12 spies 22:08 started their report well. 22:10 They said, "We came to the land to which you sent us. 22:12 It flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit." 22:15 They brought this huge grapes, you know, vine of grapes 22:21 that they had brought back, a big cluster of grapes 22:25 that had to be carried between two people. 22:27 It was so big, you know. 22:29 So, you know, it was very impressive, 22:31 "flows with milk and honey." 22:33 "However," they said, there are giants in the land, 22:38 fortified cities. 22:40 And the Amalekites dwell there, the Hittites, the Jebusites, 22:45 and the Canaanites. 22:47 "And we're just not able to take this place." 22:52 And Caleb says, "No, no, no, no, no, we can take it. 22:56 We can take it." 22:57 Now, what made the difference between Caleb's and Joshua's 23:02 report and the report of these other 10 spies? 23:05 >>Eric: It seems like they had belief in what God 23:08 had told them, and the other spies, 23:10 they looked more about what they saw. 23:13 >>Tom: Yes, isn't it interesting? 23:15 The 10 spies focused their attention on the obstacles, 23:19 and the two spies focused their attention 23:22 on God's promise, right? 23:24 So what are you gonna trust, God's promise 23:27 or the obstacles that you see in front of you? 23:31 Well, they looked at the obstacles, and at the end, 23:34 they say, "And we seemed ourselves like grasshoppers, 23:39 and so we seemed to them.” 23:42 So, they had a grasshopper complex, 23:46 where they thought, you know, "We just can't do it. 23:48 "We don't have the power to do this. 23:51 We're not going to succeed. It's hopeless." 23:54 And, of course, all of those men die in the desert, 23:58 except Caleb and Joshua. 24:01 And when it comes time, 40 years later, 24:04 to divide the land, Joshua is-- Caleb is 85 years old. 24:10 You think about this, 85. 24:12 And he says, "I'm as strong now as I was 40 years ago." 24:16 He says, "Give me the land where the giants live. 24:19 That's the place I'll take." 24:20 You know, what does he do? He goes and drives them out. 24:23 That becomes his land. 24:25 He was an amazing guy. That's a man of faith. 24:28 >>Eric: So we see examples of faith here 24:30 in the Old Testament of Joshua and Caleb. 24:33 What's the basis of our faith when we look to Jesus, 24:38 or we should look to Jesus, and we tend to see the obstacles? 24:43 >>Tom: Yeah. >>Eric: What do we base 24:45 our faith on to move forward, to move past? 24:48 >>Tom: All right, so we should base our faith on evidence, 24:51 right? And God has given us 24:53 plentiful evidence and good evidence. 24:57 We talked before--I think maybe it was last quarter when 25:01 we talked about the evidence for Jesus' resurrection, 25:05 that Jesus--there's good evidence 25:08 that Jesus rose from the dead. 25:09 We have plenty of things. 25:11 The tomb was empty-- oh, it was this quarter. 25:13 The tomb was empty, and the disciples stealing the body 25:18 was not a good explanation. 25:20 There were soldiers that were guarding the tomb. 25:22 There was the folded cloth, and grave robbers wouldn't do that, 25:27 and they wouldn't steal a body either, so-- 25:31 and many people saw Jesus after He rose from the dead, 25:33 more than 500 at one time, so there's good, strong evidence 25:36 that Jesus is exactly who He said He was, and that means 25:39 that all the things that He said are true 25:42 so that we can trust those. 25:43 So we base our faith on evidence. 25:45 Now, we don't have just the evidence 25:47 of what is said in the Bible. 25:50 We have the evidence of our own experience. 25:53 I've been a Christian for more than 50 years, 25:56 50-60 years, and it's been a good life. 26:01 God has been merciful to me and to my family 26:04 through some difficult times. 26:06 And so, my testimony is that when you go through trouble, 26:11 the thing that really kept us going 26:14 is the promises of the Bible 26:16 and then good friends around us. 26:18 So, there's evidence to base our faith on, and we should share 26:23 that faith with other people to help them know about it, 26:26 live our faith in front of them, and invite them. 26:29 Invite them to hear the Word of God at church, 26:32 share literature with them. These are ways that we can help 26:34 more people to enter faith, 26:36 and that's really what our calling is, is to help 26:40 more people know about Jesus. 26:41 >>Eric: You know, some people have given the illustration 26:45 that the most powerful sermon that you'll ever preach will be 26:47 the life that you live, and I don't think that that negates 26:51 the importance or the significance of sermons. 26:53 They have their place, most certainly. 26:55 However, how you live your life is going to speak volumes 26:59 to people around you. 27:01 They're going to see the gospel, or the lack thereof, 27:04 in the life that you live. 27:06 And so, as we study the book of John, as we study 27:09 the life of Jesus, that should increase, strengthen 27:13 our own faith, our own walk with Him, 27:15 and that life that He wants to give 27:17 should be reflected in the lives that we live. 27:21 And when that happens, other people are going to be drawn 27:25 to get to know, to want to know the Savior as well. 27:28 And so, my prayer is that God is going to touch your life 27:32 and that you will be a powerful witness to others of the life 27:36 that Jesus has given to you. 27:38 We're going to continue studying the book of John 27:40 when we come back again next week. 27:42 We are rapidly approaching our 13th lesson. 27:45 We're not there yet-- next week, lesson number 10. 27:48 If you happen to have missed any, you can go back and check 27:51 the archived ones, but between now and then, 27:53 get prepared for next week. 27:55 It's a brand new lesson here on "Sabbath School," 27:57 brought to you by It Is Written. 27:59 ♪♪♪ 28:23 ♪♪♪ 28:26 [Captions provided by Aberdeen Captioning www.abercap.com] |
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