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00:12 [ "Worthy is the Lamb" begins ] 00:19 ♪♪ ♪♪ 00:32 ♪♪ ♪♪ 00:52 ♪♪ ♪♪ 01:12 ♪♪ ♪♪ 01:32 ♪♪ ♪♪ 01:52 ♪♪ ♪♪ 02:13 ♪♪ ♪♪ 02:33 ♪♪ ♪♪ 02:53 ♪♪ ♪♪ 03:13 ♪♪ ♪♪ 03:33 ♪♪ ♪♪ 03:53 ♪♪ ♪♪ 04:13 ♪♪ [ "When I Survey the Wondrous 04:21 Cross" begins ] ♪♪ 04:33 ♪♪ ♪♪ 04:53 ♪♪ ♪♪ 05:13 ♪♪ ♪♪ 05:33 ♪♪ ♪♪ 05:53 ♪♪ ♪♪ 06:13 ♪♪ ♪♪ 06:33 ♪♪ ♪♪ 06:53 ♪♪ ♪♪ 07:13 ♪♪ ♪♪ 07:33 ♪♪ ♪♪ 07:53 ♪♪ ♪♪ 08:13 ♪♪ ♪♪ 08:33 ♪♪ ♪♪ 08:53 ♪♪ ♪♪ 09:11 >> Hebrews 12:2 says, "Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the 09:17 author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set 09:21 before Him endured the Cross, scorning its shame, and sat down 09:26 at the right hand of the throne of God." 09:32 [ "Jesus Paid It All" begins ] ♪♪ 09:42 ♪♪ ♪♪ 10:02 ♪♪ ♪♪ 10:22 ♪♪ ♪♪ 10:42 ♪♪ ♪♪ 11:02 ♪♪ ♪♪ 11:22 ♪♪ ♪♪ 11:42 ♪♪ ♪♪ 12:02 ♪♪ ♪♪ 12:22 ♪♪ ♪♪ 12:42 ♪♪ ♪♪ 13:02 ♪♪ ♪♪ 13:22 ♪♪ ♪♪ 13:42 ♪♪ ♪♪ 14:02 ♪♪ ♪♪ 14:22 ♪♪ 14:31 >> "Let us fix our fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and 14:34 perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured 14:38 the Cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand 14:42 of the throne of God." Hebrews 12:2. 14:46 >> This is the story of a boy who wanted to learn to do a 14:49 front flip. 14:50 His name was Luke, and he had a brother named Sam. 14:54 Sam could do a front flip, and Luke desperately wanted to 14:58 learn. >> Sam, can you teach me to do a front flip? 15:02 >> I don't know. Can I? >> Come on. Please! >> Yeah, I'll help you learn. 15:08 >> Luke was now very happy his brother agreed to teach him to do a front flip. 15:13 They headed out to their grassy backyard to get on their trampoline. 15:18 >> Luke, watch me do a front flip, and then tell me what I'm doing. 15:23 >> Okay, I'll try. 15:27 >> Okay, Luke, tell me what you just saw. >> Um, a front flip? 15:32 >> Is that all you saw? >> It was too fast. >> Okay, maybe we should try a 15:37 different approach. >> What do you mean? >> How about I tell you what to 15:41 do. First, you have to remember to tuck. 15:44 If you don't tuck, you won't have enough rotation. Second, you have to jump at the 15:50 right time. If you jump too early, you will be too close to the ground. 15:54 Lastly, you'll have to follow through. If you get scared and you stop 15:59 rotating, you will have a bigger chance of falling on your neck than if you just keep going. 16:03 >> Okay, I think I've got it all figured out. >> Do you think you're ready? 16:08 >> Nope, but I'm going to try anyway. >> Now, Luke was terrified, but 16:12 he didn't show it. He wanted to look strong. When he tried doing the front 16:18 flip, he stopped rotating and fell flat on his back. >> Luke, are you okay? 16:23 What happened? >> I can't do it. I'm too scared. 16:27 Can you help me not be? >> No, I can't, but God can. Why don't you try praying? 16:33 Let's try again tomorrow. >> Okay, I will pray. [ Latin music begins ] 16:41 ♪♪ >> "Have I not commanded you? 16:45 Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not 16:49 be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you 16:53 go." Joshua 1:9. 16:56 >> Sam, wake up, wake up! >> Come on, dude. 17:00 It's 6:00 a.m. on a Sunday. Can't you wait till at least 17:04 10:00? >> Okay, fine. 17:06 I'll wake you up at 10:00. >> Now, Luke didn't like to 17:10 sleep in. On the weekends, he would wake 17:12 up at 6:00. He didn't have that good of a 17:15 sense of time, and he didn't like waiting. 17:17 Luke waited for about 40 minutes and said, "Okay, it's probably 17:21 been long enough," and he went back into Sam's room and woke 17:25 Sam up again. But Sam told him that it had 17:28 only been one hour and sent Luke out of his room. 17:31 This went on for the next three hours. 17:34 >> Finally, it's 10:00. I can get Sam up now. 17:37 >> Hi, Luke. I guess it's time for your 17:40 front-flip lessons. >> Yay! 17:43 >> Luke spent the next week and a half learning to do a front 17:46 flip. Every day, he got a little bit 17:49 better. He enjoyed his time with Sam. 17:51 Luke was progressing quickly, and he would come home from 17:54 school and practice. Then, one day, this happened. 17:58 >> Hey, Sam, come on the trampoline. Look at my progress. 18:02 I can now land on my knees. >> Okay, Luke. I'm coming. 18:09 >> See, Sam? Wasn't that great? >> Dude, that was amazing. 18:14 I'll help you land it. >> As Luke was getting ready for his big front flip, his mom was 18:19 making dinner and watching through the window. "You can do it!" she yelled. 18:24 Of course, Luke couldn't hear her through the closed window, and then he flipped. 18:30 He landed it. And that is the story about how 18:34 Luke Reed learned to do a front flip. 18:37 >> "But Jesus immediately said to them, 'Take courage! 18:42 It is I. Don't be afraid.' 'Lord, if it's you,' Peter 18:46 replied, 'tell me to come out to you on the water.' 18:51 'Come,' He said. Then Peter got down out of the 18:54 boat, walked on the water, and came toward Jesus. 18:57 But when he saw the wind, he was afraid and, beginning to sink, 19:01 cried out, 'Lord, save me!'" Matthew 14:27-30. 19:07 You see, in my story, I had to focus on a couple things. 19:11 I had to focus on flipping at the right time, tucking, and 19:15 landing on my feet. If I focused on my fear, I would 19:19 get scared and wouldn't do it. To follow God, focus on Jesus, 19:23 not fearing other bad things in life. 19:26 I hope you enjoyed my play. The end. 19:33 ♪♪ ♪♪ 19:53 ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ 20:23 ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ 20:53 ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ 21:23 ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ 21:53 ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ 22:23 ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ 22:53 ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ 23:23 ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ 23:53 ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ 24:26 >> Father, we surrender all, as Gabriel just prayed to You through his fingers. 24:33 We surrender all. May Jesus be front and center now so that we know to whom we 24:38 are giving our all. We pray in His name, amen. 24:43 Another advantage of this lockdown is we're learning all 24:46 kinds of new stuff. Have you noticed that? 24:48 I tell you. So, I'm having breakfast 24:50 [Chuckles] a few days ago, and I'm eating my banana. 24:52 Karen comes along, and she says, "Don't throw those peels away." 24:55 I said, "What do you mean don't throw the peels away?" 24:58 I would put them right under the kitchen sink like I'm supposed to. 25:01 I get in trouble if I don't. She says, "No, just leave them out." 25:04 "Okay." Next morning, I'm having -- I eat a banana a day, seven days a 25:08 week. So, I'm having my next breakfast banana. 25:12 She comes walking by, she said, "Don't forget, save those banana peels for me." 25:15 I said, "Listen, girl, what's up with this thing?" She says, "I have found out, 25:21 from a YouTube, that banana peels are very valuable." "They are? 25:29 [ Chuckles ] That's news to me. Okay. I'll save them." So, I watched what she did with 25:35 them. She got a quart jar full of water, and she shoves the banana 25:40 peel in it, screws the lid on it, puts it out on our back porch. 25:45 Sits there. Looks really bad. Comes back the next day, she takes the next banana peel, and 25:49 she puts it in. Where's she getting all this? Tell you what, she's the 25:52 resident Gen Z'er, DIY, do-it-yourself. She's -- YouTube, I told you. 25:57 She's learning all this. I says, "What are you gonna do with it?" 26:00 She says, "Watch." She takes the lid off one day, and then she begins to pour it 26:04 on the plants, the geraniums that are on our deck. She says, "This is potassium. 26:10 It's good for the pants." Oh, brother. Are you serious? I had to look the word up last 26:14 night because it's hard to pronounce, but I got it right here -- "horticulturist," 26:21 and according to the Web, "an expert in garden cultivation and management." 26:28 This morning, in the brave new world of post-Flood -- three times we're 26:33 going to a brave new world, three times it's post-Flood -- we're gonna meet the world's 26:38 first horticulturist. And, oh, my, is he good. Open your Bible with me please. 26:44 Let's go. Genesis chapter nine. I'm in the NIV. Any Bible you have nearby, grab 26:49 it please. Genesis 9:18. "And the sons of Noah who came 26:54 out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth." Japheth's number one, Shem is 26:58 number two, Ham is the youngest boy. "And," Moses goes on, "Ham was 27:01 the father of Canaan." Now, this is a big deal, because the Israelites, who will read 27:06 this story of the beginning, like a burr under the saddle or a thorn in the flesh, the 27:11 Canaanites have just been driving them to distraction. So we're tracing them all the 27:16 way back. Now, verse 20 -- no, no verse 19. 27:23 "These were the three sons of Noah, and from them came the people who were scattered over 27:28 the whole Earth. Guess what. One of those three boys is your 27:31 great-great-great-great-great -- whatever. One of them is. Has to be. 27:34 The whole human race came from those three. Now verse 20. Here we go. 27:39 "Noah, a man of the soil --" horticulturist. "Noah, a man of the soil, 27:44 proceeded to plant a vineyard." Oh, that's great language for us who live here in 27:48 Southwestern Michigan, because this is vineyard country. There are vineyards everywhere. 27:54 I don't know -- it doesn't say what kind of vineyard he planted. 27:58 What color were the grapes? Were they red, were they brown, were they purple, were they 28:04 blue, were they black, were they green, were they white? It doesn't say. 28:08 Were they Concord? Were they Thompson, were they Flame, were they Ruby? 28:11 It doesn't say. It just says he planted a vineyard. 28:14 And by the way, he's the first human being to have ever planted a vineyard. 28:17 Wow. That's pretty cool. Well, I don't know how many seasons go by, and he's doing it 28:23 somewhere down the sides of Mount Ararat. So he's terraced out a vineyard 28:29 somewhere, and this vineyard is successful. Wow. 28:33 I don't know -- perhaps he erected a little château, you know, out of rocks left over 28:39 from the Flood and just piled them up and has this little château beside the vineyard, and 28:45 it has the clay jars in it, and he fills those clay jars with the juices of the different 28:49 grapes that he's growing. And of course the family loves the juices. 28:52 He loves the juices. One day, he comes to that little château, and he reaches up, and 28:56 he grabs a clay jar, and he says, "Hmm, I want to try this one." 29:01 And so he gets it, and he tilts it back. [ Slurps ] 29:05 "Ahh! Wow! What is that?! This has a bite to it. 29:11 I want to try a little more. [ Slurps ] Ohh. 29:18 This has a buzz to it!" I don't know how he learned the word "buzz," but you got it. 29:24 [ Slurps, breathes heavily ] And he kept drinkin'. Yep. And what happens? 29:33 Before long, Noah's cognition is being affected in a way no human being's cognition has ever 29:40 heretofore been affected. Something's happened to him. Verse 21. 29:47 "And when he drank some of its wine --" that would be grape juice -- "he became drunk --" 29:53 well, that's obviously fermented grape juice -- "he became drunk and lay uncovered --" that means 29:59 naked --" inside his tent. Now, let's be clear about one thing. 30:05 Nature invented fermentation. But the way the story is being told, we are being told more 30:13 than the story appears to tell. There obviously is an evil mastermind who, in his own 30:19 laboratories, has concocted what will become alcohol, and he's finally got a human to try it. 30:29 Oh, boy. And thus begins the ill-fated journey of alcoholic inebriation 30:34 for the human race. Jacques Doukhan, in his, what I consider, masterful commentary 30:41 on the first book of the Bible -- this is for the Seventh-Day Adventist 30:44 International Bible Commentary, and he wrote the first volume, and I've read it cover to cover. 30:49 He helped me see what's embedded in this Hebrew narrative that I would never have seen on my own. 30:55 Alright, maybe this will be interesting for you, too. Point number one embedded there. 31:00 The parallels -- Jacques points this out. The parallels between drinking 31:05 by Noah and the eating of the forbidden fruit by Adam suddenly suggest a warning against that 31:11 temptation of wine drinking. It's not grape-juice drinking. It's fermented-grape-juice 31:17 drinking. Something dreadfully wrong happens in both stories when the 31:21 fruit is consumed, no matter how it's consumed. In the first story, the act of 31:26 eating the fruit is clearly divinely forbidden. In the second story, the act of 31:30 drinking from the fruit is now subtly divinely forbidden. Hmm. 31:40 Point number two embedded. This divine indictment of fermented wine drinking may also 31:48 be implied -- let me just stay close to what Jacques' point here -- is also implied by the 31:53 very fact that the first drinking ever recorded in the Bible is associated with shame 31:59 and a curse. And, by the way, may I tell you that the second drinking of 32:03 wine -- fermented grape juice -- in the Bible is also associated with shame and a curse when 32:08 Lot's daughters hoodwink him into becoming inebriated, and then they have incestuous sex 32:14 with their daddy. Yeah, the first two instances. Something else is being taught 32:23 to us here. Number three, the specification of a beginning. 32:27 So the line can be translated, "Noah was a man of the soil and was the first to plant a 32:32 vineyard." The specification of the beginning of this culture of 32:36 wine, fermented wine, indicates it is outside the purview of the divine act of creation. 32:46 This is something that was never intended. One more embedded point. 32:51 This presumption -- Doukhan is making a point -- perhaps explains why Daniel totally -- 32:58 totally -- refuses to drink a drop of wine in Babylon or be diverted from a plant-based 33:07 diet. Both of those acts -- his pledge of loyalty to the God who 33:12 created him. Ooh. I thought that was interesting. 33:15 And of course the Bible's warnings -- and they are there -- indicate that that 33:21 drinking of fermented grape juice now speaks loudly as being condemned by the Creator 33:29 Himself. Now, lookit, obviously Noah did not know the inebriating effects 33:33 of this. He didn't know. How could he have known? 33:35 He didn't know. But just because we don't know what the effects are of what 33:40 we're doing doesn't make what we're doing right. Does that make sense? 33:44 It's got to. Okay. Well, the plot thickens now. 33:48 Ooh. Here we go. Verse 22. So he's drunk and he's naked inside the tent. 33:53 Verse 22 now. "Ham, the father of Canaan --" we're being reminded again, 33:57 those affliction bearers to the tri-- to the community of Israel, they go all the way back 34:07 to this. "Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father naked, and he told 34:11 his two brothers outside. But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it across their 34:15 shoulders, and as they walked in backward, they covered their father's naked body. 34:18 Their faces were turned the other way so they would not see their naked father." 34:21 They didn't see him at all. They just dropped that blanket down and, "Phew, Daddy's covered 34:26 now." Wow. What's going on here? Robert Alter -- just mentioned 34:36 him a second ago -- three-volume, one-man translation of Hebrew, and I'm 34:41 in the first volume, and I'm reading Genesis through right now in his translation. 34:46 He writes this, a little translation note, and I'm quoting him -- "No one has ever 34:51 figured out exactly what it is that Ham does to Noah." Okay? What's up with this? 34:56 "Lot's daughters of course take advantage of his drunkenness to have sex with him, but it is 35:01 entirely possible that the mere seeing of a father's nakedness was thought of as a terrible 35:05 taboo so that Ham's failure to avert his eyes would itself have earned him the curse." 35:11 Now, Doukhan compares -- and Ham saw -- with Eve -- and Eve saw the fruit. 35:19 There's something in that seeing that is the dramatic key to their downfall. 35:28 They saw it. They lingered. Huh. "Patriarchs and Prophets" comes 35:33 along, and I'm telling you what, she doesn't say what it is, but her language could hardly be 35:38 more explicit. Let me just read you one sentence. 35:41 This is all that it said. "The unnatural --" so whatever is going on in that tent. 35:47 "The unnatural crime --" so whatever's going on in that tent is not only unnatural, it is a 35:52 crime. 35:53 "The unnatural crime of Ham declared that filial 35:56 reverence --" the reverence of a child for his or her parent -- 35:59 "had long before been cast from his soul, and it revealed the 36:03 impurity --" whatever took place was impure -- "and the 36:07 vileness --" it was vile -- "of his character." 36:09 Boy, you'll spend the rest of the Sabbath afternoon trying to 36:12 figure that one out. I don't think we'll have to. 36:15 The point is... Ham goes back out to share the 36:21 delicious details to his two older brothers, and their 36:24 response, which is to take that blanket and do what they did -- 36:29 something's going on. 36:32 Now, Noah awakens out of his stupor. What is this? 36:37 This is verse 24. "When Noah awoke from his wine and found out what his youngest 36:44 son had done to him, he said, 'Cursed be Canaan!'" Ooh! 36:49 He didn't say, "Cursed by Ham." "Cursed be Canaan." This is not a blanket cursing of 36:55 all of Ham's children, no. He didn't curse the others. "Cursed be Canaan." 37:00 Remember, now, this is going to be the tribe -- these will be the pagans who will take Israel 37:05 down again and again. Lot's two daughters took him down. 37:09 Sodom and Gomorra was a Canaanite city. The Moabites almost destroyed 37:17 Israel just on the the brink of the Promised Land. Canaanites again. 37:20 The curse is not on Ham. You can't read it any other than it is -- he picked out one of 37:26 the children and said, "Watch this." Noah in advance -- divinely 37:32 inspired, obviously -- he traces forward the infestation of that sin, and the rest is history. 37:41 Mm. So, the curse is on Canaan, and now notice the blessing. 37:47 Verse 26. "And Noah also said, 'Praise be to the Lord, the God of Shem!'" 37:52 He does not praise Shem, he does not praise Japheth, he does not praise or curse any of his boys, 37:57 but he says, "The God of Shem, praise be to Him." What's up? 38:00 Ah, the God of Shem, who is he? Oh, he's the rainbow-covenant God, as we noted last week. 38:05 He's the God of love who has chosen the line of Shem through which to bring a knowledge of 38:10 Himself to the human race. Praise be to that God. My. 38:19 Verse 28 -- "And after the Flood, Noah lived 350 years. And Noah lived a total of 950 38:24 years, and then he died." The end. But you want to see something 38:29 really fascinating? I bet you do. I want to show it to you. 38:33 Never saw this before in my life. Perhaps you haven't either. 38:36 Doukhan again -- my friend Jacques. He says, "I want you to notice 38:40 the parallels between the story of Adam and Noah." Never seen this, but let me run 38:44 these by you. Number one, "Adam tends a garden, Noah grows a vineyard." 38:48 Oh. Number two, "Adam eats the fruit, Noah drinks the fruit." 38:52 Oh. Number three, "Adam, as a result of his action, is naked; Noah, 38:57 as a result of his action, is naked." Number four, "Adam's nakedness, 39:00 of which he is not aware, is revealed; Noah's nakedness, of which he is not aware, is 39:05 revealed." Number five, "A covering is provided for Adam's nakedness, a 39:09 covering is provided for Noah's nakedness." And finally, "Both stories end 39:14 in the same way, with a curse and a blessing." Something's going on here. 39:19 Something's being communicated to us. The infestation of the original 39:24 sin carries on from generation to generation to generation to generation to generation. 39:29 Guess what. You can have a global flood, cover the world with water, 39:33 scrub the Earth clean, but the humans who disembarked from the ark after that Flood are still 39:38 as infected as when they went onto that ark. The infestation is here. 39:44 It's Adam, Noah, you, me. That's the point. We're all infected. 39:50 The original sin, as it were, keeps on keepin' on. And it just keeps on keepin' on. 39:58 My. So, the compelling question is, how do we get out of sin's 40:03 terrible lockdown? How do we break this? You probably have a family tree. 40:07 I have a family tree. Which one of your sins came from your daddy? 40:10 Which one came from your mommy? You know we've blamed them along the way. 40:16 Come on. Unbreakable. Who's gonna pick this lock? You remember Romans 5? 40:22 I want to end with Romans 5. Come on. We were just in Genesis 9. 40:26 Now we go to Romans 5. This is that...summit in the New Testament, certainly in the 40:33 Book of Romans. Romans chapter five. I want to just read a line -- 40:35 three lines to you, three of them. Then you'll see where this 40:38 little "father to son to mother to daughter" business is going. Romans 5:12. 40:42 "Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man..." Who would that be? 40:46 That would be Adam. "...and death through sin, and in this way death came to all 40:51 people because all sinned..." Adam, Noah, you, me -- we've all sinned, all of us. 40:58 Every single bloomin' one of us have sinned. Now drop down to verse 15. 41:03 But along comes the gift. "And the gift is not like the trespass. 41:08 For if the many died by the trespass of the one man --" that would be Adam -- "how much more 41:13 did God's grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ --" the 41:18 second Adam -- "overflow to the many!" Oh, man, we've got two Adams 41:22 going here. We have an Adam through which we all got lost, thanks to our 41:28 participation with him, and we have a second Adam through which we all can be saved. 41:33 Drop down to verse 18, one more line. "Consequently, just as one 41:37 trespass resulted in condemnation for all people --" Adam -- "so also one righteous 41:42 act --" talking about Calvary and the Cross -- "resulted in justification --" that means to 41:45 be pardoned, to be forgiven, to be legally declared, "You are emancipated! 41:50 You are free! I've set you free." So, "...through one righteous 41:55 act resulted in justification and life --" for how many people does your Bible say? 42:00 Mine says "all." Guess what. The entire human race 42:03 emancipated by the gift of Calvary -- the entire human race. 42:07 Am I reading something into this? I am not. 42:10 The entire human race. My, my, my, my, my, my. What's going on here? 42:17 Ah. I had never heard of Juneteenth before a week ago. 42:30 A week ago yesterday was June 19th, and it's called Juneteenth. 42:35 All my life, how come nobody ever told me about this? Lot of people found out about 42:39 it. "What are you talking about, Dwight?" 42:41 Well, let me just read it to you. "Juneteenth --" okay, so I got 42:44 this on the Web. "Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated 42:48 commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States, dating back to 1865. 42:52 It was on June 19th that the Union soldiers, led by Major General Gordon Granger, 42:58 landed at Galveston, Texas, with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now 43:04 free." Please note that this is now two and a half years after 43:08 President Abraham Lincoln has signed the Emancipation Proclamation that 43:12 went into effect January 1, 1863. Two and a half years later, the 43:17 slaves in Texas are hearing about it for the first time. My. 43:24 "You're free!" You've been free for two and a half years." 43:27 "Well, nobody told me." I want to take that history and look at another history. 43:33 I want to share a quotation with you from a book called "Ministry of Healing," which is 43:37 all about the healing ministry of Jesus. This is good, so I'm gonna read 43:41 this to you right now. "Jesus knows the circumstances of every soul." 43:45 And that is wonderfully assuring for me -- and I hope for you. He knows exactly why I do what I 43:50 do. He knows exactly why you do what you do. 43:52 He knows it. "The greater the sinner's guilt, the more he or she needs the 43:58 Savior." Isn't that something? The badder you are, the more you 44:04 need Him. Keep reading. "Jesus' heart of divine love and 44:08 sympathy is drawn out most of all -- most of all -- for the one who is the most hopelessly 44:13 entangled in the snares of the enemy." Some of you have been fighting 44:17 this enemy from the get-go. So have we all, but some of you have really had a fight on your 44:21 hand. We all have had it, but it's more obvious to you. 44:24 That entanglement, the more hopeless it feels, the more Jesus draws closer to you. 44:30 He's gonna set you free. He is going to deliver your soul. 44:35 Now, here comes the line. "With His own blood, He has signed the emancipation papers 44:42 of the race." Like those slaves in Texas, it is possible there are human 44:48 beings living today -- they may be living right next door to you -- who have never heard that 44:53 they have been set free from the slavery of sin -- never heard it at all. 44:57 You know what? Sometimes you and I act as if we've never heard it either, 45:01 like Calvary got signed 2,000 years ago and how come we're not living like we've been set free? 45:06 We're living like we're in bondage. 45:08 Every day, we mope through the day -- "I'm in bondage, I'm in 45:11 bondage." No, with His blood, He has 45:14 signed the emancipation papers of the race. 45:17 Calvary -- Calvary has set us free. 45:20 2,000 years ago. 45:24 Wow. There's a line right at the end of chapter five here in Romans. 45:34 And I like this in the Old King James, by the way. "But where sin abounded, grace 45:40 did --" what? Come on, help me out. "Where sin abounded, grace did 45:45 much more... abound." Yeah. 45:50 That's it. The more sin there is, the greater the outpouring of grace. 45:54 You can't out-sin grace. That's the point. Ah, hallelujah. 46:03 The first Adam got us into trouble, [Sighs] but the second Adam got us out. 46:09 Hallelujah. What do you say? Amen. Amen. No kidding. 46:14 And therein lies the glorious truth for Noah, for you, and for me, and -- listen, listen -- and 46:21 maybe for Ham. Would that bother you if Ham ended up getting saved before he 46:30 died? Is there some sin, sexual sin, too abhorrent, too gross for 46:36 Jesus to forgive? Is there some alcoholic too abhorrent, too gross for Jesus 46:42 to save? Of course not. Of course not. The truth is that Jesus, who 46:48 forgave Peter, would've forgiven Judas, if only Judas had asked. Noah asked. 46:55 How do we know that Noah asked? Because he ends up in the Bible Hall of Fame. 46:58 Oh, my, what a distinction. He is the only entry, probably, in the Bible's Hall of Fame who 47:03 unwittingly but unwisely drank himself into a naked stupor, and he ends up in the 47:07 Bible Hall of Fame because he asked and God forgave him. 47:13 Forgiven. "Where sin abounds grace does much more abound." 47:20 Oh, it doesn't get any better than that. But here's the deal. 47:25 Not only is there no sin that God cannot forget, there is no sin that you and I must 47:32 dillydally in dealing with. Come on. We're living closer to the 47:37 return of Jesus. This lockdown has just shown us that, if God wants to pull the 47:41 plug on the human race, He can do it globally in a matter of hours. 47:45 Gone. This is not the time to say, "Mañana." 47:49 This is the time to say, "Lord Jesus, get me out of this lockdown. 47:53 Get me out of the lockdown of sin. I bring my sin to You. 47:58 I bring it to the foot of Your Cross. This is Yours. You take it. 48:02 You died for me. I receive your death." ♪ At the Cross, at the Cross 48:07 ♪ Where I first saw the light ♪ And the burden of my heart rolled away ♪ 48:12 I love that -- at the Cross. Today we're going to the Cross in just a split second. 48:18 You get to go! You say, "I didn't get any kit." Don't worry about the kit. 48:22 You just go to the Cross. It's gonna be beautiful. And you'll be blessed. 48:26 Because in your mind and my mind, we're taking our sins -- nobody else knows it. 48:30 Nobody else knows those sins but God. We're taking our sins, and we're 48:34 laying them at the nail-scarred feet of Jesus, and we're saying, "You may have it. 48:38 All to Jesus I surrender. All to Him I freely give." God has victory for you, and you 48:43 can deal with it, and God will bring you through. He brought Noah through. 48:48 You may end up in the Hall of Fame yourself. Why not? 48:52 Today we'll go to that Cross, and we'll lay them there. It's a beautiful montage on the 48:58 Cross that our media team has very creatively put together. And when that's ended, in just a 49:04 few seconds, we'll be up there, and we'll be ready for the Lord's Supper. 49:30 [ Dramatic music begins ] 49:35 ♪♪ ♪♪ 49:54 ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ 50:24 ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ 50:54 ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ 51:24 ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ 51:54 ♪♪ 52:00 >> I've taken part in and I've officiated in quite a few 52:04 Communion services in my day, but I have never before -- and I 52:09 assume you either -- ever participated or officiated in 52:13 one quite like this one, completely digital and virtual, 52:17 if you will. 52:19 But here's the truth. I mean, look, we can't all be gathered together here yet 52:25 because of coronavirus, COVID-19. But yet we still have to 52:33 continue remembering and honoring the body that was broken for us, the blood that 52:42 was spilled for us, and that's why we're here today. Matthew 26:26, and it reads, 52:51 "And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed and broke it and gave it to the disciples 52:59 and said, 'Take, eat; this is my body.'" 53:09 [ "Were You There" begins ] 53:14 ♪♪ "Then he took the cup and gave thanks and gave it to them, 53:27 saying, 'Drink from it, all of you, for this is my blood of the New Covenant, which is shed for 53:33 many for the remission of sins. But I say to you, I will not drink of this fruit of the vine 53:39 from now on until that day when I drink it anew with you in my Father's Kingdom.'" 53:45 Amen. 53:51 [ "Were You There" begins ] 53:57 ♪♪ 54:09 >> And the record in Matthew answered these words, "When they had sung a hymn, they went out 54:15 to the Mount of Olives." Sitting down with our leadership team on Monday, we said, 54:19 "Listen, let's bring back that old hymn." We used to end the Lord's Supper 54:23 with this hymn years ago -- "Blessed be the tie that binds our hearts in Christian love." 54:30 Because you know what? Community goes on. Can't stop. 54:33 I don't know what's happening next. I do know that, July 11, we'll 54:37 be back here, and we're looking forward to that. But we've got to be intentional. 54:42 So send that text. Come on, get on the phone. "Hey, I've been thinking about 54:46 you. How you been?" Shoot an e-mail. 54:48 It doesn't matter. Just keep the ties. Blessed be these ties that bind 54:52 us. They don't only bind us to each other -- they bind us to the 54:56 Lord Himself. And that's the common bond of our community. 55:01 So, our singers are here. It's a beautiful hymn. The words will be -- subtitles 55:04 will be there. You just sing along, and we'll celebrate the community we find 55:09 in Christ. [ "Blessed Be the Ties That Bind" begins ] 55:18 ♪♪ ♪♪ 55:38 ♪♪ ♪♪ 55:58 ♪♪ ♪♪ 56:18 ♪♪ ♪♪ 56:38 ♪♪ ♪♪ 56:58 ♪♪ 57:06 >> We've been really blessed by the financial support that comes 57:08 from our viewers, and we've made a conscious decision not to 57:11 continually appeal to you for that support. 57:15 The fact is, as everyone in the industry will tell you, we're 57:18 needing to make constant upgrades to our technology. 57:20 So if God has blessed you and you'd like to further the work 57:23 of this ministry, we invite you to partner with us. 57:25 Not a single penny of your donation will go to me. 57:28 Every bit of your gift goes to the mission of blessing your 57:32 community and our world. You can donate on our website, 57:35 newperceptions.tv. Or call the number. 57:38 You know the number -- 877-HIS-WILL. 57:41 Again, that number is 877 -- the two words "HIS-WILL." 57:45 And may the God who has blessed you continue to pour into your 57:47 life the gifts of His joy and His hope. 57:51 Thank you. And I'm looking forward to 57:53 seeing you, right here, again, next time. 57:58 ♪♪ ♪♪ 58:15 ♪♪ ♪♪ |
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