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Dialogue: 0,0:00:01.70,0:00:04.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Turn in your Bibles if you would
Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.74,0:00:09.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to John 3.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.67,0:00:11.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, balance -
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.10,0:00:16.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we heard about it in the first hour.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.81,0:00:22.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Balance.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.26,0:00:23.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know what we tend to do;
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.78,0:00:32.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we tend to define balance by ourselves.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.47,0:00:34.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because the truth is,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.70,0:00:38.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we do tend to look at \Nourselves as being balanced.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.49,0:00:41.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because the thing is if \Nyou were really convinced
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.07,0:00:42.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you were out of balance,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.24,0:00:43.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you would move that pendulum
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.93,0:00:45.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to where you thought it was balanced.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.88,0:00:49.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We all have a tendency \Nto think we're right.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.44,0:00:50.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And because that's the case,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.91,0:00:56.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we all tend to evaluate \Nbalance by ourselves.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.70,0:00:58.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if you've ever said to somebody,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.69,0:01:00.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"They're imbalanced,"
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.73,0:01:03.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what you were doing probably
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.34,0:01:08.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was you were using yourself \Nas a reference point
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.13,0:01:09.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when you said that
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.30,0:01:11.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because you were using your own thought
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.26,0:01:16.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about what balance is.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.22,0:01:20.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now the key, we know that of a truth -
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.89,0:01:22.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is balanced.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.62,0:01:25.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This really is the only \Ninfallible reference point
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.80,0:01:28.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to what balance is.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.29,0:01:29.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So what we have to make sure
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.83,0:01:35.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that we're constantly fine tuning
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.68,0:01:40.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our own thinking by this book.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.63,0:01:48.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you know, balance is a funny thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.83,0:01:57.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For instance, if you listen to Della -
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.26,0:01:59.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm going to put you on the spot -
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.49,0:02:01.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all she talks about \Nis the crisis pregnancy.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.74,0:02:07.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't hear her talk \Nabout other ministries.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.75,0:02:10.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But then if you hear James \Ntalk about I'll Be Honest,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.83,0:02:12.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's like, "get balanced, man!"
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.64,0:02:15.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why do you not talk like Della talks?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.28,0:02:17.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, because one of the things
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.30,0:02:20.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that we have diversity in the church.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.06,0:02:21.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have diversity of gift
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.64,0:02:23.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and diversity of strengths
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.20,0:02:25.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and diversity of personality.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.40,0:02:28.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so we need to be careful
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.42,0:02:33.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we don't take this concept of balance
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.27,0:02:35.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and misapply it.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.50,0:02:39.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The other thing is,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.11,0:02:45.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,balance is something that you see
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.10,0:02:50.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the big picture of things.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.51,0:02:52.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you want to ask,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.55,0:02:56.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,well, is the church balanced?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.16,0:02:57.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You don't look just at Della
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.76,0:02:59.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or just at James,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.18,0:03:01.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you look at the big picture.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.06,0:03:03.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The same thing could \Nbe said for preaching.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.15,0:03:04.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can you imagine if you walked
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.60,0:03:06.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into Jonathan Edwards' church
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.30,0:03:07.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the day he preached
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.71,0:03:10.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.54,0:03:12.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, maybe you've never read that message,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.63,0:03:16.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but if you have, you would say,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.52,0:03:19.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this guy's not balanced.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.74,0:03:23.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, that would be an unfair assessment.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.14,0:03:26.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You really need to hear\NJonathan Edwards preach
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.62,0:03:32.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for a year probably.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.22,0:03:35.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm not saying that expositional preaching
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.51,0:03:36.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the only way to preach.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.84,0:03:38.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I certainly would not say
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.50,0:03:41.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that a man cannot preach topical messages.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.55,0:03:44.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, expositional preaching does help
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.38,0:03:45.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to foster balance.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.98,0:03:50.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At least, it requires us to not pass over
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.36,0:03:52.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,parts of Scripture.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.18,0:03:55.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now how a man preaches a \Ncertain portion of Scripture,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.15,0:03:58.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that may be right or it may not be right.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.72,0:04:01.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It depends on how much he's \Npreaching his own opinion
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.29,0:04:03.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or he's preaching exactly what God intends
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.37,0:04:08.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be taught by that passage.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.06,0:04:10.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm saying all this because \NI'm justifying the fact
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.95,0:04:12.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I'm going to preach to you
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.55,0:04:15.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a very imbalanced message today.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.34,0:04:17.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if I didn't say anything,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:17.37,0:04:18.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,after hearing James you'd say,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.99,0:04:20.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,now that wasn't balanced.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.44,0:04:23.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you see, one of the things is,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.17,0:04:26.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was like Martin Luther actually
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.72,0:04:31.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,made a comment about
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.07,0:04:33.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can preach all the truth in the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.68,0:04:36.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but you know, if you \Nneglect that one truth
Dialogue: 0,0:04:36.02,0:04:38.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's most under attack \Nin your generation,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:38.26,0:04:40.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're being unfaithful.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.02,0:04:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the thing is,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:42.00,0:04:44.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if a preacher's being faithful
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.77,0:04:46.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he's dealing with the very point
Dialogue: 0,0:04:46.91,0:04:50.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of Satanic attack in his day,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:50.21,0:04:51.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it may seem imbalanced.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.82,0:04:54.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Especially if you were to \Nread it 100 years from now.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.36,0:04:56.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know sometimes, when we go back
Dialogue: 0,0:04:56.09,0:04:58.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we read some of the guys from the past
Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.10,0:04:59.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we don't really recognize
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.47,0:05:01.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,why they're emphasizing \Nwhat they're emphasizing.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.85,0:05:05.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now a lot of times it had to do with \Nthe attacks that they were facing.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:05.27,0:05:07.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it could seem imbalanced
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.10,0:05:09.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,till you recognized that the \Npendulum in their day
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.57,0:05:12.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had swung way over here,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:12.08,0:05:13.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a balanced message was not
Dialogue: 0,0:05:13.65,0:05:15.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what their day needed.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.10,0:05:17.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They needed that pendulum hit
Dialogue: 0,0:05:17.100,0:05:20.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with a good crack
Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.46,0:05:25.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to send it back centerward.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.72,0:05:29.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes, I know, the message \Nthat I want to bring today
Dialogue: 0,0:05:29.84,0:05:31.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is imbalanced.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:31.79,0:05:37.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it is because it's \Nmeant to be corrective.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.38,0:05:40.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,John 3:16.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:40.07,0:05:44.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's look at it.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:44.46,0:05:48.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, we live in a day -
Dialogue: 0,0:05:48.45,0:05:50.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know what comes to your mind
Dialogue: 0,0:05:50.38,0:05:51.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when you hear John 3:16.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:51.83,0:05:54.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can tell you as a young believer,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:54.73,0:05:56.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if I would have sat down and somebody said
Dialogue: 0,0:05:56.89,0:05:58.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,please open your Bibles to John 3:16,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:58.83,0:06:00.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'd think I'm going to get a shallow,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:00.67,0:06:06.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,typical evangelistic message today.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:06.43,0:06:08.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would have cringed if I heard
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.49,0:06:13.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,John 3:16 was the text.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:13.11,0:06:15.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe you don't respond that way.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:15.65,0:06:18.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it has to do with the way
Dialogue: 0,0:06:18.68,0:06:21.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I perceive the text is used.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:21.79,0:06:25.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Unquestionably,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:25.83,0:06:31.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is the most well-known \Nbiblical passage.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:31.10,0:06:32.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I don't even mean to spend
Dialogue: 0,0:06:32.86,0:06:35.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the majority of my time here on it,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:35.27,0:06:38.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but let's read it.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:38.64,0:06:44.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"For God so loved the world
Dialogue: 0,0:06:44.68,0:06:49.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that He gave His only-begotten Son
Dialogue: 0,0:06:49.20,0:06:52.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that whoever believes in Him
Dialogue: 0,0:06:52.70,0:06:56.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,should not perish,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:56.10,0:07:00.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but have eternal life."
Dialogue: 0,0:07:00.02,0:07:02.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would challenge you,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:02.15,0:07:03.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,go to your colleges;
Dialogue: 0,0:07:03.41,0:07:04.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,go to your workplaces;
Dialogue: 0,0:07:04.60,0:07:07.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,go up and down your street.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:07.63,0:07:10.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Quote John 3:16 to people.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:10.64,0:07:11.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know what the truth is?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:11.93,0:07:16.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Most of the world yawns at that text.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:16.75,0:07:19.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, it encapsulates the gospel
Dialogue: 0,0:07:19.95,0:07:24.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the truth.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:24.09,0:07:26.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If it was even possible
Dialogue: 0,0:07:26.70,0:07:28.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that people in hell could be
Dialogue: 0,0:07:28.93,0:07:30.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,partakers of that promise,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:30.88,0:07:32.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you took that to them right now,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:32.64,0:07:34.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they would find that to be the greatest
Dialogue: 0,0:07:34.64,0:07:36.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,imaginable news possible.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:36.83,0:07:40.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God redeeming sinners.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:40.48,0:07:43.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It doesn't seem to shock us.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:43.67,0:07:50.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,America expects God to be merciful.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:50.100,0:07:52.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Have you ever noticed
Dialogue: 0,0:07:52.19,0:07:55.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when good things happen?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:55.54,0:08:00.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The media is not looking \Nfor some explanation.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:00.66,0:08:02.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's when a hurricane comes
Dialogue: 0,0:08:02.27,0:08:03.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a bunch of people die,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:03.72,0:08:06.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or there's a tsunami in \Nanother part of the world
Dialogue: 0,0:08:06.31,0:08:09.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a bunch of people are drowned.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:09.98,0:08:11.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then it's like the world
Dialogue: 0,0:08:11.59,0:08:13.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wants an explanation.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:13.77,0:08:15.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How could a loving God do this?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:15.52,0:08:17.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How can this be permitted?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:17.81,0:08:19.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is how our world is.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:19.79,0:08:20.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know it is.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:20.94,0:08:24.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We expect God to so love the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:24.76,0:08:27.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's expected.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:27.05,0:08:29.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh yeah, well, that's nice.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:29.12,0:08:30.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God so loved the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:30.97,0:08:33.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But see, that doesn't \Nshake anybody's worldview.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:33.63,0:08:38.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because typically, it's expected.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:38.47,0:08:40.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're shocked and outraged
Dialogue: 0,0:08:40.77,0:08:44.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when God does the opposite.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:44.01,0:08:47.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it does - it outrages people.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:47.71,0:08:49.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"How could God let this happen?"
Dialogue: 0,0:08:49.89,0:08:51.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How often do people in this world
Dialogue: 0,0:08:51.95,0:08:54.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,talk that way?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:54.15,0:08:56.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What are they saying?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:56.15,0:08:58.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'll tell you what, that's massive,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.08,0:09:05.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,massive amounts of ignorance behind that.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:05.11,0:09:08.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I remember telling a family member -
Dialogue: 0,0:09:08.63,0:09:10.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because you know, after I was saved,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:10.94,0:09:14.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I came to recognize my Catholic
Dialogue: 0,0:09:14.55,0:09:17.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(horribly nominal Catholic)
Dialogue: 0,0:09:17.54,0:09:21.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pagan family -
Dialogue: 0,0:09:21.74,0:09:27.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I recognized my family members
Dialogue: 0,0:09:27.64,0:09:33.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who had died,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:33.08,0:09:36.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they perished.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:36.18,0:09:38.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's like I had family members say,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:38.64,0:09:40.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Grandma in hell??"
Dialogue: 0,0:09:40.01,0:09:41.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can have that God.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:41.66,0:09:44.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My god's not like that.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:44.24,0:09:48.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No, I remember a preacher friend saying
Dialogue: 0,0:09:48.28,0:09:50.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one time he was sitting in a Dairy Queen,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:50.91,0:09:52.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he got to telling a woman
Dialogue: 0,0:09:52.54,0:09:53.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about the gospel,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:53.76,0:09:55.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this woman was outraged.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:55.52,0:09:57.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She said, "My god is not like that."
Dialogue: 0,0:09:57.69,0:09:59.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he said, "You're right, ma'am.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:59.68,0:10:02.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your god is not like that."
Dialogue: 0,0:10:02.39,0:10:05.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,See, that's the problem.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:05.64,0:10:08.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our world expects John 3:16.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:08.80,0:10:13.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Incomplete thought)
Dialogue: 0,0:10:13.70,0:10:16.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Listen to what's promised.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:16.17,0:10:18.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whoever believes in Christ
Dialogue: 0,0:10:18.52,0:10:24.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,should not perish, but have eternal life.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:24.40,0:10:26.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Eternal life.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:26.16,0:10:28.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's precisely because we don't have -
Dialogue: 0,0:10:28.06,0:10:31.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this world around us \Ndoesn't have eternal life
Dialogue: 0,0:10:31.73,0:10:33.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's promised in this verse
Dialogue: 0,0:10:33.65,0:10:35.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they miss it.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:35.12,0:10:36.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You say, what do you mean?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:36.74,0:10:39.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look, if I took a survey;
Dialogue: 0,0:10:39.62,0:10:41.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if I took a survey here,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:41.98,0:10:43.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,passed out a piece of paper -
Dialogue: 0,0:10:43.48,0:10:44.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but more than that,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:44.44,0:10:45.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,up and down these streets
Dialogue: 0,0:10:45.75,0:10:48.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,throughout San Antonio to take a survey.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:48.28,0:10:53.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Define for me what eternal life is.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:53.23,0:10:56.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, many would respond with the obvious.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:56.19,0:10:58.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To live forever.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:58.56,0:11:03.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But perhaps that begs another question.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:03.50,0:11:04.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let me ask you this.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:04.99,0:11:12.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you those in hell live forever?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:12.14,0:11:14.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sort of.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:14.03,0:11:17.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They exist forever.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:17.46,0:11:20.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're conscious forever.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:20.47,0:11:23.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But an eternity of destruction,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:23.55,0:11:25.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an eternity of judgment,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:25.43,0:11:27.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an eternity of punishment,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:27.38,0:11:30.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an eternity of fire - all four,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:30.38,0:11:33.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which are plainly stated in Scripture,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:33.77,0:11:38.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,eternally are the lot of the damned.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:38.91,0:11:42.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,See, that's hardly "life."
Dialogue: 0,0:11:42.70,0:11:45.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The reality is eternal life \Nis not just existing
Dialogue: 0,0:11:45.42,0:11:49.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no matter what else is \Ntrue of our existence.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:49.19,0:11:50.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But here's the question,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:50.44,0:11:57.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what is it that really defines life?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:57.55,0:12:01.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is it that really \Ndefines eternal life?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:01.74,0:12:03.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And here's the thing,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:03.36,0:12:05.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we know the answer
Dialogue: 0,0:12:05.80,0:12:09.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if we know our Bibles.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:09.22,0:12:11.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the thing is even knowing it,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:11.32,0:12:15.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because you know John 17:3,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:15.13,0:12:18.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's incomprehensible \Nto the world at large.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:18.99,0:12:21.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You say, what does it say \Nover there in John 17:3?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:21.91,0:12:24.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, "this is eternal life."
Dialogue: 0,0:12:24.34,0:12:28.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is eternal life. And what is it?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:28.70,0:12:31.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is it?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:31.01,0:12:31.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Right.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:31.90,0:12:38.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is to know You - God is being \Nprayed to by His Son.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:38.14,0:12:42.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Christ is looking to His Father,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:42.54,0:12:43.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and He's speaking to Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:43.76,0:12:46.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"This is eternal life,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:46.69,0:12:48.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they know You, the only true God,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:48.87,0:12:52.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Jesus Christ whom You have sent."
Dialogue: 0,0:12:52.36,0:12:57.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the truth is, think about that.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:57.04,0:13:00.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To the lost world, \Nthat's incomprehensible.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:00.29,0:13:02.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:02.96,0:13:10.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Knowing God is life?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:10.11,0:13:13.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's not the way the world thinks.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:13.82,0:13:15.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, look, do you want
Dialogue: 0,0:13:15.14,0:13:18.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a deer in the headlights stare?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:18.50,0:13:21.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just go up and down the street here
Dialogue: 0,0:13:21.34,0:13:28.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and tell men and women this reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:28.80,0:13:35.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Eternal life is knowing God.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:35.12,0:13:38.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It doesn't register.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:38.12,0:13:40.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Would it have registered with \Nyou when you were lost?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:40.75,0:13:43.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If somebody would have \Ncome and told you that?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:43.02,0:13:44.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is what eternal life is all about.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:44.96,0:13:46.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You want to know what it's all about?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:46.86,0:13:50.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's right here. It's knowing God.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:50.74,0:13:55.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see what the apostle said?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:55.32,0:13:57.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Without God in the world..."
Dialogue: 0,0:13:57.82,0:13:59.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Remember that from Ephesus?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:59.19,0:14:01.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're going to get back to Ephesians
Dialogue: 0,0:14:01.18,0:14:03.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a few weeks.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:03.69,0:14:08.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Without God in the world..."
Dialogue: 0,0:14:08.72,0:14:10.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We like that.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:10.03,0:14:12.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, the apostle says the same thing
Dialogue: 0,0:14:12.16,0:14:13.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about the Galatians.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:13.38,0:14:20.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Formerly, when you did not know God."
Dialogue: 0,0:14:20.90,0:14:23.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what lost people are like.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:23.24,0:14:25.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you know what - we like that.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:25.54,0:14:28.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To us, any concept of living
Dialogue: 0,0:14:28.38,0:14:29.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when we're lost -
Dialogue: 0,0:14:29.78,0:14:32.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ah, that's living!
Dialogue: 0,0:14:32.85,0:14:34.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The further we could get away from God.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:34.92,0:14:37.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Which one of you when \Nyou were lost thought:
Dialogue: 0,0:14:37.89,0:14:41.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Going to church! Ah, that's living!"
Dialogue: 0,0:14:41.02,0:14:44.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's like if somebody asked you to go,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:44.44,0:14:48.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's like ugh... what excuse \Ncan I come up with?
Dialogue: 0,0:14:48.60,0:14:51.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because anything is better than that!
Dialogue: 0,0:14:51.75,0:14:52.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's how we think.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:52.82,0:14:54.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's how we were.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:54.41,0:14:55.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you know the thing is,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:55.94,0:14:59.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's life - knowing God.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:59.06,0:15:01.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Death - it's the opposite.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:01.01,0:15:03.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not knowing Him.\NIsn't that interesting?
Dialogue: 0,0:15:03.24,0:15:06.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The apostle says both about \Nthe condition of the lost.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:06.24,0:15:08.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Formerly when you did not know God;
Dialogue: 0,0:15:08.02,0:15:11.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,also formerly, again, the \Nletter to the Ephesians,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:11.35,0:15:16.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he said, you were dead \Nin trespasses and sins.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:16.47,0:15:17.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the thing,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:17.52,0:15:21.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people who have not been saved
Dialogue: 0,0:15:21.03,0:15:25.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by the grace of Christ,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:25.97,0:15:28.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they don't live.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:28.45,0:15:30.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the issue is they don't know God.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:30.74,0:15:31.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's it.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:31.57,0:15:33.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Death is not annihilation.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:33.41,0:15:35.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Death is not ceasing to exist.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:35.72,0:15:39.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Death is simply living without God.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:39.35,0:15:41.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's it.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:41.48,0:15:42.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Without God.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:42.84,0:15:44.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Listen to Paul.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:44.93,0:15:47.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He says this to the Corinthians.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:47.77,0:15:50.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Some have no knowledge of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:50.08,0:15:51.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I say this to your shame."
Dialogue: 0,0:15:51.48,0:15:53.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you know what's \Ninteresting about that?
Dialogue: 0,0:15:53.60,0:15:56.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's not talking about \Nthe pagans out there.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:56.54,0:15:59.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's talking about people in the church,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:59.20,0:16:02.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he says, "Some of you don't know God."
Dialogue: 0,0:16:02.14,0:16:06.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, look, if you would \Nhave tagged those people
Dialogue: 0,0:16:06.27,0:16:07.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that he's talking about,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:07.96,0:16:14.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they'd have had plenty \Nto tell you about God.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:14.02,0:16:16.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You recognize that.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:16.02,0:16:18.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just because you've got \Na lot to say about God,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:18.48,0:16:22.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,doesn't mean that you know God.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:22.50,0:16:26.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I find that, again, take the survey.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:26.47,0:16:28.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Go up and down the streets,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:28.06,0:16:30.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which a lot of us have.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:30.60,0:16:32.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everybody's got their theories on God,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:32.83,0:16:35.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that doesn't change in the church.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:35.27,0:16:38.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You've got people thinking \Nall sorts of things.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:38.09,0:16:40.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These people that he's talking to -
Dialogue: 0,0:16:40.61,0:16:41.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's some among you -
Dialogue: 0,0:16:41.80,0:16:45.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they were denying the resurrection.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:45.90,0:16:47.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Very authoritatively could tell you
Dialogue: 0,0:16:47.96,0:16:52.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,things about God, but they were wrong.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:52.60,0:16:56.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the question is this: who is God?
Dialogue: 0,0:16:56.28,0:16:57.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do we know Him?
Dialogue: 0,0:16:57.32,0:16:59.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, when it says, \N"God so loved the world..."
Dialogue: 0,0:16:59.67,0:17:02.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one of the problems is we \Ndon't really even know
Dialogue: 0,0:17:02.03,0:17:03.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who that God is.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:03.73,0:17:06.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, if you understand
Dialogue: 0,0:17:06.24,0:17:09.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,more thoroughly who that God is,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:09.10,0:17:11.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then all of a sudden John 3:16
Dialogue: 0,0:17:11.86,0:17:15.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,becomes marvelous.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:15.25,0:17:16.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the world doesn't know.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:16.65,0:17:17.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the scary thing is
Dialogue: 0,0:17:17.88,0:17:19.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we don't know in the church.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:19.84,0:17:21.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You talk about being balanced.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:21.28,0:17:23.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of the most balanced realities
Dialogue: 0,0:17:23.60,0:17:25.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we need to have in Scripture,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:25.34,0:17:27.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I don't know if it's even balance,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:27.89,0:17:29.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is just we need to know God.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:29.48,0:17:31.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's eternal life. We need to know God.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:31.61,0:17:33.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need to delve in and dive in.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:33.62,0:17:35.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need to know Him.\NWe need to realize Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:35.94,0:17:37.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need the Spirit of wisdom
Dialogue: 0,0:17:37.77,0:17:39.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and of revelation in the knowledge of Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:39.88,0:17:41.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need to grow in that -
Dialogue: 0,0:17:41.16,0:17:43.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this Spirit working in us.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:43.94,0:17:48.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A greater, greater, \Nand greater perception.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:48.25,0:17:50.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is why it's so important
Dialogue: 0,0:17:50.04,0:17:53.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to read all of the Bible.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:53.47,0:17:55.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Listen, if you've been in the Lord
Dialogue: 0,0:17:55.40,0:17:57.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for a number of years and you have not
Dialogue: 0,0:17:57.24,0:17:58.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,read this book cover to cover,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:58.70,0:17:59.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no excuse.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:59.94,0:18:01.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because you know what's going to happen
Dialogue: 0,0:18:01.98,0:18:04.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you don't read it cover to cover?
Dialogue: 0,0:18:04.21,0:18:06.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's kind of like if you walk in here
Dialogue: 0,0:18:06.10,0:18:08.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you listen to one \Nsermon that's preached.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:08.43,0:18:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you say, that's imbalanced.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:10.00,0:18:11.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's right. You're going to end up
Dialogue: 0,0:18:11.82,0:18:12.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with an imbalanced view
Dialogue: 0,0:18:12.98,0:18:15.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of reality, truth, who God is.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:15.40,0:18:17.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Read all of your Bible.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:17.74,0:18:21.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because it's all speaking to us about Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:21.75,0:18:24.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who is this God?
Dialogue: 0,0:18:24.28,0:18:26.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Man thinks he knows.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:26.58,0:18:28.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You want to know why we need
Dialogue: 0,0:18:28.93,0:18:30.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be soaked in this Word so much?
Dialogue: 0,0:18:30.87,0:18:33.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because we have an image \Nof God in our minds,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:33.68,0:18:37.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we need it corrected;
Dialogue: 0,0:18:37.35,0:18:41.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we need to see more accurately
Dialogue: 0,0:18:41.18,0:18:44.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who He is and dispel our own false notions
Dialogue: 0,0:18:44.98,0:18:47.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of who He is.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:47.11,0:18:49.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is critical. Critical.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:49.18,0:18:51.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Scripture just tears away
Dialogue: 0,0:18:51.31,0:18:53.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these distorted images.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:53.46,0:18:55.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I'll tell you this,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:55.06,0:18:57.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it reveals a God to us who is very much
Dialogue: 0,0:18:57.75,0:19:01.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bigger and greater and more fearful
Dialogue: 0,0:19:01.19,0:19:03.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than ever imagined.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:03.96,0:19:06.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And kind,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:06.03,0:19:08.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and compassionate.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:08.72,0:19:10.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can remember one time years ago
Dialogue: 0,0:19:10.46,0:19:17.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,reading Charles Spurgeon on John 3:16.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:17.21,0:19:22.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he said when this verse is taken -
Dialogue: 0,0:19:22.89,0:19:24.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's kind of like the rainbow,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:24.54,0:19:27.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,against the dark storm clouds.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:27.62,0:19:29.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's very vivid.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:29.26,0:19:31.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was emphasizing John 3:16
Dialogue: 0,0:19:31.65,0:19:32.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is like that rainbow.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:32.88,0:19:35.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Very beautiful.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:35.51,0:19:36.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it's when it's viewed
Dialogue: 0,0:19:36.98,0:19:41.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,against this dark, stormy backdrop
Dialogue: 0,0:19:41.92,0:19:44.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that it becomes most vivid
Dialogue: 0,0:19:44.36,0:19:47.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and most beautiful.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:47.16,0:19:49.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,See, I was all the more reminded of this
Dialogue: 0,0:19:49.25,0:19:52.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just in the last couple of weeks.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:52.65,0:19:55.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've been moving through the Pentateuch.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:55.77,0:19:58.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm in Joshua now,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:58.05,0:19:59.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but just coming through -
Dialogue: 0,0:19:59.90,0:20:03.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,especially through the book of Numbers.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:03.75,0:20:05.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's where the Hebrew children
Dialogue: 0,0:20:05.54,0:20:08.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are in the wilderness.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:08.43,0:20:09.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want you to turn there.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:09.65,0:20:37.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Numbers 11:1.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:37.37,0:20:40.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"And the people complained
Dialogue: 0,0:20:40.88,0:20:42.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the hearing of the Lord
Dialogue: 0,0:20:42.70,0:20:46.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about their misfortunes."
Dialogue: 0,0:20:46.47,0:20:48.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know if you've got the \NKing James Version,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:48.66,0:20:51.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it doesn't say "about their misfortunes,"
Dialogue: 0,0:20:51.06,0:20:54.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I did see that in the Hebrew,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:54.07,0:20:59.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's actually there.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:59.15,0:21:01.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The people complained in \Nthe hearing of the Lord
Dialogue: 0,0:21:01.79,0:21:03.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about their misfortunes."
Dialogue: 0,0:21:03.45,0:21:05.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The New American Standard says,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:05.12,0:21:08.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"about their adversities."
Dialogue: 0,0:21:08.79,0:21:11.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"And when the Lord heard it,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:11.84,0:21:17.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His anger was kindled,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:17.20,0:21:20.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the fire of the Lord burned among them
Dialogue: 0,0:21:20.25,0:21:23.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and consumed some outlying parts
Dialogue: 0,0:21:23.99,0:21:27.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the camp."
Dialogue: 0,0:21:27.98,0:21:30.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know you read,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:30.86,0:21:35.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but sometimes you stop.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:35.82,0:21:37.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes you read parts of the Bible
Dialogue: 0,0:21:37.82,0:21:40.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's like, you know, \Nyou're taking it in.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:40.05,0:21:41.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're hearing it.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:41.04,0:21:43.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But then there's other \Ntimes where you stop
Dialogue: 0,0:21:43.21,0:21:47.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and some reality hits you.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:47.72,0:21:51.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the reality of this hit me.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:51.40,0:21:54.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I began to think,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:54.41,0:21:57.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what if your tent had been
Dialogue: 0,0:21:57.42,0:22:02.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the outlying part of the camp?
Dialogue: 0,0:22:02.54,0:22:07.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What was that like?
Dialogue: 0,0:22:07.69,0:22:11.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It says (verse 2), "Then the \Npeople cried out to Moses,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:11.46,0:22:13.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Moses prayed to the Lord
Dialogue: 0,0:22:13.09,0:22:18.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the fire died down.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:18.33,0:22:21.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the name of that place
Dialogue: 0,0:22:21.38,0:22:24.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was called Taberah,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:24.38,0:22:27.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because the fire of the \NLord burned among them."
Dialogue: 0,0:22:27.66,0:22:29.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Taberah.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:29.56,0:22:31.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have a place called Taberah.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:31.30,0:22:32.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can you imagine?
Dialogue: 0,0:22:32.31,0:22:33.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're driving down the interstate,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:33.98,0:22:37.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's the sign: Taberah, next exit.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:37.75,0:22:42.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dad, what's that mean?
Dialogue: 0,0:22:42.97,0:22:45.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Burning.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:45.68,0:22:50.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was Calvin or Gill - one of them -
Dialogue: 0,0:22:50.89,0:22:55.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it means combustion.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:55.41,0:23:00.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah, children, that's combustion.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:00.03,0:23:02.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why?
Dialogue: 0,0:23:02.72,0:23:10.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, here's why.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:10.02,0:23:12.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Spontaneous combustion.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:12.35,0:23:16.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now think about that.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:16.41,0:23:18.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why?
Dialogue: 0,0:23:18.42,0:23:20.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were complaining.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:20.75,0:23:23.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We'll talk more about that in a second.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:23.36,0:23:25.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, it doesn't say,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:25.32,0:23:28.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"the fire of the Lord fell."
Dialogue: 0,0:23:28.20,0:23:31.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It says that in some places.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:31.84,0:23:33.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At Sodom and Gomorrah,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:33.48,0:23:36.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fire fell from heaven.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:36.92,0:23:40.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It doesn't say lightning,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:40.35,0:23:43.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thunderbolt.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:43.51,0:23:46.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just spontaneous combustion.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:46.71,0:23:55.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sinners exploded in flames.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:55.62,0:23:57.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you know, here's the thing,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:57.12,0:24:00.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God's anger -
Dialogue: 0,0:24:00.51,0:24:04.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we don't sense it.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:04.14,0:24:07.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don't feel it.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:07.79,0:24:11.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you know
Dialogue: 0,0:24:11.43,0:24:16.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,men and women and children in this room
Dialogue: 0,0:24:16.49,0:24:19.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who have heard the truth of the gospel
Dialogue: 0,0:24:19.27,0:24:26.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and still are not bowing \Nthe knee to the Lord -
Dialogue: 0,0:24:26.49,0:24:29.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have not repented -
Dialogue: 0,0:24:29.81,0:24:34.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,do you know God's anger with you is such
Dialogue: 0,0:24:34.07,0:24:35.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that Scripture specifically says
Dialogue: 0,0:24:35.73,0:24:38.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's going to be more tolerable \Nfor Sodom and Gomorrah
Dialogue: 0,0:24:38.44,0:24:42.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the day of judgment than for you?
Dialogue: 0,0:24:42.10,0:24:45.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His anger burns against you
Dialogue: 0,0:24:45.81,0:24:50.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,greater than it burned against them.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:50.28,0:24:53.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you know what? We don't feel it.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:53.24,0:24:58.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's no low rumble of thunder.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:58.47,0:25:04.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don't feel it.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:04.64,0:25:07.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, it's like that wind \Nisn't blowing in here.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:07.30,0:25:09.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's no wind of vengeance.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:09.89,0:25:12.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can't feel it.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:12.08,0:25:15.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can't hear it.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:15.79,0:25:19.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you know, because people don't,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:19.26,0:25:22.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and because they sin,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:22.02,0:25:24.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the sentence against that sin
Dialogue: 0,0:25:24.69,0:25:28.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is not exacted immediately,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:28.08,0:25:30.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they just become real confident.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:30.18,0:25:32.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, there's a verse in the Bible
Dialogue: 0,0:25:32.01,0:25:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that says that?
Dialogue: 0,0:25:34.00,0:25:36.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ecclesiastes 8.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:36.69,0:25:38.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The sentence is not \Ncarried out immediately
Dialogue: 0,0:25:38.90,0:25:40.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,against people's sin,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:40.24,0:25:41.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and what do they do?
Dialogue: 0,0:25:41.38,0:25:43.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They become all the more confident.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:43.13,0:25:46.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's no sense of this judgment;
Dialogue: 0,0:25:46.25,0:25:50.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this anger, this wrath.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:50.84,0:25:52.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you know what?
Dialogue: 0,0:25:52.58,0:25:57.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here's a glimpse at a time
Dialogue: 0,0:25:57.08,0:26:00.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when sinners are doing what sinners do.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:00.90,0:26:03.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They weren't raping and killing children.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:03.83,0:26:08.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They weren't cannibals.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:08.16,0:26:10.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know what they were doing?
Dialogue: 0,0:26:10.29,0:26:11.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Murmuring.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:11.80,0:26:15.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They weren't even \Ncomplaining directly to God.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:15.37,0:26:18.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Listen to how it reads:
Dialogue: 0,0:26:18.09,0:26:21.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It says, "the people complained
Dialogue: 0,0:26:21.81,0:26:28.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the hearing of the Lord."
Dialogue: 0,0:26:28.22,0:26:30.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Complaining. What's that?
Dialogue: 0,0:26:30.72,0:26:34.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Certainly a small sin.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:34.54,0:26:36.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not murder, not rape, not kidnapping.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:36.46,0:26:39.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,None of that stuff.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:39.77,0:26:41.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What was causing the complaining?
Dialogue: 0,0:26:41.60,0:26:43.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're told: misfortunes.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:43.57,0:26:44.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Their adversities.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:44.97,0:26:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Things didn't go just the way
Dialogue: 0,0:26:47.00,0:26:50.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they wanted them to go.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:50.53,0:26:52.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After all, I mean, living \Nin that wilderness -
Dialogue: 0,0:26:52.96,0:26:55.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,listen, living out in the wilderness
Dialogue: 0,0:26:55.10,0:26:56.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would not be nice.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:56.37,0:26:57.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No water.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:57.20,0:26:59.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, the idea I get \Nabout that wilderness
Dialogue: 0,0:26:59.39,0:27:01.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that it was pretty much desert.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:01.93,0:27:03.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're out there for 40 years,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:03.45,0:27:05.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're probably not going \Nto be overly happy.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:05.72,0:27:10.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Didn't they have some \Nthings to complain about?
Dialogue: 0,0:27:10.28,0:27:13.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God was listening,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:13.05,0:27:17.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and He incinerated a number of them
Dialogue: 0,0:27:17.62,0:27:20.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the spot.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:20.44,0:27:22.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can you imagine?
Dialogue: 0,0:27:22.06,0:27:25.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A sinner just exploding in flames.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:25.07,0:27:27.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can't.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:27.06,0:27:28.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And because the reality of that
Dialogue: 0,0:27:28.95,0:27:30.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is so far removed from us,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:30.88,0:27:34.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and because sinners get \Naway with sinning so often
Dialogue: 0,0:27:34.40,0:27:37.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they don't burst into flames,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:37.62,0:27:40.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we can get very casual about sin.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:40.49,0:27:43.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can get very casual about grace.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:43.09,0:27:47.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can get very casual about John 3:16.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:47.03,0:27:49.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I'll tell you what you \Nget a glimpse of here.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:49.46,0:27:50.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You get a glimpse of the way
Dialogue: 0,0:27:50.90,0:27:53.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God feels towards sinners.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:53.59,0:27:57.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it bursts forth.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:57.08,0:27:59.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were dead on the spot.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:59.96,0:28:03.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you know the God of Scripture?
Dialogue: 0,0:28:03.82,0:28:06.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you really know Him?
Dialogue: 0,0:28:06.06,0:28:07.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you know that God is like this?
Dialogue: 0,0:28:07.79,0:28:09.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You say, like what? Like this!
Dialogue: 0,0:28:09.99,0:28:11.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like we find here in this passage.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:11.88,0:28:15.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Provoked, angry, and ready
Dialogue: 0,0:28:15.07,0:28:17.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to break forth against sinners.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:17.05,0:28:19.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you know?
Dialogue: 0,0:28:19.64,0:28:21.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can come across these things
Dialogue: 0,0:28:21.40,0:28:22.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the New Testament.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:22.62,0:28:25.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You just kind of pass over them.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:25.11,0:28:29.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like, "storing up wrath
Dialogue: 0,0:28:29.98,0:28:32.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the day of wrath."
Dialogue: 0,0:28:32.65,0:28:34.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you recognize that \Nthat's what's happening?
Dialogue: 0,0:28:34.88,0:28:38.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God is getting angrier and angrier
Dialogue: 0,0:28:38.58,0:28:42.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and His wrath is storing, it's building,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:42.10,0:28:44.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's becoming greater.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:44.55,0:28:46.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what's happening to sinners.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:46.36,0:28:47.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what's happening
Dialogue: 0,0:28:47.48,0:28:49.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to men and women and children
Dialogue: 0,0:28:49.02,0:28:51.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who do not surrender to Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:51.39,0:28:52.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's just increasing.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:52.67,0:28:53.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's getting bigger.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:53.75,0:28:56.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We find this very truth in John 3
Dialogue: 0,0:28:56.71,0:28:58.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where John 3:16 is.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:58.36,0:29:01.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You find this reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:01.56,0:29:03.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That "those who believe in the Son
Dialogue: 0,0:29:03.86,0:29:06.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have eternal life," but \Nif you do not believe
Dialogue: 0,0:29:06.16,0:29:07.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or you do not obey the Son,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:07.72,0:29:09.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"you shall not see life,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:09.23,0:29:12.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the wrath of God remains on you."
Dialogue: 0,0:29:12.92,0:29:14.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's on you!
Dialogue: 0,0:29:14.75,0:29:18.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you're not saved here, it's on you.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:18.51,0:29:21.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The only thing that prevents you
Dialogue: 0,0:29:21.17,0:29:24.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from exploding into \Nflames like these people
Dialogue: 0,0:29:24.34,0:29:27.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is nothing other than God's kindness.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:27.34,0:29:30.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's it.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:30.15,0:29:32.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your sins deserve every bit and more
Dialogue: 0,0:29:32.87,0:29:34.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what happened to them.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:34.73,0:29:36.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you think about this.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:36.85,0:29:39.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just stop and think.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:39.04,0:29:41.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because if you really \Ntake yourself back there,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:41.54,0:29:43.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these were real people.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:43.99,0:29:47.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They had names.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:47.63,0:29:50.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They had faces.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:50.54,0:29:53.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They had feelings.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:53.22,0:29:57.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They had emotions.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:57.09,0:29:59.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They had families.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:59.61,0:30:01.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, you get the feeling,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:01.07,0:30:03.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they burst into flames right along with
Dialogue: 0,0:30:03.08,0:30:05.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the rest of their family.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:05.16,0:30:07.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can't do anything.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:07.36,0:30:08.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You burst into flames -
Dialogue: 0,0:30:08.50,0:30:10.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your husband, your \Nwife bursts into flame;
Dialogue: 0,0:30:10.67,0:30:13.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your children bursts into flame -
Dialogue: 0,0:30:13.37,0:30:14.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can't protect them.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:14.60,0:30:16.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Have you ever seen \Nanything thrown in a fire?
Dialogue: 0,0:30:16.78,0:30:18.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not thinking about protecting
Dialogue: 0,0:30:18.43,0:30:20.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,anything else in the fire.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:20.05,0:30:21.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It just yields to it.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:21.94,0:30:23.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's gone.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:23.89,0:30:28.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fire.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:28.09,0:30:29.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I don't know where I saw it,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:29.62,0:30:33.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but some news clip or YouTube clip
Dialogue: 0,0:30:33.53,0:30:36.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or something -
Dialogue: 0,0:30:36.03,0:30:42.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some guy accidentally got fire on himself.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:42.11,0:30:44.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you get fire on yourself,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:44.89,0:30:48.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you don't think about other things.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:48.67,0:30:52.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not: oh, I need to mow the lawn.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:52.24,0:30:55.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You've got fire on your leg!
Dialogue: 0,0:30:55.60,0:30:57.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Using starter fluid on the motor
Dialogue: 0,0:30:57.21,0:30:58.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and all of a sudden "poof!"
Dialogue: 0,0:30:58.59,0:31:00.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And your pants are on fire.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:00.50,0:31:04.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're not thinking about lunch.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:04.37,0:31:07.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You don't think about anything else.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:07.70,0:31:11.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are real people.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:11.04,0:31:13.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the wilderness was \Nnot a very friendly place.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:13.41,0:31:15.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were unhappy. They voiced it.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:15.05,0:31:17.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They died.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:17.63,0:31:20.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It wasn't a peaceful passing.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:20.05,0:31:23.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fire.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:23.64,0:31:25.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don't live in the days of Smithsfield
Dialogue: 0,0:31:25.60,0:31:29.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when they burned Christians at the stake.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:29.22,0:31:32.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can you imagine watching a person burn?
Dialogue: 0,0:31:32.18,0:31:35.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know what happens.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:35.23,0:31:41.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It burns their hair off.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:41.79,0:31:45.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Burns their flesh. \NBurns their clothing off.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:45.28,0:31:49.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God did this to sinners. Why?
Dialogue: 0,0:31:49.30,0:31:51.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Righteous judgment.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:51.44,0:31:53.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Righteous judgment.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:53.15,0:31:55.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is not God overreacting.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:55.10,0:31:57.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These people were not innocent.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:57.76,0:31:59.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know what they were doing?
Dialogue: 0,0:31:59.27,0:32:00.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were openly manifesting
Dialogue: 0,0:32:00.92,0:32:02.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their hatred for God.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:02.100,0:32:05.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you know what? \NWe don't want to admit it,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:05.14,0:32:07.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because if we admit that's \Nwhat they were doing,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:07.47,0:32:09.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we have to admit our own complaining
Dialogue: 0,0:32:09.48,0:32:11.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is just as wicked.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:11.11,0:32:13.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it is.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:13.45,0:32:17.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because when you complain,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:17.72,0:32:20.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're saying to this God of Scripture -
Dialogue: 0,0:32:20.32,0:32:22.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who is holy, who is perfect,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:22.26,0:32:26.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who is righteous, who is good -
Dialogue: 0,0:32:26.65,0:32:29.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're saying to Him,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:29.10,0:32:31.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I want my own way!"
Dialogue: 0,0:32:31.54,0:32:34.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I don't like Your ways!"
Dialogue: 0,0:32:34.60,0:32:36.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"And I don't like what You're doing!"
Dialogue: 0,0:32:36.48,0:32:38.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you know you get somebody that says,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:38.47,0:32:39.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I don't like how you act
Dialogue: 0,0:32:39.92,0:32:41.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I don't like what you do
Dialogue: 0,0:32:41.33,0:32:42.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I don't like your laws."
Dialogue: 0,0:32:42.70,0:32:44.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know what you're basically saying,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:44.50,0:32:46.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I don't like you."
Dialogue: 0,0:32:46.07,0:32:47.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's what they're saying.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:47.65,0:32:49.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And more than that,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:49.23,0:32:51.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if there was ever a \Npeople not to complain,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:51.45,0:32:52.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,here God comes along
Dialogue: 0,0:32:52.77,0:32:55.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and He's done so many kindnesses for them,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:55.49,0:32:57.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so many miracles on their behalf.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:57.35,0:32:58.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's delivered them.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:58.60,0:33:00.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Listen, God is holy,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:00.22,0:33:02.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there is nothing strange
Dialogue: 0,0:33:02.06,0:33:06.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about Him punishing sinners for their sin.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:06.15,0:33:08.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nothing is strange about that.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:08.99,0:33:11.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the reality is, what shocks
Dialogue: 0,0:33:11.08,0:33:14.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and offends us is the suddenness
Dialogue: 0,0:33:14.30,0:33:15.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the violence of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:15.82,0:33:17.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don't like it.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:17.74,0:33:18.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don't like it.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:18.76,0:33:21.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when we find these \Nkind of things in Scripture,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:21.25,0:33:23.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know - people are always \Nlooking for an explanation:
Dialogue: 0,0:33:23.48,0:33:25.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Oh, that's the God of the Old Testament."
Dialogue: 0,0:33:25.67,0:33:27.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Listen, the God of the Old Testament
Dialogue: 0,0:33:27.70,0:33:30.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the God of John 3:16.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:30.13,0:33:32.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is the God who so loved the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:32.33,0:33:34.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the same God.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:34.46,0:33:36.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sodom and Gomorrah.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:36.10,0:33:39.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's think about Sodom and Gomorrah.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:39.17,0:33:40.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Okay, that's Old Testament.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:40.71,0:33:42.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes, it is.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:42.26,0:33:45.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is precisely that.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:45.30,0:33:47.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know what we read?
Dialogue: 0,0:33:47.24,0:33:50.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You don't need to turn here.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:50.18,0:33:52.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It says, "The Lord rained \Non Sodom and Gomorrah
Dialogue: 0,0:33:52.74,0:33:55.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sulfur and fire...
Dialogue: 0,0:33:55.39,0:34:00.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the Lord out of Heaven."
Dialogue: 0,0:34:00.50,0:34:03.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It says this, "Abraham went \Nearly in the morning
Dialogue: 0,0:34:03.74,0:34:06.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the place where he had \Nstood before the Lord..."
Dialogue: 0,0:34:06.20,0:34:07.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where he had pleaded with the Lord
Dialogue: 0,0:34:07.86,0:34:08.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not to destroy them
Dialogue: 0,0:34:08.92,0:34:14.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if righteous could be found there.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:14.73,0:34:17.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"And he looked down towards \NSodom and Gomorrah
Dialogue: 0,0:34:17.82,0:34:20.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and toward all the land of the valley,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:20.14,0:34:21.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he looked and behold,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:21.34,0:34:24.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the smoke of the land went up
Dialogue: 0,0:34:24.09,0:34:27.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like the smoke of a furnace."
Dialogue: 0,0:34:27.61,0:34:30.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Again, this is not fiction.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:30.54,0:34:32.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, the world would have us think so.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:32.65,0:34:33.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not a fairy tale.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:33.99,0:34:36.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And let me tell you something,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:36.08,0:34:37.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we have this idea:
Dialogue: 0,0:34:37.34,0:34:40.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,oh, they're super sinners.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:40.27,0:34:44.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah, you just remember what Jesus said.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:44.18,0:34:46.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said if you heard this gospel -
Dialogue: 0,0:34:46.80,0:34:48.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my disciples go out,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:48.32,0:34:50.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they proclaim this gospel to you
Dialogue: 0,0:34:50.64,0:34:52.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you refuse to hear it,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:52.27,0:34:55.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,more tolerable for Sodom in that day
Dialogue: 0,0:34:55.22,0:34:59.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than for you.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:59.12,0:35:01.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Super sinners?
Dialogue: 0,0:35:01.28,0:35:03.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know what Scripture says as well
Dialogue: 0,0:35:03.36,0:35:04.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the New Testament?
Dialogue: 0,0:35:04.52,0:35:05.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You've got it in 2 Peter
Dialogue: 0,0:35:05.83,0:35:07.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you've also got it in Jude.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:07.45,0:35:10.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You've got this reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:10.28,0:35:14.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"God by turning the cities of \NSodom and Gomorrah to ashes,
Dialogue: 0,0:35:14.98,0:35:17.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He condemned them to extinction."
Dialogue: 0,0:35:17.20,0:35:18.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now listen to this:
Dialogue: 0,0:35:18.80,0:35:21.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"...Making them an example
Dialogue: 0,0:35:21.77,0:35:28.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of what is going to \Nhappen to the ungodly."
Dialogue: 0,0:35:28.49,0:35:30.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you realize
Dialogue: 0,0:35:30.36,0:35:32.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can go to a hospital -
Dialogue: 0,0:35:32.54,0:35:35.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it might seem relatively quiet.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:35.92,0:35:37.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our brother Kenny Lee might -
Dialogue: 0,0:35:37.81,0:35:39.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you work as a nurse?
Dialogue: 0,0:35:39.63,0:35:41.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People die.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:41.80,0:35:43.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It may be peaceful.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:43.78,0:35:46.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That body is now still.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:46.50,0:35:49.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No more heavy breathing; \Nlabored breathing.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:49.02,0:35:50.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No more groans.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:50.40,0:35:54.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No more sighs.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:54.16,0:35:55.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From our vantage point,
Dialogue: 0,0:35:55.77,0:35:58.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the moment they pass away,
Dialogue: 0,0:35:58.02,0:36:02.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's silence.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:02.13,0:36:03.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you were in their shoes,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:03.62,0:36:07.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the moment they pass away,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:07.04,0:36:08.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're met by the same thing
Dialogue: 0,0:36:08.94,0:36:11.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sodom and Gomorrah \Nwere met with in this life:
Dialogue: 0,0:36:11.57,0:36:15.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fire and brimstone.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:15.84,0:36:18.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It just bursts forth on them.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:18.39,0:36:22.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, when God brings \Nit this side of death
Dialogue: 0,0:36:22.92,0:36:25.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that the fire actually falls
Dialogue: 0,0:36:25.45,0:36:28.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the vengeance falls here,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:28.90,0:36:31.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we want an explanation.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:31.04,0:36:32.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Explain that hurricane!
Dialogue: 0,0:36:32.63,0:36:35.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Explain that earthquake that \Ntook those people out!
Dialogue: 0,0:36:35.57,0:36:37.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We want God to explain Himself!
Dialogue: 0,0:36:37.85,0:36:42.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How could He be so brutal?
Dialogue: 0,0:36:42.32,0:36:44.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Listen, all God is doing in those cases
Dialogue: 0,0:36:44.56,0:36:46.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is He's backing this thing up
Dialogue: 0,0:36:46.20,0:36:48.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into this world
Dialogue: 0,0:36:48.28,0:36:51.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by just a few moments.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:51.29,0:36:53.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because this is precisely what's happening
Dialogue: 0,0:36:53.38,0:36:56.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the wicked the moment \Nthey pass out of this world.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:56.13,0:36:58.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's what will happen to you
Dialogue: 0,0:36:58.03,0:36:59.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you pass out of this world
Dialogue: 0,0:36:59.76,0:37:03.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without embracing \Nthe reality of John 3:16.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:03.41,0:37:05.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Listen, the God of Scripture does not
Dialogue: 0,0:37:05.59,0:37:08.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mess around with unrepentant sinners.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:08.32,0:37:10.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There may be kindness.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:10.60,0:37:13.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your death sentence \Nmight be stayed for a time.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:13.70,0:37:18.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but your wrath is building up.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:18.06,0:37:20.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you know it is the New Testament,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:20.01,0:37:21.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not the Old Testament,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:21.94,0:37:23.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that says it is a fearful thing
Dialogue: 0,0:37:23.80,0:37:26.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to fall into the hands of the living God?
Dialogue: 0,0:37:26.71,0:37:29.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is the New Testament, not the Old,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:29.04,0:37:33.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that says our God is a consuming fire.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:33.21,0:37:36.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Beware of the God of Scripture.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:36.10,0:37:38.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You do not want to play with Scripture
Dialogue: 0,0:37:38.72,0:37:40.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and get to the place where you can
Dialogue: 0,0:37:40.58,0:37:42.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,yawn at John 3:16.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:42.64,0:37:45.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You do so to your own peril.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:45.80,0:37:47.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You do well to remember
Dialogue: 0,0:37:47.69,0:37:49.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the term "perish"
Dialogue: 0,0:37:49.47,0:37:51.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is found in that verse.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:51.28,0:37:53.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(incomplete thought)
Dialogue: 0,0:37:53.66,0:37:55.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Listen, brethren, I can still remember
Dialogue: 0,0:37:55.47,0:37:56.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my own experience
Dialogue: 0,0:37:56.82,0:37:58.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a young Christian,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:58.01,0:38:00.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,first time through the Old Testament.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:00.34,0:38:02.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I came across such things
Dialogue: 0,0:38:02.66,0:38:05.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as I did not expect to find.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:05.41,0:38:07.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I came face to face
Dialogue: 0,0:38:07.10,0:38:10.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the God I had not \Nknown prior to that,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:10.61,0:38:12.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I'll tell you, I was shaken.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:12.99,0:38:14.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I remember it still vividly.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:14.65,0:38:15.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was in awe.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:15.88,0:38:19.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I kept asking:
Dialogue: 0,0:38:19.80,0:38:23.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who is this God?
Dialogue: 0,0:38:23.12,0:38:25.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was not what I expected.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:25.87,0:38:28.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look, I'm not saying it was a bad thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:28.48,0:38:33.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm just saying it rocked my little world.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:33.59,0:38:35.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It rocked my small views of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:35.79,0:38:38.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God's bigness, His terribleness,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:38.72,0:38:40.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His holiness.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:40.57,0:38:43.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It broke forth in the pages of Scripture.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:43.53,0:38:45.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was filled with fear.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:45.02,0:38:47.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The thing was, I wasn't repulsed;
Dialogue: 0,0:38:47.22,0:38:48.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wasn't turned away.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:48.60,0:38:50.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was drawn to it.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:50.84,0:38:52.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It made me afraid.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:52.91,0:38:54.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you know what?
Dialogue: 0,0:38:54.02,0:38:56.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Over and over and over again,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:56.33,0:38:58.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I found that the God of Scripture -
Dialogue: 0,0:38:58.62,0:39:02.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this holy, holy, holy God of Scripture -
Dialogue: 0,0:39:02.70,0:39:08.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He does violent things to sinful men.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:08.86,0:39:13.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Violent things.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:13.21,0:39:14.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it doesn't change today.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:14.59,0:39:17.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He has not changed today.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:17.25,0:39:21.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He is the same God.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:21.21,0:39:23.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Think of the flood.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:23.04,0:39:25.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just think of the flood.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:25.48,0:39:29.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Again, we can get to \Nalmost fairy tale status
Dialogue: 0,0:39:29.42,0:39:33.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on this thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:33.07,0:39:34.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God looked at mankind.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:34.100,0:39:37.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He saw that every imagination
Dialogue: 0,0:39:37.60,0:39:39.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the thoughts of their hearts
Dialogue: 0,0:39:39.68,0:39:41.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is only evil continuously.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:41.23,0:39:43.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now let me just remind you of something.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:43.23,0:39:47.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is exactly the way He sees \Nunbelievers today as well.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:47.60,0:39:52.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dead in trespasses and sins.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:52.53,0:39:55.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is nothing in man \Nto comply with God's law.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:55.75,0:39:58.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He is just as embittered against God
Dialogue: 0,0:39:58.03,0:39:59.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and hostile to God
Dialogue: 0,0:39:59.48,0:40:00.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and fighting against God -
Dialogue: 0,0:40:00.79,0:40:03.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not the god of his imagination.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:03.74,0:40:05.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All you have to do -
Dialogue: 0,0:40:05.79,0:40:07.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,go up and down the street again.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:07.46,0:40:10.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Describe the God of Scripture.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:10.07,0:40:12.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Describe what I'm saying to you.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:12.35,0:40:15.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,See how well it's received.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:15.24,0:40:17.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People hate this God of Scripture.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:17.63,0:40:19.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They hate it.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:19.60,0:40:20.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They hate that there is a God
Dialogue: 0,0:40:20.98,0:40:25.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is going to hold them \Naccountable for their sins.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:25.04,0:40:28.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The flood.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:28.30,0:40:30.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God sees the condition of man
Dialogue: 0,0:40:30.41,0:40:34.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and He says, "I'm grieved."
Dialogue: 0,0:40:34.13,0:40:35.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It says, "The Lord regretted
Dialogue: 0,0:40:35.94,0:40:37.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that He had made man on the earth.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:37.62,0:40:39.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It grieved Him to His heart.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:39.30,0:40:40.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the Lord said,
Dialogue: 0,0:40:40.77,0:40:44.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'I will blot out man who I have created
Dialogue: 0,0:40:44.68,0:40:51.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the face of the land.'"
Dialogue: 0,0:40:51.67,0:40:58.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All those people.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:58.59,0:41:01.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What about their feelings?
Dialogue: 0,0:41:01.52,0:41:03.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you realize if you wipe that family out
Dialogue: 0,0:41:03.72,0:41:05.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the children will not graduate
Dialogue: 0,0:41:05.66,0:41:08.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from high school and college?
Dialogue: 0,0:41:08.82,0:41:11.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They'll never get to be married?
Dialogue: 0,0:41:11.31,0:41:16.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm never going to get \Nto enjoy my grandkids.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:16.15,0:41:17.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,See, that's how we think,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:17.60,0:41:20.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like we're entitled to these things.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:20.46,0:41:22.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when God doesn't \Nlet us have those things,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:22.67,0:41:27.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's like, "Explain Yourself, God!"
Dialogue: 0,0:41:27.24,0:41:30.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I want an explanation!"
Dialogue: 0,0:41:30.21,0:41:33.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is such an entitlement mindset
Dialogue: 0,0:41:33.28,0:41:35.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in this country.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:35.13,0:41:42.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We think we are entitled to everything.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:42.01,0:41:46.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The flood.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:46.23,0:41:49.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, man just imagines,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:49.87,0:41:52.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God just wants me to be happy.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:52.96,0:41:54.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He'd never cast me in hell.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:54.79,0:41:57.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of my close family \Nmembers told me that recently.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:57.46,0:41:58.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I told him,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:58.58,0:42:00.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you do not have the biblical grounds
Dialogue: 0,0:42:00.37,0:42:02.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to divorce your wife.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:02.34,0:42:13.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said, "Tim, I think God just \Nwants me to be happy."
Dialogue: 0,0:42:13.23,0:42:15.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you know, we like to ignore
Dialogue: 0,0:42:15.22,0:42:16.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,certain verses in Scripture.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:16.100,0:42:21.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But mark this:
Dialogue: 0,0:42:21.95,0:42:23.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,those aren't my words;
Dialogue: 0,0:42:23.51,0:42:24.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,those are God's words:
Dialogue: 0,0:42:24.69,0:42:27.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Mark this,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:27.94,0:42:29.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you who forget God,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:29.56,0:42:33.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lest I tear you apart."
Dialogue: 0,0:42:33.38,0:42:36.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wow.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:36.18,0:42:38.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God speaks like that?
Dialogue: 0,0:42:38.80,0:42:41.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah. Psalm 50.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:41.31,0:42:45.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You want something from the New Testament?
Dialogue: 0,0:42:45.03,0:42:47.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Luke 19: "But as for \Nthese enemies of mine
Dialogue: 0,0:42:47.11,0:42:49.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who did not want \NMe to reign over them,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:49.02,0:42:55.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bring them here and \Nslaughter them before Me."
Dialogue: 0,0:42:55.90,0:42:57.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can remember my first time
Dialogue: 0,0:42:57.62,0:42:59.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,going through the Old Testament,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:59.18,0:43:00.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's like you're going along,
Dialogue: 0,0:43:00.80,0:43:04.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's all new.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:04.20,0:43:06.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here's Aaron.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:06.03,0:43:10.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God's got all the garments
Dialogue: 0,0:43:10.06,0:43:14.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and their vesture.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:14.62,0:43:18.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The sons - they have their assignments
Dialogue: 0,0:43:18.44,0:43:20.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the offerings they need to make.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:20.38,0:43:23.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they're going along and whoof!
Dialogue: 0,0:43:23.73,0:43:24.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fire comes out,
Dialogue: 0,0:43:24.82,0:43:29.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Aaron's two oldest sons are gone.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:29.07,0:43:31.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can you imagine?
Dialogue: 0,0:43:31.50,0:43:33.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can you imagine if you're Aaron
Dialogue: 0,0:43:33.07,0:43:34.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you're looking
Dialogue: 0,0:43:34.86,0:43:38.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at what probably his two sons looked like?
Dialogue: 0,0:43:38.19,0:43:40.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, you imagine enough fire
Dialogue: 0,0:43:40.24,0:43:43.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to come out from God to kill them.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:43.48,0:43:47.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How much fire does \Nit take to kill a person?
Dialogue: 0,0:43:47.36,0:43:50.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They got that dose and probably more.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:50.13,0:43:51.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's what they looked like.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:51.79,0:43:57.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Have you ever seen somebody burned?
Dialogue: 0,0:43:57.46,0:44:00.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not just anybody.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:00.66,0:44:02.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This isn't a paramedic showing up
Dialogue: 0,0:44:02.28,0:44:04.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at a car accident.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:04.80,0:44:08.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are your two oldest sons.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:08.50,0:44:11.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you know what it says?
Dialogue: 0,0:44:11.65,0:44:18.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It says that Aaron held his peace.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:18.92,0:44:20.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why?
Dialogue: 0,0:44:20.19,0:44:22.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because His sons were not innocent,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:22.41,0:44:23.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's the problem.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:23.90,0:44:28.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,None of the sons of Adam ever are.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:28.93,0:44:32.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We act as though we have \Na right to something.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:32.98,0:44:35.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do we not remember?
Dialogue: 0,0:44:35.05,0:44:39.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The soul that sinneth must die."
Dialogue: 0,0:44:39.63,0:44:41.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The first time we sinned,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:41.22,0:44:43.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we lost the right to everything.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:43.76,0:44:45.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We lost rights to mercy,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:45.63,0:44:46.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to grace,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:46.76,0:44:47.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to compassion,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:47.84,0:44:49.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to God's kindness.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:49.07,0:44:52.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We forfeited it all.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:52.42,0:44:55.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And yet we forget that.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:55.28,0:44:57.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so when violent things happen;
Dialogue: 0,0:44:57.08,0:44:58.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when God breaks out;
Dialogue: 0,0:44:58.35,0:45:01.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when His providence takes -
Dialogue: 0,0:45:01.69,0:45:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we get shocked!
Dialogue: 0,0:45:04.00,0:45:09.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And sinners get offended.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:09.51,0:45:12.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what happens.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:12.13,0:45:15.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you know what Nadab and Abihu did?
Dialogue: 0,0:45:15.47,0:45:21.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They offered strange fire \Nin their censers.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:21.53,0:45:24.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Unauthorized.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:24.04,0:45:25.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They just simply offered something
Dialogue: 0,0:45:25.82,0:45:28.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that God hadn't told them to offer.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:28.70,0:45:30.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You say, ah, they were young,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:30.37,0:45:32.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they were being creative.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:32.86,0:45:34.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not like they were sacrificing
Dialogue: 0,0:45:34.56,0:45:40.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,humans on the altar or anything.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:40.18,0:45:41.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know what?
Dialogue: 0,0:45:41.08,0:45:42.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know what the problem with sin is?
Dialogue: 0,0:45:42.95,0:45:45.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It falls short of the glory of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:45.72,0:45:47.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what God said there
Dialogue: 0,0:45:47.77,0:45:51.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was, "I will be honored."
Dialogue: 0,0:45:51.95,0:45:53.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, sin dishonors Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:53.66,0:45:58.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because sin says, "No, God! No!"
Dialogue: 0,0:45:58.56,0:46:00.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"It doesn't matter that You told me
Dialogue: 0,0:46:00.38,0:46:02.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I should love my wife
Dialogue: 0,0:46:02.16,0:46:03.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that I should not separate
Dialogue: 0,0:46:03.73,0:46:05.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what God has joined together.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:05.50,0:46:06.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know what?
Dialogue: 0,0:46:06.46,0:46:09.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want a God that I think just \Nwants me to be happy.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:09.84,0:46:12.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I really don't care that God told me
Dialogue: 0,0:46:12.24,0:46:16.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that He hates divorce."
Dialogue: 0,0:46:16.14,0:46:18.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,See, that's how man is.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:18.28,0:46:20.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You just create this god -
Dialogue: 0,0:46:20.93,0:46:23.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,create this god...
Dialogue: 0,0:46:23.17,0:46:28.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God says, "I will be honored."
Dialogue: 0,0:46:28.58,0:46:30.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Such a measure of punishment -
Dialogue: 0,0:46:30.31,0:46:31.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it shakes us!
Dialogue: 0,0:46:31.42,0:46:32.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Really? God killed them?
Dialogue: 0,0:46:32.81,0:46:36.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God killed them on the spot!
Dialogue: 0,0:46:36.81,0:46:38.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the case was clear,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:38.24,0:46:40.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's why Aaron was silent.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:40.90,0:46:42.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I'll tell you,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:42.64,0:46:46.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I cannot tell you how many times
Dialogue: 0,0:46:46.40,0:46:48.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,going door to door,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:48.30,0:46:51.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,evangelizing on the streets,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:51.79,0:46:55.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,probably even sometimes \Npeople who visit this church -
Dialogue: 0,0:46:55.63,0:46:57.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they so boldly say,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:57.78,0:47:00.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Well, when I stand before \NGod on judgment day,
Dialogue: 0,0:47:00.46,0:47:02.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm going to tell Him..."
Dialogue: 0,0:47:02.65,0:47:07.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:07.34,0:47:09.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All you have to do go read these accounts
Dialogue: 0,0:47:09.65,0:47:12.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you know that's not going to happen.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:12.31,0:47:16.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're going to be just like Aaron.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:16.63,0:47:20.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because they're going to know.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:20.10,0:47:22.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's judgment day.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:22.46,0:47:24.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Silence.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:24.20,0:47:26.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All these braggarts and boastfuls
Dialogue: 0,0:47:26.45,0:47:28.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who think they're going to talk.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:28.66,0:47:30.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They don't know.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:30.89,0:47:35.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sinners are not going to have an answer.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:35.51,0:47:39.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You remember Korah?
Dialogue: 0,0:47:39.51,0:47:41.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Korah.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:41.45,0:47:45.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He had Dathan and Abiram.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:45.04,0:47:47.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Remember the 250 people?
Dialogue: 0,0:47:47.06,0:47:48.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,250 men.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:48.39,0:47:50.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Prominent men.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:50.85,0:47:52.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're saying, "Moses, Aaron,
Dialogue: 0,0:47:52.32,0:47:54.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who are you guys?"
Dialogue: 0,0:47:54.34,0:47:57.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These guys were of the Levitical line
Dialogue: 0,0:47:57.65,0:48:00.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,saying, "We're holy too."
Dialogue: 0,0:48:00.35,0:48:03.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The ground opened up and \Nswallowed some of them.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:03.91,0:48:07.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fire came out and consumed 250 of them.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:07.77,0:48:09.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you know what, more than that?
Dialogue: 0,0:48:09.75,0:48:11.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know what God said?
Dialogue: 0,0:48:11.98,0:48:14.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God said, "Moses, Aaron,
Dialogue: 0,0:48:14.65,0:48:19.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,step aside from the whole congregation.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:19.09,0:48:20.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm taking them all out."
Dialogue: 0,0:48:20.54,0:48:23.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Have you ever noticed how many times
Dialogue: 0,0:48:23.27,0:48:27.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Exodus and Numbers especially,
Dialogue: 0,0:48:27.07,0:48:31.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that God said, "Moses, aside.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:31.81,0:48:37.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm taking out all of them."
Dialogue: 0,0:48:37.15,0:48:45.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Moses played the intercessor.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:45.30,0:48:49.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of course, there's Uzzah.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:49.85,0:48:52.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know about Uzzah now.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:52.36,0:48:54.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of course, I read R.C. Sproul's book
Dialogue: 0,0:48:54.37,0:48:56.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the holiness of God \Nand he talks all about that.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:56.82,0:48:59.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the first time I was \Nreading through my Bible,
Dialogue: 0,0:48:59.47,0:49:01.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't know about Sproul's book.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:01.16,0:49:02.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't know about that account.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:02.87,0:49:05.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you're reading along - \Neverything's great!
Dialogue: 0,0:49:05.86,0:49:07.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're bringing the ark back in
Dialogue: 0,0:49:07.50,0:49:11.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and David is coming to the throne.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:11.05,0:49:13.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The ark has been recovered,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:13.82,0:49:16.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and everything is good.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:16.61,0:49:19.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're dancing and they're playing
Dialogue: 0,0:49:19.07,0:49:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all the instruments.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:24.00,0:49:25.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What happened?
Dialogue: 0,0:49:25.27,0:49:26.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'll tell you what happened,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:26.62,0:49:28.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that ark was on an ox cart
Dialogue: 0,0:49:28.43,0:49:31.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the ox stumbled.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:31.48,0:49:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Ark of the Covenant
Dialogue: 0,0:49:35.00,0:49:38.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was in danger of coming off
Dialogue: 0,0:49:38.04,0:49:39.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or upsetting.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:39.83,0:49:41.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Something.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:41.23,0:49:43.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Something that caused \Na knee-jerk reaction
Dialogue: 0,0:49:43.86,0:49:46.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the part of Uzzah.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:46.33,0:49:48.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He put out his hand
Dialogue: 0,0:49:48.15,0:49:49.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and steadied the ark,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:49.52,0:49:54.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and God killed him on the spot.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:54.24,0:50:03.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What do you think? Overreaction?
Dialogue: 0,0:50:03.56,0:50:09.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The reality was
Dialogue: 0,0:50:09.33,0:50:13.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was a death penalty
Dialogue: 0,0:50:13.07,0:50:17.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to even look upon the ark.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:17.78,0:50:21.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The ark was never supposed to be
Dialogue: 0,0:50:21.36,0:50:23.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,transported uncovered.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:23.44,0:50:27.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was never supposed to be transported
Dialogue: 0,0:50:27.07,0:50:32.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in an ox cart - only by hand
Dialogue: 0,0:50:32.76,0:50:36.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with poles through the rings.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:36.64,0:50:38.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The real miracle is
Dialogue: 0,0:50:38.09,0:50:43.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that God did not kill them all.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:43.13,0:50:47.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because they all were guilty
Dialogue: 0,0:50:47.99,0:50:50.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of capital crimes.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:50.36,0:50:52.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you see, it's Uzzah
Dialogue: 0,0:50:52.18,0:50:53.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that gets our attention.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:53.65,0:50:54.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's how it is.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:54.93,0:50:57.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We read: "Jacob have I loved,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:57.12,0:50:58.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Esau have I hated."
Dialogue: 0,0:50:58.43,0:51:02.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Ahh! God hates Esau!
Dialogue: 0,0:51:02.62,0:51:04.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm offended!
Dialogue: 0,0:51:04.48,0:51:07.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How could He do that?"
Dialogue: 0,0:51:07.22,0:51:10.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's how we are.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:10.21,0:51:13.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It doesn't blow us away
Dialogue: 0,0:51:13.13,0:51:18.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that God would actually love a sinner.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:18.30,0:51:20.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you really start thinking what sin is -
Dialogue: 0,0:51:20.52,0:51:21.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the crime that it is,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:21.70,0:51:23.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the wickedness that it is,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:23.06,0:51:26.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and how it insults this holy God.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:26.87,0:51:33.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Listen, God is not in debt to us.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:33.70,0:51:35.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not to a single one of us.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:35.76,0:51:39.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our right to life was forfeited
Dialogue: 0,0:51:39.43,0:51:42.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the moment we sinned.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:42.82,0:51:47.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have a right to one thing: fire.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:47.35,0:51:49.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Destruction.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:49.43,0:51:54.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's our right.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:54.74,0:51:55.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, the problem is,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:55.92,0:51:57.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we live in a climate today
Dialogue: 0,0:51:57.56,0:52:01.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where people demand a god
Dialogue: 0,0:52:01.10,0:52:04.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who is all love and all kindness.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:04.70,0:52:07.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the truth. You know it is.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:07.02,0:52:12.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it affects us too in the church.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:12.64,0:52:16.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, the glory is
Dialogue: 0,0:52:16.34,0:52:21.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this God -
Dialogue: 0,0:52:21.24,0:52:24.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He does have such a love
Dialogue: 0,0:52:24.59,0:52:28.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that He would look at \Nthe plight of sinners
Dialogue: 0,0:52:28.66,0:52:31.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and say, "I'm willing
Dialogue: 0,0:52:31.08,0:52:36.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the price and the cost of My own Son
Dialogue: 0,0:52:36.16,0:52:40.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to save sinners."
Dialogue: 0,0:52:40.74,0:52:42.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you see, that becomes so precious
Dialogue: 0,0:52:42.95,0:52:48.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,against this black backdrop
Dialogue: 0,0:52:48.11,0:52:52.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of these storm clouds.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:52.14,0:52:53.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you've ever taken a hose
Dialogue: 0,0:52:53.61,0:52:55.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you know you spray it in the air
Dialogue: 0,0:52:55.37,0:52:56.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you get the rainbow...
Dialogue: 0,0:52:56.72,0:52:58.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's a clear blue sky.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:58.03,0:52:59.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you try to look at that
Dialogue: 0,0:52:59.60,0:53:00.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,against that backdrop.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:00.93,0:53:03.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not as impressive.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:03.53,0:53:05.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's beauty there.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:05.48,0:53:07.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But when you look up
Dialogue: 0,0:53:07.67,0:53:13.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the sky is black,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:13.29,0:53:17.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there's this rainbow.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:17.80,0:53:28.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,See, the beauty just becomes so vivid.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:28.61,0:53:30.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God killed Nadab.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:30.71,0:53:32.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He killed Abihu.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:32.05,0:53:33.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He killed Uzzah.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:33.40,0:53:35.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He killed Sodom. He killed Gomorrah.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:35.46,0:53:39.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He killed those people \Nin the outlying parts.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:39.47,0:53:41.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When they didn't trust Him,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:41.34,0:53:42.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said every one of you,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:42.58,0:53:43.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,20 years old and up
Dialogue: 0,0:53:43.86,0:53:45.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,except Caleb and Joshua,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:45.63,0:53:46.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're dead.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:46.52,0:53:49.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your bodies are going to \Nfall dead in this wilderness.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:49.17,0:53:50.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they did.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:50.41,0:53:52.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They did.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:52.54,0:53:57.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God punishes sin.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:57.22,0:53:59.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are on death row.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:59.54,0:54:03.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our time here - short.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:03.92,0:54:08.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What you need to remember is this:
Dialogue: 0,0:54:08.04,0:54:09.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The very fact you can sin
Dialogue: 0,0:54:09.63,0:54:12.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you're not consumed by a ball of fire,
Dialogue: 0,0:54:12.30,0:54:14.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's God's kindness.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:14.10,0:54:16.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you need to read that kindness right.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:16.88,0:54:20.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That kindness is not meant to tell you
Dialogue: 0,0:54:20.53,0:54:22.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that God has forgotten your sin.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:22.99,0:54:26.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or that He doesn't mean to deal with it.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:26.92,0:54:31.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That kindness is for one reason.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:31.11,0:54:34.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is meant to lead you to repentance.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:34.19,0:54:37.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is meant for you to look and say:
Dialogue: 0,0:54:37.23,0:54:42.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Oh... God has spared me
Dialogue: 0,0:54:42.19,0:54:45.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I don't deserve to be spared.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:45.12,0:54:47.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is a good indication
Dialogue: 0,0:54:47.64,0:54:49.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that He will receive me
Dialogue: 0,0:54:49.10,0:54:51.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and forgive all of my sin
Dialogue: 0,0:54:51.73,0:54:55.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if I embrace this Christ - His own Son,
Dialogue: 0,0:54:55.54,0:54:58.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Son of God, who He didn't spare,
Dialogue: 0,0:54:58.58,0:55:03.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but He offered Him up."
Dialogue: 0,0:55:03.12,0:55:05.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Listen,
Dialogue: 0,0:55:05.24,0:55:07.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God did it.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:07.49,0:55:11.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God killed these people.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:11.54,0:55:14.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And God will kill us.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:14.89,0:55:17.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We look at ourselves and we feel like -
Dialogue: 0,0:55:17.16,0:55:18.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we love ourselves.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:18.55,0:55:20.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We want to preserve ourselves.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:20.17,0:55:23.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We want to protect ourselves.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:23.09,0:55:24.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don't like to imagine
Dialogue: 0,0:55:24.63,0:55:29.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that God is going to do \Nterrible harm to us.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:29.68,0:55:33.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We tend to like to imagine that He won't.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:33.77,0:55:37.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Somehow He must like us.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:37.53,0:55:40.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's only one way \Nof acceptance with God,
Dialogue: 0,0:55:40.58,0:55:42.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that is under the blood
Dialogue: 0,0:55:42.72,0:55:44.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of His Son Jesus Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:44.80,0:55:46.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's embracing Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:46.31,0:55:48.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No confidence in anything else.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:48.29,0:55:49.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's embracing Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:49.88,0:55:53.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God so loved... but listen.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:53.80,0:55:55.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Perishing is in that verse.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:55.75,0:55:59.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if you do not believe in Jesus Christ,
Dialogue: 0,0:55:59.05,0:56:02.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you perish.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:02.39,0:56:03.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:03.42,0:56:05.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's one way of escape.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:05.14,0:56:08.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Only one.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:08.81,0:56:13.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'll tell you, grace should surprise us.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:13.57,0:56:17.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And one of the things,
Dialogue: 0,0:56:17.29,0:56:19.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when we think about the wrath of God,
Dialogue: 0,0:56:19.44,0:56:24.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the fury of God just exploding,
Dialogue: 0,0:56:24.43,0:56:25.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,don't miss it
Dialogue: 0,0:56:25.99,0:56:27.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that there at the cross,
Dialogue: 0,0:56:27.43,0:56:30.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we see the most violent expression
Dialogue: 0,0:56:30.69,0:56:32.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of God's fury ever known.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:32.90,0:56:35.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Listen, it shouldn't stagger us
Dialogue: 0,0:56:35.98,0:56:38.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that Uzzah reaches out, touches that ark,
Dialogue: 0,0:56:38.85,0:56:40.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and drops dead.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:40.48,0:56:42.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What should stagger us
Dialogue: 0,0:56:42.08,0:56:48.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that an innocent Man -
Dialogue: 0,0:56:48.10,0:56:50.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,do you know what happened with Him?
Dialogue: 0,0:56:50.78,0:56:53.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God's wrath exploded on Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:53.72,0:56:57.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,An innocent Man.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:57.31,0:56:59.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was accursed
Dialogue: 0,0:56:59.61,0:57:02.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because He became sin;
Dialogue: 0,0:57:02.10,0:57:04.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because He became sin.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:04.32,0:57:07.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sin. Sin. Think with me.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:07.68,0:57:11.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It causes God to incinerate sinners
Dialogue: 0,0:57:11.36,0:57:13.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the spot.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:13.73,0:57:15.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What do you think happens to Christ
Dialogue: 0,0:57:15.43,0:57:19.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when He becomes sin?
Dialogue: 0,0:57:19.65,0:57:24.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God incinerated Him on the spot.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:24.93,0:57:27.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You read Psalm 22.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:27.55,0:57:31.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He melted. Melted.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:31.58,0:57:34.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Isaiah 53.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:34.93,0:57:38.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God laid into Him. Struck Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:38.25,0:57:40.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Smote Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:40.60,0:57:44.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,An innocent Man. Why?
Dialogue: 0,0:57:44.06,0:57:46.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God's justice must be satisfied.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:46.58,0:57:49.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was no mercy on the cross.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:49.28,0:57:51.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No mercy.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:51.32,0:57:52.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's how hell is.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:52.81,0:57:54.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is no mercy.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:54.67,0:57:56.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what sin deserves.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:56.74,0:58:00.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hell is going to be a brutal awakening
Dialogue: 0,0:58:00.52,0:58:02.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for millions and millions
Dialogue: 0,0:58:02.58,0:58:04.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of human beings
Dialogue: 0,0:58:04.50,0:58:08.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who are going to be \Nunspeakably wretched forever.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:08.91,0:58:15.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hell - we are so humanistic;
Dialogue: 0,0:58:15.96,0:58:19.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so man-centered.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:19.58,0:58:21.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hell tells us there is a holy God
Dialogue: 0,0:58:21.78,0:58:26.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in whose eyes we are dreadfully guilty.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:26.28,0:58:27.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we do forget.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:27.76,0:58:31.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We so easily forget
Dialogue: 0,0:58:31.81,0:58:34.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that when we committed our first sin,
Dialogue: 0,0:58:34.93,0:58:40.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we just forfeited every right to anything.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:40.23,0:58:42.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Listen.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:42.66,0:58:45.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God is saying to us:
Dialogue: 0,0:58:45.03,0:58:51.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Don't take My grace for granted.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:51.31,0:58:56.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't take My Son for granted.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:56.43,0:59:01.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have such a love
Dialogue: 0,0:59:01.70,0:59:06.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I crushed My own Son.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:06.01,0:59:09.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was willing to do that for sinners.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:09.84,0:59:13.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But if you despise Him,
Dialogue: 0,0:59:13.89,0:59:23.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,oh, it will not go well with you."
Dialogue: 0,0:59:23.39,0:59:24.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Listen.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:24.46,0:59:26.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"God so loved the world
Dialogue: 0,0:59:26.51,0:59:28.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that He gave His only begotten Son,
Dialogue: 0,0:59:28.48,0:59:32.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that whoever believes in \NHim should not perish,
Dialogue: 0,0:59:32.54,0:59:34.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but have eternal life."
Dialogue: 0,0:59:34.36,0:59:37.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just cast yourself wholly on Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:37.85,0:59:39.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you're not saved,
Dialogue: 0,0:59:39.70,0:59:43.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this verse - this whole book is a lie
Dialogue: 0,0:59:43.36,0:59:44.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and God is a liar.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:44.86,0:59:47.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But that can never be.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:47.48,0:59:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God is no liar.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:49.00,0:59:51.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The reality is God is kind
Dialogue: 0,0:59:51.74,0:59:54.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and He is willing to save.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:54.21,0:59:57.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He is willing to not spare His own Son.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:57.19,1:00:00.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the sort of God that we have.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:00.02,1:00:03.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the sort of God
Dialogue: 0,1:00:03.16,1:00:05.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who though His anger burns
Dialogue: 0,1:00:05.18,1:00:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ever so fiercely,
Dialogue: 0,1:00:08.00,1:00:11.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's also a love that designs
Dialogue: 0,1:00:11.55,1:00:15.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a way for that wrath to be satisfied
Dialogue: 0,1:00:15.37,1:00:17.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in just fashion.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:17.97,1:00:22.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For God to be just and yet justify you.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:22.74,1:00:26.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And everything is good.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:26.68,1:00:29.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whoever. That's what it says.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:29.09,1:00:30.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whoever believes.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:30.90,1:00:33.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can't be too old.\NYou can't be too young.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:33.13,1:00:35.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can't be too wretched.\NYou can't be too sinful.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:35.97,1:00:38.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can't have sinned for too long.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:38.03,1:00:42.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whoever believes
Dialogue: 0,1:00:42.92,1:00:49.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,should not perish.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:49.40,1:00:52.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's all gone.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:52.44,1:00:55.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, have eternal life.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:55.24,1:00:57.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not just to live forever,
Dialogue: 0,1:00:57.57,1:01:02.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's to be swept into
Dialogue: 0,1:01:02.31,1:01:08.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the very intimacy of God.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:08.40,1:01:12.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Knowing God.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:12.62,1:01:14.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Beholding His face.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:14.70,1:01:17.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All the tears wiped away.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:17.04,1:01:20.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All the sins wiped away.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:20.66,1:01:22.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And coming to know Him
Dialogue: 0,1:01:22.10,1:01:25.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through all these coming ages.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:25.02,1:01:26.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You think about it.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:26.78,1:01:28.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That truth there.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:28.37,1:01:29.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you remember it?
Dialogue: 0,1:01:29.51,1:01:31.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ephesians 1.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:31.74,1:01:33.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"That through all the coming ages,
Dialogue: 0,1:01:33.56,1:01:36.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He might show
Dialogue: 0,1:01:36.24,1:01:38.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the unsearchable riches of His grace
Dialogue: 0,1:01:38.61,1:01:43.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in kindness to those in Christ Jesus."
Dialogue: 0,1:01:43.88,1:01:48.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Father, that You would do \Nsuch a thing for sinners.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:48.36,1:01:52.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just think with the songwriter,
Dialogue: 0,1:01:52.44,1:01:57.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what language shall we borrow
Dialogue: 0,1:01:57.65,1:02:00.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to thank Thee dearest Friend.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:00.48,1:02:02.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank You.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:02.63,1:02:04.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
Dialogue: 0,1:02:04.43,1:02:06.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we thank You. Amen.