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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.78,0:00:08.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Eschatology is a study of last things.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.40,0:00:14.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a study of the end times.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.26,0:00:21.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Classic eschatology includes things like
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.58,0:00:25.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the second coming of Jesus Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.11,0:00:27.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we think eschatology,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.05,0:00:29.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we think of the second coming.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.42,0:00:31.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we think of eschatology,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.78,0:00:37.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we think of prophecy.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.50,0:00:41.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We think of the new \Nheavens and the new earth.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.74,0:00:44.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We think of judgment day.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.77,0:00:47.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We think of eternal punishment.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.70,0:00:53.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oftentimes, in this category of theology,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.07,0:00:59.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we discuss the nature \Nof the Kingdom of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.91,0:01:01.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is the Kingdom of God a thousand years?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.98,0:01:04.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or what is the Kingdom of God?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.92,0:01:08.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Kingdom of Heaven?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.35,0:01:10.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The future of the church,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.88,0:01:12.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the future of Israel -
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.84,0:01:17.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these are things that are \Ndiscussed under this heading.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.04,0:01:20.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The millennium.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.07,0:01:23.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The rapture.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.86,0:01:27.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The resurrection of the dead.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.76,0:01:32.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The tribulation.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.25,0:01:35.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The antichrist.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.11,0:01:38.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can you think of anything else?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.47,0:01:40.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those are the things that are
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.28,0:01:46.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,commonly included in \Nthis branch of theology.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.52,0:01:49.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, here's the question.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.11,0:01:54.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why take a number of Lord's Days
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.40,0:01:57.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and devote them to this topic?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.65,0:01:59.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is this necessary?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.09,0:02:00.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My sermon this morning,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.44,0:02:01.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've entitled this:
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.79,0:02:04.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why a Series on Eschatology?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.38,0:02:05.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today, an introduction.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.98,0:02:09.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just want to talk to you about why.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.32,0:02:11.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(incomplete thought)
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.67,0:02:13.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have five reasons.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.45,0:02:14.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are other reasons,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.70,0:02:16.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but in this message I want to lay down
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.73,0:02:19.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,five reasons as to why I want to do
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.06,0:02:22.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a series concerning eschatology.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.38,0:02:24.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I hope you leave here today
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.20,0:02:29.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,believing that at least \N3 or 4 or 5 of these
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.03,0:02:32.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are sufficiently important to \Nwarrant a series like this.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.51,0:02:37.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think all of them are.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.68,0:02:42.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, I think that before we dive into this,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.52,0:02:46.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I feel like I need to say something here.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.15,0:02:50.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I cannot help but that this series
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.94,0:02:54.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is going to be polemic.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.82,0:02:58.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you know that word?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.13,0:03:04.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What's a good synonym for polemic?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.13,0:03:08.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's controversial.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.06,0:03:10.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You might even think critical
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.06,0:03:11.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or argumentative.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.42,0:03:13.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the idea that this series
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.47,0:03:18.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is not just going to be \Na setting forth of truth;
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.97,0:03:27.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is going to be a combating error.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.03,0:03:31.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, I can hardly avoid confronting
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.03,0:03:34.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dispensational premillenialism.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.45,0:03:37.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I detest it.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.33,0:03:39.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I want to show you that there's
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.12,0:03:43.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a biblical reason for detesting it.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.56,0:03:47.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(incomplete thought)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.47,0:03:50.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, look, if you \Ndon't know that term
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.67,0:03:53.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by the end of this, you \Nwill know that term.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.02,0:03:55.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You will know some of the major tenets
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.71,0:03:59.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of dispensational premillenialism.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.83,0:04:00.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Over against what?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.98,0:04:02.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What do you hold to, pastor?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.49,0:04:08.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Over against the biblical position.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.18,0:04:15.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, look, I say \Nthat tongue-in-cheek,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.29,0:04:20.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but brethren, I don't want you to believe
Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.28,0:04:22.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,anything unless it can be shown to you
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.71,0:04:27.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from Scripture.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.97,0:04:29.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dispensational premillenialism is
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.96,0:04:35.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that eschatology that is \Nlargely touted by Hollywood,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.44,0:04:37.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by John Hagee,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.69,0:04:42.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and yes, by John MacArthur.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:42.36,0:04:46.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, I want to say this at the beginning.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:46.69,0:04:49.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God has used John MacArthur
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.88,0:04:56.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,instrumentally in my own conversion.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:56.38,0:05:01.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's had a profound influence on my life,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.21,0:05:03.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even at a day when I didn't recognize
Dialogue: 0,0:05:03.11,0:05:06.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I would a preacher and a pastor.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.36,0:05:10.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He influenced me tremendously.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:10.24,0:05:13.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as much as anything,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:13.40,0:05:16.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was his example as a preacher
Dialogue: 0,0:05:16.27,0:05:19.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who was deeply committed \Nto the Word of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:19.87,0:05:21.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I appreciated that about him.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:21.69,0:05:26.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He could convince me of anything,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:26.56,0:05:29.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just so long as he could \Nshow me from Scripture.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:29.03,0:05:31.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, from day one when God saved me,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:31.09,0:05:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he had a powerful influence on my life,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.00,0:05:36.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but God gave me a hunger \Nfor the Word of God
Dialogue: 0,0:05:36.32,0:05:38.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that was greater than the \Ninfluence of John MacArthur.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:38.95,0:05:41.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,John could take me anywhere as long as
Dialogue: 0,0:05:41.51,0:05:43.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he could show me from Scripture
Dialogue: 0,0:05:43.29,0:05:45.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I ought to go there.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:45.11,0:05:47.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he did. He convinced \Nme of many things.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:47.26,0:05:49.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, the sovereignty of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.04,0:05:50.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There it is.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:50.44,0:05:52.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would hear him preach it.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:52.46,0:05:53.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yep, there it is.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:53.55,0:05:55.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Election. Yep, I see it right there
Dialogue: 0,0:05:55.85,0:05:57.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the Word of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.13,0:05:58.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, he was big on Lordship.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:58.76,0:06:02.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was saved reading \N"The Gospel According to Jesus,"
Dialogue: 0,0:06:02.21,0:06:04.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which deals with this \Nwhole Lordship issue.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:04.42,0:06:05.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yep, there it is in the Bible.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:05.92,0:06:07.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was very convincing.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:07.36,0:06:08.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Repentance. Yep, there is it.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.77,0:06:14.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The rapture...
Dialogue: 0,0:06:14.05,0:06:17.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where is it at?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:17.11,0:06:23.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now folks, as a young believer,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:23.56,0:06:25.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he could have taken me anywhere
Dialogue: 0,0:06:25.36,0:06:27.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that he could have shown me from Scripture
Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.38,0:06:28.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I ought to go.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:28.87,0:06:29.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The rapture.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:29.98,0:06:32.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let me tell you something \Nabout the rapture.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:32.14,0:06:35.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not like the Trinity.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:35.53,0:06:38.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Trinity is a concept
Dialogue: 0,0:06:38.32,0:06:41.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you don't find the \Nword "Trinity" in Scripture,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:41.19,0:06:45.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but you find the concept.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:45.14,0:06:50.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But with rapture, I don't \Neven find the word.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:50.29,0:06:52.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I don't find the concept.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:52.83,0:06:55.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in the verses that are used
Dialogue: 0,0:06:55.40,0:06:58.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to reference this supposed rapture,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:58.92,0:07:00.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'd get to looking at those things
Dialogue: 0,0:07:00.66,0:07:07.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and say that's not \Nwhat that's talking about.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:07.100,0:07:11.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, I actually heard,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:11.97,0:07:14.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I believe it was the time I \Nwas out there in California,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:14.94,0:07:18.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I actually heard John MacArthur say
Dialogue: 0,0:07:18.25,0:07:20.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as he was preaching through Revelation,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:20.12,0:07:22.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he said now some of you are going to ask
Dialogue: 0,0:07:22.12,0:07:23.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where the rapture is.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:23.38,0:07:27.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said it's in the white \Nspaces between verse 3 and 4.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:27.36,0:07:28.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I'm not making that up,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:28.80,0:07:32.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because you found that \Nmessage, didn't you, James.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:32.39,0:07:35.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mentioned it and somebody told me here -
Dialogue: 0,0:07:35.41,0:07:37.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you've heard that Jeff?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:37.46,0:07:40.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(unintelligible)
Dialogue: 0,0:07:40.36,0:07:44.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But he used specifically \N"in the white spaces"
Dialogue: 0,0:07:44.80,0:07:46.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I heard it.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:46.55,0:07:50.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I said "in the white spaces?"
Dialogue: 0,0:07:50.28,0:07:52.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're telling me there's a doctrine
Dialogue: 0,0:07:52.40,0:07:57.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the white spaces?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:57.08,0:08:00.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, there's something wrong
Dialogue: 0,0:08:00.11,0:08:01.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with that approach to Scripture.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:01.90,0:08:03.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As a young believer who had been
Dialogue: 0,0:08:03.43,0:08:06.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so impressed by John's commitment
Dialogue: 0,0:08:06.07,0:08:09.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the Word of God, I was baffled
Dialogue: 0,0:08:09.40,0:08:11.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as to how that commitment seemed to
Dialogue: 0,0:08:11.60,0:08:13.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,disintegrate when it came to eschatology.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:13.78,0:08:15.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look, I want to tell you right up front.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:15.71,0:08:17.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I appreciate John MacArthur,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:17.73,0:08:20.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but my commitment to God's Word
Dialogue: 0,0:08:20.83,0:08:23.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is greater; it is foremost.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:23.98,0:08:26.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I will follow any preacher
Dialogue: 0,0:08:26.52,0:08:30.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I sit before and listen to preach;
Dialogue: 0,0:08:30.41,0:08:32.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I will follow any preacher as long as
Dialogue: 0,0:08:32.86,0:08:35.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he can show me from the Word of God
Dialogue: 0,0:08:35.50,0:08:39.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I ought to go where \Nhe wants to take me.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:39.93,0:08:41.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But God help us, brethren.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:41.83,0:08:44.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let no one take you anywhere -
Dialogue: 0,0:08:44.40,0:08:45.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,including me -
Dialogue: 0,0:08:45.74,0:08:47.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,don't ever let me take you,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:47.44,0:08:49.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or any of the preachers in this church
Dialogue: 0,0:08:49.34,0:08:50.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the radio or on the Internet
Dialogue: 0,0:08:50.98,0:08:53.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,take you anywhere they cannot show you
Dialogue: 0,0:08:53.08,0:08:54.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the Word of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:54.43,0:08:58.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is not responsible listening to sermons
Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.18,0:09:01.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unless you have an open Bible.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:01.69,0:09:04.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Listening to sermons and \Nlistening to theology
Dialogue: 0,0:09:04.25,0:09:05.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and listening to doctrine,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:05.75,0:09:09.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,listening to teachers \Nwithout an open Bible
Dialogue: 0,0:09:09.29,0:09:11.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is irresponsible on your part.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:11.93,0:09:13.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because you have no way of knowing
Dialogue: 0,0:09:13.72,0:09:17.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whether this guy is \Nleading you into error or not.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:17.88,0:09:21.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And just because somebody \Nhas a certain reputation
Dialogue: 0,0:09:21.47,0:09:23.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as being a Bible scholar,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:23.08,0:09:25.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or being this or being \Nthat or being reformed
Dialogue: 0,0:09:25.55,0:09:29.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,does not mean that they \Ncannot lead you into error.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:29.100,0:09:32.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you will not know if they are,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:32.21,0:09:35.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unless you are checking \Nand proving everything.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:35.56,0:09:38.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, there is a reason why
Dialogue: 0,0:09:38.28,0:09:40.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Bereans show up in Scripture.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:40.41,0:09:41.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were more noble.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:41.79,0:09:43.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what were they doing?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:43.15,0:09:46.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a nobility in testing everything
Dialogue: 0,0:09:46.23,0:09:49.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by the Word of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:49.61,0:09:51.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everything.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:51.76,0:09:55.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, the primary thing compelling me
Dialogue: 0,0:09:55.23,0:09:59.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to do this series is \Nthat I do not believe -
Dialogue: 0,0:09:59.97,0:10:03.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for one, I believe that \Nthere are serious errors
Dialogue: 0,0:10:03.43,0:10:07.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,associated with dispensational \Npremillenialism.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:07.25,0:10:09.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The second thing about that is
Dialogue: 0,0:10:09.92,0:10:12.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't believe that those \Nerrors are harmless.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:12.69,0:10:15.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I do not believe that they are harmless
Dialogue: 0,0:10:15.64,0:10:18.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with regards to sound doctrine
Dialogue: 0,0:10:18.33,0:10:20.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the life of the church.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:20.21,0:10:23.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's implications in this system
Dialogue: 0,0:10:23.10,0:10:27.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I believe are harmful.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:27.17,0:10:30.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's why I want to deal with it.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:30.94,0:10:34.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, I am under a charge
Dialogue: 0,0:10:34.25,0:10:37.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to preach the Word.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:37.20,0:10:40.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I think if we just \Ndid a survey right now
Dialogue: 0,0:10:40.09,0:10:42.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of how much these subjects\Nthat are dealt with
Dialogue: 0,0:10:42.67,0:10:44.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,under this heading of eschatology
Dialogue: 0,0:10:44.42,0:10:46.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are dealt with in our New Testaments -
Dialogue: 0,0:10:46.43,0:10:47.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,well, the whole Bible,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:47.64,0:10:50.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the New Testament specifically,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:50.23,0:10:54.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how much of it actually \Ndeals (incomplete thought).
Dialogue: 0,0:10:54.30,0:10:56.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've gone through the New Testament.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:56.40,0:10:59.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I believe I can find \Naspects of eschatology
Dialogue: 0,0:10:59.67,0:11:03.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in every single book \Nof the New Testament
Dialogue: 0,0:11:03.34,0:11:04.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,except 3 John.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:04.60,0:11:07.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can't find it there.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:07.11,0:11:08.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But in every other book.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:08.93,0:11:10.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is something that the early church
Dialogue: 0,0:11:10.87,0:11:14.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,counted as a doctrine for us to know,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:14.62,0:11:17.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to embrace - it's important.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:17.81,0:11:20.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God has given it to us in His Word.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:20.05,0:11:29.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so, ok, I have five reasons
Dialogue: 0,0:11:29.44,0:11:33.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as to why I believe \Nthat a series like this
Dialogue: 0,0:11:33.70,0:11:37.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is justifiable.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:37.30,0:11:42.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I think this introduction \Nis important.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:42.26,0:11:48.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want you all to feel this.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:48.09,0:11:53.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, here's the first.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:53.45,0:11:56.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the first reason why I believe
Dialogue: 0,0:11:56.63,0:12:00.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we need to look at this.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:00.55,0:12:02.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,See, brethren, the thing is
Dialogue: 0,0:12:02.99,0:12:07.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this dispensational premillenialism
Dialogue: 0,0:12:07.31,0:12:12.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is being taught everywhere
Dialogue: 0,0:12:12.100,0:12:14.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as though it's the truth.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:14.67,0:12:16.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's being taught by Hollywood.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:16.18,0:12:18.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'll tell you, when Hollywood owns
Dialogue: 0,0:12:18.12,0:12:21.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a doctrine, you ought to fear.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:21.47,0:12:23.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm not saying that every single thing
Dialogue: 0,0:12:23.63,0:12:26.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that possibly can come \Nacross the television screen
Dialogue: 0,0:12:26.23,0:12:28.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or movie screen is going to be erroneous,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:28.28,0:12:30.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but when the world gets on board,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:30.46,0:12:35.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,beware.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:35.01,0:12:37.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you remember from 1 John
Dialogue: 0,0:12:37.75,0:12:42.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who controls the world?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:42.99,0:12:44.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If Satan controls the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:44.73,0:12:49.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then the world jumps on board this system;
Dialogue: 0,0:12:49.09,0:12:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this eschatology.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:52.00,0:12:57.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Satan typically does not \Njust do thing randomly.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:57.64,0:12:59.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He does things with intent.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:59.98,0:13:01.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Deliberately.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:01.10,0:13:02.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On purpose.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:02.94,0:13:05.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He means to accomplish his ends,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:05.10,0:13:09.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and his ends are not favorable to us.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:09.59,0:13:12.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, here's the first thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:12.58,0:13:16.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I believe that that system \Nof eschatology out there -
Dialogue: 0,0:13:16.85,0:13:18.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know what I'm talking about.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:18.51,0:13:20.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm talking about this eschatology
Dialogue: 0,0:13:20.75,0:13:22.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that basically says this:
Dialogue: 0,0:13:22.47,0:13:23.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we're going along right now
Dialogue: 0,0:13:23.84,0:13:25.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we're going to get raptured.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:25.42,0:13:27.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then there's going to be 7 years.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:27.20,0:13:29.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now if you're pre-tribulational,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:29.44,0:13:32.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's going to be 7 years of tribulation
Dialogue: 0,0:13:32.80,0:13:35.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then Jesus Christ is going to come\Nand set up an earthly kingdom,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:35.69,0:13:38.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's going to last for 1,000 years\Nand then you're going to have Armageddon
Dialogue: 0,0:13:38.50,0:13:40.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then you're going to \Nhave this judgment day,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:40.53,0:13:42.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then the new heavens and new earth
Dialogue: 0,0:13:42.94,0:13:44.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are going to be ushered in.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:44.24,0:13:46.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm talking about that kind of system.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:46.15,0:13:48.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm talking about the "left behind" thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:48.38,0:13:50.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is all the charts and everything
Dialogue: 0,0:13:50.37,0:13:52.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you see John Hagee set up.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:52.13,0:13:53.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now look, I'm not going to say that
Dialogue: 0,0:13:53.95,0:13:57.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,John MacArthur buys into every last iota
Dialogue: 0,0:13:57.29,0:14:00.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the "left behind" stuff,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:00.12,0:14:03.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but by and large, he holds to this same
Dialogue: 0,0:14:03.02,0:14:05.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,type of eschatology.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:05.20,0:14:07.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here's the first reason.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:07.35,0:14:13.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I believe it commandeers the promises
Dialogue: 0,0:14:13.92,0:14:18.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that God has given to the church.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:18.04,0:14:20.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Probably the most defining aspect
Dialogue: 0,0:14:20.09,0:14:21.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of dispensational premillenialism
Dialogue: 0,0:14:21.100,0:14:24.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is its insistence that there are
Dialogue: 0,0:14:24.67,0:14:27.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,two people of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:27.90,0:14:30.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's just lay that down.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:30.02,0:14:34.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fundamental to this eschatological system;
Dialogue: 0,0:14:34.46,0:14:37.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this dispensationalism:
Dialogue: 0,0:14:37.38,0:14:39.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,two people of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:39.31,0:14:42.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who are the two people?
Dialogue: 0,0:14:42.73,0:14:46.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The church and Israel.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:46.61,0:14:48.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Two distinct people.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:48.92,0:14:52.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Two distinct purposes for each.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:52.81,0:14:55.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You need to see this for what it is.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:55.06,0:14:57.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,MacArthur insists that certain promises
Dialogue: 0,0:14:57.92,0:15:01.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,made to Israel are not for you and me.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:01.53,0:15:03.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what's being insisted.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:03.21,0:15:07.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What's the big deal?\NWhat's the big deal?
Dialogue: 0,0:15:07.16,0:15:09.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, think about it.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:09.12,0:15:12.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is what this is like.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:12.65,0:15:15.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Imagine this.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:15.31,0:15:18.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, we have families in the church
Dialogue: 0,0:15:18.09,0:15:21.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that are adopting children.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:21.25,0:15:24.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Imagine this.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:24.95,0:15:31.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Imagine that you have a son.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:31.100,0:15:33.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A man and a woman.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:33.84,0:15:36.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They have a son.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:36.17,0:15:40.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's born to them.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:40.92,0:15:45.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, later on, they've got this one son.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:45.15,0:15:48.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They decide that they're going to adopt
Dialogue: 0,0:15:48.18,0:15:51.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,two sons.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:51.52,0:15:55.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One is born into the family.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:55.01,0:15:58.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Two are adopted into the family.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:58.44,0:16:00.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Imagine this.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:00.51,0:16:07.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Imagine that these two adopted sons -
Dialogue: 0,0:16:07.21,0:16:10.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,suppose it's my family.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:10.08,0:16:11.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have one son.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:11.68,0:16:14.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's suppose I adopt two sons now.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:14.40,0:16:15.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I bring those two sons home,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:15.98,0:16:17.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I sit down at the table with them
Dialogue: 0,0:16:17.81,0:16:19.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I look across the table
Dialogue: 0,0:16:19.20,0:16:20.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I look in their eyes.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:20.76,0:16:28.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I say, "Boys, you \Nsee Joshua over here?
Dialogue: 0,0:16:28.86,0:16:33.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was born into the family.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:33.22,0:16:37.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My wife gave birth to him.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:37.05,0:16:38.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's blood of my blood,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:38.79,0:16:40.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bone of my bone.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:40.16,0:16:43.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's my boy.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:43.20,0:16:47.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Boys, guess what?
Dialogue: 0,0:16:47.53,0:16:50.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want you to know this.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:50.62,0:16:57.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am going to treat you as equal to him.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:57.82,0:17:01.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am going to be every bit a father to you
Dialogue: 0,0:17:01.49,0:17:03.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I am to him.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:03.47,0:17:06.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am going to love you like I love him.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:06.28,0:17:09.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am going to care for \Nyou like I care for him.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:09.48,0:17:13.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All that it means for him to be a child
Dialogue: 0,0:17:13.72,0:17:19.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in this family, it's going to mean to you.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:19.22,0:17:20.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm going to give you everything.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:20.89,0:17:24.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You are mine.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:24.28,0:17:26.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm your father.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:26.52,0:17:30.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You are full heirs.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:30.24,0:17:34.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every privilege he has, you have.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:34.55,0:17:36.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You bear my name.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:36.45,0:17:38.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're going to bear the name 'Conway,'
Dialogue: 0,0:17:38.86,0:17:40.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and everything that it means
Dialogue: 0,0:17:40.64,0:17:49.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be a Conway child is yours.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:49.16,0:17:50.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No difference.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:50.69,0:17:52.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No difference between you at all."
Dialogue: 0,0:17:52.65,0:17:55.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now look, if I go upstairs
Dialogue: 0,0:17:55.91,0:17:58.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I'm listening down the stairway
Dialogue: 0,0:17:58.45,0:18:03.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I want to hear if they really
Dialogue: 0,0:18:03.13,0:18:05.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,appreciate what I just told them.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:05.45,0:18:11.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of those adopted sons \Nsays to the other one,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:11.84,0:18:14.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"that's not true.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:14.39,0:18:18.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're really inferior to Joshua.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:18.74,0:18:23.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our father - he's really not \Ngoing to treat us the same.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:23.26,0:18:29.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He is going to play \Nfavorites with Joshua."
Dialogue: 0,0:18:29.42,0:18:34.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(incomplete thought)
Dialogue: 0,0:18:34.59,0:18:36.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, this is what's happening.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:36.45,0:18:39.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You've got the adopted brother - you.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:39.21,0:18:41.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The adopted brother - \Nsomebody like John MacArthur.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:41.96,0:18:43.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he's saying in your ear,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:43.53,0:18:45.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"it's not true. It's not true.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:45.34,0:18:47.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't believe that the Father is going to
Dialogue: 0,0:18:47.84,0:18:52.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,give us everything that\NHe's giving to Israel."
Dialogue: 0,0:18:52.75,0:18:55.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what he's saying.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:55.01,0:18:56.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he will admit he's saying that.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:56.69,0:18:59.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He doesn't deny that.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:59.92,0:19:04.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But Scripture simply does not teach that.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:04.57,0:19:06.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am going to prove that to you
Dialogue: 0,0:19:06.66,0:19:07.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the weeks ahead
Dialogue: 0,0:19:07.93,0:19:10.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,beyond any shadow of a doubt.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:10.51,0:19:13.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It does not teach that, brethren.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:13.60,0:19:16.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not at all.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:16.88,0:19:18.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Guys that hold to that system
Dialogue: 0,0:19:18.90,0:19:21.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would take certain promises away from us.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:21.45,0:19:23.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I don't believe \Nthis is any small matter.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:23.61,0:19:25.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want you to turn in your Bibles
Dialogue: 0,0:19:25.33,0:19:32.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to 1 Peter 1:13.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:32.99,0:19:35.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's undoubtedly many places
Dialogue: 0,0:19:35.27,0:19:37.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I could go here,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:37.13,0:19:46.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but brethren, 1 Peter 1:13.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:46.76,0:19:50.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Notice how this reads.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:50.73,0:19:55.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,1 Peter 1:13
Dialogue: 0,0:19:55.92,0:20:01.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Therefore, preparing \Nyour minds for action."
Dialogue: 0,0:20:01.09,0:20:05.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,See, what Peter is speaking about here
Dialogue: 0,0:20:05.68,0:20:11.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is living life now being ready for action;
Dialogue: 0,0:20:11.43,0:20:14.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,being sober-minded.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:14.23,0:20:17.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He wants us to set our hope -
Dialogue: 0,0:20:17.54,0:20:19.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what is hope?
Dialogue: 0,0:20:19.39,0:20:21.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hope is faith in things that happen
Dialogue: 0,0:20:21.44,0:20:23.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the future.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:23.03,0:20:24.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what it is.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:24.40,0:20:28.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like Piper talks about "future grace."
Dialogue: 0,0:20:28.30,0:20:30.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's faith in future things.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:30.21,0:20:31.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what hope is.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:31.56,0:20:35.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I hope for things to yet come.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:35.19,0:20:39.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He says set your hope; your expectation;
Dialogue: 0,0:20:39.02,0:20:41.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your faith in the future things,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:41.36,0:20:45.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"fully on the grace that \Nwill be brought to you
Dialogue: 0,0:20:45.08,0:20:47.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the revelation of Jesus Christ."
Dialogue: 0,0:20:47.38,0:20:49.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What I want you to see is Peter believes
Dialogue: 0,0:20:49.81,0:20:55.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you living now with \Nminds set for action;
Dialogue: 0,0:20:55.40,0:20:57.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,prepared for action, being sober-minded.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:57.51,0:20:58.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How are we to live?
Dialogue: 0,0:20:58.72,0:21:01.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're to live with our minds set
Dialogue: 0,0:21:01.42,0:21:03.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on that hope that is going \Nto be revealed to us
Dialogue: 0,0:21:03.84,0:21:04.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when Christ comes.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:04.93,0:21:05.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know what?
Dialogue: 0,0:21:05.89,0:21:07.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know what we get when He comes?
Dialogue: 0,0:21:07.57,0:21:09.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everything that's been promised.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:09.16,0:21:11.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We get the inheritance.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:11.29,0:21:13.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, it's like having \Nthe two adopted boys.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:13.70,0:21:16.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When does this all come really to fruition
Dialogue: 0,0:21:16.99,0:21:18.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about being even?
Dialogue: 0,0:21:18.36,0:21:19.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, it's when I die
Dialogue: 0,0:21:19.82,0:21:21.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the will is read.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:21.63,0:21:24.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are they truly heirs?
Dialogue: 0,0:21:24.48,0:21:27.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are they going to receive everything
Dialogue: 0,0:21:27.03,0:21:30.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the family-born son
Dialogue: 0,0:21:30.22,0:21:31.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is going to receive.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:31.74,0:21:33.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you see what he wants?
Dialogue: 0,0:21:33.14,0:21:34.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What Peter wants us to do
Dialogue: 0,0:21:34.68,0:21:38.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is he wants us to look at what is coming;
Dialogue: 0,0:21:38.24,0:21:40.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what God has promised,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:40.43,0:21:42.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he wants us to set our hope there.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:42.55,0:21:44.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, I'll tell you,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:44.67,0:21:47.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,does that not keep people going?
Dialogue: 0,0:21:47.03,0:21:50.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look, people can endure \Nvery difficult things today
Dialogue: 0,0:21:50.07,0:21:51.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if there's a promise of something
Dialogue: 0,0:21:51.66,0:21:54.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,absolutely altogether glorious tomorrow.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:54.49,0:21:57.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Right? That's just a reality about life.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:57.36,0:21:58.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can endure hardship now.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:58.96,0:22:01.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look, if some of the things \Nwe have to endure now
Dialogue: 0,0:22:01.48,0:22:04.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are forever, then that's not good.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:04.21,0:22:06.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's not very encouraging.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:06.13,0:22:07.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But when you know that these things,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:07.94,0:22:09.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like Paul says,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:09.11,0:22:12.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,only momentary, only light affliction,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:12.20,0:22:14.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be followed by an \Neternal weight of glory.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:14.74,0:22:16.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, that keeps us going!
Dialogue: 0,0:22:16.75,0:22:21.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can suffer today if I \Nknow paradise tomorrow.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:21.37,0:22:23.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is the idea here.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:23.71,0:22:27.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It matters what's been promised to us.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:27.45,0:22:29.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Am I a full heir?
Dialogue: 0,0:22:29.60,0:22:31.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or am I really just going to be regarded
Dialogue: 0,0:22:31.58,0:22:33.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a step-child when the inheritance
Dialogue: 0,0:22:33.67,0:22:37.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is being handed out?
Dialogue: 0,0:22:37.67,0:22:39.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's not a small thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:39.58,0:22:43.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If I believe ethnic Jews have somehow
Dialogue: 0,0:22:43.10,0:22:45.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,been afforded a greater privilege,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:45.41,0:22:48.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or somehow they are greater benefactors
Dialogue: 0,0:22:48.76,0:22:52.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the Abrahamic covenant - somehow -
Dialogue: 0,0:22:52.62,0:22:55.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than us believing Gentiles,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:55.15,0:22:57.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it makes a difference.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:57.02,0:22:59.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Am I even?
Dialogue: 0,0:22:59.11,0:23:04.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or am I inferior?
Dialogue: 0,0:23:04.64,0:23:07.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, don't you love the thought
Dialogue: 0,0:23:07.75,0:23:13.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that anything - anything - \Na believing Jew,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:13.53,0:23:17.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not just any Jew, but a believing Jew -
Dialogue: 0,0:23:17.07,0:23:20.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,anything a believing Jew can come to
Dialogue: 0,0:23:20.52,0:23:22.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and look in Scripture and say,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:22.36,0:23:24.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is mine -
Dialogue: 0,0:23:24.17,0:23:26.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I as a believing Gentile can \Nlook over his shoulder
Dialogue: 0,0:23:26.71,0:23:30.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and say that's mine too.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:30.34,0:23:31.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That matters.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:31.59,0:23:34.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That matters to me.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:34.66,0:23:44.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, to me that makes \Nmy salvation glorious.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:44.10,0:23:47.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, it would be glorious if I was
Dialogue: 0,0:23:47.20,0:23:49.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just delivered from hell,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:49.69,0:23:51.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cast out on to an island,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:51.16,0:23:55.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,never got to see God face-to-face.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:55.53,0:23:57.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the very fact that I've been
Dialogue: 0,0:23:57.14,0:23:58.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,brought into the family;
Dialogue: 0,0:23:58.73,0:24:01.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into the citizenship of the same
Dialogue: 0,0:24:01.66,0:24:03.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,commonwealth of Israel;
Dialogue: 0,0:24:03.59,0:24:06.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into the same family;
Dialogue: 0,0:24:06.41,0:24:09.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,grafted into the same tree
Dialogue: 0,0:24:09.09,0:24:12.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and all those promises that were given
Dialogue: 0,0:24:12.36,0:24:15.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the believing Jew are \N"yes and amen" in Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:15.67,0:24:22.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That brings our salvation \Nto a level of glory.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:22.21,0:24:23.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It ought to stagger us
Dialogue: 0,0:24:23.92,0:24:27.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what God has done for us.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:27.20,0:24:29.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It really ought to.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:29.40,0:24:32.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dispensationalists constantly
Dialogue: 0,0:24:32.08,0:24:35.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,want to stress that Israel gets
Dialogue: 0,0:24:35.84,0:24:39.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an earthly kingdom and land
Dialogue: 0,0:24:39.18,0:24:41.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and all manner of territorial promises
Dialogue: 0,0:24:41.82,0:24:43.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while the church doesn't.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:43.78,0:24:46.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The church is going to be somewhere else.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:46.10,0:24:47.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But listen, our Lord comes
Dialogue: 0,0:24:47.90,0:24:51.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and does He make any distinction?
Dialogue: 0,0:24:51.15,0:24:53.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When our Lord talks about who gets
Dialogue: 0,0:24:53.70,0:24:55.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the kingdom of God,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:55.86,0:25:00.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or who inherits the earth -
Dialogue: 0,0:25:00.42,0:25:01.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you think about right when He
Dialogue: 0,0:25:01.90,0:25:04.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,starts out His ministry in Matthew
Dialogue: 0,0:25:04.01,0:25:06.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and He gives the Sermon on the Mount
Dialogue: 0,0:25:06.32,0:25:10.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and those so well known Beatitudes.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:10.19,0:25:11.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Does He make any distinction between
Dialogue: 0,0:25:11.93,0:25:16.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,believing Gentiles and believing Jews?
Dialogue: 0,0:25:16.38,0:25:20.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who does He promise the kingdom to?
Dialogue: 0,0:25:20.80,0:25:21.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you remember?
Dialogue: 0,0:25:21.67,0:25:25.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Blessed are the poor in spirit,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:25.38,0:25:30.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:30.16,0:25:33.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And blessed are the meek,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:33.95,0:25:36.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for what?
Dialogue: 0,0:25:36.57,0:25:39.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They shall inherit the earth.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:39.41,0:25:47.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not the believing Israelites.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:47.15,0:25:50.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The meek. The meek.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:50.92,0:25:53.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The distinctions are gone.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:53.68,0:25:56.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what we find in Scripture.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:56.08,0:25:57.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would say to John MacArthur
Dialogue: 0,0:25:57.82,0:26:01.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to all the other dispensational \Npremillenialists out there,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:01.35,0:26:06.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we will not surrender one \Nblood-bought promise to you.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:06.47,0:26:08.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not one.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:08.91,0:26:11.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The beauty is John's going to get them
Dialogue: 0,0:26:11.33,0:26:15.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even though he doesn't believe \Nhe's going to get them.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:15.61,0:26:19.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But still, if you've got the \Ntwo adopted kids downstairs
Dialogue: 0,0:26:19.04,0:26:21.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the father hears that,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:21.09,0:26:23.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he doesn't like it.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:23.07,0:26:25.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He doesn't like it, because you know what?
Dialogue: 0,0:26:25.41,0:26:27.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He really wants to comfort them
Dialogue: 0,0:26:27.96,0:26:31.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to cause them rejoicing
Dialogue: 0,0:26:31.84,0:26:34.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the reality of that.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:34.03,0:26:37.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He wants us to live in \Nlight of that right now.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:37.01,0:26:39.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He really does.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:39.78,0:26:42.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And listen, I am not saying -
Dialogue: 0,0:26:42.62,0:26:48.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I will not say that the \Nchurch replaces Israel.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:48.28,0:26:50.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or displaces Israel.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:50.50,0:26:53.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What I'm saying is this,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:53.62,0:26:59.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God's true people
Dialogue: 0,0:26:59.08,0:27:00.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even in the Old Testament,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:00.53,0:27:02.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God's true people -
Dialogue: 0,0:27:02.16,0:27:04.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not all ethnic Israel.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:04.17,0:27:07.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was a remnant.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:07.98,0:27:10.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what God has done
Dialogue: 0,0:27:10.61,0:27:13.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is He's determined to take
Dialogue: 0,0:27:13.61,0:27:20.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from Gentile stock and make \Ntrue Jews out of them.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:20.94,0:27:24.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All Israel is not Israel.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:24.43,0:27:28.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And now, some Gentiles are.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:28.98,0:27:31.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're grafted in.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:31.21,0:27:33.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the truth.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:33.32,0:27:35.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every promise.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:35.40,0:27:39.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every covenant ever given
Dialogue: 0,0:27:39.65,0:27:42.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to those true Israelites.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:42.94,0:27:47.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes and amen, they are mine in Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:47.02,0:27:50.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's exactly what the New \NTestament would have us teach.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:50.32,0:27:53.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're going to look at this a lot more.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:53.29,0:27:56.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I believe that that eschatology
Dialogue: 0,0:27:56.12,0:28:00.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,commandeers the promises \Ngiven to the church.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:00.41,0:28:02.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here's a second thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:02.30,0:28:05.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The church's urgency is dulled
Dialogue: 0,0:28:05.93,0:28:08.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by that form of eschatology.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:08.79,0:28:14.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Turn in your Bibles to Matthew 24.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:14.39,0:28:40.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Matthew 24:42
Dialogue: 0,0:28:40.36,0:28:48.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Therefore, stay awake..."
Dialogue: 0,0:28:48.08,0:28:51.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is concerning His coming.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:51.86,0:28:57.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Stay awake, for you do not know
Dialogue: 0,0:28:57.66,0:29:01.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on what day your Lord is coming.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:01.29,0:29:04.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But know this, that if \Nthe master of the house
Dialogue: 0,0:29:04.71,0:29:07.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had known in what part of the night
Dialogue: 0,0:29:07.02,0:29:08.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the thief was coming,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:08.71,0:29:10.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he would have stayed awake
Dialogue: 0,0:29:10.49,0:29:13.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and would not have let \Nhis house be broken into.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:13.82,0:29:18.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Therefore, you also must be ready,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:18.43,0:29:20.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the Son of Man is coming at an hour
Dialogue: 0,0:29:20.92,0:29:25.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you do not expect."
Dialogue: 0,0:29:25.05,0:29:28.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our Lord left His disciples
Dialogue: 0,0:29:28.15,0:29:30.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with a sense of urgency.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:30.65,0:29:34.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Be ready.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:34.51,0:29:41.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His words to them were words:
Dialogue: 0,0:29:41.82,0:29:43.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you want to be ready,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:43.29,0:29:46.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I'm going to come \Nlike a thief in the night.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:46.21,0:29:49.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I'm going to come quickly.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:49.20,0:29:51.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You want to be ready.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:51.69,0:29:53.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Be ready.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:53.34,0:29:55.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you know what you find in Scripture?
Dialogue: 0,0:29:55.27,0:29:56.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a sense that we're to
Dialogue: 0,0:29:56.68,0:29:58.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pass that urgency on to the lost.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:58.78,0:30:01.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today is the day of salvation.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:01.10,0:30:03.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today, if you hear His voice,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:03.18,0:30:06.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,do not harden your heart. Why?
Dialogue: 0,0:30:06.82,0:30:09.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because there's an urgency.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:09.68,0:30:11.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Christ may return at any time
Dialogue: 0,0:30:11.53,0:30:13.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or death may take you at anytime.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:13.20,0:30:15.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is no guarantee of any future
Dialogue: 0,0:30:15.11,0:30:16.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,beyond right now.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:16.13,0:30:18.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You want to settle matters \Nwith Christ immediately.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:18.90,0:30:20.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Be watchful. Be ready.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:20.45,0:30:22.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is the urgency of Scripture.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:22.31,0:30:24.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let me ask you something.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:24.29,0:30:27.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is there the real possibility
Dialogue: 0,0:30:27.07,0:30:30.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that Jesus Christ might come today?
Dialogue: 0,0:30:30.80,0:30:32.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what you need to ask yourself.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:32.69,0:30:33.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Could He come today?
Dialogue: 0,0:30:33.69,0:30:36.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And bang! It's all over. \NAll over. All done.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:36.26,0:30:38.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Time as we know it is over.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:38.06,0:30:39.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The world comes to an end.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:39.58,0:30:42.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The trumpet of the archangel sounds.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:42.03,0:30:44.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there is the Lord Jesus Christ
Dialogue: 0,0:30:44.48,0:30:46.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,come as a thief in the night.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:46.75,0:30:48.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Suddenly revealed from heaven
Dialogue: 0,0:30:48.98,0:30:51.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with His mighty angels in flaming fire,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:51.74,0:30:53.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and He's bringing vengeance upon those
Dialogue: 0,0:30:53.73,0:30:55.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who did not obey the Gospel;
Dialogue: 0,0:30:55.94,0:30:57.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,those who would not surrender to Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:57.96,0:30:59.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Couldn't that happen today?
Dialogue: 0,0:30:59.69,0:31:01.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is it possible?
Dialogue: 0,0:31:01.65,0:31:04.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's how Jesus Christ left His church
Dialogue: 0,0:31:04.90,0:31:07.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with that mindset of that urgency
Dialogue: 0,0:31:07.40,0:31:09.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that that can happen.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:09.38,0:31:10.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It makes everything urgent.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:10.74,0:31:13.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you think that that sky out there
Dialogue: 0,0:31:13.25,0:31:16.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,might split open today and He may come
Dialogue: 0,0:31:16.47,0:31:20.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there is nothing keeping Him back;
Dialogue: 0,0:31:20.16,0:31:22.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is not what all this "left behind"
Dialogue: 0,0:31:22.25,0:31:23.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dispensationalists believe.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:23.99,0:31:26.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is not what \NJohn MacArthur believes.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:26.79,0:31:29.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Listen.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:29.12,0:31:31.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All you have to do is watch
Dialogue: 0,0:31:31.63,0:31:39.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one of these "Left Behind" movies.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:39.17,0:31:41.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Inevitably, you know what you get?
Dialogue: 0,0:31:41.39,0:31:43.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The rapture takes place.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:43.25,0:31:44.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then somebody who is cold,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:44.98,0:31:46.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hard-hearted unbeliever,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:46.95,0:31:48.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when the rapture takes place,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:48.74,0:31:50.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,well now they see.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:50.52,0:31:56.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, it's all real.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:56.71,0:32:00.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now I get a second chance to believe.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:00.99,0:32:03.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, and if I'm not \Nconvinced by the rapture,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:03.53,0:32:05.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then I go through seven \Nyears of tribulation.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:05.77,0:32:08.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh! Ok, now I can believe.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:08.67,0:32:10.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if I don't believe after that,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:10.37,0:32:12.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,well, now, Jesus comes and sets up
Dialogue: 0,0:32:12.06,0:32:13.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a 1,000 year kingdom.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:13.10,0:32:16.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, now, I get to believe.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:16.12,0:32:20.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's basically the mindset behind this.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:20.89,0:32:24.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you believe that that is garbage,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:24.48,0:32:27.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that when He comes, it's going \Nto be like a thief in the night,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:27.80,0:32:29.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's going to be like the days of Noah
Dialogue: 0,0:32:29.81,0:32:31.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when nobody's saying, well, you know,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:31.88,0:32:34.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's been 7 years since the rapture
Dialogue: 0,0:32:34.04,0:32:35.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this probably is going to happen.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:35.87,0:32:37.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's been 1,007 years
Dialogue: 0,0:32:37.62,0:32:41.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so we're probably due for Armageddon.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:41.76,0:32:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, that's not what Scripture says.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:44.00,0:32:47.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It says in an hour when you do not think
Dialogue: 0,0:32:47.59,0:32:49.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's coming.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:49.24,0:32:52.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is going to be as in the days of Noah.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:52.36,0:32:55.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are going to be going \Nabout their business
Dialogue: 0,0:32:55.30,0:32:57.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and marrying and giving in marriage
Dialogue: 0,0:32:57.13,0:32:58.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and nobody's keeping the calendar
Dialogue: 0,0:32:58.96,0:33:00.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and marking it.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:00.25,0:33:03.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He says not even the Son knows that time.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:03.85,0:33:05.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is going to happen swift.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:05.26,0:33:06.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is going to happen quickly.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:06.69,0:33:08.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is going to take men \Nand women by surprise.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:08.94,0:33:10.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Jesus knows it.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:10.23,0:33:12.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as He's leaving, He's saying
Dialogue: 0,0:33:12.14,0:33:14.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to His disciples: Watch!
Dialogue: 0,0:33:14.06,0:33:15.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Watch! Watch!
Dialogue: 0,0:33:15.57,0:33:19.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Be ready!
Dialogue: 0,0:33:19.73,0:33:24.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, ask a dispensational \Npremillenialist
Dialogue: 0,0:33:24.19,0:33:27.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if it's possible for Jesus Christ
Dialogue: 0,0:33:27.24,0:33:29.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to return this very day
Dialogue: 0,0:33:29.96,0:33:32.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and judge all the nations as described
Dialogue: 0,0:33:32.87,0:33:36.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Matthew 25 where Jesus gathers
Dialogue: 0,0:33:36.89,0:33:39.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all the nations before \NHim and divides them.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:39.59,0:33:42.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some on His right hand to eternal life.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:42.54,0:33:47.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some on His left hand \Nto eternal punishment.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:47.52,0:33:51.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's over.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:51.52,0:33:53.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just ask your dispensational friend
Dialogue: 0,0:33:53.68,0:33:57.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if he believes that could happen today.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:57.12,0:33:59.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know what his answer's going to be?
Dialogue: 0,0:33:59.92,0:34:03.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't expect so.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:03.97,0:34:06.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look at verse 44.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:06.26,0:34:09.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Therefore, you also must be ready.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:09.98,0:34:12.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For the Son of Man is coming at an hour
Dialogue: 0,0:34:12.02,0:34:17.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you do not expect."
Dialogue: 0,0:34:17.16,0:34:18.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, just think about how this
Dialogue: 0,0:34:18.91,0:34:21.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,appeals to the unbeliever.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:21.49,0:34:23.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because I used to think this way
Dialogue: 0,0:34:23.18,0:34:24.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I was lost.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:24.17,0:34:26.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would hear this stuff about \Nthere being a rapture
Dialogue: 0,0:34:26.66,0:34:28.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and about 7 year tribulation
Dialogue: 0,0:34:28.42,0:34:29.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and about a 1,000 year kingdom,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:29.94,0:34:31.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I thought, well, I'm going to go on
Dialogue: 0,0:34:31.87,0:34:33.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with my life and if the rapture happens,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:33.93,0:34:36.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,well, then I'll get my act together.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:36.64,0:34:42.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That just appeals to the unbeliever.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:42.39,0:34:45.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is not what Scripture says.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:45.40,0:34:48.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is not a hope that the Scriptures
Dialogue: 0,0:34:48.72,0:34:53.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,give to the unconverted.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:53.19,0:34:54.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not at all.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:54.43,0:35:00.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It leaves us with a \Nsecond-chance theology.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:00.07,0:35:02.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I think it's dangerous.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:02.74,0:35:07.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This sort of eschatology \Nputs men to sleep.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:07.11,0:35:10.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just check out the "Left Behind"\Nmentality that's out there
Dialogue: 0,0:35:10.43,0:35:12.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,regularly portraying unbelievers
Dialogue: 0,0:35:12.51,0:35:16.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who they begin to see all these things
Dialogue: 0,0:35:16.06,0:35:20.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,come to pass and then they believe.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:20.44,0:35:28.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, let's be honest with Scripture.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:28.54,0:35:30.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you know that shortly after Jesus
Dialogue: 0,0:35:30.82,0:35:33.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,said to His disciples,
Dialogue: 0,0:35:33.72,0:35:37.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you better be ready,
Dialogue: 0,0:35:37.80,0:35:41.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He says let me tell you \Nwhat it's going to be like.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:41.84,0:35:45.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's going to be like 10 virgins.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:45.61,0:35:54.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Five are wise. Five are foolish.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:54.90,0:35:57.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They all look the same.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:57.40,0:35:59.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's people in the church.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:59.59,0:36:01.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's religious people.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:01.50,0:36:04.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's professing Christianity.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:04.02,0:36:06.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Five are ready. Five are not ready.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:06.81,0:36:10.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's portrayed by not having oil
Dialogue: 0,0:36:10.27,0:36:13.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in their lamps among the five foolish.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:13.29,0:36:14.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The five wise - they have oil.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:14.82,0:36:17.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The five foolish - they do not have oil.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:17.02,0:36:17.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What happens?
Dialogue: 0,0:36:17.99,0:36:21.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're waiting. They're waiting. They're \Nwaiting. Like we're waiting today.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:21.73,0:36:23.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're waiting, but \Nwhat is the whole point
Dialogue: 0,0:36:23.98,0:36:25.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the parable?
Dialogue: 0,0:36:25.33,0:36:26.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Be ready! Be ready!
Dialogue: 0,0:36:26.66,0:36:29.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The five that are ready - what happens?
Dialogue: 0,0:36:29.42,0:36:31.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bang! Christ comes!
Dialogue: 0,0:36:31.87,0:36:33.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's over!
Dialogue: 0,0:36:33.19,0:36:34.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is no rapture.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:34.55,0:36:36.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is no 7 year tribulation.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:36.75,0:36:38.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is no 1,000 year kingdom.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:38.88,0:36:40.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's over!
Dialogue: 0,0:36:40.08,0:36:42.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if you're not ready, the door is shut.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:42.74,0:36:44.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if you don't believe me,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:44.07,0:36:54.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,read in the 25th chapter of Matthew
Dialogue: 0,0:36:54.45,0:36:57.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about the parable of the 10 virgins.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:57.74,0:37:01.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When Christ comes, if you are not ready,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:01.26,0:37:04.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the door is shut.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:04.24,0:37:06.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when the door is shut,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:06.40,0:37:12.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they cry out, "Lord, Lord, open to us!"
Dialogue: 0,0:37:12.20,0:37:16.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And He says, "truly, I say to \Nyou, I do not know you."
Dialogue: 0,0:37:16.03,0:37:17.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Watch therefore, for you know
Dialogue: 0,0:37:17.83,0:37:22.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,neither the day nor the hour."
Dialogue: 0,0:37:22.28,0:37:24.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, there is an urgency
Dialogue: 0,0:37:24.58,0:37:27.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that Scripture puts upon the church
Dialogue: 0,0:37:27.54,0:37:31.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and upon the evangelization of this world
Dialogue: 0,0:37:31.37,0:37:33.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because of the possible imminent return
Dialogue: 0,0:37:33.98,0:37:35.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of Christ at any single moment.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:35.66,0:37:37.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when He comes, the door is shut.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:37.43,0:37:39.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if you're not ready, it's all over.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:39.86,0:37:43.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is what Jesus is teaching.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:43.11,0:37:45.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How can so many be wrong?\NHow can so many be wrong?
Dialogue: 0,0:37:45.99,0:37:48.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How can they come up with \Nthis convoluted system?
Dialogue: 0,0:37:48.88,0:37:50.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Which, by the way, does not have
Dialogue: 0,0:37:50.87,0:37:58.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,very good historical weight behind it;
Dialogue: 0,0:37:58.45,0:38:02.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not the dispensational type \Nof premillenialism,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:02.35,0:38:05.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,propounded by Scofield, Darby,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:05.84,0:38:07.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but really not much history
Dialogue: 0,0:38:07.29,0:38:10.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,beyond the early 1800's.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:10.66,0:38:13.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, when you go \Nto Scripture, you tell me.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:13.02,0:38:16.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You've got 10 virgins.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:16.25,0:38:18.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Five wise. Five foolish.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:18.67,0:38:20.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It doesn't say the rapture takes place
Dialogue: 0,0:38:20.100,0:38:23.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the five wise get zapped out
Dialogue: 0,0:38:23.18,0:38:24.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the five foolish are left
Dialogue: 0,0:38:24.76,0:38:28.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and now have an opportunity to believe.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:28.13,0:38:35.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What you are told is the door is shut.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:35.63,0:38:39.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,While they were going to buy,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:39.49,0:38:42.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Bridegroom came and \Nthose who were ready
Dialogue: 0,0:38:42.84,0:38:47.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,went in with Him to the marriage feast
Dialogue: 0,0:38:47.78,0:38:52.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that door was shut.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:52.37,0:38:54.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's it.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:54.94,0:39:03.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you're not ready, it's over.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:03.63,0:39:08.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's over.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:08.19,0:39:09.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Third.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:09.91,0:39:16.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The first: that system commandeers\Nthe church's promises.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:16.82,0:39:22.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That system commandeers \Nthe church's urgency.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:22.35,0:39:28.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Third, that system commandeers
Dialogue: 0,0:39:28.16,0:39:33.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one of our basic hermeneutics;
Dialogue: 0,0:39:33.38,0:39:41.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one of our basic Bible \Ninterpretation methods.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:41.98,0:39:43.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let me tell you what I mean.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:43.40,0:39:45.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I believe that dispensationalism
Dialogue: 0,0:39:45.13,0:39:47.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is founded on an unsound method
Dialogue: 0,0:39:47.71,0:39:49.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of Bible interpretation.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:49.38,0:39:51.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know what we have here?
Dialogue: 0,0:39:51.92,0:39:53.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have a Bible.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:53.26,0:39:54.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sixty-six books.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:54.79,0:39:57.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Was it all given to us just like that? No.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:57.81,0:40:00.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was given to us over a \Nmatter of thousands of years.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:00.94,0:40:02.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What happened?
Dialogue: 0,0:40:02.25,0:40:05.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, what happens is we have
Dialogue: 0,0:40:05.30,0:40:08.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,progressive revelation.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:08.30,0:40:11.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God begins to tell us \Nabout the coming of Christ
Dialogue: 0,0:40:11.58,0:40:14.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,back in Genesis 3.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:14.52,0:40:17.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as you go through your Bibles,
Dialogue: 0,0:40:17.45,0:40:19.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what happens?
Dialogue: 0,0:40:19.08,0:40:23.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,More and more and more light.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:23.96,0:40:25.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,More revelation.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:25.34,0:40:27.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,More information.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:27.37,0:40:30.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It builds.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:30.49,0:40:34.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It keeps building upon itself.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:34.40,0:40:38.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Progressively God reveals more and more.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:38.51,0:40:40.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The further you go in God's Word,
Dialogue: 0,0:40:40.19,0:40:42.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the more light we have,
Dialogue: 0,0:40:42.05,0:40:43.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because the more knowledge we have;
Dialogue: 0,0:40:43.87,0:40:47.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the more God is revealing to us.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:47.52,0:40:52.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it was given to us progressively.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:52.78,0:40:59.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Over quite a few years.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:59.65,0:41:04.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you know where we especially see
Dialogue: 0,0:41:04.21,0:41:07.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,progression made is when you go
Dialogue: 0,0:41:07.35,0:41:10.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the Old Testament \Nto the New Testament.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:10.77,0:41:13.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why?
Dialogue: 0,0:41:13.57,0:41:17.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because suddenly, Christ has come.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:17.32,0:41:19.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Spirit of God is given to the church
Dialogue: 0,0:41:19.74,0:41:23.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which leads the church into all truth;
Dialogue: 0,0:41:23.66,0:41:25.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,led those apostles into all truth
Dialogue: 0,0:41:25.97,0:41:28.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that could write the New Testament.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:28.14,0:41:32.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jesus Christ is the fulfillment.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:32.14,0:41:34.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know what the Old Testament is?
Dialogue: 0,0:41:34.14,0:41:35.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you know what the New Testament
Dialogue: 0,0:41:35.98,0:41:38.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tells us about the \NOld Testament repeatedly?
Dialogue: 0,0:41:38.79,0:41:43.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's types and shadows.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:43.58,0:41:48.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Christ is the fulfillment.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:48.36,0:41:54.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look, we don't say that \Na shadow is darkness.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:54.74,0:41:56.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Shadows aren't darkness.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:56.70,0:41:58.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're just not as bright as being
Dialogue: 0,0:41:58.43,0:41:59.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the full sunlight.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:59.78,0:42:01.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Right?
Dialogue: 0,0:42:01.04,0:42:03.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, you go out in the full noonday sun
Dialogue: 0,0:42:03.17,0:42:04.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you cast a shadow.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:04.31,0:42:06.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You don't look and say, oh, that's black.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:06.93,0:42:08.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's darkness.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:08.78,0:42:11.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No, it's not darkness.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:11.46,0:42:15.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can see lots of things in my shadow.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:15.49,0:42:18.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But if I step away and I let \Nthe full light shine down there,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:18.82,0:42:21.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,well, yes, it's brighter now.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:21.91,0:42:26.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Shadows are not darkness.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:26.33,0:42:30.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're just not as bright.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:30.53,0:42:34.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The thing is God reveals \Nin the New Testament
Dialogue: 0,0:42:34.18,0:42:37.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this full blazing light of Jesus Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:37.11,0:42:39.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The full sunlight's there.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:39.04,0:42:42.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This blazing revelation of Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:42.54,0:42:44.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Since the New Testament explains
Dialogue: 0,0:42:44.84,0:42:47.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so many of the types and shadows
Dialogue: 0,0:42:47.37,0:42:49.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and concepts of the Old Testament,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:49.17,0:42:52.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we definitely need \Nto constantly be looking
Dialogue: 0,0:42:52.10,0:42:53.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at our New Testament
Dialogue: 0,0:42:53.49,0:42:55.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in order to figure out what this means
Dialogue: 0,0:42:55.88,0:42:58.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,back here in the Old Testament.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:58.52,0:43:00.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm not making that up.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:00.74,0:43:03.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's exactly what \Nhappened when Jesus came.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:03.74,0:43:06.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's exactly what happened \Nwhen the apostles
Dialogue: 0,0:43:06.16,0:43:07.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,walked this earth.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:07.38,0:43:08.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What did they do?
Dialogue: 0,0:43:08.82,0:43:12.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They explained what was going on
Dialogue: 0,0:43:12.72,0:43:15.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the Old Testament that \Nwas not understood
Dialogue: 0,0:43:15.91,0:43:19.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when they just had the Old Testament.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:19.38,0:43:22.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You say, is that true?
Dialogue: 0,0:43:22.07,0:43:28.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, look at Malachi 4.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:28.36,0:43:32.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is no small thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:32.83,0:43:36.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malachi 4:5
Dialogue: 0,0:43:36.13,0:43:42.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm just going to show you \Na few examples of this.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:42.49,0:43:45.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Remember, I'm talking about the fact
Dialogue: 0,0:43:45.93,0:43:48.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that this dispensationalism commandeers
Dialogue: 0,0:43:48.94,0:43:53.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one of the church's \Nmost basic hermeneutics;
Dialogue: 0,0:43:53.88,0:43:59.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one of the basic biblical \Ninterpretive methods.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:59.45,0:44:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, we want to be \Nable to interpret Scripture.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:02.00,0:44:03.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We want to come to Scripture,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:03.77,0:44:05.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we want to figure \Nout what things mean.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:05.96,0:44:08.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's some basic rules that we apply
Dialogue: 0,0:44:08.22,0:44:11.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to interpreting Scripture.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:11.91,0:44:15.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You want to look at context.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:15.91,0:44:19.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You want to compare what this author
Dialogue: 0,0:44:19.76,0:44:24.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has to say about the same \Nthing in other places.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:24.76,0:44:28.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You compare Scripture with Scripture.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:28.73,0:44:30.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of the most fundamental
Dialogue: 0,0:44:30.64,0:44:34.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,biblical hermeneutics is that you examine
Dialogue: 0,0:44:34.63,0:44:38.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Old Testament in light of the New.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:38.75,0:44:40.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let me show you why.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:40.99,0:44:45.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let me show you Jesus \Ndoing this exact thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:45.42,0:44:48.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here we have Malachi 4:5-6.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:48.49,0:44:53.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Behold, I will send \Nyou Elijah the prophet
Dialogue: 0,0:44:53.56,0:44:56.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,before the great and awesome \Nday of the Lord comes,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:56.22,0:44:58.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he will turn the hearts \Nof fathers to their children
Dialogue: 0,0:44:58.99,0:45:01.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the hearts of \Nchildren to their fathers,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:01.18,0:45:02.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lest I come and strike the land
Dialogue: 0,0:45:02.88,0:45:05.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with a decree of utter destruction."
Dialogue: 0,0:45:05.44,0:45:07.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now look, here's the thing,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:07.52,0:45:13.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Old Testament has shadows or types.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:13.06,0:45:15.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you know what that is?
Dialogue: 0,0:45:15.16,0:45:24.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's where the shadow is real,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:24.06,0:45:26.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's physical,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:26.17,0:45:29.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it points to a \Ngreater spiritual reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:29.94,0:45:31.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you know what else you have?
Dialogue: 0,0:45:31.61,0:45:33.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have metaphors.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:33.43,0:45:37.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Guess what's true about a metaphor?
Dialogue: 0,0:45:37.57,0:45:40.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If I say, you know, you and I were \Ntalking about this afterwards
Dialogue: 0,0:45:40.80,0:45:43.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we locked horns.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:43.04,0:45:46.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's a metaphor.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:46.37,0:45:48.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here's the thing about a metaphor.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:48.44,0:45:50.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you take a metaphor literally,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:50.54,0:45:53.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is it true or not true?
Dialogue: 0,0:45:53.26,0:45:55.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not true.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:55.10,0:45:57.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, when you look at a shadow,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:57.76,0:46:01.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's reality to it.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:01.38,0:46:03.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The fulfillment - there's greater reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:03.70,0:46:05.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's spiritual reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:05.52,0:46:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One points to the other.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:07.00,0:46:09.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But when you're dealing with metaphor,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:09.95,0:46:16.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to literally take the metaphor is error.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:16.44,0:46:19.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's key, because if you mix up
Dialogue: 0,0:46:19.37,0:46:21.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a metaphor for that which you believe
Dialogue: 0,0:46:21.57,0:46:23.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ought to be taken literally,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:23.23,0:46:28.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you are going to end up in error.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:28.99,0:46:30.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here's what happens.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:30.99,0:46:33.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We look at Malachi.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:33.27,0:46:35.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Elijah the prophet is going to come.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:35.34,0:46:41.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now look, if I take this \Nat literal face value,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:41.04,0:46:43.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know what this says?
Dialogue: 0,0:46:43.40,0:46:46.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It says Elijah the Tishbite.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:46.63,0:46:49.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Remember Elijah?
Dialogue: 0,0:46:49.34,0:46:51.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Predecessor to Elisha.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:51.91,0:46:53.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Elijah.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:53.50,0:46:54.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Remember Mt. Carmel?
Dialogue: 0,0:46:54.63,0:46:56.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Called down fire from heaven?
Dialogue: 0,0:46:56.59,0:46:59.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That Elijah. Elijah the Tishbite.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:59.06,0:47:02.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That Elijah. Called down \Nfire from heaven Elijah
Dialogue: 0,0:47:02.26,0:47:08.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is going to be sent,
Dialogue: 0,0:47:08.07,0:47:09.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,presumably from the dead
Dialogue: 0,0:47:09.56,0:47:11.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you're going to take it literally.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:11.74,0:47:16.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's going to come back from the dead.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:16.37,0:47:18.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Before the day of the Lord."
Dialogue: 0,0:47:18.09,0:47:19.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you know what happens when you
Dialogue: 0,0:47:19.79,0:47:22.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,come over to the New Testament?
Dialogue: 0,0:47:22.58,0:47:26.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The New Testament gives us light.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:26.09,0:47:30.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How so? Matthew 11:12.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:30.88,0:47:41.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jump over there. Matthew 11:12.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:41.52,0:47:44.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"From the days of John \Nthe Baptist until now,
Dialogue: 0,0:47:44.48,0:47:46.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the kingdom of heaven \Nhas suffered violence,
Dialogue: 0,0:47:46.77,0:47:49.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the violent take it by force.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:49.58,0:47:51.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For all the prophets and the law
Dialogue: 0,0:47:51.38,0:47:55.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,prophesied until John.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:55.34,0:47:59.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if you are willing to accept it,
Dialogue: 0,0:47:59.90,0:48:05.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he is Elijah who is to come.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:05.92,0:48:13.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He who has ears to hear, let him hear."
Dialogue: 0,0:48:13.03,0:48:17.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, you need ears like that to hear,
Dialogue: 0,0:48:17.14,0:48:19.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to process.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:19.15,0:48:24.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or how about this. Go over to Matthew 17.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:24.86,0:48:28.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, it is a metaphor.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:28.96,0:48:32.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is a metaphor when you portray
Dialogue: 0,0:48:32.57,0:48:37.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,someone as being someone \Nelse who they are not.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:37.09,0:48:38.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is a metaphor when you portray
Dialogue: 0,0:48:38.87,0:48:40.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,someone as being someone else
Dialogue: 0,0:48:40.69,0:48:43.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even though they are not \Nactually that someone else,
Dialogue: 0,0:48:43.72,0:48:45.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but you portray them that way
Dialogue: 0,0:48:45.24,0:48:47.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because of certain similarities.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:47.49,0:48:49.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is metaphor.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:49.98,0:48:53.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But to take that literally is to come away
Dialogue: 0,0:48:53.77,0:48:58.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with an erroneous conclusion.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:58.90,0:49:03.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jesus says John the Baptist,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:03.13,0:49:05.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he is Elijah who is to come.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:05.60,0:49:07.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He is the one.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:07.43,0:49:09.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It wasn't meant to say that it was
Dialogue: 0,0:49:09.06,0:49:12.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Elijah exactly the Tishbite,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:12.58,0:49:17.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but one who is like him.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:17.30,0:49:20.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Matthew 17:10-12
Dialogue: 0,0:49:20.09,0:49:21.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The disciples asked Him,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:21.55,0:49:23.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'Then why do the scribes say
Dialogue: 0,0:49:23.70,0:49:25.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that first Elijah must come?'
Dialogue: 0,0:49:25.31,0:49:27.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He answered, 'Elijah does come,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:27.63,0:49:29.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he will restore all things,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:29.20,0:49:33.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I tell you that Elijah \Nhas already come,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:33.45,0:49:35.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they did not recognize him,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:35.87,0:49:37.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but did to him whatever the pleased.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:37.64,0:49:40.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So also the Son of Man \Nwill certainly suffer
Dialogue: 0,0:49:40.13,0:49:42.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at their hands.'"
Dialogue: 0,0:49:42.85,0:49:45.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To take such a metaphor as literal
Dialogue: 0,0:49:45.12,0:49:47.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is to end up with a falsehood.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:47.13,0:49:48.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of the most fundamental rules
Dialogue: 0,0:49:48.76,0:49:50.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of Bible interpretation that can be
Dialogue: 0,0:49:50.48,0:49:52.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,deduced from passages like these
Dialogue: 0,0:49:52.50,0:49:54.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that we need Jesus and His apostles
Dialogue: 0,0:49:54.91,0:49:58.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to correctly interpret the Old Testament.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:58.66,0:50:00.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can you see it there?
Dialogue: 0,0:50:00.40,0:50:05.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you don't have the New Testament,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:05.02,0:50:06.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then you're left without
Dialogue: 0,0:50:06.44,0:50:10.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some pretty important information.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:10.12,0:50:11.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dispensational premillenialism,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:11.80,0:50:13.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like that of John MacArthur's
Dialogue: 0,0:50:13.24,0:50:17.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,denies - denies the \Nfundamental hermeneutic
Dialogue: 0,0:50:17.36,0:50:19.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or Bible interpretation method.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:19.67,0:50:21.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Listen to John MacArthur.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:21.14,0:50:22.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are his words.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:22.94,0:50:25.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He did a message called:
Dialogue: 0,0:50:25.88,0:50:28.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Why Every Calvinist \NShould be a Premillenial."
Dialogue: 0,0:50:28.84,0:50:29.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Something like that,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:29.95,0:50:34.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,back at his Shepherd's Conference
Dialogue: 0,0:50:34.08,0:50:36.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,back in 2007.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:36.04,0:50:37.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are his words.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:37.85,0:50:40.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"It is not legitimate to \Ninterpret the Old Testament
Dialogue: 0,0:50:40.84,0:50:44.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as secondary and the \NNew Testament as primary.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:44.94,0:50:47.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Otherwise, the Old Testament was
Dialogue: 0,0:50:47.25,0:50:52.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,literally darkness, not light."
Dialogue: 0,0:50:52.14,0:50:53.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No, it's not.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:53.73,0:50:56.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's shadow.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:56.80,0:50:58.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not full light.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:58.90,0:51:02.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But shadow isn't darkness.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:02.28,0:51:04.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are his words.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:04.16,0:51:06.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"If you say the Old Testament cannot be
Dialogue: 0,0:51:06.29,0:51:09.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rightly interpreted apart \Nfrom the New Testament,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:09.74,0:51:12.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then you have denied the perspicuity
Dialogue: 0,0:51:12.35,0:51:13.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the Old Testament."
Dialogue: 0,0:51:13.94,0:51:17.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who knows what the word perspicuity means?
Dialogue: 0,0:51:17.01,0:51:21.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Clarity.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:21.47,0:51:23.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How can he say that?
Dialogue: 0,0:51:23.78,0:51:27.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When Jesus comes along and says,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:27.59,0:51:32.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,let Me tell you about Malachi's Elijah.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:32.17,0:51:36.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's John.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:36.77,0:51:42.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know how he (John \NMacArthur) comes to this.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:42.12,0:51:48.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, does it deny the \Nclarity of the New Testament
Dialogue: 0,0:51:48.76,0:51:51.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when Scripture says,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:51.47,0:51:56.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"don't muzzle the ox?"
Dialogue: 0,0:51:56.31,0:52:02.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, in its physical reality,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:02.62,0:52:05.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that doesn't deny any perspicuity.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:05.26,0:52:07.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's pretty clear.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:07.16,0:52:08.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't muzzle the ox.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:08.74,0:52:10.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You've got an ox
Dialogue: 0,0:52:10.59,0:52:13.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pulling the grinding wheel.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:13.70,0:52:16.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't put a muzzle on it so it can't eat.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:16.16,0:52:18.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let it eat.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:18.55,0:52:21.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But is that the end of the story?
Dialogue: 0,0:52:21.42,0:52:23.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, if I take John \NMacArthur's approach
Dialogue: 0,0:52:23.99,0:52:26.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and say, nope, the Old \NTestament's got to stand alone.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:26.61,0:52:28.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you can't interpret it all by itself,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:28.62,0:52:30.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's darkness. You're denying perspicuity.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:30.68,0:52:35.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Apostle Paul did not believe that.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:35.34,0:52:37.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, when the Apostle Paul
Dialogue: 0,0:52:37.27,0:52:42.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,begins to teach Gentile believers -
Dialogue: 0,0:52:42.29,0:52:45.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Corinthians, Timothy who was
Dialogue: 0,0:52:45.71,0:52:47.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the Ephesians,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:47.62,0:52:50.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know what he says?
Dialogue: 0,0:52:50.06,0:52:52.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He says muzzling the ox -
Dialogue: 0,0:52:52.29,0:52:57.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God didn't give that because \NHe was concerned about oxen.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:57.86,0:53:01.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He says God gave that
Dialogue: 0,0:53:01.39,0:53:03.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because He wants those who render to you
Dialogue: 0,0:53:03.61,0:53:06.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,spiritual things not to be muzzled.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:06.51,0:53:07.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Take care of them.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:07.58,0:53:10.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Take care of your preachers.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:10.42,0:53:12.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He says that's what it's for.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:12.49,0:53:14.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you get that out of the Old Testament?
Dialogue: 0,0:53:14.56,0:53:16.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can read your Old Testament
Dialogue: 0,0:53:16.13,0:53:17.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,till you're blue in the face,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:17.86,0:53:21.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you are not going to find that said.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:21.83,0:53:26.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see how you rob the text?
Dialogue: 0,0:53:26.02,0:53:31.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you see how it's \Njust massively incomplete?
Dialogue: 0,0:53:31.07,0:53:34.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, have you ever read
Dialogue: 0,0:53:34.75,0:53:37.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there in the Sermon on the Mount
Dialogue: 0,0:53:37.99,0:53:39.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that your righteousness;
Dialogue: 0,0:53:39.33,0:53:41.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your righteousness if \Nyou're in the kingdom,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:41.82,0:53:46.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it better exceed that of \Nthe Scribes and Pharisees.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:46.06,0:53:47.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you know right before that,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:47.95,0:53:51.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He talks about what that \Nrighteousness looks like.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:51.15,0:53:53.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It looks like you not relaxing
Dialogue: 0,0:53:53.62,0:53:55.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even one of the least commandments
Dialogue: 0,0:53:55.96,0:53:57.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,given in the Old Testament,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:57.85,0:53:59.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which would include commandments
Dialogue: 0,0:53:59.47,0:54:01.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just like this.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:01.26,0:54:04.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you see, if I'm not gong to relax
Dialogue: 0,0:54:04.93,0:54:07.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,commandments like muzzling the ox,
Dialogue: 0,0:54:07.84,0:54:11.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I better have some New Testament manner
Dialogue: 0,0:54:11.22,0:54:13.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of interpreting it, or you're going to be
Dialogue: 0,0:54:13.26,0:54:17.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,running your oxen out there all muzzled.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:17.52,0:54:18.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:54:18.54,0:54:20.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you're going to \Ntake all this literally,
Dialogue: 0,0:54:20.64,0:54:22.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what I'm being told by Christ
Dialogue: 0,0:54:22.68,0:54:24.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is I better not relax one of the least
Dialogue: 0,0:54:24.63,0:54:27.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the commandments that was given.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:27.12,0:54:29.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what I find in the New Testament
Dialogue: 0,0:54:29.79,0:54:35.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is all those commandments \Nhad moral realities.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:35.29,0:54:38.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They had practical realities
Dialogue: 0,0:54:38.36,0:54:41.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that pointed to living my life in this age
Dialogue: 0,0:54:41.97,0:54:43.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a Christian.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:43.80,0:54:45.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But knowing how to apply those things
Dialogue: 0,0:54:45.80,0:54:48.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and how to interpret those things...
Dialogue: 0,0:54:48.71,0:54:51.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, when I come \Ninto the New Testament,
Dialogue: 0,0:54:51.100,0:54:56.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I find Christ is the Passover Lamb.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:56.94,0:54:59.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's in the New Testament that I find
Dialogue: 0,0:54:59.22,0:55:01.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that Christ is the fulfillment
Dialogue: 0,0:55:01.63,0:55:04.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the Old Testament priesthood.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:04.63,0:55:07.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's in the New Testament that I find
Dialogue: 0,0:55:07.50,0:55:09.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that all the festivals, the new moons,
Dialogue: 0,0:55:09.34,0:55:13.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Sabbath days were all shadows,
Dialogue: 0,0:55:13.22,0:55:15.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but Christ is the substance.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:15.22,0:55:17.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can I tell you something?
Dialogue: 0,0:55:17.77,0:55:19.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whether it's dispensationalism
Dialogue: 0,0:55:19.38,0:55:22.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or whether it's covenant theology,
Dialogue: 0,0:55:22.34,0:55:28.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,any time you start in the Old Testament,
Dialogue: 0,0:55:28.98,0:55:30.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you are going to end up going somewhere
Dialogue: 0,0:55:30.97,0:55:33.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God never intended you to go.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:33.11,0:55:34.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you start there.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:34.67,0:55:36.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's inspired.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:36.30,0:55:37.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need it.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:37.35,0:55:43.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what we see is that we never
Dialogue: 0,0:55:43.65,0:55:45.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,want to deal with the Old Testament
Dialogue: 0,0:55:45.85,0:55:47.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as though Jesus Christ never came
Dialogue: 0,0:55:47.48,0:55:49.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and as though the apostles never
Dialogue: 0,0:55:49.05,0:55:51.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wrote the New Testament.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:51.22,0:55:54.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Clearly, brethren, clearly they show us
Dialogue: 0,0:55:54.29,0:55:57.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,repeatedly that that is how we are
Dialogue: 0,0:55:57.37,0:55:59.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to deal with Scripture.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:59.66,0:56:05.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we embrace John \NMacArthur's hermeneutic,
Dialogue: 0,0:56:05.52,0:56:07.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(incomplete thought).
Dialogue: 0,0:56:07.42,0:56:09.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know what he said?
Dialogue: 0,0:56:09.85,0:56:16.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said nobody ends up an amillenialist
Dialogue: 0,0:56:16.16,0:56:18.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unless they read the New Testament
Dialogue: 0,0:56:18.77,0:56:20.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,back into the Old.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:20.41,0:56:25.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just say: exactly!
Dialogue: 0,0:56:25.16,0:56:32.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what I'm supposed to do!
Dialogue: 0,0:56:32.93,0:56:37.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, reading what \Nthe Old Testament says
Dialogue: 0,0:56:37.22,0:56:42.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,concerning Israel, the \Ncovenants made to Israel,
Dialogue: 0,0:56:42.42,0:56:45.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,promises made to Israel,
Dialogue: 0,0:56:45.48,0:56:49.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and coming to all manner \Nof dogmatic conclusions
Dialogue: 0,0:56:49.72,0:56:51.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without first reading the New Testament
Dialogue: 0,0:56:51.72,0:56:54.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to see how the \NHoly Spirit inspired apostles,
Dialogue: 0,0:56:54.54,0:56:57.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,teach us to interpret those things
Dialogue: 0,0:56:57.06,0:56:58.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the Old Testament
Dialogue: 0,0:56:58.18,0:57:00.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is a very irresponsible way
Dialogue: 0,0:57:00.84,0:57:03.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to approach Scripture.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:03.04,0:57:04.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:04.09,0:57:06.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is irresponsible.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:06.65,0:57:09.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You let the New Testament light
Dialogue: 0,0:57:09.100,0:57:12.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,shine on that Old Testament,
Dialogue: 0,0:57:12.56,0:57:15.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it will come to life.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:15.78,0:57:18.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what Jesus did.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:18.59,0:57:22.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, He came along and He just
Dialogue: 0,0:57:22.72,0:57:24.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,started throwing all this stuff out,
Dialogue: 0,0:57:24.72,0:57:29.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it just blew everybody away.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:29.57,0:57:32.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He starts explaining things in ways
Dialogue: 0,0:57:32.74,0:57:38.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that He just let the light in.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:38.26,0:57:40.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Never read the Old Testament promises;
Dialogue: 0,0:57:40.42,0:57:42.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,never read anything from the Old Testament
Dialogue: 0,0:57:42.48,0:57:45.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as if Jesus had not come;
Dialogue: 0,0:57:45.41,0:57:51.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as if the New Testament \Nhad not been written.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:51.53,0:57:54.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the third.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:54.36,0:58:00.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This basic hermeneutic of \Ninterpreting the Old by the New.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:00.29,0:58:03.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They would wrest it from our hands.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:03.05,0:58:04.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because I would say this.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:04.64,0:58:07.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nobody ever ends up becoming
Dialogue: 0,0:58:07.33,0:58:09.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a dispensational premillenialist
Dialogue: 0,0:58:09.28,0:58:12.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unless they refuse to \Nread the New Testament
Dialogue: 0,0:58:12.94,0:58:16.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,back into the Old.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:16.19,0:58:18.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I understand how they come up with
Dialogue: 0,0:58:18.10,0:58:19.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what they come up with,
Dialogue: 0,0:58:19.32,0:58:21.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because they don't let the New Testament
Dialogue: 0,0:58:21.25,0:58:25.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,guide them in their interpretations.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:25.81,0:58:28.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here's a fourth thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:28.99,0:58:35.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The church's missionary \Nhope is commandeered.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:35.38,0:58:36.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For the sake of time,
Dialogue: 0,0:58:36.61,0:58:38.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm going to shoot right through this.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:38.53,0:58:42.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, in Revelation 20,
Dialogue: 0,0:58:42.59,0:58:45.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it says that during the millenium,
Dialogue: 0,0:58:45.85,0:58:51.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the devil is bound
Dialogue: 0,0:58:51.06,0:58:56.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from deceiving the nations.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:56.67,0:59:03.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If that is indeed a way of \Ndescribing this current time,
Dialogue: 0,0:59:03.06,0:59:05.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then the missionary hope is this:
Dialogue: 0,0:59:05.88,0:59:08.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the devil is bound.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:08.03,0:59:09.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not totally.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:09.94,0:59:13.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's bound from doing one thing:
Dialogue: 0,0:59:13.46,0:59:18.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,deceiving the nations; the Gentiles.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:18.11,0:59:20.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Listen, that's what Scripture says.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:20.92,0:59:22.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jesus Himself said,
Dialogue: 0,0:59:22.41,0:59:27.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"How can somebody enter \Nthe strongman's house
Dialogue: 0,0:59:27.01,0:59:29.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and plunder his goods?"
Dialogue: 0,0:59:29.97,0:59:32.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Unless what?
Dialogue: 0,0:59:32.06,0:59:34.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Unless he first binds the strongman.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:34.28,0:59:37.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then indeed, he may plunder the house."
Dialogue: 0,0:59:37.06,0:59:38.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Remember what happened?
Dialogue: 0,0:59:38.45,0:59:40.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He sends 72 out.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:40.43,0:59:43.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,72. They go out preaching the Gospel.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:43.12,0:59:44.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when they came back, they said,
Dialogue: 0,0:59:44.90,0:59:50.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lord, the demons - they obeyed us!
Dialogue: 0,0:59:50.68,0:59:51.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He says, "I saw...
Dialogue: 0,0:59:51.82,0:59:54.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I saw Satan fall."
Dialogue: 0,0:59:54.29,0:59:56.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, Satan does not \Nhave power before the Gospel.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:56.91,0:59:58.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what this is all about.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:58.41,1:00:00.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what we're talking about here.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:00.37,1:00:01.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said to them,
Dialogue: 0,1:00:01.52,1:00:03.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I saw Satan fall like \Nlightning from heaven.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:03.72,1:00:05.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Behold, I have given you authority
Dialogue: 0,1:00:05.35,1:00:07.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to tread on serpents, scorpions,
Dialogue: 0,1:00:07.03,1:00:08.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and over all the power of the enemy,
Dialogue: 0,1:00:08.78,1:00:10.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and nothing shall hurt you."
Dialogue: 0,1:00:10.32,1:00:13.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know in John 12, He says this:
Dialogue: 0,1:00:13.24,1:00:16.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Think of this. Jesus is \Ngoing to the cross.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:16.64,1:00:19.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,John 12.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:19.54,1:00:21.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He says this:
Dialogue: 0,1:00:21.14,1:00:26.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Now is the judgment of this world."
Dialogue: 0,1:00:26.15,1:00:28.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Now is the judgment of this world.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:28.85,1:00:32.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now the ruler of this \Nworld will be cast out."
Dialogue: 0,1:00:32.60,1:00:35.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What? The ruler of this world
Dialogue: 0,1:00:35.48,1:00:39.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is going to be cast out when?
Dialogue: 0,1:00:39.32,1:00:42.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In John 12.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:42.24,1:00:49.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,See how perfectly that correlates
Dialogue: 0,1:00:49.42,1:00:54.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with taking that millenium to be
Dialogue: 0,1:00:54.23,1:00:56.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this long period of time
Dialogue: 0,1:00:56.70,1:01:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,between Christ's comings -
Dialogue: 0,1:01:00.00,1:01:02.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His first coming and His second coming.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:02.63,1:01:04.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the missionary age.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:04.69,1:01:07.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the age of the ingathering
Dialogue: 0,1:01:07.45,1:01:09.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the Gentiles.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:09.04,1:01:12.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the time of the Gentiles.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:12.19,1:01:16.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a time when Satan cannot keep
Dialogue: 0,1:01:16.07,1:01:17.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the nations in darkness
Dialogue: 0,1:01:17.74,1:01:20.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as he did before the cross.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:20.97,1:01:22.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I'll tell you this.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:22.14,1:01:24.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jesus said this.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:24.29,1:01:27.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said now - now - I'm \Ngoing to the cross.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:27.52,1:01:30.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now is the ruler of this world cast out.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:30.44,1:01:33.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you know what He says next?
Dialogue: 0,1:01:33.77,1:01:36.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if you lift Me up,
Dialogue: 0,1:01:36.30,1:01:39.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm going to draw all men -
Dialogue: 0,1:01:39.73,1:01:41.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not just Jews.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:41.24,1:01:45.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm going to draw all men unto Me.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:45.75,1:01:47.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, the hope of the church
Dialogue: 0,1:01:47.93,1:01:50.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that we live in an age
Dialogue: 0,1:01:50.42,1:01:52.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when Satan is bound,
Dialogue: 0,1:01:52.43,1:01:54.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when we can go out among the nations,
Dialogue: 0,1:01:54.37,1:01:56.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and by the power of Christ -
Dialogue: 0,1:01:56.75,1:01:57.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Him going with us,
Dialogue: 0,1:01:57.78,1:02:01.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Lo, I am with you to the \Nend of the world."
Dialogue: 0,1:02:01.38,1:02:04.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All authority - and we can go out there,
Dialogue: 0,1:02:04.26,1:02:09.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we're going to come \Nback with a harvest.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:09.56,1:02:11.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They would commandeer that from us.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:11.25,1:02:14.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,John MacArthur mocks at that.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:14.13,1:02:16.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah, the devil, he goes \Naround like a roaring lion
Dialogue: 0,1:02:16.81,1:02:18.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,seeking whom he may devour.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:18.18,1:02:20.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Doesn't sound like he's chained to me.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:20.05,1:02:24.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,John, that is just shoddy, \Nshoddy Bible interpretation.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:24.50,1:02:27.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Again. Because if you go to Revelation 20,
Dialogue: 0,1:02:27.25,1:02:29.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it does not say that he's bound
Dialogue: 0,1:02:29.41,1:02:31.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from seeking whom he may devour.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:31.26,1:02:33.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It doesn't say that he's not going around
Dialogue: 0,1:02:33.31,1:02:34.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like a roaring lion.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:34.46,1:02:41.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It says he's bound from \Ndeceiving the nations.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:41.59,1:02:43.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what it says.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:43.99,1:02:46.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what Jesus said.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:46.38,1:02:47.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The ruler of this world -
Dialogue: 0,1:02:47.91,1:02:50.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the cross - the ruler of this world
Dialogue: 0,1:02:50.22,1:02:51.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is cast out.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:51.50,1:02:53.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You say, what does that mean?
Dialogue: 0,1:02:53.46,1:02:57.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It means something.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:57.19,1:03:00.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what He follows it with
Dialogue: 0,1:03:00.12,1:03:04.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is I will gather all men unto Myself.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:04.96,1:03:06.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what it means.\N
Dialogue: 0,1:03:06.25,1:03:08.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The devil will not be able to resist that
Dialogue: 0,1:03:08.29,1:03:10.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from taking place.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:10.41,1:03:11.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that's the fourth thing.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:11.94,1:03:14.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The fifth thing is this.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:14.07,1:03:18.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That system commandeers \Nthe church's glory.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:18.33,1:03:20.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You say, what do you mean by that?
Dialogue: 0,1:03:20.02,1:03:22.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, brethren, a faithful examination
Dialogue: 0,1:03:22.62,1:03:25.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the Scriptures is going to reveal this:
Dialogue: 0,1:03:25.04,1:03:27.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, brethren!
Dialogue: 0,1:03:27.40,1:03:29.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the pinnacle.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:29.01,1:03:31.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the top of the mountain.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:31.21,1:03:34.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everything in this book
Dialogue: 0,1:03:34.03,1:03:37.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is pointing somewhere.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:37.16,1:03:38.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is pointing to Christ.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:38.99,1:03:40.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when you come to the New Testament,
Dialogue: 0,1:03:40.94,1:03:43.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what you find is all this was shadow,
Dialogue: 0,1:03:43.98,1:03:45.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's all pointing to Him.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:45.79,1:03:47.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you come to the New Testament,
Dialogue: 0,1:03:47.56,1:03:49.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the four Gospels are all about Him,
Dialogue: 0,1:03:49.53,1:03:51.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the epistles are all about
Dialogue: 0,1:03:51.81,1:03:54.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,interpreting what happened in His teaching
Dialogue: 0,1:03:54.22,1:03:55.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in His life.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:55.24,1:03:56.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's all about Him.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:56.99,1:03:58.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's about Him.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:58.16,1:03:59.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It pointed.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:59.12,1:04:03.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Gospel was all in types and shadows
Dialogue: 0,1:04:03.63,1:04:05.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,found in the Old Testament.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:05.33,1:04:07.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's pointing to Christ.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:07.14,1:04:09.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's pointing to the church.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:09.43,1:04:11.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You come to the New Testament,
Dialogue: 0,1:04:11.60,1:04:13.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the church...
Dialogue: 0,1:04:13.37,1:04:22.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the fullness of Him who fills all in all.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:22.30,1:04:24.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Christ and the church
Dialogue: 0,1:04:24.77,1:04:29.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the focal point.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:29.42,1:04:31.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everything looks there.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:31.82,1:04:33.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is on the mountain top.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:33.60,1:04:37.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is the culmination of all prophecy.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:37.07,1:04:44.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you realize what this \Ndispensationalism teaches?
Dialogue: 0,1:04:44.48,1:04:46.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've got to build a temple again.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:46.99,1:04:48.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We actually have to have priests
Dialogue: 0,1:04:48.56,1:04:51.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,offering sacrifices again.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:51.71,1:04:55.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, let me tell you something.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:55.72,1:05:02.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Types and shadows always look
Dialogue: 0,1:05:02.77,1:05:05.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the fulfillment.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:05.06,1:05:11.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They look to that which is far better.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:11.03,1:05:12.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Think of the type and shadow
Dialogue: 0,1:05:12.56,1:05:14.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we have been given in this age
Dialogue: 0,1:05:14.60,1:05:18.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when most types and shadows \Nhave been put away.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:18.08,1:05:23.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Lord's Supper is a type and shadow
Dialogue: 0,1:05:23.20,1:05:25.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of what?
Dialogue: 0,1:05:25.62,1:05:30.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of sitting with Christ face-to-face.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:30.08,1:05:35.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of having Him forever.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:35.55,1:05:38.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you recognize what it says
Dialogue: 0,1:05:38.17,1:05:41.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if we get to Christ and the church,
Dialogue: 0,1:05:41.60,1:05:44.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then we allow this
Dialogue: 0,1:05:44.81,1:05:49.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,redemptive retrograde, regression -
Dialogue: 0,1:05:49.40,1:05:52.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we go back down the mountain.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:52.48,1:05:54.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we set up sacrifices again.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:54.95,1:05:56.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you know what happens?
Dialogue: 0,1:05:56.43,1:05:59.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you know what it communicates
Dialogue: 0,1:05:59.38,1:06:04.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if when Christ comes,
Dialogue: 0,1:06:04.68,1:06:07.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you revert back to shadow?
Dialogue: 0,1:06:07.04,1:06:10.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you realize what that communicates?
Dialogue: 0,1:06:10.35,1:06:15.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you realize what shadows \Nalways communicate?
Dialogue: 0,1:06:15.83,1:06:19.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Something better is yet to come.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:19.70,1:06:24.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you recognize that if Christ comes
Dialogue: 0,1:06:24.42,1:06:28.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we go back to shadow,
Dialogue: 0,1:06:28.53,1:06:33.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it says Christ is not it.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:33.67,1:06:39.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's something better.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:39.02,1:06:41.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you know what Jesus did?
Dialogue: 0,1:06:41.47,1:06:43.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He came.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:43.30,1:06:47.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's on the road to Emmaus.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:47.27,1:06:50.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He says, boys, I can take you through
Dialogue: 0,1:06:50.82,1:06:53.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this whole book.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:53.44,1:06:56.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's about Me.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:56.32,1:06:59.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's pointing to Me.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:59.76,1:07:01.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you realize when He died
Dialogue: 0,1:07:01.61,1:07:05.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that veil tore from the top to the bottom?
Dialogue: 0,1:07:05.41,1:07:07.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Saying it's done!
Dialogue: 0,1:07:07.100,1:07:11.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All done with the shadows
Dialogue: 0,1:07:11.34,1:07:17.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because the reality has come.
Dialogue: 0,1:07:17.76,1:07:21.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, the church -
Dialogue: 0,1:07:21.96,1:07:24.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the church is His body.
Dialogue: 0,1:07:24.98,1:07:29.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the fullness of Him \Nwho fills all in all.
Dialogue: 0,1:07:29.04,1:07:30.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He can look at the church -
Dialogue: 0,1:07:30.67,1:07:34.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is the highest point of redemption.
Dialogue: 0,1:07:34.50,1:07:37.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the highest point of blessing
Dialogue: 0,1:07:37.93,1:07:39.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bestowed upon man
Dialogue: 0,1:07:39.70,1:07:42.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we actually are His bride.
Dialogue: 0,1:07:42.26,1:07:44.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We actually are His body.
Dialogue: 0,1:07:44.09,1:07:49.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We actually are the fullness of Him.
Dialogue: 0,1:07:49.14,1:07:53.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Have you ever just stopped?
Dialogue: 0,1:07:53.20,1:07:57.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are the fullness of Him
Dialogue: 0,1:07:57.45,1:08:02.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who fills all in all?
Dialogue: 0,1:08:02.94,1:08:06.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is it. This is it.
Dialogue: 0,1:08:06.84,1:08:13.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This whole perversion
Dialogue: 0,1:08:13.06,1:08:15.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for you to tell me that in God's plan
Dialogue: 0,1:08:15.49,1:08:17.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's going to be a \Nreconstruction of a temple,
Dialogue: 0,1:08:17.99,1:08:22.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's going to be a re-institution \Nof the Levitical priesthood.
Dialogue: 0,1:08:22.47,1:08:24.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Does Hebrews not just \Nblow that whole thing
Dialogue: 0,1:08:24.80,1:08:27.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,right out of the water?
Dialogue: 0,1:08:27.03,1:08:30.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hebrews is all about the \NLevitical priesthood
Dialogue: 0,1:08:30.25,1:08:32.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[no more].
Dialogue: 0,1:08:32.71,1:08:35.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It needed a better priest.
Dialogue: 0,1:08:35.76,1:08:38.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, Hebrews 10:1,
Dialogue: 0,1:08:38.80,1:08:41.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Since the law has but a shadow
Dialogue: 0,1:08:41.39,1:08:42.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the good things to come,
Dialogue: 0,1:08:42.87,1:08:45.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,instead of the true \Nform of these realities,
Dialogue: 0,1:08:45.05,1:08:47.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it can never by the same sacrifices
Dialogue: 0,1:08:47.07,1:08:49.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that are continually offered every year
Dialogue: 0,1:08:49.06,1:08:50.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,make perfect those who draw near."
Dialogue: 0,1:08:50.78,1:08:52.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It never made anything perfect.
Dialogue: 0,1:08:52.33,1:08:53.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Never made anything perfect.
Dialogue: 0,1:08:53.71,1:08:58.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But He has come now who does make perfect.
Dialogue: 0,1:08:58.18,1:09:00.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Will we reinstitute shadows that mean
Dialogue: 0,1:09:00.82,1:09:04.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we now need to look for something else?
Dialogue: 0,1:09:04.01,1:09:06.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what a shadow is.
Dialogue: 0,1:09:06.46,1:09:08.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you just look at the basic intent
Dialogue: 0,1:09:08.50,1:09:10.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and definition of a shadow,
Dialogue: 0,1:09:10.34,1:09:14.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it should dispel.
Dialogue: 0,1:09:14.55,1:09:17.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can remember as a new believer
Dialogue: 0,1:09:17.04,1:09:20.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even hearing that somebody
Dialogue: 0,1:09:20.64,1:09:21.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like J. Vernon McGee
Dialogue: 0,1:09:21.89,1:09:24.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or one of these Scofield-ites
Dialogue: 0,1:09:24.09,1:09:26.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was saying that they were going to
Dialogue: 0,1:09:26.48,1:09:29.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,reestablish the Old Testament worship.
Dialogue: 0,1:09:29.64,1:09:35.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't know a lot, but it made me
Dialogue: 0,1:09:35.11,1:09:38.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,recoil with horror at such a thought.
Dialogue: 0,1:09:38.99,1:09:41.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because I could see it even \Nas a young believer.
Dialogue: 0,1:09:41.38,1:09:45.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That dishonors Christ.
Dialogue: 0,1:09:45.67,1:09:48.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, if that is not sufficient reason
Dialogue: 0,1:09:48.78,1:09:52.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to go to Scripture and to seek the truth
Dialogue: 0,1:09:52.100,1:09:56.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on this matter, I don't know \Nwhat sufficient matters.
Dialogue: 0,1:09:56.49,1:09:58.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How we handle the Word,
Dialogue: 0,1:09:58.43,1:10:03.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not being disarmed of one \Nof the basic hermeneutics,
Dialogue: 0,1:10:03.41,1:10:08.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,owning every promise \Nthat God has given to us,
Dialogue: 0,1:10:08.98,1:10:12.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not losing the glory of \NChrist and the church.
Dialogue: 0,1:10:12.75,1:10:14.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We do not want to back down
Dialogue: 0,1:10:14.12,1:10:17.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to some shadows again.
Dialogue: 0,1:10:17.04,1:10:19.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Losing that missionary hope
Dialogue: 0,1:10:19.04,1:10:22.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the binding of the devil.
Dialogue: 0,1:10:22.09,1:10:24.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, harmful errors.
Dialogue: 0,1:10:24.78,1:10:26.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I believe harmful.
Dialogue: 0,1:10:26.62,1:10:29.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The church's urgency is dulled.
Dialogue: 0,1:10:29.14,1:10:31.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don't want that.
Dialogue: 0,1:10:31.48,1:10:33.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to set forth before you
Dialogue: 0,1:10:33.08,1:10:34.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in these weeks ahead
Dialogue: 0,1:10:34.27,1:10:38.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the biblical view of end times.
Dialogue: 0,1:10:38.55,1:10:42.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I think you will find this.
Dialogue: 0,1:10:42.36,1:10:49.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It gives all the promises to us in Christ.
Dialogue: 0,1:10:49.27,1:10:55.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It demands urgency.
Dialogue: 0,1:10:55.02,1:10:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It will show us we need to interpret
Dialogue: 0,1:10:57.00,1:10:59.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,everything in the Old by the New.
Dialogue: 0,1:10:59.73,1:11:02.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It will show us this \Nis the missionary time.
Dialogue: 0,1:11:02.38,1:11:05.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the time of \Ningathering of the Gentiles.
Dialogue: 0,1:11:05.12,1:11:07.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It will show us that Jesus Christ
Dialogue: 0,1:11:07.78,1:11:13.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the church is the fulfillment;
Dialogue: 0,1:11:13.40,1:11:17.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is the culmination.
Dialogue: 0,1:11:17.45,1:11:20.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's nothing higher.
Dialogue: 0,1:11:20.25,1:11:33.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Christ is all the glory \Nof Immanuel's land.
Dialogue: 0,1:11:33.79,1:11:38.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I could just imagine a true \NChristian shedding tears.
Dialogue: 0,1:11:38.22,1:11:46.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even if Israel at some point
Dialogue: 0,1:11:46.58,1:11:51.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rebuilds the temple,
Dialogue: 0,1:11:51.19,1:11:53.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the true Christian would lay those bricks
Dialogue: 0,1:11:53.61,1:12:03.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with tears as an affront to Christ.
Dialogue: 0,1:12:03.61,1:12:06.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They may do that,
Dialogue: 0,1:12:06.08,1:12:07.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but don't believe for a second
Dialogue: 0,1:12:07.69,1:12:10.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that it's got anything \Nto do with God's plan -
Dialogue: 0,1:12:10.29,1:12:11.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not His redemptive plan.
Dialogue: 0,1:12:11.86,1:12:14.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It does not have to \Ndo with the fulfillment
Dialogue: 0,1:12:14.10,1:12:16.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of what these guys are talking about.
Dialogue: 0,1:12:16.54,1:12:18.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're going to look at this.
Dialogue: 0,1:12:18.10,1:12:19.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're going to look at this
Dialogue: 0,1:12:19.47,1:12:22.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because Scripture is not \Nsilent on these things.
Dialogue: 0,1:12:22.33,1:12:29.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Scripture has an enormous amount to say.
Dialogue: 0,1:12:29.37,1:12:35.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Father, I know that those \Nof us here in this church
Dialogue: 0,1:12:35.94,1:12:41.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,do not have a corner on the truth.
Dialogue: 0,1:12:41.91,1:12:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I know that my brother John MacArthur
Dialogue: 0,1:12:45.00,1:12:47.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has been so instrumental in leading me
Dialogue: 0,1:12:47.14,1:12:53.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into so much truth.
Dialogue: 0,1:12:53.41,1:12:57.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lord, we know that many that hold
Dialogue: 0,1:12:57.86,1:12:59.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to that way of thinking,
Dialogue: 0,1:12:59.39,1:13:07.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that mindset, they're Your children.
Dialogue: 0,1:13:07.74,1:13:11.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But Father, we pray for them.
Dialogue: 0,1:13:11.91,1:13:14.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We pray that You would \Nlead them into truth.
Dialogue: 0,1:13:14.25,1:13:17.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We pray that You would lead us into truth.
Dialogue: 0,1:13:17.62,1:13:19.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lord, may Your Word be a lamp
Dialogue: 0,1:13:19.72,1:13:23.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unto our feet in these days all our life;
Dialogue: 0,1:13:23.81,1:13:26.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the days ahead and \Nall the way to the end.
Dialogue: 0,1:13:26.64,1:13:28.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,May You lead us in truth.
Dialogue: 0,1:13:28.36,1:13:30.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Spirit who was sent
Dialogue: 0,1:13:30.60,1:13:32.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to guide us into all truth,
Dialogue: 0,1:13:32.98,1:13:35.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we pray that He would lead us into truth;
Dialogue: 0,1:13:35.84,1:13:37.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lead us into understanding,
Dialogue: 0,1:13:37.16,1:13:40.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rightly comprehending in the weeks ahead.
Dialogue: 0,1:13:40.02,1:13:46.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lord, oh, if there's \Nanything I can pray for,
Dialogue: 0,1:13:46.38,1:13:51.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I pray that this church \Nwould live and teach
Dialogue: 0,1:13:51.54,1:13:54.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unto the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Dialogue: 0,1:13:54.34,1:13:56.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And whatever we look at in the weeks ahead
Dialogue: 0,1:13:56.84,1:13:58.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we want it to be for His glory.
Dialogue: 0,1:13:58.42,1:14:05.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We want it to be for His sake.
Dialogue: 0,1:14:05.49,1:14:08.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lord, in humility, we \Nwant to handle the Word.
Dialogue: 0,1:14:08.36,1:14:14.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We want to believe what the Word says.
Dialogue: 0,1:14:14.65,1:14:17.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lord, we thank You that that One
Dialogue: 0,1:14:17.20,1:14:20.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who fulfills all the shadows has come.
Dialogue: 0,1:14:20.70,1:14:22.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, we thank You that \Nwe don't have to live
Dialogue: 0,1:14:22.86,1:14:25.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,under that Old Testament law.
Dialogue: 0,1:14:25.04,1:14:27.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was a yoke about their neck
Dialogue: 0,1:14:27.08,1:14:28.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that none of them could bear.
Dialogue: 0,1:14:28.55,1:14:31.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, Lord, we thank You we're not under
Dialogue: 0,1:14:31.08,1:14:32.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that dispensation.
Dialogue: 0,1:14:32.38,1:14:34.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We thank You that our Lord has come.
Dialogue: 0,1:14:34.49,1:14:36.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We thank You we've been set free.
Dialogue: 0,1:14:36.14,1:14:37.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We thank You that we have the light
Dialogue: 0,1:14:37.92,1:14:39.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the New Testament now.
Dialogue: 0,1:14:39.35,1:14:42.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lord, thank You that we \Nlive in such a time as this.
Dialogue: 0,1:14:42.18,1:14:44.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In such a time that You \Nare harvesting the Gentiles,
Dialogue: 0,1:14:44.99,1:14:46.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and many of us in this room -
Dialogue: 0,1:14:46.41,1:14:48.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we are the Gentiles that Satan
Dialogue: 0,1:14:48.60,1:14:50.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has not been able to deceive.
Dialogue: 0,1:14:50.82,1:14:55.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His hand was held back \Nand we were rescued.
Dialogue: 0,1:14:55.44,1:14:58.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we have come to find rest and trust
Dialogue: 0,1:14:58.47,1:15:00.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the bosom of Jesus Christ.
Dialogue: 0,1:15:00.92,1:15:02.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh Lord, thank You!
Dialogue: 0,1:15:02.22,1:15:03.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank You for this salvation.
Dialogue: 0,1:15:03.79,1:15:05.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank You for choosing us.
Dialogue: 0,1:15:05.40,1:15:07.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank You for rescuing us.
Dialogue: 0,1:15:07.05,1:15:09.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank You for all the glorious hope
Dialogue: 0,1:15:09.46,1:15:11.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the promises that \Nwe have in Jesus Christ.
Dialogue: 0,1:15:11.95,1:15:14.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank You that You've \Nmade us full inclusion,
Dialogue: 0,1:15:14.83,1:15:24.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,full sons, grafted in to \Nthe tree of Your people.
Dialogue: 0,1:15:24.25,1:15:27.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Made fellow citizens with the saints.
Dialogue: 0,1:15:27.45,1:15:30.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Members of the household of God.
Dialogue: 0,1:15:30.91,1:15:34.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In all ways, partakers of the covenants.
Dialogue: 0,1:15:34.36,1:15:38.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The covenants, the promises \Nhave become ours.
Dialogue: 0,1:15:38.09,1:15:41.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,True offspring of Abraham.
Dialogue: 0,1:15:41.12,1:15:46.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All because of Christ. \NAll because of Christ.
Dialogue: 0,1:15:46.73,1:15:48.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lord, thank You our salvation
Dialogue: 0,1:15:48.99,1:15:53.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is abundantly great, abundantly glorious.
Dialogue: 0,1:15:53.08,1:15:56.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Salvation which is to the uttermost.
Dialogue: 0,1:15:56.19,1:15:57.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank You, Lord.
Dialogue: 0,1:15:57.79,1:15:58.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank You.
Dialogue: 0,1:15:58.98,1:16:00.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Christ's name we thank You.
Dialogue: 0,1:16:00.87,1:16:01.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Amen.