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Dialogue: 0,0:00:01.67,0:00:05.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ephesians 3.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.20,0:00:13.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to read verses 4, 5, and 6.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.04,0:00:19.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ephesians 3:4
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.53,0:00:25.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"When you read this (this epistle),
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.77,0:00:29.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you (Ephesians) can perceive
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.25,0:00:34.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my (that's the Apostle Paul)...
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.42,0:00:36.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can perceive my insight
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.47,0:00:40.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into the mystery of Christ,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.96,0:00:42.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which was not made known
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.45,0:00:44.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the sons of men in other generations
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.59,0:00:47.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as it has now been revealed
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.07,0:00:49.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to His holy apostles and prophets
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.92,0:00:52.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by the Spirit.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.47,0:00:57.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This mystery is that the Gentiles
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.06,0:00:59.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are fellow heirs,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.19,0:01:00.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,members of the same body,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.74,0:01:02.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and partakers of the promise
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.94,0:01:07.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Christ Jesus through the gospel."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.59,0:01:09.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here's what's happening.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.25,0:01:10.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In verse 6,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.60,0:01:14.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Paul is considering this miracle
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.15,0:01:18.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the Gentiles have \Nnot been left outside.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.88,0:01:20.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Out in the darkness
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.42,0:01:24.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just basically to rot in their sins.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.96,0:01:29.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Incomplete thought)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.39,0:01:30.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've asked people before.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.95,0:01:36.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Number the Gentiles \Nfrom the Old Testament.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.74,0:01:40.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Perhaps all of Nineveh repented,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.30,0:01:41.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they were saved.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.47,0:01:44.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Perhaps they repented and \Njust weren't destroyed.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.45,0:01:45.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm not sure.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.57,0:01:47.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But minus Nineveh,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.34,0:01:49.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you start numbering them.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.79,0:01:52.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're not going to get \Nto the second hand.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.71,0:01:57.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can number them on one hand.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.11,0:02:01.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is really incredible.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.06,0:02:05.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Almost unbelievable.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.86,0:02:08.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What's happening is
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.47,0:02:11.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Gentiles like these Ephesians and like us
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.92,0:02:14.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,being swept into the kingdom.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.98,0:02:18.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Suddenly, those who had sat in darkness,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.64,0:02:21.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we're getting opportunity \Nto see the great light.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.26,0:02:24.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don't recognize this \Nso much 2,000 years later
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.55,0:02:27.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because the gospel now
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.69,0:02:30.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has been going among the Gentiles
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.36,0:02:35.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,longer than the era from Moses to Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.48,0:02:39.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, it's not so startling to us.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.16,0:02:41.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But Gentiles are being transported
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.61,0:02:43.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,out of the kingdom of darkness
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.43,0:02:45.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into the kingdom of God's dear Son.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.76,0:02:47.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what's happening here
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.42,0:02:48.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is it's the mystery.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.96,0:02:50.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was hidden for generations.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.94,0:02:53.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's like the sun dawning on a new day.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.82,0:02:55.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The light is coming up. What?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.71,0:02:59.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That Gentiles are included.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.70,0:03:02.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's broken upon the horizon.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.31,0:03:08.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Verse 6 shows this inclusion.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.87,0:03:12.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now you don't see this in the English.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.24,0:03:16.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But there's three words in the Greek here
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.37,0:03:21.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that all start with the same prefix -su.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.88,0:03:23.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Su."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.56,0:03:25.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The mystery is that the Gentiles
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.99,0:03:29.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are "synklēronoma,"
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.95,0:03:32.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"syssōma,"
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.68,0:03:35.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"symmetocha."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.99,0:03:46.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Su" basically corresponds \Nto our English prefix "-sym."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.02,0:03:47.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Symbolic.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.76,0:03:50.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Symbol.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.02,0:03:51.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Symphony.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.88,0:03:53.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Symmetry.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.54,0:03:58.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a prefix that means "together with."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.63,0:04:00.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, each one of these words,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.94,0:04:03.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we're together with the believing Jew
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.12,0:04:04.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in this reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.63,0:04:07.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Believing Gentiles are heirs
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.43,0:04:09.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,together with believing Jews.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.35,0:04:12.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Believing Gentiles are members
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.20,0:04:14.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,together with believing Jews
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.11,0:04:16.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the body of Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.22,0:04:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Believing Gentiles are together
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.00,0:04:22.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with believing Jews in the promise
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.62,0:04:24.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's in Jesus Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.77,0:04:26.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what's happening here.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.48,0:04:28.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What I want to do is draw your attention
Dialogue: 0,0:04:28.42,0:04:34.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,particularly to the last of the three.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.10,0:04:37.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Three assertions.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.13,0:04:39.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the last of the three.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.74,0:04:43.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are partakers -
Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.38,0:04:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,now if we want to be accurate
Dialogue: 0,0:04:45.00,0:04:46.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the Greek word here,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:46.49,0:04:48.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you want to put "together" in there.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:48.82,0:04:50.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The ESV doesn't have that.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:50.40,0:04:52.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The King James doesn't have that.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.22,0:04:56.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But listen to how the \NNew American Standard
Dialogue: 0,0:04:56.29,0:04:57.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,captures this.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.55,0:05:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The New English translation captures this
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.00,0:05:04.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by using the word "fellow partakers."
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.68,0:05:07.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Holman Christan uses "partners."
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.12,0:05:08.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, that captures the idea
Dialogue: 0,0:05:08.97,0:05:11.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of being together with the Jews in this.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.46,0:05:15.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the idea here is that we're together
Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.03,0:05:18.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the believing Jews in this promise
Dialogue: 0,0:05:18.12,0:05:20.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.53,0:05:24.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, your Bible might say "His promise."
Dialogue: 0,0:05:24.48,0:05:26.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's interesting. In the Greek,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:26.09,0:05:30.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you have the article "the" promise.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:30.54,0:05:32.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you've got the King James,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:32.03,0:05:35.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Greek text it comes from says,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:35.11,0:05:39.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"of Him."
Dialogue: 0,0:05:39.16,0:05:44.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But no matter what text \Nyour Bible comes from,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:44.39,0:05:46.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the original, it says,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:46.88,0:05:49.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"the promise."
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.74,0:05:51.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Singular.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:51.09,0:05:54.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is an article "the" promise.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:54.43,0:05:57.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I find that really interesting.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.65,0:06:01.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Paul doesn't even tell us what "the" -
Dialogue: 0,0:06:01.30,0:06:04.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what is this "the" promise?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:04.97,0:06:07.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he doesn't even tell us what it is.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:07.78,0:06:10.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's like there's one promise \Nabove every promise
Dialogue: 0,0:06:10.21,0:06:13.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that stands out as "the" promise.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:13.99,0:06:16.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That, to me, jumps out.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.47,0:06:19.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not promises plural;
Dialogue: 0,0:06:19.29,0:06:22.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"the" promise.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:22.34,0:06:24.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is it?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:24.35,0:06:27.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, what is it?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.71,0:06:29.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is it that Paul wouldn't even need
Dialogue: 0,0:06:29.67,0:06:32.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to define it for us?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:32.76,0:06:37.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, he uses this same kind of language
Dialogue: 0,0:06:37.54,0:06:39.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,over in Galatians.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:39.19,0:06:41.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He uses it in various places,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:41.22,0:06:43.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but there's no place where you get
Dialogue: 0,0:06:43.25,0:06:45.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,such a treatment of the word
Dialogue: 0,0:06:45.54,0:06:48.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as you do in Galatians 3.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.27,0:06:51.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it's the book right before Ephesians,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:51.06,0:06:56.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,turn back to the book just before this one
Dialogue: 0,0:06:56.96,0:07:04.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and go to chapter 3.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:04.82,0:07:13.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want us to get a feel for "promise."
Dialogue: 0,0:07:13.50,0:07:17.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is the promise?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:17.12,0:07:20.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm going to show it you right off.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:20.36,0:07:22.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even though the term promise
Dialogue: 0,0:07:22.24,0:07:26.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,does not show up in Galatians 3:8,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:26.26,0:07:28.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's where the promise is.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:28.76,0:07:31.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And now, you'll see afterwards
Dialogue: 0,0:07:31.80,0:07:35.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how he begins to call it
Dialogue: 0,0:07:35.02,0:07:39.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by the term "promise."
Dialogue: 0,0:07:39.74,0:07:41.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The promise is here:
Dialogue: 0,0:07:41.53,0:07:43.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The Scripture foreseeing that God
Dialogue: 0,0:07:43.88,0:07:46.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would justify the Gentiles by faith
Dialogue: 0,0:07:46.01,0:07:48.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,preached the gospel beforehand
Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.34,0:07:51.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to Abraham saying..."
Dialogue: 0,0:07:51.25,0:07:52.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here's the promise.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:52.77,0:07:56.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the ESV, it's in quotation marks
Dialogue: 0,0:07:56.29,0:07:58.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it's a quote.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:58.77,0:08:00.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is God's promise to Abraham.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:00.88,0:08:07.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"In you shall all the nations be blessed."
Dialogue: 0,0:08:07.81,0:08:13.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And now, down in verses 17, 19, and 22,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:13.28,0:08:17.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Paul calls it "the promise."
Dialogue: 0,0:08:17.29,0:08:19.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can see it.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:19.28,0:08:27.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look down in verse 17.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:27.38,0:08:29.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is what I mean:
Dialogue: 0,0:08:29.18,0:08:33.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The law which came 430 years afterward
Dialogue: 0,0:08:33.42,0:08:35.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,does not annul a covenant
Dialogue: 0,0:08:35.50,0:08:37.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,previously ratified by God
Dialogue: 0,0:08:37.45,0:08:42.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so as to make the promise void."
Dialogue: 0,0:08:42.89,0:08:46.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, what's going on here?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:46.02,0:08:49.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What Paul is saying is this:
Dialogue: 0,0:08:49.28,0:08:51.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The promise was given to Abraham;
Dialogue: 0,0:08:51.40,0:08:56.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,430 later, the law is given to Moses.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:56.81,0:08:59.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, here's what the Jew thought.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:59.56,0:09:02.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Jew thought if we \Nkeep the commandments -
Dialogue: 0,0:09:02.44,0:09:08.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,well, they kind of thought if \Nyou knew the commandments -
Dialogue: 0,0:09:08.11,0:09:09.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you knew the commandments
Dialogue: 0,0:09:09.77,0:09:11.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you made an effort at keeping them,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:11.87,0:09:15.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's how you ended up in glory.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:15.12,0:09:17.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he says no. No, that's not true.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:17.81,0:09:20.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was always by promise.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:20.65,0:09:22.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not by law. It was always by promise.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:22.98,0:09:26.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And God didn't come along 430 years later
Dialogue: 0,0:09:26.77,0:09:29.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and give a way to heaven
Dialogue: 0,0:09:29.08,0:09:32.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that contradicted the way that was given
Dialogue: 0,0:09:32.50,0:09:33.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to Abraham.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:33.72,0:09:35.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's basically what he's saying.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:35.45,0:09:41.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But notice how he calls it "the promise."
Dialogue: 0,0:09:41.34,0:09:44.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it's not as though Paul's so rigid,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:44.83,0:09:48.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because if you look back in verse 16,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:48.13,0:09:49.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,notice what it says.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:49.80,0:09:51.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Now the promises..."
Dialogue: 0,0:09:51.76,0:09:53.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,See, there is it plural.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:53.88,0:09:55.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In other words, what it seems
Dialogue: 0,0:09:55.70,0:09:57.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that Paul can do
Dialogue: 0,0:09:57.34,0:09:59.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is he can talk about one promise,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:59.97,0:10:05.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or he can talk about \Na plurality of promises.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:05.28,0:10:08.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But they kind of boil down to one.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:08.56,0:10:12.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One promise as much as anything else.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:12.10,0:10:14.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And notice this, this word
Dialogue: 0,0:10:14.15,0:10:17.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,comes up again in verse 19.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:17.43,0:10:21.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In verse 19, "Why then the law?"
Dialogue: 0,0:10:21.35,0:10:24.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, if the law wasn't given for us
Dialogue: 0,0:10:24.28,0:10:26.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to have a code by which we could keep
Dialogue: 0,0:10:26.47,0:10:27.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and get to heaven,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:27.95,0:10:29.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if that's not why it was given,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:29.63,0:10:31.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if the only way to heaven is by promise,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:31.63,0:10:34.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by the promise that was given to Abraham,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:34.19,0:10:36.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,well, why did God give the law at all?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:36.70,0:10:40.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he says, "it was added \Nbecause of transgressions."
Dialogue: 0,0:10:40.30,0:10:42.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you find this in \Nvarious of Paul's writings.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:42.71,0:10:44.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But he said basically the commandment came
Dialogue: 0,0:10:44.86,0:10:47.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to increase the trespass.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:47.05,0:10:48.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What it does is it shows us
Dialogue: 0,0:10:48.76,0:10:50.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how sinful we are.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:50.20,0:10:52.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact, what it does is it shows us
Dialogue: 0,0:10:52.24,0:10:56.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we need another way to \NGod than by that way.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:56.92,0:11:02.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The promise. It shows \Nup again in verse 22.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:02.36,0:11:04.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Is the law then contrary
Dialogue: 0,0:11:04.29,0:11:08.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the promises of God?"
Dialogue: 0,0:11:08.84,0:11:11.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Excuse me, I was in verse 21.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:11.12,0:11:14.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Verse 22: "But the Scripture
Dialogue: 0,0:11:14.15,0:11:16.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,imprisoned everything under sin
Dialogue: 0,0:11:16.44,0:11:20.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that the promise by faith
Dialogue: 0,0:11:20.52,0:11:23.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Jesus Christ..."
Dialogue: 0,0:11:23.24,0:11:25.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,See, that's what we need to get.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:25.08,0:11:26.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The promise.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:26.98,0:11:30.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's by faith in Jesus Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:30.37,0:11:33.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if you drop down to verse 29,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:33.08,0:11:36.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"If you're Christ's,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:36.80,0:11:38.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then you're Abraham's offspring,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:38.60,0:11:39.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,heirs according to..."
Dialogue: 0,0:11:39.99,0:11:43.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, the article's missing \Nhere, but "promise."
Dialogue: 0,0:11:43.39,0:11:45.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,See, heirs according to promise.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:45.72,0:11:48.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And now I want to go back to verse 8 again
Dialogue: 0,0:11:48.37,0:11:51.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I don't want you \Nto miss the first part.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:51.37,0:11:54.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"When God said to Abraham..."
Dialogue: 0,0:11:54.48,0:11:56.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, when you go back there
Dialogue: 0,0:11:56.18,0:11:58.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into the Old Testament, you're reading.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:58.12,0:12:00.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're reading in Genesis 12,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:00.07,0:12:01.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Genesis 15,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:01.45,0:12:02.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Genesis 17 -
Dialogue: 0,0:12:02.85,0:12:05.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it seems like it's repeated over and over.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:05.12,0:12:07.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When God promises him,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:07.29,0:12:09.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I'm going to make you a blessing
Dialogue: 0,0:12:09.17,0:12:12.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to all the nations,"
Dialogue: 0,0:12:12.18,0:12:17.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what you want to recognize is this:
Dialogue: 0,0:12:17.54,0:12:22.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"This is the Scripture foreseeing
Dialogue: 0,0:12:22.23,0:12:26.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that God would justify the Gentiles
Dialogue: 0,0:12:26.67,0:12:29.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by faith."
Dialogue: 0,0:12:29.92,0:12:33.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The promise: In you shall \Nall the nations be blessed.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:33.40,0:12:36.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But how are the nations \Ngoing to be blessed?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:36.65,0:12:42.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, how's the United States \Nof America going to be blessed?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:42.32,0:12:44.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By this.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:44.09,0:12:49.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By the Gentiles justified by faith.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:49.85,0:12:52.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what that promise means.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:52.74,0:12:56.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And listen, what he says in here
Dialogue: 0,0:12:56.09,0:13:00.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that the promise was given
Dialogue: 0,0:13:00.20,0:13:07.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to Abraham and his offspring.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:07.28,0:13:09.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But if you notice verse 16,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:09.16,0:13:12.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he says, "'not to offsprings' (plural)
Dialogue: 0,0:13:12.32,0:13:14.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,referring to many, but referring to one.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:14.23,0:13:18.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'"And to your offspring,' who is Christ."
Dialogue: 0,0:13:18.59,0:13:20.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, the truth here is
Dialogue: 0,0:13:20.57,0:13:24.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the promise was given to Abraham
Dialogue: 0,0:13:24.02,0:13:27.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:27.46,0:13:30.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Christ is the recipient of this promise.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:30.22,0:13:32.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We become partakers of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:32.12,0:13:34.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We become partakers with the Jews.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:34.74,0:13:37.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the promise is this:
Dialogue: 0,0:13:37.17,0:13:40.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That if we cling to Christ in faith,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:40.65,0:13:41.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we'll be justified.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:41.98,0:13:43.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's the promise.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:43.51,0:13:45.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, the promise is the blessing
Dialogue: 0,0:13:45.65,0:13:47.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of all the nations.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:47.18,0:13:49.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The promise is this:
Dialogue: 0,0:13:49.75,0:13:52.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That there is a way to heaven.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:52.61,0:13:54.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is a way to be justified
Dialogue: 0,0:13:54.98,0:13:58.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by faith in Jesus Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:58.13,0:13:59.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the blessing.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:59.43,0:14:03.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Justification by faith \Nis the most glorious
Dialogue: 0,0:14:03.61,0:14:05.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,promise that can be imagined.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:05.92,0:14:07.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, this is it.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:07.54,0:14:08.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is it. Why?
Dialogue: 0,0:14:08.61,0:14:10.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because what God has done
Dialogue: 0,0:14:10.81,0:14:14.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is He has found a way for us
Dialogue: 0,0:14:14.24,0:14:17.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be righteous without law-keeping.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:17.40,0:14:18.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's huge!
Dialogue: 0,0:14:18.73,0:14:21.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because you see, if you keep the law,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:21.47,0:14:24.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you've kept it, you're just.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:24.16,0:14:28.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You don't need any way to be justified.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:28.12,0:14:31.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You are just.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:31.32,0:14:33.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But if you've once broken His law -
Dialogue: 0,0:14:33.52,0:14:35.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you see what God has done is
Dialogue: 0,0:14:35.62,0:14:39.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's given a promise to those \Nwho need another way.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:39.78,0:14:43.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Incomplete thought)
Dialogue: 0,0:14:43.46,0:14:46.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,See, the problem is, once you've broken it
Dialogue: 0,0:14:46.54,0:14:48.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can't heal that breach.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:48.76,0:14:51.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's nothing you can do
Dialogue: 0,0:14:51.29,0:14:54.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,once you're a law breaker
Dialogue: 0,0:14:54.70,0:14:57.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to change that reality,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:57.19,0:15:02.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,except by the promise. That's it.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:02.39,0:15:03.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,See, there's no way.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:03.75,0:15:07.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People who say, well, \NI'm a pretty good person.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:07.48,0:15:08.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No, no, no.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:08.66,0:15:10.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can take that \N"pretty good" off the front.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:10.88,0:15:12.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because if by "pretty good," you mean
Dialogue: 0,0:15:12.66,0:15:13.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you sin sometimes,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:13.82,0:15:14.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're a law breaker.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:14.93,0:15:16.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as a law breaker,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:16.16,0:15:18.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're under a curse, \Nand that curse says
Dialogue: 0,0:15:18.18,0:15:19.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you need to keep everything written
Dialogue: 0,0:15:19.95,0:15:22.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the Book of the Law\Nor you're going to go to hell.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:22.43,0:15:24.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're cursed. You're under \Nthe wrath of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:24.58,0:15:25.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is no hope.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:25.56,0:15:27.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have to keep everything.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:27.28,0:15:30.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everything. Every iota. \NEvery jot and tittle.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:30.15,0:15:31.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You cannot vary.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:31.81,0:15:34.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can't be at variance from God's law
Dialogue: 0,0:15:34.04,0:15:34.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the least bit.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:34.96,0:15:37.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why? Because to sin is to fall short
Dialogue: 0,0:15:37.17,0:15:38.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the glory of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:38.80,0:15:40.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is a reproach.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:40.03,0:15:42.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is an attack on His glory.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:42.22,0:15:44.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what God has said,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:44.29,0:15:46.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I give promise, Abraham,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:46.28,0:15:48.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that a blessing is going to come."
Dialogue: 0,0:15:48.08,0:15:50.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, if Abraham could have
Dialogue: 0,0:15:50.22,0:15:52.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,laid his teeth into the fullness of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:52.86,0:15:54.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It wasn't totally revealed.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:54.62,0:15:56.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was in darkness at the time.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:56.37,0:15:58.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was not revealed in other generations
Dialogue: 0,0:15:58.91,0:16:00.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as it's now been revealed.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:00.71,0:16:01.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Which is what?
Dialogue: 0,0:16:01.90,0:16:06.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We Gentiles - there's a way to heaven.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:06.58,0:16:09.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a way to have our sins dealt with
Dialogue: 0,0:16:09.04,0:16:14.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that does not require \Nme to keep God's law.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:14.85,0:16:17.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that is the promise.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:17.14,0:16:19.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Justification. What is that?
Dialogue: 0,0:16:19.91,0:16:23.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Justification is an act -
Dialogue: 0,0:16:23.24,0:16:25.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a gracious act of God,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:25.58,0:16:27.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where He counts you righteous.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:27.92,0:16:30.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not because you are righteous.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:30.25,0:16:31.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not because you've done good.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:31.98,0:16:33.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not because you've kept the law.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:33.99,0:16:36.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But He counts you as such
Dialogue: 0,0:16:36.83,0:16:40.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,based on the merits of Jesus Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:40.67,0:16:42.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By His obedience,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:42.96,0:16:45.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by His perfections,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:45.12,0:16:47.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by His obedience all the way to the cross,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:47.72,0:16:49.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by His death,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:49.13,0:16:51.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by His righteousness.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:51.55,0:16:53.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He fulfilled all righteousness.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:53.71,0:16:55.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's by this,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:55.80,0:16:57.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,oh, do you hear those words?
Dialogue: 0,0:16:57.99,0:17:00.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,David spoke them and \Nthey're repeated by Paul
Dialogue: 0,0:17:00.14,0:17:02.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the 4th chapter of Romans.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:02.18,0:17:05.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Blessed. Blessed is that man
Dialogue: 0,0:17:05.99,0:17:11.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,against whom God does not count his sin.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:11.16,0:17:14.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you're good, you have no need of this.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:14.56,0:17:16.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look, if you came in here today
Dialogue: 0,0:17:16.99,0:17:18.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and aside from all of this,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:18.39,0:17:20.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you could say, "I'm a pretty good person."
Dialogue: 0,0:17:20.40,0:17:21.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then, you don't need this.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:21.73,0:17:23.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, Jesus said,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:23.16,0:17:25.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,those who are well, \Nthey don't need a doctor.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:25.45,0:17:26.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This isn't for you.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:26.53,0:17:31.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God hasn't designed \Na way to justify people
Dialogue: 0,0:17:31.86,0:17:32.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who have kept the law;
Dialogue: 0,0:17:32.92,0:17:34.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who are good people.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:34.03,0:17:35.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's not what this is for.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:35.62,0:17:38.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is for people who need another way.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:38.21,0:17:39.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is for people who,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:39.61,0:17:40.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know what?\N
Dialogue: 0,0:17:40.50,0:17:42.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the eyes of good people;
Dialogue: 0,0:17:42.11,0:17:44.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the eyes of religious people,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:44.56,0:17:46.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're hopeless.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:46.54,0:17:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's no way.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:48.00,0:17:50.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, this is for people
Dialogue: 0,0:17:50.17,0:17:51.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like the thief on the cross
Dialogue: 0,0:17:51.79,0:17:53.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who have done nothing but live a life
Dialogue: 0,0:17:53.78,0:17:55.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of wretchedness and debauchery
Dialogue: 0,0:17:55.66,0:17:58.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and sin and thievery,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:58.12,0:17:59.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they've got nothing.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:59.82,0:18:01.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they don't have time left
Dialogue: 0,0:18:01.64,0:18:04.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to even try to repair their bad record.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:04.66,0:18:07.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Which is basically what most \Nof the false religions teach:
Dialogue: 0,0:18:07.75,0:18:12.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,do enough good and you can undo the bad.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:12.04,0:18:14.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you see, no matter \Nhow much good you do
Dialogue: 0,0:18:14.45,0:18:17.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,after you've broken \Nthe law, you're unjust.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:17.97,0:18:24.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Justification is God, by His grace,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:24.52,0:18:27.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,devising a way
Dialogue: 0,0:18:27.08,0:18:33.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that bad people can be declared righteous.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:33.03,0:18:35.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:35.24,0:18:37.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the promise.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:37.39,0:18:42.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What greater promise could \Nyou be a partaker of than that one?
Dialogue: 0,0:18:42.54,0:18:43.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's it.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:43.58,0:18:44.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now listen.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:44.94,0:18:48.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My whole point in this message is this:
Dialogue: 0,0:18:48.14,0:18:50.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are people of promise.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:50.82,0:18:53.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the truth is,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:53.21,0:18:58.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is "the" promise.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:58.23,0:19:01.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It really is a synonym for the gospel.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:01.32,0:19:02.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The good news.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:02.52,0:19:03.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is the good news?
Dialogue: 0,0:19:03.80,0:19:05.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, the good news is
Dialogue: 0,0:19:05.42,0:19:08.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that there's a way to be \Nrighteous in the sight of God
Dialogue: 0,0:19:08.11,0:19:09.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,aside from my own law keeping.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:09.84,0:19:11.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Jesus has fulfilled that.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:11.94,0:19:12.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the gospel.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:12.89,0:19:15.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what the promise is all about.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:15.20,0:19:16.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I want you to just remember
Dialogue: 0,0:19:16.80,0:19:18.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we are a people of promise.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:18.40,0:19:22.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because you see, if you're a \Npartaker of that promise,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:22.36,0:19:29.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's the key that unlocks \Nall the promises of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:29.96,0:19:31.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's exactly what Paul says.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:31.51,0:19:33.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He says in 2 Corinthians 1:20,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:33.64,0:19:34.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,listen to this,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:34.90,0:19:38.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"For all the promises of God
Dialogue: 0,0:19:38.29,0:19:43.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,find their yes in Him."
Dialogue: 0,0:19:43.41,0:19:46.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I like the KJV:
Dialogue: 0,0:19:46.43,0:19:50.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"For all the promises of God \Nin Him are yea (or yes)
Dialogue: 0,0:19:50.78,0:19:54.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in Him amen to the glory of God."
Dialogue: 0,0:19:54.73,0:19:57.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you comprehend this?
Dialogue: 0,0:19:57.65,0:20:00.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Listen.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:00.48,0:20:03.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Incomplete thought)
Dialogue: 0,0:20:03.62,0:20:06.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,See, this is the key.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:06.28,0:20:08.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can take this key,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:08.83,0:20:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you can read anywhere in your Bible,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:11.00,0:20:12.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you can find a promise of good.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:12.77,0:20:17.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can go back to Joshua,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:17.17,0:20:20.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you can find the \NLord saying to Joshua,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:20.55,0:20:22.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I'll never leave you or forsake you."
Dialogue: 0,0:20:22.74,0:20:24.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stick that key in there.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:24.44,0:20:26.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The author of Hebrews shows us that
Dialogue: 0,0:20:26.28,0:20:28.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Hebrews 13 right?
Dialogue: 0,0:20:28.07,0:20:31.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hasn't the Lord said He'll never \Nleave you or forsake you?
Dialogue: 0,0:20:31.05,0:20:33.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's exactly the promise
Dialogue: 0,0:20:33.12,0:20:36.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the author of Hebrews \Nis trying to encourage
Dialogue: 0,0:20:36.42,0:20:38.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,those people with -
Dialogue: 0,0:20:38.03,0:20:40.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,those New Testament believers.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:40.36,0:20:42.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why? How can that be?
Dialogue: 0,0:20:42.23,0:20:44.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is a promise given to Joshua.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:44.08,0:20:45.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You go back there and read it.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:45.70,0:20:48.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It doesn't say that it was \Ngiven to all of God's people.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:48.39,0:20:51.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It says it was given to Joshua.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:51.61,0:20:58.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But see, there's the key.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:58.91,0:21:03.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Him, all the promises of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:03.30,0:21:04.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All of them!
Dialogue: 0,0:21:04.88,0:21:06.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Get that.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:06.50,0:21:09.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All of them!
Dialogue: 0,0:21:09.73,0:21:15.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Him. In Christ are yes.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:15.26,0:21:17.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're an affirmation. Amen.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:17.11,0:21:18.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know what amen means?
Dialogue: 0,0:21:18.58,0:21:22.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Truth. Verity. Certainty.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:22.85,0:21:24.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the key.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:24.37,0:21:28.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you once are a \Npartaker of "the promise,"
Dialogue: 0,0:21:28.26,0:21:30.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there is not a promise for good
Dialogue: 0,0:21:30.09,0:21:31.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,anywhere in this book -
Dialogue: 0,0:21:31.39,0:21:33.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what you need to do is recognize;
Dialogue: 0,0:21:33.48,0:21:38.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you need to put the right glasses on.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:38.83,0:21:42.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you look. They're the Christ glasses.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:42.28,0:21:44.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you read any promise -
Dialogue: 0,0:21:44.68,0:21:47.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,every single promise for good
Dialogue: 0,0:21:47.06,0:21:50.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in this Bible is given
Dialogue: 0,0:21:50.72,0:21:53.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with reference to Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:53.83,0:21:56.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, you don't see it
Dialogue: 0,0:21:56.24,0:22:02.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in most of the places where \Nthose promises are given.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:02.25,0:22:06.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But right there in 2 Corinthians 1:20,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:06.58,0:22:08.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Paul shows us the reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:08.97,0:22:11.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are a people of promise.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:11.11,0:22:14.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you recognize as you're scouring
Dialogue: 0,0:22:14.68,0:22:17.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the promises of the Old Testament,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:17.57,0:22:20.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you see some obscure promise
Dialogue: 0,0:22:20.03,0:22:24.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,given in Micah or something.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:24.97,0:22:29.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you have been justified by faith
Dialogue: 0,0:22:29.28,0:22:31.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you're a partaker of that promise,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:31.99,0:22:34.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's yours.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:34.21,0:22:38.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can appropriate it to yourself.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:38.36,0:22:40.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we need to know that
Dialogue: 0,0:22:40.40,0:22:42.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we need to live that way.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:42.23,0:22:43.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we need to live in light
Dialogue: 0,0:22:43.88,0:22:45.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of that reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:45.73,0:22:50.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are people of promise.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:50.19,0:22:52.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Faith is not some ambiguous thing
Dialogue: 0,0:22:52.100,0:22:56.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that just sort of swirls around out there;
Dialogue: 0,0:22:56.50,0:23:00.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this nebulous, obscure, ambiguous thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:00.44,0:23:09.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our faith has promise for its substance.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:09.64,0:23:16.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Faith is not just this ambiguous thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:16.76,0:23:20.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, I have it.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:20.87,0:23:27.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is that which grabs \Nhold of God's promises
Dialogue: 0,0:23:27.44,0:23:29.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and climbs on top of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:29.92,0:23:32.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know what it means \Nto climb on a promise?
Dialogue: 0,0:23:32.25,0:23:35.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It means you put all your weight on it.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:35.22,0:23:36.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's how God's people live.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:36.93,0:23:39.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what it means to \Nlive from faith to faith.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:39.39,0:23:40.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what it means
Dialogue: 0,0:23:40.44,0:23:42.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to fight the good fight of faith.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:42.25,0:23:47.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It means that you are living on promise.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:47.71,0:23:50.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It doesn't necessarily mean
Dialogue: 0,0:23:50.35,0:23:53.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you think about every promise
Dialogue: 0,0:23:53.65,0:23:56.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at any given moment.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:56.11,0:24:00.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You follow what I mean?
Dialogue: 0,0:24:00.19,0:24:01.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We come under temptations.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:01.69,0:24:04.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We come under attacks.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:04.08,0:24:07.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We walk through this life -
Dialogue: 0,0:24:07.66,0:24:10.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be a child of promise
Dialogue: 0,0:24:10.19,0:24:12.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,doesn't mean that you're living on
Dialogue: 0,0:24:12.05,0:24:14.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,every promise of God \Nat every single moment.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:14.82,0:24:18.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can't even think about \Nevery single promise of God
Dialogue: 0,0:24:18.54,0:24:20.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at every single moment.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:20.93,0:24:23.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what it means is
Dialogue: 0,0:24:23.89,0:24:27.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that in whatever situation you're in,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:27.49,0:24:30.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're living on what God has said.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:30.52,0:24:33.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Man does not live by bread alone."
Dialogue: 0,0:24:33.34,0:24:38.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's living on what God has said.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:38.10,0:24:40.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Abraham. Think about Abraham.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:40.48,0:24:42.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Abraham is the father of faith.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:42.28,0:24:43.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Abraham is the one to whom
Dialogue: 0,0:24:43.57,0:24:46.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the promise was given.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:46.08,0:24:47.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Think about him.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:47.28,0:24:49.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Abraham said,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:49.97,0:24:52.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Behold, You have given me no offspring."
Dialogue: 0,0:24:52.82,0:24:55.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, this is the issue.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:55.10,0:24:56.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Genesis 15.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:56.84,0:24:59.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you know what happened \Nback in Genesis 12?
Dialogue: 0,0:24:59.23,0:25:03.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God told Abraham that he was going to be
Dialogue: 0,0:25:03.92,0:25:07.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this father of many nations.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:07.98,0:25:09.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By the time you get to chapter 15,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:09.67,0:25:11.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he's looking and he's saying
Dialogue: 0,0:25:11.07,0:25:19.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Eliezer - a foreigner - he's my heir.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:19.68,0:25:21.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm old.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:21.59,0:25:25.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sarah's barren.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:25.28,0:25:27.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see where the temptation was?
Dialogue: 0,0:25:27.74,0:25:32.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what God says to him is this:
Dialogue: 0,0:25:32.66,0:25:34.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The Word of the Lord came to him,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:34.48,0:25:39.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'this man (Eliezer)
Dialogue: 0,0:25:39.81,0:25:42.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,shall not be your heir.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:42.52,0:25:45.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your very own son shall be your heir.'
Dialogue: 0,0:25:45.03,0:25:46.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And He brought him outside and said,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:46.81,0:25:48.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'Look toward heaven
Dialogue: 0,0:25:48.70,0:25:50.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and number the stars,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:50.56,0:25:52.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you're able to number them.'
Dialogue: 0,0:25:52.86,0:25:54.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then He said to him,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:54.42,0:25:56.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'So shall your offspring be.'
Dialogue: 0,0:25:56.54,0:25:58.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he believed the Lord,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:58.15,0:26:00.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and He counted it to \Nhim as righteousness."
Dialogue: 0,0:26:00.68,0:26:03.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What I want you to see is right there.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:03.55,0:26:05.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He believed the Lord.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:05.98,0:26:07.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What did he believe?
Dialogue: 0,0:26:07.58,0:26:10.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What the Lord just said.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:10.24,0:26:12.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It doesn't say that he believed
Dialogue: 0,0:26:12.06,0:26:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,every promise that God had given.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:14.00,0:26:16.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look, I'm not saying that he would have
Dialogue: 0,0:26:16.06,0:26:18.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,denied some of the promises.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:18.42,0:26:20.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You follow what I'm saying?
Dialogue: 0,0:26:20.07,0:26:24.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was clinging to the one promise
Dialogue: 0,0:26:24.76,0:26:28.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that flew in the face of him being
Dialogue: 0,0:26:28.48,0:26:30.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a father of all nations
Dialogue: 0,0:26:30.25,0:26:31.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when his wife was barren,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:31.59,0:26:32.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he's old,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:32.97,0:26:38.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Eliezer is head of his household and heir,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:38.68,0:26:41.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it looks like this can't happen.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:41.69,0:26:46.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He seized hold on this promise.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:46.40,0:26:49.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It doesn't say he was going \Nthrough the file cabinet
Dialogue: 0,0:26:49.13,0:26:51.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and looking at every single \None of God's promises.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:51.59,0:26:53.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was that promise,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:53.09,0:26:54.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because that promise dealt
Dialogue: 0,0:26:54.90,0:26:59.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the very thing that \Nwould challenge his faith;
Dialogue: 0,0:26:59.35,0:27:03.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,challenged what he believed.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:03.15,0:27:08.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what I'm striving at \Nis this very thing,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:08.32,0:27:14.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that look, as we go through our lives,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:14.13,0:27:19.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the issue is we have all these promises.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:19.04,0:27:21.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you know what? It's not enough to say,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:21.55,0:27:24.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Well, I believe them."
Dialogue: 0,0:27:24.56,0:27:28.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's not it.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:28.46,0:27:38.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Beloved, I am very convinced
Dialogue: 0,0:27:38.03,0:27:41.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the reason that God has designed
Dialogue: 0,0:27:41.44,0:27:43.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the devil the way he is -
Dialogue: 0,0:27:43.28,0:27:45.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm not saying God's the author of sin -
Dialogue: 0,0:27:45.63,0:27:46.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but there's no question,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:46.98,0:27:48.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the devil and who he is
Dialogue: 0,0:27:48.47,0:27:52.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is right on script.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:52.40,0:27:57.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is God's design.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:57.46,0:27:59.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The devil is fashioned
Dialogue: 0,0:27:59.61,0:28:03.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to put fire to your faith.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:03.75,0:28:07.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when he comes calling,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:07.43,0:28:10.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,do you know what's essential?
Dialogue: 0,0:28:10.92,0:28:12.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not that right at that moment,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:12.44,0:28:14.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're able to recall every single promise
Dialogue: 0,0:28:14.68,0:28:17.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that God has ever given in His Word.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:17.47,0:28:19.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you know what you need right then?
Dialogue: 0,0:28:19.97,0:28:23.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You need that one promise
Dialogue: 0,0:28:23.68,0:28:25.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that will cause you to stand
Dialogue: 0,0:28:25.36,0:28:29.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the day of evil.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:29.62,0:28:33.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just this week,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:33.62,0:28:37.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I received a phone call from a man.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:37.95,0:28:43.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A professing Christian for a long time.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:43.10,0:28:50.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even in the ministry.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:50.97,0:28:56.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Living in all manner of immorality.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:56.18,0:28:59.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you know what happened?
Dialogue: 0,0:28:59.62,0:29:03.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A friend of his turned on
Dialogue: 0,0:29:03.87,0:29:06.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Paul Washer's message -
Dialogue: 0,0:29:06.42,0:29:08.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think it was the same one \Nthat was preached here:
Dialogue: 0,0:29:08.92,0:29:10.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Examine Yourself.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:10.24,0:29:14.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe the very same message.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:14.08,0:29:20.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This man was laid bare.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:20.48,0:29:22.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he recognized,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:22.84,0:29:25.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't measure up.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:25.06,0:29:27.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you know what he fears now?
Dialogue: 0,0:29:27.86,0:29:29.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is being in the ministry,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:29.28,0:29:30.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,having so much light,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:30.47,0:29:32.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,having this false profession for so long,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:32.65,0:29:36.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,living in this immorality -
Dialogue: 0,0:29:36.06,0:29:38.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know what he's afraid of now?
Dialogue: 0,0:29:38.41,0:29:41.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That he's Esau.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:41.25,0:29:43.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's afraid he's committed \Nthe unpardonable sin.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:43.54,0:29:45.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's afraid he's gone too far
Dialogue: 0,0:29:45.04,0:29:47.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there's no way back.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:47.41,0:29:48.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, I'll tell you this.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:48.75,0:29:50.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'll tell you what I told him.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:50.56,0:29:56.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can't tell you that there is a way back.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:56.62,0:29:58.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The truth is there is a line in Scripture
Dialogue: 0,0:29:58.84,0:30:00.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that when men cross it,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:00.02,0:30:02.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's no way back.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:02.26,0:30:06.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is a Hebrews 6 reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:06.52,0:30:07.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is a place men come to
Dialogue: 0,0:30:07.97,0:30:11.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that there is no more repentance.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:11.51,0:30:15.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He told me that his friends and counselors
Dialogue: 0,0:30:15.64,0:30:18.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had sent him to the Word of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:18.50,0:30:21.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's good.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:21.06,0:30:26.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To look at passages that \Ndealt with the cross.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:26.18,0:30:30.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I told him that's good.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:30.27,0:30:33.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you see, what he could tell me:
Dialogue: 0,0:30:33.23,0:30:35.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Well, I believe He went to the cross.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:35.100,0:30:37.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I believe He died.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:37.09,0:30:39.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I believe everything I'm reading.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:39.82,0:30:42.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just don't know if it's for me."
Dialogue: 0,0:30:42.62,0:30:43.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I told him exactly,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:43.89,0:30:47.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is exactly the issue.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:47.58,0:30:50.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said what you need to do
Dialogue: 0,0:30:50.20,0:30:55.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is you need to find that one verse
Dialogue: 0,0:30:55.44,0:31:00.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that he can sink his faith into;
Dialogue: 0,0:31:00.85,0:31:03.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that he can say, "that's for me."
Dialogue: 0,0:31:03.10,0:31:05.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, that's where faith is.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:05.15,0:31:07.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Saving faith isn't saying,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:07.05,0:31:10.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I believe Jesus was a \Ntrue, historical figure."
Dialogue: 0,0:31:10.03,0:31:14.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not saying, "I believe \NJesus went to the cross."
Dialogue: 0,0:31:14.26,0:31:15.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's got to be personalized.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:15.67,0:31:17.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's got to be \Nsomething you can hang on
Dialogue: 0,0:31:17.87,0:31:19.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you know is for you.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:19.15,0:31:21.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because you know what the \Ndevil's going to do to him?
Dialogue: 0,0:31:21.72,0:31:23.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The devil's already doing it to him.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:23.54,0:31:25.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's going to whisper into his ear:
Dialogue: 0,0:31:25.70,0:31:27.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Oh, after what you've done,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:27.55,0:31:28.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's no hope for you.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:28.75,0:31:29.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You are Esau."
Dialogue: 0,0:31:29.81,0:31:31.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He just keeps hearing that in his ear
Dialogue: 0,0:31:31.64,0:31:33.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,over and over and over.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:33.02,0:31:34.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know how you answer that?
Dialogue: 0,0:31:34.50,0:31:39.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You answer that with a kind of promise
Dialogue: 0,0:31:39.61,0:31:41.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that resists the devil.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:41.79,0:31:46.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That the devil simply cannot answer.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:46.53,0:31:48.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What do you tell him?
Dialogue: 0,0:31:48.99,0:31:53.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I told him you may have crossed that line,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:53.03,0:31:54.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I know this.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:54.47,0:31:56.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That if he can find any \Npromise in this book
Dialogue: 0,0:31:56.96,0:32:01.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that he can lay his faith onto,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:01.67,0:32:03.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he will not be disappointed.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:03.56,0:32:04.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He will not be confounded.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:04.94,0:32:06.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He will not be cast away.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:06.42,0:32:09.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because that's what saving faith is.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:09.57,0:32:12.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you know as I was thinking after \NI got off the phone with him,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:12.87,0:32:14.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I started thinking about
Dialogue: 0,0:32:14.32,0:32:17.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what sort of verses are they
Dialogue: 0,0:32:17.58,0:32:20.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that a man in that condition might find?
Dialogue: 0,0:32:20.52,0:32:22.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, if he was going through Scripture,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:22.52,0:32:24.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what might be one verse?
Dialogue: 0,0:32:24.72,0:32:28.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'll tell you one that jumped out at me.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:28.90,0:32:31.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And sometimes they can be obscure verses,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:31.62,0:32:33.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and sometimes you may think
Dialogue: 0,0:32:33.99,0:32:35.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they're not even dealing
Dialogue: 0,0:32:35.55,0:32:38.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the very thing that you take it
Dialogue: 0,0:32:38.67,0:32:40.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in faith to mean.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:40.80,0:32:44.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But if you take it in faith to mean it;
Dialogue: 0,0:32:44.98,0:32:46.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you take it in faith
Dialogue: 0,0:32:46.60,0:32:52.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you're trusting the \NGod behind these things -
Dialogue: 0,0:32:52.56,0:32:54.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean we could just look at that.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:54.39,0:32:57.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The broadness of some of God's promises.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:57.94,0:32:59.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, you know what?
Dialogue: 0,0:32:59.95,0:33:04.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You think about how in Isaiah 53,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:04.91,0:33:09.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how by His stripes, we're healed.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:09.35,0:33:11.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Does it blow anybody away
Dialogue: 0,0:33:11.03,0:33:14.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that Matthew basically in Matthew 9 says
Dialogue: 0,0:33:14.37,0:33:17.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's healing the people, \Nthus fulfilling that?
Dialogue: 0,0:33:17.15,0:33:19.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're like, wait a second.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:19.25,0:33:22.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I thought that was spiritual \Nhealing back there,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:22.85,0:33:25.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Jesus is physically healing.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:25.02,0:33:27.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We might just talk about the broadness
Dialogue: 0,0:33:27.05,0:33:31.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of some of God's promises.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:31.78,0:33:34.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I got to thinking about this,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:34.77,0:33:37.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jesus Himself says,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:37.98,0:33:42.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if somebody strikes you on one cheek,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:42.48,0:33:46.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,turn to him the other also.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:46.79,0:33:53.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If a man could just find hope there.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:53.73,0:34:00.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've struck Him in the \Ncheek by my actions,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:00.33,0:34:03.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but He is such a God who sends His Son
Dialogue: 0,0:34:03.66,0:34:06.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who is the radiance of the glory of God,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:06.33,0:34:08.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and He is the kind that teaches us
Dialogue: 0,0:34:08.76,0:34:11.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that if we're struck, turn the other also.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:11.93,0:34:13.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, if He's teaching that to us,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:13.98,0:34:22.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is He not also a God who takes many blows,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:22.28,0:34:26.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,many dishonorings, \Nand yet is still willing
Dialogue: 0,0:34:26.13,0:34:30.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to turn the other cheek?
Dialogue: 0,0:34:30.54,0:34:32.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or, how about this?
Dialogue: 0,0:34:32.88,0:34:37.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Joel 2, God says,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:37.89,0:34:39.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Yet even now..."
Dialogue: 0,0:34:39.72,0:34:42.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those three words could be something
Dialogue: 0,0:34:42.22,0:34:43.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that somebody's faith could cling to.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:43.98,0:34:45.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Yet even now..."
Dialogue: 0,0:34:45.66,0:34:47.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wait. What's that?
Dialogue: 0,0:34:47.87,0:34:50.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Yet even now, declares the Lord,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:50.13,0:34:53.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,return to Me with all your heart."
Dialogue: 0,0:34:53.13,0:34:54.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know when you say that -
Dialogue: 0,0:34:54.84,0:34:55.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"yet even now,"
Dialogue: 0,0:34:55.93,0:34:58.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's after people have done a lot of bad.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:58.56,0:35:01.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Yet even now..." after all you've done,
Dialogue: 0,0:35:01.50,0:35:05.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"if anyone will turn to \NMe with all their heart,
Dialogue: 0,0:35:05.15,0:35:07.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with fasting, with weeping, with mourning,
Dialogue: 0,0:35:07.54,0:35:09.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rend your hearts and not your garments.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:09.68,0:35:11.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Return to the Lord your God,
Dialogue: 0,0:35:11.12,0:35:12.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for He is gracious and merciful..."
Dialogue: 0,0:35:12.99,0:35:14.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How about these three words?
Dialogue: 0,0:35:14.96,0:35:17.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"...Slow to anger."
Dialogue: 0,0:35:17.17,0:35:19.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If a man's faith can get into that
Dialogue: 0,0:35:19.51,0:35:21.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God is slow to anger.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:21.67,0:35:23.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can put my weight on that promise,
Dialogue: 0,0:35:23.78,0:35:26.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I've provoked Him for a long time,
Dialogue: 0,0:35:26.38,0:35:29.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but He's slow to anger.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:29.17,0:35:31.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, certainly the God of Scripture
Dialogue: 0,0:35:31.65,0:35:34.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in all of His infinite mercies;
Dialogue: 0,0:35:34.18,0:35:38.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,certainly I could not \Nwear out His kindness
Dialogue: 0,0:35:38.36,0:35:40.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just in these years I've done this.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:40.63,0:35:43.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Certainly God is greater than that.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:43.22,0:35:46.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those words, "yet even now."
Dialogue: 0,0:35:46.75,0:35:47.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or how about this?
Dialogue: 0,0:35:47.90,0:35:51.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"God's kindness is meant \Nto lead to repentance."
Dialogue: 0,0:35:51.56,0:35:54.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because one of the things I told him;
Dialogue: 0,0:35:54.65,0:35:56.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I told him one of the things
Dialogue: 0,0:35:56.76,0:36:00.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that tells me God is not done with you
Dialogue: 0,0:36:00.96,0:36:05.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is He led you to that Paul Washer sermon.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:05.26,0:36:08.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And He convicted you.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:08.32,0:36:14.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you came clean.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:14.20,0:36:15.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He confessed.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:15.89,0:36:17.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He confessed to his wife.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:17.09,0:36:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He confessed to his church.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:20.00,0:36:22.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is a kindness.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:22.56,0:36:24.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what would you say?
Dialogue: 0,0:36:24.44,0:36:26.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God's kindnesses are not meant
Dialogue: 0,0:36:26.40,0:36:29.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to lead him to repentance?
Dialogue: 0,0:36:29.74,0:36:32.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, that isn't the indication
Dialogue: 0,0:36:32.42,0:36:33.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in my estimation of somebody
Dialogue: 0,0:36:33.100,0:36:36.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that God is done with.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:36.66,0:36:39.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or how about this?
Dialogue: 0,0:36:39.41,0:36:40.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To Sardis.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:40.84,0:36:43.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, when I preached about \Nthose seven churches
Dialogue: 0,0:36:43.56,0:36:44.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Asia Minor,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:44.67,0:36:47.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sardis jumped out at me.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:47.64,0:36:51.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"You have a name
Dialogue: 0,0:36:51.04,0:36:53.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you are alive,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:53.38,0:36:56.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but you are dead."
Dialogue: 0,0:36:56.68,0:36:59.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a church.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:59.55,0:37:03.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You talk about people exposed to light?
Dialogue: 0,0:37:03.07,0:37:04.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you're dead.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:04.73,0:37:06.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What did He say? No hope?
Dialogue: 0,0:37:06.27,0:37:07.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You've crossed the line?
Dialogue: 0,0:37:07.92,0:37:09.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He doesn't.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:09.25,0:37:12.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He says, "Wake up."
Dialogue: 0,0:37:12.91,0:37:15.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,See, if our faith can just \Ngrab words like that:
Dialogue: 0,0:37:15.30,0:37:19.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Wake up."
Dialogue: 0,0:37:19.28,0:37:21.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of course, there's these words:\N
Dialogue: 0,0:37:21.26,0:37:23.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,John 6:37
Dialogue: 0,0:37:23.25,0:37:26.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our Lord says, "Whoever comes to Me,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:26.55,0:37:29.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I will never cast out."
Dialogue: 0,0:37:29.03,0:37:30.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whoever.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:30.27,0:37:32.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It doesn't matter what \Nyou say you've done.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:32.43,0:37:35.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you go to Christ, \NHe won't cast you out.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:35.58,0:37:37.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Period.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:37.82,0:37:39.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's amazing when I come across people
Dialogue: 0,0:37:39.98,0:37:42.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who are struggling with \Nthe unpardonable sin
Dialogue: 0,0:37:42.13,0:37:44.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I bring up this text,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:44.04,0:37:48.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,immediately, "yeah, but..."
Dialogue: 0,0:37:48.31,0:37:50.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look, if you want to find every reason
Dialogue: 0,0:37:50.66,0:37:53.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not to believe a text,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:53.02,0:37:55.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's classic unbeliever.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:55.45,0:37:57.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you will perish.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:57.32,0:38:00.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,See, the only hope is that our faith
Dialogue: 0,0:38:00.93,0:38:05.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can find a place to stay.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:05.17,0:38:07.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bunyan.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:07.26,0:38:09.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact, as I was talking to this guy,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:09.53,0:38:11.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bunyan and his "Grace Abounding"
Dialogue: 0,0:38:11.67,0:38:12.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,came to my mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:12.77,0:38:14.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If anybody's ever read that -
Dialogue: 0,0:38:14.18,0:38:16.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners,"
Dialogue: 0,0:38:16.25,0:38:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,basically what it is is a testimony
Dialogue: 0,0:38:18.00,0:38:20.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of Bunyan the first few years
Dialogue: 0,0:38:20.46,0:38:22.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of his Christian life,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:22.85,0:38:24.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at least, maybe a testimony
Dialogue: 0,0:38:24.51,0:38:26.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of how God saved him.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:26.68,0:38:30.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bunyan suffered hellish struggles.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:30.96,0:38:32.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know what he did?
Dialogue: 0,0:38:32.57,0:38:40.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He would be under some kind of oppression.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:40.33,0:38:44.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It sometimes would go on for years.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:44.03,0:38:46.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he would constantly be in this book
Dialogue: 0,0:38:46.01,0:38:47.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,searching for a promise
Dialogue: 0,0:38:47.67,0:38:50.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to answer that thing
Dialogue: 0,0:38:50.33,0:38:53.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that laid hold on him.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:53.66,0:38:56.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Which was undoubtedly insinuations
Dialogue: 0,0:38:56.57,0:38:59.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and accusations of the devil.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:59.28,0:39:03.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Listen, at one point, it was like
Dialogue: 0,0:39:03.31,0:39:07.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the devil came to him and said,
Dialogue: 0,0:39:07.64,0:39:10.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"only the elect can be saved."
Dialogue: 0,0:39:10.80,0:39:14.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some of you have probably been there.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:14.48,0:39:17.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"How do you know you're one of the elect?"
Dialogue: 0,0:39:17.14,0:39:24.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"You're almost certainly \Nnot one of the elect."
Dialogue: 0,0:39:24.61,0:39:27.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you know what it was that his faith
Dialogue: 0,0:39:27.79,0:39:31.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,laid hold on?
Dialogue: 0,0:39:31.24,0:39:36.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He got to thinking about the lives
Dialogue: 0,0:39:36.99,0:39:41.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the people of God in Scripture.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:41.76,0:39:44.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he came back to this:
Dialogue: 0,0:39:44.73,0:39:47.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Was there ever anybody in Scripture
Dialogue: 0,0:39:47.83,0:39:50.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who trusted in God and yet in the end
Dialogue: 0,0:39:50.30,0:39:53.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were confounded?
Dialogue: 0,0:39:53.88,0:39:56.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he found not one.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:56.50,0:40:00.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, that's not a specific verse,
Dialogue: 0,0:40:00.18,0:40:03.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but you know what he did?
Dialogue: 0,0:40:03.52,0:40:06.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's wondering about being elect
Dialogue: 0,0:40:06.74,0:40:10.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and how's he going to answer Satan?
Dialogue: 0,0:40:10.28,0:40:13.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He went back to Genesis 1:1
Dialogue: 0,0:40:13.54,0:40:15.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he began reading \Nthrough the whole Bible,
Dialogue: 0,0:40:15.87,0:40:18.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and everytime somebody came up,
Dialogue: 0,0:40:18.29,0:40:20.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he looked: was there ever anybody
Dialogue: 0,0:40:20.75,0:40:22.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who put their trust in the Lord
Dialogue: 0,0:40:22.76,0:40:24.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who was thrown off at the end?
Dialogue: 0,0:40:24.41,0:40:27.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see his conclusion?
Dialogue: 0,0:40:27.24,0:40:29.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Election isn't really the issue.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:29.16,0:40:31.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes, there are elect people, \Nbut how do you know them?
Dialogue: 0,0:40:31.91,0:40:34.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anybody that clings to the Lord
Dialogue: 0,0:40:34.43,0:40:37.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is never confounded.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:37.15,0:40:39.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know what he was \Ngripped by at another time?
Dialogue: 0,0:40:39.54,0:40:41.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's walking along and \Nit's like these thoughts -
Dialogue: 0,0:40:41.97,0:40:43.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sometimes you see in Pilgrim's Progress -
Dialogue: 0,0:40:43.98,0:40:45.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you remember Pilgrim?
Dialogue: 0,0:40:45.04,0:40:47.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's walking through the \Nvalley of the shadow of death,
Dialogue: 0,0:40:47.72,0:40:49.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and these little hellish \Nimps are coming up
Dialogue: 0,0:40:49.78,0:40:51.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and whispering in his ear.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:51.15,0:40:53.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look, this is a reflection \Nof his own life.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:53.83,0:40:55.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe some of you know -
Dialogue: 0,0:40:55.53,0:40:57.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we know this as Christians.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:57.75,0:41:00.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The devil comes up and suggests things.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:00.25,0:41:02.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whispers things. Whispers doubts.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:02.99,0:41:06.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Suddenly, we're gripped by it.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:06.10,0:41:07.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The devil came to him one day
Dialogue: 0,0:41:07.49,0:41:09.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and said, "What if the day of grace
Dialogue: 0,0:41:09.87,0:41:11.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,should be past and gone?"
Dialogue: 0,0:41:11.66,0:41:13.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What if there's no hope?
Dialogue: 0,0:41:13.18,0:41:14.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your opportunity came and went.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:14.95,0:41:19.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The day of grace.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:19.55,0:41:23.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bunyan found his faith cleave to this:
Dialogue: 0,0:41:23.96,0:41:27.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Luke 14:22 - you may know \Nthat portion of Scripture.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:27.09,0:41:28.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You don't have to turn there.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:28.56,0:41:30.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it's where the great feast is.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:30.46,0:41:32.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you remember, those who were invited
Dialogue: 0,0:41:32.55,0:41:33.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were told to come in
Dialogue: 0,0:41:33.52,0:41:35.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they all began to make excuse.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:35.28,0:41:36.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You remember that.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:36.60,0:41:40.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This text: "The servant said,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:40.13,0:41:43.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'Sir, what you have \Ncommanded has been done
Dialogue: 0,0:41:43.85,0:41:46.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and still there is room.'"
Dialogue: 0,0:41:46.21,0:41:48.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those words right there:
Dialogue: 0,0:41:48.07,0:41:50.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"still there is room."
Dialogue: 0,0:41:50.36,0:41:53.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His faith was able to hold on.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:53.20,0:41:56.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The devil's saying the day \Nmay be past for you,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:56.84,0:42:00.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and those words came \Nwith power to his own soul.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:00.07,0:42:02.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"But still there is room."
Dialogue: 0,0:42:02.71,0:42:04.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God is wanting to fill His house.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:04.37,0:42:09.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The day can't be past when \Nthere's still empty seats.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:09.46,0:42:13.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Incomplete thought)
Dialogue: 0,0:42:13.52,0:42:16.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Before I tell you more about Bunyan,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:16.25,0:42:17.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as far as his experiences.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:17.81,0:42:20.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let me tell you about Bunyan
Dialogue: 0,0:42:20.77,0:42:22.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in another one of the illustrations
Dialogue: 0,0:42:22.58,0:42:24.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that he wrote.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:24.57,0:42:27.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think this is classic.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:27.17,0:42:30.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is a man in the \NInterpreter's house -
Dialogue: 0,0:42:30.38,0:42:32.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I told you about the muck raker before
Dialogue: 0,0:42:32.35,0:42:34.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when his wife was there,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:34.17,0:42:37.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but here's this man in an iron cage.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:37.68,0:42:40.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know what the man in the iron cage is?
Dialogue: 0,0:42:40.04,0:42:46.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Somebody who has truly sinned beyond hope.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:46.75,0:42:48.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we could get all into that account,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:48.78,0:42:49.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but you know what?
Dialogue: 0,0:42:49.71,0:42:52.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That man in that iron cage said two things
Dialogue: 0,0:42:52.19,0:42:56.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I think are very insightful.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:56.36,0:42:58.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said this:
Dialogue: 0,0:42:58.52,0:43:01.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I've crucified Christ to myself afresh.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:01.60,0:43:03.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've despised His person.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:03.61,0:43:05.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've despised His righteousness.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:05.61,0:43:08.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've counted His blood an unholy thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:08.17,0:43:11.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have done despite \Nto the Spirit of grace.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:11.81,0:43:15.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Therefore, I have shut myself out
Dialogue: 0,0:43:15.92,0:43:19.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of all the promises."
Dialogue: 0,0:43:19.44,0:43:22.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've shut myself out.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:22.62,0:43:25.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now how did he know that?
Dialogue: 0,0:43:25.51,0:43:29.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because he comes along and says this:
Dialogue: 0,0:43:29.42,0:43:33.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"God's Word gives me no hope
Dialogue: 0,0:43:33.19,0:43:36.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of encouragement to believe."
Dialogue: 0,0:43:36.15,0:43:39.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, that's key. That's key.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:39.50,0:43:44.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am certain that is when \NGod is done with somebody.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:44.56,0:43:47.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When they go through the Scripture,
Dialogue: 0,0:43:47.10,0:43:52.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they can't find a promise
Dialogue: 0,0:43:52.28,0:43:57.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for their faith to land on.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:57.05,0:43:58.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You come to them as a believer,
Dialogue: 0,0:43:58.91,0:44:01.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you tell them, look,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:01.63,0:44:05.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jesus says whoever comes to Me,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:05.72,0:44:10.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I will never cast out.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:10.37,0:44:13.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your faith seizes it.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:13.63,0:44:15.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're trusting that.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:15.62,0:44:19.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you bring it to them.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:19.06,0:44:21.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it just goes right past them.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:21.09,0:44:22.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why?
Dialogue: 0,0:44:22.72,0:44:26.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oftentimes, whether they've actually
Dialogue: 0,0:44:26.36,0:44:29.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,committed the unpardonable sin or not,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:29.44,0:44:31.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,look, if their faith can't find anything
Dialogue: 0,0:44:31.55,0:44:34.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Scripture to latch onto,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:34.72,0:44:37.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's no hope.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:37.90,0:44:40.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You need to remember,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:40.40,0:44:44.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's not that our faith \Nlatches onto a promise,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:44.67,0:44:48.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so much as it latches onto the One
Dialogue: 0,0:44:48.01,0:44:51.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who gave the promise.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:51.29,0:44:52.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if we're not able to do that,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:52.100,0:44:56.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's what an unbeliever is.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:56.15,0:44:58.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, when you cross the line;
Dialogue: 0,0:44:58.48,0:45:02.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when you sin so as to provoke,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:02.66,0:45:07.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,enrage the Spirit,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:07.65,0:45:11.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the evidence is when that Spirit no longer
Dialogue: 0,0:45:11.18,0:45:14.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gives you any hope in anything
Dialogue: 0,0:45:14.31,0:45:18.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that God has said.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:18.07,0:45:19.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We come back to Bunyan.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:19.38,0:45:22.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know what, he's reading \Nthrough Scripture one time,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:22.18,0:45:26.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he saw that Jesus specifically called
Dialogue: 0,0:45:26.10,0:45:28.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,certain people to follow Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:28.61,0:45:31.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it's like the devil rushed right in
Dialogue: 0,0:45:31.73,0:45:34.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and said, "Oh, but He\Ndidn't call everybody."
Dialogue: 0,0:45:34.48,0:45:36.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said he was especially struck
Dialogue: 0,0:45:36.05,0:45:39.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by how Jesus is said to have chosen
Dialogue: 0,0:45:39.08,0:45:43.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,certain individuals that \NHe called apostles.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:43.83,0:45:45.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what he was struck with
Dialogue: 0,0:45:45.25,0:45:48.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was fearing that he was not called.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:48.29,0:45:51.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, how he longed to be John and James
Dialogue: 0,0:45:51.53,0:45:54.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Peter - even the rich, young ruler,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:54.36,0:45:57.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to actually hear the words \Nfrom Jesus' mouth Himself:
Dialogue: 0,0:45:57.66,0:46:01.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Follow Me."
Dialogue: 0,0:46:01.36,0:46:03.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now listen, you have to understand,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:03.37,0:46:05.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he was often months and years
Dialogue: 0,0:46:05.79,0:46:07.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,plagued by these thoughts.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:07.84,0:46:09.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It gave him no rest.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:09.10,0:46:10.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He'd lay there in bed at night
Dialogue: 0,0:46:10.54,0:46:12.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he'd be thinking \Nthrough all these things,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:12.88,0:46:15.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,scouring Scripture looking for something.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:15.12,0:46:17.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you know what he found?
Dialogue: 0,0:46:17.72,0:46:20.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He found a text in Isaiah 45:5.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:20.77,0:46:27.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I will gird you though \Nyou have not known Me."
Dialogue: 0,0:46:27.90,0:46:30.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it brought hope and light to his soul.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:30.95,0:46:34.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You say I don't see it. It doesn't matter.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:34.11,0:46:36.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He did.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:36.34,0:46:37.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And his faith laid hold on it.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:37.85,0:46:38.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you know what?
Dialogue: 0,0:46:38.85,0:46:42.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A text he never saw, you might see.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:42.98,0:46:44.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know another one?
Dialogue: 0,0:46:44.57,0:46:46.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was listening to a sermon
Dialogue: 0,0:46:46.10,0:46:48.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the Song of Solomon 4:1.\N
Dialogue: 0,0:46:48.12,0:46:49.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Behold, you are fair..."
Dialogue: 0,0:46:49.95,0:46:53.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is Christ speaking to His people.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:53.32,0:46:56.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Behold, you are fair, My love."
Dialogue: 0,0:46:56.37,0:46:58.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Behold, you are fair...
Dialogue: 0,0:46:58.66,0:47:05.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those two words: "My love."
Dialogue: 0,0:47:05.44,0:47:08.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It chased the clouds away.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:08.62,0:47:11.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Two words!
Dialogue: 0,0:47:11.51,0:47:14.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, there's promise \Nin those two words.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:14.49,0:47:15.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My love.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:15.88,0:47:18.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if they come home to your soul,
Dialogue: 0,0:47:18.93,0:47:20.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to where your faith can lay hold on them,
Dialogue: 0,0:47:20.97,0:47:23.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can resist the devil
Dialogue: 0,0:47:23.44,0:47:26.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the fiercest battle,
Dialogue: 0,0:47:26.56,0:47:28.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by just two words,
Dialogue: 0,0:47:28.84,0:47:34.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if your faith is able to cling to them.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:34.23,0:47:36.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, the devil came to him one day
Dialogue: 0,0:47:36.64,0:47:41.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and said, "Oh, you may have found Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:41.31,0:47:42.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you know what?
Dialogue: 0,0:47:42.68,0:47:45.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you live any length of time,
Dialogue: 0,0:47:45.10,0:47:47.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ah, you see how many people fall away.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:47.28,0:47:49.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're going to fall away.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:49.39,0:47:53.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You won't hold fast."
Dialogue: 0,0:47:53.08,0:47:55.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now this is a text that \Nwe might anticipate:
Dialogue: 0,0:47:55.52,0:47:56.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He found Romans 8:38-39:
Dialogue: 0,0:47:56.94,0:47:58.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I am sure that \Nneither death, nor life
Dialogue: 0,0:47:58.95,0:48:01.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nor angels, nor rulers, \Nnor things present,
Dialogue: 0,0:48:01.24,0:48:02.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nor things to \Ncome, nor power,
Dialogue: 0,0:48:02.76,0:48:05.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nor height, depth, anything else\Nin all creation will be able to
Dialogue: 0,0:48:05.82,0:48:08.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,separate us from the love of God\Nin Christ Jesus our Lord."
Dialogue: 0,0:48:08.64,0:48:15.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he said if that's true,\Nlong life can't separate me.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:15.25,0:48:18.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And another time, it was \Nhis extreme sinfulness.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:18.58,0:48:20.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He just felt like I'm too wicked
Dialogue: 0,0:48:20.88,0:48:23.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be a Christian.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:23.29,0:48:25.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This time it was Colossians 1:20 -
Dialogue: 0,0:48:25.25,0:48:27.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"making peace by the blood of His cross."
Dialogue: 0,0:48:27.63,0:48:32.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It came to him with sweetness and power.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:32.51,0:48:36.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And another time, he's being tempted
Dialogue: 0,0:48:36.34,0:48:40.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to exchange Christ for the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:40.21,0:48:41.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's like these thoughts just keep
Dialogue: 0,0:48:41.87,0:48:44.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bombarding him, bombarding him:
Dialogue: 0,0:48:44.06,0:48:45.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Just give up Christ."
Dialogue: 0,0:48:45.54,0:48:47.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Sell Christ and you can have this,
Dialogue: 0,0:48:47.27,0:48:48.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can have this."
Dialogue: 0,0:48:48.51,0:48:50.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was just being tormented.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:50.95,0:48:55.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And of all things, a text in Leviticus.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:55.17,0:48:57.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Leviticus 25:23 -
Dialogue: 0,0:48:57.46,0:49:03.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now look, you will never \Ngo to Leviticus 25:23,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:03.34,0:49:07.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unless you first recognize \N2 Corinthians 1:20.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:07.05,0:49:09.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that if you're justified by faith,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:09.44,0:49:15.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's the key to every \Nsingle promise of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:15.100,0:49:17.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you know what he saw?
Dialogue: 0,0:49:17.54,0:49:20.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This text: "The land shall \Nnot be sold permanently,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:20.94,0:49:24.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the land is Mine."
Dialogue: 0,0:49:24.99,0:49:26.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know what he recognized?
Dialogue: 0,0:49:26.99,0:49:29.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God saved me.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:29.51,0:49:36.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The inheritance He gives is permanent.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:36.17,0:49:39.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not just that's reason to think
Dialogue: 0,0:49:39.54,0:49:42.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I shouldn't exchange Christ for the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:42.36,0:49:44.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was reason for him to think:
Dialogue: 0,0:49:44.15,0:49:48.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can't exchange Christ for the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:48.56,0:49:52.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If God once bestows inheritance on me,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:52.30,0:49:54.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's not going to take it away.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:54.80,0:49:56.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His confidence was in God.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:56.55,0:49:58.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's going to cause me to stand.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:58.36,0:50:00.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I won't give it away.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:00.44,0:50:02.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes the thoughts come into our mind,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:02.70,0:50:05.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then it's almost like \Nthe devil can do this:
Dialogue: 0,0:50:05.10,0:50:07.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he puts the suggestion in your mind
Dialogue: 0,0:50:07.28,0:50:09.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and now that you've actually thought it,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:09.32,0:50:11.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you feel guilty yourself \Nand he condemns you
Dialogue: 0,0:50:11.78,0:50:15.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for having thought it.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:15.66,0:50:17.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Other times, he thought he committed
Dialogue: 0,0:50:17.47,0:50:21.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the unpardonable sin.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:21.21,0:50:24.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This was Psalm 68:18
Dialogue: 0,0:50:24.47,0:50:25.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that he found deliverance.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:25.92,0:50:27.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Thou hast received gifts for men..."
Dialogue: 0,0:50:27.90,0:50:29.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know this is what Paul quotes
Dialogue: 0,0:50:29.64,0:50:32.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Ephesians 4 that we're \Ngoing to eventually get to,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:32.36,0:50:34.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it's Jesus giving gifts to men.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:34.65,0:50:36.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He found this: "Thou hast received
Dialogue: 0,0:50:36.87,0:50:42.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gifts for men, yea, \Nfor the rebellious also."
Dialogue: 0,0:50:42.25,0:50:45.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he thought if Christ gives gifts
Dialogue: 0,0:50:45.11,0:50:47.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and even gives them to the rebellious,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:47.32,0:50:48.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he started thinking,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:48.59,0:50:50.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,well, that's what he was \Ncondemning himself for.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:50.98,0:50:53.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After knowing Christ, having \Ncommitted some rebellion,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:53.74,0:50:56.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and here's somebody \Nhaving committed rebellion
Dialogue: 0,0:50:56.31,0:50:58.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Christ is giving gifts to them.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:58.38,0:51:00.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so if that's the case...
Dialogue: 0,0:51:00.80,0:51:03.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He started thinking at first,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:03.12,0:51:05.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've committed the unpardonable sin.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:05.07,0:51:07.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, there's David.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:07.12,0:51:10.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah, but my sin that I \Ncommitted isn't like David's.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:10.20,0:51:12.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then he thought about Peter.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:12.04,0:51:14.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he thought yeah, Peter's closest.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:14.18,0:51:16.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then he felt like, yeah, \Nbut there's exceptions.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:16.76,0:51:18.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mine's not exactly like that.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:18.20,0:51:20.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then he felt all condemned and he said
Dialogue: 0,0:51:20.08,0:51:22.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my sin is more like Judas'.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:22.84,0:51:27.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But in the end, with all the struggles
Dialogue: 0,0:51:27.07,0:51:30.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was this.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:30.02,0:51:34.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One little text about Jesus giving gifts
Dialogue: 0,0:51:34.29,0:51:36.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the rebellious also.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:36.46,0:51:39.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And see, when he would grab hold on these,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:39.35,0:51:42.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then the devil's ability would weaken
Dialogue: 0,0:51:42.57,0:51:45.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you resist the devil
Dialogue: 0,0:51:45.73,0:51:47.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he flees away.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:47.90,0:51:54.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My whole point of saying all \Nthese things to you is this:
Dialogue: 0,0:51:54.65,0:51:56.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My brothers and sisters,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:56.11,0:52:02.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we are people of promise.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:02.33,0:52:05.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When Bunyan portrayed this,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:05.34,0:52:09.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Apollyon fighting Christian.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:09.80,0:52:11.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You'll remember in the battle,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:11.93,0:52:16.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the sword flew out of Pilgrim's hand.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:16.98,0:52:21.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That means he lost touch
Dialogue: 0,0:52:21.62,0:52:24.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the promises for a moment.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:24.17,0:52:25.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when that happened,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:25.58,0:52:29.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Apollyon said, "I'm sure of you now."
Dialogue: 0,0:52:29.87,0:52:34.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you know how Pilgrim won the day?
Dialogue: 0,0:52:34.73,0:52:38.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His fingers got hold of the sword.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:38.99,0:52:41.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he quotes Micah 7:8,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:41.03,0:52:43.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:43.37,0:52:45.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I fall, I shall arise;
Dialogue: 0,0:52:45.13,0:52:46.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I sit in darkness,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:46.60,0:52:49.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Lord shall be a light unto me."
Dialogue: 0,0:52:49.32,0:52:52.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What Bunyan is doing is \Nportraying the reality of this fight.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:52.58,0:52:55.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You've got to find the promise.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:55.63,0:52:57.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whatever your struggle,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:57.29,0:52:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what sins you struggle with,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:59.00,0:53:00.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what trials you go through,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:00.96,0:53:03.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what thoughts haunt your mind
Dialogue: 0,0:53:03.09,0:53:04.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in your brain,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:04.50,0:53:07.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what attacks the devil may throw at you,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:07.42,0:53:10.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what slurs, what accusations,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:10.29,0:53:12.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is where we must come to.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:12.19,0:53:14.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We must be a people of promise.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:14.09,0:53:17.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We must be thinking about promise.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:17.71,0:53:22.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look, men of old like Bunyan;
Dialogue: 0,0:53:22.87,0:53:26.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,men made of the same stuff we're made of,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:26.32,0:53:29.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they were finding promises in Micah.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:29.61,0:53:32.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were finding promises in Colossians,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:32.50,0:53:35.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Leviticus, in Psalms, Isaiah.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:35.69,0:53:37.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were finding promises -
Dialogue: 0,0:53:37.38,0:53:41.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sometimes obscure promises
Dialogue: 0,0:53:41.10,0:53:43.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to sink their faith into.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:43.93,0:53:45.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you'll never do that, like I said,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:45.76,0:53:47.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you'll never do that
Dialogue: 0,0:53:47.26,0:53:49.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unless you believe that every promise
Dialogue: 0,0:53:49.60,0:53:52.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is yours in Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:52.89,0:53:55.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Read this book as for yourself -
Dialogue: 0,0:53:55.79,0:53:57.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even the Old Testament.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:57.65,0:53:59.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's for you.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:59.48,0:54:01.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't write that off as:
Dialogue: 0,0:54:01.69,0:54:03.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,well, that's for the Jews,
Dialogue: 0,0:54:03.04,0:54:05.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or it sounds like He's speaking \Nto Israel all the time.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:05.73,0:54:07.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How can I lay claim to this?
Dialogue: 0,0:54:07.16,0:54:09.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what the \Ndispensationalists will do to you.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:09.97,0:54:12.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They'll see to disarm you.\NDon't let them do that.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:12.50,0:54:15.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't let them steal away your promises.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:15.49,0:54:17.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because you need those promises.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:17.88,0:54:19.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You need them to survive.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:19.74,0:54:21.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You need them to fight.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:21.65,0:54:23.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are people of promise.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:23.31,0:54:26.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are partakers of the promise.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:26.14,0:54:27.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Remember that.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:27.12,0:54:29.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are people of the promise.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:29.94,0:54:31.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have promises.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:31.55,0:54:33.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And God's given us a bunch of them.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:33.37,0:54:34.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're His promises.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:34.89,0:54:36.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're not just worldly promises,
Dialogue: 0,0:54:36.71,0:54:37.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,vague promises.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:37.91,0:54:40.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're God-given promises
Dialogue: 0,0:54:40.31,0:54:42.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that He's given to us to fight
Dialogue: 0,0:54:42.27,0:54:44.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the good fight of faith with.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:44.77,0:54:47.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To seize hold of. To put our weight on.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:47.04,0:54:49.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like I said before, climb on these.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:49.41,0:54:51.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even if it comes down to two words:
Dialogue: 0,0:54:51.77,0:54:53.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My love.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:53.73,0:54:59.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or three words: There's still room.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:59.26,0:55:03.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, whatever it is, look.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:03.02,0:55:06.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look. Search. Know.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:06.81,0:55:08.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Read your Scriptures.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:08.29,0:55:09.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Be here.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:09.86,0:55:11.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Arm yourselves.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:11.52,0:55:12.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People of promise.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:12.94,0:55:15.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Arm yourselves.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:15.34,0:55:18.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have a promise Giver.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:18.34,0:55:21.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You don't need every single promise
Dialogue: 0,0:55:21.44,0:55:23.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,every single day.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:23.44,0:55:26.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can't even think of all of them.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:26.77,0:55:28.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it may be just two words.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:28.50,0:55:29.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It may be three words
Dialogue: 0,0:55:29.91,0:55:33.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that will carry you victoriously in battle
Dialogue: 0,0:55:33.52,0:55:36.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,against an archangel.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:36.93,0:55:38.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Isn't that amazing?
Dialogue: 0,0:55:38.21,0:55:39.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what you've been given.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:39.75,0:55:42.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is the offensive weapon
Dialogue: 0,0:55:42.20,0:55:43.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we're going to come to
Dialogue: 0,0:55:43.69,0:55:45.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Ephesians 6.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:45.03,0:55:47.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The sword of the Spirit.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:47.16,0:55:51.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can defeat powers
Dialogue: 0,0:55:51.39,0:55:56.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and principalities of wickedness,
Dialogue: 0,0:55:56.97,0:56:01.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sometimes through two or three words.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:01.78,0:56:05.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If your faith will see in those words
Dialogue: 0,0:56:05.22,0:56:08.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a promise of the living God
Dialogue: 0,0:56:08.46,0:56:10.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and hold fast.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:10.61,0:56:14.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You'll resist the devil and he'll flee.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:14.35,0:56:17.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,May God help us, brethren.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:17.52,0:56:19.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Father, we pray,
Dialogue: 0,0:56:19.51,0:56:23.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,give us these words.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:23.48,0:56:25.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Give us these promises.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:25.65,0:56:27.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Help us to find them.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:27.03,0:56:29.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Help my brothers and \Nsisters to find the ones
Dialogue: 0,0:56:29.24,0:56:30.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they need now to deal with
Dialogue: 0,0:56:30.97,0:56:32.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what they're dealing with in their lives,
Dialogue: 0,0:56:32.93,0:56:34.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even on the best days,
Dialogue: 0,0:56:34.21,0:56:35.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the glorious days,
Dialogue: 0,0:56:35.70,0:56:39.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the sun-shining days,
Dialogue: 0,0:56:39.94,0:56:45.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we still need to live on promise.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:45.34,0:56:57.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lord, give us minds and hearts
Dialogue: 0,0:56:57.54,0:56:59.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that work right.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:59.64,0:57:02.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sound minds
Dialogue: 0,0:57:02.02,0:57:03.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where Scripture is real;
Dialogue: 0,0:57:03.50,0:57:04.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where it flows.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:04.80,0:57:07.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Help us to fight
Dialogue: 0,0:57:07.34,0:57:09.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just like our Savior fought.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:09.60,0:57:11.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When the devil brought his accusations
Dialogue: 0,0:57:11.58,0:57:12.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and his temptations,
Dialogue: 0,0:57:12.78,0:57:15.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our Master answered perfectly
Dialogue: 0,0:57:15.91,0:57:18.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with Scripture.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:18.57,0:57:23.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All three responses from Deuteronomy.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:23.97,0:57:27.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Help us to handle Scripture like that.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:27.66,0:57:31.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To know how to answer.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:31.16,0:57:35.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lord, arm us. Equip us.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:35.60,0:57:37.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Help us to be like Bunyan,
Dialogue: 0,0:57:37.19,0:57:42.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and even more, help us to be like Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:42.84,0:57:46.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We pray for His help and in His name,
Dialogue: 0,0:57:46.45,0:57:47.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Amen.