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Doug Batchelor - The Law of the Lamb (Part 1)

February 20, 2025 | S25:E25

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Amazing Facts | Doug Batchelor - The Law of the Lamb (Part 1) | February 20, 2025

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>>this presentation is brought to you by the friends of the
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Amazing facts ministry.
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>>did you know it's against the law to doze off under a hair
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Dryer in florida? to play hopscotch on
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Sunday in missouri? to hunt camels in arizona?
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To insert a penny in your ear in hawaii?
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To tie a giraffe to a telephone pole in atlanta?
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To catch mice without a license in cleveland?
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To put a skunk in your boss' desk in michigan?
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To detonate a nuclear weapon within chico, california city
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Limits, which carries a punishment of $500.00?
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To bathe less than once a year in kentucky?
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To pawn your dentures in las vegas?
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Yes, there are about two million laws in the u.s.
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And if a person could review them at a rate of about two a
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Day, you'd be qualified to act as a law-abiding citizen in
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About 6,000 years. yet the lord was able to summarize the entire
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Duty of man to god in just ten simple precepts that contain
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About 325 words. jesus said god's law boils down
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To two crucial principles: love for god and love
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For our fellow man. join me now, friends, as we
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Consider the relevance of god's law in our lives today.
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>>so tonight we have a very important program and it's
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Dealing with the subject of the law of god.
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Now, the title of the series is the law of the lamb because
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Jesus is god the son, amen? >>amen.
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>>god put his word - the ten commandments - on two tables of
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Stone. this is the law of the lamb.
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It is written by the lord - by his own finger.
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Now, where did the ten commandments come from?
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We always picture, you know, moses up on top in the mountains
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There. some have got pictures of moses
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In the their mind - he's writing the law - but you read, in the
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Gospel of john, 'all things that were made were made
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By him.' who is that? >>jesus.
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>>it's talking about jesus, and he's the one who's responsible
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For giving us the law. so some people think that
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The law of jesus in the new testament is different from the
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Law of the ten commandments in the old testament.
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It's the same god that gave both laws.
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So there's a lot of confusion, even among christians today,
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About 'what law do we keep?' 'which laws were
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Nailed to the cross?' and 'how do christians relate
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To the ten commandments without being legalists?'
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And then there's that question: 'is obedience legalism?'
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Interesting question - sort of a rhetorical question.
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How does this all relate to revelation? follow me.
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If you go to revelation chapter 14, verse 9, it tells us there
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That "then a third angel followed them, saying with a
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Loud voice, 'if anyone worships the beast and his image, and
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Receives his mark on his forehead or on his hand, the
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Same will drink the wine of the wrath of god, which is poured
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Out full strength into the cup of his indignation.'" here's
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One of the most fearful curses and plagues pronounced in the
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Bible - it's actually in the new testament - and it's pronounced
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Against those who worship the beast.
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And you can read on, it says, "he shall be tormented with fire
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And brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the
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Presence of the lamb." going down a little further
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In that same chapter, it will contrast the ones who are not
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Worshiping the beast and it says, "here is the patience of
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The saints" - this is verse 12 - revelation 14:12 - "here is the
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Patience of the saints: here are those who keep the commandments
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Of god and the faith of jesus." notice it doesn't say 'faith
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In jesus' - it says 'faith of jesus'.
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Now that's a characteristic you find throughout revelation -
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Those who are worshiping the beast are breaking one of the
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Commandments because the bible says you're only to worship god
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And you're not to pray to idols. and it talks about making
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An image to the beast. look, for instance, in
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Revelation 13:15, "he was granted power to give breath
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To the image of the beast. that the image...should both
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Speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of
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The beast to be killed." well, if you're a believer in
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God and you're commanded to do image worship, what do you do?
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What would be wrong with image worship?
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Is there a command that forbids us from image worship?
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Is that only in the old testament?
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Or does john, also in the new testament say, 'my little
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Children, keep yourself from idols'?
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And so, this is a commandment you find going all the way
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Through the bible. we need to understand the
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Relationship between the saved christian and the law, if we're
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Going to be ready for the last days and what's coming.
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>>amen. >>and, again, it goes on to say
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- revelation 13:15, that those that do not worship the image
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Of the beast would be killed. then you jump, now,
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To the book of daniel. and, if you look in daniel 3,
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Verse 10, some of you remember that daniel had three friends
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Named shadrach, meshach, and abednego - and their hebrew
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Names were hananiah, mishael, and azariah - they refused to
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Bow down and worship the image of the king and the king had
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Said whoever does not worship the image will be killed.
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Do you notice the echo coming from daniel into revelation?
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Very similar language. 'those who do not worship the
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Image of babylon would be killed.
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We're going to be talking about babylon in our next
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Presentation. they said, 'we cannot bow down
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To your image, our law forbids it' - the law of god.
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That's something we're going to need to know for the last days.
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"and whoever does not fall down and worship shall be cast into
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The midst of a burning fiery furnace."
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They faced a tremendous test. what happened?
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Did god preserve them? >>yes.
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>>because they put the law of god first.
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They stood up for god and his word and god stood up for them.
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Jesus, himself, went into that fiery furnace with them and
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Air-conditioned it. he preserved them.
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The only thing that was burned were the ropes that had bound
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Them. then you go to daniel chapter 6
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- remember, there's a parallel between daniel and revelation.
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The king - king darius - makes a law and he makes "...a royal
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Statute and [to make] a firm decree, that whoever petitions
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Any god or man for thirty days, except you, o king, shall be
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Cast into the den of lions." there - a first commandment
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- what does that say? - first of the ten?
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'thou shalt not have other gods before me' - right?
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Daniel said, 'i'm sorry, god's law forbids me from making you
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My god, king darius. i'm putting the law of god ahead
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Of the law of man.' >>amen.
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>>doesn't peter say we ought to obey god rather than men?
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Is the day coming, in the future, according to prophecy,
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When the beast power is going to be compelling people to worship
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Something god forbids? so do we need to understand the
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Right relationship between the lord and the law, if you're
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Going to be a bible christian? because it says a lot here
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About the commandments of god. so let's delve into our lesson
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To get a right understanding of the law, without turning into
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Legalists as we study these things in the light of prophecy.
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Question #1: can god's moral law be amended or repealed?
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Now, i should probably tell you, when we say 'moral law' - we
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Don't hear that phrase much anymore, but it was the term
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That was used for many years by christians to describe the ten
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Commandments - because there are many laws in the bible - there's
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Civil laws in the bible, there were government laws, there were
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Health laws, there were ceremonial laws, and then there
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Was the moral law, which was the law of the ten commandments.
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And i remember, growing up, that any schoolboy used to know most
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Of them because, in public school in california we had the
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Ten commandments on the wall in our school.
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Does anyone else remember that? i see a few hands.
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I guess i'm getting old. i see - anyway - some of you remember
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That? public school - ten commandments on the wall.
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And you wonder if the epidemic of crime could be connected with
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Our saying, 'oh, we wouldn't want the kids accidentally
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Keeping the ten commandments, because that would be a bad
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Influence - religious influence.' no.
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Can god's law be changed? psalm 89, verse 34, "my covenant
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Will i not break, nor alter the thing that is gone
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Out of my lips." god made a covenant.
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It's called 'the old covenant' but the law has not been
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Changed. you'll find out about
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That a little later in the presentation.
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You can also read in psalms 111:7, he says, "all his
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Commandments are sure. they stand fast forever and ever."
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In fact, if you've never done it before, i'd encourage you to
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Read one little chapter in the bible, it's called psalm 119.
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I'm teasing - it's the longest chapter in the bible - the whole
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Chapter is 'how i love your law'.
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It's all about loving the law. people don't usually put law
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And love together, do they? it's like they're opposites.
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But, you know, when you really love the lord, you love his law.
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All his commandments are sure. they stand forever.
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You can read malachi, chapter 3, verse 6 - god says, "for i am
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The lord. i change not."
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Jesus christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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And so, his law is eternal in nature - the moral law.
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No, the reason that i don't believe that god's ten
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Commandment law can change is because the bible definitions
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For the ten commandment law are the same definitions that are
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Given for god himself. and so, if you're trying to do
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Away with the ten commandment moral law, you're going to start
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Finding yourself trying to do away with the character of god.
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Let me illustrate: the bible says 'god is good' - you can
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Find that in luke 18:19. well, the bible says,
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'the law is good'. the bible says 'god is holy' -
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The bible says 'the law is holy' - romans 7:12.
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The bible says, in deuteronomy 32, verse 4, 'god is just'.
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The bible says 'the law is just' - romans 7:12.
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The bible says that god is perfect, god is love - the bible
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Says that the law is perfect, the law is love. it says that
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God is righteous - and i'm not going to read all of these
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Verses to you - he is truth, he is pure, he is spiritual, he is
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Unchangeable, he is eternal - every single one of those things
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That describes god, it also is using to describe the law.
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Now, that should not surprise you if you're a christian
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Because one of the names for jesus is 'the word'.
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And one of the names for the law is 'the word'.
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The law is, of course, the word of god written by god's own
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Finger. it's eternal in nature.
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Now what are you thinking right now?
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When i'm talking about the law, do you have good, warm feelings?
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Or does the word 'law' make you nervous?
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When you think of the law, do you feel peace or do you feel
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Guilt? >>peace.
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>>think about that. i'm not going to say anymore.
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According to the bible, what is sin?
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There's a few definitions for the sin.
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The bible says anything not of faith is sin, all
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Unrighteousness is sin - you can read in romans 3:20, "by the law
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Is the knowledge of sin." so we learn about
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Sin by the law. well, that would make you think
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That 'i don't want the - 'i don't want the law because it's
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Going to tell me about sin. i don't want to know about my
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Sin; i already feel guilty enough, so if i look at the law,
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I'm going to feel bad.' no, it's not your enemy.
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Another definition - a really good definition that you're
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Going to find here in the bible - 1 john chapter 3, verse 4, it
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Says - and this is almost like it's right out of a dictionary,
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'sin is the transgression of the law.' and so, do we still have
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Sin in the world today? it must still have law.
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Sin is the transgression of the law - what law?
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And that's the next question, to what law does 1 john 3:4 refer?
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Well, you can read - the answer to that you can really get from
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Romans 7:7 - i know i'm giving you a lot of scripture, but i
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Want to make sure that your understanding about this subject
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Is really rooted in the word. he said, 'i had not known sin
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But by the law, for i had not known lust except the law had
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Said, 'you shall not covet.' now, when paul says 'you shall
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Not covet,' where do you find that? which commandment is that?
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Commandment #10 - it says, 'thou shall not covet' - so paul is
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Saying, 'i wouldn't have known about sin if it wasn't for the
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Law.' and then he's referring, of course, to the moral law -
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The ten commandment law. and do we have problems with law
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Keeping in the country and the world today?
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>>yes. >>oh, it's pretty serious.
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I think i quoted this, actually, same quote to you in an earlier
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Presentation - that "every hundred hours, more youth die in
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U.s. streets than were killed in the persian gulf warfare" -
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U.s. news and world report .
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Another report tells us that the average 18 year old has
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Witnessed 200,000 violent acts on television, including 40,000
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Murders - by the time he's 18 years old - a young person.
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So, if we are changed by beholding and, if people are
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Spending all this time beholding evil, then is that going to have
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An impact on us? and it's also affecting the morals.
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>>don't go anywhere, friends. in just a few moments we'll
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Return and complete this presentation.
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You know, one of the big debates in the christian world today has
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To do with 'how does a christian relate to the law of god?'
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Now, clearly, some things were nailed to the cross and a
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Christian does not need to keep the old covenant.
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But what about the ten commandments?
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After all, they're not called 'the ten recommendations' or
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'the ten suggestions' or 'god's ten good ideas.' we have a
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Special lesson we'd like to share with you and it's called
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Written in stone . even in the title you can
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Understand the ten commandments were written by the finger of
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God in stone so, obviously, this is important.
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Let's get back now to today's presentation and learn some more
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Amazing facts from the word of god.
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>>god wants us to keep his commandments.
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He's pretty clear about that. now, the bottom line is
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A christian follows who? what does the word
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'christian' mean? a christian is supposed
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To be a follower of christ. what did jesus do?
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Did jesus keep the ten commandments?
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>>yes. >>he said so.
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He said in john 15:10, "i have kept my father's commandments."
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That would certainly include the ten, right?
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Some are saying, 'well, jesus only kept the ten commandments
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Because he's a jew. we're christians now.
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He saved us from the law.' have you ever heard that before?
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You know, when i first started reading the bible and - you
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Know, my mother was an actress. she was actually in the
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Movie the ten commandments . and i even - before i was a
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Christian i remember seeing that charlton heston movie.
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She had a very little part - i don't want you to think she was
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A, you know, famous actress.
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Whenever my kids and i watch it i say, 'there's grandma!
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There she goes.' (laughter) it's a really short scene, but i get
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To say she was in the movie, and that makes me feel pretty good.
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So, i knew, you know, what the ten commandments were, but i was
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Surprised, after becoming a christian, to hear christians
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Telling me, 'oh, but we're saved because of jesus.
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Jesus kept the law so we don't have to.' and i thought,
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'really? you mean he died and took our
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Penalty to give us a license to sin?'
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I thought he died - didn't the angel tell mary to save us from
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Our sins, not in our sins? sin is my problem.
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I want to be saved from my sin. i don't want to be saved to
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Continue with these things that cause all these
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Problems in my life. i want to be delivered
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From these things. by the way, in the book of
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Revelation, it's all a book about victory.
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If you read the message that jesus gives to each of the
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Churches - revelation chapter 2 and 3 - seven messages, seven
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Churches - do you know what he says to every church in every
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Age? 'to him that overcomes, to him
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That overcomes, to him that overcomes - do you think jesus
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Would say that seven times and then say, 'it's not really
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Possible.' of course he wants us to be obedient.
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What's the alternative? jesus would heal somebody; he'd
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Say, 'go and sin no more or lest a worse thing come
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Upon you.' what is sin? transgression of the law.
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So, when he said to mary magdalene, 'go and sin no more.'
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Or he said to that paralytic that he healed, 'go and sin no
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More lest a worse thing come upon you.' he was talking about,
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You know, mary almost got stoned - assuming she was the woman
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Caught in adultery. we're not sure of that -
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But he said, 'don't do that. it could kill you.
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Don't - sin is bad. it hurts you.' jesus said, 'i've
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Kept my father's commandments. you can read in 1 peter 2:22 -
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It says jesus "who committed no sin.
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Nor was deceit found in his mouth."
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Sin is the transgression of the law.
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Jesus committed what? no sin.
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Jesus perfectly kept the father's commandments.
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Now, we haven't. all of us have sinned.
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We all struggle with temptation and sin every day, amen?
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>>amen. >>it's a challenge.
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But because we all struggle and we often fall, does that mean we
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Shouldn't make every effort, by god's grace, to do his will?
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And what is the will of god? not everyone that says, 'lord,
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Lord' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but they that do the
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Will of my father in heaven.' what is the will of god?
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'lord, i love to keep your law - i love to keep your
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Commandments. your law is written in my
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Heart.' psalm 119 - i think that's verse 45.
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The law of god - he says, 'i love to do your will.
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Your law is in my heart.' the will of god is the law of god.
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The law of god is the will of god.
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It's god's will that you don't kill each other.
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It's god's will that you don't covet - that you don't commit
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Adultery, right? and so, if you love him.
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So how many people have sinned? >>all.
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>>we just sort of alluded to this - you can read, of course,
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In romans 3:23, "for all have sinned and come short of the
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Glory of god." we've all broken god's law.
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And the penalty for sin, of course, is very serious.
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The bible says, 'all we like sheep have gone astray; we have
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Turned, every one, to his own way.
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And the lord laid upon him the iniquity of us all.' so all of
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Us have sinned. none is righteous, no, not one.
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What is the punishment for living a life of sin?
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You can read there, in romans chapter 6:23, "the wages of sin
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Is death." how come we're not dead yet?
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It's because jesus, by his death, he's bought us time to
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Make a decision and he bought eternal life for those that will
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Accept his sacrifice in their place.
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But why did he die? for sin. what is sin? breaking the law.
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Why would you want to do the thing that hurt jesus so much?
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Yeah, sin is what killed him - sin is what hurt him.
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When god told adam and eve, if you eat the forbidden fruit, "in
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The day that you eat of it you shall surely die."
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The penalty for sin is death.
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For us to continue, willingly living lives of sin - you read
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In hebrews chapter 10:26, it says, if we continue to sin
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Willfully, after we've received the knowledge of the truth - so
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People stumble and fall, and that's one thing, but to
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Continue in known, willing sin after you know god's will, it
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Says there's no more sacrifice for sins, but only a certain
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Fearful looking forward to of judgment and fiery indignation
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That will devour the adversaries.
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It's a dangerous thing to tamper and play with sin.
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Would you let your kids play in the street?
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Why, because you don't want them to have any fun?
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Or because you love them? so will god withhold anything
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Good from his people, or is he only wanting us to stay
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Away from what hurts us? sin is deadly.
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It's poison. number 7: do the ten
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Commandments still apply to new testament christians?
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This is one of the most important things i want to make
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Clear in this presentation. absolutely.
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Matthew 19, verse 17, he said, "if thou will enter into the
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Life, keep the commandments." and the rich young ruler
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Said to jesus, 'which?' and jesus began to recite
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The ten commandments. is that pretty clear?
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I mean, it's right from the mouth of jesus.
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And christ said, 'do not think that i've come to destroy the
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Law and prophets. i did not come to destroy but to fulfill.'
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And some think that means, well, that means 'do away with'.
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No, fulfill means to fill full. matter of fact, a little later -
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Or earlier, actually, in the same book, when jesus came to
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John the baptist to be baptized, john said, 'oh, you're the
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Messiah. you need to baptize me.' and
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Jesus said, 'suffer it to be so now, for thus it becomes us to
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Fulfill all righteousness.' now, does the word 'fulfill'
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Mean 'do away with'? would jesus have said to john,
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'you need to do this to do away with all righteousness'?
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No, it means 'to complete; to fulfill' all righteousness.
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Christ - jesus said, 'don't think i've come to destroy law
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And prophets, whosoever therefore shall break one of the
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Least of these commandments and teach men so, he will be spoken
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Of as least in the kingdom of heaven.
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But whoever will do and teach them, he will be called great in
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The kingdom of heaven.' and so, christ was very clear about the
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Law. he said, 'do not think that i've
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Come to get rid of it.' i've got more verses on that in a minute.
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He said, 'if you love me' - do what?
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'keep my commandments.' >>amen.
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>>again, revelation 22 - this is a revelation subject - "blessed
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Are they that do his commandments."
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Is it a cursing or a blessing? >>blessing.
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>>it's a blessing. god - i'm talking about a
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Blessing tonight, friends. you get this subject,
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You'll be blessed. how is it possible to
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Keep the commandments? this is very important.
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Romans 8:3 and 4, "god sending his own son...condemned sin in
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The flesh: that the righteousness of the law might
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Be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh but after the
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Spirit." all of us kind of feel the war
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Between the spirit and the flesh within and, through the power
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Of christ, we don't have to be controlled by the flesh.
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But you can be born again. god gives you a new heart
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- that's the new covenant. philippians 4:13, "i
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Can do" - how much? >>all.
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>>"i can do all things through christ which strengtheneth me."
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He will give you strength through his word and through his
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Spirit, to resist temptation, to get victory, to be overcomers,
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To live a new life. >>amen.
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>>i was doing a tv program - it was actually a christian station
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Where i was debating some other ministers on this subject.
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And one of them said, 'nobody can keep the law.' and i said,
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'i'll agree that we've all sinned, but i don't agree that
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Nobody can keep the law.' i asked him, i said, 'do you
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Believe that the devil can tempt us to sin?'
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He said, 'yes.' i said, 'do you believe that jesus can keep us
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From sin?' the pastor said, 'no.' i said,
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'so your devil's bigger than your savior?'
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I read, 'greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the
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World.' and that 'i can do all things through christ.' and
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'jesus christ is the author and the finisher of our faith.' and
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So there's - it breaks my heart, you know?
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It's doctrines of devils when even pastors are telling people
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- i hear it on the radio and, if you were driving with me in the
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Car you'd really probably be entertained because i get - i
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Start talking to the radio - i'll hear - i listen to
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Christian stations and i'll hear pastors - people call them with
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A bible question: 'pastor is it necessary to keep the law?'
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He'll say, 'no, we're not under the law, we're under grace now.
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We only need to keep two commandments: love the lord and
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Love your neighbor.' (laughter) 'because jesus gave us a new
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Commandment.' and jesus says, 'a new commandment i give unto you'
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And then he went on to say, 'love the lord with all your
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Heart and love your neighbor as yourself.' what was jesus doing
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When he said that? quoting moses.
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It's in deuteronomy chapter 6 and it's in leviticus 19:18.
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Jesus is saying, 'a new commandment' and then he's
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Quoting moses. the idea of loving the lord and
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Loving your neighbor is the essence of the ten commandments.
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The ten commandments are all about love.
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God is love. it's an expression of his love.
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First four commandments deal with love for god; last six
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Commandments deal with love for your fellow men.
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The whole law is summarized in love.
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If you love god, you won't break the first four.
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If you love your fellow man you're not going to kill him.
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You're not going to talk about him.
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You're not going to lie about him.
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You're not going to steal from him.
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'love is the fulfilling of the law' paul says. amen?
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Doug Batchelor - The Law of the Lamb (Part 1)

February 20, 2025 | S25:E25

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