Caption transcript for Tell It On The Mountains: “Golgotha — Grace” (6/9)

• 00:02    [ music playing ]
• 00:23   ♪ TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAINS ♪
• 00:25 ♪ TELL THE STORY OF THE LORD. ♪
• 00:28   ♪ STANDING FOR THE ♪
• 00:30     ♪ PEOPLE AND EXALTED. ♪
• 00:33    ♪ AND PRAISE HIM ♪
• 00:34    ♪ IN THE VALLEYS ♪
• 00:35   ♪ SING HIS PRAISES ♪
• 00:36     ♪ BY THE SEA. ♪
• 00:38   ♪ TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN ♪
• 00:40   ♪ SO THAT ALL MIGHT KNOW. ♪♪
• 00:57  SHALOM, HELLO AGAIN.
• 00:59  AND WELCOME BACK TO OUR TELL  IT ON THE MOUNTAIN'S SERIES.
• 01:02   THE MOUNTAIN WE'RE COVERING TONIGHT IS NOT LARGE,
• 01:04    BUT IT'S VERY IMPORTANT.
• 01:06    WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT   GRACE AND WHERE WE GOT IT,
• 01:09  GOLGOTHA, CALVARY AND THE PLACE OF THE SKULL,
• 01:12 THE REAL PLACE   OF OUR LORD'S CRUCIFIXION.
• 01:16  ACTUALLY, THERE'S CONTROVERSY OF JUST WHICH LITTLE HILL NORTH
• 01:18    OF THE TEMPLE MOUNT NORTH   OF WHICH HE WAS CRUCIFIED.
• 01:21 BUT THAT'S NOT  THE IMPORTANT POINT,
• 01:24   BUT THE FACT THAT HE REALLY  DID PAY FOR OUR SINS IN FULL.
• 01:28  AND WE GO TO THE GARDEN TOMB THERE IN JERUSALEM WHICH LOOKS
• 01:32   VERY LIKE WHAT IS DESCRIBED  IN SCRIPTURE AND THE CALVARY
• 01:35 WE LOOK AT IS A  BURIAL GROUND
• 01:37 AND IS BY A PUBLIC ROAD  AND JUST ADJACENT TO
• 01:41   THE CITY WALL AND SO FORTH.
• 01:43 THE SIGNIFICANCE IS OVERWHELMING AND WE'RE GOING TO DISCUSS THAT.
• 01:48   DAVID DOLAN WILL BE WITH US  AGAIN, OUR JOURNALIST FRIEND,
• 01:50  WHO WILL GIVE    AN INTERESTING COMMENTARY
• 01:52  ON THE KORAN    AND AN ISLAM VIEW
• 01:57    OF GRACE    AND WORKS FOR SALVATION.
• 02:00 AND NOW, TO JERUSALEM.
• 02:03    [ music playing ]
• 02:13  WELL, AS PART OF OUR MOUNTAIN SERIES,
• 02:15   WE HAVE COME TO THAT RATHER   UGLY ROCK CALLED GOLGOTHA,
• 02:20 THE PLACE OF THE SKULL.
• 02:22  ON TOP OF IT, NOW, IS A MUSLIM BURIAL GROUND.
• 02:25    IT SEEMS TO HAVE  ALWAYS BEEN A BURIAL GROUND.
• 02:29 PEOPLE SUPPOSE THEY SEE  A SKULL IN THE CONFIGURATIONS
• 02:33 OF THE GROUND AND MAYBE YOU DO.
• 02:36 BUT THERE'S NO QUESTION  THAT THIS IS A VERY GOOD SITE
• 02:40    FOR THE ORIGINAL CALVARY.
• 02:42    IT IS VERY CLOSE    TO THE CITY WALL.
• 02:44  THERE'S ANOTHER SITE VERY NEARBY THAT'S ALSO
• 02:48    A HILLY AND ROCKY PLACE.
• 02:50   BUT THIS ONE IS ONE   THAT MANY PILGRIMS COME TO,
• 02:55 TO REMEMBER THE  CRUCIFIXION OF JESUS CHRIST.
• 03:00   AND WITH THAT CAME A NEW PHENOMENA
• 03:03   IN WORLD SPIRITUAL  AFFAIRS CALLED GRACE
• 03:06  AND THAT IS OUR SUBJECT NOW.
• 03:08   GRACE IS SOMETHING GOD DOES  TO FORGIVE EVERY SINGLE SIN.
• 03:15 IT NEVER FAILS.
• 03:17  AND IT IS WITH THE BELIEVER, HIS ENTIRE LIFE AND HE DOES NOT
• 03:22  HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT HIS SINS.
• 03:25 I SAY ALL OF THAT AS THOUGH --
• 03:27 I MEAN, I KNOW IT'S NOT SOMETHING NEW.
• 03:29   BUT YET ALTHOUGH WE'VE READ  IT AND ALTHOUGH WE STUDY IT,
• 03:32 WE SOMETIMES DON'T ACT LIKE IT.
• 03:35    THAT IS, THERE ARE A LOT   OF DENOMINATIONS, CHURCHES,
• 03:40  GROUPS OF CHRISTIANS  WHO DEPEND ON SIMPLY
• 03:43 NOT SINNING TO   PLEASE GOD
• 03:45 AND WHO PREACH THAT PERFECTION OF THE SAINTS.
• 03:50    THAT IF WE COMMIT   A SINGLE SINS AS CULTISTS,
• 03:54  "IT WOULD BE BETTER TO DIE."
• 03:56 I QUOTE REVEREND MOON ON THAT.
• 03:58 YOU ARE HEARING BUSES BEHIND ME  AND CROWDS AND WELL AND GOOD.
• 04:02   THAT WAS THE IDEA.
• 04:03  WHEN THE LORD   WAS CRUCIFIED HERE,
• 04:04    IT WAS TO BE SEEN BY ALL.
• 04:06    THE ROMANS DIDN'T   DO THIS IN SECRET.
• 04:08   IT WAS TO TERRORIZE AN OCCUPIED POPULATION
• 04:12   THAT PEOPLE WERE CRUCIFIED  AND WE SHOULDN'T FORGET THAT
• 04:16  CRUCIFIXION NORMALLY    TOOK THREE DAYS.
• 04:18 AND SOMEONE ON    PUBLIC DISPLAY LIKE THIS,
• 04:22  A PUBLIC ROAD   RUNNING BY THE TEMPLE WALL,
• 04:25  WOULD BE SEEN    DYING BY INCHES,
• 04:27 BY HIS FRIENDS    AND FAMILY AND NEIGHBORS
• 04:29  AND SO ON FOR ALL THAT TIME.
• 04:32 JESUS WAS ONLY   ON THE CROSS FOR SIX HOURS
• 04:34   BUT HE HAD A FEAST TO KEEP.
• 04:36   THAT NIGHT WAS THE  FESTIVAL OF UNLEAVENED BREAD.
• 04:38   AND THIS BREAD IS MY BODY.
• 04:40 THAT'S ANOTHER LESSON.
• 04:41  I WANT TO TALK ABOUT    HOW GOD ESTABLISHED GRACE
• 04:45 AND THE IDEA OF    TOTAL FORGIVENESS OF SIN.
• 04:48   IN JEREMIAH 31:34,  HE MAKES A PROMISE CONNECTED
• 04:54 WITH THE NEW COVENANT.
• 05:13 EXACTLY THE SAME VERSES ARE REPEATED IN HEBREWS 8:8-12
• 05:17  AS IF TO SAY WHATEVER    TESTAMENT YOU'RE READING,
• 05:19   REMEMBER, GOD HAS PROMISED  TO FORGIVE EVERY SINGLE SIN.
• 05:23  I TALKED TO A CHRISTIAN TEACHER ONCE WHO SAID,
• 05:25 "I'LL NEVER SAY TO GOD, I'LL NEVER DO THAT AGAIN, LORD,"
• 05:30   BECAUSE HE WILL SAY  ACCORDING TO HIS WORD AGAIN,
• 05:33 "DO WHAT AGAIN?
• 05:34   "I DON'T REMEMBER."
• 05:36    WHAT AM I STRESSING HERE,    THAT WE SHOULD SIN MORE,
• 05:38    THAT GRACE MIGHT ABOUND?
• 05:40   NO.
• 05:41  PAUL ASKED THAT QUESTION AND ANSWERED IT.
• 05:42 HE SAID,   "GOD FORBID."
• 05:43    IT'S NOT A LICENSE.
• 05:44 BUT THE FACT IS,    THE CROSS PAID OFF
• 05:48 EVERY SINGLE SIN AND THAT'S ALL THERE IS TO THAT.
• 05:50 THERE AREN'T ANY    SINS IT DIDN'T PAY.
• 05:52   THERE AREN'T   ANY DELIBERATE SINS,
• 05:54  OR WILLFUL SINS    OR ACCIDENTAL SINS
• 05:57 OR THIS KIND OR THAT KIND AS MEN   IN CHURCHES HAVE ALWAYS HELD.
• 06:03    THE BIBLE CONTAINS   NO HIERARCHY OF SINS,
• 06:05 NO HIERARCHY OF MOTIVES.
• 06:08   WHEN WE SIN, WE ARE FORGIVEN.
• 06:11    THAT'S ALL.
• 06:13  AND WHEN WE SIN, WE ARE ABLE TO  COME TO THE LORD IN CONFESSION.
• 06:17  IT TROUBLES US.
• 06:18   OUR SIN TROUBLES US.
• 06:19   OBVIOUSLY IF WE READ THE LIFE OF JESUS CHRIST
• 06:21 AND SEE HOW FAR SHORT WE FALL OF  THE WAY HE LIVED IN THIS FLESH,
• 06:28  WE -- WE ARE CONVICTED.
• 06:29   AND WE COME BEFORE THE LORD.
• 06:35  IT DOESN'T SAY IF WE CONFESS ENOUGH HE'LL FORGIVE US.
• 06:37    OR IF WE HAVE NOT   FORGOTTEN ANY SIN.
• 06:40    AS THE OLD TESTAMENT SAYS    ON THE DAY OF ATONEMENT,
• 06:43 WE'RE EXPECTED TO HAVE 24 HOURS OF AFFLICTING THE SOUL.
• 06:46 AND TO FAIL TO AFFLICT THE SOUL IS TO COURT THE DEATH PENALTY.
• 06:51 THAT IS, TO BE CUT OFF  FROM AMONG THE CHOSEN PEOPLE
• 06:53 AND I REFER TO THE SECOND DEATH.
• 06:56   A PERSON VIOLATING  THE LAW OF CONFESSION
• 06:58 ON THE DAY OF ATONEMENT    TECHNICALLY DID NOT HAVE
• 07:00    TO RETURN TO THE TEMPLE.
• 07:01    HE WASN'T JEWISH ANYMORE.
• 07:03    HE WASN'T CHOSEN ANYMORE.
• 07:06 IT'S A FREE GIFT, TOO.
• 07:08   AND LEST ANY SHOULD BOAST, EPHESIANS 2:8,
• 07:09   THE HEART OF THAT DOCTRINE,   IT'S THE FREE GIFT OF GOD.
• 07:14    I DIDN'T EARN IT.
• 07:16    A SPOTLESS MAN WALKED UP  THIS HILL CARRYING THE CROSS
• 07:19   AND LEFT AN ACCOUNT OF FORGIVENESS
• 07:22  COMPLETELY UNTOUCHED   SO THAT I COULD DRAW ON IT
• 07:24    AND YOU COULD DRAW ON IT AND THE WHOLE WORLD OF SINNERS
• 07:25  COULD DRAW ON IT TO SATISFY A JUST GOD WHO IS ALSO MERCIFUL.
• 07:32   TO CONTRAST LAW AND GRACE,
• 07:33   SOMETIMES WE DON'T  REALIZE THE CONTRAST.
• 07:36    GRACE IS NOT APPRECIATED   BECAUSE THE CHURCH DOESN'T
• 07:39  TEND TO STUDY    THE OLD TESTAMENT
• 07:41   AND DOESN'T REALIZE    HOW THE LAW WENT,
• 07:43    HOW THINGS WERE.
• 07:44 BUT MILLIONS OF PEOPLE FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS
• 07:47 LIVED UNDER DIFFICULT LAWS LIKE THE LAW OF THE DAY OF ATONEMENT,
• 07:50  LIKE BLOOD SACRIFICE, LIKE FASTING AND CEREMONIAL DAYS
• 07:56  THAT REQUIRED  LONG JOURNEYS
• 07:58  IF YOU LIVED OUTSIDE OF JERUSALEM AND SO ON.
• 08:00    AND THEY DID THIS   TO DEMONSTRATE THEIR FAITH
• 08:03   AND INDEED, THEY WERE SAVED
• 08:04   WHEN MESSIAH CAME AND COULD  SEE THOSE FULFILLED ACCOUNTS.
• 08:08  BUT THERE ARE  DIFFERENCES OF LAW AND GRACE.
• 08:11  FOR ONE THING   UNDER THE LAW, GOD DEMANDS.
• 08:13    IT WAS VERY CLEAR    DISCIPLINARY KIND OF LAW.
• 08:18    AND UNDER GRACE,   GOD GIVES.
• 08:21   HE GIVES IT FREELY.
• 08:23  WE ACQUIRE IT WITH SALVATION.
• 08:25    UNDER THE LAW WHICH CAME  FROM MOSES WERE THERE WORKS.
• 08:28 THERE WERE THINGS YOU HAD TO DO, EXTERNAL PERFORMANCES.
• 08:32  UNDER GRACE, THERE'S FAITH AND LOVE
• 08:34    AND THERE REALLY    AREN'T ANY PERFORMANCES.
• 08:36 WE ARE GIVEN GIFTS WITH WHICH TO ACCOMPLISH OUR WORKS,
• 08:39    OUR SERVICE FOR THE LORD.
• 08:41    BUT OUR SALVATION  DOESN'T HANG IN THE BALANCE.
• 08:44    WE WILL SEE THAT IN THE JUDGMENT SEAT OF CHRIST,
• 08:46   ONLY OUR WORKS ARE JUDGED.
• 08:47 OUR SINS ARE FORGIVEN.
• 08:48   WE ARE STILL SAVED.
• 08:50  TECHNICALLY, ONE COULD GO TO HEAVEN
• 08:51 WITHOUT A SINGLE GOOD WORK, HE WOULD CERTAINLY STILL BE SAVED.
• 08:55 ONE COULD GO TO HEAVEN WITH AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT
• 08:57 OF GOOD WORKS -- WELL, HE WOULDN'T EVEN GO TO HEAVEN.
• 09:00  BUT IN THE CASE OF AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF GOOD WORKS,
• 09:02    BUT NO SALVATION,   THE SCRIPTURE DOESN'T ALLOW
• 09:05 THAT THAT PERSON GOES TO HEAVEN.
• 09:10 THE LAW WAS FOR THE RIGHTEOUS.
• 09:12   IT REALLY STRESSED PERSONAL RIGHTEOUSNESS,
• 09:16 SELF-MADE MORAL LIVING.
• 09:21 GRACE SEEMS TO   BE FOR THE SINFUL.
• 09:23   IT DOES NOT    VALUE PERSONAL DISCIPLINE
• 09:27   IN THE SENSE OF MY PUTTING FORTH OF SOME PRETENSE
• 09:31    OF BEING A BETTER    CHRISTIAN OF THIS PERSON,
• 09:34    A MORE MORAL MAN    THAN THAT PERSON.
• 09:36 IN FACT, THAT'S  JUST INCORRECT CHRISTIANITY.
• 09:40 IT'S INTERESTING TO SEE WHILE THE OLD TESTAMENT
• 09:43    IS ALMOST IN ITS  ENTIRETY A LAW BOOK,
• 09:46  THERE'S NOT A SINGLE LAW IN THE NEW TESTAMENT.
• 09:49    [ music playing ]
• 10:06    [ music playing ]
• 10:16 COME WITH ZOLA   AND SEE THE LAND OF ABRAHAM,
• 10:19     ISAAC AND JACOB.
• 10:20    EXPERIENCE THE HOLY LAND.
• 10:23   FOR TOUR INFORMATION WRITE:
• 10:37 AND WE NOW LIVE   IN AN AGE OF GRACE.
• 10:40    THE AGE OF GRACE,  NOT JUST THE CHURCH,
• 10:42 EVERYBODY LIVES   IN THE AGE OF GRACE
• 10:43   BUT YOU HAVE TO ASK  FOR GRACE TO USE IT.
• 10:46 AND GOSH, THAT'S EASY.
• 10:49   GOD DIDN'T MAKE IT    HARD TO BE SAVED.
• 10:52 IN A MOMENT, ANY ONE OF US KNOWS  HOW TO BOW HIS HEAD AND SAY,
• 10:55   "I BELIEVE IN YOU.
• 10:57    "FORGIVE MY SINS.
• 10:58    "LIVE THROUGH ME.
• 11:00    "REMAKE MY LIFE."
• 11:01  HOWEVER YOU WANT TO PUT THAT.
• 11:02  GOD KNOWS YOUR HEART.
• 11:03 YOU DON'T HAVE    TO SAY A FORMULA PRAYER.
• 11:05    BUT COME TO BELIEF IN HIM AND TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS GRACE
• 11:09 IN THIS AGE IS JUST EVERYTHING.
• 11:13 IT'S THE WAY WE GO ON FROM HERE.
• 11:15 IT'S THE WAY WE    GO TO THE KINGDOM
• 11:16  AND ON TO ETERNITY WITH GOD.
• 11:19    AND IN THE KINGDOM, THERE WILL BE A PERIOD OF LAW AGAIN.
• 11:21  AND WE STRESSED THAT IN OUR OTHER PROGRAMS,
• 11:24 THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT CONTAINS    THE LAW FOR THE KINGDOM.
• 11:26  AND IT'S A TOUGH LAW.
• 11:28    BUT FOR THIS MOMENT WHAT IS SO SIMPLE TO COME TO FAITH,
• 11:33    TO COME TO SALVATION AND THE LIFE GIVEN IS SO WONDERFUL.
• 11:40   EXCUSE ME.
• 11:41 I HAVE WRITTEN    MY TESTIMONY MANY TIMES.
• 11:43   AND IT'S AVAILABLE  THROUGH OUR MINISTRY.
• 11:46    IN A SIMPLE WORD I EXPERIENCED IT MYSELF
• 11:50  AND UNTIL IT HAPPENS TO YOU,  YOU JUST CAN'T DEVALUATE IT.
• 11:53    IT IS WONDERFUL.
• 11:55    GRACE WILL LAST UNTIL THE  JUDGMENT SEAT FOR THE CHURCH.
• 11:59   THOSE IN THE CHURCH   GO TO HEAVEN IN THE RAPTURE
• 12:02   AND IN THE JUDGMENT SEAT OF CHRIST, THEIR WORKS ARE STUDIED.
• 12:06   GRACE STILL OBTAINS BECAUSE THEIR SINS ARE FORGIVEN,
• 12:09   OF COURSE.
• 12:10  AND IT DOESN'T EVEN COME UP.
• 12:12  WE TALKED ABOUT IT IN ANOTHER   CONTEXT OF ANOTHER PROGRAM.
• 12:14  OUR WORKS ARE  DIVIDED INTO TWO CATEGORIES,
• 12:18 WHETHER THEY BE OF GOLD, SILVER  AND PRECIOUS STONES OR WOOD,
• 12:22    HAY AND STUBBLE.
• 12:23   AND SO WE ARE TRIED AS IF BY FIRE IT SAYS.
• 12:27  A TORCH IS PUT TO THESE WORKS   AND SYMBOLICALLY THE WOOD,
• 12:31   HAY AND STUBBLE BURNS AWAY AND THE PRECIOUS JEWELS
• 12:34 ARE NOT HARMED.
• 12:35  AND WE ARE LEFT WITH REWARDS.
• 12:37 AND THAT IS THE  CHRISTIAN WALK IN A NUTSHELL.
• 12:40 OUR SINS DON'T   BOTHER US ANYMORE.
• 12:41   THEY HAVE FORGIVEN  AND FORGOTTEN AND WE
• 12:43  GET ON WITH OUR WORKS ACCORDING TO OUR GIFTS.
• 12:45  ONE PERSON WHO HAS A  BEAUTIFUL VOICE IS A SINGER.
• 12:48 ONE WHO TEACHES   WELL IS A TEACHER.
• 12:51  ONE WHO PRAYS WELL IS    AN INTERCESSOR AND SO ON.
• 12:54  AND THE NEW TESTAMENT  LISTS OUT A NUMBER OF GIFTS.
• 12:58    SOMEONE ONCE CALLED INTO   MY RADIO PROGRAM AND SAID,
• 13:01 "A SPIRITUAL GIFT IS SOMETHING  YOU DO SUPER NATURALLY WELL."
• 13:05    I THOUGHT I WOULD PASS IT  ON BECAUSE THAT'S VERY TRUE.
• 13:09    THE MOST ORDINARY PEOPLE,   LIKE THE GALILEAN TRADESMEN
• 13:14   AND FISHERMEN THAT THE LORD   CHOSE TO BE HIS DISCIPLES.
• 13:17    SOMEHOW BECOME GIANTS IN   SOME CERTAIN AREA IMPORTANT
• 13:20 TO GOD IN THIS BATTLE.
• 13:22   EVERY ARMY HAS SPECIALISTS
• 13:24    AND THE CHRISTIAN  ARMY IS NO DIFFERENT.
• 13:27  IT'S MADE UP   OF PEOPLE OF VARIOUS GIFTS
• 13:29  AND VARIOUS TALENTS, EACH IN HIS OWN NICHE.
• 13:32   WELL, WE GO TO THE   JUDGMENT SEAT WITH A RECORD
• 13:35    OF WORKS WHETHER  THEY ARE GOOD OR BAD
• 13:37  AND THEY ARE  TAKEN CARE OF THERE.
• 13:38 AND THEN WE REALLY ARE PERFECT.
• 13:41 OUR SINS FORGIVEN AT THE CROSS; THE BAD WORKS JUST BURNED AWAY,
• 13:45    STERILIZED AWAY,  TEMPERED AWAY
• 13:47 IN THAT JUDGMENT SEAT.
• 13:49   AND WE ARE THEN THAT VIRGIN  BRIDE ESPOUSED TO CHRIST THAT
• 13:52 PAUL PROMISED IN II CORINTHIANS.
• 13:56    THE IDEA IS THAT   WE ARE ALWAYS BEING
• 13:59  PERFECTED DAY BY DAY IN HIS LIKENESS; UNTIL HE COMES.
• 14:04 BUT THAT IS THAT GREAT   PERFECTING MOMENT,
• 14:08  THAT JUDGMENT SEAT IN HEAVEN.
• 14:10    WE THEN GO ON TO  MARRY THE LORD IN OUR WEDDING
• 14:13   AND COME BACK HERE TO OCCUPY OUR KINGDOM.
• 14:17  IT SHOULD BE STRESSED THAT WORKS ARE ONLY CONSIDERED
• 14:20  IN THE JUDGMENT SEAT WHEREAS ON EARTH WE ARE SOMETIMES DOING
• 14:26    SO MUCH TO AVOID SINNING   THAT WE'RE NOT DOING WORKS.
• 14:31   THAT IS, THE KIND OF PERSON   HOW DOES THE EXPRESSION GO
• 14:34 OF SUCH HEAVEN BEARING  AS OF NO EARTHLY USE.
• 14:38   PEOPLE THAT RETIRE    AWAY FROM LIFE ON EARTH.
• 14:42 ARE THERE REALLY GOOD SOLDIERS  WHO STAY AWAY FROM THE BATTLE
• 14:46 IN ORDER TO NOT   SOIL THEIR UNIFORM?
• 14:49   THAT'S A QUESTION.
• 14:51 I DON'T MEAN TO PREACH,    JUST TO TEACH IT.
• 14:53 BUT GRACE IS AN   UNDER-APPRECIATED PHENOMENA
• 14:55 IN THE CHURCH,   BECAUSE IT CAN ONLY
• 14:56  BE UNDERSTOOD  IF CONTRASTED TO LAW.
• 14:59 AND THE CHURCH  HAS NOT BEEN READING ITS LAW,
• 15:01   ITS OLD TESTAMENT.
• 15:02   SO AS THE PHILOSOPHER SAID,
• 15:05   "ANYTIME THOSE WHO  HAVE NOT READ HISTORY
• 15:08  "ARE CONDEMNED TO REPEAT IT."
• 15:10  IT'S APPARENT THAT THOSE WHO HAVEN'T READ THE OLD TESTAMENT
• 15:12 ALSO ARE CONDEMNED TO REPEAT IT.
• 15:14    THEY SIMPLY MAKE A NEW RELIGION OF LAWS.
• 15:16    NEW LAWS.
• 15:17   NEW LAWS ABOUT DRESS CODES.
• 15:20   LAWS ABOUT SPEAKING OUT IN CHURCH.
• 15:23 LAWS ABOUT HOW TO PRAY.
• 15:25   ABOUT ODDS AND ENDS  OF THINGS THAT ARE NOT REALLY
• 15:30  GIVEN AS LAWS ANYWHERE TO THE CHURCH.
• 15:32    THERE ARE NO LAWS  TO THE CHURCH AS WE STRESSED.
• 15:35    I WROTE THAT SENTENCE -- I DON'T KNOW IF IT WAS
• 15:37   15 OR 20 YEARS AGO   IN ONE OF MY BOOKS,
• 15:40  "THERE ARE NO   LAWS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT."
• 15:41  AND I WAITED  FOR PEOPLE TO OBJECT
• 15:43   OR GIVE ME TECHNICALITIES OR ADMONISHMENTS
• 15:47   OR COMMANDMENTS ET CETERA.
• 15:49   NOTHING EVER CAME.
• 15:51 IT'S VERY TRUE.
• 15:52    IT'S NOT A LEGAL SYSTEM.
• 15:53 IT'S A GRACIOUS SYSTEM AND THE CHRISTIAN WALK,
• 15:56 DONE PROPERLY,    IS MOST GRACEFUL.
• 16:01   HOW COULD WE GET ALL THIS?
• 16:04   LIKE THIS.
• 16:07   AT CALVARY.
• 16:08    IT WAS PURCHASED.
• 16:10    IT WAS A BRIDAL CONTRACT  WITH A VERY HIGH BRIDE PRICE.
• 16:14   IT TOOK THE BLOOD, THE BODY AND SUFFERING
• 16:17  OF A PERFECTLY INNOCENT MAN.
• 16:19    IT TOOK HIS LIFE.
• 16:21  HE EVEN SAID,  "LET THIS CUP PASS FROM ME."
• 16:24 HE DID NOT WANT    TO DRINK THIS WEDDING CUP
• 16:25    BECAUSE IT WAS AGONIZING.
• 16:30    BUT, DRINKING IT  AND PAYING THE PRICE
• 16:33   HE PROVIDED FOR US   THIS AMAZING GRACE,
• 16:38   THIS STUFF WE WALK THROUGH   IN THIS LIFE THAT GIVES US
• 16:41   PERFECT FORGIVENESS AS WE UTILIZE OUR WORK
• 16:44  TO ACCOMPLISH OUR MINISTRIES  FOR THE ONE WHO DIED FOR US.
• 16:52 AS WE'VE SAID,  THE SITE OF OUR LORD'S DEATH
• 16:54   HERE AT CALVARY HAS CHANGED  CONSIDERABLY OVER THE YEARS.
• 16:59    DAVID DOLAN JOINS US NOW JUST ACROSS THE STREET
• 17:02  FROM CALVARY WITH HIS   PERSPECTIVE ON THE SUBJECT
• 17:05  OF GRACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
• 17:08 I'M STANDING AT  THE BASE OF CALVARY,
• 17:10 RIGHT NEXT TO THE GARDEN TOMB.
• 17:12 ZOLA SPOKE ABOUT GRACE FROM THERE AND HE ALSO MENTIONED
• 17:15  THE ARAB BUS    STATION RIGHT BEHIND ME.
• 17:17    MOST OF THE ARABS    ARE MUSLIMS THEY BELIEVE
• 17:20 IN ALLAH AND THE KORAN;    THEIR HOLY BOOK.
• 17:24 IN THE KORAN, ALLAH IS PICTURED AS COMPASSIONATE AND MERCIFUL.
• 17:27   BUT HE'S ALSO VERY,   VERY STERN.
• 17:30   HE SEEMS TO PERFECT  JUDGMENT OVER MERCY.
• 17:33    THEY'RE ARE MANY,    MANY WARNINGS ABOUT HELL
• 17:35  IN THE KORAN    AND IN FACT MANY
• 17:36 MORE THAN PASSAGES ABOUT HEAVEN.
• 17:39    ALLAH SEEMS TO BE   ANGRY AND ALMOST VENGEFUL.
• 17:42  HE COMMANDS THAT WAR BE USED  TO SPREAD THE ISLAMIC FAITH.
• 17:46 HIS POWER AND HIS WRATH    ARE EMPHASIZED MUCH MORE
• 17:49    THAN HIS    COMPASSION AND HIS MERCY.
• 17:51  SALVATION IN THE KORAN SEEMS TO BE BY WORKS AND NOT BY GRACE.
• 17:56    THERE IS NO  ASSURANCE OF SALVATION.
• 17:59   GRACE IS MENTIONED DEFINITELY    AND ALLAH IS COMPASSIONATE.
• 18:02   HE DOES FORGIVE SIN.
• 18:04   BUT WORKS ARE MENTIONED FAR MORE OFTEN.
• 18:06   A MUSLIM MUST    EARN HIS SALVATION.
• 18:09  COMPASSION IS TAUGHT.
• 18:10 BUT SINCE POWER    AND WORKS ARE EMPHASIZED
• 18:13  FORGIVENESS IS NOT NEARLY SO CENTRAL AS IT IS IN THE BIBLE.
• 18:17    ETERNITY CONSISTS    OF A VERY SENSUAL HeAVEN
• 18:20 WITH LITERAL MANSIONS.
• 18:22  WOMAN ARE THE SERVANTS OF MEN
• 18:24  GIVING THEM PLEASURE  AND EARTHLY DELIGHTS.
• 18:26  IN FACT, HEAVEN IN THE KORAN  SEEMS TO BE VERY MUCH CLOSER
• 18:29    TO THE EARTH THAN THE TRANSCENDENT HEAVEN
• 18:33    AS PICTURED IN THE BIBLE.
• 18:35  THE HEAVEN WHERE JOY AT BEING IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD
• 18:38 IS EMPHASIZED.
• 18:40   THE KORAN'S HEAVEN  AND CENTERED ON MAN.
• 18:42   THE BIBLE'S ON GOD  AND ON THE SON OF GOD
• 18:45    WHO OVERCAME SIN  AND DEATH ON CALVARY.
• 18:49    [ music playing ]
• 18:50 ♪ "WHY HAS GOD FORSAKEN ME," ♪
• 18:54   ♪ CRIED OUT ALONE ♪
• 19:00 ♪ THEN WITH HIS LAST BREATH, ♪
• 19:04   ♪ HE WEPT, ♪
• 19:06    ♪ "IT IS DONE." ♪
• 19:11    [ music playing ]
• 19:41   [ orchestra music playing ]
• 20:12    ♪ JESUS, ♪
• 20:14     ♪ REMEMBER ME, ♪
• 20:17 ♪ WHEN YOU GO HOME. ♪
• 20:22   ♪ FOR MY SALVATION ♪
• 20:27 ♪ MUST COME FROM YOU ALONE. ♪
• 20:32    ♪ I SEE IT IN HIS TEARS, ♪
• 20:37   ♪ IN HIS ANGUISH AND PAIN. ♪
• 20:42   ♪ WHAT GREAT LOVE ♪
• 20:45    ♪ IT CAUSED MY SALVATION ♪
• 20:52   ♪ TO GAIN. ♪
• 20:54    ♪ JESUS, ♪
• 20:55     ♪ REMEMBER ME, ♪
• 20:58 ♪ WHEN YOU GO HOME. ♪
• 21:04   ♪ FOR MY SALVATION ♪
• 21:08 ♪ MUST COME FROM YOU ALONE. ♪♪
• 21:24    DAVID'S DISCUSSION OF THE   MUSLIM CONCEPTION OF WORKS
• 21:28 FOR SALVATION IS VERY FAMILIAR.
• 21:31    THERE ARE PEOPLE   WORKING ON THEIR SALVATION
• 21:33 IN A HUNDRED WORLDLY RELIGIONS.
• 21:36  THE PROBLEM IS PEOPLE  DOING WORKS TO PLEASE
• 21:39  THEIR CONCEPTION OF GOD BEGIN  TO BEHAVE IN REMARKABLE WAYS.
• 21:44 AND I GUESS THE MOST REMARKABLE  IS THE IDEA OF SOME MUSLIMS,
• 21:51   INCLUDING TERRORISM   AS A RELIGIOUS WORK
• 21:55   AND THEY REALLY DO AND IT'S PERHAPS TAUGHT
• 21:57   BY A SHEIK WHO PREACHES KILL THE INFIDEL.
• 22:03  AND THESE BECOME HOLY WORKS.
• 22:05 A GOOD EXAMPLE  IS AGAIN THE CONTRACT
• 22:08 ON THE AUTHOR, SALMAN RUSHDIE.
• 22:10 THERE IS A VAST REWARD; MILLIONS OF DOLLARS AND SO FORTH
• 22:14 TO ASSASSINATE    A VIRTUALLY INNOCENT MAN
• 22:17 WHO WOULD NOT SET OUT TO INSULT   ANYBODY'S GOD AND SO FORTH.
• 22:22    AND IT BECOMES AN   ACT OF GOD TO KILL PEOPLE.
• 22:27  SOLDIERS IN THE WARS   AGAINST ISRAEL WERE CAUGHT
• 22:31   WITH SHIRT POCKET BOOKLETS,   PARTICULARLY THE EGYPTIANS.
• 22:34  IN ONE OF MY EARLIER BOOKS I PUBLISHED A WORK BY AN EGYPTIAN
• 22:37 OFFICER WHO WAS    TELLING THE ENLISTED MEN,
• 22:39  MEN WHO COULD BARELY    READ OR WRITE, YOU KNOW,
• 22:43  "KILL THE JEW WHEREVER YOU FIND HIM.
• 22:44 "IT'S A PLEASING WORK TO GOD,"  AND SO FORTH.
• 22:49    WORKING -- ANYONE  WORKING ON SALVATION
• 22:51 DEVELOP CERTAIN CHARACTERISTICS THAT ARE COMMON
• 22:54    NO MATTER WHETHER  HE'S IN SOME ODD DENOMINATION
• 22:57    OF CHRISTIANITY OR MUSLIM OR ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD,
• 23:01    THEY BECOME VERY WORLDLY,
• 23:04   THIS WORLD ORIENTED  DOING WORLDLY WORKS.
• 23:06   THEY BECOME VERY RELIGIOUS   IN THE SENSE OF SPIRITISTIC
• 23:10 THINGS ARE ALWAYS IN THEIR MIND.
• 23:12   THEY TALK THAT WAY,  ACT THAT WAY,
• 23:13    PERHAPS THEY ESCHEW SIN.
• 23:15   THEY HAVE A WONDERFUL HOLY LIFE --
• 23:18  LOOKING, HOLY-LOOKING    LIFE IS WHAT I'M SAYING,
• 23:20   SELF-MADE MORALIST.
• 23:22  THE GOSPEL WAS FULL OF THEM.
• 23:24 AND THEY BECOME    QUITE UNBIBLICAL.
• 23:25 THEY CAN NEVER  QUOTE THE SCRIPTURE.
• 23:27    IN FACT, THEY DEFAME THE   SCRIPTURE ALL OF THE TIME.
• 23:29    PROTESTANT DENOMINATIONS    THAT DON'T USE THE BIBLE
• 23:33 IN THE CHURCH TEND TO BECOME NOT UNBIBLICAL, BUT ANTI-BIBLICAL.
• 23:37    THEY SAY THINGS THAT ARE OBNOXIOUS OF THE BIBLE.
• 23:42    THE FIRST OF WHICH ISRAEL   IS REPLACED BY THE CHURCH.
• 23:47   WE DON'T HAVE THIS    ORIGINAL PEOPLE ANYMORE.
• 23:49  WE'RE THE NEW CHOSEN PEOPLE.
• 23:50   GOSH, I COULD LIST OUT THROUGHOUT THE REST
• 23:52  OF THE PROGRAM DENOMINATIONS  THAT HAVE SAID THAT.
• 23:55    I DON'T MEAN JUST    PROTESTANTS OR CHRISTIAN
• 23:58  OR ANYTHING,  CHOSEN PEOPLE COME FROM UTAH,
• 24:00 THEY COME FROM   JAPAN AND SO FORTH.
• 24:05    ALL OF THIS IS --   IS COUNTERED TO THE
• 24:08 SIMPLE BIBLICAL MESSAGE   OF FREE SALVATION,
• 24:10   THE GIFT OF THE GOD    WHICH YOU SIMPLY ASK FOR.
• 24:15    THEY USED TO SAY WHEN I WAS WITH CAMPUS CRUSADE,
• 24:17  OUR PROBLEM IS TO GET THE SIMPLICITY ACROSS.
• 24:20    THE COMPLEXITIES    TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES.
• 24:22  WE ONLY HAVE FOUR SPIRITUAL LAWS TO EXPLAIN.
• 24:25   AND IT WAS TOUGH TO GET PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND THEM,
• 24:27  SIMPLE AS THEY WERE.
• 24:28   WELL, WE HAVE GONE  MOUNTAIN TOP TO MOUNTAIN TOP
• 24:30    TRYING TO EXPLAIN A FEW BIBLE PRINCIPLES.
• 24:32  WE HAVE BEEN TO MOUNT MORIAH
• 24:34   WHERE WE DISCUSSED   THE COVENANT WITH ABRAHAM,
• 24:36 THE BEGINNING OF ALL REDEMPTION.
• 24:39 WE WENT TO MOUNT SINAI,   WHERE WE DISCUSSED THE LAW
• 24:41  AND CONTRASTED IT WITH GRACE.
• 24:44   WE WENT TO GAMALIA   AT GALILEE WHERE WE
• 24:46   DISCUSSED THE ROMAN   ASSAULT THERE AND AT MASADA
• 24:50  IN CONNECTION    EVEN WITH THE HOLOCAUST,
• 24:52 ANOTHER ASSAULT  ON THE CHOSEN PEOPLE,
• 24:54   MUCH MORE RECENT BY WAY OF   TALKING HISTORY AND WISDOM.
• 24:59  MOUNT TABOR,    WE TALKED ABOUT PROPHECY.
• 25:02    SO MUCH WAS GIVEN THERE, SO MUCH FULFILLED THERE
• 25:04 AND IT'S STILL SITTING, THE MOUNTAIN IS IN THE
• 25:07  MIDDLE OF THE  VALLEY OF ARMAGEDDON,
• 25:08  GOING TO BE THE SITE OF OUTWORKING END-TIME
• 25:10 PROPHECIES IN OUR OWN FUTURES.
• 25:13 WE WENT TO THE   MOUNT OF BEATITUDES
• 25:15 WHERE WE DISCUSSED THE MESSIAH.
• 25:18   HE IS OUTSTANDINGLY    PRESENTED THERE OF COURSE
• 25:21  THERE ON THE  SERMON ON THE MOUNT.
• 25:23 AND WE WENT TO GOLGOTHA  ON TONIGHT'S PROGRAM.
• 25:26  THERE WE TALKED ABOUT GRACE BECAUSE THERE IS
• 25:29  WHERE IT WAS OBTAINED  AND PAID FOR AND FROM THERE,
• 25:33 GIVEN FREELY TO ANYONE WHO ASK.
• 25:35  NOT TO THOSE WHO WORK ON IT.
• 25:37    BUT TO THOSE WHO    ASK FOR IT, FOR NOTHING.
• 25:40    GOSH, I TOLD THIS STORY.
• 25:41 I WROTE A BOOK WITH THE   BRILLIANT BIBLE EXPOSITOR.
• 25:46  PROFESSOR BAYER LUNGAR, MANY YEARS AGO FROM DALLAS SEMINARY.
• 25:50  AND HE STRESSED TO ME, FAITH PLUS NOTHING EQUALS SALVATION.
• 25:56  THAT WAS AN EQUATION   WE PUT IN THE BOOK.
• 25:58    NOTHING ADDED TO   FAITH HELPS GET SALVATION.
• 26:03   SO IT WASN'T FAITH    PLUS WORKS AND IT WASN'T
• 26:05    FAITH PLUS PUBLIC   REPENTANCE OR HOLY BAPTISM
• 26:08 OR THIS FORMULA OR THAT FORMULA.
• 26:11  WHATEVER, FAITH PLUS    NOTHING EQUALS SALVATION.
• 26:14 IF YOU BELIEVE, SAY TO  GOD SAVE ME AND YOU'RE SAVED.
• 26:19   I KNOW IT.
• 26:19    I DID IT.
• 26:22   UPCOMING PROGRAMS,   WE ARE GOING TO MOUNT ZION.
• 26:24  AND THERE WE    WILL DISCUSS THE CHURCH,
• 26:25   THERE WE BELIEVE IT   WAS FOUNDED AND THE
• 26:27  MOUNT OF OLIVES WHERE  WE WILL DISCUSS THE KINGDOM,
• 26:30  LOOKING THERE AT THE   EASTERN GATE WHERE
• 26:32 WE'RE ALL GOING TO MEET
• 26:33  AND COME THROUGH WITH
• 26:34 THE LORD IN HIS RETURN.
• 26:35  ON THIS PROGRAM I'LL
• 26:36   OFFER YOU THE VIDEO SERIES,
• 26:38 THE WHOLE NINE PROGRAMS
• 26:39   INCLUDING THE MUSIC PROGRAM
• 26:42  AT THE END AND ALL OF
• 26:44   THESE MOUNTAIN TOP LESSONS,
• 26:45  WILL BE $89.
• 26:47    NOW, WE'VE GOTTEN
• 26:48   ALL OF THESE PROGRAMS DOWN
• 26:49   PRETTY REASONABLE, I THINK.
• 26:50 NINE PROGRAMS ON VIDEO FOR $89.
• 26:53   YOU CAN ORDER THAT
• 26:54 AT THE POST OFFICE BOX
• 26:55  OR BY CALLING THE 800 NUMBER.
• 26:58 YOU'D NEED YOUR  CREDIT CARD FOR THAT.
• 27:00 PLEASE, JUST ASK FOR THE VIDEO SERIES OR THE MOUNTAIN SERIES.
• 27:05 YOU CAN GET THE LEVITT   LETTER AT OUR POST OFFICE,
• 27:07   OR THE 800 NUMBER.
• 27:09    THE 800 NUMBER REALLY IS FOR CREDIT CARD ORDERS
• 27:11   SUCH AS THE VIDEOS.
• 27:12 BUT ASK FOR THE LEVITT   LETTER WHILE YOU'RE AT IT,
• 27:14  IT'S FREE OF CHARGE.
• 27:15   AND IF YOU CAN SEND US SOME GIFTS SO WE CAN KEEP DOING THIS,
• 27:18   PLEASE DO.
• 27:19  WE'RE IN POST PRODUCTION NOW.
• 27:21 IT'S EXPENSIVE.
• 27:22 AND SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM.
• 27:24 PRAY FOR THE PIECE OF JERUSALEM.
• 27:27    [ music playing ]
• 27:32   ♪ TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN, ♪
• 27:35 ♪ TELL THE STORY OF THE LORD. ♪
• 27:41    ♪ HE CAME TO YOU ♪
• 27:43     ♪ AND SUPPED WITH YOU ♪
• 27:46 ♪ AND WHISPERED TO YOUR SOUL. ♪
• 27:50    ♪ HE LOVED AND SAVED YOU ♪
• 27:54     ♪ AND HE CAME ♪
• 27:56   ♪ INTO YOUR HEART. ♪
• 28:00     ♪ NOW, TELL IT ♪
• 28:02   ♪ ON THE MOUNTAINS ♪
• 28:03   ♪ IN THE CITY OF OUR GOD. ♪
• 28:08 ♪ TELL THE STORY OF THE LORD. ♪
• 28:12   ♪ IN THE CITY OF OUR GOD. ♪♪
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