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Amazing Facts

Commands of the King

Doug Batchelor

Commands of the King, Part 1

Commands of the King, Part 2

This presentation is brought to you by the Friends of the Amazing Facts Ministry.

1 of the more bizarre laws in Minnesota forbids any game where participants chase a grease pig in order to catch it.

It's also illegal to throw knives at men wearing striped suits in Natoma, Kansas.

In West Virginia, using your ferret for hunting can land you in jail for up to 100 days.

And you better not transport ice cream in your pocket in Kentucky.

It's against the law to gather seaweed at night in New Hampshire.

And in Vermont, a woman needs written permission from her husband before she can lawfully wear false teeth.

Doesn't it seem like humans excel at making things unnecessarily complex?

On the other hand, God's moral code is streamlined, simple, and totally practical.

The 10 Commandments are also a perfect reflection of the loving character of God.

They help us to see sin in our lives and to point us in the right direction.

So join me today as we look deeper into this essential law of love.

Pastor Joe Cruz used to share this illustration that the shrimp out there in the ocean, when they molt as they grow, they slough off their old skin.

They have to swim down to the bottom of the shore, and they grab a piece of sand.

And with their little hands, they've got a crevice in their head with a little pocket in it.

And they push a piece of sand down in there, and it's called a status stone.

And what happens is when the shrimp are getting beat up in the waves and the currents and they're all swirling around they always know how to swim right side up because they got this little piece of sand in their head it helps them keep their equilibrium and so that they know which end is up.

Well a marine biologist got a bright idea.

He got an aquarium and filled them up with shrimp, but in the bottom of the aquarium there was no sand.

He put little iron pellets, and when it came time for them to molt and to replace their status stone, they went down there, not finding any sand, They all grabbed a little piece of iron They stuck it in the crevice with their little claws and everything was fine But this marine biologist had a sense of humor, so he got a large electromagnet And he put it across the top of the aquarium It was like a bar and he flipped the switch and turned it on and as soon as he did all the shrimp spun around and began to swim upside down.

And he watched that, he turned it off and they swam normally, turned it back on, they flipped upside down, he thought this is amazing.

He said, I wonder what will happen if I take a normal shrimp that's got the normal rock in his head and drop him in with the other shrimp.

Will he flip upside down to fit in or will he swim appropriately?

It was a normal shrimp with a piece of sand in his head with all the other shrimps that had rusty iron in their heads.

And this 1 shrimp, he swam right side up.

And all the other shrimp began to talk about him.

I don't know if that's true, but you can imagine what they were thinking.

He was actually the only 1 that was swimming right side up.

That's what's happening in our world today.

We got people everywhere swimming upside down, and since everyone else is swimming upside down we think we're supposed to flip upside down too.

Someone once said because a million people believe a dumb idea it's still a dumb idea.

Moses said do not follow a multitude to do evil and we're being just bombarded by media with the idea that we're supposed to sacrifice our principles so that we could fit in with a culture today.

We will not be judged by the culture, we're gonna be judged by the Word of God.

Now the title for our presentation tonight is the commands of the king.

You might be thinking Pastor Doug in a prophecy seminar like this why are we talking about the law of God?

Let me give you 3 quotes from the book of Revelation book of prophecy in the Bible last book in the Bible Revelation chapter 12 verse 17.

The dragon was wroth with the woman and he went to make war with the remnant of her seed that keeps the commandments of God.

The ones who keep the commandments of God.

You look in Revelation chapter 14 verse 12.

Here are those who keep the commandments of God and have the faith of Jesus.

Last chapter in Revelation and said, blessed are those that keep his commandments that they might have a right to the tree of life and And enter in through the gates of the city.

So here's 3 times in Revelation It says that the people who are going to be successful and survive are the ones who are obedient.

Indeed, when you look at the messages of Jesus to the 7 churches in chapters 2 and 3 of Revelation, it says, to him who overcomes, to him who overcomes, to him who overcomes 7 times.

God wants his people to be an obedient people.

Now I believe, in case there's any question, I don't want you to doubt this at all, we are saved by grace through faith.

But I believe when you are saved by faith, you will obey.

Some pastors are making it sound today like if you believe in or talk about obedience, you are automatically a legalist.

The Bible teaches that we are to be obedient to God.

He wants to save us from our sins, right?

John 15, verse 10, Christ said, I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.

The Bible says, Thy word I have hidden in my heart that I might not sin against thee.

According to the Bible, all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.

So we're not talking about that there's no hope for anyone, because we've all broken God's law.

What is the punishment for living a life of sin?

And when God saves us, He doesn't want us to just cut down on our sin, because sin is deadly.

The Lord can help you stop the things and the addictions that are a problem in your life.

And even in Christian churches, they say, Pastor Doug, now you're getting legalistic.

I remember John Lomacain and I were doing an interview, a debate on television, Channel 42, oh, it must be 30 years ago, with some other ministers about the commandments.

And these ministers said, we're not under the law, nobody can keep the law.

And I said, are you telling me that nobody can keep the 10 Commandments?

I said, so God gave people a law, told them to keep it, and then punished them for not keeping it, and he knew they could never keep it.

He needed them to understand that they couldn't do it, and so he was just going to have to forgive them through Jesus.

I said, you don't think we can keep any of the commandments?

I said, how about the seventh commandment?

I said, do you believe the devil can tempt us to sin?

I said, but you don't think Jesus can keep us from sin.

So in my book, Jesus said, greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.

Got all these bumper stickers out that say Christians aren't perfect, they're just forgiven.

And while I agree that Christians may not be perfect.

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