Good morning, let
us kneel for prayer.
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Dear heavenly Father, we
thank you for this opportunity.
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We thank you for
waking us up this morning.
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I ask that you will
please bless those who are
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traveling in today,
give them traveling mercies.
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Thank you so much that
we are here at GYC where
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we can receive a blessing.
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I ask you to please empty
us of ourselves and fill us
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with your Holy Spirit.
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I pray especially that you
will be with Sebastien this
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morning, anoint his lips
and help him to speak Your word.
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Let him be a vessel for You.
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Thank you so much for loving
us, and dying on the cross
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for us and we can't wait
for that great GYC reunion
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in heaven, in Your
precious name, Amen!
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Sebastien: Oh GYC
do you love Jesus?
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Audience: yes we love Jesus.
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Sebastien: Are you
sure you love Jesus?
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Audience: we are
sure we love Jesus.
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Sebastien: And
why do you love Jesus?
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Audience: here's
why we love Jesus.
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Audience and Sebastien:
because He first loved me,
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that's the reason we
all ought to love Him.
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Audience and
Sebastien: oh how I love Jesus
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oh how I love
Jesus, oh I love Jesus
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because He first loved me.
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How many of you,
that's what made you get
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at 6 in the morning?
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Because you love
Jesus right? Amen!
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This morning I am going
to share a message with you
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entitled "But Now". But Now!
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Before we jump into the
message, and while the rest
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of the latecomers are
strolling in, I'm assuming with
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their Bibles, I just want
to ask you guys four favors.
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Is that okay? Just four!
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This will be something
to help set the tone for our
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meetings
throughout the mornings.
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My first request from
you at GYC this morning is to
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pray and be
intentional about this not being
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a regular meeting.
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As GYC has been in
existence for about eight years.
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As an organization we exist
to help ourselves not exist.
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That is the
reason why GYC exists.
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It is a movement, and GYC
as a movement therefore means
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it is not an event.
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It is not something that
happens for five days at a
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Convention Center while
we stay in nice hotels eating
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food that needs a lot of prayer.
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I believe we can give
them a chance this morning,
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we will see what
they have for us. Amen!
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GYC is a movement, and what
that means is we must always
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be moving towards our goal,
which is to finish God's work
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in this generation.
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If that is the goal,
and if GYC is a movement,
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then you are GYC.
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GYC functions all year long,
as long as the feet of young
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people are fast about
their Father's business.
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Then GYC is a movement.
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It's when you stop
moving that GYC dies.
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It's not when the conference
ends, that is not when
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GYC dies, GYC dies when
your feet, as young people,
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stop moving about
your Father's business.
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Thus I need two
requests as my second favor.
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There are too
kinds of attendees.
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There are those who have
come to GYC for the first time.
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For you my challenge is,
you came as you are, we welcome
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you as you are, but our
prayer is that you will not stay
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as you are. Audience: Amen!
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We must always be
seeking higher ground.
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As a result of that, if
this is your first GYC, pray in
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your heart and be intentional
in your mind that this
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will not be a regular weekend.
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I'm not going to go
back to do more of the same.
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It is not a mountain top
experience, this is actually
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the bottom of the mountain.
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It's when you leave GYC
that you understand spiritual
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mountain climbing to
the true mountaintop.
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For those of you who
have come to GYC before.
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I know that for many of
us who have attended for many
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years, you can
become disillusioned.
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How many more
GYC's do we have to have?
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How many more great
speakers can we come up with?
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How many more great and
powerful seminars do we need
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to continue you to go
through, for every generation?
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We must be improving as a
movement and that means for
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those of you that
attended for years, we need your
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presence as well because
God does not just use speakers
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He also uses attendees.
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Our young people, here in
this place, for the next five
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days, four days, who may
not make it to morning or
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evening devotions,
for whatever reason.
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But you will see
them in the hallway.
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They may be living
in the room next to you.
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Therefore God needs you
to be an agent of change.
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So with the theme "Unashamed"
we have to leave behind
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all the political correctness
that keeps us bound from
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being true to the calling
that God has upon our lives.
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If we are truly that
generation, that means we must
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be what no other generation was.
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Not even Paul's generation.
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So my challenge is, if you
see a brother or sister doing
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something that does not
represent the spirit of Christ,
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tap them on the
shoulder and call them out.
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If you see a young sister
a little too close to a young
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brother, tap them
on the shoulder. Amen?
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Tap them on the shoulder.
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My third request and favor
is that I hope that you guys
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bring a pen and paper
when you come to listen to the
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Word of God.
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We have this mindset that
I have heard everything that
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has ever been preached.
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We have this mindset
that what else could come
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from this book?
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But the truth of the
matter is lives are continually
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changed by the
power of the Word of God.
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That means for us to
think arrogantly that we can get
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nothing from when the
Bible as being opened.
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This is in actuality
the thoughts of God being
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expressed to humanity.
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You cannot exhaust Him, so
as my recommendation always
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is, you take out a piece
of paper, pen or pencil and
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ask yourself three
questions about every sermon.
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It helps me as a preacher,
some sermons are hard to
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listen to. Amen?
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Maybe you guys don't
know what I'm talking about.
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Maybe your pastor is
the most dynamic speaker in
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North America.
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Three questions you
want to ask yourself.
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Number 1. what is it
that I heard in this sermon
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that I have never heard before?
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You are always going
to learn something new.
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Second question, where was
my mind when the Word of God
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was being preached?
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Now you know sometimes
you listen to the Bible being
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preached and your
mind starts wandering, yes?
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You don't know why, maybe
you ate that pizza too late.
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Or you were hanging out
with your friends strong last
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night, but your
mind starts wandering.
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That is not a negative thing,
you need to write that down
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because even though the
preacher may be talking about
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"But Now", the Holy Spirit
is trying to talk to you about
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your relationship.
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Where two or three
are gathered, they He is
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in the midst of them.
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God has a message for
every single person seated here.
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Where was your mind
when the word of God
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was being preached?
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And lastly, what
am I going to do now,
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that I've heard this message?
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Specific action.
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You know when you look at
creation, which is in question
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right now, we say that God
created the world by His word.
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That means that the Word
of God always produces action.
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Amen? So that means we
live in a world right now that
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when God spoke to a
whale to swallow a man
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and not digest him.
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When God speaks to a
donkey, it will open its mouth.
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When God tells the Sun to
stop while Joshua was fighting,
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the sun stopped.
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But there is one part of
creation that keeps the power
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that is within the
Word of God captive.
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That is humanity.
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God can speak to us
and we will do nothing.
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Simply because He
is bound by the will.
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We must choose to
surrender to the Word of God.
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Everything that is in
opposition to the Word of God.
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So your third question
is, what am I going to do now
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that I have heard this message?
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My last request is about
a four letter word, anybody
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know what I am thinking?
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No, it is not to pray,
but you should do that for me,
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the entire time.
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Okay, the four letter
word starts with an A, M,
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Oh, Amen! Oh Amen!
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I want to reiterate something
Justin said last night.
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Amen is not a black word, Amen.
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Audience: Amen!
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I go to preach at black
churches, and I just stand up.
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Amen! I didn't say anything.
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God bless my brothers and
sisters, but it is important
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for us to recognize that
at the end, in the book of
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Revelation, when
the victory comes.
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All creation black,
white, Hispanic, Asian, whatever
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you come from, before
the flood, after the flood,
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if you were righteous and
you got the victory through
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Jesus Christ there is
one word that will come
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out of every
mouth, that will be Amen.
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So that means it is
not a cultural word.
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Amen, the first time it is
used in the Bible is in the
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book of Numbers, chapter 5.
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Unfortunately regarding
a wife that was unfaithful
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to her husband.
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The priest was to take
her to the gate of the camp,
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pronounced a curse, and
she was supposed to respond
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by saying, Amen!
which means so let it be
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as you have said.
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So if there is something
that comes from the message that
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resonates with your heart.
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Something that you are
saying, I want what that man or
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that woman just said, so let
it be unto me as they have said.
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Then you say, Amen!
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If there is something in
the message that stepped on
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your toes, and you
are like oow, I'm going
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to have to give that up.
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You know you need to say,
Amen, so let it be as you have
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said unto your servant.
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Amen? Audience: Amen!
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so from the left, from
the right, down the middle,
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I'm a preacher
that likes conversation.
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So please do not
withhold your Amen's.
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Let's pray.
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Mighty God, everlasting Father,
we thank you for the gift
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of life and we know it
is not because we were so
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righteous yesterday
that You gave us life today.
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But it is because Your
Word says that Your mercies are
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new every morning and
great is Your faithfulness that
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even when we do not
believe, yet God abides faithful
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for He cannot deny Himself.
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Father your mercies endure
forever and we are praying
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for this one meeting
that You will help us by the
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power of Your Holy
Spirit, that this will not be a
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regular meeting.
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That You will travel
from heart-to-heart, and from
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mind to mind impressing
upon the soul the message that
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You have for that one heart.
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That we may all obtain
higher ground and to develop
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a Christ-like
spirit that is unashamed.
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Teach us Lord as we read
Your word and take this Your
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manservant, whom you
know is but dust in Your sight
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and breathe upon him
the breath of God and
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fill him with thy favor.
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This is our prayer, and we ask
You that it be our experience
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for we ask in Jesus name, Amen!
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If you have your Bibles with
you, turn with me to the book
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2 Samuel chapter 12.
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2 Samuel chapter 12,
when you are there say, Amen!
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If you are not
there say, have mercy.
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2 Samuel 12:1,
are you there? Amen!
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Audience: Amen!
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This is what the word of
God says, "and the Lord sent"
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"Nathan unto David. And he
came unto him and said unto"
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"him, there were two men in
one city; the one rich, and"
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"the other poor. 2. The
rich man had exceeding many"
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"flocks and herds: 3. But
the poor man had nothing, save"
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"one little ewe lamb, which
he had bought and nourished"
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"up: and he grew up
together with him, and with his"
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"children; it did eat of
his own meat, and drank of his"
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"own cup, and lay in
his bosom, and was unto him"
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"as a daughter. "
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Sounds like the way we
treat pets in America, right!
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I know some people do treat
their pets better than their
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children. I was like mercy.
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But apparently it
is not a new concept.
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Verse 5, "and David's anger
was greatly kindled against"
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"the man; and he said to
Nathan, as the Lord liveth, the"
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"man that has done this
thing shall surely die. "
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6. "And he shall restore
the lamb fourfold, because he"
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"did this thing, and
because he had no pity. "
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7. "And Nathan said to
David, thou art the man. Thus"
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"saith the Lord God of Israel,
I anointed thee King over"
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"Israel, and I delivered
thee out of the hand of Saul;"
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Now we know that the
situation that is coming by the
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prophet Nathan has followed
David's sin with Bathsheba
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and his desire to cover it up.
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We find now that Nathan
comes, and this seems to be a
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precedent in the life of
David, that he gets rebuked
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under stories, people tell
him a story and he responds to
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the story and then the
prophet, or the person will say,
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you are the person
who is guilty of the very
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thing in this story.
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He comes and he says, you
know David you were a shepherd
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boy, there were
two men in one city.
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One man, a rich man,
had many flocks and herds.
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That means he had multiple
groups of sheep, but at the
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same token this one gentleman,
a poor man, he only had
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one lamb and that lamb
was so precious to him that it
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grew up as if it was
one of his own children.
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When a traveler came in, it
was the custom of hospitality
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in the Old Testament,
they wanted to prepare
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something for
this wayward traveler.
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The rich man looking over
his many flocks and herds,
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he said to himself, you
know, I don't want to use any
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of my sheep, I'm
going to go get his sheep.
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So he takes the one man's
lamb, and as he takes this
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man's lamb he kills
it, and feeds the traveler.
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And David's response
is complete utter shock.
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As a shepherd, we are
talking about a man who will
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fight a bear to
defend his sheep.
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We are talking about a
young man who will wrestle down
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a lion to defend his sheep.
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So you can only imagine
how precious and heartfelt
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this is for David.
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He responds with this
condemnation in 2 Samuel 12.
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David says, as surely as
God lives, the man who did this
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thing shall surely die.
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Now it is interesting, the
Old Testament, in the book of
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Exodus, tells us that if
you steal a man's lamb you only
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have to restore fourfold,
it is not worthy of death.
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But yet we find that
with David, he goes beyond the
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condemnation of God.
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He is harsher on
this particular crime,
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than God Himself is.
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It is interesting because
the next verse says David, you
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saw just how you condemned
this man, well guess what?
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You're the man, you're the man.
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We live in a time where
you're the man doesn't have any
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negative connotations.
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They come up and say will
brother Sebastien I heard your
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preaching, you're the
man, no Jesus is the man. Amen!
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Jesus is the man, but in
David's case I want to add a
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different definition
to, that your the man.
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You see often times we are
harsher upon the evil we see
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in others then we
are in our own lives.
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We sit down and we watch CNN.
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We open up the newspaper,
we heard some stories from the
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mission fields about the
kinds of evil and wickedness
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that exists in the world.
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We sit back like David
listening to the Jerusalem news,
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a man stole another man's lamb.
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We are like, man
this guy should be killed.
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Then the message comes
back to you and immediately
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says you're the man.
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We read about the fact
that this genocide that happened
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in Rwanda, if you just
pick up one book to read the
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stories of what the men
did to other men, men did to
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other women, and you
see the evil that was in
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the heart of individuals.
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They said they looked at
the genocide as a 9-to-5 job.
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Get up at 9 and go out
killing till 5 PM and come back.
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1 million people died
in less than 100 days.
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We look at that and
say, look at this gross evil.
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The fact that all these
nations did not intervene,
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we condemn the evil
that we see around us,
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but what do we do about
the evil in our own hearts?
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We are often harsher, and
when you see the wickedness
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in that man, when you see
the wickedness in that woman,
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do you see that you are the man?
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You see friends what we
are talking about is this,
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what caused them to
commit this genocide in Rwanda?
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What caused the heart of
Hitler to rise up and decide to
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kill millions of Jews?
00:20:05.66\00:20:08.00
What caused Stalin to
cause the death of these people?
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It was a three
letter word called sin.
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If that is what sin
leads to, and sin is in me,
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then you're the man.
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We think because our
sins are not as gross,
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God is showing
His distaste for sin.
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In our own hatred of the
evil in others, every time we
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look at the news, every
time we cracked the newspaper,
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He says gets what, he
grew up in a good Christian
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home just like you.
00:20:36.13\00:20:38.30
He went to a nice good Academy
and school just like you.
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What happened to him?
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To me that is why
Timothy McVeigh, blowing up this
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building in Oklahoma city,
with such a big deal to America,
00:20:50.70\00:20:53.40
because we thought
terrorist are out there.
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Terrorist are out
there and that is exactly our
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mentality in the church.
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The greatest opposition
that comes in the church,
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tends to be within the church.
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Can you say
Amen? Audience: Amen!
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Somewhere and someplace in
some office sin has taken hold
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of a man or a woman.
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We may condemn the actions
of a pastor, we may condemn
00:21:19.26\00:21:23.53
the actions of an elder
or another church member,
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but here comes back to you.
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Be it a Nathan,
2009, you are the man.
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You are the man.
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I remember listening to this
illustration about a wealthy
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businessman, he was
listening to an apologist,
00:21:37.43\00:21:39.26
Robbie Zacharias.
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Him and Robbie had a meeting,
and Robbie was recounting
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this meeting, and he said
he sat down with this wealthy
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businessman, and Robbie's
presentation was about the fact
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in order for you to
believe right and wrong,
00:21:51.33\00:21:53.86
you have to believe in God.
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You can't ground
morality without God.
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So the wealthy businessman
looks at Robbie across the
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table and says, you know
I want to believe there is
00:22:00.96\00:22:03.50
right and wrong, I want
to believe that there is evil
00:22:03.50\00:22:06.00
in the world but I
don't want to have to believe
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in God to believe that.
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As he is going on and on
his assistant was sitting by.
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His assistant looked at
the wealthy businessman and he
00:22:15.83\00:22:19.16
said, I hear you're talking
about the evils around you.
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I hear you talking
about the evils in society.
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But what do you do about
the evil in your own heart?
00:22:25.80\00:22:30.90
The man paused for a
moment, and he said I guess
00:22:30.90\00:22:35.96
when I committed it
is a victimless act.
00:22:35.96\00:22:40.30
Robbie, providing the proper
logical kill, told the story
00:22:40.30\00:22:45.86
of a prime minister in
Japan who had committed suicide.
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When his wife woke up in
the morning she saw a book open
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on their table, De
Profundis by Oscar Wilde.
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He had these words underlined,
"as terrible as it has"
00:22:59.90\00:23:05.06
"been, what I have done
to others, nothing was as"
00:23:05.06\00:23:10.20
"terrible as what I
had done to myself. "
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Evil is not victimless, can
you say Amen? Audience: Amen!
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You may think that you can
sit at your computer and watch
00:23:16.93\00:23:20.83
your pornography by yourself,
but the Bible talks about
00:23:20.83\00:23:24.70
those who oppose themselves
is in 2 Timothy chapter 2.
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He talks about you
that sin against me.
00:23:28.50\00:23:31.06
You are sinning
against yourself.
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Sin hurts God because
it is self-destructive.
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Are you hearing me?
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So you have in this concept,
we need to look at the evils
00:23:39.03\00:23:43.30
around us, this will
change the dynamics of how we
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interact as a church.
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When we see a brother
or sister make a mistake,
00:23:47.73\00:23:50.06
we see an individual having
this weakness, we say oh, I look
00:23:50.06\00:23:53.96
at them and the fingers
come back, you're the man.
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Sin is in you.
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My question is, is there a
change that you are seeking in
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your heart this morning?
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Is there a change that
you are seeking in your life?
00:24:07.70\00:24:11.00
And the most
fundamental question, I believe,
00:24:11.00\00:24:14.23
to this
generation of post-modernism,
00:24:14.23\00:24:16.96
how does one change the
longings of the human heart?
00:24:16.96\00:24:20.76
We are a
generation about being real.
00:24:20.76\00:24:23.46
We are
generation about being open.
00:24:23.46\00:24:26.06
It's come to the place now
where we are saying, you know
00:24:26.06\00:24:28.40
what, we're just
honest, we are wicked inside.
00:24:28.40\00:24:31.13
And you know what we now give
people virtue for being honest
00:24:31.13\00:24:34.93
about being sinful, well
at least he is being real.
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That is what we say,
at least he is being real.
00:24:38.96\00:24:42.96
Yet he is being
real, real wicked.
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The fact that a person is
being honest about their sin
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does not justify it, it
does not give it any merit.
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Now we do need some more
authenticity in the church,
00:24:52.90\00:24:56.60
but that is for another sermon.
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My question is this, we
have all these recommendations
00:25:00.30\00:25:03.10
for how we believe the
human heart can be changed.
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Are we really going to
change the human heart by
00:25:06.63\00:25:10.10
education? Audience: no.
00:25:10.10\00:25:12.90
Is it really going to be
sitting in a classroom listening
00:25:12.90\00:25:15.50
to someone teach me about
the history of hatred, that is
00:25:15.50\00:25:18.10
going to make me stop hating?
00:25:18.10\00:25:19.93
Are you really going to
deal with my lust by publishing
00:25:19.93\00:25:23.60
physiological
books on sexuality?
00:25:23.60\00:25:26.23
Are you really going to do
with my pride by talking to me
00:25:26.23\00:25:29.36
about Napoleon at Waterloo?
00:25:29.36\00:25:31.73
Friends, Jesus is the only
cure for the evils in society.
00:25:33.16\00:25:37.16
And Ellen White says this,
hanging on the cross Christ
00:25:37.16\00:25:41.16
was the gospel.
00:25:41.16\00:25:43.86
How can you be
unashamed of the only cure for
00:25:43.86\00:25:47.20
the evils of society?
00:25:47.20\00:25:49.40
How can we be ashamed?
00:25:51.36\00:25:53.30
My belief is this, because
we have not experienced that
00:25:53.30\00:25:58.46
change, deep down
we don't really believe
00:25:58.46\00:26:02.30
Jesus can change people.
00:26:02.30\00:26:04.66
Deep down we don't really
believe that Jesus can bring
00:26:04.66\00:26:08.40
a person from here to here.
00:26:08.40\00:26:11.43
From darkness to light, from
blindness to sight, from the
00:26:11.43\00:26:16.50
power of Satan
unto the power of God.
00:26:16.50\00:26:19.20
But the first place to
start is within your own heart.
00:26:20.63\00:26:23.90
If there is a change that
you are seeking this morning,
00:26:25.40\00:26:28.26
this is the time
to get it changed.
00:26:28.26\00:26:31.16
Turn with me in your
Bibles to the book of John 20.
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Gospel of John chapter 20
when you are there say Amen.
00:26:36.40\00:26:39.83
Audience: Amen! If you
are not there, say have mercy.
00:26:42.20\00:26:44.50
John chapter 20, are
you there? Audience: Amen!
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notice with me verse 30 and 31.
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"And many other signs
truly did Jesus in the presence"
00:27:00.30\00:27:03.66
"of his disciples, which
are not written in this book:"
00:27:03.66\00:27:07.40
"but these are written,
that you might believe that"
00:27:07.40\00:27:11.06
"Jesus is the Christ, the
Son of God: and that believing"
00:27:11.06\00:27:15.40
"ye might have
life through His name. "
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Now it's interesting
that John puts this at the
00:27:18.70\00:27:21.63
end of his gospel.
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You pick up the Bible for
the first time, someone tells
00:27:23.33\00:27:26.46
you that Ellen White talks
about reading the Gospel John as
00:27:26.46\00:27:29.56
a good place to start.
00:27:29.56\00:27:31.06
You start reading the
Gospel of John and as you are
00:27:31.06\00:27:33.56
plowing through one, two,
three, four, five, all the way
00:27:33.56\00:27:36.16
to chapter 20 and now
boom, he lays it on you.
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Oh, by the way this is
the point of my Gospel.
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So now you have to go back
and read the gospel with new
00:27:42.43\00:27:46.43
eyes, so you wonder why certain
stories are not in John's
00:27:46.43\00:27:50.40
Gospel that are
in Matthew's Gospel.
00:27:50.40\00:27:52.70
Why is it that
certain accounts are not found
00:27:52.70\00:27:55.30
in John's Gospel?
00:27:55.30\00:27:56.70
Well John says in verse 30,
he says and many other signs
00:27:56.70\00:28:00.40
truly did Jesus in the presence
of his disciples which are
00:28:00.40\00:28:04.10
not written in this book.
00:28:04.10\00:28:05.96
Which means my Gospel is
not a historical account.
00:28:07.20\00:28:10.30
I wasn't trying
to catalog history.
00:28:10.30\00:28:13.20
I wasn't trying to necessarily
count from prophecy to
00:28:13.20\00:28:17.26
the fulfillment in
the experience of Jesus.
00:28:17.26\00:28:20.30
The purpose of my Gospel,
he says, but these are written
00:28:20.30\00:28:25.03
that you might believe
that Jesus is the Christ,
00:28:25.03\00:28:28.66
the Son of the living God.
00:28:28.66\00:28:30.16
If this is the purpose of
John's Gospel, every single
00:28:30.16\00:28:34.53
story, every single passage,
every single encounter in
00:28:34.53\00:28:38.70
Jesus' life, He is trying
to say this is why you should
00:28:38.70\00:28:42.03
believe, this is why you
should believe that Jesus is the
00:28:42.03\00:28:45.33
Christ and that in
believing you and I may have
00:28:45.33\00:28:48.60
life through His name.
00:28:48.60\00:28:50.16
John says faith is not an
intellectual assent alone.
00:28:50.16\00:28:54.33
Faith does not just
belong in a dogma or doctrine.
00:28:54.33\00:28:58.46
Faith does not
just belong in a creed.
00:28:58.46\00:29:01.20
Faith belongs in an individual.
00:29:01.20\00:29:03.56
Faith belongs in Christ.
00:29:03.56\00:29:06.33
And because faith is for a
person, and I'm trying to get
00:29:06.33\00:29:11.46
you to believe in
a person, John says.
00:29:11.46\00:29:14.03
I'm trying to get you to
believe in a man who can flip
00:29:14.03\00:29:16.93
tables and receive
children with the same hands.
00:29:16.93\00:29:19.80
That is what I am trying
to get you to believe in,
00:29:19.80\00:29:22.66
that He is the Christ.
00:29:22.66\00:29:24.43
So that means that when you
look at John's Gospel, he is
00:29:26.00\00:29:29.63
building a case in an argument
from story to story, from
00:29:29.63\00:29:33.00
person-to-person, this is
why you should believe it,
00:29:33.00\00:29:36.33
that Jesus is the Christ.
00:29:36.33\00:29:38.33
But I believe friends that
more than any other gospel,
00:29:40.30\00:29:45.33
John records the ability
of Jesus to change lives.
00:29:45.33\00:29:49.66
It has some of the most
accounts of Jesus' one-on-one
00:29:49.66\00:29:53.96
encounters with
individuals in His ministry.
00:29:53.96\00:29:57.16
Okay, just to do
a quick overview.
00:29:57.16\00:29:59.13
We meet in Chapter 3
Nicodemus, the Pharisee.
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Then we go and see that
Nicodemus was wealthy and
00:30:03.46\00:30:07.73
well respected
and knowledgeable.
00:30:07.73\00:30:09.56
You go to women of Samaria
an outcast, the downtrodden.
00:30:09.56\00:30:13.20
You deal with the man
at the pool of Bethesda,
00:30:13.20\00:30:15.86
completely hopeless.
00:30:15.86\00:30:18.36
Then the woman caught
in adultery, the guilty.
00:30:18.36\00:30:20.60
The blind man, the helpless.
00:30:20.60\00:30:22.63
Lazarus, the
apparently irreversible.
00:30:22.63\00:30:25.26
Jesus comes in and
changes individual lives.
00:30:26.96\00:30:30.83
What we find here, this
becomes the greatest argument
00:30:30.83\00:30:34.43
for Christ, His
ability to change lives.
00:30:34.43\00:30:37.03
Because they can
argue for post-modernism,
00:30:37.03\00:30:39.60
they can argue for evolution,
00:30:39.60\00:30:41.40
they can argue for all
these different things in
00:30:41.40\00:30:43.73
theories, but the point
is deep down every heart
00:30:43.73\00:30:46.00
seeks to change.
00:30:46.00\00:30:47.63
Every heart has
habits they want to break,
00:30:47.63\00:30:49.66
evolution won't do it.
00:30:49.66\00:30:51.90
Every heart has
something, you can get a PhD in
00:30:51.90\00:30:54.83
psychology and still not
deal with your mental problems.
00:30:54.83\00:30:58.16
Because Christ,
John says, is the One.
00:30:58.16\00:31:02.80
My question is, has
God changed your life?
00:31:02.80\00:31:07.36
Would your story make it in
the, these are written category
00:31:09.86\00:31:13.06
so that you might believe?
00:31:15.13\00:31:16.43
Are you an argument for
the Messiahship of Jesus,
00:31:17.90\00:31:24.26
that He is the Christ?
00:31:24.26\00:31:27.00
Is there someplace in the
diary of your experience where
00:31:29.10\00:31:33.43
God has changed your life?
00:31:33.43\00:31:35.00
I want to look at one
story in the gospel of John,
00:31:35.00\00:31:38.30
which is where we
are going to finish.
00:31:38.30\00:31:40.50
Go with me to John chapter 9.
00:31:40.50\00:31:43.30
John chapter 9 and we're
going to start in verse one.
00:31:47.60\00:31:50.23
To me this is one
of the most exciting
00:31:50.23\00:31:53.36
stories in the Bible.
00:31:53.36\00:31:55.46
When you are there
say Amen! Audience: Amen!
00:31:58.56\00:32:00.70
Does anybody need mercy?
00:32:00.70\00:32:03.00
John 9:1, "and when Jesus
passed by, he saw a man which"
00:32:04.70\00:32:12.30
"was blind from his birth. "
00:32:12.30\00:32:14.23
2. "And his disciples asked
him saying, Master, who did sin,
00:32:16.06\00:32:20.53
" this man, or his parents,
that he was born blind?"
00:32:20.53\00:32:25.00
3. "Jesus answered,
neither hath this man sinned,"
00:32:25.00\00:32:28.30
"nor his parents: but that
the works of God should be"
00:32:28.30\00:32:31.60
"made manifest in him. "
00:32:31.60\00:32:34.03
Now I want you to follow
this, John chapter 8 Jesus was
00:32:34.03\00:32:37.16
about to get stoned, He
was passing out of the Temple
00:32:37.16\00:32:40.26
so they wouldn't kill Him.
00:32:40.26\00:32:41.83
So Here he is, the
Savior is escaping for His life,
00:32:41.83\00:32:45.56
and while He is running for
His life, He passes by a man
00:32:45.56\00:32:49.90
who was born blind.
00:32:49.90\00:32:51.20
Now let me ask you a question?
00:32:51.20\00:32:53.43
If you are running for your
life, and you know there are
00:32:53.43\00:32:56.50
a group of people trying
to kill you, would you stop?
00:32:56.50\00:32:59.50
Would you stop? Well that
is the kind of Jesus we serve.
00:33:02.60\00:33:07.36
He is not afraid for His life,
00:33:09.23\00:33:11.30
He's afraid to pass you by.
00:33:11.30\00:33:13.30
Can you say
Amen! Audience: Amen!
00:33:13.30\00:33:15.80
He is not afraid for His life,
He is afraid to pass you by,
00:33:15.80\00:33:20.30
and He sees a man
who has had an issue in
00:33:20.30\00:33:24.23
his life from birth.
00:33:24.23\00:33:25.90
Blind from birth, as Jesus
passed by, He wasn't looking
00:33:25.90\00:33:30.93
for the blind man,
that was not on His agenda.
00:33:30.93\00:33:33.73
He was just passing by,
and while He was passing by,
00:33:33.73\00:33:38.83
they see this man
who was born blind.
00:33:38.83\00:33:41.70
While they see the man
the disciples are like, whose
00:33:41.70\00:33:44.30
fault is it? Did
his parents mess up?
00:33:44.30\00:33:46.73
Did he mess up? I
thought that was interesting,
00:33:46.73\00:33:48.86
can a man sinned
before he was born?
00:33:48.86\00:33:50.60
That is interesting.
00:33:50.60\00:33:53.00
And Jesus says in verse
3. "Neither hath this man"
00:33:53.00\00:33:56.80
"sinned, nor his parents:
but that the works of God"
00:33:56.80\00:34:00.56
"should be made
manifest in him. "
00:34:00.56\00:34:02.76
Now I want you to think
now for yourself in your
00:34:02.76\00:34:04.93
personal life, I don't
know what issues you and I have
00:34:04.93\00:34:07.93
been dealing with from birth.
00:34:07.93\00:34:09.96
There are some weaknesses
in your life and mine that we
00:34:09.96\00:34:13.00
have had for a long time.
00:34:13.00\00:34:14.60
Can you say
Amen! Audience: Amen!
00:34:14.60\00:34:15.83
There are some struggles we
have been dealing with since
00:34:15.83\00:34:18.26
we came to know
Jesus for ourselves.
00:34:18.26\00:34:21.36
There are some skeletons
in the closet, some of our
00:34:21.36\00:34:24.30
darling sins that
does so easily beset us.
00:34:24.30\00:34:29.80
You may wonder, why is it
Lord that I had to go through
00:34:29.80\00:34:34.13
this from birth?
00:34:34.13\00:34:36.00
Why is it that I had this
issue since I was a child?
00:34:36.00\00:34:39.53
Why is it that I am the
one, when you talk about my
00:34:39.53\00:34:43.06
travels in ministry
around this country and I
00:34:43.06\00:34:45.90
sit down with young
people having been abused
00:34:45.90\00:34:48.70
by Seventh-day Adventists?
00:34:48.70\00:34:50.96
I sit down with young
people, I was preaching at one
00:34:50.96\00:34:54.26
place and this story
has never left my mind.
00:34:54.26\00:34:58.06
After I finished preaching
this young lady came up and
00:34:58.06\00:35:01.16
said Sebastien I need to
talk to you about your sermon.
00:35:01.16\00:35:04.23
I said yes how are you
doing, how can I help you?
00:35:04.23\00:35:09.33
She started tell me
about sexual abuse she was
00:35:09.33\00:35:14.20
experiencing, she said
I don't know what to do.
00:35:14.20\00:35:19.00
So we pray together, we talked.
00:35:22.50\00:35:24.26
The next day I preached again,
she came up with a friend.
00:35:25.80\00:35:30.60
Her friend looked at me
and she looked at me and said
00:35:30.60\00:35:34.36
Sebastien, she has
something she wants to tell you.
00:35:34.36\00:35:39.43
I said okay, so as we
were sitting on the side people
00:35:39.43\00:35:44.43
are conversing and
ready to leave the meeting.
00:35:44.43\00:35:47.13
The girl looks at me and
immediately her face turns
00:35:47.13\00:35:52.03
bright red and
she starts crying.
00:35:52.03\00:35:54.06
Her friend says go ahead
just tell him, just tell him.
00:35:54.06\00:35:58.36
While she is trying to
encourage her friend the girl
00:35:58.36\00:36:02.16
collapses on the floor and
starts crying hysterically.
00:36:02.16\00:36:05.90
And I knew why, and I knew why.
00:36:05.90\00:36:09.93
Every one of us has a
why question, why me Lord?
00:36:11.70\00:36:16.23
Why is this my struggle?
Why is it so hard for me?
00:36:16.23\00:36:20.00
Sometimes we come into the
church and feel like we are
00:36:20.00\00:36:23.70
the only one, Amen?
00:36:23.70\00:36:25.70
You are struggling with some
thing and that's the Devils,
00:36:25.70\00:36:27.90
it has to be one of
his best lies, just you.
00:36:27.90\00:36:31.33
No one else in GYC is
struggling with this, just you.
00:36:31.33\00:36:35.76
We come here ashamed, we
come here like we want to get
00:36:35.76\00:36:40.16
involved, I want to do
this but we are ashamed.
00:36:40.16\00:36:42.66
Jesus says, friends, we
don't have to be ashamed of what
00:36:42.66\00:36:45.96
has gone on in the past.
00:36:45.96\00:36:47.80
We don't have to be
ashamed of where we came from.
00:36:47.80\00:36:50.23
What we have struggled
with, deep down even if you were
00:36:50.23\00:36:53.10
born with the issue.
00:36:53.10\00:36:55.03
You are saying why me?
Jesus says, so that the works of
00:36:55.03\00:36:58.66
God can be made
manifest in your life.
00:36:58.66\00:37:01.06
God wants to show
Himself strong in your behalf.
00:37:01.06\00:37:04.70
He wants to show the
miracle working power of Jesus,
00:37:04.70\00:37:07.80
that there is more than
power in the blood, there is
00:37:07.80\00:37:10.80
healing, restoration and
for you and I to come back.
00:37:17.00\00:37:18.13
You know the Bible says
that we are all born in sin
00:37:18.13\00:37:19.23
and shaped in iniquity.
00:37:19.23\00:37:21.70
We've all had a
blindness from birth,
00:37:21.70\00:37:23.66
and Jesus doesn't pass
by, He doesn't pass by.
00:37:23.66\00:37:29.26
And He says, why? So
that the works of God could be
00:37:29.26\00:37:35.83
manifested in your life.
00:37:35.83\00:37:37.66
So notice what Jesus
does, how He heals this man.
00:37:37.66\00:37:40.93
John 9, we read verse three,
and went on to verse four,
00:37:40.93\00:37:45.60
"I must work the works of
him that sent me, while it is"
00:37:45.60\00:37:50.20
"a day: the night
cometh, when no man can work. "
00:37:50.20\00:37:53.10
5. "As long as
I am in the world,
00:37:53.10\00:37:55.20
"I am the light of the world. "
00:37:55.20\00:37:57.23
6. "When he had thus
spoken, he spat on the ground,"
00:37:57.23\00:38:00.33
"and made a clay of spittle,
and he anointed the eyes"
00:38:00.33\00:38:03.36
"of the blind
man with the clay,"
00:38:03.36\00:38:04.83
I thought this was interesting.
00:38:04.83\00:38:06.23
The man is already blind,
Jesus makes clay from dirt.
00:38:08.26\00:38:15.70
He puts it over the
eyes of the blind man.
00:38:15.70\00:38:18.40
He is already blind
and then He gives him these
00:38:18.40\00:38:22.40
instructions, in verse 7.
"And he said unto him, go,"
00:38:22.40\00:38:27.26
"wash in the pool of
Siloam, (which is by"
00:38:27.26\00:38:31.13
"interpretation, sent.)
He went his way there for,"
00:38:31.13\00:38:35.40
"and washed, and came seeing. "
00:38:35.40\00:38:37.30
Can you say
Amen? Audience: Amen.
00:38:37.30\00:38:39.16
Now follow this, he anoints
the eyes of the blind man
00:38:39.16\00:38:41.63
with this clay, He spits
on the ground makes clay and
00:38:41.63\00:38:44.46
anoints the eyes of the
blind man and says go find the
00:38:44.46\00:38:47.23
pool of Siloam and wash.
00:38:47.23\00:38:49.56
Wait a minute Lord, how
come the blind man doesn't say
00:38:49.56\00:38:53.20
but I'm blind Jesus?
00:38:53.20\00:38:55.30
How am I going to
find a pool of Siloam?
00:38:55.30\00:38:58.50
So his eyes, he is
walking through the streets of
00:38:58.50\00:39:02.10
Jerusalem inside the
temple with mud hanging off his
00:39:02.10\00:39:05.66
face looking for a
pool to find his sight.
00:39:05.66\00:39:09.10
You can imagine he's groping
around and talking to people
00:39:09.10\00:39:13.70
hey, am I near
the pool of Siloam?
00:39:13.70\00:39:16.03
You have some people that
help you on your journey to
00:39:16.03\00:39:18.20
Jesus to be healed,
and some people that don't.
00:39:18.20\00:39:20.53
Some people thought
this was a practical joke.
00:39:22.13\00:39:24.80
Oh yeah, there's
the pool of Siloam,
00:39:24.80\00:39:26.80
leading him right into a wall.
00:39:26.80\00:39:29.16
But then you
have other people say,
00:39:31.30\00:39:33.00
brother what
are you looking for?
00:39:33.00\00:39:34.60
A man named Jesus told me
to go find a pool of Siloam,
00:39:34.60\00:39:38.73
so I could wash.
00:39:38.73\00:39:40.26
They take this blind man
by the hand, with this mud on
00:39:40.26\00:39:43.46
his eyes, and they say
here's the pool of Siloam.
00:39:43.46\00:39:47.83
I can only imagine that
as he goes down to the pool,
00:39:47.83\00:39:51.86
he stumbles in and falls
into the water and kneels down
00:39:51.86\00:39:55.86
and start washing his face.
00:39:55.86\00:39:57.56
But this time when he
opens his eyes, he can see.
00:39:57.56\00:40:02.40
The first thing the blind
man sees is his own reflection.
00:40:02.40\00:40:07.00
I have never seen myself,
he sees water dripping down
00:40:07.00\00:40:11.06
his face and looks up and
the reflection of a bright
00:40:11.06\00:40:15.06
blue Jerusalem sky.
00:40:15.06\00:40:17.36
So as he is going out of
the water, he sees blue for the
00:40:17.36\00:40:20.96
first time, he looks over
to see red for the first time.
00:40:20.96\00:40:24.50
He looks over and sees a
young child for the first time.
00:40:24.50\00:40:27.90
He sees a beautiful woman
for the first time, have mercy.
00:40:27.90\00:40:31.20
As he is walking around he
realizes and comes back seeing
00:40:34.46\00:40:39.16
and here we have the only
person that we know he wants to
00:40:39.16\00:40:43.83
see is Jesus, but he
only had heard His voice.
00:40:43.83\00:40:47.30
If he heard His voice he
would know, but he never seen
00:40:47.30\00:40:51.66
Jesus, even if he saw
Jesus he wouldn't know Him.
00:40:51.66\00:40:55.73
He wouldn't know Him.
00:40:58.00\00:40:59.36
You see friends, when Jesus
works a change in your life,
00:40:59.36\00:41:02.56
the first thing that
happens is you see yourself for
00:41:02.56\00:41:05.76
who you really are.
00:41:05.76\00:41:07.50
When your eyes come
back, can you say Amen?
00:41:07.50\00:41:09.76
Audience: Amen.
00:41:09.76\00:41:11.00
You see yourself
for who you really are.
00:41:11.00\00:41:12.60
He comes home and sees mom
for the first time, it is as
00:41:12.60\00:41:17.30
if this is an entire
new world for the blind man.
00:41:17.30\00:41:20.40
He is looking at the
situation and everything he sees
00:41:21.43\00:41:24.70
is beautiful to him, but
at the same token he doesn't
00:41:24.70\00:41:27.53
just get to see beauty, he
doesn't just get to see colors,
00:41:27.53\00:41:30.90
and a sky and a man
embracing his wife, or a child
00:41:30.90\00:41:34.10
running into the arms of
his father for the first time.
00:41:34.10\00:41:37.06
He also gets to see
evil for the first time.
00:41:37.06\00:41:39.56
He has only heard, he
never saw, he never saw.
00:41:39.56\00:41:46.06
Of course you know what happens.
00:41:46.06\00:41:49.60
He comes back
seeing in verse eight.
00:41:49.60\00:41:52.56
As soon as Jesus works that
change in your life and mine,
00:41:52.56\00:41:56.20
notice what happens.
00:41:56.20\00:41:58.00
"The neighbors therefore,
and they which had seen him "
00:41:58.00\00:42:00.40
that he was blind said, is not
this he that sat and begged?"
00:42:00.40\00:42:04.60
9. Some said, this
is he: others said,"
00:42:04.60\00:42:08.56
"he is like him;
but he said, I am he.
00:42:08.56\00:42:12.00
10. Therefore said they unto
him, how were thine eyes opened?
00:42:12.00\00:42:14.90
"11. He answered and said,
a man that is called Jesus"
00:42:15.33\00:42:19.63
"made clay, and anointed
mine eyes, and said unto me,"
00:42:19.63\00:42:23.36
"go to the pool of Siloam
and wash: and I went and washed
00:42:23.36\00:42:27.03
and I received sight. "
00:42:27.03\00:42:28.86
You see friends as
soon as you have a "but now"
00:42:28.86\00:42:31.73
experience people
will always remind you of
00:42:31.73\00:42:34.60
what you used to be.
00:42:34.60\00:42:36.06
You'll come back from GYC
with this holier than thou,
00:42:36.06\00:42:39.20
you came from GYC and
have all this training.
00:42:39.20\00:42:41.33
You want to go out
witness in the streets now?
00:42:41.33\00:42:43.43
I remember you.
00:42:43.43\00:42:45.26
I remember when I
first became a Christian,
00:42:45.26\00:42:46.66
my mother she was a Seventh-day
Adventist before I was born.
00:42:46.66\00:42:50.33
Left the church when I was
probably one or two years old.
00:42:50.33\00:42:55.16
I remember as soon as I
became a Seventh-day Adventist,
00:42:56.96\00:42:59.50
I came home to visit for
Christmas holiday and was a
00:42:59.50\00:43:02.00
vegetarian, you know
that didn't go over well.
00:43:02.00\00:43:05.13
My mom was like, I'm
making your favorite.
00:43:06.83\00:43:08.33
I know you like salmon
and filet mignon for Christmas
00:43:08.33\00:43:11.06
dinner, like mom
I'm vegetarian now.
00:43:11.06\00:43:13.90
What! You're vegetarian,
you're getting too much into
00:43:13.90\00:43:19.00
this Adventist thing.
00:43:19.00\00:43:20.56
Mom I'm not trying, I'm
just saying that I'm trying to
00:43:20.56\00:43:24.60
be healthy and take
care of the temple of God.
00:43:24.60\00:43:27.20
Boy, I was Adventist
before you were born.
00:43:27.20\00:43:29.70
I know about the prophecies,
I know about Daniel 2.
00:43:29.70\00:43:33.63
I know about Daniel 7,
I'm okay mom that's great.
00:43:33.63\00:43:37.56
Don't try to come
here like your boss.
00:43:37.56\00:43:39.66
No, I'm just vegetarian.
00:43:39.66\00:43:41.70
I remember when you used
to eat double whoppers from
00:43:44.83\00:43:47.50
Burger King and I am
like I'm sure you do, but now,
00:43:47.50\00:43:50.16
are you following me?
00:43:50.16\00:43:53.20
You see friends when people
bring up your past it only
00:43:53.20\00:43:56.13
makes the change of God
that much more powerful.
00:43:56.13\00:43:58.26
Audience: Amen.
00:43:58.26\00:43:59.50
Wait Sebastien, aren't you
the guy that used to be out
00:43:59.50\00:44:01.50
there with the baggy
jeans? With your hat cocked and
00:44:01.50\00:44:03.36
dressing like you're clothes
were made for your big brother?
00:44:03.36\00:44:06.73
Yes that was me, but now.
00:44:06.73\00:44:10.10
So here comes the blind
man now, he comes back and
00:44:10.10\00:44:13.73
everyone is like hey,
aren't you the guy that sat and
00:44:13.73\00:44:17.36
begged on the side of the road?
00:44:17.36\00:44:18.90
Oh well, I can get a
job now because I can see.
00:44:18.90\00:44:21.10
But now, this is what it is.
00:44:21.10\00:44:24.06
There is something about
our past that makes us ashamed.
00:44:24.06\00:44:28.70
For many of us when we
went out yesterday for outreach
00:44:31.56\00:44:34.40
no one responded, we are like,
00:44:34.40\00:44:36.40
Man, I'm a terrible canvasser.
00:44:36.40\00:44:38.30
Some of us were knocking
on doors to do some outreach,
00:44:39.80\00:44:43.26
no Bible studies, I'm not
good at this outreach thing.
00:44:43.26\00:44:47.10
Some of us are trying to
get victory over sin, yesterday
00:44:47.10\00:44:50.86
I failed so
therefore I am not going to
00:44:50.86\00:44:54.60
get victory today.
00:44:54.60\00:44:56.23
Jesus is all about
"but now" experience.
00:44:56.23\00:44:59.60
That means that the present
is a contrast to the past.
00:44:59.60\00:45:02.90
So you come and say yeah,
the devil reminds you failed
00:45:02.90\00:45:06.16
yesterday, you're
right, "but now. "
00:45:06.16\00:45:07.76
By the way brother, aren't
you the girl that went to GYC,
00:45:09.43\00:45:11.93
messed up wearing your
skirts too short, attitude too
00:45:11.93\00:45:15.66
strong? No sir, "but now,"
that is what this is about.
00:45:15.66\00:45:19.03
The reason why we are ashamed
is because we haven't had
00:45:19.03\00:45:22.36
a "but now" experience.
00:45:22.36\00:45:24.33
You see the blind man, in
order for him to deny Jesus,
00:45:24.33\00:45:29.06
he has to deny his own sight.
00:45:29.06\00:45:31.40
How can you make me ashamed,
a man named Jesus told me
00:45:31.40\00:45:35.86
to wash and I can see now.
00:45:35.86\00:45:37.63
Well sir you know according
to Socrates and Plato and
00:45:37.63\00:45:41.80
different philosophies,
that's great but I can see.
00:45:41.80\00:45:46.56
Explain! Can you imagine
that, philosophy class 101.
00:45:46.56\00:45:51.30
Blind Man can see,
explain? Audience: Laughing!
00:45:51.30\00:45:56.36
This is where we are
friends, this is where we are.
00:45:56.36\00:46:01.70
So he comes John 9,
and I want to speed through
00:46:01.70\00:46:07.03
the story, the
Pharisees are opposing him.
00:46:07.03\00:46:09.20
His parents won't claim him.
00:46:09.20\00:46:10.86
Here is your son who just
got to see for the first time
00:46:10.86\00:46:14.20
and you can only imagine
the discouragement in the mom's
00:46:14.20\00:46:17.40
heart, especially when people
in Jerusalem are, what did
00:46:17.40\00:46:20.56
you do that your
son was born blind?
00:46:20.56\00:46:22.76
Now Jesus heals your son
and you don't want to stand for
00:46:24.40\00:46:27.00
Jesus? He is the one
who gave your son sight.
00:46:27.00\00:46:31.30
Friends you have to believe
your parents aren't always
00:46:31.30\00:46:34.70
going to receive
what happens at GYC.
00:46:34.70\00:46:37.10
Even though they appreciate
the change that Jesus has
00:46:37.10\00:46:41.16
worked in your life and mine.
00:46:41.16\00:46:43.30
Sometimes they
are afraid to stand.
00:46:44.80\00:46:46.83
So the parents won't claim
him, so now he is talking to
00:46:48.43\00:46:53.03
the Pharisees in John 9.
00:46:53.03\00:46:56.80
This is what happens and
this is where we are closing.
00:46:56.80\00:47:00.06
Verse 24, "then again called
they the man that was blind"
00:47:03.13\00:47:07.63
they called him, blasted
him, and told them to come back.
00:47:07.63\00:47:12.83
"And said unto him, give
God the praise: we know that"
00:47:12.83\00:47:17.16
"this man is a sinner. "
They are talking about Jesus.
00:47:17.16\00:47:21.86
Verse 25, "and he answered
and said, whether he be a"
00:47:21.86\00:47:26.06
"sinner or no, I know
not: one thing I know, that,"
00:47:26.06\00:47:30.23
"whereas I was
blind, now I see. "
00:47:30.23\00:47:33.53
Amen! You see friends
he is standing before the
00:47:33.53\00:47:36.56
Pharisees, men
who have memorized the
00:47:36.56\00:47:39.53
Old Testament word for word.
00:47:39.53\00:47:41.73
Men who are strong to think.
00:47:41.73\00:47:43.66
Men who can reason, and
the blind man says you cannot
00:47:43.66\00:47:47.50
reason me out of
my faith in Jesus.
00:47:47.50\00:47:49.43
How can you
reason, they are like look,
00:47:49.43\00:47:51.63
give God the praise, we
know this man is a sinner.
00:47:51.63\00:47:54.73
And the blind man says, you
know what I'm not interested
00:47:54.73\00:47:56.86
being intellectual, I'm
not interested in being the
00:47:56.86\00:47:58.96
smartest apple in the bunch.
00:47:58.96\00:48:01.06
That is not my goal.
00:48:01.06\00:48:02.30
Whether He be a sinner or
not I do not know, but there is
00:48:04.26\00:48:06.26
one thing I know,
whereas I was blind, now I see.
00:48:06.26\00:48:10.23
BUT NOW, but now.
00:48:10.23\00:48:14.83
You see friends we come to GYC,
00:48:16.73\00:48:18.96
you may not know many things.
00:48:18.96\00:48:21.13
I can't break
down 2300 day prophecy.
00:48:23.46\00:48:25.73
I can't give a
seminar on how to reach the
00:48:25.73\00:48:27.93
neighborhood for Christ.
00:48:27.93\00:48:29.46
I can't get up there and preach
these devotional messages,
00:48:29.46\00:48:33.00
I can't be the
one to run logistics.
00:48:33.00\00:48:35.80
Whether you be a sinner or
not, whether Jesus is this,
00:48:35.80\00:48:40.26
whether you come
break down the virgin birth,
00:48:40.26\00:48:42.56
whether you can break
down the theological necessity
00:48:42.56\00:48:45.46
of the three Angels messages,
whatever the case may be.
00:48:45.46\00:48:48.96
You need to know just one
thing, are you following me?
00:48:48.96\00:48:52.43
Do you know one
thing this morning at GYC?
00:48:52.43\00:48:56.40
You see when people try
to attack the blind man,
00:48:56.40\00:48:58.80
when they try to disprove
him, when they try to reason
00:48:58.80\00:49:01.93
him out of it, they cannot
reason him to deny Jesus is
00:49:01.93\00:49:05.03
to deny my experience.
00:49:05.03\00:49:07.06
This is where we are lacking,
and experiential knowledge
00:49:07.06\00:49:10.96
with the power of God.
00:49:10.96\00:49:12.60
When we know what it
is like to be changed.
00:49:12.60\00:49:15.00
When we know what it
is like to be delivered.
00:49:15.00\00:49:17.26
When we know what it is like
to not buckle under temptation,
00:49:17.26\00:49:20.03
when the devil lays it on thick.
00:49:20.03\00:49:22.76
When your mom, who is not
converted, lays it on hard.
00:49:22.76\00:49:25.86
You are like mom, I'm
trying to keep the Sabbath,
00:49:25.86\00:49:28.73
why are you asking me
to do all these things?
00:49:28.73\00:49:31.56
You may not know many things,
but do you know one thing?
00:49:33.30\00:49:39.50
Do you know one thing?
00:49:41.86\00:49:44.00
Have you had a
"but now" experience?
00:49:46.10\00:49:50.06
You see the man that
wrote that hymn that we love so
00:49:50.06\00:49:53.50
much, John
Newton, Amazing Grace.
00:49:53.50\00:49:59.16
How sweet the sound
that saved a wretch like me
00:49:59.16\00:50:04.30
I once was lost
but now am found,
00:50:04.30\00:50:07.90
was blind but now I see.
00:50:07.90\00:50:10.90
John Newton used
to be a wicked man.
00:50:10.90\00:50:14.66
He grew up under his
father who was actually very
00:50:16.66\00:50:18.96
educated and John Newton, a
very young age in his teens,
00:50:18.96\00:50:24.03
got into sailing, went
out with his father and was a
00:50:24.03\00:50:29.06
rogue kind of child.
00:50:29.06\00:50:30.83
While he was in his little
escapades doing the devil's
00:50:32.50\00:50:35.86
business, he ended up
getting kidnapped and became a
00:50:35.86\00:50:39.20
slave in Africa.
00:50:39.20\00:50:41.70
He was held there captive
for almost a year, and it just
00:50:41.70\00:50:45.43
so happened that one of
his father's friends happened
00:50:45.43\00:50:49.13
to be passing by
this particular port.
00:50:49.13\00:50:52.13
John was trying to send
out signals so somebody can
00:50:52.13\00:50:55.46
help him, they caught
the signal came and picked up
00:50:55.46\00:50:58.80
John Newton and on
his way back to England
00:50:58.80\00:51:01.36
they hit this storm.
00:51:01.36\00:51:04.13
While they are in this
storm, they thought for sure the
00:51:04.13\00:51:07.06
ship was going down.
00:51:07.06\00:51:09.16
We're going to be all lost,
we are going to be destroyed.
00:51:09.16\00:51:11.66
He said everyone was manning
their thing, pulling on the
00:51:11.66\00:51:14.43
ropes, trying to get buckets
of water out of the ship.
00:51:14.43\00:51:16.70
While he is doing this
he said it occurred to him,
00:51:16.70\00:51:19.36
he said, man where is
God? God have mercy on me.
00:51:19.36\00:51:21.93
He said when he said that
out of his mouth, it hit him,
00:51:21.93\00:51:27.30
why would God be merciful to me?
00:51:27.30\00:51:30.43
I run a slave ship, he
takes female slaves from the
00:51:30.43\00:51:34.80
bottom of the ship
rapes them and puts them back.
00:51:34.80\00:51:39.10
John says there is no
reason for God to save me.
00:51:42.63\00:51:46.93
No reason! Right after he
prayed this, in his heart,
00:51:46.93\00:51:51.06
he recanted and said God
won't save me I'm a wretch.
00:51:51.06\00:51:55.13
I'm a wicked man,
the ship survives.
00:51:55.13\00:51:59.26
He got converted and
dedicated his life to ministry.
00:51:59.26\00:52:04.40
He wrote thousands of hymns.
00:52:04.40\00:52:06.56
His good friends of
William Cowper who wrote, Oh For
00:52:06.56\00:52:10.90
A Closer Walk With God.
00:52:10.90\00:52:12.93
While John Newton came
in, he wanted to pen the words
00:52:14.46\00:52:18.96
of this song, God's
Grace, the story that
00:52:18.96\00:52:25.10
he turned to was John 9.
00:52:25.10\00:52:28.10
John Newton had a
"but now" experience.
00:52:28.10\00:52:33.30
I remember reading
about how he was 82 years old,
00:52:33.30\00:52:39.10
he was 82 years old and a man
said, John how are you doing?
00:52:39.10\00:52:42.86
He said my memory is not
that great, but I remember
00:52:42.86\00:52:46.60
two things, I'm a great sinner
and Jesus is a great Savior.
00:52:46.60\00:52:50.90
That is what I
remember, he says that's all,
00:52:50.90\00:52:53.96
I know two things for sure.
00:52:53.96\00:52:56.63
My question to us this
morning at GYC is, do we know?
00:52:58.13\00:53:02.36
Do you know?
00:53:02.36\00:53:04.20
I remember my sister
used to watch this show,
00:53:04.20\00:53:07.26
Extreme Makeover,
maybe you have heard of it.
00:53:07.26\00:53:10.26
On this television show,
my sister was telling me about
00:53:10.26\00:53:14.33
how they take ordinary
people who apparently have no
00:53:14.33\00:53:18.40
style or fashion sense.
00:53:18.40\00:53:20.23
They bring them onto the
show and redo their hair,
00:53:22.13\00:53:25.06
give them a new wardrobe,
makeup, sometimes they do
00:53:25.06\00:53:27.96
plastic surgery on the person.
00:53:27.96\00:53:29.96
They do Liposuction
and reduce their weight.
00:53:29.96\00:53:32.93
They put them on a weight
program and a exercise regime.
00:53:32.93\00:53:35.70
They go through
the whole 9 yards.
00:53:35.70\00:53:39.30
The whole point of the
show is for the reaction of your
00:53:39.30\00:53:43.40
family and friends
when you go back home.
00:53:43.40\00:53:46.23
That's the whole point, and
the reaction is filmed on tape,
00:53:46.23\00:53:51.03
so the family is
sitting there and you hear the
00:53:51.03\00:53:53.63
knock at the door.
00:53:53.63\00:53:55.80
They opened it up and
you see the mom go crazy,
00:53:55.80\00:53:59.06
John you look great, he's
got a nice suit on, nice shoes,
00:53:59.06\00:54:02.93
fresh haircut,
whatever the case may be.
00:54:02.93\00:54:05.66
Then they say this is
Extreme Makeover, they may have
00:54:05.66\00:54:09.63
shows to change your fashion.
00:54:09.63\00:54:11.46
They may have shows to change
your hairstyle, your house,
00:54:11.46\00:54:16.20
but what shows do they
have to change your life?
00:54:16.20\00:54:20.00
This morning some of us
need an extreme makeover and
00:54:23.16\00:54:29.03
when you go back home the
reaction of your friends and
00:54:29.03\00:54:33.50
of your family, every head
is bowed, every eye is closed.
00:54:33.50\00:54:37.86
Every head is
bowed, every eye is closed.
00:54:40.00\00:54:43.93
Maybe there is a person, a
young person this morning who
00:54:43.93\00:54:48.46
says, Lord I need a
"but now" experience.
00:54:48.46\00:54:52.40
I need my eyes opened.
00:54:52.40\00:54:54.80
I need the works of God
to be manifested in my life.
00:54:54.80\00:54:59.03
I need you to break down
the strongholds in my past.
00:54:59.03\00:55:03.26
I don't have to be ashamed.
00:55:03.26\00:55:05.10
If you want to say this
morning, Lord I want a "but now"
00:55:05.10\00:55:10.56
experience and when I get
that but now experience now you
00:55:10.56\00:55:16.00
know why you can be unashamed.
00:55:16.00\00:55:17.80
You can't get me to
disbelieve in Jesus.
00:55:17.80\00:55:21.46
You can't get me out of
creation because He's re-created
00:55:21.46\00:55:25.53
Today, if that is your wish
say, Lord I want a "but now"
00:55:25.53\00:55:29.56
experience, I want
you to stand to your feet.
00:55:29.56\00:55:31.63
I want a "but now" experience
and GYC is just the pool
00:55:31.63\00:55:39.30
of Siloam so you
can come and wash.
00:55:39.30\00:55:42.60
Then go back and see.
00:55:42.60\00:55:45.76
Now my last
appeal is very specific.
00:55:45.76\00:55:49.93
There are some of us who
may have never, ever gotten a
00:55:49.93\00:55:57.43
victory over particular thing.
00:55:57.43\00:55:59.90
It is just that one nagging
sin, that one thing I have
00:55:59.90\00:56:04.93
been dealing
with for a long time.
00:56:04.93\00:56:06.33
I went to Africa a young
man he has been struggling with
00:56:06.33\00:56:09.06
masturbation for 10 years.
00:56:09.06\00:56:11.26
Young ladies have told
me they are struggling with
00:56:11.26\00:56:13.90
pornography for years.
00:56:13.90\00:56:15.90
Young people dealing with
anger and hatred, even racism.
00:56:15.90\00:56:23.50
You say, look
Lord this struggle,
00:56:23.50\00:56:28.33
I need victory this week.
00:56:28.33\00:56:31.26
I need to have a "but now"
experience and I want you to
00:56:31.26\00:56:33.93
come to the front so we can
have special prayer for you.
00:56:33.93\00:56:36.60
I need specific,
necessary victory over this
00:56:36.60\00:56:41.50
thing in my life.
00:56:41.50\00:56:43.43
I want you to come to the
front because for many of us
00:56:45.13\00:56:49.46
this is where the
rubber meets the road.
00:56:49.46\00:56:51.76
We can talk about Christ,
we can talk about the power
00:56:51.76\00:56:55.03
of Jesus, but the point
always boils down to do we have
00:56:55.03\00:56:58.26
victory and can we
keep getting victory?
00:56:58.26\00:57:00.83
We are saying, Lord today,
there is something in my life,
00:57:02.86\00:57:05.76
perhaps since I was
born, I need victory today.
00:57:05.76\00:57:11.66
I need to have that
"but now" experience.
00:57:11.66\00:57:13.73
Don't go back to the same.
00:57:13.73\00:57:15.36
Go ahead press
in, let's make room.
00:57:17.80\00:57:19.70
Then we are going to pray,
I want to make sure everyone
00:57:19.70\00:57:23.43
can come there is plenty of
room in my Father's kingdom.
00:57:23.43\00:57:28.86
Saying, Lord, I need victory,
I need victory this morning.
00:57:28.86\00:57:34.50
Every single day of my life
and you want to come and say
00:57:34.50\00:57:40.20
Lord today, something very
specific, I need You to break
00:57:40.20\00:57:45.86
this by the power of God.
00:57:45.86\00:57:49.53