Good morning GYC. Good morning.
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its hard to see a converse
like this come to an end.
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Isn't it. I have to concur
with those who've already said
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this is one of my
favorite GYC conferences, as I
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look back over the
conferences, I've been
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able to be at each one and
I've been blessed by each one
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they've each been special,
but this year's conference has
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been especially
filled with the spontaneity
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of the spirit. And I
just really enjoyed seeing
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God working in lives.
It's time now for our final
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message and you know
I've thought a lot about
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what I can say in the
last hour, the last few minutes
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we have together, it's
not like just any other
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message, it's not like
a morning devotional or a
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evening meeting
you know where you have
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more yet to come, this is
it, this is the last one and
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I've thought about
what would God have me to
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share with you. I've
thought about the fact
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that we're not only
living in serious sober times
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but we don't know
about tomorrow do we?
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This could be the last
GYC, this could certainly
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be the last GYC
for some of us right,
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I think back a couple
of years ago, two years
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ago in
Minneapolis and one of my own
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students was killed
instantly on his way back
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from GYC and that
final chat was the last
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sermon he heard. And we
don't know and so as I've been
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praying, as I've been
studying, as I've been
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asking God to give me a message.
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He's placed a burden
on my heart and I want to
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share that with you
today, I want to share the
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burden that he has
placed upon my heart.
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My message is entitled
which cloud are you in.
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I would invite you
to kneel with me, it's a
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serious time, a
serious message. I would invite
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you to kneel with me
as we seek God's will and
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God's word. Father in
heaven, we've come down
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to the last few minutes
we have to share together
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and Lord we want to
savor our each moment,
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we've sensed your
spirit in this place and we've
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been blessed. Our
hearts have been watered, our
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hearts have been fed
and we want to gather up the
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fragments that
remain. We want to not miss a
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single blessings you
have for us. Yet father we are
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dealing with sacred
divine, infinite truth
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and we're but
finite sinners and mortals,
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so today Father, I pray
that, that I might not be
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the speaker, but I
just may be the spokesmen
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that I might be a
messenger, but you would
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give the message,
that your Holy Spirit today
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would speak to each
heart. Lord, I may over
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emphasize or under
emphasize, but may your
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spirit translate the
words I speak to each person,
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they might hear what
they need to hear in just the
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right perspective
and balance. Today, we
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know that you have
a tremendous burden on
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your heart, you have an
unfulfilled dream that you
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want to come and
you want to claim us as
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your own. Lord, we
just pray that we might take
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your dreams
seriously, we might not just
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have enjoyed a good
conference, that we might
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leave here determined,
that we might leave here with
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a purpose in our hearts
to do something meaningful,
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to live more consecrated
and committed lives to
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you. Lord, today I just
pray that you'll take my
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lips, and you'll take my
heart and you'll forgive me for
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my sins, you'll hide me
in the cross that your word
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might be heard,
that Jesus might be seen,
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in his name we pray. Amen.
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As I was thinking of
what shame really is.
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And what it means to be
ashamed. One day, I stop
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in a Taco Bell to
get a quick bite to eat.
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And at this particular
Taco Bell on that evening
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there was a group of junior
high students that came in
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and I was watching them
with interest, they sort of
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grabbed my attention,
it was a small Taco Bell
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and it was pretty much
just me and this group of
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students in the Taco
Bell, as I was looking at these
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young teenagers, you know,
I noticed that there was sort
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of something similar
about all of them, they all had
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the same style of
clothes, they were all wearing
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dark clothes, black
clothes mostly and they all had
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black hair mostly, obviously
dyed black, artificial black.
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Most of them, at least
the girls had these black
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fingernails, your
starting to get a mental picture
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right, of what I'm describing,
and they had piercings
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throughout their
features, made me wonder if they
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have been too close to a
hand grenade or something
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when it had gone off.
There was metal all over their
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faces and I was looking
at them and I was thinking
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you know what makes a
young person dress like this
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and look like this. I
mean I was thinking if you were
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take one of those young
people and put them in the
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middle of GYC you all
look so nice. They might feel
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sort of out of place
right. They might feel sort of
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ashamed, but the fact that
there were six or eight or ten
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of them, I don't remember
exactly. The fact they were
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so many of them gave
them this confidence and this
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unashamedness, you
hear what I'm saying,
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their peers around
them looked like them.
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They dressed like them,
they dyed their hair like
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them and so for them
surrounded as they were
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by this group of
their friends, for them they
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thought they were normal, I
was sitting there, observing
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them and sort of thinking
about this and I realized
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they were looking at me
and probably thinking I was
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really weird. I mean
I was the one by myself.
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They had a whole group,
the first thing I want us
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to notice about
shame. We are gonna look at
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just two things
about shame this morning
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but the first thing
that I want us to notice
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about shame is that
shame is not just a function of
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our own hearts, it
requires somebody around us,
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are you with me, if
I'm by myself and I do
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something that's embarrassing,
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it's not embarrassing
right, I'm not ashamed.
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It's only if there
are witnesses, somebody to
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see what I did,
that's when I become ashamed,
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that's when I
become ashamed. You know,
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I remember back some of
the embarrassing moments
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in my life and I remember
one day I was with a friend
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I was about that
age 13, 14 years old and
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I was with a friend
and we were, it was on a
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Sabbath afternoon. We'd
gone on a hike at a lake near
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our house and my friend
and I, he was about a year
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older than me I think
and we were picking up rocks
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and throwing them into
the lake and just about
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I don't know may be 50
yards or less into the lake
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there was a buoy, and we
were trying to hit the buoy,
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you know how boys are.
So, we're taking these rocks
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and we're hurling them
into the lake and trying
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to hit the buoy,
the problem was the buoy
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was just about the
limit of our range you know,
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and so we are barely
making it even that far
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to the lake, much
less hitting the buoy and
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as we are winding up
and heaving those rocks
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as far as we could
into the water, we're both
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standing there and
this rock came from
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behind us well over
our heads we watched as
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it flew far beyond
the buoy and splashed into
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the lake. Now
naturally, we wanted to find out
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who had thrown this
rock, they had a good arm
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we turned around
and he wasn't there,
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she was, and I
still remember the shame
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and embarrassment as we
were heaving those rocks
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as far as we could
and Jenny took a rock
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and effortlessly through
it way beyond, where we could
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throw those rocks.
Jenny was one of those girls
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she was sort of every
boy's dream and every boy's
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nightmare. She was
very feminine, long hair,
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pretty steel blue
eyes, but you didn't want to
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meet her on a basketball
court. When she had the
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ball and was
driving for the basket,
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you had two choices, you
either got out of the way
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or you found yourself
wondering where did she
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come from, how did she
do that and why am I on the
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floor. It was at a church
camp out and a spontaneous
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arm wrestling tournament
broke out among the young
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boys, you know how boys
are, I was probably one of
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the older boys and so it
really wasn't a very fair
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tournament probably,
but I remember arm wrestling
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the Pastor's son Matt
and as we are arm wrestling
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who do you think
showed up on the testosterone
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filled scene, but
Jenny. Now with Jenny watching
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you had no choice.
You better win right.
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And rarely I had been,
rarely had I ever been so
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glad to have won an
arm wrestling contest,
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until Jenny
step forward and said
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I'll wrestler the winner.
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Now, you talk about fear I still
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remember squaring up
with Jenny and looking
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at the faces of all
the boys around the circle
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and the expression on
their face said something
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like this, if she
beats you you're dead.
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You've not only
embarrassed yourself
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you've disgraced the
male gender for all time.
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Shame is a function not
only of what we experience
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on our heart, but it's a
function of the witnesses
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in the crowd around
us. It requires somebody
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watching whose opinion
matters to us, are you with me
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Shame requires
somebody watching whose opinion
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matters to us. Now
by nature we are people
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pleasers we want to
have others like us,
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we are concerned
about what people think,
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we're influenced by the
majority because we want
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to be on the
side of the majority,
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are you with me,
is that true or not?
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We care about what the
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majority cares about.
And whether we like it
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or not some of us may
think I'm not really influenced.
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But, whether we like it
or not we are all influenced.
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You cannot choose
not to be influenced.
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Daniel and
Babylon could not choose
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to be not influenced.
The only thing we can
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do is we can choose
what influences we have
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around us. And
so as I was thinking
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about these thoughts.
I realize the problem is
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that we often have
a skewed idea about
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what the majority is.
Turn with me in your Bibles
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and I am sure you brought
your Bibles this morning.
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The second Kings chapter
6, Second Kings chapter 6 and
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we are going to look
at one, only one instance
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because we are really
short on time this morning.
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Second Kings chapter 6,
we are going to be looking at
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one instance of a
change of paradigm, a change of
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perception of
what the majority is.
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You see in our
society, in our thinking.
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We have this
assumption that is made.
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The majority defines normality.
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Did you catch that?
The majority defines
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normality, isn't that
sort of the way we operate.
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Normal for us is what
the majority of the people
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do or think or act.
For those young friends
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in Taco Bell, normal
for them was to dress
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like that because
that's the way the majority
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of their friends
were. So let's look here in
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Second Kings chapter 6 and
verse 15, this is the story
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of Elisha's servant.
He went outside and he
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found the Syrian
army had surrounded
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the city. It says in
verse 15 and when the servant of
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the man of God was
risen early, and gone forth,
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behold an host
compassed the city
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both with the
horses and chariots.
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And his servant said
on to him, Alas, my master
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what shall we do?
And Elisha said something
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that didn't make any
sense to those who heard it.
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And he answered fear
not for they that be with us
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are more than
they that be with them.
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I mean the servants looked
around this little village
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of Dothan. It was hardly,
it wasn't even a city, there
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were no walls, it was just
a little community of houses.
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In those days of
village was probably a dozen
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houses or something like that.
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And here the
whole Syrian army has
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compassed the city.
There weren't gonna let
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Elisha get
away. And Elisha says,
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don't be afraid for
those that are with us
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are more than
those that are with them.
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Completely
irrational, it didn't help
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the fear at all.
Until Elisha had prayed
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that prayer. He said
Lord I pray thee open his eyes
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that he may see. And
the Bible says in Verse 17
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Lord, opened the eyes of
the young man, and he saw
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and behold, the
mountain was full of horses and
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chariots of fire
round about Elisha.
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You see what Elisha
knew. I don't know if Elisha
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could actually see those
horses and chariots of fire
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before he prayed
this prayer. I don't know.
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Normally prophets aren't
just walking around you know
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viewing the unseen
world, angels, but whether he
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saw them or not
Elisha knew something.
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Elisha knew that
they are more on the side
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of God, then they
are here on this globe.
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Are you with me? Yes.
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In fact it says in Acts
of the Apostles page 599.
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I like this, it says
God is always a majority.
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Amen. You see we are here
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living on this little
globe, this little speck, in a
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little Solar System, in
a small galaxy in space.
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And we have this
perception that those around us,
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not even the billion
people that live in the western
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world or whatever it
is. We have this perception
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that the 20 or 30 or 40,
50 people that surround are
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a circle of
influence, they are normal.
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And they're not, we are
not. When the rest of the
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universe looks down
from space, because the
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Bible says we are made
a skeptical under angels
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to worlds and to men right?
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When the rest of
the universe looks down
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from space and
they see this planet.
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This is not normal,
God defines normality.
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Are you with me? Yeah!
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God is a majority and
God defines normality and
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God and the
billions of unfallen beings
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when they see what's
happening on this earth.
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They think this is not normal.
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Normality is not found
in our circle of friends.
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Normality is found in
the perceptions of God.
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Oh, but it's so
difficult for us.
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It's so difficult for
us to have an accurate,
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consistent,
perception. That is equitable
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with the perceptions
of God. It's difficult,
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because around us we
are surrounded constantly
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by a world of sin.
Where sin becomes normal
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what do you see when
you turn on the television.
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You see cheating, you see lying,
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you see
adultery, you see violence,
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you see selfishness and greed.
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It's normal in
the business world.
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It's normal in the
entertainment world.
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It's normal in the sports
world. It's normal all around
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us. At least we think it
is, but when heaven looks
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at this world it is
anything but normal.
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It's anything, but normal.
And so we have a little bit
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of a problem, I would like
you to turn with me your Bibles
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to Hebrews chapter 11.
Hebrews chapter 11 is known
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as the faith chapter of course.
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And I want to start
by reading verses 32
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and onward. It says
Hebrews 11, verse 32, and what
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shall I more say? For
time would fail me to tell of
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Gideon and Barak, and of
Samson, and of Jephthah, of
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David also, and Samuel
and of the prophets, verse 33,
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who through faith
subdued kingdoms, wrought
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righteousness,
obtained promises, stopped the
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mouths of lions. Quenched the
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violence of fire,
escaped the edge of the sword,
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out of weakness
were made strong,
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waxed valiant in
fight, turned to flight the
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armies of the
aliens. Now so far this
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life of faith sounds
pretty good doesn't it.
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I mean who wouldn't want to
live a life of faith, right.
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I mean the heroes.
It sounds great, but
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if we continue on in verse
35, faith does not always lead
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to this overwhelming
victory. At least not from a
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human perspective.
Women receive their
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dead raised to life
again, others were what?
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Tortured, not
accepting deliverance that they
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might obtain a
better resurrection.
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And others had trial
of cruel mockings and
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scourgings, yea, moreover
of bonds and imprisonment.
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They were stoned, they
were sawn asunder, were tempted,
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were slain with the
sword, they wandered about
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in sheepskins and
goatskins being destitute,
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afflicted and
tormented. Of whom the world was
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not worthy. They wandered
in deserts, and in mountains,
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and in caves of the earth.
These all having obtained a
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good report through
faith, received not the promise.
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My question is what
would lead man and woman
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to live a life of
faith. To go through those
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type of discouraging situations.
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To go through those
type of painful experiences.
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What would lead them to be
rejected by their own people.
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What would lead them to be
killed by their own church.
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I think the answer is, they
caught sight of a perspective
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of normality, that was heavenly.
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Amen! That was
weak. They caught sight of
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a perspective of
normality that was heavenly.
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Can you say, Amen? Amen!
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You see when Abel
brought his more excellent
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sacrifice. He
was doing it in the
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presence of his only
peer. And he had peer
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pressure you understand.
But, it wasn't, he didn't care
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so much what his older
brother Cain thought about
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his sacrifice. What he cared was
00:23:24.10\00:23:26.16
what God thought
about his sacrifice.
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God defined
normality for Abel not Cain.
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And the same could
be said throughout the
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chapter, you see these
were individuals who cared
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not about the
world's opinion, they cared
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about God's opinion.
Abel stood up against
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his only peer, Noah was
willing to be the laughing
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stock of the world.
Abraham was willing to
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separate from
everything that was familiar.
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Though surrounded by the
world they cared not about
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the opinions of the
world. Moses it says was willing
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rather to suffer affliction
with the people of God,
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then to enjoy the
pleasures of sin for a season.
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You see, if you turn
with me back a few verses to
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verse 13, the Bible
says, these all died in faith,
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not having
received the promises,
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but having seen
them afar off, and were
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persuaded of them,
and embraced them, and
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confessed that
they were strangers
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and pilgrims on the earth.
I love this verse, because
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it gives a four step sequence.
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That it takes in order
for you to become a person
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of faith like Abel,
like Abraham, like David,
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like Moses. What
were the four steps
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that these men and
women of faith went through
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as they became men and
women of Hebrews chapter 11.
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The Bible says they
saw the promises afar off.
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For them at first
just like for us at first.
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Spiritual things
almost seem illusory.
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They almost seem like
a mirage, is that real?
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Is heaven real, is
there really gonna to be a
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second coming. I
mean we are surrounded
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by the real things
right we can feel them,
00:25:03.06\00:25:04.73
we can touch them. We
know that they're real
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there is
somebody sitting next you.
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There is somebody
sitting in front of you
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and behind you.
You know they're real
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but that heaven that
we talk, about the Jesus
00:25:12.06\00:25:14.53
that we pray to, at
first it seems as though
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well maybe it's just sort
of mystical, maybe is just
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sort of imaginary, is it
real. The Bible says they
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saw the promises afar
off. But, the second step
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they didn't stop there.
The second step the Bible says,
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they were persuaded
of them. You see that.
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The first step is to see
the promises, it's to know
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that there is a promise
of heaven. There is a promise
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of a second coming,
but the second step is to
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be persuaded of
them, to actually believe
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that it's real.
There is a heaven.
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Jesus is coming again. Amen!
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There is going to be a
new heavens and a new earth
00:25:52.13\00:25:54.90
where indwell of
the righteousness.
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There is going to be an
end of sorrow and suffering
00:25:57.46\00:26:00.06
and sin. God is going to
wipe every tear from every eye.
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Amen! Praise the Lord.
00:26:04.03\00:26:05.86
Amen! They are persuaded of them
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but there is another
step, they took another step
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they embraced them
the Bible says. Having
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seen them afar off, they
then were persuaded of them,
00:26:14.00\00:26:17.46
and then they embraced
them, this became what they
00:26:17.46\00:26:20.76
lived for. This
became what their
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affections were set
upon. Set not your affections
00:26:23.03\00:26:26.03
on things of this
world. But set your affections
00:26:26.03\00:26:28.40
on things above.
Those are the real things.
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So in these men
and women of faith.
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There was a progression
from seeing the promises
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afar off, believing
them to be true, being
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persuaded of them, and
then embarrassing them,
00:26:39.80\00:26:42.03
so that their
heart, their affections
00:26:42.03\00:26:43.96
their life revolved around them.
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And I wonder
today at which point are
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we in this
progression. Where are we?
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Are we still in the far
off, are we in the persuaded,
00:26:57.43\00:27:00.10
are we in the
embraced. The final step it says
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after having seen them
being persuaded of them,
00:27:07.66\00:27:10.50
and embracing them,
it says they confessed,
00:27:10.50\00:27:12.90
they were strangers
and pilgrims on the earth.
00:27:12.90\00:27:15.46
They were
ashamed to be different.
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Amen! Normality is not here
00:27:19.10\00:27:22.70
they said, normality
is there, we're citizens
00:27:22.70\00:27:25.66
of that country.
And we are going to be
00:27:25.66\00:27:29.06
normal in that countries
eyes not in this land's eyes.
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They were not afraid to
confess, how do you confess?
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You're strangers and pilgrims.
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It's by the way
you live your life.
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Amen! Is by the way
00:27:42.43\00:27:45.80
you live your life.
Four steps, the Bible says
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continuing on in verse
14. For they that say such
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things declare plainly
that they seek a country.
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You know I've often
thought about Enoch.
00:27:54.66\00:27:55.86
Enoch is a symbol
or a type of the last
00:27:55.86\00:27:58.06
generation, right.
GYC are we wanting to be
00:27:58.06\00:28:00.70
the last
generation. We want Enoch to be
00:28:00.70\00:28:03.80
our type, we want to
be the Enoch type right.
00:28:04.60\00:28:07.26
Enoch was
translated without seeing dead.
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And I've often heard
the little phrase, you know
00:28:09.66\00:28:11.30
the little story that
says Enoch and God were walking
00:28:11.30\00:28:13.53
together for so
long. That one day God
00:28:13.53\00:28:15.23
said you know we've
been walking together for
00:28:15.23\00:28:16.76
so long, we are close
to my house than yours.
00:28:16.76\00:28:18.70
So why don't you
just come with me. Amen!
00:28:18.70\00:28:19.93
Well, I would like to
say this way this morning
00:28:22.00\00:28:23.96
may be Enoch was
walking so far with God,
00:28:25.13\00:28:27.70
that God said, you know
what? Your understanding of
00:28:27.93\00:28:31.36
normality is much more
like heaven then on earth.
00:28:31.36\00:28:34.83
You'll be more comfortable there
00:28:35.63\00:28:37.00
then here, so why don't
you just come home with me.
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Amen! And I think
that's the experience that
00:28:39.76\00:28:41.50
we need with GYC.
We need the experience
00:28:41.50\00:28:45.76
of God saying to us
your perception of normality
00:28:45.76\00:28:49.03
has now become heaven's
perception of normality.
00:28:49.03\00:28:51.90
You're going to be
more comfortable here then
00:28:51.90\00:28:54.16
you will be down there
so, why don't you come home.
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Amen! That's what I want.
00:28:56.76\00:28:59.20
But, if I have that
experience my friends
00:29:00.16\00:29:02.26
I am going to be
different from the world.
00:29:02.56\00:29:04.33
You can't have both. You
cannot have it both ways.
00:29:05.70\00:29:10.66
It's one way or the
other. And I am convinced that
00:29:11.13\00:29:17.46
the only way that we
can have this experience of
00:29:17.46\00:29:20.13
having heaven's
normality become our normality.
00:29:20.76\00:29:23.83
Is if in fact we are
spending time each day
00:29:23.83\00:29:28.90
in God's word. The
first step is what?
00:29:28.90\00:29:33.10
Having seen the promises
afar. Where are those promises?
00:29:33.10\00:29:35.53
Where are they, GYC?
They're in God's word.
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If you're not
spending time in God's word.
00:29:40.63\00:29:42.00
If I am not spending
time with my Bible in front
00:29:42.00\00:29:44.33
of me, if I am not
spending time in prayer.
00:29:44.33\00:29:46.56
If I am not spending
time having the mind of God
00:29:46.56\00:29:49.73
infused into my
mind, I'll never begin
00:29:49.73\00:29:52.70
thinking like he
thinks. The only way
00:29:52.70\00:29:56.86
heaven's normality
becomes my normality.
00:29:56.86\00:29:58.96
Is if I am spending
time in the word of God.
00:29:58.96\00:30:02.13
The Bible says in Hebrews
chapter 12, the next chapter
00:30:04.33\00:30:07.63
and verse 1, and
this is sort of the Apex
00:30:07.63\00:30:10.76
of my thoughts
today. The Bible says in
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Hebrews 12 and verse 1
Wherefore seeing we also
00:30:14.63\00:30:17.96
are compassed about
with so great a cloud
00:30:17.96\00:30:20.16
of witnesses, let us
lay aside every weight,
00:30:20.16\00:30:23.33
and the sin which doth so
easily beset us, and let us
00:30:23.66\00:30:26.63
run with patience the
race that is set before us.
00:30:26.63\00:30:29.53
You know I used to read
this verse and I used to
00:30:29.53\00:30:31.16
think that this cloud
of witnesses, that Paul's
00:30:31.16\00:30:33.63
talking about, they
exist by virtue of the fact
00:30:33.63\00:30:36.16
that I was born after
them. I mean all of those
00:30:36.16\00:30:38.66
men and women have
faith they've gone before.
00:30:38.66\00:30:40.33
So there is a cloud of
witnesses that surrounds me.
00:30:40.33\00:30:42.90
By default. Then
I looked at those
00:30:44.43\00:30:48.33
kids in Taco Bell.
And this is the question
00:30:48.33\00:30:53.30
that comes to my
mind. In what sense does the
00:30:53.30\00:30:58.13
Hebrews 11 cloud of
witness encompass them.
00:30:58.13\00:31:01.13
When they get dressed
in the morning are they
00:31:04.10\00:31:05.40
thinking about Daniel.
Are they thinking about
00:31:05.40\00:31:09.20
the example of
Moses. It seems to me like
00:31:09.20\00:31:16.20
they have a
totally different cloud of
00:31:16.20\00:31:17.60
witnesses. And the
second point that I want to
00:31:17.60\00:31:22.16
make about shame.
First is, shame requires a
00:31:22.16\00:31:24.76
witness or witnesses
right? The second point
00:31:24.76\00:31:29.00
is this, you choose
your cloud of witnesses.
00:31:29.00\00:31:33.96
Did you catch
that. You choose your
00:31:36.70\00:31:40.00
cloud of
witnesses. You choose who is
00:31:40.00\00:31:43.70
important to you.
Whose opinion really
00:31:43.70\00:31:46.53
matters anyway.
You choose who your
00:31:46.53\00:31:50.06
heroes are and you will
become like your heroes.
00:31:50.06\00:31:53.60
Your cloud of
witnesses determines who you are
00:31:54.06\00:31:56.76
ashamed or unashamed to be like.
00:31:56.76\00:31:58.90
Those kids at Taco
Bell they're ashamed
00:31:59.70\00:32:02.10
to dress that way
because their cloud of
00:32:02.10\00:32:04.16
witnesses was
dressing that way too.
00:32:04.16\00:32:05.93
Many heroes today, many
Adventist young people have
00:32:07.96\00:32:11.80
heroes that are the movie
stars. The pop music stars.
00:32:11.80\00:32:14.76
The fashion designers.
The rich and the famous.
00:32:15.10\00:32:17.20
And everyday we're
forming characters, habits.
00:32:18.56\00:32:23.00
based upon our
cloud of witnesses.
00:32:25.00\00:32:27.06
You see I really enjoyed
last night, David Asscherick's
00:32:28.16\00:32:31.90
meeting, when he talked
about character development.
00:32:31.90\00:32:35.30
Did you enjoy that? Amen.
00:32:35.30\00:32:37.40
It's just amazing how
the Holy Spirit dovetails
00:32:38.23\00:32:40.80
messages, from one
end of GYC to the other.
00:32:41.03\00:32:43.70
I was thinking about
that I was thinking you know.
00:32:44.93\00:32:46.56
How is that characters formed.
00:32:47.90\00:32:50.40
In relationship of
this cloud of witnesses.
00:32:50.90\00:32:53.43
I mean when I make a decision.
00:32:53.86\00:32:55.50
I don't always make
the exact same decision
00:32:55.86\00:32:57.83
every day of
course. But, I am making the
00:32:57.83\00:33:00.50
same, I am often
making those decisions based
00:33:00.50\00:33:03.13
upon the same
motivating factors.
00:33:03.13\00:33:06.33
Are you with me? In
another words, if I've got
00:33:06.33\00:33:08.50
to choose, to buy
some clothes let's say, and
00:33:08.50\00:33:11.90
I am going to buy a new pair
of jeans, a new pair of slacks.
00:33:12.63\00:33:15.33
I am gonna make a
decision and subconsciously
00:33:15.56\00:33:17.96
whether I know it or
not? I am just confessing I am
00:33:17.96\00:33:19.70
a human being and I
think all of us have this
00:33:19.70\00:33:22.10
probably trait. At
some point entering
00:33:22.73\00:33:27.46
my reckoning of
what I am going to buy,
00:33:27.46\00:33:29.63
comes the question?
consciously or subconsciously
00:33:30.70\00:33:34.13
what are others
gonna think about this.
00:33:34.53\00:33:36.06
Are you with me?
And my decision making
00:33:36.50\00:33:39.46
whether it's what I'm
eating, what I'm listening to,
00:33:39.46\00:33:41.33
what I'm
watching, what I'm buying.
00:33:41.33\00:33:42.86
My decision making is
largely influenced by the
00:33:43.20\00:33:45.93
cloud of
witnesses around me. Right?
00:33:45.93\00:33:48.66
Now when as I am
going to the store, I am not
00:33:49.60\00:33:52.30
making a habit every
day of going to the same
00:33:52.30\00:33:54.63
rack and buying the
same pair of jeans. Right?
00:33:54.63\00:33:56.36
But, I am forming the
habit of going to the each
00:33:56.63\00:34:00.06
decision I make and
making it upon the same basis
00:34:00.06\00:34:05.10
of the cloud of
witnesses that are around me.
00:34:05.70\00:34:07.80
Are you with me? Yeah.
00:34:08.36\00:34:09.66
I'm forming habits
each day that is why
00:34:09.86\00:34:12.50
in Revelation
chapter 14 verse 7, in the
00:34:12.50\00:34:14.93
First Angel's
message. The first injunction.
00:34:14.93\00:34:17.40
The first two
words say, Fear God.
00:34:17.40\00:34:20.80
The Fear of God is
simply the opposite of the
00:34:22.70\00:34:24.80
fear of man, right.
The fear of man says
00:34:24.80\00:34:28.20
I don't know what I
should do, let me think what
00:34:28.20\00:34:31.53
other people will say.
Let me decide based upon
00:34:31.53\00:34:34.56
what other people will
think. And it's our cloud of
00:34:34.56\00:34:37.73
witnesses that we are
basing that upon, right.
00:34:37.73\00:34:40.53
And it maybe they
are maybe our friends.
00:34:41.53\00:34:42.96
They maybe our
co-workers. Maybe our boyfriend.
00:34:42.96\00:34:44.60
Maybe our girlfriend.
But, it's people whose
00:34:44.60\00:34:47.70
influence, whose
opinion really matters.
00:34:47.70\00:34:50.20
That's what we
base our decisions on.
00:34:50.93\00:34:52.50
And the first command
of everlasting Gospel says,
00:34:53.26\00:34:55.56
no, form a habit
instead of basing decisions upon
00:34:55.56\00:34:59.63
what people think
and what people say,
00:34:59.96\00:35:02.06
form a habit of basing decisions
00:35:02.06\00:35:04.33
upon what God
thinks and what God says,
00:35:04.33\00:35:07.06
that's the fear of God.
You cannot move beyond that
00:35:07.06\00:35:11.43
first command of
the everlasting Gospel
00:35:11.43\00:35:13.80
if you do not get the first
the fear of God in your heart.
00:35:13.80\00:35:17.16
You're gonna tell me that
you're gonna live your whole
00:35:18.50\00:35:21.90
life even if you're
surrounded by Adventist friends,
00:35:21.90\00:35:24.63
GYC friends, good
clouds of witnesses.
00:35:24.63\00:35:28.13
But, you are forming a
habit of making decisions
00:35:28.13\00:35:30.50
based upon people
and all of a sudden
00:35:30.50\00:35:33.56
at the end of the time
when you have to stand alone,
00:35:33.56\00:35:36.23
and the whole world is
marshaled against the truth,
00:35:36.23\00:35:38.83
you're all of a sudden
gonna make a decision based
00:35:38.83\00:35:41.30
upon what God
thinks? I don't think so.
00:35:41.30\00:35:44.46
If you want to be faithful
against the mark of the beast,
00:35:45.20\00:35:47.76
at the end of the
Third Angel's message
00:35:47.76\00:35:49.60
you got to have the fear of God,
00:35:49.60\00:35:51.20
which is the first part
of the First Angel's message,
00:35:51.20\00:35:52.96
and this is
relevant for GYC, isn't it?
00:35:54.23\00:35:57.10
We claim to be an army of
young people on a message,
00:35:57.10\00:36:00.50
to take the Three
Angel's message to the world,
00:36:00.50\00:36:02.76
on a mission to take
the Three Angel's message
00:36:02.76\00:36:04.36
to the world,
in this generation.
00:36:04.36\00:36:06.03
But, we can't do
it unless first of all
00:36:06.03\00:36:08.30
we've taken the Three
Angels' messages to heart.
00:36:08.66\00:36:12.50
We need the fear
of God in our hearts.
00:36:12.50\00:36:15.13
We need to be
making decisions based upon
00:36:15.56\00:36:18.26
a cloud of witnesses
that is not human around us
00:36:18.26\00:36:21.90
but based upon divine normality.
00:36:21.90\00:36:24.90
That's the basis
of decision making
00:36:25.70\00:36:28.13
for God's last day people.
00:36:28.40\00:36:29.80
Everyday, when
I'm making a decision,
00:36:29.80\00:36:33.60
my primary concern is
whatever others will think,
00:36:34.53\00:36:37.76
what others will react,
my free time is to spend
00:36:37.76\00:36:41.03
the same way,
the world around me,
00:36:41.03\00:36:43.60
my cloud of
witnesses spends its free time.
00:36:43.60\00:36:46.16
My iPod is filled with
the same music that Babylon
00:36:46.16\00:36:48.76
around me listens
to, my computer is filled
00:36:48.76\00:36:51.20
with the same
torrent downloaded movies
00:36:51.20\00:36:53.63
that the world
around me is watching.
00:36:53.63\00:36:54.93
My bookshelves are
full of the same books and
00:36:54.93\00:36:57.30
magazines that my neighbor's
bookshelves are full of.
00:36:57.30\00:37:00.06
If I am ashamed to be different
00:37:00.06\00:37:01.76
in lifestyle
matters, it indicates my cloud
00:37:01.76\00:37:04.70
of witnesses,
which is around me.
00:37:04.70\00:37:06.60
My heroes are not
savoring the things of God
00:37:07.06\00:37:10.00
and all of a sudden, when
an opportunity for a witness
00:37:10.00\00:37:13.03
arises I am expected to
be unashamed to be different,
00:37:13.03\00:37:16.43
is it gonna work that way?
00:37:16.43\00:37:17.40
There is not a fluke
of character that everyday
00:37:20.60\00:37:23.76
allows you to make decisions
based upon what people think
00:37:23.76\00:37:26.40
and then every once in
a while you get to make
00:37:26.40\00:37:28.73
a decision based
upon what God thinks.
00:37:28.73\00:37:30.30
Those neural pathways
need to changed my friends,
00:37:32.00\00:37:36.63
so they become habits,
they become our character.
00:37:37.76\00:37:42.23
You know, this
is one of the thing
00:37:44.33\00:37:45.56
that concerns me about GYC,
00:37:45.56\00:37:47.40
because sometimes I
am afraid we just come
00:37:50.33\00:37:51.83
and we have a great conference.
00:37:51.83\00:37:53.16
I watch, I watch a
lot of young people,
00:37:56.30\00:38:01.56
I listen to seminars they go to,
00:38:04.06\00:38:08.33
I watch the decisions they make,
00:38:08.33\00:38:11.06
and sometimes that
really concerns me.
00:38:12.20\00:38:13.80
I'll just be honest
with you, sometimes it really
00:38:13.80\00:38:16.70
concerns me. I am thinking
what is the disconnect here.
00:38:16.70\00:38:21.06
Like here at GYC we
really try to have a program
00:38:22.66\00:38:26.63
that's Bible based.
00:38:26.63\00:38:28.10
Like the seminars,
they are trying to show
00:38:29.23\00:38:32.70
the principles of the
Bible and Spirit of Prophecy.
00:38:32.70\00:38:35.50
These aren't GYC principles
about music or entertainment,
00:38:35.50\00:38:38.40
or whatever it is.
00:38:38.40\00:38:39.36
But, the young people
come and they say Ra Ra Ra,
00:38:42.66\00:38:44.63
GYC, come to GYC, GYC was great.
00:38:44.63\00:38:47.90
And the life they're living
is in absolute contradiction
00:38:51.10\00:38:55.13
to everything
that was taught at GYC.
00:38:55.36\00:38:57.10
And reminds me of
Ezekiel 33, we won't take time
00:38:59.80\00:39:02.20
to turn there. You can
look later. God said to Ezekiel,
00:39:02.20\00:39:06.43
you're like a musician
that plays an instrument well,
00:39:06.90\00:39:09.66
that people love to
come hear you, they say come,
00:39:09.66\00:39:11.96
let's go hear Ezekiel preach.
00:39:11.96\00:39:13.43
They go back and they
don't do what you say,
00:39:14.53\00:39:17.60
Jesus quoted it in Matthews 15,
00:39:19.80\00:39:21.86
'This people draw nigh
unto me with their mouth',
00:39:21.86\00:39:24.63
their mouth, right, but
their hearts are far from me.
00:39:24.63\00:39:28.00
Oh! I hope that's not
GYC, I want to share with you
00:39:30.03\00:39:33.06
a statement from
the spirit of prophesy,
00:39:33.06\00:39:34.20
it's actually, a
couple of paragraphs. It
00:39:34.20\00:39:36.36
says this at the conference
of the Battle Creek, Michigan
00:39:38.50\00:39:41.00
May 27, 1856, I was
shown in vision some things
00:39:41.73\00:39:44.50
that concern the
church generally,
00:39:44.50\00:39:46.30
The glory and majesty of
God were made to pass before me,
00:39:46.60\00:39:50.00
said the angel, 'he is
terrible in his majesty
00:39:50.00\00:39:53.06
yet ye realize it
not; terrible in his anger,
00:39:53.06\00:39:55.36
yet ye offend him daily.
00:39:55.36\00:39:56.60
Strive to enter in
at the straight gate,
00:39:57.00\00:39:58.93
for wide is the
gate and broad is the way
00:39:58.93\00:40:01.30
that leadeth to
destruction, and many there be
00:40:01.30\00:40:03.00
which go in there at;
because straight is the gate
00:40:03.00\00:40:05.70
and narrow is the way
that leadeth unto life,
00:40:05.70\00:40:07.30
and few there be that find it.
00:40:07.30\00:40:09.10
These roads are distinct,
00:40:09.10\00:40:10.90
separate, and in
opposite directions.
00:40:10.90\00:40:13.70
you get them the
mental picture right.
00:40:13.70\00:40:15.00
They're distinct, separate
and opposite directions.
00:40:15.00\00:40:18.16
One leads to eternal life;
the other to eternal death,
00:40:18.16\00:40:21.96
I saw the
distinction between these roads,
00:40:21.96\00:40:24.80
also the distinction
between the companies
00:40:24.80\00:40:27.20
traveling them,
the roads are opposite.
00:40:27.20\00:40:30.10
One is broad and smooth,
the other is narrow and rugged.
00:40:30.63\00:40:33.40
So the parties that
travel them are opposite
00:40:33.40\00:40:35.76
in character, in life, in
dress, and in conversation.
00:40:35.76\00:40:39.43
Do you catch that, parties
that travel the two roads,
00:40:39.66\00:40:43.56
opposite roads are
opposite also in character,
00:40:43.56\00:40:46.36
in life, in dress,
and in conversation.
00:40:47.20\00:40:51.56
Those who travel in
the narrow way are talking
00:40:52.56\00:40:54.23
of the joy and
happiness they will have at the
00:40:54.23\00:40:56.06
end of the journey. Maybe
they actually have embraced
00:40:56.06\00:40:58.73
the unseen things right,
they're talking about heaven
00:40:58.73\00:41:02.36
Their
countenances are often sad,
00:41:04.16\00:41:06.70
yet often beam
with a holy sacred joy.
00:41:06.70\00:41:09.40
They do not dress like
the company in the broad road,
00:41:09.40\00:41:12.10
nor talk like
them, nor act like them.
00:41:12.73\00:41:15.86
A pattern has been given them.
00:41:17.90\00:41:20.03
A man of sorrow and
acquainted with grief
00:41:20.03\00:41:22.20
opened the road
for them, and traveled
00:41:22.20\00:41:24.23
it himself. His
followers see his footsteps,
00:41:24.23\00:41:27.40
and are comforted and cheered.
00:41:27.40\00:41:28.93
He went through safely,
so can they, if they follow
00:41:29.30\00:41:31.83
his footsteps. In the broad road
00:41:31.83\00:41:32.86
all are
accompanied with their persons,
00:41:32.86\00:41:35.86
their dress, and the
pleasures in the way.
00:41:36.33\00:41:38.83
they indulge freely
and hilarity and glee
00:41:38.83\00:41:41.30
and think not of
their journey's end,
00:41:41.30\00:41:42.93
of the certain destruction
at the end of the path.
00:41:42.93\00:41:44.96
Everyday they approach
nearer their destruction,
00:41:44.96\00:41:47.40
yet they madly rush
on faster and faster.
00:41:47.40\00:41:50.66
Oh, how
dreadfully this looked to me!
00:41:50.66\00:41:53.60
But this next
paragraph is last paragraph,
00:41:54.63\00:41:57.10
it really catches my attention,
00:41:57.80\00:41:59.73
I saw many
traveling on this broad road,
00:41:59.73\00:42:04.33
which way is the broad road?
00:42:04.33\00:42:05.73
The road that
leads to destruction.
00:42:05.73\00:42:08.70
I saw many traveling, many
traveling on this broad road,
00:42:08.70\00:42:12.40
who had the
words written on them.
00:42:12.40\00:42:14.16
'Dead to the world,
The end of all things
00:42:14.16\00:42:19.26
is at hand, Be ye also ready.'
00:42:19.26\00:42:23.56
They looked like all
the vain ones around them,
00:42:26.20\00:42:30.46
except a shade of
sadness which I noticed
00:42:31.13\00:42:35.30
on their countenances.
00:42:35.30\00:42:36.53
Their conversation was
just like the thoughtless
00:42:37.53\00:42:41.33
ones around them; but
they would occasionally
00:42:41.33\00:42:43.36
point with great
satisfaction to the letters
00:42:43.36\00:42:46.10
on their garments
calling for the others to have
00:42:46.10\00:42:48.53
the same upon theirs.
They were doing outreach.
00:42:48.53\00:42:51.63
They were in the broad
way, yet they professed
00:42:55.13\00:42:59.26
to be of that number who
are traveling the narrow way.
00:42:59.26\00:43:02.50
Those around them would
say, there is no distinction
00:43:04.10\00:43:09.53
between us, we are alike,
00:43:09.53\00:43:12.66
We dress and talk and act alike.
00:43:14.13\00:43:19.56
I want to make something clear
00:43:26.03\00:43:27.30
you can change
the way you dress and
00:43:30.93\00:43:32.73
the way you talk
perhaps, but it won't save you.
00:43:32.73\00:43:35.06
We are not talking
about lifestyle changes
00:43:36.73\00:43:40.46
being salvific or salvational.
00:43:40.46\00:43:43.36
Alright, we are saved by
the grace of Jesus Christ.
00:43:43.93\00:43:48.03
But I want to
make something clear
00:43:50.30\00:43:51.90
your lifestyle
may very well indicate
00:43:53.46\00:43:57.23
which cloud of
witnesses you're in.
00:43:57.23\00:43:59.76
It may very well
indicate, what you're doing
00:44:01.70\00:44:05.96
along that road,
which road you're in.
00:44:05.96\00:44:09.56
This is serious
business someone is going to say
00:44:09.56\00:44:13.90
but why talk about
reforming the life.
00:44:13.90\00:44:17.60
It's because I believe at GYC
00:44:17.60\00:44:21.20
we need to not only have a
revival of spiritual Godliness
00:44:21.20\00:44:28.36
in our experience here,
we need to have some changes
00:44:28.36\00:44:31.10
in our lives when we get home.
00:44:31.10\00:44:32.46
It says in the Review
and Herald , Feb. 25, 1902.
00:44:32.46\00:44:38.06
"A revival and a
reformation must take place,
00:44:38.06\00:44:41.53
under the ministration
of the Holy Spirit."
00:44:41.53\00:44:43.60
Revival and reformation
are two different things.
00:44:44.43\00:44:46.90
Do you catch that, they
are two different things
00:44:46.90\00:44:49.70
Revival signifies a
renewal of spiritual life,
00:44:49.70\00:44:52.86
a quickening of the
powers of mind and heart,
00:44:52.86\00:44:55.23
a resurrection
from spiritual death.
00:44:55.23\00:44:57.30
That's, I believe
what takes place at GYC.
00:44:58.80\00:45:01.80
As I see what takes places,
as I listen to the appeals,
00:45:01.80\00:45:04.46
as I see the
responses, I believe God
00:45:04.46\00:45:06.73
is working a revival at
GYC, and it thrills my heart
00:45:06.73\00:45:10.23
God's Spirit is moving,
people are making decisions
00:45:11.43\00:45:15.53
for Jesus. But a
revival will not last,
00:45:15.53\00:45:20.33
that is not
accompanied by a reformation.
00:45:20.33\00:45:22.36
She goes on she
says, reformation signifies
00:45:23.50\00:45:27.40
a reorganization, a
change in ideas and theories,
00:45:27.40\00:45:32.40
habits and practices.
00:45:32.40\00:45:34.73
Reformation will not
bring forth the good fruit
00:45:34.73\00:45:37.80
of righteousness, unless
it is connected with revival
00:45:37.80\00:45:41.93
of the Spirit.
Revival and reformation
00:45:41.93\00:45:44.46
are to do their appointed work,
00:45:44.46\00:45:46.30
and in doing this
work they must blend.
00:45:46.30\00:45:50.56
If you have a revival
without a reformation,
00:45:50.56\00:45:53.46
you very soon
have a near profession,
00:45:54.40\00:45:57.10
letters written on your garments
00:45:57.10\00:45:59.16
which you point to and
you say, come with us to GYC
00:45:59.16\00:46:01.83
you'll hear great speakers,
if you have a reformation
00:46:01.83\00:46:08.60
with a revival,
you have legalism,
00:46:08.60\00:46:12.16
your miserable,
and you make everyone
00:46:12.16\00:46:16.36
else around you
miserable. We need both
00:46:16.36\00:46:20.20
a revival and a reformation.
00:46:20.20\00:46:24.16
A reformation is a
reorganization of your life.
00:46:24.16\00:46:27.33
So, today my friends, I think
00:46:29.03\00:46:30.33
we need to think
about what's going to happen
00:46:33.86\00:46:35.70
when we get home.
00:46:35.70\00:46:36.70
I really do, I
think we need to think
00:46:36.70\00:46:42.36
where is my standard
of normality coming from,
00:46:42.36\00:46:45.66
this morning I would
like to make an appeal,
00:46:48.80\00:46:50.33
I would like to make
a general appeal first,
00:46:52.30\00:46:54.13
if you want to say Lord,
00:46:56.40\00:46:58.23
too often my standard
normality has been this
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cloud of witnesses around
me instead of the cloud of
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witnesses of the unseen world.
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But beginning with this GYC I
want to have a paradigm shift.
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I want to choose
Hebrews 12, Hebrews 11 and 12,
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to be my cloud of witnesses,
if you'd like to say that this
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morning, why don't
you stand where you are.
00:47:28.36\00:47:30.00
We are saying today, I
want my standard of normality
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to be based upon
heaven's standard of normality.
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I want my standard of what
should be done with my time
00:47:40.30\00:47:44.73
what should be
done with my money,
00:47:44.73\00:47:46.30
what should be
done with my influence,
00:47:46.30\00:47:48.30
I want to seek first
the approval of the God
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in those things, that's
what we are talking about.
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I want to be so
close to heaven's normality
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that Jesus can say to me,
00:48:00.50\00:48:02.00
you know what
you'll be happier in heaven
00:48:02.83\00:48:04.36
then you'll be on earth,
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why don't you just come home.
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And you're
standing here this morning,
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because that is
your decision, your
00:48:11.46\00:48:14.40
standing here this
morning because that is your
00:48:14.40\00:48:17.90
burden and that is
your heart's desire
00:48:17.90\00:48:20.36
your standing here this morning
00:48:20.36\00:48:22.66
because you want
your perspective to match
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the perspective of
heaven. Is that your desire,
00:48:25.46\00:48:27.46
because you love Jesus,
00:48:27.46\00:48:30.03
because you want to be like him
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that's why you've
made this decision.
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But this morning, I want
to make a further appeal,
00:48:38.70\00:48:42.00
I want to ask if
there is somebody here
00:48:45.10\00:48:49.23
who realizes that they're,
they're not as far in this
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four step process,
of seeing the promises,
00:48:56.30\00:49:01.46
being pursued of
them, embracing them
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and confessing
them as they ought to be
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and they realize the
only way they're going to move
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down that process, is if
spend time in the word of God
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And so, then my appeal now
is if there is somebody here
00:49:17.26\00:49:21.50
who would like to say,
in 2010, I want to spend
00:49:21.50\00:49:25.26
more time in God's
word than I spent in 2009,
00:49:25.26\00:49:28.63
I want my heart to be
saturated with God's will,
00:49:29.16\00:49:32.33
God's thoughts, not
the what's on television,
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not what's in the movies,
not what's in popular culture.
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If their is somebody
here that wants to say that
00:49:38.20\00:49:39.96
this morning, I invite you
to just make your way forward,
00:49:39.96\00:49:42.06
to say Lord, I want to go
home and I want to lay my Bible
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before you, I want to kneel
in front of your sacred world,
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and I want to say
Lord, search my heart.
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Try me and know my thoughts,
see if there is anything
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any wicked way in me,
anything in my lifestyle
00:49:59.40\00:50:02.33
that I need to
change, are you willing to do
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that my friends. Are
you willing to say Lord
00:50:04.10\00:50:07.20
lead me in the
way of everlasting
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If there is
something in my lifestyle
00:50:10.56\00:50:12.56
that I need to change
not because of legalism,
00:50:12.56\00:50:15.56
not so that
I'll earn your favor,
00:50:15.56\00:50:17.53
not so that I'll have your
grace but because you revive
00:50:17.53\00:50:20.46
my spirit and I want it to last.
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Lord, change my life.
Are you willing to say
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that my friends,
you've come forward
00:50:27.00\00:50:29.26
because you want to
spent more time in God's word.
00:50:29.26\00:50:31.40
God sees your decision,
God is going to help you,
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but when we talk
about a reorganization,
00:50:34.66\00:50:37.80
a reformation of our
life, we must talk about some
00:50:38.03\00:50:40.90
specific things. So I
want to ask for some specific
00:50:40.90\00:50:44.23
decisions that we made here,
there's some of you that know
00:50:44.23\00:50:47.76
that your iPods
are full of music
00:50:47.76\00:50:51.00
that is the Devil's music.
00:50:52.26\00:50:53.40
Your computers
are full of movies,
00:50:58.03\00:51:00.06
they are not bringing
you closer to Jesus and
00:51:01.50\00:51:04.36
they are certainly not
bringing you to a closer
00:51:04.36\00:51:06.90
understanding of his normality.
00:51:06.90\00:51:08.53
I want to ask for decisions,
I want you to ask you to
00:51:11.36\00:51:15.86
bow your heads
and close your eyes,
00:51:15.86\00:51:19.16
this is not a
decision between you and me,
00:51:19.16\00:51:21.26
or between you
and anyone around you,
00:51:21.26\00:51:23.50
where there is
someone here heads are bowed
00:51:23.50\00:51:27.46
and eyes are closed,
if there is someone here
00:51:27.46\00:51:29.36
who wants to say Lord,
there is something in the
00:51:29.36\00:51:31.23
entertainment area of my life,
whether it's music or movies,
00:51:31.23\00:51:34.13
whether it's
that subscription to
00:51:34.13\00:51:35.73
ESPN or something that is taking
00:51:35.73\00:51:37.93
my time, it's consuming
me and it's changing my
00:51:37.93\00:51:40.80
normality to be the
normality of this world.
00:51:40.80\00:51:42.73
If you want to say
this morning, I want to work
00:51:42.73\00:51:44.53
a reformation in my
life when I go home.
00:51:44.53\00:51:46.36
I want your
power, I want your grace,
00:51:46.36\00:51:48.93
I need your strength to
make these changes, delete these
00:51:48.93\00:51:51.73
songs just raise your
hand right where you're at.
00:51:51.73\00:51:53.50
You're saying, I
want to make these changes
00:51:54.36\00:51:56.93
in my life, I
want a reformation.
00:51:56.93\00:51:59.46
God bless you, God
will give you strength
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when you make this
decision, but if we leave here
00:52:01.86\00:52:04.43
only being
revived, without purposing
00:52:04.43\00:52:08.23
in our hearts that we are
going to delete that music,
00:52:08.23\00:52:10.43
we are going to
delete those movies,
00:52:10.43\00:52:11.96
we are going to get rid of that
00:52:11.96\00:52:13.80
television. Whatever
it is, I don't know if
00:52:13.80\00:52:15.76
we don't make that
purpose in our heart my friends,
00:52:15.76\00:52:19.13
I am afraid that
reformation never happened
00:52:19.96\00:52:22.03
this would be a
revival that doesn't last
00:52:22.03\00:52:23.86
you can lower your hands.
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Their may be some of us
who need to make a reformation
00:52:28.53\00:52:32.23
in other areas of our
lives and again your heads
00:52:32.23\00:52:36.23
are still bowed and your
eyes are still closed, I want
00:52:36.23\00:52:39.13
to ask you if there's
someone here, realizes in the
00:52:39.13\00:52:42.73
area of their health, the
way they keep their body temple
00:52:42.73\00:52:47.30
they need to change,
their habits and practices.
00:52:47.30\00:52:51.06
they need a reorganization
I don't know what it is
00:52:51.06\00:52:55.16
the Holy Spirit
might be convicting you of.
00:52:55.16\00:52:56.73
But it's very clear that a diet
00:52:56.73\00:52:59.13
or a lifestyle effects
our spiritual faculties.
00:53:02.90\00:53:08.43
If you want a revival that
lasts, you need a reformation
00:53:09.46\00:53:13.23
in your lifestyle,
00:53:13.23\00:53:14.40
and maybe it's going to
bed earlier, so you can get up
00:53:15.96\00:53:18.40
and spend that time
with Jesus in the morning,
00:53:18.40\00:53:20.73
may be it's exercising,
so you have a clear mind
00:53:20.73\00:53:24.26
and instead of
being morose and depressed
00:53:24.26\00:53:26.53
you can have
energy and happiness.
00:53:26.53\00:53:28.66
May be there is articles of food
00:53:30.33\00:53:32.46
that you know are not healthy,
00:53:32.70\00:53:34.60
I don't know what it
is? But there someone here
00:53:37.16\00:53:39.20
that wants to say
Lord I want to work a
00:53:39.20\00:53:40.40
reorganization of my
health, just raise your hand,
00:53:40.40\00:53:42.96
purposing your heart right now
00:53:42.96\00:53:44.66
and God will
give you the strength
00:53:44.66\00:53:46.70
and the blessing
00:53:46.70\00:53:47.83
to make a reformation
in your life as we return.
00:53:47.83\00:53:50.80
You see, God know each hand,
00:53:52.56\00:53:56.90
you can lower your hands,
00:53:56.90\00:53:58.30
God knows each hand,
and God knows each heart
00:53:59.16\00:54:01.06
and I believe that as
we reorganize our lives
00:54:02.10\00:54:05.56
as we go home, this
revival from GYC 2009
00:54:05.56\00:54:10.40
will not only last us
through 2010, this revival can
00:54:10.40\00:54:14.66
be the beginning of
an entire generation
00:54:14.66\00:54:17.86
of people, who
looking unto Jesus
00:54:17.86\00:54:21.06
lay aside every weight in
sin which so easily besets them
00:54:21.50\00:54:25.60
and finish the race,
that God has set before us.
00:54:25.60\00:54:29.60
Is that your
desire. Amen! Let's pray.
00:54:29.60\00:54:32.70
Father, in heaven
today we are grateful,
00:54:32.70\00:54:37.40
oh you fed our
hearts, you watered our souls
00:54:39.03\00:54:41.96
through this GYC, we
don't want to end it,
00:54:42.76\00:54:45.80
to end by God's
grace, by your grace
00:54:45.80\00:54:48.00
it doesn't need to end,
00:54:48.00\00:54:49.40
Lord, let this revival
still burn in our hearts
00:54:50.76\00:54:54.16
and burn brighter
with each passing day.
00:54:54.16\00:54:57.63
Lord, you've told us that a
revival without reformation,
00:54:57.63\00:55:01.03
or a reformation without
a revival cannot accomplish
00:55:01.03\00:55:04.30
what we need, we need them both.
00:55:04.30\00:55:06.10
So, today I just
praise your name for the young
00:55:07.13\00:55:09.03
people and older people alike,
00:55:09.03\00:55:10.30
who have made decisions
to take with they've learned
00:55:10.30\00:55:13.40
at this GYC, not
just as pleasant words,
00:55:13.40\00:55:15.86
not just as popular
speakers, but as real principles
00:55:15.86\00:55:19.73
they are gonna
live by. Lord, today
00:55:19.73\00:55:23.00
I pray that you'll
change our sense of normality
00:55:23.00\00:55:26.00
to be like
heaven's, I pray Lord,
00:55:26.73\00:55:30.53
that you would help us to
see things the way you see
00:55:30.53\00:55:33.96
them, that some day
very soon you can say
00:55:33.96\00:55:37.56
to us, you'll be
happier in heaven then here.
00:55:37.56\00:55:39.70
You can come and
claim us as your own.
00:55:40.10\00:55:43.56
Lord, right now
I'm praying for someone
00:55:43.56\00:55:46.56
who is struggling
with the decision,
00:55:46.56\00:55:49.60
their standard of
normality has being so skewed,
00:55:49.60\00:55:53.53
their cloud of
witnesses is so pervasive
00:55:53.53\00:55:55.56
and strong and
influential in their life,
00:55:55.56\00:55:57.23
they are afraid to
make a decision for Jesus.
00:55:57.23\00:55:59.60
Lord, please send
your spirit to these souls,
00:55:59.60\00:56:02.33
help them even now to
purpose in their hearts,
00:56:04.73\00:56:08.03
to change the things
that need to be changed
00:56:08.40\00:56:10.43
and they know, your
spirit will show them.
00:56:10.43\00:56:13.50
Lord, I am praying for
those who made a decision
00:56:13.50\00:56:17.30
either in the
area of entertainment
00:56:17.30\00:56:18.70
or in the area of health,
I am praying that you will
00:56:18.70\00:56:21.00
give them strength
Father, for the devil will not
00:56:21.00\00:56:23.63
let them go easily,
those habits which have
00:56:23.63\00:56:27.16
taken years to form,
will be difficult to change
00:56:27.16\00:56:30.96
but by your grace
with their spirit, and the
00:56:30.96\00:56:33.20
power of the spirit, reviving
their soul each day, with the
00:56:33.20\00:56:36.00
power of your word changing
their sense of normality
00:56:36.00\00:56:38.90
they can be unashamed to
live like heaven would live
00:56:38.90\00:56:42.66
if it was here.
Oh! Lord prepare us
00:56:42.66\00:56:46.16
for that eternity, make
us men and women of faith,
00:56:46.16\00:56:52.03
make us GYC, not just
with letters on our garments,
00:56:52.03\00:56:57.13
but help us to be
on that narrow way,
00:56:58.00\00:57:00.06
following in Jesus footsteps,
thank you for going before us
00:57:00.06\00:57:04.23
Thank you for going behind us.
00:57:04.23\00:57:06.46
Thank you, for
holding our hands.
00:57:06.46\00:57:08.30
Thank you for
giving us the strength.
00:57:08.30\00:57:11.46
Lord, may we look to
Jesus, who was both the author
00:57:12.53\00:57:18.60
and the finish of our faith,
may that be our experience
00:57:18.60\00:57:26.93
today, we pray
in Jesus name. Amen.
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