In today's troubled
world, people are wondering
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where we're headed?
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Revelation Today
presents the answers.
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Bible prophecy reveals
what the future holds in store.
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Revelation Today.
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One of the great
things about God,
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one of the many
wonderful things about God
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is that God is ready to forgive.
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Is there anything
that you have done
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that God wouldn't forgive?
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If we go to the Bible
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we discover that
the answer is no.
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We've been told that
if we confess our sins
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He is faithful and
just to forgive us our sins
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and to cleanse us
from all unrighteousness.
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Having said that the Bible talks
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about an unpardonable sin.
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Well, is it murder?
Moses was a murderer.
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Well, is it cursing
God? Is it blasphemy?
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Is it-- well, we'll
go to the Bible tonight
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and we'll find out just
what it is the unpardonable sin.
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But before we do
I want to remind you
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about this DVD presentation.
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The Ron Halverson
story, "From Gangs to God."
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You don't want to
miss this presentation.
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You can get it on
your way out tonight
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or if you can't get it
on your way out tonight
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go to
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where it says store
and you can get it there.
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The Ron Halverson
story, "From Gangs to God."
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Our subject tonight is
"The Sin God Cannot Forgive"
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and our presenter
is again Ron Halverson.
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Let's bow our heads
now in a word of prayer.
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I want to speak on this subject,
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"The Sin that
God Cannot Forgive."
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Father God, I thank you so much
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for what You've
done here tonight.
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I thank you, Father,
that you can bless us,
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even though we're so
human and mistakes are made.
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But I pray, Father,
that everyone realizes
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that there is great
joy in heaven right now
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of the one sinner who repents.
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And we thank You
and give You honor
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and give You
praise and give You glory.
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And we pray it in
Christ's name, amen.
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Amen. Amen.
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"The sin that
God Cannot Forgive."
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One of the great
themes of the Bible
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is the theme of forgiveness.
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God is mighty to forgive.
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I mean, when Adam sinned
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and hid himself in the
garden behind the tree,
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God went searching for
him and God forgave him.
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There was forgiveness.
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When Noah sinned, the
sin against his children,
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I mean, God was
there to forgive.
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When Moses struck the rock
and God was there to forgive.
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When David
sinned-- sinned against evil
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and committed sin of murder,
God was there to forgive.
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When a woman taken in adultery
was cast at the feet of Jesus,
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He was there to forgive. I
mean everywhere in Scripture.
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"And I will pray the Father,
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and He shall give
you another Comforter,
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that he may abide
with you for ever,
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even the Spirit of truth,
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whom the Lord cannot
receive," the Bible tells us.
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"Because it seeth him
not, neither knoweth him,
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but ye know him, for
he dwelleth with you,
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and shall be in you.
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But the Comforter,
which is the Holy Ghost,"
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he goes on to say,
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"whom the Father
will send in my name,
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he shall teach you all things,
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and bring all
things to your remembrance,
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whatsoever I have said to you."
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Everywhere the
story is the same,
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in every page, every chapter,
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I mean every book,
there is the remaining,
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the same, the word of
God, the Holy Spirit, the dove.
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The Holy Spirit that comes down
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and touches the life of
Jesus Christ in His baptism.
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The Holy Spirit
that's left for a Comforter,
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for every
generation, for every age
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this Comforter comes to us.
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"Nevertheless I
tell you the truth,
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it is expedient
for you that I go away,
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for if I go not away,
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the Comforter
will not come unto you,
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but if I depart, I
will send him unto you.
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And when he is come,"
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the Bible says, he will do this,
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"he will reprove
the world of sin,
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and of righteousness,
and of judgment of sin,
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because they believe
not on me, of righteousness,
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because I go to my Father,
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and ye see me no
more, of judgment," he says,
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"because the prince
of the world is judged.
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I have yet many
things to say unto you,
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but ye cannot bear them now.
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Howbeit when he, the
Spirit of truth, is come,
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he will guide you," what?
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"Into all
truth," the Bible says,
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"for he shall
not speak of himself,
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but whatsoever he shall
hear, that shall he speak,
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and he will show
you things to come.
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If we confess our
sins, he is faithful
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and just to forgive us
of our sins, and to," what?
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"Cleanse us from
all unrighteousness."
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No one need to carry the
burden of unforgiven sin.
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No one here tonight needs to be
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under the guilt--
under the guilt of sin.
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No one needs to
go from this place
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carrying the burden of sin.
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Jesus Christ is
willing, Jesus Christ is able,
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and He is wanting to forgive.
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That's the very nature
of the God that we serve,
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the very nature
of the God we serve,
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came quickly to a garden
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when our first
parents sinned against God,
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when they sinned
against the Holy Spirit,
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right away the Father
was there in the garden,
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the Father was
searching him out,
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seeking him out,
searching to bring
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the boy back to
the heavenly Father.
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Jesus is always doing this.
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"Ask, and it shall
be given unto you, seek,
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and ye shall find, knock,
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and it will be opened unto you."
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That's the story of Jesus,
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knocking at the
door of the human heart.
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Once I found that God
forgives, it was wonderful.
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Once I found that God
forgives, it was a way to God,
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the door was open to God, I
did not hesitate any longer,
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I did not put off any longer.
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I said, the door is open,
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I better get in
while it's still open.
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Amen. Amen.
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While its still open.
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And so Jesus is
longsuffering toward us,
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willing and able to forgive.
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And who here in this place,
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who here in this
place this evening,
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who watching on television
or watching the downlink,
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who here can say they
don't need to be forgiven?
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Who in this place hasn't sinned?
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The Bible tells us
"For all who have sinned,
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and come short of
the glory of God."
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We all have come short
of the ideal of God for us.
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God designed us to live in
a perfect harmony with Him.
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God designed us
to be without sin.
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God wanted us to
walk in His ways forever.
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That was the
intention and will of God,
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but man sinned against God.
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He was cast-- He was
cast down because of that sin
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and God has been
searching him ever since.
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And you cannot go far
enough that God can't find you.
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And you can't
sneak into the crowd
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that God can't
see you in the crowd.
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God will find you.
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In fact, God is
seeking to bring you home.
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I discovered why God
created a round world.
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Physicist, because the further
you go away from home, boom,
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the closer you come to home
and that's the seeking Father.
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That's the loving Father.
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That's the one who
wants to forgive you.
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He is already willing to
forgive you of your sins.
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When I was a college
pastor, a university pastor,
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a girl came into my
office and she was heartbroken
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and I could tell she
was carrying a burden
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that she shouldn't carry.
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And she confessed to
me, she says-- She said,
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"Pastor Ron," she says,
"I can't feel forgiving."
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I said, "Why do
you have feel it?"
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It's not a feeling.
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It's a fact. We have to feel.
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Well, I have to--
in fact they tell us
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75% of people that
forgive themselves,
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there'll be 75% less emotional
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and mental illness in the world.
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Forgiveness, I
finally taught her to seek God
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and believe God
through His word.
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And you should have
seen her after that,
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she found forgiveness
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and she was able
to forgive herself.
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Great problem with many of you,
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you say God forgive me
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and then you carry
that with you the next day
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and next week
and the next month.
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When you ask Him to forgive you,
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He forgives you.
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That's it, bottom line, no more.
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He's forgotten that sin,
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cast it into the
depths of the sea
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not to be remembered anymore.
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So why should you
remember it? Amen, amen.
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Everywhere in the Bible
you find His willingness
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to forgive us of our trespasses.
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I mean, here's just a few texts.
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Leviticus 4:31.
Leviticus 5:13, 16, 18.
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Numbers 14:19.
Numbers 15:26, 28.
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Psalm 32:1. Psalm 85:2.
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Isaiah 33:24, on and
on, and Matthew 9: 2, 5.
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Do you need more
proof that God forgives?
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Matthew 12:31, 32.
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Mark 3:28. Mark 4:12.
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Luke 5:20. Luke 7:47, 48.
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Acts 8:22. Romans 4:7.
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I mean, 1 John 2-- I
could go on and on and on.
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God is able and
willing to forgive.
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Amen. Amen.
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And be forgiving. Be forgiving.
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Quit feeling sorry for
yourself and be forgiving.
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The Bible
doctrine of forgiveness
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is absolutely clear.
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God is ready and able
to forgive you of your sin
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and I've seen in my ministry,
the downtrodden, the sin sick,
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the habitual
sinner saved and forgiven,
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cleansed to go on to
great things in their life,
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to go on to a great
place in their life.
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You see, everywhere
He's willing to forgive.
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In Genesis to Jesus,
He's willing to forgive.
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The prophets and the patriarchs,
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the people of the Old Testament.
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From Jesus to John,
the New Testament people,
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He was willing to forgive.
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And from John to Ron,
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He is willing and
He is able to forgive.
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And there's no sin of the flesh
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that He cannot
and will not forgive.
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In a dream, Martin
Luther found himself
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being attacked by Satan.
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The devil unrolled a long scroll
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containing a
list of Luther's sins
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and he held it before him.
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On reaching the
end of the scroll
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Luther asked the
devil, "Is that all?"
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"No," came the reply.
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And a second scroll
was thrust in front of him.
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And it was opened up.
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"Is that all?" "No."
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And a third scroll.
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And the devil--
He asked the devil,
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"Do you have anymore?"
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He says, "No more."
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"Oh, you've forgotten
something," Luther said.
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"Quickly write on each of them,
'The blood of Jesus Christ,
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God's Son,
cleanses us from all sin.' "
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Amen. Amen.
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And God has
written on your name,
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God has written on your
heart, if you are repentant,
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God is willing
and able to forgive,
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that's everywhere in Scripture.
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He's willing to accept you
and He accepts you on His love
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and on His forgiveness.
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And forgiveness is
found everywhere in the Bible.
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You don't go
anywhere in the Bible
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without finding
this idea of forgiveness.
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There are three prerequisites.
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You don't have to
have money to be forgiven
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or only the rich
would be forgiven.
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And if I reached in my pocket
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I would see that I
couldn't be forgiven.
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You don't have to
have the best clothes.
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You don't have to go to church.
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Well, it's good to go to church,
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so you grow in grace,
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but that isn't what
saves you and forgives you.
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I mean, only the--
only the good people would--
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I mean-- You
don't have to do things
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that are special
to try to make up,
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in marriage to try to make up,
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so that you can try to prove
to God or try to persuade God
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or try to
influence God to forgive you.
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He's already forgiving you.
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He's already there in the place.
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He is a God of forgiveness,
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that is His job, that
is His job description.
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Praise the Lord.
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His job
description is to forgive you.
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Remember, your job description,
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no matter what
you say, is sinner.
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Now some of you
cover it pretty good.
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Happy Sabbath,
Brother Halverson.
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You cover it pretty good.
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Sing in the choir,
you cover it pretty good.
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The wage of sin is death,
the gift of God is eternal life
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through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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Everywhere is forgiveness
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and there's the three
perquisite, no, here it is.
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Repent.
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You have to have a
heart sorrow for sin.
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I don't care who you
are, you have to repent.
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Many years ago I was visiting,
I was in New York, evangelist,
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a pastor and
evangelist in New York City
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and I was doing great work
for God there in that city.
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We had an evangelistic
center just go up on Broadway
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there at Times Square.
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And I would preach
there and hold crusades
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and hold Bible studies.
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And I had a name to visit,
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it was the name
of a preacher's kid.
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And when I
looked at the address,
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I said to myself,
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"Wow, how did this
kid ever get there?
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What is this child--
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What is that child doing there?"
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And so I decided
I'd go make a visit.
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I got my ghetto car and drove
out to that part of Brooklyn.
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My ghetto car I called it
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because it
wasn't worth stealing.
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And I got to the address,
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I ran up the
stairs, down the hall,
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when I got to the door,
there were boom this-- boom,
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you know, the music boom going,
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you hear the base, you
know, boom, boom, boom.
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And so I knocked on the door,
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my Christian
knocking boom, boom.
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So I got back about three feet
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and I ran at the door
and went "boom, boom, boom."
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Finally, she came to the door,
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and unlocked the door
except the chain locking.
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Said "Who is it?" I
said, "Ron Halvorsen."
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"Who's he?"
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Now I knew the
girl needed a visit.
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I get that on
Thursday, but anyway,
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I knew she needed a visit.
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And I said, "I'm an
evangelist, I'm pastor.
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I'm an evangelist, Seventh-day
Adventist evangelist.
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I'm preaching in town
and in the city here."
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"I'm not interested," she says.
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I said, "I know.
That's why I'm here."
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So she opened
the door, I went in.
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It was poor scene, a
little child clinging to her.
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What do you do?
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Preach to her? No.
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Some of you love to do
that. Tell her how bad she is.
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We have people
around here that does that.
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No. You listen.
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I said, "honey,
tell me your story."
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She said, "Well, I'm a PK."
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I said, "Whoa,
that's interesting."
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And she told me her story.
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She grew up in a church,
she went to a church school
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just like the student in Berean
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and in our little
church school over Sharon's.
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And she went to
the church school
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and she-- Her
daddy was a preacher.
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And she would sit in
there and then she went to MV
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and all those
sang in the youth choir
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and all those good
things and she's growing up
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and she is a Christian
girl, at least in lifestyle.
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Listen, you can dress up
a pig, but it's still a pig.
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You can dress up a
sinner, but it's still a sinner.
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But she went through all that,
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you know, went off to academy,
got in with the wrong kids
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and got to
drinking and carrying on
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and found out she was pregnant.
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When told to daddy
and her daddy got angry.
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Now something
about getting upset,
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any father would.
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But she got angry, he got angry.
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He said, "You're
no longer my daughter,
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get out of this house."
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Packed her little suitcase
and she hitchhiked across
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from California to New York.
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And by the way those
lechers are waiting for them,
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at the bus terminal and at the--
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Hey, they're waiting for them.
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And so they put
her up to lay her down.
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And here she is.
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And I said this to
her finally, I said,
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"Honey, have you ever
thought about going home?"
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"And so I can't go
home." I said, "Why?"
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She said "Because I
did this terrible thing."
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She hadn't forgiven herself.
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And she said, "My
father wouldn't want me home."
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I couldn't believe that.
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A father that wouldn't let his--
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want his daughter home?
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I said, "What if he
wanted you to come home?"
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And there came a glint
in her eye, just enough,
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I saw it and I said
this girl wants to go home.
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So I pray for her
and I got my ghetto car
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and drove back home
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and when I got
there, I searched up.
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You can run from
evangelists, but you can't hide.
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So don't get-- Hey, buddy,
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don't get nervous
if I want to visit you.
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Better I visit you here.
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Right? Come on now.
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Why shouldn't I
want to visit you?
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Why shouldn't I want to tell you
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about Jesus' way of life?
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I mean, a mechanic
wants to work on the motor,
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I wonder if they'll be there
to work on the human heart.
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And so I looked up in
the General Conference Book,
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they have a book of ministers
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and the city he lived in,
didn't have his phone number,
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but once I found the
city, the man's caught.
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And so I found his phone number
and I dialed up the preacher.
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Here it is. Can you imagine him?
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Professional.
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Oh, you could see him,
black suit, black shoes,
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black tie, black underwear--
I mean, this man is--
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This man is
clerical, he's clergy.
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And then he gives
me this heavy line,
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"May I help you?"
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Hypocrisy.
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I said, "I just was
visiting your daughter.
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I just wanted to
call you and tell you
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I was visiting your daughter."
00:19:02.32\00:19:03.35
He says, "I have no daughter."
I said, "You're a liar."
00:19:03.38\00:19:08.62
What is this
political correct stuff?
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A liar.
00:19:11.87\00:19:13.33
He may have a
PhD, but he's a liar.
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And I said, "You
have a beautiful daughter,
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and not only that, you
have a beautiful granddaughter.
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I had that little grandchild
on my lap, let me tell you.
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What a wonderful little
child and so cute and--"
00:19:24.68\00:19:29.39
"You don't understand." I
said, "No, I do understand.
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How many times have you preached
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on the Prodigal Son?"
00:19:34.18\00:19:35.54
So he tried to,
you know, you don't--
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you don't fight
with me on the phone,
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I invented this boy.
00:19:48.46\00:19:53.01
And I said "You have a girl
and she's in the wrong place.
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It's not safe for her,
00:19:58.72\00:19:59.80
it's not safe
for your grandkid."
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There was a pause
and he started to cry.
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Repentance.
00:20:10.40\00:20:14.31
I said, "You've got
to forgive your girl."
00:20:14.34\00:20:19.40
He started to cry, he
said, " I forgive her,
00:20:19.43\00:20:22.58
I got to forgive myself."
00:20:22.61\00:20:25.49
I said, "Would
you like her home?"
00:20:25.52\00:20:28.07
He said,
"Preacher, get her home."
00:20:28.10\00:20:30.34
I said, "I'll get her home."
00:20:30.37\00:20:32.24
And I had prayer on the
phone with that preacher.
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Even preachers can repent.
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Amen. Amen.
00:20:36.86\00:20:38.35
Even preachers can repent.
00:20:38.38\00:20:42.60
So the next day
I got my ghetto car
00:20:42.63\00:20:44.28
and drove out to Brooklyn
00:20:44.31\00:20:45.34
and up the
stairs, down the hallway
00:20:45.37\00:20:47.36
and there was the boom, boom.
00:20:47.39\00:20:49.63
Hey, listen to me, people,
don't wait till the boom stops.
00:20:49.66\00:20:52.91
Don't wait till
you clean them all up.
00:20:52.94\00:20:54.58
What do you think you are?
00:20:54.61\00:20:57.76
Let the Holy Spirit do
His work and you do your work
00:20:57.79\00:21:00.78
and your work is to love
them for the kingdom of God.
00:21:00.81\00:21:06.13
Love them for
the kingdom of God.
00:21:06.16\00:21:09.09
Old saint, 50
years, serving God,
00:21:09.12\00:21:11.88
wants the new Christian to
serve God in the same level?
00:21:11.91\00:21:15.59
You are mixed up in your
brain. Mixed up in your brain.
00:21:15.62\00:21:22.36
You stand between Jesus Christ
00:21:22.39\00:21:24.70
and a peep person
for the kingdom of God
00:21:24.73\00:21:26.62
and baptism, you
are the Antichrist
00:21:26.65\00:21:29.24
because you're taking
the prerogative of God alone.
00:21:29.27\00:21:33.39
Now I know you don't
like to hear those sermons.
00:21:33.42\00:21:36.71
But don't ask me to
preach if I'm not gonna preach
00:21:36.74\00:21:38.98
what God wants me to preach.
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Think they're so
holy. He repented.
00:21:43.73\00:21:50.03
There was hope for
Him, and unless you repent,
00:21:50.06\00:21:52.22
there's no hope for you.
00:21:52.25\00:21:53.28
I don't care how
happy you are on Sabbath.
00:21:53.31\00:21:57.55
I don't care how many you keep.
00:21:57.58\00:21:59.66
If you don't
love, you don't love.
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Repent. So I went back.
00:22:03.46\00:22:07.03
Boom! Don't wait
till they clean up.
00:22:07.06\00:22:10.75
So I went booming.
00:22:10.78\00:22:12.08
Said "Who is it?" I
said, "Ron Halvorsen."
00:22:12.11\00:22:13.50
Now she knows Ron
Halvorsen. She invited me.
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And, oh, by the
way, on the way there
00:22:16.95\00:22:19.79
I stopped at the airport.
00:22:19.82\00:22:22.26
Don't invite people the way
out and not give them a way out.
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I got a one-way
ticket to California.
00:22:25.76\00:22:29.44
And I got the
ticket right here and I--
00:22:29.47\00:22:32.40
I come in and she
says, "You're back."
00:22:32.43\00:22:34.62
I said, "Yeah."
00:22:34.65\00:22:35.68
I said "Because I
got to help you pack,
00:22:35.71\00:22:37.85
because you're going home
to your father to California."
00:22:37.88\00:22:41.08
She said, "No,
he wouldn't want--"
00:22:41.11\00:22:42.40
I said, "No, he wants you home.
00:22:42.43\00:22:43.89
Here's the ticket."
00:22:43.92\00:22:45.15
Amen. Amen.
00:22:45.18\00:22:49.84
For the first time she
was able to forgive herself.
00:22:49.87\00:22:54.84
I was there in LaGuardia,
little baby in my arms,
00:22:54.87\00:22:59.73
with the little mother
and gave them a holy hug,
00:22:59.76\00:23:05.26
send them on their way.
00:23:05.29\00:23:07.93
About five years
later-- four, five years later
00:23:07.96\00:23:10.89
I was out in Anaheim, California
00:23:10.92\00:23:12.41
preaching to 35,000
people in the Coliseum there.
00:23:12.44\00:23:16.52
And when I finished preaching
00:23:16.55\00:23:17.58
I couldn't shake
hands with everybody,
00:23:17.61\00:23:20.14
and so I said "If
you'd like to come,
00:23:20.17\00:23:21.54
come visit me upfront."
00:23:21.57\00:23:22.83
And this woman
came up and a child
00:23:22.86\00:23:25.71
and a nice-looking young man.
00:23:25.74\00:23:27.53
And she said to me,
"You know who I am?"
00:23:27.56\00:23:32.28
I said, "Honey, I'm
sorry, I don't know who I am.
00:23:32.31\00:23:37.74
I got to look in the
mirror two times a day
00:23:37.77\00:23:40.74
just to see who I am."
00:23:40.77\00:23:43.99
And she said, "Remember Brooklyn
00:23:44.02\00:23:46.05
and boom, boom, boom?"
00:23:46.08\00:23:49.61
I said-- she said "My
daddy took me home, took me in.
00:23:49.64\00:23:56.02
He loved me again
and I loved him again.
00:23:56.05\00:23:58.55
He sent me off to school.
00:23:58.58\00:23:59.71
I studied to be a teacher
00:23:59.74\00:24:01.16
and now I'm
teaching in a church school
00:24:01.19\00:24:03.03
and serving God
in a church school.
00:24:03.06\00:24:05.37
Listen to me--
That's repentance.
00:24:05.40\00:24:10.10
That's what you have to do.
00:24:10.13\00:24:12.11
Oh, I got to do
this and this and this.
00:24:12.14\00:24:13.47
Oh, if I can-- I
don't know if I can do this.
00:24:13.50\00:24:15.07
I don't know if I
can be all these things.
00:24:15.10\00:24:16.99
You don't have to
be all those things.
00:24:17.02\00:24:19.15
You got to repent.
00:24:19.18\00:24:21.52
You got to have a heart
sorrow for your sinning.
00:24:21.55\00:24:23.79
You can't overcome sinning
00:24:23.82\00:24:25.11
until you have a
heart sorrow for it.
00:24:25.14\00:24:29.51
People-- here's
what the Bible tells us,
00:24:29.54\00:24:33.33
I mean, I'm not making this up.
00:24:33.36\00:24:35.41
"Repent ye
therefore, and be converted,
00:24:35.44\00:24:36.76
that your sins
may be blotted out,
00:24:36.79\00:24:38.28
when the times
of refreshing come
00:24:38.31\00:24:40.16
from the presence of the Lord."
00:24:40.19\00:24:41.57
That's all there. He
says "Draw near to God."
00:24:41.60\00:24:44.30
Listen to me "Draw near to God,
and He will draw near to you."
00:24:44.33\00:24:47.13
Steps for
forgiveness. Confess your sins.
00:24:47.16\00:24:49.75
Listen, the Word
of God tells us this.
00:24:49.78\00:24:51.79
"If ye confess your
sins, He is faithful
00:24:51.82\00:24:53.54
and just to
forgive you of your sins,
00:24:53.57\00:24:55.40
to cleanse you from
all unrighteousness."
00:24:55.43\00:24:58.27
I mean, not just
part of it, He says
00:24:58.30\00:24:59.89
"all unrighteousness,"
all unrighteousness.
00:24:59.92\00:25:04.41
That's what it says.
00:25:04.44\00:25:06.12
You confess, you
repent, you confess.
00:25:06.15\00:25:08.45
Here it is. You
want forgiveness?
00:25:08.48\00:25:11.28
Then you convert,
change. You can't do that.
00:25:11.31\00:25:14.99
Only God can do
that, but it has to happen.
00:25:15.02\00:25:19.37
You see a person who can come
00:25:19.40\00:25:20.43
under the
influence of Jesus Christ
00:25:20.46\00:25:22.56
and not be a different person.
00:25:22.59\00:25:24.11
No man can come into
the presence of Jesus
00:25:24.14\00:25:26.27
and remain the same.
00:25:26.30\00:25:27.73
Amen. Amen.
00:25:27.76\00:25:29.80
God changes your life.
00:25:29.83\00:25:31.31
Some of you are being
change right here, you know.
00:25:31.34\00:25:33.45
And some of you don't know
00:25:33.48\00:25:34.51
the length of
which He's changing you.
00:25:34.54\00:25:36.89
I mean, you can
hardly fathom the greatness
00:25:36.92\00:25:39.97
which He's transforming
you as God converts.
00:25:40.00\00:25:45.38
That's it.
00:25:45.41\00:25:46.44
"And said,
Verily I say unto you,
00:25:46.47\00:25:47.61
Except ye be converted,
00:25:47.64\00:25:48.98
become as little
child, ye shall not" what?
00:25:49.01\00:25:51.15
"Enter the kingdom of heaven."
You got to become as a child.
00:25:51.18\00:25:54.09
You noticed that?
00:25:54.12\00:25:56.68
What is a child?
A child is simple.
00:25:56.71\00:25:59.79
Child cuts through
all this other stuff.
00:25:59.82\00:26:02.72
A child-- We want
to make adults of them
00:26:02.75\00:26:04.36
and God wants
them to be a child.
00:26:04.39\00:26:07.63
Hey, except you be converted,
become-- listen to me,
00:26:07.66\00:26:14.30
the Word of God tells us here
00:26:14.33\00:26:16.23
"There was a man
of the Pharisees,
00:26:16.26\00:26:17.39
named Nicodemus,
a ruler of the Jews,
00:26:17.42\00:26:18.91
The same came to Jesus by night,
00:26:18.94\00:26:20.69
said unto him, Rabbi, we
know," here comes the snow job.
00:26:20.72\00:26:23.31
This is the religious snow job.
We know you are a great person.
00:26:23.34\00:26:27.37
He doesn't want them to tell Him
00:26:27.40\00:26:28.43
he's a great person.
00:26:28.46\00:26:30.00
He wanted to ask the
man to ask Him to save him.
00:26:30.03\00:26:34.78
He wanted to be the
Savior, not a great teacher.
00:26:34.81\00:26:37.38
He wanted to be the great Rabbi,
00:26:37.41\00:26:39.42
he said I don't
want to recognize,
00:26:39.45\00:26:41.93
you need to
recognize me as a Savior.
00:26:41.96\00:26:44.51
"For no man can
do these miracles,"
00:26:44.54\00:26:45.95
there he goes,
"except God be with him.
00:26:45.98\00:26:48.92
Jesus answered
and said unto him,
00:26:48.95\00:26:50.34
Verily, verily, I say unto you,
00:26:50.37\00:26:51.86
Except the man be born again
00:26:51.89\00:26:53.49
he cannot see
the kingdom of God."
00:26:53.52\00:26:55.73
Listen, forgiveness
is a free gift from God,
00:26:55.76\00:26:58.41
its amazing grace.
00:26:58.44\00:27:00.50
It's amazing grace. And why?
00:27:00.53\00:27:04.41
He's able to forgive the
grossest sin, Jesus Christ.
00:27:04.44\00:27:08.97
I could talk to
you about the murder
00:27:09.00\00:27:10.62
in Birmingham, Alabama.
00:27:10.65\00:27:12.24
Spent 28 years in prison.
00:27:12.27\00:27:14.34
He gets out, he's wandering
00:27:14.37\00:27:15.46
down the street in
Birmingham, Alabama.
00:27:15.49\00:27:17.30
I'm in a little hall
there in Birmingham, Alabama
00:27:17.33\00:27:20.45
with the sign out front
00:27:20.48\00:27:21.79
Revelation office
hope at that time.
00:27:21.82\00:27:24.63
And in walks this man, 28
years in prison for murder.
00:27:24.66\00:27:28.31
And I tell you that man was
touched by the grace of God,
00:27:28.34\00:27:31.62
that man was filled
with the Holy Spirit
00:27:31.65\00:27:33.92
and that man went from
that place a different man.
00:27:33.95\00:27:36.82
He became a deacon, listen,
he became a follower of Christ
00:27:36.85\00:27:40.25
and a leader in his own church.
00:27:40.28\00:27:42.00
Listen to me, there's no
sin that God can't forgive.
00:27:42.03\00:27:45.85
You say, how many times can
He-- 28 years he was in prison.
00:27:45.88\00:27:53.13
God forgave him.
00:27:53.16\00:27:55.07
He repented,
confessed and was converted.
00:27:55.10\00:27:57.67
His life was changed.
00:27:57.70\00:27:59.67
Hardcore
criminals, I've seen it.
00:27:59.70\00:28:02.59
Moses in anger
kills an Egyptian.
00:28:02.62\00:28:04.45
What does God do? He
tries to hide the sin.
00:28:04.48\00:28:08.45
God forgives.
00:28:08.48\00:28:09.93
David was a man
killed, get his wife.
00:28:09.96\00:28:12.11
What does he do? God forgives.
00:28:12.14\00:28:13.89
Listen, here He
goes, He forgives
00:28:13.92\00:28:15.82
and forgives and forgives,
00:28:15.85\00:28:17.03
but there is a sin
that even God can't forgive.
00:28:17.06\00:28:21.84
Even Jesus who forgave
all these people out of love
00:28:21.87\00:28:25.81
that even Jesus cannot forgive
00:28:25.84\00:28:28.08
and it's called
the unpardonable sin.
00:28:28.11\00:28:30.67
I'm gonna read
what I consider be
00:28:30.70\00:28:32.11
some of the most terrifying
00:28:32.14\00:28:33.26
awesome versus in the all Bible.
00:28:33.29\00:28:36.28
It's found in Matthew 12:30-32
00:28:36.31\00:28:41.75
"He that is not
with me is against me."
00:28:41.78\00:28:43.64
Hey, you can with Him here
but until you take those steps
00:28:43.67\00:28:47.17
you are not with Him.
00:28:47.20\00:28:49.96
You can believe it here
but until you take those steps
00:28:49.99\00:28:52.48
you are not with Him.
00:28:52.51\00:28:54.12
"He that gathereth not
with me scattereth abroad.
00:28:54.15\00:28:56.31
Wherefore I say unto
you, All manner of sin
00:28:56.34\00:28:58.84
but blasphemy shall
be forgiven unto men."
00:28:58.87\00:29:00.90
He goes on to tell
us what this sin is.
00:29:00.93\00:29:04.19
"But whosever
speaketh against the Holy Ghost
00:29:04.22\00:29:06.27
it shall not be forgiven him."
00:29:06.30\00:29:08.28
I mean that's how clear it is.
00:29:08.31\00:29:10.84
He will not forgive that sin
00:29:10.87\00:29:13.12
which is
against the Holy Spirit,
00:29:13.15\00:29:16.10
the Holy Spirit.
00:29:16.13\00:29:18.58
When it gets too deep for some
00:29:18.61\00:29:20.97
there is no way
back or no way out.
00:29:21.00\00:29:23.69
"And whosoever shall speak
a word against the Son of man,
00:29:23.72\00:29:25.83
it shall be forgiven him,
but unto him that blasphemeth
00:29:25.86\00:29:28.45
against the Holy Ghost
it shall not be forgiven."
00:29:28.48\00:29:30.72
Here's the unpardonable sin.
00:29:30.75\00:29:31.88
Listen to me, He says,
00:29:31.91\00:29:33.47
this is the sin
against the Holy Spirit.
00:29:33.50\00:29:35.51
And by the way Mark
3:20 tells the story
00:29:35.54\00:29:37.63
it's the background.
00:29:37.66\00:29:38.70
"The multitude
cometh together again,
00:29:38.73\00:29:40.33
so they could not
so much as eat bread."
00:29:40.36\00:29:42.82
It was so crowded
they crowded around Jesus,
00:29:42.85\00:29:45.21
they couldn't
even eat their lunch.
00:29:45.24\00:29:46.81
Now they want to
know more about Jesus
00:29:46.84\00:29:49.29
and there in the Word of
God it tells us about Jesus
00:29:49.32\00:29:52.15
and Jesus later on Hebrew
says, "How shall we escape,
00:29:52.18\00:29:54.57
if we neglect so
great salvation."
00:29:54.60\00:29:56.68
And Jesus is
teaching and He says this,
00:29:56.71\00:29:59.79
"For it is impossible for
those who were once enlightened,
00:29:59.82\00:30:02.96
and have tasted
of the heavenly gift,
00:30:02.99\00:30:04.64
and were made partakers
00:30:04.67\00:30:05.96
of the Holy
Spirit of the Holy Ghost,
00:30:05.99\00:30:07.98
have tasted the
good word of the God,
00:30:08.01\00:30:09.93
and the powers of
the world to come,
00:30:09.96\00:30:11.86
if they shall fall away,
00:30:11.89\00:30:13.63
to renew them
again unto repentance."
00:30:13.66\00:30:17.36
Don't go back sliding
on God, that's serious.
00:30:17.39\00:30:23.55
Don't back sliding on God.
00:30:23.58\00:30:26.23
Listen to the word
00:30:26.26\00:30:28.20
"Seeing they
crucify to themselves
00:30:28.23\00:30:30.21
the Son of God afresh,
and put him to open shame."
00:30:30.24\00:30:35.66
Put him to open shame.
00:30:35.69\00:30:39.21
Now in the story
there in Mark Chapter 3
00:30:39.24\00:30:42.57
Jesus is
performing great miracles.
00:30:42.60\00:30:45.82
In fact, even the
Pharisees are impressed by.
00:30:45.85\00:30:48.40
They could deny the miracle.
00:30:48.43\00:30:50.25
I mean, blind man
seeing, lame man walking
00:30:50.28\00:30:52.54
and all these
miracles are happening
00:30:52.57\00:30:54.43
and now they're gonna question
00:30:54.46\00:30:56.44
they're not
gonna deny the miracle
00:30:56.47\00:30:57.97
they gonna say, where
is this miracle come from?
00:30:58.00\00:31:00.64
Does it come from
God or Beelzebub, Satan?
00:31:00.67\00:31:06.00
It's all there.
00:31:06.03\00:31:09.07
He restore that insane--
00:31:09.10\00:31:13.27
He even wanted to admit
can this be the son of God,
00:31:13.30\00:31:15.96
or can this be the son of David
00:31:15.99\00:31:17.60
or the son of
David was messianic,
00:31:17.63\00:31:19.58
he was messianic
term and they were saying,
00:31:19.61\00:31:21.78
he could just be the Messiah
00:31:21.81\00:31:23.19
and the Pharisees
came in, oh, not really--
00:31:23.22\00:31:28.50
And that's what's
called the apostasy.
00:31:28.53\00:31:32.03
There is full
revelation of the gospel
00:31:32.06\00:31:33.73
and they turned away from him.
00:31:33.76\00:31:36.18
They saw Jesus in action
and he turned it away from Him.
00:31:36.21\00:31:39.64
They heard truth from
lips of Jesus from His word
00:31:39.67\00:31:42.38
and they turned away from Him.
00:31:42.41\00:31:44.45
You see, it's not
the sin of the flesh,
00:31:44.48\00:31:47.21
not because we
stumble and commit a sin it
00:31:47.24\00:31:49.68
because we turn away from
it, we turn our back on it.
00:31:49.71\00:31:53.42
We have the opportunity
but we shut the door,
00:31:53.45\00:31:56.91
we backup, we
say well, well, well,
00:31:56.94\00:31:59.07
well, not now wait,
wait, wait, we backup.
00:31:59.10\00:32:01.95
You see, that's the
sin against the Holy Spirit
00:32:01.98\00:32:04.34
because the Holy Spirit
is trying to convict you
00:32:04.37\00:32:06.47
and trying to win
you and trying to vow you
00:32:06.50\00:32:08.71
and you feel the conflict
in your heart but you backup.
00:32:08.74\00:32:12.74
Backup.
00:32:16.98\00:32:21.80
They crucified Christ afresh.
00:32:21.83\00:32:25.39
Matthew 12 says "When
the Pharisees heard it,
00:32:25.42\00:32:28.13
they said, This fellow
doth not cast out devils,
00:32:28.16\00:32:30.26
but by Beelzebub."
00:32:30.29\00:32:31.79
There it is the
same story in Matthew.
00:32:31.82\00:32:36.00
They deny Jesus the Son of God.
They denied what He was doing.
00:32:36.03\00:32:40.29
Now these three accusations
00:32:40.32\00:32:41.56
they made against
Jesus understand it.
00:32:41.59\00:32:43.67
First of all
these were so illogical
00:32:43.70\00:32:46.82
and then the other
was so inconsistent
00:32:46.85\00:32:49.08
and then it was so--
How was it illogical,
00:32:49.11\00:32:51.47
Satan cast out Satan?
00:32:51.50\00:32:53.92
Duh, I mean-- I
mean, it was inconsistent.
00:32:53.95\00:33:00.71
There he writes from
the word he writes the word
00:33:00.74\00:33:02.93
and he writes about how
inconsistent this word is
00:33:02.96\00:33:05.82
and he says, "Who
was before a blasphemer,
00:33:05.85\00:33:08.23
and a persecutor, and injurious,
00:33:08.26\00:33:09.81
but I obtained mercy,
00:33:09.84\00:33:10.88
because I did it
ignorantly in unbelief."
00:33:10.91\00:33:13.78
He was doing the
things in unbelief
00:33:13.81\00:33:16.54
but once he came to
belief Saul became Paul.
00:33:16.57\00:33:21.73
And you'll say, no,
I am Saul, I'm a Jew.
00:33:21.76\00:33:26.65
He got a new name, a new name.
00:33:33.41\00:33:38.54
1 Timothy tells us
"The grace of our Lord
00:33:38.57\00:33:41.16
was exceeding
abundant with faith and love
00:33:41.19\00:33:43.93
which is in Christ Jesus."
00:33:43.96\00:33:45.11
My friend, listen to
me, the Pharisees heard it
00:33:45.14\00:33:47.81
and yet they try to
claim it on Beelzebub.
00:33:47.84\00:33:50.80
Paul, on the road to Damascus
which was Saul understood
00:33:50.83\00:33:54.31
what the voice was saying to him
00:33:54.34\00:33:56.02
and he was moved by
it, you see he was move
00:33:56.05\00:33:59.26
and there came the
in-reputable answer
00:33:59.29\00:34:01.46
Jesus answered the
accusers in three arguments.
00:34:01.49\00:34:04.63
He said, literally
Satan can't cast out Satan.
00:34:04.66\00:34:07.25
He says inconsistent Pharisees
disciples cast out demons
00:34:07.28\00:34:11.08
inconsistent impossible
to receive power from Satan
00:34:11.11\00:34:15.17
he could not
possibly be stronger
00:34:15.20\00:34:17.19
than the one who
receive power from.
00:34:17.22\00:34:20.78
Pretty smart
Jesus, don't play around,
00:34:20.81\00:34:25.22
He gets right to
the point and the point.
00:34:25.25\00:34:29.08
What is the work
of the Holy Spirit?
00:34:29.11\00:34:30.93
Well, let's see
what the Bible says,
00:34:30.96\00:34:32.16
what's the work
of the Holy Spirit?
00:34:32.19\00:34:33.45
Because this is
what the blasphemy
00:34:33.48\00:34:34.64
against the Holy Spirit
is the unpardonable sin.
00:34:34.67\00:34:37.04
"Nevertheless I
tell you the truth,
00:34:37.07\00:34:38.77
it is expedient
for you that I go away,
00:34:38.80\00:34:40.95
for if I got not away,
00:34:40.98\00:34:42.27
the Comforter
will not come unto me,
00:34:42.30\00:34:44.75
but if I depart," He
says, "I will send him unto you.
00:34:44.78\00:34:48.67
And when he is come,
00:34:48.70\00:34:49.80
he will reprove
the world of sin,
00:34:49.83\00:34:51.59
and of righteousness,
and of judgment of sin,
00:34:51.62\00:34:53.67
because they believe not on me."
00:34:53.70\00:34:55.32
Listen to what he
says, "Of righteousness,
00:34:55.35\00:34:57.54
because I got to my Father
00:34:57.57\00:34:58.98
and ye see me no
more of judgment,
00:34:59.01\00:35:00.89
because the prince
of this world is judged.
00:35:00.92\00:35:03.16
I have yet many
things to say unto you,"
00:35:03.19\00:35:05.76
and then he goes on
"but ye cannot bear them.
00:35:05.79\00:35:08.53
Howbeit when he, the
Spirit of truth, is come,"
00:35:08.56\00:35:10.94
the Spirit of truth.
00:35:10.97\00:35:13.43
Oh, Brother Halverson,
I really do believe that,
00:35:13.46\00:35:15.08
that's so true,
00:35:15.11\00:35:16.93
but the Spirit of
truth comes to you.
00:35:16.96\00:35:24.83
"He will guide
you into all truth
00:35:24.86\00:35:27.89
for he shall not
speak of himself."
00:35:27.92\00:35:30.41
What the Holy Sprit is
been doing through these baptism
00:35:30.44\00:35:32.82
what Jesus has
done to many of you
00:35:32.85\00:35:34.30
will be baptized
tomorrow and tomorrow night.
00:35:34.33\00:35:36.65
Listen to me, what
Jesus is doing to you
00:35:36.68\00:35:39.58
He's bringing you to
truth and you obeyed Him.
00:35:39.61\00:35:43.03
And so therefore
you've avoided ever thinking
00:35:43.06\00:35:45.32
of committing of sin
against the Holy Ghost.
00:35:45.35\00:35:49.43
Never sin
against the Holy Spirit.
00:35:49.46\00:35:52.94
"But whatsoever he shall
hear, that shall he speak,
00:35:52.97\00:35:57.10
and he will shew
you things to come.
00:35:57.13\00:35:58.99
He shall glorify me, for
he shall receive of mine,
00:35:59.02\00:36:02.11
and shall shew it unto me."
00:36:02.14\00:36:04.86
Again and again He
speaks of this power,
00:36:04.89\00:36:07.37
the dove the Holy Spirit,
00:36:07.40\00:36:09.17
the Bible that's
the light that we have.
00:36:09.20\00:36:11.69
If you cannot be
moved by what the word says
00:36:11.72\00:36:14.54
then the Holy Spirit comes,
00:36:14.57\00:36:16.11
you cannot be moved by
what the Holy Spirit does
00:36:16.14\00:36:18.74
why you cometh
the sin against God
00:36:18.77\00:36:22.86
and God cannot intervene.
00:36:22.89\00:36:25.98
Wow, wow.
00:36:26.01\00:36:28.10
"And when he is come,
00:36:28.13\00:36:29.16
he will reprove
the world of sin"
00:36:29.19\00:36:30.51
He is reproved
some of you people.
00:36:30.54\00:36:32.49
This not Ron
Halverson reproving you,
00:36:32.52\00:36:34.78
the Holy Spirit reproving you.
00:36:34.81\00:36:36.82
He's correcting some of you
00:36:36.85\00:36:38.71
of righteousness
of judgment of sin
00:36:38.74\00:36:41.28
because they believe not on me
00:36:41.31\00:36:43.15
and then he goes
"Of righteousness,
00:36:43.18\00:36:44.33
because I go to my
Father, and ye see me no more,
00:36:44.36\00:36:46.98
and judgment because the
prince of this world is judged."
00:36:47.01\00:36:50.07
He goes on to say, "And
I Jesus have sent my angel
00:36:50.10\00:36:53.53
to testify unto you
these things in the churches.
00:36:53.56\00:36:56.20
I am the root and
the offspring of David,
00:36:56.23\00:36:58.22
the bright and morning star."
00:36:58.25\00:36:59.50
I'm Messiah,
that's what He saying.
00:36:59.53\00:37:01.61
"And the Spirit and
the bride say, Come.
00:37:01.64\00:37:03.61
And let me that
heareth say, Come.
00:37:03.64\00:37:05.43
And let him
that is athirst come.
00:37:05.46\00:37:07.42
And whosoever will,
00:37:07.45\00:37:08.75
let him take the
water of life" what?
00:37:08.78\00:37:11.65
"Freely."
00:37:11.68\00:37:13.12
The water of life.
00:37:13.15\00:37:15.60
But we refuse the cup.
00:37:15.63\00:37:17.53
We're not read to drink.
00:37:17.56\00:37:20.06
Well, not being
ready and refusing is
00:37:20.09\00:37:23.09
two different
things, two different things.
00:37:23.12\00:37:28.15
You see, without the Holy Spirit
00:37:28.18\00:37:29.28
you won't even
be able to repent.
00:37:29.31\00:37:33.15
Without the Holy
Spirit you wouldn't--
00:37:33.18\00:37:35.46
you would feel
no need to confess.
00:37:35.49\00:37:39.22
Without the Holy Spirit,
00:37:39.25\00:37:40.43
listen to me,
without the Holy Spirit
00:37:40.46\00:37:42.29
you would not know
the way of righteousness,
00:37:42.32\00:37:44.01
without the Holy
Spirit you're be incapable
00:37:44.04\00:37:45.45
of making
decision to follow Christ.
00:37:45.48\00:37:47.63
Are you close to
committing that sin
00:37:47.66\00:37:50.09
you've known the message
00:37:50.12\00:37:51.15
from months and
years, some of you?
00:37:51.18\00:37:56.29
Some of you had to share
with you by the loved ones
00:37:56.32\00:37:58.51
and relatives and
friends through the years.
00:37:58.54\00:38:02.32
You've been in the
meetings like this many times
00:38:02.35\00:38:05.88
but yet you refuse the
calling of the Holy Spirit.
00:38:05.91\00:38:10.38
Refuse to the
follow the Holy Spirit.
00:38:10.41\00:38:17.88
Come, drink of the water.
Jesus Christ offers that water.
00:38:17.91\00:38:23.89
I mean, He offers it to you,
He offers it to me this Jesus.
00:38:23.92\00:38:30.66
Let me talk to
you for few minutes.
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I think that man
there in Scotland
00:38:34.49\00:38:37.91
he was walk along the beach.
00:38:37.94\00:38:40.78
And the water was way
out, the tide was way out.
00:38:40.81\00:38:44.23
I've been in those
areas and the tide,
00:38:44.26\00:38:47.01
sometimes its 50 foot tides.
00:38:47.04\00:38:50.82
I've been in
Newfoundland, 50 foot tide.
00:38:50.85\00:38:54.21
And he is walking along
the beach having a great time
00:38:54.24\00:38:56.39
and the water was way, way out
00:38:56.42\00:38:58.36
and you know, he is
just enjoying himself,
00:38:58.39\00:39:00.41
enjoying everything about it
00:39:00.44\00:39:01.85
as he was
walking along the beach
00:39:01.88\00:39:06.39
and as he got half
way down the beach,
00:39:06.42\00:39:08.05
he noticed this sign.
00:39:08.08\00:39:10.53
It says, "Don't go any further
00:39:10.56\00:39:13.99
or you will be
caught by the tide."
00:39:14.02\00:39:16.86
He looked at the
tide, it was way out there.
00:39:16.89\00:39:20.75
He was having
such a wonderful time,
00:39:20.78\00:39:22.27
I mean, the tide is so far away,
00:39:22.30\00:39:25.07
such a wonderful time.
00:39:25.10\00:39:27.59
And so he thought
"Well, that won't affect me."
00:39:27.62\00:39:31.78
And so he kept
going down the beach.
00:39:31.81\00:39:34.93
But after a while
he noticed the tide
00:39:34.96\00:39:36.32
was coming in,
it was rushing in.
00:39:36.35\00:39:38.16
And it was 10 feet
away and so he turned around
00:39:38.19\00:39:41.47
and started walking
back and tide before he knew
00:39:41.50\00:39:44.28
it was up through his feet.
00:39:44.31\00:39:45.47
And so he started running
and that was up to his angles.
00:39:45.50\00:39:48.34
And he started
running and he was running
00:39:48.37\00:39:50.83
and running and running
00:39:50.86\00:39:51.89
but so it was up to his knees
and that he was floundering.
00:39:51.92\00:39:55.90
He doesn't seem to be
able to make it, I mean.
00:39:55.93\00:39:58.25
And then the
water is up to his hips.
00:39:58.28\00:40:00.28
He saw the cliffs he thought,
maybe I could climb up on the--
00:40:05.62\00:40:08.18
maybe I could climb
up on the, on the cliff
00:40:08.21\00:40:14.21
and avoid being drowned.
00:40:14.24\00:40:16.33
And so he started
climbing up on the cliff.
00:40:16.36\00:40:18.86
But there was a water rushing
higher and higher and higher,
00:40:18.89\00:40:21.55
he got as far as he
could go, high as he could go.
00:40:21.58\00:40:24.69
And soon the water,
the water rushed in on him
00:40:24.72\00:40:30.19
and swept him away and
swept him to his death.
00:40:30.22\00:40:36.72
Listen to me, you see,
00:40:36.75\00:40:39.12
Christ invitation is to you.
00:40:39.15\00:40:46.58
This is Christ
invitation to come,
00:40:46.61\00:40:50.14
to avoid the unavoidable
outside of Holy Spirit.
00:40:50.17\00:40:55.51
You see this Christ invitation
is to come to the woman
00:40:55.54\00:40:58.49
seeking love and
multiple marriages,
00:40:58.52\00:41:00.68
God says, "Come on,"
the Spirit says, "Come."
00:41:00.71\00:41:04.97
There is forgiveness
but you need to come.
00:41:05.00\00:41:10.22
Come to the
well of living water.
00:41:10.25\00:41:13.44
To the
workaholic, striving so hard
00:41:13.47\00:41:17.13
to achieve the good
life apart from God.
00:41:17.16\00:41:21.26
Too busy, too
involved in your work,
00:41:21.29\00:41:24.83
too involved in
the things you do,
00:41:24.86\00:41:26.55
too involved to get
involved with Jesus Christ.
00:41:26.58\00:41:29.06
You see the Spirit says,
00:41:29.09\00:41:30.18
"Come, come to the
well of living water."
00:41:30.21\00:41:36.12
For a person here
this evening burden
00:41:36.15\00:41:37.63
with a heavy
load of sin and guilt
00:41:37.66\00:41:41.01
Spirit says,
"Come and I will lift
00:41:41.04\00:41:42.54
that guilt and
take away that sin."
00:41:42.57\00:41:45.96
But you have to
come, you have to come.
00:41:45.99\00:41:50.57
To who has been abused,
maybe abandoned and detach,
00:41:50.60\00:41:57.73
takes pills to
get through a day,
00:41:57.76\00:41:59.91
the Spirit says, "Come."
00:41:59.94\00:42:02.27
I mean, "Come, come
to the light of the world
00:42:02.30\00:42:04.56
who can turn your
dark night of depression
00:42:04.59\00:42:06.44
and despair into a new day."
00:42:06.47\00:42:08.13
Spirit of God says, "Come."
00:42:08.16\00:42:11.03
To the one who is
terrified by the diagnosis
00:42:11.06\00:42:13.19
and some terrible illness.
00:42:13.22\00:42:15.67
If you don't know
what's gonna happen
00:42:15.70\00:42:18.36
you cannot cope
with it, you can't--
00:42:18.39\00:42:20.23
I mean, you can't face it.
00:42:20.26\00:42:21.32
The Spirit of God says, "Come."
00:42:21.35\00:42:24.66
Come to Him who is the
resurrection and the life.
00:42:24.69\00:42:28.26
You see don't
deny Him any longer.
00:42:28.29\00:42:30.61
You see you can deny
me but you can't deny Him.
00:42:30.64\00:42:36.63
Don't say another time, God.
00:42:36.66\00:42:40.52
Well, push Him away any longer,
00:42:40.55\00:42:43.45
how long will you push Him away?
00:42:43.48\00:42:45.51
Oh, Brother
Halvorsen, you don't know,
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you see, it's my church.
00:42:46.61\00:42:47.84
What's your church
have to do with it?
00:42:47.87\00:42:50.82
If its truth, its truth.
00:42:50.85\00:42:52.71
If it's the Holy
Spirit, it's the Holy Spirit.
00:42:52.74\00:42:57.22
Come to me, you will say,
00:42:57.25\00:42:58.28
"Oh, church can't save
me, brother Halverson."
00:42:58.31\00:43:00.15
Of course, it can't
00:43:00.18\00:43:01.94
but you can't push
away the Holy Spirit.
00:43:01.97\00:43:05.19
You see the spirit
and bride say come.
00:43:05.22\00:43:08.57
Jesus holds out His
hand of love to you and says,
00:43:08.60\00:43:11.28
"Come, this very
hour, this very moment."
00:43:11.31\00:43:13.96
He wants to cover your sins,
He wants to wash away your sins
00:43:13.99\00:43:17.42
to empower you, to empower you.
00:43:17.45\00:43:23.85
I was preaching in Greenwich
Village many years ago.
00:43:23.88\00:43:29.49
And as I stood up
to preach that night,
00:43:29.52\00:43:31.65
four young men
came in to this hall.
00:43:31.68\00:43:35.11
They were flying their
collars, their gang collars,
00:43:35.14\00:43:37.46
social sevens,
South Bronx, Mott Haven.
00:43:37.49\00:43:42.05
They were
mainline heroin addicts,
00:43:42.08\00:43:44.81
first they snot it, it
burns out the membranes
00:43:44.84\00:43:47.13
and their skin pop and
finally it's mainlining.
00:43:47.16\00:43:51.72
And these young men are
mainlining their heroin addicts
00:43:51.75\00:43:54.16
from the moment they
wake up in the morning
00:43:54.19\00:43:55.59
till they go to bed at night,
they are trying to find a way
00:43:55.62\00:43:58.04
to get enough money
to have their next fix.
00:43:58.07\00:44:01.54
They live from moment to moment,
00:44:01.57\00:44:04.68
for the monkey on their soul.
00:44:04.71\00:44:07.67
Moment to moment,
you can't trust them,
00:44:07.70\00:44:12.01
their friends can't trust them.
00:44:12.04\00:44:14.34
They can't trust themselves.
00:44:14.37\00:44:17.01
But somehow they stag it
00:44:17.04\00:44:18.83
in to an
evangelistic meeting like this
00:44:18.86\00:44:21.41
and sat in the front row.
00:44:21.44\00:44:24.31
Now right away, I
forgot the audience
00:44:24.34\00:44:25.74
I was thinking
about these four boys
00:44:25.77\00:44:28.40
'cause I would
rather preach to one person
00:44:28.43\00:44:31.54
at the gate of hell
than the whole choir.
00:44:31.57\00:44:35.80
And they were four there.
00:44:35.83\00:44:39.50
And so I started to preach
and I-- throwing things in
00:44:39.53\00:44:42.69
I wasn't even thinking
I was gonna talk about.
00:44:42.72\00:44:44.90
And I talked about things
I didn't even know I knew.
00:44:44.93\00:44:50.15
At the end of the meeting
00:44:50.18\00:44:51.82
and those-- we stood up to sing.
00:44:51.85\00:44:54.70
Those were the
meetings we used to love to sing
00:44:54.73\00:44:57.14
and we stood up to sing
and when we stood up to sing,
00:44:57.17\00:45:01.68
the four boys started out.
00:45:01.71\00:45:04.38
And I couldn't lose them.
00:45:04.41\00:45:07.01
So I ran off the platform
00:45:07.04\00:45:09.42
and I'm glad I
wasn't on television,
00:45:09.45\00:45:10.93
I don't know what
they would have done.
00:45:10.96\00:45:14.44
But I ran off the platform
and I went out the side door
00:45:14.47\00:45:19.30
and down the
alleyway above the ash barrels
00:45:19.33\00:45:21.24
and I'm running fast as I could,
00:45:21.27\00:45:22.48
I was young man, I
could run faster then.
00:45:22.51\00:45:25.87
I still can jump fences
they are just smaller now.
00:45:25.90\00:45:30.91
And I came
around from the alleyway
00:45:30.94\00:45:32.64
and I came to the
front, it was about 10 steps
00:45:32.67\00:45:35.12
down from the church
door down to the sidewalk.
00:45:35.15\00:45:39.24
I believe its 9th street
or 11th street on the Westside
00:45:39.27\00:45:45.92
and these boys,
four of them coming out.
00:45:45.95\00:45:49.25
Still a little
high from I don't know
00:45:49.28\00:45:51.11
it was from my preaching
or for the drugs but anyway.
00:45:51.14\00:45:55.27
And they coming down
the stairs and they went,
00:45:55.30\00:45:58.20
"Ooh, you're the
preacher" I said, "Yeah."
00:45:58.23\00:46:03.50
This is their foggy
mind couldn't understand it.
00:46:03.53\00:46:08.39
This is you in there,
how could you be out here?
00:46:08.42\00:46:13.33
I said, "Well, you're out
here that's why I'm out here.
00:46:13.36\00:46:18.16
And I talk to those
boys, the four boys.
00:46:18.19\00:46:21.87
I told them that God loves them.
00:46:21.90\00:46:23.16
What else do you tell them?
00:46:23.19\00:46:28.61
We're gonna be held
responsible for a lot of things
00:46:28.64\00:46:30.85
we've done in the
name of the truth.
00:46:30.88\00:46:35.53
You tell them
that God loves them
00:46:35.56\00:46:37.01
and by the way He does.
00:46:37.04\00:46:40.88
And then I said to myself,
00:46:40.91\00:46:41.94
hope you come
back tomorrow night.
00:46:41.97\00:46:43.00
Now drug addict will promise you
00:46:43.03\00:46:44.44
anything to get out of here.
00:46:44.47\00:46:46.51
So all you young man, we begin
00:46:46.54\00:46:47.97
and I knew I said,
God-- I said, let's pray.
00:46:48.00\00:46:51.39
Here? Yeah.
00:46:51.42\00:46:53.26
We knelt down on the sidewalk
00:46:53.29\00:46:54.65
and New York is
strange they see that,
00:46:54.68\00:46:56.36
they just step over you
around, you know on their way.
00:46:56.39\00:47:01.21
And I prayed
with those four men,
00:47:01.24\00:47:03.65
young men, 21, 22, 18, 23, four.
00:47:03.68\00:47:10.57
Next night I stood up to preach
00:47:10.60\00:47:11.74
and sure enough they
came in the back door
00:47:11.77\00:47:14.81
from Mott Haven, South
Bronx, mainline heroin addicts.
00:47:14.84\00:47:20.46
They kept coming
to me, I was shocked,
00:47:20.49\00:47:22.53
I mean, well, I wasn't shocked
00:47:22.56\00:47:23.59
as the Holy
Spirit can do anything
00:47:23.62\00:47:25.07
but I was shocked
because of knowing
00:47:25.10\00:47:27.28
working with the drug addicts
00:47:27.31\00:47:28.49
I have for years
in New York City.
00:47:28.52\00:47:30.54
You know, the
promises they make,
00:47:30.57\00:47:32.30
they never keep
until God gets to them.
00:47:32.33\00:47:36.67
And I could see God
working on their heart,
00:47:36.70\00:47:38.35
God getting into their soul.
00:47:38.38\00:47:41.50
And then one night
they were going out,
00:47:41.53\00:47:42.70
I said, "Hey, man,
I got to visit you."
00:47:42.73\00:47:44.73
"Hey, man, you don't
want to come to Mott Haven.
00:47:44.76\00:47:48.71
You don't want to come, we
live in a shooting gallery."
00:47:48.74\00:47:51.12
They-- what they do is
takeover this faking apartment
00:47:51.15\00:47:53.94
and you know, in the
older mainline heroin addicts
00:47:53.97\00:47:57.16
and drug addicts and meth,
00:47:57.19\00:47:59.11
they all meet
there and shoot up drugs.
00:47:59.14\00:48:02.24
And I said, "No, I'll be there."
00:48:02.27\00:48:03.79
And Jesus never said
I have an office hour
00:48:03.82\00:48:06.01
between 8 and 10, never.
00:48:06.04\00:48:08.22
So I got up, I got
there and I always put
00:48:08.25\00:48:10.14
$5 in my
socking, $2 in my pocket.
00:48:10.17\00:48:14.05
And I ran for stairs
00:48:14.08\00:48:15.42
and the door was off with hinges
00:48:15.45\00:48:16.70
and I saw my boys
up against the wall
00:48:16.73\00:48:19.72
there sitting,
nodding in and out.
00:48:19.75\00:48:23.14
Stepped over the
people got to them, sat out.
00:48:23.17\00:48:25.47
They said, "Oh,
preacher, you're here."
00:48:25.50\00:48:27.04
I said, "Yeah."
00:48:27.07\00:48:28.25
It was there that
I heard the story,
00:48:28.28\00:48:29.56
the monkey on the-- on the back.
00:48:29.59\00:48:33.44
It was there that I led
those four boys to Jesus Christ.
00:48:33.47\00:48:36.47
When I finished
I took their drugs,
00:48:42.63\00:48:47.18
I flushed then.
00:48:47.21\00:48:49.70
They came back to the meetings
00:48:49.73\00:48:51.08
and they gave
their life to the Lord.
00:48:51.11\00:48:54.08
Hey, listen, one of them
00:48:54.11\00:48:57.14
his mind was so
messed up with drugs,
00:48:57.17\00:48:59.03
he's had institutionalized
00:48:59.06\00:49:01.36
but he was such a sincere boy,
00:49:01.39\00:49:02.89
walk around the
street with his Bible.
00:49:02.92\00:49:05.44
But three of those
four boys went on to school,
00:49:05.47\00:49:10.90
studied the
ministry and now they serve
00:49:10.93\00:49:13.86
Jesus Christ as
ministers of Gospel.
00:49:13.89\00:49:21.41
The Holy Spirit,
if the Holy Spirit
00:49:21.44\00:49:24.69
can move four boys in Mott Haven
00:49:24.72\00:49:31.32
to know God why don't you think
00:49:31.35\00:49:34.45
God can do that to
people here in Ovens Auditorium?
00:49:34.48\00:49:37.68
Amen.
00:49:37.71\00:49:38.74
Why don't you think
00:49:38.77\00:49:40.35
that you should
listen to the Holy Spirit?
00:49:40.38\00:49:43.09
That you should
listen to what He is saying
00:49:43.12\00:49:46.08
and you should give
your life over to Him
00:49:46.11\00:49:49.07
and follow His truth.
00:49:49.10\00:49:51.69
I mean, it's
available to every person here
00:49:51.72\00:49:56.35
just as it was to me.
00:49:56.38\00:49:58.54
I took it and I've
spent the 57 years,
00:49:58.57\00:50:03.39
most wonderful years
a man could ever spend
00:50:03.42\00:50:07.68
preaching and teaching
the gospel of Jesus Christ.
00:50:07.71\00:50:12.75
And so I want to encourage you,
00:50:12.78\00:50:14.73
if the Holy Spirit's
been speaking to you,
00:50:14.76\00:50:17.59
you will know I
don't have to tell you,
00:50:17.62\00:50:19.86
you know when it
is speaking to you.
00:50:19.89\00:50:22.12
You know when
you've heard the truth
00:50:22.15\00:50:23.30
and you have to stand up for it.
00:50:23.33\00:50:24.55
You know that, I don't-- I
can't tell you but you know.
00:50:24.58\00:50:29.34
You know that you prayed
00:50:29.37\00:50:31.03
that God would
bring you here and He did.
00:50:31.06\00:50:34.79
Was that the Holy Spirit?
00:50:34.82\00:50:37.91
Sent a brochure to
your house and you came.
00:50:37.94\00:50:41.00
Was that the Holy Spirit?
00:50:41.03\00:50:42.79
Would the Holy
Spirit bring you here,
00:50:42.82\00:50:44.04
show you truth and then
say, that's all right, go away.
00:50:44.07\00:50:46.79
No. He says, come.
00:50:46.82\00:50:50.41
And I want you to bow your head,
00:50:50.44\00:50:51.55
close your eyes,
I want you to pray,
00:50:51.58\00:50:53.17
I want you to
ask the Holy Spirit,
00:50:53.20\00:50:55.98
you don't want to commit
a prodigal sin against Him.
00:50:56.01\00:50:59.90
You want to tell Him,
you don't want to commit
00:50:59.93\00:51:01.90
that sin that
cannot be forgiven.
00:51:01.93\00:51:05.03
And you want to say,
Jesus, all to You I surrender
00:51:05.06\00:51:09.50
and I'm gonna follow truth
because You have called me to.
00:51:09.53\00:51:14.55
Will you just lift up
your hand where you are
00:51:14.58\00:51:17.62
and I'm gonna pray for you?
00:51:17.65\00:51:19.63
God bless you.
God bless you here.
00:51:19.66\00:51:23.65
God bless you.
God bless you here.
00:51:23.68\00:51:26.36
We're gonna seek His face now.
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Gracious Father,
which art in heaven.
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I humbly bow in Your presence
to ask for the Holy Spirit.
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I thank You how You've
convicted here tonight.
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These people, they've
raised their hand to You,
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they made that commitment
and now Holy Spirit lead them.
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May they come to a place
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in their
experience with their baptize,
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become a part of your church,
become a part of the movement
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it's going to preach the gospel
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in all the world until You come.
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I pray these favors in
the blessed name of Jesus.
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Now still with the
head bowed its not another,
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I don't want to miss you.
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Just lift your hand
up for the Holy Spirit
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speaking in your heart.
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Don't resist the Holy Spirit,
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He cannot forgive
you if you resist him
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as there not or
another in this place.
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God bless them in the name
of Jesus Christ our Lord, amen.
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When the Bible says,
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"One will be taken
and one will be left,"
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does that mean that
when Jesus comes back,
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some will be saved
and some will be left here
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to have a second
chance at salvation?
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Well, let's take a look at that
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in the Word of God
in Matthew Chapter 24
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and we'll just go
to it in verse 40,
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"Then shall two be in the field,
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the one shall be
taken, and the other left.
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Two women shall be
grinding at the mill,
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the one shall be
taken, and the other left."
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Well, no, it
doesn't mean that at all
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and I'll tell you why.
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I mean, it means what it says,
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but it doesn't mean
someone will be saved
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and someone left behind
to have a second chance.
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"As the days of Noah were,
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so shall also the
coming of the Son of Man be.
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For as in the days
that were before the flood
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they were eating and drinking,
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marrying and giving in marriage,
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until the day that
Noah entered into the ark.
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And knew not
until the flood came,
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and took them all away,
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so shall also the
coming of the Son of Man be.
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Two shall be in the field,
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one shall be taken
and the other left."
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In Noah's day one was
on the ark, one was not.
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Those on the ark were saved
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and those on the
outside of the ark were lost,
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they weren't left out
there to get a second chance.
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In fact, it says
in the Word of God,
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"Then all the tribes
of the earth shall mourn
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when the sign of the Son
of Man appears in heaven."
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People don't get to live on
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and have a second
chance at salvation.
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There isn't a time
after Jesus returns
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that there will be
people here on the earth.
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You read in the Bible
that when Jesus comes back,
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the earth will be destroyed.
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People who are on the earth
at that time and are not saved,
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well, it won't be
pretty for them at all.
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So where it says
"one will be taken,
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one will be left," it is meaning
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that one is going to be saved
and one is going to be lost,
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it doesn't indicate or intimate
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that anybody is
going to be left on earth
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with a few more
years to get things right.
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We might, out of the
compassion in our heart,
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wish that that were so.
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If that were so, you know
what it would to do some people?
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They'd say, "Well,
I don't really need
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to give my heart fully to Jesus
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because there's going to
be another period of time."
00:55:09.03\00:55:12.60
Somebody is going
to think like that.
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I remember I lived in London,
England, for about this long.
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Well, it was about
this long actually.
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And I used to catch the number
73 bus to King's Cross station.
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Now when I was a kid,
I would catch the bus,
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it came past our house
at 20 minutes past the hour,
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and I would catch the bus
from just outside the store,
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a little up the road.
00:55:35.14\00:55:36.70
And if I got there
at 22 past the hour,
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that means I needed to come back
00:55:40.30\00:55:41.42
almost an hour later
and catch the next bus.
00:55:41.45\00:55:43.69
If you missed it, you missed it.
00:55:43.72\00:55:45.58
But in London, if I
miss the number 73 bus,
00:55:45.61\00:55:48.64
it was no big deal
00:55:48.67\00:55:49.70
because often you
look up the street,
00:55:49.73\00:55:51.63
there was another
one coming right away.
00:55:51.66\00:55:53.06
Sometimes they traveled
in little fleet of three.
00:55:53.09\00:55:56.07
It only ever seemed to
be two, three, four minutes
00:55:56.10\00:55:58.51
before another
number 73 bus came along.
00:55:58.54\00:56:00.77
So if I wasn't there on
time, whenever time was,
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didn't matter,
another bus coming.
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It isn't going to be like that
00:56:07.94\00:56:08.97
with the second coming of Jesus.
00:56:09.00\00:56:10.49
We need to be ready.
00:56:10.52\00:56:12.29
And ready doesn't
mean pull up your socks,
00:56:12.32\00:56:14.08
it means surrender to Jesus.
00:56:14.11\00:56:15.86
It doesn't mean
scrub yourself clean,
00:56:15.89\00:56:18.15
it means surrender to Christ
00:56:18.18\00:56:19.47
and let His
blood wash you clean.
00:56:19.50\00:56:21.47
Let the grace of
God transform you.
00:56:21.50\00:56:24.18
So when Jesus
comes back, that's it.
00:56:24.21\00:56:26.96
There isn't another
second coming of Jesus.
00:56:26.99\00:56:29.59
We want to be ready then,
00:56:29.62\00:56:30.95
so, the way to be ready
then is to be ready now.
00:56:30.98\00:56:35.22
Be sure, your
life is given to Jesus
00:56:35.25\00:56:37.70
and that you
surrender completely to Him.
00:56:37.73\00:56:41.41
In Matthew 4:4
the Word of God says,
00:56:50.02\00:56:52.60
"It is written, 'Man
shall not live by bread alone,
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but by every word that
proceeds from the mouth of God.'
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