King of my life,
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I crown Thee now
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Thine shall the glory be
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Lest I forget Thy
thorn-crowned brow
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Lead me to Calvary
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Lest I forget Gethsemane
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Lest I forget Thine agony
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Lest I forget Thy love for me
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Lead me to Calvary
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Show me the tomb
where Thou was laid
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Tenderly mourned and wept
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Angels in robes of light arrayed
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Guarded Thee whilst Thou slept
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Lest I forget Gethsemane
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Lest I forget Thine agony
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Lest I forget Thy love for me
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Lead me to Calvary
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Just as I am, without one plea
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But that Thy love has saved me
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Now, to be Thine,
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and Thine alone O Lamb of God,
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I come, I come
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May I be willing, Lord, to bear
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Daily my cross for Thee
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Even Thy cup of grief to share
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Thou hast borne all for me
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Lest I forget Gethsemane
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Lest I forget Thine agony
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Lest I forget Thy love for me
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Lead me to Calvary
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Lead me to Calvary
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Amen.
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Good evening.
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Again you've heard that before.
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So it is my privilege
to introduce the speaker
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for tonight Natasha
Nebblett, the president of GYC.
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I was just quizzing
her a little bit backstage
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asking her how I should
introduce her, and she said,
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"Whatever you do
just don't tell them
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that I am the boss and
so don't remember that."
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But she did say
that she loves her home,
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she loves her family,
and she loves orphans.
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Now we're often asked at
GYC some of the leadership,
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how do we go about
finding leaders of GYC?
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And I'll give you just
a little bit of insight
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into the process of
the board of directors.
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We spend a
tremendous amount of time
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and thought and
more importantly prayer
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about the leaders of GYC.
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We got together
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when we were gonna
select the leader of GYC,
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we got up at a normal
hour most of us, we went down,
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we had a devotions, we did
breakfast things like that.
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Natasha was up at
three or four in the morning
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that same morning on her knees
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while the board of
director was probably sleeping.
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We don't look for people
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that have qualities
of worldly leadership,
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we look for people to
have a deep relationship
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with their creator.
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And that's why
we selected Natasha
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to be the president of GYC.
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And so she went
through this prayer session
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and then she came
in, and we asked her,
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"What's your
vision for young people?"
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I remember very
specifically, she said,
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"You know there are
X number of children
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sold into sex
slavery every year.
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If Adventists don't
do something about that,
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who do we
expect to do about it."
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She said,
"There's X number of people
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who are dying of hunger,
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if Adventists don't
do something about it
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who do we expect
that are gonna do it."
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And I sat there and I
was personally inspired
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by her story.
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And so tonight I get to
introduce our president,
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our speaker and someone
that has personally inspired me
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Natasha Nebblett.
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Amen.
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We have a interesting
tradition that we do at GYC.
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We have a Bible that
goes with the president.
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And in this Bible has
had the privilege of going
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to different place in China,
actually all around the world.
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Presidents have spoke out
of this for opening night.
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And so tonight it's my privilege
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to transition that Bible
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over to Natasha
as our president.
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And as I said, she
has absolutely inspired me
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and I'm confident
she will inspire you.
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And so here's the Bible
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and we're thankful and
we're here to listen to you.
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Thank you Justin.
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Let me tell you...
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This is an amazing,
amazing moment for me
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just to even take it in
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after a year's
worth of planning,
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it actually takes more
than a year's worth of planning
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for each GYC.
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It takes about 14
months of planning
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or so 14 to 15
months of planning.
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So this conference has
been a long time in coming.
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We were planning it
since before Orlando
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took place last year
2013 and to see all that...
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You know the conference
calls, all the emails,
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all the work that
the executive committee
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and the volunteers that
have put so much time and effort
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into this conference.
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To see it actually
come to reality right here
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and right now is a
truly amazing experience.
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But all the
effort, all the work,
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all the labor comes to nothing
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if we don't have one thing
and that's the Spirit of God.
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So that's what we're seeking
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this week in this
weekend here at GYC,
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the Spirit of the Living God
to fall on all of our hearts.
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And I'm so excited
about the theme this year,
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because it is, it
is the very center
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and it's the cataclysmic moment
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that took place in the existence
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of the most precious
thing in the universe to me
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and that is Jesus Christ.
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Let's have a prayer
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and then we will jump
into our time this evening.
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Heavenly Father,
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you know that I'm small,
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you know, I'm
just a girl, I'm young.
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You know that it's far,
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far easier to be
up on the mountain
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behind our home just praying
than it is to be on the stage.
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Lord, not a word
that I say tonight
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can benefit anyone in this room
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or bring any blessing to them
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unless Your
Spirit accompanies me.
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Please let me
decrease, please increase.
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Please lift up
your name tonight,
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and I pray that Your
Spirit would fall upon me
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and fall upon
all the hearers here
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and everyone that's joining
us via 3ABN at live stream.
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Lord, I pray that all of us
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would see Jesus and not a human.
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Open our ears to hear
what you would have for us
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right at the beginning of GYC.
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We pray these things
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in the precious name
of our King Jesus Christ.
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Amen.
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All right, so it's
the beginning of GYC.
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How can we get the most of it?
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I want to just say first,
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I said this once
in my prayer already,
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but I don't know how many of you
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would necessarily pick up
on this just from seeing myself
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with my executive committee
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and going around and
planning and what not,
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but I am a very major introvert.
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It is not easy for
me to be up on a stage,
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it is not easy for me to
be in large crowds of people
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or even smaller
crowds of people,
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but I have a God that
just like enables and empowers.
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And I am so thankful for
Him and He gives me freedom
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and He gives me
peace and besides my God,
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I have an
absolutely amazing family...
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my parents.
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By the grace of
God I am what I am
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because of godly parents
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who have spent
unnumbered hours praying for me,
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and I don't know how many days
this year my mother has fasted
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and prayed for me like every,
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it seems like
every time I turn around,
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she's just calmly
going around the house,
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and mealtime comes
and she doesn't sit down
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and I'm like,
"Mom are you eating?"
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"Oh, not today honey."
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And then I find out later
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she was fasting and
praying for me specifically.
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She's done this
over and over again,
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and she has fasted
and prayed for the two,
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for all of you as well.
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My brothers have
put in unnumbered hours,
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unnumbered hours
and have accompanied me
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to the most wild places
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to support what has
happened here today.
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And last but
certainly not least,
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one week ago
today on Christmas Eve
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the most
amazing man in the world
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proposed to me and I said yes.
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So I am very, very glad
and very thankful to God
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that he has blessed me
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with an amazing man that
knows how to care for my heart,
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how to protect my heart,
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how to lead my heart,
and how to win my heart.
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And if you get a chance
say hello to Paul Dysinger
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because he is the most
amazing man in the world,
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and I am so honored that
I will someday be his wife.
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So how do we get
the most out of GYC,
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it were right at
the beginning of it.
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We're going to be
sitting through so many plenary,
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so many breakout sessions,
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how do we gain the most
out of it right from the start.
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And this is what I want
to be talking about tonight.
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I'm pathetic in
naming my messages,
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but if I was to
name this sermon,
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it would be called,
"The Impossible Life."
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The impossible life.
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We will get the most out
of GYC if we do three things.
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The first is that
we're honest about ourselves
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and where we really are.
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Bible says that,
"We ought not to think
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more highly of ourselves
than we ought to think."
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First is if we're
honest about ourselves.
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The second is if we recognize
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that there is something
bigger about Christianity
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than we actually have
in our hands right now.
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Christianity is
an endless frontier,
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it never stops and there's
something more to be attained,
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no matter how long
we've been in this walk,
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if you have never
given your life to Christ
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or if you have done so
over and over and over again
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for years, for 20 years,
for 30 years, for 40 years.
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However, however old the oldest
person in here is I don't know.
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But if we have given
ourselves over to God every day,
00:14:12.51\00:14:15.68
there's still an eternity more.
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There's something
bigger than the Christianity
00:14:18.25\00:14:20.66
that we just have
in our hands right now.
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And the third thing that
will get the most out of GYC
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is if we are willing to
be true to the Word of God
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and who we declares Jesus to be.
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What is real Christianity?
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I'm gonna start my message
with two stories of people
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that are
actually currently alive
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and walking on this planet.
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At least I think
they are, they were alive
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as of a few months ago.
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I think you understand
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once I actually
tell you the stories,
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I'm not confident if
they're alive right now.
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Two separate stories
but before I get into that
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who can tell me
where the term Christianity
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or Christian was coined.
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Antioch, that's right.
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Antioch in...
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Antioch in Syria
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is where the term
Christian was coined.
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It probably was actually
not a very complementary name
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Christian by, you know,
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by very etymology
of the word Christ IAN,
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the suffix Christian,
the Jesus people essentially.
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All they can do is talk
about Jesus, they're Christians.
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Antioch in Syria
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was the very center
of what Christianity
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were, that in Jerusalem
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it was just the very center
of how Christianity then spread
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and went all over the world
in one generation, incredible.
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I have a passion
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because Christianity is just
about snuffed out of the nation
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of Syria today.
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We have no official Adventist
presence in Syria, none.
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Does that bother
anyone besides me tonight?
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No official presences in Syria,
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the place where the
term Christian was coined.
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It was like the cutting edge
of the hot bed of Christianity
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and today there's no
Adventist presence there.
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But I'm gonna tell
you a story tonight
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that comes from Syria.
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And what it means to be
a Christian in Syria today.
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This is as of a
couple of months ago
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there was a woman in
Syria, she is a Christian,
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non-Adventist again I said that
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that there is no official
presence of Adventism in Syria,
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the entire nation.
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She's a Christian woman
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and when the
unrest broke out in Syria,
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probably all of
us were aware of that
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if we were
keeping track of the news.
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She and her husband had
been praying for a revival
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for Christianity to be
revived in the nation of Syria.
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And then the unrest broke out.
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The killing was going
rampant, and it was the most
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unbelievable
experience to there,
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their Muslim neighbors started
coming to them and saying,
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"Why is this happening?
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Why is God allowing this?"
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Their Muslim neighbors
knew that they were Christians.
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One day she was on her knees
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shortly after the war broke out.
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And she said, she was praying
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that God would
make her a witness.
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And the only thing
she heard back from God
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just in the
stillness of her heart,
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no inaudible voice
but in the stillness
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of her heart.
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The question she
heard back from God was,
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"Will you give me your life?"
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That question means something
quite different in Syria
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than it means here.
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When we say here, you
know, you give God your life.
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We don't, we're not
meaning the same thing
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as it means in
Syria where Christians
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are dying left, right and
center in very brutal ways
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when God was saying,
"Will you give me your life."
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She prayed about it
that day and she said, "Yes.
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I'll give you my life."
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The next day she
was on her knees again,
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she was praying
that God would make her
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a witness to her nation,
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and the only thing she
heard back from God was,
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"Will you give me
your husband's life?"
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She said that was harder for her
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but she went to her husband,
they prayed about it together
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and they said, "Yes,
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Lord you can have the
husband's life as well."
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The third day she said,
she was back on her knees
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praying that God
would make her a witness
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and the only thing she
heard back from God was,
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"Will you give me
your children's lives?"
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Said that was
the hardest of all.
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It took her quite some
time, she went to her husband,
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the two of them
fasted and prayed together
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and they agreed that God himself
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had given them their children
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and it was only right for
them to lay their children
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on the altar for the
sake of the Almighty,
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I'm going to pick up
and quote her directly.
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"When we agreed to lay
our children on the altar..."
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This is her writing.
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"I knew I had to tell
them my children the truth,
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I told them that it was possible
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that men with swords
would come through our door,
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men who didn't know Jesus.
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They may say bad things to us
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and try to force
us to convert to Islam
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but no matter what they
say, we should not answer them.
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We should only tell
them that Jesus loves them
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and that we forgive them.
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I told them that we might see
some blood and have some pain,
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but it would only
be for a little while
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that we should
just close our eyes
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and when we open them
we would be with Jesus.
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Then she says,
"Am I a good mother
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to have to tell my
children such things."
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I also told them that as
long as God wants us to be safe,
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we will be safe,
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that he is in control
even during the bloodshed,
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during the killing, he
is carrying our future...
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"And then she ends by saying,
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"This is what it means
to be a Christian in Syria."
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What does it mean
to be a Christian?
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Second story.
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This is a gentleman in Nigeria,
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he was under
similar circumstances
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were unrest had broken out
in his region of the country
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and he was a pastor.
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He was pastoring in that
area, ministering to people
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and as many of
his church members,
00:20:09.54\00:20:12.51
it's an underground church,
00:20:12.54\00:20:13.88
but as his church
members were dying,
00:20:13.94\00:20:15.28
he was seeking
to minister to them
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and those that were
doing the persecuting realize
00:20:17.51\00:20:19.65
that he was the pastor
of this underground church.
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And so they began to target him.
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The try to get after him.
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They were not really successful
in catching up with him
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to take his life,
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but they one day
surrounded his home
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and his wife was very sick,
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but they knew he was inside
00:20:33.96\00:20:35.26
but for some
reason didn't break in
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but they besieged
his house for three days.
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He was unable to get
medical help for his wife
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and she died there in the house.
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He said he was so, so
horrified so shocked by,
00:20:44.51\00:20:49.41
by being there with his
wife when she died that he said,
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he couldn't eat for days,
couldn't eat, couldn't drink,
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couldn't sleep, but
he said, during that time
00:20:56.82\00:20:59.05
his communion with
God was unlike anything
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he had ever experienced before.
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After that he continued,
00:21:04.13\00:21:05.49
he somehow
escaped that situation.
00:21:05.53\00:21:07.00
He continued
ministering a while later
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the same people
that were persecuting
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found his brother
and they killed him
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because his
brother was the pastor
00:21:12.97\00:21:14.97
of the underground church.
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A while later
they found his sister,
00:21:16.71\00:21:19.07
they captured her, raped
her while later she escaped
00:21:19.11\00:21:23.04
but she's living with
the repercussions of that.
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A while later they
found his other brother
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and they also
killed him, a while later,
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several months later
they found his father
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and they also killed him.
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All because this man
would not give up his faith.
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Some of us in here
are like this man's crazy,
00:21:37.43\00:21:40.16
if he had some heart,
his family is dying around
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and if he had some heart,
00:21:43.83\00:21:45.17
he should do
something about this,
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"But he that
loveth father or mother
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more than me says
Christ is not worthy of me."
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They're interviewing
him he's still, I mean,
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I don't know if
he's alive today,
00:21:59.08\00:22:00.52
but a couple
months ago he was alive
00:22:00.55\00:22:02.42
and they asked him,
00:22:02.45\00:22:05.19
"How are you
holding up to this now,
00:22:05.22\00:22:06.86
your whole family is dead."
00:22:06.89\00:22:08.32
He said, "Any time he
counts not his life on earth
00:22:08.36\00:22:11.66
dear unto himself."
00:22:11.69\00:22:13.53
Anytime the insurgents
go into a new location
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and start killing Christians,
00:22:16.46\00:22:17.80
he makes a
beeline for that location
00:22:17.83\00:22:19.27
and he ministers to the
surviving family members
00:22:19.30\00:22:22.44
of Christians
who have been killed.
00:22:22.47\00:22:24.17
They asked him, "How are you
holding up under this strain."
00:22:24.21\00:22:27.58
And he said, "Oh, my
inner joy is constant.
00:22:27.61\00:22:34.42
I serve Christ, my
inner joy is constant."
00:22:34.45\00:22:38.62
What in the world,
00:22:38.65\00:22:41.19
how can it be that he has lost
00:22:41.22\00:22:43.83
everything
precious to him on earth?
00:22:43.89\00:22:46.96
Why would life be
even particularly important
00:22:47.00\00:22:49.63
anymore to him?
00:22:49.66\00:22:51.17
This man has suffered the
most severe kind of persecution
00:22:51.20\00:22:55.44
that a person can experience,
the loss of his entire family
00:22:55.47\00:22:59.27
because he will not
give up his faith in Christ
00:22:59.31\00:23:02.18
and somehow
through the hardship,
00:23:02.21\00:23:04.41
through the
bloodshed, through the killing,
00:23:04.45\00:23:06.25
his inner joy is constant.
00:23:06.28\00:23:08.62
I tell you, we always
say that we should pray
00:23:08.65\00:23:11.02
for the persecuted
church and I think we should.
00:23:11.05\00:23:13.05
There is no question
00:23:13.09\00:23:14.42
we should be praying
for the persecuted church.
00:23:14.46\00:23:15.89
But let me tell you
the persecuted church
00:23:15.92\00:23:17.53
needs to be praying for us
00:23:17.56\00:23:18.89
because they have
something that we don't have.
00:23:18.93\00:23:21.00
I envy that man's experience,
my inner joy is not constant.
00:23:21.03\00:23:24.67
Now I experience
drawing Christ, okay,
00:23:24.70\00:23:26.37
I'm not trying to say I don't.
00:23:26.40\00:23:28.57
But I don't have
what that man has
00:23:28.60\00:23:30.37
and I want it.
00:23:30.41\00:23:31.74
I want it, there is
something more to Christianity
00:23:31.77\00:23:34.34
than what we just
have in our hands today.
00:23:34.38\00:23:37.41
And when the life of
Christ comes down and lives
00:23:37.45\00:23:39.65
because, that man's
reaction, that man's response
00:23:39.68\00:23:42.52
under persecution,
affliction, death around him,
00:23:42.55\00:23:47.82
that is not a human response,
00:23:47.86\00:23:49.66
that response is
the life of Christ
00:23:49.69\00:23:51.19
living in that man.
00:23:51.23\00:23:53.06
And I want the life
of Christ living in me.
00:23:53.09\00:23:55.90
I am tired of
futility of easy Christianity
00:23:55.93\00:23:58.93
that just goes
along and, you know,
00:23:58.97\00:24:01.47
lives a good life and does
some ministry just on the side.
00:24:01.50\00:24:07.74
I want the life of
Christ to live in me
00:24:07.78\00:24:09.84
in a way that
will shake the world.
00:24:09.88\00:24:11.95
Listen, the world
is dying right now.
00:24:11.98\00:24:15.35
It is an indescribable
agony, just didn't mention
00:24:15.38\00:24:18.32
that this is one of
my soap boxes already,
00:24:18.35\00:24:20.16
but I'm going to say it again.
00:24:20.19\00:24:21.52
There are between 143 to
210 million orphans worldwide
00:24:21.56\00:24:25.26
between 143 to 210
million orphans worldwide.
00:24:28.36\00:24:34.70
This probably does not
include street children,
00:24:34.74\00:24:38.41
trafficked children,
00:24:38.44\00:24:40.08
forced child
labor, or child soldiers.
00:24:40.14\00:24:44.05
20 to 60 percent of children
in all countries of the world
00:24:44.11\00:24:46.98
are experiencing
domestic violence.
00:24:47.02\00:24:49.12
There are nearly 30 million
slaves in the world today,
00:24:52.19\00:24:56.42
30 million that is more
slaves than were ever in slaves
00:24:56.46\00:24:59.39
when William
Wilberforce and Abraham Lincoln
00:24:59.43\00:25:01.83
freed the slaves in
Great Britain and America.
00:25:01.86\00:25:05.03
More slaves on an earth today,
00:25:05.07\00:25:06.74
but we said that we don't
have a slave trade, we do.
00:25:06.77\00:25:09.44
It is an unbelievable problem.
00:25:09.47\00:25:11.14
Most of those are
sold into the sex trade.
00:25:11.17\00:25:14.54
Some of them are being
sold for as little as $50
00:25:14.58\00:25:18.21
for a life long
physical and sexual servitude.
00:25:18.25\00:25:23.39
What is going on in this world?
00:25:23.42\00:25:25.99
To put things in comparison,
00:25:26.02\00:25:27.69
the slaves back in
Abraham Lincoln's day
00:25:27.72\00:25:30.66
were being sold for
the purchasing power
00:25:30.73\00:25:32.79
in today's currency
of 5 to $40, 000 a piece
00:25:32.83\00:25:37.23
and now they're
being bartered off for $50
00:25:37.27\00:25:39.47
on the streets.
00:25:39.50\00:25:40.84
The world is in
shambles, in shambles.
00:25:40.90\00:25:44.71
Every four seconds another
person dies of starvation
00:25:44.74\00:25:49.58
or hunger related disease.
00:25:49.61\00:25:51.81
I mean that's one right now.
00:25:51.85\00:25:54.58
And another and another.
00:25:54.62\00:26:01.19
Many of whom have never
heard the name of Jesus Christ.
00:26:01.22\00:26:05.19
Coming little
bit closer to home.
00:26:10.80\00:26:13.34
Not too far from here,
there are Native Americans
00:26:13.37\00:26:16.24
living on reservations
00:26:16.27\00:26:18.27
that have never
heard the name of Jesus
00:26:18.31\00:26:19.81
either particularly
that actually are living
00:26:19.84\00:26:23.28
in developing world conditions
00:26:23.35\00:26:25.91
with substance abuse
and squalor around them.
00:26:25.95\00:26:30.89
People that regularly...
00:26:30.92\00:26:32.39
I live about an hour and a half
00:26:32.42\00:26:34.06
from a
reservation in New Mexico.
00:26:34.09\00:26:36.76
And they regularly on that
reservation encounter demons.
00:26:36.83\00:26:41.93
It is the every
day life for them
00:26:41.96\00:26:44.07
coming a little
bit closer to home,
00:26:44.13\00:26:45.97
the people that were doing
the pre-conference outreach
00:26:46.00\00:26:48.14
here at GYC, I don't
know how many of you know
00:26:48.17\00:26:50.31
but there were
about 200 young people
00:26:50.37\00:26:52.71
that came here ahead of
time and went door to door.
00:26:52.74\00:26:55.38
You'll hear more about
it as we go through GYC,
00:26:55.41\00:26:57.68
went door to door here
in Phoenix ministering,
00:26:57.71\00:27:00.18
giving out, you know,
canvassing books and whatnot.
00:27:00.25\00:27:04.55
On several occasions
they encountered people
00:27:04.59\00:27:06.79
perfectly secular
people who have seen demons
00:27:06.82\00:27:09.02
in their home right
here in the city of Phoenix.
00:27:09.06\00:27:14.36
Does the world have a problem?
00:27:14.36\00:27:16.53
What is it going to take
00:27:16.56\00:27:17.90
so that the life of
God is born into us again,
00:27:17.93\00:27:21.94
in such a way that the
world collides with it,
00:27:21.97\00:27:24.14
the way it collided with Christ?
00:27:24.21\00:27:27.41
What is it going to take
so the world must finally stop
00:27:27.48\00:27:32.48
and take notice
of Jesus like it did
00:27:32.51\00:27:35.42
when he was walking and
breathing on this planet?
00:27:35.45\00:27:39.72
Turn with me in your Bibles.
00:27:39.75\00:27:41.76
Some of you're
saying okay, this was...
00:27:44.93\00:27:46.90
maybe this is little
more than I bargained for.
00:27:46.93\00:27:48.53
Some of you in this room
have maybe never given your life
00:27:48.56\00:27:50.37
to Christ at all.
00:27:50.43\00:27:51.77
And you're saying are
you telling me the story of,
00:27:51.80\00:27:53.74
you know, some guy
whose inner joy is constant
00:27:53.80\00:27:55.84
when he is experiencing
the most unbelievable,
00:27:55.87\00:27:58.54
I'm not even, I'm
not remotely there.
00:27:58.57\00:28:00.74
That is
impossible for me to reach.
00:28:00.81\00:28:02.64
Before you come
to that conclusion,
00:28:02.68\00:28:05.15
let's go through
this entire message
00:28:05.18\00:28:06.58
and what the Word of
God has to say to us.
00:28:06.61\00:28:10.25
Open your Bibles to Galatians,
00:28:10.32\00:28:14.86
Galatians 2, Galatians 2:20.
00:28:14.89\00:28:19.56
What is it going to
take for the life of God
00:28:19.59\00:28:22.06
to be born into us in such a way
00:28:22.10\00:28:24.27
that the world collides with it?
00:28:24.30\00:28:28.20
Galatians 2:20, "I am
crucified with Christ,
00:28:28.24\00:28:31.87
nevertheless I live
00:28:31.91\00:28:35.98
yet not I but
Christ liveth in me.
00:28:36.01\00:28:39.01
And the life which I
now live in the flesh
00:28:39.05\00:28:41.78
I live by the
faith of the Son of God
00:28:41.82\00:28:44.49
who loves me and
gave Himself for me."
00:28:44.52\00:28:49.89
Who loved me and
gave Himself for me.
00:28:49.92\00:28:53.53
What does it mean to
be crucified with Christ?
00:28:53.60\00:28:56.87
A lay man there he's
got like totally confused,
00:29:02.47\00:29:04.51
sorry about this.
00:29:04.54\00:29:07.01
What does it mean to
be crucified with Christ?
00:29:07.04\00:29:09.94
I think that it is, most
of us I think in this room
00:29:09.98\00:29:12.61
would probably agree,
it's kind of a fundamental of,
00:29:12.65\00:29:14.82
you know, when you
are around and you hear
00:29:14.85\00:29:16.95
sermons being
preached in everything.
00:29:17.02\00:29:18.35
Most of us would agree
00:29:18.39\00:29:19.72
that we have to lay down
our lives to receive true life.
00:29:19.75\00:29:22.79
It's taught in the
Bible, it's taught, you know,
00:29:22.82\00:29:24.73
in nature we see it,
00:29:24.76\00:29:26.13
in the types
and shadows of this,
00:29:26.16\00:29:27.56
the ceremonial system that
God set up in the Old Testament.
00:29:27.60\00:29:31.97
We see them in
the life of Jesus,
00:29:32.00\00:29:33.34
laid on your life
to receive true life.
00:29:33.37\00:29:35.20
He has eternal life and he
was the one in the universe
00:29:35.24\00:29:37.54
that was most willing to die.
00:29:37.61\00:29:39.84
What does it take for us
to receive that true life?
00:29:39.87\00:29:44.78
Most of us would assent that
we can't just do it on our own.
00:29:44.81\00:29:50.19
Can we just come
and think, you know,
00:29:50.22\00:29:52.12
I want to be crucified
with Christ, those Christians,
00:29:52.15\00:29:55.66
you know, that the
persecuted church Christians
00:29:55.69\00:29:57.83
they got this triumph.
00:29:57.86\00:29:59.19
They've got this unconquered
ability like it says,
00:29:59.23\00:30:02.00
it's the triumph
of the Christian faith
00:30:02.03\00:30:03.73
that it enables its followers
to suffer and be strong.
00:30:03.77\00:30:08.60
To submit and thus
to conquer, to be killed
00:30:08.64\00:30:11.34
all the day long
and that's to live
00:30:11.37\00:30:13.54
like "Okay, I want that."
00:30:13.58\00:30:14.91
So I'm gonna pray,
I'm gonna read my Bible,
00:30:14.94\00:30:17.01
and I'm going to
give half of my income
00:30:17.05\00:30:21.82
to the work of
God, and I'm going to...
00:30:21.85\00:30:26.52
I'm going to do
something. Does that work?
00:30:26.55\00:30:30.19
Okay, no I've tried it
okay I've tried, I've tried,
00:30:30.23\00:30:35.26
I'm a very much a checklist
black and white person.
00:30:35.30\00:30:37.63
I love, I love a
little bullet point concept.
00:30:37.67\00:30:40.87
Just do this, do this, do this
00:30:40.90\00:30:42.74
and then a good
process will come out,
00:30:42.77\00:30:44.44
I like that idea.
00:30:44.47\00:30:47.64
But in the Bible when you
look at the way Christ died,
00:30:47.68\00:30:53.25
Bible says, "I'm
crucified with Christ."
00:30:53.28\00:30:56.08
Crucifixion is the one
death you can't do yourself.
00:30:56.12\00:30:59.85
If Christ had died
via the firing squad
00:30:59.89\00:31:03.32
or maybe we could
conjure up a death like that.
00:31:03.36\00:31:06.36
If Christ had died
due to drowning well,
00:31:06.39\00:31:08.96
you could drown yourself.
00:31:09.00\00:31:11.87
Crucifixions the one death
00:31:11.90\00:31:13.23
that you can't
inflict on yourself,
00:31:13.30\00:31:14.64
how would you do it.
00:31:14.67\00:31:16.00
The one arm
nailed that in, nail,
00:31:16.04\00:31:18.14
you couldn't nail your own feet,
00:31:18.17\00:31:20.54
then the cross
is still lying down.
00:31:20.58\00:31:22.31
How could you get the cross up
and your one arm is still free.
00:31:22.34\00:31:24.88
You can't crucify yourself.
00:31:24.91\00:31:28.25
No more than we
could crucify ourselves
00:31:28.28\00:31:31.09
could we of ourselves
be crucified with Christ.
00:31:31.12\00:31:34.42
It's something that has to
come from outside of ourselves,
00:31:34.46\00:31:37.09
something that
someone else has to do
00:31:37.13\00:31:39.29
because we cannot just decide
to be crucified with Christ
00:31:39.33\00:31:42.60
and now, you
know, now I've died.
00:31:42.63\00:31:47.17
It's something that has to
come from outside of ourselves.
00:31:47.20\00:31:52.17
Nothing we can do
will work to get us there.
00:31:52.21\00:31:56.81
I cannot be
inclined towards God,
00:31:56.88\00:31:59.88
I cannot conjure repentance,
00:31:59.95\00:32:01.35
I cannot conjure
penitence within my own heart.
00:32:01.38\00:32:03.82
I cannot exercise
faith or trust on my own,
00:32:03.89\00:32:07.89
I cannot whip up
triumph out of un-renewed heart.
00:32:07.92\00:32:10.99
I cannot have my
heart be renewed.
00:32:11.03\00:32:12.99
I cannot work out
any of this in myself.
00:32:13.03\00:32:15.66
I cannot make it happen.
00:32:15.70\00:32:17.03
It just doesn't, it
doesn't work and somehow,
00:32:17.07\00:32:20.54
somehow we want to be
able to like, you know,
00:32:20.60\00:32:24.17
make it happen somehow ourselves
00:32:24.21\00:32:26.34
because we're like,
you know, I esteem this,
00:32:26.37\00:32:28.21
I want it to happen.
00:32:28.24\00:32:29.58
How can I actually make it work,
00:32:29.61\00:32:30.95
but it doesn't work.
00:32:30.98\00:32:32.31
That's why we need Christ,
00:32:32.35\00:32:33.88
Jesus Christ to be
the alpha and omega,
00:32:33.92\00:32:38.09
but the beginning of our faith.
00:32:38.12\00:32:40.92
Because we can't even conjure
the inclination towards him
00:32:40.96\00:32:43.79
out of an un-renewed heart.
00:32:43.83\00:32:45.33
If we have the
slightest inkling towards God,
00:32:45.36\00:32:49.30
if we have the slightest
desire for the Christ's life.
00:32:49.33\00:32:52.40
If we want him to come and
renew his joy, his triumph,
00:32:52.43\00:32:56.00
his life in our hearts,
00:32:56.04\00:32:59.44
it is proof that
Christ is already at work.
00:32:59.47\00:33:02.01
He has already planted
that desire in our hearts.
00:33:02.04\00:33:04.71
He has already
given us the longing
00:33:04.75\00:33:06.38
for something better
00:33:06.41\00:33:07.75
because we can't come up
with that longing ourselves.
00:33:07.78\00:33:09.68
We can't come up
with the repentance.
00:33:09.72\00:33:11.32
We can't come up
with the penitence.
00:33:11.35\00:33:12.82
We can't come up
with even the desire
00:33:12.85\00:33:14.42
to turn away from
the things of the world.
00:33:14.46\00:33:16.59
We can't come up with
the willingness to see
00:33:16.62\00:33:18.96
that the world is actually,
00:33:18.99\00:33:22.43
it has leave
something to be desired
00:33:22.46\00:33:25.63
that there is something greater.
00:33:25.67\00:33:27.60
If we have even
the slightest inkling
00:33:27.64\00:33:30.27
towards Christ,
00:33:30.31\00:33:31.64
it is proof that Christ
himself has already come
00:33:31.67\00:33:34.14
and already
started renewing our heart
00:33:34.18\00:33:35.84
and already started to draw
us to himself by his own life,
00:33:35.88\00:33:39.35
and by his own love,
and by his own power.
00:33:39.38\00:33:44.52
Faith and Works, one
of my favorite books,
00:33:44.55\00:33:49.32
Ellen White says this, "I ask,
00:33:49.36\00:33:52.83
how can I present
this matter as it is,
00:33:52.86\00:33:56.50
the Lord Jesus imparts
all the powers, all the grace,
00:33:56.53\00:34:01.54
all the penitents,
all the inclination,
00:34:01.57\00:34:04.41
all the pardon of sins in
presenting his righteousness
00:34:04.44\00:34:07.48
for man to graft
by living faith. "
00:34:07.51\00:34:10.15
Which is also the gift of God.
00:34:10.18\00:34:13.95
We have a God
00:34:14.02\00:34:15.35
that has done something
so complete on our behalf
00:34:15.38\00:34:18.12
in dying for us on the cross.
00:34:18.15\00:34:20.19
We can't
conjure something better
00:34:20.26\00:34:21.92
than what he has already done.
00:34:21.96\00:34:23.93
He has saved, He
has offered a salvation.
00:34:23.96\00:34:28.73
He has done a mighty
work on our behalf and we say,
00:34:28.76\00:34:30.83
well, that that sounds
a little bit too simple.
00:34:30.87\00:34:32.77
It's like God
gives the inclination,
00:34:32.80\00:34:35.04
God works the penitence,
God gives the repentance,
00:34:35.07\00:34:38.11
God gives the pardon, you know.
00:34:38.14\00:34:40.64
How does, how is
that supposed to work,
00:34:40.68\00:34:42.18
that God gives the living faith,
00:34:42.21\00:34:44.01
that's also a gift from God.
00:34:44.05\00:34:45.38
How is that
supposed to function?
00:34:45.41\00:34:48.08
Why is it, if God just does it,
00:34:48.12\00:34:49.92
why isn't my life
look like those Christians
00:34:49.95\00:34:52.72
we were talking
about at the beginning.
00:34:52.75\00:34:55.19
The challenges because we
keep, we keep resisting him.
00:34:55.22\00:34:58.73
When he says, "Give
that to me, " you say, "No".
00:35:01.93\00:35:08.90
When he says, "Are you
willing to lay your pride down
00:35:08.94\00:35:11.37
and go make that right."
00:35:11.41\00:35:14.28
That's his spirit working
in our heart you know like,
00:35:14.31\00:35:16.95
" That would be so awkward."
00:35:16.98\00:35:20.12
It would so awkward to call
that person and tell them that,
00:35:20.15\00:35:22.42
you know, I didn't
speak the truth then.
00:35:22.45\00:35:26.42
So no, but next time,
next time God and right then,
00:35:29.69\00:35:34.66
we resist the
drawing of his spirit,
00:35:34.73\00:35:38.47
and that's why we're
being held back in the work,
00:35:38.50\00:35:43.24
in the Christian walk,
it's why we're being limited
00:35:43.27\00:35:46.11
and limiting the
holy one of Israel.
00:35:46.14\00:35:49.01
How do we stop exempting
ourselves from the process?
00:35:49.04\00:35:51.35
How do we stop
resisting him when he says,
00:35:51.38\00:35:54.52
"Go make that right."
00:35:54.55\00:35:55.88
Or when he says,
"Come spend time with me,
00:35:55.92\00:35:57.82
" and we feel like doing
something different right then.
00:35:57.85\00:36:00.29
When we don't feel like
going and having prayer time
00:36:00.32\00:36:01.86
at that moment.
00:36:01.89\00:36:03.22
How do we stop
resisting the process?
00:36:03.26\00:36:05.26
It only comes down to one thing,
00:36:05.29\00:36:07.96
casting ourselves
at the feet of Jesus.
00:36:08.00\00:36:09.70
If we don't
have the inclination,
00:36:09.73\00:36:11.30
we have to go to Jesus
to get the inclination.
00:36:11.33\00:36:13.27
If we don't have the penitence,
00:36:13.34\00:36:14.74
we have to go to
him for the penitence.
00:36:14.77\00:36:16.37
If we don't have the experience,
00:36:16.40\00:36:17.94
the walk with God, if we
don't have the knowledge,
00:36:17.97\00:36:19.67
if we don't have the power,
00:36:19.71\00:36:21.04
we have to go to
Jesus Christ for it.
00:36:21.08\00:36:22.84
If we need a surrendered heart
00:36:22.88\00:36:24.61
and we're not
willing to surrender,
00:36:24.65\00:36:25.98
we can go to Christ and
he'll give us, he'll help us,
00:36:26.01\00:36:28.65
he'll bring us to the
point where we're willing,
00:36:28.68\00:36:30.09
it doesn't
eliminate our own choice
00:36:30.12\00:36:31.55
to be willing to say yes to him.
00:36:31.59\00:36:36.83
But we're trying
to do it on our own.
00:36:36.86\00:36:39.29
In Faith and Works it also says,
00:36:39.33\00:36:41.76
Ellen White says,
"There's conscientious souls
00:36:41.80\00:36:45.87
that want to give their
lives to God," she says,
00:36:45.90\00:36:50.61
"But they depend
upon their own effort,
00:36:50.67\00:36:55.34
their own
watchfulness against temptation,
00:36:55.38\00:36:58.65
their own
righteousness in some way,
00:36:58.68\00:37:03.42
this performance
of certain duties,
00:37:03.45\00:37:04.89
she says, I'm going to go
pray for such an amount of time
00:37:04.92\00:37:08.09
to bring them into a
right relationship with God,
00:37:08.12\00:37:11.49
" She says, "Such
persons toil to no purpose.
00:37:11.53\00:37:15.83
There are no victories
in that kind of faith."
00:37:15.86\00:37:20.34
I do not want a faith
that has no victories.
00:37:20.37\00:37:24.31
Dependence on Jesus Christ,
00:37:24.34\00:37:25.87
my favorite quote in
the Spirit of Prophecy
00:37:25.91\00:37:29.21
is actually a quote
of words that Jesus said,
00:37:29.24\00:37:35.22
He said to Ellen White,
00:37:35.25\00:37:37.22
"Lean on me, lean hard."
00:37:37.29\00:37:42.72
Lean on me, lean hard.
00:37:42.76\00:37:45.76
If we look at the
lives of these Christians
00:37:45.79\00:37:48.30
and we say look, I could
never, I could never reach,
00:37:48.33\00:37:50.63
I could never reach that level.
00:37:50.67\00:37:52.57
I could never do that,
00:37:52.60\00:37:54.40
then we are
beginning to get it right.
00:37:54.44\00:37:57.57
We're beginning to understand.
Yeah, it is impossible.
00:37:57.61\00:38:00.81
It's an impossible life.
00:38:00.84\00:38:02.18
We can't do it
00:38:02.21\00:38:03.98
and that is like the beginning
00:38:04.01\00:38:06.25
of when the
impossible can begin.
00:38:06.28\00:38:09.88
Just as much as it is
impossible to have constant joy
00:38:09.92\00:38:13.62
when that man has been
what he has been through
00:38:13.69\00:38:16.76
it is equally impossible for us
00:38:16.79\00:38:20.26
to feel repentance
right where we are.
00:38:20.33\00:38:22.43
It is always the gift of God.
00:38:22.46\00:38:24.40
It is never
something that we've worked out
00:38:24.43\00:38:26.60
within ourselves, I'm
crucified with Christ.
00:38:26.63\00:38:30.61
Nevertheless I live.
00:38:30.64\00:38:33.58
"I'm crucified with
Christ nevertheless I live."
00:38:33.61\00:38:38.48
This is not just
some martyr thing,
00:38:38.51\00:38:41.35
this is vibrant
life being handed to us
00:38:41.38\00:38:44.09
when the
communists took over Romania.
00:38:44.12\00:38:46.19
There was a
pastor there who is also,
00:38:49.82\00:38:51.63
the church had to go underground
00:38:51.66\00:38:52.99
obviously at that point
and he was pastoring the church
00:38:53.03\00:38:56.16
and he was ministering to people
00:38:56.20\00:38:58.10
and the
communists figured him out,
00:38:58.13\00:39:00.77
took him to prison, he
was in prison for 14 years.
00:39:00.80\00:39:04.41
During that time
commenting later on it
00:39:04.44\00:39:07.34
because he, he survived
to tell the story he said,
00:39:07.41\00:39:10.41
he had been in prison
for 14 years, he said,
00:39:10.48\00:39:12.98
he had forgotten that
there was green or pink or blue,
00:39:13.01\00:39:16.58
his world was gray.
00:39:16.62\00:39:18.49
He had forgotten that
there was such a thing
00:39:18.52\00:39:20.39
as trees or mountains or rivers,
00:39:20.42\00:39:23.99
he had never, he
hadn't seen them for 14 years,
00:39:24.06\00:39:26.19
he had not seen
a woman or a child.
00:39:26.23\00:39:28.26
He was in prison being tortured
on a very consistent basis
00:39:28.30\00:39:32.17
living on one
piece of bread a week
00:39:32.20\00:39:34.27
just on the verge of starvation
00:39:34.30\00:39:36.60
and he was in
solitary confinement,
00:39:36.64\00:39:38.27
had been for quite some
time and one evening he said,
00:39:38.31\00:39:41.54
as he was sitting
there in solitary confinement
00:39:41.58\00:39:43.45
after 14 years in prison.
00:39:43.48\00:39:45.45
His comment later
about it was he said,
00:39:45.48\00:39:47.12
"I began to feel tired."
00:39:47.15\00:39:51.15
And he said that
he prayed that night
00:39:51.19\00:39:52.95
he said, "Lord,
00:39:52.99\00:39:57.26
I've been in
prison for 14 years.
00:39:57.33\00:39:59.86
I don't have anyone
who can speak to me,
00:39:59.89\00:40:03.43
would you speak
with me tonight."
00:40:03.47\00:40:06.27
He said later
00:40:06.30\00:40:07.64
that in unusual circumstances
God will do unusual things.
00:40:07.67\00:40:12.94
He said, that was
the only time in his life
00:40:12.97\00:40:14.68
when actually God spoke to him
00:40:14.71\00:40:16.51
that night after 14
years of being in prison
00:40:16.54\00:40:19.15
most of those years
in solitary confinement
00:40:19.18\00:40:21.08
with consistent
torture in between.
00:40:21.12\00:40:23.65
And he said, he expected God
00:40:23.69\00:40:25.19
to give him some
kind of reassurance
00:40:25.22\00:40:27.02
that he was doing, you know,
00:40:27.06\00:40:28.46
give him some
kind of encouragement
00:40:28.49\00:40:29.99
for what he had, you know,
00:40:30.03\00:40:31.36
was, had been
through and what not.
00:40:31.39\00:40:32.89
But he said, that
he didn't actually hear
00:40:32.93\00:40:34.46
some kind of reassuring words,
00:40:34.50\00:40:38.13
the words that he heard
were, "What is your name."
00:40:38.17\00:40:41.64
He said, he had always known
00:40:41.67\00:40:43.00
all his life that
his name was Richard.
00:40:43.04\00:40:45.54
But he remembered right
then that there was a Richard
00:40:45.57\00:40:49.31
back in Great Britain
00:40:49.34\00:40:50.68
in the early years of the church
00:40:50.71\00:40:52.05
who had been
martyred for his faith
00:40:52.08\00:40:53.75
and he didn't want to
say that his name was Richard
00:40:53.78\00:40:55.75
because he didn't
want God to ask him.
00:40:55.78\00:40:57.89
"Are you like that Richard?"
00:40:57.92\00:41:01.22
And then he thought
well I'm a Christian,
00:41:01.26\00:41:03.66
but then he remembered that
in the early days of the church
00:41:03.73\00:41:06.46
Christians had been martyred
in the streets of Rome right,
00:41:06.49\00:41:08.90
during the early persecution
00:41:08.93\00:41:10.27
so he didn't want
to say I'm a Christian,
00:41:10.33\00:41:11.97
because he don't
want God to say to him,
00:41:12.00\00:41:13.34
"Are you like those Christians."
00:41:13.40\00:41:15.84
And then he thought
well, I could say I'm a pastor.
00:41:15.87\00:41:17.47
But then he remembered
00:41:17.51\00:41:18.84
the pastors are
supposed to watch
00:41:18.87\00:41:20.24
over their flock
tirelessly day and night
00:41:20.28\00:41:21.91
and he hadn't done that
and he didn't want to tell God
00:41:21.94\00:41:24.65
I'm a pastor,
00:41:24.68\00:41:27.18
and so he said in that moment,
00:41:27.22\00:41:31.19
what he said was,
"God, I have no name.
00:41:35.32\00:41:36.79
Allow me to bear your name."
00:41:36.83\00:41:40.86
That's it, that is the
essence of Christianity.
00:41:40.90\00:41:44.30
"I have no name.
Allow me to bear your name."
00:41:44.33\00:41:47.37
I have no righteousness,
00:41:47.40\00:41:48.84
allow me to bear
your righteousness.
00:41:48.87\00:41:50.84
I have no
penitence, give me penitence
00:41:50.87\00:41:53.51
I have nothing my own works,
00:41:53.54\00:41:55.51
my own righteousness
that I can conjure up.
00:41:55.54\00:41:57.85
Give me what you
have, I need it God,
00:41:57.88\00:42:00.35
I need to renounce my own life.
00:42:00.42\00:42:02.95
I want what you have,
00:42:02.98\00:42:04.52
I'm tired of the futility
of what the world has to offer.
00:42:04.55\00:42:08.62
I'm tired of the
Laodicean sort of Christianity.
00:42:08.66\00:42:11.93
I'm tired of the
children dying every...
00:42:11.96\00:42:15.43
children every 10 seconds,
00:42:15.46\00:42:16.83
people every 4
seconds of starvation.
00:42:16.87\00:42:18.93
I'm tired of 30
million slaves being there
00:42:18.97\00:42:21.47
and, and just standing back
00:42:21.50\00:42:23.00
and acting like that Bill
and Melinda Gates can do more
00:42:23.04\00:42:25.17
for the world
than Jesus Christ can.
00:42:25.21\00:42:29.28
I want your name.
00:42:29.31\00:42:31.65
I have no name.
00:42:31.68\00:42:34.85
That kind of
Christianity is a miracle.
00:42:34.88\00:42:40.46
But no matter where we
are in the Christian walk,
00:42:40.52\00:42:42.32
if you have never
given your life to Christ
00:42:42.36\00:42:44.46
or if you have
given your life to Christ
00:42:44.49\00:42:46.76
over and over and
over again for 40 years,
00:42:46.80\00:42:49.16
it is the same thing right now
00:42:49.20\00:42:51.53
at the beginning of GYC
it will always be a miracle.
00:42:51.57\00:42:54.80
Humanity cannot be a Christian.
00:42:54.84\00:42:57.27
A human cannot be a Christian
00:42:57.34\00:42:58.67
because a human
cannot be like Christ.
00:42:58.71\00:43:02.84
But Christ can be like Himself
00:43:02.88\00:43:05.85
in us.
00:43:05.88\00:43:09.28
Christ can be
like Himself in us.
00:43:09.32\00:43:14.06
The beginning of GYC if we
want to get the most out of it,
00:43:14.09\00:43:19.19
we must lean on
Him and lean hard.
00:43:19.23\00:43:24.37
We must
recognize that Christianity
00:43:24.40\00:43:26.80
is not something
we have to conjure up.
00:43:26.84\00:43:29.84
It is the gift of God
00:43:29.87\00:43:32.31
into our lives when
we lay our lives down,
00:43:32.34\00:43:35.31
give ourselves up
which is the gift of God
00:43:35.34\00:43:38.35
to be able to do that
00:43:38.38\00:43:39.78
and be willing to accept
His work into our own lives.
00:43:39.81\00:43:43.25
I want to,
00:43:47.02\00:43:51.29
I want to wrap up this evening.
00:43:51.33\00:43:54.63
What shall we
say to these things,
00:43:54.66\00:43:56.93
"If God is for us,
who can be against us,
00:43:57.00\00:44:01.07
he that spared not his own
Son but delivered him up for us
00:44:01.10\00:44:05.54
all how will he
not also with him
00:44:05.57\00:44:09.11
freely give us all things."
00:44:09.14\00:44:14.12
Do we believe our God?
00:44:14.15\00:44:16.99
Do we believe on Him enough
00:44:17.02\00:44:19.02
to lean on Him, to lean hard?
00:44:19.05\00:44:24.33
This week we're gonna be
learning about the cross.
00:44:24.36\00:44:26.39
We're going to be learning
many things in the breakouts.
00:44:26.43\00:44:28.86
And if at any time
you're tempted to think
00:44:28.90\00:44:30.93
this is impossible,
00:44:30.97\00:44:33.80
I'll never be
able to reach that.
00:44:33.84\00:44:35.90
At that moment
say, praise the Lord.
00:44:35.94\00:44:40.24
Finally, my feet are
on the way to triumph.
00:44:40.28\00:44:42.91
Because Christianity is not
a requirement, it's a promise.
00:44:42.94\00:44:46.25
Victory is not something
that we have to conjure up,
00:44:46.28\00:44:49.38
it's the byproduct
of having a triumphant
00:44:49.42\00:44:51.09
God living in our lives.
00:44:51.12\00:44:52.99
It's a gift and God is
willing to give it to us.
00:44:53.02\00:44:57.49
I want to close by
reading of one other life.
00:44:57.53\00:45:00.83
David Livingston and we
have to read this quickly okay,
00:45:03.97\00:45:06.87
because we're
running out of time.
00:45:06.94\00:45:10.44
An impossible life,
00:45:10.51\00:45:12.14
from childhood up
an impossible life
00:45:12.17\00:45:15.51
the work of God,
all the way through.
00:45:15.54\00:45:18.45
"David Livingston, listen up,
00:45:18.48\00:45:20.12
was born in
Blantyre, Scotland 1813.
00:45:20.15\00:45:23.25
He was born into a home
00:45:23.28\00:45:24.65
where his father used
to put him on his knee
00:45:24.69\00:45:26.45
and read him stories of
great missionary exploits
00:45:26.49\00:45:29.39
one particularly,
Karl GA 1/4tzlaff,
00:45:29.42\00:45:31.03
the Dutch
missionary who doubled up
00:45:31.06\00:45:32.39
as a medical missionary too.
00:45:32.43\00:45:34.30
And young David used to
look at his father's eyes
00:45:34.36\00:45:36.20
and say, "You know daddy,
00:45:36.23\00:45:37.57
one day I'm going
to be a man like that"
00:45:37.60\00:45:40.24
I want to be a missionary,
I want to be a doctor.
00:45:40.30\00:45:43.87
I want to serve God.
00:45:43.91\00:45:45.87
So David
Livingston in his young life
00:45:45.91\00:45:47.58
got on his knees one
day and prayed this prayer,
00:45:47.61\00:45:49.54
"Lord, send me
anywhere, only go with me.
00:45:49.58\00:45:55.05
Lay any burden on me only
sustain me, sever any ties
00:45:55.08\00:45:58.79
but the ties that
bind me to your service
00:45:58.82\00:46:00.89
and to your heart, I
want that, I want that."
00:46:00.92\00:46:04.69
And he said, "Through it
all the words of God came to me,
00:46:04.73\00:46:06.86
"Lo, I am with you always
even unto the end of the age."
00:46:06.93\00:46:09.76
He packed his bags
and went off to Africa
00:46:09.80\00:46:11.67
and when he took
one glimpse of Africa
00:46:11.70\00:46:13.34
in the distance
from the ship deck,
00:46:13.37\00:46:14.70
he penned in his
journals these words,
00:46:14.74\00:46:16.47
"The haunting
specter of the smoke
00:46:16.50\00:46:18.07
of a thousand
villages in the morning sun
00:46:18.11\00:46:20.01
has burned into my heart."
00:46:20.08\00:46:22.61
He married a woman of
the famous Moffatt family,
00:46:22.64\00:46:24.58
Mary was her name, her father
had been a great missionary.
00:46:24.61\00:46:27.32
But David Livingston's
life was one of an explorer.
00:46:27.35\00:46:30.39
He would move
from place to place,
00:46:30.42\00:46:31.75
his only goal was Jesus
in the lives of men and women
00:46:31.79\00:46:34.86
thousands of them.
00:46:34.89\00:46:37.03
Finally, his wife
and his young family
00:46:37.06\00:46:38.39
couldn't keep up
with him anymore,
00:46:38.43\00:46:39.76
some of his children were dying
of sickness disease he said,
00:46:39.79\00:46:41.86
"Mary why don't you
to take them back home.
00:46:41.90\00:46:43.33
I will see you shortly.
00:46:43.37\00:46:44.77
I'll spend some time with
you, it's too dangerous here.
00:46:44.80\00:46:47.04
So she went took them back home
00:46:47.10\00:46:48.44
and he continued on his travels.
00:46:48.47\00:46:49.80
And you know when he
saw her again the next time.
00:46:49.84\00:46:52.17
Not five days, not
five months but five years.
00:46:52.21\00:46:57.11
Five years later, when he
set his eyes upon his wife
00:46:57.15\00:46:59.38
she could not recognize him,
00:46:59.41\00:47:01.95
because at one stage
in his jungle travels
00:47:01.98\00:47:03.75
going to preach he had
walked into the branch of a tree
00:47:03.82\00:47:06.25
that had completely
blinded him in one eye
00:47:06.29\00:47:07.82
and marred the other.
00:47:07.86\00:47:09.19
His face had been burnt
00:47:09.22\00:47:10.56
under the African
sun to a crisp of leather
00:47:10.59\00:47:12.16
and his skin
wasn't pigmented for it
00:47:12.19\00:47:14.36
so he had roasted
his skin to the point
00:47:14.40\00:47:16.23
where his body almost
couldn't handle it any longer.
00:47:16.26\00:47:18.60
At one time, he had
been, attacked by a lion
00:47:18.63\00:47:20.37
and he had torn his shoulder
00:47:20.44\00:47:21.77
and he just
miraculously escaped.
00:47:21.80\00:47:23.41
When Mary saw her husband again,
00:47:23.44\00:47:25.11
hobbling in with a
marred face and physical,
00:47:25.14\00:47:28.91
disfigured physical countenance
00:47:28.94\00:47:31.51
only hours before
Livingston arrived
00:47:31.55\00:47:34.22
back in England
they buried his father.
00:47:34.25\00:47:36.89
And Livingston
when he got there wept
00:47:36.92\00:47:38.89
because he had missed
his father's by a few hours
00:47:38.92\00:47:41.06
and he had wanted to
tell him stories firsthand
00:47:41.09\00:47:43.56
that his father had
told him third hand.
00:47:43.63\00:47:46.43
Biographical sketches tell
us that when David Livingston
00:47:46.46\00:47:48.83
walked into every university
in the British aisles,
00:47:48.86\00:47:50.93
students and faculty
would rise to their feet
00:47:50.97\00:47:52.87
in a standing ovation.
00:47:52.90\00:47:54.24
They knew they were
standing in the presence
00:47:54.27\00:47:56.04
of a giant of a man.
00:47:56.07\00:47:59.47
Finally, Livingston went back
to his wife one day and said,
00:47:59.51\00:48:01.54
"Honey, the haunting specter
00:48:01.58\00:48:03.48
of the smoke of
a thousand villages
00:48:03.51\00:48:05.05
is still burning in my
heart, I have to go back."
00:48:05.08\00:48:07.68
They agreed
that he would go back
00:48:07.72\00:48:09.05
they said that the Mary would
stay back with the children
00:48:09.08\00:48:11.22
because they could
not handle it again.
00:48:11.25\00:48:15.16
Several a while
later Mary finally joined,
00:48:15.19\00:48:18.53
joined Livingston again
00:48:18.56\00:48:19.89
and the day she
stepped foot on African soil,
00:48:19.93\00:48:22.10
that day she
contracted a disease
00:48:22.13\00:48:24.20
that they so
dreaded she would contract
00:48:24.27\00:48:25.73
and a few days later
Livingston was burying her.
00:48:25.77\00:48:29.04
An eye witness
said, David Livingston
00:48:29.07\00:48:30.91
knelt by the grave and
was weeping his heart out
00:48:30.94\00:48:34.18
and they overheard him
praying, "My Jesus, my king,
00:48:34.21\00:48:38.15
my life, my all again,
00:48:38.18\00:48:41.08
consecrate my life to thee
00:48:41.12\00:48:42.85
I shall place no
value in anything I possess
00:48:42.88\00:48:46.15
or in anything I may do except
in relation to thy Kingdom
00:48:46.19\00:48:49.59
and thy service and
through it all he said,
00:48:49.62\00:48:52.13
"There came the
words of God into my heart,
00:48:52.16\00:48:55.36
"Lo, I'm with you always
even unto the end of the age."
00:48:55.40\00:48:59.77
He packed his belongings
00:48:59.80\00:49:01.20
and went back to
his home town of Ujiji.
00:49:01.24\00:49:02.87
When he arrived
there to his little home
00:49:02.90\00:49:04.77
he found someone had
played a cruel trick on him
00:49:04.81\00:49:07.31
and had stolen the
medication he so needed
00:49:07.34\00:49:09.04
because his body was
racked with unbearable pain.
00:49:09.08\00:49:12.91
Those were the
few times in his life
00:49:12.95\00:49:14.92
that he prayed for himself
00:49:14.95\00:49:16.45
he said, "God, you promised
00:49:16.48\00:49:17.82
that you would
always be with me,
00:49:17.85\00:49:19.29
I need that medication
00:49:19.32\00:49:20.69
if I am to continue
to preach the gospel."
00:49:20.72\00:49:23.29
And as he prayed he heard
steps and as the story goes
00:49:23.32\00:49:25.43
he saw a pair of feet
planted in front of him
00:49:25.46\00:49:27.40
and as his countenance
lifted for the first time
00:49:27.46\00:49:29.83
he was looking into
the face of a white man
00:49:29.86\00:49:31.63
who did not live in
Africa who said the famous line.
00:49:31.67\00:49:35.17
"Dr Livingston I presume."
00:49:35.20\00:49:39.17
he said, "Yes, I feel thankful
I'm here to welcome you."
00:49:39.21\00:49:42.04
He said, "Dr
Livingston, I'm press reporter
00:49:42.08\00:49:44.25
consigned to do a
story on your life
00:49:44.28\00:49:45.61
and I want you know
two things about me.
00:49:45.65\00:49:48.18
The first, I'm the biggest
00:49:48.22\00:49:50.32
swaggering
atheist on the planet.
00:49:50.39\00:49:52.55
Please don't try to convert me.
00:49:52.59\00:49:54.89
The second someone
sent medication for you
00:49:54.92\00:49:58.49
he said, "Give me
the medication please."
00:49:58.53\00:50:01.30
Mr. Henry M. Stanley started
to travel with David Livingston
00:50:01.33\00:50:04.07
and four months later the
biggest swaggering atheist
00:50:04.13\00:50:06.63
on the face of the earth
melt down on African soil
00:50:06.70\00:50:09.24
and gave his life to Christ.
00:50:09.27\00:50:11.01
He said, "The power of
that Christ life was awesome.
00:50:11.04\00:50:13.94
I had to buckle in
00:50:13.98\00:50:15.48
I could not
hold out any longer."
00:50:15.51\00:50:18.11
Finally, with Livingston
with his body began to shrivel
00:50:18.15\00:50:20.22
with the high
temperatures and the pain
00:50:20.28\00:50:21.62
they used to
carry him from village
00:50:21.65\00:50:23.18
to village on a stretcher
00:50:23.22\00:50:24.59
because he could not,
00:50:24.62\00:50:25.95
he could not
stand or walk anymore.
00:50:25.99\00:50:28.02
One day as he was preaching
00:50:28.06\00:50:29.39
he was, he was feeling so badly,
00:50:29.42\00:50:30.83
he said to his African brothers
00:50:30.89\00:50:32.23
please take me
home I'm very ill,
00:50:32.26\00:50:35.00
I need some sleep.
00:50:35.03\00:50:36.43
They took him back
and as he got there,
00:50:36.46\00:50:37.80
they would put him
in his bed and he said,
00:50:37.83\00:50:39.33
"Don't, don't put me in my bed
00:50:39.37\00:50:40.70
I want to help
me on to my knees,
00:50:40.77\00:50:42.10
I want to pray."
00:50:42.14\00:50:43.47
So they put him on his
knees and he began to pray,
00:50:43.54\00:50:46.37
his prayers were so profound,
00:50:46.41\00:50:48.14
his sanctuary with God so unique
00:50:48.18\00:50:49.71
that the African brothers
thought it would be blasphemy
00:50:49.74\00:50:51.58
to stay in the
presence of the single union
00:50:51.61\00:50:54.08
and communion with God.
00:50:54.15\00:50:55.48
They stepped out of the room.
00:50:55.52\00:50:56.85
Someone came
running a little bit later,
00:50:56.89\00:50:58.22
said I need to see Dr Livingston
00:50:58.25\00:50:59.59
they said, "Quiet
please, he's praying."
00:50:59.62\00:51:02.66
Shortly thereafter
that they looked in,
00:51:02.69\00:51:04.59
he was still on his knees.
00:51:04.63\00:51:06.93
Five minutes after
that they looked in,
00:51:07.00\00:51:08.30
he was still on his knees.
00:51:08.33\00:51:09.66
A while later
they looked in again,
00:51:09.70\00:51:11.03
he was still on his
knees and they were like
00:51:11.07\00:51:12.40
we just need to go put
him to bed, he need sleep.
00:51:12.43\00:51:15.47
They went over one of them
shook his shoulders said...
00:51:15.50\00:51:17.47
Livingston fell over.
00:51:17.51\00:51:22.98
He was dead.
00:51:23.01\00:51:25.01
He died exactly
the way he had lived
00:51:25.05\00:51:26.82
in the presence of his Lord,
he didn't run from God's voice,
00:51:26.88\00:51:29.82
he didn't wave a
lamp that had no lighting.
00:51:29.85\00:51:31.52
He didn't sell out his
soul to some earthly pleasure.
00:51:31.55\00:51:34.06
The haunting
specter of the smoke
00:51:34.12\00:51:35.76
of a thousand
villages had burned itself
00:51:35.79\00:51:37.49
within his heart
until he could say,
00:51:37.53\00:51:39.33
"My Jesus, my King, my life,
00:51:39.36\00:51:42.26
my all I again
consecrate myself to you."
00:51:42.30\00:51:47.60
By the way that
life was impossible.
00:51:47.64\00:51:50.64
And we all may as
well accept it right now.
00:51:50.67\00:51:52.87
It was impossible, it
would be impossible for us
00:51:52.91\00:51:54.71
to live that life
and it was impossible
00:51:54.74\00:51:56.21
also for David Livingston.
00:51:56.24\00:51:59.21
The only way is if
the power of Christ
00:51:59.25\00:52:01.85
comes and dwells within us.
00:52:01.88\00:52:04.55
That's why we need a Savior,
00:52:04.59\00:52:07.16
that's why we have
a theme, At the Cross.
00:52:07.19\00:52:11.06
Don't take what
anybody says to you
00:52:11.09\00:52:12.89
at this conference for...
don't take their word for it.
00:52:12.93\00:52:15.63
Go back and
study the Word of God
00:52:15.66\00:52:17.23
and see if it is true.
00:52:17.27\00:52:20.30
We want the Almighty
Jesus, we want the right Jesus,
00:52:20.34\00:52:23.77
we want the Jesus of the Bible,
not Jesus of our own invention.
00:52:23.81\00:52:28.28
Because he stands ready
and willing to pour his life
00:52:28.31\00:52:32.65
into the heart of anyone
00:52:32.68\00:52:34.18
who will lean on
him and lean hard.
00:52:34.22\00:52:38.39
When the life
of God is unleashed
00:52:38.42\00:52:41.12
in his people again
the world will take note.
00:52:41.16\00:52:43.93
God does not stand back and say,
00:52:43.99\00:52:45.33
only once every
half a century I will do,
00:52:45.36\00:52:48.40
I will live through
someone like I lived
00:52:48.43\00:52:50.33
through David Livingston.
00:52:50.40\00:52:51.73
No, the eyes of
the Lord run to and fro
00:52:51.77\00:52:54.40
throughout the whole earth
00:52:54.44\00:52:55.77
to show Himself strong on
behalf of those whose hearts
00:52:55.80\00:52:58.67
are perfect towards him.
00:52:58.71\00:53:02.41
We're going to sing a
song as a family tonight.
00:53:02.44\00:53:06.58
My appeal to you is this,
00:53:06.61\00:53:09.08
where at the
very beginning of GYC,
00:53:09.12\00:53:11.85
if you hear something
that's impossible say,
00:53:11.89\00:53:13.86
"Praise the Lord"
because it's his life not ours.
00:53:13.89\00:53:20.80
The only way we'll
be able to live a life
00:53:20.83\00:53:22.93
that glorifies God is
if we pour ourselves down
00:53:22.96\00:53:27.00
and lean on him,
00:53:27.04\00:53:29.44
if it's all him living in us.
00:53:29.47\00:53:34.24
I just want you
to bow your heads
00:53:34.28\00:53:37.01
and pray through this
00:53:37.05\00:53:40.88
and right now lean on him,
00:53:40.92\00:53:44.45
lean hard even if you
don't have the inclination,
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if you don't know how ask
him to show you and he will,
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some, he will this weekend.
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We're gonna sing a
song called, "God Alone"
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and just meditate on
the words as we sing it.
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God alone!
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God alone!
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In your courts, O my Lord,
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is my home!
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You are my treasure,
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my portion Delight
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of my soul!
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My life, my salvation,
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my fortress My God
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and my all!
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O my soul,
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claim nothing as your own!
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For you,
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there is God And God alone!
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God alone!
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God alone!
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In your courts, O my Lord,
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is my home!
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You are my treasure, my portion,
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Delight of my soul!
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My life, my salvation,
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my fortress,
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My God and my all!
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O my soul,
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claim nothing as your own!
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For you, there is God,
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And God alone!
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O my soul,
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claim nothing as your own!
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For you, there is God,
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And God alone!
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Shall we kneel
as which is possible
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for prayer.
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O Lord, most holy you know
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how often I try
in my own strength.
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You know how often,
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how often that
amounts to futility.
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Oh Jesus, let us
see your preciousness.
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This GYC, let
us see who you are.
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Let us see the possibilities
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of what it means to
have Christ dwell in us
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the hope of glory.
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Help us to be
willing to renounce
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the pleasures of
Earth the pleasures of sin,
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the pleasure of
being self-satisfied.
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Help us to
learn to differentiate
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between your call
drawing us towards repentance
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VS the
condemnation of the enemy.
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Oh Lord, please
drive evil Angels
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away from this place
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and give us your
spirit help us to lean on you.
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Sweet Jesus
help us to lean hard.
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Please give me
and give everyone here
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the experience that
these Christians have.
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Your eyes are
running to, and fro
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throughout this room
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make our hearts
perfect toward you we pray,
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be with us as we go
into this conference.
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Please give us your
spirit and this night
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help us to cast ourselves
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helpless upon you
be our great Savior.
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We love you in Jesus name, amen.
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