You know, as I was
thinking this morning
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about this Sabbath.
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It's the day that
God has set aside for us,
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the special holy day for us,
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because He wants
to spend time with us.
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And this day was set
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from before the
foundations of the world,
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because He knew,
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that in His
purpose of making us,
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it was to spend time with us,
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because He loves us.
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And we have come to
worship Him this morning.
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And as we have
come to worship Him,
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we are told by Sister
White that when we sing,
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it is as much of an
active worship as His prayer.
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So as we sing this morning,
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let us enter His
gates with thanks giving
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and its chords with praise.
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Let's be thankful to
Him and praise His name
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and bless His name,
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for the Lord is what GYC?
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"He is good, His
mercy is everlasting
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and his truth
endureth to all generations."
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Our first song is gonna be,
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''He leadeth me."
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He leadeth me O blessed thought!
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O words with heavenly
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Comfort fraught!
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Whate'er I do
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Where'er I be
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Still 'tis God's hand
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That leadeth me
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He leadeth me, He leadeth me
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By His own hand
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He leadeth me
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His faithful follower I would be
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For by His hand
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He leadeth me
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Sometimes 'mid
scenes of deepest gloom
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Sometimes where
Eden's Bowers bloom
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By waters still
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O'er troubled sea
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Still 'tis His hand
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That leadeth me!
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He leadeth me, He leadeth me
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By his own hand
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He leadeth me
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His faithful follower I would be
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For by His hand
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He leadeth me
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And when my
task on earth is done
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When, by Thy
grace, the victory's won
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E'en death's cold wave
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I will not flee
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Since God
through Jordan leadeth me
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He leadeth me, He leadeth me
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By his own hand
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He leadeth me
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His faithful follower I would be
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For by His hand
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He leadeth me
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As we look back on the way.
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That He has lead in our lives.
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I know as I have looked back
in the way He has lead my life,
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and I know that He
has never ever failed.
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The more you trust Him,
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the more you want
to get to know Him.
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And the more you exclaim
I would rather have Jesus
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than absolutely anything
this world affords today.
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Our next song is,
'I'd rather have Jesus'
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and I encourage you
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and I challenge you to sing this
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as a prayer from the
bottom of your hearts.
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Ladies, let's start.
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I'd rather have Jesus
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Than silver or gold
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I'd rather be His
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Than have riches untold
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I'd rather have Jesus
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Than houses or lands
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I'd rather be led
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By His nail pierced hand
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Than to be the king
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Of a vast domain
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Or be held
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In sin's dread sway
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I'd rather have Jesus
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Than anything
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This world affords
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Today--
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Gentlemen.
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I'd rather have Jesus
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Than men's applause
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I'd rather be faithful
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To His dear cause
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I'd rather have Jesus
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Than worldwide fame
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I'd rather be true
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To His holy name
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Than to be the king
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Of a vast domain
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Or be held
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In sin's dread sway
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I'd rather have Jesus
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Than anything
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This world affords
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Today
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He's fairer than lilies
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Of rarest bloom
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He's sweeter than honey
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From out of the comb
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He's all that
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My hungering spirit needs
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I'd rather have Jesus
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And let Him lead
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Than to be the king
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Of a vast domain
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Or be held
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In sin's dread sway
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I'd rather have Jesus
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Than anything
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This world affords
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Today.
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Amen.
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Is that your cry?
Is that your claim?
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Is that's what
sends you to your knees?
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I pray it is.
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Our last song is
gonna be our theme song
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''At the Cross'' and
this is what keeps us,
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looking to Christ.
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Looking to Him and
going I'd rather have you,
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is by spending every
morning at His cross.
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So I encourage you to stand
as we sing, ''At the Cross.'
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Alas, and did my Savior bleed?
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And did my Sovereign die?
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Would He devote that sacred head
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For someone such as I?
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At the cross, at the cross
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Where I first saw the light
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And the burden of
my heart rolled away
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It was there by faith
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I received my sight
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And now I am happy all the day!
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Was it for
crimes that I have done
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He suffered on the tree?
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Amazing pity!
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Grace unknown!
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And love beyond degree!
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At the cross, at the cross
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Where I first saw the light
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And the burden of
my heart rolled away
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It was there by faith
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I received my sight
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And now I am happy all the day!
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But drops of
grief can ne'er repay
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The debt of love I owe
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Here, Lord, I give myself away
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'Tis all that I can do!
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At the cross, at the cross
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Where I first saw the light
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And the burden of
my heart rolled away
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It was there by faith
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I received my sight
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And now I am happy all the day!
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At the cross, at the cross
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Where I first saw the light
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And the burden of
my heart rolled away
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It was there by
faith I received my sight
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And now I am happy all the day!
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Amen. Thank you
for singing with us.
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You may be seated.
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Good morning.
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How you guys doing this morning?
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Did you sleep well?
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How many of you are happy
that it is finally Sabbath?
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Amen. Praise the
Lord, it is so good.
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And you know, I'm especially
excited that it's Sabbath
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because last year
in Orlando, Florida,
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I was so sick all the Sabbath
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that I was in
bed the entire day.
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I didn't get to go
to a single seminar,
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a single sermon
and I was bummed.
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So now I am excited
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to finally be at a
Sabbath meeting at GYC.
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Amen.
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So before we get
into day's message,
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I just, I found a
quote this morning
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that I wanted to
share with you guys.
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It says, ''We are pilgrims
and strangers in this world,
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but we are traveling
to a heavenly country.''
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Amen. Amen.
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''We shall meet
with disappointments.
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But it is our
privilege to turn every apparent
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defeat into a victory.
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Satan will contend for our souls
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every step of the way,
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but if we look over to Jesus,
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our present help
in every time of need,
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He will lift up for us a
standard against the enemy.''
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Amen.
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So even when we
face apparent defeat,
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we can turn
those into victories.
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Amen. Amen.
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Before we get in, let's go ahead
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and I would ask
that everyone kneel
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and as we invite
God to be with us today.
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Father in heaven,
Lord, we thank You,
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we thank You for the gift
of Christ to us on the cross
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and now as He's
ministering for us
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in the heavenly sanctuary Lord,
we are in such debt to Him.
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But, Lord, thank You
that You have given us grace
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and, Father, we put
our lives in Your hands
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and we ask that You
will be with us today
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in a special way,
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and You will guide
us and keep us, Lord.
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We love You.
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Send Your Holy
Spirit to be with us, Lord,
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and rain it down.
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Father, we need
Him in so many ways.
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We love you, Lord,
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and in the mighty
name of Jesus we pray.
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Amen.
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As many of you know,
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we have been having--
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We have been having a lot
of blessings this morning--
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Or sorry this week
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in our morning
devotionals with Adam Ramdin,
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Amen. Amen.
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And for those of
you who don't know,
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Adam Ramdin is again
speaking this morning
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and he comes all
the way from England,
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where he does,
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where he works with the
Peace Evangelism School,
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so I know you
guys will be blessed
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and I know that
you guys will go away
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with something from it.
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So I--
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have a good day.
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And yeah, God bless.
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Amen.
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Amen.
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I've tried in
vain a thousand ways
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My fears to quell
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My hopes to raise
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But all I need
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The Bible says
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Is ever, only Jesus
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My soul is night
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My heart is steel
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I cannot see
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I cannot feel
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For light, for life
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I must appeal
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In simple faith to Jesus
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For whatever if I should die
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Without a promised home
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My tears undone
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And tears and dried
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For fears we lied
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On hopes tonight
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So I will take him at his word
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For his name sake
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Whose spirit spurred
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My heart away
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When first met him
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Sweet promises of Jesus
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His promise
remind for bread and wine
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My faith will
follow Him for now I find
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My fears resign
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And hopes are lined
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With my Lord's mind
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He died, He lives,
He reigns, He pleads
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There's love in
all His words and deeds
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There's all a
guilty sinner needs
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Forever more
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In Jesus.
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Amen. Amen.
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Good morning. Good morning.
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Happy Sabbath! Happy Sabbath!
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Shall we bow our heads
as we start this morning
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worship thought
with a word of prayer.
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Father in Heaven,
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Lord, as we bow
our heads this morning,
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I pray Lord that You may
speak to each one of our hearts
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on this most
beautiful theme about the cross.
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Lord, touch us, move us,
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shape us, convict us.
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I pray Lord, You
would speak through me
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and in Jesus' name we pray.
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Amen.
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Do any of you
know what it's like
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to experience being
outside of the conversation
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that's going on in the room?
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It can be a little bit awkward.
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When a joke is taking place
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and you're not part of the joke.
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It's not funny for you.
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We have a saying that
sometimes you can feel
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like you are out of the loop.
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When you're out of the
loop, it feels frustrating.
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When you're the odd
person out, it's uncomfortable.
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If you are an
outcast, it's lonely.
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If you are an
outsider, nobody, nobody,
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likes to be an outsider.
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Our sermon this morning
is entitled 'The Outsider."
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If you turn with
me in your Bibles,
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if you have them to
the Book of Hebrews 13.
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Hebrews 13,
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we're going to look at
a verse of scripture there
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in our morning study.
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Hebrews 13.
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Hebrews 13
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and the theme for
today is total saving grace.
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In Hebrews 13 and verse 12,
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the Bible says,
"Wherefore Jesus also,
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that he might sanctify
the people with his blood.''
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What did he do?
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He suffered without the gate.
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In order it says that,
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Jesus might sanctify
the people with His blood.
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The Bible says,
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He suffered without the gate.
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And we're going to
take a look at this verse
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this morning step by step
and work our way through it.
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What does it mean, when it says,
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Jesus in order to sanctify us?
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What does the word
sanctification mean?
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What is sanctification?
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There is a view
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that at the cross
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Jesus deals only
with your forgiveness.
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Your justification at the cross
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is all that is needed
to qualify you for heaven.
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This theory or
teaching goes on to say
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that the righteousness
God produces in you,
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after that has no saving value.
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It only gives
evidence of your salvation,
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but does not
contribute towards it.
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Sanctification is
therefore a fruit of salvation
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but not a prerequisite for it.
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Some say.
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Some say.
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But this does not
match with 2 Thessalonians,
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if you are taking notes,
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I don't have time to turn there,
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Chapter 2 and verse 13
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where the Bible says,
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"God has from the beginning
chosen you to salvation,
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through sanctification
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of the spirit and
belief of the truth."
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Just like in justification,
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it's our part to believe in God,
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to choose, to surrender to Him,
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to confess our sins to Him.
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It's God's part to forgive us,
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to count us righteous
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and cleanse us from
our filthy garments.
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So in sanctification,
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it's our part to
choose, to obey God,
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to surrender our weak
fallen natures to Him daily,
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and it's God's part to count
us holy to dwell within us,
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to empower us
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and give us the ability
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to obey Him in the areas
where He requires obedience.
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When we look at the
word sanctification,
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it can sometimes
seem like a long word.
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It refers to the work
of the Holy Spirit in us,
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from the moment
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we accept Christ
until our last moment.
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A work in which our
lusts are restrained,
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our faith is increased
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and our character
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begins to more fully
reflect the character
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and beauty of Jesus Christ.
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This is the work
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that the Holy Spirit does in us.
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Now, how does God
sanctify His people?
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The verse that
we just read says,
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"Through His
blood He sanctifies us,
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and He suffered
without the gate."
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He suffered without the gate.
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We are sanctified
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by the powerful
blood of Jesus Christ.
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When Jesus died,
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He accomplished two things.
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Number one, His objective
was to pardon and forgive us.
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Number two, His
objective is to cleanse us.
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So in sanctification we
have to look for the cross.
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But let me ask you
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at the beginning of
this year 2015, sorry.
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How has the year been with you?
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How much God's
purpose in your life
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for sanctifying you
been in this past year?
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Ponder the questions
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if you would.
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In the past year,
has your faith increased
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during the year?
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In the past year,
have you over come
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some corruptions in your heart?
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Are you living
nearer to Christ now,
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today on this Sabbath
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than you were the
first Sabbath of last year?
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Do you know more of your Savior?
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Are you approaching
Him more in likeness?
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Do you have more
power in your prayer?
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Are you more
careful in your life?
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Are you more loving
than you used to be?
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Are you more
decisive for what is right
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and at the same time more humble
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in being decisive?
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Are you in all aspects
standing for Jesus Christ
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as your Savior?
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How is it with you at
the beginning of this year?
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Whatever you
answer to that question,
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from this day forward
the key is to press on.
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Now in Hebrew 13:12,
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in Hebrews 13:12,
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we read the verse and it says,
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"Wherefore Jesus that He
might sanctify the people
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with His own blood, suffered
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without or outside the gate."
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I want to take a few moments
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and look at this
phrase outside the gate,
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outside the gate.
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Why did Jesus have to
suffer outside the gate?
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You see, when you look
at the Jewish sanctuary
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in the Old Testament,
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in particular the sin offering.
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The high priest
offered the sin offering,
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is only when he
offered the sin offering
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because it was offensive to God.
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It was burned not on
the altar of sacrifice,
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but it was
burned outside the camp
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to show Gods detestation for sin
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and His determination to
put it away from His people
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and His church.
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In Leviticus 6:30,
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the Bible says,
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"And no sin offering,
where of any of the blood
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is brought into the
tabernacle of the congregation
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to reconcile in the
holy place, shall be eaten:
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it shall be burnt with fire."
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The sin offering was
burnt outside the camp
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not on the altar
inside the courtyard.
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Now interesting,
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when Jesus came to this
world to be our sin offering,
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it's interesting how accurately
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He fulfilled the type
in order to be our Savior.
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It's interesting.
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It's remarkable
how providence provided
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for Jesus to fulfill the type.
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Had Jesus been killed in Luke 4,
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when they wanted to kill Him,
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it's likely He may have died
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within the realms of the city.
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When you read in John 8,
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as we referenced
yesterday in our sermon.
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And you read in John 10,
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as we referenced
yesterday in our sermon.
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When they wanted to kill Jesus,
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not only was it the
wrong time to kill Jesus.
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It had not yet been
three and a half years.
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It was the wrong place.
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In John 8, Jesus
was inside the city.
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In John 10, Jesus
was inside the city
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and, and as a sin offering,
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He had to suffer
outside of the gate.
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Unless, Jesus was
put to death judicially,
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it would have been
unlikely for Him to die
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on the Mount of Doom, Golgotha.
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It's remarkable, I
think it's quite remarkable
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that the Romans chose
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a place outside the
city to do the crucifixion.
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If I was the Romans
and I wanted to put fear
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in the heart of the Jews
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for disobeying the Roman Empire.
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I would put that cross
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right in the middle of the city,
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where everyone can see
it and where the person
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who's dying dies a slow
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and painful death
in view of everybody.
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If you go to England
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there are certain
cities you can go to,
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I can take you to
the city of Oxford.
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And there right in
the middle of the city,
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there's a white
cross on the ground,
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right on the main street
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outside one of
the colleges in Oxford
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near the main shopping street.
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There's a white
cross on the ground
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signifying the place
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where Ridley,
Latimer and Cranmer
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were burnt to death
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right in the middle of the city.
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As a spectacle,
don't defy the church
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or you will die too.
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Today, on the
news you watch ISIS
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going around
chopping people's heads off
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in the Middle East, terrible.
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But if you compared
the number of people
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who have had
their heads chopped off
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to the number of people
who have died by gunfire,
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it's probably vastly
different in numbers.
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But the
beheadings is so ghastly,
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it's so raw
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that it strikes fear
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into the hearts of the people
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when they hear ISIS
is coming to the town.
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Fear is a great motivator
of people unfortunately.
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But the cross
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which struck fear
into the heart of the Jews
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was not there in
the middle of the city.
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Jesus must not
die in a commotion,
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in the midst of the city.
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He must die outside the city.
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And so the Romans
had a place of execution
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outside the city
limits, that by dying outside,
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Jesus might be our sin offering.
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Let me ask you a question.
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Who was outside the city?
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If you had gone to
the great camp of Israel
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there in the Old Testament,
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who was outside
the camp of Israel?
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You would have seen
that the standard of Dan,
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the standard of
Judah, the standard of Ruben,
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there in the camp of
Israel, but who was outside.
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If you had looked
far into the distance,
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you would have
seen some wretched huts
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in the distance,
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and if you would ask someone
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who is living in
those huts out there.
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The answer would
have come back to you,
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in those huts out there,
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that is the
unclean, that is the lepers,
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they're outside the
camp, for they cannot come in.
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And if you had wandered
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your way out through the tents
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and you were
gone outside the camp,
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and as you wandered
around outside the camp,
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somewhere sooner or later,
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you would have
heard the cry coming out
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unclean, unclean, unclean.
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For the leper's
responsibility was to warn you,
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that you did not come
close to their presence.
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Lest even the wind should blow
and you would catch the leprosy
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through the wind.
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If you'd gone closer,
if you could see closer,
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you would see the leper,
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not with a nice red
ruddy lips that you have today,
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but there above his teeth
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would be a white line
where the lips had been...
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the lips had been eroded away
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so to speak.
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And as you got closer,
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they would cover their
mouth with a cloth or a hand
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and say unclean, unclean,
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unclean again.
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For they did not
want you to come there
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into his presence,
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it was a deadly
disease, a contagious disease
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of whom is the leper a type.
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The leper is a type of you and I
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in our natural state.
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Without Jesus Christ,
we are like the leper,
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sinful, miserable, unjustified.
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Jesus died outside the
camp, that He might sanctify us.
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Follow me now,
picture the scene.
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Use your righteous imagination.
Your what imagination?
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Your righteous imagination.
Picture the scene if you will.
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You know, you will not find this
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written in the
pages of scripture,
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but picture the
scene if you will.
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There is a leper
outside the camp,
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he cannot
mingle with the others.
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He is not allowed
inside to the camp
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and as he is out
there outside the camp,
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there are certain
things they couldn't do.
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If they came to a stream,
you know, probably likely,
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they weren't allowed
to drink from the stream,
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lest they contaminate the water
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and people live
further on would catch leprosy.
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So maybe, just maybe,
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if they want to
get a drink of water,
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they find a puddle,
stagnant, dirty water
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and there they sip from
the stagnant dirty water.
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If their own father
comes outside the city,
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they have to run
and go away from him.
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If the man's wife
came outside the city,
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she as the wife would
have to shun her husband,
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lest she catch
the leprous disease.
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And as this
leper is walking along
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outside the camp,
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he walks along
and he goes around
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some big boulders
there in the desert,
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and as he walks around
the boulders in the desert,
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there he sees
just not too far away
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a cross.
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Lifting up on the cross,
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there is one dying
on it and he stops.
00:31:32.59\00:31:35.02
Now he knows he is not allowed
00:31:35.06\00:31:36.39
into the presence
of any living person.
00:31:36.42\00:31:38.36
He has to warn
them that he is coming,
00:31:38.39\00:31:40.30
but he thinks to
himself, this man is dying.
00:31:40.33\00:31:45.00
Surely, surely, he
can approach a dying man,
00:31:45.03\00:31:49.00
for a man who is
dying cannot die twice.
00:31:49.04\00:31:52.07
And so slowly, carefully,
he walks toward the man
00:31:52.11\00:31:55.18
hanging on the
cross timidly at first,
00:31:55.21\00:31:57.68
but as he gets closer,
he notices that on the cross
00:31:57.71\00:32:00.52
the one who is
there is still alive.
00:32:00.55\00:32:04.12
Craving some human company,
00:32:04.15\00:32:06.35
even if it is a dying
man, he gets closer and closer
00:32:06.39\00:32:09.59
and as he stands there
finally under the cross,
00:32:09.62\00:32:12.46
and he looks up,
00:32:12.49\00:32:14.00
the face looking down
at him is a face of love,
00:32:14.03\00:32:16.93
compassion, tenderness, mercy
00:32:16.97\00:32:19.53
and goodness
looking down at him.
00:32:19.57\00:32:23.84
Wilt thou be made whole?
00:32:23.87\00:32:28.14
Joy fills his heart.
He is outside the city.
00:32:28.18\00:32:32.51
He is unclean.
00:32:32.55\00:32:33.88
But here outside the city,
he finds one dying on a cross.
00:32:33.92\00:32:38.15
This man spoke to him.
00:32:38.19\00:32:39.69
Not any old
words, but words of life,
00:32:39.72\00:32:43.06
encouragement and
joy filled his heart,
00:32:43.09\00:32:46.53
he has been cleansed.
00:32:46.56\00:32:52.00
This morning,
00:32:52.03\00:32:56.00
look to Jesus.
00:32:56.04\00:32:58.21
He died outside the camp
where the poor, unclean sinners
00:32:58.24\00:33:03.65
like you and I might find Him.
00:33:03.68\00:33:06.82
The leper would never have
been allowed inside the city,
00:33:06.85\00:33:09.88
only outside.
00:33:09.92\00:33:11.55
But as one man was
dying, figuratively speaking,
00:33:11.59\00:33:15.42
he gave life to another,
the beauty of salvation.
00:33:15.46\00:33:20.86
This is the first lesson
this morning from the text.
00:33:20.90\00:33:24.47
Jesus died outside the camp,
because that's where we are
00:33:24.50\00:33:27.84
before we accept
Christ into our life.
00:33:27.87\00:33:30.37
The leper is a type of
us in our unconverted state,
00:33:30.41\00:33:33.58
where we need
Jesus outside the camp.
00:33:33.61\00:33:35.94
But the text says,
00:33:35.98\00:33:37.31
''In order that Jesus
00:33:37.35\00:33:38.68
might sanctify us
through His blood.'
00:33:38.71\00:33:41.78
'You see this
comes a little closer.
00:33:41.82\00:33:43.15
Now you may say,
00:33:43.18\00:33:44.52
''Oh, that was a nice word
picture that you just said,
00:33:44.55\00:33:46.25
that was interesting,
00:33:46.29\00:33:47.62
but I accepted Christ
into my heart 10 years ago,
00:33:47.66\00:33:50.33
20 years ago, 30 years ago,
00:33:50.36\00:33:52.16
two years ago three decades ago
00:33:52.19\00:33:54.26
is when I accepted
Christ into my heart,
00:33:54.30\00:33:56.20
and I can't quite resonate
00:33:56.23\00:33:57.87
necessarily with
that experience.''
00:33:57.90\00:34:00.10
But you see sanctification
is the work of a lifetime.
00:34:00.14\00:34:04.07
It's a school from
which you never graduate from.
00:34:04.11\00:34:07.01
It's something
that happens every week,
00:34:07.04\00:34:08.94
every moment.
00:34:08.98\00:34:11.71
How many of you
can resonate with this?
00:34:11.75\00:34:13.08
You know the feeling
00:34:13.11\00:34:14.45
where you've accepted
Christ into your heart.
00:34:14.48\00:34:17.05
And as you're going
along your Christian journey,
00:34:17.09\00:34:19.02
some evil
propensity comes back to life
00:34:19.05\00:34:21.99
that you thought had gone.
00:34:22.02\00:34:23.69
And you feel in that
moment, in that moment you feel,
00:34:23.73\00:34:29.30
as though you
couldn't come before God again.
00:34:29.33\00:34:32.63
You feel like
you've lost His presence,
00:34:32.67\00:34:35.07
you slipped again,
00:34:35.10\00:34:36.44
and you knew you
shouldn't slip up,
00:34:36.47\00:34:38.04
you prayed about the very thing,
00:34:38.07\00:34:39.61
but you still
slipped up and went into sin,
00:34:39.64\00:34:41.71
and the same old feeling of sin
00:34:41.74\00:34:43.65
and guilt and
filthiness comes back to you.
00:34:43.68\00:34:48.25
You feel like
you can't meet God,
00:34:48.28\00:34:49.72
you can't go into His presence.
00:34:49.75\00:34:52.05
You feel like your prayers
are bouncing off the ceiling.
00:34:52.09\00:34:55.12
You open your Bible to read it,
00:34:55.16\00:34:56.89
and it seems like God just,
00:34:56.93\00:34:58.29
it is just dry.
00:34:58.33\00:35:01.70
Your religious
experience has dried up.
00:35:01.73\00:35:04.73
There have been times
when I have gone to church
00:35:04.77\00:35:06.70
knowing what I
might be struggling with,
00:35:06.74\00:35:09.00
and while serving God,
00:35:09.04\00:35:10.37
I may feel
00:35:10.41\00:35:11.74
there in the
presence of other believers
00:35:11.77\00:35:13.34
as if I am the most
unclean of everyone there
00:35:13.38\00:35:18.78
outside the camp.
00:35:18.81\00:35:21.18
How many times,
00:35:21.22\00:35:22.62
have you may be
being to camp meeting
00:35:22.65\00:35:25.02
had that spiritual high
and on the way back home,
00:35:25.05\00:35:28.16
you're right back to where
you were one week previous.
00:35:28.19\00:35:33.70
How is it gonna be
for you on Monday morning,
00:35:33.73\00:35:36.43
when there is no
GYC devotion to come to?
00:35:36.46\00:35:41.20
How will it be
on Tuesday morning,
00:35:41.24\00:35:43.41
when you're back
home and you don't have
00:35:43.44\00:35:45.51
2,3000 Adventists
around you anymore?
00:35:45.54\00:35:48.61
It's just you and your
Bible and audio books and 3ABN.
00:35:48.64\00:35:52.85
Message.
00:35:52.88\00:35:55.68
How will it be?
00:35:55.72\00:35:58.22
You know what it's
like to go to Bible camp.
00:35:58.25\00:36:01.32
And on the way home, you
load those same web pages,
00:36:01.36\00:36:04.99
you said, you
would never load again.
00:36:05.03\00:36:08.73
You go to church on Sabbath,
maybe, and that very night
00:36:08.76\00:36:13.80
you're somewhere
where you should not be.
00:36:13.84\00:36:16.00
How many of you know
00:36:16.04\00:36:17.37
the experience
to preach a sermon,
00:36:17.41\00:36:19.31
to teach a Sabbath school class,
00:36:19.34\00:36:20.84
to be there in some
important meeting in church
00:36:20.88\00:36:23.55
or planning the
next greatest thing
00:36:23.58\00:36:25.15
to hit the Adventist Church,
00:36:25.18\00:36:26.51
and when you get back home
with your wife, your husband,
00:36:26.55\00:36:29.32
your son, your daughter,
your mother, your father,
00:36:29.35\00:36:31.52
your brother, your sister,
00:36:31.55\00:36:32.89
you fly into a rage at
the slightest provocation.
00:36:32.92\00:36:37.23
Message.
00:36:37.26\00:36:38.59
And you feel outside the camp.
00:36:42.43\00:36:46.13
Sometimes you wonder
00:36:46.17\00:36:47.50
why it's easy to
be a Christian here,
00:36:47.54\00:36:49.17
around Christians
than around your family.
00:36:49.20\00:36:53.94
And you sometimes wish if only
00:36:53.98\00:36:55.31
I didn't have to see my family,
00:36:55.34\00:36:56.68
I would be
ready for translation.
00:36:56.71\00:36:58.05
At this time,
00:37:03.08\00:37:04.45
your faith is
sluggish, your hope is dull.
00:37:04.49\00:37:08.66
Who here today
00:37:12.46\00:37:15.46
in this esteemed gathering
of Seventh-day Adventists,
00:37:15.50\00:37:18.00
the largest annual gathering
of Seventh-day Adventists
00:37:18.03\00:37:20.27
on the top side of the earth
00:37:20.30\00:37:22.20
of Bible believing
Seventh-day Adventist?
00:37:22.24\00:37:25.07
Who is they here
00:37:25.11\00:37:26.44
who has not been
put outside the camp.
00:37:26.47\00:37:30.45
Who is they here.
00:37:30.48\00:37:31.81
Maybe today,
00:37:31.85\00:37:33.18
you feel you
are outside the camp
00:37:33.21\00:37:35.42
physically inside,
but spiritually outside.
00:37:35.45\00:37:39.49
Through the actions of thoughts,
00:37:39.52\00:37:40.86
the motives of your heart,
you feel outside the camp.
00:37:40.89\00:37:43.93
In the process
of sanctification,
00:37:43.96\00:37:46.09
I believe God puts
us outside the camp,
00:37:46.13\00:37:48.96
where our sin
needs to be forgiven
00:37:49.00\00:37:51.30
and our sin
needs to be cleansed.
00:37:51.33\00:37:52.83
It doesn't matter
what titles we hold,
00:37:52.87\00:37:54.60
it doesn't matter who we are,
00:37:54.64\00:37:55.97
what position we
have in the church,
00:37:56.00\00:37:57.77
the process of sanctification
in our life is a real process.
00:37:57.81\00:38:01.84
But don't miss the point,
when we're outside the gate
00:38:01.88\00:38:04.31
because we have sinned.
00:38:04.35\00:38:06.48
When we're outside the
gate because we have sinned.
00:38:06.51\00:38:08.35
Remember that Jesus
died outside the gate
00:38:08.38\00:38:11.92
that He might
sanctify us with His own blood.
00:38:11.95\00:38:14.62
Amen.
00:38:14.66\00:38:15.99
He's not there
with us in our action.
00:38:16.02\00:38:17.96
Amen.
00:38:17.99\00:38:19.49
He is there to cleanse
us when we come to Him.
00:38:19.53\00:38:23.63
Jesus Himself shut Himself out.
00:38:23.67\00:38:26.27
He was despised
and rejected of men.
00:38:26.30\00:38:28.24
He was outside the gate.
00:38:28.27\00:38:31.54
No matter who you are today,
no matter where you come from,
00:38:31.57\00:38:33.64
no matter how many
times you've gone in and out,
00:38:33.68\00:38:36.64
back and forth from the city.
00:38:36.68\00:38:38.11
Today, today the call is,
if you're outside the camp,
00:38:38.15\00:38:41.82
Jesus says, "Come
back in, come to me."
00:38:41.85\00:38:45.42
Come to me for Jesus
died outside the gate,
00:38:45.45\00:38:48.22
that in the
process of sanctification,
00:38:48.26\00:38:50.23
He can cleanse us
and give us power.
00:38:50.26\00:38:52.66
It's not something
00:38:52.69\00:38:54.03
you and I should
struggle with on our own,
00:38:54.06\00:38:56.13
getting ourselves
in a fit condition
00:38:56.16\00:38:58.37
before we come back to
God, that's often how we feel,
00:38:58.40\00:39:00.80
I slipped, I've
gone away from God,
00:39:00.84\00:39:02.34
I've got to clean myself up
00:39:02.37\00:39:03.71
and then come back to Him.
00:39:03.74\00:39:07.18
When we're there
outside the gate,
00:39:07.21\00:39:10.08
Jesus is there to sanctify us.
00:39:10.11\00:39:12.21
He died outside the gate
that He might sanctify us
00:39:12.25\00:39:14.92
and give us power and cleanse us
00:39:14.95\00:39:16.58
each time we come back to Him.
00:39:16.62\00:39:19.49
The problem is that,
00:39:19.52\00:39:20.86
well, too often
when we're outside,
00:39:20.89\00:39:22.22
we think we're too far from God.
00:39:22.26\00:39:24.26
We're too far.
00:39:24.29\00:39:27.26
You know in the
process of sanctification,
00:39:27.30\00:39:28.76
Jesus deals with us.
00:39:28.80\00:39:31.73
He brings different
points to our character.
00:39:31.77\00:39:33.57
1 Testimony, page 187 says,
00:39:33.60\00:39:35.74
''At every advance point
00:39:35.77\00:39:37.14
the heart is tested
and tried a little closer.
00:39:37.17\00:39:39.11
Some are willing
to receive one point,
00:39:39.14\00:39:41.44
but when God brings them
to another testing point,
00:39:41.48\00:39:44.25
they shrink from and stand back
00:39:44.28\00:39:45.68
because they find
it strikes directly
00:39:45.71\00:39:47.68
at some cherished idol."
00:39:47.72\00:39:49.05
The process what
God does with us,
00:39:49.08\00:39:50.45
He brings us and
He shows us our heart
00:39:50.49\00:39:52.59
what we are cherishing.
00:39:52.62\00:39:55.09
And sometimes we may
overcome and surrender.
00:39:55.12\00:39:57.33
But sometimes we don't,
00:39:57.36\00:39:58.69
and we cling on to it.
00:39:58.73\00:40:00.13
And in the process
of clinging on to it,
00:40:00.16\00:40:03.57
we are outside.
00:40:03.60\00:40:07.10
No matter when you
accept Jesus as your Lord
00:40:07.14\00:40:08.77
and Savior into a heart.
00:40:08.80\00:40:10.14
We must go through the
process of justification,
00:40:10.17\00:40:12.37
forgiveness, pardon,
00:40:12.41\00:40:13.81
opening the heart to
God and sanctification,
00:40:13.84\00:40:16.24
that daily moment by
moment cleansing of the heart.
00:40:16.28\00:40:20.05
Jesus died outside the gate
00:40:20.08\00:40:21.75
to give us hope
in justification,
00:40:21.78\00:40:23.79
but also to be there
throughout out sanctification.
00:40:23.82\00:40:28.29
After we've
surrendered our heart to Jesus,
00:40:28.32\00:40:29.96
the struggle continues.
00:40:29.99\00:40:31.43
The struggle is real.
00:40:31.46\00:40:32.79
And as we're
married to Jesus Christ,
00:40:32.83\00:40:35.40
we see ourselves in ways
00:40:35.43\00:40:36.83
that we would never
see our self before.
00:40:36.87\00:40:39.30
I recently got
married 14 months ago, amen.
00:40:39.33\00:40:42.24
Amen.
00:40:42.27\00:40:43.61
Marriage is a
beautiful thing. Amen.
00:40:43.64\00:40:46.11
The marriage also shows
you things about yourself
00:40:46.14\00:40:48.04
that you never knew were there.
00:40:48.08\00:40:50.95
You never
thought they were there.
00:40:50.98\00:40:52.78
There're certain
aspects of my character
00:40:52.81\00:40:54.25
my wife will tell me
00:40:54.28\00:40:55.62
that I have and I'm like,
00:40:55.65\00:40:56.99
''No, way.''
00:40:57.02\00:41:00.99
No way.
00:41:01.02\00:41:03.09
Now not necessary,
maybe you say this is sinful,
00:41:03.12\00:41:05.23
maybe you say it's not sinful,
00:41:05.26\00:41:06.59
but my wife has told
me since we got married,
00:41:06.63\00:41:07.96
I always thought my yay was yay
00:41:08.00\00:41:09.46
and my nay was nay.
00:41:09.50\00:41:11.40
And my wife says, "Uh-uh,
00:41:11.43\00:41:14.20
you exaggerate all the time."
00:41:14.24\00:41:18.27
All the time.
00:41:18.31\00:41:20.98
I don't know, I'm an evangelist,
00:41:21.01\00:41:22.34
we like to play with
numbers, I don't know.
00:41:22.38\00:41:24.75
You exaggerate all the time.
00:41:24.78\00:41:29.08
When we're married to
Christ, we see ourselves
00:41:29.12\00:41:33.09
in a way that we have never seen
00:41:33.12\00:41:34.82
our self before.
00:41:34.86\00:41:38.16
And Christ shows us, who we are.
00:41:38.19\00:41:40.83
But the beauty
is, we have a Savior
00:41:40.86\00:41:43.57
who suffered outside the gate.
00:41:43.60\00:41:46.30
We have a high priest
who knows how we feel.
00:41:46.33\00:41:49.50
Amen.
00:41:49.54\00:41:51.01
He was tempted in all
points like as we are,
00:41:51.04\00:41:53.07
yet without sin.
00:41:53.11\00:41:54.51
I am glad that today,
we have a high priest,
00:41:54.54\00:41:56.98
the one who is in heaven
who has walked in my shoes,
00:41:57.01\00:41:59.81
has walked in your shoes,
00:41:59.85\00:42:01.18
knows my struggles,
knows your struggles,
00:42:01.22\00:42:03.18
knows what it is like
to live on Earth as a man.
00:42:03.22\00:42:06.86
Forever he will
share an affinity with us,
00:42:06.89\00:42:09.82
because He died on
Calvary outside the camp.
00:42:09.86\00:42:13.50
When Jesus came
down here to Earth,
00:42:13.53\00:42:15.10
He took upon Himself a humanity
that He forever retains.
00:42:15.13\00:42:18.47
He died as a man
to give us an example
00:42:18.50\00:42:22.57
that we can also
overcome as He overcame.
00:42:22.60\00:42:25.77
He came to this earth
00:42:25.81\00:42:27.14
not just to provide the
payment for the penalty of sin,
00:42:27.18\00:42:30.08
but to give us an example
00:42:30.11\00:42:31.45
of how to overcome
through the power of God.
00:42:31.48\00:42:36.28
He shares an affinity
with us that cannot be broken.
00:42:36.32\00:42:39.52
I read, there's an army
00:42:39.55\00:42:41.42
in the world called
''The French Foreign Legion.''
00:42:41.46\00:42:44.03
It's a unique fighting unit,
00:42:44.06\00:42:45.39
because they've been
around for over 100 years
00:42:45.43\00:42:47.16
or more than that.
00:42:47.20\00:42:48.53
They're made up entirely
00:42:48.56\00:42:49.90
except for the
officers or foreigners,
00:42:49.93\00:42:52.67
but they fight for France.
00:42:52.70\00:42:54.74
They have a pretty
00:42:54.77\00:42:56.17
high amount of
respect in military circles
00:42:56.20\00:42:59.07
and they maintain a
high standard of excellence
00:42:59.11\00:43:00.98
in their ranks.
00:43:01.01\00:43:02.38
Traditionally, some
would say romantically
00:43:02.41\00:43:04.28
it was a hiding place for
criminals and undesirables.
00:43:04.31\00:43:07.32
Because they
could join this army,
00:43:07.35\00:43:08.68
and go and fight
in a foreign country.
00:43:08.72\00:43:10.05
And if they served long enough,
00:43:10.09\00:43:11.42
they could become
a citizen of France.
00:43:11.45\00:43:13.86
But there was another way
they could get citizenship.
00:43:13.89\00:43:17.23
And that was if
they were wounded
00:43:17.26\00:43:18.89
or suffered an injury in battle,
00:43:18.93\00:43:20.80
they have a phrase in
the French Foreign Legion,
00:43:20.83\00:43:22.93
that says this,
00:43:22.96\00:43:24.30
Francais par le sang verse,
00:43:24.33\00:43:27.67
Francais par le sang verse,
00:43:27.70\00:43:30.54
translated into
English is French
00:43:30.57\00:43:33.38
''By spilled blood.''
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If you spilled blood in
battle, automatically you became
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a citizen of France.
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Jesus spilled His
blood outside the gate.
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Forever able to
relate to understand
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and empathize
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and
compassionately judge mankind,
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because He shares an
inseparable bond with us
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due to the blood He shed
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while He was outside the gate.
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This morning, you
have a high priest,
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a Savior who knows exactly
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what your
struggle this morning is.
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He knows exactly
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what sin you are grappling with,
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what sin has put
you outside of the camp.
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He knows exactly
what it is in your heart.
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Different for every
single one of us individually.
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He knows the struggle
that you face this morning.
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He knows the
struggle that is awaiting you
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come Monday morning,
when you go back home
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and you go back
to your workplace
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and your boss is there
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who just winds you
up like no one else can.
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That teacher you got to
go to the class on Monday
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and that teacher
does not like you
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and just seems to be
able to get under your skin.
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He knows
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all of those individual
situations in our lives.
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He knows them.
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He can understand and
compassionately be with us.
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Jesus suffered outside the gate.
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Let us remember,
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remember that.
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What are you
struggling with today?
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What are you
struggling with today?
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Now there's another application
that I want to say briefly
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before we close of the
verse and that is this.
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And that sometimes
in another application
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when you choose
to follow Christ,
00:45:33.50\00:45:35.06
when you choose
to follow Christ,
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you feel like you are outside
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the gate of the world.
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What Christian is there
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that having given
their heart to Jesus
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should not feel outside
the gate of the world's camp.
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Can you be a true saint
sanctified set apart for God
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unless somehow the
world views you as too strict,
00:45:53.35\00:45:56.99
too austere, too something else.
00:45:57.02\00:45:59.85
If your mannerisms
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and everything
is like the world,
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you're not outside
the camp of the world.
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It could be
though as well today,
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another application.
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Maybe...
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you feel it's almost impossible
to serve your master today
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without being shut
out of the camp of some
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even in the church.
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I did not mean
disfellowship for open sin.
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I mean something
far different from this.
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Ellen White says,
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''To fight the
battles of the Lord
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when the champions are
few, this will be our test.''
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The church has
become so lacerate,
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so incoherent in doctrine,
so trifling inexperience
00:46:33.72\00:46:36.66
and so on holy in lifestyle
that to be a Christian today
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can means that you are outside
the fellowship of the world
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and outside the fellowship
of some in the church.
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How many times have
you seen anger, pride,
00:46:47.44\00:46:49.80
backslidden habits
lacks Sabbath keeping,
00:46:49.84\00:46:52.81
disregarding the
pillars of Christianity,
00:46:52.84\00:46:54.34
let alone Adventism?
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Today, if you believe
in the six day creation,
00:46:56.18\00:46:58.21
you're outside
the camp of the world,
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you're outside the
camp of Christianity,
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and in some circles
outside those in our church too.
00:47:02.18\00:47:08.29
If you believe
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that on the Sabbath
you shouldn't buy and sell,
00:47:09.69\00:47:11.39
you should not go to
restaurants to eat on Sabbath
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that can put
you outside the camp
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of some in our church.
00:47:14.90\00:47:16.56
If you believe that
the Spirit of Prophecy
00:47:16.60\00:47:18.13
is the inspired
revelation from God,
00:47:18.17\00:47:20.74
it can put you outside the camp
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in some circles today.
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Anytime you dare to be too bold,
00:47:24.71\00:47:27.01
too honest for
the average Adventist,
00:47:27.04\00:47:29.31
maybe you will be maligned.
00:47:29.34\00:47:31.18
Don't seek it,
don't look for it.
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Message.
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But if it comes remember,
Jesus went there before.
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Amen.
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He went there before.
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As we come to a close,
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we are
naturally outside the gate
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in our unconverted state.
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Jesus wants us back in,
to come to Him to the cross.
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But even after we
have accepted Jesus
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and we are living with Him,
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we have this
struggle of sanctification,
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and sometimes it
puts us outside the gate.
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Remember, when
you are out there,
00:48:05.28\00:48:06.98
whatever you may
be struggling with,
00:48:07.02\00:48:08.35
Jesus is there with
you outside the gate.
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He died outside
the gate, I mean,
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He is right there willing
00:48:13.46\00:48:15.29
and ready to accept you
00:48:15.32\00:48:16.86
when you come to Him.
00:48:16.89\00:48:18.23
Remember the text in
the Bible where it says,
00:48:18.26\00:48:20.63
"If I be lifted up,
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I will draw all men unto Me."
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This morning,
00:48:26.37\00:48:27.70
what is it that you
are struggling with?
00:48:27.74\00:48:29.10
What sin is holding you?
00:48:29.14\00:48:30.47
Is it anger?
00:48:30.51\00:48:31.84
Is it bitterness?
00:48:31.87\00:48:33.31
Is it lack of forgiveness?
00:48:33.34\00:48:35.21
Is it arrogant? Is it pride?
00:48:35.24\00:48:36.88
What are you
struggling with today?
00:48:36.91\00:48:43.42
Don't struggle alone,
know that outside the gate,
00:48:43.45\00:48:48.12
Jesus died so that
you can be sanctified.
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Amen.
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So that you can be made whole.
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This morning as we close,
00:48:57.67\00:48:59.00
I like to invite
you to bow your heads.
00:48:59.03\00:49:01.97
May every head be
bowed, and every eye be closed.
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Father in heaven, as
we come to a close today,
00:49:04.91\00:49:08.54
as we recognize Your word
that gives us the encouragement
00:49:08.58\00:49:13.35
that You died outside
the camp where we are.
00:49:13.38\00:49:18.49
Lord, we come to
You with bowed heads,
00:49:18.52\00:49:24.53
humble hearts.
00:49:24.56\00:49:26.70
And Lord this morning,
if there be anyone here.
00:49:26.73\00:49:32.40
I just want to
give you an opportunity
00:49:32.43\00:49:34.04
to respond to God.
00:49:34.07\00:49:37.37
That in the
silence of this moment,
00:49:37.41\00:49:40.04
what the Holy Spirit
has convicted on your heart,
00:49:40.08\00:49:43.45
that secret sin that you
00:49:43.48\00:49:45.31
maybe even planning to
do come Monday, Tuesday.
00:49:45.35\00:49:51.55
Or maybe, it's going to side
00:49:51.59\00:49:52.92
swipe you and catch you unaware.
00:49:52.95\00:49:54.82
Whatever it might be,
00:49:54.86\00:49:57.36
that secret sin that
one that hold you down.
00:49:57.39\00:50:01.73
That attitude that you may have
00:50:01.76\00:50:04.50
that is
destroying you spiritually.
00:50:04.53\00:50:07.34
If the Lord is
convicting you at this moment
00:50:07.37\00:50:09.90
and you just want to say
00:50:09.94\00:50:11.34
in the silence of
this moment to you and God.
00:50:11.37\00:50:14.54
Lord, take that from me,
00:50:14.58\00:50:16.54
I just want to
invite you at this time
00:50:16.58\00:50:18.45
to raise your hand to heaven.
00:50:18.48\00:50:21.65
To raise your
hand to raise it high,
00:50:21.68\00:50:24.15
God sees the hand,
00:50:24.19\00:50:25.62
He reads the heart.
00:50:25.65\00:50:29.69
Lord, you know Your children,
00:50:29.72\00:50:31.56
you know the
struggles that we face.
00:50:31.59\00:50:33.26
And we thank you Lord
00:50:33.29\00:50:35.33
that You came down
lived on this earth.
00:50:35.36\00:50:39.27
And that You forever
share an affinity with us
00:50:39.30\00:50:42.30
through the blood You
spilled outside the gate.
00:50:42.34\00:50:45.74
Lord bless us.
Bless the decisions
00:50:45.77\00:50:47.98
that have been made today,
we ask this in Jesus' name.
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Amen.
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Amen.
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