I heard the voice of the
Lord saying, Whom shall I send,
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and who will go for Us?
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Then I said, Here am I, send me!
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Three Angels
Broadcasting Network,
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and the South
England Conference present:
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Well, this evening not only
do we want to welcome you here
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tonight, but we also want to
welcome those who are watching
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via the website that
we have, our SEC website,
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and also those who are
watching live as well on 3ABN.
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We want to
welcome you this evening.
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Last night we heard a
powerful message on the topic,
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The Book That Breathes.
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And amongst many things we
were introduced to the fact that
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God's word, Isaiah 55:11,
that God's word will not return
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unto Him void, but
will accomplish what
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He pleases, what God pleases.
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And we are tonight so grateful
to know that we are not here,
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despite the wonderful
presentations that we have each
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evening, we are
not here to entertain.
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But we are here to stimulate
hearts and minds to a greater
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recognition of
the need for a Savior.
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And so this evening we are happy
to have with us our speaker,
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Pastor John Lomacang.
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He's going to be presenting
to us his message on the topic,
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Agent Of
Change, Agent Of Change.
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So before he comes with
this message, we're going to be
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favored with a special item.
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And we're happy to have
with us for the first time
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Yolanda Innocent Palmer.
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Amazing Grace!
How sweet the sound
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that saved a wretch like me!
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I once was lost.
Thank God now I'm found;
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I was blind, but now I see.
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'Twas grace that
taught my heart to fear,
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and grace my fears relieved; how
precious did that grace appear
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the hour I first believed.
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Through many dangers, toils,
and snares, I have already come;
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'tis grace hath
brought me safe thus far,
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and grace will lead me home.
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When we've been
there ten thousand years,
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bright shining as the sun,
we've no less days to sing God's
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praise than when we first begun.
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Amazing Grace!
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Can we say Amen again? Amen!
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Thank you so much, Yolanda.
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Yolanda is a good
friend of mine and my wife's.
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We go back a ways. I met
Yolanda not too long ago.
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We all are aging, but what's
so nice about a friendship
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with a person, a Christian like
Yolanda, is that as we serve
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the Lord it can only get
better, what do you say? Amen!
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I am so glad to see that you
have braved the gloomy London
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evening to come out tonight
to hear about the word of God.
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And tonight we are talking
about the agent of change.
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What's the title of the
topic? The Agent Of Change.
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Before we go
into the word of God
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let's bow our heads together.
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Our Father in Heaven, we
thank You so much for this great
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opportunity
tonight to present Jesus.
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Come Holy Spirit
and speak to our hearts.
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We pray in Jesus' name.
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And all of God's
people said, Amen, Amen!
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Now I didn't tell the
Elder earlier, before he prayed,
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what my
Scripture was going to be.
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I think the Lord laid that
on your heart, because it is
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in fact 2 Corinthians 5:17.
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And the Bible says, Therefore.
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As a matter of
fact, it's on the screen.
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Let's read this together.
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Are you ready?
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Now generally
speaking, the world is
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divided into two groups:
the haves and the have not's.
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But the only two groups that
really matter are those that are
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born again, and those
that must be born again.
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When I was being
raised, I remember getting
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in a lot of trouble.
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My dad, the man that
raised me, was from Barbados,
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and his wife was from Trinidad.
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And they really did
believe that you spare the rod,
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you spoil the child.
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And I was raised, as the Bible
said, trained up in the way I
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should go, so whenever I
got out of line, or the way that
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I should not go,
the rod corrected me.
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But I always knew by
the way my voice was called,
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whether or not I was in trouble.
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You know, some of you, when
your spouse calls your full name
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you know you're in trouble.
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And I would hear my name with
the West Indian hum behind it.
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I won't tell you what my Dad
called me, but he would kind of
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lower his voice, and made
it sound very authoritative,
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and he would drag my name out.
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And I knew that
I was in trouble.
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That's what my
earthly father did.
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You see, tonight the reason I'm
so excited about this topic is
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when my heavenly Father comes
back, I want to hear my name
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from a God that I am
going to meet in peace.
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What do you say? Amen!
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So tonight we're going to
talk about the beauty of meeting
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the agent of change.
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You see, the
equation of life is simple.
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Those who are only
born once will die twice.
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Those who are born
twice might only die once.
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We come forth in
the resurrection of life
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never to die again.
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When it comes to
eternal life, everything
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natural falls short of it.
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Tonight what I'd like
you to do is train your ears,
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because I'm going to use
some terms tonight that you may
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not have heard before
like natural, and spiritual,
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and carnal, and Godly.
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Because the reality of it is
if eternal life were enquired,
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or acquired by money,
wealth would be the goal,
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or by education, or by status,
education would be the goal.
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But tonight eternal life is
not based on wealth, possession,
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education, fame, or position.
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Tonight eternal life is
based on the sufficiency
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of the blood of Jesus Christ.
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Nothing else we can acquire
can give us eternal life.
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The categories
we face are simple.
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Romans 6:23. There
are only two destinies.
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Notice what the
Bible says. Paul writes:
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Now when you read that verse,
let me make it even clearer
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tonight, when you read
that verse you come to think...
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This is powerful. You
think to yourself for a moment,
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Well, I'm going to choose
death, or I'm going to choose
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the gift of eternal life.
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The fact of the matter
is you don't choose death.
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If you are not born
again you are already dead.
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You don't say, Well,
let me choose death or life.
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Let me see now, hum,
which one should I pick?
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Uh, I'll wait
awhile and choose it.
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A lot of people today put off
decisions about eternal life,
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because they think that
some where along the way they'll
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either choose one or the other.
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The fact of the matter
is if you don't choose life,
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you are already dead.
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There's no yellow
line in Christianity.
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There's no neutral ground.
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There is no place where
you stand until you decide
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to go right or left,
or light or darkness,
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or salvation or destruction.
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Everyone is born, and
the wages of sin is already
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applied to them at birth.
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Just before we boarded
the plane, as a matter of fact
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when we got on board on our way
to London the flight attendant,
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as we're sitting in our
seat, she said, If your final
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destination is not
London, this will be a
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good time to disembark.
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We always hear
that. They say that.
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And I wondered what she meant
by that, but then she followed
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this up with a profound
statement that stuck in my mind
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as I was putting
the topic together.
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She says, Because when the doors
are shut it will be too late
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to change your destiny.
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The fact of the matter is
friends, tonight when the doors
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of salvation are shut there
is no more chance to make a
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decision for eternal life.
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It is too late for our destiny.
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The reason why God gives you
life to breathe, and to think,
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the reason why you're still
alive tonight is the Lord in His
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gracious love for
every one of us is saying,
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Don't settle for
the wages of sin.
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I've already paid for
the gift of eternal life.
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Just simply accept it.
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It doesn't make sense to be
on a plane going nowhere fast,
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knowing that the doors have been
shut, and we no longer have the
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opportunity of salvation.
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And every day somebody, every
day somebody is going to be
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lowered into a grave.
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My sister and I were driving
down the roadway there in
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New York City a few months ago.
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I went to visit with her,
and I cannot forget the scene.
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I was driving down one of the
highways I was so familiar with
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as I was growing up, and I
looked to my right into the
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cemetery; I think it
was Evergreen Cemetery,
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or Cypress Hills. It
doesn't really matter to you,
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but I saw
thousands, and thousands,
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and thousands of headstones.
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And my sister said, There are
so many people that have buried
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in New York there are
no more spots to be buried.
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They are being buried
now in the next state.
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And I thought to myself, there's
a day coming that everybody
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in that cemetery is going
to come up either in the first
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resurrection or the
second resurrection.
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And I thought to myself,
Does it make sense to be in the
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resurrection of the lost when
we have the opportunity to be in
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the resurrection of the saved?
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It doesn't make sense.
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But I think one of the reasons
why we don't often make that
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decision, or why we postpone
that decision, is because we
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don't understand that when
it comes to choosing our destiny
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the only thing that matters
is making the right choice.
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Now think about
that for a moment.
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Your plane lands and you are
in Ireland, but you paid for a
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ticket to go to London.
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And you say immediately to the
flight attendant, How come you
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didn't tell me this
was going to Ireland?
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And she said, Well,
you bought the ticket.
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It was your choice.
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The fact of the matter is when
we get to the end of our lives,
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when we stand before the Lord
every one of us will be where
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we are, and it's our
own responsibility to decide
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where we're going to be.
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You cannot blame that
on anybody. Amen somebody.
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You can't say, My Mamma did it.
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You can't say, My Dad did it.
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Husbands can't save wives,
and wives can't save husbands.
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Every one of us must
give an account of our
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own destiny to God.
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But God is merciful, is He not?
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Look at Deuteronomy 30:19.
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God is merciful.
He says in His word:
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When? today,
right now, right now.
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This text applies
any time you read it.
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And here's the reason why.
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And He didn't say, Pick one.
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He loves us so much
what did He say? together.
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He doesn't say pick one.
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He doesn't say pick the
one that you feel is best.
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He said, Pick life, choose life.
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Who would not want to be alive?
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I've been by the bedside of
people that have ignored God,
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and I've looked at their faces.
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And I've even held...
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I remember very well a story
of a man that, when I lived in
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Northern California, he
did not want to hear about
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God, no matter what.
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As a matter of fact his wife
said to me, When ever you visit
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with us, please don't
tell my husband about God.
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It'll turn him off.
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So I didn't. But I said to him,
Whenever you need me, call me.
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And I'm from New York City.
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I was living up in the mountains
where they cut trees down.
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I didn't know how
to cut a tree down.
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But he called me one
morning at 4:30 in the morning,
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in the heavy rain, and he said
to me, My farm is overflowing.
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It's flooding. I need your help.
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And I got up not knowing
what to do and I put boots on,
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and I went out to this
farm with this 72 year old man
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that was in better shape
than I was: fit, moving trees,
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and cutting trees down.
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And there we were struggling
during the night trying to save
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his farm from being
flooded; moving large pipes.
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And we struggled
till the break of dawn.
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And we sat down and had
something warm to drink as we
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watched a grizzly
bear walk by his house.
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And he called me again on
another occasion to help him
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pile tree limbs together.
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And we sat down
again as we watched a
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mountain lion this time go by.
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But I never
talked to him about God.
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But always in the back of my
mind I kept saying, Lord give me
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an opportunity to let this
man know how much You love him.
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And one day he went to the
hospital for a simple procedure.
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They put the tube down
his throat and hit his...
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He had a gag reflex and
bile went into his lungs.
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And they airlifted
him fifty miles away,
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and his wife called me
frantically and she says,
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My husband may not make it.
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Could you rush to
the hospital to see him?
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He's fifty miles away.
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My wife and I jumped in our car
and drove as fast as we could.
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And we got to the bedside
of this man with his two sons,
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linemen. A lineman is a
man that hangs telephone poles
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and power lines: big,
strong, strapping Caucasian men,
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tough looking guys.
00:17:58.01\00:17:59.37
And there he is laying
with a mask on his face,
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hardly able to breathe.
00:18:03.08\00:18:04.58
And when I walked in the
room he reached out with all the
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strength he had
left and grabbed my hand.
00:18:07.28\00:18:09.38
And I looked at his wife
as I was walking in the room,
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and she said,
Please, whatever you do,
00:18:11.39\00:18:13.12
don't tell him about Jesus.
00:18:13.15\00:18:14.86
I said, This is one
time I'm going to ignore you.
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This is all he's got left.
00:18:18.56\00:18:20.00
And I looked at
that man and said, Jim!
00:18:20.03\00:18:22.76
And he looked at me with
tears in his eyes knowing that
00:18:22.80\00:18:25.20
the moments of
life were fleeting.
00:18:25.23\00:18:27.00
And I said, Jim! I
want to let you know.
00:18:27.04\00:18:29.34
I've wanted to tell
you for a long time,
00:18:29.37\00:18:30.81
but I'm going to
tell you tonight.
00:18:30.84\00:18:32.24
Jesus loves you, Jim!
00:18:32.27\00:18:33.88
He wants to save you, Jim.
00:18:33.91\00:18:36.24
Jim, do you accept
Jesus' atoning sacrifice for the
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pardoning of your sin?
00:18:40.42\00:18:41.75
And he looked at me with
his two sons there, and his wife
00:18:41.78\00:18:44.05
looking on almost
with intrepidation,
00:18:44.09\00:18:46.49
and he said, Yes, I do!
00:18:46.52\00:18:48.02
I said, Jim, do you know
that Jesus is coming back
00:18:48.06\00:18:50.79
one day to save you?
00:18:50.83\00:18:52.16
Do you want to
be in that number?
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He said, Yes, I do!
00:18:53.56\00:18:54.90
And I continued on and
on, and I grabbed his hands
00:18:54.93\00:18:56.26
and I said, Father,
forgive him of his sin.
00:18:56.30\00:18:58.70
Accept him as Your child.
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And when he closed his
eyes he closed his eyes in peace
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with the Lord.
Somebody say Amen!
00:19:03.84\00:19:05.37
It doesn't make sense not
to offer Jesus when the only
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other choice is hell.
00:19:09.14\00:19:10.48
His wife never forgot that.
00:19:10.51\00:19:13.01
From that day till she
passed away, she never forgot,
00:19:13.05\00:19:18.85
and in many ways
showed her gratitude.
00:19:18.89\00:19:21.62
Whenever we were on the road
in evangelism she would come.
00:19:21.66\00:19:24.09
When I was ordained she, in
her 80's had someone drive her
00:19:24.13\00:19:27.56
almost 400 miles just
to be there just to say,
00:19:27.60\00:19:30.23
I thank you that I can look
forward to seeing my husband
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in the resurrection.
00:19:33.60\00:19:34.94
One of the most touching stories
in the Bible takes place when a
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rich man, a rich leader by
the name of Nicodemus confronts
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Jesus, the agent of
change, found in John 3:1.
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And I'm going to move a little
quicker tonight. The Bible says:
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One of the most difficult
things to do is to tell
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a ruler what to do.
00:19:58.23\00:19:59.56
Rulers tell people what to do.
00:19:59.59\00:20:02.30
People don't tell
rulers what to do.
00:20:02.33\00:20:04.47
And I can guarantee you
that some of you here tonight
00:20:04.50\00:20:06.57
are maybe in your own
right a ruler in your own mind.
00:20:06.60\00:20:09.84
Who is he to tell me what to do?
00:20:09.87\00:20:12.51
But I'm going to pray tonight
that the Lord will take you out
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of your ruler position and put
you in the category of a person
00:20:16.08\00:20:19.88
just like I am; a
sinner in need of a Savior,
00:20:19.91\00:20:23.18
saved by God's grace.
00:20:23.22\00:20:25.05
Nicodemus came to Jesus,
and the Bible says in verse 2:
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You know what
amazes me about this verse?
00:20:41.77\00:20:43.24
The Bible says Nicodemus
came to Jesus by night.
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Let me say this friends.
00:20:45.94\00:20:47.28
It's better to come to
Jesus by night than not
00:20:47.31\00:20:49.94
come to Him at all. Amen!
00:20:49.98\00:20:51.68
When the sun is setting on
your life, and on your health,
00:20:51.71\00:20:55.38
no matter how dark it is, Jesus
wants to meet you by night.
00:20:55.42\00:20:59.02
When life is dark and the future
is bleak, and everything and
00:20:59.05\00:21:02.32
everyone that you knew, or
had disappoints you, Jesus says,
00:21:02.36\00:21:05.99
Come to Me by night.
00:21:06.03\00:21:07.90
He didn't care
what time of day it was,
00:21:07.93\00:21:09.93
as long as you come to Him.
00:21:09.96\00:21:11.37
The thief came to Jesus in
the closing moments of His life.
00:21:11.40\00:21:14.80
And Jesus wants us to be saved
so badly. He didn't say to the
00:21:14.84\00:21:17.31
He didn't say to the thief, You
should have done this earlier.
00:21:17.34\00:21:20.14
All he said to Jesus
was, Remember me when You
00:21:21.61\00:21:24.01
come in Your kingdom.
00:21:24.05\00:21:25.38
And Jesus said, I will.
00:21:25.41\00:21:26.75
You will be with Me in Paradise.
00:21:26.78\00:21:28.12
Friends tonight, I haven't
come to London to meander in the
00:21:28.15\00:21:32.45
maize of mediocrity, or ponder
at the pool of popularity,
00:21:32.49\00:21:37.03
or negotiate at
the table of the enemy.
00:21:37.06\00:21:39.19
I've come to present Jesus.
00:21:39.23\00:21:40.73
Because all that's going
to matter when this world,
00:21:40.76\00:21:42.96
and everything it
has to offer, is no more
00:21:43.00\00:21:45.53
valuable in your sight.
00:21:45.57\00:21:47.07
All that's going to matter
when Jesus comes is that you are
00:21:47.10\00:21:50.84
ready to meet Him in peace.
00:21:50.87\00:21:52.21
Can you say Amen? Amen!
00:21:52.24\00:21:53.68
Nicodemus had
everything: wealth, position,
00:21:53.71\00:21:55.84
influence, and power.
00:21:55.88\00:21:57.21
But there was one
thing that he needed.
00:21:57.25\00:21:59.08
And the reason why he came
to Jesus by night is because he
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cared more about
what other people thought
00:22:03.05\00:22:05.59
than what he needed.
00:22:05.62\00:22:07.82
When the invitation
tonight will be made...
00:22:07.86\00:22:11.49
I'm going to make
an invitation tonight,
00:22:11.53\00:22:12.86
and I'm letting you know now.
00:22:12.89\00:22:14.23
Because there are some of you
that are here tonight that I may
00:22:14.26\00:22:16.43
never, ever see again.
00:22:16.46\00:22:19.03
And to have the best gift
to offer you doesn't make sense
00:22:19.07\00:22:23.77
to talk about Jesus and
not offer the best gift that He
00:22:23.81\00:22:27.64
has ever come to give us.
00:22:27.68\00:22:29.01
That is eternal life.
00:22:29.04\00:22:30.38
Nicodemus was more concerned
about what people thought
00:22:30.41\00:22:33.28
than what he needed.
00:22:33.31\00:22:35.02
Don't worry about
what people think.
00:22:35.05\00:22:36.62
Just make your mind up
about what you're needs are.
00:22:36.65\00:22:39.49
Because the fact of the matter
is when you're on your death
00:22:39.52\00:22:41.62
bed, when you're in your
hospital, when your number
00:22:41.66\00:22:43.93
is up, and your moments of life
are fleeting, when there's more
00:22:43.96\00:22:46.43
time behind you than
there is in front of you.
00:22:46.46\00:22:48.86
You don't really
care about anybody else.
00:22:48.90\00:22:50.67
You just want to make
sure that you have made
00:22:50.70\00:22:52.93
the right decision.
00:22:52.97\00:22:54.30
The fact of the matter
is Nicodemus had studied the
00:22:54.34\00:22:57.91
prophecies about the Messiah.
00:22:57.94\00:22:59.27
He was in the crowd when John
the Baptist introduced Jesus.
00:22:59.31\00:23:02.71
He kept track of
Jesus for three years.
00:23:02.74\00:23:05.11
He was impressed
by His teachings.
00:23:05.15\00:23:07.18
Nicademus knew of the Divinity
of Jesus, but the fact of
00:23:07.22\00:23:12.72
having the facts about
Jesus is not conversion.
00:23:12.75\00:23:17.76
Let me say that again.
00:23:17.79\00:23:19.66
You can have the best Bible
study life you've ever had,
00:23:19.69\00:23:23.10
but unless you make up
your mind to give your heart
00:23:23.13\00:23:25.33
to Jesus, it
doesn't matter at all.
00:23:25.37\00:23:27.40
A good Bible study
life is not conversion.
00:23:27.44\00:23:30.61
Hanging out with religious
people is not conversion.
00:23:30.64\00:23:34.04
Keeping track of
Jesus is not conversion.
00:23:34.08\00:23:37.05
A vegetarian diet
is not conversion.
00:23:37.08\00:23:39.71
Come on somebody,
help me out. Amen!
00:23:39.75\00:23:41.68
You could have
the cleanest colon,
00:23:41.72\00:23:44.22
but the most corrupt heart.
00:23:44.25\00:23:46.69
You'll be lost. Nothing
wrong with a healthy diet.
00:23:46.72\00:23:51.23
But don't make that the
mistake of your salvation.
00:23:51.26\00:23:54.46
Jesus came to clean hearts.
00:23:54.50\00:23:56.40
Jesus came to save lives.
00:23:56.43\00:23:58.43
Being impressed by
Jesus is not conversion.
00:23:58.47\00:24:01.14
Knowing that Jesus is
divine is not conversion.
00:24:01.17\00:24:04.94
Even singing religious
songs is not conversion.
00:24:04.97\00:24:08.08
Going to church; it is the right
location, but Jesus is more
00:24:08.11\00:24:13.58
concerned about
location of your heart,
00:24:13.62\00:24:15.15
and not just the
location of your body.
00:24:15.18\00:24:17.59
He added unto the church
those who were being saved.
00:24:17.62\00:24:20.29
But the fact of the matter
is we need to be in the right
00:24:21.32\00:24:23.63
location spiritually before
we are more concerned about
00:24:23.66\00:24:26.76
being in the right
location physically.
00:24:26.80\00:24:28.86
John 3:3, notice
the words of Jesus.
00:24:28.90\00:24:32.47
He said to Nicodemus:
00:24:32.50\00:24:36.37
Now this is powerful.
00:24:50.12\00:24:53.46
He cannot see. You see, one of
the challenges we've been faced
00:24:53.49\00:24:58.49
with as people that are trying
to decide about our eternal
00:24:58.53\00:25:01.13
destiny; one of the challenges
with trying to see everything
00:25:01.16\00:25:04.30
before you are a Christian...
00:25:04.33\00:25:06.10
Let me say that again.
00:25:06.13\00:25:07.47
One of the challenges of trying
to see and understand everything
00:25:07.50\00:25:12.17
before you are a Christian
is this: you cannot see until
00:25:12.21\00:25:16.68
you are a Christian.
00:25:16.71\00:25:18.05
That's why people say, I don't
see what's wrong with alcohol.
00:25:18.08\00:25:22.08
Every now and then a small...
00:25:22.12\00:25:23.45
I don't see what's
wrong with a little cigarette
00:25:23.49\00:25:26.69
every now and then.
00:25:26.72\00:25:28.06
I don't see what's wrong with
partying every now and then.
00:25:28.09\00:25:30.89
The reason why you don't
see is because you are looking
00:25:30.93\00:25:34.46
at life through
eyes that are natural,
00:25:34.50\00:25:37.87
not eyes that are spiritual.
00:25:37.90\00:25:39.53
Until you are born
again, there are certain
00:25:39.57\00:25:42.60
things you cannot see.
00:25:42.64\00:25:44.24
You just cannot see it.
00:25:44.27\00:25:46.14
There's a lady sitting
in my Sabbath School class
00:25:46.17\00:25:48.14
there in Thompsonville.
00:25:48.18\00:25:49.51
And I remember her story.
00:25:49.54\00:25:51.01
She came to our
church after thirty years.
00:25:51.05\00:25:53.48
How many years did I say?
00:25:53.52\00:25:54.85
After thirty years of
resisting the voice of God,
00:25:54.88\00:25:58.25
every time she would
hear on 3ABN Radio...
00:25:58.29\00:26:01.06
My wife works for 3ABN Radio.
00:26:01.09\00:26:02.66
Every time she heard
the topic of the Sabbath
00:26:02.69\00:26:04.66
she'd turn the radio off.
00:26:04.69\00:26:06.03
And she'd say, There
goes those Adventists again
00:26:06.06\00:26:07.60
talking about the Sabbath.
00:26:07.63\00:26:08.96
Every time the Sabbath came
on she'd turn the radio off,
00:26:10.33\00:26:13.97
until one day...
Hear me carefully.
00:26:14.00\00:26:16.47
Don't sleep on me tonight.
00:26:16.50\00:26:17.84
Until one day her church
gave her a placard to put on her
00:26:17.87\00:26:24.21
lawn to let everybody in the
neighborhood know where they're
00:26:24.25\00:26:27.15
having Bible studies.
00:26:27.18\00:26:28.82
So they gave her a
Ten Commandment placard.
00:26:28.85\00:26:33.22
Come on now, God knows you can
run, but you sure can't hide.
00:26:33.25\00:26:40.03
So in putting the placard on her
lawn she said to her husband,
00:26:40.06\00:26:43.50
Honey, look at this!
00:26:43.53\00:26:45.30
And he said, What?
00:26:45.33\00:26:46.67
She said, Look,
the Ten Commandments.
00:26:46.70\00:26:48.27
And she went through them
with her finger and stopped.
00:26:48.30\00:26:50.41
Remember the
Sabbath day to keep it holy.
00:26:50.44\00:26:53.41
And then when it came on on the
radio the next time she said,
00:26:53.44\00:26:57.58
Well, let's listen and
see what they have to present.
00:26:57.61\00:26:59.41
So she listened, and the
goodness of God led her to open
00:26:59.45\00:27:03.95
her eyes and
accept the Sabbath truth.
00:27:03.99\00:27:06.55
And then she said to me as
she sat in our baptismal class,
00:27:06.59\00:27:10.53
getting ready for baptism with
her husband, she said to me,
00:27:10.56\00:27:15.93
You know, Pastor John...
00:27:15.96\00:27:17.30
Let me say this. When I accepted
the Sabbath all of a sudden
00:27:17.33\00:27:22.44
everything else
that I did not understand
00:27:22.47\00:27:25.54
began to be made clear. Amen!
00:27:25.57\00:27:28.11
Spiritual things...
Look at 1 Corinthians 2:14.
00:27:28.94\00:27:32.08
The most intellectual, the most
learned individual cannot know
00:27:47.30\00:27:51.43
the things of the
Spirit, because they are not yet
00:27:51.47\00:27:54.17
Spiritual in their eyesight.
00:27:54.20\00:27:55.70
They are in the natural realm.
00:27:55.74\00:27:58.37
I told you last night, I always
liked it when I got together
00:27:58.41\00:28:01.08
with intellectual people.
00:28:01.11\00:28:02.44
I'd listen to their proposals
and their esoteric conversation,
00:28:02.48\00:28:07.02
and I would wait
until they stumbled on the
00:28:07.05\00:28:09.08
topic of the Bible.
00:28:09.12\00:28:10.45
That's where God
allowed me to shine.
00:28:10.49\00:28:12.75
I don't have all the degrees,
but let me tell you something,
00:28:12.79\00:28:15.79
the only degree
that you need is a BA.
00:28:15.82\00:28:18.89
Somebody say,
What's a BA? born again,
00:28:18.93\00:28:22.46
knowing the word of God.
00:28:22.50\00:28:24.13
These intellectual men, these
learned men, these men with
00:28:24.17\00:28:28.27
degrees, these individuals that
have great status in society,
00:28:28.30\00:28:31.74
they cannot see the things
of God, because they are looking
00:28:31.77\00:28:35.11
with natural eyes,
not Spiritual eyes.
00:28:35.14\00:28:40.65
That's why Jesus said what
He did in Matthew 7:13, 14.
00:28:40.68\00:28:43.79
Notice what He said.
Notice what He said. He said:
00:28:43.82\00:28:49.06
What kind of gate?
00:28:50.06\00:28:51.39
Now when you read that verse
you almost immediately begin
00:29:17.39\00:29:21.19
to think to yourselves, Well,
how could I find eternal life
00:29:21.22\00:29:26.03
if it's a difficult,
narrow way, and very,
00:29:26.06\00:29:30.10
very few people can find it?
00:29:30.13\00:29:31.57
I mean how am I going to find
eternal life if Jesus Himself
00:29:31.60\00:29:34.84
said that narrow is the gate,
and difficult is the way that
00:29:34.87\00:29:38.94
leads to life, and
there are few that find it?
00:29:38.97\00:29:41.11
How am I going to find it then?
00:29:41.14\00:29:42.81
Well, here's what He meant.
00:29:42.84\00:29:44.18
He meant that finding the
road to life is difficult...
00:29:47.48\00:29:50.89
Hear me carefully.
00:29:50.92\00:29:52.25
...because the nature that we
were born with will never lead
00:29:52.29\00:29:57.79
us in the direction
that threatens its existence.
00:29:57.83\00:30:01.33
Did you get that?
Let me say it again.
00:30:01.36\00:30:04.73
It's deep. Are you ready?
00:30:04.77\00:30:06.97
Pray to grab it. The reason why
finding eternal life is often
00:30:07.00\00:30:13.34
difficult is the nature
that we struggle with every day.
00:30:13.38\00:30:18.11
Anybody struggle?
Don't tell me with what.
00:30:18.15\00:30:21.68
But the nature that we
were born with, this nature that
00:30:23.39\00:30:26.52
Adam gave to us, this corrupt
nature, this nature that wants
00:30:26.55\00:30:30.99
to do anything to survive,
this corrupt natural nature will
00:30:31.03\00:30:35.20
never lead us in a direction
that threatens its existence.
00:30:35.23\00:30:40.84
In other words, let me use the
illustration, a drug dealer will
00:30:40.87\00:30:45.21
not sell drugs in
front of a police station.
00:30:45.24\00:30:48.01
A bank robber will not notify
you by e-mail that he's on his
00:30:50.61\00:30:55.82
way to rob your bank.
00:30:55.85\00:30:57.19
And a thief will not
send you a letter telling you
00:30:58.15\00:31:00.49
when he plans to break in.
00:31:00.52\00:31:01.86
I want you to listen tonight.
00:31:01.89\00:31:03.63
The Devil wants
you to fall asleep.
00:31:03.66\00:31:04.99
Come on pray, stay awake.
00:31:05.03\00:31:06.36
The sinner avoids Jesus
just like a thief avoids police.
00:31:07.66\00:31:13.70
A sinner can't find
Jesus, just like a thief
00:31:13.74\00:31:17.01
cannot find the police.
00:31:17.04\00:31:18.37
You know why? Because
finding the police will
00:31:18.41\00:31:21.01
end the criminals life.
00:31:21.04\00:31:22.38
And finding Jesus
will end the sinner's life.
00:31:22.41\00:31:27.15
Think about that. But if
the sinner knew the truth
00:31:29.92\00:31:34.66
they would no longer
avoid Jesus. John 10:10.
00:31:34.69\00:31:37.69
Let's unwrap this tonight.
00:31:37.73\00:31:39.79
That's what drugs does to you.
00:31:50.31\00:31:52.14
That's what the
world does to you.
00:31:52.17\00:31:53.51
That's what
promiscuity does to you.
00:31:53.54\00:31:54.88
That's what the
world offers: stealing,
00:31:54.91\00:31:58.35
killing, and
destroying. But Jesus says...
00:31:58.38\00:32:01.98
Let's read this with
some umph. Are you ready?
00:32:02.02\00:32:04.09
Jesus didn't come to
give us a cheap life.
00:32:14.10\00:32:18.17
I'm a testimony to that.
00:32:18.20\00:32:20.64
When I met my girlfriend at
sixteen years old, I was out in
00:32:20.67\00:32:24.51
the world gambling,
partying, pool hustling.
00:32:24.54\00:32:28.08
I was the disc jockey with the
two turn tables, scratching, and
00:32:28.11\00:32:31.48
rapping before they called it
rap on the World Trade Center,
00:32:31.51\00:32:35.08
44th floor, on
Broadway uptown, downtown
00:32:35.12\00:32:38.35
Manhattan in house parties.
00:32:38.39\00:32:40.26
To me that was life,
until this young lady kept
00:32:40.29\00:32:43.99
inviting me to her
house for family worship.
00:32:44.03\00:32:46.96
I was afraid to read the Bible.
00:32:47.00\00:32:48.63
I could not open the Bible.
00:32:48.66\00:32:50.23
It made me nervous.
00:32:50.27\00:32:51.93
I sweat when I read it.
00:32:51.97\00:32:53.80
I couldn't read John 3:16
because it condemned my heart.
00:32:53.84\00:32:57.84
But she kept on inviting me
until one Friday night the Lord
00:32:57.87\00:33:01.61
broke through at a
pivotal point in my life.
00:33:01.64\00:33:04.28
And I realized that
Friday evening that I was on my
00:33:04.31\00:33:07.85
way to destruction.
00:33:07.88\00:33:09.22
And I fell to my knees
and said, Lord, help me!
00:33:09.25\00:33:12.65
I'm going in the wrong way.
00:33:12.69\00:33:14.02
And God came into my life.
00:33:14.06\00:33:16.16
That Friday I went
to Bank of America,
00:33:16.19\00:33:17.83
when I worked in
the Wall Street area.
00:33:17.86\00:33:19.49
I want to the
bank every day with a
00:33:19.53\00:33:21.60
pool stick, and a
boom box, because I partied
00:33:21.63\00:33:25.03
during my lunch hour.
00:33:25.07\00:33:26.40
You know what I'm talking about?
00:33:26.43\00:33:27.77
I'm not going
dancing tonight, relax.
00:33:27.80\00:33:29.14
But I partied on my lunch
hour, and I gambled after work.
00:33:29.17\00:33:32.51
That was Friday. But when Jesus
came into my life on Monday
00:33:32.54\00:33:35.71
morning I went to
work with a Bible,
00:33:35.74\00:33:37.68
and The Great Controversy. Amen!
00:33:37.71\00:33:40.08
I don't need the
pool stick anymore.
00:33:40.12\00:33:41.78
I don't need the
boom box any more.
00:33:41.82\00:33:43.45
Just in the matter of two days
I fell so in love with Jesus
00:33:43.49\00:33:46.82
I'm on the trains of
New York looking for people
00:33:46.86\00:33:50.09
to tell about Jesus. Amen!
00:33:50.13\00:33:51.99
I want to tell you, I
know that life is in Jesus.
00:33:52.03\00:33:55.26
When I was partying in
New York, I went from Brooklyn
00:33:55.30\00:33:57.57
to Manhattan, from Manhattan
to Brooklyn, but when I gave my
00:33:57.60\00:34:00.17
life to Jesus, sixty
countries later on His dime.
00:34:00.20\00:34:04.71
He said, Go and tell them about
the gift that I've given to you.
00:34:04.74\00:34:07.81
So I'm not here
to meander with you.
00:34:07.84\00:34:09.41
I'm going to tell you
tonight that there is no
00:34:09.44\00:34:12.08
life outside of Jesus.
00:34:12.11\00:34:13.45
There is no joy
outside of Jesus.
00:34:13.48\00:34:15.55
Young man say Amen. Amen!
00:34:15.58\00:34:17.49
There's no pleasure like the
pleasure you can find in Jesus.
00:34:17.52\00:34:21.06
Sometimes we get side tracked.
00:34:21.09\00:34:22.76
But I'm so glad we
have a friend in Jesus.
00:34:22.79\00:34:26.13
The reason why there are people
where they are today is because
00:34:26.16\00:34:28.83
the lie that Satan
told from the beginning
00:34:28.86\00:34:30.70
people still believe today.
00:34:30.73\00:34:33.57
Look at Genesis
3:4, what the Devil said.
00:34:33.60\00:34:37.61
You see, people would not...
00:34:44.11\00:34:46.68
I don't know of anybody
who will willingly put him or
00:34:46.72\00:34:50.59
herself in the path of
death and say, I want to die.
00:34:50.62\00:34:55.52
But they go down a road that
they think is the right road,
00:34:57.26\00:35:01.03
only to lose their
lives, only to end in death.
00:35:01.06\00:35:05.87
Had Eve known... Let me say...
Had Eve known the result of
00:35:05.90\00:35:11.54
her choice, I can guarantee you
she would not make that choice.
00:35:11.57\00:35:14.84
If Adam had known
the result of his choice,
00:35:14.88\00:35:18.68
he would not
have made that choice.
00:35:18.71\00:35:20.48
But the Devil tries to
make sin look pleasurable,
00:35:20.52\00:35:23.42
so we look at it in
the way he dresses it.
00:35:23.45\00:35:26.29
And he says it, not
like a devil in a cape,
00:35:26.32\00:35:29.12
not like a guy with horns.
00:35:29.16\00:35:30.89
He didn't come to Eve that way.
00:35:30.93\00:35:32.43
He was a beautiful serpent.
00:35:32.46\00:35:34.10
When he came to tempt Christ
he was not an evil looking
00:35:34.13\00:35:36.63
guy with a pitchfork.
00:35:36.67\00:35:38.00
He was a beautiful prince.
00:35:38.03\00:35:39.37
He used to be an angel.
00:35:39.40\00:35:40.74
He was an angel of light:
Lucifer, the son of the morning.
00:35:40.77\00:35:43.64
But he knows still how to
dress sin in a beautiful package
00:35:43.67\00:35:47.81
to make it look
like what it's not.
00:35:47.84\00:35:49.58
That's what
happened in Jonestown there.
00:35:49.61\00:35:52.01
I believe it was when
Jim Jones fed grape Kool-Aid,
00:35:52.05\00:35:56.65
mixed with cyanide.
00:35:56.69\00:35:58.02
It tasted good, but look what
the Bible says, Proverbs 14:12.
00:35:58.05\00:36:01.99
Hear the word of God tonight.
00:36:02.02\00:36:04.36
I'm here tonight to
tell you Satan is a liar,
00:36:12.93\00:36:16.00
and sin always leads to death.
00:36:16.04\00:36:18.67
I had a childhood friend
that died at seventeen years old
00:36:18.71\00:36:22.71
at the point of a gun,
because he thought that the life
00:36:22.74\00:36:25.91
he lived will not lead to death.
00:36:25.95\00:36:28.08
I had a high school
friend that died of a sexually
00:36:28.12\00:36:30.79
transmitted disease.
00:36:30.82\00:36:32.15
I remember seeing her
down in the Wall Street area.
00:36:32.19\00:36:34.92
And then I asked, What
ever happened to so and so?
00:36:34.96\00:36:36.73
And they said she died of aids.
00:36:36.76\00:36:38.16
I had a church friend
that died of brain cancer
00:36:38.19\00:36:41.86
from smoking marijuana.
00:36:41.90\00:36:43.23
He only tried it twice, but
his body couldn't handle it.
00:36:43.26\00:36:46.53
And before he was
nineteen years old he was
00:36:46.57\00:36:48.50
dead from brain cancer.
00:36:48.54\00:36:50.01
You see, people think that
some how sin plays with us.
00:36:50.04\00:36:52.74
We dabble with
it, but sin is deadly.
00:36:52.77\00:36:55.54
The wages of sin is what? death.
00:36:55.58\00:36:58.85
I had a high school friend
that I went to high school with,
00:36:58.88\00:37:01.68
and when I went to my
thirtieth class reunion,
00:37:01.72\00:37:04.32
my wife was there with
me, in Brooklyn, New York.
00:37:04.35\00:37:06.82
And they were naming the
names, and I looked around.
00:37:06.86\00:37:09.06
I said I hadn't
seen her in years.
00:37:09.09\00:37:10.66
I wonder what happened to her.
00:37:10.69\00:37:12.06
And I went around to
my other class friends.
00:37:12.09\00:37:13.96
Do you know what
happened to Deena?
00:37:14.00\00:37:15.33
Have any of you seen Norma?
00:37:15.36\00:37:16.70
Have you seen Norma?
00:37:16.73\00:37:18.07
And they said, Well, there's
a section in the program.
00:37:18.10\00:37:19.73
You'll find out
what happened to her.
00:37:19.77\00:37:21.10
And they flashed her
picture on the screen.
00:37:21.14\00:37:23.74
And my wife can tell
you I sat there and wept.
00:37:23.77\00:37:25.44
I said, That was
my high school friend.
00:37:25.47\00:37:27.18
We hung out every day.
00:37:27.21\00:37:29.44
We vowed to make it
through high school together.
00:37:29.48\00:37:31.85
Just us and two
other girlfriends.
00:37:31.88\00:37:33.48
We had good friendships.
00:37:33.52\00:37:34.92
But I said, She's dead!
00:37:34.95\00:37:36.79
Will I see her
again? Only God knows.
00:37:36.82\00:37:38.85
Friends, sin lies to you.
00:37:38.89\00:37:41.69
The wages of sin is death.
00:37:41.72\00:37:43.83
That's why when people tell you
that Jesus doesn't make sense,
00:37:43.86\00:37:48.20
they're lying to you.
00:37:48.23\00:37:49.56
When people tell you that you
can find satisfaction and joy
00:37:49.60\00:37:52.30
without Jesus,
they're lying to you.
00:37:52.33\00:37:54.30
Look at John 8:44. The Bible
says, of those that lie to you:
00:37:54.34\00:37:59.57
What was he church?
00:38:06.82\00:38:08.15
He led Adam to die, Eve
died, their children died.
00:38:10.59\00:38:15.76
I could imagine today when Adam
had to lay his wife to rest,
00:38:15.79\00:38:18.33
and he knew the
result of the sin.
00:38:18.36\00:38:20.36
But let me make it
even clearer tonight.
00:38:31.61\00:38:32.94
I want this topic to be clear.
00:38:32.97\00:38:35.28
You see, the fact of the
matter is even if you never did
00:38:35.31\00:38:38.88
anything wrong...
You hear me tonight?
00:38:38.91\00:38:42.15
You may never have smoked a
cigarette, alcohol, promiscuity.
00:38:42.18\00:38:47.82
You may be the only person
that never lied, or cheated.
00:38:47.86\00:38:51.89
Even if you did nothing wrong,
you are still destined to die,
00:38:51.93\00:38:57.57
because it's not what you've
done, it's the nature that you
00:38:57.60\00:39:00.84
have that determines
whether you live or die,
00:39:00.87\00:39:03.51
even if you did nothing wrong.
00:39:03.54\00:39:06.37
That's why I'm always amazed
when people say, Well, you know,
00:39:06.41\00:39:09.28
my neighbor has a
generally good heart.
00:39:09.31\00:39:11.31
I said there is none that's
good, no not one. Amen somebody.
00:39:11.35\00:39:14.92
Ain't no good people.
00:39:14.95\00:39:16.28
Nobody's good.
There's only one that's good.
00:39:16.32\00:39:19.09
His name is Jesus.
00:39:19.12\00:39:20.46
So when you say
you're good, what you mean
00:39:20.49\00:39:24.13
is good for nothing! That right!
00:39:24.16\00:39:28.70
You step on somebody's toe on
the wrong day, you'll find out
00:39:28.73\00:39:32.37
how good they are. Oh yeah!
00:39:32.40\00:39:35.50
We're not good.
There's nothing good about us.
00:39:35.54\00:39:38.34
We know how to
put on the good side.
00:39:38.37\00:39:41.98
There's some church
members that would beat you up.
00:39:42.01\00:39:44.05
But let me tell you this,
I'd rather be in a church with a
00:39:44.08\00:39:48.98
church member that's going to
beat me up, than in a bar with a
00:39:49.02\00:39:51.55
bar mate that
will not beat me up.
00:39:51.59\00:39:53.22
Let me tell you why.
00:39:53.25\00:39:54.59
Because the church
member's in the right place.
00:39:54.62\00:39:56.22
And God can work on his or
her heart getting her ready.
00:39:56.26\00:39:59.43
There isn't any
perfect people in the church.
00:39:59.46\00:40:01.16
Don't look for
them. They aren't here.
00:40:01.20\00:40:02.53
Every one of us is in process.
00:40:02.56\00:40:05.87
The Lord is
working on every one of us.
00:40:05.90\00:40:09.30
He calls us so He can enter us
into His refurbishing program,
00:40:09.34\00:40:15.18
so that when He comes
we look just like Him.
00:40:15.21\00:40:17.65
Somebody ought to say Amen.
00:40:17.68\00:40:19.01
Don't look for
perfect people in the church.
00:40:19.05\00:40:20.92
Somebody said, I don't
want to join the church.
00:40:20.95\00:40:22.68
There are a lot
of hypocrites there.
00:40:22.72\00:40:24.05
Well, they're in the
right place. It's the hospital.
00:40:24.09\00:40:25.42
Even if you give
your life to Jesus,
00:40:27.19\00:40:28.62
don't walk around
looking for Jesus.
00:40:28.66\00:40:31.03
If Jesus can be seen
in your life, praise God.
00:40:31.06\00:40:34.83
But if somebody
doesn't look like Jesus yet,
00:40:34.86\00:40:38.07
He's still
working. Come on somebody!
00:40:38.10\00:40:40.57
He's still working on me.
00:40:40.60\00:40:42.30
That's what the kids sing.
00:40:42.34\00:40:44.21
He's still working on me.
00:40:44.24\00:40:45.77
He's still working on all of us.
00:40:45.81\00:40:47.14
When sin entered the
world death came with it.
00:40:47.18\00:40:51.31
Sin was a Trojan horse.
00:40:51.35\00:40:53.52
Do you know that
Trojan horse story?
00:40:53.55\00:40:55.02
The Romans built a
Trojan horse out of wood,
00:40:55.05\00:40:57.55
and they gifted
it to their enemies.
00:40:57.59\00:40:59.45
And when they accepted the
Trojan horse, and they were in
00:40:59.49\00:41:02.22
the comfort
thinking, Well, Rome loves us.
00:41:02.26\00:41:04.59
During the night they
opened the belly of that horse,
00:41:04.63\00:41:07.46
and loaded on the
inside were Roman soldiers that
00:41:07.50\00:41:10.03
devastated their enemies.
00:41:10.07\00:41:11.70
Sin is a Trojan horse.
00:41:11.73\00:41:13.54
It comes with
death on the inside.
00:41:13.57\00:41:16.40
Look at Romans
5:12, Romans 5:12.
00:41:16.44\00:41:20.84
The Bible says,
speaking of this Trojan horse
00:41:20.88\00:41:24.65
that came through Adam.
00:41:24.68\00:41:26.35
How many men?
00:41:28.35\00:41:33.09
The Trojan horse.
00:41:33.12\00:41:34.46
Spread to how many of us?
00:41:38.93\00:41:40.70
Now when you look at that new
born baby, when you look at that
00:41:44.40\00:41:52.27
seven year old that looks
so cute, what you need to be
00:41:52.31\00:41:56.44
reminded of is that they have
the same nature that Adam had.
00:41:56.48\00:42:05.02
When we get to that
point of accountability,
00:42:07.76\00:42:10.93
and we understand the
difference between the nature
00:42:10.96\00:42:14.10
and the actions,
God holds us responsible
00:42:14.13\00:42:18.07
for the actions of our lives.
00:42:18.10\00:42:19.63
But the fact of the matter
is, in 1 Corinthians 15:22,
00:42:19.90\00:42:26.24
the Bible makes it very clear:
00:42:26.27\00:42:27.74
Read that on the screen.
00:42:29.31\00:42:30.65
Most die. All!
How many die? All!
00:42:31.41\00:42:35.58
You want a very
interesting fact?
00:42:43.56\00:42:45.13
Are you ready for it?
00:42:45.16\00:42:46.49
All that you have to
do to be lost is nothing.
00:42:46.53\00:42:50.37
You don't have to shoot anybody.
00:42:55.87\00:42:57.41
You don't have to lie.
00:42:57.44\00:42:59.54
You don't have to steal.
00:42:59.57\00:43:01.81
As we say in New York,
You don't gotta do notten.
00:43:01.84\00:43:05.11
To be lost you
don't have to do anything.
00:43:06.65\00:43:09.32
But decide to be saved.
00:43:09.35\00:43:13.49
Once you don't decide to
be saved, you were born on the
00:43:13.52\00:43:18.43
conveyer belt to the grave
that is without any recompense
00:43:18.46\00:43:23.26
or without any hope
of coming forth in the
00:43:23.30\00:43:25.50
resurrection of life.
00:43:25.53\00:43:26.87
That's why this born again
thing is so vitally important.
00:43:26.90\00:43:29.87
Look at John 3:18.
00:43:29.90\00:43:32.54
The reason I like to talk
about Jesus, is Jesus didn't
00:43:36.71\00:43:39.21
come to condemn us, because
we were already condemned
00:43:39.25\00:43:42.38
by Adam's decision.
00:43:42.42\00:43:43.85
Adam's sin already condemned us.
00:43:43.89\00:43:47.52
If you understand
that say Amen. Amen!
00:43:47.56\00:43:50.36
Let me make it even clearer.
00:43:50.39\00:43:51.73
I've got ears like my mother.
00:43:51.76\00:43:55.76
Can you see them?
I can't change them.
00:43:57.63\00:44:01.00
They are a family trait.
00:44:01.04\00:44:03.47
I was born with them,
I'm going to die with them.
00:44:03.51\00:44:07.11
The only way they'll
look different is if I
00:44:07.14\00:44:09.51
have plastic surgery.
00:44:09.54\00:44:10.88
But I've had them so long
they're going to stay this way.
00:44:10.91\00:44:13.45
I got them from my mother.
00:44:13.48\00:44:17.22
I've got a nose like my father.
00:44:17.25\00:44:19.75
My hair is like my
mother's and my father's.
00:44:21.49\00:44:24.46
I can't do a thing about it.
00:44:24.49\00:44:26.43
I'm the tallest Filipino,
French, African American,
00:44:26.46\00:44:30.43
Indian, Italian
you'll ever meet.
00:44:30.47\00:44:32.13
And I can't do a thing about it.
00:44:35.00\00:44:36.81
I was born on July 30th.
00:44:36.84\00:44:39.17
I can't change that fact.
00:44:39.21\00:44:40.94
Let me make the correlation.
00:44:42.58\00:44:44.41
We were born with the
heirs and mind of Adam.
00:44:44.45\00:44:48.22
That's a fact.
You can't change that.
00:44:48.25\00:44:52.55
And because of that you
were born destined to die,
00:44:52.59\00:44:56.69
with no possibility of reprieve
unless you make a decision
00:44:56.73\00:45:01.20
that you don't want to
die without Jesus. Amen!
00:45:01.23\00:45:04.10
Born on a conveyer belt to hell.
00:45:04.13\00:45:08.44
That's why the Bible
says, John 3:18, notice this.
00:45:08.47\00:45:11.71
Oh I love Jesus.
Amen! The Bible says:
00:45:11.74\00:45:16.81
This is profound; is what?
00:45:23.62\00:45:25.29
That's powerful. Brother
you don't have to do anything.
00:45:34.70\00:45:39.43
If you don't know Jesus,
you're already condemned.
00:45:39.47\00:45:41.70
You see, what I love about
preaching about Jesus is this:
00:45:41.74\00:45:45.51
Jesus is always good news.
00:45:45.54\00:45:49.41
Aw, you didn't get it!
00:45:49.44\00:45:51.95
I didn't say Elvis.
00:45:51.98\00:45:53.72
I didn't say Beyonce.
00:45:53.75\00:45:55.45
I said Jesus is
always good news. Amen!
00:45:55.48\00:45:58.85
Jesus is the agent of change.
00:45:58.89\00:46:01.32
He came to change
our standing with heaven.
00:46:01.36\00:46:04.76
He said, John I know
you were born in trouble.
00:46:04.79\00:46:07.73
I don't want you
to die in trouble.
00:46:07.76\00:46:09.66
I know you were born destined
to die, but if I had anything
00:46:09.70\00:46:13.87
to do with it,
you'll be destined to live.
00:46:13.90\00:46:16.40
You see, we were born sentenced
to death, and Jesus changed
00:46:16.44\00:46:20.18
my sentence to life.
00:46:20.21\00:46:21.54
We were born sentenced,
but Jesus, the agent of change,
00:46:21.58\00:46:25.11
came to change us
from sinners to saints.
00:46:25.15\00:46:27.82
Somebody say Amen tonight.
00:46:27.85\00:46:29.58
We were born destined for
hell, but because of Jesus,
00:46:29.62\00:46:33.25
we can be
destined for heaven. Amen!
00:46:33.29\00:46:35.46
That's what John
3:16 is all about.
00:46:36.69\00:46:38.49
We read that text like it's some
kind of give me a pass card.
00:46:38.53\00:46:43.70
Look at John 3:16 with new eyes.
00:46:43.73\00:46:46.23
The beauty of Jesus. The
beauty of Jesus. Together.
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And verse 17 is powerful.
00:47:07.66\00:47:09.52
To do what? You know why He
didn't send Him to condemn it?
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Because it's already condemned.
00:47:16.00\00:47:17.40
You see, if you came tonight for
me to tell you what's wrong with
00:47:21.70\00:47:25.84
you, that's no the Gospel.
00:47:25.87\00:47:27.78
You know you messed up.
00:47:27.81\00:47:29.24
Come on
somebody, say Amen. Amen!
00:47:29.28\00:47:31.01
You know you've got
issues, got attitudes,
00:47:31.05\00:47:33.42
practices that you
live in the dark with.
00:47:33.45\00:47:36.52
You know you are in trouble.
00:47:36.55\00:47:38.65
That's not my job. The
Gospel is good news because...
00:47:38.69\00:47:42.46
Thank You Jesus!... because
it condemns sin, not the sinner.
00:47:42.49\00:47:47.30
Amen! Amen! That's good news!
00:47:47.33\00:47:50.27
If you're sick I
don't have to tell you that.
00:47:50.30\00:47:52.60
If you're in the
hospital I don't have to say,
00:47:52.63\00:47:54.24
Did you know you're sick?
00:47:54.27\00:47:55.60
If you've got a toothache me
telling you you have a toothache
00:47:55.64\00:47:58.71
does nothing for you.
00:47:58.74\00:48:00.08
But if you come to my
office and you leave healed,
00:48:00.11\00:48:02.14
you're glad that
I've come to help you out.
00:48:02.18\00:48:04.31
Jesus did not
come to condemn us.
00:48:04.35\00:48:07.52
Jesus came to save us. Amen!
00:48:07.55\00:48:10.35
The Gospel is good
news, but there's a problem.
00:48:10.39\00:48:12.69
But there's a problem.
00:48:12.72\00:48:14.26
For so long... Hear
me tonight as I close.
00:48:14.29\00:48:17.33
For so long, for so long,
for so long, we have been led to
00:48:17.36\00:48:24.07
believe that the problem is us.
00:48:24.13\00:48:26.84
Hear me carefully.
00:48:26.87\00:48:28.27
We have been led to
believe that the problem is us.
00:48:29.80\00:48:32.17
You know, your parents
say, You've got a problem.
00:48:32.21\00:48:34.58
You know, your husband
says, You're the problem.
00:48:34.61\00:48:36.91
You and your wife
said, You're the problem.
00:48:36.95\00:48:39.08
The tax accountant
says, You've got a problem.
00:48:39.11\00:48:41.15
We've been led so long to
believe that we are the problem,
00:48:41.18\00:48:43.82
but the reality is
sin is the problem.
00:48:43.85\00:48:48.06
We inherited the problem of
sin from our Daddy named Adam.
00:48:48.09\00:48:54.76
He gave us the best he could.
00:48:56.40\00:48:59.07
Let me continue. Adam gave
us a nature that messed us up.
00:48:59.10\00:49:09.98
Think about who you are.
00:49:17.39\00:49:19.15
I don't need to know you.
00:49:19.19\00:49:20.52
I don't need to know your life.
00:49:20.56\00:49:21.89
The Lord knows the
secrets of your life.
00:49:21.92\00:49:23.26
But let me tell
you some tonight.
00:49:23.29\00:49:24.76
Adam... Let me
apply it to myself.
00:49:24.79\00:49:26.49
Adam gave me a
nature that messed me up.
00:49:26.53\00:49:29.33
Everything I did was because of
the nature that Adam gave to me.
00:49:31.80\00:49:35.40
And a lot of us don't understand
that a bad tree cannot
00:49:35.44\00:49:38.97
produce good fruit, and a good
tree cannot produce bad fruit.
00:49:39.01\00:49:43.04
You are bad not because of your
fruit, but because of the tree.
00:49:43.08\00:49:46.55
Adam is your tree.
00:49:46.58\00:49:48.92
But Jesus came to root out
Adam, and to plant you in Him.
00:49:48.95\00:49:52.95
Somebody ought
to say Amen. Amen!
00:49:52.99\00:49:54.99
Our sinful minds led us to
where we did not want to go.
00:49:55.02\00:49:58.16
Our sinful thoughts did to
us what we did not want to do.
00:49:58.19\00:50:01.43
We were helpless to break
the hold that sin had on us.
00:50:01.46\00:50:04.63
But the reason why
I'm so happy tonight...
00:50:04.70\00:50:07.04
My wife and I
already preached this sermon.
00:50:07.07\00:50:08.74
I already had, I preached
to my wife in the hotel room.
00:50:08.77\00:50:12.11
I already shed my tears.
00:50:12.14\00:50:13.98
That's why I'm able to do it
tonight without shedding tears.
00:50:14.01\00:50:16.48
When I look at this message
today I couldn't even breathe.
00:50:16.51\00:50:19.41
I said, Honey, the message
is so good I'm being born again!
00:50:19.48\00:50:22.35
Amen! The agent of
change, by the name of Jesus.
00:50:22.38\00:50:31.09
He came to
interrupt our journey to hell,
00:50:31.13\00:50:33.90
so that we could
have a journey to heaven.
00:50:33.93\00:50:36.20
What do you say
tonight somebody? Amen!
00:50:36.23\00:50:38.63
The good news is
that Jesus didn't wait.
00:50:38.67\00:50:41.00
This is deep.
This is even deeper.
00:50:41.04\00:50:42.90
Jesus didn't even wait for
us to be good before He made
00:50:42.94\00:50:46.54
a way of salvation.
00:50:46.57\00:50:47.91
He didn't wait
for us to be good.
00:50:47.94\00:50:49.84
You know why? Because we cannot
be good without salvation.
00:50:49.91\00:50:53.52
He's good. He
imparts to us His character.
00:50:53.55\00:50:56.69
And His Father looks at us
in the character of His Son,
00:50:56.72\00:50:59.79
and said, You look good now.
00:50:59.82\00:51:01.26
That's why when you
read the Bible you can read
00:51:06.09\00:51:08.53
about Rahab the harlot.
00:51:08.56\00:51:10.07
And Rahab the harlot is
in the family line of Jesus.
00:51:10.10\00:51:13.54
You can read about
David the adulterer.
00:51:13.57\00:51:16.10
And David the adulterer is
in the family line of Jesus.
00:51:16.14\00:51:19.27
There's nobody
Jesus cannot save.
00:51:19.31\00:51:21.41
Somebody ought to
say Amen tonight. Amen!
00:51:21.44\00:51:23.21
But I'm going to wind up
with this text, Romans 5:6-11.
00:51:23.24\00:51:27.12
This is powerful,
but I've got to milk it.
00:51:27.15\00:51:29.02
So I'm going to
really walk you through it.
00:51:29.05\00:51:30.85
The good news is Jesus did not
wait for us to be good before He
00:51:30.89\00:51:34.72
made a way of salvation.
00:51:34.79\00:51:36.36
It's called Justification:
salvation from the
00:51:36.39\00:51:38.99
penalty of sin. Here it is:
00:51:39.03\00:51:40.36
Do you know what that means?
00:51:52.61\00:51:53.94
That means you
didn't have any power.
00:51:53.98\00:51:55.31
You had no
strength to break the bond.
00:51:55.34\00:51:57.11
You tried. You said,
Lord I don't want to do it,
00:51:57.15\00:51:59.81
but sin was so much
more powerful than you.
00:51:59.85\00:52:01.92
Sin said, You're going to do it.
00:52:01.98\00:52:03.32
And you did it! Verse 7.
00:52:03.35\00:52:05.49
And the Bible says:
00:52:05.52\00:52:07.26
In other words the Bible
says, I'm not going to die for
00:52:14.46\00:52:18.27
somebody that
ain't worth nothing.
00:52:18.33\00:52:19.87
But Jesus looked at us
and said, Wait a minute!
00:52:19.93\00:52:22.30
They may look like they
ain't worth nothing to you,
00:52:22.37\00:52:24.94
but they are worth
something to Me. Amen, somebody.
00:52:24.97\00:52:27.54
We are somebody in the
eyes of a loving Savior.
00:52:27.58\00:52:30.11
And then the
Bible says in verse 8:
00:52:30.15\00:52:32.48
He died for us while we were in
jail, so He could set us free.
00:52:43.32\00:52:47.43
Amen! But then in verse 9:
00:52:47.46\00:52:49.63
The world is on a
crash course with the wrath
00:52:57.91\00:53:00.81
of the fires of hell.
00:53:00.84\00:53:02.18
But the Lord said,
That's not where My children
00:53:02.21\00:53:04.31
are going to end up.
00:53:04.35\00:53:05.68
Tonight the Lord wants to
save you from the fires of
00:53:05.71\00:53:07.58
destruction, and give
you the streets of gold.
00:53:07.62\00:53:10.55
Somebody ought to say Amen.
00:53:10.59\00:53:11.92
But then verse 10.
00:53:11.95\00:53:13.36
He reconciled us
while we were enemies.
00:53:30.14\00:53:33.98
But here's the
tie; here's the bow.
00:53:34.01\00:53:37.78
This is the kicker.
00:53:47.92\00:53:49.26
This is the kicker.
00:53:49.76\00:53:51.09
Jesus said, I got a ticket that
I want to give to somebody that
00:53:51.13\00:53:55.63
wants to go to heaven.
00:53:55.66\00:53:57.00
I've already
paid for your flight.
00:53:57.03\00:53:59.90
I've paid for
your release from jail.
00:53:59.93\00:54:02.57
I want to give
you abundant life.
00:54:02.60\00:54:05.17
And I want you to be
in the kingdom with Me.
00:54:05.21\00:54:07.01
All I'm asking you to do
is receive the reconciliation.
00:54:07.04\00:54:11.51
Amen. Take the
ticket; take the ticket.
00:54:11.55\00:54:15.28
Who wants to take the ticket?
00:54:15.32\00:54:17.32
Tonight as I sing this song,
if you want to take the ticket;
00:54:17.39\00:54:20.69
tonight if you
want to take the ticket,
00:54:20.72\00:54:22.22
Jesus wants to save you.
00:54:22.26\00:54:23.59
Tonight as I sing this song,
if you want to accept the gift
00:54:23.63\00:54:26.70
of eternal life that Jesus came
to give you, tonight if that's
00:54:26.73\00:54:29.93
your desire, as I sing this
song just stand where you are.
00:54:29.96\00:54:33.17
Or even more than
that, just come down.
00:54:33.20\00:54:34.67
I want to pray for you.
00:54:34.70\00:54:36.04
Don't think about
anybody else, like Nicodemus.
00:54:36.07\00:54:37.84
Tonight is about your salvation.
00:54:37.87\00:54:39.74
It's about your stand with God.
00:54:39.77\00:54:41.61
As I sing this song tonight,
I pray that you make a decision
00:54:41.64\00:54:44.98
to give your life to Jesus.
00:54:45.01\00:54:46.48
Softly and
tenderly Jesus is calling,
00:54:59.96\00:55:08.04
Calling for you and for me;
00:55:09.50\00:55:16.85
See, on the portals
He's waiting and watching,
00:55:18.31\00:55:26.76
Watching for you and for me.
00:55:27.46\00:55:34.43
Is there somebody tonight?
00:55:34.46\00:55:35.80
So come on home, come home,
You who are weary, come home;
00:55:35.90\00:55:54.98
Earnestly,
tenderly, Jesus is calling,
00:55:55.02\00:56:04.29
Calling, O sinner, come home!
00:56:04.33\00:56:12.10
Somebody else tonight
wants to give his life?
00:56:12.13\00:56:13.90
Just take the ticket.
00:56:13.94\00:56:15.27
Come on, you want the ticket?
00:56:15.30\00:56:16.64
Come and take the ticket.
00:56:16.67\00:56:18.01
Why should we tarry
when Jesus is pleading?
00:56:19.31\00:56:27.12
That's right sister.
00:56:27.15\00:56:28.48
Pleading for you and for me?
00:56:28.52\00:56:35.66
And why should you
linger and heed not His mercies,
00:56:35.69\00:56:46.47
Mercies for you and for me?
00:56:46.50\00:56:53.04
Anybody else tonight?
00:56:53.07\00:56:54.41
Just come on down.
00:56:54.44\00:56:55.78
Don't wait for anybody else.
00:56:55.81\00:56:57.15
Oh, for the
wonderful love He has promised,
00:56:57.18\00:57:05.12
He's promised
for you and for me!
00:57:05.15\00:57:11.66
Here's why.
Though we have sinned,
00:57:11.69\00:57:18.10
He has mercy and pardon, It
is pardon for you and for me.
00:57:18.13\00:57:30.75
Tonight somebody else?
00:57:30.78\00:57:32.28
So come on home, come home.
00:57:32.31\00:57:43.46
You who are weary, come home;
00:57:43.49\00:57:50.20
Anybody else for Jesus tonight?
00:57:50.23\00:57:56.87
Earnestly,
tenderly, Jesus is calling,
00:57:56.91\00:58:06.35
Earnestly,
tenderly, my Jesus is calling,
00:58:06.38\00:58:15.76
Calling, tonight He's calling.
00:58:15.79\00:58:25.00
So come home, come
home. Praise the Lord!
00:58:27.37\00:58:44.89