Welcome to 3ABN's
Spring Camp Meeting:
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Live from the
3ABN Worship Center.
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Hello and welcome to
Spring Camp Meeting 2016.
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We're glad to have you here.
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Have you all been blessed?
Amen! Whoo! One more time:
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Amen! What an enthusiastic
crowd we have here this morning,
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don't we Sweetie? We
do indeed. We have been
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so blessed. We are on
day #3 I guess - Already? -
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of Camp Meeting.
It's Friday morning here,
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and whether you are here in
our enthusiastic wonderful crowd
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or watching at home we welcome
you to Spring Camp Meeting.
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Today we have an
anointed woman of God. Umm...
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yes we do. Mollie Steenson
is 3ABN's vice president
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and general manager
but most importantly
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she's a student of the Word.
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She's a woman who
loves God with all her heart
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and she has a walk with
God. She teaches our local
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Sabbath School and
does a wonderful job.
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And her message this
morning is A Royal Priesthood.
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Absolutely. You know, I
appreciate Mollie a lot, too.
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She and her husband, Pastor
Hal, for those of you that have
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followed 3ABN for many years,
know they were instrumental
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in the beginning of 3ABN with
the donation of the equipment
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to 3ABN... some of the cameras
from their church and things.
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But she and Pastor Hal
are a wonderful team together.
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You know, this is neat
how this whole sanctuary has
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transformed for Camp Meeting.
Because those of you that are
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here when we do church service
there's a wall that goes right
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over there. And where it says
A Sharper Focus: that's where
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Mollie Steenson teaches
her Sabbath School class...
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right in that
corner. And like Jill said,
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we are always
blessed. She is a woman of God
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and has a heart for
God and the Word of God.
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And it's always inspiring,
isn't it, to sit under her -
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Amen - tutelage -
Amen! Before she presents
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the Word of God we're going
to be blessed by special music
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from Sandra Entermann.
I love her music! Um-hmm.
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She sings from her
heart. She's a woman of God.
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In addition,
her nephew is here -
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Braedan Entermann - and he's
going to be singing with her.
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The song they will be doing
is: Let The Lower Lights...
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Light Be Burning.
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Before she comes and sings
let's go to the Lord in prayer.
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OK. Father in heaven,
Lord, what a privilege it is to
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come to You in prayer. We
thank You for Your Holy Spirit
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that is here at Camp Meeting.
We just pray right now that
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You would be with Mollie
Mollie Steenson as she breaks
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the word of life to us today.
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Father, we just
thank You and praise You.
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And in Jesus' name
we pray, Amen. Amen!
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It's a privilege to be able
to sing for you this morning
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that beautiful old
hymn. And I just would love to
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fill you in a little on
the background of that hymn.
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Dwight Moody related
the story in this country
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of a shipwreck on a
dark and tempestuous night
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where not even a
star was visible.
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And he was approaching...
he was telling about a captain
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who was approaching
the Cleveland harbor
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where he could
only see one light...
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and that was the
light of the lighthouse.
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And usually there
were lower lights burning
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but they were out and so he
didn't recognize the harbor.
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There was a pilot on
board, and he asked the pilot
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"Are you sure that
this is Cleveland harbor? "
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And the pilot
replied: "I'm quite sure. "
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He said: "Where
are the lower lights? "
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He said: "Gone out, sir. "
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He said: "Do you
think we can make it? "
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And the pilot replied:
"We must... or perish. "
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So bravely that old
man steered the vessel on
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to the course of safety,
but alas in the darkness of
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the night he missed the channel
and the ship struck upon many
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rocks and a lot
of lives were lost.
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And Dwight Moody in
his appeal said: "Brothers,
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the Master will take
care of the great light.
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We must keep the lower
lights burning. " Amen!
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Isn't that something?
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And I think, you know, as
we are here at Camp Meeting
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and hearing all these
amazing messages, it's one thing
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to be inspired ourselves
and to learn what we're learning
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but we've gotta get out there
and share, though, haven't we?
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We've got a job to do. Let
the lower lights be burning.
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Brightly beams
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our Father's mercy
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from His lighthouse
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ever more.
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But to us
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He gives the keeping
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of the lights
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along the shore.
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Let the lower lights
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be burning;
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send a gleam
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across the waves.
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Some poor fainting,
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struggling seaman
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you may rescue...
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you may save.
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Dark the night
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of sin has settled;
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loud the angry billows
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roar.
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Eager eyes
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are watching, longing
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for the lights
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along the shore.
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Let the lower lights
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be burning;
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send a gleam across
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the waves.
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Some poor fainting,
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struggling seaman
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you may rescue...
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you may save.
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Trim your feeble lamp,
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my brother.
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Some poor sailor
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tempest tossed
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struggling now
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to make the harbor
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in the darkness
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may be lost.
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Let the lower lights
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be burning;
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send a gleam
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across the waves.
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Some poor fainting,
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struggling seaman
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you may rescue...
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you may save.
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Let the lower lights
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be burning;
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send a gleam across
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across the waves
- across the waves.
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Across the waves.
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Some poor fainting,
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struggling seaman
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you may rescue,
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you may save...
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you may rescue,
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you may save.
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Amen!
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That was beautiful! You
know, Danny in the back...
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he just prayed with me,
and I appreciate that so much.
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And he said: "Oh that lady's
got such a beautiful voice. "
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But you know what?
She's got a beautiful spirit -
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Amen - and a
beautiful voice as well.
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And I always
appreciate her ministry.
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You know,
Ephesians the 4th chapter
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says that Christ
Himself "gave some apostles,
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some prophets, some evangelists,
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some pastors
and some teachers. "
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Why did He give all of that?
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For the
perfecting of the saints.
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How many of you need perfecting?
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Amen! I know I certainly do.
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Well Bruce, I
realize I'm not an apostle.
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I'm sure not a
prophet; I'm not an evangelist;
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I'm not a pastor. But
my prayer today has been
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"God, permit me
to teach. " Amen!
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"Let this come across the way
You would have it come across. "
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So that's my prayer.
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Has anyone ever
asked you who you are?
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Anybody ever ask you
that? "Who are you? "
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You know what we're prone
to do when somebody asks us
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who we are?
Tell them what we do.
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"I'm a mother. "
"I'm a teacher. "
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"I'm a truck driver.
" We seem to identify
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with what we do not who we are.
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And usually the first
things out of our mouth
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is the thing we most
closely identify with.
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I remember one time years ago...
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I've got a son named Jeremy.
How many of you know Jeremy?
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Let me tell you this
about Jeremy Alan Steenson.
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He is a mighty man of God...
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What's the last? All of
my Sabbath School class knows
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the rest of that statement:
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in the making. He
may not be there yet
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but I want ya'll to know God,
by the power of His Holy Spirit,
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is working on
all of our children.
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How many of you have
children that God is work...
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You've got the prayers
out there, and God honors.
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And as for me and my house
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we're gonna serve God.
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Well, quite a few years
ago somebody asked Jeremy
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"Who's your daddy? "
You know what he said?
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"He's a preacher. "
And then they asked him:
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"Who's your mother?
" "She's a cooker! "
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So that's how he identified
me. I'm the cook in my house
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and his daddy was the preacher.
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See, the "who you are" question,
the "who are you" question,
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feels like a trap.
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Kind of like a trick question.
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It makes us look deep inside
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when we try to
determine just who we are.
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Easy to say what you do,
but today you know what we want
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to do? We want to
look at who we are.
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Not what you think you are,
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not what other
people think you are,
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but let's look at who we
are in the light of Calvary.
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Let's look at who we
are the way God sees us.
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How many of you
would agree with me
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that if God says it
that settles it? Amen!
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You know, there's this saying:
"God said it, I believe it,
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and that settles it.
" That's not the case.
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God said it. Whether you
believe it or not, honey,
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that settles it. Amen! God
said it... that settles it.
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God sees us through
the light of Calvary.
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Let's look at
Colossians the first chapter.
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I want to lay a little
foundation, a little footwork
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here. Colossians
the first chapter;
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we're going to look
at verses 12 through 14.
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The scripture says:
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I'm going to stop at this
word. What's that next word?
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Inheritance. Now
think about inheritance
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because we're going to be look-
ing at inheritance a few times
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today. Inheritance. As a rule
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who do you get
your inheritance from?
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Any of you ever
inherited anything?
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I've inherited a
little in my life.
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Came from my momma and my daddy.
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That's where the inheri...
Usually it comes through
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the family. Is
that not the truth?
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Usually it comes
through the family.
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Now what did you do to
receive that inheritance?
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Not a thing. You got
"borned" into the right family.
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Can I use that word borned?
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Sometimes I say "we got
borned again" like past tense.
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We get born... Ya'll
do know I'm from Alabama.
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Now if you don't,
let me stop and tell you.
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How many of you
here are from Alabama?
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Look at that. I've
asked a lot of people here
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and people from Alabama
come to 3ABN Camp Meeting.
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Don't they, Danny?
Thank God for that!
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So we get our inheritance
not based on our efforts
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but based on the
family we were born into.
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This says: "Giving
thanks to the Father
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who has qualified us to be
partakers of the inheritance" -
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meaning we are going
to receive something -
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OK. Something good happened to
you when you made Jesus Christ
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the Lord of your life.
Amen! You got transformed
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out of the kingdom of darkness.
Where are you right now?
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You got transferred
into or conveyed into
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the kingdom of God.
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We changed kingdoms.
Can you praise God for that?
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When you change kingdoms
you change the person you serve.
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Let's say for instance
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you lived in, oh, a country
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that had a dictator as
the head of their country.
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And things were very difficult
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for you to live
under those conditions.
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But you came out of that country
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and the United
States accepted you
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and you came into
the United States.
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Is that dictator any longer
the one that rules over you?
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No! So you came out of...
We came out of that kingdom
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where the prince of the powers
of this world was the one that
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was the ruling authority. Now
we're in the kingdom of God's
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dear Son. We've been
transferred out of that kingdom
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of darkness.
Amazing things happen.
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Before the change...
before you got transformed
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out of the
kingdom of darkness...
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if someone asked
you: "Who are you? "
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your only
response could have been
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"A child of
darkness who has no future
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and no hope. " Is
that a true statement?
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Before... How many of you
have made Jesus Christ the Lord
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of your life? Oh, we're
so glad that now if someone
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asks us "Who are
you? " we can say:
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"I am a child of
the Most High God. "
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"I am a child of God. "
I John 3:2. This scripture
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has been thrown out
by almost every speaker
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I've noticed
here at Camp Meeting.
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I John 3:2. It
says: "Beloved... "
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When? "NOW are
you the sons of God. "
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When are you a son of God? Now.
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Right now. Not
yesterday; not tomorrow.
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Not in the sweet bye and bye.
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When are you a son of God? Now!
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So we are
identifying who we are.
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How many of you can
say: "I'm a son of God? "
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Can you say that?
You know, it's difficult
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for us sometimes
to say about ourselves
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what God says about us.
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I'm going to throw one out here
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that people really
have difficulty with.
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How many of you love
the scripture I John 1:9?
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Oh, thank God
for I John 1:9! Amen!
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It says: "If we
confess our sins,
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He is faithful and just
to forgive us of our sins
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AND cleanse us from
all unrighteousness. "
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Now think about this.
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Now do we accept that? That's
one of my favorite scriptures.
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We confess our
sins... are we forgiven? Yes!
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If we confess our
sins, He is faithful and just
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to forgive us, but He
goes one step further.
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What does He do?
Cleanses us from what?
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All - All unrighteousness.
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Now let me ask you
this: if you are cleansed
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from all unrighteousness,
what does that make you?
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If you're cleansed from all
unrighteousness, what does that
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make you?
Somebody say that again.
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Righteous. Does
that make you righteous?
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Do you know how hard it is
for us to say we're righteous?
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Does this scripture
say we're righteous?
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Now there is a prerequisite.
I've got to... I want to qualify
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that. The prerequisite
is you confess your sins
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and you're standing
before God pure and clean.
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You are the righteousness
of God in Christ Jesus.
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Don't ever let yourself think
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that it has
anything to do with you.
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Remember: this is who
we are in light of Calvary.
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In light of what
God accomplished for us,
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what Christ rode
out for us at Calvary.
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THAT is who we are.
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We've been transferred out
of the kingdom of darkness.
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We're now in the
kingdom of God's dear Son.
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We're part of the family.
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We get this inheritance
not because of who we are
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or anything we've
done. We get this inheritance
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by birth. We've been born again.
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Our identity has
nothing to do with what we do;
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our identity has everything
to do with what Christ has done.
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OK, now: I Peter 2:9.
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How many of you knew that
at some point I was going to
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to be going to I Peter 2:9?
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Turn there and put
your marker in your Bible
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at I Peter 2:9 because
we're going to hang out there
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a whole lot today because
in it it says who we are. Yes!
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OK... looking at who we
are in the light of Calvary.
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I'm going to read the whole
scripture but we're going to
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go back and kind
of break it down.
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I Peter 2:9...
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Now, do any of you
underline in your Bible?
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Any of you ever do that?
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I've got this
old Amplified Bible.
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It doesn't have a
front cover on it any more.
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I heard the saying: "If
your Bible's falling apart,
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probably you're not. " Well,
my Amplified Bible's just...
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It's marked up. It's
got markings all over it.
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I underline and I
put the date out by it
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when I underlined it, when this
scripture really spoke to me.
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Goes all the way back almost
to the time I made Jesus Christ
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the Lord of my
life, and I treasure that.
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Do any of you
treasure your Bible?
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So you underline that
because this tells you
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who you are. Not
what you do, but rather
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who you are in Christ.
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First, we're a chosen
generation of God's people.
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And I love this:
the chosen generation
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of God's people transgresses
all cultural boundaries.
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It includes every race,
kindred, tongue, and people.
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And I'm thinking
here. We've got several
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tongues, kindreds, and people
sitting right here in this
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auditorium, do we not?
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But across the world do
you know that Three Angels
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broadcasting signal reaches
every inhabited continent?
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Amen! So the messages that
come forth out of this pulpit
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come forth to touch
the needs in every nation
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for every kindred,
tongue, and people.
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Some people tend to think that
the gospel of the Lord Jesus
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Christ is just
for the white person
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or the person that
lives in the Western world.
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But this gospel of
the Lord Jesus Christ
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is for who? It's for everybody!
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For every nation,
kindred, tongue, and people.
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The legitimate Israel of God
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is this chosen generation.
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I want you to turn to
Galatians the third chapter
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verses 25 through 26.
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The legitimate Israel of
God is in this chosen generation
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that transgresses
all cultural boundaries
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and includes every race,
kindred, tongue, and people.
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Galatians 3:25-26.
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This says it again.
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Amen! It's not your
race; it's not your culture.
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Nobody is exempted from
the power that's in the blood
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of the Lord Jesus
Christ. That blood was shed
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for everybody. You
are, first of all...
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How many of you are sons of
God? If you've made Jesus Christ
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the Lord of your
life, this is who you are.
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You are a son of God.
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You are a chosen generation.
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Let's go on. We're
a chosen generation
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that's bigger
than just you and me.
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It's bigger than our blackness,
bigger than our whiteness,
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bigger than our
cultural backgrounds.
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Amen! It's the
WHOLE family of God...
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and we're part of that family.
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Then it goes on to say
we're a "royal priesthood. "
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So we're royalty. Praise
the Lord! Hey, we're royalty!
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And if you go:
"Ooh, I'm royalty, "
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and get your head kind
of blown up about that...
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you know
something I have found out
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about God by the
power of His Spirit?
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He can let the air
out of your head so quick.
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So don't go gettin' puffed up.
It's nothing about what you did.
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You don't get this inheritance,
you're not an heir based on
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what you did. You just got
born into the right family.
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You got born into
the family of God. Amen!
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A royal
priesthood: you and I in Christ
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in the light of Calvary
are sons and daughters of God.
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Co-heirs with
Christ... that makes us royalty.
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Do you know who Prince
William and Princess Kate are?
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Yes. They're
royalty, aren't they?
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You know they are the future
king and queen of England?
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They're royalty.
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Now what did they do
to get to be royalty?
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The same thing we
did to get to be royalty.
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They got born into
the right earthly family.
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We got born into the
right heavenly family.
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Now they've got two
children. Pretty little things,
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aren't they? Prince
George and Princess Charlotte.
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Do you know that
they're royalty too?
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And what did they do? Just
got born to the right people.
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You and I didn't do a
thing to get to be royalty.
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We just got born
again into the right family.
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But royal what? Royal what?
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See it doesn't say we are
singular. What does it say?
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Royal priesthood. Not
priest... but priesthood.
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One of many. The
priest in the Old Testament
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had clear and
constant access to God.
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Do we as
children of the Living God
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have clear and
constant access to God today?
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We are... We are kings
and priests. We know that.
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The Bible clearly tells us that.
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We are a royal priesthood.
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Again, God breaks
down the barriers.
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It's so we can't think
it's just me or it's just us.
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This is a priesthood.
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If the person sitting next
to you has made Jesus Christ
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the Lord of their life,
do you know that they are
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your brother or
your sister? Amen!
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They're part of the same
family. Yes! They're as royal
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as you are and they
are a king and a priest.
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So any time... Oooh, I'm
going to start meddling now
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and it's not even in my notes...
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Any time we start badmouthing,
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gossiping, biting, devouring
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the person sitting next to us
or the person across the aisle
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do you know we're
biting and hurting ourselves?
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We're part of the same family.
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Now I don't know about
ya'll. I've got three sisters
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and a brother. Now my
sisters... I mean, we've got
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a good
relationship; we get together.
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Do any of you's family
ever sometimes kind of get on
00:28:11.42\00:28:14.22
your last nerve? Yes! See? And
we can go behind a closed door
00:28:14.42\00:28:18.59
and talk that out.
But out in the public
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we will never
discuss our differences.
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We keep that... We
take our concerns...
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And this is something that we
talked about in Sabbath School
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not too terribly long
ago. If you have a fault...
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you know, an issue with your
brother, what are you supposed
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to do? Your supposed to go
to that brother. The scripture
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gives us good direction
on what we're supposed to do
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when we have
issue with a brother.
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But what would we rather do?
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Run to somebody and just
gripe and complain about them.
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That's not God's way.
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God's way is for us to
handle things according to
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His scripture.
We're all one family.
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And who is the head?
If somebody kicks my toe,
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do you know my
head's gonna hurt?
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And so any time you hurt
one of your brothers and sisters
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do you know you're
hurting the head? Who is the
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Head of our
church? Jesus Christ. OK.
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The omnipresence of God.
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As priests, we have
constant access to God.
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Not only is God everywhere
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He gives us constant
accessibility to Him.
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Do you know we have constant
accessibility to Almighty God?
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Remember when Peter...
He did something that we all
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say: "Look at Peter. He
took his eyes off of Jesus
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and what happened?
" He started sinking.
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Hey, he was out there
walking on that water though.
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Have you ever walked on water?
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I haven't. But what did Peter
do when he started sinking?
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"Lord, save me! "
And what did the Lord do?
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Constant...
instant accessibility.
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I had a friend some years ago
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and she was... I'm going to
say she was a Christian lady.
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I'm not going to judge her, but
she... Well, I'll just tell you
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the whole case of it
because she won't be watching.
00:30:17.55\00:30:20.12
We got down in Metropolis.
They've got a boat...
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one of those
gambling boats down there.
00:30:28.62\00:30:30.33
You know what I'm talking
about? They... I don't know,
00:30:30.53\00:30:32.73
you go down and - I
don't know - you gamble.
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Anyway, she said
it had good food, too.
00:30:35.20\00:30:36.73
But I bet you she
just wanted to go gamble.
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But anyway... She told
me that she was going to go
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to the boat. And I told her:
"You can go there! You can't
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do that! Don't you
know that God is there?
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God sees everything we do.
00:30:51.41\00:30:53.95
He hears everything we say.
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He's with us everywhere we go.
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You can't go to the boat; you
can't go somewhere like that. "
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I don't know... I never
knew whether she went or not
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because she didn't tell me
'cause she knew... Anyway...
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But what we can't do
is lose sight of the fact
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that God is all knowing. Amen!
00:31:16.14\00:31:19.47
We are His
priests and His kings;
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we are His royal priesthood.
00:31:22.68\00:31:25.01
And we must never
lose sight of the fact
00:31:25.41\00:31:29.05
that we are
constantly in His presence.
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Oh, there is...
there is a reverence
00:31:31.89\00:31:36.16
that we must have. Did
we invite God's presence
00:31:36.36\00:31:39.16
into this place today?
How many of you believe God
00:31:39.36\00:31:42.10
by the power of His Holy
Spirit is in this house today?
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Amen! And He's seeing us.
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And you know, we ask God to
touch all of us. How many of you
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want God to
touch your heart today?
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My prayer is always: "Father,
" no matter if I'm teaching
00:31:53.01\00:31:56.61
two people or two hundred
people or the message is going
00:31:56.81\00:32:00.42
to the whole world... "Father,
let nobody leave this place
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the way they came in. "
00:32:03.92\00:32:05.99
"Touch our hearts; pick
us up and move us forward. "
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And let's look at one of the
privileges that God gives us.
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A privilege as a royal priest
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that God gives you
in His omnipresence.
00:32:17.93\00:32:21.40
And I'm just going to
say that I bet most of you
00:32:22.34\00:32:25.21
can quote this:
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How many of you need grace?
00:32:42.12\00:32:44.29
Amen! How many
of you need mercy?
00:32:44.49\00:32:46.86
Amen! How many of you
have a need in your life today
00:32:47.03\00:32:50.20
that you need God to touch?
00:32:50.40\00:32:52.20
He tells you:
"Don't hang out back here.
00:32:52.40\00:32:55.77
Come boldly before
Me. I'm here to help you.
00:32:55.97\00:32:59.31
You are My
children. You are royalty.
00:32:59.51\00:33:03.11
I'm here to give
you what you need.
00:33:03.35\00:33:05.78
Come boldly before Me. "
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Then Peter tells us
that we're a "holy nation. "
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We have to
appreciate it because that, too,
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is bigger than just us. We
tend to be such individualists.
00:33:18.06\00:33:22.66
"Us four and no more. " Have
you ever heard those prayers?
00:33:23.06\00:33:25.70
"God bless me and my
husband and my two kids.
00:33:25.90\00:33:28.44
Us four and no more. "
My family... my church...
00:33:28.64\00:33:33.24
my denomination. No, no, no.
00:33:33.44\00:33:36.28
We're part of something
so big it includes everyone
00:33:37.15\00:33:41.68
who makes Jesus Christ
the Lord of their life.
00:33:41.88\00:33:44.52
How many of you know
that there are people
00:33:44.92\00:33:48.39
that have made Jesus
Christ the Lord of their lives
00:33:48.59\00:33:50.89
in every denomination?
They have hearts turned to God.
00:33:51.06\00:33:55.26
A holy nation. Not
just the Adventists
00:33:55.66\00:33:59.30
or the Methodists or the
Baptists or the Presbyterians
00:33:59.50\00:34:03.04
or the... you put
your choice in there.
00:34:03.24\00:34:06.37
But everyone who calls
on the name of the Lord
00:34:06.57\00:34:09.88
is in this nation. We are
a part of the same family.
00:34:10.08\00:34:14.48
It goes on to say in I
Peter "His own special people. "
00:34:14.88\00:34:20.59
He calls us His and
says we are special.
00:34:20.99\00:34:24.53
What does the King James?
Any of you got a King James
00:34:24.93\00:34:27.10
version of the
Bible? What's it say we are?
00:34:27.30\00:34:30.03
Peculiar. I always liked that.
00:34:30.43\00:34:33.30
"A peculiar people. " I
always felt a little different.
00:34:33.50\00:34:36.00
Do any of you just feel
a little different anyway?
00:34:36.20\00:34:38.67
Well this says in the
New King James version
00:34:39.07\00:34:42.14
"His own special people. "
00:34:42.54\00:34:44.61
That is a species of beings
that never before existed.
00:34:44.81\00:34:49.32
Could there be
Christians before us?
00:34:49.72\00:34:51.89
We're a species of beings
that never before existed.
00:34:52.29\00:34:55.62
We've made Jesus Christ
the Lord of... We are His own
00:34:55.82\00:34:59.13
special people. We
are a peculiar people.
00:34:59.33\00:35:02.03
And what does it say?
And this is the crux...
00:35:02.96\00:35:06.23
where I was
getting to all along.
00:35:06.43\00:35:08.20
What does it say the purpose
of us being a chosen generation,
00:35:08.40\00:35:12.64
a royal priesthood, a holy
nation, His own special people?
00:35:12.84\00:35:17.35
What is the purpose
of every bit of that?
00:35:17.55\00:35:19.75
"That you may... " do something.
00:35:20.15\00:35:22.68
"Proclaim the
praises of Him who called you
00:35:23.08\00:35:27.46
out of darkness into
His marvelous light. "
00:35:27.66\00:35:30.36
The whole purpose... the
whole purpose is for praise.
00:35:30.56\00:35:35.23
He wants our praise.
00:35:35.43\00:35:37.07
Everything in our lives
must be done in praise. Yes!
00:35:37.47\00:35:40.97
When you work, when
you play, when you rest.
00:35:41.17\00:35:45.11
When we work we
praise God we've got a job.
00:35:45.31\00:35:48.01
"Praise You, holy God.
" When we rest, thank God
00:35:48.21\00:35:51.48
we've got an
opportunity for rest.
00:35:51.68\00:35:53.68
In everything
we must praise God.
00:35:54.08\00:35:57.75
Isn't that what
Psalm 150 verse 6 says?
00:35:57.95\00:36:00.92
"Let everything that
hath breath... " do something.
00:36:01.32\00:36:05.99
"praise. " How many
of you've got breath?
00:36:06.19\00:36:07.96
We have it. The whole
purpose of everything you are
00:36:08.13\00:36:11.73
is so that you can praise God.
00:36:11.93\00:36:13.57
In the
wilderness... Matthew 4:8-10...
00:36:14.94\00:36:19.17
In the wilderness where
Satan was testing Christ
00:36:19.57\00:36:24.51
let's see what that was about.
Matthew 4 verses 8 through 10.
00:36:24.71\00:36:29.45
What did Satan
want? What was he after?
00:36:55.74\00:36:58.98
He was after worship.
00:36:59.38\00:37:00.95
Who does Jesus say?
Who's the only person
00:37:01.15\00:37:04.65
we can worship? Almighty God!
00:37:04.85\00:37:07.29
Even in the third angel's
message - Revelation 14:7...
00:37:08.42\00:37:12.56
You don't have to turn to that
'cause you all can quote that.
00:37:12.76\00:37:15.23
You wouldn't be here at
Camp Meeting if you weren't
00:37:16.33\00:37:18.07
serious about
God. Revelation 14:7.
00:37:18.27\00:37:21.40
Let's read this
together or quote it together:
00:37:21.60\00:37:24.21
So who are you? You
are a chosen generation;
00:37:38.72\00:37:42.59
you're a royal priesthood;
you're a holy nation;
00:37:42.99\00:37:47.00
you're a
peculiar special people.
00:37:47.20\00:37:49.33
And what is the
purpose of every bit of that?
00:37:49.73\00:37:52.20
For you to praise God. For you
to proclaim praises unto God.
00:37:52.40\00:37:56.24
Now, in looking at I Peter 2:9
00:37:57.01\00:38:02.91
I asked myself the question:
00:38:03.31\00:38:05.31
"Where did Peter
get this terminology? "
00:38:05.71\00:38:08.38
I think if we go there
we'll get to another route.
00:38:08.78\00:38:11.75
Go to Exodus. Where did
Peter get this terminology?
00:38:11.95\00:38:17.26
Go to Exodus the 19th chapter.
00:38:17.93\00:38:20.63
Let's see if we can
find some similar wording.
00:38:20.96\00:38:24.27
Fifty days from the Exodus
00:38:26.07\00:38:30.71
where were the
children of Israel camped?
00:38:31.11\00:38:34.18
Somebody tell me.
Fifty days after the Exodus
00:38:34.68\00:38:38.68
where were the
children of Israel camped?
00:38:38.88\00:38:40.92
Sinai, were they not?
00:38:41.72\00:38:43.22
They were at
Sinai. OK... Exodus 19:1.
00:38:43.42\00:38:46.55
Now in verses 5
through 6 God speaks to Moses
00:38:58.40\00:39:03.14
and tells him concerning
the children of Israel:
00:39:03.34\00:39:07.04
Does that sound a whole
lot like "a special people"
00:39:19.95\00:39:22.89
that I Peter says we are?
00:39:23.09\00:39:25.33
So do we see where
Peter got his terminology?
00:39:44.91\00:39:49.75
This terminology
that tells you who you are
00:39:50.19\00:39:54.16
comes from God speaking
to Moses at Mount Sinai.
00:39:54.29\00:39:58.26
Now what... and we're going
to look at some more of this...
00:39:59.83\00:40:03.53
but tell me the one
thing, the main thing,
00:40:03.73\00:40:06.17
that Mount Sinai and
Moses on the mount...
00:40:06.37\00:40:09.17
When he came down off that
mountain, what is the one thing
00:40:09.37\00:40:12.57
that we think of first?
00:40:12.77\00:40:14.74
What did he bring
down off that mountain?
00:40:15.14\00:40:16.91
The Ten Commandments.
00:40:17.11\00:40:18.45
All right. So
this was fifty days
00:40:18.55\00:40:21.52
after the Exodus.
They're at Mount Sinai.
00:40:21.72\00:40:25.42
Now what is the
feast that commemorates
00:40:25.62\00:40:30.93
God giving the Ten
Command- ments at Mount Sinai?
00:40:31.13\00:40:34.10
What was the name of that feast?
00:40:34.30\00:40:35.66
Somebody know the
name of the feast?
00:40:36.16\00:40:38.93
Pentecost.
Pentecost is the feast
00:40:39.33\00:40:44.24
that the children of
Israel celebrate in honor of
00:40:44.44\00:40:49.84
the Ten
Commandments in commemoration.
00:40:50.08\00:40:52.11
OK. This was fifty
days from the Exodus.
00:40:52.51\00:40:56.28
Now how many of you know
what the word Pentecost means?
00:40:56.72\00:41:01.06
Pentecost means fifty days.
00:41:02.12\00:41:06.03
That's what Pentecost means.
00:41:06.43\00:41:08.20
Now I used to be in a
persuasion that was called
00:41:08.60\00:41:12.23
charismatic, but
people would ask us
00:41:12.43\00:41:15.27
"Are you Pentecostal? "
00:41:15.47\00:41:17.47
And there was a time
when I would say: "Not yet. "
00:41:17.84\00:41:21.11
"In about 15 years. " Now
if somebody asks me if I'm
00:41:22.21\00:41:25.68
Pentecostal I'll have to say:
"Well yeah, and then some. "
00:41:25.88\00:41:28.88
Pentecost simply means fifty.
00:41:29.68\00:41:32.49
Now let me give you
another something that I find
00:41:32.69\00:41:37.29
interesting. Fifty days
after the resurrection -
00:41:37.49\00:41:43.60
the resurrection of the
Lord Jesus Christ in Acts -
00:41:43.80\00:41:48.87
there was a group of
people in an upper room.
00:41:50.14\00:41:54.84
Fifty days from the
resurrection of Christ
00:41:55.24\00:41:59.01
they were in the upper room.
00:41:59.21\00:42:01.25
Now, Acts 2:1
says: "And when the day
00:42:02.05\00:42:07.46
of Pentecost was fully come
00:42:07.66\00:42:10.43
they were all with one
accord and in one place. "
00:42:10.63\00:42:13.73
Now let's go back to Mt. Sinai.
00:42:14.36\00:42:16.63
Moses is on the mountain.
00:42:17.53\00:42:19.27
Remember when Moses
was on the mountain?
00:42:19.47\00:42:21.44
He came down off the mountain
and the children of Israel
00:42:21.84\00:42:27.24
were all praying and seeking
God and thanking God that Moses
00:42:27.44\00:42:31.68
was coming down with
the Ten Commandments, right?
00:42:31.88\00:42:34.38
Not hardly. What did Moses find
00:42:35.48\00:42:39.62
when he came down
off that mountain?
00:42:40.02\00:42:42.32
They were cavortin'.
00:42:43.79\00:42:46.33
They were carryin' on.
00:42:46.53\00:42:47.96
And you know what they said?
00:42:48.33\00:42:49.80
"Well, we just took all
this gold and put it in the fire
00:42:50.00\00:42:54.07
and this gold
calf just jumped out. "
00:42:54.24\00:42:56.17
And Moses was just real happy
with their actions, wasn't he?
00:42:58.21\00:43:02.04
No... what
happened? What happened?
00:43:02.24\00:43:05.95
Moses came down
off of that mountain
00:43:06.35\00:43:09.45
with the transcript of
God's character in his hand...
00:43:09.85\00:43:13.86
with those Ten Commandments.
And the children of Israel were
00:43:14.06\00:43:17.16
playing the fool, were they not?
00:43:17.36\00:43:19.19
And something
happened in that myth.
00:43:20.00\00:43:23.13
How many people were slain
00:43:23.63\00:43:26.07
when Moses came down off
that mountain? Do you recall?
00:43:26.27\00:43:28.54
Three thousand.
00:43:30.11\00:43:31.91
Three thousand were slain
00:43:32.11\00:43:34.14
when Moses came
down off of Mount Sinai
00:43:34.31\00:43:37.55
because of their misbehavior.
00:43:37.95\00:43:40.02
Now Peter and the
120 are in the upper room
00:43:40.22\00:43:44.39
50 days from the resurrection.
When the Day of Pentecost
00:43:44.79\00:43:49.29
had fully come something
happened in that upper room.
00:43:49.49\00:43:52.86
What happened
in that upper room?
00:43:53.06\00:43:54.46
A rushing mighty wind.
00:43:55.30\00:43:57.30
And they were all
filled with the Holy Spirit.
00:43:57.67\00:44:01.94
And they went down. Peter had
his first evangelistic campaign.
00:44:02.34\00:44:06.98
Remember that? He went
down out of the upper room;
00:44:07.38\00:44:10.28
went out in the streets of Jeru-
salem and he started preaching.
00:44:10.48\00:44:14.62
How many people came to
the Lord? Three thousand.
00:44:15.95\00:44:19.42
Do ya'll see
some parallels there?
00:44:19.62\00:44:21.59
Moses comes down off
of the mount with the
00:44:22.79\00:44:26.13
Ten Commandments, the very
transcript of God's character.
00:44:26.33\00:44:29.90
The people should be worshiping
and praising Almighty God.
00:44:30.33\00:44:33.70
And they weren't...
they were misbehaving;
00:44:34.10\00:44:36.30
3,000 were
slain. Peter and the 120
00:44:36.50\00:44:40.18
came down out of the
upper room with grace and mercy,
00:44:40.38\00:44:44.75
with a power...
empowered by the Holy Spirit.
00:44:44.95\00:44:48.15
Moses came down empowered
with the Ten Commandments.
00:44:48.35\00:44:52.29
Peter and the 120 came down
empowered with the Holy Spirit
00:44:52.49\00:44:58.13
and all heaven breaks loose.
00:44:58.33\00:45:00.53
Mighty move of God as
people come to the Lord.
00:45:00.73\00:45:04.70
How many of you are
empowered with that Holy Spirit?
00:45:04.90\00:45:08.00
See, your day has
come. The Day of Pentecost
00:45:08.20\00:45:12.11
has fully come. As we're
filled with God's Holy Spirit
00:45:12.31\00:45:15.78
you're a royal priesthood,
you're a chosen generation.
00:45:15.98\00:45:19.95
You're a holy nation;
you're a special people
00:45:20.25\00:45:23.82
and you are
filled with God's power.
00:45:24.02\00:45:26.86
You're filled with
that Holy Ghost power
00:45:27.06\00:45:29.42
and mighty feats and
wonders are accomplished
00:45:29.62\00:45:33.23
through you. That is
who you are in Christ.
00:45:33.43\00:45:35.56
Is this encouraging you?
00:45:35.96\00:45:37.33
Are you seeing who you
are and what's expected?
00:45:37.53\00:45:40.60
OK... back to I Peter
2:9 and at Mount Sinai.
00:45:40.80\00:45:46.17
While at Mount Sinai
God gave Moses instruction
00:45:46.57\00:45:51.41
for two different
things. Turn to Exodus.
00:45:51.61\00:45:55.62
Go to Exodus chapter 25.
00:45:55.82\00:45:58.39
What was the first thing that
we told you that Moses came down
00:45:58.75\00:46:02.59
off of the mountain
with? Those Ten Commandments.
00:46:02.79\00:46:06.53
But he also came
down off of that mountain
00:46:07.76\00:46:12.43
with something else.
Exodus 25 verses 8 through 9.
00:46:12.63\00:46:17.87
And it says:
00:46:18.07\00:46:19.41
Now look at Exodus 25 verse 40.
00:46:40.96\00:46:44.27
God gave Moses the Ten
Commandments, the transcript of
00:46:53.04\00:46:57.75
His character, while he was
on the mount. But He gave him
00:46:57.95\00:47:00.95
something else: He gave him
the pattern for the sanctuary.
00:47:01.15\00:47:06.02
Now why did He say He wanted
them to build a sanctuary?
00:47:06.22\00:47:10.99
So that He might
dwell among them.
00:47:11.19\00:47:14.30
And it was... And we heard
it so beautifully last night.
00:47:15.13\00:47:19.93
The sanctuary: a place
for God's literal presence.
00:47:20.34\00:47:24.77
Was it God's literal presence?
00:47:24.97\00:47:27.08
Was that Shekinah
glory God's literal presence
00:47:27.28\00:47:30.55
in the ark of the
covenant in the Holy of Holies?
00:47:30.75\00:47:35.08
Did God literally
abide and reside within them?
00:47:35.28\00:47:38.72
"Build the sanctuary so that
I can live with My people. "
00:47:38.92\00:47:44.66
Also, what else
was the sanctuary for?
00:47:45.06\00:47:48.30
For the forgiveness of sin.
00:47:48.50\00:47:50.83
Once a year did
their sins get forgiven?
00:47:51.00\00:47:53.70
Praise God for that! But it
was also a place for worship.
00:47:53.90\00:47:58.61
Worship. God gave
Moses on Mount Sinai
00:47:58.81\00:48:04.65
a pattern for worship.
00:48:04.85\00:48:06.75
Let's think about that.
There was the outer court;
00:48:06.95\00:48:10.92
there was the Holy
Place and there was the?
00:48:11.29\00:48:14.92
And what was in
the Holy of Holies?
00:48:15.12\00:48:17.36
Not a type; not a
shadow; not a figure
00:48:17.73\00:48:21.13
but a what? What was in there?
00:48:21.33\00:48:23.37
The literal
presence of Almighty God.
00:48:23.57\00:48:27.07
Something that's brought...
And I like the threes that
00:48:27.27\00:48:30.31
we find in the Bible.
Justification. Did we not see
00:48:30.51\00:48:34.31
that in the outer court? Sanc-
tification in the Holy Place.
00:48:34.51\00:48:38.21
Glorification is
where? In the Holy of Holies.
00:48:38.41\00:48:42.65
There are seven
feasts, but they're broken down
00:48:43.05\00:48:47.86
into three categories.
What are those categories?
00:48:48.06\00:48:50.83
Passover,
Pentecost, and Tabernacles.
00:48:51.16\00:48:55.56
There's also the
gifts of the Spirit.
00:48:55.96\00:48:58.00
How many gifts of
the Spirit are there?
00:48:58.20\00:49:00.40
Nine gifts of the
Spirit, but they're broken down
00:49:00.80\00:49:03.20
into three categories:
00:49:03.44\00:49:05.14
the gifts to know;
the gifts to speak;
00:49:05.34\00:49:08.91
and the gifts to act.
00:49:09.11\00:49:11.01
God does things
throughout the Bible
00:49:11.21\00:49:14.25
and all of it is to show
us that He is in control.
00:49:14.42\00:49:18.02
Nothing is done by accident.
00:49:18.22\00:49:20.49
God is in control.
00:49:20.69\00:49:22.36
We have the outer
court; we have the Holy Place;
00:49:22.56\00:49:26.06
and we have the Most Holy Place.
00:49:26.26\00:49:28.90
And what is the purpose that
every one of us was created?
00:49:29.73\00:49:34.04
So that we can be a holy nation;
00:49:34.24\00:49:36.81
so that we can be
a chosen generation.
00:49:37.01\00:49:39.54
What is the purpose?
What was your purpose
00:49:39.74\00:49:42.78
for being placed
here in this earth?
00:49:42.98\00:49:44.81
To praise God. To
bring praises unto Him.
00:49:45.21\00:49:48.38
Entering into true
praise is a progression.
00:49:48.58\00:49:53.39
It's outer
court; it's Holy Place;
00:49:53.59\00:49:57.23
and it's going right
into the Most Holy Place.
00:49:57.43\00:50:00.53
First you walk, then you run,
00:50:00.73\00:50:05.10
then you soar into
His presence. Amen!
00:50:05.50\00:50:09.40
I think about coming to
church on Sabbath morning.
00:50:10.07\00:50:13.44
Now this may never happen to you
but it seems like if I'm ever
00:50:13.64\00:50:17.41
gonna run out of hair spray it's
gonna be on Sabbath morning.
00:50:17.61\00:50:21.35
And if ever Hal and I are
gonna... Never mind about that.
00:50:24.42\00:50:28.12
But by the time
you get to church
00:50:28.52\00:50:32.96
you're just thinking
"Oh, thank God. And I nearly
00:50:33.16\00:50:34.93
burned my potluck anyway. "
00:50:35.13\00:50:36.60
And you come and you're sitting
in the back of the church
00:50:37.30\00:50:41.40
and the worship leader stands
00:50:41.60\00:50:45.94
and starts bringing
you into His presence.
00:50:46.14\00:50:48.98
The last thing you wanted
to do was praise God anyway
00:50:49.18\00:50:51.71
in the mood you're in.
00:50:51.91\00:50:53.38
But as the music goes forth
00:50:53.58\00:50:56.62
and the worship starts penetrat-
ing and touching your heart
00:50:57.02\00:51:00.79
and you realize
"It's not about me...
00:51:01.19\00:51:04.03
it's about Almighty God. " Amen!
00:51:04.23\00:51:06.73
And you've been in that outer
court, and you start moving
00:51:07.13\00:51:11.40
toward the Holy Place.
00:51:11.80\00:51:13.94
Your eyes start
turning toward Jesus
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and you start
worshiping Him and praising Him.
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Coming into His presence...
coming into the literal presence
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of Almighty God. Are you going
to find that literal presence
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in the outer court?
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Are you going to
find it in the Holy Place?
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It's a progression...
worship is a progression.
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It's not singing
two songs and a chorus.
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It's moving into the
presence of God. Yes!
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And when you worship as a whole
church it's like mass transit.
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We come into His presence, and
something I want you to know:
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any time you move
into God's presence
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He wants to do
something for His people. Yes!
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He wants to touch you.
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How many of you need
a touch from God today?
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He wants to deliver you.
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He wants to set you
free. Whatever your need is
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when you come into
that place with God,
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when you move into His presence,
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it's because He
wants to minister to you.
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What did Jesus do?
How Jesus of Nazareth
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went about doing what? Good!
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And healing all that
were oppressed of the devil.
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Let me give you
some Calvary terminology.
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That would be Isaiah 53:5. Yes!
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Here is Calvary terminology.
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"But He was wounded
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for my
transgressions; He was bruised
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for my iniquities.
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The chastisement of
my peace was upon Him
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and by His stripes we
are... " Present tense...
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"we are healed. "
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Do ya'll see that that
is Calvary terminology?
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Do you know that? "Wounded
for our transgressions. "
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How many of you believe that
He was wounded for your trans...
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What is your transgressions?
Your lawlessness.
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"Bruised for my iniquities. "
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"The chastisement
of... " How many of you know
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He's given you
peace? "And by His stripes
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we are healed. " We are healed.
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Do ya'll think that's
just spiritual healing?
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See, it is spiritual healing.
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But I want you to know:
healing was in the atonement.
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It was accomplished. You
receive your physical healing.
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I stand in need of a physical
healing. I need this Word
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to touch me and to move me
closer into that Holy of Holies
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into the very presence of God.
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Any of you standing
in a position to receive.
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By His stripes you
are healed mentally,
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physically, emotionally...
but don't stop there.
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Healing was in the atonement.
You receive your healing
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just like you
receive your salvation.
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How do you
receive your salvation?
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By faith. Yes!
By faith I'm healed.
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By faith these
nodules in my lungs are gone.
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By faith these
lesions in my spine are gone.
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Because He was
"wounded for my transgressions;
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He was bruised
for my iniquities.
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The chastisement of
my peace was upon Him
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and by His
stripes we're healed. "
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Where do we find Almighty God?
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"In the presence of the
Lord there is fullness of joy
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and the joy of the
Lord is my strength. "
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Do you know the Word declares
that God inhabits the praises
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of Israel. What
I want to do today
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is any of you that have a
need. You have a need for God
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to quicken your mortal
body... let me read this to you.
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Romans 8:11. "But if the Spirit
of Him that raised up Jesus
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from the dead dwell in you... "
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How many of you have that
same Spirit that raised up Jesus
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from the dead dwelling in you?
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"He that raised up
Christ from the dead shall also
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quicken... " What does
that word quicken mean?
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Make alive! "your mortal bodies
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by His Spirit
that dwelleth in you. "
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Are you in need of a
touch from Almighty God today?
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Do you need the quickening
by the Spirit and the power
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of Almighty God? We're
in the presence of God.
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You already told me: we're
in the presence of Almighty God
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here. We prayed and asked
God to come into this sanctuary.
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And now we're
praying and asking God
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"Quicken these
mortal bodies oh God. "
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How many of you are
standing in need to receive
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a blessing? How many of
you need physical healing
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in your body? How many of
you need spiritual healing
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in your body? How many of
you need spiritual healing
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in your family? Amen!
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Mentally, physically,
emotionally. Nothing was
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left out at Calvary.
Christ accomplished all
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at Calvary. That is
where it was accomplished.
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So if today you want God
by the power of His Spirit
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to quicken your mortal
body we're going to pray
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and we're going to
ask God. First of all,
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"Search me, oh
God, and know my heart.
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Try me and know my thoughts.
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See if there be
any evil way in me
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and lead me in the
path everlasting. "
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If it's your desire
to have God touch you
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and quicken you
today, stand with me.
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Holy Father, we come
before You in the name of Jesus.
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And Father, I
praise You and I thank You
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that it's truly
not by might nor power
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but it's only by Your Spirit
that anything of any value
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is accomplished. So
Father now in Your presence
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we speak over everyone
that is listening and watching
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by radio or
television, everybody seated
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in this congregation.
Father, we're asking
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that You would quicken
our mortal bodies. Let healing
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virtue flow into us.
Touch us and raise us up,
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Lord, that we can
better serve You is our prayer
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in Jesus' name, Amen, Amen.
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Know who you are in
Christ. God bless you all.
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