In a world
surrounded by darkness,
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there is a voice that
whispers to every young heart,
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urging them to find
the treasure of truth.
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Those who follow the path
will discover eternal riches
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beyond their wildest dreams.
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Join us now for an
"Amazing Adventure,
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A Journey for life with Jesus."
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Good evening friends, welcome
again to Amazing Adventure.
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We are glad that you
have joined us once more.
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This is "The is
the Only Lifeboat"
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that's the
topic that Pastor Doug
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will be covering this evening.
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How many of you
have been filling out
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the lessons night by
night after the program.
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Oh, I see a lot of hands.
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I hope those of
you who are watching
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are also doing that
filling out the lessons.
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Are you enjoying the lessons?
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They are great, we got in
all kinds of wonderful emails
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of people saying how much
they've enjoyed their lessons.
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So be sure to use this,
night after night to remind you
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of the things that you
heard here at the seminar.
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Well, I think it's time for
us to start with our theme song.
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We want to welcome the
Amazing Adventure's singers.
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Thank you for leading us.
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Let's stand together as we sing.
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Life is an
adventure following the king
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Everyday with Jesus
makes us want to sing
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Walking in the
spirit he will lead the way
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With his word to guide
us glowing deep inside us
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Nothing can divide
us following the king
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Life is an
adventure following the king
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Everyday with Jesus
makes us want to sing
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Conquering with
kindness everywhere we go
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Voices we are
raising, Jesus we are praising
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Life is so
amazing following the king
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Life is so
amazing following the king
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Please remain
standing as we're going to have
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our scripture reading
and prayer at this time.
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Judith will be
bringing our scripture reading.
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What is the verse
that you are reading?
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Acts 4:12, "Nor is
there salvation in any other,
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for there is no
other name under heaven
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given among men by
which we must be saved."
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All right, thank you very much.
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Let's bow our heads for prayer.
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Lord Jesus,
thank you for this day
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and please bless this program
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and help it to go
well, in Jesus' name, amen
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Amen, thank you very much.
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You can all be
seated at this time.
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I'm going to invite
Pastor Doug to come forward
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for Bible
questions this evening.
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We've got some video Bible
questions that have come in,
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so let's start
with that Pastor Doug
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Amen, I'm excited
to hear what we've got.
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All right. Hi, my name is Isaac
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and I'm 8-years-old.
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Why didn't Satan
die in the flood?
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Isaac is wondering why
didn't Satan die in the flood?
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Well, I don't think he
knows how to scuba dive.
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The idea is that Satan
is not flesh and blood.
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You can read in
the Book of Ephesians 6
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that when we
wrestle again the devil,
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I mean sometimes we
wish that we could just box
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with the devil and deal
with them like that because
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we understand
those kind off things.
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But we don't wrestle
against flesh and blood,
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the devil is a spirit and
there are spiritual battles
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and that's why we
put on spiritual armor.
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So, a flood that
might drawn some mammals
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and a lot of people,
it didn't drawn the devil
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but I believe the
world burring the flood
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was in such turmoil that even
Satan feared for his existence.
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Now, Pastor Doug,
we've got a question
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here that's come all
the way from Zimbabwe.
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Malunga is asking why do
we have so many religions?
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Ooh, that's a good question.
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Now if you wanted
to hide a diamond,
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you now a good
place to hide a diamond
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would be in a
pile of broken glass.
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When I grew up in New York City,
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they used to have
these telephone booths
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and one day one of the windows
of the telephone booth's broke,
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and you ever see what happens
to a car window when it breaks,
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it shatters into all
these little pieces like jewels
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and my friend and I
scooped them up and we thought,
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boy, they look like diamonds.
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If you have dropped a diamond
into that pile of broken glass,
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it would have been hard to find.
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The devil is trying to
hide the diamond of truth
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in all the broken glass
of these different religions.
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So all of the religions
of the world have different
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elements of truth and
there is some good things
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may be in many religions.
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But there is only
one truth and the devil
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is trying to hide it,
so he gets people to fight
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and they divide and they form
all these different religions
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and denominations to
create confusion in the world.
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The only way to know
where the real diamond
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of truth is, is
through the Bible.
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It must be tested by the word.
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All right, well, we have another
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video question for this evening.
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All right. I'm
Andrei and I'm 9-years-old.
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My question is how
can we resist temptation?
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Oh, let me ask question.
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How many of you
are sometimes tempted?
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Let me see your hands?
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Yeah, we already knew that
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I just wanted to
know if you knew it.
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Everybody is
tempted you know what?
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Was Jesus tempted too? Yes.
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Even Jesus was tempted,
is it a sin to be tempted?
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No. No, the
devil tempts everybody
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and if you are
trying to do God's will
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and you are swimming up stream,
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the devil is going to try
and cause problems for you.
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How can you resist temptation?
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Well, there is a lot
of things you can do.
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And I don't have
time to go through
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the whole list but first of all.
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"Thy word have I
hid in mine heart,"
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the Bible says in
Psalms that I might not sin
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so store up the promises of God.
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How did Jesus fight the
temptations of the devil?
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When the devil tempted
Him, Jesus said it is written,
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it is written, it is written.
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He coded the Bible because
the principles of the Bible
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were guiding Him in His life.
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Another way you
can avoid temptation,
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not to be tempted is
stay away from things
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that are temping to you.
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If a person has a
problem with alcohol,
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they shouldn't go shopping
in a liquor store right?
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You want to stay
away from the things
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that are temptation for you.
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If you've got some
friends that are bad influence,
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you want to avoid those friends
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that could cause
problems for you.
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And so there is a lot of
thing you can do to help resist,
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resist temptation pray
that God will give you strength.
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Keep your eyes on
Jesus as your example.
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Ask Him to fill you
with His spirit and say Lord,
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every morning, you know
what the Lord's prayer says.
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Lead us not into temptation.
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Say, Lord, lead me away
from temptation and He will,
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He will help you everyday.
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Well, I can talk
more about that but we got
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a big program tonight so, I
think we better keep moving.
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Well, Pastor Doug, do we have
time for one quick question?
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All right, let see. Here
it is. This is Alexandria.
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She is sending this
questioning from California.
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Here is the question.
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How did Jesus climb up
the Mountain of Olives?
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I think Alexandria
thought the Bible speaks
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about the Mount of
Olives and may be she thought
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it was a mountain of olives.
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Have you ever tried to
climb on a mountain of olives?
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That will be slippery,
ah, lot of olive oil and so,
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it wasn't the
mountain of olives,
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it was the Mount
Olivet is what it was called
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and so that was the
name of the mountain.
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But He walked, it's not a very
steep mountain like Everest.
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Jesus just walked up and
it's more like a big hill,
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I have been there before.
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Good questions and keep
your questions coming friends.
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If you got a question or if
you want to send us a picture
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of your group that's
gathered, we'll be putting
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some of them up on the screen.
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Go to amazingfactskids.org
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and we look forward
to hearing from you.
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Thank you very much Pastor Doug.
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We have a very
special treat this evening.
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We have got the Texas
International Choristers
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who are here with us tonight,
and they will be bringing
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us a special song "We believe."
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So we invite
them to come forward.
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I believe in
Jesus, born in Bethlehem
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I believe in Jesus Christ
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who is the Great I Am
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I believe in Jesus,
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Man of Galilee
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When He proved His love
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for us upon Mount Calvary
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I believe that Jesus
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made the blind to see
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I believe that Jesus
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calmed the troubled seas
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I believe that Jesus
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cares for you and me
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I believe I believe
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We believe in Jesus Christ
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We believe that Jesus
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brought to us new life
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Yes, we believe in Jesus Christ
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Our Lord and Savior
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And He'll give His love
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if you'll receive
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We believe He came to die
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On the cross He gave
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Himself a sacrifice
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So all the world could know
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the joy of true salvation
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He's our Lord of lords
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We believe We believe that
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Jesus came to earth to save us
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We believe that on the cross
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new life He gave us
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And He's standing at the door
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wanting so to give you more
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If you'll
believe, if you'll believe
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We believe in Jesus Christ
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We believe that Jesus
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brought to us new life
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Yes, we believe in Jesus Christ
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Our Lord and Savior
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And He'll give His love
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if you'll receive
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We believe He came to die
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On the cross He
gave Himself a sacrifice
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So all the world could know
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the joy of true salvation
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He's our Lord of lords
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We believe
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We believe
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Now, I have been
asked to invite Pastor Doug
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to come forward for
something this evening,
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Pastor Doug, do you know
how to play the harmonica?
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A little bit. All right,
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we are going to
invite Pastor Doug
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to come forward
something special this evening.
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This is the
Spanish harmonica band.
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And they're going to
be playing for us here
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and we're asking Pastor Doug
to come and join them for this.
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I'll just stay back here.
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Why don't we ask
everybody to sing along?
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Okay. once more.
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Amen, we appreciate that.
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That kind of surprised me,
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they gave me a
harmonica few minutes ago.
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I haven't played in a
while but I don't think
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I throw them off that much.
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Oh, it's so good to see
each of you here tonight.
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How many of you
have not missed a night?
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Oh, good job and I'm
hoping there is some of you
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who are watching from
all across the country
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and around the world and
you haven't missed a night yet.
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We're only half way
through this adventure
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but this adventure is
really the launching pad
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for the biggest
adventure in life,
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which is following
Jesus, being a Christian,
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giving yourself to Him.
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Our study tonight and I
hope you are doing your lessons
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is "The Only
Lifeboat," "The Only Lifeboat."
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Now I have been
in life boats before.
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My father was in
the airplane industry
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and remembered going
out in the Florida Keys
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in plane in one of these
aircraft lifeboats before
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and it's got all
these survival gear in it.
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And I have heard
stories of people
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who have been months out
in the ocean in lifeboats,
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sometimes with friends,
sometimes by themselves,
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had fantastic stories.
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You know a number
of years ago back in,
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I think it was 1912 April 14,
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there was a big
beautiful luxury liner
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called "The
Titanic" and everybody
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thought that the
boat was unsinkable
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because it had all
these water tight compartments
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16 of them, but they hit an
iceberg on their maiden voyage
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and you know what happened?
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The Titanic went down.
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The sad thing was they had
not prepared enough lifeboats
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for everybody and
even some of the lifeboats
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where pushed off half
full because people thought
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the ship's never going
to sink but it did sink.
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And out of over 2,000
people that were on the ship,
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over 1,500 died because they
didn't have enough lifeboats.
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You know the Bible tells
a story of a terrible storm
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that came to the world
one time and there was only
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one lifeboat to save everybody.
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Who knows what that boat was?
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The Ark. Noah in the Ark,
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God said I'm going to
destroy the world with the flood
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because men's hearts
were only evil continually.
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For over a 120
years Noah I preached
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and tried to warn people.
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Get ready and
get on the lifeboat,
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but people said not now, later.
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It's not that
important and they put it off.
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And finally all the
animals got on board,
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Noah stood in
the door of the Ark
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and he plead with the people.
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This is the only way,
there is no other way,
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if you don't get on
this boat, you will perish.
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But they didn't listen to Noah,
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and then God shut
the door of the Ark
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seven more days
everything looked normal.
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People brought and
sold, they made fun of Noah
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because his family was
all locked up in the ark
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but then the clouds
grew dark and the lightning
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began to flash and the
earth began to shake and water
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started coming
down from up above.
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And water
started coming from below
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and shooting up
out of the ground
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and it was a
tremendous flood much more than
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Hurricane Ike we
had a few days ago.
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This was catastrophic
flood that covered the world.
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In all of the world
you can see the evidence
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of that and the people
that did not get on the Ark
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did not make it.
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Well, do you
know that Jesus says
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that there is
another storm coming?
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How many of you know
the Bible tells us that.
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And there is another
Ark, there is one more
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life boat that you can
get on, the only life boat.
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We're going to talk about
that tonight in our lesson.
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It's the boat of salvation
and I want to make sure
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that everybody
here and everybody there
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who is watching
that you all get on boat,
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because it's the only way to
survive and have eternal life.
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Let's go to our lesson.
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Question number 1 in our lesson.
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What had God done to
make a lifeboat for us?
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The answers are
all in the Bible.
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I brought my
Bible up here with me,
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because I might
think of some scriptures
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that are not on the screen,
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but I got most of the
scriptures on the screen.
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Most of you know this one.
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Matter of fact why
don't you say it with me,
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John 3:16 "For
God so loved the world
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that He gave His
only begotten Son,
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that whosoever believes
in Him should not perish
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but have everlasting life."
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Very good you know
that and some of you
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weren't even
reading it off the screen.
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God so loved us
that He gave His Son.
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You know, when
I hear about that,
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when I hear that love
when I hear about that word,
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He so loved us,
it warms my heart,
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it makes me want
to love Him back.
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I don't think any
of us really realize
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how much God gave
when He gave His Son.
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Back in 1937 there was
a man named John Griffith
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and he was a bridge operator
and he operated a drawbridge
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that went across
the Mississippi River
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and he will lift the
bridge up and the boats
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would go by underneath
and then he hear a whistle
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from the train, he
would lower the bridge
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and then the
train would go across
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and then he lift
the bridge back up.
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And one day John brought
his young son with him to work
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and he showed on the big machine
and the gears and the cables
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that lifted up the
bridge and his son watched
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the bridge go down
and the bridge go up
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and he thought
that was really neat.
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He wanted to go to work
with dad, to see what he did.
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So they had some lunch
and while they were sitting
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there eating lunch by
the edge of the bridge,
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the father heard the
buzzer ring up in his booth
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and that meant there is a
message, the train was coming.
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So, he ran up into the
booth and he got on the line
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and they said that they
have the Memphis Express
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is coming, we
got 400 passengers,
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do we need to slow down or
will you have the bridge down?
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He said I'll
have the bridge down,
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he gave them the green light
and they opened up the train
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and started going
real fast and the man began
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to do some stuff to lower
the bridge and he looked down
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from his booth and
he saw that his son Greg
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had tumbled off into the machine
where the cables and gears were
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and he was stuck
on a piece of cable
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was catching his clothing
and the father looked the train
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had already passed the
switch, it couldn't stop now.
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He couldn't signal them.
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The bridge was up, if
he didn't lower the bridge
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all those people on
the train would plunge off
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into the Mississippi
and hundreds would die.
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If he did lower the
bridge his son would die.
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And he knew what he had to
do and with trembling hands
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and a broken heart, John
Griffith moved the switch,
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he covered his eyes
and he closed his ears
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so he would not hear his son
crying and the bridge went down.
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Soon the train went roaring
across and some of the people
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in the train waved
at the man in the booth
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and they didn't know
how much he had just paid
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to save their lives.
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You know that's the way
it is in this world today.
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People go on their merry
way and they don't appreciate
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how much Jesus has
given, how much He is paid.
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God, the Father gave His
Son, He loved us so much.
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Don't you think we could
trust and love and serve a God
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that loves us that much?
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The only way to be saved is to
put our lives in Jesus' hands.
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Don't you want
to do that friends?
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More scripture, Jude 1:1.
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The Bible says, you
know what life preserver is,
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if someone is out in water
because he have man overboard,
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someone fell off a ship.
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They used to
throw a ring to them,
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to help them float
until the boat can turn around
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and it was called
the life preserver.
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You know, Bible
says here in Jude.
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We are
preserved in Jesus Christ.
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He is not only our
lifeboat, He is our life saver.
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He is our life preserver.
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Any of you had ever eat
the little round candies
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they call them life
savers, because they were named
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after those round
rings called life preservers
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and if you look at the
old life savers, they even got
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the little lines in them
where the robes used to be.
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They won't save your life, they
will just give you cavities.
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But, Jesus is a real life saver,
He is a real life preserver.
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Question Number 2.
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How could Jesus
love us that much?
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Does He really love me?
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Yes, He really loves you.
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Matter of fact you
can read in Romans 5:8.
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God demonstrated, He
showed His own love towards us,
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in that while we were still
sinners, Christ died for us.
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See, the Lord didn't say,
if you be good I'll love you
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and I'll forgive your sins.
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The Lord loves us and
He is willing to forgive us
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if we come to
Him just like we are.
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Let me ask you a question.
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Have you ever been out
playing before you got dirty,
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and your mother tells you
before you come to dinner.
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She says, look, I
want you to take a bath
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but you need to clean
up before you take a bath.
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Would your mom and dad ever
say clean up so you can take
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a bath or do you take a
bath, so you can clean up.
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You know, some
people don't come to church,
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they say I'm not good
enough to go to church.
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I can't accept Jesus now because
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I'm not good
enough to accept Jesus,
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that's backwards that's
like your parents telling you,
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will you please clean
up so you can take a bath.
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No, you will
never be good enough
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unless you come to
Jesus just like you are
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and then He cleans you up.
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So, the idea that you are
going to clean yourself up
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and you are going
to change your ways
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and then you are going to
come to Jesus, that's backwards.
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You come to Him and
give Him your heart no matter
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where you are, no
matter what tyour problems
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and temptations are and
He can change your heart
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and cleanse you
and He will accept you.
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He is desperate to save you.
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Matter of fact Isaiah
43:4, I like this verse.
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It says "You were
precious in My sight."
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You are very precious to Jesus.
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He loves you with in everlasting
love, the Bible tells us.
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There is nothing
that you can do that
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would make God stop loving you.
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You know, there is
nothing you could do to make God
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love you more and there is
nothing you can do to make God
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love you less
because God loves you 100%
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and is there
anything more than 100%?
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100% is as much as you can have.
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Of course if you
are in government
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you can spend more than 100%
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but you will
learn about that later.
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Romans 8:38-39. It says there,
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"There is no created thing,
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that shall be able to
separate us from the love of God
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which is in
Christ Jesus our Lord."
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The Lord loves you
desperately and there is nothing
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that can separate
you from that love.
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You know how we
know He loves us?
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What's the greatest
proof that He loves us?
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What is it? He died for us.
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He gave the most He could give,
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The Bible says, "No
greater love has someone
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than to lay down their life.
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What's the most valuable thing
you have got in your house?
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Is it a toy, is it a
piano, was it a home?
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Most valuable thing
you have got is your life.
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Matter of fact,
there is one thing
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more valuable than my life?
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You know what, what
I've got is more valuable
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in my life is the
life of my family,
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my children and so when someone
gives something even more.
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When the Father gave
His Son that would have,
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that hurt Him even more
than giving His own life.
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Years ago there
was a man in Scotland.
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His job was taking care of this
lighthouse thereby the ocean.
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And he had a beautiful
view, he could see the ocean
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on one side and the
green fields on another side.
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And it was his
job, during the day
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he keep the windows clean and
so that the light would shine.
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And one day he was
walking around the outside
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of the top of the
lighthouse cleaning the windows
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and there was a metal railing
that kind of protected him,
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and he leaned against the
railing but he didn't know
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that the salt
air had been rusting
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the iron railing and it broke.
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And he fell a 150
feet down on the ground.
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Well, pretty soon he
opened his eyes and looked up
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and he saw the blue sky
and he thought did I die?
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And then he saw clouds going
by, he thought Am I in heaven?
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And then he noticed
that his back really hurt.
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See if I'm in heaven,
why does my back hurt?
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And pretty soon
he got his senses
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and he kind of looked around
and he had fallen a 150 feet,
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it would have killed anybody.
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He said, you
know, what happened?
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He landed on a sheep that
was grazing near below him.
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I know that sounds
funny but its true story.
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You know what happened?
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The man lived but what do
you think happened to the sheep.
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The sheep, you know, very
big fluffy sheep, it died.
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It gave his life
so he could live.
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The Bible tells us
that Jesus is our lamb.
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John 1, when Jesus
came to John the Baptist,
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it says the next day John
saw Jesus coming towards him
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and he said
"Behold! The Lamb of,
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who is that, The Lamb of God,
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and what does he do, he takes
away the sin of the world!"
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When Jesus died on the cross,
He did not just die to take away
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the sin of one
person or two people.
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His sacrifice was so
powerful that He provided
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enough forgiveness to save
everybody in the world from sin
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and that would include you.
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Now, sometimes we think, well,
I don't have any sin, do I?
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We've all sinned. Remember,
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we've all fallen
short of the glory of God.
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And you know what we need
is we need to see ourselves
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sometimes through God's eyes.
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Let me tell you a story.
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When I was about 4-years-old,
that's younger than most of you.
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My father had a shoe
shine machine in the house,
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he used for shining his shoes.
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And everyday
before he went to work,
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he take his shoes while
they are still on his feet,
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he wore them just like me,
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I have ended up
just like my father.
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He would take his shoes
and he wore black shoes,
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he step on the button on top of
this machine and it would spin,
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real fast and there was a
black furry brush on one side
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and there was a red furry brush,
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I don't know why he
had a red brush on one side
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because he had no red
shoes but that's what it was.
00:28:50.73\00:28:52.73
And a red brush
on the other side
00:28:52.76\00:28:54.65
and he take his
shoes and he buff his shoes
00:28:54.68\00:28:57.66
and then he would step on
the button, he go to work.
00:28:57.69\00:29:00.12
One morning it was a Sunday,
I woke up before everyone else.
00:29:00.15\00:29:03.30
Dad was sleeping
in with the family
00:29:03.33\00:29:05.85
and I got bored
everyone was asleep
00:29:05.88\00:29:07.55
and I wanted to
play and I was awake,
00:29:07.58\00:29:09.21
so I went out in
the hall and I played
00:29:09.24\00:29:11.34
with the shoe shine machine.
00:29:11.37\00:29:12.40
I like to play with
that, I sit there and I press
00:29:12.43\00:29:14.03
the button, go
click, click, it goes.
00:29:14.06\00:29:16.43
It spin I tried
to stop the brushes,
00:29:16.46\00:29:18.65
but they were so
powerful I couldn't stop them.
00:29:18.68\00:29:20.69
Any of you have ever seen this
00:29:20.72\00:29:21.79
kind of machine
I'm talking about.
00:29:21.82\00:29:23.13
I saw one in the hotel not
too long, they still make them.
00:29:23.16\00:29:27.12
Well, I got bored
playing with that,
00:29:27.15\00:29:28.62
I turned it on, I turned it off,
turned it on, turned it off.
00:29:28.65\00:29:30.78
And then I thought, I'm
going to shine dad's shoes.
00:29:30.81\00:29:33.43
So, I tiptoed in his
bedroom and I grabbed his shoes
00:29:33.46\00:29:36.79
and I came back
out, I closed the door
00:29:36.82\00:29:39.20
and I thought I want
to get them real shinny
00:29:39.23\00:29:41.00
so I'm gonna use
some shoe polish.
00:29:41.03\00:29:43.41
But the only shoe
polish I knew about
00:29:43.44\00:29:45.27
was under the bathroom sink.
00:29:45.30\00:29:47.64
And so, I would got
that black shoe polish
00:29:47.67\00:29:50.15
and I went out and I
stared at it for a minute.
00:29:50.18\00:29:51.74
I wasn't sure
exactly how it worked.
00:29:51.77\00:29:53.53
I was only 4-year-old so
I, it was liquid shoe polish.
00:29:53.56\00:29:59.24
I poured a generous amount
00:29:59.27\00:30:00.84
of black shoe
polish on the black brush.
00:30:00.87\00:30:02.93
I knew the black shoe polish
didn't go on the red brush.
00:30:02.96\00:30:07.62
And then I
turned on the machine,
00:30:07.65\00:30:10.28
something terrible happened.
00:30:10.31\00:30:13.54
First the machine began to
bounce because all of the polish
00:30:13.57\00:30:16.32
had weighted one side of
it and it was off balance,
00:30:16.35\00:30:18.27
it started bouncing
and it picked up speed,
00:30:18.30\00:30:22.74
and it sprayed a
black rainbow of shoe polish
00:30:22.77\00:30:26.05
up the white wall across
the ceiling down the other side
00:30:26.08\00:30:31.14
and I quickly turned off
the machine but it was too late.
00:30:31.17\00:30:34.77
And I looked at
that and I thought
00:30:34.80\00:30:36.71
I better go back to bed.
00:30:36.74\00:30:39.99
So, I went back in my
bedroom and I laid on my bed
00:30:40.02\00:30:42.78
and I kind of covered
myself up and I thought
00:30:42.81\00:30:46.31
nobody saw me, nobody will know.
00:30:46.34\00:30:50.21
I'll just pretend
it never happened.
00:30:50.24\00:30:52.74
Pretty soon I heard my dad
get up and he fumbled around
00:30:52.77\00:30:55.14
and pretty soon he opened
the hall door and he walked out
00:30:55.17\00:30:57.22
and I heard what - he
came over and he opened up
00:30:57.25\00:31:01.80
our bedroom door and I had
my brother and a stepbrother
00:31:01.83\00:31:04.33
in the house and
yet he knew, right away
00:31:04.36\00:31:05.95
he said, Dougie,
that what he called me.
00:31:05.98\00:31:09.37
And I've said, I
pretended I was sleeping.
00:31:09.40\00:31:10.76
He said, Dougie. I opened
my eyes, he said get in here.
00:31:10.79\00:31:14.08
So I came in the hall and he
pointed to this black rainbow.
00:31:14.11\00:31:18.23
Did I tell you that
it went right through
00:31:18.26\00:31:19.77
the middle of a Spanish soldier.
00:31:19.80\00:31:21.56
There is a picture of a
Spanish soldier on the wall,
00:31:21.59\00:31:23.64
it went right, it's like
he had a vertical mustache
00:31:23.67\00:31:26.98
going right through him,
and he pointed at the picture
00:31:27.01\00:31:30.80
and said do you
know anything about this.
00:31:30.83\00:31:34.27
I said, nobody
saw me, I said no.
00:31:34.30\00:31:40.10
See I'm going to ask you again.
00:31:40.13\00:31:42.01
You know your
parents almost always know,
00:31:42.04\00:31:44.16
even when you
don't think they know.
00:31:44.19\00:31:47.08
So, I'm going to ask you again.
00:31:47.11\00:31:48.25
You know anything about this.
00:31:48.28\00:31:49.51
And once you start lying,
it gets easier to keep lying.
00:31:49.54\00:31:53.54
I said, no. He said, okay.
00:31:53.57\00:31:55.97
I'm going to spank you
till you tell the truth.
00:31:56.00\00:31:58.81
So, right there in the
hall, he sat on a bench
00:31:58.84\00:32:01.22
and he began to
paddle my posterior,
00:32:01.25\00:32:03.28
you all know where your
posterior is, your dearer.
00:32:03.31\00:32:08.55
And he spanking
me and I'm going,
00:32:08.58\00:32:10.27
I didn't do, I didn't do, I
didn't do, I did it, I did it.
00:32:10.30\00:32:13.42
Because pretty
soon you get tortured,
00:32:13.45\00:32:14.75
you all confess, right.
00:32:14.78\00:32:16.90
Then my father
sat me down he said.
00:32:16.93\00:32:18.90
Now, Dougie, he
says I'm not spanking you
00:32:18.93\00:32:20.64
because you made a mistake.
00:32:20.67\00:32:21.75
I'm spanking you
because you lied.
00:32:21.78\00:32:23.79
So get in the
bathroom and wash your face.
00:32:23.82\00:32:26.27
So I went whimpering
off into the bathroom.
00:32:26.30\00:32:28.51
I had to stand on a little
stool to look into the mirror.
00:32:28.54\00:32:31.27
And I stood on the
stool and I looked at my face,
00:32:31.30\00:32:33.86
I had black
spots all over my face,
00:32:33.89\00:32:37.54
from the shoe polish,
and so here I was looking
00:32:37.57\00:32:40.28
at my dad with black
spots all over my face.
00:32:40.31\00:32:42.40
He said, did you
know anything about this?
00:32:42.43\00:32:43.73
I'm going, no, not me.
00:32:43.76\00:32:46.11
It's like when
you tell you parents,
00:32:46.14\00:32:47.58
I didn't eat any
chocolate chips and there
00:32:47.61\00:32:49.60
they are all around the
sides of your mouth, right.
00:32:49.63\00:32:54.94
So the Lord knows
what your sins are.
00:32:54.97\00:32:57.73
You can be honest with Him.
00:32:57.76\00:32:59.03
He already knows everything.
00:32:59.06\00:33:00.82
Sometimes you might be
able to temporarily fool
00:33:00.85\00:33:03.46
your parents, but God knows.
00:33:03.49\00:33:05.99
So don't be afraid to
tell him, He is your friend.
00:33:06.02\00:33:09.84
And you don't get in trouble
because you make a mistake,
00:33:09.87\00:33:13.23
but you don't
want to lie to God.
00:33:13.26\00:33:15.66
Number three. What did
Jesus come to do for me?
00:33:15.69\00:33:20.01
Why did Jesus come?
00:33:20.04\00:33:22.62
1 John 4:9-10, your
answers are on the screen.
00:33:22.65\00:33:26.48
"God sent His only
begotten Son into the world,
00:33:26.51\00:33:30.34
that we might live through Him."
00:33:30.37\00:33:32.72
He wants us to do what?
00:33:32.75\00:33:34.43
Live. Not just this short life,
He wants you to live for ever.
00:33:34.46\00:33:40.41
If we don't
have His forgiveness,
00:33:40.44\00:33:42.53
what is the penalty for a sin?
00:33:42.56\00:33:44.68
And though, when I
finish reading this.
00:33:44.71\00:33:46.32
"In this is love,
not that we loved God,
00:33:46.35\00:33:50.29
but that He loved
us and He sent His son
00:33:50.32\00:33:53.57
to be the
propitiation, that's a big word
00:33:53.60\00:33:55.51
for the sacrifice, the
atoning sacrifice for our sins".
00:33:55.54\00:33:59.45
Jesus came to take our place.
00:33:59.48\00:34:02.41
He trades places with
us, because He loves us.
00:34:02.44\00:34:06.39
Roman 6:23, "The wages of sin--"
00:34:06.42\00:34:09.57
The wage is something you earn.
00:34:09.60\00:34:11.17
What is the
wages of sin? "Death."
00:34:11.20\00:34:13.68
"Death." Nobody wants to
die, and the wages for sin
00:34:13.71\00:34:17.48
is not just the first
death, it's the second death.
00:34:17.51\00:34:22.13
And that's pretty serious,
00:34:22.16\00:34:23.44
we're going to talk
about that in another night.
00:34:23.47\00:34:25.07
But the gift of God is what?
00:34:25.10\00:34:28.52
Everlasting it's eternal life.
00:34:28.55\00:34:31.14
Jesus is
offering you eternal life
00:34:31.17\00:34:33.32
and you want to
make that decision now.
00:34:33.35\00:34:35.13
Now, does He have a right to
ask us to give our lives to Him?
00:34:35.16\00:34:39.92
There are two reasons.
00:34:39.95\00:34:41.74
One reason is.
00:34:41.77\00:34:43.49
Who made you? Jesus.
00:34:43.52\00:34:46.17
Secondarily Jesus bought you.
00:34:46.20\00:34:49.98
He made you, He created you,
00:34:50.01\00:34:51.35
and He redeemed
you with His own life.
00:34:51.38\00:34:53.97
All right, I need
to-I've to have a boy tonight.
00:34:54.00\00:34:57.25
Who has not had a
chance yet, a boy side,
00:34:57.28\00:35:00.05
I don't want to be
specific, but I've got a story.
00:35:00.08\00:35:04.42
You want to come up Jonathan?
00:35:04.45\00:35:05.87
You haven't had a chance yet.
00:35:05.90\00:35:07.91
I want you to look in the chest.
00:35:07.94\00:35:09.12
Okay. All right, see
what you find in there,
00:35:09.15\00:35:10.52
that look
something, its something red.
00:35:10.55\00:35:12.99
You can go up,
you can open it up
00:35:13.02\00:35:14.37
there is a camera
and wave to the camera.
00:35:14.40\00:35:16.56
See the camera,
say hi, here we go.
00:35:16.59\00:35:19.99
Okay, now stand right
there and hold that for me,
00:35:20.02\00:35:21.79
I'm going to tell a
story, okay very carefully.
00:35:21.82\00:35:25.35
There is a boy named Rodney
and Rodney spent weeks building,
00:35:25.38\00:35:30.99
he actually spent
months building this
00:35:31.02\00:35:32.69
very exquisite model sailboat.
00:35:32.72\00:35:36.46
And that model
sailboat was his pride and joy
00:35:36.49\00:35:38.69
and he take it
out into the river
00:35:38.72\00:35:40.22
and he had a string on it,
and he'll let the string loose
00:35:40.25\00:35:43.03
and it would sail
out and he pulled it back
00:35:43.06\00:35:45.26
in and he let it out, it would
sail and he loved his sailboat,
00:35:45.29\00:35:48.64
and he used to
bathe it and dry it off
00:35:48.67\00:35:50.29
and put it up on the shelf
when he was done sailing it.
00:35:50.32\00:35:52.58
One day he took it on
the river when he was sailing
00:35:52.61\00:35:54.74
it was really windy, and
the sails were working great
00:35:54.77\00:35:58.89
and he let a lot of it
go out and the string broke.
00:35:58.92\00:36:02.59
And it came loose from the
boat and the sailboat sailed
00:36:02.62\00:36:06.28
beautifully down the
river and out of sight,
00:36:06.31\00:36:08.14
and he just cried
because he couldn't catch it,
00:36:08.17\00:36:10.10
the river was too
deep, and he went home,
00:36:10.13\00:36:12.17
he's broken hearted.
00:36:12.20\00:36:15.04
About a week
later he was in town,
00:36:15.07\00:36:16.85
and he walked by a
store window and guess
00:36:16.88\00:36:18.87
what he saw on the store window.
00:36:18.90\00:36:21.02
His sailboat for $50 and he
went in and he told the man,
00:36:21.05\00:36:26.87
he said that's my
sailboat and the man said well,
00:36:26.90\00:36:30.31
I 'm sorry young man.
00:36:30.34\00:36:31.50
He said, you know, I bought this
00:36:31.53\00:36:32.72
and I have spent $20 buying
this so that I could sell it,
00:36:32.75\00:36:35.39
it is a very nice boat but,
tell you what I'll do is that
00:36:35.42\00:36:38.24
I'll sell it back to you,
but you are going to pay me
00:36:38.27\00:36:40.72
what I paid for
it, I paid $20 for it.
00:36:40.75\00:36:43.18
He said, but I don't have $20.
00:36:43.21\00:36:45.58
He said, well,
I'll hold it for you
00:36:45.61\00:36:46.89
for a few weeks
if you want me to,
00:36:46.92\00:36:48.74
so you can get the money.
00:36:48.77\00:36:50.67
So, Rodney went
out and he mowed lawns
00:36:50.70\00:36:53.64
and back then you got
50 cents for mowing a lawn.
00:36:53.67\00:36:55.93
How many lawns would
he have to mow to get $20?
00:36:55.96\00:37:00.16
Forty lawns, that
wasn't much back then.
00:37:00.19\00:37:03.69
You didn't get much
but $20 was a lot of money,
00:37:03.72\00:37:06.94
so he worked and worked in
a lot hot days out in the sun,
00:37:06.97\00:37:09.66
mowing grass and he
came and he gave the $20
00:37:09.69\00:37:12.19
and the man
handed him his sailboat.
00:37:12.22\00:37:14.75
And Rodney took his
sailboat and he said,
00:37:14.78\00:37:17.00
I'm so glad to
have you back sailboat.
00:37:17.03\00:37:19.04
You are mine,
you are mine because
00:37:19.07\00:37:20.24
I made you and
you are mine because
00:37:20.27\00:37:22.20
I bought you,
you are mine twice.
00:37:22.23\00:37:25.33
You know that's how you belong
to Jesus, isn't that right?
00:37:25.36\00:37:28.58
Thank you very much, Jonathan.
00:37:28.61\00:37:30.46
Let's put that over here.
00:37:30.49\00:37:35.57
So, Jesus has redeemed us,
00:37:35.60\00:37:37.21
that means He
created us, He owns us.
00:37:37.24\00:37:40.42
But when the
devil kidnap the world,
00:37:40.45\00:37:42.59
Jesus bought us
back with His own life.
00:37:42.62\00:37:45.83
So He owns us
because He created us
00:37:45.86\00:37:48.71
and He owns us
because He redeemed us.
00:37:48.74\00:37:51.04
Number 4, question number 4.
00:37:51.07\00:37:54.50
How do I accept Jesus and truly
show that I believe in Him?
00:37:54.53\00:37:59.78
What do we do? Now,
let me ask you a question?
00:37:59.81\00:38:02.66
Do you really know what
you need to do to be saved?
00:38:02.70\00:38:06.86
You know, you need to
accept Him with your mind
00:38:06.89\00:38:10.30
and believe Him,
there are several things.
00:38:10.33\00:38:12.04
The first thing to do,
how many of you want to live
00:38:12.07\00:38:13.82
forever and be on that lifeboat?
00:38:13.85\00:38:15.68
Those who are watching,
do you want to live forever
00:38:15.71\00:38:17.35
and have that eternal life?
00:38:17.38\00:38:18.95
Let me tell you what to do.
00:38:18.98\00:38:20.83
First thing you
do is you ask Him.
00:38:20.86\00:38:24.54
Jesus said, "Ask, and
it will be given to you."
00:38:24.57\00:38:27.49
You got to begin by
saying Lord I want eternal life,
00:38:27.52\00:38:30.62
I want my sins to be forgiven.
00:38:30.65\00:38:33.01
God will do things
for you when you ask.
00:38:33.04\00:38:34.55
If you don't ask, He won't do.
00:38:34.58\00:38:35.97
You got to pray and ask Him.
00:38:36.00\00:38:38.06
The next thing, Acts
16:31, believe, it says here,
00:38:38.09\00:38:43.27
"Believe on the
Lord Jesus Christ,
00:38:43.30\00:38:45.51
and you will be saved."
00:38:45.54\00:38:46.99
You know you have to have faith.
00:38:47.02\00:38:48.65
If you trust God,
Jesus says if you have faith
00:38:48.68\00:38:51.23
you can move mountains.
00:38:51.26\00:38:53.02
Wonderful things
happen when you have faith.
00:38:53.05\00:38:54.99
We saw a miracle this
week, you know what happened?
00:38:55.02\00:38:58.18
God moved something
bigger than the mountain.
00:38:58.21\00:38:59.79
We had a hurricane making
a beeline for this meeting
00:38:59.82\00:39:02.78
that was going to
take it off the air
00:39:02.81\00:39:04.77
and cause all kinds of problems.
00:39:04.80\00:39:06.77
And we had people all
over the country praying,
00:39:06.80\00:39:09.08
and that storm
was going straight
00:39:09.11\00:39:10.96
for Richardson,
Texas and it was turned.
00:39:10.99\00:39:15.02
And I kept praying
and believing that God
00:39:15.05\00:39:17.09
brought us here
to do this meeting
00:39:17.12\00:39:19.01
that He was going to
answer those prayers,
00:39:19.04\00:39:20.81
and God blessed the
faith of all these people.
00:39:20.84\00:39:23.81
God does wonderful
things when you believe.
00:39:23.84\00:39:25.66
Believe, He wants to save you.
00:39:25.69\00:39:27.23
Sometimes you think,
oh, I'm not a very good boy
00:39:27.26\00:39:30.08
and I'm not a very good girl,
00:39:30.11\00:39:31.53
I'm not very
strong and smart or pretty
00:39:31.56\00:39:33.71
God doesn't
really care about me.
00:39:33.74\00:39:35.73
Oh, yes, He does,
don't think like that,
00:39:35.76\00:39:37.91
that's the devil talking to you.
00:39:37.94\00:39:39.38
He wants to save you,
He loves you desperately
00:39:39.41\00:39:42.00
because He paid so much.
00:39:42.03\00:39:44.12
1 John 4:19, "We love Him
because He first loved us."
00:39:44.15\00:39:51.11
You see He showed
us how much He loves us
00:39:51.14\00:39:53.99
that it makes us love Him back.
00:39:54.02\00:39:56.48
He demonstrates His love for us
00:39:56.51\00:39:58.28
and His goodness
leads us to repentance.
00:39:58.31\00:40:01.71
Which is our next
verse, Romans 2:4.
00:40:01.74\00:40:04.11
"The goodness of God
leads you to repentance."
00:40:04.14\00:40:06.86
Who knows what repentance is?
00:40:06.89\00:40:10.09
All right, what repentance?
00:40:10.12\00:40:12.70
When you ask Him
to forgive your sins.
00:40:12.73\00:40:14.39
Well, that something you
do when you are repenting.
00:40:14.42\00:40:16.74
But repentance is, you
know what repentance is,
00:40:16.77\00:40:19.07
I'll repeat your answer.
00:40:19.10\00:40:22.43
What does it mean?
00:40:22.46\00:40:24.22
It means to be you're sorry,
to tell God you are sorry,
00:40:24.25\00:40:28.34
that you want to change.
00:40:28.37\00:40:29.61
Let me give you an idea.
00:40:29.64\00:40:31.29
You ever see a
sign that says U-turn.
00:40:31.32\00:40:33.80
God loves U-turns,
U-turn is when the car
00:40:33.83\00:40:36.27
is going this way
up, going the wrong way
00:40:36.30\00:40:37.91
and you turn around, you
go back the other way U-turn.
00:40:37.94\00:40:40.51
God allows U-turns
and that mean you turn.
00:40:40.54\00:40:43.93
You are going towards
the devil, and when you pray,
00:40:43.96\00:40:46.26
you say, Lord I'm
sorry, I'm going the wrong way.
00:40:46.29\00:40:48.07
I'm following
the world, I'm doing
00:40:48.10\00:40:49.30
all the wicked
things that world is doing.
00:40:49.33\00:40:50.80
I want to go to heaven.
00:40:50.83\00:40:52.18
When I went to military school,
00:40:52.21\00:40:53.49
I learned how to do about face
like this and that's a U-turn.
00:40:53.52\00:40:57.28
Now you change directions.
00:40:57.31\00:40:59.21
Repentance means that
you tell God you are sorry.
00:40:59.24\00:41:03.22
Now different amounts of offence
00:41:03.25\00:41:06.46
require different
amount of repentance.
00:41:06.49\00:41:09.32
I can use a girl to help
me with this illustration.
00:41:09.35\00:41:11.96
Who hasn't come up?
00:41:11.99\00:41:14.11
Young lady rights
here, come quickly, okay.
00:41:14.14\00:41:20.52
Yeah, hi, all right.
00:41:20.55\00:41:22.56
What's your name Grace, okay.
00:41:22.59\00:41:24.66
Now, if you walk in
out of the church here,
00:41:24.69\00:41:28.20
go and step on my
foot, and you accidentally
00:41:28.23\00:41:31.45
go and step on my
foot, what would you say?
00:41:31.48\00:41:33.39
I'm sorry. I'm
sorry, there you go.
00:41:33.42\00:41:35.37
And then I say that's okay
00:41:35.40\00:41:36.73
and you can
keep on going, right?
00:41:36.76\00:41:38.28
Right. But, if
you were running out
00:41:38.31\00:41:40.41
of the church and I
was carrying my Bible
00:41:40.44\00:41:42.96
and a bunch of books and
you knock me down on the ground.
00:41:42.99\00:41:46.29
Would you just say
you're sorry and keep going?
00:41:46.32\00:41:49.31
Or would you help me back up?
00:41:49.34\00:41:50.57
Yeah. You do a
little more because
00:41:50.60\00:41:52.03
you knocked me down, you didn't
just step on my foot, right?
00:41:52.06\00:41:54.43
Right. The more
00:41:54.46\00:41:56.66
you do to offence somebody,
the deeper the repentance.
00:41:56.69\00:42:00.16
Thank you very much.
00:42:00.19\00:42:04.87
So, if I'm
walking out of the church
00:42:04.90\00:42:08.53
and I step on your toe or I bump
you or I hurt you a little bit,
00:42:08.56\00:42:13.34
if I casually touch you,
I say I'm sorry and you say,
00:42:13.37\00:42:17.19
its okay, but if I knock
you down and break your leg,
00:42:17.22\00:42:21.53
and I say excuse me and I
keep going, is that right?
00:42:21.56\00:42:24.09
No. You don't just say excuse me
00:42:24.12\00:42:26.87
when you break
someone's arm or leg.
00:42:26.90\00:42:29.49
You know one time I
was riding my bicycle
00:42:29.52\00:42:31.16
when I was about
your age and a man hit me
00:42:31.19\00:42:34.42
while I was riding my bicycle,
00:42:34.45\00:42:36.00
knocked me down in
Miami, Florida. Miami Beach.
00:42:36.03\00:42:40.38
And he was in a convertible,
I remember and I looked up
00:42:40.41\00:42:43.13
and he said are you
all right, I said yeah.
00:42:43.16\00:42:45.71
Well, I didn't
know what else to say,
00:42:45.74\00:42:46.93
I was alive and he took off.
00:42:46.96\00:42:49.81
He didn't even help me up.
00:42:49.84\00:42:51.78
He didn't stop or
get out of his car,
00:42:51.81\00:42:53.33
I think he was afraid
that I was going to sue him
00:42:53.36\00:42:54.95
or his insurance
was going to go up.
00:42:54.98\00:42:56.45
I thought, well,
that wasn't very nice.
00:42:56.48\00:42:58.84
Fortunately it didn't
broke any bones or anything
00:42:58.87\00:43:00.52
but it did hurt my bike.
00:43:00.55\00:43:04.12
The degree that you
offence someone requires
00:43:04.15\00:43:08.19
that degree of apology.
00:43:08.22\00:43:11.00
The more you hurt
someone, the more you apologize.
00:43:11.03\00:43:14.10
How much have we hurt the Lord?
00:43:14.13\00:43:17.48
So the idea of just
saying, oops, sorry God.
00:43:17.51\00:43:20.42
No, real repentance
means you get on your knees.
00:43:20.45\00:43:24.37
And next verse 1 John 1:9.
00:43:24.40\00:43:28.64
It says, "If we confess
our sins, He is faithful
00:43:28.67\00:43:32.58
and just to forgive us
our sins and to cleanse us
00:43:32.61\00:43:35.52
from all unrighteousness."
00:43:35.55\00:43:37.18
He will cleanse us
but we must tell Him.
00:43:37.21\00:43:40.29
Do any of you remember
every sin you've committed.
00:43:40.32\00:43:43.73
No, you don't remember
every sin you've committed.
00:43:43.76\00:43:48.12
What I mean by that is you
can't remember every detail,
00:43:48.15\00:43:52.73
I won't ask you to show
your hands but I bet some of you
00:43:52.76\00:43:54.81
sometimes say
something that wasn't true.
00:43:54.84\00:43:57.72
Or may be you have taken
something that wasn't yours,
00:43:57.75\00:44:01.26
but you tell the
Lord, the categories.
00:44:01.29\00:44:03.81
You say, Lord, I
have not been honest,
00:44:03.84\00:44:05.51
that's one of the commandments.
00:44:05.54\00:44:06.69
Please forgive me
for dishonestly or lying.
00:44:06.72\00:44:09.50
Please forgive me for being
disrespectful to my parents.
00:44:09.53\00:44:12.46
Confess your sins to
God and what will God do?
00:44:12.49\00:44:15.25
He is faithful and just
to forgive you of your sins
00:44:15.28\00:44:18.28
and then it says that He
receives you and we receive Him.
00:44:18.31\00:44:22.21
John 1:12, "But as
many as received Him,
00:44:22.24\00:44:27.02
to them He gives the right
to become the children of God."
00:44:27.05\00:44:30.43
He gives us power
to be His children.
00:44:30.46\00:44:32.74
And He gives you
new life, new heart.
00:44:32.77\00:44:35.17
Question Number 5.
00:44:35.20\00:44:37.01
Will my life change when I give
it to Jesus and join His family?
00:44:37.04\00:44:41.28
And what does
Jesus do to help me?
00:44:41.31\00:44:44.38
2 Corinthians 5:17 says
00:44:44.41\00:44:46.53
If anyone is in
Christ, he is a what?
00:44:46.56\00:44:50.26
A new creature,
isn't that amazing,
00:44:50.29\00:44:52.59
how that caterpillar
you see there on your screen
00:44:52.62\00:44:55.16
can turn into that
butterfly, what a metamorphosis,
00:44:55.19\00:44:59.13
what a transformation,
God will do that for you,
00:44:59.16\00:45:02.23
where you are
crawling around eating leaves,
00:45:02.26\00:45:05.21
you will be
flying drinking nectar
00:45:05.24\00:45:07.99
if God can do that with a bug,
00:45:08.02\00:45:09.81
He can do it for you.
00:45:09.84\00:45:11.57
You become a new creature.
00:45:11.60\00:45:13.72
Jesus says you
show you love to Him
00:45:13.75\00:45:16.12
by being willing to follow Him.
00:45:16.15\00:45:17.89
"If you love Me,
keep My commandments."
00:45:17.92\00:45:21.41
He has given you new
heart, because He loves you,
00:45:21.44\00:45:23.78
you love Him back.
00:45:23.81\00:45:25.89
And then you have a
new birth, The Bible says,
00:45:25.92\00:45:28.33
"You must be born again."
00:45:28.36\00:45:30.93
You know something
amazing happened just--
00:45:30.96\00:45:33.47
think it was
couple of weeks ago.
00:45:33.50\00:45:35.47
There is a little baby
named Macie Hope McCartney,
00:45:35.50\00:45:38.45
parents were Chad
and Keri McCartney
00:45:38.48\00:45:41.32
and this little girl was
born twice, she was born again,
00:45:41.35\00:45:44.47
you know and we're not
talking about religion.
00:45:44.50\00:45:47.41
The doctors when
mommy was six month pregnant
00:45:47.44\00:45:49.63
found that the baby
had a dangerous tumor
00:45:49.66\00:45:51.73
growing on her back,
and if they didn't operate,
00:45:51.76\00:45:54.16
she wasn't going to live.
00:45:54.19\00:45:55.76
So six months
into the pregnancy,
00:45:55.79\00:45:58.25
they took the baby out
of mommy's tummy far enough
00:45:58.28\00:46:01.80
where they can do little
surgery and take the tumor off
00:46:01.83\00:46:04.04
and put it back in two
months later she was born again
00:46:04.07\00:46:07.12
and everything was fine.
00:46:07.15\00:46:09.10
So I don't know
what her birthday is,
00:46:09.13\00:46:10.28
because she was born twice.
00:46:10.31\00:46:13.82
You need to be born twice.
00:46:13.85\00:46:15.25
How many here
were born once so far?
00:46:15.28\00:46:16.69
Let me see, at least once.
00:46:16.72\00:46:18.29
Everyone born once,
just checking to see
00:46:18.32\00:46:19.46
if you are paying attention.
00:46:19.49\00:46:20.82
Everybody has been
born one time right,
00:46:20.85\00:46:23.19
but you need to be born again.
00:46:23.22\00:46:25.06
That's the new birth by
giving your heart to Jesus,
00:46:25.09\00:46:27.48
He gives you a
new mind, new life.
00:46:27.51\00:46:30.53
You know what tell
us in Jeremiah 1:15
00:46:30.56\00:46:33.52
"Before I formed you
in the womb I knew you."
00:46:33.55\00:46:37.13
God has known us
through all eternity.
00:46:37.16\00:46:39.81
He has a plan for
you a thousand years ago,
00:46:39.84\00:46:41.91
God knew about you and He
has a great plan for your life,
00:46:41.94\00:46:45.31
but He won't force
you, you must choose.
00:46:45.34\00:46:48.16
What will happen
when you choose the Lord?
00:46:48.19\00:46:50.79
John 15:11 "These
things I have spoken to you
00:46:50.82\00:46:55.94
that your joy may be full."
00:46:55.97\00:46:58.15
You want joy that's happiness
and again Habakkuk 3:18,
00:46:58.18\00:47:03.63
let's all say
Habakkuk, Habakkuk,
00:47:03.66\00:47:06.33
that's a hard book to say.
00:47:06.36\00:47:08.13
"Yet I will rejoice in the Lord,
00:47:08.16\00:47:10.17
I will joy in the
God of my salvation".
00:47:10.20\00:47:13.43
Christians should
be happy but again,
00:47:13.46\00:47:15.47
Psalm 40:8, "I delight
to do your will, O my God,
00:47:15.50\00:47:20.20
Your law is in my heart."
00:47:20.23\00:47:21.75
God puts His law in our heart
and it's a delight to serve Him.
00:47:21.78\00:47:25.08
Jesus game to give
us an abundant life.
00:47:25.11\00:47:27.47
He wants us to have a
full life and an abundant life,
00:47:27.50\00:47:29.64
that's why it's so important
that now while you are young
00:47:29.67\00:47:33.69
you give your life to Jesus.
00:47:33.72\00:47:36.02
All right, I
need two volunteers,
00:47:36.05\00:47:38.14
I want to have volunteers,
I wonder-well, tell you,
00:47:38.17\00:47:39.60
let's have some of
our visiting choir because
00:47:39.63\00:47:41.43
they may not be
back, you can come,
00:47:41.46\00:47:46.67
okay, you can come up
00:47:46.70\00:47:47.74
I don't know your
names, you don't have tags on.
00:47:47.77\00:47:49.06
Come on up. Look at
the mystery chest there
00:47:49.09\00:47:51.05
and see if you see something
that you can may be set on fire.
00:47:51.08\00:47:55.83
Look in the chest, go ahead,
00:47:55.86\00:47:57.95
The one you got it there?
00:48:03.71\00:48:05.33
All right, there
should be two in there.
00:48:05.36\00:48:09.18
Okay, you can close
the chest, let me help you.
00:48:09.21\00:48:11.27
There you go good job, set them,
we'll set them here on top,
00:48:11.30\00:48:16.04
and all right, how
many candles we got here.
00:48:16.07\00:48:20.17
Everyone see there
are two candles here.
00:48:20.20\00:48:22.19
You know how to
use one of these,
00:48:22.22\00:48:23.25
you press this thing
down and pull the trigger,
00:48:23.28\00:48:24.98
you want to try like that.
00:48:25.01\00:48:26.51
Press-you've to
press that button on top
00:48:26.54\00:48:27.87
and then pull the trigger.
00:48:27.90\00:48:29.66
Hold the button in.
00:48:29.69\00:48:33.36
It's probably not a good
thing to have these kids to play
00:48:33.39\00:48:35.33
with matches in church ah.
00:48:35.36\00:48:37.47
Let me help you with that.
00:48:37.50\00:48:38.82
For the illustration
purpose, that's all right.
00:48:38.85\00:48:42.32
There we go, all
right, that was hard,
00:48:42.35\00:48:44.32
no wonder you were
having challenge there.
00:48:44.35\00:48:45.54
All right, that's
one, and that's two, okay.
00:48:45.57\00:48:49.59
Two candles. Are
these candles the same?
00:48:49.62\00:48:52.86
No. Well, they are same color,
00:48:52.89\00:48:54.14
same stands, same wax
what's the one difference?
00:48:54.17\00:48:58.21
One is tall, one is short.
00:48:58.24\00:49:00.40
Which candle is going
to burn the longest? Tall.
00:49:00.43\00:49:05.04
Which one is going
to burn the longest?
00:49:05.07\00:49:06.84
Tall. Tall one of course
the tallest one is of same wax,
00:49:06.87\00:49:10.19
which one is going to
give the most light? Tall.
00:49:10.22\00:49:13.50
The taller one will burn longer
00:49:13.53\00:49:15.42
it will give more
light, isn't that right?
00:49:15.45\00:49:18.71
Here is the point
what's worth more?
00:49:18.74\00:49:21.04
10 plus 70 or 70 plus 10?
00:49:21.07\00:49:27.70
Oh, I know it sound like 10
plus 70 is the same as 70 plus
00:49:27.73\00:49:30.92
10 mathematically but
with your lives what's better,
00:49:30.95\00:49:34.82
give your heart to
Jesus when you are 70
00:49:34.85\00:49:37.30
and serve Him for 10 years,
or give your heart to Jesus
00:49:37.33\00:49:40.61
when you are 10 and
serve Him for 70 years.
00:49:40.64\00:49:44.55
How much, isn't
it worth more to give
00:49:44.58\00:49:46.74
your heart to Jesus when you are
10 and serve Him for 70 years.
00:49:46.77\00:49:50.40
It's good for everybody
to give the heart to Jesus.
00:49:50.43\00:49:53.01
But, what's the best time
to give your heart to Jesus
00:49:53.04\00:49:55.75
so you can get the most
right out into the world.
00:49:55.78\00:49:59.92
It's when you got
your life before you.
00:49:59.95\00:50:01.67
All right you girls each
one will blow out a candle.
00:50:01.70\00:50:05.51
There we go,
thank you very much.
00:50:05.54\00:50:07.00
Okay, let's give them a hand.
00:50:07.03\00:50:08.96
A father was sailing through
the warm Caribbean waters
00:50:14.68\00:50:18.99
with his two teenage
boys, and the father knew
00:50:19.02\00:50:22.74
that they are going through
some shark infested waters,
00:50:22.77\00:50:24.93
so he told his boys do not
play near the edge of the boat
00:50:24.96\00:50:29.30
for the next few days because
we don't want you to fallen in,
00:50:29.33\00:50:31.59
there is lot of
sharks in these waters,
00:50:31.62\00:50:33.24
and these sharks
they do attack people.
00:50:33.27\00:50:36.37
Well, the boys weren't listening
because they had never seen
00:50:36.40\00:50:38.52
any sharks for weeks,
and they were running around
00:50:38.55\00:50:41.79
the ship chasing each other
and one of them began to slip
00:50:41.82\00:50:46.09
and he grabbed
his brothers t-shirts
00:50:46.12\00:50:47.90
and the two of them
fell off into the warm water,
00:50:47.93\00:50:50.70
well the father
heard the splash,
00:50:50.73\00:50:52.61
the boys were good swimmers
00:50:52.64\00:50:54.38
and as the sailor
boat started to sail away
00:50:54.41\00:50:56.42
from where the boys
fell in they are calling,
00:50:56.45\00:50:58.30
they are shouting, the
father came up from below
00:50:58.33\00:51:00.46
the deck of the sail
boat and he saw his boys
00:51:00.49\00:51:02.80
and he lowered the
sail down so the boat
00:51:02.83\00:51:05.38
would stop floating
away and told the boys
00:51:05.41\00:51:09.30
come on back to boat.
00:51:09.33\00:51:11.13
Well, they were out
there dunking each other,
00:51:11.16\00:51:12.82
arguing and
fighting as teenage boys do.
00:51:12.85\00:51:15.74
And the father then looked
in the water was very clear
00:51:15.77\00:51:18.87
and guess what he saw
circling, He said boys
00:51:18.90\00:51:23.34
those aren't dolphins, I
see sharks said swim quickly
00:51:23.37\00:51:28.62
back to boat, do it
calmly, so you don't disturb
00:51:28.65\00:51:31.32
the water and
swim back to the boat
00:51:31.35\00:51:34.31
and the boys thought,
oh we got lots of time.
00:51:34.34\00:51:37.01
Dad is just trying to scare us.
00:51:37.04\00:51:38.66
There's no sharks,
we haven't seen shark,
00:51:38.69\00:51:39.99
he is trying to
teach us a lesson.
00:51:40.02\00:51:41.63
So they said let's show
him that we are not afraid,
00:51:41.66\00:51:44.07
they began to dunk
each other and play
00:51:44.10\00:51:45.82
and the father said
hurry back to the boat.
00:51:45.85\00:51:48.94
He saw the sharks
were closing their circle.
00:51:48.97\00:51:52.23
A shark can
smell one drop of blood
00:51:52.26\00:51:55.03
in hundreds and
thousands of gallons of water.
00:51:55.06\00:51:58.72
And the father
knew that if something
00:51:58.75\00:52:00.27
didn't happen those sharks
will go and take the first bite,
00:52:00.30\00:52:03.86
and they would smell
blood and go into frenzy
00:52:03.89\00:52:05.58
and his boys would be killed
and so on a desperate effort
00:52:05.61\00:52:09.48
to save his boys, the father
went below deck he got a knife,
00:52:09.51\00:52:13.62
he cut his wrist he dove
in the water and he swam away
00:52:13.65\00:52:17.70
from boat in a different
direction and then the boys saw
00:52:17.73\00:52:21.42
the water beginning
to turn and turn red.
00:52:21.45\00:52:24.57
Now, here is the question.
00:52:24.60\00:52:26.37
If those children
stay in the water,
00:52:26.40\00:52:28.98
is any more the
father can do for them,
00:52:29.01\00:52:31.88
after he has given his life.
00:52:31.91\00:52:33.45
If we decide to
stay in the world,
00:52:33.48\00:52:35.46
and to stay in sin
after God has come to save us,
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what more can He do
than giving His life?
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There is only one life boat.
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You know what the
life boat is? Jesus.
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You remember there
was a storm on the sea,
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and Jesus calmed the
storm the disciples survived
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the storm because they
were in the boat with Jesus.
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Nothing in the world
could sink that boat,
00:52:56.06\00:52:58.59
that boat was unsinkable.
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The only unsinkable ship
is the boat with Jesus in it.
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Don't you want to
get on that life boat?
00:53:03.36\00:53:06.49
I would like to invite
you to take your cards,
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I think we've got some
cards here in our groups.
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Now we did this a
couple of nights ago,
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but we know we have some
new children every night.
00:53:13.27\00:53:15.90
And tonight we are
talking about salvation.
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I want to ask you again.
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If you like to make a decision
to accept Jesus as your Savior.
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Please take the cards
that we are passing now.
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There is some
simple questions here.
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Write your name
and your address on it.
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Some of you if you like
to make a decision for Jesus
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and your may be a home, you can
contact us at Amazing Facts Kids
00:53:32.34\00:53:37.44
and we'll try
to put you in touch
00:53:37.47\00:53:39.46
with a Bible
teaching, preaching church.
00:53:39.49\00:53:42.34
If you make a decision
tonight, for the Lord kids,
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make sure and talk to
your parents about this.
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Talk to your
pastor, your youth pastor,
00:53:48.12\00:53:50.06
your group leader,
but I want to have prayer
00:53:50.09\00:53:53.04
with you again
that you will know
00:53:53.07\00:53:55.82
that you've got
Jesus in your heart.
00:53:55.85\00:53:57.97
There is three questions
on the card. Simple questions.
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Yes, I want to
give my heart to Jesus
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and follow the
teachings in the Bible.
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The second
question, check yes there.
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I would like to
be baptized and have
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all of my sins washed away.
00:54:12.66\00:54:15.02
Check that box if you
are interested in baptism,
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make sure and talk to
your parents too about
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that and your pastor
and they can help you plan
00:54:19.68\00:54:22.19
for that and angels will sing.
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Question 3. You'd
like meet with the pastor
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and talk to them about baptism,
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Please write your
name on your card.
00:54:30.26\00:54:31.97
This is the way you
can begin the first step
00:54:32.00\00:54:34.66
of getting in that
life boat, and knowing
00:54:34.69\00:54:37.29
that you got eternal life.
00:54:37.32\00:54:40.02
And again I want to encourage
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all of our
friends who are watching.
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If you would like to make this
decision, hopefully your groups
00:54:43.54\00:54:46.09
have the decision
cards, or you can just go
00:54:46.12\00:54:48.86
to amazingfactskids.org
let us know.
00:54:48.89\00:54:52.23
We will try and contact you
00:54:52.26\00:54:53.35
and encourage
you in your decision.
00:54:53.38\00:54:55.89
Now, we're going
to need that prayer
00:54:55.92\00:54:57.50
and then here
are our local group,
00:54:57.53\00:54:58.87
you can finish filling out
your cards after we have prayer,
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so let's just stop our
pencils for just a second
00:55:01.23\00:55:04.52
and let's all pray
together, with our friends
00:55:04.55\00:55:05.98
who are watching on TV, okay.
00:55:06.01\00:55:10.08
Father in heaven,
we are so thankful
00:55:10.11\00:55:12.86
for the sacrifice of Jesus.
00:55:12.89\00:55:15.90
You are loving us so
much that You gave Your Son,
00:55:15.93\00:55:18.51
You gave your life
that we might be saved.
00:55:18.54\00:55:21.65
We know the only life boat
00:55:21.68\00:55:23.42
that's going to
survive the storm,
00:55:23.45\00:55:25.83
is the one with Jesus and we
want to be in that boat, Lord.
00:55:25.86\00:55:28.58
We are accepting Him, we're
asking Him, we're believing.
00:55:28.61\00:55:32.24
We are sorry for our sins
and we want that new life.
00:55:32.27\00:55:35.86
Thank you Lord, for
praying in Jesus' name, amen.
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God bless you friends.
00:55:40.62\00:55:41.76
Don't forget
tomorrow night lesson
00:55:41.79\00:55:43.56
we will be meeting again it's
called "A Day with the King."
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We look forward to see each
of you then, bring your friends.
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