Welcome to Anchors of Truth,
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live from the
3ABN worship center,
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the sanctuary
series with John Bradshaw.
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Well welcome to Sabbath morning
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and we are here at
the 3ABN worship center
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where the Thompsonville
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Seventh-day Adventist Church
meets every single Sabbath.
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And this morning
we are having church.
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Well we are having church
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and we're gonna
have a great service
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because we've already prayed
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and asked for the Holy
Spirit to be here. Yes.
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And Haley Kay
is here today this,
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so some of you
if you're wondering
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this is my little
granddaughter that
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you've seen on Kids Time.
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She suddenly grown, not suddenly
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but Haley Kay
you've grown up honey,
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how old are you
now? I'm 17. 17. Wow.
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Where do you go to
school? Highland Academy.
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Where is that? In
Portland, Tennessee.
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Oh, okay. And
you're of what year?
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I'm junior. Junior.
Okay you still have Jesus?
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Always. You still
have Papa? Of course. Okay.
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Alright. We can
move on now, okay.
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You got to get them
while they're young,
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you get them, you
start this when they're young
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and tell them they love papas,
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so then but time they're older
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they still say we hope that main
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but they still
say well I love you
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and all the kids very
much and we're glad you here
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and Jim invited
me up a while ago
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and we say well we
just bring up Haley
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and let her say
hello to our audience
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since you're
not here very often.
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We're glad
you're here today honey,
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I'm proud of you. Absolutely,
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and on Sabbath it's family time,
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it's time when our
3ABN family comes together.
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Pastor John
Lomacang and Angie his wife
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are sitting
right on the front row
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and they'll be here
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for the later part
of this service today,
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which we've already go off
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the air by that particular time.
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But we welcome you if
you're ever in this area,
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you come here and
worship with us on the Sabbath.
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And I know that the
Lord will bless you.
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We have churches
all around the country
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that are actually
watching this live right now
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and this is their church service
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and so we were so happy
to have them join with us.
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Well before we go further
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would you lead us in a
word of prayer? I will.
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Heavenly Father, we thank you
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for your many wonderful
blessings and we thank you
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for life and health and strength
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and we thank
you for your Sabbath
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that you once a week allow us
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and have directed
us to come and meet
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in your presence
and be with family,
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brothers and sisters
of like faith and Father,
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today we pray for the
anointing of the Holy Spirit
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upon the service on the speaker
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Brother Bradshaw we pray.
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Father you would continue
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to fill him
with the Holy Spirit;
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you give him power
and wisdom that's only
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discernible
through the Holy Spirit.
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And we pray for
each and every viewer
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that's watching, we know
that Satan is out to steal,
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kill and to destroy but
we also know you've told us
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greater is he that is in us
then he that is in the world.
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And you told us you
come to give us life
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and give it more abundantly.
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Today we thank
you for being alive
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in these closing
moments of earth's history
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to be a part of
getting this great message
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into all the
world that you love us,
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you died for us, you
made a plan of salvation
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and you're coming back very soon
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to claim each and everyone of us
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as your own for eternity.
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All we have to do
is make the choice
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and accept your
free gift of salvation.
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We pray for each viewer today
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that before this program's over,
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if we haven't done
that we will resubmit,
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recommit our lives to you,
in Jesus name we pray, amen.
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Amen. Well Danny I
know that both of us
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have been getting
reports from around the world
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that this
series on the Sanctuary
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has really been well received.
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The speaker,
new speaker director
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of "It is Written"
Pastor John Bradshaw
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is the speaker and it
is very evident that this
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is a man who knows and
loves the Lord Jesus Christ.
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And as he has
presented the message
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of the sanctuary
it has uplifted Jesus
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and the cross of Christ in
a beautiful, beautiful way.
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And before he comes
to speak to us today,
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somebody by name
of Melody Firestone,
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I think you know who she
is, is going to be coming
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and singing for
us. And she is going
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to sing a song, Melody,
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come right on in, yeah,
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you're going to sing the song,
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We Have This Hope,
but it's a different. Yes.
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It only has the same
title as another song
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that we've
heard. And we just pray
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that the Lord be with you
as you bring us this song.
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Thank you. Alright.
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The saying that what
doesn't kill us makes us strong
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And I've heard it's
always darkest before the dawn.
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But all I know is that
God's promises are true
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And he only wants
what's best for you
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We have this hope that
all hurting will be gone
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We have this hope that
all tears will be left behind
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I know down here life is
hard and the world is so unkind
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But hold on
because we have this hope.
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Everyone of us has
heartaches and trials.
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But remember we're
only here for a short while
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Sometimes I feel I've
had more than my share
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But he won't give us
more than we can bear
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We have this hope that
all hurting will be gone
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We have this hope that
all tears will be left behind
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I know down here life is hard
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and the world is so unkind
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But hold on,
because we have this hope
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And this hope for us is Jesus
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So hold on
because we have this hope.
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Good morning everyone.
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Good morning!
Blessing to be here.
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Blessing to see you here today.
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You know what I believe,
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I just believe
that where ever you are
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when it's the
Sabbath, it's a great day.
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You agree with that? I
just think it's a great day.
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We read in the Bible
that John was in the spirit
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on the Lord's Day.
So I think we can expect
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that this being the Lord's Day,
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the Holy Spirit will be
present with great power.
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There's really
only one thing stopping
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God from blessing us as
much as He wants to bless us
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and that's us. Now you know,
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you make emphatic statements
there's only one thing,
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there's always
somebody is willing to,
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I can think of
another, but you get my point.
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And if our hearts are
open and our minds are open,
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there's a willingness in
our heart and we say Lord,
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it's the Sabbath
come on bless my life.
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It's not that God
is some kind of Grinch
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who doesn't want to
pour out His blessing.
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He's looking to
lavish His blessing upon us.
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And today as we
continue in our study series
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on the sanctuary we are studying
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the sanctuary liberality.
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Anchors of Truth
and if there is an
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anchor of truth it is
that there is a sanctuary
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where we have a high priest
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and if you were to
stop and think about Christ
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our high priest in
heaven's sanctuary,
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you will see
that Christ's ministry
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and Christ's ministration
and God's goodness towards us
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is characterized by liberality,
generosity, extravagance.
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I say that with your permission.
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I just want to mention
one thing I don't think
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I've told you this
before but I wanna let you
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know that at the
It Is Written website
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I have a daily
devotional it's only this long,
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once you up your day
watching and listening to it,
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it's only, it's 60 seconds long
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and I've been surprised at how
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much you can say in 60 seconds
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in fact I read It Is
Written Facebook page,
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a lady who I'm gonna suggest
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this comes from
her sense of humor.
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She wrote, she
posted there something like
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when he was in
Collegeplace Pastor John
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would speak for an hour.
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I'm amazed he can
speak for only 60 seconds.
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I'm sure she was
just joking, I'm sure.
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Speak for an hour.
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Sometimes I go close to an hour,
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but anyhow it's a daily devotion
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where the whole
idea is to show how
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a Bible verse and
it's a different verse each
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day for the most
part how that verse
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can be a blessing
in your life today.
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You know what it, let me just
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digress before I undigress.
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The Bible is this
wonderful, wonderful book,
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1189 chapters 66
books inside this one book
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and it's full of verses.
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But how do we take
those verses and say Lord,
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how can this be a
blessing that verse
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that helped me today.
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You know there are
times when along the way
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you need the word
of God, a certain verse
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to be a blessing and a help and
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an encouragement to you
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and so that's what our
devotional it's all about,
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every word as in
Matthew 4:4 it is written,
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man shall not
live by bread alone
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but by what? Every
word, that's right.
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So check it out on the
website www.itiswritten.com.
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And it's right on the front page
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you can subscribe to have it
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send it to your
mail box everyday.
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It will just arrive
right there and you can
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watch it right from
wherever you get your
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email without
having to hopple around
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the Internet and
I think it might be
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a blessing to you,
something else I would add
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is that we are
constructing this in such a way
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that it's user
friendly what I mean is
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if you were to
say to your neighbor
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across the street, I found
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a little daily
devotional that I think
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might be a blessing to you,
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we're not gonna blow your
neighbor out of the water.
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This is not heavy
artillery, even though
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I believe the whole
Bible as heavy artillery
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if you know what I mean,
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it's all powerful
we're not taking these
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60 second bites
to attempt to write
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the wrongs of every
individual there ever was.
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We're lifting up the
word, lifting up Jesus,
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knowing that if He is lifted up,
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He will draw all
people to himself.
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I don't wanna let
you know kind of what
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that's like subscribe,
let your neighbors know,
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we have family members.
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I don't think they
will ever go near anything
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spiritual and
they're watching it
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everyday and saying,
wow. This is a blessing.
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I like that. So pray for us
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that we can
encourage people and the Lord
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this way and
others. Well let us pray now
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expectant that God will
bless us mightily today.
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Our Father in heaven,
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we come to you in
the name of Jesus today.
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And I'm not going
to ask you to send your
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Holy Spirit to be in this place.
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Because this is your place,
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your spirit is already here,
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I pray instead
that you would touch
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our hearts in such a way that
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we can receive you,
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that you would open up our minds
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in such a way
that we will hear you.
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And that you would
touch me in such a way
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that the failings and
frailties of fallen humanity
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would not impede the moving
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of your Holy Spirit today.
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We come to you
today from our very
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backgrounds with our
various perspectives,
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with our sundry hassles
and our assorted hang-ups,
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we pray Lord that
in spite of ourselves
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you would bless us
richly and be glorified,
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we thank you,
confident and we pray today
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in Jesus name please
join me and say, amen.
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How would you define generosity?
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If you were out to lunch, sorry,
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if you were out at
lunch, being out at lunch
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and being out to
lunch two different things.
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If you were out at
lunch and somebody pulled out
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their wallet and
said let me get that.
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You would say well you
would probably say oh, no.
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Because that's,
that's culturally appropriate
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thing to say oh no. By
the end if they impressed
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or pressed you
would say well thank you
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and then you would
think now that's what,
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that's generous,
that's kind, generous.
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A few years ago
Kevin Salvin and his 14,
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his then 14 year
old daughter Hannah
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were stopped at a traffic light
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in their home city
of Atlanta, Georgia.
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Hannah noticed a
homeless man panhandling,
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hoping to get food or money,
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so that he could buy food.
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And then she noticed
right near that homeless man,
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a lake model Mercedes
car idling at the light.
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And she turned to her
father and she said daddy,
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if that man driving
that car chose to drive
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a less expensive car
then that homeless man
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might have money to buy food.
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And dad, nodded,
didn't think too much
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of it kids will
say what kids say
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when they have
time to think about
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what they're seeing around them.
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But evidently that
whole idea struck a chord
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with young Hannah,
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she unable to let
it go very easily.
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Now the family
had been volunteering
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at a soup kitchen
for a number of years.
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So Hannah's mind-set was about
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helping others and
endeavoring to lift them up.
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She gets home another
conversation takes place,
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she says to her
mother, why do we live
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in such a big
house? House was huge.
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Huge backyard, it
had an elevator going
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from one floor to another floor,
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house was worth $2 million.
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She said why do we
live in such a big house?
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I'm not sure what
her mother said but then
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Hannah went on a campaign trail
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and she said we don't need
to live in such a big house.
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This house is way to big for us,
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you can get lost in this house.
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The mother in
frustration finally said
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what do you want me to do?
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Sell the house.
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And that got them thinking.
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And before long
the Salvin family
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had made the
decision to sell their house
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and move into a
house at half the value.
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Now we're not
gonna feel too terribly,
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sorry for them,
they ended up moving
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into a $900000
house. It's not a palace,
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it's not a castle
but it's pretty difficult
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to be uncomfortable
in a $900000 house.
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So they were
comfortable but no longer did
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they have the
elevator, their backyard
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was 1/10th of the
size of the backyard,
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you couldn't run off
and hide in fact they said
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that was nice you
could move from room to room
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and see people. They liked that.
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They cleared $800000 on the sale
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of their former house and
purchase of their new house.
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And they chose
to take that $800000
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every last cent
and give it away.
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They said we just don't need it
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and they chose to
help poor people in Ghana,
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West Africa.
Lift up their lives,
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bless them and help
them to I'm gonna say
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get ahead, that help them.
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They said they
felt so good about that.
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I'm saying if got
a $2 million house
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and you sell the
house and buy house for
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half a value and
give away $800000.
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I'm saying that's generous,
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would you agree with that?
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Ain't no question
about that, that's generous.
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Now you might say
well they're gonna miss it.
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Well they're
still got plenty money,
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well you do the
same thing in your sphere
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and we'll say the
same thing about you,
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that's generous. No one
held a gun to their head,
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no one had their arm
twisted up behind their back
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they just did it out of
the generosity in their heart.
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There was another
fellow named Tom Shay.
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He said that when he
graduated from college
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God pointed out
two things to him.
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One that God had
a heart for missions
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and for other people
and two that Tom did not.
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And Tom said that's not right.
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He started to
get involved with an
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international missions
and a development group.
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And he started
giving the way money
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that he figured he didn't need.
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Now he is now an executive
with a technology firms
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still a young man
and he is mid to late 30s
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I believe. But he
committed along with
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his wife to live at or below
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the national
median income level.
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Which means that he and his wife
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have chosen to
live on $38000 a year
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and give away the rest
of his $200000 plus income,
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just give it away.
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They have chosen
to live in the second
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poorest neighborhood
in Los Angeles County.
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They don't have
to, no one forced them,
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but they said we
can get buy on less
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and we can bless
others with the rest.
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Generous, oh yes you bet very.
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Now as generous
as that might be.
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We're gonna study today
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the subject of the sanctuary,
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the earthly and
the heavenly sanctuary.
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And we are going to
see that as generous
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as someone might be,
it was said some years ago
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that Ted turned
a pledge $1 billion
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to get to the United Nations
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to help them with various
projects around the world.
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You might say
well he's a wealthy man
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but that was 1/3rd
his income and matter how
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wealthy the fellow is.
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A billion dollar
is a billion dollars,
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it's extravagant.
Yet as we look at the
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plan of salvation
today as we look at the
00:20:04.23\00:20:06.43
sanctuary today we're
gonna come face to face
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with the inescapable conclusion
00:20:09.10\00:20:10.78
that God is extremely generous.
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God is extraordinarily good,
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God is
extravagantly kind and gracious
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and he doesn't need to be.
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In the beginning
God created the heaven
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and the earth;
it wasn't too long
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before the two
people that he had placed
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in the Garden of
Eden had fallen into sin.
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They were banished
from the Garden of Eden.
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They were no long
clothed with that robe of light.
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They were now guilty of sin
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and were separated from God,
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now they must
till ground that would
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bring thorns and thistles.
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Now they would eat bread
in the sweat of their face.
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Eve would now bring for
their children in sorrow
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and yet rather
than casting them off.
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God said, I know what I will do
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let them make me a sanctuary
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that I may dwell among them,
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that's like somebody
saying I want to move
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into the most
disgraceful part of town
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that I can, the
most distasteful to me
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part of town that I can find,
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so that I can be
a blessing to others
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except its way beyond that,
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God said, let them
make me a sanctuary,
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I will leave this
fabulous heavenly dwelling place
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and come down there
and live in something that
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human beings made,
that people constructed,
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I'll come down there so I can be
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in the midst of
people who need grace.
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They constructed a
portable dwelling place
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as they wandered
through the wilderness,
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this very prophetic
group of individuals,
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the nation of
Israel wandering here
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and they're, they moved
the sanctuary with them.
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So God could
always be in their midst
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wherever they were.
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The Book of Hebrews
says that the earthly
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sanctuary was patterned
after the heavenly sanctuary
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and that the sacrifices
of the earthly sanctuary,
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daily offerings and
sacrifices and so forth.
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That these things were shadows
00:22:15.19\00:22:18.07
of what took place in
the heavenly sanctuary
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or of what took place
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in God's great
plan of salvation,
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the two weren't
exactly alive don't go there.
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But the earthly
sanctuary was modeled after
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it was patterned after
the heavenly sanctuary.
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Now the sanctuary
down here on earth,
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this was where the
sinner would bring his offering.
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Now there are all
kinds of offerings,
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they were burnt
offerings and peace offerings
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and meat or meal offerings
00:22:43.70\00:22:45.04
and there were sin offerings
and trespass offerings.
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There were all
offered down there
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and they all meant something.
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Psalms 77 and verse 13 is
an interesting verse it says,
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Thy way O God,
is in the sanctuary.
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You know if
people who knocked God,
00:22:59.78\00:23:02.41
if people who criticized God,
00:23:02.42\00:23:04.72
imagine criticizing
God like the grain of sand
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criticizing the beach.
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If people who were down on God,
00:23:08.59\00:23:11.53
familiarize
themselves with the services
00:23:11.54\00:23:14.65
of the sanctuary they
would see wait a minute
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this God is a good
God, He's a great God,
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He's a generous
God, His way is revealed
00:23:19.78\00:23:22.43
to humanity in the sanctuary.
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The plan of
salvation was unfolded there
00:23:25.03\00:23:27.20
for the children of Israel
00:23:27.21\00:23:28.73
and they say there's a
God of goodness and mercy
00:23:28.74\00:23:31.95
who purposes to save
His people from their sin.
00:23:31.96\00:23:37.20
And they had to look
into that sanctuary service
00:23:37.21\00:23:39.54
and be impressed
that God was love.
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You know I read
where one offer that I
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respect very
much said the correct
00:23:44.95\00:23:47.27
understanding
of the ministration
00:23:47.28\00:23:49.81
in the heavenly sanctuary
is the foundation of our faith,
00:23:49.82\00:23:54.80
isn't that fascinating.
If we can wrap our minds
00:23:54.81\00:23:59.06
a little bit about
around what Jesus is doing
00:23:59.07\00:24:02.18
for us in heaven, this is
the foundation of our faith.
00:24:02.19\00:24:07.21
Isn't that
something? So we look into the
00:24:07.22\00:24:10.21
sanctuary and
we see demonstrated
00:24:10.22\00:24:13.61
God's
extravagance. Now I don't mean
00:24:13.62\00:24:16.72
want and
wastefulness I don't mean that.
00:24:16.73\00:24:18.79
I don't mean these
extravagant sheiks in
00:24:18.80\00:24:21.74
the Middle East to
buy themselves cars
00:24:21.75\00:24:23.94
made out of solid
silver whatever it is,
00:24:23.95\00:24:25.21
I don't mean
that. But I mean love,
00:24:25.22\00:24:28.52
demonstrated powerfully.
00:24:28.53\00:24:31.29
The Bible says
while we were yet sinners.
00:24:31.30\00:24:36.59
Christ died for
us. Holy God, how Holy?
00:24:36.60\00:24:43.70
I don't even
know. Other than to say
00:24:43.71\00:24:47.57
perfectly holy. In Him no taint,
00:24:47.58\00:24:52.89
no suggestion of the
slightest imperfection
00:24:52.90\00:24:57.84
and that while all we
were rebels, God died for us.
00:24:57.85\00:25:03.65
Christ did. The word
offering represented among
00:25:03.66\00:25:07.40
other things, total consecration
00:25:07.41\00:25:09.16
Jesus gave
himself totally for us.
00:25:09.17\00:25:11.81
Going to the
cross Jesus demonstrated
00:25:11.82\00:25:14.72
what that story was all about,
00:25:14.73\00:25:16.08
there was the story that he told
00:25:16.87\00:25:18.28
about a man who
discovered there was
00:25:18.29\00:25:20.17
treasure in a
field, he said I've got to
00:25:20.18\00:25:22.71
have that
treasure. I will let nothing
00:25:22.72\00:25:24.73
stand in my way of
having that treasure.
00:25:24.74\00:25:26.96
I will sell everything I have,
00:25:26.97\00:25:29.75
I value the treasure so
much, I'll get rid of it all,
00:25:29.76\00:25:33.66
so that I could take the money
00:25:33.67\00:25:35.03
by the field have the treasure.
00:25:35.04\00:25:36.49
Now we say that us going
off Jesus giving everything,
00:25:36.50\00:25:39.36
so we can have
Jesus, that's right.
00:25:39.37\00:25:41.06
But flip that
around that's Jesus saying
00:25:41.99\00:25:44.12
I see treasure there.
00:25:44.13\00:25:45.77
You might see fallen sinners
00:25:45.78\00:25:48.05
but I see what can
happen in their lives
00:25:48.06\00:25:50.60
through the
grace of God I'll give
00:25:50.61\00:25:53.32
everything so I can have them,
00:25:53.33\00:25:56.61
the treasure, the
pearl of great price
00:25:56.62\00:25:59.51
that God so loved the world.
00:25:59.52\00:26:01.90
We struggled eyes, I'm
gonna be honest with you,
00:26:01.91\00:26:04.98
I struggle
sometimes to understand love
00:26:04.99\00:26:07.75
so deep I may not
be able to understand
00:26:07.76\00:26:10.97
that perfectly, but
let me tell you what
00:26:10.98\00:26:12.38
I accept it totally.
And say thank you Lord.
00:26:12.39\00:26:14.75
Burned offering a
voluntary offering
00:26:15.57\00:26:17.80
was a sweet savor to God,
00:26:17.81\00:26:19.27
the Bible says in
book of Leviticus.
00:26:19.28\00:26:20.79
It's signified a
person bringing his or her
00:26:20.80\00:26:24.89
entire life to
God. Well you heard what
00:26:24.90\00:26:28.08
Paul said haven't you?
I beseech you therefore
00:26:28.09\00:26:30.57
brethren by the mercies of God,
00:26:30.58\00:26:32.50
that you present
your bodies a what?
00:26:32.51\00:26:34.96
a living sacrifice,
wholly acceptable unto God
00:26:34.97\00:26:39.93
which is your
reasonable service.
00:26:39.94\00:26:41.28
Our lives ought to be a
burned offering before God,
00:26:41.29\00:26:43.72
that means we give God
everything that we have,
00:26:43.73\00:26:46.01
everything that
doesn't mean God wants to
00:26:46.02\00:26:48.68
take away your
wealth and make you poor,
00:26:48.69\00:26:50.37
that doesn't mean
God wants to take away
00:26:50.38\00:26:52.16
your talent and make you dull,
00:26:52.17\00:26:54.73
that doesn't mean
God wants to take away
00:26:54.74\00:26:56.56
your intellect and
make you little lower down
00:26:56.57\00:27:00.40
on the IQ scale
that means God wants to
00:27:00.41\00:27:02.80
take your gifts, your blessings,
00:27:02.81\00:27:05.69
your capacities
and bless you in them,
00:27:05.70\00:27:08.83
use you in them, employ
you in his service in them.
00:27:08.84\00:27:12.91
We turn it all the way
over to God and God says
00:27:12.92\00:27:16.19
I will take that
and make something great
00:27:16.20\00:27:18.83
like a little boy who
said got word to Jesus one day.
00:27:18.84\00:27:21.83
Don't laugh you can use this,
00:27:21.84\00:27:23.26
I know there's a
big hungry crowd here
00:27:23.27\00:27:25.28
but I've got five
loaves and two fish
00:27:25.29\00:27:27.52
it's all I've got and I'm hungry
00:27:27.53\00:27:29.87
but I'm willing
to give it to you
00:27:29.88\00:27:31.47
and Jesus said
thank you very much pray,
00:27:31.48\00:27:34.67
blessed it, distributed
it and you think that
00:27:34.68\00:27:37.58
boy had enough
food to eat that day?
00:27:37.59\00:27:39.29
Baskets of food were left over.
00:27:39.30\00:27:42.13
He went home as full as a tick.
00:27:42.14\00:27:44.76
His mother said
you need to eat supper.
00:27:44.77\00:27:46.68
Oh no I'm fine I don't
need to eat for a week.
00:27:46.69\00:27:48.62
How can that be?
You just took away
00:27:48.63\00:27:50.85
five loaves and two fish.
00:27:50.86\00:27:52.06
Yeah but there was Jesus
00:27:52.07\00:27:53.27
and He can take
the little that we have
00:27:53.28\00:27:55.04
and make it a huge
amount, a vast repast,
00:27:55.05\00:27:59.99
a huge blessing not
just for us but for others.
00:28:00.00\00:28:03.45
When your life
is a burnt offering
00:28:03.46\00:28:05.24
Christ makes your
life more in his hands
00:28:05.25\00:28:08.64
then you could make
it in a 1000 lifetimes
00:28:08.65\00:28:11.53
in your own hands. Amen.
00:28:11.54\00:28:13.23
Burnt offering,
you don't lose man,
00:28:13.24\00:28:15.06
you gain and you
gain and you gain.
00:28:15.07\00:28:19.36
There were meat
offerings or meatal offerings.
00:28:19.37\00:28:21.49
Now these things
were an acknowledgment
00:28:21.50\00:28:23.68
of total dependents upon
God that's what they were.
00:28:23.69\00:28:28.00
Peace offerings were
offerings that were made
00:28:28.01\00:28:30.40
when there was an occasion that
00:28:30.41\00:28:31.63
call for thankfulness and joy.
00:28:31.64\00:28:34.78
Man, I'm gonna
take an offering to God,
00:28:34.79\00:28:37.00
I wonder if we do that today.
00:28:37.01\00:28:38.87
You know in Church, we
used to have these things
00:28:38.88\00:28:40.92
birthday thank offerings
and this kind of thing.
00:28:40.93\00:28:43.01
You know it's just a good idea
00:28:43.02\00:28:45.21
when you're being blessed.
00:28:45.22\00:28:46.58
In a tangible way
show your thankfulness to
00:28:46.59\00:28:49.25
God and I'm not saying
this with any legalistic bent.
00:28:49.26\00:28:52.24
But when God blesses
you there are times you
00:28:52.25\00:28:54.88
want to say, wow I
just, I just need to do
00:28:54.89\00:28:57.62
something for the
Lord, to show him here.
00:28:57.63\00:29:00.25
I heard about
the fellow who worked
00:29:00.26\00:29:02.33
for an organization
that you'd be familiar
00:29:02.34\00:29:04.02
with and he had
stuck in the organization
00:29:04.03\00:29:06.81
and it split and it
split again and split again
00:29:06.82\00:29:08.94
and, he didn't even
the buy the stuff it was
00:29:08.95\00:29:10.76
part of his
salary package you know
00:29:10.77\00:29:13.22
and when he
retired he had more money
00:29:13.23\00:29:15.35
he knew what to do
with, you know what he said,
00:29:15.36\00:29:17.22
he said I didn't earn
this, this was just given to me,
00:29:17.23\00:29:20.90
I don't need it now,
I'm gonna turn around
00:29:20.91\00:29:22.99
and give it all to the Lord,
all of it. He was thankful.
00:29:23.00\00:29:28.28
He wasn't trying to
curry favor with the almighty,
00:29:28.29\00:29:30.78
he wasn't trying to
earn brownie points,
00:29:30.79\00:29:32.53
he was just thankful
00:29:32.54\00:29:34.68
and he made an offering to God.
00:29:34.69\00:29:36.05
Sin offerings were offerings
00:29:36.60\00:29:38.24
for sins committed in ignorance.
00:29:38.25\00:29:41.99
You didn't know you
did that thing wrong;
00:29:42.00\00:29:44.78
you might not even known better.
00:29:44.79\00:29:46.32
You didn't know
what the results of your
00:29:46.33\00:29:48.18
actions might have been,
00:29:48.19\00:29:49.17
they made offerings to cover up
00:29:49.18\00:29:51.13
and take care of that.
00:29:51.14\00:29:52.64
And then there were
trespass offerings offered
00:29:52.65\00:29:54.61
for deliberate
sins, various offerings.
00:29:54.62\00:29:59.22
Some required a certain animal,
00:29:59.23\00:30:00.92
others you could
select you had an option,
00:30:00.93\00:30:02.97
you could take this
or this or this or this
00:30:02.98\00:30:05.39
it depend on what
you had or what your
00:30:05.40\00:30:07.61
level of income was.
Some you have to bring
00:30:07.62\00:30:10.21
a perfect animal,
other offerings not so much,
00:30:10.22\00:30:12.51
it wasn't required, you
could bring food in some
00:30:12.52\00:30:16.57
offerings maybe
flower, maybe, maybe oil,
00:30:16.58\00:30:20.19
maybe grain various offerings.
00:30:20.20\00:30:22.90
And I wonder if as
you think about this, man,
00:30:22.91\00:30:26.01
their whole life, there
was an offering for this
00:30:26.02\00:30:28.34
and gift for that
and a ceremony for this.
00:30:28.35\00:30:31.43
Now it wasn't
onerous, it wasn't burdensome,
00:30:31.44\00:30:35.40
it was a blessing.
Because all of these
00:30:35.41\00:30:38.23
rituals, all of these
sacrifices, all of these
00:30:38.24\00:30:41.37
ceremonies helped,
helped them navigate
00:30:41.38\00:30:44.57
the appropriate
path to the heart of God.
00:30:44.58\00:30:47.64
Remember God was
dealing with sinners.
00:30:47.65\00:30:50.57
Let me tell you something.
00:30:50.58\00:30:51.66
Being a sinner is
onerous, being a sinner
00:30:51.67\00:30:55.52
is burdensome,
being a sinner without
00:30:55.53\00:30:59.09
Christ is hopeless.
Listen, have you ever
00:30:59.10\00:31:03.66
been stuck in the
mud somewhere and said
00:31:03.67\00:31:05.07
I do whatever it
takes to get out of here.
00:31:05.08\00:31:07.07
You've been lost
somewhere and said only
00:31:07.08\00:31:08.90
I had a map, you've
been broke and said if only
00:31:08.91\00:31:11.38
I had two dollars.
Now here are sinners in
00:31:11.39\00:31:15.07
the world, lost, going
to hell and Christ says,
00:31:15.08\00:31:22.49
here's the way back
to the heart of God.
00:31:22.50\00:31:24.16
Do you think they
were fussing about it?
00:31:24.17\00:31:26.05
They will be
saying thank you Lord.
00:31:27.25\00:31:29.11
Thank you for
showing, being my sinfulness
00:31:29.12\00:31:31.76
and you, your greatness
and giving me, giving me.
00:31:31.77\00:31:36.91
A path back to
oneness with Almighty God.
00:31:36.92\00:31:42.63
The sanctuary
service weren't burdensome
00:31:42.64\00:31:44.88
or onerous. I grew up
an hour, I think it was
00:31:44.89\00:31:49.06
about an hour from
where the most famous
00:31:49.07\00:31:51.38
beekeeper in the world grew up.
00:31:51.39\00:31:53.55
You've heard of
Sir Edmund Hillary,
00:31:53.56\00:31:56.15
if you haven't the
thing to do is just to smile
00:31:56.16\00:31:59.53
one of these
smiles and go yeah, yeah.
00:31:59.54\00:32:01.62
Because you don't
wanna admit you will never
00:32:01.63\00:32:02.70
heard of Sir Edmund
Hillary. This was the
00:32:02.71\00:32:05.22
man who was the
first person to climb
00:32:05.23\00:32:07.02
Mount Everest. First,
not, not, the British want
00:32:07.03\00:32:10.82
to say that George
Mallory got there first,
00:32:10.83\00:32:13.95
but no one knows that
for sure because George
00:32:13.96\00:32:16.63
Mallory died on the
mountain, which is a
00:32:16.64\00:32:19.19
sad thing. They asked
Edmund Hillary they said
00:32:19.20\00:32:22.11
well what about
Mallory. Sir Edmund Hillary
00:32:22.12\00:32:24.64
said well you know
getting down is kind of a big
00:32:24.65\00:32:27.14
part of the whole
process too you know.
00:32:27.15\00:32:29.17
No disrespect but
when he got to the top,
00:32:29.18\00:32:31.91
not Mallory never
got down. Edmund Hillary
00:32:31.92\00:32:34.68
was a beekeeper. I
don't know a thing about
00:32:34.69\00:32:36.46
keeping bees but if
you do you know that
00:32:36.47\00:32:39.07
if you're fooling
around with bees you need
00:32:39.08\00:32:41.13
to take it carefully.
When you got to the hive,
00:32:41.14\00:32:43.62
you smoke the hive,
so when the bees smoke
00:32:43.63\00:32:46.31
that stuff, they're,
I want to say there's
00:32:46.32\00:32:51.24
stoned but you might
think that's an appropriate.
00:32:51.25\00:32:53.17
They smoke that smoke
and they just very mellow,
00:32:53.18\00:32:57.23
they're mellow bees
now, they are all mellow
00:32:57.24\00:33:00.40
and but even so you
got to put on there overall
00:33:00.41\00:33:04.59
and the gloves and
the hat with the veil
00:33:04.60\00:33:07.72
and all of that so
they won't sting you I was
00:33:07.73\00:33:10.02
at my friend
Timmy Hanson's beehives.
00:33:10.03\00:33:14.16
And I found that you
need that veil I got stunned,
00:33:14.17\00:33:17.97
one here, one there, my
face swelled up and look
00:33:17.98\00:33:20.33
like I had a great
big grape fruit on my face
00:33:20.34\00:33:24.14
you need that, you
know I didn't say that
00:33:24.15\00:33:27.34
Timmy this is such a
pain why are you making me
00:33:27.35\00:33:32.15
dress up, why do I,
no I said thank you,
00:33:32.16\00:33:35.44
got more I have two
veils. Seven gloves,
00:33:35.45\00:33:38.11
I will take
everything you had. God, set up
00:33:38.12\00:33:41.51
the sanctuary service
system not to be a hassle,
00:33:41.52\00:33:44.24
not to be a headache,
oh another offering these
00:33:44.25\00:33:47.05
what people who in
their right mind would say
00:33:47.06\00:33:49.11
thank the Lord for
this. And you know what the
00:33:49.12\00:33:52.91
Bible says, the Bible
says that the law of God is
00:33:52.92\00:33:59.52
sweeter than honey.
Yeah. Few things in this
00:33:59.53\00:34:02.30
world I like more than
honey in the honeycomb,
00:34:02.31\00:34:05.16
I like that. And God
says that his law you could
00:34:05.17\00:34:10.91
interpret that
various ways, he said law but
00:34:10.92\00:34:12.57
you know grace, mercy,
salvation, sweeter than
00:34:12.58\00:34:17.40
honeycomb to get the
honey out of the hive,
00:34:17.41\00:34:19.22
what you need to do?
And we're in this thing
00:34:19.23\00:34:22.84
because we, they
wanna put our feet down
00:34:22.85\00:34:24.49
on the sea of glass
and the Lord says here's
00:34:24.50\00:34:27.30
a sacrifice, here's
an offering, here's a
00:34:27.31\00:34:30.31
ceremony that will help
you understand this thing,
00:34:30.32\00:34:32.60
oh we just say praise
the Lord. Alter of burnt
00:34:32.61\00:34:35.08
offering.
Represented Calvary where Christ
00:34:35.09\00:34:38.14
had died. In the
courtyard there was
00:34:38.15\00:34:40.96
a laver. Now when I
say the courtyard the
00:34:40.97\00:34:43.78
sanctuary was
enclosed, there was let me just
00:34:43.79\00:34:46.38
say a fence around it.
Crude way of describing
00:34:46.39\00:34:50.45
that, let me just a
say fence. Inside there,
00:34:50.46\00:34:53.29
there was an open
space, there was the alter
00:34:53.30\00:34:55.78
of burned offerings,
things will burned up
00:34:55.79\00:34:57.60
there, Calvary Christ
gave himself completely
00:34:57.61\00:35:00.91
there. There was a
laver, it was a large copper
00:35:00.92\00:35:03.89
water base in between
the alter and the first door
00:35:03.90\00:35:07.95
into the sanctuary.
Priests would cleanse
00:35:07.96\00:35:11.00
themselves there
interesting it was made
00:35:11.01\00:35:13.45
out of, it was made
out of bronze mirrors
00:35:13.46\00:35:17.34
donated by the Israelite women.
00:35:17.35\00:35:19.70
So they made the laver out of.
00:35:19.71\00:35:22.03
And the priests
before their ministered,
00:35:22.04\00:35:24.40
washed their hands and feet.
00:35:24.41\00:35:26.84
Before they went
into the sanctuary
00:35:28.37\00:35:30.42
they got good and cleaned up.
00:35:30.43\00:35:32.24
You know something
you can apply this in a
00:35:32.25\00:35:36.03
number of ways but
God's ministers need to
00:35:36.04\00:35:38.38
remember that ministering in the
00:35:38.39\00:35:39.60
sanctuary is a serious business.
00:35:39.61\00:35:41.27
Now we can only do
it with clean hands
00:35:41.28\00:35:43.19
and clean feet and
clean heart and the truth
00:35:43.20\00:35:46.19
of the matter is God
says we're all part of an
00:35:46.20\00:35:49.43
Holy priesthood.
We're all ministers,
00:35:49.44\00:35:52.14
isn't that right? And
ministry requires cleansing
00:35:52.15\00:35:56.22
of the heart cleansing of
the life, I said to a lady
00:35:56.23\00:35:59.35
just a couple of weeks
ago no don't wait until
00:35:59.36\00:36:02.06
you've got your whole
life sort it out before
00:36:02.07\00:36:04.22
you go get busy
working for Jesus often
00:36:04.23\00:36:06.58
frequently as you
go working for Jesus
00:36:06.59\00:36:09.81
it's then that the
grace of God is gonna work
00:36:09.82\00:36:11.57
in your life and get
you through some things,
00:36:11.58\00:36:13.70
get you over some
things, that you wouldn't
00:36:13.71\00:36:15.66
have got around
or over otherwise.
00:36:15.67\00:36:18.62
But when we come
to God in ministry
00:36:18.63\00:36:20.25
it's a holy time.
Okay, okay so I'm boring
00:36:20.26\00:36:26.21
and alternate
traditional or something around
00:36:26.22\00:36:28.95
that. But you know
when we come in a sanctuary
00:36:28.96\00:36:31.51
before God and
praise when the priest went
00:36:31.52\00:36:34.26
in there it was
solemn. I don't mean that you
00:36:34.27\00:36:36.63
need to be sitting
in church looking like
00:36:36.64\00:36:38.37
you know you're
sad about something,
00:36:38.38\00:36:40.53
it's too much of
that. God's people ought to
00:36:40.54\00:36:42.56
be the most joyful
people in the world
00:36:42.57\00:36:44.36
but it's a
solemn business right.
00:36:44.37\00:36:47.03
We're in the
presence of almighty God.
00:36:47.04\00:36:48.91
Happy business,
but a serious business.
00:36:48.92\00:36:51.47
I read about this
church in Seattle,
00:36:51.48\00:36:53.96
there we're having a
football playoff's party,
00:36:53.97\00:36:57.71
because one of
their church members
00:36:57.72\00:36:59.28
was playing in
the playoffs. And they
00:36:59.29\00:37:01.66
were so happy,
they showed the game on
00:37:01.67\00:37:03.53
the big screens
in the sanctuary,
00:37:03.54\00:37:04.98
they brought in
their chilli cookers in the
00:37:04.99\00:37:06.90
sanctuary, they
brought their kegs of beer into
00:37:06.91\00:37:09.70
the sanctuary. I
said no, I don't think so.
00:37:09.71\00:37:11.93
Then so, you know
what they should have done,
00:37:11.94\00:37:14.19
they should have
washed all that in the laver
00:37:14.20\00:37:15.75
our there in the
courtyard before they came in
00:37:15.76\00:37:17.59
the sanctuary. Lord,
I would have washed it
00:37:17.60\00:37:19.64
all away. Ministry
and praise and so far
00:37:19.65\00:37:24.17
it's joyous, I
don't, there's a line here,
00:37:24.18\00:37:27.12
there's a tension
here between coming into
00:37:27.13\00:37:29.30
God's court with
praise and coming into God's
00:37:29.31\00:37:31.65
court with disrespect,
pray that God helps us
00:37:31.66\00:37:34.54
find the right line.
Animal sacrifices were
00:37:34.55\00:37:37.59
made in the outer
court blood was taken
00:37:37.60\00:37:39.46
into the sanctuary
representing sin going
00:37:39.47\00:37:42.44
into the sanctuary
and being recorded there.
00:37:42.45\00:37:45.95
The animal died with
the sins of the sinner
00:37:45.96\00:37:49.28
confessed over its
sin transferred into the
00:37:49.29\00:37:52.87
sanctuary. Sinner
went away saying praise
00:37:52.88\00:37:55.16
the Lord, my sin
is gone, my sin is on
00:37:55.17\00:37:57.44
the animal. Well
of course the animal
00:37:57.45\00:38:00.52
in the process was
part of the process;
00:38:00.53\00:38:03.89
the blood had to go
inside the sanctuary.
00:38:03.90\00:38:05.97
Now when the
sinner confessed his sin
00:38:05.98\00:38:08.27
and his sins were
transferred from himself
00:38:08.28\00:38:10.72
to the animal you would
call that justification.
00:38:10.73\00:38:14.52
Justification, but
death of Christ and how
00:38:14.53\00:38:18.03
faith in his death
brings justification
00:38:18.04\00:38:20.89
and you know what's
being said just as if
00:38:20.90\00:38:23.23
I never sin. You
know that's generosity on
00:38:23.24\00:38:25.90
the part of God.
Now if you take your car
00:38:25.91\00:38:29.04
and drive it full
speed into the side of my van
00:38:29.05\00:38:31.30
and then you says okay
I'll take it to the body
00:38:33.23\00:38:35.78
shop and get all
those fixed. And then you
00:38:35.79\00:38:38.06
brought a back and
said here this good as
00:38:38.07\00:38:39.87
new when I looked
at and sure enough
00:38:39.88\00:38:41.40
it's good as new. I
would still be as nervous
00:38:41.41\00:38:43.94
as all get out
when I saw you driving.
00:38:43.95\00:38:46.04
I would, I would, I
would take my vehicle
00:38:46.05\00:38:50.88
and part it in my
backyard, if I had one
00:38:50.89\00:38:52.97
I'll put it in
the backyard. I'll get
00:38:52.98\00:38:56.58
this far away from you as I can.
00:38:56.59\00:38:58.28
Jesus on the other
hand doesn't treat you like
00:38:58.29\00:39:01.13
I would treat you.
He says, you did what?
00:39:01.14\00:39:06.45
Like last week remember,
I did that terrible sin
00:39:06.46\00:39:09.73
and Jesus says
now, wait you did what?
00:39:09.74\00:39:12.12
You must be
forgetful. It was last week,
00:39:12.13\00:39:15.42
I did this, and I
did that and I did some
00:39:15.43\00:39:17.38
other thing and
Jesus now, you must be
00:39:17.39\00:39:18.97
forgettable, didn't
you come and talked to me
00:39:18.98\00:39:20.50
about that?
Didn't you confess that,
00:39:20.51\00:39:23.12
didn't I forgive you,
haven't I died for that,
00:39:23.13\00:39:25.52
has that being
done? Yes. Jesus would say
00:39:25.53\00:39:28.35
no respect, why
are you digging up dead
00:39:28.36\00:39:31.71
bodies for, why are
you digging up bones,
00:39:31.72\00:39:33.40
why are we going
back into the past
00:39:33.41\00:39:35.32
and dredging up old
mistakes? Justified.
00:39:35.33\00:39:38.74
Thank God for that. You
know that's not licensed,
00:39:38.75\00:39:43.74
that's grace,
that's not casualness and
00:39:43.75\00:39:48.15
permissiveness,
that's the love of God
00:39:48.16\00:39:51.52
who restored, who
restores us when we have fallen.
00:39:51.53\00:39:57.48
Now, you got to
understand something,
00:39:57.49\00:39:59.81
God's ideal is not that
we get into a cycle of sin
00:39:59.82\00:40:03.26
and confession,
sin and confession, sin
00:40:03.27\00:40:05.37
and confession I used
to I was raised in that
00:40:05.38\00:40:07.14
church. Bless me
Father for I have sin that has
00:40:07.15\00:40:09.84
been two weeks
since my last confession.
00:40:09.85\00:40:11.79
Here are my sins they
never changed too much,
00:40:11.80\00:40:14.42
I lived a pretty
predictable life.
00:40:14.43\00:40:16.24
Sin and confession,
sin and confession, no God,
00:40:16.25\00:40:19.80
wait a minute, sin
and repentance, sin and
00:40:19.81\00:40:24.80
repentance. You
sinned sure now come to me,
00:40:24.81\00:40:28.70
let's do something
here I will not just give
00:40:28.71\00:40:31.70
you a little penance to
say, I will not send you
00:40:31.71\00:40:34.18
on a pilgrimage, I won't
tell you make an offering
00:40:34.19\00:40:36.89
and all would be
alright. I will say thank you.
00:40:36.90\00:40:39.32
I've died for those
sins now I will take them
00:40:39.33\00:40:42.30
and give you in the
place of your sin a new heart.
00:40:42.31\00:40:47.94
I remember when I was
living in little town while
00:40:47.95\00:40:50.52
I was working on a
radio station and there was
00:40:50.53\00:40:52.48
a lady who was gonna
be the first lady in our
00:40:52.49\00:40:55.07
country to have a heart
transplant, Mrs. Wilson.
00:40:55.08\00:40:58.81
And she was gonna have,
be the first female heart
00:40:58.82\00:41:01.56
transplant recipient.
And wow, we say wow this is,
00:41:01.57\00:41:05.11
used to have the,
leave the country to go
00:41:05.12\00:41:07.02
and get heart transplants
and now they're doing
00:41:07.03\00:41:09.38
them here and she is
like the third person
00:41:09.39\00:41:11.00
to get one and
this was great, we were
00:41:11.01\00:41:13.13
raising money to help
her and community was aware
00:41:13.14\00:41:16.94
and it was national
news and people were
00:41:16.95\00:41:19.85
forgetting that God
has been performing heart
00:41:19.86\00:41:22.44
transplants for
thousands of years.
00:41:22.45\00:41:25.74
You don't have to
pass the collection plate,
00:41:25.75\00:41:28.39
you don't have to do
raffles and fundraises,
00:41:28.40\00:41:31.39
you don't have to fight
with an insurance company.
00:41:31.40\00:41:34.09
God says you just come
to me with a heart of stone.
00:41:34.10\00:41:38.37
Someway in heaven
there must be an enormous
00:41:38.38\00:41:41.39
place filled with all
stone hearts, God say what
00:41:41.40\00:41:44.30
I'm gonna do with
these things anyway,
00:41:44.31\00:41:46.00
He's being giving
new hearts for thousands
00:41:46.01\00:41:49.25
of years. Don't quote
me no the that bag full
00:41:49.26\00:41:52.93
of big old stone hard
things, I'm just speaking
00:41:52.94\00:41:55.36
metaphorically here.
God says you come to me
00:41:55.37\00:42:00.55
and I'll make you
clean. Man that's extravagant
00:42:00.56\00:42:04.39
especially when
you consider the cost,
00:42:04.40\00:42:07.50
we won't redeem with
corruptible things like
00:42:07.51\00:42:09.67
silver and gold
and that interesting.
00:42:09.68\00:42:11.85
Peter writes about and
he says, gold corruptible.
00:42:11.86\00:42:15.38
Hey Peter if you
don't like you give it to me
00:42:15.39\00:42:18.10
as $1400 plus an ounce,
I'll take that corruptible
00:42:18.11\00:42:21.78
stuff. Sure I
even tie that, yeah.
00:42:21.79\00:42:26.38
He refers to Gold and
silver really as it is,
00:42:26.39\00:42:28.65
it's just stuff, if you
wanna no what's valuable
00:42:28.66\00:42:31.72
the blood of Jesus
Christ is valuable.
00:42:31.73\00:42:35.76
It's not a stretch to
imagine a sinner being
00:42:35.77\00:42:38.63
like a hog wallowing in the mud.
00:42:38.64\00:42:40.35
And what Jesus does,
he doesn't, he doesn't
00:42:40.36\00:42:42.69
come to the hog
in the mud and say,
00:42:42.70\00:42:45.44
you know what I've
good news for you hog,
00:42:45.45\00:42:48.58
you are clean and
then go off, and the hog
00:42:48.59\00:42:52.01
laying in the mud
says well praise the Lord,
00:42:52.02\00:42:54.19
I am clean. Now
that's the dumbest hog
00:42:54.20\00:42:57.59
in all the world, if he
thinks he is clean while
00:42:57.60\00:43:00.47
he's still
wallowing in the mud. No.
00:43:00.48\00:43:03.41
God's plan isn't to
leave a bunch of dirty hogs
00:43:03.42\00:43:07.40
believing that
they've been made clean.
00:43:07.41\00:43:09.89
God will take that
hog out of the mud,
00:43:09.90\00:43:12.80
hose the hog down
make the hog clean
00:43:12.81\00:43:17.15
and by His grace keep
that animal from getting
00:43:17.16\00:43:20.64
back into the mud at
all, because God is into
00:43:20.65\00:43:24.96
justification. I
say praise the Lord.
00:43:24.97\00:43:28.23
God is into sanctification.
And this is when we
00:43:28.24\00:43:31.77
enter into the Holy
place of the sanctuary
00:43:31.78\00:43:33.98
there's the shewbread,
there bread of life that
00:43:33.99\00:43:37.50
will keep you
straight. Seven branch candle
00:43:37.51\00:43:41.02
stick, bread of life,
word of God or Jesus himself
00:43:41.03\00:43:44.18
is the bread of life.
Seven branch candle stick,
00:43:44.19\00:43:46.80
what did Jim say the
other night, Jesus the
00:43:46.81\00:43:48.89
light of the
world, that's right.
00:43:48.90\00:43:50.89
And then Holy Spirit
that flowed into those
00:43:50.90\00:43:53.61
seven candles, they
are keeping them burning
00:43:53.62\00:43:57.29
when it flows into
your life, will keep
00:43:57.30\00:43:59.23
you burning bright for Jesus.
00:43:59.24\00:44:02.26
Then there's that
all through of innocents,
00:44:02.27\00:44:04.51
prayers going up
before God mingled with
00:44:04.52\00:44:10.04
the fragrance of the
righteousness of Christ.
00:44:10.05\00:44:13.72
God doesn't owe you
anything, at he gives
00:44:13.73\00:44:16.40
you his
righteousness, gives it to you.
00:44:16.41\00:44:19.01
He gave us Jesus
we didn't pay for and
00:44:19.02\00:44:22.77
it wasn't even our
idea. If you read the story
00:44:22.78\00:44:27.11
of the fall of Adam
and Eve you do not read
00:44:27.12\00:44:29.75
where they come
to God and say no,
00:44:29.76\00:44:32.47
we're in a bad
way. Is there anything
00:44:32.48\00:44:34.75
you couldn't do?
God went off them
00:44:34.76\00:44:38.71
and said there's
something I propose
00:44:38.72\00:44:41.53
to do for you.
God is extravagant.
00:44:41.54\00:44:46.12
Woman taken an adultery.
00:44:46.13\00:44:47.90
We boot out of the church.
00:44:47.91\00:44:49.72
Jesus said I don't condemn you,
00:44:49.73\00:44:52.14
clean up and then
leaning on me, sanctification
00:44:52.15\00:44:57.11
idea he said go and sin no more.
00:44:57.12\00:44:59.65
Peter denied Jesus with cursing,
00:44:59.66\00:45:02.03
he said feed my
sheep. Matthew Levi,
00:45:02.04\00:45:05.09
tax collector,
he was a scoundrel,
00:45:05.10\00:45:07.48
Jesus said follow
me. Zacchaeus, you're a
00:45:07.49\00:45:11.55
hated individual,
I'm gonna coming to your
00:45:11.56\00:45:13.53
house and have
lunch with you today.
00:45:13.54\00:45:15.73
And Zacchaeus was
touched powerfully
00:45:15.74\00:45:19.31
and became a changed man.
00:45:19.32\00:45:20.99
Thomas I'll never
believe it, Jesus turned up
00:45:21.00\00:45:23.41
and said where is
he, come, here look
00:45:23.42\00:45:25.23
take a look. And say
you know you don't believe
00:45:25.24\00:45:28.52
well enough for me,
Jesus said let me love
00:45:28.53\00:45:30.71
you back, James and
John. Oh if you wanna
00:45:30.72\00:45:33.59
read a great book, read
the book of John written
00:45:33.60\00:45:36.06
by a man who said
Jesus there are some people
00:45:36.07\00:45:39.32
over there that I
think we should incinerate,
00:45:39.33\00:45:43.82
how about it? And
God used that brother to
00:45:43.83\00:45:48.49
write the book of Revelation.
00:45:48.50\00:45:50.33
Extravagant grace.
Man goes down to the
00:45:50.34\00:45:53.46
temple to praise, he
said Lord, be merciful
00:45:53.47\00:45:55.66
to me a sinner and
Jesus says the fellow
00:45:55.67\00:45:58.16
went home to
his house justified.
00:45:58.17\00:46:00.82
Aaron, wait here
Aaron, I'm going up there to
00:46:00.83\00:46:04.16
have a talk with
God. Moses comes down
00:46:04.17\00:46:06.69
the mountain, what in
the world, I hear like the
00:46:06.70\00:46:09.28
noise of war.
Here's Aaron and a bunch of
00:46:09.29\00:46:11.95
naked folks dancing
around the golden calf
00:46:11.96\00:46:14.96
that they had made.
Worshiping, worshiping
00:46:14.97\00:46:18.17
the devil. What
God do, he said Aaron?
00:46:18.18\00:46:21.90
Now you're just the
kind of man I need to be
00:46:21.91\00:46:24.58
a high priest.
What? What? He became like
00:46:24.59\00:46:31.30
the division
president. Man, if there's some
00:46:31.31\00:46:35.23
division president
that man be dancing around
00:46:35.24\00:46:36.58
a golden calf I'm
off to Ted's office.
00:46:36.59\00:46:39.04
Brother, we got a
problem out there.
00:46:40.45\00:46:43.61
If that was God, he'd
say well man we need him
00:46:45.08\00:46:47.11
as a general
conference vice president,
00:46:47.12\00:46:49.94
that's what we
should do with that brother.
00:46:49.95\00:46:51.68
No I'm not
suggesting for a minute that God
00:46:51.69\00:46:54.19
turns a blind eye to
sin, I'm not saying that
00:46:54.20\00:46:56.68
God hasn't bothered by
that, sin cost the life
00:46:56.69\00:47:00.40
of Christ 'cause
he's bothered by that.
00:47:00.41\00:47:03.42
But God was so
extravagantly gracious,
00:47:03.43\00:47:06.19
so powerfully good
that he takes a sinner
00:47:06.20\00:47:09.99
from the depths, from
the pit of sin and lifts
00:47:10.00\00:47:13.94
him up, lifts her up
and makes a saint fit for
00:47:13.95\00:47:18.78
translation out of that person.
00:47:18.79\00:47:21.38
I say thank the Lord
what more could God do.
00:47:21.39\00:47:24.79
We got to open our
Bible, I've referenced
00:47:24.80\00:47:26.39
to a number of
Bible texts, but we need
00:47:26.40\00:47:27.77
to look at one here,
Philippians chapter 1
00:47:27.78\00:47:31.97
and verse 6. The
sinner brought his offering,
00:47:31.98\00:47:35.32
her offering, lets
say down to the sanctuary.
00:47:35.33\00:47:38.42
It was a ritual
man that's all it was.
00:47:39.52\00:47:42.78
The offering represented
something so the sinner
00:47:43.82\00:47:47.70
had faith in the
Christ to which the offering
00:47:47.71\00:47:52.07
pointed. Nothing
the sinner did restore
00:47:52.08\00:47:57.24
the sinner; it's
all what God did.
00:47:57.25\00:48:00.63
I'm in Romans for
goodness say, Philippians,
00:48:00.64\00:48:03.52
did I say Philippians,
Galatians, Ephesians.
00:48:03.53\00:48:05.34
Philippians 1 and
verse 6 I should have just
00:48:05.35\00:48:07.42
quoted the verse it
says in Philippians 1
00:48:07.43\00:48:09.52
and verse 6 being,
being oh I like this word,
00:48:09.53\00:48:12.60
being what, not
presumptuous but being
00:48:12.61\00:48:15.99
confident of this
very thing that he who has
00:48:16.00\00:48:18.90
begun a good work in
you, who began the work,
00:48:18.91\00:48:21.75
he did, and what will he
did, he will complete it,
00:48:21.76\00:48:25.96
he will perform
it, when? How long?
00:48:25.97\00:48:30.75
Until the day of Jesus
Christ. Thank the Lord,
00:48:30.76\00:48:36.13
He gives power to the
faith and to them that have
00:48:36.14\00:48:38.80
no might he increases
strength, if we'll just
00:48:38.81\00:48:44.23
believe, if we'll
simply trust, and if we'll
00:48:44.24\00:48:50.26
cooperate God will
do that work in us that
00:48:50.27\00:48:55.74
will restore us,
remake us, recreate us, redeem
00:48:55.75\00:49:00.67
us and ultimately
relocate us. Because when Jesus
00:49:00.68\00:49:04.93
comes back gravity
is gonna lose power on
00:49:04.94\00:49:06.69
the souls of your
feet and you'll go and up
00:49:06.70\00:49:08.87
these people who
say I don't like to fly,
00:49:08.88\00:49:11.15
I have friends
never take a plane,
00:49:11.16\00:49:12.86
I have colleagues I
don't wanna get on when
00:49:12.87\00:49:14.58
they thinks, you're
gonna had to get a victory
00:49:14.59\00:49:16.74
over that one day.
Because one day we're gonna
00:49:16.75\00:49:20.32
flying together.
Jesus is coming back and
00:49:20.33\00:49:22.91
up we go, is gonna
make the space shuttle look
00:49:22.92\00:49:25.64
like a toy, we're
going up and where's he
00:49:25.65\00:49:29.04
taking us? The Bible
says in God's presence
00:49:29.05\00:49:32.25
there is fullness of
joy. You haven't being happy
00:49:32.26\00:49:36.60
until you've been
in God's presence.
00:49:36.61\00:49:38.46
You haven't known
joy, you haven't known
00:49:38.47\00:49:40.60
the acceleration of
the blessing of God until
00:49:40.61\00:49:43.15
you have been in
God's presence the sanctuary
00:49:43.16\00:49:47.32
took somebody from
out there in sin across
00:49:47.33\00:49:53.04
that open space into
the court yard from their
00:49:53.05\00:49:57.14
alter through the
laver into the holy place
00:49:57.15\00:50:02.40
and then ultimately to
the most holy place where
00:50:02.41\00:50:07.29
God's presence was.
Philippians 2 verse 12,
00:50:07.30\00:50:13.84
if you want a versify
ti fire you up, here it
00:50:13.85\00:50:17.61
comes. I somehow find
this to be, my go to verse,
00:50:17.62\00:50:21.56
this is my, I don't
know that you have a favorite
00:50:21.57\00:50:24.02
verse but this is a
verse that I just can
00:50:24.03\00:50:25.90
not shake.
Philippians 2 and verse 12,
00:50:25.91\00:50:28.49
Wherefore, my
beloved, as ye have always
00:50:28.50\00:50:30.17
obeyed, not as
in my presence only,
00:50:30.18\00:50:32.67
but now much more
in my absence, work out
00:50:32.68\00:50:35.70
your own salvation
with fear and trembling,
00:50:35.71\00:50:37.51
wait just second
before you think God is
00:50:37.52\00:50:39.34
recommending
righteousness by works verse 13
00:50:39.35\00:50:44.28
For it is God who
works in you both to will
00:50:44.29\00:50:50.82
and to do of his good pleasure.
00:50:50.83\00:50:54.19
And what is God's
pleasure it's God's
00:50:54.20\00:50:56.52
pleasure to
give you the kingdom.
00:50:56.53\00:50:58.40
This is the will of God
even your sanctification.
00:50:58.41\00:51:01.53
How does it happen?
By Christ living his life
00:51:01.54\00:51:05.96
in you, that's
what the Bible says,
00:51:05.97\00:51:08.32
Christ in you the hope of glory?
00:51:08.33\00:51:12.09
There's no,
there's no excuse now.
00:51:12.10\00:51:14.58
There's no reason
now anyone of us need to
00:51:14.59\00:51:16.98
be separated from
Christ because when Jesus
00:51:16.99\00:51:19.85
comes into our lives
there is no limit to what
00:51:19.86\00:51:23.65
he can do that's how
radical the liberality
00:51:23.66\00:51:28.10
of God is. Jude in
verse 24 now unto him
00:51:28.11\00:51:31.90
who was able to
keep you from falling,
00:51:31.91\00:51:34.96
Hebrews 1 verse 3
talks about our God
00:51:34.97\00:51:37.77
who upholds all things
by the word of his power.
00:51:37.78\00:51:42.67
The Sun not gonna
fall out of the sky because
00:51:42.68\00:51:48.14
God holds it there by
the word of his power.
00:51:48.15\00:51:50.94
You did not look up
at the stars last night,
00:51:50.95\00:51:53.57
worrying that
they're all gonna drop out of
00:51:53.58\00:51:55.68
the sky, you don't
look at the moon and fret
00:51:55.69\00:51:58.95
that it's gonna drift
off to some of the part
00:51:58.96\00:52:01.40
of the milky way, you
say it's there it will stay
00:52:01.41\00:52:04.32
there because God
is holding it there,
00:52:04.33\00:52:07.03
those giant
redwoods in California.
00:52:07.04\00:52:09.60
They found one a few
years ago 369 feet tall.
00:52:09.61\00:52:14.29
I didn't even know how
tall that is except to say
00:52:14.30\00:52:17.20
it's tall. Then just a
few years ago very recently,
00:52:17.21\00:52:21.14
they found another one
they named it High Perion,
00:52:21.15\00:52:24.11
379 feet tall. They
won't tell you where
00:52:24.12\00:52:28.28
it is though. They
say trees can't away from
00:52:28.29\00:52:31.20
the Paparazzi. So if
tell you where it is,
00:52:31.21\00:52:34.31
you are gonna go
then take souvenirs
00:52:34.32\00:52:35.58
and trample on it's
roots and before long the
00:52:35.59\00:52:37.08
thing will be get. It
would be 380 feet tall
00:52:37.09\00:52:39.67
but woodpeckers
tapped away at the top
00:52:39.68\00:52:41.44
and knocked a bit
off, they watched the
00:52:41.45\00:52:44.86
woodpeckers. Is not
gonna fall over anytime
00:52:44.87\00:52:49.17
soon. Now they
do fall ultimately.
00:52:49.18\00:52:52.04
Imagine what that sounds like.
00:52:52.05\00:52:54.33
Great big tree,
biggest tree in your backyard
00:52:54.34\00:52:56.91
wouldn't even reach
to its lowest branches.
00:52:56.92\00:52:58.96
It's not gonna fall
over. God is holding it there,
00:52:58.97\00:53:03.22
because it's part
of the all things that
00:53:03.23\00:53:06.22
God upholds. Let me
ask you, are you part
00:53:06.23\00:53:08.93
of all things or
somehow are you the exception
00:53:08.94\00:53:12.58
to that verse. If you
part of all things that
00:53:12.59\00:53:16.74
you can know that God
will uphold you by the
00:53:16.75\00:53:19.18
word of his power.
Amen. Keep you the way
00:53:19.19\00:53:23.37
you're already be
kept. I know we got to do
00:53:23.38\00:53:26.38
some battle with sin.
I know that, I know that.
00:53:26.39\00:53:28.52
But you can go to
God and you can say Lord
00:53:29.79\00:53:31.86
I'm praying by faith,
I believe in that Lamb,
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I'm coming into the
sanctuary, thank you
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for the table of Shewbread.
00:53:36.96\00:53:38.70
I appreciate
Christ the light of world,
00:53:38.71\00:53:41.15
I'm glad for his fragrant
righteousness of standing
00:53:41.16\00:53:44.22
with my prayers, thank
you. And I believe that
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I'm held in your hand,
I believe it because you
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have said so. You know
what I think, I think there
00:53:52.69\00:53:56.18
ought to be a little
more, a little more demanding
00:53:56.19\00:54:04.53
when we pray. A
little more demanding, Lord,
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you promised
deliver on your promise.
00:54:11.26\00:54:16.79
My weak Christian
friend wherever you might be,
00:54:19.24\00:54:21.49
you need to be come
into God and say Lord,
00:54:21.50\00:54:24.77
there are some
things in my life I can't do
00:54:24.78\00:54:26.15
anything about. But
I read in the Bible now
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unto him who is able
to keep you from falling,
00:54:30.08\00:54:31.97
what you're
waiting for, here I Am.
00:54:31.98\00:54:35.79
I'm willing to be
kept by your grace. Amen.
00:54:35.80\00:54:40.67
You think God's not
gonna do his, hold up his
00:54:40.68\00:54:43.29
end of the bargain.
I heard a television
00:54:43.30\00:54:46.04
personality, a well
known television personality
00:54:46.05\00:54:48.16
say just the other
day but those people will
00:54:48.17\00:54:50.25
born that way you
can't expect them to change.
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Now I don't know
maybe he was talking about
00:54:52.38\00:54:54.66
people who were
born kleptomaniac,
00:54:54.67\00:54:56.12
born angry or born
bent towards alcohol
00:54:56.13\00:54:58.80
or bent towards immorality.
00:54:58.81\00:55:00.11
I don't know just
what he was talking about
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because that's the
only way words he used
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but I don't care.
However you were born
00:55:04.17\00:55:07.17
and then I met some
people and I said born
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different. You might
have met some of them
00:55:10.83\00:55:12.84
as well, born
different. No matter how you
00:55:12.85\00:55:18.11
were born. Sanctuary
service is God purpose
00:55:18.12\00:55:21.93
is to separate you
from your sin and transport
00:55:21.94\00:55:25.01
you into his
presence. He is powerful enough
00:55:25.02\00:55:30.85
to do that. Rehab,
what was she born like?
00:55:30.86\00:55:37.49
Recon it had to be
some stuff went on, on early
00:55:37.50\00:55:40.32
childhood for her to
end up in the profession
00:55:40.33\00:55:42.05
she ended up in, it's
usually something that
00:55:42.06\00:55:44.49
goes on back there.
Rehab might have say
00:55:44.50\00:55:48.46
to somebody one day
I was born this way.
00:55:48.47\00:55:51.52
God had bigger plans
for Rehab and this immoral
00:55:51.53\00:55:56.90
person, if you read
your Bible is in the lineage
00:55:56.91\00:56:00.63
of Jesus himself.
God isn't impressed with
00:56:00.64\00:56:06.42
born this way.
God isn't confounded
00:56:06.43\00:56:10.04
by your genetic predisposition.
00:56:10.05\00:56:13.85
He's greater than
all of that. He is God.
00:56:13.86\00:56:20.00
You come to the
sanctuary repentant
00:56:20.01\00:56:21.82
He'll give you a new
heart, He's that liberal.
00:56:21.83\00:56:27.30
He's that generous.
Dr. Jesse Blueman said,
00:56:27.31\00:56:31.15
last saw Sir Paul Davolt
in 1967 operating on him.
00:56:31.16\00:56:34.69
In Vietnam, Paul took
two bullets in the back
00:56:34.70\00:56:37.20
should have killed
him, but this doctor
00:56:37.21\00:56:38.69
wouldn't quit.
Patient's temperature got up to
00:56:38.70\00:56:41.89
104 no cooling
blanket, only Colonels could get
00:56:41.90\00:56:44.71
cooling blankets,
Dr. Blueman called up,
00:56:44.72\00:56:48.00
hello it's
Colonel so and so he lied,
00:56:48.01\00:56:49.77
send me a cooling
blanket right now,
00:56:49.78\00:56:51.32
got one, saved a man's life.
00:56:51.33\00:56:54.40
Just a few days
ago in Manhattan.
00:56:54.41\00:56:56.57
Mr. Davolt came from
Texas, 44 years after
00:56:56.58\00:57:00.60
they'd met Saigon
he said thank you.
00:57:00.61\00:57:03.08
Thank you for saving my life.
00:57:03.09\00:57:06.59
Now he's got 16
great grandchildren.
00:57:06.60\00:57:08.62
You know what he
said if someone gives
00:57:08.63\00:57:10.73
you your life
that's pretty important
00:57:10.74\00:57:13.01
and if he gives
you 44 years of that
00:57:13.02\00:57:16.63
if you wouldn't have
had, wouldn't you want
00:57:16.64\00:57:18.62
to thank him. God has
given us life in this world
00:57:18.63\00:57:22.92
and eternal life,
today we can thank him
00:57:22.93\00:57:26.30
and praise him,
because God is good.
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