Welcome to Anchors Of
Truth from Puerto Rico.
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Jesus Came
Preaching with Jim Gilley.
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Have you ever had one of
those experiences when you're
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running just a little late and
you really don't have time to
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be stopped or
hindered by anyone.
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And it's at that
particular time that someone
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wants to have a
conversation with you.
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They give you that,
"Hey, have you got a minute?"
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And you really
don't have a minute?
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And he said, "You
know, I saw your Bible."
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Now you've got
to change your face.
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He said, "I saw your Bible and
I wondered if you're a preacher,
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because you had on a black suit.
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And I wondered
where you were going."
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And so I explained to him
that we're having some meetings
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at the Bella Vista Church.
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And he said, "I'm
visiting in Puerto Rico.
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I'm staying in a
hotel with a casino.
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I don't want any of that.
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I'm only here for a
week and I'm looking for
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a place to find Jesus."
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I said, "Well,
that's the place."
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So I gave him the address.
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He said, "I know the
hospital, I know the church.
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I'll be there."
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His name is Don
Wright. He's Mr. Wright.
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So would you pray with
me, as you have time, that
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Don Wright will find
his way to the right place.
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Because he's looking for Jesus.
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I had enough
time to find that out.
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And I assured him that if he
comes here, he will find Jesus
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in this place.
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My name is C.A. Murray and it
is my privilege and pleasure to
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welcome you to night number
one of what we like to call,
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Anchors Away.
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When we take our Anchors
away from our confines at 3ABN,
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we call them, Anchors Away.
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We are at the beautiful
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Bella Vista
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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About half way up
the mountain next to the
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Bella Vista
school and the hospital.
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A beautiful
church, beautiful place,
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and very beautiful people.
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And our speaker this night
is our president, our friend,
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Pastor Jim Gilley who will bring
the Word, we know, with power.
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I was looking back through
some statistics and I found
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that the work
began here in Puerto Rico
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sometime in the late 1800's.
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And by 1909, during the
lifetime of Ellen White,
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conferences had
already been organized.
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So the work has a
long and beautiful history
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in the island of Puerto Rico.
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Some 35,000
members and 301 churches.
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I found that on the internet.
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And some beautiful people.
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101 of those
churches are here in the
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West Puerto Rican conference.
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And that's where we find
ourselves this very night.
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And so we ask you to sit
back, relax, sit up, perk up.
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Jesus is in the house.
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And Jesus is coming soon.
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And we will hear about
that this night as our friend
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Elder Gilley gives
us the word of God.
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But before he comes
to us, I'm going to ask
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Gladys Rodriguez-Soto
to come and bring us the
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prayer for the evening.
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Then after that, you
will hear from our pastor,
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John Lomacang, who has a
very beautiful song for us.
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And then you will
hear from Elder Gilley.
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Gladys, if you would come.
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Let us pray.
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Dear heavenly
Father, we thank You so much
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for this opportunity to
be able to spread Your word
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through the technology
that we have in our hands.
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We ask You, dear Lord, to
prepare the hearts of all those
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viewers who will listen tonight
and other nights to these words.
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And that they
may fall at Your feet
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and give their hearts to You.
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Bless Pastor Gilley, who
will have the word tonight.
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And please bless
each one of our members
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and everyone who is
watching us tonight.
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Bless also our Bella
Vista Media Center and 3ABN
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for the opportunity
to spread the word of God
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throughout the world.
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Thank You, dear Jesus,
for all Your gifts, amen.
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I am remiss at not
introducing Pastor Gilley's
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wife, Camille,
who is with him also.
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And you'll be hearing more about
this Bella Vista Media Center
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this church has that is
doing some very special things
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for the Lord, as we come
together from night to night.
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But just now we ask
our pastor, our friend,
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Pastor John Lomacang, to
bring us ministry in music.
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My Jesus, I love Thee,
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I know Thou art mine;
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for Thee all the follies
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of sin I resign.
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My gracious Redeemer,
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my Savior art Thou;
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if ever I loved Thee,
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my Jesus, 'tis now.
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I love Thee because Thou
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hast first loved me,
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and purchased my pardon
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on Calvary's tree.
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I love Thee for wearing
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the thorns on Thy brow;
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if ever I loved Thee,
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my Jesus, 'tis now.
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I love Thee in life,
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I will love Thee 'til death;
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and praise Thee as long as
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Thou lendest me breath.
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I'll say when the death dew
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lies cold on my brow;
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if ever I loved Thee,
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my Jesus, 'tis now.
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In mansions of glory
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and endless delight;
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I'll ever adore Thee
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in heaven so bright;
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I'll sing with the glittering
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crown on my brow;
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if ever I loved thee,
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my Jesus, 'tis now.
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Thank you, Brother John.
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I appreciate that.
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If ever I loved
Thee, my Jesus, 'tis now.
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Alright, that's a
great song. I appreciate it.
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A real old hymn that we
all love and appreciate.
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I love the old hymns. Don't you?
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I really do.
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Reading tonight, and I
hope you'll turn with me
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with your Bibles, to
Mark the first chapter.
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I love the book of
Mark, because mark is concise.
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He does not fool
around with a lot of words.
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You know, I sometimes look
at a book that Camille's reading
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maybe, and she'll say,
"Oh, this is so beautiful
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because it's so descriptive.
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And you read all of these
different things about this
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place or that, and all of the
different descriptions of it."
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And I read that and I
say, just tell me the facts.
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Just cut to the chase.
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Mark just cuts to the chase.
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He tells you the facts.
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He says here in Mark the first
chapter beginning with verse 14,
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"Now after John was put in
prison, Jesus came to Galilee,
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preaching the gospel of
the kingdom of God, and saying,
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'The time is fulfilled, and
the kingdom of God is at hand.
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Repent, and
believe in the gospel.'"
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Now that is quite a text.
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Because he tells you an awful
lot in just a very few words.
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First of all, he
gives you the setting.
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John was now in jail.
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John, the great preacher
who had preached repentance.
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John, the one who
had been so much on the
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tips of the tongues of
the people, was now silenced.
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He was not saying anything.
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You see, the timing of
Christ's ministry; so important.
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The forerunner had come.
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The forerunner had
come and he had said,
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"I'm not even worthy
to unhook His shoes."
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That was John the Baptist.
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He had preached repentance.
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And now he was in jail.
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Christ did not
begin His ministry until
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John's ministry was
cut short and stopped.
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The timing; exactly
the right time for Him to
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begin His ministry.
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And then we find something else.
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The place that He
began His ministry.
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He began it in Galilee.
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Now you have to understand a
little bit about the geography
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to understand why
Galilee was so important for Him
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to begin His ministry.
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Understanding the geography
of Israel and of Palestine
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and of the area where Jesus was
brought up is so very important.
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Not long ago I heard a
preacher, a wonderful preacher,
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a great preacher.
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But he's never been there
and so he didn't understand
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the geography.
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And he was talking
about the city of Samaria.
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And there is not
a city of Samaria.
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Never has been.
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There's a region of Samaria.
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That's be like saying,
the city of Puerto Rico.
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Well, it's not the
city of Puerto Rico.
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There's San Juan,
there's Mayaguez where we are.
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I don't pronounce
these names right.
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You understand that.
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I'm a Texan, so if I mess
them up, you understand please.
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But you see, understanding
the geography helps you to
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understand why Jesus
would start in Galilee.
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First of all, He had grown
up in Galilee, in Nazareth.
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Which is in the Galilee region.
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He had grown up there. He
had learned as a school boy.
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Now I think He
learned most of His lessons
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at the foot of His mother.
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But I don't have any
question that He also attended
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some school, had some reckoning.
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Because He was a person who
knew how to relate to people.
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And I believe that He
learned at the synagogue.
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He learned from His mother.
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He learned
wherever He could learn.
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He worked in
Joseph's carpenter shop.
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He knew how to build things.
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Years later, I would
imagine people would say,
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"You see that chair?
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Jesus built that chair.
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He did that one Himself.
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Look at the
handiwork of that chair."
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"Look at this table.
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Jesus built this table.
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Oh, what a carpenter He was."
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I like a little music in the
background when I'm preaching.
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I appreciate that. That
emphasizes it a little bit.
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And then He also
worshipped in the synagogue.
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The synagogue was the center
of the life of the people.
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And He was there from the
time He was a child growing up.
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He knew all about it.
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Don't think that He just
showed up at the synagogue
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when He was an adult.
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He'd been going all of His life.
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They knew Him.
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When He came in, they said
to Him, "We want You to read."
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They knew He could.
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They knew that Jesus
understood what was going on.
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So He lived, He thought,
He spoke like a Galilean
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because He had grown up there.
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And so He began His
ministry where He was familiar
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with the people.
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Where He was
familiar with what went on.
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But there's another
reason why He went to Galilee.
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Because Galilee was
the most populace area
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anywhere in all of Israel.
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Josephus, in his book,
his autobiography actually,
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talks about there being over
200 cities of 15,000 or better
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population in Galilee.
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That means 3 million people.
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I was there this past November.
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Going next November, I hope.
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And I will tell you, the
excavations they're doing now
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to some of those
cities that weren't even done
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the last time I was there.
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All those towns, they're
starting to excavate them.
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And they're seeing that
they were well populated.
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Big population
shift over the years.
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Not that many people
living in Galilee anymore.
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At that time,
Jerusalem had a good population.
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It was large.
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But when you added up
all those cities of Galilee,
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it was even larger.
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Over 3 million
in those 200 cities.
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They had 19
fortified cities of the 200.
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And they had an army,
they had raised an army.
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Josephus himself says he
had raised an army because
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he was the governor at
that time of that region.
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And he had raised an army
of over 100,000 young people.
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Young men that were in that
particular army that protected
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that northern
region of the country.
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So you see, this
was a populated area.
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This was an area
that had the people.
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First of all, Jesus
was acquainted with it.
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Secondly, there
were people there.
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And then thirdly, the
character and the temperament
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of those people were
very likely to be receptive
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to a new teacher
and to new teachings.
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You see,
Jerusalem was different.
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Jerusalem was kind
of protected down there.
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Judea was an area that was
really not on the beaten path,
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you might say.
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You had to go off the
beaten path to go to Jerusalem.
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But Galilee was at the
crossroads of the world.
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I think it's very interesting
even today for us to realize
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how important that
whole region is in the world.
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Why do you think every
time somebody sneezes over there
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that you read about
it in the news or that
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you see it on television?
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Every time there's any
type of a small incident.
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You see, if you actually
look at that location between
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Europe and between Africa,
we right now are speaking to you
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on a satellite that is
operated by a company in Israel.
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Now they also operate
out of several other places,
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including Pennsylvania.
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And the one we're
actually talking to you on now
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is coming out of the
headquarters for that
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shooting up over North
America is Pennsylvania.
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But most of their satellites...
00:19:06.44\00:19:08.33
And I was there in
November at RRsat that
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operates these big
satellites that we have,
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all the ones for Europe
and the ones for Africa,
00:19:14.29\00:19:17.63
and all of that area,
shot from that one spot
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up into the clouds.
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Beaming the
signals out into the sky.
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Those satellites are
covering Russia, Africa, Europe.
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All of it from right there
at the crossroads of the world.
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So you see, it is still a
vital and an important place.
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And because those actual literal
roads crossed in Galilee,
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they were so acquainted with
all the different philosophies.
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They were acquainted
with the different people.
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They were an open people.
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And when Jesus began to
proclaim the gospel there,
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it spread from
that particular region.
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Another thing that Josephus
tells us is that these people
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were fond of innovations.
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They liked something new.
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They were always
ready for an insurrection.
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They had a quick temper.
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They were ready to respond.
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If there was a rebellion going
to take place, they were ready.
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This is why they were so
careful to make sure there were
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plenty of Roman soldiers
in that particular area.
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In order to keep down
any type of an insurrection.
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They were never
destitute of courage.
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They said that a Galilean,
it was more important for them,
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according to the
Talmud, honor was more important
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to them than money.
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More important than gain.
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And chivalry was
important to the Galilean.
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Peter was the
personification of a Galilean.
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With his good
traits and his bad traits,
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you see the Galilean in Peter.
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And this is the place
where Jesus began His ministry.
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Now you know, when a
leader begins a ministry,
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he needs to put into
just a few words his message.
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You get too broad a
message, you get too many things
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going on, and it's not clear.
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I'm not going to
get into politics.
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By the way, I hate to
admit this, I don't think I have
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voted in a presidential
election in at least 20 years.
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I really don't
think I have. Why?
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Because I don't think any man
has the answer to the problems.
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I just don't think they do.
00:22:05.80\00:22:06.99
And I've thought
that for a long time.
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I've not felt like
putting my stamp on anybody.
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Now that may be a weakness.
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If it is, you can go
ahead and condemn me.
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But I have prayed for
every single one of them.
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And I pray for our
President right now.
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And I pray for our Congress,
and I pray for our Senators.
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But I have not found anybody
yet, and I don't think I will
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before the Lord comes,
that I can actually say,
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I'm going to vote for
this person or that person.
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I just don't.
00:22:39.35\00:22:40.35
But I'm extremely interested
in presidential politics.
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I like to watch it.
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It goes back to
when I was a kid.
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I remember the first time
that I got really interested
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was watching, actually,
the democratic convention
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when John Kennedy all
of a sudden, this was 1956,
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almost made a run.
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And I turned to my dad and
I said, "That man is going to
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be President someday."
00:23:10.19\00:23:11.37
My dad said, "No, no."
He said, "He's Catholic.
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They'll never elect a Catholic."
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Four years later, he was
president of the United States.
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But I remember that.
I remember it so well.
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I remember listening to all
of these different politicians.
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And usually, clear back, if
you go clear back to Roosevelt,
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it was, The New Deal.
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You go to Lyndon
Johnson, it was the...
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What was it, the New Frontier?
Or something like that.
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New Society? The Great Society.
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Whatever it was, he had a
motto. Two or three words.
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We've had some motto's
happen in this particular
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campaign that's going on
right now, in the primary.
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You remember one of them.
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999, do you remember that?
00:24:02.98\00:24:05.82
That was a motto.
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It stuck in your mind, see.
00:24:07.73\00:24:10.55
Very few words but
it's sticking in your mind.
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Jesus came forth with a message.
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And His message was simple.
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It was, repent for the
kingdom of heaven is at hand.
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Repent.
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And if you look at
this, you see the imperative
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and the indicative of Jesus.
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And the imperative was, "I'm
saying to you, woe," He said.
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To Korazim and Bethsaida, Tyre
and Sidon, and to Capernaum.
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He said, "If Sodom and Gomorrah
had been preached to like you
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were preached to, they
would have been saved."
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You see, Jesus had a
specific message of repentance.
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You know, we don't
really sometimes understand
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what repentance is.
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We don't really understand it.
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If you break down
the word, metanoia.
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It's an interesting word.
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Meta means after.
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Noia has to do with thought.
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So repentance is
like an afterthought,
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in that you repeat it.
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You do something and
you have an after thought.
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That's what noia repentance is.
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Pronoia is a forethought.
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By the way, pronoia
is better than metanoia.
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If you can avoid
something ahead of time,
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it is so much better.
00:25:47.61\00:25:49.14
Noeo means the mind.
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We get paranoia, that
means an abnormal thought.
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And so we get this
noia, comes from repentance;
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turn around.
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Repentance is not some
morbid self accusation.
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It's not just a dread of hell.
00:26:11.74\00:26:14.25
That's not what repentance is.
00:26:14.28\00:26:16.33
Sometimes people
think that you can repent
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simply by just
being sorry for your sins.
00:26:21.68\00:26:26.05
It's more than that.
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More than that.
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It contains four elements
that we're going to look at.
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First of all, the realization
that one's actions were wrong.
00:26:33.51\00:26:39.40
Number two, sorrow
for the wrong doing.
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Number three, a
changed attitude towards life.
00:26:45.43\00:26:50.49
Number four, a change of action.
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These are all
involved, these four things.
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Very important as
far as repentance.
00:26:57.32\00:27:01.69
Now when I was a
young man growing up,
00:27:02.54\00:27:05.48
I had a couple of friends.
00:27:05.51\00:27:07.05
We were all the boys
that were in the church.
00:27:08.23\00:27:11.38
My brother was a little younger.
00:27:11.41\00:27:13.53
He had one or two
friends that were younger.
00:27:13.56\00:27:16.36
I had one or two friends
that were about the same age.
00:27:17.12\00:27:19.91
Except one was a little older.
00:27:19.94\00:27:21.56
We really had a
lot of fun together.
00:27:32.67\00:27:37.13
Now we looked forward
to prayer meeting night.
00:27:38.31\00:27:41.19
Not just for the prayer meeting,
although that was part of it.
00:27:42.64\00:27:47.17
But mostly so we
could be together.
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We especially looked
forward to prayer meeting night
00:27:49.99\00:27:52.52
one time a month.
00:27:52.55\00:27:54.74
Because it had a
church board afterwards.
00:27:55.28\00:27:57.33
And sometimes those
church board meetings
00:27:58.28\00:28:00.15
would go on and on and on.
00:28:00.18\00:28:02.83
That was great.
00:28:02.86\00:28:04.38
Because we would find something
to do outside that was fun.
00:28:05.50\00:28:12.15
I can remember that we
usually would try to make sure
00:28:12.93\00:28:16.56
somebody had a
few balloons along.
00:28:16.59\00:28:19.43
And we would
fill them with water.
00:28:19.77\00:28:21.91
And then we would
wait for a car to come by
00:28:22.68\00:28:25.58
and we would through
those balloons and hit the cars.
00:28:25.68\00:28:30.45
And now the fun began because,
especially in those days,
00:28:31.40\00:28:35.09
it seemed like every car
we ever hit the driver would
00:28:35.12\00:28:38.34
throw on the breaks.
00:28:38.37\00:28:39.89
We would start running.
00:28:39.92\00:28:41.56
And often the driver
would get out and chase us.
00:28:41.59\00:28:44.88
This day and
age, we don't do that.
00:28:45.50\00:28:47.73
If they get away with a
wet car, they just go on.
00:28:47.74\00:28:50.61
Afraid something
else might happen if they
00:28:50.64\00:28:52.61
get out of the car.
00:28:52.64\00:28:53.85
Not in those days.
00:28:53.88\00:28:55.12
They would chase you
down and try to punish you
00:28:55.15\00:28:58.38
if they possibly could.
00:28:58.41\00:29:00.15
Now we were fast and I don't
remember them ever catching us.
00:29:00.18\00:29:04.51
I do remember one guy.
00:29:04.54\00:29:06.01
He was in a convertible.
00:29:06.04\00:29:07.52
And we all three
hit him with balloons.
00:29:08.85\00:29:12.97
And then we started running.
00:29:14.07\00:29:16.04
Now that's when the excitement
starts when you start running.
00:29:16.07\00:29:18.37
Your heart is
pounding, you know.
00:29:18.38\00:29:20.11
And you're trying to get away.
00:29:20.14\00:29:21.98
And we ran into a
garage, somebody's garage
00:29:22.01\00:29:25.01
down an alley about
half a block from the church.
00:29:25.04\00:29:27.51
And we were lying
there breathing so hard.
00:29:27.54\00:29:31.27
I was just sure he
could hear us breathing.
00:29:31.30\00:29:33.65
And here he
comes down the alley.
00:29:33.95\00:29:35.88
And he looked in there.
00:29:36.47\00:29:38.27
But somehow he didn't see us.
00:29:39.12\00:29:41.72
And then he went on.
00:29:42.38\00:29:43.81
Now a couple of times
Jimmy Don came to see me,
00:29:44.72\00:29:48.75
it seemed like we were
always throwing something.
00:29:48.78\00:29:51.78
I remember one day we
were throwing rocks at cars.
00:29:52.13\00:29:57.06
But we were being very careful
to throw only at the tire,
00:29:57.83\00:30:02.37
the hubcap.
00:30:02.87\00:30:04.13
Not the car itself.
00:30:05.09\00:30:06.55
Just trying to see if
we could hit the tires.
00:30:07.50\00:30:09.76
Well, one of
those rocks came up.
00:30:11.18\00:30:14.35
They use to have the
little side mirrors on the cars.
00:30:14.97\00:30:18.66
On the side. Not
mirror, but glass.
00:30:18.69\00:30:21.97
A little, you know.
00:30:22.00\00:30:23.49
And it hit that and broke it.
00:30:24.06\00:30:27.00
And we immediately
walked away like...
00:30:28.13\00:30:31.17
It really was an accident.
We meant to hit the tire.
00:30:31.68\00:30:35.22
And it just kind of did that
and hit the side of the car.
00:30:35.69\00:30:38.90
So we hid.
00:30:39.35\00:30:41.14
And then we
thought, no we better not.
00:30:41.74\00:30:43.78
So we walked real
nonchalant down by my dad
00:30:43.81\00:30:47.00
who was doing some
painting on the house.
00:30:47.03\00:30:49.70
And the man
pulled in the driveway.
00:30:50.34\00:30:52.70
And that cost my
dad. He had to pay.
00:30:54.60\00:30:59.08
And I remember what it was.
00:30:59.66\00:31:01.22
It was like 15
bucks, something like that.
00:31:01.25\00:31:04.35
That was quite a little
bit of money at the time.
00:31:04.38\00:31:07.24
And dad had to pay for that.
00:31:08.14\00:31:10.39
He told the man where
to go to get it fixed.
00:31:10.42\00:31:12.44
Then he took that out of
my hide a little later on.
00:31:13.35\00:31:18.20
He was about to the place
where he said maybe Jimmy Don
00:31:21.80\00:31:26.64
couldn't come
over anymore because
00:31:26.65\00:31:28.27
we always got into trouble.
00:31:28.30\00:31:29.85
And then we moved down
into the country a little ways.
00:31:30.25\00:31:33.82
We got down there
and I went out one day.
00:31:33.85\00:31:38.54
Jimmy Don was there and
we were out around the place.
00:31:38.57\00:31:42.04
We were living on a pretty
good size acreage, you know,
00:31:42.41\00:31:45.46
out in the country.
00:31:45.49\00:31:46.53
And we found a
nest of chicken eggs.
00:31:46.97\00:31:52.27
And I knew that they were
never going to hatch because
00:31:52.30\00:31:54.77
we didn't have a rooster.
00:31:54.80\00:31:56.17
And so I knew they
would be very ripe.
00:31:56.99\00:32:02.38
Very rotten.
00:32:02.94\00:32:04.75
And we got those eggs,
we went over by the highway,
00:32:05.69\00:32:09.55
we got under the bridge.
00:32:10.14\00:32:12.31
I got on one side, he
got on the other side.
00:32:12.99\00:32:15.50
We saw a car
coming down the road.
00:32:15.90\00:32:18.01
And I pitched
mine, he pitched his.
00:32:18.04\00:32:20.45
Now people were driving down the
road and their window was open.
00:32:20.48\00:32:25.99
One of those eggs
went in the window.
00:32:27.01\00:32:29.26
I'm not sure which one.
00:32:29.29\00:32:31.19
The other hit
like on the windshield.
00:32:31.29\00:32:33.82
This man had
just washed his car.
00:32:34.98\00:32:37.05
They had just gotten
dressed up to go out to eat.
00:32:37.64\00:32:40.32
We didn't know that.
00:32:40.33\00:32:41.33
Of course we just saw a
car coming down the road.
00:32:41.34\00:32:43.52
We found this out later
when he came back to our house.
00:32:43.72\00:32:47.01
And my dad had to
pay for a car wash.
00:32:47.95\00:32:52.08
And my dad had to pay to
have the dry cleaning done.
00:32:53.08\00:32:57.07
I remember both of
those that he paid for.
00:32:57.10\00:33:00.90
And again, he
took Jimmy Don home
00:33:01.53\00:33:04.87
and he took the
cost out of my hide.
00:33:04.90\00:33:08.83
I paid for it.
00:33:09.38\00:33:10.86
Now I had done something wrong.
00:33:11.26\00:33:13.86
I didn't really repent.
00:33:14.38\00:33:16.86
I was sorry we were caught.
00:33:17.43\00:33:19.66
But it wasn't
really true repentance.
00:33:20.42\00:33:24.03
Now once my dad
applied his belt, it did become
00:33:24.38\00:33:30.59
a little bit more
like true repentance.
00:33:30.62\00:33:33.67
Because I suddenly realized I
had really done something wrong.
00:33:33.70\00:33:38.42
And you see, repentance
is when you turn around.
00:33:38.45\00:33:42.06
You turn around.
00:33:42.52\00:33:43.78
You're no longer going
the way you were going.
00:33:43.81\00:33:46.62
You're going this way,
you're going the wrong way.
00:33:46.92\00:33:49.75
And then you come to your
senses and you turn around
00:33:49.78\00:33:54.03
and you head the other way.
00:33:54.06\00:33:55.53
Now tonight, we were
coming here to the meeting.
00:33:56.80\00:34:00.40
We got the directions from
the gentleman at the hotel.
00:34:01.52\00:34:05.26
I don't know whoever taught
him how to give directions.
00:34:06.38\00:34:09.93
But we followed
those directions to a tee.
00:34:09.96\00:34:14.49
And we did not come
anywhere near this church.
00:34:15.06\00:34:19.30
We were a long way away.
00:34:20.10\00:34:21.94
We called Pastor John.
00:34:21.97\00:34:23.76
He got a hold of Brother Dennis.
00:34:24.47\00:34:26.65
Brother Dennis drove and
met us and brought us here.
00:34:26.97\00:34:30.95
When we realized we were
going the wrong way, we repented
00:34:30.98\00:34:34.69
and turned around and went back.
00:34:34.99\00:34:38.77
And we were told how to go back.
00:34:38.80\00:34:40.62
They said, "Go back."
00:34:40.65\00:34:41.92
And they gave us a
place, "Go back to there and
00:34:41.94\00:34:44.52
stay there," they said.
00:34:44.55\00:34:46.72
"We'll meet you
there and bring you on."
00:34:47.07\00:34:50.89
And, wow, was it good to
have somebody leading the way.
00:34:51.72\00:34:56.11
I hate to tell
you what Camille said.
00:34:56.41\00:34:58.22
But she said, "I won't go
back to the hotel with you
00:34:58.86\00:35:02.05
unless we're
following somebody."
00:35:02.08\00:35:03.68
That road that we
were on was quite a road.
00:35:04.64\00:35:08.26
And I repent that I
got on the wrong road.
00:35:09.03\00:35:15.37
You see, we must see
our need of repentance.
00:35:15.87\00:35:21.76
Now when Jesus was talking,
you would think that He was
00:35:22.09\00:35:25.27
going into the bars and
talking about repenting.
00:35:25.28\00:35:28.17
You would think that He
was going out and finding
00:35:28.18\00:35:31.36
those who were operating in sin.
00:35:31.39\00:35:34.55
No, He went to the synagogue.
00:35:34.58\00:35:36.48
He went to the
religious leaders.
00:35:37.80\00:35:40.06
He went to the Pharisees.
00:35:40.81\00:35:43.14
And He said to them and
the Sadducees and the scribes,
00:35:43.85\00:35:47.45
and He said, "Repent."
00:35:47.46\00:35:50.11
Now you know, they never
thought they needed to repent.
00:35:51.78\00:35:54.68
They were religious people.
00:35:54.71\00:35:56.63
Why would they need to repent?
00:35:57.28\00:35:59.97
Because they are so good.
00:36:00.00\00:36:02.70
I will tell you today,
you don't hear many sermons
00:36:04.59\00:36:06.99
about repentance.
00:36:07.02\00:36:08.11
You may have never heard one.
00:36:08.97\00:36:10.56
You may be hearing the
first you've ever heard.
00:36:10.59\00:36:12.59
You may have heard them before.
00:36:13.13\00:36:14.67
And people think that
those who need to repent
00:36:15.53\00:36:18.63
are those who are stealing,
killing, committing adultery.
00:36:18.83\00:36:22.23
Sure they need to repent.
00:36:22.26\00:36:23.59
But these are not the ones that
Jesus was talking to primarily.
00:36:25.90\00:36:29.87
Primarily, Jesus was
talking to religious people.
00:36:30.64\00:36:36.21
You see, I'm a Pharisee.
00:36:37.82\00:36:39.72
I'm a religious person.
00:36:40.39\00:36:42.25
Paul said he was the
Pharisee of the Pharisees.
00:36:42.28\00:36:45.97
But you see, real sin, if you
really understand what sin is,
00:36:47.27\00:36:51.50
you know that we
all need repentance.
00:36:51.53\00:36:55.68
Because sin is not
just stealing, killing,
00:36:56.62\00:37:01.75
and committing adultery.
00:37:01.77\00:37:03.57
Sin involves pride.
00:37:05.01\00:37:08.13
Pride of opinion even.
00:37:08.80\00:37:10.67
Certainly the Lord tells
us that it's the greatest
00:37:10.70\00:37:13.28
pride of all.
00:37:13.31\00:37:14.65
See, nobody ever
kicked you out of the church
00:37:15.61\00:37:17.42
for having an opinion.
00:37:17.45\00:37:18.86
They'll never
disfellowship you for that.
00:37:20.16\00:37:23.06
They might disfellowship
you for a nasty divorce,
00:37:23.09\00:37:26.50
or something like that.
00:37:26.53\00:37:27.67
But they won't for
having pride of opinion.
00:37:27.70\00:37:31.43
Jesus says these sins are
the sins we have to repent from.
00:37:32.65\00:37:39.99
You see, when He found
the woman taken in adultery,
00:37:41.27\00:37:43.78
He was kind to her.
00:37:43.81\00:37:45.80
He restored her in
kindness and in love.
00:37:47.68\00:37:53.25
But He reserved His hardest
words for religious people.
00:37:54.61\00:37:58.88
Not just because
they didn't accept Him,
00:38:00.20\00:38:03.23
but because He knew of
the pride in their heart.
00:38:04.32\00:38:09.91
Religious pride.
00:38:09.94\00:38:11.78
It was religious pride that
eventually put Him on the cross.
00:38:11.79\00:38:15.27
The thief on the
cross cried out to Him.
00:38:16.80\00:38:19.29
But you don't find any of those
Pharisees crying out to Him.
00:38:20.71\00:38:26.47
You don't find that.
00:38:27.59\00:38:29.08
Why?
00:38:30.03\00:38:31.14
Because they did
not feel their need.
00:38:31.44\00:38:33.68
Religious pride,
more than anything else,
00:38:34.82\00:38:40.88
put Jesus on the cross.
00:38:40.91\00:38:43.21
You may be the elder of
the church, but my friend,
00:38:43.22\00:38:47.50
if you have not repented
of the pride in your heart
00:38:48.57\00:38:53.38
and turned away from
that and sought Jesus,
00:38:53.95\00:38:58.84
then you do not know
what true repentance is.
00:38:59.74\00:39:06.52
You see, I believe with
all of my heart that we do
00:39:07.69\00:39:11.95
need to repent.
00:39:11.96\00:39:15.64
And this is not something
that we can do just on our own.
00:39:16.53\00:39:19.84
You see, we're not to
trust Christ because we repent,
00:39:19.87\00:39:23.84
but we trust
Christ to make us repent.
00:39:23.87\00:39:29.98
We're not to come to Jesus
because we have a broken heart,
00:39:30.55\00:39:34.15
but to come to Christ that
He may give us a broken heart
00:39:34.16\00:39:40.26
and sorrow for sin.
00:39:41.01\00:39:44.41
We're not to come to
Him because we're fit
00:39:44.44\00:39:46.38
to come to Him, but we're
to come to Him because we're
00:39:46.41\00:39:50.63
unfit in every
way to come to Him.
00:39:50.66\00:39:55.91
You see, our
fitness is our unfitness.
00:39:55.94\00:39:59.44
Our qualification is
our lack of qualification.
00:39:59.75\00:40:05.03
And we must come to Him.
00:40:05.59\00:40:08.63
We do not repent
in order to be saved,
00:40:08.93\00:40:11.33
but we repent because we
have received His salvation.
00:40:12.30\00:40:18.31
We do not hate sin
and hope to be saved,
00:40:19.32\00:40:22.34
but we come to Jesus asking
Him to help us to hate sin
00:40:22.79\00:40:30.67
and to turn away from sin.
00:40:30.97\00:40:34.72
You see, repentance is something
that is so difficult sometimes
00:40:35.35\00:40:41.81
to put your finger on.
00:40:41.84\00:40:43.48
It does not save you.
00:40:43.78\00:40:46.12
But you can't be
saved without it.
00:40:46.15\00:40:48.25
But just repenting
doesn't save us at all.
00:40:49.49\00:40:52.96
But we have to
repent in order to be saved.
00:40:54.17\00:40:58.43
Repent and confess and
turn away, and walk with Jesus;
00:40:58.91\00:41:06.23
turning our
direction completely.
00:41:07.02\00:41:10.60
The Bible says in Acts
the 17th chapter and verse 30,
00:41:11.15\00:41:13.97
"And the times of this
ignorance God winked at;
00:41:13.99\00:41:17.30
but now commandeth all
men everywhere to repent."
00:41:17.33\00:41:22.65
If you go in the book of
Revelation and you read the
00:41:22.68\00:41:25.89
seven churches, eight
times it says, "repent."
00:41:25.92\00:41:33.43
"Repent or I'll remove
My candlestick," Jesus says.
00:41:34.63\00:41:39.42
And these seven
churches represent every aspect
00:41:40.14\00:41:44.65
of our church today.
00:41:44.68\00:41:46.47
Every aspect is
still represented.
00:41:47.22\00:41:49.35
Even though it was
represented at that time,
00:41:49.38\00:41:51.28
you look at it and it
all, especially Laodicea,
00:41:51.31\00:41:55.62
but all of them represent
our churches, or church.
00:41:55.83\00:42:02.70
And sometimes even
us individually today.
00:42:03.29\00:42:06.48
And Christ says, "Unless
you repent," He says, "I will
00:42:06.51\00:42:11.22
remove My candlestick."
00:42:11.25\00:42:15.99
You see, we sometimes
get the idea that if we just
00:42:16.66\00:42:21.93
turn around and go
the other direction,
00:42:21.96\00:42:25.54
confess, do the best we
can to live, that this is what
00:42:26.58\00:42:30.72
Christ is talking about.
00:42:30.75\00:42:31.98
But no, what Christ is
talking about is for Him to take
00:42:32.00\00:42:35.83
full charge of our life.
00:42:35.86\00:42:37.46
Full charge.
00:42:38.25\00:42:39.70
When we repent, it will
not gain anything for us
00:42:40.01\00:42:45.96
unless we depend
upon Him for eternal life.
00:42:46.67\00:42:52.15
That's the only way
that we can have life.
00:42:52.35\00:42:54.88
You see, the law
demands a penalty.
00:42:54.91\00:42:57.12
Somebody does a crime
and he is sorry for it.
00:42:58.22\00:43:05.41
And he goes to the warden
and he says, "You can let me out
00:43:05.44\00:43:10.43
because I am sorry for my sin.
00:43:11.41\00:43:14.93
I confess it, I'm
sorry for it. Now let me out.
00:43:15.78\00:43:20.79
Just open the gates,
tell them to open the gates,
00:43:21.09\00:43:23.60
and I'll be
headed on back home."
00:43:23.63\00:43:26.00
And the warden will say to
him, "Well, I'm very happy that
00:43:27.05\00:43:29.76
you're sorry, but you're going
to have to pay the penalty."
00:43:29.79\00:43:33.66
Somebody has to pay the penalty.
00:43:33.69\00:43:36.40
You see, every sin
that I've ever committed,
00:43:36.43\00:43:38.79
every sin that
you've ever committed,
00:43:39.44\00:43:41.30
the penalty has to be paid.
00:43:42.66\00:43:45.55
Either you pay it
yourself at the end of time
00:43:46.27\00:43:52.36
in the destruction of
the wicked, or else Christ,
00:43:52.39\00:43:56.10
you allow Him to
pay it on the cross.
00:43:56.13\00:43:58.21
But it has to be paid.
00:43:59.34\00:44:00.94
One place or the other.
00:44:01.49\00:44:03.68
There is absolutely no
sin that is ever committed
00:44:04.08\00:44:10.06
that does not
have to be paid for.
00:44:10.64\00:44:13.04
Either by ourselves or by our
Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
00:44:13.60\00:44:22.04
And so, we must actively
handle repentance through faith.
00:44:22.07\00:44:30.05
And without faith,
there's no genuine repentance.
00:44:30.35\00:44:33.59
It's a two-headed coin.
00:44:33.62\00:44:35.02
You have a coin that's
got heads and tails on it.
00:44:35.72\00:44:38.84
You can't flip a
coin to somebody and say,
00:44:39.71\00:44:41.87
"I'm only
flipping tails to you."
00:44:41.90\00:44:43.62
They get both, heads and tails.
00:44:44.76\00:44:47.45
Repentance on one
side, faith on the other.
00:44:47.48\00:44:51.43
They go hand and hand together.
00:44:51.46\00:44:56.03
The human mind is made up of
intellect, which is our mind.
00:44:56.55\00:45:01.22
The human being is
made up of the mind,
00:45:01.52\00:45:04.88
it's made up of
emotions which is the heart,
00:45:04.91\00:45:07.67
of the volition
which is our will.
00:45:07.70\00:45:10.53
These three things,
and all three of these,
00:45:10.56\00:45:14.28
must be involved
in our repentance.
00:45:14.99\00:45:20.60
And we must determine
that we will turn away,
00:45:21.16\00:45:25.88
that we will give our
lives to Jesus Christ our Lord.
00:45:26.67\00:45:30.57
William Cowper,
it's spelled Cowper,
00:45:31.12\00:45:35.44
is a man from England.
00:45:36.60\00:45:38.07
William Cowper's
mother died when he was young.
00:45:39.69\00:45:42.54
And he had a very horrible life
with his father and stepmother.
00:45:44.21\00:45:50.52
They sent him off to school.
00:45:51.86\00:45:53.41
His father was an
attorney and he sent him off
00:45:53.42\00:45:57.03
to become an attorney.
00:45:57.04\00:45:58.04
But William was not at
all cut out to be an attorney.
00:45:58.05\00:46:02.30
And he had a nervous
breakdown right at the time
00:46:03.86\00:46:09.04
of the final test
to become an attorney.
00:46:09.76\00:46:13.45
He was institutionalized.
00:46:14.24\00:46:15.99
They thought that he
would never ever recover.
00:46:16.43\00:46:22.06
But there was a man there.
00:46:23.14\00:46:24.79
A man that was kind and
loving and loved the Lord.
00:46:25.86\00:46:33.90
He actually took
the book of Romans,
00:46:35.26\00:46:37.87
Romans the 3rd chapter,
and he read it to William.
00:46:37.90\00:46:43.06
He read those texts to
him and then he asked him
00:46:44.09\00:46:47.52
to read them again himself.
00:46:47.55\00:46:50.65
Romans the 3rd
chapter verses 21 through 26
00:46:51.66\00:46:56.54
are the verses that he read.
00:46:56.88\00:46:58.96
And he gave his life
to the Lord Jesus Christ.
00:47:00.38\00:47:06.48
When he was well, they
placed him with a family.
00:47:07.34\00:47:12.56
He lived quite
well with the family.
00:47:13.46\00:47:16.81
And later, the family
moved to Olney in England.
00:47:18.05\00:47:24.63
And he moved with them.
00:47:24.66\00:47:25.95
Now in Olney, he began to go
to a chapel where there was a
00:47:27.47\00:47:32.80
man by the name of John
Newton, who was the preacher.
00:47:32.83\00:47:37.15
John Newton's story
and William Cowper's story
00:47:38.28\00:47:41.92
in many ways parallel.
00:47:41.95\00:47:43.53
Except that John
Newton also was a sea captain.
00:47:43.54\00:47:47.62
But these two men began
to write songs together.
00:47:48.81\00:47:53.48
They wrote a hymn
book called, Olney Hymns.
00:47:54.25\00:47:59.03
I think there are 379
or 380 hymns in there.
00:47:59.06\00:48:03.87
And something like 66 of those
were written by William Cowper.
00:48:03.90\00:48:09.01
Cowper's life had changed.
00:48:10.13\00:48:12.49
He had hated God
when his mother had died.
00:48:13.39\00:48:16.05
He blamed God because
people had told him that
00:48:16.92\00:48:19.69
God had taken
his mother to heaven.
00:48:19.72\00:48:23.67
And it was part of
the reason that he had
00:48:25.82\00:48:28.99
this nervous breakdown.
00:48:29.02\00:48:30.76
Now he had accepted Christ.
00:48:31.75\00:48:35.38
His life had been changed.
00:48:36.44\00:48:38.34
Completely and totally changed.
00:48:39.13\00:48:42.47
And now he was writing hymns.
00:48:43.49\00:48:47.42
Just like John
Newton's life had been changed
00:48:48.11\00:48:50.66
and he wrote hymns
like Amazing Grace.
00:48:50.69\00:48:52.97
Cowper wrote a hymn
that is in our hymnal.
00:48:53.68\00:48:58.41
And it's called, "There Is
A Fountain" filled with blood,
00:48:59.56\00:49:07.22
flowing from Immanuel's veins.
00:49:08.18\00:49:11.09
I'm going to ask Pastor
John if he would come right now
00:49:11.97\00:49:17.32
and sing that song
that William Cowper wrote.
00:49:18.31\00:49:21.29
There is a
fountain filled with blood.
00:49:21.83\00:49:24.29
You see, the only way
that we can repent is if
00:49:24.80\00:49:27.40
Jesus Christ helps us to repent.
00:49:27.43\00:49:30.25
True repentance
has to come from Him.
00:49:30.28\00:49:33.10
It can't come.
00:49:33.64\00:49:34.76
We can't build it up ourselves.
00:49:34.79\00:49:36.89
We can't be just sorry for sin.
00:49:36.92\00:49:39.00
It has to be a repentance
that we receive from Him.
00:49:39.28\00:49:43.99
And we must claim
the cross of Jesus.
00:49:44.98\00:49:48.38
We must be bought by the blood.
00:49:49.07\00:49:53.70
There is a
fountain filled with blood
00:50:10.76\00:50:18.99
drawn from Immanuel's veins;
00:50:19.02\00:50:25.80
and sinners
plunged beneath that flood
00:50:27.09\00:50:34.55
lose all their guilty stains.
00:50:34.58\00:50:42.11
Lose all their guilty stains,
00:50:42.31\00:50:50.13
lose all their guilty stains.
00:50:50.48\00:50:57.13
And sinners
plunged beneath that flood
00:50:58.13\00:51:05.65
lose all their guilty stains.
00:51:05.68\00:51:13.37
The dying thief rejoiced to see
00:51:13.77\00:51:21.50
that fountain in his day;
00:51:21.53\00:51:28.54
and there may I,
though vile as he,
00:51:29.47\00:51:36.78
wash all my sins away.
00:51:36.81\00:51:44.37
Wash all my sins away,
00:51:44.67\00:51:52.50
wash all my sins away.
00:51:52.80\00:52:00.25
And there may I,
though vile as he,
00:52:00.28\00:52:07.87
wash all my sins away.
00:52:07.90\00:52:16.89
Ever since by
faith I saw the stream
00:52:19.44\00:52:27.92
Thy flowing wounds supply;
00:52:27.95\00:52:35.57
redeeming love
has been my theme,
00:52:35.60\00:52:42.92
and shall be till I die.
00:52:43.22\00:52:50.19
And shall be till I die,
00:52:50.39\00:52:58.85
yes it shall be till I die.
00:52:59.02\00:53:06.73
Your redeeming
love has been my theme,
00:53:06.76\00:53:14.18
and shall be till I die.
00:53:14.62\00:53:24.09
Yes it shall be
00:53:25.63\00:53:31.17
till I die.
00:53:31.20\00:53:41.14
Thank you, John.
00:53:53.67\00:53:55.00
You see, my friend,
it's only by the blood.
00:53:55.79\00:53:58.78
Only by the blood.
00:53:59.80\00:54:01.39
Coming to Him, receiving Him.
00:54:02.91\00:54:06.18
You see, even our righteousness,
the Bible tells us,
00:54:06.68\00:54:09.96
are as filthy rags.
00:54:09.99\00:54:11.93
We wonder how that can be.
00:54:12.78\00:54:13.91
We know our sins
are as filthy rags.
00:54:13.94\00:54:16.45
But you see, He was even talking
to those who are Pharisaical.
00:54:17.76\00:54:22.25
And He was saying to
us, "Your righteousness
00:54:22.90\00:54:27.68
is righteousness of your own.
00:54:28.36\00:54:31.12
It's not from Me."
00:54:32.09\00:54:33.72
Every moment of
every day that we walk,
00:54:34.30\00:54:38.84
we must walk with Him.
00:54:39.49\00:54:41.35
When Peter got out of that boat
and he started walking on water,
00:54:41.65\00:54:45.47
he was walking on the water.
00:54:45.50\00:54:47.79
Which is impossible.
00:54:47.82\00:54:49.88
And you see, the
Christian life is impossible,
00:54:50.59\00:54:53.61
except with Jesus.
00:54:54.01\00:54:56.46
By looking at Him.
00:54:57.91\00:54:59.37
The minute Peter
took his eyes off Jesus,
00:55:00.20\00:55:04.63
for whatever reason;
fear, doubt, pride, whatever,
00:55:04.66\00:55:10.01
he went down.
00:55:11.24\00:55:12.69
For whatever reason we
take our eyes off Jesus.
00:55:13.05\00:55:18.59
We have absolutely
no strength of our own.
00:55:19.87\00:55:24.32
Because even our
goodness, which will sometimes
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really deceive us,
is not good enough.
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It must be the
goodness of Christ
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always and forever,
in us and through us.
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It must be Him.
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Jesus alone. He is the only way.
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I walked life's
path with an easy tread,
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I wondered where
pleasure and riches led.
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Until one day in a quiet place
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I met the Master face to face.
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I met Him and knew
Him and blushed to see
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that His eyes full of
mercy were fixed upon me.
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And then I turned
my eyes upon Jesus,
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looked full in
His wonderful face,
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and the things of
earth grew strangely dim
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in the light of His
glory and His grace.
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Father in heaven,
tonight we thank You
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that You have told us the way.
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That we should
repent and come to You,
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and trust in You.
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To rely upon You, Lord, as
the only way to life eternal.
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Help us to turn from
pride, to turn from that sin
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which so easily besets us.
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Which is the sin of
trying to save ourselves.
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And help us to let You save us.
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In Jesus' wonderful and powerful
and loving name we ask it, amen.
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And amen.
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