Hello, and welcome to our
Wednesday evening Bible study
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prayer meeting together.
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My name is CA Murray
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and Pastor Lomacang is
on a little bit of vacation.
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So I'm
substituting for him this night.
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You know, when I think
about substitute teachers,
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I don't know about you
but when are coming along,
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the substitute
teacher always caught
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a lot of stuff from the class.
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You know, they
weren't accustomed
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to what was going on,
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so they had to ask the
class for lot of information.
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I remember when we
had a substitute teacher
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it was like free
for all kind of day.
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You know, she'd say,
"Well, what are you studying?"
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Well, we are
studying recess today,
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you know, that kind of thing.
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So, I'm the substitute teacher
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but I think this
class is gonna behave
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because we have to spank
them all if they do not behave.
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But we welcome you to
our prayer meeting tonight.
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We want to talk a
little bit about the will
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and the human will
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and several
aspects of the human will.
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But before we do that, I
want to do a couple of things
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that we don't normally do.
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When I had prayer meeting
back in New York pastoring,
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Wednesday night was
always a time for prayer for me.
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I always started my
prayer meetings off with prayer.
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It just seems
like you can't have
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a Wednesday night
service without prayer.
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It just seems to
go with the service.
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And if you look at the
comments by Ellen White,
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they are considerable statements
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that she puts on prayer
meeting and the prayer meeting
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and the Wednesday night service.
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She put a lot
of stock into that.
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And so in lieu of singing
the song which we usually do,
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I want to spend some
of this time in prayer.
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And ask first of all, are there
any special prayer requests
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that you have?
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Any prayer request that we have?
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You can't speak them
because they can't hear you
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but if you do
have prayer request
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you can raise your hand.
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Any special prayer
request that you have?
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Very, very good.
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I certainly have some,
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got a little health
challenge as of late
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but I think God is good,
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I think it's
gonna be cleared up,
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I pray so.
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And in fact I have
confidence that it will be so,
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because I'm gonna talk
about that a little bit
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in this thing on the
will where Ellen White says
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"Talk faith and
not to talk negative."
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Couple of reasons for that.
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So we're gonna
talk about that too.
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But let's bow our heads
now and have a word of prayer
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and then we will
launch out into our lesson,
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do a couple of other things.
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Father God,
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we thank You first
of all for the privilege
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we have of sitting here
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for the power of Your word
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and for what it
does to change our lives
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and to make us
like Christ Jesus.
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We thank You, Lord, that
You have written Your word
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and left Your word and
that You exalt Your word
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and that when we read Your word,
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we can understand Your will.
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Now, Lord, we ask for the
power to put into practice
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those things that
we know are right.
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We are convicted, Lord,
that Christ is coming soon
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and we want to be
ready for that day.
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Help us even now on this night,
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this evening to take
one more step along the road
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that leads to
glory in the knowledge
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that victory has already
been won in Christ Jesus.
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We thank You, Lord,
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and we praise You
in Jesus' name, amen.
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Amen.
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I've got to mention,
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I've got a
beautiful family of Murray's
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sitting right
here in front of me.
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Not really I wish they
were, they are far too beautiful
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to be produced by me
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but they have the same name as I
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and we have the same
Father, praise the Lord.
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Amen.
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In heaven.
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But these are
Murray's from Florida.
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We have had some Kids'
Time taping this weekend.
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They came up do some singing.
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I was in the truck
yesterday to hear them sing.
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They are beautiful singers.
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Well done, ladies,
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and we carry the same
names so I'm proud to be Murray.
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And a right spelling,
M-U-R-R-A-Y, praise the Lord.
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So we are thankful
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that you're
visiting with us tonight.
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We want to get
right into our study
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because we've got
a lot to talk about.
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I'm gonna take much of the hour
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walking through
some of these stuff.
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These are quotes that
Ellen White has written
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that I sort of compiled
to talk about the human will.
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Now, I'm told to tell you
that you can get this material
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on the A Shaper
Focus, ASF website.
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You can download
them as lesson 8,
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it's called the Human Will.
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A compilation of E.G.
White comments by CA Murray.
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Now, there are a number,
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a large number of
statements on the will,
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but I chose to pull
out just some of these.
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For this reason, we talk about
victorious Christians living
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so many, many times,
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but the question
is how do you do it,
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and Ellen White
was very practical
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about how you use your
will to live victoriously.
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Now, I need to give you
a warning, a little caveat.
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The incorrect use of the will
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is really
tantamount to legalism.
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So we want to avoid that.
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We're gonna talk about
the correct use of the will.
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How to use it to gain
victory in Jesus Christ
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and how to do so?
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I've got my computer here
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and I've got my
little piece of paper here
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with some
additional notes on it.
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So, I'm gonna be
going back and forth
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between what's on my computer
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and my little highlighted notes.
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So, I'm not schizophrenic,
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just got a lot of
stuff written in here
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that's not on this computer.
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So, we will go back and forth.
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So, let's go into the human will
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and sort of walk
our way through this.
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Now, I'm not gonna use
the question and answer
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sort of regime that John uses,
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this is a little
more pedagogical,
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little more teaching oriented
without the question and answer
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because I couldn't
really form all of these stuff
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into question and answer.
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Just had to kind
of give you the answer
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and then work
back to the question.
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So, I hope that's
all right with everybody.
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"Pure religion has
to do with the will."
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Now, I need to stop
right there for a second
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because when we talk
about religion today,
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that word has almost gotten
a sort of dirty connotation.
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When Ellen White
uses the term religion,
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she is talking
about relationship.
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So, you can almost
substitute the word
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pure relationship with
God has to do with the will.
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She is not talking
about a rote religion
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or as we think of religion today
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as a bunch of things to do.
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She is talking
about relationship
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and you will find
everything that has to do
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with the Lord has to
do with relationship.
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It's all about relationship.
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So, pure
religion, pure relationship
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has to do with the will.
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Now here's what
we mean by the will.
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"The will is the governing power
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in the nature of man."
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So it's the controlling
power. It governs what we do.
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"Bringing all the other
faculties under its sway.
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The will is not the
taste or the inclination
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but it is the deciding power
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which works in
the children of men
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unto obedience to God
or unto disobedience."
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So, the will is not
your taste or inclinations.
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Those are things that we develop
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through a course of life.
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Your taste, your inclinations
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have a lot to do
with where you were born,
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how you were raised,
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you know, your
basic genetic make up.
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So that's not the will.
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The will in short is
the yes or no ability.
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That's what your will is.
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Now, your will can be affected
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by your taste,
your inclinations,
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but the will is not
the taste or inclination
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it's the yes or no ability.
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It's what we use to say
no to that, yes to that.
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Yes, to that. No, to that.
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That's what our will is
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and that's a very,
very important statement.
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Now, let's look at sin.
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"It is true that Satan
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is the great
originator of" what?
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"Sin,
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yet this does not
excuse any man from sinning,
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for he cannot
force men to do evil."
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Amen. Amen.
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So, there is no
excuse for sinning.
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There was an old comedian
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who used to say "the
devil made me do it."
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You remember that
from way back in the day.
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Devil can't
make you do anything.
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You've got to choose to do it.
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So many times people say,
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"Oh, oh, he pushes my buttons
or she pushes my buttons."
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Well, what you are admitting
is that you still got buttons.
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Amen.
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Yeah, that's what you're
just Saying, I still got buttons
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and what happens when you
surrender your life to Christ
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is He erases the buttons.
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The buttons are gone.
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So that people
are still pushing,
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but there is no button
there, the button is gone.
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So, you cannot be
forced to do anything.
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No one can force your will.
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You got a accent
or consent to it.
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So, Satan cannot force you.
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And I thank God
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that He didn't have the
part to force me to do anything.
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What a mess it would be
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if Satan could
actually force us.
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But we can say yes,
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and praise God
through Jesus Christ
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we can say no and mean it.
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You know, by the way
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and this why we
get into trouble.
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Lomie does this,
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Pastor Lomacang I call him Lomie
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because I've know him
since he was in his teens.
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Things pop in your mind
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and you want to make
that left turn and go there.
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So, I'm gonna make
one left turn right here.
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Ellen White says this,
she says to young people.
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When a young man--
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I got some pretty
young ladies in front here.
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When a young man is
misbehaving on a date
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or forcing his
self on you she says,
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"You ought to say
no with a ferocity
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that leaves no doubt in his mind
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that you mean no."
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And you ought to do
the same with Satan.
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So, if he is getting all huggy,
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cuddly say no with some
oomph, so that he knows you.
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You're not, "No, don't do that."
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Say, you know, say, no.
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Amen. Amen.
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And you do the
same thing with Satan.
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Now, that just popped in my mind
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because I see some
pretty young ladies here
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and they will come a time when
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because these are
gorgeous young girls.
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When some guy may want
to get a little liberal.
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Tell them you are conservative.
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Yeah. Tell them no.
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In Jesus name, amen. Amen.
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All right, now, so no one
can force you to do anything.
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"He tempts them to do it
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and makes sin look
enticing and pleasant
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but he has to leave
it to their own wills
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whether they will do it or not."
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That's why we got
to preach so hard.
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Sin is enticing.
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Sin is pleasant. Sin feels good.
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The problem is
there is a dark side.
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It's only enticing
and good for a season
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but the end thereof
are the ways of death.
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That's why you
got to preach so hard
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because Satan works so
hard to make sin look good
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and he hides the
dirt and the evil.
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But behind the
glitter it's all fool's gold.
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So he can put it
out there for you
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but you got to make the decision
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whether you're gonna do it
or not, he cannot force you.
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"He does not force
men to become intoxicated,
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neither does he
force them to remain away
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from religious meetings
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but he presents temptations
in a manner to allure to evil
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and man is a free moral
agent to accept or refuse."
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I remember when I was
younger, I would just say,
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"Boy, I wish God would
just make us do right."
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You know, just make us do right.
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But that's just as bad
as making you do wrong.
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All right. Yeah.
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Right has to
come from your heart.
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Has to come from love of God.
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Has to come from a want
a desire to serve the Lord.
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Cannot be
forced, cannot be coerced
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or it wouldn't be love.
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So he can, he can, he can
put these things in front of you
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and that's why we
have to be so prayed up
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and read up and fortified
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because on the day that
you think you're strong,
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that's the day
Satan will show you
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that you are not
strong without Jesus.
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Amen. Amen.
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You know, some days you,
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you know, some
days you feel like
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you can carry the
weight of the world, you know.
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Other days you feel like
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you are carrying
the weight of world.
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Ever had days like that?
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And on the days
when you can't take it
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that's when you get it.
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How many know
what I'm talking about?
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You know, you go
to work someone says,
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"How you're doing, ugly?"
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And they're just
playing, you know,
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but this is one of those
days when that's not funny.
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Yesterday that had
been fun with laugh,
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you know, but
today that's not funny.
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And on the day
when you don't need it
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guess what, that's
the day you get it.
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That's why you have
to take Jesus with you
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every single day.
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You can't afford to
leave the house without prayer.
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And not a quick Burger King
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have it your way
kind of fast prayer,
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you got to take a
little time with Jesus
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because Satan is gonna
test you every single day.
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Amen. He
doesn't take a vacation.
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You know, we like
to say and with truth
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"The Lord never
sleeps, never slumbers."
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Guess who else never
sleeps, never slumbers?
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The devil.
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That's why you cannot
hope to defeat him without Him.
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Tell you something real quick.
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Not in the
paper. Here we go again.
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How many of you ever done
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something that
really surprised you,
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that you shocked yourself?
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I have.
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Said something that
kind of shocked you.
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Yeah.
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Who was surprised
when you did that?
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Let me help you.
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When you said
something that surprised you,
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was God surprised?
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No. No.
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When you said
something that surprised you,
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was Satan surprised?
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No. No.
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So the only
person that surprised you
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when you did what you did was?
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You. You.
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Yeah, the Lord knows you
better than you know yourself.
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Amen. Amen.
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Surprise, surprise so to say
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because He studied
you for 6,000 years.
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That's why without
the help of the Lord
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you cannot hope to defeat Satan
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because he is
smarter than you are.
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So the only person
that's, did I say that?
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Is you.
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That's why you
have to have Jesus.
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Cannot defeat
Satan without Jesus.
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It's, you shouldn't, you're
defeated before you even start.
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So that includes
going to religious meetings,
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doing these things
so that you can see
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life as it really is.
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He doesn't force
us to remain away.
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You know, things
pop into your mind.
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Write down two words,
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this is when you
ball array everything
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this is what religion is to me.
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Two words,
commitment and control.
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That's what it is.
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You commit your life to Christ,
Christ gives you control.
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Control of your past,
control of your present,
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control of your future.
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Sin no longer has
dominion over you.
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You commit to Christ
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and you are not
like a runaway train.
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He gives you control.
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As long as you stay in
Him, you can say no to the devil
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and the devil will flee not
because he is afraid of you,
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he is afraid of the
person who's got your back.
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Amen. Amen.
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That's Jesus.
Commitment and control.
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And let me say
this, when you get down,
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when you make a mistake,
when you surprise yourself,
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don't get discouraged.
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Amen. Amen.
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Discouragement is the
atomic bomb of the devil.
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Amen.
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The Lord, hear me, the
Lord never sends discouragement.
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Ever. It's not in His arsenal.
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So when you get to that nobody
knows the trouble I've seen,
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let me just find a
building and go jump off,
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that didn't come from the Lord
because He doesn't saying that.
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As they say in the
city, "Lord, don't play that."
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That's the devil
speaking. God will test you.
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He will try you.
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He will allow you
to be tested and tried
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but He will never
send discouragement.
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When you start thinking
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you are the only
one left in Israel,
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everybody hates
me, nobody likes me.
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That's coming
from Satan Himself,
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that's not from the God.
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It's his strongest weapon.
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If he can't wear you
out, if he can't rust you out
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he will just depress you out.
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And so Ellen White says,
we got to fight depression
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like the plague
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because that's devil
speaking directly to you.
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It does not come from God.
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Never does the Lord
ever send us depression.
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So, when you fall, the
Bible says "The righteous fall
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seven times and get back up."
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Amen. Amen.
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And later and bleed get back
up and continue to serve Him.
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All right, At the Fall.
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"You need to drink daily
from the fountain of truth
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that you may understand
the secret of pleasure
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and joy in the Lord."
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Let me stop there.
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There is joy and
pleasure in the Lord.
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There are those who would
try to tell you that Christians
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don't have joy,
don't have pleasure.
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When you come to
Christ and really come to Him
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the only thing
that makes you sad
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is the fact that
you didn't come sooner.
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There's joy in Jesus.
There is pleasure in Jesus.
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I'm working on this song
now called "He has forgiven me"
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and one of the things say,
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you know, how wonderful
it is to go to sleep at night
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and sleep in peace
'cause your soul is clean,
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your heart is clean.
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Not mad at anybody.
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Didn't try to knife
anybody in the back.
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Didn't try to undo anybody.
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Didn't try to, you know,
kill somebody's character.
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You can sleep because
you're free with all men.
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Love everybody
whether they love you
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that's between them and
Jesus but you love them.
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Amen. Amen.
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So you sleep at night
not tossing and turning
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because, guess
what, he is coming
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to get me every time you
hear a knock on the door.
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Oh, here they come.
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No, because you love the
Lord and you are at peace.
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So there is a joy,
there is a pleasure in Jesus.
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Next line, "But
you must remember
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that your will is the
spring of all your actions."
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Your will is the
spring of all your actions.
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"This will that
forms so important a factor
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in the character
of man was at the Fall
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given into the control of Satan.
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He has ever been
working in men to do
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and to will of his own pleasure
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but to the utter
ruin and misery of man."
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If you get a chance,
oh, I think it's page 147,
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I'm not sure.
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In the book "Early Writings"
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Ellen White gives a
view of Satan himself.
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She was allowed to see him.
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She said, when she
saw him he was sitting
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with his chin
resting in his hand,
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just kind of thinking.
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She describes him
as very large framed.
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She says the skin hung
loosely from around his face.
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His fore line, she says,
00:19:16.55\00:19:17.92
his hairline commence
to recede at the eyebrows.
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She gives a quite a
impressive description of Satan.
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She says, he has the
marks of a regal being
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because he of course
once was a covering cherub.
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But she says, you
can see in his face
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what 6,000
years of sin has done.
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There is no kindness, no
mercy, no charity, no love.
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He's just total
evil and you can see
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what that 6,000
years of evil has done
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to who once was a
beautiful individual
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is now marred by sin.
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Then she says this, I
saw as he was thinking,
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she says I saw this
little smile across his lips
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and then it got
bigger and bigger
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and it turned into a
hideous grin she says.
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She says that's the grin he gets
00:20:10.24\00:20:13.64
just before he closes the
trap on another Christian.
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It's powerful, powerful.
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Actually don't read it
at night alone by yourself.
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Read it during the day
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because it's little frightening.
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But it's there
in "Early Writings"
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and she says, if we could
see who we're dealing with
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just a sight of him
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would scare most Christians
into the arm of Jesus.
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We are dealing with
a terrible vicious foe
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who wants nothing but
your ruin and your misery
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and he will use any trick
00:20:39.93\00:20:42.20
that he can to
ensnare Christians.
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Now, the truth is, he is not
really inventing anything new.
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The same stuff he used back
against the children of Israel,
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same stuff working today.
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And that ain't anything new
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because we are still
falling for the same thing.
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The answer, the
antidote is Jesus Christ.
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I continue...
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"But" I'm in the
middle of the paragraph.
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"The infinite sacrifice of God
in giving Jesus His beloved Son
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to become a sacrifice for sin
00:21:14.54\00:21:16.94
enables Him to
say without violating
00:21:16.97\00:21:19.57
one principle of His government
'Yield yourself to Me,
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give me that will,
00:21:24.35\00:21:26.41
take it from
the control of Satan
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and I will take
possession of it,
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then I can work in you to will
and to do of My good pleasure.'
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"So God will not hold captive
or take captive your will.
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You have to give it to Him.
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The secret to
successful Christian living
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is not fighting.
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It's surrender.
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The secret always has
been and is now surrender.
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It is surrender to
Jesus Christ for two reasons.
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One, you can't whip Satan.
00:22:06.76\00:22:11.86
Amen. Amen.
00:22:11.89\00:22:13.29
You can't fight him.
00:22:13.33\00:22:14.86
So you got to get
somebody to fight for you
00:22:14.90\00:22:19.40
and that's crucial
because so many of us think,
00:22:19.43\00:22:22.30
if I can just stop doing
this, I'll be like Jesus.
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Well, here's the statement
I want you to hold on to.
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The use of the
will to not do a thing
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is the
incorrect use of the will.
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That is tantamount to legalism.
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Using your-- well,
say you're a smoker.
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I'm going to buy
force of will stop smoking.
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Now, there are some
people who can pull that off.
00:22:49.40\00:22:51.73
Most people can't but some can.
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There's two problems with that.
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Even if you never smoke again,
how do you get forgiveness
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for the smoking you used to do?
00:23:03.04\00:23:07.62
Those sins are un-confessed.
00:23:07.65\00:23:09.48
If today I never smoke again,
what about yesterday smoking.
00:23:09.52\00:23:12.89
That has to be
yielded to Jesus, doesn't it?
00:23:12.92\00:23:15.09
So, I need Jesus to
take care of my past.
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Amen. Amen.
00:23:17.69\00:23:19.03
So, using the will is the wrong,
00:23:19.06\00:23:22.86
to not do a thing is
the wrong use of the will.
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Two, there are some
days when your good nature
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is stronger
than your bad nature.
00:23:30.74\00:23:33.41
You know what I
mean, some days, today,
00:23:33.44\00:23:34.81
I'm not gonna
smoke and you can do it.
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Tomorrow comes
and that cigarette
00:23:38.65\00:23:41.95
is just killing you, you know.
00:23:41.98\00:23:46.12
And so today,
you're gonna smoke.
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So, using your will not
to do something is futile.
00:23:50.96\00:23:56.53
It's because some
days your will is strong
00:23:56.56\00:23:59.83
and some days your will is weak
00:23:59.87\00:24:01.44
and it can be as
simple as you've gone to bed,
00:24:01.47\00:24:04.74
ate pizza and
gone to bed too late.
00:24:04.77\00:24:06.98
So, you get up the
next morning you just,
00:24:07.01\00:24:08.38
tumble just, you're
gonna have a bad day
00:24:08.41\00:24:11.51
and your will is
not gonna be strong.
00:24:11.55\00:24:14.32
So, using your will not to do
something is never gonna work.
00:24:14.35\00:24:18.52
You got to have Jesus.
00:24:18.55\00:24:20.52
Here's why?
00:24:20.56\00:24:22.19
Suppose there is a
guy who is Married,
00:24:22.22\00:24:28.13
but he has a secretary
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who flirts with him,
and he kind of likes it.
00:24:30.40\00:24:38.21
But he realizes he is letting
to go too far so he says,
00:24:38.24\00:24:41.94
"All right, I'm not
gonna think about her anymore."
00:24:41.98\00:24:49.85
So, in not thinking about
her, what is he actually doing?
00:24:49.88\00:24:55.42
He is thinking about her. Yeah.
00:24:55.46\00:24:57.53
He is thinking about
not thinking about her.
00:24:57.56\00:24:59.86
So, he is
technically thinking about her.
00:24:59.89\00:25:03.43
I'm not thinking about you.
00:25:03.47\00:25:07.37
So, when I see you,
now I got to think about
00:25:07.40\00:25:09.30
not thinking about you.
00:25:09.34\00:25:11.77
So how do I get over that?
00:25:11.81\00:25:14.54
By putting my
mind on something else.
00:25:14.58\00:25:18.25
You follow me?
00:25:18.28\00:25:19.61
Not thinking about
her or not thinking about
00:25:19.65\00:25:21.98
thinking about her
or not thinking about
00:25:22.02\00:25:23.89
not thinking about her
00:25:23.92\00:25:25.25
but thinking
about something else.
00:25:25.29\00:25:26.62
Now who is this
something else? Jesus.
00:25:26.65\00:25:28.79
So, whenever the thought
of secretary A come to mind,
00:25:28.82\00:25:33.90
I don't try to
not think about Her,
00:25:33.93\00:25:37.83
I try to think about Jesus.
00:25:37.87\00:25:41.27
And then Jesus will take
care of my thinking about her.
00:25:41.30\00:25:45.87
Amen. Amen.
00:25:45.91\00:25:47.24
That's a
positive use of the will.
00:25:47.28\00:25:50.18
Negative use of
the will is legalism
00:25:50.21\00:25:53.05
and it's
ultimately unsuccessful.
00:25:53.08\00:25:56.62
You got to replace
what you have with Christ.
00:25:56.65\00:26:01.12
Victory in Jesus, remember this,
00:26:01.16\00:26:03.56
is not avoidance therapy.
00:26:03.59\00:26:07.30
It's overcoming, it's mastery
so that you are in the world
00:26:07.33\00:26:12.80
but not of the world
00:26:12.83\00:26:15.44
because temptation
will always be there.
00:26:15.47\00:26:17.41
You fire a secretary,
you got to hire another one
00:26:17.44\00:26:20.91
unless you hire a guy.
00:26:20.94\00:26:24.95
So, secretary is
not your problem,
00:26:24.98\00:26:28.98
locking on to Jesus is.
00:26:29.02\00:26:32.82
So, you use your will
so surrender to Christ
00:26:32.85\00:26:35.72
as opposed to
not think about sin.
00:26:35.76\00:26:37.39
Does that make sense?
00:26:37.43\00:26:39.03
So the secret
still is surrender.
00:26:39.06\00:26:41.66
Now let me pick up
my, where we are here.
00:26:41.70\00:26:46.57
"Yield yourself up to
Me" I want to reiterate that
00:26:46.60\00:26:49.77
"give me that will take
it from the control of Satan
00:26:49.80\00:26:53.11
and I will take
possession of it,
00:26:53.14\00:26:55.54
then I can work" excuse me
00:26:55.58\00:26:58.75
"in you to will and to
do of My good pleasure."
00:26:58.78\00:27:01.72
That of course comes
from Philippians 2:13,
00:27:01.75\00:27:04.75
"It is God that
worketh in you to will
00:27:04.79\00:27:07.02
and to do his good pleasure."
00:27:07.06\00:27:09.22
"When He gives
you the mind of Christ
00:27:09.26\00:27:12.43
your will becomes His will
00:27:12.46\00:27:16.00
and your
character is transformed
00:27:16.03\00:27:18.47
to be like Christ's character."
00:27:18.50\00:27:20.50
I said something
just some weeks ago
00:27:20.54\00:27:22.90
during our Pillars of Prophecy.
00:27:22.94\00:27:25.97
In studying the Book of
Isaiah, it occurred to me
00:27:26.01\00:27:29.54
I think we all have some
idea of how much Christ loves us
00:27:29.58\00:27:33.72
because Christ wants you to know
00:27:33.75\00:27:35.75
how much He loves you.
00:27:35.78\00:27:37.12
So, He gives you
evidences all the time
00:27:37.15\00:27:40.42
of how much He loves you.
00:27:40.46\00:27:43.76
Excuse me.
00:27:43.79\00:27:45.13
I went to the doctor
diagnosed of prostate cancer
00:27:45.16\00:27:47.50
went back a
couple of years later
00:27:47.53\00:27:49.86
and the doctor
scratched his head
00:27:49.90\00:27:51.23
and said "Something
is wrong with your cancer
00:27:51.27\00:27:52.60
because this trying
to act like non-cancer."
00:27:52.63\00:27:55.14
See, it is but it's not.
00:27:55.17\00:27:57.87
And it's there but is not,
so we don't know what going on.
00:27:57.91\00:28:00.64
See that's God
saying "I love you" to me.
00:28:00.68\00:28:03.55
So went back last month
and he said, "Well, It's there
00:28:03.58\00:28:06.98
but it's kind of
just sitting there,
00:28:07.02\00:28:08.98
kind of waving on us,
not really doing too much.
00:28:09.02\00:28:10.85
You got cancer but
it's not aggressive."
00:28:10.89\00:28:14.76
So that's God saying
again to me "I love you."
00:28:14.79\00:28:17.36
You know, you take
it the way you want.
00:28:17.39\00:28:19.36
Over and over in our lives
God shows us a million ways,
00:28:19.39\00:28:22.66
a million days that He loves us.
00:28:22.70\00:28:24.50
We know how much God loves
us but I don't think any of us
00:28:24.53\00:28:27.40
has a clue how much He hate sin.
00:28:27.44\00:28:31.31
I don't think we
understand how much
00:28:31.34\00:28:33.01
because, because
we have developed
00:28:33.04\00:28:34.98
this sort of
reproach mock with sin.
00:28:35.01\00:28:36.68
We have to fight against sin.
00:28:36.71\00:28:38.05
Our natural
inclination is towards sin.
00:28:38.08\00:28:41.02
There is nothing in the Lord
00:28:41.05\00:28:43.55
that has any compatibility with.
00:28:43.59\00:28:45.25
I don't think we have a
clue how much He hate sin.
00:28:45.29\00:28:47.39
We know how much He loves
us but I don't think we know
00:28:47.42\00:28:49.59
how much He hates sin
00:28:49.62\00:28:51.16
and if we did I
think we would run from sin
00:28:51.19\00:28:54.30
so fast so far
because it's so alien to God.
00:28:54.33\00:28:57.97
He hates it so very much
00:28:58.00\00:28:59.47
and yet He loves us
so very, very, much.
00:28:59.50\00:29:01.00
But He, there is no
tolerance in heaven at all
00:29:01.04\00:29:04.04
for the slightest bit of sin.
00:29:04.07\00:29:06.01
And I don't think
we can truly understand
00:29:06.04\00:29:07.54
and grasp that how
much the Lord hates sin.
00:29:07.58\00:29:12.21
So, Christ is
saying "Give Me your will
00:29:12.25\00:29:15.75
and I will implant in
you the mind of Christ
00:29:15.78\00:29:18.75
and you will immediately begin
to hate some of those things
00:29:18.79\00:29:22.69
that you once loved
00:29:22.72\00:29:24.26
and your victory
begins that very second.
00:29:24.29\00:29:27.33
When Given to Christ,
00:29:27.36\00:29:29.23
"It is for you to
yield up your will
00:29:29.26\00:29:31.67
to the will of Jesus
Christ and as you do this
00:29:31.70\00:29:35.27
God will
immediately take possession
00:29:35.30\00:29:38.17
and work in you to will
00:29:38.21\00:29:40.41
and to do of His good pleasure."
00:29:40.44\00:29:42.81
I'm so glad that the
justification experience
00:29:42.84\00:29:47.65
is not doesn't take forever.
00:29:47.68\00:29:50.35
You make a mistake,
1 John 1:9 kicks in.
00:29:50.39\00:29:53.99
"If you confess
your sins, he is faithful
00:29:54.02\00:29:56.62
and just to forgive at
the point of confession."
00:29:56.66\00:30:00.60
It's not a week later.
Doesn't take it to a committee.
00:30:00.63\00:30:03.57
Doesn't have to
discuss it or think about it.
00:30:03.60\00:30:05.63
As you confess
it, He is faithful
00:30:05.67\00:30:08.10
and just to
forgive and to cleanse.
00:30:08.14\00:30:15.24
Forgive is nice,
cleanse is better.
00:30:15.28\00:30:19.45
Amen. Amen.
00:30:19.48\00:30:20.88
Yes, so you will have to
keep repeating it, you know.
00:30:20.92\00:30:23.18
I want to be forgiven
00:30:23.22\00:30:26.12
but just to be forgiven
and not be cleansed is like
00:30:26.15\00:30:28.66
I got to around that
same thing all over again.
00:30:28.69\00:30:30.19
I want to be cleansed.
00:30:30.23\00:30:31.56
I want to get
free of that thing.
00:30:31.59\00:30:32.93
Don't you? Yes.
00:30:32.96\00:30:34.30
Amen.
00:30:34.33\00:30:35.66
So He is faithful
and just to forgive
00:30:35.70\00:30:37.50
and praise God to cleanse
00:30:37.53\00:30:40.30
and He does it
immediately we are told.
00:30:40.34\00:30:42.44
"Your whole nature will then
be brought under the control
00:30:42.47\00:30:45.97
of the Spirit of Christ
00:30:46.01\00:30:47.94
and then your thoughts
will be subject to Him."
00:30:47.98\00:30:52.05
I think that
the last battlefield
00:30:52.08\00:30:55.68
in this world is the
battlefield of the mind.
00:30:55.72\00:30:59.22
That's when the most fierce
battles are being played out
00:30:59.25\00:31:02.52
and the toughest
person to defeat is you.
00:31:02.56\00:31:06.80
And, you know,
sometimes you want to blame
00:31:06.83\00:31:08.56
and she talks about this,
00:31:08.60\00:31:09.93
we want to blame our
circumstances on this.
00:31:09.96\00:31:11.33
Well, I grew my
parents were divorced
00:31:11.37\00:31:14.00
and I used to eat chili
peppers when I was a baby.
00:31:14.04\00:31:16.97
And, you know, any
kind of you got a excuse
00:31:17.01\00:31:19.71
for what we used to do
00:31:19.74\00:31:22.51
but when you give your
life to Christ the first place
00:31:22.54\00:31:26.31
He begins to clean is your mind.
00:31:26.35\00:31:29.88
And you may think
I'm pretty decent person
00:31:29.92\00:31:31.62
and then He begins to show you
00:31:31.65\00:31:33.46
how really filthy your mind was.
00:31:33.49\00:31:36.42
You know,
sometimes we don't say things
00:31:36.46\00:31:38.19
but sometimes
we do so, you know.
00:31:38.23\00:31:40.50
When I was growing up
when I was a young pastor
00:31:40.53\00:31:44.00
my mother used to
come and visit me.
00:31:44.03\00:31:45.37
In fact, the first
Sabbath at all my new church
00:31:45.40\00:31:47.30
she would come and be
there for the first Sabbath.
00:31:47.34\00:31:49.30
And I used to
love my mother to come
00:31:49.34\00:31:50.91
but I also kind
of hated her to come
00:31:50.94\00:31:53.04
because I am a pretty neat guy
00:31:53.07\00:31:57.11
and I kept my
house always thought
00:31:57.15\00:31:58.51
pretty neat for a bachelor pad,
00:31:58.55\00:32:00.18
you know, man
gave kind of thing.
00:32:00.22\00:32:03.22
But my mother had the
ability to find dirt in my house
00:32:03.25\00:32:06.55
that would just
aggravate my soul.
00:32:06.59\00:32:08.66
Mother's always.
00:32:08.69\00:32:10.03
Yeah, she would, she would,
00:32:10.06\00:32:11.39
my mother is very old
school hat and gloves,
00:32:11.43\00:32:12.99
you know, very British.
00:32:13.03\00:32:14.40
Born in Canada, British parents
00:32:14.43\00:32:16.20
who went from the
West Indies up to London
00:32:16.23\00:32:17.87
and came altogether.
00:32:17.90\00:32:19.33
So she would come
and take off her hat,
00:32:19.37\00:32:20.70
take off her gloves, sit
down about five minutes and get,
00:32:20.74\00:32:24.31
you know, accustom and then
she is in the kitchen cleaning.
00:32:24.34\00:32:28.58
And I, "Mom,
what are you doing?"
00:32:28.61\00:32:30.38
She would clean places
I didn't think to clean.
00:32:30.41\00:32:31.95
She would go on
top of refrigerator.
00:32:31.98\00:32:33.31
You know, who cleans
on top of refrigerator?
00:32:33.35\00:32:34.68
It's clean on
top of refrigerator.
00:32:34.72\00:32:36.05
Upon top of the cabinets along.
00:32:36.08\00:32:37.42
You know, she
finds stuff to clean
00:32:37.45\00:32:38.95
and the whole time
there she loved it.
00:32:38.99\00:32:40.32
She liked to clean
and it took me years
00:32:40.36\00:32:42.12
to understand that that's
how she showed her love to me.
00:32:42.16\00:32:44.79
But it aggravated my
soul to have her cleaning,
00:32:44.83\00:32:47.43
cleaning, cleaning,
cleaning, cleaning all the time.
00:32:47.46\00:32:49.40
Under the bed she is cleaning.
00:32:49.43\00:32:50.87
You know, stop cleaning.
In the bathroom cleaning.
00:32:50.90\00:32:52.77
You know, stop cleaning.
00:32:52.80\00:32:55.24
But that's how
the Holy Spirit is.
00:32:55.27\00:32:57.87
Comes into your life
and he starts cleaning
00:32:57.91\00:32:59.57
and you think "Well,
that's pretty clean."
00:32:59.61\00:33:03.61
And he will show
you, no, that's not clean.
00:33:03.65\00:33:05.95
Let me show you clean
and he cleans it for you.
00:33:05.98\00:33:09.12
He cleans your mind so that
not only are you not tempted
00:33:09.15\00:33:13.22
to do certain things.
00:33:13.25\00:33:14.79
You don't even have the desire.
00:33:14.82\00:33:17.13
The thing that's good
about, that's great about,
00:33:17.16\00:33:19.29
that's wonderful about
giving your life for Christ
00:33:19.33\00:33:21.20
He changes your
taste and inclinations,
00:33:21.23\00:33:24.07
those things that you
kind of had a leaning towards
00:33:24.10\00:33:27.40
He cleans that up and
cleans that up so that
00:33:27.44\00:33:30.44
you are not thinking
those thoughts anymore.
00:33:30.47\00:33:33.68
I often had a
deacon in my church.
00:33:33.71\00:33:35.84
I almost called
his name, I better not.
00:33:35.88\00:33:38.21
I'll tell you church
that was the Amityville
00:33:38.25\00:33:39.85
Seventh-day
Adventist Church at Bethesda.
00:33:39.88\00:33:41.82
Seventh-day Adventist
Church in Amityville, New York
00:33:41.85\00:33:46.42
and I had a deacon who
had, he had the saltiest,
00:33:46.45\00:33:49.42
he just couldn't
control his mouth.
00:33:49.46\00:33:52.19
He would cry and
the first board meeting.
00:33:52.23\00:33:54.63
I made a statement and I
must call his name again,
00:33:54.66\00:33:59.00
he jumped up and
he just, and his wife
00:33:59.03\00:34:01.94
is kind of pull his
pant letting him to sit down,
00:34:01.97\00:34:03.81
he just wouldn't sit down.
00:34:03.84\00:34:05.17
And then we said,
Pastor, I'm so sorry.
00:34:05.21\00:34:06.78
We just met, I
don't even know you.
00:34:06.81\00:34:08.14
I just need help with this.
00:34:08.18\00:34:09.58
But, you know, before I left
that church four years later
00:34:09.61\00:34:13.11
he had really given
his heart to the Lord
00:34:13.15\00:34:14.65
and I can't say take any credit.
00:34:14.68\00:34:16.92
He decided I need
to yield this to Christ
00:34:16.95\00:34:19.72
and I saw God
take control of Brother
00:34:19.75\00:34:25.66
mouth and his life.
00:34:25.69\00:34:29.30
I call his name
Brother-- No, I better not.
00:34:29.33\00:34:31.23
I almost did.
00:34:31.27\00:34:32.60
I wonder if he is
watching bless his heart.
00:34:32.63\00:34:34.20
Well, you know, who you are.
00:34:34.24\00:34:36.57
But the Lord took
control of a hot tempered guy
00:34:36.60\00:34:39.84
and even his wife
said that he is changed.
00:34:39.87\00:34:43.35
He is changed.
00:34:43.38\00:34:45.11
God is taking
control of his life
00:34:45.15\00:34:46.51
and God can do that for you.
00:34:46.55\00:34:48.32
He can give you
commit your life to Christ.
00:34:48.35\00:34:50.59
I say again,
commitment and control.
00:34:50.62\00:34:54.66
You commit your life to Christ,
Christ will give you control.
00:34:54.69\00:34:58.86
Okay.
00:34:58.89\00:35:01.23
Let me go, let's see
00:35:01.26\00:35:02.60
"By yielding your life to
Christ your life will be hid
00:35:02.63\00:35:05.13
with Christ in God
and allied to the power
00:35:05.17\00:35:08.50
that is above all
principalities and powers.
00:35:08.54\00:35:12.14
You will have strength
from God that will hold you fast
00:35:12.17\00:35:16.71
to His strength and a new Light
even the light of living faith
00:35:16.75\00:35:21.72
will be possible to you."
00:35:21.75\00:35:23.22
That's the glory of
being a child of God
00:35:23.25\00:35:28.09
that you can really be
new should you desire to be.
00:35:28.12\00:35:34.50
You can really be cleansed,
00:35:34.53\00:35:37.20
you can really be changed.
00:35:37.23\00:35:42.84
"Say," I still
believe "'I will believe,"
00:35:42.87\00:35:47.71
rather "I do believe,
that God is my Helper.'
00:35:47.74\00:35:52.61
"Now that's
drawing from I got to think
00:35:52.65\00:35:54.58
its Hebrews 13:5, 6.
00:35:54.62\00:35:57.85
We can boldly
say God is my helper
00:35:57.89\00:36:00.16
what can man do to me?
00:36:00.19\00:36:02.29
The writer of Hebrew
says, "I will believe.
00:36:02.32\00:36:06.63
I do believe."
00:36:06.66\00:36:08.13
And say that even in
the face of circumstances
00:36:08.16\00:36:12.13
that say you should believe.
00:36:12.17\00:36:15.34
Believe any how.
00:36:15.37\00:36:16.71
I remember I had a
member of my church,
00:36:16.74\00:36:19.37
I just have it almost call
a name but not do that either.
00:36:19.41\00:36:21.81
She was my
assistant church college.
00:36:21.84\00:36:24.45
She came to me one day
and she had all her bills
00:36:24.48\00:36:26.35
laid out.
00:36:26.38\00:36:27.72
She said, "Here's
why I cannot pay tithe."
00:36:27.75\00:36:32.52
Here's my income,
her husband had left,
00:36:32.55\00:36:35.79
she had one son
I think about six.
00:36:35.82\00:36:38.39
"Here's my bills.
00:36:38.43\00:36:40.33
When you add this
up I'm short about $75.
00:36:40.36\00:36:46.60
There is no way I can pay tithe.
00:36:46.63\00:36:49.74
Look at the numbers."
00:36:49.77\00:36:51.84
And I said to her
I believe your math.
00:36:51.87\00:36:56.04
According to that piece of paper
00:36:56.08\00:36:57.48
you can't pay tithe
00:36:57.51\00:36:59.91
but tithe has nothing to
do with what's on that paper.
00:36:59.95\00:37:02.58
Yeah. Yeah.
00:37:02.62\00:37:03.99
Tithe is a matter of faith.
00:37:04.02\00:37:05.49
God said, "Prove me."
00:37:05.52\00:37:07.89
So if you test Him and He fails
00:37:07.92\00:37:12.73
its on God because
He said to test Him
00:37:12.76\00:37:17.10
but you're looking
at a piece of paper
00:37:17.13\00:37:20.84
and you need to be looking
through the eyes of faith.
00:37:20.87\00:37:23.77
So I said, "Try it for
two months and let's see."
00:37:23.81\00:37:30.45
She said, "I'm don't
have faith for two months.
00:37:30.48\00:37:31.91
I'll give it a month."
00:37:31.95\00:37:35.15
And in that time true story
she got fired, she got fired.
00:37:35.18\00:37:40.86
About ten says after I talked--
00:37:40.89\00:37:42.46
well, she didn't get
fired, they downsized her.
00:37:42.49\00:37:46.39
Her job they just
took her position and said
00:37:46.43\00:37:48.50
"It's not going anymore."
00:37:48.53\00:37:50.83
And she was using her
savings and about two weeks
00:37:50.87\00:37:55.00
before the month was
up she got a new job.
00:37:55.04\00:38:00.24
That same job in
a different company
00:38:00.28\00:38:03.71
and about 15 percent more pay.
00:38:03.75\00:38:07.65
So she came skipping back in.
00:38:07.68\00:38:09.42
You know, what are
you skipping about?
00:38:09.45\00:38:11.25
I know it's gonna
work all the time.
00:38:11.29\00:38:12.62
Thank you.
00:38:12.65\00:38:14.09
You know, you felt as
you put yourself out there
00:38:14.12\00:38:16.73
but when you trust
God, God comes through.
00:38:16.76\00:38:21.90
Amen. Amen.
00:38:21.93\00:38:24.07
Let me take some real
quick. This is not in my notes.
00:38:24.10\00:38:25.87
A good friend of mine,
00:38:25.90\00:38:27.70
couple, a young
couple really love them.
00:38:27.74\00:38:32.14
They were pregnant
with their first baby
00:38:32.17\00:38:35.04
and she miscarried
about six months in.
00:38:35.08\00:38:39.68
In February they
called me, I was here at 3ABN,
00:38:39.71\00:38:42.25
I just left New York.
00:38:42.28\00:38:43.62
And I mean, he
took it harder than she.
00:38:43.65\00:38:45.42
They were just tore
up and I heard myself say
00:38:45.45\00:38:48.66
on a conversation
00:38:48.69\00:38:50.23
"Don't worry
before the year is over
00:38:50.26\00:38:51.59
you will be pregnant again."
00:38:51.63\00:38:52.96
I don't know
where that came from.
00:38:52.99\00:38:54.70
And when I said, I said,
"What is the matter with you?
00:38:54.73\00:38:57.73
I said, this is February.
00:38:57.77\00:39:00.70
I said, you'll have a
baby, that's what I said,
00:39:00.74\00:39:02.60
you'll have a baby
before the year is over."
00:39:02.64\00:39:04.21
Well, God's, do
the math, you know.
00:39:04.24\00:39:08.41
I said it.
00:39:08.44\00:39:09.78
I said it to them
and I said to myself,
00:39:09.81\00:39:11.98
what is the matter with me?
00:39:12.01\00:39:13.35
I've told them that
they will have a baby
00:39:13.38\00:39:15.58
before the year is over.
00:39:15.62\00:39:18.45
Do you know that boy
was born about December 17th
00:39:18.49\00:39:22.22
right there in New York.
00:39:22.26\00:39:23.76
Yeah.
00:39:23.79\00:39:25.36
God is good.
00:39:25.39\00:39:29.50
Sometimes you got
to step out in faith
00:39:29.53\00:39:32.00
and the Lord honor's faith.
00:39:32.03\00:39:33.47
The Lord does honor your faith.
00:39:33.50\00:39:35.60
Now let me just pick this up.
00:39:35.64\00:39:38.04
"By steadfastly keeping the will
00:39:38.07\00:39:40.61
on the Lord's
side every emotion"
00:39:40.64\00:39:43.91
we're talking about emotions now
00:39:43.95\00:39:45.28
"will be brought into
captivity to the will of"
00:39:45.31\00:39:47.32
so you can be in control.
00:39:47.35\00:39:49.48
You can, you know,
people can say things.
00:39:49.52\00:39:51.35
Sometimes people say things
00:39:51.39\00:39:53.09
and you forgive my--
00:39:53.12\00:39:54.62
You know, sometimes people
say things that are stupid.
00:39:54.66\00:39:57.83
Amen. Amen.
00:39:57.86\00:39:59.19
That shouldn't be said.
00:39:59.23\00:40:01.03
That they really ought to
just be quiet but they say them
00:40:01.06\00:40:05.37
and sometimes you
just want to retaliate.
00:40:05.40\00:40:07.40
Anybody anytime just
wanted to just tell him off.
00:40:07.44\00:40:10.61
Come on. And I could just--
00:40:10.64\00:40:12.67
You know, but you can
get so close to Christ
00:40:12.71\00:40:17.18
that not only do
you not retaliate
00:40:17.21\00:40:19.28
you don't even
want to retaliate.
00:40:19.31\00:40:21.25
You leave it to
the hands of Jesus.
00:40:21.28\00:40:25.35
And Bible says, "Every
tear that shed God knows."
00:40:25.39\00:40:29.36
He knows when people hurt you.
00:40:29.39\00:40:31.29
And don't have
to lay awake nights
00:40:31.33\00:40:32.79
trying to think of
ways to get back and forth.
00:40:32.83\00:40:34.40
Let God take care of it.
00:40:34.43\00:40:36.16
Amen.
00:40:36.20\00:40:37.70
So your emotions can come under
the control of Jesus Christ.
00:40:37.73\00:40:40.77
And every part of
you as you surrender
00:40:40.80\00:40:43.54
and yield your will
00:40:43.57\00:40:44.97
and when somebody is
given you an ear fold,
00:40:45.01\00:40:46.71
you know, just
think about Jesus.
00:40:46.74\00:40:51.11
Just surrender it all to Jesus.
00:40:51.15\00:40:53.08
"It will take at times
every particle of will power"
00:40:53.11\00:40:56.65
the Bible talks
about resisting unto blood.
00:40:56.69\00:40:59.49
"Which you possess but it is God
00:40:59.52\00:41:01.72
who is working for you
and you will come forth
00:41:01.76\00:41:04.59
from the molding
process a vessel unto honor."
00:41:04.63\00:41:08.30
Amen. Amen.
00:41:08.33\00:41:09.86
Had a good
friend, brought a car.
00:41:09.90\00:41:11.67
Told a story the elder in
my church in Ephesus Church
00:41:11.70\00:41:13.70
brought a car and put a
$5,000 alarm system on it.
00:41:13.74\00:41:18.67
It was such a
sensitive alarm system,
00:41:18.71\00:41:20.24
this is back in
the late '80s and '90s
00:41:20.28\00:41:22.08
you don't even have
to touch the car like,
00:41:22.11\00:41:23.45
you know, you touch the car
00:41:23.48\00:41:24.81
and the car go beep, beep, beep.
00:41:24.85\00:41:26.18
If you just stood near
the car the car would say
00:41:26.21\00:41:28.52
you are standing
to close get back.
00:41:28.55\00:41:33.15
Just try $4,700 alarm system.
00:41:33.19\00:41:35.16
His wife said,
"You know, Pastor,
00:41:35.19\00:41:36.52
if he could bring
that car in the bedroom
00:41:36.56\00:41:37.89
with us at a
night he would do so."
00:41:37.93\00:41:40.06
Loves that car.
00:41:40.10\00:41:42.23
You know, where
that car is today?
00:41:42.26\00:41:44.43
Well, if you do I
wish I would tell him
00:41:44.47\00:41:45.87
because he doesn't have a clue.
00:41:45.90\00:41:48.14
Had it 40 days,
that's a grace number, Jonny.
00:41:48.17\00:41:51.54
Had it 40 days
and they stole it,
00:41:51.57\00:41:53.68
$5, 000 alarm system and all.
00:41:53.71\00:41:57.55
Yeah.
00:41:57.58\00:41:59.28
And I saw a man
cry and then say,
00:41:59.31\00:42:03.89
"Well, Lord gave me that car,
He will give me another one."
00:42:03.92\00:42:08.66
You got to wear
these things loosely
00:42:08.69\00:42:10.46
because we got an enemy
who is trying to destroy us.
00:42:10.49\00:42:14.23
Here we go, "Talk faith."
00:42:14.26\00:42:18.33
Please underline that.
00:42:18.37\00:42:20.67
"Talk faith."
00:42:20.70\00:42:22.70
I believe there is
power in your words.
00:42:22.74\00:42:26.07
Amen.
00:42:26.11\00:42:27.44
Talk faith for a
couple of reasons.
00:42:27.48\00:42:29.78
One, when I say, Sister
Murray, how're you doing?
00:42:29.81\00:42:34.55
I'm saying that
because that's what Christians
00:42:34.58\00:42:36.35
are supposed to say.
00:42:36.38\00:42:37.99
Amen.
00:42:38.02\00:42:39.59
The truth is I don't necessarily
00:42:39.62\00:42:42.19
want to hear every ache,
pain, itch, glitch that you got.
00:42:42.22\00:42:46.96
Amen. Amen.
00:42:47.00\00:42:49.36
Now listen, if you are in
pain don't lie tell the truth.
00:42:49.40\00:42:54.54
But there are some
people Ellen White says,
00:42:54.57\00:42:56.74
who take a perverse delight
00:42:56.77\00:42:58.77
in mourning and
groaning about every thing.
00:42:58.81\00:43:01.88
You know, you see him one
day, "How you doing, Sister?"
00:43:01.91\00:43:04.01
"Oh, Jesus, oh, just bad, bad"
00:43:04.05\00:43:08.95
and every time you
say Mr. same thing.
00:43:08.98\00:43:10.99
What do you do after a while?
00:43:11.02\00:43:13.72
Yeah, you don't
ask quite as much
00:43:13.76\00:43:15.79
or you say, how you're doing?
00:43:15.82\00:43:17.16
Oh, got to run
00:43:17.19\00:43:19.56
or you doing that whole
thing with the cell phone.
00:43:19.59\00:43:21.10
You run, hey, good to see you.
00:43:21.13\00:43:22.46
I'm on the phone. You
know, that kind of thing.
00:43:22.50\00:43:25.13
Ellen White says, "Talk faith."
00:43:25.17\00:43:26.50
Number one, it makes him
more pleasant to be around.
00:43:26.53\00:43:29.37
And other people can
get joy from your joy.
00:43:29.40\00:43:32.21
One thing about
joy is infectious.
00:43:32.24\00:43:33.94
If you carry joy
other pickup your joy.
00:43:33.98\00:43:36.68
Amen. Amen.
00:43:36.71\00:43:38.05
But if you carry around
that marrow sad attitude
00:43:38.08\00:43:40.92
people tend to, tend
to draw back a little bit.
00:43:40.95\00:43:46.92
So talk faith and
it helps, it helps you.
00:43:46.96\00:43:50.89
It makes your
Christian experience better
00:43:50.93\00:43:53.13
so talk faith.
00:43:53.16\00:43:54.50
You know, even
you got a little pain,
00:43:54.53\00:43:56.30
"Well, you know,
back is bothering me today
00:43:56.33\00:43:58.67
but I got Jesus."
00:43:58.70\00:44:00.04
Amen. Amen.
00:44:00.07\00:44:01.40
Amen. Rence do but I got Jesus.
00:44:01.44\00:44:05.31
I got cancer but I got Jesus.
00:44:05.34\00:44:08.34
Amen. Amen.
00:44:08.38\00:44:09.98
Talk faith.
00:44:10.01\00:44:11.35
I mean, tell the
truth but talk faith.
00:44:11.38\00:44:13.75
There are some people who
never give God any praises.
00:44:13.78\00:44:16.28
Always complain, complain,
complain, complain, complain.
00:44:16.32\00:44:20.36
Talk faith, it brings
rays of sunshine to your,
00:44:20.39\00:44:24.46
to your, to your life.
00:44:24.49\00:44:26.56
I could go into a long story
about my very first funeral
00:44:26.59\00:44:29.03
at Ephesus Church
was a lady Cathleen Downs
00:44:29.06\00:44:31.60
went from five
foot seven, 147 pounds
00:44:31.63\00:44:34.57
down to five foot
seven, 87 pounds with cancer
00:44:34.60\00:44:37.37
and sang her way
till the day she died.
00:44:37.41\00:44:40.24
Just sang in the
hospital about Jesus
00:44:40.28\00:44:42.04
and the doctors and
the nurses said, we wanted,
00:44:42.08\00:44:44.28
they came to the
funeral they said,
00:44:44.31\00:44:45.65
"We just want
to be in the church
00:44:45.68\00:44:47.65
that could produce a lady
like that who couldn't eat,
00:44:47.68\00:44:51.35
couldn't sleep
and the doctor said,
00:44:51.39\00:44:53.52
Pastor, she is in
apocalyptic pain."
00:44:53.56\00:44:55.52
That's the term he used.
00:44:55.56\00:44:56.89
"Wouldn't take the
narcotics we wanted
00:44:56.93\00:44:58.73
and feel if she
just sang about Jesus
00:44:58.76\00:45:00.73
until she got so thin and
so weak her mouth just froze
00:45:00.76\00:45:03.90
and she couldn't talk anymore."
00:45:03.93\00:45:06.10
And even the nurses said,
00:45:06.13\00:45:07.47
"We've never seen
any better like this.
00:45:07.50\00:45:09.24
What kind of faith is this?"
00:45:09.27\00:45:11.14
And they all
came to her funeral.
00:45:11.17\00:45:14.51
Her oncologist, her
head nurse on the floor,
00:45:14.54\00:45:17.48
the orderly,
everybody just wanted to see
00:45:17.51\00:45:19.55
what kind of person that
kind of hold on Jesus Christ?
00:45:19.58\00:45:22.52
He can do that for
you so that even in pain
00:45:22.55\00:45:25.39
you can talk faith.
00:45:25.42\00:45:26.76
And we asked her,
Sister Downs, Cathleen Downs,
00:45:26.79\00:45:29.02
how you're doing?
00:45:29.06\00:45:30.46
Doing all right.
00:45:30.49\00:45:32.29
God is good."
00:45:32.33\00:45:33.96
And you knew she was in pain
but she was praising the Lord
00:45:34.00\00:45:36.67
even thought that pain.
00:45:36.70\00:45:38.03
That's what God can do
for her, He can do that.
00:45:38.07\00:45:40.90
Okay, got to move
along. So "Talk faith.
00:45:40.94\00:45:43.34
Keep on God's side of the line.
00:45:43.37\00:45:45.21
Set not your foot
on the enemies' side
00:45:45.24\00:45:47.64
and the Lord
will be your Helper."
00:45:47.68\00:45:49.18
So don't go places, well,
you know the devil is gonna be.
00:45:49.21\00:45:53.01
Don't do things that you
know the devil is involved in.
00:45:53.05\00:45:55.72
You know, you got
a friend at a party
00:45:55.75\00:45:59.59
don't go.
00:45:59.62\00:46:03.79
You know, the Lord
doesn't want you there
00:46:03.83\00:46:05.66
and if you get there
you're gonna get into trouble.
00:46:05.69\00:46:09.06
So just don't, just don't go.
00:46:09.10\00:46:11.80
Amen. Amen.
00:46:11.83\00:46:13.17
Let me ask you a question.
00:46:13.20\00:46:14.54
I had an elder
tell me this story.
00:46:14.57\00:46:15.90
He said about 12 years ago
00:46:15.94\00:46:19.77
I went to my brother's
house for Thanksgiving.
00:46:19.81\00:46:22.68
Took my wife and my two kids.
00:46:22.71\00:46:25.25
All during the meal he
is smoking a cigar puffing,
00:46:25.28\00:46:29.18
you know, room
just full of smoke.
00:46:29.22\00:46:31.55
Bringing the dessert
he's smoking a cigar.
00:46:31.59\00:46:34.39
My wife's she is
tearing and crying.
00:46:34.42\00:46:37.86
The children are coughing.
00:46:37.89\00:46:39.23
Now his family is accustomed to
00:46:39.26\00:46:40.60
because he smokes all the time.
00:46:40.63\00:46:41.96
This guy is a chain smoker.
00:46:42.00\00:46:43.33
As one goes out
he's smoking another one.
00:46:43.37\00:46:44.70
So we're sitting
around he is puffing,
00:46:44.73\00:46:46.20
the house is like
this big miasmal smoke.
00:46:46.23\00:46:48.37
My wife said,
"Honey, can we just go
00:46:48.40\00:46:49.74
because I just,
I can't take it."
00:46:49.77\00:46:52.51
So he said, "Well, next
Thanksgiving come to my house."
00:46:52.54\00:46:58.48
So the next Thanksgiving
00:46:58.51\00:46:59.85
he comes to the Adventist
house same puffing smoke.
00:46:59.88\00:47:03.62
So we asked him to put it out.
00:47:03.65\00:47:06.62
The brother says,
"Where I go my cigarettes come.
00:47:06.65\00:47:11.69
Where I go my cigars come."
00:47:11.73\00:47:15.53
And the elder said to me
00:47:15.56\00:47:18.23
I have not been
in my brother's house
00:47:18.27\00:47:20.80
and he hasn't been
in mine for 12 years.
00:47:20.84\00:47:24.51
Because he refuses to
put out his cigarettes,
00:47:24.54\00:47:27.48
his cigars, he
is a cigar smoker.
00:47:27.51\00:47:29.51
And where he goes his cigars go.
00:47:29.54\00:47:33.78
Now we call him on the phone
00:47:33.82\00:47:35.92
and we talk but I not
been in his for 12 years,
00:47:35.95\00:47:39.75
he has not been in mine.
00:47:39.79\00:47:41.42
And the
question he asked me was,
00:47:41.46\00:47:43.79
"Am I doing right?"
00:47:43.83\00:47:48.23
Tough.
00:47:48.26\00:47:50.27
He said, "Am I doing right?
00:47:50.30\00:47:51.63
My brother refuses
to put down the cigars.
00:47:51.67\00:47:54.70
I don't want to expose
my family to cigar smoke
00:47:54.74\00:47:58.64
so we just don't go
to each others house.
00:47:58.67\00:48:00.21
I'll call him talk with him
but we don't go to restaurants
00:48:00.24\00:48:03.41
because he smokes in restaurants
00:48:03.45\00:48:05.18
and we don't go
to each other houses
00:48:05.21\00:48:07.55
because he won't
give up his cigar.
00:48:07.58\00:48:10.05
Am I doing right?"
00:48:10.09\00:48:13.29
What an answer? Yes.
00:48:13.32\00:48:16.09
Pray about it.
00:48:16.12\00:48:18.26
I have one because
I had to give him one.
00:48:18.29\00:48:21.30
But I'll just hold on to that.
00:48:21.33\00:48:23.67
My point is this
00:48:23.70\00:48:26.60
"Set not your foot
on the enemies' side
00:48:26.63\00:48:29.74
and the Lord
will be your Helper."
00:48:29.77\00:48:31.77
That kind of
leaks out the answer.
00:48:31.81\00:48:33.14
Any one?
00:48:33.17\00:48:34.61
"He will do for you that
which it is not possible for you
00:48:34.64\00:48:37.05
to do for yourself.
00:48:37.08\00:48:38.85
The result will be
00:48:38.88\00:48:40.22
that you will become
like a cedar in Lebanon.
00:48:40.25\00:48:44.82
Your life will be noble
00:48:44.85\00:48:47.09
and your works
will be wrought in God."
00:48:47.12\00:48:50.79
Now let me say this,
the Adventist brother said,
00:48:50.83\00:48:54.46
my house is always open to you,
00:48:54.50\00:48:57.20
you can come anytime you want
but your cigar stays outside.
00:48:57.23\00:49:02.80
Amen. Amen.
00:49:02.84\00:49:04.17
Okay.
00:49:04.21\00:49:06.11
Disease.
00:49:06.14\00:49:07.61
"The power of the will is
not valued as it should be.
00:49:07.64\00:49:11.61
Let the will be kept
awake and rightly directed
00:49:11.65\00:49:15.98
and it will impart
energy to the whole being
00:49:16.02\00:49:19.12
and it will impart" I'm sorry,
00:49:19.15\00:49:21.06
"And will be a wonderful aid
in the maintenance of health.
00:49:21.09\00:49:25.53
It is a power also in
dealing with disease."
00:49:25.56\00:49:31.10
A lot of this has
to do with depression.
00:49:31.13\00:49:33.47
Depression
though starts in a mind
00:49:33.50\00:49:35.60
has effects on the body.
00:49:35.64\00:49:37.87
If you keep
happy, if you keep joyful
00:49:37.91\00:49:43.04
I think that there
is a direct correlation
00:49:43.08\00:49:46.41
between joy in Jesus and health.
00:49:46.45\00:49:48.92
Amen. I truly believe that.
00:49:48.95\00:49:51.92
This I do know, anger,
00:49:51.95\00:49:55.29
unforgiveness eats
away at your spirit.
00:49:55.32\00:49:59.83
It does and I
think shortens your life.
00:49:59.86\00:50:03.47
Doctors have said
that anger and stress
00:50:03.50\00:50:09.60
and tension build up Cortisol
00:50:09.64\00:50:12.74
which puts on weight
and lot of that weight pools
00:50:12.77\00:50:15.64
around your organs.
00:50:15.68\00:50:17.68
So we know that there is a link
00:50:17.71\00:50:21.18
between your
moods and your body.
00:50:21.22\00:50:25.65
And I think it may go
even further than we think.
00:50:25.69\00:50:29.89
I think unforgiveness
shortens your life.
00:50:29.92\00:50:32.73
It makes you
mean, makes you evil,
00:50:32.76\00:50:37.33
and makes you not a nice person.
00:50:37.37\00:50:39.37
Forgiveness is
good for the forgiver
00:50:39.40\00:50:42.50
and the forgive.
00:50:42.54\00:50:44.11
Amen. Amen.
00:50:44.14\00:50:45.47
As they say being unforgiving
is like drinking poison
00:50:45.51\00:50:48.68
hoping the
other person will die.
00:50:48.71\00:50:51.21
Forgive and get yourself
free and it will help your life
00:50:51.25\00:50:54.68
be much sweeter.
00:50:54.72\00:50:58.42
Let's see.
00:50:58.45\00:51:01.72
Oh, by exercise
of the will power
00:51:01.76\00:51:03.93
in placing themselves
in right relation to life,
00:51:03.96\00:51:06.86
patients can do
much to cooperate
00:51:06.90\00:51:09.73
with the physician's
efforts for their recovery.
00:51:09.76\00:51:13.84
There are thousands
who can recover health
00:51:13.87\00:51:16.54
if they will."
00:51:16.57\00:51:18.71
Now if you have
something like cancer
00:51:18.74\00:51:21.78
or something very
traumatic sitting around saying"
00:51:21.81\00:51:26.41
"Okay, I don't have
it. Its not gonna fly.
00:51:26.45\00:51:28.18
I tried that it doesn't work.
00:51:28.22\00:51:30.02
You got to admit
that you, that you got.
00:51:30.05\00:51:32.29
And then deal with it.
00:51:32.32\00:51:33.66
But even the
doctors of Eden Valley
00:51:33.69\00:51:35.92
where I went said to me
00:51:35.96\00:51:37.59
your attitude has a lot
to do with your healing.
00:51:37.63\00:51:41.43
Talk positive, live positive.
00:51:41.46\00:51:44.80
You know, I like
to play basketball
00:51:44.83\00:51:47.37
but I'm not just a
big exercise junky.
00:51:47.40\00:51:50.97
Irma and I get up now
half hour early in the morning
00:51:51.01\00:51:53.38
and she has this
little exercise video
00:51:53.41\00:51:55.58
and she is rolling
around on the floor
00:51:55.61\00:51:57.15
and going through all
these kind of directions
00:51:57.18\00:51:58.65
and what not and I-- we
have a rebound, you know,
00:51:58.68\00:52:01.02
you just do the
bouncing like a little treadmill
00:52:01.05\00:52:02.75
and I do that
then I go out and run
00:52:02.78\00:52:06.15
trying to catch up with Younick,
00:52:06.19\00:52:07.52
you know, I go out to run.
00:52:07.56\00:52:09.22
And I don't, I don't pretty like
00:52:09.26\00:52:10.59
getting up at 5
o'clock in morning
00:52:10.63\00:52:11.96
to get on rebound
and go out and run.
00:52:11.99\00:52:13.33
You do it like medicine because
doing it makes you live longer,
00:52:13.36\00:52:17.87
makes you a better
tool in hand of God
00:52:17.90\00:52:20.37
and helps you fight diseases.
00:52:20.40\00:52:22.24
So you do it with joy and
God will give you that joy
00:52:22.27\00:52:25.24
because you are
doing something to become
00:52:25.27\00:52:26.68
a better instrument for Him.
00:52:26.71\00:52:28.74
Amen. Amen.
00:52:28.78\00:52:30.21
So I see keep
doing this my place here.
00:52:30.25\00:52:33.92
Let's see, "The Lord
does not want them to be sick.
00:52:33.95\00:52:37.79
He desires them
to be well and happy
00:52:37.82\00:52:40.72
and they should make up
their minds to be well."
00:52:40.76\00:52:43.79
Amen. Amen.
00:52:43.83\00:52:45.16
Yeah.
00:52:45.19\00:52:46.53
Make up your mind to be well
also means making up your mind
00:52:46.56\00:52:48.30
to do those things
that will make you well.
00:52:48.33\00:52:49.90
Amen.
00:52:49.93\00:52:51.30
All right, "Often
invalids can resist disease
00:52:51.33\00:52:54.44
by simply refusing to yield
00:52:54.47\00:52:56.54
to ailments and settle
down in a state of inactivity."
00:52:56.57\00:53:00.88
Doing nothing is
worse than doing something.
00:53:00.91\00:53:04.21
Amen. Amen.
00:53:04.25\00:53:05.58
So if you got a
little ache and pain
00:53:05.61\00:53:07.72
fight through that
and exercise anyhow.
00:53:07.75\00:53:10.49
"Rising above
their aches and pains
00:53:10.52\00:53:12.22
let them engage
in useful employment
00:53:12.25\00:53:14.49
suited to their strength."
00:53:14.52\00:53:15.86
So you may not be able to
go out and run a bunch of miles
00:53:15.89\00:53:17.33
but you can walk.
00:53:17.36\00:53:18.96
Amen. Amen.
00:53:18.99\00:53:20.33
Or do something.
00:53:20.36\00:53:21.70
And listen, let
me say this quickly
00:53:21.73\00:53:23.06
because the time is
getting away from us.
00:53:23.10\00:53:24.43
Be aware of sabbaticus.
00:53:24.47\00:53:26.53
Sabbaticus is
information of the Sabbath.
00:53:26.57\00:53:29.07
Get up on Sabbath morning
00:53:29.10\00:53:30.44
you have aches
and pains and things
00:53:30.47\00:53:31.81
that you never had
before in your life.
00:53:31.84\00:53:33.38
That's because Satan wants
you to stay home in your bed.
00:53:33.41\00:53:35.54
If you go back to
bed and go to sleep
00:53:35.58\00:53:37.48
about 1 o'clock, 1:30
when church is over guess what?
00:53:37.51\00:53:41.12
Pains gone but it
stoles your blessing.
00:53:41.15\00:53:43.45
So fight through
it she is saying.
00:53:43.49\00:53:45.22
Fight through
those aches and pains
00:53:45.25\00:53:46.76
and serve the Lord anyhow.
00:53:46.79\00:53:48.56
Now, I want to jump
on something real fast.
00:53:48.59\00:53:50.66
I got to jump
down to Self Control.
00:53:50.69\00:53:56.43
Yeah, you know, in fact,
let me go to the last one
00:53:56.46\00:53:58.63
because my time is gonna
get away from here and I see,
00:53:58.67\00:54:00.10
I'm looking at my time.
00:54:00.14\00:54:02.37
"Can Control Circumstances,"
00:54:02.40\00:54:03.97
I want to end with this
and those of you at home
00:54:04.01\00:54:06.81
I hope you get
this and download it
00:54:06.84\00:54:09.21
because it got
some good information.
00:54:09.24\00:54:10.81
I got three minutes
and fifty some seconds.
00:54:10.85\00:54:12.31
I go through this last bit.
00:54:12.35\00:54:13.68
You are on the last page
00:54:13.72\00:54:15.05
fourth volume
Testimonies page 346.
00:54:15.08\00:54:18.55
"Many give
loose rein to passion,
00:54:18.59\00:54:21.72
avarice,
selfishness, and deception,
00:54:21.76\00:54:25.69
and all the time
excuse themselves
00:54:25.73\00:54:28.56
and lay the blame
on the circumstances
00:54:28.60\00:54:31.30
which brought around
the trial to themselves."
00:54:31.33\00:54:35.54
So you are
blaming your circumstances
00:54:35.57\00:54:37.27
instead of looking at yourself.
00:54:37.31\00:54:39.71
When you have a
problem the first thing you do
00:54:39.74\00:54:41.74
is look in the mirror.
00:54:41.78\00:54:43.11
Amen. Amen.
00:54:43.14\00:54:44.48
Make sure you
are not the problem
00:54:44.51\00:54:45.85
because we tend to look around,
look at yourself, all right.
00:54:45.88\00:54:48.58
Look at this. Now,
"This has been your case."
00:54:48.62\00:54:52.25
Of course she's
counseling to an individual.
00:54:52.29\00:54:54.36
This next line I
put it a line under.
00:54:54.39\00:54:56.56
"God permitted
00:54:56.59\00:54:57.99
your surroundings to
exist to develop character."
00:54:58.03\00:55:02.76
Amen.
00:55:02.80\00:55:04.63
Sometimes the Lord
allows us to get into situations
00:55:04.67\00:55:09.70
that He does not
immediately take us out of
00:55:09.74\00:55:12.77
because you need to be there
00:55:12.81\00:55:15.08
for your own
character development.
00:55:15.11\00:55:18.85
So you maybe
working with a person
00:55:18.88\00:55:21.55
that you don't
particularly care for
00:55:21.58\00:55:24.35
and they don't
particularly care for you.
00:55:24.39\00:55:26.76
You need to pray for that person
00:55:26.79\00:55:29.72
and pray that God
will show you a way
00:55:29.76\00:55:32.33
to minister to that person.
00:55:32.36\00:55:34.36
Not pray, "Lord,
let him get another job.
00:55:34.40\00:55:38.10
Lord, let them break their leg."
00:55:38.13\00:55:40.20
That's called and
imprecatory prayer.
00:55:40.24\00:55:41.74
"Lord, let
something happen to them."
00:55:41.77\00:55:43.67
No, Lord, let
something happen to me.
00:55:43.71\00:55:46.68
Let my heart get changed.
00:55:46.71\00:55:48.94
God puts us in these situations
so that we can see our self.
00:55:48.98\00:55:55.08
I used to tell my churches
00:55:55.12\00:55:57.09
I will not be
your pastor forever.
00:55:57.12\00:56:00.06
Pastors come, pastors go
00:56:00.09\00:56:02.79
but while I'm
here all I got is you
00:56:02.82\00:56:08.10
and all you got is me.
00:56:08.13\00:56:11.63
So let's try to love each
other and serve Christ together
00:56:11.67\00:56:16.04
because as I had an
entrance I have an exit
00:56:16.07\00:56:19.81
and another guy will come,
00:56:19.84\00:56:21.74
got to have an
entrance and an exit.
00:56:21.78\00:56:24.61
All we got is
each other and Jesus.
00:56:24.65\00:56:26.85
Amen. Amen.
00:56:26.88\00:56:28.22
So you can't blame Him.
00:56:28.25\00:56:30.99
Let's go on.
00:56:31.02\00:56:33.52
"God permitted your
surroundings to exist
00:56:33.56\00:56:35.29
to develop character.
00:56:35.32\00:56:36.66
But you could have
made your surroundings,
00:56:36.69\00:56:39.19
for by resisting or
enduring temptation,
00:56:39.23\00:56:42.23
circumstances are
controlled by the might
00:56:42.26\00:56:45.77
of the will in
the name of Jesus."
00:56:45.80\00:56:48.10
Amen. Amen.
00:56:48.14\00:56:49.47
Yeah. You can
control your circumstances.
00:56:49.50\00:56:51.17
You can control
what goes on around you
00:56:51.21\00:56:53.34
by surrendering
yourself to Christ
00:56:53.38\00:56:55.14
and letting His
light so shine before men
00:56:55.18\00:56:57.78
that they see your good works
00:56:57.81\00:56:59.88
and glorify your
Father which is in heaven.
00:56:59.91\00:57:02.98
Amen. All right.
00:57:03.02\00:57:04.35
"This is overcoming
as Christ overcame."
00:57:04.39\00:57:07.79
You see, overcoming in Jesus
00:57:07.82\00:57:10.16
is not I say again
avoidance theology.
00:57:10.19\00:57:12.96
It's not getting away from stuff
00:57:12.99\00:57:14.93
its overcoming stuff.
00:57:14.96\00:57:16.67
Amen. Amen.
00:57:16.70\00:57:18.03
It's not
getting away from trial,
00:57:18.07\00:57:19.73
its overcoming trial.
00:57:19.77\00:57:21.34
It's not getting
away from temptation,
00:57:21.37\00:57:23.24
its overcoming temptation.
00:57:23.27\00:57:24.87
Because you will
always be in this world
00:57:24.91\00:57:26.98
until Christ takes
you out of this world
00:57:27.01\00:57:28.88
and temptation
will always be here
00:57:28.91\00:57:30.81
but you can be an over
comer even as Christ overcame.
00:57:30.85\00:57:34.62
Amen. Already. Amen.
00:57:34.65\00:57:36.48
"This is the victory
that overcometh the world,
00:57:36.52\00:57:41.42
even our faith."
00:57:41.46\00:57:44.89
So the secret is
now and has always been
00:57:44.93\00:57:49.60
surrendered to Jesus Christ.
00:57:49.63\00:57:51.77
Not fighting,
certainly not fighting the devil
00:57:51.80\00:57:54.40
because you cannot defeat him.
00:57:54.44\00:57:56.07
It's surrendering to Christ
and let Christ fight for you,
00:57:56.10\00:58:01.11
with you and through you.
00:58:01.14\00:58:04.51
You will be successful.
00:58:04.55\00:58:06.58