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Let's get the message out like
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the leaves of Autumn.
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But right now we're going to get
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back into the
second part of the message.
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I know that you're
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How many of us, you and I,
are still here right there?
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How many of us are every night
saying, Lord, forgive my sins. I
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"I've not done
everything right. "
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"You know I need your blood,
Lord. Please forgive my sins. "
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And we never
get past that point.
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What we do is we keep bringing
our little lamb, Jesus Christ,
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because we know when we
sin - what do we do to Christ?
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Yeah, we crucify Him afresh
because it takes His blood
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to cover our sins.
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The sanctuary is no
different than that.
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It's a map. It might
not be that interesting
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on the outside but
this map tells you what?
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Where you're at
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or where you started, excuse me.
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Where you're at and
where you need to get to.
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Even though we go down the dead
end street sometimes because
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we want to do - what?
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Our way. God still
has the map, doesn't He?
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But you and I have to surrender
to that map and we have to go
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his way, and the messages that
you've been hearing in the last
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few days is that how
much time do you and I have.
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Where you're going to be
changing the likeness of who?
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Jesus Christ to
the likeness of who?
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Satan.
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Now let's go to Verse 9
and 10- no, that's Chapter 6.
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Chapter 6, First
Corinthians 9 and 10.
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It says here...
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What? The what? The unrighteous.
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Who's the unrighteous?
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Is that wicked people that
believe in devil worship only?
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Think about that. Who are they?
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Or the King James
says 'effeminates'.
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You need to look that up
in the Greek, if you like.
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And I love what we've
got today, technology.
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You can get on the internet.
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If you don't understand a word,
look it up, and you can get
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the Greek meaning of that word.
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You don't have to know Greek but
you can get the Greek meaning
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of that word or the Hebrew
meaning in the Old Testament.
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And what I do when I do my Bible
studies, I'll put the number,
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the strongest concordance
number and then I look that up,
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and then I mark it
down, what that word means.
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That's how I do
my Bible studies.
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"... nor
homosexuals, nor sodomites. "
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Now...
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Do you think...
We're going Verse 10.
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Do you believe that?
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Do you really believe that?
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So could that apply to us?
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And I'm going to take the
'us' some of the worst things
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because there bringing the news.
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But again, I'm not
picking on any one thing.
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I'm picking against sin. Amen?
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I'm not trying to pick against
somebody because if anyone needs
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to be picked on,
that ought to be me.
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I'm the chief of sinners.
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Let me read this. This
just happened last week,
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by the way.
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It happened...
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Where is it at?
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It happened on August 21,
which is, I think, last Friday.
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It says, "The nation's largest
Lutheran denomination took
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openly gay clergy more fully
into its fold Friday as leaders
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of the Evangelical Lutheran
Church in America voted to lift
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the ban that prohibited sexually
active gay and lesbian people
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from serving as ministers. "
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Now I don't know if
you know what that means.
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It even pass - a while ago, for
as long as you are celibate...
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In other words, you are
actively gay, you just have
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those propensities that
you could be a minister.
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But now they just passed it.
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I think, if I've got it
right, because I want to
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make sure my...
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It says that "change
passed with the support of 68%."
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Now, I want to
ask you a question.
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Is the Bible true
or is the Bible false?
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But we want to pick on those.
See, we can pick out what we
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think are big sins.
But what is the definition
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of 'sin'?
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The transgression of the law.
And what are the wages of sin?
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Death.
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Did it say only
if you're homosexual?
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Only if you're a liar?
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You know, only if
you commit adultery?
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No, it's 'all sin
kills'. Is that not right?
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What is God trying
to do with You and I?
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He's trying to cleanse us!
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Do you want to be cleansed?
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I want to so bad! I
want Jesus to come again.
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Don't you?
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I long for it!
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I wake up in the middle of the
night and I say, "Jesus, come!"
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You know what, when I travel
around and I see the terrible -
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that's going on and sometimes
people ask me, "If God is such
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a loving God, why is all
these stuff still happening?"
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Because, brothers, you and
I are still in the courtyard!
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It's like we've
stalled, we ran out of gas!
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And we don't
know where to get it!
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We're looking all
over for gas and gas cans.
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We can't find it because what?
Because we haven't got the gas
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from Christ. We haven't
got the surrendered heart.
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We're just like, "Hey!"
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You know I can imagine, if I
was a big ol' ship herder back
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in the day, back in Moses' day,
as long as I had enough lambs,
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I'll just keep sinning.
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Well, they got enough lambs.
Hey, no problem, I still got
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2,000 lambs. And you
know, they're going to
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continue to grow, so no
problem. I take my lamb.
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And you know, I'm with
everybody else. No big deal.
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Hey, here's a lamb. Big
deal, so it's a little lamb.
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You know... Oh, I sinned
again. No big deal, I got 1,999.
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So I'm just going
to take the other one.
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That's how you and
I think many times.
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We get on our
knees at night and say,
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"Lord, please forgive my
sins. " But do we mean it?
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Because if we mean it,
why in the world do many of us
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keep doing it day after
day, after day, after day
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the same thing. And
what you think is little -
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the Holy Spirit is
working upon your heart.
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Are you surrendering that? I
don't know about you, so often
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in my own life, I've done things
and the Spirit has said no.
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Has the Spirit
said no to you before?
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Christian, you're
shaking your head.
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Has the Spirit
said no to you before?
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The Spirit has said no to me
many times and there are times
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that I have not listened.
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You know why? Do
you know really why?
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And I think it's
such a little thing?
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Because I think I'm
going to miss out on something!
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That I'm not going to be really
happy if give this thing up!
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And then if I talked to someone,
they'll think I'm a legalist
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just because
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it's such a small thing and
I make it such a small thing.
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But if it's such a small thing,
why is it so hard for me to
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to give it up?
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Because I don't want to!
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Because I'm selfish and I
don't want to surrender that
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because I'm afraid. If I do that
I know that by theory that Jesus
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said, "If You pick up
your cross and follow Me,
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you'll have peace. "
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But I think if I give that up...
I mean, Lord, I've given up 99
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things already in
the last three weeks.
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You're just taking
all the fun out of life!
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It's because I lose my
faith and trust in Jesus Christ.
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Do you believe the Word?
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Do you have a right to figure
out what you can accept and
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what you can reject?
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It's a road map!
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We talked I want
to make shortcuts.
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Reminds me, about three
years ago when I was in Montana,
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that's where I
met Derrol Sawyer.
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And my wife will vouch and
my kids will vouch for this.
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Seth, who's 24 now, was - I
don't know, probably 5 years old
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or something, I'm not sure.
It was a Sabbath afternoon and
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it was called Hornet Mountain.
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And I think, Derrol, if you're
around here, I think you might
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have been to Hornet Mountain.
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Have you been up to
Hornet Mountain, Derrol?
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I don't know but we - you go up
there and you hike around this
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and you get wet and man...
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Where we lived it was
right on the rocky mountains and
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you're just overlooking.
Oh, the rocky mountain's
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so beautiful. So we travel
- a beautiful day, we traveled
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up there, Deb, my
wife, and our three children.
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Well, we got up there
and enjoyed ourselves.
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It was just us. And
so then we were up there
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quite sometime and as I was
going up I was taking a mental
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picture of, I was
thinking, all these switchbacks,
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just switchback
after switchback I thought,
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You know, it's not that the
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the hills aren't that high,
it's just that you got so many
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switchbacks, it takes forever.
Now, I like getting things done.
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I'm a Type A, AAA
personality, and I...
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And so I'm walking,
the switchback and walking,
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the switchback, and
walking, the switchback.
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I'm thinking, "Man, when I come
down, I'm going through any of
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this. I'm just
gonna take a short cut. "
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So I was kind of - I didn't say
anything to my family at that
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time we got up there.
When we come down I said,
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"Honey, listen. It took a long
time to get up there and we'd
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like to get back...
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" Debs is just
shaking her head back there
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because she
remembers this very well.
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I said, We're gonna
take this shortcut and we're
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just gonna... I said, "I've
been kinda paying attention.
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I know exactly where to go. "
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Oh, the last famous words.
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I don't know how long
we were on my shortcut.
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And Deb was good though, once
in a while the kids were saying,
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"When are we gonna get down?"
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And you know, Mom would say soon
and she'd look at me and she
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just roll her eyes and, I can't
believe you're doing this to us.
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And then I've got Seth's hand
and logs are falling all over
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and you're getting
them over the logs, and...
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And that not only that, I can't
remember, it must have been
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springtime or something
but the bushes had this sticky
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stuff on it.
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And when we got home,
it's because Seth was only like
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this high, his
hair... I'm talking...
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I don't know what they got
today, that hair gel stuff, but
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this was the best and you
couldn't pull his hair apart.
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And just so you know,
that my wife is always
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taking care of kids.
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You know, I'm the
guy - mow the lawn.
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I'm not saying guys, that
you shouldn't help. You should.
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But she never minded. She'd
give them the bathes and do
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all that stuff. I want you to
know that was the first bath I
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gave my son. Five years old
because I wasn't about to ask
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Deb if she would clean
them up. When we got down there
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and they had dresses on,
it was just a nice Sabbath
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afternoon walk and
everything was an... They
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ruined all their
clothes. So when I got home...
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I'll never forget that, I said,
"Honey, I'll go ahead and give
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Seth a bath today. "
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Because why? I could
see - I knew a better way!
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I had a great shortcut but
that shortcut took me about 3
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hours longer than the 45-
minute walk up there and I
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was coming downhill.
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When I got finally down the
ground, I didn't have a clue
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where our truck was at. I didn't
know where I was at, to be
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honest with you.
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Many times... And men, we
have a real problem with this.
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We always want to take a
shortcut and then when we
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do get in the shortcut,
we don't ask anybody for
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directions, which shows
that our women are much more
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humble than us because...
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I don't know
about you, women, but...
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And I don't think women are
that much different than guys
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and my wife would say,
"Just ask somebody, Dwight!"
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And I would say, "No, that's
okay. We'll get there. I know
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right about where I'm going. "
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Finally I said, "Look,
don't worry about it. We're just
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taking the scenic
route. It's okay. "
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But I want to share
with you something today.
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We can afford to take what
we call the 'scenic route'.
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We can afford to
take the 'scenic route'.
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You either believe
on the Scriptures 100%!
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That this is in you!
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The hope of what?
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The hope of glory!
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Do you believe it?
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Are you tasting it
to see that it's good?
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That what Jesus said is true!
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Everything! And by the way,
I don't care what science says
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about evolution and I don't
care if pastors are saying the
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wrong things.
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You better know the Word of God!
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You better be able to rightly
divide the Word of Truth!
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Because it says in the last
days, even Satan is going to
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come as what?
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An angel of light!
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Believe me, this end time, is
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going to be over
religious events.
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Read it in
Daniel and Revelation.
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You're not going to
have a problem with atheists,
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You're going to have a
problem with religious people!
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And by the way, I don't want
to just be a religious person.
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I want to be a Christian, which
means Christ-like. Don't you?
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And we don't have much time!
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Some people come up
to me and they've said,
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"Well, Dwight. I mean, we
just don't know when the Lord
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is coming. "
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You know, we do
not know the what?
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The day nor the hour but
are we supposed to know the
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season?
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And I want you to know
in Michigan, I'm not really
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looking forward for fall.
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As I get older, I
like warmer weather.
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And I love spring because I
don't like winter that well.
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I'm a happy camper. I
say, "Praise the Lord. "
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I like the white
stuff if I'm inside.
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When I was younger, I liked
going down the hills and all
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that. But when I get
older, I like spring.
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You know why I like spring?
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Because it tells
me winter's over.
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I see the buds on the trees.
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I can smell things blooming.
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I love it! It's just life!
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And then fall comes and leaves.
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You know, we are so full
of sin that we like the trees
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for the least the fall.
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"Oh, look at the pretty colors!"
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Well, they are pretty but do
you know that that represents
00:17:12.43\00:17:15.77
a death?
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Does it remind you of death?
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Spring is life.
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So we might not know the
day nor the hour, brothers and
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sisters, but you should know
the Scriptures well enough to
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know that Jesus is at the door.
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And the messages that are
being preached this weekend
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are messages that I know
these ministers have been
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praying long over.
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I know for a fact that
they strive and they cry,
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and they're concerned for you.
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I'm concerned for you.
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I don't even know a lot of you.
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But I've asked God to give
me a love for each one of you.
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Not that I have attained but
that I'm moving past the outer
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court. And by the way,
when Jesus comes, where are we
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supposed to be and have to be?
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In the most holy... In other
words, we have to have the what?
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The Mind of Christ.
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If we're still back here
and we've got to get there,
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and you... If you're 20 years
old, 30 years old, 40 years old,
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50 years old, 60 years old,
70 years old, and you're still
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out here. Tell me, is it an easy
process to get to the Most Holy?
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Can we get there?
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Do we have the right to
be there by God's grace?
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Amen!
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Can Christ lead us there?
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All He's asking is to what?
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"To follow Me. I am the Way.
I am the Truth, and in the Holy
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Place I am the Light. Please
follow Me. Are you willing to
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follow Me?"
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How about I close with this?
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Some of you here know the
story, I've said it before.
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And it's something that
really has touched my heart.
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I think I just told this
story a couple of months ago.
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We were on in our
staff worship at Remnant.
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We have one every
morning before we start.
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And by the way, at Remnant
Publications, I think if you
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talk with the Remnant staff,
they will tell you one of the
00:19:20.98\00:19:23.40
most favorite parts of the
day is our worship together.
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Isn't that great?
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I love it.
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It's just so exciting and that
we've been reading through the
00:19:30.74\00:19:33.27
great controversy and you talk
about getting stepped on your
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toes and about the end of time.
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Praise God.
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I'm thankful that
He steps on my toes.
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I just want to say, "Lord,
give me more. Feel me. Take this
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evilness away from me. "
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It doesn't matter.
People think that because I'm a
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Seventh Day
Adventist that I'm a cult.
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It doesn't matter that
people talk behind my back.
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Even some of my good friends.
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It doesn't matter.
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Lord, I just
want to walk with You.
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I want to be
with You in eternity.
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And so I heard this in
staff worship by one of our guys
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that worked there at that time.
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He's not here today - Greg.
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He was up at a ministerial
retreating. He was sharing
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that... I think it might have
been a pastor's wife but I won't
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get the story
perfect but you'd get it.
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She had a dream.
00:20:29.25\00:20:30.22
She'd been really
exercised about her son.
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He wasn't following the Lord.
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And you know, mothers and
fathers, without a show of
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hands, I can - I know that
there's mothers and fathers
00:20:40.26\00:20:43.55
that are hurting for
their children today. Amen?
00:20:43.58\00:20:45.77
Somehow they've went
astray and we pray for them.
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We get letters every day
at Remnant of some of our
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donors and people that
just email us and we read those.
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That, "My son and my
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daughter..." "My son's in
prison. My daughter's pregnant.
00:20:57.90\00:21:00.91
"She's not married and
she's fell away from the Lord. "
00:21:00.94\00:21:03.29
And, "My son's doing this. "
00:21:03.32\00:21:05.05
And, "Please pray
before probation closes that
00:21:05.08\00:21:09.00
somehow my children
will see the Light. "
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And so this lady was exercising
- she had a dream that night.
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And that dream that she had
was that she made it to heaven
00:21:18.90\00:21:21.90
and she was on
that great sea of glass
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that's talked
about in Revelation.
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And that she was there, she
saw that her son wasn't around.
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She's looking, "Where's
my son? Where's my son?"
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And Christ says in Revelation
that 'we reign with Christ
00:21:34.66\00:21:37.41
a thousand years. '
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And then what happens?
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That city, that great city
that you've heard about here,
00:21:40.36\00:21:44.37
that it's going to
- it comes down where?
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Comes down out of heaven
and it sits upon this earth.
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It says then, "The wicked that
have been dead for thousands
00:21:50.29\00:21:54.48
of years are resurrected. "
00:21:54.51\00:21:55.82
And there's this great marching
troop and Lucifer Satan.
00:21:56.80\00:22:00.56
He was once called Lucifer.
He marshals the greatest men,
00:22:00.59\00:22:04.18
generals that have ever
lived on the face of this earth.
00:22:04.21\00:22:10.29
And he gets warfare...
00:22:13.33\00:22:15.26
I mean, if you think nuclear
war is bad, I don't know what
00:22:15.29\00:22:18.10
he's got planned but I'm telling
you he doesn't like God's people
00:22:18.13\00:22:21.61
and he's working on you and me.
00:22:21.64\00:22:23.40
That he can get us down
that wide road and make us only
00:22:23.43\00:22:25.79
believe parts of the
Bible because the Lord said,
00:22:25.82\00:22:28.03
"You're either... " - what?
00:22:28.06\00:22:29.03
"... for Me or against Me. "
00:22:29.04\00:22:30.65
And so as that city came down,
this lady is inside this city.
00:22:31.92\00:22:37.12
And by the way, when
you read about the walls.
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The walls are so thick but
can you see through the walls?
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Can you imagine? If you just
picture about this city, you've
00:22:43.60\00:22:47.46
read it in Revelation
and it could be a mile thick.
00:22:47.49\00:22:51.13
It could have
been 300-feet thick.
00:22:51.16\00:22:53.09
It tells you in
there, but it's thick,
00:22:53.12\00:22:54.09
but you can see
through it just like a glass,
00:22:55.02\00:22:56.97
like it's that thin.
00:22:57.01\00:22:58.48
But she's looking through
there and seeing this dark spot,
00:22:58.52\00:23:06.80
shadow, way out there.
00:23:06.83\00:23:08.56
And all of a sudden, the shadows
gets bigger and bigger, bigger.
00:23:08.59\00:23:11.79
And all of a sudden she
detects these are people.
00:23:11.82\00:23:14.52
And as these people get closer
and closer, she realizes these
00:23:15.56\00:23:20.54
are the ones that never
fully surrender to Jesus Christ.
00:23:20.57\00:23:24.13
These are the wicked. And I want
to pause, pause for a second.
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Too often, we Christians, when
we read the Bible about 'wicked'
00:23:28.92\00:23:33.67
we think all these people that
are devil worshippers and that
00:23:33.70\00:23:37.41
have committed rapes,
and that have killed people
00:23:37.44\00:23:39.89
in cold blood.
00:23:39.93\00:23:40.90
"Those are the wicked ones!"
00:23:40.91\00:23:42.19
But in Matthew
7:21 and other places.
00:23:43.13\00:23:45.08
It says, "Lord, look at
all the good things I've done
00:23:45.11\00:23:46.78
in Your name!"
00:23:46.81\00:23:47.78
In other words, these
are so called 'Christians'.
00:23:47.79\00:23:50.46
Good people because God is
not in the business of saving
00:23:51.24\00:23:53.63
good people.
00:23:53.66\00:23:54.63
He's in the business of
saving surrendered people. Amen?
00:23:54.64\00:23:58.69
And don't kid yourself. Don't
think that just because you're
00:23:58.72\00:24:01.79
here or because
you're an elder in the church
00:24:01.82\00:24:04.38
or a pastor, or deaconess,
00:24:04.41\00:24:06.17
or whatever, or you do a
lot for the Church, or you give
00:24:06.20\00:24:08.51
a lot of money... Because we
cannot merit salvation, Amen?
00:24:08.54\00:24:12.03
It's a gift! But if
we love Jesus, we will
00:24:12.06\00:24:15.54
walk in His way, right?
00:24:15.58\00:24:18.00
And the Truth and the Life.
00:24:18.89\00:24:20.40
There will be a lot of
good people that are going to be
00:24:20.43\00:24:26.12
filled outside the walls.
00:24:26.15\00:24:28.96
Do you see what I'm saying?
00:24:28.99\00:24:30.78
And this lady looks out there
and as they're getting closer
00:24:33.42\00:24:36.14
she sees her son.
00:24:36.17\00:24:39.42
And the son sees her because
that wall is transparent.
00:24:41.82\00:24:45.08
And the son comes up to
that glass wall and he puts his
00:24:45.11\00:24:50.72
hand on that glass and she
puts her hand on the glass.
00:24:50.75\00:24:53.77
And because she couldn't hear
him because of the thickness
00:24:57.08\00:25:00.09
of the wall, he
lipped these words so she
00:25:00.12\00:25:02.47
understood so plainly.
00:25:02.51\00:25:05.47
"Please, let me in. "
00:25:05.50\00:25:08.43
And she said, "I
can't, I can't. "
00:25:12.38\00:25:17.79
Her son wasn't a
rapist, a killer.
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The question that I have for
you today as I have Christians
00:25:30.12\00:25:33.96
come out and sing a song that
is a close song to my heart.
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Embrace The Cross.
00:25:37.70\00:25:39.31
Are you afraid to embrace
the cross of Jesus Christ today?
00:25:39.34\00:25:43.16
Are you afraid of
what you're going to lose?
00:25:43.19\00:25:45.22
Are you happy that you
can give it all to Jesus?
00:25:45.25\00:25:48.06
Mothers and
fathers, I beg of you.
00:25:52.66\00:25:54.76
Maybe our children don't
want the religion we have
00:25:54.79\00:25:57.93
because they see us bickering
and complaining and backbiting
00:25:57.96\00:26:02.33
our Church members and they say,
When I get older, if that's what
00:26:02.36\00:26:05.65
Church is about, I'm outta here.
00:26:05.68\00:26:07.55
But as long as you're
alive moms and dads, grandmas
00:26:07.58\00:26:11.98
and grandpas, I entreat you.
00:26:12.02\00:26:15.36
Give everything to Jesus.
00:26:16.54\00:26:18.77
Let your children
see a different life
00:26:18.80\00:26:23.43
hid in Jesus Christ.
00:26:23.46\00:26:25.36
Young people, like me
when I was younger, have said,
00:26:25.40\00:26:29.99
"If that's Christianity... "
because I was sharp enough to
00:26:30.02\00:26:32.09
know that those people in
my Church, they've been in the
00:26:32.12\00:26:35.70
Church for 40 and 50 years.
00:26:35.73\00:26:36.70
They talked about
how we should love Jesus
00:26:36.71\00:26:39.82
and I knew they talked behind
people's backs and I saw it.
00:26:39.85\00:26:42.93
I said, "I don't want
anything to do with it!"
00:26:42.96\00:26:45.39
So I left the
Church when I was young.
00:26:45.42\00:26:47.00
I said, "I don't want that. "
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"You know what? If I'm going
to go to hell, at least I know
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where I'm headed. "
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"They don't and they're
going right along with me. "
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They're playing Church. The
devil loves us to play Church,
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brothers and sisters.
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It's not about being good.
It's about being surrendered.
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So, young people, if you
don't see your parents acting
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correctly, you don't
have to say, "Mom and Dad!
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What does the Bible say!"
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Young people, if you see
it, you be the shining light!
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Show your parents something
that maybe they know but it's
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up here. They haven't
learned how to act on.
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You get on your knees. You go to
bedroom and say,"Look, how can I
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be the shining light
to my Mom and my Dad?"
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"Because I love them so
much! They gave me life!"
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Embrace The Cross.
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By working together, 1.7 million
copies of the Passion of Love
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were distributed around
the country, resulting in an
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unprecedented partnership
with Walmart that lead to over a
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thousand Bible studies.
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By working together,
over 6 million copies of the
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Ten Commandments Twice Removed
were shared around the world,
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resulting in more than
20 churches now keeping
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the Bible Sabbath.
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By working together, we have
shipped almost a million Bibles
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to spiritually thirsty
Christians in Africa, touching
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the lives of 20
million people for Christ.
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Working together is what allows
Remnant Publications to spread
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truth-filled books
around the world to hasten
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the Lord's coming.
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Will you join
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Will you help us reach the world
for Jesus one book at a time?
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