Hello! My name is Shelley Quinn
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and welcome again in
"Issues and Answers"!
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We are going to talking
once more with Margaret Davis
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from Armstrong British Columbia.
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And our topic
today is going to be:
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How can we cooperate
with God for salvation?
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You know one of my
favorite scriptures
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and probably yours as well
in the Bible is Ephesians 2:8.
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That says that "we are
saved by grace through faith
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not by works that
any man should boast".
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But it goes on in verse
10 and he says... Paul writes
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"But we are God's own
handiwork. his workmanship
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He's work of art recreated
in Christ Jesus once we born new
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that we may do does good
works which God predestine
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before Him for us to do. "
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Salvation is by grace!
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And I thank God every
day I tell Him I'm so glad
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that I'm saved by grace because
I know I could never save myself
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I know as Margaret does, that
He's asking me to cooperate for
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Him and Margaret,
thanks for coming back
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because you're
going to teach us today:
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How we can cooperate
with God to take part
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in this wonderful
gift, of salvation?
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That's right.
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And I would like, in case
our viewers didn't see you
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when you were here before
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I'd like you to tell us a
little bit about yourself.
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I grew up in a church.
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and I tried for many years
to follow God, to do His will
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to work for Him.
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And it wasn't
until I was about 42.
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And my father cried for
help that I couldn't help him
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in his problems and so I
went to search how to help him.
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And trough the search I
discovered my own lost condition
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and... Your
father's cry for help!
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We learned last time was that
he was a man who had brought
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his children up in the church,
very strict disciplinarian.
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Had a long list of
don'ts and never understood
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how to experience that
new birth and the conversion
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and the power that God
gives us because of His love,
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the power to save.
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Yes!
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So! We had the obedience of law!
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We did not understand
the obedience of faith!
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And the obedience of
faith, you lift your soul to God
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and we receive His
Holy Spirit to empower you.
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Amen!
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To do what He wants you to do!
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Amen!
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And you are a minister's
wife and you were missionary.
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Where you were missionary?
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In the Philippians and in India.
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So you for many years, 42
years, you've been serving
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Grow up in the
church, serving in the church
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but you have not
really experienced
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that new birth and conversion.
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I didn't know how
the Holy Spirit worked!
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So! Tell us now!
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What is one of the
first thing that God does?
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Now, that you
have studied this out!
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What is one of the first
things He does to bring us
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into that saving
relationship with Him?
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Well! I would
like to share a text
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Philippians 2:12 and 14
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It says:
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"Work out your own salvation
with fear and trembling. "
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Amen!
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And we knew that text!
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And so we were
working our own salvation!
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I didn't know the next part!
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Amen!
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And many people don't
think of the next part!
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"For it is God, which
worked in you both to will and
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to do of His good pleasure. "
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And when I learned
that then I sad: Ok, Lord!
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Show me how to cooperate with
You so that You can work in me!
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So, you know!
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Your experience and mine
was similar, I think for many.
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I parked in Philippians
2:12 for a long time.
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Work out your own salvation
with fear and trembling.
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And I did tremble!
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I was fearful!
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Until one day the Lord showed
me that I can not separate
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the Philippians 2:12 from
Philippians 2:13. It's not
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in your own strength that
you work out your own salvation.
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That's right!
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It's God working in
you to will and to act
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according to His good pleasure.
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And He is asking us to work
out what He puts in us, right?
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So, what should our
response be to such a great God?
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And so then, when I
wanted to share with others
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I developed a chart where
I show that God has a part!
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OK!
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And we have a part!
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And Gods part...
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all of Gods part has
to do with working in us!
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All of our part has
to do with working out
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what God has already worked in.
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Amen!
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But He doesn't do
everything at once.
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He waits for our cooperation!
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You see, its a together working.
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And so we look at the
first one: He will draw all.
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The Bible says in John 12:32
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"I if I belifted up from the
Earth will draw all man on to
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me" Amen!
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Then we have to respond!
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And so this is how
I'm going to share!
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And so as we sense God
drawing us then what must we do?
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I thought I had
responded all my life
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And God knew that I
was a foolish virgin!
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He knew it!
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Now explain what you
mean by a foolish virgin
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because some people
may not understand that!
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Right! I shared that last time!
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And a foolish virgin
has been reading the Bible
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but has not understood
how to invite the Holy Spirit
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in to the life.
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And this one
comes from Matthew 25
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where the Lord is
talking about the ten virgins
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five wise, five foolish
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And we determined last
time that the wise ones
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when the Bible says that
they went out with their lamp
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and with extra
oil in their vessel.
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That the lamp is the word of God
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and the oil in the
vessel in us is the Holy Spirit.
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Right!
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But you were one of those
foolish ones who had a lamp
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but not relaying the Holy Spirit
or the power of the Holy Spirit.
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OK!
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And God knew I was sincere and
so He kept knocking at my door!
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You know He says: behold, I
stand at the door and knock.
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I didn't know
what the knock was for!
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But the impression was study!
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Study year after year!
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He knocked!
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Study!
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And it wasn't until
my father cried for help!
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That I knew what I had to study!
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Right!
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As I study the plan of salvation
I discovered many things.
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The very first and
most important thing is
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melt the Soul
by the love of God!
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Amen!
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We have to know
that God loves us!
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Amen!
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Our son didn't feel that
God loved him because he had
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dyslexia and the teachers
rejected him, they didn't
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understand what he
had, he didn't feel savable.
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And it wasn't until
we discovered his problem
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and he realized
how much God loved him!
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Amen!
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That he could relate to God!
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And so we need to
understand God loves us
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with an everlasting love.
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And with loving
kindness He draws us.
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I think at the years
that I was a foolish virgin
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and didn't know the way.
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But He was continually
trying to get my attention!
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And helping me and
drawing me to Himself.
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If we do not resist we shall be
drawn to the foot of the cross.
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Or as we stop
resisting, what can you do?
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Well, Jesus came
to save us from sin.
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The Bible says that
He, Himself bore our sins
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in His body on the tree.
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That we might die to sin
and live to righteousness.
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And so He has to bring us to the
place where He can convict us
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of our sinful state.
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And then cleans us
from all unrighteousness
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And since I was a good girl
all trough my life and tried
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very best to do what was
right and my only sins were
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a little impatience and
irritation with the children
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and a little
resentment toward my husband
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You know, those sins,
I didn't feel so lost!
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But now I realize that's the
very character of the person.
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As a man think it
in his heart so is he!
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And so I began to realize
that I had no righteousness!
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Because the Bible
tells us in Isaiah 64:6 that
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"All of our
righteousness is as filthy rags"
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Filthy rags, right!
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So, you were looking
for Jesus to salvation
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you were trying
to save yourself.
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I was trying to be good! Right!
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And now I was convicted,
I had no righteousness!
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I was not ready
for the judgment!
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Like the Bible says: "He
will come and will prove us
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and help us to
understand our condition. "
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And as I understood my
condition, what did I have to
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do? Acknowledge my guilt!
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The Bible says:
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"Return faithless
Israel, says the Lord
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I will not look
on you with anger
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for I am
merciful, says the Lord.
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Only acknowledge your guilt,
that you rebelled against the
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Lord, your God!"
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That's in Jeremiah 3, isn't it?
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Yes, Jeremiah 3:13!
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And you see, this was
where my father was stuck.
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I acknowledge his guilt!
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I think the scripture right
before that, the Lords says:
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"I thought you will call
me Father and not turn away
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from following Me!"
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That's what He wants us to
have that intimate one on one
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personal relationship with Him,
as a child and father, trusting.
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But we think we have it!
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We think we have it, see?
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If we excuse our heart's
sins we are actually working out
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our own salvation!
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Because we are not allowing
God to work in the heart.
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We are not allowing Holy Spirit
to give us His righteousness.
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And that's
where our problem was!
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And my father could not
acknowledge that he was wrong.
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And when I went to visit
and we were talking about
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what is righteousness,
how do we find it?
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Some of my brothers and
sisters said: let's pray!
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And let's make sure
that there's nothing
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between the Lord and our souls.
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And my sister
looked up at father hoping
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he could acknowledge how
deeply he had wronged her.
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He couldn't do it!
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And he jumped
up and ran outside.
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And I jumped up and run after
him to protect him from himself.
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What do you mean to protect him?
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Well, I remember as a child, if
my father had to take the blame,
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for getting angry
or whatever he did,
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he could
threaten to kill himself.
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And so I put my arms around
his neck and I held him tight.
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And then I said: Lord,
what shall I say to my father?
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And the Lord
gave me strong words.
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I said: Dad, you have so
deeply wronged your children.
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The only one you
have not wronged is me!
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He thought for
a moment, he said:
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Margaret, I have wronged you to!
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What was he doing?
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For the first time
acknowledging his guilt!
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And then he took me in the house
and the guilt just pored out.
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The guilt of his youth,
the guilt of his fatherhood.
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And he said: Margaret, help me!
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Bless his heart!
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And I couldn't help him!
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So, that's why I
went home and studied!
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And that's why the Bible says:
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"Only acknowledge your guilt"
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Yes!
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"That you rebelled
against the Lord, your God"
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Don't blame anyone else
for anything that you do wrong!
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Go to God and say:
Lord, I have sinned!
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If I get
impatient, who's sin is it?
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It's mine!
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It's not my husband's, it's
not my children's, it's mine!
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So, your father was at
that point where he took
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the first step
towards salvation.
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That is acknowledging his guilt.
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Acknowledging his guilt.
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Now, what's next?
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Because, how can God cleanse
me if I don't give him my sins?
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Right!
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If I don't acknowledge?
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The Bible says in Jeremiah 3:13
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"Only acknowledge your guilt
that you rebelled against the
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Lord, your God"
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Right!
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And I began to realize
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if I get impatient with
my children or irritated
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or have resentment
toward my husband I am sinning.
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Right!
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And I was convicted and I
needed to go to God and say:
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Lord, I have sinned!
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Forgive me!
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And if we confess
our sins what will He do?
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He is faithful and just,
not only forgives our sins
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but cleans us from
all unrighteousness!
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In verse 1:9
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But what if we
excuse our unrighteousness?
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Right!
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See I will never excuse
cheating or lying or stealing!
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People don't excuse those sins.
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They just excuse
their heart sins!
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The anger.
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Yes!
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The bitterness.
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Because they feel
someone else had done something
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and they have a
right to fell that way.
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And yet this is the
very heart of the matter.
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Right!
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How can Jesus cleans my heart if
I don't give him my heart sins?
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Amen
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So, I went to God and I said:
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Lord, here I give you
my right to have resentment
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toward my husband
no matter what he does.
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I give you my right to get
irritated with the children
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no matter what they do.
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I want you to work in
me Your Spirit, Your love
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so that I can be
loving and understanding.
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And I can deal
with my family in love.
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What is the
greatest problem in families?
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This little problems!
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Yes!
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That irritate and bring
about quarreling and resentment.
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And I begun to understand
what real religion was!
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So, when you pray
this, Margaret I'm interested
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you went to the Lord and said:
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OK! I'm giving up rights to
self rights to be offend because
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once the Lord told me,
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and you know what I'm
saying when I say that
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The voice of the Lord,
He impressed upon mind.
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That the Spirit of
offense is a Spirit of pride,
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which is Spirit of Antichrist.
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And when we think about that you
really can not be offend unless
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your pride does give it the way.
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So, when you go
before the Lord to say:
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I give up my
right to be offending,
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I give up my
right to be resentful.
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What did He do in you?
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Well, I surrender all, right?
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Now I was not just
surrendering other sins,
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which I had not
done, but the heart sins.
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Then He can change my heart!
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Then He could create a
new heart and a new mind
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and a new attitude, a
new way of understanding
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what is mean to be a Christian!
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And I knew immediately He
changed my attitude toward my
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husband. And I
said: Thank You Lord!
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I believed He can cleans
me from all unrighteousness
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when I went all
the way with Him.
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So, Gods part is: we come to
Him first He's drawing us to Him
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Yes!
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And He is the one who's gonna
give us, grant us forgiveness
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and repentance turn
us away from those sins.
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Yes!
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He is going to
empower us what's our part?
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What is the obedience by faith?
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Up until this point He's not
even asking us to be obedient.
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He's asking us to
acknowledge our guilt and then
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He works in us repentance,
true heart surrender.
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Right!
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And then as we surrender
to Him then He cleanses us
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Right!
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from all unrighteousness
and gives us a new heart
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and a new mind and
then He asks us: Follow me!
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Right!
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And I just want to
read a few quotes here
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on His part of forgiving
and cleansing and regenerating.
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"If we confess our sins He
is faithful and just forgive us
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our sins and to cleanse us
from all unrighteousness. "
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Yes! 1 John 1:9 for those
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Forgiveness has two parts.
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Amen
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Forgiving and
cleansing and regenerating.
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Amen
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That's why Jesus said:
Except you're born again,
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you can not see
the Kingdom of Heaven.
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And at this point of
total surrender, where
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Jesus can create a
new heart and a new mind.
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Exactly!
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Because He can cleanse us from
all of the old ways of thinking.
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And that's when 2
Corinthians 5:17 said:
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"We can become new
creations in Christ because
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the oldest
fall, the new is come"
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The for bitterness, the anything
was there God takes away.
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How many of us could knock
at the door of heaven and say:
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Lord, let me in!
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If we have
bitterness toward someone.
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Toward parents or anyone.
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How could He let us in?
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He can't, He cannot
take sin into heaven!
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He must take it away from us!
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And so it's very important
to understand the heart's sins.
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That would be even like
when Jesus was talking about
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in Matthew 5
that, you know, we know
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it's evil to commit
murder, but He said:
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If you hate
someone that's part murder.
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It's evil and it's against the
law of God to commit adultery,
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but He's saying: If
you lust after someone,
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so it's that heart sin,
that you're talking about that.
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When we are born again
Colossians 1:27 says that:
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"Christ in us is our hope of
glory the hope of being changed"
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So, this is what
you are talking about!
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Yes!
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Gods gonna do it all for us!
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He works in us to line
our will up to His will.
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Then when we say: OK, Lord!
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And we're ready to step forth,
He's gonna work in us to act.
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We're ready to give our
hearts and let it be cleansed
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from all corruption.
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Then He says: I
will live in you!
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Amen
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But now, there is a very
important part for us to do
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when He has promised
to forgive and cleanse,
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what do you think is our part?
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After total surrender?
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To believe!
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Ah, to believe! Amen
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To believe He can cleanse you!
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To believe He can change you!
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Without faith it is
impossible to please God!
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Amen
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And if we don't believe
He can do it, He can't do it!
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I agree!
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So, it's a very important step
for us to cooperate with God
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and believe what He can do!
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You know, when the
Bible says in Hebrews 11:6:
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"Without faith it's
impossible to please Him"
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One time I was praying,
Margaret and I asked the Lord
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why is that impossible?
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You walk this Earth,
you know how the challenges.
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And He took me to 1 John
5:10 and it says there that:
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"If we disregard the testimony
of God we're regarding God
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as a liar". No
wonder it's impossible.
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And He can't do a work in us if
we are not gonna trust in Him.
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That's right!
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Believing that His promises
are ours in Christ Jesus.
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But how do you get
that kind of faith?
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The Bible said:
Faith comes by hearing
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What?
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The words of God.
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And as I
searched the word of God
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I began to have
that kind of faith.
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Amen
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I realized what God expected
of me, how to cooperate with Him
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and then how to come in to
that living faith, that accepts
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what God can do in a heart.
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Amen
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And...
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You know the Israelites, as they
were traveling in wilderness
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they started
murmurings and grumbling.
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And God gave them a freedom.
00:22:56.26\00:23:00.83
He withdrew
Himself a bit and said:
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OK, if you're grumbling all the
time I'll withdraw a little bit.
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Let you do what you want.
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And the snakes
came out and bit them.
00:23:08.84\00:23:11.02
They were always there
but God had protected them.
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Then they cried to God
because they were dying.
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And then they put up
this pole in the wilderness
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and if they were to
look at that serpent
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and believed that God can
heal them, He could do it.
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Many looked.
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They were instantly healed.
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But others didn't look.
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And they died in their
sins, in their grumbling.
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That's amazing!
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We must believe what
God can do trough Jesus!
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Amen
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So, that's our first part!
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After we've surrendered our
part and cooperating with God
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is to trust Him, lean
not on own understanding,
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but lean on what His word says.
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And in the next
session we will talk about:
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How to have victory day by day?
00:24:01.26\00:24:02.80
What to do if you fall?
00:24:02.83\00:24:04.84
Wonderful!
00:24:05.10\00:24:07.96
It's very-very
important to understand
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how to cooperate with God?
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And it works!
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Amen
00:24:13.37\00:24:14.63
You've mentioned
the obedience by faith,
00:24:14.67\00:24:16.63
we only got a few minutes left.
00:24:16.66\00:24:18.22
Explain to me what you mean?
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Explain to our viewers what
you mean by obedience by faith!
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I will explain
in the next session,
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but I'll do it a little bit.
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When temptation comes to
me if I lift my soul to God
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I receive the power to do
whatever I need to do to resist.
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Amen
00:24:41.66\00:24:42.89
If God tells me to do something
and I lift my soul to God
00:24:42.93\00:24:46.75
to receive power, He empowers
me to do what He wants me to do.
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Amen
00:24:51.20\00:24:52.23
You know, it's not
hard to be a Christian
00:24:52.27\00:24:55.35
when you understand
how to cooperate with God.
00:24:55.39\00:24:58.75
Moment by moment He is there
to empower you with His love,
00:24:58.79\00:25:04.10
His forgiveness,
His caring for others.
00:25:04.13\00:25:08.64
So, you can live His love and
love's the fulfilling of the law
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Amen
00:25:12.92\00:25:14.16
That reminds me of a scripture
in Hebrews 13 and verse 20.
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It says: "Now made a God
of peace who brought again
00:25:22.48\00:25:24.97
from among the dead Lord
Jesus Christ that great Shepard
00:25:25.00\00:25:28.27
of the sheep.
00:25:28.30\00:25:29.53
By the blood of the everlasting
covenant may this God
00:25:29.57\00:25:33.71
strengthen, complete perfect
and make you what you want to be
00:25:33.74\00:25:37.96
and equip you with everything
good for doing His will. "
00:25:37.99\00:25:41.51
He will do that!
00:25:41.54\00:25:42.92
It's so sad when we try to
do Gods will without His power
00:25:42.96\00:25:47.88
because we
can't, it doesn't work!
00:25:47.91\00:25:50.59
It doesn't!
00:25:50.62\00:25:51.59
You might be able to
do the outwork things.
00:25:51.60\00:25:54.09
But the heart...
00:25:54.12\00:25:55.38
Amen
00:25:55.42\00:25:56.95
The heart can be full of
pride and envy and jealousy.
00:25:56.99\00:26:00.80
You know Margaret,
you wrote a book called:
00:26:00.83\00:26:03.20
"What shall I do to
inherit eternal life?"
00:26:03.24\00:26:06.49
And actually it's a
compilation of scriptures and
00:26:06.53\00:26:09.49
inspired Bible writing.
00:26:09.53\00:26:12.29
And this little
work can be gotten...
00:26:12.32\00:26:16.35
I mean first of all the Lord
is using it in a mighty way.
00:26:16.39\00:26:21.46
You told me you've had Muslims
who've joined the church.
00:26:21.50\00:26:26.50
You've had Jehovah's Witnesses
who've come into greater truths.
00:26:26.54\00:26:33.12
And you said that this is
available on your web site
00:26:33.15\00:26:37.30
and that's: www.
whatshallido. org
00:26:37.34\00:26:42.75
Right!
00:26:42.78\00:26:44.80
And this is a result
after you learned this things
00:26:44.84\00:26:48.95
God gave you a ministry
to go out and do seminars.
00:26:48.98\00:26:53.06
Right!
00:26:53.09\00:26:54.06
To teach people how to
learn to surrender to God
00:26:54.07\00:26:57.44
and live totally
dependent upon Him.
00:26:57.48\00:26:59.78
When I went and shared
with my family and my father
00:26:59.82\00:27:04.04
then they said: Margaret,
you can't keep this to yourself.
00:27:04.08\00:27:07.50
This will
change our whole lives.
00:27:07.53\00:27:09.81
And that's how
my ministry started.
00:27:09.84\00:27:12.24
Because then people started
to ask me, to come and share.
00:27:12.28\00:27:16.34
So, for 30 years
I've been on the road!
00:27:16.37\00:27:19.63
Anywhere in the world,
whatever the Lord calls
00:27:19.67\00:27:22.12
Praise the Lord!
00:27:22.15\00:27:23.22
I've been doing my seminars.
00:27:23.26\00:27:25.40
I am so glad that
you've joined us today
00:27:25.44\00:27:28.27
and I know you're gonna be back
we're going to learn some more
00:27:28.31\00:27:30.99
from Margaret Davis.
00:27:31.02\00:27:32.58
And I want to encourage you if
you are looking for the answer
00:27:32.62\00:27:36.31
to what shall you do
to inherit eternal life?
00:27:36.34\00:27:39.95
you can go to her web
site www. whatshallido. org
00:27:39.98\00:27:45.49
and order this precious book!
00:27:45.52\00:27:47.62
Now may be grace of our
Lord Jesus Christ, the love of
00:27:47.66\00:27:51.00
the Father and the
fellowship of the Holy Spirit
00:27:51.03\00:27:53.34
be with you today and always.
00:27:53.39\00:27:56.24
Thank you!
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