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PB: Hello. My name is
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Dr. Carlton Byrd and
I'm the speaker director
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of the Breath of
Life television ministry.
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Right now I'm standing on
the beautiful island of Bermuda.
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That's right, Breath of Life
is in the county of Bermuda.
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This wonderful island nation
of 20 miles long, pink sand,
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beautiful beaches, palm trees,
it's just paradise on earth.
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But when I think about
how beautiful it is, I say to
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myself, God must have
something even that much
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better for us because the
Word of God says, eyes have not
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seen, neither have ears
heard the things that God hath
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prepared for them that love him.
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Heaven is going to be
that much better than this, and
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while I can come here and
vacation, I can come here and
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swim and jet ski, we've come,
Breath of Life has, to preach
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the Word of God.
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That's right, we're here
for their Campmeeting and we're
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preaching that Jesus
Christ loves us and he is
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soon to return.
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May God bless you as you
watch as we minister to you
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to tell a dying
world that Jesus saves.
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? (Music) ? ? (Theme Song) ?
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? Jesus is worthy ?
? oh yes, he's worthy ?
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? worthy of all... ?
? All The Praise... ?
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PB: I'm Dr. Carlton Byrd
and I'm speaker director of
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the Breath of Life telecast
and I've been enjoying myself
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all week long on the
wonderful island of Bermuda.
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I am here for the Bermuda
Conference camp meeting and
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we're here to
praise the name of Jesus.
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If you don't do it, the
people in Bermuda will do it.
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Praise me to God.
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Today I am grateful for
the invitation of Dr. Jeffrey
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Brown and his lovely wife,
the invitation that is mine to
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come with my wife and
our children to share our
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ministry.
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But not only Dr. Jeffrey Brown
and the workers and pastors
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and members of the Bermuda
Conference, we are grateful
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today that the premier of
Bermuda is in our presence
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today, and Breath of Life
is grateful that we have in our
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presence in worship the
Honorable Paula Cox and her
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husband, Mr. Germain Nkeuleu.
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Let's give them a
big round of applause.
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Praise be to God.
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God bless you.
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Amen.
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We're ready to hear the Word,
and if it's not in the Word,
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it doesn't deserve to be heard.
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Isaiah 8:20 says to the law
and to the testimony, if they
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speak not according to this
Word, it is because there is
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no light in them.
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And so we
preach the Word of God.
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I make no apologies
for the Word of God.
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God's Word is a lamp unto my
feet and a light unto my path.
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Thy Word have I given my heart
that I might not sin against
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thee.
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Having said that,
let's go to the Word.
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We have simply one
verse of one count.
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Romans.
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What book did I say, everyone?
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Romans, Chapter 12,
and we're going to verse 1.
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Romans 12:1, familiar
text in scripture so we all can
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remember it today.
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The Word of God through the
Apostle Paul says, "I beseech
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you therefore, brethren,
by the mercies of God, that ye
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present your bodies a
living," what, everybody?
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Come on, a
living what, everybody?
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"Sacrifice, holy, acceptable
unto God, which is your
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reasonable service." One
more time because repetition
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deepens the impression.
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"I beseech you therefore,
brethren, by the mercies of
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God, that ye present
your bodies a living," what?
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"Sacrifice, holy,"
and acceptable unto whom?
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"God, which is your reasonable
service." Today we want to
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talk about this
living sacrifice.
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God's now come in the midst.
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We feel you, we sense you, we
know you are here, but we want
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your anointing to
break loose today.
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So, God, I pray
that you be glorified.
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I pray your people be edified.
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And I ask that the
devil be horrified.
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God, let some
drops fall on us today.
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Hide me behind your
cross, forgive me of my sins.
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When the appeal is made, I
pray that men, women, boys and
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girls will come and give
their lives to the Lord Jesus
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Christ.
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It's in his name we pray.
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Let everyone who
loves Jesus say Amen.
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And Amen.
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Living sacrifice.
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"I beseech you therefore,
brethren, by the mercies of
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God, that ye present your
bodies a living sacrifice,
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holy, acceptable unto
God, which is your reasonable
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service." It is this
great gospel writer himself, the
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Apostle Paul who is
responsible for most of the
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New Testament
theology that we possess today.
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The Apostle Paul is speaking
in the text, writing to his
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brothers and sisters in Rome,
in order that they might have
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a deeper and more holistic
understanding of who God is
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and what God is able to
do, because in case you didn't
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know, God is able.
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Now Paul was zealous.
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Even before his conversion,
even before he was Paul, even
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when he was Saul, concerning
the law, Paul was zealous.
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In fact, Paul was a Pharisee
and he was respected by the
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Scribes and Pharisees of
his day because of his zeal.
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But not only was Paul
zealous, Paul was smart.
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He was a man who was
articulate, intelligent and
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well endowed to verbalize
his various positions and
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attitudes among the
greatest thinkers of his time.
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In our every day
vernacular, Paul was a bad boy.
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Some theologians report that
Paul was multilingual, that he
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was able to speak at
least five different languages.
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When Paul went into a city
he was welcomed at the courts of
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the great thinkers who
were aged men of great wisdom
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gathered to espouse and to
explain various ideologies and
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concepts of his time.
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Paul was in a
class all by himself.
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Even before his conversion,
he was zealous about what he
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believed.
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He was a zealous sinner.
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He describes himself, in
fact, as chief among sinners.
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But he was not the kind
of sinner who was a sinner
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because of his depravity,
debauchery or his decadence.
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Paul was a sinner because
he was zealous in religious
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ideologies that made
him persecute Christians.
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Paul was zealous
for persecuting them.
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One theologian suggests that
it was Paul who held the coats
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of those men while
they stoned Stephen.
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Even as a young boy, Paul came
up trying to defend Judaism in
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its most original form
against this new ideology called
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Christianity.
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Paul was a Christian killer.
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Going up and down the
road, high and low, looking for
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anybody who was
praying to Jesus.
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He would take them out.
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He was robust and
radical, mean and malicious.
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He was a terrorist of
his day against Christianity.
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The Bible teaches that one day
he was going down the road to
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Damascus and he was going
down the road to kill some
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Christians, when the Bible
says that he was interrupted
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by a force that he had
never encountered before.
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That on the way to Damascus
Paul saw a great light, a
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light that
knocked him off his beast.
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He fell down to the floor
and Paul said, what is this?
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The voice said, "It is
Jesus, whom thou persecuteth.
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It is hard for thee to
kick against the prince." Let me
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throw this in.
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Lesson number one for us
today, nobody is so big that
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God can't bring them down.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
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You can be on your high horse,
but God can bring you down to
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your knees.
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But not only did God bring
him down, but God brought down
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Paul into total submission
until the Paul whom all the
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church was terrified with,
when he got up off the ground
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and knocked the dust off
his knees, Paul was humble.
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Number two lesson for us today.
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God will humble you.
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Paul was humbled, Paul was
quiet, Paul was ready to be
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taught, Paul, who had
been such a terror to the
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Christians.
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God had to speak to Ananias
in the church at large and say,
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don't be afraid of
him, because he was a known
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murderer.
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Because, you see, they knew
him when, and sometimes when
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people know you when, they
won't accept you now because
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they don't believe what
God has done in your life.
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But you better tell somebody.
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I may not be all that I need
to be, but praise God I'm not
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what I used to be.
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Where sin did abound,
grace did much more abound.
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Hallelujah, somebody.
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God brought Paul to a place
of humility and sent him of all
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people to
minister to the Gentiles.
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It was Paul, my
friends, whom God used.
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Not the other disciples
who had walked with Jesus.
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It was Paul, not the disciples
who had been with Jesus, been
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there when Jesus turned water
into wine, been there when he
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raised Lazarus from the
dead, been there when he healed
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Jairus' daughter, been
there when he healed blind
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Bartimaeus by the wayside,
been there when he healed the
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woman with the issue of blood.
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No, God didn't use any
of them, but God used Paul.
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Lesson number three.
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You know God has a habit of
using other folk that people
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don't like.
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He does that purposefully so
people cannot take credit for
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who you are.
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God often uses the ostracized,
the isolated, the alienated
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and the hated.
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That's the very one
that God often uses.
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Today, where would we be
without the Apostle Paul?
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Most of the New Testament
epistles are granted to us
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from Paul's pen.
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We've heard it all the time,
I may not be able to sing like
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they do, I may not be able
to preach like Paul, but, you
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know what?
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I'm not so sure that Paul
was a great preacher, but I am
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sure that he was a great writer.
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I'm not so sure, friends,
that he was a great preacher,
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because one time the
Bible records that Paul was
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preaching and he got so
bad that a man fell asleep and
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fell out the
window and broke his neck.
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And let me tell all the
preachers out there, when
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you're preaching and it's so
bad that somebody falls out of
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the window and breaks their
neck, you need to bring the
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sermon to a close.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
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And so, I'm not so sure he was
a great preacher, but he was a
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powerful man.
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Because, even when the
man broke his neck, Paul, the
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Bible says, went downstairs,
laid hands on the man, woke
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the man up from the dead, Paul
came back upstairs and went to
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preaching again.
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What a mighty God we serve.
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Angels bow before him.
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Heaven and earth adore him.
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What a mighty God we serve.
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Hallelujah, somebody.
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It is Paul who teaches us
that I am not a ashamed of the
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gospel of Jesus Christ for
it is the power of God unto
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salvation.
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It is Paul who teaches us,
for we know that all things work
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together for good to them
who love the Lord and are the
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called according to his purpose.
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It is Paul who teaches us
that great is the mystery of
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godliness for God which
manifested in the flesh,
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justified in the
spirit, seen of angels,
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preached as the Gentiles,
believed on in the world
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and received up into glory.
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It is Paul who teaches us
that we know if we have this
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earthly house or tabernacle
which shall be dissolved,
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we do have another building,
eternal in the heavens, whose
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builder and maker is God.
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It is Paul who teaches us
that I can do all things through
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Christ which strengtheneth me.
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It is Paul who teaches us that
the wages of sin is death, but
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the gift of God is eternal
life through Jesus Christ our
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Lord.
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It is Paul who teaches us the
truth about God and the state
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of the dead.
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"Behold I'm telling you
a mystery, we shall not all
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sleep, but we shall be changed
in a moment, in the twinkling
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of an eye, for the Lord
himself shall descend from
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heaven with a shout, with
the voice of the archangel, the
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trumpet of God, and the
dead in Christ shall rise first.
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Then we which are alive remain
shall be caught up together
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with him in the clouds to
meet the Lord in the air and so
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shalshall we ever be with the
Lord." It is Paul who teaches
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us that the Lord gave some
to be apostles, some prophets,
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some pastors, some teachers,
some evangelists for the work
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of ministry until we all
come into the unity of faith.
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It is Paul who teaches us the
kind of truth that makes hell
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nervous and demons tremble.
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It is Paul who causes us
to understand that God has not
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forgotten us and we should
comfort one another with the
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same comfort by which
we have been comforteth.
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It is Paul who makes us to
know that we cannot compare
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ourselves with one another
because in so doing we are not
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wise.
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It is Paul who teaches us
the profound principles of
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scripture.
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It is this intellectual,
articulate, profound Paul who
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judged cities with the
letter, wrote down letters that
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changed the entire city,
that is preaching here in this
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text.
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It was Paul who was
even stoned to death.
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The Bible says even
death couldn't take him out.
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He shook death off his
clothes, walked away from
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death.
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It was Paul who ended up on
the coast of Melita stoned and
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left lying for dead, but Paul
gathered up some sticks, got
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bitten by a snake, shook
the snake off and started
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preaching.
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I told you, Paul was a bad boy.
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Paul was so full of the Word,
that even when he was dying he
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was still preaching.
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When he was dying he told
his understudy, Brother Timothy,
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Timothy, bring me some
paper because the Holy Ghost is
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still talking to me.
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All the way down to the grave
he was good to the last drop.
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It was Paul who told Timothy,
now the time of my departure
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is at hand.
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I've fought a good fight, I've
kept the faith, now is laid up
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for me a crown of righteousness.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
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And so while I read all that
it then concerns me, why would
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Paul get on his knees and say,
I beseech you, brother, by the
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mercies of God.
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Now the word
beseech means to beg.
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It means to what, everybody?
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Beg.
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What would bring
Paul to his knees?
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What would make Paul beg?
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Paul was not the kind of man
who fell down on his knees and
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begged anybody to do anything.
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But yet in the text he
says, I beg you therefore.
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What is he talking about?
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What is the
context to which he speaks?
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Well, we read and
we do Bible study,
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we can't prove the text of
scripture, because if you're
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not careful you will
make scripture say whatever
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you want it to say.
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I can't just read one
text to find the context.
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I've got to read the
history surrounding the text.
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So if I'm going to understand
Romans 12:1, I've got to go
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back and
understand first, Romans 1:1.
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But can we go back?
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In Romans 1, Paul runs into
heathens who have no Bibles.
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He says to them they should
have seen God in nature, that
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creation attests to the
creator, by looking at the
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things that God created.
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And yet they looked at the
things that God created and
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failed to acknowledge God,
worshiping creation instead
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of worshipping the creator.
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In Romans 2, Paul begins
to deal with religious folk
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and he says, why are you all
self-righteous one that would
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look at the heathen and turn
up your noses and judge them.
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Paul goes against
pride, idolatry and
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self-righteousness.
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You know, the kind of things
that happen to church folk
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when they think
they are superior.
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Not here, but somewhere else.
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In Romans 3, Paul sums up
unbelief and says that the one
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on the inside is no better
than the one on the outside,
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that the cross is the
equalizer and that with
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humility we can
all come before God.
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Paul is saying that a
religious man needs the blood
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of Jesus just like the whore
and the whoremonger, just like
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the drunkard and
the drug dealers do.
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I know this is not positive,
I've got to preach it anyway,
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because some folk try to make
you think that since they've
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never smoked, they've
never drunk or chewed, that they
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don't need the blood of Jesus.
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But the devil is alive, the
truth is we all need the blood
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of Jesus to reconcile us
unto God because all of us have
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sinned and come
short of the glory of God.
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That's why the truth is,
I know the blood was for me.
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Paul goes on.
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Romans 4, Paul reminds
you that God took a man named
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Abraham and waited until his
body was old and dead and when
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Abraham's body was old
and dead, he was impotent.
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Now back in those
days, there was no Viagra.
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But before there were blue
pills, there was faith in God.
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Are you hearing what I'm saying?
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Paul said in Romans 4 that
God waited until Abraham's body
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was old and dead, when
he could no longer produce a
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seed, God gave him a seed.
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I know it was God's seed
because when it hit Sarah's
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dead womb it
quickened it to life back again.
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When Sarah had to move
that walker out of the way and
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start knitting some booties
because she was pregnant.
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Are you hearing what I'm saying?
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What am I saying?
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Next lesson.
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God doesn't care what time it
is in your life, when God gets
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ready to bless you.
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God will bless you at any
age or stage in your life.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
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So do me a favor.
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Turn to your neighbor which
may be your husband or wife,
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turn to them, tell
them, it's not too late.
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So if we see some little
Johnnies and Marys next year
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at camp meeting,
we'll know what happened.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
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And then in Romans 5,
Paul says, therefore being
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justified by faith,
we have peace with God.
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It's Romans 5 that
begins to speak on the power
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of justification, that
being justified in God, we have
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peace with God.
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Romans 6, I like this,
Paul teaches that baptism
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commemorates Jesus'
death, burial and resurrection,
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not worship on the
first day just because Jesus
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rose on the first day.
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In Romans 7, it's my text,
because Paul begins to deal
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with the trouble that we have.
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He says, that
which I do, I do not.
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That which I
would not do, that I do.
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That which I hate, that I do.
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For the good that I would do,
I do not, for the evil which I
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would not do, that I do.
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O wretched man that I am.
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Who shall deliver me
from this body of death?
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But I, thank God, that
through Jesus Christ I have the
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victory.
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Then in Romans 8, he says,
therefore now no condemnation
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to those who are in Jesus
Christ, who walk no longer
00:21:37.70\00:21:40.03
after the flesh,
but after the Spirit.
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He continues in Romans 8,
we know not what to pray for as
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we offer the Spirit itself
make an intercession for us,
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where moanings and groanings,
hallelujah, that cannot be
00:21:47.10\00:21:49.33
uttered and he that searches
the deep things of God knoweth
00:21:49.33\00:21:52.16
what is the mind of the Spirit
for he maketh an intercession
00:21:52.16\00:21:54.20
for us according
to the will of God.
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He continues in Romans 8,
and we know that all things work
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together for good to them
who love the Lord, for them who
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are called according to his
purpose; what shall separate
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me from the love of God,
neither heights nor depths,
00:22:05.16\00:22:06.73
nor power, nor principalities,
nor things present, nor things
00:22:06.73\00:22:08.43
to come, nor any other
creatures shall be able to
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separate me
from the love of God.
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Paul in Romans 9, deviates
from his discussion from Rome.
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He begins to weep
for his own people.
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Paul says, I have a
burden for my own people.
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He makes them to understand
that God does not forever cast
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away his children.
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He says, God is God.
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God says, I will have mercy on
whom I will have mercy, I will
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have compassion on
whom I will have compassion.
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And then in Romans 10,
regardless of what I've done,
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regardless of what you've
done, Paul says, if thou will
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confess with thy mouth and
believe in thy heart that God
00:22:47.66\00:22:51.96
raised Jesus from the
dead, then thou shalt be saved.
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For whomsoever shall call on
the name of the Lord shall be
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saved.
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Then we get to Romans 11.
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Paul helps us understand that
we have only a short amount of
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time left until the fullness
of the Gentile period is over
00:23:13.53\00:23:18.13
and because we have only
a short amount of time left,
00:23:18.13\00:23:22.50
church, we don't
have time to play.
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You don't have time to be
petty, you don't have time to
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major in minor, you don't have
time to sweat the small stuff.
00:23:28.46\00:23:33.10
You don't have time to be
jealous, you don't have time
00:23:33.10\00:23:36.73
to be envious.
00:23:36.73\00:23:38.10
You don't have time
to hate on somebody.
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You don't have time to worry
about who doesn't like you.
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You don't have the time to
worry about he says and she
00:23:42.96\00:23:45.90
says and what they say.
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You have only a limited
amount of time before this
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dispensation is over.
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If you don't hear anything
else, I beg you stop playing
00:23:52.30\00:23:55.96
church.
00:23:55.96\00:23:57.13
Stop playing games.
00:23:57.13\00:23:59.13
Stop being critical.
00:23:59.13\00:24:00.86
Stop being hindsighted.
00:24:00.86\00:24:02.76
Stop being hypocritical.
00:24:02.76\00:24:04.70
Stop being judgmental.
00:24:04.70\00:24:06.26
I beg you, I'm
running out of time.
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I don't have time to play games.
00:24:09.90\00:24:11.60
I'm running out of time.
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I tell my church, I
don't worry about what you
00:24:12.83\00:24:15.90
think about me.
00:24:15.90\00:24:17.90
I'm running out of time.
00:24:17.90\00:24:19.73
I don't have time to care
about your cute dress and your
00:24:19.73\00:24:22.56
nice suit.
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I'm running out of time.
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So you have the
biggest house in the church.
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I don't care, I'm
running out of time.
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See, I've learned, some of us,
we don't understand what makes
00:24:31.20\00:24:34.00
some folk shout.
00:24:34.00\00:24:35.03
But they don't care that
you look at them funny anymore.
00:24:35.03\00:24:37.93
They don't care that they
get on your nerves anymore.
00:24:37.93\00:24:41.73
They don't care that sometimes
tears stream down their cheeks
00:24:41.73\00:24:45.36
in church and they walk down
the aisle or they lift their
00:24:45.36\00:24:48.80
hands and they just
sit there and smile.
00:24:48.80\00:24:51.06
They don't care if
they're jumping up in your face.
00:24:51.06\00:24:52.96
They've been through hell and
high water and they're running
00:24:52.96\00:24:55.86
out of time.
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They say, he say,
she say, they say.
00:24:57.66\00:25:01.80
Who is they?
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I don't have time.
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And so you better do it now.
00:25:05.30\00:25:06.00
Preach now.
00:25:06.00\00:25:08.90
Teach now.
00:25:08.90\00:25:10.83
Sing now.
00:25:10.83\00:25:12.43
Testify now.
00:25:12.43\00:25:14.10
Minister now.
00:25:14.10\00:25:15.30
Educate now.
00:25:15.30\00:25:16.86
Write the book now.
00:25:16.86\00:25:19.70
Start the ministry now.
00:25:19.70\00:25:22.16
Do it now.
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You see, things I used to
worry about when I was 18, I
00:25:23.56\00:25:25.80
don't worry about anymore.
00:25:25.80\00:25:28.13
I don't care what
folk think anymore.
00:25:28.13\00:25:30.53
I used to chase down
rumors, but I don't chase down
00:25:30.53\00:25:32.63
anything anymore.
00:25:32.63\00:25:33.66
I don't have time.
00:25:33.66\00:25:34.70
Believe what you want
to believe, I don't care.
00:25:34.70\00:25:37.23
I don't have time.
00:25:37.23\00:25:38.86
And so, Paul says in Romans
12:1, I beseech you, brothers,
00:25:38.86\00:25:46.86
by the mercies of God, that
ye present your body a living
00:25:46.86\00:25:53.86
what?
00:25:53.86\00:25:54.70
Sacrifice.
00:25:54.70\00:25:55.73
Let me back up.
00:25:55.73\00:25:56.80
I beseech your therefore,
brother, by the what of God?
00:25:56.80\00:25:58.96
Mercies.
00:25:58.96\00:26:00.13
Let me stop here.
00:26:00.13\00:26:01.80
The mercies of God.
00:26:01.80\00:26:04.70
That's what Jeremiah
said are new every morning.
00:26:04.70\00:26:09.00
The mercies of God.
00:26:09.00\00:26:11.66
Hallelujah for God's mercies.
00:26:11.66\00:26:13.96
Mercy is what God
gives you when you don't
00:26:13.96\00:26:17.26
even deserve it.
00:26:17.26\00:26:18.93
Thank God for his mercy.
00:26:18.93\00:26:20.13
Do I have a
witness in this place?
00:26:20.13\00:26:22.06
Let me stay here
just a little minute.
00:26:22.06\00:26:24.93
Mercy woke you up this morning.
00:26:24.93\00:26:28.30
Mercy let me have
something to eat this morning.
00:26:28.30\00:26:30.66
Mercy kept your heart
beating while you were sleeping
00:26:30.66\00:26:33.46
through the night.
00:26:33.46\00:26:34.70
Mercy kept you from
getting in a car wreck
00:26:34.70\00:26:37.53
on your way to camp meeting.
00:26:37.53\00:26:38.80
Everybody say mercy.
00:26:38.80\00:26:41.63
We're living in an age
where people want to act like
00:26:41.63\00:26:43.90
they don't need any
mercy, but somebody knows
00:26:43.90\00:26:45.50
you wouldn't be here
today if it weren't for
00:26:45.50\00:26:47.73
the mercy of God.
00:26:47.73\00:26:49.60
Sitting up looking all
cute, wise and other wise, you
00:26:49.60\00:26:52.33
better thank God for his mercy.
00:26:52.33\00:26:55.46
But what I like about Paul here.
00:26:55.46\00:26:58.06
Let me stay here for a little
bit, because the people of God
00:26:58.06\00:26:59.53
need to understand
what mercy is all about.
00:26:59.53\00:27:01.20
What I love about Paul's
defense here, if you read the
00:27:01.20\00:27:03.10
text, is that Paul does
not reduce God to one mercy.
00:27:03.10\00:27:10.76
But he mentions
mercy in plurality.
00:27:10.76\00:27:15.36
He says mercies, morning
by morning, new mercies I see.
00:27:15.36\00:27:23.86
hello i'm Dr. Carlton
Byrd, Speaker Director for the
00:27:23.86\00:27:27.30
Breath of Life
Television Ministries.
00:27:27.30\00:27:30.10
For the past year it has been
my joy to preach the gospel of
00:27:30.10\00:27:33.33
Jesus Christ across the
globe, but principally from the
00:27:33.33\00:27:37.70
sanctuary of the
Berean Adventist Church
00:27:37.70\00:27:40.96
in Atlanta Georgia.
00:27:40.96\00:27:41.96
Beginning in January 2012,
I will continue to preach the
00:27:41.96\00:27:46.10
gospel of Jesus
Christ, and Breath of Life
00:27:46.10\00:27:48.73
will still be here,
but it will come from
00:27:48.73\00:27:51.60
the sanctuary of the Oakwood
University Church in Huntsville
00:27:51.60\00:27:54.33
Alabama, on the
Campus of Oakwood University.
00:27:54.33\00:27:58.00
It will be the
same Breath of Life,
00:27:58.00\00:28:00.36
The same
preacher, The same gospel
00:28:00.36\00:28:02.86
of Jesus Christ,
the same channel,
00:28:02.86\00:28:05.33
the same
station, at the same time;
00:28:05.33\00:28:07.60
Just a different location.
00:28:07.60\00:28:09.36
We solicit your continued
prayers, and support, as we
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take this wonderful
gospel of Jesus Christ,
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to a dying world.
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May god bless you.
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You've got to thank God
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