(Island Music) PB: Hello.
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My name is 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
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hath 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
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is soon to return.
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May God bless you as
you watch as we minister
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to you 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: You ought to
thank God for his mercy.
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Let me tell you something.
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Somebody today, you
got your car through
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the mercies of God.
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Your credit was bad, it was
jacked up, but God had mercy
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and gave you a car anyway.
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Every time you get in
your car you ought to say,
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thank you, Jesus.
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You ought to drive
down Middle Road talking
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about thank you, Jesus.
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Everybody else is honking
their horn trying to get into
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town saying bad stuff in
traffic, you ought to lift
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those hands and bless him and
say, thank you for your mercy.
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You ought to drive
down the road, thank you,
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Jesus, praise the Lord.
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Folk will think you're crazy,
but you know if it had not
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been for God's mercy
you'd still be walking
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around somewhere.
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Did he give you mercy?
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Let me talk about somebody else.
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I'm going to stay here for
a while because you all still
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don't understand.
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Many of you could be in jail
right now, could be locked up
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on prison cell block B or A
or C or D, trying to get this
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service on the
Internet only if the warden said
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it was okay.
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But God gave you mercy.
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You're living in mercy.
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You're driving in mercy.
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Your apartment is mercy.
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Your house is mercy.
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Your job is mercy.
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Your marriage is mercy.
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Your relationship with
your son and your daughter
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is mercy.
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Nothing but the mercy of God.
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Should have been dead,
should have been strung out
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somewhere, but
God gave you mercy.
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Anybody who's been
through what you've been through
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should have lost their
mind, but when you were falling
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apart and you were talking out
of your head, mercy came down
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and rescued you.
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You went to bed weeping at
night, but mercy woke you up
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in the morning, gave you joy.
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Mercy came to you
late at night in your bed.
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Somebody ought to
thank him for his mercy.
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Mercy gave you another chance.
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Mercy gave you health,
mercy gave you strength.
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That's why you
can't afford to be cute.
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I will bless the
Lord at all times.
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His praise shall
continually be in my mouth.
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Somebody ought to praise
him right now for his mercy.
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You ought to tell someone,
excuse me, I've got to praise
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him for his mercy right now.
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You see, when people
raise their hands, you don't
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know what they're
raising their hands about.
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When people stand up
and shout, you don't know
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what they're shouting about.
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God gave somebody mercy
over their daughter, mercy over
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their son, mercy over
those grandbabies, mercy,
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mercy, mercy.
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Let me tell you.
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Let me hurry up
and get off this.
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I don't need all of you.
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I just need 10 praising folks
who don't care what anybody
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thinks, who don't care what
anybody has on, who don't care
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what side of town you live on.
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You're just glad you're not
in a hospital somewhere, you're
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just glad you don't have a
nervous breakdown somewhere,
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that you don't have needles
sticking out of your arms,
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that you're not in
a jail cell somewhere.
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Give me some radical
folk who don't mind thanking
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God for his mercies.
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So Paul says, I beseech
you therefore, brethren, by the
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mercies of God that ye present
your bodies a living what?
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Sacrifice.
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Let me teach some more.
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In the Old Testament
we had an Old Testament
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sacrificial system.
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Let's be clear.
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As a Seventh-Day Adventist
Christian fifth generation,
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both paternally and
maternally, the Seventh-Day
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Adventist Church has many
doctrines, the Sabbath, the
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Second Coming, the State of
the Dead, our health message.
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But the one distinct doctrine
of the Seventh-Day Adventist
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Church is the
doctrine of the Sanctuary.
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And we've got to
teach our young people the
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doctrine of the Sanctuary.
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Back in the day we had an Old
Testament sacrificial system,
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an Old Testament
sanctuary understand,
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but then came Jesus.
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Behold the Lamb of God
which taketh away the sins
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of the world.
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It was Jesus
who died for my sin.
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It was Jesus who offered
up himself as a sacrifice.
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He was both the
offerer and the offering.
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Oh, I can't get a
witness in this place.
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What does that
mean, Pastor Byrd.
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I'm glad you asked.
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Jesus is not only my attorney
pleading my case, but Jesus
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is the judge who
will decide my case.
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The same one that's
arguing my case is the same one
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that's going to
judge my case. Hallelujah.
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So Jesus is both the high
priest and the Lamb of God.
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He went in by himself, went
up himself, the propitiation
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for our sins.
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And because Jesus died for
me, because Jesus bled for me,
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I don't need anybody to go in
for me, I can go in by myself.
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I don't have to tell you what
I did so you can go in and get
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forgiveness for me, but I
can go in boldly by myself and I
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can go in to the throne
of grace and obtain mercy.
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If we confess our sins, he
is faithful and just to forgive
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us of our sins and to cleanse
us from all unrighteousness.
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The text says, present
your bodies a living what?
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Sacrifice.
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Let me teach some more.
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Now a dead sacrifice was a
forbidden sacrifice, because
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priests couldn't
touch dead things.
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It had to be a living sacrifice.
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In the tabernacle when
you came through the door
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there was a piece of
furniture called the altar
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of burnt offering.
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The sacrifice had to be
laid on the altar alive.
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The sacrifice was on
the altar still wiggling.
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If it were not
wiggling when it was offered up
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it was not accepted.
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This is why, friends of mine,
Abraham brought his son Isaac
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alive to Mount Mariah
that he might become a living
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sacrifice and
offered up for sin.
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This is why Jesus couldn't die
on the whipping post before he
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got to the cross because he
had to be a living sacrifice.
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Somebody say a living sacrifice.
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If it were dead,
God couldn't touch it.
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It had to be a living sacrifice.
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Expand your mind.
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Think about it.
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When Isaac was
offered up to be a sacrifice,
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Isaac was not a little boy.
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Isaac was old enough to
resist the will of his father.
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Remember, Abraham
had Isaac at an old age.
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Isaac could have
taken Abraham out.
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But he became obedient unto
death, because he had to be a
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picture of
Christ who was to come.
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Not somebody who was
taken against their will, but
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somebody who was
obedient unto death and became
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a living sacrifice.
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And so, expand your
mind and understand with me.
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They asked Isaac, Brother
Isaac, how could you do it?
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Isaac said, it would have been
better for me not to have been
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born than for me to
have been born and not do
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the will of God.
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So here comes a grown man
climbing up on the sacrifice.
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He says, Daddy, I've seen
the knife, I see the wood,
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but where's the sacrifice?
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And there Isaac is, laid
up on the altar as his old man
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father begins to strap down
his son, a living sacrifice.
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Tied to something
that's killing you and that's
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what it means to
be a living sacrifice.
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That if you walk with
God, sooner or later, sometime
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in your life the will of
God will tie you to something
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that's killing you.
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But yet you've got
to be willing to be
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a living sacrifice.
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When Jesus told his disciples
that you're going to have
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to be willing to take up your
cross and follow me, we think
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he was talking about wood,
but the cross that you live on
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is not wood.
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Let me bowl down your alley.
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Somebody's cross is a
child who won't obey and you're
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loving a child that won't love
you back, and you're tied to
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it, you can't get away from
it and say whatever you want,
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but if it weren't for
that child you wouldn't
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pray like you pray,
you wouldn't fast like
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you fast, you wouldn't be in
church like you're in church.
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But God--listen to me--is
using that disobedient child
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to make you a living sacrifice.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
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Let me go somewhere else.
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Somebody today is
married to some egotistical,
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inconsiderate,
thoughtless, selfish somebody
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and you're tied to it.
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And there you are praying
for other people's marriages and
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they're getting healed and
going on second honeymoons to
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Bermuda, but you're going
home to be a living sacrifice.
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Haven't been loved in years.
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You're a living sacrifice.
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Yeah, you come to church,
dressed up, smell good, have
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perfume on, wearing your
hat, wearing your suit, looking
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good, hair done, nails
done, but yet you've got a cross
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at your home.
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And in the spirit of
equal opportunity, there's a man
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who's married to a woman who
treats him like a dog, but yet
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you work with a woman
who thinks you're wonderful.
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Getting quiet in the church.
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Get off work and you ride
in your car as slow as you can
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go, because you know when
you get home there's a cross
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waiting for you.
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I see a brother laughing.
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I know you can't say anything
in here because some of you
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all are sitting right
next to your cross right now.
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I'll look the other way.
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But let me tell you this,
God knows exactly what kind of
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cross you need to
kill your flesh and God
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will tie you to it.
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He will tie you to a job,
somebody else, where you keep
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training other people and they
keep getting the position you
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trained them for and you're
being mistreated, but yet you
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can't quit
because you're tied to it.
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This is where
you learn humility.
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This is where you really
learn how to pray, where on your
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cross you say, Father,
forgive them for they know
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not what they do.
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This is where you
actually learn what it means
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to be a living sacrifice.
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This is where you
learn how to give God
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the sacrifice of praise.
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You're emotionally frustrated,
financially frustrated,
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socially frustrated, and
you're up there talking about
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Hallelujah and Amen in church,
but people just don't know.
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It's the sacrifice of praise.
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You come to church by yourself.
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Single at 20 wasn't bad, at
30 it was okay, at 40 all right,
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but now 50 and you're taking
yourself out to dinner, buying
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yourself something
for Valentine's Day.
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You're tired of seeing
other folks get cards and gifts
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and candy and flowers.
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You're sick of it.
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But let me tell you something.
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I'm not here for a marriage
seminar, but let me throw
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this in free of charge.
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It's better to be
happily unmarried than to be
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unhappily married.
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I wish I had a
witness in this place.
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? [Organ music]
? But you're sick
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of seeing other folk
find somebody and you can't.
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I'm preaching to your needs now.
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People don't
know you're hurting.
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You come to church,
good morning, happy Sabbath,
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welcome to Hamilton, welcome
to South Hampton, welcome to
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Restoration, welcome
to Rockaway, welcome to
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Summerset, St. George's,
St. David's, Pembrook ward,
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Devonshire,
saving the best for last.
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Come on, say Amen.
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Eleventh, Midland
Heights, you pastor that church.
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Come on, say Amen.
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And you go and
say happy Sabbath.
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But folk don't know
that beneath your smile
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you're a living sacrifice.
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But I heard Job say something.
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What you say, Brother Job?
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Though he slay me, yet,
yet, yet will I trust in him.
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It's not working out
right, but I'm still going
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to trust him.
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I'm not happy but I'm
still going to trust him.
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I'm frustrated but I'm
still going to trust him.
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I'm a living sacrifice
because God can't use a dead
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sacrifice, God
wants a living sacrifice.
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And so, God can't use
anything that is dead.
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A whole lot of folk in
the church, but they're dead.
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Whole lot of folk have
their names on the role,
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but they're dead.
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In the number, but dead.
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No zeal, no life, no
enthusiasm, no Pentecostal
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fire for the Lord, just dead,
and that don't mean everybody
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got to jump up and down, do
cartwheels and flips either,
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but when the spirit of the
Lord says something, either
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pray, praise, nod,
moan, meditate, do something.
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Are you hearing what I'm saying?
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So many folk sit in a sea of
shouting, bathing in an ocean
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of the Holy Ghost, but yet
they sit as stiff as a corpse
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and as cold as a cadaver,
the frozen chosen, but God
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doesn't want anything dead.
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God's not dead.
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God's alive.
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So if we sing, how
great is our God, God's alive.
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If we sing, what a friend
we have in Jesus, God is alive.
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If we sing, I come to the
garden alone while the dew is
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still on the roses and the
voice I hear falling onto my
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ear, I'm alive.
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I beseech you therefore,
brethren, by the mercies of
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God that you present your
bodies a living sacrifice,
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holy and acceptable unto
God--now let's deal with the
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last part of the
text, then I'll sit down.
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God wants holy sacrifices,
not unholy sacrifices.
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And don't get it twisted,
because there's a difference
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between holy and unholy
sacrifices, because everything
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that talks like holy is
not holy, everything that walks
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like holy is not
holy, everything that acts
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like holy is not holy.
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Everything that
shouts like holy is not holy.
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Holiness expresses the
awesomeness of who God is
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and how God is
working in our life.
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Unholiness is what people
pass off as religion that is
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designed to impress
others about something
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about ourselves.
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When you go to church and
you give so that somebody else
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sees what you put in
the offering plate, that's
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designed to impress.
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When you carry your Bible
just so folk can see you carry
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your Bible, that's
designed to impress.
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When you come to church
just to be seen, that's designed
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to impress.
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But when you present your
body as a living sacrifice, holy
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and acceptable unto God,
you're not trying to impress,
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but you're trying to express.
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Express how much you love God.
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Express how you'll do
any and everything for God.
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Express how you will obey God.
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Express how you know God,
because to know him is to love
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him, to love him is to obey
him, to obey him is to worship
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him, and they that
worship him, thus worship him in
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spirit and in truth.
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I beseech you therefore,
brethren, by the mercies of
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God that you present your
bodies as a living sacrifice,
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holy and acceptable
unto God, which is your
00:19:32.50\00:19:34.70
reasonable service.
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Service is the rent we pay
for the space that we occupy
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in the world.
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To show you I've been to
school, the word service is in
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the Greek, the word latreia,
which is defined by the words
00:19:47.23\00:19:52.06
ministry, service or worship.
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God wants us to present
our body as a living sacrifice,
00:19:54.83\00:19:58.30
holy and acceptable
unto God which is our
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reasonable worship.
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In other words, what God wants
is not just worship for the
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sake of worship.
00:20:04.96\00:20:06.63
God wants reasonable worship.
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Now, the word reasonable
is derived from the Greek word
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logikos, which comes
from root word, logical.
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Paul then is saying that
God requires logical worship.
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God requires
worship that is as a result
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of rational activity.
00:20:24.90\00:20:26.40
God requires worship that
is the product of a reasoning,
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functioning mind.
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It's my made-up mind that
makes me want to say Amen.
00:20:30.96\00:20:33.46
It's my baptized brain
that makes me want to shout.
00:20:33.46\00:20:38.10
I teach in a master's program
at Oakwood University and I
00:20:38.10\00:20:41.23
tell the preachers all the
time, preaching is not just
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decibel level.
00:20:44.30\00:20:47.13
Preaching is not just shouting.
00:20:47.13\00:20:50.10
If you're going to
shout, say something worth
00:20:50.10\00:20:53.70
shouting about.
00:20:53.70\00:20:55.70
Because God is the
author of intelligence.
00:20:55.70\00:20:59.40
God does not want
anything that is haphazard.
00:20:59.40\00:21:02.26
God doesn't want anything
that is less than the best.
00:21:02.26\00:21:04.70
God wants logical,
rational, intelligent,
00:21:04.70\00:21:07.56
reasonable worship.
00:21:07.56\00:21:10.26
Worship that makes you want
to say Amen, but worship that
00:21:10.26\00:21:14.46
also makes you
want to say ah-ha.
00:21:14.46\00:21:17.50
Worship that makes you want
to shout, but worship also that
00:21:17.50\00:21:20.93
makes you want to serve.
00:21:20.93\00:21:22.76
Worship that makes you, yes,
want to clap, but worship that
00:21:22.76\00:21:26.83
also makes you want to care.
00:21:26.83\00:21:28.66
Worship is not worship
until you do something.
00:21:28.66\00:21:33.26
Worship is not worship until
you volunteer for service in
00:21:33.26\00:21:37.06
the Lord's army.
00:21:37.06\00:21:38.63
Worship is not worship
until you put your hand
00:21:38.63\00:21:42.23
on the plow and hold on.
00:21:42.23\00:21:43.73
Worship is not worship until
you say, for Christ I'll live,
00:21:43.73\00:21:47.83
but for Christ I'll also die.
00:21:47.83\00:21:50.20
Worship is not worship
until you say, to obey is better
00:21:50.20\00:21:54.23
than to sacrifice.
00:21:54.23\00:21:57.46
Worship is not worship until
you tell the Lord, God, if you
00:21:57.46\00:22:02.36
need me, here am I, send me.
00:22:02.36\00:22:08.56
Worship is not worship until
you're able to lean and depend
00:22:08.56\00:22:10.83
on whom you worship.
00:22:10.83\00:22:12.56
So, when you can't
understand, worship him.
00:22:12.56\00:22:19.06
When you can't see
your way, worship him.
00:22:19.06\00:22:23.66
When what he asks is more
than what you have to give,
00:22:23.66\00:22:29.30
worship him.
00:22:29.30\00:22:30.96
When you must surrender that
for which you would give life
00:22:30.96\00:22:34.60
itself, worship him.
00:22:34.60\00:22:37.80
When you feel like giving
up, throwing in the towel,
00:22:37.80\00:22:43.73
worship him.
00:22:43.73\00:22:45.93
When mama doesn't
understand, worship him.
00:22:45.93\00:22:50.06
When daddy doesn't
understand, worship him.
00:22:50.06\00:22:54.13
When the church doesn't
understand, worship him.
00:22:54.13\00:23:02.66
When the preacher
doesn't understand, worship him.
00:23:02.66\00:23:07.00
I beseech you therefore,
brethren, by the mercies of
00:23:07.00\00:23:14.96
God that ye present your
bodies a living sacrifice,
00:23:14.96\00:23:24.90
holy and acceptable
unto God which is your
00:23:24.90\00:23:28.96
reasonable service.
00:23:28.96\00:23:30.80
So, O come, let us
worship, let us bow down before
00:23:30.80\00:23:34.66
the Lord, our maker.
00:23:34.66\00:23:36.96
I was glad when they said
it to me, let us go into the
00:23:36.96\00:23:42.03
house of the Lord.
00:23:42.03\00:23:45.36
O taste and see that
the Lord is good, his mercy
00:23:45.36\00:23:51.23
endureth forever.
00:23:51.23\00:23:54.66
Worship the Lord and
praise his holy name.
00:23:54.66\00:23:58.96
Praise God in his sanctuary,
praise him in the firmament of
00:23:58.96\00:24:03.40
his power, praise him for
his mighty act, praise him
00:24:03.40\00:24:07.46
according to his
excellent greatness.
00:24:07.46\00:24:10.96
Praise him at the sound of
the trumpet and the psaltery and
00:24:10.96\00:24:14.13
the harp, timbrel
and the dance, string
00:24:14.13\00:24:16.93
instruments and organ.
00:24:16.93\00:24:18.90
Praise him with loud
cymbals, high sounding cymbals.
00:24:18.90\00:24:22.46
Let everything that
has breath praise the Lord,
00:24:22.46\00:24:24.56
praise ye the Lord.
00:24:24.56\00:24:27.26
Make a joyful noise
unto the Lord all ye land.
00:24:27.26\00:24:30.83
Serve the Lord with gladness.
00:24:30.83\00:24:33.73
Come before his
presence with singing.
00:24:33.73\00:24:36.46
Know that it is he that has
made us and not we ourselves.
00:24:36.46\00:24:39.46
Enter into his gates
with thanksgiving, to his
00:24:39.46\00:24:44.70
courts with praise.
00:24:44.70\00:24:46.53
Be thankful unto him and bless
his name for the Lord is good.
00:24:46.53\00:24:53.40
I said, the Lord is good.
00:24:53.40\00:24:56.20
His mercy is everlasting.
00:24:56.20\00:25:02.13
His truth endures
to all generations.
00:25:02.13\00:25:12.76
Why it was that in 1999,
coming up on 12 years in my
00:25:12.76\00:25:22.13
life now, why it would be that
my lovely wife and I would be
00:25:22.13\00:25:27.30
on our way to preach at
another church in the United
00:25:27.30\00:25:30.60
States and we get in a
catastrophic car accident and
00:25:30.60\00:25:33.03
our four-and-a-half
month old baby girl be killed?
00:25:33.03\00:25:36.40
Why did that happen?
00:25:36.40\00:25:37.90
I don't know why God allowed it.
00:25:37.90\00:25:42.10
I felt like
throwing in the towel.
00:25:42.10\00:25:47.36
But getting into ministry,
yeah, I've been taught the
00:25:47.36\00:25:49.93
Sabbath and it's right.
00:25:49.93\00:25:52.96
Yes, I have been
taught the State of the Dead
00:25:52.96\00:25:55.80
and it's right.
00:25:55.80\00:25:57.53
Yes, I have been taught that
my body is the temple of God
00:25:57.53\00:26:00.26
and it was right, but I
felt like throwing in the towel.
00:26:00.26\00:26:10.26
Twelve years later, twelve
years, God has taken my pain
00:26:10.26\00:26:22.20
and turned it into
power for his glory.
00:26:22.20\00:26:26.56
He's taken that valley in
my life and turned it into
00:26:26.56\00:26:29.93
victory for his glory.
00:26:29.93\00:26:31.70
So, no, my little baby
girl is not in heaven right now
00:26:31.70\00:26:35.26
looking down on me.
00:26:35.26\00:26:39.96
But at the coming of Jesus,
the Bible says that the dead
00:26:39.96\00:26:45.90
in Christ are going to rise
first and we which are alive
00:26:45.90\00:26:50.66
and remain are going to be
caught up to meet the Lord in
00:26:50.66\00:26:54.63
the air and so shall
we ever be with the Lord.
00:26:54.63\00:26:57.33
So if God's gotta tie me to
this ministry, then tie me to
00:26:57.33\00:27:00.13
this ministry.
00:27:00.13\00:27:01.50
I love the Lord.
00:27:01.50\00:27:03.03
I won't take it back.
00:27:03.03\00:27:04.46
He's been so good to me.
00:27:04.46\00:27:11.53
Hallelujah, somebody.
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