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? Jesus is worthy ?
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? oh yes, he's worthy
? ? worthy of all... ?
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? all the praise ? ? (Music) ?
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We want to be ready
when Jesus comes back.
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You don't believe me?
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The name Seventh-Day
Adventist espouses reality for
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understanding that Seventh-Day
Adventists, we're followers of
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Christ, we're not a cult,
we are a Christian community
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that celebrates Christ.
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The virtue of our name,
Seventh-Day Adventist, we keep
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the seventh day Sabbath
holy and we are awaiting his
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advent, the second coming,
the second advent, the comeback
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of Jesus Christ.
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I am proud to be a
Seventh-Day Adventist Christian.
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This is what we look forward to.
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And eyes have not seen, either
ears have heard the things
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that God has prepared for them.
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So, get ready for the comeback.
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I said get ready
for the comeback.
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But, Pastor Byrd,
when is the comeback?
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Let me teach you just a little
bit because I'm finding we
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think people know what we
believe, but I'm learning in
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my experience that people
don't know what we believe.
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So, I think we need
to know what we believe,
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why we believe it
and where it's found.
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When is the comeback?
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Go to the book of Matthew.
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What book did I say, everybody?
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Matthew, chapter 24.
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If you have your iPhone or
whatever, look it up there.
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Matthew 24 and I'm coming out
of the King James version for
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our viewing audience.
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Matthew 24:36, the Word of
God says, "But of that day and
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hour knoweth no man, no,
not the angels of heaven,
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but my Father only.
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But as in the days of Noah
were, so shall also the coming
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of the Son of man be.
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For as in the days that
were before the flood they were
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eating and drinking,
marrying and giving in" what?
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"Marriage, until the day that
Noe entered into the ark, and
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knew not until the flood
came, and took them all away; so
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shall also the coming of the
Son of man," what, everybody?
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"Be." Verse 42:
"Watch therefore:
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for ye know not what
hour your Lord doth come.
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Verse 44: "Therefore be
ye also ready: for in such an
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hour as ye think not the
Son of man cometh." I can't give
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you the exact
date of the comeback,
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but I know it's real soon.
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I know the comeback is
real soon because Matthew 24
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lets me know the
signs of his coming.
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Matthew 24:3: "And as he
sat upon the mount of Olives,
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the disciples came unto him
privately, saying, "Tell us,
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when shall these things be?
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And what shall be the sign
of thy coming, and of the end of
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the world?' And Jesus answered
and said unto them, "Take heed
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that no man," what, everybody?
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Take heed that no man what?
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"For many shall come in my
name, saying I am Christ; and
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shall deceive many." You
and I both know somebody walks
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on this earth and says they
are Christ, they are a boldfaced
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liar from the pits of hell
because the Bible just said in
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Acts 1 that when Jesus left
he left in the air which means
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he's coming back in the air,
his feet will never touch this
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ground and you shall
have war, rumors of war.
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See that ye be not what?
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Troubled.
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For there all these things
must come to pass but the end
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is not yet for nations
shall rise against what?
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Kingdom against what?
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And there shall be famines and
pestilence, and earthquakes in
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divers places, meaning
divers or different places.
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All these are the
beginning of what, everybody?
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"Then shall they deliver you
up to be afflicted, and shall
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kill you: and ye shall be
hated of all nations for my
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name's sake." That's why,
understand, that in the cause
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of Christ sometimes
you're going to be hated on.
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Jesus said that would
happen just before his comeback.
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Keep on reading.
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The Word of God says in verse
10: "And then shall many be
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offended, and shall
betray one another, and
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shall hate one another.
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And many false prophets shall
rise, and shall deceive many.
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And because iniquity
shall abound, the love
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of many shall wax cold.
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But he that shall endure
unto the end." Thank you, Jesus.
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"He that shall endure unto
the end, the same," not might,
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not perhaps, not possibly,
"But the same shall be saved.
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And this gospel of the kingdom
shall be preached in all the
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worldÖand then shall the
end come." I don't know exactly
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when he's coming
back, but I do know he's
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coming back soon.
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I know that when Jesus comes
back it will be in the same
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manner in which he left.
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He left in a cloud,
will return in a cloud.
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Left in the air,
will return in the air.
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His feet will
not touch the earth.
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The Bible also lets me know
in Revelation, Chapter 1:7, that
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when he makes his comeback
every eye, every living eye,
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is going to see him.
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Which means those in
Huntsville, we're going
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to see him.
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Those back I left in Atlanta,
we going to see him then, too.
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Those in New York and L.A.
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are going to see him.
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But Jesus is not a
national God, he's an
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international God.
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Those in Africa
are going to see him.
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Those in Asia
are going to see him.
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Those in Antigua
are going to see him.
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Those in Jamaica
are going to see him.
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Every eye is going to see him.
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Christianity gets
excited about his comeback.
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But some within the
ranks of Christianity have made
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a mistake about his comeback.
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Let's be clear.
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When Jesus makes his comeback
there'll be four primary
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groups on earth.
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Notice the word primary.
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Four what kind of groups?
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Now understand,
I'll teach you a bit.
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Four primary groups.
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Because Revelation 1:7
says that those who even pierced
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him will see him, because
Ellen White said there will be
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a special resurrection
for those who pierced Jesus.
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But there will be four
primary groups when Jesus comes
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back for the second
time at his comeback.
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Group number one.
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Everybody say
the righteous dead.
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Come on, say it
like you mean it.
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Say righteous dead.
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I'm getting you ready for
evangelism, righteous dead.
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1 Thessalonians 4:16: "For
the Lord himself shall descend
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from heaven with a" what?
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"Shout, with the voice of the
archangel, and with the trump
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of God: and the dead in
Christ shall rise," what? First.
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When Jesus comes back for
his second coming, the Bible is
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clear that the dead in
Christ shall rise what? First.
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Group number two.
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The righteous living.
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Group number one is
the righteous what? Dead.
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Group number two is the Living.
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Let's keep reading.
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1 Thessalonians 4:17: "Then
we which are alive and remain
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shall be caught up together
with them in the clouds, to
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meet the Lord in the air:
and so shall we ever be" what?
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Come on, so shall we
ever be What? with the Lord
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Group number one,
the righteous dead,
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they rise what? First.
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Group number two, the
righteous living are caught up
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to meet the Lord in the what?
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Air.
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Group number three.
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Take your Bibles and
go to 2 Thessalonians 2:8.
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Know what you believe,
know why you believe it and know
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where it's found.
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2 Thessalonians 2:8, the Word
of God says: "And then shall
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that Wicked be revealed,
whom the Lord shall consume with
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the spirit of his mouth,
and shall destroy with the
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brightness of his"
what, everybody? ... Coming.
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"Even him, whose coming
is after the working of Satan
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with all power and signs
and lying wonders, and with all
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deceivableness of
unrighteousness in them that
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perish; because they received
not the love of the truth,
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that they might be saved.
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And for this cause God
shall send them strong delusion,
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that they should
believe a" what? ... Lie.
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"That they all might be damned
who believed not the truth,
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but had pleasure in
unrighteousness." Group number
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three, the unrighteous or
wicked living shall die at the
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brightness of his coming.
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Group number one, the
righteous dead, rise what?
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First.
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Group number two, the
righteous living, are caught
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up to meet the Lord
in the what? ... Air.
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Group number three, the
unrighteous or the wicked
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living die at the brightness
of his what? ... Coming.
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So you know, sometimes that's
why I like all these lights.
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Because I have to look at them
dead in the eye to make sure I
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can see this light because
I'm getting ready for Jesus to
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come when the righteous living
are caught up to meet the Lord
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in the air, because if the
lights are too bright for me
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here on earth, when
Jesus comes his light is going
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to be too bright.
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So I have to practice.
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(laughter) See, somebody at
church come up here to shake
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my hand, they, oh, aha,
you don't know what's wrong.
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Come on, say Amen.
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Group number one, the
righteous dead rise what?
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First.
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Group number two, the
righteous living are caught up
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to meet the Lord in the what?
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Air.
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Group number three, the
unrighteous or wicked living
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die at the brightness
of his what? ... Coming.
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Revelation 20:5: Group
number four, the wicked dead.
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"But the rest of the dead live
not again until the thousand
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years were" what?
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Finished.
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This is the first what?
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Resurrection.
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Which means the wicked dead
at his second coming, at the
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second comeback, the wicked
dead are going to remain dead.
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They remain dead for one
thousand years until Jesus'
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third coming.
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I wish I had time.
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When Jesus came as a baby
the first time, at his first
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coming he came
to save his people.
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She shall bring forth a son,
thou shalt call his name Jesus
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for he shall save his
people from their sin.
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At his first coming he
came to save his people.
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At his second coming
he's coming to get his people.
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At his third coming, he's
coming back with his people.
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You all ain't ready today.
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Group number one, righteous
dead rise what? ... First.
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Group number two, righteous
living are caught up to meet
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the Lord in the what?
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Air.
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Group number three, the wicked
or unrighteous living die at
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the brightness of his what?
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Coming.
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Group number four, the
wicked dead remain what?
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Dead.
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Now let's expand our minds,
because it's my baptized brain
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that makes me want to say Amen.
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I told you earlier, if you're
going to preach, you're going
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to shout, say
something worth shouting about.
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If the righteous dead rise
first, the righteous living
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are caught up to meet the Lord
in the air, the wicked living
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die at the brightness of
his coming, and the wicked dead
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remain dead.
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If all of the righteous at
their death in heaven were in
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heaven, if all the righteous
people who died went straight
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to heaven, then who
would Jesus be coming back for?
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At his second comeback, if
all the righteous were already
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in heaven?
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Now we just read that
the righteous dead rise what?
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First.
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We just read that the
righteous living are caught up
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to meet the Lord in the what?
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Air.
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We just read where the wicked
living die at the brightness
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of his what?
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Coming.
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We just also read that
the wicked dead remain what?
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Dead.
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So if the righteous are
dead until the second coming and
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the wicked dead remain
dead, if the righteous were in
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heaven, who would
Jesus have to come back for?
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Mama's in heaven
looking down on me.
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No, she's not. She's dead.
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(applause) Big Mama's
in heaven looking down.
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No, she's not, she's dead.
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But when the trump of
God shall sound, the dead in
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Christ shall
rise what, everybody?
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First.
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Now, I don't know about you
but I've got to be a part of
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one of the first two groups.
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Either I'm going to rise first
or I've got to be caught up to
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meet him and I'm a
Byrd, I believe I can fly.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
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(applause and
laughter) I've got to be ready.
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Say, I've got to be ready.
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Come on, say it
like you mean it.
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I've got to be ready.
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We don't preach about
the second coming of Jesus
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like we used to.
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That's what this church,
the Seventh-Day Adventist
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Church, is all about.
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Getting ready for the
second coming of the Lord.
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The comeback.
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Pastor Byrd, what
are you talking about.
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Let me help you
understand what Paul also said.
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Paul also says in the Word
of God, he says, Now I say unto
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you, brother, and
behold I showed you a mystery,
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that we shall not all sleep,
but we shall all be changed.
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In a moment, in the
twinkling of an eye.
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Somebody say, how
quick is a twinkle?
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All I know is I wink at
my wife and that's quick.
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Come on, say Amen.
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"At the last trump: for
the trumpet shall sound,
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and the dead shall be
raised incorruptible, and we
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shall be changed.
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For this corruptible must
put on incorruption, and this
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mortal shall have put on
immortality, then shall be
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brought to pass the
saying that is written, Death is
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swallowed up in victory.
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O death, where is thy sting?
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O grave, where is they victory?
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The sting of death is
sin; and the strength of sin
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is the law.
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But thanks be to God, which
giveth us the victory through
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our Lord Jesus Christ."
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Therefore, church, be ye
steadfast, unmovable, always
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abounding in the work of
the Lord, forasmuch as ye know
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that your labour is not in vain.
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I ain't going to
hell for anybody.l
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T'ain't nobody shakes
me out of God's church.
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This is the way I've
chosen to walk in it.
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Do I have a witness
in this place? Ahhh.
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I'm getting
ready for evangelism.
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I wish I had a
witness in this place.
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Can I tell you about
heaven, because Jesus is going
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to be in heaven.
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After his comeback,
we're going with him to heaven.
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Are you hearing what I'm saying?
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Let me tell you
about heaven quickly.
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The lion is going
to play with the lamb.
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We used to sing a song in
AY 20 years ago when I was at
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Oakwood in Moran Hall.
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I'm going to sit
at the welcome table.
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I'm going to
feast on milk and honey.
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I'm going to sing
and never get tired.
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I'm going to walk
and talk with Jesus.
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I may to eat grits with Jesus.
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Well, somebody
said, well, what's grits?
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They were from the islands.
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I said it's porridge.
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Come on, say Amen.
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You'll eat porridge with
Jesus, but we'll add a verse
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for you, we'll eat peas
and rice or rice and peas,
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depending what island
you're from, with Jesus.
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In heaven, we're going to shout.
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But, oh, you
all don't like that.
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I'm going to say it anyhow.
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When I get to heaven I'm
going to shout hallelujah.
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In fact, when we get to
heaven and we get in the very
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presence of God, we're going
to shout, holy, holy, holy.
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We won't rest day or night,
we will continually say, holy,
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holy, holy, Lord God Almighty.
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With what and is to come
around God's great thrones
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there's going to
be persistent praise.
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If you don't like praise here,
I don't know what you're going
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to do when we get there,
because when we all get to
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heaven what a day of
rejoicing that's going to be.
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When we all see Jesus
we're going to sing and shout
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the words of victory.
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But I ain't going to
wait until I get to heaven
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to praise him.
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I'm going to
praise him down here, too.
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Some of you all talk about,
when I get to heaven I'm going
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to sing and shout, and
you don't do anything but sit
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and look down here.
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Talking about if I had
10,000 tongues I couldn't
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praise enough.
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God says, well, if you
start with the one tongue
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you've got right now.
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Somebody ought
to give God praise.
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Lord, you're
worthy of the honor.
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Lord, you're
worthy of the praise.
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Has God been good to
anybody in this place?
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Go on and give
him glory because he's
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coming back again.
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He's coming back again.
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Glory,
hallelujah, bless his name.
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Lift him up.
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Praise God he's
coming back again.
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So I don't know
how long it will be.
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I'm ready.
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What the future holds for
me, but this I know, that I know
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that I know that I
know, if Jesus leads I shall
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get home some day.
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The grass withers, the
flower fadest, but the word
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of our God shall stand forever.
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Let not your heart be troubled.
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If you believe in God, believe
also in me, in my Father's
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house are many mansions.
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I'm not going to have to
worry about high gas prices.
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I'm going to fly from
my mansion to your mansion.
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If it were not so I
would have told you.
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I go and
prepare a place for you.
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If I go and prepare a
place for you, he says,
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I will come again,
and will receive you unto
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myself that where I
am there you may be also.
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So dry your weeping eyes,
hold on, help is on the way.
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Hold your head up, stick
your chest out, put one foot in
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front of the other, and
know that troubles don't last
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always because he's coming back.
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Keep on loving, keep on
serving, keep on giving, keep
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on being nice.
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Because serving the Lord is
going to pay off after awhile.
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I'm getting
ready for the comeback.
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Not the Knicks and the Pacers.
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Not the soldiers
coming back from Iraq.
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Not even the biblical
story of the prodigal son.
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I'm getting ready for the
ultimate comeback when Jesus
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breaks through the clouds.
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Oh, I'm looking forward to
it, when I survey the wondrous
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cross for which the
Prince of Glory died.
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Jesus paid it all.
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all to him I owe Sin hath left a
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the crimson stain.
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But he washed it white as snow.
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My first Sabbath here,
somebody said to me, Pastor,
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forgive me but I don't
know what you were referring to
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when you said that you and
your wife had lost a child.
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Maybe I was too young.
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You said that was some
years ago in '99 and, Pastor,
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I don't know, I
was just a little kid.
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What are you talking about.
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Some of you know
who've been around a while.
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Some of you are my
teachers or professors.
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Some of you went to
school with me and you know what
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Danielle and I went through.
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September 25, 1999 on our
way from Nashville, Tennessee to
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Tuscaloosa, Alabama to preach
for the church anniversary
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there where we
had pastored before.
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Twenty minutes from
Tuscaloosa the SUV we were
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in began to do flips.
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There we were.
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I woke up from an unconscious
state and I saw my wife,
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Danielle, I saw our
eldest daughter, Caitlin was her
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name, laying in the
median of the highway.
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I began to pray, Lord,
Lord, save my daughter,
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heal my daughter.
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They came, the helicopters
and all the ambulances from
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Birmingham and they got us
there on Interstate 2059, they
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carried us back to Birmingham.
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Danielle was in intensive care
in one hospital, our daughter
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was in Birmingham Children's
Hospital in intensive care.
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They hooked her
up to life support.
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Danielle got better.
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She got discharged,
they brought her on over to
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Children's Hospital and
there we were, the 25th of
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September, 1999.
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I remember it
like it was yesterday.
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Danielle was there, I was
there, our parents were there,
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our siblings were there, our
grandparents, family, friends,
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ministers came, the conference
president came, we began to
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pray for the move of God.
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That's why when I talk about
coming down to the altar and
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praying and laying it on
the altar, I'm believing in the
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power of prayer.
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It got to the point where
people were coming to visit
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the hospital and I told them,
if you don't believe that the
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God I serve is able to raise
my daughter up, I appreciate
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you but don't come up in
this room because we don't need
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conflicting spirits in the
room, which is why I don't let
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everybody pray for me.
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The pastors came in, anointed
our daughter, but on September
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27th, the doctor came in.
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This is in the state of Alabama.
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The attending physician and
then the presiding physician
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saying that we can take
your child off life support or
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individual, we can do so.
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So tomorrow, September 28,
1999, at 12 noon central time,
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we're going to take your
daughter off life support.
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September 28th came.
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There I was, there
Danielle was, our family
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and we were believing.
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Sister Dykes, we were
believing for a miracle.
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We knew that God
was going to do it.
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We knew that God was
going to raise up our daughter.
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I asked the doctor,
I say, can I hold her?
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Because I knew at 12 noon
that my daughter was going to
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cough, she was going to coo,
she was going to cry, she was
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going to do something.
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I said, after all,
God, I've lived right.
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I got married,
then had children.
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I've never drunk
anything in my life.
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I've never smoked
anything in my life.
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God, this is Buddy Byrd.
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God, this is
your humble servant.
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God, I went to
Oakwood, did two degrees,
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finished in four years.
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I've done it
right as you have said.
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Don't let this happen to me.
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I put my daughter in my arms.
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Twelve o'clock came.
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They took off life
support and I just knew.
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Julius, I knew she
was going to do something.
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But my daughter died in my arms.
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Let me be transparent.
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I was mad with God.
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People can talk about, come,
let's pray, let's do--I didn't
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hear none of that.
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But I went to my favorite
texts in scripture, I told the
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students this last
night, 1 Corinthians, 10:13:
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"There hath no
temptation taken you but such as
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is common to man: but
God is faithful, who will
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not suffer you to be tempted
above that ye are able; but
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will with the temptation also
make a way to escape, that ye
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may be able to bear it."
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You know how God
will give you just
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what you need
just when you need it.
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Have you ever been down
and out and you went and opened
00:23:17.73\00:23:19.60
your Bible and you didn't
know what text you were going to
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and you just opened it up
and God gave you the text just
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when you needed it most.
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I've got a witness
in this place today.
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Mad with God.
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I remember
talking to the doctor.
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Because you know when
you're sick emotionally,
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you need help.
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And he asked me a question.
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He said, Carlton, are you
going to get bitter or are you
00:23:39.43\00:23:43.83
going to get better?
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I then went, Brother Roper,
to the Selected Messages, book
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number two, and I read
where Ellen White said that just
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before the coming of
Jesus, just before the comeback,
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the Lord before the time
of trouble is going to have to
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lay little ones to rest.
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She said though, but at
his comeback, at his comeback,
00:24:04.93\00:24:10.50
Dr. Shan, when
Jesus comes back the angel
00:24:10.50\00:24:13.90
of the Lord,
Gabriel, is going to take the
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little ones who died in the
Lord and he's going to place
00:24:15.40\00:24:18.20
them in the arms
of their mothers.
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So at the comeback, do you
understand, at the comeback it
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takes on new meaning when I
talk about the dead in Christ
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are going to rise, because
I know my little baby girl is
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going to rise and Danielle
and I have got to live right
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because we don't need
our baby being taken to
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somebody else's mama.
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Are you hearing what I'm saying?
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But he's going to place her
in Danielle's arms and so shall
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we ever be with the Lord.
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That's why I get
excited like I do.
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That's why I wave
my hands sometimes.
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That's why when the Aeolian
University Choir was singing
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earlier, when we were talking
about God's grace and mercy
00:24:55.16\00:24:57.00
that we're not consumed, I
had to stand on my feet, tears
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down out of my eyes, because
you don't know, you don't know
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like I know what
God has done for me.
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I'm talking about depressed.
00:25:11.20\00:25:13.70
I'm talking about down.
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But somebody knows I'm
going to see my daughter again
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Brother and Sister
Roddy, we're going to see
00:25:18.23\00:25:21.00
Brendan again.
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There are others who have
fallen asleep in the Lord,
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we're going to see them again.
00:25:24.23\00:25:25.10
I'm looking
forward to the comeback.
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And so God is the joy
and the strength of my life.
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He removes all pain
and misery and strife.
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He promised to keep me, never
to leave me, to never, ever
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come short of his word.
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All I've got to
do is fast and pray.
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Stay in the narrow way.
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Keep my life clean every day.
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I want to go with
him when he comes back.
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Because, Elder Joiner, I've
come too far, I've given too
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much tithe and offering,
I've run too many meetings, I've
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had too many hospital
visits, I've come too far
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to turn back now.
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God, right now, in the name
of Jesus and the intercession of
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the Holy Ghost, we
want you to come back.
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The Breath of Life gift
offer this week is "Surprised by
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Love" by pastor and
international speaker
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Elizabeth Viera Talbot.
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Find out how
people in the Bible were
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surprised by God's love.
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Adam and Eve were surprised,
the deceitful serpent and the
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Pharisees were surprised.
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It surprised the disciples
and even the heavenly angels.
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And God's surprises of love
continue all around us today.
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Join with Elizabeth as you
get a fresh view of the greatest
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story ever told, from the
kidnapping of God's children
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to the rescue, from
the ransom to the reunion.
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"Surprised by Love"is
yours for a gift of $5 or more.
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Call our toll-free
number 877-BOL-OFFER.
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That's 877-265-6333.
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Please have your credit
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Or you may write us
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Just send a check
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P.O. Box 340,
Newbury Park, CA 91319.
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Get your copy of
"Surprised by Love" today.
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Be encouraged and
touched by the unexpected rescue
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of God"s children.
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PB: Thank you very much
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Breath of Life today.
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that we gave a healing
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In order for Breath of
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we need you.
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