? (Theme Song) ?
? Jesus is worthy ?
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? oh yes, he's worthy
? ? worthy of all... ?
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? all the praise... ?
The Pharisees and the scribes
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are grumbling and
saying to one another,
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this man welcomes
sinners and eats with them.
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Because you see,
the Pharisees had strict
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regulations about how they
would keep away from sinners.
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They were not to entrust
money to them or have business
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dealings with them.
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They were not to
trust them with a secret.
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They were not to give
their daughter away in marriage
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to any of their sons.
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They were not to invite them
as guests or be their guests.
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But Jesus eats with them,
openly fellowships with them,
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and Jesus receives them.
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Notice in the text
that the Pharisees do not
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openly confront Jesus.
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They talk behind his back.
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Interestingly,
that they would do this
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because in other
scenarios, like Jesus healing
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on the Sabbath
day, if they felt Jesus
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was directly disobeying
one of their traditions,
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they would try to
openly call him out on it.
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But when he was just
doing things they didn't like,
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rather than speak directly
to him they grumbled among
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themselves behind his back.
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Let me tell you something,
people like that are dangerous.
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Say what you want to say,
but one of the toughest things
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in life is to deal with
folk that smile in your face,
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but are constantly
stabbing you in your back.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
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It's not always the
folk on the outside that you
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have to worry
about, but it's the phoney,
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pretentious folk on the
inside that you have to be
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careful with.
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You all don't
hear what I'm saying.
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I've never heard a drunk
person talk about another
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drunk person.
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Their attitude is, I'm drunk,
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you're drunk, so
we just all drunk.
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Are you hearing what I'm saying?
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Verse 1 of the Bible says,
then drew near unto him all
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the publicans and sinners,
all the publicans and whom,
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everybody?
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Sinners to him.
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Now, the verb in this text,
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drew near, is
imperfect in nature.
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Meaning it is repeated acts.
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In other words,
the tax collectors
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and the sinners
were continuously
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coming to Jesus.
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So regardless of
how much the Pharisees
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and scribes tried to stop
it, the people kept coming
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to Jesus.
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Let that be a
lesson for somebody today.
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Folk can stop a lot of
things but folk can't stop
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the move of God.
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Folk can't stop the
move of the Holy Ghost.
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They can't stop
the move of Jesus.
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God will do what he
wants, when he wants,
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where he wants, how
he wants and he doesn't
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have to ask you
or me for permission
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to do what he wants.
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The Bible says
that all the publicans
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and sinners came to hear
Jesus while the Pharisees
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and scribes murmured against
Jesus for receiving and eating
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with sinners.
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While Jesus didn't
approve of their actions,
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the Bible teaches that
Jesus did receive them socially
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and ate with them for
the purpose of bringing
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them to
repentance and salvation.
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Ellen White clearly
says in "My Life Today,
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she says that
Jesus was social to save.
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Yes, she says,
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Jesus rebuked intemperance,
self-indulgence and folly,
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yet she says he was
social in his nature.
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He accepted invitations
to dine with the learned
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and the noble as well
as the poor and afflicted.
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She says, social power
sanctified by the Spirit
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of Christ must be
improved in bringing souls to
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Jesus Christ.
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But our problem is,
too often we're so isolated
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and insulated, we
don't want to minister
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to anybody but ourselves.
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We sing what we want,
we teach what we want,
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we preach what we
want and we don't care
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about the people down the street
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from our churches.
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Are you hearing what I'm saying?
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We're incestual
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and the fruit of incest
is always something retarded.
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And we have retarded
ministries and churches
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because we care
more about ministering
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to ourselves than
ministering to the one on
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the street corner.
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I wish I had a
witness in this place.
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But Ellen White
says, Christ's method alone
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will give true
success to reaching people.
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The Savior mingled with them
as one who desired their good.
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He showed sympathy for
them, ministered to their needs,
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won their confidence
and then he bade them,
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"Follow me."
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Jesus was social to save.
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But the scribes
and the Pharisees
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thought they were too
righteous to associate
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with sinners,
too "boojey" to hang
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with the broke.
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But let me tell you something,
don't you ever think that you
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are better than somebody else.
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Don't you ever think
that you are more righteous
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than somebody else.
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Apart from Christ,
you and I are just as lost
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as those tax collectors
and sinners of Israel,
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just as lost as that
man drinking Jack Daniels,
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just as lost as that drug dealer
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on that corner.
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Just as lost as that
liar, that fornicator,
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that adulterer, that gossiper,
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that stealer, that cheater,
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that deceiver, that mess-maker,
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all have sinned,
come short of the glory
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of God.
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If it weren't for
the blood of Jesus,
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I would be lost.
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The ground is
level at the cross.
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So before I go any
further, I rebuke every foul,
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pretentious, pompous,
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conceited,
Satanic superior spirit
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in this place.
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The devil is alive.
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In this first parable,
Jesus uses the metaphor
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of one sheep being
lost from the fold of 100.
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He says, 99.
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Everybody say 99.
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Just won't do.
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Why did he use this metaphor
to illustrate the importance
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of saving the lost?
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Number one, he
uses this metaphor
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of the lost sheep
because sheep aren't
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the smartest
animals in the world.
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As a result they are
constantly getting into
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terrible situations.
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Let me tell you something.
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Sometimes we are
not the smartest people
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in the world and we
find ourselves getting into
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some terrible situations.
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We make bad
decisions, make bad choices,
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say bad things and
while we deserve death,
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while we deserve gloom,
while we deserve destruction,
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I'm so grateful
that God blocks it,
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and God won't let us fall.
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Hallelujah, somebody.
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The angels of the Lord
encampeth round about them
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that fear him.
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Number two,
sheep are defenseless.
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Lions have
teeth, bears have claws,
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snakes have fangs,
cheetahs have speed,
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rams have horns,
porcupines have quills,
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dogs have a bark
and skunks have a scent.
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But not sheep.
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They have absolutely no
means of protecting themselves
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from danger.
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If a sheep is
attacked, the sheep is helpless.
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We're the same way.
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There is no way we can
protect ourselves against
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the attack of Satan.
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We need someone
else to protect us,
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someone else to defend
us, someone else to guard us,
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someone else to shield us,
someone else to shelter us,
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someone else to safeguard
us and that someone is Jesus.
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Jesus be a fence
all around me every day.
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Put on the layers of the whole
armor of God that he may be
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able to stand against
the wiles of the devil.
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The Lord is my rock.
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In him we hide.
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A shelter in the time of storm.
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Number three,
sheep need direction.
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If a sheep wanders
from the rest of the flock
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it will have a hard
time, if not impossible time,
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finding its way back.
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Sheep have no
sense of direction.
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Sheep are not
like horses or dogs
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who can find
their way back home.
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Sheep could never find
their way home on their own.
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So it is with those
who wander from the Lord.
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There is simply no
sense of spiritual direction
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in their life.
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They cannot find their
way to the Lord by themselves,
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but they need a shepherd.
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But then, number four.
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Sheep are not responsible
for getting themselves home.
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The sheep is powerless to
find its way back to the flock.
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If the shepherd
waited for the sheep
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to return to its
own, then it would die
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in the wilderness.
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So instead of waiting,
the shepherd goes after
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the sheep, because
getting the sheep back
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home is the
responsibility of the shepherd.
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The lost sheep was not
able to find its way back home.
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Everything
depended on the searching
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of the shepherd.
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The shepherd feels bad
about losing the sheep and will
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search until he finds it.
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It is his responsibility.
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No trouble, no sacrifice,
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no suffering is too great to
find the lost sheep and bring
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it back.
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Ninety-nine won't do.
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You've got to get 100.
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Somebody's going to get this
in a minute.- The same is true
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with salvation.
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Lost sheep do not find Jesus.
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They are not able.
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Everything depends on
Jesus who is seeking the sheep.
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Lost people do not make
the first move to Jesus.
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It's the Good Shepherd
that makes the first move
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towards lost sheep.
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He comes looking for us.
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He finds us.
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That's why Jesus
said, my sheep hear my voice
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and they follow me.
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And what I love about the Lord
is that the Lord will search
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for us, wherever we are,
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until he finds us.
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The Lord doesn't
give up, thank you,
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Jesus, after a few minutes,
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after a few months or even
after a few years of searching.
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But Jesus stays on the job
until the lost sheep is found.
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That's why he's not
the God of a second chance.
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I hear folk say all
the time, he's the God
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of a second chance.
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No, no,
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no.
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He's not just the
God of a second chance,
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but he's the God of a chance
after chance after chance,
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after chance, after chance.
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And I don't know about
you, but I'm so glad today that
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Jesus didn't give up on me.
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I'm glad that Jesus
keeps coming for me.
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I'm glad that he keeps looking,
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he keeps calling,
he keeps knocking,
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he keeps waiting for me.
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Is there anybody in this
place who's happy that you serve
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a God that keeps
coming back for you?
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And then, after
the sheep is saved,
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the sheep finds itself
resting on the shoulders
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of the shepherd.
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Hallelujah, somebody.
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Let me break this down
because somebody's still
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not getting it.
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Look at verse 5 again.
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Luke 15:5: And
when he has found it,
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when he has found it, he
layeth it on his shoulders,
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rejoicing.
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Oh, you all still don't get it.
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Let me break this down.
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When Jesus
speaks of the shepherd
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gently laying the sheep on
his shoulders in this text,
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what is meant by this is that
back in the day when the sheep
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would wander from the fold
and the shepherd would find it,
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the shepherd would actually
break the legs of the sheep
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and then he would
carry the sheep on his
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shoulders until
the legs would heal.
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Now, this sounds cruel,
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but it actually
wasn't, for when a shepherd
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would do this, he
was actually taking full
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responsibility for
the needs of the sheep.
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He would now have to
take care of the sheep,
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feeding it,
watering it and other
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necessities because the
sheep couldn't care for itself.
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Breaking the sheep's
legs, maybe somebody got it,
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breaking the sheep's
legs may seem cruel to us,
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but it actually the shepherd
protecting the sheep from
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its tendency to stray
because he knows the dangers
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of the wilderness.
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And once, help me,
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Holy Ghost,
once the sheep's legs
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would heal, the
sheep has now learned
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how to stay
close to the shepherd
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so that he will
never stray again.
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Sometimes, when we stray,
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sometimes when we're
lost and God finds us,
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God has to break our
legs, God has to put us down
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on our backs, God
has to allow us to go
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through affliction even
after he's found us to get us to
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learn that we have
to solely depend on him.
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You all don't
hear what I'm saying.
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God knows the
dangers of the wilderness.
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So he has to break
us in order to carry us.
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In the process, thank you,
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Jesus, our legs mend,
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our legs heal and we have
now learned how to stay close
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to the Shepherd so we
will never stray again.
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So, God,
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if you have to
break me, break me.
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God, if you have to chastise me,
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chastise me.
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God, if you have to rebuke me,
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rebuke me, because
any way you bless me
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I'll be satisfied.
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Any way you have to
save me, I'll be satisfied.
00:17:15.06\00:17:20.00
Any way you have to deliver me,
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I'll be satisfied.
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Any way you have to
rescue me, I'll be satisfied.
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Any way you have to
redeem me, I'll be satisfied.
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Let me break this
down to tell you something.
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The plan of
redemption, thank you,
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Jesus, was in place long before
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the foundation of the world.
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Before you were even thought of,
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the Good Shepherd had a plan.
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You all don't
hear what I'm saying.
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Before there was a beginning,
there was a Good Shepherd.
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John 1:1 says, in the
beginning was the Word
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and the Word was with
God and the Word was God
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and the Word became flesh.
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The Word, Jesus,
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the Good Shepherd
is from the beginning.
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In fact, he is the beginner
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of the beginning.
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He is the beginning in
whom the beginning was begun.
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He is the beginning
who did not begin to be,
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because he did not
start because he had nowhere
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to come from.
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He is not stopped because
he has no boundary lines.
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He is older than time,
yet younger than future.
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He is what he
was, he was what he is,
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and what he was and
is he will always be.
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Jesus was always
here, always been here,
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always was, always is.
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Even before
Abraham was, he said,
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I am.
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What do we have here?
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Jesus who was born
2,000 years after Abraham,
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yet he said he
was before Abraham.
00:19:06.10\00:19:10.63
Jesus, who was David's son
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was also David's Lord.
00:19:13.16\00:19:15.53
Jesus, who was
Abraham's seed was
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also Abraham's Savior.
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Jesus, who created flesh,
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became flesh.
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When God reversed the beginning,
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when he took a motherless
woman from the body of a man
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in creation but then took a
fatherless man from the body
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of a woman in redemption.
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He's the God Man.
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Two natures in one personality.
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Protected the interests
of heaven with his divinity
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but looked down for
the interests of earth
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in his humanity.
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In his divinity he
is God's way to man,
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but in his humanity he
is man's way right back
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on up to God.
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Two natures harmonize,
but never completely blended.
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Can I talk about Jesus?
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He got tired as
man, but as God he said,
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come unto me all ye that labor
and are heavy laden and I will
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give you rest.
00:20:07.66\00:20:08.86
As man he got hungry,
but as God he fed the hungry
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with two fish and
five loaves of bread.
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As man he prayed, but
as God he answers prayer.
00:20:14.73\00:20:18.40
As man he got
thirsty, but as God he said,
00:20:18.40\00:20:21.10
drink of fountains
of living water that
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shall never run dry.
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As man he wanted companionship,
00:20:24.10\00:20:27.73
but as God he had to
tread the winepress alone
00:20:27.73\00:20:31.30
As man he wept
at Lazarus' grave,
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but as God he resurrected
Lazarus from the grave.
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Jesus is the Good Shepherd.
00:20:41.83\00:20:45.10
Ninety-nine for
Jesus just won't do.
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He has to go after
that one lost sheep.
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And so, today,
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who are the lost?
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Who are the lost in
the North Pacific Union?
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The drug addicts?
00:21:03.80\00:21:06.10
The alcoholics?
00:21:06.10\00:21:07.10
The fornicators?
00:21:07.10\00:21:10.63
The adulterers?
00:21:10.63\00:21:11.63
The perverse?
00:21:11.63\00:21:12.63
The thief?
00:21:12.63\00:21:13.66
The mentally
deranged, the schizophrenic?
00:21:13.66\00:21:16.23
The psychic, psycho?
00:21:16.23\00:21:18.26
The compulsive fanatics?
00:21:18.26\00:21:19.43
The crazy, people
who've had some kind
00:21:19.43\00:21:22.83
of breakdown or something?
00:21:22.83\00:21:24.76
People who have lost their
way because of a bad decision
00:21:24.76\00:21:30.06
or a bad relationship?
00:21:30.06\00:21:32.03
Who are the lost?
00:21:32.03\00:21:33.96
In God's eyes we're all lost.
00:21:33.96\00:21:36.90
Isaiah 63:6 says, All like sheep
00:21:36.90\00:21:39.80
have gone astray.
00:21:39.80\00:21:41.26
Who are the lost?
00:21:41.26\00:21:43.20
All of us are the lost.
00:21:43.20\00:21:46.13
The word lost is the
same word used in the word
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perish in John 3:16.
00:21:51.50\00:21:53.80
For God so loved the world
that he gave his only begotten
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son that whosoever believeth
in him should not perish
00:21:57.20\00:22:00.76
but have
everlasting what, everybody?
00:22:00.76\00:22:02.83
(Aud: Life.) John 3:16
could easily be translated that
00:22:02.83\00:22:08.60
whosoever believes in
his should not be lost,
00:22:08.60\00:22:14.10
but have everlasting life.
00:22:14.10\00:22:16.86
Who are the lost?
00:22:16.86\00:22:19.60
All of us are the lost.
00:22:19.60\00:22:23.73
But I'm so glad that
Jesus came looking for me.
00:22:23.73\00:22:30.53
I'm so glad that
troubles don't last always,
00:22:30.53\00:22:36.03
that Jesus came looking for me.
00:22:36.03\00:22:40.16
Amazing grace, how
sweet the sound that saved
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a wretch like me.
00:22:45.66\00:22:48.40
I once was lost
but now I'm found,
00:22:48.40\00:22:53.90
was blind--I
said, was blind--I said,
00:22:53.90\00:22:58.03
was blind--but now I see.
00:22:58.03\00:23:01.50
Let me tell you something.
00:23:01.50\00:23:02.56
I'm a miracle today.
00:23:02.56\00:23:03.66
You're a miracle today.
00:23:03.66\00:23:05.50
You and I, we've been
lost but we're a miracle
00:23:05.50\00:23:10.06
of mercy, a miracle of grace,
00:23:10.06\00:23:12.83
a miracle of favor.
00:23:12.83\00:23:14.66
It's a miracle that
somebody is even here today,
00:23:14.66\00:23:18.76
that the Good
Shepherd went and found you.
00:23:18.76\00:23:22.43
Somebody knows
what I'm talking about.
00:23:22.43\00:23:25.40
You could be
anywhere, you could be dead,
00:23:25.40\00:23:28.50
you could be strung
out, you could be in jail,
00:23:28.50\00:23:31.33
you could be suicidal,
you could have lost your mind,
00:23:31.33\00:23:35.63
but thank God, you're here,
00:23:35.63\00:23:37.90
and because you're
here, oh, I'm ready now,
00:23:37.90\00:23:41.03
come on, Wayne,
because you're here,
00:23:41.03\00:23:43.53
you've got a
right to praise him.
00:23:43.53\00:23:46.43
I said, you've got a right
00:23:46.43\00:23:48.93
to praise him.
00:23:48.93\00:23:50.16
Anybody been through
what you've been through,
00:23:50.16\00:23:53.06
they would have lost their mind.
00:23:53.06\00:23:55.73
You've got a
right to praise him.
00:23:55.73\00:23:58.46
Let me tell you all something.
00:23:58.46\00:24:01.26
I don't need everybody, I
just need 50 radical folks
00:24:01.26\00:24:04.70
that don't mind what folk
are going to say about them,
00:24:04.70\00:24:09.43
that don't mind how folk
are going to look at them,
00:24:09.43\00:24:11.26
who don't mind
praising the Lord.
00:24:11.26\00:24:13.46
If the Lord has
done something for you,
00:24:13.46\00:24:15.76
you ought to say something.
00:24:15.76\00:24:16.93
If the Lord went
out and found you,
00:24:16.93\00:24:18.86
you ought to say something.
00:24:18.86\00:24:19.80
If the Lord has built a
bridge over troubled water,
00:24:19.80\00:24:22.60
you ought to say something.
00:24:22.60\00:24:24.93
Let the redeemed
of the Lord say so.
00:24:24.93\00:24:32.40
If it had not been
for the Lord on my side,
00:24:32.40\00:24:42.66
so praise the Lord.
00:24:42.66\00:24:44.10
I said, praise the Lord.
00:24:44.10\00:24:46.33
Don't get
tired, praise the Lord.
00:24:46.33\00:24:48.10
Praise God in his sanctuary.
00:24:48.10\00:24:49.16
Praise him in the
firmament of his power.
00:24:49.16\00:24:51.83
Praise him for his mighty acts.
00:24:51.83\00:24:54.83
Praise him according to
his excellent greatness.
00:24:54.83\00:24:56.96
Praise him with the
sound of the trumpets.
00:24:56.96\00:24:59.86
Praise him with the
psaltery and the harp.
00:24:59.86\00:25:02.06
Praise him with the
timbrel and the dance.
00:25:02.06\00:25:04.70
Praise him with the
stringed instruments and organ.
00:25:04.70\00:25:07.56
Praise him with
the loud cymbals.
00:25:07.56\00:25:09.06
Praise him with the
high sounding cymbal.
00:25:09.06\00:25:12.26
Let every
thing, let every thing,
00:25:12.26\00:25:16.06
let every thing that has
breath praise ye the lord
00:25:16.06\00:25:25.76
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