? (Theme) ? ? Jesus is worthy ?
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? oh yes, he's worthy
? ? worthy of all... ?
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? all the praise... ?
Pastor Byrd: You need to thank
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God for the time
when you hit rock bottom.
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You have to
learn how to thank God.
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Because how would you ever come
to know God like you know him
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had you not hit rock bottom?
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How would you know that
God could pay your rents if you
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never had rent due?
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How could you come to know that
God can heal your body if you've
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never been sick?
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How would you know if God
is a Friend above all friends
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if all your friends had
never walked out on you?
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Somebody today ought to
thank God for the time you
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were in the belly of the fish.
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Aud: (applause)
PB: Lord, I thank you
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for that experience,
because now I know who you
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really are.
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God, I thank you for those
friends that ran out on me,
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because now I know
who my real friends are.
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Lord, I thank you
that you're a healer,
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I think you that
you're a provider,
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I thank you that
you're a way-maker,
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I thank you that
you're a shelter, I thank you
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for your mercy, I thank
you for your loving kindness,
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I thank you for waking me
up and starting me on my way,
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I thank you for
food and clothing,
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shelter above my head.
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God, I thank you.
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Lord, I thank you,
because you're on my side.
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Because if it had not
been for the Lord on my side,
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where would I be?
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God put Jonah in a place
where Jonah couldn't do anything
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but pray.
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Anybody ever been there?
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Where you couldn't
do anything but pray?
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Anybody know what
I'm talking about?
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Oh, keep living, sometimes God
will put you on your back where
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all you can do
is look up and pray.
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God will put you in situations
where you can't do anything else
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but call his name.
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God says, I'll fix it so you
won't have anyone calling you.
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I'll fix it that your
best friends walk out on you.
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I will navigate your
circumstances to a point where
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you can't see anything but me.
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You can't hear anything but me.
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As a matter of fact, God
says, I'll you so deep down into
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the belly of a fish that you'll
realize that you can't survive
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without me.
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If you're going to
eat, I've gotta feed you.
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If you're going to drink,
I've gotta give you some water.
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God says, if you're
going to have clothes,
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you'll learn that
I have to clothe you.
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God will put you in
the belly of a fish,
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and then God will say,
now I've got your attention.
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You see, when you're lying on
your back and you have to call
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on the name of the Lord
in prayer, let me tell you
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something:
you'll learn something.
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Growing up as a child,
there's always been some God.
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For all of us growing
up, we've heard about God.
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Whether we wanted to believe
in God or not, we have heard
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all of us about God.
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But when you got a little older,
you wanted to live like you
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wanted to live.
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You wanted to have a good time,
you wanted to "experience life."
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You're good ol' Adventist,
you feel you've been sheltered
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all your life.
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You wanted to
experience some things.
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But God says, I'll take
you to a place where you'll
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have to remember.
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I'll take you to a place where
you'll have to remember what
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your mama taught you, remember
what your daddy taught you,
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remember what Grandma taught
you, remember what you learned
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in Sabbath School.
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You'll have to remember
from whence cometh your health.
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You can act a fool all you want,
but God says, I'll show you
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you have to remember.
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Let's be real.
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I got my suit on, it's tailored,
got my shirt on, my bowtie,
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clean-cut.
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All of us looking good on a
Sabbath day, praise be to God.
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But the reality is that
some of us have forgotten
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where we come from.
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We haven't always
lived where we now live.
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We haven't always
driven what we now drive.
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We haven't always been
able to shop how we now shop.
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Some of us, if
we're real, used to have
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just one Sabbath suit.
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One Sabbath dress.
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We had shoes that were our
Sabbath shoes, they were shiny
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on the top but had
holes on the bottom.
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Some of us remember the
days when we didn't have a car,
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but we walked.
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It trips me out how these young
people today say, I don't want
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to walk from Harland
Hall to the BT Building.
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When I was at Oakwood,
all we could do was walk.
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Some of us remember when
there was no air-conditioning.
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You all know what
I'm talking about?
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I love these students.
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You know, I look at them today,
I see, they don't realize,
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I'm old.
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I was at AY last night, church
packed full of young people,
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I said, praise God.
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They don't realize, 24 years
ago we used to be in Mirren Hall
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with no air-conditioning.
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Packed.
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Still no air-conditioning.
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Aud: (laughs) PB:
Packed, but we were just
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as fine, we were
having ourselves a good ol'
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time, singing God is,
and I shall wear a crown,
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but I'm so glad
that it's 24 years later.
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Come on, say Amen.
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God heard my cry, and he opened
up the windows of heaven, poured
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us out a blessing, and
now there's not room enough
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to receive it.
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And when you really understand
prayer, it doesn't make
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a difference what
situation you find yourself in.
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Because when you
really, sincerely pray to God,
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your prayer will reach God.
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And let me
throw this in quickly.
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Prayer cannot change things
if prayer doesn't change you.
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Aud: (applause)
PB: Because of prayer
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changes things, and you go
back doing the same things,
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you're going to mess the things
up that prayer just changed.
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Don't unearth
what's already been buried.
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Don't dig up
what's already been done.
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Some folk try to dig
up stuff on other folk.
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I got something on her, I
got something on him, he dumped
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me 20 years ago.
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Let it go.
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Aud: (unintelligible)
PB: He dumped me 10 years
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ago, she told me you were
this, he told me you were that.
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If it's dead and buried,
let it go, earth to earth, ashes
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to ashes, dust to dust.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
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Let me go on and finish this.
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In Jonah, chapter
1, Jonah runs from God.
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In Jonah, chapter 2, finds
himself in the belly of a fish.
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But then toward the end of
the chapter, the Bible says
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he has a change of heart.
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He says, Enough is enough.
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He says, I'm tired of running,
I'm tired of doing it my way,
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and it's gotten me nowhere.
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I'm going to do
it now God's way.
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Now, Jonah 2:9 says, "But
I will sacrifice unto thee
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with the voice of Thanksgiving."
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The Word of God says
that Jonah says, "I will pay
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that that I have vowed;
salvation is of the Lord."
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In other words,
Jonah says, I will pay
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what I said I will pay.
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Lord, I will do
what I said I'm gonna do.
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Don't you know, friends of mine,
there's a danger of making a vow
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to God and not keeping it.
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Don't play with God.
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I said, don't play God.
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The very thing you said you were
going to do, you better do it.
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God is tired of inconsistent
Christians making promises they
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can't keep and
they don't want to keep.
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Here we go: Lord, I lost my job.
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I need employment.
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I don't know, God, what I'm
going to do, but I know that,
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God, you own the
cattle on a thousand hills.
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Hallelujah, God.
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And God, I worship you.
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So God, if you just get
me this job, God, I promise
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I'll serve you.
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And just as soon
as aou get a new job,
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you're too busy for God.
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Lord, I'm tired of
being in the world.
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I'm tired of all the
drama in the world, I'm tired
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of people breaking my heart.
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I'm ready to give
my life to you, God.
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Jesus, I don't want a man.
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Jesus, I don't want a woman.
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Jesus, I just want you.
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And two weeks later, you meet
somebody else and you're gone.
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Lord, if you just
help me pass this test.
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Aud: (unintelligible)
PB: I know I didn't study.
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Aud: (laughter) PB:
But this is what I like.
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God, if you will
direct my pencil to circle
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the right answer.
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Aud: (cheers,
applause) PB: I promise you,
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God, I won't
miss church anymore.
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And the moment you pass the
test, hallelujah, thank God.
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And you're nowhere to be
found on Sabbath morning.
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Amen, somebody.
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Lord, I've got cancer.
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But if you just heal my body
this one time, I promise you,
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God, I'll serve you till I die.
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But the moment that cancer
goes in remission, your service
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to God goes into remission too.
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Don't play with God.
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Prayer is not for emergency use
only, just like heaven is not
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a fire escape from hell.
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God needs committed Christians,
not inconsistent opportunists.
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Let me tell you something.
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Some of us have been out
there doing some foolishness.
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Some of us have been diagnosed
with a terminal illness.
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But today you can come
into the house of God and say,
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God healed me.
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God saved me.
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God rescued me.
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Somebody ought to thank God,
because today you would not be
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here if it were not for God.
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Aud: Amen.
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PB: Oh, yes,
somebody ought to testify
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of the goodness of God.
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God, I wouldn't have the
job if it weren't for you.
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Some of you know God, I wouldn't
have a degree if it weren't
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for you.
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I wouldn't have this
car if it weren't for you.
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God, we
wouldn't have this church
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if it weren't for you.
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God, I wouldn't be back
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in school, if
it weren't for you.
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My marriage wouldn't be
together if it weren't for you.
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My tumor wouldn't be
benign if it weren't for you.
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God, I wouldn't have
anything if it weren't for you.
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If it had not been
for the Lord on my side.
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That's why on Sabbath
morning I enter into his gates
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with thanksgiving.
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I enter his courts with praise.
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I'm thankful until him.
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I don't have to
wait on the praise team.
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I don't have to
wait on the choir.
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I don't have to wait on
the elders and the pastors
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and the musicians.
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But I will bless the Lord at
all times, and His praise shall
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continually be in my mouth.
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But then the Bible says in
Jonah, chapter 2, verse 10,
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"And the Lord
spake unto the fish."
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Let's try that again.
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Verse 10 of chapter
2: "And the Lord spake
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until the
fish," comma. You know,
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when you come to Oakwood,
you have to learn how to read
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the bulletins.
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You've got to know
when the commas are there
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and the periods are there.
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"And the Lord spake
to the fish," comma.
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You mean to tell me the Lord
had a conversation with a fish?
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Picture that.
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God talking to a fish.
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But notice, if you
look at the text carefully,
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this is why
you've got to really look
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at the Word of God.
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Notice, we don't know
what God told the fish.
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The only thing the Bible says
is, "God spoke to the" what,
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everybody?
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It does not say
what God told the fish.
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The spiritual lesson for
us today here is that God
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is speaking to your situation.
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And you don't even know it.
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God will speak to your
boss, God will speak to your
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professor, God will
speak to your credits,
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God will speak to your landlord,
God will speak to your student
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accounts, God will
speak to your situation.
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And while you're trying to
figure it out: God, what did
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you say to my boss?
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God says, don't worry about it.
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God, you're in the registration
line, you're working about how
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it's going to work out.
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God, what did you
say to student accounts?
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God says, don't worry about it,
just be glad you got in school.
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God, what did you say to my
husband to make him so kind?
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Don't worry about it,
just be glad he's nice now.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
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Aud: [laughter] PB:
God, what did you say
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to the car salesman?
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Don't worry about it.
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Just rejoice in your blessing.
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Quit trying to figure
it out and just rejoice.
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The Lord spake to the fish,
comma, and the fish vomited
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Jonah upon dry land.
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The fish vomited
Jonah on dry land.
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Think about it.
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When Jonah was swallowed
up, Jonah was in the middle
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of the sea.
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But the closer Jonah got to
God, the closer the fish got
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to the bank.
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Oh, you all don't get that.
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The closer Jonah got to
God, the closer the fish
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got to the bank.
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You see, if the fish had vomited
Jonah up back in the middle
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of the sea, Jonah would
have still been swimming.
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Jonah would
probably have drowned.
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But when God was dealing
with brother Jonah in the belly
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of the fish, the fish was
all the time moving to the bank.
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What am I trying to say?
00:14:12.90\00:14:14.70
God will let you
out at the right place
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at the right time.
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Aud: (applause) PB:
That's why I like God.
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You see, friends of mine,
you can't see it, but God,
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thank you, Holy
Ghost, God is moving you,
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God is turning that
thing around for you.
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You can't see it,
but God is moving you,
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so when you finally do
come out, you're going to be
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in the right place.
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Last thing.
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Jonah 3:1: "And the Word
of the Lord came unto Jonah
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a second time."
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Hallelujah, somebody.
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"And the Word of the Lord
came unto Jonah a second time.
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Arise, get up, go to Nineveh,
that great city, and preach
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unto it the
preaching that I bid thee."
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Praise God for a second chance.
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The Bible says the Word
of the Lord came to Jonah
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a second time.
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Whenever God repeats himself,
you are a recipient of God's
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grace and God's mercy.
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Don't you know that God
could have cut Jonah off.
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Jonah could have died
and drowned in his rebellion.
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But God gave
Jonah a second chance.
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If you don't get anything
from this message today,
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get this: God
uses broken people.
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Aud: Amen.
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PB: People who are messed
up by sin, God will give them
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a second chance.
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In fact, if you read all
the stories in the Bible,
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you will find
one consistent thing.
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There is a thread of grace
and thread of mercy that runs
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through Adam, Noah, Abraham,
Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Peter
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and Paul.
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Think about it.
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Adam sinned in the Garden
of Eden, but God covered him.
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Noah got drunk,
but God sobered him.
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Jacob tricked his
father, but God forgave him.
00:16:34.60\00:16:39.00
Moses murdered a
man, but God called him.
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Elijah quit and complained
but God recommissioned him.
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David slept with a woman
who wasn't his wife, but God
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pardoned him.
00:16:52.03\00:16:53.53
Peter denied the Lord not once,
not twice, but three times,
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but God used him.
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Paul was persecuting Christians,
but God blinded and saved him.
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Jonah ran from God,
but God redeemed him.
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God uses broken people.
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God uses the least, the
lost, the last, the unlucky
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and the left-out,
which means God can use you.
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Aud: Amen.
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PB: That God can use me.
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That God can use us.
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We always think that God
is looking for perfect people.
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But God uses broken people.
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At the end of the
day, we're all like Jonah.
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God gets the most out of us
only after we've been broken.
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After we've been broken
and stripped of our pride
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and left with the
message he's given us,
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the message of grace.
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Let me tell you something;
I've learned this over
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my experience.
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The best preachers are the ones
who've been through something.
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Aud: (applause)
PB: The best singers,
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people come up in Oakwood
and they all sing, but you can
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tell the difference
between the singers.
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The best singers are those
who have been through something.
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You see, they
don't preach like others.
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They don't sing like others.
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They don't testify like others.
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But there's an anointing
that runs through their body.
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People don't understand their
worship, they don't understand
00:18:12.36\00:18:16.86
their praise, they
don't understand their tears,
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they don't understand
when they just sit there
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and they're silent.
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But if you know and knew what
I now know, you'd understand why
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sometimes they act like they
act, because sometimes things
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are better the
second time around.
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God's desire was for
Jonah to go the first time.
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But Jonah was actually a better
messenger the second time.
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Some things are better
the second time around.
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I'm from Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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I'm a Southern boy.
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I learned that some things are
better the second time around.
00:19:04.56\00:19:12.70
Anybody will tell you black-eyed
peas taste better the second
00:19:12.70\00:19:20.66
time around.
00:19:20.66\00:19:22.36
Aud: Amen.
00:19:22.36\00:19:24.66
PB: Chili tastes
better the second time around.
00:19:24.66\00:19:33.93
If you like salsa, let it
sit one day, because it's always
00:19:33.93\00:19:40.56
better the second time around.
00:19:40.56\00:19:45.63
Somebody said love is
better the second time around.
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When Jonah went to Nineveh,
it was better the second time
00:19:53.63\00:20:02.80
around.
00:20:02.80\00:20:03.80
Jonah didn't walk into Nineveh
the second time as the great
00:20:03.80\00:20:06.80
prophet of God, but Jonah walked
into Nineveh the second time as
00:20:06.80\00:20:09.80
a humble example of God's grace.
00:20:09.80\00:20:13.43
And just like
Jonah, God is calling you.
00:20:13.43\00:20:17.73
The devil wants to shame you
into thinking that you're too
00:20:17.73\00:20:20.00
messed up, you're too broken
up, you're not good enough.
00:20:20.00\00:20:23.70
If you failed God, Satan
wants you to wallow in defeat.
00:20:23.70\00:20:26.10
Satan wants you
to have a pity party.
00:20:26.10\00:20:28.50
But God says, Get up, arise.
00:20:28.50\00:20:33.36
The message is still the same.
00:20:33.36\00:20:35.83
The duty is still the same.
00:20:35.83\00:20:39.53
Get up from here and start now,
because God says I'm the God of
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a second chance.
00:20:44.16\00:20:45.60
You see, friends of mine,
as I get ready to take my seat,
00:20:45.60\00:20:48.70
we need to learn how to
thank God for a second chance.
00:20:48.70\00:20:53.60
You see, if there's anything
that everybody in the place,
00:20:53.60\00:20:55.73
that we all have in common,
it is that we have all been the
00:20:55.73\00:20:59.60
recipients of a second chance.
00:20:59.60\00:21:02.03
And that's why I praise God.
00:21:02.03\00:21:04.33
That's why I get
excited when I worship God.
00:21:04.33\00:21:07.70
That's why my eyes get
big and my cheeks bulge out
00:21:07.70\00:21:10.13
when we sing "Lift up the
trumpet, loud let it ring,
00:21:10.13\00:21:13.70
Jesus is coming again."
00:21:13.70\00:21:15.70
It's because I recognize
that God has given me a second
00:21:15.70\00:21:18.83
chance, that I've messed up.
00:21:18.83\00:21:21.36
Somebody knows, you know my
testimony, I shouldn't be here
00:21:21.36\00:21:24.86
today.
00:21:24.86\00:21:25.86
But God has given
me a second chance.
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Is there anybody grateful
that God has given them a second
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chance?
00:21:29.83\00:21:30.76
Aud: (applause) PB: You ought
to give God praise, you ought to
00:21:30.76\00:21:33.83
thank God for when you messed
up, he gave you a second chance.
00:21:33.83\00:21:36.83
When you made a promise and you
didn't keep it, he gave you a
00:21:36.83\00:21:39.80
second chance.
00:21:39.80\00:21:40.83
When you said you would, but
you didn't, he gave you a second
00:21:40.83\00:21:45.63
chance.
00:21:45.63\00:21:47.20
When you should have been dead,
buried in your grave, but he
00:21:47.20\00:21:52.63
gave you a second chance.
00:21:52.63\00:21:56.80
I'm so glad that he's
given me a second chance.
00:21:56.80\00:22:02.33
(piano) Speaking of a second
time around, the first time
00:22:02.33\00:22:07.00
Jesus came he came as a babe
wrapped in swaddling clothes,
00:22:07.00\00:22:13.36
lying in a manger.
00:22:13.36\00:22:15.96
The first time he came, he
walked the dusty roads of Judea
00:22:15.96\00:22:22.30
and Nazareth.
00:22:22.30\00:22:24.20
The first time he came,
he came to save his people.
00:22:24.20\00:22:32.50
But the second time, the second
time he comes, he's coming
00:22:32.50\00:22:40.60
to get his people.
00:22:40.60\00:22:43.03
The second time he comes, he's
coming as a conquering king.
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The second time he comes, we're
going to say, ride on, King
00:22:49.43\00:22:55.70
Jesus.
00:22:55.70\00:22:57.13
No man can hinder thee.
00:22:57.13\00:23:01.06
Ride on, King Jesus.
00:23:01.06\00:23:04.80
I want to go to
heaven in the morning.
00:23:04.80\00:23:09.20
Listen to me carefully.
00:23:09.20\00:23:10.60
The second time around,
lessons from the Jonah story.
00:23:10.60\00:23:14.70
Number one, whenever you run
from God, whenever you run from
00:23:14.70\00:23:19.90
him, young people, senior
people, whenever you run from
00:23:19.90\00:23:23.63
God, you're going down.
00:23:23.63\00:23:25.63
Understand that whenever you run
from God, you're going to always
00:23:27.50\00:23:32.03
find a ship.
00:23:32.03\00:23:33.56
You will always find a willing
vessel that's trying to pull you
00:23:33.56\00:23:38.30
from God.
00:23:38.30\00:23:39.30
When you run from God, it's
going to cost you something.
00:23:39.30\00:23:42.36
When you run from God, you're
going to always face a storm.
00:23:42.36\00:23:47.53
But God will put you in a place,
he will put you in a place that
00:23:47.53\00:23:53.86
he has to get your attention,
for all you can do is pray.
00:23:53.86\00:23:58.30
God will speak to your
situation, he will speak to your
00:23:58.30\00:24:02.23
mountains and
say, be thou removed,
00:24:02.23\00:24:06.80
and you won't even know it.
00:24:06.80\00:24:08.26
And God will allow
you a way of escape.
00:24:08.26\00:24:13.40
And when he does, he'll put
you right where you need to be.
00:24:13.40\00:24:18.80
He's the God of
the second chance.
00:24:18.80\00:24:23.36
I'm glad he's
given me a second chance.
00:24:23.36\00:24:32.33
Another chance to love.
00:24:32.33\00:24:33.40
I'm glad he's given me another
chance to live, another chance
00:24:33.40\00:24:40.13
to worship him.
00:24:40.13\00:24:41.13
Maybe a year ago, 10
years ago, 20 years ago,
00:24:41.13\00:24:44.03
I didn't do it right.
00:24:44.03\00:24:45.03
But I got it right now.
00:24:45.03\00:24:47.50
Someone, he's spared
your life from cancer,
00:24:47.50\00:24:50.46
he's spared your life.
00:24:50.46\00:24:51.96
I know he spared me
from a horrible car accident
00:24:51.96\00:24:53.06
He's given me another chance
Don't mess it up this time
00:24:53.06\00:25:03.73
Don't mess it up this time
Somebody, you've had breast
00:25:03.73\00:25:09.83
cancer, It's gone
into remission again.
00:25:09.83\00:25:13.86
He's given you a second chance
Don't mess it up this time
00:25:13.86\00:25:20.23
some of you
have heart conditions
00:25:20.23\00:25:23.93
I've visited you in the
hospital but god spared you,
00:25:23.93\00:25:29.76
you thought it was a stint
you thought it was open heart
00:25:29.76\00:25:33.80
surgery, but it was GOD
He's given you a second chance
00:25:33.80\00:25:43.26
somebody, your marriage
failed maybe he's allowed you to
00:25:43.26\00:25:50.80
remarry or you've learn
to love him just being single
00:25:50.80\00:25:52.46
He's given you a second chance.
00:25:52.46\00:25:57.53
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