(Theme Song) 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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Pastor Byrd: If you have
your Bibles, turn with me
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to the book of Matthew,
chapter 27, verse number 41.
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Matthew chapter 27 in
verse number 41, the Word of God
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says "Likewise also the
chief priests mocking him,
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with the scribes and
elders said "He saved others;
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himself he cannot save.
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If he be the King of Israel,
let him now come down from
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the cross, and
we will believe him.
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He trusted in God; let him
deliver him now, if he will
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have him: for he
said, I am the Son of God."
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Today, my question to you
is: was He who He said He was?
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Was He who He said He was?
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God, right now,
breathe in this place.
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May your Holy Ghost not
only breathe in this place,
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but breathe over the
television air waves.
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Breathe in the
homes of individuals
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over the Internet, and
may Your glory be revealed.
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God, we be careful to
praise You for what You're going
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to do.
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Forgive me of my
sins, in Jesus name.
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Let everyone say amen.
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Aud: Amen.
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PB: And amen.
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Was He who He said He was.
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I love sports.
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I'm a sports fanatic.
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You name the
sport, I love the sport.
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Basketball,
football, baseball, softball,
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volleyball,
soccer, I love sports.
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Not only do I love sports,
but I love watching sports.
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I love playing sports.
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I love talking about
sports, I love sports.
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I must admit today I even love
the trash talking in sports.
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I love the taunting in
sports, because if an athlete
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isn't confident in his or
her abilities, then why should
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somebody else be
confident in their abilities?
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Some have said that Muhammad
Ali was the master of talking
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trash and taunting in sports.
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He would taunt his opponent
before the boxing match,
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during the boxing match
and after the boxing match.
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You all know his
lines: Who's the greatest?
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I am the greatest,
because I can float like
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a butterfly. Sting like a bee.
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Your hands can't hit
what your eyes can't see.
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Then there was the
famous Dikembe Mutumbo.
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NBA player,
shot blocker, phenom.
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After blocking a shot,
he would take his infamous
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finger and he would look at
his opponent and he would say,
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"No, no, no.
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Don't bring that up in here."
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The taunting got so bad he
started receiving technical
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fouls for his taunting.
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So now he had to
modify his taunting.
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He couldn't look his opponent
in the face and say "No, no,
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no, not here."
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But he had to turn to the
crowd and say, "No, no, no,
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not here."
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But then, because we're in
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the 21st century,
my boy, LeBron James.
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You know if something
with King James goes through
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the air and he
dunks on somebody,
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like he scored 61
points this week, do I have
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a witness in this place?
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[Aud. reaction]
PB: When he dunks on
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somebody, he has this creative
ability to look them and stare
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them down, straight in
the eye, and he taunts them
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as if to say, "Yeah, I did it.
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And what you gonna do about it?"
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Well, many people like
taunting, trash talking.
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Nobody likes to be
the victim of taunting.
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Nobody likes to be ridiculed,
embarrassed or mocked.
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But to be taunted while
you're dying in the worst.
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To be taunted while
you're helpless is torture.
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To be taunted while
you're powerless is torment.
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But then, as I've learned
over the years, there are some
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people who enjoy kicking
other people when they're down.
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I mean, after all, we love
wounding our already wounded
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soldiers.
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Can you hear Jesus' opponents?
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"He saved others,
let him save himself.
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If he is the King of
Israel, let him come down from
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the cross and
we'll believe then.
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He trusted in God,
let God deliver him now.
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After all, he said,
I am the Son of God.
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He claimed to be a
worker of miracles.
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He claimed to
be the Son of God."
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But is He who He said He was?
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Because even if he had a
father at all, would a father
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leave a man that really
trusted in him and let him die
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like this?
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Why would God the Father
permit the Messiah to suffer
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as Jesus was suffering?
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Failure to come
down from the cross
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would then be proof that
Jesus deserved the fate that had
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overtaken Him.
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Failure to come down from
the cross would be proof that
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Jesus was not
who He claimed to be.
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So, was He who He said He Was?
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They had seen Jesus by His
word, calm the Sea of Galilee.
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They had seen Jesus by His
word hush boisterous winds.
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They had seen
Jesus multiply bread.
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They had seen Jesus
turn water into wine.
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They had seen
Jesus speak to the dead,
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and out of the grave
came the dead stumbling,
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knotted in grave clothes.
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But now go with me to Calvary,
and all you see is a helpless
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man hanging on a cross at
the mercy of Roman soldiers
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and Jewish priests.
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Was it not then,
friends, conceivable that a man
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who possessed such
miraculous power would use it
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to deliver himself?
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Was He who He said He
was, or was He a sham, a scam,
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a con, a crook.
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Was He an imposter, a
pretender, a phony, a fraud.
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Where His miracles
tricks or were they truth?
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But then maybe He never
worked a miracle, or He would
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definitely be
working a miracle right now.
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Was He who He said He was?
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These people had
a hatred for Jesus.
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Jesus had publicly humiliated
them by exposing their hypocrisy
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and self-righteousness.
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Jesus had flaunted
their authority and influence
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by challenging many of
their manmade doctrines.
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For them, having
Jesus on the cross
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was a time to gloat.
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A time to tease.
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A time to mock, a time to taunt.
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Finally, He was in a position
where His frailty and His
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weakness were on display.
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Finally, He would no
longer be able to chastise them
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and criticize their ministries.
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Finally, He would be out
of circulation and would no
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longer be able to embarrass
them before crowds ever again.
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Finally, He was down
for the count, and could not
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expose their twisted
bran of fanatical, legalistic,
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self-righteous, self-serving,
smug, sanctimonious, hearty,
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pompous religion.
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If you are who you say
you are, save then yourself.
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But friends, it's not
that He couldn't save Himself.
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The fact is, He wouldn't save
Himself because He knew He had
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to go to Calvary to
die and save you and me.
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You see, Jesus would never use
His divinity to work a miracle
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on behalf of His humanity.
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Because He was the God-man.
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Two natures in one personality.
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He got tired as man, but as
God He said "Come unto me all
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ye that labor and are
heavy laden and I will give you
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rest."
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He got hungry as man, but as God
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He took two fish, five
loaves of bread and fed 5,000.
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He got thirsty as man,
but as God He said, "Drink
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of fountains of living waters
that shall never run dry."
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He wanted companionship
as man, but as God, he had
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to tread the winepress alone.
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He wept as man at
Lazarus' grave, but as God He
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resurrected
Lazarus from the grave.
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Jesus has been the centerpiece
of Western history for 2,000
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years and while His followers
have numbered in the millions,
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the movement He began
as always had critics.
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They say "He's not
who he said he was."
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I'm here to let everyone
know today under the sound of my
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voice that everybody
doesn't believe He's God.
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Everybody doesn't
believe He's the Messiah.
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And it's not
just the Jews, either.
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In fact, there's a movement
on the rise that questions
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the
authenticity of Jesus Christ.
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They doubt the
legitimacy of Jesus.
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They disbelieve the
genuineness of Jesus.
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They question
the realism of Jesus.
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Did Jesus really
turn water into wine?
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Did Jesus really heal the
woman with the issue of blood?
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Did Jesus really
give sight to the blind?
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Did Jesus make the lame
to walk, the dumb to talk?
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Did Jesus really walk on water,
did He feed 5,000 or were His
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words lies or jive?
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Was Jesus God?
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The Messianic Saviour who
came to earth to rescue people,
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or was He just an important
religious figure, but one who
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was not or never claimed
to be the divine Messiah?
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Did Jesus perform a work on
the cross that brought about
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my salvation, or was He just
a dedicated religious person who
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was actively involved
in the social and spiritual
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world of His day,
but who never performed
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or offered the unique and
solitary means of salvation
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for the entire human race?
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Is Jesus the only way to find
salvation in life, and is He
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a member really of the
Triune God: the Father, the Son
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and the Holy Ghost, who
is to be worshipped today,
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or is He just one among
many ways by which a postmodern
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person can come to
know and experience God
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but who never accepted or
advocated worship of Jesus
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Christ in the flesh?
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Was He who He says He was?
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These questions come from a
heretical brand of naysayers,
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doubters, rebel rousers,
and modern-day haters of Jesus
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who are confusing Christianity,
dividing our churches,
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bamboozling our children,
and calling themselves the Jesus
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Seminar.
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And while they don't
reflect responsible scholarship
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or critical consensus, many
in media have allowed themselves
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to be deceived by this movement.
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In case you didn't know, Jesus
is under fire in the public eye.
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Atheism is on the rise.
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Agnosticism is on the rise.
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Scholars who have
subjected Jesus to scrutiny
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in their private studies
and disclose their conclusions
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in closed academic circles
are now waging their battle
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through the printed,
the public and social media.
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But today, let me remind you
that everything on the Internet
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is not true.
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[Aud. reaction]
PB: Not everything
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you hear is correct.
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In fact, my mama said
believe none of what you hear,
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and half of what you see.
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The devil is a lie.
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But as my Bible says in
John 1:1, "In the beginning
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was the Word, and
the Word was with God,
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and the Word was God."
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And then verse 14 says
that "The Word was made flesh,
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and dwelt among us," which
means that the Word, Jesus,
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is from the beginning.
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He is the beginner of
the beginning because He
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is the beginner in
whom the beginning began.
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He is the beginning
before the beginning was begun
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because He is the beginning
who did not begin to be.
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He did not start because
He has nowhere to come from.
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He does not stop because
He has no boundary line, being
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as He is what He was,
He was what He is and what
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He wasn't is, He will always be.
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Aud: Yes!
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Jesus came from the bosom
of the Father to the bosom
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of a woman.
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He put on humanity in order
that we might put on divinity.
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He became the Son of
man in order that we might
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become sons of God.
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He came from heaven where
the rivers never freeze, winds
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never blow, flowers never
fade and nobody is ever sick.
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[Aud. reaction] PB:
In infancy He startled
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a king.
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In boyhood, He puzzled wise men.
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In manhood He hushed
the course of nature.
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He walked upon the billows
and quieted the sea to sleep.
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He healed multitudes without
medicine and made no charge
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for His services.
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He is the Star of astronomy.
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He is the Rock of geology.
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He is the Lion and
the Lamb of zoology.
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Born in Bethlehem,
rocked in a cow's eating trough,
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worked in a carpenter shop,
baptized in the muddy Jordan,
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turned water into wine,
gave sight to the blind,
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crucified on Friday,
lay resting in the grave
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on the Sabbath.
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But early Sunday morning,
He rose, He ascended back
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to heaven, and one day
He's coming back to get us.
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Great men have come and
gone, but Jesus lives on.
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You see, Herod
could not kill Him.
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Governments
could not silence Him.
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Money could not buy Him.
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Satan could not seduce Him.
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Death could not destroy Him.
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Hell could not handle Him.
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The grave could not hold Him.
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He's my Jesus.
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[Aud. reaction]
Some call Him Savior,
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others call Him Redeemer,
somebody else calls Him
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Deliverer.
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Somebody else
says He's a way-maker,
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He's a mountain-mover.
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Somebody knows
Him as a bill payer.
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He might be to a cancer
killer, a diabetes destroyer,
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a problem solver, a burden
bearer, a heavy load sharer.
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[Aud. reaction] He's Jesus.
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You remember the story
of a little boy who went off
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to college.
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He studied biology, botany
and all the life sciences.
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He came home from
school the first semester
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and he knew everything.
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You couldn't tell him a thing.
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You know how we are, we get
the big head, we know it all.
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His mother said to him, "Son."
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Friday night, "What are you
wearing to church tomorrow?"
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"Mother, Iím not going."
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She said, "What do you
mean, you're not going?"
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Because I believe he grew up
in a house like I grew up in.
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As long as you're under
my daddy's roof, you're going
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to do what my daddy says.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
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Aud.: Amen.
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PB: She said, "What do you mean,
you're not going to church,
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young man?"
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He said, "I've
been to school now.
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I ain't going to
church tomorrow."
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So she went to her
room, and she began to moan,
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"Amazing Grace, how
sweet the sound that saved
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a wretch like me."
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She began to moan and
she sang herself to sleep.
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But later on that
night, she heard a moan coming
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from her son's room.
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She got up out of her
bed, she went to her son's room
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and said "Son,
what's the problem?
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Why are you
making all this noise?"
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The young man was
holding his jaw and said, "Mama,
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I've got a terrible toothache."
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She said, "Son, well you
been studying all that biology.
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All that botany.
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Life science, physical
science, earth science.
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And you're saying that if God
defiles your five senses, you
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can't see Him, you can't smell
Him, you can't hear Him, you
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can't touch Him, and
you sure can't taste Him."
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But she said, "This toothache
you have, can you see it?"
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He said, "No, I can't see it."
00:18:08.80\00:18:10.70
She said, "Well,
can you smell it?"
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He said, "Mama,
I can't smell it."
00:18:14.76\00:18:17.86
She said, "Well
then, can you taste it?"
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He said, "Mama, I can't smell
it, I can't taste it, but I can
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feel it all over me."
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[Aud. reaction] The
mother said, "Son, boy,
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that's what I've been trying
to tell you about my Jesus.
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I can't see Him, I can't
touch Him, I can't taste Him,
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I can't smell Him, but every
now and then I can feel Him
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all over me.
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And when you make
contact with God for yourself.
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I'm not talking about
hitchhiking off somebody
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else's testimony.
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I'm not talking about hoboing
off somebody else's anointing,
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but Iím talking about
when you've been through
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enough stuff for yourself.
00:19:08.90\00:19:10.66
When you've been
through enough stuff personally
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for yourself and you've come
to experience God for yourself,
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I'm talking about your
testimony, you can't help
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but make some noise.
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Make a joyful noise
unto the Lord, all ye lands.
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Serve the Lord with gladness.
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Come before His
presence with singing.
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Here's the deal: Some
of us don't like noise.
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But if you don't like noise,
I don't know where you're going.
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Because if you live on any
street in Huntsville there's
00:19:38.63\00:19:40.63
going to be noise up
and down your street.
00:19:40.63\00:19:42.63
If you live and die in sin
and eventually end up in hell,
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there's going to be
gnashing of teeth noise.
00:19:45.10\00:19:47.13
If you're planning on going
to heaven with the rest of us,
00:19:47.13\00:19:49.20
there's going to be sure
enough noise, because when we
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all get to heaven, what a day
of rejoicing that's gonna be.
00:19:55.96\00:19:59.36
When we all see Jesus!
00:19:59.36\00:20:00.80
We're going to sing, and we're
going to shout the victory.
00:20:00.80\00:20:03.93
And because of His life,
because of His death, because
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of His resurrection,
one day He's coming back.
00:20:07.46\00:20:11.36
And every eye is going to
see Him, and the dead in Christ
00:20:11.36\00:20:15.03
are going to rise first.
00:20:15.03\00:20:16.50
Then we which are alive
and remain are going to be
00:20:16.50\00:20:18.50
caught up to
meet Him in the air.
00:20:18.50\00:20:20.50
The wicked living are
going to die at the brightness
00:20:20.50\00:20:22.50
of His coming.
00:20:22.50\00:20:23.50
The wicked dead are
going to remain dead.
00:20:23.50\00:20:26.00
And at the end of the
1,000 years the wicked are going
00:20:26.00\00:20:29.86
to be raised one more time.
00:20:29.86\00:20:33.40
They must be resurrected.
00:20:33.40\00:20:36.46
Everybody must be alive
at the same time, because
00:20:36.46\00:20:41.50
the prophecy must come to pass.
00:20:41.50\00:20:44.23
That one day every
knee shall bow, every tongue
00:20:44.23\00:20:52.60
must confess, that
Jesus the Christ is Lord.
00:20:52.60\00:21:00.83
And oh, I want to see it.
00:21:00.83\00:21:02.96
Look upon His face, there
to sing forever of His saving
00:21:02.96\00:21:10.16
grace.
00:21:10.16\00:21:11.16
On the streets of
glory, I plan to lift my voice,
00:21:11.16\00:21:14.40
cares all past.
00:21:14.40\00:21:16.10
Hallelujah, home at last.
00:21:16.10\00:21:19.40
Ever to rejoice.
00:21:19.40\00:21:21.36
There'll be no crying there.
00:21:21.36\00:21:22.63
There'll be no dying there.
00:21:22.63\00:21:24.86
There'll be no cancer there.
00:21:24.86\00:21:26.66
There'll be no high
blood pressure there.
00:21:26.66\00:21:29.33
There'll be no
high gas prices there.
00:21:29.33\00:21:31.63
There'll be no mortgage there.
00:21:31.63\00:21:36.03
Jesus is coming back.
00:21:36.03\00:21:39.56
And because of His sacrifice,
00:21:39.56\00:21:42.70
because He went to Calvary
to die for you and for me,
00:21:44.93\00:21:52.23
we have a right to the
Tree of Life and may enter in
00:21:52.23\00:21:58.56
to the gates into the city.
00:21:58.56\00:21:59.66
Don't you let anyone tell
you He's not who He said He was.
00:21:59.66\00:22:04.83
Jesus is the Christ.
00:22:04.83\00:22:06.43
Jesus is the Messiah.
00:22:06.43\00:22:08.16
And Jesus is our soon
coming conquering King.
00:22:08.16\00:22:17.60
Ride on, King Jesus!
00:22:17.60\00:22:20.70
No man can hinder Thee.
00:22:20.70\00:22:23.13
Ride on, King Jesus!
00:22:23.13\00:22:26.33
I don't know about
you, but I plan to go home.
00:22:26.33\00:22:31.33
[Aud. reaction]
I've got a grandmother
00:22:31.33\00:22:33.70
I want to see.
00:22:33.70\00:22:34.70
I've got a
grandfather I've got to see.
00:22:34.70\00:22:43.76
They just held
me as a little boy,
00:22:47.40\00:22:49.40
but they didn't see how
their foundation made a way
00:22:49.40\00:22:56.43
for me to be the man and
the pastor that I am today.
00:22:56.43\00:23:02.06
I've got a little girl
that I've got to see again.
00:23:02.06\00:23:12.66
Mr. Rodham, you're
going to see Brendan, again.
00:23:12.66\00:23:17.86
We'll see Elder Ward again.
00:23:17.86\00:23:22.86
Elder Moseley.
00:23:22.86\00:23:30.10
I'll tell Elder Ward, I was just
like you, just not the music.
00:23:30.10\00:23:33.66
I was just like you.
00:23:33.66\00:23:39.23
Most
importantly, we'll see Jesus.
00:23:39.23\00:23:49.10
Some of you have lost children.
00:23:49.10\00:23:51.86
You've lost spouses.
00:23:57.60\00:24:01.76
You've lost
grandchildren and friends.
00:24:05.26\00:24:11.60
He's going to wipe away
every tear from our eyes.
00:24:11.60\00:24:19.33
Now, it would be a travesty
for an individual to die
00:24:22.33\00:24:30.36
a physical death but then
also die a spiritual death.
00:24:30.36\00:24:41.83
I know it's Communion, I know
Iím not supposed to do this,
00:24:41.83\00:24:43.86
but I'm going to do it
anyway, because after all, 2 1/2
00:24:43.86\00:24:46.06
years, I'm out of the box
but I'm still in the book, so
00:24:46.06\00:24:51.13
I do things just
a little different.
00:24:51.13\00:24:56.96
Today, you don't have
to die a spiritual death.
00:24:56.96\00:24:59.23
Today, if you confess
with your mouth and believe
00:24:59.23\00:25:06.23
in your heart that there's going
to be a midnight cry, and you'll
00:25:06.23\00:25:16.43
be reunited with your loved
ones and united with Jesus,
00:25:16.43\00:25:19.43
but most importantly
your soul will be saved.
00:25:19.43\00:25:21.43
Today I give you life
today, and the life that I give
00:25:21.43\00:25:23.43
is in Jesus Christ.
00:25:23.43\00:25:24.43
He says, "I have come
that you might have life more
00:25:24.43\00:25:27.43
abundantly.
00:25:27.43\00:25:28.43
I am the way, the
truth and the life."
00:25:28.43\00:25:33.46
Today, do you want life?
00:25:33.46\00:25:36.56
Today you need more
than Communion, you need more
00:25:36.56\00:25:38.56
than the wafer and the juice.
00:25:38.56\00:25:43.06
What you need to say on
this day, March 8th, Communion
00:25:43.06\00:25:45.30
Sabbath, is I want
to give my all to Jesus.
00:25:45.30\00:25:48.26
I want to join this church.
00:25:48.26\00:25:50.03
I want to be a part of
this fellowship by baptism,
00:25:50.03\00:25:54.03
by rebaptism, by transfer
of membership, by profession
00:25:54.03\00:25:56.93
of my faith.
00:25:56.93\00:25:57.93
But God, through the power
of His Spirit has spoken to me
00:25:57.93\00:26:00.16
today, and today is the day
and I'm going to walk in God's
00:26:00.16\00:26:03.93
blessing for my life.
00:26:03.93\00:26:08.10
If you're here, and I don't
want to be long because we have
00:26:08.10\00:26:12.26
to engage in the Lord's Supper.
00:26:12.26\00:26:13.93
But today if you're here,
I dare not close this service
00:26:13.93\00:26:18.86
without allowing you
the privilege of life
00:26:18.86\00:26:21.70
in Jesus Christ.
00:26:21.70\00:26:25.66
So if you're here, I
invite you to come, right now.
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