(Theme Song) Jesus is worthy
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oh yes, he's
worthy worthy of all...
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all the praise.
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[music] Pastor Byrd: Persons
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caring for Ebola
patients have to be careful
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because they don't
want to catch Ebola.
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Ebola can spread
from the infected person
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to the caregiver.
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You can be caring
for somebody with Ebola,
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and if you're not careful,
you will get infected as well.
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You can have good
intentions, good intentions
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to heal, but then
you come out sick.
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Good intentions to date
him or her, but then you come
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out with child support.
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Good intentions to go to
Olive Garden, Macaroni Grill,
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PF Chang's, but you
come out with AIDS or an STD.
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You go in with good
intentions to help somebody
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with their social and their
mental issues, but then you
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come out confused,
conflicted and crazy.
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You go in with good
intentions, you bring them
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to church, and you come
out missing church every
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Sabbath.
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You go in with good
intentions to help them
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financially, and then you
come out broke, bewildered
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and bankrupt, and in 42 years
I've learned that the people
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you help the most
appreciate it the least.
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[Aud. reaction]
PB: You go in with good
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intentions to help solve
their problems, but you come
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out distraught,
decadent and distressed.
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Yes, help somebody, but
please don't get infected
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in the process.
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One more problem.
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Not only does it
spread through living people,
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but remember, Ebola can be
spread through dead people.
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Which means, you can
be spiritually on fire
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for the Lord, sharing your
faith, giving Bible studies,
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coming to church,
singing in church, saying amen
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in church, smiling in church,
serving inside and outside
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the church.
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On fire for the Lord,
but then you get infected
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with a dead Ebola patient.
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And so, because they're
spiritually dead, they infect
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you, and you
become spiritually dead.
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No zeal.
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No fire.
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No energy.
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No enthusiasm.
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No excitement for
the Lord, just dead.
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The frozen chosen.
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But when you look back
over your life, when you look
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at all the things
God has done for you.
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When you look at all the
things that God has brought
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you out of, all the
times God healed your body,
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all the times God dried
your weeping eyes, all the times
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God made a way out of no way.
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When you look at how God
picked you up, turned you
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around, placed your
feet on solid ground.
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When you look and think
about what you could have
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been and what
you should have been.
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When you think of the goodness
of Jesus and all He's done
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for me, my soul
cries out, hallelujah!
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Thank God for saving me!
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I should be dead in my grave,
but thank God for saving me!
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I should be strung out
somewhere, but thank God
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for saving me!
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I'm not even supposed to
be here today, but thank God
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for saving me!
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I'm not even supposed
to be in college, let alone
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Oakwood College.
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but thank God for Saving me!
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And I just believe, as I get
ready to take my seat that there
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are some folk up in Oakwood
today that are going to praise
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God regardless of
what people think of them.
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There are some people
that are going to praise God
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regardless of what happens
in their life, because you
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don't care what people say
about yuou, but you're going
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to praise Him.
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You don't care what folk
are going to think about you,
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but you're just
going to praise Him.
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You refuse to be victimized
by spiritual Ebola, you're
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going to praise God.
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And so you've now said, I
will bless the Lord at all
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times and His praise shall
continually be in my mouth.
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O magnify the Lord with
me and let us exalt His name
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together.
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The Lord is my
light and my salvation.
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Whom shall I fear?
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Praise God in His sanctuary.
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Praise Him in the
firmament of His power.
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But then, we've got
the symptoms of Ebola.
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The symptoms start two days
to three weeks after contracting
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the virus.
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I've got to throw this in
before I take my seat: Then,
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after the virus you get a
fever, sore throat, muscle
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pain and headache.
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Then the doctor says that
after all that takes place,
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the next symptom
is you begin to vomit.
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Now remember, when
you're vomiting, that means you
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can't keep anything
on your stomach down.
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You can't eat anything solid.
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You're throwing up
because you can't keep or eat
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anything heavy.
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So when your stomach
gets messed up, you eat light.
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Toast, crackers, maybe
some soup or applesauce.
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If you can't hold anything
down, you can't hold solid
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food down.
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When yoyu have spiritual
Ebola, you can't keep solid
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food down.
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You can't keep heavy food down.
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You want something easy.
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You want feel-good.
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You want cotton candy preaching.
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Sweet and big on the
outside, but hollow and empty
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on the inside.
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You don't want meat,
you don't want substance,
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you don't want solid--you
just want the preacher to tell
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you what you want to hear.
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[Aud. reaction] PB:
Don't tell me how to live.
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Don't tell me what to eat.
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Don't tell me who I can date.
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Don't tell me how to dress.
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Don't tell me what's
appropriate or inappropriate.
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Don't tell me
what's right or wrong.
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Don't tell me to
keep the Sabbath.
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Don't tell me about
the spirit of prophecy.
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Don't tell me
about the commandments.
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Donít tell me to love
people, to be nice, be patient,
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be positive, to
stop bieng judgmental.
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Don't tell me how to live,
because I don't want heavy.
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I don't want solids.
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I don't want substance.
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I don't want truth.
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I want what's popular.
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I want entertainment.
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I want easy, because if
don't have easy, I will vomit
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everything up.
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So now, the church universal
has turned into a weekend
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pep rally, where the
preacher gets eerybody fired up
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and emotional on Sabbath
morning and then we go live
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any kind of way we
want during the week.
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But how can we sow wild oats
during the week and then pray
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for a crop
failure on the Sabbath?
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The Lord is coming back
for a chosen generation,
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a royal priesthood, a holy
nation that He has called out
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of darkness into
His marvelous light.
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Spiritual Ebola is a problem.
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It has a prognosis,
but unlike physical Ebola,
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spiritual Ebola
does have a prescription.
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It does--oh, I feel my
health coming now--it does
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have a remedy.
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It does have an antidote.
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It does have a cure.
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The cure is Jesus!
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He said in John 10:10, "I
did not come that you might
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have Ebola, but I came
that you might have life
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and have it more abundantly."
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[Aud. reaction] PB:
Now to be true to the text,
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because I know someone's
saying Pastor, you just got
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to the text.
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We're at Oakwood, so you
gotta be true to the text.
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Life here, in the Greek,
in the text, is the word zoe.
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Everybody say "zoe."
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Aud.: Zoe.
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So there's life used
here in its theological sense,
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it's equivalent to eternal life.
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When Adam and Eve were
created, they possessed zoe.
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But they lost
zoe when they sinned.
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Yes, their physical life
was extended, but they were no
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longer conditionally immortal.
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But when Jesus came to
this earth, when Jesus died
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for my sins, when He died
for your sins, when He died
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for Adam and Eve's sins,
He restored the zoe that Adam
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and Eve had forfeited.
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You see, life includes
the physical, the intellectual
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and the spiritual.
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Physical life is regarded
as abundant in the body that
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is full of vigor and
perfect and in health.
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Jesus' miracles of physical
healing gave abundant zoe
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and life to those who
life forces were failing.
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But physical restoration
was by no means the complete
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fulfillment of Jesus' mission.
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Man must also, and also
has intellectual and spiritual
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life, which must also
be made alive and abundant.
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For man does not live
by bread alone but by every
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word that proceedeth
out of the mouth of God.
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So then, as important as
the physical-intellectual
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aspects of a well-rounded
life are, no life is fully
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complete unless the
spiritual life is nurtured.
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[Aud. reaction]
PB: No life is complete
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unless Jesus touches that life.
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Ebola is a problem.
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Ebola has a prognosis.
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Ebola has a prescription.
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That prescription is Jesus.
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I am come that you might
have life and you might have
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it more abundantly.
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Jesus is the cure.
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Jesus is the remedy.
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Jesus is the antidote.
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Jesus is the healer.
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Whatever your sickness.
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I said, whatever your sickness.
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Jesus can heal it.
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Financial, He can heal it.
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Physical, He can heal it.
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Mental, He can heal it.
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Moral, He can heal it.
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Social, He can heal it.
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Spiritual, He can heal it.
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You name it, Jesus can heal it.
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Oh, y'all don't
hear what I'm saying.
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[Aud. reaction] PB: One minute
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He's a podiatrist.
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The lame are walking again.
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The next minute He's an
ear, nose and throat specialist.
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The dumb are talking again.
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One minute He's an audiologist.
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The deaf are made to hear.
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The next minute
He's a hematologist.
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The woman with
the issue of blood.
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One minute, He's
an ophthalmologist.
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He's given sight to the blind.
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The next minute,
He's a cardiologist.
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He's fixing broken hearts.
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One minute,
He's a dermatologist.
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Lepers are being healed.
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The next minute
He's a gynecologist,
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He's giving new life.
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One minute, He's a psychiatrist.
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He's fixing deranged minds.
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The next minute,
He's an anesthesiologist.
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He's healing the pains of life.
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You name it, He can heal it.
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[Aud. reaction] PB:
I said, you name it,
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He can heal it.
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[Aud. reaction] PB:
I wish I had a witness
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in this place that knew, if
you name it, He can heal it.
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Cancer, no problem.
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Ebola, no problem.
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Arthritis, no problem,
high blood pressure, no problem.
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Gossip, no problem.
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Bankruptcy, no problem.
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Bad habits, no problem.
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Ungodly soul times.
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No problem.
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Deviant lifestyles, no problem.
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You name it, no problem.
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Because He said, I have
come that you might have life,
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and that you might
have it more abundantly.
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Somebody knows, if
you just say the name.
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Anybody been in the
midnight hour, and you just said
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the name.
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Jesus!
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Sweetest name I know.
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Jesus, I'll tell
it everywhere I go.
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Jesus!
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Demons tremble, Satan fickles.
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Jesus, just a touch of Jesus.
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That's what the woman
with the issue of blood said.
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She said, "If I could just
touch the hem of his garment."
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She said, "I'll be made whole."
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That's why she can sing
what we sing: O, it is Jesus.
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Yes, it is Jesus.
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This Jesus in my soul I
touch the hem of His garment.
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His blood had made me whole.
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But that's why in this 21st
century church we don't sing
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what she sings, but we
now sing "He touched me.
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O, He touched me.
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Oh, the joy that floods my soul.
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Something happened,
now I know He touched me
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and made me whole."
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And just like the people
of old, they had spiritual
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Ebola, we've got to go tell it.
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Go tell them
there's a prescription.
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Go tell it on the mountain.
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Tell it everywhere, go
tell them we have a cure.
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We have a remedy.
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We have an antidote.
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We have a prescription.
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Tell them that He was
born; that He was reared
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in a carpenter shop.
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That His a child that
made the great preachers
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and theologians of the day.
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Tell them He was
baptized in the muddy Jordan.
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Tel them that 2 fish
fed 5,000 men, women, boys
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and girls, wives, everybody.
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Tell them what he's done.
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But don't stop there.
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Don't just tell them what Jesus
has done for somebody else.
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Go tell somebody what
Jesus has done for you.
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Go tell somebody
how he has cured you
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of spiritual Ebola.
00:16:32.56\00:16:33.56
Tell them that when
you're sick, He heals you.
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When you're
hungry, He feeds you.
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When you're
naked, He clothes you.
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When you're
down, He picks you up.
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When you're out,
He pulls you back in.
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Go tell them
what Jesus has done.
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Tell them that he can heal you.
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From spiritual Ebola.
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Now let's be clear óóóó.
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We're beginning
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an academic year.
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We've got some problems.
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There's a prognosis.
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The good news today is
we do have a prescription.
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We've got a mother today
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in Missouri who last Sabbath,
this time, didn't know she would
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have to be
preparing her son's funeral.
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We've got a problem.
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We've got air strikes
hitting Iraq right now.
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So if at first you thought
that what was taking place
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in the Middle East
would stop, you're not reading
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your Bible enough.
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The fighting in the
Middle East will never stop.
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There's been 4,000
years of bloodshed because
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of Abraham's lapse of faith.
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He lay with his handmaid,
Hagar, and was not faithful
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to the wife God gave him, Sarah.
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And so we have a son
of disobedience, Ishmael,
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and a son of the promise, Isaac.
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And for 4,000 years they've been
fighting between their offspring
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and their descendants.
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So if you think it's
going to end, think again.
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We've got spiritual Ebola.
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We're more worried
about who does this in church
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and that in church than we
worry about our own salvations.
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Seriously, we've
got spiritual Ebola.
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We've got young people
that on the seventh-day Sabbath
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are more interested in
catching some Zs than honoring
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what Hebrews 10:25 says,
"to not forsake the assembling
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of ourselves together."
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But then, that should make
sense, because we're living
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in the last days
where's it's laodecia.
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We're neither hot
nor cold, we're lukewarm.
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So, come in with the
people of God and study the Word
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of God--uh, I can do that.
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I told you Wednesday night,
I'm going to tell you again
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today: Online service
watching is for people
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who are sick.
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[Aud. reaction] PB:
Get up out of that bed,
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get down here at 9:15,
and study the Sabbath school
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lesson.
00:19:52.53\00:19:54.00
Get here at
11:00, get some Word.
00:19:54.00\00:19:56.96
Is Pastor Byrd
going to be here today?
00:19:56.96\00:19:58.96
Don't worry about who's going
to be here, God's got somebody
00:19:58.96\00:20:00.96
that's going to be here.
00:20:00.96\00:20:01.96
He's going to be
here, and you just be here.
00:20:01.96\00:20:03.96
He's not coming
back for who's popular.
00:20:03.96\00:20:12.93
He's coming back
for who's principled.
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So, you know I haven't
preached here since July 12.
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We had a good sermon on
tithe and offering, people
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were standing up and clapping.
00:20:26.16\00:20:28.86
Shouting.
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'Cause today I
need you to think.
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Worship is a blending
of cognition and emotion.
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The efficacy of balance.
00:20:39.76\00:20:43.50
It's my baptized brain
that makes me want to shout.
00:20:43.50\00:20:47.26
It's my sanctified
psyche that makes me want to say
00:20:47.26\00:20:49.96
amen.
00:20:49.96\00:20:50.96
If you're going to shout,
say something worth shouting
00:20:50.96\00:20:53.30
about.
00:20:53.30\00:20:55.00
Preachers, especially theology
majors: preaching is not
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decibel level.
00:20:58.43\00:21:00.50
It's not decibel
level, how loud you can shout.
00:21:01.76\00:21:03.80
If you're going to
shout, say something
00:21:03.80\00:21:06.50
worth shouting about.
00:21:06.50\00:21:07.50
We've got a problem.
00:21:07.50\00:21:14.13
We've got a prognosis.
00:21:14.13\00:21:19.23
Today, we have a prescription.
00:21:19.23\00:21:23.13
Your heads are
bowed, your eyes are closed.
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Lord God, it's
time to end worship.
00:21:29.30\00:21:35.03
We don't want spiritual Ebola.
00:21:35.03\00:21:38.06
We don't want to be a carrier,
00:21:39.76\00:21:41.76
internally or externally.
00:21:43.23\00:21:45.23
We don't even want to get
infected from a dead person.
00:21:46.96\00:21:49.96
God, we want solid food,
00:21:52.93\00:21:54.93
we don't want the
symptoms of spiritual vomit.
00:21:56.36\00:21:59.90
We want a diet of solids.
00:21:59.90\00:22:04.76
And so Lord, in this, as
we begin the academic year,
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as we begin this
academic year for our freshman
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and transfer students,
I'm praying that oh, God,
00:22:14.00\00:22:21.60
right now as all week
they have been challenged
00:22:21.60\00:22:24.06
to get connected with You
that, God, we begin right.
00:22:24.06\00:22:26.63
And in our beginning right
that we fully keep our eyes
00:22:26.63\00:22:34.20
on the
prescription: Jesus Christ.
00:22:34.20\00:22:38.83
For some, Lord, today this
is the first time life they
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will be away from family.
00:22:44.93\00:22:48.00
Keep their eyes
on the prescription.
00:22:48.00\00:22:51.20
Don't let them get infected.
00:22:54.16\00:22:55.93
So, Lord, if You have to
spiritually quarantine them,
00:22:55.93\00:23:00.20
do it, God.
00:23:00.20\00:23:03.16
Forgive me of my sins
and Lord, I'm going to pause
00:23:03.16\00:23:07.83
in this prayer because I
dare not close without allowing
00:23:07.83\00:23:13.03
individuals to
respond to Your voice.
00:23:13.03\00:23:16.96
Your heads are
bowed, your eyes are closed.
00:23:16.96\00:23:19.40
We're pausing in this prayer
and we're praying for the Spirit
00:23:19.40\00:23:24.50
of God to move.
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You are a freshman.
00:23:25.50\00:23:26.50
You don't want to be infected.
00:23:26.50\00:23:32.26
You don't want spiritual Ebola.
00:23:32.26\00:23:34.26
And so you want to
be quarantined today
00:23:37.40\00:23:39.40
by the power of the Holy Ghost.
00:23:39.40\00:23:42.80
On this, your first
Sabbath as an Oakwood student,
00:23:42.80\00:23:45.40
you want to be spiritually
quarantined so you will not
00:23:45.40\00:23:50.73
be affected and
infected by spiritual Ebola.
00:23:50.73\00:23:52.73
Today, if that's you, I
want you as a freshman to stand
00:23:52.73\00:24:00.70
where you are, and
you're saying, "God, spiritually
00:24:00.70\00:24:07.06
quarantine me.
00:24:07.06\00:24:08.80
Spiritually protect me."
00:24:08.80\00:24:09.80
Jesus, be a fix.
00:24:09.80\00:24:12.30
So if you're standing on
your feet saying, "God today
00:24:12.30\00:24:17.73
through the power of Your
Son, Jesus Christ, because
00:24:17.73\00:24:20.83
He is the prescription in
me and my life, I give You
00:24:20.83\00:24:27.43
permission, Dr. Jesus, to
spiritually quarantine me."
00:24:27.43\00:24:33.46
That's appeal number one.
00:24:33.46\00:24:37.86
Appeal number two: you're
a man, you're a woman, you're
00:24:37.86\00:24:42.66
a boy, you're a
girl, you've been infected.
00:24:42.66\00:24:46.20
I don't know what by; I
don't need to know what by.
00:24:46.20\00:24:53.66
Spiritual Ebola, whatever.
00:24:53.66\00:24:55.63
But today you
need a prescription.
00:24:55.63\00:24:57.63
And you need the
prescription of Jesus.
00:24:57.63\00:25:01.16
And so today,
you're saying, "Dr. Jesus,
00:25:01.16\00:25:03.16
I want to be baptized.
00:25:03.16\00:25:04.16
Dr. Jesus, I want
to be re-baptized.
00:25:04.16\00:25:06.16
Dr. Jesus, I want to join
this church through baptism,
00:25:06.16\00:25:09.03
through re-baptism,
through transfer of my church
00:25:09.03\00:25:11.46
membership, through
profession of my faith.
00:25:11.46\00:25:13.46
But Jesus, I must be among
the people who are spiritually
00:25:13.46\00:25:17.23
quarantined by You."
00:25:17.23\00:25:21.80
Today, if you're
here, balcony or main floor,
00:25:21.80\00:25:23.86
I want you to get up out
of your seat and I want you
00:25:23.86\00:25:27.50
to come down this aisle.
00:25:27.50\00:25:28.73
And you're going to give
me your hands, you're going
00:25:28.73\00:25:31.30
to give Jesus your heart.
00:25:31.30\00:25:32.66
And you're saying,
"Lord Jesus, I want to start
00:25:32.66\00:25:35.00
anew. I want to
begin a new chapter."
00:25:35.00\00:25:37.30
You're not worried about
anybody else, you're not worried
00:25:37.30\00:25:40.70
about what they're going
think, you're not worried
00:25:40.70\00:25:42.70
about what they're going to say.
00:25:42.70\00:25:44.70
Because the reality is,
they don't have a prescription
00:25:44.70\00:25:46.70
for you.
00:25:46.70\00:25:47.70
But God is calling you.
00:25:47.70\00:25:49.20
>: We'd all like to live
healthier lives, but doing
00:25:49.20\00:25:51.76
so and maintaining it
aren't always so easy.
00:25:51.76\00:25:54.56
It's hard when the foods
we love are also the foods
00:25:54.56\00:25:56.93
that can hurt us the most.
00:25:56.93\00:25:58.23
And when it's
easier to watch TV than
00:25:58.23\00:26:00.30
it is to exercise.
00:26:00.30\00:26:01.80
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I didn't come that you
might have Ebola, but I came
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that you might have life
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