GOD WANTS YOU TO SEE THAT
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WHEN YOU HAVE NO POWER,
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WHEN YOU CAN'T DO ANYTHING,
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WHEN YOU WOULD HAVE TO SAY,
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"I GIVE UP !"
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THAT'S WHEN GOD
IS MOST POWERFUL.
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?  PRAISE THE LORD,
LET'S JUST PRAISE THE LORD. ?
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WHEN GOD GETS READY HE CAN
DELIVER YOU, IF YOU CALL ON HIM,
IF YOU TRUST IN HIM.
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?  HE'S WORTHY OF THE
PRAISE, JESUS IS WORTHY. ?
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YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE DOWN FLAT
ON YOUR FACE, BUT THE POWER OF
GOD WILL LIFT YOU UP.
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?  HE'S WORTHY OF
ALL, ALL THE PRAISE. ?
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TONIGHT WE GO TO EZEKIEL,
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THE 37TH CHAPTER AND THERE IN
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THAT BOOK THERE ARE WORDS THAT
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ARE WRITTEN THAT MATCH THE THEME
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THAT WE HAVE CHOSEN FOR THE
SERMONS THAT WILL BE PART OF A
SERIES, "WHEN GOD STEPS IN".
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THE BIBLE SAYS,
BEGINNING WITH VERSE ONE,
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LET'S BOW TOGETHER AS WE PRAY.
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FATHER IN HEAVEN, WE
CALL UPON THEE TONIGHT BECAUSE
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THIS TOO IS A
TIME OF HOPELESSNESS.
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THIS TOO IS A TIME WHEN MANY
HAVE LOOKED INTO WHAT THEY THINK
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IS THE FUTURE, AND THEY BELIEVE
THAT THE FUTURE HOLDS NOTHING
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FOR THEM. BUT WE COME TONIGHT
WITH THE ASSURANCE FROM THE WORD
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THAT GOD IS STILL ABLE TO
DO THINGS THAT SEEM IMPOSSIBLE.
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SO TONIGHT, AS WE OPEN THY WORD,
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WE ASK THAT MORE MIGHT HAPPEN
THAN A PERSON READING FROM
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THE BIBLE OR EVEN 
COMMENTING ON A TEXT.
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LET THE POWER OF THE
HOLY SPIRIT BE WITH US.
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ALL THAT I HAVE AND ALL THAT
I AM I PLACE INTO THY HANDS.
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IT'S NOT MUCH, BUT USE IT FATHER
IN THE NAME OF JESUS, AMEN.
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THE TIME IN WHICH WE LIVE CALLS
FOR PERHAPS A THEME THAT IS A
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LITTLE DIFFERENT. AND SO WE HAVE
STARED HOPELESSNESS IN THE FACE.
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WE HAVE LOOKED AT THE SITUATION
THAT MANY FEEL IS IMPOSSIBLE.
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AND WE DARE TO DECLARE THAT
THINGS CHANGE WHEN GOD STEPS IN.
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I BELIEVE THAT
GOD STILL STEPS IN.
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I AM FROM A BACKGROUND THAT
WOULD SUGGEST THAT NO MATTER
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HOW HOPELESS THINGS MAY SEEM,
THAT GOD ONLY HAS TO DETERMINE
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WHEN HE'S READY, AND WHEN GOD
SHOWS UP THE WHOLE SITUATION IS
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CHANGED. I WAS REARED IN
A HOUSING PROJECT WHERE MOST
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DEMOGRAPHERS WOULD HAVE LOOKED
AND SAID, "THERE IS NO HOPE."
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IN FACT, I'LL MAKE IT
MORE PERSONAL THAN THAT.
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IF THEY HAD LOOKED AT ME,
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IF THEY HAD PUT ME
ON A CHART SOMEWHERE,
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IF THEY HAD PLOTTED OUT
WHAT MY FUTURE WOULD BE,
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THEY WOULD HAVE DETERMINED
THIS YOUNG MAN HAS NO HOPE.
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BUT I'M PROUD TO SAY TO YOU
TONIGHT THAT THERE WAS A MOTHER
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AND A FATHER WHO
SOMEHOW ALSO BELIEVED
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THAT WHEN GOD STEPS
IN, SOMETHING CHANGES.
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AND SO EVEN THOUGH WE LIVED IN A
PLACE THAT WAS SURROUNDED BY
APPARENT HOPELESSNESS,
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THEY HELD ON TO THE
BELIEF THAT IF GOD IS PRESENT,
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NOTHING CAN BE HOPELESS.
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AND THEY, AMONG A VERY FEW
OTHER PARENTS MADE AN ISLAND
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IN THAT SEA OF HOPELESSNESS
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AND CONTINUED TO SAY
TO ME AND MY BROTHER,
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"IT MAY SEEM LIKE
YOU CAN'T MAKE IT,
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BUT THE FACT IS THAT
IF GOD IS ON YOUR SIDE,
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YOU REALLY CAN'T FAIL."
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AND SO TONIGHT IT IS OUT
OF AN EXPERIENCE THAT IS REAL
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THAT I COME TO YOU WITH A
VISION THAT WAS GIVEN A PROPHET
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IN A TIME WHEN THE
PEOPLE CALLED ISRAEL
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HAD RESIGNED
THEMSELVES TO FAILURE.
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IN FACT, THEIR
DETERMINATION, THEIR WORDS WERE,
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"WE ARE LIKE DRY BONES.
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WE'RE ALIVE, BUT WE'RE DEAD.
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WE'RE STILL AROUND WITH THE
SENSIBILITIES TO KNOW WHERE WE
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ARE, BUT THERE IS NO FUTURE."
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THEY THOUGHT THAT SOMEHOW
BECAUSE THEY HAD TURNED AGAINST
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GOD, THAT GOD HAD THE RIGHT TO
TURN AGAINST THEM; AND HE DID.
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BUT THE FACT IS THAT YOU CAN NOT
UNDERSTAND THE LOVING KINDNESS
AND THE MERCY OF GOD ALMIGHTY.
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THE FACT IS THAT IF I
WERE TO DETERMINE TONIGHT
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IF I WERE WORTHY OF GOD'S MERCY,
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I WOULD HAVE TO
DECLARE THAT I'M NOT.
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BUT I'M PLEASED TO TELL YOU THAT
I DON'T MAKE THE DETERMINATION
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TONIGHT. I'M ALSO KIND OF HAPPY
THAT YOU DON'T MAKE IT EITHER.
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IT'S A DETERMINATION
THAT'S LEFT UP TO GOD.
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AND GOD IS MORE
MERCIFUL AND MORE COMPASSIONATE
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AND MORE LONG-SUFFERING
THAN SOME BELIEVE.
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GOD HAD LOOKED ON
THE CAPTIVITY OF ISRAEL,
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GOD HAD SEEN THEM
FALL INTO IDOLATRY,
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HE HAD WATCHED
THEM BECOME UNFAITHFUL.
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AND YOU WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THAT
ANY GOD WITH ANY KIND OF RULES
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WOULD HAVE
STIFFENED HIMSELF AND SAID,
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"I'LL MAKE ME ANOTHER PEOPLE,
I'LL CHOOSE SOMEBODY ELSE."
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BUT GOD IS LONG-SUFFERING
AND SO HE DID NOT ABANDON THEM.
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INSTEAD, HE CONTINUED TO REACH
OUT TO THEM AND WHEN THEY SAID,
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"WE'RE JUST LIKE PEOPLE
WHO ARE ALIVE BUT REALLY DEAD,
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WE SEEM TO BE ALIVE, BUT
IF YOU LOOK AT OUR FUTURE
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WE MIGHT AS WELL BE DEAD."
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GOD TOOK THEIR OWN
METAPHOR, TOOK THEIR OWN WORDS,
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PUT THE PROPHET INTO A VISION
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AND SHOWED
EZEKIEL THE VERY THING
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THAT THE ISRAELITES HAD
BEGUN TO MOUTH WITH THEIR LIPS.
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HE SHOWED THE PROPHET BONES.
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HE SAID, "YOU WANT
TO TALK HOPELESSNESS ?
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I'LL TALK HOPELESSNESS WITH YOU.
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YOU WANT TO LET BONES REPRESENT
NO HOPE, THEN LET THAT BE SO.
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BUT WATCH WHAT I
CAN DO WITH DRY BONES.
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AND SO IN THE VISION
THAT IS GIVEN TO EZEKIEL,
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EZEKIEL FINDS HIMSELF
BEING MOVED AROUND THE VALLEY
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SO THAT HE CAN SEE
ALL OF THE DRY BONES.
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THE SCHOLARS HAVE
LOOKED AT THE TEXT
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AND THEY HAVE COME TO BELIEVE
THAT THESE BONES WERE NOT
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STACKED AS THOUGH
SOMEONE HAD COME TO BURY THEM.
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THEY WERE NOT PUT AS
THOUGH THEY WERE ABOUT
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TO BE PUT INTO A FUNERAL
PROCESSION OR INTO A CRYPT.
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IT WAS AS THOUGH A
BATTLE HAD TAKEN PLACE,
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AS THOUGH NOBODY
CARED THAT THEY WERE DEAD.
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IT WAS AS THOUGH A
SLAUGHTER HAD OCCURRED
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AND THE PEOPLE HAD GONE AWAY,
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LEAVING THE BONES
TO BLEACH IN THE SUN;
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TO WEAR AWAY AND BE
EATEN BY PREDATORS THAT CAME.
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NOBODY CARED.
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THIS IS THE SITUATION
THAT ISRAEL HAD CONJURED UP.
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THIS IS THE SITUATION
THAT GOD STARTED WITH.
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NOW HE TAKES THE
PROPHET AND SAYS,
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"LET ME LET YOU SEE ALL OF THEM.
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I DON'T WANT YOU TO MISS
ANY BECAUSE IF YOU MISS ANY,
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YOU MIGHT NOT SEE HOW
GRAND IS THIS DILEMMA.
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I WANT YOU TO SEE ALL OF IT AND
TO KNOW THAT THERE ARE DRY BONES
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EVERYWHERE. AND,
THEY ARE VERY DRY.
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THEY'VE BEEN THERE ALONG TIME."
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NOW, IN A FEW MOMENTS I'M
GOING TO TRY MY AMATEUR EFFORT
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AT SHOWING THAT THERE IS
SOMETHING TO THIS PARALLEL ABOUT
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BONES. THE FACT IS THAT
PHYSICIANS ARE CLEAR TO SAY THAT
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THE STEM CELL THAT CREATES
BLOOD IS FOUND IN BONE MARROW.
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SO IF THE BONES ARE VERY
DRY, THE MARROW HAS DRIED.
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AND IF THERE IS NO MORE
STEM CELL FOR THE PRODUCTION OF
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BLOOD, MAN CANNOT
LIVE WITHOUT BLOOD.
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SO THIS IS NOT
ONLY HOPELESS FOR NOW,
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IT'S HOPELESS FOR THE FUTURE.
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THESE BONES CANNOT PRODUCE
THE VERY STEM CELL THAT BRINGS
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BLOOD. BUT GOD WANTS YOU TO KNOW
THAT WHEN YOU HAVE DISCOUNTED
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ALL HOPE; WHEN YOU'VE LOOKED
FROM ONE END OF A VALLEY TO THE
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OTHER, WHEN EVERY
BONE THAT YOU SEE IS DRY;
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WHEN THEY ARE NOT
STACKED IN AN ORDERLY FASHION,
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BUT WHEN ONE BONE IS
HERE AND ANOTHER BONE IS THERE
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AND IF YOU WERE
CHALLENGED TO PUT THEM TOGETHER
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YOU WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO DO IT.
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GOD WANTS YOU TO SEE
THAT WHEN YOU HAVE NO POWER,
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WHEN YOU CAN'T DO ANYTHING,
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WHEN YOU WOULD HAVE TO SAY,
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"I GIVE UP !"
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THAT'S WHEN GOD
IS MOST POWERFUL.
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AND SO HE SAYS TO THE PROPHET,
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"TAKE A LOOK, HAVE
YOU SEEN IT ALL YET ?
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NOW EZEKIEL, CAN
THESE BONES LIVE ?"
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I HEARD EVANGELIST SHIRLEY
CAESAR WITH A TERRIFIC ANALYSIS
OF HOW GOD ASKS QUESTIONS.
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GOD IS OMNISCIENT, WHICH IS
TO SAY THAT HE KNOWS EVERYTHING.
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IF YOU KNOW EVERYTHING,
THAT MEANS THAT YOU KNOW
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THE ANSWER TO EVERY
QUESTION THAT CAN BE ASKED.
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SO NO MATTER WHAT GOD ASKS,
HE ALWAYS KNOWS THE ANSWER.
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ALL OF HIS QUESTIONS
ARE THEREFORE RHETORICAL.
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HE KNOWS THE ANSWER.
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AND SO WHEN GOD ASKS
EZEKIEL "CAN THESE BONES LIVE,"
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IT WAS NOT FOR THE
SAKE OF INFORMATION.
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GOD ALREADY KNEW
WHAT HE WAS ABOUT TO DO.
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HE JUST WANTED TO KNOW WAS
THE PROPHET WAS ON THE SAME
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WAVELENGTH ? WAS HE
TUNED INTO THE RIGHT CHANNEL ?
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WAS HIS FAITH UP HIGH
ENOUGH TO BE ABLE TO COMPREHEND
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WHAT GOD WAS ABOUT TO SAY ?
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IF EZEKIEL HAD SAID,
"NO, THEY CAN'T LIVE !"
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THEN GOD WOULD HAVE KNOWN
THAT THERE WAS NOT ENOUGH FAITH
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IN THIS PREACHER TO
GIVE HIM THE VISION.
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THE VISION MIGHT HAVE
HAD TO GO TO SOMEBODY ELSE.
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BUT I'M GLAD TO REPORT
THAT THE PROPHET WAS WISE IN HIS
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RESPONSE. HE NEITHER SAID THAT
THEY CAN OR THEY CANNOT LIVE HE
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SAID, "LORD, YOU KNOW.
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YOU KNOW.
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I DON'T KNOW, BUT YOU KNOW."
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NOW FORGIVE ME IF I GET
EXCITED AT THE QUESTION.
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YOU SEE, IF GOD SHOWS YOU A
SITUATION THAT IS IMPOSSIBLE
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AND THEN DARES
TO ASK THE QUESTION,
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"CAN THE BONES LIVE ?"
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I DON'T KNOW ABOUT
YOU, BUT I GET GOOSE BUMPS.
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I BEGIN TO ASK MYSELF,
"WHAT IS GOD ABOUT TO DO ?"
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YOU KNOW, IT'S A STRANGE
QUESTION TO ASK OVER DRY BONES;
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VERY DRY BONES. WHY WOULD GOD
BEGIN TO INCLINE MY IMAGINATION
IN THAT DIRECTION ?
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AND I POSE IT TO YOU TONIGHT
THAT IF YOU KNOW GOD LONG ENOUGH
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AND WELL ENOUGH, WHEN GOD
ASKS QUESTIONS LIKE THAT YOU GET
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EXCITED. BECAUSE THE FACT IS
THAT GOD DOES THINGS THAT MAN
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CANNOT COMPREHEND. AND IF GOD
HAD ASKED ME THE QUESTION, I'LL
BE HONEST WITH YOU;
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I'D OF GOTTEN A LITTLE EXCITED.
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CAN THESE BONES LIVE ?
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LORD, YOU KNOW.
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NOW LET ME TALK A
MOMENT ABOUT THESE BONES.
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AND I ASK THE FORGIVENESS
OF EVERY MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL.
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YOU KNOW IT'S AMAZING;
PREACHERS WANT TO BE DOCTORS.
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WELL, IT'S NOT UNIQUE;
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THERE ARE SOME DOCTORS
WHO WANT TO BE PREACHERS.
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SO, IF THEY WILL FORGIVE ME FOR
DABBLING IN THEIR BAILEY WICK A
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LITTLE BIT, I'LL FORGIVE
THEM FOR DABBLING INTO MINE,
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AND WE CAN GO
FORWARD, WHAT DO YOU SAY ?
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I CAME ACROSS AN
ARTICLE SOME YEARS AGO
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THAT GAVE ME WHAT I THINK IS
AN INSIGHT INTO WHAT GOD MUST
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HAVE HAD IN MIND WHEN GOD PICKED
UP ON THE METAPHOR OF ISRAEL.
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REMEMBER THAT GOD DID NOT HAVE
TO PICK UP ON WHAT ISRAEL HAD
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STARTED, HE COULD HAVE CHANGED
METAPHORS SINCE HE CREATED ALL
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LANGUAGE. I PAUSE FOR A MOMENT
IN CASE THERE ARE QUESTIONS.
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I SEEM TO REMEMBER
A TOWER CALLED BABEL
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AND EVERYBODY SPOKE ONE
LANGUAGE UNTIL GOD DECIDED
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"I WILL SCRAMBLE THEM."
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AND SO GOD SCRAMBLED THE
LANGUAGES AND MY SUGGESTION IS
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THAT GOD CREATED
ALL THE LANGUAGES.
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GOD, UNDERSTANDING ALL LANGUAGES
COULD HAVE SPOKEN IN ANY ONE,
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OR CHOSEN ANY METAPHOR.
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BUT INSTEAD, HE
PICKS UP ON THEIRS,
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AND HE LETS THIS
PROPHET GO INTO THE VALLEY
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AND THE QUESTION IS, "WHY
DOES GOD CHOOSE THIS ONE ?"
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I CAME TO KNOW THAT THERE IS
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WHAT FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGISTS
CALL, NOW THAT WAS A PRETTY GOOD
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TERM WASN'T IT ? THERE IS
A NEW BRANCH; THE FORENSIC
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ANTHROPOLOGIST IS ABLE TO
TAKE A BONE, NOTHING BUT A BONE,
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AND BEGIN TO ANALYZE THE BONE.
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I AM NOT PARTICULARLY
ENAMORED WITH BONES.
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IN FACT, I HAVE BEEN IN THOSE
LITTLE COUNTRY CHURCH YARDS
WHERE THEY HAVE CEMETERIES.
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ANDI MUST TELL YOU THAT
I'M CAREFUL WHERE I STEP.
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THERE'S NO
PARTICULAR FEAR THAT I HAVE,
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BUT NO ONE WANTS
TO COME UPON A BONE.
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BUT THESE PEOPLE SPEND
THEIR LIVES WITH BONES.
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ALL YOU'VE GOT TO DO
IS GIVE THEM THE BONE,
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A SMALL PART OF A BONE AND
ACCORDING TO HOW WELL THEY DO,
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THEY CAN TELL YOU WHO THE
PERSON WAS WHO HAD THIS BONE.
00:14:50.66\00:14:55.73
THEY CAN LOOK, FOR
INSTANCE, AT THE NASAL MARGIN
00:14:55.73\00:15:01.23
OR THE NASAL RIDGE AND TELL
YOU WHAT ETHNIC GROUP THE PERSON
00:15:01.23\00:15:10.66
CAME FROM. NO MATTER HOW
MUCH PLASTIC SURGERY YOU GET,
00:15:10.66\00:15:14.93
YOUR BONES WILL
STILL TELL ON YOU.
00:15:14.93\00:15:18.10
ISN'T THAT SOMETHING ?
00:15:18.10\00:15:19.73
BONES WILL TELL WHETHER
THE PERSON WAS MALE OR FEMALE.
00:15:19.73\00:15:24.06
IF THE PERSON HAS A PELVIS
THAT IS NARROW AND STEEP WALLED,
00:15:24.06\00:15:29.83
THEN THAT PERSON WAS MALE.
00:15:29.83\00:15:31.76
IF THE PELVIS WAS
BROAD AND SHALLOW,
00:15:31.76\00:15:33.76
THAT PERSON WAS FEMALE.
00:15:33.76\00:15:35.46
SO THE BONES TELL THE GENDER,
00:15:35.46\00:15:38.06
THE BONES TELL THE HEIGHT.
00:15:38.06\00:15:40.26
THEY CAN TAKE THE LEG BONE,
00:15:40.26\00:15:42.13
PUNCH THE
NUMBERS IN THE COMPUTER,
00:15:42.13\00:15:44.00
AND THE COMPUTER TELLS
THAT THIS PERSON WAS "SO TALL".
00:15:44.00\00:15:48.00
THEY CAN GENERALLY TELL THE AGE.
00:15:48.00\00:15:51.26
NOW THIS GETS A LITTLE TICKLISH
SO LET ME GET TO THIS NOTE.
00:15:51.26\00:15:54.70
IF THE JUNCTION
BETWEEN THE TWO MAJOR BONES
00:15:54.70\00:15:57.93
THAT FORM THE UNDERSIDE
OF THE SKULL HAVE CLOSED,
00:15:57.93\00:16:01.90
BECAUSE YOU KNOW THE BONES STAY
OPEN FOR AWHILE TO LET YOU HAVE
00:16:01.90\00:16:05.93
ROOM TO GROW. ASSUMING THAT THE
BRAIN WILL GROW, SOMEONE OUGHT
00:16:05.93\00:16:11.23
TO SAY AMEN. IT DOESN'T CLOSE
FOR AWHILE, SO IF THAT IS STILL
00:16:11.23\00:16:15.13
OPEN, THAT MEANS THAT
THIS PERSON IS PROBABLY STILL A
00:16:15.13\00:16:18.96
CHILD. UP UNTIL THE LATE TEENS,
THOSE BONES HAVE NOT FUSED.
00:16:18.96\00:16:23.43
OVER THE TOP OF THE
CRANIUM THERE IS A ZIGZAG MARK,
00:16:23.43\00:16:27.36
OR MORE THAN ONE, THAT ARE
CALLED THE CRANIAL SUTURES.
00:16:27.36\00:16:30.90
THEY STAY THERE UNTIL
YOU REACH THE MID-TWENTIES.
00:16:30.90\00:16:34.50
AND THEN THERE IS SOMETHING
AT THE CONNECTION OF THE FEMUR
00:16:34.50\00:16:38.20
WHERE THE SHAFT MEETS THE
KNOB AND THERE IS INCOMPLETE
00:16:38.20\00:16:42.90
CALCIFICATION TO SUGGEST THAT
YOU HAVE NOT REACHED A CERTAIN
00:16:42.90\00:16:48.53
AGE. DID I SPIT THAT OUT RIGHT ?
00:16:48.53\00:16:52.46
SO, YOUR BONES
TELL HOW OLD YOU ARE.
00:16:52.46\00:16:55.33
YOUR BONES TELL WHETHER YOU
HAVE BEEN LEFT HANDED OR RIGHT
00:16:55.33\00:17:00.50
HANDED; WHETHER SOMEONE
STABBED YOU AT A CERTAIN POINT,
00:17:00.50\00:17:04.10
OR SHOT YOU AT A CERTAIN POINT.
00:17:04.10\00:17:06.66
SO BONES TELL
WHO THEY BELONG TO.
00:17:06.66\00:17:10.36
AND IN FACT, SOME OF THEM WILL
EVEN BEGIN TO TELL THE FACIAL
00:17:10.36\00:17:16.73
FEATURES BECAUSE OF THE
WAY THE BONES ARE FORMED.
00:17:16.73\00:17:20.13
NOW LISTEN, THERE IS WHAT
THEY CALL AN OSTEO-BIOGRAPHY
00:17:20.13\00:17:28.40
SO THAT IF THEY HAD
NOTHING BUT YOUR BONES LEFT,
00:17:28.40\00:17:32.93
THEY COULD BEGIN TO BUILD
A BIOGRAPHY OF YOUR LIFE WITH
00:17:32.93\00:17:39.90
NOTING BUT BONES. THERE IS A
MAN BY THE NAME OF CLYDE SNOW.
00:17:39.90\00:17:42.36
HE IS THE MOST CALLED
UPON OF THESE ANTHROPOLOGISTS.
00:17:42.36\00:17:46.36
AND HE IS ONE OF THOSE WHO CAN
TAKE A BONE AND BEGIN TO TELL
WHAT THE PERSON WAS LIKE.
00:17:46.36\00:17:51.96
SO THEN, IF YOUR IMAGINATION
IS READY TO TAKE THIS STEP,
00:17:51.96\00:17:57.03
CAN YOU IMAGINE THAT GOD
MIGHT HAVE HAD IT IN MIND
00:17:57.03\00:18:01.60
TO SUGGEST THAT WHEN
THIS VALLEY IS FULL OF BONES,
00:18:01.60\00:18:05.23
IT IS FULL OF SAD STORIES ?
00:18:05.23\00:18:10.13
FOR BONES ARE NOT JUST BONES.
00:18:10.13\00:18:12.60
BONES ARE BIOGRAPHIES.
00:18:12.60\00:18:15.96
BONES TELL THE STORY OF PEOPLE.
00:18:15.96\00:18:19.53
BONES TELL WHAT
YOUR LIFE WAS LIKE.
00:18:19.53\00:18:23.63
WHEN YOU COME TO THIS
VALLEY AND THIS VISION,
00:18:23.63\00:18:26.26
YOU'RE NOT JUST
LOOKING AT DRIED BONES;
00:18:26.26\00:18:29.10
YOU ARE LOOKING AT LIVES
-- LIVES THAT HAD MEANING,
00:18:29.10\00:18:31.83
LIVES THAT HAD FULFILLMENT,
LIVES THAT WERE ALMOST THERE.
00:18:31.83\00:18:35.93
BUT SOME CATACLYSMIC EVENT
HAS HAPPENED AND LIFE CEASED.
00:18:35.93\00:18:41.33
AND ALL OF A SUDDEN YOU
ARE NOW FACING BONES SCATTERED
00:18:41.33\00:18:46.96
EVERYWHERE, SO THAT YOU
ARE LOOKING AT THE ULTIMATE OF
00:18:46.96\00:18:51.33
HOPELESSNESS. PEOPLES
LIVES THAT HAVE COME TO AN END.
00:18:51.33\00:18:54.10
AND EVIDENTLY THEY'VE COME
TO AN END UNDER SOME TERRIBLE
00:18:54.10\00:18:59.76
CIRCUMSTANCES. WHEN THIS
PROPHET LOOKS AT THE BONES,
00:18:59.76\00:19:02.53
PERHAPS HE TOO
DRAWS BACK A LITTLE BIT.
00:19:02.53\00:19:05.73
BUT THEN GOD SUGGESTS TO
HIM, CAN THESE BONES LIVE ?
00:19:05.73\00:19:10.83
AND WHEN THE ANSWER
COMES, "LORD, THOUGH KNOWEST."
00:19:10.83\00:19:14.53
THEN GOD SUGGESTS
THAT THEY CAN LIVE,
00:19:14.53\00:19:19.10
BUT IT DOES NOT HAPPEN
UNDER NORMAL CONDITIONS.
00:19:19.10\00:19:24.66
THE FACT IS THAT IN
GOD'S WORLD, IN GOD'S SPHERE,
00:19:24.66\00:19:31.93
THERE IS NO
CHALLENGE WITH SAD STORIES.
00:19:31.93\00:19:36.23
NOW THE PRIMARY IMPLICATIONS
OF THIS TEXT ARE CLEAR.
00:19:36.23\00:19:39.26
IF YOU SIMPLY
READ IT IN ITS CONTEXT,
00:19:39.26\00:19:42.03
YOU WILL COME TO UNDERSTAND
THAT THIS MEANING SHOULD
00:19:42.03\00:19:44.86
HAVE BEEN CLEAR TO
THE NATION OF ISRAEL.
00:19:44.86\00:19:47.46
THEY THOUGHT THAT THEIR
NATIONHOOD WAS FOREVER GONE.
00:19:47.46\00:19:50.73
THEY THOUGHT THAT THEY WOULD
NEVER, EVER HAVE HOPE TO RISE UP
00:19:50.73\00:19:54.63
AGAIN. AND WHAT GOD IS TELLING
THEM IS THAT EVEN THOUGH YOU
HAVE GONE AWAY FROM ME,
00:19:54.63\00:19:58.76
I AM MERCIFUL
ENOUGH TO REACH OUT TO YOU.
00:19:58.76\00:20:01.46
AND WHEN I REACH OUT TO YOU THE
FACT IS THAT THOUGH IT SEEMS
LIKE YOU ARE WALKING DEAD,
00:20:01.46\00:20:06.83
IF YOU WALK WITH ME; IF
YOU PUT YOUR HOPE IN ME,
00:20:06.83\00:20:09.96
I CAN CHANGE THAT SITUATION.
00:20:09.96\00:20:12.03
I CAN MAKE THE LANDSCAPE OVER;
00:20:12.03\00:20:15.20
I CAN SWITCH THE
SITUATIONS AROUND YOU.
00:20:15.20\00:20:18.06
I CAN TURN NIGHT INTO DAY, I
CAN TURN CURSE INTO BLESSING,
00:20:18.06\00:20:22.93
I CAN TURN FAILURE INTO
VICTORY, I CAN DO THAT !
00:20:22.93\00:20:27.43
AND ISRAEL HAD ONLY TO LISTEN.
00:20:27.43\00:20:30.36
THE FACT IS THAT SCORES
OF YEARS BEFORE HIS BIRTH,
00:20:30.36\00:20:33.50
CYRUS WAS ALREADY
CALLED BY NAME, BY GOD.
00:20:33.50\00:20:37.63
IN ISAIAH 44, THE
LAST VERSE, GOD SAYS,
00:20:37.63\00:20:40.86
"CYRUS IS MY SHEPHERD, I'LL USE
HIM TO BRING MY CHILDREN BACK TO
00:20:40.86\00:20:47.16
THEIR LAND." SO WHILE ISRAEL WAS
THERE SAYING "WE DON'T HAVE ANY
00:20:47.16\00:20:52.56
HOPE," THE FACT IS THAT GOD HAD
ALREADY NAMED THE ONE WHO WAS TO
00:20:52.56\00:20:58.46
BE THEIR SOLUTION. NOW YOU'LL
FORGIVE ME, BUT I AM A PREACHER.
00:20:58.46\00:21:01.33
I CAN'T GO PAST THAT ONE
WITHOUT COMMENTING ON IT.
00:21:01.33\00:21:04.26
SOMEBODY RIGHT HERE MIGHT HAVE A
SITUATION GOING ON IN YOUR LIFE.
00:21:04.26\00:21:08.20
AND YOU'RE WONDERING HOW IN THE
WORLD CAN I MAKE IT PAST THIS ?
00:21:08.20\00:21:11.63
THERE IS NO WAY OUT !
00:21:11.63\00:21:13.60
THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO COMMIT
SUICIDE BECAUSE THEY LOOK AT
00:21:13.60\00:21:16.00
THEIR LIVES AND THEY
THINK THERE IS NO HOPE,
00:21:16.00\00:21:18.86
THEY THINK THAT
THEY'RE ALIVE, BUT DEAD.
00:21:18.86\00:21:21.26
THEY ARE PRACTICALLY DEAD
BECAUSE THEY SEE NO WAY OUT.
00:21:21.26\00:21:26.10
AND I SUGGEST TO YOU THAT
YOU REALLY OUGHT TO LOOK AT YOUR
00:21:26.10\00:21:29.03
SITUATION THOUGH GOD'S
EYES BEFORE YOU MAKE A DECISION,
00:21:29.03\00:21:33.56
BECAUSE GOD CAN SEE
THINGS THAT WE CANNOT SEE.
00:21:33.56\00:21:37.20
AND SO, BEFORE YOU GIVE UP MAYBE
YOU OUGHT TO LET GOD TAKE A LOOK
00:21:37.20\00:21:41.33
AT IT. LET THE GREAT PHYSICIAN
TAKE A LOOK AT YOUR CASE.
00:21:41.33\00:21:44.50
LET THE ONE WHO
CAN RULE THE EARTH,
00:21:44.50\00:21:47.10
WHO HOLDS IT IN
THE PALM OF HIS HAND.
00:21:47.10\00:21:49.20
LET HIM MAKE A DECISION
ON IT BEFORE YOU CALL IT OFF.
00:21:49.20\00:21:53.16
THE PRIMARY
IMPLICATION IS CLEAR,
00:21:53.16\00:21:55.36
GOD IS TALKING TO ISRAEL SAYING,
00:21:55.36\00:21:57.30
"THAT YOU THINK YOU CAN'T HAVE
NATIONHOOD BUT THINK AGAIN."
00:21:57.30\00:22:00.80
NOW I BRING IT TO ANOTHER LEVEL,
00:22:00.80\00:22:03.30
FOR THE FACT IS THAT I AM
NOT CALLED TO PREACH TO ANCIENT
00:22:03.30\00:22:06.76
ISRAEL, I AM CALLED TO
PREACH TO POST MODERN AMERICA.
00:22:06.76\00:22:11.90
AND I THINK THAT THE
DEMOGRAPHERS HAVE GONE TOO FAR.
00:22:11.90\00:22:17.73
THE DOOM SAYERS, NO MATTER HOW
MANY TERMINAL DEGREES THEY MAY
00:22:17.73\00:22:22.53
POSSESS, HAVE ONLY THE
ABILITY TO LOOK AT THE FACTS.
00:22:22.53\00:22:27.10
THEY CAN ONLY LOOK AT WHAT IS.
00:22:27.10\00:22:30.70
THEY CANNOT SEE BEYOND WHAT IS.
00:22:30.70\00:22:34.73
AND SO, THEY MAY
BE QUITE ACCURATE.
00:22:34.73\00:22:36.76
THEY MAY COME AND SAY, "WELL,
JUDGING BY WHAT WE'VE SEEN
00:22:36.76\00:22:39.73
AND WHAT WE'VE
BEEN ABLE TO DETERMINE,
00:22:39.73\00:22:41.03
WE'VE LOOKED AT PEOPLE
IN THIS KIND OF SITUATION
00:22:41.03\00:22:43.26
AND WE'VE JUDGED IT AND
WE'VE PUT THIS PERCENTAGE HERE
00:22:43.26\00:22:45.40
AND THAT PERCENTAGE THERE; WE'VE
LOOKED AT ALL THE PROBABILITIES
00:22:45.40\00:22:48.60
AND WE'VE COME UP TO THIS
CONCLUSION THAT THIS GROUP OF
PEOPLE CANNOT MAKE IT."
00:22:48.60\00:22:55.56
THEY DO IT ALL THE TIME.
00:22:55.56\00:22:59.93
THE URBAN
UNDERCLASS CANNOT MAKE IT.
00:22:59.93\00:23:04.63
WE'VE LOOKED AT IT.
00:23:04.63\00:23:06.03
THEY WILL SAY, "IT'S
ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE FOR ANY CHILD
00:23:06.03\00:23:10.80
FROM A SINGLE PARENT FAMILY
TO THRIVE, YOU CAN'T DO IT."
00:23:10.80\00:23:16.50
AND I'M NOT ANGRY WITH THEM.
00:23:16.50\00:23:18.90
WHAT THEY'VE DONE IS
THEY'VE TAKEN ALL THE FACTS
00:23:18.90\00:23:21.36
AND FED THEN INTO
THEIR LITTLE COMPUTER,
00:23:21.36\00:23:23.53
AND THEIR LITTLE COMPUTER
HAS DONE WHAT COMPUTERS DO:
00:23:23.53\00:23:27.00
YOU FEED IT IN, THE COMPUTER
DOES WHAT YOU'VE PROGRAMMED IT
00:23:27.00\00:23:30.93
TO DO. THE COMPUTER CANNOT BE
BLAMED FOR WHAT COMES OUT AT THE
00:23:30.93\00:23:34.76
OTHER END. IT WAS NOT THE
COMPUTER THAT PROGRAMMED ITSELF
00:23:34.76\00:23:38.00
! IT WAS SOMEONE,
PERHAPS A VERY BRAINY SOMEONE.
00:23:38.00\00:23:41.66
SOMEONE WITH ALL KINDS OF
EDUCATION WHO WAS ACCURATE IN
THEIR CALCULATIONS,
00:23:41.66\00:23:46.56
AND THEY PUT THEM IN THE
COMPUTER AND THE COMPUTER CAME
00:23:46.56\00:23:49.13
AND SAID, "WELL NO,
THAT GROUP CAN'T MAKE IT,
00:23:49.13\00:23:51.10
AND THESE
CHILDREN CAN'T MAKE IT,
00:23:51.10\00:23:53.03
AND THOSE PEOPLE
MIGHT AS WELL GIVE UP.
00:23:53.03\00:23:55.60
AND AS WE LOOK INTO THE FUTURE,
CERTAIN PEOPLE MIGHT AS WELL
00:23:55.60\00:24:01.26
FOLD UP, BECAUSE
THEY CAN'T MAKE IT."
00:24:01.26\00:24:03.20
BUT YOU SEE I WISH THAT I
COULD GUIDE THEM OVER TO MY GOD.
00:24:03.20\00:24:08.90
(applause)
00:24:08.90\00:24:13.76
I WISH GOD COULD LET THEM
DOWN INTO THE VALLEY OF DRY
00:24:13.76\00:24:21.76
COMPUTERS. LET THEM
LOOK AT DRY FACTS AND SAY,
00:24:21.76\00:24:25.53
"LOOK, COME, COME YOU
GRAND EDUCATED HUMAN BEING.
00:24:25.53\00:24:30.13
LET ME GUIDE YOU NOW DOWN
TO WHERE ALL THE FACTS ARE
00:24:30.13\00:24:34.46
EXTRAPOLATED. LOOK
AT THEM, ARE THEY DRY ?"
00:24:34.46\00:24:36.53
AND THEY WOULD HAVE TO DECLARE,
00:24:36.53\00:24:37.83
"YES LORD, WE HAVE
ALREADY EVALUATED THIS.
00:24:37.83\00:24:40.23
WHY DO YOU ASK ?
00:24:40.23\00:24:42.30
WE'VE ALREADY SEEN THESE FACTS.
00:24:42.30\00:24:45.43
THESE FACTS ARE SELF-EVIDENT.
00:24:45.43\00:24:47.50
THERE IS NO HOPE
FOR THESE PEOPLE.
00:24:47.50\00:24:50.23
WE HAVE SAID IT; WE'VE
PUT IT IN THE NEWSPAPERS.
00:24:50.23\00:24:52.26
WE TRIED TO MAKE IT AS
CALM AND AS QUIET AS WE COULD,
00:24:52.26\00:24:56.33
BUT CERTAIN PEOPLE
MIGHT AS WELL GIVE UP.
00:24:56.33\00:24:58.20
WE HAVE STUDIED THE FACTS.
00:24:58.20\00:24:59.66
THE INDICATORS ARE ALL
CLEAR, THEY CAN'T MAKE IT !"
00:24:59.66\00:25:03.36
AND GOD WOULD GUIDE
THEM AROUND AGAIN AND SAY,
00:25:03.36\00:25:04.83
"WELL NO, LOOK AT
ALL THE DRY FACTS.
00:25:04.83\00:25:07.16
DO YOU SEE THEM ALL ?
00:25:07.16\00:25:08.66
CAN THESE PEOPLE MAKE IT ?"
00:25:08.66\00:25:10.60
WELL, THEY ARE NOT
SO WISE AS EZEKIEL WAS.
00:25:10.60\00:25:13.63
THEY SAY, "NO, LORD."
00:25:13.63\00:25:15.36
THEY WOULD ANSWER QUICKLY,
"NO YOU SEE, WE HAVE -- PULL
00:25:15.36\00:25:18.10
IT OUT -- AND THEY'D
BRING ALL THESE REAMS OF PAPER,
00:25:18.10\00:25:20.83
YOU SEE, HERE -- RIGHT
HERE, RIGHT HERE, THERE IT IS --
00:25:20.83\00:25:25.06
THE BOTTOM LINE;
THEY CAN'T MAKE IT."
00:25:25.06\00:25:28.50
BUT THEN WHAT THEY
DON'T UNDERSTAND IS THAT WHEN
00:25:28.50\00:25:31.13
GOD ASKS THE QUESTION,
HE ALREADY HAS THE SOLUTION.
00:25:31.13\00:25:36.26
NOW I AM NOT TRYING TO
PREACH UTOPIAN CHRISTIANITY.
00:25:36.26\00:25:46.26
I'M A LITTLE DISGUSTED
WITH PEOPLE WHO ACT AS THOUGH
00:25:46.26\00:25:50.96
IF YOU CALL THE NAME OF
JESUS AND LIE DOWN IN YOUR BED,
00:25:50.96\00:25:55.36
THAT GOOD THINGS WILL COME TO
FIND YOU UNDERNEATH YOUR COVERS.
00:25:55.36\00:26:01.13
I BELIEVE GOD FEEDS THE BIRDS,
BUT HE DOES NOT THROW THE WORMS
00:26:01.13\00:26:06.70
IN THEIR NEST. WHAT DO YOU SAY ?
00:26:06.70\00:26:08.83
I BELIEVE THAT GOD REWARDS
THOSE WHO PUT FORTH EFFORT.
00:26:08.83\00:26:13.33
I WOULD HATE TO
BELONG TO ANY GROUP;
00:26:13.33\00:26:15.30
I WOULD NOT EVEN PURPORT THAT
CHRISTIANITY IS GOOD FOR YOU
00:26:15.30\00:26:19.13
IF PEOPLE WOULD JUST SIT DOWN
AND WAIT FOR BLESSINGS TO FALL
00:26:19.13\00:26:26.70
UPON THEM. WHAT WOULD YOU DO ?
00:26:26.70\00:26:28.46
I SUGGEST TO YOU THAT
YOU WOULD BE NO BETTER,
00:26:28.46\00:26:30.86
IN FACT YOU WOULD PROBABLY
BE WORSE IF YOU COULD JUST SIT
00:26:30.86\00:26:33.60
THERE AND
BLESSINGS COME AND FIND YOU.
00:26:33.60\00:26:35.76
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00:26:42.80\00:26:46.33
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00:26:46.33\00:26:50.30
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