Hello and welcome back
to Behold The Lamb Presents.
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Here at Behold
The Lamb Ministries,
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the Pastor Kenny
Shelton, we are so excited and
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so happy to be coming
back to you and visit you in
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your home. And I know
you will be blessed by
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today's message. I've
got a question for you,
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have you ever heard anyone
say here I am Lord sin me,
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you know they get all
excited I'm ready God whatever
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you have here I am,
sin me. My only concern is,
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we are such emotional
beings and when we get up
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on those emotional high
as it were that's where we
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usually really ready to
do God's bidding saying.
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Here I am, we love
people claiming sin me,
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but you know what
happens the moment the pressure
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is applied, you know,
what that mean. Your husband,
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he puts the toothpaste
cap on wrong or better yet
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you're late for working,
and you get behind a very
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relax drive and they just
enjoying all the sites and
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sounds and you know
they are going 5 to 10 maybe
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the more miles per hour
under the speed limit and in
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an area that you can't
get around, you can't pass
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and boy are you tested
that pressure is on and you
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hit hard and suddenly
you just lost all your faith,
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just like that things
change. I wanna share few
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words that I found some
council. In a Book entitled
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Counsels for the
Church? It's found on pages 67
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and 68 and that reads.
Let the church members bear
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in mind that the fact
that their names are registered
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on the church books will
not save them just because
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your name is that on
a church book somewhere
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saying that you are
member that will not save you.
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They must show
themselves approved of God,
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workmen that need not
be ashamed. Listen to this,
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day by day and I would
like to add the words moment
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by moment. They are to
build their characters in
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accordance with
Christ's directions.
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Day by day
building our characters,
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they are to abide in Him
constantly exercising faith
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in Him. Thus they will grow
up to the full stature of men
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and women in
Christ. Wholesome, cheerful,
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grateful Christians. Today's
message is entitled Religious
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Dwarfs and so I have a
feeling, if we are content
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being a religious dwarf
there is a real problem,
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but before we begin
our message we're gonna to
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back to 3ABNs worship
center and we're gonna listen
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to a song entitled "He
who began a good work in you"
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by brother Christian Berdahl.
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I know it would be a blessing.
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He who began a good work in you
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He who began a good work in you
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Will be faithful to complete it
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He'll be faithful to complete it
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He who started the work
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Will be faithful
to complete it in you
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If the struggle you're
facing Is slowly replacing
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Your hope with
despair Or the process is long
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And you're losing your song
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In the night you can be sure
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That the Lord
has His hand on you
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Safe and secure He
will never abandon you
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You are His treasure And
He finds His pleasure in you.
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He who began a good work in you
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He who began a good work in you
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Will be faithful to complete it
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He'll be faithful to complete it
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He who started the work
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Will be faithful
to complete it in you
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He who began a good work in you
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Will be faithful to complete it
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Will be faithful to complete it
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He who started the work
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Will be faithful
to complete it in you
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Thank you brother Christian,
I appreciate that song.
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You know the
Bible is very clear;
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He that has began a good
work in us will bring it to
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a completion. Hope
that's blessed many,
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many hearts as it has
hours. I'm thankful for that
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promise that God has
given and we are glad that
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you've decided to join
us today wherever you are in
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the world. We praise
the Lord for the opportunity
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and privilege to be able
to meet with you and study
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God's word. Now, but
something we always want
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to bring to mind,
first of all we gonna to pray
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we are going to get our
Bible, pencil and paper,
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and then we're gonna to
study the word of God together.
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Why not pray about
that right now we have very,
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very important message
that God has for us today.
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Let's pray about it
shall we? Our Father in Heaven,
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we thank you for the
privilege once again prayer,
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we thankful that we
can call upon you and ask
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for the power of the
Holy Spirit and you promised
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to give it and today we pray
you'll give it in abundance,
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enlighten our hearts
and our minds and our ears.
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May we understand that
the God of heaven is speaking
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to us to prepare that we
may spend eternity with you.
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Bless each one with
lessons of faith in the ears
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that you've given and the
mind then the eyes to see.
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And may we be filled
with the love of Jesus;
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I thank you and praise
you in Jesus name amen.
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Today by the way,
as we begin to study,
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we're gonna look at a
subject and of course the title
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is "Religious Dwarfs. "
Now, what comes to mind when
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you think about "Religious
Dwarfs"? Why should we
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be spiritually dwarfs? Why
is that we should be stunted
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in our religious experience,
but you know there is
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many that are. What
would be the reasons for that?
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Is it we lack of study,
lack of prayer? You know;
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study today and I pray
to God that will help us
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to understand that he
does not want us to be stunted,
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stunted, little. He
wants us to be expand;
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in fact he wants us to
be giants, think about it.
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He is always said, I
want you to be the head
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and not the tail. So as
we study God's word today,
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I pray that you're gonna
say look no more little steps,
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no more little for Jesus
by God's grace big things.
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You have your Bible, I
like for you to turn with me,
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as I'm gonna turn in
a New Testament to the
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Book of John. John
chapter 8 we're gonna be start
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reading verse 12.
John chapter 8 verse 12.
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Now, we are going to
see once again and we should
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and every discourse
we should see Jesus.
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We should learn
little bit more about Jesus.
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And I always want to
bring this up remember the Jesus
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said if I be lifted up
we'll draw men unto me.
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So every discourse should
be surrounded by the cross
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of Calvary and
Jesus to lift him up.
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And so as we study
this, we are going to see some
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people or dwarfs in their
spiritual experience because
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they are not
taking Jesus at his word.
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And we want to take
him at his word today.
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John chapter 8 start reading
verse 12, now we're gonna
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read a few verses
so you might forget,
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you want to jot them
down. It says then spake Jesus
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again notice this
unto them, saying.
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Now who was doing the speaking?
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My Bible says here that
Jesus spake again unto them
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here is what Jesus said.
I am the light of the world:
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he that followeth me
shall not walk in darkness,
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but shall have
the light of life.
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Now remember when Jesus
speaks it's very important
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isn't. And when Jesus says
I am the light of the world
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and he says you know what
we don't need to be walking
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in darkness. We don't
need to be taking little steps
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of faith, because he
is the light of the world.
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Now, that brings to
thought that if he is the light
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of the world the enemy
always takes the opposite
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doesn't he. So, we
would think about the enemy
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as what as darkness,
it makes sense don't it,
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because he is the liar,
he never tells the truth,
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he is afraid to walk
in the light that things
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he likes to be done in
private or darkness of the hour,
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but Jesus I'm the light of
the world so no one receives
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any kind of light and
any kind of a direction
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unless it comes from
Jesus as what the Bible says.
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Now, notice also in
John chapter 8 and this is
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verse 47, we just read
what 12, we're gonna read
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verse 47. The Bible
continues and says He that
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is of God heareth God's words.
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Now I'm gonna have to
repeat that because some of
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you didn't get it. I want
you to think the Bible says,
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He that is of who good
God heareth God's words.
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Now, can that be
said in more plain,
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if you claim to be
part of God's family then
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we' re gonna to hear
God's words. You can't just
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say will I hear God's
word and then go do something
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else. Hearing here
denotes also following
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what God has asked us
to do and then the verse
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continues on and says
ye therefore hear them,
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oh, oh, you hear them not,
because you are not of God.
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So those who hear the
word of God they belong
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to the family of God and
they are willing to be obedient
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to God's word.
Now, on the other hand,
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those who right they are
just not hearing is because
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they are not
part of God's family,
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they are not following
the light there aren't they.
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So, it's so imparity for
I like just repeated over
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and over and over until we
all get to how simple this is,
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that if we are
part of God's family.
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If God is leading in
our heart in our life,
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we hear his words and
then we do what we follow him,
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if we are not following
His words and His truth
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regards of our profession,
we are following another
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could we say
another we follow the enemy,
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can't say another
light because Jesus said
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I am the light of the
world you are following what
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darkness or you are
following what light.
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So, as I read that passage
is right quick to me at least
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in my mind there are two
classes of people that are
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developed here that
we've been talking about here.
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Now remember, you have
what children of light.
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Now you have a
decision, now remember decision
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today is simply
this, there is no mid rail.
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I've often said you know
sometime we where well we
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gonna to sit on the
fence. Now those of you who sit
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on the fence all you're
gonna get is some big splendors.
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And eventually when you
are sitting on the fence
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you're gonna fall one
side or the other are you still
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with me, you're not
gonna sit on it forever.
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So, here the two
classes are we are either the,
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the Bible says
the children of light,
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the children of light
would be those who obey
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what God's word or the
truth or you have children
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of notice this what
darkness and darkness are those
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who disobey God's word.
So, you are in one class
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or the other. In fact Jesus
makes it so plain in his word,
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he said, he who is
not with me is against me.
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Oh, please think
about that today.
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He who is what, he who is
not with me walking with him,
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being obedient to him, he
was not with me is against.
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So, today when you say
well I'm not really for him,
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I'm not really against
him, if you are not for him,
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if you've not accepted
him then you are against him.
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Wow, that must mean if
there is two classes you,
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oh you are in the
light or you are in dark.
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Oh, I want you to
think about that today.
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I need to be
thinking about that.
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Because I'm going to
fit in one class the other,
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I think you see from
God's word. Now remember,
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we have talked about
in previous lessons and
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I think it's so very important
that we are to by God's
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grace before he
comes perfectly right.
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He wants to
reproduce us into his image,
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when God's people arrive
perfectly reproduce right,
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we are in his image.
Wow, he is going to come back,
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he is not really waiting
on all people say well certain
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things are going to
have to take place and maybe
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they will.
Prophecy will be fulfilled,
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but it's always well this
is gonna happen and that's
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going to happen and something
else is going to happen
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and then Jesus will
come. He is waiting on a, this
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is all he is waiting on
you and me that his character
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maybe fully reproduced
in us, when that happens
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he will come.
Awesome, children of light,
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children of what the
Bible talks about here darkness,
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so if we are to
reflect check it out now,
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if we are to
reflect the light of Jesus,
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if we are on the side
of Jesus and side of light,
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the Devil is the other
side of the devil is darkness,
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you realize the wants oh,
oh, he wants us to reflect
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his image. We either
reflect God's image or we
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reflect the image of the
Devil. Wow, I want to leave
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you by God's grace,
I want the Holy Spirit
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to really impress that
it's one way or the other
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you can't have it
both ways. Bitter in sweet
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water doesn't come forth
isn't that right. And so today
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as we study why we
are so limited sometime
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in the cause of
Christ again I wonder why so
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many Churches that
time are so stagnated.
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We just like, we just to
know pond out there somewhere.
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It's just you know just
gathering mass and stuffing
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in all the time and it's
just, it's going nowhere when
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we need fresh
inlets and outlets.
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Things need to be
happening in the church now
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why do I say that
because everywhere Jesus
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went things
happened. Miracles took place,
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sometime people got
upset, but I tell you God
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was having his way.
Things were happening that
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called attention to Him,
to his Son and what it would
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take for us to spend
eternity with Him that just,
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that really makes me
happy when I think about that.
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God intense for us
to be Giants or Dwarfs,
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God intense for us to
be children of the light
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or children what or
we're going to be children
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of the darkness, so
you're gonna have to make that
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decision I'm too, I
wonder if we should be alarmed.
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Should we be
alarmed when we look around
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and maybe in our
church or we look around
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in the world today of the
things that are happening.
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Should that alarmed me
should that set all some kind
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of a oh may I say call
bell, a fire alarm to say
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something is going
on in the world today.
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And you know what is
what we have to content
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with and this might
be shocking to some,
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but everyday of my
life, everyday of your life
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we have to content
with certain things.
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And some of this
even in the church,
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we may have to
content with some liberals,
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some people;
however, some conservatives.
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We're gonna have to
content with some of the half
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converted. By the way, if
you are called half converted
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remember this you are
really on the enemy side.
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There are no such
things to have converted.
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We are; we aren't. People
like to think that because
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they feel little
better about themselves,
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but everyday that I
have to be, I have to content
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with the faithfulness
how about you, with those who
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try to drag you down,
those who are so negative
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about everything that
happens. We should be so
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positive as being
part of the family of God.
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Everything happens for
reason; well let me encourage
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you that I have
leaned this over the years.
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Nothing happens to a
child of God, nothing,
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unless God approves it
first. Oh, I want you to grasp
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that today that has so
helped me in a lot of things
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that are happened in
my own life that I know
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because I am a child of
God by God's grace by his
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forgiveness by his blood.
And then anything that touches
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oh, may I say this is
nice and the apple of his eye
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that's all of us. It
goes through God first didn't
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that wonderful. He approves
of it, we may not understand
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all the ins and outs of
it, but it's run through God
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and he says go ahead,
he is able through me.
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Friend you're gonna to
be giant for God the day
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you're gonna a dwarf.
And you know sometimes it's
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even in the church
around our brothers and sisters,
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we have people in the
church that shirkers of
00:19:41.74\00:19:44.64
responsibility they
show us responsibility,
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they love to come to
church, they wanted to be a part
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of the church, but you
know they or may I say they
00:19:50.56\00:19:53.21
don't want to mobile on,
they don't want to be involved
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in cleaning, they
don't want to do anything,
00:19:55.24\00:19:56.69
they just want to
come and participate
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as far as what they can
get, it's what a challenge
00:19:57.84\00:20:02.01
because being part of
the family of God means
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I have responsibility and
obligations and I'm required
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to help out as
part of family of God.
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So I am wondering
today you know are we really
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concerned about these
things as we see the turn,
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the turn of events, the
turn of things that happening
00:20:19.17\00:20:20.96
in the lives of the
people and are we prepared
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to handle them.
How about your life,
00:20:23.13\00:20:26.95
how about my life is it
really what Jesus would have it,
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is he really
speaking to us. Well,
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I believe this for
the church. I believe,
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I believe all of heaven is
looking down at his church.
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Now remember when I say
the church this is my belief
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of what God's church.
God's church simply means
00:20:46.01\00:20:51.08
what God's people
isn't that right that's what
00:20:51.11\00:20:53.23
church means. You
say well it's just group,
00:20:53.26\00:20:57.31
it's that group, etc.
God's Church of the people
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that obey and follow
his commands that's consists
00:21:00.38\00:21:04.53
of his church. So, I
believe all of heaven is looking
00:21:04.56\00:21:06.86
with intense interest
upon his church and the
00:21:06.89\00:21:10.82
individual members of
the church and doing what.
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Are the church members
enlightening the community
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or those who are in
darkness? After all that's what
00:21:19.15\00:21:22.67
we are
commissioned to do is it not.
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Take the Gospel into
the world, how many times
00:21:24.19\00:21:26.12
did you heard that.
So that's our commission,
00:21:26.15\00:21:29.60
that's our responsibility,
that's what God's equipping
00:21:30.59\00:21:32.74
us for, that's a power
that he wants to give us,
00:21:32.77\00:21:34.96
but how many in the
church are really following
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through and enlightening
those who are in darkness.
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Remember 1000s perish
every minute of the day,
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they are not gonna
share eternity with Jesus.
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Don't let their blood be
on your hands and I don't
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want it on my hands
because I believe this
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we will never ever be
saved in spiritual laziness,
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never. And you know the
best example I can think
00:21:59.64\00:22:04.12
of is none other
than my Lord and savior.
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He was never lazy
that's talking about from the
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carpenter bench to the
ministry, he was always
00:22:12.49\00:22:14.87
busy for the
salvation of others.
00:22:15.96\00:22:18.39
Fact details us sometime
you get too busy be careful,
00:22:19.98\00:22:22.14
sometime you have to come
apart and rest for a while,
00:22:22.17\00:22:24.52
but he worked day and night
for the salvation of souls.
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In fact, in John chapter 9
verse 4, the Bible says there
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you still have it open,
I hope that you do because
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I still have mine open
here John chapter 9 verse 4,
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Jesus said this and he
passes it right along to you
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and to me. Remember, if
you are a shirker in the
00:22:42.77\00:22:46.80
causal Christ, if you
are one of the lazy you know
00:22:46.83\00:22:49.27
one of those who
are not doing anything.
00:22:49.30\00:22:50.68
My momma said this you
know I'm not trying to pick
00:22:51.49\00:22:53.25
on anybody individually,
but if the shoe fits you say
00:22:53.28\00:22:57.11
can you wear it and
that's maybe the test that we
00:22:57.14\00:23:01.65
have to come across is,
if it happen to fit then
00:23:01.68\00:23:05.24
I'm gonna have to wear
or I'm gonna have change it.
00:23:05.27\00:23:07.75
Jesus said I must work
the works in John 9 verse 4,
00:23:08.99\00:23:12.16
of him that sent
me of his father.
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Now, how did he
continue this? He said,
00:23:17.08\00:23:19.82
well it is I work the
works while it is day;
00:23:20.96\00:23:23.59
the night cometh, notice
this when no man can work.
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Jesus said the time
was coming when it is going
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to be too late. I
must work while it is day;
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that kind of reminds me
just of a story by the way
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I'm trying to make
short story here is,
00:23:41.99\00:23:43.77
but hopefully you get the
point. I remember being gone
00:23:43.80\00:23:46.53
for several weeks and
traveling and so on and
00:23:46.56\00:23:49.10
you know you can get
var and well doing and vary
00:23:49.13\00:23:50.86
in traveling and
speaking to three or four times
00:23:50.89\00:23:53.45
you know as you go places
maybe five or six sometime
00:23:53.48\00:23:56.19
at Camp Meetings.
You now remembering gone
00:23:56.22\00:23:58.40
two to three weeks in a
row and I just got home oh,
00:23:58.43\00:24:01.09
wow, it's good to be home.
00:24:01.12\00:24:03.02
Oh, get to rest little
while and the phone rang
00:24:04.17\00:24:05.98
and I picked it
up and this gentlemen
00:24:06.01\00:24:07.74
I knew it I
think it was Arizona.
00:24:07.77\00:24:09.21
And he said can you
come out here and I thought
00:24:10.76\00:24:12.21
well yes sure absolutely,
you know, a few weeks or
00:24:12.24\00:24:15.85
whatever and he said
you know can you come this
00:24:15.88\00:24:18.75
weekend, where I just got home,
00:24:18.78\00:24:20.09
and so I proceeded tell
him out I was little bit tired
00:24:21.82\00:24:23.78
and little bit worn
out and been gone a lot
00:24:23.81\00:24:25.91
and it's good to be
home in, if I could just rest
00:24:25.94\00:24:28.60
a little bit now then I'll
be willing to come and maybe
00:24:28.63\00:24:32.18
in the couple of
weeks you know his response
00:24:32.21\00:24:34.67
was to me. Rest, rest
that what you say I said
00:24:34.70\00:24:39.95
no I don't think it was a
bad word I said, well yes.
00:24:39.98\00:24:43.06
He said let me tell you
some right now he said heaven
00:24:44.12\00:24:46.03
is just around the corner
and when you get to heaven
00:24:46.06\00:24:48.14
you can rest. We need
you right now come on,
00:24:48.17\00:24:50.89
I went. That's never,
that's never left me why?
00:24:52.72\00:24:59.14
Because there was a
need, I may have not recognized
00:24:59.33\00:25:04.37
all of the need, but
you know what he did and he
00:25:04.40\00:25:07.08
reminded me. Even though
we need some physical rest,
00:25:07.11\00:25:10.81
I do I know you do, but
he said during these days
00:25:12.21\00:25:15.68
you will be able to
rest, when you get to heaven
00:25:15.71\00:25:20.11
right now. Oh right
now, come on we need to hear
00:25:20.14\00:25:24.51
the word. Friends
that's good advice as heaven
00:25:24.54\00:25:28.65
is viewing everything
now and seeing as a church
00:25:28.85\00:25:30.33
really alive, is the church
really on fire, it should be.
00:25:30.36\00:25:36.07
You know, I find it very
difficult to go to church at
00:25:37.69\00:25:40.48
sometime and the word
is being spoken or song
00:25:40.51\00:25:44.09
that's being sung and
when is all said and done
00:25:44.12\00:25:46.50
it's like you are
in a funeral pyre.
00:25:46.53\00:25:48.99
Somebody needs
to be saying amen,
00:25:51.74\00:25:52.92
make turn somebody
else but I think somebody
00:25:55.26\00:25:56.87
needs to shout Halleluiah
once in a while I know
00:25:56.90\00:25:59.08
I do, why because
I can't keep quite,
00:25:59.11\00:26:01.15
times I want to
come to my feet you know
00:26:02.25\00:26:03.83
what if I do I will.
Our heavenly father deserves
00:26:03.86\00:26:07.99
praises; the Bible said
he inhabits are praises.
00:26:08.02\00:26:10.09
Some people is
always worried about getting
00:26:12.43\00:26:14.16
out of hand, well
mostly gently they don't have
00:26:14.19\00:26:16.88
to worry about it
because they are not going
00:26:16.91\00:26:18.39
to be getting out of
hand, maybe they don't
00:26:18.42\00:26:20.38
have anything to
praise God about,
00:26:20.41\00:26:21.49
but you know what I do
and a real Christian does
00:26:21.52\00:26:24.02
why because his
brought us out of darkness
00:26:24.05\00:26:26.12
into that marvelous
light, aren't you thankful.
00:26:26.15\00:26:28.72
In John chapter 9
verse 4, we just read he said
00:26:30.40\00:26:33.00
night is going to come,
if I just turn the Bible back
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just a little bit
there are few chapters in
00:26:36.56\00:26:38.71
John chapter 1 verse 5,
I want to share this with
00:26:38.74\00:26:41.16
you real quickly.
John chapter 1 verse 5 now
00:26:41.19\00:26:44.42
notice here we are giving
him the praise, the honor,
00:26:44.45\00:26:46.52
and the glory because
of who he is, is that right
00:26:46.55\00:26:48.62
absolutely. In
John chapter 1 verse 5,
00:26:48.65\00:26:52.53
it says and the light
shineth in darkness aren't you
00:26:52.56\00:26:56.07
glad that light is
shining in darkness right
00:26:56.10\00:26:58.56
now and notice this,
and the darkness sad to say
00:26:58.59\00:27:02.76
and the darkness
comprehended it not.
00:27:02.79\00:27:05.65
Jesus said I came into
the world and they didn't even
00:27:06.43\00:27:08.88
recognize me is that
true yes majority did not,
00:27:08.91\00:27:12.26
and you possibly imagine
the King of Kings and Lord
00:27:14.45\00:27:17.55
of Lords willing to
give up glory for someone
00:27:17.58\00:27:22.90
I'm not saying for someone
like me, no I really can't.
00:27:22.93\00:27:25.45
I'm really trying to
comprehend that love,
00:27:27.01\00:27:28.52
but you know what I'm
just having real difficulty.
00:27:28.55\00:27:30.37
The love that God has
for you and the love that
00:27:32.90\00:27:34.64
he has for me are awesome.
00:27:34.67\00:27:36.08
Why would Jesus be
willing to give up glory and
00:27:37.00\00:27:39.66
come down here if
it had only been you,
00:27:39.69\00:27:41.65
only been me that
would be saved awesome love
00:27:42.60\00:27:45.33
that I just
can't understand? Lord,
00:27:45.36\00:27:47.94
I need that kind of love
and yet I understand from
00:27:47.97\00:27:51.62
scripture and I think
the principle really applies
00:27:51.65\00:27:53.71
right here until
listen to me carefully,
00:27:53.74\00:27:56.58
until I must love as Christ
loved, if I'm going to enter
00:27:57.76\00:28:03.82
in heaven. That's kind
of maybe that's a tough
00:28:03.85\00:28:07.11
one for you, but I
have to come to the point
00:28:07.14\00:28:09.75
that I love my fellowman
the way that Jesus loved
00:28:09.78\00:28:12.61
them. Now, I look at it
and I say God that's impossible
00:28:12.64\00:28:16.53
with me and he says yeah it
is with you, but not with me.
00:28:16.56\00:28:19.29
Let me come in and I
love them through you.
00:28:19.99\00:28:22.00
Wow, I had to have that
same kind of love and tiring
00:28:22.61\00:28:27.99
efforts, but forth for
the salvation of mankind
00:28:28.02\00:28:30.87
and you know
what we find nowadays.
00:28:30.90\00:28:32.30
People are squabbling
over, who is going to be first,
00:28:33.39\00:28:36.47
who is gonna have
the highest position,
00:28:38.44\00:28:39.96
well you were on their
last week, you were on the
00:28:41.24\00:28:45.43
platform the week
before yeah but somebody else
00:28:45.46\00:28:47.77
saying and I didn't get to
say, look let's get over it.
00:28:47.80\00:28:50.88
If God is going to use
you brothers and sisters
00:28:52.41\00:28:54.11
no man can stop it, did
you know that? In his time,
00:28:54.14\00:28:57.25
let's not worry
about highest position,
00:28:58.41\00:29:00.08
but let's worry about
how we can be pleasing in
00:29:00.11\00:29:02.29
the side of God and
when you want to be pleasing
00:29:02.32\00:29:04.42
the side of God,
God will commission you,
00:29:04.45\00:29:06.50
God will place
you, God will raise you,
00:29:06.53\00:29:09.39
God will supply for you
all of your needs and to help
00:29:09.42\00:29:13.67
you be a soul winner for
him. No one will be saved
00:29:13.70\00:29:18.92
remember spiritual
laziness. Jesus said I came
00:29:19.80\00:29:23.71
into the world and I
am the light of the world,
00:29:23.74\00:29:25.79
but they, they did
know it. And again I am just
00:29:25.82\00:29:29.52
overwhelmed that he
was able, he born it to be,
00:29:29.55\00:29:32.12
he loved me enough that
he said I'm going to leave
00:29:32.15\00:29:34.25
the courts of
heaven. You have no idea
00:29:34.28\00:29:36.94
and I don't either
about the courts of heaven.
00:29:36.97\00:29:39.06
Well little bit man
read we thank we understand
00:29:39.90\00:29:41.80
it not we've not even
scratch the surface of what
00:29:41.83\00:29:45.52
he left behind. I
believe that one day by God's
00:29:45.55\00:29:50.38
grace that we get
there and we see what he was
00:29:50.41\00:29:54.02
willing to give us we
can only fall on our face,
00:29:54.05\00:29:56.96
thank you Jesus. You
are the only reason that
00:29:58.09\00:30:01.77
I'm here, there is no
other reason, there is nothing
00:30:01.80\00:30:06.07
good that I've done in
fact some people say yeah
00:30:06.10\00:30:08.98
but I went through this
and I've had to give up this,
00:30:09.01\00:30:11.24
if you are a Christian
today that says every time
00:30:11.27\00:30:14.15
you turn around oh I
have to give this up and
00:30:14.18\00:30:17.60
I have to give that,
you have to give nothing up
00:30:17.63\00:30:19.92
that is good for
you. Jesus never requires
00:30:19.95\00:30:22.89
you to give up
anything that's good for you.
00:30:22.92\00:30:25.09
And by the way when
you see his lovely face,
00:30:26.61\00:30:28.50
you won't even be able to
recall to mind all that you
00:30:30.38\00:30:33.03
went through in this
life. That's fullness isn't,
00:30:33.57\00:30:37.81
man that's love,
that's guaranteed,
00:30:39.47\00:30:42.66
that's in the bank they
say, along for that day.
00:30:42.69\00:30:46.38
Darkness he said, now, by
the way do have your Bible
00:30:48.14\00:30:51.44
right where in the
Book of John turn with me
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John chapter 9, John
chapter very, very important
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little lesson that
we are going to look at,
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regardless of how many
times you have looked at,
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because we are thinking
right today that we want
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to be giants for God,
not little nuggets or dwarfs
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and again we hope we
are not trying to defend
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anybody you know
I'm pretty short myself,
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so I must be careful
here, but doesn't matter about
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the statue right. It's
how the heart what kind
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of heart do you have,
how big is that heart?
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To big enough right to
have Jesus controlling it,
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heart and the mind
oh I know that it is.
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So important to let
him have control of that.
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John chapter 9 this is
such an interesting account
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of the power of Jesus
Christ and the things,
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the difficulties that
pursued him. The difficulties
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that were pursue
you and pursue me.
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Now notice with me in
the Bible John chapter
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9 verses 1 and 2, now
you know the story well,
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but let's see if the
Holy Spirit will just implant
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few other little things in
our heart, in our mind that
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would reveal a little
bore these beautiful truths
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that God has here.
Bible says as Jesus passed by,
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notice it what does it
say what was Jesus doing
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was he lazy, was he idol
notice it Jesus was already
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in action wasn't
he. What was he doing,
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Bible says that Jesus was
I hear it passing by okay.
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He was in operation
right then the he went home
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on the recliner said
bring somebody to me.
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He was out pursuing;
he said I came to seek and
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do what seek and to
save that which was lost,
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and so everything that he
did was nothing for himself,
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but it was all for
us. What an example,
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almost everything we do
think like centered around
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ourselves isn't it
sometime. Bible says as Jesus
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passed by, he saw a man
which was blind from his birth.
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Oh you know the
story, but can you imagine
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someone being blind from
birth that they never seen
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anything, their eyes
were shut, they were blind,
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they couldn't see a
thing. They never seen a sunset,
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they never seen a
sunrise, they could never see
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their parents face, they
could never see the flowers
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in the field
beautiful things of nature,
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the stars oh what
they were missing,
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but here Bible said he
was the blind from birth
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do you think Jesus
cared about this man oh yes.
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Sure he cared, and
then what happened the Bible
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says in verse 2, his
disciples ask him saying now
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notice this was a
popular believe now I want
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to bring this to you
because of our belief sometime
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we become dwarfs. And
if there are wrong believes
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they need to be corrected.
Do you agree with that,
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I am sure you do.
Disciples believe this,
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they looked at this man
that was blind from birth
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and they said who did
sin, this man, or his parents,
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that he was born
blind? So you see the concept
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and the believe at
that time that if a person
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was born with some
kind of abnormality,
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they must be sinners or
their parents were sinned
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because if you are
born okay, alright no sin,
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but if something was wrong deaf,
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blind or what it
might be oh that was sin and
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that's a results of that
sin. I want you to see that
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with me, this was
generally by the way believed
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by the Jews and
also by the disciples.
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Think about that with
me, they said that it would
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be a punishment then
for their sin, that's why
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they were born that way.
Oh, I'm thankful that God's
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word makes it little bit
clear then that aren't you.
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That sounds like to me
the devil has a little hand
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in what we are
talking about today.
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Other words every
affliction they believe that
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they there was a
penalty they had to be paid
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because
something was done wrong.
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Satan led me into
believe that every disease
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and every affliction
and death came from whom?
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From God, just like
he does today now we say
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these things, but you
have to know better. In fact,
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I think we just talked a
little bit about that today
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with an individual
maybe it was yesterday.
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When I was talking
about some kind of a problem
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that we are having
with the piece of equipment
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and here is what they
called it and that's what
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the insurance
policy says an active God,
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are you thinking with
me. This is the devil has his
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little hand writing on
that. They'll say an earthquake
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hit and 200 people
die, inactive God. Does God
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operate that way? Do
you really understand God
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and his character
enough to say that was God
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or is the Devil saying
I'm the author of these lies
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and the death and every
disease and every sickness,
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but I'm gonna what I'm
gonna shuffle it all from God
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and the majority of
world say hey that's right.
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Does God really work
tha way? Majority of the
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Jews believed it, the
disciples believed it,
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but you know what
Jesus wouldn't gonna leave
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them thinking that way
because he came to seek
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and save the law, he
came to reveal truth to us,
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he came to uncover that
which had been covered up.
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And so he wasn't go and
let back go bye. Remember,
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in every teaching
Jesus never let anything sin
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slide under the rug,
he always addressed it.
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He always gave an
answer for it, he always gave
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the victory. Here is the
way you can gain victory.
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Simple truth of the
matter is right here that Satan
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tried to cover up. Now
think about Satan tried to
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cover up. All the sufferings,
all the results of sin,
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he is gonna try to
cover and push in some other
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direction. Now let
me make a big statement,
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I want you to listen
very carefully to it and then
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I want you to contemplate
it. Just don't plug your ears
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and say no, no, no. All
suffering, oh my multitudes
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are various. All
suffering, all disease you know
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all these things that
are happen are a result of
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transgression of God's law.
Think about it, all suffering,
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all the bad things is
the result because we have
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transgressed God's
law. You realize before sin
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there would be no death,
no disease and no sickness.
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In heaven what no
disease, no sickness,
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and everything is
going to be replaced and put
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back in his right position
praise God. See this is a
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beautiful truth, a
beautiful truth that had been
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covered up by
Satan. He want to cover up,
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he want to blame God for
everything, he didn't want
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to say oh boy I tell
you, if we just obey God,
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these curses would be
taken off. And sets the Jews
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most of them believe
Satan's lie, I want you to pay
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attention to this
because of this belief they were
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prepared to reject
Jesus Christ have you ever
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thought of that way?
See the Devil was preparing
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them to reject Jesus before
he ever came on the scene.
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How could they do that?
Listen because of this belief
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right here their
hearts was prepared.
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Let me just show that
passage of scripture with you
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the Book of Isaiah
in the Old Testament,
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the book of Isaiah.
Now I know you've read
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this many, many times,
but I want you to really
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make sense because
when you read it I know
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you read about
you think about Jesus.
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That Isaiah 53, the Bible
says this verse is in 3 and 4,
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it said, the Bible
said Jesus he was despised
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and he was rejected
of men. Was he despised,
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was he rejected of
men yeah why did they the
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Jews were said up by the
Devil to reject Jesus Christ
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why? He was a man of
sorrows, he was acquainted
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with our grief and we hid
as it were or faces from him.
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The Bible says he was
despised and we esteemed
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him not. Surely he
hath borne our griefs,
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he is carried out sorrows;
yet we did not esteem him,
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now notice this and
what and we did what,
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yet we did esteem him
stricken, smitten of God,
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and afflicted, I
want that to make sense.
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You remember what
the Jews believed,
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if you had some kind of an
element, if you were smitten
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of God did you get it,
if you were stricken of God,
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if you were afflicted
as it were of God right,
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then you is because of
sin. So when Jesus came
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and what we are talking
about here in this passage
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that you will see in
just a moment they said what
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he is a sinner. Jesus had
to be a sinner why because
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he was smitten, he
was Jews struck by God.
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Look at these it was
something wrong with him.
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He must have had sin his
life, so the devil set them
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all up. Oh my, and so
they begin to believe that
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he was a sinner. And by
the way did God know this in
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beginning yes the
Jesus know it from beginning
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absolutely he did. Now,
there is leave I want you to
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think about this
very, very carefully,
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did God leave us some
example, so that we would
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know better than
this belief that we could,
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we would learn from it,
yes he did. Can you think
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of an Old Testament individual,
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who suffered an awful
lot, what's the first name
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come to your mind. Yes
Job, what happen to Job
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you know they say
well he was stricken and
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smitten of God and all the
reason all these bad things
00:40:57.13\00:41:00.02
were happened to Job is
because what he is a sinner.
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God said he was a
righteous man, they came to very
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point bottom line, Job
said though he slave me yet
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will I serve it, yet
will I trust him. Man what a
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relationship with Jesus
Christ. His friends and his
00:41:12.55\00:41:15.08
neighbors condemn
him, curse God and die,
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but the example was
there for as Job before Jesus
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isn't that right. To
say that it wasn't because
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of sin in his life
that these things happened.
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The old Devil you
see was putting things on
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and he was blaming God
for it, and the Jews repeated
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the same thing as
they rejected Jesus Christ
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why because they say
while he was smitten,
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he was stricken,
bourgeois and must be because
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he was a sinner, he
can't be the savior? Wow,
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turn with me back to
the book of John chapter 9
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again let's look at
this very carefully,
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John chapter 9
verse 5, John 9 verse 5,
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Jesus said as long as I am
what as long as I am in the
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world, I am the
light of the world.
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As long as he is what as
long as he is in the world
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I am the light of
what the world and then he
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continues on because
he is passing by he sees
00:42:19.38\00:42:23.35
this blind man blind
from birth and he feels
00:42:23.38\00:42:28.17
compassion. You
know what you may not be
00:42:28.20\00:42:32.25
physically blind, but
you maybe spiritually blind
00:42:32.28\00:42:34.68
today. God feels for
you and he want you to
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see again, he is wanting
to work a miracle in your
00:42:40.03\00:42:43.34
behalf he did for this
man, he did for many others.
00:42:43.37\00:42:45.77
He has done for
multitudes millions.
00:42:47.14\00:42:48.44
As we just talked about
this the suffering inflicted
00:42:52.41\00:42:55.46
by Satan is blamed on
God, but remember this it
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can be overrule by
God remember that for the
00:43:00.51\00:43:05.53
purpose of showing
his mercy. So we say well
00:43:05.56\00:43:09.00
this is inflicted, this
is the devil has put on,
00:43:09.03\00:43:11.22
but God can overrule
that because you serve one
00:43:11.25\00:43:13.66
that's greater. Greater
is he that is in me than
00:43:13.69\00:43:16.59
he that is in the
world. So anytime God wants to
00:43:16.62\00:43:20.00
any kind of affliction
that the old Devil put these
00:43:20.03\00:43:22.65
afflictions on, do you
believe it? As he puts these
00:43:22.68\00:43:26.19
afflictions on with
God wants to overrule,
00:43:26.22\00:43:28.51
he can overrule
because he is God,
00:43:28.54\00:43:30.71
because he has
the power to do so,
00:43:31.66\00:43:33.37
because the enemy
has to pay harmony to him
00:43:33.81\00:43:36.05
and they have to
respect what God says when
00:43:36.80\00:43:39.23
the brags pull out and
the bottom line is given
00:43:39.26\00:43:42.10
I tell you the Devil
has to obey whether he wants
00:43:42.13\00:43:44.62
to do or not. When God
says to the enemy get out
00:43:44.65\00:43:47.49
of here he has
to get out of here.
00:43:47.52\00:43:49.10
Wow, that's a kind
of that, that's gives us
00:43:50.89\00:43:53.72
encouragement
today. That encourages me.
00:43:53.75\00:43:56.98
That for every bad
thing the Devil wants to put
00:43:59.08\00:44:00.96
on you and be put on to
me that if we have faith
00:44:00.99\00:44:03.76
in God he said you know
what I can overrule when
00:44:03.79\00:44:06.47
I see fit overrule, I
will overrule and then you know
00:44:06.50\00:44:10.12
what then his mercy is
showing his long suffering
00:44:10.15\00:44:13.23
is shown praise God for
that. As long as I am in the
00:44:13.26\00:44:15.93
world I am the world
verse 6 John chapter 9
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our time is running
out, so we want to really get
00:44:18.44\00:44:20.34
to little I would say
crocks of it, when to get to the
00:44:20.37\00:44:24.09
bottom line. Bible says
when Jesus said thus spoken
00:44:24.12\00:44:28.00
what did he do. He
simply reach down and he got
00:44:28.03\00:44:30.49
some clay, you
remember that little spittle
00:44:30.52\00:44:32.92
and you know he had
the blind man eyes, oh,
00:44:32.95\00:44:34.70
you know this very well
as what Bible talking about.
00:44:34.73\00:44:36.79
Then he has told the
man to do what go wash.
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Now remember, all of
had when God does something
00:44:42.01\00:44:44.56
got the spittle, he put
it on, he pit it on the man's
00:44:45.35\00:44:46.93
eyes now here come, here
comes an active obedience,
00:44:46.96\00:44:49.61
lot of church people
in the world today say we
00:44:50.83\00:44:52.41
don't have to obedient
doesn't matter anymore.
00:44:52.44\00:44:54.20
We are under grace,
that bad man had not went
00:44:55.13\00:44:59.69
and washed his eyes
exactly the way Jesus said
00:44:59.72\00:45:02.72
he would remain blind.
What do you think about it,
00:45:02.75\00:45:06.10
did you agree about that?
It took obedience in order,
00:45:06.13\00:45:09.59
it took faith in
order for this to operate;
00:45:09.62\00:45:12.41
everything is operate
through what? Faith and
00:45:12.44\00:45:15.32
obedience, so by
faith he went to the pool,
00:45:15.35\00:45:18.61
by faith he washed his
eyes and what the results
00:45:18.64\00:45:21.84
of that faith and that
power of God was what he could
00:45:21.87\00:45:24.84
see again. Don't tell
me that man wasn't excited,
00:45:24.87\00:45:27.34
that's why I say
sometime in the church is like
00:45:29.22\00:45:30.64
it's like a murk. There is
no excitement in the church
00:45:30.67\00:45:33.96
and why not the same
God this work many miracles
00:45:36.84\00:45:41.32
in the Old Testament
is still working miracles
00:45:41.35\00:45:43.61
today in the New
Testament Church. In fact,
00:45:43.64\00:45:46.20
he wants to work a miracle
in your life, he wants to do
00:45:46.23\00:45:49.57
something good for you,
he wants to do something
00:45:49.60\00:45:52.18
good for me, as we
reach scripture we see that
00:45:52.21\00:45:54.56
all the time that
Jesus went about doing good.
00:45:54.59\00:45:56.96
You see I want to see
a miracle everyday that
00:45:58.24\00:46:01.13
we live and we
move and have our being,
00:46:01.16\00:46:02.97
everyday that we faces
world and we come forth
00:46:03.00\00:46:06.31
victors that's a
miracles isn't it. In fact,
00:46:06.34\00:46:09.65
a miracle might just
be getting up and getting
00:46:09.68\00:46:11.56
to church because the
devil is gonna fight you.
00:46:11.59\00:46:13.18
Sabbath morning
get up all way might,
00:46:13.21\00:46:15.31
the Devil is always cause havoc.
00:46:15.34\00:46:16.73
You know in the home
it could just nothing just
00:46:18.21\00:46:19.93
a simple as you know
we called the burn toast
00:46:19.96\00:46:22.55
it could be the kids who
are fighting among themselves
00:46:23.43\00:46:25.71
and we try to not get
involved in it yet we hear it
00:46:25.74\00:46:29.11
and pretty soon we have
to go get the kid good sound
00:46:29.14\00:46:31.26
slacking and well
suddenly we don't hardly feel
00:46:31.29\00:46:34.46
like going to church
anymore. We blame God
00:46:34.49\00:46:37.15
for it and we would
say well we are not gonna
00:46:37.18\00:46:38.94
go to church. Oh,
friend don't give up,
00:46:38.97\00:46:42.03
we are on the brink of a
miracle, every moment that
00:46:42.99\00:46:46.93
we live God is working
in our behalf working out.
00:46:46.96\00:46:49.19
Bible said we need to
work our own salvation
00:46:49.22\00:46:51.64
with fear and trembling,
but God is working in our stead,
00:46:51.67\00:46:54.79
he is working right
along with us, just like the
00:46:54.82\00:46:57.59
Bible said about this
man that Jesus touched it
00:46:57.62\00:47:01.33
was blind. Jesus simply
said go wash and the man
00:47:01.36\00:47:04.96
obeyed and he had faith
and he went and he could
00:47:04.99\00:47:08.15
see things took place,
but I want you to pay close
00:47:08.18\00:47:11.33
attention to this. Not
only was his eyes open that
00:47:11.36\00:47:14.73
he can see, but even
his facial features began
00:47:14.76\00:47:18.32
to change, he looked
different because he had been
00:47:18.35\00:47:21.31
touched by the master
and you know if you ever met
00:47:21.34\00:47:24.05
somebody like that in
this life that cares and the
00:47:24.08\00:47:27.63
perplexities and things
we taken into our body has
00:47:27.66\00:47:29.99
woven it's effect upon
the face, on the mind and
00:47:30.64\00:47:34.30
the body, but you
know God has a way then we
00:47:34.33\00:47:36.39
turn our heart and life
over to him. He has way to
00:47:36.42\00:47:38.35
touches and we are
changed and we looked different,
00:47:38.38\00:47:41.25
we talk different, we act
different same as this man
00:47:41.28\00:47:44.55
here because the
pharisees and sadducees didn't
00:47:44.58\00:47:47.50
want give Jesus the
praise for doing this miracle
00:47:47.53\00:47:49.86
by the way and they
went to the neighbors and
00:47:49.89\00:47:53.64
friends and said
do you know this man.
00:47:53.67\00:47:55.14
Yes, we know but is this
him well it looks like him,
00:47:56.25\00:48:00.79
he looks little bit different,
but he talks different,
00:48:00.82\00:48:03.60
he acts different,
why because he had been
00:48:03.63\00:48:05.86
touched by the
master. Same thing happens
00:48:05.89\00:48:08.06
in your life and mind,
but you know God is wanting
00:48:08.09\00:48:11.88
touch you today. He is
wanting to be difference.
00:48:11.91\00:48:14.10
Our neighbors need
to know who we are,
00:48:15.96\00:48:17.49
what we stand for,
they need to know that
00:48:17.52\00:48:20.25
you've been
touched by the master,
00:48:20.28\00:48:22.17
you no longer the
same as you used to be.
00:48:22.20\00:48:24.43
You know God today is
looking for that kind of people
00:48:26.49\00:48:29.84
that will be different,
by the way you remember
00:48:29.87\00:48:33.43
the story about
Moses when he went upon the
00:48:33.46\00:48:35.64
Mount and then
spend some time with God
00:48:35.67\00:48:38.79
as there where he
was touched by the master
00:48:38.82\00:48:40.78
and when he came
back down what happened,
00:48:40.81\00:48:42.85
what happened, oh his
face was shining, people
00:48:42.88\00:48:46.79
couldn't even look on
him, but you know what
00:48:46.82\00:48:48.40
I believe he was
even changed in heart,
00:48:48.43\00:48:50.18
but his features
changed because he have been
00:48:50.21\00:48:53.59
in the presence by
the way of the master.
00:48:53.62\00:48:55.25
Can you remember your
conversion experience?
00:48:56.49\00:48:58.32
Can you remember when
God really touched you,
00:49:00.16\00:49:02.16
when you really
changed and converted,
00:49:02.65\00:49:04.34
the things that you
used to say you don't say
00:49:05.51\00:49:07.13
anymore, you are
different maybe some of you even
00:49:07.16\00:49:09.75
the pastors you
preach different now.
00:49:09.78\00:49:11.84
You elders you talk
different, you teach a different
00:49:13.24\00:49:14.90
Sabbath school class
whatever it might be you are
00:49:14.93\00:49:17.19
different and people
would say oh that sound
00:49:17.22\00:49:19.95
different thing it used
to be why because you've been
00:49:19.98\00:49:22.04
touched by the
master just like this man.
00:49:22.07\00:49:24.09
God is looking for
people that he can touch today
00:49:26.30\00:49:27.84
you need to be one, I
need to be one of those that
00:49:27.87\00:49:30.95
God can reach down
and touch and when he says
00:49:30.98\00:49:33.06
go wash or when he
ask us to do something
00:49:33.09\00:49:35.55
we need to be obedient to that.
00:49:35.58\00:49:36.93
The Pharisees isn't
real fit by the way.
00:49:38.00\00:49:39.63
They didn't want, they
didn't want Jesus to receive
00:49:40.62\00:49:42.12
the credit and when
they ask him who did this
00:49:42.15\00:49:45.44
thing the man said
Jesus did this and they say
00:49:45.47\00:49:50.13
well we don't
really want to hear that,
00:49:50.16\00:49:51.56
we need to be
talking about something else
00:49:51.59\00:49:53.07
so when you get
credit somewhere else,
00:49:53.10\00:49:54.50
but the more they ask
who did this thing the
00:49:54.53\00:49:56.58
more this blind
man said it was Jesus,
00:49:56.61\00:49:58.49
so the more he was
pressured, the more he was
00:49:58.52\00:50:00.58
squeezed, the more
he squalled out the name
00:50:00.61\00:50:02.72
of Jesus you know
what I believe we need to,
00:50:02.75\00:50:04.43
we need by the way to be
that way to did pressure,
00:50:04.78\00:50:08.36
things of this world
we shouldn't be afraid of
00:50:09.09\00:50:10.34
by the way, we need to be
looking a little bit closer
00:50:10.37\00:50:14.05
at Jesus little bit
more. We need to be like the
00:50:14.08\00:50:17.45
man he said you know
what, I was once blind,
00:50:17.48\00:50:19.73
but now I see. John
chapter 9 you read the
00:50:20.82\00:50:26.03
whole thing, we won't
have time to go through
00:50:26.06\00:50:27.81
it all today. But the
religious leaders began to
00:50:27.84\00:50:33.46
complain here we
had a dwarf, who became
00:50:33.49\00:50:36.58
a giant, one who
exercises faith and obedience
00:50:36.61\00:50:40.38
to God and God
rewarded him and gave him back
00:50:40.41\00:50:43.05
his site then the
pressure began to be put on by
00:50:43.08\00:50:47.97
family and friends
and even by his parents.
00:50:48.54\00:50:51.42
Religious leaders went
to the parents and they
00:50:54.11\00:50:55.59
said oh is this your
son, yeah was he born blind
00:50:55.62\00:50:57.97
yes he was, but that
the right quickly they said
00:50:58.00\00:51:00.87
he is of age go and ask
him. See that they don't
00:51:00.90\00:51:02.85
want to take
responsibility; they didn't want
00:51:02.88\00:51:05.11
all that responsibility, they
say go ask him he is of age,
00:51:05.14\00:51:08.00
because they realized
that if they had said it was
00:51:08.67\00:51:10.80
Jesus that did it,
they would be excommunicated
00:51:10.83\00:51:13.99
from the church for 30
days. And they did repent
00:51:14.02\00:51:17.57
of that by the way they
were some steeper things
00:51:17.60\00:51:19.48
that would be
inflicted upon them.
00:51:19.51\00:51:21.11
They didn't want that,
that tells you how the enemy
00:51:22.37\00:51:27.17
operates by the way he
does it by tries to get
00:51:27.20\00:51:30.32
you do it in the
right you know easy way,
00:51:30.35\00:51:32.01
but that doesn't work
he begins to put force
00:51:32.04\00:51:34.10
that you're gonna to
be challenged with certain
00:51:35.40\00:51:36.60
things. It's our job to
stand as giants for God.
00:51:36.63\00:51:42.92
This blind man as he
was giving praise to God,
00:51:46.30\00:51:51.47
he was asked to be
quite oh we don't wanna
00:51:52.62\00:51:55.25
hear anything. Do
you want to be a giant
00:51:55.28\00:51:57.85
for God today? Even if
the pressure is applied,
00:51:57.88\00:52:01.39
you accept him in your
heart and in your life.
00:52:02.12\00:52:03.71
Are you embarrassed?
You embarrassed to say
00:52:03.74\00:52:06.24
grace when you are
out, you embarrassed to lift
00:52:06.27\00:52:08.06
up the name of Jesus
around certain groups
00:52:08.09\00:52:10.38
of people, if you are
stay away from those group
00:52:10.41\00:52:12.62
of people, unless you
can lift up the name of Jesus
00:52:14.20\00:52:15.47
set a good example
for those around about,
00:52:15.50\00:52:17.50
it's time for God's
people to rally around,
00:52:18.47\00:52:20.28
it's time for us to be
fill with the Holy Spirit of God
00:52:20.31\00:52:22.81
to where we
giants fill the land,
00:52:22.84\00:52:24.87
giants as
christians. And God said I want
00:52:25.35\00:52:28.56
to do that for you,
but the blind man said
00:52:28.59\00:52:32.15
you know what I want
to give him the praise.
00:52:32.18\00:52:33.64
I need to give him
the praise and he continue
00:52:34.83\00:52:37.23
to praise him regardless
of what the results might
00:52:37.26\00:52:40.33
be, they said he
can't he is a sinner,
00:52:40.36\00:52:43.04
he can't do these
things the blind man said
00:52:43.07\00:52:44.92
I don't care I don't
know that he is a sinner
00:52:44.95\00:52:46.63
or he is not all I
know is I was blind,
00:52:46.66\00:52:48.79
but now I see. We might
say that in our own life
00:52:48.82\00:52:53.52
sometime you know I
don't know what's all
00:52:53.55\00:52:54.69
happening in everybody's
heart and everybody's
00:52:54.72\00:52:56.40
life in the last couple
of minutes we have together,
00:52:56.43\00:52:59.21
but if he is
reaching he has touched you
00:53:02.93\00:53:04.29
that's all you
need to know about it.
00:53:05.71\00:53:06.88
The things that you
want to love you now hate
00:53:08.14\00:53:09.87
and in the things that
you hated you now love let
00:53:09.90\00:53:12.07
me say you got to
touch from on high.
00:53:12.10\00:53:13.65
He doesn't want the
church to be crippled,
00:53:15.29\00:53:16.89
he doesn't want the
church to be slumber,
00:53:18.18\00:53:19.81
he doesn't want
the church to be lazy,
00:53:20.63\00:53:22.00
but right now is the
time to rise to the occasion
00:53:22.03\00:53:24.22
and to give him
praise and honor and glory
00:53:24.89\00:53:26.93
and to simply say as
this blind man I'm gonna
00:53:28.37\00:53:30.78
give God the
praise, I'm gonna give Jesus
00:53:30.81\00:53:33.11
the praise and the
honor and the glory,
00:53:33.14\00:53:34.75
because he is doing
great things in my heart
00:53:35.83\00:53:37.52
and in my life.
Everyday of your life we need
00:53:37.55\00:53:40.18
to give him glory. Come
on let's talk just a second
00:53:40.21\00:53:43.22
before we close, we're
gonna pray, let's give him
00:53:43.25\00:53:46.57
praise and honor and
glory for my Bible says every
00:53:46.60\00:53:49.87
good gift comes from the father.
00:53:49.90\00:53:52.25
It is in him that we
live and that we move and that
00:53:53.73\00:53:56.43
we have our beings.
Every breathe we take,
00:53:56.46\00:53:59.03
we owe him everything.
Why not praise him today,
00:53:59.06\00:54:02.86
why not listen to his voice,
why not be obedient to him,
00:54:03.29\00:54:05.95
why not obey his voice
and those who were walking
00:54:05.98\00:54:09.29
in darkness may do
what we maybe walking
00:54:09.32\00:54:11.64
in the light as he is in
the light. You want to walk
00:54:11.67\00:54:15.65
in that light let's pray
about it right now before
00:54:15.68\00:54:17.56
we close shall we.
Merciful Father in Heaven,
00:54:17.59\00:54:20.68
we thank you for your
word, thank you for calling
00:54:20.71\00:54:23.10
us out of darkness
into that marvelous light,
00:54:23.13\00:54:25.47
we just thank you for
loving us, thanking for
00:54:26.41\00:54:28.11
dying force, thank you
for Calvary in that blood
00:54:28.14\00:54:30.71
that cleanses us
whiter than snow,
00:54:30.74\00:54:32.59
but those who have made
that decision to step out
00:54:33.11\00:54:34.60
of darkness into light I
give you praise in Jesus name,
00:54:34.63\00:54:37.43
amen. Until next
time, I want you to continue
00:54:37.46\00:54:41.62
to study the Bible,
if you have questions or
00:54:41.65\00:54:43.64
comments you should
be sure and let us know,
00:54:43.67\00:54:45.23
but remember stay in
the word, keep your hand
00:54:45.52\00:54:47.52
in the hand of Jesus,
it won't be long he is
00:54:47.55\00:54:50.08
going to be here,
I'll see you next time.
00:54:50.11\00:54:51.98
Welcome back friends,
in closing I want you to
00:54:55.01\00:54:57.59
think about this
question with me.
00:54:57.62\00:54:59.82
Christ who came from
Heaven all the way down
00:55:00.59\00:55:03.33
to this earth to show
us what a true Christian
00:55:03.36\00:55:06.83
is really all about,
was he a religious dwarf.
00:55:06.86\00:55:11.14
I believe that you will
agree emphatically with me
00:55:11.71\00:55:16.72
absolutely not.
Another words of what a
00:55:16.75\00:55:22.24
tremendous
example of faith he was,
00:55:22.27\00:55:25.18
he trusted his Father
all the way to the Cross.
00:55:25.97\00:55:28.93
What an example of
Holy Spirit power he gave
00:55:29.71\00:55:32.94
sight to the
blind, he healed the sick,
00:55:32.97\00:55:36.13
he raised the dead.
What an example of Christian
00:55:36.16\00:55:39.94
integrity never once,
never once did he give
00:55:39.98\00:55:43.73
into sin and what an
example of endurance,
00:55:43.76\00:55:47.32
never did he waiver from
the truth despite complete
00:55:47.94\00:55:51.83
rejection at times,
despite hatred and persecution
00:55:51.86\00:55:56.41
and ultimately
and agonizing death.
00:55:56.44\00:55:59.85
What an example he
was of gigantic love.
00:56:00.87\00:56:04.98
A love that we can
only comprehend in a very
00:56:05.56\00:56:08.97
minute way here in this
earth, no Christ was no dwarf,
00:56:09.00\00:56:14.30
Christ is no religious
dwarf. Remember the council
00:56:14.71\00:56:18.88
I gave you earlier that
day by day our characters
00:56:18.91\00:56:23.16
are to be build up under
his direction and if your
00:56:23.19\00:56:27.49
character is being
built up under his direction
00:56:27.71\00:56:31.37
in no way, no way will any
of us be a spiritual dwarf.
00:56:31.97\00:56:37.32
That's our prayer for
you today that you will
00:56:37.60\00:56:39.44
continue climbing that
ladder and we want to hear
00:56:39.47\00:56:42.36
from you. We want to
know what your experience
00:56:42.39\00:56:46.95
has been with Christ,
what your experiences been
00:56:46.98\00:56:49.43
with this program
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00:56:49.46\00:56:51.33
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00:56:52.18\00:56:54.55
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00:56:57.03\00:57:00.31
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00:57:00.34\00:57:07.92
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00:57:07.95\00:57:10.02
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00:57:10.05\00:57:13.68
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00:57:13.71\00:57:15.40
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00:57:15.43\00:57:20.43
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00:57:20.65\00:57:22.51
when we hear for you,
as we pray these meetings
00:57:22.54\00:57:25.11
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00:57:25.14\00:57:27.35
to richly bless to you inward.
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