Hello and welcome to
Behold the Lamb Presents.
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I'm Chris Shelton.
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I wanna thank
you for joining us.
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Today's message is one
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most of us are
really interested in
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and that being
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"How You Can
Become a New Person."
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So many people find themselves
discouraged with their lives
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and they're really
sorry for the various mistakes
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that they have
made over the years.
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So the thought of
becoming a new person in Christ
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truly sounds wonderful.
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It is just what
they and all of us need.
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But how can this
transformation come about?
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And is it really, really true
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that we can become
a totally new person
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with new motives, new
thoughts, and new actions?
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And if so,
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how does this
new birth experience
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take place?
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And what may we expect
our characters to be like
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once we are truly converted?
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All these
questions and many more
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will be answered
by Pastor Kenny today
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as he delivers our
message, again, entitled
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"How You Can
Become a New Person."
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This message is the 23rd message
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of a 25-part series of programs
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that we have developed
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using this Bible
brochure as our guide.
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This Bible brochure is entitled
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"Sharing God's
Love Makes You Happier,
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What The Bible Says,"
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and it was compiled
by Brother Richard Bland
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under the
guidance of the Holy Spirit
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as he endeavored to answer
25 of the most asked questions
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that he has received
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during his many
years of ministry
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with United Prison Ministries.
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And now we at
Behold the Lamb Ministries
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have expounded his studies
into one-hour presentations
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that are literally spanning
the world with God's answers
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as given through the scriptures
and the Spirit of Prophecy.
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But before we join
Pastor Kenny Shelton today,
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let's visit 3ABN
for worshiping song
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that is entitled "That
Sounds Like Home To Me"
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as sung by Layke Jones
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and accompanied by
Brother Tim Parton.
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Somewhere just
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Across the Jordan River
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There's a place
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Of everlasting joy
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And peace
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Where the stream of life
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Is flowing there forever
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And the crown of life
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Is waiting there for me
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That sounds like home to me
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Like where I want to be
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There'll be no tears
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To fill our eyes again
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The hills will
echo with the story
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As we sing of
His grace and glory
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Where the saints of God will be
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That sounds like
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Home to me
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They say there's only joy
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Inside that city
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A crystal river flowing by
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The tree of life
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No pain, no disappointments
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There will hurt us
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For Jesus Christ Himself
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Will be the light
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That sounds like home to me
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Right where I want to be
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There'll be no tears
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To fill our eyes again
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The hills will
echo with the story
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As we sing of
His grace and glory
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Where the saints of God will be
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That sounds like
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Home to me
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The hills will
echo with the story
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As we sing of His grace
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And glory
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Where the saints of God will be
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That sounds like home
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To me
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Thanks for joining us once again
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here at Behold
the Lamb Ministry.
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As you've heard already,
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subject is a vital,
vital of importance today
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in each of our
Christian experience.
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We're gonna talk about
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how you can become a new person.
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And we wanna thank
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those who bring our
special music to us.
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What a blessing that is.
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We hear the Word of
God, it sets our heart,
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it sets our mind to be
able to hear the Word of God.
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While we get into this study,
I'm going to pray right now.
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We've got a lot to cover.
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We need to ask for the
power of the Holy Spirit.
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Will you pray with me, please?
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Loving Father in Heaven,
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thank You for the privilege
of studying Your Word today.
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Praying for the
unction of thy Holy Spirit.
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Lord, move upon our
hearts and our minds,
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cover us with Your blood
that Your voice may be heard
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that Your Word
may be understood,
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and decisions made
not for just today,
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but for eternity.
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In Jesus' name, amen.
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If you have your Bibles,
get them out real quickly,
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a pencil and paper and jot down
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some of these
passage of scripture
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because I wanna give you,
I call them text for thought,
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text for thought as we
start out this message,
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you know, "How You
Become a New Person."
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This may sound
simple but it can be deep
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and it's something
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that many people struggle
with every day of their life
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and yet they're not
making that decision.
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So we pray today,
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you're going to make a decision
for Jesus once and for all
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that you want to
become a new person in Him.
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In the Old Testament,
the Book of Numbers 5:6-7,
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I want you to pay
special attention to this,
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then I'm gonna give you about
three passages of scripture
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that simply tell
us that God says,
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"You know what,
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you're not going to
enter the kingdom of God.
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If this takes place,
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you're not going to
enter the kingdom of God.
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Numbers 5:6-7
reads like this. It says,
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"Speak unto the
children of Israel,
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when a man or a
woman shall commit any sin
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that men commit to do a
trespass against the Lord,
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that person is guilty."
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Notice,
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"Then shall they
confess their sin
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which they have done."
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Very simple here, isn't it?
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We've done something wrong,
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we realize it's wrong,
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then we need to do what?
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Confess that sin.
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That's where many make a mistake
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in their walk day by day.
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They're not willing to confess
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that they've
done something wrong.
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This is where it begins.
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Now notice these three
passages of scripture quickly
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In Matthew 18:3,
Jesus is speaking,
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He says, "Verily I say unto you,
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Except ye be
converted and become as little,"
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what?
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"Little children," notice it,
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"ye shall not enter
into the kingdom of heaven."
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My question would
come back quickly,
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then how do we
become little children?
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Well, the
Galatians 3:26 says this,
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Galatians 3:26,
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"Ye are all the children of
God by faith in Christ Jesus."
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Is by what?
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It's all faith in Christ Jesus,
we become as little children.
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John 3:3,
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very familiar
passage of scripture,
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Jesus speaking again.
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John 3:3,
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"Verily, verily,
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I say unto thee,
except a man be," what,
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"born again, he cannot
see the kingdom of God."
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Jesus is saying you cannot
see if you're not born again.
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Did you notice that?
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If we're not like..
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become like little
children, be converted,
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we shall not enter
the kingdom of God.
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And in John 3:5, notice this,
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Jesus answered
again, notice what He said,
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"Verily,
verily, I say unto thee,
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except a man be
born of the," what,
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"the water and of the Spirit,
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he cannot enter
the kingdom of God."
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So that's very clear.
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Something needs to be done.
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The way that we are
born into this world,
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there must be a
change that takes place.
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We're born in
the blood and flesh,
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but then there must be
a change that takes place
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if we want
heaven to be our home.
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How do we
become that new person?
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I looked up some things
I thought was interesting.
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A Gallup, it's a
poll, the Gallup Poll,
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and usually they're
pretty accurate with it.
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They've taken
1,000 to 2,000 people
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and they asked
them the questions.
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Notice this,
even with the economy,
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as stable as it seems as
it is right now and strong,
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Americans are
feeling very anxious.
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They're feeling depressed
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Notice, they're
dissatisfied with their lives.
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How can that be?
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It seems like, you know,
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more money, more
jobs, more things happening,
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that we're going to be
happy, but they're dissatisfied.
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Now notice this, wellbeing...
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Now this shocked me,
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wellbeing is lower
in religious states.
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The wellbeing is
lower in religious states.
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How can that be?
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Notice that, but it's higher,
wellbeing is higher in states,
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notice this, that
concentrate on the arts,
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that concentrate on
music and musicians,
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and writers, and other things.
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Isn't that interesting?
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So things of the world
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may not be bad
within themselves,
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but things of the world,
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the group of people
are seemed to be happier
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for some reason.
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America is growing
increasingly unhappy.
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There must be something wrong.
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Do we need that change?
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Is there something that
needs to take place in our life,
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that we can become a
new person in Jesus Christ?
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This is taken from,
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it's called the
Conversation.com.
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You can look it up for yourself.
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And again, they did a poll.
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And this deals
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with not only on those
that deals with teenagers,
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but it deals with
those of us who are older,
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we might fit in this class.
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Notice this,
what they said here.
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So every year,
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teens are asked about
their general happiness.
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Now in addition to
how they spend their time,
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notice, we found that
teens who spent more time,
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listen, teens
who spent more time,
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notice this,
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seeing their
friends, did you get that?
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Seeing their
friends, exercising,
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playing some kind
of sports for exercise,
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and attending
religious services were happy,
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ain't that interesting?
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They were happy.
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They would read,
they would exercise,
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they would spend some time,
they would see their friends
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rather than other ways
to get contact with them.
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Now, so interesting now,
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however, teens who spent
more time on their internet,
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teens who spent more time
playing games on the computer,
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teens who was on the
social media all the time,
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teens who were
texting all the time,
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teens who were using video chat,
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and teens who were
watching TV were less happy,
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isn't that interesting?
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See, the enemy is saying,
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all those things
that I just read out,
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these what makes them happy,
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these what
makes the teens happy.
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But as they take
these polls and ask them,
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that's not what
makes them happy.
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In other words, in other words,
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every activity
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that didn't involve a screen
was linked to more happiness.
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Somebody needs to
think with me now.
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I'm not saying
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it's gonna be
popular what I'm telling you.
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I just said, this
is what the poll said.
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And the polls
usually were pretty good
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within two or
three points so you know.
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So interesting, and it says,
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in every activity
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that involved a screen
was linked to less happiness.
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This is just what the poll said.
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They weren't trying to
be religious as it were,
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they weren't
trying to prove a point,
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they were just
taking the survey.
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The difference, notice this,
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the happy ones and
the ones less happy,
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they said, there was a
considerable difference
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in between the two classes.
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And if you wanted
to give some advice,
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based on research,
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you know, I like to give advice
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as it were based
on the Word of God,
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don't you?
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And in this subject here,
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you give advice
based upon research,
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notice this,
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based upon
research is very simple.
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Put down your phone,
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or your tablet,
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and just go do something,
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isn't that interesting, huh?
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Because of
screens, listen carefully,
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because of screens,
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there is less face-to-face
time with each other,
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did you get it?
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Including time
with your partner.
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This results in
less of everything,
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including happiness.`
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So as a partner, as a mate,
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people you spend time
with, think about that one.
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That's pretty heavy duty.
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Do we feel then
possibly that we need to change?
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Is it possible
that we need to change?
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Now remember,
even as a Christian,
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you say, "Well,
I'm somewhat content."
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You may be in
trouble with that attitude,
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I'm content.
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Until we get to
heaven, let's not be content.
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We can be happy we're
moving in the right direction.
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We're climbing in
the right direction,
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but not to be content.
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Content makes you lazy
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and that you don't
want anything else,
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you don't need anything else.
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And we're trying to
say, we need more of Jesus.
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We need more of Him.
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We need more
time spent with Him.
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Let's focus on
becoming a new person.
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We may be like Paul.
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Everybody knows
the life of Paul,
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awesome man of God.
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And certainly, we could
learn by reading scripture.
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But, you know, it's interesting,
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Paul said,
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"I want to do the right thing
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but I find myself
doing the wrong thing."
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Now maybe you're that way today.
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I've been that way.
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You want to do the right thing.
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"I know it's right. I
want to do the right thing,"
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but, boy-oh-boy,
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if I didn't turn
around and do the wrong thing.
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Now why, why would that happen?
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Well, Paul
explained it more in Romans 7
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if you're jotting
things down, Romans 7:15-19.
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It would be so beautiful
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to sit down read
every one of these verses.
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But let me put it in a nutshell.
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But I gave you the passage,
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and so, therefore,
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you can study to show
yourself approved unto God.
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In a nutshell,
in Romans 7:15-19,
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here's what Paul simply says.
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He says, "But
what I hate that I do."
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I'm putting in a
nutshell, did you get it?
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That I hate, he said, that I do.
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And then verse 19, he said,
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"For the good
that I would I do not,
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but the evil, which I
would not, that I do."
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Man, that sounds
pretty heavy duty,
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doesn't it?
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Now whether Paul...
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There's a little
bit of reflection here
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I want you to think about.
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There's controversy
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even what I just
read in those passages.
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Now, so we're gonna look at
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whether Paul was
reflecting on his life
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before conversion
or after conversion.
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He sensed
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there was some
imperfection in his life
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that needed to be
changed, does that make sense?
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Now today would be the question,
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are there any of us here
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or those who will
watch, or view, listen,
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whatever it might be, that sense
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there's some
imperfections in their life
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and some
changes need to be made?
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See, if we
don't, we're in trouble.
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We're in trouble.
I've already seen them.
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Right now, I can name a
lot of them from my own life.
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I can sense a lot
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because I'm looking at
what I'm supposed to look at.
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I'm looking at Jesus,
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and I'm a far cry from that.
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But He wants to draw
me, and He's drawing me
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and showing me the way
and helping me with this.
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So Paul was
reflecting on these things
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and some areas, and he
came to the conclusion,
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"I need some help."
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If Paul needed some help,
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I need more help, I
need some more help.
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Especially this, if for years,
we have been maybe hereditary,
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it plays a part,
we've inherited some things,
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and maybe we've been
cultivating some things,
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are we listening, church?
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We think about
cultivating some bad habits.
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And it seems like all we've done
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is just make wrong
choices all the time.
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Every time we make a
choice, it turns out backwards.
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I know no one here is like that,
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but there's someone maybe
that happens in their life.
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But this can be so
annoying to an individual
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when they've
cultivated some bad things,
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they practice a
lot of bad things,
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but yet they want
to do the right thing.
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Are we getting it, church?
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They wanna do the right
thing, but now there are like,
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"Man, you know,
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what am I going to do right now?
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I long to break this habit,
but I can't seem to break it."
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You know, the effects of
evil habits and practices
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are not easily broken.
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Now we realize through
the blood of Jesus Christ,
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but what happens
is most of the time,
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we make a decision that, what?
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We are going to stop this.
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We're going to quit this.
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"I can do it on my own,"
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that's what people say.
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"Well, we can do it on
our own. Don't need any help."
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Oh, how sad.
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How miserable it
becomes in their life
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and how many
times they are defeated,
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until, listen,
they're defeated so often
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that they don't
wanna fight anymore.
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And this is when
we're in trouble.
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The effects of habits and
bad choices leaves a scar,
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oh-oh, even
after we're converted.
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Is somebody there? Yeah.
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Even after we are converted,
some of the ridiculous...
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I want to say silly,
and I want to say stupid,
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but I need to be
careful in the pulpit.
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Did I say it anyway? Yeah.
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The things that they've done,
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it's left scars,
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and scars are
not easily removed.
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And the scar is something
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that is aggravating
all through your life,
00:20:05.07\00:20:07.20
even though it's not
an issue maybe anymore,
00:20:07.24\00:20:09.27
you see that scar,
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you're reminded of what happened
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while you got that scar.
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And a scar is very
sensitive, is it not?
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I have a finger,
it's almost cut off,
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one finger here and
the scars all around it.
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You know what happens?
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When the weather gets
bad, it's very sensitive.
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It's more sensitive to touch
than my other fingers at all.
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That's really
sensitive there everything.
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It's a constant reminder
that something went wrong.
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It's not easy to get over this.
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It's tender, it's touchy.
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Sometimes, that
happens in our life.
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We can't forget
that that scar is there.
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Kind of like maybe like sin,
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sin is impossible to resist.
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Let me finish it now.
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Sin is impossible to resist.
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Notice,
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even resist the power of
evil without a higher power,
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did you get it?
00:21:01.02\00:21:02.36
Within ourselves, it's
impossible to resist evil
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unless we have
some outside help,
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higher power that
takes possession of the soul.
00:21:07.63\00:21:12.57
One man said one time,
00:21:12.60\00:21:13.94
he said, you know,
if you are born once,
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are you still here?
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If you're born
once, notice this,
00:21:18.47\00:21:20.88
you're born into
the devil's family.
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If you're born twice, you
are born into God's family.
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Now that starts to
make sense, doesn't it,
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as we put it together,
we're born into God's family.
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Martin Luther said
something like this.
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He knew very well what
Paul was going through.
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When Paul was writing
and pinning all these things,
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I mean, Paul exposed himself.
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Paul told a lot
of things on himself.
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Whereas the readers,
we can't hardly see it
00:21:45.70\00:21:47.04
because we just
esteem him high in Jesus
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because he loved Jesus.
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But Martin Luther knew very well
00:21:51.77\00:21:53.78
about the sayings
there, about the carnal mind.
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When Martin Luther
said something like this,
00:21:56.51\00:21:58.71
he said, "I am more
afraid of my heart."
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See, some of us are
not afraid of our heart.
00:22:01.78\00:22:04.02
We're not afraid of our mind.
00:22:04.05\00:22:05.39
But I say be
leery of your heart.
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Be leery of your mind.
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Its evil, the Bible
says, isn't that right?
00:22:09.56\00:22:11.36
We ought to be very careful.
00:22:11.39\00:22:12.73
Even though we
think it's all right.
00:22:12.76\00:22:14.10
Martin Luther said,
"I'm afraid of my heart."
00:22:14.13\00:22:15.56
He said, "I'm
more afraid of my heart
00:22:15.60\00:22:17.83
than I am of the pope
00:22:17.87\00:22:19.20
and all the
cardinals put together."
00:22:19.23\00:22:22.90
That's pretty
heavy duty, isn't it?
00:22:22.94\00:22:24.51
He had a lot to be
afraid of, didn't he?
00:22:24.54\00:22:29.04
Paul came to the point,
finally he just simply said,
00:22:29.08\00:22:31.11
we're talking
about a new person here.
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He finally came to
the point, he said,
00:22:32.88\00:22:34.42
"Who's going to deliver me?"
00:22:34.45\00:22:39.15
Who's going to...
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In other word there he said,
00:22:40.56\00:22:41.89
"Who's going to
rescue me from this?"
00:22:41.92\00:22:44.73
So you may come to that
in your Christian experience,
00:22:44.76\00:22:46.70
who's going to rescue?
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I'm in a mess. I need
somebody to rescue me.
00:22:48.10\00:22:50.30
I need some more help.
00:22:50.33\00:22:51.67
I've lived this
life for so long.
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I don't know any other way.
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Where does victory come from?
00:22:56.94\00:23:00.51
Does it come from knowing
a bunch of laws and rules?
00:23:00.54\00:23:04.91
Can a man free himself
00:23:04.95\00:23:06.65
because he decides
he's going to free himself?
00:23:06.68\00:23:09.62
Can he do it
00:23:09.65\00:23:10.99
because with
his own just as will
00:23:11.02\00:23:12.95
or just his own mind?
00:23:12.99\00:23:14.49
The answer has to
be no to all of those.
00:23:14.52\00:23:18.36
Many have tried that we
talked about a few moments ago,
00:23:18.39\00:23:21.60
and many have failed,
00:23:21.63\00:23:23.10
and the results were disastrous.
00:23:23.13\00:23:25.80
You may have known someone,
00:23:25.83\00:23:27.17
you may have been
one of those people.
00:23:27.20\00:23:30.57
The end result was disastrous.
00:23:30.61\00:23:32.11
There's only one way
that we can begin live over
00:23:32.14\00:23:35.51
and regardless
of our past at all,
00:23:35.54\00:23:37.28
and that we know is
through Jesus Christ.
00:23:37.31\00:23:40.12
Bible says in 1
Corinthians 15:57...
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I like the way Paul starts up.
00:23:44.32\00:23:45.85
He said, "Thanks be to God."
00:23:45.89\00:23:48.16
Wouldn't it be nice if
we started out everything,
00:23:48.19\00:23:50.23
thanks be to God?
00:23:50.26\00:23:52.03
Kenny, you're here
today, thanks be to God.
00:23:52.06\00:23:54.76
Man, you've been
blessed, thanks be to God.
00:23:54.80\00:23:57.17
Whoa!
00:23:57.20\00:23:58.53
Well, that song was
beautiful, thanks be to God.
00:23:58.57\00:24:00.70
Well, that
message touched my heart,
00:24:00.74\00:24:02.30
thanks be to God.
00:24:02.34\00:24:04.34
See, everything has
to come back to what?
00:24:04.37\00:24:06.71
Thanks be to God.
00:24:06.74\00:24:08.64
He said, "Thanks be to God,
00:24:08.68\00:24:10.28
which giveth us
victory through,"
00:24:10.31\00:24:12.75
notice this, "our
Lord Jesus Christ."
00:24:12.78\00:24:15.78
Now what did he say?
Where does victory come from?
00:24:15.82\00:24:18.72
1 Corinthians, come on, 15:57.
00:24:18.75\00:24:21.89
"Thanks be to God
which giveth us the victory
00:24:21.92\00:24:25.99
through Jesus Christ, our Lord.
00:24:26.03\00:24:28.53
Victory comes from where?
00:24:28.56\00:24:30.50
Being in Jesus Christ, our Lord.
00:24:30.53\00:24:32.43
It's not in...
00:24:32.47\00:24:33.80
Well, I'm going to
attend a class over here.
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It may help you along the
way, that's not the answer.
00:24:35.54\00:24:38.27
I made up my mind,
I'm going to do it,
00:24:38.31\00:24:39.81
that's not the answer.
00:24:39.84\00:24:41.24
My will is strong, and
I will not be defeated,
00:24:41.28\00:24:43.65
that's not enough.
00:24:43.68\00:24:45.01
I've purposed in my heart
00:24:45.05\00:24:46.38
that it's not
gonna happen again.
00:24:46.41\00:24:48.18
That's still not
enough. We need Jesus.
00:24:48.22\00:24:50.52
That's where victory is assured
because the Bible says so.
00:24:50.55\00:24:54.42
The Bible said so, our problem,
00:24:54.46\00:24:55.92
we won't hang on
to the Word of God.
00:24:55.96\00:24:58.33
We don't have enough
faith in the Word of God,
00:24:58.36\00:25:00.50
and we become selfish,
and we wanna continue to do
00:25:00.53\00:25:02.73
what we're doing,
00:25:02.76\00:25:04.10
because we like
what we're doing.
00:25:04.13\00:25:07.14
Think with me for a moment.
00:25:07.17\00:25:08.50
Why was Paul within himself
00:25:08.54\00:25:11.57
incapable of following
what God wanted him to do?
00:25:11.61\00:25:16.51
Now within himself, he
said, man, I'm incapable.
00:25:16.54\00:25:19.81
Well, Romans 7:14
gives us a little hint
00:25:19.85\00:25:22.88
as we're
building on this new life.
00:25:22.92\00:25:25.19
Romans 7:14, Paul said,
he laid it out pretty clear,
00:25:25.22\00:25:29.69
"For we know that the
law is," what is the law?
00:25:29.72\00:25:32.93
"It's spiritual."
00:25:32.96\00:25:34.36
You know, when people say,
00:25:34.40\00:25:35.73
"Well, the law is not important.
00:25:35.76\00:25:37.10
But my Bible says in
several passages there
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that the law is
spiritual, it must be good.
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The law is
spiritual, but they turn around,
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he said, "But look at me,
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I'm carnal, and
I'm sold under sin."
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Born in this mess, this world,
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and a change need to take place.
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It's spiritual, and I'm
just an old human being.
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Well, he knew something
need to change, didn't he?
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When we say
that's maybe all of us,
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would that be fair?
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To say, maybe that's all of us.
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What did he mean?
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Paul was very, some
people say confusing,
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but you know, spiritual things
are spiritually discerned,
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and so you study to
show yourself approved.
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What did he mean?
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Number one...
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There's three
points is very interesting.
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Paul establishes,
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and then Paul begins to defend
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and he's saying,
"Oh, was he good at that?"
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Man, he was good at
defending what is truth.
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You know, group of men,
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I don't care how many
could not gain say him,
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because he knew the Word of God
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and had the power
of the Holy Spirit.
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So three points here.
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He simply says...
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Number one, he
said, three points,
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I'm going to defend.
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The law is what? It's spiritual.
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That's in Romans
7:14, the law is spiritual.
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Then he says, "The law is holy,
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and it's just, and it's good,"
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in Romans 7:12.
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So he makes it a
point right quick,
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then we're
going to have to look,
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as we're trying to,
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by the grace of
God make a change,
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we're going to
have to find something
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that we can
look at the spiritual
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that will help to
guide us to where we know,
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what we should do, or
maybe what we shouldn't do
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by the grace of God.
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I hope that makes sense.
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Number two, Paul was defending,
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and he was establishing
the true nature of sin.
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We have to realize what
the true nature of sin is,
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and how it affects
each and every one of us.
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You think about the third point,
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this conflict or the battle
is more or less we could say,
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everybody's
different, is that true?
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We're all different.
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And things affect you
different at one point
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than it does to me
and so on and so forth.
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But every person is challenged,
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or they're
confronted by the knowledge.
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When they've come to a knowledge
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that there's a spiritual
claim of God's law has on us.
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Other words to
realize that God has a law
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and that it is
binding The Ten Commandments.
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And once we say,
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"Oh, he does have a
standard of righteousness.
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I am accountable to Him."
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All of a sudden,
there's something begins
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to stir inside.
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I'm accountable.
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I'm a sinner.
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Well, I need to change.
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We need to hear that,
we need to understand that.
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Because before conversion,
what happened, let's be honest?
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Before conversion,
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when God wasn't
even in your thoughts,
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basically, I've
heard people say,
00:28:15.32\00:28:17.33
"Well, I didn't think about God
for 10, 12, or 14 years of age.
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I never heard about in
my house, I didn't know.
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That's just foreign to
my mind, but not to others.
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So you know, before
conversion, sin just,
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it didn't seem to bother.
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Some individual,
it didn't bother them.
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They could just do
what they wanted to do.
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They felt good about it.
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There was no heavy burden.
Everything was just fine.
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But now conviction of
the Holy Spirit is coming.
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The Holy Spirit
is working, right?
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What do you think it is or not,
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you couldn't even
make a decision for Christ,
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unless, what?
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The Spirit of the Living
God was working in you first.
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Jesus said, "I came to you."
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Think about it.
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The Holy Spirit
inside, we may not realize it,
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but it's working on us
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to bring us to the point
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of make a decision for Christ.
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I love that this
point right here.
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Now remember, when
the Holy Spirit comes,
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we begin to
sense a load of guilt.
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Our life is heavy,
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wages of sin.
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There's things
that are going on...
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I'm carrying a
big heavy load here.
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I want to be free from this.
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I don't want to
be carrying around
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what I'm carrying around."
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But I noticed that
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when I looked at the law of God,
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I noticed what the law of
God is because Romans 3:20,
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just simply tells us that
"For by the law is the," what?
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"For by the law is the," what?
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"Is the knowledge
of sins." Stay with me.
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What does the law do?
Does the law save you?
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Does The Ten
Commandment law save you?
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No. No, it does
not. It never will.
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It only points out what sin is.
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Why?
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Because that's
what the Bible said,
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"I would not have known,
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Paul said, what
sin is accepted say it,
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thou shalt not.
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So now we know.
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And the law
cannot give me victory.
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Oh, I keep the law of God,
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that can't give you any victory.
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Only the Gospel of Jesus Christ,
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right, can bring us the victory.
00:30:04.47\00:30:07.00
There's a man
carrying a bag of potatoes,
00:30:07.04\00:30:10.61
kind of interesting
thought on his back.
00:30:10.64\00:30:13.14
And he was asked by
another man that joined him,
00:30:13.17\00:30:14.81
kind of a skeptic.
00:30:14.84\00:30:17.05
Because the man
had told him before...
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We always say, as I said,
be in the saving relationship,
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I'm saved.
00:30:21.82\00:30:23.69
And let's not try
to mince over the word
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saved in the
saving relationship,
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because this is a story.
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Are you still with me?
00:30:28.52\00:30:29.86
Man's carrying sack potato,
heavy potatoes on his back.
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He's walking down the road,
this man joins in, and He says,
00:30:32.16\00:30:34.60
"Well, how do you know
if you're saved or not?"
00:30:34.63\00:30:39.10
Man took a few more
steps with that bag of taters
00:30:39.13\00:30:41.47
on his shoulder.
00:30:41.50\00:30:43.04
And then he just
let go of the bag
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and he dropped the bag.
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Then he said,
00:30:50.28\00:30:52.51
"How do I know that
I've dropped the bag?
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I've not looked back to see,
00:30:56.18\00:30:58.12
if I've dropped the bag.
00:30:58.15\00:30:59.49
But how do I know
that I've dropped the bag."
00:30:59.52\00:31:01.59
Now the man said,
00:31:01.62\00:31:02.96
"You haven't looked back
to see if you've dropped it.
00:31:02.99\00:31:04.33
But you just said
you dropped the bag."
00:31:04.36\00:31:06.90
The guy said, "Well,
that's what I'm telling you.
00:31:06.93\00:31:10.23
I can tell you
00:31:10.27\00:31:11.90
that I sensed
00:31:11.93\00:31:13.40
that I dropped
the bag of potatoes,
00:31:13.44\00:31:15.54
because the
weight and the burden
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was lifted from my shoulder
00:31:17.94\00:31:19.27
and it went down to the ground."
00:31:19.31\00:31:21.21
Man said, "Wow!
00:31:21.24\00:31:22.58
Man, I never
thought of it like that."
00:31:22.61\00:31:25.18
He said, "That's how I can tell,
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I've lost that guilt,
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I've lost that
feeling of sin and sorrow,
00:31:29.95\00:31:33.82
and I found
peace in Jesus Christ."
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Why? Because the
burden was lifted.
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There's a song, "My
burden was lifted at Calvary."
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Ministry of Healing, page 452,
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and 453 says this,
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talks about, "The life of
the Apostle Paul," himself
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was this, notice,
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"was a constant
conflict with self."
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So we want to keep that point
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as we're striving
to be a new person
00:31:57.88\00:31:59.48
in Jesus Christ.
00:31:59.51\00:32:00.85
We have to realize
00:32:00.88\00:32:02.22
that there's going to be a cost.
00:32:02.25\00:32:03.59
Let's be warned about it first,
00:32:03.62\00:32:04.95
so that we can be
prepared by the grace of God,
00:32:04.99\00:32:06.92
because the enemy is
going to come against you
00:32:06.96\00:32:08.92
because Paul's life
was constantly attacked
00:32:08.96\00:32:11.59
by itself.
00:32:11.63\00:32:13.63
Notice, "His
will and his desires
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every day conflicted with
duty and the will of God."
00:32:16.10\00:32:20.67
So you see
everything, he said, what?
00:32:20.70\00:32:22.27
That I should be
doing, I don't do.
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So every day, I don't know
00:32:25.61\00:32:26.94
if you find that in
your Christian experience,
00:32:26.98\00:32:29.24
that you seem every
day, the decisions every day,
00:32:29.28\00:32:32.05
there's a conflict there.
00:32:32.08\00:32:33.65
When you got no
duty and you know,
00:32:33.68\00:32:35.42
you want to be
doing something for God,
00:32:35.45\00:32:36.95
there something
conflict going on
00:32:36.99\00:32:39.09
with the will of God.
00:32:39.12\00:32:40.46
The will of God says
this is what I want you to do,
00:32:40.49\00:32:42.12
but somehow there's
a kind of a conflict.
00:32:42.16\00:32:46.26
See, this we have to
realize when there's a person,
00:32:46.29\00:32:49.26
and maybe today there's a person
00:32:49.30\00:32:51.50
that he's making
that decision for Christ,
00:32:51.53\00:32:53.54
and they're realizing right now.
00:32:53.57\00:32:55.20
They long to be converted,
00:32:55.24\00:32:57.47
they want to change,
00:32:57.51\00:32:59.44
they're wanting to be reborn,
00:32:59.47\00:33:01.58
they're wanting things
to change in their life.
00:33:01.61\00:33:04.11
But we have to realize,
00:33:04.15\00:33:05.51
as this is taking place,
00:33:05.55\00:33:07.08
there's going to
be a battle with self.
00:33:07.12\00:33:10.89
Why is it?
00:33:10.92\00:33:12.25
Because you realize God says,
00:33:12.29\00:33:13.82
"This is the way
I want you to walk."
00:33:13.86\00:33:15.59
Self says, "Yeah,
but I've been walking
00:33:15.62\00:33:17.03
this way for years.
00:33:17.06\00:33:18.39
And I don't know
any other way to walk,
00:33:18.43\00:33:19.89
I kind of like this.
00:33:19.93\00:33:21.26
I'm going to
continue to do that."
00:33:21.30\00:33:22.63
So that's the self issue.
00:33:22.66\00:33:24.63
We want our own way
00:33:24.67\00:33:26.00
and want to do
how we want to do it.
00:33:26.03\00:33:29.04
And we all realize the
near we come to Christ,
00:33:29.07\00:33:32.71
we can discern
by the grace of God,
00:33:32.74\00:33:34.98
the ugliness of sin.
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Maybe put in a different way.
00:33:37.41\00:33:39.45
But you know, the
closer we get to Jesus
00:33:39.48\00:33:41.18
and more than we
realize how ugly sin is,
00:33:41.22\00:33:43.55
we'll never want
to turn away from it.
00:33:43.59\00:33:45.65
Sin is what?
00:33:45.69\00:33:47.46
Say it, somebody
say, sin is ugly.
00:33:47.49\00:33:50.93
Sinfulness of sin
00:33:50.96\00:33:53.93
to the very point is so ugly,
00:33:53.96\00:33:55.83
we don't want
anything to do with it.
00:33:55.86\00:33:57.57
Other places in the
world that so ugly as it were,
00:33:57.60\00:33:59.93
you've looked at
it, and you said,
00:33:59.97\00:34:01.30
"I don't ever want to go there.
00:34:01.34\00:34:02.90
I don't ever want to
be involved in this, man,
00:34:02.94\00:34:04.47
that's ugly."
00:34:04.51\00:34:05.84
We have to be that
way with what is sin.
00:34:05.87\00:34:08.31
That way, we don't
have to worry about going
00:34:08.34\00:34:10.05
in that direction
by the grace of God.
00:34:10.08\00:34:11.78
We need the enabling power
of the Holy Spirit in our life
00:34:16.22\00:34:20.36
to changes of Christ.
00:34:20.39\00:34:21.72
Romans 8:3-4, give some insight,
00:34:21.76\00:34:24.46
won't read all the verses,
but notice, Romans 8:3-4.
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These are powerful.
00:34:28.66\00:34:30.87
Remember, through the
enabling power of Christ,
00:34:30.90\00:34:34.94
and this is what
the Romans 8 says,
00:34:34.97\00:34:36.81
"God sending His own," who?
00:34:36.84\00:34:39.07
"Own son," notice this,
00:34:39.11\00:34:40.88
"in the likeness
of sinful flesh,"
00:34:40.91\00:34:43.98
notice, "for sin,
condemned sin in the flesh."
00:34:44.01\00:34:48.35
Isn't that wonderful?
00:34:48.38\00:34:49.72
He condemned sin in the flesh.
00:34:49.75\00:34:51.25
If you look at the word condemn,
00:34:51.29\00:34:52.92
it means He predicts,
00:34:52.95\00:34:54.29
He pronounced a
sentence against sin,
00:34:54.32\00:34:56.52
isn't that beautiful? Yes.
00:34:56.56\00:34:58.63
He judged sin for
what it really is.
00:34:58.66\00:35:02.33
When Jesus came it
says, here right here,
00:35:02.36\00:35:04.50
He opposed sin.
00:35:04.53\00:35:06.94
That means I need to oppose sin.
00:35:06.97\00:35:08.87
I need to look at
and make a judgment,
00:35:08.90\00:35:10.24
this is ugly,
this is not any good.
00:35:10.27\00:35:11.91
I don't want it anymore.
00:35:11.94\00:35:13.27
I'm tired of living
the life I've been living.
00:35:13.31\00:35:14.94
I'm tired of
drinking. I'm tired of drugs.
00:35:14.98\00:35:16.51
I'm tired of alcohol.
I'm tired of all this thing.
00:35:16.54\00:35:18.75
I'm tired of watching
things I shouldn't be watching.
00:35:18.78\00:35:20.72
I'm tired of listening to things
00:35:20.75\00:35:22.08
that I
shouldn't be listening to.
00:35:22.12\00:35:23.45
I'm tired of being with friends
00:35:23.49\00:35:24.82
that only lead me to
hell rather than to heaven.
00:35:24.85\00:35:26.82
Are you still there?
00:35:26.86\00:35:28.49
We have to come to that point.
00:35:28.52\00:35:31.19
And we need a
cleanup in our life.
00:35:31.23\00:35:33.43
If our friends
are not leading us
00:35:33.46\00:35:34.80
in the right direction,
00:35:34.83\00:35:36.16
choose some other friends,
they're not your friends.
00:35:36.20\00:35:39.73
Oh, Lord, have mercy.
00:35:39.77\00:35:41.50
We think they're our friends
00:35:41.54\00:35:42.87
and they're leading us
in the wrong direction.
00:35:42.90\00:35:45.51
They're asking you to do things,
00:35:45.54\00:35:46.88
you know, you
shouldn't be doing.
00:35:46.91\00:35:48.64
They're not your
friend, they wouldn't do that.
00:35:48.68\00:35:50.51
A friend would say,
"No, don't go there,
00:35:50.55\00:35:51.88
that's going to hurt you."
00:35:51.91\00:35:53.25
Maybe because
they've already been there,
00:35:53.28\00:35:54.62
may be 'cause
they've already been hurt.
00:35:54.65\00:35:56.55
But a real
friend will not do it,
00:35:56.58\00:35:57.92
a friend will give you
the right kind of advice.
00:35:57.95\00:36:01.06
"Oh, it won't hurt this time.
00:36:01.09\00:36:02.42
Let's go ahead
and go over there,
00:36:02.46\00:36:03.79
nobody's gonna know about it."
00:36:03.83\00:36:05.53
No!
00:36:05.56\00:36:06.90
We need to understand
00:36:06.93\00:36:08.26
and oppose sin
the way Jesus did.
00:36:08.30\00:36:12.53
Romans 8:6-7,
00:36:12.57\00:36:14.74
"For be carnally minded,"
00:36:14.77\00:36:17.61
notice, men don't want to obey,
00:36:17.64\00:36:19.04
seemed like they don't want to
00:36:19.07\00:36:20.41
but certainly
there's some those who do.
00:36:20.44\00:36:22.71
But the majority of the world
really don't wanna be obedient.
00:36:22.74\00:36:26.38
Romans 8:6-7, says,
00:36:26.41\00:36:27.98
"For to be
carnally minded is," what?
00:36:28.02\00:36:30.52
"Carnally minded is death."
00:36:30.55\00:36:32.09
Anybody want that?
No, you don't want it.
00:36:32.12\00:36:34.09
"To be spiritually
minded is life and peace."
00:36:34.12\00:36:37.83
Oh!
00:36:37.86\00:36:39.23
"Because the carnal
mind is enmity against," who?
00:36:39.26\00:36:42.93
"Its enmity is against God,
00:36:42.96\00:36:44.57
for it is not
subject to the law of God,
00:36:44.60\00:36:47.70
neither indeed can it be."
00:36:47.74\00:36:51.64
It can't be,
00:36:51.67\00:36:53.04
until we make that change.
00:36:53.07\00:36:55.24
We need a change
is what is telling me,
00:36:55.28\00:36:56.85
how about you?
00:36:56.88\00:36:58.85
Paul simply says here, my
brothers and sisters, today,
00:36:58.88\00:37:01.68
Paul says, the carnal mind,
00:37:01.72\00:37:04.25
that means the
fleshly mind, doesn't it?
00:37:04.29\00:37:08.02
Unconverted mind, is that fair?
00:37:08.06\00:37:11.36
Mind has not been
changed by the grace of God.
00:37:11.39\00:37:15.36
When it says enmity,
00:37:15.40\00:37:16.73
there simply means to
have that kind of mind,
00:37:16.77\00:37:18.67
you're gonna be
separated from God.
00:37:18.70\00:37:20.97
Now can heaven be our home,
00:37:21.00\00:37:22.54
if we're separated from God?
00:37:22.57\00:37:24.37
No.
00:37:24.41\00:37:25.74
So we don't wanna
be involved in anything
00:37:25.77\00:37:27.41
that would separate us from God.
00:37:27.44\00:37:29.44
That's why God gives us His law,
00:37:29.48\00:37:33.68
standard of righteousness,
00:37:33.72\00:37:35.08
"Thou shall not."
00:37:35.12\00:37:37.82
See, again it doesn't save
you, points out, thou shall not.
00:37:37.85\00:37:40.72
Cause we don't want to be set.
00:37:40.76\00:37:42.09
And if I do that on there,
00:37:42.12\00:37:43.46
one of those long
verse says, "Thou shall not.
00:37:43.49\00:37:45.26
I have separated myself
00:37:45.29\00:37:46.76
from the source
of all strength."
00:37:46.80\00:37:48.80
I've separated
myself from the chance
00:37:48.83\00:37:50.70
and the possibility of
ever coming back to Him,
00:37:50.73\00:37:53.37
unless I choose
to turn from that
00:37:53.40\00:37:54.74
and say, "Oh,
Lord, have mercy on me."
00:37:54.77\00:37:57.51
One of our first
passage, we read in Numbers,
00:37:57.54\00:37:59.17
you remember was,
00:37:59.21\00:38:00.54
we did something
that we know is wrong,
00:38:00.58\00:38:02.14
we confess that thing.
00:38:02.18\00:38:05.11
And He's
faithful and just to what?
00:38:05.15\00:38:06.61
To forgive us.
00:38:06.65\00:38:07.98
To forgive us and cleanse
us from all unrighteousness.
00:38:08.02\00:38:10.15
How wonderful that is.
00:38:10.19\00:38:11.65
The Bible is so clear on that.
00:38:11.69\00:38:14.29
We know that our
thoughts and our purposes,
00:38:14.32\00:38:19.46
maybe our motives
00:38:19.49\00:38:20.83
where sometime we have
to look at those ourselves,
00:38:20.86\00:38:23.80
they need to be changed.
00:38:23.83\00:38:25.93
Just a whole way of
life needs to be changed.
00:38:25.97\00:38:29.74
If they know, the
Bible just said with it,
00:38:29.77\00:38:31.54
there's death.
00:38:31.57\00:38:32.91
Notice, there's a
spiritual death first.
00:38:32.94\00:38:36.51
When I turned my back
on doing the right thing,
00:38:36.54\00:38:38.31
there's a spiritual death.
00:38:38.35\00:38:39.88
If that's not changed,
there's been eternal death.
00:38:39.91\00:38:43.45
You see, it gets worse.
00:38:43.49\00:38:45.45
And none of us want that.
00:38:45.49\00:38:46.82
We wanna be
saved in God's kingdom.
00:38:46.86\00:38:49.19
We must be spiritually minded.
00:38:49.22\00:38:51.76
We need to walk in the Spirit.
00:38:51.79\00:38:53.40
We need to be, what?
00:38:53.43\00:38:54.76
Led by the Spirit.
00:38:54.80\00:38:56.13
Tell me how many
today, don't raise your hand,
00:38:56.16\00:38:57.77
how many are
walking in the Spirit?
00:38:57.80\00:38:59.63
What does it mean
to walk in the Spirit?
00:38:59.67\00:39:02.07
How many are doing?
00:39:02.10\00:39:03.44
How many listen to
the Holy Spirit lead
00:39:03.47\00:39:04.81
guide them in their life?
00:39:04.84\00:39:06.34
How many are making excuses,
00:39:06.37\00:39:07.71
why they're not
walking in the Spirit?
00:39:07.74\00:39:10.88
And you're getting off course
00:39:10.91\00:39:12.25
and God is
trying to bring you back
00:39:12.28\00:39:13.62
before it's too late.
00:39:13.65\00:39:16.05
When walking in
the Spirit simply is,
00:39:16.08\00:39:18.19
it would be a consistent
life, a consistent Christian.
00:39:18.22\00:39:23.29
Are you a
consistent Christian today?
00:39:23.32\00:39:26.09
Are you a steady Christian?
00:39:26.13\00:39:29.06
Notice there, is it
habitual walk with him?
00:39:29.10\00:39:34.10
Or is it just something
that you might want to say,
00:39:34.14\00:39:36.17
"You know, every once
in a while I go to church,
00:39:36.20\00:39:39.37
every once in a
while I'm involved,
00:39:39.41\00:39:40.74
every once in a
while I do something."
00:39:40.78\00:39:42.54
God's looking for
consistent Christians today,
00:39:42.58\00:39:45.75
not an occasional walk.
00:39:45.78\00:39:47.52
But it says right
here, we notice what it is,
00:39:47.55\00:39:49.42
to be consistent, we
need to walk in the Spirit,
00:39:49.45\00:39:53.92
being led by the Spirit of God.
00:39:53.96\00:39:56.16
Spirit of God can speak to
you as well as He speaks to me.
00:39:56.19\00:39:59.46
Think about it.
00:39:59.49\00:40:01.76
Are we ever still enough?
00:40:01.80\00:40:03.77
Says, "Be still
and know that I'm God."
00:40:03.80\00:40:05.60
Are we ever still enough?
00:40:05.63\00:40:07.70
Do we ever have
enough quiet time in the home
00:40:07.74\00:40:10.04
to let God speak to us?
00:40:10.07\00:40:11.47
Or we always cramming
something else in our brain,
00:40:11.51\00:40:14.38
in our eyes, in our mind
that maybe we shouldn't be?
00:40:14.41\00:40:17.78
What's more important
00:40:17.81\00:40:19.15
than quiet time
letting God speak to us?
00:40:19.18\00:40:23.15
You can do that
sometime when you go for a walk
00:40:23.18\00:40:24.79
early in the morning
00:40:24.82\00:40:26.15
or you do a little
exercise in the morning,
00:40:26.19\00:40:27.52
where you take your Bible
and you begin to study it.
00:40:27.56\00:40:30.73
It's time and opportunity
for the Spirit of God
00:40:30.76\00:40:32.63
to speak sweet things to you,
00:40:32.66\00:40:34.83
impress you the things
00:40:34.86\00:40:36.20
that we need to make right
in our heart and in our life.
00:40:36.23\00:40:39.63
This is a time of
conversion that takes place
00:40:39.67\00:40:42.87
because the things
that you once loved
00:40:42.90\00:40:45.04
you hated and things
that you hate you now
00:40:45.07\00:40:47.04
love a change.
00:40:47.08\00:40:49.71
By the power of the Holy Spirit,
00:40:49.74\00:40:51.21
some of the most
pleasing words ever heard to me
00:40:51.25\00:40:53.35
was we can become
sons and daughters of God.
00:40:53.38\00:40:57.72
Think about it.
00:40:57.75\00:40:59.09
We can become sons
and daughters of God.
00:40:59.12\00:41:03.79
Oh, yeah, it's gonna
take effort, isn't it?
00:41:03.83\00:41:05.86
The Bible talks about efforts,
00:41:05.89\00:41:07.23
it's gonna take
effort on your part.
00:41:07.26\00:41:08.60
You're gonna have to deny self,
00:41:08.63\00:41:09.96
you got to take up
the cross and follow Him.
00:41:10.00\00:41:12.13
If you wanna
become that new person,
00:41:12.17\00:41:13.70
if you're sick and
tired of that old life,
00:41:13.74\00:41:16.40
this is where
it begins right now
00:41:16.44\00:41:18.01
is by looking to Jesus.
00:41:18.04\00:41:20.54
And simply tell Him,
00:41:20.58\00:41:21.98
"I want to be a son,
I want to be a daughter,
00:41:22.01\00:41:25.18
I wanna belong to
the family of God,
00:41:25.21\00:41:27.15
I wanna be led by the
Spirit, I wanna be born again."
00:41:27.18\00:41:32.35
This is very important point
00:41:32.39\00:41:34.96
in becoming a new person.
00:41:34.99\00:41:37.53
In John 1:12-13,
00:41:37.56\00:41:40.30
again, very familiar passages,
00:41:40.33\00:41:42.60
but boy, how they fit.
00:41:42.63\00:41:43.97
John chapter, what?
00:41:44.00\00:41:45.33
1:12-13, notice how it reads.
00:41:45.37\00:41:48.54
But you'll notice when
we start in case you forget,
00:41:48.57\00:41:50.91
it says, "But as
many as received Him,"
00:41:50.94\00:41:54.01
here's the key,
"as many as," what?
00:41:54.04\00:41:56.38
"As many as
received Him, to them,
00:41:56.41\00:41:59.08
He gave power to
become the sons of God."
00:41:59.11\00:42:02.28
You wanna become a
son and daughter of God,
00:42:02.32\00:42:04.25
He said, then notice what it is,
00:42:04.29\00:42:05.72
then he gave it to
those who received Him,
00:42:05.75\00:42:08.12
received Jesus Christ,
00:42:08.16\00:42:09.52
you become a son
and daughter of God,
00:42:09.56\00:42:12.06
"Even to them that
believe on His name," verse13,
00:42:12.09\00:42:15.40
notice this,
00:42:15.43\00:42:16.77
"These are the
ones which were born,"
00:42:16.80\00:42:18.20
notice, "not of blood,
nor the will of," what?
00:42:18.23\00:42:21.44
"The flesh, nor the
will of man, but of God."
00:42:21.47\00:42:24.31
This is God's will
for you and for me.
00:42:24.34\00:42:26.98
How wonderful it is
00:42:27.01\00:42:28.34
to become His
son and His daughter.
00:42:28.38\00:42:31.31
That's God's will.
00:42:31.35\00:42:32.95
How is it that He will
look at somebody like me,
00:42:32.98\00:42:35.12
somebody may be
like yourself and say,
00:42:35.15\00:42:37.39
I want them as My
son and My daughter.
00:42:37.42\00:42:41.69
He didn't have to come and say,
00:42:41.72\00:42:43.06
I'm gonna pick
the cream of the crop.
00:42:43.09\00:42:44.96
He didn't have to
say, they're too short,
00:42:44.99\00:42:46.33
they're too tall.
00:42:46.36\00:42:48.26
Almost said,
another thing, I let Him go.
00:42:48.30\00:42:51.70
But He doesn't look at
the outward appearance,
00:42:51.73\00:42:53.37
right?
00:42:53.40\00:42:54.74
He looked at their heart.
00:42:54.77\00:42:56.10
Every person can be a
son and daughter of God,
00:42:56.14\00:42:58.47
if you decide you want to
be to those who receive Him.
00:42:58.51\00:43:03.35
Open your heart, open
your mind and receive Him,
00:43:03.38\00:43:06.08
is what the Bible said here,
00:43:06.11\00:43:08.15
those that believe on His name.
00:43:08.18\00:43:10.45
We'll praise God.
00:43:10.49\00:43:11.82
I'm telling,
believing on His name right now.
00:43:11.85\00:43:13.96
I'm looking at
God's plan right now.
00:43:13.99\00:43:15.52
I wanna follow
God's plan right now.
00:43:15.56\00:43:18.49
And in this plan,
John, right quick,
00:43:18.53\00:43:20.70
we realized
here he begins to do,
00:43:20.73\00:43:22.50
we'll look at
passage here a little bit.
00:43:22.53\00:43:23.90
But we did in John Chapter 1.
00:43:23.93\00:43:26.63
But John corrects two errors,
00:43:26.67\00:43:28.37
they're very
popular in the world today.
00:43:28.40\00:43:30.07
We have to be
very careful with here,
00:43:30.11\00:43:31.97
we want to just hit
those real quickly as we go on.
00:43:32.01\00:43:34.08
You know, John has corrected
now the errors we call about,
00:43:34.11\00:43:37.15
two beliefs by some.
00:43:37.18\00:43:39.21
Notice, because
Christ died for all men,
00:43:39.25\00:43:42.45
all will be saved.
00:43:42.48\00:43:45.42
That's a popular belief.
00:43:45.45\00:43:47.66
The Bible says,
"He died for all men."
00:43:47.69\00:43:50.09
They said, "Well,
because He died for all men,
00:43:50.13\00:43:51.49
then all of us
are gonna be saved,
00:43:51.53\00:43:52.86
doesn't matter how
we live what we do."
00:43:52.89\00:43:54.53
Oh, don't fool yourself.
00:43:54.56\00:43:57.13
Don't fool yourself.
00:43:57.17\00:43:58.50
Whatever you do,
don't fool yourself.
00:43:58.53\00:44:00.17
That's not what the
Bible teaches at all.
00:44:00.20\00:44:02.10
And just as false
00:44:02.14\00:44:04.01
is the belief that God
predestined certain people
00:44:04.04\00:44:07.84
to be saved and
others to be lost.
00:44:07.88\00:44:10.45
That is a lie from the devil.
00:44:10.48\00:44:14.45
If it's predestination,
then why do I even try?
00:44:14.48\00:44:17.45
Because you
either are, you aren't.
00:44:17.49\00:44:19.25
You have nothing
to say in the matter.
00:44:19.29\00:44:20.92
That's not what
the Bible teaches.
00:44:20.96\00:44:23.02
So if you're one of those today,
00:44:23.06\00:44:24.39
bless your heart that says,
00:44:24.43\00:44:25.76
"Why should I even try anymore?"
00:44:25.79\00:44:27.66
You know, the churches too
are preaching predestination
00:44:27.70\00:44:30.27
and so, either I am or I'm not,
00:44:30.30\00:44:32.10
regardless of
what I do, I don't do,
00:44:32.13\00:44:33.54
either I'm gonna be
saved, or I'm gonna be locked.
00:44:33.57\00:44:35.27
That's not what
the Bible teaches.
00:44:35.30\00:44:36.64
That's a lie from the devil.
00:44:36.67\00:44:38.91
And we need to look
at it a little clearer.
00:44:38.94\00:44:40.28
John clearly
declares the decision factor
00:44:40.31\00:44:43.48
lies with each person.
00:44:43.51\00:44:46.61
Did you get that
lies with each person,
00:44:46.65\00:44:48.68
because he states in
there as many as received Him.
00:44:48.72\00:44:53.92
Did you get it, as what?
00:44:53.96\00:44:55.56
The key word, as
many as received Him.
00:44:55.59\00:45:00.73
Anyone, not just you can,
you can, and this group can,
00:45:00.76\00:45:03.87
not at all.
00:45:03.90\00:45:05.47
As many those
receive and believe?
00:45:05.50\00:45:08.87
I mean, you can read Isaiah 55:1
00:45:08.90\00:45:10.97
about predestination.
00:45:11.01\00:45:12.67
And it talks about,
"Every one," he said,
00:45:12.71\00:45:15.54
"Everyone that thirsteth come."
00:45:15.58\00:45:18.35
What?
00:45:18.38\00:45:20.35
If you're thirsty, just come.
00:45:20.38\00:45:22.58
That's not
predestination at all.
00:45:22.62\00:45:24.12
If anybody ever get thirsty,
if you're thirsty, then come.
00:45:24.15\00:45:27.36
Are you thirsty
for the Word of God,
00:45:27.39\00:45:28.86
then you're a
candidate for this.
00:45:28.89\00:45:31.23
Ephesians 1:5 is
another quick passage,
00:45:31.26\00:45:34.46
"Every individual can by faith
00:45:34.50\00:45:37.13
be adopted as children."
00:45:37.17\00:45:40.47
Isn't that wonderful?
00:45:40.50\00:45:41.84
We're adopted
into the family of God,
00:45:41.87\00:45:44.21
everyone that wants to be.
00:45:44.24\00:45:47.18
That's what the Bible teaches.
00:45:47.21\00:45:48.61
Revelation 22:17 also tell you,
00:45:48.64\00:45:50.95
woo, it said, "Whosoever will,"
00:45:50.98\00:45:53.88
I like that.
00:45:53.92\00:45:55.25
Whosoever will may come.
00:45:55.28\00:45:57.42
If you don't like that,
there's something wrong.
00:45:57.45\00:46:00.09
I'm about ready
to jump over a pew,
00:46:00.12\00:46:01.56
because you know what?
00:46:01.59\00:46:02.92
Because it's good.
00:46:02.96\00:46:04.29
Because it says that,
00:46:04.33\00:46:05.66
he's not looking at
any outward, anything,
00:46:05.69\00:46:07.03
He just said,
whosoever will, may come.
00:46:07.06\00:46:10.03
That's an open
invitation, I love that.
00:46:10.07\00:46:12.20
Thank You, God, for that.
00:46:12.23\00:46:13.57
It's a wonderful promise.
00:46:13.60\00:46:16.30
See, something we
need to really get
00:46:16.34\00:46:17.94
fasten in our minds,
00:46:17.97\00:46:19.31
God does not make us
His sons and daughters.
00:46:19.34\00:46:23.45
Listen carefully.
00:46:23.48\00:46:24.81
God does not, what?
00:46:24.85\00:46:26.18
He does not make us
His sons or His daughters,
00:46:26.21\00:46:29.48
but He enables us to become.
00:46:29.52\00:46:32.29
This is beautiful.
00:46:32.32\00:46:33.66
He enables us to become.
00:46:33.69\00:46:36.59
Why?
00:46:36.62\00:46:38.39
Because we make a choice.
00:46:38.43\00:46:40.00
There's a decision
there, plan of salvation.
00:46:40.03\00:46:42.43
Gives a man an opportunity
00:46:42.46\00:46:44.97
to know and to
choose and to serve God.
00:46:45.00\00:46:48.47
We need this. Praise God!
00:46:48.50\00:46:51.47
Because all men, what?
00:46:51.51\00:46:53.78
We've all sinned and
come short, we're lost.
00:46:53.81\00:46:56.81
He deserves death.
00:46:56.85\00:46:58.95
But now we become
sons and daughters of God.
00:46:58.98\00:47:03.22
Oh, how wonderful that is.
00:47:03.25\00:47:04.59
Another
opportunity, another chance.
00:47:04.62\00:47:06.89
There's story
told of the small boy,
00:47:06.92\00:47:09.06
was swimming one day.
00:47:09.09\00:47:11.29
Something
happened, he got a cramp.
00:47:11.33\00:47:14.43
And he was out in the deep
00:47:14.46\00:47:15.80
and his feet
wouldn't touch the bottom.
00:47:15.83\00:47:17.27
He wasn't very old,
eight, nine years old.
00:47:17.30\00:47:19.70
And all of
sudden he was swimming,
00:47:19.73\00:47:21.07
all of a sudden
he went under once,
00:47:21.10\00:47:22.87
he come up
screaming for help, no one.
00:47:22.90\00:47:25.01
Went down, no help.
00:47:25.04\00:47:26.74
Came back up the
second time, "Help!
00:47:26.78\00:47:28.41
I gave, my arms, my legs
are cramping, like, I can't,"
00:47:28.44\00:47:32.11
and he started to go
down for the third time.
00:47:32.15\00:47:33.65
And when he did,
he felt a strong hand
00:47:33.68\00:47:36.02
grabbing by the
shoulder and lifted him up,
00:47:36.05\00:47:39.55
and swim with him right back
00:47:39.59\00:47:41.42
and put him out on the shore.
00:47:41.46\00:47:43.26
And certainly the
man was a real man.
00:47:43.29\00:47:44.79
The man had seen him,
00:47:44.83\00:47:46.19
when the boy first came up,
00:47:46.23\00:47:47.56
the first time he
screamed, I need some help.
00:47:47.60\00:47:49.43
The man did not hesitate.
00:47:49.46\00:47:51.77
Jesus never
hesitated on the cross.
00:47:51.80\00:47:53.60
I'm telling you
right now. He jumped in.
00:47:53.64\00:47:55.44
He went into the
deep water for you.
00:47:55.47\00:47:57.67
He went out way
to the deep for me.
00:47:57.71\00:48:00.48
And this man went out.
00:48:00.51\00:48:01.84
He didn't worry about himself,
00:48:01.88\00:48:03.21
but he grabbed the boy
and he put him on there,
00:48:03.24\00:48:04.58
it's very interesting.
00:48:04.61\00:48:05.95
He made sure the boy was okay.
00:48:05.98\00:48:09.25
And the little boy looked
up and said, "Thank you, sir.
00:48:09.28\00:48:11.69
Thank you. Thank
you for saving me."
00:48:11.72\00:48:15.52
Man said, "Well, you're welcome.
00:48:15.56\00:48:16.89
You're welcome, Son.
You're very welcome."
00:48:16.93\00:48:18.39
Now, I want you to see to it
00:48:18.43\00:48:22.00
that you're worth saving.
00:48:22.03\00:48:23.50
I want you to see to it
that you are worth saving.
00:48:28.04\00:48:34.48
Listen...
00:48:34.51\00:48:35.84
the pastor
00:48:38.68\00:48:40.55
never forgot these words.
00:48:40.58\00:48:45.55
Why?
00:48:45.59\00:48:47.16
For he was that boy.
00:48:47.19\00:48:50.49
Interesting.
00:48:50.53\00:48:53.09
A good question might be asked
00:48:53.13\00:48:56.77
today.
00:48:56.80\00:49:00.04
Am I worth
saving? Am I worth saving?
00:49:00.07\00:49:05.77
Well, evidently
there's good news.
00:49:09.51\00:49:13.11
Evidently, God
thinks you're worth saving.
00:49:13.15\00:49:18.02
God gave all, right?
00:49:18.05\00:49:20.79
He gave all of heaven.
00:49:20.82\00:49:22.16
He gave Jesus,
you know the answer.
00:49:22.19\00:49:23.63
He gave His Son.
00:49:23.66\00:49:26.33
He made an investment in you,
00:49:26.36\00:49:29.26
a big investment,
00:49:29.30\00:49:31.43
and He expects a return.
00:49:31.47\00:49:33.10
Review and Herald
11- 4-1890, says this...
00:49:36.14\00:49:40.74
We have about five minutes
or so left, stay with me.
00:49:40.78\00:49:43.04
Review and
Herald 11- 4- 1890 says,
00:49:43.08\00:49:46.65
"Faith can lay hold
of the merits of Christ."
00:49:46.68\00:49:50.79
Faith can do what?
00:49:50.82\00:49:52.49
Whose merits do we need?
00:49:52.52\00:49:54.22
Are you righteous?
00:49:54.26\00:49:55.59
Is there
anything you can do? No.
00:49:55.62\00:49:57.23
There's nothing
we do, we're lost,
00:49:57.26\00:49:58.76
one of the death penalty.
00:49:58.79\00:50:00.13
We need a Savior.
00:50:00.16\00:50:01.80
We need somebody to stand up
00:50:01.83\00:50:03.16
and only Jesus
can stand up for us.
00:50:03.20\00:50:05.13
I need to have His
merits in the judgment.
00:50:05.17\00:50:07.60
I have none.
00:50:07.64\00:50:10.11
If anything ever good
ever, ever, ever comes from you
00:50:10.14\00:50:12.87
or ever, ever comes from me,
00:50:12.91\00:50:14.64
know that it's not
you, and it's not me,
00:50:14.68\00:50:17.01
it's Christ who
lives in, our hope.
00:50:17.05\00:50:20.75
We take credit for
things that, "Oh, this is good.
00:50:20.78\00:50:23.18
Oh, that sounds
good. Oh, this looks good."
00:50:23.22\00:50:25.32
It's Jesus, if
there's anything good
00:50:25.35\00:50:27.32
because we are sinful.
00:50:27.36\00:50:28.76
There's nothing good.
No, not one. Think about it.
00:50:28.79\00:50:31.29
We can't do any good on our own.
00:50:31.33\00:50:34.03
Hope, I'm not
hammering that too much.
00:50:34.06\00:50:36.23
But I wanna try to give you
encouragement, strength to say,
00:50:36.26\00:50:38.77
"I've never done
anything any good.
00:50:38.80\00:50:40.14
My life's never been any good.
00:50:40.17\00:50:41.50
I've never helped anyone."
00:50:41.54\00:50:42.87
There's hope for you,
00:50:42.90\00:50:44.24
and there's hope for
me today to be born again,
00:50:44.27\00:50:47.01
to have a new
life in Jesus Christ.
00:50:47.04\00:50:51.58
How can I,
00:50:51.61\00:50:53.75
a lost sinner
00:50:53.78\00:50:55.62
become a child of God.
00:50:55.65\00:50:58.62
This is where the
rubber meets the road.
00:50:58.65\00:51:00.32
How can you
today make that change?
00:51:00.36\00:51:02.59
Well, the Bible is
very clear in Acts 3:19.
00:51:02.62\00:51:05.69
It says, notice this, Acts 3:19,
00:51:05.73\00:51:07.70
says, "Repent," do what?
00:51:07.73\00:51:09.23
"Repent ye
therefore, and be converted,
00:51:09.26\00:51:12.17
that your sins
may be blotted out,
00:51:12.20\00:51:13.60
when the times of refreshing
00:51:13.64\00:51:15.40
shall come from the
presence of the Lord."
00:51:15.44\00:51:17.07
This right here
would take too long,
00:51:17.11\00:51:18.44
we don't have
enough time to go into this
00:51:18.47\00:51:20.01
because there's
the sequence and order
00:51:20.04\00:51:22.91
in what's being
talked about here.
00:51:22.94\00:51:25.25
And so we had
to be very careful,
00:51:25.28\00:51:26.61
the blotting out of the sins,
00:51:26.65\00:51:27.98
the time of refreshing or
the latter rain experience,
00:51:28.02\00:51:30.25
and certainly the
coming of Jesus Christ,
00:51:30.29\00:51:32.22
there are three things,
it's all tied together here.
00:51:32.25\00:51:34.79
If we need to go into,
well, we don't have time do it.
00:51:34.82\00:51:37.39
Three events tied
together. And you know what?
00:51:37.43\00:51:39.76
These things are
more important in our day
00:51:39.79\00:51:41.43
I think there were in
the days of the apostles.
00:51:41.46\00:51:44.27
They're for us today.
00:51:44.30\00:51:46.17
These last days, listen to this,
00:51:46.20\00:51:48.20
these last days
are our present days.
00:51:48.24\00:51:53.11
Did we get that, church?
00:51:53.14\00:51:55.48
These last days
are our present days.
00:51:55.51\00:52:00.98
That means, now we can expect
the coming of Jesus Christ.
00:52:01.02\00:52:05.99
We now we can
become a child of God.
00:52:06.02\00:52:10.06
Now regardless of
our previous life,
00:52:10.09\00:52:13.29
now there can be a change
of heart, and mind, and life.
00:52:13.33\00:52:17.93
There can be a turnabout,
00:52:17.97\00:52:19.83
there can be a
turnaround to God.
00:52:19.87\00:52:23.84
Acts 9:35, says, notice this,
00:52:23.87\00:52:26.78
"All that," what?
00:52:26.81\00:52:28.44
It's all Jesus, notice,
00:52:28.48\00:52:29.81
"All of us that saw
Jesus turned to the Lord.
00:52:29.84\00:52:32.45
Did you get it?
00:52:32.48\00:52:33.82
If you present
Jesus turned to the Lord.
00:52:33.85\00:52:35.18
Acts 26:20 says,
00:52:35.22\00:52:37.22
"They should
repent and turn to God
00:52:37.25\00:52:39.49
and do works meet for," what?
00:52:39.52\00:52:41.66
"Repentance."
00:52:41.69\00:52:43.02
Acts 11:21,
00:52:43.06\00:52:44.59
it said a great number,
00:52:44.63\00:52:45.96
"Believed and
turned unto the Lord."
00:52:45.99\00:52:49.40
Today is the day
00:52:49.43\00:52:50.83
that we turn unto the Lord.
00:52:50.87\00:52:52.50
This is the day that we've come,
00:52:52.53\00:52:54.00
we believe that He exists,
we believe in Jesus Christ.
00:52:54.04\00:52:57.61
We're confessing our sins.
00:52:57.64\00:52:59.07
We wanna be converted,
we wanna be born again.
00:52:59.11\00:53:01.38
In John Chapter 3,
there's no doubt about it,
00:53:01.41\00:53:03.24
of the water and of the Spirit.
00:53:03.28\00:53:05.71
Oh, friend, I'm
telling you right now,
00:53:05.75\00:53:07.42
we need to make that
change and do it today.
00:53:07.45\00:53:09.78
In 2 Corinthians 5:17,
00:53:09.82\00:53:11.45
very powerful
verse, you know that,
00:53:11.49\00:53:13.32
"Therefore, if
any man be in," what?
00:53:13.36\00:53:15.49
"If be in
Christ, he is a," what?
00:53:15.52\00:53:16.99
"He's a new
creature, behold," what is it?
00:53:17.03\00:53:19.26
"Old things are passed away,
behold, all things become new."
00:53:19.29\00:53:22.73
Today is the day
they become all new
00:53:22.76\00:53:24.97
because you're going
to confess those things,
00:53:25.00\00:53:26.63
you're going to put them
at the foot of the cross,
00:53:26.67\00:53:28.24
that burden that you carry
00:53:28.27\00:53:29.60
is now it's been
lifted off of you.
00:53:29.64\00:53:31.61
Jesus carries that burden.
00:53:31.64\00:53:33.21
As long as He
carries you, He carries me,
00:53:33.24\00:53:35.74
He carried us to the cross,
00:53:35.78\00:53:37.18
He didn't back down,
00:53:37.21\00:53:38.55
He didn't back up,
He willing to nail,
00:53:38.58\00:53:40.42
He laid them out there and said,
00:53:40.45\00:53:41.78
"Kenny's going to need me."
00:53:41.82\00:53:44.42
Put your name in
there, put your name in there.
00:53:44.45\00:53:48.72
They can't make it
unless I go through with this.
00:53:48.76\00:53:50.69
I love them enough,
I'm willing to do it.
00:53:50.73\00:53:52.39
And, dear friends,
I'll say today, you say,
00:53:55.86\00:53:57.20
"Well, how do I know
if I've been born again?"
00:53:57.23\00:53:59.73
How do you know you
really made that change?
00:53:59.77\00:54:01.34
Is your burden lighter,
00:54:01.37\00:54:03.10
that you turned
over to Jesus right now?
00:54:03.14\00:54:05.47
There'll be
evidences of that change.
00:54:05.51\00:54:07.21
There's no doubt about it.
00:54:07.24\00:54:08.64
All those wrong habits
and all those wrong practices,
00:54:08.68\00:54:11.48
they'll all be changed.
00:54:11.51\00:54:14.12
You're gonna show
that you've been connected
00:54:14.15\00:54:15.75
with Jesus Christ.
00:54:15.78\00:54:17.42
I know you made
that decision right now.
00:54:17.45\00:54:19.55
This is new life.
00:54:19.59\00:54:20.92
And I want to
pray for it right now.
00:54:20.96\00:54:22.29
Twenty some seconds
left, I wanna pray with you.
00:54:22.32\00:54:23.66
Would you pray with me, please?
00:54:23.69\00:54:25.03
Our loving Father in heaven,
00:54:25.06\00:54:26.39
We thank You for
Your precious Word.
00:54:26.43\00:54:27.76
Thank You for
the choice, decisions
00:54:27.80\00:54:29.13
that many have made right now.
00:54:29.16\00:54:30.50
They're starting right
now, today is a new life in You.
00:54:30.53\00:54:32.73
They're gonna be hid in Christ.
00:54:32.77\00:54:34.10
Thank You for the
forgiveness of sin.
00:54:34.14\00:54:35.47
Thank You for the
promise of Your return,
00:54:35.50\00:54:36.84
in Jesus name we pray.
00:54:36.87\00:54:38.44
Amen.
00:54:38.47\00:54:40.11
It's always good
to spend time with you
00:54:40.14\00:54:41.61
in study of God's Word.
00:54:41.64\00:54:43.24
And we love you,
00:54:43.28\00:54:44.61
we appreciate
everything that you do.
00:54:44.65\00:54:46.28
Continue to pray for us.
We're gonna pray for you.
00:54:46.31\00:54:48.35
We'll see you next time.
00:54:48.38\00:54:51.79
Hello and welcome back.
00:54:51.82\00:54:53.36
We so pray that
you were encouraged
00:54:53.39\00:54:55.52
and blessed by today's message.
00:54:55.56\00:54:57.63
Again, it was entitled,
00:54:57.66\00:54:59.26
"How You Can
Become a New Person."
00:54:59.29\00:55:02.03
And what a beautiful
promise in the passage
00:55:02.06\00:55:05.00
that Pastor Kenny read to
us from 2 Corinthians 5:17.
00:55:05.03\00:55:10.51
Let's read it again.
00:55:10.54\00:55:11.87
"Therefore, if
any man be in Christ,
00:55:11.91\00:55:14.71
he is a new creature.
00:55:14.74\00:55:16.44
Old things are passed away,
00:55:16.48\00:55:18.31
behold, all
things are become new."
00:55:18.35\00:55:22.05
This passage lets us know
00:55:22.08\00:55:24.52
that it's not how or
where we begin our lives,
00:55:24.55\00:55:28.96
but most definitely,
it's how we end our lives,
00:55:28.99\00:55:32.56
that will determine
our eternal destiny.
00:55:32.59\00:55:35.70
The grief we suffer
over the past failures
00:55:35.73\00:55:38.80
that we have made
can be, will be forgiven,
00:55:38.83\00:55:42.80
and eventually even forgotten,
00:55:42.84\00:55:45.17
as we become a new
creature in Christ.
00:55:45.21\00:55:47.91
We can be born again,
00:55:47.94\00:55:49.81
we can become the new
person in Christ Jesus,
00:55:49.84\00:55:53.28
we can be the person
Christ intended us to be
00:55:53.31\00:55:57.02
in order to be a
citizen in the earth made new.
00:55:57.05\00:56:01.46
I wanna be there.
00:56:01.49\00:56:03.29
I know that Pastor
Kenny wants to be there.
00:56:03.32\00:56:06.06
And we are praying
that it is your desire,
00:56:06.09\00:56:08.80
the desire of your
heart as well to be a citizen
00:56:08.83\00:56:12.30
in God's eternal kingdom.
00:56:12.33\00:56:14.24
What an awesome,
absolutely awesome,
00:56:14.27\00:56:17.87
loving, caring and merciful
God that all of us serve.
00:56:17.91\00:56:22.48
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