Welcome back, this is my
favorite part of the program
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because I get to
meet friends of mine,
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different people that come on
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the program to share
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their testimony.
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Most of them I walk away
from here just wanting to
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kiss God on the face.
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What an incredible God
we have that says it doesn't
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matter where you
come from, what you have,
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He delights in our healing.
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That is just amazing to me.
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Today we are going to meet
somebody with an incredible
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testimony, and also
is an incredible teacher.
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So Ken I just want to say,
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I was going to say the reason
I asked you on the program,
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but actually I
just cornered you.
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Well I didn't feel that way
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at all because I thought you
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were just inviting me to set
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down here on the set and to
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watch the program, I
didn't know I was going to be
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in this position.
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That's funny, because when I
was at that meeting of yours,
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I was sitting there and you
were teaching this very thing.
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I was most the
time full of tears.
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Another time I was
laughing, I thought you taught
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it with so much grace and so
much compassion that I thought
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he's got to be on the program.
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When I asked you, and you
said yes, I was just thrilled.
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Then I realized that you
thought you were going to sit
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there, I thought I cannot
have Ken Cox on the show just
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sitting in the café.
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So I said no, no
I want you to speak.
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You are so humble, it
was funny because you said,
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well I don't know.
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I look at you and
thought you look pretty normal,
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can you get a Mohawk
and some ear rings first?
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So for people that know
you there is no introduction
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needed, but for people
that don't can you tell us a
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little bit about Who you
are? and How God lead you?
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Then we will talk about
what you taught the other night.
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Well to begin with I'm a addict.
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No way! Yeah! I'm like shut up!
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I'm an addict, I'm an
addict of Jesus Christ.
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And that I am, and
that is my whole life.
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It has been that for years.
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I started working in evangelism
winning souls full-time
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in 1970, I've done it
full-time ever since then.
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I've been on the road
10 months out of the year
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since that time.
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With such a desire to
teach someone how to get free?
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That's right! That's huge!
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Teach people about
what Christ has to offer.
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He is absolutely so wonderful
in all, and all that He does.
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Just like with yourself,
you sit here and said I'm an
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addict and all this and
that, but Christ also said,
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you are a Pearl of great price.
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It says that He
would have come and died
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if it had only been you.
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The first time I
heard you say that,
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I was just coming out of
homelessness and drug addiction
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and you were talking
to a church and you said
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those things and I wept.
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I was 100 pounds and
strung out on heroine.
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If I would have came up to you,
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I would have
scared you, I think.
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You know those
truths are so amazing,
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are you talking about me?
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What I hear you
saying is absolutely.
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You see you are totally unique,
there is not another person
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like you anywhere in
all of God's universe.
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There is not any other
person like each one of us.
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God does not clone, God creates.
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The only people that clone
are people who can't create.
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But God creates and God
makes each one of us distinctly
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different, so there's not
another person like us anywhere.
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So I do not care what
a person's background is.
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I do not care
where they have been.
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I do not care what they have
done, they are still unique.
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They are still
special, there is not another
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individual like them.
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That is why it is so important
that they are not lost.
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That they are in God's kingdom,
because if they are lost
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throughout eternity
there will never be another
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person like them.
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It is so important
that they understand.
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So when you heard that at
the beginning of the program
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talking about righteousness
by faith and what does all that
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means, imputed righteousness,
imparted righteousness,
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and sanctification, words
that for a lot of us coming
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into a relationship with God.
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Those are huge, I was
literate when I first came to
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church and somebody would
say, we are going to study
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Revelation and I would
have a Bible because I knew that
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I had to have one.
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I would go like
this and say go ahead.
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They would look at me
and say no Revelation.
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I couldn't read anything
so I'm thinking okay I'm smart
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enough to realize I must
be in the wrong place so I
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go like okay now I am ready.
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For some of us, we come in
not only illiterate as far as
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our own ability to read,
but illiterate definitely as far
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as Christian terms and concepts.
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So the other night you took
this very truth that could be
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very complicated and made
it so assessable, so simple.
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So unfold that for us.
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You talked a little bit
about it here and referred to it
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in the sense that when we
come to Christ and we reach out
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in faith and accept Him,
except what He did for us.
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Accept His death, His
perfect life in our behalf,
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and we accept that,
we become a new person.
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Right! So when you say
accept that, all the sins I ever
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committed, all the things
that have been done to me,
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or that I have done.
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Christ said I'm going
to take that guilt for you.
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I'm going to take that
sin upon Myself for you.
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So you are saying
when I accept that truth,
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that Christ not only
took it but died and paid
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the penalty for all that.
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Well there is a scripture
that says exactly that.
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It is found here
in 2 Corinthians 5:21.
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I know where
that is at now. Okay!
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It just simply
says, "for he made him,"
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that's Jesus Christ,
"made him who knew no sin. "
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He didn't know any sin.
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He never sinned, He
knew no sin to be sin for us.
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That means He took
our sins and then it says,
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"that we might become the
righteousness of God in Him. "
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That in essence is
exactly what you talked about.
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That is what He does,
when I come to Christ,
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and I accept Him, then He
paid the debt for my sins,
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all my sins.
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I do not care what they
are, from the day I was born
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to the day I accept Christ
are paid for by His death.
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That's all paid for.
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It's already
done, it's a done deal.
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That is a gift for me, freely
given by God, saying I want to
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give you this and you
haven't done a thing, and cannot
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do a thing for
this incredible gift.
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I want someone to think
about it as a gift which really
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it's interesting, is no
matter how big the gift is,
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no matter how incredible
it is, when somebody gives you
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that from the
moment it is in your hands,
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Who does it belong to?
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Completely it is mine.
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So it is like being able to
say that it is then for ever
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my property and God
says it is completely yours.
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It's not a gift with strings.
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It is not a gift that
has anything attached to it,
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because you do not
have the ability to pay.
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As an heroine addict that
is illiterate and strung out,
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when I understood
that I was thinking,
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Why did You do that?
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I don't understand that?
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I don't understand it either,
why would God take His name
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who is righteous, who is
holy and all that, excuse me.
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I don't mean
this in the wrong way.
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But why in the world would
He take all that and give it to
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you, a drug addict and say
I'm not just giving it to you,
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I'm giving you My name?
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Why? I'm giving you My life!
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You can call Me, Father
and say, I'm your child.
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I'll take that
responsibility, why? Love!
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That is huge, it really is.
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Nothing like you or I
understand, but that is love.
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That is what God does
with His grace and so there
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is nothing about it, in
any way, in which I earn it.
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Or I deserve it,
never throughout eternity,
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I will never deserve it.
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When I was trying to
kill myself in the drug house,
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I was illiterate and
strung out and my parents were
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strung out, I remember
Him giving me that impression
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that sense that God so loves me.
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I couldn't even receive
it, but it changed everything.
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Then somebody
showed me Jeremiah 29:11,
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"I have a plan
for you, a future. "
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Not even my
parents had a plan for me.
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No one on this planet has
a plan for me and God said,
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don't ever think that I
don't have a plan for you.
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So He just takes us, as
it says we are born again.
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He gives you a new life.
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He gives you a spiritual
nature which you do not have
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before then, it is a spiritual
nature that is given to you
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and that spiritual
nature is handed to you and me.
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It is given to us totally
and completely as a babe.
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It is not given to us
full grown, it is given to us
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just as a babe and God
hands that to us, that's a gift.
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Like you said it is mine,
now I need to do something
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with the gift.
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A little baby, yet
just a little baby.
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So what do I need to do?
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Well I've got to feed it,
because it has got to eat.
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If it doesn't it will die,
so I have to feed the baby.
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That's were it comes in, it
doesn't mean that I gave birth
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to the baby, I
didn't, God gave that to us.
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But I must feed it, I must
let it breathe, I must let it
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grow, those are things
that I have to do to the
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new nature and that is
why it says in Hebrews 5:13,
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"it is as a babe. "
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It is given to us as a babe.
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I love what you, what I
have heard you say is that baby
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is so much there and so thrilled
and happy like any baby.
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It is waiting to
be fed and cared for,
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but the nature that I
told you about in my dream
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that wants to manipulate
and go out and do that stuff,
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that nature is still there too.
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That's what the Scripture
calls the "old nature".
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That's the old man of sin
and unfortunately too many
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people think that they
have to dress up the old man.
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I think that! Not that I do
anymore, but I thought that.
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Somehow as soon
as I got in church,
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I looked around and thought,
I don't fit with anybody.
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I don't belong here.
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I looked at every one
of these women and thought,
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if I dress like that I'll fit.
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So I just dressed it up.
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Dress up the old man, it is
like saying, it's like me going
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and setting in the
garage, that's what it's like.
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I think if I sit in the
garage that will make me
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an automobile, it just
doesn't do that you see.
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I thought if I set the garage
and to make me a mechanic.
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It doesn't do that so we
get the idea if I act like a
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Christian, and I speak
like Christian, I do this it
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makes me a Christian.
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No! That does not
make you a Christian.
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You know why I
know that is true?
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I'm sitting in church and
I have the right clothes on,
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every single time the
offering plate went by,
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I wanted to rip it off.
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I kept thinking why do people
keep putting money in that.
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I need that money, you know
I am a thief so to me that was
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my first instinct, and I
literally had to fight that
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because I kept
thinking I could probably do it,
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as it goes by, I
can figure out a way.
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That old nature is still
very much there, unless what?
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Unless I take the old
nature and I crucify it.
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That is what Paul said, he
said I am crucified with Christ.
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It says that we have to
put the old man to death and
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unless I do then he is
going to, how should I say it?
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Take the baby and rule over it.
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He doesn't like the
baby and is opposed to it.
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He will fight it and do
anything he can so I had this
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tremendous conflict
going on in my soul because the
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baby is crying to be
fed, and the old man of sin is
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trying to kick it and
so I have this conflict
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that is taking place.
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That is where you and I
must learn that when it comes to
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the old nature, sinful
nature, I have to crucify it.
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I have to put it to death,
and I have to do that everyday.
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What is really
interesting to me is that
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I've known addicts,
sexual addicts, drug addicts,
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and rage-aholics, work-aholics,
and we can behave for a
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short period of time, but
we can't change this nature.
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God has finally
convinced me this nature is not
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changeable, I can't
put a Band-Aid on it.
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I'm not going
to come and fix it.
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I actually am going to
come and make all things new.
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You were in
Corinthians, 2 Corinthians 5.
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If you go back to 17, 17
says you are a new creature.
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New heart and a new mind
and all those kind of things.
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I think we have to
wrap our minds around that.
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I'm not going to be an
addict that learns not to lie.
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I'm going to be a Christian
that is new and in Christ.
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He is going to show me
how it feels not to be a liar.
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I'm not a liar anymore.
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In other words I've got to
take this new nature He has
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given me, as I take day
by day I surrender myself.
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I surrender myself to the Lord.
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You know that addicts
hate to do anything day by day.
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Yeah! Right!
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But you are saying day
by day, that I can't let up
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because this old man is still
trying to kill the baby off.
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That is right, and the
old man is going to be there
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until the
resurrection, I'm sorry.
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The old man is there, he
may not be in very good shape
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I may have crucified him
enough that he has had it,
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but nevertheless the old
sinful nature is there and I
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have to day by day
surrender myself to the Lord.
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I have to surrender and
then the Holy Spirit can come
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into my life and begin to
change me and make me different.
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How do you feed the baby?
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What do you mean by that?
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Well it says we
feed it by the word,
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the milk of the word
is what Scripture says.
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So this is food for the
baby, that is what it is.
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I may not
understand it very well.
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I may say, okay I'm
ready, like you did.
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I may not
understand this but what it is,
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is I take it and it
says that some of us,
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to start off with,
have to drink milk.
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So we start with milk,
but later on I pick it up
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and begin to get more into
it and you will find it happens
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as you understand one
part of it, it opens that up
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for another part and it just
keeps expanding and expanding.
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Sometimes when people can't
read or if they have trouble
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with understanding, find
somebody they can read to you,
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or speak to you. Absolutely!
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The first time I read in
Zephaniah, where it says,
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God sings over
us, I thought no way.
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Then I just imagined myself,
because I never had a mother
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that sang to me or even
wanted me to sit next to her.
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But God of the universe
sings over us to comfort us.
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I thought if I would have
never learned that by the word,
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this baby would never
have been comforted by the
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thought of God singing.
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Once you have faith in
the word that it is true,
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you can almost hear His voice,
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which is an incredible thing.
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Absolutely, it is marvelous.
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So this is what
begins to change the life.
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Each one of us are different.
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Each one of us have weaknesses
and each one has strengths.
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That is in all of
us, but those weaknesses,
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those begin to change as the
Holy Spirit works in our life.
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That's where fruits
of the Spirit come in.
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That is where love,
joy, peace, long-suffering,
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all those fruits come
into my life and begin to work.
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As you were saying, as
they happen I see things that I
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said, was I doing that?
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Was I really acting
that way and doing that?
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Because that is the
work of the Holy Spirit.
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You begin to see it, like
it says, oh that God would give
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us the gift to see
ourselves as others see us.
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Old God give us the gift to
see ourselves as You see us.
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As God sees us.
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With a lot of addicts it
is really funny that somebody
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will, and I work with primarily
with addicts in recovery.
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Someone will say how can you
tell it if an addict is lying?
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Well is their mouth moving?
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We have learned to lie to so
much that we do not even know
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when not to, or
what is the truth.
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So with the nature like
that and the automatic instincts
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like that, don't trust yourself.
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Ask God through the Holy Spirit,
show me what it feels like
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to live a victorious life.
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Show me what it
feels like not to lie and
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to live in integrity.
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Once He starts doing that,
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you start to be able
to recognize the lies.
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It is so much fun
to say, you know what,
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Today, I don't have to lie.
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Some people may have to
say, this five minutes...
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I haven't lied! It
may not be a whole day.
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It is amazing that God
said, people may get frustrated
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with your daily walk, or
with your stage at feeding the
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baby, or nurturing this
baby, but God never does.
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Never does, God
is proud of you and
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wants to be right there.
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I want to teach you to stand up.
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I want to teach you to walk.
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I want to teach you to
get over requiring milk.
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I want to teach
you to do all that.
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I think all of heaven
delights, and I want to say
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one more thing, because
I read the Desire of Ages,
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no Ministry of Healing,
it is a book that I love
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by a woman named Ellen White.
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There is a chapter
called, Saved To Serve.
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There is a scene where
there is Angels around God.
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I'm not sure
what they were doing,
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because I was new in recovery,
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and the Angels were saying,
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Can I have that one?
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Because that one is
going to fall a billion times.
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I want to be there to comfort
them and stand them back up.
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I thought no way, that
Angel is pleading with God
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to have this addict,
this one that nobody wants,
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but the angels of
heaven want us and God Himself
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wants our victory.
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It is amazing to say that
as a child stands up and falls
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down and stands up and
falls down that God says,
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I'm so proud of you.
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The marvelous thing that
you have to understand is as
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I grow, I get this five
minutes that we were just
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talking about, in
which I didn't lie.
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I didn't lie for five minutes,
that five minutes as far
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as righteousness is concerned,
in making you acceptable
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before God does not count.
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In what sense?
Because we want to celebrate.
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We want to say to all of
heaven, did you see that?
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Yeah and that is
wonderful, but it doesn't count.
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It is the righteousness of
Christ that is given to you
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that counts.
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So He is not looking for
us to get it, He saying you
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have already got the gift.
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This is just icing on
the cake that you get to feel
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what it feels like to
be free of all that junk.
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He is saying that I am
here to help you and to lead you
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and to guide you and
help you to grow and all this,
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but this doesn't
make you worthy of heaven.
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This is My righteousness
that makes you worthy of heaven.
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That is the marvelous
thing about it that I don't have
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to say, I just lost it all.
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No! You are not gaining
it all or losing it all,
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it is already done.
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I said the other night,
you can't win God's grace,
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it has already been given.
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Since you cannot win
God's grace you can't lose it.
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It is given to you.
Because He so loves us.
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That's right! And
delights in our recovery.
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He wants us to succeed.
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You are so lucky I
didn't get up from my chair
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and kiss you on the
face when you were speaking,
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because there are
things that you said.
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One of the things was
about the guy that was smoking.
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I can't come to God
because I'm smoking.
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Right! You said.
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I simply said,
you come to Christ.
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He said you mean I can
come to Christ while I smoke?
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That's what I I'm telling you.
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Go ahead and
smoke if you want to.
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That's right! I think
eventually he said to him?
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Well he eventually said, what
am I going to do about these?
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I said if you want to
give them up, give them up.
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He gave them up
because he wanted to.
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For me that whole
pressure that comes off of us,
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when we realize we are
truly saved by the grace of God.
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The righteousness of God
and everything else is His love
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that allows us to get out
of bondage to all this junk.
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My lies are bondage.
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I'm manipulative, my lying
behaviors keeps me disconnected
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from, not only God,
but everybody around me.
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I never get a sense of
what it feels like to laugh
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in my own skin.
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God says as your Father, I
can't wait to show you what
00:22:49.57\00:22:53.27
it feels like to be
okay, just to feel at rest.
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When He comes to you and
says, neither do I condemn you.
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How cool is that?
00:23:01.78\00:23:03.86
I mean, He is not condemning
you, He is just saying
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I'm here, I'm here for
you and will give you this
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and you can accept it.
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That is what He is
simply asking us to do,
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is just come to Him as we are,
00:23:14.87\00:23:17.95
and accept what He has done.
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Then it says that He will
do these things in our lives.
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He says... not that He
will encourage you to do them?
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He even says,
I'll put them there.
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I'll make you, I'll do this.
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He uses those words, I'll
put it there, I'll make you.
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My part over and over
again is to keep Kenneth Cox
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surrendered to His will
because you do, even though you
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may have abused it,
even though you may have done
00:23:49.50\00:23:52.49
a lot of things to
it, you do have a will.
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That is your choice
and all He is saying is all
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I'm asking you
to do is to choose.
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Choose me, choose me. Every day!
00:24:02.47\00:24:04.28
Choose to walk away
from the old stuff everyday.
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So this baby, the word
of God is what this baby
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gets fed by?
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So how does it
breath? Talk about breathing.
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It breathes
through prayer. Alright!
00:24:14.17\00:24:16.41
Prayer is the
breath of the soul.
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Can I say, preach it brother?
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That is the way it breathes
and sometimes folks get so
00:24:19.93\00:24:26.56
wrapped up in the fact
that you don't have to say
00:24:26.59\00:24:29.75
special words to pray.
00:24:29.78\00:24:31.02
Most addicts I work with,
hard-core addicts that they
00:24:31.06\00:24:35.95
are a mess and had
never done any kind of nothing
00:24:35.99\00:24:40.81
for anybody and all of a
sudden they get spiritual and
00:24:40.85\00:24:43.76
they get on their knees
the first time they'll say,
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God bestow on me, I'm thinking
where did you learn that word?
00:24:46.82\00:24:49.75
Isn't that funny because
we do think there is a way
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to do it, and if we
don't know how to do it then we
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shy away from prayer.
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You're saying right now, no!
00:24:58.25\00:25:00.07
Just talked to Him.
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Don't let the Devil lie to you.
00:25:01.17\00:25:02.82
Don't let the
old self lie to you.
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You can say it
however you want to say it
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and God will hear you.
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God will hear you.
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The thing that we must do
though is, I mustn't, since I'm
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here, as God comes into
my life and works in me,
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I must continue to grow.
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That is what He wants to do.
00:25:23.64\00:25:26.16
He's not saying you got to
grow to here to get to heaven.
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He is not saying that.
00:25:30.11\00:25:31.08
He is just saying
I want you to grow,
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I want your life to change
and so He wants to come in.
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That is why I have to surrender.
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Today there are so many
people that want to come to the
00:25:39.32\00:25:43.15
Lord but they
don't want to grow.
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They just want to
stay where they are.
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They want some
body to feed them?
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Well yeah, they want
somebody to feed them,
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and there is no such thing.
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There is no such thing
as repentance in my life
00:25:55.23\00:26:00.35
without Reformation,
it just doesn't exist.
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So the words again
are going to trip us up.
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What are you talking about?
00:26:07.85\00:26:08.85
Repentance is when I
come to the Lord and I see,
00:26:08.88\00:26:11.37
it just becomes
00:26:11.40\00:26:12.86
crystal clear what I am.
00:26:12.89\00:26:14.73
I'm a liar.
00:26:14.76\00:26:16.05
I'm on Internet
porn, I'm doing all that.
00:26:16.08\00:26:18.82
I see myself for what
I am and I don't like it.
00:26:18.85\00:26:22.79
That is required or
you will never change.
00:26:22.82\00:26:27.10
So I see myself as I am.
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Don't protect yourself from
that, don't shy away from that.
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I need to come to the Lord
just as I am and see myself.
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But as in confession,
confession comes in here,
00:26:36.33\00:26:40.56
what confession is what lance's
the boil and let's all the
00:26:40.60\00:26:46.70
sin and all the infection
and everything out because
00:26:46.73\00:26:51.44
that permits it to heal.
00:26:51.47\00:26:53.45
So that has to take place,
but when that happens then
00:26:53.49\00:26:57.47
naturally there should
be a change take place.
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In other words I
don't like what I was.
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But some people want to stay
there, you can't stay there.
00:27:06.32\00:27:10.65
C. S. Lewis wrote a
thing that was amazing.
00:27:10.69\00:27:12.90
He said you can't take all
luggage with you on every trip.
00:27:12.93\00:27:16.07
Even the smallest souvenir
from hell will keep you out of
00:27:16.10\00:27:19.41
heaven, so what you are saying
is you can't have things in
00:27:19.44\00:27:22.71
your pocket because
those things will eventually
00:27:22.74\00:27:25.59
strengthen the old
man and kill off the baby.
00:27:25.62\00:27:29.23
That's right, and as
he said you can't take all
00:27:29.26\00:27:32.83
the luggage
with you at one time.
00:27:32.86\00:27:35.06
In other words I might get
rid of one thing at a ways down
00:27:35.10\00:27:39.13
the road I had to
get rid of another.
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As you continue to walk with
Christ you'll find there are
00:27:40.40\00:27:44.82
things you have got to
get rid of as you go along.
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Not to earn heaven,
I want to stress that.
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So we have people at the Café
who are going to want to ask
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you questions, so I
am going to open that up.
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But we also have a third point,
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the baby needs
to eat, breath, and?
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Exercise! Exercise.
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Oh Man, okay so we are going
to open it up for questions.
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First Cassidy, you
wanted to ask Ken a question.
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Hi my name is Cassidy
Bates and I am from Minnesota.
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I'm in eighth grade, so friends
are really important to me.
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You said that the Bible is
our food and I was wondering
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what friends had to
do your spiritual growth?
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I mean because good friends
pull you up and could bad
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friends bring you down
or could they help you?
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I'm just kind of curious.
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That of course is a
very, very important question.
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Friends are something
that you have all your life,
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or should have all your life.
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To start out with
Christ says He is our friend,
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in fact it says that He is
a friend that sticketh closer
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then a brother, so first
thing you need to do is to make
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Him your friend, make
sure that He is your friend.
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Once you have done that,
then you begin to take your
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friends from those that you
feel will be helpful in their
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growth, and in
their Christian life.
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That doesn't mean
Cassidy, that I need to limit my
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friendship to only
people that are Christian.
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That is not what I am saying,
but it means that I have to
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be very, very close with my
friendship with Jesus so that
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my friendship with Him keeps me
okay with friendship with others
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who are not.
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I have to jump in and
say one thing about that.
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Because of the analogy
that Pastor Ken Cox had said,
00:29:46.22\00:29:50.94
about the baby or the old guy.
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The old man!
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Well how can you have
an old man inside of you?
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How about the flesh in you,
or the baby, so your friends
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are going to like
the one or the other,
00:30:04.22\00:30:05.67
do you know what I mean?
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So let's say my friends like
the person inside me that is
00:30:06.74\00:30:10.13
conniving and manipulating.
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I have a good sense of
humor but it is a little bit on
00:30:12.48\00:30:15.63
the edge, they are going to
like that friend or they are
00:30:15.66\00:30:18.78
going to like the baby.
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Do you know what I mean?
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So it depends on who
they are coming to visit.
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If they are coming to
visit a part of you that is a
00:30:23.28\00:30:26.03
Christian, then that
friend is always going to be
00:30:26.07\00:30:28.79
incredible to you.
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If they're going to
come to visit the old guy,
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or the old man or the flesh
than those friends are always
00:30:31.64\00:30:34.59
going to be looking for
you to do something edgy.
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So what will grow is
what they are attracted to.
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If I have bad friends or
non-Christian friends will I be
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able to bring them closer to
God or will they lead me away?
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Well you should
lead them closer to God.
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In other words you should
share with them the good things
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and right things and I should
not permit the things that are
00:31:07.67\00:31:13.01
bad to pull me their direction,
but remember God has called you.
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We are going to be
talking about exercise.
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The way you
exercise, in a Christian life,
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is by witnessing.
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So you are to be
a witness to them.
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You are to show them
what a life in Christ is like.
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So you need to help them.
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Let me put it this way.
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You know exercise was the
third thing you were talking
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about, the baby needs exercise.
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The baby needs exercise,
there has got to be exercise.
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Remember that the Lord
calls each of us to serve.
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I must minister to you, or
a must minister to the people
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that are around me.
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If I don't minister to
you, or to other people,
00:31:58.59\00:32:03.79
then I manipulate, you see?
00:32:03.82\00:32:07.10
That is where that comes
in, if I am not serving then I
00:32:07.14\00:32:11.09
have a tendency to manipulate.
00:32:11.13\00:32:13.08
When you start
manipulating other people,
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you are in trouble.
00:32:16.41\00:32:17.54
So what is
interesting to me is that,
00:32:19.62\00:32:21.18
like any 12 step program.
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In a 12 step programs, or
the last part of the journey,
00:32:22.86\00:32:27.55
on your 12 step program, or
the step 12, is to take what
00:32:27.58\00:32:32.24
you learn and go
teach someone else.
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So that is the
part of the exercise.
00:32:34.57\00:32:36.85
Most people in
recovery understand that.
00:32:36.89\00:32:39.10
If I don't give back, if
I don't live out what I have
00:32:39.13\00:32:42.83
learned, if I don't share
it is going to die within me.
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It is really tough, and I
love your question Cassidy,
00:32:46.13\00:32:49.84
it is really tough to have
friends that if the part of my
00:32:49.87\00:32:53.55
growth is that I have
to share what I learned.
00:32:53.59\00:32:55.92
I have to share my new life.
00:32:55.96\00:32:57.30
I have to share the
fact that it is so exciting
00:32:57.33\00:32:59.63
not to have to lie.
00:32:59.67\00:33:00.84
To fill up and being taught
by God who I am creatively.
00:33:00.87\00:33:04.20
If I can't share that with
you because you are not that
00:33:04.24\00:33:07.53
kind of friend,
then that part of me is
00:33:07.56\00:33:09.48
going to slowly die away.
00:33:09.52\00:33:11.05
So either I'm going to
continue to grow with the people
00:33:11.08\00:33:13.95
in my life, or I'm going
to have a part of me die with
00:33:13.98\00:33:16.82
the people in my life.
00:33:16.85\00:33:17.97
So I think that I love
her question that friendships
00:33:18.01\00:33:20.07
are important.
00:33:20.11\00:33:21.77
When I stopped doing heroine,
it was really interesting,
00:33:21.81\00:33:24.35
I was a good heroine addict.
00:33:24.39\00:33:26.60
I'm telling you, I
was good on the streets.
00:33:26.63\00:33:29.93
I survived for 10
years, from 13 years old on.
00:33:29.97\00:33:33.23
So I learned to
actually do all that,
00:33:33.27\00:33:35.30
but when I became a
Christian, none of the friends
00:33:35.33\00:33:38.31
I had really
enjoyed that part of me.
00:33:38.34\00:33:41.02
What do you mean
you're trying to be honest?
00:33:41.06\00:33:43.53
What's up with that?
00:33:43.57\00:33:45.15
How can you
manipulate with that?
00:33:45.19\00:33:47.16
Then they learn how to
do that, that's a good gig.
00:33:47.20\00:33:49.80
I'm not doing it to
manipulate, I'm doing it because
00:33:49.84\00:33:52.40
I think it's the right thing.
00:33:52.44\00:33:53.70
Or I'm not going
to steal anymore.
00:33:53.74\00:33:55.15
I do not want to
manipulate anymore.
00:33:55.19\00:33:56.56
I don't want to do that stuff.
00:33:56.60\00:33:58.13
Some friends will back away
just because of your choices.
00:33:58.16\00:34:01.31
Just simply if a
friend brings you flowers,
00:34:01.35\00:34:04.26
are they bringing you flowers
because they are being nice?
00:34:04.30\00:34:11.11
Because they want
to be nice to you?
00:34:11.15\00:34:14.14
Or are they bringing
flowers to you so they can get
00:34:14.17\00:34:16.98
some thing from you?
00:34:17.02\00:34:18.23
It makes a great, great
difference why they are bringing
00:34:18.27\00:34:21.80
you flowers you see.
00:34:21.83\00:34:23.41
Or why you are
bringing flowers to them.
00:34:24.20\00:34:26.35
So friends are important.
00:34:26.39\00:34:27.80
I know we had other
questions in the room.
00:34:27.83\00:34:30.00
Daphne I know
you had a question.
00:34:30.03\00:34:31.30
Yes sir first I
want to introduce myself.
00:34:31.33\00:34:34.19
My name is Daphne Brown
and I'm from Fort Lauderdale
00:34:34.22\00:34:37.94
in Florida. We
met in Florida? Yes!
00:34:37.98\00:34:40.05
It was a cruise last
year, however I like the way
00:34:40.09\00:34:44.53
Pastor Cox put on the subject
about growing in the word.
00:34:44.56\00:34:50.03
You know from a
child I know about that.
00:34:50.06\00:34:53.39
But it says as a
newborn babe is they are sincere
00:34:53.43\00:34:57.04
in the milk of the word.
00:34:57.07\00:34:58.41
No, it was reference
to people who are just
00:34:58.45\00:35:01.68
converted to the church.
00:35:01.72\00:35:03.52
As adults, people who are
in the church for a long time,
00:35:03.55\00:35:07.28
do they really need
the word to grow by?
00:35:07.32\00:35:12.28
Absolutely! It is
required of all of us.
00:35:12.31\00:35:17.23
I must spend time in the word.
00:35:17.27\00:35:20.09
It says Faith cometh by hearing
00:35:20.12\00:35:23.01
and hearing by the word of God.
00:35:23.04\00:35:25.85
In the Christian life
everything operates by faith,
00:35:25.89\00:35:30.62
everything and therefore I
read as an adult I read the
00:35:30.65\00:35:34.79
word of God because that
builds faith, in my experience
00:35:34.83\00:35:38.93
it helps me grow.
00:35:38.97\00:35:41.14
So I have to spend
time in God's Word.
00:35:41.17\00:35:44.68
I don't know how it is with
other people but I am always
00:35:44.71\00:35:48.54
seeing and finding
something I didn't know before.
00:35:48.58\00:35:52.94
I am reading it and I may
have read that text a half
00:35:52.98\00:35:56.49
a dozen times before and
all of a sudden I read it and
00:35:56.52\00:36:00.00
say, oh that's what
that's talking about.
00:36:00.03\00:36:03.56
That wasn't because I
just got smart all of a sudden,
00:36:03.59\00:36:06.22
that is because the
Holy Spirit opened it up
00:36:06.26\00:36:08.80
and revealed to me.
00:36:08.84\00:36:10.61
You have to talk about
going back to the newborn baby.
00:36:10.65\00:36:14.03
I have this baby that is
growing and the bones are
00:36:14.06\00:36:17.12
developing, the nerves
are developing, the brain is
00:36:17.15\00:36:19.94
developing, but there is
not a point that I think,
00:36:19.97\00:36:22.39
okay you are 12 now,
you never have to eat again.
00:36:22.42\00:36:24.76
It's like you can stop eating
now, so that is a huge thing.
00:36:24.80\00:36:29.52
We have time for
one more question.
00:36:29.56\00:36:32.39
I'm sorry.
00:36:32.43\00:36:33.57
As he said about faith, I
remember the Baptist say if you
00:36:33.61\00:36:37.57
have the faith of a mustard
seed you can say to the mountain
00:36:37.60\00:36:41.53
many of us have
mountains in our lives.
00:36:41.56\00:36:43.67
I can draw from that faith when
my daughter met the accident
00:36:43.71\00:36:48.47
because that is
why I am here today.
00:36:48.50\00:36:50.52
I was going down to the
hospital and my church sister,
00:36:50.55\00:36:54.72
Sister Maurice
was sitting beside me.
00:36:54.75\00:36:56.69
I looked across at her and
said, you know Sister Maurice
00:36:56.72\00:37:00.58
if I go to the hospital
and my daughter is still alive
00:37:00.61\00:37:04.44
she is not going to die.
00:37:04.47\00:37:05.92
Amen! Amen! and that's the
faith that brought her through.
00:37:05.95\00:37:09.75
So we also have to
have faith and exercise,
00:37:09.78\00:37:13.76
not just to love
it but exercised it.
00:37:13.80\00:37:15.82
I love that because what
you are saying is that if
00:37:15.85\00:37:19.57
I didn't know that
was in the word of God.
00:37:19.61\00:37:21.31
If I didn't know what
God encouraged me to do that,
00:37:21.34\00:37:24.20
would I have known to
hold on to that at that time?
00:37:24.24\00:37:27.06
Because during the
time of an accident,
00:37:27.10\00:37:28.85
when you are looking at
somebody's life or death,
00:37:28.89\00:37:31.46
if it is not in there,
How can I hold on to it?
00:37:31.49\00:37:34.03
How can I pull
any strength from it?
00:37:34.06\00:37:35.85
It comes by the word.
00:37:35.88\00:37:38.69
Joe you had a question.
00:37:38.73\00:37:41.47
Pastor Cox, Cheri had said
that she was in the bathroom
00:37:41.51\00:37:46.36
about to kill herself,
00:37:46.39\00:37:47.95
and when she
received that baby, that gift,
00:37:47.99\00:37:53.25
you said that we can't
birth that baby our self.
00:37:53.29\00:37:58.39
How does someone who is
about to kill them self even
00:37:58.42\00:38:03.49
desire it, or ask
for it, What is it?
00:38:03.53\00:38:08.01
There are two
factors to come to play here.
00:38:08.04\00:38:10.61
It says that Christ is the
light that lighteth every man
00:38:10.65\00:38:13.04
that cometh into the world.
00:38:13.07\00:38:14.36
So Christ is continually
working with every person.
00:38:14.39\00:38:17.85
Secondly, the Holy Spirit
is also there as it convicts
00:38:17.89\00:38:21.31
the world of sin, of
righteousness, of judgment,
00:38:21.35\00:38:23.98
and so God wanted to save her.
00:38:24.02\00:38:26.26
He's going to do everything
He can to her to try to get
00:38:26.30\00:38:32.01
that to take place.
00:38:32.04\00:38:33.28
I love that because at the
moment, I'm in a drug house
00:38:33.31\00:38:36.81
trying to kill myself, I
meet God and I get all that.
00:38:36.84\00:38:40.27
As I walked in my new life,
and as I understand who God is,
00:38:40.31\00:38:45.90
I start seeing Him even
when I was a little girl.
00:38:45.94\00:38:49.33
Throughout my life I get the
sense of, He was always there.
00:38:49.36\00:38:53.30
When I ask Him that
sometimes in devotions,
00:38:53.34\00:38:55.61
Were you always
there? He said absolutely,
00:38:55.64\00:38:57.87
I'm always there.
00:38:57.91\00:38:58.99
For each one of us that's true.
00:38:59.03\00:39:00.68
So the new life, the gift
that He gives us is waiting
00:39:00.71\00:39:04.13
for us, individually, Eh?
00:39:04.16\00:39:06.69
Absolutely, the new life,
totally and completely from that
00:39:06.72\00:39:11.65
point on, like you never known
00:39:11.68\00:39:13.13
or ever dreamed of
00:39:13.16\00:39:14.93
begins to take place.
00:39:14.97\00:39:16.67
If I stumble all of
heaven says stand up.
00:39:16.71\00:39:19.24
Like the angel who stands
around says that person is
00:39:19.28\00:39:21.70
going to fall a lot and I
need to be there and encourage
00:39:21.74\00:39:24.65
them to stand back up.
00:39:24.68\00:39:25.87
Just like a baby you do
not learn to walk right away.
00:39:25.91\00:39:28.27
You do not learn
how to run right away
00:39:28.31\00:39:30.02
or any of that stuff.
00:39:30.05\00:39:31.11
You are just like a baby,
pick them up, pick them up,
00:39:31.14\00:39:33.60
pick them up, that is the
same thing you need to do to
00:39:33.64\00:39:36.06
someone who is a
new babe in Christ.
00:39:36.10\00:39:37.97
If they fall you
need to pick them up.
00:39:38.00\00:39:39.84
Anybody in recovery. Absolutely!
00:39:39.87\00:39:42.93
I wanted to say Ken I
am delighted that you have
00:39:42.96\00:39:45.94
been on the program with us.
00:39:45.98\00:39:47.14
Well it has been a pleasure.
00:39:47.17\00:39:48.26
I love what you have to share
and I have to say as we say
00:39:48.30\00:39:52.06
goodbye, to you a have to
say if anybody is interested
00:39:52.10\00:39:55.82
in this teaching you
have a whole series on this.
00:39:55.86\00:39:58.65
Yes! What is the
name of that series?
00:39:58.69\00:40:00.54
It's called "Salvation".
00:40:00.58\00:40:02.00
It's amazing.
00:40:02.03\00:40:03.37
We are going to be
right back so stay with us.
00:40:03.41\00:40:06.06
I'm hoping you are hearing
the whole feel of this is that
00:40:06.09\00:40:10.09
we are saying out loud
that there is a part of you that
00:40:10.12\00:40:14.08
will fill still very much alive.
00:40:14.12\00:40:15.66
You turn yourself over to
Christ, you turn yourself over
00:40:15.70\00:40:18.12
to recovery and everything
is new you will be excited.
00:40:18.15\00:40:21.03
That is all amazing, and
there is a part of you that is
00:40:21.06\00:40:24.19
going to try to kick the
baby, don't let it happen.
00:40:24.23\00:40:27.32
Okay we will be right back.
00:40:27.36\00:40:28.35
Stay with us!
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