From Arcadia, California,
the Carter Report Presents,
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"The Living Word
around the world."
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A lady was dying in
a retirement village.
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A pastor came to visit.
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And she said to him
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out of the anguish of her heart,
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"How can I be saved?"
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He gave her a list of
things that she ought to do
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and a list of things
that she shouldn't do.
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Today, we're going to
send a message to that person
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who's still alive, that
for whom death is coming.
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How can a
person be ready to die?
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And so the topic today is about
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"God's Amazing Abounding Grace."
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Firstly today,
it is my privilege
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to introduce a beautiful couple.
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We're glad that Daniel
and Heather are here today.
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They're both going to sing,
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but they're going to
sing one after another.
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So would you please
welcome Daniel and Heather?
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But firstly,
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Daniel, who's going
to come and sing for us.
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Thanks Carter. Thank you.
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Good morning.
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Everyday they pass me by
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I can see it in their eyes
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Empty people filled with care
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Headed who knows where
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On they go through private pain
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Living fear to fear
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Laughter hides
their silent cries
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Only Jesus hears
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People need the Lord
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people need the Lord
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At the end of broken dreams
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He's the open door
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People need the Lord
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people need the Lord
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When will we realize
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people need the Lord
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We are called to take His light
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To a world where
wrong seems right
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What would be too great a cost
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For sharing life
with one who's lost
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Through His love
our hearts can feel
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All the grief they bear
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They must hear the words of life
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Only we can share
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People need the Lord
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people need the Lord
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At the end of broken dreams
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He's the open door
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People need the Lord
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people need the Lord
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When will we realize
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that we must give our lives
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For people need the Lord
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People need the Lord
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What do you tell an old
person in a retirement village
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who is facing death?
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You are the pastor.
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The pastor goes along
and visits the congregation
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and this old lady
says to the pastor,
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"Pastor, I've been a
member of this church
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for 80 years, 80 years
a member of the church.
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I've been struggling hard to
keep the commandments of God.
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I just don't feel
that I'm ready to die."
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What do you tell a
person who is facing death?
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What do tell them
when they ask the question,
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how can I get right with God?
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How can I be right
with God, right now?
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I want you take
your Bibles please,
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and turn with me, The Romans 5.
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The topic today
is, "Abounding Grace."
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"Abounding Grace"
or as Spurgeon called
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in one of his
books, "Grace Abounding."
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Please turn with
me to Romans Chapter 5
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and verse 20 and 21 please.
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The Book of Romans written
by the Great Jewish Scholar,
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Paul the Apostle.
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Romans 5:20 and 21.
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Amazing passage.
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"The law was added
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so that the
trespass might increase."
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You know why God gave the
law of Mount Sinai, don't you?
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The Bible says here
so that the trespass
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and so the sin could increase.
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What does that mean?
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Do we
understand what this means?
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The law was given so that
the trespass might increase.
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When the law is
given, it magnifies sin.
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We see sin as being
as bad as it really is.
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And so the Bible
says, "The law was added
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so that the
trespass might increase.
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But where sin
increased--" we would expect,
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I would expect the Bible to say,
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where sin increased the wrath
of God increased all the more.
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Because that's how we
would expected it to be.
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Concerning the justice of
God, the God is a just God.
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If sin increases, we'd
expect the wrath of God
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to increase even more so.
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But that's not what Paul says.
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Look at it here.
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"But where sin increased,
grace increased all the more."
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Hmm, you can say amen to that.
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"So that, just as
sin reigned in death,
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so also grace might
reign through righteousness
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to bring eternal life
through Jesus Christ our Lord."
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The King James
here, I think is superior.
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The King James Version
says, "Moreover the law entered,
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that the offence might abound.
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But where sin abounded,
grace did much more abound."
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Therefore grace is
greater than any sin.
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Where sin abounded
grace did much more abound.
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Did you know, Saint Augustine,
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the great Roman
Catholic Theologian
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made this statement?
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He says, "The church
hath many that God hath not."
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What does that mean?
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"The church hath
many that God hath not.
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And God hath many
the church hath not."
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You know why, don't you?
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Because many
people do not understand
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the doctrine of grace
at least in the church.
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And so there're
many in the church,
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they don't belong to God.
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And there're many
outside the church
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who do belong to
God. Think about it.
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Would you think about it?
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"The church hath
many that God hath not.
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And God hath many,
the church hath not."
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It's all got to do with grace.
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And listen carefully.
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"The Gospel of
God's abounding grace
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is supernaturally revealed."
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And unless a divine
miracle happens in your life,
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you can be the
most pious of Christians
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or at least the most
pious of church members,
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but you'll be lost.
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Because the Gospel of grace
is supernaturally revealed.
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I want you to come over here
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to our text in
Galatians 1:11 and 12.
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Do you have some gentle people?
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Galatians 1:11 and 12,
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Galatians 1:11 and 12,
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"I want you to know, brothers,
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that the Gospel I
preached is not something
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that man made up.
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I did not
receive it from any man,
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nor was I taught it, rather,
I received it by revelation
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from Jesus Christ."
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I know this is true. Look at me.
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Why is it?
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If there are
people who come to church
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and this church year after year,
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I've known people to come
to this church for 22 years
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because this
church has been preaching
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the Gospel of God's grace
down in California for 22 years.
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And I know people who
come to the church for 22 years
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and have no understanding
of the Gospel of grace.
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Why is this so?
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Because it is
supernaturally revealed.
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Jesus said, "Many are
called and only few are chosen."
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Let me give you
some illustrations.
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Last Sabbath in our church
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when we had the
big 50 celebration,
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we had with us Dr.
and Mrs. Owens from Texas,
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wonderful friends of
mine for many, many years.
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In the Fort Worth Church,
when I was a pastor there,
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I put on a series of
meetings on the Book of Romans.
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Tyndale the British reformer
called the Book of Romans,
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"good, glad, and Merry
Tidings that makes a man's heart
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to sing for joy
and his feet to dance."
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So Russell reminded me
when he came to the church
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and we could go.
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He told me as a
Seventh-day Adventist
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believer for all of his life,
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he sat there in
the Fort Worth Church
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and when we preached
from the Book of Romans
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about God's abounding grace,
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he said for the first time
in his life it turned upon him.
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He said,
"Previously I had no idea
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of the doctrine of grace
or the truth of salvation."
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And he had been an
Adventist Christian
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in good and regular
standing there so many years.
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A person who had a similar
experience in this church
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is one of our elders today.
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A dear friend
of mine Ron Barclay
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and Ron's going to come
and I'm going to ask him
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to tell you how the
Gospel of God's grace
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was
supernaturally revealed to him.
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Tell me Ron.
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Well, Pastor Carter, I've
been a member of this church
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now for about 19 years.
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I was born into
an Adventist Family.
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But when I came to this church,
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I had quite a bit of baggage.
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My understanding of
the Gospel at that time
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was that for me to be saved,
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I had to be living an
absolutely sinless life,
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either before I
died our Christ return.
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With that I had
the understanding
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that a man will be judged
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according to the
light that he's been given.
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And he is success in
keeping the commandments?
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Well, I find in these two areas
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a great contradiction that
was troubling me for years.
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When I came into this church,
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my life was turned upside down.
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I found that my theology
was not according to scripture.
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I learned that
we're saved by God's grace
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through that--forth by my faith
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and the atone blood of
Jesus Christ in Calvary.
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The Book of John is remarkable.
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Jesus told Nicodemus
that one must be born
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again in order to
enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
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But he didn't stop there.
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In First John 1:9, He
tells us how to do that.
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"If we confess our
sins, God is faithful and just
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and will forgive us
our sins and cleans us
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from all unrighteousness."
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He tells us in John 3:16,
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probably one of the best
known verses in scripture.
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"That God so loved this world,
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the whole world that He
gave His only begotten Son,
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that whosoever believeth
in him should not perish,
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but have everlasting life."
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These threes simple
verses dispelled my belief.
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When I came to your
church, Pastor Carter,
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I knew lot about Jesus,
but I didn't know Jesus.
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Now I know Him as my Creator,
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my Savior, and
my very best friend.
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God bless you, Ron. Thank you.
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That warms our hearts.
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Last Sabbath in church,
Susan Piraino who's worked
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for the ministry for
quite a few years now
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told how she came to
the Shrine Auditorium.
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And as the world
is being preached,
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it was like a
revelation from heaven.
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And she felt that
a heart would burst
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when an appeal was
made to come to Christ.
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I want to ask you, have
you had that experience?
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So many people, my
friend didn't have denomination,
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of trusting in
their own righteousness.
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And thinking they can be saved
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because they're
members of the church.
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Last Sabbath, we
had Dr. Julia Outkina
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who came from Russia.
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She came to the
meetings as an atheist,
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an unbeliever, a
Russian intellectual.
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She came simply to
hear English being spoken
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because she was a
doctor of linguistics
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from Saint
Petersburg University.
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But she said as she became
exposed to the word of God,
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it was so, heaven was opened
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and she saw herself as a sinner.
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And she saw
Christ as her savior.
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If you haven't had
that experience my friend,
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I look you in the eye
you may be too religious.
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You may know all about religion,
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but you may not know
Christ and the Gospel.
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Think of Paul and
the road to Damascus,
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he saw Christ.
He had a revelation.
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Every person must
have that experience.
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When I was a boy
at Avondale College,
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17 years of age,
sitting in the Avondale Chapel,
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that old Chapel,
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on the campus of
Avondale College in Australia,
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I heard a preacher
preach on God's abounding grace.
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And even though
I'd been brought up
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in a strict
Seventh-day Adventist home
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and the law had
been drummed into me
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from daylight to dark.
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I had no knowledge
of the Gospel of God.
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I discovered the Gospel of God
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at Avondale College
through a revelation from God.
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John Wesley was
an Anglican Preacher.
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He came to America to
convert the Americans.
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But he cried out, "I've
come to convert the Americans
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who's going to convert me."
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You know the story,
when he went back to London,
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he went to a little chapel
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and he heard a
layman read the paraphrase
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to the Book of
Romans by Martin Luther.
00:19:02.96\00:19:06.74
And John Wesley for
the first time in his life
00:19:06.75\00:19:09.56
had a supernatural revelation.
00:19:09.57\00:19:11.74
You say, "I don't know
what're you talking about."
00:19:11.75\00:19:15.07
If you don't know
what I'm talking about is
00:19:15.08\00:19:16.87
because you
don't know the Gospel.
00:19:16.88\00:19:19.14
And John Wesley
got up in the meeting
00:19:19.15\00:19:20.63
and he said, "I felt my
heart strangely warmed."
00:19:20.64\00:19:23.91
Now when a person
has this experience,
00:19:26.12\00:19:29.40
he passes from death onto life.
00:19:29.41\00:19:33.73
Over there in Russia,
there was a persecuting
00:19:33.74\00:19:35.98
orthodox priest who
came to our meetings
00:19:35.99\00:19:38.30
and tried to
breakup the meetings.
00:19:38.31\00:19:40.76
This is an amazing story.
00:19:40.77\00:19:44.00
He would have a
gang outside the meetings
00:19:44.01\00:19:47.51
trying to stop people
coming to the greater auditorium
00:19:47.52\00:19:50.59
in Nizhny Novgorod.
00:19:50.60\00:19:52.20
He was a persecuting priest.
00:19:52.21\00:19:54.35
But somehow he started
to hear the word of God.
00:19:54.36\00:19:57.63
And even though he was a priest,
00:19:57.64\00:19:59.02
he knew nothing
about Christ or salvation.
00:19:59.03\00:20:01.93
He knew a lot about icons.
00:20:01.94\00:20:04.08
But he said God gave him
a supernatural revelation.
00:20:04.09\00:20:08.61
He saw himself as a great sinner
00:20:08.62\00:20:11.11
and he came to
Christ and he was baptized.
00:20:11.12\00:20:16.01
So we're talking today
00:20:16.02\00:20:17.67
about a supernatural
revelation from God.
00:20:17.68\00:20:20.78
I want you to
come to Galatians 2.
00:20:20.79\00:20:22.58
I ask you, "Have you had
00:20:22.59\00:20:23.85
this supernatural experience?"
00:20:23.86\00:20:25.64
I want to say to the people
00:20:25.65\00:20:26.81
who are watching
this telecast in Australia
00:20:26.82\00:20:29.44
across America, have you had
00:20:29.45\00:20:32.42
a supernatural
revelation from God?
00:20:32.43\00:20:36.01
Because you got to get it.
00:20:36.02\00:20:37.10
And if you
haven't had it, my friend,
00:20:37.11\00:20:39.02
it's because you
haven't found salvation.
00:20:39.03\00:20:42.45
Galatians Chapter 2, verse 21.
00:20:42.46\00:20:45.97
Galatians 2, Paul says,
00:20:45.98\00:20:49.10
"I do not set
aside the grace of God,
00:20:49.11\00:20:53.10
for if
righteousness could be gained
00:20:53.11\00:20:55.12
through the law,
Christ died for nothing!"
00:20:55.13\00:21:00.12
Paul says if a
person can be saved
00:21:00.13\00:21:03.77
by keeping the
commandments of God,
00:21:03.78\00:21:07.21
then Christ died for nothing.
00:21:07.22\00:21:11.08
I want you to know this.
00:21:11.09\00:21:12.56
We can never be
saved by our good works.
00:21:12.57\00:21:16.77
The King James Version
says, concerning this text,
00:21:16.78\00:21:20.26
it's a great translation.
00:21:20.27\00:21:22.15
"I do not
frustrate the grace of God.
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I do not
frustrate the grace of God,
00:21:26.67\00:21:29.30
for if
righteousness come by the law,
00:21:29.31\00:21:33.99
then Christ is dead in vain."
00:21:34.00\00:21:39.85
If you and I can be
saved by our own righteousness
00:21:39.86\00:21:44.48
even with the help of
God... and Christ died in vain.
00:21:44.49\00:21:52.06
Now I ask the question,
00:21:52.07\00:21:54.00
"Are some of us
frustrating the grace of God?"
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Are you
frustrating the grace of God?
00:21:57.35\00:22:00.40
I ask you.
00:22:00.41\00:22:02.08
By a hard hearts, by
a rebellious spirits,
00:22:02.09\00:22:06.91
by a legalistic,
self righteous attitude
00:22:06.92\00:22:10.51
like the man in the
Bible who said, "I thank God.
00:22:10.52\00:22:14.40
I'm not like other people."
00:22:14.41\00:22:17.98
You see he didn't
need the blood of Jesus.
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Well so he thought,
00:22:21.52\00:22:23.29
"I do not
frustrate the grace of God,
00:22:23.30\00:22:26.04
for if
righteousness come by the law,
00:22:26.05\00:22:29.29
then Christ is dead in vain."
00:22:29.30\00:22:33.12
His death doesn't count.
00:22:33.13\00:22:37.90
So I think of this old
lady in the retirement village
00:22:37.91\00:22:42.68
and she says to the
pastor with tears in a voice,
00:22:42.69\00:22:48.58
this old
Christian, this old Christian,
00:22:48.59\00:22:52.74
who's been in our
church for 80 years.
00:22:52.75\00:22:56.02
And she says,
"I'm not ready to die."
00:22:56.03\00:22:59.67
She says, "How can I be saved?"
00:22:59.68\00:23:03.42
You know the hymn
says, "Shadows are falling,
00:23:03.43\00:23:05.81
death's night is coming."
00:23:05.82\00:23:08.74
She asks the
Pastor, "How can I be saved?
00:23:08.75\00:23:12.24
How can I be right with God?"
00:23:12.25\00:23:14.11
and the Pastor said to her,
00:23:14.12\00:23:17.00
"You must do
works of righteousness.
00:23:17.01\00:23:20.03
I'm telling
you," he said to her.
00:23:20.04\00:23:22.46
You must support
the church program.
00:23:22.47\00:23:25.15
What so if she dies
before she gets through it.
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You must support
the church program.
00:23:28.26\00:23:31.34
You must do evangelism.
00:23:31.35\00:23:35.66
She got to get out and
knock on doors...to be saved.
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He said to her,
"You must do evangelism
00:23:42.57\00:23:46.75
and you must obey all
of God's commandments.
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And then you'll have
the assurance of salvation."
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I'm preaching this service
particularly for that lady.
00:23:54.21\00:23:57.89
And we're going to send
you a DVD of this sermon.
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So we're gonna do this
DVD as quick as we can.
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And that Pastor, I tell you
00:24:06.31\00:24:07.75
my friend was
frustrating the grace of God.
00:24:07.76\00:24:10.93
And he was casting her soul
00:24:10.94\00:24:13.37
in to the black pit of despair.
00:24:13.38\00:24:18.11
Now I have a message
for that elderly soul
00:24:18.12\00:24:20.82
whose life is slipping away.
00:24:20.83\00:24:23.33
Where sin did abound
grace did much more abound.
00:24:23.34\00:24:29.30
And you and I are
saved by the grace of God
00:24:29.31\00:24:33.67
and by the grace of God alone.
00:24:33.68\00:24:35.72
Let me come over here
and let me put it up here
00:24:35.73\00:24:38.25
on the blackboard, if I may,
00:24:38.26\00:24:40.57
because the Bible
makes it so, so plain.
00:24:40.58\00:24:44.39
The Bible says,
"We're saved by grace."
00:24:44.40\00:24:51.10
And the Bible
says, "Not only grace",
00:24:51.11\00:24:53.99
but it says, "By grace alone."
00:24:54.00\00:25:00.97
You remember how
I've tried to teach you
00:25:00.98\00:25:04.85
the great battle cry of
the Protestant reformation.
00:25:04.86\00:25:08.52
You, you need to remember that.
00:25:08.53\00:25:11.79
Sola Christus, only Christ.
00:25:11.80\00:25:15.05
Only Christ--
00:25:15.06\00:25:16.05
People say, "Well I'm
trusting in the church."
00:25:16.06\00:25:21.61
My friend, that's a vain hope.
00:25:21.62\00:25:24.09
The church needs salvation.
00:25:24.10\00:25:25.52
So how can the church save
00:25:25.53\00:25:27.61
if the church needs to be saved?
00:25:27.62\00:25:31.60
So sola Christus, only
Christ, Sola scriptura.
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When you come into this church,
00:25:36.20\00:25:37.85
my friend, you're going to hear
00:25:37.86\00:25:39.41
a sermon out of the Bible.
00:25:39.42\00:25:43.73
Not a bunch of
philosophy or psychology.
00:25:43.74\00:25:46.89
The Bible tells me,
00:25:46.90\00:25:48.92
"Sola Christus, sola scriptura."
00:25:48.93\00:25:52.38
And then we believe
as the great Protestant
00:25:52.39\00:25:55.39
reformers taught,
sola gratia, only grace.
00:25:55.40\00:26:00.46
And sola fide, only faith.
00:26:00.47\00:26:05.63
This is grace abounding.
00:26:05.64\00:26:09.25
Would you come over here
00:26:09.26\00:26:10.31
to Ephesians Chapter 2
and verses three and onwards.
00:26:10.32\00:26:15.91
Ephesians 2 in the Bible.
00:26:15.92\00:26:18.29
Ephesians 2 verse
three and onwards.
00:26:18.30\00:26:21.82
"All of us also lived
among them at one time,
00:26:21.83\00:26:25.42
gratifying the
cravings of our sinful nature
00:26:25.43\00:26:30.18
and following its
desires and thoughts.
00:26:30.19\00:26:34.55
Like the rest, we were
by nature objects of wrath."
00:26:34.56\00:26:40.06
Listen to me, let
these sayings sink down
00:26:40.07\00:26:43.21
into the molecules of your mind,
00:26:43.22\00:26:45.88
without Christ we
are objects of wrath.
00:26:45.89\00:26:51.85
That's what the Bible teaches.
00:26:51.86\00:26:53.91
The Bible teaches
that we're all sinners
00:26:53.92\00:26:58.25
standing under
the judgments of God.
00:26:58.26\00:27:01.35
And that is why we need Christ.
00:27:01.36\00:27:04.33
"By nature objects of wrath,
00:27:04.34\00:27:08.20
but because of
his great love for us,
00:27:08.21\00:27:11.42
God, who is rich in mercy,
00:27:11.43\00:27:15.59
made us alive with Christ
00:27:15.60\00:27:17.85
even when we were
dead in transgressions.
00:27:17.86\00:27:21.84
It is by grace
you have been saved.
00:27:21.85\00:27:25.82
And God raised us up with Christ
00:27:25.83\00:27:27.89
and seated us with him
00:27:27.90\00:27:29.59
in the heavenly
realms in Christ Jesus,
00:27:29.60\00:27:33.51
in order that in the coming ages
00:27:33.52\00:27:35.72
he might show
00:27:35.73\00:27:36.72
the incomparable
riches of his grace,
00:27:36.73\00:27:42.44
expressed in his
kindness to us in Christ Jesus.
00:27:42.45\00:27:47.04
For it is by grace
you have been saved,
00:27:47.05\00:27:52.60
through faith and
this not from yourselves,
00:27:52.61\00:27:57.77
it is the gift
of God not by works,
00:27:57.78\00:28:02.18
so that no one can boast.
00:28:02.19\00:28:05.26
For we are God's workmanship
00:28:05.27\00:28:07.53
created in Christ
Jesus to do good works,
00:28:07.54\00:28:10.86
which God prepared in
advance for us to do."
00:28:10.87\00:28:15.83
So I say today, let it be
proclaimed from every pulpit.
00:28:15.84\00:28:24.65
Let it be heard in every
home where Christ is honored.
00:28:24.66\00:28:31.24
Let mothers
teach their daughters,
00:28:31.25\00:28:34.66
let fathers teach their sons.
00:28:34.67\00:28:37.58
Let the word go out we're saved
00:28:37.59\00:28:41.08
by God's abounding
grace. Remember this.
00:28:41.09\00:28:48.06
I'm saying this to all of
my friends around the world.
00:28:48.07\00:28:51.56
You got to get this
in your minds today,
00:28:51.57\00:28:54.07
if you would be saved.
00:28:54.08\00:28:55.31
Listen carefully,
00:28:55.32\00:28:57.82
not by works of
righteousness that we have done
00:28:57.83\00:29:01.44
because all our
works, the Bible says,
00:29:01.45\00:29:04.74
"are filthy rags."
00:29:04.75\00:29:07.08
Not by our good deeds,
not by doing Evangelism,
00:29:07.09\00:29:11.59
although it is commanded.
00:29:11.60\00:29:14.02
Not by obedience
to the law of God,
00:29:14.03\00:29:16.48
although it is commanded.
00:29:16.49\00:29:18.81
Not by a success
in living a Holy life,
00:29:18.82\00:29:22.27
although it is commanded.
00:29:22.28\00:29:24.31
We're saved by grace
alone and the Bible says,
00:29:24.32\00:29:30.68
"Through faith alone."
00:29:30.69\00:29:32.45
This is the
teaching of the Bible.
00:29:32.46\00:29:36.69
I'm gonna tell you a story.
00:29:36.70\00:29:40.90
This is not a trick story.
00:29:40.91\00:29:43.64
If you understand the Gospel,
00:29:43.65\00:29:45.55
it'll be playing in your mind.
00:29:45.56\00:29:49.53
There was a
famous great preacher.
00:29:49.54\00:29:53.92
Years and years ago,
when I was in Australia
00:29:53.93\00:29:57.00
somebody gave me
bunch of his books and said,
00:29:57.01\00:30:01.15
"Sell this book at the mission,
00:30:01.16\00:30:03.13
at the campaign
because then people
00:30:03.14\00:30:05.89
will understand
how to be saved."
00:30:05.90\00:30:08.96
It was called...
"Salvation by Grace."
00:30:08.97\00:30:16.12
So I thought,
"well I'm gonna read it,
00:30:16.13\00:30:17.72
it sounds pretty good."
00:30:17.73\00:30:19.56
And here is the story,
00:30:19.57\00:30:21.09
as preached by
the great preacher,
00:30:21.10\00:30:24.45
he shall remain anonymous.
00:30:24.46\00:30:27.70
He said there
was a young couple,
00:30:27.71\00:30:29.91
fell in love, got married.
00:30:29.92\00:30:34.85
And the father of the
bride came to the young man
00:30:34.86\00:30:37.51
and said, "I want to do
something special for you both
00:30:37.52\00:30:41.12
because I love you."
00:30:41.13\00:30:44.07
He said, "I'm going to
supply you with all--."
00:30:44.08\00:30:47.12
He said to the young
man, "I'm going to supply you
00:30:47.13\00:30:49.59
with everything
to build a mansion.
00:30:49.60\00:30:53.46
And I'm going to
give you the blueprints.
00:30:53.47\00:30:56.53
And I want you to be diligent.
00:30:56.54\00:31:00.17
And I want you to
build the most beautiful home
00:31:00.18\00:31:04.01
that has ever been built.
00:31:04.02\00:31:05.53
And after you built it
00:31:05.54\00:31:07.35
I'm going to
come and inspect it."
00:31:07.36\00:31:10.66
What's it sound like to you?
00:31:10.67\00:31:12.82
I'm going to
come and inspect it.
00:31:12.83\00:31:14.39
That's the judgment.
00:31:14.40\00:31:16.23
And he said, "If the
house is up to standard,
00:31:16.24\00:31:20.64
I'm going to give
it to you, by grace."
00:31:20.65\00:31:25.36
Grace is
sometimes misunderstood.
00:31:25.37\00:31:29.57
And so the young
guy started to work.
00:31:29.58\00:31:33.60
And he worked on
this house for months
00:31:33.61\00:31:36.26
and for more than a year.
00:31:36.27\00:31:38.03
And when it was finished
00:31:38.04\00:31:40.08
the father-in-law came
along for the inspection.
00:31:40.09\00:31:44.50
But oh my, in those days
they used to have stables
00:31:44.51\00:31:48.59
at the back of the house.
00:31:48.60\00:31:50.10
Well he had the stables where
the kitchen should have been.
00:31:50.11\00:31:55.04
And he had the kitchen
in the bathroom, a bathroom.
00:31:55.05\00:32:01.56
It was a disaster.
00:32:01.57\00:32:05.00
And the loving
gracious father said to him,
00:32:05.01\00:32:10.08
"Why didn't you
follow the blueprint?"
00:32:10.09\00:32:12.11
Well he said, "I thought I
could do it better myself."
00:32:12.12\00:32:15.96
What is that sound like?
00:32:15.97\00:32:18.19
Hmm... That sounds like,
00:32:18.20\00:32:20.35
sometimes we're awfully dumb.
00:32:20.36\00:32:24.12
We have the word of
God and what do we say,
00:32:24.13\00:32:26.99
"I can do it better myself."
00:32:27.00\00:32:29.25
And we make a mess of it.
00:32:29.26\00:32:31.47
We put the
stables in the kitchen.
00:32:31.48\00:32:35.63
Well the father said--
00:32:35.64\00:32:37.67
And now you've got
to listen carefully.
00:32:37.68\00:32:40.27
He said, "You know
you've made a mess of it.
00:32:40.28\00:32:43.55
But I believe in grace.
00:32:43.56\00:32:46.30
I'm going to come
and work with you.
00:32:46.31\00:32:50.25
And we're going to
build this house together.
00:32:50.26\00:32:53.73
We're going to follow
the blueprint, you and I."
00:32:53.74\00:32:57.56
So he said, "Here
we've got the blueprint.
00:32:57.57\00:33:01.21
And we're going to work
together, side by side."
00:33:01.22\00:33:05.63
And he said, "We're going,
00:33:05.64\00:33:08.36
I'm going to
guarantee that as you build,
00:33:08.37\00:33:12.85
it's going to be perfect,
00:33:12.86\00:33:15.80
absolutely perfect
without a blemish."
00:33:15.81\00:33:20.99
He said, "I guarantee
00:33:21.00\00:33:23.56
the house will
pass the inspection."
00:33:23.57\00:33:28.91
How does that sound to you?
00:33:28.92\00:33:32.91
And so the preacher said,
00:33:32.92\00:33:34.91
"We've all made a mess of things
00:33:34.92\00:33:37.38
and we all need
the grace of God."
00:33:37.39\00:33:40.24
Can you say, amen?
00:33:40.25\00:33:41.83
We've all made a mess of things
00:33:41.84\00:33:43.93
and we need the grace of God.
00:33:43.94\00:33:48.44
But I want to
tell you something.
00:33:48.45\00:33:51.60
I need somebody more
than a master builder
00:33:51.61\00:33:56.74
to help me to
build a perfect house.
00:33:56.75\00:33:59.28
I need a savior.
00:33:59.29\00:34:02.17
But that's not
what the preacher said.
00:34:02.18\00:34:05.23
He said, "We've all
made a mess of things,
00:34:05.24\00:34:08.30
but if you come to God,
00:34:08.31\00:34:11.55
God will shall
come and work with you
00:34:11.56\00:34:15.60
that you will be
able to give to God,
00:34:15.61\00:34:18.53
in the judgment, a
perfect and a sinless life."
00:34:18.54\00:34:23.83
Above is not the truth.
00:34:23.84\00:34:26.15
That's a damnable heresy.
00:34:26.16\00:34:29.05
I'm not saved
because I can come to God
00:34:29.06\00:34:32.53
in the judgment and
say, "Hey, look me over.
00:34:32.54\00:34:36.29
I've got here a perfect a life.
00:34:36.30\00:34:41.39
Look what I've done
God. You've helped me."
00:34:41.40\00:34:45.01
And that's why there
are so many people today
00:34:45.02\00:34:49.04
who are toiling and working,
00:34:49.05\00:34:51.79
trying to build a
perfect sinless life.
00:34:51.80\00:34:56.87
So they can get
through the judgment.
00:34:56.88\00:35:00.90
That is not my
friend, by grace alone.
00:35:00.91\00:35:05.14
That is grace and works.
00:35:05.15\00:35:06.84
Have I confused you?
00:35:10.62\00:35:13.82
Not if you
understand the Gospel.
00:35:13.83\00:35:16.55
Some of you are confused.
00:35:16.56\00:35:19.29
Maybe you haven't
had the revelation
00:35:19.30\00:35:21.08
I've been talking
about. I don't need...
00:35:21.09\00:35:27.34
I don't need to come
into the judgment and say,
00:35:27.35\00:35:31.89
"God, we've done it."
00:35:31.90\00:35:36.13
I need to save you
who comes and says,
00:35:36.14\00:35:38.67
"you messed up."
00:35:38.68\00:35:40.50
But my life is going to
take the place of your life.
00:35:40.51\00:35:46.40
I wouldn't want to
go to that poor lady
00:35:46.41\00:35:48.41
dying in that retirement
village many miles away.
00:35:48.42\00:35:52.66
And say to her, "well
you better startto work now
00:35:52.67\00:35:56.60
and here is the blueprint.
00:35:56.61\00:35:58.38
And God is going to
help you with the blueprint.
00:35:58.39\00:36:00.82
And before you die,
00:36:00.83\00:36:02.51
you're going to be
perfect and sinless.
00:36:02.52\00:36:05.12
And that's how you're
going to get through."
00:36:05.13\00:36:06.63
The Bible tells me that
I'm saved by grace alone
00:36:10.35\00:36:15.17
not by grace plus my works.
00:36:15.18\00:36:18.94
I want you to understand
this because it's important.
00:36:18.95\00:36:24.52
The true Gospel says,
"Here is a gift for you,
00:36:24.53\00:36:28.67
a perfect life
credited to your account."
00:36:28.68\00:36:34.09
Now there are
two great doctrines
00:36:34.10\00:36:35.55
that many people mess up on.
00:36:35.56\00:36:38.79
One is justification
and one is sanctification.
00:36:38.80\00:36:43.39
These great
doctrines are distinct.
00:36:43.40\00:36:47.65
But they are not separate.
00:36:47.66\00:36:50.67
Let me put it up
here on the blackboard.
00:36:50.68\00:36:52.51
This is a little bit of theology
00:36:52.52\00:36:54.94
but you need to understand it.
00:36:54.95\00:36:57.07
The first straight
word is justification.
00:36:57.08\00:37:02.72
Justification
doesn't make me righteous.
00:37:02.73\00:37:06.83
Justification
declares that I'm righteous
00:37:06.84\00:37:10.84
because God says
so, because of Cavalry.
00:37:10.85\00:37:14.60
The first is justification.
00:37:14.61\00:37:16.56
And the second
word is sanctification.
00:37:16.57\00:37:22.14
Sanctification, my friend, is
a making of the life righteous.
00:37:22.15\00:37:28.94
And God doesn't
justify any person
00:37:28.95\00:37:32.87
that he cannot sanctify.
00:37:32.88\00:37:36.20
And if you want to
know if you're saved or not,
00:37:36.21\00:37:40.45
you need to ask
yourselves a question,
00:37:40.46\00:37:42.87
"Am I being sanctified
by the spirit of God?"
00:37:42.88\00:37:49.12
But the Bible teaches,
I want you to know this,
00:37:49.13\00:37:52.38
"it is by grace alone."
00:37:52.39\00:37:54.64
Let's talk about
the grace that saves.
00:37:54.65\00:37:58.01
Firstly, it is the
grace of God's goodness.
00:37:58.02\00:38:04.05
What is God like?
00:38:04.06\00:38:05.74
I've been to India on
a number of occasions.
00:38:05.75\00:38:08.97
I've seen the
Gods of the Hindus,
00:38:08.98\00:38:11.79
blood thirsty, grotesque.
00:38:11.80\00:38:14.96
What is God like?
God is rich in mercy.
00:38:14.97\00:38:18.62
He's not angry.
He's our loving God.
00:38:18.63\00:38:23.88
Let me tell my
American friends something.
00:38:23.89\00:38:27.20
You know, what shocked me most
00:38:27.21\00:38:28.61
when I came to America?
00:38:28.62\00:38:30.05
And neither of you
folks will like this.
00:38:34.59\00:38:37.50
What shocked me,
00:38:37.51\00:38:40.52
were all the
lawsuits... among Christians.
00:38:40.53\00:38:47.70
I couldn't understand.
00:38:47.71\00:38:51.94
We've been wanting to
let one of our church members
00:38:51.95\00:38:55.75
use a part of this
church during the week.
00:38:55.76\00:39:00.79
We've been told by attorneys,
00:39:00.80\00:39:05.03
better not do it. Why?
00:39:05.04\00:39:08.83
Even though the
people would come,
00:39:08.84\00:39:13.46
the mothers and the children,
00:39:13.49\00:39:14.76
we'll promise not to sue
you, attorney said, they will.
00:39:14.77\00:39:20.34
They will sue you.
Yeah. For what? Any reason.
00:39:20.35\00:39:27.60
You cannot be a
Christian saved by grace
00:39:27.61\00:39:31.31
and have an attitude
00:39:31.32\00:39:34.61
where by you want to sue people.
00:39:34.62\00:39:36.74
I was shocked.
00:39:39.92\00:39:43.51
We got more
attorneys in this country
00:39:43.52\00:39:45.69
than I think in the rest
of the world put together.
00:39:45.70\00:39:48.45
And we have these lawsuits
00:39:48.46\00:39:50.02
because people
don't understand grace.
00:39:50.03\00:39:53.24
They're greedy,
but not gracious.
00:39:53.25\00:39:56.76
What is God's grace
like? Rich in mercy.
00:39:56.77\00:40:01.20
"Grace sent the savior."
00:40:01.21\00:40:04.03
Galatians Chapter 4 and verse 4.
00:40:04.04\00:40:06.96
Thank God that God is
not like us my friends.
00:40:06.97\00:40:11.12
Galatians Chapter 4.
00:40:11.13\00:40:13.07
I here have a
dear friend of mine.
00:40:13.08\00:40:15.07
He's being sued and he's
being sued because people say,
00:40:15.08\00:40:19.80
hey, we gonna get his money
00:40:19.81\00:40:21.64
and they don't
have reason for it.
00:40:21.65\00:40:24.04
The spirit of greed, it
is an abomination in America.
00:40:24.05\00:40:30.49
It's a cancer growing
in the heart of America.
00:40:30.50\00:40:34.87
Galatians 4:4, "But
when the time had fully come,
00:40:34.88\00:40:38.48
God sent his
son, born of a woman,
00:40:38.49\00:40:41.71
born under law..."
00:40:41.72\00:40:43.04
That little baby in
the manger, in Bethlehem,
00:40:43.05\00:40:47.13
was the embodiment of Grace.
00:40:47.14\00:40:50.11
Grace is for sinners.
00:40:50.12\00:40:53.06
Come over here to
Luke 15 verses 1 and 2.
00:40:53.07\00:40:55.54
"If you're not a
sinner, you don't need grace."
00:40:55.55\00:40:59.78
Luke 15:1-2, "Now the
tax collectors and 'sinners'
00:40:59.79\00:41:05.74
were all gathering
around to hear him.
00:41:05.75\00:41:09.00
But the
Pharisees and the teachers
00:41:09.01\00:41:10.83
of the law muttered,
00:41:10.84\00:41:11.96
'This man welcomes
sinners and eats with them.'"
00:41:11.97\00:41:14.62
Jesus said, "Yes, I do."
00:41:14.63\00:41:18.05
Grace is for sinners.
00:41:18.06\00:41:20.85
If a person comes to this church
00:41:25.06\00:41:28.97
and if he feels he's not worthy,
00:41:28.98\00:41:31.75
that's good because he is not.
00:41:31.76\00:41:34.66
None of us are.
00:41:34.67\00:41:37.34
The church is not
made for righteous people.
00:41:37.35\00:41:40.97
It is made for sinners.
00:41:40.98\00:41:46.37
When you read the Old Testament,
00:41:46.38\00:41:49.63
we read there about a
man by the name of Ahab.
00:41:49.64\00:41:54.47
The Bible says that Ahab was
00:41:54.48\00:41:57.61
the most wicked
man in the Bible.
00:41:57.62\00:42:02.13
The husband of
Jezebel, a bad man.
00:42:02.14\00:42:08.82
God showed him
grace. That's amazing.
00:42:08.83\00:42:14.01
So nobody is too
bad for the grace of God
00:42:14.02\00:42:18.22
even a bunch of
attorneys who were suing you.
00:42:18.23\00:42:22.46
God can even save
that sort of people...
00:42:22.47\00:42:27.01
if they come to God.
00:42:27.02\00:42:29.13
But they got to feel
themselves as sinners.
00:42:29.14\00:42:33.87
"Grace paid for my
sins on the cross."
00:42:33.88\00:42:37.67
Would you come over here
00:42:37.68\00:42:38.68
to Ephesians
Chapter 1 and verse 7?
00:42:38.69\00:42:43.53
Galatians, Ephesians 1:7,
00:42:43.54\00:42:48.91
"In him we have
redemption through his blood,
00:42:48.92\00:42:53.18
the forgiveness of sins,
00:42:53.19\00:42:55.81
in accordance with the
riches of God's grace..."
00:42:55.82\00:43:00.98
That is why Ellen White,
00:43:04.83\00:43:07.80
a famous Adventist Christian
made the remarkable statement
00:43:07.81\00:43:14.25
that hanging on the
cross was the Gospel.
00:43:14.26\00:43:18.30
I'm not saved,
00:43:22.08\00:43:23.35
try to get this
thing into your minds,
00:43:23.36\00:43:25.63
I'm not saved by my attainment.
00:43:25.64\00:43:30.37
I'm saved by His atonement.
00:43:30.38\00:43:32.20
So we are talking here
about something supernatural,
00:43:35.58\00:43:37.77
something absolutely amazing.
00:43:37.78\00:43:41.51
I can be a
minister in the church.
00:43:41.52\00:43:45.16
I can be a doctor of ministry
and not understand the Gospel.
00:43:45.17\00:43:50.93
I guess it is true
00:43:50.94\00:43:51.96
to say that in the
history of the church
00:43:51.97\00:43:54.23
there have been
many, many, many priests,
00:43:54.24\00:43:57.74
administers who never
understood the Gospel.
00:43:57.75\00:44:03.31
But the Gospel is shown
00:44:03.32\00:44:07.87
in the death of
Christ on the cross.
00:44:07.88\00:44:11.89
"Grace declares the poor,
00:44:11.90\00:44:15.12
trembling,
repentant sinner righteous."
00:44:15.13\00:44:21.80
I want this DVD
to go to that lady
00:44:21.83\00:44:25.09
who was facing death and wonders
00:44:25.10\00:44:28.18
how she can be saved.
00:44:28.19\00:44:29.39
Listen to this.
00:44:29.40\00:44:30.58
Don't let
anybody rob you off this.
00:44:30.59\00:44:33.12
The moment you come to
Christ, the very moment,
00:44:33.13\00:44:38.96
the moment you come to Christ
and truly believe in Christ,
00:44:38.97\00:44:43.56
you're declared righteous.
00:44:43.57\00:44:47.59
If you die, you'll be
in the kingdom of God,
00:44:47.60\00:44:52.28
not because you've been
in the church for 80 years
00:44:52.29\00:44:55.81
but because Christ died for you.
00:44:55.82\00:44:57.30
And the good news is
00:45:00.63\00:45:01.70
that "Grace covers
me all the way home."
00:45:01.71\00:45:05.20
This is a new
revelation for many people.
00:45:05.21\00:45:08.30
The great hymn written
by the great Englishman,
00:45:08.31\00:45:10.90
"Tis grace that brought me safe
00:45:10.91\00:45:13.27
thus far and grace
will lead me home."
00:45:13.28\00:45:17.35
And listen to this
statement from Ellen White,
00:45:17.36\00:45:22.04
who understood the Gospel.
00:45:22.05\00:45:25.50
"The religious services,
the prayers, the praise,
00:45:25.51\00:45:31.60
the penitent confession of sin
00:45:31.61\00:45:36.57
ascend from the
true believers as incense
00:45:36.58\00:45:41.59
to the heavenly sanctuary,
00:45:41.60\00:45:44.52
but passing through the
corrupt channels of humanity,
00:45:44.53\00:45:51.97
they are so defiled that
unless purified by blood,
00:45:51.98\00:45:57.66
they can never be
of value with God."
00:45:57.67\00:45:59.77
Even our prayers
are defiled, she says.
00:45:59.78\00:46:05.60
"They ascend not
in spotless purity,
00:46:05.61\00:46:08.82
and unless the Intercessor,
who is at God's right hand,
00:46:08.83\00:46:12.91
presents and purifies
all by His righteousness,
00:46:12.92\00:46:17.18
it is not acceptable
to God." said Ellen White.
00:46:17.19\00:46:21.20
That's in selected, first
selected messages, page 344.
00:46:21.21\00:46:25.63
She says all about prayers,
00:46:25.64\00:46:30.00
all about
penitent, confession of sins,
00:46:30.01\00:46:35.05
when we get down on
our knees and we say
00:46:35.06\00:46:38.69
"God, I confess my
sins. I believe in Christ."
00:46:38.70\00:46:44.12
She says it is all so-polluted.
00:46:44.13\00:46:48.50
My prayers are polluted?
00:46:48.51\00:46:50.58
You say, "My
prayers are not polluted."
00:46:50.59\00:46:52.80
Yes, they are
completely polluted.
00:46:52.81\00:46:56.89
Our prayers are polluted.
00:46:56.90\00:46:59.01
Our Sabbath keeping is polluted.
00:46:59.02\00:47:01.25
Our tithe paying is polluted.
00:47:01.26\00:47:04.20
Our good works are so polluted
00:47:04.21\00:47:07.45
that unless
Christ covers our prayers
00:47:07.46\00:47:12.37
and our confession of
sin with His own blood
00:47:12.38\00:47:15.73
and His own righteousness,
God cannot accept us.
00:47:15.74\00:47:19.66
So how could we ever
be saved except by grace?
00:47:19.67\00:47:22.36
Look at this
umbrella, some people say,
00:47:24.86\00:47:28.22
well, we start with grace,
we start with justification
00:47:28.23\00:47:32.99
and then we move on
to the sanctification.
00:47:33.00\00:47:37.36
And once I'm justified,
that's a thing in the past,
00:47:37.37\00:47:42.94
but now it is sanctification
and God stops me off
00:47:42.95\00:47:48.11
with justification but now I'm
gotta build the house, you see.
00:47:48.12\00:47:54.25
How many
Adventists have told me that?
00:47:54.26\00:47:56.28
Of course they have.
Thousands, yeah, heaps of them.
00:47:56.29\00:48:01.38
You know what
justification is like?
00:48:01.39\00:48:02.91
You know what the
grace of God is like?
00:48:02.92\00:48:05.10
It's like an umbrella.
00:48:05.11\00:48:08.66
It keeps the rain, the thunder,
keeps everything off of me.
00:48:08.67\00:48:14.81
I'm covered by the blood of
Christ from beginning to end
00:48:14.82\00:48:19.89
and I need not fear the
judgment or the wrath of God,
00:48:19.90\00:48:25.23
if I'm covered by the
grace of God. Halleluiah.
00:48:25.24\00:48:32.12
Now as a lady said to me,
after Church last Sabbath,
00:48:32.13\00:48:36.60
she said, I'm confused on this
00:48:36.61\00:48:39.69
because I believed
that I, I have got,
00:48:39.70\00:48:43.19
I started here but she
said I haven't attained.
00:48:43.20\00:48:47.99
I said you haven't,
Jesus did it for you, you see.
00:48:48.00\00:48:53.60
Now let me tell you something
00:48:53.61\00:48:54.73
so you never forget this.
00:48:54.74\00:48:58.59
Would you like to know-- Ha, ha.
00:48:58.60\00:49:02.33
Would you like to know
00:49:02.34\00:49:03.51
why so many who
profess to be Christians
00:49:03.52\00:49:07.19
seem to lack the
grace of God in their lives?
00:49:07.20\00:49:13.29
Why is it that so
many of us, we are sinners,
00:49:13.30\00:49:17.17
why is it that so many
of us are inconsistent,
00:49:17.18\00:49:21.50
lazy in our spiritual works?
00:49:21.51\00:49:27.58
We go to church when it suits us
00:49:27.59\00:49:30.37
and we stay at
home when it suits us.
00:49:30.38\00:49:34.34
We pay our tithes
when it is convenient.
00:49:34.35\00:49:38.54
Would you like to know why?
00:49:38.55\00:49:39.75
It is because
00:49:41.08\00:49:43.21
I'm afraid
justification is lacking.
00:49:43.22\00:49:49.29
There is no sanctification
without justification
00:49:49.30\00:49:53.29
and it is going
to Christ as a sinner
00:49:53.30\00:49:57.43
and having this
supernatural revelation
00:49:57.44\00:50:00.37
that changes the life, you see.
00:50:00.38\00:50:03.75
So that's why I say we
need a supernatural experience.
00:50:06.31\00:50:12.06
This is a beautiful poem
00:50:18.91\00:50:20.13
I'm gonna read
it to you or hymn,
00:50:20.14\00:50:21.55
" Dear Lord, take
up our tangled strands,
00:50:21.56\00:50:24.92
Where we have wrought in vain,
00:50:24.93\00:50:28.21
That by the
skill of Thy dear hands
00:50:28.22\00:50:30.26
Some beauty may remain.
00:50:30.27\00:50:33.25
Touch Thou the sad,
00:50:33.26\00:50:34.49
discordant keys of
every troubled breast,
00:50:34.50\00:50:38.76
And change to peaceful harmonies
00:50:38.77\00:50:41.71
the sighings of unrest where
broken vows in fragments lie,
00:50:41.72\00:50:47.12
the toil of wasted years.
00:50:47.13\00:50:49.88
Do Thou make whole again,
00:50:49.89\00:50:51.36
we cry, and give
a song for tears.
00:50:51.37\00:50:55.44
Take all the failures,
00:50:55.45\00:50:57.04
each mistake of
our poor human ways.
00:50:57.05\00:51:00.74
Then, Savior, for
Thine own dear sake.
00:51:00.75\00:51:03.42
Make them show forth Thy praise.
00:51:03.43\00:51:06.86
Transformed by grace divine,
the glory shall be Thine.
00:51:06.87\00:51:13.03
To Thy most Holy will, O
Lord, we now our all resign."
00:51:13.04\00:51:20.45
You know the story of how Moses,
00:51:20.46\00:51:23.18
and those
rebellious complaining people
00:51:23.19\00:51:27.27
came to a pool of
water they were thirsty.
00:51:27.28\00:51:31.33
And when they drank the
water they said, it is bitter.
00:51:31.34\00:51:36.55
They called it Marah.
00:51:36.56\00:51:39.74
And from Marah,
we get the name Mary.
00:51:39.75\00:51:43.60
Did you know that?
00:51:43.61\00:51:45.45
Mary comes from a
Hebrew word bitter.
00:51:45.46\00:51:51.92
And Moses said,
God said to Moses,
00:51:51.93\00:51:54.30
"go get a tree and throw
it into that bitter water,"
00:51:54.31\00:52:00.23
and Moses took the
branch and he threw it
00:52:00.24\00:52:04.11
into Marah and it became sweet.
00:52:04.12\00:52:09.26
You know what the
tree represents? The cross.
00:52:09.27\00:52:12.88
The grace of
God takes bitterness
00:52:16.83\00:52:21.03
and makes it sweet.
00:52:21.04\00:52:22.90
The grace takes bitter
people and makes them sweet.
00:52:22.91\00:52:27.69
If you meet people in
the church who are bitter,
00:52:27.70\00:52:32.33
if they are Marahs, they
need the cross of Christ.
00:52:32.34\00:52:37.33
You know the
story, I've told it,
00:52:37.34\00:52:40.21
I think years ago of the man
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in northern
island caught between,
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the war between the
protestants and the Catholics.
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The IRA, the
Irish Republican Army
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which was run by the Catholics
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and then the
Protestants had their own army.
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And there was this
man who had lost his wife
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but he had a beautiful daughter
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whom he loved
with all his heart.
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And the IRA
killed, let off a bomb
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and he was there and he
held his girl in his arms
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as her life left her body.
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He said, hold on, help will come
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but he held his
daughter as she died.
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Have you ever had an
experience like that?
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That was Marah.
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After she was buried,
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the Protestants wanted to
go ahead and kill the IRA.
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They killed so many.
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They were fighting each
other for the love of God,
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fighting over religion.
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No grace. No
Gospel, just religion.
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He asked for a meeting
of the leaders of the IRA,
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the Irish Republican Army.
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After sometime they
granted him his request,
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with great
security they met him.
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He said I haven't
come to seek revenge.
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There's been too much killing.
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He said I have come
to tell you one thing.
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I forgive you.
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He said nobody can
give me back my daughter.
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He said I have
come with a message,
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I forgive you,as a Christian.
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It's grace.
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Isn't it sad that
so many Christians
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are at the full
front of wanting wars?
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Hey, let's bomb them.
What about the children?
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Oh, let's get rid of them.
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You know what their problem is?
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No grace. No Gospel.
Religion, religion, religion.
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But religion has
never saved a single soul.
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There's too much
religion in the world....
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but not enough grace.
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There is a big convention
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and I was
discussing the question
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what makes
Christianity different.
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There were different answers.
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Then C.S. Lewis came
into the room and they said,
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what makes
Christianity different?
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Oh, he says that's easy, Grace.
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That's why it's
different from Hinduism,
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the Muslim religion
and every other religion.
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Judaism. It's grace.
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So back to the lady
in the retirement home,
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my message to you
is this, God loves you.
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You're not going to be saved
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because of your
success in good works.
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You're saved by
works but by His works.
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Therefore trust in the Savior.
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Commit yourself
to the grace of God
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and you'll not
perish, you'll be saved.
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One of my dear
friends, before his death
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was Pastor George Vandeman,
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the speaker of 'It is
written', a real man, oh God.
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And he had this sign.
I admired him so much.
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He said, "when I look at myself,
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I can't see how I
could ever be saved."
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And you better
think that right too.
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when I look at
myself I can't see
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how I could ever be saved
but when I look at Christ,
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I can't see how I
could ever be lost.
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So remember,
"Where sin abounded,
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grace did much
more abound." Amen.
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His eyes are the spell of Lord,
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And I know He watches me...
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