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>>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH
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IN SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA IN
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
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IT IS BY NO ACCIDENT THAT YOU
HAVE JOINED US TO STUDY TOGETHER
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GOD'S WORD. WE HAVE A
FAMILY OF BELIEVERS AND STUDIERS
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THAT JOIN US EVERY WEEK FROM
ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND AROUND
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THE WORLD AND WE ARE THRILLED
THAT YOU HAVE JOINED US AGAIN.
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BEFORE WE GET INTO OUR
STUDY, LET'S SING TOGETHER.
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SO PULL OUT YOUR HYMNALS, FOR
THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE AT HOME,
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AND LET'S SING HYMN #75
- 'THE WONDER OF IT ALL'.
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THIS COMES AS A REQUEST
FROM BARBARA AND GERALDINE IN
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ENGLAND, DARLINDA IN THE
NETHERLANDS, SANLAN IN VANUATU,
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JANICE, ROB AND RUTH IN
NEW ZEALAND, AND FEZZY IN THE
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REPUBLIC OF KOREA AND 40 OTHER
PEOPLE FROM AROUND THE PLANET.
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SO WE ARE SINGING A FAVORITE
THIS MORNING - 'THE WONDER OF IT
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ALL' - AND WE'LL
SING BOTH VERSES.
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>>AMEN. DO YOU EVER THINK
ABOUT THAT DURING THE WEEK?
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THE GOD OF HEAVEN, THE CREATOR
OF ALL THINGS, THE GOD OF THE
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UNIVERSE LOVES YOU AND LOVES ME
AND GAVE HIS SON THAT WE COULD
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BE RESTORED TO
HIM. PRAISE THE LORD.
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WE HAVE A LOT TO SING ABOUT
AND CHEER ABOUT AND, ESPECIALLY
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KNOWING THAT HE IS COMING
SOON TO GET US. PRAISE THE LORD.
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IF YOU HAVE A HYMN THAT YOU
WOULD LIKE TO SING WITH US ON A
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COMING STUDY
TOGETHER, IT'S VERY SIMPLE.
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JUST GO TO OUR WEBSITE AT
'SACCENTRAL.ORG', CLICK ON THE
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'CONTACT US' LINK AND YOU CAN
REQUEST ANY HYMN IN OUR HYMNAL
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AND WE WOULD LOVE TO
SING THAT WITH YOU ON A COMING
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PRESENTATION. AS YOU
KNOW, AND THOSE THAT YOU
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ARE FOLLOWING US REGULARLY
TO STUDY TOGETHER, WE ARE GOING
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THROUGH THE HYMNALS AND LEARNING
HYMNS THAT NOBODY KNOWS.
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HYMN #67 IS OUR NEW HYMN
THIS MORNING AND IT COMES AS A
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REQUEST FROM KARL AND MAISIE IN
FRANCE AND IRENE IN AUSTRALIA.
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'O LORD, NOW LET
YOUR SERVANT' - HYMN #67.
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>>OH FATHER IN HEAVEN,
AS SIMEON SAID SO LONG AGO,
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'OUR EYES HAVE SEEN SALVATION
AND WE ARE HERE BECAUSE WE HAVE
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SEEN SALVATION AND
BECAUSE IT IS GOOD TO US.
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AND SO, LORD, JUST QUICKEN OUR
HEARTS AS WE STUDY ABOUT YOU AND
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AS WE LEAVE THIS PLACE TODAY,
THAT WE TAKE THE WORDS THAT WE
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HAVE LEARNED AND THE MESSAGE
IN OUR HEARTS TO GIVE TO OTHERS
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THAT ARE AROUND US THAT
THEY WILL SEE YOU LIVING IN US.
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PLEASE BLESS PASTOR BATCHELOR
TODAY AS HE OPENS YOUR WORD.
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LET HIS WORDS BE YOURS.
AND LORD, JUST SAVE US FOR
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THY KINGDOM. KEEP
US FAITHFUL TO THE END.
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I PRAY THESE THINGS IN THE
PRECIOUS NAME OF JESUS, AMEN.
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>>OUR STUDY TODAY WILL BE
BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR DOUG
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BATCHELOR, SENIOR PASTOR
HERE AT SACRAMENTO CENTRAL.
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>>THANK YOU VERY MUCH JOLYNE AND
OUR MUSICIANS AND SINGERS AND I
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ENJOY SINGING THOSE NEW
SONGS. GOOD MORNING EVERYBODY.
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HAPPY SABBATH. AND I
WANT TO WELCOME THOSE
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WHO ARE WATCHING -
OUR EXTENDED CLASS.
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I HAD A GREAT EXPERIENCE THIS
WEEK - THE LAST COUPLE WEEKS -
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I'VE BEEN GONE TRAVELING. I
WAS UP IN BRITISH COLUMBIA AT
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A CAMP MEETING THERE.
IT WAS FUN TO MEET SO MANY
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PEOPLE THAT ARE OUT THERE, YOU
KNOW, BECAUSE IT'S SUCH A BIG
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COUNTRY AND SO MANY FOLKS
ARE OUT IN THESE MOUNTAINS AND
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CANYONS, A LOT OF PEOPLE
HAVE SATELLITE AND THEY STUDY
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WITH US EVERY WEEK. SO I
WANT TO GREET OUR FRIENDS
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THAT ARE IN CANADA AND
BRITISH COLUMBIA, IN PARTICULAR.
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AND THEN LAST WEEK WE WERE WITH
SOME OF THE ASI - AMAZING FACTS
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TEAM WERE AT THE
NATIONAL ASI MEETING IN ORLANDO.
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I HAVEN'T BEEN THERE IN AWHILE
AND - WOW - JUST LOTS AND LOTS
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OF FRIENDS CAME OUT AND SAID,
'WE STUDY WITH YOU FOLKS EACH
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WEEK.' AND SO IT
WAS A DELIGHT TO MEET
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ALL OF OUR FRIENDS
SCATTERED EVERYWHERE.
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WE DO HAVE A FREE OFFER
THAT GOES ALONG WITH OUR LESSON
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TODAY. WE'RE
TALKING ABOUT REVIVAL AND
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CHANGE AND CAN YOU CHANGE -
CAN YOU BE A DIFFERENT PERSON?
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WE'VE GOT A BOOK 'CAN A
SAVED MAN CHOOSE TO BE LOST'
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BY JOE CREWS. THIS
IS REALLY A CLASSIC
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EVERYBODY OUGHT TO
HAVE. YOU'VE ALL HEARD OF
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PREDESTINATION - THE IDEA THAT
ONCE YOU'RE SAVED YOU CAN'T BE
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LOST - ONCE SAVED ALWAYS SAVED.
THIS ADDRESSES THIS IN A VERY
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CLEAR BIBLICAL WAY
AND YOU'LL ENJOY THAT.
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OH, BY THE WAY, IF YOU WANT
IT CALL 866-STUDY-MORE - THAT
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TRANSLATES TO 866-788-3966
AND THAT'S OFFER #112. OKAY, SO
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WE'RE GOING TO OUR LESSON
- LESSON #10 - TALKING ABOUT
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REFORMATION. IT'S A WILLINGNESS
TO GROW AND TO CHANGE.
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NOW OUR LESSON STUDY, AND I
REALLY APPRECIATE THIS SERIES
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THAT PASTOR FINLEY WROTE DEALING
WITH REVIVAL AND REFORMATION.
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THERE IS NO REAL
REVIVAL WITHOUT REFORMATION.
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IN OTHER WORDS, IF SOMETHING
ISN'T REFORMED OR CHANGED,
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RENEWED IN SOME WAY,
IT'S NOT REALLY REVIVAL.
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SOMETHING NEEDS TO BE RESTORED
FOR IT TO BE GENUINE REVIVAL.
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AND SO WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE
AND THAT MEMORY VERSE IS JAMES
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CHAPTER 4, VERSES 6 AND 7 AND
THIS IS FROM THE NEW KING JAMES
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VERSION. I INVITE
YOU TO SAY IT WITH ME.
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ARE YOU READY?
JAMES 4, VERSES 6 AND 7.
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HERE WE GO, "HE
GIVES MORE GRACE.
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THEREFORE HE SAYS, 'GOD RESISTS
THE PROUD, BUT GIVES GRACE TO
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THE HUMBLE.'
THEREFORE SUBMIT TO GOD.
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RESIST THE DEVIL AND
HE WILL FLEE FROM YOU."
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NOW WE CAN GET VICTORY IF WE'RE
WILLING TO CHANGE BUT CHANGE
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DOESN'T ALWAYS COME EASY.
WHO WAS IT - MARK TWAIN - THAT
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SAID, 'THE ONLY PERSON WHO
LIKES CHANGE IS A WET BABY.'
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MOST OF US GET
KIND OF INTO A RUT.
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NOW I'LL NOTICE, AS A PASTOR, IF
I WANT TO KNOW WHETHER CERTAIN
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PEOPLE ARE MAKING IT TO CHURCH -
IN A CHURCH THIS SIZE YOU'VE GOT
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PLENTY OF OPTIONS AS
TO WHERE YOU WANT TO SIT.
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YOU CAN BE ON THE RIGHT, ON
THE LEFT, THE SECOND LEVEL, THE
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THIRD LEVEL AND I
PRETTY MUCH KNOW WHERE TO LOOK.
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SOME OF YOU SURPRISE ME EVERY
NOW AND THEN, BUT I PRETTY MUCH
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KNOW WHERE TO LOOK
TO FIND CERTAIN PEOPLE.
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HOW MANY OF YOU WILL 'FESS
UP YOU SIT IN THE SAME GENERAL
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VICINITY EVERY WEEK? AND
THAT'S WHY YOU DON'T KNOW
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HALF THE MEMBERS. YOU
ONLY KNOW THOSE THAT SIT
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AROUND YOU AND
WHATEVER VISITORS WE MIGHT HAVE.
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IT WOULD PROBABLY - YOU'D BREAK
OUT INTO SPASMS AND FITS IF
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SOMEONE MADE YOU SIT IN A
DIFFERENT SIDE OF THE CHURCH
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SOMEDAY, HUH? YOU
MIGHT GET SEASICK OR
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SOMETHING IF YOU JUST HAD
TO COMPLETELY SWITCH SIDES.
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BECAUSE WE GET IN OUR SPOT - AND
SOME OF YOU HAVE A REASON, YOU
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KNOW, YOU SAY,
'THIS IS A GOOD PLACE.
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THE SOUND IS BETTER IN THIS' -
YOU KNOW, THE SOUND IS DIFFERENT
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IN PARTS OF THE CHURCH -
SOMETIMES BETTER WITH THE
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SPEAKERS AND THE WAY IT
BOUNCES. 'I CAN SEE BETTER
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FROM THIS PLACE.' OR
YOU MIGHT HAVE YOUR REASONS
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BUT WE GET INTO RUTS AND
SOMEBODY ONCE SAID, 'A RUT IS A
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SHALLOW GRAVE WITH THE
ENDS KICKED OUT.' WE DO.
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WE GET INTO RUTS OF BEHAVIOR.
AND THAT'S ESPECIALLY TROUBLING
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WHEN IT COMES TO CHANGE. IT
BECOMES DIFFICULT TO CHANGE.
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WE MIGHT PLAN ON
CHANGING 'ONE OF THESE DAYS'.
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WE MIGHT ALWAYS BE THINKING
ABOUT THE DAY WE'RE GOING TO
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MAKE THAT BIG CHANGE.
WELL, THAT'S PART OF YOUR
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BEING IN A RUT IS YOU'RE
JUST ONLY THINKING ABOUT IT.
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SOMEBODY LOOK UP FOR ME - WE'RE
GOING TO START RIGHT OFF GETTING
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YOU BUSY - ECCLESIASTES
1:9. WE GAVE OUT SOME VERSES -
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YOU GOT THAT ONE?
LET'S GET YOU A MICROPHONE.
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ECCLESIASTES 1:9 AND I'LL BE
CALLING OUT A COUPLE OF OTHER
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VERSES IN A MINUTE.
MATTER OF FACT, I'LL GIVE YOU
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ONE OF THEM NOW. 1
JOHN 2 VERSES 1 AND TWO.
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WHO DID WE GIVE THAT
TO? THAT'S BACK HERE.
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ALRIGHT, WE'LL GET YOU
THE MICROPHONE NEXT JAN.
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ALRIGHT, YEAH, THE LORD TELLS US
THAT WE NEED TO MAKE CHANGES IF
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WE'RE GOING TO GROW. HOW MANY OF
YOU LIKE NOSTALGIA? YOU THINK,
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'OH THE GOOD OLD DAYS.' YOU
KNOW AND YOU LISTEN - YOU SAY,
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'OH I HEARD THAT OLD SONG.
THOSE WERE THE GOOD OLD DAYS.'
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AND IT'S BECAUSE IT REMINDS
US OF THINGS THAT ARE CONSTANT.
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THINGS THAT ARE UNSTABLE OR WHEN
THERE'S CHANGE, IT CAN THROW US.
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BUT TO REALLY BE A VICTORIOUS
CHRISTIAN, YOU NEED TO BE
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WILLING TO MAKE CHANGES BECAUSE
WE'RE ALL ADDICTED TO SIN AND IN
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ORDER TO GET VICTORY OVER
SIN, IT REQUIRES TRANSFORMATION.
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SO GO AHEAD, READ
FOR US ECCLESIASTES 1:9.
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>>"THAT WHICH HAS BEEN IS WHAT
WILL BE, THAT WHICH IS DONE IS
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WHAT WILL BE DONE, AND THERE
IS NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN."
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>>"THAT WHICH HAS
BEEN IS WHAT SHALL BE."
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NOW WHO SAID THAT?
SOLOMON - WISEST MAN.
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THINGS HAVE A TENDENCY
- HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF.
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AND, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE
USUALLY DIE LIKE THEY LIVE.
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A LOT OF PEOPLE THINK, 'OH, BUT
YOU KNOW, WHEN I GET READY TO
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DIE I'M GOING TO MAKE A CHANGE.
I'M GOING TO SURRENDER AND
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BEFORE I DIE I'M GOING TO
BE TOTALLY SURRENDERED AND I'M
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GOING TO LOVE THE LORD AND I'M
GOING TO GIVE UP THOSE CHERISHED
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SINS' AND PEOPLE
USUALLY DIE LIKE THEY LIVE.
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AND YOU DON'T
ALWAYS HAVE THAT WARNING.
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AND SO, IT'S A GOOD IDEA THAT
WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT'S WORKING
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ON YOU AND YOU KNOW THERE'S
SOMETHING THAT NEEDS TO BE
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CHANGED, DO IT NOW. THE
BIBLE NEVER SAYS 'WHEN IT'S
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CONVENIENT' OR 'ONE OF THESE
DAYS' OR 'WHEN YOU GET AROUND
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TO IT.' THE BIBLE
SAYS, 'TODAY - NOW IS
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THE ACCEPTED TIME.' 45
PERCENT OF AMERICANS WOULD
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CHANGE A BAD HABIT IF THEY
COULD. 64 PERCENT WOULD CHANGE
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THEIR WEALTH. 51
PERCENT WOULD LIKE TO CHANGE
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THEIR WEIGHT. THE
NUMBER WHO WOULD LIKE TO
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CHANGE THEIR
INTELLIGENCE - ONLY 32 PERCENT.
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BUT IT OCCURRED TO ME, IF
YOU COULD CHANGE THAT IT WOULD
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REALLY AFFECT ALL OF THE
OTHER CHANGES THAT YOU WANTED.
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THAT WOULD BE THE FIRST THING,
YOU KNOW, IF YOU WERE A WHOLE
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LOT SMARTER YOU MIGHT BE
WEALTHIER, YOU MIGHT BE THINNER,
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AND YOU MIGHT BE -
WHAT WAS THE OTHER THING?
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- OVERCOME THAT HABIT
THAT YOU WANTED TO OVERCOME.
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THE BIBLE TELLS US IN 2
CORINTHIANS 3:17, "NOW THE LORD
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IS THAT SPIRIT; AND WHERE THE
SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS, THERE IS
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LIBERTY. BUT WE
ALL, WITH UNVEILED FACE,
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BEHOLDING AS IN A MIRROR
THE GLORY OF THE LORD, ARE BEING
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TRANSFORMED INTO THE SAME IMAGE
FROM GLORY TO GLORY," - AND THAT
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WORD 'TRANSFORMED' THERE - AND
THIS IS GOING TO SOUND FAMILIAR
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- METAMORPHOO. YOU
KNOW, WHEN A BUTTERFLY - NO,
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I SHOULD SAY, WHEN A CATERPILLAR
TURNS INTO A BUTTERFLY IT GOES
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THROUGH A METAMORPHOSIS AND
THIS IS WHERE YOU GET THE WORD.
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THAT CHANGE THAT IT'S TALKING
ABOUT HERE IS NOT JUST CHANGE -
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LIKE YOU CHANGE YOUR
SOCKS, IT'S TALKING ABOUT A
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DIFFERENT KIND OF
CREATURE CHANGE. AND SO IT IS
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THROUGH BEHOLDING. IT SAYS, "BUT
WE WITH UNVEILED FACE, BEHOLDING
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AS IN A MIRROR THE GLORY OF THE
LORD, ARE BEING TRANSFORMED" -
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WE'RE BEING METAMORPHOSED
- INTO THE SAME IMAGE
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THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT. YOU
KNOW WE LOOK INTO THE LORD - AT
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THE LORD - AND WE'RETRANSFORMED.
YOU BECOME CHANGED BY BEHOLDING.
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I'VE SAID THIS BEFORE
BUT I'M GOING TO REPEAT IT.
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WITH CREATURES - CERTAIN
CREATURES IN PARTICULAR, LIKE
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WITH A DUCK OR A GOOSE OR A SWAN
- THERE'S AN IMPRINTING THAT
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HAPPENS AT A CRITICAL POINT
SHORTLY AFTER THEY HATCH AND IF
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THAT LITTLE DUCKLING OR THAT
GOSLING - WHEN IT HATCHES - IT
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SEES THE FAMILY DOG, ASSUMING
THE DOG DOESN'T EAT IT, IT WILL
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START TO QUACK AND PEEP AFTER
THAT DOG AND IT PRETTY SOON WILL
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FOLLOW THAT DOG EVERYWHERE AND
IT THINKS, 'THAT'S WHAT I AM.
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I'M A DOG' OR
'I'M WHATEVER THAT IS.'
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AND I TOLD YOU THIS STORY, KAREN
AND I WERE KAYAKING DOWN A RIVER
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ONE TIME - IT WAS AN OVERNIGHT
TRIP WITH SOME FRIENDS - AND WE
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CAME UPON AN ABANDONED BABY DUCK
AND TOOK IT BACK TO THE CAMP TO
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SHOW EVERYONE ELSE - THERE WAS
NO MOTHER AROUND AND WENT DOWN
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TO THE WATER AND LET THE THING
GO AND IT PEEPED AROUND A LITTLE
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BIT AND WADDLED BACK UP AND
STARTED TO FOLLOW US AROUND AND
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WE COULDN'T GET
RID OF THAT THING.
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IT SLEPT WITH US THAT NIGHT.
WHEN WE FINALLY BID FAREWELL AND
00:16:45.66\00:16:48.26
WENT KAYAKING DOWN THE RIVER, IT
JUMPED IN THE WATER AND FLOATED
00:16:48.26\00:16:50.36
AFTER US AND KEPT COMING AND WE
FINALLY LET IT STAY WITH US AND
00:16:50.36\00:16:54.36
IT WAS AMAZING TO ME BECAUSE
WE'D GO THROUGH THESE RAPIDS AND
00:16:54.36\00:16:57.03
WE'D THINK 'THAT POOR LITTLE
DUCK'S NEVER GOING TO MAKE IT'
00:16:57.03\00:17:00.60
BUT, YOU KNOW, THEY FLOAT
LIKE DUCKS. AND IT WAS JUST
00:17:00.60\00:17:03.23
INCREDIBLE. AND THEN WE'D GO
THROUGH CALM WATER IT'D COME UP
00:17:03.23\00:17:06.66
TO US AND IT WOULD JUMP UP ON
OUR KAYAKS JUST LIKE A BABY DUCK
00:17:06.66\00:17:09.13
DOES ON ITS MOTHER'S BACK. AND
THE THING JUST BONDED WITH US.
00:17:09.13\00:17:14.06
IT THOUGHT IT WAS A HUMAN.
THIS HAPPENS WITH PEOPLE TOO.
00:17:14.06\00:17:18.20
AT A VERY EARLY AGE
THERE'S A BONDING THAT HAPPENS.
00:17:18.20\00:17:21.13
THERE'S AN IDENTITY THING
THAT GOES ON AND YOU BECOME LIKE
00:17:21.13\00:17:25.36
WHAT YOU LOOK AT. OUR
SOULS ARE SOMETHING LIKE A
00:17:25.36\00:17:30.36
VIRGIN PHOTOGRAPHIC PLATE.
YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU HAVE THAT
00:17:30.36\00:17:34.20
FILM THAT'S GOT THE CHEMICAL
ON IT AND YOU QUICKLY EXPOSE IT
00:17:34.20\00:17:36.83
BY OPENING THE SHUTTER.
I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT DIGITAL
00:17:36.83\00:17:38.66
CAMERAS - THE OLD VERSION.
YOU QUICKLY EXPOSE IT AND YOU
00:17:38.66\00:17:42.03
CLOSE IT AGAIN.
WHATEVER LIGHT WAS IMPRINTED ON
00:17:42.03\00:17:45.53
IT IS CAPTURED AND OUR
SOULS, OUR CHARACTERS BECOME
00:17:45.53\00:17:51.06
TRANSFORMED INTO WHAT WE BEHOLD.
YOU BECOME CHANGED BY BEHOLDING.
00:17:51.06\00:17:58.26
SO ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT
THINGS YOU CAN DO TO CHANGE IS
00:17:58.26\00:18:01.70
CHOOSE WHAT YOU LOOK AT.
AND I THINK ONE OF THE MOST
00:18:01.70\00:18:05.76
TOXIC THINGS THAT'S HAPPENED
TO THE CHURCH AND OUR CULTURE IS
00:18:05.76\00:18:09.63
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT. AND
THE SOCIETY IS BEING CHANGED
00:18:09.63\00:18:17.13
BY BEHOLDING - THE MEDIA -
WE CONSTANTLY HAVE IMAGES 0N
00:18:17.13\00:18:20.40
EVERYTHING FROM OUR SMART PHONES
TO OUR COMPUTER SCREENS TO THE
00:18:20.40\00:18:23.70
TELEVISIONS AND VIDEOS AND
DVDS THAT EVERYBODY'S WATCHING.
00:18:23.70\00:18:28.40
WE'RE BECOMING TRANSFORMED
- OUR THINKING, OUR VALUES -
00:18:28.40\00:18:32.03
EVERYTHING BECOMES
TRANSFORMED BY WHAT WE BEHOLD.
00:18:32.03\00:18:34.53
SO HOW DO YOU ARREST
THAT? HOW DO YOU BECOME A BETTER
00:18:34.53\00:18:36.56
CHRISTIAN? WHAT DO YOU LOOK AT?
00:18:36.56\00:18:40.46
FIX YOUR EYES ON JESUS AND AS WE
DAILY, THROUGH PRAYER - DO YOU
00:18:40.46\00:18:47.23
HAVE A MENTAL
SCREEN WHEN YOU PRAY?
00:18:47.23\00:18:50.36
CAN WE SEE
CHRIST THROUGH HIS WORD?
00:18:50.36\00:18:53.16
YEAH, WE PICTURE WORDS. I
CAN TELL YOU A STORY RIGHT NOW
00:18:53.16\00:18:55.63
I JUST DID ABOUT A LITTLE DUCK
AND YOU HAD PICTURES IN YOUR
00:18:55.63\00:18:57.53
MIND, I'M ASSUMING,
AS I TOLD YOU THAT STORY.
00:18:57.53\00:19:00.30
AND SO, AS YOU READ HIS WORD AND
THE TRUTHS OF GOD'S HISTORY AND
00:19:00.30\00:19:05.30
STORY ARE IMPRESSED ON YOUR MIND
AND AS YOU PRAY AND AS YOU LOOK
00:19:05.30\00:19:08.73
AT THE CHARACTER OF
JESUS YOU'LL BE TRANSFORMED.
00:19:08.73\00:19:11.66
BUT IF YOU'RE, EVERY DAY, TRYING
TO BALANCE HOW MUCH MEDIA AM I
00:19:11.66\00:19:18.30
LOOKING AT AND HOW MUCH OF JESUS
AM I LOOKING AT AND THERE'S THIS
00:19:18.30\00:19:22.46
WAR GOING ON IN YOUR SOUL
BETWEEN THAT, YOU'RE GOING TO
00:19:22.46\00:19:26.60
HAVE AN AMALGAMATED
IMAGE OF WHAT YOU BECOME.
00:19:26.60\00:19:30.43
AND IF YOU REALLY WANT TO BE
PURELY A CHRISTIAN THEN YOU'VE
00:19:30.43\00:19:33.73
GOT TO STARVE ONE
IMAGE AND FEED THE OTHER.
00:19:33.73\00:19:37.23
AND THE PROBLEM WITH THE CHURCH
TODAY IS WE WONDER WHY WE'RE
00:19:37.23\00:19:40.00
STRUGGLING TO LIVE HOLY LIVES,
WHY WE STRUGGLE WITH TEMPTATION.
00:19:40.00\00:19:43.23
WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT? YOU
BECOME LIKE WHAT YOU LOOK AT.
00:19:43.23\00:19:48.56
THAT'S WHY IDOLATRY IS SUCH A
BIG ISSUE IN THE BIBLE WITH GOD.
00:19:48.56\00:19:53.06
BECAUSE PEOPLE BECOME LIKE WHAT
THEY WORSHIP AND IF YOU WORSHIP
00:19:53.06\00:19:56.90
GOD - WHAT DO YOU DO
WHEN YOU WORSHIP SOMETHING?
00:19:56.90\00:19:58.43
YOU LOOK AT THEM.
YOU COME BEFORE THEM.
00:19:58.43\00:20:00.10
YOU FOCUS - YOU FIX ON IT AND
YOU'RE TRANSFORMED BY BEHOLDING.
00:20:00.10\00:20:04.46
YOU'RE
METAMORPHOSED BY BEHOLDING.
00:20:04.46\00:20:07.00
SO ONE OF THE SINGLE, SIMPLE,
MOST IMPORTANT THINGS WE CAN
00:20:07.00\00:20:10.03
DO TO EXPERIENCE A CHANGE INTO
THE IMAGE OF CHRIST - LOOK AT
00:20:10.03\00:20:15.43
WHO HE IS AND WE
ARE TRANSFORMED BY THAT.
00:20:15.43\00:20:19.26
ALRIGHT, THAT WAS
A BIG INTRODUCTION.
00:20:19.26\00:20:20.50
SORRY. WE NEED GRACE TO GROW.
00:20:20.50\00:20:24.10
DON'T BECOME DISCOURAGED IF YOU
ARE NOT WHAT YOU KNOW YOU NEED
00:20:24.10\00:20:27.76
TO BE IF YOU CAN SEE
GROWTH AND TRANSFORMATION.
00:20:27.76\00:20:32.66
MARK 9:33, IT SAYS,
"THEN HE CAME TO CAPERNAUM.
00:20:32.66\00:20:36.16
AND WHEN HE WAS IN THE HOUSE
HE ASKED THEM, 'WHAT WAS IT YOU
00:20:36.16\00:20:40.46
DISPUTED AMONG
YOURSELVES ON THE ROAD?'
00:20:40.46\00:20:44.16
BUT THEY KEPT SILENT," - NO
ONE WANTED TO SAY ANYTHING, LIKE
00:20:44.16\00:20:46.56
GUILTY CHILDREN, - "FOR ON
THE ROAD THEY HAD DISPUTED AMONG
00:20:46.56\00:20:49.13
THEMSELVES WHO
WOULD BE THE GREATEST."
00:20:49.13\00:20:51.90
'IN THE NEW KINGDOM I THINK
I OUGHT TO BE PRIME MINISTER.'
00:20:51.90\00:20:55.03
'YOU? YOU PRIME MINISTER?
00:20:55.03\00:20:56.06
NO, I OUGHT TO
BE PRIME MINISTER.
00:20:56.06\00:20:57.80
YOU SHOULD BE BUTLER.'
'NO, BUT' - AND THEY WERE ALL
00:20:57.80\00:21:01.90
TALKING ABOUT HOW GREAT AND HOW
QUALIFIED THEY WERE FOR ANY JOB
00:21:01.90\00:21:05.46
OPENINGS JESUS MIGHT HAVE IN THE
NEW KINGDOM AND THEY ALL THOUGHT
00:21:05.46\00:21:09.03
THAT THEY WERE SUPERIOR AND
ARGUING WHICH OF THEM WAS THE
00:21:09.03\00:21:12.76
GREATEST. OF COURSE,
THAT'S WHEN JESUS PUT
00:21:12.76\00:21:14.33
A CHILD IN THEIR MIDST AND
SAID, 'IF YOU WANT TO ENTER THE
00:21:14.33\00:21:16.66
KINGDOM OF GOD YOU NEED
TO BE HAVING THE ATTITUDE OF
00:21:16.66\00:21:19.10
A LITTLE CHILD.' THAT
IN THE WORLD WE MEASURE HOW
00:21:19.10\00:21:23.90
GREAT WE ARE BY HOW MANY SERVE
US, BUT IN CHRISTIANITY YOU
00:21:23.90\00:21:27.16
MEASURE HOW GREAT YOU ARE
BY 'HOW MANY DO YOU SERVE?'
00:21:27.16\00:21:30.23
SO IT'S A WHOLE
DIFFERENT MENTALITY.
00:21:30.23\00:21:32.20
ANYWAY, THE REASON FOR THIS
SCRIPTURE AND THE POINT IS, WERE
00:21:32.20\00:21:36.33
THEY ALL THOROUGHLY CONVERTED?
EVEN UP TO THE POINT OF THE
00:21:36.33\00:21:40.20
GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE WERE THE
DISCIPLES STILL DISPUTING AND
00:21:40.20\00:21:44.06
BEING JEALOUS AND HAVING
PROBLEMS AND THEY WERE KIND OF
00:21:44.06\00:21:47.36
ACTING A LITTLE BIT LIKE A
TYPICAL CHURCH. NOW THEY WERE
00:21:47.36\00:21:50.10
GODLY MEN, PROBABLY BETTER THAN
THE TYPICAL CHURCH, BUT THEY
00:21:50.10\00:21:53.33
WERE NOT TOTALLY
SANCTIFIED AND CONVERTED.
00:21:53.33\00:21:56.13
AND YET, HAD JESUS ALREADY SENT
THEM OUT TEACHING AND PREACHING?
00:21:56.13\00:22:00.43
SO THE LORD WAS USING THEM
IN SOUL WINNING EVEN THOUGH THEY
00:22:00.43\00:22:03.66
WEREN'T TOTALLY CONVERTED.
SO IS THERE HOPE FOR US?
00:22:03.66\00:22:08.06
YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT
WORKING FOR GOD IS PART OF YOUR
00:22:08.06\00:22:11.83
CONVERSION PROCESS. AND
WE'LL GET TO THE STUDY OF
00:22:11.83\00:22:16.63
PETER IN JUST A MINUTE, BUT THEY
NEEDED CHANGE EVEN AFTER THREE
00:22:16.63\00:22:20.46
AND A HALF YEARS
OF FOLLOWING JESUS.
00:22:20.46\00:22:22.16
AND WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT FELL
ON PENTECOST THEY HAD SOME BIG
00:22:22.16\00:22:24.33
CHANGES. LET ME
GIVE YOU ANOTHER ONE,
00:22:24.33\00:22:27.30
LUKE 9:51, "NOW IT CAME TO PASS,
WHEN THE TIME HAD COME FOR HIM
00:22:27.30\00:22:34.26
TO BE RECEIVED UP," -
HE'S ABOUT TO ASCEND TO HEAVEN.
00:22:34.26\00:22:37.43
HE'S ON HIS FINAL JOURNEY TO
JERUSALEM - "THAT HE STEADFASTLY
00:22:37.43\00:22:40.30
SET HIS FACE TO GO TO
JERUSALEM," - HE'S UP IN
00:22:40.30\00:22:42.23
GALILEE, HE'S HEADING SOUTH
TOWARDS JERUSALEM - "AND SENT
00:22:42.23\00:22:45.50
MESSENGERS BEFORE HIS FACE.
AND AS THEY WENT, THEY ENTERED A
00:22:45.50\00:22:48.13
VILLAGE OF THE
SAMARITANS, TO PREPARE FOR HIM."
00:22:48.13\00:22:50.56
- HE HAD SOME RUN AHEAD, 'SEE IF
WE CAN FIND AN INN OR SOMEWHERE
00:22:50.56\00:22:52.90
WE CAN STAY. THE
PLACE WAS BUSY - FEAST - LOT
00:22:52.90\00:22:56.13
OF TRAVELERS, 'SEE IF
YOU CAN GET A ROOM FOR US.'
00:22:56.13\00:22:58.66
AND IT SAYS THAT THE SAMARITANS
DID NOT RECEIVE HIM BECAUSE HE
00:22:58.66\00:23:05.66
WAS GOING TO JERUSALEM. NOW
THE REASON FOR THIS - JUST A
00:23:05.66\00:23:07.76
LITTLE BIBLE HISTORY ON
THE VERSE - THE SAMARITANS SAID
00:23:07.76\00:23:10.73
YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO
WORSHIP ON MOUNT GARIZEM.
00:23:10.73\00:23:13.00
JESUS WAS ON HIS WAY TO WORSHIP
ON MOUNT ZION - JERUSALEM -
00:23:13.00\00:23:15.66
MOUNT MORIAH. AND
THEY SAID, 'LOOK, IF YOU'RE
00:23:15.66\00:23:17.66
GOING TO WORSHIP WITH THE JEWS -
YOU HAD SPENT TIME TEACHING AND
00:23:17.66\00:23:20.50
PREACHING AMONG THE SAMARITANS
- WE THOUGHT THAT YOU LIKED US -
00:23:20.50\00:23:23.50
AND YOU'RE GOING TO GO RIGHT
THROUGH OUR VILLAGE ON THE WAY
00:23:23.50\00:23:25.00
TO JERUSALEM AND YOU'RE
NOT GOING TO WORSHIP WITH US.
00:23:25.00\00:23:26.63
YOU JUST KEEP ON GOING
AND DON'T WORSHIP WITH US.'
00:23:26.63\00:23:28.90
SOMETHING OF AN INSULT THEY
SAID, 'DON'T EVEN BOTHER STAYING
00:23:28.90\00:23:31.76
HERE IF YOU'RE GOING
TO JERUSALEM TO WORSHIP.
00:23:31.76\00:23:34.16
WELL, THAT REALLY
BOTHERED JAMES AND JOHN.
00:23:34.16\00:23:36.60
LISTEN TO WHAT THEY SAID.
"AND WHEN HIS DISCIPLES JAMES
00:23:36.60\00:23:40.10
AND JOHN SAW THIS," - BY THE
WAY, I'M IN LUKE 9 AND VERSE 54
00:23:40.10\00:23:43.86
NOW - WHEN "JAMES AND JOHN SAW
THIS THEY SAID, 'LORD, DO YOU
00:23:43.86\00:23:47.63
WANT US TO COMMAND FIRE TO COME
DOWN FROM HEAVEN AND CONSUME
00:23:47.63\00:23:50.50
THEM, JUST AS ELIJAH DID?'"
'WE'VE GOT A BIBLICAL PRECEDENT.
00:23:50.50\00:23:54.86
IT'S
SCRIPTURAL. BURN 'EM ALL UP.
00:23:54.86\00:23:57.80
JUST GIVE US THE WORD AND WE'LL
KNOW - ACTUALLY, WE'VE BEEN
00:23:57.80\00:24:01.03
WANTING TO DO
SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
00:24:01.03\00:24:03.43
WE'VE BEEN WANTING TO TRY
OUT ONE OF THESE ELIJAH-LIKE
00:24:03.43\00:24:05.20
MIRACLES AND HERE'S
AN OPPORTUNITY, LORD.
00:24:05.20\00:24:07.63
THEY JUST - THEY SLIGHTED
YOU. LET'S JUST KILL 'EM ALL.
00:24:07.63\00:24:11.86
NOT JUST KILL 'EM,
LET'S BURN THEM TO DEATH.'
00:24:11.86\00:24:14.53
THESE ARE THE LOVING
APOSTLES JAMES AND JOHN.
00:24:14.53\00:24:18.36
AND JESUS HE
TURNED AND REBUKED THEM.
00:24:18.36\00:24:23.86
THAT MEANS THERE'S SOMETHING
IN HIS VOICE THAT SAYS, 'GUYS,
00:24:23.86\00:24:27.40
WHAT'S WITH YOU?' YOU
KNOW, IT WASN'T JUST GENTLE,
00:24:27.40\00:24:31.16
IT'S A REBUKE. AND HE
SAID, "YOU DO NOT KNOW
00:24:31.16\00:24:33.10
WHAT MANNER OF SPIRIT YOU
ARE OF." - 'IT'S NOT MY SPIRIT,
00:24:33.10\00:24:36.26
THAT'S A DIABOLICAL SPIRIT.'
I MEAN, THERE'S ONLY TWO
00:24:36.26\00:24:38.90
SPIRITS, RIGHT? HE'S SAYING,
'THIS ISN'T MY SPIRIT.' -
00:24:38.90\00:24:42.93
"FOR THE SON OF MAN DID NOT
COME TO DESTROY MEN'S LIVES BUT
00:24:42.93\00:24:46.10
TO SAVE THEM." AND HE JUST
WENT ON TO ANOTHER VILLAGE.
00:24:46.10\00:24:49.40
HE SAID, 'I'M NOT GOING TO BURN
THEM ALL UP BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T
00:24:49.40\00:24:51.00
GIVE ME A HOTEL ROOM.'
THEY DIDN'T GIVE HIM A HOTEL
00:24:51.00\00:24:53.86
ROOM WHEN HE WAS BORN, RIGHT?
HE DIDN'T BURN UP EVERYONE IN
00:24:53.86\00:24:56.06
BETHLEHEM. SO DID
JAMES AND JOHN NEED SOME
00:24:56.06\00:25:00.90
ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENTS? DO
YOU READ LATER IN THE BIBLE
00:25:00.90\00:25:04.73
AND SEE THAT THEY DID MAKE
THOSE CHANGES? THAT'S RIGHT.
00:25:04.73\00:25:08.96
SO DON'T BECOME DISCOURAGED.
DO EVEN PEOPLE WHO ARE PART OF
00:25:08.96\00:25:13.60
THE CHURCH SOMETIMES EXPERIENCE
UN - INAPPROPRIATE INDIGNATION?
00:25:13.60\00:25:22.96
AND YET JESUS DIDN'T SAY, 'LOOK,
I'M NOW GOING TO EXCOMMUNICATE
00:25:22.96\00:25:27.20
YOU FROM YOUR APOSTLESHIP.'
HE REBUKED THEM AND SAID,
00:25:27.20\00:25:31.73
'THAT'S THE WRONG SPIRIT.'
AND IS THERE A TIME FOR US TO
00:25:31.73\00:25:35.60
CHALLENGE ONE ANOTHER
WHEN WE HAVE THE WRONG SPIRIT?
00:25:35.60\00:25:39.16
WHEN A BROTHER OR SISTER STARTS
TO, YOU KNOW, COME DOWN REAL
00:25:39.16\00:25:43.10
HARD ON SOMEBODY AND YOU HAVE
TO SAY, IN A LOVING, GENTLE WAY,
00:25:43.10\00:25:47.00
'THAT'S THE WRONG SPIRIT.'
NOT FOR THE PURPOSE OF SAYING,
00:25:47.00\00:25:51.13
'I'M RIGHT AND YOU'RE WRONG, BUT
FOR THE PURPOSE OF SAYING, 'HEY,
00:25:51.13\00:25:53.10
WE'RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER
AND THAT'S NOT HOW WE OPERATE AS
00:25:53.10\00:25:55.90
CHRISTIANS.' SO I
THINK THERE NEEDS TO BE
00:25:55.90\00:25:58.00
ACCOUNTABILITY. BUT
THAT'S WHAT LEADS TO
00:25:58.00\00:26:00.46
REVIVAL. SOMETIMES
WE NEED TO CHALLENGE
00:26:00.46\00:26:03.73
EACH OTHER AND SAY, 'YOU KNOW,
WHAT YOU'RE DOING NOW IS NOT A
00:26:03.73\00:26:07.33
PRAYER REQUEST,
IT'S CALLED GOSSIP.'
00:26:07.33\00:26:10.46
A LOT OF TIMES WE'RE TALKING
ABOUT EACH OTHER AND IT'S UNDER
00:26:10.46\00:26:12.46
THE CONTEXT OF 'IT'S SO
YOU CAN PRAY ABOUT THEM.
00:26:12.46\00:26:15.63
LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT ALL
THEIR PROBLEMS IN THEIR FAMILY.
00:26:15.63\00:26:18.13
SO YOU CAN PRAY
ABOUT THEM.' SURE.
00:26:18.13\00:26:20.46
IT'S JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE
BEING - WANTING SOME SALACIOUS
00:26:20.46\00:26:23.63
CONVERSATION. SO IF
YOU'RE GOING TO DO IT,
00:26:23.63\00:26:27.36
DO IT TO BE REDEMPTIVE.
MATTHEW 20, VERSES 20-22.
00:26:27.36\00:26:33.23
"THEN THE MOTHER OF ZEBEDEE'S
SONS CAME TO HIM WITH HER SONS,
00:26:33.23\00:26:36.83
KNEELING DOWN AND
ASKING SOMETHING FROM HIM.
00:26:36.83\00:26:39.66
AND HE SAID TO HER,
'WHAT DO YOU WISH?'" -
00:26:39.66\00:26:40.90
HE ALREADY KNEW, BUT HE
ASKED - "SHE SAID TO HIM, 'GRANT
00:26:40.90\00:26:43.40
THAT THESE TWO SONS OF MINE MAY
SIT, ONE ON YOUR RIGHT HAND AND
00:26:43.40\00:26:47.76
THE OTHER ON THE
LEFT, IN YOUR KINGDOM.'" -
00:26:47.76\00:26:50.70
YOU KNOW, WHEN I WAS
GROWING UP MY MOTHER WAS IN SHOW
00:26:50.70\00:26:52.96
BUSINESS AND I HAD A LOT OF
FRIENDS WHOSE MOMS WERE IN SHOW
00:26:52.96\00:26:56.13
BUSINESS AND WE
CALLED THEM 'STAGE MOTHERS'.
00:26:56.13\00:27:00.86
HAVE YOU EVER HEARD
THAT EXPRESSION BEFORE?
00:27:00.86\00:27:03.16
THEY'RE ALWAYS KIND OF PUSHING
THEIR CHILD OUT ON THE STAGE AND
00:27:03.16\00:27:06.53
PROMOTING THEIR CHILDREN AND
TRYING TO GROOM THEIR CHILDREN
00:27:06.53\00:27:09.23
AND TRYING TO GET THE BEST PARTS
FOR THEIR CHILDREN AND THEY
00:27:09.23\00:27:11.50
COULD BE REALLY - IT CAN BE
REALLY DIFFICULT IF YOU'RE A
00:27:11.50\00:27:14.86
SCHOOL PRINCIPAL AND ONE OF YOUR
- YOU'RE HAVING A SCHOOL PLAY
00:27:14.86\00:27:18.46
AND - MY MOTHER OFFERED TO HELP
PRODUCE A SCHOOL PLAY, ONCE, FOR
00:27:18.46\00:27:24.36
THE PUBLIC SCHOOL I WENT TO AND
SHE ACTUALLY DID A REALLY GOOD
00:27:24.36\00:27:28.93
JOB, BUT GUESS
WHO HAD PRIME ROLES?
00:27:28.93\00:27:32.90
YOU KNOW IT'S
ALWAYS, 'MY CHILD.' YOU KNOW?
00:27:32.90\00:27:36.00
'THEY SHOULD BE OUT THERE.'
I CAN THINK OF TWO OR THREE
00:27:36.00\00:27:37.96
TIMES MY MOM GOT MY BROTHER AND
ME ON TELEVISION TO DO SOMETHING
00:27:37.96\00:27:43.76
OR OTHER AND SHE WASN'T THE
ONLY STAGE MOTHER OUT THERE BACK
00:27:43.76\00:27:47.46
THEN. THERE'S
STILL A FEW AROUND TODAY.
00:27:47.46\00:27:50.20
BUT ZEBEDEE WAS MARRIED TO A
WIFE - MIGHT HAVE BEEN WONDERFUL
00:27:50.20\00:27:56.43
BUT SHE WANTED THE
BEST FOR HER CHILDREN.
00:27:56.43\00:27:58.10
DOESN'T EVERY MOTHER WANT THE
BEST FOR HER - THEIR CHILDREN?
00:27:58.10\00:28:03.10
THERE'S ALSO STAGE GRANDMOTHERS.
BONNIE'S IN CHARGE OF SPECIAL
00:28:03.10\00:28:08.36
MUSIC AND SOMEHOW STEPHEN
ENDS UP IN THE LINE-UP ON A
00:28:08.36\00:28:10.80
REGULAR BASIS. WHEN HE'S AROUND.
WE ALWAYS WANT THEM TO SHINE.
00:28:10.80\00:28:16.50
WE ALWAYS WANT
THE BEST FOR THEM.
00:28:16.50\00:28:17.83
WELL ZEBEDEE, YOU KNOW, JAMES
AND JOHN'S MOTHER, THEY WANTED
00:28:17.83\00:28:21.30
THAT TOO. "AND HE SAID
TO HER, 'WHAT DO YOU WISH?'
00:28:21.30\00:28:24.36
SHE SAID TO HIM, 'GRANT THAT
THESE TWO SONS OF MINE MIGHT
00:28:24.36\00:28:27.66
SIT, ONE ON YOUR RIGHT HAND AND
THE OTHER ON THE LEFT,'" - 'WE
00:28:27.66\00:28:30.23
DON'T JUST WANT, YOU KNOW, THE
RIGHT ONE, WE WANT THE RIGHT AND
00:28:30.23\00:28:32.83
THE LEFT.' - JAMES AND JOHN,
ZEBEDEE'S SONS, FLANKING JESUS
00:28:32.83\00:28:36.40
LIKE BOOKENDS IN YOUR KINGDOM.
AND ON THE RIGHT AND LEFT MEANT
00:28:36.40\00:28:40.16
THE PREMIER
POSITIONS 'IN YOUR KINGDOM'. -
00:28:40.16\00:28:44.50
"BUT JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID,
'YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOU ASK.
00:28:44.50\00:28:47.70
ARE YOU ABLE TO DRINK THE CUP
THAT I AM ABOUT TO DRINK, AND BE
00:28:47.70\00:28:50.73
BAPTIZED WITH THE BAPTISM
THAT I AM BAPTIZED WITH?'" -
00:28:50.73\00:28:52.93
THEY SAID, 'OH SURE, YES
WE ARE, LORD, WE'RE ABLE.'
00:28:52.93\00:28:55.60
AND JESUS WAS SAYING, YOU KNOW,
'SITTING - THE HIGHEST PLACE IN
00:28:55.60\00:28:59.23
MY KINGDOM DOESN'T COME
FROM PRESTIGE AND POSITION AND
00:28:59.23\00:29:02.96
PROMOTION AND POSSESSIONS,
IT COMES FROM SERVICE.'
00:29:02.96\00:29:08.73
AND I THOUGHT IT WAS INTERESTING
THAT OF THE TWELVE APOSTLES,
00:29:08.73\00:29:11.23
JAMES WAS THE FIRST ONE
TO DIE A MARTYR'S DEATH.
00:29:11.23\00:29:14.53
HE SAID, 'YOU WANT
HONOR IN MY KINGDOM?
00:29:14.53\00:29:16.36
THIS IS HOW YOU GET IT.'
AND JOHN, HE WAS THE LAST OF THE
00:29:16.36\00:29:19.73
APOSTLES TO DIE.
ISN'T THAT INTERESTING?
00:29:19.73\00:29:22.10
SO THEY DID KIND OF FLANK THE
APOSTLES AND ONE WAS THE FIRST
00:29:22.10\00:29:24.96
AND ONE WAS THE LAST. JOHN WAS
THE ONLY ONE TO DIE OF OLD AGE.
00:29:24.96\00:29:28.86
BUT WAS HE
PERSECUTED FOR HIS FAITH?
00:29:28.86\00:29:31.20
PRISONER SEVERAL TIMES - SAME
THING WITH PAUL AND HE SAYS, 'IF
00:29:31.20\00:29:34.96
YOU REALLY WANT HONOR IN MY
KINGDOM, IT'S NOT ABOUT POSITION
00:29:34.96\00:29:37.76
AND PEOPLE FAWNING AFTER
YOU, IT'S ABOUT SACRIFICE AND
00:29:37.76\00:29:40.70
SUFFERING.' SO,
ALRIGHT READ FOR US, GO
00:29:40.70\00:29:44.70
AHEAD, 1 JOHN NOW.
>>"MY LITTLE CHILDREN, THESE
00:29:44.70\00:29:49.23
THINGS I WRITE TO YOU,
SO THAT YOU MAY NOT SIN.
00:29:49.23\00:29:52.36
AND IF ANYONE SINS, WE HAVE AN
ADVOCATE WITH THE FATHER, JESUS
00:29:52.36\00:29:56.30
CHRIST THE
RIGHTEOUS. AND HE HIMSELF IS THE
00:29:56.30\00:29:59.60
PROPITIATION FOR OUR SINS, AND
NOT FOR OURS ONLY BUT ALSO FOR
00:29:59.60\00:30:04.40
THE WHOLE WORLD." >>YOU
KNOW, THIS IS A VERY, VERY
00:30:04.40\00:30:08.46
IMPORTANT VERSE FOR
A NUMBER OF REASONS.
00:30:08.46\00:30:10.60
FIRST OF ALL, HE SAYS, 'MY
LITTLE CHILDREN' - SO WHO'S HE
00:30:10.60\00:30:12.53
TALKING TO?
TALKING TO THE CHURCH.
00:30:12.53\00:30:15.83
AND HE SAID, 'I'M WRITING THESE
THINGS TO YOU SO YOU DON'T SIN.'
00:30:15.83\00:30:20.73
NOW, IN THE CHURCH THERE'S A
WHOLE LOT OF EXCUSES BEING MADE
00:30:20.73\00:30:25.50
FOR SIN AND, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE
ARE SAYING, 'WELL, WE ALL SIN.'
00:30:25.50\00:30:30.46
AND 'WHO DOESN'T
SIN?' AND 'ALL HAVE SINNED.'
00:30:30.46\00:30:32.36
AND A LOT OF DISCUSSION, A LOT
OF SERMONS ARE BEING DEDICATED
00:30:32.36\00:30:37.96
TO TRYING TO MAKE EVERYBODY FEEL
BETTER BECAUSE WE'VE SINNED AND
00:30:37.96\00:30:42.96
IT IS TRUE THAT IF ANYONE
SINS GOD HAS PROVIDED A REMEDY.
00:30:42.96\00:30:49.20
BUT DON'T EVER UNDERESTIMATE
THE PART OF THE VERSE THAT SAYS,
00:30:49.20\00:30:52.13
'I'VE WRITTEN TO YOU
THAT YOU DO NOT SIN.'
00:30:52.13\00:30:55.90
HE DOESN'T WANT US TO
SIN. WELL, HE WANTS US TO SIN
00:30:55.90\00:31:00.13
A LITTLE BIT? DOES HE WANT
US TO SIN A LITTLE? GOD'S HOLY.
00:31:00.13\00:31:03.40
HE DOESN'T WANT
US TO SIN AT ALL.
00:31:03.40\00:31:05.90
IT'S HIS WILL THAT YOU SHOULD BE
SANCTIFIED AND THE STANDARD IS
00:31:05.90\00:31:11.60
THAT YOU BE LIKE CHRIST AND
CHRIST IS A PERFECT STANDARD AND
00:31:11.60\00:31:14.70
SO, YOU KNOW PART OF ME
WANTS TO MAKE IT CLEAR TO YOU -
00:31:14.70\00:31:18.53
SIN IS WHAT PUT JESUS ON THE
CROSS AND WHEN YOU LOOK AT JESUS
00:31:18.53\00:31:22.26
SUFFERING ON THE CROSS, THINK
ABOUT WHAT OUR SINS DID TO HIM
00:31:22.26\00:31:26.40
AND HOW MUCH SIN HURTS HIM.
WHY WOULD YOU EVER WANT TO MAKE
00:31:26.40\00:31:30.10
AN EXCUSE FOR THAT?
WHY WOULD YOU EVER WANT
00:31:30.10\00:31:32.43
TO EMBRACE THAT? AND
SO, MAKE SURE THAT, LIKE
00:31:32.43\00:31:35.26
JOB, YOU LOVE GOD AND YOU
ESCHEW EVIL - YOU HATE SIN.
00:31:35.26\00:31:40.93
AND SO, HE SAYS, 'BUT,
I WANT TO GIVE YOU HOPE.
00:31:40.93\00:31:45.36
I'VE WRITTEN TO YOU
THAT YOU DO NOT SIN.'
00:31:45.36\00:31:47.00
GOD WANTS US TO BE HOLY.
AND DON'T EVER FEEL COMFORTABLE
00:31:47.00\00:31:49.70
ABOUT SIN. BUT IF
YOU SIN - YOU KNOW, THAT
00:31:49.70\00:31:53.60
TELLS US - ARE THERE
CHILDREN OF GOD THAT DO FALL?
00:31:53.60\00:31:58.20
HE SAYS, 'MY LITTLE CHILDREN,
I'VE WRITTEN TO YOU THAT YOU DO
00:31:58.20\00:31:59.93
NOT SIN. BUT IF YOU
SIN.' NOTICE HE DIDN'T SAY,
00:31:59.93\00:32:03.50
'WHEN YOU SIN'? IS
THERE A DIFFERENCE?
00:32:03.50\00:32:07.16
'IF YOU FALL' MEANS
THAT YOU DON'T HAVE TO.
00:32:07.16\00:32:10.46
IF YOU SAID, 'WHEN YOU FALL'
THAT MEANS THAT YOU'RE PLANNING
00:32:10.46\00:32:12.23
ON IT. SO WHAT SHOULD
OUR ATTITUDE BE? WHEN WE SIN?
00:32:12.23\00:32:16.86
ARE YOU WAKING UP EVERY
DAY SAYING 'WHEN I SIN'?
00:32:16.86\00:32:19.40
OR ARE YOU WAKING UP
EVERY DAY SAYING 'IF I SIN'?
00:32:19.40\00:32:22.56
THERE'S A DIFFERENCE. IF
YOU GO INTO IT AND JUST PLAN
00:32:22.56\00:32:25.26
ON IT, THEN YOU'RE
NEVER GOING TO GET VICTORY.
00:32:25.26\00:32:28.76
YOU SEE WHAT I'M
SAYING? DOES THIS MAKE SENSE?
00:32:28.76\00:32:32.36
ALRIGHT WELL, ENOUGH ABOUT
THAT. SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME
00:32:32.36\00:32:35.66
JOSHUA 24:15. WHO HAS THAT?
WE'VE GOT A VERSE RIGHT HERE?
00:32:35.66\00:32:39.43
MICROPHONE, THANK YOU BARRY.
AND THE OTHER VERSE - I'LL GIVE
00:32:39.43\00:32:41.76
YOU TWO TOGETHER - PHILIPPIANS
2:12-14 - RIGHT OVER HERE.
00:32:41.76\00:32:46.23
ALRIGHT, NOW WE'RE GOING TO
TALK ABOUT THE POWER OF CHOICE.
00:32:46.23\00:32:51.10
DON'T UNDERESTIMATE THAT
WE CAN CHOOSE TO BE DIFFERENT.
00:32:51.10\00:32:55.43
THAT YOU ARE NOT
DESTINED TO JUST BE WHO YOU ARE.
00:32:55.43\00:32:58.70
THAT GOD GAVE YOU A BRAIN AND
THE ABILITY AND A WILL TO CHOOSE
00:32:58.70\00:33:02.06
TO BE DIFFERENT. NOW
SOME OF MY CHRISTIAN FRIENDS
00:33:02.06\00:33:05.90
IN OTHER CHURCHES BELIEVE 'ONCE
SAVED, ALWAYS SAVED' AND THERE'S
00:33:05.90\00:33:10.30
THIS IDEA OF 'THE ELECT' - THAT
GOD HAS PREDETERMINED THAT SOME
00:33:10.30\00:33:15.73
PEOPLE HE'S GOING TO SAVE
AND MAKES THEM TO BE SAVED.
00:33:15.73\00:33:18.63
THEY ARE CREATED FOR LIFE
AND OTHERS ARE CREATED FOR
00:33:18.63\00:33:20.56
DESTRUCTION. AND DOESN'T
THE POTTER HAVE THE RIGHT TO SAY
00:33:20.56\00:33:23.23
OVER HIS VESSELS, 'I'M GOING
TO MAKE THIS A VESSEL OF HONOR.
00:33:23.23\00:33:25.70
I'M GOING TO MAKE
THIS A VESSEL OF DISHONOR.
00:33:25.70\00:33:27.66
I'M GOING TO MAKE THIS VESSEL
AND PUT IT IN MY MANSION AND
00:33:27.66\00:33:29.93
FILL IT WITH FLOWERS AND
I'M GOING TO PUT THIS ONE IN THE
00:33:29.93\00:33:31.63
LAKE OF FIRE.' AND
'YOU HAVE BEEN CREATED FROM
00:33:31.63\00:33:33.83
THE BEGINNING' - I'M
BEING SARCASTIC HERE, BUT SOME
00:33:33.83\00:33:37.26
CHURCHES SAY, 'YOU'VE BEEN
CREATED FROM THE BEGINNING - GOD
00:33:37.26\00:33:39.86
HAS PREDESTINED WHETHER YOU ARE
GOING TO BE SAVED OR LOST' - AS
00:33:39.86\00:33:43.06
THOUGH YOU HAVE NO
CHOICE IN THE MATTER.
00:33:43.06\00:33:45.43
BUT THE BIBLE
DOES NOT TEACH THAT.
00:33:45.43\00:33:47.46
THE BIBLE TEACHES THAT PEOPLE
ARE SAVED AND LOST AND THE
00:33:47.46\00:33:50.96
REASON THAT THE WICKED ARE
PUNISHED IS BECAUSE THEY HAD AN
00:33:50.96\00:33:53.40
OPPORTUNITY TO
CHOOSE TO BE DIFFERENT.
00:33:53.40\00:33:55.73
WHY WOULD YOU MAKE A CREATURE -
MAKE THAT CREATURE WHERE IT HAS
00:33:55.73\00:33:59.26
NO CHOICE TO BE EVIL - YOU MAKE
IT, IT TURNS OUT EVIL BECAUSE
00:33:59.26\00:34:03.63
YOU MADE IT AND PREDETERMINED
IT WAS GOING TO BE EVIL AND THEN
00:34:03.63\00:34:06.90
YOU'RE GOING TO TORTURE IT
FOREVER IN HELL BECAUSE IT WAS
00:34:06.90\00:34:08.53
EVIL. THE OTHER
THING ABOUT THIS IDEA
00:34:08.53\00:34:11.86
THAT YOU DON'T HAVE A CHOICE
- IT MEANS THAT GOD CREATED YOU
00:34:11.86\00:34:15.93
AND YOU HAVE NO CHOICE - HE
BECOMES AN ACCOMPLICE IN YOUR
00:34:15.93\00:34:18.73
SINS - YOU SEE THAT?
BECAUSE YOU'RE DOING WHAT HE
00:34:18.73\00:34:23.30
MADE YOU TO DO.
YOU HAVE NO CHOICE.
00:34:23.30\00:34:25.93
YOU'RE JUST GOING TO SIN BECAUSE
HE MADE YOU - THEN HE KIND OF
00:34:25.93\00:34:28.46
BECOMES RESPONSIBLE FOR
THAT. BUT HE MADE YOU FREE.
00:34:28.46\00:34:32.16
A FREE MORAL AGENT
AND YOU CAN CHOOSE.
00:34:32.16\00:34:35.86
HERE'S SOME VERSES
THAT ILLUSTRATE THAT POINT:
00:34:35.86\00:34:38.40
DEUTERONOMY 30, VERSES 19 AND 20
- MOSES IS SPEAKING, THIS IS HIS
00:34:38.40\00:34:42.20
SWAN SONG - HIS LAST SERMON.
"I CALL HEAVEN AND EARTH AS
00:34:42.20\00:34:46.46
WITNESSES TODAY AGAINST YOU,
THAT I HAVE SET BEFORE YOU LIFE
00:34:46.46\00:34:50.03
AND DEATH, BLESSING AND CURSING;
THEREFORE CHOOSE LIFE, THAT BOTH
00:34:50.03\00:34:57.46
YOU AND YOUR DESCENDANTS MAY
LIVE; THAT YOU MAY LOVE THE LORD
00:34:57.46\00:34:59.90
YOUR GOD, THAT YOU MAY OBEY HIS
VOICE, AND THAT YOU MAY CLING TO
00:34:59.90\00:35:02.50
HIM, FOR HE IS YOUR LIFE AND THE
LENGTH OF YOUR DAYS; AND THAT
00:35:02.50\00:35:06.03
YOU MAY DWELL IN THE LAND WHICH
THE LORD SWORE TO YOUR FATHERS,
00:35:06.03\00:35:08.26
TO ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB,
TO GIVE THEM." CHOOSE LIFE.
00:35:08.26\00:35:12.83
SO DO WE HAVE A CHOICE?
IF WE DON'T THEN WHY DID HE
00:35:12.83\00:35:15.86
SAY THAT? ALRIGHT,
READ FOR US JOSHUA -
00:35:15.86\00:35:17.93
IS THAT YOU MIKE?
READ FOR US JOSHUA 24:15.
00:35:17.93\00:35:22.06
>>JOSHUA 24:15, "AND IF IT SEEMS
EVIL TO YOU TO SERVE THE LORD,
00:35:22.06\00:35:27.43
CHOOSE FOR YOURSELVES THIS DAY
WHOM YOU WILL SERVE, WHETHER THE
00:35:27.43\00:35:31.60
GODS WHICH YOUR FATHERS SERVED
THAT WERE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF
00:35:31.60\00:35:34.76
THE RIVER, OR THE GODS OF
THE AMORITES, IN WHOSE LAND YOU
00:35:34.76\00:35:38.36
DWELL. BUT AS FOR
ME AND MY HOUSE, WE
00:35:38.36\00:35:41.96
WILL SERVE THE
LORD." >>IT'S PRETTY CLEAR.
00:35:41.96\00:35:46.36
I MEAN, BOTH MOSES AND JOSHUA,
THEN AGAIN AT THE END OF HIS
00:35:46.36\00:35:49.93
LIFE, APPEALING TO THE PEOPLE
OF GOD, 'CHOOSE - YOU CAN CHOOSE
00:35:49.93\00:35:52.93
WHAT GOD YOU WANT TO SERVE.'
AND YOU - MOST OF US MAKE LITTLE
00:35:52.93\00:35:56.40
CHOICES EVERY DAY ABOUT
WHICH GOD WE'RE GOING TO SERVE.
00:35:56.40\00:35:59.33
LET ME GIVE YOU ANOTHER ONE
- PHILIPPIANS - WHO HAS THAT -
00:35:59.33\00:36:01.43
JOLYNE? PHILIPPIANS 2:12?
>>"THEREFORE, MY BELOVED, AS YOU
00:36:01.43\00:36:06.10
HAVE ALWAYS OBEYED, NOT AS IN MY
PRESENCE ONLY, BUT NOW MUCH MORE
00:36:06.10\00:36:10.90
IN MY ABSENCE, WORK OUT
YOUR OWN SALVATION WITH FEAR
00:36:10.90\00:36:13.80
AND TREMBLING;" >>YEAH,
READ THE NEXT VERSE TOO.
00:36:13.80\00:36:18.73
>>"FOR IT IS GOD WHO WORKS IN
YOU BOTH TO WILL AND TO DO FOR
00:36:18.73\00:36:23.60
HIS GOOD PLEASURE.
DO ALL THINGS WITHOUT
00:36:23.60\00:36:26.16
COMPLAINING AND DISPUTING."
>>I JUST WANT YOU TO ESPECIALLY
00:36:26.16\00:36:29.46
NOTICE 'FOR IT IS GOD WHO WORKS
IN YOU' - BUT HE'S APPEALING
00:36:29.46\00:36:32.40
TO THEM 'WORK OUT
YOUR OWN SALVATION'.
00:36:32.40\00:36:34.80
NOW, DOESN'T THAT SOUND
LIKE SALVATION BY WORKS?
00:36:34.80\00:36:38.86
THAT'S A DIRTY WORD BUT,
YOU KNOW, IN REALITY THERE IS A
00:36:38.86\00:36:41.50
WORK. YOU ARE NOT
SAVED BY YOUR WORKS
00:36:41.50\00:36:43.33
BUT THERE IS A WORK INVOLVED.
LISTEN TO SOME OF THE TERMS THAT
00:36:43.33\00:36:46.63
ARE USED WHEN IT COMES TO
SALVATION IN THE NEW TESTAMENT.
00:36:46.63\00:36:50.30
WE WRESTLE, WE STRIVE, WE WAR,
WE RUN, WE FIGHT, WE ENDURE,
00:36:50.30\00:36:58.96
WE PLEAD. ARE
THOSE TERMS THAT SEEM TO
00:36:58.96\00:37:02.06
DENOTE SOME KIND OF INVOLVEMENT
OR INVESTMENT THAT THERE'S
00:37:02.06\00:37:05.90
SOMETHING YOU NEED
TO DO? SURE THERE IS.
00:37:05.90\00:37:08.56
THERE IS EFFORT INVOLVED.
THERE'S A STRUGGLE INVOLVED IN
00:37:08.56\00:37:11.33
BEING A CHRISTIAN. BUT
WHERE IS THAT STRUGGLE?
00:37:11.33\00:37:14.66
LET ME READ SOMETHING TO YOU
FROM THE CLASSIC BOOK 'STEPS TO
00:37:14.66\00:37:17.36
CHRIST' AND THIS IS
PAGE 47. THIS IS GREAT.
00:37:17.36\00:37:21.60
I'VE READ IT MANY TIMES
AND I ALWAYS APPRECIATE IT.
00:37:21.60\00:37:24.86
"MANY ARE INQUIRING 'HOW AM I TO
MAKE THE SURRENDER OF MYSELF TO
00:37:24.86\00:37:28.36
GOD?' YOU DESIRE
TO GIVE YOURSELF TO
00:37:28.36\00:37:30.83
HIM BUT YOU'RE WEAK IN MORAL
POWER, IN SLAVERY TO DOUBT AND
00:37:30.83\00:37:34.13
CONTROLLED BY
HABITS OF YOUR LIFE OF SIN.
00:37:34.13\00:37:40.46
YOUR PROMISES AND RESOLUTIONS
ARE LIKE ROPES OF SAND.'
00:37:40.46\00:37:43.23
- YOU EVER FEEL THAT WAY?
GOOD NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION - I'M
00:37:43.23\00:37:46.96
GOING TO DO THIS AND THIS AND
THIS DIFFERENTLY AND THEN YOU
00:37:46.96\00:37:50.43
RUN INTO THE SAME TEMPTATIONS
AND WEAKNESS AND IT DOESN'T LAST
00:37:50.43\00:37:53.76
VERY LONG. 'YOUR
PROMISES AND RESOLUTIONS
00:37:53.76\00:37:56.80
ARE LIKE ROPES OF
SAND. YOU CANNOT CONTROL YOUR
00:37:56.80\00:37:59.03
THOUGHTS, YOUR
IMPULSES, YOUR AFFECTIONS.
00:37:59.03\00:38:01.56
THE KNOWLEDGE OF YOUR BROKEN
PROMISES AND FORFEITED PLEDGES
00:38:01.56\00:38:04.63
WEAKENS YOUR CONFIDENCE IN YOUR
OWN SINCERITY AND CAUSES YOU TO
00:38:04.63\00:38:08.23
FEEL THAT GOD CANNOT ACCEPT YOU.
BUT YOU NEED NOT DESPAIR. WHAT
00:38:08.23\00:38:12.33
YOU NEED TO DO IS TO UNDERSTAND
THE TRUE FORCE OF THE WILL.
00:38:12.33\00:38:17.30
THIS IS THE GOVERNING
POWER IN THE NATURE OF MAN.
00:38:17.30\00:38:19.86
THE POWER OF
DECISION OR OF CHOICE.
00:38:19.86\00:38:21.90
EVERYTHING DEPENDS ON
THE RIGHT ACTION OF THE WILL.
00:38:21.90\00:38:25.30
THE POWER OF CHOICE
GOD HAS GIVEN TO MEN.
00:38:25.30\00:38:28.60
IT IS THEIRS TO EXERCISE.
YOU CAN'T CHANGE YOUR HEART.
00:38:28.60\00:38:32.70
YOU CAN'T, OF YOURSELF, GIVE TO
GOD IT'S AFFECTIONS, BUT YOU CAN
00:38:32.70\00:38:37.73
CHOOSE TO SERVE HIM.
YOU CAN GIVE HIM YOUR WILL.
00:38:37.73\00:38:42.13
HE WILL THEN WORK IN YOU TO WILL
AND TO DO ACCORDING TO HIS GOOD
00:38:42.13\00:38:45.96
PLEASURE. THUS,
YOUR WHOLE NATURE WILL BE
00:38:45.96\00:38:48.43
BROUGHT UNDER THE CONTROL
OF HIM, THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST.
00:38:48.43\00:38:51.46
YOUR AFFECTIONS WILL BE CENTERED
UPON HIM, YOUR THOUGHTS WILL BE
00:38:51.46\00:38:54.96
IN HARMONY WITH HIM.' YOU
KNOW, THE - JUST TO SEE IF I
00:38:54.96\00:39:00.66
COULD EMPHASIZE THIS A LITTLE
BIT - ONCE AGAIN, THAT'S 'STEPS
00:39:00.66\00:39:04.43
TO CHRIST' PAGE 47.
YOU MAY WANT TO READ IT.
00:39:04.43\00:39:10.33
I'VE PRAYED BEFORE AND SAID,
'LORD, I KNOW I NEED TO STOP
00:39:10.33\00:39:12.86
SINNING' - OR SOME SIN IN
PARTICULAR - 'BUT I DON'T WANT
00:39:12.86\00:39:15.60
TO.' I DIDN'T
QUIT SMOKING BECAUSE I
00:39:15.60\00:39:18.86
WAS COUGHING AND HAD LUNG
CANCER, I ENJOYED SMOKING.
00:39:18.86\00:39:23.06
I WAS STILL YOUNG WHEN I QUIT
AND SO I HADN'T FELT ALL THE
00:39:23.06\00:39:25.60
EFFECTS OF IT, BUT I
KNEW GOD WANTED ME TO.
00:39:25.60\00:39:29.40
AND SO I SAID, 'LORD, I DON'T
WANT TO QUIT, BUT I'M WILLING
00:39:29.40\00:39:34.13
FOR YOU TO MAKE ME WILLING
BECAUSE I KNOW YOU WANT ME TO.
00:39:34.13\00:39:38.13
SO YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO
CHANGE ME, LORD, BUT I'M WILLING
00:39:38.13\00:39:40.03
TO ASK YOU TO CHANGE ME.
I'M WILLING FOR YOU TO DO
00:39:40.03\00:39:43.90
WHATEVER IT TAKES TO HELP
ME HAVE WHATEVER I'M MISSING
00:39:43.90\00:39:47.56
TO WANT TO DO YOUR
WILL.' BECAUSE EVERY TIME I FELL
00:39:47.56\00:39:50.53
I SAID, 'LORD, HOW COME
SOME PEOPLE MAKE IT AND I'M NOT
00:39:50.53\00:39:53.33
MAKING IT? HOW COME
SOME PEOPLE HAVE THE
00:39:53.33\00:39:55.26
VICTORY AND I DON'T?
WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE, LORD?
00:39:55.26\00:39:57.43
I'M WILLING FOR YOU TO DO FOR ME
AND IN ME WHATEVER YOU NEED TO
00:39:57.43\00:40:01.06
DO TO PROVIDE THAT DIFFERENCE.
I WANT TO DO YOUR WILL.
00:40:01.06\00:40:05.23
SO HELP ME KNOW WHAT IT
IS.' AND THEN GOD BEGINS TO
00:40:05.23\00:40:07.30
REVEAL THINGS.
00:40:07.30\00:40:08.66
IT MIGHT BE PRACTICAL THINGS YOU
CAN DO TO PARTICIPATE WITH HIM.
00:40:08.66\00:40:11.96
AND SO, YOU KNOW, GRADUALLY
WHEN - I WAS TALKING WITH NATHAN
00:40:11.96\00:40:17.30
ABOUT THIS VERY SUBJECT LAST
NIGHT AND I SAID - YOU KNOW,
00:40:17.30\00:40:21.50
SOMETIMES KIDS, WHEN THEY MAKE A
DECISION, THEY WANT TO SERVE GOD
00:40:21.50\00:40:25.60
AND THEN THEY FIND OUT YOU FALL
AND YOU MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE
00:40:25.60\00:40:29.63
AND YOU FALL INTO THE SAME
TEMPTATION - WHETHER IT'S A
00:40:29.63\00:40:31.86
VIDEO GAME OR WHATEVER IT IS,
AND THEY SAY, 'OH, I PRAYED AND
00:40:31.86\00:40:35.76
ASKED GOD TO HELP ME WITH THIS
SO MANY TIMES AND I FALL AGAIN.
00:40:35.76\00:40:38.83
IS SAID, 'WELL,
DON'T GET DISCOURAGED.
00:40:38.83\00:40:40.33
YOU KNOW HOW MANY TIMES I
QUIT SMOKING BEFORE I QUIT?'
00:40:40.33\00:40:43.56
BUT I'M GLAD I
DIDN'T QUIT QUITTING.
00:40:43.56\00:40:46.53
AND SO YOU'VE GOT TO
SOMETIMES KEEP AT IT.
00:40:46.53\00:40:49.70
AND IT MAY TAKE YEARS.
NOW, I'M NOT GIVING YOU -
00:40:49.70\00:40:52.60
I DON'T WANT TO GIVE YOU AN
EXCUSE, BUT DON'T QUIT QUITTING.
00:40:52.60\00:40:58.40
DON'T QUIT WRESTLING AND
STRIVING AND FIGHTING AND
00:40:58.40\00:41:02.03
PRAYING FOR THE VICTORY.
IT MIGHT BE YOUR TEMPER, IT
00:41:02.03\00:41:05.66
MIGHT BE A GOSSIPING TONGUE,
IT COULD BE A BROAD SPECTRUM
00:41:05.66\00:41:09.46
OF THINGS. WHATEVER
IT IS, JUST SAY, 'LORD'
00:41:09.46\00:41:12.56
- HOW MANY OF YOU FEEL LIKE
SOMETIMES IN THE CHRISTIAN LIFE
00:41:12.56\00:41:16.10
IT'S TWO STEPS
FORWARD AND ONE STEP BACK?
00:41:16.10\00:41:20.96
ARE YOU MAKING PROGRESS THOUGH?
AND, YOU KNOW, I'VE SEEN IT WORK
00:41:20.96\00:41:25.40
BOTH WAYS WHEN
IT COMES TO CHANGE.
00:41:25.40\00:41:27.96
I HAVE SEEN PEOPLE THAT
EXPERIENCE A DRAMATIC TOTAL
00:41:27.96\00:41:31.33
CONVERSION WHERE
EVERYTHING CHANGED ALL AT ONCE.
00:41:31.33\00:41:35.40
IT WASN'T THAT WAY WITH ME AND
OTHERS, BUT I HAVE MET PEOPLE
00:41:35.40\00:41:38.23
WHO, LIKE THE APOSTLE PAUL,
JUST MAN, THEY HAVE ONE OF THESE
00:41:38.23\00:41:41.06
EXPERIENCES WHERE THEY WERE JUST
BLINDED ON THE ROAD TO DAMASCUS
00:41:41.06\00:41:43.93
WITH THE GLORY OF GOD AND THEY
GO FROM A PERSON WHO CURSES AND
00:41:43.93\00:41:47.13
THEY BEAT THEIR WIFE AND THEY
DRINK AND THEY SMOKE AND THEY
00:41:47.13\00:41:49.26
CURSE AND THEY LIE AND JUST ALL
THIS STUFF AND THEY HAVE A JESUS
00:41:49.26\00:41:52.90
EXPERIENCE AND THEY WEEP AND
THEY PULL OVER ON THE SIDE OF
00:41:52.90\00:41:55.33
THE ROAD AND
THEY'RE A DIFFERENT PERSON.
00:41:55.33\00:41:57.96
AND ALL OF A SUDDEN THEY
SAY, 'GOD JUST TOOK IT AWAY.
00:41:57.96\00:42:01.16
I STOPPED CURSING. I
STOPPED BEATING MY WIFE.
00:42:01.16\00:42:03.10
I STOPPED
STEALING. I STOPPED DRINKING.
00:42:03.10\00:42:04.70
THE HOLY SPIRIT FILLED
ME.' AND JUST - POOF! -
00:42:04.70\00:42:06.83
THEY'RE DIFFERENT. IT
DOESN'T MEAN THEY DON'T EVER
00:42:06.83\00:42:08.30
SIN AGAIN BUT -
JUST ALL OF IT AT ONCE.
00:42:08.30\00:42:11.90
AND THEN YOU AND I, WE ALL KNOW
PEOPLE - HAVE ALL THOSE SAME
00:42:11.90\00:42:14.90
PROBLEMS AND THEY SAID, 'YOU
KNOW, THE HOLY SPIRIT STARTED
00:42:14.90\00:42:18.30
WORKING ON ME AND GOD JUST GAVE
ME THE VICTORY OVER MY TEMPER
00:42:18.30\00:42:21.33
AND, YOU KNOW, I DON'T
LOSE MY TEMPER ANYMORE.
00:42:21.33\00:42:25.36
BUT I'M WORKING ON THE DRINKING.
AND THEN GOD HELPED ME,' - YOU
00:42:25.36\00:42:28.40
KNOW, THEN YOU TALK TO THEM
- THEY SAY, 'YOU KNOW, GOD -
00:42:28.40\00:42:30.30
PRAISE THE LORD -
PASTOR DOUG PRAY FOR ME.
00:42:30.30\00:42:32.23
GOD'S GIVEN ME THE VICTORY OVER
MY TEMPER AND I HAVEN'T HAD A
00:42:32.23\00:42:34.33
DRINK IN A MONTH.' WELL,
YOU KNOW, I DON'T TALK TO
00:42:34.33\00:42:37.23
THAT PERSON AND SAY, 'YOU KNOW,
YOU NEED TO - WE NEED TO TALK TO
00:42:37.23\00:42:42.93
YOU ABOUT THE PORK CHOPS' - WHEN
THEY TELL ME THAT THEY'VE QUIT
00:42:42.93\00:42:48.33
DRINKING. I SAY,
'WELL, PRAISE THE LORD.
00:42:48.33\00:42:51.26
I'M HAPPY FOR THE PROGRESS.'
YOU KNOW, AND THEN THEY COME TO
00:42:51.26\00:42:53.53
ME ONE DAY AND THEY SAY,
'YOU KNOW, AND NOW I'VE QUIT
00:42:53.53\00:42:55.86
SMOKING.' AND, YOU KNOW,
THERE ARE VARYING DEGREES.
00:42:55.86\00:43:00.13
IF SOMEONE COMES TO ME AND THEY
SAY, 'YOU KNOW, I'M DRINKING AND
00:43:00.13\00:43:02.46
BEATING MY WIFE.' I
DON'T WORRY ABOUT THE
00:43:02.46\00:43:03.80
CIGARETTES BECAUSE USUALLY
WHEN YOU'RE DRUNK YOU JUST CAN'T
00:43:03.80\00:43:08.36
RESIST ANY TEMPTATION. SO
YOU'VE GOT TO TAKE CARE OF
00:43:08.36\00:43:10.36
THAT FIRST. AND SO,
THERE ARE DEGREES AND I
00:43:10.36\00:43:14.10
REMEMBER WHEN I WAS PASTORING
A SMALL CHURCH, KAREN AND I WENT
00:43:14.10\00:43:17.70
BACK TO WATERFALL, NEW MEXICO
AND MET WITH THE NAVAJOS THERE.
00:43:17.70\00:43:21.00
WHEN THEY JOIN THE CHURCH, MANY
OF THEM STRUGGLE WITH ALCOHOL
00:43:21.00\00:43:24.63
AND THEY - IT WASN'T PORK CHOPS,
THEY USED TO EAT BLOOD SAUSAGE.
00:43:24.63\00:43:28.96
AND I REMEMBER SOME OF OUR
FRIENDS - WE HAD A NAVAJO CHURCH
00:43:28.96\00:43:33.76
AND IT WAS JUST WONDERFUL - WE'D
GET TOGETHER AND WE'D HAVE A
00:43:33.76\00:43:35.80
POTLUCK AND SOME OF THE
SAINTS WOULD COME FROM ANOTHER
00:43:35.80\00:43:38.30
CONGREGATION A FEW MILES AWAY
AND THEY SAID, 'PASTOR DOUG, WE
00:43:38.30\00:43:41.70
NEED TO TALK TO YOU.'
AND THEY'D PULL US ASIDE AND
00:43:41.70\00:43:43.20
THEY'D SAY, 'I NOTICE THAT THESE
FOLKS HAVE GOT CHEESE IN THEIR
00:43:43.20\00:43:46.63
POTLUCK.' AND I'D
SAY, 'BROTHER OR SISTER,
00:43:46.63\00:43:49.93
THEY JUST GAVE UP BEATING
THEIR WIFE, DRINKING AND BLOOD
00:43:49.93\00:43:52.00
SAUSAGE.' I SAID, 'GIVE
THEM A BREAK.' I SAID, 'THEY MAY
00:43:52.00\00:43:56.13
GO VEGAN SOMEDAY BUT
BE PATIENT.' SO YOU SEE
00:43:56.13\00:43:59.43
THERE'S VARYING DEGREES,
YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING?
00:43:59.43\00:44:02.03
AND SO HERE'S MY
QUESTION: ARE YOU GROWING?
00:44:02.03\00:44:06.60
CAN YOU LOOK BACK AND SEE
THAT THERE'S SANCTIFICATION
00:44:06.60\00:44:09.63
HAPPENING? IS THERE PROGRESS?
OR HAVE YOU STALLED SOMEWHERE?
00:44:09.63\00:44:14.80
SOMETIMES, YOU KNOW,
THERE'S GROWTH AND GOD IS MAKING
00:44:14.80\00:44:16.50
CONSTANT CHANGES AND HE REVEALS
NEW THINGS AND YOU WALK IN THE
00:44:16.50\00:44:19.16
LIGHT HE REVEALS MORE LIGHT, YOU
WALK IN THE LIGHT HE GIVES YOU
00:44:19.16\00:44:21.80
POWER AND YOU MAKE NEW
VICTORIES, BUT IF YOU JUST GET
00:44:21.80\00:44:24.66
WHERE ALL OF A SUDDEN IT
GETS STAGNANT - YOU DON'T HAVE A
00:44:24.66\00:44:28.43
PROBLEM WHEN YOU'VE GOT A BABY
AND THE FIRST FEW TIMES THEY TRY
00:44:28.43\00:44:33.60
TO EAT AND THE FOOD DOESN'T
GO IN THE MOUTH, IT GOES IN THE
00:44:33.60\00:44:36.36
NOSE AND IT GOES IN THE EARS AND
IT GOES ON THE FLOOR AND ACROSS
00:44:36.36\00:44:39.20
THE WALL AND, I MEAN, YOU
SAY, 'OH, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE
00:44:39.20\00:44:41.36
LEARNING.' BUT IF AFTER THEY'RE
FIVE AND THEY'RE STILL NOT
00:44:41.36\00:44:44.90
GETTING IT IN THE MOUTH, YOU
GO SEE THE DOCTOR, DON'T YOU.
00:44:44.90\00:44:49.13
YOU DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM WHEN
THEY'RE FIRST LEARNING TO WALK,
00:44:49.13\00:44:51.60
IF THEY TAKE A FEW STEPS AND
THEY TUMBLE AND THEY JUST, YOU
00:44:51.60\00:44:53.90
KNOW, THEY'RE CRAWLING HALF
THE TIME, BUT WHEN THEY GET, YOU
00:44:53.90\00:44:58.90
KNOW, FIVE AND SIX AND THEY
CAN'T TAKE THREE OR FOUR STEPS
00:44:58.90\00:45:01.50
WITHOUT FALLING DOWN,
YOU GO SEE THE DOCTOR.
00:45:01.50\00:45:04.80
AND SO, ARE YOU STILL - PETER
TALKS ABOUT - HE SAID, 'YOU
00:45:04.80\00:45:09.73
KNOW, I WROTE TO YOU, I WANTED
TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT THE BASICS
00:45:09.73\00:45:12.06
OF CHRISTIANITY BUT INSTEAD OF
GIVING YOU MEAT I'VE GOT TO GIVE
00:45:12.06\00:45:14.90
YOU MILK BECAUSE YOU'RE
STILL EATING BABY FOOD.'
00:45:14.90\00:45:19.53
ARE YOU GROWING
IN SANCTIFICATION?
00:45:19.53\00:45:21.76
ARE YOU GAINING VICTORY OR ARE
YOU STILL DOING THE SAME THINGS
00:45:21.76\00:45:24.33
YOU WERE DOING 20 YEARS AGO?
AND SO THERE OUGHT TO BE GROWTH.
00:45:24.33\00:45:29.10
I DON'T WANT TO DISCOURAGE YOU
AND I'M SPEAKING TO MYSELF TOO.
00:45:29.10\00:45:33.00
YOU SHOULDN'T BE DISCOURAGED
IF YOU SEE PROGRESS AND YOU'RE
00:45:33.00\00:45:36.33
BECOMING MORE LIKE CHRIST
AND YOU CAN LOOK BACK OVER THE
00:45:36.33\00:45:38.33
PANORAMA OF YOUR LIFE AND YOU
CAN SAY, 'WELL, PRAISE THE LORD,
00:45:38.33\00:45:40.76
I CAN SEE CONSISTENT
GROWTH AND SANCTIFICATION.'
00:45:40.76\00:45:43.90
IT WOULD BE WONDERFUL IF
THE HOLY SPIRIT WERE TO JUST
00:45:43.90\00:45:45.83
SURROUND YOU LIKE PAUL AND ALL
OF IT HAPPENS IN ONE DAY, BUT
00:45:45.83\00:45:50.13
FOR MOST OF US, THE
BIBLE SAYS, 'LEARN TO DO GOOD.
00:45:50.13\00:45:54.70
CEASE TO DO EVIL.'
YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS?
00:45:54.70\00:45:56.30
LEARN IS A PROCESS OF LEARNING.
YOU'VE GOT TO LEARN TO DO GOOD.
00:45:56.30\00:45:59.66
WHEN YOU SPEND YOUR WHOLE
LIFE DOING WRONG AND YOU ARE
00:45:59.66\00:46:01.96
CONVERTED, YOU'VE GOT TO
START LEARNING HOW TO DO RIGHT.
00:46:01.96\00:46:05.20
AND SO - BUT ARE YOU GROWING?
ALRIGHT, WE'VE GOT TO KEEP
00:46:05.20\00:46:08.16
MOVING ALONG HERE
BECAUSE WE'VE GOT A LOT LEFT.
00:46:08.16\00:46:11.00
ALRIGHT, WE'RE TALKING
ABOUT THE POWER TO CHOOSE.
00:46:11.00\00:46:13.53
CONFIDENCE AND DOUBT - MATTHEW
26 - SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME
00:46:13.53\00:46:18.33
MATTHEW 26:69 -
MATTHEW 26:69 - WHO HAS THAT?
00:46:18.33\00:46:23.23
DID WE GIVE THAT TO
SOMEONE? RIGHT OVER HERE, OKAY?
00:46:23.23\00:46:25.60
WE'LL GET TO YOU
IN JUST A SECOND.
00:46:25.60\00:46:27.03
I'M GOING TO READ MATTHEW 26,
VERSE 31, "THEN JESUS SAID TO
00:46:27.03\00:46:31.76
THEM, 'ALL OF YOU WILL BE MADE
TO STUMBLE BECAUSE OF ME THIS
00:46:31.76\00:46:35.16
NIGHT, FOR IT IS WRITTEN, 'I
WILL STRIKE THE SHEPHERD, AND
00:46:35.16\00:46:38.26
THE SHEEP OF THE
FLOCK WILL BE SCATTERED.'
00:46:38.26\00:46:40.83
BUT AFTER I HAVE BEEN RAISED, I
WILL GO BEFORE YOU TO GALILEE.'
00:46:40.83\00:46:43.53
PETER ANSWERED AND SAID TO HIM,
'EVEN IF ALL ARE MADE TO STUMBLE
00:46:43.53\00:46:46.76
BECAUSE OF YOU, I WILL
NEVER BE MADE TO STUMBLE.'
00:46:46.76\00:46:49.23
JESUS SAID TO HIM, 'ASSUREDLY,
I SAY TO YOU THAT THIS NIGHT,
00:46:49.23\00:46:52.93
BEFORE THE ROOSTER CROWS,
YOU WILL DENY ME THREE TIMES.'
00:46:52.93\00:46:56.66
PETER SAID TO HIM, 'EVEN IF I
HAVE TO DIE WITH YOU, I WILL NOT
00:46:56.66\00:46:59.23
DENY YOU.'" NOW, WAS HE SINCERE?
00:46:59.23\00:47:03.00
PROBABLY WAS AT THE MOMENT.
BUT DID HE KNOW HIS OWN HEART?
00:47:03.00\00:47:07.06
ONE OF THE KEYS TO A VICTORIOUS
LIFE, DO NOT TRUST YOURSELF.
00:47:07.06\00:47:11.80
WE ARE WEAK AND IN A FEW MINUTES
OF LISTENING TO THE DEVIL WE CAN
00:47:11.80\00:47:15.56
LOSE A WHOLE LIFETIME
OF MIRACLES AND EXPERIENCE.
00:47:15.56\00:47:19.10
AND PETER DID NOT PREPARE FOR
THAT BIG TRIAL THAT WAS COMING.
00:47:19.10\00:47:24.03
JESUS SAID, 'PRAY' - BUT HE
SLEPT WHEN HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN
00:47:24.03\00:47:26.13
PRAYING - 'LEST YOU
ENTER INTO TEMPTATION.'
00:47:26.13\00:47:29.63
ALRIGHT, SO WHAT HAPPENED?
LET'S LOOK AT - GO AHEAD, READ
00:47:29.63\00:47:31.96
FOR US MATTHEW 26
AND JUMP TO VERSE 69.
00:47:31.96\00:47:35.06
>>NOW PETER SAT
OUTSIDE IN THE COURTYARD.
00:47:35.06\00:47:38.10
AND A SERVANT GIRL CAME TO
HIM, SAYING, 'YOU ALSO WERE WITH
00:47:38.10\00:47:41.66
JESUS OF GALILEE.' BUT
HE DENIED IT BEFORE THEM
00:47:41.66\00:47:44.60
ALL, SAYING, 'I DO NOT
KNOW WHAT YOU ARE SAYING.'"
00:47:44.60\00:47:48.73
>>ALRIGHT, AND WE DON'T NEED
TO READ THE WHOLE SORDID TALE.
00:47:48.73\00:47:51.43
YOU KNOW THAT PETER DENIED JESUS
NOT ONCE BUT THREE TIMES AND THE
00:47:51.43\00:47:54.96
THIRD TIME HE
PUNCTUATED IT WITH CURSING.
00:47:54.96\00:47:58.03
SO THOSE WORDS THAT HE WAS
SUPPOSED TO BE SANCTIFIED FROM
00:47:58.03\00:48:01.10
WERE STILL THERE ON THE TOP
SHELF WHEN HE NEEDED THEM AND IT
00:48:01.10\00:48:05.66
JUST KIND OF
REMINDS US PETER IS LIKE US.
00:48:05.66\00:48:08.40
BUT WHAT HAPPENED THAT NIGHT?
AFTER HE DENIED JESUS THE THIRD
00:48:08.40\00:48:12.00
TIME, JESUS LOOKED AT
HIM AND IT BROKE HIS HEART.
00:48:12.00\00:48:15.16
HE WENT OUT AND HE WEPT BITTERLY
AND, DURING THE RESURRECTION HE
00:48:15.16\00:48:19.60
WAS A CONVERTED MAN.
PENTECOST - PETER IS NOW THE
00:48:19.60\00:48:22.13
SPOKESMAN - HE'S THE PREACHER.
BUT DIDN'T JESUS SAY TO PETER,
00:48:22.13\00:48:25.13
'PETER' - THREE TIMES AFTER
JESUS APPEARED TO HIM, BEFORE HE
00:48:25.13\00:48:27.40
ASCENDED INTO HEAVEN, 'DO
YOU LOVE ME? DO YOU LOVE ME?
00:48:27.40\00:48:31.30
DO YOU LOVE ME?' AND
HE WAS LETTING PETER KNOW,
00:48:31.30\00:48:34.80
'DON'T TRUST YOURSELF' - IT'S
GOING TO BE BASED ON LOVING HIM.
00:48:34.80\00:48:38.40
SO WHAT'S ONE OF
THE KEYS TO REAL CHANGE?
00:48:38.40\00:48:40.86
DO PEOPLE CHANGE
WHEN THEY FALL IN LOVE?
00:48:40.86\00:48:43.50
YOU KNOW, IT'S INTERESTING
WATCHING YOUR TEENAGE BOYS -
00:48:43.50\00:48:47.06
THEY JUST COULDN'T CARE LESS
ABOUT HYGIENE WHEN THEY'RE EIGHT
00:48:47.06\00:48:50.23
AND TEN YEARS OLD
AND 'BRUSH YOUR TEETH!
00:48:50.23\00:48:53.73
BRUSH YOUR TEETH!' 'OH,
(GRUMBLES)' YOU KNOW, AND
00:48:53.73\00:48:56.10
YOU'VE GOT TO WRITE IT ON
THE WALL AND 'CHANGE YOUR SHIRT!
00:48:56.10\00:48:59.56
WHEN WAS THE LAST
TIME YOU TOOK A SHOWER?'
00:48:59.56\00:49:02.30
AND SOMETHING STARTS HAPPENING
AROUND 13, 14 - THEY START DOING
00:49:02.30\00:49:06.23
IT ON THEIR OWN INITIATIVE
AND YOU FIND OUT THAT THEY'RE
00:49:06.23\00:49:09.10
SITTING AT A DESK
NEXT TO A PRETTY GIRL.
00:49:09.10\00:49:14.16
ALL OF A SUDDEN THEY'RE
VERY PREOCCUPIED WITH THEIR
00:49:14.16\00:49:15.96
APPEARANCE WHEN THEY COULDN'T
HAVE CARED LESS WHEN THEY WERE
00:49:15.96\00:49:17.80
EIGHT YEARS OLD.
BECAUSE THEY'RE MAKING CHANGES
00:49:17.80\00:49:22.73
BECAUSE THEY'RE SUDDENLY
INTERESTED IN SOMEBODY AND LOVE
00:49:22.73\00:49:27.63
- WHEN YOU LOVE SOMEBODY -
IT HAS A TRANSFORMING INFLUENCE.
00:49:27.63\00:49:32.33
PETER WAS CHANGED, BUT DID HE
STILL MAKE MISTAKES EVEN AFTER
00:49:32.33\00:49:36.93
PENTECOST? LET
ME READ THIS TO YOU.
00:49:36.93\00:49:39.90
THIS WAS WRITTEN BY PAUL.
THIS IS PAUL TALKING ABOUT
00:49:39.90\00:49:42.33
PETER. IS THIS
GOSSIP? I DON'T KNOW.
00:49:42.33\00:49:45.10
GALATIANS 2, VERSE 11 - PAUL
IS WRITING HERE, "NOW WHEN PETER
00:49:45.10\00:49:49.73
HAD COME TO ANTIOCH, I WITHSTOOD
HIM TO HIS FACE, BECAUSE HE WAS
00:49:49.73\00:49:52.86
TO BE BLAMED; FOR BEFORE CERTAIN
MEN CAME FROM JAMES," - THAT'S
00:49:52.86\00:49:57.06
THE JEWS FROM JERUSALEM - "HE
WOULD EAT WITH THE GENTILES; BUT
00:49:57.06\00:50:00.26
WHEN THEY CAME, HE WITHDREW AND
SEPARATED HIMSELF, FEARING THOSE
00:50:00.26\00:50:03.83
WHO WERE OF THE CIRCUMCISION."
HE THOUGHT, 'OH, WHAT WOULD THE
00:50:03.83\00:50:06.40
JEWS THINK. HEY, I'D
BETTER NOT EAT WITH YOU
00:50:06.40\00:50:07.66
GUYS ANYMORE BECAUSE I
DON'T WANT TO LOOK BAD.'
00:50:07.66\00:50:09.73
AND WHAT DOES
PAUL SAY ABOUT THAT?
00:50:09.73\00:50:13.10
"AND THE REST OF THE JEWS ALSO
PLAYED THE HYPOCRITE WITH HIM,
00:50:13.10\00:50:15.96
SO THAT EVEN BARNABAS
WAS CARRIED AWAY WITH THEIR
00:50:15.96\00:50:17.56
HYPOCRISY." LOOSE
TRANSLATION: PAUL WAS
00:50:17.56\00:50:20.90
SAYING PETER WAS A HYPOCRITE
AND BARNABAS WAS A HYPOCRITE.
00:50:20.90\00:50:25.43
HE GOT CARRIED
AWAY WITH HYPOCRISY.
00:50:25.43\00:50:27.76
THEY WERE PREOCCUPIED WITH WHAT
EVERYONE THOUGHT OF THEM AND
00:50:27.76\00:50:30.16
THERE WAS NOTHING WRONG WITH
EATING WITH GENTILES BUT THEY
00:50:30.16\00:50:32.73
THOUGHT, 'WELL, YOU KNOW, THE
OLD CULTURE OF THE JEWS - WHAT
00:50:32.73\00:50:34.70
WILL THEY THINK OF ME?' AND
YOU KNOW WHAT THAT'S CALLED?
00:50:34.70\00:50:37.46
DISCRIMINATION. PETER AND
BARNABAS SLIPPED INTO 'WELL,
00:50:37.46\00:50:42.70
WE DON'T WANT TO - WE
DON'T WANT THEM TO KNOW THAT
00:50:42.70\00:50:44.86
WE'RE EATING WITH THE GENTILES.'
WAS THAT WRONG FOR PETER?
00:50:44.86\00:50:49.66
PAUL'S TELLING THE
TRUTH. WHAT PETER DID WAS WRONG.
00:50:49.66\00:50:52.36
PETER WAS COMPROMISING.
DO YOU THINK PETER REPENTED
00:50:52.36\00:50:56.00
OF THAT? I THINK HE DID.
00:50:56.00\00:50:58.16
WHEN PAUL CONFRONTED HIM - BY
THE WAY, PETER, AFTER PAUL SAYS
00:50:58.16\00:51:01.43
THIS, CALLS PAUL HIS BELOVED
BROTHER - YOU CAN READ IN THE
00:51:01.43\00:51:05.76
SECOND LETTER OF PETER - AND
PETER SAYS THAT WHAT PAUL WROTE
00:51:05.76\00:51:08.66
WAS SCRIPTURE.
ISN'T THAT INTERESTING?
00:51:08.66\00:51:11.93
THAT'D BE TOUGH FOR ONE APOSTLE
TO SAY THE OTHER APOSTLE WROTE
00:51:11.93\00:51:15.46
SCRIPTURE WHEN HE WAS
CALLING HIM A HYPOCRITE.
00:51:15.46\00:51:18.53
SO PETER KNEW, 'I WAS WRONG.'
SO EVEN AFTER PENTECOST DID THEY
00:51:18.53\00:51:23.36
STILL MAKE MISTAKES?
BUT, YOU KNOW, THAT KIND OF
00:51:23.36\00:51:26.76
HYPOCRISY WAS NOT AS
BAD AS DENYING CHRIST.
00:51:26.76\00:51:30.76
SO AS YOU GROW IN CHRIST,
THE CHANGES THAT ARE MADE, THEY
00:51:30.76\00:51:34.53
OUGHT TO BE IN KEEPING WITH WHAT
CHRISTIAN GROWTH LOOKS LIKE.
00:51:34.53\00:51:39.70
THERE OUGHT TO BE A PROGRESS
THERE THAT'S ON THE SCALE.
00:51:39.70\00:51:44.83
ALRIGHT, LET ME LOOK HERE.
00:51:44.83\00:51:46.20
JOHN 20, VERSE 24 - I'M KIND OF
BACKTRACKING A LITTLE BIT - JOHN
00:51:46.20\00:51:49.33
20, VERSE 24, "NOW THOMAS,
CALLED THE TWIN, ONE OF THE
00:51:49.33\00:51:54.53
TWELVE, WAS NOT WITH
THEM WHEN JESUS CAME.
00:51:54.53\00:51:57.53
THE OTHER DISCIPLES THEREFORE
SAID TO HIM, 'WE HAVE SEEN THE
00:51:57.53\00:51:59.36
LORD.' SO HE SAID TO
THEM, 'UNLESS I SEE IN HIS HANDS
00:51:59.36\00:52:03.63
THE PRINT OF THE
NAILS, AND PUT MY FINGER INTO
00:52:03.63\00:52:05.26
THE PRINT OF THE NAILS,
AND PUT MY HAND INTO HIS SIDE,
00:52:05.26\00:52:08.06
I WILL NOT BELIEVE."
- 'YOU JUST FORGET IT.
00:52:08.06\00:52:09.80
YOU GUYS ARE ALL
CRAZY. YOU'RE SEEING THINGS.
00:52:09.80\00:52:11.50
I'M NOT GOING TO BELIEVE IT
- UNLESS I SEE IT WITH MY EYE -
00:52:11.50\00:52:13.63
I'M FROM MISSOURI, UNLESS I
SEE IT WITH MY OWN EYES I'M NOT
00:52:13.63\00:52:17.06
GOING TO BELIEVE.'
WELL, WE'RE SAVED BY WHAT?
00:52:17.06\00:52:21.73
THE JUST ARE SAVED BY FAITH,
RIGHT? HOW WAS THOMAS' FAITH?
00:52:21.73\00:52:26.86
AFTER THREE AND A HALF YEARS OF
FOLLOWING JESUS AND AFTER JESUS
00:52:26.86\00:52:29.63
SAYING, 'I'M GOING
TO DIE AND RISE AGAIN.'
00:52:29.63\00:52:31.66
BEFORE HE DIED AND ROSE HE TOLD
THEM IT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN AND,
00:52:31.66\00:52:34.76
FINALLY, WHEN IT DOES
HAPPEN, WHAT DOES THOMAS SAY?
00:52:34.76\00:52:37.43
'I'VE GO TO SEE IT.'
AND JESUS FINALLY APPEARS TO
00:52:37.43\00:52:39.96
THOMAS AND SAYS, 'YOU
BELIEVE BECAUSE YOU'VE SEEN.
00:52:39.96\00:52:43.43
BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO
BELIEVE WITHOUT SEEING.'
00:52:43.43\00:52:46.06
ALRIGHT, POWER TO CHOOSE. SO
- I TALKED ABOUT THAT ALREADY
00:52:46.06\00:52:51.70
- CONSTANT - LET ME SEE -
'FAITH TO ACT' - THAT'S THE PART
00:52:51.70\00:52:55.06
I WANT. JOHN 5, VERSES 5 AND 6.
AND IT SAYS, "NOW A CERTAIN MAN
00:52:55.06\00:53:04.90
WAS THERE WHO HAD AN
INFIRMITY THIRTY-EIGHT YEARS.
00:53:04.90\00:53:07.80
WHEN JESUS SAW HIM LYING
THERE," - THIS IS AT THE POOL OF
00:53:07.80\00:53:10.63
BETHESDA - "AND KNEW THAT
HE ALREADY HAD BEEN IN THAT
00:53:10.63\00:53:13.16
CONDITION A LONG TIME, HE SAID
TO HIM, 'DO YOU WANT TO BE MADE
00:53:13.16\00:53:15.63
WELL?'" HE SAID,
'OH, LORD, I'D LIKE
00:53:15.63\00:53:18.16
TO BE MADE WELL BUT WHENEVER
I COME TO THE POOL' - HE SAYS -
00:53:18.16\00:53:21.30
'SOMEONE ELSE GETS IN
BEFORE ME AND I CAN'T.'
00:53:21.30\00:53:24.43
AND JESUS SAID,
'GET UP AND WALK.'
00:53:24.43\00:53:27.46
NOW HE COULD HAVE ARGUED
AND SAID, 'WELL, I CAN'T BECAUSE
00:53:27.46\00:53:29.56
I'VE BEEN CRIPPLED THIRTY-EIGHT
YEARS, BUT HE DIDN'T ARGUE.
00:53:29.56\00:53:32.23
WHEN CHRIST GIVES YOU A COMMAND,
BUILT INTO THE COMMAND THAT
00:53:32.23\00:53:37.06
JESUS GIVES YOU
IS THE POWER TO OBEY.
00:53:37.06\00:53:40.56
THAT'S SUCH AN IMPORTANT
PRINCIPLE. GOD WILL NEVER ASK
00:53:40.56\00:53:43.70
YOU TO DO SOMETHING THAT
YOU CANNOT DO WITH HIS POWER.
00:53:43.70\00:53:47.23
EVEN THOUGH YOU MAY NOT BE ABLE
TO - I REMEMBER, YOU KNOW, WHEN
00:53:47.23\00:53:51.30
WE WERE TEACHING OUR KIDS TO
WATER SKI OR SNOW SKI OR SO MANY
00:53:51.30\00:53:54.13
THINGS AND THEY WERE SLIPPING
AND FALLING DOWN AND WOULD SAY,
00:53:54.13\00:53:56.36
'OH, I CAN'T' AND
I'D SAY, 'YES YOU CAN.
00:53:56.36\00:53:58.36
LET'S TRY IT AGAIN.' 'I CAN'T.
00:53:58.36\00:54:00.53
I KEEP FALLING.' I
SAID, 'YES YOU CAN.
00:54:00.53\00:54:02.10
HANG ON TO MY LEG.'
PRETTY SOON THEY'RE SKATING OR
00:54:02.10\00:54:04.60
THEY'RE SKIING OR WHATEVER IT
IS AND THEN THEY GO, 'I GUESS I
00:54:04.60\00:54:08.96
CAN.' HAVE YOU
EVER HAD YOUR KIDS SAY
00:54:08.96\00:54:11.56
THEY JUST DON'T WANT TO TRY
SOMETHING BECAUSE THEY FAILED A
00:54:11.56\00:54:13.30
COUPLE TIMES? AND YOU
KNEW THEY COULD DO IT,
00:54:13.30\00:54:15.63
THEY JUST GOT
DISCOURAGED BECAUSE THEY FAILED.
00:54:15.63\00:54:17.06
'I DON'T REALLY WANT TO ANYWAY.'
YEAH THEY DID, BUT THEY WERE
00:54:17.06\00:54:21.03
AFRAID TO FAIL. AND
SOME OF US HAVE STOPPED
00:54:21.03\00:54:23.93
TRYING TO CHANGE
BECAUSE WE FAILED SO MANY TIMES.
00:54:23.93\00:54:28.00
DON'T GET DISCOURAGED.
GOD WILL NEVER ASK YOU TO DO
00:54:28.00\00:54:31.60
SOMETHING HE WILL NOT
GIVE YOU THE POWER TO DO.
00:54:31.60\00:54:33.96
YOU MAY NOT SUCCEED THE
FIRST TIME, BUT DON'T GIVE UP.
00:54:33.96\00:54:38.76
AND WHATEVER IT IS, YOU CAN
LEARN TO DO IT WITH GOD'S HELP.
00:54:38.76\00:54:42.96
ALL THINGS ARE
POSSIBLE WITH CHRIST, AMEN?
00:54:42.96\00:54:46.46
AND THEN THERE'S A SECTION I
JUMPED OVER BUT I JUST WANT TO
00:54:46.46\00:54:48.83
RETURN TO IT.
PART OF REVIVAL MEANS A
00:54:48.83\00:54:51.50
CONVICTION TO RETURN HOME - LIKE
THAT PRODIGAL SON - AND THAT,
00:54:51.50\00:54:55.26
OF COURSE IS LUKE 15:17 - THAT
FAMOUS PARABLE - YOU COME TO
00:54:55.26\00:54:59.53
YOUR SENSES AND YOU SAY,
'WHAT IN THE WORLD AM I DOING?
00:54:59.53\00:55:05.56
I WILL ARISE AND GO TO -
I ENDED UP IN THE PIGPEN.
00:55:05.56\00:55:08.00
I WILL ARISE AND GO
TO MY FATHER'S HOUSE.'
00:55:08.00\00:55:10.63
NOTHING COULD BE WORSE FOR A
JEW THAN TO END UP IN A PIGPEN.
00:55:10.63\00:55:14.56
IT'S KIND OF LIKE A PERSON WHO'S
IN A BOAT OUT IN THE SEA AND
00:55:14.56\00:55:16.80
THEY SAY, 'I'M SEASICK.
THIS BOAT IS CRAMPED AND SMALL
00:55:16.80\00:55:19.76
AND IT SMELLS AND I'M GETTING
OUT OF HERE' - AND THEY JUMP IN
00:55:19.76\00:55:21.56
THE WATER. WELL,
THEY DIDN'T REALIZE IT'S A
00:55:21.56\00:55:23.66
STORM AND THEY'RE SWIMMING AWAY
FROM THE BOAT AND THEY REALIZE
00:55:23.66\00:55:27.06
THEY'RE GETTING WEAK. THE
WAVES ARE HIGH, THE WIND IS
00:55:27.06\00:55:29.13
STRONG, THE WATER'S COLD AND
SUDDENLY THEY SAY, 'WHAT AM I
00:55:29.13\00:55:32.10
GOING TO DO? I'M
GOING TO DROWN OUT HERE.
00:55:32.10\00:55:33.70
THAT WAS THE DUMBEST
THING I'VE EVER DONE.
00:55:33.70\00:55:35.46
I'VE GOT TO GET
BACK TO THE BOAT.'
00:55:35.46\00:55:37.16
IN SPITE OF ALL THE PROBLEMS IN
THE BOAT, IT'S A LOT BETTER TO
00:55:37.16\00:55:41.16
LIVE IN THE BOAT THAN TO
BE OUT HERE IN THE STORM.
00:55:41.16\00:55:44.60
AND SO, SOMETIMES WE'VE GOT
TO COME TO OUR SENSES WHEN WE'RE
00:55:44.60\00:55:47.36
LIVING IN SIN AND REALIZE THIS
IS - YOU'LL DIE IF YOU DO NOT
00:55:47.36\00:55:52.46
COME TO JESUS - IF YOU
DON'T CHANGE AND GET THE VICTORY
00:55:52.46\00:55:55.16
THROUGH HIS POWER. YOU'LL
NEVER WALK, YOU'LL JUST DIE.
00:55:55.16\00:55:59.60
AND THAT'S WHY MOSES SAID, 'I'VE
SET BEFORE YOU TWO CHOICES: LIFE
00:55:59.60\00:56:02.76
AND DEATH, BLESSING
AND CURSING - CHOOSE LIFE.'
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