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>>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH.
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WHEREVER YOU ARE, AND
HOWEVER YOU'RE JOINING US,
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WE WELCOME YOU TODAY.
AND, ACTUALLY, WE HAVE A WARM
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WELCOME FOR YOU BECAUSE IN
SACRAMENTO TODAY IT'LL BE 95
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DEGREES - VERY HOT. I
THINK THAT TRANSLATES TO MAYBE
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35 DEGREES CELSIUS. SO
NO MATTER THE SEASON WHERE
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YOU ARE, WITH SONG AND SERVICE
THIS MORNING, WE WELCOME YOU
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WITH OPEN ARMS. SO LET'S SING.
I HOPE YOU HAVE YOUR HYMNALS.
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OUR FIRST SONG THIS
MORNING IS HYMN #469 -
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'LEANING ON THE
EVERLASTING ARMS'.
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NOW TODAY WE FOUND OUT THAT
WE HAVE GOTTEN REQUESTS FROM
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97 COUNTRIES,
AMEN? THIS IS WONDERFUL.
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SO, 'LEANING ON THE EVERLASTING
ARMS' THIS MORNING COMES AS A
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REQUEST FROM CANADA - ROSE
IN CANADA, MANFRED IN GERMANY,
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MANY, MANY, MANY OTHER PEOPLE
- MPROBABLY A PART OF THOSE
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97 COUNTRIES. SO THIS MORNING
WE'LL SING THE FIRST, SECOND
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AND THIRD STANZAS - 'LEANING
ON THE EVERLASTING ARMS'.
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(MUSIC)
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>>AMEN. NOW, IF YOU WOULD LIKE
TO BE THE 98TH COUNTRY, SEND US
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A NOTE AT 'WWW.SACCENTRAL.ORG' -
'SACCENTRAL.ORG' - IF YOU CLICK
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ON THE 'CONTACT US' LINK AND
SEND IN ANY HYMN - OLD OR NEW -
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FROM OUR HYMNAL, WE'LL BE HAPPY
TO HEAR FROM YOU. OUR NEXT SONG,
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IF YOU'VE BEEN WITH US ANYWHERE
WITHIN THE PAST YEAR IS NUMBER
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69 - WE'RE MOVING OUR
WAY THROUGH THE HYMNAL AND
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WE'RE ALREADY ON 69.
THIS IS A VERY LOVELY SIMPLE
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AMERICAN NEGRO SPIRITUAL
AND IT READS JUST LIKE A PRAYER.
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NOW THIS WEEK - THIS PAST WEEK
- COMMEMORATED MARTIN LUTHER
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KING'S MARCH ON WASHINGTON.
IT WAS THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY
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AND - WITH HIS 'I HAVE A DREAM'
SPEECH - AND WE'VE COME SO FAR
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SINCE THE CIVIL RIGHTS ERA,
BUT WE STILL HAVE SO FAR TO GO.
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AND I CAN JUST IMAGINE THE
FREEDOM FIGHTERS FIFTY YEARS AGO
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SINGING THIS SONG ASKING FOR
STRENGTH, ASKING FOR PEACE ON
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THEIR MARCH TO FREEDOM.
AND AS I WAS READING IT THIS
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MORNING, IT
PARALLELS OUR WALK WITH GOD.
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I IMAGINE US SINGING THIS
SONG - AS WE SING THIS SONG THIS
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MORNING, THINK OF HOW MUCH - HOW
FAR YOU'VE COME IN YOUR WALK,
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BUT HOW FAR WE HAVE TO
GO UNTIL JESUS COMES AGAIN.
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SO LET'S SING HYMN #69 -
WE'LL SING ALL FOUR STANZAS.
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(MUSIC)
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>>AMEN. LET'S PRAY.
DEAR HEAVENLY FATHER, WE ASK
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THAT YOU MAKE US MORE HUMBLE.
WE ASK THAT YOU MAKE US MORE
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LOVING, MORE
FAITHFUL, MORE LIKE YOU.
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THROUGH DEATH AND DISASTER AND
CONFUSION AND CRAZINESS IN THIS
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WORLD, SOMETIMES WE FORGET THAT
WE DO HAVE YOU AND THAT WE DO
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HAVE A HOPE THAT WE COULD
HOLD ON TO AND ACTIVELY PRAY FOR
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UNTIL YOU COME AGAIN. SO
AS WE STUDY AND WORSHIP TODAY
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AND AS WE STUDY IN WORSHIP
THROUGHOUT THE WEEK, LORD, WE
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ASK TO ALWAYS GIVE US A STILL
SMALL VOICE TELLING US TO TURN
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THE OTHER CHEEK. WE
ASK THAT YOU FILL OUR LIPS
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WITH PRAISE AND TO THANK YOU
WHEN YOU GIVE US A LITTLE BIT
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MORE DESIRE TO BE
HUMBLE AND WE JUST THANK YOU.
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WE ADORE YOU AND WE LOVE YOU FOR
ALL OF THE BLESSINGS THAT YOU
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HAVE GIVEN US AND WILL GIVE US.
IN JESUS' NAME WE PRAY, AMEN.
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>>GOOD MORNING.
WHAT A BEAUTIFUL MORNING.
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THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING
HERE TO WORSHIP AND PRAISE GOD.
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BEAUTIFUL DAY, BEAUTIFUL TIME
TO BE ALIVE. GOD IS GOOD, RIGHT?
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WE HAVE A SPECIAL OFFER TO SHARE
WITH YOU, #723 AND YOU WILL KNOW
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BEFORE THIS LESSON'S OVER THAT
THIS IS A GOOD BOOK THAT WE ALL
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SHOULD HAVE
BECAUSE IT IS ENTITLED
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'HOLY SPIRIT: THE NEED'.
WE'LL DEFINITELY UNDERSTAND
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BEFORE THE LESSON'S OVER THAT WE
ALL NEED MORE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
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IN OUR LIVES, THAT'S FOR SURE.
NOW, WE'RE MOVING RIGHT ALONG.
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WE'RE ON #12 OF THIS QUARTER
AND IT'S ENTITLED 'REFORMATION:
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HEALING BROKEN RELATIONSHIPS'.
LET US READ - IF YOU WOULD JOIN
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ME PLEASE - OUR MEMORY TEXT
FOUND IN ROMANS 5:10 THERE IN
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YOUR QUARTERLY. READY?
"FOR IF WHEN WE WERE ENEMIES WE
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WERE RECONCILED TO GOD THROUGH
THE DEATH OF HIS SON, MUCH MORE,
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HAVING BEEN RECONCILED, WE
SHALL BE SAVED BY HIS LIFE."
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SO, IF THERE'S EVER A LESSON AND
IT IS PRACTICAL, IT IS THIS ONE.
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I HEARD SOMEONE RECENTLY
COMPLAINING ABOUT - THIS WAS IN
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ANOTHER CHURCH A LONG WAYS
AWAY FROM HERE - BUT THEY WERE
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COMPLAINING ABOUT, 'OH, I JUST
NEVER HEARD ANY MESSAGES THAT
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WERE REAL PRACTICAL
FOR EVERY DAY LIVING.'
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WELL, BELIEVE ME, THIS IS A
PRACTICAL LESSON FOR EVERY DAY
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LIVING WHEN WE TALK
ABOUT BROKEN RELATIONSHIPS.
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MAYBE THERE ISN'T A MORE
RELEVANT TOPIC WITHIN THE CHURCH
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THAN THIS ONE, FOR WHO AMONG
US HAVE NOT EXPERIENCED A BROKEN
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WE SHOULD NOT BE SURPRISED
BECAUSE, JUST LIKE OUR MEMORY
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TEXT REMINDS US THIS MORNING,
THAT MANKIND IS IN NEED OF BEING
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RECONCILED TO GOD BECAUSE WE
HAVE THIS BROKEN RELATIONSHIP
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WITH GOD - IT ALL
STARTED 6,000 YEARS AGO OR SO.
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AND IT SAYS WE NEED TO BE
RECONCILED TO HIM BECAUSE WE ARE
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HIS ENEMIES. THAT
SOUNDS AWFUL, DOESN'T IT?
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YOU ARE AN ENEMY TO GOD?
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WELL, MOST OF US PROBABLY DON'T
THINK WE'RE ENEMIES TO GOD.
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WHAT MAKES A
PERSON AN ENEMY TO GOD?
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WELL, IT COMES
BECAUSE OF DISOBEDIENCE.
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IF WE'RE NOT FOR SOMETHING
WE'RE AGAINST IT, RIGHT?
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IF WE'RE NOT FOR THE TOTAL WORD
OF GOD, SOMEHOW WE'RE AGAINST
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IT, THAT DOES MAKE US ENEMIES
AND ADAM AND EVE GOT THE BALL
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ROLLING BACK THERE IN THE GARDEN
OF EDEN WHEN THEY DISOBEYED AND
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THEY FOUND THEMSELVES
IN NEED OF RECONCILIATION.
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WHEN THEY
DISOBEYED THEY HID FROM GOD.
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AND YOU KNOW HOW
THEY HID FROM GOD, RIGHT?
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THEY WENT AND
FOUND SOME FIG LEAVES.
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NOW, HAVE ANY OF
YOU EVER PICKED FIGS?
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THEY'RE - THE LEAVES ON A
FIG TREE ARE ABOUT THE ITCHIEST
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THINGS YOU CAN THINK OF.
THEY KEEP YOUR ARMS ITCHING FOR
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A LONG TIME. THAT
MUST HAVE BEEN AN AWFUL
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THING TO TRY AND
HIDE BEHIND FIG LEAVES.
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SO ANYTIME WE TRY TO HIDE FROM
PROBLEMS OR WITH GOD ESPECIALLY,
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THERE'S ALWAYS
SOME UNPLEASANT RESULTS.
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CAMOUFLAGE - YOU KNOW ALL
THE ARMIES IN THE WORLD WEAR A
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CAMOUFLAGED
MATERIAL OR CLOTHING. WHY?
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BECAUSE THEY WANT
TO HIDE FROM THE ENEMY.
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THAT'S WHAT ADAM AND
EVE TRIED TO DO WITH GOD.
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MANKIND WHEN WE
DO SOMETHING WRONG.
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WE SOMETIMES
WANT TO HIDE FROM GOD.
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BUT DOES THAT WORK? YOU
CAN'T HIDE FROM GOD, CAN WE?
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BUT EVEN IN THE BEST POSSIBLE
CONDITIONS, SUCH AS - THE LESSON
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POINTS OUT - RIGHT AFTER THE
AMAZING EXPERIENCE AT PENTECOST
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- AND WAS THAT AN
AMAZING EXPERIENCE?
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I MEAN PENTECOST WAS ONE OF THE
MOST - MOST LIVE EXPERIENCE OF
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GOD'S PRESENCE AMONG HIS PEOPLE
FOR THEY HAD BEEN PRAYING FOR
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DAYS AND POURING OUT THEIR
HEARTS TO GOD, COMING INTO UNITY
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- AND THEY EXPERIENCED A UNITY
THAT THEY HAD NEVER EXPERIENCED
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BEFORE - THESE BELIEVERS - AND
GOD'S SPIRIT WAS POURED OUT UPON
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THEM AND THOUSANDS WERE
BEING CONVERTED TO THE GOSPEL.
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BUT THEN, STRAINED RELATIONSHIPS
VERY SOON DEVELOPED.
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IMAGINE THAT. SUCH
AN EXPERIENCE THAT THEY
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WERE HAVING AND BEFORE LONG THEY
WERE HAVING PROBLEMS WITH EACH
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OTHER IN SOME WAY OR ANOTHER.
SO WE NEED NOT BE SURPRISED IF
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THIS HAPPENS IN THE
CHURCH FROM TIME TO TIME.
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WE MAY DESPERATELY TRY TO AVOID
IT BUT THERE IS A MASTER ENEMY
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THAT IS AT WORK FULL TIME - 24
HOURS A DAY 7 DAYS A WEEK TRYING
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TO BRING BROKEN
RELATIONSHIPS WITH GOD'S PEOPLE.
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DO YOU BELIEVE THAT?
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ALL THE TIME - WORKING HARD AT
IT - BECAUSE IF HE KNOWS HE CAN
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DO THAT, HE'S GOING TO HAVE SOME
GOOD SUCCESS IN OTHER AREAS.
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NOW BEFORE WE GET INTO OUR
LESSON THIS MORNING, THE THOUGHT
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STRUCK ME AND I BELIEVE THERE IS
ONE PASSAGE OF SCRIPTURE THAT IF
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EACH OF US APPLIED
FULLY TO OURSELVES, STRAINED
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RELATIONSHIPS
MIGHT NOT TAKE PLACE.
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NOW YOU MIGHT BE THINKING OF A
TEXT THAT WOULD APPLY TO WHAT I
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JUST SAID AND THERE'S PROBABLY
SEVERAL, BUT THE ONE THAT I AM
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THINKING OF IS FOUND IN
PHILIPPIANS 2:3, WHERE IT SAYS
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THIS: "LET NOTHING BE DONE
THROUGH STRIFE OR VAINGLORY;
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BUT IN LOWLINESS OF
MIND LET EACH ESTEEM OTHERS
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BETTER THAN THEMSELVES."
WHEW, THAT'S A HARD SAYING.
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HOW CAN YOU ESTEEM SOMEBODY
BETTER THAN YOU WHEN YOU KNOW
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THEY'RE DOING SOMETHING
THAT YOU DON'T EVER DO?
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WELL, ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS STOP
AND THINK YOU DO SOME THINGS
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MAYBE THAT THEY DON'T
DO, RIGHT? WE ALL FALL SHORT.
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WE ALL ARE SINNERS. NOW
THERE ARE TIMES WHEN WE HAVE
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TO ADDRESS ISSUES, FOR SURE.
OF COURSE, THERE ARE THOSE WHO
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HAVE A DISTORTED PICTURE OF
THIS KIND OF TEXT, THINKING TO
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THEMSELVES, 'I
AM WORSE THAN DIRT.
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I NEED TO EAT WORMS. I
AM SO LOWLY' - THAT'S A
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DISTORTED
PERVERSION OF THIS TEXT.
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THE REAL CONCEPT OF ESTEEMING
OTHERS BETTER THAN OURSELVES IS
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BECAUSE OF THE RELATIONSHIP WITH
CHRIST CAN OFTEN SWAY TOO FAR
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FROM THEIR STRIVING TO THINKING
THEY ARE DOING BETTER THAN
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OTHERS BECAUSE YOU KNOW AS WELL
AS I DO IT IS SO EASY TO SEE THE
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FAULTS IN OTHER
PEOPLE, RIGHT? IT'S VERY EASY.
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IT'S EASIER TO SEE THOSE FAULTS
THAN SOMETIMES IN OURSELVES.
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AND WHEN WE SEE THESE GLARING
FAULTS, ISN'T IT HARD TO THINK
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THAT YOU ARE BETTER THAN
THEY ARE? EASY, ISN'T IT? SURE.
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BUT THAT'S NOT
WHAT WE SHOULD DO.
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SO, MOST STRAINED RELATIONSHIPS
START BECAUSE - THEY START TO
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FEEL THE STRAIN BECAUSE ONE
OR BOTH PARTIES FEEL BETTER THAN
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THE OTHER. WELL, THE
LESSON MENTIONED THAT
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THE FOCUS OF THE WEEK WOULD
BE ON RESTORING RELATIONSHIPS.
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BEFORE WE CAN RESTORE
RELATIONSHIPS, WE HAVE TO
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UNDERSTAND WHY RELATIONSHIPS
BREAK DOWN, WHAT IS THE CAUSE OF
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IT SOMETIMES? AND
THIS KIND OF THING.
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SO WE'LL FIND OUT AS
WE GO THROUGH THE LESSON.
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SUNDAY'S IS ENTITLED 'FROM
FRACTURED TO FRIENDSHIP' AND THE
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EXAMPLE OF THE STRIFE
THAT EXISTED BETWEEN PAUL AND
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BARNABAS IS GIVEN.
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THE STRIFE CAME ABOUT BECAUSE
THERE WAS A YOUNG MAN WORKING
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WITH THEM, HIS NAME WAS MARK OR
JOHN MARK, AND HE KIND OF LEFT
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THEM IN THE LURCH AND
PAUL DIDN'T APPRECIATE THAT.
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YOU KIND OF GET THE IDEA THAT
PAUL WAS A NO NONSENSE KIND OF
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GUY, DON'T YOU, AS
YOU READ HIS WRITINGS?
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NO NONSENSE TYPE OF GUY AND IF
THIS YOUNG MAN CAN'T DO BETTER
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THAN THAT, WE DON'T HAVE ANY
ROOM FOR HIM IN THE MINISTRY AND
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SO PAUL AND BARNABAS KIND OF
SPLIT UP - SPLIT THEIR WAYS -
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AND BARNABAS, EVIDENTLY,
HE COULD SEE SOMETHING IN THIS
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YOUNG MAN HE WASN'T GOING TO
GIVE UP ON. NOW THE STORY HAS
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A HAPPY ENDING, BUT
WHAT MADE IT THIS WAY?
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WHAT MADE IT WAS - THE
HAPPY ENDING - BECAUSE MARK,
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EVIDENTLY, OVER TIME PROVED
HIMSELF AS A WORTHY DEDICATED
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WORKER FOR GOD AND PAUL WAS
ABLE THEN, FINALLY, TO SEE THAT.
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AND SO PAUL AND BARNABAS PATCHED
UP THEIR - THEY RECONCILED THEIR
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RELATIONSHIP AND THEY WENT
ON TO WORK WITH EACH OTHER.
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BUT WHAT IF IT HADN'T BECOME SO
APPARENT TO PAUL THAT THIS WAS
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THE CASE? WOULD THE
DIFFERENCE OF FEELINGS
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BETWEEN PAUL AND BARNABAS
PROBABLY CONTINUE TO EXIST?
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WE DON'T KNOW, BUT LIKELY.
SO, ONE THING WE CAN BEGIN TO
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SAY THIS MORNING IS TO
BRING RECONCILIATION BETWEEN TWO
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PEOPLE, RIGHTING SOME KIND
- MAKING RIGHT SOME KIND OF
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SHORTCOMINGS WOULD BE
A GOOD PLACE TO BEGIN.
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IF YOU KNOW THERE'S SOMETHING
WRONG, LET'S MAKE IT RIGHT AND
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THEN MAYBE WE'LL BE ABLE TO GET
SOMEPLACE AND THE ISSUE OF THE
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STRIFE WAS MARK AND
PAUL'S OPINION OF HIM NOT BEING
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DEPENDABLE. NOW, AT
LEAST ONE OF THE PARTIES
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IN THIS STRIFE HAD TO BE WILLING
TO ADDRESS THE ISSUE AND WORK
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WITH IT, WHICH I GIVE MORE
CREDIT TO BARNABAS IN THIS AREA
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THAN I DO PAUL. BUT
BARNABAS WAS WILLING TO KEEP
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WORKING WITH JOHN MARK.
MAYBE HE KNEW HIM BETTER THAN
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PAUL DID, I DON'T KNOW, BUT HE
KEPT - HE HAD THE WILLINGNESS TO
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CONTINUE TO WORK
WITH THIS YOUNG MAN.
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I THINK, PROBABLY - THERE IS
PROBABLY IN ALL OF US A LITTLE
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BIT OF THIS NO
NONSENSE KIND OF ATTITUDE.
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IF SOMETHING IS RIGHT, LET'S
MAKE SURE THAT IT'S RIGHT AND SO
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FORTH AND LET'S DON'T HAVE
ANY NONSENSE AND SO FORTH AND IT
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EXISTS IN ALL OF US AND
SOMETIMES WE CAN SHOW SIGNS OF
00:18:36.63\00:18:41.20
INTOLERANCE IF
WE'RE NOT CAREFUL.
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I KNOW I'VE BEEN THERE
BEFORE AND IT CAN BE HUMBLING.
00:18:43.40\00:18:47.16
YOU KNOW, THIS SONG WE JUST
SANG - I'M ALWAYS A LITTLE BIT
00:18:47.16\00:18:50.96
RELUCTANT TO SING 'LORD, MAKE
ME HOLY - HUMBLE', I MEAN OR
00:18:50.96\00:18:55.23
'HUMBLE ME O LORD'. GOD
HAS WAYS OF HUMBLING US,
00:18:55.23\00:18:58.16
BELIEVE ME. I DON'T EVEN HAVE TO
00:18:58.16\00:19:01.86
PRAY ABOUT IT. GOD HAS
WAYS OF DOING THAT, BUT
00:19:01.86\00:19:04.00
YES WE SHOULD BE HUMBLE.
WE SHOULD PROBABLY PRAY ABOUT
00:19:04.00\00:19:06.70
IT, I SUPPOSE,
BUT GOD CAN DO THAT.
00:19:06.70\00:19:10.60
IF YOU HAVE A STRAINED
RELATIONSHIP AND YOU ARE WILLING
00:19:10.60\00:19:13.63
TO REALLY EXAMINE YOURSELF AND
ASK GOD TO HELP YOU TO DO THIS
00:19:13.63\00:19:18.20
SO THAT YOU WOULD BE ABLE TO
SEE IF THERE'S ANY PART OF THE
00:19:18.20\00:19:21.63
PROBLEM THAT YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE
FOR, THEN THAT IS A HUGE POINT.
00:19:21.63\00:19:26.83
BUT PROBABLY, MOST OFTEN IN
STRAINED RELATIONSHIPS, YOU KNOW
00:19:26.83\00:19:30.26
HOW IT GOES: 'I'M RIGHT,
THE OTHER PERSON'S WRONG.
00:19:30.26\00:19:34.56
I KNOW IT. I KNOW YOU'RE
WRONG. I KNOW SHE'S WRONG.
00:19:34.56\00:19:37.63
IT'S JUST THE WAY IT IS.'
NOW EVEN IF ONE PERSON IS MORE
00:19:37.63\00:19:42.53
TO BLAME THAN THE OTHER, WHICH
I SAY, AGAIN, THIS CASE PROBABLY
00:19:42.53\00:19:46.96
HAD TO BE PAUL.
THANK GOD FOR BARNABAS.
00:19:46.96\00:19:49.50
HE DIDN'T DEEPEN THE STRIFE,
BARNABAS DIDN'T DEEPEN THE
00:19:49.50\00:19:53.26
STRIFE BY ARGUING OVER THE
MATTER, BUT WORKED WITH THE
00:19:53.26\00:19:56.73
SOURCE OF THE PROBLEM
THAT BROUGHT ABOUT THE CHANGES
00:19:56.73\00:19:59.30
THAT WERE NECESSARY. I
WANT TO BE QUICK TO POINT OUT
00:19:59.30\00:20:02.23
THAT THIS WASN'T A PROBLEM
AS SERIOUS AS SOME BECOME IN THE
00:20:02.23\00:20:06.46
CHURCH. SOME
PROBLEMS GET MUCH BIGGER
00:20:06.46\00:20:10.26
THAN THIS AND OVER ISSUES OF
MORALITY AND DOING THINGS RIGHT
00:20:10.26\00:20:13.66
VERSUS DOING THINGS WRONG.
YOU KNOW, OUR SENIOR PASTOR
00:20:13.66\00:20:17.23
PREACHED A SERMON ONE DAY
AND THIS CHURCH PROBABLY BROUGHT
00:20:17.23\00:20:20.26
MORE DISAFFECTION TO
HIM THAN ANY OTHER SERMON.
00:20:20.26\00:20:23.16
HE COULD HAVE PREACHED FOR
THE REST OF HIS LIFE AND NEVER
00:20:23.16\00:20:25.56
PREACHED ON THAT SUBJECT.
HE COULD HAVE FOUND LOTS OF
00:20:25.56\00:20:29.16
THINGS TO PREACH ABOUT OTHER
THAN THAT SUBJECT, BUT HE HAD
00:20:29.16\00:20:34.43
THE CONVICTION FROM GOD TO
PREACH THE TRUTH ABOUT THAT
00:20:34.43\00:20:36.80
SUBJECT. EVEN
THOUGH IT MIGHT MAKE SOME
00:20:36.80\00:20:39.33
PEOPLE UPSET, RIGHT? NOW
PREACHERS SHOULDN'T BE IN
00:20:39.33\00:20:43.13
THIS WORK TO BE PART OF A -
YOU KNOW, JUST TO BE LIKED BY
00:20:43.13\00:20:48.86
EVERYBODY. IT'S NOT JUST
SOME CONTEST TO BE LOVED BY
00:20:48.86\00:20:52.40
EVERYBODY. SO, SOMETIMES,
WHEN YOU HAVE TO DRESS WRONG,
00:20:52.40\00:20:55.63
IT BRINGS YOU AN ENEMY.
THAT'S JUST THE WAY IT GOES.
00:20:55.63\00:20:59.06
I'VE BEEN IN THOSE KINDS OF
SITUATIONS BEFORE AND I'VE TRIED
00:20:59.06\00:21:02.06
TO TAKE THE LOW ROAD, EVEN
APOLOGIZING, YOU KNOW, THE BEST
00:21:02.06\00:21:06.46
I CAN BUT, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES
WHEN SOMEBODY IS REALLY OUT TO
00:21:06.46\00:21:11.53
ACCUSE YOU AND REBELLIOUSLY
CAUSE PROBLEMS BY CONTINUING TO
00:21:11.53\00:21:16.50
DO SOMETHING WRONG, THERE'S
NOT MUCH YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT.
00:21:16.50\00:21:19.26
BUT THAT WAS NOT THIS SITUATION.
PAUL AND BARNABAS HAD A SIMPLE
00:21:19.26\00:21:23.00
DISAGREEMENT
OVER THIS YOUNG MAN.
00:21:23.00\00:21:27.10
RECONCILIATION, THOUGH, IS
STILL THE GOAL IN ALL OF BROKEN
00:21:27.10\00:21:31.80
RELATIONSHIPS.
WOULD YOU AGREE TO THAT?
00:21:31.80\00:21:34.36
RECONCILIATION. NOW,
BEFORE WE GO TO MONDAY, I
00:21:34.36\00:21:37.33
WANT TO SHARE ANOTHER
EXAMPLE FROM THE BIBLE TO SHOW A
00:21:37.33\00:21:40.36
DIFFERENCE BECAUSE NOT ALL
PROBLEMS ARE THE SAME, WE KNOW.
00:21:40.36\00:21:46.20
I'M TALKING ABOUT A RELATIONSHIP
BETWEEN ISAAC AND REBEKAH.
00:21:46.20\00:21:50.70
REMEMBER THAT RELATIONSHIP?
THERE MIGHT NOT BE A MORE
00:21:50.70\00:21:54.26
ROMANTIC STORY IN ALL THE
BIBLE THAN ISAAC AND REBEKAH.
00:21:54.26\00:21:59.76
THINK ABOUT IT, ISAAC WAS A
YOUNG MAN THAT WAS WILLING TO
00:21:59.76\00:22:03.50
ALLOW HIS FATHER TO SACRIFICE
HIM BECAUSE GOD SAID SO.
00:22:03.50\00:22:08.53
THAT'S HOW WILLING AND LOVING
AND HOW MUCH HE WAS DEDICATED
00:22:08.53\00:22:12.83
TO GOD. NOW, IT
CAME TIME FOR HIM TO
00:22:12.83\00:22:16.06
THINK ABOUT MARRIAGE AND
ABRAHAM, HIS FATHER, SAID,
00:22:16.06\00:22:18.50
'I DON'T WANT HIM JUST MARRYING
ANY OLD LADY, I WANT SOMEBODY
00:22:18.50\00:22:21.46
SPECIAL FOR HIM THAT WILL
BELIEVE IN THE GOD OF HEAVEN.
00:22:21.46\00:22:24.43
SO HE SENT HIS SERVANT TO
HIS HOMELAND TO FIND - SEE IF HE
00:22:24.43\00:22:28.90
COULD FIND A
MARRIAGE PARTNER FOR HIS SON.
00:22:28.90\00:22:33.60
WHAT A TASK TO GIVE A
SERVANT, BUT HE WENT ON IT.
00:22:33.60\00:22:36.36
AND WE KNOW THE STORY.
IT WAS A REMARKABLE STORY.
00:22:36.36\00:22:39.46
HE FOUND REBEKAH.
REBEKAH WAS A WONDERFUL
00:22:39.46\00:22:42.73
YOUNG LADY. THINK
ABOUT HER SITUATION.
00:22:42.73\00:22:45.66
HERE SHE WAS, SHE HEARD THE
STORY, SHE SAW THE HAND OF GOD
00:22:45.66\00:22:49.30
LEADING AND GUIDING AND, 'YES,
I WILL LEAVE MY FAMILY, MOST
00:22:49.30\00:22:55.76
LIKELY FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE -
NEVER SEE THEM AGAIN - TO MARRY
00:22:55.76\00:23:00.63
THIS MAN I HAVE
NEVER SEEN BEFORE.'
00:23:00.63\00:23:04.26
SUPPOSE HE LOOKED LIKE A
TOAD. NO, HE DIDN'T - HE DIDN'T.
00:23:04.26\00:23:08.10
BUT THIS WAS GOD'S LEADING AND
SHE WAS WILLING TO GO WITH THE
00:23:08.10\00:23:11.53
SERVANT TO BE MARRIED
TO THIS MAN CALLED ISAAC.
00:23:11.53\00:23:17.53
NOW I RECOUNT ALL THAT TO HELP
US REALIZE HOW COMMITTED AND
00:23:17.53\00:23:22.10
DEDICATED THESE TWO YOUNG
PEOPLE WERE - AMAZINGLY SO.
00:23:22.10\00:23:25.96
AND LISTEN TO PART OF THE STORY
ONE COULD SAY WAS MORE THAN AN
00:23:25.96\00:23:29.90
AMAZING ROMANTIC NOVEL. GENESIS
24, STARTING WITH VERSE 63.
00:23:29.90\00:23:34.96
GENESIS 24, VERSE 63 SAYS, "AND
ISAAC WENT OUT TO MEDITATE IN
00:23:34.96\00:23:41.40
THE FIELD AT THE EVENTIDE;
AND HE LIFTED HIS EYES, AND SAW,
00:23:41.40\00:23:46.00
AND, BEHOLD, THE
CAMELS WERE COMING.
00:23:46.00\00:23:48.23
AND REBEKAH LIFTED UP HER EYES,
AND WHEN SHE SAW ISAAC, SHE
00:23:48.23\00:23:52.50
LIGHTED OFF THE
CAMEL." JUST THINK OF THAT.
00:23:52.50\00:23:54.23
IF THIS WAS A MOVIE, THE MUSIC
WOULD CHANGE, IT WOULD BE MORE
00:23:54.23\00:23:57.26
EXCITING AND THE CAMERAS WOULD
PAN OUT AND PAN IN AND, OH BOY,
00:23:57.26\00:24:02.16
MAYBE EVEN GO DOWN IN SLOW
MOTION WATCHING THESE TWO YOUNG
00:24:02.16\00:24:04.96
PEOPLE COME
TOWARDS EACH OTHER - WHEW.
00:24:04.96\00:24:07.56
THEN IT GOES ON TO SAY, "FOR SHE
HAD SAID UNTO THE SERVANT, 'WHAT
00:24:07.56\00:24:13.86
AND THE SERVANT SAID, 'IT IS
MY MASTER:' THEREFORE SHE TOOK A
00:24:13.86\00:24:17.43
VEIL AND COVERED HERSELF.
AND THE SERVANT TOLD ISAAC ALL
00:24:17.43\00:24:21.23
THINGS THAT HE HAD DONE.
AND ISAAC BROUGHT HER INTO HIS
00:24:21.23\00:24:24.73
MOTHER SARAH'S TENT, AND
TOOK REBEKAH, AND SHE BECAME HIS
00:24:24.73\00:24:28.60
WIFE; AND HE LOVED HER: AND
ISAAC WAS COMFORTED AFTER HIS
00:24:28.60\00:24:32.93
MOTHER'S DEATH." DID
GOD EVER BRING THESE TWO
00:24:32.93\00:24:37.76
PEOPLE TOGETHER?
DO YOU BELIEVE THAT?
00:24:37.76\00:24:39.80
GOD BROUGHT THESE TWO PEOPLE
INTO A FANTASTICALLY WONDERFUL
00:24:39.80\00:24:44.90
RELATIONSHIP, BOTH DEDICATED
TO GOD ABSOLUTELY, UNTIL,
00:24:44.90\00:24:52.60
UNTIL THEY HAD CHILDREN.
OH, AND SO MANY PEOPLE HEARING
00:24:52.60\00:25:00.20
THAT CAN RELATE.
BOY, THINGS WERE REALLY
00:25:00.20\00:25:03.10
DIFFERENT AFTER
WE GOT SOME CHILDREN.
00:25:03.10\00:25:05.00
MAYBE NOT SO WHEN THEY WERE
BABIES, BUT BY THE TIME THEY
00:25:05.00\00:25:07.36
BECAME TEENAGERS, THINGS CHANGED
IN OUR HOME AND EVEN IN OUR
00:25:07.36\00:25:11.90
RELATIONSHIP AS
HUSBAND AND WIFE.
00:25:11.90\00:25:14.26
CHILDREN DO BRING
SOME CHANGES, DO THEY NOT?
00:25:14.26\00:25:17.80
AND IN THIS HOME, IT
BROUGHT SOME CHANGES.
00:25:17.80\00:25:22.53
GENESIS CHAPTER 25, VERSES 27
AND 28 GIVES US AN IDEA OF SOME
00:25:22.53\00:25:27.46
OF THE STRAIN THAT WOULD
BE BROUGHT UPON THIS MARRIAGE
00:25:27.46\00:25:30.53
RELATIONSHIP. LISTEN,
"AND THE BOYS GREW: AND
00:25:30.53\00:25:33.60
ESAU WAS A CUNNING HUNTER, A MAN
OF THE FIELD; AND JACOB WAS A
00:25:33.60\00:25:37.50
PLAIN MAN, DWELLING IN TENTS.
AND ISAAC LOVED ESAU, BECAUSE HE
00:25:37.50\00:25:42.36
DID EAT OF HIS VENISON:
BUT REBEKAH LOVED JACOB."
00:25:42.36\00:25:47.76
TENSION OVER WHO WAS THE
PRIVILEGED CHILD AND WHO WOULD
00:25:47.76\00:25:52.06
GET THE BIRTHRIGHT, BELIEVE ME,
BROUGHT SOME TENSIONS TO THIS
00:25:52.06\00:25:59.13
RELATIONSHIP - THIS WONDERFULLY
FINE CHRISTIAN, DEVOTED COUPLE
00:25:59.13\00:26:05.03
HAD SOME PROBLEMS OVER
THAT ISSUE, LET ME TELL YOU.
00:26:05.03\00:26:09.16
AND HERE IS ONE - HERE IS THE
THING - SO MUCH DIFFERENT THAN
00:26:09.16\00:26:13.26
THE RELATIONSHIP WE WERE TALKING
ABOUT BETWEEN PAUL AND BARNABAS.
00:26:13.26\00:26:16.83
IN THIS RELATIONSHIP, YOU
CAN'T JUST GO OFF - YOU'RE NOT
00:26:16.83\00:26:21.46
SUPPOSED TO ANYWAY - GO OFF IN
THIS DIRECTION WHILE THE OTHER
00:26:21.46\00:26:24.76
ONE GOES OFF IN THAT DIRECTION
CONTINUING TO LIVE YOUR LIVES
00:26:24.76\00:26:28.13
LIKE PAUL AND BARNABAS
DID. NO, IN A MARRIAGE, YOU HAVE
00:26:28.13\00:26:31.23
COMMITTED TO BE TOGETHER
THROUGH THICK AND THIN -
00:26:31.23\00:26:36.03
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE.
SO YOU'RE JUST NOT SUPPOSED TO
00:26:36.03\00:26:40.60
RUN AWAY WHICH, UNFORTUNATELY
IS HAPPENING QUITE OFTEN THESE
00:26:40.60\00:26:45.26
DAYS, BUT YOU'RE NOT
SUPPOSED TO. SO IN A MARRIAGE
00:26:45.26\00:26:49.40
RELATIONSHIP YOU HAVE TO
HAVE THE MIND SET THAT WHEN -
00:26:49.40\00:26:54.53
AND THEY WILL - WHEN PROBLEMS
COME UP - THEY WILL, RIGHT?
00:26:54.53\00:27:00.23
THEY WILL - I KNOW,
I'VE BEEN MARRIED 45 YEARS.
00:27:00.23\00:27:03.56
WE SURVIVED THEM ALL, THANK
GOD, BUT THEY WILL COME UP.
00:27:03.56\00:27:07.83
RECONCILIATION IS THE NAME
OF THE GAME, RIGHT? ABSOLUTELY.
00:27:07.83\00:27:12.36
IF IT ISN'T THE MAIN NAME OF THE
GAME, THEN YOU WILL FIND WHAT
00:27:12.36\00:27:15.56
MANY MARRIED COUPLES ARE DOING
- BAILING OUT - GOING THEIR
00:27:15.56\00:27:18.96
OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS. NOW,
EVIDENTLY, ISAAC AND REBEKAH
00:27:18.96\00:27:23.76
FOUND ENOUGH RECONCILIATION
TO LAST A LIFETIME, BECAUSE WE
00:27:23.76\00:27:28.30
DIDN'T FIND THEM PARTING,
YOU KNOW, IN THEIR RELATIONSHIP.
00:27:28.30\00:27:33.53
THEY STAYED TOGETHER.
SO PRAISE GOD THEY DID.
00:27:33.53\00:27:36.90
IN ALL RELATIONSHIPS WE SHOULD
BE COMMITTED TO RECONCILIATION
00:27:36.90\00:27:40.23
IF THE NEED ARISES,
ESPECIALLY IN A MARRIAGE.
00:27:40.23\00:27:44.50
THE APOSTLE PAUL WOULD
HAVE US CONSIDER, IN THE BOOK OF
00:27:44.50\00:27:47.06
EPHESIANS, WHERE HE SAYS, 'BE
YE ANGRY' - YOU KNOW, YOU CAN BE
00:27:47.06\00:27:51.03
ANGRY - 'BUT SIN NOT.
LET NOT THE SUN GO DOWN UPON
00:27:51.03\00:27:54.13
YOUR WRATH.' AND HOW
MANY YOUNG COUPLES - OR
00:27:54.13\00:27:57.63
COUPLES OF ANY AGE - HAVE BEEN
TOLD BY A COUNSELOR, 'WHENEVER
00:27:57.63\00:28:01.83
YOU HAVE PROBLEMS DON'T LET
THE SUN GO DOWN ON YOUR WRATH?
00:28:01.83\00:28:06.00
HERE'S WHAT THE BIBLE
SAYS.' THAT'S A PERFECT IDEAL.
00:28:06.00\00:28:09.96
PAUL WOULD ALWAYS GIVE US THE
IDEAL, BUT I CAN ASSURE YOU THAT
00:28:09.96\00:28:13.43
WON'T WORK IN EVERY RELATIONSHIP
BECAUSE SOME OF US ARE
00:28:13.43\00:28:17.23
NOT JUST MADE THAT WAY.
00:28:17.23\00:28:18.60
IN SOME MARRIAGE RELATIONSHIPS,
FOR EXAMPLE, MAYBE IT'S THE MAN,
00:28:18.60\00:28:23.20
MAYBE IT'S THE WOMAN, THE MAN
SAYS, 'YEAH, THAT'S WHAT I WANT.
00:28:23.20\00:28:25.53
I WANT TO GET THIS SETTLED
BEFORE WE GO TO BED TONIGHT.'
00:28:25.53\00:28:28.80
AND THE WIFE MIGHT
SAY, 'THAT'S NOT HOW I WORK.
00:28:28.80\00:28:32.96
I NEED TO LET
THIS STEW A LITTLE BIT.
00:28:32.96\00:28:34.73
I NEED TO THINK ABOUT
THIS. THEN WE CAN TALK AGAIN.
00:28:34.73\00:28:38.16
SO, YEAH, IT'S AN IDEAL MAYBE
WE SHOULD ALL SHOOT FOR, BUT IT
00:28:38.16\00:28:41.33
DOESN'T ALWAYS WORK THAT WAY AND
SO THERE'S ALWAYS MANY DIFFERENT
00:28:41.33\00:28:44.46
WAYS TO TRY TO
APPROACH RECONCILIATION.
00:28:44.46\00:28:48.56
WELL, WE NEED TO MOVE ON TO
MONDAY - 'FROM SLAVE TO SON'.
00:28:48.56\00:28:52.83
THE TITLE, ITSELF, THROWS
OUT A SIGNIFICANT CHALLENGE,
00:28:52.83\00:28:56.00
DOESN'T IT? SLAVE -
JUST THE WORD SLAVE -
00:28:56.00\00:28:59.43
IS SLAVERY A GOOD
THING? SLAVERY IS A BAD THING.
00:28:59.43\00:29:04.03
NEVER SHOULD BE -
NOBODY SHOULD EVER BE A SLAVE.
00:29:04.03\00:29:07.23
WE ARE ALL SLAVES TO
SIN. THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT.
00:29:07.23\00:29:11.23
BUT WE CAN BE SET FREE
FROM THAT, WE ALSO ARE TOLD.
00:29:11.23\00:29:15.06
SO NOBODY SHOULD BE A SLAVE IN
THE WAY WE THINK ABOUT SLAVERY.
00:29:15.06\00:29:18.93
AND THE STORY ON MONDAY, OF
COURSE, IS ONE OF ONESIMUS WHO
00:29:18.93\00:29:23.13
WAS A RUNAWAY SLAVE WHO MET
PAUL. AND THIS RUNAWAY SLAVE
00:29:23.13\00:29:29.10
RAN AWAY FROM A MAN BY THE NAME
OF PHILEMON, WHO PAUL ALSO KNEW.
00:29:29.10\00:29:34.56
SO PAUL GAVE HIM INSTRUCTIONS
TO PHILEMON HOW HE SHOULD TREAT
00:29:34.56\00:29:37.80
THIS MAN AND HE SHOULDN'T TREAT
THEM THE WAY MOST PEOPLE TREATED
00:29:37.80\00:29:40.86
SLAVES BACK IN THOSE
DAYS, VERY ROUGH AND AWFUL.
00:29:40.86\00:29:44.36
HE TOLD HIM HE SHOULD
TREAT HIM AS AN EQUAL.
00:29:44.36\00:29:47.53
NOW THAT WAS - THAT
WAS AN AMAZING THING.
00:29:47.53\00:29:50.56
AND, PROBABLY, THE MOST
IMPORTANT LESSON WE COULD GET
00:29:50.56\00:29:53.00
OUT OF THIS PARTICULAR
PART OF THE LESSON IS HOW PAUL
00:29:53.00\00:29:57.60
APPROACHED PHILEMON OVER
THIS SERIOUS, SERIOUS ISSUE.
00:29:57.60\00:30:01.76
WOULD WE ALL AGREE THAT
SLAVERY IS A SERIOUS ISSUE?
00:30:01.76\00:30:05.66
SURE IT IS. SO HE
DIDN'T COME OUT AND SAY,
00:30:05.66\00:30:08.23
'SLAVERY IS AWFUL. HOW
COULD YOU EVEN THINK OF SUCH
00:30:08.23\00:30:12.43
A THING?' NO, HE
DID IT MUCH DIFFERENT
00:30:12.43\00:30:14.63
THAN THAT AND IT
BROUGHT ABOUT THE RIGHT RESULTS.
00:30:14.63\00:30:18.76
HE WORKED AS KINDLY AND LOVINGLY
AS HE COULD WITH PHILEMON AND
00:30:18.76\00:30:22.33
PHILEMON, EVIDENTLY,
WAS A GOOD CHRISTIAN MAN.
00:30:22.33\00:30:25.00
HE ACCEPTED PAUL'S ADMONITION
AND THERE WAS RECONCILIATION.
00:30:25.00\00:30:28.93
THIS SLAVE THEN BECAME
LIKE A SON TO THIS MASTER.
00:30:28.93\00:30:34.40
IT'S ALMOST AN OVERWHELMING
EMOTION TO WANT TO SET SOMEONE
00:30:34.40\00:30:38.00
STRAIGHT ON AN ISSUE, BUT THAT
ISN'T HOW PAUL APPROACHED IT.
00:30:38.00\00:30:45.53
FROM SLAVE TO SON IS A HUGE
CONCEPT BECAUSE OF WHERE WE ALL
00:30:45.53\00:30:48.90
FIND OURSELVES AS SLAVES.
NOW I KNOW TO BE CALLED - I KNOW
00:30:48.90\00:30:55.13
THERE WERE SO-CALLED SLAVE
OWNERS IN THAT TIME THAT WERE
00:30:55.13\00:30:58.20
GOOD PEOPLE AND THEY ACTUALLY
TREATED THEIR SLAVES KINDLY AND
00:30:58.20\00:31:04.16
- LIKE THE CENTURION. HE
MUST HAVE BEEN A WONDERFUL
00:31:04.16\00:31:07.93
MAN BECAUSE HE WANTED JESUS
TO COME HEAL HIS SLAVE - HIS
00:31:07.93\00:31:13.70
SERVANT - AND HE EVEN SAID,
'YOU KNOW, I'M NOT EVEN WORTHY
00:31:13.70\00:31:20.56
ENOUGH, JESUS, FOR YOU TO COME
INTO MY HOUSE BUT JUST SPEAK THE
00:31:20.56\00:31:23.86
WORD AND MY
SERVANT WILL BE HEALED.'
00:31:23.86\00:31:26.50
JESUS HEALED HIM
BECAUSE HE WAS A GOOD MAN.
00:31:26.50\00:31:29.16
HE TURNED THIS MAN AROUND TO THE
PEOPLE WHO WERE LISTENING - THE
00:31:29.16\00:31:32.43
JEWISH PEOPLE - AND SAID, 'I
HAVE NOT FOUND SUCH GREAT FAITH
00:31:32.43\00:31:35.60
- NO NOT IN ALL OF ISRAEL.'
AND OOOH, THAT'S GOT TO STING A
00:31:35.60\00:31:38.86
LITTLE BIT OF YOU'RE AN
ISRAELITE, BECAUSE YOU PRIDE
00:31:38.86\00:31:41.60
YOURSELF IN HAVING FAITH IN GOD,
BUT THERE WERE SLAVE OWNERS THAT
00:31:41.60\00:31:47.33
ACTED MUCH LIKE THE CENTURION
- SOME OF THEM - A FEW OF THEM,
00:31:47.33\00:31:51.16
PROBABLY. MUCH LIKE
A GOOD EMPLOYER TREATS
00:31:51.16\00:31:55.63
THEIR EMPLOYEES. NOT
ONLY WITH KINDNESS, BUT
00:31:55.63\00:31:58.53
SOMETIMES EVEN WITH LOVE.
A LOT OF EMPLOYERS LOVE THEIR
00:31:58.53\00:32:02.26
EMPLOYEES. BUT BEING
A SLAVE IN THE TRUEST
00:32:02.26\00:32:06.43
SENSE OF THE NEGATIVE ASPECT OF
IT IS AN AWFUL PLIGHT FOR MOST
00:32:06.43\00:32:09.96
PEOPLE FINDING
THEMSELVES IN THAT PREDICAMENT.
00:32:09.96\00:32:13.10
THERE PROBABLY ISN'T A PERSON
WHO HASN'T HEARD THE STORY AT
00:32:13.10\00:32:15.96
ONE TIME OR ANOTHER - PROBABLY
THE MOST FAMILIAR SLAVE STORY
00:32:15.96\00:32:20.16
WITHIN THE CHRISTIAN CIRCLE BUT
IT'S WORTH REPEATING AGAIN THIS
00:32:20.16\00:32:23.23
MORNING BECAUSE
OF ONE ASPECT TO IT.
00:32:23.23\00:32:27.06
THIS PARTICULAR YOUNG SLAVE WAS
BROUGHT TO THE AUCTION BLOCK AND
00:32:27.06\00:32:32.06
HE WAS A YOUNG MAN IN THE FULL
VIGOR OF MANHOOD AND STOUT AND
00:32:32.06\00:32:39.33
STRONG - MUSCLES BULGING ALL
OVER AND SO THE AUCTIONEER KNEW
00:32:39.33\00:32:42.66
HE WOULD GET A GOOD
PRICE OUT OF THIS YOUNG MAN.
00:32:42.66\00:32:46.46
AND SO THE BIDDING BEGAN -
IT WAS VERY ACTIVE - MANY PEOPLE
00:32:46.46\00:32:49.53
BIDDING AND BIDDING AND
WANTING TO BUY THIS SLAVE.
00:32:49.53\00:32:54.30
THIS SLAVE HAD A LOOK ON HIS
FACE OF SUCH ANGER AND 'I DON'T
00:32:54.30\00:32:59.46
CARE WHO GETS ME.
THEY'RE NOT GOING TO GET
00:32:59.46\00:33:01.60
ANYTHING OUT OF ME. I
DON'T CARE HOW MUCH THEY
00:33:01.60\00:33:03.80
WHIP ME.' THAT'S
THE LOOK HE HAD ON HIS
00:33:03.80\00:33:05.30
FACE AND, FINALLY,
THE GAVEL COMES DOWN.
00:33:05.30\00:33:09.40
SOMEBODY HAS BID THE
HIGHEST PRICE FOR THIS SLAVE.
00:33:09.40\00:33:14.20
AND HE COMES FORWARD, AS THE
SLAVE BELIEVES, TO GATHER HIM
00:33:14.20\00:33:19.06
AND TAKE HIM HOME AND
HE BELLIGERENTLY SAYS,
00:33:19.06\00:33:21.66
'YOU CAN TAKE ME
AWAY, YOU CAN WHIP ME, YOU
00:33:21.66\00:33:24.13
CAN BEAT ME BUT I WILL
NEVER DO ANYTHING FOR YOU.
00:33:24.13\00:33:26.33
I WILL NOT BE YOUR SLAVE. I
WILL NOT DO ANYTHING FOR YOU.
00:33:26.33\00:33:29.63
I WILL NOT BE YOUR SLAVE.'
AND THE MAN SAID TO THE SLAVE,
00:33:29.63\00:33:33.06
HE SAID, 'I BOUGHT YOU NOT TO
BE MY SLAVE, BUT I BOUGHT YOU TO
00:33:33.06\00:33:37.56
SET YOU FREE.' AND
THE SLAVE COULDN'T BELIEVE
00:33:37.56\00:33:41.56
HIS EARS AND THE MAN HAD TO SAY
IT AGAIN, 'I BOUGHT YOU NOT TO
00:33:41.56\00:33:46.46
BE MY SLAVE BUT I
BOUGHT YOU TO SET YOU FREE.'
00:33:46.46\00:33:49.96
AND AT THAT THE SLAVE FELL
DOWN AT THE MAN'S FEET AND SAID,
00:33:49.96\00:33:53.63
'I WILL SERVE YOU FOR THE REST
OF MY LIFE.' 'I WILL SERVE YOU
00:33:53.63\00:33:57.46
FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE
BECAUSE YOU SET ME FREE.
00:33:57.46\00:34:00.30
YOU'RE TREATING ME WITH
SUCH LOVE AND KINDNESS AND
00:34:00.30\00:34:02.43
COMPASSION.'
THAT'S HOW GOD TREATS US,
00:34:02.43\00:34:05.50
ISN'T IT? AMEN.
00:34:05.50\00:34:08.13
AND AS HE TREATS US THAT WAY,
HE DOESN'T SET US FREE TO GO OUT
00:34:08.13\00:34:12.26
AND DO OUR OWN THING THE WAY
WE WANT TO DO OUR THING, BUT WE
00:34:12.26\00:34:16.36
HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO
SERVE THE ONE WHO SET US FREE.
00:34:16.36\00:34:19.40
ISN'T THAT RIGHT? YES WE DO.
00:34:19.40\00:34:22.50
SLAVE TO SON - WHAT A
CONCEPT. FROM SLAVE TO SON.
00:34:22.50\00:34:25.20
THAT'S WHERE WE
ALL ARE, WE'RE SLAVES.
00:34:25.20\00:34:27.03
BUT, NO, BECAUSE OF JESUS
CHRIST WE ARE SONS OF GOD.
00:34:27.03\00:34:31.20
WHEW, THAT'S
PRETTY AMAZING, ISN'T IT?
00:34:31.20\00:34:35.00
SO PAUL WAS TELLING HIS FRIEND
PHILEMON THAT ONESIMUS WAS NOW
00:34:35.00\00:34:38.36
TO BE CONSIDERED HIS SON AND HE,
EVIDENTLY, UNDERSTOOD EXACTLY
00:34:38.36\00:34:44.10
EVERYTHING PAUL TOLD
HIM. CAN YOU IMAGINE, IN THE
00:34:44.10\00:34:47.63
RESURRECTION, WHAT IT'S GOING TO
BE LIKE FOR THE - FOR ONESIMUS
00:34:47.63\00:34:53.93
AND PHILEMON AND THEIR FAMILIES
AS THEY COME UP OUT OF THOSE
00:34:53.93\00:34:56.56
GRAVES AND THEY SEE EACH OTHER,
WHAT JOY THERE'S GOING TO BE?
00:34:56.56\00:35:00.10
WHAT JOY THERE'S GOING
TO BE THAT PHILEMON TOOK THE
00:35:00.10\00:35:03.33
ADMONITION - TREATED THIS
MAN LIKE A SON AND THEY ARE BOTH
00:35:03.33\00:35:06.76
CHRISTIAN BROTHERS IN
CHRIST. ISN'T THAT WONDERFUL?
00:35:06.76\00:35:11.46
THE CONCEPT OF BEING TRANSFORMED
FROM SLAVE TO SON SHOULD BE A
00:35:11.46\00:35:15.56
CONSTANT REMINDER TO US WHERE
WE HAVE COME FROM AND WHERE WE
00:35:15.56\00:35:19.36
WOULD STILL BE IF IT
WERE NOT FOR OUR ELDER BROTHER
00:35:19.36\00:35:23.40
JESUS CHRIST.
WELL, LET US MOVE ON TO
00:35:23.40\00:35:25.63
TUESDAY'S LESSON ENTITLED
'FROM COMPARISON TO COMPLIMENT'.
00:35:25.63\00:35:30.16
SOME EXAMPLES ARE GIVEN
IN THE BOOK OF 1 CORINTHIANS.
00:35:30.16\00:35:33.56
NOW, TONGUE IN CHEEK,
CORINTHIANS WOULD HAVE BEEN SUCH
00:35:33.56\00:35:37.76
A SPLENDID CHURCH
TO BE A PASTOR OF.
00:35:37.76\00:35:40.80
TONGUE IN CHEEK BECAUSE IT SEEMS
LIKE THE CHURCH OF CORINTH HAD A
00:35:40.80\00:35:44.56
LOT OF DIFFERENT
KINDS OF PROBLEMS.
00:35:44.56\00:35:46.90
ONE OF THE PROBLEMS THAT AROSE
WAS 'WHO'S GOING TO GET THE
00:35:46.90\00:35:49.53
CREDIT FOR THESE SOULS COMING
IN?' OR 'WHO WAS MORE IMPORTANT,
00:35:49.53\00:35:53.10
THE ONE SOWING THE SEED
OR REAPING THE HARVEST OR
00:35:53.10\00:35:56.83
WHATEVER?' AND PAUL
HAD TO SET THEM STRAIGHT.
00:35:56.83\00:35:59.50
'NEITHER IS HE THAT PLANTETH
ANYTHING, NEITHER IS HE THAT
00:35:59.50\00:36:03.33
WATERETH BUT GOD THAT GIVETH'
- GOD GIVES THE INCREASE.
00:36:03.33\00:36:07.76
'NOW HE THAT PLANTETH AND HE
THAT WATERETH ARE ONE AND EVERY
00:36:07.76\00:36:11.50
MAN SHALL RECEIVE HIS OWN REWARD
ACCORDING TO HIS OWN LABOR.'
00:36:11.50\00:36:18.06
WOULD HAPPEN - WOULDN'T HAPPEN
OR COULD BE SOLVED IF WE JUST
00:36:18.06\00:36:21.86
REALLY FOCUSED UPON GOD
REMEMBERING THAT HE IS THE ONE
00:36:21.86\00:36:24.70
BEHIND ALL GOOD
THINGS. NONE OF US ARE BETTER
00:36:24.70\00:36:27.50
THAN THE OTHER. NOW IT
HAPPENS NOW AND THEN THAT
00:36:27.50\00:36:31.80
- RIGHT HERE IN THIS CHURCH -
SOMETIMES ONE OF US PASTORS IS
00:36:31.80\00:36:36.60
WORKING WITH AN INDIVIDUAL
CLEARING HIM OR HER FOR BAPTISM.
00:36:36.60\00:36:41.33
AND I'VE HAD PEOPLE SAY, AT THE
END OF IT, WHEN THEY'RE REALLY
00:36:41.33\00:36:44.30
GETTING READY TO BE BAPTIZED AND
THEY KIND OF ASK THE QUESTION
00:36:44.30\00:36:47.76
VERY HESITANTLY, 'WOULD IT BE
ALRIGHT IF I ASKED PASTOR SO AND
00:36:47.76\00:36:53.06
SO TO BAPTIZE
ME?' SURE IT'S ALRIGHT.
00:36:53.06\00:36:57.20
NONE OF US PASTORS
CARE WHO BAPTIZES ANYBODY.
00:36:57.20\00:37:00.10
ALL WE DO IS REJOICE
OVER ANYBODY THAT'S BAPTIZED.
00:37:00.10\00:37:03.83
THAT PROBLEM
DOES NOT EXIST HERE.
00:37:03.83\00:37:05.56
EVIDENTLY, THAT PROBLEM
DID EXIST IN THE CHURCH OF
00:37:05.56\00:37:07.90
CORINTH - 'WHO'S
GOING TO GET THE GLORY?
00:37:07.90\00:37:10.30
WHO'S GOING TO GET THE CREDIT?'
WHATEVER, WHATEVER - NO, THAT
00:37:10.30\00:37:14.10
SHOULD NEVER FIND ANY
PLACE IN GOD'S CHURCH, RIGHT?
00:37:14.10\00:37:17.13
I DON'T THINK IT EVER WILL HERE,
AT LEAST I KNOW, WITH THE STAFF
00:37:17.13\00:37:19.96
THAT WE HAVE
TODAY, THAT'S FOR SURE.
00:37:19.96\00:37:21.83
NOW THE LESSON
MAKES A STATEMENT.
00:37:21.83\00:37:23.26
GOD CALLS US TO
COOPERATION, NOT COMPETITION.
00:37:23.26\00:37:27.63
I HAVE TALKED WITH SO
MANY MARRIED COUPLES THAT HAVE
00:37:27.63\00:37:31.80
PROBLEMS AND I TELL THEM, IF
YOU WOULD JUST STOP AND DO ONE
00:37:31.80\00:37:37.96
THING: STOP
COMPETING WITH EACH OTHER.
00:37:37.96\00:37:41.76
YOU DIDN'T GET MARRIED TO
COMPETE WITH EACH OTHER, YOU GOT
00:37:41.76\00:37:44.40
MARRIED TO COMPLIMENT
ONE ANOTHER. STOP COMPETING.
00:37:44.40\00:37:48.06
'OH, HE SPENDS MORE MONEY THAN
I DO.' OR 'SHE SPENDS MORE MONEY
00:37:48.06\00:37:53.06
THAN I DO.' OR 'HE DOESN'T
DO ENOUGH AROUND THE HOUSE.'
00:37:53.06\00:37:55.63
AND THEY'RE COMPETING FOR THIS
AND THAT AND EVERYTHING ELSE AND
00:37:55.63\00:37:58.73
BEFORE LONG IT'S JUST A
TOTAL WORLD OF COMPETITION.
00:37:58.73\00:38:02.23
THAT'S NOT WHAT RELATIONSHIPS
ARE ALL ABOUT. RELATIONSHIPS
00:38:02.23\00:38:06.10
WOULD DO WELL TO TAKE PRESIDENT
KENNEDY'S REMARK - REMEMBER? -
00:38:06.10\00:38:09.86
TO HEART, 'ASK NOT WHAT YOUR
COUNTRY' OR 'ASK NOT WHAT YOUR
00:38:09.86\00:38:13.43
FELLOW CITIZEN' OR 'ASK NOT WHAT
YOUR MATE CAN DO FOR YOU BUT
00:38:13.43\00:38:16.36
WHAT YOU CAN DO
FOR THIS RELATIONSHIP.'
00:38:16.36\00:38:19.96
NOT SO MUCH WHAT THAT
RELATIONSHIP CAN DO FOR ME.
00:38:19.96\00:38:23.46
THAT'S WHEN YOU HAVE
- BEGIN TO HAVE TROUBLE.
00:38:23.46\00:38:26.20
ANOTHER IMPORTANT STATEMENT
IS BROUGHT OUT IN THE LESSON ON
00:38:26.20\00:38:28.40
TUESDAY, 'ALL COMPARISONS WITH
OTHERS ARE UNWISE BECAUSE THEY
00:38:28.40\00:38:32.63
WILL MAKE US EITHER
FEEL DISCOURAGED OR ARROGANT.
00:38:32.63\00:38:38.00
NOW, IF I - SOMEBODY WANTED
TO COMPARE ME, AS A GOLFER, WITH
00:38:38.00\00:38:42.66
TIGER WOODS, THAT WOULD BE
TOTALLY DISCOURAGING FOR ME.
00:38:42.66\00:38:45.86
WOULDN'T EVEN COMPARE. IF
SOMEBODY WANTED TO COMPARE ME
00:38:45.86\00:38:49.43
WITH SOMEBODY, MAYBE SOMEBODY
THAT WAS ILLITERATE - 'WELL, AT
00:38:49.43\00:38:53.50
LEAST I CAN READ AND WRITE.'
MAYBE IT WOULD BE - MAYBE I
00:38:53.50\00:38:56.80
WOULD TEND TO FEEL A LITTLE
BIT SUPERIOR, WHICH SHOULDN'T BE
00:38:56.80\00:39:00.60
BECAUSE THAT PERSON MAYBE THAT
CAN'T READ OR WRITE CAN DO A
00:39:00.60\00:39:03.36
THOUSAND THINGS
BETTER THAN I CAN, RIGHT?
00:39:03.36\00:39:05.86
SO THAT'S WHAT WE
NEED TO KEEP IN MIND.
00:39:05.86\00:39:07.50
THESE KIND OF THINGS ABOUT EACH
OTHER. NEVER COMPARE OURSELVES.
00:39:07.50\00:39:14.40
COMPARING OURSELVES TO CHRIST
IS BAD AND GOOD, IN A SENSE.
00:39:14.40\00:39:20.30
FIRST OF ALL, AS WE COMPARE
OURSELVES TO CHRIST WE WILL COME
00:39:20.30\00:39:23.30
UP EXTREMELY SHORT, BUT
AS WE COME UP SHORT, WE ALSO
00:39:23.30\00:39:27.00
UNDERSTAND THAT WE CAN BE
COVERED WITH HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS
00:39:27.00\00:39:32.03
AND THEN WE DON'T
COME UP SHORT ANYMORE.
00:39:32.03\00:39:34.30
WE COME UP JUST LIKE HE IS.
00:39:34.30\00:39:36.20
WHEN GOD LOOKS AT US, HE SEES
HIS SON IF WE'RE COVERED WITH
00:39:36.20\00:39:39.53
HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS.
YOU SEE WHAT I MEAN?
00:39:39.53\00:39:42.43
WE ARE ALL LOWDOWN, FILTHY,
DIRTY SINNERS COMPARED TO
00:39:42.43\00:39:45.80
CHRIST, BUT WITH CHRIST AS OUR
SAVIOR, WHEN HIS FATHER SEES US
00:39:45.80\00:39:49.43
HE SEES CHRIST AND
COVERED WITH HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS.
00:39:49.43\00:39:52.73
SO HOW DOES THIS CONCEPT HELP
US WITH HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS?
00:39:52.73\00:39:55.73
IF WE SEE IN THAT PERSON THAT
WE MIGHT BE HAVING SOME TROUBLE
00:39:55.73\00:39:59.30
WITH - THE SAME CONCEPT - I
BELIEVE RECONCILIATION COULD
00:39:59.30\00:40:03.76
HAPPEN. BY THAT
I MEAN WE SEE THE
00:40:03.76\00:40:07.06
DEFECTS - YES, WE
COMPARE OURSELVES TO CHRIST.
00:40:07.06\00:40:10.23
WE KNOW WE HAVE DEFECTS TOO,
BUT WHEN WE BOTH WOULD COMPARE
00:40:10.23\00:40:14.46
OURSELVES TO CHRIST AND SEE OUR
NEED OF BEING COVERED WITH HIS
00:40:14.46\00:40:18.43
RIGHTEOUSNESS - THEN WE BOTH
COULD LOOK ALIKE AGAIN, COVERED
00:40:18.43\00:40:22.23
WITH HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS.
IF BOTH PARTIES WOULD COME TO
00:40:22.23\00:40:24.96
JESUS AND BE COVERED WITH HIS
RIGHTEOUSNESS AND LOOK UPON THE
00:40:24.96\00:40:28.03
OTHER AS A PERSON COVERED WITH
CHRIST'S RIGHTEOUSNESS, THEN WE
00:40:28.03\00:40:31.30
REALLY WOULD BE
GETTING SOMEWHERE, WOULDN'T WE?
00:40:31.30\00:40:35.83
WOULD THAT MEAN THAT
ALL TROUBLES WOULD DISSIPATE
00:40:35.83\00:40:37.80
IMMEDIATELY? NO,
THERE'S STILL SOME THINGS TO
00:40:37.80\00:40:39.70
WORK THROUGH FOR SURE. ALL
STRAINED RELATIONSHIPS COULD
00:40:39.70\00:40:43.66
BE HEALED IF - MAYBE
JUST YIELDING TO THIS CONCEPT.
00:40:43.66\00:40:49.56
NOW WE NEED TO KEEP MOVING ON.
I DON'T KNOW IF THIS HAS EVER
00:40:49.56\00:40:53.00
HAPPENED TO YOU - 1 CORINTHIANS
CHAPTER 10, VERSE 12 SAYS,
00:40:53.00\00:40:58.56
"WHEREFORE LET HIM THAT THINKETH
HE STANDETH TAKE HEED LEST HE
00:40:58.56\00:41:02.80
FALL." REMEMBER THAT TEXT?
00:41:02.80\00:41:05.80
IF YOU THINK YOU'RE STANDING, BE
CAREFUL BECAUSE YOU MIGHT FALL.
00:41:05.80\00:41:10.00
NOW I DON'T KNOW IF THIS HAS
HAPPENED TO YOU, BUT I KNOW THAT
00:41:10.00\00:41:13.40
IF I EVER ALLOWED MYSELF TO FALL
INTO THE PIT OF JUDGING OTHERS -
00:41:13.40\00:41:18.13
JUST PURE JUDGING -
WHEN IT'S JUST JUDGING.
00:41:18.13\00:41:21.70
MAYBE THERE'S SOME ISSUES WHERE
YOU KNOW THE FACTS AND YOU HAVE
00:41:21.70\00:41:24.73
TO ADDRESS THEM - THAT'S A
DIFFERENT ISSUE - BUT IF YOU'RE
00:41:24.73\00:41:33.10
JSOMETHING YOURSELF - MAYBE
INT THE SAME AREA OR SOMETHING
00:41:33.10\00:41:39.13
COMPLETELY DIFFERENT - AND
YOU REALIZE, 'WOW, THAT WAS SURE
00:41:39.13\00:41:42.90
STUPID OF ME TO JUDGE THAT
PERSON BECAUSE I'M JUST A SINNER
00:41:42.90\00:41:45.26
MYSELF. SO JUDGING IS WAY OUT
OF BOUNDS. YOU CAN'T DO THAT.
00:41:45.26\00:41:52.93
AND WE NEED TO REALLY
TAKE THIS TEXT TO HEART.
00:41:52.93\00:41:56.50
'IF YOU THINK YOU'RE STANDING,
TAKE HEED OR YOU WILL PROBABLY
00:41:56.50\00:42:00.76
FALL.' WEDNESDAY - WE MOVE
ON - ENTITLED 'FROM FRICTION TO
00:42:00.76\00:42:04.63
FORGIVENESS' AND THIS DAY STARTS
OUT WITH SOME VERY PERTINENT
00:42:04.63\00:42:08.53
QUESTIONS I THINK WE
NEED TO ADDRESS, TOO.
00:42:08.53\00:42:11.90
FIRST OF ALL, THE
QUESTION 'WHAT IS FORGIVENESS?'
00:42:11.90\00:42:14.53
WELL, IF YOU LOOK TO WEBSTER,
THE WORD FORGIVENESS SIMPLY
00:42:14.53\00:42:19.56
MEANS 'TO PARDON' OR
'INCLINATION TO FORGIVE OR
00:42:19.56\00:42:22.10
PARDON.' TO
LOOK AT THE WORDS 'TO
00:42:22.10\00:42:24.03
FORGIVE' IS A LITTLE BIT MORE
APPLICABLE FOR IT SAYS, 'TO GIVE
00:42:24.03\00:42:26.63
UP RESENTMENT AGAINST OR THE
DESIRE TO PUNISH' OR 'TO STOP
00:42:26.63\00:42:32.73
BEING ANGRY WITH; TO GIVE UP ALL
CLAIM TO PUNISH OR EXACT PENALTY
00:42:32.73\00:42:38.80
FOR AN OFFENSE; TO
CANCEL OR REMIT A DEBT'.
00:42:38.80\00:42:42.63
NOW THAT SOUNDS LIKE SO MUCH
MORE THAN JUST SAYING, 'WELL,
00:42:42.63\00:42:45.70
I'M WILLING TO FORGIVE SOMEBODY.
I'M WILLING TO FORGIVE THEM.'
00:42:45.70\00:42:48.96
ARE YOU REALLY?
ARE YOU WILLING TO
00:42:48.96\00:42:50.93
FORGIVE THEM? ARE YOU
WILLING TO GIVE UP ALL
00:42:50.93\00:42:53.06
RESENTMENT AGAINST OR THE DESIRE
TO SEE THEM PUNISHED THE WAY YOU
00:42:53.06\00:42:57.06
THINK THEY SHOULD BE PUNISHED
FOR WHAT THEY ARE DOING?
00:42:57.06\00:43:00.20
OH, ARE YOU READY TO GIVE
UP ALL ANGER WITH THAT PERSON?
00:43:00.20\00:43:04.86
WELL, IF YOU ARE THEN YOU -
YES, YOU ARE WILLING TO FORGIVE.
00:43:04.86\00:43:09.30
NEXT QUESTION SAYS, 'DOES
FORGIVENESS JUSTIFY THE BEHAVIOR
00:43:09.30\00:43:11.93
OF SOMEONE WHO HAS
HORRIBLY WRONGED US?'
00:43:11.93\00:43:15.50
HUH, WELL THAT'S AN
INTERESTING QUESTION.
00:43:15.50\00:43:19.33
DOES IT JUSTIFY THEIR ACT?
WELL, WE SAY, 'IF THEY CONFESS
00:43:19.33\00:43:23.83
THEIR SINS, JESUS IS WILLING AND
JUST TO FORGIVE THEM THEIR SINS
00:43:23.83\00:43:28.06
AND THEY STAND THEN
JUSTIFIED IN THE SIGHT OF GOD.'
00:43:28.06\00:43:31.80
WELL, THAT SOUNDS LIKE,
'OKAY, THEY'RE JUSTIFIED.'
00:43:31.80\00:43:35.40
BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN
THEIR ACT IS JUSTIFIED, RIGHT?
00:43:35.40\00:43:39.46
THEIR ACT IS WRONG - IT ALWAYS
IS WRONG - AND NEVER WILL BE
00:43:39.46\00:43:42.73
RIGHT. YOU CAN'T
DO ANYTHING TO GO UNDO
00:43:42.73\00:43:45.93
SOMETHING THAT'S BEEN DONE
SO DRASTICALLY WRONG - YOU CAN'T
00:43:45.93\00:43:49.10
MAKE IT RIGHT. YOU
CAN'T UNDO IT, I SHOULD SAY.
00:43:49.10\00:43:52.33
YOU CAN MAKE THINGS RIGHT
BETWEEN YOU AND THE PARTY YOU
00:43:52.33\00:43:54.10
DID IT TO, BUT IT
WON'T MAKE THE ACT RIGHT.
00:43:54.10\00:43:56.73
SO, NO, IT'LL NEVER JUSTIFY THE
ACT, BUT THE PERSON COMMITTING
00:43:56.73\00:44:01.46
THE ACT CAN BE JUSTIFIED.
DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? YES.
00:44:01.46\00:44:06.70
THE NEXT QUESTION IS
ALSO AN INTERESTING ONE.
00:44:06.70\00:44:09.10
IS MY FORGIVENESS DEPENDENT
ON THE OFFENDER'S REPENTANCE?
00:44:09.10\00:44:16.46
IF THAT WERE SO, THEN
FORGIVENESS MAY NEVER BE OFFERED
00:44:16.46\00:44:19.23
IN SOME CASES. WHAT
DID CHRIST PRAY AS HE WAS
00:44:19.23\00:44:22.76
BEING NAILED TO THE CROSS?
'FATHER, FORGIVE THEM FOR THEY
00:44:22.76\00:44:26.96
KNOW NOT WHAT THEY
DO.' WAS THAT CARTE BLANCHE
00:44:26.96\00:44:30.13
FORGIVENESS FOR
EVERYBODY DESPITE WHAT THEY DID?
00:44:30.13\00:44:33.66
NO, IT WAS A FULL AND COMPLETE
WILLINGNESS TO FORGIVE EVERYBODY
00:44:33.66\00:44:38.80
THAT WAS NAILING HIM TO THE
CROSS THAT WOULD ACCEPT THAT
00:44:38.80\00:44:42.86
FORGIVENESS. DID
ALL THE PEOPLE THAT WERE
00:44:42.86\00:44:45.93
THERE AT THE CROSS TURN
TO CHRIST AND ASK HIM FOR
00:44:45.93\00:44:50.50
FORGIVENESS AND
RECEIVE HIS FORGIVENESS?
00:44:50.50\00:44:59.33
NIN ONE SENSE, THE ACT OF,
FORGIVENESS NEVER HAPPENS IF THE
00:44:59.33\00:45:02.60
OFFENDER DOESN'T
ACT UPON IT, RIGHT?
00:45:02.60\00:45:05.10
BUT IN ANOTHER SENSE, WE AS
CHRISTIANS SHOULD BE EVER ON THE
00:45:05.10\00:45:08.70
STAND BY - WE SHOULD BE EVER ON
THE STAND BY WILLING TO FORGIVE,
00:45:08.70\00:45:12.86
RIGHT? OR ALREADY
HAVING FORGIVEN THAT
00:45:12.86\00:45:15.56
PERSON IN OUR HEART, WHETHER
THEY WANT TO BE FORGIVEN OR NOT.
00:45:15.56\00:45:21.13
THINK OF THE TEXT THAT WE ARE
ALL VERY FAMILIAR WITH, 1 JOHN
00:45:21.13\00:45:25.36
1:9, "IF WE CONFESS OUR SINS HE
IS FAITHFUL AND JUST TO FORGIVE
00:45:25.36\00:45:32.03
US OUR SINS AND TO CLEANSE
US FROM ALL UNRIGHTEOUSNESS',
00:45:32.03\00:45:35.63
RIGHT? AND THERE'S A
HUGE, BIG, LITTLE WORD THERE -
00:45:35.63\00:45:39.40
THE BIG LITTLE WORD
'IF'. EVERYTHING HINGES UPON
00:45:39.40\00:45:44.70
THAT WORD. IF WE
CONFESS HE IS FAITHFUL AND JUST.
00:45:44.70\00:45:50.86
THE TRANSACTION OF FORGIVENESS
IS NEVER FULLY COMPLETE UNTIL WE
00:45:50.86\00:45:56.16
COOPERATE FULLY WITH THE
PRINCIPLES OF FORGIVENESS,
00:45:56.16\00:45:59.53
RIGHT? OKAY,
THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
00:45:59.53\00:46:03.63
LET'S SAY YOU STOLE A
HUNDRED DOLLARS FROM ME.
00:46:03.63\00:46:07.06
I WOULDN'T BE VERY
HAPPY. I WOULD BE DOWNHEARTED.
00:46:07.06\00:46:12.10
BUT IF YOU APOLOGIZED
- OKAY, I FORGIVE YOU.
00:46:12.10\00:46:17.20
IF YOU GAVE ME BACK THE HUNDRED
DOLLARS THAT'D EVEN BE BETTER,
00:46:17.20\00:46:20.56
BUT IF YOU DIDN'T GIVE ME THE
HUNDRED DOLLARS, COULD I STILL
00:46:20.56\00:46:25.00
FORGIVE YOU? YES. WOULD
THE ACT OF TAKING MY MONEY
00:46:25.00\00:46:30.76
EVER BE RIGHT? NO,
BUT YOU CAN BE FORGIVEN
00:46:30.76\00:46:35.16
WHETHER YOU'RE ABLE
TO PAY IT BACK OR NOT.
00:46:35.16\00:46:36.86
WE'RE NOT ABLE TO PAY BACK GOD
FOR ALL THE WRONG WE'VE DONE.
00:46:36.86\00:46:40.43
THERE'S NO WAY YOU CAN PAY GOD
BACK FOR ALL THE WRONG YOU'VE
00:46:40.43\00:46:43.70
DONE - FOR ALL THE
WRONG I'VE DONE - NO WAY.
00:46:43.70\00:46:47.00
SO I ACCEPT HIS FORGIVENESS
AND THANK HIM WHOLEHEARTEDLY SO
00:46:47.00\00:46:52.00
DEEPLY, THAT HE IS
WILLING TO FORGIVE.
00:46:52.00\00:46:57.16
AND SINCE THIS LESSON IS ABOUT
RECONCILIATION, WE CAN SEE HOW
00:46:57.16\00:47:00.96
IMPORTANT THE
ASPECT OF FORGIVENESS IS.
00:47:00.96\00:47:04.23
WHAT IS THE PROBLEM OF NOT BEING
WILLING TO FORGIVE SOMEONE?
00:47:04.23\00:47:08.63
LET ME ASK THIS QUESTION TO HELP
US UNDERSTAND THE SERIOUSNESS OF
00:47:08.63\00:47:11.23
IT. WILL GOD
FORGIVE US IF WE ARE
00:47:11.23\00:47:13.53
UNWILLING TO
FORGIVE SOMEONE ELSE?
00:47:13.53\00:47:16.56
AND IF WE WILL NOT FORGIVE - IF
HE WILL NOT FORGIVE US, WHAT IS
00:47:16.56\00:47:20.30
OUR ETERNAL DESTINY? IF
GOD WON'T FORGIVE US BECAUSE
00:47:20.30\00:47:24.76
WE WON'T FORGIVE SOMEBODY
ELSE, WHERE DOES THAT LEAVE US?
00:47:24.76\00:47:28.36
THAT'S LEAVES US
OUT IN THE DARK, RIGHT?
00:47:28.36\00:47:30.66
ETERNAL DESTRUCTION.
SO HOW IMPORTANT IS THE
00:47:30.66\00:47:33.00
WILLINGNESS TO FORGIVE SOMEBODY
ELSE? IT'S TOTALLY IMPORTANT
00:47:33.00\00:47:36.90
AND IF YOU DON'T
FEEL LIKE IT, THEN THAT'S
00:47:36.90\00:47:39.83
WHY I SAY THIS LITTLE BOOKLET
THAT YOU NEED TO SEND FOR SHOWS
00:47:39.83\00:47:43.20
US WE NEED A POWER OUT AND ABOVE
AND BEYOND OURSELVES - THE HOLY
00:47:43.20\00:47:47.83
SPIRIT - TO HELP US TO HAVE
THOSE FEELINGS OF FORGIVENESS.
00:47:47.83\00:47:52.80
YEAH, THERE'S SOME THINGS THAT
IT'S MIGHTY HARD TO FORGIVE.
00:47:52.80\00:47:56.70
I KNOW PEOPLE - I HAVE KNOWN
PEOPLE THROUGH THE YEARS THAT
00:47:56.70\00:48:00.36
THEY HAVE STRUGGLED WITH
FORGIVENESS FOR SOMEBODY ALL THE
00:48:00.36\00:48:03.53
DAYS OF THEIR LIFE AND
THEY LIVED A VERY BITTER AND
00:48:03.53\00:48:06.70
MISERABLE LIFE AND THEY DIED A
VERY BITTER AND MISERABLE DEATH
00:48:06.70\00:48:13.30
ALL BECAUSE THEY
WEREN'T WILLING TO FORGIVE.
00:48:13.30\00:48:17.26
AND IN YOUR OWN HUMANITY,
YES IT IS HARD AND SOMETIMES
00:48:17.26\00:48:25.23
WE CAN DO ALL THINGS, RIGHT?
00:48:25.23\00:48:28.06
YOU CAN EVEN FORGIVE SOMEBODY
THAT KILLS ONE OF YOUR MOST
00:48:28.06\00:48:32.20
BELOVED FRIENDS OR FAMILY
MEMBERS OR SOME OF THE MOST
00:48:32.20\00:48:36.50
SERIOUS OFFENSES IN THE
WORLD PEOPLE HAVE FORGIVEN THEM
00:48:36.50\00:48:39.93
BECAUSE OF GOD
LIVING IN THEIR HEARTS.
00:48:39.93\00:48:43.90
AND THAT'S WHY WE
NEED THE HOLY SPIRIT.
00:48:43.90\00:48:47.53
I'VE HAD PEOPLE TELL ME THERE'S
SOMEONE IN THEIR LIFE THEY JUST
00:48:47.53\00:48:50.80
CANNOT FORGIVE AND I
SHUDDER WHEN I HEAR THAT.
00:48:50.80\00:48:53.40
DON'T YOU REALIZE WHAT YOU ARE
SAYING ABOUT YOUR OWN ETERNAL
00:48:53.40\00:48:57.16
DESTINY? YOU
CANNOT FORGIVE SOMEBODY?
00:48:57.16\00:49:00.53
THEN GO TO YOUR KNEES UNTIL
YOU CAN FORGIVE THAT SOMEBODY.
00:49:00.53\00:49:04.60
THAT'S WHAT THIS
LESSON IS ALL ABOUT TODAY.
00:49:04.60\00:49:06.93
NOW, IN ONE SENSE, IT'S
AN HONEST APPROACH, 'I CAN'T
00:49:06.93\00:49:08.93
FORGIVE THEM. I
JUST CAN'T FORGIVE THEM.
00:49:08.93\00:49:11.96
I CAN'T FORGIVE THEM.'
THAT'S AN HONEST APPROACH -
00:49:11.96\00:49:14.90
THAT'S THE FIRST STEP - BUT
DON'T STAY IN THAT STEP BECAUSE
00:49:14.90\00:49:18.10
YOU'LL FOREVER BE A
BITTER, MISERABLE PERSON.
00:49:18.10\00:49:20.96
GO TO STEP TWO
- 'JESUS, HELP ME.
00:49:20.96\00:49:24.83
GIVE ME A NEW HEART IN THIS ONE
AREA WITH THIS ONE PERSON - THIS
00:49:24.83\00:49:27.96
ONE BROKEN RELATIONSHIP.
GIVE ME THE HEART OF JESUS.'
00:49:27.96\00:49:32.50
AND WILL HE ANSWER THAT PRAYER?
00:49:32.50\00:49:34.70
HE'S ANSWERED IT IN THOUSANDS
AND MILLIONS OF PEOPLE.
00:49:34.70\00:49:37.70
HE'LL ANSWER IT IN YOUR
LIFE AND OURS TOO. NOW, WE GO TO
00:49:37.70\00:49:46.03
THURSDAY'S LESSON ENTITLED
'FROM RANCOR TO RESTORATION'.
00:49:46.03\00:49:51.53
AND, OF COURSE, FOR ALL OF YOU
WHO READ THE LESSON THIS WEEK,
00:49:51.53\00:49:54.16
YOU REALIZE THAT THE PASSAGE
OF SCRIPTURE THAT IS BEING
00:49:54.16\00:49:59.23
REFERENCED IN THIS
DAY'S LESSON IS MATTHEW 18.
00:49:59.23\00:50:04.40
ALLIF YOU HAVE A PROBLEM
GO TOOF MATTMATTHEW 18.HT?
00:50:08.46\00:50:11.06
I'VE SEEN MATTHEW 18 USED
MARVELOUSLY AND WONDERFULLY TO
00:50:11.06\00:50:16.50
BRING ABOUT RECONCILIATION. I
HAVE SEEN MATTHEW 18 DISTORTED
00:50:16.50\00:50:22.46
AND SO MISERABLY REPRESENTED AND
NOT USED CORRECTLY AND IT ALWAYS
00:50:22.46\00:50:28.30
BRINGS THE OPPOSITE RESULT.
SO WE NEED TO APPLY IT - WE NEED
00:50:28.30\00:50:33.23
TO APPLY IT IN THE RIGHT WAY.
LET'S TURN TO MATTHEW 18, IF YOU
00:50:33.23\00:50:36.00
WOULD, THIS MORNING.
MATTHEW 18, VERSE 15 SAYS,
00:50:36.00\00:50:39.60
"MOREOVER IF THY BROTHER SHALL
TRESPASS AGAINST THEE, GO AND
00:50:39.60\00:50:43.46
TELL HIM HIS FAULT BETWEEN THEE
AND HIM ALONE; IF HE SHALL HEAR
00:50:43.46\00:50:46.86
THEE, THOU HAST
GAINED THY BROTHER.
00:50:46.86\00:50:49.20
BUT IF HE WILL NOT HEAR THEE,
THEN TAKE WITH THEE ONE OR TWO
00:50:49.20\00:50:52.63
MORE, THAT IN THE MOUTH OF TWO
OR THREE WITNESSES EVERY WORD
00:50:52.63\00:50:56.73
MAY BE ESTABLISHED. AND
IF HE SHALL NEGLECT TO HEAR
00:50:56.73\00:50:59.80
THEM, TELL IT UNTO THE CHURCH;
BUT IF HE NEGLECT TO HEAR THE
00:50:59.80\00:51:02.70
CHURCH, LET HIM BE UNTO THEE AS
AN HEATHEN MAN AND A PUBLICAN."
00:51:02.70\00:51:09.00
WHY NOT TAKE A SERIOUS
PROBLEM DIRECTLY TO THE CHURCH?
00:51:09.00\00:51:13.66
WELL, IT'S BETTER TO CONFINE IT
TO THE SMALLEST NUMBER OF PEOPLE
00:51:13.66\00:51:19.43
POSSIBLE AND IF RECONCILIATION
TAKES PLACE IN THAT FIRST STEP,
00:51:19.43\00:51:25.00
WHOA, PRAISE GOD.
NOBODY ELSE NEEDS TO WORRY
00:51:25.00\00:51:27.80
ABOUT IT. THEY
DON'T EVEN HAVE TO KNOW
00:51:27.80\00:51:29.56
ABOUT IT.
RECONCILIATION TOOK PLACE.
00:51:29.56\00:51:31.33
PRAISE GOD. IF YOU
HAVE TO GO TO THE SECOND
00:51:31.33\00:51:33.70
STEP - TAKE SOMEBODY WITH YOU -
PRAISE GOD IF IT'S SETTLED THERE
00:51:33.70\00:51:38.86
BECAUSE BY THE TIME, IF YOU HAVE
TO TAKE IT TO THE CHURCH, IT'S
00:51:38.86\00:51:43.16
LIKE OPENING UP A BIG CAN
OF WORMS AND NOBODY LIKES THAT.
00:51:43.16\00:51:50.00
IN FACT, THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE
IN GOD'S CHURCH THAT DON'T EVEN
00:51:50.00\00:51:53.23
LIKE TO DISCUSS THE CONCEPT
OF CHURCH DISCIPLINE. THEY DON'T
00:51:53.23\00:51:58.63
EVEN LIKE TO TALK ABOUT
IT. 'WE SHOULDN'T DISCIPLINE
00:51:58.63\00:52:01.50
ANYBODY UNLESS - DON'T
EVEN APPROACH THAT SUBJECT.
00:52:01.50\00:52:05.60
LET EVERYBODY BE TO THEMSELVES
DOING WHAT THEY WANT TO, HOW
00:52:05.60\00:52:09.33
THEY WANT TO, WHEN THEY WANT TO,
WHERE THEY WANT TO, ETC, ETC.'
00:52:09.33\00:52:13.03
YOU KNOW, THE CHURCH HAS MORE
OF A RESPONSIBILITY THAN THAT.
00:52:13.03\00:52:16.30
AND IT'S NOT
PLEASANT - IT NEVER IS.
00:52:16.30\00:52:21.60
IF SOMEBODY THINKS IT'S PLEASANT
THEN, PROBABLY, THEY NEED A
00:52:21.60\00:52:25.03
LITTLE ATTITUDE
CHANGE ANYWAY, I GUESS.
00:52:25.03\00:52:29.06
BUT - NOW IN THE END, WHEN
EVERYTHING IS WRAPPED UP AND
00:52:29.06\00:52:35.86
JESUS COMES BACK AGAIN AND
WE ALL GO TO HEAVEN FOR THAT
00:52:35.86\00:52:39.70
THOUSAND YEARS, WE GET
TO LOOK AT THE BOOKS, RIGHT?
00:52:39.70\00:52:43.10
WE SEE WHY UNCLE GEORGE DIDN'T
MAKE IT, EVEN THOUGH UNCLE
00:52:43.10\00:52:45.46
GEORGE PROFESSED TO BE A
CHRISTIAN, PROFESSED TO BELIEVE
00:52:45.46\00:52:49.56
IN THE THREE ANGELS' MESSAGE.
UNCLE GEORGE, THE RECORDS
00:52:49.56\00:52:54.33
REVEAL, HAD SOME REAL PROBLEMS
GOING ON IN HIS LIFE AND THAT'S
00:52:54.33\00:53:00.53
WHY HE CAN'T BE HERE. SO,
AT THE END OF THE THOUSAND
00:53:00.53\00:53:05.50
YEARS, JESUS, THE ANGELS, AND
ALL THE SAINTS COME BACK DOWN
00:53:05.50\00:53:12.06
OUT OF THE SKY WITH THE
HOLY CITY AND THE WICKED ARE ALL
00:53:12.06\00:53:16.83
RAISED TO LIFE. UNCLE
GEORGE IS AMONG THEM AND
00:53:16.83\00:53:21.50
HE'S GOING TO HAVE TO BE
DESTROYED BUT ALL OF GOD'S
00:53:21.50\00:53:26.03
PEOPLE AND ANYBODY THAT KNEW
UNCLE GEORGE, NOW KNOW EXACTLY
00:53:26.03\00:53:30.76
WHY THIS IS GOING
TO HAPPEN THIS WAY.
00:53:30.76\00:53:34.03
THERE WILL BE NO QUESTIONS.
ALL QUESTIONS WILL BE ANSWERED.
00:53:34.03\00:53:38.80
AND WHEN THAT FIRE COMES DOWN
OUT OF HEAVEN AND DESTROYS SIN
00:53:38.80\00:53:45.36
AND SINNERS ONCE AND FOR
ALL, WHAT DOES GOD CALL THIS?
00:53:45.36\00:53:52.36
HE CALLS IT HIS
STRANGE ACT. WHY IS IT STRANGE?
00:53:52.36\00:53:58.90
BECAUSE EVERYTHING ABOUT GOD
IS CREATIVE, NOT DESTRUCTIVE.
00:53:58.90\00:54:05.90
EVERYTHING ABOUT GOD IS
BUILDING UP - MAKING BETTER, NOT
00:54:05.90\00:54:09.20
DESTROYING AND MAKING THINGS BAD
AND DESTROYING SINNERS IS BAD.
00:54:09.20\00:54:15.80
BUT HE WILL DO IT
BECAUSE HE HAS TO.
00:54:15.80\00:54:18.33
IT'S LIKE HAVING A HUNDRED COWS
AND NINETY-NINE OF THEM HAVE THE
00:54:18.33\00:54:23.96
MAD COW DISEASE - YOU
BETTER GET RID OF THEM, RIGHT?
00:54:23.96\00:54:27.33
OR IT'S JUST GOING TO KEEP
SPREADING AND SPREADING AND
00:54:27.33\00:54:29.10
SPREADING. THAT'S
WHAT GOD IS GOING TO DO
00:54:29.10\00:54:31.03
WITH THE SIN PROBLEM, TAKE
CARE OF IT ONCE AND FOR ALL.
00:54:31.03\00:54:33.00
SO HE CALLS IT HIS 'STRANGE
ACT' AND IF ANY OF US ENJOY THIS
00:54:33.00\00:54:36.93
CONCEPT OF 'LET'S DISCIPLINE
SOMEBODY BECAUSE THEY'RE JUST SO
00:54:36.93\00:54:40.76
TERRIBLE' AND 'LET'S GET HIM
KICKED OUT OF THE CHURCH' AND,
00:54:40.76\00:54:42.96
'LET'S DO THIS.' IT
SHOULD BE KIND OF A STRANGE
00:54:42.96\00:54:46.76
ACT TO US TOO BECAUSE
WHAT ARE WE CALLED TO BE?
00:54:46.76\00:54:49.83
WE'RE CALLED TO
BE FISHER'S OF MEN.
00:54:49.83\00:54:52.06
WE'RE CALLED TO BRING PEOPLE IN.
WE DON'T LIKE TO KICK PEOPLE OUT
00:54:52.06\00:54:55.50
AND IF WE DO, WE'D BETTER HAVE
AN ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT, AS I
00:54:55.50\00:54:58.63
MENTIONED. WE HAVE
TO DO IT SOMETIMES BUT
00:54:58.63\00:55:01.66
IT'S NOT WHAT WE RELISH IN AND
ENJOY, BUT LET'S HAVE THIS BE A
00:55:01.66\00:55:08.93
STRANGE PHENOMENA OR
STRANGE ACT TO US LIKEWISE.
00:55:08.93\00:55:12.70
AND I LIKE THE COMMENTS TOWARDS
THE BOTTOM OF THURSDAY WHEN IT
00:55:12.70\00:55:17.50
TALKS ABOUT AN ISSUE THAT
HAS TO BE TAKEN TO THE CHURCH.
00:55:17.50\00:55:21.16
YOU PROBABLY READ THIS TOO.
IT SAYS THERE ON THE BOTTOM OF
00:55:21.16\00:55:24.40
THURSDAY'S LESSON, 'THE
APPROPRIATE PLACE TO BRING THE
00:55:24.40\00:55:27.80
ISSUE, IF THE FIRST TWO STEPS
HAVE NOT HELPED TO RECONCILE THE
00:55:27.80\00:55:32.00
TWO PARTIES, IS
THE CHURCH BOARD.'
00:55:32.00\00:55:36.33
THEN, THE NEXT
SENTENCE IS THE ONE I LIKE.
00:55:36.33\00:55:38.90
'AGAIN, CHRIST'S PURPOSE IS
RECONCILIATION, IT IS NOT TO
00:55:38.90\00:55:44.23
BLAME ONE PARTY AND
EXONERATE THE OTHER.'
00:55:44.23\00:55:50.10
HAVE YOU EVER SEEN THAT?
PEOPLE FIGHTING AND THEY WANT TO
00:55:50.10\00:55:54.46
TAKE IT TO THE BOARD AND THEY
WANT TO TAKE IT TO THE BOARD
00:55:54.46\00:55:58.53
BECAUSE THEY WANT TO BE
EXONERATED AND THEY WANT TO MAKE
00:55:58.53\00:56:01.16
SURE EVERYBODY ELSE SEES THAT
THAT PERSON IS THE ONE TO BLAME.
00:56:01.16\00:56:04.90
THAT'S NOT THE PURPOSE
TO TAKING IT TO THE CHURCH.
00:56:04.90\00:56:08.20
TAKING IT TO THE CHURCH, FIRST
OF ALL, SHOULD BE REMEDIAL.
00:56:08.20\00:56:12.86
TRY TO REMEDY THE PROBLEM,
WHATEVER THE PROBLEM IS, LET'S
00:56:12.86\00:56:15.66
TRY TO BRING RECONCILIATION TO
THE PROBLEM - TO THE PARTIES IN
00:56:15.66\00:56:19.06
THE PROBLEM. LET'S BRING
RECONCILIATION TO US AND GOD,
00:56:19.06\00:56:22.60
TO US AND OUR FELLOW MAN.
RECONCILIATION, RECONCILIATION,
00:56:22.60\00:56:26.03
RECONCILIATION - THAT
SHOULD BE OUR BYWORD, RIGHT?
00:56:26.03\00:56:29.56
IT'S WHAT GOD HAS DONE
FOR US - RECONCILED US TO HIM.
00:56:29.56\00:56:33.43
LET US BE RECONCILED, BY HIS
GRACE, BY HIS PRESENCE AND HIS
00:56:33.43\00:56:38.46
POWER, LET US BE
RECONCILED TO EACH OTHER.
00:56:38.46\00:56:42.63
NOW, THIS MORNING, I WANT TO
REMIND YOU AGAIN THAT THE FREE
00:56:42.63\00:56:45.73
OFFER IS ENTITLED, 'HOLY SPIRIT:
THE NEED' - 'HOLY SPIRIT THE
00:56:45.73\00:56:54.06
NEED' - OFFER #723, AND ALL YOU
HAVE TO DO TO GET THAT LITTLE
00:56:54.06\00:56:59.86
BOOKLET IS TO CALL
1-866-STUDY-MORE OR
00:56:59.86\00:57:05.53
1-866-788-3966. 'HOLY
SPIRIT: THE NEED' - OFFER #723.
00:57:05.53\00:57:17.76
WELL, I WANT TO THANK ALL OF YOU
WHO HAVE JOINED US HERE IN THE
00:57:17.76\00:57:20.60
SANCTUARY AT SACRAMENTO THIS
FINE, BEAUTIFUL SABBATH MORNING
00:57:20.60\00:57:23.73
AND ALL OF YOU WHO HAVE
JOINED US BY LIVE STREAMING.
00:57:23.73\00:57:26.70
THANK YOU. COME BACK
AGAIN NEXT WEEK - SAME
00:57:26.70\00:57:29.96
TIME, SAME PLACE -
FOR CENTRAL STUDY HOUR.
00:57:29.96\00:57:35.03
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YOU. MAY GOD BLESS US TO HAVE
00:57:35.03\00:57:39.63
WONDERFUL CHRISTIAN
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00:57:39.63\00:57:44.63
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