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>>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH
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HERE IN SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA.
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WE'RE SO GLAD
THAT YOU ARE TUNING IN.
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WHETHER YOU ARE LISTENING IN ON
THE RADIO, WATCHING LIVE ON OUR
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WEBSITE AT 'SACCENTRAL.ORG'
OR JOINING US ON THE VARIOUS
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TELEVISION NETWORKS, WE'RE JUST
GLAD THAT YOU ARE TUNING IN AND
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WE LOOK FORWARD TO SINGING SONGS
WITH YOU AND OPENING UP GOD'S
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WORD AND
STUDYING TOGETHER TODAY.
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AND, OF COURSE,
TODAY IS NO EXCEPTION.
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WE'RE GOING TO START WITH YOUR
FAVORITES AND THE FIRST REQUEST
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IS 'FILL MY CUP, LORD' - THIS IS
A LOVELY SONG - #493 - AND THERE
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WERE SO MANY REQUESTS FOR THIS
SONG THAT I JUST DECIDED TO PICK
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ONE REGION OF THE WORLD SO
I PICKED EUROPE. THIS IS FROM
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TONKA IN CROATIA - WE DON'T GET
MANY REQUESTS FROM CROATIA SO AN
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EXTRA SPECIAL HELLO TO TONKA,
ALEX IN HUNGARY, SELINA AND
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JONATHAN IN THE NETHERLANDS,
AND SAMUEL IN GERMANY.
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SO #493 - WE'LL
DO ALL THREE STANZAS.
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JOIN WITH US -
'FILL MY CUP, LORD'.
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>>FILL MY CUP - IS THAT
YOUR PRAYER THIS MORNING?
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THAT GOD WILL FILL UP
YOUR CUP AND MAKE YOU WHOLE.
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OUR NEXT SONG YOU'LL FIND ON
#147 AS WE CONTINUE WORKING OUR
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WAY THROUGH THE HYMNAL SINGING
THE SONGS WE'VE NEVER HEARD
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BEFORE AND
TODAY IS NO EXCEPTION.
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NO ONE REQUESTED THIS FROM
AROUND THE WORLD SO I HAVE A
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SNEAKY SUSPICION THAT IF, YOU
KNOW, SOMEONE KNEW IT THEY MAY
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HAVE REQUESTED IT. SO
WE'RE GOING TO LEARN IT ALL
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TOGETHER TODAY. #147 - 'CHRIST
UPON THE MOUNTAIN PEAK' - AND
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WE'LL DO THE FIRST, SECOND, AND
FOURTH STANZAS. JOIN WITH US.
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>>WASN'T THAT BEAUTIFUL?
THAT SECOND STANZA WAS ABOUT THE
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TRANSFIGURATION.
DID YOU CATCH THAT?
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THERE'S SO MANY NEW SONGS THAT
I KNOW WE HAVEN'T SUNG YET AND
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SOME OF THOSE THAT WE HAVE
THAT ARE JUST BEAUTIFUL AND THE
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MESSAGE IN THE SONGS - SO WE
LOOK FORWARD TO SINGING MORE OF
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THESE NEW ONES WITH YOU. SO
IF YOU WANT A HEAD START NEXT
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WEEK WILL BE THE ONE ACROSS THE
PAGE - #148 - SO YOU CAN START
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LEARNING THAT AND WE WILL
SING THAT TOGETHER NEXT WEEK.
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AT THIS TIME LET'S
BOW OUR HEADS FOR PRAYER.
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FATHER IN HEAVEN, THANK YOU SO
MUCH FOR BRINGING US HERE TODAY
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TO STUDY YOUR WORD
AND TO SING TOGETHER.
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WE THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR
BLESSING US WITH THE SABBATH,
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THAT ONE DAY OUT OF THE WHOLE
WEEK WHEN WE CAN JUST FORGET
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ABOUT THE THINGS THAT WE'RE
WORKING ON, THAT WE'RE WORRYING
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ABOUT AND WE CAN JUST SPEND 24
HOURS WITH YOU, RESTING IN YOUR
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PROMISES. THANK YOU
SO MUCH FOR LOVING US,
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FOR DYING FOR US, AND GIVING US
THE HOPE OF CHRISTIANS THAT ONE
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DAY SOON WE WILL SEE YOU
COMING IN THE CLOUDS OF GLORY.
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I PRAY THAT YOU BE WITH
THOSE THAT ARE SUFFERING.
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OUR HEARTS GO OUT TO THE
FAMILIES OF THE PLANE CRASH
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VICTIMS AND THERE ARE SO MANY
OTHER HURTING PEOPLE IN THIS
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WORLD AND I PRAY THAT YOU WILL
JUST PUT YOUR ARMS AROUND THEM
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AND LOVE THEM. BE WITH US NOW.
BE WITH OUR SPEAKER AS HE BRINGS
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US THE LESSON STUDY.
IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
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AT THIS TIME OUR LESSON STUDY
IS GOING TO BE BROUGHT TO US BY,
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YES, OUR SENIOR
PASTOR, PASTOR CHRIS BUTTERY.
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>>WELL GOOD MORNING.
GOOD TO SEE YOU THIS MORNING.
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AND THANK YOU FOR
THAT BEAUTIFUL MUSIC.
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THANK YOU FOR SINGING SO NICELY.
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IT'S ALWAYS A JOY TO
SING TO THE LORD, AMEN? AMEN.
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WE'VE BEEN ENJOYING OUR LESSON
STUDY - OUR QUARTERLY LESSON
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STUDY - 'THE TEACHINGS
OF JESUS' - HAVEN'T WE?
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IF THERE WAS ANYONE'S TEACHINGS
THAT WE WOULD WANT TO SIT UP AND
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PAY ATTENTION TO IT WOULD
BE THAT OF JESUS, WOULD IT NOT?
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THE ONE WHO MADE EVERYTHING, WHO
KNOWS EVERYTHING, WHO CREATED
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EVERYTHING, THE ONE WHO KNOWS
WHAT IT'S GOING TO TAKE FOR US
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TO BE WITH HIM FOREVER - WE'D
WANT TO PAY SOME CLOSE ATTENTION
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TO HIS TEACHINGS. AND
THAT'S WHAT WE'VE BEEN DOING
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HERE FOR THE LAST FEW WEEKS AND
WE WANT TO WELCOME, ALSO, THOSE
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THAT ARE JOINING US ONLINE, TV,
WHEREVER YOU MIGHT BE TUNING IN.
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WE'RE SO GLAD THAT YOU'VE JOINED
US AND WE WANT TO LET YOU KNOW
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ABOUT OUR SPECIAL FREE OFFER,
THE BIBLE STUDY 'A LOVE THAT
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TRANSFORMS' - OFFER #710
- AND YOU WANT TO CALL IN TO
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1-866-STUDY-MORE
OR 1-866-788-3966.
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WELL, HERE WE ARE STUDYING
GOD'S WORD AGAIN. WHAT A JOY.
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AND TODAY'S LESSON - IT'S
TALKING ABOUT 'LIVING LIKE
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CHRIST.' LAST WEEK WAS 'GROWING
IN CHRIST' AND THIS WEEK
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HAS BEEN ABOUT
LIVING LIKE CHRIST.
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AN IMPORTANT LESSON,
WOULDN'T YOU SAY? SURE.
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OUR MEMORY TEXT - AND WE'LL READ
THAT TOGETHER HERE - IS JOHN
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CHAPTER 13, VERSE 34 AND IT
SAYS, "A NEW COMMANDMENT I GIVE
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TO YOU, THAT
YOU ALSO" - DO WHAT?
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- "LOVE ONE ANOTHER; AS I HAVE
LOVED YOU, THAT YOU ALSO LOVE
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ONE ANOTHER." SO
THAT'S THE NEW COMMANDMENT
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AND IT PROBABLY WASN'T - WELL,
I SHOULDN'T SAY PROBABLY - IT
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WASN'T A NEW
COMMANDMENT, REALLY.
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ALL THROUGHOUT - OR THE
LISTENERS OF JESUS IN THAT DAY,
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ALL THROUGHOUT THE OLD
TESTAMENT, UNDERSTOOD THE
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BIBLICAL INJUNCTION TO LOVE YOUR
NEIGHBOR OR TO LOVE YOUR - THE
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STRANGER. AND SO
IT WASN'T REALLY A NEW
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COMMANDMENT BUT PROBABLY NEW IN
THE SENSE THAT THERE WAS A NEW
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STANDARD. UP TO
THIS PARTICULAR TIME FOLK
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DIDN'T HAVE REALLY A CLEAR
IMAGE OF THE CHARACTER OF GOD.
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THEY HAD AN ACCURATE PICTURE
OF WHAT THE CHARACTER OF GOD WAS
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LIKE UP TO THAT POINT BUT JESUS,
NOW, WHO WAS THE WORD MADE FLESH
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- THE ONE WHO'D COME TO REVEAL
THE FATHER - REVEALED JESUS -
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REVEALED THE FATHER
IN A SIGNIFICANT WAY.
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AS YOU WATCH JESUS - AS THEY
WATCHED JESUS' LIFE - AS THEY
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WATCHED HIM GOING ABOUT DOING
GOOD THEY RECOGNIZED AND SAW WHO
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THE FATHER WAS. AND SO,
THERE WAS A NEW STANDARD
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- A NEW STANDARD: "AS I
HAVE LOVED YOU, LOVE OTHERS -
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LOVE ONE ANOTHER
AS I HAVE LOVED YOU."
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THAT WAS WHAT WAS NEW
ABOUT THE COMMANDMENT.
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THERE WAS THE STANDARD - 'AS
I'VE LOVED YOU, AS I'VE GIVEN
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FOR YOU, AND AS I'M GOING TO LAY
DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU, LOVE ONE
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ANOTHER AS I'VE LOVED YOU.' IF
WE WERE TO, KIND OF, SUMMARIZE
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THE LESSON HERE THIS MORNING
OVER THE COURSE OF THE WEEK, WE
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WOULD PROBABLY SUGGEST THAT THE
WATERMARK OF TRUE CHRISTIANITY
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IS BEING MOLDED BY THE
TENDERNESS, THE SYMPATHY,
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CONSIDERATION AND COMPASSION
REVEALED IN JESUS' LIFE.
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YOU KNOW WHAT A
WATERMARK IS, RIGHT?
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THE DESIGN THAT'S IN SOME PAPERS
AS IT'S BEING MANUFACTURED AND
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IT'S VISIBLE ONLY WHEN YOU HOLD
IT UP TO THE LIGHT AND TYPICALLY
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IT IDENTIFIES THE MAKER.
AND SO THE WATERMARK OF TRUE
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CHRISTIANITY IS THE LIFE OF A
FOLLOWER OF JESUS BEING MOLDED
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AND SHAPED INTO
THE LIKENESS OF JESUS.
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THIS PARTICULAR LESSON
DEALS PRIMARILY WITH THE PASSIVE
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VIRTUES OF CHRISTIANITY - THE
PASSIVE GRACES OF CHRISTIANITY.
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THERE ARE ALSO THE ACTIVE GRACES
OF CHRISTIANITY LIKE FORCE AND
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PERSEVERANCE AND COURAGE. THESE
ARE ALSO FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT.
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THIS IS ALSO REFLECTING THE LIFE
OF CHRIST. SO IF WE WERE TO TALK
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ABOUT THE LIFE OF JESUS - AND
WE WILL HERE IN A LITTLE BIT AND
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AS WE HAVE BEEN - WE'LL
TALK ABOUT THE LIFE OF JESUS.
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WE SEE THAT JESUS NOT ONLY
EXHIBITED THE PASSIVE GRACES
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VIRTUES BUT ALSO THE ACTIVE ONES
- THE MORE AGGRESSIVE ONES, AS I
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MENTIONED, LIKE PERSEVERANCE
AND COURAGE AND FAITH.
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BUT THIS WEEK'S LESSON WE'VE
BEEN FOCUSING ON THE PASSIVE
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GRACES - LOVE AND TENDERNESS
AND SYMPATHY AND CONSIDERATION -
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AND THAT'S GOOD TOO.
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I WAS READING AN ARTICLE
AND IT WAS VERY INTERESTING.
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THE LADY, HER NAME WAS CAROL
WOODLE - CAROL WOODLE - AND - I
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THINK I PRONOUNCED THAT RIGHT -
BUT SHE WAS A PERSON THAT HAD A
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- SHE WAS ACTUALLY A LOOK-ALIKE
OF OPRAH WINFREY AND OPRAH
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WINFREY, OF COURSE, WE
UNDERSTAND IS A BIG FIGURE AND
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IN THE LIMELIGHT A LOT AND
SOMEHOW HAS TAKEN A LITTLE BIT
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OF A BACKSEAT RECENTLY, WITH HER
NEW NETWORK, BUT HERE WAS CAROL
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WOODLE WHO LOOKED
LIKE OPRAH WINFREY.
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SO EVERY TIME CAROL WOODLE
WENT TO THE STORE SHE WOULD BE
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STANDING THERE AND, YOU KNOW,
THOSE MAGAZINES THAT SIT THERE
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AND YOU'VE GOT THE 'O' MAGAZINE
AND PEOPLE WOULD LOOK AT THE
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MAGAZINE AND THEY'D LOOK OVER
AT CAROL AND THEY'D BE WONDERING
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WHETHER THIS IS, IN
FACT, OPRAH WINFREY.
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AND PEOPLE COMING UP AND SHAKING
HER HAND AND ONE OR TWO, THREE
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PEOPLE IN LINE
LOOKING, 'COULD IT BE HER?
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COULD IT BE?' AND ONE
PARTICULAR DAY A LADY -
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AN OLDER LADY - SAW CAROL,
THINKING SHE WAS OPRAH, AND RAN
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OVER TO HER AND SHE WAS
IN COMPLETE TEARS AND GRABBED
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CAROL'S HAND AND WAS SOBBING AND
SAID HER ONLY DREAM WAS TO EVER
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MEET OPRAH WINFREY.
AND FOR CAROL, THAT DID IT.
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FOR CAROL, THAT WAS IT. SHE
DECIDED FROM THAT DAY ON SHE
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WAS GOING TO BE AN IMPERSONATOR
OF OPRAH WINFREY AND SO THAT'S
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WHAT SHE DECIDED TO DO.
AND IF YOU LOOK AT THE PICTURES
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OF CAROL WOODLE - JUST GOOGLE
HER - GOOGLE IMAGES - YOU'LL SEE
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SHE'S NEARLY THE
SPITTING IMAGE OF OPRAH.
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NOW NEXT TO ELVIS
THERE'S ALSO MARILYN MONROE.
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TO LOOK LIKE A CELEBRITY
IMPERSONATOR, THE INDIVIDUALS
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STUDY THE MAKE-UP, SOME - AND
BY THE WAY, SOME IMPERSONATORS
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DON'T LOOK LIKE
THE ACTUAL PERSON.
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THEY'VE GOT TO PUT A LOT OF
MAKE-UP ON AND WIGS AND COSTUMES
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AND SO THEY ANALYZE THE
MAKE-UP AND THE COSTUMES AND THE
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CHARACTERISTICS UNTIL
THEY'RE ABLE TO IMITATE THEM.
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AND THEY POUR OVER FILMS OR READ
BIOGRAPHIES AND PRACTICE THEIR
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SONGS UNTIL THEY'VE NEARLY
PERFECTED THE IMITATION OF THAT
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PARTICULAR PERSON. DID
YOU KNOW THAT THERE ARE
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ABOUT 20,000 - THEY ESTIMATE
ABOUT 20,000 - PROFESSIONAL
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IMPERSONATORS IN
THE UNITED STATES?
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AND THAT WOULDN'T INCLUDE THOSE
WHO JUST GO AROUND PRETENDING TO
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BE SOMEONE THAT THEY'RE
NOT. THIS IS PROFESSIONAL
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IMPERSONATORS. AND THE
REASON THAT THERE ARE SO MANY IS
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BECAUSE NATURALLY, IN
OUR SOCIETY, CELEBRITIES ARE
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HIGHLY ESTEEMED
- HIGHLY REGARDED.
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A DOCTOR BY THE NAME OF JAMES
HOURAN, HE'S A NEW YORK-BASED
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PSYCHOLOGIST AND HE STUDIES
CELEBRITY WORSHIP AND HE SAID
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THIS - VERY INTERESTING -
HE SAID, "HUMAN BEINGS ARE
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HARD-WIRED TO WORSHIP SOMETHING.
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AND IN THE ABSENCE OF ORGANIZED
RELIGION WE TURN TO TRYING TO
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COPY AND LEARN FROM
PEOPLE THAT ARE SUCCESSFUL. WOW.
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NOW THERE ARE SOME IMPERSONATORS
- AND ONLY A FEW - THAT ACTUALLY
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HAVE BEEN ABLE TO - ACTUALLY
HAVE BEEN ABLE TO BECOME LESS
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AND LESS ACQUAINTED
WITH WHO THEY REALLY ARE.
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THEY'VE LOST THEIR IDENTITY.
THEY'VE PRACTICED AND IMITATED
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THAT PARTICULAR PERSON SO OFTEN
AND SO MANY TIMES THAT THEY'VE
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LOST WHO THEY REALLY ARE.
THEY CAN'T FIGURE OUT WHO THEY
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ARE. THEY'VE
LOST THEIR IDENTITY.
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YOU KNOW, IT'S ONE THING TO PUT
ON SPOCK EARS WHEN YOU'RE GOING
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TO A CONVENTION, BUT IT'S
ANOTHER THING TO PUT ON SPOCK
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EARS SEVEN DAYS A WEEK
WHEN NO ONE'S WATCHING.
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AND THAT'S PROBLEMATIC WHEN
YOU'RE IMPERSONATING SOMEONE AND
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YOU'VE FORGOTTEN WHO YOU ARE.
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WELL, CHRISTIANS ARE CALLED TO
BE IMITATORS OF JESUS CHRIST AND
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HIS CHARACTER AND THAT'S
WHAT THE LESSON IS ABOUT. AND WE
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WON'T EVER LOSE OUR IDENTITY
WHEN WE FOLLOW JESUS. IN FACT,
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OUR IDENTITY CRYSTALLIZES
AND OUR PERSONALITY BECOMES MORE
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REFINED AND BECOMES MORE
IMPROVED. WE ACTUALLY BECOME
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ALL THAT WE - THAT GOD WANTS
US TO BE AS WE FOLLOW JESUS.
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WITHOUT JESUS WE CANNOT BECOME
ALL THAT GOD REALLY WANTS US TO
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BE, BUT WITH JESUS HE MAKES
US ALL THAT HE DESIRES US TO BE.
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NOW THERE ARE SEVERAL BIBLE
TEXTS THAT TALK ABOUT THE IDEA
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OF CHRISTIANS IMITATING OR
FOLLOWING JESUS. I'M GOING TO
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SHARE A FEW WITH YOU AND
FEEL FREE TO WRITE THEM DOWN.
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I'M JUST GOING TO GO
DOWN THEM ON AT A TIME.
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1 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 11 AND
VERSE 1. THE APOSTLE PAUL SAYS,
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"IMITATE ME, JUST AS
I ALSO IMITATE CHRIST."
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AND SO THE APOSTLE PAUL TOLD
FOLK, 'LOOK, JUST FOLLOW ME -
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IMITATE ME INASMUCH AS I IMITATE
JESUS.' IF WE'RE A FOLLOWER OF
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JESUS WE IMITATE HIM.
EPHESIANS 5:1, THE SAME AUTHOR
00:18:38.76\00:18:42.53
SAID, "THEREFORE BE IMITATORS
OF GOD AS DEAR CHILDREN." THEN
00:18:42.53\00:18:49.10
THERE'S PHILIPPIANS 2:5 - I TOLD
YOU I'M GOING TO GO THROUGH THEM
00:18:49.10\00:18:51.90
RELATIVELY QUICK. WE'LL STOP
AND LOOK AT A FEW VERSES HERE.
00:18:51.90\00:18:54.46
THE APOSTLE PAUL SAYS IN
PHILIPPIANS 2:5, "LET THIS MIND
00:18:54.46\00:18:57.26
BE IN YOU WHICH WAS ALSO
IN" - WHO? - "CHRIST JESUS."
00:18:57.26\00:19:01.30
THAT'S RIGHT. AND SO
THERE'S THE EXAMPLE - THE
00:19:01.30\00:19:04.80
FOLLOWING AFTER -
THE IMITATING OF JESUS.
00:19:04.80\00:19:07.76
1 PETER 2:21 SAYS, "FOR TO THIS
YOU WERE CALLED, BECAUSE CHRIST
00:19:07.76\00:19:13.13
ALSO SUFFERED FOR US, LEAVING US
AN EXAMPLE, THAT YOU SHOULD" -
00:19:13.13\00:19:17.33
DO WHAT? - "FOLLOW
HIS STEPS:" AND IN 1
00:19:17.33\00:19:21.53
JOHN 2:6, "HE WHO SAYS HE ABIDES
IN HIM OUGHT HIMSELF ALSO TO
00:19:21.53\00:19:26.43
WALK JUST AS HE
WALKED." THAT'S RIGHT.
00:19:26.43\00:19:31.06
NOW TURN TO MATTHEW
CHAPTER 11 AND LOOK AT VERSE 29.
00:19:31.06\00:19:34.70
WE OFTEN SKIP - I DON'T WANT TO
SAY WE OFTEN SKIP OVER THIS, BUT
00:19:34.70\00:19:37.40
WE FOCUS, WHEN WE'RE TALKING
ABOUT THESE VERSES, WE FOCUS IN
00:19:37.40\00:19:40.63
ON A PARTICULAR ASPECT OF
THESE VERSES - RESTING IN JESUS,
00:19:40.63\00:19:44.90
TAKING ON HIS YOKE - BUT NOTICE
WHAT IT SAYS IN MATTHEW 11,
00:19:44.90\00:19:48.20
VERSE 29 - THESE ARE THE WORDS
OF JESUS - IN VERSE 28 HE SAYS,
00:19:48.20\00:19:52.66
"COME UNTO ME ALL YE THAT LABOR
AND ARE HEAVY LADEN, AND I WILL
00:19:52.66\00:19:54.86
GIVE YOU REST." AND HE
SAYS, "TAKE MY YOKE UPON
00:19:54.86\00:19:58.63
YOU," - AND WHAT ARE THE NEXT
WORDS? - "LEARN" - LEARN OF ME.
00:19:58.63\00:20:03.16
COPY ME. IMITATE
ME. I'M YOUR EXAMPLE.
00:20:03.16\00:20:06.03
IMITATE ME - "AND LEARN OF
ME; FOR I AM MEEK AND LOWLY IN
00:20:06.03\00:20:11.00
HEART: AND YE SHALL
FIND REST UNTO YOUR SOULS."
00:20:11.00\00:20:16.23
ALRIGHT - AND THEN JUST A COUPLE
OTHER VERSES YOU CAN WRITE DOWN:
00:20:16.23\00:20:19.00
LUKE CHAPTER 6, VERSE 36, JESUS
SAID, "THEREFORE BE MERCIFUL,
00:20:19.00\00:20:24.10
JUST AS YOUR
FATHER ALSO IS MERCIFUL."
00:20:24.10\00:20:28.06
THE COUNTERPART TO THAT IS
MATTHEW 5:48, "BE YE THEREFORE
00:20:28.06\00:20:30.96
PERFECT, EVEN AS YOUR FATHER
WHICH IS IN HEAVEN IS PERFECT."
00:20:30.96\00:20:34.60
AS GOD IS PERFECT IN HIS REALM,
GOD IS ASKING HIS FOLLOWERS TO
00:20:34.60\00:20:37.80
BE PERFECT HERE IN THEIR REALM,
YOU SEE? AND THEN, LASTLY,
00:20:37.80\00:20:40.73
JOHN 13:15 - JESUS SAID, "FOR I
HAVE GIVEN YOU AN EXAMPLE, THAT
00:20:40.73\00:20:45.56
YE SHOULD DO AS I HAVE DONE
TO YOU." AND, OF COURSE, HE WAS
00:20:45.56\00:20:48.60
TALKING THERE ABOUT
WASHING ONE ANOTHER'S FEET.
00:20:48.60\00:20:52.13
BUT IN THE BROADER SENSE JESUS
SAID, 'LOOK, AS I'VE DONE TO
00:20:52.13\00:20:54.40
YOU, I'M ASKING YOU TO FOLLOW
ME AND DO AS I'VE DONE AS WELL.'
00:20:54.40\00:20:58.93
AND SO THERE ARE MULTIPLE VERSES
IN THE BIBLE THAT SPEAK TO THE
00:20:58.93\00:21:01.83
IDEA OF IMITATING -
FOLLOWING THE EXAMPLE OF JESUS.
00:21:01.83\00:21:06.50
OFTEN WE TALK ABOUT IT BUT VERY
SELDOM DO WE - SOMETIMES WE JUST
00:21:06.50\00:21:10.26
DON'T STOP AND PAUSE AND
CONSIDER THE BIBLICAL EVIDENCE
00:21:10.26\00:21:13.13
THAT SUPPORTS THAT IDEA.
AND NOW YOU'VE GOT A FEW TEXTS
00:21:13.13\00:21:16.10
NOW THAT YOU CAN REFER
TO AND PUT IN YOUR ARSENAL.
00:21:16.10\00:21:21.13
ALRIGHT, WE'RE
GOING TO SUNDAY'S LESSON.
00:21:21.13\00:21:23.16
WE ARE TO BE IMITATORS OF JESUS
AND WHEN WE DO WE WON'T EVER
00:21:23.16\00:21:27.36
LOSE OUR IDENTITY.
IT'LL BE CRYSTALLIZED AND OUR
00:21:27.36\00:21:29.86
PERSONALITY WILL BE REFINED.
ALRIGHT, SUNDAY'S LESSON.
00:21:29.86\00:21:34.26
HOW DID JESUS
LIVE? OR HOW JESUS LIVED.
00:21:34.26\00:21:37.16
HOW DID JESUS LIVE?
JESUS' LIFE NATURALLY WAS A LIFE
00:21:37.16\00:21:40.70
OF UNSELFISH, SELF-SACRIFICING
LOVE, WAS IT NOT?
00:21:40.70\00:21:45.06
THAT WAS THE LIFE OF JESUS.
HIS PRIORITIES CENTERED ON
00:21:45.06\00:21:50.46
OTHERS RATHER THAN HIMSELF.
JESUS WAS OUTWARD FOCUSED RATHER
00:21:50.46\00:21:54.40
THAN ALWAYS
CONSIDERING HIS OWN NEEDS.
00:21:54.40\00:21:59.56
WHEN WE THINK OF JESUS,
HIS HANDS WERE ALWAYS READY TO
00:21:59.56\00:22:02.96
RELIEVE SUFFERING AND TROUBLE
THAT HAD COME TO INDIVIDUALS.
00:22:02.96\00:22:06.63
HE CARED FOR THOSE THAT MAY
HAVE BEEN EVEN CONSIDERED LOW -
00:22:06.63\00:22:10.93
OF LOW VALUE IN
SOCIETY'S ESTIMATION.
00:22:10.93\00:22:13.96
WE THINK ABOUT
CHILDREN. WE THINK ABOUT WOMEN.
00:22:13.96\00:22:17.16
WE THINK ABOUT FOREIGNERS
AND LEPERS AND TAX COLLECTORS.
00:22:17.16\00:22:21.03
JESUS CAME NEAR TO EACH ONE AND
ENCOURAGED EACH ONE AND LIFTED
00:22:21.03\00:22:24.80
EACH ONE UP AND
SHARED HIS CONCERN FOR EACH.
00:22:24.80\00:22:29.20
SO JESUS' LIFE WAS A
LIFE OF UNSELFISH LOVE.
00:22:29.20\00:22:33.23
THAT WAS JESUS' LIFE.
00:22:33.23\00:22:34.70
AND THAT LED JESUS TO VIEW
PEOPLE IN A PARTICULAR WAY.
00:22:34.70\00:22:41.03
IF YOU LOOK AT VARIOUS VERSES
IN THE SCRIPTURES, ESPECIALLY IN
00:22:41.03\00:22:45.03
MATTHEW, AND THE GOSPELS,
YOU'LL READ WHERE JESUS SAW THE
00:22:45.03\00:22:49.80
MULTITUDE AND HE HAD -
HE WAS MOVED WITH WHAT?
00:22:49.80\00:22:53.40
DO YOU REMEMBER THE WORD?
COMPASSION. YEAH, COMPASSION.
00:22:53.40\00:22:57.26
HE SAW THE MULTITUDE THAT
WERE LIKE SHEEP SCATTERED - NO
00:22:57.26\00:23:00.40
SHEPHERD - AND HE WAS MOVED WITH
COMPASSION. AND SO JESUS' LIFE
00:23:00.40\00:23:05.36
WAS A LIFE OF COMPASSION.
AND THE WORD COMPASSION HAS THIS
00:23:05.36\00:23:10.50
IDEA OF YOUR INNER
EMOTIONS - YOUR BOWELS YEARN.
00:23:10.50\00:23:14.40
THAT'S KIND OF ODD - I DON'T
MEAN OUR BOWELS DON'T NATURALLY
00:23:14.40\00:23:17.33
YEARN, BUT THIS IS THE HEART
- THE DEEPEST INNERMOST FEELINGS
00:23:17.33\00:23:22.73
OF A PERSON THAT IS -
THAT'S BEING CALLED OUT TO HAVE
00:23:22.73\00:23:26.56
COMPASSION ON A PERSON -
TO CARE FOR ANOTHER PERSON.
00:23:26.56\00:23:30.16
TO FEEL SYMPATHY
FOR; TO PITY THAT PERSON.
00:23:30.16\00:23:33.56
THE DICTIONARY DEFINES
COMPASSION AS 'SYMPATHETIC PITY
00:23:33.56\00:23:38.00
AND CONCERN FOR THE SUFFERING OR
MISFORTUNES OF OTHERS.' SO WHEN
00:23:38.00\00:23:43.93
WE THINK OF JESUS WE'RE THINKING
ABOUT HIS ENCOUNTER WITH THE TWO
00:23:43.93\00:23:46.90
BLIND MEN THAT HE ENCOUNTERED ON
HIS WAY INTO JERICHO, WHO WERE
00:23:46.90\00:23:50.96
CRYING OUT TO HAVE MERCY ON THEM
AND JESUS STOPPED TO CONSIDER
00:23:50.96\00:23:55.50
THEM. HE HAD COMPASSION ON THEM.
00:23:55.50\00:23:57.86
WE THINK ABOUT THE PLEADING
LEPER WHO WAS ASKING TO BE
00:23:57.86\00:24:01.80
CLEANSED. JESUS
HAD COMPASSION ON HIM.
00:24:01.80\00:24:04.26
AND THEN, OF COURSE, THERE WAS
THE WIDOW - THE WIDOW OF NAIN -
00:24:04.26\00:24:08.23
AND SHE'D JUST LOST HER SON AND
HE WAS BEING CARRIED IN A COFFIN
00:24:08.23\00:24:12.06
OUTSIDE THE CITY AND JESUS'
HAPPY PROCESSION MET THAT SAD
00:24:12.06\00:24:15.60
PROCESSION AND INSTEAD OF JESUS
AND THE DISCIPLES - OR AT LEAST
00:24:15.60\00:24:19.23
JESUS SAYING, 'YOU KNOW
WHAT, WE'RE PRETTY HAPPY HERE.
00:24:19.23\00:24:21.93
WE DON'T WANT TO BE DISTURBED BY
SOME GRIEF.' AND PASSING ON THE
00:24:21.93\00:24:25.16
OTHER WAY, JESUS MET
THAT PROCESSION AND HE BROUGHT
00:24:25.16\00:24:27.86
HAPPINESS AND CHEER TO THAT
PROCESSION INSOMUCH AS HE RAISED
00:24:27.86\00:24:31.36
THAT WIDOW'S
SON. POWERFUL STORY.
00:24:31.36\00:24:34.70
SO WE SEE JESUS - WE SEE HIM
HAVING COMPASSION - MOVED WITH
00:24:34.70\00:24:39.23
COMPASSION TO HELP AND TO
RELIEVE THE SUFFERINGS AND
00:24:39.23\00:24:42.60
MISFORTUNES OF OTHERS.
NOW I HAVE A BIBLE VERSE HERE,
00:24:42.60\00:24:46.16
MATTHEW 20, VERSE 28, SOMEONE
WAS GOING TO READ THAT FOR US
00:24:46.16\00:24:48.96
HERE. THANK YOU. AND
WE'RE ASKING THE QUESTION,
00:24:48.96\00:24:53.16
'HOW DID JESUS
LIVE?' HOW DID JESUS LIVE?
00:24:53.16\00:24:55.83
WE'VE TALKED ABOUT IT HERE BUT
LET'S JUST LOOK AT A COUPLE OF
00:24:55.83\00:24:57.83
VERSES HERE. ACTS
CHAPTER 10 - WE'LL GO THERE
00:24:57.83\00:25:00.60
AS WELL - ACTS 10:38 - AND THEN
WE'LL COME TO MATTHEW 20:28.
00:25:00.60\00:25:04.86
ACTS CHAPTER 10, VERSE 38 -
TALKING OF JESUS' BAPTISM WHEN
00:25:04.86\00:25:13.43
HE WAS ANOINTED
WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT.
00:25:13.43\00:25:18.56
YOU REMEMBER THE EXPERIENCE
OF JESUS AT HIS BAPTISM?
00:25:18.56\00:25:21.53
THE BIBLE SAYS THE HEAVENS WERE
OPENED, HE HEARD HIS FATHER'S
00:25:21.53\00:25:25.53
VOICE THAT SAYS, 'MY BELOVED SON
IN WHOM I'M WELL PLEASED.' AND
00:25:25.53\00:25:27.93
THE HOLY SPIRIT
DESCENDED UPON HIM LIKE A DOVE.
00:25:27.93\00:25:31.26
HE WAS ANOINTED THE MESSIAH
- THE CHRIST - WHICH MEANS
00:25:31.26\00:25:34.90
'ANOINTED ONE.' BUT HERE IN ACTS
CHAPTER 10 AND VERSE 38 IT SAYS,
00:25:34.90\00:25:39.83
"HOW GOD ANOINTED JESUS OF
NAZARETH WITH THE HOLY GHOST AND
00:25:39.83\00:25:43.06
WITH" - WHAT FRIENDS? -
"POWER:" - AND HOW DID HE USE
00:25:43.06\00:25:46.10
THAT POWER? - "WHO WENT ABOUT
DOING GOOD, AND HEALING ALL THAT
00:25:46.10\00:25:51.00
WERE OPPRESSED OF THE
DEVIL; FOR GOD WAS WITH HIM."
00:25:51.00\00:25:56.10
HERE'S THE EVIDENCE OF
GOD BEING WITH A PERSON.
00:25:56.10\00:25:58.73
GOD IS WITH THAT PERSON WHEN
THAT PERSON IS DOING GOOD AND
00:25:58.73\00:26:02.83
RELIEVING THE SUFFERINGS AND
NEEDS OF OTHERS THE BEST THEY
00:26:02.83\00:26:05.46
KNOW HOW.
MATTHEW 20 AND VERSE 28.
00:26:05.46\00:26:10.36
>>"EVEN AS THE SON OF MAN CAME
NOT TO BE MINISTERED UNTO BUT TO
00:26:10.36\00:26:15.00
MINISTER, AND TO GIVE
HIS LIFE A RANSOM FOR MANY."
00:26:15.00\00:26:19.30
>>SO JESUS' LIFE - THANK YOU
- JESUS' LIFE WAS CENTERED ON
00:26:19.30\00:26:24.13
SERVING. THAT'S
IT - SERVING OTHERS,
00:26:24.13\00:26:29.40
BENEFITTING
OTHERS, BLESSING OTHERS.
00:26:29.40\00:26:33.56
I WANT TO JUST SHARE A FEW
QUOTES FROM MY FAVORITE BOOK.
00:26:33.56\00:26:37.36
THE BOOK IS 'THE DESIRE OF AGES'
- TALKING ABOUT THE LIFE OF
00:26:37.36\00:26:41.33
JESUS. AND THIS
INSPIRED COMMENTARY -
00:26:41.33\00:26:43.63
TALKING ABOUT THE CHILDHOOD OF
JESUS AND THERE ARE A COUPLE OF
00:26:43.63\00:26:47.33
CHAPTERS THAT ARE
POIGNANT - THAT ARE POWERFUL.
00:26:47.33\00:26:51.50
ONE IS - ONE CHAPTER IS 'THE
CONFLICT YEARS' - TALKING OF
00:26:51.50\00:26:54.50
JESUS' HOME LIFE
AND HOW HE GREW UP.
00:26:54.50\00:26:57.50
BUT JUST LET ME
READ THESE STATEMENTS.
00:26:57.50\00:26:59.20
THERE ARE TWO: ONE'S ON PAGE
70 AND ONE'S ON PAGE 87 AND THEY
00:26:59.20\00:27:03.10
JUST SUMMARIZED THE LIFE -
THE HEART OF JESUS. IT SAYS,
00:27:03.10\00:27:10.90
"JESUS LIVED TO RELIEVE EVERY
CASE OF SUFFERING THAT HE SAW.
00:27:10.90\00:27:17.23
HE HAD LITTLE MONEY TO GIVE BUT
HE OFTEN DENIED HIMSELF OF FOOD
00:27:17.23\00:27:22.10
IN ORDER TO RELIEVE THOSE
WHO APPEARED MORE NEEDY THAN HE.
00:27:22.10\00:27:25.96
TO THOSE WHO WERE IN NEED HE
WOULD GIVE A CUP OF COLD WATER
00:27:25.96\00:27:29.90
AND WOULD QUIETLY PLACE
HIS OWN MEAL IN THEIR HANDS.
00:27:29.90\00:27:36.06
FROM HIS EARLIEST YEARS HE
WAS POSSESSED OF ONE PURPOSE:
00:27:36.06\00:27:39.63
HE LIVED TO BLESS OTHERS.
THAT WAS THE HEART OF CHRIST AND
00:27:39.63\00:27:45.30
CHRIST WAS REVEALING THE
HEART OF WHO? GOD THE FATHER.
00:27:45.30\00:27:49.53
YOU SAW - JESUS SAID, 'YOU'VE
SEEN ME YOU'VE SEEN THE FATHER.
00:27:49.53\00:27:53.36
AND ALL THAT I'M DOING COMES
FROM THE FATHER.' HE LIVED TO
00:27:53.36\00:27:58.13
BLESS OTHERS. JUST POWERFUL.
I REMEMBER I HAD JUST GIVEN MY
00:27:58.13\00:28:04.00
LIFE TO THE LORD AND THE PASTOR
SAID, 'IF YOU'RE GOING TO GROW
00:28:04.00\00:28:07.30
IN JESUS YOU'RE GOING TO
HAVE TO HAVE MORNING DEVOTIONS.
00:28:07.30\00:28:10.66
YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO SPEND
TIME WITH JESUS.' AND I WAS
00:28:10.66\00:28:12.70
LIKE, 'WHAT IS 'DEVOTIONS?'
I DON'T - A DEVOTED LIFE I
00:28:12.70\00:28:16.20
UNDERSTAND, BUT WHAT ARE
'DEVOTIONS?' AND HE SAID, 'WELL,
00:28:16.20\00:28:19.50
YOU JUST SPEND TIME WITH
THE LORD, YOU PRAY, AND YOU OPEN
00:28:19.50\00:28:20.96
THE BIBLE AND READ AND I
ENCOURAGE YOU TO READ THE LIFE
00:28:20.96\00:28:22.80
OF JESUS. AND SO I WAS ALSO
SHARED THE BOOK 'DESIRE OF AGES'
00:28:22.80\00:28:28.16
AT THAT TIME - READ IT WITH THE
GOSPELS. AND I'VE GOT TO TELL
00:28:28.16\00:28:31.80
YOU, IT WAS TRANSFORMATIONAL.
I MEAN, JUST SPENDING TIME
00:28:31.80\00:28:34.70
STUDYING THE LIFE OF JESUS,
LOOKING AT HOW HE LIVED AND
00:28:34.70\00:28:38.36
WHAT HE DID FOR OTHERS,
I MEAN, JUST UNBELIEVABLE.
00:28:38.36\00:28:41.53
WHEN I GOT THROUGH THE GOSPELS
AND 'DESIRE OF AGES' I ASKED,
00:28:41.53\00:28:44.63
'WELL WHAT SHOULD I DO NOW?'
SO I JUST WENT BACK AGAIN -
00:28:44.63\00:28:47.13
I DID THAT SEVEN TIMES.
I MEAN IT'S JUST FANTASTIC.
00:28:47.13\00:28:49.83
YOU'VE GOT TO READ THE GOSPELS
AND YOU'VE GOT TO SPEND TIME IN
00:28:49.83\00:28:52.36
'THE DESIRE OF AGES.' BUT JESUS
LIVED - HE WAS POSSESSED OF ONE
00:28:52.36\00:28:56.33
PURPOSE. HE
LIVED TO BLESS OTHERS.
00:28:56.33\00:28:59.96
IS OUR LIFE A
BLESSING TO OTHERS?
00:28:59.96\00:29:02.93
YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT
NATURE - SOME ELEMENTS IN NATURE
00:29:02.93\00:29:06.43
- THEY LIVE TO - THEY PURELY
- THEY LIVE PURELY JUST TO
00:29:06.43\00:29:09.86
BENEFIT OTHERS. THINK
ABOUT, FOR EXAMPLE, THE SUN.
00:29:09.86\00:29:13.86
THE SUN EXISTS FOR WHAT PURPOSE?
00:29:13.86\00:29:17.50
BECAUSE IT WANTS TO BE THE
BIGGEST AND BRIGHTEST THING IN
00:29:17.50\00:29:20.30
OUR SOLAR SYSTEM? NO.
THERE'S A PURPOSE FOR THE SUN.
00:29:20.30\00:29:24.70
WHAT'S THE PURPOSE
- THE SUN'S PURPOSE?
00:29:24.70\00:29:26.96
TO PROVIDE LIGHT - THAT'S RIGHT
- TO BRING WARMTH TO PLANET
00:29:26.96\00:29:31.13
EARTH. TREES - THINK
ABOUT TREES FOR A MOMENT.
00:29:31.13\00:29:35.50
THEY PROVIDE - THEY
LIVE TO PROVIDE SHADE.
00:29:35.50\00:29:38.60
THEY LIVE TO PROVIDE A HOME FOR
BIRDS, SQUIRRELS, SOME ANIMALS,
00:29:38.60\00:29:42.20
EVEN SOME INSECTS. THEY
ALSO PROVIDE OXYGEN, YEAH.
00:29:42.20\00:29:48.13
THE ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION
- ACCORDING TO THE ARBOR DAY
00:29:48.13\00:29:50.96
FOUNDATION, THEY SAID A MATURE,
LEAFY TREE PRODUCES AS MUCH
00:29:50.96\00:29:55.10
OXYGEN IN A SEASON AS
TEN PEOPLE INHALE IN A YEAR.
00:29:55.10\00:30:01.70
JUST A SINGLE TREE. MATURE TREE.
00:30:01.70\00:30:04.36
A SINGLE MATURE TREE CAN ABSORB
CARBON DIOXIDE AT A RATE OF 48
00:30:04.36\00:30:08.43
POUNDS PER YEAR AND RELEASE
ENOUGH OXYGEN BACK INTO THE
00:30:08.43\00:30:11.80
ATMOSPHERE TO
SUPPORT TWO HUMAN BEINGS.
00:30:11.80\00:30:14.66
THAT'S WHAT ANOTHER GROUP SAID.
00:30:14.66\00:30:16.06
SO TREES AND SUN AND OTHER
OBJECTS LIVE, NOT FOR THEIR GOOD
00:30:16.06\00:30:21.03
BUT FOR THE GOOD
AND BENEFIT OF OTHERS.
00:30:21.03\00:30:24.33
AND WHEN WE SEE NATURE, WE
SEE THESE THINGS - WE SEE THE
00:30:24.33\00:30:26.66
CHARACTER OF GOD REVEALED
AND WHEN WE LOOK AT JESUS, WHOSE
00:30:26.66\00:30:30.16
LIFE WAS LIKE THE SUN AND LIKE
THE TREE AND HE LIVED TO BENEFIT
00:30:30.16\00:30:35.26
AND BLESS OTHERS. SO
THAT'S HOW JESUS LIVED.
00:30:35.26\00:30:37.63
LET'S GO TO MONDAY'S LESSON
AND LET'S TALK HERE A LITTLE BIT
00:30:37.63\00:30:42.60
ABOUT A STORY THAT JESUS
TAUGHT IN LUKE CHAPTER 10.
00:30:42.60\00:30:49.70
JESUS WAS CONTINUALLY TRYING TO
EDUCATE HIS DISCIPLES AND THOSE
00:30:49.70\00:30:54.23
THAT FOLLOWED HIM HOW - WHAT
IT MEANT TO FOLLOW HIM - WHAT IT
00:30:54.23\00:30:57.90
MEANT TO LIVE FOR JESUS.
AND SO IN THIS PARTICULAR STORY
00:30:57.90\00:31:03.26
HE WANTED TO ILLUSTRATE THE KIND
OF LOVE THAT HE WAS SHARING -
00:31:03.26\00:31:06.60
THAT HE WAS
COMMUNICATING TO OTHERS.
00:31:06.60\00:31:12.16
AND THIS IS THE PARABLE OF THE
GOOD SAMARITAN AND WE READ THE
00:31:12.16\00:31:15.53
STORY IN LUKE CHAPTER 10
AND IT'S VERSES 30 TO 37.
00:31:15.53\00:31:20.50
I THINK WE KNOW THE STORY PRETTY
WELL BUT THE LEAD-IN TO THE
00:31:20.50\00:31:25.20
STORY IS A LAWYER CAME TO JESUS
TEMPTING HIM - TRYING TO TRIP
00:31:25.20\00:31:29.06
JESUS UP - AND YOU CAN GO BACK
TO VERSE 25 - HE SAID, "MASTER,
00:31:29.06\00:31:35.43
WHAT SHALL I DO TO INHERIT
ETERNAL LIFE?" AND JESUS SAID,
00:31:35.43\00:31:38.13
"WHAT IS WRITTEN IN THE LAW?"
THEY WERE ACTUALLY SUGGESTING
00:31:38.13\00:31:40.83
THAT JESUS DIDN'T UPHOLD THE LAW
LIKE HE OUGHT TO. IT SEEMED LIKE
00:31:40.83\00:31:44.70
HE WAS DIMINISHING THE LAW AND
JESUS RESPONDS, 'WHAT DOES THE
00:31:44.70\00:31:47.16
LAW SAY?' AND THE LAWYER
REPEATED TO - THE SHEMA -
00:31:47.16\00:31:52.76
I BELIEVE IT'S CALLED -
YES, THE SHEMA, WHICH IS A
00:31:52.76\00:31:55.16
CONFESSION OF FAITH RECITED
BY DEVOUT JEWS BACK THEN.
00:31:55.16\00:31:58.93
IT WAS DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER
6, VERSE 5 AND LEVITICUS 19:18.
00:31:58.93\00:32:02.60
AND HE SAID, "THOU SHALT LOVE
THE LORD THY GOD WITH ALL THY
00:32:02.60\00:32:05.16
HEART, AND WITH ALL THY SOUL AND
WITH ALL THY STRENGTH, AND WITH
00:32:05.16\00:32:07.16
ALL THY MIND; AND
THY NEIGHBOR AS THYSELF."
00:32:07.16\00:32:12.00
BUT HE REALIZED THAT HE DIDN'T
LOVE HIS NEIGHBOR AS HIMSELF AND
00:32:12.00\00:32:16.83
SO HE TRIED TO JUSTIFY HIMSELF
BY ASKING JESUS THE QUESTION,
00:32:16.83\00:32:21.83
"AND WHO IS MY NEIGHBOR?"
BACK THEN THE SQUABBLE AMONGST
00:32:21.83\00:32:27.53
THE JEWS AND THE RELIGIOUS
LEADERS - BECAUSE A LAWYER WAS A
00:32:27.53\00:32:31.30
RELIGIOUS LEADER. HE WAS
THE PROTECTOR OF THE LAW,
00:32:31.30\00:32:34.06
THE ONE WHO EDUCATED
PEOPLE REGARDING THE LAW.
00:32:34.06\00:32:36.96
THE SQUABBLE WAS NOT SO MUCH THE
SAMARITANS BEING THEIR NEIGHBORS
00:32:36.96\00:32:40.46
- THEY UNDERSTOOD THAT
THEY WERE NOT THEIR NEIGHBORS.
00:32:40.46\00:32:42.80
THE GENTILES, THEY
WERE NOT THEIR NEIGHBORS.
00:32:42.80\00:32:44.70
THE OUTCASTS OF SOCIETY,
THEY CERTAINLY WEREN'T THEIR
00:32:44.70\00:32:47.56
NEIGHBORS. BUT WHAT
ABOUT THE CLASS OF PEOPLE?
00:32:47.56\00:32:50.30
MAYBE THIS CLASS
WAS THEIR NEIGHBOR.
00:32:50.30\00:32:52.20
MAYBE THIS ONE WAS. AND
SO THAT WAS THE ARGUMENT.
00:32:52.20\00:32:54.36
AND JESUS WAS ABOUT TO BLOW
THE LID OFF THEIR PRECONCEIVED
00:32:54.36\00:32:56.93
NOTIONS AND IDEAS.
"WHO IS MY NEIGHBOR?" -
00:32:56.93\00:33:00.50
AND IN THIS PARTICULAR STORY
JESUS SHARES, HE HIGHLIGHTS -
00:33:00.50\00:33:06.40
CLARIFIES - WHAT IT MEANS TO
BE NEIGHBORLY AND ANSWERS THE
00:33:06.40\00:33:10.86
QUESTION 'WHO IS MY NEIGHBOR?'
VERSE 30 SAYS, "A CERTAIN MAN
00:33:10.86\00:33:13.36
WENT DOWN FROM JERUSALEM TO
JERICHO, AND" - WHAT HAPPENED? -
00:33:13.36\00:33:17.60
HE "FELL AMONG
THIEVES." - HE WAS ROBBED.
00:33:17.60\00:33:19.90
HE WAS LEFT HALF DEAD.
AND AS HE WAS THERE DYING A
00:33:19.90\00:33:25.36
PRIEST AND A RELIGIOUS LEADER
- A PRIEST AND A LEVITE CAME BY
00:33:25.36\00:33:31.36
AND THEY PASSED
BY ON THE OTHER SIDE.
00:33:31.36\00:33:33.06
ONE COMPLETELY IGNORED
HIM. THE OTHER ONE GOT CURIOUS,
00:33:33.06\00:33:35.60
LOOKED OVER, AND
WENT ON THE OTHER SIDE.
00:33:35.60\00:33:37.50
THEY PROBABLY WERE JUST COMING
BACK FROM SERVING IN THE TEMPLE
00:33:37.50\00:33:40.16
IN JERUSALEM AND TO TOUCH
SOMEONE WHO WAS HALF DEAD - THAT
00:33:40.16\00:33:43.23
MEANT THEY WOULD HAVE TO GO
THROUGH A BUNCH OF CEREMONIES TO
00:33:43.23\00:33:46.86
BE CEREMONIALLY CLEAN SO THEY
COULD SERVE AGAIN IN THE TEMPLE
00:33:46.86\00:33:49.86
AND SO IT WAS TOO MUCH FOR THEM
TO DO AND IT WAS INCONVENIENT SO
00:33:49.86\00:33:52.60
THEY PASSED ON BY - DIDN'T CARE
- "BUT A CERTAIN SAMARITAN" -
00:33:52.60\00:33:56.00
VERSE 33 - "A CERTAIN SAMARITAN,
AS HE JOURNEYED, CAME WHERE HE
00:33:56.00\00:33:58.93
WAS: AND WHEN HE SAW HIM, HE HAD
COMPASSION ON HIM," - THERE'S
00:33:58.93\00:34:02.50
THAT WORD AGAIN - COMPASSION -
"HAD COMPASSION ON HIM, AND WENT
00:34:02.50\00:34:06.10
TO HIM, AND BOUND UP HIS WOUNDS,
POURING IN OIL AND WINE, AND SET
00:34:06.10\00:34:08.96
HIM ON HIS OWN BEAST, AND
BROUGHT HIM TO AN INN AND TOOK
00:34:08.96\00:34:11.26
CARE OF HIM. AND
ON THE MORROW WHEN HE
00:34:11.26\00:34:13.13
DEPARTED, HE TOOK OUT TWO PENCE,
AND GAVE THEM TO THE HOST, AND
00:34:13.13\00:34:15.70
SAID UNTO HIM, TAKE CARE OF HIM;
AND WHATSOEVER THOU SPENDEST
00:34:15.70\00:34:18.36
MORE, WHEN I COME
AGAIN, I WILL REPAY THEE."
00:34:18.36\00:34:22.63
AND SO HERE YOU'VE GOT A
MAN WHO'S LEFT HALF DEAD ON THE
00:34:22.63\00:34:25.23
ROAD. IT'S VERY
LIKELY HE WAS A JEW.
00:34:25.23\00:34:28.33
HIS OWN PEOPLE PASSED HIM BY -
THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS AT THAT -
00:34:28.33\00:34:31.20
WALKED BY HIM AND A SAMARITAN -
ONE WHO WAS DESPISED BY THE JEWS
00:34:31.20\00:34:36.06
- STOPPED, TOOK PITY ON THE
MAN - HAD COMPASSION FOR HIM -
00:34:36.06\00:34:38.93
COMPASSION MOVED HIM TO
TAKE ACTION, BECAUSE COMPASSION
00:34:38.93\00:34:41.76
ALWAYS DOES THAT - IT ALWAYS
MOVES A PERSON TO TAKE ACTION.
00:34:41.76\00:34:44.80
COMPASSION MOVED HIM TO TAKE
ACTION, HE SPENT HIS RESOURCES,
00:34:44.80\00:34:48.96
CARED FOR THE MAN, PUT HIM
ON HIS OWN BEAST OF BURDEN, TOOK
00:34:48.96\00:34:52.23
HIM TO AN INN - EVEN TOLD THE
INNKEEPER, 'IF YOU SPEND MORE
00:34:52.23\00:34:54.56
FOR HIS CARE, I'LL REPAY
YOU WHEN I COME BACK THROUGH.'
00:34:54.56\00:34:57.43
DID HE GO THE EXTRA
MILE? YEAH. HE DIDN'T JUST SAY,
00:34:57.43\00:35:01.80
'HERE'S A BAND-AID.
ALL THE BEST.' HE DID WHAT
00:35:01.80\00:35:06.96
NEEDED TO BE DONE TO GET THE MAN
BACK ON HIS FEET, DID HE NOT?
00:35:06.96\00:35:10.06
SURE, HE DID ALL THAT HE COULD
TO HELP HIM - TO BE A NEIGHBOR.
00:35:10.06\00:35:14.40
SO JESUS ASKED THE QUESTION,
'SO WHO IS THE NEIGHBOR?'
00:35:14.40\00:35:19.30
THE TWO THAT SAID THAT THEY
WERE RELIGIOUS OR THE ONE THAT
00:35:19.30\00:35:22.43
ACTUALLY DID SOMETHING
GOOD FOR SOMEONE IN NEED?
00:35:22.43\00:35:26.56
IT WAS THE SAMARITAN AND
THE LAWYER COULDN'T EVEN SAY
00:35:26.56\00:35:29.10
SAMARITAN, HE JUST SAID,
'THE ONE THAT HELPED HIM.
00:35:29.10\00:35:31.23
THAT ONE.' AND SO NEIGHBOR - THE
NEIGHBOR - TO BE NEIGHBORLY - TO
00:35:31.23\00:35:37.96
BE A NEIGHBOR - OR NEIGHBOR
JUST SIMPLY MEANS 'NEAR ONE'.
00:35:37.96\00:35:41.73
OUR NEIGHBORS ARE ALL OF THOSE
WHO STAND IN NEED, ARE THEY NOT?
00:35:41.73\00:35:45.83
WHETHER THEY NEED HELP
PHYSICALLY OR WHETHER THEY NEED
00:35:45.83\00:35:47.83
HELP SPIRITUALLY, EVERY PERSON
ON PLANET EARTH IS OUR NEIGHBOR
00:35:47.83\00:35:52.96
IRRESPECTIVE OF COLOR,
NATIONALITY - IRRESPECTIVE OF
00:35:52.96\00:35:58.13
RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION, POLITICAL
PARTY - IT DOESN'T MATTER,
00:35:58.13\00:36:04.33
EVERYONE IS OUR NEIGHBOR,
ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO NEED JESUS.
00:36:04.33\00:36:10.40
WE NEED TO COME NEAR AND HELP
INDIVIDUALS COME TO KNOW JESUS.
00:36:10.40\00:36:16.96
SO THIS WAS THE LESSON OF THE
PARABLE: THE SAMARITAN TOOK CARE
00:36:16.96\00:36:21.63
OF THE JEW - THE ONE WHO DIDN'T
- THE JEWS DIDN'T TREAT THE
00:36:21.63\00:36:26.16
SAMARITANS WELL AT ALL.
AND DO YOU THINK THE SAMARITAN
00:36:26.16\00:36:28.76
TOOK THAT INTO CONSIDERATION?
IF HE HAD TAKEN THAT INTO
00:36:28.76\00:36:33.53
CONSIDERATION,
WHAT WOULD HE HAVE DONE?
00:36:33.53\00:36:36.06
HE WOULD HAVE
MOSEYED ON BY, RIGHT?
00:36:36.06\00:36:37.76
HE WOULD HAVE
JUST KEPT ON GOING.
00:36:37.76\00:36:39.23
BUT HE DIDN'T TAKE
THAT INTO CONSIDERATION.
00:36:39.23\00:36:41.86
YOU KNOW, A LOT OF TIMES WHEN WE
ARE POISED TO HELP SOMEBODY AND
00:36:41.86\00:36:46.16
WE CONSIDER WHO MAY NEED
THE ASSISTANCE, SOMETIMES WE MAY
00:36:46.16\00:36:50.73
PONDER WHAT THAT PERSON - HOW
THAT PERSON MAY HAVE TREATED US
00:36:50.73\00:36:53.20
OR WHAT THEY MAY HAVE SAID TO US
OR HOW THEY'VE TREATED A FAMILY
00:36:53.20\00:36:56.13
MEMBER. AND
BECAUSE THEY MAY NOT HAVE
00:36:56.13\00:36:58.90
TREATED US WELL OR A FAMILY
MEMBER - OUR SPOUSE OR OUR
00:36:58.90\00:37:01.13
CHILDREN - BUT THEY NEED HELP,
WE'LL JUSTIFY OUR NOT HELPING
00:37:01.13\00:37:08.50
BECAUSE OF THE WAY THEY'VE
TREATED OUR FAMILY MEMBER OR
00:37:08.50\00:37:12.03
EVEN OURSELVES. THE
SAMARITAN COULD HAVE EASILY
00:37:12.03\00:37:15.63
JUSTIFIED HIMSELF AND MOVED
ON BUT HE DIDN'T. HE STOPPED AND
00:37:15.63\00:37:19.36
HELPED SOMEONE WHO, GIVEN THE
CHANCE, WOULD HAVE SPAT ON HIM
00:37:19.36\00:37:23.20
BECAUSE HE WAS A SAMARITAN,
BUT HE HELPED HIM NONETHELESS.
00:37:23.20\00:37:27.86
THE LESSON OF THE GOOD SAMARITAN
IS ONE OF IMPARTIAL KINDNESS
00:37:27.86\00:37:32.23
IRRESPECTIVE OF HOW A PERSON
TREATS YOU, IRRESPECTIVE OF WHAT
00:37:32.23\00:37:34.90
THEY MAY HAVE SAID TO
YOUR SPOUSE OR YOUR CHILDREN -
00:37:34.90\00:37:37.50
WHATEVER THEOLOGICAL TENANTS
THEY HOLD TO - WHETHER THEY HAVE
00:37:37.50\00:37:41.00
A CONSERVATIVE WORSHIP
EXPERIENCE OR A LIBERAL ONE,
00:37:41.00\00:37:44.23
EVERYONE IS OUR NEIGHBOR
AND EACH ONE NEEDS TO BE TREATED
00:37:44.23\00:37:47.70
AS WE WOULD WANT TO BE TREATED.
00:37:47.70\00:37:49.50
THAT'S THE GOLDEN RULE, IS
IT NOT? THAT'S THE GOLDEN RULE.
00:37:49.50\00:37:53.50
JESUS TAUGHT HERE ABOUT A
MAN WHO GAVE A MAN A HAND UP.
00:37:53.50\00:37:58.20
HE DIDN'T GIVE HIM A HAND
OUT, HE GAVE HIM A HAND UP.
00:37:58.20\00:38:01.93
HE LEFT HIM THERE TO - HE GAVE
HIM A GOOD HEAD START AND THE
00:38:01.93\00:38:05.23
GUY WAS TO KIND OF TEND FOR
HIMSELF AFTERWARDS - BUT HE GAVE
00:38:05.23\00:38:09.03
HIM A HAND UP, NOT
NECESSARILY A HAND OUT.
00:38:09.03\00:38:12.66
AND WE JUST NEED TO TALK
A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT WHEN
00:38:12.66\00:38:14.53
WE'RE TALKING
ABOUT HELPING OTHERS.
00:38:14.53\00:38:18.03
IT'S JUST AS WRONG FOR A PERSON,
THROUGH BAD CHOICES THEY MAKE,
00:38:18.03\00:38:22.63
THAT PUT THEMSELVES IN A NEEDY
POSITION, THUS BECOMING A BURDEN
00:38:22.63\00:38:25.90
ON OTHERS TO HELP THEM AS IT
IS SIMPLY TO NEGLECT TO HELP THE
00:38:25.90\00:38:30.23
SAME PERSON IN NEED.
SHOULD I SAY THAT AGAIN?
00:38:30.23\00:38:35.40
I'M GOING TO SAY THAT AGAIN.
00:38:35.40\00:38:36.70
ACTUALLY, I'LL READ THAT AGAIN
- I WROTE IT DOWN BECAUSE I KNEW
00:38:36.70\00:38:38.20
I'D FORGET IT AND IT WAS PRETTY
POWERFUL AS IT WAS COMING TO ME.
00:38:38.20\00:38:40.96
"IT'S JUST AS WRONG FOR A
PERSON, THROUGH THE BAD CHOICES
00:38:40.96\00:38:43.26
THEY MAKE THAT PUT THEM IN A
NEEDY POSITION, TO EXPECT HELP
00:38:43.26\00:38:48.33
FROM OTHERS AND TO BE A BURDEN
TO OTHERS, AS IT IS TO NEGLECT
00:38:48.33\00:38:52.50
TO HELP THE
SAME PERSON IN NEED."
00:38:52.50\00:38:55.70
SO THE LESSON HERE IS TREAT
OTHERS AS YOU WOULD WANT TO BE
00:38:55.70\00:38:59.36
TREATED, RIGHT? NOT
'DO NOT DO TO OTHERS WHAT
00:38:59.36\00:39:03.16
YOU YOURSELF DISLIKE.'
JESUS DIDN'T DEAL WITH THE
00:39:03.16\00:39:06.26
NEGATIVE HERE, HE
DEALT WITH THE POSITIVE.
00:39:06.26\00:39:08.20
DO UNTO OTHERS AS YOU
WOULD HAVE THEM DO UNTO YOU.
00:39:08.20\00:39:11.20
AND HE CERTAINLY DIDN'T TEACH
'TREAT OTHERS AS THEY TREAT
00:39:11.20\00:39:14.46
YOU.' IT'S EASY TO TREAT SOMEONE
WELL WHEN THEY'VE TREATED YOU
00:39:14.46\00:39:19.36
WELL, IS IT NOT? YEAH, IT'S EASY
FOR US TO DO THAT. AND IT'S EASY
00:39:19.36\00:39:22.70
TO TREAT SOMEONE POORLY
IF THEY'VE TREATED US POORLY.
00:39:22.70\00:39:27.73
BUT JESUS SAID, 'TREAT OTHERS AS
YOU WOULD WANT TO BE TREATED.'
00:39:27.73\00:39:36.53
WE LOVE GOD AS MUCH AS
THE PERSON WE LIKE THE LEAST.
00:39:36.53\00:39:40.76
A COUPLE OF BIBLE VERSES HERE -
SOMEONE HAS 1 JOHN 4, VERSE 20 -
00:39:40.76\00:39:45.03
1 JOHN 4, VERSE
20 - RIGHT OVER HERE.
00:39:45.03\00:39:48.40
FABULOUS. TURN
WITH ME TO 1 JOHN.
00:39:48.40\00:39:50.43
WE'LL LOOK AT A
COUPLE OF VERSES OVER THERE.
00:39:50.43\00:39:52.16
BEFORE WE GET TO 1 JOHN
4:20, LOOK AT 1 JOHN 2:4.
00:39:52.16\00:39:58.13
NOTICE WHAT THE WRITER SAYS.
HE SAYS, "HE THAT SAITH, I KNOW
00:39:58.13\00:40:05.70
HIM" - THAT IS, 'I KNOW
GOD.' - "AND KEEPETH NOT HIS
00:40:05.70\00:40:09.63
COMMANDMENTS," - AND
WHAT ARE THE COMMANDMENTS?
00:40:09.63\00:40:12.66
TO LOVE GOD WITH ALL - TO
SUMMARIZE IT - TO LOVE GOD WITH
00:40:12.66\00:40:14.80
ALL YOUR HEART, MIND, SOUL
AND STRENGTH AND TO LOVE YOUR
00:40:14.80\00:40:16.93
NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF - HE THAT
SAYS I KNOW HIM BUT DOES NOT DO
00:40:16.93\00:40:21.93
THIS - DOES NOT LOVE GOD
SUPREMELY AND DOES NOT LOVE
00:40:21.93\00:40:25.26
HIS NEIGHBOR AS
HIMSELF IS A WHAT?
00:40:25.26\00:40:27.90
"LIAR, AND THE
TRUTH IS NOT IN HIM."
00:40:27.90\00:40:31.96
WE ONLY LOVE GOD AS MUCH AS
THE PERSON WE LOVE THE LEAST.
00:40:31.96\00:40:34.66
LOOK AT 1 JOHN 4 AND VERSE 12
AND THEN WE'LL COME TO VERSE 20,
00:40:34.66\00:40:39.26
"NO MAN HATH
SEEN GOD AT ANY TIME.
00:40:39.26\00:40:41.83
IF WE LOVE ONE ANOTHER, GOD
DWELLETH IN US, AND HIS LOVE IS
00:40:41.83\00:40:46.33
PERFECTED IN US." AND
SO THE LOVE THAT WE EXPRESS
00:40:46.33\00:40:49.53
TOWARD OTHERS
COMES FROM WHO? GOD.
00:40:49.53\00:40:51.50
AND IT REVEALS THAT GOD'S LOVE
IS ABIDING AND DWELLING IN OUR
00:40:51.50\00:40:54.40
HEARTS, YOU SEE.
OKAY, 1 JOHN 4 AND VERSE 20.
00:40:54.40\00:40:58.90
>>"IF A MAN SAY, I LOVE GOD,
AND HATETH HIS BROTHER, HE IS A
00:40:58.90\00:41:02.13
LIAR: FOR HE THAT LOVETH NOT HIS
BROTHER WHOM HE HATH SEEN, HOW
00:41:02.13\00:41:05.60
CAN HE LOVE GOD
WHOM HE HATH NOT SEEN?"
00:41:05.60\00:41:08.56
>>THAT'S A POWERFUL VERSE,
ISN'T IT? IT SPEAKS FOR ITSELF.
00:41:08.56\00:41:11.63
OUR DEFAULT SETTING IS EASY TO
- IT'S EASY TO DISMISS A PERSON
00:41:11.63\00:41:16.13
WHO IRRITATES US. IT'S
EASY TO LOATHE A PERSON WHO
00:41:16.13\00:41:19.10
MISTREATS US. AND SO
THE NEED HERE IS FOR, NOT
00:41:19.10\00:41:22.36
AN EXTERNAL CHANGE, BUT FOR
A HEART TRANSFORMATION AND THAT
00:41:22.36\00:41:26.06
COMES - YOU KNOW SOMETIME
NEARLY EVERY DAY, DOESN'T IT?
00:41:26.06\00:41:29.93
SOMEONE CHALLENGES YOU, TESTS
YOU, RUBS YOU THE WRONG WAY.
00:41:29.93\00:41:33.76
IT'S NOT GOOD ENOUGH TO
SAY, 'WELL I'LL BE AT CHURCH ON
00:41:33.76\00:41:35.60
SABBATH' OR 'I'M PAYING A
FAITHFUL TITHE' OR 'I'LL TREAT
00:41:35.60\00:41:39.00
THEM WELL NEXT WEEK.' AT THAT
VERY MOMENT WE ARE CALLED UPON
00:41:39.00\00:41:42.73
TO SAY, 'LORD, CHANGE
MY HEART BECAUSE RIGHT NOW
00:41:42.73\00:41:45.43
I'M NOT LIKING
THIS PERSON VERY MUCH.
00:41:45.43\00:41:47.66
YOU DON'T HAVE TO LIKE
THE WAY THEY'VE TREATED YOU.
00:41:47.66\00:41:49.43
IF THEY'VE MISTREATED YOU,
YOU DON'T HAVE TO LIKE THAT.
00:41:49.43\00:41:51.66
BUT WE'RE CALLED TO LOVE THAT
PERSON, RESPECT THAT PERSON, SEE
00:41:51.66\00:41:54.53
IN THEM THE POTENTIAL AS IF
THEY'VE GIVEN THEIR LIVES TO
00:41:54.53\00:41:58.13
JESUS - WHAT THEY COULD
BECOME TRANSFORMED BY JESUS.
00:41:58.13\00:42:01.26
ALRIGHT, WE GO TO TUESDAY'S
LESSON, 'LOVING SERVICE.' WE'RE
00:42:01.26\00:42:04.36
DIRECTED TO THE STORY OR THE
PARABLE IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 25 OF
00:42:04.36\00:42:09.13
THE SHEEP AND THE
GOATS. LOVING SERVICE.
00:42:09.13\00:42:14.73
'MANY PEOPLE WISH TO SERVE GOD,'
SOMEONE SAID, 'BUT ONLY IN AN
00:42:14.73\00:42:18.73
ADVISORY CAPACITY.' AND I HOPE
THAT THAT'S NOT OUR EXPERIENCE.
00:42:18.73\00:42:24.73
THEY WANT TO TELL GOD
WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE.
00:42:24.73\00:42:27.93
'WHY DON'T YOU DO
THIS AND DO THAT?'
00:42:27.93\00:42:29.70
RATHER THAN DOING WHAT
GOD HAS ASKED US TO DO.
00:42:29.70\00:42:33.03
AND IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 25 WE'RE
TOLD AND WE'RE SHARED - IT'S
00:42:33.03\00:42:37.46
BEEN TOLD US HERE - AND JESUS
SHARES WITH US THAT, IN ESSENCE,
00:42:37.46\00:42:40.56
WE ARE HIS HANDS AND HIS FEET
AND HIS MOUTH - YOU'VE HEARD IT
00:42:40.56\00:42:43.60
BEFORE. WE ARE
HIS AMBASSADORS, HIS
00:42:43.60\00:42:49.26
MISSIONARIES, THE ONES WHO CARE
FOR OTHERS WHILE JESUS IS NOT
00:42:49.26\00:42:53.80
HERE. WE ARE HIS
HANDS AND HIS FEET.
00:42:53.80\00:42:57.06
AND IN THIS PARTICULAR STORY
JESUS - WELL, LET'S LOOK AT THIS
00:42:57.06\00:43:01.33
HERE - VERSE 31 - JESUS IS
TALKING ABOUT HIS RETURN AND THE
00:43:01.33\00:43:06.86
JUDGMENT AND HE'S TALKING ABOUT
THE GOATS AND THE SHEEP BEING
00:43:06.86\00:43:10.80
SEPARATED AND THE KING SAYS TO
THOSE ON HIS RIGHT HAND, WHICH
00:43:10.80\00:43:15.70
ARE THE SHEEP,
"COME...INHERIT THE KINGDOM
00:43:15.70\00:43:18.26
PREPARED FOR YOU"
- VERSE 35 - WHY? -
00:43:18.26\00:43:20.13
"FOR I WAS AN HUNGRED, AND YE
GAVE ME MEAT: I WAS THIRSTY, AND
00:43:20.13\00:43:23.10
YE GAVE ME DRINK: I WAS A
STRANGER, AND YE TOOK ME IN:
00:43:23.10\00:43:24.96
NAKED, AND YE CLOTHED ME: I WAS
SICK AND YE VISITED ME: I WAS IN
00:43:24.96\00:43:27.33
PRISON, AND YE CAME UNTO ME.
THEN SHALL THE RIGHTEOUS ANSWER
00:43:27.33\00:43:30.03
HIM, SAYING, LORD, WHEN SAW WE
THEE AN HUNGRED, AND FED THEE?
00:43:30.03\00:43:32.53
OR THIRSTY, AND
GAVE THEE DRINK?"
00:43:32.53\00:43:33.90
- OR A STRANGER, ETC. AND VERSE
40, "AND THE KING SHALL ANSWER
00:43:33.90\00:43:36.76
AND SAY UNTO THEM, 'VERILY I SAY
UNTO YOU, INASMUCH AS YE HAVE
00:43:36.76\00:43:40.10
DONE IT UNTO ONE OF THE
LEAST OF THESE MY BRETHREN,
00:43:40.10\00:43:42.76
YE HAVE DONE IT
UNTO ME.'" UNTO ME.
00:43:42.76\00:43:46.43
AND THIS WOULD JUST BE TALKING
ABOUT THOSE - THE BRETHREN THAT
00:43:46.43\00:43:50.33
FOLLOWED JESUS OR OUR PROFESSED
CHRISTIANS, THIS WOULD BE ALL OF
00:43:50.33\00:43:53.60
HUMANITY - ALL OF HUMANITY ARE
GOD'S CHILDREN WHEN IT COMES TO
00:43:53.60\00:43:58.56
THE WAY HE LOVES THE WORLD AND
HIS VIEWS CONCERNING MANKIND.
00:43:58.56\00:44:05.16
WHAT'S THE BASIC MESSAGE OF THE
PARABLE OF THE SHEEPS AND GOATS?
00:44:05.16\00:44:10.26
SHEEP AND GOATS?
WHO WAS ON THE LEFT?
00:44:10.26\00:44:13.83
THE GOATS BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T DO
THOSE THINGS TO PEOPLE IN NEED.
00:44:13.83\00:44:18.26
THEY DIDN'T - AND THEN
THEY DIDN'T DO IT TO JESUS,
00:44:18.26\00:44:20.30
OBVIOUSLY. WHAT'S THE
BASIC MESSAGE OF THE PARABLE?
00:44:20.30\00:44:23.96
WELL, THE WAY WE TREAT OTHERS IS
THE WAY WE WOULD TREAT CHRIST.
00:44:23.96\00:44:27.46
IT KIND OF BUILDS ON WHAT WE
WERE READING HERE IN 1 JOHN 4:20
00:44:27.46\00:44:30.63
- THE WAY WE TREAT OTHERS IS
THE WAY WE WOULD END UP TREATING
00:44:30.63\00:44:33.46
JESUS. I MEAN,
THAT'S PRETTY HEAVY
00:44:33.46\00:44:36.23
STUFF - PRETTY, PRETTY HEAVY.
THERE'S NO OTHER WORD FOR IT.
00:44:36.23\00:44:40.20
WE'RE RESPONSIBLE - WE'RE
NOT RESPONSIBLE - OR RATHER,
00:44:40.20\00:44:42.93
YES, WE'RE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR
FIXING ALL THE ILL AROUND US,
00:44:42.93\00:44:47.03
BUT WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR DOING
WHAT WE CAN WITH WHAT WE HAVE
00:44:47.03\00:44:51.70
WHEN WE CAN DO IT, YOU SEE?
00:44:51.70\00:44:53.90
YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD THE STORY
ABOUT THE KID WHO WAS ON THE
00:44:53.90\00:44:57.16
BEACH AND THERE WERE A WHOLE
BUNCH OF JELLYFISH THAT HAD BEEN
00:44:57.16\00:45:00.23
WASHED UP ON THE SHORE AND
HE WAS - AN OLDER GENTLEMAN WAS
00:45:00.23\00:45:03.86
WALKING THE BEACH LINE - HE
WAS THROWING THE JELLYFISH - THE
00:45:03.86\00:45:06.43
YOUNG KID WAS THROWING THE
JELLYFISH BACK INTO THE WATER
00:45:06.43\00:45:08.80
AND THE OLD MAN WAS WATCHING
THIS SCENE AND THE YOUNG MAN
00:45:08.80\00:45:12.00
WOULD PICK UP A JELLYFISH
AND THROW IT IN THE WATER.
00:45:12.00\00:45:13.80
ANOTHER JELLYFISH AND THROW IT
IN THE WATER AND THE ELDERLY MAN
00:45:13.80\00:45:18.03
CAME OVER TO THE YOUNG MAN
AND SAID, 'WHAT ARE YOU DOING?'
00:45:18.03\00:45:19.56
HE SAID, 'WELL, I'M TRYING TO
SAVE ALL THE JELLYFISH.' AND THE
00:45:19.56\00:45:21.43
BEACH WAS JUST LITTERED
WITH ALL THESE JELLYFISH.
00:45:21.43\00:45:24.06
THE OLD MAN SAID, 'THERE'S
NO WAY YOU'RE GOING TO MAKE A
00:45:24.06\00:45:26.06
DIFFERENCE.' WITH THAT THE
YOUNG KID PICKED UP ONE OF THE
00:45:26.06\00:45:29.66
JELLYFISH, THREW IT BACK IN THE
WATER AND HE SAID, 'WELL, I MADE
00:45:29.66\00:45:32.26
A DIFFERENCE TO THAT ONE.' AND
THAT'S WHAT JESUS IS ASKING US
00:45:32.26\00:45:35.76
TO DO - TO MAKE A
DIFFERENCE WHERE WE CAN.
00:45:35.76\00:45:38.03
WE'RE NOT INDIVIDUALLY CALLED
TO FIX ALL THE WORLD'S PROBLEMS.
00:45:38.03\00:45:41.56
WE CAN'T DO THAT. BUT,
INDIVIDUALLY AND COLLECTIVELY,
00:45:41.56\00:45:45.10
GOD'S CHILDREN CAN MAKE A
MASSIVE, MASSIVE DIFFERENCE.
00:45:45.10\00:45:50.93
BY THE WAY, THIS
TEACHING IS NOT ABOUT -
00:45:50.93\00:45:56.93
THIS STORY IS NOT ABOUT GREAT
ACHIEVEMENTS EITHER, BUT THE
00:45:56.93\00:46:00.80
SPIRIT IN WHICH
THE WORK IS DONE.
00:46:00.80\00:46:03.16
IF YOU GO TO MATTHEW CHAPTER 7,
THERE'S A GROUP OF PEOPLE WHEN
00:46:03.16\00:46:06.13
JESUS COMES BACK AND THEY'RE
SAYING TO HIM, 'LORD, LORD HAVE
00:46:06.13\00:46:09.30
WE NOT DONE?' - WE'LL
READ IT HERE TOGETHER -
00:46:09.30\00:46:11.43
MATTHEW 7:22 AND 23 - MATTHEW
7:22 AND 23 - IT SAYS, "MANY
00:46:11.43\00:46:16.56
WILL SAY TO ME IN THAT
DAY, 'LORD, LORD, HAVE WE NOT
00:46:16.56\00:46:18.43
PROPHESIED IN THY NAME? AND IN
THY NAME HAVE CAST OUT DEVILS?
00:46:18.43\00:46:21.30
AND IN THY NAME DONE
MANY WONDERFUL WORKS?"
00:46:21.30\00:46:23.66
SO HERE ARE A BUNCH OF PEOPLE
WHO'VE DONE A LOT OF GOOD THINGS
00:46:23.66\00:46:26.30
AND JESUS SAYS TO THEM, IN VERSE
23, "AND THEN I WILL PROFESS
00:46:26.30\00:46:30.83
UNTO THEM, I NEVER KNEW YOU:
DEPART FROM ME, YE THAT WORK
00:46:30.83\00:46:34.13
INIQUITY.'" SO THIS IS NOT -
JESUS IS NOT TEACHING SALVATION
00:46:34.13\00:46:38.70
BY DOING GOOD
THINGS FOR THOSE IN NEED.
00:46:38.70\00:46:40.93
THAT'S EVIDENT BECAUSE
THE SURPRISE OF THE SAVED ONES
00:46:40.93\00:46:45.30
DEMONSTRATES THAT THEY LOVED
NOT TO EARN MERIT OR GAIN MERIT.
00:46:45.30\00:46:51.30
THEY SAID, 'WHEN DID WE DO
THOSE THINGS?' WE DON'T KNOW.
00:46:51.30\00:46:53.96
THEIR LEFT HAND DIDN'T KNOW
WHAT THEIR RIGHT HAND WAS DOING.
00:46:53.96\00:46:57.00
SOME FOLK ARE SHAKING THEIR OWN
HANDS FOR THE GOOD THINGS THAT
00:46:57.00\00:46:59.73
THEY DO, BUT THE ENCOURAGEMENT
IS TO NOT LET YOUR RIGHT HAND
00:46:59.73\00:47:02.46
KNOW WHAT YOUR LEFT
HAND DOES AND VICE VERSA.
00:47:02.46\00:47:04.43
JUST DO IT BECAUSE
JESUS IS ASKING YOU TO DO IT.
00:47:04.43\00:47:07.00
AND BE HAPPY TO DO IT.
JESUS IS TEACHING SALVATION -
00:47:07.00\00:47:09.90
JESUS TEACHES SALVATION THROUGH
FAITH BUT A FAITH THAT WORKS BY
00:47:09.90\00:47:13.93
LOVE AND PURIFIES THE SOUL.
THAT'S WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT
00:47:13.93\00:47:19.90
HERE. LET'S MOVE TO
WEDNESDAY. WE WERE ON TUESDAY.
00:47:19.90\00:47:23.73
WE'RE GOING TO WEDNESDAY
AND LET'S TALK ABOUT THIS STICKY
00:47:23.73\00:47:26.23
ISSUE OF LOVING YOUR ENEMIES.
LOVING YOUR ENEMIES - I WANT TO
00:47:26.23\00:47:30.33
TELL YOU A QUICK
STORY ABOUT AN IRANIAN LADY.
00:47:30.33\00:47:32.63
HER NAME IS AMENEH
BAHRAMI - AMENEH BAHRAMI -
00:47:32.63\00:47:40.26
AND SHE LOST HER SIGHT.
BECAUSE SHE HAD SUFFERED BURNS
00:47:40.26\00:47:43.40
TO HER FACE, HER SCALP, AND
HER BODY IN AN ATTACK THAT WAS
00:47:43.40\00:47:47.73
CARRIED OUT BY A MAN BECAUSE HE
WAS MAD. AND THE REASON HE WAS
00:47:47.73\00:47:52.23
MAD IS BECAUSE SHE
REFUSED TO MARRY HIM.
00:47:52.23\00:47:55.56
WHEN SHE CAME FROM - WHERE
SHE COMES FROM SHE HAD THE LEGAL
00:47:55.56\00:48:00.56
RIGHT FOR THE VICTIMS TO ASK -
WHERE SHE COMES FROM THE VICTIMS
00:48:00.56\00:48:04.76
HAVE A LEGAL RIGHT TO ENFORCE
A LAW - AN EYE FOR AN EYE LAW -
00:48:04.76\00:48:10.40
IT'S EYE FOR AN EYE - NO PUN
INTENDED. IT'S QISAS - QISAS -
00:48:10.40\00:48:18.23
EYE FOR AN EYE LAW -
EYE FOR EYE RETRIBUTION.
00:48:18.23\00:48:23.26
AND SO BLINDED AND DISFIGURED BY
THE ACID THROWN INTO HER FACE,
00:48:23.26\00:48:31.73
AMENEH FOUND HERSELF STANDING
ABOVE HER ATTACKER IN A HOSPITAL
00:48:31.73\00:48:37.10
OPERATING ROOM AS A DOCTOR WAS
ABOUT TO PUT SEVERAL DROPS OF
00:48:37.10\00:48:40.83
ACID INTO ONE OF HIS EYES - EYE
FOR AN EYE RETRIBUTION - IT WAS
00:48:40.83\00:48:45.33
LEGAL TO DO - IT'S
LEGAL TO DO THAT IN IRAN.
00:48:45.33\00:48:47.76
SHE'D BEEN COMPLETELY DISFIGURED
BY THIS MAN BECAUSE SHE SAID
00:48:47.76\00:48:50.96
'NO' - HE WANTED TO MARRY HER.
GOOD THING SHE SAID 'NO', RIGHT?
00:48:50.96\00:48:55.60
MAN. THERE SHE
WAS STANDING OVER HIM
00:48:55.60\00:48:59.76
AS A DOCTOR WAS ABOUT
TO PUT ACID INTO HIS EYE.
00:48:59.76\00:49:02.33
SO WHAT DID SHE DO?
THE MAN WAS ON HIS KNEES.
00:49:02.33\00:49:05.63
HE WAS WEEPING BECAUSE HE
KNEW WHAT WAS ABOUT TO HAPPEN.
00:49:05.63\00:49:09.86
THE DOCTOR REALIZED THAT AMENEH
WASN'T COMFORTABLE AND ASKED
00:49:09.86\00:49:12.76
WHETHER HE SHOULD PROCEED.
WITH TEARS IN HER EYES SHE SAID,
00:49:12.76\00:49:17.03
'NO.' SHE SAID 'NO. I
HAVE FORGIVEN HIM.' THIS
00:49:17.03\00:49:22.40
GRIPPING SCENE WAS BROADCAST
ON IRAN'S STATE TELEVISION.
00:49:22.40\00:49:26.03
AMENEH BAHRAMI DEMONSTRATED
WHAT IT MEANT TO FORGIVE YOUR
00:49:26.03\00:49:29.93
DEBTORS. LOVE YOUR ENEMIES.
00:49:29.93\00:49:32.80
LUKE CHAPTER 6 -
LET'S GO OVER THERE.
00:49:32.80\00:49:34.83
WE'VE GOT A LITTLE BIT OF GROUND
TO COVER IN A SHORT TIME SO I'M
00:49:34.83\00:49:37.60
GOING TO MOVE OVER SOME OF THE
NOTES I'VE GOT HERE, BUT LET'S
00:49:37.60\00:49:40.70
GO TO LUKE CHAPTER 6, VERSES 27
AND 28 - SOMEONE HAS LUKE 6:32
00:49:40.70\00:49:45.43
TO 35 - RIGHT
HERE. THANKS MICHAEL.
00:49:45.43\00:49:48.03
LUKE 6:27 AND 28 - IN WHAT
PRACTICAL WAYS IS LOVE TOWARD
00:49:48.03\00:49:53.16
OUR ENEMIES MANIFESTED?
IN WHAT PRACTICAL WAYS?
00:49:53.16\00:49:56.60
LET'S READ 27 AND 28 TOGETHER.
IT SAYS, "BUT I SAY UNTO YOU" -
00:49:56.60\00:50:00.40
THIS IS JESUS - "WHICH HEAR,
LOVE YOUR ENEMIES, DO GOOD TO
00:50:00.40\00:50:04.20
THEM WHICH HATE YOU, BLESS THEM
THAT CURSE YOU, AND PRAY FOR
00:50:04.20\00:50:07.50
THEM WHICH
DESPITEFULLY USE YOU."
00:50:07.50\00:50:09.93
SO AN ENEMY CAN SHOW - ENEMY
CAN SHOW ENMITY IN THREE WAYS:
00:50:09.93\00:50:14.60
HOSTILE ATTITUDE - THAT'S
NUMBER ONE - THEY CAN HATE YOU.
00:50:14.60\00:50:17.56
THEY CAN SHARE ABUSIVE WORDS
- CURSE YOU - AND THEN HAVE
00:50:17.56\00:50:21.06
ABUSIVE ACTIONS - MANIFEST
ABUSIVE ACTIONS TOWARDS YOU -
00:50:21.06\00:50:26.20
THAT'S 'SPITEFULLY USE YOU AND
PERSECUTE YOU.' BUT JESUS ASKS
00:50:26.20\00:50:29.76
US TO RESPOND WITH THREE
MANIFESTATIONS OF LOVE TO
00:50:29.76\00:50:34.30
COUNTER THE WAY THAT A
PERSON WOULD HAVE BEEN TREATED.
00:50:34.30\00:50:39.60
AND THAT'S IN LUKE CHAPTER
6 AND WE'RE LOOKING AT VERSES
00:50:39.60\00:50:43.00
32 TO 35. JESUS
SAYS 'LOVE YOUR ENEMIES.'
00:50:43.00\00:50:49.30
MICHAEL, WOULD YOU
PROCEED TO READ? THANK YOU.
00:50:49.30\00:50:52.90
>>LUKE 6, VERSES 32 THROUGH
35, "BUT IF YOU LOVE THOSE WHO
00:50:52.90\00:50:57.40
LOVE YOU, WHAT
CREDIT IS THAT TO YOU?
00:50:57.40\00:51:00.23
FOR EVEN SINNERS
LOVE THOSE WHO LOVE THEM.
00:51:00.23\00:51:03.60
AND IF YOU DO GOOD TO THOSE WHO
DO GOOD TO YOU, WHAT CREDIT IS
00:51:03.60\00:51:07.73
THAT TO YOU? FOR
EVEN SINNERS DO THE SAME.
00:51:07.73\00:51:10.76
AND IF YOU LEND TO THOSE FROM
WHOM YOU HOPE TO RECEIVE BACK,
00:51:10.76\00:51:15.03
WHAT CREDIT IS THAT TO YOU?
00:51:15.03\00:51:16.96
FOR EVEN SINNERS LEND TO
SINNERS TO RECEIVE AS MUCH BACK.
00:51:16.96\00:51:20.96
BUT LOVE YOUR ENEMIES, DO GOOD,
AND LEND, HOPING FOR NOTHING IN
00:51:20.96\00:51:26.00
RETURN; AND YOUR REWARD WILL BE
GREAT, AND YOU WILL BE SONS OF
00:51:26.00\00:51:30.83
THE MOST HIGH. FOR HE IS KIND
TO THE UNTHANKFUL AND EVIL."
00:51:30.83\00:51:36.80
>>AMEN. SO THE RESPONSE HERE IS
TO TREAT INDIVIDUALS THAT TREAT
00:51:36.80\00:51:40.73
YOU POORLY WITH
DIGNITY AND RESPECT.
00:51:40.73\00:51:43.10
DO GOOD. TO SPEAK WELL OF
THEM EVEN IF THEY CURSE YOU.
00:51:43.10\00:51:45.96
BLESS THEM AND INTERCEDE FOR
THEM - PRAY FOR THEM WHEN THEY
00:51:45.96\00:51:48.56
PERSECUTE YOU AND
SPITEFULLY USE YOU.
00:51:48.56\00:51:50.93
THE CHRISTIAN'S ANSWER
TO ANTAGONISM AND HATRED IS
00:51:50.93\00:51:53.86
OVERCOMING EVIL WITH
GOOD - ROMANS 12, VERSE 21.
00:51:53.86\00:51:58.03
NATURALLY, WE'RE NOT TO
PUT OURSELVES IN A DANGEROUS
00:51:58.03\00:52:00.46
POSITION. WE SHOULD
REMOVE OURSELVES FROM
00:52:00.46\00:52:02.70
AN ABUSIVE SITUATION IF NEED BE.
BUT WE ARE NOT TO TREAT OTHERS
00:52:02.70\00:52:07.56
THE WAY THEY MIGHT BE TREATING
US. AND ISN'T IT INTERESTING?
00:52:07.56\00:52:11.26
JESUS, IN LUKE CHAPTER 6, VERSES
32 THROUGH 35, TALKS ABOUT THE
00:52:11.26\00:52:15.53
NEED TO LIVE ABOVE THE LOW
STANDARD OF THE WORLD BECAUSE
00:52:15.53\00:52:18.30
EVEN CRIMINALS HELP EACH OTHER.
HE SAID, 'IF YOU'RE HELPING
00:52:18.30\00:52:20.86
SOMEONE WHO'S HELPING
YOU, WHAT GOOD IS THAT?
00:52:20.86\00:52:23.26
EVEN CRIMINALS, THEY'LL HELP
EACH OTHER.' IF WE DON'T LOVE IN
00:52:23.26\00:52:26.40
A SUPERIOR WAY, WHAT'S
THE VALUE OF CHRISTIANITY?
00:52:26.40\00:52:28.86
THAT'S WHAT JESUS IS ASKING.
IF YOU'RE JUST LOVING OTHERS
00:52:28.86\00:52:32.03
BECAUSE THEY'RE LOVING
YOU, WHAT GOOD IS THAT?
00:52:32.03\00:52:34.70
BUT WHEN YOU'RE LOVING OTHERS
WHO AREN'T TREATING YOU WELL,
00:52:34.70\00:52:36.96
NOW - NOW WE'RE TALKING.
NOW THERE'S A MANIFESTATION OF
00:52:36.96\00:52:41.16
DIVINE LOVE - LOVE THAT
WE DO NOT NATURALLY POSSESS.
00:52:41.16\00:52:44.56
AND THAT LEADS US TO THURSDAY'S
LESSON, 'HOW TO LIVE LIKE
00:52:44.56\00:52:47.30
JESUS.' JOHN
CHAPTER 15 AND VERSE 5 -
00:52:47.30\00:52:50.83
I'M GOING TO HAVE
SOMEONE READ THAT FOR US HERE.
00:52:50.83\00:52:52.90
JOHN CHAPTER 15
AND VERSE 5, THANK YOU.
00:52:52.90\00:52:56.40
WE'LL COME OVER TO
YOU IN JUST A MOMENT.
00:52:56.40\00:52:59.03
HOW CAN WE EVER
HOPE TO LIVE LIKE CHRIST?
00:52:59.03\00:53:02.33
FIRST, ALL HIS
BIDDINGS ARE HIS ENABLINGS.
00:53:02.33\00:53:04.66
WHEN JESUS COMMANDS US TO
DO SOMETHING, INHERENT IN THAT
00:53:04.66\00:53:08.06
COMMAND IS A PROMISE - A PROMISE
FOR GRACE - A PROMISE FOR POWER
00:53:08.06\00:53:13.16
TO LIVE ABOVE THE HURT AND
THE - THE HURT THAT YOU MAY HAVE
00:53:13.16\00:53:19.43
EXPERIENCED. FIRST,
ALL HIS BIDDINGS ARE
00:53:19.43\00:53:22.00
ENABLINGS AND EVERY COMMAND IS A
PROMISE. NUMBER 2, HE WILL WORK
00:53:22.00\00:53:25.46
IN US IF WE ALLOW HIM TO.
PHILIPPIANS 2, VERSE 13 SAYS -
00:53:25.46\00:53:31.16
TELLS US THAT GOD WILL WORK IN
US TO WILL AND TO DO OF HIS GOOD
00:53:31.16\00:53:36.16
PLEASURE BUT WE MUST BE
WILLING TO LET HIM DO THAT.
00:53:36.16\00:53:39.80
HE'LL WORK IN US TO WILL
AND TO DO OF HIS GOOD PLEASURE.
00:53:39.80\00:53:43.93
AND NUMBER 3, WE MUST ABIDE
IN JESUS. JOHN 15, VERSE 5.
00:53:43.93\00:53:48.26
>>"I AM THE VINE, YE ARE THE
BRANCHES: HE THAT ABIDETH IN ME,
00:53:48.26\00:53:53.66
AND I IN HIM, THE SAME
BRINGETH FORTH MUCH FRUIT:
00:53:53.66\00:53:57.86
FOR WITHOUT ME
YE CAN DO NOTHING."
00:53:57.86\00:54:01.30
>>SO AS WE ABIDE IN JESUS LIKE
THE BRANCH ABIDES IN THE VINE
00:54:01.30\00:54:05.76
AND THE LIVING SAP MOVES THROUGH
THE VINE TO PRODUCE THE LEAVES
00:54:05.76\00:54:09.60
AND THE FRUITS OF THAT VINE -
THE FRUIT OF THAT VINE - SO WE
00:54:09.60\00:54:13.03
ARE TO BE CONNECTED TO JESUS
- ABIDE IN HIM - ALLOW HIS - THE
00:54:13.03\00:54:19.13
LIFE-GIVING LOVE OF
CHRIST TO FILL OUR HEARTS.
00:54:19.13\00:54:22.36
AND THAT HAPPENS THROUGH
THE HOLY SPIRIT, YOU SEE.
00:54:22.36\00:54:24.76
WE CAN ONLY LOVE OUR NEIGHBOR AS
CHRIST GIVES US THIS LOVE AND WE
00:54:24.76\00:54:30.33
CAN ONLY LOVE LIKE
JESUS IF WE ABIDE IN HIM.
00:54:30.33\00:54:35.26
A COUPLE OF QUICK STATEMENTS
I WANT TO READ IN CLOSING.
00:54:35.26\00:54:38.56
ONE IS FROM 'THE THOUGHTS FROM
THE MOUNT OF BLESSING' PAGE 76.
00:54:38.56\00:54:41.23
NOTICE: "THE STANDARD" -
OR - "THIS STANDARD IS NOT ONE
00:54:41.23\00:54:44.03
TO WHICH WE CANNOT ATTAIN.
00:54:44.03\00:54:46.70
AT EVERY COMMAND OR INJUNCTION
THAT GOD GIVES, THERE IS A
00:54:46.70\00:54:49.26
PROMISE; THE MOST
POSITIVE UNDERLYING THE COMMAND.
00:54:49.26\00:54:53.26
GOD HAS MADE PROVISION THAT WE
MAY BECOME LIKE UNTO HIM AND HE
00:54:53.26\00:54:57.26
WILL ACCOMPLISH THIS FOR ALL" -
NOTICE - "WHO DO NOT INTERPOSE A
00:54:57.26\00:55:03.33
PERVERSE WILL AND THUS FRUSTRATE
HIS GRACE." SO IF WE SIMPLY JUST
00:55:03.33\00:55:09.80
INTERPOSE A PERVERSE WILL - WE
SAY WE DON'T WANT TO DO IT AND
00:55:09.80\00:55:14.46
WE FRUSTRATE HIS GRACE - THEN
WE'RE BLOCKING THE CHANNEL FOR
00:55:14.46\00:55:18.86
GOD'S GRACE AND LOVE TO
FLOW THROUGH US, YOU SEE.
00:55:18.86\00:55:21.86
THE NEXT STATEMENT IS FROM
'DESIRE OF AGES' AND THIS IS ON
00:55:21.86\00:55:24.23
PAGE 668 - IT'LL HELP
US OUT A LITTLE BIT MORE.
00:55:24.23\00:55:27.13
"ALL TRUE OBEDIENCE
COMES FROM THE HEART.
00:55:27.13\00:55:29.00
IT WAS HEART WORK WITH CHRIST
AND IF WE CONSENT" - IF WE
00:55:29.00\00:55:34.66
CONSENT - THAT'S GIVE PERMISSION
FOR SOMETHING TO HAPPEN - THAT'S
00:55:34.66\00:55:37.90
IT - "HE WILL SO IDENTIFY
HIMSELF WITH OUR THOUGHTS AND
00:55:37.90\00:55:41.36
OUR AIMS, SO BLEND OUR HEARTS
AND OUR MINDS INTO CONFORMITY TO
00:55:41.36\00:55:44.63
HIS WILL, THAT WHEN OBEYING HIM
WE SHALL BE BUT CARRYING OUT OUR
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OWN IMPULSES." IF WE BUT
CONSENT. GOD'S GRACE AND HIS
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LOVE IS ALREADY
FLOWING AND BEING POURED OUT.
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AND IF WE BUT SIMPLY CONSENT -
IF WE DON'T BLOCK WHAT HE WANTS
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TO DO IN OUR LIVES
- HOW DO WE DO THAT?
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BY SIMPLY SAYING, 'NO.' BY
SIMPLY SAYING, 'NO.' BUT IF WE
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CONSENT, CHRIST WILL IDENTIFY
HIMSELF WITH OUR THOUGHTS, OUR
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AIMS - BLEND OUR HEARTS AND
MINDS TO THE CONFORMITY OF HIS
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WILL. IT'S AMAZING
WHAT GOD'S GRACE CAN DO.
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I WAS SITTING LISTENING TO
AN INDIVIDUAL TELL A STORY OF AN
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INDIVIDUAL THAT SHE HAD
MET AND WOULD COME ACROSS QUITE
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FREQUENTLY AND HIS LIFESTYLE WAS
ALTERNATIVE - HE HAD SOME WEIRD
00:56:37.36\00:56:40.53
HAIR AND SOME WEIRD PIERCINGS
AND ALL TYPES OF WEIRD THINGS.
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AND THE HOLY SPIRIT SPOKE TO HER
AND HE TOLD HER, 'I WANT YOU - I
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WANT TO USE YOU TO LOVE THAT
PERSON - THAT MAN - I WILL LOVE
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THAT MAN THROUGH YOU.' AND HER
FIRST RESPONSE WAS 'I DON'T KNOW
00:56:54.80\00:56:59.00
IF I CAN LOVE THAT PERSON.' GOD
SAID, 'I'M GOING TO LOVE THAT
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PERSON THROUGH YOU. THE IDEA
IS YOU JUST NEED TO CONSENT.
00:57:01.70\00:57:06.30
AND SO SHE POURED OUT LOVE
UPON THAT YOUNG MAN AND AS I WAS
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TALKING TO HER SHE WAS JUST VERY
ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT WHAT GOD WAS
00:57:10.23\00:57:14.13
DOING. THIS MAN'S
- THIS GUY'S LIFE WAS
00:57:14.13\00:57:16.56
CHANGING BECAUSE OF THE LOVE -
THE SYMPATHY AND COMPASSION AND
00:57:16.56\00:57:20.23
GOODNESS THAT SHE
WAS HEAPING ON THIS MAN.
00:57:20.23\00:57:22.70
THE COLOR OF HIS
HAIR WENT BACK TO NORMAL.
00:57:22.70\00:57:24.70
HE STARTED LOOKING NORMAL.
HE STARTED LOOKING LIKE A YOUNG
00:57:24.70\00:57:27.53
MAN ALL BECAUSE SHE TOOK TIME
TO ALLOW GOD TO LOVE THIS MAN
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THROUGH HER. LIVING
LIKE CHRIST SIGNIFIES
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LOVING LIKE CHRIST, BECAUSE
CHRIST IS LOVE. MAY WE LOVE LIKE
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CHRIST BECAUSE CHRIST'S
LOVE IS FLOWING THROUGH US.
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