>>AMAZING FACTS, CHANGED LIVES.
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>>I'D HAVE TO SAY THAT I
HAD A WONDERFUL CHILDHOOD.
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GROWING UP, I WENT TO A PRIVATE
SCHOOL UP UNTIL THE SEVENTH
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GRADE - UNTIL JUNIOR HIGH. I
BELIEVE IT WAS AT THAT POINT,
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IN JUNIOR HIGH, THAT
MY LIFE BEGAN TO CHANGE.
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GOING FROM A CHRISTIAN EDUCATION
TO A PUBLIC SCHOOL WAS A BIG
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DIFFERENCE. THERE
WAS A LOT OF SECULAR
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INFLUENCE - PEER PRESSURE
- AND, FOR ME, IT WAS MUSIC.
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I STARTED LISTENING
TO HEAVY METAL MUSIC.
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EVERY CONCERT THAT WOULD
COME TO TOWN I WAS THERE.
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IT HAD A PROFOUND EFFECT ON
ME. I STARTED USING MARIJUANA,
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PROBABLY AT THE AGE OF 14.
I STARTED DRINKING - USING A
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LOT OF COCAINE AND THAT
LED TO METHAMPHETAMINE AND THAT
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COMPLETELY CHANGED MY LIFE.
I DROPPED OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL MY
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SOPHOMORE YEAR AND WENT TO WORK.
I WOULD GET OFF OF WORK AND WE'D
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GO IN THE BAR UNTIL 2:00 IN THE
MORNING AND I'D GET BACK UP AT
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5:00 AND GO BACK AT IT
AGAIN - SIX, SEVEN DAYS A WEEK.
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AT THE AGE OF 20, I LOST
MY DAD TO A HEART ATTACK.
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I DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO HANDLE THE
LOSS SO I TRIED TO MASK MY PAIN
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WITH ALCOHOL AND DRUGS. I
GOT THREE DUIS IN ONE YEAR.
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I WAS ARRESTED. THEY
GAVE ME ONE YEAR IN THE
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COUNTY JAIL AND THE MOMENT I
GOT OUT I WENT BACK TO DOING THE
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SAME THING, HANGING WITH THE
SAME PEOPLE - THE SAME CROWD.
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I WAS INVOLVED IN A HIT-AND-RUN
MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT AND I WAS
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CHARGED WITH A FELONY DUI.
EVEN THOUGH AT THE TIME OF THE
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ACCIDENT I WAS NOT UNDER
THE INFLUENCE, I STILL HAD
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METHAMPHETAMINE IN MY SYSTEM.
AT MY SENTENCING DATE I LEFT
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THE COURTROOM AND
I DIDN'T COME BACK.
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AND THAT LEFT ME
WITH A FELONY WARRANT.
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AND I HAD FALLEN ASLEEP AT
A PARK AND I WOKE UP TO A PARK
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RANGER KNOCKING ON MY WINDOW.
I KNEW THAT I WAS WANTED AND I
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KNEW THAT I WAS NOT
GOING TO JUST TURN MYSELF IN.
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I TURNED TO HIM AND I MADE THE
COMMENT, 'NOT TODAY.' AND I TOOK
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OFF. I LED FIVE
DIFFERENT AGENCIES ON
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ABOUT A 35-MINUTE CHASE AND
I REALIZED AT ONE POINT THAT I
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WASN'T GOING TO GET AWAY AND
THIS WAS GOING TO END UP EITHER
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ME KILLING SOMEBODY OR MYSELF.
AND SO I MADE A DECISION TO PULL
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OVER. AT THAT POINT, EVERYTHING
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THAT I HAD, I LOST. I
WAS SENTENCED TO TWO YEARS IN
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STATE PRISON AND IT WAS
THERE THAT GOD GOT AHOLD OF ME.
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AND IT WAS THROUGH
AMAZING FACTS MINISTRIES.
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I REMEMBER LISTENING ON MY
RADIO TO PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR.
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I WANTED TO GET
TO KNOW THE BIBLE.
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I WANTED TO KNOW GOD. AND
SO MY AUNT MARILYN SENT ME
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THE AMAZING FACTS STUDY
GUIDES AND IT WAS THERE THAT MY
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RELATIONSHIP WITH CHRIST BEGAN.
I HAD CALLED HOME AND I KNEW MY
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MOTHER WASN'T DOING
WELL, BUT I DIDN'T REALIZE THAT
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SHE HAD CANCER. SHE
HAD ABOUT A 30-PERCENT
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CHANCE OF MAKING IT
THROUGH HER SURGERY.
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SHE HAD TOLD THE DOCTORS THAT
SHE WAS NOT GOING TO HAVE CHEMO
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AND SHE WAS NOT
GOING TO HAVE RADIATION.
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THAT, IF HER GOD WAS
GOING TO SAVE HER, THEN HE WOULD
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SAVE HER. I
REMEMBER HANGING UP THE PHONE
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TO WHAT I THOUGHT WAS MY
LAST CONVERSATION WITH MY MOM.
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I TURNED AROUND, I GOT DOWN ON
MY KNEES, AND I PRAYED TO GOD.
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I SAID, 'GOD, IF YOU'RE
THERE, PLEASE SAVE MY MOTHER.
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WHEREVER YOU LEAD ME IN LIFE,
WHATEVER YOU WANT ME TO DO, I AM
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YOURS.' AND I HAD A FEELING OF
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SUCH PEACE, THAT I KNEW THAT
MY MOTHER WAS GOING TO BE OKAY
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AND THAT MY LIFE
WAS GOING TO CHANGE.
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THERE ARE NO WORDS THAT I CAN
ADEQUATELY EXPRESS TO AMAZING
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FACTS AND PASTOR DOUG - TO SAY,
'THANK YOU' TO ALL THOSE PEOPLE
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WHO SUPPORT THE MINISTRY. I
AM A PRODUCT OF YOUR SUPPORT.
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MY LIFE IS CHANGED BECAUSE
OF THIS MINISTRY AND I THANK YOU
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FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART.
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(MUSIC)
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>>A NUMBER OF YEARS AGO
KAREN AND I WERE AT AN ASI
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MEETING - I DON'T REMEMBER WHAT
CITY IT WAS BECAUSE THEY - IT
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JUMPS AROUND FROM, YOU KNOW,
ONE MAJOR CITY TO ANOTHER - BUT
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THEY'LL GET THE
CONVENTION CENTER IN THE CITY.
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AND AFTER THE MORNING MEETING
SABBATH MORNING, EVERYBODY THEN
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GOES FROM THE ASSEMBLY
HALL - AND THERE ARE SOMETIMES
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THOUSANDS THAT ARE
THERE - THEY GO TO LUNCH.
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WELL, AT THIS PARTICULAR
LOCATION - THE PLACE FOR LUNCH,
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EVERYBODY HAD TO
GO UP THE ESCALATOR.
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NOW WE WERE ALL HUNGRY.
THE PROGRAM HAD GONE LONG.
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I DIDN'T EAT
BREAKFAST. I WAS VERY HUNGRY.
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AND, AS WE CAME POURING OUT,
HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE - THOUSANDS
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OF PEOPLE - CAME POURING OUT OF
THE CONVENTION CENTER INTO THIS
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BIG FOYER. WE SAW AN ESCALATOR
- ONE ESCALATOR - LEADING UP TO
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WHERE LUNCH WOULD
BE ON THE NEXT FLOOR.
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AND THERE WAS A BOTTLENECK AND
ALL THESE PEOPLE WERE GATHERED
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AROUND TRYING TO GO
SINGLE FILE UP THE ESCALATOR.
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AND I LOOKED AT IT FOR JUST A
MOMENT AND I SAID TO KAREN, 'I
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THINK I SEE A QUICKER WAY UP.'
NOBODY WAS GOING DOWN - NOBODY
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WAS GOING UP THE DOWN ESCALATOR.
IT WAS COMPLETELY OPEN.
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(LAUGHTER) AND I THOUGHT, 'I
THINK I CAN GET UP THERE.' SO I
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SAID, 'I'LL MEET YOU AT THE
TOP.' AND I TOOK OFF AND I WENT
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TO THE STEPS AND - NOW, TO
KNOW - YOU CAN GET UP THE DOWN
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ESCALATOR. QUICK
QUIZ: IF YOU STAND STILL
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ON A DOWN ESCALATOR,
WHAT DIRECTION DO YOU GO?
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>>DOWN. >>IF YOU WALK UP A DOWN
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ESCALATOR WHERE DO
YOU GO? >>SAME PLACE.
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>>PRETTY MUCH STATIONARY.
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HOW DO YOU GET
UP A DOWN ESCALATOR?
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>>YOU RUN.
>>YOU'VE GOT TO BOOGIE.
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(LAUGHTER) YOU'VE GOT TO
- YOU'VE GOT TO WORK AT IT.
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AND SO, I TOOK
OFF AND I JUST WENT
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BOP-BOP-BOP-BOP-BOP-BOP-BOP-BOP
- SLOWLY PASSING THE PEOPLE THAT
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ARE GOING UP NEXT TO ME -
BOP-BOP-BOP-BOP - AND THEY'RE
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LOOKING AT ME LIKE I'M CRAZY
- I'M IN MY SABBATH SUIT - AND
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THEN I HEAR A PITTER PATTER
BEHIND ME AND I LOOK BACK AND
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KAREN IS BEHIND ME
NOW IN HER HIGH HEELS -
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BA-TA-TA-TA-TA-TA-TA - I
STARTED WORRYING ABOUT HER.
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(LAUGHTER) WE MADE IT TO THE TOP
AND PEOPLE STILL TELL US THEY'LL
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NEVER FORGET HOW
HUNGRY WE WERE THAT DAY.
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BUT STRAIGHT IS THE
GATE AND NARROW IS THE WAY.
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YOU'VE HEARD THAT BEFORE?
AND FEW THERE BE THAT FIND IT.
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IT'S NOT THAT IT CAN'T BE FOUND,
BUT FOR SOME REASON, A LOT OF US
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SORT OF THINK IN A HERD
MENTALITY AND WE JUST GO DOWN
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THE BROAD ROAD
WITH EVERYBODY ELSE.
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IS IT EASIER TO
BE SAVED OR LOST?
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WELL, FIRST, I WANT TO MAKE IT
CLEAR THAT GOOD AND BAD COMES TO
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EVERYBODY IN LIFE. THERE
ARE STRUGGLES FOR EVERYBODY.
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WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT IS LIFE
HARD OR EASY, BECAUSE LIFE IS
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DIFFICULT AND THERE ARE PROBLEMS
THAT JESUS SAID - MATTHEW 5,
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VERSE 45 - "FOR HE MAKES HIS
SUN RISE ON THE EVIL AND ON THE
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GOOD, AND SENDS RAIN ON
THE JUST AND ON THE UNJUST."
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THERE IS GOING TO BE RAIN AND
THERE IS GOING TO BE SUNSHINE -
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IT'LL COME IN CYCLES - IN THE
LIFE OF THE GOOD AND THE BAD.
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EVERYBODY'S GOING TO
HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF BOTH.
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JOB, WHEN TRIALS CAME INTO HIS
LIFE AND HE WAS A PERFECT AND
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UPRIGHT MAN. IT SAYS,
'SHALL WE INDEED ACCEPT
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GOOD FROM THE LORD AND
SHALL WE NOT ACCEPT ADVERSITY?'
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YOU WILL HAVE GOOD AND YOU WILL
HAVE ADVERSITY IN YOUR LIFE.
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EVERYBODY'S GOING
TO HAVE SOME TRIALS.
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BUT PEOPLE ARE WONDERING, IS
IT EASIER TO BE SAVED OR LOST?
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A LOT OF FOLKS GET DISCOURAGED.
THEY SAY, 'I'D LIKE TO BE A
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CHRISTIAN BUT IT'S SO HARD.' AND
THEN YOU HAVE THESE STATEMENTS
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- ARE FEW OR MANY SAVED?
WHERE'S THE MAJORITY GOING?
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LUKE 13:23 - THEY SPECIFICALLY
ASKED THE LORD, "LORD, ARE THERE
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FEW WHO ARE SAVED?" NOW
THAT'S DIRECT AND TO THE POINT.
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IT CAN'T BE MISUNDERSTOOD AND
JESUS SAID TO THEM, "STRIVE TO
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ENTER THROUGH THE NARROW GATE,
FOR MANY, I SAY TO YOU, WILL
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SEEK TO ENTER AND
WILL NOT BE ABLE."
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SO HERE YOU'VE GOT ALL THESE
PEOPLE TRYING TO ENTER AND THEY
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CAN'T, WHY? IT MUST BE HARDER.
THEN YOU'VE GOT MATTHEW 7:13 -
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WE ALLUDED TO - "WIDE IS THE
GATE AND BROAD IS THE WAY THAT
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LEADS TO DESTRUCTION; MANY
THERE BE THAT GO IN THEREIN.
00:09:08.74\00:09:12.85
BUT STRAIGHT IS THE GATE AND
NARROW IS THE WAY THAT LEADS TO
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LIFE AND FEW
THERE BE THAT FIND IT."
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MAKES IT SOUND LIKE IT'S HARDER
TO BE SAVED THAN TO BE LOST.
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WELL, CERTAINLY, JESUS IS CLEAR:
THE MAJORITY WILL BE LOST; A
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MINORITY WILL BE SAVED.
THAT MUST MEAN IT'S HARDER
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TO BE SAVED THAN
LOST. OR MAYBE NOT.
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FIRST OF ALL, LET'S JUST
REMEMBER - AND I TOUCHED ON THIS
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- THERE ARE TRIBULATIONS
IN LIFE FOR EVERYBODY.
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THERE ARE TRIALS. THERE
ARE STRUGGLES THAT COME.
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ACTS 14:22 - PAUL SAID "WE MUST
THROUGH MANY TRIBULATIONS ENTER
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THE KINGDOM OF GOD." YOU
NOTICE - AND THIS TODAY IS
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NOT POPULAR BECAUSE THE CHURCH
AT LARGE - MANY EVANGELICAL
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CHURCHES - TEACH THAT GOD
LOVES US TOO MUCH TO ALLOW US
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TO SUFFER TRIBULATION.
THAT, IF YOU HAVE FAITH, YOU'RE
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GOING TO BE HEALTHY AND YOU'RE
GOING TO BE WEALTHY, AND YOU'RE
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GOING TO BE WISE AND YOU WON'T
HAVE ANY PROBLEMS AND IF YOU
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DO, YOU JUST
DON'T HAVE ENOUGH FAITH.
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AND BECAUSE THE LORD LOVES US,
THE GREAT TRIBULATION THE BIBLE
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TALKS ABOUT, WE
WON'T EXPERIENCE THAT.
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WE WILL ALL BE CAUGHT
UP. IF YOU DON'T HAVE FAITH
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YOU'RE LEFT
BEHIND. WE'LL BE CAUGHT UP
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BEFORE THE TRIBULATION.
OF COURSE, THAT'S NOT
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WHAT THE BIBLE TEACHES.
GOD DOESN'T SAY HE SAVES
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US FROM TRIBULATION. DO
YOU NOTICE WHAT PAUL SAID?
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IT IS THROUGH - NOW THAT'S THE
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BEING SAVED
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FROM IT AND
BEING SAVED THROUGH IT.
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WAS NOAH SAVED FROM THE
FLOOD OR THROUGH THE FLOOD?
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WAS DANIEL SAVED FROM
THE LION'S DEN OR THROUGH IT?
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>>THROUGH IT.
>>HOW ABOUT SHADRACH,
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MESHACH, AND ABEDNEGO? DID
GOD, BECAUSE HE LOVED THEM,
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SAVE THEM FROM THE
FURNACE? HE WENT THROUGH THE
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FURNACE WITH THEM. GOD
SAID, 'WHEN YOU PASS THROUGH
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THE FIRES, WHEN YOU GO THROUGH
THE WATERS, I WILL GO WITH YOU.'
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BUT HE DOESN'T PROMISE THAT HE'S
GOING TO SAVE US FROM TROUBLE.
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PAUL SAID IT IS THROUGH
TRIBULATION WE ENTER THE KINGDOM
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OF GOD. JESUS
SAID, 'HE THAT ENDURES TO
00:11:01.69\00:11:04.53
THE END WILL BE SAVED.' CHRIST
SAID, MARK 13:13, "AND YOU WILL
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BE HATED BY ALL
FOR MY NAME'S SAKE.
00:11:09.16\00:11:12.33
BUT HE WHO ENDURES TO
THE END SHALL BE SAVED."
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THERE'S
ENDURANCE THAT IS INVOLVED.
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AND JOHN 16:33, "THESE THINGS
I HAVE SPOKEN TO YOU, THAT IN ME
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YOU MAY HAVE PEACE. IN
THE WORLD YOU WILL HAVE
00:11:23.08\00:11:25.68
TRIBULATION; BUT BE
OF GOOD CHEER, I HAVE
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OVERCOME THE WORLD." AND
SO THE LORD IS MAKING VERY
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CLEAR THAT BELIEVERS WILL
HAVE TRIBULATION, BUT CHEER UP,
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UNBELIEVERS HAVE
TRIBULATION TOO. LIFE IS TOUGH.
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HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE
HAD TRIALS IN YOUR LIFE?
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ANYONE TRIAL FREE? NOW
I LOOK AT THE TRIALS SOME
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PEOPLE GO THROUGH AND I
THINK I DON'T HAVE ANY PROBLEMS.
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YOU KNOW, AFTER I COME BACK FROM
ONE OF THESE TRIPS TO INDIA OR
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AFRICA AND YOU SEE THE SHANTIES
AND THE PEOPLE SLEEPING ON THE
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STREET AND JUST LIVING FROM HAND
TO MOUTH - AND I - THEN I THINK
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ABOUT, YOU KNOW, HOW A
FLAT TIRE RUINS MY DAY AND, IN
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PERSPECTIVE, I THINK 'WOW,
IT'S REALLY NOT THAT BAD.' AND
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SOMEONE SAYS, 'OH, I
HAD TRIALS THIS WEEK.
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I HAD A FLAT TIRE.'
'DID YOU HAVE A SPARE?'
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'YEAH, BUT I HAD TO CHANGE
MY TIRE.' (LAUGHTER) AND SO, YOU
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KNOW, IN OUR WAY OF
THINKING, THOSE ARE TRIALS.
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MOST OF US DON'T HAVE - SOME
OF US HAVE MORE SERIOUS TRIALS.
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WE'VE GOT A TERMINAL DISEASE OR
SOMEONE WE LOVE HAS A TERMINAL
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DISEASE OR WE'RE GOING THROUGH
TERRIBLE HEALTH PROBLEMS OR YOU
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MIGHT HAVE TREMENDOUS FINANCIAL
REVERSES AND STRUGGLES AND
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STRESS AND - SOMEONE YOU LOVE
IS LOST - THERE'S ALL KINDS OF
00:12:36.48\00:12:40.26
TRIALS. BUT IF
YOU LIVE LONG ENOUGH,
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YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE PROBLEMS.
SO THE QUESTION IS NOT, 'DO THE
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SAVED HAVE PROBLEMS AND THE LOST
DON'T?' OR 'DO THE LOST HAVE
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PROBLEMS AND THE SAVED DON'T?'
EVERYBODY'S GOT PROBLEMS.
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BUT IS IT EASIER
TO BE SAVED THAN LOST?
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PAUL, TALKING ABOUT THIS IN THE
TRIALS, 2 CORINTHIANS 4:8, "WE
00:12:59.04\00:13:03.55
ARE HARD-PRESSED ON EVERY
SIDE, YET NOT CRUSHED; WE ARE
00:13:03.55\00:13:07.12
PERPLEXED, BUT NOT IN DESPAIR;
PERSECUTED, BUT NOT FORSAKEN;
00:13:07.12\00:13:11.55
STRUCK DOWN, BUT NOT DESTROYED
- ALWAYS CARRYING ABOUT IN THE
00:13:11.55\00:13:15.66
BODY THE DYING OF THE LORD
JESUS, THAT THE LIFE OF JESUS
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ALSO MAY BE
MANIFESTED IN OUR BODY."
00:13:19.03\00:13:21.56
PAUL HAD A TOUGH
TIME. YOU EVER READ SOME OF
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WHAT HE SAYS IN GALATIANS?
'I'VE BEEN BEATEN A HUNDRED
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TIMES, SHIPWRECKED FIFTY
TIMES' - I'M EXAGGERATING.
00:13:27.57\00:13:30.54
I MEAN, BUT PAUL REALLY HAD
- STONED? HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE
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BEEN STONED TO DEATH?
AND HE LIVED THROUGH IT.
00:13:33.68\00:13:38.05
JUST SO, I MEAN,
PAUL, HE REALLY STRUGGLED.
00:13:38.05\00:13:41.18
OF COURSE, YOU KNOW, PAUL WOULD
HAVE NEVER THOUGHT TWICE OF
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GOING INTO A MUSLIM COUNTRY
AND PREACHING CHRIST, YOU KNOW,
00:13:44.49\00:13:47.39
AND HE JUST WAS DEALING
WITH A LOT OF OPPOSITION.
00:13:47.39\00:13:53.23
SO, BY ANALOGY, IS IT
EASIER TO BE SAVED OR LOST?
00:13:53.23\00:13:56.63
IS IT EASIER TO
BE SICK OR HEALTHY?
00:13:56.63\00:14:01.30
THAT SEEMS LIKE A - IT
SEEMS LIKE AN EASY QUESTION.
00:14:01.30\00:14:05.94
OH, I DON'T KNOW. TO BE
HEALTHY - DOES THAT MEAN,
00:14:05.94\00:14:10.08
LIKE, I'VE GOT TO WASH
MY HANDS EVERY NOW AND THEN?
00:14:10.08\00:14:13.62
DOES IT MEAN I'VE GOT
TO EAT RIGHT? THAT'S HARD.
00:14:13.62\00:14:16.92
(LAUGHTER) DO I HAVE
TO EXERCISE TO BE HEALTHY?
00:14:16.92\00:14:22.26
THAT'S HARD. SO WHICH IS EASIER?
00:14:22.26\00:14:24.66
BEING SICK - IT'S
EASIER, JUST BE SICK.
00:14:24.66\00:14:28.06
WELL, YOU KNOW WHAT?
WE'RE LAUGHING, BUT IN REALITY
00:14:28.06\00:14:30.93
THERE IS A HEALTH CRISIS IN
NORTH AMERICA BECAUSE PEOPLE
00:14:30.93\00:14:33.00
THINK IT'S TOO
HARD TO BE HEALTHY.
00:14:33.00\00:14:35.84
AND SO, DOING THE THINGS THEY
NEED TO MAINTAIN THEIR HEALTH -
00:14:35.84\00:14:38.47
THEY SAY, 'OH, THAT'S
HARD.' AND SO THEY'RE SICK.
00:14:38.47\00:14:43.14
LISTEN TO HOW ISAIAH DESCRIBES
IT: "WHY SHOULD YOU BE STRICKEN
00:14:43.14\00:14:47.58
AGAIN? YOU WILL
REVOLT MORE AND MORE.
00:14:47.58\00:14:50.32
THE WHOLE HEAD IS SICK,
AND THE WHOLE HEART FAINTS.
00:14:50.32\00:14:52.99
FROM THE SOLE OF THE FOOT
EVEN TO THE HEAD, THERE IS NO
00:14:52.99\00:14:56.12
SOUNDNESS [NO HEALTH] IN
IT, BUT WOUNDS AND BRUISES AND
00:14:56.12\00:14:59.96
PUTREFYING SORES; THEY HAVE
NOT BEEN CLOSED OR BOUND UP, OR
00:14:59.96\00:15:03.77
SOOTHED WITH OINTMENT." HE
SAID, 'WHY WILL YOU BE SICK?'
00:15:03.77\00:15:08.40
BUT YET, SOMETIMES WE THINK IT'S
EASIER TO BE SPIRITUALLY SICK
00:15:08.40\00:15:13.04
THAN TO BE WELL. AND
THE DEVIL'S DECEIVED PEOPLE.
00:15:13.04\00:15:17.51
IT'S NOT TRUE.
I'LL GIVE YOU A FEW MORE
00:15:17.51\00:15:20.68
VERSES HERE BEFORE
WE'RE DONE. IS IT EASIER TO BE
00:15:20.68\00:15:24.25
LOST OR TO BE AT
HOME? YOU EVER BEEN LOST?
00:15:24.25\00:15:29.89
I MEAN, TO FIND YOUR WAY HOME
YOU NEED TO, YOU KNOW, FOLLOW
00:15:29.89\00:15:33.09
DIRECTIONS, YOU NEED TO STAY
ON THE RIGHT ROAD, YOU'VE GOT TO
00:15:33.09\00:15:36.13
PAY ATTENTION TO
WHERE YOU'RE GOING.
00:15:36.13\00:15:37.50
YOU EVER BEEN OUT
IN THE WOODS LOST?
00:15:37.50\00:15:39.93
YOU'VE GOT TO LEAVE
CRUMBS OR SOMETHING.
00:15:39.93\00:15:45.31
WHAT ABOUT THE PRODIGAL SON?
LUKE 15:15 - HERE'S A BOY THAT
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THOUGHT, 'I WANT TO GET AS
FAR AWAY FROM HOME AS POSSIBLE.
00:15:49.21\00:15:51.58
I WANT TO FORGET ABOUT
HOME. I WANT TO FORGET ABOUT MY
00:15:51.58\00:15:54.68
FATHER. I'M GOING
TO DO MY OWN THING.'
00:15:54.68\00:15:58.29
IT SAYS HE ENDED UP IN A COUNTRY
WHERE THERE WAS A FAMINE.
00:15:58.29\00:16:02.49
HE HAD TO FARM HIMSELF OUT TO A
PIG FARMER AND HE'S FEEDING PIGS
00:16:02.49\00:16:07.86
AND HE'S STARVING AND HIS
CLOTHES HAVE TURNED TO RAGS AND
00:16:07.86\00:16:10.63
HE SMELLS LIKE PIGS, AND FINALLY
HE COMES TO HIS SENSES - AND
00:16:10.63\00:16:14.97
THIS IS LUKE 15 - HE'S STARVING
FOR THE FOOD THE PIGS EAT AND HE
00:16:14.97\00:16:20.31
SAYS, "HOW MANY OF MY FATHER'S
HIRED SERVANTS HAVE BREAD ENOUGH
00:16:20.31\00:16:24.11
AND TO SPARE, AND
I PERISH WITH HUNGER!
00:16:24.11\00:16:27.35
I WILL ARISE AND GO TO MY
FATHER," - 'I'M GOING TO GO
00:16:27.35\00:16:30.05
HOME. THIS BEING
LOST IS TOUGH.' HE,
00:16:30.05\00:16:35.09
AT FIRST, THOUGHT
'IT'S HARD TO SERVE DAD.
00:16:35.09\00:16:39.43
IT'S HARD TO LIVE
HERE ON THE FAMILY FARM.
00:16:39.43\00:16:42.06
I'VE BEEN HERE - I WANT
TO GO DO SOMETHING EXCITING.
00:16:42.06\00:16:44.93
I'M GOING TO GET
OUT THERE IN THE WORLD.
00:16:44.93\00:16:47.07
IT'LL BE EASIER. I'LL
BE FREE.' AND HE FINALLY
00:16:47.07\00:16:50.34
GETS WHAT HE WANTS
AND WHAT DOES HE DISCOVER?
00:16:50.34\00:16:52.44
'THIS ISN'T SO
EASY. THIS IS HARD.
00:16:52.44\00:16:55.54
BEING LOST IS HARD. MY
FATHER'S SERVANTS - AND I
00:16:55.54\00:16:59.61
DIDN'T KNOW IT UNTIL I LEFT
HOME - MY FATHER'S SERVANTS WERE
00:16:59.61\00:17:02.72
BETTER OFF THAN I WAS' - NO -
'MY FATHER'S SERVANTS ARE BETTER
00:17:02.72\00:17:07.79
OFF THAN I AM
NOW AND I WAS A SON!'
00:17:07.79\00:17:12.06
SO, WHICH IS EASIER,
BEING HOME OR BEING LOST?
00:17:12.06\00:17:16.63
BEING HOME. IS IT
EASIER TO WIN OR TO LOSE?
00:17:16.63\00:17:24.24
WELL, HOW MANY
OF YOU LIKE LOSING?
00:17:24.24\00:17:27.04
JESUS ASKED THIS QUESTION -
MATTHEW 16:26 - "FOR WHAT PROFIT
00:17:27.04\00:17:33.15
IS IT TO A MAN IF HE GAINS THE
WHOLE WORLD, AND LOSES HIS OWN
00:17:33.15\00:17:37.52
SOUL? OR WHAT WILL A MAN GIVE IN
00:17:37.52\00:17:40.16
EXCHANGE FOR HIS SOUL?" I
REMEMBER READING, BACK DURING
00:17:40.16\00:17:44.66
THE STOCK MARKET CRASH
IN - WHAT WAS IT - 1928?
00:17:44.66\00:17:49.76
SOME PEOPLE - OH, '29 - AND THEY
OVERNIGHT LOST THEIR FORTUNES
00:17:49.76\00:17:53.27
AND IT WAS, I GUESS, FAIRLY
COMMON, DAY AFTER DAY, PEOPLE
00:17:53.27\00:17:57.67
WERE - THESE PEOPLE WHO HAD
GREAT WEALTH LOST IT ALL AND
00:17:57.67\00:18:01.14
THEY WERE JUMPING FROM THE
WINDOWS BECAUSE THEY THOUGHT
00:18:01.14\00:18:04.35
THAT IT ALL - BECAUSE THEY'D
LOST THEIR EARTHLY TREASURE,
00:18:04.35\00:18:07.02
THEY LOST EVERYTHING - THEY
KILLED THEMSELVES, BELIEVING
00:18:07.02\00:18:10.15
THEIR LIVES HAD NO MEANING.
THERE WAS A MAN IN THE NEWS -
00:18:10.15\00:18:17.33
VERY WEALTHY MAN IN CHARGE OF AN
ENERGY COMPANY THAT WAS INDICTED
00:18:17.33\00:18:23.47
AND THE DAY AFTER THE INDICTMENT
HE DROVE HIS CAR - IT WAS BY
00:18:23.47\00:18:29.84
HIMSELF - VERY QUICKLY INTO A
CONCRETE ABUTMENT AND, AT FIRST,
00:18:29.84\00:18:33.88
THEY COULDN'T SAY WHAT IT WAS,
BUT THEY SUSPECT IT WAS SUICIDE.
00:18:33.88\00:18:38.15
HE WAS WAITING TO TURN HIMSELF
OVER TO THE AUTHORITIES TO BE
00:18:38.15\00:18:40.98
IMPRISONED AND HE
DESPAIRED OF LIFE.
00:18:40.98\00:18:44.45
HE HAD LIVED A VERY SUCCESSFUL
- VERY POPULAR, VERY FAMOUS,
00:18:44.45\00:18:47.46
WEALTHY MAN - KILLED
HIMSELF. SO LOSING CAN BE HARD.
00:18:47.46\00:18:54.63
SOME PEOPLE TAKE IT PRETTY HARD.
MATTHEW 13, "THE KINGDOM OF
00:18:54.63\00:18:59.53
HEAVEN IS LIKE A MERCHANT
SEEKING BEAUTIFUL PEARLS, WHO,
00:18:59.53\00:19:02.64
WHEN HE HAD FOUND ONE PEARL OF
GREAT PRICE, WENT AND SOLD ALL
00:19:02.64\00:19:06.68
THAT HE HAD AND BOUGHT
IT." BECAUSE THAT'S PROFITABLE -
00:19:06.68\00:19:10.45
WILLING TO SACRIFICE EVERYTHING
FOR THAT WHICH LASTS FOREVER.
00:19:10.45\00:19:14.85
NOW, PROBABLY, ONE OF THE BEST
ANALOGIES IF YOU'RE TRYING TO
00:19:14.85\00:19:17.62
DECIDE 'IS IT EASIER
TO BE SAVED OR LOST?'
00:19:17.62\00:19:20.02
IS FROM THE STORY OF
ISRAEL AND THE EXODUS.
00:19:20.02\00:19:24.09
MY QUESTION WOULD BE IS IT
EASIER TO BE A SLAVE OR TO BE
00:19:24.09\00:19:27.66
FREE? PEOPLE
WOULD SAY, 'OF COURSE
00:19:27.66\00:19:30.87
IT'S EASIER TO BE FREE!' IS IT?
00:19:30.87\00:19:33.10
DO YOU KNOW HOW YOU GET FREEDOM?
DOES FREEDOM EVER COME EASY?
00:19:33.10\00:19:38.21
DO YOU KNOW WHY WE HAVE
WHAT FREEDOM WE HAVE LEFT?
00:19:38.21\00:19:41.44
IT'S BECAUSE A LOT OF PEOPLE
DIED FOR IT AND THEY SPILT THEIR
00:19:41.44\00:19:45.31
BLOOD AND THEY
SACRIFICED THEIR LIVES.
00:19:45.31\00:19:48.05
SO, YES, WE WANT TO BE
FREE, BUT FREEDOM COSTS A LOT.
00:19:48.05\00:19:55.29
AND AS WE ARE WILLING TO
SACRIFICE OUR FREEDOMS, ONE BY
00:19:55.29\00:19:57.63
ONE I THINK WE
FORGET WHAT SLAVERY IS.
00:19:57.63\00:20:00.53
THERE'S A WHOLE NATION OF SLAVES
CALLED THE ISRAELITES AND, AFTER
00:20:00.53\00:20:05.43
BEING SAVED FROM THEIR SLAVERY,
THEY FORGOT HOW HARD IT WAS AND
00:20:05.43\00:20:08.84
THEY WANTED TO GO BACK TO EGYPT.
IT'S AMAZING - 'OH MAN, THIS
00:20:08.84\00:20:12.71
GOING THROUGH THE
WILDERNESS WITH GOD IS TOUGH.
00:20:12.71\00:20:14.74
I WISH I WAS BACK IN EGYPT.'
AND THEY FORGOT, BACK IN EGYPT,
00:20:14.74\00:20:18.91
THEY'RE SERVING A KING THAT
HATES THEM, THEY'RE WORKING FOR
00:20:18.91\00:20:22.28
HIS GLORY, THEY'RE NOT GETTING
PAID - LISTEN TO HOW MOSES
00:20:22.28\00:20:26.19
DESCRIBES IT - DEUTERONOMY
26, VERSE 6, "BUT THE EGYPTIANS
00:20:26.19\00:20:31.56
MISTREATED US, AFFLICTED
US, AND LAID HARD BONDAGE ON US.
00:20:31.56\00:20:38.37
THEN WE CRIED OUT TO THE LORD
GOD OF OUR FATHERS, AND THE LORD
00:20:38.37\00:20:41.04
HEARD OUR VOICE AND LOOKED ON
OUR AFFLICTION AND OUR LABOR AND
00:20:41.04\00:20:45.21
OUR OPPRESSION. SO
THE LORD BROUGHT US OUT OF
00:20:45.21\00:20:48.14
EGYPT WITH A MIGHTY HAND AND
WITH AN OUTSTRETCHED ARM, WITH
00:20:48.14\00:20:51.28
GREAT TERROR AND
WITH SIGNS AND WONDERS."
00:20:51.28\00:20:53.85
- AND POWER OF GOD - "HE HAS
BROUGHT US TO THIS PLACE AND HAS
00:20:53.85\00:20:56.69
GIVEN US THIS LAND, 'A LAND
FLOWING WITH MILK AND HONEY';"
00:20:56.69\00:21:00.46
SO WHICH IS EASIER, BEING A
SLAVE OF THE PHARAOH OR BEING A
00:21:00.46\00:21:04.46
SERVANT OF GOD?
WOULDN'T YOU THINK - I MEAN,
00:21:04.46\00:21:08.60
IF YOU COULD LOOK AT THE
TWO OPTIONS, WOULDN'T YOU
00:21:08.60\00:21:11.03
THINK IT WOULD BE EASIER?
'WELL, I'M GOING TO THE PROMISED
00:21:11.03\00:21:13.67
LAND.' BUT WHY DID THEY
KEEP WANTING TO GO BACK?
00:21:13.67\00:21:18.91
THEY SAID, 'GOING THROUGH THE
WILDERNESS IS HARD.' THEY HAD
00:21:18.91\00:21:22.64
HOPE. GOD FED THEM FROM HEAVEN.
00:21:22.64\00:21:25.61
THEY GOT HUNGRY
BEFORE THEY CRIED FOR BREAD.
00:21:25.61\00:21:27.65
HE GAVE THEM
WATER OUT OF A ROCK.
00:21:27.65\00:21:29.28
THEY GOT THIRSTY
BEFORE THEY GOT THE WATER.
00:21:29.28\00:21:32.02
THEY WERE
ATTACKED BY THEIR ENEMIES.
00:21:32.02\00:21:34.29
HE GAVE THEM VICTORY OVER
THEIR ENEMIES - THE AMALEKITES.
00:21:34.29\00:21:38.23
SO THEY DID HAVE STRUGGLES
IN THE WILDERNESS, BUT THEY WON.
00:21:38.23\00:21:41.63
IN EVERY CASE GOD
TOOK CARE OF THEM.
00:21:41.63\00:21:44.60
THEY WERE ON THE WAY TO A LAND
THAT WAS THEIRS - TO FREEDOM.
00:21:44.60\00:21:49.04
BUT IN THE
TRANSITION IT WAS HARD.
00:21:49.04\00:21:52.91
SO, WOULD YOU WANT TO GO BACK TO
EGYPT OR WOULD YOU WANT TO GO TO
00:21:52.91\00:21:55.44
THE PROMISED LAND? NOW,
IN PRACTICAL TERMS FOR WHAT
00:21:55.44\00:21:59.48
WE'RE REALLY TALKING ABOUT -
WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT WHETHER
00:21:59.48\00:22:01.62
WE'RE GOING TO MOVE TO EGYPT.
YOU DON'T WANT TO GO THERE NOW.
00:22:01.62\00:22:05.62
AND WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT
GOING ON A DESERT TRIP, ALTHOUGH
00:22:05.62\00:22:08.46
THE MEN IN THE CHURCH ARE GOING
TO GO ON A 4-WHEELER TRIP IN THE
00:22:08.46\00:22:10.89
DESERT LATER THIS YEAR. WE'RE
TALKING ABOUT SLAVERY TO SIN.
00:22:10.89\00:22:16.63
IS IT HARDER TO
BE SAVED OR LOST?
00:22:16.63\00:22:19.20
IS IT HARDER TO BE ENSLAVED
TO THE DEVIL OR TO SERVE JESUS?
00:22:19.20\00:22:24.51
I'D LIKE TO TELL YOU THAT THE
BIBLE, I THINK, IS PRETTY CLEAR
00:22:24.51\00:22:27.11
IT IS MUCH HARDER - AT LEAST
FROM MY PERSPECTIVE - TO BE A
00:22:27.11\00:22:30.71
SLAVE TO THE DEVIL
THAN TO BE A SERVANT OF GOD.
00:22:30.71\00:22:34.28
>>AMEN. >>I
SPENT YEARS ENSLAVED -
00:22:34.28\00:22:40.06
PEOPLE ARE ENSLAVED BY THEIR
HABITS AND THEIR ADDICTIONS
00:22:40.06\00:22:42.79
AND THEIR PROBLEMS.
THEN, WHEN YOU'RE FINALLY SET
00:22:42.79\00:22:45.13
FREE - I KNOW A MAN - ATTENDS
HERE EVERY NOW AND THEN -
00:22:45.13\00:22:51.53
ALCOHOLIC FOR YEARS AND OH, IT
MUST BE TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO,
00:22:51.53\00:22:56.77
GOD GAVE HIM
VICTORY OVER ALCOHOL.
00:22:56.77\00:22:58.54
BUT HE STRUGGLED WITH THAT
SLAVERY FOR SO LONG THAT HE
00:22:58.54\00:23:01.94
CAN'T STOP PRAISING
JESUS FOR SETTING HIM FREE.
00:23:01.94\00:23:04.71
YOU TALK TO HIM - EVEN THOUGH
IT'S BEEN YEARS - BECAUSE HE
00:23:04.71\00:23:06.72
HASN'T FORGOTTEN
WHAT IT WAS LIKE.
00:23:06.72\00:23:10.02
IF YOU KNOW WHAT SLAVERY IS,
THERE'S NO QUESTION IT'S EASIER
00:23:10.02\00:23:14.52
TO FIGHT FOR YOUR FREEDOM.
AND THERE MIGHT BE A FIGHT, BUT
00:23:14.52\00:23:18.56
IT'S WORTH IT, AS
OPPOSED TO BEING A SLAVE.
00:23:18.56\00:23:21.60
>>AMEN. >>NOW, THAT APPLIES TO
00:23:21.60\00:23:24.23
PATRIOTISM AS
WELL AS CHRISTIANITY.
00:23:24.23\00:23:26.97
JESUS SAID - AND THIS WAS
OUR MEMORY VERSE - OUR SCRIPTURE
00:23:26.97\00:23:29.40
READING - MATTHEW 11:28,
"COME TO ME, ALL YOU WHO...ARE
00:23:29.40\00:23:33.58
HEAVY LADEN, AND I
WILL GIVE YOU REST."
00:23:33.58\00:23:37.28
- AS OPPOSED TO THE SERVING THE
PHARAOH WITH RIGOR - "TAKE MY
00:23:37.28\00:23:41.42
YOKE UPON YOU" - JESUS DOESN'T
SAY THERE'S NO SERVICE INVOLVED,
00:23:41.42\00:23:44.85
A YOKE IS AN INSTRUMENT OF
BURDEN - "TAKE MY YOKE UPON YOU
00:23:44.85\00:23:48.86
AND LEARN FROM ME, FOR I AM
GENTLE AND LOWLY IN HEART, AND
00:23:48.86\00:23:52.89
YOU WILL FIND
REST FOR YOUR SOULS.
00:23:52.89\00:23:55.40
FOR MY YOKE IS EASY
AND MY BURDEN IS LIGHT."
00:23:55.40\00:23:59.10
AS COMPARED TO WHAT?
NOW THERE'S THE QUESTION.
00:23:59.10\00:24:03.07
JESUS SAYS, 'MY YOKE IS
EASY. MY BURDEN IS LIGHT.' HIS
00:24:03.07\00:24:05.87
YOKE COMPARED TO
WHOSE YOKE? >>SATAN'S.
00:24:05.87\00:24:08.91
>>THERE'S ONLY TWO MASTERS.
JESUS SAID, 'EITHER YOU'RE
00:24:08.91\00:24:10.88
WITH ME OR YOU'RE
AGAINST ME. IT'S MY YOKE OR
00:24:10.88\00:24:12.61
THE DEVIL'S YOKE. IT'S
MY SERVICE OR HIS SERVICE.'
00:24:12.61\00:24:16.92
AND JESUS TELLS US 'MY YOKE
IS EASY AS COMPARED TO HIS.' HE
00:24:16.92\00:24:20.59
DIDN'T SAY THERE AREN'T TRIALS -
IT IS EASY COMPARED TO THE DEVIL
00:24:20.59\00:24:23.89
- 'MY BURDEN IS
LIGHT' COMPARED TO THE DEVIL.
00:24:23.89\00:24:27.36
AND IT'S EITHER GOING
TO BE ONE OR THE OTHER.
00:24:27.36\00:24:29.50
PROVERBS 13:15, "GOOD
UNDERSTANDING GAINS FAVOR, BUT
00:24:29.50\00:24:35.37
THE WAY OF THE
TRANSGRESSOR IS HARD."
00:24:35.37\00:24:38.94
IS IT EASIER TO BE
SAVED OR TO BE LOST?
00:24:38.94\00:24:41.88
THE WAY OF THE
TRANSGRESSOR IS HARD.
00:24:41.88\00:24:45.38
AND THEY MAY NOT KNOW IT RIGHT
AWAY BECAUSE THERE ARE PLEASURES
00:24:45.38\00:24:48.95
OF SIN FOR A SEASON, BUT
YOU STAY IN THE WAY OF THE
00:24:48.95\00:24:51.85
TRANSGRESSOR AND IT'S GOING
TO BE TOUGH. THE WAY IS HARD.
00:24:51.85\00:24:56.46
ECCLESIASTES 8:12 - NOW THIS
IS SOLOMON'S OBSERVATION ALSO -
00:24:56.46\00:25:00.23
"THOUGH A SINNER DOES EVIL A
HUNDRED TIMES, AND HIS DAYS ARE
00:25:00.23\00:25:04.07
PROLONGED," - OH, HE'S BEEN
SINNING, NOTHING BAD HAPPENED.
00:25:04.07\00:25:09.00
LOOKED LIKE
THINGS ARE GOING OKAY.
00:25:09.00\00:25:11.14
I MEAN, THEY ASKED THIS
QUESTION IN THE BOOK OF JOB.
00:25:11.14\00:25:13.27
JOB SAYS, 'HAVEN'T YOU EVER
NOTICED THAT SOMETIMES YOU'LL
00:25:13.27\00:25:15.81
SEE SINNERS AND IT LOOKS LIKE
THEIR KIDS ARE HEALTHY AND THEIR
00:25:15.81\00:25:18.28
FLOCKS ARE BREEDING AND THEIR
CROPS ARE FULL AND IT SEEMS LIKE
00:25:18.28\00:25:23.59
EVERYTHING'S FINE
AND THEY'RE PROSPERING.
00:25:23.59\00:25:26.32
BUT IT DOESN'T STAY THAT WAY.
"THOUGH A SINNER DOES EVIL A
00:25:26.32\00:25:31.26
HUNDRED TIMES, AND HIS DAYS
ARE PROLONGED, YET I SURELY KNOW
00:25:31.26\00:25:35.20
THAT IT WILL BE WELL
WITH THOSE WHO FEAR GOD, WHO
00:25:35.20\00:25:38.27
FEAR BEFORE HIM. BUT IT
WILL NOT BE WELL WITH THE
00:25:38.27\00:25:40.94
WICKED; NOR WILL HE PROLONG
HIS DAYS, WHICH ARE AS A SHADOW,
00:25:40.94\00:25:44.94
BECAUSE HE DOES
NOT FEAR BEFORE GOD."
00:25:44.94\00:25:47.01
YOU KNOW, IN THE END OF
ECCLESIASTES HE SAYS, 'LET'S
00:25:47.01\00:25:49.24
HEAR THE CONCLUSION OF THE WHOLE
MATTER: FEAR GOD AND KEEP HIS
00:25:49.24\00:25:52.85
COMMANDMENTS FOR THIS
IS THE WHOLE DUTY OF MAN.
00:25:52.85\00:25:56.02
FOR GOD WILL BRING EVERY WORK
INTO JUDGMENT WITH EVERY SECRET
00:25:56.02\00:25:58.09
THING WHETHER
IT BE GOOD OR EVIL.
00:25:58.09\00:26:00.26
HE SAID, 'IN THE END YOU'RE
GOING TO BE BETTER IF YOU FEAR
00:26:00.26\00:26:04.36
GOD AND KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS.
ROMANS 8:18 - PAUL SAYS, "FOR I
00:26:04.36\00:26:10.90
CONSIDER THAT THE SUFFERINGS OF
THIS PRESENT TIME ARE NOT WORTHY
00:26:10.90\00:26:15.24
TO BE COMPARED WITH THE GLORY
WHICH SHALL BE REVEALED IN US."
00:26:15.24\00:26:20.54
SO, IN THE BATTLE BETWEEN GOOD
AND EVIL, AND IN THE BATTLE THAT
00:26:20.54\00:26:23.24
YOU FEEL IN YOUR HEARTS BETWEEN
CHRIST AND THE DEVIL, WHAT'S
00:26:23.24\00:26:26.78
EASIER? WHAT'S EASIER,
GOING DOWN OR GOING UP?
00:26:26.78\00:26:33.66
WHY DON'T YOU CRAWL
INSTEAD OF WALKING ON TWO LEGS?
00:26:33.66\00:26:37.96
YOU THINK
CRAWLING WOULD BE EASIER.
00:26:37.96\00:26:39.79
WELL, NO, EVENTUALLY IT
STARTS TO HURT YOUR KNEES.
00:26:39.79\00:26:44.87
IT'S A LOT EASIER TO
WALK AND A LOT FASTER.
00:26:44.87\00:26:47.27
IT'S MUCH SLOWER TO
CRAWL. WHO IS STRONGER?
00:26:47.27\00:26:51.54
JESUS SAID - 1 JOHN 4:4 - IT'S
ACTUALLY THE APOSTLE JOHN - "YOU
00:26:51.54\00:26:55.48
ARE OF GOD, LITTLE CHILDREN, AND
HAVE OVERCOME THEM, BECAUSE HE
00:26:55.48\00:27:01.58
WHO IS IN YOU IS GREATER
THAN HE WHO IS IN THE WORLD."
00:27:01.58\00:27:05.59
WHO'S STRONGER? >>JESUS.
00:27:05.59\00:27:09.06
>>HOW MUCH STRONGER? IS
IT LIKE JESUS REPRESENTS A
00:27:09.06\00:27:15.43
HUNDRED PERCENT
STRENGTH AND SATAN IS NINETY
00:27:15.43\00:27:17.60
PERCENT STRENGTH? IS
IT LIKE JESUS HAS GOT, YOU
00:27:17.60\00:27:21.87
KNOW, A HUNDRED PERCENT,
BUT THE DEVIL IS EIGHTY PERCENT?
00:27:21.87\00:27:26.17
IS, YOU KNOW, YOU'VE
GOT TWO-THIRDS GOOD ANGELS -
00:27:26.17\00:27:28.78
ONE-THIRD BAD ANGELS AND SO GOD
IS TWO-THIRDS STRONGER THAN THE
00:27:28.78\00:27:31.95
DEVIL? HOW MUCH
STRONGER IS GOD THAN
00:27:31.95\00:27:35.25
SATAN? STRONG AS HE NEEDS TO BE
00:27:35.25\00:27:38.05
BECAUSE HE'S INFINITE.
HE IS INFINITELY STRONGER.
00:27:38.05\00:27:42.56
WHICH IS STRONGER, THE
CREATOR OR THE CREATION?
00:27:42.56\00:27:46.33
AND SO, IF YOU THINK THE DEVIL'S
STRONG, THE LORD CAN MAKE A GOOD
00:27:46.33\00:27:50.17
ANGEL TEN TIMES
STRONGER THAN THE DEVIL.
00:27:50.17\00:27:53.47
THERE'S NO COMPARISON
AND WE FORGET THAT SOMETIMES.
00:27:53.47\00:27:56.17
IT'S NOT ONLY GREATER IS HE
IN YOU THAN HE THAT IS IN THE
00:27:56.17\00:27:58.97
WORLD, HE IS A LOT GREATER
THAN THE ONE WHO'S IN THE WORLD.
00:27:58.97\00:28:04.15
SOMETHING ELSE, WHILE WE'RE
TALKING ABOUT THAT, WOULD YOU
00:28:04.15\00:28:09.58
PAY A GREAT PRICE FOR SOMETHING
THAT YOU NEVER COULD REALLY
00:28:09.58\00:28:13.89
POSSESS? HAVE YOU
EVER BEEN RIPPED OFF?
00:28:13.89\00:28:20.03
WHERE YOU BOUGHT SOMETHING AND
THE PRODUCT WAS NEVER DELIVERED
00:28:20.03\00:28:23.10
AND YOU PAID DEARLY FOR IT?
AND - OR YOU PAID TOO MUCH FOR
00:28:23.10\00:28:27.97
IT? HOW MANY OF YOU WANT TO GET
00:28:27.97\00:28:31.97
DECENT VALUE WHEN YOU PAY
A GOOD PRICE FOR SOMETHING?
00:28:31.97\00:28:38.25
WHEN GOD PAID SUCH A HIGH PRICE
THAT YOU MIGHT BE SAVED, WOULD
00:28:38.25\00:28:43.42
HE HAVE DONE IT IF IT WASN'T
POSSIBLE FOR YOU TO BE SAVED?
00:28:43.42\00:28:48.76
IF JESUS' SACRIFICE IS ADEQUATE
TO SAVE ALL OF THE LOST IN THE
00:28:48.76\00:28:53.16
WORLD - AND DID I
JUST SAY SOMETHING TRUE?
00:28:53.16\00:28:56.30
DID HE DIE FOR THE
SINS OF THE WHOLE WORLD?
00:28:56.30\00:28:57.80
>>YES. >>DID HE
ONLY DIE FOR A FEW
00:28:57.80\00:28:59.43
OR THOSE WHO WOULD BELIEVE?
OR DID HE DIE FOR EVERYBODY?
00:28:59.43\00:29:02.57
HE DIED FOR THE
SINS OF THE WHOLE WORLD.
00:29:02.57\00:29:06.17
THEN HE MADE IT
POSSIBLE FOR YOU TO BE SAVED.
00:29:06.17\00:29:09.24
>>AMEN. >>HOW MUCH
IS POSSIBLE WITH GOD?
00:29:09.24\00:29:13.35
ALL THINGS ARE
POSSIBLE WITH GOD.
00:29:13.35\00:29:15.62
SO IT'S NOT - WE'RE NOT EVEN
TALKING ABOUT IS IT POSSIBLE FOR
00:29:15.62\00:29:18.12
YOU TO BE SAVED? OF
COURSE IT'S POSSIBLE.
00:29:18.12\00:29:19.99
THE QUESTION IS: IS IT EASIER?
WELL, WHEN THE ONE WHO'S WITH
00:29:19.99\00:29:24.06
YOU IS STRONGER THAN THE ONE
WHO IS AGAINST YOU, YEAH, IT'S
00:29:24.06\00:29:30.20
EASIER THAN - THE WAY OF
THE TRANSGRESSOR IS HARD.
00:29:30.20\00:29:32.73
IT'S HARD BEING
LOST. NOW SATAN'S POWERFUL.
00:29:32.73\00:29:35.80
WE ALL KNOW THAT.
WE'VE SEEN HIS ENSLAVING
00:29:35.80\00:29:38.04
INFLUENCE THAT HE EXERCISES
IN THE LIFE OF THE SINNER.
00:29:38.04\00:29:40.91
BUT WHEN CHRIST BANISHES THE
DEVIL FROM THE SINNER'S CONTROL
00:29:40.91\00:29:44.68
IN THE LIFE, THE POWER FOR GOOD
IS GREATER THAN THAT OF EVIL.
00:29:44.68\00:29:50.29
THE ONE WHO WANTS HIS LOVE
TO SAVE YOU IS STRONGER THAN THE
00:29:50.29\00:29:53.96
DEVIL'S LOVE TO DESTROY
YOU. SO WHY ARE SO MANY LOST?
00:29:53.96\00:29:58.59
WHY IS THE MAJORITY LOST?
MOSES SAID, 'DO NOT FOLLOW A
00:29:58.59\00:30:03.40
MULTITUDE TO DO EVIL.' PEOPLE
SEEM TO THINK LIKE LEMMINGS.
00:30:03.40\00:30:08.24
THE DEVIL HYPNOTIZES PEOPLE INTO
THINKING 'WE'RE NEVER GOING TO
00:30:08.24\00:30:11.34
MAKE IT' AND THOSE WHO DON'T
BELIEVE THEY CAN MAKE IT WON'T
00:30:11.34\00:30:14.61
MAKE IT. IF YOU
BELIEVE, YOU'LL MAKE IT.
00:30:14.61\00:30:17.28
IT'S LIKE THE SPIES THAT WENT
INTO THE PROMISED LAND AND TEN
00:30:17.28\00:30:19.85
OF THEM SAID, 'OH MAN, THE
PROBLEMS ARE TOO BIG.' TWO OF
00:30:19.85\00:30:22.58
THEM SAID, 'OH, GOD BROUGHT
US THIS FAR, HE CAN BRING US ALL
00:30:22.58\00:30:24.79
THE WAY.' THE ONES WHO BELIEVED
MADE IT - CALEB AND JOSHUA - ALL
00:30:24.79\00:30:28.42
THE WAY. THE ONES
WHO DIDN'T BELIEVE,
00:30:28.42\00:30:30.19
THEY DIED IN THE
WILDERNESS. SO WHAT'S EASIER?
00:30:30.19\00:30:34.30
I WOULD THINK LIVING IS EASIER
THAN DYING. I WOULD THINK BEING
00:30:34.30\00:30:37.87
SAVED IS EASIER THAN
BEING LOST - IF YOU BELIEVE.
00:30:37.87\00:30:43.34
YOU KNOW, I THINK IF WE GET
THIS MESSAGE, FRIENDS, IT'LL
00:30:43.34\00:30:46.57
ENCOURAGE US. WE'VE
GOT GOD ON OUR SIDE.
00:30:46.57\00:30:49.04
ROMANS 5:20, "WHERE SIN ABOUNDS"
- AND LET'S ADMIT IT, SIN
00:30:49.04\00:30:53.01
ABOUNDS - IT ABOUNDS IN
US, IT ABOUNDS IN THE WORLD.
00:30:53.01\00:30:55.52
BUT WHEREVER IT ABOUNDS,
GOD'S GRACE MUCH MORE ABOUNDS.
00:30:55.52\00:30:59.45
THAT'S WHAT PAUL SAYS.
00:30:59.45\00:31:00.96
NOW, SOMETIMES THEY CALL
IT THE HOME-COURT ADVANTAGE.
00:31:00.96\00:31:06.06
I GUESS THAT'S WITH BASKETBALL,
BUT THE PRINCIPLE'S TRUE
00:31:06.06\00:31:08.50
PROBABLY WITH
FOOTBALL OR WITH BASEBALL.
00:31:08.50\00:31:11.53
THEY SAY THAT STATISTICALLY,
WHEN YOUR TEAM - THIS IS NOT
00:31:11.53\00:31:16.44
ADVOCATING FOR SPORTS, I'M JUST
USING AN ILLUSTRATION SO DON'T
00:31:16.44\00:31:19.04
CORNER ME LATER - WHEN YOUR TEAM
IS PLAYING ON THEIR HOME TURF
00:31:19.04\00:31:26.15
AND THEY HAVE THE MAJORITY OF
THEIR FRIENDS CHEERING FOR THEM,
00:31:26.15\00:31:30.65
STATISTICALLY THEY'VE PROVEN
THAT THEY WILL PERFORM BETTER.
00:31:30.65\00:31:33.52
THEY CALL IT THE
HOME-COURT ADVANTAGE.
00:31:33.52\00:31:35.26
YOU ALL KNOW WHAT I MEAN?
THEY'VE GOT ALL - THEY'RE IN
00:31:35.26\00:31:37.83
THEIR HOME COURT. THEY KNOW
THE COURT. THEY'VE GOT ALL THEIR
00:31:37.83\00:31:40.63
FANS THAT KNOW THEM.
THEY'RE ALL CHEERING AND THE
00:31:40.63\00:31:43.67
CHEERS, HOPEFULLY, OUTNUMBER
THE BOOS AND IT INSPIRES THEM.
00:31:43.67\00:31:50.11
AND JUST THE MORALE IS HIGHER
- THEY'VE GOT THE HOME-COURT
00:31:50.11\00:31:53.11
ADVANTAGE. WHO HAS MORE
ANGELS, GOD OR THE DEVIL?
00:31:53.11\00:31:58.51
>>GOD. >>WHOSE WORLD IS IT?
00:31:58.51\00:32:01.75
THIS IS MY FATHER'S WORLD.
AND JESUS - THE DEVIL WAS THE
00:32:01.75\00:32:04.99
PRINCE OF THE WORLD,
BUT CHRIST BOUGHT IT BACK.
00:32:04.99\00:32:07.76
SO NOW, AT LEAST FROM THE
CROSS, WE HAVE THE HOME-COURT
00:32:07.76\00:32:10.29
ADVANTAGE. SO WE
SHOULD BE ABLE TO WIN.
00:32:10.29\00:32:14.46
AND WHO'S ON OUR TEAM?
JESUS. DID HE EVER LOSE A BATTLE
00:32:14.46\00:32:19.70
WITH THE DEVIL? SO
THE QUESTION IS: ARE WE
00:32:19.70\00:32:23.20
TAPPING INTO THE POWER
THAT HE'S MADE AVAILABLE?
00:32:23.20\00:32:28.51
YOU'VE READ BEFORE - LOOKING AT
THE CLOCK I THINK I HAVE TIME.
00:32:28.51\00:32:32.31
GO WITH ME QUICK TO THE BOOK OF
ROMANS, PLEASE - ROMANS CHAPTER
00:32:32.31\00:32:35.32
7 AND WE'RE GOING TO TOUCH
ON ROMANS 8 - AND THIS IS WHERE
00:32:35.32\00:32:42.19
PAUL DESCRIBES THE STRUGGLE.
HE SAYS, IN VERSE 18 OF ROMANS
00:32:42.19\00:32:48.73
7, "FOR I KNOW THAT IN ME (THAT
IS, IN MY FLESH) NOTHING GOOD
00:32:48.73\00:32:51.17
DWELLS; FOR TO WILL IS PRESENT
WITH ME," - I WANT TO DO WHAT'S
00:32:51.17\00:32:54.44
RIGHT - "BUT HOW TO PERFORM
WHAT IS GOOD I DO NOT FIND.
00:32:54.44\00:32:57.87
FOR THE GOOD THAT I WILL TO DO,
I DO NOT DO; BUT THE EVIL I WILL
00:32:57.87\00:33:01.84
NOT TO DO, THAT I PRACTICE.
NOW IF I DO WHAT I WILL NOT TO
00:33:01.84\00:33:06.65
DO, IT IS NO LONGER I WHO DO
IT, BUT SIN THAT DWELLS IN ME.
00:33:06.65\00:33:10.85
I FIND THEN A LAW, THAT EVIL
IS PRESENT WITH ME, THE ONE WHO
00:33:10.85\00:33:15.42
WILLS TO DO GOOD. FOR I
DELIGHT IN THE LAW OF GOD
00:33:15.42\00:33:18.43
ACCORDING TO THE INWARD MAN."
- IN MY SPIRIT AND MY MIND I
00:33:18.43\00:33:20.76
DELIGHT IN THE LAW OF GOD -
"BUT I SEE ANOTHER LAW IN MY
00:33:20.76\00:33:24.27
MEMBERS," - IN MY FLESH - THE
CARNAL NATURE - "WARRING AGAINST
00:33:24.27\00:33:28.67
THE LAW OF MY MIND, AND BRINGING
ME INTO CAPTIVITY" - IT'S SO
00:33:28.67\00:33:31.94
HARD - "TO THE LAW OF
SIN WHICH IS IN MY MEMBERS."
00:33:31.94\00:33:36.11
THEN HE DECLARES, "O
WRETCHED MAN THAT I AM!
00:33:36.11\00:33:38.65
WHO WILL DELIVER ME
FROM THIS BODY OF DEATH?"
00:33:38.65\00:33:41.58
- AND THAT'S THE END, RIGHT?
00:33:41.58\00:33:44.59
WERE THERE CHAPTERS AND VERSES
IN THE BIBLE OR DOES HE ANSWER
00:33:44.59\00:33:46.49
HIS OWN QUESTION
IN THE NEXT VERSE?
00:33:46.49\00:33:48.79
CHAPTER 8, VERSE 1 - FIRST OF
ALL, PAUL, IN WHAT HE DESCRIBES
00:33:48.79\00:33:53.86
HERE IN CHAPTER 7, IS NOT
DESCRIBING THE CONDITION OF THE
00:33:53.86\00:33:57.83
SAVED. NEVER WOULD PAUL SAY THE
00:33:57.83\00:34:01.17
CONDITION OF THE SAVED
IS 'O WRETCHED MAN' - A
00:34:01.17\00:34:03.87
WRETCHED CONDITION - NO!
SAVED A WRETCH LIKE ME - WE'RE
00:34:03.87\00:34:07.28
NOT WRETCHES ANYMORE, WE'RE
SAVED FROM THAT WRETCHEDNESS.
00:34:07.28\00:34:10.41
HE SAYS, "THERE IS THEREFORE NOW
NO CONDEMNATION TO THOSE WHO ARE
00:34:10.41\00:34:14.52
IN CHRIST JESUS, WHO DO NOT
WALK ACCORDING TO THE FLESH, BUT
00:34:14.52\00:34:19.89
ACCORDING TO THE SPIRIT.
FOR THE LAW OF THE SPIRIT OF
00:34:19.89\00:34:23.36
LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS HAS
MADE ME FREE FROM THE LAW
00:34:23.36\00:34:27.76
OF SIN AND DEATH." -
THE LAW - THE POWER OF
00:34:27.76\00:34:31.03
CHRIST IN OUR LIFE CHANGES US.
THE POWER OF LOVE - IT FREES US
00:34:31.03\00:34:36.84
- "FOR WHAT THE LAW COULD NOT DO
IN THAT IT WAS WEAK THROUGH THE
00:34:36.84\00:34:39.77
FLESH, GOD DID BY SENDING HIS
OWN SON IN THE LIKENESS" - YES,
00:34:39.77\00:34:44.48
WE'RE WEAK - WITHOUT CHRIST IT'S
EASIER TO BE LOST THAN SAVED.
00:34:44.48\00:34:48.48
BUT THROUGH CHRIST IT'S
EASIER TO BE SAVED THAN LOST.
00:34:48.48\00:34:52.62
"WHAT THE LAW COULD NOT DO
IN THAT IT WAS WEAK THROUGH THE
00:34:52.62\00:34:54.89
FLESH, GOD DID BY SENDING
HIS OWN SON IN THE LIKENESS OF
00:34:54.89\00:34:58.09
SINFUL FLESH, ON ACCOUNT OF SIN:
HE CONDEMNED SIN IN THE FLESH,"
00:34:58.09\00:35:02.30
- AND IN US - "THAT THE
RIGHTEOUS REQUIREMENT OF THE LAW
00:35:02.30\00:35:05.63
MIGHT BE FULFILLED IN US WHO DO
NOT WALK ACCORDING TO THE FLESH,
00:35:05.63\00:35:09.24
BUT THOSE WHO ARE LIVING
ACCORDING TO THE SPIRIT."
00:35:09.24\00:35:11.27
THAT'S GOOD NEWS. HE DESCRIBES A
STRUGGLE BUT SO MANY CHRISTIANS
00:35:11.27\00:35:14.94
STAY IN THAT ROMANS 7 AREA -
'I DO WHAT I DON'T WANT TO DO.
00:35:14.94\00:35:20.35
I'M JUST A SLAVE.
I'M STILL A SLAVE.
00:35:20.35\00:35:23.18
O WRETCHED MAN.' THE SAD THING
IS, I HEAR MORE AND MORE PASTORS
00:35:23.18\00:35:26.69
SAYING THIS IS DESCRIBING
THE NORMAL CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE.
00:35:26.69\00:35:29.46
THE CONSTANT WRETCHED
ENSLAVEMENT OF NOT DOING - JUST
00:35:29.46\00:35:33.90
SERVING GOD WITH YOUR MIND
BUT THE REST OF YOUR LIFE YOU'RE
00:35:33.90\00:35:36.13
ENSLAVED. REALLY? HOW PATHETIC.
00:35:36.13\00:35:40.04
I DON'T THINK - THAT'S
NOT BEEN MY EXPERIENCE.
00:35:40.04\00:35:42.17
I THINK THE LORD HAS SAVED ME
FROM THINGS - AND I PRAISE GOD.
00:35:42.17\00:35:45.91
THESE ADDICTIONS HE SAVES YOU
FROM - HE CHANGES YOU - HE SETS
00:35:45.91\00:35:48.48
YOU FREE. AND YOU
DON'T WANT TO GO BACK.
00:35:48.48\00:35:52.58
AND IT'S SO MUCH
EASIER TO BE FREE.
00:35:52.58\00:35:54.92
IT IS EASIER TO BE
SOBER THAN HUNG OVER.
00:35:54.92\00:35:57.09
LET ME TELL YOU RIGHT NOW,
FRIENDS, IF YOU DIDN'T KNOW
00:35:57.09\00:35:59.59
THAT. IT'S EASIER TO BE
HEALTHY THAN TO BE SICK.
00:35:59.59\00:36:05.89
IT IS EASIER TO HAVE A VICTORY
AND WIN THAN DEFEAT AND GUILT.
00:36:05.89\00:36:14.10
AH, BUT THERE'S MORE.
LUKE 11:20, JESUS SAID, "BUT
00:36:14.10\00:36:19.14
IF I CAST OUT DEMONS WITH
THE FINGER OF GOD, SURELY THE
00:36:19.14\00:36:21.94
KINGDOM OF GOD HAS COME UPON
YOU. WHEN A STRONG MAN," - THEY
00:36:21.94\00:36:25.41
WERE ACCUSING JESUS OF CASTING
OUT DEVILS THROUGH THE DEVIL
00:36:25.41\00:36:29.28
AND HE SAID, 'NO, IF SATAN RISES
AGAINST SATAN HIS HOUSE IS GOING
00:36:29.28\00:36:32.12
TO FALL. BUT JESUS - AND YOU
LISTEN CAREFULLY - BE CAREFUL
00:36:32.12\00:36:35.52
NOT TO GRIEVE THE HOLY SPIRIT -
'IF I'M CASTING OUT DEMONS WITH
00:36:35.52\00:36:38.46
THE FINGER OF GOD' - WHEN
A DEMON'S CAST OUT THAT MEANS
00:36:38.46\00:36:40.60
YOU'RE SET FREE FROM THE DEVIL -
'IF I'M DOING IT WITH THE FINGER
00:36:40.60\00:36:43.23
OF GOD, THE KINGDOM
OF GOD HAS COME UPON YOU.
00:36:43.23\00:36:46.27
YOU CAN EXPERIENCE - YOU CAN
BE A CITIZEN OF THAT KINGDOM.' -
00:36:46.27\00:36:48.94
"WHEN A STRONG MAN, FULLY ARMED,
GUARDS HIS OWN PALACE, HIS GOODS
00:36:48.94\00:36:52.24
ARE IN PEACE. BUT
WHEN A STRONGER THAN HE
00:36:52.24\00:36:55.31
COMES UPON HIM AND OVERPOWERS
HIM, HE TAKES FROM HIM ALL HIS
00:36:55.31\00:36:58.68
ARMOR IN WHICH HE TRUSTED,
AND DIVIDES HIS SPOILS."
00:36:58.68\00:37:01.08
WE ARE THE SPOILS OF THE
DEVIL. HE HAS HELD US CAPTIVE.
00:37:01.08\00:37:04.45
THE DEVIL IS THAT STRONG MAN,
BUT JESUS SAID, 'I HAVE COME
00:37:04.45\00:37:08.52
BECAUSE I AM STRONGER THAN HE
AND I AM GOING TO TAKE WHAT WAS
00:37:08.52\00:37:12.33
HIS.' ALRIGHT, IS IT
EASIER TO BE RICH THAN POOR?
00:37:12.33\00:37:16.73
NOW, DON'T MISUNDERSTAND THIS.
THIS IS NOT REALLY A STATEMENT
00:37:16.73\00:37:18.97
ON PROSPERITY, BUT I JUST WANT
TO GIVE YOU AN ILLUSTRATION.
00:37:18.97\00:37:22.97
SOME PEOPLE THINK IF YOU CAN
CHOOSE BETWEEN BEING RICH AND
00:37:22.97\00:37:26.07
BEING POOR, YOU THINK, 'OH MAN,
I'D MUCH RATHER HAVE MONEY.' I
00:37:26.07\00:37:29.64
THINK MOST OF US WOULD
SAY THAT. BUT IS THAT WHERE
00:37:29.64\00:37:32.08
HAPPINESS COMES
FROM? NOTICE: MARK 10:27 -
00:37:32.08\00:37:36.02
MARK 10:20 THROUGH
27. THIS RICH YOUNG RULER
00:37:36.02\00:37:39.99
COMES TO JESUS. HE FALLS DOWN ON
HIS KNEES, HE SAYS, 'LORD, WHAT
00:37:39.99\00:37:43.83
MUST I DO TO HAVE ETERNAL
LIFE?' AND JESUS SAID, 'WHY
00:37:43.83\00:37:46.26
DO YOU CALL ME
GOOD? THERE IS NO ONE GOOD
00:37:46.26\00:37:48.23
BUT ONE AND THAT'S GOD.
BUT IF YOU WOULD ENTER INTO
00:37:48.23\00:37:50.13
LIFE, KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS.'
HE SAYS, 'WHICH ONES?'
00:37:50.13\00:37:52.63
AND JESUS BEGINS TO RECITE
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS THAT APPLY,
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BETWEEN MAN'S RELATIONSHIP
WITH HIS FELLOW MAN.
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SO, ''TEACHER, I'VE KEPT
THESE FROM MY YOUTH.' AND JESUS,
00:37:58.51\00:38:02.04
LOOKING AT HIM, LOVED HIM, AND
HE SAID, ONE THING YOU LACK; GO
00:38:02.04\00:38:07.95
YOUR WAY, 'SELL WHATEVER YOU
HAVE AND GIVE IT TO THE POOR.
00:38:07.95\00:38:10.62
YOU WILL HAVE
TREASURE IN HEAVEN.
00:38:10.62\00:38:12.32
YOU WANT
TREASURE, YOU'LL HAVE IT.
00:38:12.32\00:38:13.46
YOU'LL HAVE TREASURE
THAT THIEVES CAN'T STEAL.
00:38:13.46\00:38:15.59
YOU'LL HAVE TREASURE
THAT'LL LAST FOREVER.
00:38:15.59\00:38:17.76
UNLOAD. TAKE UP
YOUR CROSS AND FOLLOW
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ME.'' HE WAS INVITING HIM TO
BE AN APOSTLE - LIKE PETER AND
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JAMES AND JOHN FORSOOK
THEIR NETS AND FOLLOWED HIM.
00:38:22.93\00:38:26.70
MATTHEW FORSOOK HIS CASH
REGISTER AND FOLLOWED JESUS.
00:38:26.70\00:38:30.47
HE SAYS TO THIS YOUNG MAN WHO
HE LOVED, 'YOU'VE GOT A LOT OF
00:38:30.47\00:38:34.48
POTENTIAL, BUT YOU'RE GOING
TO HAVE TO LIQUIDATE IF YOU'RE
00:38:34.48\00:38:37.45
GOING TO FOLLOW ME BECAUSE
YOUR RICHES ARE GOING TO BE A
00:38:37.45\00:38:39.08
DISTRACTION. "BUT HE
WAS SAD AT THIS WORD,
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AND WENT AWAY SORROWFUL,
FOR HE HAD GREAT POSSESSIONS."
00:38:46.12\00:38:50.23
NOW HERE'S THE QUESTION: WHEN
HE WENT AWAY, DID HE STILL HAVE
00:38:50.23\00:38:54.23
GREAT
POSSESSIONS? BUT WAS HE HAPPY?
00:38:54.23\00:38:58.47
HE WAS SAD. HE WAS SORROWFUL.
A MAN'S LIFE DOES NOT CONSIST
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IN THE ABUNDANCE OF
THINGS HE POSSESSES.
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SEE, ONE REASON IT'S HARD FOR US
TO BE SAVED - OR IT SEEMS LIKE
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IT - IS BECAUSE WE'RE
TRYING TO SAVE THE WRONG THING.
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WE'RE THINKING OUR
TREASURES ARE DOWN HERE.
00:39:14.75\00:39:16.58
WE'RE NOT CALCULATING THE
TREASURE THAT LASTS FOREVER.
00:39:16.58\00:39:20.59
JESUS LOOKED AROUND AND HE SAID
TO THE DISCIPLES, "HOW HARD IT
00:39:20.59\00:39:23.12
IS" - NOTICE WHO'S
HAVING A HARD TIME.
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IT'S THE RICH! "'HOW
HARD IT IS FOR THOSE WHO
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HAVE RICHES TO
ENTER THE KINGDOM OF GOD!'
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AND THE DISCIPLES WERE
ASTONISHED AT HIS WORDS.
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BUT JESUS ANSWERED
AGAIN AND SAID TO THEM AGAIN -
00:39:33.67\00:39:35.84
JUST IN CAST YOU
MISUNDERSTAND - "'CHILDREN, HOW
00:39:35.84\00:39:37.74
HARD IT IS FOR THOSE WHO TRUST
IN RICHES TO ENTER THE KINGDOM
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OF GOD! IT IS
EASIER'" - NOTICE THE
00:39:41.98\00:39:43.95
WORDS 'HARD' AND 'EASIER' -
"'IT IS EASIER FOR A CAMEL TO GO
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THROUGH THE EYE OF A NEEDLE
THAN FOR A RICH MAN TO ENTER THE
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KINGDOM OF GOD.' AND
THE WERE GREATLY ASTONISHED,
00:39:50.62\00:39:53.02
SAYING...'WHO THEN CAN BE
SAVED?'" - AND HE SAID, 'WELL,
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WITH MAN IT'S IMPOSSIBLE,
BUT WITH GOD, ALL THINGS ARE
00:39:56.96\00:40:00.26
POSSIBLE.' NOW RICHES ARE NOT
A CURSE IN AND OF THEMSELVES.
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PROVERBS HAS SOME - BOTH
SIDES OF THE EQUATION HERE.
00:40:05.23\00:40:09.30
IT SAYS IN PROVERBS 10:22, "THE
BLESSING OF THE LORD MAKES ONE
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RICH AND HE ADDS
NO SORROW WITH IT."
00:40:12.51\00:40:15.31
IN THE BLESSING OF GOD YOU CAN
HAVE RICHES AS ABRAHAM, ISAAC,
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AND JACOB AND JOB
AND YOU CAN BE BLESSED.
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PROVERBS 11:28, "HE WHO TRUSTS
IN RICHES WILL FALL," - A LOT OF
00:40:23.05\00:40:29.56
US TRUST IF WE GET THEM.
PROVERBS 13:7, "THERE IS ONE
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WHO MAKES HIMSELF RICH, YET
HAS NOTHING; AND ONE WHO MAKES
00:40:33.90\00:40:36.30
HIMSELF POOR, YET
HAS GREAT RICHES."
00:40:36.30\00:40:39.07
THIS RICH YOUNG RULER, IF HE HAD
MADE HIMSELF POOR FOR CHRIST, HE
00:40:39.07\00:40:42.10
WOULD HAVE HAD GREAT RICHES.
BUT INSTEAD, HE HELD ONTO HIS
00:40:42.10\00:40:44.94
EARTHLY RICHES AND HE MADE
HIMSELF POOR AND HE WAS SAD.
00:40:44.94\00:40:49.28
AND THEN SOLOMON SAYS IN
ECCLESIASTES 5, 'THE ABUNDANCE
00:40:49.28\00:40:52.68
OF THE RICH WILL NOT PERMIT HIM
TO SLEEP.' SO HERE YOU'VE GOT A
00:40:52.68\00:40:56.48
MAN WHO'S SAD AND
HE CAN'T SLEEP. WHY?
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BECAUSE HE'S
WORRIED ABOUT HIS STUFF.
00:40:58.29\00:41:00.16
IF YOU DON'T HAVE ANYTHING, YOU
CAN SLEEP LIKE A BABY BECAUSE
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YOU DON'T HAVE TO WORRY
ABOUT A THIEF BREAKING IN.
00:41:02.79\00:41:05.53
THERE'S NOTHING TO STEAL.
WE USED TO SING A SONG WHEN I
00:41:05.53\00:41:10.67
WAS A HIPPIE -
'FREEDOM'S JUST ANOTHER WORD FOR
00:41:10.67\00:41:13.94
NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE'.
THAT KRIS KRISTOFFERSON
00:41:13.94\00:41:19.34
TOLD THE TRUTH THERE. YOU
DON'T HAVE MUCH - AND I'VE
00:41:19.34\00:41:22.41
BEEN THERE BEFORE -
YOU DON'T WORRY ABOUT 'WILL
00:41:22.41\00:41:24.55
THEY STEAL MY STUFF?'
BECAUSE YOU DON'T HAVE ANYTHING.
00:41:24.55\00:41:27.35
THERE'S A PEACE
THERE. SO WHO HAS PEACE?
00:41:27.35\00:41:30.72
ISAIAH 48:22, "'THERE IS NO
PEACE,' SAYS THE LORD, 'FOR THE
00:41:30.72\00:41:36.52
WICKED.'" I SAW A BUMPER STICKER
ONE TIME AND IT SAID, 'N-O GOD
00:41:36.52\00:41:45.37
N-O PEACE' - 'NO GOD NO PEACE'.
AND THEN, UNDERNEATH IT, IT
00:41:45.37\00:41:49.80
SAID, 'K-N-O-W
GOD K-N-O-W PEACE'.
00:41:49.80\00:41:56.28
IF YOU HAVE NO GOD YOU HAVE NO
PEACE, BUT IF YOU KNOW YOU WILL
00:41:56.28\00:42:00.32
KNOW OR EXPERIENCE PEACE.
THERE IS NO PEACE TO THE WICKED.
00:42:00.32\00:42:06.72
ISAIAH 57:18, "'I HAVE SEEN HIS
WAY, AND WILL HEAL HIM; I WILL
00:42:06.72\00:42:11.13
ALSO LEAD HIM, AND RESTORE
COMFORTS TO HIM AND TO HIS
00:42:11.13\00:42:14.46
MOURNERS. I CREATE
THE FRUIT OF THE LIPS:
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PEACE, PEACE TO HIM WHO IS
FAR OFF AND TO HIM WHO IS NEAR,'
00:42:16.70\00:42:19.97
SAYS THE LORD, 'AND I WILL HEAL
HIM.' BUT THE WICKED ARE LIKE
00:42:19.97\00:42:23.04
THE TROUBLED SEA, WHEN
IT CANNOT REST, WHOSE WATERS
00:42:23.04\00:42:26.14
CAST UP MIRE AND DIRT.
'THERE IS NO PEACE,' SAYS MY
00:42:26.14\00:42:28.78
GOD, 'FOR THE WICKED.'" SO
YOU GOT IT AT LEAST TWICE THERE.
00:42:28.78\00:42:32.55
YOU REMEMBER WHEN
PAUL WAS RUNNING FROM GOD?
00:42:32.55\00:42:35.35
HE'S FIGHTING CHRISTIANS - HE'S
FIGHTING HIS CONSCIENCE, REALLY.
00:42:35.35\00:42:37.95
FINALLY JESUS APPEARS TO HIM -
YOU REMEMBER WHAT JESUS SAID TO
00:42:37.95\00:42:40.72
PAUL? HE SAID, 'I'M
JESUS WHO YOU'RE PERSECUTING.
00:42:40.72\00:42:44.49
IS IT HARD FOR YOU TO
KICK AGAINST THE GOADS?'
00:42:44.49\00:42:48.43
YOU KNOW, YOU PROBABLY DON'T SEE
IT VERY MUCH; IT'S MORE COMMON
00:42:48.43\00:42:51.77
IN OTHER COUNTRIES THAT WHEN
THEY'RE - POOR PEOPLE ARE KIND
00:42:51.77\00:42:55.14
OF MOVING THEIR OXEN, THEIR
CATTLE ALONG, THEY'LL HAVE A
00:42:55.14\00:42:57.41
SHARP PROD - IT MIGHT HAVE ONE
OR TWO PRONGS ON THE END OF IT
00:42:57.41\00:43:00.84
AND - NOW THEY USE ELECTRIC
HOT SHOTS TO MOVE THE COWS.
00:43:00.84\00:43:03.88
THEY JUMP PRETTY
GOOD WHEN TOUCH THEM.
00:43:03.88\00:43:07.22
BUT THEY HAD THESE POKING STICKS
AND SOMETIMES, THE HORSE OR THE
00:43:07.22\00:43:10.22
COW OR WHATEVER IT WAS WOULD
KICK AGAINST THE PROD AND THEY
00:43:10.22\00:43:13.29
WOULD JUST CUT
THEMSELVES BECAUSE IT WAS SHARP.
00:43:13.29\00:43:16.56
AND IF THEY WOULD JUST GO THE
WAY THAT THE OWNER WAS DIRECTING
00:43:16.56\00:43:19.86
THEM, IT WOULD BE EASY,
BUT THEY'RE KICKING AGAINST THE
00:43:19.86\00:43:22.33
GOADS. I THINK
IT SAYS IN THE KING
00:43:22.33\00:43:24.03
JAMES, 'KICKING
AGAINST THE PRICKS'.
00:43:24.03\00:43:25.73
AND THIS IS WHAT PAUL WAS DOING
AS HE WAS FIGHTING GOD AND JESUS
00:43:25.73\00:43:31.01
SAID, 'HOW'S IT GOING
PAUL?' HE WAS MISERABLE.
00:43:31.01\00:43:35.24
HE SAID, 'ISN'T IT HARD?'
- JESUS SAID, 'ISN'T IT HARD
00:43:35.24\00:43:38.68
FIGHTING YOUR CONSCIENCE
AND FIGHTING THE LORD AND
00:43:38.68\00:43:42.35
SERVING THE DEVIL?' AND
FINALLY PAUL SURRENDERED AND
00:43:42.35\00:43:45.82
WHEN HE FELL IN LOVE WITH JESUS,
THE WORLD WAS NEVER THE SAME.
00:43:45.82\00:43:50.23
HE SAID, 'WOE UNTO ME
IF I PREACH NOT CHRIST.'
00:43:50.23\00:43:54.00
THERE'S NO PEACE FOR THE WICKED.
NOW THERE ARE BATTLES IN LIFE
00:43:54.00\00:43:57.70
AND SOMETIMES WE STRUGGLE.
NOW LOOK AT THE TERMINOLOGY THAT
00:43:57.70\00:44:03.64
IS USED - EPHESIANS 6:12,
"FOR WE DO NOT WRESTLE AGAINST
00:44:03.64\00:44:08.88
FLESH AND BLOOD, BUT AGAINST
PRINCIPALITIES, AGAINST POWERS,
00:44:08.88\00:44:12.31
AGAINST THE RULERS OF THE
DARKNESS OF THIS AGE, AGAINST
00:44:12.31\00:44:14.72
SPIRITUAL HOSTS OF WICKEDNESS
IN THE HEAVENLY PLACES."
00:44:14.72\00:44:17.09
THERE ARE TITANIC BATTLES WITH
THE DEVIL THAT YOU'RE GOING TO
00:44:17.09\00:44:20.52
FIGHT. THE BIBLE SAYS
WE NEED TO PUT ON ARMOR.
00:44:20.52\00:44:24.03
WHEN DO YOU PUT ON
ARMOR? BECAUSE THERE'S A WAR.
00:44:24.03\00:44:26.76
1 CORINTHIANS 9:26, "THEREFORE I
RUN THUS: NOT WITH UNCERTAINTY.
00:44:26.76\00:44:31.17
THUS I FIGHT: NOT AS
ONE WHO BEATS THE AIR.
00:44:31.17\00:44:33.57
BUT I DISCIPLINE MY BODY AND
BRING IT INTO SUBJECTION, LEST,
00:44:33.57\00:44:37.17
WHEN I HAVE PREACHED TO
OTHERS, I MYSELF SHOULD BECOME
00:44:37.17\00:44:39.24
DISQUALIFIED." -
OR BE A CASTAWAY.
00:44:39.24\00:44:41.41
PAUL SAID THERE ARE STRUGGLES.
THERE'S EFFORT INVOLVED,
00:44:41.41\00:44:43.81
THERE'S NO QUESTION.
HERE'S SOME OF THE WORDS THAT
00:44:43.81\00:44:46.08
ARE USED: WE WAR,
WRESTLE, FIGHT, RUN, STRIVE,
00:44:46.08\00:44:51.69
PRESS ON, LABOR.
THERE ARE THOSE WHO SAY, YOU
00:44:51.69\00:44:55.02
KNOW, THEY PREACH A CHRISTIANITY
WHERE THERE'S NO EFFORT INVOLVED
00:44:55.02\00:44:57.53
- THEY'RE LYING TO
PEOPLE. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT?
00:44:57.53\00:45:00.66
IT'S TOUGH TO BE
A REAL CHRISTIAN.
00:45:00.66\00:45:03.77
IT'S A LOT TOUGHER TO BE LOST.
AND SOMETIMES IT IS SO HARD TO
00:45:03.77\00:45:09.34
HOLD ON, WE FEEL LIKE IN OUR OWN
STRENGTH WE JUST CAN'T DO IT.
00:45:09.34\00:45:14.21
I REMEMBER WHEN I WAS VERY
YOUNG, MY FATHER TAUGHT ME TO
00:45:14.21\00:45:17.75
WATER SKI AND -
RIGHT OUT OF OUR BACK DOOR.
00:45:17.75\00:45:24.85
MY DAD HAD A HOME ON THE BAY -
BISCAYNE BAY - WE HAD A SKI BOAT
00:45:24.85\00:45:27.69
AND HE TOOK ME OUT. I WAS LIKE
EIGHT YEARS OLD AND I REMEMBER
00:45:27.69\00:45:29.76
HE'D TAKE US SKIING EARLY IN
THE MORNING - THE WATER WAS LIKE
00:45:29.76\00:45:31.63
GLASS. BEFORE WE WENT
TO SCHOOL HE'D WAKE US UP.
00:45:31.63\00:45:34.13
I HATED IT. HE'D
WAKE US UP - IT WAS EXTRA
00:45:34.13\00:45:36.56
EARLY - COME ON,
WE'RE GONNA GO SKIING!'
00:45:36.56\00:45:38.63
AND HE'D TAKE US OUT -
THE WATER WAS ALL GLASSY.
00:45:38.63\00:45:40.30
IT WAS BEFORE HE WENT TO WORK -
BEFORE WE WENT TO SCHOOL - AND I
00:45:40.30\00:45:44.61
REMEMBER HE WAS TRYING TO TEACH
ME TO SKI AND - AND I'D SEE MY
00:45:44.61\00:45:47.91
BROTHERS GET UP. THEY
WERE ALL OLDER AND THEY'D
00:45:47.91\00:45:49.88
SKI - TWO SKIS - AND MY FATHER
PUT ME IN THE WATER AND HE PUT
00:45:49.88\00:45:54.58
THE LIFE BELT ON ME - IT
WAS JUST A BELT BACK THEN.
00:45:54.58\00:45:57.49
THEY DIDN'T HAVE
THE WHOLE VEST THING.
00:45:57.49\00:45:59.29
HE SAID, 'PUT YOUR KNEES
UP. AIM YOUR SKI TIPS UP.
00:45:59.29\00:46:02.96
PUT THE ROPE IN.' AND HE'D SAY,
'NOW HANG ON.' HE THOUGHT THE
00:46:02.96\00:46:05.93
ROOK'S GOING TO POP OUT OF MY
HANDS WHEN HE TRIES TO PULL ME
00:46:05.93\00:46:08.16
UP. HE SAYS, 'DON'T LET
GO. HANG ON.' THAT WAS THE LAST
00:46:08.16\00:46:11.10
THING HE SAID, 'HANG ON.' SO AS
SOON AS I STARTED GOING UP, MY
00:46:11.10\00:46:15.07
SKIS PARTED LIKE THAT AND I
WENT FORWARD. BUT I HUNG ON.
00:46:15.07\00:46:25.15
AND I GOT - I CAN
HOLD MY BREATH PRETTY WELL.
00:46:25.15\00:46:28.22
AND MY FATHER HAD GUNNED THE
BOAT AND HE TOLD MY BROTHER TO
00:46:28.22\00:46:30.52
WATCH ME. NOW, MY
BROTHER'S A SPOTTER.
00:46:30.52\00:46:32.32
MY BROTHER DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING
TO MY FATHER ABOUT DOUG'S DOWN.
00:46:32.32\00:46:35.89
HE THOUGHT THIS
WOULD INTERESTING.
00:46:35.89\00:46:37.19
SO HE'S JUST
WATCHING AND I'M HOLDING ON.
00:46:37.19\00:46:39.19
MY DAD IS GOING LIKE YOU WOULD
GO WHEN YOU'RE PULLING A SKIER
00:46:39.19\00:46:43.57
AND I GUESS I HAVE A PRETTY GOOD
GRIP BECAUSE I HELD ON AND IT
00:46:43.57\00:46:46.13
WAS GOING FASTER AND FASTER
AND ALL THESE BUBBLES AND ROARS
00:46:46.13\00:46:48.94
GOING BY ME AND WATER'S GOING
IN MY EARS AND UP MY NOSE AND
00:46:48.94\00:46:52.07
AROUND BEHIND MY EYEBALLS.
AND I'M TRYING TO HANG ON.
00:46:52.07\00:46:57.08
I'M DOING - I
WAS LIKE A TORPEDO.
00:46:57.08\00:47:00.18
I'M GOING UNDERNEATH THE
WATER AND UP ABOVE THE WATER AND
00:47:00.18\00:47:03.25
FINALLY, WHEN I REALIZED MY
BATHING SUIT WAS AROUND MY KNEES
00:47:03.25\00:47:05.95
(LAUGHTER) I LET GO OF THE ROPE.
I COULDN'T HOLD ON ANYMORE,
00:47:05.95\00:47:09.69
MY KNUCKLES WERE SO SORE.
AND - BUT, YOU KNOW, WHEN THE
00:47:09.69\00:47:16.70
LORD IS TELLING US TO HOLD
ON, IT'S DIFFERENT THAN YOU
00:47:16.70\00:47:18.90
HOLDING ON WITH YOUR STRENGTH.
HE IS HOLDING ONTO YOU.
00:47:18.90\00:47:25.37
YOU CAN READ ABOUT THIS
HERE. CAN WE TRUST JESUS?
00:47:25.37\00:47:28.71
JOHN 6:37, "ALL THAT THE FATHER
GIVES ME WILL COME TO ME, AND
00:47:28.71\00:47:34.15
THE ONE WHO COMES TO ME I
WILL BY NO MEANS CAST OUT."
00:47:34.15\00:47:39.12
JOHN 6:39, "THIS IS THE WILL OF
MY FATHER WHO SENT ME, THAT OF
00:47:39.12\00:47:43.16
ALL HE HAS GIVEN ME I SHOULD
LOSE NOTHING," - HE'LL HANG ONTO
00:47:43.16\00:47:45.86
YOU - "BUT SHOULD
RAISE IT UP AT THE LAST DAY."
00:47:45.86\00:47:49.63
PHILIPPIANS 1:6, "BEING
CONFIDENT OF THIS VERY THING,
00:47:49.63\00:47:52.73
THAT HE WHO HAS BEGUN A GOOD
WORK IN YOU WILL COMPLETE IT
00:47:52.73\00:47:56.30
[WILL PERFORM IT] UNTIL
THE DAY OF JESUS CHRIST."
00:47:56.30\00:47:59.24
HEBREWS 12:2, "LOOKING UNTO
JESUS, THE AUTHOR AND FINISHER"
00:47:59.24\00:48:03.28
- NOTICE THE WORDS
OF COMPLETION THERE.
00:48:03.28\00:48:05.78
HE WILL COMPLETE IT.
HE'S "THE AUTHOR AND THE
00:48:05.78\00:48:08.18
FINISHER OF OUR FAITH, WHO FOR
THE JOY THAT WAS SET BEFORE HIM
00:48:08.18\00:48:12.59
ENDURED THE CROSS," - WOULD YOU
LET GO OF SOMETHING YOU PAID SO
00:48:12.59\00:48:15.89
MUCH - YOU GAVE
YOUR LIFE TO SAVE?
00:48:15.89\00:48:17.79
GOD IS GOING TO DO EVERYTHING
HE CAN DO TO HANG ONTO YOU.
00:48:17.79\00:48:20.66
HE'S ON YOUR SIDE, IF
YOU'RE WILLING TO BE WILLING.
00:48:20.66\00:48:25.73
AND IF YOU'VE JUST COME TO THE
LORD - AND IF YOU FALL, YOU TELL
00:48:25.73\00:48:27.87
HIM. SAY, 'LORD, I'VE
JUST GIVEN YOU MY LIFE.
00:48:27.87\00:48:29.74
DO WHATEVER YOU'VE GOT TO DO TO
CHANGE ME.' HE WILL WORK IN YOUR
00:48:29.74\00:48:33.07
LIFE. HE WORKS
OUT YOUR SALVATION.
00:48:33.07\00:48:36.61
IS IT EASIER TO GO UP OR DOWN?
THERE ARE CHRISTIAN BATTLES.
00:48:36.61\00:48:42.48
YOU KNOW, WHEN - WE JUST CAME
BACK FROM SOUTH AFRICA WITH THE
00:48:42.48\00:48:47.52
ROSSES AND HAD A GREAT TIME.
KAREN AND I AND PASTOR ROSS
00:48:47.52\00:48:50.63
AND RUTH AND PASTOR
ROSS WAS PREACHING IN ANOTHER
00:48:50.63\00:48:53.26
CHURCH THIS MORNING. I
THINK I SEE RUTH IS STILL
00:48:53.26\00:48:55.43
HERE AND SOME OF THE KIDS.
WE WENT UP TOGETHER TO TABLE
00:48:55.43\00:48:58.37
MOUNTAIN, WHICH IS SEVERAL
THOUSAND FEET ABOVE CAPETOWN -
00:48:58.37\00:49:00.94
ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL
CITIES BECAUSE IT'S RIGHT THERE.
00:49:00.94\00:49:03.34
YOU CAN LOOK OFF FROM THAT BLUFF
AND YOU CAN SEE THE ATLANTIC
00:49:03.34\00:49:06.47
OCEAN AND THE INDIAN OCEAN AND
JUST SOME SPECTACULAR VISTAS OF
00:49:06.47\00:49:10.88
THE CITY AND THE PORT.
AND SEVERAL THOUSAND FEET UP -
00:49:10.88\00:49:13.75
WE FOUND A PERFECT DAY - IT WAS
A BEAUTIFUL DAY AND WE WENT UP
00:49:13.75\00:49:17.02
THERE AND YOU TAKE A CABLE
CAR UP BECAUSE IT'S SO HIGH.
00:49:17.02\00:49:20.62
SO WE RODE UP IN THE CABLE CAR
AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT CAME OVER
00:49:20.62\00:49:25.19
HIM, BUT PASTOR ROSS, YOU KNOW,
HE WAS BORN IN CAPETOWN, AND AS
00:49:25.19\00:49:28.13
WE'RE HIKING UP ON THIS BIG
MESA, MILES LONG AND BEAUTIFUL
00:49:28.13\00:49:31.47
VIEWS AND HE SAID, 'YOU KNOW,
WHEN I WAS A KID I USED TO HIKE
00:49:31.47\00:49:35.17
DOWN THIS GORGE HERE
CALLED SKELETON GORGE.' HE SAID,
00:49:35.17\00:49:38.87
'SHALL WE HIKE
DOWN?' WELL, RIGHT AWAY THAT
00:49:38.87\00:49:40.81
NAME DIDN'T SOUND GOOD.
(LAUGHTER) AND SO THERE WAS A
00:49:40.81\00:49:47.12
LONG DISCUSSION
ABOUT 'SHALL WE GO?'
00:49:47.12\00:49:49.98
AND I COULD TELL, PASTOR ROSS,
HE'S A GO-GETTER, HE'S GOING,
00:49:49.98\00:49:51.79
'YEAH, SURE, WE CAN MAKE IT
DOWN.' AND WE'RE GOING, 'YOU
00:49:51.79\00:49:55.92
KNOW, I DON'T KNOW ABOUT THIS.'
AND I LOOKED FROM THE TOP AND I
00:49:55.92\00:50:01.20
USED TO LIVE IN HILLS LIKE
THIS AND THAT WAS A LONG, STEEP,
00:50:01.20\00:50:04.40
RUGGED CLIMB AND WE STILL, I
DON'T THINK, HAD FULLY RECOVERED
00:50:04.40\00:50:09.74
FROM JET LAG AND SO FINALLY,
WHEN THE DUST SETTLED, JËAN
00:50:09.74\00:50:13.68
SAYS, 'I REALLY WANT TO GO.' AND
I SAYS, 'I'M NOT LETTING YOU GO
00:50:13.68\00:50:15.54
BY YOURSELF. I'LL
GO.' SO THE GIRLS SAID,
00:50:15.54\00:50:17.18
'LOOK, WE PAID FOR OUR TRAM
RIDE BACK DOWN THE MOUNTAIN.
00:50:17.18\00:50:19.68
WE'RE TAKING THE TRAM.
AND SO I TOOK OFF FOLLOWING
00:50:19.68\00:50:23.59
PASTOR ROSS AND THEN I REALIZED
I HAD SANDALS ON AND I THOUGHT,
00:50:23.59\00:50:33.19
'THIS MAY NOT BE A GOOD IDEA.'
AND AS WE'RE STARTING DOWN, IT
00:50:33.19\00:50:39.50
STARTS - THIS IS ACTUALLY
A PICTURE THEY TOOK OF THE
00:50:39.50\00:50:41.27
TWO OF US GOING DOWN.
KAREN, I THINK, TOOK THIS SHOT.
00:50:41.27\00:50:43.87
THEN IT TURNS INTO A
50-DEGREE 3-MILE TRAIL.
00:50:43.87\00:50:49.24
50-DEGREE OF FROM ROCK
TO ROCK TO - GOING DOWN.
00:50:49.24\00:50:52.31
AND, AS WE'RE GOING DOWN,
YOU KNOW, YOU'RE DOING ALL THIS?
00:50:52.31\00:50:55.32
EXCEPT WE WEREN'T GOING
DOWN ONE SET, WE'RE GOING -
00:50:55.32\00:50:58.39
JUST BIG JUMPS. WELL,
WHEN YOU'RE 59-YEARS-OLD
00:50:58.39\00:51:04.93
YOU DON'T HAVE AS MUCH
LUBRICATION AND - AS I HAD
00:51:04.93\00:51:08.23
WHEN I LIVED IN THE CAVE. AT
FIRST I THOUGHT, 'OH, THIS'LL
00:51:08.23\00:51:10.20
BE A BREEZE.' AND I
TOOK OFF - RUNNING DOWN HILL.
00:51:10.20\00:51:13.34
THEN I FELT - 'OH, THAT'S SORE.'
MATTER OF FACT, IT'S SORE FROM
00:51:13.34\00:51:15.44
DOING THAT JUST NOW. AND
IT'S THREE MILES OF ALMOST
00:51:15.44\00:51:22.48
VERTICAL UPHILL AND AS WE WERE
GOING DOWN - WE HAD ONLY GONE
00:51:22.48\00:51:26.05
ABOUT TEN OR FIFTEEN MINUTES -
WE RAN INTO A YOUNG COUPLE FROM
00:51:26.05\00:51:28.95
GERMANY GOING UP AND THEY
SAID, 'ARE YOU GOING DOWN?'
00:51:28.95\00:51:33.15
AND WE SAID, 'YEAH.' THEY SAID,
'IT'S A LOT HARDER GOING DOWN
00:51:33.15\00:51:36.73
THAN GOING UP.' AND WE
SAID, 'HOW LONG WILL THIS TAKE?'
00:51:36.73\00:51:42.66
'OH, HOUR AND A HALF.' AND JËAN
SAID, 'WE DON'T WANT THE GIRLS
00:51:42.66\00:51:48.70
TO BEAT US TO THE BOTTOM.'
WE KNEW THEY WERE GOING TO, YOU
00:51:48.70\00:51:54.88
KNOW, THEY WERE GOING TO SEE
A FEW MORE SIGHTS UP THERE AND
00:51:54.88\00:51:56.48
TAKE SOME PICTURES SO THEY
WEREN'T RUNNING TO THE TRAM TO
00:51:56.48\00:51:58.38
GO DOWN. BUT HE
SAID, 'YOU KNOW, WE CAN'T
00:51:58.38\00:51:59.81
LET THEM BEAT US.' AND SO
JËAN TOOK OFF AND I THOUGHT,
00:51:59.81\00:52:03.79
'I USED TO LIVE IN
THESE KIND OF MOUNTAINS.
00:52:03.79\00:52:05.59
I CAN'T LET HIM BEAT ME.'
(LAUGHTER) AND SO HE AND I ARE
00:52:05.59\00:52:08.89
KIND OF DOING A MAN THING,
RACING EACH OTHER DOWN THE HILL.
00:52:08.89\00:52:12.53
WELL, AFTER ABOUT A HALF AN HOUR
I SAID, 'WELL, AM I THE ONLY -'
00:52:12.53\00:52:17.93
- I DIDN'T WANT TO - YOU KNOW,
YOU NEVER WANT TO ADMIT, WHEN
00:52:17.93\00:52:19.30
YOU'RE DOING SOMETHING TOUGH
WITH ANOTHER GUY, THAT YOU'RE
00:52:19.30\00:52:21.30
STARTING TO FEEL
IT. YOU'RE WAITING FOR
00:52:21.30\00:52:22.67
HIM TO ADMIT IT FIRST. I
SAID, 'OH, SO I'M STARTING TO
00:52:22.67\00:52:26.41
FEEL IT IN MY LEGS.'
HE SAYS, 'OH YEAH, ME TOO.
00:52:26.41\00:52:28.71
MAN,' HE SAID, 'MY LEGS ARE
STARTING TO FEEL LIKE JELL-O.'
00:52:28.71\00:52:31.15
AND THEN WE SLOWED DOWN A LITTLE
BIT AND WE MADE IT DOWN IN AN
00:52:31.15\00:52:35.78
HOUR, WHERE IT NORMALLY TAKES
AND HOUR AND A HALF, BUT WE GOT
00:52:35.78\00:52:39.19
TO THE BOTTOM AND WE STARTED
WALKING ON THE ROAD - WE DID,
00:52:39.19\00:52:43.56
ACTUALLY, BEAT THE GIRLS
DOWN. THEY WERE DOING SOME
00:52:43.56\00:52:46.33
SHOPPING AT THE GIFT STORE.
AND WE STARTED WALKING ON THE
00:52:46.33\00:52:51.10
ROAD AND WE'RE LIKE
THIS WALKING ON THE ROAD.
00:52:51.10\00:52:54.04
(LAUGHTER) AND FOR THE NEXT WEEK
IN SOUTH AFRICA, WE COULDN'T -
00:52:54.04\00:52:59.94
WE'D GET UP OFF THE PLATFORM
TO PREACH WE'D GO, 'OH UGH!'
00:52:59.94\00:53:03.55
(LAUGHTER) IF WE HAD BEEN GOING
UPHILL IT WOULD HAVE BEEN MUCH
00:53:03.55\00:53:07.85
EASIER. IN THE
BIBLE IT TALKS ABOUT TWO
00:53:07.85\00:53:11.92
DISCIPLES THE AFTERNOON
AFTER THE RESURRECTION.
00:53:11.92\00:53:16.46
THEY DIDN'T BELIEVE JESUS HAD
RISEN AND THEY WERE WALKING FROM
00:53:16.46\00:53:20.73
JERUSALEM DOWN TO EMMAUS - THE
WORD 'EMMAUS' MEANS 'HOT WATER'
00:53:20.73\00:53:25.00
- AND JESUS DREW NEAR
AND HE TALKED TO THEM.
00:53:25.00\00:53:27.54
AND HE SAID, 'WHAT MANNER OF
COMMUNICATION IS THIS THAT YOU
00:53:27.54\00:53:30.37
HAVE ONE WITH ANOTHER AS YOU
WALK AND ARE SAD.' THEY'RE SAD.
00:53:30.37\00:53:35.51
IT SAYS THEY DIDN'T
KNOW HIM AND THEY WERE SAD.
00:53:35.51\00:53:39.15
WELL, HE OPENED THE SCRIPTURES
TO THEM ALONG THE WAY AND BEGAN
00:53:39.15\00:53:41.62
TO SHOW THEM THAT JESUS WAS
SUPPOSED TO SUFFER, THAT THE
00:53:41.62\00:53:44.29
MESSIAH WAS SUPPOSED TO GO
THROUGH ALL HE WENT THROUGH AND
00:53:44.29\00:53:46.59
THEIR HEARTS WERE JUST
THRILLED BY WHAT HE WAS SAYING.
00:53:46.59\00:53:49.76
THEY INVITED HIM IN AND SAID,
'WHY DON'T YOU HAVE A BLESSING.
00:53:49.76\00:53:52.23
HAVE A MEAL WITH US.' AND JESUS
PRAYS OVER THE FOOD AND AFTER HE
00:53:52.23\00:53:55.50
SAYS THE PRAYER, IT'S LIKE
THE SCALES HAD FALLEN FROM THEIR
00:53:55.50\00:53:58.00
EYES. SUDDENLY
THEY RECOGNIZE IT'S
00:53:58.00\00:54:00.07
JESUS AND THEY GO,
'JESUS!' AND HE DISAPPEARED.
00:54:00.07\00:54:04.71
NOW THEY KNOW HE'S
ALIVE. THE SUN HAS GONE DOWN
00:54:04.71\00:54:08.28
- YOU KNOW THE STORY? THEY
INVITED HIM IN - THEY SAID,
00:54:08.28\00:54:09.74
'IT'S ALMOST DARK.' THEY'VE
GONE SEVEN MILES DOWNHILL.
00:54:09.74\00:54:15.22
BUT THEY'VE GOT FRIENDS UP
IN JERUSALEM THAT THINK JESUS IS
00:54:15.22\00:54:18.52
DEAD, THAT ARE DISCOURAGED,
THEY'RE SCARED - THEY GATHERED
00:54:18.52\00:54:21.12
FOR FEAR OF THE JEWS. AND
THEY SAID, 'HEY MAN, WE'VE
00:54:21.12\00:54:23.63
GOT GOOD NEWS.' IT DOESN'T EVEN
SAY THEY ATE THEIR SANDWICH.
00:54:23.63\00:54:27.86
LIKE THE WOMAN AT THE WELL,
WHEN SHE MET JESUS SHE LEFT HER
00:54:27.86\00:54:29.70
WATER POT. THESE
GUYS TURN AROUND THAT SAME
00:54:29.70\00:54:31.87
HOUR IN THE DARK AND THEY
START UP A HILL IN THE DARK.
00:54:31.87\00:54:36.77
NOW THEY CAN'T SEE JESUS
BUT HE'S STILL WITH THEM.
00:54:36.77\00:54:40.34
AND THEY GO AND THEY TELL THEIR
FRIENDS IN THE UPPER ROOM HE'S
00:54:40.34\00:54:42.94
ALIVE. NOW HERE'S A QUESTION:
00:54:42.94\00:54:45.88
WHERE WERE THEY HAPPIER?
GOING DOWNHILL IN THE DAYTIME
00:54:45.88\00:54:50.49
WHEN THEY DIDN'T
EVEN KNOW WHO JESUS WAS?
00:54:50.49\00:54:53.89
OR WHEN JESUS REVEALED HIMSELF
AND THEY KNEW HE WAS ALIVE AND
00:54:53.89\00:54:56.79
THEY'RE GOING UPHILL TO
TELL OTHERS, IN THE DARK?
00:54:56.79\00:55:00.56
THEY WERE HAPPIER GOING UPHILL
IN THE DARK KNOWING JESUS WAS
00:55:00.56\00:55:04.50
ALIVE, BECAUSE WHAT'S GOING
ON IN YOUR HEART MAKES ALL THE
00:55:04.50\00:55:07.17
DIFFERENCE ON HOW
EASY OR HARD SOMETHING IS.
00:55:07.17\00:55:09.94
IT'S HARD TO
SERVE SOMEONE YOU HATE.
00:55:09.94\00:55:11.91
IT IS EASY TO
SERVE SOMEONE YOU LOVE.
00:55:11.91\00:55:14.98
IT'S HARD TO SERVE
SOMEONE THAT'S DEAD.
00:55:14.98\00:55:17.08
IT'S EASY TO SERVE
SOMEONE THAT'S ALIVE.
00:55:17.08\00:55:20.08
YOU KNOW, A LOT OF RELIGIONS ARE
SERVING A DEAD GOD AND WE SERVE
00:55:20.08\00:55:23.15
A LIVING GOD. SO IS IT EASIER
TO BE SAVED OR TO BE LOST?
00:55:23.15\00:55:28.99
WELL, FRIENDS, I THINK IF
YOU TRUST IN JESUS IT'S EASIER.
00:55:28.99\00:55:34.60
HE'S GOT GOOD NEWS FOR US.
LET ME READ A STATEMENT TO YOU.
00:55:34.60\00:55:37.83
THIS IS FROM THE BOOKTHOUGHTS
FROM THE MOUNT OF BLESSING- AND
00:55:37.83\00:55:40.47
THEN WE'LL CLOSE. "YET
DO NOT THEREFORE CONCLUDE
00:55:40.47\00:55:45.01
THAT THE UPWARD PATH IS
THE HARD AND THE DOWNWARD
00:55:45.01\00:55:48.21
ROAD IS THE EASY WAY.
ALL ALONG THE ROAD THAT LEADS
00:55:48.21\00:55:51.68
TO DEATH THERE ARE
PAINS AND PENALTIES.
00:55:51.68\00:55:54.52
THERE ARE SORROWS
AND DISAPPOINTMENTS.
00:55:54.52\00:55:56.55
THERE ARE WARNINGS NOT TO GO ON.
GOD'S LOVE HAS MADE IT HARD FOR
00:55:56.55\00:56:00.92
THE HEEDLESS AND THE HEADSTRONG
TO DESTROY THEMSELVES.
00:56:00.92\00:56:03.86
IF WE TAKE CHRIST FOR OUR GUIDE,
HE WILL LEAD US TO SAFETY.
00:56:03.86\00:56:07.20
THE VERIEST SINNER
NEED NOT MISS HIS WAY.
00:56:07.20\00:56:10.20
NOT ONE TREMBLING SEEKER NEED
FAIL OF WALKING IN PURE AND HOLY
00:56:10.20\00:56:13.97
LIGHT. THOUGH
THE PATH IS NARROW,
00:56:13.97\00:56:16.37
SO HOLY THAT SIN CANNOT BE
TOLERATED THEREIN, YET ACCESS
00:56:16.37\00:56:21.44
HAS BEEN SECURED FOR ALL.
NOT ONE DOUBTING, TREMBLING SOUL
00:56:21.44\00:56:25.68
NEED SAY, 'GOD DOESN'T CARE FOR
ME.' WITH CHRIST AS OUR GUIDE,
00:56:25.68\00:56:29.85
WE WILL NOT FAIL REACHING THE
DESIRED HAVEN." YOU HEAR THAT?
00:56:29.85\00:56:33.49
WITH CHRIST AS OUR GUIDE WE WILL
NOT FAIL OF REACHING THE DESIRED
00:56:33.49\00:56:37.06
HAVEN. "CHRIST
HIMSELF HAS TRODDEN THE
00:56:37.06\00:56:39.69
ROUGH WAY BEFORE US AND HAS
SMOOTHED THE PATH FOR OUR FEET."
00:56:39.69\00:56:44.03
IT IS EASIER TO FOLLOW JESUS
TOWARDS THE KINGDOM THAN TO
00:56:44.03\00:56:48.84
FOLLOW THE DEVIL
TOWARDS DESTRUCTION.
00:56:48.84\00:56:51.04
THE PROBLEM IS MOST PEOPLE DON'T
BELIEVE AND THEY FOLLOW THE
00:56:51.04\00:56:53.27
CROWD. 2 TIMOTHY
1:12, "FOR THIS IS THE
00:56:53.27\00:56:57.88
REASON I SUFFER THESE THINGS:
NEVERTHELESS; I AM NOT ASHAMED,
00:56:57.88\00:57:01.22
FOR I KNOW WHOM I HAVE BELIEVED
AND AM PERSUADED THAT HE IS ABLE
00:57:01.22\00:57:06.19
TO KEEP WHAT I HAVE COMMITTED
TO HIM UNTIL THAT DAY."
00:57:06.19\00:57:10.03
DO YOU BELIEVE THAT IF YOU
COMMIT YOU LIFE TO JESUS HE IS
00:57:10.03\00:57:13.40
ABLE TO SAVE YOU? WOULD
HE GIVE ALL THAT HE GAVE
00:57:13.40\00:57:17.63
FOR YOU TO BE SAVED IF IT WASN'T
POSSIBLE FOR YOU TO BE SAVED?
00:57:17.63\00:57:20.77
OF COURSE IT IS, FRIENDS.
DON'T LET THE DEVIL MAKE YOU
00:57:20.77\00:57:23.17
THINK THE CHRISTIAN
LIFE IS A HARD LIFE.
00:57:23.17\00:57:25.11
SERVING HIM IS THE HARD LIFE.
SERVING JESUS - HE SAYS, 'MY
00:57:25.11\00:57:28.68
BURDEN IS EASY - MY YOKE
IS EASY, MY BURDEN IS LIGHT.'
00:57:28.68\00:57:32.31
DO YOU BELIEVE THAT?
00:57:32.31\00:57:34.42
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