Participants: Christian Berdahl
Series Code: FC
Program Code: FC000309
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00:30 Welcome to Faith Chapel. I'm
00:32 Christian Berdahl, Director of Shepherd's 00:34 Call Ministry, but before we pray 00:36 I would like to ask you a question, 00:38 have you ever felt like the world 00:41 and all of its entertainments 00:42 has a pool on your heart? The Bible has 00:46 some simple yet profound principles 00:48 that if obeyed and heated will make a 00:52 tremendous change in our lives. 00:54 Let's seek the Lord in prayer. 00:58 Father in heaven, thank you so much for this 01:00 opportunity to break the bread of life together. 01:04 Lord I pray that you would be with us, 01:06 you would fill us with the Holy Spirit 01:08 and that you would guide our study together. 01:10 Albeit our time short, we ask that you would 01:12 teach us much. In Jesus name we pray, amen. 01:16 Let's go to our first scripture 01:18 2 Corinthians 3:18, "But we all, 01:22 with open face beholding as in a glass a mirror, 01:26 the glory of the Lord are changed into the 01:28 same image from glory to glory, 01:31 even as by the Spirit of the Lord." 01:33 So, if you and I were to look at Jesus 01:36 and behold His character and His lowliness. 01:39 We as Christians can be changed into 01:41 that same image, praise the Lord, 01:43 but you see Biblical Principles can apply 01:46 both ways. So, if I were to rewrite scripture, 01:49 now don't get upset with me, hear me out first. 01:52 If I were to rewrite scripture in an 01:54 opposite way this is how it would read, 01:56 it's very impactful. "But we all with open 01:59 face beholding, as in a glass the sinfulness 02:02 of the world are changed into the same image 02:06 from deformity to deformity, 02:10 even as by the spirit of Satan." 02:12 Now, that's a whole different slant on 02:14 things, isn't it? In other words, 02:16 if we behold Jesus we can become like Jesus, 02:19 if we behold the world or Satan then we will 02:22 become like the world or like Satan. 02:25 Romans 12 verses 1 and 2 says, 02:30 "I beseech you therefore brethren, 02:32 by the mercies of God, that you present 02:34 your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, 02:37 acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable 02:39 service. And be not conformed to this world, 02:44 but be ye transformed by the renewing of 02:48 your mind, that ye maybe able to prove 02:51 what is that good and acceptable, 02:53 and perfect will of God." We've got to be 02:56 careful as Christians, do not conform 02:59 to the world, even if the whole world, 03:01 even if the church is doing worldly things. 03:03 We shouldn't conform to worldlism, 03:07 but we should be transformed by the 03:09 renewing of our minds, if we behold Christ 03:13 we will become like Christ in character, 03:15 if we behold the world, we will become 03:17 world like, if we conform we will become 03:21 just like the world. And what I mean by 03:24 the world is the ungodly parts of world, 03:27 the pleasures and the interests 03:29 and that are unprofitable for 03:32 good character development. 03:34 I'm also talking about being worldly minded, 03:37 a predominant passion for obtaining 03:39 the world's goods or entertainments 03:42 or temporal enjoyment not seeking after God, 03:44 that's what I mean by the world. 03:47 Our next scripture John 17:15 says, 03:51 "I pray not that thou shouldest taketh them 03:54 out of the world, but that thou shouldest 03:56 keep them from the evil." You see, 03:59 as Christians we shouldn't go 04:01 and run off in a cave somewhere, 04:03 no, we've a world to win, amen. Absolutely, 04:06 but God wants you and I to, to be Christians 04:10 that are in the world, but not of the world. 04:12 In other words, the worldly things 04:14 just don't have a place in our hearts anymore, 04:18 if we want to be like Jesus 04:19 then we must keep away from the evil, 04:23 we must carefully guard what we behold. 04:26 And when I mean by what we behold is what 04:28 we look at, what we listen to, 04:30 what we touch, what we engage in. 04:34 We've to be careful; we must be very 04:37 careful friends, as Christians by what we 04:41 behold because it will change us 04:43 to the very core. Here is another quote from 04:47 Job 1:1, "There was man in the land of Uz, 04:52 whose name was Job and that man was perfect 04:57 and upright, one that eschewed, 05:00 excuse me one that feared God, 05:01 and eschewed evil." So, how do you suppose 05:05 that Job was a perfect man, an upright man? 05:10 Well, the scripture tells us that 05:12 he eschewed evil, he did not allow evil things 05:15 into his mind, and to eschew means to reject, 05:18 do not partake of. And so, Job knew 05:22 the biblical principle by beholding it 05:24 you become changed. And so, we as 05:26 Christians we got to be very careful, 05:28 we must be absolutely careful of what we 05:31 allow into our minds through the avenues 05:35 of the soul. Here's a very powerful quote 05:37 I'd like to read for you. "The heart must be 05:40 faithfully sentineled, or evils without will 05:44 awaken evils within, and the soul will, 05:48 it doesn't say might, the soul will wander 05:51 in darkness. Everything that can be done 05:53 should be done to place ourselves 05:55 and our children, where we shall not see 05:57 the iniquity that is practiced in the world. 06:01 We should carefully guard the sight of our 06:03 eyes, the hearing of our ears so that 06:06 these awful things shall not enter our minds. 06:11 "My wife and I decided long ago to follow 06:17 the council to move out into the countryside. 06:20 And there's very clear council to do so. 06:21 And there is a blessing waiting God's people 06:23 out in the country. And what we discovered was 06:26 when we were out in the country 06:28 and we still are, there is this wonderful 06:30 buffer zone between us and the world. 06:36 You see, I used to have a great addiction to 06:38 movies and television and all this type 06:40 of thing. And whenever I wanted to go watch 06:42 something I went to the nearest video store, 06:44 which was only couple of blocks away, 06:46 and I'd rent what ever I wanted. 06:48 What was a beautiful thing though, 06:50 God wanted to help me overcome my addiction 06:52 with movies and you may not have that 06:54 addiction many do. He wanted to help me 06:56 and so, when I moved out into the country, 06:58 it created a very real hedge of protection, 07:01 a real buffer zone between me 07:03 and the world, because for me to drive 07:06 over an hour around trip to go rent 07:08 one silly video. How many times do you think 07:10 I made that trip? You see, it created a 07:14 buffer zone, but friends, living out 07:17 in the country is not enough you see. 07:19 We've to not take the world with us. 07:24 Because we live in a technological age 07:27 friends and with satellites now 07:28 and Internet and, and radio 07:30 and satellite radio and everything that we have, 07:32 we can actually take the world with us 07:35 out and even to the country. God wants you 07:39 and I to experience country living, 07:41 why do you think that so? Because He knows 07:43 how strong the pool of the world is? 07:47 And so he says, is better to not live 07:49 in the city centers that are so filled with sin 07:52 and so much temptation, because frankly friends, 07:55 I've learned, I'm not as strong as I think I am. 07:58 And I need every advantage that 08:00 I can get, I read once that it's ten times 08:04 harder to raise children in the city 08:08 then it is in the country. Friends, 08:10 as a parent you and I don't need things 08:13 to be harder; it's already a challenge, 08:15 amen. But if you and I continue to, to as 08:19 God's people to live in the cities, 08:21 to live in the cities where it's full of sin, 08:24 then I believe with all up my heart that 08:26 we become weakened through the constant 08:28 exposure to evil and to the constant 08:30 worldly environment all around us 08:34 and sin becomes less sinful to us. 08:37 Even if we live in the country though 08:39 we must be careful not to take the city 08:43 with us, not to take worldly things with us 08:46 into the countryside. Philippians 4:8 says, 08:51 "Finally brethren, whatsoever things are 08:54 true, whatsoever things are honest, 08:57 whatsoever things are just, 08:58 whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things 09:01 are lovely, whatsoever things are of good 09:04 report; if there be any virtue, 09:06 if there be any praise, think on these things." 09:10 And since what we behold changes us 09:13 and Philippians 4:8 gives us a gauge by 09:17 which we can look at things, 09:19 whether we should engage in them, 09:20 we should watch them, we should bring them 09:21 into our homes. Let's just look at a, 09:24 a couple of different things that could come 09:25 into our little slice of heaven out 09:28 in the country, and see if they add up 09:30 with Philippians 4:8. Here's what I mean. 09:33 Let's think about books and magazines 09:35 for a moment, if we have worldly subscriptions 09:37 to magazines and different kinds of 09:39 romance novels, and those types of books 09:41 in our, our library. I wonder if we were 09:45 to allow our children to watch say fairy tales 09:48 or read them. I'm wondering if it adds up 09:53 to Philippians 4:8 because it didn't say 09:56 whatsoever things are honest, 09:58 whatsoever things are true, yes. 10:00 So, if we're going to allow them to watch 10:02 fairy tales, what's to say one day 10:05 they're gonna think God is a fairytale 10:07 because after all the Santa Claus wasn't real. 10:09 And the Easter Bunny wasn't real. 10:11 And so, now you need to believe in a God 10:12 that you can't see and He's real. 10:14 Do you see how much it undermines Christianity? 10:17 It's a dangerous proposition to even 10:20 let our children watch or read fiction. 10:24 In fact, science has proven that children 10:27 cannot distinguish between fact 10:30 and fiction. They can't distinguish between 10:33 the two, why do you think when they go to 10:35 certain theme parks that there is the certain 10:37 mouse walking around who is six foot tall? 10:40 Why do you think the children are terrified 10:42 by this little guy? Well, because they, 10:44 they're seeing a six foot rat. 10:46 They can't distinguish between what is fiction 10:49 and what is reality; they're petrified to see 10:52 this big animal walking around. 10:55 Science bears that out. What if we we're 10:59 to look at newspapers or broadcast news 11:02 or the Internet or video games or music 11:06 or sports, and we can go on and on and on, 11:08 if we as Christians were to evaluate 11:11 with just Philippians 4:8, what we watch, 11:14 what we allowed into our home 11:15 or what we let our children see? I believe 11:17 it would begin to revolutionize our homes 11:19 as Christians. In fact, I've seen it 11:22 in my own home. I like to talk to you 11:25 a little bit about I think a problem 11:27 that most Christians have TV and movies; 11:29 I had a huge problem with this. 11:33 And when I look at TV, friends 11:36 I see every vile thing from murder to rape 11:39 to stealing the Lord's name in vain, 11:41 profanity, inappropriate songs and music, 11:44 propaganda, premarital sex, 11:48 one person capping on or belittling 11:51 the other person continually. 11:52 These are not Christian things to behold, amen. 11:58 Christian Education page 35, "Among the most 12:02 dangerous resorts for pleasure is the theater. 12:05 Instead of being a school of morality 12:07 and virtue, as it's so often as claimed, 12:09 it is the very hotbed of immorality. 12:12 Vicious habits and sinful propensities are 12:14 strengthened and confirmed by these 12:16 entertainments. Low songs, 12:18 lewd gestures, expressions 12:21 and attitudes deprave the imagination, 12:23 and debase the morals. Every youth, 12:27 how many? Every youth who habitually attends 12:30 such exhibitions will be corrupted in principle. 12:33 Now, it gets scary. There is no influence 12:36 in our land more powerful to poison 12:39 the imagination, to destroy religious 12:42 impressions, and to blunt the relish 12:44 for the tranquil pleasures and sober 12:46 realities of life than theatrical amusements. 12:49 The love for these scenes increases which, 12:52 with every indulgence, as the desire for 12:55 intoxicating drink strengthens with 12:57 its use. The only safe course is to shun 13:01 the theater!" But you say, Christian 13:04 I, I don't go to the theater, 13:06 I've read that council, I don't go 13:08 to the theater. Friends, let's think outside 13:10 of the box. What do you suppose 13:12 that box is in your home? Now, it could 13:15 be a place of, of morality and virtue, 13:18 if you allow programming like 3ABN 13:20 to come into your home, praise the Lord, 13:23 I'm preaching on it. But friends, 13:26 if we allow worldly programming to come 13:28 into our home, haven't we just turned 13:30 that box into a mini-theater, 13:32 and if the council says, you shouldn't be 13:35 go into the theater. Well, friends 13:37 let's think outside the box. Will you give me 13:39 the liberty of just rewriting, if you will, 13:41 just swapping out a couple of words of 13:44 what we just read in Christian Education 13:45 page 35. Where all I'm going to do is swap out 13:48 the word theater and replace it with movies 13:51 and TV. That, let's just think outside the box, 13:53 a little experiment, okay. Christian 13:56 Education page 35, "Among the most 14:00 dangerous resorts for pleasure are 14:02 the television and the movies. 14:04 Instead of being school of morality 14:06 and virtue as it's so often as claimed, 14:08 they are the very hotbeds of immorality. 14:11 Vicious habits and sinful propensities are 14:14 strengthened and confirmed by watching 14:15 the worldly programming. Low songs, 14:18 lewd gestures, expressions, 14:20 and attitudes deprave the imagination, 14:22 debase the morals. Every youth, 14:25 how many? Every youth who habitually watches 14:28 these things on TV and in the movies will be 14:31 corrupted in principles friends. 14:33 There is no influence in our land more powerful 14:36 to poison the imagination, to destroy 14:39 religious impressions, to blunt the relish 14:42 for the tranquil pleasures and sober 14:45 realities of life than the television 14:46 and movies. The love for these scenes increases 14:50 with every indulgence as the desire for 14:53 intoxicating drink strengthens 14:55 with its use. The only safe course is to shun 14:59 the television and the movies!" 15:05 Friends, we cannot expect to hangout 15:09 with the world and not be changed into 15:12 the world. You see, this is not talking 15:14 about good Christian programming; 15:16 this is talking about the worldly programming. 15:18 Talking about things that you and I 15:20 as Christians, we need to be very careful 15:22 of viewing, in fact I will not view it 15:24 because I'm not as strong as some 15:26 think that they are. John 15:19 says, 15:31 "If ye were of the world, the world 15:34 would love as own: but because ye are 15:36 not of the world, but I have chosen 15:38 you out of the world, therefore the 15:41 world hateth you." 1 John 2:16, 15:43 "For all that is in the world, 15:45 the lust of the flesh and the lust 15:47 of the eyes and the pride of life is 15:49 not of the Father, but is of the world." 15:52 Friends just as disturbing as what we 15:58 watch and how it impacts us spiritually 16:00 in our spiritual life is how the programming 16:04 is edited. Did you know that science 16:06 has figured out that if you edit scenes 16:09 together too fast in rapid succession. 16:11 And I understand this because I'm an editor; 16:13 I've been in production for 20 years. 16:16 And I understand that if I were to edit 16:19 things in rapid succession and continue 16:21 that for a short space of time. 16:22 I can actually put you in a hypnotic trance. 16:25 Did you know that? That's serious 16:28 because we've to understand how 16:29 our brain works? You see, our frontal 16:31 moral lobe is right behind our foreheads. 16:35 And this frontal moral lobe is like 16:37 a filtering device. And if I'm viewing 16:40 things with my moral lobe in tat. 16:42 And I'm looking at things in the world 16:44 or different programming or things like this. 16:46 And I see things that are coming, 16:48 that I don't want to accept because my 16:50 frontal moral lobe is functioning, 16:52 my filtering device is in place. 16:54 Then I reject the evil, I eschew the evil, 16:56 I, I don't accept maybe even 16:59 a false doctrine. But friends 17:00 when I do anything that short 17:03 circuits my frontal lobe then the 17:05 information can get, be conveyed 17:07 right into my brain and it becomes 17:09 part of my core personality. 17:11 It becomes part of who I really am. 17:13 And modern day television besides 17:17 properly editing Christian programming. 17:19 Modern day television and movies 17:21 all of them are edited in this fashion. 17:24 And friends in, in fact some of you are going, 17:27 oh! Give me a break. You're talking about 17:29 you know TV being a problem, 17:31 movie being a problem, you're talking about 17:33 now we're being hypnotized. 17:34 Let me just give you a little test. 17:37 Are you up for it? Would you like 17:39 to find out if you've actually ever 17:40 been hypnotized? Okay, have you ever 17:44 sat there in your dark living room, 17:47 and you got the tube going and 17:51 you've got a really buffed thumb 17:53 because you've been pumping the, 17:55 the buttons on your remote control, 17:56 and you're sitting there. 17:58 And all of sudden your wife says, 18:00 honey and you don't even hear it. 18:02 Okay, no you're not, no give me a break, 18:04 I'm not hypnotized? Wait a minute, 18:05 you're sitting there, honey and you go, 18:08 huh! You don't even take your eyes 18:12 off of the set, you're glued you know 18:14 what I'm saying? Okay, here is another one. 18:16 Have you ever sat there and you're sitting 18:18 there and all of sudden you're going; 18:19 now it's really late. I need to go to bed, 18:22 I'm really tired. And you won't even get 18:25 off the couch to go to bed. Friends, 18:29 you've been hypnotized. Or you're sitting 18:31 and you're going I, I'm really hungry 18:35 I need to go eat something. 18:37 And you won't even get off the couch 18:39 unless of course there is a commercial 18:42 because you can't miss a second. 18:46 Friends, the devil is pulling us in and 18:49 he is a master editor. One brain wave 18:53 researcher was quoted as saying, 18:55 "Vast amounts of information is conveyed 18:59 and not thought about at the 19:02 time of exposure." That's scary, 19:04 what that means is that when 19:06 we're beholding these things and 19:07 did you also know that science has 19:09 proven not by just the editing, 19:11 but certain kinds of music short-circuit 19:14 the frontal moral lobe, certain kinds 19:16 of even dietary choices, certain kinds 19:19 of food can actually affect our frontal 19:22 moral lobe. And when we've short 19:24 circuited that frontal moral lobe 19:28 friends that's a very dangerous time 19:30 to receive any information. 19:31 And if we're watching modern day 19:33 television and all of that flood of 19:36 information that's going in there, 19:37 don't try to convince me it's not changing 19:39 the very character we've, it is without 19:43 a question. It was amazing to me friends, 19:47 is that we, we pray as Christians for 19:50 hedge of protection. Now, 19:51 I do in my family, my wife and I, 19:54 and my children we pray for a hedge 19:55 of protection around our home, 19:56 around our own hearts, even when we 19:58 drive we say, Lord, please put mighty 20:00 warrior angels around us. 20:03 How can we pray that prayer, 20:05 and how can God honor that prayer 20:07 if we've sinned, if it were as it were 20:09 in our camp? We're allowing the devil 20:12 through his box to allow worldly stuff right in, 20:17 and movies right, but Lord please, 20:18 please protect us from the outside evils. 20:22 When we've evil right in our own home? 20:24 That is the prayer I believe that can't be, 20:26 cannot be answered until we get the evil out, 20:30 until we uproot, eschew, reject the evil, 20:34 the worldly things in our lives. 20:36 When we as Christians can go forward 20:39 in faith and remove these things 20:42 and it will be a battle, it will be a trial, 20:44 it will be across the bear, but God always 20:46 replaces, it was something better 20:48 friends. In fact He replaced when I used 20:51 to watch all that TV, He replaced that 20:53 with a wonderful time, family time with 20:57 my children, praise the Lord. He replaced 20:59 it with something better, not just sitting 21:02 on the couch, next to each other, vegin' out. 21:07 It's not enough to get out of the cities. 21:12 We must get out of the world, 21:15 we must let the worldly things in our lives 21:18 just fall away friends. We must leave 21:21 the world physically, mentally, 21:27 spiritually, emotionally, 21:30 and mentally. I was called to ministry 21:39 in the Midwest. I used to live in 21:40 California before then and I was called 21:43 to ministry in the Midwest to work for 21:44 a TV ministry and we were there 21:46 for about 3 years. And after that the Lord 21:49 called me to start our own ministry of singing, 21:52 and preaching and media production. 21:54 And when we move back out to California, 21:56 now realize I hadn't had TV in my home, 21:59 no movies no nothing for many years 22:01 now going on close to five and half years 22:04 at this point. And we move back 22:05 out to California and we moved 22:07 in with some of our family and they 22:09 were very gracious to let us live there. 22:11 And TV began to become a problem 22:15 again because we were constantly 22:17 exposed to it, because our, our barriers 22:20 against the sin were slowly being 22:22 beaten down and you see how that 22:24 works by beholding we become changed? 22:27 And I had not had it for a long time and 22:30 yet I started to change, I saw it affect 22:33 my little children and my wife. And so, 22:35 we decided we need to move out 22:37 even sooner, we're waiting for, 22:38 and looking for a country location 22:40 to move to. And it wasn't coming available, 22:42 so we even decided. Let's just move 22:43 to another location within the city 22:45 and so we did. But we didn't take the 22:48 TV with us, we didn't plug it in. 22:50 And friends we began to, to have 22:54 freedom again. Then we moved out 22:55 into the, the countryside and our 22:57 little slice of heaven. No TV, praise the Lord, 23:00 children loving worship time, 23:02 we had a great time together. 23:03 And then we started having fires 23:07 all over in our community, up in our 23:11 mountain retreat, fires all over the place. 23:14 And I had never lived in the mountains before, 23:15 I had lived down the country, 23:16 but never up in the mountains. 23:17 And I didn't know how do I find out, 23:19 how you know, how and where the 23:21 fires are and, and should be get out or 23:23 what we should we do? And a neighbor said, 23:27 well you should probably get satellite, 23:28 so you, they'll report it on the news 23:30 because you couldn't just get regular 23:32 broadcast TV. So, I faithfully went down 23:36 and got my little satellite dish. 23:38 We got it hooked up and guess what 23:41 happened the very next day after we 23:45 had it hooked up, 9/11, 9/11 my mother 23:49 calls me in a panic and says, Christian, 23:52 did you get your satellite hooked 23:53 up I said, yes. She said, well, well turn 23:55 it on right now, we've been bombed. 23:56 What? We've been bombed. 23:58 So, I turn it on and I turn it on in time 24:00 to see the second aircraft smashing 24:02 the second building. And I was glued 24:05 for two solid weeks as most of the world was. 24:12 And friends I sat there and I watched 24:14 that over and over, you know how, 24:16 you know they played that video footage 24:18 over and over and over again of the, 24:20 the planes hitting the towers. And friends, 24:22 when I got tired of it and I needed 24:25 a break from it, I didn't make the 24:28 right choice; I actually changed the 24:31 channel instead of turning it off. 24:33 And theater, television, the movies 24:38 started to become a problem in my 24:41 home again. And I remember it very clearly 24:44 going you know, it's time for worship 24:45 come on kids and our program is ready 24:47 to come on at 8 O' clock or 7 O' clock, 24:49 come on children, let's go ahead and, 24:50 and gather around Jesus loves me this 24:52 I know, get go, get go right through 24:54 it real fast, usher them off to bed. So, 24:58 we can watch our programs. 25:01 And what we read earlier about the, 25:05 there is no influence in the land more 25:07 powerful to poison the imagination to 25:10 destroy religious impressions, to blunt 25:12 the relish for the tranquil pleasures, 25:14 and the sober realities of life than theatrical 25:16 amusements. You remember that quote? 25:17 I saw it in my own heart. I saw it in 25:20 my wife's heart, I saw in my 25:21 children's heart. And then God got 25:24 a hold of me and I don't have time 25:25 to tell you all the miracles, but God 25:27 got a hold of me and I repented. 25:30 And we chucked out that TV again and 25:33 we had victory. And friends we've not 25:34 had broadcast TV, satellite, or any 25:36 worldly junk in our home ever since. 25:39 It's been almost five years again. 25:41 And the beautiful thing is now that 25:44 these things are actually dying out 25:47 of my heart and out of my family's heart, 25:49 praise God, it's the promise. 25:50 That if we're to stay connected 25:53 with Jesus and if we allow the worldly 25:55 things into our home, it's gonna changes 25:56 into the image of the world, but if we 25:58 get the worldly stuff out and we behold Jesus 26:02 and I've seen this, I've seen it in my 26:05 own life, I've seen it in my wife's walk, 26:07 I've seen it in my children's life, 26:09 I've seen it in our Christian experience, 26:11 where now the worldly things are 26:13 dying away, praise the Lord. 26:15 That's the Christians promise 26:17 that God will help us through you see. 26:20 Philippians 4:8, "If we are to always 26:26 use that as our gauge, as to whether 26:30 or not we should engage in certain things 26:32 or not, it will help us, it is a simple yet 26:35 profound biblical principle, if we apply 26:37 it in our life then we make better choices. 26:39 Let's read that one last time together. 26:41 Philippians 4:8, "Finally, brethren, 26:44 whatsoever things are true, 26:45 whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever 26:47 things are just, whatsoever things 26:49 are pure, lovely and of good report; 26:51 if there be any virtue, if there be any praise, 26:54 think on these things. Those things which 26:57 ye have both learned and received and 26:59 heard in me, do, and the God of peace 27:02 shall be with you." Friends, there is an 27:05 urgency, there is an urgency to change, 27:08 because the things in our life, they'll over 27:11 take us, if they're not of, of God. 27:13 Oh! Lord, we need your help, let's pray. 27:17 Father in heaven, Lord, I pray that you 27:19 would give us the wisdom, help us to 27:21 overcome the things that are in our lives 27:23 that keep us from having that life-giving, 27:25 that purpose filled life with you. 27:27 Oh! Father in heaven, send the Holy Spirit 27:30 to remove the scales from our eyes, 27:33 we pray this in Jesus name, amen. 27:36 And friends, I want to encourage you 27:39 to allow God to show you the changes 27:42 that you need to make because He will always 27:45 replace it with something better, 27:47 He promised us, don't take my word for it, 27:50 try Him. Let the world die out of 27:52 your heart and you can 27:54 become a conquering soul. |
Revised 2014-12-17