I want to give you a very warm
welcome to Faith Chapel today
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My name is Paul Rayne
from Restoration International
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and I want to talk today
about finding rest in Christ
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Do you ever rest in
Christ? Let's bow our head's
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Father in heaven, we
need you to bring rest
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into our troubled hearts. And
as we study your Word together
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I pray that your
Spirit will speak to me
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and to each viewer.
That the words that are heard
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and the word that are
spoken might me words of life.
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And is in Jesus
name we pray. Amen.
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What do I mean
by rest in Christ?
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Well let me tell you
what I mean by no rest.
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Shortly, before I was married,
I was going to meet my fiancée
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at Heathrow Airport
in London. Huge airport.
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This point in my life I was
very used to having the Lord
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wake me up in the morning.
So I said: "Lord, I'm used to
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getting up at 4, 5, 6 am.
But now I've got to get up super
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early to meet my
darling at the airport.
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So wake me up
when you need me. "
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Well, I went to bed that night
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with full sure that
the Lord will wake me up.
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I woke up in the morning,
and I've done my calculations.
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I figured probably the Lord will
wake me up at 3 to get me to
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the airport in time.
Well, when I woke up, it was 5,
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it was my normal time for
getting up. I thought: "Oh no,
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my sweetie is gonna be at
the airport waiting for me. "
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So, I jumped out of bed,
I didn't have time to pray.
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I didn't have time to
clean my teeth. So off I go.
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Down the M1 motorway. The
central road that runs through
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England. And I'm going as
fast as I dare and I get there.
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Do I have rest in Christ?
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Oh no, not rest. I'm
pushing Jesus out of my life.
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Was I a Christian? I was a
profess Christian at this time.
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I'd even giving seminars at
the church. And I rush into the
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airport. And I'm looking were
is that flight. My fiancée was
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coming back from the mission
field. I haven't seen her for
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a little wile. I get to the
monitors. There it is: Lusaka,
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Zambia. That's her
flight. Delayed! 2 hours!
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I could've have rest in
Christ all the way through.
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But I didn't. How do I get
from that point in my Christian
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experience to a point
when nothing will ruffle me.
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Nothing will ruffle you!
That is a peace that the world
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doesn't understand, and many of
us, even thou we profess to be
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Christians. Of those who do
not profess to be Christians.
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Have we found rest in Christ?
I want to take a look at 3 steps
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to finding rest in Christ.
First we going to have a look
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at the past, then will going to
look to finding resting in the
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present. And then will going
to have a brief look at finding
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rest in the future. Let me start
off with thinking about the past
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You know, unless we have doubt
with the past, we are never
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going to find rest in Christ.
Do you have any skeletons
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in the closet? Do you hear
me? Do you know what I'm saying?
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Do you know what a skeleton in
the closet means? Maybe that's
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just a western world expression.
But what it means is that you've
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done things that are wrong.
And you know there are wrong,
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and you know they are wrong,
but you've never confessed it to
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God, you've never made it
right to it whoever it was
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that is something, dear viewer
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that will come
back and plague you.
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You can push it aside, you can
ignore it, but when it really
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comes down to it, maybe when you
are in a car accident, or when
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you're in your crisis in your
life, and you are asking God
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to come very close.
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Then those things will
start to come back to you.
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So, we got to look at the past,
we can't just forget the past.
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Now, I'm not talking about
delving in to every last thing
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you ever did,
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I'm talking about going to the
Lord and saying: "Lord, is there
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anything in my past that you're
calling me to take care of. "
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You know that some things that
you have seen that you should
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not have seen.
Maybe I'm speaking to men.
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Today, you're watching 3ABN, but
do you watch 3ABN all the time?
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Or do you flick channels
sometimes, and come, find your
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eyes coming across things that
they should never be looking at?
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You know what you've seen, men.
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Ladies, I don't want to get
myself into sticky ground here,
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but ladies you know
the things that you've done
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or the things that
you've purchased and you should
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not have purchased or
the books that you're reading
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that you shouldn't be
reading or the friendships that
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you are formulating
that you shouldn't be having?
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If there are things like that
are in your life, then they need
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to be taken care of.
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We need to take
God and His Word.
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God is offering us
forgiveness for the past.
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But as well as God is offering
us forgiveness, you know,
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we have to forgive ourselves.
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Often times we have gone to God
and we have taken care of it,
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but we've carried
it around for years.
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We've got to learn not only to
allow God to forgive us, but to
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forgive ourselves.
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Now how do we
have God forgive us?
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This really is
not very complicated.
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It all comes down to one
word: Do you believe God?
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Do you really believe God?
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You know, sometimes we
can go to God and we can say:
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"Lord, please forgive me"
and then we immediately get up
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off our knees. And we go
into our day, and we are still
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chastising ourselves. We
don't really believe that
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God has forgiven us.
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But let me ask you a
question: If we have asked God
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to forgive us, if we've asked
God to give us a clean heart,
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do you know what I mean by
that? To give us repentance,
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to turn our hearts away
from that wrong act or sin,
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whatever it is,
then will God do it?
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Or is God the sort of God
that say's: I know you've asked,
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but I'm going to hold out
on you for a while to see if
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you really meant it?
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No, that's not the God
we serve, think about Jesus
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in his ministry. He spent a
lot of his time healing people.
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We can learn a precious lesson
from how Jesus healed people.
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Remember that man by
the pool of Bethesda.
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Jesus came to him and he say's,
Do you want to be made whole?
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And the man said: I do!
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And Jesus said,
"Get up and walk!"
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What did the man say?
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Oh, Jesus, you don't understand!
I've been like this for
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30 odd years. There
is no way I can do that!
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Is that what happened?
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No!
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Did the man act on faith?
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Did he have to act on faith and
say, the Lord said I can get up
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so I'm gonna get up.
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You know, that
man got up and walked
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When it comes to forgiveness,
dear friends, we need to get up
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and we need to live!
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Don't go wallowing in the past,
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don't say that
God's holding out on you
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If you believe
the Scripture say's
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Let's look at it, Mark 11, 24
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So, is it God's will
for us to be forgiven?
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Of course it is!
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We can't say to God,
"Please God, give me a Porsche!"
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Because it might
not be God's will
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Or a new house!
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But we can say,
Lord, please forgive me!
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That is His will.
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And then we need to take
it a step further, as I said.
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And we need to settle the matter
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If God has forgiven
me, then I am forgiven.
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And I can forgive myself.
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We need to confess our sins,
we need to give ourselves to God
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and then, whole
heartedly, we need to say,
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Lord, I'm going to
serve you! No other master,
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just You, and You alone.
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You know, so often
we don't believe God.
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Like I said, we kneel
down, and we say: Lord, please!
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And we don't believe Him.
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I was with a group of men just
recently and we were having a
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men's' summit.
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And some of those men began to
open up their hearts, you know
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what the bottom line issue was?
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We discovered that a
lot of us in that room,
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don't really trust
God with our whole life.
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We can! We can do it!
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Jesus is there to help us!
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And we need to
respond to his calling.
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You know, I don't want to
lead us just to that point,
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because there's more to it then
just asking for forgiveness.
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Let us look at
another Scripture.
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Leviticus 6:4
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What will he do?
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He will have to restore.
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So it's not just a case of
going before God and saying:
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"Lord, I've said sorry to you,
there is a part for us to play
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We have to restore
that which we have stolen
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And that might be
somebody's character,
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that might be
somebody's reputation
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that might be somebody's wife,
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that might be somebody's
money, and might be anything,
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but you get the spirit
of what that verse is saying
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There is another
Scripture: Zacchaeus
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Remember Zacchaeus?
He was a very little man,
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the Scripture
tells us, Luke 19:8
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"if I have taken any thing from
any man by false accusation,
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I restored him fourfold. "
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He, as a part at his walk with
Christ has started making right
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So, we confess to God, we
forgive ourselves, and then,
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as far as lies within our power,
we are to make restitution
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And you say, oh,
you're going too far.
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I was quite with you on the
speaking part to God, but now
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making restitution?
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Yes, we need to
make restitution.
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Let's summarize that: If we
want to find true rest in Christ
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for the past, then we
have to confess our known sins.
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We have to give
ourselves fully to Jesus Christ.
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We have to make restitution
as far as lies within our power.
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And then we need to
resolve to serve God.
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Whole heartedly, no
restrictions on our surrender.
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All of it to Jesus Christ.
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Let's move on. That's
finding rest for the past.
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We can't skip that.
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Not comfortable,
but we cannot skip it.
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But I want to spend some
time now looking at finding rest
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in the present.
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In the here and now. Today!
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This very day that were in now.
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Turn with me, if you got your
Bibles, at I'm hope if you're
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viewing at home or in
church you've got your Bibles.
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Open up to Matthew 11:28-30
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You know, this
Scripture is so profound.
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We can spend the rest of this
message on these few verses.
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First of all, in 28 it
says "come unto... " who?
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"Come unto Me!"
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That's Jesus speaking those
words, so "come unto me, all ye
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labor and are heavy laden
and I will give you rest. "
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Do you know what sadness me?
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As I country speaking, I find
people who've come unto church
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that they might find rest.
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Well, it doesn't take long,
going to church to figure out
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that is not all rest, in church.
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Or some people they
think, I'm coming to 3ABN
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and I shall find rest.
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But it won't work that either.
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The Bible say's,
God's Holy Word say's
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"Come unto Me"
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Have you come? Have
you come unto Jesus?
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That it might give you rest?
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You know do you
have rest right now.
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is everything in your
soul perfectly at rest?
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Or are there background burdens?
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Are you carrying what I
call background burdens,
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things that are just
nibbling away at your rest
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and you know you
need to take care of them,
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But for the press of
time, or for the want of desire,
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those things are
nibbling away at you.
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I tell you, my dear friends,
we need to come unto Jesus
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that He might give us rest.
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Now, you might be saying: How?
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How am I suppose
to come unto Jesus?
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I've heard
people say that before!
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You know, the answer, my dear
friend, is right in the very
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next verse. Keep your
Bibles opened. Matthew 11:29
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You know, when I read this
verse, first of all, I thought
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A yoke? How can a
yoke make anything easy.
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I think of a yoke as
this thing around your neck,
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and is a negative
thing, how can having a yoke
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around your neck make
things easy and light.
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I just couldn't understand that.
And then I started to realize.
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Well, let's look at
it. Let's look at the oxen.
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Why do they wear a
yoke? And it dawned on me,
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A yoke, you know,
that piece of wood that
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they strap between the animals.
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A yoke makes the
load easier to pull.
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If we are yoked in Christ
yoke, that is very obvious
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who we are yoked to.
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I become connected to
Jesus Christ through the yoke.
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Then, all of the
sudden, things are easier.
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You know, so often we
carry burdens and we do things
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that the Lord has
never called us to do.
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And we find life
hard going and we wonder
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how come I'm so burden down.
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I tell you why we
are so we're burden down.
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Because we are
seeking to live up to
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everybody else's expectations.
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The Lord's yoke is easy.
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If we are
connected to Jesus Christ,
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then we are wearing his yoke.
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And the good thing is, could
you imagine being in a yoke?
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Could you imagine having a
piece of wood around your neck
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and having another piece of
wood around somebody else's neck
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and you've got to pull a load.
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I would like the
strongest man in the world
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to be in the
other side of the yoke.
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Because I would
to like the work.
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Well, that's exactly
how it is with Jesus Christ.
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He can do anything.
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All we need to do, and
don't miss this, dear friends,
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All we need to be
is yoked to Christ.
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As I like to say, we just
need to be connected to Christ.
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If we are connected to
Him, we shall have peace
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in every situation.
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Let me share an example
of how this happened for me.
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It doesn't happen
every time in my experience,
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I don't want you to think
that I'm some kind of saint,
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but I can
remember this one time.
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I had been going to my
local church area, and I was
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caught speeding.
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It was a 25 limit, I was doing
38, so the officer told me,
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and so, I paid my
fine and I drove slower.
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But a couple of years later,
I negotiated a very good rate
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on my auto insurance.
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But when the
paper work came through,
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the discount that I agreed
with the lady on the phone
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it was gone.
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And the insurance was more
then it was the year before.
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So I called up
the insurance company.
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I said: how can this be?
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They said: we did a search
on your record, Mr. Rayne,
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and we found
that you had a ticket,
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and so you've lost
some of the benefits
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and you're
insurance will be higher.
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I said, can't you ignore
that, it was a year or two ago?
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They said, "There's
nothing we can do about it
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until it's off your record. "
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I said: " How do I do that?"
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They said: "You
have to see the judge. "
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So I called the judge.
It's only a small town.
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And I explained the whole
situation to her, and she said,
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"Yes, we can do
something about that. "
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I said, "Praise the Lord!"
00:18:36.38\00:18:38.13
And she said, "But you have
to go to driver's education,
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driver's school. " I
didn't know what that meant.
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Are you willing do to that?
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I said, ok I'll do that,
to save the money here. "
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Also you have to come and
see me, and when she said that,
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I thought, "Now,
I've got to go to court,
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I've never been
to court in my life.
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Anyway, I went to driver's
school, that was nothing,
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just watching a video,
getting some education.
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Then came the day I
had to see the judge.
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Eleven o'clock. Be in court.
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Well, I left my home
office a little late.
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It doesn't as bad as you
think. But now I'm in a rush,
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and I'm very tempted to speed.
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But I'm going to see
the judge for speeding.
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That's not a
good situation, is it?
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So, I go along the
road, and for the first time,
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on our gravel road, were
we live, I find road works.
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How can they be doing road
works today? I asked myself.
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So I sit there and
the lady say's, "Wait!"
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I'm late 5 minutes.
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I'm late 10 minutes.
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Now, that am I
speaking to you about today?
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Finding rest in Christ.
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Is it difficult to
have rest in Christ
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when you've got to see
the judge at 11 o'clock?
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You are already 10 minutes late
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and now they are holding you for
road works another 10 minutes.
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Is that a temptation?
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I can tell you,
by the grace of God,
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and that's who I want to
lift up today, Jesus Christ,
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by the grace of God, he spoke
to my heart, no audible voice,
00:20:09.03\00:20:13.68
but just, "Paul,
you can trust me. "
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I said, "Yes I can, Lord,
00:20:16.90\00:20:18.21
I don't know how do
you want to work this out
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I don't know how do you make
up time, but I trust you, Lord.
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And I trusted Him. And
my heart didn't get upset.
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Well, we got through those
road works, and I got stopped
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to another one.
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And now I'm on my way,
when I get to the courthouse,
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I've never been before,
I didn't know were to park,
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I didn't know were to go,
and I went into one place,
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that was a library,
that was a wrong place,
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I'm looking for
the judge's office.
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And I thought there is all this
people in court waiting for me.
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It's now a quarter past
eleven. 15 minutes late.
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What a terrible thing!
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When you're going to be in court
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Well, I walked
into the judges office
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and she said the
judge wasn't there
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and I said, "I've
come to see the judge"
00:21:00.54\00:21:01.54
and she said "She's gone. "
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And I said "Oh, is that
mean I have to come back?"
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"No, it's only a few
forms you have to fill in,
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I'll take care of it"
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What a relief to me that I
hadn't lost all my connection
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with Jesus Christ, and got
all upset, and started blaming
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the guy in front of
me for driving too slow.
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Maybe ladies you are just
making a dish and the guests
00:21:27.88\00:21:31.60
are at the door, the door bell
is ringing, and then you realize
00:21:31.64\00:21:35.58
It's burning!
The soup is burning!
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Can you find rest
in that situation?
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Yes!
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Jesus Christ can give us rest.
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What do I mean exactly
by finding rest on Christ?
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I mean it's that we
have to ware his yoke,
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do everything to the
honor and glory of God.
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That means in your business!
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Do everything to the
glory of God in your business!
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I challenge you,
men, do God's will.
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Do what you know to
be right in your business
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and you will
find rest in Christ!
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If you are a mother,
or if you are a teacher,
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give your heart to those young
children, for those young people
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do what God would have
you do through his strength.
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Every decision you have
to make, say no to self,
00:22:28.11\00:22:31.71
no to what you
naturally want to do,
00:22:31.74\00:22:34.60
and yes to what you know
Jesus Christ is calling you to.
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And you will
live with no regrets.
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You will have a perfect peace.
00:22:40.45\00:22:42.90
A peace that
passes all understanding.
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Do you want that?
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Do you think that's possible in
the crazy world that we live in?
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I am one man who's here to
tell you that more and more
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I am experiencing that.
00:22:56.47\00:22:58.42
When by bags get lost in
the airport, when I have to
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wait for different things that
naturally call forth impatience
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I am thankful,
that, by the grace of God,
00:23:08.93\00:23:12.55
he is whispering to me.
00:23:12.58\00:23:16.02
Paul, you can rest in me.
00:23:16.05\00:23:19.42
You know, there's nothing,
dear viewers that replaces
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perfect peace in God.
00:23:26.43\00:23:30.46
Do you want it?
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Is it possible?
00:23:31.78\00:23:33.79
You can have it!
00:23:33.82\00:23:35.78
You, watching
this program today,
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don't give all
you're excuses to God.
00:23:38.28\00:23:40.64
Don't say: "God, it's ok
for him, he is a preacher.
00:23:40.68\00:23:44.79
No, it's ok for everyone!
00:23:44.82\00:23:47.02
What did the Scripture say?
00:23:47.05\00:23:49.22
He said, "Come unto me, all ye
who labor and are heavy laden"
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Are you heavy ladened?
00:23:55.48\00:23:58.52
Then the invitation is to you.
00:23:58.56\00:24:01.57
The invitation is to me.
00:24:01.60\00:24:04.34
"Come unto me, all ye
that labor and are heavy laden,
00:24:04.37\00:24:08.09
and ye shall find rest. "
00:24:08.12\00:24:10.33
Come unto Jesus!
00:24:10.36\00:24:12.20
It's entirely possible
not through your own strength,
00:24:12.24\00:24:16.87
it's found in His Word,
it's found as you, and as I
00:24:16.91\00:24:21.83
surrender all our known
choices to Jesus Christ.
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I challenge you!
00:24:26.79\00:24:28.56
Try it!
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First of all,
let's do a little recap,
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You've got to
find rest for the past,
00:24:31.95\00:24:34.08
you've got to take care of
those skeletons in the closet.
00:24:34.12\00:24:37.85
You know, skeletons don't
always stay in the closet.
00:24:37.89\00:24:41.03
Maybe this will be a
little human motivation for you.
00:24:41.07\00:24:44.18
Sooner or later, those skeletons
are going to get out the closet,
00:24:44.21\00:24:47.78
they're going to start
walking around the church
00:24:47.81\00:24:49.36
or walking
around the neighborhood.
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Then you wish, then you're do
anything to take care of them.
00:24:51.19\00:24:54.91
Take care of them
now, dear friends.
00:24:54.94\00:24:57.44
Take care of those
skeletons in the closet,
00:24:57.48\00:25:00.14
and then confess
your sins to God.
00:25:00.17\00:25:03.19
Make restitution as far
as lies within your power,
00:25:03.23\00:25:07.16
and then seek every
moment of your waking day,
00:25:07.20\00:25:11.65
seek to be connected, to
be yoked to Jesus Christ.
00:25:11.68\00:25:15.40
Then, the Scriptures
are fulfilled, and it say's
00:25:15.43\00:25:19.12
that Christ can do
all things through you.
00:25:19.15\00:25:21.98
He can!
00:25:22.01\00:25:24.01
He can make you the
husband you want to be.
00:25:24.05\00:25:26.80
He can make you the wife or
the mother that you want to be.
00:25:26.84\00:25:30.36
He can make you the teacher,
00:25:30.39\00:25:32.02
He can make you
want He wants you to be.
00:25:32.06\00:25:35.01
But you have a part to plan.
00:25:35.04\00:25:37.46
Now, our part is very small.
00:25:37.50\00:25:39.89
And God's part is very big.
00:25:39.92\00:25:41.72
But if we don't play our small
part, God can't do it for us.
00:25:41.76\00:25:46.54
It's a team effort.
00:25:46.57\00:25:49.58
The secret of success is
human effort with divine power.
00:25:49.62\00:25:56.21
We can't do it
in our own strength.
00:25:56.24\00:25:58.12
But Jesus can't
do it without us.
00:25:58.16\00:25:59.97
Otherwise he could
save the whole world
00:26:00.01\00:26:01.75
without our permission.
00:26:01.78\00:26:02.88
So, we've looked at the past,
we've looked at the present,
00:26:02.91\00:26:07.12
want to spend a few
moments looking at the future.
00:26:07.15\00:26:10.75
You know, we will not find
rest in the future unless we
00:26:10.79\00:26:16.29
have taken care of
the past and the present.
00:26:16.32\00:26:19.00
We need to let
Christ purge the past.
00:26:19.03\00:26:22.12
We need to let Christ
to empower the present.
00:26:22.16\00:26:26.02
And then, as it say's
in Scripture, Acts 2:26
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"we can rest in hope"
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Don't rest on
you're pension plan!
00:26:33.51\00:26:38.84
Because it may fail you.
00:26:38.87\00:26:40.21
Don't rest upon your
insurance, or you're savings.
00:26:40.25\00:26:47.28
Rest in Jesus.
00:26:47.31\00:26:49.57
But is part of the program.
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Take care of the past.
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Live to Him in the present.
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Then you can rest.
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Let's bow our heads
in a word of prayer.
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Father in heaven,
what a good God you are,
00:26:58.74\00:27:02.37
and I am so happy that for
everyone of our viewers today
00:27:02.41\00:27:06.73
you are offering perfect peace.
00:27:06.76\00:27:09.66
Father, I seek it myself.
00:27:09.69\00:27:12.33
I give myself to you afresh,
that I may walk every moment
00:27:12.36\00:27:16.33
to everyday in your presence.
00:27:16.36\00:27:18.06
And Father, I thank
you for hearing our prayer.
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In Jesus name, Amen.
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You know, I just want to
give you a personal invitation.
00:27:22.36\00:27:26.18
I don't know what you going
to be doing in a few minutes,
00:27:26.21\00:27:30.00
I don't know what
your life consists of
00:27:30.03\00:27:32.28
But I know that Jesus is waiting
for you to surrender all.
00:27:32.32\00:27:39.69
Will you do it?
00:27:39.72\00:27:40.89
For His sake, will you do it?
00:27:40.92\00:27:43.84
I challenge you,
and you shall have rest
00:27:43.88\00:27:46.88
that you're friends
will not understand.
00:27:46.91\00:27:49.56
I'm so thankful
you joined us today,
00:27:49.59\00:27:52.21
and may God richly bless you.
00:27:52.24\00:27:54.43
God bless.
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