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Welcome to Faith Chapel.
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My name is J. D. Quinn.
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We've got a program
today that applies to everyone.
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It's entitled,
"Satan's Tangled Web"
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It is basically
about how to be set free.
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But before we go there, I
want to invite the Lord in...
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Father, I just thank
You for this wonderful day
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that you've created.
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Dear Father, I just ask
that there's someone out there
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as well as myself
that needs to be set free.
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There are ways we get
tangled up in different messes
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Dear Father, we just
want to turn it over to you.
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So I'm asking Lord that You'll
get me totally out of the way.
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Let the Holy
Spirit work through me
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to bless someone today.
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But before that Dear Father
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I ask that you
forgive us of our sins
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If anyone has some type
of issue in their own heart
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Right now, we are
asking that it be forgiven.
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Thank You Jesus, We
invite you into our hearts
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into our minds.
Just take care of us.
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In the name of Your
Precious Son Jesus we pray. Amen
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We're going to talk
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about Satan's tangled web today.
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A spider is a predatory animal
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that spins cells to
make traps for its prey.
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And after spinning
its web and everything
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the spider waits
for a small impact
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on the web and when it is felt
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the spider reaches
out and grabs its prey.
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My dear brothers and sisters,
this is exactly how Satan works.
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He has a net out there.
He knows our vulnerabilities.
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He knows when to
take advantage of us.
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He is also very
deceptive and very smart,
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as is the spider.
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Now I imagine that
there's people out there
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that have been in
a similar situation.
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that feel as if
they've been in a trap.
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Some people feel as if
they've been corralled.
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Perhaps it happened without
them noticing what was going on.
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Maybe they thought
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"Well I'll just push the
envelope a little bit further. "
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And then all of a sudden
they got themselves caught...
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and then they became miserable.
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If you find yourself in
the situation of being caught
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it could be a gambling sin
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it could be an
addiction of pornography
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it could be alcoholism,
it could be drug addiction
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it could be a sexual sin
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it could even be a cherished sin
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and you've tried to
get out of this 'your' way,
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I want to
introduce you to 'His Way. '
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His way is with a capital 'H'
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that's Jesus Christ's way.
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I'd like for you to
turn to 1 Corinthians 14:33
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We're going to start there.
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But before I get there I
want to talk about Charlotte.
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We're going to use
Charlotte as an example of one
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who went through a lot
of different addictions.
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And she got rid of
all these addictions
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basically, by a lot
of prayer and by herself.
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But she could not get away
from the habit of cigarettes.
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She called up one day and said,
"Listen I need some help...
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Can you help me? "
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I said, "What's the issue? "
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So she explained and right
then I went to Isaiah 46:10.
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And I said, "Before
we start this Charlotte,
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why don't we invite
the Holy Spirit in. "
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I love to involve the
Holy Spirit in anything I do
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because I can't
see outside the room.
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But He sees
everything that's going on.
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He sees the
beginning from the end.
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And boy, what peace,
what comfort that can give you
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if you have that understanding
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that you're not
in this by yourself.
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Charlotte said
she wanted this help.
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So I said, "Okay,
let's go through some steps.
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Is that alright
with you Charlotte? "
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She was very co-operative.
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She was sick and tired
of being sick and tired.
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So, Satan like the
spider and its predatory ways
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had captured her,
gotten her in that net.
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Now, how are we
going to get out of there?
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Let's go now to
1 Corinthians 14:33
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if you have it in your
Bible you can follow along.
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what I want to
concentrate on here
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is that God is not
the author of confusion
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but of peace.
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Whenever there's
conflict, red flag goes up
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we know there's
an enemy in the camp.
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I would like for you
now to follow with me in
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2 Corinthians 10:5
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That's what I
want to concentrate on
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bringing the thoughts
into the Mind of Christ
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Because at that particular time
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we realize that with Charlotte
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with the habit of cigarettes
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the weapons of our warfare
are not carnal but mighty in God
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for pulling down
those strongholds.
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Remember, the
stronghold against Charlotte
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is those nasty,
filthy cigarettes.
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So, what I want to do because
we're bringing that thought
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captive is to replace
it with God's promise!
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Let's go to 1 Corinthians 15:57
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My brothers and sisters,
put that promise on a 3 x 5 card
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and put it in
the back of your mind
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or the frontal lobe, or
wherever it is you remember!
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It says, "Thanks be to God
who gives us the victory! "
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Also like Hebrews 10:23
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look it up later... It says,
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"Let us hold fast the confession
of our hope without wavering,
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"... for He who
promised is faithful. "
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If God says it, He means it
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that is His promise and He
will see to it that it happens.
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Now let's go to Psalms 129:4
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Now, I look at this,
maybe a little bit different.
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But it is just
the way my mind works
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because I'm a
visual type person.
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So whenever I'm talking about
cutting the cords of the wicked
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rather than that three
strand cord that, at times,
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the Bible refers to, I think of
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an umbilical cord.
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I see that umbilical
cord as full of corruption
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I just want to cut that cord.
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So, I cut it because of
the promises of Jesus Christ
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through the victory
that He is promising me.
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As I see the umbilical
cord fall to the ground
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I step on it!
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Satan, you were
defeated 2,000 years ago
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you have no place in my life
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Get thee behind me.
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That's what I do to
that umbilical cord.
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And that is what
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I was telling Charlotte.
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Charlotte, let's put
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that stuff behind us.
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That's not who you chose to be.
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I'd like for you to
go to Proverbs 18:21
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Powerful! because it is
a self fulfilling prophecy.
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Life and death are in
the power of the tongue.
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As you're bringing your
children up you might say
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"You'll never
amount to anything "
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"my goodness you
don't even study! "
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By this you're planting
negative seeds in their mind.
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The power of life
and death in the tongue.
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As it is with Charlotte,
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"Charlotte, do you
chose to be a non-smoker? "
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"Claim to be a non-smoker! "
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If you've got a
pornography problem
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then you must chose to
be a non-pornography watcher
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Claim It!
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If you are on drugs and
you don't want to be on drugs
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Claim It!
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It's a self fulfilling prophecy
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Don't back
yourself into a corner.
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Remember, Satan,
just as the spider,
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a predator, is waiting
to take advantage of you
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in everything
that you do and say.
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I want to go to one of my
favorite writers, Ellen G. White
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in "Education" page 146,
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"No truth does the
Bible more clearly teach "
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"than: 'what we do is
the result of what we are' "
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"so to a great degree
the experiences of life are "
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"are the results of our
own thoughts and deeds. "
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And of course,
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"For as he thinks in
his heart, so is he. "
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So there is a self
fulfilling prophecy
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whatever we put into our mind.
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So there is life and death
in the power of the tongue.
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I'd like to go to Psalms 143:10
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Psalms 143:10 is
whenever I find myself thinking
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"Well, J. D. I'm trying "
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"but I don't seem to
be having too much luck. "
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I love it!
Because in Psalms 143:10
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David says, "Father
teach me to do your will. "
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"For You are my God "
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" may your Holy Spirit
lead me on level ground. "
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Amen.
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So there are times in our lives
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when it doesn't
seem to be going our way.
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Just fall down on
your knees and say,
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"Hey, teach me Father,
I'm giving you permission to "
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"be in charge of my life. "
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An because you've given
the Holy Spirit permission
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to come in, will
rush to the scene.
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And I tell you my
dear brothers and sisters,
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I speak from my own experience
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You will see
major changes happening
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because you are making a
choice. You are repenting.
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Which means you are
turning your back and you're
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gonna go in the other direction.
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And because he
created us, He understands us.
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So we'll have a natural affinity
to follow our Heavenly Father.
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Amen? Amen.
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James 4:8, James 4:8, I love it,
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"Draw near to God and
He will draw near to you. "
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Not vice-versa. Boy did I have
that turned around in my life!
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In my growing in Christ I said,
"Father, prove yourself to me, "
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"Once You prove Yourself to
me, I'll get on Your bandwagon "
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"and be very
passionate about You. "
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I thought it was about me!
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Bad doctrine? Bad teaching?
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Fell asleep when
this was being taught?
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I don't have any idea.
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But I do know that I was wrong.
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And once I found
out that He was saying,
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"Hey, J.D., hey
Charlotte, draw near to Me "
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"And when you turn
around and draw near to Me "
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"then, I will
draw near to you. "
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That's when the
changes start taking place.
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Because now your
priorities are right.
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The path in front
of you levels out.
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That doesn't mean
there's not going to be
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some peaks and valleys.
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But it means He
is there with you.
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There is that
comfort, that peace.
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That confidence
that's within you.
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When you know, that
you know, that you know...
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that you can just
call upon His Name
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because you have
drawn near to Him.
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You've played your cards.
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And now you're waiting for Him
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to be there to deliver you.
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It's just not brain surgery
my dear brothers and sisters.
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You can do this...
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I did it!
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I'm a testimony.
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I guess that's the
gift that each one of us has
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is the personal
testimony that we have.
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You may not know every
scripture in the Bible.
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I certainly don't.
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But I can sure tell
my personal testimony.
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I can tell how He
has changed my life.
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There are people
who would meet me today
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and wonder, "Well
who is this guy? "
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" Did you make this change? "
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I believe in
what He promised me.
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You know, Thanks be to God
for the victory He has given me.
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Amen!
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Job. Poor Job.
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My goodness, boy. We
all know the story of Job.
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Job fought the battles.
But he was always faithful.
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That's probably the
bottom line of everything.
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Yet, we know the
battles are going to attack us
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whether it's cigarettes
again, whether it's drugs
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whatever it is.
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The whole thing is to
keep everything in perspective.
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Because we're His children.
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Remember, the path is level.
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Well, let's go to Job 34:32
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I love what he is
sitting here saying here.
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He is saying, "Teach
me what I do not see "
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"and if I have done
iniquity I will do it no more. "
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Man, that's fantastic...
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He is showing our vulnerability
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He says, "Hey Jesus, I'm
getting mixed signals here "
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"and that's not
who I chose to be. "
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"I'm your child, so Father
if I have done something wrong "
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"let me know, teach me, 'cause
that's not what I want to do. "
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"I'm Your child! "
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"And I'm counting
on You as my Father "
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to put a hedge of protection
around me and keep me safe. "
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I like what it says in
"Messages to Young People "
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by Mrs. Ellen G. White, Page 123
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"At the beginning of the day do
not neglect to pray earnestly "
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"to Jesus that He will
impart to you strength "
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"and grace to resist the
temptations of the enemy "
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"in whatever
form they may come. "
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"And if you pray earnestly "
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"in faith and
contrition of soul "
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"the Lord will
hear your prayer. "
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Amen Amen
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That's when we feel
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most comfortable.
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When we know
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that He hears our prayer.
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When I was growing up all little
boys loved Cowboys and Indians.
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And we played
Cowboys and Indians
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and of course the Calvary.
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And it was always a
joy to hear the bugle blow
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because you knew
the cavalry was coming.
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And so that's
the way it is here.
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You know in your heart
that because you're doing
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the very best that you can do
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with the knowledge that you have
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claiming His
promises, so you know
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that the Calvary is on its way.
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And he is sitting here saying,
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"Hey Father, teach
me what I do not see. "
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"And if I've messed up,
I don't want to do that. "
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Amen. We've all messed up.
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But the next time you mess up,
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throw that
little prayer out there.
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"Jesus, teach me
what I do not see. "
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and if I've sinned,
if I've done iniquity
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That's not who I chose to be.
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Amen...
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I'd like for you to
go to your Bibles now
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and look up John 8:32.
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Amen
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So here my brothers and sisters
as all this is coming together
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we can begin to make
some sense out of all this.
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You have a
relationship with the Lord.
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How do you have a
relationship with the Lord.
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Get into your Bible.
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I know that when I was young
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and in mid-life even I
would pick up the Bible
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And doing the
best I knew how to do
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but it didn't make all the
sense I thought it should make.
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Some of the
words I stumbled over.
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And some of the
principles I stumbled over.
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But what I found out bottom line
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it wasn't that the
words weren't properly used
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rather, I wasn't looking
through the right set of eyes.
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I was like Paul. I
had scales on my eyes.
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I might have mentally
wanted to approach this
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I might have thought in my
heart that I wanted to do it
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but my mind was
probably playing ball
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or doing something else.
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But once I found out that, hey
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get into the Word. Ask
the Holy Spirit to come in
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And as the Holy
Spirit is coming in.
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All of a sudden the
things you didn't see before
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started making sense.
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I heard this long ago
and it certainly is true.
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When the student
is ready to learn
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the teacher will be there.
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I guess that in
different times of our lives
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we might have thought that
the student was ready to learn.
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But maybe the student
was not ready to learn.
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Because that's relative.
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But I'll guarantee you
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I guarantee you, I guarantee you
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whenever the
student is ready to learn
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and get into the Word of God
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and you give Him permission
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to make it clear to you
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then the teacher will be there.
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And like we just
read in John 8:32
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"You will know the Truth and
the Truth will set you free. "
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Amen!
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Down a couple of
verses in John 8:36
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So if the Son, being Jesus,
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makes you free. You
will be free indeed.
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Amen
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Because that's what we all want,
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is to be free.
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We want that quietness.
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We want that quietness!
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My goodness, we live
in such a fast paced world
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we're always
looking over our shoulders.
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Just trying to keep
up with what we're doing.
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He gives us that quietness.
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He gives us comfort.
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He gives us peace.
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It's just absolutely fantastic
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the gifts He gives us
when we need them the most.
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Matthew 18:28 It
says, "Come to Me... "
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Now Charlotte, what
I'd like for you to do
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dear brother and sister
what I'd like for you to do
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is put your name in there.
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This is Jesus calling YOU!
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"Charlotte, Come to me"
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"Charlotte, I know that you
labor and are heavy laden. "
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"Charlotte, I know
that you are overburdened. "
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"But if you will just
give it to Me, Charlotte "
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"then I will give you rest. "
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"I will ease and
relieve and refresh your soul "
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"Charlotte, J. D.
take my yoke upon you "
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"and learn of me
for I am gentle "
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In other words He
is meek. "I am humble "
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It means He is lowly in heart.
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"And you will find rest. "
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That rest we were
talking about awhile ago
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which will relieve and
ease and give you refreshment
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and recreation and
blessed quietness for your soul.
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"So come to Me all ye who
labor and are heavy laden "
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"and overburdened and I
will cause you to rest. "
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"Take my yoke upon
you and learn of me "
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"for I am gentle
and humble in heart "
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"and you will find
rest for your soul. "
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I could tell as I
was talking to Charlotte
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that she was getting
excited because she began to see
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the picture of what God can do.
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She was trying to do it her way
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and she was finding out,
hey, I can do it His way.
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And it's making sense.
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In Isaiah 32:17
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"And the effect of
righteousness will be peace. "
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That internal peace.
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That external peace.
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and the result of
righteousness will be
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quietness and
confident trust forever.
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Amen!
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I know in my life
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that's what I'm looking for,
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that quietness,
that gentle peace.
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You know it just
brings everything down
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to where I
understand for the first time
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what that little
path in front of me means.
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Because I know that
you can identify with this,
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man, we go up
hills, we go down hills.
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But the older I get the harder
it is to get up these stairs.
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And boy, whenever I
think about how He comes in
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and makes my path level.
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I don't have to huff
and puff that way I used to.
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I still fight the battles
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But I know that instead of
concentrating on the problems
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I know now that I go
to the Problem Solver.
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"The Eternal God is your Refuge
and your Dwelling Place. "
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"And underneath are
the everlasting arms. "
00:23:00.22\00:23:03.11
"He drove the enemy before you
and thrust them out saying, "
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" "Destroy!" " That's
what Jesus wants to do.
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He's wanting to put
His protective wings
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over you so you
feel comfortable.
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Comfortable enough Charlotte,
that you will call upon Him.
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And as He has His
banner in front of you
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He says, "Get out of the way "
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"Charlotte is coming
through. She's a child of God. "
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"I have redeemed her. "
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And Charlotte, as you begin
to feel the comfort of His arms
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wrapped around
you, you begin to sense
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'I'm free! '
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'I don't need
these nasty cigarettes '
00:23:40.63\00:23:43.76
'I do understand what
you are saying Lord. '
00:23:43.79\00:23:47.22
'I'm going to throw
those things away. '
00:23:47.25\00:23:49.66
'And I know that tomorrow '
00:23:49.69\00:23:51.82
'I'm gonna have
to face a new day. '
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'But I know through
the grace of Jesus Christ '
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'that grace which empowers us '
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'and as I take
hold of His promises '
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'I know that I
can whip this demon. '
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So my dear brothers and sisters
00:24:07.11\00:24:10.64
it makes no difference
what web you get caught up in.
00:24:10.67\00:24:14.06
We have Satan is
deceptive in subtle ways.
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He creates that
web that we slip in to.
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So if it's the
web of pornography
00:24:20.49\00:24:23.35
if it's the web of alcoholism
00:24:23.38\00:24:25.90
if it's the web of drugs
00:24:25.93\00:24:29.44
if it's the web of gambling
00:24:29.47\00:24:31.79
if it's the web of cherished sin
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whatever it is we know that
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we've been given His Word.
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And we can sit and
stand on His promises
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and throw that
nasty stuff behind us.
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Amen.
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Remember what it says
in 1 Corinthians 15:57
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"Thanks be to God,
Who gives us the victory "
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through Jesus Christ, His Son. "
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That's one you need to memorize.
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It's an easy one. A
promise you can rely on.
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Now I want to go
through and recap.
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Number 1. God is not
the author of confusion.
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He is not the author of conflict
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Whenever we see that
confusion or conflict come up
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that it's not the peace
00:25:19.46\00:25:20.81
and our
conscience lets us know that
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Red flag goes up!
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When that red
flag goes up we know
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there's an enemy in the camp.
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and we take that thought captive
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we use this teaching and
we take that thought captive
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if it's something
that Jesus wouldn't do.
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And at that particular time
00:25:37.21\00:25:38.62
we're going to
replace that negative thought
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with a positive
thought, one of God's promises.
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And here again,
thanks be to Jesus
00:25:44.93\00:25:47.70
for the victory
that He is giving us.
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I claim that, Lord.
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And then I cut the cord.
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I cut the cord of the wicked.
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That's the cord that's feeding
the negative nature into us.
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We're going to step on
it. We're going to destroy it.
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Don't want you in here Satan,
00:26:01.11\00:26:02.64
you're destroyed.
You're not part of my new life.
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And then life and death
are in the power of the tongue.
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Self fulfilling prophecy.
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Amen.
00:26:10.78\00:26:12.54
We need to remember that.
00:26:12.57\00:26:13.94
We're going to feed
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good stuff into us.
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I am a child of God.
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I am here to serve Him.
00:26:18.44\00:26:20.46
I'm here to
follow His directions.
00:26:20.49\00:26:22.82
Draw near to God and
He will draw near to you.
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That is faith my
dear brothers and sisters.
00:26:27.69\00:26:30.67
Calling things that
are not as though they are.
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It's a wonderful
gift that we've got.
00:26:34.01\00:26:36.61
Because in our self-fulfilling
prophecy, Thank You Jesus
00:26:36.64\00:26:40.22
I can call things.
'I'm a non-smoker '
00:26:40.25\00:26:42.38
'I don't watch
pornography any more. '
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And the Truth,
Jesus, will set you free.
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What a promise!
Jesus, our Creator,
00:26:49.70\00:26:54.21
will set you free.
00:26:54.24\00:26:56.03
It's as though
you've given Him permission
00:26:56.06\00:26:58.57
to go in and re-wire you!
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And so you are
accepting His help.
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1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
00:27:04.31\00:27:07.82
"Rejoice always, pray without
ceasing and in everything "
00:27:07.85\00:27:11.17
"give thanks to the Lord.
For this is His will for you. "
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And I want to close
with one other Scripture.
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Romans 15:13
00:27:19.11\00:27:21.81
"May the God of Hope fill
us with all joy and peace "
00:27:21.84\00:27:26.80
"as we trust in Him. "
00:27:26.83\00:27:28.74
"So that we may
overflow with the hope "
00:27:28.77\00:27:31.09
"by the power of
the Holy Spirit. "
00:27:31.12\00:27:32.72
So brothers and
sisters, whenever you see
00:27:32.75\00:27:37.86
that this web that Satan is
weaving is trying to come in
00:27:37.89\00:27:41.02
and take advantage of you
00:27:41.05\00:27:42.24
give it back to the
Lord. He'll take it away.
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Thank you for being with
us today on the Faith Chapel
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We love you and God bless you!
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And may He
reward you bountifully.
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