Hello, beautiful day to
you there wherever you may
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be. I wanna
welcome you to faith chapel
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here at 3ABN and
today. My name is Lemuel Vega
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and we are going to
be speaking about God.
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For God so love the World that
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he came seeking the
lost. So today as you find
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yourself
perhaps in some despair,
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perhaps you're
lonely, you don't know
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where to go from here.
We are gonna speak about
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that there is a hope in
this day and time which we live,
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when there is brokenness
on every news media station,
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we are gonna speak about
how God is providing rest
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for our souls in
this turbulent time
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in which we live. We are
also going to be speaking
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about how God has shown us
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how to live separate the
world. At this day and age
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when the world is integrating us
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with commercials
and they want our time
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and our money, they're competing
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for our time with
God. There is a way
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and we need to ask him
and I invite you to pray
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with us just now.
Our dear heavenly Father,
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we thank you for
this awesome opportunity
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to share with souls
that are finding themselves
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filled with despair
and anxiety in this world
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in which we live.
Shattered and broken
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at every seem so
it seems, but we know
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that you provide
stability and grace and hope
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and so with that Lord,
we surrender our hearts
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and our wills in
to you today. Show us,
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lead us and guide
us, in Jesus name we pray
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and ask for the
indwelling for your Holy Spirit,
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in Jesus name we pray, Amen.
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With that in mind I
would like to start in the very
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beginning of the
Bible, in Genesis 1:1,
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if you have your
Bible with you today
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I want you to know that
you are gonna have to time
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to turn in the scriptures
with me and I hope that
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you will do that.
In Genesis chapter 1
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the very first
chapter in the Bible,
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the very first book,
most everybody seems like
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they might know what that
says but may be you don't.
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It's says in the
beginning God created the heaven
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and the earth.
God, he's personal
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and he wants to be
a part of our life,
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in this turbulent
time in which we live.
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I would like to go
from there to Luke 4:16
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through 19, in Luke 4
this is gonna set the stage
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how God lived and showed
us, set the example for us
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how we can live in this earth,
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how Jesus did it as a
young man. Luke 4 verse 16,
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And he came to
Nazareth where he had been
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brought up; and
as his custom was,
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he went into the synagogue,
the big Churches of the day
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and he stood up to read
and there was delivered unto
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him the book of
the prophet Isaiah
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and when he had opened the book,
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he found the place
where it was written.
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This is now in red
letters in my Bible in verse 18
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The Spirit of
the Lord is upon me,
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because he hath anointed
me to preach the gospel,
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to who? To the poor.
He has sent me to heal the
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brokenhearted, to preach
deliverance to the captives,
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and recovering of
the sight to the blind,
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to set at liberty
them that are bruised,
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to preach the
acceptable year of the Lord
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and with that in mind
I want you to know that
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this was the, this is what
Jesus Christ as a young man
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came to this world
to do, is to represent
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the way of truth and to
live to heal the brokenhearted,
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to preach deliverance to
the captives I don't care
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if you are in prison doing
a life sentence behind bars
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or whether you're
in a prison of your own
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little world, the
devil wants keeps us bound,
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locked up behind bars,
till where we can't have
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freedom even though we
live in a land of freedom
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for most of us, may be
the country in where you live
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you don't have that freedom,
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but I wanted to tell
you that God can come in
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and provide that
freedom unto your soul
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and unto your heart, I
don't care what the government
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says in your land, they
cannot stop the love of God
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from setting the captives free,
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from setting at
liberty them that are bruised,
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to preach the
acceptable year of the Lord.
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That is what Jesus
Christ came as a young man
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begin to do in his life ministry
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here upon the earth.
I would like to go now
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from the young man Jesus Christ,
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I would like to go as
he, he carried his ministry
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through on the earth
and I would like to go to
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John 3:16, Matthew, Mark,
Luke, John, John 3 verse 16.
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Again most people
probably know this by heart
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but I tell you that I
want to share with you
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meaning and value
Jesus said for God
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so loved the world that
he gave his only begotten son
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that who so ever believeth
in him should not perish,
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there is a way out of
this world, it's not death
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and doom and
destruction, there's a way out
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that whosoever believeth in him,
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that's you and me
brother and sister.
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Whosoever is
everybody, I don't care
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what nation you come from,
I don't care what denomination
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or what background, you
have an opportunity here
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today that
whosoever believeth in him
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should not perish but
have every lasting life.
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Listen to this now in
verse 17 of John 3, verse 17
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for God sent not his son
into the world to condemn
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the world, he didn't
come here to condemn you
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and I in our sin
and in our despair,
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he came here to help us,
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that we could have a
way out, but that the world
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through him might be
saved. Back up to verse 16,
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that whosoever believeth in
him, we make that beginning,
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we have that
belief in Jesus Christ,
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that he's provided that
way. Perhaps you've never asked
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Jesus Christ in to
your life but today
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as you find yourself with
a reason that you need help
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in different situations
the beginning starts by ask
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and ye shall receive,
seek and ye shall find, knock
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and it shall be opened unto you.
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Belief itself is not
enough, we come to him
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and we pray, we turn
away from our way of life,
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that's call repentance,
but it takes in the beginning
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God created the Heaven and
the earth, he set the example
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and then in John 6, John 3:16,
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For God so loved the world,
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that He gave His
only begotten Son,
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that whoever believeth
in Him should not perish,
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but have everlasting
life. I would like to turn over
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to John 14,
Matthew, Mark, Luke, John 14
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and I would like to
look at verses 1 through 4,
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this here is hope, this
is awesome hope, I don't care
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what war is reigning
in your life, I don't care
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what drug addiction, I
don't care the alcoholism,
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I don't care the problems
of financial issues here.
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Verse 1 of John
chapter 14 it says Jesus
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says in red letters in my Bible,
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let not your heart be
troubled, ye believe in God
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believe also in me. Here
it is brothers and sisters
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the hope, in my
father's house are many mansion
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for who, for
whosoever that believeth in him,
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that's you and
me. If it were not so
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I would have told you. I
go to prepare a place for you
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and if I go to
prepare a place for you
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I will come again and
receive you unto myself
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that where I am
there ye may be also
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and whether I go ye
know and the way you know,
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God hasn't went
secretly unto heaven
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and then wants to trick us
that we can't find the way,
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he's made it plain for
us and we look at the world
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and in on every turn,
they want to entertain us,
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they want to keep us,
keep us our thoughts away
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that we don't have
time to think about peace
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and joy and love. Yes,
they have sex and drugs
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and alcohol and fast
cars and movies and races
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and all kind of things
that keep us energized,
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but at the end of
the day when we go to bed
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and we're empty
and we're hopeless,
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and I appeal to you my
friend that as you find
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yourselves in these
hopeless situations,
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there is a God, a
God that has helped me,
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brought me from the depths
of despair, drug addiction,
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alcoholism,
pornographic material
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and from the
prison cell physically.
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And he is
looking for man and women
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who will say I surrender.
You know when you find
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yourself in a shoot
out you know you've done,
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you've done rob somebody,
you don't want to kill nobody
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and all the bullets
are gone and you're hungry
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and you're tired. There is
a universal sign in the world
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that says when you wave
the flag and you wave it out,
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that means
universally I surrender
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or if you're along the
highway and you're stranded
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and you're out gas
or you got a flat tire,
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you put the flag I
surrender, I need help
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and as we're willing
to surrender to our Father
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in heaven, the devil,
the evilness of society
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is kicked to curb and
we no longer are controlled
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by the force that
we were powerless over.
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He gives us the power when
we are willing to surrender
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our will to him, I
don't care what your problem
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in life he empowers
you with his Holy Spirit
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when he ascended
back unto the father,
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after he was crucified
upon the cross of Calvary,
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he said I must go and
I will send the comforter
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unto you, that's the
Holy Spirit, that's not some
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funny spirit ghost like creature
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that the Halloween
stories and the world
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trying to sell us, the
Holy Spirit is the comforter
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that lives in us. And
dwells and abides with us.
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Give us the
guidance and the reasoning,
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so I just tell you
that I just appeal to you,
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as we look at
John 14, Jesus Christ,
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whatsoever ye shall
ask in my name John 14:13,
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John 14 verse 13, and whatsoever
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ye shall ask in my
name that will I do.
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This is Jesus Christ
saying that whatsoever
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you shall ask in his name
he will do. Here's another,
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the other half of
that, that the Father
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may be glorified in the Son.
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My friend if you shall
ask anything in my name
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I will do it,
verse 15 if you love me
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he says keep my commandments,
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oh they thought the commandment
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were done away with,
they thought they were nailed
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to cross some people
say. That is not true.
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God's commandments
are guidelines for us
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that we may serve
him, if the commandments
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were nailed to the
cross we can steal,
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we can lied we can destroy,
we can do whatever we want,
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there be total
lawlessness in our land.
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It's says if you love
me, keep my commandments
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and I will pray to
Father and he shall send you
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another comforter, the Holy
Spirit, to give us stability
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in this times of unstability.
That he may abide with you
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forever. He is not here
today and gone tomorrow,
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he is here today to
establish a relationship
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with you and with
me, so may we cherish
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that relationship,
we wanna be careful
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with that love relationship
and I want to tell you
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that there is no
way we can be bopping
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with the whole world,
going in out of our minds
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and our lives and think that
we can have the Holy Spirit.
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The quietness of
God, the big screen TV,
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they've got the
thin ones now, the LCDs,
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the high
definition. Even Christian TV,
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I just saw last
week, everybody was singing
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and praising the
Lord and then some lady
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she fell down and
she got zapped supposedly
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with the Holy
Spirit and she's laying
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there emotionless and
then they want to pray over her
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and heal her. I am
talking about the quietness,
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the love that God builds
up, he doesn't knock down,
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he encourages us, he
loves us and he wants to help us
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and when you have somebody
that loves you and cares
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about you and pulls you
from the depths of despair,
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you appreciate that
friend. Somebody that comes
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to your aid in a time of need
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you say thank you my
friend, and then you begin
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to what to know about
this Jesus that created
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the heaven and the
earth. This Jesus who set
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the example for you
and I in this 21st century,
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this Jesus that came
and paid the price upon
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the tree of
Calvary for you and for I.
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They want to think
about his death upon the cross
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of Calvary as Easter Sunday,
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as the resurrection,
praise God that he arose,
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but I want you tell you
that what does his resurrection
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have to do with
chocolate marshmallow eggs.
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Some little plastic,
and some little duckies
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and oh! Yes, they've
got the chocolate bunnies.
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What does that have to
do with our friend who shed
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his blood upon the
cross of the Calvary.
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Our world wants to keep us
moving in all different kinds
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of ways that we can't
think about the solemn thought,
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that is because of me,
it's because I have sinned.
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We all have fallen
short of the glory of God.
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I, in the one, the reason that
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he hung upon the
cross. He loves us my friend
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and he's come to
save us from ourselves
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because we all have fallen
short, we all the Bible says
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have sinned and we have
an advocate with the Father.
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And as we're willing
to surrender our lives
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and our will unto
him. He will take that.
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The gift, the offering
that we bring. Blind, wretched
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and naked, poor and hungry,
not knowing where to turn,
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he will take that
surrender and he will come in
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and the Bible says, he
will create in us a new heart.
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He wants to do
that for you and for me.
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I would like to go to
Luke 19, I want to go back to
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John chapter 14, "Let
not your heart be troubled.
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You believe in God;
believe also in me."
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So let not your
heart be troubled today,
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I don't care what
your problems are.
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He will help you,
he will do for you
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what we can't do for
ourselves, in Luke 19:10,
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Matthew, Mark, Luke,
John. Matthew, Mark, Luke, John,
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I just want to go,
it's just a quick verse here
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but it's very important
19:10, "For the Son of Man
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For the Son of Man has
come to seek and to save
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that which was lost."
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That's right from the
Bible. In red letters,
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he's come seeking
those who are lost.
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And I found myself in
many, many, many lost conditions
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and he has been true and
faithful through everyone.
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I thank you, I pray
that you'll give him
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a chance with your
life also. In Matthew 11,
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I would like to go to Matthew 11
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and look at verse 28 through 30,
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these are Jesus word
again and I just pray
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that they will
be a blessing to you
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as they have been to
me. It says, "Come unto Me,
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all ye that labor
and are heavy laden."
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The cares of the world,
they just knocks us down
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we some days feel so crippled
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that we can't even
walk. "Come unto me,
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all ye that labor
and are heavy laden
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and I will give you
rest," the creators says,
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he give us a Sabbath
rest, for one day a week
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we can set
everything aside and come
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and be with him a special day.
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Yes, that's the part
of the commandments too.
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That's not been
nailed to the cross.
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Take my yoke upon
you and learn of me.
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In the world we
don't learn about
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the love of Jesus
Christ, the indwelling
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of the Holy Spirit. It
says, take my yoke upon you
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and learn of me. I am meek
he says, and lowly in heart,
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humble and kind,
compassionate and loving,
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that's our Lord
and that's our Savior
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and here's the
key and ye shall find
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rest unto you weary souls.
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It doesn't say
weary in the Bible,
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it says ye shall
find rest unto your souls,
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but for me in the condition
I found myself so weary,
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so weary. In verse
30, "For my yoke is easy
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and my burden is
light." So Jesus is calling us
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to walk with him. Let me share
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something with you friend.
In this great controversy
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in which we live, the
war is ragging on both sides
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of us, and that war is
not between you and evil,
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between me and
evil. That war is between
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good and evil. Jesus
Christ and the destroyer,
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and the liar, the
war that's going on.
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We have a choice
of who will serve,
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of whose side we
will be on, but that war
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that is not our battle to fight.
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God will fight it for
you. He fought it for me
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and continually, daily,
as I turn my life over to him
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and surrender to
him. He takes a new each
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and every day and gives
us the strength to carry on
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in this world of
despair. He's done it in my life
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and I can promise you my friend.
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He will do it
for you, I don't care
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how many liquor bottles you got,
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got around your table today.
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I don't care how
much drugs you got powered
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in your trunk
today. God will take
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those desires of
you; he will create in you
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a new heart. As you are
willing to surrender to him,
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he will make a
way all that money
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that you're used to getting,
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he will make a way, he
will provide hope and joy
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and happiness in your life.
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In Matthew 11:28
through 30, Come unto me,
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all ye that labor
and are heavy laden,
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and he promises us
that he will give you rest.
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Take my yoke upon
you and learn from me,
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for I am meek
and lonely and heart;
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and you shall find
rest unto your souls.
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For my yoke is easy,
and my burden is light.
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God is
promising us those things,
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I'd like to go
back a couple of pages
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to Matthew 6,
excuse me Matthew 6:24.
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Here is the
appeal to you and to I.
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Let's look again
Matthew 6:24 through 26.
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Matthew 6:24 to
26, the Bible says,
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"No man can serve two masters."
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We can't serve
the good and the evil
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that's going on
in our world today.
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"No man can serve two masters:
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for either he will hate
the one, and love the other;
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or else he will hold to the one,
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and despise the
other." You cannot serve God
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and Mammon.
"Therefore I say unto you,
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the Bible says, "Take
no thought for your life,
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what ye shall eat;
or what ye shall drink
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nor yet for your
body, what ye shall put on.
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Is not life more than
meat, and the body than raiment.
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Behold the fowls of
the air: for they sow not,
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the birds don't go and
sow and then they don't plant
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and then go and
look for the harvest
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neither do they
reap, nor gather into barns
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to store up for
the winter months,
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yet your heavenly
Father feedeth them.
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Are ye not much better
than they?" You have a soul,
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you have a being,
God created us to be
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and reunited with him
in the Kingdom of heaven.
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Matthew 6:32 to 33,
"For all these things
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do the Gentiles seek:
for your heavenly Father
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knoweth that ye have
need of all these things."
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Jesus has not left
us; he knows what you need
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for today and for
tomorrow. Look in your path
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has he not taken
care of you yesterday
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and brought you to
where you are today.
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Look back on your life, perhaps
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that tragic car
accident that they said
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that nobody
could walk away from.
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I know there's
been times in your life
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where you saw God leading.
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I don't care whether
you've surrendered your will
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yet today unto
him or not. I do care,
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but perhaps you've not
made that decision for him
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yet today, but as you
look back in your life,
00:23:13.24\00:23:15.47
you can certainly see how
you've been blessed by God.
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The sunshine and the
beauty, and the flowers,
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sure there's been
problems in our lives,
00:23:21.40\00:23:23.08
but he that's why he
came to provide a way out.
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To provide hope,
verse 33 Matthew 6 verse 33.
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"But seek ye first
the Kingdom of God,
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and his righteousness;
and all these things,
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the Bible says,
shall be added unto you."
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Take therefore no
thought for tomorrow:
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for tomorrow shall take thought
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for the things of
itself. When I say,
00:23:50.72\00:23:54.02
all these
things you may not have
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that fancy Cadillac or
that Lincoln or you may not have
00:23:55.68\00:23:58.62
that extra donkey
or that extra camel
00:23:58.65\00:24:01.12
that maybe you
felt you should have,
00:24:01.15\00:24:03.12
but God will provide
for you, what is sufficient.
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Someone may have stole
your bicycle or your motorcycle,
00:24:06.56\00:24:10.07
your mode of transportation,
00:24:10.10\00:24:12.34
but God will
provide a way for you
00:24:12.37\00:24:15.20
because he knows what
you need. I guarantee it
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or I would not be
standing here today.
00:24:18.57\00:24:20.39
I would not be
standing here today to offer
00:24:20.42\00:24:23.82
some words of hope of
what he's done in my life
00:24:23.85\00:24:26.05
for you my friend.
He is true and faithful.
00:24:26.08\00:24:29.56
Matthew 7:7, Matthew
7:7, a very beautiful promise.
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Ask and it shall be
given to you my friend.
00:24:36.17\00:24:39.58
Seek and ye
shall find my friend.
00:24:39.61\00:24:43.62
Knock and it shall be
open unto you my friend.
00:24:43.65\00:24:49.43
For everyone
that asketh receiveth,
00:24:50.14\00:24:53.41
and he that
seeketh, findeth and to him
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that knocketh,
it shall be opened.
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Jesus Christ has
said, in this equation here.
00:25:02.90\00:25:06.87
"Ask and it shall be given you,
00:25:07.66\00:25:10.46
seek and ye shall
find." God is promising to you
00:25:10.49\00:25:15.69
my friend that as you ask
for stability in your life
00:25:15.72\00:25:19.60
that seem so unmanageable.
As you ask for forgiveness,
00:25:19.63\00:25:23.89
for the things that
have so easily be set us,
00:25:23.92\00:25:26.74
ask and it
shall be given to you.
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My friend, in the value
of that surrendering flag.
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What you are doing in
essence is you are opening
00:25:35.91\00:25:39.94
the door to your heart
and your saying to your Jesus,
00:25:39.97\00:25:42.79
my life is unmanageable.
Will you please come in
00:25:42.82\00:25:47.04
and help me. And at
that movement just now,
00:25:47.07\00:25:52.16
as you're saying Lord
I too wanna follow you,
00:25:53.00\00:25:57.64
I too want help with my life.
00:25:57.67\00:26:00.46
Do you know the
temptations that once
00:26:01.15\00:26:04.67
so easily be set you
are know by his strength
00:26:04.70\00:26:10.15
you will be able to overcome.
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Pray each and
everyday, seek his face
00:26:12.85\00:26:16.03
in the morning, don't put
it till the end of the day
00:26:16.06\00:26:19.60
because all the day,
the problems rushed in
00:26:19.63\00:26:21.45
and we have no where to turn,
00:26:21.48\00:26:22.80
no hope or no
strength, seek his face
00:26:22.83\00:26:25.84
early in the morning.
Don't wait until the end
00:26:25.87\00:26:29.91
of the day to give God the
opportunity with your heart
00:26:29.94\00:26:32.93
and with your life. I wanna
tell you in a literal sense,
00:26:32.96\00:26:35.92
what's gonna happen to
your life, I wanna promise you
00:26:35.95\00:26:38.52
what God will do for
you. Your life seems rocky,
00:26:38.55\00:26:41.95
it seems empty, you
don't know where to turn,
00:26:41.98\00:26:43.95
but as you ask God,
you're willing to surrender
00:26:43.98\00:26:46.55
your will, and your life to him,
00:26:46.58\00:26:48.18
he will take and begin
to mold and perfect you,
00:26:48.21\00:26:51.26
he will
encourage you and help you.
00:26:51.29\00:26:52.98
I don't care maybe
you're a good Christian already.
00:26:53.01\00:26:55.97
I tell you that God
will help you and mold you
00:26:56.00\00:26:58.65
and polish you, because he
has a special place for you
00:26:58.68\00:27:01.95
my friend in the
Kingdom of heaven.
00:27:01.98\00:27:04.10
And I look forward
to see you not only you,
00:27:04.13\00:27:06.40
but as you're willing
to surrender your will
00:27:06.43\00:27:08.64
and life to Jesus
Christ. You're gonna,
00:27:08.67\00:27:10.97
he's gonna use
you to lead another,
00:27:11.00\00:27:12.83
and I look forward on
that great day to see you
00:27:12.86\00:27:15.40
in the Kingdom of heaven.
00:27:15.43\00:27:16.63
We, we go to the Olympic Games
00:27:16.66\00:27:18.72
and we want to win gold medals
00:27:18.75\00:27:20.19
and all kinds of things.
He has streets of gold for you
00:27:20.22\00:27:23.85
and for I. He's
promised, he is went to prepare
00:27:23.88\00:27:27.99
a mansion for you. And he said,
00:27:28.02\00:27:30.60
that he will come again
and receive you unto himself,
00:27:30.63\00:27:33.31
but we have to be willing
to surrender, the choice today
00:27:33.34\00:27:37.37
my friend is to
surrender the hopelessness
00:27:37.40\00:27:40.46
and the despair
and the emptiness,
00:27:40.49\00:27:43.35
to the creator of the universe.
00:27:43.38\00:27:45.06
And he will lift you
up, he will hold you,
00:27:45.09\00:27:48.39
he will sustain
you, he will keep you,
00:27:48.42\00:27:51.39
and encourage you.
Until that great day,
00:27:51.42\00:27:54.43
I look forward to
knowing of what God
00:27:54.46\00:27:57.63
has been doing in your life.
00:27:57.66\00:27:58.86
I wish you God's rich blessings
00:27:58.89\00:28:00.74
until we meet
again. Please, surrender
00:28:00.77\00:28:03.91
your will and
heart to Jesus, amen.
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