Hello my
friend, wherever you are
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in the world today I
would like to welcome you
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to 3ABN and a special program
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called Faith
Chapel. So today we're
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going to go through
the Bible a little bit
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and I would like
to tell you the topic.
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It's gonna be about
Freedom and Forgiveness.
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We certainly all
want freedom in this war
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torn world that we live.
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There's terrorist
attacks and all kinds of
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despair and so we want freedom.
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The freedom that
I'm speaking about,
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is freedom to empower
you with the ability to
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say no to those things
that you don't want to do,
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that so easily beset us, we know
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we shouldn't do this,
but we continue to do it.
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Freedom from within, offers
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freedom for our world without.
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Forgiveness, the
power that Jesus upon
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the Cross of Calvary
offered for you and I,
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for forgiveness
that we can be forgiven.
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Whatever happened
yesterday in our life.
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We can find a peace
and that forgiveness.
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That's what I wanna
share with you today.
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This is certainly
what we all desire,
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in these days in which we live.
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The last moments of
our Earth's history.
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How many those
are we don't know,
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but Jesus is coming back.
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May we bow our heads and have
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prayer in your
home, wherever you are,
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together. Our Dear
Heavenly Father, I want
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to say thank you for this
awesome privilege Lord to,
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to come again once
before your throne Lord
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and ask for words of
hope and encouragement,
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bless our minds,
bless our time here
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together Lord, for we
are seeking a better way,
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looking forward to a better day
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and I know without
a shadow of a doubt
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that as we're
willing to surrender our will
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and our heart and
our life unto you.
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You will take that tangled mess.
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You offer that
freedom that the world knows
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nothing about
and that forgiveness
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that brings about
peace, joy and meaning.
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We ask for your presence now
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in Jesus name to your
honor and glory we pray.
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Amen. I would like to go
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to Ezekiel chapter
33, Ezekiel chapter 33,
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that's always, it's
always a hard book for me
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to find in the Bible.
I wasn't very familiar
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with all the
chapters and I'm still not,
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so if you have your
Bible beside you today
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please pick it up,
because I'm not gonna go
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so fast that you
can't follow along.
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Ezekiel 33:11. I
like to share with you
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something that's
going to set the stage
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for our, our, a
relationship with Jesus Christ.
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It will be the
beginning. In verse 11 it says,
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Say unto them, you and I
As I live, saith the Lord
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God, I have no
pleasure in the death
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of the wicked. So
those of us that are
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seeking
forgiveness, if, if we choose
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not to serve God
and we, we perish,
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and we are not in
the Kingdom of heaven.
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God says right here
that I have no pleasure
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in the death of the wicked,
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but that the
wicked. Me, my friend,
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might turn from
his way and live,
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turn ye, from your evil ways.
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Jesus Christ is appealing to us,
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sinners in this
world to turn from the evil
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and the sin in our
world, to turn and that we
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may came unto him in repentance,
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that we may
realize our dreadful state
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and say Lord, I need your help.
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That was Ezekiel 33.
Let's go over a couple of
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chapters to Ezekiel
36. Ezekiel chapter 36:26,
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36: 26, We just
read about that he
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has no pleasure in
the death of the wicked,
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to turn from our evil way,
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and I want to tell
you the promise that God
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is going to do for
you today my friend
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as he has done for me.
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Verse 26 A new
heart, that's what we
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want to get fixed with the drugs
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and the alcohol,
the immoral lifestyle,
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the fast cars and all
the money in the world
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cannot buy us a new
heart. Jesus Christ says,
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A new heart
also will I give you,
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and a new spirit, a
spirit of peace, tranquility,
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willingness to serve
our master and our creator.
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I will put within
you a new spirit will I
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put within you and I will take
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way the stoning
heart. He will take away
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that heart of no
care, I don't care about
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my neighbor, I
don't care about the wars
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as long as I've
got bread to eat today.
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I don't care
about what's going on.
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The disaster of
9/11 people say they
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flew their flag for a
little bit in our country.
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It was a tragedy,
but soon they forgot.
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We become callous with
the News media playing all
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the doom and the
gloom and he says I will
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take away the stony
heart out of your flesh
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and I will give
you a heart of flesh.
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And I will put
my spirit within you
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and cause you to
walk in My statutes
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and you shall keep my
judgments and do them.
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So Jesus Christ is
saying that you shall dwell
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in the land that I
gave to your fathers
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and you shall be my
people and I will be your God.
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There is a way to come back.
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We fail, humanity
fail in the Garden of Eden
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and God the
Almighty providence He sent
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his son Jesus to
make our way back
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that we and He
shall be my people
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and He says I will be your God.
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So we have to come to
that point in our life
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where we're willing
to surrender the garbage
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that so easily beset
us, and he will take us.
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Let's go to Luke that
was the Old Testament.
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Let's go to Luke
in the New Testament.
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Some people they feel
that the Old Testament
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is for the old times
and the New Testament is
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now for today, but
I say the Bible is all
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one and it goes
from the beginning.
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In the beginning
God created the heaven
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and the earth until
the end when he comes back
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to receive us
home to his kingdom.
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Luke 15. I would
like to go Luke 15:1-7.
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Then drew near unto
him all the publicans
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and sinners for to hear him.
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This was a gathering
and so they drew near
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to Jesus to hear
him and the Pharisees
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and the scribes, the
big Christian leaders
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of that day.
They murmured saying,
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This man receiveth sinners.
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They thought that they
wanted a special council
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with God, that they
had a special inn with
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the creator of the
universe. God receives sinners.
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The people, the
common people of the land
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and he spake this
parable unto them saying.
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Red letters in my
Bible, "What man of you,
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having a hundred
sheep, if he lose one of them,
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doth not leave the ninety
and nine in the wilderness?"
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How many of you have
a hundred sheep in the
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country where you live
and one is missing tonight
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and it's raining
and it's dark and gloomy
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and there is canyons
and there's crevasses and
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there's wolves and coyotes.
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Perhaps, bear is wild
animals and would you not
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leave the ones
secure and go looking for
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that one lost
sheep. That one lost soul.
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Jesus was willing
to come unto this world
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to save you my friend and me.
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to save you my friend and me.
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And I'm so grateful.
If you lose one of them,
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doth not leave the ninety
and nine in the wilderness,
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and go after that which
is lost, until he find it,
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tirelessly. He doesn't
get tired, he continues to
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seek until he finds it.
And when he hath found it,
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he layeth it on his
shoulders, rejoicing,
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he layeth it on his
shoulders rejoicing,
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and when he cometh
home, he didn't beat that
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sheep, he didn't
condemn that sheep.
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He went seeking for
that sheep and I'm sure
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he bound its wounds up
and mended the broken leg
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perhaps and he put it
upon his shoulders it says
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and when he has
found it he layeth it
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on his shoulders, rejoicing not
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grumbling and murmuring.
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Some times in
society we want to go
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and help some
person and we says oh man
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I had to help him and
I had to do this and I
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had to do that. Trying
out of goodness of our heart
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to help
somebody. But then so often
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I find myself tired at
the end of the day and murmur
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and complain. And
I have to go to God,
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I don't have to, I
choose to go to God
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and ask him for that forgiveness
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in my life today
Lord. So don't be
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discouraged
whatever it is in your life,
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here it is at the
end of the day he came,
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he had been tired,
he sought, he found
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that lost sheep
and he came rejoicing.
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And when he cometh
home, he calleth together
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his friends and
neighbors, saying unto them,
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Rejoice with me.
He says he called
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a gathering for I
have found my sheep which
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was lost and as
Jesus is looking today
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throughout the
world. He's looking to those
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of us who are lost.
We have lost our way
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on a gloomy foggy
night. We can't find our way,
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he is seeking you, no
matter what the depths
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of despair that
you maybe facing.
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He is looking for
you. May you call out
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to him that he can
hear your call and he
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will be there. I
guarantee you, I say unto you
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that likewise joy
shall be in heaven over
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how many sinners, if
you have your Bible with me
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today. I say unto you
that likewise joy shall be
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in heaven over one
sinner that repenteth,
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more than over ninety
and nine just persons,
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which need no repentance.
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My friend that is
for you, and for me.
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Sick and ready to die
in a hospital room some
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almost 12 years
ago. I called out to the
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creator of the
universe and I said
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Dear Jesus please help me.
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I wanna quit, but I
can't, I had a desire
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for change in my life
and I called unto the King
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of the universe and
he has been true and
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faithful each and
everyday since then.
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He will do for you
what the doctors of our
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land cannot do. He
will do for you what the
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judges of our
world cannot do, or the
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King of your land, they
cannot legislate morality,
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they cannot
legislate a change of a heart,
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but Jesus Christ
says I say unto you that
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likewise joy shall
be in heaven over one
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sinner that repenteth.
Repenting is a turning away,
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realizing our
need for our Savior.
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He is blessing, after
blessing, after blessing.
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I would like to turn
now if we could to Luke 15
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and look at
verses 10 through 24.
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Likewise I say unto
you, there is joy in the
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presence of the
angels of God over one sinner
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that repenteth. We
have just heard that over
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here in this
parable, now he is saying it
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in another parable,
so it's very important to
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him that it's repeated
twice right next to each other.
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Let's look at verse 11 says
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and he said a
certain man had two sons.
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Now this is a different parable.
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And a certain man
had two sons and the
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younger of them
said to his father,
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give me the portion of
goods that falleth to me.
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And he divided them his living.
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And not many days
after the younger son
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gathered together all together,
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and took his
journey into a far country.
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Why did he wanna
go into a far country,
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because usually
when we do things wrong
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we wanna like
leave town, we wanna go
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where people don't
know us, the drugs and
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the sex and the
alcohol, we wanna leave town
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and go some place else
and he took all his piles
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of money, maybe
bags of gold and camels
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whatever it maybe on that day.
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And there wasted
his substance with
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riotous living. And
when he had spent all,
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he has spent
all, it was all gone.
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He wasted all his
financial abilities.
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They were
exhausted, they were gone
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and when he had
spent all there arose
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a mighty famine in
that land and he began
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to be in want. He wanted now,
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he was probably
buying for everybody.
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Have you ever done
that, have you ever bought
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things for people
because you want them to
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like you. You want to
be a part of their group.
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You want to fit in. I
have, wasted much money in
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those lines. And he
went and joined himself
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to a citizen of
that country, a regular
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common working
person of that country,
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a citizen and he
sent him into his fields
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to feed swine and he
would fain have filled
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his belly with the
husks that the swine
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did eat. So what he
was feeding to the pigs.
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He was, he was
fain, he was as just soon
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been able to eat that himself.
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And no man gave unto him.
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He had all his friends
I'm sure and no one gave
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unto him a
morsel of food to eat.
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And, when he came to
himself, 12 years ago
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I came to myself and I
said God I need your help
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and this man when
he came to himself
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he said how many
hired servants of my fathers
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have bread
enough to and to spare,
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and I perish with
hunger. I will arise
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and go to my father,
and will say unto him,
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Father, I have
sinned against heaven,
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and before
thee. So he had a plan
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that he was gonna
home unto his father
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I'm sorry, I have
sinned against heaven
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and against you my
father. My earthly father,
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and with that plan
in mind he began to make
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his journey I don't
know if he gave it two weeks
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notice or a one day notice.
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He began to go home with a plan
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And I'm no more
worthy to be called thy son,
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make me as one of
thy hired servants.
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And he arose, and
came to his father,
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so he traveled to his father.
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I'm sure this time he
didn't have no bags of gold,
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no camel, no
donkeys, no bicycles,
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and no automobiles.
Check this out my friend
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this is what Jesus
does for you and me.
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He is waiting for you
to say that you need help.
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But when he was
yet a great way off,
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his father saw him,
his father had to be
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watching for him
each and every day,
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each and every moment
God is waiting for you
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to call unto him,
his phone is never busy,
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never will put you on
hold, never a call waiting.
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You will have a
direct access to the King of
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the universe. But
when he was yet a great way
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off his father saw
him and had compassion,
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and ran, and fell on
his neck, and kissed him.
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And the son said unto
him, Father, I have sinned
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against heaven, and in
thy sight, so he didn't come
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home and say what he
come home and what he meant
00:16:38.74\00:16:40.98
to come home and say
and I'm no more worthy to
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be called thy son. So he
came home with that repenteth,
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that humble heart,
but the father said to his
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servants, bring
forth the best robe,
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bring forth the best
robe and put it on him;
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and he put a ring
on his hand, and shoes
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on his feet. He
probably came home
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with no shoes on his feet.
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God will accept us
in our degradation,
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in our mental
illnesses, in our depression,
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you know, whatever
it is the problems that
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have so beat us
down God takes us just as
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we are and he is waiting for us.
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He has compassion
on us and he sees us
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a long way off and he
is looking for you today
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my friend and for
me each and every day.
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It's a daily
growing relationship with
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Jesus Christ. Remember
Peter the Apostle Peter,
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he was walking towards
Jesus on the water says if
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it's really you Lord
call me and the Lord called
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him and he got out of
the boat and he began to
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walk, and for
whatever reason he took
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his eyes off of Jesus.
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Whatever reason you
have taken your eyes of the
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Jesus maybe you have never
had a personal relationship
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with Jesus, but
Peter said, save me.
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As he was sinking in
that waves of the tempest
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and Jesus reached
down and saved him
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and that's what
been offered today
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for you and for
I, but we have to
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be willing to ask,
because Jesus never forces.
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He doesn't forces way on us,
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he doesn't intrude on our time,
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he doesn't barge in,
the devil and ways of the
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world inundate us and bombard us
00:18:34.51\00:18:37.09
to keep us so busy
we're going 90 miles
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an hour and going nowhere.
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And we find
ourselves just because
00:18:41.78\00:18:44.13
our car is running
and it's speedometer says
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60 miles an hour or
70, we don't even look
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out the window. We
are stuck in the mud,
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the wheels are
spinning and the speedometer
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says we are going somewhere.
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We think we are on our way,
00:18:54.47\00:18:56.10
but until the tank
runs out of gas sometimes
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we don't stop and
get out, look around
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and then at that
point we call unto God.
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But he is willing to
take us just as we are.
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Not to leave us
that way, but take us
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as and remake us,
and shape us and mold us
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and create in us a new heart.
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And the father
said for this was son,
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for this my son was
dead and he is alive again.
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He was lost and he
is found and they begin
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to come together
as a family together,
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and Jesus, my
sister is looking for you,
00:19:32.22\00:19:36.24
my brother Jesus
is looking for you
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that we can be together
in relationship with Jesus
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as a family haven't
he turn to starts today.
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It starts on this
earth as we make a decision
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for Jesus. There
is no way in the world
00:19:49.28\00:19:51.17
that we're gonna be
ready to meet him in the
00:19:51.20\00:19:52.94
calls of glory,
unless we are willing today
00:19:52.97\00:19:56.13
to say please
help me. Then he begins
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to perfect our
character day-by-day and
00:19:59.55\00:20:02.53
he that is, to
began a good work in us
00:20:02.56\00:20:05.71
will finish it. We
can trust him with that.
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I guarantee you. I
would like to go to
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Luke 16 verse 13, right
across the page in my Bible.
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It is in red
letters. No servant can serve
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two masters for
either he will hate the one,
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and love the other;
or else he will hold
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to the one, and
despise the other.
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You cannot serve God and mammon.
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We can't have
one foot in the world
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and the other foot
in church and besides
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church is not
enough to get us to heaven.
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It's a personal heart
rendering to Jesus Christ,
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there is not a big
church on the hill,
00:20:38.22\00:20:40.34
that is all
ready to go to heaven.
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It is individuals
that he is taking to the
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kingdom of
heaven, on judgment day
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you my friend and
myself will be standing
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individually before
the creator of the universe
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and the books will be opened.
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We can't rely on a
preacher to take us to heaven.
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There is nobody
that can forgive our sins
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on this earth
besides the creator and
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the universe. The Jesus Christ,
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the one who shed his
blood, and died for us.
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If that personal relationship
and its starts today
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that he prepares
our heart, and our mind
00:21:09.17\00:21:11.61
and our life
for service for him.
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You can't look
back or fix or take care
00:21:13.45\00:21:17.30
of whatever happened yesterday.
00:21:17.33\00:21:18.65
We can ask him
for that forgiveness
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and then it starts a
new chapter in our life
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today and then tomorrow.
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I would like to
go to Ephesians 4,
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Ephesians 4, it's
in the New Testament
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there in the back, I
always had a hard time
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to finding
Ephesians, Ephesians 4
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and I would like to
look at 27 to 32,. 27 to 32.
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The Bible says, neither
give place to the devil.
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Let him that stole
steal no more, but rather
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let him labor
working with his hands,
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the thing which is
good that he may have
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to give to him that needeth.
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Let no corrupt
communication proceed out of
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your mouth, but
that which is good
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to the use of
edifying that it may minister
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grace unto the
hearers. And grieve not the
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Holy Spirit of God,
whereby ye are sealed
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unto the day of
redemption. You my friend with
00:22:16.72\00:22:19.94
the beginning
walk with Jesus Christ,
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God takes you. He now
has control of your life,
00:22:21.79\00:22:25.34
'cause you were
willing to surrender unto him
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and you are
beginning, that sealing process
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is beginning to point your life.
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He loves you and he
will do the work in you
00:22:31.48\00:22:34.56
that we could
not do on ourselves.
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Let all bitterness,
and wrath, and anger,
00:22:36.16\00:22:38.63
and clamor, and evil
speaking be put away from you,
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with all malice. And
be ye kind one to another,
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tenderhearted,
forgiving one another,
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even as God for
Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
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My brother and my
sister, I tell you that that
00:22:51.90\00:22:55.79
is impossible by
worldly standards to forgive,
00:22:55.82\00:22:59.41
we don't do that. We
got the anger and the
00:22:59.44\00:23:02.99
malice and evil
speaking, but God changes
00:23:03.02\00:23:07.28
the heart and makes
it so that we can forgive
00:23:07.31\00:23:10.20
and be kind one
to another. Amen.
00:23:10.23\00:23:14.43
Tenderhearted,
forgiving one another,
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even as God for
Christ's sake has forgiven you.
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We even got
problems in our big churches
00:23:20.73\00:23:23.48
of the world
today. I don't like him
00:23:23.51\00:23:25.77
because he did
this or he did that.
00:23:25.80\00:23:27.38
Brothers and
sisters, that's got to stop
00:23:27.41\00:23:29.72
and the only way
that can stop is if
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we're willing to
surrender to Jesus Christ.
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I would like to
turnover to Philippians 1:6. 1:6
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is a promise and I
don't want, ever want you
00:23:40.09\00:23:42.02
to forget it,
"being confident as you are
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willing to surrender
to Jesus Christ today.
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You are saying
Lord I need your help,
00:23:47.06\00:23:49.22
as Peter in the water in
the tempest in the raging
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sea says save me.
As you ask Jesus for
00:23:51.98\00:23:55.45
helping your life
today, being confident
00:23:55.48\00:23:58.11
of this very thing,
that he which has begun a
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good work in you,
in me will perform it
00:24:01.45\00:24:05.50
until the day of Jesus Christ.
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Meaning that you
are gonna be ready to
00:24:07.08\00:24:08.72
meet him in the clouds of glory
00:24:08.75\00:24:10.40
each and every day
as you are willing to
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surrender and renew
your life unto Jesus Christ.
00:24:12.08\00:24:14.36
Philippians 4 had
just right in the same,
00:24:15.93\00:24:18.71
right across,
Philippians chapter 4 verse 4.
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Rejoice in the Lord
always and I say Rejoice.
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Let your moderation
be known unto all men.
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The Lord is at
hand. My friend today
00:24:32.61\00:24:37.74
is a day of decision for you.
00:24:37.77\00:24:40.98
The devil wants you to
put it off till tomorrow.
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Today is your
beginning. The Lord is at hand,
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he is here to help, he
is out seeking the lost.
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Now as the
prodigal son come home and
00:24:51.68\00:24:53.64
said I'm no longer worthy to be
00:24:53.67\00:24:55.60
called your son,
may put a robe on him.
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Be careful for
nothing; but in every thing
00:25:01.99\00:25:05.14
by prayer and supplication with
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Thanksgiving let
your requests be known
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unto God. And the peace of God,
00:25:11.33\00:25:15.32
which passes all
understanding shall keep
00:25:15.35\00:25:19.12
our hearts,
shall keep your hearts
00:25:19.15\00:25:26.00
and minds through Christ Jesus.
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Here it is, finally,
brethren, whatsoever things
00:25:29.50\00:25:34.19
are true,
whatsoever things are honest,
00:25:34.22\00:25:36.92
whatsoever things are just,
00:25:36.95\00:25:38.81
whatsoever things
are pure, whatsoever
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things are lovely,
whatsoever things are of good
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report; if there be any virtue,
00:25:43.93\00:25:46.04
and if there be
any praise, think on
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these things. Shut
your secular TV off,
00:25:48.13\00:25:51.23
leave your radio
off, when you go down
00:25:51.26\00:25:53.58
the highway, there
is no value in that
00:25:53.61\00:25:56.08
garbage that
they want to sell us,
00:25:56.11\00:25:57.82
entertainment, that
takes away from our,
00:25:57.85\00:26:00.49
our relationship
with Jesus. It says,
00:26:00.52\00:26:02.06
if its lovely, if
its good report, if there
00:26:02.09\00:26:04.16
is any virtue, if
there is any praise,
00:26:04.19\00:26:05.82
think on these things.
Look at the butterflies
00:26:05.85\00:26:08.58
flying in your
country. Look at the little bees
00:26:08.61\00:26:11.35
or the little
dandelions, look at the creation
00:26:11.38\00:26:14.21
that God has made and
that will lift your heart
00:26:14.24\00:26:16.26
and mind to the
creator. Leave the world off.
00:26:16.29\00:26:19.07
Be careful with Christian rock.
00:26:19.10\00:26:23.41
Christian rap,
Christian this, Christian that,
00:26:23.44\00:26:26.59
just because it
says Christian, try it
00:26:26.62\00:26:30.78
by the love of God.
Philippians 4:13 is a
00:26:30.81\00:26:33.49
great promise, its
carried me many many miles
00:26:33.52\00:26:36.33
and for you too my
friend please don't
00:26:36.36\00:26:39.57
ever forget it.
Highlight it in your Bible.
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I can do all
things through Christ
00:26:41.70\00:26:45.63
which strengthens me.
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You too my
friend can do all things
00:26:47.30\00:26:49.92
through Christ
who strengthens you.
00:26:49.95\00:26:51.56
Verse 19 but my God
just supply all your need
00:26:51.59\00:26:55.01
according to
his riches in glory.
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Now unto God and
our Father be glory
00:27:02.67\00:27:05.08
forever and ever, Amen.
00:27:05.11\00:27:06.61
Verse 23,. The grace
of our Lord Jesus Christ
00:27:06.64\00:27:12.41
be with you all. Amen. The
grace of our Lord Jesus Christ
00:27:12.44\00:27:20.77
be with you all.
Amen. He's went to heaven
00:27:20.80\00:27:25.06
to prepare a
mansion for you and for I,
00:27:25.09\00:27:27.47
my friend. And he is
coming back again one day
00:27:27.50\00:27:30.13
I feel very, very soon,
look at the turbulent times
00:27:30.16\00:27:33.77
in which we live,
soon and very soon
00:27:33.80\00:27:37.51
we shall see the
King and we will be ready
00:27:37.54\00:27:41.13
to meet him in
the clouds of glory.
00:27:41.16\00:27:43.09
Those streets paved with gold.
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I tell you my
friend I look forward
00:27:45.61\00:27:48.52
to seeing you on that great day
00:27:48.55\00:27:50.88
when Jesus Christ comes back.
00:27:50.91\00:27:52.48
God bless you and we love you,
00:27:52.51\00:27:54.62
don't give up, look back.
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