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A beautiful today at
home wherever you may be
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From 3ABN and Faith Chapel
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Thank you for taking
the time to join us today,
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with probably 99
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or many more than
that in this day and age,
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and we are grateful
that you have taken the time
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to tune into Three
Angels Broadcasting Network.
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I would like to say
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that what we are
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going to share today,
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I just want to ask a question
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first of all.
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How many of us are going
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to be in Heaven
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because we are good people?
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Are you good enough my friend
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to hear, "Well done thou
good and faithful servant,
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enter in to
those pearly gates. ",
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we deserve to be
there of our own?
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No.
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Because we have not sinned?
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No.
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I would like to
turn in the Bible,
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but before we do that I
would like to open this time
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with God and with you in prayer.
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Our dear heavenly
Father, we thank You
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for this awesome opportunity
in this age of technology,
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in computers wherever they are
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in a hut in another land,
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in a high rise office building,
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wherever they are,
that You've made it possible
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that Your Word may go forth
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unto the ends of the world
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and the Bible says,
"Then the end shall come. "
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So we are
grateful for technology
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when used in a right way
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and for what 3ABN is
doing throughout the world.
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We ask for Your help,
Your presence, Your guidance
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and the indwelling
of Your Holy Spirit
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as we open Your holy Word.
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In Jesus name we pray.
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Amen.
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I want to say
that we cannot drift
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with the current of the world
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and think that we will
happen to drift into Heaven.
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Absolutely not!
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There is a part that we
play, that humanity plays
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in the ability of
getting from this broken
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sin torn, war torn,
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shattered life,
economic disasters on every side
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into the glorious
kingdom of Heaven.
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It is not a lottery
ticket that we hold in our hand,
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that maybe your
number will come up
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and when you're a
winner you get to go in,
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or you're a loser
and you're cast out,
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we have a choice in this matter.
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And I would like
to turn the Bible,
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to Romans, Romans 3
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is what I'd like to use
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for the opening of this program.
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Romans 3:23
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The Bible says,
"For all have sinned
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and come short of
the glory of God. "
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But there is a way,
there is an opportunity.
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And I would like to turn...
there is hope for humanity...
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yes there is, for you and me.
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I'd like to go a
little over to Romans 5:8
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I want to tell you that
here's the other side to that,
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that we all have fallen short
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and we all have sinned
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and come short
of the glory of God.
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Here's the other side of that.
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Romans 5:8
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"But God commended
His love towards us"
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towards you and towards me,
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my friend,
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"in that while
we were yet sinners
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Christ died for us. "
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In our sinful state,
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not worthy for
the kingdom of Heaven,
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Christ came and died for us
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that we can be forgiven.
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That pardon
through Christ's shed blood
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could be written
beside our names.
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There is joy in
this 21st century,
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there's
opportunity, there's hope,
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only through the shed
blood of Jesus Christ.
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While we were yet
sinners Christ died for us.
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Verse 9: "Much more
then being now justified
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by His blood, we shall be saved
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from wrath through Him. "
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Through Him,
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the Forgiver, the Repairer,
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of the damaged broken society
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in which we find ourselves.
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Romans 5:1
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"Therefore being
justified by faith
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we have peace with God
through our Lord Jesus Christ. "
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He establishes us,
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this is the
beginning of eternity,
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it starts today, an heavenly
relationship with Jesus.
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"Therefore being
justified by faith
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we have peace with God
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through our Lord Jesus Christ
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by whom also we have access
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by faith into His grace
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wherein we stand
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and rejoice in the
hope of the glory of God. "
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Hope in the dictionary
is, "an expectation to have. "
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When you get in your car
and you want to go somewhere
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you stick the car
key in the ignition
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and you have a hope,
you have an expectation
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that the motor is going to start
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and that you're
going to go on your journey
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wherever that may be.
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"Rejoice in the
hope of the glory of God,
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and not only so, but we
glory in tribulations also. "
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Oh, no.
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We glory in tribulation also?
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"knowing that
tribulation worketh patience. "
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So through
trials and temptations,
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and problems in our lives,
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this worketh patience
because we call unto God
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and we have that
living relationship
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each and every day.
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When Christ died
upon the cross of Calvary
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the veil of the temple was
'rent in twain' the Bible says,
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from the top to the bottom,
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you now have direct access
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with the King of the Universe!
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So, tribulation
worketh patience, Amen.
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Thank You Lord. I knew I've been
having some issues in my life
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but it's okay
because it's continued
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to perfect my character.
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"And patience, experience,
and experience, hope,
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and hope maketh not ashamed
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because the love
of God is shed abroad
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in our hearts by the Holy Ghost
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which is given unto us. "
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The Holy Spirit, the
Comforter that Jesus promised
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that when He
ascended unto Heaven
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that He would send the
Comforter for you and me.
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"For when we were
yet without strength
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in due time Christ
died for the ungodly. "
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So, He didn't come to
die for those who were ready
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to go to the kingdom of Heaven
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He came and He
died for us, my friend.
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The Bible, that we read already
says that we all have sinned
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and fallen short
of the glory of God.
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"For yet when we
were without strength
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in due time Christ
died for the ungodly.
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For scarcely for a righteous man
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will one die, yet peradventure
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for a good man
some even dare to die.
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But God commended
His love towards us
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in that while
we were yet sinners
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Christ died for us. "
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So therefore, my friend,
out of great appreciation
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that we can be forgiven,
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in humble humility we come
and we say, "Thank You Lord",
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that is my prayer today that
this will be a new beginning.
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Even if you've been walking
with Jesus for some years
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the perplexities and
the trials of the daily life
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that we can realize that is
perfecting in our characters
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what He wants and be willing
to trust Him no matter what.
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Look back in your life
and see how God has lead you,
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protected you and cared for
you, and supplied your needs,
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He will take care of today what
ever trials you may be facing.
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I would like to turn
to Matthew, Matthew 9.
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Matthew is an easy
book for me to find
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because it is the first
chapter of the New Testament.
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Matthew 9 and I'd
like to look at verse 10
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verse 10 to 13,
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"And it came to pass
as Jesus sat at meat"
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He was eating dinner
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or lunch or
whatever, in the house
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"behold, many
publicans and sinners
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came and sat down
with him and his disciples.
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And when the Pharisees saw it,
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they said unto his disciples,"
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Why eateth your Master
with publicans and sinners?"
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But here's what Jesus said,
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"But when Jesus heard
that He said unto them,
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They that be whole
need not a physician,
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but they that are sick. "
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You don't go to a doctor when
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you're feeling
well and all hunky dory.
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You go when you have a problem
and you say, "can you help me"?
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And that's how it
is with Jesus Christ,
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we go with our problems
and say, "Can you help me?"
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And as He begins to raise us up,
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and we begin to walk,
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and begin to think again,
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begin to have
some clearness of mind,
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from the drugs or the alcohol,
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whatever so easily- or the TV,
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the ways of the world,
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that so easily beset us,
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we begin to have
some clearness of mind.
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Do we forget Him then?
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No. We grow stronger in our
friendship with Jesus Christ.
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"They that be whole
need not a physician
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but they that are sick.
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But go ye and
learn what that meaneth.
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I will have mercy
and not sacrifice"
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Here it is my
friends, here it is,
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"I have not come
to call the righteous
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but the sinners to repentance. "
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So we find here
that we all have sinned,
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we all need a Savior,
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and Christ died for us while we
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were in our
ungodly sinful state.
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"And, I am not come
to call the righteous
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but sinners to repentance. "
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So He comes and He's calling us,
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and He's wooing us,
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and He's working with us,
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so don't kick
against the thorns.
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Be willing to
say, "Lord, here I am"
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and open your heart to
Him and you'll never be sorry.
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Luke 18. I'd like to go to
Luke. Matthew, Mark, Luke...
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Luke 18 and I just want
to share briefly here...
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God is looking
for a humble heart,
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one who is willing to say
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Luke 18:9
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"And he spake a
parable unto a certain
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which trusted in themselves.
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Unto certain which
trusted in themselves
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that they were
righteous and despised others. "
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So here's a group of people,
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a group of Christian people
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at that time when
Jesus walked upon this earth.
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"Two men went into
the temple to pray.
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The one a
Pharisee," - all fancy person -
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"and the other a publican"
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perhaps a poor beggar or
common person of that day
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"The Pharisee stood and
prayed thus with himself,
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God I thank Thee that I
am not as the other men are
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extortioners,
unjust, adulterers,
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or even as this publican. "
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I'm glad I'm not like him,
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because I'm
somebody special to You God,
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I don't want to be
just a regular person,
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"I fast twice in the week,
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I give tithes of
all that I possess,
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And here's the publican.
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"And the
publican, standing afar off,
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would not lift up so
much as his eyes unto heaven,
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but smote upon
his breast, saying,
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God be merciful
to me a sinner. "
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"I tell you," Jesus said
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"this man went down
to his house justified
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rather than the other.
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for every one that exalteth
himself shall be abased;
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and he that humbleth
himself shall be exalted. "
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So we in this world,
we all want to be exalted,
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and be someone
special or someone fancy,
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here it is God is saying that
the one who humbleth himself
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God will take you
and exalt you and use you
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for His honor and
glory and for His kingdom.
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Let's look at Psalms 139,
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speaking about a humble heart,
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let's look at Psalms 139:23, 24
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"Search me, O God,
and know my heart:"
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We're asking God to search us.
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"try me, and know my thoughts:
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And see if there be
any wicked way in me,"
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in you.
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"and lead me in
the way everlasting. "
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That's our prayer that God
would search us and try us,
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because we can trust this God,
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who gave His only Son Jesus
to die on the cross of Calvary;
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We can trust Him
because He is looking
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to reinstate us into
the kingdom of Heaven.
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I would like to go to 1 John,
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1 John 2, if we
could go to 1 John 2,
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that has always been kind of
a hard one to find, 1 John 2:1-6
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"My little children,
these things write I unto you,
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that you sin not. "
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So, we find ourselves
in a sinful condition,
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a Savior God, came to save us
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"And if any man
sin, we have an advocate
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with the Father,
Jesus Christ the Righteous:
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And He is the
propitiation for our sins:
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and not for ours only,
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but also for the
sins of the whole world. "
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My friend I don't care
what it is that you've done
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right here it says He
has been the propitiation,
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He's been the payment for
the sins of the whole world.
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You don't stay in
that sinful condition.
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He pulls you up out of that
and works with you day by day,
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moment by moment.
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"And hereby we do
know that we know Him,
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if we keep His commandments. "
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His law, His love,
His letter of love.
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"He that saith, I know him,
and keepeth not His commandments
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is a liar, and the
truth is not in him. "
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We can't deceive God.
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"But whoso keepeth
His word, in him verily
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is the love of God perfected:
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hereby know we
that we are in Him.
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He that saith he abideth in Him
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ought himself also so to walk,
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even as He walked. "
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I'd also like to
look at 1 John 2:15, 16
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"Love not the world, neither the
things that are in the world.
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If any man love the world,
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the love of the
Father is not in him. "
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My friend, the world has to
diminish that He may increase,
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our lives have to be emptied
out that He may be increased.
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We can't hold the things,
hoard the things of the world
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in our lives and
expect God's blessings
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to come in and
overflow out of us,
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we have to be
willing to empty our cup
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of the things of the
world, to empty it out.
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If you're like me I
never could keep my cup full
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anyway because
there is no bottom.
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With the things of the world
you stuff it in and in and in
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it keeps going out the bottom
and you can never contain it.
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With the love of God, when you
are on the true solid foundation
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of the love of God,
His blessings will come in
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and fill out to overflowing.
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That's how it's
worked in my life
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and I guarantee it will work
the same and abundantly more
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in your life.
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"For all that is in
the world, " in verse 16
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"For all that is in the world,
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the lust of the flesh,
and the lust of the eyes,
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and the pride of
life, is not of the Father,
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but is of the world "
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"And the world passeth
away, and the lust thereof:
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but he that doeth the
will of God abideth forever. "
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So those are just
awesome promises that I
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just pray that
you'll grasp on to.
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I'd like to look at Revelation
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go to Revelation the
last book of the Bible
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and I'd like to
look at Revelation 12:12
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"Therefore rejoice, ye heavens,
and ye that dwell in them. "
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This is saying,
"Rejoice ye heavens
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and ye that dwell in them "
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There's still created
beings in the kingdom of Heaven
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that have not fallen into sin.
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Lucifer the devil has
took a third of the angels
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out to this earth.
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God has the winning
side, He has two thirds
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in the kingdom of
Heaven working for you
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my friend and for me.
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"Woe to the inhabiters
of the earth and of the sea!
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for the devil is come down
unto you, having great wrath,
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because he knoweth that
he hath but a short time. "
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And he doesn't want you
to be where he will never
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have the
opportunity to be again,
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he has lost that opportunity.
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Matthew 25:41, my
friend Matthew 25:41,
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we must go there, Matthew 25:41,
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this is in red letters,
this is Jesus speaking here,
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and this, there's
gonna be a separation
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at the end time
when Jesus comes.
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The sheep and the goats
are going to be separated,
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in verse forty one, I just
want to share this with you.
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"Then shall he say also
unto them on the left hand,
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Depart from me, ye
cursed, " this is the other side
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from hearing, "well done
thou good and faithful servant
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Enter in..."
"depart from me ye cursed
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into everlasting fire. "
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There's everlasting life,
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the Bible says,
into everlasting fire,
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that's eternal
separation from Jesus Christ...
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your opportunity is today!
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As you hear His
voice, harden not your heart
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because today is the
opportunity for salvation
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to begin in your life.
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"Ye cursed, into
everlasting fire,"
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listen to this, the Bible says,
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that it was prepared for
the devil and his angels,
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not for humanity,
not for you and me!
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Everlasting fire was prepared
for the devil and his angels.
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God did not
design it to scare you
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into coming to Him,
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surrender your life unto Him.
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God doesn't use those tactics,
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the devil uses those tactics.
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The everlasting fire was created
for the devil and his angels.
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The devil has come
down unto us, the earth,
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having great wrath because he
knoweth he has but a short time.
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He probably knows
better than you and me,
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but if we're daily willing
to seek and follow Jesus Christ,
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we can sense...God
lets our eyes be opened
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to sin for what it is and we can
see the time, the tragic time
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in which we live in our world.
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Like Sodom and
Gomorrah, as in the days of Noah
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we live also, I believe
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in the last days
of earth's history.
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And soon and very soon
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we shall see
Jesus Christ come back.
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I want to go to John 3:16
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You probably know it by heart,
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but perhaps you're like me,
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I'm learning the Bible
and we begin to learn verses,
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my mind has been slowed from
drug addiction and alcoholism,
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my mind has been wearied
from the ways of the world,
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and perhaps yours has too.
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Let's go to John 3:16,
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it's in red
letters again, my friends.
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Here it says, "For
God so loved the world,
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that He gave His
only begotten Son,
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that whosoever believeth in Him
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should not
perish..." to believe in God
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means: equals not to perish.
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"but have
everlasting life." Verse 17
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"For God sent not
His Son into the world
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to condemn the
world; but that the world
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(that you and I) through Him..."
00:20:18.33\00:20:19.93
...will be saved?, the
Bible says, "might be saved."
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We have a choice in the matter,
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that we might be
saved, because if we chose Him
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we will be saved!
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It's a daily
relationship with Jesus Christ,
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I don't believe in a once
saved always saved relationship,
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some people preach it. They say,
"You come to the altar today
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and you're saved;"
you're in like Flynn,
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I don't believe it.
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Today as you come to
the altar of sacrifice...
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and you sacrifice your will
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and your life
unto Jesus Christ...
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this is the
beginning of your personal
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relationship with Jesus Christ.
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It's a daily relationship
that is so worthwhile,
00:20:51.80\00:20:57.28
and as you ask Jesus Christ
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for that help in your life...
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I want to tell you that it says
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that the devil and his angels,
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those who chose not
to follow Jesus Christ
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will be cast
into the lake of fire
00:21:08.72\00:21:11.69
prepared for the
devil and his angels.
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I want to share
with you something here
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God wants us to
bear fruit for Him,
00:21:16.39\00:21:21.16
beautiful fruit
for Jesus Christ.
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As you come to Him Jesus says,
00:21:24.44\00:21:26.61
"I am the Vine, I am
the Truth, I am the Way "
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This grape cannot
exist and continue to grow
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separated from Jesus Christ.
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He says He's the Vine,
00:21:36.25\00:21:38.15
and so my friends as
you make that commitment
00:21:38.18\00:21:40.71
that decision to
follow Jesus today
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He will begin to
create in your life
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fruit for Him, that you
will be blessing to others.
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Here's the
counterpart of that blessing,
00:21:50.87\00:21:53.51
the counterpart, the other side
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These will be, "ye cursed...
00:21:55.51\00:21:57.90
into everlasting fire "
separated from Jesus forever,
00:21:57.93\00:22:03.19
and we do not want
to hear those words,
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we want to bear
fruit for Jesus Christ.
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He will use us in awesome ways
00:22:09.32\00:22:12.02
if we're just willing
to surrender unto Him.
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I want to tell you
that maybe you don't
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have lots of fruit
in your life today,
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but I want to tell you my dear
friend that we can trust God.
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As I walked out in
the woods this morning
00:22:22.29\00:22:24.70
I found this branch
and I thought it was dead
00:22:24.73\00:22:28.67
but as I look at it,
it has little buds on it,
00:22:28.70\00:22:31.87
and as you break the branch
you can see that it is green.
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There's hope for you, my friend.
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It starts with a beginning,
it starts with a prayer.
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And I say, "Dear
Jesus, I am sorry,
00:22:42.65\00:22:44.89
I come to You
today just as I am.
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Please take me and remake me."
00:22:48.38\00:22:50.95
There's a young man
that was in the prison...
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I'm so thankful to
3ABN, 3ABN organized a...
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there's a prison
not too far from here
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of young people and
3ABN organized a group to go
00:22:59.72\00:23:04.26
and pass out some gift packages
00:23:04.29\00:23:06.25
with all the prisoners and
all the officers in that prison.
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I'll tell you that what happened
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there was a
young man that came up,
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I don't know how old he
was, the ages were from 13-21.
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This young man
was maybe 17 or 18.
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He came with tears
streaming down his face
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and he said, "Will
you pray with me? "
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So we went over there
to pray with that young man
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and he said, "I'm tired
of the drugs and the gangs
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and all the problems in life.
00:23:35.72\00:23:38.86
I'm tired of doing time and
00:23:38.89\00:23:40.50
I've been doing time
since I was 13 years old."
00:23:40.53\00:23:43.05
He had tears
streaming down his face, and
00:23:43.08\00:23:45.68
we prayed with that young man.
00:23:45.71\00:23:48.62
So as our heads were
bowed, and our eyes were closed,
00:23:48.65\00:23:52.71
and we were holding hands
00:23:52.74\00:23:54.78
somebody said, "Now you pray."
00:23:54.81\00:23:57.57
And that young man said,
"I don't know how to pray."
00:23:57.60\00:24:04.35
Someone has never taught that
young man about Jesus Christ,
00:24:04.38\00:24:08.89
and perhaps you
don't know today either.
00:24:08.92\00:24:12.09
I said, "He's your friend,
00:24:12.12\00:24:14.76
just talk to Him
like He's your friend."
00:24:14.79\00:24:16.82
And that young
man as he was sobbing
00:24:16.85\00:24:19.50
he prayed and he says,
00:24:19.53\00:24:20.89
"Dear Jesus, please
forgive me of my sins."
00:24:20.92\00:24:26.12
That is the
beginning for that young man,
00:24:26.15\00:24:29.05
I may never see
that young man again
00:24:29.08\00:24:31.46
until we get to
the kingdom of Heaven,
00:24:31.49\00:24:33.27
but I guarantee you
without a shadow of doubt,
00:24:33.30\00:24:35.99
that he will be in
the kingdom of Heaven,
00:24:36.02\00:24:38.64
as he, each and every
day, surrenders his will
00:24:38.67\00:24:41.57
and his heart to Jesus Christ.
00:24:41.60\00:24:43.13
He did something
that we all have to do,
00:24:43.16\00:24:46.88
he did something, he opened the
door to his heart and his life
00:24:46.91\00:24:52.47
at that moment and asked
the Creator of the Universe
00:24:52.50\00:24:55.63
for help with his problems,
00:24:55.66\00:24:57.92
with his sinful condition.
00:24:57.95\00:24:59.35
We all have sinned and fallen
short of the glory of God,
00:24:59.38\00:25:02.74
but the choice is up to us now,
00:25:02.77\00:25:05.71
belief in a god is not
enough, it takes action.
00:25:05.74\00:25:09.17
That young man upon his knees
in that prison took action.
00:25:09.20\00:25:12.77
And he said,
"Please forgive me."
00:25:12.80\00:25:15.40
What he did is that he asked
the Creator of the Universe
00:25:15.43\00:25:19.94
for help with his life,
00:25:19.97\00:25:21.09
he opened the door to his heart,
00:25:21.12\00:25:24.46
and gave Jesus Christ
permission to come in.
00:25:24.49\00:25:30.16
He doesn't come in and
force Himself, my friend.
00:25:30.19\00:25:33.80
He knocks at the door
tenderly quietly calling,
00:25:33.83\00:25:38.74
wooing you and I in our
sinful broken condition,
00:25:38.77\00:25:43.48
back unto Him and
says, "Will you follow Me?"
00:25:43.51\00:25:47.43
Jesus when He
was here on the earth
00:25:47.46\00:25:49.82
He didn't go to
the fancy synagogues
00:25:49.85\00:25:51.69
to the scribes and Pharisees.
00:25:51.72\00:25:52.97
The message was
carried to everybody,
00:25:53.00\00:25:56.14
but He went down to the
common people at the seaside
00:25:56.17\00:25:59.89
and said, "Will you follow Me? "
00:25:59.92\00:26:01.84
Yes Lord. "Will you follow Me? "
00:26:01.87\00:26:05.02
Yes Lord.
00:26:05.05\00:26:06.13
I too surrendered my
heart to Jesus Christ
00:26:06.16\00:26:10.95
almost twelve years ago,
00:26:10.98\00:26:12.63
the fogginess,
the drug addiction,
00:26:12.66\00:26:15.33
the alcoholism,
the ways of the world
00:26:15.36\00:26:17.35
the pain and the suffering,
00:26:17.38\00:26:18.81
it was a Friday evening,
00:26:18.84\00:26:21.13
I was in a hospital and I knew
those doctors couldn't help me
00:26:21.16\00:26:24.47
because they wanted to give me
medication for my drug problems.
00:26:24.50\00:26:28.10
But I said, "I don't
want no more drugs, period."
00:26:28.13\00:26:31.13
I had my bed pushed
up against the door,
00:26:31.16\00:26:33.91
I didn't want to talk to nobody,
00:26:33.94\00:26:36.83
I wasn't sure if I
wanted to try or not try.
00:26:36.86\00:26:39.48
It was a Friday
evening and I walked over
00:26:39.51\00:26:42.23
to the big
picture window in my room,
00:26:42.26\00:26:44.71
and I looked out
on that Friday evening
00:26:44.74\00:26:47.30
and I saw the
most beautiful sunset
00:26:47.33\00:26:50.13
that I'd ever
seen in my whole life,
00:26:50.16\00:26:52.11
and I knew that the
Creator of the Universe
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that could paint that
picture which would be gone
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in a few minutes of time,
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that HE was the
answer to my problems,
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that HE was the
One who could help me.
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And I too, as that young
boy who got down on his knees
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and asked God to forgive him,
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I said, "Dear Jesus,
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please help me.
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I want to quit but I can't."
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On our own we cannot conquer
these sins and temptations
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that so easily beset us.
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But by His grace,
through His shed blood
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being applied to
our hearts and our lives
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we now have the ability to over
come temptation through Christ
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living in our lives.
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So you too, my friends
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have now the key to success
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to the kingdom of Heaven,
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to ask and you shall receive,
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seek and you shall find,
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knock and it shall
be opened unto you.
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I wish you God's rich
blessings until we meet again
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I pray, in that great
day in the kingdom of Heaven,
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don't look back, stay
focused and continue your walk
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with Jesus Christ.
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