Hello, and welcome
to 3ABN Worship Center
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for the second in
a series of meetings
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brought to you here at
Foundation of Our Faith.
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If you've tuned in for
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Dr. Abraham
Jules' first message,
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How God Makes It Possible,
you know that you are blessed.
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It's always good to
know that we serve a God
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who never has to
worry about what to do next.
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God is always a step
ahead of our problems.
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He's always ready
to move our mountains.
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And that's the God
that we need to know
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is always
available for us today.
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And I know that this message
is going to build on that
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because the message is entitled
The Faithfulness of God.
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If you missed our first message,
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let me introduce you to our
speaker, Abraham Julius Jules.
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Dr. Abraham Julius
Jules is a native of
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the Caribbean
island of Trinidad.
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I've been to Trinidad before.
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A matter of fact,
the lady that raised me
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is from Port of
Spain in Trinidad.
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And we've gone to a
number of places there,
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if you're tuning
in from Trinidad,
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so good to have you,
invite your family and friends
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for that reason to sit
down and enjoy this message.
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He is also, as
you've discovered,
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a fourth a generation
Seventh-day Adventist.
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Dr. Jules shared how God
brought him into the conversion
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as a young man from
the streets of Trinidad
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to the streets of New York.
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And then began a path
to ministry that has now
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extended all around the world.
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He received most of
his early formal education
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in the country of Trinidad.
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But when he came
to the United States,
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he received a bachelor's degree
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from Oakwood College in 1983.
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A master's degree from
Andrews University in 1987.
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And his
doctorate degree in 1995,
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from the United
Theological Seminary.
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More than just the
qualification on script
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and by a certificate is
the heart of this preacher.
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He has preached in
a number of venues.
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Let me share some
of those with you.
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He has held the evangelistic
series in Little Rock,
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a Trinidadian
preaching in Little Rock,
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that's an amazing thing.
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In Harlem, New York.
Los Angeles, California.
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Tacoma,
Washington. Anchorage, Alaska.
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Kingston,
Jamaica. Sydney, Australia.
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Hamilton,
Bermuda. Toronto, Canada.
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The West Indies,
where he baptized
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more than 450
souls in the year 2000.
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He was in London, Johannesburg,
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South Africa, New Zealand,
a number of other places.
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As you can see, he has quite
an international itinerary.
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To add to that, he was
one of the featured speakers
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in the year 2010 at the
General Conference Session,
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where he preached to a stadium
of more than 70,000 people.
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That's just the local audience,
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not including the
international audience.
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But Dr. Jules has
been a husband for 12 years
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of a doctor of
dentistry, Dr. Dominique Jules.
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He's the father of two
children, lovely children.
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As a matter of
fact, his young son
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has quite a smile
that's infectious.
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He's a young man that
has quite a bright future
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along with his daughter.
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He's been in
ministry for 32 years.
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And he's presently in
the Northeastern conference,
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where he's pastoring
the Community Worship Center
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in Queens, New York.
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Now before I
introduce Dr. Abraham Jules,
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we're gonna be blessed by a song
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by our featured
speaker Mark Udo Williams,
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who is a resident
of Houston, Texas.
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He's going to bless us
with one of my favorite songs
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"Wonderful Merciful Savior."
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But before he comes out,
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let's invite the
Lord's presence to be with us.
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Heavenly Father, we thank You,
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that once again as we
sit at this table of grace.
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Lord, You have
prepared for us a meal,
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to remind us of
Your faithfulness,
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Your goodness, Your mercy.
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Lord, we can say that You truly
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are a wonderful merciful Savior.
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And so Lord, we
invite You now to come
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and fill Your
manservant Dr. Abraham Jules,
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make him a conduit of the power
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that is available
through Your Holy Spirit.
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And to those who are
tuning into this program,
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may their hearts be
filled and challenged
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to take that step of faith,
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to trust their lives to the God,
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who is always faithful.
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So come now, Holy Spirit,
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speak to us and
minister to our needs,
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we pray in Jesus name.
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Now, Mark, come and bless us.
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And the next voice
that you'll hear after
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Mark Udo Williams will
be that of Dr Abraham Jules.
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Wonderful, merciful Savior
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Precious Redeemer and Friend
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Who could have
thought that a Lamb
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Could rescue the souls of men
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Oh, You rescue the souls of men
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Counselor, Comforter, Keeper
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Spirit we long to embrace
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You offer hope
when our hearts have
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Hopelessly lost the way
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Oh, we've
hopelessly lost the way
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You are the One that we praise
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You are the One we adore
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You give the healing and grace
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Our hearts always hunger for
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Oh, our hearts always hunger for
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Almighty, infinite Father
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Faithfully loving your own
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Here in our weakness You find us
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Falling before Your throne
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Oh, we're falling
before Your throne
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You are the One that we praise
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You are the One we adore
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You give the healing and grace
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Our hearts always hunger for
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Oh, our hearts always hunger for
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You are the One that we praise
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You are the One we adore
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You give the healing and grace
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Our hearts always hunger for
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Oh, our hearts always hunger for
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Thank you so very much,
Mark, for blessing our hearts
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with that song reminding
us of the faithfulness of God,
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and of His might
and power in this world.
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John, thank you for your
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gracious and kind
words of introduction.
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It's great to be here
for this series of sermons
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on foundations of our faith.
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And we direct your
attention to the Book of
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Lamentations 3:22-24.
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And it reads, "It is
of the Lord's mercies
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that we are not consumed,
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because his
compassions fail not.
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They are new every morning,
great is thy faithfulness.
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The Lord is my
portion, saith my soul,
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therefore will I hope in him."
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We'll talk to you today
about the faithfulness of God.
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Loving Father, we are mindful
of Your presence in our lives,
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and Your goodness to what is.
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We ask as we look back on
Your hands upon this world
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and in our lives that
we would be reminded that
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You have been faithful to
us, every step of the journey.
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May we in turn, oh,
God, be faithful to You,
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until that day when
we shall see You in peace
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and hail You as
our Lord and our King.
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We pray this prayer in
the name of the Father,
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and of the Son, and
of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
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"Great is thy faithfulness."
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In the year 1888, a man
named Thomas Obadiah Chisholm,
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who lived in Franklin, Kentucky.
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And was the assistant
editor of his local newspaper,
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known as the Franklin
Favorite, became a Christian.
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And after becoming a Christian,
Chisholm decided to write poems
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articulating and expressing
the joy of his newfound faith.
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Many poems Chisholm
wrote were published
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in the Franklin Favorite.
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And on one occasion, a
musician by the name of
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William Runnion
read one of those poems
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and was so inspired by
it that he decided to put
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music to the words of that poem.
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That song, after it
was published and released,
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swept the United
States and the world,
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the same way,
some contemporary songs
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like Marvin
Sapp's anthem of praise
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never could have made
it, has swept our day.
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That's song, several years after
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was adopted as the theme song,
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by the prestigious Moody Bible
Institute in Chicago, Illinois.
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That song, several years later,
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was made one of
the features sung...
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featured songs sung
by George Beverly Shae
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for Billy Graham, and
the Billy Graham Crusade.
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That's song,
almost 130 years after
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Thomas Obadiah
Chisholm wrote the words,
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is still sung with great force
and fervor in our churches.
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That song, " Great
is thy faithfulness,
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O God my Father,
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there is no shadow
of turning with thee,
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thou changest
not, thy compassions,
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they fail not, as thou
hast been thou forever will be.
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Great is thy faithfulness!
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Morning by
morning new mercies I see,
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all I have ever needed
thy hands hath provided,
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great is thy
faithfulness, Lord, unto me!"
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I remember, in 1981, I
drove from Oakwood College
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now Oakwood University,
in Huntsville, Alabama
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to New Orleans, Louisiana,
where my brother lived
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at the time in my
1975 Chevy Caprice,
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with this song
playing on my ATRAC.
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I played this song for
eight continuous hours.
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I just had it on replay.
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That song was very
meaningful to me on that day.
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And as the days and
the years have gone by,
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that song with its
divinely inspired words,
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have been the theme of my life.
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I know that God
has been faithful.
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And for those of you who
are students of scripture,
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you wouldn't know that
Thomas Obadiah Chisholm's poem
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is in fact a poetic
rendering of a scripture,
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written by the
great prophet Jeremiah,
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and found in the
Book of Lamentations 3:22,
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"It is of the Lord's mercies,
that we are not consumed,
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because his
compassions fail not.
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They are new every morning,
great is thy faithfulness.
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The Lord is my
portion, saith my soul,
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therefore I will hope in him."
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Now this idea, my
brothers and sisters,
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that the God we
serve is a faithful God,
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is at the very foundation
of the Christian faith.
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All of our hope in this
world, and all of our hope
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for the world to
come, is undergirded
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by this idea
that God is faithful.
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And when we say
that God is faithful,
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basically what we are saying
is that God does what God says.
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In other words,
whatever God says
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He's going to do,
He surely does it.
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When we say God is faithful,
we are saying in effect,
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that God sustains
whatever He creates.
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When we say God is faithful,
we are saying that God finishes
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whatever He starts.
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Look at me at the
implicit contrast,
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the text says "Great
is his faithfulness."
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Now we really can't
say that about ourselves
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because we do not
always do what we say.
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And we do not always
sustain what we create.
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That's why our
courts are filled with women
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trying to get child support
for children that we created.
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They are not sustained.
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Oh, we can create, but we don't
always sustain what we create.
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And we do not
finish what we start.
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That's why there's so much
divorce in this world today.
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We don't finish what we start.
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That's why we have
so many high school,
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college and university dropouts.
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We don't finish what we start.
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That's why we have
so many backsliders.
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We don't finish what we start.
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That's why we have so
many delinquent church offices.
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We don't finish what we start.
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And that's the truth about me
and that's the truth about you.
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We don't finish what we start.
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But when it comes to God,
Hallelujah, God is faithful.
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God is
dependable. God is reliable.
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God does what He says.
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And God
sustains what He creates.
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And God always
finishes whatever He stars.
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Thumb through the pages of
scripture from the first Amen
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in Genesis to the last
Hallelujah in Revelation.
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And you will
find this theme woven
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through the pages of Holy
Writ that God is faithful.
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It is the dominant
note of the Psalms.
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And the underlying
assumption behind everything
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Jesus taught is
this, that God is faithful.
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It is the conviction of
all the prophets in the Bible,
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God is faithful.
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Whenever the
prophets prophesied,
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they were really saying,
you can depend on my prophecy,
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not because of me, but
because God is faithful.
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Consider with me just a
few textual testimonies.
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Exodus 34:6, the writer says,
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"And the Lord
passed by before him,
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and proclaimed, The Lord God,
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merciful and
gracious, longsuffering,
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and abundant in
goodness and truth."
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Deuteronomy 7:9, "Know therefore
00:17:45.53\00:17:49.13
that the Lord
thy God, He is God,
00:17:49.16\00:17:51.73
and He is the faithful
God, which keepeth covenant
00:17:51.77\00:17:54.97
and mercy with
them that love Him
00:17:55.00\00:17:57.11
and keep His commandments
to a thousand generations."
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He is faithful.
And He keeps His word.
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Consider what the New Testament
says in I Thessalonians 5:24
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"Faithful is he
that calleth you,
00:18:08.32\00:18:10.69
who also will do it."
00:18:10.72\00:18:12.95
Consider Hebrews
10:23, "Let us hold fast
00:18:12.99\00:18:16.22
the profession of our
faith without wavering,
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(for he is
faithful that promised;)"
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And ladies and
gentlemen, as Joshua,
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as he summarizes
the whole Exodus event,
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and the wanderings of
the children of Israel
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through the
wilderness, and the crossing
00:18:30.97\00:18:32.41
of the Jordan in
to the land of Canaan.
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As he looked over at Israel,
00:18:35.21\00:18:37.35
as they are now
settled in Canaan.
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And remembered
from whence they came.
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And now they've got
houses they didn't build.
00:18:42.48\00:18:45.22
And they've got
vineyards they didn't plant.
00:18:45.25\00:18:47.59
And they have
wells they didn't dig.
00:18:47.62\00:18:49.96
Joshua looked back
over this divine landscape
00:18:49.99\00:18:53.19
and gave a summary of
why they were so blessed.
00:18:53.23\00:18:56.40
And so he says in Joshua 21:43,
"And the Lord gave unto Israel
00:18:56.43\00:19:02.34
all the land which he sware
to give unto their fathers,
00:19:02.37\00:19:05.67
and they possessed
it, and dwelt therein."
00:19:05.71\00:19:08.94
What he was saying
was that God had promised
00:19:08.98\00:19:11.85
their father Abraham,
a thousand years earlier,
00:19:11.88\00:19:15.12
that Israel was
gonna live in the land,
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and here they are.
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God doing just what He
said He was going to do.
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Look at verse 44,
"And the Lord gave them
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rest about,
according to all that
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he sware unto their fathers,
and there stood not a man
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of all their
enemies before them,
00:19:32.70\00:19:34.87
the Lord delivered all
their enemies into their hand."
00:19:34.90\00:19:39.41
Their enemies
couldn't get to them.
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He told their fathers,
00:19:41.81\00:19:43.14
I'm gonna keep the enemies away.
00:19:43.18\00:19:44.51
And Joshua looked up
and said, look at this,
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everything God said was
going to happen, happened.
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As a matter of fact,
ladies and gentlemen,
00:19:51.25\00:19:52.62
we need to be very
careful that we decide
00:19:52.65\00:19:55.12
to take our
enemies into our own hands.
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God said that He would
make our enemies our footstool.
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And do you know
what a footstool is?
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A footstool is
used to take you higher.
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We use footstools
to take us higher.
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And God says He will use
our enemies to take us higher.
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And verse 45 said,
"There failed not ought
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of any good thing
which the Lord had spoken
00:20:21.45\00:20:24.52
unto the house of
Israel, all came to pass."
00:20:24.55\00:20:28.82
Everything God
said He was gonna do,
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came to pass,
because God is faithful.
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And that's why Paul
writes in II Corinthians 1:20,
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"For all the promises
of God in him are yea,
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and in him Amen, unto
the glory of God by us."
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Now that might not make sense
to you until you stop to think
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about what Amen means.
00:20:50.68\00:20:52.75
We use the word Amen
rather loosely in church.
00:20:52.78\00:20:56.02
We just, kind of, throw
it around very liberally.
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And it's a non
thinking response.
00:20:59.02\00:21:01.22
But the world
Amen has power in it.
00:21:01.26\00:21:04.23
It literally
means, so let it be.
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To be said about
something that God said.
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And that is why you shouldn't
say Amen to everything.
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Because some things
you're not certain about.
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But you can say Amen
today, because God is faithful.
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I want you to know,
ladies and gentlemen,
00:21:23.41\00:21:25.48
if you are not sure
whether or not to say Amen
00:21:25.51\00:21:27.55
because you think that some
promises are not yet fulfilled.
00:21:27.58\00:21:30.19
I suggest on the authority
of exegetical consistency,
00:21:30.22\00:21:33.49
that if God has
come through in the past,
00:21:33.52\00:21:36.16
He will do it again.
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Notice the text tells us,
00:21:38.59\00:21:40.16
"For all the
promises of God are yea."
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In other words,
it's going to happen.
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I am certain that everything
God said is going to happen
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because of the
faithfulness of God.
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Now this text shows us three
specific things to look at.
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Number one, creation.
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Let's hear the text again,
"It is of the Lord's mercies
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that we are not consumed,
00:22:05.05\00:22:06.55
because His
compassions fail not.
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There are new every morning."
00:22:09.06\00:22:10.83
The text says that His
mercies are new every morning.
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The song says,
morning by morning,
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new mercies I see.
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Morning by morning has
to do with nights and days.
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Nights and days are a
part of the weekly cycle.
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The weekly cycle is a
part of God's creation.
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Now if you just
spun the creation,
00:22:29.51\00:22:31.95
you can see the
faithfulness of God.
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Have you ever thought about
how dependable creation is?
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What God creates, He sustains.
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Just think about it.
00:22:41.79\00:22:43.22
On January the
first, the earth will be
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in a certain position
in relationship to the sun.
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Three hundred
sixty five days later,
00:22:48.53\00:22:50.53
the earth will come
back to the very place it was
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three hundred
sixty five days earlier.
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And it is only because of
the mathematical dependability
00:22:55.47\00:22:59.01
of this happening that
you and I can have a calendar.
00:22:59.04\00:23:02.48
Because you break your
calendar up into months,
00:23:02.51\00:23:04.98
365 days based on the
earth, coming back to its
00:23:05.01\00:23:08.08
original point as it
revolves around the sun.
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Ladies and
gentleman, you and I know,
00:23:12.19\00:23:14.59
and we're gonna
testify about God's goodness.
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See, I know and you know
that January and December,
00:23:17.46\00:23:21.00
and the seasons are
given to us and are reminded,
00:23:21.03\00:23:24.50
it's a reminder
that God created.
00:23:24.53\00:23:27.40
I know how to dress in February.
00:23:27.44\00:23:29.60
And I know how to dress in July.
00:23:29.64\00:23:31.34
Because God governs the
weather, it's dependable.
00:23:31.37\00:23:34.91
I already know that
somewhere around March,
00:23:34.94\00:23:38.11
the twelfth... the second,
00:23:38.15\00:23:39.61
we're gonna experience
what is called Spring Equinox,
00:23:39.65\00:23:42.68
which means you have
an equal day and night,
00:23:42.72\00:23:44.62
on that one day.
00:23:44.65\00:23:46.05
And the folk who
studied the seasons and weather
00:23:46.09\00:23:48.56
already told us
that on September 22,
00:23:48.59\00:23:51.89
we're gonna have Fall Equinox,
which means that on that day
00:23:51.93\00:23:55.16
there will be as much
daylight as there is night time.
00:23:55.20\00:23:58.03
They already know
it's gonna happen,
00:23:58.07\00:24:00.00
and that is because of
the dependability of nature,
00:24:00.04\00:24:03.64
because God is
faithful in nature.
00:24:03.67\00:24:07.21
And it's been
happening every year,
00:24:07.24\00:24:09.51
there has not been one
year that spring didn't show up.
00:24:09.54\00:24:13.21
Not one year that
summer didn't come.
00:24:13.25\00:24:15.88
Now there have been years
00:24:15.92\00:24:17.25
when some of us
hadn't shown up in church.
00:24:17.29\00:24:19.39
But there has not been one
year that summer did not come.
00:24:19.42\00:24:23.73
God never forgets
to send the springtime.
00:24:23.76\00:24:27.20
God never had to
write an apology saying,
00:24:27.23\00:24:29.66
"My bad. I
forgot to send spring."
00:24:29.70\00:24:32.33
Because everything
God starts, God finishes.
00:24:32.37\00:24:36.50
And everything God
creates, He sustains.
00:24:36.54\00:24:40.18
Every day of your life,
00:24:40.21\00:24:42.74
the sun has risen in the
east and set in the West.
00:24:42.78\00:24:45.78
And do you know why?
Because God is faithful.
00:24:45.81\00:24:50.52
The sun is in certain
proximity to the earth.
00:24:50.55\00:24:54.76
If it moves just one inch away
from the earth, we'll freeze.
00:24:54.79\00:24:58.49
If it moves one inch closer
to the earth, we'll all burn up.
00:24:58.53\00:25:02.16
Guess what?
00:25:02.20\00:25:03.53
The sun has not moved one
inch from the day that God said
00:25:03.57\00:25:06.87
"Let there be light."
00:25:06.90\00:25:08.40
Because God stuck it
there. And God holds it there.
00:25:08.44\00:25:12.01
Because God is faithful.
00:25:12.04\00:25:14.61
And you may
worry about some stuff.
00:25:14.64\00:25:16.88
But none of us have
ever had a maalox moment
00:25:16.91\00:25:19.48
wondering if the sun
is gonna rise in the east,
00:25:19.51\00:25:22.32
because of the
faithfulness of God.
00:25:22.35\00:25:25.25
If the sun broke down
and if gravity failed,
00:25:25.29\00:25:27.02
who's gonna fix it?
00:25:27.06\00:25:28.39
NASA? Or the government?
00:25:28.42\00:25:30.79
They can barely fix the economy.
00:25:30.83\00:25:32.33
They can barely handle crime.
00:25:32.36\00:25:34.00
How in the world they're
gonna fix the sun and the moon?
00:25:34.03\00:25:36.56
But they don't have to fix it,
00:25:36.60\00:25:38.60
because of the
faithfulness of God.
00:25:38.63\00:25:42.17
Consider God's faithfulness,
00:25:42.20\00:25:44.77
every time you heat
up water to 212 degrees.
00:25:44.81\00:25:48.64
Every time you do
it, it starts boiling.
00:25:48.68\00:25:52.85
God says, "I'm gonna be
faithful to 212 degrees.
00:25:52.88\00:25:57.12
And when you heat
it up to 212 degrees,
00:25:57.15\00:25:59.45
I will make it boil."
00:25:59.49\00:26:01.56
Every time you
have a cup of decaf,
00:26:01.59\00:26:04.63
you can praise God,
00:26:04.66\00:26:06.26
because it's a sign
of divine faithfulness.
00:26:06.29\00:26:10.17
Every time you cool down
water to 32 degrees Fahrenheit.
00:26:10.20\00:26:14.64
God says, "I'm gonna
make it turn it to ice."
00:26:14.67\00:26:17.11
And every time you drop some
ice cubes in your ginger ale,
00:26:17.14\00:26:20.21
you should stop and
say thank you, Lord.
00:26:20.24\00:26:23.08
Have you ever thought,
my brothers and sisters,
00:26:23.11\00:26:25.75
that they are seven times
more water than there is land?
00:26:25.78\00:26:29.72
Water should
just envelop the land.
00:26:29.75\00:26:32.29
Water should just cover all
the land mass, but it doesn't.
00:26:32.32\00:26:35.79
And the reason why
it doesn't is because
00:26:35.82\00:26:38.83
when God created
the earth and the moon,
00:26:38.86\00:26:40.83
He created
spinning objects that create
00:26:40.86\00:26:43.00
such centrifugal force,
so that it creates levees.
00:26:43.03\00:26:46.94
And these levees
protect the earth.
00:26:46.97\00:26:50.17
Men have made levees.
00:26:50.21\00:26:52.07
But the levees that men
have built in New Orleans,
00:26:52.11\00:26:54.91
they have failed.
00:26:54.94\00:26:56.54
But the levee that God made,
God put a levee in the sky,
00:26:56.58\00:27:00.22
and said to the
water, come only so far,
00:27:00.25\00:27:02.42
because of the
faithfulness of God.
00:27:02.45\00:27:04.92
In fact, when you read
the God story in the Bible,
00:27:04.95\00:27:08.32
have you noticed that the
Bible never tries to prove
00:27:08.36\00:27:10.49
that there is a God?
00:27:10.53\00:27:11.99
It never gives you an
argument for God's existence.
00:27:12.03\00:27:15.93
The Bible simply assumes
that if you have any sense
00:27:15.96\00:27:20.10
that you would know
that there is a God.
00:27:20.14\00:27:23.74
The Bible opens up,
not in defense of God.
00:27:23.77\00:27:26.88
But it opens up this way,
"In the beginning, God..."
00:27:26.91\00:27:31.01
it doesn't argue for God.
00:27:31.05\00:27:33.15
It just assumes there is a God.
00:27:33.18\00:27:35.95
Because Psalm 19 says
00:27:35.98\00:27:37.65
"The heavens
declare the glory of God,
00:27:37.69\00:27:40.39
and the firmament
showeth his handiwork."
00:27:40.42\00:27:43.73
All you have to do is
look around you and say,
00:27:43.76\00:27:47.03
you know what?
00:27:47.06\00:27:48.40
Who made the
rivers? Who made the trees?
00:27:48.43\00:27:51.83
Who made the rivers
that flow to the seas?
00:27:51.87\00:27:54.60
And who hung the
moon in the starry sky?
00:27:54.64\00:27:58.41
Somebody bigger than you and I.
00:27:58.44\00:28:02.08
That is why Paul
says in Romans 1:20,
00:28:02.11\00:28:05.05
"For since the
creation of the world,
00:28:05.08\00:28:07.25
my invisible
attributes, my eternal power
00:28:07.28\00:28:10.95
and divine nature
had been clearly seen,
00:28:10.99\00:28:13.96
because they are understood
through what has been made."
00:28:13.99\00:28:19.23
I don't have to
prove the faithfulness
00:28:19.26\00:28:20.70
of God just by creation.
00:28:20.73\00:28:22.80
I can prove this thing
secondly, by contemplation.
00:28:22.83\00:28:26.74
Let's hear the text again,
00:28:26.77\00:28:28.14
"It is of the Lord's mercies
that we are not consumed,
00:28:28.17\00:28:32.01
because his
compassions fail not.
00:28:32.04\00:28:34.74
They are new every morning,
great is thy faithfulness."
00:28:34.78\00:28:38.61
Notice the text says when my
soul decides to tell the truth,
00:28:38.65\00:28:42.58
it will testify that it
is of the Lord's mercies that
00:28:42.62\00:28:46.69
we are not consumed because
His compassions fail not.
00:28:46.72\00:28:51.49
If you just stop
and think about it.
00:28:51.53\00:28:54.70
You can see the faithfulness
of God all around you.
00:28:54.73\00:28:58.67
If you just stop to contemplate
from whence you have come,
00:28:58.70\00:29:03.84
where you started from
and where you are right now.
00:29:03.87\00:29:07.64
Then if you have any
sense, you should be saying
00:29:07.68\00:29:11.65
"Great is thy faithfulness."
00:29:11.68\00:29:14.82
Don't think you
have made yourself
00:29:14.85\00:29:16.45
for because
you're so proficient.
00:29:16.48\00:29:19.29
It had nothing to
do with your ingenuity.
00:29:19.32\00:29:21.72
It had to do with
the faithfulness of God.
00:29:21.76\00:29:24.56
God's been faithful to us.
00:29:24.59\00:29:27.16
God has brought every last one
of us from a mighty long way.
00:29:27.20\00:29:32.43
Some of us just
forgot how messed up we were
00:29:32.47\00:29:35.17
and God
overrode our foolishness,
00:29:35.20\00:29:37.64
and blessed us anyhow.
00:29:37.67\00:29:39.47
He's been faithful.
00:29:39.51\00:29:41.11
That is why every
time you think about
00:29:41.14\00:29:42.64
what has been
affected in your life,
00:29:42.68\00:29:45.15
you ought to say,
"Great is thy faithfulness."
00:29:45.18\00:29:49.38
If your child gets
married, you should be saying,
00:29:49.42\00:29:52.29
"Great is thy faithfulness."
00:29:52.32\00:29:55.09
When your children
graduate, you should be saying,
00:29:55.12\00:29:57.79
"Great is thy faithfulness."
00:29:57.83\00:30:00.60
If you've got a little
sanity in your mind right now
00:30:00.63\00:30:03.50
and you know your address
00:30:03.53\00:30:04.90
and your social security number,
00:30:04.93\00:30:06.70
you should be saying,
"Great is thy faithfulness."
00:30:06.74\00:30:10.61
If you've got in a job
in an economy like this
00:30:10.64\00:30:13.38
and a place to call your
own, you should be shouting,
00:30:13.41\00:30:17.05
"Great is thy faithfulness."
00:30:17.08\00:30:20.38
If God blessed you, so
you can employ someone else,
00:30:20.42\00:30:24.29
you should be saying,
"Great is thy faithfulness."
00:30:24.32\00:30:28.32
If you've got a car,
or a little hoop jeep
00:30:28.36\00:30:31.33
and it takes you
from point A to Point B,
00:30:31.36\00:30:34.03
you should be saying,
"Great is thy faithfulness."
00:30:34.06\00:30:37.60
If you woke up this
morning and you're able to put
00:30:37.63\00:30:40.04
one foot in front of the
other, you should be shouting,
00:30:40.07\00:30:43.37
"Great is thy faithfulness."
00:30:43.41\00:30:46.31
Every time you think
about how your kids are doing
00:30:46.34\00:30:49.18
and what they could be
doing, you should be shouting,
00:30:49.21\00:30:51.95
"Great is thy faithfulness."
00:30:51.98\00:30:54.85
Anytime you get a promotion,
you should be declaring,
00:30:54.88\00:30:58.25
"Great is thy faithfulness."
00:30:58.29\00:31:00.86
Every time a bill
comes to your house
00:31:00.89\00:31:03.12
and you're able to pay
it, you should be shouting,
00:31:03.16\00:31:05.83
"Great is thy faithfulness."
00:31:05.86\00:31:08.53
Every time you go to the
doctor and the doctor says
00:31:08.56\00:31:11.17
"You're doing all
right," you ought to shout,
00:31:11.20\00:31:13.34
"Great is thy faithfulness."
00:31:13.37\00:31:17.97
Every time you make a sale,
every time you seal a deal,
00:31:18.01\00:31:21.94
every time you get a loan,
every time you meet payroll,
00:31:21.98\00:31:24.41
you ought to just be shouting,
"Great is thy faithfulness."
00:31:24.45\00:31:27.92
Food on your table,
clothes on your back,
00:31:27.95\00:31:30.72
God's been good,
you ought to say,
00:31:30.75\00:31:34.32
"Great is thy faithfulness."
00:31:34.36\00:31:37.19
But you know many of
us, my brothers and sisters,
00:31:37.23\00:31:40.13
we are not grateful,
because we are delusional.
00:31:40.16\00:31:45.13
We think we did it.
00:31:45.17\00:31:47.27
Well, while we try to
take credit for ourselves,
00:31:47.30\00:31:50.24
while we forget to sing
"Great is thy faithfulness."
00:31:50.27\00:31:54.61
The angels are
singing all around us,
00:31:54.64\00:31:56.78
"Great is thy foolishness."
00:31:56.81\00:32:00.32
Because if we
contrast ourselves with God,
00:32:00.35\00:32:03.45
God is
characterized by faithfulness.
00:32:03.49\00:32:07.52
And you and I have been
00:32:07.56\00:32:08.89
characterized
by our foolishness.
00:32:08.92\00:32:11.79
Many people say,
00:32:11.83\00:32:13.16
"Well, God hasn't
done anything for me,
00:32:13.19\00:32:14.53
look at my situation."
00:32:14.56\00:32:16.23
Oh, it's not that God
hasn't been faithful to you.
00:32:16.26\00:32:19.63
Most of the problems
we have in our lives,
00:32:19.67\00:32:22.24
we can trace right back to
the lack of God's faithfulness,
00:32:22.27\00:32:27.24
not to the lack of
God's faithfulness,
00:32:27.28\00:32:29.64
but to some of our foolishness.
00:32:29.68\00:32:33.08
Come on, talk to me.
00:32:33.11\00:32:34.48
Don't act like you
haven't been foolish.
00:32:34.52\00:32:38.65
Amen, somebody. I
have a book in my library.
00:32:38.69\00:32:42.49
And the title of the book is
00:32:42.52\00:32:43.86
"How come every time I
get stabbed in the back,
00:32:43.89\00:32:45.99
my fingerprints
are on the knife."
00:32:46.03\00:32:49.56
It's our choices.
00:32:49.60\00:32:51.83
You are the one who
made the telephone call.
00:32:51.87\00:32:56.30
And now your life is a mess.
00:32:56.34\00:33:00.21
You are the one
that invited him over,
00:33:00.24\00:33:01.78
now you have cursed
the day you met him.
00:33:01.81\00:33:04.71
You are the one who
allowed your emotions to become
00:33:04.75\00:33:06.61
entangled with someone you know
00:33:06.65\00:33:08.15
you should not have
fallen in love with.
00:33:08.18\00:33:10.89
God's been faithful
but we've been foolish.
00:33:10.92\00:33:15.52
Oh, it's not God.
00:33:15.56\00:33:17.39
He's been faithful
while we've played the fool.
00:33:17.43\00:33:21.90
You are the one
that abused your body
00:33:21.93\00:33:23.63
and now
everything is out of whack.
00:33:23.67\00:33:25.80
And you're blaming God.
00:33:25.83\00:33:27.90
God's been faithful
while you've been foolish.
00:33:27.94\00:33:33.27
We've been our
own worst enemies.
00:33:33.31\00:33:36.01
But even though
we have messed up,
00:33:36.04\00:33:37.75
God is so faithful.
00:33:37.78\00:33:39.18
He has not allowed us to be
00:33:39.21\00:33:41.32
completely
destroyed by our stupidity.
00:33:41.35\00:33:43.69
God has intervened.
And He has blessed us.
00:33:43.72\00:33:47.29
And saved us
from our own self's.
00:33:47.32\00:33:49.76
In other words,
God's been faithful
00:33:49.79\00:33:52.79
while we've been foolish.
00:33:52.83\00:33:55.16
And you contemplate
it, God's been faithful.
00:33:55.20\00:33:58.30
There's a song that has
blessed me over the years.
00:33:58.33\00:34:01.20
And here are the
words of the song,
00:34:01.24\00:34:03.17
"How many times must I
prove how much I love you.
00:34:03.20\00:34:07.38
How many ways my
love for you, I show.
00:34:07.41\00:34:10.35
How many times must I
rescue you from trouble,
00:34:10.38\00:34:13.88
for you to know just
how much I love you?"
00:34:13.92\00:34:17.15
Then in the chorus, God says
00:34:17.19\00:34:18.75
"Woke you up this morning,
clothed you in your right mind.
00:34:18.79\00:34:21.62
When you walked upon a problem,
didn't I step right in on time?
00:34:21.66\00:34:24.93
Strength, along life's
journey. My angels carried you.
00:34:24.96\00:34:28.93
So you would know
just how much I love you."
00:34:28.96\00:34:32.60
Then God continues to
talk to us in that song.
00:34:32.63\00:34:35.27
He says "Food on your table.
00:34:35.30\00:34:37.04
Showed up when
the bills would do.
00:34:37.07\00:34:39.11
When the pain was
wrecking your body,
00:34:39.14\00:34:41.61
send down healing to you.
00:34:41.64\00:34:43.55
Lost in sin and
sorrow, I died to set you free.
00:34:43.58\00:34:48.38
So you would know
just how much I love you."
00:34:48.42\00:34:53.66
Finally, we see a confrontation.
00:34:53.69\00:34:58.19
God is not only faithful in
creation and in contemplation.
00:34:58.23\00:35:03.23
But He's also faithful
when there's a confrontation.
00:35:03.26\00:35:06.30
The only reason
why real Christians
00:35:06.33\00:35:08.90
don't lose their
minds, when crises come,
00:35:08.94\00:35:12.14
is because of God.
00:35:12.17\00:35:14.54
You see when Jeremiah said
"Great is thy faithfulness."
00:35:14.58\00:35:18.25
It was during a crisis.
00:35:18.28\00:35:20.55
This is the
book of Lamentations.
00:35:20.58\00:35:22.92
And Lamentation means weep.
00:35:22.95\00:35:25.79
Jeremiah's
world had fallen apart
00:35:25.82\00:35:28.79
and he had
experienced a tsunami of grief.
00:35:28.82\00:35:32.39
The Babylonians had
come and destroyed Jerusalem.
00:35:32.43\00:35:35.76
And destroyed Jerusalem
00:35:35.80\00:35:37.53
and brought
Jerusalem to ashes and rubble.
00:35:37.57\00:35:40.24
And there was nothing left.
00:35:40.27\00:35:42.10
I don't know if you've
ever been in a situation
00:35:42.14\00:35:44.81
where you had nothing
left, everything was gone.
00:35:44.84\00:35:49.54
And in the midst of
not having anything,
00:35:49.58\00:35:52.88
Jeremiah stood up and
said, "It is by thy mercies,
00:35:52.91\00:35:57.92
we are not consumed.
00:35:57.95\00:36:00.26
Great is thy faithfulness."
00:36:00.29\00:36:03.39
Which is to say, my
brothers and sisters,
00:36:03.43\00:36:06.33
anybody can sing it,
when you've got a job.
00:36:06.36\00:36:11.10
But if you're like
Jeremiah, you learn to sing
00:36:11.13\00:36:14.40
when you just lost your job.
00:36:14.44\00:36:17.01
And you learn to
sing, when you don't know
00:36:17.04\00:36:19.24
how you're gonna pay your bills.
00:36:19.27\00:36:21.11
And you learn to sing,
00:36:21.14\00:36:22.61
when you cry
yourself to sleep at nights.
00:36:22.64\00:36:25.05
And you'll learn to
sing, when everything
00:36:25.08\00:36:27.35
and everyone seems against you.
00:36:27.38\00:36:29.45
You'll learn to sing
while everything is against you.
00:36:29.48\00:36:35.52
Because anybody can shout,
when you've got good health.
00:36:35.56\00:36:40.46
Jeremiah is saying
"Great is thy faithfulness,"
00:36:40.50\00:36:45.73
with chemo and lymph
nodes all over your body.
00:36:45.77\00:36:49.87
The reason you can hope,
00:36:49.90\00:36:51.71
is not because of
the party in power.
00:36:51.74\00:36:54.71
The reason you can hope
00:36:54.74\00:36:56.44
is not because your
friends are in power.
00:36:56.48\00:36:59.25
My hope is built on
nothing less than Jesus' blood,
00:36:59.28\00:37:04.19
and righteousness.
00:37:04.22\00:37:05.55
I dare not trust
the sweetest frame,
00:37:05.59\00:37:07.86
but a Holier
lean on Jesus' name.
00:37:07.89\00:37:11.26
On Christ, the
solid rock, I stand.
00:37:11.29\00:37:14.73
All other
ground is sinking sand.
00:37:14.76\00:37:17.73
All other
ground is sinking sand.
00:37:17.77\00:37:20.34
My hope is not in humanity.
00:37:20.37\00:37:22.84
Faltering and the
failing human beings.
00:37:22.87\00:37:26.04
My hope is built on nothing
less than Christ our Lord.
00:37:26.07\00:37:30.98
On Christ, not you.
00:37:31.01\00:37:34.32
Human beings are
too funny and fickle.
00:37:34.35\00:37:37.12
But on Christ, the
solid rock, I stand.
00:37:37.15\00:37:40.86
Christ is faithful
to take care of you.
00:37:40.89\00:37:44.59
And notice what he says,
"Every morning, new mercies,
00:37:44.63\00:37:49.50
he's gonna
bring into your life."
00:37:49.53\00:37:51.73
What he is talking about,
00:37:51.77\00:37:53.10
is when the children of
Israel were in the wilderness.
00:37:53.13\00:37:56.07
And they didn't know
what they were gonna eat
00:37:56.10\00:37:57.51
and they didn't know
how they were gonna survive.
00:37:57.54\00:38:00.81
And we're told that
they complained to God.
00:38:00.84\00:38:02.74
And God said to Moses,
00:38:02.78\00:38:04.15
"Moses, tell
them in the morning.
00:38:04.18\00:38:07.42
Just go to bed
tonight. And in the morning.
00:38:07.45\00:38:11.89
They're gonna see some mercy."
00:38:11.92\00:38:14.09
Problem with most of
us is we take tomorrow
00:38:14.12\00:38:16.83
to bed with us tonight,
00:38:16.86\00:38:19.09
that's why we can't fall asleep.
00:38:19.13\00:38:21.46
By the way, Isaiah said,
00:38:21.50\00:38:23.10
"It's only wicked folk
who can't sleep at night."
00:38:23.13\00:38:27.00
Isaiah said, "The wicked
folk are tossed to and fro.
00:38:27.04\00:38:29.87
While they're trying
to go to bed at night's
00:38:29.90\00:38:31.77
they are tossed
hither and yon, can't sleep."
00:38:31.81\00:38:36.24
And so the Bible
says that God told them,
00:38:36.28\00:38:38.91
"You all, just go to
sleep, go to rest tonight.
00:38:38.95\00:38:41.42
Don't worry
about the provisions,
00:38:41.45\00:38:42.98
tomorrow
morning, when you wake up,
00:38:43.02\00:38:46.09
all over the ground,
would be the provisions,
00:38:46.12\00:38:48.99
that I would provide for you."
00:38:49.02\00:38:51.03
And the Bible says
that they were wafers
00:38:51.06\00:38:53.23
on the ground
that tasted like honey.
00:38:53.26\00:38:55.80
They didn't know what it
was so they called it "Manna."
00:38:55.83\00:38:59.93
Manna literally
means, what is this?
00:38:59.97\00:39:03.51
Whenever I cook for my
children, they tell my wife,
00:39:03.54\00:39:07.51
"Daddy gave us manna."
00:39:07.54\00:39:08.88
So God said, "Eat it.
00:39:12.48\00:39:14.82
But only get enough
to get you through today.
00:39:14.85\00:39:19.55
Gather two pints per person.
00:39:19.59\00:39:21.12
And don't hold any."
Don't ask for take home box.
00:39:21.16\00:39:23.56
Because you don't
need a take home box.
00:39:23.59\00:39:25.59
Because when the next day comes,
00:39:25.63\00:39:27.73
there'll be some new mercies.
00:39:27.76\00:39:29.93
God says "I'm
gonna have manna for you,
00:39:29.96\00:39:32.23
one day at a time."
00:39:32.27\00:39:34.40
And one way you stay
sane in a crazy world,
00:39:34.44\00:39:37.34
is to trust God,
one day at a time.
00:39:37.37\00:39:42.68
I'm not worried about Sunday.
00:39:42.71\00:39:45.15
I'm going to trust God
that He's got enough mercy
00:39:45.18\00:39:48.02
to get me through Saturday.
00:39:48.05\00:39:50.29
And when Sunday comes,
He'll give me new mercies
00:39:50.32\00:39:53.12
to get me through Sunday.
00:39:53.15\00:39:54.92
And when Monday comes,
00:39:54.96\00:39:56.29
He'll give me
some Monday mercies.
00:39:56.32\00:39:58.03
And when Tuesday comes,
00:39:58.06\00:39:59.79
God will provide
some Tuesday mercies.
00:39:59.83\00:40:01.90
And when Wednesday comes,
00:40:01.93\00:40:03.67
He's gonna give me
some Wednesday mercies.
00:40:03.70\00:40:06.43
All my life, all 55 years,
I've been getting new mercies,
00:40:06.47\00:40:12.31
55 years of 365 mercies a year.
00:40:12.34\00:40:16.18
God has given me
over 20,000 mercies.
00:40:16.21\00:40:20.12
And I want you to
know, ladies and gentleman,
00:40:20.15\00:40:22.18
He has said that
when He gives the mercies,
00:40:22.22\00:40:24.55
they will be new every morning.
00:40:24.59\00:40:27.19
They will not feel the same.
00:40:27.22\00:40:30.33
And by His mercies,
we are not consumed.
00:40:30.36\00:40:36.20
Some of us should have
been wiped out a long time ago,
00:40:36.23\00:40:39.33
but it's God's mercies.
00:40:39.37\00:40:41.47
When I think about my own life,
I think about God's goodness.
00:40:41.50\00:40:45.37
God has been faithful.
00:40:45.41\00:40:47.98
I don't have
the time to tell you
00:40:48.01\00:40:49.34
what the Lord has
brought me through.
00:40:49.38\00:40:51.11
How many
prayers He has answered.
00:40:51.15\00:40:53.42
How many tight spots
He's gotten me out of.
00:40:53.45\00:40:56.32
How many days He has
lifted up my bowed down head.
00:40:56.35\00:40:59.95
How many times He
has seen me through.
00:40:59.99\00:41:02.96
How many
opportunities He has created.
00:41:02.99\00:41:05.16
How many times He has looked
00:41:05.19\00:41:06.53
beyond my faults
and saw my needs.
00:41:06.56\00:41:08.96
How many doors He has opened.
How many doors He has shut.
00:41:09.00\00:41:13.23
I don't deserve them
all, but I am thankful.
00:41:13.27\00:41:16.14
Because God's been faithful.
00:41:16.17\00:41:19.64
His faithfulness is
evident in creation,
00:41:19.67\00:41:22.58
it's very clear to
me in contemplation.
00:41:22.61\00:41:25.21
And His faithfulness does
not fail in confrontation.
00:41:25.25\00:41:28.55
Great is thy faithfulness.
00:41:28.58\00:41:31.75
And great faithfulness
demands great faithfulness.
00:41:31.79\00:41:36.09
If God's been faithful,
you ought to be faithful.
00:41:36.12\00:41:39.59
You know, my father and mother
00:41:39.63\00:41:41.83
were faithful to us as children.
00:41:41.86\00:41:44.23
And I made sure, when I got old,
00:41:44.27\00:41:46.63
and can provide whatever
they needed for them, I did it,
00:41:46.67\00:41:50.01
because they
were faithful to me.
00:41:50.04\00:41:51.97
God's been faithful to
you, count your blessings
00:41:52.01\00:41:55.74
and name them one by one.
00:41:55.78\00:41:58.38
Faithful is our God.
00:41:58.41\00:42:00.62
I'm reaping the
harvest God promised me.
00:42:00.65\00:42:02.82
Take back what the
devil stole from me.
00:42:02.85\00:42:05.05
And I rejoice today because
I'm gonna recover it all.
00:42:05.09\00:42:09.32
When I think about
how far He has brought me.
00:42:09.36\00:42:12.89
What shall I
render unto the Lord?
00:42:12.93\00:42:15.20
The Bible says, "Let the
redeemed of the Lord say so."
00:42:15.23\00:42:20.77
Tell somebody, if
He's been good to you,
00:42:20.80\00:42:24.74
if he woke you up
this morning, say so.
00:42:24.77\00:42:28.68
If you were able
to pay your bills
00:42:28.71\00:42:30.71
because God is faithful, say so.
00:42:30.75\00:42:33.95
If you used to be an emotional
wreck in your relationships
00:42:33.98\00:42:37.69
but God gave you new
confidence, then say so.
00:42:37.72\00:42:42.89
If your life was
nothing short of hopeless
00:42:42.92\00:42:44.96
but when Jesus
came in to your life,
00:42:44.99\00:42:46.80
He changed you, then say so.
00:42:46.83\00:42:50.20
So if he has
changed you and remade you,
00:42:50.23\00:42:53.40
and cleaned you up,
and given you a new name,
00:42:53.44\00:42:56.37
and a new hope,
and a new life, say so.
00:42:56.40\00:43:00.31
If he has helped you, say so.
00:43:00.34\00:43:02.98
If you're gonna
trust Him, say so.
00:43:03.01\00:43:06.18
If the devil is a liar, say so.
00:43:06.21\00:43:09.18
If you know He
is with you, say so.
00:43:09.22\00:43:12.19
If you know no weapon formed
00:43:12.22\00:43:13.86
against you
shall prosper, say so.
00:43:13.89\00:43:17.16
If you know that
when one door shuts,
00:43:17.19\00:43:19.29
He'll open another, then say so.
00:43:19.33\00:43:21.93
If you know He'll
prepare a table before you,
00:43:21.96\00:43:24.47
in the presence of
your enemies, then say so.
00:43:24.50\00:43:27.94
So when I think of
the goodness of Jesus
00:43:27.97\00:43:31.21
and all He has done
for me, my soul cries out,
00:43:31.24\00:43:36.18
thank God, for saving me.
00:43:36.21\00:43:40.75
I want you know, my
brothers and sisters,
00:43:40.78\00:43:44.05
that God is a faithful God.
00:43:44.09\00:43:47.06
He will never fail you.
00:43:47.09\00:43:49.32
The Bible says, "He
will never leave you."
00:43:49.36\00:43:52.06
The Bible says, "He
will never forsake you."
00:43:52.09\00:43:55.23
Trust in the Lord.
00:43:55.26\00:43:57.27
Delight thyself
also in the Lord.
00:43:57.30\00:44:00.34
In all thy
ways, acknowledge Him.
00:44:00.37\00:44:03.17
And He shall direct thy path.
00:44:03.20\00:44:05.57
You and I, can trust God
00:44:05.61\00:44:08.48
because He has never
and never will fail us.
00:44:08.51\00:44:12.71
He's the God who keeps His word.
00:44:12.75\00:44:16.05
Whatever He starts, He finishes.
00:44:16.08\00:44:20.26
Our God is a faithful God.
00:44:20.29\00:44:23.83
His mercies are
new every morning.
00:44:23.86\00:44:27.03
You and I can anticipate
God doing what God says.
00:44:27.06\00:44:32.00
I have learned to trust in Him.
00:44:32.03\00:44:34.47
I've learned to
depend on His Holy Word.
00:44:34.50\00:44:37.51
I've learned to
believe whatever God says.
00:44:37.54\00:44:41.04
My brothers and my sisters,
you can trust Him tonight.
00:44:41.08\00:44:45.21
Whatever He started in you,
00:44:45.25\00:44:47.58
Bible says, He will complete it.
00:44:47.62\00:44:50.22
We can believe on His word.
00:44:50.25\00:44:52.29
We can trust every word,
from Genesis to Revelation,
00:44:52.32\00:44:56.12
because our God
is a faithful God.
00:44:56.16\00:45:00.66
Mark will now
come and sing for us
00:45:00.70\00:45:02.03
and I'll come back and
have an appeal for you.
00:45:02.06\00:45:04.73
Lord, let Your light
00:45:32.26\00:45:38.47
Light on Your face
00:45:38.50\00:45:42.14
Shine on us
00:45:42.17\00:45:47.08
Lord, let Your light
00:45:47.11\00:45:53.05
Light on Your face
00:45:53.08\00:45:56.85
Shine on us
00:45:56.89\00:46:01.09
That we may be saved
00:46:01.12\00:46:08.33
That we may have light
00:46:08.36\00:46:15.54
To find our way
00:46:15.57\00:46:19.11
Through the darkest night
00:46:19.14\00:46:23.98
Let your light shine on us
00:46:24.01\00:46:31.95
Lord, let your grace
00:46:44.00\00:46:49.94
Grace from Your hands
00:46:49.97\00:46:53.71
Come over us
00:46:53.74\00:46:58.68
Lord, let Your grace
00:46:58.71\00:47:04.72
Grace from Your hands
00:47:04.75\00:47:08.39
Come over us
00:47:08.42\00:47:12.59
That we may be saved
00:47:12.63\00:47:20.04
That we may have life
00:47:20.07\00:47:27.18
To find our way
00:47:27.21\00:47:30.65
Through the darkest night
00:47:30.68\00:47:35.55
Let Your grace come over us
00:47:35.58\00:47:42.32
Lord, let Your love
00:47:44.16\00:47:50.13
Love from Your heart
00:47:50.17\00:47:53.80
Come over us
00:47:53.84\00:47:58.77
Lord, let Your love
00:47:58.81\00:48:04.85
Love from Your heart
00:48:04.88\00:48:08.58
Come over us
00:48:08.62\00:48:12.69
That we may be saved
00:48:12.72\00:48:20.16
That we may have life
00:48:20.20\00:48:27.44
To find our way
00:48:27.47\00:48:30.84
Through the darkest night
00:48:30.87\00:48:37.15
Let Your love
00:48:37.18\00:48:39.25
Come over us
00:48:39.28\00:48:45.89
Let Your light
00:48:45.92\00:48:47.92
Shine on us
00:48:47.96\00:48:55.86
What a wonderful song,
00:49:17.65\00:49:19.89
"Lord, let Your
grace shine on us."
00:49:19.92\00:49:24.99
Pastor, tonight you talked
about the Faithfulness of God.
00:49:25.03\00:49:30.20
We highlighted your
journey from Trinidad to,
00:49:30.23\00:49:33.64
to New York to Oakwood, Andrews,
00:49:33.67\00:49:36.30
to the United
Theological Seminary,
00:49:36.34\00:49:38.24
to where you are today.
00:49:38.27\00:49:40.11
But as I looked
at your itinerary,
00:49:40.14\00:49:42.54
you're not just
a local preacher,
00:49:42.58\00:49:43.91
you're not just
in New York City,
00:49:43.95\00:49:45.28
you're all over the world.
00:49:45.31\00:49:46.65
You're not just a Pastor
but you're an evangelist.
00:49:46.68\00:49:48.82
And I know that in some of
the stories that you've had,
00:49:48.85\00:49:50.82
in some of the
evangelistic series,
00:49:50.85\00:49:52.42
I've seen the numbers of souls
00:49:52.45\00:49:54.29
baptized in different locations.
00:49:54.32\00:49:55.96
And I know some of
them are challenging.
00:49:55.99\00:49:57.63
Can you share with us, maybe,
00:49:57.66\00:49:59.13
from some of those
places you've been,
00:49:59.16\00:50:01.10
some of the stories that express
00:50:01.13\00:50:02.60
the faithfulness of God,
00:50:02.63\00:50:04.27
as you've seen God
work in your meetings?
00:50:04.30\00:50:06.17
John, I remember
that meeting in Harlem.
00:50:06.20\00:50:08.77
We had come to the
end of the crusade.
00:50:08.80\00:50:11.07
And it was the closing night,
we were thanking the workers.
00:50:11.11\00:50:15.81
And someone came to me and said,
00:50:15.84\00:50:17.38
"Pastor, do you still
have water in the pool?"
00:50:17.41\00:50:19.71
I said, "Yeah."
00:50:19.75\00:50:21.08
He said, "Well,
there's a drunk guy here,
00:50:21.12\00:50:24.32
who wants to be baptized."
00:50:24.35\00:50:26.32
I said, "Which
one, the only drunk guy
00:50:26.35\00:50:28.09
who came to attend all summer?"
00:50:28.12\00:50:30.83
His name was Paul.
00:50:30.86\00:50:32.69
So he said,
"Would you baptize him?"
00:50:32.73\00:50:34.20
I said, "Yeah, I'm
gonna baptize him."
00:50:34.23\00:50:35.86
Well, my elders began to
talk about me like a dog.
00:50:35.90\00:50:39.20
They said "Pastor Jules
wants to baptize anybody."
00:50:39.23\00:50:42.84
Well, Paul got
baptized that night.
00:50:42.87\00:50:46.14
And when we were coming up
out of the pool, they said,
00:50:46.17\00:50:49.58
"Pastor, stay in the pool.
00:50:49.61\00:50:50.95
There's somebody else
who wants to be baptized."
00:50:50.98\00:50:53.11
It was this woman who said
we would never baptize her.
00:50:53.15\00:50:56.48
And she was in tears. No
sermon had been preached.
00:50:56.52\00:50:59.92
No appeal was made.
00:50:59.95\00:51:01.29
But God's spirit was still
working and I saw that woman
00:51:01.32\00:51:06.26
about five
years ago on a cruise.
00:51:06.29\00:51:08.60
And that she was rejoicing
about how God blessed her.
00:51:08.63\00:51:11.70
Back to the guy who was
drunk, after he was baptized,
00:51:11.73\00:51:15.40
he invited me to his
house to have dinner.
00:51:15.44\00:51:19.74
And I said to
myself, "Lord, have mercy."
00:51:19.77\00:51:22.68
And I went one
Wednesday evening to his house,
00:51:22.71\00:51:25.88
surprised by the
cleanliness of the home.
00:51:25.91\00:51:29.12
And then, this woman walked out,
00:51:29.15\00:51:31.45
beautiful woman she is.
00:51:31.49\00:51:32.82
And he introduced
her to me as his wife.
00:51:32.85\00:51:35.42
Had a sumptuous meal.
00:51:35.46\00:51:38.83
And while I'm
sitting there eating,
00:51:38.86\00:51:40.76
he said to me, he says,
00:51:40.80\00:51:42.13
"Pastor, do you
know during the crusade,
00:51:42.16\00:51:45.70
everything you said
and you were saying,
00:51:45.73\00:51:47.54
I knew everything
you were talking about."
00:51:47.57\00:51:49.14
I said, "Is that right?"
00:51:49.17\00:51:50.51
He said, "Well, my
grandmother in South Carolina
00:51:50.54\00:51:53.31
in Columbia gave me
a book many years ago.
00:51:53.34\00:51:56.64
It's called The
Great Controversy.
00:51:56.68\00:51:58.55
And I read it
from cover to cover.
00:51:58.58\00:52:00.88
And you were
preaching everything
00:52:00.92\00:52:02.55
that I read from that book."
00:52:02.58\00:52:04.09
Amen. Amen.
00:52:04.12\00:52:05.45
And so I knew everything
you were talking about.
00:52:05.49\00:52:08.62
Well, Paul was
a faithful member.
00:52:08.66\00:52:12.29
When the elders were
not in church, he was there.
00:52:12.33\00:52:14.36
He never missed prayer meeting.
00:52:14.40\00:52:15.73
He never missed
Wednesday night prayer meeting
00:52:15.76\00:52:17.10
or Sabbath school.
00:52:17.13\00:52:18.47
Divine service.
He was always there.
00:52:18.50\00:52:21.64
And one morning
about 3 am in a morning,
00:52:21.67\00:52:23.27
I got a call from his wife.
00:52:23.30\00:52:25.27
She said to me,
"Pastor Jules, Paul is dying
00:52:25.31\00:52:28.44
and he's asked me to ask
you to come to the hospital."
00:52:28.48\00:52:31.61
Went to the hospital, I
was there before he died.
00:52:31.65\00:52:34.85
He died that next
day, prayed with him.
00:52:34.88\00:52:38.02
But Paul was
faithful till the end.
00:52:38.05\00:52:40.32
And what I learned
then, is that God is faithful.
00:52:40.36\00:52:43.79
That young man knew God.
He had learned about God.
00:52:43.83\00:52:48.60
And God was faithful to him.
00:52:48.63\00:52:50.47
He made it into the
kingdom before it was too late.
00:52:50.50\00:52:54.44
The Lord sent us
there on time for him.
00:52:54.47\00:52:56.27
Praise the Lord.
00:52:56.30\00:52:57.64
And the folk who
talked about him,
00:52:57.67\00:52:59.37
he was more
faithful than they were.
00:52:59.41\00:53:01.84
You think that's an
amazing story because sometimes
00:53:01.88\00:53:03.65
we have those "thief
on the cross" moments,
00:53:03.68\00:53:06.28
where we forget that the Lord
calls us to be fishers of men,
00:53:06.31\00:53:10.89
not the cleaners of the fish.
00:53:10.92\00:53:12.82
And sometimes we want
to do that too because
00:53:12.85\00:53:14.86
from all external appearances,
it sometimes doesn't appear
00:53:14.89\00:53:17.79
that that person is ready
00:53:17.83\00:53:19.16
but the Lord is the
one that is faithful.
00:53:19.19\00:53:20.63
That's right.
00:53:20.66\00:53:22.00
You've also been
to Anchorage, Alaska.
00:53:22.03\00:53:24.30
I take it, you went
there during the summer.
00:53:24.33\00:53:26.10
Yes, I was.
00:53:26.13\00:53:27.47
Tell us about Anchorage, Alaska.
00:53:27.50\00:53:28.84
I've never been there before
but it's quite a different
00:53:28.87\00:53:30.91
venue from Harlem, New York.
00:53:30.94\00:53:32.31
Talk about God's
faithfulness there.
00:53:32.34\00:53:34.14
Well, the Lord was faithful.
00:53:34.18\00:53:35.51
The night they
picked me up at the airport
00:53:35.54\00:53:37.45
to take me to my residence,
00:53:37.48\00:53:38.81
I was gonna be
there for four weeks.
00:53:38.85\00:53:41.08
The Pastor drove me to
the conference offices,
00:53:41.12\00:53:43.82
where it's out in the boondocks.
00:53:43.85\00:53:45.22
I had just left
Brooklyn, New York, with sirens,
00:53:45.25\00:53:47.86
and noises, and lights,
and buildings, and people.
00:53:47.89\00:53:51.09
And they put me in
the conference office.
00:53:51.13\00:53:53.29
There was an
apartment to stay inside.
00:53:53.33\00:53:54.93
I looked at the Pastor, I said,
00:53:54.96\00:53:56.30
"Pastor, I'm not staying here."
00:53:56.33\00:53:59.67
I said, "Find me a hotel room.
00:53:59.70\00:54:01.44
Because I'm not gonna
comfortable out here."
00:54:01.47\00:54:03.24
So that was my
introduction to Anchorage.
00:54:03.27\00:54:07.58
Well, you should
come to Thompsonville.
00:54:07.61\00:54:09.01
Yeah.
00:54:09.04\00:54:12.75
So he got me a hotel room.
00:54:12.78\00:54:14.58
And I was more comfortable,
they were people around.
00:54:14.62\00:54:18.05
But my four weeks in Anchorage,
was a blessing, in this regard.
00:54:18.09\00:54:22.59
I saw people, who--
it was a small church.
00:54:22.62\00:54:25.59
But I saw people
who loved God. Amen.
00:54:25.63\00:54:28.26
And wanted to be used
as conduits in God's hands
00:54:28.30\00:54:31.90
to bring others to
know Him as Lord and Savior.
00:54:31.93\00:54:35.27
After that meeting, I
don't remember exactly
00:54:35.30\00:54:37.04
how many we baptized,
but the church rejoiced,
00:54:37.07\00:54:40.24
I rejoiced
because every soul we got
00:54:40.28\00:54:42.91
became very,
very, very precious.
00:54:42.94\00:54:46.05
Because they were few
and far between out there.
00:54:46.08\00:54:48.18
Wow. Well... It was
a wonderful experience.
00:54:48.22\00:54:50.89
And you're here now,
00:54:50.92\00:54:52.55
talking about the
faithfulness of God.
00:54:52.59\00:54:54.06
You know, it's these stories,
00:54:54.09\00:54:56.06
it's these
experiences that take us from
00:54:56.09\00:54:58.46
whether we know God
can do it to God can do it.
00:54:58.49\00:55:01.43
But now I think one
of the biggest stories
00:55:01.46\00:55:02.90
of God's faithfulness
is to take you back you
00:55:02.93\00:55:04.87
to your humble beginnings.
00:55:04.90\00:55:06.50
Tell us about the
church that you were raised in,
00:55:06.53\00:55:08.64
in Trinidad, when you
went back for the dedication.
00:55:08.67\00:55:11.24
Last year, last January,
00:55:11.27\00:55:12.61
they invited me back to
Trinidad, to our church,
00:55:12.64\00:55:14.74
the Carenage
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
00:55:14.78\00:55:16.68
I think they were
trying to build that church
00:55:16.71\00:55:18.05
for about 50 years.
00:55:18.08\00:55:20.02
And they completed the facility.
00:55:20.05\00:55:23.42
The edifice was
beautiful, I went back.
00:55:23.45\00:55:26.35
It was just one of those most
precious moments in my life,
00:55:26.39\00:55:30.79
in my professional life,
to be there and personally
00:55:30.83\00:55:33.90
to be a part of
something like that.
00:55:33.93\00:55:36.67
I didn't see a whole lot
of people that I remember,
00:55:36.70\00:55:39.57
the older folk had died out.
00:55:39.60\00:55:41.54
Some of the young people I
met by going back and forth.
00:55:41.57\00:55:44.94
But that was just a
wonderful experience.
00:55:44.97\00:55:46.84
And they have now a
facility that they can be
00:55:46.88\00:55:49.88
proud of and I
certainly was proud of it.
00:55:49.91\00:55:52.51
And so, so you look at
these stories and you say,
00:55:52.55\00:55:55.05
well, Lord, when we go
back to our humble beginnings,
00:55:55.08\00:55:58.19
it often reminds
us of who we were.
00:55:58.22\00:56:00.76
And then who we
have become in Christ.
00:56:00.79\00:56:02.99
There's someone that
is watching this program,
00:56:03.02\00:56:05.93
even right now,
could be day or night
00:56:05.96\00:56:07.53
wherever they are,
00:56:07.56\00:56:08.90
what would you like to
tell them about God's faith,
00:56:08.93\00:56:10.67
and I know you preached it
but just give them a word from
00:56:10.70\00:56:13.50
the Lord about how
faithful God is and the payment,
00:56:13.54\00:56:17.31
the eternal blessing
of trusting their lives
00:56:17.34\00:56:19.91
to such a faithful Lord.
00:56:19.94\00:56:21.71
John, I would love to
say, that when it comes to God,
00:56:21.74\00:56:27.38
whatever we give to Him,
God takes good care of it.
00:56:27.42\00:56:31.59
If it's your life,
if it's your resources,
00:56:31.62\00:56:34.32
if it's your time,
whatever it is you give to Him,
00:56:34.36\00:56:38.19
God will bless it.
00:56:38.23\00:56:40.00
And I have found in my own life,
00:56:40.03\00:56:43.10
in little things and big things,
00:56:43.13\00:56:44.67
if I could trust Him with
it, God does marvelous things.
00:56:44.70\00:56:49.24
So if you're
listening to us now.
00:56:49.27\00:56:51.37
And you are desirous of giving
God an opportunity in your life
00:56:51.41\00:56:55.28
to multiply some things to,
to bring out of you your best,
00:56:55.31\00:57:00.82
you can trust Him
because He's faithful.
00:57:00.85\00:57:03.52
He says he'll never leave
you. He'll never forsake you.
00:57:03.55\00:57:07.02
You could never be
disappointed in God.
00:57:07.06\00:57:09.76
In all my years, my
55 years on this earth,
00:57:09.79\00:57:13.09
God has proven time and
time again, to be faithful.
00:57:13.13\00:57:18.30
And Pastor Jules,
as you go from here
00:57:18.33\00:57:20.14
back to your field of ministry,
00:57:20.17\00:57:23.51
what can you say as you preview,
00:57:23.54\00:57:26.27
because we have
another message coming up,
00:57:26.31\00:57:27.94
just give me a capsule of
what we have to look forward to?
00:57:27.98\00:57:31.88
Well, one of the messages
I'll bring, we have two more,
00:57:31.91\00:57:34.18
and one of the
messages I'll bring to you,
00:57:34.22\00:57:36.38
will be a message on the family.
00:57:36.42\00:57:38.99
It's for both
singles and married people.
00:57:39.02\00:57:42.82
Half of the message
is for single people.
00:57:42.86\00:57:45.43
What to look for in a spouse?
00:57:45.46\00:57:47.40
Biblical principles
you should be governed by.
00:57:47.43\00:57:50.33
And the second half is
for all the married people.
00:57:50.37\00:57:52.97
So that message is
for the single folk,
00:57:53.00\00:57:55.67
the married
folk and all the folk
00:57:55.70\00:57:57.17
who are sorry to
ever got married.
00:57:57.21\00:58:00.88
And we're looking
forward to that message
00:58:00.91\00:58:02.81
because I'm not
sorry I got married,
00:58:02.84\00:58:04.25
and neither are you.
00:58:04.28\00:58:05.61
And those of you
that are tuning into
00:58:05.65\00:58:06.98
watching this program,
I want to thank the Lord.
00:58:07.02\00:58:08.82
Thank you Pastor
Jules, Evangelist Jules,
00:58:08.85\00:58:11.19
Dr. Jules, for
allowing the Lord to use you.
00:58:11.22\00:58:14.52
For instance, the text
in I Corinthians 10:13,
00:58:14.56\00:58:17.79
and in the midst
of all the difficulty,
00:58:17.83\00:58:20.30
it says "But God is faithful."
00:58:20.33\00:58:23.13
Yes.
00:58:23.16\00:58:24.50
Here at 3ABN, we believe
in the faithfulness of God.
00:58:24.53\00:58:26.60
Continue to stay
tuned for the next message
00:58:26.63\00:58:29.00
as God speaks to your
heart through Pastor Jules.
00:58:29.04\00:58:32.07