Hello, friends,
and welcome to the 3ABN
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Worship Center for
another Dare to Dream sermon.
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I told you if you were
here to receive the last one,
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you know that
Pastor Cory Jackson
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is a man anointed of
God to proclaim the gospel,
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the unashamed
gospel of Jesus Christ.
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We talked about
blind Bartimaeus,
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how the Lord can take a
person from rags to riches
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and tonight, the
message is entitled,
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Give It One More Shot.
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So we encourage you to
stay by for this Bible-filled,
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spirit-filled message
that we know will reach into
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your heart and bring you
to the place that the Lord
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wants you to be and we
know that God is going to bless.
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Pastor Cory Jackson is
from Chicago, Illinois,
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the very state that 3ABN shares.
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They are far
north, we are far south
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but the Lord has brought
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the north and the
south together tonight.
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He presently is the
pastor of the Burns Seventh-day
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Adventist church
in Detroit, Michigan.
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He has been pastoring 14 years.
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The Lord has really reached
into this young man's life
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and transformed him.
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He is a student of Black
Hills Evangelistic School.
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The Lord saw him going
in the wrong direction,
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turned him around and led
him in the right direction.
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He has three children.
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He's known internationally
as he's being invited
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around the world to
share the gospel of the Lord.
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And he said last
night in a wonderful way,
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he was studying to be
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a Black Muslim
and a Black Panther,
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but he ended up
being a Black pastor.
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Can we say amen to that? Amen.
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And so God really
anointed his life tonight.
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Once more, the
message is entitled,
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Give It One More Shot.
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Stay tuned for the
blessings of the Lord.
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We have a young man that amazed
me when I heard his voice.
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I looked at his
frame and I wondered
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where that
voice was coming from.
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Louis Cleare, who is
from Nassau, Bahamas.
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3ABN had an opportunity to
meet him a number of years ago.
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Not too many years ago.
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He's only 22 and he
sang while they were there.
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Tonight he's going to
bless us with a song entitled,
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He Will Carry You.
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And right after
the singing evangelist,
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the next voice that
you will hear will be
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that of Pastor Cory Jackson.
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There is no problem too big
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God cannot solve it
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There is no mountain too tall
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He cannot move it
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There is no storm too dark
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God cannot calm it
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There is no sorrow too deep
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He cannot soothe it
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Oh, if He carries
the weight of the world
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upon His shoulders
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Then I know my brother that
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He will carry you
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Oh, if He carries
the weight of the world
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upon His shoulders
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Then I know my sister that
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He will carry you
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He said, "Come on to me
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all who are weary
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And I will give you
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rest
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There is no problem too big
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God cannot solve it
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There is no mountain too tall
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He cannot move it
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And there is no storm too dark
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God cannot calm it
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There is no sorrow too deep
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He cannot move it
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Oh, if He carries
the weight of the world
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upon His shoulders
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Then I know my brother
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that He will carry you
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And, if He carries
the weight of the world
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upon His shoulders
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Then I know my sister
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that He will carry you
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I know my brother
and I know my sister
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that He will carry you
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He will carry you
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Amen. Amen.
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Can you say amen? Amen.
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Do you believe He
will carry you through?
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Yes. Amen.
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Brother Louis, thank you.
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And it's good to
see you all today.
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I'm still amazed
when young Louis sings.
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I don't know
about you, but it...
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To see all of that come out
of that little bitty young man.
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You know, you see
him in the greenroom,
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he's a different guy.
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He's listening
to his headphones,
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normal 22 year old young
man but when he comes out,
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Lord, have
mercy, I'm just in awe.
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So I am thankful to hear him
sing He Will Carry You Through.
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I am a perfect witness of that.
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He has carried
me a mighty long way
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and He has carried
many of you the same.
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Let us begin
with a word of prayer.
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Heavenly Father,
we come once again
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thanking You for
the gift of salvation,
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thanking You for
Jesus, the Christ, leading us,
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guiding us and
directing us along the way.
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As we meet together again,
we just ask for your presence.
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We ask for the Holy
Spirit to fill this place,
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fill every home
that is listening
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and that every
heart shall be touched
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and words come from oh, high.
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So, Lord hide me
behind your cross
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and allow the word to be spoken.
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In Jesus' name, amen. Amen.
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Welcome to another edition
of Foundations of our Faith.
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I am enjoying my time here.
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And I am glad to be
here as we talk about
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Foundations of Faith.
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Understanding from
yesterday that we just have to,
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learn how to what?
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Call on the Lord.
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And call and He
gives us the help we need
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and so just to simply
review a couple of things
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that we talked about yesterday.
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The call. Five
things we learned yesterday.
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Number one. We need to
understand our condition.
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Understand the condition
that we are in. Number two.
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We need to understand
and others will try to quiet
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the call when we are trying
to make changes for Jesus.
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And number three.
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We must understand that
when there are those who are,
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that when we are
crying, that someone will try to
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stop us but we must learn to
cry just a little bit louder.
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Number four.
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There are three
things that we must do once.
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Jesus Christ has, we
have, He has our attention.
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Number one, we must
change our garments.
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In other words, take
off this self righteousness.
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Number two.
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We must change our position
from sitting to rising up.
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And number three. We
must come close to the Savior.
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We cannot live the same way
and expect a different result.
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And the fifth thing is
that Jesus will give us
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more than what we ask for.
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All the blind man
asked for was to see
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and Christ gave him not
only his sight physically,
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but spiritually and
next thing you know,
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he went from
begging to being in the way,
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being a follower of Christ.
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Rags to riches.
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And so as we talk
today, Give It One More Shot.
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Our scripture
for our foundation,
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just two of them.
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Ezekiel 36:26
that simply says that,
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God will give us a new
heart and a new spirit.
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I like that, He will give us
a new heart and a new spirit,
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a new way to think and
so I am looking forward
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to that continually
and also Romans, excuse me.
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12 verse 2 "And be not conformed
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to this world,
but be transformed
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by the renewing of your mind."
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And so we spend time
discussing the need to be
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transformed as we are talking
about character development,
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and why is it?
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Because in
volume five, page 310.
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Ellen White says this,
"For if the thoughts are wrong,
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the feelings are wrong.
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The thoughts and
feelings combined
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make up moral character."
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And so we have to understand
that if our thoughts are wrong,
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our feelings, about
things would be wrong.
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Not just about
people but also about life.
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This morning I was
reading and I noticed that
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some young man went to
the theater in Louisiana
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and shot up the theater.
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And his family said he's been
mentally ill for a long time.
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His thoughts have
been messed up to the point
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where it propelled
him to go to a place
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where people are
just being entertained
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and decided he's
going to kill people.
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We have to take
seriously how we think,
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what we think about because
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that things
leads to how we feel.
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Second volume, Mind,
Character, Personality says,
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that transformation
begins with our thoughts.
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Transformation begins with
our thoughts and the challenge
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we often face with
our thoughts is this,
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no one can see
our thoughts but God.
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And so we can
look the part, dress up
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and all that good stuff
and as folk are walking by,
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you can have some
of the meanest things
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to say about them
while smiling at them.
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And so we have to
very careful and understand
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that we are in these
last days but there's a reason
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why this thing for me
has become important because
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I came across a
statement a long time ago
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in Christ's Object
Lessons, when the Prophet says,
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when the character of Christ
shall be perfectly reproduced.
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Not almost, not somewhat,
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but perfectly
reproduced in His people,
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then He will come to
reclaim them as His own.
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So God is waiting for His
folk to just look like Him,
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to be twins, if you
want to call it that.
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God is waiting for His
character to be in His church,
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in His people and so I
have taken the liberty.
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Everywhere I find
myself going to spend time
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talking about character,
spend time discussing thoughts.
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And so tonight,
today, excuse me,
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we are going
into another segment.
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If you go with me
to Jeremiah Chapter 29,
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as we start our
three legs tonight.
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We talk about
teaching, preaching and healing
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that Jesus did in Matthew 4.
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For the first segment of
this we deal with teaching.
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Jeremiah 29.
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Jeremiah the 29th Chapter,
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Jeremiah is in
the Old Testament.
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Give It One More Shot.
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And there are so
many Bible verses that
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I like but I
really love this one.
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Jeremiah 29:11.
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The Bible says it this
way, "For I know the thoughts
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that I think toward
you, saith the Lord."
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False of feast, now I
can just stop right there
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and just I can just
preach that thing right there
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but I won't tonight right now.
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But I can just stop
right there and just preach
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how God thinks
nothing but the best of us.
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You know, when others
think the worst of us,
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when others talk about us.
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God is not doing it.
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He says, My
thoughts of you are of peace.
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Peace is the absence of
war, or the absence of conflict.
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So that thing gets me
excited as you can see,
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because I love the
way that God thinks of me.
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He says, "Thoughts of
peace and not of evil."
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Not something bad,
not something wrong,
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not something
that's going to hurt you.
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The thoughts that I have of you,
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even if I'm going this
way, God says, it's still peace,
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even if I'm being disobedient,
it's still thoughts of peace.
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God says I can't do nothing
but think thoughts of goodness
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of you and not of
evil, and to give you an
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expected end or a
future and a hope.
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The Bible continues to say,
"Then you shall call upon me,
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and you shall go
and pray unto me,
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and I will
hearken unto you promises.
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And you shall
seek me, and find me,
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when you shall search
for me with all your heart.
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We are gonna spend some
time talking about that.
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When you shall find,
it's not that God himself
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is playing a game
that I used to love
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when I was a little
boy called hide and seek.
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God is not hiding from us.
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But Isaiah 59 says that our sins
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have separated us from our God.
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And so, verse 14 says,
"And I will be found of you,
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saith the Lord, and I
will turn away your captivity."
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So God promises some
things that we can hone in on.
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Number one, He promises that
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He doesn't think
anything negative of us.
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So if anyone out there thinks
that God thinks wrong of you,
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you have the wrong God
that you are looking at.
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The God that I know,
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He doesn't think
anything evil of me.
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Deuteronomy Chapter
4, He also says in that,
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"You will find Me
when you give all you got."
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Deuteronomy Chapter 4.
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Deuteronomy Chapter 4,
Old Testimony, fifth book.
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The Bible,
Deuteronomy Chapter 4.
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Looking at verse 29.
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Deuteronomy Chapter
4, looking at verse 29.
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Doing little teaching right now.
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says this,
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"But if from thence thou
shalt seek the Lord thy God,
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thou shalt find Him,
if thou shall seek Him
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with all your heart
and with all your soul."
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So in other words,
when it comes to God,
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He expects all of
us to give all we got
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and we are going to see a story
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that exemplifies
this thing tonight.
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Everything we got.
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You know, I'm an
athlete by nature.
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Even though you look
at this wide frame now,
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it doesn't look as
though I'm an athlete.
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I'm an athlete in retirement
while eating too much.
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But nonetheless,
I'm still an athlete.
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I have a 15 year old son
who thinks that no matter
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how old I get, or
how wide I begin to get,
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he still thinks that he
can beat me in basketball.
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And so once a week we
have to prove the point
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that I can still take him,
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even though it's
a struggle to do it,
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'cause he has energy
that I just don't possess
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at this moment in my life.
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When we are playing together,
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I have to give
it all that I got.
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If I, at any point,
give just a little bit,
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not a lot, he
takes advantage of it
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and he runs me around the gym.
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But because I know
that if I allow him
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to win at any moment,
he's going to hold that thing
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over my head for
the rest of my life,
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in front of the church
members, in front of the family,
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and friends and
I just can't do it.
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So what I have to
do is give it all I got
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and even when I
get done and I'm like,
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I still have to give it
all I got because if I don't,
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I will not come out victorious,
same thing with Christ.
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We have to give it all we got,
no matter what shape we are in,
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no matter how tired we get.
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We have to give it all we got.
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In order to do
that, 1 Timothy Chapter 6,
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1 Timothy Chapter
6, 1 Timothy Chapter 6
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gives me my marching orders.
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1 Timothy 6:12, give
me my marching order.
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God says that, you can find
Me when you give Me all of you.
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But in order to do
that, verse 12 says,
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that I must "Fight
the good fight of faith."
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And to find and to
be a part of Christ,
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it takes fighting.
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It's not something
that you can just lay down
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and think it's going
to be like the easing
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on down the road, like the whiz.
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It's not going
to happen that way.
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We have to fight
to stay faithful.
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We have to fight from the moment
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we get up to the
time we go to sleep.
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We have to fight
this good fight of faith
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and what's before
me, the Bible says,
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"Lay hold on eternal life."
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You see, I like to
think that one day soon,
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we are going to live forever.
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You know, when I was
a young boy getting up,
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I could get up
off my bed and run
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and now as I'm
getting old at 44,
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you may not think that's
old, but as I get older now,
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I got to stretch a
little bit before I move
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and do some
turns here and there,
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so that my bones can warm up.
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But one day soon, I
won't have to worry about
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stretching anymore
and doing some leg raises
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and getting all ready.
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Why? 'Cause when
eternal life is given.
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Guess what? I get a new body.
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But we got to fight until
then. The good fight of faith.
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This thing is a fight, y'all.
It's not something that's easy.
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We must fight to stay faithful.
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Fight to stay in and
fight not to give up. Why?
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Because eternal
life is right there.
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In order to fight, Matthew
24, Matthew the 24th Chapter.
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Matthew the 24th
Chapter, verse 13.
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So the Bible says, one,
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that when we search with
all our heart, we will find Him.
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Timothy tells us
that we have to fight
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the good fight of faith
and give in all our heart.
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And Matthew 24:13 says,
"But he that shall endure
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until the end, the
same shall be saved."
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Not only do you need to fight,
this thing takes endurance.
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This race, many
times is not to the swift,
00:20:26.79\00:20:30.46
but to one who can endure,
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the one who can
pace himself or herself.
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This thing is not a race.
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As I spoke to you about my
15 year old son name Isaiah.
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See, what he
don't realize right now
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because he don't
have the wisdom, I have.
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If he would just
keep me running steadily,
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he would beat me
because my endurance is low.
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He doesn't know that,
I won't let him see it
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because if I do, then
he'll take advantage of me.
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Well, he may see it now,
00:20:57.42\00:20:59.15
I didn't just gave
myself up but hey, hey, hey,
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but I'm in the moment, so
forgive the young preacher.
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All right, so, if he
just realize that my endurance
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is not as long as
his and he just keep
00:21:08.36\00:21:12.13
dribbling that
ball, keep running around.
00:21:12.17\00:21:13.60
I may just have to
grab him and hold him
00:21:13.64\00:21:15.57
and just like a
box, just hold on to him
00:21:15.60\00:21:18.14
for a minute,
but, but in this race,
00:21:18.17\00:21:20.58
it takes endurance.
00:21:20.61\00:21:21.94
You have to pace yourself.
00:21:21.98\00:21:23.48
So in my pacing to beat
him I don't try to shake 'em
00:21:23.51\00:21:27.72
and take him to the hole.
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I just simply bag him
down with this big body.
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And then I turn
around and shoot it.
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That's all I do and
it preserves my energy,
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so that in the end,
he's more tired than I am.
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Because I have 100
pounds over him at least
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so I know he can't
take this big body,
00:21:44.83\00:21:47.14
taking him down low
each and every time.
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And so I take out his endurance
before he take out mine.
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And the same way with the enemy.
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He'll try to take out your
endurance before anything else
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because he knows
once you get tired,
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you are ready to quit,
you are ready to give up,
00:22:00.52\00:22:02.68
you are ready to
throw in the towel,
00:22:02.72\00:22:04.05
but the Bible
says, keep fighting.
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And the Bible said,
00:22:05.72\00:22:07.06
"Blessed is he who
endures until the end."
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And so this is the
job that we must face.
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This is what we must do.
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So let's see a picture of
all four of these scriptures
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wrapped up in one.
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Let's see a picture
of this taking place
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where a person is
giving all they have.
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A person is
fighting the good fight
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and a person is enduring.
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Go with me to Mark
Chapter 5, Mark Chapter 5.
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I enjoy the Book of Mark 'cause,
00:22:36.02\00:22:39.19
for me, just me personally,
the Book of Mark is a book
00:22:39.22\00:22:43.99
in which salvation is seen,
00:22:44.03\00:22:49.56
both man, woman and children.
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And so we look
at Mark Chapter 5,
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the first 20 verses deal
with a man who's a demoniac,
00:22:56.24\00:23:02.64
who is out of his mind.
00:23:02.68\00:23:04.01
Suicidal, if you may.
00:23:04.05\00:23:05.88
The disciples touch
shore, this man starts growling
00:23:05.91\00:23:09.02
and the disciples, even
though they are with Jesus
00:23:09.05\00:23:12.55
and just survived
the storm in chapter 4.
00:23:12.59\00:23:15.99
And He said peace be still,
as soon as they see this man,
00:23:16.02\00:23:18.69
they start running.
00:23:18.73\00:23:21.16
And Jesus deals with this
man who has cutted himself
00:23:21.20\00:23:23.83
and no man can tame.
00:23:23.87\00:23:25.37
And the Bible says,
that he calms into his
00:23:25.40\00:23:27.90
right mind and wants to
go with Jesus but Jesus says,
00:23:27.94\00:23:31.27
"No, go back home
and tell your friends
00:23:31.31\00:23:33.38
the good things God has done."
00:23:33.41\00:23:34.98
And our story
takes us to verse 21.
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And the Bible
says, "And when Jesus was
00:23:38.38\00:23:41.72
passed over again by
ship unto the other side,
00:23:41.75\00:23:45.42
much people gathered unto him,
00:23:45.45\00:23:47.46
and he was nigh
unto the sea again."
00:23:47.49\00:23:49.86
Yesterday we spoke about...
00:23:49.89\00:23:51.23
they are always lot of
people following Jesus.
00:23:51.26\00:23:56.10
Lot of people
always thronging about Him.
00:23:56.13\00:24:00.64
And that could be you
and I if we're not careful,
00:24:00.67\00:24:02.90
just simply following and
not giving in to the Savior.
00:24:02.94\00:24:08.04
Verse 22 says, "And, behold,
00:24:08.08\00:24:09.84
there cometh one of the
rulers of the synagogue,
00:24:09.88\00:24:11.81
Jairus by name.
00:24:11.85\00:24:13.18
And when he saw
Him, he fell at His feet,
00:24:13.21\00:24:15.38
And besought Him greatly,
saying, My little daughter
00:24:15.42\00:24:18.35
lieth at the point
of death, I pray Thee,
00:24:18.39\00:24:21.52
come and lay hands on
her, that she may be healed,
00:24:21.56\00:24:24.96
and she shall live."
00:24:24.99\00:24:26.66
Now, now here is
Jairus, ruler of the synagogue,
00:24:26.70\00:24:29.50
coming to the Savior.
00:24:29.53\00:24:31.03
And there at
Levi Matthew's house
00:24:31.07\00:24:32.97
and Jesus gets up instantly.
00:24:33.00\00:24:35.90
His disciples
according to "Desire of Ages"
00:24:35.94\00:24:37.97
kind of stunned that Jesus would
00:24:38.01\00:24:39.34
deal with this arrogant leader
00:24:39.37\00:24:41.34
and they see that
he gets up at once.
00:24:41.38\00:24:44.51
And Jesus to me, you know,
00:24:44.55\00:24:46.92
I love Jesus but
Jesus' just cool.
00:24:46.95\00:24:49.95
Jesus is a cool
brother, cool savior.
00:24:49.98\00:24:52.75
He's just cool, you know.
Nothing gets under his skin.
00:24:52.79\00:24:56.16
He is as He is
moving, "Desire of Ages" says,
00:24:56.19\00:24:59.86
He stops along the
way and He heals some
00:24:59.89\00:25:02.53
who are broken
hearted and He heals some
00:25:02.56\00:25:04.67
who are troubled and
He heals some who are sick
00:25:04.70\00:25:07.54
and even though He knows
the end from the beginning.
00:25:07.57\00:25:10.64
He knows what He can do.
00:25:10.67\00:25:12.71
Jairus has not
figured that thing out yet,
00:25:12.74\00:25:15.04
so he is wondering why is
this Jesus taking His time
00:25:15.08\00:25:18.38
when my daughter is losing it.
00:25:18.41\00:25:21.48
And Jesus just taking
His time, stopping here,
00:25:21.52\00:25:24.45
healing somebody.
00:25:24.49\00:25:25.82
Stopping here, helping
somebody and Jairus gets frantic
00:25:25.85\00:25:29.89
but along the way the
story seem to take a little turn
00:25:29.92\00:25:34.83
to bring in another character
in the scene of things.
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And verse 25 says,
"And a certain woman,
00:25:41.64\00:25:45.17
which had an issue
of blood for 12 years."
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A woman has a problem 12
years with an issue of blood.
00:25:51.08\00:25:58.82
Yesterday we
talked about the man,
00:25:58.85\00:26:00.99
Bartimaeus who was
blind, couldn't see.
00:26:01.02\00:26:05.19
Economic status must be poor.
00:26:05.23\00:26:06.86
He was begging and
he was only outside.
00:26:06.90\00:26:09.86
Now we have a woman
who is, has an issue,
00:26:09.90\00:26:15.10
a malady, a problem.
00:26:15.14\00:26:17.51
And sometimes,
brothers and sisters,
00:26:17.54\00:26:19.67
it's not enough to
just call upon Christ.
00:26:19.71\00:26:22.41
There's something
more we need to do.
00:26:22.44\00:26:24.95
And I love math,
and so if you would
00:26:24.98\00:26:27.78
just be with me for a moment.
00:26:27.82\00:26:30.09
Twelve years is a long time,
12 years is a 1,044 months,
00:26:30.12\00:26:37.53
12 years is 626 weeks,
00:26:37.56\00:26:41.66
12 years is 4,338 days,
00:26:41.70\00:26:46.74
12 years is
00:26:46.77\00:26:53.27
Long time.
00:26:53.31\00:26:54.64
12 years is
00:26:54.68\00:27:02.25
12 years is a long
time to have a problem.
00:27:02.28\00:27:07.66
It's not anything short at all.
00:27:07.69\00:27:10.09
I thought it was long
before I can graduate school
00:27:10.13\00:27:13.46
but it was 12 years this
woman is dealing with one issue.
00:27:13.50\00:27:19.77
Can you imagine
having one problem
00:27:19.80\00:27:22.37
that's lasting 12 years?
00:27:22.40\00:27:24.34
Can you imagine the
psychological thought?
00:27:24.37\00:27:26.84
Can you imagine the
frustration that takes place?
00:27:26.88\00:27:29.41
Can you imagine what
goes through a person's head
00:27:29.44\00:27:32.15
that they are dealing with
something for 12 long years?
00:27:32.18\00:27:39.65
When I try to
do, wherever I go is
00:27:39.69\00:27:41.76
try to humanize
this thing so we can,
00:27:41.79\00:27:45.19
we can all understand and
apply to our lives, 12 years?
00:27:45.23\00:27:51.80
You see I'm walking on
stage today because for 12 years
00:27:51.83\00:27:54.70
I dealt with two
injuries on my big toe.
00:27:54.74\00:27:58.77
Because I told
you, I was an athlete,
00:27:58.81\00:28:00.64
played basketball in college
and ran track across country.
00:28:00.68\00:28:04.01
I know I don't look
like it. Don't know judge me.
00:28:04.05\00:28:09.58
But when you become an athlete
and you are playing basketball
00:28:09.62\00:28:12.62
as much as I did in high school
and a little bit in college
00:28:12.65\00:28:15.76
and when I get growing and older
00:28:15.79\00:28:18.53
and people step on
your toes, your big toe,
00:28:18.56\00:28:21.60
when you're younger
you don't tend to think
00:28:21.63\00:28:23.37
that you need to ice it.
00:28:23.40\00:28:25.30
You think you are invincible.
00:28:25.33\00:28:27.00
You think
everything is just all right
00:28:27.04\00:28:28.80
and so I felt the same way.
00:28:28.84\00:28:32.27
I didn't think one day that
I'll get old and a famous word,
00:28:32.31\00:28:36.64
it's called
arthritis began kicking in.
00:28:36.68\00:28:40.02
So one day I
could not bend my toes
00:28:40.05\00:28:42.92
and most people
walk in, your toes been,
00:28:42.95\00:28:45.02
my toes just stood still.
00:28:45.05\00:28:47.62
Now I didn't pay
it too much amount,
00:28:47.66\00:28:49.36
I just kept
walking and I figured, hey,
00:28:49.39\00:28:51.76
its part of getting old.
00:28:51.79\00:28:53.13
No one gave me a book on what
old feels like or looks like.
00:28:53.16\00:28:56.20
So I just figured
this is part of the patch.
00:28:56.23\00:29:00.80
And so for 12 years,
I'm dealing with these toes.
00:29:00.84\00:29:04.47
Not one toe, two big toes.
00:29:04.51\00:29:08.08
Then I would, when I
started preaching more
00:29:08.11\00:29:10.28
and being more
engaged, how we get home
00:29:10.31\00:29:13.92
and them two big
things would just ache.
00:29:13.95\00:29:19.75
And I finally went to the
doctor and the doctor said,
00:29:19.79\00:29:23.19
you are in trouble right now.
00:29:23.22\00:29:26.43
'Cause the way they were
growing with the arthritis on,
00:29:26.46\00:29:28.66
they were starting to turn.
00:29:28.70\00:29:32.87
So understand what
12 years feels like.
00:29:32.90\00:29:36.47
Understand what pain feels like.
00:29:36.50\00:29:38.81
Understand what
discouragement feels like.
00:29:38.84\00:29:42.64
But this woman has an
issue of blood for 12 long years
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and verse 26 says this,
"And had suffered many things
00:29:46.98\00:29:51.39
of many physician
and had spent all that
00:29:51.42\00:29:54.09
she had and was nothing
better but rather grew worse."
00:29:54.12\00:29:57.99
Now listen to me now.
Help me understand something.
00:29:58.03\00:30:02.63
It's one thing to have
good medical insurance.
00:30:02.66\00:30:07.24
It's a whole another
thing when you have to take it
00:30:07.27\00:30:09.34
from your own pocket.
00:30:09.37\00:30:11.71
It's a whole another ball
game when you take out money,
00:30:11.74\00:30:15.44
not just from your
savings and your checkings
00:30:15.48\00:30:17.71
but perhaps even your
IRA or your retirement fund
00:30:17.75\00:30:22.68
and you go to different doctors
who supposedly specialize
00:30:22.72\00:30:27.79
in helping your
situation and you find out
00:30:27.82\00:30:31.13
that in each
situation, you are getting worse
00:30:31.16\00:30:33.83
and worse and worse.
00:30:33.86\00:30:37.93
Imagine the psychological
drama that's taking place.
00:30:37.97\00:30:41.04
You know, you get
excited when you hear
00:30:41.07\00:30:42.50
about this
physician specializes in this
00:30:42.54\00:30:44.67
and so you go and you
spending, they are like,
00:30:44.71\00:30:46.98
ma'am, I can't help you.
00:30:47.01\00:30:48.34
I can refer you
to doctor so and so.
00:30:48.38\00:30:50.61
Then you go to doctor
so and so and you feel as
00:30:50.65\00:30:53.01
though this one can do it,
so you shell out some more cash
00:30:53.05\00:30:55.65
and he says, ma'am,
I'm sorry, I just can't.
00:30:55.68\00:30:57.79
How about you try doctor
such and such over there?
00:30:57.82\00:31:00.19
And then you go to
doctor such and such,
00:31:00.22\00:31:01.56
and you go all the way of it,
00:31:01.59\00:31:02.92
and by the time you
get to your last doctor,
00:31:02.96\00:31:06.33
and the doctor tells you,
00:31:06.36\00:31:07.80
ma'am, there's
nothing more anybody can do.
00:31:07.83\00:31:12.03
You are flat broke.
00:31:12.07\00:31:16.07
And not only that,
you spend all this time
00:31:16.10\00:31:18.27
going to these different doctors
00:31:18.31\00:31:19.64
and you find
yourself getting worse.
00:31:19.67\00:31:24.85
So you've been dealing
with something for 12 years.
00:31:24.88\00:31:28.35
You are now broke.
00:31:28.38\00:31:31.09
Medicare, medicate is not
going kick in, you are broke.
00:31:31.12\00:31:36.06
And the people who specializes
in this thing tells you
00:31:36.09\00:31:40.46
there's nothing you can do.
00:31:40.50\00:31:42.76
Nothing they can do, excuse me.
00:31:42.80\00:31:46.84
Can you imagine
feeling rejected?
00:31:46.87\00:31:52.27
Discouraged? In
all these things?
00:31:52.31\00:31:56.58
Can you really imagine how
this woman is really feeling?
00:31:56.61\00:31:59.78
Let me try to give as
close to understand as I can.
00:31:59.81\00:32:05.22
I tend to get
personal but I have a mother
00:32:05.25\00:32:07.72
that I love to death,
who is going on 70 years old
00:32:07.76\00:32:12.19
and at age 12, interesting,
12 years, Jairus' daughter.
00:32:12.23\00:32:17.73
She contracted polio
in Ross Hill, Mississippi.
00:32:17.77\00:32:22.20
Took the vaccination for
polio and still contracted polio
00:32:22.24\00:32:27.68
and there's no cure for
polio and as she's gotten older,
00:32:27.71\00:32:32.65
she is gotten worse.
00:32:32.68\00:32:35.32
We just had a stint of
being in a hospital for 3 days
00:32:35.35\00:32:38.49
a couple of months ago
00:32:38.52\00:32:39.85
and I see the
dejection on her face.
00:32:39.89\00:32:45.49
And no matter how many
doctors I have taken her to,
00:32:45.53\00:32:47.66
no matter how many
people say, it's this problem,
00:32:47.70\00:32:49.56
it's that problem,
we've done natural stuff,
00:32:49.60\00:32:51.80
we've done medical stuff,
we've done almost everything.
00:32:51.83\00:32:56.71
And it just does
not seem to work.
00:32:56.74\00:33:01.61
And this last stint,
where being in a hospital,
00:33:01.64\00:33:06.68
she looked at me.
00:33:06.72\00:33:09.58
She said, son, I'm tired.
00:33:09.62\00:33:12.85
And my mother, I've
had her with me since 2002.
00:33:12.89\00:33:18.36
This is 2015, for 13 years.
00:33:18.39\00:33:21.23
You can say I've
been the parent now,
00:33:21.26\00:33:23.26
taking care of my
mother, because it's interesting
00:33:23.30\00:33:25.90
they take care of us and
then we take care of them.
00:33:25.93\00:33:29.30
And for me, it's hard watching
this bulwark of a woman,
00:33:29.34\00:33:32.94
who raised me by herself.
00:33:32.97\00:33:34.74
Only this tall and her
fists is this big because
00:33:34.78\00:33:37.58
when she punch you, she
would knock you clear out.
00:33:37.61\00:33:41.92
And she can hit so hard.
00:33:41.95\00:33:43.28
I didn't think my
mother had it in her.
00:33:43.32\00:33:44.99
I thought
Superman and Wonder Woman
00:33:45.02\00:33:46.89
was just a Marvel comic but
it was real life in my home.
00:33:46.92\00:33:51.83
But I'm watching
this bulwark of a woman,
00:33:51.86\00:33:54.36
now get feeble, and feeble.
00:33:54.40\00:33:58.20
And this last
stint in the hospital,
00:33:58.23\00:34:01.40
and the doctors were
talking about in a case
00:34:01.44\00:34:04.14
of resuscitation, do
we have your permission.
00:34:04.17\00:34:07.88
My mother said, no.
00:34:07.91\00:34:10.55
So as the son listening to this,
00:34:10.58\00:34:14.02
I started crying.
00:34:14.05\00:34:16.85
And I did when I
said, momma, what did you...
00:34:16.89\00:34:18.79
what did you say?
00:34:18.82\00:34:20.52
She said, I said
no. She said, I'm tired.
00:34:20.56\00:34:23.59
I get up every
day and my back hurts.
00:34:23.63\00:34:27.00
I get up every
day, my legs hurt.
00:34:27.03\00:34:29.63
I get up every day, my
internal organs are hurting.
00:34:29.66\00:34:35.94
And I'm tired right now.
00:34:35.97\00:34:39.44
I've been through this, to
this doctor and that doctor.
00:34:39.47\00:34:42.34
I've done this, I've done that
00:34:42.38\00:34:44.55
and situation is
not getting better.
00:34:44.58\00:34:48.42
So I said, I said, Mr. Doctor,
can you step out a minute
00:34:48.45\00:34:51.79
before you put this on a chart?
00:34:51.82\00:34:54.19
I said, momma,
have you lost your mind?
00:34:54.22\00:34:56.39
I said, momma, I'd
rather you sore than
00:34:56.42\00:34:59.13
not have you at all.
00:34:59.16\00:35:00.73
She says, son, you
are not living this life.
00:35:00.76\00:35:05.70
You don't know how
painful this thing gets.
00:35:05.73\00:35:10.54
You don't feel what I'm feeling.
00:35:10.57\00:35:14.84
So here I am, so sometimes
00:35:14.88\00:35:17.28
when I think about it,
00:35:17.31\00:35:18.65
it's still fresh, it gets to me.
00:35:18.68\00:35:22.65
I couldn't even
imagine the thought of
00:35:22.68\00:35:24.42
not having my mother around.
00:35:24.45\00:35:29.09
But I can understand.
00:35:29.12\00:35:30.59
I can empathize with her
because I watch her pain.
00:35:30.63\00:35:35.36
I watch what she go
through, I'm right there
00:35:35.40\00:35:37.83
when she can't
put certain things on.
00:35:37.87\00:35:39.60
I have to help
put her clothes on
00:35:39.63\00:35:41.20
or help her reach
places she can't reach.
00:35:41.24\00:35:43.47
I'm right there.
00:35:43.51\00:35:45.14
And so I can
imagine this woman, y'all.
00:35:45.17\00:35:47.48
Listen to me now, has
been going through this
00:35:47.51\00:35:49.68
for 12 long years and
nothing has gotten better.
00:35:49.71\00:35:53.55
It has gotten worse.
00:35:53.58\00:35:57.89
And not only
that, listen to me now.
00:35:57.92\00:36:01.46
Not only that,
but she missed Christ
00:36:01.49\00:36:04.13
when He was in
Capernaum teaching.
00:36:04.16\00:36:06.96
She went to go see
Christ and she missed Him.
00:36:07.00\00:36:10.30
And not only that
but, dare she missed Him
00:36:10.33\00:36:12.87
when she heard that He
was at Levi Matthew's house,
00:36:12.90\00:36:15.14
she got there too late.
00:36:15.17\00:36:19.31
So imagine 12 years.
00:36:19.34\00:36:24.41
This issue, then you
missed a Savior twice.
00:36:24.45\00:36:29.38
Imagine the psychological effect
00:36:29.42\00:36:31.65
that you are going through.
00:36:31.69\00:36:33.72
On top of that,
go to Leviticus 15
00:36:33.76\00:36:36.52
for a moment, Leviticus 15.
00:36:36.56\00:36:39.26
Now she has to deal
with this. Leviticus 15.
00:36:39.29\00:36:42.76
Leviticus, the 15th chapter.
00:36:42.80\00:36:47.24
Leviticus 15:19 more particular.
00:36:47.27\00:36:52.81
Leviticus 15:19,
the Bible says this,
00:36:52.84\00:36:56.24
"And if a woman have an issue,
00:36:56.28\00:36:59.11
and her issue in
her flesh be blood,
00:36:59.15\00:37:02.02
she shall be put
apart seven days,
00:37:02.05\00:37:05.05
and whosoever toucheth her
00:37:05.09\00:37:06.65
shall be unclean
until the evening.
00:37:06.69\00:37:08.99
And every thing that
she lieth upon in her
00:37:09.02\00:37:11.26
separation shall be
unclean, every thing also that
00:37:11.29\00:37:14.46
she sitteth upon
shall be unclean."
00:37:14.50\00:37:18.03
Going down to
verse 25, the Bible says,
00:37:18.07\00:37:20.34
"And if a woman have
an issue of her blood
00:37:20.37\00:37:22.47
many days out of the
time of her separation,
00:37:22.50\00:37:25.14
or if it run beyond
the time of her separation,
00:37:25.17\00:37:29.24
all the days of the
issue of her uncleanness
00:37:29.28\00:37:32.71
shall be as the
days of her separation,
00:37:32.75\00:37:35.05
she shall be unclean.
00:37:35.08\00:37:37.09
Every bed where she
lieth all the days of her issue
00:37:37.12\00:37:40.69
shall be unto her as
the bed of her separation,
00:37:40.72\00:37:43.59
and whatsoever she
sitteth upon shall be unclean,
00:37:43.63\00:37:47.26
as the
uncleanness of her separation.
00:37:47.30\00:37:49.73
And whosoever toucheth
those things shall be unclean,
00:37:49.76\00:37:53.94
and shall wash his clothes,
and bathe himself in water,
00:37:53.97\00:37:57.34
and be unclean until evening.
00:37:57.37\00:37:59.47
And so on top of all that,
00:37:59.51\00:38:03.61
she can't be around anybody.
00:38:03.65\00:38:08.08
So on top of having
this issue for 12 years,
00:38:08.12\00:38:11.49
on top of
spending all her money,
00:38:11.52\00:38:13.86
on top of going to every
doctor and getting worse,
00:38:13.89\00:38:17.39
on top of missing Christ twice,
she can't be around people.
00:38:17.43\00:38:22.80
She's all by
herself. Imagine that.
00:38:22.83\00:38:29.47
Nobody, she can't get
in the car for 12 years
00:38:29.50\00:38:33.74
and go on a nice,
little date with her husband.
00:38:33.78\00:38:36.01
She can't lay in a bed
with her husband for 12 years.
00:38:36.04\00:38:40.25
She can't participate
in Thanksgiving meal.
00:38:40.28\00:38:42.72
For 12 years, no Christmas time.
00:38:42.75\00:38:44.89
For 12 years, she
can't hold the new grandbaby.
00:38:44.92\00:38:49.39
For 12 years, she can't
kiss her husband good night.
00:38:49.42\00:38:52.49
I love you, honey.
00:38:52.53\00:38:53.86
For 12 years, she can't
do anything to be bothered.
00:38:53.90\00:38:59.73
She can't attend graduation
and she can't attend church.
00:38:59.77\00:39:03.74
For 12 years.
00:39:03.77\00:39:06.31
She's all by
herself for 12 long years.
00:39:06.34\00:39:11.28
She can't
celebrate any anniversary
00:39:11.31\00:39:13.31
between her and her husband.
00:39:13.35\00:39:15.98
She's missed 12 years
of her children's life.
00:39:16.02\00:39:18.52
For 12 years,
no Christmas gifts.
00:39:18.55\00:39:21.99
For 12 years, y'all. No
camp meetings, 12 years.
00:39:22.02\00:39:26.90
Can't come and
observe a baptism, 12 years.
00:39:26.93\00:39:31.40
For 12 long years,
she's all by herself.
00:39:31.43\00:39:34.97
Now it's bad
enough if you by yourself
00:39:35.00\00:39:36.71
for a couple of
months or a week or so,
00:39:36.74\00:39:38.77
but for 12 long years, y'all.
00:39:38.81\00:39:43.75
It make anybody go crazy.
00:39:43.78\00:39:45.98
She can't call
the pastor and say,
00:39:46.01\00:39:47.75
pastor, I need
you to pray with me.
00:39:47.78\00:39:49.25
He said, lady, you are unclean.
I can't come in your vicinity.
00:39:49.28\00:39:53.32
The elders can't
come and see her.
00:39:53.36\00:39:54.82
The deacons can't come
over the deaconess can't
00:39:54.86\00:39:56.99
can't take some
song over and sing,
00:39:57.03\00:39:59.16
can't take
communion for 12 long years,
00:39:59.19\00:40:05.17
12 long years.
00:40:05.20\00:40:09.80
You can only
imagine the psychological
00:40:09.84\00:40:13.98
process she's going through.
00:40:14.01\00:40:16.01
Maybe she thought about
ending it all, I don't know.
00:40:16.04\00:40:20.35
But 12 years is a long time.
00:40:20.38\00:40:24.92
I can't even remember
what I did 12 years ago.
00:40:24.95\00:40:28.62
I can't re-detail,
that's how long it's been.
00:40:28.66\00:40:31.93
12 years ago, my son was 3.
00:40:31.96\00:40:34.00
He weren't thinking
about playing me in basketball.
00:40:34.03\00:40:37.37
12 years is a long time.
I've been in ministry 14 years.
00:40:37.40\00:40:43.20
12 years. We are
back to Mark, chapter 5.
00:40:43.24\00:40:50.48
This lady is desperate.
00:40:50.51\00:40:52.45
On top of that, blood drains,
00:40:52.48\00:40:58.09
takes away your energy.
00:40:58.12\00:41:00.96
So it was not like she had
a lot of energy on top of it.
00:41:00.99\00:41:04.36
I have a friend who is anemic.
00:41:04.39\00:41:07.33
I tell you the truth.
00:41:07.36\00:41:09.06
If she don't
take her iron pills,
00:41:09.10\00:41:11.23
she's out for the count.
00:41:11.27\00:41:13.44
No energy at all.
Sleep most of the day.
00:41:13.47\00:41:19.71
12 years.
00:41:19.74\00:41:26.41
If we end the story
there, it's no use of preaching.
00:41:26.45\00:41:31.85
It's no use of
encouraging anyone.
00:41:31.89\00:41:34.42
Everybody would soon
just want to give up,
00:41:34.46\00:41:38.46
but thank God
there's a Christ that knows
00:41:38.49\00:41:43.47
how long my 12 years has been.
00:41:43.50\00:41:46.47
That knows how many
a long time I've had.
00:41:46.50\00:41:51.37
The verse 27 says it this way,
"When she had heard of Jesus."
00:41:51.41\00:41:59.28
Come on now. I could...
00:41:59.31\00:42:02.75
Today at just certain parts,
this, you got to excuse me
00:42:02.78\00:42:05.75
because there are these things
I just enjoy all by myself.
00:42:05.79\00:42:08.26
See, there are
times we read the Bible
00:42:08.29\00:42:10.26
and we just
read it like a novel,
00:42:10.29\00:42:12.03
we read it like a book.
00:42:12.06\00:42:13.40
But see, a preacher
don't need much to start
00:42:13.43\00:42:15.63
preaching on something.
00:42:15.66\00:42:17.07
So, see, I get
excited when it simply says,
00:42:17.10\00:42:19.97
"When she had heard of Jesus."
00:42:20.00\00:42:21.94
See, that right there
takes me to another plateau
00:42:21.97\00:42:25.24
of understanding
when she had heard.
00:42:25.27\00:42:27.08
Didn't see him,
she's missed him twice.
00:42:27.11\00:42:29.14
She's been discouraged
and she's been dismayed
00:42:29.18\00:42:31.85
and she's been alone and
she's perhaps been suicidal
00:42:31.88\00:42:35.88
but the Bible says,
"When she had heard of Jesus."
00:42:35.92\00:42:38.55
See, that right
there is my wing in,
00:42:38.59\00:42:40.69
that right there is
the key to unlock the door.
00:42:40.72\00:42:42.89
"When she had
heard of Jesus." Why?
00:42:42.92\00:42:44.79
Because Romans 10 says,
"Faith cometh by hearing,
00:42:44.83\00:42:47.90
and hearing by the word of God."
00:42:47.93\00:42:49.43
See, she had heard.
00:42:49.46\00:42:50.80
Remember,
Bartimaeus heard that Jesus
00:42:50.83\00:42:52.73
was coming and he
started crying out.
00:42:52.77\00:42:54.87
See, sometimes you got to hear.
00:42:54.90\00:42:56.87
You may not see it,
you can just hear it.
00:42:56.91\00:43:00.98
Always easy said than done.
00:43:01.01\00:43:02.34
See, sometimes we hear
about certain preachers
00:43:02.38\00:43:04.71
going to be in the
area, all we do is hear it
00:43:04.75\00:43:07.18
and we flock there.
00:43:07.22\00:43:09.42
Or if you hear
there's a good party,
00:43:09.45\00:43:11.55
you have to be there.
00:43:11.59\00:43:12.92
You just heard about it
and you find yourself there.
00:43:12.95\00:43:15.22
See, sometimes if you find out
that there's a good restaurant,
00:43:15.26\00:43:17.86
you just hear it and
you find yourself there.
00:43:17.89\00:43:20.40
See, I was told when I got here,
00:43:20.43\00:43:22.06
I love Chinese food.
00:43:22.10\00:43:23.50
Even though I'm a black
man, I was told that there's
00:43:23.53\00:43:26.67
a good Chinese
place in this place,
00:43:26.70\00:43:28.77
I heard about it.
00:43:28.80\00:43:30.14
Went to it, went
back today all by myself.
00:43:30.17\00:43:32.71
Sometimes you just hear
stuff and it change your life.
00:43:32.74\00:43:37.31
So this woman just
heard that Jesus was around.
00:43:37.35\00:43:41.02
See, I don't
know what she heard,
00:43:41.05\00:43:43.89
but here's what I do know.
00:43:43.92\00:43:45.25
Whatever she
heard, perhaps prompted
00:43:45.29\00:43:47.26
in a sense of excitement.
00:43:47.29\00:43:50.13
It prompted her to
do something different
00:43:50.16\00:43:52.29
than what she did before.
00:43:52.33\00:43:53.66
Maybe she heard
in John, chapter 2,
00:43:53.70\00:43:56.10
that he turned water into wine.
00:43:56.13\00:43:58.17
I don't know.
00:43:58.20\00:43:59.53
Maybe she heard
in Mark, chapter 1,
00:43:59.57\00:44:01.30
that Peter's
mother-in-law was healed.
00:44:01.34\00:44:03.74
I don't know what she heard.
00:44:03.77\00:44:05.21
Maybe she heard
that in John, chapter 5,
00:44:05.24\00:44:07.94
that He healed a man
at a pool in Bethesda.
00:44:07.98\00:44:10.81
I don't know
again, I don't know what
00:44:10.85\00:44:13.08
she heard but what I do know
00:44:13.11\00:44:14.78
is that when she
heard it, she moved.
00:44:14.82\00:44:16.65
Maybe she heard
in Mark, chapter 1
00:44:16.69\00:44:18.75
that He healed a leper.
00:44:18.79\00:44:20.82
I don't know.
00:44:20.86\00:44:22.19
Maybe she heard
that blind Bartimaeus
00:44:22.22\00:44:23.99
himself was healed.
00:44:24.03\00:44:25.56
I don know.
00:44:25.59\00:44:26.93
Maybe she heard in Mark,
chapter 2 that four brothers
00:44:26.96\00:44:29.63
took their homeboy
and tore the roof off
00:44:29.66\00:44:32.57
the place and lowered him down
00:44:32.60\00:44:34.24
and He got up and start walking.
00:44:34.27\00:44:35.94
I don't know,
she heard something.
00:44:35.97\00:44:39.57
I don't know.
00:44:39.61\00:44:40.94
Maybe she heard in Luke 18,
of the woman that was walking
00:44:40.98\00:44:44.21
like this for 18
years and when she found out
00:44:44.25\00:44:47.55
it was Jesus
and Jesus just said,
00:44:47.58\00:44:49.25
"Woman, thou art loosed."
00:44:49.28\00:44:50.62
And she just start
shaking it up and shaking it up
00:44:50.65\00:44:53.05
and just walks straight.
00:44:53.09\00:44:54.42
I don't know what she
heard but she heard something.
00:44:54.46\00:44:59.06
Maybe she heard
in Mark, chapter 5
00:44:59.09\00:45:01.46
that He healed a demoniac.
00:45:01.50\00:45:04.03
I don't know but
all I do know is that
00:45:04.07\00:45:06.03
she heard something.
00:45:06.07\00:45:07.84
And it's good enough for me.
00:45:07.87\00:45:09.60
See, I heard
that there's a Savior
00:45:09.64\00:45:11.34
that can save a wretch like me,
00:45:11.37\00:45:13.61
so I start
following this Savior.
00:45:13.64\00:45:15.81
I went from Black
Panther to black pastor
00:45:15.84\00:45:18.38
and I've been happy ever since.
00:45:18.41\00:45:20.52
Are you with me so far? I
just heard about this Savior.
00:45:20.55\00:45:25.49
Sometimes all you
got to do is hear it.
00:45:25.52\00:45:27.56
You don't have to see
it, you just got to hear
00:45:27.59\00:45:29.49
what he can do and
that's enough for me.
00:45:29.52\00:45:31.63
See, see, she heard and I
can imagine what she heard.
00:45:31.66\00:45:34.93
Oh, shoot, I got one
more chance to this thing.
00:45:34.96\00:45:37.77
Why? 'Cause three
strikes, you are out.
00:45:37.80\00:45:42.24
Whatever she heard, and
it prompted her to move on.
00:45:42.27\00:45:46.24
And this is
where the fight is in.
00:45:46.27\00:45:48.41
See, see, I told
you that God does not...
00:45:48.44\00:45:50.91
Listen to me now.
00:45:50.95\00:45:52.28
God does not have any thoughts
of us of evil, but of peace.
00:45:52.31\00:45:55.82
He wants to bring stuff in
our life to a sense of peace.
00:45:55.85\00:46:00.79
But He wants us to
fight and give our all
00:46:00.82\00:46:03.53
and so now these
scriptures are kicking in.
00:46:03.56\00:46:08.96
The verse 27 continue,
says, when she heard of Jesus,
00:46:09.00\00:46:13.57
she came in the press behind,
00:46:13.60\00:46:15.90
well, she came
in the crowd behind
00:46:15.94\00:46:17.44
and touched His garments
and, "For she is said..."
00:46:17.47\00:46:20.78
Listen to me now.
00:46:20.81\00:46:22.14
"For she said, If I may
touch but His clothes..."
00:46:22.18\00:46:25.65
Come on now, if I
may touch but his clothes
00:46:25.68\00:46:28.28
not his body, if I
may touch but His clothes,
00:46:28.32\00:46:31.69
then I can be made whole.
00:46:31.72\00:46:33.66
See, see, God understands it
00:46:33.69\00:46:35.76
and this is know
clear this thing is for me,
00:46:35.79\00:46:38.19
as I'm reading "Desire
of Ages" and she says that,
00:46:38.23\00:46:41.43
she says the Savior
knew that He had a daughter
00:46:41.46\00:46:44.80
who had an issue
for 12 long years
00:46:44.83\00:46:47.00
and He start
walking in her direction.
00:46:47.04\00:46:49.77
See, see, Jairus thought
that this thing is all about
00:46:49.80\00:46:52.47
him but he had a daughter who's
been struggling for 12 years.
00:46:52.51\00:46:55.64
See, Jairus had a
daughter that was 12 years old,
00:46:55.68\00:46:58.45
that was about to
die and sooner die
00:46:58.48\00:47:00.15
but Christ had a
daughter also for 12 years,
00:47:00.18\00:47:02.88
that's been
struggling and so he did say,
00:47:02.92\00:47:05.29
"I'm not going to let
you strike out again."
00:47:05.32\00:47:07.29
Amen. Hallelujah, somebody.
00:47:07.32\00:47:08.96
I'm going to walk in your path,
I'm going to slow myself down
00:47:08.99\00:47:12.63
because I know that
your energy has been lost
00:47:12.66\00:47:15.53
because you been
bleeding for 12 years.
00:47:15.56\00:47:17.57
So I'm going to move slow
in this thing to make sure
00:47:17.60\00:47:20.24
that this time
you don't miss me.
00:47:20.27\00:47:22.44
This time you won't be too late.
00:47:22.47\00:47:24.41
This time I got you
right where I want you
00:47:24.44\00:47:26.91
So He walked in her
direction purposely.
00:47:26.94\00:47:29.04
You need to
understand something today,
00:47:29.08\00:47:31.08
that when Christ wants you,
He's going to walk your way.
00:47:31.11\00:47:34.02
He's not going to take a detour.
00:47:34.05\00:47:35.65
He's not going to miss the turn.
00:47:35.68\00:47:37.29
He's going to walk your way.
00:47:37.32\00:47:39.09
Oh, my
goodness. Oh, my goodness.
00:47:43.19\00:47:46.23
But you can see her
fighting this thing.
00:47:46.26\00:47:48.66
She can, you can see
her fighting and listen,
00:47:48.70\00:47:50.80
theologians believe
that she wasn't standing up
00:47:50.83\00:47:53.70
like us, they believe.
00:47:53.74\00:47:56.14
I wish I could crawl up in here,
00:47:56.17\00:47:57.51
but they believe
she was crawling.
00:47:57.54\00:47:59.47
And you can imagine.
She's already embarrassed.
00:47:59.51\00:48:04.08
And I'm not even
talking about perhaps the smell.
00:48:04.11\00:48:06.82
She's probably self
conscious of herself.
00:48:06.85\00:48:09.72
She's probably self
conscious that, so many folk,
00:48:09.75\00:48:13.15
how am I going to get
through, I don't have the energy
00:48:13.19\00:48:15.69
to make it through
and she's crawling.
00:48:15.72\00:48:18.89
You ever crawl in desperation
00:48:18.93\00:48:20.66
and you just
don't have the energy.
00:48:20.70\00:48:23.10
And it's hard to put
one foot above the next
00:48:23.13\00:48:26.67
and then to reach out.
00:48:26.70\00:48:29.74
It takes a lot of
energy, it's not as simple
00:48:29.77\00:48:32.94
as you may think
especially when you are tired.
00:48:32.97\00:48:35.71
There are times I watch my
mother slowly reach her hand
00:48:35.74\00:48:39.05
out to me when I
can just be like, boom.
00:48:39.08\00:48:40.88
But my mother is like
this at times and it takes
00:48:40.92\00:48:43.75
some energy so I can
imagine this woman on her knees
00:48:43.79\00:48:47.42
struggling and not
on concrete, but sand,
00:48:47.46\00:48:50.46
struggling and she
sees Him in a distance
00:48:50.49\00:48:53.43
and she's excited about it,
but it just seems so far away
00:48:53.46\00:48:57.83
and all of a sudden, the
Savior is right in her vicinity.
00:48:57.87\00:49:03.67
And as He's in her vicinity.
00:49:03.71\00:49:06.71
The Bible says,
listen to me now.
00:49:06.74\00:49:09.84
Bible says,
"And straightaway..."
00:49:09.88\00:49:12.68
Verse 29, "the
fountain of her blood
00:49:12.71\00:49:15.65
was dried up, and
she felt in her body
00:49:15.68\00:49:18.62
that she was
healed of the plague.
00:49:18.65\00:49:22.39
She was healed of the plague."
00:49:22.42\00:49:25.56
Listen, I have such an
imagination that I believe,
00:49:25.59\00:49:29.66
brothers and
sisters, that the moment
00:49:29.70\00:49:31.40
she touched but the
helm of His garment,
00:49:31.43\00:49:33.97
the moment she
reached out and touched but
00:49:34.00\00:49:35.57
the helm of His
garment, that all of a sudden,
00:49:35.60\00:49:38.31
Bath and Body Works just
started floating in through
00:49:38.34\00:49:40.48
and she had a
cucumber melon smell about her.
00:49:40.51\00:49:42.78
I don't know but
it was the smell that
00:49:42.81\00:49:44.58
stood out like never before.
00:49:44.61\00:49:45.95
You know how a woman
just walks into a room
00:49:45.98\00:49:47.32
and you are like,
and I'm not talking about
00:49:47.35\00:49:48.88
you married
because you can't do that
00:49:48.92\00:49:50.49
but you can imagine
when a woman walk in room
00:49:50.52\00:49:52.42
and you are like, oh, man.
00:49:52.45\00:49:54.02
That was, that smelt
good. Where she go now?
00:49:54.06\00:49:56.56
Some of you
married men probably do it
00:49:56.59\00:49:57.96
but you don't want
to get caught doing it.
00:49:57.99\00:49:59.33
I'm not telling you to do that
00:49:59.36\00:50:00.70
but you just better be careful.
00:50:00.73\00:50:02.06
So I can imagine
that all of a sudden,
00:50:02.10\00:50:03.83
all the attention's on her.
00:50:03.87\00:50:05.20
Why? Because she has a
smell like no one else.
00:50:05.23\00:50:09.00
She has a
presence like no on else.
00:50:09.04\00:50:11.27
And the Bible
says that instantly,
00:50:11.31\00:50:13.68
instantly she was healed.
00:50:13.71\00:50:17.65
And why, because God says,
00:50:17.68\00:50:19.45
"I want to give you
a future and a hope."
00:50:19.48\00:50:21.65
Somebody say amen out there.
00:50:21.68\00:50:23.05
"I want to give you a
future and a hope." Why?
00:50:23.08\00:50:25.55
Because I don't
think anything evil of you,
00:50:25.59\00:50:27.56
nothing but peace.
00:50:27.59\00:50:28.92
I've watched you for 12 years.
I've watched you struggle.
00:50:28.96\00:50:31.79
I watched you
go through the pain
00:50:31.83\00:50:33.43
and I'm going to
come at the right time,
00:50:33.46\00:50:37.07
at the right moment.
00:50:37.10\00:50:39.17
See, sometimes we
think that God doesn't know
00:50:39.20\00:50:42.67
what He's doing but God
always knows what He's doing.
00:50:42.70\00:50:46.37
He understands
timing better than we do.
00:50:46.41\00:50:50.78
He understands timing.
00:50:50.81\00:50:52.31
See that some of
us, that if He grab us
00:50:52.35\00:50:55.58
at the wrong time in
our mind, we won't be right,
00:50:55.62\00:50:59.12
but He grabs us at the
right time that both can
00:50:59.15\00:51:01.79
come and meet
and have each other.
00:51:01.82\00:51:06.53
He crossed her
path at the right time.
00:51:06.56\00:51:09.00
He could have
crossed it Capernaum.
00:51:09.03\00:51:10.67
He could've crossed it
at Levi Matthew's house
00:51:10.70\00:51:12.83
but He crossed it
at the right time,
00:51:12.87\00:51:16.17
'cause she was fighting
the good fight of faith.
00:51:16.20\00:51:18.54
She was giving all she
got and her endurance lasted
00:51:18.57\00:51:26.51
and here's your question.
00:51:26.55\00:51:28.48
All these people
in the crowd again,
00:51:28.52\00:51:30.95
how does that one
person gets healed?
00:51:30.99\00:51:34.56
It's not about
the crowd sometimes,
00:51:34.59\00:51:37.03
it's about you and Jesus.
00:51:37.06\00:51:38.96
You can't worry about
everybody else's doing,
00:51:38.99\00:51:41.76
you have to worry
about what you are doing.
00:51:41.80\00:51:43.90
You have to understand
that God calls at the right time
00:51:43.93\00:51:46.57
and sometimes, listen to me now,
00:51:46.60\00:51:48.30
it's not enough to just call.
00:51:48.34\00:51:51.27
For some of us, we
have to reach out and grab.
00:51:51.31\00:51:55.78
Sometimes you have
to reach out and grab
00:51:55.81\00:51:58.08
the Savior and the Bible says,
"Jesus stopped immediately."
00:51:58.11\00:52:02.65
Listen to me now.
00:52:02.68\00:52:04.02
He stopped immediately
and said, "Who touched Me?"
00:52:04.05\00:52:06.39
And Peter being Peter said,
00:52:06.42\00:52:08.96
"Lord, You got
everybody touching you."
00:52:08.99\00:52:10.33
He's like, "No, no, no.
00:52:10.36\00:52:11.69
There's something different
about this touch right here.
00:52:11.73\00:52:13.80
There's something different
about what's taking place."
00:52:13.83\00:52:16.16
See, see, when
your healing comes,
00:52:16.20\00:52:18.23
God was stopped
instantly to recognize you
00:52:18.27\00:52:20.84
and He wanted to make sure
that no superstition was there.
00:52:20.87\00:52:23.54
He says, baby girl.
00:52:23.57\00:52:24.91
I can imagine, baby girl,
00:52:24.94\00:52:26.68
your faith has made thee whole.
00:52:26.71\00:52:28.64
See, we are here today because
00:52:28.68\00:52:30.01
of the Foundations of our Faith.
00:52:30.05\00:52:31.38
See, all we need is
a little bit of faith,
00:52:31.41\00:52:33.38
the size of a mustard seed.
00:52:33.42\00:52:34.75
She says if I were
just to reach out and touch
00:52:34.78\00:52:36.69
the helm of His
garment, not grab Him,
00:52:36.72\00:52:39.39
not come before Him and
say, "Yo, Jesus. Help me."
00:52:39.42\00:52:41.82
She says, "I just
want to touch a little bit
00:52:41.86\00:52:43.19
of what you got, Lord."
00:52:43.22\00:52:47.40
Don't take a whole lot.
00:52:47.43\00:52:50.03
Don't take a theological
study to come to Christ.
00:52:50.07\00:52:53.60
It just takes some willingness,
00:52:53.64\00:52:55.30
mix that with some
faith and God can heal.
00:52:55.34\00:53:00.08
So the Bible says
that in Philippians 4:19
00:53:00.11\00:53:03.38
that my God shall
supply all my needs.
00:53:03.41\00:53:07.92
Not some of my needs but
all of my needs and sometimes,
00:53:07.95\00:53:13.42
brothers and
sisters, you have to reach out
00:53:13.46\00:53:16.49
while believing to
grab what you want.
00:53:16.52\00:53:20.90
And so it goes back
to the story of my mother
00:53:20.93\00:53:23.26
who had been in the hospital
00:53:23.30\00:53:24.63
and the doctors could
not find what was going.
00:53:24.67\00:53:27.20
I said, momma, now is the time.
00:53:27.24\00:53:29.50
It's acceptable
time for you to reach out
00:53:29.54\00:53:31.97
and grab God's hand with faith.
00:53:32.01\00:53:34.68
And we start
praying a different prayer.
00:53:34.71\00:53:36.64
You see, when
the faith kicks in,
00:53:36.68\00:53:38.31
you don't pray the
same type of prayer.
00:53:38.35\00:53:39.98
Oh, Lord, why are we
here? Lord, why You got me?
00:53:40.02\00:53:42.52
Why my momma?
We've been at church.
00:53:42.55\00:53:45.49
No, we are
praying, Lord, raise her up.
00:53:45.52\00:53:47.62
Get up out of here.
00:53:47.66\00:53:48.99
There are some doctors who
don't believe that need to see,
00:53:49.02\00:53:50.96
there's the great
physician in the room, why?
00:53:50.99\00:53:53.06
Because we are told
the Ministry of Healing
00:53:53.09\00:53:54.60
that when Jesus
walked into the sick room,
00:53:54.63\00:53:56.70
all diseases are gone and so
we started praying that prayer.
00:53:56.73\00:54:00.34
We started reaching up,
00:54:00.37\00:54:01.97
so we can reach
down and bring us up.
00:54:02.00\00:54:04.01
And my mother
walked out that hospital,
00:54:04.04\00:54:05.51
they couldn't figure
out why she was there.
00:54:05.54\00:54:07.14
Somebody say, amen.
00:54:07.18\00:54:08.51
They said, I don't even know
why you are here, Mrs. Jackson.
00:54:08.54\00:54:10.41
I don't know either, so
momma, let's get up out of here.
00:54:10.45\00:54:14.25
Sometimes you got to
reach, you got to reach.
00:54:14.28\00:54:19.25
You can't just call.
00:54:19.29\00:54:20.76
Calling is good for some
but some of us got to reach.
00:54:20.79\00:54:26.03
You got to reach.
00:54:26.06\00:54:27.80
Reaching sometimes is not
easy. It reminds me of a story.
00:54:27.83\00:54:32.93
Two Native
Americans, one was older,
00:54:32.97\00:54:35.40
one was younger and
they were out fishing.
00:54:35.44\00:54:39.04
And as they were out fishing,
the older Native American
00:54:39.07\00:54:42.14
start hearing cracking in
the ice and he told junior,
00:54:42.18\00:54:48.08
he said, junior,
come on to this side.
00:54:48.12\00:54:51.62
Junior's like, oh, old
man. There's no cracking.
00:54:51.65\00:54:55.19
You are hearing things.
Your hearing is going bad.
00:54:55.22\00:54:58.49
It's all right.
00:54:58.53\00:55:01.83
The older Native American said,
00:55:01.86\00:55:04.10
listen, I need
you to jump right now.
00:55:04.13\00:55:06.97
Don't wait 'cause it could come.
00:55:07.00\00:55:08.70
Quickly jump right now.
Come on this side right now.
00:55:08.74\00:55:12.64
He says, old man, I'm
still a young spring chicken.
00:55:12.67\00:55:16.98
If it start cracking too quick,
00:55:17.01\00:55:18.35
I'll just jump and
it'll be all right.
00:55:18.38\00:55:21.82
The older Native American
says, I need you to jump now.
00:55:21.85\00:55:24.12
I need you to jump now.
00:55:24.15\00:55:25.55
I need you to
come on this side now.
00:55:25.59\00:55:28.12
Young man again
says, I got you, old man.
00:55:28.16\00:55:32.39
All of the
sudden, the ice cracked
00:55:32.43\00:55:35.50
and it start splitting real fast
00:55:35.53\00:55:36.93
and it caught the
younger by surprise
00:55:36.97\00:55:40.24
and it petrified
him, he couldn't move.
00:55:40.27\00:55:44.04
And the older
one said, just jump!
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Come on. Jump right now!
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Jump right now! Jump right now!
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Come on. Jump right now!
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And he continues
to just look petrified
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and he couldn't move.
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And as the older
Native American watched him
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go out into the sea,
if he had only jumped,
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he would have been saved.
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Sometimes, we have to do
what's not comfortable for us,
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which may require a little jump,
00:56:10.90\00:56:13.34
which may
require a little reach.
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Sometimes we have to
go outside and realize
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that if we really won't
change, then we have to reach,
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becomes uncomfortable reach.
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We maybe behind the crowd,
00:56:25.18\00:56:26.55
but there's
that healing for you.
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If you go a couple
of books over in Mark,
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you'll see that this
woman that Christ healed
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all of a sudden now
whatever city Jesus went to,
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they start touching
but the helm of His garment
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and the Bible said,
"That they become whole."
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Where do you think
they got that from?
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From the woman.
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See, you have to understand that
00:56:45.23\00:56:46.60
your healing is not just for you
00:56:46.63\00:56:48.74
but your healing is
to help somebody else
00:56:48.77\00:56:51.04
see Jesus and to
know that's the same Jesus
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can help them
like He helped you.
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So it's never one
way, it's always two way,
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so that you can help somebody.
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So if you just decided
you don't want to jump,
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then you may hurt
somebody who need to jump.
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So as we continue, we
need you to jump today,
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need you just to reach out.
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Just Give It One More Shot. Why?
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Because your
healing is right there.
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Sometimes it's
not enough to call,
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you just have to
give it one more shot
00:57:29.08\00:57:33.11
and the Savior that
I know would just walk
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in your direction nice and slow,
00:57:35.58\00:57:38.65
like He is strolling
on a good Sabbath morning.
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Strolling and He may even
pause so you can reach back,
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touch Him and keep moving.
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Father in Heaven,
please help us to reach.
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Please help us to
come to the point, Lord,
00:57:52.57\00:57:54.70
where we can touch
You in a special way.
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We thank you,
Lord, for all You do.
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In His name. Amen.
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