Hello friends, grab your Bible
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and a friend and sit back
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as we explore
God's word together
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on this edition
of "House Calls".
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Hello and welcome to
another "House Calls" program.
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As you can see we're so glad
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that you've
chosen to tune in today.
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And turn adjust your television,
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the guy sitting next
to me is not John Stanton,
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he's a little bit
shorter but he is scriptural.
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He is James. Today is
the James and John show.
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Good to have you here,
James. Good to be here, John.
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I tell you we're in the saddle
together for the first time
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and we want you to
tune into the program,
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actually you've
already have tuned in.
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Stay tuned in. Get
your Bibles, get your pens,
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if you're moving
around, slow down right now,
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because I think
that the Lord has led you
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to the best Bible
program on television.
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At least that's
what we believe today.
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And so we're gonna be answering
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your questions your-we
gonna be addressing your emails
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and we gonna be
talking about the topic
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that's really hot right now,
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the immortality of the soul,
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that's the second
part of our program.
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But before we do anything,
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we always begin our
program with prayer.
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So James, would you
have prayer for us today?
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Absolutely. Father, I just
wanna thank you for audience,
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thanking for the interest
that you have given them
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in the Bible, Your word.
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Thank you that we can open it,
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right now we can ask
for Your Spirit to guide us.
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We can look for Your blessing,
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for Your leading and
we can trust Your word.
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We pray and ask
for Your presence now
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for each of us for
those who are listening,
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we ask it in
Jesus name, amen. Amen.
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Well, James, we haven't
done a program together.
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We talked about
Bible together before,
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but I'm so glad to have you here
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because truly this is
the scriptural program.
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We're the sons of thunder.
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Amen. James and John,
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sons of thunder.
It's James and John.
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Brothers. Exactly.
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So we're now fishers of men,
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and you know,
there are those of you
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who are watching the
program and listening today,
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you always send
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and we always begin our
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that's a big word,
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We still answer emails. Good.
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And snail mails.
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Well since
you're my guest today.
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I want to go ahead and have
you pitch our first question
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and what do we have for all.
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Well this question
comes from Randy Hunt.
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Okay. And he's asking a question
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about First
John Chapter 3. Okay.
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And that Chapter is found
toward the Book of Revelation
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which happens to be my
favorite Book of the Bible.
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So I thought this would be
a good question to bring up
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because it's really
close to Revelation.
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First John Chapter 3 and
here is Randy Hunt's question.
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"Hi, gentlemen,
I cannot understand
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how to reconcile this
Chapter, First John Chapter 3
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with the rest of scripture
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in regard to the
severity of sin in this Chapter.
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It looks here that,
any, like any sin is evidence
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that you do not have
the Holy Spirit in you.
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Please help me to
understand, Randy Hunt."
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And I wonder what verse in
particular is he referring to?
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I think he's
talking, yeah, but he,
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I think primarily
Randy is referring
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to First John
Chapter 3 and verse 9
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and I'll read that verse. Okay.
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It says,
"Whoever is born of God"
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and that's of course
born of the Holy Spirit,
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"does not commit sin, for
his seed remaineth in him;
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and he cannot sin
because he is born of God."
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So Randy's question
is, it looks here as though
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any sin is evidence that
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you do not have
the Holy Spirit in you.
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If any man's born of
God, he doesn't commit sin.
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If he commits sin, yes,
he doesn't remain in Him.
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Pretty tough question, isn't it?
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Yes, it's on the
surface it sounds that way
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but I know you
have an answer for it.
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Well the context of
First John is really powerful.
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First John Chapter 3
in context is speaking
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about behold in love of God.
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First John Chapter 3 verse 1,
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"Behold, what manner of love
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the Father hath
bestowed upon us,
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that we should be
called the sons of God,
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therefore the
world knoweth us not,
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because it knew him not."
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In other words the context
of this Chapter is speaking
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about the born-again
experience those who see
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and fall in love
with the heart of God.
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Those who are filled
with the love of Christ
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and no longer live
according to the world,
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but they're now following Jesus.
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They're living now
according to this new life
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that they have in Jesus Christ.
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And then in verse 4 and
I'm just skipping through,
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just giving an outline here
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and verse 4 talks
about the definition of sin.
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It says, "Whoever commit
sin transgresses also the law,
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for sin is the
transgression of the law."
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Jesus said it this way in
John Chapter 14 and verse 15,
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He says, "If you love
Me, keep My commandments."
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So the love of God
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compels us to keep
the commandments of God.
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And according to First
John Chapter 3 and verse 4,
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sin is transgression of the law,
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sin is transgression of
the commandments of God.
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Now in that
context, you read verse 9,
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whoever is born of God,
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whoever is fall in love with God
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and has turned away
from walking with the world
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and now he's walking
after Jesus does not commit sin,
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doesn't continue to
transgress the law of God.
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Because His, God seed remains
in him and he cannot sin.
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He cannot
violate, he cannot steal,
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he cannot lie, he
cannot bear false witness,
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he can't break the Sabbath,
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he can't have
other idols before him,
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because he's
fall in love with God.
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He's turned away from the world.
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He is given his heart to
Jesus and he's a new creature.
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It does not mean, however John,
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it does not mean
that we don't fail,
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we don't fall short
in the context of this.
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We have First John
Chapter 2, it says,
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"If we sin, we have an
advocate with the Father,
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Jesus Christ the
righteous." That's right.
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The context of
this is telling us
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that we're living a new life.
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That we see the
principles of God's law
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and we follow those principles.
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But it's not telling
us that we're flawless,
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that we're perfect, that
we're never going to fall
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or need our advocate to
intercede on our behalf again.
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That's right, that's right.
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As a matter of fact,
if we look at verse 10,
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this is a
significant, I'm reading
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the New King James version.
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I think we both have one
transit, we both have both,
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King James and
New King James. Yes.
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So we balance it out together.
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If we look at the verse 10
in the New King James version,
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it says, "In this
the children of God
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and the children of
the devil are manifest,
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Whoever does not practice
righteousness is not of God,
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nor is he who does
not love his brother."
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The suggestion here,
or not the suggestion
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but the context of
that is practicing.
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Isaiah 1 verse
16 to 18 says to us,
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"Cease to do evil, learn to
do good or learn to do well."
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When a person comes into
a relationship with Christ,
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their practice is
different, you know.
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Yes. You never go to a doctor
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that has ceased to practice.
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If a doctor says,
you know after 30 years
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he still has a practice.
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He still continues
to renew the information
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that's in the medical world,
he's continuing to practice.
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Baseball players,
basketball players,
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they have practice. And
so in the very same way,
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the Christian has to practice.
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He practices
righteousness. Right.
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Paul talked about that practice
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when he says,
"Follow me or emulate me
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or pattern your life after
me only as I follow Christ."
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and so what's happening here is
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what's being
suggested by John the apostle is
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what do you practice?
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If you're practicing
the things of the world,
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you cannot be filled
by the Spirit of God.
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If you're
practicing unrighteousness,
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how can you say that
the seed of God is in you.
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Because an orange tree
will never produce an apple,
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because the seed
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cannot let it. Amen.
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If an apple shows
up on an orange tree,
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somebody says, "Wait
a minute! Has this tree,
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has this branch been
grafted into this tree?"
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the fruit has to be
subordinate to the seed.
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And so what's being said here
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about the seed of
God remaining in us,
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he says if you're
practicing worldliness
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I don't believe the
seed of God is in you.
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Because the seed of God
is not going to make you
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practice unrighteousness. Amen.
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So this is what's
happening here is not,
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and I, and I thank
you for saying that.
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It's not saying
that we're perfect.
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Jude verse 24 says, "Unto
him that is able to keep you
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from falling." Amen.
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But in this world if you sin
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which before we get
rid of this mortal flesh,
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they're gonna be
a lot of battles.
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But the beauty of
that is dying daily,
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so that we could
be strong in Christ.
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So that's what John,
in essence saying here,
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he says, "I'm gonna
be examining your seed"
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and James, one thing that
comes to mind as a pastor,
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you know people
say, "Don't judge me?"
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Well there is an
entire book called "Judges"
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and then Paul the
Apostle says, "Wait a minute,
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don't you know that one
day we're gonna judge angels"
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and if we gonna judge angels,
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can't we judge men
in smaller matters,
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but it's not condemning.
So John is saying here,
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don't condemn a
person, but make sure that
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as they practice, they're
practicing righteousness.
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And when they do
practice righteousness,
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we know that the seed
of Christ remains in them.
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And if the seed is there,
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you get oranges
on an orange tree,
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if it's an apple
tree you get apples.
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Amen. But a good tree
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cannot produce bad fruit
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and a bad tree
cannot produce good fruit.
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So this is about
the Christian walk.
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And that's why
he begins by saying
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the law of the God
is bestowed upon us,
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that we should be
called the children of God.
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How can we be,
why's that love so great
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unless we need
the Father's love?
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What do you have to add to that?
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I was gonna say that too.
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We mentioned
this, this was mentioned
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but again the
Chapters of these letters,
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these books were never there
when they were first written,
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they were written just
in a consecutive style.
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Exactly. One after the other.
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So the immediate context,
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we talk about the
immediate context of the Chapter
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and what we mean by
that is not just the Chapter,
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but the entire letter.
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And immediate
context of this writing
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is First John
Chapter 1 verse 10,
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if we say that
we have not sinned,
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we make him a liar
and his word is not in us.
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There is a tension in
truth just like a battery.
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It has a positive,
and it has a negative.
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There is a tension in truth
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and if you unhook the
negative from your battery
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or the positive and leave
the other hooked, it won't work.
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The battery will not
function. That's right.
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And it's the same
with the word of God.
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The word of God is so beautiful
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and so balance
between justice and mercy.
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So God is, first of
all John is introducing
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the Gospel of Jesus Christ
before you get to First John 3
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you get to First John Chapter 1
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and First John Chapter 2
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and these
verses clearly indicate
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that if we'll
just confess our sins
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and if we say we haven't
sinned, we make him a liar
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and His truth isn't
us and if we do sin,
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if we sin we have an advocate
with the Father and not,
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he's not only our advocate
but he is a propitiation,
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he's a sacrifice
for the entire world.
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And then as he flows out
that into the next context,
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he's saying now, remember,
sin is transgression of the law
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and if you're born again,
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you don't continue
to live a lifestyle
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that is in
transgression to the law of God.
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That's right. He
who abides in him ought,
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himself also to
walk as Jesus walked.
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Amen. So it's all about our walk
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and now remember
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the walk is not the
end of the destination,
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the walk is the
process in the destination,
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moving in the direction
of the character of Christ.
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Thank you for that. Amen.
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We have another
question here. Margery,
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wow! from Perth,
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Western
Australia. It's right there.
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That's a long way.
I hope you are awake
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because this
question is to respond,
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this answer is to
respond to your question.
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He says, "While
watching House Calls,
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a few weeks ago,
someone asked a question.
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Who do we pray to?
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You had a great
answer from the Bible.
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We pray to the
Father in the name of a Son,
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in the power of Holy Spirit.
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I wasn't quick
enough to get the text.
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You quoted to
support the answer.
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Is it possible that
you can email these to me
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so I can share them with others
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asking the same
question?" What we're gonna do,
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we'll not only email them
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we're gonna
also respond to them.
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A prayer is a
powerful medium, prayer is,
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well let me put
the story together.
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I don't know if anybody
could live without a cell phone.
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At least I don't know if
any adults without cell phones.
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There is a-- Maybe
you're gonna change that
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I don't know of any
teenagers without cell phones.
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It's just the another girl.
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I mean we are living in a
world that's so connected.
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It's funny we call this,
what's the term social media.
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Well, one person once said,
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recently on a talk show he says,
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this is the most dysfunctional
social media generation.
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Because I have seen,
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it happened in my office, James.
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Two young people sat
together on the couch,
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instead of turning
and looking at each other,
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they're texting back
and forth Each other.
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Each other. And
what blew me away is
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one said that did
you get that text?
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Yeah I got it.
Did you get my answer?
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I'm thinking just turn
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and look at each
other and communicate.
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Amazing. It's amazing.
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The Lord has established prayer
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not for us to text
Him but to communicate.
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And one of the
desires that Moses had
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was to see the Lord's face
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and he said, well I, you know,
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if that happens
you're not gonna live,
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so I tell you what, you
hide in the cliff to the rock
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and I'll pass by, and
when I pass by, just glimpse
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and that glimpse was so powerful
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that when Moses came
down from the mountain,
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his face had to be veiled.
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But the way that we
can come before the Father
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and still not be
consumed is through prayer.
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And so I want to point out
a few passages in the Bible,
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some of those related
to disciples asking Jesus,
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"Would you
teach us how to pray?"
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and let's go to
Luke 11 and verse 2
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for one of the examples.
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Jesus wasn't making this
pray--and in some dominations
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people just repeat these prayers
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though this is the prayer,
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this is a blue
print of the prayer.
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You know, some
people say repeat after me,
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our Father which art in
heaven hallowed be thy name.
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Well I know, because--
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I came out of one
of those denominations.
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Okay. I used to say
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the Lord's Prayer every night.
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Just by row, just over and
over again and have married.
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So I know exactly
what you're talking about
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but I didn't know
Jesus and I didn't,
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it didn't connect with me God,
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it was just a formal, it
was just a ceremony for me.
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And sometimes
even in our church,
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you know people
are ending their prayer
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and then they'll
say repeat after me,
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our Father, which art in heaven,
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I'll be the name and
not a problem with that
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but if you use that just
as a point of repetition,
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you sometimes fail to understand
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what Jesus was saying.
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He was saying there is a way,
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so when the disciples said
Lord, teach us how to pray?
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He says so verse
2, He said to them,
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when you pray say
our Father in heaven
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hallowed be your
name, Your kingdom come,
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You will be down on
earth as it is in heaven
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and He says when you
pray acknowledge a few things.
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First of all
where's your father,
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our Father, which art in heaven
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but that wasn't the end of it,
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because if that was
only way that we pray
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then we would not even consider
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that the Holy Spirit
is involved in our prayer.
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We wouldn't consider the fact
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that Jesus is very
much involved in our prayer.
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And so when you think about it,
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I'm gonna go back to the,
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I'll use the post
office as an example.
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You know, person mails a letter,
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then that letter
goes to the post office.
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If it's in your local box,
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the mail carrier
comes by and picks it up
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and drops the flag back down.
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So from your hand
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to your local mail box
in front of your house,
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at least that's
how it's out here.
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To the post office,
somebody else handles that,
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sorts it out sends to the
zip code of its destination.
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Then somebody gets
into that post office,
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handles it
again, from post office
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from your hand to
the other person's hand,
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many different measures
to get it to its destination.
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But sometimes, John,
we'll sent a letter out,
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and we'll forget to
put the whole address
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and the person said, you know,
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I got your letter and
you didn't put the zip code,
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but you put the city
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and the post office
knew what you meant.
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Sometimes you forget to
finish the city name or scribble
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but you put the zip
code and they say wow,
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it's got to be, well
that's a small town, 62896,
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well that's only was Frankfurt,
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at least out here,
that's the way it is.
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Sometimes we pray
that very same way.
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We pray and we say, Oh!
Well, I'm praying for this,
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don't know how to, don't
know how to exactly ask this,
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but I'm gonna pray and
then we go to the Book of Romans
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and Paul so wonderfully
says when you pray sometimes,
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you don't even know
what you're praying for.
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I love that
verse. So the spirit,
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let's go to that
text as a matter of fact,
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Romans 8 verse 26. We
always read Romans 8:28,
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I mean everybody knows that one
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and we know that all things
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but the context of
that is so beautiful.
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Romans 8:26, "Likewise
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the Spirit also
helps in our weaknesses:
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for we do not know what we
should pray for as we ought:
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but the Spirit himself
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makes intercession
for us with groanings
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which cannot be uttered."
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"Now he who
searches the hearts knows
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what the mind of the Spirit is,
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because he makes
intercession for the saints
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according to the will of God."
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In this passage you
have-you have Christ
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and you have the Holy Spirit.
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He who knows the
heart of the Spirit,
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he who knows the
heart of man, the Spirit
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and I like the fact
that he says with groanings
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which cannot be uttered,
that's another whole topic.
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That topic could refute the fact
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that we have to pray in tongues,
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because the Spirit
himself uses groanings
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which cannot be uttered.
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And so the Spirit
hears and understands
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what we want to
say, reading our intents,
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reading our hearts
and brings that to Christ
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and Christ brings
that before the Father.
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Because no man
comes to the Father
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except through
Jesus Christ. Amen.
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You want to add
something to that?
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Oh, I really love this prayer
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that Jesus gives us an outline.
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I've learned to love it
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because it tells us not
only how to approach God,
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but it tells us that
God wants to deliver us
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from the evil in
this world. That's right.
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And when I
interact with the Lord,
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sometimes I do still fall
into that old habit of just,
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you know, not even remembering
what I actually prayed
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or what I
actually asked for etc.
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But when I
remember what Jesus said,
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when you pray, pray this way
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and He goes to the
prayer and He says, ask God
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to deliver you
from evil. That's right.
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Ask God for His will to be done
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on earth as it is in heaven,
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and that many
times awakens my heart,
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my angst, my fervor,
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my desire because a
lot of times when I pray,
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I'm concerned about my children,
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I'm concerned about things
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that are taking
place in the world,
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injustice is taking
place. And it reminds me
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that what is
happening in this world
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is not always
God's will. That's right.
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Pray that God's
work will be done.
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It reminds me that, that
there's evil in this world
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that God wants
to deliver us from.
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So not everything
that's happening in this world
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is part of God's
plan. He is against evil.
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I mean if God and
evil were partners,
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then the prayer to
be delivered from evil
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will be the prayer to
be delivered from God.
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That's right. So we're praying
to be delivered from evil
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and God wants to
deliver us from evil.
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So as I look at the prayer
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and I look at the
outline that Jesus gives us,
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yeah, it reminds me
of his hatred of evil
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and his desire to,
to return us to heaven
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and to the way
things operate in heaven
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which is based on the
law of love. That's right.
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And so that, that
prayer that he's established,
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Luke records it,
John, Matthew records it.
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Ah, it, the
pattern is beautiful,
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I mean, can you
say it's not beautiful
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when Jesus established it? Amen.
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It just will be-- well,
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let's not go down that road.
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However there are few
other components to prayer
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that we have to acknowledge.
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There's a lot of
times I hear people pray
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and they mention their request,
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but they don't put
the address on it, okay.
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They write the letter but
they never address the envelope.
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The address to the envelope
is in Jesus name we pray. Amen.
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Let's look at that
in John Chapter 14,
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verse 6, and verse 14.
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Matter of fact, let me go
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and put on my
glasses, not that I need them.
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Okay, I got to stop
fooling myself, I do need them.
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I've been working
that one for a long time.
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John 14 verse 6, Jesus says,
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"I am the way, the
truth and the life.
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No one comes to the
Father except through me."
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and then down in verse 14,
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"If you ask anything
in my name, I will do it."
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verse 13,
"Whatever you ask in my name,
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that I will do, that the Father
may be glorified in the Son."
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You think of it now,
what do you put on an ad,
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what do you put in an envelope,
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one of the first
things you put on the envelope
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when you're mailing a
letter is what? Your name.
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Yes. The person's name.
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John Smith, James
Rafferty, John Lomacang,
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what's his address, see
so when you pray your prayer,
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don't forget to put the
address on your prayer. Amen.
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Jesus, in Jesus name I pray.
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And He says okay now I know
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what do you want
me to do with that
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and He brings it
before the Father.
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Amen. Yeah, that's beautiful.
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When we look at the
outline that God has given us,
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it is a succinct and brief,
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yet exhaustive outline
that covers every aspect
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of the need of the
fallen human heart.
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That's right. For intercession,
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for connection
and for the expression
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of our
frustration and anxieties.
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Sometimes when I
look at the Old Testament
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and David, I think
about some of the Psalms
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that he wrote
and some of the angst
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and I'm going to use that
word instead of anger. Okay.
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That he expresses,
you know, consume them.
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Frustration. Yeah, consume them,
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and even job, consume them,
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destroy them, what's going on?
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Why are you letting this happen?
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And I believe that
when Jesus mentions
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these various aspects
in this outline of prayer,
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He's calling us to engage our
hearts with God. That's right.
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Many times we engage our
hearts with other people,
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with other human beings.
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We let them have
a peace of our minds
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in a positive or negative
way and we overwhelm them.
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People, human beings
can't always handle that,
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even counselors
can be overwhelmed,
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but there is a God in heaven.
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There's a heavenly counselor
that we can never overwhelm
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with our
request, with our burdens,
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with our anxieties, with
our distress and our anger,
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we can never
overwhelm Him. That's right.
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We can give him
everything and He understands.
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In fact, even
when we manifest anger,
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I love the verse and
now in Ephesians 4 verse 27,
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I want to just read that. Okay.
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Quickly because
it's so significant.
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Turn with us to Ephesians 4:27.
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Ephesians 4 and verse 27,
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this verse, you
know how it is John,
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there are times
when you have a verse
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that you do not understand.
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You read it, you read
it, you read it and you just,
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it just sits, you
just don't get it.
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And so what I do
with those verse,
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I put them on the shelf
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and I believe that in time
as Christian experience grows
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and as we move on and we
learn and we grow and we--
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we go through
these different trials
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or experiences that,
that these text begin
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to make sense to us,
00:24:16.46\00:24:17.66
you know maybe
through other texts,
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maybe through other experiences,
00:24:19.29\00:24:20.44
maybe through
other people or messages
00:24:20.45\00:24:23.10
and this is one
text that has made
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a lot of sense to
me just recently. Okay.
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Ephesians 4:27, excuse me, 4:26,
00:24:27.55\00:24:30.84
here's what it says,
"Be angry and sin not,
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let not the sun go
down upon your wrath."
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And you might say what does
that have to do with prayer?
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What does that
have to do with prayer?
00:24:43.25\00:24:44.82
"Be angry and sin not,
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don't let the sun
go down on your wrath."
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Well right there,
there's an indication,
00:24:48.11\00:24:49.63
don't let the sun
go down on your wrath,
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before you go to bed at night,
00:24:51.36\00:24:53.19
before you hit the
pillow, before you go to sleep,
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there is
something that you may need
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to communicate to
get off your chest
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and there's only one
person you can communicate to,
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that's really gonna be
able to take care for you.
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It's gonna be able
to displace the anger
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and give you the peace.
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Now the reason I like this verse
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is because it's so contradictory
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and so difficult to
understand and yet sometimes
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when you come to
verses like that,
00:25:15.69\00:25:17.55
once you understand
them, they become so powerful,
00:25:17.56\00:25:20.22
the impact is so powerful.
00:25:20.23\00:25:21.74
"Be angry and sin
not." That's right.
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Now I always
understood that anger is sin.
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How can you be
angry and not sin?
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Well, there is a way,
00:25:29.98\00:25:31.06
when you connect
that anger to God,
00:25:31.07\00:25:32.98
when you connect
that anger to prayer,
00:25:32.99\00:25:35.08
when you, your anger is vented
00:25:35.09\00:25:37.11
as David did
over and over again,
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he was being mistreated
by Saul unfairly, unjustly
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and he vented on God.
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And he said to God, consume him,
00:25:45.18\00:25:47.25
take him out, destroy
him, destroy my enemies.
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And sometimes we read
those verse and we think, wow!
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David, why are you
saying that? There he's venting.
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But we understand why he says it
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when he meets up with Saul.
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When David has the opportunity
00:25:58.84\00:26:00.85
to take Saul's
life himself in the cave
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and there were
couple of opportunities
00:26:03.69\00:26:05.04
he was given, he
doesn't touch him.
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That's right. You know why?
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Because he has
given his anger to God
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and he's not going to sin by
touching the Lord's anointed.
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He's gonna be angry and sin not.
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He's not gonna let the
sun go down in his wrath.
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Very good point.
He gives it to God,
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he vents and
God takes that anger
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and displaces it with
his peace and with his love.
00:26:22.11\00:26:25.08
And then he can say to Saul,
00:26:25.09\00:26:26.55
"I had a chance to
kill you but I didn't."
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And Saul would say, "You're
more righteous that I am."
00:26:28.56\00:26:31.47
So I love this
picture that we have.
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That's a beautiful,
that's a beautiful presentation.
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Yeah, in the context
of the Lord's prayer,
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deliver us from
evil, from what evil?
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Well, from the evil I
would have done. That's right.
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You know the evil that
David almost did with Nabal,
00:26:41.33\00:26:43.90
the evil that he
wouldn't do with Saul,
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delivers from that evil
and like you will be done.
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In other words, David
says, in the end of his psalms,
00:26:47.94\00:26:50.73
in psalms he always
says, "I'm praising you God,
00:26:50.74\00:26:52.56
I know you gonna
take care of this."
00:26:52.57\00:26:53.96
He says to Saul, the
Lord judge between me and you,
00:26:53.97\00:26:56.19
the Lord avenge me
of you. That's right.
00:26:56.20\00:26:57.77
And then David is
clear, so much so,
00:26:57.78\00:27:00.36
so much peace, so much love.
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But when Saul finally dies,
unlike our attitudes perhaps
00:27:01.85\00:27:05.50
toward the death of our enemies,
00:27:05.51\00:27:08.02
people that we
don't like in this world,
00:27:08.03\00:27:10.22
who hate, you know,
have harmed us, he weeps.
00:27:10.23\00:27:13.50
He weeps for Saul and
that's the heart of God.
00:27:13.51\00:27:16.38
That's right.
That's the heart of God.
00:27:16.39\00:27:17.44
And so the Lord's
prayer gives us this outline
00:27:17.45\00:27:20.11
that Jesus
gives to His disciples
00:27:20.12\00:27:22.29
that His
disciples eventually embrace
00:27:22.30\00:27:25.39
and that causes
Jesus on the cross
00:27:25.40\00:27:27.23
to weep for His enemies
and His disciples to weep
00:27:27.24\00:27:29.65
for their enemies and ask by
God's grace to weep for ours.
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That--that's a
beautiful way to look at that,
00:27:32.87\00:27:34.77
because a lot of
times when we say,
00:27:34.78\00:27:36.96
even the verse that follows it,
00:27:36.97\00:27:38.15
there's an entire sermon itself
"Nor give place to the devil."
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When you-- when you don't allow
00:27:41.19\00:27:43.16
that wrath to be laid aside,
00:27:43.17\00:27:45.06
the devil is waiting
to take his place. Yes.
00:27:45.07\00:27:47.84
And then the hand
that would have been
00:27:47.85\00:27:49.68
the hand to
heal the hurt becomes
00:27:49.69\00:27:52.39
the hand to
exasperate the injury.
00:27:52.40\00:27:56.47
And so we say, well I
can't wait and so we carry,
00:27:56.48\00:27:58.99
even amongst our own
hearts as Christians sometimes
00:27:59.00\00:28:01.58
we carry in anger
that has not been settled,
00:28:01.59\00:28:04.03
it has not been laid
down when the sun went down.
00:28:04.04\00:28:07.09
Yes. And we carry that burden,
00:28:07.10\00:28:08.70
that, that is
beautiful way of saying
00:28:08.71\00:28:11.23
that because David was
able to clear his heart. Yes.
00:28:11.24\00:28:14.73
And there are those in,
00:28:14.74\00:28:15.81
if you listen carefully
to what James just said,
00:28:15.82\00:28:17.98
they're those who are probably
carrying burdens right now
00:28:17.99\00:28:20.51
and their names
that may be flying
00:28:20.52\00:28:22.46
through your roller decks,
it's an old fashioned word,
00:28:22.47\00:28:25.73
flying through your
schedule. Your address book.
00:28:25.74\00:28:29.27
Your address book,
that you can think of things
00:28:29.28\00:28:31.99
that you wanna do
to get back at them,
00:28:32.00\00:28:33.55
but if you let that prayer of
God the deliverance from evil.
00:28:33.56\00:28:38.73
Beautiful aspect of it,
it's not just deliverance
00:28:38.74\00:28:40.84
from the evil that's around us,
00:28:40.85\00:28:42.81
but most specifically the
evil that abides within us.
00:28:42.82\00:28:45.79
I appreciate that very much.
00:28:45.80\00:28:46.91
So that's a very
great quotation to that.
00:28:46.92\00:28:49.84
Hopefully we
answered your questions today.
00:28:49.85\00:28:51.44
We covered just
about two or three of them.
00:28:51.45\00:28:53.40
But I know that in
the upcoming programs,
00:28:53.41\00:28:55.23
we'll be able to get
to some more of those.
00:28:55.24\00:28:56.72
If you have any more
questions or comments,
00:28:56.73\00:28:58.90
you can send those
to housecalls@3abn.org,
00:28:58.91\00:29:01.53
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00:29:01.54\00:29:04.47
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00:29:04.48\00:29:05.76
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00:29:05.77\00:29:08.12
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00:29:08.13\00:29:10.08
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00:29:10.09\00:29:12.10
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00:29:12.11\00:29:15.24
Our topic today
is a powerful one.
00:29:15.25\00:29:17.49
It's about the
immortality of the soul.
00:29:17.50\00:29:19.88
Now when we talk about
the immortality of the soul,
00:29:19.89\00:29:23.84
this is broad as like saying
00:29:23.85\00:29:25.34
we're gonna talk
about fruit today.
00:29:25.35\00:29:28.46
I mean what fruit?
Pineapples, mangoes,
00:29:28.47\00:29:33.01
you know, durian
from the Philippines,
00:29:33.02\00:29:35.18
what fruit? Broad, broad topic.
00:29:35.19\00:29:37.82
But James, the reason
why I chose this topic today
00:29:37.83\00:29:40.76
is because Satan is not retire,
00:29:40.77\00:29:45.28
he's not retire, he is, okay,
00:29:45.29\00:29:46.83
he is never been on vacation.
00:29:46.84\00:29:47.98
No, never he is-- He's gonna,
00:29:47.99\00:29:49.29
he's gonna go on
one, we can't wait.
00:29:49.30\00:29:51.33
Yeah, he's gonna make
up for all those lost,
00:29:51.34\00:29:53.02
those lost days of vacation.
00:29:53.03\00:29:54.88
Exactly, all those
vacation days accruing
00:29:54.89\00:29:57.36
and he's gonna have a massive,
he's gonna go out in flames.
00:29:57.37\00:30:00.52
He's gonna just
really lighted up.
00:30:00.53\00:30:04.95
He's gonna be under the sun.
00:30:04.96\00:30:06.40
Under the sun, I like that.
00:30:06.41\00:30:08.41
However this topic is continuing
00:30:08.42\00:30:10.74
to add fuel to the deception
00:30:10.75\00:30:13.03
that he laid in
the Garden of Eden.
00:30:13.04\00:30:15.09
You will not surely die.
00:30:15.10\00:30:16.79
And there are
books being written.
00:30:16.80\00:30:17.94
As a matter of fact
I was in the airport,
00:30:17.95\00:30:20.46
we were picking up a
friend, my wife and I
00:30:20.47\00:30:23.82
as they would say in
Europe, collecting a friend,
00:30:23.83\00:30:26.35
you know, collecting a friend.
00:30:26.36\00:30:28.73
And I saw I went-- I
crossed a couple of books
00:30:28.74\00:30:31.34
that shows me that people today
are more desirous of reading
00:30:31.35\00:30:36.08
what somebody else wrote
rather than what's already
00:30:36.09\00:30:39.76
written in the word of
God about whether or not
00:30:39.77\00:30:42.73
we have an immortal soul.
00:30:42.74\00:30:45.13
And I have discovered and
maybe you've seen this too
00:30:45.14\00:30:49.54
that there's a particular topic
that almost has been omitted,
00:30:49.55\00:30:53.12
you don't hear sermons about it.
00:30:53.13\00:30:55.31
The resurrection, who
talks about the resurrection?
00:30:55.32\00:30:58.19
The only time the resurrection
comes into view is around
00:30:58.20\00:31:00.76
Easter weekend in
most denominations.
00:31:00.77\00:31:04.02
But the
resurrection has been deleted
00:31:04.03\00:31:05.69
or omitted from the Bible
00:31:05.70\00:31:06.96
and so nowadays as
people die, go right to heaven.
00:31:06.97\00:31:11.68
Their heart stops on a
gurney or on a surgical table
00:31:11.69\00:31:15.70
and they go to heaven.
00:31:15.71\00:31:17.01
Some of them say
they've been there
00:31:17.02\00:31:19.03
for 90 minutes
and they came back.
00:31:19.04\00:31:21.48
It's an adult or a little boy
00:31:21.49\00:31:23.66
and there are four
books right now prominent,
00:31:23.67\00:31:25.65
I don't want people
to read these books,
00:31:25.66\00:31:27.37
but there's one
called "Heaven is for Real",
00:31:27.38\00:31:29.90
a story of a little
boy who've said he'd,
00:31:29.91\00:31:33.03
he said he had gone to heaven.
00:31:33.04\00:31:35.37
A little boy's
astounding story of his life,
00:31:35.38\00:31:38.47
of his trip to heaven and back.
00:31:38.48\00:31:41.22
That's one there and I saw
that in the shelf and said wow,
00:31:41.23\00:31:43.95
and in another New
York Times bestseller.
00:31:43.96\00:31:46.17
So to be a bestseller,
00:31:46.18\00:31:47.18
you got to be
selling millions of books.
00:31:47.19\00:31:49.82
The boy who came
back from heaven.
00:31:49.83\00:31:53.81
And another one,
"My Time in Heaven",
00:31:53.82\00:31:57.67
the story of
dying and coming back
00:31:57.68\00:32:00.15
and it shows the, shows
the little signals there
00:32:00.16\00:32:05.37
that you get when
you're on a, on a,
00:32:05.38\00:32:08.27
when your heart stops anyway.
00:32:08.28\00:32:10.42
And then the other
one, "90 Minutes in Heaven".
00:32:10.43\00:32:13.13
And I thought what
an appropriate time,
00:32:13.14\00:32:15.65
all these books are going out,
00:32:15.66\00:32:16.83
really planting
seeds of untruth,
00:32:16.84\00:32:19.21
that its time to
revisit God's word. It is.
00:32:19.22\00:32:21.02
And let Christians know,
00:32:21.03\00:32:22.85
Christians are
buying these books.
00:32:22.86\00:32:25.22
So you hear phrases
like, at every funeral I go to,
00:32:25.23\00:32:29.30
I was just so
touched, just recently
00:32:29.31\00:32:31.28
I went to a funeral
of another denomination
00:32:31.29\00:32:34.19
and they never said once
that, that person was in heaven
00:32:34.20\00:32:37.80
and I was just absolutely,
my heart was comforted
00:32:37.81\00:32:40.26
and I actually could say amen,
00:32:40.27\00:32:42.05
because I knew what they
were saying was scriptural.
00:32:42.06\00:32:44.38
But for the most
part, he's in heaven now,
00:32:44.39\00:32:47.07
he's looking down,
he's in a better place,
00:32:47.08\00:32:49.79
he's with mama,
you know, out of mind,
00:32:49.80\00:32:52.59
dying because I'll see
grandma, all those terms.
00:32:52.60\00:32:55.71
And we have to use the
Bible as our foundation.
00:32:55.72\00:32:58.74
You know it's amazing
00:32:58.75\00:32:59.74
when you think about
this because this is,
00:32:59.75\00:33:02.76
there is a rush,
Satan is making a rush
00:33:06.73\00:33:08.60
for the souls and the
hearts and the minds of people
00:33:08.61\00:33:10.61
and he is doing it
in a couple of books
00:33:10.62\00:33:12.55
you've mentioned,
something really hit my mind,
00:33:12.56\00:33:15.37
and my heart there
was he's using children,
00:33:15.38\00:33:18.06
he's using
children's experiences.
00:33:18.07\00:33:20.04
And I mean what, how is
it that, the people, adults,
00:33:20.05\00:33:26.10
would be unsympathetic
toward a child? Right.
00:33:26.11\00:33:29.04
I remember hearing
accounts of teachers
00:33:29.05\00:33:31.61
who in school clarified
00:33:31.62\00:33:33.83
and I didn't have this clarified
00:33:33.84\00:33:35.36
in my experience until I
was eight or nine years old
00:33:35.37\00:33:38.06
that there is no
such thing as Santa Claus,
00:33:38.07\00:33:40.30
there is no such thing,
you know, as the Easter bunny.
00:33:40.31\00:33:43.33
And these
teachers were reprimanded,
00:33:43.34\00:33:45.26
you know, for telling this
00:33:45.27\00:33:46.36
to third graders,
and fourth graders.
00:33:46.37\00:33:48.12
In the true theory. Yes.
00:33:48.13\00:33:49.91
They were reprimanded
and they have to go in there
00:33:49.92\00:33:51.45
and tell them that wasn't true
00:33:51.46\00:33:52.89
because these
kids were devastated.
00:33:52.90\00:33:54.62
You just don't do that to kids,
00:33:54.63\00:33:55.90
you let kids believe
these fairytales and of course,
00:33:55.91\00:34:00.69
you know, getting off
00:34:00.70\00:34:01.80
a little bit of
the subject here,
00:34:01.81\00:34:04.27
letting them
believing and raising children
00:34:04.28\00:34:06.78
to believe fairytales diminishes
00:34:06.79\00:34:09.93
their faith in the word of God.
00:34:09.94\00:34:11.28
That's right.
Because it upends them,
00:34:11.29\00:34:13.44
they've trusted their parents,
00:34:13.45\00:34:14.76
they believe
what the parent says,
00:34:14.77\00:34:16.16
and then when they
get to be 10 or 11 or 12
00:34:16.17\00:34:17.81
or at least a teenager,
00:34:17.82\00:34:18.93
they realize it's
untrue, it's wrong. And--
00:34:18.94\00:34:21.82
In all of suddenly they wonder,
well how many other things
00:34:21.83\00:34:23.83
that I have been told
are not true. Exactly.
00:34:23.84\00:34:25.85
How many other things?
00:34:25.86\00:34:26.94
And there are so many
similarities to Christmas
00:34:26.95\00:34:29.45
and the story of
Christmas and the Bible,
00:34:29.46\00:34:31.27
in fact it's
connected to the Bible.
00:34:31.28\00:34:33.02
So how can you raise children
believing in these stories
00:34:33.03\00:34:37.38
that they end up
thinking are fairytales
00:34:37.39\00:34:39.26
and have them hold on to
their faith in the word of God.
00:34:39.27\00:34:42.05
And Jesus tells us too
the faith of the little child
00:34:42.06\00:34:44.46
is powerful, it's,
and they should become
00:34:44.47\00:34:46.12
as little children,
they believe almost anything.
00:34:46.13\00:34:48.62
And so who's going to question,
00:34:48.63\00:34:50.35
you know, in
these couple of books
00:34:50.36\00:34:51.73
you've mentioned that
children are the forefront,
00:34:51.74\00:34:54.61
who is going to question?
00:34:54.62\00:34:55.61
Who is going to want to diminish
00:34:55.62\00:34:57.55
a story that's
coming from a child?
00:34:57.56\00:34:59.38
I think they're gonna say,
00:34:59.39\00:35:00.99
who could say that,
"Look at this little kid,
00:35:01.00\00:35:02.66
he's so tender,
he is so innocent,
00:35:02.67\00:35:04.53
I don't think he's lying.
00:35:04.54\00:35:05.58
He had to have an
honest experience"
00:35:05.59\00:35:07.66
and yes what many
individuals also discount
00:35:07.67\00:35:11.66
the fact that Satan is
the master of delusion. Yes.
00:35:11.67\00:35:15.26
We're living in a
world of miracles.
00:35:15.27\00:35:16.59
We're living in
the world where demons
00:35:16.60\00:35:17.89
are present in the
minds of the young.
00:35:17.90\00:35:20.61
Just to give you an example,
00:35:20.62\00:35:22.40
years ago before I was a pastor,
00:35:22.41\00:35:26.96
this movie
"Poltergeist" came out and--
00:35:26.97\00:35:30.91
I remember
that, I remember that.
00:35:30.92\00:35:33.21
And the key, and
one of the key actress
00:35:33.22\00:35:35.39
and by the way
many of the people
00:35:35.40\00:35:36.76
that were in that movie
either went crazy or died--
00:35:36.77\00:35:39.32
Right. Lot of people had died
00:35:39.33\00:35:40.69
that were acting in that movie.
00:35:40.70\00:35:42.86
There was a little girl sitting
in front of a television,
00:35:42.87\00:35:45.31
and all of sudden
one snowy white and black
00:35:45.32\00:35:48.27
and she'd say this
two words, "they're here."
00:35:48.28\00:35:52.77
And I noticed, wait a minute,
00:35:52.78\00:35:54.01
there's a
pattern in these movies,
00:35:54.02\00:35:55.77
little children being
used to communicate this.
00:35:55.78\00:35:58.74
So the pattern hasn't changed.
00:35:58.75\00:36:00.59
Satan is using another
child and people will say well,
00:36:00.60\00:36:03.69
how can you say that this
00:36:03.70\00:36:05.54
little boy's
testimony is not correct?
00:36:05.55\00:36:10.19
Well, it's not
about the little boy,
00:36:10.20\00:36:11.77
it's not about age at all. No.
00:36:11.78\00:36:14.08
It's about comparing what
he said to the word of God.
00:36:14.09\00:36:17.49
So we're
getting now to the point
00:36:17.50\00:36:18.78
where Satan is using instruments
00:36:18.79\00:36:20.40
that we're saying
well, first of all,
00:36:20.41\00:36:22.86
how could that preacher
not be telling the truth,
00:36:22.87\00:36:24.75
but now we know that all
preachers don't tell the truth,
00:36:24.76\00:36:26.90
we finally came to that
conclusion. So he says wow!
00:36:26.91\00:36:30.77
Now that
preachers are now put down
00:36:30.78\00:36:32.56
to the level of a used
car salesmen in some cases,
00:36:32.57\00:36:35.49
what other medium can I use?
00:36:35.50\00:36:36.96
So he goesto the innocent child
00:36:36.97\00:36:39.60
and uses them as a
vessel to communicate things
00:36:39.61\00:36:42.02
that are not in
harmony with the scriptures.
00:36:42.03\00:36:43.95
So that's why we
need to go the Bible
00:36:43.96\00:36:45.27
and begin to lay the foundation
00:36:45.28\00:36:46.59
that what Satan said
in the very beginning
00:36:46.60\00:36:49.09
is still going
on to this very day.
00:36:49.10\00:36:52.20
I remember a little poem
that was written on a tombstone
00:36:52.21\00:36:56.28
that young man was
walking through a graveyard
00:36:56.29\00:36:59.54
and he read this
tombstone and the epitaph
00:36:59.55\00:37:01.89
and it said something
like, "Where you're now
00:37:01.90\00:37:04.42
so once was I and
where I am, you soon will be.
00:37:04.43\00:37:07.95
Prepare yourself to
follow me". Exactly.
00:37:07.96\00:37:10.18
And he took out some
kind of marker crayon,
00:37:10.19\00:37:12.33
and he wrote on
that, "To follow you
00:37:12.34\00:37:14.27
I'm not content until I
know just where you went."
00:37:14.28\00:37:17.20
Exactly. Just where
do you go when you die?
00:37:17.21\00:37:20.05
That's right.
This is the question
00:37:20.06\00:37:21.68
that must be asked and it
must be answered by the Bible.
00:37:21.69\00:37:25.52
That's right. And we have to
go back to the very beginning.
00:37:25.53\00:37:28.19
We have to go back
to the creation story
00:37:28.20\00:37:30.41
in the Book of
Genesis and understand
00:37:30.42\00:37:32.70
how God created us in
order to get the right answer,
00:37:32.71\00:37:36.03
the correct
answer to this question.
00:37:36.04\00:37:37.77
Right, in other words, if
you know where you've come from,
00:37:37.78\00:37:41.27
you know where you're headed.
00:37:41.28\00:37:43.61
I'm going back home.
Or where do you live?
00:37:43.62\00:37:46.65
I live in New York,
I live in Washington,
00:37:46.66\00:37:48.87
I live in Tennessee,
you know we headed back to.
00:37:48.88\00:37:51.38
We've got to look
at the origin of man
00:37:51.39\00:37:54.11
to find out the destiny of man.
00:37:54.12\00:37:56.29
Amen. That is in this life.
00:37:56.30\00:37:59.09
Now we know that
when Jesus comes,
00:37:59.10\00:38:02.38
we'll go to heaven, those
of us who are under the blood
00:38:02.39\00:38:05.57
of Christ and in
His righteousness.
00:38:05.58\00:38:07.69
However death
has been established
00:38:07.70\00:38:09.75
as an alternate route,
like you don't have to wait
00:38:09.76\00:38:12.71
till Jesus comes,
you can go the backdoor,
00:38:12.72\00:38:15.07
go to, you know backstage,
00:38:15.08\00:38:16.80
you don't have to
get a ticket to go,
00:38:16.81\00:38:18.17
just you, you have to
buy and let you in sooner.
00:38:18.18\00:38:21.39
And death has almost been made
a friend rather than an enemy.
00:38:21.40\00:38:25.77
Really, I mean if you could, if,
00:38:25.78\00:38:27.96
this is not a pleasant idea
00:38:27.97\00:38:30.24
but if by death I
could be in heaven tomorrow
00:38:30.25\00:38:32.34
why would I wanna be
down here any longer,
00:38:32.35\00:38:34.81
this doesn't make any
sense. Now there's a Bible verse
00:38:34.82\00:38:36.39
we need to touch on where
Paul seems to indicate. Right.
00:38:36.40\00:38:39.08
That's he's thinking but
if we examine that carefully,
00:38:39.09\00:38:42.53
we're going to see
that Paul is not talking
00:38:42.54\00:38:44.57
about two stages there,
he's talking about three. Right.
00:38:44.58\00:38:48.46
And so we'll look at that
probably little bit later.
00:38:48.47\00:38:50.85
Genesis Chapter 2.
Just start with Genesis 2.
00:38:50.86\00:38:52.20
Yeah, Genesis
Chapter 2 creation story.
00:38:52.21\00:38:55.04
Now I like Genesis
2 because Genesis 2
00:38:55.05\00:38:57.38
is what we call
repeat and enlarge.
00:38:57.39\00:38:59.63
It repeats the creation
story and enlarges upon it.
00:38:59.64\00:39:02.36
It gives us details.
Genesis 1 God simply says
00:39:02.37\00:39:05.05
"He made man in His
image, He made man and woman
00:39:05.06\00:39:07.70
and He made them
in His image." Right.
00:39:07.71\00:39:09.36
Genesis 2 tells us the
details of how He created us.
00:39:09.37\00:39:12.92
In verse 7, "The
Lord God formed man
00:39:12.93\00:39:15.54
of the dust of the
ground and breathed
00:39:15.55\00:39:18.20
into his nostrils
the breath of life,
00:39:18.21\00:39:20.84
and man became a living soul."
00:39:20.85\00:39:23.88
So a living soul is
made up of two parts.
00:39:23.89\00:39:26.45
A living soul is
made up of the dust
00:39:26.46\00:39:28.26
of the ground and
the breath of life.
00:39:28.27\00:39:30.53
That's right. The
dust of the ground
00:39:30.54\00:39:31.74
and the breath of
life come together
00:39:31.75\00:39:33.54
and they make a living soul.
00:39:33.55\00:39:36.09
Now the next verse that
we want to connect to this
00:39:36.10\00:39:38.81
is found in
Genesis Chapter 2 verse 17,
00:39:38.82\00:39:43.26
God is instructing Adam and Eve,
00:39:43.27\00:39:45.33
He's giving them
dominion over the earth
00:39:45.34\00:39:47.57
and he's telling about one thing
00:39:47.58\00:39:49.22
that is in the Garden of
Eden that they're not to touch.
00:39:49.23\00:39:51.83
He says, "But of the tree of
the knowledge of good and evil,
00:39:51.84\00:39:54.64
thou shalt not eat of it,
for in the day that thou eat
00:39:54.65\00:39:57.32
thereof thou shalt surely die."
00:39:57.33\00:40:00.43
Okay, that's our second verse,
we got the creation story,
00:40:00.44\00:40:03.24
the dust, the
Spirit becoming a soul,
00:40:03.25\00:40:05.95
then we have this
next verse, verse 17 says
00:40:05.96\00:40:08.24
if you eat of the tree
of the knowledge of an evil
00:40:08.25\00:40:10.16
you will die. That's right.
00:40:10.17\00:40:11.52
Surely. Surely die.
00:40:11.53\00:40:13.34
And then we have our third verse
00:40:13.35\00:40:16.02
and this is in verse
4, this is the serpent
00:40:16.03\00:40:17.86
talking to Eve trying to
get her to eat of the tree
00:40:17.87\00:40:20.52
that God forbid them to eat off.
00:40:20.53\00:40:22.26
And he says this,
Genesis 3 verse 4,
00:40:22.27\00:40:25.53
"And the serpent
said unto the woman,
00:40:25.54\00:40:27.28
"You shall not surely
die."" John, this is the reason
00:40:27.29\00:40:31.37
why people get nervous
in graveyards at midnight.
00:40:31.38\00:40:34.25
That's right. They
know those people are dead
00:40:34.26\00:40:36.24
but they're not sure
if they're surely dead.
00:40:36.25\00:40:39.78
That's right. I've
said various times,
00:40:39.79\00:40:42.84
in the city of New York
there are gates at cemeteries
00:40:42.85\00:40:45.56
and I will say I
wonder why there's a gate?
00:40:45.57\00:40:47.89
People that are on the
outside don't want to go in
00:40:47.90\00:40:49.81
and people of the
inside are not coming out.
00:40:49.82\00:40:52.44
Out here there are no gates.
00:40:52.45\00:40:53.78
You know, remind
you in the country
00:40:53.79\00:40:55.56
but I said if you wanna
go to a place that's safe,
00:40:55.57\00:40:57.41
if you gonna have a picnic
00:40:57.42\00:40:58.62
and nobody's gonna
bother you, go to a cemetery.
00:40:58.63\00:41:01.09
Read some of the
tombstones, take your lunch,
00:41:01.10\00:41:02.69
sit down and lean back and
you can have the quietest rest,
00:41:02.73\00:41:05.75
nobody is gonna bother you.
00:41:05.76\00:41:07.21
Now I'd people in my church say,
00:41:07.22\00:41:08.64
"No way, pastor,
there is no way."
00:41:08.65\00:41:10.45
I mean what an
Adventist have to say,
00:41:10.46\00:41:12.49
"There is no way. Are you nuts?"
00:41:12.50\00:41:14.67
And I'm thinking
brother, what do you believe?
00:41:14.68\00:41:17.05
And it's amazing
how time goes by,
00:41:17.06\00:41:19.38
yet some of these things
have been planted in our formal
00:41:19.39\00:41:23.27
belief systems, still
the residue is still there
00:41:23.28\00:41:26.65
to create it within our
minds, this fear that somehow
00:41:26.66\00:41:30.87
the dead have
something to do with the living.
00:41:30.88\00:41:34.58
Most of the angels are
going to be in those positions,
00:41:34.62\00:41:37.82
in those places when
Jesus comes the second time.
00:41:37.83\00:41:40.37
That's right. But
now let's go to a passage
00:41:40.38\00:41:43.26
because we talk
about where man came from?
00:41:43.27\00:41:46.30
The Lord God formed him
from the dust of the ground,
00:41:46.31\00:41:48.65
breathe into his
nostrils the breath of life,
00:41:48.66\00:41:50.21
man became a living soul.
00:41:50.22\00:41:51.72
And reiterating that man
doesn't have a living soul,
00:41:51.73\00:41:54.98
man is a living soul.
00:41:54.99\00:41:57.87
That's simple
little concept there
00:41:57.88\00:42:00.78
makes the
difference between my soul left
00:42:00.79\00:42:04.02
and my soul didn't go anywhere.
00:42:04.03\00:42:06.32
It's vital,
vital. His soul left.
00:42:06.33\00:42:09.59
There was one
scientist that weighted
00:42:09.60\00:42:11.55
the body of a
dead person and he say,
00:42:11.56\00:42:14.26
"you notice he's a
little lighter now"
00:42:14.27\00:42:15.89
they did it by
grams, little lighter now.
00:42:15.90\00:42:18.53
So that meant the
soul left and they say,
00:42:18.54\00:42:20.79
you know, he breath
his last breath that,
00:42:20.80\00:42:24.37
and they say the soul has left.
00:42:24.38\00:42:26.18
I saw a
commercial a few years ago
00:42:26.19\00:42:28.12
where an
attendant was sitting down
00:42:28.13\00:42:31.85
taking care of an older lady
00:42:31.86\00:42:33.35
and in this older
lady's belief system,
00:42:33.36\00:42:34.94
she says in her
country where she comes from,
00:42:34.95\00:42:37.44
she says when the
person is ready to die,
00:42:37.45\00:42:40.04
they always ask for
the window to be open,
00:42:40.05\00:42:42.22
so the soul could leave.
00:42:42.23\00:42:44.11
And so they
showed in the commercial
00:42:44.12\00:42:45.95
the lady was lowering the window
00:42:45.96\00:42:47.64
and her friend or
the nurse attendant,
00:42:47.65\00:42:49.74
because she gave
her some medication,
00:42:49.75\00:42:51.10
she said not
tonight. In other words,
00:42:51.11\00:42:53.71
your soul is
not leaving tonight,
00:42:53.72\00:42:54.87
she closed the window.
00:42:54.88\00:42:56.58
And that subtle little
commercial reiterates this idea
00:42:56.59\00:43:01.25
that it must be
true, the soul is leaving.
00:43:01.26\00:43:03.56
So now what happens
if that person dies,
00:43:03.57\00:43:06.01
is the soul locked in the room?
00:43:06.02\00:43:07.50
I mean, this is
the concept. Right.
00:43:07.51\00:43:09.62
What is in fact,
keeping that person alive?
00:43:09.63\00:43:11.64
Well let's go to the
Book of Ecclesiastes,
00:43:11.65\00:43:13.58
I wanna show
you reverse of this,
00:43:13.59\00:43:14.80
Ecclesiastes 12 and verse 7.
00:43:14.81\00:43:16.66
We saw the creation and remember
00:43:16.67\00:43:18.86
the dust of the ground
and the breath of life.
00:43:18.87\00:43:22.48
Now we go to Ecclesiastes 12
00:43:22.49\00:43:23.94
and verse 7 to see
the exact reverse of this.
00:43:23.95\00:43:26.44
Because when you
see creation in reverse,
00:43:26.45\00:43:28.84
creation in reverse,
or the creation of man
00:43:28.85\00:43:30.57
in reverse is
simply the death of man.
00:43:30.58\00:43:32.51
And this is hard
book to find John.
00:43:32.52\00:43:34.19
I mean, you got
to go past the Psalms
00:43:34.20\00:43:36.19
which is the
center of the Bible,
00:43:36.20\00:43:37.82
you got to go past the Proverbs
00:43:37.83\00:43:39.01
which follow the Psalms
00:43:39.02\00:43:40.18
and then you gonna
find Ecclesiastes. Good.
00:43:40.19\00:43:42.95
And some of our
viewers gonna have a hard time
00:43:42.96\00:43:44.54
finding that as
we move through here.
00:43:44.55\00:43:45.90
I want to make sure that they
can stick with us. Very good.
00:43:45.91\00:43:47.94
So Psalms,
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes,
00:43:47.95\00:43:50.93
Chapter what? Chapter 12.
00:43:50.94\00:43:52.40
Okay. And we
gonna look at verse 7.
00:43:52.41\00:43:57.31
This passage, and by
the way I remember this,
00:43:57.32\00:43:59.40
I read this one
here when it says
00:43:59.41\00:44:00.63
remember the creator
in the days of your youth.
00:44:00.64\00:44:03.53
Adults say well that
has nothing to do with me.
00:44:03.54\00:44:05.44
Well, there actually I looked up
00:44:05.45\00:44:06.72
the actual language, it says,
00:44:06.73\00:44:08.69
"Remember the creator
before you get any older." Okay.
00:44:08.70\00:44:12.34
And I thought, wow, and
now that applies even to me,
00:44:12.35\00:44:14.86
because young
people are not worrying
00:44:14.87\00:44:15.96
about those
silver bowl being broken.
00:44:15.97\00:44:17.99
You know the hair
missing, just go bowl,
00:44:18.00\00:44:20.23
and all the keepers
of the gate are rattling.
00:44:20.24\00:44:24.52
So it's that what
it's talking about?
00:44:24.53\00:44:25.86
Yeah, remember the creator
before you get any older.
00:44:25.87\00:44:27.80
Yes and then the
silver bowl? The silver bowl--
00:44:27.81\00:44:30.32
when the hairs,
this whole passage
00:44:30.33\00:44:32.04
is about the break
down of the human body.
00:44:32.05\00:44:33.56
Okay. So we're
talking about silver,
00:44:33.57\00:44:35.08
we're talking about grey hair.
00:44:35.09\00:44:36.18
Well the silver
bowl, that the grey hair
00:44:36.19\00:44:38.82
when it's finally leaving,
the bowl starts to show up.
00:44:38.83\00:44:40.74
Okay, got you. The bowl
right there, the man's bowl.
00:44:40.77\00:44:43.13
Okay. I don't
have one of those yet
00:44:43.14\00:44:44.93
so I was just
wondering because--
00:44:44.97\00:44:45.97
I don't have-- when
the grinder, in verse 3,
00:44:45.98\00:44:48.35
"When the grinders cease because
00:44:48.36\00:44:49.67
they are few loosen teeth.
00:44:49.68\00:44:51.23
Oh, the grinders
that are the teeth.
00:44:51.24\00:44:53.40
Yeah. Yeah, that's true.
00:44:53.41\00:44:54.69
"And when the doors
are shut on the streets
00:44:54.70\00:44:56.39
and the sounds of
the grinding is low,
00:44:56.40\00:44:58.26
when one rises up
at the sound of a bird,
00:44:58.27\00:45:00.78
and all the daughters
of music are brought low."
00:45:00.79\00:45:02.54
Hearing starts to leave.
00:45:02.55\00:45:03.64
Oh, got it. You see also
00:45:03.65\00:45:05.69
they are afraid of height.
I've never understood this.
00:45:05.70\00:45:07.19
"Also they're afraid of height,
and the terror in the way
00:45:07.20\00:45:09.25
when they almost all of sudden
things that brought you joy,
00:45:09.26\00:45:12.17
now you fear for love." Okay.
00:45:12.18\00:45:13.66
And then finally it
starts in verse 5 it says,
00:45:13.67\00:45:16.44
"The grasshopper is a
burden, and desire fail."
00:45:16.45\00:45:19.31
There're some people say,
00:45:19.32\00:45:20.29
I wish God would
just let me rest.
00:45:20.30\00:45:21.96
Yes, okay. "For man
goes to his eternal home.
00:45:21.97\00:45:25.67
And the mourners
go about the streets."
00:45:25.68\00:45:27.47
He finally is laid to rest.
00:45:27.48\00:45:29.12
"So remember the creator
00:45:29.13\00:45:30.27
before the silver cord is broken
00:45:30.28\00:45:32.30
or the golden bowl is loosened
00:45:32.31\00:45:33.95
or the pitcher
shattered at the fountain,
00:45:33.96\00:45:37.90
or the wheel
broken at the well."
00:45:37.91\00:45:40.00
But now verse 7. I
haven't spent lot of time
00:45:40.01\00:45:42.29
in this but that's
great, that's great.
00:45:42.30\00:45:44.21
And if you look
at verse 1, it says,
00:45:44.22\00:45:45.61
"Before the difficulties
come and years draw near,
00:45:45.62\00:45:48.11
when you say I have
no pleasure in them."
00:45:48.12\00:45:50.36
That's in contrast
to Chapter 11 verse 9
00:45:50.37\00:45:53.62
when it says, "Rejoice,
O young man, in your youth,
00:45:53.63\00:45:55.94
And let your heart cheer you
in all the days of your youth.
00:45:55.95\00:45:59.37
Walk in the ways
of your own heart,
00:45:59.38\00:46:00.98
And in the sight
of your own eyes.
00:46:00.99\00:46:02.98
But know that for all these God
will bring you into judgment."
00:46:02.99\00:46:06.19
So in other words, word said,
00:46:06.20\00:46:08.85
rejoice, enjoy
yourself. Yes, yes.
00:46:08.86\00:46:10.58
I can see the contrast.
So you know there are some
00:46:10.59\00:46:11.58
people that are
sitting in their houses,
00:46:11.59\00:46:13.80
they don't go
anywhere, their legs can't move,
00:46:13.81\00:46:17.03
they have no
pleasure in these days. Yes.
00:46:17.04\00:46:19.04
My grandma used to
say it's a great life
00:46:19.05\00:46:20.61
if you don't weaken,
if you weaken you hadn't.
00:46:20.62\00:46:24.00
And I remember she was bedridden
00:46:24.01\00:46:26.19
for quite a while
before she passed.
00:46:26.20\00:46:28.57
And then final
thing, the final aspect
00:46:28.58\00:46:30.15
of that is what was
brought up by the wise man,
00:46:30.16\00:46:33.28
he says in verse
7, then let's go back
00:46:33.29\00:46:35.92
to the reverse of creation,
man came from the dust.
00:46:35.93\00:46:39.27
"Then the dust will return
to the earth as it was." Okay.
00:46:39.28\00:46:43.23
He's going back
to where he came,
00:46:43.24\00:46:44.94
"And the spirit will
return to God who gave it."
00:46:44.95\00:46:47.87
and that passage right
there, well, who gave it?
00:46:47.88\00:46:50.07
The Lord breathes
into man's nostrils
00:46:50.08\00:46:53.45
thus the breath of life,
00:46:53.46\00:46:55.75
the Spirit of God
returns to God who gave it.
00:46:55.76\00:46:58.71
Now what I want you to
notice where does man return?
00:46:58.72\00:47:04.36
Dust of the earth. To
the dust of the earth.
00:47:04.37\00:47:05.90
Right. Because from dust,
00:47:05.91\00:47:06.94
you heard that in the
funeral, from dust you are,
00:47:06.95\00:47:08.88
unto dust you shall return.
00:47:08.89\00:47:11.79
He goes back to his dust.
But it doesn't say a man here,
00:47:11.80\00:47:14.84
it says then the
dust returns to the earth.
00:47:14.85\00:47:17.43
And we're gonna go another
passage and see the difference.
00:47:17.44\00:47:18.82
Yes. Isn't that amazing?
00:47:18.83\00:47:20.33
So what happens is if you don't
understand what the dust is?
00:47:20.34\00:47:23.33
Right. Then you could say,
00:47:23.34\00:47:25.46
he's just going
back into dust. Right.
00:47:25.47\00:47:27.52
So He formed man of
the dust. Of the dust.
00:47:27.53\00:47:32.19
And breathing his
nostrils the breath of life.
00:47:32.20\00:47:33.84
The Breath of life. And
it become a living soul.
00:47:33.85\00:47:35.86
And so it's really important
here to distinguish them
00:47:35.87\00:47:39.01
between the spirit
that returns. That's right.
00:47:39.02\00:47:42.69
And the breath that was breezed,
00:47:42.70\00:47:45.20
the Hebrew here is 'Ruach'
00:47:45.21\00:47:48.42
which is used 117
times in the Bible
00:47:48.43\00:47:52.16
to denote wind or in 13
different occasions breath.
00:47:52.17\00:47:57.07
That's right. In other words,
00:47:57.08\00:47:58.07
the spirit here
is not the soul. No.
00:47:58.08\00:48:00.12
The spirit here
is the breath of life
00:48:00.13\00:48:02.34
that God breathe into man
at his creation. That's right.
00:48:02.35\00:48:05.53
And so when the
spirit, when the man dies,
00:48:05.54\00:48:08.78
the body goes back to the dust
but the spirit goes back to,
00:48:08.79\00:48:11.90
the soul isn't going
back to God. Exactly.
00:48:11.91\00:48:13.73
The spirit is going
back to God. That's right.
00:48:13.74\00:48:15.51
So what happens with soul?
00:48:15.52\00:48:17.78
The soul ceases to exist.
00:48:17.79\00:48:20.26
The soul ceases to
exist because the combination
00:48:20.27\00:48:23.13
of the two is what
makes man a living soul.
00:48:23.14\00:48:26.18
If you look at some
of the new translations,
00:48:26.19\00:48:27.98
it says man
becomes a living being.
00:48:27.99\00:48:30.23
And so this, the
reason why the soul
00:48:30.24\00:48:31.92
has become such
a an ethereal word
00:48:31.93\00:48:36.91
is because you
find that Neo-Platonism,
00:48:36.95\00:48:41.08
this teaching of the
continuants of life. Okay.
00:48:41.09\00:48:45.63
This was a
teaching that had permeated
00:48:45.64\00:48:48.13
even the New Testament church
before the time of Christ.
00:48:48.14\00:48:50.71
Plato, the reason why
it's called Neo-Platonism,
00:48:50.72\00:48:53.00
it's because
there is the teaching
00:48:53.01\00:48:54.17
that the spirit, the soul
00:48:54.18\00:48:55.60
and the body are three
separate entities. Okay.
00:48:55.61\00:48:58.53
Combined together
to bring life to a man,
00:48:58.54\00:49:01.36
but when life ceases
these separate entities
00:49:01.37\00:49:04.08
as they are being
taught through Neo-Platonism
00:49:04.09\00:49:07.01
still maintain their standing.
00:49:07.02\00:49:09.49
So the body what happens,
it returns back to the dust.
00:49:09.50\00:49:12.98
The spirit, what happens to it?
00:49:12.99\00:49:14.12
The mind of man
ceases to function.
00:49:14.13\00:49:16.27
But the soul, he
hangs around still.
00:49:16.28\00:49:18.90
And so this whole
ideology was the reason
00:49:18.91\00:49:21.65
why Jesus stayed
away for four days
00:49:21.66\00:49:23.61
when Lazarus was sick. Okay.
00:49:23.62\00:49:25.75
And He came and He
said Lazarus is dead,
00:49:25.76\00:49:32.81
but this happened
that the glory of God
00:49:32.82\00:49:34.70
may be revealed, may be manifest
00:49:34.71\00:49:36.32
and in the conversation
between Martha, Mary and Jesus,
00:49:36.33\00:49:39.06
you know they all understood,
00:49:39.07\00:49:41.12
"I know my
brother will rise again
00:49:41.13\00:49:42.99
in the
resurrection at the last stage."
00:49:43.00\00:49:44.70
She understood the concept,
she understood the teaching
00:49:44.71\00:49:46.96
of the resurrection,
she did not omit that.
00:49:46.97\00:49:48.93
I think we should look
at that, John, because--
00:49:48.94\00:49:50.48
Down to Chapter 11.
That's story is incredible.
00:49:50.49\00:49:53.37
Yes, every aspect
of that was reiterating
00:49:53.38\00:49:55.14
the fact that man is
not going anywhere. Yes.
00:49:55.15\00:49:59.09
And in out of
harmony with these books
00:49:59.10\00:50:02.55
that are being
written now-a-days,
00:50:02.56\00:50:04.92
well let's not jump ahead.
00:50:04.93\00:50:06.12
When Lazarus drove back to life,
00:50:06.13\00:50:07.27
he didn't say "I
was in the middle
00:50:07.28\00:50:08.98
of the conversation with Elijah,
00:50:08.99\00:50:12.18
why would you
bring me back down?"
00:50:12.19\00:50:14.10
He had no consciousness.
00:50:14.11\00:50:16.44
No record, and that's why
I believe it's so intriguing
00:50:16.45\00:50:19.40
when you read the
story in John Chapter 11.
00:50:19.41\00:50:24.07
The context of it
is really interesting
00:50:24.08\00:50:27.31
because Jesus is
receiving a message
00:50:27.32\00:50:31.48
from the home of Lazarus
that "the one who he loves,"
00:50:31.49\00:50:35.98
verse 3, "is sick."
And they want the master
00:50:35.99\00:50:39.21
to come as you
said he waits four days
00:50:39.22\00:50:41.84
and as Jesus
continues to minister
00:50:41.85\00:50:44.79
with his disciples
and seemingly ignores
00:50:44.80\00:50:48.44
the request seemingly
and wait couple of days,
00:50:48.45\00:50:50.67
because the journey
was two days to the house.
00:50:50.68\00:50:53.32
So then in verse 11,
He says to his disciples,
00:50:53.33\00:50:58.86
"Our friend Lazarus sleeps,
00:50:58.87\00:51:02.10
but I'm going to
awake him out of sleep."
00:51:02.11\00:51:04.22
That's right, exactly. Asleep,
00:51:04.23\00:51:05.82
asleep and
disciples said to him,
00:51:05.83\00:51:07.36
"oh, if he's
sleeping, he's doing well."
00:51:07.37\00:51:09.53
You know if you get
sick, if you're tired,
00:51:09.54\00:51:11.04
if you're not feeling good,
I'll go rest, you'll do well.
00:51:11.05\00:51:13.86
That's right. So the
disciples were thinking
00:51:13.87\00:51:15.06
the way that, the
way that they are taking
00:51:15.07\00:51:17.18
as Jesus is telling them
that Lazarus is having a nap,
00:51:17.19\00:51:20.96
he's sleeping, he's resting.
00:51:20.97\00:51:22.78
How be it, verse 13,
"Jesus spoke of his death"
00:51:22.79\00:51:27.48
He was, Jesus here is telling us
00:51:27.49\00:51:30.09
that death is like
a sleep. That's right.
00:51:30.10\00:51:32.86
In the whole Bible, reiterates
this over and over again,
00:51:32.87\00:51:37.29
death is like a sleep
and our friend Lazarus
00:51:37.30\00:51:40.91
is sleeping but
they didn't get it.
00:51:40.92\00:51:42.04
"So Jesus finally
says to them plainly"
00:51:42.05\00:51:43.96
verse 14, "Lazarus is dead."
00:51:43.97\00:51:46.18
He's dead and he's
been dead four days already
00:51:46.19\00:51:49.21
when Jesus gets
there, so it's powerful
00:51:49.22\00:51:51.28
when you think
about that because
00:51:51.29\00:51:52.26
when I think about sleep, like
last night I got to bed late
00:51:52.27\00:51:54.77
'coz I'm on a two
hour time change here,
00:51:54.78\00:51:56.56
it's hard for me
to go to sleep early,
00:51:56.57\00:51:58.22
so I got to sleep
late but when I woke up,
00:51:58.23\00:52:00.60
boom, I was
later totally unaware
00:52:00.61\00:52:05.17
that several hours
had passed by until
00:52:05.18\00:52:07.50
I woke up in the morning
and that's the way sleep is.
00:52:07.51\00:52:10.68
When you go to sleep
you're unaware of the time
00:52:10.69\00:52:13.68
that has passed, sure
enough they rough nicely.
00:52:13.69\00:52:16.00
You're unaware
the time is passing
00:52:16.01\00:52:17.85
and you wake up in the morning,
00:52:17.86\00:52:19.31
then many hours have gone
by, several hours have gone by
00:52:19.32\00:52:22.33
that you're
totally unconscious off.
00:52:22.34\00:52:24.12
That's right. That's why
when you look at that context,
00:52:24.13\00:52:26.17
we go back to the
Ecclesiastes 12 verse 7,
00:52:26.18\00:52:32.62
"Then shall the
dust return to the earth
00:52:32.63\00:52:34.28
as it was, and then spirit
returns to God who gave it."
00:52:34.29\00:52:37.24
David the Psalmist
adds his portion to that
00:52:37.25\00:52:39.49
in Psalms 146 verse
4, "His spirit departs"
00:52:39.50\00:52:45.61
but now it gives you
direction where the man goes.
00:52:45.62\00:52:48.72
"He returns to his earth. Okay.
00:52:48.73\00:52:52.09
In that very day
his thoughts perish."
00:52:52.10\00:52:54.32
I--illustrate this for me.
00:52:54.33\00:52:55.83
I mean let's look at something
00:52:55.84\00:52:57.14
that illustrates
this idea of two things
00:52:57.15\00:53:00.91
coming together to
create something new
00:53:00.92\00:53:03.34
and then when they are parted,
00:53:03.35\00:53:04.61
that new thing that
they've created is gone.
00:53:04.62\00:53:07.31
Okay, go ahead. I
was thinking of a light.
00:53:07.32\00:53:10.11
Yeah, where I'm
saying there's a little lamp
00:53:10.12\00:53:12.34
that I unplugged and
moved to different location
00:53:12.35\00:53:16.03
and I'll think about the
spirit as the power source,
00:53:16.04\00:53:18.95
the electricity, that's
what why I'm plugging it into.
00:53:18.96\00:53:21.82
And then I think
about the light bulb itself,
00:53:21.83\00:53:24.51
because there are several
lights in this little apartment
00:53:24.52\00:53:27.72
I'm staying in
that have no bulbs,
00:53:27.73\00:53:30.55
they'd just redone it
00:53:30.56\00:53:31.94
and had different
lights here and there,
00:53:31.95\00:53:33.43
and I went to turn one
on and it wouldn't turn on,
00:53:33.44\00:53:35.16
I thought maybe
it's not plugged in,
00:53:35.17\00:53:36.23
but it was plugged out. I
looked and there is no bulbs,
00:53:36.24\00:53:37.49
I look in, there is no bulbs.
00:53:37.50\00:53:38.74
You can have the power,
but if you don't have a bulb,
00:53:38.75\00:53:40.70
if you don't have a body
for that power to connect
00:53:40.71\00:53:44.45
to and be set up in
such a way that illumines,
00:53:44.46\00:53:47.25
there aren't going to be
light, so you have the power,
00:53:47.26\00:53:49.75
you have the body and
when you turn the switch
00:53:49.76\00:53:52.78
and connect those
two, you have light.
00:53:52.79\00:53:55.06
Now if you have,
this illustration,
00:53:55.07\00:53:57.92
if you have the electricity
representing the spirit
00:53:57.93\00:54:01.63
and the light bulb, you know,
00:54:01.64\00:54:03.16
fixed to the center
representing the body
00:54:03.17\00:54:05.42
that would be a
perfect illustration
00:54:05.43\00:54:07.39
what happens when you
turn that power switch on,
00:54:07.40\00:54:09.44
you have light,
the light is the soul.
00:54:09.45\00:54:11.33
That's right. The
light is the soul.
00:54:11.34\00:54:13.09
And if you turn
the power switch off,
00:54:13.10\00:54:14.52
if you disconnect the spirit,
the electricity from the bulb,
00:54:14.53\00:54:18.24
the light no longer
exists. That's right.
00:54:18.25\00:54:21.37
Where did it go? It
resides in its source.
00:54:21.38\00:54:26.90
Yes. That's the key.
00:54:26.91\00:54:28.36
It resides in its source.
00:54:28.37\00:54:30.67
Now the bulb is not
residing in the source,
00:54:30.68\00:54:34.66
the power is
residing in the source.
00:54:34.67\00:54:37.11
And so when you
think about that,
00:54:37.12\00:54:38.58
that's why he
says, Psalms 146 verse 4,
00:54:38.59\00:54:43.45
"He returns to his earth,
00:54:43.46\00:54:45.13
in that very day
his plans perish."
00:54:45.14\00:54:47.46
And so Job, before we wind
up this part of the program,
00:54:47.47\00:54:51.05
Job adds his portion to that.
00:54:51.06\00:54:54.47
There's so often we leave out
the Old Testament Bible writers
00:54:54.48\00:54:58.57
and these things are
reiterated in the New Testament.
00:54:58.58\00:55:00.75
We'll look at
Job 14 real quickly.
00:55:00.76\00:55:03.19
And he answers this so
wonderfully in Job Chapter 14.
00:55:03.20\00:55:10.37
He starts in verse 7, he says,
00:55:10.38\00:55:12.18
"For there is hope for a tree,
00:55:12.19\00:55:14.99
if it is cut down,
that it will sprout again,
00:55:15.00\00:55:18.20
and that its tender
shoots will not cease."
00:55:18.21\00:55:21.71
But now, we're
gonna go to verse 12
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or verse 11 or verse 10,
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"But man dies and is laid away,
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indeed he breathes his
last breath, and where is he?
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As water
disappears from the sea,
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and the river
becomes parched and dries up,
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so man lies down and rises not
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or does not rise till
the heavens are no more,
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they will not awake nor
be raised from their sleep."
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It's that word again, awake,
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and there's a
question, where is he?
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What happened to the
life? Right, where is he?
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And so when you
think about that,
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he says, and look at verse 13,
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"Oh, that You would
hide me in the grave,
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that You would conceal me
until Your wrath is past."
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So where's man being
hidden? In the grave.
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In the grave. Rest in peace.
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Okay, we walk away from
the cemetery, rest in peace.
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Brother, if
somebody follows you home,
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I'm gonna just tell you
right now on the word of God
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that is not your
mom, that's not your dad,
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that's not your
friend, that's an apparition.
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If you go back home
and you smell some fragrant
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in the house that was
sprayed on that corpse
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when they were
in the funeral pyre,
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that Satan attempted to
get in. Now before we end this,
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could you turn to Job
27 verse 3 very quickly.
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I want you to read that
in the King James Version.
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This is very powerful
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because when God
breathes into Adam's nostrils,
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He put something
there, read that verse.
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Verse 3 of Job 27, "All
the while my breath is in me,
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and the spirit of
God is in my nostrils."
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Exactly what God it. Okay, yes.
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See, He breathe into man's
nostrils the breath of life,
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the Spirit of
God is in my nostril.
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Now I can give you mouth
to mouth to keep you alive,
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but I can never give you life.
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Yes, you can't give
me the Spirit of God.
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That's right. I can't put
the Spirit of God in your body.
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And so friends as you can see
this is a very powerful topic.
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We've just started this topic,
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but the soul is the
combination of the breath of God
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and the dust of the earth
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and there is
nothing eternal about that.
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You'll discover
in our next broadcast
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when we cover this
topic in greater detail,
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that right now we have
the promise of immortality
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but only God has
immortality. Amen, amen.
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And so James, good
to have here today.
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You can adjoin me for some
future programs too, right?
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Absolutely, love to do it.
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Well friends, keep
your Bibles near to you,
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keep Christ in your
heart until we see you again.
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May the Lord
continue to richly bless you.
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