He's brought me
through hard trials
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He brought me
through tribulations
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Never let a day
go by and not realize
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Had not been for the
Lord who was on my side
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Back was against the
wall He looked out for me
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He heard my cry and rescued me
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Never let a day
go by and not realize
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We are blessed,
don't take it for granted
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that we are here today
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Just know that we are
blessed and highly favored
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Just know
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that we are
blessed and highly favored
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He brought me
through hard trials
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He brought me
walking through tribulations
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Never let a day
go by and not realize
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Had not been, had not been
for the Lord who was on my side
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When my back was against
the wall He looked out for me
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He heard my cry and rescued me
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Never let a day
go by and not realize
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We are blessed,
don't take it for granted
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that we are here today
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Just know that we are
blessed and highly favored
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Just know
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that we are
blessed and highly favored
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As I look back through the years
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It's amazing how he helped me
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What the devil meant for evil
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God turned it around, turned
it around just for my good
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I know I'm
blessed and highly favored
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Just know that we are
blessed and highly favored
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We just come to
think of it for a moment
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It could've been
me, it should've been me
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it could've been me if
it wasn't for the blood
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It could've been
me, it should've been me
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it could've been me if
it wasn't for the blood
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It could've been
me, it should've been me
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It could've been me if
it wasn't for the blood
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It could've been
me, it should've been me
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It could've been me if
it wasn't for the blood
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It could've been
me, it should've been me
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It would've been me if
it wasn't for the blood
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It could've been
me, it should've been me
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It would've been me if
it wasn't for the blood
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Grace and mercy
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Grace on me
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Yeah, grace and mercy
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Grace and mercy
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Grace and mercy
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Grace
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Just know that we are
blessed and highly favored
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Just know
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that we are
blessed and highly favored
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Order my steps in
Your way dear Lord
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Lead me, guide me, everyday
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Send Your
anointing Father I pray
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Order my steps in Your Word
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Please order my
steps in Your Word
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Humbly I ask Thee Lord
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Teach me Your will
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While You are
working, help us be still
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Satan is busy but My God is real
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Order my steps in Your Word
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Yes, order my steps in Your Word
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Write on my
tongue, let my words edify
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Let the words of my mouth
be acceptable in Thy sight
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Take charge of my
thoughts both day and night
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Order my steps in Your Word
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Please order my
steps in Your Word
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Order my steps in
Your Word dear Lord
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Lead me, guide me, everyday
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Send Your
anointing, Father I pray
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Order my steps in Your Word
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Please order my
steps in Your Word
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I want to walk worthy
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my calling to fulfill
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Please order my steps
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And I will always do
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Your blessed will
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The world is every changing
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Ever changing
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But You are still the same
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If You order my steps
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I'll praise Your name
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I want to walk worthy
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I want to walk worthy
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Please order my steps
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Order my steps
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I will always do
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Your blessed will
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The world is ever changing
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Ever changing
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But You are still the same
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If You order my steps
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I will praise Your name
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I want to walk worthy
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I want to walk worthy
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I will always do
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Your blessed will
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The world is ever changing
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But You are still the same
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If You order my steps
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If You order my steps,
I will praise Your name
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Order my steps
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In Your word, order my tongue
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Order my tongue in Your Word
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Guide my feet
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In Your Word
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Show me how to walk in Your Word
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Show me how to walk
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In Your Word
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Show me how to walk
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In Your Word
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Provide me a brand new
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song to sing
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Show me how to let
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Your praises ring
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In Your Word
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In Your Word, yes
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In Your Word
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Word
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Order my steps in Your Word
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Please order my
steps in Your Word
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In Your Word, in Your Word
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Order my steps, in Your Word
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Please order my steps
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In Your Word
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Please order my steps
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In Your Word
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Please order my steps
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In Your Word
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Journey with me to
the book of Second Peter
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Second Peter the 3rd chapter
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2 Peter 3, verses 3-4
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And 9 and 10
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2 Peter 3, verses 3 and 4
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and 9 and 10
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2 Peter 3:3-4 and 9-10
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You have it, say Amen
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Let's read
together. What does it say?
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Knowing this first that
there shall come in which days?
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what will come? Scoffers. Doing
what? Walking after their own
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lusts and saying what?
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Keep going
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Let's skip down to verse 9
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I like this, it says what?
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He's not slack concerning what?
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His promise, as
some men count slackness
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But what is He? He's
long suffering towards who?
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Not willing
that any should what?
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But that all should do what?
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Come to repentance.
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Let's read that
last verse, verse 10
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But the day of
the Lord might come
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The day of the Lord should come
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Will come
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Will come as what?
A thief in the night
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in the which the
heavens shall do what?
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pass away with a great noise
and the elements shall melt
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with what? the earth also and
the works that are therein shall
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be what? Why don't you think
with me today on this thought
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Don't get it twisted.
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Don't get it twisted
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One of the more
intriguing idioms
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of the modern era
has been loose lips
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sink ships
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Anybody ever heard that?
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Loose lips sink ships.
The phrase became vogue
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during World War II when sailors
were cautioned when they were
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going on leave not to share
what ship they had sailed on
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where they had been
and where they were going.
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The military believed that
if they would talk too much
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they feared that the sailors
might inadvertently give out
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some anecdotal information that
would assist the enemy to track
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that ship and sink it.
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In time the phrase came to
mean excessive talk that might
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sabotage a
person, project or event.
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The phrase has also become
an example of what is termed
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in the Latin, Ignorancio olanci
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What did I say?
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No everybody
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Ignoratio Elenchi
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It translates ignorance approved
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Ignorance approved.
And ignoratio elenci
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is a fallacy in logic of
supposing that a point you made
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somehow proves or disproves
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something that
really isn't an issue at all
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Loose lips, sink ships.
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Now can a pair of human
lips really sink a ship?
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Unless you have the kind
of teeth that can somehow gnaw
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a hole in the hull of a ship
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That's
ridiculous, it's ludicrous.
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Maybe
figuratively that is the case
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But since literally it is not
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is it really an issue
about loose lips sink ships?
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Our Scripture presents to
us another ignoratio elenci
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Look at it there in verse 4
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Knowing this first that there
shall come in the last days
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scoffers walking
after their own lusts
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and saying, where is
the promise of His coming
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for since the fathers fell
asleep, all things continue
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as they were from the
beginning of creation.
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Here it is. Just because
generations of people have died
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that does not mean that
Jesus is not coming back.
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Don't get it twisted.
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That has absolutely nothing
to do with the coming Lord
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The fact of the matter
is that Jesus is coming back
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whether you will believe
it, whether you prepare for it
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whether you're ready,
whether you're looking for it
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whether you're curious about it
whether you're interested in it
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Jesus is coming again.
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And I say Amen to that.
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Amen. Well pastor, how do
you know He's coming back?
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You ain't sayin anything.
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In fact there's a song that
I like, that says, Mine eyes
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have seen the glory
of the coming of the Lord
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I haven't seen Him coming
but I've seen the glory that
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precedes
whenever He goes anywhere.
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Wherever He goes anywhere
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There's such an effulgent glory
00:18:44.99\00:18:49.42
that precedes Him and
so the songwriter says
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that's what I was seeing. In
fact I was reading a while ago
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I don't know if it's true
but I was reading an article
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the other day where astronomers
were looking in constellations
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and they were looking at
the constellation of Orion
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and they said they heard sounds
coming from the other side
00:19:09.38\00:19:13.58
of the hole of Orion and when
they put it into the computer
00:19:13.62\00:19:17.79
the computer said
it's some kind of music
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You do know that when the
Lord comes He's supposed to come
00:19:24.76\00:19:27.10
through the nebula
of Orion, don't you?
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My eyes have seen
the glory of the coming
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That's how you know. Matthew 7.
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Matthew 24. Turn to Matthew 24.
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Matthew the 24th chapter.
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Here's the first way I know
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I know He's coming because
the signs say He's coming
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Matthew 24. And Jesus went
out and departed from the Temple
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and His disciples came to Him
for to show Him the buildings
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of the Temple. And
Jesus said unto them
00:20:02.53\00:20:05.07
See ye now all these
things, verily I say unto you
00:20:05.10\00:20:09.60
there shall not be left
here one stone upon another
00:20:09.64\00:20:14.68
that shall not be thrown
down and as He sat upon the
00:20:14.71\00:20:19.68
Mount of Olives the disciples
came unto Him privately
00:20:19.71\00:20:22.42
saying, Tell us when
shall these things be?
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And what shall be the sign
of Thy coming and of the end
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of the world. And Jesus
answered and said unto them
00:20:30.56\00:20:35.06
Take heed that no man
deceives you for many shall come
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in my name saying what?
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I am Christ and shall do what?
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Do you know that from the
time Christ uttered these words
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until this day, that there have
been about 33 individuals that
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have on the scene proclaiming
and professing to be Christ
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What's even more interesting,
two of them had been women
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It hasn't been relegated to just
one race, we've had black people
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who've come forth
saying they're Jesus.
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We've had Asian folks step forth
00:21:25.11\00:21:28.05
and say they're Jesus. We've
had Caucasian folks step forth
00:21:28.08\00:21:32.39
and say they're Jesus.
Most recently Jose Luis de Jesus
00:21:32.42\00:21:36.93
Miranda from Puerto Rico,
the preacher, he come forth and
00:21:36.96\00:21:40.73
said he's who? He's Jesus.
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It's interesting when
you read through Matthew 24
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that we are warned about
the deceptions of false christs
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and false teachers more
than any other sign, three times
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What does that suggest to us?
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That we've got to
have our eyes wide open
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We've got to get those
eyes focused on the Word
00:22:05.32\00:22:09.29
We need to know what
"Thus saith the Lord"
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Stop picking on somebody else
00:22:12.33\00:22:15.40
to spoon feed us
the truth. the Lord says
00:22:15.43\00:22:18.67
I'll feed you right from
the _if you just open the Word
00:22:18.70\00:22:23.17
And study to show
yourself approved.
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That's one thing I
liked about the Bereans
00:22:29.74\00:22:32.21
When they were in the church
and they heard the teaching
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They just didn't say, ummm
the show sure was good today
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They went home and studied
to see if those things were so.
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You don't need to
take anybody's word
00:22:50.20\00:22:54.47
for what's in the Word.
You ought to go the Word
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so He can explain the Word
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I can't believe that
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Look at verse 6, look at verse 6
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And ye shall hear what?
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Wars and rumors of wars.
See that ye be not troubled
00:23:12.62\00:23:18.03
for what? All these things must
come to pass, but the end is
00:23:18.06\00:23:23.00
not yet, for nation shall
rise against nation and kingdom
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against what? against kingdom
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Out of 200 countries
recognized by the United Nations
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67 of them are at war.
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There are probably many
wars going on simultaneously
00:23:42.78\00:23:47.66
as we speak. We just
left a war didn't we?
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And we're still involved in
other wars at the same time.
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Look at the
second half of that verse
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It says, and
there shall be what?
00:24:02.90\00:24:06.41
Famines, what else? what
else? earthquakes, where?
00:24:06.44\00:24:11.98
What does that verse mean?
00:24:12.01\00:24:15.22
Different places. Places
that did not use to hear about
00:24:15.25\00:24:19.32
earthquakes, is that right?
00:24:19.35\00:24:21.06
Listen, approximately
15 million children
00:24:24.13\00:24:29.63
die every year from hunger.
00:24:29.66\00:24:33.84
That means about
every 3.6 seconds
00:24:36.27\00:24:40.78
somebody's dying of hunger
00:24:40.81\00:24:46.45
and yet the awesome reality is
00:24:46.48\00:24:49.68
that if we took the money
that we spend on one missile
00:24:49.72\00:24:55.09
we could feed a whole school of
hungry children lunch for 5 year
00:24:55.12\00:25:02.26
Just cash in a missile
00:25:04.07\00:25:07.07
Just cash in a missile and you
can feed a school for 5 years
00:25:10.41\00:25:18.38
Wars, famines and
what's the last thing?
00:25:20.55\00:25:25.12
Just jumped over one,
just went all over money
00:25:33.93\00:25:36.90
What comes after famines?
00:25:36.93\00:25:39.53
Oh you couldn't pronounce
it is that what it was?
00:25:39.57\00:25:43.64
Pestilence. You
don't just see it.
00:25:49.11\00:25:51.55
Disease, disease. Out of 59
million people who die each year
00:25:51.58\00:26:00.72
30 million of
them die from disease.
00:26:00.76\00:26:04.76
Pestilence is everywhere.
00:26:04.79\00:26:08.60
Doesn't it sound like
the Dallas morning news?
00:26:08.63\00:26:10.87
But I'm reading from Matthew 24.
00:26:10.90\00:26:13.70
You can't get a
better editor than that.
00:26:15.04\00:26:18.47
Can't pretend what was
going to happen in 2012.
00:26:18.51\00:26:22.41
Earthquakes, listen to
this. I'm kinda curious about
00:26:22.44\00:26:26.38
stuff. I go digging. I
learned that from 1800 to 1900
00:26:26.41\00:26:34.09
that's a 100 year period,
there were 645 earthquakes
00:26:34.12\00:26:40.66
In a 100-year period.
Then from 1900 to 1997
00:26:41.73\00:26:48.77
there were 1847 earthquakes
00:26:48.80\00:26:55.18
That means in 94 years the
occurrence and incidence of
00:26:55.21\00:27:01.28
earthquakes had almost
tripled 2.8%, almost tripled
00:27:01.32\00:27:06.49
in the next 100 years.
But listen to this, from 1994
00:27:06.52\00:27:11.83
to the year 2000,
which is just how many years?
00:27:11.86\00:27:17.13
Seven, a little over seven
00:27:17.17\00:27:20.57
You going to tell me
what's in this service?
00:27:22.80\00:27:26.27
If it's wrong, just go along
with your pastor. 7 means 7.
00:27:26.31\00:27:30.05
7 years. Listen, listen. Listen
there were 1163 earthquakes
00:27:30.08\00:27:37.72
in just 7 years. That means
the incidence of earthquakes
00:27:37.75\00:27:43.53
has increased
by almost 175 times
00:27:43.56\00:27:50.07
in seven years.
00:27:50.10\00:27:54.37
If something doesn't
click into our reality, and
00:27:54.40\00:27:58.34
let us know something is going
on we've got to be fast asleep.
00:27:58.37\00:28:03.78
Look at verse 8.
This is a scary verse.
00:28:05.51\00:28:09.82
Read it, what does it say?
00:28:11.05\00:28:12.39
You think it could get worse?
00:28:17.13\00:28:19.66
You've got to be
kidding. It can be worse.
00:28:19.69\00:28:24.33
All these are the beginning
of sorrows. In fact, I looked at
00:28:25.83\00:28:32.27
the etymology of that
word 'sorrow' and in the Greek
00:28:32.31\00:28:35.34
the word is Audine. Do you
know what Audine translates at?
00:28:35.38\00:28:37.85
All these are the
beginning of labor pains.
00:28:37.88\00:28:41.32
When I think of the pain
that can be caused by war
00:28:41.35\00:28:45.22
the pain that can
be caused by starvation
00:28:45.25\00:28:50.03
the pain that can be
caused by dying and disease
00:28:50.06\00:28:55.60
the pain that can be caused
to hang on walls, on brick walls
00:28:55.63\00:28:59.43
throwing tiles
on you and crush you
00:28:59.47\00:29:01.44
and I said to myself,
she musta been in a whole lot
00:29:01.47\00:29:05.67
of pain if this just represents
the beginning of labor pain.
00:29:05.71\00:29:09.91
That's true. How do
you know Jesus is coming?
00:29:15.75\00:29:20.62
Verse 14 of Matthew 24.
00:29:20.66\00:29:23.56
First of all, the signs say so.
00:29:24.73\00:29:26.90
But look at verse
14. And read it with me.
00:29:28.16\00:29:32.20
And this gospel of the kingdom
shall be what? preached where?
00:29:32.23\00:29:36.71
In all the world for
what? for witness to all nations
00:29:36.74\00:29:41.11
and then what's gonna happen?
00:29:41.14\00:29:42.48
The reason I know is because
the gospel is being preached
00:29:43.58\00:29:47.92
everywhere. When this church
convened in the city of Atlanta
00:29:47.95\00:29:55.19
in the year 2012, 2010
00:29:55.22\00:29:58.89
I took a special interest
in the last page of the booklet
00:30:00.00\00:30:06.23
because it had that there a
little notation that probably
00:30:06.27\00:30:13.07
most people took little note of.
00:30:13.11\00:30:15.24
It said that there are 218
countries recognized by the
00:30:15.28\00:30:20.88
United Nations and this
church has preached the gospel
00:30:20.92\00:30:25.52
203 of them.
00:30:25.55\00:30:30.66
How many does that leave?
00:30:31.96\00:30:34.30
Fifteen.
00:30:35.10\00:30:37.70
Think with me
now, think with me.
00:30:37.73\00:30:40.34
218, the gospel has
already been preached
00:30:41.27\00:30:45.21
I heard one Praise God
00:30:46.88\00:30:49.31
203 have been entered. 15 are
left. Now anybody have any idea
00:30:51.48\00:31:00.36
how many
satellites we got up there?
00:31:00.39\00:31:02.26
With technology being what it
is how long do you think it will
00:31:03.99\00:31:08.63
take for the gospel to get
to those lands of 15 countries?
00:31:08.66\00:31:12.97
Absolutely no time at all.
00:31:14.94\00:31:17.91
In fact the Gospel can
be preached in every country
00:31:17.94\00:31:22.34
if people just got on FaceBook.
00:31:22.38\00:31:24.81
I got a friend request
from somebody in Malaysia
00:31:31.19\00:31:36.32
I had absolutely no idea
how to pronounce their name
00:31:36.36\00:31:42.56
I've never met them, but
some kinda way they were able to
00:31:43.20\00:31:49.47
navigate to my page. How
long do you think it'll take
00:31:49.50\00:31:54.48
beloved, for the Gospel to
be preached, what is the Gospel?
00:31:54.51\00:31:58.65
by the way? What is the
Gospel? The Gospel is what?
00:31:58.68\00:32:04.02
Say it again.
00:32:04.65\00:32:05.99
Good News. Good news about what?
00:32:06.55\00:32:10.16
About Jesus Christ?
What about Jesus Christ?
00:32:11.19\00:32:13.29
Let me help you
out a little bit.
00:32:18.80\00:32:20.47
Romans 6:23.
00:32:22.20\00:32:25.64
Turn there, I gotta
help you with this good news.
00:32:26.91\00:32:31.05
Romans 6:23
00:32:31.08\00:32:34.18
You have it? You
might even know it.
00:32:35.18\00:32:38.69
Tell m what does it say?
00:32:38.72\00:32:40.86
For the what? The wages of what?
00:32:40.89\00:32:44.76
is what? Say it again.
00:32:44.79\00:32:47.33
Is there a but?
00:32:49.00\00:32:50.67
I like things that follow but
00:32:50.70\00:32:52.47
It changes the situation.
00:32:54.07\00:32:57.21
It alters the state of being.
00:32:57.24\00:33:00.18
But what? Keep on reading.
00:33:00.21\00:33:01.74
But the gift of God is what?
00:33:01.78\00:33:04.91
Eternal life. You've got
to understand that there is a
00:33:04.95\00:33:09.98
cosmic chasm that has
been exacerbated by my sins
00:33:10.02\00:33:14.82
Isaiah 59:2 says Your iniquities
have separated me from you
00:33:14.86\00:33:21.10
I told you last Sabbath that
Jesus loves you and misses you
00:33:21.13\00:33:27.67
and He loves to
get back with you.
00:33:27.70\00:33:30.74
He can't stand the separation.
00:33:30.77\00:33:33.81
And so He wanted to make sure
there'd be no more separation
00:33:35.91\00:33:40.25
He's got to
destroy sin and sinners.
00:33:40.28\00:33:45.22
But the gift of
God is eternal life.
00:33:50.73\00:33:55.46
We're sinners, we're sinners.
00:33:55.50\00:34:00.30
We have to acknowledge
the fact that we're sinners.
00:34:00.34\00:34:03.14
I said what? I don't hear you.
00:34:03.17\00:34:06.07
Acknowledge the fact
00:34:06.11\00:34:09.51
that you're a sinner.
00:34:09.54\00:34:10.88
Anybody get to AA yet?
00:34:10.91\00:34:13.28
I have two honest souls.
00:34:15.75\00:34:18.49
Two. That's ok.
00:34:19.79\00:34:22.76
They put their hands up
in testimony, not telling.
00:34:24.33\00:34:27.76
In testimony.
00:34:32.17\00:34:35.00
You're not going to be
saved without a testimony.
00:34:35.04\00:34:39.07
Rev 12:11 says, but they over
came by the blood of the Lamb
00:34:39.11\00:34:44.95
and what else? The word of yours
you can't talk to everybody
00:34:44.98\00:34:49.22
but somebody that will listen to
me. You can't talk to everybody
00:34:49.25\00:34:52.95
how can you all talk to
me about drugs if you ain't
00:34:52.99\00:34:55.39
never been high?
00:34:55.42\00:34:57.99
You can't talk to
me about how it feels
00:34:59.16\00:35:03.87
to ache, to have a high that
will only last a few seconds.
00:35:03.90\00:35:09.14
And so you gotta get another
high, another high, you can't
00:35:09.17\00:35:12.17
talk to me about that
unless you've walked in my shoes
00:35:12.21\00:35:16.44
How you goin to come to me and
be part of the prison ministry
00:35:16.48\00:35:19.98
and you don't know what
it is to live behind bars?
00:35:20.02\00:35:22.48
You don't know what
it is to be incarcerated.
00:35:22.52\00:35:26.76
Even in your spirit? How in the
world will you go and talk to me
00:35:26.79\00:35:31.59
about being a battered and
abused wife if your husband
00:35:31.63\00:35:37.57
is taking you out to
Cheesecake Factory once a week?
00:35:37.60\00:35:41.17
Hello somebody.
00:35:46.78\00:35:48.34
Let me do one thing better.
00:35:53.38\00:35:55.48
Everybody ain't
ready for your testimony.
00:35:55.52\00:35:59.05
You testify about
what God has done for you
00:36:02.86\00:36:06.56
Then someone's
gonna say, whoo girl
00:36:06.59\00:36:09.13
She says she'd
been with five men.
00:36:09.96\00:36:13.90
If I caught the
other part of the testimony
00:36:15.00\00:36:17.71
But Jesus became
the only man in my life
00:36:17.74\00:36:21.64
Jesus made me free of
all those men in my life
00:36:21.68\00:36:25.41
Where is the rest of the every
body can't handle your testimony
00:36:25.45\00:36:31.05
God has given your experience
to you and He's going to use you
00:36:31.09\00:36:35.92
to talk to somebody who shares
the same kind of experience
00:36:35.96\00:36:40.20
as you've been through.
That's why you can't look down
00:36:40.23\00:36:45.77
your nose at anybody despite
what they've been through
00:36:45.80\00:36:49.30
despite where the road has taken
them because God has given them
00:36:49.34\00:36:55.18
a testimony so that they will be
able to minister to His glory.
00:36:55.21\00:36:59.05
There's somebody that
you and I can't minister to
00:36:59.08\00:37:03.05
That Gospel is about good news
00:37:09.02\00:37:11.13
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
00:37:11.16\00:37:13.73
Acts 16:31 says,
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ
00:37:15.56\00:37:22.10
and what happens?
You gonna be saved.
00:37:22.14\00:37:25.87
You gonna be saved. Your
separated self is gonna be saved
00:37:25.91\00:37:31.91
Because this, Oh Jesus
00:37:31.95\00:37:35.15
Somebody called
Him the Rose of Sharon.
00:37:35.18\00:37:39.69
Somebody called Him
the Lily of the Valley
00:37:39.72\00:37:43.56
Somebody called Him
the Bright and Morning Star
00:37:43.59\00:37:47.53
Somebody called Him
the way out of nowhere
00:37:47.56\00:37:50.70
Somebody called Him
Bread somebody called Him Water
00:37:50.73\00:37:55.00
Somebody understood
something about our Lord
00:37:55.04\00:37:58.87
That He had a way of
preaching He's the bridge maker
00:37:58.91\00:38:03.95
The bridge builder, the
goel? so no matter how far
00:38:03.98\00:38:08.72
sin has separated us from God
00:38:08.75\00:38:11.02
He is big enough
to bridge the gap.
00:38:11.05\00:38:17.26
The good thing about it is
00:38:19.66\00:38:22.40
I don't have to
feel bad that I messed up
00:38:23.87\00:38:26.67
Because I read my Bible
the other day and Romans 3:23
00:38:26.70\00:38:32.21
says, There is none righteous
00:38:32.24\00:38:35.68
So shut up,
there is none righteous
00:38:35.71\00:38:40.82
So mind your business
00:38:40.85\00:38:43.55
There is none
righteous, go soak your head
00:38:43.59\00:38:47.12
There is none
righteous, not even you.
00:38:47.16\00:38:50.63
There is none righteous
00:38:50.66\00:38:52.86
therefore we're
all on level ground
00:38:52.89\00:38:56.90
And it's the cross that
gets off that level ground
00:38:56.93\00:39:00.34
And He said, And I, if I
be lifted up, I'll draw all
00:39:00.37\00:39:04.57
all men unto me.
00:39:04.61\00:39:07.44
It's right what you done.
00:39:07.48\00:39:10.95
How low you've gone. 1 John
1:9. After I acknowledge my sin
00:39:10.98\00:39:18.35
that I'm a sinner, the good news
is that if I believe on the Lord
00:39:18.39\00:39:22.26
Jesus Christ I can be
saved but in order to do that I
00:39:22.29\00:39:25.13
got to do something.
1 John 1:9 says what?
00:39:25.16\00:39:28.06
If we confess our sins
00:39:29.63\00:39:34.20
He is what? And
what else? To do what?
00:39:34.24\00:39:40.38
Cleanse us from
all unrighteousness
00:39:40.41\00:39:46.55
You ever said you were
sorry to somebody for something
00:39:46.58\00:39:49.38
you did to them and they still
didn't let you off the hook?
00:39:49.42\00:39:53.62
You better be
glad I ain't running...
00:40:00.90\00:40:04.30
Whatever the Bible
says I turn it up on you
00:40:09.54\00:40:12.84
The Good News that
people are waiting to hear
00:40:21.38\00:40:25.49
is not that they are sinners
but that there's a Savior.
00:40:25.52\00:40:31.83
They don't want to live in
the memory of all the filth
00:40:31.86\00:40:40.47
and the bad living they've
done. They want to be lifted up
00:40:40.50\00:40:44.37
from that low state and
if you don't get it right
00:40:44.41\00:40:48.64
you'll never find liberation
or deliverance in the Lord
00:40:48.68\00:40:52.78
So don't get it wrong.
00:40:52.81\00:40:55.35
Fascinating. How do
you know He's coming?
00:40:59.45\00:41:02.59
Let's go back to our Scripture
Reading in 1 Thessalonians
00:41:03.76\00:41:08.00
as I bring this
thing to a close.
00:41:08.03\00:41:12.47
1 Thessalonians 4.
I like this passage.
00:41:12.50\00:41:19.67
Look at it. Look at
how Paul starts it off.
00:41:23.24\00:41:27.25
But I would not have you, what?
00:41:28.38\00:41:30.32
Just stop there. Ignorant.
00:41:30.35\00:41:34.56
Remember what we
were talking about?
00:41:34.59\00:41:40.03
Ignoratio Elenchi?
00:41:40.06\00:41:42.76
Being ignorant proof.
00:41:42.80\00:41:45.73
Paul says I don't
want you to be ignorant.
00:41:45.77\00:41:49.04
He said that because he
had just somewhere around AD 50
00:41:49.07\00:41:53.24
he had been expelled. He
and Silas had been expelled from
00:41:53.27\00:41:58.55
Philippi and so he
went to retreat in Corinth
00:41:58.58\00:42:02.58
and while they were there
in Corinth Pastor Timothy came
00:42:02.62\00:42:07.22
to be with them. Timothy
was the pastor in Thessalonica
00:42:07.26\00:42:11.39
and he came down for a workers'
meeting and gave a report
00:42:11.43\00:42:15.96
to Paul about the saints
that were in Thessalonica.
00:42:16.00\00:42:20.70
He said, you need to know that
the saints are being persecuted
00:42:20.74\00:42:26.51
there. They're being
persecuted for their beliefs
00:42:26.54\00:42:32.58
and when I look at their beliefs
00:42:32.61\00:42:35.72
some of their
beliefs are a little askew.
00:42:35.75\00:42:40.12
They have ethical problems and
they have eschatological problem
00:42:40.16\00:42:46.39
The ethical problem is that they
believe that since the coming
00:42:46.43\00:42:51.57
of the Lord is going to
be as a thief in the night
00:42:51.60\00:42:55.00
and you can't tell when
the thief is going to break in
00:42:55.04\00:42:58.71
then we don't need to
work for souls any more.
00:42:58.74\00:43:02.48
We can stop laboring for people
00:43:06.31\00:43:10.35
because the Lord is on His way.
It could be today, it could be
00:43:10.39\00:43:14.72
tomorrow so
let's just get ready.
00:43:14.76\00:43:17.33
Then they had an
eschatological problem.
00:43:17.36\00:43:21.80
Because they were being
persecuted they didn't quite
00:43:21.83\00:43:26.70
understand. I don't think Paul
had really explained it to them
00:43:26.74\00:43:31.77
yet. But he would eventually
say that they who live godly
00:43:31.81\00:43:36.64
in Christ Jesus shall be what?
00:43:36.68\00:43:38.48
I don't hear you.
00:43:38.51\00:43:40.25
Shall suffer persecution.
They believed that since they
00:43:40.28\00:43:44.55
were suffering persecution that
perhaps Jesus had already come
00:43:44.59\00:43:50.03
and forgot about them.
00:43:50.06\00:43:53.29
And so Paul decides he
better send a pastoral letter
00:43:55.46\00:44:01.24
to the saints of the
church in Thessalonica.
00:44:01.27\00:44:06.14
He wants to reassure
them of one central fact
00:44:06.17\00:44:12.95
It's right there in verse 16.
00:44:12.98\00:44:17.55
Look at it. It says, For
00:44:17.59\00:44:20.76
What does it say brethren?
00:44:23.09\00:44:24.89
For the Lord
Himself. Stop right there.
00:44:24.93\00:44:29.53
It's not the secretary of heaven
00:44:31.13\00:44:34.84
It's not the emissary
00:44:34.87\00:44:38.11
It's not a representative
00:44:38.14\00:44:40.31
But the Bible says, just
in case you get it twisted
00:44:40.34\00:44:47.08
The Lord Himself!
00:44:47.12\00:44:51.42
That means when the Lord
comes that His coming will be
00:44:51.45\00:44:57.89
Himself. I'm not
sending a representative
00:44:57.93\00:45:02.80
I'm coming Myself
00:45:02.83\00:45:06.53
What's the next part of it say?
00:45:06.57\00:45:08.90
The Lord Himself shall
descend from heaven with what?
00:45:10.77\00:45:14.88
With a shout and what else?
With the voice of the archangel
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What else?
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Now this is why I
believe God is black
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He shouts and He
plays the trumpet
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The Lord Himself shouts it says
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With a shout
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The voice of God
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The trump of God, the
voice of the archangel
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Understand something, not
only will His coming be personal
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but His coming
will also be public.
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I was sitting in
my house the other day
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and a man across the
street was working on his car
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And all of a
sudden I found myself
00:46:09.86\00:46:14.14
just singing Summer Breeze
00:46:14.94\00:46:18.44
makes me feel fine
00:46:18.47\00:46:20.74
blowing through
the castles of my mind
00:46:20.78\00:46:23.91
Then I got up, summer
breeze makes me feel fine
00:46:25.48\00:46:31.09
I saw myself in the glass
and I said, what did I do?
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If I don't stop this it's gonna
to be summer for a long time
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It will be real hot.
00:46:43.26\00:46:46.74
But I learned something.
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When we listen to the
music we like to heat it up
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A little bit. Little loud.
He's just working on his car
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but I can hear it in my house
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There's something
about the coming of Jesus
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Not only will it be personal
but it will also be public
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It will have the ability
for dead ears to hear Him come.
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Ears that have disintegrated.
Ears that have rotted away
00:47:17.87\00:47:23.10
Ears that have become dust and
dirt. And yet in some kinda way
00:47:23.14\00:47:28.34
when Jesus comes
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even the skull will be
able to hear His coming.
00:47:32.01\00:47:35.32
And obey when He
says to the North
00:47:35.35\00:47:38.89
Give Up, and to the
South Give them back
00:47:38.92\00:47:43.12
Bring my sons from afar and my
daughters from the ends of earth
00:47:43.16\00:47:47.66
In some kind of way the dead in
Christ are going to be able to
00:47:47.70\00:47:52.37
to hear Him and
get up from the grave
00:47:52.40\00:47:56.20
I used to wonder,
wait a minute Lord
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Why they got to go first?
00:48:01.28\00:48:04.01
All these problems
I'm having down here
00:48:05.58\00:48:07.88
Why are You
raising them up first?
00:48:07.92\00:48:11.42
You know what the
Lord put in my spirit
00:48:12.35\00:48:14.59
Because they have died in
faith waiting for me to come
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They've been waiting
longer for this thing to happen
00:48:22.43\00:48:27.17
You still will live here.
Look at the last part here
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Look at the last part here
00:48:31.87\00:48:33.31
The dead in Christ shall
rise, then we which are alive
00:48:33.34\00:48:39.58
and remain, shall be what?
00:48:39.61\00:48:42.48
Say it again
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Caught up together with them
00:48:43.89\00:48:46.32
in the clouds to
meet the Lord in the air
00:48:46.35\00:48:50.29
And so shall we
ever be with the Lord
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It's interesting to me
that Paul says, when Jesus comes
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it will be personal. When
Jesus comes it will be public
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And then finally he says,
00:49:09.48\00:49:12.55
when Jesus comes it's
going to be permanent.
00:49:12.58\00:49:15.45
Then shall we ever be with the
Lord. Now never mind the fact
00:49:15.48\00:49:22.32
that there are other
people up in the clouds
00:49:22.36\00:49:24.83
He didn't comment on that.
He said we'll be with the Lord
00:49:24.86\00:49:28.83
forever. Now by default you'll
be with those people who were
00:49:28.86\00:49:33.30
resurrected as well. But when
it comes to being with Jesus
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versus anybody else, Paul
says I'd rather be with Jesus
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than to be with anybody
else. So don't get it twisted
00:49:46.45\00:49:54.06
He that shall come will come
00:49:54.09\00:49:57.49
and it won't be
long. Don't get it twisted
00:49:57.53\00:50:02.00
because He says if I go
and prepare a place for you
00:50:02.03\00:50:06.77
I will come again.
Don't get it twisted
00:50:06.80\00:50:12.51
If He came the first time,
He'll come back the second time
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So don't get it twisted.
00:50:17.25\00:50:21.52
Jesus is coming
back, the signs say so.
00:50:21.55\00:50:25.85
The preaching of
the Gospel says so.
00:50:25.89\00:50:28.62
But more important, He says so.
00:50:28.66\00:50:32.16
Mom taught us to pray for
that, Amen. At World War II
00:50:34.83\00:50:40.24
The Korean conflict.
Vietnam, the first time.
00:50:40.27\00:50:46.54
And he was on his second tour?
00:50:46.57\00:50:49.54
I was out in the yard playing...
00:50:53.68\00:50:56.92
Mom had told us
about three weeks before.
00:50:56.95\00:50:59.39
Your daddy's coming home.
00:50:59.42\00:51:02.96
And she made us
clean up the house.
00:51:02.99\00:51:06.93
Every day, as if
daddy was coming that day.
00:51:06.96\00:51:12.37
Day after day I had to
dust my floor, dust my?
00:51:14.47\00:51:20.61
make my bed because
daddy was coming home.
00:51:20.64\00:51:24.78
One week went by,
two weeks went by.
00:51:24.81\00:51:29.92
Three weeks went by, no daddy.
00:51:29.95\00:51:35.76
Not only had I
pushed the no-daddy button
00:51:35.79\00:51:39.23
but I also pushed
the no-coming button
00:51:39.26\00:51:42.53
He ain't coming back.
00:51:42.56\00:51:45.20
So while I was out
there in the yard I saw
00:51:46.07\00:51:49.00
an army green staff car
coming down Liberty Street
00:51:49.04\00:51:56.28
It slowed down at
167 Liberty Street
00:51:58.18\00:52:01.95
turned into the
driveway at 167 Liberty Street
00:52:01.98\00:52:09.06
The glass was tinted so I didn't
know whether it was someone
00:52:09.09\00:52:16.00
coming to inform my
mother of her new found status
00:52:16.03\00:52:21.40
as a widow and
ours as fatherless.
00:52:21.44\00:52:22.90
So when the door opened
00:52:29.14\00:52:33.98
and I stood there
looking at the car
00:52:34.02\00:52:37.59
all of a sudden a
figure stepped out
00:52:37.62\00:52:43.69
that I kinda recognized
00:52:43.73\00:52:46.96
And that same black head
00:52:47.00\00:52:52.07
just like mine
00:52:52.10\00:52:54.60
black as 52 midnights
00:52:54.64\00:52:58.04
muscular in his frame
00:53:00.38\00:53:04.61
got out with that winsome smile
00:53:04.65\00:53:08.12
punched me in my chest
00:53:08.15\00:53:12.85
and I said, Hi Daddy
00:53:14.96\00:53:18.86
I knew daddy was home
00:53:18.89\00:53:22.50
Ain't nobody ain't like daddy
00:53:22.53\00:53:25.20
It wasn't an apparition
00:53:25.23\00:53:27.94
it wasn't my imagination
00:53:27.97\00:53:30.17
Daddy gave me
confirmation that I'm back home
00:53:30.21\00:53:34.58
and not only am I back home but
I'm back home to take control
00:53:34.61\00:53:39.41
to take charge, to get
the house back in order
00:53:39.45\00:53:44.85
to make sure that
everything goes right
00:53:44.89\00:53:48.06
Daddy's home. Soon and
very soon daddy is coming home
00:53:48.09\00:53:56.53
no matter what the world says
00:53:56.56\00:53:59.47
no matter what the scoffer says
00:53:59.50\00:54:02.40
no matter what
the nay-Sayers say
00:54:02.44\00:54:05.27
no matter what the skeptics say
00:54:05.31\00:54:07.98
no matter what
the pessimists say
00:54:08.01\00:54:10.58
no matter what the atheists say
00:54:10.61\00:54:13.18
Jesus is coming again
00:54:13.21\00:54:16.18
The issue, the
core fundamental issue
00:54:18.62\00:54:23.96
is not whether
Jesus is coming again
00:54:23.99\00:54:27.20
but whether we're going
to be ready when He comes
00:54:27.23\00:54:30.50
That's the issue
00:54:33.03\00:54:35.44
That's the issue.
00:54:36.57\00:54:39.27
Stand on your feet with me
00:54:39.31\00:54:41.84
Stand on your feet with me
00:54:42.61\00:54:44.25
God has been good to you,
I said God been good to you?
00:54:45.48\00:54:50.22
I don't care if you don't have
a job, God has been good to you
00:54:50.25\00:54:53.56
cause you have your
breath. God has been good to you
00:54:53.59\00:54:57.09
You've got your life.
00:54:57.13\00:54:58.93
You can get another job,
but you can't get another life
00:55:00.26\00:55:03.26
But the one thing
that you may not have
00:55:04.87\00:55:08.80
is a personal solid
relationship with Jesus Christ
00:55:10.11\00:55:15.31
Nothing that you
can... on this earth
00:55:16.58\00:55:20.02
Nothing can compare in value
00:55:20.05\00:55:24.35
to a saving
relationship with Him
00:55:24.39\00:55:28.76
But I don't know
00:55:30.23\00:55:32.09
if you've formed
that with Him yet
00:55:33.70\00:55:36.30
Blessed Assurance. And therefore
this first Sabbath of 2012
00:55:36.33\00:55:43.51
I don't want anybody to
get twisted. I want somebody
00:55:43.54\00:55:48.44
to get it right. You need Jesus
00:55:48.48\00:55:53.48
and you know you need Him
00:55:53.52\00:55:56.15
you know this year will be
messed up like last year was
00:55:56.18\00:56:01.52
if He leaves it up to
you to handle your business
00:56:01.56\00:56:05.96
and today you want to
come to the altar and say
00:56:05.99\00:56:09.10
Jesus, I want you.
I want to accept you
00:56:09.13\00:56:13.27
While we're singing and
the Spirit is talking to you
00:56:13.30\00:56:18.01
whether you're in
the overflow or not
00:56:18.04\00:56:20.21
I'm going to invite
you to come to the altar
00:56:20.24\00:56:21.81
Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine
00:56:21.84\00:56:30.32
Come on. Why don't
you get it straight
00:56:30.35\00:56:34.42
Why don't you get
it straight today?
00:56:34.46\00:56:37.03
Come on now, come on now
00:56:37.06\00:56:39.53
Get it straight with the Lord
00:56:39.56\00:56:41.43
Heir of
salvation, purchase of God
00:56:41.46\00:56:48.20
Born of His spirit,
washed in His blood.
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