How many of you know
that He's able, this morning?
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Come on, you know
He's able? All right.
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I want you to put your hands
together right there, come on.
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Come on, we know you
know it. Say He's able.
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He's able
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You believe that this morning?
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God is able
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He's able
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Thank you, Jesus
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Hallelujah, He's able
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He's able
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I know that He can
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I know that He can do it
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He said he'd help me through it
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He's able
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All right, come on
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He's able
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I know that He can
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I know that He can do it
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He said he'd help me through it
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Verse 8
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Hold on, my brother, for
your change is gonna come
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Be strong, my sister,
for your work is not done, no
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Keep on
believing and hold on tight
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He's able to bring you joy...
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Come on... In the morning light
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He's able He's able
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Here we go, come on.
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He's able
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And I know that He can
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I know that He can do it
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He said he'd help me through it
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Hold on, break down
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How many of you all know
that God is able, this morning?
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Come on, don't fool me
now, do you know He's able?
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Just lean over and
nudge your neighbor
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and say, "You
know He's able, right?
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You know He's able,
right?" Come on, ladies, say...
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He's able
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Oh, yes He is
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He's able He's able
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Oh, yes He is
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He can do it
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Oh, yes He can
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He can do it
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Oh, yes He can
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He's able
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Oh, yes He is
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He's able
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Oh, yes He is
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He can do it
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No matter the situation.
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Oh, yes He can
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He can do it
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Oh, yes He can
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He's able
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Oh, yes He is
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Oh, yes He is Oh, yes He is
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Take it up. Oh, yeah
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Oh, yes He is
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Oh, yes He is Oh, yes He is
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Come on here. Oh, yes He is
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Oh, yeah, He is
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Oh, yes He is
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Oh, yeah, He is
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He's able
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To open up the door, come on
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He's able
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To make the ways free
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He's able
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To save your son
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He's able
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To save your daughter
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He's able
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To save your marriage
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He's able
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God is able
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He's able
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To save-
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He's able
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To keep your wind going
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He's able
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God is able
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He's able
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God is able
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He's able
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Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
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Somebody believes
He's able, this morning.
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And since you know He's able...
not just in every situation
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but to do something specific,
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to do what He said
what He was gonna do.
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Okay, he said, "Heaven
and earth will pass away,
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before my word will turn void"
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So I know He'll
keep His promises.
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Hallelujah.
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Come on, let me see your hands
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if you know He'll
keep His promises.
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Hallelujah Exceedingly
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Abundantly
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Above all
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you can ask or think
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According to His power
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Which liveth in you
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Is in you
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Oh, oh, oh, oh, come on.
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God is able
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God is able to do just
what He said He would do
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He's gonna fulfill
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Every promise
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Every promise
that He made to you
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Don't give up on God
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'Cause He won't give up on you
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He's able He's able
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Here we go.
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You believe He's able,
say it again, He's able.
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He's able
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Come on, we're
gonna say right there.
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God is able
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God is able to do just
what He said He would do
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He's gonna fulfill
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Every promise
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Every promise to you
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Don't give up on God
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'Cause He won't give up on you
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He's able He's able
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Come on.
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If you believe it
say it, He's able.
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He's able
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We got something for
you to sing right here,
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it goes like this, we say...
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Oh, oh, oh, oh,
oh, oh, oh, He's able
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Can you say it, come on.
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Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
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Sing past this rooftop.
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Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
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He's able
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Say...
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Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
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Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
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Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
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Y'all now let's go...
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Oh, oh, oh, oh,
oh, oh, oh, He's able
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Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
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He's able
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He's the one to say it.
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Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
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I don't know what
you need God to do,
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just want you to know that...
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Yes, He's able
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He's able
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He's able He's able
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Yes, He is He's able
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God is able He's able
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God sat with me,
come on He's able
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God is able He's able
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Just wait and see He's able
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God is able He's able
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He's the healer,
come on He's able
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He heals the people He's able
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Yes, he is He's able
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With God, you're
never down He's able
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God will bring you up He's able
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God is able He's able
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Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
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He's able
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Say it.
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Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
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He's able
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Oh, oh, oh, oh
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Oh, don't give up on God
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'cause He won't give up on you
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I want you to say it again.
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Oh, oh, oh, oh
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Oh, don't give up on God
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'cause He won't give up on you
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Come on, sing another song.
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Don't give up on
God Don't give up on God
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Why?
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'Cause He won't give up on you
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Come on, tell your neighbor.
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Don't give up on God
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No matter what it looks
like, no matter the situation,
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keep your faith, press on.
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Don't give up on God, no
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Don't give up on God
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'Cause He won't give up on you
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He's able, come on.
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He is able, Hallelujah
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Our God whom we
serve is able this morning,
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so if that's your
desire would you join with me.
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This morning, come
on down to the altar,
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so when you want to come
for a brother or a sister,
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intercessory prayer has power.
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You want ask God to reach them
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and the only way the divine
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imagination can think off
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as we bow and kneel and pray.
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Gracious Father in heaven,
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we commit this
hour to You, Lord.
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Thank you for the church
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we've come together to pray.
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We're lifting up
our hearts to Jesus,
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for You have been
so wonderful to us.
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You have been our God,
You have been our light,
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You have shown us the
way, O Lord, we speak,
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inside through our bones
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and think what
would we be without You.
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We need You at every gathering.
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We need You for shelter,
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the clothes that
we have on our backs,
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You have blessed with that.
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The food on our tables,
the warmth in our homes,
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the love between our families,
the church that we worship at,
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all things come of Thee, O Lord.
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And of thy own
have You given us.
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And so it is with
praise and adoration,
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dear Lord, that
we like the angel
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who just could
stand as we are amazed,
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we cry out, Holy, Holy, Holy
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Lord God Almighty.
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We are amazed at what we see
of Your goodness and Your love.
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You cause your
rain to shine- to rain
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upon the just-
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Your sun to shine upon the
just as well as the unjust.
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Our merciful God, a loving God,
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but a God also justice,
a God who would judge me,
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a God who came
down to this earth,
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shed His blood
for us on Calvary,
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willingly He turned to die
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that we might live.
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Thank you, Jesus,
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thank you,
Jesus, thank you, Jesus.
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Dear Lord, this
morning, we want to lift up
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some of the sick and
shut-in within our church.
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We want to lift up James Brunt.
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His mother had a
heart attack this week.
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Oh, God, many of us know
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what it means to
lose our mothers.
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The one who has
loved us so much,
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the one we have
loved so much, dear Lord.
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That's why we pray
for Brother James Brunt.
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Touch him, dear Lord,
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and only touch him,
touch his mother, dear Lord.
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Help her, dear Lord,
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and if it be thy will
breaks her up from that pain,
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that our witness may
continue to remain strong.
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We pray for Dr.
Yvonne Lewis's father,
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- who suffered a stroke,
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his second stroke this week.
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O Lord, we know our God
will take care of strokes.
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We know our God who
can open up our hearts,
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we know our God who
can make them whole again.
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And so we pray, O God,
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that you will perform
this time for Brother-
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Bless Michael Jones,
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his brother has
injured his back,
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this week, O God.
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And we know how nagging
these back injuries can be
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and how difficult they can be.
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Sometimes they just
seem to go on and on,
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medicines and
manipulations and heat
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and all the treatments
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sometimes just
doesn't do any good.
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Dear Lord, we're
not depended upon
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those things, this morning.
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We're depended upon You.
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And we pray, dear Lord,
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that you will bless
Brother Michael Jones.
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O God, this morning we
want to lift up our pastor,
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our assistant youth pastor
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who we bring in
the words of life,
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the wonderful words of life.
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We pray that we
will all be touched.
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We pray that You will
bring more faith to all
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and then-
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Let him show us
the way to the kingdom
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and help us, dear Lord,
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they'll be willing to
follow him as he follows Christ.
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Bless each member
of the church, O God,
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you know their desires,
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you know the
problems that they are facing,
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you know the daily things
that each has to go through
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and what they need, bless them
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according to
their need, dear Lord.
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Give them and show them the love
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that thou in heaven can show.
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Dear Lord, we want to lift up
our youth in the church, today.
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Satan, we know
is bombarding them
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in this evil world.
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We have young people, dear Lord,
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who we see in church every week
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who are here serving
you, praising your name,
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on the Sabbath day
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and we thank you
for all them, O God.
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We thank you for
faithful, young people
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who are standing for
Jesus in this troublesome world.
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Bless the parents too, God,
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bless those who are
training young minds,
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who are molding
clay before hearts,
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their way hardens, dear Lord,
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they will be in your
passion, like unto You.
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And, O God, may we all
in that great Kingdom, Lord,
00:16:09.93\00:16:16.63
may we all be standing
00:16:16.66\00:16:18.01
under the blood stained
banner of Prince Immanuel.
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When Jesus bursts
through the clouds,
00:16:21.93\00:16:25.56
may our hands be lifted
00:16:25.59\00:16:27.09
and we cry out holy praise, God.
00:16:27.12\00:16:30.35
Thank you, Jesus, for saving
us and giving us that faith
00:16:30.38\00:16:35.10
that we needed to bring through
00:16:35.13\00:16:38.55
all these blessings we
pray in the name of Jesus,
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in Jesus' name, amen, amen.
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One of the things that
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I despise is
going to the doctor.
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When I think about
going to the doctor,
00:17:01.17\00:17:03.27
I realize that I
am in fact a real man.
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Men don't like
to go to the doctor.
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Even though things bother
us, we have aches and pains,
00:17:12.94\00:17:17.15
we manage to
ignore all of our symptoms
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and keep right on going.
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I happened to
like my present doctor,
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he is a member
of our congregation
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and, yes, I'm gonna put
in a little plug for him,
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his name is Dr. Cecil Bailey.
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So if you got
something ails you can go see
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Dr. Bailey, he is a good doctor.
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I will go to see him
but I notice every time
00:17:40.61\00:17:43.02
I get to his office,
there are several things
00:17:43.05\00:17:47.52
that he does or
his assistants do
00:17:47.55\00:17:50.84
prior to his
coming into the room.
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They say that they're
taking my vital signs.
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My vital signs.
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The vital signs
include taking my temperature,
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my pulse, my respirations
and my blood pressure.
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Now as often as
that's been done,
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I wonder why do
they keep doing that.
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It's because in order to see
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how well I'm doing
physiologically, health wise.
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There are certain
criterion that's in place
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to determine whether
or not I'm doing well.
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Let me see how well you'd
know how well you're doing.
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What's the optimum
temperature that one must have?
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98.6, very
good. How about pulse?
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120/80 pulse, is that
pulse or blood pressure?
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That's blood pressure.
Pulse 50-80 beats per minute.
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How about respirations?
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Respirations.
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Are you alive?
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Are you breathing, 12 to
20 respirations per minute
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and of course we've already
heard blood pressure 120/80.
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These indicators let us know
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how well we're
doing on the inside
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and so every time
you go see the doctor
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they're going to
take these vital signs
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as is so often the
case whatever happens
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in the natural realm
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has a correspondence
in the spiritual realm.
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We've got spiritual vital signs
and so for the next 4 weeks,
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I'm going to begin
a series of teachings
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on spiritual vital
signs, is that all right?
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Spiritual vital
signs, why did I choose to do
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a series on
spiritual vital signs?
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Very simple.
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There has
probably been no church
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I have pastored
over the past 30 years
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where at least one member
has not come to me and say,
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"Pastor, I don't seem to
be able hold onto my faith.
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There are highs
and there are lows
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and I love it
when I'm on the high
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but I get a little bit skittish
because I know eventually
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I'm going to experience
that inevitable load."
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And I said, why is that?
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Why must you
experience the load?
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Probably because you don't know
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how to maintain
your spiritual wellness
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and so I want to look
at for the next 4 weeks,
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4 spiritual vital signs.
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The first one we talked about
in the natural realm was what?
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Temperature, isn't that right?
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So let's look at temperature
in the spiritual realm.
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Turn with me to
Revelation 4. Revelation 4.
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Pardon me, Revelation 3
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and I'm gonna look
at verses 14 and 15,
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Revelation 3:14, 15.
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Here the Bible says,
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"And unto the
angel of the church
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of the Laodiceans write,
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these things saith the Amen,
the faithful and true witness,
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the beginning of
the creation of God.
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I know thy
works, that thou art..."
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what? "Neither cold nor hot.
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I would thou wert cold or hot."
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Notice the temperature here.
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Who are the
Laodiceans? The church of today.
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And God has
somewhat of awe against them
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because when He takes
their spiritual temperature,
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He discovers
something about them.
00:22:06.88\00:22:09.58
That they're what?
00:22:09.61\00:22:11.69
They're neither cold nor hot.
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Do you have a
temperature at all?
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Yes, we do but
we need to find out
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from the word of God
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what has happened
to the temperature.
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Turn with me to
Matthew 24, Matthew 24
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and let's see if we can find out
00:22:32.07\00:22:34.92
from the word of
God what has happened
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to our spiritual
temperature in these last days.
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Matthew 24:12,
notice what the Bible says.
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"And because
iniquity shall abound,
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the love of many shall..." what?
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"Wax cold" Wax cold.
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Because something about
the love of many gets cold,
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what is that something?
00:23:09.35\00:23:11.90
Iniquity.
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What is iniquity?
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Sin, wickedness,
because it runs rampant
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then it causes individuals
00:23:21.01\00:23:23.22
who once loved
God with great fervor
00:23:23.25\00:23:26.30
and great intensity
to lose the love that
00:23:26.33\00:23:30.63
they once had
for spiritual things
00:23:30.66\00:23:34.04
just being affected by
the iniquity the wickedness
00:23:34.07\00:23:38.88
that is around us on every hand.
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That's a
terrible state of being.
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Now I don't know about you
00:23:46.31\00:23:49.62
but the last
time I touched someone
00:23:49.65\00:23:52.83
who had no
temperature, they were dead.
00:23:52.86\00:23:59.40
They were deceased.
00:23:59.43\00:24:02.62
I'll never forget, I
have kissed my father
00:24:02.65\00:24:06.94
several times
growing up as a lad,
00:24:06.97\00:24:09.66
but when he died, I
bent over his casket
00:24:09.69\00:24:14.45
and kissed him on his forehead
00:24:14.48\00:24:16.97
and I discovered
he was as cold as ice.
00:24:17.00\00:24:22.19
Absolutely no temperature
00:24:22.22\00:24:24.76
and with no
temperature where was no life.
00:24:24.79\00:24:29.98
Iniquity has a way of
robbing us of our life.
00:24:30.01\00:24:37.16
Our vital forces
00:24:37.19\00:24:39.38
when we lose our love for God.
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"Pastor, if that happens
what can we do about it?"
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I believe you can't
do anything about it
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and so that's why I
want to spend the balance
00:24:57.78\00:25:03.67
of our message
talking about what can happen
00:25:03.70\00:25:08.05
to get your
spiritual temperature back.
00:25:08.08\00:25:10.17
In fact, did I tell you the name
00:25:10.20\00:25:12.27
of this first message?
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I told you the
name of the series,
00:25:15.04\00:25:16.36
what's the name of the series?
00:25:16.39\00:25:19.41
Spiritual vital signs,
00:25:19.44\00:25:21.43
but here is my first
message in the series.
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Turn with me to Mark,
the book of Mark 3, Mark 3,
00:25:26.99\00:25:34.49
and you'll see where I'm
going with this first message.
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Mark 3, and we're going to look
00:25:37.27\00:25:41.86
at verses 28 and 29.
00:25:41.89\00:25:45.81
"Verily I say
unto you, All sins..."
00:25:45.84\00:25:48.14
how many sins?
00:25:48.17\00:25:49.88
"All sins..." shall be what?
00:25:49.91\00:25:51.98
"Forgiven."
00:25:52.01\00:25:53.05
"All sins shall be
forgiven unto the sons of men,
00:25:53.08\00:25:56.54
and blasphemies wherewith
so ever they shall blaspheme."
00:25:56.57\00:26:00.62
Verse 29
00:26:00.65\00:26:01.83
"But he that shall
blaspheme" against who?
00:26:01.86\00:26:05.67
"The Holy Ghost
hath never forgiveness,
00:26:05.70\00:26:09.62
but is in danger" of what?
00:26:09.65\00:26:11.99
Eternal damnation.
00:26:12.02\00:26:13.73
"Eternal damnation."
00:26:13.76\00:26:16.15
Here's the topic
of my message today,
00:26:16.18\00:26:19.35
do you have the Holy Ghost?
00:26:19.38\00:26:23.25
Do you have the Holy Ghost?
00:26:23.28\00:26:27.20
I still remember
the look on his face
00:26:27.23\00:26:32.03
and I especially remember
the fragrance around him.
00:26:32.06\00:26:37.29
I was conducting
a Revelation seminar
00:26:37.32\00:26:41.43
and he staggered into the room,
00:26:41.46\00:26:45.00
sat down with the handbill
that somebody had given him
00:26:45.03\00:26:49.96
and wanted to participate
in the Revelation seminar.
00:26:49.99\00:26:54.89
One of my deacons came to me
00:26:54.92\00:26:56.77
because it was very
clear to everyone in the place
00:26:56.80\00:27:00.72
that this man was under
the influence of the spirit
00:27:00.75\00:27:04.81
and he wasn't holy.
00:27:04.84\00:27:10.27
"Pastor! What do
you want us to do?
00:27:10.30\00:27:13.66
Shall we take him out of here?"
00:27:13.69\00:27:16.28
And I said, you know,
00:27:16.31\00:27:19.17
I understand what you're saying,
00:27:19.20\00:27:21.39
I want you to sit beside him
00:27:21.42\00:27:24.91
just in case the other
spirit gets a hold of him
00:27:24.94\00:27:30.32
and you can restrain him.
00:27:30.35\00:27:32.55
But I'm just curious
as to how an individual
00:27:32.58\00:27:37.71
who is under the
influence of one spirit
00:27:37.74\00:27:41.06
will find his way into a place
00:27:41.09\00:27:43.48
where there's
another spirit at work.
00:27:43.51\00:27:47.14
Let him stay here and
so for the next 24 nights
00:27:47.17\00:27:54.36
that man sat at the table
00:27:54.39\00:27:58.61
and he went through
the book of Revelation
00:27:58.64\00:28:01.49
with everybody else.
00:28:01.52\00:28:03.11
Now he still
smelled like a distillery
00:28:03.14\00:28:08.32
and yet night
after night after night
00:28:08.35\00:28:12.18
he showed up under the
influence of one spirit
00:28:12.21\00:28:15.96
only to get onto the
influence of another spirit.
00:28:15.99\00:28:19.60
Hello, somebody.
00:28:19.63\00:28:22.23
At the end of the series,
00:28:22.26\00:28:26.60
I went to him
and I appealed to him
00:28:26.63\00:28:28.84
and I said, "Jessie,
00:28:28.87\00:28:31.50
what are you gonna
do about the Lord?"
00:28:31.53\00:28:35.12
I'll never forget
his answer he said,
00:28:35.15\00:28:36.64
"Pastor, I believe..."
00:28:36.67\00:28:40.80
listen to what he said,
00:28:40.83\00:28:42.85
"I believe I have committed
00:28:42.88\00:28:45.65
the unpardonable sin."
00:28:45.68\00:28:53.08
What do you mean you've
committed the unpardonable sin?
00:28:54.14\00:28:57.24
He said, "I have been so bad
00:28:57.27\00:29:00.37
that God cannot forgive me."
00:29:00.40\00:29:05.81
I said, "Jessie, do you
know what Mark 3:28 says?"
00:29:05.84\00:29:12.58
We turned right
there on the spot
00:29:12.61\00:29:14.51
and I reread that verse
again, "Verily I say unto you,
00:29:14.54\00:29:18.37
All sins shall be
forgiven unto the sons of men."
00:29:18.40\00:29:23.21
There is only one sin
that can't be forgiven.
00:29:23.24\00:29:27.18
Have you committed a sin
00:29:27.21\00:29:29.84
that is not covered
by this phrase of sins?
00:29:29.87\00:29:35.00
He says, "But I'm an alcoholic."
00:29:35.03\00:29:38.61
I said, "I've heard about you."
00:29:38.64\00:29:40.94
He said, "They
call me the town drunk."
00:29:40.97\00:29:43.87
I said, "I've heard about you."
00:29:43.90\00:29:46.45
He said, "God
cannot forgive someone
00:29:46.48\00:29:50.70
who has sinned
as often as I have."
00:29:50.73\00:29:54.53
And I said,
"I've heard about Him."
00:29:54.56\00:29:59.25
And He says, 'There's no
sin that I cannot forgive'
00:29:59.28\00:30:05.28
that includes you, Jessie.
00:30:05.31\00:30:08.50
Why don't you give
your life to Jesus Christ
00:30:08.53\00:30:10.38
and start all over gain?"
00:30:10.41\00:30:14.10
There's one thing about
people who walked the streets,
00:30:14.13\00:30:18.29
people sometimes
overlook them, ignore them,
00:30:18.32\00:30:22.73
they impune their intelligence.
00:30:22.76\00:30:25.22
However, when I spoke
with Jessie poignantly,
00:30:25.25\00:30:28.56
he spoke to me
directly and said, "Preacher,
00:30:28.59\00:30:33.38
when I get myself ready,
I'll give my heart to Jesus."
00:30:33.41\00:30:39.98
I said "When
you'll get yourself,"
00:30:40.01\00:30:41.61
he said, "I got
to straighten up."
00:30:41.64\00:30:43.13
I said, "What do you mean
you got to straighten up?"
00:30:43.16\00:30:44.36
He said, "Right now, preacher,
I don't want to stop drinking."
00:30:44.39\00:30:49.80
Would that some of us
would be so honest with God
00:30:49.83\00:30:53.34
and just admit to God
we ain't ready to stop
00:30:53.37\00:30:56.99
some of the sinning that we do,
00:30:57.02\00:30:59.14
we hold on to those darling sins
00:30:59.17\00:31:02.16
and they take us
lower and lower and lower
00:31:02.19\00:31:05.85
and yet Jessie said they were-
00:31:05.88\00:31:09.42
in his statement
was some ray of hope
00:31:09.45\00:31:12.65
he says, "I'm not
ready, but when I get ready,
00:31:12.68\00:31:17.23
I'm coming to this church
00:31:17.26\00:31:19.22
to give my heart
to Jesus Christ."
00:31:19.25\00:31:23.33
I stood there a little befuddled
00:31:23.36\00:31:25.59
because first, he said he
was too bad to be forgiven
00:31:25.62\00:31:30.36
but then he turns around
and says, "When I'm ready.
00:31:30.39\00:31:36.06
When I'm ready,
I'll give my heart
00:31:36.09\00:31:38.75
to Jesus Christ
00:31:38.78\00:31:39.99
right in this church."
00:31:40.02\00:31:47.34
A few months later,
00:31:47.37\00:31:48.42
I conducted an
Evangelist meeting,
00:31:48.45\00:31:50.89
a tent meeting, and I
told one of the deacons
00:31:50.92\00:31:57.02
I said, "Do you
remember months ago
00:31:57.05\00:31:59.59
when I conducted
the Revelation seminar
00:31:59.62\00:32:02.47
there was a gentleman there
who was always very fragrant?"
00:32:02.50\00:32:10.40
He said, "Yeah, I remember."
00:32:10.43\00:32:11.46
I said, "Go find him
00:32:11.49\00:32:14.01
and bring him to
my tent meeting."
00:32:14.04\00:32:19.56
That deacon didn't
have any problem finding him
00:32:19.59\00:32:23.99
because everyone knew
where Jessie hung out,
00:32:24.02\00:32:27.20
everyone knew his bar.
00:32:27.23\00:32:29.94
Everyone knew he would be there
00:32:29.97\00:32:31.92
and what time of the
day he would be there.
00:32:31.95\00:32:34.16
But when my deacon asked him
00:32:34.19\00:32:37.28
to come to the
meeting that evening,
00:32:37.31\00:32:39.50
guess what he did, he showed up.
00:32:39.53\00:32:43.56
And he kept coming
00:32:43.59\00:32:45.02
night after night
after night for 5 weeks
00:32:45.05\00:32:52.08
and at the end of my meeting
00:32:52.11\00:32:55.06
when I invited meeting
with the boys and girls to come
00:32:55.09\00:32:59.06
and give their
heart to Jesus Christ,
00:32:59.09\00:33:01.30
guess who was the first person
down the aisle, Jessie was!
00:33:01.33\00:33:06.71
I said, "Jessie, are you ready?"
00:33:06.74\00:33:09.77
He said,
"Preacher, I'm ready now.
00:33:09.80\00:33:12.38
I've done all I can
do, I can't get any worse,
00:33:12.41\00:33:16.22
I might as well try Jesus."
00:33:16.25\00:33:18.83
Amen.
00:33:18.86\00:33:19.89
Not only did Jessie come,
but Jessie, up to that point,
00:33:19.92\00:33:25.31
he looked like a wino,
he dressed like a wino,
00:33:25.34\00:33:30.27
and he talked like a
wino, he walked like a wino,
00:33:30.30\00:33:34.78
but when he gave his
heart to Jesus Christ
00:33:34.81\00:33:38.46
and he showed up at the
church, Jessie had on a suit.
00:33:38.49\00:33:45.04
It weren't
pressed, but it was a suit.
00:33:45.07\00:33:48.63
Jessie had a tie on his neck,
00:33:48.66\00:33:50.83
I don't know what
kind of knot that was,
00:33:50.86\00:33:53.10
it wasn't a Windsor
00:33:53.13\00:33:54.46
and it wasn't a
half Windsor knot,
00:33:54.49\00:33:56.17
but it was a knot
nonetheless and he had a tie on
00:33:56.20\00:34:00.24
and he showed up
there and Jessie kept coming
00:34:00.27\00:34:03.45
month after
month, year after year,
00:34:03.48\00:34:06.84
until one day
guess what happened,
00:34:06.87\00:34:09.12
the church forwarded
00:34:09.15\00:34:10.57
Jessie to become the
first elder of the church.
00:34:10.60\00:34:17.51
Don't you tell me
what God can't do,
00:34:17.54\00:34:21.31
you cannot tell me
00:34:21.34\00:34:23.45
that somebody has
done so much wrong
00:34:23.48\00:34:26.75
that God cannot
redeem and restore them.
00:34:26.78\00:34:32.97
The Holy Spirit
00:34:33.00\00:34:35.87
is a powerful individual.
00:34:35.90\00:34:41.94
The Bible says
there's only one sin
00:34:41.97\00:34:45.61
that cannot be forgiven
00:34:45.64\00:34:47.49
and that's blasphemy
against the Holy Ghost.
00:34:47.52\00:34:50.75
What- Who is the Holy Ghost?
00:34:50.78\00:34:56.34
That's question 101 isn't it?
00:34:56.37\00:34:59.66
Look at 1 John 5, 1 John 5:7
00:34:59.69\00:35:06.70
"For there are three
that bear record in heaven,
00:35:06.73\00:35:10.68
the Father, the Word"
00:35:10.71\00:35:13.76
and we know from John
1:1 the word is the Son,
00:35:13.79\00:35:16.81
"And the Holy Ghost,
00:35:16.84\00:35:18.62
and these three..." are what?
00:35:18.65\00:35:21.56
"They are one."
00:35:21.59\00:35:24.07
"There are three that
bear record in heaven,
00:35:24.10\00:35:26.47
the Father, the
Son, and the Holy Ghost."
00:35:26.50\00:35:31.85
Now of course I'm aware that
00:35:31.88\00:35:33.59
they are those
who don't necessarily
00:35:33.62\00:35:36.11
believe in the
concept of the Trinity.
00:35:36.14\00:35:40.09
However, I believe in
what the word of God says.
00:35:40.12\00:35:43.57
And if the word of
God says there are three
00:35:43.60\00:35:45.50
that bear record in
heaven then guess what,
00:35:45.53\00:35:48.15
there are three that
bear record in heaven.
00:35:48.18\00:35:49.93
What did I say?
00:35:49.96\00:35:51.00
There are three that
bear record in heaven,
00:35:51.03\00:35:53.12
the Father, the
Son, and the Holy Ghost.
00:35:53.15\00:35:56.42
Well, how can that be?
00:35:56.45\00:35:57.93
It says that the
three of them are one.
00:35:57.96\00:36:00.75
Are they three Gods or
they're three in one God?
00:36:00.78\00:36:05.84
The best way I can explain that
00:36:05.87\00:36:08.59
is simply if I were
to give a bowl of water
00:36:08.62\00:36:15.92
and I heat that water
up, what would happen,
00:36:15.95\00:36:20.07
what would you begin
to see from the water?
00:36:20.10\00:36:22.99
Steam, ain't that right?
00:36:23.02\00:36:25.59
That steam is a form
of water that occurred
00:36:25.62\00:36:29.31
because the water got hot.
00:36:29.34\00:36:31.29
But if I took
that same bowl of water
00:36:31.32\00:36:33.61
and put it in the refrigerator
00:36:33.64\00:36:37.28
or I should say the
freezer, what would it turn to?
00:36:37.31\00:36:41.01
Is that still water?
00:36:41.04\00:36:42.68
Yes, the cold now
turned it into ice.
00:36:42.71\00:36:46.73
Heat made it steam, a
cold made it hard as ice
00:36:46.76\00:36:52.19
and its nature state
is just fluid, water.
00:36:52.22\00:36:56.43
It is still water.
00:36:56.46\00:36:59.09
I can put something in bowl
00:36:59.12\00:37:01.20
pour some in
the pot get steamed,
00:37:01.23\00:37:03.60
pour some in a
ice tray, get ice.
00:37:03.63\00:37:06.44
It all came from the same
source it's still all water.
00:37:06.47\00:37:10.71
It's only taken
all different forms.
00:37:10.74\00:37:12.94
There are three the
bear record in heaven,
00:37:12.97\00:37:15.27
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
00:37:15.30\00:37:17.47
I believe that if we
want to make analogy of it,
00:37:17.50\00:37:20.61
we could say that the
Father might be the ice
00:37:20.64\00:37:23.89
'cause you- they
were really people
00:37:23.92\00:37:26.17
who think that
the father is hard
00:37:26.20\00:37:27.68
and all stare and he's rigid
00:37:27.71\00:37:29.81
and he's
without mercy and grace.
00:37:29.84\00:37:31.73
We might look at him as ice
00:37:31.76\00:37:33.38
and then the Son would
be the fluid form of water
00:37:33.41\00:37:37.66
and the Holy
Ghost would be again
00:37:37.69\00:37:40.05
to that of a steam or the vapor.
00:37:40.08\00:37:44.23
It's still one entity.
00:37:44.26\00:37:49.72
So if you offend
one, what have you done?
00:37:49.75\00:37:57.37
Offended all.
00:37:57.40\00:37:58.47
I can remember
growing up as a boy,
00:37:58.50\00:38:02.98
my mom is here, by the way,
00:38:03.01\00:38:05.26
and she can tell you
it was a little rough
00:38:05.29\00:38:08.76
at times growing up in Newark
00:38:08.79\00:38:11.27
but I remember
that whenever one of us
00:38:11.30\00:38:16.95
got into a fight with somebody,
00:38:16.98\00:38:20.97
you got to fight who?
00:38:21.00\00:38:22.39
All of them.
00:38:22.42\00:38:24.01
All of us, all of us,
00:38:24.04\00:38:27.04
now some of my Hispanic friends,
00:38:27.07\00:38:30.27
I have to pray for them.
00:38:30.30\00:38:32.75
Because when their
kids got in trouble
00:38:32.78\00:38:35.49
or got into a fight,
00:38:35.52\00:38:36.84
the brothers and
sisters didn't show up,
00:38:36.87\00:38:38.60
mamma would come
with her pot of beans,
00:38:38.63\00:38:40.80
hot pot of beans
00:38:40.83\00:38:42.75
and she was going to
get into the fight too
00:38:42.78\00:38:45.42
and the father would get
off, he tried to get off of work
00:38:45.45\00:38:48.49
and he wanted to
get into the fight.
00:38:48.52\00:38:49.94
Grown folk want to
get into fight with kids.
00:38:49.97\00:38:53.74
But the idea was if you mess
with one member of the family,
00:38:53.77\00:38:58.01
if you offend one
member of the family,
00:38:58.04\00:39:00.34
you offend all of us.
00:39:00.37\00:39:03.39
So all of us
rise to the defense.
00:39:03.42\00:39:08.22
I can imagine the same
is true with the Trinity.
00:39:08.25\00:39:12.38
Now how can offend,
00:39:12.41\00:39:14.90
how can you
blaspheme the Holy Ghost?
00:39:14.93\00:39:20.16
To blaspheme the Holy Ghost
is to offend the Holy Ghost
00:39:20.19\00:39:25.22
by disrespecting the Holy Ghost.
00:39:25.25\00:39:29.15
I want you to see
something in Romans 2:4,
00:39:29.18\00:39:32.16
Romans 2:4, Romans.
00:39:32.19\00:39:38.03
Romans 2:4.
00:39:38.06\00:39:42.26
Look and see what the
word of God says here,
00:39:42.29\00:39:44.53
"Or despisest thou
the riches of his goodness
00:39:44.56\00:39:48.23
and forbearance
and longsuffering,
00:39:48.26\00:39:51.68
not knowing that
the goodness of God..."
00:39:51.71\00:39:54.75
Does what?
00:39:54.78\00:39:56.73
"Leads to repentance."
00:39:56.76\00:39:59.58
What leads to
repentance everyone?
00:39:59.61\00:40:02.46
The goodness of
God, the goodness of God.
00:40:02.49\00:40:08.93
Now if you were to
turn to Galatians 5:22,
00:40:08.96\00:40:11.83
you would find in
Galatians 5 a listing,
00:40:11.86\00:40:15.08
an enumeration of what we
call the fruit of the spirit
00:40:15.11\00:40:18.99
and in verse 22 of Galatians 5
00:40:19.02\00:40:21.57
we find that one of the
fruit of the spirit is goodness.
00:40:21.60\00:40:27.32
So when the Bible says
00:40:27.35\00:40:29.82
that the goodness of
God leads to repentance
00:40:29.85\00:40:35.05
and goodness is one of
the fruit of the spirit,
00:40:35.08\00:40:38.67
guess who's actually
leading us to repent.
00:40:38.70\00:40:43.55
It's the spirit.
00:40:43.58\00:40:46.11
You think that because
you do something wrong,
00:40:46.14\00:40:49.30
that you're so
holy, that is your idea,
00:40:49.33\00:40:53.57
it's your idea to go
to the Lord about it.
00:40:53.60\00:40:58.75
You got absolutely
nothing to do with it.
00:40:58.78\00:41:03.35
It is purely the Holy Spirit
that's leading you to repent.
00:41:03.38\00:41:09.07
Now what happens then
with that impression to repent
00:41:11.54\00:41:17.46
if it's the Holy Spirit
that leads you to repentance?
00:41:17.49\00:41:23.09
Let's understand something,
let's understand something.
00:41:23.12\00:41:26.51
There is, there is, well,
let me just show it to you,
00:41:26.54\00:41:30.30
let me just show
it to you in Genesis,
00:41:30.33\00:41:33.23
turn to Genesis with me.
00:41:33.26\00:41:35.11
The Book of Genesis 3:15
00:41:38.63\00:41:43.63
notice what the
word of God says,
00:41:47.41\00:41:48.55
"And I will
put..." what everyone
00:41:48.58\00:41:51.67
"enmity between..."
who "thee and the woman,
00:41:51.70\00:41:55.01
and between thy
seed and her seed,
00:41:55.04\00:41:57.09
it shall bruise thy head,
00:41:57.12\00:41:58.57
and thou shalt bruise his heel."
00:41:58.60\00:42:01.21
Who's talking here?
This is God talking.
00:42:01.24\00:42:04.79
Who is He talking to?
00:42:04.82\00:42:06.63
The serpent or the
devil, isn't that right?
00:42:06.66\00:42:10.52
And he says
he's gonna put enmity
00:42:10.55\00:42:13.02
between the serpent or the devil
00:42:13.05\00:42:16.29
and the woman and her offspring.
00:42:16.32\00:42:19.87
Enmity translates from
Hebrew an uncomfortable mess.
00:42:19.90\00:42:25.48
That means that whenever we sin,
00:42:25.51\00:42:29.60
it ought to be something
00:42:29.63\00:42:31.17
that's uncomfortable
about what we're doing.
00:42:31.20\00:42:36.09
When you do some-
Don't put your hand up.
00:42:36.12\00:42:39.84
When you commit a wrong act,
00:42:39.87\00:42:42.33
do you feel
uncomfortable about it?
00:42:42.36\00:42:45.85
I said don't tell on yourself,
God knows I don't want to know.
00:42:45.88\00:42:49.40
Don't say nothing.
00:42:49.43\00:42:53.36
If you are not
feeling uncomfortable
00:42:53.39\00:42:57.07
something has happened
00:42:57.10\00:42:58.87
to the enmity
budding in your mind.
00:42:58.90\00:43:04.38
I had an alarm
clock, beside my bed,
00:43:04.41\00:43:09.80
and I used to work at night
and I hated that alarm clock.
00:43:09.83\00:43:16.48
Now the alarm clock
didn't tell me to set it.
00:43:16.51\00:43:19.27
I set it myself.
00:43:22.24\00:43:25.75
I set it and
whenever it would go off,
00:43:25.78\00:43:29.25
it would go off on a
show, a program, to this day
00:43:29.28\00:43:33.34
if it's on the air I'm
not going to listen to it,
00:43:33.37\00:43:36.53
it would start
off "Ahoy, shipmate"
00:43:36.56\00:43:40.39
and it would ring
the bell ding-ding,
00:43:40.42\00:43:42.42
ding-ding, ding-ding.
00:43:42.45\00:43:43.53
It was a religious program.
00:43:43.56\00:43:44.68
Ahoy, shipmate and then this
little male chorus would say,
00:43:44.71\00:43:48.53
"I've anchored my
soul in the haven of rest."
00:43:48.56\00:43:52.84
A very fine program.
00:43:56.84\00:43:59.55
I just won't listen to it,
00:43:59.58\00:44:02.64
not because it
doesn't have good substance
00:44:02.67\00:44:06.10
but because it
reminded me every night
00:44:06.13\00:44:09.52
that I had to get up go into
the cold night and go to work.
00:44:09.55\00:44:14.79
Sometimes when Ahoy,
shipmate would come on,
00:44:14.82\00:44:18.60
I'd reach over
and slap the clock.
00:44:18.63\00:44:23.00
What was I doing?
Hitting the snooze button.
00:44:23.03\00:44:27.54
But guess what,
00:44:27.57\00:44:29.77
the snooze button
didn't cut it off totally.
00:44:29.80\00:44:34.91
It turned it off or
interrupted it for a moment
00:44:34.94\00:44:38.98
and guess what would
happen a few minutes later.
00:44:39.01\00:44:43.91
It would turn
right back on again
00:44:43.94\00:44:47.85
and I'd slap it one
more time, two more times,
00:44:47.88\00:44:50.93
until I got tired of slapping it
00:44:50.96\00:44:52.47
and decided to
get up and go to work.
00:44:52.50\00:44:56.08
Every time, we
are faced with a sin,
00:44:56.11\00:45:01.61
the alarm clock called
enmity goes off in our minds.
00:45:01.64\00:45:06.94
But what do we do?
00:45:06.97\00:45:09.10
We reach over
sometimes and do what?
00:45:09.13\00:45:12.73
Hit the snooze button.
00:45:12.76\00:45:16.41
Turn it off, so I
can keep on going.
00:45:16.44\00:45:19.08
Hit the snooze
button. I'm parked in a car.
00:45:19.11\00:45:23.66
I know I got no
business in that car
00:45:23.69\00:45:25.35
because it's only me and her.
00:45:25.38\00:45:29.41
And a low voice tells me
00:45:29.44\00:45:30.64
"You need to go and
take her back home."
00:45:30.67\00:45:32.13
What do I do?
00:45:32.16\00:45:36.08
Then I just move on a little
closer to her put my arm around
00:45:36.11\00:45:39.21
and the voice will go
off again, what do I do?
00:45:39.24\00:45:45.21
Then I reach over
and look her in the eye,
00:45:45.24\00:45:51.39
and that low voice really
gets loud and say "Argh, no!"
00:45:51.42\00:45:55.98
But I hit the
snooze button two times.
00:45:56.01\00:45:58.53
I can't finish this story.
00:46:02.43\00:46:04.29
Eventually, the snooze
button won't cut- have to be hit
00:46:08.78\00:46:13.87
because the alarm
won't come on anymore.
00:46:13.90\00:46:18.73
Something will happen.
00:46:18.76\00:46:20.26
Look at 1 Timothy 4,
00:46:20.29\00:46:22.88
1 Timothy 4:12, what happened?
00:46:22.91\00:46:26.68
1 Timothy 4:12,
00:46:26.71\00:46:32.19
1 Timothy 4:1-2, pardon me.
00:46:32.22\00:46:37.91
"Now the Spirit
speaketh expressly,
00:46:37.94\00:46:40.43
that in the latter day some
shall depart from the faith,
00:46:40.46\00:46:43.84
giving heed to seducing spirits,
00:46:43.87\00:46:46.14
and doctrines of devils,
00:46:46.17\00:46:47.97
Speaking lies in hypocrisy,
having their..." what?
00:46:48.00\00:46:51.66
"Their conscience
seared with a hot iron."
00:46:51.69\00:46:56.13
Eventually, beloved,
what will happen is that
00:46:56.16\00:47:01.19
if you hit the
snooze button too many times
00:47:01.22\00:47:05.84
you will be permitted to
just go forward in your sin
00:47:05.87\00:47:12.70
because if you
do that too often,
00:47:14.26\00:47:16.85
the Bible says "You will
have your conscience..." what?
00:47:16.88\00:47:21.25
Or "cauterized" so
that you won't have
00:47:21.28\00:47:25.99
any feeling responsiveness
anymore to spiritual things.
00:47:26.02\00:47:32.22
That's a terrible,
terrible place to be.
00:47:36.09\00:47:42.36
But I can't
leave you right there
00:47:42.39\00:47:47.45
because
remember what Jessie said
00:47:47.48\00:47:50.85
"I'm too bad to be forgiven"
00:47:50.88\00:47:58.24
and yet we have
discovered that the Holy Spirit,
00:47:58.27\00:48:02.65
the Holy Spirit is God's means
00:48:02.68\00:48:07.86
of helping us to resist sin.
00:48:07.89\00:48:13.30
He hasn't left us on our own.
00:48:13.33\00:48:17.39
Remember now the Bible
says "He's touched by..." what?
00:48:17.42\00:48:21.80
"The feelings of
our infirmities."
00:48:21.83\00:48:25.14
He knows what it is to
walk through this human journey.
00:48:25.17\00:48:29.81
He understands and so he
would not leave us without hope.
00:48:29.84\00:48:36.35
Our hope is found in
1 John 1:9, 1 John 1:9.
00:48:36.38\00:48:42.05
I want us to
repeat that verse together
00:48:42.08\00:48:45.15
because if you don't
know it you need to learn it
00:48:45.18\00:48:48.18
and you need to
commit it to memory.
00:48:48.21\00:48:49.71
It says, "If we..."
what? "Confess our sins..."
00:48:49.74\00:48:54.14
He is what? Say that again.
00:48:54.17\00:48:55.97
Faithful.
00:48:56.00\00:48:57.04
"He's faithful and
just to forgive us our sins,
00:48:57.07\00:49:01.26
and to..." do what?
00:49:01.29\00:49:02.80
"Cleanse us
from..." some... All.
00:49:02.83\00:49:05.96
A little bit. All.
00:49:05.99\00:49:07.66
"All unrighteousness."
00:49:07.69\00:49:11.33
Somebody ought to say amen.
00:49:11.36\00:49:13.72
He's faithful and I notice
it doesn't say we're faithful.
00:49:13.75\00:49:20.15
It says He's faithful and
just but that is a condition
00:49:20.18\00:49:27.04
that is tied to this
promise, that condition is what?
00:49:27.07\00:49:33.92
If we confess He's
faithful and just to forgive.
00:49:33.95\00:49:41.57
Let me give you
the simplest definition
00:49:41.60\00:49:43.33
I can give you for
the unpardonable sin.
00:49:43.36\00:49:48.28
It is simply this.
00:49:48.31\00:49:51.61
There is no sin, we've
already discovered that,
00:49:51.64\00:49:54.57
we found that in Mark 2,
00:49:54.60\00:49:56.51
there is no sin
that God cannot forgive.
00:49:56.54\00:50:01.82
Amen. Amen.
00:50:01.85\00:50:03.34
No sin.
00:50:03.37\00:50:05.07
Secondly, he gives us what?
00:50:05.10\00:50:07.92
To convict us of our
sin, the Holy Spirit,
00:50:07.95\00:50:11.91
he gives us the Holy
Spirit to convict us of our sin.
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Now the Bible
says if we confess,
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He's faithful and
just to forgive us.
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Here's the definition.
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The unpardonable sin is the sin
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that cannot be
pardoned unless it's confessed.
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How does that sound?
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Sound right? Yeah.
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Do that one more time.
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The unpardonable sin is a sin
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that cannot be
pardoned unless it's confessed.
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That means that if a
murderer confesses his sin,
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can it be forgiven?
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Can- If a
prostitute confesses her sin,
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can it be forgiven?
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If a crack-head confesses a sin,
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can it be forgiven?
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If an alcoholic or a
wino confesses a sin,
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can it be forgiven?
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If an adulterer confesses
his sin, can it be forgiven?
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If a thief confesses
his sin, can it be forgiven?
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All sin can be
forgiven, if it's confessed.
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And the only way
it gets confessed is
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if we open ourselves
to the Spirit's pleading.
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That's why I ask you,
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do you have the Holy Ghost?
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Or are you left to continue
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sinning indiscriminately
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without any
sensitivity to the God
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who died for every
single one of your sins?
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That's why we can
never afford to write any-
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I don't care, I don't
care how bad your children are.
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God can save your children.
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I don't care how
bad your husband is,
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God can save your husband.
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I don't care how bad
those folk at work treat you,
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God can still save
each and everyone of them.
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There is no one
beyond the reach of grace.
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Amen.
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No one beyond the
reach of God's love,
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no one that the Holy
Spirit cannot reach out to.
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There is no person
that he cannot inveigh,
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he can get to each
and every one of us
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if we will but confess.
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If we submit to the Spirit's
pleading to confess our sins.
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Let me share this
story with you in closing.
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I was in South Carolina
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conducting a revival,
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a one-week revival
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and I met a young woman named,
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Jackie, there.
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Jackie was so
moved by the messages
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that were preached that
week that Jackie came to me,
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she was a hired
musician for that week.
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She was not even a
member of that church,
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she was just a
musician in the city
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who had been
hired for the revival
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and she came to me and said,
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"Reverend, I don't
care where you are,
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whenever you run
your next meeting,
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I want to be your musician."
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I said, "Do you
know where I live?"
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She said, "Yeah,
you live in Texas."
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She said, "I don't care,
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I will come to wherever you are
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and play for your meeting.
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I just appreciate the ministry."
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I said, "Okay."
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Guess what meeting
she came to play for,
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the meeting that Jessie came to.
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Two individuals who were sitting
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under the
teaching of the Holy Spirit
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for 5 weeks night after night
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and at the
conclusion of the meeting,
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here's one man that
comes down and says,
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"I'm ready to turn
it all over to Jesus."
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Here's another person
who has been on the keyboard
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playing the
great hymns of faith,
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the great gospel songs of hope,
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and when I went to
her personally and said,
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"Jackie, don't you want to
give your life to Jesus Christ?"
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Jackie said, "I'm not ready.
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I'm not ready."
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I didn't get too
discouraged because I remember,
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essentially, that's
what Jessie had said before
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and Jessie came
to the Lord later.
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So I said, "Well,
I'm gonna pray for you,"
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and I prayed for her.
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A month later, I got
word, after she left my meeting
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that Jackie was
found in her home
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dead of a drug overdose.
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That was the final opportunity
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that she had to
make her peace with God
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while she was in the meeting.
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Do you have the Holy Ghost?
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If you can hear something
in your spirit speaking to you,
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urging you, and saying
this is the way, walk in it.
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If you can hear
something inside you,
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something within saying it's
time to turn it over to Jesus,
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you have not
committed the unpardonable sin.
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Amen, I don't care
how dark the night is
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or how stormy the day,
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if you can still hear his
voice above the din of noise
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and the raging
repultery of the crowd,
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you have not
escaped the grace of God.
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And I appeal to
you and I urge you.
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Listen to the Holy Spirit,
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allow him to revive you,
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put that spiritual
temperature back where it is
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so you'll be on
fire for the Lord.
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I want that to be my experience.
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How about you?
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