Let's say it again.
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Say, I just wanna praise You
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I just wanna praise You
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Forever Forever
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And ever And ever
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And ever And ever
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For all For all
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For all that You've done
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For me For me
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Say blessings and
glory Blessings and glory
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And honor And honor
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They all belong to
You They all belong to You
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Thank You,
Jesus Thank You, Jesus
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For blessing me
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Now you go with alternative.
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We're gonna take
it up a little higher,
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say Just wanna praise You
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Forever Forever
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And ever And ever
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And ever And ever
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For all For all That You've done
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For me For me
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Say blessings and
glory Blessings and glory
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And honor And honor
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They all They all belong to You
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Thank You,
Jesus Thank You, Jesus
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For blessing me
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Take it up a little higher, say.
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Just wanna praise You
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Forever Forever
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And ever And ever
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And ever And ever
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For all For all
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For all For all that
You've done Done for me
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And it's that blessing and glory
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Blessing and glory
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And honor And honor
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They all They all belong to You
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Thank You,
Jesus Thank You, Jesus
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For blessing me
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Here we go one more time.
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Let's do it one more time.
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Take it up a little higher, say.
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Just wanna praise You
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Forever And ever And ever
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For all For all
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For all that You've done For me
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Let's do some
harmony. Say blessings.
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Blessings and glory and honor
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They all belong to You
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Blessings and
glory Blessing and glory
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And honor And honor
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They all They all belong to You
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Say blessings and
glory Blessings and glory
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And honor And honor
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They all They all belong to You
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Say blessings and
glory Blessings and glory
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And honor And honor
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They all They all belong to You
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One more time, say
blessings and glory
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Blessings and glory
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And honor And honor
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They all They all belong to You
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Thank You,
Jesus Thank You, Jesus
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For blessing me
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Blessed assurance
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Jesus is mine!
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Oh, what a foretaste
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of glory divine!
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Heir of salvation
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Purchase of God
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Born of His Spirit
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Born of His Spirit
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Born of His Spirit
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Washed in His blood
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Blessed assurance
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Jesus is mine!
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Oh, what a foretaste
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of glory divine!
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Heir of salvation
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Purchase of God
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Born of His Spirit
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Born of His Spirit
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Born of His Spirit
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Washed in His blood
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Blessed assurance
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Jesus is mine!
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Oh, what a foretaste
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of glory divine!
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Heir of salvation
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Purchase of God
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Born of His Spirit
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Born of His Spirit
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Born of His Spirit
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Washed in His blood
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This is my story
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This is my song
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Praising my Savior
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All the day long
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All the day long
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This is my story
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This is my song
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Praising my Savior
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Praising my Savior
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Praising my Savior
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All the day long
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This is my story
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This is my song
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Praising my Savior
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All the day long
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All the day long
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This is my story
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This is my song
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Praising my Savior
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Praising my Savior
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Praising my Savior
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Praising my Savior
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Praising my Savior
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Praising my Savior
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Praising my Savior
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Praising my Savior
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Praising my Savior
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Praising my Savior
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Praising my Savior
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Praising my Savior
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Praising my Savior
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Praising my Savior
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Praising my Savior
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Praising my Savior
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Praising my Savior
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Praising my Savior
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Praising my Savior
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All the day long
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1 Corinthians 2:1-5.
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Trusting that you have it,
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there you'll find
these words recorded.
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"And I, brethren,
when I came to you,
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came not with excellency
of speech or of wisdom,
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declaring unto you
the testimony of God.
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For I determined not
to know anything among you
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save Jesus Christ
and Him crucified.
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And I was with you in weakness
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and in fear and
in much trembling.
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And my speech and my preaching
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was not with
enticing words of man's wisdom
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but in demonstration of
the Spirit and of power,
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that your faith should not stand
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in the wisdom of men
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but in the power of God."
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I've entitled our
message this morning,
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Just Jesus.
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Just Jesus,
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I trust you have
brought your Bible today
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because this will be a
tremendous study in a subject
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that I think often times
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get up skewered or overlooked.
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But in those two words,
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"Just Jesus" is
a powerful message
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that I must unpackage today.
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I looked at her face
as tears meandered down
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by the hollows of her cheeks,
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one after the other a
tear fell to the ground.
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I wondered
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if there was anything I can do
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to turn off the
spigot of her emotions,
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but they just kept
flowing and flowing.
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Finally, she was composed enough
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to share with me
why she was crying
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and why she was so inconsolable.
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You see she loved the Lord.
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Let me repeat that again.
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She loved the Lord.
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And sometimes
when you love the Lord,
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and you're not living
up to all you know to do,
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it can break
you, break you down.
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Your spirit can be broken.
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Not because you
want the applause
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and the acclaim of men
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but because you just
want to please your Father
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which is in heaven
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and because she recognized
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that I'm disappointing Jesus,
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she sat across the table from me
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just broken and crying.
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Finally, I said, "Naomi,
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no matter how bad you are,
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God loves you in proportion
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to your sinfulness."
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If you're a bad
sinner, He's a great lover.
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You can't do anything bad enough
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that God's love cannot cover.
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She said, "Are you serious?
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Will He still love me?"
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You know, that's
hard for somebody
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who's been used to
being loved conditionally.
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If I do the right
thing, then I'll get loved.
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If I say the right
thing, then I'll get loved.
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She had come
from a family system
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that was steep
in conditional love.
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She could not wrap her
mind around the concept
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that I was sharing with her,
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that God loves you no
matter how bad you are.
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How many folk today like Naomi,
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laboring and
languishing under the belief
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that God can't love me
because I'm too unlovable.
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It wasn't more
than two weeks later,
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that Naomi's family came
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and as they turned the corner
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and hit the garage door opener
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and the garage door went up,
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there swinging in
the doorway was Naomi.
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She never could get
her mind around the fact
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that Jesus still loved her.
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Why is it that we believe
that we are so unlovable?
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Why is it that we believe
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that when we don't live
up to all that we know to do,
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that somehow God
just abandons us?
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Reminds me of
that man in Romans 7,
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I'm going to share him with
you through the message Bible.
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"I can't anticipate the response
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that is coming.
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I know that all God's
commands are spiritual
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but I'm not.
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Isn't this also your experience?
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Yes, I'm full of myself,
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after all I've spent a
long time in sin's prisons.
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What I don't
understand about myself is that
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I decide one way
but then I act another,
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doing things I
absolutely despise.
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So if I can't be
trusted to figure out
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what is best for
myself and then do it,
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it becomes obvious that
God's command is necessary.
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But I need something more,
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for if I know the law
but still can't keep it
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and if the
power of sin within me
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keeps sabotaging
my best intentions,
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I obviously need help.
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I realized that I
don't have what it takes,
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I can will it but I can't do it.
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I decide to do good,
but I don't really do it.
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I decide not to do bad,
but then I do it anyway.
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My decisions such as they are,
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don't result in actions,
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something has gone
wrong deep within me
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and gets the better of me,
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every time it
happens so regularly
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that it's predictable.
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The moment I decide to do good,
sin is there to trip me up.
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I totally
delight in God's commands
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but it's pretty obvious
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that not all of me
joins in that delight,
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parts of me covertly rebel
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and just when I least expect it,
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they take charge.
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I've tried
everything and nothing helps.
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I'm at the end of my rope,
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is there no one who
can do anything for me?"
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Isn't that the real question?
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Is there no one
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that can do anything for me?
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Could you hear the frustration?
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Could you hear the futility?
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Nobody ever said,
"You weren't trying,
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" the issue isn't
whether you're trying or not,
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the issue is that you
keep trying and failing.
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That's the problem.
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Why is it that
I keep trying over
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and over and over again
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but I still can't
seem to get it right?
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Something's the matter with me,
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I know it is and
it's out of the futility
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and frustration of trying,
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that many a
believer finds himself
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locked in a prison of despair.
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So depressed
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that it can even lead
you to take your own life.
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I was reading an
article in world psychology
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and the author
raised this question,
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"Is it that depressed
people tend to be more spiritual
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or is it that the
more religion you have,
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the more depressed you become?"
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Think about it.
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The more I know about God,
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the more depressed I get
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because I'm not praising God.
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And the deeper I get
into an emotional hole,
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"Oh, wretched man that I am,
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who can deliver me
from this body of death?
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What's going on with me?
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Why can't I live right?"
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And do you know
what adds to my problem,
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the Word itself.
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Look at Matthew
5:48, go there with me.
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Matthew 5:48, notice,
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notice what the
Word of God says here.
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Matthew 5:48,
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I want you to find it
so you can read it with me.
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Matthew 5:48, do you have it?
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Let's read it.
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What does it say?
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"Be..."
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Be what?
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"Even...
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be ye also perfect,
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even as your Father
in Heaven is perfect."
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Already I'm depressed.
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I know me, I
know where I've been.
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I know the things
that reside in my being.
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What do you mean being
perfect even as God is perfect?
00:23:27.17\00:23:30.97
How can I ever be
perfect as God is perfect?
00:23:31.01\00:23:36.61
So I'm depressed,
I'm giving up right now,
00:23:36.64\00:23:42.08
I'm not even going to try.
00:23:42.12\00:23:45.59
The problem is that we read
00:23:45.62\00:23:49.06
and we read sometimes
without proper understanding.
00:23:49.09\00:23:55.40
That passage has two words in it
00:23:55.43\00:23:57.67
that ought to leap up with us,
00:23:57.70\00:23:59.03
what are the two words?
00:23:59.07\00:24:01.10
Perfect and what else?
00:24:01.14\00:24:02.54
Perfect and what
else? Talk to me.
00:24:05.64\00:24:07.24
I love it when you
all get Pentecostal.
00:24:10.88\00:24:13.05
I just love it.
00:24:13.08\00:24:15.05
The two words are
perfect and perfect.
00:24:15.08\00:24:20.86
Be ye also perfect even as your
00:24:20.89\00:24:23.86
Father in Heaven is perfect.
00:24:23.89\00:24:26.26
One of the constraints of
the English language is that
00:24:26.29\00:24:29.63
we don't always have a word
00:24:29.66\00:24:32.17
that we can
translate or transliterate
00:24:32.20\00:24:35.47
so that it can
plainly convey to us
00:24:35.50\00:24:38.21
what was written in
the original Greek text.
00:24:38.24\00:24:41.81
In the original Greek text,
00:24:41.84\00:24:43.18
although it says
perfect and perfect,
00:24:43.21\00:24:44.55
they're actually
00:24:44.58\00:24:45.91
two different
words in the Greek.
00:24:45.95\00:24:48.28
The first perfect
00:24:48.32\00:24:51.32
connotes continuous,
00:24:51.35\00:24:56.79
continuous perfection.
00:24:56.83\00:24:59.73
The second perfect
connotes consummate perfection.
00:24:59.76\00:25:05.03
I'll just enjoy
this all by myself.
00:25:13.48\00:25:15.64
The Bible says,
00:25:19.41\00:25:20.95
"He knows our
frame that we're dust.
00:25:20.98\00:25:24.59
He knows we are frail as
a blade of grass and so..."
00:25:24.62\00:25:28.79
Oh, oh, Jesus, He
doesn't expect us to do things
00:25:28.82\00:25:32.89
that are beyond our capability,
00:25:32.93\00:25:35.06
our capacity to
do and so He says,
00:25:35.10\00:25:38.53
"We'll be perfect,
keep moving toward that
00:25:38.57\00:25:41.24
while I am perfect,
I've already done that."
00:25:41.27\00:25:43.71
That's important
to keep in your mind.
00:25:50.68\00:25:54.18
I've already
been there, turn that,
00:25:54.22\00:25:57.92
wrote the book,
starred in the movie,
00:25:57.95\00:26:00.89
won the Emmy and the Oscar,
00:26:00.92\00:26:03.19
even made the T-shirt.
00:26:03.22\00:26:06.66
I'm perfect,
00:26:06.70\00:26:10.57
you can't be like
me in your humanity.
00:26:10.60\00:26:15.20
So what is it that God
is trying to tell us today?
00:26:18.71\00:26:23.81
He's trying to tell us,
00:26:23.85\00:26:26.01
you've got to acknowledge
one basic principle of life.
00:26:26.05\00:26:30.99
You can't live right.
00:26:31.02\00:26:32.75
Whoa, pastor, wait a minute.
00:26:36.86\00:26:39.76
You messed up now.
00:26:39.79\00:26:42.33
That's why I come to church,
to be told I can't live right.
00:26:42.36\00:26:45.77
But opinion it,
00:26:49.20\00:26:51.97
I'm gonna bring you back to it.
00:26:52.01\00:26:54.04
I want you to look at Psalm 51,
00:26:54.08\00:26:56.44
I must show you why
you can't live right.
00:26:56.48\00:26:58.68
I'm gonna give
you three passages
00:26:58.71\00:27:00.08
why you can't live right.
00:27:00.12\00:27:01.85
Psalm 51:5,
00:27:01.88\00:27:05.65
there for me a
passage of Scripture.
00:27:05.69\00:27:08.02
Psalm 51:5, find
it so you can read it,
00:27:08.06\00:27:11.69
I need you to read it
00:27:11.73\00:27:13.06
so that you'll know for yourself
00:27:13.09\00:27:14.43
that you cannot live right.
00:27:14.46\00:27:15.96
Psalm 51:5, what
does the Word of God say,
00:27:16.00\00:27:18.43
"Behold..." I was what?
00:27:18.47\00:27:20.90
Shapen in what?
00:27:20.94\00:27:22.80
What else?
00:27:22.84\00:27:26.64
"Behold, I was shapen in..."
00:27:26.68\00:27:32.25
You want to see that
passage in the Hebrew.
00:27:32.28\00:27:35.28
In the Hebrew,
00:27:35.32\00:27:36.65
it conveys a stitching
00:27:36.69\00:27:41.46
needle and thread.
00:27:41.49\00:27:45.73
I was put together
by a sinful thread,
00:27:45.76\00:27:51.77
that's how I'm
held together by sewing,
00:27:51.80\00:27:56.27
it keeps my parts
together, it holds me together,
00:27:56.30\00:27:59.97
I was born in sin and
shaped in the iniquity.
00:28:00.01\00:28:04.95
How in the world can somebody
00:28:04.98\00:28:07.38
whose very makeup
00:28:07.42\00:28:09.42
at the
molecular level is sinful,
00:28:09.45\00:28:12.35
they would some kind of way
00:28:12.39\00:28:13.92
stand up and do what's right?
00:28:13.96\00:28:15.69
When you get a chance,
00:28:18.83\00:28:20.16
go home and read
that entire Psalm.
00:28:20.20\00:28:22.46
It's the Psalm where
David has an epiphany,
00:28:22.50\00:28:27.47
a breakthrough
00:28:27.50\00:28:28.87
because Nathan has
just left his house.
00:28:28.90\00:28:33.78
And Nathan has
just revealed to him,
00:28:33.81\00:28:36.51
"You can't hide
your sins from God.
00:28:36.54\00:28:39.31
You can't hide
nothing from God."
00:28:39.35\00:28:42.42
If and David
got it too, he said,
00:28:42.45\00:28:44.05
"If I make my bed in
hell, you're already there.
00:28:44.09\00:28:47.12
If I get some wings of
the morning and fly away,
00:28:47.16\00:28:51.19
you're up there too.
00:28:51.23\00:28:52.59
Where can I make my
bed and you're not there.
00:28:52.63\00:28:56.10
No matter where I try to go,
00:28:56.13\00:28:58.33
God, you're already there."
00:28:58.37\00:28:59.90
You can't hide from God.
00:28:59.93\00:29:02.20
He sees us
00:29:05.41\00:29:07.18
no matter what we
wear on the outside.
00:29:07.21\00:29:12.58
He sees us while we're
giving the Bible study.
00:29:12.61\00:29:16.79
He sees us while we're
passing out the food basket.
00:29:16.82\00:29:20.72
He sees us while
we're singing in the choir.
00:29:20.76\00:29:24.09
He sees us while
we're preaching the Word.
00:29:24.13\00:29:27.46
There is nothing that is
hidden from his divine gaze.
00:29:27.50\00:29:31.23
You talk about x-ray vision.
00:29:31.27\00:29:36.17
There is no x-ray
00:29:36.20\00:29:39.11
that can look to the
very cell in a person
00:29:39.14\00:29:43.78
but God has a kind of vision
00:29:43.81\00:29:46.88
that can look at us
at our molecular level
00:29:46.92\00:29:50.39
and He can see the sin
00:29:50.42\00:29:52.62
that courses through our veins.
00:29:52.65\00:29:57.09
My entire make up, my
birth origin is messed up
00:29:57.13\00:30:02.20
but I'm from
the house of Polite.
00:30:02.23\00:30:05.70
You just messed up Polite.
00:30:05.73\00:30:10.41
Your pedigree has
nothing to do with this.
00:30:10.44\00:30:13.78
The amount of money
your family has amassed
00:30:13.81\00:30:16.28
has nothing to do with this.
00:30:16.31\00:30:17.85
What city you live in doesn't
have anything to do with this.
00:30:17.88\00:30:21.52
You're just that sinful
rich somebody who lives on a,
00:30:21.55\00:30:25.39
a good side of
town, that's all you are,
00:30:25.42\00:30:28.12
but at the very
level that God sees you at,
00:30:28.16\00:30:31.29
you're nothing more
than a roach saved by grace.
00:30:31.33\00:30:35.06
Yes. Amen.
00:30:35.10\00:30:38.70
Amen.
00:30:38.73\00:30:41.00
We got to be
honest with ourselves.
00:30:41.04\00:30:43.91
We got to call, call
sin by its right name,
00:30:43.94\00:30:49.14
I messed up.
00:30:49.18\00:30:51.38
I messed up.
00:30:51.41\00:30:53.82
You know the reason why
we can't say we're messed up
00:30:53.85\00:30:56.42
because we compare
ourselves to somebody else.
00:30:56.45\00:30:59.12
Ouch.
00:31:06.09\00:31:07.96
And so if I compare
myself to Janet Lambert,
00:31:08.00\00:31:11.47
I might look
all right, if I set,
00:31:11.50\00:31:14.57
if I compare
myself to Benny McGrady,
00:31:14.60\00:31:17.17
I might look all right
00:31:17.21\00:31:20.54
but if I
compare myself to Jesus,
00:31:20.58\00:31:26.75
how am I gonna
look in the mirror?
00:31:26.78\00:31:28.62
Don't forget my
message is Just Jesus.
00:31:28.65\00:31:31.45
I forgot where I'm going.
00:31:31.49\00:31:33.39
Look at Romans, the 8th Chapter.
00:31:33.42\00:31:35.72
Romans, the 8th Chapter.
00:31:35.76\00:31:38.13
Romans, I hope the
Lord blesses you the way
00:31:38.16\00:31:40.16
He blessed me this week,
00:31:40.20\00:31:41.90
with this study,
Romans, the 8th Chapter
00:31:41.93\00:31:44.67
and I wanna look
at verses 7 and 8.
00:31:44.70\00:31:47.80
Romans 8:7, 8,
00:31:47.84\00:31:50.97
notice what the
Word of God says here,
00:31:51.01\00:31:53.44
"Because the carnal mind is..."
00:31:53.48\00:31:55.74
what everybody?
00:31:55.78\00:31:57.38
It's "enmity against God.
00:31:57.41\00:32:00.98
For it is not subject to the law
00:32:01.02\00:32:03.92
neither indeed can it be.
00:32:03.95\00:32:07.42
So then, they that
are in the flesh..."
00:32:07.46\00:32:11.23
Finish it.
00:32:11.26\00:32:12.59
"Cannot please God."
00:32:12.63\00:32:14.46
Hello.
00:32:14.50\00:32:17.10
"They that are in the
flesh might please God."
00:32:17.13\00:32:22.87
Cannot, cannot.
00:32:22.90\00:32:24.24
Can not,
00:32:24.27\00:32:27.08
it's a Greek
emphatic, imperative,
00:32:27.11\00:32:30.45
can not,
00:32:30.48\00:32:32.25
you can not please God.
00:32:32.28\00:32:35.85
It's enmity of our
minds, our human nature.
00:32:41.72\00:32:47.03
Listen, listen,
listen, I want you to get,
00:32:47.06\00:32:49.06
Paul was a very
astute theologian,
00:32:49.10\00:32:51.70
he caught, he
captured it correctly.
00:32:51.73\00:32:53.84
Paul understood
man's basic nature
00:32:53.87\00:32:57.27
and he called it
the way it was, he said,
00:32:57.31\00:32:59.61
"There's something about
us that rebels against God."
00:32:59.64\00:33:04.68
It's antagonistic against God.
00:33:04.71\00:33:07.62
In fact, when God comes by us,
00:33:07.65\00:33:10.95
there's something that
goes off in our mind that said,
00:33:10.99\00:33:13.49
"Oh, oh, there's the enemy."
00:33:13.52\00:33:15.79
Anybody remember that
old shuttle lost in space.
00:33:15.82\00:33:19.06
Danger, danger,
00:33:19.09\00:33:20.43
alien life form
approaching, danger, danger.
00:33:20.46\00:33:24.60
That's what happens to us
00:33:24.63\00:33:27.14
when God comes
by, our minds click,
00:33:27.17\00:33:31.27
something goes off and
sense, this is an enemy.
00:33:31.31\00:33:36.44
Get it now, get this, get this.
00:33:36.48\00:33:40.88
Your mind says,
00:33:40.92\00:33:42.88
"This is an enemy but the person
00:33:42.92\00:33:44.49
that it calls the
enemy is your creator.
00:33:44.52\00:33:47.22
That's like a
child walking in the room
00:33:54.20\00:33:55.70
and calling their
mother or their father,
00:33:55.73\00:33:58.00
they're enemy.
00:33:58.03\00:33:59.67
Let me leave it alone.
00:34:03.57\00:34:06.21
Let me leave that alone.
00:34:06.24\00:34:08.88
It's enmity,
00:34:08.91\00:34:10.85
in the Hebrew the word enmity
00:34:10.88\00:34:12.98
translate uncomfortableness.
00:34:13.01\00:34:16.95
That when it comes
to spiritual things,
00:34:16.99\00:34:20.29
I get uncomfortable by nature
00:34:20.32\00:34:24.96
and so there's something
that has to happen to me,
00:34:24.99\00:34:27.56
a transformation
that must take place
00:34:27.60\00:34:29.80
that will make me comfortable
00:34:29.83\00:34:31.77
whenever God
comes into the room.
00:34:31.80\00:34:35.37
That's the great
challenge for the unbeliever.
00:34:35.40\00:34:38.84
Let me look at one
more scripture, Isaiah 64.
00:34:38.87\00:34:41.61
Isaiah 64:6.
00:34:41.64\00:34:47.55
Isaiah 64:6,
00:34:47.58\00:34:51.55
notice, notice
what God says here,
00:34:51.59\00:34:54.79
"But we are all..."
00:34:54.82\00:34:56.73
as what?
00:34:56.76\00:34:58.99
"An unclean thing,
00:34:59.03\00:35:02.60
and all our
righteousness are..."
00:35:02.63\00:35:06.77
what? "As filthy rags..."
00:35:06.80\00:35:08.90
"And we all do fade as a
leaf, and our iniquities,
00:35:08.94\00:35:13.14
like the wind, have..."
00:35:13.17\00:35:14.71
done what?
00:35:14.74\00:35:16.08
"Taken us away."
00:35:16.11\00:35:17.45
"Taken us away."
00:35:17.48\00:35:20.12
Notice the writing here.
00:35:20.15\00:35:21.48
Notice the
progression of the text.
00:35:21.52\00:35:23.69
It first starts of
addressing our righteousness
00:35:23.72\00:35:28.62
but the scripture ends up
talking about our iniquity.
00:35:28.66\00:35:33.19
Why does Isaiah shift on us
00:35:36.30\00:35:41.37
if he addresses
our righteousness
00:35:41.40\00:35:43.54
at the beginning of the text?
00:35:43.57\00:35:45.47
Why doesn't he end up
with our righteousness
00:35:45.51\00:35:47.41
at the end of the text?
00:35:47.44\00:35:49.74
Because it gives us the
cue, he gives us the clue.
00:35:49.78\00:35:53.68
It doesn't matter
how much good you do,
00:35:53.72\00:35:55.95
you're still dirty.
00:35:55.98\00:35:58.09
You're still nasty,
you're still filthy,
00:35:58.12\00:36:01.19
you're still wretched,
00:36:01.22\00:36:03.06
it is still
unacceptable before God.
00:36:03.09\00:36:06.29
That's why there
are two different words
00:36:06.33\00:36:09.23
in that Greek text
00:36:09.26\00:36:10.60
for perfect and perfect,
00:36:10.63\00:36:12.13
you keep trying to work
your way towards perfection
00:36:12.17\00:36:15.54
while He's always fair,
you cannot make it by yourself.
00:36:15.57\00:36:21.34
By the way,
00:36:25.11\00:36:27.02
the word righteousness
in the Hebrew is plural.
00:36:27.05\00:36:33.52
It really translates
all your righteous acts,
00:36:33.56\00:36:38.39
that means
everything you do good,
00:36:38.43\00:36:39.76
everything you do good,
00:36:39.79\00:36:41.13
everything you do
good is filthy before God.
00:36:41.16\00:36:46.50
You mean when I
praise Him, it's filthy.
00:36:46.53\00:36:50.47
When I read the
scripture, it's filthy.
00:36:50.51\00:36:53.54
When I preach
as what, is filthy?
00:36:53.58\00:36:56.85
When I try to give somebody
a helping hand, it's filthy.
00:36:56.88\00:37:01.85
When I return a faithful
tithe and a generous offering,
00:37:01.88\00:37:05.45
it's filthy.
00:37:05.49\00:37:07.46
We've got to get our
perspective straightened out
00:37:07.49\00:37:10.53
and filter this
thing, correct me,
00:37:10.56\00:37:12.86
no matter how much good
I do, it is still filthy.
00:37:12.89\00:37:19.03
Pastor, I'm depressed again.
00:37:19.07\00:37:23.30
I've been
working myself to death.
00:37:23.34\00:37:27.41
Try to stay on the right road,
00:37:27.44\00:37:29.68
I heard 99.5 won't do,
00:37:29.71\00:37:32.15
I've been working,
working and working
00:37:32.18\00:37:34.95
and you're telling me that
00:37:34.98\00:37:36.32
whole of my work is
going to come up for nought.
00:37:36.35\00:37:39.92
Uh-huh.
00:37:39.95\00:37:41.29
That's the best
answer I could give you.
00:37:45.09\00:37:46.43
Uh-huh.
00:37:46.46\00:37:47.80
Your best will
never be good enough
00:37:51.07\00:37:57.47
for God.
00:37:57.51\00:37:59.14
Well, I understand
a little better now...
00:38:04.55\00:38:09.02
Naomi's despair.
00:38:09.05\00:38:12.15
I may not have gone
00:38:12.19\00:38:13.52
and put a noose
around my neck in the garage
00:38:13.56\00:38:17.53
but after this sermon, Pastor,
00:38:17.56\00:38:22.16
I'm concerned,
00:38:22.20\00:38:24.40
I don't know if I'm
coming back next week.
00:38:24.43\00:38:27.17
What good will it
do, it's still filthy.
00:38:27.20\00:38:33.94
I dare not
present a word like this
00:38:33.98\00:38:36.18
without giving
you some good news.
00:38:36.21\00:38:37.81
You think that all God
did is just point out to us
00:38:42.48\00:38:46.65
how bad we were
00:38:46.69\00:38:49.06
and didn't give us a
solution for the problem.
00:38:49.09\00:38:52.39
He gave us a solution,
Romans, the 8th chapter.
00:38:52.43\00:38:56.13
Romans, the 8th chapter,
00:38:56.16\00:38:59.23
Romans 8, I want
to go to Romans 8.
00:38:59.27\00:39:04.27
And I want to pause on verse 18,
00:39:04.31\00:39:08.24
Romans 8,
00:39:08.28\00:39:10.58
pardon me, Romans 5,
00:39:10.61\00:39:11.98
starting with verse 18.
00:39:12.01\00:39:13.35
Romans 5,
starting with verse 18.
00:39:13.38\00:39:16.38
"Therefore as by
the offence of one,
00:39:16.42\00:39:18.49
judgment came
upon all men to..."
00:39:18.52\00:39:21.49
to what everyone?
00:39:21.52\00:39:22.86
"Condemnation, even so
by the righteousness of one,
00:39:22.89\00:39:25.89
the free gift came upon all men,
00:39:25.93\00:39:28.20
unto justification of life."
00:39:28.23\00:39:30.07
Read verse 19,
00:39:30.10\00:39:31.43
"Moreover the law entered,
that the offence might abound.
00:39:40.64\00:39:43.88
But where..."
00:39:43.91\00:39:45.31
Finish it.
00:39:45.35\00:39:47.48
You gotta read this thing
like you understand this thing.
00:39:47.52\00:39:51.49
Now start again, read verse 20,
00:39:51.52\00:39:53.32
what does it say?
00:39:53.36\00:39:54.69
"That as sin hath entered,
hath reigned unto death..."
00:40:04.33\00:40:08.54
Finish it.
00:40:08.57\00:40:09.90
I heard somebody say,
00:40:21.02\00:40:22.35
"Amazing Grace,
00:40:22.38\00:40:25.85
how sweet the sound,
00:40:25.89\00:40:29.12
saved a wretch like you."
00:40:29.16\00:40:32.53
Like who?
00:40:35.90\00:40:37.70
Like me.
00:40:37.73\00:40:39.83
"I once was lost,
00:40:39.87\00:40:42.17
now I'm found,
blind but now I see."
00:40:42.20\00:40:49.01
Where there's great sin,
there's a need for great grace.
00:40:49.04\00:40:53.52
Where sin abound,
graced up much more abound.
00:40:58.75\00:41:05.03
I love playing
basketball, let me get my tense,
00:41:08.46\00:41:11.83
my verb tenses right, teachers.
00:41:11.87\00:41:13.84
I loved,
00:41:13.87\00:41:15.34
when I have a flashback here.
00:41:20.44\00:41:22.91
Yeah, yeah, I
loved playing basketball
00:41:22.94\00:41:27.38
and it was
always interesting to me
00:41:27.42\00:41:30.95
that whenever we played,
00:41:30.99\00:41:32.99
somebody and they
would scout out our team,
00:41:33.02\00:41:37.16
they would make sure that
somebody on the other team
00:41:37.19\00:41:40.06
would be on the floor,
every time I was on the floor.
00:41:40.10\00:41:44.63
When I went and took a break,
00:41:44.67\00:41:47.30
they went and took a break
00:41:47.34\00:41:50.27
but when I checked
in, they checked in.
00:41:50.31\00:41:53.68
And Paul says that when
sin checked into the game,
00:41:53.71\00:42:00.15
grace came off the
pitch and said I'm in too,
00:42:00.18\00:42:04.49
I'm playing too
00:42:04.52\00:42:06.62
because sin can't play
00:42:06.65\00:42:08.59
without grace
being on the floor.
00:42:08.62\00:42:11.63
It's gonna be out
there at the same time
00:42:11.66\00:42:14.40
when sin abound,
00:42:14.43\00:42:16.56
grace talk much more abound.
00:42:16.60\00:42:19.50
Don't you ever believe that
00:42:19.53\00:42:21.60
because you believe yourself
to be such a great sinner,
00:42:21.64\00:42:26.78
that you have
absolutely no chance whatsoever,
00:42:26.81\00:42:30.35
you got to get the
other side of the story
00:42:30.38\00:42:33.11
and now the rest of the story.
00:42:33.15\00:42:35.45
Praise, praise, praise,
00:42:35.48\00:42:39.85
praise. praise.
00:42:39.89\00:42:41.72
talk much more above,
00:42:41.76\00:42:44.16
trust like the
devil is working hard
00:42:44.19\00:42:46.90
to get to and bring you down,
00:42:46.93\00:42:48.70
grace is to enable
favor through this power,
00:42:48.73\00:42:51.43
to lift you up, take you around,
00:42:51.47\00:42:54.64
patch your feet on solid ground.
00:42:54.67\00:42:58.81
That's how grace works.
00:42:58.84\00:43:01.34
That's how grace works.
00:43:01.38\00:43:03.01
God didn't leave
you without a solution.
00:43:03.04\00:43:05.11
Look at something
else, in Ephesians 2,
00:43:05.15\00:43:07.52
Ephesians 2:8, 9,
00:43:07.55\00:43:10.25
the Book of Ephesians 2:8, 9,
00:43:10.29\00:43:16.69
I love these two passages.
00:43:16.73\00:43:19.69
"For by..."
00:43:19.73\00:43:23.67
You don't have it yet,
00:43:23.70\00:43:25.03
that's why you
didn't say it right.
00:43:25.07\00:43:26.40
Like a pages have stopped.
00:43:31.21\00:43:32.91
"For by grace,
00:43:32.94\00:43:34.91
I saved through faith,
00:43:34.94\00:43:37.25
that not of yourselves,
00:43:37.28\00:43:39.51
it is the gift of
God, not of works,
00:43:39.55\00:43:43.25
lest anyone should boast."
00:43:43.28\00:43:48.39
For by grace,
00:43:48.42\00:43:52.63
are ye saved.
00:43:52.66\00:43:54.30
Through faith
00:43:57.63\00:44:01.60
and that not of yourselves.
00:44:01.64\00:44:04.04
The Bible says it is what?
00:44:04.07\00:44:06.88
It's a what?
00:44:06.91\00:44:09.21
I supposed you get it.
00:44:09.24\00:44:10.58
It belongs to me,
00:44:14.65\00:44:18.19
it's a gift,
00:44:18.22\00:44:21.96
it's a gift.
00:44:21.99\00:44:24.79
Each one of my children,
00:44:24.83\00:44:28.16
when they turned 16
years old came to me and said,"
00:44:28.20\00:44:33.47
Daddy, it's time for
me to get my license."
00:44:33.50\00:44:37.81
I had one question,
00:44:43.14\00:44:45.11
"When did you buy 'em?
00:44:45.15\00:44:48.95
Who said, they were yours?"
00:44:48.98\00:44:53.46
"Well, I'm 16,
00:44:53.49\00:44:56.59
that means it's time
for me to get my license."
00:44:56.62\00:45:01.00
I said, "I know a folk in his 50
00:45:01.03\00:45:02.63
who don't have license."
00:45:02.66\00:45:04.00
You gotta understand
00:45:09.40\00:45:12.07
driving is a
privilege not a right.
00:45:12.11\00:45:15.58
Grace is a
privilege, not a right.
00:45:15.61\00:45:19.51
It's unreserved favor.
00:45:19.55\00:45:22.28
It's not something we
get because we deserve it,
00:45:22.32\00:45:25.02
normally when you get a gift,
00:45:25.05\00:45:26.55
it's because you're
done something right
00:45:26.59\00:45:28.49
or there's something
special that's happened.
00:45:28.52\00:45:30.63
It's been your
birthday or your anniversary
00:45:30.66\00:45:33.16
but this gift you get
when you do something wrong.
00:45:33.19\00:45:36.13
Not when you do something right.
00:45:41.00\00:45:44.14
It's when you do something wrong
00:45:44.17\00:45:46.54
and you claim that
gift by faith, by faith.
00:45:46.57\00:45:53.25
You know, sometimes,
00:45:53.28\00:45:56.32
sometimes, folk
would come up to us
00:45:56.35\00:45:58.25
and they'll ask this question,
look at me, look at me.
00:45:58.29\00:46:02.16
"Are you saved?"
00:46:02.19\00:46:03.63
And we look back at him scoured.
00:46:07.10\00:46:08.73
Am I saved
00:46:13.50\00:46:15.07
and then we try
to think back over
00:46:18.21\00:46:19.57
our 28 fundamental beliefs.
00:46:19.61\00:46:21.54
The pastor teaches
that, was that him,
00:46:27.72\00:46:30.59
one of the
Sabbath School caught me,
00:46:30.62\00:46:32.12
help me, Lord. You
said you put it in,
00:46:32.15\00:46:33.49
in that moment
when I need to act,
00:46:33.52\00:46:34.96
you would put it in my spirit.
00:46:34.99\00:46:37.49
Are you saved?
00:46:37.53\00:46:41.06
Let me help you,
00:46:41.10\00:46:43.03
for grace, for by
grace are ye saved.
00:46:43.06\00:46:46.97
Let me fix it for your.
00:46:53.34\00:46:55.94
Let me fix it for you.
00:46:55.98\00:46:59.78
There is a tense in
Greek called the perfect tense.
00:46:59.81\00:47:03.69
It means a past action
00:47:03.72\00:47:06.49
with a present
or future response
00:47:06.52\00:47:12.46
or impact.
00:47:12.49\00:47:14.90
You were saved yesterday.
00:47:14.93\00:47:18.63
You were saved by...
00:47:23.27\00:47:26.57
Grace.
00:47:26.61\00:47:28.71
Through. Grace.
00:47:28.74\00:47:30.65
The problem is that
the reason we don't know
00:47:33.68\00:47:37.52
that we're saved is because
00:47:37.55\00:47:39.75
we don't have the
faith to believe we're saved.
00:47:39.79\00:47:42.32
Was that hard, that
wouldn't be, it wasn't.
00:47:49.36\00:47:52.83
I ain't a deep preacher.
00:47:52.87\00:47:54.20
The problem is not
whether or not you're saved,
00:48:00.68\00:48:03.58
salvation has been provided.
00:48:03.61\00:48:06.31
The issue is have you accepted
the fact that you're saved.
00:48:06.35\00:48:10.65
There was a man
who was put in jail
00:48:10.69\00:48:12.59
and he sat there day after day.
00:48:12.62\00:48:14.76
They told him what
his bail would cost,
00:48:14.79\00:48:16.73
he didn't had the money
00:48:16.76\00:48:18.16
and so he sat there
depressed and brooding.
00:48:18.19\00:48:21.36
One day the jailer came along
and said, "Hey, you're free."
00:48:21.40\00:48:26.13
And he sat there.
00:48:26.17\00:48:27.50
He said, "Somebody
has paid your bail,
00:48:27.54\00:48:29.60
they processed
your bail, you're free."
00:48:29.64\00:48:31.94
And the man sat there.
00:48:31.97\00:48:33.31
He said, "Can you
hear me, I set you free."
00:48:33.34\00:48:36.85
And the man sat there,
the jailer closed the door
00:48:36.88\00:48:40.62
and before he
walked off, he said,
00:48:40.65\00:48:42.88
"When you accept the
fact that you're free,
00:48:42.92\00:48:45.65
then you can leave."
00:48:45.69\00:48:49.39
When you accept the fact
00:48:49.42\00:48:52.59
that you're saved
by grace through faith,
00:48:52.63\00:48:58.03
maybe we'll start
acting like saved people,
00:48:58.07\00:49:01.30
maybe we'll start
talking like saved people,
00:49:01.34\00:49:04.21
maybe we'll start
thinking like saved people,
00:49:04.24\00:49:06.61
maybe we'll start
dressing like saved people,
00:49:06.64\00:49:09.68
maybe we'll start
eating like saved people,
00:49:09.71\00:49:11.98
maybe we'll start
behaving like saved people
00:49:12.01\00:49:15.05
but until we accept
the fact that we're saved,
00:49:15.08\00:49:18.85
we're going to
stay in our prisons,
00:49:18.89\00:49:24.59
our lostness.
00:49:24.63\00:49:26.09
I'm trying to free
somebody today, look at this,
00:49:29.23\00:49:31.67
look at this text, Philippians,
00:49:31.70\00:49:34.77
Philippians 1:6,
00:49:34.80\00:49:39.61
that one is
stowaway, verse 5 and verse 6.
00:49:39.64\00:49:44.15
Philippians 1:5, 6,
00:49:44.18\00:49:46.78
"For your
fellowship in the gospel
00:49:46.82\00:49:48.78
from the first day until now,
00:49:48.82\00:49:50.82
being confident
of this very thing,
00:49:50.85\00:49:53.49
that He which hath
begun a good work..."
00:49:53.52\00:49:56.59
Where? In you.
00:49:56.62\00:49:58.13
Will do what?
00:49:58.16\00:49:59.66
Will carry it on to completion
until the day of Christ Jesus.
00:49:59.69\00:50:02.96
He that hath begun
a good work in you.
00:50:03.00\00:50:06.84
Stop there for a minute.
00:50:11.44\00:50:13.48
Okay, in Romans 5: 8, Paul says,
00:50:13.51\00:50:18.01
"But God hath
commended His love toward us,
00:50:18.05\00:50:21.78
in that while we
were yet sinners..."
00:50:21.82\00:50:27.09
Christ did what?
00:50:27.12\00:50:30.43
He commended His love toward us
00:50:30.46\00:50:32.59
in that while we
were yet sinners.
00:50:32.63\00:50:37.07
That's what Naomi couldn't get,
while we were still sinning,
00:50:37.10\00:50:41.27
Christ died for us.
00:50:41.30\00:50:43.74
He said, "Christ died for us."
00:50:43.77\00:50:49.54
But in Philippians he says
00:50:49.58\00:50:51.78
that Christ
performs a good work, where?
00:50:51.81\00:50:56.25
In us.
00:50:56.28\00:50:59.92
Let's not get it twisted.
00:50:59.95\00:51:02.79
There's a difference
00:51:02.82\00:51:04.83
when Christ
does something for us
00:51:04.86\00:51:06.86
versus doing something in us.
00:51:06.90\00:51:10.43
He died for us
00:51:10.47\00:51:13.60
but if we're gonna ever make
it through this mess called sin,
00:51:13.64\00:51:18.67
he's got to perform it.
00:51:18.71\00:51:20.38
You got it, you got it,
00:51:26.58\00:51:29.48
you got it
00:51:29.52\00:51:31.25
and you got to hang on to that.
00:51:31.29\00:51:33.92
It's not about us,
it's not about our good,
00:51:33.96\00:51:38.69
it's not about
our righteousness,
00:51:38.73\00:51:41.33
it's all about Him
and what He does in us.
00:51:41.36\00:51:45.53
We already established the fact,
00:51:45.57\00:51:47.64
there's nothing good within us,
00:51:47.67\00:51:49.34
our very makeup is sinful
00:51:49.37\00:51:51.94
and unless He
comes into our lives
00:51:51.97\00:51:55.31
and lives out His life,
00:51:55.34\00:51:57.51
then we are born in sin
00:51:57.55\00:52:00.32
and we're gonna die in sin.
00:52:00.35\00:52:04.55
Let me help somebody,
00:52:04.59\00:52:06.12
you know, that good life
00:52:06.15\00:52:07.49
you've been trying
to live all this time
00:52:07.52\00:52:09.39
and fall off to wagon,
00:52:09.42\00:52:10.99
guess what? He
already lived it for you.
00:52:11.03\00:52:15.86
He lived it for
you and all He said is,
00:52:15.90\00:52:19.00
if you accept
me, it comes with me.
00:52:19.03\00:52:23.14
You get it by default.
00:52:23.17\00:52:25.77
You've got to accept me
00:52:25.81\00:52:28.48
and Lord that I fetch you...
00:52:28.51\00:52:31.45
has already beaten you
00:52:31.48\00:52:33.42
and all you need to do
00:52:33.45\00:52:35.68
is turn it over to me.
00:52:35.72\00:52:41.92
Morris Venden wrote a book,
00:52:41.96\00:52:44.49
it sits on my shelf,
00:52:44.53\00:52:46.56
right book shelf.
00:52:46.59\00:52:50.47
I take it out every now and then
00:52:50.50\00:52:53.03
but it indicts me
and it challenges me
00:52:53.07\00:52:55.04
so I don't read it that often.
00:52:55.07\00:52:58.94
It's entitled, Hard to be Lost.
00:52:58.97\00:53:04.91
Hard to be Lost,
00:53:04.95\00:53:07.82
reason I have difficulty is
00:53:11.59\00:53:12.92
because my mind
is very analytical
00:53:12.95\00:53:14.66
and it processes
things beyond the obvious,
00:53:14.69\00:53:17.29
beyond the obvious of reference.
00:53:17.33\00:53:19.49
And so if the book is
entitled Hard to be Lost
00:53:19.53\00:53:22.53
then it must be also
saying it's easy to be saved.
00:53:22.56\00:53:26.27
I haven't found anything
yet in this Christian journey
00:53:34.21\00:53:37.41
that's easy.
00:53:37.45\00:53:40.68
What do you mean, Pastor Venden,
00:53:40.72\00:53:44.39
it's hard to be
lost, I just told you why.
00:53:44.42\00:53:48.59
He that hath begun
a good work in you,
00:53:48.62\00:53:55.13
can complete it to
the day of His coming.
00:53:55.16\00:54:01.00
If we get
ourselves out of the way,
00:54:01.04\00:54:06.07
then He can get in
00:54:06.11\00:54:08.64
and lead us through the way.
00:54:08.68\00:54:13.15
But we are our own worst enemy,
00:54:13.18\00:54:15.68
when we're gonna get that.
00:54:15.72\00:54:19.22
Chloe Logan used to sing
a song years ago, it said,
00:54:19.25\00:54:21.76
"The failure's not
with God, it's in me."
00:54:21.79\00:54:27.76
They have not failed one
word of all of His good promises
00:54:27.80\00:54:30.87
which He had
promised by his service.
00:54:30.90\00:54:35.20
God is a God of His word
00:54:35.24\00:54:37.87
and He says if you
just turn it over to me,
00:54:37.91\00:54:41.81
I'll put it away...
00:54:41.84\00:54:43.28
Wait a minute, now
you gotta get this,
00:54:43.31\00:54:45.05
I'm coming down the homestretch,
00:54:45.08\00:54:46.41
you've got to get this.
00:54:46.45\00:54:47.78
I got to even sit down on this
00:54:47.82\00:54:50.95
'cause it boggles my mind.
00:54:50.99\00:54:54.46
First of all, He died for me,
00:54:54.49\00:55:00.00
second of all, He
took my sins upon Himself,
00:55:00.03\00:55:04.93
third of all, He paid
my sinful debt for me.
00:55:04.97\00:55:10.97
There ought to be
something that I can do,
00:55:11.01\00:55:16.34
that's why I'm so
inclined to work and work.
00:55:16.38\00:55:19.68
I'm trying to get into the game,
00:55:19.71\00:55:22.28
I'm trying to do my fair share
00:55:22.32\00:55:25.85
but when it comes to salvation,
00:55:25.89\00:55:28.56
you can't do a thing.
00:55:28.59\00:55:30.63
How do I know
that, how do I know that?
00:55:30.66\00:55:34.76
Daniel 8:11 and 12,
00:55:34.80\00:55:38.57
it talks about a truth
00:55:42.00\00:55:43.87
that was trampled under foot,
00:55:43.91\00:55:47.68
a truth.
00:55:47.71\00:55:49.68
Martin Luther read
that passage of scripture
00:55:49.71\00:55:52.11
and understood something.
00:55:52.15\00:55:53.65
The light went on for him
00:55:53.68\00:55:55.52
and he came forth
with this Latin phrase,
00:55:55.55\00:55:57.55
"Sola fide."
00:55:57.59\00:55:59.55
The just live by faith alone.
00:55:59.59\00:56:05.39
Understand the truth
that's trampled under foot.
00:56:05.43\00:56:09.20
The truth that's
trampled under foot is the truth
00:56:09.23\00:56:12.07
about the sanctuary,
00:56:12.10\00:56:14.80
the sanctuary because
when you look at the sanctuary,
00:56:14.84\00:56:20.04
you'll see how much you
really have to do with Him.
00:56:20.08\00:56:23.41
Understand something,
when you bring your sacrifice,
00:56:23.45\00:56:28.18
who's the sacrifice?
00:56:28.22\00:56:29.55
Who's the sacrifice?
00:56:32.42\00:56:33.76
Jesus is.
00:56:33.79\00:56:36.29
And when you get to the laver,
00:56:36.32\00:56:38.33
who's the water of life?
00:56:38.36\00:56:39.89
Who takes the blood
into the Holy Place?
00:56:44.83\00:56:47.80
The priest.
00:56:47.84\00:56:50.51
How does he enter
into the Holy Place?
00:56:50.54\00:56:54.51
Through the eastern gate.
00:56:54.54\00:56:57.85
He's the door and
once he gets inside,
00:56:57.88\00:57:01.98
who is the seven candlestick?
00:57:02.02\00:57:07.59
Who is the bread, a showbread,
00:57:07.62\00:57:12.66
the table of showbread?
00:57:12.69\00:57:14.53
Who is the veil
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that separates the Holy
Place from the most Holy Place?
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Who takes the
incense of the saints,
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the prayers of
the saints to the,
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to the most Holy Place?
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There is absolutely
nothing in the sanctuary
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for us to do except what?
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Bring ourselves.
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"I beseech you
therefore, brethren,
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by the mercies of Christ,
that you present yourself..."
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What?
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"A living sacrifice,
holy, acceptable unto God."
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Romans 12:1,
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which is our reasonable service.
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The only thing
you have left to do
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in His whole salvation process
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is just bring
yourself, just show up.
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