Have you ever suffered a
breakdown of communication
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between you and
someone you love,
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how did that
affect your relationship?
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Well you know when
we think about it there
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was a breakdown of
communication between man
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and God in the Garden of
Eden. But God knew that the
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relationship
wouldn't stand unless
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He bestowed it
and He did just that.
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Please join us today
on Issues and Answers,
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as we look at the restoration
of communication with God.
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Hello, I am Shelley
Quinn and we are so glad that
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you've joined us today,
no matter where you're tuning
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in from around the world,
whether you're watching us
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on Television, by
Internet or listening by radio.
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I think this is a
program that you're going
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to really enjoy. I
wanna share a scripture
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with you and it's a scripture
that has a lot of meaning
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and sometimes we seem
to, we can read past this
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one without really
catching the depth of it.
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It comes from John 17:3 and
the Bible says this is Jesus
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speaking, he says, this
is eternal life that they may
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know you, the only true
God and Jesus Christ whom
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you have sent, that's
eternal life to know God,
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to know this God of
love, of righteousness,
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a God of mercy to know
him is to love him and today
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we have a special guest
with us, this is a man who came
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to know God a little
later in life and when he found
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out what God was
like and who he was, he
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surrendered his life
totally and completely to him.
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And he is now enjoying
eternal life I believe that,
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Amen, don't you Jim,
absolutely, surely I do,
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oh glory to God. Jim Ayer,
Ayer I knew I would do that,
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because well that's
okay, if it's in, if
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it's in India they say
Iyer. Well, someone told me Ayer
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they corrected me and I
knew I am just gonna say
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that wrong today. Jim
Ayer and you are with an
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Adventist World
Radio (AWR), that's right.
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You are a vice president.
How long have you been
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with AWR? About
three and half years.
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Alright and what are
you, what do you with them?
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Well, one of great things
I get to do, I am with the
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Making Waves. Have you
ever heard of Making Waves,
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I believe so, that's a
popular program on 3ABN,
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on 3ABN several times a
week. I get to travel around
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the world and talk to the
people about how their lives
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have been dramatically
altered when they heard
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the Gospel
message through radio.
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Amen, and it's, it's
tremendous Shelley what God
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is doing out there, you
know, this program Making Waves
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is very popular
with our viewers, because
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you have such exciting
testimonies and speaking
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of exciting testimonies
you have one as well.
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Jim could you just give
our viewers just a little
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synopsis of what God
has done in your life. Well,
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just a couple of
snippets, I was a drug dealer,
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alcoholic and a thief
actually, it's amazing,
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it's didn't look like
this at all. But God came
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in and spoke to me I mean
literally spoke to me and it,
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it didn't take, it
didn't really take, it was kind
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of interesting it took
actually about two years
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and God spoke me again
and finally that time it
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was like
basically. Ayer excuse me,
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when you speak to you,
you think are you speaking
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of life 1st Kings 19:12 that
a still small voice for Lord
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where He is impressing
his thoughts upon you almost
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to the point they seem audible.
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It could very well been
Shelley, but I mean to me it
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was just like you and
I are talking right now
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and God one time said
Jim, tonight is your last night
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to decide, you've got to
make up your mind and there
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was a cross roads of
eternity right there, wow,
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and that was the
moment, that was the turning
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point in my life but you
know even that didn't stick,
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I started studying
and praying and learning
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God's word. I even had a
call to the ministry but some
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way somehow because I
kind of quit praying as much,
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I stopped studying as much,
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I lost that
communication with God,
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when I had the call
I turned my back on it.
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I went off into
the business world,
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became very successful
in the business world,
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very successful and sitting
in a church pew, look nice,
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did all the right
things, paid tithe,
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did all these good
things. But I really believe I
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was lost and then God
again spoke to me and this time
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I think it was more
of the internal so Jim,
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the Holy Spirit may be
poured out all around you,
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you will never recognize
or receive it, and I thought,
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wow, wow, I can't let
that happen in my life.
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I've got to do something
and so it was an interesting
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trail how God
continued to lead me and wow,
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what a, what a journey
it's been Shelley. Yes,
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it has been. So, that
kind of gives me then a glimpse
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into why you have
chosen today's topic and that
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is restoration of
communication with God,
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when you, when God first
got your attention did you
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feel that you were like
Adam and Eve that you were
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running from him.
You know, I didn't even,
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didn't even know God. I
mean, I had no concept of
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what God was. So, you didn't
grow up in a Christian home,
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didn't grow up
Christian home really, you know,
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my mom and dad said well
you know you go to church,
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as I was child they
thought it's good you should go,
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but they didn't go and
you know I just kind of went
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but I never heard anything,
as a child it just never
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stuck and so I quit
going when I was old enough
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as said I don't want to
do any more to do with this.
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You know high school,
I thought the only time
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I'd go to a church was to
take a cute girl or something
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you know some good excuse.
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And, but I just didn't
want go and so I just totally
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wandered, wandered
away. So, you believed there
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was a God you
would just agnostic.
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Yeah, I kind of believed
there was a God but it was,
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it was during that time
period when everybody had
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some great ideas about
something you know even
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Timothy Leary, you
know drugs are the ultimate
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way to God. LCD is the
way to find God and so,
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but you know, I don't
know who Timothy Leary
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was that he
sure had crazy ideas.
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That was his own desire.
Well, and you know somehow
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praise the Lord, by the
grace of God I entirely missed
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I remember when I was in
high school that there was
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reports of people
doing marijuana and things
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and I would just avoid
those people like the plagues,
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so somehow even in college
I was blessed that I missed
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that whole culture. You
see it's interesting this
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was what the devil
wants to totally do,
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he wants to block out
God, he wants us to think there
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is no such thing as
God. In the beginning
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we're told in the Bible
that the devil rebelled against
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God he begins thinking
that he could do things better
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than God. He had this
whole plan in his mind.
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He began sharing with
everybody in the universe
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that why if I was in that
position I could do things
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so much better and
he was so well his stuff
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was at the, may be the
right way to put it is,
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his stuff was incredible
that many believed him
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and the Bible says there
was war in heaven now many,
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many think that
that's probably a war
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of words or war of
ideas and it certainly was,
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it says he ultimately he
was cast out down to this
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earth and you know
at that time Shelley,
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God had just done a beautiful
new creation Adam and Eve,
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man and woman and this
was going to be his crowning
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achievement. He said let
us make man in our image,
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after our likeness we
were to be created in the
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image of God. Amen,
imagine that you know and it is
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so exciting to think
about that but then God says
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you know, there needs
to be a test you because
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there's been this whole
situation going on in heaven
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and there does need
to be a test of loyalty.
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So, if you love me,
Adam, if you love me,
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don't go near
this tree over here,
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this is the tree
of knowledge of good
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and evil. If you love me
just stay from that one tree,
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I have given you every
tree in the garden that's good,
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just stay away from
that one and you know we find
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that here Eve gets away
from the side of her husband.
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She goes up and
she sees this tree.
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Why this tree it
looks nice and she goes up
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and you know there is
a serpent in that tree,
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Shelley that says.
Hey Eve, Eve darling,
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come a little closer,
he spoke in a voice why she
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thinks never heard
of. A serpent speaks
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in a human voice. He
says, Eve God say you shouldn't
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do this, but Eve he
knows from the day you do it,
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you will be just like
God, go ahead try it, try it.
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Ayer, you know even he
was a little more insidious
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than that because he
first planted that seed of doubt
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didn't he, didn't
just say God said you,
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you shouldn't do this,
but he said did God really
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say this, like are you
sure this is what God said
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and you and I both know we
run into it in the ministry
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all the time that
often this is what happens,
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it's kind of like people
will read something and they
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will say, oh, yeah, but
is that what God really means
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that I can't do
this, that or the other,
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and so he started there
and start getting her to doubt
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and then he
starting sucking her in,
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didn't he? He did and
then he says you know go ahead
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try it Eve, well she
begins thinking about it,
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just as you said, you know
this concept begin sticking
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those things. Well
may be God really doesn't
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what me to know
how good this is.
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And she takes that
fruit whatever it was,
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she begins eating and
then all of a sudden we're told
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she feels this
accelerating feeling,
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this is exciting, this is
wonderful and it's just like
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today the devil is
handing out drugs to people,
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just to try it, here
you'll be like God, go ahead,
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it'll lift you higher,
it'll make you feel wonderful
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go ahead. And you
know drugs and alcohol
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and all these things
are the devil's counterfeit
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to God's tree of life.
Amen. And, and so here she
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takes this fruit oh,
this is great and she becomes
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the first drug dealer,
she runs to her husband,
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she grabs up this
fruit. She runs to her husband
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and says, here honey try
this, it's wonderful well
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Adam's countenance you
know I can imagine drops
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because he knew
immediately what had happened?
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He is just sick about it
but then he thinks God says
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in the day we take of this
fruit we will die and I don't
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wanna lose Eve
she is my partner.
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Surely God can never
ever replace her and so he
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takes over the fruit and
all of a sudden at that moment
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even while the juice is
dripping on his lips he feels
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funny and they look at
one and another and you know
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the story, Shelley
they're, we're naked they had
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never seen nakedness
because they had their own
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righteousness before
that and all of a sudden
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they're starting to
feel cold and something
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is feeling funny, you see
in that moment they really
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did started dying just
as God said that they would.
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But now the wonderful things is,
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God just didn't leave
them in that situation.
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You know God wandered in
the cool of the afternoon
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he said Adam and
Eve where are you?
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Where are you? He knew
exactly where they were,
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he's God, but he
wanted them to respond to him
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and finally they
come out of the bushes and
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they've got these fig
leaves that they've sewn up
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their own little aprons
to cover their own nakedness,
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their own "righteousness"
and they said Lord,
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here we are. Adam and
Eve what have you done?
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Lord, it's the woman you made,
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it's the woman you
made, God it's all your fault
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and notice all of a
sudden here's that communication
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gap, the devil was successful
right there in breaking
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the communion with God.
God had wandered with him
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and walked with him
in the garden in the cool
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of the day talk with
him. It was such a wonderful
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experience and now all of
a sudden you're attiring God,
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if you had made this
serpent and this woman because
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then he looks to Eve and
he says it is the serpent
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you know that you
made. This blame game goes
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back and forth. And
you know when you think
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about it a thought
occurred to me that it actually
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that communication
broke the minute here they are
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clothe with the light of
God and they didn't recognized
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their nakedness,
but once they recognized
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their own nakedness and
tried to make themselves
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righteous on their
own, which sometimes
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we try so hard to
do. In own righteousness
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we can't stand before the Lord.
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So, here comes their
loving God and they're already
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hiding from him and
he has to seek them out
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and don't we do that
sometimes when God just like
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what you say how
God approached you over
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and over again and you
were kind of hiding from God
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so then even when they
stepped up to the plate
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all of a sudden
the communication
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is not only broken but now
you see that it's fractured
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because now they
began to accuse God
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of doing wrong
just as Satan did.
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Yeah, yep, It was a
terrible situation and at that
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moment the devil
thought aha, I've got them now
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I am gonna yell to
the whole universe you see
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God's gonna have to destroy
them because they did one
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little thing, but then
all of a sudden something
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really strange happens Jesus
I believe called two little
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lambs over there,
that were grazing near by
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and he took a knife
and he slit their throats
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and he says Adam
and Eve, this is death,
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this is what you deserve
and then he did something
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else strangely. He, he,
he, he is doing something all
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of a sudden he
clothe them with this,
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with these garments
the skins of the lambs
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and he says Adam and
Eve one day in the history
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of man I will come
and I will die, just
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as these little lambs
have died, I'll earn the right
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to give you this righteous
covering that I've given
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you and then he
does something even more
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strange that the devil
can't quite understanding
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what's going on and
he says Adam and Eve
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and he looks at the
devil I am going to put
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enmity between
you, between the woman,
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between your seed and her seed.
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Can you explain
enmity because some people
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don't understand that
word? Well there in that
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you know for one I
looked at this what is this?
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You know when you
take magnets that are,
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that are poles are
opposites that you try and
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shove them together, as
a kid I loved to do that,
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you show one magnet
it bounces back you know
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they repel. God says I
don't want to only clothe
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you with my
righteousness on the outside,
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I am going to come and
live via the Holy Spirit
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on the inside so that my
righteousness repels evil.
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So enmity then is a kind
of a hatred, a repulsion,
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I mean it's something
that you, you can't stand
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to be around. So
that's what God was saying
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I'll put enmity between
you, exactly, and Satan,
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exactly, exactly I will
give you the power in your life
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to repel the evil now.
You have given away your
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own righteousness,
you've given away your own
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power of choice, you've
surrendered it to the devil.
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But now I am going to
give you the power back I
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will earn right. You
see God, God in heaven they
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was a crisis when the
devil stood before the universe
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said God's a tyrant. I'd
be a better ruler I will do
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this and this
and this. Well, they,
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they didn't understand,
they've never seen sin
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and the council
of God gets together,
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God the father, the
son and the Holy Spirit
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and they come up with a
plan, we're going to nail
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two pieces of wood
together, the son of God is
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going to hang on it. I
mean you say all that's so
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simplistic, it is so simple
a child can understand it,
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but if so in death that we'll
study it for all eternally,
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isn't that truth, and,
and so Jesus came in order
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to die for men and
women. He laid out that plan
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to restore communication
right there in the garden
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of Eden. In the
Revelation 13:8, yeah,
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that he was the lamb
slain before the foundation
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of the world. I
remember when I was about
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19 years old and doing
a, a very deep Bible study
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and I don't know why but
it was like for the first
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time I wanted to know
what they wear clothed
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with and I had
looked at how God lived in
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unapproachable light and
realized that the Psalm says
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that he is covered with
this robe of light and I
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thought I bet that's
what was on Adam and Eve
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and then as I've realized
that they had lost this,
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it was the first time
in my life that I realized
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that was the first sin
offering was when God made
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for them these lamb
skin coverings and it,
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and I thought
where did that come from?
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God had to have killed a
lamb. So I believe as your
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describing, you know
it dawned on me that from
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the very beginning they
knew, God shared the plan
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of salvation with them.
As he went through these
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things and explained it
to them that Adam and Eve
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and therefore Cain
and Abel were also taught,
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exactly. What was
acceptable to God is
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a sacrifice and that,
yes, God's got this plan
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of salvation. So, it's an
incredible thought that God
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to restore communication
had to promise to die
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for us so that we
could stand before a Holy God
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not in our own
righteousness, but covered
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with his robe of righteousness.
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Exactly, now this,
this sacrificial system that
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you're talking
about, this was all designed
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to bring their focus back
to God, to turn their eyes
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once again upon God
because they had focused on,
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on the serpent, they
had focused on the serpent,
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so now it's, it's to
bring them back and we kind
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of fast forward through
the Bible of violin and God
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had chosen the people,
the Israelites and through
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Abraham he had
said I am going to,
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I am going to make you
a great nation of people
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and sure enough he had a
tremendous nation of people
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and he gave a
prophecy and he said in
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four hundred years
they're going to be in bondage,
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but I am going to
deliver them. Now,
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we know that story and
it all took place in Egypt
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and they ended up
in bondage in Egypt
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and we look at that,
they ended up in sin in Egypt,
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yes, and God brought them out,
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God brought them out of
that land under his power
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by his might. They
didn't do anything on their
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own except follow the
instruction of God look
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to that sacrifice and
God brought them out in this
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journey and all of a sudden
as they're on this journey,
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they get up to the Red
sea and here's the whole
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army of Pharaoh behind
them and then they said,
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why did we ever come out here,
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why did we ever
start this journey,
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why did we trust
God, yeah, why did we ever
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trust this God, you
know, now they've been slaves
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for a long time,
they've totally taken their eyes
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off of God and so now it
begins a process of training
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them, how to look back
to God again and God says
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hey go forward, you
know, why are you standing
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here, go forward now
and an interesting thing
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is right there, he
brought down a cloud in a pillar
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of fire. That enmity that
separation between the evils
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of Pharaoh's armies in
the separation to protect
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his children and then
he parts the seas for them
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and they go through on
dry ground and you read
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in Exodus15 this
incredible song of victory,
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incredible of song of
victory, God has done this,
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and God has done this
and God has done all these
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things and it's
interesting Shelley,
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go all the way
through to Revelation 15
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and again a song of
victory that virtually the same
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song that the
children of Israel sang,
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a song of deliverance
out of sin and bondage.
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But this time it's God's people,
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all of us standing
on the sea of glass.
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However we gain the
victory? It's through God
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by keeping our eyes
upon God. But you know
00:20:08.97\00:20:11.67
there is a, there is a
sad moment in there because
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we go to Numbers
chapter 13 and in Numbers
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chapter 13 God
wanted take now his children
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to the Canaan land. He
wanted to get them to the
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Canaan land and he says
look it's a land flowing
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with milk and honey.
It's a, it's a wonderful land.
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Well they, they were
just maybe doubtful a little
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and they said lets send
in spies and check it out,
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lets just check it
out. Well, they went in for
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forty days and they
came back and you know
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at the camp, they
look and say, look, look,
00:20:40.80\00:20:42.42
look over there, look at that.
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What, what's
happening and all of a sudden
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they see these two
guys bearing one cluster
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of grapes on a great
big stick, can you imagine
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one cluster of
grapes. I picture that as kind
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of like in heaven
you know hey come on over
00:20:55.54\00:20:57.60
Shelley over to my
house we'll split a grape
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for lunch. Yeah.
You know, big grapes,
00:20:59.27\00:21:01.40
huge grapes, and here they were,
00:21:01.43\00:21:04.99
they all get back I mean
the evidence they say yes
00:21:05.02\00:21:07.91
God everything you said
is true it's absolutely true.
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It's is a land
flowing with milk and honey.
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But then all of a
sudden you know the sad story,
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absolutely, all of
them say but the that,
00:21:17.07\00:21:20.38
that's is the worst
word in the whole Bible
00:21:20.41\00:21:22.24
and they said but was
nevertheless they were
00:21:22.27\00:21:24.56
giants in the land.
We've seen them with our own
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eyes and in our
own sight. We are like
00:21:27.82\00:21:30.54
grasshoppers. So
this is that grasshopper
00:21:30.57\00:21:34.96
identity syndrome
that so many of us have,
00:21:34.99\00:21:37.05
I've never heard it
said like that but yes.
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We don't recognize
who we are in Christ,
00:21:39.19\00:21:42.53
but we're getting
down, I can't believe how
00:21:42.56\00:21:45.32
quickly this is, is
escaping us our time.
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When, when they,
God is trying to restore
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communication to them,
he is trying to get them
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to trust him. What do
you suggest we started
00:21:56.68\00:22:00.15
this program with
John 17:3, That Jesus,
00:22:00.18\00:22:03.98
God said Jesus here to
really restore us if you will
00:22:04.01\00:22:08.75
and to see that we
might really see who he is.
00:22:08.78\00:22:13.46
As Hebrews 1:3 says
he's the exact representation
00:22:13.49\00:22:16.65
of the Father. And Jesus
is saying this is eternal
00:22:16.68\00:22:20.45
life that you may know
that know him the only true
00:22:20.48\00:22:24.06
God and the one who
him sent. What, what,
00:22:24.09\00:22:28.19
what is your response
or what is your suggestion
00:22:28.22\00:22:33.84
to our viewers. How
to restore communication
00:22:33.87\00:22:37.17
with God? Well like
the song says turn your
00:22:37.20\00:22:39.86
eyes upon Jesus and all
of the things of this world
00:22:39.89\00:22:42.54
would grow strangely
dim, in the light of his glory
00:22:42.57\00:22:45.94
and grace, there
the children of Israel
00:22:45.97\00:22:48.24
at the borders of
Canaan land look to themselves,
00:22:48.27\00:22:51.52
but you go to Joshua chapter 3
00:22:51.55\00:22:53.77
and here's is a lady
who was a prostitute of a
00:22:53.80\00:22:56.51
heathen land and she
began sharing her story,
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we saw what your God
did, he parted the seas.
00:23:00.01\00:23:02.83
We saw what your God
did, he destroyed the
00:23:03.49\00:23:05.66
heathen Kings.
So, remember what God
00:23:05.69\00:23:07.44
has done in the past,
so, it is one way of looking.
00:23:07.47\00:23:09.77
So, so, always look
to God, okay, now the,
00:23:09.80\00:23:12.96
the texture quoted,
this is life eternally
00:23:12.99\00:23:15.27
that they might know thee. Yes.
00:23:15.30\00:23:17.26
Well, this know with
Adam and Eve they knew one
00:23:17.29\00:23:20.28
and another and they
conceived a children,
00:23:20.31\00:23:21.93
very inmate, very
personal, you've got to,
00:23:21.96\00:23:24.93
you've got to get to
know this God, look to him,
00:23:24.96\00:23:27.95
turn your eyes on
him. Not on the giants,
00:23:27.98\00:23:29.71
not on all the giants
out there because there
00:23:29.74\00:23:31.94
are giants everywhere
and the devil is trying
00:23:31.97\00:23:34.22
to destroy us continually,
there is real devil,
00:23:34.25\00:23:36.57
there is real evil
angels and there is a real God
00:23:36.60\00:23:40.14
and powerful God who
loves us who died for us,
00:23:40.17\00:23:43.27
to us the power to
overcome, you know,
00:23:43.30\00:23:46.43
Revelation chapter 2 and
3: looks God says for over
00:23:46.46\00:23:50.92
comers to him that overcomes,
00:23:50.95\00:23:52.40
I will give the right to
sit with me on my thrown.
00:23:53.09\00:23:56.01
Can you imagine,
God wants to provide us
00:23:56.04\00:23:58.83
with his power, with
his strength to overcome
00:23:58.86\00:24:02.35
the viles of the devil
and as we go along in our
00:24:02.38\00:24:05.60
daily walk, how do we
do it, we've got to spend
00:24:05.63\00:24:09.26
time in his word.
Because I've heard you talk
00:24:09.29\00:24:10.94
about the logos,
you know his word,
00:24:10.97\00:24:13.19
his word is transforming, amen,
00:24:13.22\00:24:15.92
his power is transforming
in our lives and unless
00:24:15.95\00:24:19.03
we spend that time on our
knees and prayer and study,
00:24:19.06\00:24:21.36
I saw it in my own
life when I quit doing that
00:24:21.39\00:24:25.03
even though God had
called me and then soon
00:24:25.06\00:24:28.40
I dropped away, you
know I got busy with
00:24:28.43\00:24:30.89
all the things of life
and I became a businessman
00:24:30.92\00:24:33.69
and I was too
important to spend time in study
00:24:33.72\00:24:35.97
and prayer. Well, but,
and you were still going
00:24:36.00\00:24:38.41
to church, so there
was some little you know,
00:24:38.44\00:24:40.43
sometimes we, we
satisfy ourselves by saying
00:24:40.46\00:24:45.54
well I am getting
the weekly message or
00:24:45.57\00:24:47.91
I am doing this, and
to really know someone
00:24:47.94\00:24:50.78
it'd be like if you
were married and you always
00:24:50.81\00:24:53.83
spoke to your wife once a week.
00:24:53.86\00:24:55.98
But you are in the
same house and avoiding
00:24:56.01\00:24:58.31
her all the rest of
week, what would your
00:24:58.34\00:25:00.15
relationship be, that's
right, how many husbands
00:25:00.18\00:25:03.14
can sit, you know
husbands, my phone rings
00:25:03.17\00:25:04.14
and I pick up the cell
and I say, who is this,
00:25:04.15\00:25:06.96
yes, who is this?
Oh honey, it's you how,
00:25:06.99\00:25:11.23
how long would I
be married to my wife,
00:25:11.26\00:25:13.16
if didn't recognize
the voice of my wife, amen,
00:25:13.19\00:25:15.79
and the Lord says
my sheep hear my voice
00:25:15.82\00:25:18.84
and they follow me and
we need to learn to listen
00:25:18.87\00:25:22.39
to God's voice and
that voice comes to us
00:25:22.42\00:25:25.05
through his word. Yes, exactly.
00:25:25.08\00:25:26.85
Number one way he talks
to us is through the word.
00:25:26.88\00:25:29.25
But now the
restoration of communication,
00:25:29.28\00:25:33.32
sometimes people will
spend time in the word but
00:25:33.35\00:25:37.18
they don't really pay
much attention to the prayer
00:25:37.21\00:25:40.52
of life, what
would say about that?
00:25:40.55\00:25:41.93
Well, you, you don't
have one without the other
00:25:43.33\00:25:45.06
because as you read
this is an encounter with
00:25:45.90\00:25:49.78
a God of Universe. His
word is a direct encounter,
00:25:49.81\00:25:52.86
he says I am the
way, I am the truth,
00:25:52.89\00:25:56.24
I am the life and I
am light, I am the bread,
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all these things, God
doesn't say come follow me
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and I'll show you
where this is, no,
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no he says I am,
amen. We send these pages
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as he is the
God of the universe,
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desiring to live in
our lives to, to clothe,
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to clothe himself with
our bodies that he might
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live in our temple,
to give us the victory,
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to give us changes,
to overcome the problems
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that beset us so
easily in this life.
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Yes, you know, it's a,
the Lord once spoke to me
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and I'm trying to
think, here's how he said it,
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that time is life, how
you invest your time is how
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you invest your life and boy,
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sometimes we can
invest our lives,
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waste our lives,
by, by wasting our time,
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yet you have a
saying about time,
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share that with us. Well,
we weren't created for time,
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we're created
for eternity, amen.
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And we've got to focus on that.
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God, God wants to
transform us Romans
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12:2 Be ye therefore
transformed by the renewing
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of your mind
and God does it all.
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He clothes us with his
righteousness just as Adam
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and Eve in the garden.
He sends us the Holy Spirit
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when he is invited in,
yes, to live in our lives to
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changes and we. live in
the blast moments of earth's
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history, Shelley, we
don't have time to do things
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that we used to do.
Amen, and he does renew
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our mind but when we
spend time in the word
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this is the best
way to renew our mind,
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and as James says in,
amen, James 1:21 and it is,
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that word is
planted in our hearts,
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it has the power
to save our souls.
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Thank you so much so much
for being with us Jim Ayer,
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thank you, oh thank
you, and we are so grateful
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to all of you for joining us.
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I pray that if you
feel that your communication
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with God is suffering right now,
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just look
heavenward and say Lord,
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I want to be able
to communicate with you
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on an intimate level,
just one and one and God
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will help you restore
that, we're so grateful that
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you've joined us and now
our prayer is at the grace
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of our Lord Jesus
Christ, the love of the father
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and the fellowship
of the Holy Spirit.
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We'll be with you today
and always, see you again.
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