In the very fist verse
of the Bible, Genesis 1:1,
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there is an
interesting story about God,
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something he
reveals to us about himself.
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It says, "In the
beginning God, Elohim,
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created the
heavens and the earth."
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Stay tune to find out
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what the meaning
of the word Elohim is.
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Hello, I'm Shelley Quinn.
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Once again we welcome
you to Issues and Answers,
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and once again we're so excited
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to have Ernie Pyle
as our special guest
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because he is going to
tell us something special
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about one of the names of God.
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Ernie, thank
you for coming back,
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you are a speaker for
Knowing God Ministries.
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That's correct, along
with Dr. Rob Sheppard.
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Dr. Rob Sheppard.
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And we've a heard a little,
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you've told this how you
began and how you all go out
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without asking
for any remuneration,
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that you go to camp meetings,
you do seminars in churches.
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And Lord has had you very
busy in the last six years.
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And the entire focus
of Knowing God Ministries
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is on the names of God.
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Why the names of God?
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We've we have chosen the names
of God as a special interest
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because every name the
God introduces himself by,
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and there's over
300 to 400 names,
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is every name is a
description of who he is.
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And it's a promise of
what he will do in our lives.
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And as we go through
the story of the Bible
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and we recognize
the different names
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and the situations
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we see how God
arises to the situation,
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how he, and tells people
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that he has the
solution to their problem,
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and promises to do in his life.
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The next one is a perfect one
because in the Book of Judges,
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one of the most
bloodiest books in the Bible,
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so bloody that the take a woman,
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hack her up into 12 parts
and send all parts to this,
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every tribe of Israel.
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God says, "Hello,
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my name is peace, shalom."
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The God of pace in
that book of judges.
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Yes. It's
amazing story, Shelley.
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And that's why
the stories come alive
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as we learned names of
God and what they mean,
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we see how he
interacts with his people.
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And as we already said,
to know God is eternal life,
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that's what Jesus
said in John 17:3.
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Absolutely.
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So, what is the name
that God uses the most
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when he's
introducing himself to others?
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The name that he uses is Elohim.
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In the very first
words of the Bible he says,
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"In the beginning, God."
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So, every time,
Shelley, you see capital G,
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little o, little d.
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That is Elohim.
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When the people
translated the Bible,
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they didn't know
how to do these names,
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and so they gave a
spelling, for every name,
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each name a different spelling.
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So anytime you see
G-o-d, that's Elohim.
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Elohim is used
2250 times in the Bible,
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the name that God uses the most.
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So as I was to
begin to study the names,
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I thought, well,
there has to be a reason
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that he uses his name the most.
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Elohim simple means I made you,
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I've created you,
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I hold you in
the palm of my hand,
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and my promise to you
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is that I'll
never, never let you go.
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So, Elohim is
the covenant maker,
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and his covenant is
I'll never let you go.
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Now, as you know, Shelley,
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there is a lot of
discussion about covenants.
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You know, did old covenant
come before the new covenant
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or that the new covenant
become before the old covenant?
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Well, I'm is a
simple old Texas boy.
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And so I like things
where I can understand it.
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And as I've gone
through the Bible I've decided,
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here is God's
covenant with his people.
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Remember, Jesus said
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that we should be able
to teach salvation simply
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that a child can understand it.
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So here's what I
think the covenant is,
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he says in Exodus,
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"I want to be your
God and you be my people."
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He says in
Leviticus, "I wanna be your God,
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you be my people."
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We can go through all
the way over to Jeremiah,
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"I want to be your
God and you be my people."
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We can to Ezekiel,
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"I want to be your
God and you be my people."
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We can go through the New
Testament, the Revelation,
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the 21st chapter
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where God is describing
heaven and guess what he says,
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"I'll be your God
and you'll be my people."
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So, Elohim, such
a beautiful name,
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used the most
because God is expressing
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all he wants in our life
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is that we look
up to him as our God.
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And obviously, he
looks to us as his people.
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Amen. We call
that a relationship.
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And that's the message
and the name of Elohim,
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I will not forget you.
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And the interesting thing
to me is that in the Hebrew,
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Elohim is what I
call a uniplural.
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Yes.
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You know, and I
love when he says,
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the Lord, your God,
Elohim is one God, Echad.
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So it's more then one
personality wrapped up,
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and it says it right here.
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So we see a picture of
what we had called the trinity.
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Right, right, from
the very beginning.
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Right here from the very,
very beginning how God create it
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because we know
throughout New Testament,
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the Bible says that Jesus,
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all things were
created through him.
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Right.
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We know that the spirit hovered,
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so we see the father, the son,
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and the spirit
right here at creation.
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Right.
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And this is the covenant
maker, the covenant keeper.
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Right.
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The God who keeps'
covenant with those
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who keep covenant with him.
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Right.
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From the very beginning
God says, I care for you,
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I'll not let you go.
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When I was about 12 years old
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my daddy didn't allow my brother
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and I to go to movies at all.
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And one a day he
came to me and he says,
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"I want to you take to your
brother to movie," suddenly.
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I mean, all right, yeah.
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Wow, okay.
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I mean, I was shock, you mean,
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I'll get popcorn and
a drink or something.
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And it was a movie
called the Ten Commandments.
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Yes. Cecil B,
the male's classic.
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And so we went to
the movie and of course,
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we were just kind of awed by it.
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But it was interesting that
one of the things in the movie,
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the Ten Commandants
that just stuck in my mind,
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I don't know why,
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was just before
Israelites to leave Egypt
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to go in to the promise land,
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it shows that they are
carrying the bones of Joseph
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as they go in to
the promise land.
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And for some reason
that just stuck in my mind.
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Now lets move forward many years
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when I started learning
the names of God and studying,
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and I'm looking through them,
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I came up on
Genesis, the 50th chapter.
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And here's Joseph,
he knew he was dying,
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he calls his family
together and he tells them,
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"I believe in Elohim,
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the covenant maker
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and one day he's gonna fulfill
his promise to father Abraham,
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and he's gonna go and
take you to the promise land.
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When he does that I
want you to carry my bones
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and buried me in promise land."
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So, here we see
Joseph starting out a life,
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he's kind of a
smart like a teenager.
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"Ha, ha, ha, look
what I got, you don't."
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Goes to Egypt, looks
like he's got it made,
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falls in prison, fall
asleep, all through their life.
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But yet, when
his life was ending,
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it was Elohim,
the covenant maker
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that was a blessing in his life
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and he had so much
faith in the covenant maker,
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he says, I know that the
promise land will be here
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and I want to be buried in that.
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And all of a sudden the Elohim
and the movie kind of clicked
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because for some reason
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that just stuck in
my mind as a teenager.
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You know, this
is something that,
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when we think of,
even the Ten Commandments,
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most people think of
God, from the movie, you know,
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speaking in this
voice that is just you know,
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"Those shall not..."
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Not recognizing,
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as I learned
from Dr. Rob Shepard
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who works with you
that the Ten Commandants
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are read in the future tense,
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which indicates
there are promise.
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What God is saying when
he wrote the Ten Commandants
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as this covenant keeping God
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is that when you're
covenant relationship with me
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you won't want to have
any other Gods before me.
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You're not going to
take my name in vein,
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you're not gonna bow down idols,
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you're gonna be
excited about the Sabbath,
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you're not...
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You're gonna honor your parents,
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not gonna murdered,
not gonna commit adultery,
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not gonna liar, you not
gonna bear false testimony,
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you're not gonna covert
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because this is what
covenant relationship.
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I'm gonna be the
one that works in you
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to will and to
do my good pleasure.
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So, we see,
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as you a taking about all
the different names of God.
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Well, we're talking
about some of the names of God.
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We see that God was
trying with each name
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by which he introduced himself,
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he was painting a picture
of who he is and what he'll do.
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Right.
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And every picture is
the picture of love, it's...
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Yeah.
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You know, Sue and I at
the age now, well, she is,
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were we began to kind of wonder
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what our future
is gonna to be like.
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You know the beauty of God
is he says, just as you said,
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if you know me
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here's what your
life is going to be like.
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You're going appreciate
day that you can worship me,
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you're going to
do all these things.
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And how wonderful it would be
if we took the Ten Commandments
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and presented them in
that light of a promise
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verses something you
got to do to please God.
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Amen.
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Let me give you another
example of Elohim, how he works.
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We all the story of Jonah.
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Now, it's pretty
heard to you think
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the God would speak to a man
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and he was just go do opposite.
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Why, I don't know if
that's so hard, you know.
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I think they're probably...
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It happens to all
of them, it's done.
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He might not speak directly
but he speak through his word.
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But he went... and
we all know the story.
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So it's interesting thing
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that when Jonah was
swallowed up by the great fish,
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he's in the belly
and he began to pray.
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And guess what
name of God he uses?
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Elohim. Elohim.
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Elohim.
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God, you promised me
that you would not let me go.
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And when you read that prayer
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you see exactly
that's what his thanking is.
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Yes, I've missed up,
yes, I've done wrong,
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yes, I probably
deserved what I'm getting
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but you promised
you would delivered me.
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And, Elohim, I'm calling up
on you to fulfill that promise.
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And off course, we
know the next thing,
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the fish throws
up on the dry land
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and there is Jonah.
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So it's
interesting that in that,
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what I called
the pit of the fish,
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he was in the same condition
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as the boy was in the hog pan
in the story of the good daddy,
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Prodigal Son, call out to God.
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Elohim says to
all of us, Shelley,
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don't care what you've
done, where you at, call out,
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my promise is I'll be there.
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It's a very beautiful promise.
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And I'd like to
give you one more story
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that I think is just
fascinate in about Elohim.
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Would that be
okay. Absolutely, please.
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If I would, well,
I'm gonna ask you.
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Name one or two
of what you think
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the most wicked
people on earth have been.
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Manasseh.
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Well, stop there.
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I'll never ask
you another question,
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never again, Shelley.
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Most people would
say Adolf Hitler, Stalin,
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who killed a you
know, 20 million people,
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compared to Hitler, six.
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But one of the words
absolutely was Manasseh.
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Yeah.
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And Manasseh
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was the king
over the gods people
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and yet we're told there
during his reign it was bloody.
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One author his suggested
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that the streets ran with blood,
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he was killing that much people.
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And so there were so wicked,
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so separated from God
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that God allows
Assyrian army to come in
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and capture Manasseh.
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Take him off with
the hook in his nose.
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Takes him off to Babylon
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and the Babylonians
want to throw a great party.
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And so its
important, as you said,
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but its important
for people to understand
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here's God chosen
servant, king of his people,
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and he's been imparted
down streets of Babylon
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with the hook in his nose,
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chains on his
hands, chains oh his feet,
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and their is literally
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thousands and
thousands of people.
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And they're
saying, if this is the man
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that represents
Israel, ha, ha, look how week.
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And we would say,
if we're not careful
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that Manasseh got
exactly what he deserved.
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Oh, absolutely.
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I mean, he introduced
adultery, child scarifies,
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he was so evil,
it was unbelievable.
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Yes.
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Yea, we have a tendency to say,
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he's is getting
he just deserves.
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In fact, I would say,
well, see, this is what happens
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when you don't serve
God, this is what God does.
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Yes.
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But though he was so wicked...
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Amen.
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He turned to Elohim
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and his life changed.
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Now this is the
beauty about God.
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We could think that
God would take Manasseh
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and starting at the
bottom of the ladder,
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he brings him
right back, Shelley,
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and puts him right
back on the throne,
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and we restores
kingdom right to him.
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Isn't that amazing?
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How beautiful God.
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See, here again,
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one of the principles
of Knowing God Ministries
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is the stories always about God,
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its not about Manasseh,
it's always about the God.
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Put shim right back.
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Manasseh had one of
the profits sawed in half.
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Isaiah.
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And so...
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And don't know what it's
gonna be like on that day?
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That's what I'm
getting ready to say, Shelley.
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I hope me and you were there
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when the
prophet turns the corner
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and he runs into Manasseh.
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Yes. Can't you
imagine the shock?
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But I think it
won't, don't you know
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the Isaiah is
not gonna be saying,
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"What are you doing
here, " and upset about it.
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He's gonna be going,
"How did God save you?"
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Absolutely, absolutely.
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And you can
just see him hugging.
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Yeah.
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And so happy
that they are there.
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That is the goodness of Elohim.
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You know what, Ernie, I
always tell people that,
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you've heard this, I'm sure.
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That some people just don't
see grace in the Old Testament,
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in the old covenant,
they can't see grace.
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And I tell them, if you
wanna see grace in action
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look at the story of Manasseh,
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how God took this one
that thumbed his nose at God,
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this heathen, he was so wicked.
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And how, when he,
like the prodigal son,
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when he came a
his senses in the pit,
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and called out on Elohim,
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the covenant maker,
how God restored him.
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I mean, that's
nothing abut grace.
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You know, the interesting
thing in the story of Manasseh,
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as you know is that all though
he turned back fully to God
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and he tried to tear
down the high places,
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he tried to restore,
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he couldn't undo the
consequences for sin.
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It had already
influence too many.
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And that's sometimes,
as we forget in our lives
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that even if we turned back
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there's still the consequences
of actions that keeps on going.
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I think the story
Manasseh is a story for all.
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As we've gone
through over 70 seminars
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we've constantly
have people share with us
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that they felt
they have gone too far,
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they've committed
their unparalleled sin,
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that God doesn't care,
church doesn't, you know.
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This is Satan's biggest
lie that he puts on people,
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that God is a condemning God
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and that God is one who,
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he will point out
what you do wrong.
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And yet the
glory of it is he says,
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I've created you,
I'll never leave you.
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And he's proven
that over and over.
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You know what, here's
the scripted that release
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because I grew
up believing that,
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that not that I've
committed the unpardonable sin
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but I grew up believing,
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I had to be
perfect for God to love me.
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And I finally, I
remember, you know,
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in high school I would
a Sunday school teacher.
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I mean, I was, you know,
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they called me
miss goody two-shoes
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when I first
went off to college.
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It wasn't a Christian collage,
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so every body
would call me Polly Anna,
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that was my nick name, you now.
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They'd say, oh,
she's a Polly Anna.
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And I do recall,
though, you know,
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I had this love
affair with Jesus
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'cause I know he died for me.
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But the idea that of the father
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was one that he was
just ready to strike me down
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at any moment, until
I read this scripture.
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And it says, and
this is Hebrews 1:3,
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it's talking about
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how God has spoken in
the last day to ascend.
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And he says, "Who,
" talking about Jesus,
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"being the
brightness of his glory
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and the express
image of his person,
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upholds all things
by the word of power."
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Now just gonna stop here.
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You know, I always
looked at the part,
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the B part that
he upholds all things
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by the word of his power,
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because my focus was
on the power, the word.
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And then one day I'm
reading this and it's like,
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wait a minute, this says that
Jesus is the affluence of God,
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that everything we see in Jesus,
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this is way the father.
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Absolutely.
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So as loving is
non-judgmental as patient,
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as compassionate as Jesus was.
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That's who the father he is.
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And it blew my mind
because all of the sudden,
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I'm Jesus said, he came
so that to reveal the Father.
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He was here.
And we all know how.
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We don't look at Jesus as
being, you know, judgmental.
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No.
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But that how we
feel about the Lord.
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You know one of the
things I also grow up
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is Jesus was my
friend, God was a kind like,
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Santa Claus, seeing
who's is naughty and nice,
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and they Jesus had to
explain God who I was.
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Well, what a
picture of the father.
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Yeah.
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I love it when Jesus came
to this earth and he says,
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I want to show you what a God
of the Old Testament is like.
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And when he come across a leper,
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he would hug the leper
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and then he would heal him.
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I think if I was doing it
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I would heal the
leper then I would hug him.
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That's a good point.
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But see, that's
what the father is like.
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Can you imagine a leper...
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That's good.
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You know, they're unclean,
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nobody come
within 10 feet of them,
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they had to howl
unclean or ring a bell.
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Can you imagine, a
leper going year after year,
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nobody ever touching him.
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And then, all of
sudden here comes this man
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who hugs him and then cures him.
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He cure 10 lepers,
they all took off running,
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one of them
stopped and said, you know,
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I guess it would being nice
if I went back thank the guy.
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But that's, Jesus says,
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that's what your
father in heaven is like.
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If he was here he
would be hugging lepers,
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he would be having
children sit on his lap.
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If the God, the father was here,
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he'd be at a well at noon,
taking to us Samaritan woman.
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Yeah.
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Have you ever read
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the translation
of the word rejoice?
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It actually
means to twirl about,
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to kick of your feet or your,
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like a calf would kick up
its heels if it was released.
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I want to read you just
one of my favorite promises.
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Love to hear it.
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This is about the Lord,
your God, that's Elohim.
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"The Lord, your
God in your midst..."
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This is, I'm
sorry, Zephaniah 3:17,
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"The Lord your
God in your midst,
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the mighty who have saved,
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he will rejoice
over you with gladness,
00:24:11.31\00:24:16.18
he will quite you with his love,
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he will rejoice
over you with singing."
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Now I had just
study out the root
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and the meaning of rejoice,
00:24:28.20\00:24:30.13
when I read this one night.
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And all of a sudden
here's the picture of God
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who get so excited over
me, he actually stands up,
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twirl round and
he's singing over me.
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Yes.
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Ernie, we've got
a correct picture
00:24:43.01\00:24:45.98
that people have in
their minds of who God is.
00:24:46.01\00:24:48.55
We say in our ministry on this
00:24:48.58\00:24:50.19
that God is up in he's clapping,
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singeing, and he is dancing.
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Yes.
00:24:54.26\00:24:55.59
Because one
person has come back,
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and again it's his,
always been his child,
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but he's come back
to the family of God.
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We need to tell the world
00:25:04.10\00:25:07.44
and our ministry has
a small section of that,
00:25:07.47\00:25:12.21
God loves you,
God cares for you,
00:25:12.24\00:25:15.94
his greatest desire is that
you spend eternity with him.
00:25:15.98\00:25:22.05
And that's the picture
00:25:22.08\00:25:24.05
that we try to portray
through the names of God.
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There's many ways of doing it,
00:25:27.12\00:25:28.86
we just chose the names of
God because just with Elohim,
00:25:28.89\00:25:33.19
you can see it
interacting in people's lives,
00:25:33.23\00:25:36.50
and they call upon him.
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Yes.
00:25:37.90\00:25:39.23
And we share with
people, don't care who you are,
00:25:39.27\00:25:42.20
what you've done,
Gods still loves you,
00:25:42.24\00:25:45.27
God still cares, and
God want you to come home.
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Amen. That's the essence of our.
00:25:48.41\00:25:51.55
And don't listen
to the wrong voice,
00:25:51.58\00:25:53.62
if somebody is trying to
convince you that you know,
00:25:53.65\00:25:57.29
if Satan's
trying to convince you
00:25:57.32\00:25:58.72
that you've
committed the unpardonable sin.
00:25:58.75\00:26:01.59
You would even,
you would be concern
00:26:01.62\00:26:03.83
if you'd committed it,
00:26:03.86\00:26:05.19
you wouldn't be
concerned about it.
00:26:05.23\00:26:06.80
You would be like Satan
00:26:06.83\00:26:08.16
that there is no chance
of you turning back, so.
00:26:08.20\00:26:10.83
You know, one of the things
that happen to the prodigal
00:26:10.87\00:26:12.97
in the pig pan was the
daddy was always in the pig pan
00:26:13.00\00:26:18.04
right there with them.
00:26:18.07\00:26:19.71
It was the daddy's
voice that keep saying,
00:26:19.74\00:26:22.34
come home, come home.
00:26:22.38\00:26:24.88
And so that what our
ministry share with people,
00:26:24.91\00:26:27.62
just come home.
00:26:27.65\00:26:29.28
Don't worry about
getting cleaned up,
00:26:29.32\00:26:30.99
don't worry about
getting things in order.
00:26:31.02\00:26:34.02
But we can come
home. That's right.
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It's like, he said
in Jeremiah, you know,
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you think you can
change your heart?
00:26:39.46\00:26:41.33
You can't
change yourself anymore
00:26:41.36\00:26:43.00
than a leper can change his skin
00:26:43.03\00:26:44.70
Or Ethiopian is
00:26:44.73\00:26:46.07
or leper can't change his
spots or Ethiopian his skin.
00:26:46.10\00:26:49.10
So its this idea
of yielding to God
00:26:49.14\00:26:52.34
and letting him do
all of these things.
00:26:52.37\00:26:55.38
I mean, the
salvation belongs to God,
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no if, and, or buts about it.
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I can't believe how fast,
you have a closing comment?
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Well, the only thing
I can see is you can see
00:27:03.95\00:27:07.02
the covenant maker,
I will not let you go,
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why God use that name
00:27:09.96\00:27:12.16
more than any
other name that in?
00:27:12.19\00:27:14.26
Because it is
his greatest promise.
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Amen. Amen.
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Well, I just want to you certain
00:27:18.77\00:27:20.60
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00:27:20.64\00:27:25.07
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00:27:25.11\00:27:27.21
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00:27:27.24\00:27:29.34
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00:27:29.38\00:27:31.18
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And that's all in lower case.
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Thank you so
much for being here.
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Well, thank you for having me.
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It just I love
to talk about God.
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Amen. Amen.
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And that shows
Ernie is precious.
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Well, for those of you at home,
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our prayer is that
you will come to know God,
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and one way to know him better
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is to know how he
introduces himself.
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Because, in the Bible,
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names meant something
to do with you character,
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and this is why God
use so many different names
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to tell us who he was.
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Please join us next time,
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we're getting to
get Ernie to come back,
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and we look
forward to next week.
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