Eat the bread you'll have life,
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eat my flesh you'll have life,
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drink my blood you'll have life.
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The evidence is our willingness
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to hear and
obey the word of God,
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especially since we
realize this is God's speaking.
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This is not an ordinary book
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we're talking
about this morning,
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this is the word of life.
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This is the word of God.
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We are in his presence.
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The Holy Spirit's
ability to inspire.
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Let's bow our
heads to give our hearts
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to get into the
word in this morning.
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Our loving Father in heaven,
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We only catch a
glimpse of your magnificent
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some were overwhelmed.
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We are humbled Lord
even to be used by You
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as vessels to receive
and to share You to others.
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What a privilege we
have and this morning
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as we continue to
open up the good news
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and to expand that even further,
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we just pray for
great clarity, Father,
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so that anyone
sitting here this morning
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who has spent
years of their lives
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trying to do the right things,
only to end up with no peace
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and to still feel
so short of Your glory,
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give them great
grace this morning, Father,
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as they come to the cross.
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In Jesus' precious name, Amen.
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What a tragedy to
spend years of your life
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and someone just walked up
to me yesterday and said this,
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"I've spent years of my life
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trying to do
all the right things
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and I'm still not perfect."
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I said, "Well,
praise God for that,
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'cause if you were,
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you might not
need the grace of God."
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Have you noticed
something about God
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how He keeps us all in check,
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that the more
clearly we be behold
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the righteousness of Jesus,
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the more clearly we see our own,
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our own imperfections.
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We see His beautiful perfection
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and the same time
as we compare ourselves
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we see our own imperfections
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and I want to tell
you that is of God.
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Because He is the
altogether perfect one.
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And as we've been seeing
the plan of salvation embraces
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all that God has done for us
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through the
atoning death of Jesus
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followed by all
that He then does in us
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by imparting His
beautiful life to us.
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Having done so much for us
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through the
atoning death of Jesus,
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God then
decides to endure us sin
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as a controlling
power in our lives.
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He's lifted the
burden of guilt from us
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but we're still
under the control of sin.
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So how does He handle that?
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It's unthinkable what He did.
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He decided to indwell us.
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Amen.
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To bring His Holiness into us,
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Oh what it's gonna take?
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I guess my character needs
building this week, you know.
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I gonna repeat
it the third time,
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you'll never know.
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I'm a beggar for punishment.
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Having done so much for us
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and someone
said to me yesterday,
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"Please keep saying these things
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until we get it."
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I said, "Well, then I will,
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I'm equal to that
challenge believe me."
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Amen.
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You don't know how tough I am
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'cause you
haven't met my mother yet,
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you know, who's getting
more vigorous with her age.
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Having done so much for us
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through the
atoning death of Jesus,
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lifting all that
guilt and condemnation
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and death from us,
freeing us up basically,
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not to sinners we found out
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but to actually put on
the living Christ everyday.
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Amen.
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To be able to spend
every day of our lives
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with Christ in us.
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Amen.
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What a privilege that is. Amen.
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Wow, this is how God
breaks the strangle hold,
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the slavery of sin
that will be in under.
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He doesn't make us
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stronger everyday
with a shot in the arm,
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so we get a
little more holy everyday
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and we look in the
mirror and say, "Yes,
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praise God, I'm
getting there, you know.
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What He does is, He indwells us.
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Amen.
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He brings His
magnificent Holiness into us.
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I can hardly stand it
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sometimes, God is so Holy
and I'm so unholy by comparison
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that when He's
Holiness comes into me at times
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it's just, it's
almost overwhelming
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you know, the
feeling because you realize
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that somebody so purer, so
far above anything you are,
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is actually dine in
to come and live in you
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for another day of your life.
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It struck me one day
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as I'm driving around
the freeways of Los Angeles.
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I've got many children
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living around
the Los Angeles area
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so I'm constantly
having to drive up daily
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and they all think it's a huge
distance to drive down to me
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but I think it's
nothing to drive to them
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'cause I don't have
little children either.
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And it just struck
me as I was driving,
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oh, my goodness, the
Holy God is living in me
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for another day of my life
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and I stopped the
car on the shoulder.
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It's a dangerous
thing to do in LA
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and I got out of the
car and I stood there
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and raised my hands
in the air like this
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and I moved into the
most incredible praise.
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'Cause you know, in LA
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nobody thought it
was anything unusual
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you know, I just,
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and I just stood
there for a minute or two
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and lifted up my
heart in praise to God
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that the Holy God of heaven
humbled Himself to the point.
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He not only took upon himself
the likeness of sinful flesh
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but He's choosing to indwell me
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for another day of my life
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so that I need
not be a slave to sin
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for another day of my life.
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Amen.
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Isn't that remarkable?
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Yes.
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This is the kind of grace
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that God is
offering His children
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and we still got people
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that are all hung
up on being perfect.
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They spend their lives
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trying to do
all the right things
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and never reaching satisfaction.
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Let me share a verse
with you this morning.
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It's one of my favorites
in Hebrews, chapter 10.
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I keep coming back to the Cross
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I can't get away from it.
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It's the key to everything.
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Hebrews, chapter 10,
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I believe this is
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one of the most
balanced and profound things
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that the
apostle Paul ever wrote.
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Hebrews, 10 and verse 14,
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look at the
balance in this verse,
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"By one offering, "
what is that a reference to?
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His atoning death,
that's the offering.
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"By one offering He has,"
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did you actually allow yourself
to hear that this morning?
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He has what?
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"He has perfected,"
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for how long?
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Very long time.
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Are you actually hearing it?
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In God's sight you
are perfect for how long?
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Forever because you're
trying harder everyday,
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is that what it says?
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No.
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Because to got a list of rules
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and you checked
them off faithfully?
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Is that how it reads?
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No.
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We are perfect
forever by one offering.
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Well, let's sink in this morning
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'cause it's
another way of saying,
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you're justified.
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God is declaring you
to be perfect forever
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but look at the
rest of the verse.
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If you got a good
translation of we'll reflect
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a continuous tense in--
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Does anyone have the
continuous tense out there
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that will show the
word being will be used?
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You got up there?
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Hang on I'm going to
bring you a microphone for you.
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This young lady in
the second queue there.
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If you would read,
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what translation
do you have there?
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The NIV.
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NIV, okay, we'll pray
for you, please read it-
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Sorry.
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"Because of one sacrifice
He has made perfect forever
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those who are being made holy."
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The NIV has
done a good job here.
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They've picked up
the continuous tense.
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Once more would
you in a slightly
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more evangelistic voice.
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You could use a
little evangelistic voice.
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"Because of one sacrifice,"
or as you said offering,
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"He has made perfect forever
those who are being made holy."
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And her version says,
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"Those who are being made holy,"
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other versions read,
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"those who are being
sanctified," it brings,
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that is the word
sanctified there.
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But thank you, for having
the continuous tense in there
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because sanctification
is a process, isn't it?
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Yes. Isnt it?
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This is an accomplished fact.
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But this is a
process, a life long process.
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We are being sanctified.
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There are two loaded words
in this verse, aren't they.
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One of them is, perfection,
the other is sanctified
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and the good news is
they are not identical.
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One of them, you have
through the death of Jesus
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for how long?
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Forever.
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Forever, the other is a process
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going on in your life
leading you to maturity.
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But I challenge you this morning
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you'll never reach a point
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where you'll rise up and say,
"Thank you, God, I'm perfect.
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As long as you've got
your eyes on the perfect one
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that will never happen.
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I'm convinced by the way
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we are going to spend
eternity growing still
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into His likeness.
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How is your faith?
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Isn't this morning--
isn't that a beautiful verse?
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Yes.
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Perfection and sanctification
are not the same things.
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God knows that.
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That's why He
grants us perfection
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as we are
undergoing sanctification.
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We have complete perfection.
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We are justified
everyday of our lives.
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It's the most
under appreciated gift
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that God has
given the human race.
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I have so few friends still
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that are coming to
the Cross everyday,
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looking at the
broken body of Jesus
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and saying, "Thank you, God,
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for allowing Jesus
to become sinful me.
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Amen.
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For declaring
me to be righteous,
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I don't feel righteous
but God says in His sight,
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I am righteous.
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I'm claiming again
this morning, Roman 6:11.
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"Consider yourself to be,"
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well some of you
haven't even got that yet.
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Romans 6:11,
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"Consider yourself
to be dead to sin,"
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consider it says, Paul.
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Don't wait to feel it.
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Got nothing to do
with your feelings,
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it's an act of faith
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because Jesus has been
accepted by God in your stead.
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Amen.
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The resolution
of the sin problem
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has been placed on
Jesus not on you and me.
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Another feeble response,
how can I live with this, huh?
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The resolution
of the sin problem
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has been placed on
Jesus and not on you and me.
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Amen.
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Is that good news or what?
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It's the very best
news we could ever have
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because it frees us up
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to move into a
daily walk with Jesus,
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to have Him in us
everyday so that His Holiness
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can bring about maturity
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and sanctification within us.
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One of us still got
that little statement.
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Yes, I've still got it here.
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Powerful little statement
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that I occasionally bring into
my favorite Christian author,
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this is a very
beautiful statement
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from The Review and
Herald, July 7, 1904,
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in an article
titled, Genuine Conversion.
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This is the clearest statement
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of understanding the new birth.
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It sheds light on
the biblical term,
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the New Birth
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which is another way of saying,
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having the mind of
Jesus in you every single day.
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This is the clearest statement
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about the mind of
Jesus in us or the New Birth
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I have ever read
in my entire life.
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And every time now,
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when I read those
words in the scripture,
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I allow this thought
to jump into my mind.
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"The leaven of truth,"
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that's how I have
describing the Holy Spirit.
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"The leaven of
truth works secretly,
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silently, steadily,
to transform the soul."
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Do you like that
alliteration there,
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secretly, silently, steadily?
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I love the English here.
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It's beautiful.
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"The natural inclinations
are softened and subdued.
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So now is the interesting part.
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"New," let's see, we are
running out of space here,
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aren't we?
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"New," we're still
back here, remember?
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We're in here.
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Christ in us now.
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I'm moving fully
into the second section
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and she uses the term "New."
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This is where it
gets very exciting.
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"New thoughts,
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New feelings,
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New motives are implanted."
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Seriously, I think they are.
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A new standard of character
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has set up the
life of Christ Himself.
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Pray that it hits
you this morning please,
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pray that it hits you.
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You've come to the Cross,
00:16:47.90\00:16:49.97
you've taken hold of
the atoning death of Jesus,
00:16:50.01\00:16:52.71
you've allowed God to
declare you righteous again.
00:16:52.74\00:16:57.95
You've realized in the
atoning death of Jesus,
00:16:57.98\00:17:01.02
your death has taken place.
00:17:01.05\00:17:05.02
Your guilt fell on Him,
your condemnation fell on Him,
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your judgment fell on him.
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And you're so grateful
that you lift up your heart
00:17:14.26\00:17:17.10
and you say thank you, Father.
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Do you know what
God's response is?
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He immediately
puts His spirit upon you
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and the Holy Spirit only
has one focus in ministry.
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By the way, in
the afternoon meetings
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I'm going to develop this.
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The afternoon
service is not the same
00:17:34.85\00:17:36.79
as the morning series.
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We are going to deal with
the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
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That'd be at 4
o'clock in the afternoon
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and you will be much more
participative in the afternoon.
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So those of you that
have the gift of martyrdom
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should be hear at
4o'clock in the afternoon.
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They don't have a lot
of time for participation
00:17:52.90\00:17:55.07
in these morning meetings.
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But the moment you take
hold of that atoning death
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a new God's
glorious gift to you,
00:18:01.08\00:18:03.51
His responses is to
bring the Spirit into you
00:18:03.55\00:18:06.25
and the
Spirit's work is to bring
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the living Christ into us.
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Amen.
00:18:12.45\00:18:13.79
And in actual fact,
00:18:13.82\00:18:15.16
you'll receive
the thoughts of Jesus
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you'll receive the feelings.
00:18:22.30\00:18:23.73
Is that good news? Yes.
00:18:23.77\00:18:25.97
You'll receive
the feelings of Jesus,
00:18:26.00\00:18:31.04
you'll receive
the motives of Jesus
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everyday of your life.
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The living Christ
through the spirit
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is coming into the minds
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of those who come to the Cross
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and take hold of
His amazing death.
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God's gift then is to bring
00:18:51.83\00:18:53.43
the beautiful life
of Christ into you,
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you'll start thinking
totally different thoughts.
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I doubted for two years,
00:19:02.24\00:19:03.57
once I started practicing this
and God rebuked me so strongly.
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He said to me one morning,
00:19:06.98\00:19:08.54
"Didn't you pray for
my mind this morning?
00:19:08.58\00:19:12.05
So whose thoughts do
you think you're having?"
00:19:12.08\00:19:15.38
I said, "Well, forgive me."
00:19:15.42\00:19:17.69
Why am I doubting?
00:19:17.72\00:19:19.05
These are the thoughts of Jesus
00:19:19.09\00:19:20.72
and I am
empowered to act upon them.
00:19:20.76\00:19:24.79
I can have the feelings
of Jesus every single day.
00:19:24.83\00:19:29.03
I used to seriously
doubt the will of God.
00:19:29.06\00:19:32.90
How do I really
know what God's will is?
00:19:32.93\00:19:37.31
Now I know by
putting on the mind of Jesus
00:19:37.34\00:19:40.84
every single day.
00:19:40.88\00:19:44.05
I know exactly His
will and purpose in my life.
00:19:44.08\00:19:48.22
Whereas I used to doubt
before nine times out of ten,
00:19:48.25\00:19:51.75
now it's crystal
clear and if it's not clear,
00:19:51.79\00:19:55.66
God's advice to me is don't act,
00:19:55.69\00:19:57.69
continue to seek my
mind until it's crystal clear
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and then act upon it.
00:20:01.86\00:20:04.87
I know my older son
00:20:04.90\00:20:06.23
who is a pastor in
Southern California,
00:20:06.27\00:20:08.40
he had a call
recently to move to Maryland
00:20:08.44\00:20:11.77
to pastor the New
Hope Church over there.
00:20:11.81\00:20:14.78
It's a big contemporary church
00:20:14.81\00:20:16.68
where there are 800 members
and he was like a see-saw.
00:20:16.71\00:20:22.25
He would call me
up every other day,
00:20:22.28\00:20:23.72
"I don't know what to do.
00:20:23.75\00:20:25.09
I think I'm gonna go."
00:20:25.12\00:20:26.62
The next day he
would call me and say,
00:20:26.65\00:20:27.99
"I think I'm not gonna go."
00:20:28.02\00:20:29.99
So one day I
call him up and said,
00:20:30.03\00:20:31.43
"I want to tell you something,
00:20:31.46\00:20:32.79
that's the lesson
is not from of God.
00:20:32.83\00:20:35.46
If this is a call from God,
00:20:35.50\00:20:37.73
you'll be crystal
clear in your thinking.
00:20:37.77\00:20:41.57
You will know
beyond any shadow of doubt
00:20:41.60\00:20:44.04
this is God's call to you.
00:20:44.07\00:20:46.37
But this see-sawing business
00:20:46.41\00:20:48.24
suggests to me
this is not of God."
00:20:48.28\00:20:50.85
So he called me
up two days later
00:20:50.88\00:20:52.38
when he says that "I'm going,"
I said, "Praise the Lord."
00:20:52.41\00:20:55.58
I said, "I would
have supported you
00:20:55.62\00:20:57.82
if you'd called me up and said
00:20:57.85\00:20:59.19
this is God's call and I'm going
00:20:59.22\00:21:00.56
but you were like a
see-saw, back and forth."
00:21:00.59\00:21:03.59
You will not be a see-saw
00:21:03.63\00:21:05.49
if you put in the mind
of Jesus every single day.
00:21:05.53\00:21:09.66
You will know the will of God,
00:21:09.70\00:21:11.47
you have no accidental
encounters in your life,
00:21:11.50\00:21:15.04
by the way
00:21:15.07\00:21:16.60
because Jesus in you
00:21:16.64\00:21:18.21
will be
constantly seeking for souls.
00:21:18.24\00:21:23.61
I was in Atlanta
about 12 months ago.
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I needed a new shirt
00:21:28.38\00:21:31.59
so I went to the
mall in Buckhead,
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my favorite part of Atlanta.
00:21:35.09\00:21:37.69
And there were
two big stalls there,
00:21:37.73\00:21:39.43
Bloomingdale's was
here and Macys was there.
00:21:39.46\00:21:43.57
And in my mind
00:21:43.60\00:21:44.93
I felt a strong
compulsion to go into Macys.
00:21:44.97\00:21:48.64
I'm not a big shopper
00:21:48.67\00:21:50.01
so it didn't make
any difference to me.
00:21:50.04\00:21:52.27
So I went into Macys
00:21:52.31\00:21:53.64
and I finally I get
lost in these stores,
00:21:53.68\00:21:55.58
I finally found
the Men's wear section
00:21:55.61\00:21:59.21
and I walked up to the counter
00:21:59.25\00:22:00.62
and there's a young
woman behind the counter
00:22:00.65\00:22:02.82
and she's weeping her eyes out.
00:22:02.85\00:22:05.62
Well, I said,
it's just my destiny.
00:22:05.65\00:22:09.12
I come into buy a shirt
and the shopkeeper is weeping.
00:22:09.16\00:22:14.06
So I said to
her, "Can I help you?"
00:22:14.10\00:22:15.56
She said, "No,
it's just too terrible."
00:22:15.60\00:22:18.73
I said well, I said, "I
have been known to help people
00:22:18.77\00:22:21.30
who are in pain before.
00:22:21.34\00:22:23.91
Do you want to
share it with me?"
00:22:23.94\00:22:25.27
"No, it's awful, it's terrible,
00:22:25.31\00:22:26.64
it just happened
to me this morning."
00:22:26.68\00:22:29.34
I said, "Please share it with me
00:22:29.38\00:22:30.85
and I believe that I
might be able to help you."
00:22:30.88\00:22:34.05
I said, "What terrible
thing has happened to you?
00:22:34.08\00:22:36.02
I'm trying to imagine
00:22:36.05\00:22:37.39
what terrible thing
must, this is a young woman,
00:22:37.42\00:22:40.06
couldn't be more
than 21years of age.
00:22:40.09\00:22:43.56
Well, she said, "I
happened this morning
00:22:43.59\00:22:44.96
when I came to work."
00:22:44.99\00:22:47.16
And I'm preparing myself
for some terrible revelation.
00:22:47.20\00:22:51.57
She said, "The
manager called me this morning
00:22:51.60\00:22:54.94
and he said to me,
00:22:54.97\00:22:56.30
'We're moving you from
Cosmetics to Men's wear."
00:22:56.34\00:23:00.58
Oh, I said, "How disastrous."
00:23:05.48\00:23:08.88
I mean that is disastrous.
00:23:08.92\00:23:11.99
Fancy have been moved her
from cosmetics to men's wear.
00:23:12.02\00:23:15.89
I'm trying to
keep a straight face.
00:23:15.92\00:23:17.53
This is a big
disaster, you know.
00:23:17.56\00:23:20.73
I said, "Well, look
on the bright side."
00:23:20.76\00:23:22.20
For which she said,
"Is there a bright side?"
00:23:22.23\00:23:23.70
I said, absolutely.
00:23:23.73\00:23:25.80
If you hadn't
move to men's wear,
00:23:25.83\00:23:27.30
you would not be meeting me."
00:23:27.34\00:23:32.71
I said, "Trust me,
00:23:32.74\00:23:34.08
you would not have
met me in cosmetics."
00:23:34.11\00:23:36.04
Well, she said, why
is that so important?"
00:23:40.12\00:23:41.98
I said, "It's important
because I have the solution
00:23:42.02\00:23:46.42
to your problem.
00:23:46.45\00:23:47.79
I can offer you something
00:23:47.82\00:23:49.59
that will
guarantee you peace of mind.
00:23:49.62\00:23:53.29
Even if your
circumstances are horrible,
00:23:53.33\00:23:56.40
you can keep your peace of mind
00:23:56.43\00:23:59.40
and I would like
to share it with you
00:23:59.43\00:24:01.10
if you'll stop
weeping for one minute.
00:24:01.14\00:24:04.54
I want to tell you
some very good news."
00:24:04.57\00:24:08.24
And I shared the
good news with her.
00:24:08.28\00:24:10.41
She dried her eyes and she said,
00:24:10.45\00:24:12.01
"Oh, I thought I
was a Christian."
00:24:12.05\00:24:15.48
I said, "Well,
I'm encouraging you
00:24:15.52\00:24:17.12
now to be a stronger Christian.
00:24:17.15\00:24:19.55
This is what God is
offering you in Jesus Christ
00:24:19.59\00:24:22.62
and I would like to
pray with you right now
00:24:22.66\00:24:24.53
in the middle of Macys.
00:24:24.56\00:24:26.33
Let's get all this on
video tape, you know."
00:24:26.36\00:24:30.27
She said, "Do you see
those two young men over there?
00:24:30.30\00:24:33.27
They need prayer as much as me,
00:24:33.30\00:24:34.80
can I pull them into?"
00:24:34.84\00:24:36.17
I said, "of course,
let's have a prayer meeting
00:24:36.20\00:24:37.67
right here in Macys, you know."
00:24:37.71\00:24:39.44
So they came over and joined us.
00:24:41.24\00:24:42.84
It was now four of us.
00:24:42.88\00:24:44.91
She said, "And I've
also got a physical problem.
00:24:44.95\00:24:46.95
I'm losing my
hearing in one ear."
00:24:46.98\00:24:48.72
I said, "I lay hands on
people for things like that.
00:24:48.75\00:24:52.02
So as I pray if you all
have my hand on your ear."
00:24:52.05\00:24:55.42
We had the most
powerful time of prayer
00:24:55.46\00:24:58.39
and uplift together.
00:24:58.43\00:24:59.76
So just recently I
was back in Atlanta again
00:24:59.79\00:25:01.70
and I walked into Macys
00:25:01.73\00:25:03.23
and they all
came running up to me,
00:25:03.26\00:25:04.80
"Can we have another meeting?"
00:25:04.83\00:25:06.17
I said, "That's why I'm here."
00:25:06.20\00:25:09.47
Well, they said, "We
got eight people now."
00:25:09.50\00:25:11.87
I said, "Fantastic."
00:25:11.91\00:25:14.08
Now I looked up and
I laughed at myself,
00:25:14.11\00:25:15.91
I'm taking over
Macys now for Jesus.
00:25:15.94\00:25:20.72
You know, what I said to myself?
00:25:20.75\00:25:22.08
I never used to
have these encounters,
00:25:22.12\00:25:24.95
I never used to
have these experiences
00:25:24.99\00:25:28.42
until I understood the meaning
of putting on the mind of Jesus
00:25:28.46\00:25:34.06
because Jesus is
hungry for ministry.
00:25:34.10\00:25:38.17
You know that, don't you?
00:25:38.20\00:25:39.80
He doesn't miss
these opportunities.
00:25:39.83\00:25:43.00
How's your faith this morning?
00:25:43.04\00:25:45.84
You want to
become more like Christ?
00:25:45.87\00:25:49.04
Then put on the mind
of Jesus every single day.
00:25:49.08\00:25:54.22
You'll have His thoughts,
you'll have His feelings,
00:25:54.25\00:25:58.19
you'll have His
convictions in you
00:25:58.22\00:26:01.02
and all of a sudden
00:26:01.06\00:26:02.39
the ordinary things in your life
00:26:02.42\00:26:04.36
will become extraordinary.
00:26:04.39\00:26:07.63
Because Jesus has
such a hunger for souls,
00:26:07.66\00:26:11.67
He feels every hurt
of every human being.
00:26:11.70\00:26:18.54
Father in heaven, what
an amazing God you are.
00:26:18.57\00:26:24.61
You're sitting up there
00:26:24.65\00:26:25.98
administrating
the entire universe
00:26:26.01\00:26:29.18
and that you have time
to look down to my home town
00:26:29.22\00:26:32.99
and spot one middle aged
homeless woman in great pain
00:26:33.02\00:26:38.63
and you want to reach out
00:26:38.66\00:26:40.00
to your loving arm and
express your compassion to her
00:26:40.03\00:26:43.06
through a human instrument.
00:26:43.10\00:26:45.30
I'm humbled father
that you allowed me
00:26:45.33\00:26:47.47
the privilege of experiencing
00:26:47.50\00:26:49.90
your compassion and
your love for this woman.
00:26:49.94\00:26:54.08
And I'm overjoyed
that the knowledge
00:26:54.11\00:26:56.11
that Jesus can complete
His ministry through us.
00:26:56.14\00:27:00.72
Give us all the
gift of faith today
00:27:00.75\00:27:02.98
so that as we come to the
cross and express our gratitude
00:27:03.02\00:27:06.82
a new for all that
you've done for us,
00:27:06.86\00:27:09.49
where we begin to
seriously appreciate
00:27:09.52\00:27:11.89
what you can now
do in and through us
00:27:11.93\00:27:14.53
every single day.
00:27:14.56\00:27:16.03
So that You will ultimately
be glorified on this earth
00:27:16.06\00:27:20.07
in your people who
are truly like you.
00:27:20.10\00:27:23.84
Thank you, in anticipation.
00:27:23.87\00:27:25.77
In Jesus' precious name, Amen.
00:27:25.81\00:27:29.61
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