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>>CHRIS: Derek Redmond was a
track star for Great Britain. He
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was a champion runner and held
multiple records for his speed.
He was a part of the 1992
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summer Olympic team. He had
trained long and hard for that
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moment in his life. He was
racing in the 400-meter sprint.
He was a national record holder
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in that race. He had made it
to the semifinal round. The gun
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went off and he began his sprint
around the track. Less than half
way into the race, there
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was a pop - Derek grabbed
the backside of his right leg,
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limped and took a knee. He had
torn his hamstring - a most
painful injury. He had dreamed
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of completing this Olympic race,
but the pain was excruciating.
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He stood up and began to hop his
way to the finish line. He was
lame and in pain. As the
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crowds stood and watched through
the background a figure emerged
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and bypassed security. Derek's
father Jim came and drew next to
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his son and supported him as
they went the entirety of race.
The father came to help his
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son finish the race. Friends, we
too are a wounded and lame race
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of people. The Father has come
to our side and sent us His son
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Jesus - to take us
across the finish line.
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We are in part two of our series
on Noah, The real story. As we
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look at the passage in Genesis
chapter 6 we see that the earth
had become a terrible
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place. In Genesis
6:5-8 the Bible says,
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The earth was filled with
wickedness, evil, corruption and
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violence. It was a sad place.
But in the midst of it all, this
is a story of God's grace
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- His unearned favor toward
humankind. As we studied in part
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one of our series, we need
to understand a bit of history
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before we can understand the
story of Noah. In part one of
our series we saw that the
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author of all evil is the devil.
He is the real reason for pain
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and suffering on this sin sick
planet. We studied the history
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and background of where the
devil came from. But how did
evil enter into the equation of
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this planet's history?
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The story is a rather sad story.
It is the story of a great
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deception and a lack of trust.
Sometime after Satan was evicted
from heaven and sometime
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after the creation of humankind,
there is a story recorded of how
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evil came to planet earth. In
Genesis 3 it records the story,
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beginning in verse 1,
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When God created humankind,
He placed Adam and Eve in the
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Garden of Eden. There in that
Garden, God gave Adam and Eve
all the vegetation to
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eat. In Genesis 1:29 the Bible
describes the original diet,
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God provided Adam and Eve with
a total-plant based vegetarian
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diet. Yet there was one item
that they couldn't eat. Genes
2:16-17 describe that one
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exception,
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Adam and Eve had all the plants
of the Garden to eat from, but
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this one tree - the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil
wasn't to be eaten from.
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We have no evidence what kind of
fruit it was. And evidently, it
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may not have been obvious that
it was bad. The only indication
of it not being edible was
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God's clear message that it
should not be eaten. The tree of
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the knowledge of good and evil
was a sign of allegiance. By
Adam and Eve obeying, they
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clearly defined their allegiance
to God. Satan, who had been cast
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out of heaven, was here on the
earth. There in the garden of
Eden, he paid a visit
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to the first pair. He caught Eve
there in the garden and engaged
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her in dialogue. During this
interaction we see that there
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are a series of choices made by
Adam and Eve that lead to
disastrous results. The
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first choice was that Eve made a
choice to be in the presence of
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the tree of knowledge of good
and evil. God had told them not
to eat it - one clear
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way of never eating it would be
to avoid ever being close to the
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tree, but by choosing to go near
the tree Eve availed herself to
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temptation which could lead to
direct disobedience of God's
explicit command. Before
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we're too hard on Eve. Don't
we all struggle with this? We
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aren't satisfied to be way back
from the edge of the cliff, we
have to stand on the edge.
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Friends, if we desire to have
a life of victory over sin, we
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have to steer clear of sin
- not even get remotely close.
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Here the devil has engaged Eve
in a conversation and has lied
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about the character of God. God
gave them every tree except one.
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And as Eve defends her position
she makes two fatal mistakes,
she takes on the devil on her
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own. Friends, we must never take
on the devil in our own power -
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we will loose. But in the spirit
of God and by His strength, we
can always overcome him.
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The second mistake was Eve's
overstatement of the facts. You
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see, God had told the pair, not
to eat of the fruit of the tree
of the knowledge of good
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and evil - but Eve states that
God said not to touch it. We
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have no record of God saying
such a thing. Once Eve had made
the choice to overstate her
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case and essentially lie - she
was entrapped in the snare of
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the devil. Then the devil
promised a higher state of being
if Eve would partake of the
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fruit. She was promised to
become like God. The devil was
tempting Eve with the
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same thoughts that he, himself
had given into - to be God. The
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next verses are probably the
saddest verses in all of
scripture, because like
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dominoes falling, the choices
of Adam and Eve set into motion
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events and consequences that
affect all of us still today.
Genesis 3:5-6 go on to
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say,
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Eve moves from a knowledge
of knowing that the tree is
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forbidden for humankind, to
believing that it was good for
food. Eve made a choice, a
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choice to trust the devil more
than God. And friends, that is
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the choice that each of us make
when we choose to sin. We choose
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to not trust God, but to trust
in ourselves - ultimately the
devil. Eve disobeyed God's
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command and ate the fruit. But
it doesn't stop there; Eve also
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gives the fruit to her husband
to eat. She wasn't satisfied
with her own disobedience and
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chooses to involve someone else.
The old adage that misery loves
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company seems to be true for a
long time. While the record of
Adam's failure is not as
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plain, we can see choices that
he made that led to this failure
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as well. What can we say about
Adam? Adam also made a choice.
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There at the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil, we
have no voice of Adam - so we
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deduce one of two options,
either he was being silent or he
wasn't there. It would
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seem because he says nothing
that he likely wasn't by her
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side. However, either way, what
we can say is that Adam was not
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taking his role as spiritual
leader seriously. Adam, as the
husband, was called to be
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the spiritual leader, protector,
and provider for his family. He
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was absent. When Eve brings the
fruit to him, Adam is faced with
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a crisis. He knows the result of
eating the fruit, he knows that
Eve will die, but she
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hadn't yet - maybe, he thought,
God wasn't right. He was faced
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with a choice to obey his own
feelings or the word of God.
Adam was faced with a crisis of
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faith. Ultimately he made a
conscientious choice to disobey
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and he also ate. Immediately the
pair noticed a change. The robe
of Christ's righteousness
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no longer covered them, they
were naked. Seeing their shame,
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the sewed a fig leaf covering.
Friends, Adam and Eve did what
we all do; they tried
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to cover their sin. And with
these choices, they created a
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separation between them and God.
God came to the Garden, as He
had often done to spend
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time with the created couple,
but He was met with their
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absence. Verses 8-13 of Genesis
3 tell the rest of the story,
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The Bible now clearly outlines
the origins of the problems of
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Noah's day. How did sin enter
this world, through the choices
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of Adam and Eve. Oh, how very
sad. That story comes down
through history until today. The
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story of God seeking out the
children that He has been
separated from. The
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reaction of Adam and Eve is
so disturbing friends. As God
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reaches out His hand of mercy,
Adam blames his wife and
ultimately God, and then Eve
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blames the serpent - the blame
game. This leads to several
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consequences. The serpent is
cursed. The devil is promised a
deathblow. Human kind is
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promised a savior, but the
consequences are no longer
residing in the garden.
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And the promise of death - it
wouldn't come immediately, but
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slowly the pair would age and
become old. However, the pair
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would experience
death sooner than expected.
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Adam and Even had children. Cain
and Abel were sons. Cain was a
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farmer, he tilled the ground but
his brother Able was a shepherd,
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he kept sheep. The Bible records
their story in Genesis 4. By
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this time, God required
sacrifices that would symbolize
and foreshadow the sacrifice
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of Christ. This sacrifice was
to be an animal. Cain and Abel
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brought their sacrifices before
God, but there was a problem
Cain brought fruit and
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vegetables, while Abel brought
an animal sacrifice. Cain didn't
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follow God's instructions - he
followed his own way. Cain
became angry, because
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God wouldn't accept his
offering. Cain was so angered by
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this that it led to the first
murder ever recorded in history.
In Genesis 4:8, the Bible
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says,
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Cain chose to take his brother's
life. After murdering Abel, God
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asks Cain what he had done. God
had to punish Cain. Cain was
marked and he left the
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presence of God. Cain settled
in the land of Nod and there, he
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began a people. The descendants
of Cain would become a people
who were vehemently
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opposed to God. Instead of
turning from his sin, Cain
seemed to pass it on to
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eventually lead to a people who
were wicked, evil, corrupt and
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violent. The story of Noah and
the sin of Noah's day begins
with the sin of Adam and
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Eve and their son Cain. The
environment of the days of Noah
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was created by choices, choices
throughout generations to not do
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right and not to choose God.
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Friends, we each have a choice.
There is a war raging over each
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one of us. Will you make a
choice to be obedient to God and
follow Him or will you
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choose selfishly to follow your
own ways? God is calling each of
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us today. Like Derek Redman's
father, He wants to draw near to
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you. He knows your broken, He
knows you're in pain and He
wants to assist you and take you
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all the way to the finish line.
He is calling you and He is
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calling me to break the cycle of
sin and pain. Let the cycle of
sin and evil stop with you.
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Today let's choose to follow
Jesus and His ways and live on
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the paths of righteousness. You
won't regret it. Would you like
to accept the grace and
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mercy of God today and follow
Him? Today would you like to say
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that you want God alone to rule
on the throne of your heart? Do
you want to say that
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you desire God and God alone?
Listen to this song and may our
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prayer be that we would
choose God and God Alone.
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God and God alone
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Created all these
things we call our own
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From the mighty to the small
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The glory in them all
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Is God's and God's alone
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God and God alone
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Reveals the truth
of all we call unknown
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And all the
best and worst of man
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Won't change the master's plan
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It's God's and God's alone
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God and God alone
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Is fit to take
the universe's throne
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Let everything that lives
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Reserve its truest praise
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For God and God alone
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God and God alone
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Will be the joy
of our eternal home
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He will be our one desire
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Our hearts will never tire
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Of God and God alone
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God and God alone
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Is fit take to universe's throne
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Let everything that lives
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Reserve its truest praise
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For God and God alone
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God and God alone
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Is fit to take
the universe's throne
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Let everything that lives
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Reserve its truest praise
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For God and God
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Let everything that lives
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Reserve its truest praise
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For God and God alone
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>>CHRIS: God and God alone. Do
you want God to reign supreme in
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your life? Do you want him to
sit on the throne of your heart?
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All it takes is to ask. The
cycle of sin can stop with you.
It doesn't need to continue on.
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It doesn't matter what your
background is. It doesn't matter
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what your past is. It doesn't
matter what you've done. God
offers the opportunity to wipe
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the slate clean and to begin
again. It's a new life. The
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Bible refers to it as being born
again. Jesus desires us to
re-enter a relationship
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with Him. Back in the garden of
Eden, we were separated from God
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by sin. When Jesus came to this
earth, he was the bridge to
reconnect us. And the
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Bible is a story of God's
seeking, as he sought for Adam
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that day, asking, "Where are
you?" He wants you and he wants
you to be in His life. He wants
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you to have a relationship
with him. Today, do you want to
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choose God and God alone? If
that's your desire, let's pray
together. Heavenly Father,
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we want to stop the cycle of
sin. We no longer want to serve
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two masters. We want to serve
you and you alone. So today we
invite you into our heart. We
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invite Jesus into our heart.
May Jesus reign supreme. May you
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reign supreme in our heart.
Lord, give us victory over sin.
Wipe away the past.
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Help us to be born again, to be
born anew, and live a life with
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you. Please send your Holy
spirit to give us the strength
to do so. This is our prayer, in
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Jesus' name, amen.
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