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It has stood the test of time.
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God's book, The Bible
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Still relevant in
today's complex world
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It Is Written
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Sharing messages of
hope around the world!
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Bill Moore was a young 20
something year old man serving
in the US military during World
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War 2. Bill had left behind his
girlfriend Bernadean Gibson. The
two were in love, but service to
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his country was essential. While
overseas, he would write his
dear Bernadean to let her now
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how much he cared. After Bill
returned home from years in
military service, he married
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Bernadean and they had three
children together. For 63 years,
they shared their love for one
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another until Bernadean passed
away in April of 2010. After she
passed away, Bill moved to an
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assisted care facility and sold
many of his belongings. Fast
forward several years and Ilene
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Ortiz was shopping at a thrift
shop. She bought a record and
when she got home and slipped
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out her record, a note slipped
out with it. She opened the
note, where she read these
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words:
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Irene contacted the local news
agency thinking it be important
to reunite the letter with its
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owner. They ran a news story,
they talked about the letter and
then Bill Moore's daughter saw
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the letter and knew that it was
from her father. The letter was
re-united with Bill Moore, and
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what has become a viral video on
the internet, Bill weeps as he
reads this long lost love note.
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You know in the great star wars
battle, between Christ and
Satan, God has written each of
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us a love note. That love note
is the Bible, where he is wooing
and calling us to come and
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return to Him. To accept by
faith His sacrifice on our
behalf. But today we face a
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great problem in the world. In
Matthew 24:12 it predicts that
because lawlessness will abound;
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the love of many will grow cold.
The devil has attacked the
church through the lawlessness
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of the world and the love of
many growing cold. But God has
an answer, and the answer is
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found just two verses
later in Matthew 24:14
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The end of the world will not be
brought about by the political
manoeuvrings of the president of
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the United States. It will not
be because of the fanciful
speech-making of the Prime
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Minister of Canada. It will not
be because of joint agreements
between the Palestinians and
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Israel. Jesus says the answer to
the problems of the world today
is a very simple answer. This
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gospel, the gospel of Jesus
Christ is all that provides any
hope, any promise for the
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future. How is this gospel
spread throughout the earth?
Jesus said these words in
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Matthew 28:18-20
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This is the beautiful promise of
Jesus. But He says the way that
His message will go forth is
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through disciples. What is it to
be a disciple? Literally in the
Greek, the word "disciple"
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means "to be a pupil of; to
become a learner of; to become a
follower." What does it mean to
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be a follower of Jesus? When we
become a disciple of Jesus we
become a learner of Him, a pupil
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of Jesus, a follower of Jesus.
So fundamentally, how do we
become a follower of Jesus? What
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does that mean?
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There's a story recorded in the
book of Luke that demonstrates
to us what it means to be a
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follower of Jesus. You'll
remember Jesus' friend Lazarus
who He raised from the dead.
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Well, Lazarus had two sisters,
Mary and Martha, and they lived
in the town of Bethany. And it
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seems to be a place of refuge
for Jesus; He would go there.
And Luke 10:38 says this:
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Jesus had been travelling with
His disciples and they had just
performed miracles and they had
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healed people and they went to
the town of Bethany. It says He
entered a certain village and a
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certain woman named Martha
welcomed Him into her house. And
she had a sister called Mary who
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also sat at Jesus' feet and
heard His Word. So, picture the
story. The little town of
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Bethany, a home; Jesus has come
to this home. Mary and Martha
are there and Lazarus. And Jesus
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has come with His disciples. And
I want you to imagine for a
moment that the Son of God was
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coming to your house. And I want
you to imagine for just a moment
that the Son of God, the
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Messiah, the promised One,
showed up at your house
unexpectedly. Have you ever
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had unexpected company before?
Jesus showed up at the home. The
Bible says that Mary sat at the
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feet of Jesus and listened. And
the Bible also says that Martha
was distracted with much
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serving. And she approached
Him and said, (Luke 10:40)
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Some of you don't see the humour
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in this story. How many of you
have siblings? How many of you
have younger siblings? Picture
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this scene. Mary's sitting,
listening to Jesus. And Martha
is scurrying around because the
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Son of God has just come to
their house, you see. And they
want to feed Him and they want
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to entertain Him and they want
to serve Him. The Bible doesn't
say what happened, but I
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imagine, in my mind, that out of
the corner of her eye, as Martha
was scurrying around and wiping
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this off and wiping that off and
preparing the flour for this and
pouring water and that, out of
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the corner of her eye, she saw,
while she was working, she saw
her sister, her younger sister,
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while she worked, was sitting.
And then Martha came to the Son
of God, the Creator of all
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things, the Saviour of the
world, the One who came to die
for the sins of the world, and
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said to Him.
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And in an irony of ironies,
Martha commands the author of
the commandments what to do.
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Now before we're too critical of
Martha that is what many of us
do, isn't it? We spend a lot of
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time telling God what He ought
to do. I imagine in my mind that
Jesus, without one ounce of
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sarcasm, without one hint of
anger in His voice, in a
soothing tone says, (Luke 40 41,
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42)
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Mary had chosen the one thing.
What was the one thing that she
has chosen to do? To sit at the
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feet of Jesus. In a world of
confusion, a world of turmoil, a
world of pain, a world where the
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love of many is growing cold,
Jesus says, "There's one thing.
There's one thing that you need.
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There's one thing the world
needs, but we can't worry about
everybody else. There's one
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thing that you need." And that
one thing is to sit at the feet
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of Jesus. What does it mean to
sit at the feet of Jesus? First,
we need to listen to Jesus. And
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how do we listen to Jesus? By
studying the Bible. You know, we
can know all about this Book. We
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can know that this Book is fact.
We can know that this Book is
true. We sit at the feet of
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Jesus by opening His Word and
listening to Him speak, because
these words on these pages
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aren't just any words. Paul
writes that they are
God-breathed, that they're
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inspired words that God spoke,
that were recorded by the
prophets that were recorded by
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the Bible as God's love letter
to you. I want to encourage you,
friends, to spend time in this
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Word. Some people say to me, "I
don't even know where to start."
And what I tell people is very
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simply to start by opening it
and dedicating your life to
spend time in God's Word
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studying God's word. Every
morning, spending time in His
Word. And people then will tell
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me, "How much time?" My answer
to that question is, "Enough."
This is what I recommend to
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people as they begin their
journey with God, as they begin
the truth seeker's journey.
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Every morning, dedicate, and
just start small, dedicate ten
minutes. Ten minutes where you
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there is nothing else to
distract you. So I recommend to
people spend ten minutes and
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start there. And then I
recommend starting in the
stories of the Bible, beginning
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in Mark or beginning in John.
And don't worry about reading a
whole chapter.just read one
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section, one story. And you can
do this however you want to do
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it. I will tell you, several
years ago. I had a lull in my
spiritual life where I felt like
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I was dying spiritually, because
week after week I would get up
and speak on these topics and I
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felt like the well was starting
to dry up. And I needed a
renewal in my experience. So I
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returned to something I used to
do early in my walk with Jesus.
Every day I would spend my time
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reading the Word and then I
would take a notebook and write.
Nothing fancy necessarily.I'd
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write the date, I'd write the
passage that I read, and then I
would ask myself three
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questions. What does the passage
say? What is the passage saying
to me? And what is Jesus asking
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or inviting me to do? And then
I'd write that out. Some say
that it is too simple, but it
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works for me. I'll tell you, I
have Logos Bible program on my
computer. I have access to more
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books than I could ever read in
my lifetime. And whenever I
began to start doing my studies
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out of that computer, I get
distracted because I have these
things that pop up and tell me I
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have email and other things. But
you see, Jesus call us into a
relationship with Him, that we
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would study His Word because we
want to be a disciple, because
as a disciple of Jesus, we hear
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His Word, we are a pupil of
Jesus, we learn from Him, and He
teaches us out of His Word. And
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then as your ten minutes begins
to grow, you just take enough
time. And sure, you're going to
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hear people tell you these
stories, that they get up at
three o'clock in the morning and
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they spend three hours in God's
Word. But friends, the Bible
says that we don't need to look
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at other people. The Bible says
that we look unto Jesus, the
Author and Finisher of our
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faith. Jesus will demonstrate to
us and teach us how much time is
enough. Spend time studying His
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Word. Spend time in Bible
studies. Spend time listening to
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His Word. Second, how to be a
disciple of Jesus is to spend
time in prayer. Notice what
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Jesus did in
His life. Mark 1:35:
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He went to a place where He
could speak to God, where He
could speak to His Father, where
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He could talk to Him about
things that were happening in
His life and He always ended his
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prayer with the simple phrase,
"Not My will but Your will be
done." Prayer is our opportunity
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to speak to God, to talk to God
about what's happening. And I
use my little notebook when I
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pray. I'm a very easily
distracted person, and so I
write out my prayers. I write
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down people that I'm praying
for. I write. and by the way,
it's such a helpful thing to
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write the things that you're
praying about because often in
our spiritual life, especially
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in those valleys, we say, "Oh,
God never answers my prayers."
Write down your prayers and then
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write down when God answers
them. And when you are in that
valley, you go to your prayer
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journal you go into your little
notebook and you see, "Wow, God
has answered so many prayers."
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To be a disciple of Jesus, we
want to hear His voice, and we
hear His voice in His word. But
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then we also want to talk to Him
and spend time listening to Him.
But then the last thing is, is
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that we join Jesus in His
mission. How do we join Jesus in
His mission? John 3:17 - one of
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my favourite
verses of the bible says:
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The word there "saved" is the
Greek word "sozo" which is
translated "salvation" in some
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places, but other places, it's
translated "to be made well."
Jesus had a mission on the earth
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and His mission was very simple:
to touch people where they were
and to make them well. And He
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calls us to join Him in the
mission He had, to preach the
gospel to the poor, to heal the
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broken-hearted. To proclaim
liberty to the captives in
recovery of sight to the blind?
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What would happen if we
dedicated time in the prisons to
speak to people who are captive?
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But not just people who are
captive literally, but to those
who are captive in sin. What
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would happen if we dedicated
time each and every day to share
something hopeful and
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encouraging with people?
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Christianity has gotten a bad
name because Christianity makes
the news when we condemn people.
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That's not the ministry of
Jesus. Jesus didn't come to the
world to condemn the world, but
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that the world through Him might
be saved. What would happen if
we stopped condemning people and
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draw near to people? And, just
like Jesus did, we loved people
You look at the ministry of
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Jesus, and Jesus calls us into
discipleship. He says to us
today, "Now go into the world
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and give people the hope that
you have found, because that is
the answer to the love of many
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growing cold." Paul says that we
ought to be the aroma of life
leading to life. Have you ever
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had that experience where you
walk in the house, and maybe
your mom, maybe your grandma,
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maybe your wife, maybe your
husband, maybe your son or
daughter has baked some fresh
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bread? Maybe they have baked
some banana bread. Maybe they've
cooked something on the stove
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top. And as you've opened the
door the waft of the smell hits
you. And before you even put
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that fresh bread into your
mouth, you can literally taste
it. Jesus says that His
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disciples should be like that
when people meet us, that there
is wafting from you an aroma of
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life leading to life.
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The truth seeker's journey is to
continually live a life of
learning at the feet of Jesus,
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talking with Him in prayer,
answering the call to change in
our life, and joining Him in a
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mission of service to the world,
and that starts right in our own
home. Philippians 3:20 says:
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Friends, this earth isn't our
home. We don't live here. We are
citizens of heaven, called to be
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immigration officers for Jesus,
helping others find citizenship
in heaven. Because there's a
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day coming when the Bible says
that Jesus will break through
the clouds with the shout, with
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the voice of an archangel and
with the trump of God. And the
dead in Christ will rise first.
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Then we who are alive and remain
shall be caught up together with
them in the clouds to meet the
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Lord in the air. And then we are
going to go to a place where God
says there will be no more
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tears, because He will wipe away
every tear from their eyes.
There will be no more death.
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There will be no more sorrow,
there will be no more crying.
There will be no more pain, for
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the former things have now
passed away. You see, to be a
disciple of Jesus Christ is to
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go and tell people about that in
both word and action. Today as
we close out this series Star
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Wars, my simple appeal to you is
this: don't let this be the end.
The end for the truth seeker,
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the end of the journey for the
truth seeker, is to go into that
mansion that Jesus has prepared
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for you. The end for the truth
seeker is to be prepared for
Jesus when He comes again and
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hear those words, "Well done,
good and faithful servant." We
live in a world that changes
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every day, but God's Word and
God Himself never change. He
came to this world to save the
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world, and today, the same God
Who came to save the world is
letting you know, He came to
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save you. Heavenly Father, our
desire is that we would be Your
disciples. Mold us and make us
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to be Your disciples and be
ready when Jesus comes again, we
pray in Jesus' name, amen.
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Bev: Hi Everyone. Do you realize
that the average 9 year old
consumes approximately 123
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pounds of sugar every year?
That's 25 of those 5 pound bags
of sugar. That's 35 teaspoons or
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3/4 cup of sugar every day!
We've all heard that sugar is
bad for us, and yet most of us
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find it hard not to love it.
Chocolates, pies, ice-cream, and
the list goes on. What's so bad
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about sugar? First of all, it
provides us with empty calories
Typically, there are no
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minerals, vitamins, or fibre. As
well, too much sugar causes
tooth decay, it sabotages our
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immune system making it easy for
us to catch colds, for example,
and too much sugar can cause you
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to pack on the pounds. What we
don't realize is the large
amount of sugar that is hidden
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in the processed foods we
purchase. When we do the
calculations, it's amazing to
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see how easy it is to consume
35+ teaspoons of sugar per day
Now, before you say, "That's
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impossible! I don't eat that
much sugar", consider how much
sugar there is in certain of our
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favourite junk food items. For
example: 10 teaspoons in one can
of soda pop 8-12 teaspoons in
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one glazed donut 6 teaspoons in
one average-sized candy bar 6
teaspoons in one scoop of ice
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cream 12 teaspoons in one
average sized milk shake So, if
like many people you like having
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a glazed donut and a can of soda
for breakfast, already you've
consumed 22 teaspoons right
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there! See how easily it adds
up? When it comes to satisfying
cravings for sweet things,
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remember, be a wise consumer!
Read your labels. In particular,
be aware that sugar can be
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listed under different names
including: sugar, liquid sugar,
corn syrup, dextrose,
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glucose/fructose. in fact,
anything that ends in "ose" is a
sugar. Instead of buying a lot
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of processed foods - you know,
the ones in the crinkly bags and
the enticing-looking boxes -
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satisfy your sugar cravings the
natural way. Grab a crisp apple,
or a juicy orange, or how about
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a luscious mango? These are
foods that are packaged
perfectly with vitamins,
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minerals, fibre and a healthy
amount of natural sugar. When
you're grocery shopping this
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week, be sure to stock up on the
naturally sweet stuff fashioned
by the Creator Himself. See you
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next time!
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Today I want to offer to you the
Discover Bible guides. Those
guides will help you develop
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that relationship with Jesus and
become a true disciple.
Additionally, as a free gift to
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you, if you would like the DVD
series Star Wars, you just need
to let our attendants know,
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because I want you to have that
DVD, use that DVD in your own
journey, and share it with a
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friend. Here's the information
you need to receive today's
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offers. The great cosmic battle
between Christ and Satan. The
real story of Star Wars. It's
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all about the throne, the throne
of your heart. Who will be
seated there? Will Jesus sit
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there, or will Satan sit there?
Will you make a choice to be on
the truth seeker's journey, or
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will you simply ignore the love
letter that He's written to you?
Today I want to encourage you,
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friend; get on the truth
seeker's journey. You will not
regret it. Jesus wants to spend
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eternity with you. I hope that
you've found encouragement in
today's program. I invite you to
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join us again next week. Until
then, remember, it is written:
"Man shall not live by bread
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alone, but by every word that
proceeds from the mouth of God."
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