>> Hello and welcome to
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It Is Written Canada.
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Thank you for joining us.
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We're gonna go really deep
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today and look at the powerful
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influences we have to face
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each day.
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Imagine it's a brand new day
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and you are talking to God
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personally, you have no idea
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what kind of day it's going to
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be and you open up your Bible
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and you read these words:
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>> And when you read these
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words, please feel completely
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comfortable talking out loud
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to God.
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Make the verse your own.
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I have to ask myself a
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question every morning and
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it's this: What is the first
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device I reach for when I wake
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up in the morning?
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Do I reach for my phone?
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Do I reach for my computer?
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Because once I open up that
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device, there are thousands of
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voices calling for my
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attention and those voice are
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trying to pry me to thinking
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certain ways, to buy certain
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products, to believe certain
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concepts, and sometimes it's
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subtle, but other times it's
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in-my-face programming.
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>> So here's what I have
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decided to do: I have decided
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that the first device that I
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reach for at the beginning of
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a new day is this device,
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my Bible.
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I will not look at any other
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device for the first hour of
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my day and the first texts
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that I will read are
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scripture texts.
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What about you?
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Wouldn't it be super amazing
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if you did not read any other
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texts for the first hour of
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the day than the text that we
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find here in the Bible?
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Would you be happier?
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How happy would you be?
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I invite you to join us today
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as we look at how God's
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eternal plan for you is to
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experience the joy of being so
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close to Him, the joy of
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heaven, right here, right now.
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中
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[gentle music]
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>> How happy would you be
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if you met the person of your
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dreams, fell in love,
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and got married?
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How happy would you be if
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today was your wedding day?
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>> Or if you are already
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married, how happy were you
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on your wedding day?
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I think that most people on
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their wedding day are pretty
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happy, at least they should
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be, I know that I was.
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>> Me, too!
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But sometimes I wonder,
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what if I was as happy every
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day of my life as I was
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on my wedding day?
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>> You mean you're not?
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I am 'cause I'm married
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to you.
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>> Thanks, Love. OK, so
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here's another question:
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What about God?
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How happy is God about
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spending time with you?
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>> Does God experience
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happiness when He gets to
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spend time with me?
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That's a good question.
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I say the answer is yes,
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He does.
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>> Mm-hmm.
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The most famous text in the
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Bible, John 3:16, begins with
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these words:
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You see, when you love
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someone, you are happy when
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you spend time with them.
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>> And the Bible gives us this
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insight into God's heart
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in Isaiah, it says...
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[Ren寯 Mm-hmm.
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So God's happiness when He
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gets a chance to spend time
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with you is like the
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excitement of a happy couple
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on their wedding day.
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>> Oh, the Bible is filled
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with exclamations of God's joy
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when He gets to spend time
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with us.
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I especially like
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Zephaniah 3:17.
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>> That's a lot of "with's."
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>> Yeah, the word, "with," is
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the reason Jesus came.
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He is Emmanuel, God with us.
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And "with" is the reason why
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Jesus is coming back.
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Jesus assures you...
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There are more prophecies
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about the second coming of
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Christ in the Old and the New
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Testaments than there are
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about any other event.
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Why do you think that is?
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>> Because Jesus longs to be
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with us eternally.
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In fact, the word, "with," is
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the whole Bible in one word.
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>> Yeah, look at this verse
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right near the end of the
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Bible, it says...
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>> The Bible assures you
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that even if you die,
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God will not abandon you.
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Look at this promise in
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Colossians 3:3-4.
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So Jesus appears at His
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second coming.
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Those who are fallen asleep in
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Jesus will rise from their
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graves to live with God in
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heaven eternally.
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>> God designed us with a
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longing to be connected with
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Him and with other people.
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And yet the world that He
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created is filled with so
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many lost, lonely, and
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disconnected people.
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>> Mm-hmm.
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And Jesus knows what
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this is like.
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He came to His own and His own
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did not receive Him.
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He was despised and rejected
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by men.
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>> So you might be feeling
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like God doesn't understand
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what you're going through.
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He just is sitting up in
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heaven and He's leaving us to
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suffer down here.
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Well, the truth is that He
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does know and He is suffering
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with you in your pain.
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He knows all your sorrows.
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[Ren寯 You are never alone.
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He will never leave you.
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God has promised:
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[Mike] Sometimes people will
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ask me this question:
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"So what's the catch?"
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"You say that God loves me,"
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"He wants to be with me,"
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"but then what?"
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"Do I have to start keeping"
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"some list of rules and stop"
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"doing what I love?"
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>> Well, that's a
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good question.
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Let's see what the Bible says.
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In Galatians 5:1 it reads:
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So when Jesus sets you free,
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you are completely free to
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choose how you live.
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You have the freedom to choose
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to love God and to love others
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or you have the freedom to
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choose to cause pain and
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suffering to God, to others,
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or to yourself.
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>> You may be recovering from
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an addiction or an eating
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disorder or a critical
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attitude or problems with
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anger or gossip or looking at
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sexually explicit material or
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a problem with gambling, but
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whatever it is, if you're
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fully surrendered to Jesus,
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you give Him your life right
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now, then you are set free
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from that kind of bondage.
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>> And when you are set free
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from this kind of slavery, you
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don't want to go back to that
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and you also know that without
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God's saving power,
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you wouldn't be free.
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So God promises to be with you
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and to keep you from falling.
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>> It's amazing how when Jesus
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sets you free, you find that
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the things that you once loved
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you now hate and the things
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you once hated you now love.
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>> It's so beautiful when that
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transformation takes place.
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You know, for twelve years
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when Mike and I were living at
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Fountainview Academy,
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every Friday evening,
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the students and staff used to
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stand together, holding hands,
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and sing a very inspirational
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song entitled,
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I Wanna Go To Heaven.
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And right now we are going to
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let you listen to that song.
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中
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儿 wanna go to Heaven and
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小ick a never-fading flower
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了rom the mountain overlooking
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川he temple of my God
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儿 wanna go to Heaven
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已here all is light and glory
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人ow I long to be with Jesus
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人ow I long to be with God
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又ometimes I think
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儿 can stay here no longer
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儿 feel very lonely here
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口or I have seen
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兀 better land
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力h that I had wings
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子ike a dove
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三hen would I fly away
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兀nd be at rest
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中
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儿 wanna go to Heaven
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儿 wanna hear the
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己oice of Jesus
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丸ou have washed your robes
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夕n my blood
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山tood stiffly for my truth
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乙nd when I get to Heaven
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儿'll cast my crown
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兀t Jesus feet
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儿 wanna praise
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人is name forever
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人e has done so much for me
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又ometimes I think
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儿 can stay here no longer
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儿 feel very lonely here
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口or I have seen
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兀 better land
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力h that I had wings
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子ike a dove
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三hen would I fly away
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兀nd be at rest
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儿 wanna go to Heaven
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儿 wanna pledge my
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子ove to Jesus
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儿 will gird myself
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兀nd serve Him
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口or He suffered
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孑uch for me
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乙nd when I get to Heaven
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儿 wanna sit at Jesus' table
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力h to eat the fruit
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寸f that land
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二o back to earth no more
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又ometimes I think
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儿 can stay here no longer
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儿 feel very lonely here
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口or I have seen
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兀 better land
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力h that I had wings
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子ike a dove
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三hen would I fly away
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兀nd be at rest
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力h that I had wings
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子ike a dove
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三hen would I fly away
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兀nd be at rest
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中
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>> Those are such touching and
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stirring words, "I wanna go"
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"to heaven where all is light"
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"and glory."
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"How I long to be with Jesus,"
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"How I long to be with God."
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And that is what I am longing
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for, too, to be with Jesus and
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to be with God.
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But you know what?
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We don't have to wait
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for some future event to
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experience heaven.
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We can experience being with
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God right here, right now.
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>> It's like Moses.
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The Bible tells us that the
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Lord spoke to Moses face to
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face as a man speaks
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to his friend.
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Heaven is being with God and
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speaking to Him face to face.
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>> So how did that happen
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for Moses?
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Well, Moses had been working
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as a humble shepherd for
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40 years and after 40 years,
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his level of confidence was
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rock bottom.
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When one day he went to Mount
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Moriah, the mountain of God,
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and he was with his flock of
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sheep and he came across a
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dusty, dry bush that
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was on fire.
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>> But as he looked more
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closely, he could see that the
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bush was not being turned into
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ashes and then God spoke to
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Moses from the bush and told
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him that He was the God of his
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father's, the God of Abraham,
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Isaac, and Jacob.
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God expressed how He knew the
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sorrows of His people and He
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wanted to deliver them from
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slavery and take them to the
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promised land.
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>> So get this: when Moses
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felt the least confident, felt
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slow of speech, felt like he
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was only fit to lead
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simple-minded sheep, that was
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when God called Moses to
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deliver His people
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from slavery.
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God was saying to Moses,
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"Don't trust your feelings,"
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"trust Me."
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>> Moses then asks the Lord,
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"So OK, Lord, if I'm gonna"
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"trust You, can you tell me"
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"Your name?"
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"When I go to Your people and"
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"tell them that God sent me,"
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"they're going to ask me"
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"Your name."
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>> And God said to Moses,
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"Fair enough, here's my name:"
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"I Am who I Am."
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And He said, "Thus shall you"
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"say to the children of"
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"Israel, 'I Am has sent me'"
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"'to you.'"
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The two words, "I Am," mean
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"eternal presence."
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God is I Am in the past,
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God is I Am in the present,
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and God is I Am in the future.
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>> The past, present, and the
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future are the same to God.
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He's there.
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Wherever you are, He's there.
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>> He sees the most remote
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events in past history and God
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sees the far distant future
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into the endless ages of
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eternity as clearly as you see
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the road that is in front of
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you when you're driving in
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your car.
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>> Mm-hmm.
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We, on the other hand, can't
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see into the future, but if we
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could, maybe we would not like
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what we would see.
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So it's a good thing that God
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gives us as much understanding
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about our past, our present,
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and our future as we
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can handle.
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God gives us an opportunity to
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exercise our faith and
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completely put our trust
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in Him.
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>> So God's name, "I Am," in
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the original Hebrew is four
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letters with no vowels.
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In the English alphabet it's
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"YHWH" and this is known as
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the "tetragrammaton" or the
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four-letter sacred name
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of God.
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>> Did you know that the
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consonants used in the
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spelling of the sacred name,
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"YHWH," are in fact the only
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consonants that, if correctly
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pronounced, do not allow you
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to use your tongue or close
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your lips.
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>> So, in fact, the Jewish
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scholars, they inform us that
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the pronouncing of the sacred
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name was an attempt to
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imitate and replicate breath.
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It is inhalation
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and exhalation.
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[inhales] Yah...
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[exhales] ...weh.
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[inhales] Yah...
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[exhales] ...weh.
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You see how close God
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is to you?
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How close He has always
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been to you.
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>> As a baby, the first word
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you ever spoke when you came
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into this world was the name
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of God.
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[inhales] Yah...
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[exhales] ...weh.
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[inhales] Yah...
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[exhales] ...weh.
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In every breath you take, you
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are saying the name of God
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though you may not have been
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aware of this until this
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very moment.
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>> It's like Jacob in
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Genesis 28, verse 16 when he
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awoke from sleep and he
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exclaimed...
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"Surely the Lord..." now the
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word that's used there is
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[inhales] Yah...
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[exhales] ...weh.
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So he's saying, "Surely..."
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[inhales] "Yah..."
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[exhales] "...weh"
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"is in this place"
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"and I did not know it."
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You don't have to wait to get
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to heaven to be close to God.
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He is close to you right now.
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>> Yes, He is in your breath.
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The last word you will ever
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speak will be the name of God.
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>> The last breath that you
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take on your death bed
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will be the name of God.
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[inhales] Yah...
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[exhales] ...weh.
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It's the one thing that you
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keep doing constantly
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throughout your life without
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even thinking about it.
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You just did it now.
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You're breathing.
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And when you lie in bed at
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night listening to your loved
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ones breathe, hear them saying
00:22:05.55\00:22:09.89
the sacred name of God,
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[inhales] Yah...
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[exhales] ...weh.
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>> Regardless of whether you
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are young or old, male or
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female, black or white, or
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what language you speak, what
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level of education you have,
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or how much money you have,
00:22:26.81\00:22:29.84
we all breathe, which takes us
00:22:29.84\00:22:32.65
back to John 3:16.
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We are all children of God.
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He is our Father and our
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Father loves us all.
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>> So let's go even deeper.
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When we believe in Jesus,
00:23:05.78\00:23:07.98
the one and only Son of God,
00:23:07.98\00:23:09.85
we receive everlasting breath.
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In John 8:58, standing before
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the religious leaders,
00:23:16.73\00:23:18.23
they were all angry with Him
00:23:18.23\00:23:20.10
because, with solemn dignity,
00:23:20.10\00:23:22.83
Jesus stood before them and He
00:23:22.83\00:23:25.67
proclaimed, "Truly, truly, I"
00:23:25.67\00:23:28.20
"say to you, before Abraham"
00:23:28.20\00:23:29.77
"was, I Am."
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Did you get that?
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Jesus called Himself "I Am."
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[inhales] Yah...
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[exhales] ...weh.
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>> The religious leaders
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quickly picked up stones to
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kill Jesus because they
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believed this was blasphemy.
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Jesus, being a man, was
00:23:49.32\00:23:51.63
calling Himself the
00:23:51.63\00:23:52.66
Creator, God?
00:23:52.66\00:23:54.60
Jesus had now claimed the
00:23:54.60\00:23:57.00
sacred name, "I Am?"
00:23:57.00\00:24:00.20
He said, "I Am is my name."
00:24:00.20\00:24:03.37
"I Am the Great I Am."
00:24:03.37\00:24:06.17
"Before Abraham was born,"
00:24:06.17\00:24:07.81
"I Am."
00:24:07.81\00:24:09.81
>> So Jesus claimed,
00:24:10.81\00:24:13.15
"If You have seen me, you"
00:24:13.15\00:24:14.98
"have seen the Father because"
00:24:14.98\00:24:17.45
"the Father and I are one."
00:24:17.45\00:24:20.72
Jesus was God in the flesh,
00:24:20.72\00:24:23.66
Emmanuel, God with us.
00:24:23.66\00:24:26.73
All things were created by Him
00:24:26.73\00:24:28.70
and without Him, nothing was
00:24:28.70\00:24:30.57
made that has been made.
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He is Yahweh,
00:24:33.34\00:24:37.07
the Giver of Breath.
00:24:37.07\00:24:39.91
God doesn't want us to be
00:24:39.91\00:24:42.51
simply unconsciously
00:24:42.51\00:24:44.65
breathing, He wants us to be
00:24:44.65\00:24:47.38
consciously believing.
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>> God has given us eternal
00:24:50.92\00:24:53.25
life and this life is in
00:24:53.25\00:24:56.96
His Son.
00:24:56.96\00:24:58.93
He who has the Son has life.
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He who does not have the Son
00:25:02.90\00:25:05.67
of God does not have life.
00:25:05.67\00:25:09.10
You can't even breathe
00:25:09.10\00:25:11.71
without Jesus.
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>> The apostle Paul writes it
00:25:13.74\00:25:15.44
so clearly.
00:25:15.44\00:25:17.21
He says, "For in Him," that is
00:25:17.21\00:25:18.61
in Jesus, "we live and move"
00:25:18.61\00:25:20.35
"and have our being."
00:25:20.35\00:25:23.25
When you breathe the
00:25:23.25\00:25:24.95
sacred name,
00:25:24.95\00:25:26.45
[inhales] Yah...
00:25:26.45\00:25:27.79
[exhales] ...weh,
00:25:27.79\00:25:29.16
whether you realize it or not,
00:25:29.16\00:25:32.13
you are able to live because
00:25:32.13\00:25:33.70
in Jesus you live and move
00:25:33.70\00:25:36.40
and have your being.
00:25:36.40\00:25:38.00
Without Him we would
00:25:38.00\00:25:39.10
all perish.
00:25:39.10\00:25:41.50
Jesus chose to give His life,
00:25:41.50\00:25:44.47
to breathe His last breath on
00:25:44.47\00:25:46.37
the cross so that whosoever
00:25:46.37\00:25:48.58
believes in Him should not
00:25:48.58\00:25:50.38
perish, but have
00:25:50.38\00:25:52.01
everlasting life.
00:25:52.01\00:25:53.95
If you haven't made that
00:25:53.95\00:25:55.58
choice to believe in Jesus,
00:25:55.58\00:25:57.39
then I invite you to do that
00:25:57.39\00:25:59.29
right now as we pray.
00:25:59.29\00:26:02.56
>> Let's pray together
00:26:02.56\00:26:03.89
right now.
00:26:03.89\00:26:05.93
[Mike] Our Father, as You
00:26:05.93\00:26:07.96
breathed the breath of life
00:26:07.96\00:26:10.47
into the first human body when
00:26:10.47\00:26:12.90
You created Adam,
00:26:12.90\00:26:15.94
You give us life and You offer
00:26:15.94\00:26:17.74
us eternal life, You even put
00:26:17.74\00:26:20.94
Your name into our breath so
00:26:20.94\00:26:23.91
that we can experience an
00:26:23.91\00:26:26.48
intimacy with You every moment
00:26:26.48\00:26:30.82
of our lives and into the
00:26:30.82\00:26:33.96
ceaseless ages of eternity.
00:26:33.96\00:26:37.33
[Ren寯 Thank You for being so
00:26:38.79\00:26:40.76
near to us and for longing to
00:26:40.76\00:26:43.26
have us live with You
00:26:43.26\00:26:45.33
eternally.
00:26:45.33\00:26:47.67
We accept the precious gift of
00:26:47.67\00:26:50.11
eternal life right now by
00:26:50.11\00:26:53.14
choosing to believe in Your
00:26:53.14\00:26:55.71
Son, Jesus Christ.
00:26:55.71\00:26:57.98
In His name we pray, amen.
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>> Friends, you might have a
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lot more questions about
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heaven like, is heaven an
00:27:06.19\00:27:07.72
actual place?
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And what will it be
00:27:08.82\00:27:10.46
like there?
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00:28:30.07\00:28:32.47
"man shall not live by bread"
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"alone, but by every word"
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