[MUSIC]
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>> YOU KNOW, THE WORLD PRODUCES
A LOT OF GARBAGE AND NOT ALL
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THE DUMPS ARE IN LANDFILLS.
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MATTER OF FACT, THE
BIGGEST DUMP IN THE WORLD IS OUT
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IN THE OCEAN.
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IT'S CALLED THE PACIFIC GARBAGE
PATCH AND IT GATHERS FROM ALL
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OF THE GARBAGE THAT SEEMS
TO FLOAT IN FROM THE RIVERS,
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FROM THE COAST, FROM THE BOATS.
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THEY DUMP MILLIONS OF TONS OF
GARBAGE IN THE OCEAN EACH YEAR
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AND A LOT OF IT FLOATS.
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AND GRADUALLY THE WINDS AND THE
WAVES AND THE CURRENTS MIGRATE
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ALL THIS GARBAGE IN THE PACIFIC
INTO A ZONE THAT IS NORTH
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OF HAWAII BETWEEN
JAPAN AND CALIFORNIA.
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IT CREATES A VIRTUAL GALAXY
OF GARBAGE, A VORTEX OF TRASH
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THAT IS 1,000 MILES ACROSS.
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IN PLACES, IT'S SO
THICK YOU CAN WALK UPON IT.
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PROBLEM IS A LOT OF ANIMALS
GET TANGLED IN THE NETS, OR FISH
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THAT EAT THE LITTLE PIECES OF
PLASTIC THINK THAT IT'S SHRIMP,
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OR BIRDS THAT INGEST THESE
PIECES OF GARBAGE AND THEN THEY
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HAVE THE FALSE SENSE
THAT THEY'RE FULL AND THEY DIE
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OF STARVATION.
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AND IT'S GROWING EVERY YEAR,
100 MILLION TONS OF GARBAGE
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SWIRLING AROUND IN A
GALAXY THAT KEEPS GETTING BIGGER
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AND BIGGER.
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THE GREAT PACIFIC GARBAGE PATCH.
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YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES WE FEEL
LIKE WE'RE CAUGHT IN A VORTEX
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OF SIN.
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GOD SAYS HE'LL TAKE OUR SINS
AND CAST THEM INTO THE DEPTHS
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OF THE SEA, AND
THEY DON'T FLOAT.
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SO HOW DO WE
ESCAPE THAT CYCLE OF SIN?
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WE'RE GONNA FIND
OUT TODAY ON "MIQ."
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>> HOW CAN I KNOW
THAT GOD IS LISTENING?
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>> DID I COME FROM
APES OR PREHISTORIC SLUDGE?
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>> CAN THE BIBLE BE TRUSTED?
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>> WHAT SHOULD
I DO WITH MY LIFE?
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>> COLLEGE?
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CARS?
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A JOB?
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>> CAN I EVER BE PERFECT?
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>> CAN I MAKE A DIFFERENCE?
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>> DO MY PARENTS NEED ME?
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[VOICES OVERLAPPING]
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>> "MIQ," YOUR
QUESTIONS, GOD'S ANSWERS.
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>> ARE WE FOREVER
DOOMED TO BE SIN-A-HOLICS?
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OR CAN WE BREAK
THESE ADDICTIVE HABITS?
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JOIN US NOW FOR "MIQ."
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>> HELLO EVERYBODY,
WELCOME AGAIN TO "MIQ,"
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AMAZING FACTS FOR
TEENS, AND WE'RE ON THIS
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INTERACTIVE SEARCH FOR TRUTH.
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I'D LIKE TO WELCOME OUR
AUDIENCE WHO ARE WATCHING
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ONLINE AND ON TELEVISION.
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THANK YOU FOR BEING
A PART OF THE PROGRAM.
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AND IT'S NOT TOO LATE TO
SEND IN YOUR BIBLE QUESTIONS.
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YOU CAN GO TO THE WEB SITE,
MIQTEENS.COM, AND YOU CAN POST
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YOUR QUESTION ONLINE.
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YOU CAN ALSO SEND US A
TEXT MESSAGE AND THE NUMBER IS
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760-523-2287.
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THAT'S 760-5-AFACTS.
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NOW FRIENDS, WE HAVE A
THEME SONG THAT WE SING AT
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THE BEGINNING OF EACH OF
OUR PROGRAMS AND WE'RE GONNA DO
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THAT RIGHT NOW, SO I'M
GONNA INVITE OUR SONG LEADERS TO
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PLEASE COME FORWARD.
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IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING OUR THEME
SONG, DELANCEY WILL HAVE OUR
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OPENING PRAYER.
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LET'S STAND AS WE SING.
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[MUSIC]
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? WHEN I GAZE UP ? ?
AT THE COUNTLESS STARS ?
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? WE'RE ON AN ENDLESS
SEA ? ? MY MIND MAY SWIM ?
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? WITH QUESTIONS ?
? BEWILDERING TO ME ?
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? BUT THEN I READ THE
BIBLE ? ? AND SEEK YOUR FACE ?
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? IN PRAYER ? ? I'M
SATISFIED REMEMBERING ?
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? YOUR LOVING
GRACE ? ? AND CARE ?
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? WHATEVER
QUESTIONS ? ? I MAY HAVE ?
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? WHETHER GREAT OR
SMALL ? ? I KNOW JESUS DIED ?
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? TO SAVE ME ? ?
AND THAT HE FORGAVE ME ?
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? JESUS IS THE
ANSWER ? ? TO IT ALL ?
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? JESUS IS THE
ANSWER ? ? TO IT ALL ?
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? I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS
? ? I WONDER IN MY HEART ?
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? HOW SOMETHING
COMES ? ? FROM NOTHING ?
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? WHEN DID FOREVER
START? ? ? WHY CAN'T I SEE ?
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? YOUR GLORY? ? ? WHERE IS ?
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? THE PROMISED LAND? ?
? I'LL TRUST THAT YOU ?
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? WILL LEAD ME THERE ? ?
IF I CAN TAKE YOUR HAND ?
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? WHATEVER
QUESTIONS ? ? I MAY HAVE ?
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? WHETHER GREAT OR
SMALL ? ? I KNOW JESUS DIED ?
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? TO SAVE ME ? ?
AND THAT HE FORGAVE ME ?
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? JESUS IS THE
ANSWER ? ? TO IT ALL ?
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? JESUS IS THE
ANSWER ? ? TO IT ALL ??
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>> DEAR JESUS, THANK YOU FOR
THIS BEAUTIFUL DAY, THANK YOU
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FOR WAKING US ALL UP.
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THANK YOU THAT
[INAUDIBLE] HAD THIS OPPORTUNITY
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OF HOSTING "MIQ."
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AND LORD, HELP US ALL TO
GET A BLESSING OUT OF WHAT
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DOUG BATCHELOR HAS
TO SAY TO US TODAY.
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PLEASE SEND YOUR HOLY SPIRIT
AND JUST ENVELOP THE CHURCH
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WITH YOUR HEAVENLY ANGELS.
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THANK YOU FOR YOUR LOVE
AND FORGIVENESS, LORD, AMEN.
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[MUSIC] >> AMEN.
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GOOD TO SEE EACH
OF YOU HERE TODAY.
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AND AGAIN, THANK YOU
KELLY, TO OUR SINGERS.
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AND I WANNA WELCOME OUR
FRIENDS TO THIS SPECIAL PROGRAM,
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AMAZING FACTS FOR TEENS,
ALIAS "MY-Q," "MIQ," OR "MY-IQ."
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DEALS WITH THE MOST
IMPORTANT QUESTIONS.
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AND SO WE'RE GONNA BE TALKING
ABOUT SOME REALLY IMPORTANT
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QUESTIONS RELATING TO
HOW DO YOUNG PEOPLE RELATE TO
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THE TRUTH AND WHAT ARE
SOME OF THESE BIBLE ANSWERS
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FOR THE CONUNDRUMS OF LIFE?
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NOT GONNA BE DEALING WITH THE
TRIVIA, BUT THE BIG QUESTIONS.
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SO ARE WE READY?
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>> WE'RE READY.
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LET'S GO AHEAD AND TAKE A
LOOK AT OUR FIRST QUESTION.
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>> HI, MY NAME IS BRITTANY
AND MY QUESTION IS, IF I'M GOING
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TO CHURCH BUT I AM NOT
GETTING ANYTHING OUT OF IT,
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DO I STILL HAVE TO GO?
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>> GOING TO CHURCH, BUT YOU
FEEL LIKE YOU'RE NOT GETTING
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ANYTHING OUT OF IT,
DO YOU STILL NEED TO GO?
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BEING PART OF THE BODY
OF CHRIST IS A COMMITMENT.
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IT'S LIKE A MARRIAGE AND
THEY WERE BAPTIZED INTO THE BODY
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OF CHRIST.
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YOU KNOW, THERE'S ALWAYS
SOMETHING THAT YOU CAN DO TO
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RECEIVE A BLESSING AT CHURCH.
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MAYBE I SHOULD BACK UP
AND APPROACH THIS DIFFERENTLY.
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WHAT IS THE PRINCIPLE
REASON THAT YOU GO TO CHURCH?
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TO GET SOMETHING
OUT OF IT OR TO GIVE?
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ARE YOU GOING TO GET OR TO GIVE?
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DO WE GO TO CHURCH TO GET?
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YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT OUR
CULTURE TODAY, BECAUSE WE'RE
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SUCH AN ENTERTAINMENT-ORIENTED
CULTURE, THAT WE AUTOMATICALLY
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THINK CHURCH IS ANOTHER
MEANS OF ENTERTAINMENT, AND IF
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THE PASTOR AND THE
SERVICE IS ENTERTAINING, WELL,
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THEN I'LL KEEP COMING.
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IF NOT, THEY
GOTTA WIN MY RATINGS.
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BUT A CHRISTIAN, REALLY,
BIBLICALLY, YOU GO TO CHURCH
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TO GIVE GOD YOUR LOVE, YOUR
WORSHIP, TO SING HIS PRAISES,
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TO GIVE YOUR OFFERINGS.
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AND IF YOU GET
SOMETHING, THAT'S GRAVY.
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ISN'T THAT RIGHT?
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DON'T WE REALLY GO BECAUSE
WE LOVE GOD, TO WORSHIP HIM?
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AND SO, IF YOU GO, BIBLE
SAYS, "IT'S MORE BLESSED TO GIVE
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THAN RECEIVE."
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IF YOU GO TO CHURCH AND YOUR
IDEA IS, "I'M GOING TO GIVE GOD
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MY THANKS AND MY PRAISE AND
MY WORSHIP AND MY LOVE," AND YOU
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GET SOMETHIN',
THAT'S THE-- A BENEFIT.
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BUT IF YOU GO WITH THAT
ATTITUDE, YOU WILL RECEIVE.
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AND YOU KNOW, IF SOMETIMES--
PASTORS SOMETIMES CAN
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GET MONOTONOUS.
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I'M ONE, I KNOW.
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I KNOW SOMETIMES I
FIRE BLANKS WHEN I PREACH.
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WELL, YOU GOT YOUR BIBLE.
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I HOPE YOU BRING
YOUR BIBLE TO CHURCH.
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IF YOU DON'T BRING IT TO
CHURCH, WHERE ARE YOU BRINGIN'
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IT?
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BRING YOUR BIBLE TO
CHURCH AND READ THE BIBLE WHILE
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YOU'RE THERE.
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BUT GO TO WORSHIP GOD, THAT'S
THE PRINCIPLE THING, AND YOU
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WILL GET A BLESSING.
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>> ALL RIGHT,
THANK YOU PASTOR DOUG.
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LET'S TAKE A LOOK
AT OUR NEXT QUESTION.
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[MUSIC] >> THIS
IS A TEXT QUESTION
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THAT'S COMING FROM
LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.
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"CAN A HOMOSEXUAL REPENT
AND BECOME STRAIGHT AGAIN?"
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>> YOU KNOW, WE INCLUDED
THIS BECAUSE WE GOT A LOT OF
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QUESTIONS AROUND THIS THEME.
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IN OUR CULTURE TODAY, THERE
IS SORT OF AN EPIDEMIC OF PEOPLE
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WHO ARE STRUGGLING WITH
THESE TENDENCIES AND I THINK
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IT'S ACCENTUATED
BY A COUPLE OF THINGS.
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ONE IS THE RATE OF PEOPLE
STRUGGLING WITH HOMOSEXUAL
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TENDENCIES HAS GONE UP AT THE
SAME RATE AS THE DETERIORATION
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OF THE HOME WITH TWO PARENTS.
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IT ALSO HAPPENS IN
OTHER SITUATIONS, I REALIZE.
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AND ALSO THE MEDIA IS
REALLY BOMBARDING PEOPLE WITH
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A MESSAGE THAT IS SEEKING
TO NORMALIZE THESE TENDENCIES.
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WELL, THE BIBLE'S PRETTY
CLEAR AND I WANNA READ YOU SOME
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VERSES THAT I THINK WILL
GIVE YOU SOME ENCOURAGEMENT.
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AND THIS IS FROM
1 CORINTHIANS 6:9.
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THIS IS VERY
PLAIN, SO LISTEN HERE.
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"DO YOU NOT KNOW THAT
THE UNRIGHTEOUS WILL NOT
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INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD?
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DO NOT BE DECEIVED.
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NEITHER FORNICATORS, NOR
IDOLATERS," THAT'S PEOPLE
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WHO ARE HAVING SEX, YOU
KNOW, WITH--HETEROSEXUAL SEX,
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"NOR IDOLATERS, NOR ADULTERERS,
NOR HOMOSEXUALS, NOR SODOMITES,
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NOR THIEVES, NOR COVETOUS,
NOR DRUNKARDS, NOR REVILERS,
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NOR EXTORTIONERS WILL
INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD."
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THIS CAN'T BE MISUNDERSTOOD.
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BUT KEEP READING, "AND WERE,"
IT SAYS, "AND SUCH WERE SOME
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OF YOU.
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BUT YOU HAVE BEEN WASHED, YOU
HAVE BEEN SANCTIFIED, YOU HAVE
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BEEN JUSTIFIED IN THE
NAME OF THE LORD JESUS AND BY
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THE SPIRIT OF OUR GOD."
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SO HE SAYS THE CHURCH IS
COMPOSED OF PEOPLE WHO HAD
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ALL KINDS OF BACKGROUNDS.
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THAT MEANS THERE WERE
ADULTERERS, IDOLATERS,
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EXTORTIONERS, HOMOSEXUALS,
AND A FEW OTHER THINGS
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THAT ARE ITEMIZED.
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AND HE SAYS, "SUCH WERE,"
WERE, PAST TENSE, "SOME OF YOU.
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BUT YOU HAVE BEEN SANCTIFIED,
YOU HAVE BEEN PURIFIED."
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CAN GOD SAVE US FROM EVERY SIN?
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CAN HE?
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CAN YOU--HOW MUCH CAN
YOU DO THROUGH CHRIST?
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ALL THINGS ARE
POSSIBLE WITH GOD.
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I CAN DO ALL THINGS WITH JESUS.
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AND PEOPLE WHO STRUGGLE WITH
THESE TENDENCIES, YOU CAN GET
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THE VICTORY, TOO, AMEN?
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>> ALL RIGHT.
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THANK YOU, PASTOR DOUG.
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LET'S TAKE A LOOK
AT OUR NEXT QUESTION.
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>> HI, MY NAME IS CLAY.
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WHY IS GOD REFERRED TO IN THE
BIBLE AS A GUY AND NOT A GIRL?
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>> WHY IS THE LORD
REFERRED TO IN THE BIBLE AS A HE
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AND NOT A SHE?
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BECAUSE HEs ARE BETTER.
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[LAUGHING] >> I
JUST DID THAT TO GET
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A REACTION.
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THE BIBLE IS WRITTEN FROM
A PATRIARCHAL PERSPECTIVE.
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IN THE BEGINNING, GOD CREATED
MAN AND MEN WERE DESIGNED BY
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GOD TO BE THE
LEADER-SERVANTS IN THE FAMILIES.
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AND SO, YOU'LL FIND ALL THROUGH
THE BIBLE THE MEN OFFERED
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SACRIFICE, THE MEN WERE THE
PATRIARCHS IN THE FAMILY, AND
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WHEN IT FOLLOWS THE GENEALOGIES
IN THE BIBLE, THE MEN WERE
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TO BE THE
PROVIDERS AND THE PROTECTORS.
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AND SO BECAUSE GOD IS OUR
FATHER IN HEAVEN, HE'S OFTEN
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REFERRED TO IN THAT WAY.
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BUT YOU KNOW, THERE'S
TIMES IN THE BIBLE THAT GOD
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ALSO SHOWS THE
MOTHER OR THE FEMININE SIDE.
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HE SAYS, YOU KNOW, "AS A
HEN GATHERS HER CHICKS UNDER HER
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WINGS, SO I SOUGHT TO
PROTECT YOU, O JERUSALEM.
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AND AS A MOTHER CANNOT
FORGET HER CHILDREN, HOW COULD
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I FORGET YOU?"
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AND SO, YOU KNOW, THE
LORD, HE DOESN'T--WE OFTEN TRY
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AND PIN A GENDER ON GOD.
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GOD MADE BOTH
GENDERS IN HIS IMAGE, AMEN?
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>> AMEN.
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LET'S TAKE A LOOK
AT OUR NEXT QUESTION.
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[MUSIC] >> THIS
IS A QUESTION FROM
00:12:25.10\00:12:31.83
MONTANA CITY, MONTANA.
00:12:31.83\00:12:33.53
"IS DATING A NON-CHRISTIAN BAD?"
00:12:33.53\00:12:37.03
>> WELL, IF YOU'RE A
NON-CHRISTIAN, IT'S PROBABLY
00:12:37.03\00:12:38.83
NOT THAT BIG AN ISSUE.
00:12:38.83\00:12:40.16
YOU CAN BE LOST TOGETHER.
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BUT IF YOU'RE A CHRISTIAN,
FOR YOU TO DATE A NON-CHRISTIAN,
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IT SAYS IN THE BOOK OF
AMOS, "CAN TWO WALK TOGETHER
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UNLESS THEY'RE AGREED?"
00:12:51.56\00:12:52.60
AND WHAT IT
MEANS BY THAT TOGETHER,
00:12:52.60\00:12:54.40
IN THE SAME DIRECTION.
00:12:54.40\00:12:55.40
IT'S HARD FOR PEOPLE TO
GO IN TWO OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS
00:12:55.40\00:12:58.73
IF THEY DON'T AGREE.
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AND MATTER OF FACT, YOU CAN
READ IN 2 CORINTHIANS, TELLS US
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IN 6:14, "DO NOT BE
UNEQUALLY YOKED TOGETHER WITH
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UNBELIEVERS.
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FOR WHAT FELLOWSHIP HAS
RIGHTEOUSNESS WITH LAWLESSNESS?
00:13:13.13\00:13:16.56
AND WHAT COMMUNION
HAS LIGHT WITH DARKNESS?
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AND WHAT ACCORD HAS BELIAL,"
THAT'S THE DEVIL, "HAS CHRIST
00:13:19.36\00:13:23.76
WITH BELIAL?
00:13:23.76\00:13:25.13
OR WHAT PART HAS A
BELIEVER WITH AN UNBELIEVER?
00:13:25.13\00:13:27.70
WHAT AGREEMENT HAS THE
TEMPLE OF GOD WITH IDOLS?"
00:13:27.70\00:13:30.06
YOUR BODY BECOMES
THE TEMPLE OF GOD.
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AND SO, NO, IT BRINGS A WHOLE
BASKET LOAD OF PROBLEMS WHEN
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PEOPLE--THERE'S
ALREADY CHALLENGES IN MARRIAGE.
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YOU MULTIPLY THAT TIMES TEN
WHEN YOU GET SOMEBODY WHO SAYS,
00:13:40.93\00:13:44.56
"I DON'T BELIEVE IN CHRIST,
I DON'T WANT TO GO TO HEAVEN, I
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DON'T WANNA FOLLOW THE BIBLE,"
WHO IS LINKING THEIR LIFE
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AND BECOMING ONE FLESH
WITH SOMEONE WHO SAYS, "I DO."
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AND YOU HAVE TO ASK YOURSELF,
"DOES THE CHRISTIAN LOVE GOD
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SUPREMELY OR ARE THEY MAKING
AN IDOL OUT OF THIS OTHER PERSON
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AND PUTTING THEM AHEAD OF GOD?"
00:14:01.70\00:14:04.16
SO, WHAT DO YOU
THINK, THAT MADE SENSE?
00:14:04.16\00:14:07.40
>> MADE SENSE.
00:14:07.40\00:14:08.40
>> YEAH, SIMPLE ANSWER WOULD
BE BELIEVERS SHOULD NOT GET
00:14:08.40\00:14:11.03
EMOTIONALLY
INVOLVED WITH UNBELIEVERS.
00:14:11.03\00:14:13.50
NOW YOU SHOULD
WITNESS TO UNBELIEVERS.
00:14:13.50\00:14:15.53
I MEAN, GOD--THAT'S
WHAT JESUS SENT US TO DO.
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THERE'S A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
BEING A WITNESS AND BEING
00:14:17.50\00:14:20.46
A FRIEND, WHERE YOU'RE
INFLUENCING EACH OTHER.
00:14:20.46\00:14:23.03
THERE IS A BIG DIFFERENCE.
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>> ALL RIGHT.
00:14:24.36\00:14:25.30
WELL, THANK YOU PASTOR DOUG.
00:14:25.30\00:14:26.23
AND AGAIN, IT'S NOT TOO LATE
TO SEND US YOUR BIBLE QUESTION.
00:14:26.23\00:14:29.40
THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE WATCHING,
YOU CAN GO TO THE MIQ TEENS WEB
00:14:29.40\00:14:32.60
SITE, MIQTEENS.COM, AND YOU
CAN POST YOUR QUESTION ONLINE
00:14:32.60\00:14:36.90
OR SEND US A TEXT
MESSAGE, 760-523-2287.
00:14:36.90\00:14:42.60
PASTOR DOUG, THE TIME IS YOURS.
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>> THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS.
00:14:44.10\00:14:45.60
AND THANK YOU AGAIN,
FRIENDS, FOR BEING HERE TODAY.
00:14:45.60\00:14:47.90
FOR THOSE WHO ARE WATCHING, I
WANNA WELCOME YOU ONE MORE TIME
00:14:47.90\00:14:51.03
TO THIS SPECIAL PROGRAM, WHERE
WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT
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THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION.
00:14:54.90\00:14:57.10
JESUS CAME TO
SAVE US FROM OUR SINS.
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WE ALL HAVE A VERY
SERIOUS ATTRACTION TO SIN.
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IT'S INGRAINED IN OUR NATURES.
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IT REQUIRES A MIRACLE OF HEART
AND BRAIN SURGERY TO CHANGE US.
00:15:06.46\00:15:14.03
SO, EVEN THOUGH IT'S TRUE THAT
JESUS DIED FOR THE SINS OF THE
00:15:14.03\00:15:18.26
WHOLE WORLD, AND ONCE WE
COME TO CHRIST AND WE ACCEPT HIS
00:15:18.26\00:15:22.73
FORGIVENESS AND WE ARE
JUSTIFIED AND OUR PAST RECORD
00:15:22.73\00:15:26.30
OF SIN IS WASHED AWAY, WE STILL
LIVE IN A SINFUL WORLD, WE'RE
00:15:26.30\00:15:30.76
SURROUNDED BY MINIONS OF EVIL
THAT WANNA TEMPT US AND GET US
00:15:30.76\00:15:33.66
INTO TROUBLE, WE'VE ALREADY GOT
THIS NATURAL TENDENCIES OF SIN
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IN OUR SELFISH NATURES.
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HOW DO WE BREAK THE CYCLE?
00:15:39.20\00:15:41.13
HOW CAN WE BE FREE
FROM SIN AND TEMPTATION?
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OR AT LEAST HOW DO WE
SURVIVE IN THIS WORLD?
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NOW, DOES EVERYONE KNOW AS LONG
AS YOU'RE IN THIS WORLD, YOU'RE
00:15:48.36\00:15:50.53
GOING TO BE TEMPTED,
THERE'S GOING TO BE STRUGGLES?
00:15:50.53\00:15:53.56
SOME OF YOU PROBABLY HAVE
GOTTEN DISCOURAGED BEFORE OR
00:15:53.56\00:15:56.00
YOU HAVE FELT LIKE YOU'VE BEEN
SORT-OF STUCK IN A CYCLE OF YOU
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SIN AND YOU REPENT AND
YOU MIGHT HAVE A LITTLE JOY
00:16:00.43\00:16:03.10
AND PEACE FOR A WHILE,
AND THEN YOU FALL AND YOU SIN
00:16:03.10\00:16:05.13
AND YOU REPENT.
00:16:05.13\00:16:06.20
AND HOW DO YOU BREAK
OUT OF THAT AND HAVE A MORE
00:16:06.20\00:16:08.30
CONSISTENT, VICTORIOUS LIFE?
00:16:08.30\00:16:11.56
WELL, FIRST LET ME EXPLAIN.
00:16:11.56\00:16:14.53
CHRISTIANS STILL MAKE
MISTAKES AND SIN AND FALL.
00:16:14.53\00:16:19.70
THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT
YOU DON'T LOVE AND BELIEVE
00:16:19.70\00:16:21.86
IN THE LORD.
00:16:21.86\00:16:23.23
WHAT I READ IN THE
BIBLE IS WHAT REALLY MAKES THE
00:16:23.23\00:16:26.63
DIFFERENCE FOR A CHRISTIAN IS,
ONCE YOU ACCEPT CHRIST, SIN NO
00:16:26.63\00:16:31.06
LONGER HAS DOMINION OVER YOU.
00:16:31.06\00:16:34.66
CHRIST IS NOW ON THE
THRONE OF YOUR HEART.
00:16:34.66\00:16:37.86
HE IS YOUR LORD.
00:16:37.86\00:16:39.10
IT IS NOT RULING YOU.
00:16:39.10\00:16:40.30
YOU ARE NOT ENSLAVED.
00:16:40.30\00:16:41.70
BEFORE YOU'RE SET FREE
BY JESUS, YOU CAN'T REALLY
00:16:41.70\00:16:44.60
CONTROL YOURSELF.
00:16:44.60\00:16:45.73
YOU'RE JUST DRUG
AROUND WHEREVER TEMPTATION
00:16:45.73\00:16:47.80
AND THE DEVIL TAKES YOU.
00:16:47.80\00:16:48.96
BUT WHEN THE LORD COMES
INTO YOUR LIFE, YOU THEN BEGIN
00:16:48.96\00:16:52.23
TO EXPERIENCE
VICTORY AND HE MAKES CHANGES.
00:16:52.23\00:16:56.23
AND YOU KNOW, I ALWAYS
LIKE TO PUT IT THIS WAY.
00:16:56.23\00:17:01.76
DO YOU BELIEVE THAT THE
DEVIL CAN TEMPT YOU TO SIN?
00:17:01.76\00:17:04.10
LET ME SEE, YOU BELIEVE THAT?
00:17:04.10\00:17:05.60
I DO, RIGHT?
00:17:05.60\00:17:07.13
DO YOU BELIEVE THAT JESUS
CAN KEEP YOU FROM TEMPTATION?
00:17:07.13\00:17:14.10
IF YOU BELIEVE THAT THE DEVIL
CAN TEMPT YOU, BUT YOU DOUBT
00:17:14.10\00:17:17.23
THAT JESUS CAN KEEP YOU, YOU
IN EFFECT ARE SAYING, "I THINK
00:17:17.23\00:17:20.40
THAT THE DEVIL'S MORE
POWERFUL THAN CHRIST."
00:17:20.40\00:17:23.10
OR AT LEAST YOU'RE--YOU'VE
GOT MORE FAITH IN THE DEVIL
00:17:23.10\00:17:25.06
THAN YOU DO IN JESUS.
00:17:25.06\00:17:26.56
"GREATER IS HE THAT IS IN YOU
THAN HE THAT IS IN THE WORLD."
00:17:26.56\00:17:30.76
BELIEVE IN GOD.
00:17:30.76\00:17:32.30
HOW ARE WE SAVED?
00:17:32.30\00:17:33.86
"THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY FAITH."
00:17:33.86\00:17:36.60
WE ARE SAVED BY
GRACE THROUGH FAITH.
00:17:36.60\00:17:39.36
DON'T UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER
OF FAITH IN GOD AND WHAT HE CAN
00:17:39.36\00:17:43.20
DO TO SET YOU FREE.
00:17:43.20\00:17:44.53
WELL, WE NEED TO GET INTO
OUR LESSON OR I CAN BECOME
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DISTRACTED BY MY
OWN RAMBLINGS HERE.
00:17:48.63\00:17:51.70
QUESTION NUMBER ONE, WHY DO I
SOMETIMES GET TRAPPED IN CYCLES
00:17:51.70\00:17:58.20
OF DESTRUCTIVE BEHAVIOR?
00:17:58.20\00:18:02.63
ANSWER, JEREMIAH 17:9, "THE
HEART IS DECEITFUL ABOVE ALL
00:18:02.63\00:18:08.63
THINGS, AND DESPERATELY WICKED.
00:18:08.63\00:18:11.56
WHO CAN KNOW IT?"
00:18:11.56\00:18:13.26
AFTER MAN FELL, SOMETHING
HAPPENED TO OUR HEARTS.
00:18:13.26\00:18:16.93
WE'VE GOT THIS ADDICTION TO SIN.
00:18:16.93\00:18:20.76
BEFORE, MAN WAS MOTIVATED
BY LOVE, IT WAS NATURAL FOR HIM
00:18:20.76\00:18:24.00
TO LOVE.
00:18:24.00\00:18:24.86
BUT THEN AFTER WE FELL,
IT BECAME VERY NATURAL TO BE
00:18:24.86\00:18:27.90
SELFISH AND TO THINK
ONLY ABOUT OURSELVES.
00:18:27.90\00:18:30.50
IT'S A MIRACLE OF GRACE
THAT TEACHES US TO LOVE AGAIN.
00:18:30.50\00:18:33.56
YOU CAN READ IN THE BOOK
OF JOB 5:7, "YET MAN IS BORN
00:18:33.56\00:18:38.16
TO TROUBLE, AS THE
SPARKS FLY UPWARD."
00:18:38.16\00:18:42.06
YOU'VE SEEN SPARKS IN THE FIRE.
00:18:42.06\00:18:43.73
YOU KNOW, IF YOU'VE GOT A
FIRE AND COALS GOING, YOU TOSS
00:18:43.73\00:18:46.66
ANOTHER PIECE A WOOD
IN, SPARKS WILL FLY UP.
00:18:46.66\00:18:50.23
THEY GO UP WITH THE HEAT.
00:18:50.23\00:18:51.63
WE HAVE THIS MAGNET IN OUR
LIVES AND TEMPTATION PULLS ON
00:18:51.63\00:18:57.96
US--SIN, AND IT SAYS WE ALWAYS
ARE GONNA FEEL IN THIS LIFE
00:18:57.96\00:19:01.76
THIS ATTRACTION OF YOUR
LOWER NATURE TOWARDS SIN.
00:19:01.76\00:19:06.10
WELL, HOW DO
YOU GET OUT OF THAT?
00:19:06.10\00:19:08.90
BY JUST TRYING A LITTLE HARDER?
00:19:08.90\00:19:11.53
THERE IS
SOMETHING YOU NEED TO DO.
00:19:11.53\00:19:14.66
THE BIGGEST RESPONSIBILITY FOR
A PERSON IN GETTING THE VICTORY
00:19:14.66\00:19:18.76
OVER SIN IS COMING TO THE LORD
AND MAINTAINING A RELATIONSHIP
00:19:18.76\00:19:22.73
WITH HIM.
00:19:22.73\00:19:23.86
HE IS THE POWER.
00:19:23.86\00:19:25.86
WHEN I WAS IN RUSSIA YEARS
AGO, WE WERE IN THIS TOWN OF
00:19:25.86\00:19:30.93
STAVROPOL AND THEY HAD A LOT
OF BUSES THERE THAT WERE POWERED
00:19:30.93\00:19:33.16
BY ELECTRICITY.
00:19:33.16\00:19:34.66
THEY HAD THESE BARS THAT RAN
ALONG THESE WIRES AND THE WIRES
00:19:34.66\00:19:37.50
WOULD GO AROUND THE TURN,
THE BUS WOULD GO AROUND A TURN.
00:19:37.50\00:19:39.90
THEY HAD NO GAS IN THE BUS.
00:19:39.90\00:19:41.36
IT ALL WAS POWERED
BY THE WIRES OVERHEAD.
00:19:41.36\00:19:44.23
AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED,
BUT ONE DAY A DRIVER GOT
00:19:44.23\00:19:46.30
A LITTLE TOO HAPPY GOING AROUND
A TURN AND HE DROVE OUT FROM
00:19:46.30\00:19:49.50
UNDERNEATH THE WIRES.
00:19:49.50\00:19:52.70
SO THE PEOPLE HAD
TO CLIMB OFF THE BUS.
00:19:52.70\00:19:55.33
AND THEY DECIDED, "WELL, WE
DON'T HAVE ANY POWER ANYMORE,
00:19:55.33\00:19:57.60
LET'S JUST PUSH THE
BUS TO OUR DESTINATION."
00:19:57.60\00:20:00.13
IS THAT WHAT THEY DID?
00:20:00.13\00:20:01.66
NO, THEY SAID, "LET'S PUSH THE
BUS BACK UNDERNEATH THE WIRES
00:20:01.66\00:20:05.20
AND RECONNECT THE LEVER
OVERHEAD, THEN WE'LL GET BACK
00:20:05.20\00:20:07.93
ONBOARD THE BUS."
00:20:07.93\00:20:09.36
THEIR EFFORT
WAS IS RECONNECTION.
00:20:09.36\00:20:13.50
I'M EMBARRASSED TO TELL
YOU THAT I WAS HOOKING UP
00:20:13.50\00:20:15.80
A COMPUTER ONE DAY AND I
GOT ALL THESE COMPONENTS.
00:20:15.80\00:20:18.53
YOU KNOW, I GOT THE PRINTER
AND I'VE GOT THE COMPUTER
00:20:18.53\00:20:20.56
AND I GOT THE
MONITOR AND DIFFERENT THINGS.
00:20:20.56\00:20:22.43
AND YOU HAVE A POWER STRIP.
00:20:22.43\00:20:23.46
EVERYONE HERE KNOW
WHAT A POWER STRIP IS?
00:20:23.46\00:20:25.33
GOT ALL THE PLUGS AND
THEN ONE PLUG THAT, YOU KNOW,
00:20:25.33\00:20:27.33
GOES INTO THE WALL.
00:20:27.33\00:20:29.30
AND AFTER HOOKIN' IT ALL
UP, I WENT BACK UP THERE AND I
00:20:29.30\00:20:31.40
COULDN'T GET
ANYTHING TO TURN ON.
00:20:31.40\00:20:34.00
AND I THOUGHT, "WHAT'S THE
MATTER, WHAT AM I DOING WRONG?"
00:20:34.00\00:20:36.00
AND I CHECKED EVERYTHING, I
KEPT PRESSIN' ALL THE DIFFERENT
00:20:36.00\00:20:37.93
BUTTONS, NOTHIN' WOULD TURN ON.
00:20:37.93\00:20:39.56
I WENT DOWN AND GOT UNDER THE
DESK, I LOOKED, I'M EMBARRASSED
00:20:39.56\00:20:41.83
TO TELL YOU, WHEN IT CAME
TIME TO PLUG IN THE POWER STRIP,
00:20:41.83\00:20:45.03
I HAD PLUGGED IT INTO ITSELF.
00:20:45.03\00:20:47.06
[LAUGHING] >> NOW IN
CASE YOU DIDN'T KNOW,
00:20:47.06\00:20:51.30
THAT DOESN'T WORK!
00:20:51.30\00:20:54.00
AND SOMETIMES WE THINK, "YOU
KNOW, IF I JUST TRY A LITTLE
00:20:54.00\00:20:57.30
HARDER," AND THEN WE JUST PLUG
INTO OURSELVES FOR THE POWER,
00:20:57.30\00:21:00.96
AND NOTHING'S GONNA HAPPEN.
00:21:00.96\00:21:02.00
THERE IS NO POWER.
00:21:02.00\00:21:03.46
YOU'VE GOTTA BE PLUGGED
INTO THE LORD IF YOU WANT
00:21:03.46\00:21:05.63
THAT POWER.
00:21:05.63\00:21:07.03
WHILE I'M AT IT--NOW I DIDN'T
DO THIS, BUT YOU KNOW, I HEARD
00:21:07.03\00:21:10.20
SOMETHING PRETTY FUNNY.
00:21:10.20\00:21:11.13
A LADY, HER FIRST EXPERIENCE
WITH A COMPUTER, SHE DECIDED
00:21:11.13\00:21:13.20
TO DO SOME ONLINE SHOPPING.
00:21:13.20\00:21:15.33
AND AS SHE WENT TO MAKE
HER PURCHASE AND CHECK-OUT,
00:21:15.33\00:21:17.36
IT SAID--IT ASKED
FOR A CREDIT CARD.
00:21:17.36\00:21:19.86
SHE OPENED UP THE DVD BAY
AND STUCK HER CREDIT CARD IN IT.
00:21:19.86\00:21:23.10
[LAUGHING] >> AND
WONDERED WHY IT WASN'T
00:21:23.10\00:21:26.56
WORKING.
00:21:26.56\00:21:27.96
I'VE HEARD SOME
INTERESTING STORIES.
00:21:27.96\00:21:30.80
ANYWAY, SO WE GOTTA BREAK THAT
CYCLE OF SIN BY STAYING PLUGGED
00:21:30.80\00:21:34.53
INTO THE POWER
THAT JESUS PROVIDES.
00:21:34.53\00:21:36.80
NUMBER TWO, HOW DOES THE
BIBLE DESCRIBE THIS CONDITION?
00:21:36.80\00:21:44.26
WE'VE ALL GOT THIS
NATURAL SIN IN OUR NATURES.
00:21:44.26\00:21:47.20
PAUL PUTS IT THIS WAY IN
ROMANS 7:19, "FOR THE GOOD
00:21:47.20\00:21:51.83
THAT I WILL TO DO, I DO NOT DO;
BUT THE EVIL I WILL NOT TO DO,
00:21:51.83\00:21:56.76
THAT I PRACTICE."
00:21:56.76\00:21:58.43
YOU KNOW, WHEN WE DON'T HAVE
THE LORD IN OUR LIVES, WE MAY
00:21:58.43\00:22:00.86
HAVE SOME DESIRE TO WANT TO
DO THE RIGHT THING, BUT WITHOUT
00:22:00.86\00:22:04.06
THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT,
WE DON'T KNOW HOW TO DO IT.
00:22:04.06\00:22:06.16
WE KEEP GRAVITATING
BACK TOWARDS THE WRONG THING.
00:22:06.16\00:22:09.03
IT BECOMES SO AUTOMATIC.
00:22:09.03\00:22:11.76
IT'S LIKE THESE PARENTS THAT
GAVE THEIR 8-YEAR-OLD BOY AN
00:22:11.76\00:22:16.16
AXE FOR HIS BIRTHDAY AND SAID,
"NOW JUST DON'T CHOP ANYTHING."
00:22:16.16\00:22:19.80
WHAT DO YA THINK HE DID?
00:22:19.80\00:22:21.53
HE JUST BEGAN TO QUIVER IN
HIS HANDS AS SOON AS HE HELD IT.
00:22:21.53\00:22:24.26
HE JUST SAID, "CHOP,
CHOP, CHOP, CHOP," HAD TO CHOP
00:22:24.26\00:22:26.13
SOMETHING.
00:22:26.13\00:22:27.50
OR IT'S LIKE THE MAN, HAD
A PROBLEM WITH HIS WEIGHT AND
00:22:27.50\00:22:32.40
PART OF THE PROBLEM WAS BECAUSE
HE STOPPED AT THE DOUGHNUT SHOP
00:22:32.40\00:22:35.13
EVERY DAY ON THE WAY TO WORK.
00:22:35.13\00:22:38.50
AND SO HE THOUGHT, "WELL,
I'M GONNA PRAY ABOUT THAT."
00:22:38.50\00:22:41.96
SO HE PRAYED AND HE SAID,
"LORD," HE SAYS, "I KNOW THAT
00:22:41.96\00:22:46.26
I'M PROBABLY EATING TOO MANY
DOUGHNUTS," BUT ON THE WAY TO
00:22:46.26\00:22:48.60
WORK HE KNEW HE HAD TO DRIVE BY
THE DOUGHNUT SHOP AND HE REALLY
00:22:48.60\00:22:51.63
STARTED CRAVIN' THOSE DOUGHNUTS
'CAUSE HE WAS IN THE HABIT OF
00:22:51.63\00:22:53.80
EATING DOUGHNUTS EVERY DAY
AND HE FELT THIS GREAT BATTLE
00:22:53.80\00:22:55.73
GOING ON.
00:22:55.73\00:22:56.70
AND HE FINALLY PRAYED, HE SAID,
"ALL RIGHT, LORD, MAYBE IT'S
00:22:56.70\00:22:58.56
YOUR WILL FOR ME
TO EAT THE DOUGHNUTS.
00:22:58.56\00:23:00.90
AND IF IT'S YOUR WILL FOR
ME TO EAT THE DOUGHNUTS, THEN
00:23:00.90\00:23:04.06
THERE'LL BE A PARKING
PLACE DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF
00:23:04.06\00:23:06.63
THE ENTRANCE WHEN I DRIVE BY,
AND THAT I'LL TAKE AS A SIGN,"
00:23:06.63\00:23:10.20
BECAUSE HE KNEW IT WAS SO
BUSY DURING RUSH HOUR, THERE WAS
00:23:10.20\00:23:12.33
NEVER ANY PARKING.
00:23:12.33\00:23:13.66
AND HE TOLD HIS FRIENDS AT
WORK, "IT MUST BE GOD'S WILL
00:23:13.66\00:23:15.80
FOR ME TO EAT DOUGHNUTS BECAUSE
THERE WAS A PARKING PLACE THERE
00:23:15.80\00:23:19.90
AFTER I WENT AROUND
THE BLOCK EIGHT TIMES.
00:23:19.90\00:23:21.83
I FOUND IT!"
00:23:21.83\00:23:23.30
[LAUGHING] >> AND
WE KEEP LOOKING FOR
00:23:23.30\00:23:26.83
OPENINGS TO SIN BECAUSE WE'VE
GOT THIS CARNAL NATURE INSIDE
00:23:26.83\00:23:31.06
THAT GRAVITATES TOWARDS IT.
00:23:31.06\00:23:33.56
AND SO IT TAKES AN OUTSIDE
POWER TO GIVE US THAT VICTORY.
00:23:33.56\00:23:38.86
THE LORD HAS TO BE THE CENTER
OF OUR LIVES, WHICH BRINGS US
00:23:38.86\00:23:42.36
TO QUESTION NUMBER THREE.
00:23:42.36\00:23:46.50
HOW CAN I MAKE GOD
THE CENTER OF MY LIFE?
00:23:46.50\00:23:52.10
YOU KNOW, WE OFTEN HEAR
QUESTIONS DURING A PROGRAM LIKE
00:23:52.10\00:23:54.53
THIS, "HOW DO WE
FIT GOD INTO OUR LIVES?"
00:23:54.53\00:23:59.16
AND REALLY, YOU'RE
ASKING THE WRONG QUESTION.
00:23:59.16\00:24:01.60
MAKE GOD THE FOUNDATION.
00:24:01.60\00:24:04.23
MAKE SURE THAT HE
PERMEATES EVERYTHING.
00:24:04.23\00:24:06.86
HE IS THE WATER THAT YOU DRINK,
HE IS THE AIR THAT YOU BREATHE,
00:24:06.86\00:24:10.03
AND THEN FROM THERE YOU SAY,
"HOW DO I FIT EVERYTHING ELSE
00:24:10.03\00:24:13.63
IN?"
00:24:13.63\00:24:16.56
I REMEMBER WHERE I WAS--I'M
EMBARRASSED AGAIN TO TELL YOU.
00:24:16.56\00:24:20.30
SOMEONE ASKED ME TO TAKE CARE
OF AN APPOINTMENT ONE TIME AND
00:24:20.30\00:24:24.50
I SAID, "I CAN'T TAKE CARE
OF AN APPOINTMENT BECAUSE KAREN
00:24:24.50\00:24:28.00
IS GONE THAT DAY
AND I'M BABYSITTING."
00:24:28.00\00:24:31.06
AND SHE LOOKED AT ME AND
SHE SAID, "IF THEY'RE YOUR KIDS,
00:24:31.06\00:24:33.53
YOU'RE NOT BABYSITTING.
00:24:33.53\00:24:34.90
IT'S CALLED PARENTING."
00:24:34.90\00:24:37.06
I SAID, "OH YEAH.
00:24:37.06\00:24:38.06
THAT'S SUPPOSED TO BE
A PRIORITY, ISN'T IT?"
00:24:38.06\00:24:40.50
AND SOMETIMES WE ACT
LIKE WE'VE GOTTA FIT IN THESE
00:24:40.50\00:24:43.16
IMPORTANT THINGS.
00:24:43.16\00:24:44.70
WE'VE GOTTA REMEMBER WHAT
ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS?
00:24:44.70\00:24:47.36
IF JESUS IS THE MIDDLE OF
YOUR LIFE, THAT MEANS THAT--
00:24:47.36\00:24:52.00
START THE DAY WITH HIM.
00:24:52.00\00:24:54.10
FIRST THING YOU DO.
00:24:54.10\00:24:55.00
WHEN I OPEN MY EYES, MANY TIMES
BEFORE I EVEN GET OUTTA BED, I
00:24:55.00\00:24:57.96
DON'T EVEN WANT MY FEET TO
HIT THE FLOOR WITHOUT THE LORD.
00:24:57.96\00:25:00.83
AND I THANK GOD THAT
I'M ALIVE ANOTHER DAY.
00:25:00.83\00:25:04.26
AND THEN ONE OF THE FIRST
THINGS I DO, I USUALLY GET UP
00:25:04.26\00:25:06.53
AND GET MY SCRUPLES TOGETHER,
GET A CUP OF HOT WATER, THEN I
00:25:06.53\00:25:09.63
GET ON MY KNEES AND I PRAY.
00:25:09.63\00:25:11.96
SOMETIMES IT'S HARD TO
PRAY WHEN YOU'RE TOO SLEEPY,
00:25:11.96\00:25:14.10
'CAUSE YOU'RE
STILL KINDA DRIFTIN' OFF.
00:25:14.10\00:25:15.93
SO I WALK AROUND FOR A SECOND,
I WAKE UP, AND THEN I PRAY.
00:25:15.93\00:25:18.46
AND PRAYER ISN'T JUST TALKING
TO GOD, SAYING, "HERE'S MY LIST
00:25:18.46\00:25:20.76
FOR THE DAY."
00:25:20.76\00:25:22.16
I LIKE TO LISTEN.
00:25:22.16\00:25:23.90
AND I WANNA HEAR IF THE
HOLY SPIRIT'S REMINDING ME
00:25:23.90\00:25:26.06
OF SOMETHING GOD WANTS ME TO DO.
00:25:26.06\00:25:27.76
SO YOU HAVE A RELATIONSHIP
WHERE GOD IS WITH YOU IN
00:25:27.76\00:25:30.96
THE DAY, HE'S YOUR FRIEND,
YOU COMMUNICATE WITH HIM.
00:25:30.96\00:25:33.56
IT'S NOT THAT HE'S A THING
OUT THERE, IT'S NOT THAT HE'S
00:25:33.56\00:25:36.06
A PHILOSOPHY OR AN IDEA,
AND YOU GO THROUGH THIS RITUAL
00:25:36.06\00:25:38.96
OF SAYING THESE
PRAYERS OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
00:25:38.96\00:25:43.50
YOU KNOW, IN OUR FAMILY,
WE'VE SEEN IT WITH OUR KIDS.
00:25:43.50\00:25:46.46
YOU'VE GOT THE WAKE-UP
PRAYER--WE HAVE WORSHIP
00:25:46.46\00:25:48.70
IN OUR FAMILY.
00:25:48.70\00:25:49.86
AND THEN YOU GOT THE PRAYER,
"DEAR LORD, THANK US--WE THANK
00:25:49.86\00:25:52.10
YOU FOR THE FOOD."
00:25:52.10\00:25:53.40
THEN YOU GO TO SLEEP AT
NIGHT AND YOU SAY, "THANK YOU
00:25:53.40\00:25:55.40
FOR A GOOD DAY.
00:25:55.40\00:25:56.36
KEEP US THROUGH THE
NIGHT, KEEP US SAFE."
00:25:56.36\00:25:58.33
AND YOU KNOW, WE GET INTO
THE HABIT OF PRAYER SOMETIMES
00:25:58.33\00:26:00.43
WHERE--I'VE DONE
IT, OUR KIDS DO IT.
00:26:00.43\00:26:03.96
WE KNEEL DOWN AND WE'RE HAVING
OUR GOODNIGHT PRAYER, AND ONE
00:26:03.96\00:26:07.73
OF THE KIDS WILL SAY, "DEAR
LORD, THANK YOU FOR THIS FOOD.
00:26:07.73\00:26:10.40
PLEASE BLESS IT."
00:26:10.40\00:26:12.80
BECAUSE IT'S SUCH A HABIT,
"IS THIS PRAYER NUMBER ONE,
00:26:12.80\00:26:14.83
PRAYER NUMBER TWO,
OR PRAYER NUMBER THREE?"
00:26:14.83\00:26:17.06
AND YOU KNOW, THAT'S
NOT REALLY PRAYER, IS IT?
00:26:17.06\00:26:19.30
YOU WANNA OPEN YOUR
HEART TO GOD, TELL HIM WHAT'S
00:26:19.30\00:26:22.00
ON YOUR HEART.
00:26:22.00\00:26:22.96
AND YOU KNOW, IF YOU
CAN'T THINK OF ANYTHING,
00:26:22.96\00:26:25.00
SAY, "LORD, HELP ME PRAY."
00:26:25.00\00:26:26.23
THERE'S NOTHIN' WRONG WITH THAT.
00:26:26.23\00:26:28.33
BE HONEST WITH HIM, HE'S REAL.
00:26:28.33\00:26:29.73
BUT YOU NEED AN
ONGOING RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM.
00:26:29.73\00:26:32.76
HOW DO YOU MAKE HIM
THE CENTER OF YOUR LIFE?
00:26:32.76\00:26:35.03
YOU CAN READ IN
JEREMIAH 29:13-14, IT SAYS,
00:26:35.03\00:26:40.96
"YOU WILL SEEK FOR ME AND YOU
WILL FIND ME, WHEN YOU SEARCH
00:26:40.96\00:26:45.03
FOR ME WITH ALL OF YOUR HEART."
00:26:45.03\00:26:48.40
WHAT IS THE GREAT COMMANDMENT?
00:26:48.40\00:26:50.00
"THOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR
GOD WITH ALL OF YOUR HEART."
00:26:50.00\00:26:53.33
IF YOU DON'T LOVE THE
LORD, YOU CAN'T OBEY HIM.
00:26:53.33\00:26:56.43
NOW HOW MANY OF YOU
EXPECT TO FALL IN LOVE SOMEDAY?
00:26:56.43\00:27:02.43
I'M NOT ASKING YOU
IF YOU'RE IN LOVE NOW.
00:27:02.43\00:27:04.13
IF YOU ARE, YOU CAN
STILL RAISE YOUR HAND.
00:27:04.13\00:27:06.13
BUT HOW MANY OF YOU ARE
HOPING TO FALL IN LOVE SOMEDAY
00:27:06.13\00:27:08.26
WITH SOMEBODY?
00:27:08.26\00:27:10.63
I MEAN, THAT'S
NATURAL, THAT'S NORMAL.
00:27:10.63\00:27:12.70
I HOPE THAT YOU
HAVE THAT FEELING, OKAY.
00:27:12.70\00:27:16.56
DO YOU EXPECT TO BE EXPERIENCING
LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT?
00:27:16.56\00:27:20.70
DO YOU THINK THAT YOU'LL JUST
BE WALKIN' AROUND ONE DAY AND
00:27:20.70\00:27:22.66
ALL OF A SUDDEN, YOU'LL
LOOK AT SOMEBODY AND YOU'LL--
00:27:22.66\00:27:25.46
VIOLIN MUSIC AND
BELLS IN THE BACKGROUND.
00:27:25.46\00:27:28.16
AND THEY'LL HAVE A HALO
AROUND 'EM AND YOU'LL HEAR
00:27:28.16\00:27:30.30
AN INNER VOICE
SAYING, "THIS IS THE ONE."
00:27:30.30\00:27:32.83
[LAUGHING] >> IS
THAT HOW YOU'RE EXPECTING
00:27:32.83\00:27:35.60
IT TO HAPPEN?
00:27:35.60\00:27:37.36
OH, YOU KNOW, YOU MIGHT
HAVE ATTRACTION AT FIRST SIGHT.
00:27:37.36\00:27:42.10
AND YOU KNOW, GOD CAN SOMETIMES
REVEAL A PERSON SUPERNATURALLY,
00:27:42.10\00:27:45.80
"THIS IS THE ONE FOR
YOU," I'M NOT DOUBTING THAT.
00:27:45.80\00:27:49.16
I THINK MORE TIMES THAN NOT,
IT'S NOT LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT.
00:27:49.16\00:27:51.83
I THINK SOMETIMES IT'S LUST AT
FIRST SIGHT, YOU THINK THEY'RE
00:27:51.83\00:27:54.20
JUST REALLY GOOD
LOOKIN', AND YOU THINK, "WOW,
00:27:54.20\00:27:56.50
THAT'S THE ONE!"
00:27:56.50\00:27:59.73
BUT DO YOU KNOW
HOW IT USUALLY HAPPENS?
00:27:59.73\00:28:02.26
YOU BEGIN TO TALK TO SOMEBODY
AND THEY TALK TO YOU, AND YOU
00:28:02.26\00:28:06.86
SAY, "YOU KNOW, I
REALLY LIKE THE ESSENCE OF WHO
00:28:06.86\00:28:09.86
THIS PERSON IS."
00:28:09.86\00:28:11.86
AND THEY SAY, "I
REALLY LIKE THIS PERSON."
00:28:11.86\00:28:14.06
YOU GET TO KNOW THEIR CHARACTER.
00:28:14.06\00:28:16.43
AND YOU LOVE WHO THEY ARE.
00:28:16.43\00:28:19.96
WELL, IF YOU KNOW
GOD, YOU WILL LOVE GOD.
00:28:19.96\00:28:25.16
JESUS SAID, "IF YOU LOVE
ME, KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS."
00:28:25.16\00:28:30.90
YOU CANNOT KEEP GOD'S
COMMANDMENTS IF YOU DON'T
00:28:30.90\00:28:33.10
LOVE HIM.
00:28:33.10\00:28:34.36
A LOT OF PEOPLE STRUGGLE IN
BEING CHRISTIANS, AND YOU KNOW
00:28:34.36\00:28:36.80
WHY THEY'RE HAVIN' A HARD TIME?
00:28:36.80\00:28:38.90
BECAUSE THEY
DON'T LOVE THE LORD.
00:28:38.90\00:28:40.83
YOU KNOW WHAT MAKES
LOVING THE LORD SO EASY?
00:28:40.83\00:28:44.13
WHEN YOU GET TO KNOW HIM.
00:28:44.13\00:28:46.03
HOW DO YOU GET TO KNOW SOMEBODY?
00:28:46.03\00:28:47.96
HOW ARE YOU GONNA FALL IN LOVE?
00:28:47.96\00:28:49.56
COMMUNICATION.
00:28:49.56\00:28:51.13
SOMEONE WILL BE TALKIN' TO
YOU, YOU'LL BE TALKIN' TO THEM,
00:28:51.13\00:28:53.50
YOU'LL BE SPENDING TIME
TOGETHER, YOU DEVELOP A LOVE
00:28:53.50\00:28:55.43
RELATIONSHIP, AND THEN
YOU'LL SAY, "BOY, I WANNA BE
00:28:55.43\00:28:57.96
WITH YOU FOREVER.
00:28:57.96\00:28:59.26
I DON'T WANNA DO ANYTHING
TO HURT YOU 'CAUSE I LOVE YOU."
00:28:59.26\00:29:02.06
WHEN YOU HAVE COMMUNICATION
WITH GOD, YOU TALK TO HIM
00:29:02.06\00:29:05.20
THROUGH PRAYER, HE SPEAKS TO
YOU THROUGH HIS WORD, THROUGH
00:29:05.20\00:29:07.76
PROVIDENCE, WHEN YOU HAVE THAT
RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD, YOU'RE
00:29:07.76\00:29:11.33
GONNA FALL IN LOVE WITH
HIM, YOU'RE GONNA GET TO KNOW
00:29:11.33\00:29:13.46
WHO HE REALLY IS.
00:29:13.46\00:29:14.56
NOT JUST LISTENIN' TO WHAT
THE PREACHER'S TELLING YOU ABOUT
00:29:14.56\00:29:16.70
GOD, BUT YOU'RE REALLY
GONNA HAVE A PERSONAL EXPERIENCE
00:29:16.70\00:29:20.16
WITH HIM AND KNOW
HIM AS AN INDIVIDUAL.
00:29:20.16\00:29:22.40
YOU'LL LOVE HIM AND
YOU'LL WANT TO OBEY HIM.
00:29:22.40\00:29:25.26
AND THAT WILL CHANGE
EVERYTHING IN YOUR LIFE.
00:29:25.26\00:29:27.83
BETTER YOU KNOW HIM,
THE MORE YOU'LL LOVE HIM.
00:29:27.83\00:29:30.40
THE MORE YOU LOVE HIM,
THE BETTER YOU'LL SERVE
00:29:30.40\00:29:32.90
AND OBEY HIM.
00:29:32.90\00:29:34.03
SO TAKE TIME TO GET TO KNOW HIM.
00:29:34.03\00:29:36.46
HEY, WE'VE GOT A TEXT
QUESTION THAT'S COME IN.
00:29:36.46\00:29:39.43
[MUSIC] >> THIS IS
FROM BERMUDA, AND IT
00:29:39.43\00:29:46.66
SAYS HOW DO YOU KNOW IF THE
HOLY SPIRIT HAS FORSAKEN YOU?
00:29:46.66\00:29:51.83
HOW DO YOU KNOW IF YOU'VE
GRIEVED AWAY THE HOLY SPIRIT?
00:29:51.83\00:29:54.83
YOU KNOW, A LOT OF PEOPLE FEEL
THAT WAY BECAUSE THEY JUST FEEL
00:29:54.83\00:29:59.00
LIKE, "YOU KNOW, I DON'T
FEEL GOD'S TALKING TO ME."
00:29:59.00\00:30:01.10
USUALLY WHEN YOU ARE LIVING
IN DEFIANCE TO GOD'S WILL,
00:30:01.10\00:30:05.73
IT SEEMS LIKE THE VOICE
OF THE HOLY SPIRIT GETS QUIET
00:30:05.73\00:30:07.96
AND WE BEGIN TO WONDER
IF HE'S GIVEN UP ON US.
00:30:07.96\00:30:10.90
TYPICALLY, WHEN A
PERSON IS ASKING THAT QUESTION,
00:30:10.90\00:30:13.46
GOD HAS NOT GIVEN UP ON YOU
BECAUSE YOU HAVE AN INTEREST
00:30:13.46\00:30:16.23
IN THE QUESTION.
00:30:16.23\00:30:18.36
I ESPECIALLY WORRY ABOUT PEOPLE
WHO ARE NOT EVEN ASKING THAT
00:30:18.36\00:30:21.06
QUESTION, THEY
DON'T EVEN CARE TO ASK IT.
00:30:21.06\00:30:23.70
IN MOST CASES, WHEN SOMEONE IS
WONDERING, "HAVE I GRIEVED AWAY
00:30:23.70\00:30:26.63
THE HOLY SPIRIT?
00:30:26.63\00:30:27.66
HOW COME I CAN'T HEAR
THE VOICE OF THE LORD?"
00:30:27.66\00:30:30.13
THAT MEANS HE'S STILL
CALLING YOU, BUT IT'S A STILL,
00:30:30.13\00:30:32.16
SMALL VOICE.
00:30:32.16\00:30:33.20
YOU NEED TO LISTEN TO
THAT VOICE AND COME TO HIM,
00:30:33.20\00:30:35.16
CALL OUT TO HIM.
00:30:35.16\00:30:36.23
HE'S STILL VERY REAL.
00:30:36.23\00:30:37.86
QUESTION NUMBER FOUR, HOW
CAN I BE SURE THAT GOD WANTS
00:30:37.86\00:30:43.60
A RELATIONSHIP WITH ME?
00:30:43.60\00:30:47.76
WELL, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A
LOT OF EVIDENCE IN THE BIBLE
00:30:47.76\00:30:50.13
FOR THIS.
00:30:50.13\00:30:51.06
A GOOD SCRIPTURE IS
JEREMIAH 31:3, WHERE THE LORD
00:30:51.06\00:30:55.03
TELLS US, "THE LORD HAS
APPEARED OF OLD TO ME, SAYING,
00:30:55.03\00:30:59.66
'YES, I HAVE LOVED YOU
WITH AN EVERLASTING LOVE.
00:30:59.66\00:31:04.43
THEREFORE WITH LOVING
KINDNESS I HAVE DRAWN YOU.'"
00:31:04.43\00:31:10.43
GOD DRAWS US WITH HIM BECAUSE
HE LOVES US WITH AN EVERLASTING
00:31:10.43\00:31:14.60
LOVE.
00:31:14.60\00:31:16.83
YEARS AGO, THERE WAS A
BOY THAT LIVED IN ONE OF THESE
00:31:16.83\00:31:21.66
MIDWESTERN TOWNS AND HE
BECAME GOOD FRIENDS WITH
00:31:21.66\00:31:25.43
A LOCAL BLACKSMITH.
00:31:25.43\00:31:27.86
HE LIKED TO WATCH
THE BLACKSMITH WORK.
00:31:27.86\00:31:29.83
HE WAS SO STRONG AND HE
JUST REALLY ENJOYED WATCHING HIM
00:31:29.83\00:31:31.90
OPERATE THE BILLOWS AND SHAPING
THE HORSESHOES AND MAKING
00:31:31.90\00:31:34.63
DIFFERENT THINGS OUT OF
STEEL AND FORGING METAL.
00:31:34.63\00:31:37.00
AND THE BLACKSMITH GREW PRETTY
FOND OF THE BOY BECAUSE HE'D
00:31:37.00\00:31:39.50
STAY THERE EVERY DAY AFTER
SCHOOL AND THEY'D TALK TOGETHER
00:31:39.50\00:31:41.66
AND THEY GOT TO BE
PRETTY GOOD BUDDIES.
00:31:41.66\00:31:44.33
THEN ONE DAY, WHILE
THE BLACKSMITH WAS WORKING,
00:31:44.33\00:31:46.46
HE HEARD THE ALARM OF A FIRE.
00:31:46.46\00:31:48.93
THEY WERE RINGING THE BELL,
CALLING FOR THE VOLUNTEER FIRE
00:31:48.93\00:31:51.43
DEPARTMENT TO COME TOGETHER,
AND HE WAS PART OF THAT.
00:31:51.43\00:31:54.36
AND HE RAN TO THE PLACE
IN TOWN WHERE A 3-STORY HOUSE
00:31:54.36\00:31:57.70
WAS ON FIRE AND IT WAS
TIMMY CARPENTER'S HOUSE,
00:31:57.70\00:32:01.46
THE BOY THAT HE HAD
BECOME FRIENDS WITH,
00:32:01.46\00:32:04.36
AND THERE HE WAS, ON
THE TOP FLOOR OF THE HOUSE,
00:32:04.36\00:32:07.80
OUT STICKING HIS
HEAD OUT OF THE WINDOW.
00:32:07.80\00:32:10.50
SMOKE WAS BILLOWING OUT,
BLACK SMOKE ABOVE HIS HEAD,
00:32:10.50\00:32:13.50
AND HE WAS CALLING FOR HELP.
00:32:13.50\00:32:14.83
IT WAS A LITTLE
TOO HIGH TO JUMP.
00:32:14.83\00:32:17.30
WELL, IT WAS A BRICK BUILDING
AND THERE WAS ACTUALLY A IRON
00:32:17.30\00:32:21.30
FIRE RAILING STEPS THAT
HAD BEEN ENGRAVED IN THE SIDE
00:32:21.30\00:32:26.46
OF THE BUILDING.
00:32:26.46\00:32:27.53
IF YOU LIVED IN NEW
YORK CITY, YOU KNOW WHAT I'M
00:32:27.53\00:32:29.40
TALKING ABOUT.
00:32:29.40\00:32:30.26
THEY HAVE THOSE ON ALL
THOSE BROWNSTONE BUILDINGS.
00:32:30.26\00:32:32.30
AND SEVERAL PEOPLE TRIED
TO GO UP AND GET THE BOY,
00:32:32.30\00:32:35.13
BUT THE FIRE HAD MADE THE IRON
STAIRCASE, OR THE IRON LADDER,
00:32:35.13\00:32:39.13
TOO HOT.
00:32:39.13\00:32:40.83
WELL, THE BLACKSMITH, HIS HANDS
WERE PRETTY USED TO IT AND HE
00:32:40.83\00:32:44.66
STILL HAD HIS GLOVES
ON RUNNING FROM THE SHOP.
00:32:44.66\00:32:47.16
HE SAID, "HANG ON,
TIMMY, I'M COMING."
00:32:47.16\00:32:49.90
AND EVEN THOUGH THE
LADDER WAS RED HOT, HE WENT UP.
00:32:49.90\00:32:55.03
HIS SHOES WERE BEGINNING TO
MELT UNDER HIS FEET, HIS HANDS
00:32:55.03\00:32:57.33
WERE BURNING EVEN THROUGH HIS
LEATHER GLOVES, BUT HE GOT UP
00:32:57.33\00:32:59.86
TO THE THIRD FLOOR
AND HE SAID, "JUMP!
00:32:59.86\00:33:01.86
JUMP TIMMY!
00:33:01.86\00:33:02.80
JUMP TO MY BACK!"
00:33:02.80\00:33:03.86
TIMMY WAS ABLE TO JUMP.
00:33:03.86\00:33:05.56
HE GOT ABOUT HALFWAY DOWN,
HE COULDN'T HANG ON ANYMORE
00:33:05.56\00:33:07.83
BECAUSE THE BURNING WAS TOO BAD.
00:33:07.83\00:33:09.66
HE LET GO AND THEY FELL TO THE
GROUND BUT THEY BOTH SURVIVED.
00:33:09.66\00:33:12.83
WELL, THE TRAGEDY WAS IN THE
FIRE HIS MOTHER AND HIS FATHER
00:33:12.83\00:33:16.63
HAD BEEN KILLED.
00:33:16.63\00:33:19.13
AND THEY HAD NO RELATIVES
THAT LIVED ANYWHERE CLOSE BY.
00:33:19.13\00:33:22.56
AND SO THEY HAD SOME
PROCEEDINGS IN THE TOWN TO FIND
00:33:22.56\00:33:24.76
OUT WHO WAS
GOING TO ADOPT TIMMY.
00:33:24.76\00:33:27.96
THINGS WERE VERY
SIMPLE BACK THEN.
00:33:27.96\00:33:29.93
AND THE CARPENTER--OR
THE BLACKSMITH SHOWED UP
00:33:29.93\00:33:32.83
AND HE SAID, "I'D LIKE TO
HAVE TIMMY CARPENTER AS MY SON."
00:33:32.83\00:33:35.70
AND TIMMY SAID, "I'D
LIKE TO GO WITH HIM TOO."
00:33:35.70\00:33:38.33
AND THE JUDGE SAYS, "YOU
KNOW, YOU DON'T HAVE A VERY GOOD
00:33:38.33\00:33:40.96
INCOME," HE SAID TO THE
BLACKSMITH, "AND YOU KNOW,
00:33:40.96\00:33:45.13
THERE'S OTHER FAMILIES
THAT HAVE OFFERED TO TAKE HIM.
00:33:45.13\00:33:47.03
THEY CAN PROVIDE A
MUCH BETTER EDUCATION."
00:33:47.03\00:33:49.56
AND IT WAS JUST BREAKING THE
HEART OF THE BLACKSMITH BECAUSE
00:33:49.56\00:33:51.56
HE LOVED THE BOY SO MUCH
AND THEY HAD A RELATIONSHIP.
00:33:51.56\00:33:54.10
AND FINALLY, AS A LAST PLEA,
WHEN THE JUDGE SAYS, "IS THERE
00:33:54.10\00:33:58.53
ANY OTHER EVIDENCE THAT YOU
CAN OFFER THAT HE SHOULD LIVE
00:33:58.53\00:34:01.90
WITH YOU?"
00:34:01.90\00:34:02.93
HE SAYS, "YOU DON'T HAVE A WIFE.
00:34:02.93\00:34:04.66
YOU DON'T MAKE ENOUGH MONEY."
00:34:04.66\00:34:05.76
AND YOU KNOW WHAT HE DID?
00:34:05.76\00:34:06.70
HE HELD OUT HIS HANDS THAT WERE
TERRIBLY SCARRED FROM THE BURNS
00:34:06.70\00:34:10.63
OF SAVING THE BOY.
00:34:10.63\00:34:12.20
HE SAYS, "THIS
IS ALL I CAN OFFER."
00:34:12.20\00:34:14.03
HE SAYS, "I LOVE HIM."
00:34:14.03\00:34:15.50
AND YOU KNOW, THIS IS
WHAT JESUS IS TELLING US.
00:34:15.50\00:34:18.00
HE SAYS, "IF YOU HAVE ANY
DOUBTS ABOUT HOW MUCH I LOVE
00:34:18.00\00:34:20.93
YOU, JUST LOOK AT MY HANDS.
00:34:20.93\00:34:22.66
LOOK AT HOW MUCH
I PAID TO SAVE YOU."
00:34:22.66\00:34:25.46
WHAT MORE WOULD YOU ASK OF
A PERSON TO PROVE THEIR LOVE
00:34:25.46\00:34:28.93
FOR YOU THAN GIVING THEIR LIFE?
00:34:28.93\00:34:32.33
SOMETIMES WE GIVE LITTLE GIFTS
TO SHOW PEOPLE WE LOVE THEM.
00:34:32.33\00:34:35.70
BUT WHAT MORE CAN
YOU GIVE THAN YOUR LIFE?
00:34:35.70\00:34:37.66
I'LL TELL YOU
THERE'S SOMETHING MORE.
00:34:37.66\00:34:40.10
IF YOU GIVE THE LIFE OF YOUR
SON, YOU GIVE THE LIFE OF YOUR
00:34:40.10\00:34:43.43
CHILD, "GOD SO LOVED THE
WORLD THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY
00:34:43.43\00:34:49.00
BEGOTTEN SON."
00:34:49.00\00:34:50.13
THE ONLY TIME THAT GOD BECAME
A MAN WAS IN GOD THE SON, JESUS.
00:34:50.13\00:34:53.63
AND GOD THE FATHER ALLOWED--
THE GREATEST LOVE HE HAS
00:34:53.63\00:34:58.03
FOR ANY BEING IN THE COSMOS
WAS THE LOVE HE HAS FOR JESUS.
00:34:58.03\00:35:03.40
AND HE ALLOWED JESUS TO COME
AND TO SUFFER BECAUSE HE LOVES
00:35:03.40\00:35:06.53
YOU SO MUCH.
00:35:06.53\00:35:09.76
THE DEVIL WANTS TO DESTROY YOU.
00:35:09.76\00:35:11.60
THE ONLY THING THE
DEVIL LOVES IS HIMSELF.
00:35:11.60\00:35:13.73
YOU GET TO CHOOSE WHICH FAMILY
YOU WANT, THE ONE WHO LOVES YOU
00:35:13.73\00:35:18.90
OR JUST FOLLOW THE DEVIL
WHO IS OFFERING YOU THE FLEETING
00:35:18.90\00:35:21.73
PLEASURES OF THE WORLD
THAT WILL LEAVE YOU EMPTY
00:35:21.73\00:35:24.53
AND GRIEVED.
00:35:24.53\00:35:26.83
QUESTION NUMBER FIVE, CAN JUST
PRAYING AND READING MY BIBLE
00:35:26.83\00:35:32.40
CHANGE ME?
00:35:32.40\00:35:34.96
DOES THAT REALLY WORK?
00:35:34.96\00:35:36.43
SEEMS LIKE IT'S
JUST A SHALLOW EFFORT.
00:35:36.43\00:35:39.63
ANSWER?
00:35:39.63\00:35:40.70
MATTHEW 4:4, JESUS SAID, "IT IS
WRITTEN, 'MAN SHALL NOT LIVE BY
00:35:40.70\00:35:46.60
BREAD ALONE, BUT BY EVERY WORD
THAT PROCEEDS FROM THE MOUTH
00:35:46.60\00:35:50.80
OF GOD.'" THERE
IS POWER IN THE WORD
00:35:50.80\00:35:53.83
OF GOD.
00:35:53.83\00:35:54.76
IT IS NOT SIMPLY
BLACK INK ON WHITE PAPER.
00:35:54.76\00:35:57.53
THESE ARE THE WORDS OF GOD.
00:35:57.53\00:35:58.86
IT'S DIFFERENT
FROM ANY OTHER BOOK.
00:35:58.86\00:36:01.03
AND WHEN YOU PRAY FOR THE HOLY
SPIRIT AND YOU ASK GOD TO GUIDE
00:36:01.03\00:36:03.80
YOU AND YOU READ THIS SACRED
BOOK, THE WORDS COME ALIVE.
00:36:03.80\00:36:08.03
KEEP IN MIND, THIS IS JESUS.
00:36:08.03\00:36:11.66
THIS IS THE BREAD OF LIFE.
00:36:11.66\00:36:13.33
THE BIBLE SAYS CHRIST WAS THE
WORD AND HE SAID, "UNLESS YOU
00:36:13.33\00:36:16.66
EAT MY FLESH AND DRINK
MY BLOOD, YOU HAVE NO LIFE
00:36:16.66\00:36:19.10
IN YOU."
00:36:19.10\00:36:20.06
WHEN YOU ARE READING THE
BIBLE, YOU ARE IN A SENSE EATING
00:36:20.06\00:36:21.90
HIS FLESH.
00:36:21.90\00:36:23.23
YOU ARE TAKING CHRIST
WITHIN YOU, THIS BREAD OF LIFE,
00:36:23.23\00:36:25.83
AND IT DOES SOMETHING FOR YOU.
00:36:25.83\00:36:27.53
AND YOU MAY NOT NOTICE
THE DIFFERENCE RIGHT AWAY,
00:36:27.53\00:36:30.46
BUT YOU KEEP DOING IT,
YOU'LL NOTICE A BIG DIFFERENCE.
00:36:30.46\00:36:33.56
YOU SEE, YOU HAVE TWO NATURES
THAT ARE AT WAR INSIDE OF YOU.
00:36:33.56\00:36:41.70
NOW SOME SPORTS HERO WAS
ARRESTED A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO
00:36:41.70\00:36:45.70
BECAUSE HE WAS
ENGAGING IN DOG FIGHTS.
00:36:45.70\00:36:48.83
AND THAT'S KIND OF BRUTAL, BUT
IT'S MORE COMMON IN OTHER PARTS
00:36:48.83\00:36:53.40
OF THE WORLD.
00:36:53.40\00:36:55.23
NOW IF YOU TAKE TWO DOGS, JUST
AS AN ILLUSTRATION, SAME BREED,
00:36:55.23\00:37:02.50
TWO MALE DOGS, SAME HEIGHT,
SAME WEIGHT, SAME AGE, AND YOU
00:37:02.50\00:37:07.60
TAKE ONE AND YOU PUT HIM IN A
YARD AND YOU CHAIN HIM 3 INCHES
00:37:07.60\00:37:12.76
OF CHAIN FROM HIS NECK IN THE
MIDDLE OF THE YARD OUT IN THE
00:37:12.76\00:37:16.40
SUN AND FOR 4 DAYS YOU DON'T
GIVE HIM ANY FOOD OR ANY WATER
00:37:16.40\00:37:20.23
OR ANY EXERCISE, NOW
THAT WOULD BE TERRIBLE.
00:37:20.23\00:37:23.50
ILLUSTRATION.
00:37:23.50\00:37:24.83
YOU TAKE THE OTHER DOG,
YOU GIVE HIM THE BEST FOOD,
00:37:24.83\00:37:28.80
YOU GIVE HIM
EXERCISE, PLENTY OF WATER.
00:37:28.80\00:37:32.23
AT THE END OF 4 DAYS,
YOU HAVE THOSE 2 DOGS FIGHT.
00:37:32.23\00:37:36.83
WHICH ONE DO YOU
THINK IS GOING TO WIN?
00:37:36.83\00:37:40.20
THE ONE THAT HAS
BEEN CARED FOR THE BEST.
00:37:40.20\00:37:43.40
THE ONE THAT'S GOING TO HAVE
THE STRENGTH AND THE ENERGY.
00:37:43.40\00:37:45.40
YOU MIGHT THINK, "WELL, THE
OTHER ONE'S MORE FEROCIOUS."
00:37:45.40\00:37:47.13
WELL, HE'LL BE WEAK.
00:37:47.13\00:37:48.70
YOU'VE GOT TWO NATURES
THAT ARE AT WAR INSIDE OF YOU.
00:37:48.70\00:37:51.36
IT'S CALLED THE
SPIRIT AND THE FLESH.
00:37:51.36\00:37:53.13
WE ALL HAVE IT.
00:37:53.13\00:37:54.16
YOU KNOW WHAT MAKES
THE BIGGEST DIFFERENCE?
00:37:54.16\00:37:55.90
WHEN YOU'RE TEMPTED,
WHICH SIDE IS GOING TO WIN?
00:37:55.90\00:37:58.93
WHO ARE YOU FEEDING?
00:37:58.93\00:38:01.03
WHICH DOG ARE
YOU TAKING CARE OF?
00:38:01.03\00:38:03.03
IF YOU CONTINUE TO FEED
YOUR MIND ONTO, YOU KNOW,
00:38:03.03\00:38:05.93
THE READING OF THE WORLD AND THE
VIDEOS AND DVDS AND THE MUSIC
00:38:05.93\00:38:09.50
OF THE WORLD AND YOU'RE
JUST FILLING YOUR MIND WITH THAT
00:38:09.50\00:38:11.56
AND YOU'RE WONDERING,
"WHY DO I KEEP GETTING OVERCOME
00:38:11.56\00:38:13.76
BY TEMPTATION?"
00:38:13.76\00:38:14.80
YOU'RE FEEDING THE WRONG DOG!
00:38:14.80\00:38:16.70
AND YOU'RE NOT FEEDING THE
SPIRITUAL SIDE OF YOUR NATURE.
00:38:16.70\00:38:19.66
YOU'VE GOT TO STARVE
ONE AND FEED THE OTHER.
00:38:19.66\00:38:23.43
AND THEN IT WILL BE
STRONG WHEN TEMPTATION COMES.
00:38:23.43\00:38:27.00
THAT'S WHY CHRIST WAS ABLE
TO SAY, "IT IS WRITTEN, IT IS
00:38:27.00\00:38:29.03
WRITTEN, IT IS WRITTEN," WHEN
THE DEVIL TEMPTED HIM, BECAUSE
00:38:29.03\00:38:31.60
HE HAD SPENT HIS LIFE
FEEDING HIS SPIRITUAL NATURE.
00:38:31.60\00:38:35.30
"HE THAT SOWS UNTO THE FLESH
WILL OF THE FLESH REAP DEATH."
00:38:35.30\00:38:39.26
IN OTHER WORDS, IF YOU'RE
SPENDING YOUR TIME FEEDING AND
00:38:39.26\00:38:41.06
NURTURING AND TAKING CARE OF
THE CARNAL SIDE OF YOUR NATURE,
00:38:41.06\00:38:45.03
IT'S GOING TO END IN DEATH.
00:38:45.03\00:38:46.80
BUT IF YOU RESIST THAT NATURAL
TENDENCY AND SAY, "LORD, I'M
00:38:46.80\00:38:50.66
GOING TO PLUG INTO YOUR POWER
AND I'M GOING TO DO WHAT I CAN
00:38:50.66\00:38:52.86
DO TO FEED ON SPIRITUAL THINGS,
WHAT--THE PEOPLE I HANG AROUND
00:38:52.86\00:38:57.30
WITH--" THAT DOESN'T MEAN
YOU DON'T WITNESS TO EVERYBODY,
00:38:57.30\00:38:59.90
"BUT THE FRIENDS I CHOOSE,
WHAT I READ, WHAT I WATCH,
00:38:59.90\00:39:03.43
WHAT I STUDY, WHAT I LISTEN TO."
00:39:03.43\00:39:05.76
EVEN THE FOOD YOU EAT.
00:39:05.76\00:39:08.53
YOUR LIFESTYLE IN EVERY WAY,
YOU CAN SAY, "I WANT TO LIVE
00:39:08.53\00:39:10.63
BY THE SPIRIT."
00:39:10.63\00:39:11.80
WELL, FROM THE SPIRIT
REAP EVERLASTING LIFE.
00:39:11.80\00:39:14.83
SO YOU'RE CHOOSING
EVERY DAY WHICH DOG TO FEED.
00:39:14.83\00:39:18.13
AND THAT'S WHERE,
WHEN TEMPTATION COMES,
00:39:18.13\00:39:20.16
AND WHEN THERE IS A FIGHT,
YOU CAN TELL AHEAD OF TIME
00:39:20.16\00:39:22.33
WHO'S GOING TO WIN.
00:39:22.33\00:39:23.66
WE'RE TRAINING EVERY
DAY FOR THOSE BATTLES.
00:39:23.66\00:39:27.76
NUMBER SIX, WHAT IF I
DON'T FEEL LIKE I'M CONNECTING
00:39:27.76\00:39:32.86
WITH GOD?
00:39:32.86\00:39:35.83
YOU KNOW IT TELLS US, LUKE
8:5, "A SOWER WENT OUT TO SOW
00:39:35.83\00:39:39.23
HIS SEED.
00:39:39.23\00:39:40.40
AND AS HE SOWED, SOME OF THE
SEED FELL BY THE WAYSIDE; AND
00:39:40.40\00:39:44.56
IT WAS TRAMPLED DOWN AND THE
BIRDS OF THE AIR DEVOURED IT."
00:39:44.56\00:39:48.23
IN THIS PARABLE THE LORD
IS SAYING SOME SEED FALLS ON
00:39:48.23\00:39:51.26
THE PATH AND THE
BIRDS OF THE AIR EAT IT UP.
00:39:51.26\00:39:53.73
I ACTUALLY WANT TO TALK
ABOUT HOW A PATH IS FORMED.
00:39:53.73\00:39:58.13
IF YOU SEE A NORMAL,
OPEN FIELD, YOU'LL SEE THAT,
00:39:58.13\00:40:01.70
YOU KNOW, THERE'S JUST A FIELD.
00:40:01.70\00:40:02.80
IF YOU WANT A PATH IN THAT
FIELD, YOU'VE GOT TO WALK MORE
00:40:02.80\00:40:05.60
THAN ONCE ACROSS THE GRASS.
00:40:05.60\00:40:07.03
YOU EVER HEARD SIGNS--YOU
MIGHT HAVE THEM ON CAMPUS HERE.
00:40:07.03\00:40:09.70
"PLEASE KEEP OFF THE GRASS."
00:40:09.70\00:40:11.83
AND SOMETIMES THE CONCRETE
PATH DOESN'T ALWAYS GO WHERE YOU
00:40:11.83\00:40:15.70
WANT TO GO.
00:40:15.70\00:40:17.50
AND THE CONCRETE PATH IS THE
LONG WAY AND YOU WANT TO MAKE
00:40:17.50\00:40:19.83
A NEW PATH ACROSS THE GRASS.
00:40:19.83\00:40:21.96
ONE TRIP ACROSS THE
GRASS IS NOT GOING TO DO IT.
00:40:21.96\00:40:24.90
IT TAKES MULTIPLE TRIPS.
00:40:24.90\00:40:27.13
AND THEN PRETTY
SOON YOU WEAR A GROOVE.
00:40:27.13\00:40:30.70
THAT'S HOW IT IS IN YOUR LIFE.
00:40:30.70\00:40:32.83
YOU MIGHT SAY, "I'M JUST
NOT USED TO THINKING THIS WAY.
00:40:32.83\00:40:35.43
I JUST DON'T SEE A PATH IN
MY LIFE OF SPIRITUAL THINGS."
00:40:35.43\00:40:38.56
FIRST TRIP YOU'RE
NOT GOING TO FIND ONE.
00:40:38.56\00:40:40.80
BUT YOU KEEP MAKING UP YOUR
MIND, "I AM GOING TO KEEP DOING
00:40:40.80\00:40:43.23
WHAT GOD SAYS AND I'M GOING
TO KEEP MAKING THIS DECISION,"
00:40:43.23\00:40:45.50
PRETTY SOON IT GETS
EASY, IT GETS NATURAL.
00:40:45.50\00:40:48.93
YOU KNOW, ON THE ROAD
WHERE-- WE LIVE UP IN THE HILLS.
00:40:48.93\00:40:52.16
WE HAVE A HOUSE WAY UP IN
THE HILLS, AND KAREN AND I
00:40:52.16\00:40:54.26
HAVE TO TAKE CARE OF 2
MILES OF DRIVEWAY TO OUR HOUSE.
00:40:54.26\00:40:57.13
THE COUNTY--NO ONE
TAKES CARE OF IT BUT US.
00:40:57.13\00:41:00.33
AND IT'S A DIRT ROAD AND IN
THE WINTER WE GET PUDDLES IN IT
00:41:00.33\00:41:04.90
AND THEY GET PRETTY DEEP AND
YOU GOT TO MAINTAIN IT OR THOSE
00:41:04.90\00:41:07.56
PUDDLES WILL
SWALLOW A FOUR WHEEL DRIVE.
00:41:07.56\00:41:09.86
THEY GET PRETTY FEROCIOUS.
00:41:09.86\00:41:11.96
AND SOMETIMES I'LL RIDE DOWN
THE ROAD AND I HAVE A PICK ON
00:41:11.96\00:41:14.63
MY QUAD TO MAINTAIN THE ROAD.
00:41:14.63\00:41:17.03
YOU KNOW WHAT I DO?
00:41:17.03\00:41:17.90
WHEN THERE'S A BIG OLD PUDDLE
THAT'S FORMING IN THE ROAD AND
00:41:17.90\00:41:19.83
SOMETIMES THEY'RE, YOU KNOW,
15 FEET ACROSS, FULL OF WATER,
00:41:19.83\00:41:23.70
LOW SPOT.
00:41:23.70\00:41:24.90
I WANT TO DITCH THE
PUDDLE AND DRAIN THE WATER OUT
00:41:24.90\00:41:27.76
SO IT RUNS OFF THE ROAD.
00:41:27.76\00:41:29.36
AND WHAT I DO IS I TAKE
THE PICK AND I START DIGGING.
00:41:29.36\00:41:31.43
AND AT FIRST I GET A
LITTLE TRICKLE AND IT STARTS
00:41:31.43\00:41:33.50
TO DRAIN OUT.
00:41:33.50\00:41:35.36
AND THE WATER
BEGINS TO WORK WITH ME.
00:41:35.36\00:41:38.20
AND IF I DIG A LITTLE DEEPER,
MORE WATER IS GOING IN THE
00:41:38.20\00:41:42.53
DITCH THAT I JUST DUG AND IT'S
MAKING THE DRAIN FOR THE PUDDLE
00:41:42.53\00:41:45.83
GO FASTER.
00:41:45.83\00:41:47.16
AND THE MORE I DIG,
THE MORE THE WATER ERODES.
00:41:47.16\00:41:50.56
AND EVERY TIME I MAKE A STROKE
WITH THAT PICK, THE DITCH GETS
00:41:50.56\00:41:55.30
DEEPER AND THE
PUDDLE IS DRAINED.
00:41:55.30\00:41:58.63
IT'S THROUGH REPETITION
AND I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE GET
00:41:58.63\00:42:01.30
DISCOURAGED WITH CHRISTIANITY
BECAUSE EVERYONE WANTS INSTANT
00:42:01.30\00:42:04.00
GRATIFICATION.
00:42:04.00\00:42:05.56
"LET ME JUST SAY THIS
PRAYER AND THEN ALL MY PROBLEMS
00:42:05.56\00:42:09.70
WILL GO AWAY."
00:42:09.70\00:42:11.70
THAT'S--THE BIBLE
DOESN'T TEACH THAT.
00:42:11.70\00:42:14.06
THERE'S CHALLENGES IN LIFE.
00:42:14.06\00:42:15.46
THERE'S TEMPTATION IN LIFE.
00:42:15.46\00:42:16.60
THERE'S TRIBULATION.
00:42:16.60\00:42:17.83
JESUS SAID, "BE OF
GOOD CHEER, THOUGH.
00:42:17.83\00:42:20.53
I HAVE OVERCOME THE WORLD."
00:42:20.53\00:42:21.63
BUT YOU'RE GOING TO FIND IT
GETS EASIER IF YOU STAY AT IT.
00:42:21.63\00:42:25.13
DON'T GET DISCOURAGED.
00:42:25.13\00:42:26.76
YOU MAY NOT FEEL HIM IN YOUR
LIFE RIGHT NOW, BUT YOU KEEP
00:42:26.76\00:42:29.73
DOING WHAT GOD SAYS AND YOU'RE
GOING TO FIND THINGS START
00:42:29.73\00:42:32.20
TO CHANGE.
00:42:32.20\00:42:33.26
NEW PATTERNS, NEW
HABITS, NEW FEELINGS.
00:42:33.26\00:42:36.86
YOU KNOW, WHEN I FIRST
CAME TO CHRIST, I TOLD YOU.
00:42:36.86\00:42:40.30
YOU HEARD MY STORY.
00:42:40.30\00:42:42.10
I WAS A ZERO ON STEROIDS.
00:42:42.10\00:42:46.16
I MEAN, YOU COULDN'T BE A
BIGGER NOTHING THAN I WAS.
00:42:46.16\00:42:49.70
JUST ALL THE WRONG
HABITS, WRONG BACKGROUND.
00:42:49.70\00:42:53.70
I HAD TO JUST FORM
A NEW WAY OF THINKING.
00:42:53.70\00:42:57.06
AND YOU KNOW
WHAT I USED TO THINK?
00:42:57.06\00:42:58.83
"I'D LIKE TO BE A CHRISTIAN,
LORD, BUT CHRISTIANS DON'T HAVE
00:42:58.83\00:43:00.80
ANY FUN."
00:43:00.80\00:43:02.93
AND I USED TO SMOKE.
00:43:02.93\00:43:04.40
AND I DIDN'T SMOKE SO MUCH.
00:43:04.40\00:43:05.70
I MEAN, I WAS IN GOOD SHAPE.
00:43:05.70\00:43:06.70
I DIDN'T SMOKE SO MUCH THAT
I WAS FEELING THE SIDE EFFECTS.
00:43:06.70\00:43:09.50
I WAS 17, 18 YEARS OLD.
00:43:09.50\00:43:12.06
AND I FELT CONVICTED
GOD WANTED ME TO STOP.
00:43:12.06\00:43:14.70
I MEAN, AFTER ALL, IT SAYS
ON EVERY PACK THIS STUFF'S GOING
00:43:14.70\00:43:16.83
TO KILL YOU EVENTUALLY.
00:43:16.83\00:43:18.00
SO THAT KIND OF WAS A HINT.
00:43:18.00\00:43:20.50
BUT I SAID,
"LORD, I LIKE SMOKING.
00:43:20.50\00:43:23.16
AND IT'S NOT THAT EXPENSIVE,"
BECAUSE I USED TO ROLL MY OWN.
00:43:23.16\00:43:25.33
BACK THEN, IT WAS PRETTY CHEAP.
00:43:25.33\00:43:28.40
I'M PRETTY GOOD AT
BURRITOS, I JUST GO BLOOP.
00:43:28.40\00:43:32.13
BECAUSE I ROLLED A LOT OF
CIGARETTES AND OTHER THINGS.
00:43:32.13\00:43:35.43
AND I DIDN'T WANT TO QUIT!
00:43:35.43\00:43:38.23
AND YOU KNOW WHAT?
00:43:38.23\00:43:39.10
I HEARD A LITTLE VOICE
SAY, "WELL, DOUG, I'M NOT GOING
00:43:39.10\00:43:41.33
TO STOP YOU."
00:43:41.33\00:43:43.10
SO I KEPT SMOKING.
00:43:43.10\00:43:46.63
AND GIRLS TOLD ME MY BREATH
TASTED LIKE A WET ASHTRAY.
00:43:46.63\00:43:51.63
AND I NEARLY RAN A CAR OFF THE
ROAD AND KILLED MYSELF BECAUSE
00:43:51.63\00:43:54.90
THE HEAD OF THE CIGARETTE FELL
IN MY LAP WHILE I WAS DRIVING.
00:43:54.90\00:43:59.16
WELL, THAT WILL
WAKE YOU UP IN A HURRY.
00:43:59.16\00:44:03.46
AND I PANHANDLED AND SPENT
MY LAST $2 ON A CAN OF TOBACCO
00:44:03.46\00:44:06.80
WHEN I HAD NOTHING TO EAT.
00:44:06.80\00:44:11.13
AND THE LORD SAID, "DOUG,
ARE YOU ENJOYING YOURSELF?"
00:44:11.13\00:44:14.06
AND IT GRADUALLY BEGAN
TO DAWN ON ME--I'M SLOW.
00:44:14.06\00:44:18.80
I SAID, "LORD, I DON'T
WANT TO GIVE UP DRINKING.
00:44:18.80\00:44:20.63
I LIKE DRINKING, IT'S
WHAT I DO WITH MY FRIENDS.
00:44:20.63\00:44:22.53
IT'S EXCITING, IT'S
RELAXING, FORGET MY TROUBLES."
00:44:22.53\00:44:25.16
GOD SAID, "WELL, I
WON'T MAKE YOU STOP."
00:44:25.16\00:44:28.23
SO I KEPT DRINKING.
00:44:28.23\00:44:30.60
AND I'D WAKE UP, FIND OUT
THAT I'D DONE SOMETHING TERRIBLY
00:44:30.60\00:44:34.60
RIDICULOUS TO EMBARRASS
MYSELF, OR I'D WAKE UP AND I WAS
00:44:34.60\00:44:38.23
HUNG OVER.
00:44:38.23\00:44:39.56
AND I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'VE EVER
HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF WORSHIPING
00:44:39.56\00:44:42.13
THERE AT THAT PORCELAIN ALTAR.
00:44:42.13\00:44:46.16
OR I'D WAKE UP IN JAIL AND SAY,
"WHAT DID I DO TO LAND HERE?"
00:44:46.16\00:44:52.00
AND I HEARD THIS LITTLE
VOICE SAYING, "ARE YOU ENJOYING
00:44:52.00\00:44:54.40
YOURSELF, DOUG?"
00:44:54.40\00:44:56.76
AND I'M SLOW, BUT EVENTUALLY
GOD GOT THROUGH TO ME.
00:44:56.76\00:45:01.30
HE ONLY WANTS US TO GIVE
UP THE THINGS THAT ARE GOING
00:45:01.30\00:45:05.10
TO TAKE AWAY OUR HAPPINESS.
00:45:05.10\00:45:07.26
AND NOW I HAVE MORE
FUN THAN YOU CAN DREAM.
00:45:07.26\00:45:11.63
I MEAN, I'VE GONE PARACHUTING.
00:45:11.63\00:45:13.56
KAREN AND I SCUBA DIVE.
00:45:13.56\00:45:15.16
GOT A PILOT'S LICENSE.
00:45:15.16\00:45:16.53
WE GO RIDING AND CAMPING
AND I TRAVEL AROUND THE WORLD.
00:45:16.53\00:45:20.23
I HAVE SO MUCH
FUN AS A CHRISTIAN.
00:45:20.23\00:45:22.80
YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO THE DIRTY,
SINFUL, DESTRUCTIVE THINGS OF
00:45:22.80\00:45:26.30
THE WORLD TO HAVE AN
ABUNDANT, FUN, FULL LIFE AND YOU
00:45:26.30\00:45:30.00
DON'T HAVE A HANGOVER
AND A GUILTY CONSCIENCE.
00:45:30.00\00:45:32.76
YOU CAN BE A NEW CREATURE!
00:45:32.76\00:45:35.10
NOW I'M GETTING A LITTLE
BIT BEHIND HERE, BUT--OH,
00:45:35.10\00:45:39.13
I SEE THERE'S ANOTHER-- I
GOT ANOTHER TEXT QUESTION.
00:45:39.13\00:45:41.10
WE'LL TAKE ONE MORE
TEXT QUESTION THAT CAME IN.
00:45:41.10\00:45:43.16
AND THIS ONE LOOKS LIKE IT'S
FROM SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA,
00:45:43.16\00:45:48.83
OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
00:45:48.83\00:45:50.70
WHAT SHOULD I DO WHEN
MY PAST SINS HAUNT ME?
00:45:50.70\00:45:55.93
NOW THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION.
00:45:55.93\00:45:57.13
YOU EVER WORRIED?
00:45:57.13\00:45:58.06
YOU SAY, "LORD, I PRAYED, BUT
I CAN'T FORGET MY PAST SINS."
00:45:58.06\00:46:02.06
WELL, YOU KNOW, DON'T WORRY
THAT GOD WILL NOT FORGIVE YOU.
00:46:02.06\00:46:05.60
IF YOU HAVE REPENTED AND
CONFESSED FROM YOUR PAST SINS,
00:46:05.60\00:46:08.53
AND IF YOU'VE TURNED FROM
YOUR PAST SINS--MAYBE I'LL JUST
00:46:08.53\00:46:11.56
ASK THIS WAY.
00:46:11.56\00:46:13.16
HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE DONE
THINGS IN THE PAST THAT YOU'RE
00:46:13.16\00:46:15.50
ASHAMED OF, YOU ASK GOD
TO FORGIVE YOU, BUT YOU KEEP
00:46:15.50\00:46:18.23
THINKING ABOUT IT?
00:46:18.23\00:46:19.90
IT STILL BOTHERS YOU.
00:46:19.90\00:46:23.30
DO NOT ALLOW YOURSELF TO THINK
THAT YOU ARE A HIGHER COURT
00:46:23.30\00:46:29.83
THAN GOD.
00:46:29.83\00:46:31.60
IF GOD HAS RULED IN HIS
TRIBUNAL THAT YOU ARE FORGIVEN,
00:46:31.60\00:46:36.66
THEN DO YOU HAVE YOUR
OWN LITTLE COURT THAT'S MORE
00:46:36.66\00:46:38.76
IMPORTANT THAN GOD'S COURT,
WHERE YOU SAY, "WELL I KNOW
00:46:38.76\00:46:40.76
THAT HIS COURT HAS SAID
I'M FORGIVEN, BUT I GOT MY OWN
00:46:40.76\00:46:42.80
LITTLE COURT THAT'S MORE
IMPORTANT THAN GOD'S COURT"?
00:46:42.80\00:46:44.86
IF GOD HAS FORGIVEN YOU,
THEN YOU CAN FORGIVE YOURSELF.
00:46:44.86\00:46:47.26
YOU KNOW WHAT HELPS ME?
00:46:47.26\00:46:48.63
HE SAYS, "YOU
ARE A NEW CREATURE."
00:46:48.63\00:46:50.96
BOY, I TELL YOU, IF YOU KNEW
WHAT I HAD DONE DURING MY LIFE,
00:46:50.96\00:46:52.96
YOU DON'T KNOW THE HALF OF IT.
00:46:52.96\00:46:54.00
WHAT'S IN MY TESTIMONY
IS THE G-RATED VERSION.
00:46:54.00\00:46:57.70
I DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW.
00:46:57.70\00:46:59.20
I'D BE ASHAMED.
00:46:59.20\00:47:00.46
THE ONLY WAY IN MY OWN
CONSCIENCE I CAN STAND BEFORE
00:47:00.46\00:47:03.40
YOU AND PREACH THE GOSPEL
IS BECAUSE I REALLY BELIEVE
00:47:03.40\00:47:06.36
THAT PERSON'S DEAD.
00:47:06.36\00:47:09.00
I AM NOW BORN AGAIN.
00:47:09.00\00:47:10.36
I AM A DIFFERENT PERSON.
00:47:10.36\00:47:11.70
I AM A NEW CREATURE.
00:47:11.70\00:47:12.86
AND SO I FEEL SOME SEPARATION
FROM THE GUILT OF EVERYTHING
00:47:12.86\00:47:15.83
THAT HAPPENED BACK THEN BECAUSE
THAT WAS A DIFFERENT PERSON!
00:47:15.83\00:47:19.46
AND SO YOU
BECOME A NEW CREATURE!
00:47:19.46\00:47:21.83
AMEN?
00:47:21.83\00:47:22.76
THAT'S GOOD NEWS!
00:47:22.76\00:47:24.26
ALL RIGHT,
QUESTION NUMBER SEVEN.
00:47:24.26\00:47:28.03
WHAT IF THERE'S SOMETHING
I'M AFRAID OR NOT WILLING
00:47:28.03\00:47:30.96
TO GIVE UP FOR GOD?
00:47:30.96\00:47:34.73
WELL, I THINK WE
ALL STRUGGLE WITH THAT.
00:47:34.73\00:47:36.73
WE'VE GOT THESE PET SINS
OR THINGS THAT WE DON'T WANT
00:47:36.73\00:47:39.06
TO LET GO OF.
00:47:39.06\00:47:40.06
HOW DO WE DO THAT?
00:47:40.06\00:47:42.06
YOU PROBABLY PANIC WHEN
YOU BEGIN TO THINK ABOUT THAT.
00:47:42.06\00:47:45.06
JAMES 4:7-8,
"THEREFORE SUBMIT TO GOD.
00:47:45.06\00:47:50.93
RESIST THE DEVIL AND
HE WILL FLEE FROM YOU.
00:47:50.93\00:47:54.16
DRAW NEAR TO GOD AND
HE WILL DRAW NEAR TO YOU."
00:47:54.16\00:47:56.93
THIS IS SO IMPORTANT.
00:47:56.93\00:47:58.33
YOU DO WHAT YOU CAN DO HUMANLY
TO RESIST THE DEVIL, AND AS YOU
00:47:58.33\00:48:03.43
USE THE HUMAN STRENGTH AND
WISDOM AND INTELLECT AND POWER
00:48:03.43\00:48:06.10
THAT GOD HAS GIVEN YOU,
SAY, "I, LORD, AM TRUSTING
00:48:06.10\00:48:08.46
TO FOLLOW YOU."
00:48:08.46\00:48:09.60
AND YOU TAKE THAT STEP.
00:48:09.60\00:48:12.03
THEN GOD SAYS, "I WILL RUN
TO YOU AS SOON AS YOU SHOW THAT
00:48:12.03\00:48:15.43
YOU'RE TAKING THE FIRST
STEP THAT YOU REALLY WANT ME."
00:48:15.43\00:48:18.06
BUT WE MUST TAKE A STEP.
00:48:18.06\00:48:20.10
WE CAN'T STAND THERE AND EXPECT
THAT WE'RE JUST GOING TO FOLD
00:48:20.10\00:48:22.90
OUR ARMS AND SAY,
"LORD, YOU GOTTA DO THIS.
00:48:22.90\00:48:24.93
I'M NOT GOING TO EVEN
MAKE AN EFFORT TO COME TO YOU.
00:48:24.93\00:48:26.90
I'M MAKING NO HUMAN
EFFORT TO OBEY YOU."
00:48:26.90\00:48:29.06
WHEN YOU DRAW NEAR
GOD, HE WILL DRAW NEAR YOU.
00:48:29.06\00:48:32.16
IT'S LIKE THE PRODIGAL SON.
00:48:32.16\00:48:34.10
AS SOON AS THE FATHER SAW
HIM COMING, HE RAN TO MEET HIM.
00:48:34.10\00:48:38.73
THE FATHER
COULDN'T DRAG HIM HOME.
00:48:38.73\00:48:40.70
THE SON HAD TO
BE WILLING TO COME.
00:48:40.70\00:48:43.03
STORY IN THE BIBLE, LUKE
17, 10 LEPERS DYING OF LEPROSY.
00:48:43.03\00:48:48.03
THEY COME TO THE BROW OF A
HILL AND THEY CALL TO JESUS,
00:48:48.03\00:48:50.76
THEY CAN'T GET TOO CLOSE
BECAUSE THEY'VE GOT LEPROSY.
00:48:50.76\00:48:53.56
THEY SAY, "SON OF
DAVID, HAVE MERCY ON US!"
00:48:53.56\00:48:57.23
AND JESUS LOOKS UP AT THEM, AND
HE SAYS, "GO AND SHOW YOURSELF
00:48:57.23\00:49:00.53
TO THE PRIEST AND MAKE
THE OFFERING FOR CLEANSING
00:49:00.53\00:49:03.40
FROM LEPROSY."
00:49:03.40\00:49:04.90
WELL, THAT DIDN'T MAKE ANY
SENSE AT ALL BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT
00:49:04.90\00:49:06.93
SUPPOSED TO SHOW YOURSELF TO
THE PRIEST FOR AN EXAMINATION
00:49:06.93\00:49:09.33
UNTIL YOU'RE LEPROSY IS GONE.
00:49:09.33\00:49:11.10
THEY STILL HAD LEPROSY.
00:49:11.10\00:49:12.60
WHY WOULD YOU GO AND BE
PRONOUNCED CLEAN WHEN YOU STILL
00:49:12.60\00:49:15.06
HAVE LEPROSY?
00:49:15.06\00:49:16.96
BUT JESUS SAID, "GO."
00:49:16.96\00:49:19.50
SO THEY LOOKED AT EACH
OTHER AND THEY SAID, "ALL RIGHT.
00:49:19.50\00:49:23.33
WE'RE NOT--THIS IS NOT
THE WAY IT'S SUPPOSED TO WORK,
00:49:23.33\00:49:25.36
BUT WE STILL GOT LEPROSY."
00:49:25.36\00:49:28.53
AND THEY TOOK THE FIRST STEPS
TO DO WHAT JESUS SAID AND YOU
00:49:28.53\00:49:30.70
KNOW WHAT IT SAYS IN THE BIBLE?
00:49:30.70\00:49:32.30
"IN GOING THEY WERE CLEANSED."
00:49:32.30\00:49:37.23
AS YOU MAKE AN EFFORT TO DO
WHAT GOD HAS TOLD YOU TO DO,
00:49:37.23\00:49:40.73
A MIRACLE CAN TAKE PLACE.
00:49:40.73\00:49:43.73
IT'S TRUE!
00:49:43.73\00:49:45.10
THAT'S THE WAY IT WORKS.
00:49:45.10\00:49:46.20
YOU KNOW, ONE TIME CHRIST TOLD
THE DISCIPLES TO CROSS THE SEA.
00:49:46.20\00:49:49.83
AND HE SAID, "I'LL
CATCH UP WITH YOU."
00:49:49.83\00:49:51.76
THEY DIDN'T KNOW HOW.
00:49:51.76\00:49:53.06
HALFWAY ACROSS THE SEA,
THEY'RE OUT THERE IN THE MIDDLE,
00:49:53.06\00:49:55.50
THEY'RE ROWING WITH ALL
OF THEIR MIGHT, BUT THE WIND
00:49:55.50\00:49:57.66
WAS AGAINST THEM AND
THEY'RE NOT GETTING ANYWHERE.
00:49:57.66\00:49:59.80
THEY'RE STATIONARY, JUST
ROWING, NOT GOING ANYWHERE.
00:49:59.80\00:50:03.33
I REMEMBER ONE TIME I WAS
FLYING A SMALL PLANE UP BY
00:50:03.33\00:50:06.00
MOUNT SHASTA, CALIFORNIA,
FLYING OVER INTERSTATE 5.
00:50:06.00\00:50:09.66
AND THERE WAS A HEADWIND
THAT WAS 100 MILES AN HOUR
00:50:09.66\00:50:12.43
OVER MOUNT SHASTA.
00:50:12.43\00:50:14.03
AND THE PLANE WAS ONLY
GOING ABOUT 105 MILES AN HOUR,
00:50:14.03\00:50:17.43
WHICH MEANS I WAS
GOING 5 MILES AN HOUR.
00:50:17.43\00:50:20.66
AND I LOOKED AT THE CARS DOWN
ON INTERSTATE 5 AND HERE I AM
00:50:20.66\00:50:23.10
IN AN AIRPLANE AND
THE CARS ARE PASSING ME.
00:50:23.10\00:50:26.50
I WASN'T GETTING ANYWHERE.
00:50:26.50\00:50:28.96
AND THAT'S HOW
THE DISCIPLES WERE.
00:50:28.96\00:50:30.76
THEY'RE ROWING AND THEY'RE JUST
NOT GOING ANYWHERE AND THEY'RE
00:50:30.76\00:50:32.80
ARMS ARE BECOMING TIRED.
00:50:32.80\00:50:33.73
AND THEY THOUGHT,
"WE'RE GOING TO DROWN OUT HERE
00:50:33.73\00:50:35.73
ON THE OCEAN."
00:50:35.73\00:50:36.63
AND THEN JESUS CAME TO
THEM, WALKING ON THE WATER.
00:50:36.63\00:50:38.76
AND IT SAYS IN JOHN 6
SOMETHING INTERESTING HAPPENED.
00:50:38.76\00:50:41.33
WHEN THEY RECEIVED JESUS INTO
THE BOAT, INSTANTLY THEY WERE
00:50:41.33\00:50:46.50
AT THEIR DESTINATION.
00:50:46.50\00:50:49.06
HE CAME TO THEM WHILE THEY
WERE DOING WHAT HE HAD TOLD THEM
00:50:49.06\00:50:52.80
TO DO AND HE SAID, "I'LL WORK
A MIRACLE FOR YOU, BUT ARE YOU
00:50:52.80\00:50:56.20
GOING TO USE THE GOD-GIVEN
BRAINS AND BRAWN THAT I'VE
00:50:56.20\00:50:58.73
GIVEN YOU DO TO MY WILL?
00:50:58.73\00:51:01.03
OR ARE YOU JUST GOING TO
SIT THERE, FOLD YOUR ARMS,
00:51:01.03\00:51:02.96
AND ASK ME TO DRAG YOU ALONG?"
00:51:02.96\00:51:04.40
GOD WANTS YOU TO
COOPERATE WITH HIM.
00:51:04.40\00:51:06.56
AND HE WILL THEN WORK A
MIRACLE FOR YOU AND GIVE YOU
00:51:06.56\00:51:08.83
A NEW HEART.
00:51:08.83\00:51:09.90
THIS IS WHERE MANY FAIL.
00:51:09.90\00:51:11.66
YOU TAKE THE STEPS, YOU
DRAW NEAR TO GOD, AND THEN HE'LL
00:51:11.66\00:51:14.90
DRAW NEAR TO YOU.
00:51:14.90\00:51:16.86
DO SOMETHING TANGIBLE
TO SHOW YOU TRUST HIM.
00:51:16.86\00:51:20.66
I'VE SEEN A LOT OF PEOPLE
GET THE VICTORY OVER ALCOHOL
00:51:20.66\00:51:23.30
OR CIGARETTES AND
YOU KNOW WHAT WE DO?
00:51:23.30\00:51:25.20
WE PRAY TOGETHER.
00:51:25.20\00:51:27.16
AND I SAY, "WOULD
YOU LIKE TO BE FREE?"
00:51:27.16\00:51:29.16
THEY SAY, "YES!"
00:51:29.16\00:51:30.36
MAYBE THEY'RE STRUGGLING
WITH PORNOGRAPHY OR DRUGS.
00:51:30.36\00:51:35.03
I SAY, "DO YOU WANT TO BE FREE?"
00:51:35.03\00:51:36.00
THEY SAY, "I WANT TO BE FREE."
00:51:36.00\00:51:37.06
"DO YOU BELIEVE THAT GOD
WANTS YOU TO QUIT DRINKING?"
00:51:37.06\00:51:40.00
"YES, I BELIEVE IT!"
00:51:40.00\00:51:41.70
I SAID, "DO YOU BELIEVE GOD
WILL HELP YOU DO WHAT HE WANTS
00:51:41.70\00:51:44.23
YOU TO DO?"
00:51:44.23\00:51:45.70
"YES, I BELIEVE IT!"
00:51:45.70\00:51:47.00
I SAID, "OKAY,
HERE'S YOUR FIRST STEP.
00:51:47.00\00:51:49.30
DO YOU HAVE ANY
ALCOHOL IN THE HOUSE?
00:51:49.30\00:51:51.20
ANY CIGARETTES?
00:51:51.20\00:51:52.13
ANY DIRTY MAGAZINES?"
00:51:52.13\00:51:54.00
"WELL, YEAH."
00:51:54.00\00:51:55.70
I SAID, "GO GET THEM.
00:51:55.70\00:51:58.46
LET'S THROW IT AWAY.
00:51:58.46\00:51:59.60
LET'S DESTROY IT.
00:51:59.60\00:52:00.60
FLUSH IT DOWN THE TOILET.
00:52:00.60\00:52:02.33
YOU TAKE A STEP RIGHT NOW.
00:52:02.33\00:52:03.43
AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO PRAY.
00:52:03.43\00:52:04.33
AND I'M NOT GOING TO PRAY
UNTIL YOU TAKE THAT STEP."
00:52:04.33\00:52:06.26
THAT'S THE KEY.
00:52:06.26\00:52:07.36
A LOT OF PEOPLE SAY, "BUT WE
COULD PRAY THAT GOD WILL GIVE
00:52:07.36\00:52:10.03
THEM THE STRENGTH
TO TAKE THE STEP."
00:52:10.03\00:52:11.93
NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT.
00:52:11.93\00:52:13.63
I SAID, "BUT IF YOU REALLY WANT
TO SEE A MIRACLE, YOU CHOOSE
00:52:13.63\00:52:17.90
TO TAKE THE FIRST STEP.
00:52:17.90\00:52:19.03
YOU DRAW NEAR TO GOD
AND YOU SEE IF HE DOESN'T
00:52:19.03\00:52:20.96
SET YOU FREE."
00:52:20.96\00:52:21.90
AND THIS IS WHERE MILLIONS FAIL!
00:52:21.90\00:52:23.60
THEY DON'T TAKE THE
FIRST STEP OF SAYING, "LORD,
00:52:23.60\00:52:25.76
I'LL DO WHAT I CAN.
00:52:25.76\00:52:26.70
I'M WILLING TO THROW
IT AWAY AND TO PRAY."
00:52:26.70\00:52:29.70
AND DON'T GET
DISCOURAGED IF YOU FAIL.
00:52:29.70\00:52:31.66
I'VE TOLD YOU, YOU KNOW
HOW MANY TIMES I THREW AWAY MY
00:52:31.66\00:52:33.66
CIGARETTES BEFORE I STOPPED
DIGGING THEM OUT OF THE GARBAGE
00:52:33.66\00:52:35.50
CAN?
00:52:35.50\00:52:36.76
OR I'D THROW THEM IN THE STOVE.
00:52:36.76\00:52:39.36
OR I'D THROW
THEM IN THE OUTHOUSE.
00:52:39.36\00:52:41.16
THAT USUALLY WORKED.
00:52:41.16\00:52:42.00
I WOULDN'T GO AFTER THEM THERE.
00:52:42.00\00:52:44.63
BUT THEN I'D GO
BUY ANOTHER PACK.
00:52:44.63\00:52:46.63
I'D SAY, "OH, LORD!"
00:52:46.63\00:52:47.60
HE'D SAY, "DOUG,
DRAW NEAR TO ME."
00:52:47.60\00:52:49.36
I'D THROW THEM AWAY AGAIN.
00:52:49.36\00:52:50.16
I'D PRAY.
00:52:50.16\00:52:52.06
AND YOU KNOW, THE LAST TIME
I THREW THEM AWAY, I THREW THEM
00:52:52.06\00:52:53.96
AWAY AND HE GAVE ME THE VICTORY.
00:52:53.96\00:52:55.93
HE WORKED A MIRACLE AND THAT'S
BEEN 30-SOMETHING YEARS NOW.
00:52:55.93\00:52:58.20
PRAISE GOD, I HAVEN'T
HAD ONE CIGARETTE IN MY MOUTH
00:52:58.20\00:53:01.00
AND I WAS ADDICTED!
00:53:01.00\00:53:02.40
AND HE DID THAT FOR ME WITH
ALCOHOL AND HE DID THAT FOR ME
00:53:02.40\00:53:04.83
WITH CURSING AND HE DID
IT-- HE'LL DO IT IN EVERY AREA
00:53:04.83\00:53:07.73
OF YOUR LIFE.
00:53:07.73\00:53:08.76
YES, YOU CAN!
00:53:08.76\00:53:10.16
DON'T BELIEVE YOU CAN.
00:53:10.16\00:53:11.80
YOU ARE INSULTING JESUS IF
YOU DON'T THINK THAT HE CAN SAVE
00:53:11.80\00:53:14.70
YOU.
00:53:14.70\00:53:15.86
YOU HAVE A PRETTY HIGH ESTIMATE
OF YOURSELF IF YOU THINK YOU
00:53:15.86\00:53:18.03
ARE A BETTER SINNER
THAN HE IS A SAVIOR.
00:53:18.03\00:53:21.33
HE CAN SAVE YOU FROM YOUR SINS.
00:53:21.33\00:53:22.93
QUESTION IS, DO YOU
BELIEVE THAT HE HAS A HEAVEN
00:53:22.93\00:53:25.86
TO OFFER YOU?
00:53:25.86\00:53:26.86
DO YOU BELIEVE AND LOVE HIM
SO MUCH BECAUSE HE DIED FOR YOU?
00:53:26.86\00:53:31.00
WILL YOU TRUST HIM?
00:53:31.00\00:53:32.46
ARE YOU WILLING TO
TAKE THE FIRST STEP?
00:53:32.46\00:53:36.60
YOU KNOW, I'M
GOING TO JUMP AHEAD HERE.
00:53:36.60\00:53:39.80
I'M GOING TO GO TO NUMBER 11.
00:53:39.80\00:53:43.60
DO I HAVE TO BE
PERFECT FOR GOD TO ACCEPT ME?
00:53:43.60\00:53:49.73
NO, NOBODY IS PERFECT.
00:53:49.73\00:53:52.73
HE WOULDN'T ACCEPT ANYBODY.
00:53:52.73\00:53:54.63
HE WILL RECEIVE YOU WHEN
YOU COME TO HIM RIGHT NOW,
00:53:54.63\00:53:56.93
JUST LIKE YOU ARE.
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REVELATION 22:17, THE BIBLE
ENDS WITH A DESPERATE APPEAL.
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GOD WANTS YOU IN HEAVEN.
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LISTEN TO THE LORD.
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"THE SPRIT AND
THE BRIDE SAY, 'COME!
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AND LET HIM WHO HEARS COME!
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AND LET HIM WHO HAS A THIRST
FOR THIS LIVING WATER, WHOEVER
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DESIRES, LET HIM TAKE
THE WATER OF LIFE FREELY."
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WHOSOEVER BELIEVES, WHOSOEVER
DESIRES, YOU CAN COME TO GOD.
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YOU CAN HAVE A NEW LIFE.
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AND YOU KNOW, FRIENDS, AS I'M
WINDING UP THIS PRESENTATION,
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I THINK I'D BE MAKING A
MISTAKE IF I DID NOT GIVE YOU
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AN OPPORTUNITY TO
RESPOND IN SOME WAY.
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I'M GOING TO ASK YOU TO
DO SOMETHING VERY SIMPLE.
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AND I'M JUST GOING
TO ASK YOU TO STAND.
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NOW LISTEN CAREFULLY.
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WE ALL ARE SINNERS.
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YOU, ME,
EVERYBODY, WE ALL HAVE SINNED.
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WE ALL HAVE THINGS IN OUR
LIVES THAT ARE CHAINING US TO
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THE WORLD.
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BUT I BELIEVE SOME OF
YOU ARE WILLING TO TAKE THOSE
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FIRST STEPS TO BE SET FREE.
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YOU CAN MAKE A DECISION RIGHT
NOW BY THE GRACE OF GOD TO SAY,
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"LORD, I KNOW THERE'S SOMETHING
IN MY LIFE YOU WANT TO CHANGE."
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MAYBE A FEW THINGS.
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AND YOU'RE WILLING TO
SAY, "LORD, BY YOUR GRACE,
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I'M WILLING TO TAKE THAT STEP
AND DRAW NEAR TO YOU, TO RESIST
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THE DEVIL."
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AND HE SAYS, "I
WILL RUN TO YOU."
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HE'LL RUN TO EMBRACE YOU.
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HE'LL GIVE YOU HIS POWER.
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HE'LL WORK A MIRACLE
OF BREAKING THE CHAINS
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AND LIBERATING YOU.
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BUT WE NEED TO TAKE A
STEP AND SAY, "I BELIEVE
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THAT YOU LOVE ME, JESUS."
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NOW I BELIEVE THERE ARE
SOME OF YOU HERE, THERE MAY BE
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SPECIFIC THINGS.
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THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE WATCHING,
YOU'VE GOT A SIN IN YOUR LIFE.
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THERE MAY BE SEVERAL THINGS,
SOMETHING YOU NEED TO CHANGE.
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ARE YOU WILLING TO SAY, "LORD,
BY YOUR GRACE, I'M GOING TO GO
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BACK TO MY HOME, I'M GOING TO
GO TO MY CLOSET OR MY CUPBOARD
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OR MY GLOVE BOX OR WHEREVER
IT HAPPENS TO BE AND I'M GOING
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TO THROW THIS THING AWAY.
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I'M GOING TO
PLACE IT ON THE ALTAR.
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AND I'M GOING TO THEN
PRAY AND SAY, 'LORD, SAVE ME.
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SET ME FREE.
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GIVE ME A NEW
HEART.'" AND THEN START FEEDING
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OUR SOULS.
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BEFORE I CLOSE WITH PRAYER, IF
THERE ARE SOME OF YOU HERE WHO
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SAY, "I'VE GOT SOMETHING I WANT
TO BRING TO JESUS AND I WANT TO
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BE SET FREE," I'M GOING TO ASK
YOU TO STAND IN HIS PRESENCE.
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DON'T WORRY ABOUT
OTHERS WHO ARE AROUND YOU.
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THIS IS REALLY
BETWEEN YOU AND THE LORD.
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AND HE CAN WORK A
MIRACLE IN YOUR LIFE.
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PRAISE GOD FOR THOSE
HERE AT GREAT LAKES ACADEMY.
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I HOPE THAT THERE ARE SOME
WHO ARE WATCHING THAT ARE HAVING
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THAT SAME VOICE SPEAK TO
THEIR SPIRIT THAT WANT TO BE
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SET FREE.
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YOU COME TO JESUS JUST
LIKE YOU ARE AND HE'LL DO IT.
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CAN I PRAY WITH YOU RIGHT NOW?
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DEAR LOVING FATHER, LORD, WE'RE
SO THANKFUL FOR THE GOOD NEWS
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THAT WE CAN BE NEW CREATURES,
THAT WE CAN HAVE A NEW BIRTH,
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THAT WE CAN HAVE THAT GIFT OF
EVERLASTING LIFE AND A LOVING,
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SAVING RELATIONSHIP WITH YOU.
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LORD, I PRAY YOU WILL WORK
MIRACLES OF YOUR POWER RIGHT
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NOW IN THE LIVES OF ALL
THESE YOUNG PEOPLE WHO HAVE MADE
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THESE DECISIONS.
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YOU KNOW WHAT IT MEANS
IN EACH ONE OF THEIR HEARTS.
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YOU KNOW WHAT THE SPECIFICS ARE.
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BREAK THE CHAINS, SET THEM FREE.
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I PRAY THAT THEY WILL BE
CLEANSED AS THEY WALK AND GO
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AND GROW TOWARDS YOU BECAUSE
WE'RE ASKING IN THE MIGHTY NAME
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OF JESUS, AMEN.
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