Good morning church.
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And it gives me great
joy to wish you of course
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a happy Sabbath
and also happy New Year
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on this first Sabbath of
2016, I've been practicing.
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I'm gonna invite you to
join me in reading responsively
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the call to worship, found
on page eight of your bulletin.
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So, we'll begin,
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"Gather us into this
new year, O God of the ages.
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The scattered,
the lonely, the lost,
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look to you for your need.
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Bring us together
from far and from near.
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Let us hear the
voice of our Christ
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and we will
rejoice and be satisfied.
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Let's stand for a prayer.
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Holy Father, on the
cusp of this New Year,
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and an uncharted
voyage just hours old.
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We've gathered from across
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our chilly
landscape to worship you,
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in this time of such
tenuous at best certainty,
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such confusing uncertainty,
our souls are hungry for hope,
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for security, for assurance.
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And that's why
we sing to you now
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the words of that ancient hymn,
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O God our help
and he just passed
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our hope for years to come,
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our shelter
from the stormy blast
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and our eternal home.
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Hear our prayer,
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receive our worship
through Christ our savior,
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in whom we are
hidden and in whose cross
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we find our hiding place.
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In the names of
Jesus we pray, amen.
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Lift high the cross, the love
of Christ proclaim Till all the
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world adore His
sacred name Come, Christians,
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follow where our Captain trod
Our King victorious, Christ,
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the Son of God
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Lift high the cross,
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the love of Christ proclaim
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Till all the world adore
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His sacred name
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Come, Christians, follow
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where our Captain trod,
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Our King victorious,
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Christ, the Son of God
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Lift high the cross,
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The love of Christ proclaim
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Till all the world adore
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His sacred name
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Led on their way by
this triumphant sign
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The hosts of God
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In conquering ranks combine
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Lift high the cross,
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The love of Christ proclaim
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Till all the world adore
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His sacred name
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All newborn soldiers
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Of the Crucified
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Bears on their brows
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The seal of Him who died
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Lift high the cross,
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The love of Christ proclaim
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Till all the world adore
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His sacred name
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O Lord, once lifted
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On the glorious tree
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As Thou has promised,
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Draw us all to Thee
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Lift high the cross,
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the love of Christ proclaim
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Till all the world adore
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His sacred name
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So shall our song of
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Triumph ever be
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Praise to the Crucified
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For victory!
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Lift high the cross,
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The love of Christ proclaim
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Till all the world adore
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His sacred name
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In the morning, when I rise
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In the morning, when I rise
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In the morning, when I rise
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Give me Jesus
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I'd rather have Jesus
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Than silver or gold
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I'd rather be His
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Than have riches untold
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I'd rather have Jesus
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Than houses or lands
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I'd rather be led
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By His nail-pierced hand
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Give me Jesus
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Give me Jesus
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You may have all this world
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Give me Jesus
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Just about
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The break of day
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Just about the break of day
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Just about the break of day
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Give me Jesus
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He's fairer than lilies
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Of rarest bloom
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He's sweeter than honey
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From out the comb
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He's all that my hungering
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spirit needs
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I'd rather have Jesus
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And let Him lead
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Than to be the king
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Of a vast domain
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Or be held
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in sin's
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dread sway
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I'd rather have Jesus
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Than anything
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This world affords
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Today
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You may have
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all this world
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Give me Jesus
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Oh, thank you, Ryan Clough,
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what a beautiful
New Year's prayer,
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Give me Jesus,
I'd rather have Jesus.
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Just the prayer to be
praying as we begin a new year.
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Can you believe
this boys and girls,
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the New Year is here,
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but I have a
hard time remembering
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New Year the number.
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Does anybody know the
number of this New Year
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'cause it's kind
of hard to remember,
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what would the number be?
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That's it, you got it.
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Thanks for the
reminder 2016 already.
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And I got the
perfect story for us,
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from my friend.
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Ooh, we have to be quiet.
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We have to be quiet
and now wave at each other
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during the children story.
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My friend Milke
send me the story.
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This happened
just a few days ago.
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Yep, Britain was so excited,
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the United Kingdom they finally,
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what a joyful movement,
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they were sending an astronaut
just last month in December,
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they sent an
astronaut into outer space
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on a Russian
rocket from Kazakhstan,
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his name Timothy Peake.
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And it was perfectly timed
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because right as the
rocket reached the height
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it made contact with the
international space station
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ISS.
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Where scientists are
living in that space station
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and they are
doing research and test.
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Oh, and he was so excited,
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let's see a
picture of Timothy Peake,
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42 years old, come
on, let's see that famous.
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Oh, there he is,
doesn't he look happy?
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Look at he's floating,
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he's just
floating in outer space
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and you know what?
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He was, you know,
what really had him excited
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though was that
he on Christmas Eve
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just a few days ago, he said,
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"I'm gonna call
home to my family,
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and surprise and
they don't know this,
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I'm gonna call
them on Christmas Eve
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from outer space."
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In that picture he is
traveling five miles a second,
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every 90 minutes he
goes around the earth
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in that
International Space Station.
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So he said,
"Okay, Christmas Eve."
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Were you here for Christmas Eve?
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Were you here
in Berrien Springs?
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You went somewhere, okay.
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Wherever you
were, he was farther.
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So he's there
Christmas Eve, he said,
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"Okay, give me
that big space phone."
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So they gave
him the space phone,
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he picked it up,
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he said, "All right now, I
got to dial my home phone."
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I don't know if
there's extra area codes
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when you dial
from outer space but...
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Tuck the number
in, ring and ring.
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Who is it?
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This gonna be it,
They're gonna be so surprised.
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"Hello," It was a woman's voice.
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"Hello."
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He said, wait a
minute, that's not my wife.
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"Hello."
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He said, that's not my mother.
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That's not my mother-in-law.
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Who is that?
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He was so
flustered at that moment.
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He said, the first thing
that came to his mind he said,
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"Hello, is this Planet Earth?"
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It was, was a
little 79 year old lady
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in England named Beverly Barker,
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who thought, you know what,
this is my neighbors again.
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They've been in the pub.
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They're pulling a little
Christmas Eve trick on me.
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He, what does he want to
know is this Planet Earth?
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I got the right answer for him
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so she said to
him, "No, it is not."
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And then she hung up the phone.
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Poor embarrassed Timothy Peake.
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He quickly went to his Twitter
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and he said, "I'm gonna
tweet this message to Earth
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and so let's put a
picture of it on the screen
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he tweeted to earth.
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"I'd like to
apologize to the lady
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I just called by mistake
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saying, "Hello, is
this planet Earth?"
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That was not a prank
call, just a wrong number."
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Hey, listen, if you
guys ever going to space,
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if time should last long enough
and you become an astronaut,
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here's a rule
about calling from space
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just get this in your mind,
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always remember
your home phone number
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and dial the right one.
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Hey somebody else
lives in outer space.
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Who lives in outer space?
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What's his name?
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Jesus and how do we call Jesus?
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Does anybody have His number?
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I got it for you right here.
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J-E-S-U-S
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and what does that spell?
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Jesus. Jesus, when you...
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I have good news for you,
you can get the spelling wrong.
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You can get the number wrong,
but every time you call Jesus.
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Guess, who answers the phone?
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Jesus answers the phone.
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He will never this New Year
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hang up on you ever, ever, ever.
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What a
wonderful, wonderful savior.
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Oh, you got to
call Jesus every day,
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call Him every single day,
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He can hardly
wait for you to call.
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He's in outer
space, and you're here
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and He'll hear you just perfect.
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Who would like to thank
Jesus for being that Lord,
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I need somebody near the front.
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Who would like to thank
Jesus for being that Lord
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who can hear us from
outer space any time.
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Cissy, you got picked.
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Let's fold our...
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What's your first name?
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Chrissie.
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Ah, Chrissie, that's
my little girl's name.
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Let's fold our
hands and close our eyes
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as Chrissie thanks Jesus
for being our savior, Chrissie?
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Dear Jesus, thank You for today,
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thank You for your
wonderful world amen.
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Amen.
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Thank you,
Chrissie, the perfect prayer.
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As you go back to your
seats, you say that to Jesus,
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thank You, thank You, thank You.
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J-E-S-U-S,
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Happy New Year to you.
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God bless our children.
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I think they're wonderful bunch.
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I thought this is a
holiday week and nobody be here
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but look at them, here they are.
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Thanks for
coming with them today.
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Oh yes, Jesus loves us.
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Chrissie just pray
for us, so let's go.
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Open your Bible with me please.
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I want to connect to the
story just as quickly as I can.
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Open your Bible
to 1 John Chapter 4.
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1 John Chapter 4.
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It may be familiar to
you, maybe not, so familiar
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1 John Chapter
4, I'm in the N.I.V.
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the New International
Version works from on earth.
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If you have your
Bible, find 1 John 4,
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if you don't have your
Bible it's a New King James,
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it's a pew Bible in
front of you and you.
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You can go to
page 820 in that Bible,
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not gonna put the
words on the screen for you.
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Just want to read
these words out loud,
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with you
following along, 1 John 4:9,
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"This is how God
showed His love among us.
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He sent his one and
only Son into the world
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that we might live through him."
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Now hold on, hold
on, here comes verse 10.
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"This is love."
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Okay, His love.
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Here comes, "This is love:
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not that we love God,
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but that he loved us
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and sent his Son as
an atoning sacrifice
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for our sins."
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Thinking of Timothy
Peake, the astronaut
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I'm just wondering, do you
suppose God ever regrets...
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creating this planet.
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I mean, please,
look at it today.
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This, today, second
day of the New Year,
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look at the mess we're in.
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Do you suppose God ever said,
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"Hello, hello, is
this planet earth?
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The planet
earth that we created,
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is this the same place.
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The whole world, to be honest,
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a whole world breathe a sigh
of relief just a few hours ago,
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when we bade
farewell adios to 2015.
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Truth of the matter
is the whole world knows
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that we're just like,
we're just like the tarmac
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in the O'Hare Airport,
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the planes are all lined
up, the crisis in the 2016,
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are already lined up.
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They're getting
ready to take off,
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and they're all
coming in our direction
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just one right after the
other, the whole world knows it.
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So today, we begin a new series
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perhaps to distract
us from the headlines
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for a few moments
every Sabbath this winter.
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But maybe better
yet to prepare us
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for the headlines.
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The title of this
series, I put it on the screen
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for it's beginning right now.
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Charmed into Righteousness,
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Charmed into Righteousness,
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those who are
watching live streaming,
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that that's what will be here
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Sabbath after
Sabbath through this winter.
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Charmed into Righteousness,
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and I must tell you, I
love that little phrase.
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I can say that because
I didn't come up with it.
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I've been
reading Reinhold Niebuhr,
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who in the 20th
century was recognized
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by TIME MAGAZINE
cover of pictures,
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America's
theologian Reinhold Niebuhr.
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I've been reading
for the second time,
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his little book
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"Leaves from the
Notebook of a Tamed Cynic."
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Reinhold Niebuhr was
for 13 years a pastor
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in the Motor
City, Detroit, Michigan.
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So he writes to pastors,
it's a good little book,
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I'm second time through.
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These are his words, I
put it on the screen for you.
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Reinhold
Niebuhr, "On the whole..."
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he's writing
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"People do not
achieve great moral heights
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out of a sense of duty.
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You may be able to compel them
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to maintain certain minimum
standards by stressing duty,
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but the highest moral
and spiritual achievements
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depend not upon a
push but upon a pull."
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I like that.
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Now here comes, here comes.
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"People must be
charmed into righteousness."
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Isn't that good?
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"People must be
charmed into righteousness.
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The language of aspiration
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rather than that of
criticism and command
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is the proper pulpit language."
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He writes.
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Charmed into Righteousness.
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The very word charm is
a charming word, isn't it.
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But I find it charming
because it also triggers
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a memory of its use by a writer
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a 100 years
before, Reinhold Niebuhr,
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Her name Ellen White.
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I put her charmed on the
screen for you right now,
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"You cannot..."
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she writes a century ago,
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"You cannot but be charmed
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with the matchless
attractions of the Son of God."
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Isn't that good?
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Charm with the matchless
attractions of the Son of God.
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Wow!
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Charmed.
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Read it again.
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Put the words on
the screen for you now,
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1 John 4:9,
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"This is how God
showed His love among us:
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He sent us his one and
only Son into the world
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that we might live through him.
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This is love..."
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Come on you want
to know, this is it.
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"This is love:
not that we love God,
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but that he loved us
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and sent His Son
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as an atoning
sacrifice for our sins."
00:20:57.35\00:21:02.22
I wish we had the
divinity or the YouTube clip
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of that dream
that Joseph dreamed
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on that night of troubled sleep.
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I mean look at, his fiance
young married teenage girl,
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she just announced to
him, that she is pregnant.
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And when somebody
tells you, "I'm pregnant,
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because the Holy Spirit did it."
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You're going to believe that?
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So he decided,
listen proper thing to do,
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I was going to
quietly, we're engaged,
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the wedding is not quite yet,
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but I'm gonna, I'm gonna pursue
as they did in those days,
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an act of divorce just
severe this relationship.
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That night the angel shows up,
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here it is Matthew 1,
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keep your finger, stay
right here in 1 John 4.
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But we'll put
Matthew 1 on the screen here,
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Matthew 1:20,
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"But after Joseph
he considered this,
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an angel of the Lord appeared
to him in a dream and said..."
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Now hold on.
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"Joseph son of David,
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do not be afraid to
take Mary home as your wife,
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because what is conceived
in her is from the Holy Spirit.
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And she will
give birth to a son,
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and you are to
give him the name Jesus,
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because he will save
his people from their sins."
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You are to name the baby
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J-E-S-U-S, we'd say in English.
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Just before heading
down, flying down to Argentina
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for eight sermons in
that wonderful country.
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Sunday, that's not Monday,
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but Sunday Pioneer
had the joy of hosting,
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first time in history
hosting a Messiah Sing Along,
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thanks to our, our choir leader
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Ginny Petersen Smith
in the Sanctuary choir.
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This place was packed
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and dominantly,
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dominantly guests and
visitors from the community.
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Man said, I've been listening
on the radio South Bend
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got my whole family up here
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Roman Catholics,
okay we can come?
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Of course, it's okay.
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For me, on every level
it was a moving experience.
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Isn't that great
oratorical, here you have,
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you have the name Messiah.
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Messiah being announced,
and of course the angels say,
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"Hey, listen,
this is the Messiah.
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You're going to give him a name,
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you're going to
call him J-E-S-U-S
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For He will save His
people from their sins."
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The 19th century,
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the great
preacher Charles Spurgeon,
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put an exclamation
mark after the name of Jesus
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with this quotation.
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And I want to put it
on the screen for you out,
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this is something.
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Jesus Spurgeon now,
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"Jesus is a song in one word...
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a matchless
oratorio in two syllables...
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and all the hallelujahs
of eternity in five letters."
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How do you spell it?
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J-E-S-U-S.
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You cannot but be charmed
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with the matchless
attractions of the Son of God.
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And so, I had one
prayer for you this New Year.
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University students, I
mean, you're already back,
00:24:06.64\00:24:10.05
community member, faculty staff,
00:24:10.08\00:24:12.31
live stream it right now.
00:24:12.35\00:24:13.75
If I had one prayer for you,
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that would be
that every new dawning,
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every new morning this New Year,
00:24:19.52\00:24:22.46
we find you alone
for just a few minutes
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you, you alone with this Jesus
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and you take the
gospel, you pick the gospel.
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You begin
reading it consecutively
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one story at a time.
00:24:32.87\00:24:35.40
And you let
your heart be charmed
00:24:35.44\00:24:39.17
with the matchless
attractions of this Son of God.
00:24:39.21\00:24:42.54
That's what I wish for you.
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Charles Wesley,
00:24:46.18\00:24:48.95
century before Charles Spurgeon,
00:24:48.98\00:24:51.72
west of the great
composer of Methodist hymns.
00:24:51.75\00:24:54.46
Wesley once wrote to him,
00:24:54.49\00:24:55.82
and I don't want to
sing it with you right now,
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I want to, I want to...
00:24:57.26\00:24:58.73
I want to read it with
you, so grab your hymn notes,
00:24:58.76\00:25:00.83
250 in your hymn note.
00:25:00.86\00:25:02.20
Come on, I'm not
putting it on the screen,
00:25:02.23\00:25:03.67
so grab the hymn note, 250.
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He captures the life
of Jesus and you will...
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We will read the word
charm embedded in his hymn,
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this beautiful hymn,
you love it, I love it too.
00:25:14.81\00:25:17.01
Oh, for a
thousand tongues to sing.
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My great Redeemer's praise.
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So let's just read it, come on,
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when was the last time
you read it in your hymn note?
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Stanza one, "Oh, for a
thousand tongues to sing
00:25:26.59\00:25:28.92
my great Redeemer's praise,
00:25:28.96\00:25:30.83
the glories of my God and King,
the triumphs of his grace."
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All the way through
it's just J-E-S-U-S.
00:25:34.90\00:25:38.37
The charm, here's
stanza a number two,
00:25:38.40\00:25:40.77
"My gracious Master and my
God, assist me to proclaim,
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to spread through all the
earth abroad this new year,
00:25:46.57\00:25:49.51
the honors of thy name."
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Now here comes,
here comes the word
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verse three, "Jesus!
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Was Spurgeon's
exclamation mark, Jesus!
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The name that charms our fears."
00:25:59.62\00:26:03.22
Isn't that beautiful.
00:26:03.26\00:26:04.59
"The name that charms our fears,
00:26:04.63\00:26:07.40
that bids our sorrows cease,
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'Tis music in the sinner's ears,
00:26:09.53\00:26:11.73
'Tis life and health and peace.
00:26:11.77\00:26:13.40
He breaks the
power of canceled sin,
00:26:13.44\00:26:15.24
He sets the prisoner free,
00:26:15.27\00:26:17.07
His blood can
make the foulest clean,
00:26:17.11\00:26:19.71
his blood availed
for me, it covered me."
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Number five.
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"He speaks and
listening to his voice,
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new life the dead receive
00:26:26.82\00:26:28.95
the mournful, broken hearts
00:26:28.98\00:26:30.32
rejoice the humble
poor believe Jesus.
00:26:30.35\00:26:34.39
Hear Him, ye deaf, His praise,
00:26:34.42\00:26:36.69
ye dumb, Your
loosened tongues employ,
00:26:36.73\00:26:38.76
ye blind, behold
your Savior come,
00:26:38.79\00:26:41.56
And leap, ye lame, for joy."
00:26:41.60\00:26:45.73
I mean, it talk about the
matchless attractions of Christ
00:26:45.77\00:26:47.84
is imbedded in that
old, old gospel hymn.
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But the third stanza,
put it on the screen for you.
00:26:50.64\00:26:53.01
"Jesus! the name
that charms our fears,"
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That's the name.
00:26:56.95\00:26:58.28
What's the name I dial
00:26:58.31\00:26:59.65
when I'm in
trouble this New Year?
00:26:59.68\00:27:01.02
What's the name I
want to contact every,
00:27:01.05\00:27:02.85
every morning
first thing J-E-S-U-S.
00:27:02.88\00:27:05.69
You'll never
get a hang up on it.
00:27:05.72\00:27:07.12
You will never
dial the wrong number.
00:27:07.16\00:27:10.69
Jesus.
00:27:10.73\00:27:12.06
So if I had a New
Year's prayer for you,
00:27:12.09\00:27:13.70
it would be that every
morning, every single morning,
00:27:13.73\00:27:17.17
you alone with a matchless charm
00:27:17.20\00:27:20.44
is an attraction of Jesus.
00:27:20.47\00:27:22.74
You pick the gospel you,
you read it at your leisure
00:27:22.77\00:27:26.71
but every morning.
00:27:26.74\00:27:29.04
Oh, what's our
harmony text here,
00:27:29.08\00:27:31.61
1 John 4:9,
00:27:31.65\00:27:33.18
"This is how God
showed His love among us:
00:27:33.21\00:27:35.08
He sent his one and
only Son into the world
00:27:35.12\00:27:37.82
that we might live through him."
00:27:37.85\00:27:40.16
Verse 10, "This is
love: not that we found God,
00:27:40.19\00:27:43.59
but that he,"
00:27:43.63\00:27:44.96
that there is rather
not that we love God,
00:27:44.99\00:27:47.70
"But that he loved us
00:27:47.73\00:27:49.76
and he sent his Son
as an atoning sacrifice
00:27:49.80\00:27:52.70
for our sins."
00:27:52.73\00:27:54.37
Wow!
00:27:54.40\00:27:58.41
I came across a
powerful depiction
00:27:58.44\00:28:01.91
of the death of
God suffering love
00:28:01.94\00:28:04.85
in a brand new book
00:28:04.88\00:28:06.21
written by one
of our own faculty
00:28:06.25\00:28:07.58
at the Theological Seminary.
00:28:07.62\00:28:08.95
Wow.
00:28:08.98\00:28:10.32
John Peacham is his name.
00:28:10.35\00:28:11.69
He's a
philosopher and a theologian,
00:28:11.72\00:28:13.05
teaches both
philosophy and theology
00:28:13.09\00:28:14.42
at our seminary here on campus.
00:28:14.46\00:28:16.19
He just wrote the
book, "The Love of God:
00:28:16.22\00:28:19.03
A Canonical Model"
00:28:19.06\00:28:20.53
and I've been
reading through it,
00:28:20.56\00:28:21.90
and I'm going to tell
you as God is my witness,
00:28:21.93\00:28:23.50
it is a most
exhaustive and scholarly study
00:28:23.53\00:28:25.73
of God's love,
00:28:25.77\00:28:27.10
I have ever read
in my short life.
00:28:27.14\00:28:31.84
And by the way I just
learned this couple weeks ago.
00:28:31.87\00:28:36.34
He's being published,
00:28:36.38\00:28:38.15
I knew this by
InterVarsity Press,
00:28:38.18\00:28:40.55
no small press
00:28:40.58\00:28:42.22
for a professor in
this little seminary
00:28:42.25\00:28:44.42
to get published it.
00:28:44.45\00:28:45.79
InterVarsity Press Academic,
00:28:45.82\00:28:47.26
which means up
here and guess what?
00:28:47.29\00:28:49.66
Just a few weeks ago, he
was voted Reader's Choice
00:28:49.69\00:28:53.13
the number one
book for 2015 in IVP.
00:28:53.16\00:28:55.80
Number one book Reader's Choice.
00:28:55.83\00:28:58.37
You need to read the
book, that's my point.
00:28:58.40\00:28:59.93
I'll be quoting
from it in this series.
00:28:59.97\00:29:02.47
Anyway, he captures the
depths of God's suffering love.
00:29:02.50\00:29:06.51
This one line, these
words are in his book.
00:29:06.54\00:29:08.64
Put it on the screen,
00:29:08.68\00:29:10.01
"The God who is love
must be able to suffer
00:29:10.05\00:29:13.92
and does suffer
beyond all limits
00:29:13.95\00:29:17.85
in the giving up of what
is most authentically his..."
00:29:17.89\00:29:23.02
Say, what, what is this love?
00:29:23.06\00:29:24.39
"He gives up what is
most authentically his
00:29:24.43\00:29:27.26
for the sake of
mortal man and woman."
00:29:27.30\00:29:31.20
That's what love is.
00:29:31.23\00:29:32.57
He gives up that, that's me,
00:29:32.60\00:29:34.67
that's my son that's we are one,
00:29:34.70\00:29:37.14
he gives up what is
most authentically his.
00:29:37.17\00:29:39.94
I mean John says,
"Look at, this is love:
00:29:39.97\00:29:41.94
this is love not
that we love God,
00:29:41.98\00:29:43.31
but that he loved us
00:29:43.35\00:29:44.68
and sent his Son as a sacrifice,
00:29:44.71\00:29:46.05
atoning sacrifice for our sins."
00:29:46.08\00:29:47.72
Wow, it doesn't get
any better than that.
00:29:47.75\00:29:49.08
It does not get
any better than that.
00:29:49.12\00:29:53.15
Calvary, Bethlehem, book ends
to the narrative of this God
00:29:53.19\00:29:57.43
who entered into
the depths of our
00:29:57.46\00:29:59.03
mortal human
suffering to save us.
00:29:59.06\00:30:04.13
That's a God who says,
"I want to meet with you
00:30:04.17\00:30:05.50
tomorrow morning we'd be there.
00:30:05.53\00:30:07.44
You got my number?"
00:30:07.47\00:30:08.80
"I got it, I got it."
00:30:08.84\00:30:10.17
Just call me, I'll be there."
00:30:10.21\00:30:14.21
For that reason scripture
is absolutely unequivocal
00:30:14.24\00:30:16.18
in declaring the Gospel
00:30:16.21\00:30:18.81
is exactly as
John just declared it.
00:30:18.85\00:30:20.48
The angel declared it,
John is our harmony text,
00:30:20.52\00:30:22.98
he is declaring it.
00:30:23.02\00:30:24.35
And Paul comes along
and says, "Both are right,"
00:30:24.39\00:30:27.42
put this verse on the screen,
keep your finger in 1 John 4,
00:30:27.46\00:30:30.06
here it is, 1 Timothy 1:15,
00:30:30.09\00:30:32.16
it doesn't get any
more succinct than this,
00:30:32.19\00:30:33.93
"Here is a
trustworthy saying..."
00:30:33.96\00:30:35.30
Paul scribbling,
00:30:35.33\00:30:37.10
"That deserves
full acceptance..."
00:30:37.13\00:30:38.63
Here it comes, "Christ
Jesus came into the world
00:30:38.67\00:30:40.94
to save sinners of
whom I am the worst."
00:30:40.97\00:30:44.04
No question, I'm the worst,
00:30:44.07\00:30:47.14
that's a gospel.
00:30:47.18\00:30:49.74
The angel says, you
should his call name Jesus,
00:30:49.78\00:30:51.81
He'll save His
people from their sins.
00:30:51.85\00:30:53.45
Well, who are His
people? The whole world.
00:30:53.48\00:30:54.88
Christ, Christ
Jesus came into the world
00:30:54.92\00:30:56.65
to save sinners of
whom I am the worst.
00:30:56.69\00:30:59.25
You know what?
00:30:59.29\00:31:00.62
For an academic
community, that's not so bad
00:31:00.66\00:31:02.32
for us to just hit the
pause button and hold that,
00:31:02.36\00:31:05.26
keep that on the
screen for a moment.
00:31:05.29\00:31:06.96
There is no question
00:31:09.80\00:31:11.83
that the greatest intellect
Christianity has ever burst
00:31:11.87\00:31:16.81
is the mind and heart
and soul of the Apostle Paul.
00:31:16.84\00:31:22.98
He's the one who
declares, I am the worst,
00:31:23.01\00:31:25.88
he's not playacting,
00:31:25.91\00:31:27.52
not little slide of
hands so you won't really
00:31:27.55\00:31:29.45
make you think I'm a sinner.
00:31:29.48\00:31:30.99
He knows he's the worst.
00:31:31.02\00:31:33.99
Christ Jesus came in
the world to save sinners
00:31:34.02\00:31:37.53
whom I'm the worst,
it's called the gospel.
00:31:37.56\00:31:41.43
Over this Christmas break.
00:31:41.46\00:31:43.50
I've been reading from
this little classic chapter day,
00:31:43.53\00:31:46.30
Steps to Christ.
00:31:46.33\00:31:47.80
All you can, you can do
a lot worse this new year
00:31:47.84\00:31:50.57
and going back
to this little book
00:31:50.61\00:31:51.94
and to reading a
chapter a day for a while,
00:31:51.97\00:31:54.11
so sure you get
through it in a couple weeks.
00:31:54.14\00:31:57.95
I want to share with you a
line that comes from this book,
00:31:57.98\00:32:01.18
I put the words on the screen,
00:32:01.22\00:32:02.55
and I'm gonna read from my
little marked up copy here.
00:32:02.58\00:32:05.35
Steps to Christ, page 35,
00:32:05.39\00:32:08.09
speaking of an intellectual
community as we are,
00:32:08.12\00:32:11.79
listen, "Many accept
an intellectual religion."
00:32:11.83\00:32:15.43
All right we got
it all figured out,
00:32:15.46\00:32:16.80
we got it up here, we got it.
00:32:16.83\00:32:18.87
"Many accept an
intellectual religion,
00:32:18.90\00:32:20.80
a form of godliness, when
the heart is not cleansed.
00:32:20.84\00:32:25.17
Let it be your prayer,
00:32:25.21\00:32:26.54
this New Year
create in me a clean heart,
00:32:26.57\00:32:28.64
O God, and renew a
right spirit within me."
00:32:28.68\00:32:31.78
Boy at the foot
of the cross what...
00:32:31.81\00:32:33.52
could there be a
greater day than today
00:32:33.55\00:32:35.55
to pray this prayer
together at the foot of Calvary
00:32:35.58\00:32:38.22
as we will in just a moment.
00:32:38.25\00:32:40.02
Create in me a clean heart,
00:32:40.06\00:32:41.39
God I don't want
to think about 2015,
00:32:41.42\00:32:43.53
I don't want to
remember, cleanse my memory,
00:32:43.56\00:32:45.89
scrub my soul God,
00:32:45.93\00:32:48.06
I have to start
this new year clean.
00:32:48.10\00:32:50.33
I can't carry
that baggage into 2016.
00:32:50.37\00:32:57.91
Why not?
00:32:57.94\00:32:59.94
It's gospel, wash
me, I'll start over.
00:32:59.97\00:33:04.21
Ellen White goes on,
00:33:04.25\00:33:05.58
"Deal truly with your own soul."
00:33:05.61\00:33:08.25
Don't play games
00:33:08.28\00:33:09.62
you know the
truth and so does God.
00:33:09.65\00:33:11.82
So talk to him honestly,
00:33:11.85\00:33:13.79
don't put on this happy
face to God, here I am again,
00:33:13.82\00:33:17.03
your perfect little boy or girl.
00:33:17.06\00:33:18.73
No, you're not and
God knows it and so you.
00:33:18.76\00:33:21.86
"Deal truly with your own soul.
00:33:21.90\00:33:23.50
Be as earnest, as persistent,
00:33:23.53\00:33:25.50
as you would be if your
mortal life were at stake.
00:33:25.53\00:33:28.27
This is a matter to be settled
between God and your own soul,
00:33:28.30\00:33:31.27
settled for eternity.
00:33:31.31\00:33:34.14
A supposed hope,
and nothing more,
00:33:34.18\00:33:37.38
will prove your ruin."
00:33:37.41\00:33:40.92
You say, hey,
Dwight, oh, time out.
00:33:40.95\00:33:42.65
Wow, you said,
00:33:42.68\00:33:44.02
there's gonna be charmed
by his matchless attractions."
00:33:44.05\00:33:46.45
This is sounding
very negative to me.
00:33:46.49\00:33:48.66
No, time out for
you, time out, time out.
00:33:48.69\00:33:52.36
How can the good news
possibly be good news,
00:33:52.39\00:33:55.60
if I don't know
the bad news first,
00:33:55.63\00:33:57.83
if I don't admit
the bad news first?
00:33:57.87\00:33:59.97
Until I say, "I am the
worst sinner on this planet,
00:34:00.00\00:34:02.37
and mean it."
00:34:02.40\00:34:04.97
Jesus Christ came into
the world to save sinner, so.
00:34:05.01\00:34:08.38
I don't need that.
00:34:08.41\00:34:10.21
You have to
need it, to plead it.
00:34:10.25\00:34:14.48
And when you
plead it, you get it.
00:34:14.52\00:34:18.69
That's the way it works.
00:34:18.72\00:34:21.06
Paul for the rest of us life
pled for God to cover his past.
00:34:21.09\00:34:24.43
Because his past, shame...
00:34:24.46\00:34:25.99
was a shaming past,
00:34:26.03\00:34:28.46
forgetting those
things which are behind.
00:34:28.50\00:34:30.47
He kept saying, "I got
to forget what's behind,
00:34:30.50\00:34:33.03
but I'm the worst
sinner and he couldn't forget."
00:34:33.07\00:34:38.21
Wow.
00:34:38.24\00:34:42.54
Reminds me of that
sentence by the way,
00:34:42.58\00:34:44.25
on page 30 same chapter.
00:34:44.28\00:34:46.75
I put it on the
screen for you here.
00:34:46.78\00:34:49.75
The drunkard,
00:34:49.78\00:34:51.32
okay, this is the person
00:34:51.35\00:34:52.69
hooked on
prescription drugs, all right.
00:34:52.72\00:34:54.36
So that she keeps
going to the doctor
00:34:54.39\00:34:55.89
getting more and
more prescriptions,
00:34:55.92\00:34:57.26
she doesn't have
to have this much,
00:34:57.29\00:34:58.63
but she's hooked now.
00:34:58.66\00:35:00.00
This guy is hooked
on prescription drugs.
00:35:00.03\00:35:01.53
Okay, so the drug addict.
00:35:01.56\00:35:02.90
This could be the
junkie in the inner city,
00:35:02.93\00:35:04.50
or could be the respectable,
00:35:04.53\00:35:05.93
you know, middle
class drug addict
00:35:05.97\00:35:07.50
because of prescription medicine
00:35:07.54\00:35:08.87
or could be an alcoholic.
00:35:08.90\00:35:10.24
"The drunkard is despised..."
00:35:10.27\00:35:11.81
Yeah, around here...
00:35:11.84\00:35:13.34
"And is told that her
sin, his sin will exclude him,
00:35:13.38\00:35:16.95
will exclude her from heaven..."
00:35:16.98\00:35:18.58
All the while,
watch this, wow brother,
00:35:18.61\00:35:21.18
"Pride,
selfishness, and covetousness
00:35:21.22\00:35:24.25
too often go unrebuked."
00:35:24.29\00:35:26.45
Not a word, I don't,
I'm not sorry for those,
00:35:26.49\00:35:29.52
because you know
thank God, I'm not like her.
00:35:29.56\00:35:33.50
Too often they go unrebuked
but keep going, keep reading,
00:35:33.53\00:35:37.40
"These are sins
that are especially..."
00:35:37.43\00:35:39.93
Did you get the word especially?
00:35:39.97\00:35:41.30
"Especially offensive to God,
00:35:41.34\00:35:44.21
for pride,
covetousness and selfishness
00:35:44.24\00:35:46.24
are contrary to the
benevolence of his character,
00:35:46.27\00:35:48.58
to that unselfish love
00:35:48.61\00:35:50.51
which is the very
atmosphere of heaven."
00:35:50.55\00:35:54.22
I'm telling you what?
00:35:54.25\00:35:55.78
Just began with
one of those three
00:35:55.82\00:35:57.75
I really have a struggle with
00:35:57.79\00:35:59.25
Probably with all three
that I don't even know about,
00:35:59.29\00:36:01.72
but at least two of those three.
00:36:01.76\00:36:04.39
No, maybe three.
00:36:04.43\00:36:07.16
What were the
three again by the way?
00:36:07.20\00:36:08.53
Pride,
covetousness, selfishness,
00:36:12.33\00:36:14.24
the selfishness thing, I
really struggled with it.
00:36:14.27\00:36:17.54
I'm a selfish person by nature.
00:36:17.57\00:36:19.74
I found that the Lord
reminded me again this week.
00:36:19.77\00:36:22.08
So we were flying,
we were flying home,
00:36:30.59\00:36:32.15
we had a wonderful
time, that week in Argentina,
00:36:32.19\00:36:35.56
then a week in
Southern California,
00:36:35.59\00:36:37.09
renewed with my mother,
00:36:37.13\00:36:38.46
and the whole
tribe, the Nelson tribe,
00:36:38.49\00:36:40.30
we did had a glorious time.
00:36:40.33\00:36:41.66
So Karen and I got
up 3:30 in the morning.
00:36:41.70\00:36:44.00
Left 4:45 race to L.A.X.
00:36:44.03\00:36:46.43
when the traffic was survivable.
00:36:46.47\00:36:49.20
We had an 8:50 flight, got
right up there to check in,
00:36:49.24\00:36:52.21
and it said canceled.
00:36:52.24\00:36:54.98
It's Wednesday.
00:36:55.01\00:36:56.48
Oh, man.
00:36:56.51\00:36:59.85
Go to the service
counter, have a long line,
00:36:59.88\00:37:02.82
we're halfway back.
00:37:02.85\00:37:05.22
Come to find out when we
got to the front of the line,
00:37:05.25\00:37:06.69
hallelujah, they
provided another plane,
00:37:06.72\00:37:08.76
the Dreamliner 787,
00:37:08.79\00:37:10.49
to fly, the people that were
stranded by this cancel flight.
00:37:10.53\00:37:14.66
And so anyway we
have a five hour wait now.
00:37:14.70\00:37:18.53
So we're just
sitting around reading,
00:37:18.57\00:37:20.67
and grab a bite to eat,
00:37:20.70\00:37:22.04
and then I saw
on the monitor Wow!
00:37:22.07\00:37:24.21
I got upgraded to
business first class.
00:37:24.24\00:37:29.98
Then I said, "No, no,
00:37:30.01\00:37:31.68
you know I arrange this trip
00:37:31.71\00:37:33.05
so I fly with
Karen, I'll sit with her."
00:37:33.08\00:37:37.62
I was hoping that
would be kind of...
00:37:37.65\00:37:40.92
because I was going to
enjoy just that brief moment.
00:37:40.96\00:37:44.63
Seriously, so I said,
I'm not gonna worry about
00:37:44.66\00:37:46.73
somebody else can take my seat.
00:37:46.76\00:37:48.10
I will stick in
the one I'm inside 22A.
00:37:48.13\00:37:50.10
So we go on to the plane.
00:37:50.13\00:37:51.67
There's this shriveled up
little lady sitting in 22A
00:37:51.70\00:37:54.90
I say, "Hey, let me see your,
let me see your boarding pass."
00:37:54.94\00:37:58.54
I said, "How could that be?"
00:37:58.57\00:38:00.38
So Karen looks at me,
and she says, "You know what?
00:38:00.41\00:38:03.48
Why don't you take
the seat in first class?
00:38:03.51\00:38:06.01
I'll sit back here."
00:38:06.05\00:38:07.78
Yes.
00:38:07.82\00:38:09.72
Okay, I'll check it out.
00:38:09.75\00:38:11.79
Anyway I went up there
00:38:11.82\00:38:13.15
the Dreamliner's
the reclining seat,
00:38:13.19\00:38:15.12
I'll take it.
00:38:15.16\00:38:18.49
Now here's
where the Lord got me.
00:38:18.53\00:38:20.96
So when the flight is over,
00:38:21.00\00:38:22.33
Karen and I now in O'Hare
00:38:22.36\00:38:23.70
racing to catch
this southern flight.
00:38:23.73\00:38:25.90
She says, "You
know, that little lady
00:38:25.93\00:38:27.27
that sat on the plane?"
00:38:27.30\00:38:29.34
She got to the airport
at 5:30 in the morning,
00:38:29.37\00:38:31.74
her family dropped her off.
00:38:31.77\00:38:33.48
She comes and finds out
that it's been canceled,
00:38:33.51\00:38:36.08
she has no money not a
dollar bill to her name."
00:38:36.11\00:38:39.75
I'm thinking
what family would send
00:38:39.78\00:38:41.35
a little mother
without a dollar bill.
00:38:41.38\00:38:44.55
So she, Karen said,
00:38:44.59\00:38:45.92
I offered to buy the woman lunch
00:38:45.95\00:38:47.29
and she said,
"No, no, I don't want,
00:38:47.32\00:38:48.92
I'm okay, I'm okay."
00:38:48.96\00:38:50.36
But when we landed she said,
"You're gonna have some money,"
00:38:50.39\00:38:52.26
and my wife, the most unselfish
person I know on this planet
00:38:52.29\00:38:55.23
gives cash to her and
says, "Buy yourself supper."
00:38:55.26\00:38:59.90
And right then, I said,
00:38:59.93\00:39:02.24
"You,
00:39:02.27\00:39:06.14
if you had offered
that woman your seat.
00:39:06.17\00:39:09.54
She would have gotten a meal
00:39:09.58\00:39:11.78
with china and silver for free."
00:39:11.81\00:39:16.38
Said you little pig you ate it.
00:39:16.42\00:39:18.12
I'm telling you
guys, I'm not a drunkard,
00:39:22.72\00:39:24.89
hey, I'm not hooked
on prescription drugs.
00:39:24.93\00:39:28.16
I don't even drink wine.
00:39:28.20\00:39:29.80
I'm not an alcoholic.
00:39:29.83\00:39:31.93
Yeah, I know God says,
00:39:31.97\00:39:33.37
"It's pride,
covetousness, and selfishness,
00:39:33.40\00:39:35.87
that I'm
worried about with you."
00:39:35.90\00:39:37.41
You see the point.
00:39:37.44\00:39:39.14
An intellectual
community still needs Calvary.
00:39:39.17\00:39:41.58
That's the point.
00:39:41.61\00:39:43.31
We need the cross.
00:39:43.35\00:39:45.05
I need the cross.
00:39:45.08\00:39:47.38
I am the worst sinner Paul says,
00:39:47.42\00:39:48.92
Christ Jesus came in
the world to save sinners
00:39:48.95\00:39:50.35
of whom I'm the worst.
00:39:50.39\00:39:51.75
But there's good news
for intellectual sinners.
00:39:51.79\00:39:53.56
Keep reading.
00:39:53.59\00:39:54.92
As you see the enormity...
00:39:54.96\00:39:56.99
get my place here,
00:39:57.03\00:39:58.36
"As you see the enormity of sin,
00:39:58.39\00:39:59.73
as you see yourself
as you really are..."
00:39:59.76\00:40:01.70
Oh, boy, those moments come.
00:40:01.73\00:40:03.47
"Do not give up to despair.
00:40:03.50\00:40:05.20
It was sinners that
Christ Jesus came to save.
00:40:05.23\00:40:07.64
We have not to
reconcile God to us,
00:40:07.67\00:40:09.54
but - O, but
wondrous, o wondrous love!"
00:40:09.57\00:40:12.14
This is so beautiful.
00:40:12.17\00:40:13.74
"God in Christ is 'reconciling
the world unto Himself.'
00:40:13.78\00:40:16.75
He is wooing by His tender love
00:40:16.78\00:40:18.28
the hearts of
His erring children.
00:40:18.31\00:40:19.65
No earthly parent
could be as patient
00:40:19.68\00:40:22.28
with the faults and
mistakes of his children,
00:40:22.32\00:40:24.55
as is God with
those He seeks to save.
00:40:24.59\00:40:26.89
No one could plead more
tenderly with a transgressor.
00:40:26.92\00:40:29.82
No human lips ever poured
out more tender entreaties
00:40:29.86\00:40:33.06
to the wanderer than does He."
00:40:33.09\00:40:37.10
My mother, God bless
her, 87 years of age,
00:40:37.13\00:40:40.87
in this family and
had the cousins there,
00:40:40.90\00:40:43.14
the siblings, the
spouses and my momma,
00:40:43.17\00:40:45.77
just sitting here
drinking it all and smiling,
00:40:45.81\00:40:48.21
she is bright mind,
interject now and then.
00:40:48.24\00:40:50.65
Sounds like a mother to me.
00:40:53.82\00:40:56.45
A mother who took me aside
before I left Tuesday night,
00:40:56.48\00:40:59.39
said, Dwight, I need to say
something I noticed about you.
00:40:59.42\00:41:02.59
Apparently even at
87 mothers can do this.
00:41:02.62\00:41:05.56
There ought to be a
cutoff where they just,
00:41:05.59\00:41:07.76
just be thankful I mean.
00:41:07.80\00:41:09.13
No, I receive that,
00:41:11.60\00:41:12.93
I received that in my
heart is the gift of love.
00:41:12.97\00:41:17.61
And that's God,
it says, it's me.
00:41:17.64\00:41:19.71
I'm not mother of yours.
00:41:19.74\00:41:21.31
I met Daddy of
yours you never had.
00:41:21.34\00:41:23.45
I'm the father you
always longed to have
00:41:23.48\00:41:25.58
but he gave up on you, I
have never given up on you,
00:41:25.61\00:41:28.95
you are my girl, you are my boy.
00:41:28.98\00:41:31.85
I'm pleading with you
come to me this new year,
00:41:31.89\00:41:34.16
I'm begging you,
I'm wooing your heart.
00:41:34.19\00:41:37.46
Look at these scars J-E-S-U-S
00:41:37.49\00:41:40.86
come be charmed, come to me.
00:41:40.90\00:41:44.87
What a God that
we've come to worship
00:41:44.90\00:41:48.50
the second day of the new year,
00:41:48.54\00:41:50.81
and He's here, He's speaking
to your heart right now,
00:41:50.84\00:41:54.08
like you speak into mine
00:41:54.11\00:41:55.44
surprising me
even in my own notes.
00:41:55.48\00:41:58.18
That's the way He is.
00:41:58.21\00:41:59.55
Oh, the last line of
this, of this paragraph,
00:42:02.95\00:42:05.65
I put it on the
screen, just one line.
00:42:05.69\00:42:07.02
"All His promises, His warnings,
00:42:07.06\00:42:09.12
are but the
breathing of unutterable love."
00:42:09.16\00:42:13.16
Don't get any better
than unutterable love as that,
00:42:13.19\00:42:16.13
that's how much He loves you.
00:42:16.16\00:42:17.50
You say, Dwight, you
don't know what I did in 2015,
00:42:17.53\00:42:19.03
I don't care to know, I
already know what I did.
00:42:19.07\00:42:21.10
I'm the worst of sinners.
00:42:21.14\00:42:22.47
So we'll enjoy
this company together,
00:42:22.50\00:42:24.04
the point is an
unutterable love says,
00:42:24.07\00:42:26.47
"I wipe that off,
00:42:26.51\00:42:27.84
and I'll start afresh with you,
00:42:27.88\00:42:29.21
but you've got to come to me,
00:42:29.24\00:42:30.58
don't run from me, come to me."
00:42:30.61\00:42:35.92
"When Satan comes..."
00:42:35.95\00:42:37.29
Oh, here's the good
news now, I'll end with this,
00:42:37.32\00:42:38.75
"When Satan comes to tell
you that you are a great sinner,
00:42:38.79\00:42:42.69
which we are, look up
to you're Redeemer..."
00:42:42.72\00:42:44.99
We will...
00:42:45.03\00:42:46.36
Lord's table we're going to be
00:42:46.39\00:42:47.73
looking straight up
in the face of Jesus.
00:42:47.76\00:42:49.10
"Look up to your Redeemer
and talk of His merits."
00:42:49.13\00:42:52.77
That's who counts,
00:42:52.80\00:42:54.14
"That which
will help you to look
00:42:54.17\00:42:55.54
is to look to His light.
00:42:55.57\00:42:56.94
Acknowledge your sin,
at the foot of the cross,
00:42:56.97\00:42:59.57
but tell the enemy..."
00:42:59.61\00:43:00.94
"Hey, Yo! Devil,
00:43:00.98\00:43:02.64
you're not
telling me anything new,
00:43:02.68\00:43:04.25
I already knew all that.
00:43:04.28\00:43:06.11
You didn't know I know.
00:43:06.15\00:43:07.58
You think I am a fool.
00:43:07.62\00:43:09.45
I know what you're saying,
but you tell to your enemy,
00:43:09.48\00:43:12.12
"Tell the enemy that
00:43:12.15\00:43:13.49
'Christ Jesus came into
the world to save sinners'
00:43:13.52\00:43:15.66
and that you may be
saved by His matchless love."
00:43:15.69\00:43:20.10
Wow!
00:43:20.13\00:43:22.36
Wow!
00:43:22.40\00:43:23.73
Wow!
00:43:23.77\00:43:25.10
I'm gonna end the
quote right there.
00:43:25.13\00:43:26.47
Say about His matchless love.
00:43:28.14\00:43:31.37
That's why we're
here, ladies and gentlemen,
00:43:31.41\00:43:33.17
brothers and sisters
of the family of God.
00:43:33.21\00:43:36.34
We have come today
00:43:36.38\00:43:38.31
on the second
day of this New Year
00:43:38.35\00:43:41.68
to be saved afresh
by His matchless love.
00:43:41.72\00:43:47.06
It doesn't get any better
than this, it just doesn't.
00:43:47.09\00:43:50.59
When you take the bread
as you will in a moment,
00:43:50.63\00:43:51.99
when you take the cup
as you will in a moment,
00:43:52.03\00:43:53.80
when you take the towel
as you will in a moment.
00:43:53.83\00:43:55.60
Jesus said, "All three of these
00:43:55.63\00:43:56.97
are to remind
you of my matchless,
00:43:57.00\00:43:59.23
my unutterable love,
my matchless attractions.
00:43:59.27\00:44:02.74
I want you to be
charmed in the righteousness.
00:44:02.77\00:44:05.04
I want you to be charmed to me,
00:44:05.07\00:44:06.78
charmed into my nail
scarred open embrace.
00:44:06.81\00:44:08.94
Charm, come on,
come on, come on,
00:44:08.98\00:44:12.11
let me love you like
you've never been loved before."
00:44:12.15\00:44:14.12
You can't make me love
you more than I already do.
00:44:17.35\00:44:20.09
You can't make me love
you less than I already do.
00:44:20.12\00:44:23.53
Come, come to me.
00:44:23.56\00:44:26.46
Oh, for a
thousand tongues to sing
00:44:26.49\00:44:29.10
my great
Redeemer's praise Jesus,
00:44:29.13\00:44:34.17
the name that
charms our fears away.
00:44:34.20\00:44:40.48
Let's pray.
00:44:40.51\00:44:41.84
Oh God, charmed and dear out,
00:44:41.88\00:44:46.68
stretched wide open embrace.
00:44:46.72\00:44:48.68
Charm to the one who
says with unutterable love,
00:44:48.72\00:44:54.19
and infinite
sacrifice, I have loved you.
00:44:54.22\00:44:56.46
Charmed to you.
00:44:56.49\00:45:00.60
What better way
to begin a new year
00:45:00.63\00:45:03.97
than with each other
at the foot of your cross.
00:45:04.00\00:45:07.27
It doesn't get
any better than this
00:45:07.30\00:45:11.17
for which we thank You,
00:45:11.21\00:45:13.58
in the name that
is above every name,
00:45:13.61\00:45:15.44
the only savior on earth,
00:45:15.48\00:45:17.65
our Lord Jesus,
00:45:17.68\00:45:19.38
and all the
people say amen and amen.
00:45:19.41\00:45:23.69
This is love:
00:45:27.56\00:45:29.42
not that we love
God but that he loved us
00:45:29.46\00:45:33.26
and sent his Son as an
atoning sacrifice for our sins."
00:45:33.29\00:45:37.37
That last quotation
from Steps to Christ
00:45:37.40\00:45:41.74
ends with the words
00:45:41.77\00:45:43.10
that our hearts might be melted
with tenderness and contrition
00:45:43.14\00:45:47.88
and that's what
I've been praying,
00:45:47.91\00:45:49.24
God just take
this moment it's a...
00:45:49.28\00:45:52.28
We're family
now, melt our hearts,
00:45:52.31\00:45:55.68
do something inside of us,
00:45:55.72\00:45:58.09
as we gather here at
the foot of the cross.
00:45:58.12\00:46:00.86
Madeline is going to...
00:46:00.89\00:46:02.22
Madeline
Johnston is going to read
00:46:02.26\00:46:04.69
Matthew sacred
account of that night,
00:46:04.73\00:46:06.96
and then her husband Bob,
will lead us in our prayer.
00:46:07.00\00:46:10.07
"While they were
eating, Jesus took bread
00:46:19.67\00:46:22.91
and when he had given thanks.
00:46:22.94\00:46:24.98
He broke it and gave it
to His disciples saying,
00:46:25.01\00:46:28.85
"Take and eat this is my body,
00:46:28.88\00:46:32.59
then he took a cup
00:46:32.62\00:46:34.62
and when he had given thanks.
00:46:34.66\00:46:36.86
He gave it to them saying,
00:46:36.89\00:46:38.93
"Drink from it all of you.
00:46:38.96\00:46:42.00
This is my
blood of the covenant,
00:46:42.03\00:46:45.10
which is poured out for many
for the forgiveness of sins."
00:46:45.13\00:46:49.07
I tell you, I will not drink
00:46:49.10\00:46:51.51
from this fruit
as a vine from now on
00:46:51.54\00:46:54.81
until that day
when I drink it new
00:46:54.84\00:46:57.48
with you in my
Father's kingdom."
00:46:57.51\00:47:00.92
Let us kneel, as my
husband Bob offers prayer.
00:47:00.95\00:47:06.82
Thank you.
00:47:06.86\00:47:08.19
We thank the
Father for the bread
00:47:16.93\00:47:20.20
that we're about to receive
00:47:20.24\00:47:23.10
because it represents
the body of thy Son Jesus,
00:47:23.14\00:47:27.51
our Savior which
was given for us.
00:47:27.54\00:47:31.71
And Father, we
thank thee for the wine
00:47:34.48\00:47:36.58
that we are about to drink,
00:47:36.62\00:47:40.06
because it
represents the blood of Jesus,
00:47:40.09\00:47:43.22
which was shed for us.
00:47:43.26\00:47:44.96
We thank thee for
his presence among us.
00:47:47.00\00:47:52.87
And also, for the
life that He gives us.
00:47:52.90\00:47:58.74
But we remember His words,
00:47:58.77\00:48:02.31
that He will not partake
of the fruit of the wine again
00:48:02.34\00:48:05.35
until He drinks it new
with us in the kingdom.
00:48:05.38\00:48:09.82
Lord, we pray that
thou will hasten that day.
00:48:09.85\00:48:13.66
We bless the name of
the Father, and the Son,
00:48:17.13\00:48:21.93
and the Holy Spirit.
00:48:21.96\00:48:23.93
Amen.
00:48:23.97\00:48:25.30
Oh, how sweet
00:49:23.02\00:49:27.13
to trust in Jesus
00:49:27.16\00:49:32.47
Just to trust
00:49:35.10\00:49:39.44
His cleansing blood
00:49:39.47\00:49:44.91
Trust in simple
00:50:00.30\00:50:05.43
faith to plunge me
00:50:05.47\00:50:09.74
'Neath the healing,
00:50:12.97\00:50:17.95
cleansing flood!
00:50:17.98\00:50:21.75
Yes, 'tis sweet
00:50:40.30\00:50:44.71
to trust in Jesus
00:50:44.74\00:50:50.18
Just from sin
00:50:55.72\00:51:00.29
and self to cease
00:51:00.32\00:51:04.79
just from Jesus
00:51:11.43\00:51:16.81
simply taking
00:51:16.84\00:51:20.74
Life and rest,
00:51:24.81\00:51:29.08
and joy and peace
00:51:29.12\00:51:33.96
So that we would never forget
00:53:01.48\00:53:03.78
the matchless charms
00:53:03.81\00:53:06.38
of His unutterable love,
00:53:06.41\00:53:09.08
Jesus to us also says,
00:53:09.12\00:53:10.99
"Take this bread and eat it.
00:53:11.02\00:53:13.29
This is my body broken for you.
00:53:13.32\00:53:15.56
Do this in remembrance of me."
00:53:15.59\00:53:18.23
So that we might be
charmed into His righteousness,
00:53:48.16\00:53:51.26
He also says to us,
00:53:51.29\00:53:52.63
"Take this cup all of
you and drink from it,
00:53:52.66\00:53:55.13
for this is My blood
that has been shed for you,
00:53:55.16\00:53:58.33
do this in remembrance of me."
00:53:58.37\00:54:00.44
I love this 407, let's
sing it together, it's just,
00:54:24.93\00:54:27.63
it's my favorite,
00:54:27.66\00:54:29.00
sent forth by God's
blessings into the new year
00:54:29.03\00:54:31.17
in the new world
that awaits us, hymn 407,
00:54:31.20\00:54:34.04
we'll sing it as
we stand together.
00:54:34.07\00:54:36.00
Sent forth by God's blessing,
our true faith confessing
00:54:57.13\00:55:03.50
The people of
God from His dwelling
00:55:03.53\00:55:08.30
take leave
00:55:08.34\00:55:10.17
The supper ended
00:55:10.21\00:55:13.51
Oh, now be extended
00:55:13.54\00:55:16.64
The fruits of this
service in all who believe
00:55:16.68\00:55:23.55
The seed of His teaching,
receptive souls reaching
00:55:23.59\00:55:30.16
Shall blossom in action for God
00:55:30.19\00:55:34.43
and for all His
grace did invite us,
00:55:34.46\00:55:40.10
His love shall unite us
00:55:40.14\00:55:43.20
To work for God's kingdom
00:55:43.24\00:55:46.47
and answer His call
00:55:46.51\00:55:52.01
With praise and
thanksgiving to God ever living
00:55:52.05\00:55:57.59
The tasks of our everyday life
00:55:58.65\00:56:03.02
we will face Our
faith ever sharing,
00:56:03.06\00:56:07.53
in love ever caring
00:56:08.66\00:56:11.87
Embracing His children
00:56:11.90\00:56:15.00
of each tribe and race
00:56:15.04\00:56:18.67
With Your feast You feed us,
00:56:18.71\00:56:21.64
with Your light now lead us
00:56:21.68\00:56:25.21
Unite us as one in this life
00:56:25.25\00:56:28.82
that we share
00:56:28.85\00:56:31.69
Then may all the living
00:56:31.72\00:56:35.02
with praise and thanksgiving
00:56:35.06\00:56:38.89
Give honor to Christ
00:56:38.93\00:56:41.76
and His name that we bear
00:56:41.80\00:56:46.77
And Now to him who is
able to keep you from stumbling
00:56:51.17\00:56:54.28
and to present you
before his glorious presence
00:56:54.31\00:56:57.21
without fault,
00:56:57.25\00:56:58.58
and with great
joy to the only God,
00:56:58.61\00:57:01.55
our Savior be glory,
00:57:01.58\00:57:03.49
majesty power and authority
00:57:03.52\00:57:06.52
through Jesus Christ, our Lord
00:57:06.55\00:57:08.66
before all ages
now and forever more.
00:57:08.69\00:57:13.26
Amen.
00:57:13.29\00:57:14.63
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00:57:16.33\00:57:18.07
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