Happy Sabbath,
PMC. Happy Sabbath.
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It's a pleasure to
worship with you today.
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This first song we're gonna
sing is sort of an invitation,
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a call to worship,
an invitation to God,
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to the Holy Spirit, to
His presence to say God,
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we want Your
presence here with us
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as we worship, as we learn,
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I mean, as we gather
together as a body of believers.
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So I invite you to
sing this first song,
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maybe unfamiliar to some
of you but if so we're gonna--
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We're gonna sing
this first chorus,
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I like you to sing with me.
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Holy Spirit,
You are welcome here
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Come flood this
place, fill the atmosphere
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Your glory, God, is
what our hearts long for
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To be overcome by Your presence,
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Lord
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Your presence, Lord
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I invite you to
stand with me as we sing.
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There's nothing worth
more That could ever come close
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No thing can compare
You're our living hope
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It's Your presence, Lord
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Your presence, Lord
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As I've tasted and seen.
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I've tasted and seen
of the sweetest of loves
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Where my heart becomes free
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and my shame is undone
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Your presence, Lord
We sing the Holy Spirit.
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Holy Spirit,
You are welcome here
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Come flood this place
and fill the atmosphere
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Your glory, God, is
what our hearts long for
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To be overcome by
Your presence, Lord
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Your presence, Lord
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There's nothing worth more.
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There's nothing worth
more That could ever come close
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No thing can compare
You're our living hope
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Your presence, Lord
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As I've tasted.
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I've tasted and seen
of the sweetest of loves
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Where my heart becomes free
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and my shame is undone
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Sing Your presence.
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Your presence, Lord
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We invite the Holy Spirit.
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Holy Spirit,
You are welcome here
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Come flood this place
and fill the atmosphere
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Your glory, God, is
what our hearts long for
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To be overcome by
Your presence, Lord
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Holy Spirit,
You are welcome here
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Come flood this place
and fill the atmosphere
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Your glory, God, is
what our hearts long for
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To be overcome by
Your presence, Lord
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Your presence, Lord
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Let us become more
aware of Your presence
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Let us experience the
glory of Your goodness
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Let us become.
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Let us become more
aware of Your presence
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Let us experience the
glory of Your goodness
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Your presence, Lord
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We sing Holy Spirit.
Lift your voice with me now.
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Holy Spirit,
You are welcome here
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Come flood this place
and fill the atmosphere
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Your glory, God, is
what our hearts long for
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To be overcome
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by Your presence, Lord
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Your presence.
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Your presence, Lord
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And, Father, we
come before You now
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with open arms and open hearts.
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Father, we invite Your
presence to be with us.
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We're standing here now
saying, we need Your presence
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today, every day,
Lord, in all that we do.
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So we invite You
to dwell with us now.
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In Jesus' name, amen.
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Come, thou Fount
of every blessing
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Tune my heart to sing Thy grace
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Streams of mercy,
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Never ceasing Call for
songs of loudest praise
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Teach me some melodious sonnet
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Sung by flaming
tongues above Praise the mount!
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I'm fixed upon it
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Mount of thy redeeming love
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Here I raise
mine Ebenezer Hither
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by Thy help I'm come
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And I hope by Thy good pleasure
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Safely to arrive at home
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Jesus sought me when a stranger
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Wandering from the fold of God
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He to rescue me from danger
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Interposed His precious blood
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O, to grace how great a debtor
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Daily I'm constrained to be
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Let Thy goodness, like a fetter
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Bind my wandering heart to Thee
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Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it
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Prone to leave the God I love
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Here's my heart
Lord, take and seal it
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Seal it for Thy courts above
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We gather each week
as a body of believers.
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We gathered to praise God.
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We gathered to learn about God.
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We also gathered to
pray, bring our problems,
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bring out
thanksgiving to bring it all.
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So in this time as
we sing our last song,
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I invite everyone
there's something on their heart
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praise or
thanksgiving to come forward.
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Ooh, ooh
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You're beautiful
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Ooh, ooh
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You're beautiful
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I see your face in every sunrise
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The colors of the
morning are inside
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Your eyes The world
awakens in the light of the day
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I look up to the sky and say
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"You're beautiful"
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Ooh, ooh
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You're beautiful
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Ooh, ooh
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You're beautiful
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I see your power
in the moonlit night
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When planets are in
motion and galaxies are bright
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We are amazed in
the light of the stars
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It's all
proclaiming who You are,
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"You're beautiful"
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Ooh, ooh
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You're beautiful
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Ooh, ooh
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Sing this out with me.
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I see you there
hanging on a tree
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You bled and then you died
and then you rose again for me
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Now you are sitting
on Your heavenly throne
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Soon You will be coming home,
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"You're beautiful"
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Ooh, ooh
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You're beautiful
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Ooh, ooh
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You're beautiful
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When we arrive
at eternity's shore
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Where death is just a
memory and tears are no more
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We'll enter in as
the wedding bells ring
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Your bride will come
together and we'll sing
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"You're beautiful"
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Ooh, ooh
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You're beautiful
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Ooh, ooh
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I see your face.
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I see your face,
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You're beautiful
You're beautiful,
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You're beautiful
Sing it out with me.
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I see your face,
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You're beautiful
You're beautiful,
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You're beautiful
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Let's pray.
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Oh, God, You know our hearts.
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No games here.
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What is is and You know
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in advance of
what we've even heard
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yet we are asking
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that You will
direct our attention
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to what needs attention.
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We're here in
the name of Christ.
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We've been much in
worship to this very moment.
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We're not stopping.
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Speak to us we pray
in Jesus' name, amen.
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Can you believe this?
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There is a website
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that actually advertises
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and offers sexual affairs
to those who are married?
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Of course, will do
this for a little fee.
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Apparently, now I
insert that word apparently
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so that you know I've never been
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to this website, all right.
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Apparently, I read
it in the newspaper
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that's why I know.
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Apparently, the
website's homepage
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features a
picture as Leonard Pitts
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puts it in his syndicated
column from Allen, Miami.
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Features a picture of a
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"ubiquitous brunette
counseling discretion
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with an index
finger to her pouty lips."
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Also on the website it boasts
an "Affair Guarantee Program,"
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through which, here's a quote.
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"Through which you
are promised a refund
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if you can't find a
suitable partner to cheat with."
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No kidding. No kidding.
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And they describe
their customers as
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"free-thinking people
who choose to engage in
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fully lawful online activities."
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Their tagline is
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"Life is short, have an affair."
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The only reason
we know about this
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is because hackers hacked
into their website last summer
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and exposed by publishing a list
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of their 32 million customers.
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Yeah, men and women,
young and not so young
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who believe the line,
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"life is short, have an affair."
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Included in that
list of customers
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was a gentleman
name John Gibson.
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Leonard Pitts describes him.
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I'll read it to you.
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"He was a married father of two,
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a pastor and a professor
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at New Orleans
Baptist Theological Seminary.
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He is said to
have loved fixing cars
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and to have had
an oddball laugh.
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In photos, he
and his wife Christi
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and their two kids come across
as a goofy, fun-loving bunch.
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Pictures of them radiate joy.
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Christi Gibson
came home August 24
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to find her
husband dead of suicide."
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You see, his
name was on that list.
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"In his note, says his wife,
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he expressed profound remorse.
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'What we know
about him,' she told CNN,
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'is that he poured his
life into other people,
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and he offered grace and mercy
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and forgiveness
to everyone else,
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but somehow he couldn't
extend that to himself.'
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"Life is short,
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have an affair," as it turns out
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for first half of
that tagline was true.
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John Gibson was 56 years old.
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Every time you and I come back
from going down to South Bend,
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we've to cross the Indiana,
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Michigan
borders, isn't that right?
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And every single, Highway 31,
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and every single
time you cross the border
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there it is a huge blue letters
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"Pure Michigan."
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I mean, come
on, who you kidding?
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You talking about Michigan?
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We all live in Michigan,
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"Pure Michigan" you
got to be kidding me.
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You don't know the
secrets in our hearts.
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Once upon a
time there was a man,
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a capital "M" Man.
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Not because he
was from Michigan.
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Now the capital "M"
Man was from Nazareth.
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No pure Nazareth signs
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on the streets
entering that city notorious.
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The scuttlebutt around town is
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"Can any good thing
come out of Nazareth?"
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But apparently someone very good
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and very pure
came out of Nazareth
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and lived to be
in stories like this.
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Once upon a time
Jesus was attending a dinner
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thrown in His honor by a rather
wealthy Pharisee name Simon.
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Simon had been
healed by leprosy.
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Healed of leprosy by Jesus
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and so as an
expression of his gratitude,
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he pulls off one of those
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wish I had an invitation
to that kind of banquet.
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And everybody who is
anybody in town was there.
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The dinner has began
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and the sounds of
silver cutlery clinking softly
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against the fine bone china
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punctuated with
laughter and chatter,
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zigzagging back and forth
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across a heavy
laden table of entrees
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and vegetables as
far as the eye can see.
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Sometime during
that scrumptious feast,
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a woman of the night
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tiptoed into the dominantly
male boisterous gathering.
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If you're a local
you recognized her,
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especially if you are a male.
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She was a town whore.
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A very attractive woman
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who prostituted her
innocence and her beauty
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for a bit of income.
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Somewhere along the way
she met this capital "M" Man,
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Jesus of Nazareth.
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Any conversation
between them was so private
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we have not a
whisper of that conversation.
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But it is apparent
from the quiet glow
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that radiates
from her face tonight
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that He has changed her life.
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Pure Jesus, big change.
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No more impurity
within, forgiven.
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She is a pure woman now.
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And even as Simon
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has thrown this
banquet in honor of Jesus
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even so this
woman crashes the party
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also in gratitude
to this same Jesus.
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Before anyone can hiss,
"Get out of here, woman"
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she reaches into
the folds of her garment
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and she pulls out a
container of nard perfume
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from the petals grown at
the foot of the Himalayas.
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Before anyone could stop her,
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she has broken
the container open
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and begins as
she stifles her sobs
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begins to drip the
perfume along with her tears
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on the feet of this man,
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feet recline from behind.
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And as she sobs
00:25:56.32\00:25:58.99
she finally,
she is a prostitute,
00:25:59.02\00:26:02.26
she finally lowers her head,
loosens the tresses of her hair
00:26:02.29\00:26:06.86
and begins to wipe His feet.
00:26:06.90\00:26:09.96
The perfume and the tears
00:26:10.00\00:26:14.07
as she kisses the feet.
00:26:14.10\00:26:17.41
That's how a
prostitute says thank you.
00:26:17.44\00:26:19.54
Jesus finally feels
something down there.
00:26:22.64\00:26:26.28
Turns around
00:26:26.31\00:26:28.18
and even beyond
the aroma of dinner,
00:26:28.22\00:26:31.69
He picks up the scent.
00:26:31.72\00:26:34.59
He turns around sees her,
00:26:34.62\00:26:38.09
smiles a look of recognition
00:26:38.13\00:26:41.20
and says, "You are welcome."
00:26:41.23\00:26:44.80
But not so the Pharisee Simon.
00:26:44.83\00:26:47.34
I want you see
how Simon responds.
00:26:47.37\00:26:49.10
Open your Bible
to Luke Chapter 7,
00:26:49.14\00:26:52.81
Luke Chapter 7.
00:26:52.84\00:26:54.18
You didn't bring a Bible,
00:26:57.25\00:27:00.45
pull that pew Bible
out, you got to see this.
00:27:00.48\00:27:02.35
Luke Chapter 7,
00:27:02.38\00:27:03.72
I'm gonna pick
it up in verse 39.
00:27:03.75\00:27:06.12
I'm in the NIV here.
00:27:06.15\00:27:08.56
And "When the Pharisee--"
00:27:08.59\00:27:10.63
That would be Simon,
00:27:10.66\00:27:11.99
"Who had invited Jesus
saw this, he said to himself,
00:27:12.03\00:27:16.33
'If this man were a prophet,
00:27:16.36\00:27:17.70
he would know
who is touching him
00:27:17.73\00:27:19.07
and what kind of woman
she is -that she is a sinner.'
00:27:19.10\00:27:23.34
Jesus answered"
isn't that something?
00:27:23.37\00:27:25.21
It says if they were
in conversation already.
00:27:25.24\00:27:28.88
"Jesus answered him,
00:27:28.91\00:27:32.15
'Simon, I have
something to tell you.'
00:27:32.18\00:27:34.78
'Tell me, teacher,' he said."
00:27:34.82\00:27:36.15
Okay.
00:27:36.18\00:27:37.52
"'Two people owed money
to a certain moneylender.
00:27:37.55\00:27:39.19
One owed him five
hundred denarii,'"
00:27:39.22\00:27:40.56
One denarii is day's
labor for a common labor.
00:27:40.59\00:27:43.06
"'One owed him
five hundred denarii,
00:27:43.09\00:27:44.43
and the other fifty.
00:27:44.46\00:27:45.79
Neither of them had
the money to pay him back,
00:27:45.83\00:27:47.16
so he forgave the debts of both.
00:27:47.20\00:27:49.06
Now, Simon, which one of
them will love him more?'
00:27:49.10\00:27:52.73
Simon replied,
'I suppose the one
00:27:52.77\00:27:54.60
who had the
bigger debt forgiven.'
00:27:54.64\00:27:56.27
'You have judged
correctly,' Jesus said.
00:27:56.30\00:27:59.07
Then he turned toward the woman"
00:27:59.11\00:28:01.18
and there is not
a sound in the room
00:28:01.21\00:28:02.74
but the voice of Jesus.
00:28:02.78\00:28:04.11
Now as "He turned
toward the woman at his feet
00:28:04.15\00:28:09.45
and he said to Simon,
'Do you see this woman?'"
00:28:09.48\00:28:11.72
The whole room
is staring at her.
00:28:11.75\00:28:15.02
"'Do you see this woman?'
00:28:15.06\00:28:16.93
I came into your house.
00:28:16.96\00:28:18.29
You did not give me
any water for my feet,
00:28:18.33\00:28:19.96
but she wet my
feet with her tears
00:28:20.00\00:28:21.33
and wiped them with her hair.
00:28:21.36\00:28:22.70
You did not give me
a kiss, but this woman,
00:28:22.73\00:28:24.13
from the time I entered,
00:28:24.17\00:28:25.50
has not stopped kissing my feet.
00:28:25.53\00:28:26.87
You did not put oil on my head,
00:28:26.90\00:28:28.24
but she has poured
perfume on my feet.
00:28:28.27\00:28:30.11
Therefore, I tell you, Simon,
00:28:30.14\00:28:31.51
her many sins have been forgiven
00:28:31.54\00:28:33.68
as her great love has shown.
00:28:33.71\00:28:35.38
But whoever has been
forgiven little loves little.'"
00:28:35.41\00:28:39.81
By the way, Desire of
Ages pulls the veil aside,
00:28:39.85\00:28:41.75
strips it aside and says,
00:28:41.78\00:28:43.22
Simon was the one
who led this woman
00:28:43.25\00:28:44.59
into sinning
the very first time.
00:28:44.62\00:28:46.52
Why has Simon not
showing great love?
00:28:50.63\00:28:56.63
Because he's not been forgiven.
00:28:56.67\00:28:58.50
And why is he not been forgiven?
00:28:58.53\00:28:59.87
Because he has
not asked, that's why.
00:28:59.90\00:29:02.70
No love, cold heart.
00:29:02.74\00:29:05.91
"Then Jesus said to her,
'Your sins are forgiven.'
00:29:05.94\00:29:09.98
The other guests began
to say among themselves,
00:29:10.01\00:29:12.01
'Who is this who
even forgives sins?'
00:29:12.05\00:29:14.12
Jesus said to the woman,
00:29:14.15\00:29:15.48
'Your faith has saved you,
00:29:15.52\00:29:18.95
go in peace.'"
00:29:18.99\00:29:21.62
Wow, did you catch that?
00:29:21.66\00:29:24.53
This woman is forgiven.
00:29:24.56\00:29:26.43
Sexual impurity gone.
00:29:26.46\00:29:28.53
Cleansed forever.
00:29:28.56\00:29:31.57
Go in peace.
00:29:31.60\00:29:34.54
Pure Michigan.
00:29:34.57\00:29:36.74
Pure Jesus.
00:29:36.77\00:29:38.87
How pure this Jesus?
00:29:38.91\00:29:40.48
Grab your study guide
and let's fill it out some
00:29:40.51\00:29:43.21
rather astounding
declarations of scripture.
00:29:43.24\00:29:45.45
You got to see this.
00:29:45.48\00:29:46.82
You got your study guide
in your worship bulletin,
00:29:46.85\00:29:48.18
you should, pull it out.
00:29:48.22\00:29:49.75
You didn't get a study guide
00:29:49.78\00:29:51.12
here come our
friendly ushers your way.
00:29:51.15\00:29:52.49
Hold your hand up,
you're gonna want this one
00:29:52.52\00:29:53.89
in the balcony.
00:29:53.92\00:29:55.26
Yep, there they are.
00:29:55.29\00:29:56.62
Hold your hand up, let's go.
00:29:56.66\00:29:58.19
And by the way let me
put this on the screen.
00:29:58.23\00:29:59.56
Those of you
watching streaming right now
00:29:59.59\00:30:01.53
or you're watching
on a television set
00:30:01.56\00:30:03.10
somewhere on this
planet, glad to have you.
00:30:03.13\00:30:05.50
By the way this
is the first time
00:30:05.53\00:30:06.87
I can announce this,
00:30:06.90\00:30:08.24
here is the
website that you go to,
00:30:08.27\00:30:09.90
www.newperceptions
<http://www.newperceptions>,
00:30:09.94\00:30:13.68
this is the New
Perceptions telecast.
00:30:13.71\00:30:15.71
You go to www.newperceptions.tv
<http://www.newperceptions.tv>.
00:30:15.74\00:30:18.75
Go to that website you
find a little series called
00:30:18.78\00:30:21.48
"Charmed into Righteousness."
00:30:21.52\00:30:23.08
This teaching is
entitled "The Purest Life."
00:30:23.12\00:30:29.09
When you click
on "The Purest Life"
00:30:29.12\00:30:30.79
you will see the study
guide embedded right there
00:30:30.83\00:30:32.49
waiting for you now.
00:30:32.53\00:30:36.43
Pure Jesus, how pure, let's go.
00:30:36.46\00:30:38.73
Got your pen.
00:30:38.77\00:30:40.10
First let's consider
the testimony of the Bible.
00:30:40.14\00:30:42.67
The Bible has a
testimony about Jesus you bet.
00:30:42.70\00:30:44.77
In fact you not even
have to look at the screen
00:30:44.81\00:30:46.31
because I'm
gonna read this to you
00:30:46.34\00:30:47.68
and we are gonna go that fast.
00:30:47.71\00:30:49.04
Here we go, 1 Peter 2:22,
00:30:49.08\00:30:51.81
"Jesus committed
no sin," write it in
00:30:51.85\00:30:54.32
"and no deceit was
found in His mouth."
00:30:54.35\00:30:58.15
Pure Jesus.
00:30:58.19\00:30:59.52
Keep going.
00:30:59.55\00:31:00.89
1 John 3:5, "In
Him there is no sin."
00:31:00.92\00:31:04.86
Pure Jesus.
00:31:04.89\00:31:06.23
Here we go, Hebrews 7:26,
00:31:06.26\00:31:07.96
"He was 'holy,
blameless, undefiled,'"
00:31:08.00\00:31:11.13
not a spot on Him.
00:31:11.17\00:31:13.27
"Undefiled,
separated from sinners.'"
00:31:13.30\00:31:16.17
Pure Jesus.
00:31:16.20\00:31:17.54
That's the Bible
testimony about Him.
00:31:17.57\00:31:18.91
Guess what?
00:31:18.94\00:31:20.28
Jesus say, Jesus has
testimony about Himself.
00:31:20.31\00:31:22.18
Jot them down.
00:31:22.21\00:31:23.55
Jesus speaking to
a crowd in John 8:46,
00:31:23.58\00:31:26.38
"Which one of you in the
crowd convicts Me of sin?"
00:31:26.41\00:31:28.78
All right, step forward.
00:31:28.82\00:31:30.25
You ever seen me sin,
00:31:30.29\00:31:31.62
you step forward,
you tell the story.
00:31:31.65\00:31:33.32
Be my guest.
00:31:33.36\00:31:34.79
Nobody breathe the word.
00:31:34.82\00:31:37.69
Here's another time,
00:31:37.73\00:31:39.06
this is just
before His execution.
00:31:39.09\00:31:40.43
The night before He is crucified
00:31:40.46\00:31:41.80
John 14:30,
00:31:41.83\00:31:43.16
"The prince of this
world" that would be Satan.
00:31:43.20\00:31:45.23
"The prince of
this world is coming.
00:31:45.27\00:31:46.60
He has no hold on me."
00:31:46.63\00:31:49.14
Not even a hangnail
on one of his fingers
00:31:49.17\00:31:51.81
has caught my garment.
00:31:51.84\00:31:53.44
He has no hold, zero,
not, nothing, nothing in me.
00:31:53.48\00:31:59.55
The testimony of the
Bible, the testimony of Jesus,
00:31:59.58\00:32:02.38
now the testimony
of Desire of Ages.
00:32:02.42\00:32:04.92
Jot this down, will you?
00:32:04.95\00:32:07.42
Sends us from that
classic on life of Jesus.
00:32:07.46\00:32:09.39
Here's one "He was
the embodiment of purity,
00:32:09.42\00:32:11.99
an example of
spotless integrity."
00:32:12.03\00:32:15.23
Spotless.
00:32:15.26\00:32:18.47
Here's another one.
00:32:18.50\00:32:19.83
"People could not appreciate
the purity of Jesus spirit
00:32:19.87\00:32:22.57
upon which there
was no stain of sin."
00:32:22.60\00:32:26.17
No stain.
00:32:26.21\00:32:29.61
Now I want to run
three lines by that show
00:32:29.64\00:32:33.25
how Christ was
personally impact living
00:32:33.28\00:32:35.78
in the cesspool of sin.
00:32:35.82\00:32:37.49
Nazareth the cesspool of sin.
00:32:37.52\00:32:39.59
Hanging around
157 variety sinners
00:32:39.62\00:32:42.02
like you and me
the cesspool of sin.
00:32:42.06\00:32:44.13
Here's how it, here's
how it felt inside of Him.
00:32:44.16\00:32:48.90
Jot this one down.
00:32:48.93\00:32:50.27
"As one with us,
00:32:50.30\00:32:51.63
Jesus must bear the
burden of our guilt.
00:32:51.67\00:32:53.57
The Sinless One must
feel the shame of sin.
00:32:53.60\00:32:55.94
The peace lover
must dwell with strife,
00:32:55.97\00:32:57.84
the truth must
abide with falsehood,
00:32:57.87\00:32:59.97
purity with vileness.
00:33:00.01\00:33:01.64
Every sin, every
discord, every defiling lust
00:33:01.68\00:33:04.78
that transgression had
brought, was torture--"
00:33:04.81\00:33:09.45
Write it down, "Was
torture to His spirit."
00:33:09.48\00:33:14.16
Hey, let me ask you a question.
00:33:14.19\00:33:15.52
Hit the pause
button right there.
00:33:15.56\00:33:16.89
Let me ask you a question.
00:33:16.93\00:33:18.26
Would you use the word torture
to describe hanging around sin
00:33:18.29\00:33:22.23
for you and me?
00:33:22.26\00:33:23.60
Are you kidding?
00:33:23.63\00:33:24.97
It's not torture,
it's entertainment.
00:33:25.00\00:33:26.84
We downloaded by the
gigabytes to our devices
00:33:26.87\00:33:29.54
so that we can watch.
00:33:29.57\00:33:30.91
Oh, yeah, this is art imitation,
00:33:30.94\00:33:33.21
imitating reality,
that's what we are saying.
00:33:33.24\00:33:35.51
Hey, this is nothing.
00:33:35.54\00:33:36.88
Yeah, they are
killing each other
00:33:36.91\00:33:38.25
but come on
that's just all fake.
00:33:38.28\00:33:39.71
Yeah, they are
sleeping together,
00:33:39.75\00:33:41.08
she's being raped but
so, I mean this is all,
00:33:41.12\00:33:43.35
you know, this is how
I enjoy a Saturday night.
00:33:43.39\00:33:45.45
You got a problem with this?
00:33:45.49\00:33:48.16
We don't call it torture.
00:33:48.19\00:33:49.52
We entertain our selves with it.
00:33:49.56\00:33:51.16
How you suppose Jesus?
00:33:51.19\00:33:52.53
Do you think He be downloading
gigabytes of that stuff
00:33:52.56\00:33:55.26
on to His devices and say,
"What am I gonna do tonight?
00:33:55.30\00:33:58.67
Come over to my room."
00:33:58.70\00:34:00.80
Can you imagine Christ?
00:34:00.84\00:34:02.54
Do you know why,
00:34:02.57\00:34:03.91
because He knows
that these are demons,
00:34:03.94\00:34:06.44
these are demons who
have taught the human race
00:34:06.47\00:34:09.01
how to behave as
animals that's why.
00:34:09.04\00:34:12.05
And every time they do
this even art imitating reality,
00:34:12.08\00:34:15.35
it is spitting in
the face of the Creator.
00:34:15.38\00:34:17.92
Do you think He finds
joy? That's entertainment?
00:34:17.95\00:34:19.99
You want to spend Saturday night
00:34:20.02\00:34:21.36
spitting in God's face?
00:34:21.39\00:34:23.19
You can't believe it.
00:34:23.22\00:34:25.79
Of course He wouldn't watch it.
00:34:25.83\00:34:29.86
No spot.
00:34:29.90\00:34:31.97
Pure Jesus.
00:34:32.00\00:34:34.34
Maybe that's our problem.
00:34:34.37\00:34:35.80
Why is it so easy to be impure?
00:34:35.84\00:34:37.17
Because we live in a world
saturated with the cesspool
00:34:37.21\00:34:40.44
and we are comfortable with it
00:34:40.48\00:34:42.31
and we go to the
cesspool for entertainment.
00:34:42.34\00:34:45.78
Tell me that one.
00:34:45.81\00:34:47.58
Can you believe it, all of us?
00:34:47.62\00:34:50.72
There is another
line from Desire of Ages.
00:34:54.09\00:34:55.56
"His spirit of stainless purity
shrank from the spectacle."
00:34:55.59\00:34:59.59
Wouldn't that be
something, if we can,
00:34:59.63\00:35:00.96
if something popped
up on the computer screen
00:35:01.00\00:35:02.66
and we actually shrank from it?
00:35:02.70\00:35:06.47
Something in a dark,
dark corner somewhere
00:35:06.50\00:35:07.97
we shrank from it.
00:35:08.00\00:35:09.34
Some smutty joke
in a circle of buddies
00:35:09.37\00:35:12.24
we actually shrank.
00:35:12.27\00:35:14.31
Stop that.
00:35:14.34\00:35:16.68
One more,
00:35:16.71\00:35:18.58
Desire of Ages
speaking about the night,
00:35:18.61\00:35:20.62
He is on trial right now.
00:35:20.65\00:35:22.42
"Christ suffered
keenly under abuse and insult.
00:35:22.45\00:35:25.15
And He suffered in
proportion to the perfection
00:35:25.19\00:35:27.16
of His holiness
and His hatred of sin.
00:35:27.19\00:35:29.79
To be surrounded by human beings
00:35:29.82\00:35:31.53
under the control of
Satan was revolting to Him."
00:35:31.56\00:35:35.80
Write that word down.
00:35:35.83\00:35:37.17
I want you to
catch it, revolting.
00:35:37.20\00:35:39.13
Revolting to Him.
00:35:39.17\00:35:42.80
You want to know
what's revolting to me.
00:35:42.84\00:35:44.21
Glad you asked, I'll tell you.
00:35:44.24\00:35:46.74
Sticking my hand
into a toilet bowl
00:35:46.78\00:35:48.81
to retrieve an object
I find very revolting.
00:35:48.84\00:35:55.68
In my book you have to
want that object very dearly
00:35:55.72\00:36:00.12
to stick your hands
into an empty toilet bowl
00:36:00.16\00:36:04.39
and if the bowl is filled with
00:36:04.43\00:36:05.86
what belongs in a
toilet bowl you can have it.
00:36:05.89\00:36:10.00
I'm not going back for it.
00:36:10.03\00:36:13.94
Nobody likes keeping
company with fecal matter.
00:36:13.97\00:36:18.11
Do we? No, we no.
00:36:18.14\00:36:21.78
For the stainless, spotless,
00:36:21.81\00:36:24.41
pure son of God hanging around
with sinners was revolting
00:36:24.45\00:36:27.55
and torture to His spirit
00:36:27.58\00:36:28.92
and thus he shrank back from it.
00:36:28.95\00:36:31.85
And yeah, hold
on, hold on, hold on.
00:36:31.89\00:36:33.42
Get this.
00:36:33.46\00:36:35.86
But because His love
for the lost rebel race
00:36:35.89\00:36:39.69
is so strong,
00:36:39.73\00:36:41.46
He agrees to plunge
into the sewer head first
00:36:41.50\00:36:48.04
if that's what it
will take to save this race
00:36:48.07\00:36:51.31
and He came down to our cesspool
00:36:51.34\00:36:54.51
and live next door.
00:36:54.54\00:36:57.61
Isn't that some?
00:36:57.65\00:36:58.98
You would have to
love somebody pretty much
00:36:59.01\00:37:00.82
to go into a
cesspool to save them.
00:37:00.85\00:37:05.79
But speaking of the
contents of a toilet bowl.
00:37:05.82\00:37:08.22
The only way I can
handle such fecal matter
00:37:08.26\00:37:11.56
is if it's in the
diaper of someone I love.
00:37:11.59\00:37:15.36
If I tell you about
my granddaughter Ella
00:37:15.40\00:37:17.60
I probably have.
00:37:17.63\00:37:19.70
Look it, I love
my granddaughter Ella
00:37:19.73\00:37:23.34
so in my mind she
doesn't have fecal matter,
00:37:23.37\00:37:25.14
we call it poop.
00:37:25.17\00:37:27.48
What's wrong with
poops? What's wrong with poop?
00:37:27.51\00:37:29.58
You can handle poop,
00:37:29.61\00:37:30.95
it's fecal matter
that I can't stand.
00:37:30.98\00:37:34.68
When it's somebody you love
00:37:34.72\00:37:36.05
and by the way
little Ella's daddy,
00:37:36.08\00:37:38.05
I have changed Kirk's
diapers many, many times
00:37:38.09\00:37:41.12
without the gag
reflex taking over.
00:37:41.16\00:37:44.29
If it were your diapers adios.
00:37:44.33\00:37:50.60
You see, it's the mindset
that makes the difference.
00:37:50.63\00:37:53.50
It's the same poop.
00:37:53.54\00:37:57.11
The wretches under
the control of Satan
00:37:57.14\00:38:00.41
who spat on Jesus'
face during His trial
00:38:00.44\00:38:03.51
created a
revolting moment of reversion
00:38:03.55\00:38:07.42
for the pure Son of God.
00:38:07.45\00:38:09.18
And listen, listen,
00:38:09.22\00:38:10.55
and yet when His friend Peter
00:38:10.59\00:38:13.86
falls under the same
control of the same Satan
00:38:13.89\00:38:16.99
for a few desert
moments that same night,
00:38:17.03\00:38:19.16
Jesus can look on
Peter with mourn for love,
00:38:19.19\00:38:22.26
no wrenching now, why?
00:38:22.30\00:38:24.73
Because there is a
difference. Oh, sure.
00:38:24.77\00:38:28.20
He loved His
enemies out of principle
00:38:28.24\00:38:30.74
but oh, my how He loves you
and me out of passionate love
00:38:30.77\00:38:34.88
for who we longed to be
00:38:34.91\00:38:40.38
or we can be and we pray to be.
00:38:40.42\00:38:44.92
You're no stranger to God.
00:38:48.09\00:38:51.09
You know, the
impurity that change you
00:38:51.13\00:38:53.76
like a ball and metal links.
00:38:53.80\00:38:59.47
You are no stranger to God
00:38:59.50\00:39:01.54
and He is already
set in motion away
00:39:01.57\00:39:05.51
to set you free.
00:39:05.54\00:39:07.38
He loves you too much.
00:39:07.41\00:39:08.74
He loves you doesn't
matter to Him the chain.
00:39:08.78\00:39:12.28
He loves me.
00:39:12.31\00:39:15.32
Pure Michigan,
00:39:15.35\00:39:17.65
Pure Jesus, but pure me?
00:39:17.69\00:39:22.29
Yep.
00:39:22.32\00:39:25.03
One passage,
00:39:25.06\00:39:26.39
I want you to
look at this, 1 John.
00:39:26.43\00:39:28.16
Very end of your Bible,
1 John just for revelation.
00:39:28.20\00:39:30.17
1 John unbelievable.
Take a look at this.
00:39:30.20\00:39:33.57
These words are in your Bible.
00:39:33.60\00:39:36.34
1 John 3, get a feel for this.
00:39:36.37\00:39:40.68
1 John 3:1, oh, I love verse 1.
00:39:40.71\00:39:43.81
By the way,
00:39:43.85\00:39:45.18
in my humble opinion the
New International Version
00:39:45.21\00:39:47.32
has best rendered verse
of any translation around.
00:39:47.35\00:39:50.12
So I've got the NIV right here.
00:39:50.15\00:39:51.92
1 John 3:1,
00:39:51.95\00:39:53.29
"See what great love
the Father has lavished..."
00:39:53.32\00:39:58.69
Oh, that word
"Has lavished on us,
00:39:58.73\00:40:03.53
that we should be
called children of God!"
00:40:03.57\00:40:06.23
And by the way,
00:40:06.27\00:40:07.60
that's not some day, no, no, no.
00:40:07.64\00:40:09.70
He is calling us that right
now that we should be called
00:40:09.74\00:40:12.24
the children of God
and that is what we are.
00:40:12.27\00:40:14.91
Not many, not
years down the road
00:40:14.94\00:40:18.35
that you get your act together,
00:40:18.38\00:40:19.81
then you will be one
of My favorite children.
00:40:19.85\00:40:21.28
No, no, right now
you are His child.
00:40:21.32\00:40:24.45
See what love He has
lavished on you and me
00:40:24.49\00:40:27.46
that we should be
called children of God!
00:40:27.49\00:40:28.86
And that is what we are!
00:40:28.89\00:40:30.23
The reason the
world does not know us
00:40:30.26\00:40:31.96
is that it did not know him."
00:40:31.99\00:40:34.23
I mean, how could
you not love back a being
00:40:34.26\00:40:38.27
who has gone to the
depths of the cesspool
00:40:38.30\00:40:43.27
of this rebellion out
of love to pull us out.
00:40:43.30\00:40:47.44
How could you not love Him?
00:40:47.48\00:40:50.01
Verse 2, Verse 2,
"Dear friends, now..."
00:40:50.05\00:40:54.32
John is really
wanting us to get this.
00:40:54.35\00:40:55.68
This is, this is old man John.
00:40:55.72\00:40:57.05
Now this is John boy,
00:40:57.09\00:40:58.42
this is John boy
has become old man John.
00:40:58.45\00:41:00.42
"Dear friends, now
are we children of God,
00:41:00.46\00:41:04.79
and what we will be..."
00:41:04.83\00:41:06.16
Oh, wait a
minute. Wait a minute.
00:41:06.19\00:41:07.53
Now we are but don't,
00:41:07.56\00:41:08.90
Jesus takes us
as we are you bet.
00:41:08.93\00:41:10.60
Good news of the gospel,
00:41:10.63\00:41:11.97
He takes us as we are but
the good news of the gospel
00:41:12.00\00:41:14.27
also is He does not
leave us just as we are.
00:41:14.30\00:41:17.07
He will take us that way
but He won't leave us that way.
00:41:17.11\00:41:19.67
And as John is
pointing right here.
00:41:19.71\00:41:21.44
"Dear friends, now
we are children of God,
00:41:21.48\00:41:24.21
and what we will be has
not yet been made known."
00:41:24.25\00:41:27.68
God is not finished with me.
00:41:27.72\00:41:29.28
Is He finished
with you? Probably not.
00:41:29.32\00:41:31.49
So hold on, it
will be made known.
00:41:31.52\00:41:34.52
One day it will click, you
will say ah, "But we know..."
00:41:34.56\00:41:37.89
Keep reading, "But we know
that when Christ appears..."
00:41:37.93\00:41:41.06
You see this is
the great advent hope.
00:41:41.10\00:41:42.60
See that window over my head,
00:41:42.63\00:41:44.03
rose window this is
the great advent home.
00:41:44.07\00:41:46.57
'We know that
when Christ appears,
00:41:46.60\00:41:48.74
we shall be like him,
00:41:48.77\00:41:51.97
for we shall see him as he is."
00:41:52.01\00:41:56.44
Something
happened along the way.
00:41:56.48\00:41:58.51
We got charmed
into righteousness
00:41:58.55\00:42:00.65
and God just kept
changing us, changing us,
00:42:00.68\00:42:02.48
changing us and
when we finally see Him,
00:42:02.52\00:42:04.99
boom He says,
"You're just like Him."
00:42:05.02\00:42:10.03
Paul says it over
in 1 Corinthians 15:51
00:42:10.06\00:42:13.03
making the same point.
00:42:13.06\00:42:14.40
"We will all be
changed in a flash,
00:42:14.43\00:42:16.77
in the twinkling of an
eye, at the last trumpet."
00:42:16.80\00:42:19.37
When Jesus comes,
00:42:19.40\00:42:20.74
that's not talking about
just the bodies by the way,
00:42:20.77\00:42:22.64
that's talking
about our very spirit,
00:42:22.67\00:42:25.77
our very selves.
00:42:25.81\00:42:27.71
We'll all be
changed just like that.
00:42:27.74\00:42:30.68
You know what, that's good news.
00:42:30.71\00:42:32.65
That's good news.
00:42:32.68\00:42:34.02
That's good news
for somebody like you,
00:42:34.05\00:42:35.55
somebody like me.
00:42:35.58\00:42:36.92
We struggle day in
and day out, we struggle.
00:42:36.95\00:42:39.52
Do you struggle too I
mean, just day in and day out,
00:42:39.55\00:42:42.96
just a constant battle?
00:42:42.99\00:42:45.19
But the good news is what you--
00:42:45.23\00:42:47.10
look, you just stay with me.
00:42:47.13\00:42:49.06
You just stay with me
00:42:49.10\00:42:50.43
and when I return
the final what God left,
00:42:50.47\00:42:53.80
I'll finish it.
00:42:53.84\00:42:55.17
Don't worry, I will
finish what I started.
00:42:55.20\00:42:57.94
Oh, good you see.
That's a great idea.
00:42:57.97\00:42:59.54
If God is gonna change me
on the day of Jesus' return
00:42:59.57\00:43:01.31
and I'll just go ahead and
keep on singing our old song
00:43:01.34\00:43:03.08
and until then
I'll go on sinning.
00:43:03.11\00:43:08.35
No, it sounds like Oscar Wilde
00:43:08.38\00:43:11.62
who upon hearing of
the gospel's good news
00:43:11.65\00:43:13.66
about God's great forgiveness.
00:43:13.69\00:43:15.76
Oscar Wilde,
00:43:15.79\00:43:17.13
you put the words
on the screen please.
00:43:17.16\00:43:18.49
"This is a great
idea. I love sinning.
00:43:18.53\00:43:20.03
God loves forgiving.
Wonderful arrangement!"
00:43:20.06\00:43:23.47
What's not to like.
00:43:23.50\00:43:25.73
I get washed up
right at the end.
00:43:25.77\00:43:27.10
No, sorry, Oscar, not so fast.
00:43:27.14\00:43:30.61
Because when you
realize that it's your own sin,
00:43:30.64\00:43:33.31
when you realize
your sins cost the death
00:43:33.34\00:43:36.68
of the most loving
being in the universe,
00:43:36.71\00:43:39.38
why would you go on
spitting in His face every day?
00:43:39.41\00:43:44.79
Why would you do that?
00:43:44.82\00:43:46.15
You would want to stop that
because He loves you so deeply.
00:43:46.19\00:43:52.03
Wow, and then
there's verse 3 one more.
00:43:52.06\00:43:55.60
"All who have this hope"
the hope of Jesus return,
00:43:55.63\00:43:59.30
"All who have
this hope in him..."
00:43:59.33\00:44:01.60
Our hope is in
Him not in ourselves.
00:44:01.64\00:44:03.04
But watch this, this is a verb.
00:44:03.07\00:44:05.27
"All who have this hope
all purify themselves..."
00:44:05.31\00:44:09.94
The verb says we do it.
00:44:09.98\00:44:11.75
"All purify
themselves, just as he is pure."
00:44:11.78\00:44:17.75
Apparently you don't just
sit back in the gospel and say,
00:44:17.79\00:44:20.86
"Let Jesus take care"
00:44:20.89\00:44:23.43
apparently He calls
you into partnership.
00:44:23.46\00:44:27.50
How serious boy are you
00:44:27.53\00:44:28.96
about this pure business?
00:44:29.00\00:44:35.44
Want to know what
the practical steps are
00:44:35.47\00:44:38.51
that you can,
00:44:38.54\00:44:39.87
you can purify yourself
as John describes it here.
00:44:39.91\00:44:43.04
Jot them down.
00:44:43.08\00:44:44.41
All of these by the way,
00:44:44.45\00:44:45.78
these lines I'm gonna
share with you they are often
00:44:45.81\00:44:47.15
in the little
book Steps to Christ.
00:44:47.18\00:44:48.52
Here we go, jot
them down please.
00:44:48.55\00:44:49.88
Number one, "If you long to
be set free from impurity..."
00:44:49.92\00:44:52.72
Get this,
''Recognize this longing
00:44:52.75\00:44:55.59
as the voice of
God to your soul.'"
00:44:55.62\00:44:59.13
Recognize, it's God's voice.
00:44:59.16\00:45:00.90
Some of you here are
longing to be set free.
00:45:00.93\00:45:03.37
It doesn't matter you
are longing that's God.
00:45:03.40\00:45:06.53
God says that's
the great first step
00:45:06.57\00:45:08.50
you, you're ready to go.
00:45:08.54\00:45:11.01
Let's go. All right.
Number two, jot it down.
00:45:11.04\00:45:13.48
"Ask God to give you repentance,
00:45:13.51\00:45:15.18
to reveal Christ to
you in His infinite love,
00:45:15.21\00:45:18.15
in His perfect purity."
00:45:18.18\00:45:19.51
All of these lines
from Steps to Christ.
00:45:19.55\00:45:21.62
Tell you what, you pull
the gospel out every morning.
00:45:21.65\00:45:23.55
Every morning you
get alone with Jesus
00:45:23.59\00:45:25.82
just one little story
a day, you watch Jesus
00:45:25.85\00:45:29.26
and ask God to reveal Him to you
00:45:29.29\00:45:31.03
in His perfect purity.
00:45:31.06\00:45:32.46
Guess what?
00:45:32.49\00:45:33.83
God will reveal Christ,
00:45:33.86\00:45:35.53
the pure Jesus in
places you never knew before.
00:45:35.56\00:45:38.20
I found one of
those places this week.
00:45:38.23\00:45:39.80
Okay, so it's John 8, John 8,
00:45:39.83\00:45:41.74
which is the
woman taken in adultery
00:45:41.77\00:45:43.30
thrown at Jesus' feet.
00:45:43.34\00:45:44.67
You remember the story John 8.
00:45:44.71\00:45:46.04
By the way where is
the man? Where is the man?
00:45:46.07\00:45:49.34
Can't have adultery
with just the woman.
00:45:49.38\00:45:51.51
Where is the man?
00:45:51.55\00:45:52.88
But they left the
man out. It's a set up.
00:45:52.91\00:45:55.62
One author I was reading
this week said this, says,
00:45:55.65\00:45:57.92
you know what, this
is probably the scenario.
00:45:57.95\00:46:00.39
She was stripped to her waist.
00:46:00.42\00:46:02.96
This young woman was
stripped to her waist
00:46:02.99\00:46:04.79
and made to stand in
front of this capital "M"
00:46:04.83\00:46:07.86
Man in the crowd.
00:46:07.90\00:46:10.43
And there Jesus
is looking at her.
00:46:10.47\00:46:14.20
Now I imagine Jesus just
as much a red blooded male
00:46:14.24\00:46:17.87
as you and I
are if you are male.
00:46:17.91\00:46:22.41
He is looking
00:46:22.44\00:46:23.78
but His communion with
God is so fired up His heart,
00:46:23.81\00:46:26.58
so protected His mind
that He can stand there
00:46:26.61\00:46:28.45
and not lust all over her.
00:46:28.48\00:46:29.92
He is looking at
her as a child of God
00:46:29.95\00:46:31.59
that needs salvation.
00:46:31.62\00:46:33.32
Unmoved.
00:46:33.36\00:46:35.59
You watch pure
Jesus in the gospels
00:46:35.62\00:46:37.96
what we behold we become.
00:46:37.99\00:46:42.26
I like the way Ed
tells children stories.
00:46:42.30\00:46:44.33
Let's repeat that
out loud together.
00:46:44.37\00:46:46.07
What we behold we become.
00:46:46.10\00:46:48.77
Oh, you didn't hear
me like Ed would say.
00:46:48.80\00:46:50.64
Let's do that
again out loud together.
00:46:50.67\00:46:52.31
"What we behold we become."
00:46:52.34\00:46:55.84
So love the
universe, go to Jesus.
00:46:55.88\00:46:59.11
Number three,
jot it down please.
00:46:59.15\00:47:00.68
"Seek for the purity of heart
00:47:00.72\00:47:02.05
that is in harmony
with the law of God
00:47:02.08\00:47:04.59
and the character of Christ."
00:47:04.62\00:47:06.22
God's ten precepts
for human happiness,
00:47:06.25\00:47:07.99
the Ten Commandments.
00:47:08.02\00:47:09.36
There are wall to protect us.
00:47:09.39\00:47:10.73
Hey, some of you from Brazil.
00:47:10.76\00:47:12.09
Karen and I as you
remember were down in Brazil
00:47:12.13\00:47:14.56
back in May last year.
00:47:14.60\00:47:16.00
So they wanted to take us out
00:47:16.03\00:47:17.37
to see this
beautiful wild canyon
00:47:17.40\00:47:18.73
and there they were signs
00:47:18.77\00:47:20.10
posted in
English and Portuguese,
00:47:20.14\00:47:22.70
"Danger, do not get
any closer to the edge."
00:47:22.74\00:47:28.21
That's what the law of
God is, it's a huge sign.
00:47:28.24\00:47:30.78
The seventh commandment
is about sexual impurity,
00:47:30.81\00:47:33.31
it's a huge sign,
danger, don't get any closer,
00:47:33.35\00:47:36.08
you stay...stop.
00:47:36.12\00:47:38.99
Don't get any
closer to the edge.
00:47:39.02\00:47:40.66
It's to protect us.
00:47:40.69\00:47:42.02
And by the way the law is
a picture of Jesus in words.
00:47:42.06\00:47:44.43
It's His character.
00:47:44.46\00:47:45.86
Number four, jot it down.
00:47:45.89\00:47:47.40
"Do not put off the
work of forsaking your sins,
00:47:47.43\00:47:50.83
and seeking purity
of heart through Jesus."
00:47:50.87\00:47:53.34
Don't put it off.
00:47:53.37\00:47:54.80
No money honors when it comes
to fleeing sexual impurity.
00:47:54.84\00:47:57.74
Cut it off, your right
hand offends you, gone.
00:47:57.77\00:48:00.68
Your eye offends
you, take your eye off.
00:48:00.71\00:48:02.44
What's He saying, act now.
00:48:02.48\00:48:04.31
Don't just sit there and say,
00:48:04.35\00:48:05.68
oh, please, I'm so
helpless, I'm so weak.
00:48:05.71\00:48:07.85
No, take action.
Don't put it off.
00:48:07.88\00:48:12.02
We need to have the--
This is Margaret Thatcher.
00:48:12.05\00:48:14.92
Some guy was once
accosting her somehow,
00:48:14.96\00:48:17.23
put Margaret
Thatcher's words on the screen
00:48:17.26\00:48:19.26
challenging that woman leader.
00:48:19.29\00:48:21.46
"Sir," she replied to him.
00:48:21.50\00:48:22.96
"Sir, I have done battle
every single day of my life."
00:48:23.00\00:48:27.34
Don't you talk to
me about fighting.
00:48:27.37\00:48:29.80
That's the same
testimony we ought to offer up.
00:48:29.84\00:48:32.77
"I have done battle
every single day of my life."
00:48:32.81\00:48:36.81
Peter Hubbard writes,
put his words on the screen.
00:48:38.75\00:48:41.08
"We are not
fighting a physical war,
00:48:41.12\00:48:44.02
but a spiritual one."
00:48:44.05\00:48:45.39
Sinclair
Ferguson, he is quoting him
00:48:45.42\00:48:47.12
"explains, 'What then
is this killing of sin?
00:48:47.16\00:48:49.99
It is the
constant battle against sin
00:48:50.03\00:48:52.79
which we fight daily
00:48:52.83\00:48:54.16
the refusal to
allow the eye to wander,
00:48:54.20\00:48:57.03
the mind to contemplate,
00:48:57.07\00:48:58.57
the affections to
run after anything
00:48:58.60\00:49:00.57
which will draw us from Christ."
00:49:00.60\00:49:03.30
That's from Hubbard's
book "Love into Light:
00:49:03.34\00:49:05.11
The Gospel, the
Homosexual, and the Church."
00:49:05.14\00:49:07.91
Number five,
00:49:11.38\00:49:12.91
"Jesus desires to
restore you to Himself
00:49:12.95\00:49:15.28
to see His own purity and
holiness reflected in you."
00:49:15.32\00:49:20.82
Number six, "The less we
see to esteem in ourselves,
00:49:20.86\00:49:24.16
the more we shall see to
esteem in the infinite purity
00:49:24.19\00:49:27.10
and loveliness of our Savior."
00:49:27.13\00:49:28.56
And finally number seven,
00:49:28.60\00:49:30.57
"Christ in His
purity and holiness,
00:49:30.60\00:49:32.73
Christ in His matchless love-
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this is the for the
soul's contemplation.
00:49:35.17\00:49:38.57
It is by loving
Him, copying Him..."
00:49:38.61\00:49:43.35
What you behold, you become.
00:49:43.38\00:49:44.71
You copy Jesus.
00:49:44.75\00:49:46.08
Jesus says just follow Me,
copy Me, go ahead, copy Me.
00:49:46.11\00:49:49.88
"It is by loving
Him, copying Him,
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depending wholly upon Him,
00:49:51.55\00:49:52.89
that you are to be
transformed into His likeness."
00:49:52.92\00:49:56.22
Pure Jesus, oh, God,
00:49:56.26\00:49:59.36
let me become like my Savior.
00:49:59.39\00:50:04.03
Pure Jesus.
00:50:04.07\00:50:05.40
I would jump, put it here,
"All who have this hope in Him
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purify themselves
just as He is pure."
00:50:11.51\00:50:15.41
Pure Michigan. Pure Jesus.
00:50:15.44\00:50:19.38
Pure me, you see
that's God's promise.
00:50:19.41\00:50:23.05
I will take those sewer rags
00:50:23.08\00:50:24.45
you have been
wearing a lot lately.
00:50:24.49\00:50:25.92
I'll take those sewer rags
00:50:25.95\00:50:27.29
and I'm gonna
take throw them away
00:50:27.32\00:50:29.42
and I want to surround you
00:50:29.46\00:50:31.19
with a white
spotless stainless robe
00:50:31.23\00:50:34.70
of Jesus' perfect purity.
00:50:34.73\00:50:37.63
And when I see
you, I see pure Jesus.
00:50:37.67\00:50:41.87
You don't get
any better than that.
00:50:41.90\00:50:43.34
But I must say in closing.
00:50:43.37\00:50:45.57
You know, what breaks my heart.
00:50:45.61\00:50:47.51
Just breaks my heart thinking
about that Baptist pastor
00:50:47.54\00:50:52.01
and professor in
the opening story
00:50:52.05\00:50:55.32
who was so
overwhelmed by his guilt,
00:50:55.35\00:50:57.62
so shamed by his sin
00:50:57.65\00:50:59.25
that when the
hackers published his name
00:50:59.29\00:51:01.99
took his own life.
00:51:02.02\00:51:03.36
Somehow he forgot
00:51:07.60\00:51:10.27
that someone had
already taken his shame
00:51:10.30\00:51:14.47
and borne his guilt
00:51:14.50\00:51:17.07
and paid his penalty
so that he could live.
00:51:17.11\00:51:20.61
He forgot that there
was someone in this universe
00:51:20.64\00:51:23.58
who has promised
the deep cleansing
00:51:23.61\00:51:27.25
of His lavish love.
00:51:27.28\00:51:29.55
I'll clean you, I promise do.
00:51:29.58\00:51:32.59
In fact, it's right here
00:51:32.62\00:51:33.96
chapter 1 of this
book, put it on the screen.
00:51:33.99\00:51:35.56
One line, 1 John
1:7. How does it go?
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"The blood of Jesus, his
Son, purifies us from all sin."
00:51:38.19\00:51:42.56
Not just sexual sin, no, no, no,
00:51:42.60\00:51:45.03
all sin because
some of you are saying,
00:51:45.07\00:51:46.74
"Hey, man, this sex
thing is no problem to me."
00:51:46.77\00:51:49.50
All sin,
00:51:49.54\00:51:53.98
the sin of impurity and
every other sin washed away
00:51:54.01\00:51:57.88
by His
purifying, cleansing blood
00:51:57.91\00:52:01.38
if you want.
00:52:01.42\00:52:05.65
And that's the key, if you want.
00:52:05.69\00:52:12.43
Pure Jesus.
00:52:12.46\00:52:15.16
Pure You.
00:52:15.20\00:52:17.57
Pure Me.
00:52:17.60\00:52:19.47
If we want,
00:52:19.50\00:52:22.57
if we ask.
00:52:22.60\00:52:25.77
Let us pray.
00:52:25.81\00:52:28.81
Oh, God, we ask, we ask, we ask
00:52:28.84\00:52:32.35
please get us out,
00:52:32.38\00:52:37.39
get us out of that
pool, strip our rags.
00:52:37.42\00:52:42.56
Pure Jesus, that
spotless, stainless robe
00:52:45.99\00:52:50.43
please wrap it around us.
00:52:50.47\00:52:56.20
We shiver in our nakedness,
00:52:56.24\00:52:58.07
but wrap it around us
and then draw us to You.
00:52:58.11\00:53:01.51
Pure Jesus, pure us,
00:53:03.55\00:53:07.55
because the blood
of the Lamb washes
00:53:09.68\00:53:14.99
as pure as the wind driven snow
00:53:15.02\00:53:20.00
for which we say thank you,
00:53:20.03\00:53:23.63
amen.
00:53:23.67\00:53:27.24
Let's receive our
morning tithes and offerings.
00:53:27.27\00:53:29.90
Our ushers are
here, yes they are.
00:53:29.94\00:53:31.27
Let's stand ushers and let's go.
00:53:31.31\00:53:33.21
We've had our prayer
00:53:33.24\00:53:34.58
and we're gonna
sing a beautiful song
00:53:34.61\00:53:36.21
about Jesus paying it all
00:53:36.24\00:53:37.81
and washing me as white as snow.
00:53:37.85\00:53:39.78
I hear the Savior say
00:54:02.67\00:54:08.21
Thy strength indeed is small
00:54:08.24\00:54:12.75
Child of
weakness, Watch and pray
00:54:12.78\00:54:17.59
Find in Me thine all in all
00:54:17.62\00:54:23.43
Jesus paid it all
00:54:23.46\00:54:28.30
All to Him I owe
00:54:28.33\00:54:32.93
Sin had left a crimson stain
00:54:32.97\00:54:38.34
He washed it white as snow
00:54:38.37\00:54:45.15
Lord, now indeed I find
00:54:45.18\00:54:50.79
Thy power, and Thine alone
00:54:50.82\00:54:56.12
Can change the leper's spots
00:54:56.16\00:55:00.33
And melt the heart of stone
00:55:00.36\00:55:05.47
Jesus paid it all
00:55:05.50\00:55:10.31
All to Him I owe
00:55:10.34\00:55:15.04
Sin had left a crimson stain
00:55:15.08\00:55:20.85
He washed it white as snow
00:55:20.88\00:55:25.95
Since nothing good have I
00:55:28.69\00:55:33.83
Whereby Thy grace to claim
00:55:33.86\00:55:38.57
I'll wash my garment white
00:55:38.60\00:55:43.84
In the blood of Calvary's Lamb
00:55:43.87\00:55:49.61
Jesus paid it all
00:55:49.64\00:55:54.75
All to Him I owe
00:55:54.78\00:55:59.95
Sin had left a crimson stain
00:55:59.99\00:56:05.79
He washed it white as snow
00:56:05.83\00:56:11.67
Here's the
benediction from scripture.
00:56:15.40\00:56:16.74
What a dynamite promise.
00:56:16.77\00:56:20.08
"Now to him who is able
to keep you from stumbling
00:56:20.11\00:56:23.58
and to present you
before his glorious presence
00:56:23.61\00:56:26.95
without spot and with great joy
00:56:26.98\00:56:32.09
to the only God our Savior
00:56:32.12\00:56:33.46
be glory, majesty,
power and authority,
00:56:33.49\00:56:36.46
through Jesus Christ our Lord,
00:56:36.49\00:56:38.46
before all ages,
now and forevermore!
00:56:38.49\00:56:43.30
Amen." Amen.
00:56:43.33\00:56:44.67
Amen.
00:56:44.70\00:56:46.03
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00:56:56.95\00:56:58.28
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00:56:58.31\00:56:59.95
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00:56:59.98\00:57:01.95
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00:57:01.98\00:57:04.15
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00:57:04.19\00:57:06.92
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