From the campus of
Andrews University,
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this is New Perceptions
with Dr. Dwight K. Nelson.
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Gloria in excelsis Deo
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Gloria in excelsis Deo
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Gloria in excelsis Deo
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Gloria in excelsis Deo
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Gloria in excelsis Deo
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Gloria in excelsis Deo
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Gloria
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Gloria in excelsis Deo
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Gloria in excelsis Deo
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Gloria in excelsis Deo
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Gloria
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Gloria in ex-cel-sis Deo...
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One of the most
beautiful things,
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one of the best pictures
that I see in Revelation
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is that picture of
when we get to heaven,
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and we've been given our crowns
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and when we see
Jesus, we take our crowns
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and we throw them at His feet
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because we recognize
that we are unworthy.
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Now what's really interesting
about that picture is that
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it doesn't really
matter who you are.
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It really doesn't matter
what preferences you have
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in terms of food,
in terms of language,
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in terms of music,
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in terms of
things that you might be
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familiar with in your dress,
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at that stage, none
of that really matters.
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What matters is
that you've just seen
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the son of Jesus
Christ and there is only one
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who is worthy
to wear that crown.
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And that is our Lord and
our Savior and our friend.
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At His feet, we
are all His children
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at His feet, He is
our Master and our King.
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Join with us as we
sing hymn number 223
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"Crown Him with many crowns."
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Crown Him with many crowns
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The Lamb upon His throne
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Hark, how the
heavenly anthem drowns
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All music but its own!
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Awake, my soul, and sing
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Of Him Who died for thee
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And hail Him as
thy matchless King
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Through all eternity
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Crown Him the Lord of love!
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Behold His hands and side
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Those wounds, yet visible above
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In beauty glorified
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No angel in the sky
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Can fully bear that sight
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But downward
bends His wondering eye
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At mysteries so great
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Crown Him the Lord of peace!
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Whose hand a scepter sways
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From pole to pole
that wars may cease
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And all be prayer and praise
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His reign shall know no end
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And around His pierced feet
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Fair flowers of Paradise extend
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Their fragrance ever sweet
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Crown Him the Lord of years
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The Potentate of time
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Creator of the rolling spheres,
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Ineffably sublime!
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All hail! Redeemer, hail!
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For Thou hast died for me
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Thy praise shall
never, never fail
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Throughout eternity!
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One thing that I love about
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the Lord that I serve is that
I can see Him in everything.
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Whether it's big or
small, I can see Him.
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I see Him in people walking
around campus on a daily basis.
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I see Him in the snow.
I see Him in the sunshine.
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And because of
that wonderful fact
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that our Lord is
everywhere and omnipresent,
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His name alone is sweet.
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And when we call
upon it, we can be saved.
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This next song we're gonna sing
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is a newer song, it's
called "No sweeter name."
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It's a really easy
melody and it talks about
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there being no sweeter
name than the name of Jesus
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and that He alone is the
life to our heart and our soul.
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Join us as we sing this.
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No sweeter name
than the name of Jesus
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No sweeter name
than I've ever known
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No sweeter name
than the name of Jesus
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No sweeter name
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No sweeter name
than the name of Jesus
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No sweeter name
have I ever known
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No sweeter name
than the name of Jesus
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No sweeter name
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No sweeter name
than the name of Jesus
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No sweeter name
have I ever known
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No sweeter name
than the name of Jesus
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You are the life
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You are the life to
my heart and my soul
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You are the light to
the darkness around me
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You are the hope to
the hopeless and broken
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You are the only
truth and the way
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You are the life to
my heart and my soul
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You are the light to
the darkness around me
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You are the hope to
the hopeless and broken
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You are the only
truth and the way
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The truth and the way
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Truth and the way
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Let's sing that
chorus one more time.
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You are the life...
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You are the life to
my heart and my soul
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You are the light to
the darkness around me
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You are the hope to
the hopeless and broken
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You are the only
truth and the way
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Amen.
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Though I might
prophesy in tongues
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Both earthly and divine
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If love were not their very root
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I could not call them Thine
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Though I might
prophesy in tongues
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Both earthly and divine
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If love were not their very root
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I could not call them Thine
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A sounding gong a cymbal's clash
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Is all that they would be
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Though mountains
moved through power of faith
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Yet would it not be Thee
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Though I might
give all I possessed
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In succour to the poor
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Yet without love
no change is made
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To what they lacked before
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True love is
patient selfless, kind
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And does all things endure
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Its trust in truth can never end
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Nor ever be unsure
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When we have come to adult faith
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And love like this has grown
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So shall we see God face to face
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And know as we are known
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Then shall the
choirs of Faith and Hope
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Give praise unceasingly
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To what is
greater than them both
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The gift of Charity
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The gift of
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Charity
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Charity
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Let's plunge into our teaching,
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want to begin with a
story but first prayer.
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Oh, God, that gift of charity,
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that's, that's the gift
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that is the
greatest of the gifts.
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That's the gift we want.
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We want it
somehow wrapped up in You
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and so today's teaching
don't let it be ambivalent,
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don't let me be ambivalent.
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Let it be clear
what the Lord Jesus
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will teach us from scripture.
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These few moments
together we pray in His name.
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Amen.
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I heard a story once that
just blew me out of the water.
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And if I haven't heard
it in the first person,
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I wouldn't have believed it.
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But she was standing right
here when she told the story.
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Edwina Humphrey Flynn,
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young adult,
Seventh-day Adventist,
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classical
vocalist, Juilliard trained,
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we're talking top
drawer in terms of music
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started out just like this.
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She told a story
about her first day
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at school in New York City,
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before getting on
the subway heading off
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downtown to that campus,
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she asked God
"Come into my life,
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shine out of my life,
whoever I meet today, amen."
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Got on the train
raced into classes,
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school has begun.
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A few weeks
later, it's a day off,
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she says "I'm going back
down to the conservatory,
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I'm gonna go back down
where the practice rooms
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are obviously free now
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and I'm gonna do
my ho-ho-ho-ho-ho"
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you know what you do.
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Nobody be there
and I can just do it."
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So she did it,
halfway through her practices,
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she hears this loud
ruckus noise down the hallway
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and it's getting
louder and it sounds angry
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and it's getting closer
and all of a sudden boom!
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Her practice
room door flies open.
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Four students come trumping in,
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they are also
students of the conservatory.
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I knew I'd find you here
that young spokesman said.
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Turns out they're group
of warlocks and witches.
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Warlocks being a male
witch, witch being female.
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They've been
debating a cult issues like
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"Which is better,
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which do you think is more good,
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black magic or white magic?"
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They're having
this big discussion
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and Edwina finally
gets composes herself,
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she says, "Listen, I don't know
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what that has to
do with me anyway
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because I don't
know anything about
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black magic or white magic."
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Ah, but the young man said
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"I saw you when you
came to school the first day,
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I saw you get off the subway,
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there was a circle
of light around you
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and it went front of you
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and you walked into that light."
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She says, "Yeah,
but why you're here now?
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You didn't even
know I was here."
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"Because we were having
this debate down the hallway
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and I saw light
coming under this door
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and I recognized
it as the same light
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I saw that day you
got off the subway.
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And I knew you'd be here."
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Can you believe it?
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I mean she
prays before she goes,
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she connects
with God and she says,
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"Shine Your light through me,"
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having no clue that God
would literally shine His light
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through her to get the attention
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of another young
adult on her campus.
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Wow.
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So here's the
no-brainer question.
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Wouldn't you love to
live so close to Jesus
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that His light
shines out of you too,
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me too and people
see it, they sense it?
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I want to share
the explosive secret
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to how that can happen,
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right here in our
continuing journey
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for the Gospel of
John, the Fourth Gospel.
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Open your Bible
please to John Chapter 15.
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You didn't bring a Bible,
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oh, my grab the pew
Bible in front of you,
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it's page 727 in
your pew Bible, let us go.
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Explosive secret,
the explosive secret
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to how that light
can shine out of you.
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Now I need to tell you this
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while you're
looking for John 15,
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a lot of people believe
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that John 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17
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which if you have
a red letter Bible
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are almost totally red.
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A lot of people
think all those chapters
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happen up here
in the upper room,
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but that's not the case.
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When you put the
three synoptics together
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and you include
the Fourth Gospel,
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you realize that
Chapters 13 and 14
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happen in the upper room,
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but Chapters 15, 16 and 17
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happen out of
doors, it's Passover.
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Full silver moon,
always a full moon on Passover.
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Jesus is
speaking in the night air,
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15, 16, and 17.
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The little clue in
John is right here.
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Look at the last
line of Chapter 14.
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That little clue plus
the synoptics helps us
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know that 15 and
onward is outdoors.
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The last line in Chapter 14
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you see it,
there Jesus speaking,
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"Arise, let us go from here."
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Come on, guys, it's time to go.
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That's it.
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And then 15 happens.
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That means that eleven men
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'cause one has
already slipped away
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to do his nefarious deed,
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eleven men plus the Master
pound down those clay steps,
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I've been in the upper
room in Jerusalem archeologists
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are absolutely sure it's
the identical upper room,
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pound down the clay steps
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into the winding
wending alleyways,
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silver shadows beneath
the full Passover moon,
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they come to the
gate, out the gate
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down the crooked
pathway, I've walked down that
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into the notch
called the Kidron,
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then up to a
garden called Gethsemane,
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somewhere along the way
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Craig Keener in
his Commentary says
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somewhere along the
way Jesus sees a vine.
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Desire of Ages
conquers a century earlier,
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Desire of Ages says
Jesus came upon a trellis
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in the silver
light and He stops.
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The Master Teacher
stops beside the trellis,
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He takes that
full fruit of the vine,
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holds it in His
hand and it becomes
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an
unforgettable teaching moment.
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His last time with these eleven.
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This is the
secret He's been waiting
00:20:20.22\00:20:22.14
till now to
share and He shares it.
00:20:22.17\00:20:26.08
15, here we go.
00:20:26.11\00:20:27.69
John 15:1, "I am the true vine,
00:20:27.72\00:20:33.10
and My Father
is the vinedresser.
00:20:33.13\00:20:36.10
Every branch in Me
that does not bear fruit
00:20:36.13\00:20:38.69
He takes away, and every branch
00:20:38.72\00:20:40.78
that bears fruit He prunes,
that it may bear more fruit.
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You are already clean."
00:20:44.90\00:20:46.62
The Greek word for
prune and clean same word,
00:20:46.65\00:20:49.61
play on words there,
You are clean already
00:20:49.64\00:20:53.36
because of the word
which I have spoken to you
00:20:53.39\00:20:55.10
back in the upper room.
00:20:55.13\00:20:56.37
Here comes verse 5, "So
abide in Me, and I in you."
00:20:56.40\00:21:00.54
And He's holding it up,
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"As the branch
cannot bear fruit of itself,
00:21:02.16\00:21:05.69
unless it abides in the vine,
00:21:05.72\00:21:07.36
neither can you,
unless you abide in Me."
00:21:07.39\00:21:09.61
Now here comes verse 5.
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"I am the vine,
you are the branches.
00:21:11.13\00:21:14.82
He who abides in
Me, and I in him,
00:21:14.85\00:21:17.44
bears much fruit, for without Me
00:21:17.47\00:21:19.72
you can do nothing."
00:21:19.75\00:21:22.17
For the Jews in
Palestine at the time of Christ,
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the most common fruit
trees they had were these,
00:21:28.60\00:21:31.50
fig, yuck, olives,
00:21:31.53\00:21:35.48
bring it on, and
the vine, all right?
00:21:35.51\00:21:38.83
Those were the three most
widely planted fruit trees
00:21:38.86\00:21:42.29
but of the three, hands down,
00:21:42.32\00:21:43.94
any loyal patriotic Jew
knows that if you're asking me
00:21:43.97\00:21:47.58
which one I'm
gonna identify with
00:21:47.61\00:21:48.96
hands down, it's the vine.
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The Jews believed we
Israel the true vine of God.
00:21:50.78\00:21:55.08
In fact, during the Maccabeans,
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you flipped the coin over,
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they have a vine on that coin
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as a symbol of that,
"We are the vine of God."
00:21:59.93\00:22:04.00
And Herod the
Great was no dummy,
00:22:04.03\00:22:05.54
when he built that majestic
00:22:05.57\00:22:07.97
archeological wonder
called the Jerusalem Temple,
00:22:08.00\00:22:11.06
he made sure that the craftsmen
00:22:11.09\00:22:12.80
shaped into the entrance
of the temple a golden vine.
00:22:12.83\00:22:17.58
We are the vine.
00:22:17.61\00:22:19.60
And Jesus takes that notion
00:22:19.63\00:22:21.86
and just flips the coin
over and said, "No, no, no, no.
00:22:21.89\00:22:25.41
I am the true vine.
00:22:25.44\00:22:28.99
You are the branches."
00:22:29.02\00:22:32.27
Wow.
00:22:33.70\00:22:35.23
Tomorrow the blood
red fruit of the vine
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will flow crimson on
that Roman cross, tomorrow.
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But tonight the
silver light of the moon,
00:22:44.34\00:22:47.39
beneath it Jesus
says, I am the vine.
00:22:47.42\00:22:51.40
Look at verse 5
again, verse 5 again.
00:22:51.43\00:22:54.55
"I am the vine,
you are the branches.
00:22:54.58\00:22:58.09
She who abides
in Me, and I in her,
00:22:58.12\00:23:00.82
bears much fruit,
00:23:00.85\00:23:01.88
for without Me
you can do nothing."
00:23:01.91\00:23:05.06
It's the explosive
secret of the vine.
00:23:05.09\00:23:06.88
Jesus takes the
great truth of eternity
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and pours it
into a single metaphor
00:23:11.15\00:23:13.36
that is a solitary secret.
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It's all wrapped up right there
00:23:16.22\00:23:19.02
and to do it,
listen to this, to do it.
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He reaches back
to the upper room
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where He's just been
and He pulls the word
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out of the upper room.
00:23:24.53\00:23:25.97
You see in the upper
room, He used this word,
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He said "In my Father's
house are many mansions."
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The Greek word
for mansion is mone.
00:23:32.08\00:23:34.32
So what Jesus does He reaches
back as they've forgotten that
00:23:34.35\00:23:36.82
and He grabs that
word from the upper room
00:23:36.85\00:23:38.74
and here
standing beside the vine,
00:23:38.77\00:23:40.45
He now turns the
noun into a verb, meno.
00:23:40.48\00:23:44.23
Monay, meno, which means
00:23:44.26\00:23:47.45
that you could
actually translate this line
00:23:47.48\00:23:51.20
mansion in Me and I in you.
00:23:51.23\00:23:55.54
In other words
take up residence in Me
00:23:55.57\00:23:57.92
and I'll take up
residence in you.
00:23:57.95\00:24:00.41
That's why Eugene Peterson
00:24:00.44\00:24:01.80
and I love the
message rendition.
00:24:01.83\00:24:04.49
He puts it this way.
00:24:04.52\00:24:05.55
"Live in Me, make your
home in Me just as I do in you."
00:24:05.58\00:24:11.28
So let's pause just long enough
to get that critical point.
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Grab your study
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Take your study guide out
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You've got study
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You see a clip up,
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00:24:48.43\00:24:53.24
Now you're
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which is our
second semester series,
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The Last Days.
00:24:56.73\00:24:57.79
It's not the last days of earth,
00:24:57.82\00:24:58.85
it's the last days of Jesus.
00:24:58.88\00:25:00.12
We're down to His final 24 hours
00:25:00.15\00:25:02.45
and oh, my,
don't miss next week,
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Trinity under fire.
00:25:05.13\00:25:06.71
You can't believe it
00:25:06.74\00:25:07.91
but they are
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and I want you to
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and grapple with
some of the issues.
00:25:13.20\00:25:15.38
Trinity under fire, next week.
00:25:15.41\00:25:18.73
But today it's the explosive
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secret of the vine
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you see that there
you click on to that
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on that webpage
it'll say study guide.
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Click on there and you'll
have the same study guide we do.
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Let's fill out the study guide,
00:25:29.72\00:25:30.75
just so that we
can lock this in before
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we move into the teaching.
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"In my father's
house, Jesus is speaking,
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'In my father's
house are many mansions'
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right in the word mansions.
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That's the noun,
that's John 14:2.
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That's the noun mone.
00:25:42.40\00:25:44.37
But that noun becomes
'Abide' that's the verb, meno.
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'Abide in Me,
as I abide in you'.
00:25:50.03\00:25:53.11
So go ahead and fill that out.
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Won't you ever
fill that you know,
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that's what's happening.
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That's a Greek word
that got switched around.
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Thus John 15:4 could read
00:25:59.29\00:26:02.61
"Mansion in me,
as I mansion in you."
00:26:02.64\00:26:05.35
I like that.
00:26:05.38\00:26:07.53
I want to be in your mansion,
00:26:07.56\00:26:09.22
let me be, let
you be in my mansion.
00:26:09.25\00:26:12.12
Let's mansion in each other.
00:26:12.15\00:26:14.68
Take a precedence in me
00:26:14.71\00:26:16.23
while I take a precedence in you
00:26:16.26\00:26:17.29
but let's put it,
00:26:17.32\00:26:18.35
I want to get
Peterson the message,
00:26:18.38\00:26:20.11
this is how he
puts it "Live in me,
00:26:20.14\00:26:23.51
make your home in me
just as I do in you."
00:26:23.54\00:26:28.40
Because let's face it,
come on, ladies and gentlemen,
00:26:28.43\00:26:30.60
the people we
really feel at home with
00:26:30.63\00:26:34.06
our closest friends and
family, isn't that right?
00:26:34.09\00:26:37.21
I mean, you know what,
00:26:37.24\00:26:38.27
with anybody else
we're little stiffer,
00:26:38.30\00:26:41.44
we're little more on the guard.
00:26:41.47\00:26:42.50
I mean we have to be
careful, we're bit more formal.
00:26:42.53\00:26:45.32
But when you're with the people
00:26:45.35\00:26:46.71
that you are really friends with
00:26:46.74\00:26:48.06
when you're with close family
00:26:48.09\00:26:51.22
we use a phrase
up close in personal
00:26:51.25\00:26:53.11
"I feel at home with you."
00:26:53.14\00:26:54.67
I love being around her
00:26:54.70\00:26:55.73
because I feel at home with her,
00:26:55.76\00:26:56.79
I love being around him
00:26:56.82\00:26:57.85
because I feel at home with him.
00:26:57.88\00:26:58.91
What's that mean?
00:26:58.94\00:26:59.97
That means you
can just be yourself.
00:27:00.00\00:27:01.27
Even some of the
etiquette that you do elsewhere,
00:27:01.30\00:27:05.45
you don't worry about it here.
00:27:05.48\00:27:07.57
I'm not going to give you
examples of that but you know.
00:27:07.60\00:27:09.53
You're just got a--
you're just at home.
00:27:09.56\00:27:11.93
You feel comfortable.
00:27:11.96\00:27:13.59
People accept me for what I am.
00:27:13.62\00:27:14.88
I'm not worried
about somebody say,
00:27:14.91\00:27:16.02
what does he mean by that?
00:27:16.05\00:27:17.18
What does she mean by that?
00:27:17.21\00:27:18.33
No, I can act like a boy,
00:27:18.36\00:27:19.53
you can act like a
girl and nobody cares.
00:27:19.56\00:27:22.27
Jesus says that's
what I want to be.
00:27:22.30\00:27:23.61
I want you to
feel at home with me
00:27:23.64\00:27:25.22
and I want to
feel at home with you.
00:27:25.25\00:27:27.32
It's a language of friendship.
00:27:27.35\00:27:30.62
Let's be friends,
00:27:30.65\00:27:32.05
let's be at home with each other
00:27:32.08\00:27:33.57
and by the way
00:27:33.60\00:27:34.85
in case we didn't get
the language of friendship
00:27:34.88\00:27:37.59
he now overtly switches to
the language of friendship.
00:27:37.62\00:27:40.69
Watch this, fascinating.
00:27:40.72\00:27:44.20
Verse 9, as he goes on here.
00:27:44.23\00:27:45.94
He's still standing by the vine
00:27:45.97\00:27:47.29
and you'll see all
the way through here
00:27:47.32\00:27:48.95
he's standing by the vine.
00:27:48.98\00:27:50.01
Verse 9, "As
the Father loved Me,
00:27:50.04\00:27:51.71
I also have loved you, abide"
00:27:51.74\00:27:53.82
there it is, 11 times
in this little passage
00:27:53.85\00:27:55.93
he used that word meno.
00:27:55.96\00:27:57.73
"Abide in My love.
00:27:57.76\00:27:59.38
If you keep my commandments,
you will abide in My love,
00:27:59.41\00:28:02.65
just as I have kept
My Father's commandments
00:28:02.68\00:28:04.27
and abide in His love."
00:28:04.30\00:28:06.28
Now watch this verse
13, speaking of love,
00:28:06.31\00:28:08.60
"Greater love
has no one than this,
00:28:08.63\00:28:11.21
than to lay down
one's life for his, what?"
00:28:11.24\00:28:14.49
"For his friends."
00:28:14.52\00:28:15.55
Now notice verse
14, "You are My, what?
00:28:15.58\00:28:18.03
"You are my friends, if
you do what I command you."
00:28:18.06\00:28:22.00
Verse 15, "No longer
do I call you servants,
00:28:22.03\00:28:24.20
for a servant doesn't
know what his master is doing,
00:28:24.23\00:28:26.36
but I have called you
friends, for all the things
00:28:26.39\00:28:29.78
that I heard form My Father
I have made known to you."
00:28:29.81\00:28:31.41
Verse 16, last verse,
"You didn't choose Me,
00:28:31.44\00:28:33.68
but I chose you
and appointed you
00:28:33.71\00:28:35.69
so that you
should go and bear fruit,
00:28:35.72\00:28:38.03
and that your
fruit should remain,"
00:28:38.06\00:28:39.47
by the way
remain same word, meno,
00:28:39.50\00:28:41.55
11th time in that passage meno,
that your fruit will abide.
00:28:41.58\00:28:45.79
"That whatever you
ask the Father in My name
00:28:45.82\00:28:48.17
He may give you."
00:28:48.20\00:28:50.25
There it is,
ladies and gentlemen,
00:28:50.28\00:28:51.40
standing by the vine 11 times
00:28:51.43\00:28:53.65
Jesus is making
the point "abide".
00:28:53.68\00:28:57.72
You and me, abide in each other.
00:28:57.75\00:28:59.47
It's the rich
language of friendship.
00:28:59.50\00:29:03.23
So hey, I'm the closest
friend you'll ever have.
00:29:03.26\00:29:06.65
Ever, ever, ever.
00:29:06.68\00:29:08.52
In fact, tomorrow
00:29:08.55\00:29:10.16
I'm gonna lay
down my life for you
00:29:10.19\00:29:11.34
and there is no
greater love than that.
00:29:11.37\00:29:13.39
We are friends,
do you understand?
00:29:13.42\00:29:15.72
We are friends, forever friends.
00:29:15.75\00:29:19.81
Jot that down, so that
we don't miss it, please.
00:29:19.84\00:29:22.34
"Greater love
has no one than this,
00:29:22.37\00:29:23.70
than to lay down
one's life for his friends.
00:29:23.73\00:29:27.15
You are My friends,
00:29:27.18\00:29:28.32
No longer do I call you servants
00:29:28.35\00:29:29.83
but I have called you friends."
00:29:29.86\00:29:31.86
Again and again and
again abide in me and I in you
00:29:31.89\00:29:36.46
that's the
invitation of a friend.
00:29:36.49\00:29:38.73
But by the way
not any old friend,
00:29:38.76\00:29:43.27
Facebook in the
University of Milan
00:29:43.30\00:29:45.66
did you read about the study
00:29:45.69\00:29:46.72
that they did
just a few weeks ago
00:29:46.75\00:29:47.78
Facebook in the
University of Milan?
00:29:47.81\00:29:49.67
They did a study to find out
00:29:49.70\00:29:50.80
how far the 721 million
users of Facebook in the planet.
00:29:50.83\00:29:56.09
How far apart are we?
00:29:56.12\00:29:57.41
How many degrees of separation,
00:29:57.44\00:29:59.95
did you read about that?
00:29:59.98\00:30:02.52
We used to think
it was six degrees
00:30:02.55\00:30:04.31
and that was based on a
1929 short story called 'Chains'
00:30:04.34\00:30:07.26
by Frigyes Karinthy
in which he suggested
00:30:07.29\00:30:10.28
no one is more than
a string of six friends
00:30:10.31\00:30:13.35
away from another person.
00:30:13.38\00:30:16.11
So he called Six
Degrees of Separation.
00:30:16.14\00:30:17.97
But Facebook did the numbers,
00:30:18.00\00:30:20.17
they crunched all the
math and they found out,
00:30:20.20\00:30:23.37
get this, that we are
4.74 degrees of separation.
00:30:23.40\00:30:30.03
4.74 degrees of separation
but in the United States
00:30:30.06\00:30:34.37
where one half of everybody
00:30:34.40\00:30:36.49
over the age of
13 is on Facebook.
00:30:36.52\00:30:40.77
Our separation is 4.37
we're even a little closer.
00:30:40.80\00:30:44.81
So what does that mean?
00:30:44.84\00:30:46.12
Well, that means Facebook says,
00:30:46.15\00:30:48.00
that means that if there
is a man in Papua New Guinea
00:30:48.03\00:30:50.29
and he has to be on
Facebook by the way.
00:30:50.32\00:30:52.11
But if there is a
man in the jungles
00:30:52.14\00:30:53.48
of Papua New Guinea,
00:30:53.51\00:30:55.01
let me show you
how close you are.
00:30:55.04\00:30:56.54
Let's put up a
beautiful graphic here,
00:30:56.57\00:30:58.29
this is from Joanna
Divine my PowerPoint
00:30:58.32\00:31:00.32
operator right now,
she is a junior math major.
00:31:00.35\00:31:02.31
She told me how they
get those numbers 4.74
00:31:02.34\00:31:05.54
I have-- I could
not repeat it you
00:31:05.57\00:31:07.63
but she made this graphics
so that we would get it.
00:31:07.66\00:31:11.17
Okay, so on one side is a woman
on the other side is a man.
00:31:11.20\00:31:14.71
So you be either side you wish
00:31:14.74\00:31:15.99
I'm gonna be on the man
side which is on the left side.
00:31:16.02\00:31:18.67
So the New Guinean in
this case will be a woman.
00:31:18.70\00:31:21.52
The New Guineans over here,
watch this, this means 4.74.
00:31:21.55\00:31:26.21
That a friend of my friend,
00:31:26.24\00:31:28.68
'cause my friend
is right beside me
00:31:28.71\00:31:30.48
and a friend of my
friend is a next person.
00:31:30.51\00:31:32.68
A friend of my
friend is a friend
00:31:32.71\00:31:37.27
of the friend
of the New Guinean.
00:31:37.30\00:31:41.22
Do we feel closer, what?
00:31:41.25\00:31:44.37
With Papua New
Guinea you and me,
00:31:44.40\00:31:46.83
just there that's the proof.
00:31:46.86\00:31:50.37
Wow.
00:31:50.40\00:31:51.77
Facebook is so cool.
00:31:51.80\00:31:53.44
Are we really so close?
00:31:59.97\00:32:02.48
I tell you why
we're not so close
00:32:02.51\00:32:04.47
because Facebook has changed
the definition of a friend.
00:32:04.50\00:32:08.68
Now you can have
a million friends
00:32:08.71\00:32:10.15
and not be close to
a single one of them.
00:32:10.18\00:32:14.37
Am I telling
tales out at school?
00:32:14.40\00:32:16.23
No.
00:32:16.26\00:32:18.05
That's not the
kind of friendship
00:32:18.08\00:32:19.11
Jesus is talking about.
00:32:19.14\00:32:21.43
Jesus says, hey, listen
abide in Me and I in you,
00:32:21.46\00:32:25.44
that means no
degrees of separations.
00:32:25.47\00:32:28.86
Put that on the screen.
00:32:28.89\00:32:29.92
No degrees of separation
00:32:29.95\00:32:33.22
between the branch and the vine.
00:32:33.25\00:32:35.91
No degrees, not 4.74,
not 3.74, not 1.74, zero.
00:32:35.94\00:32:40.57
Not a, no degrees of separation.
00:32:40.60\00:32:44.62
Because nature has told us
00:32:44.65\00:32:46.25
that if there is even
one degree of separation
00:32:46.28\00:32:48.40
between a branch and
a vine the branch dies.
00:32:48.43\00:32:51.42
Isn't that right?
00:32:51.45\00:32:52.48
You can't separate a
branch from the vine.
00:32:52.51\00:32:54.21
It's dead meat, it's over.
00:32:54.24\00:32:57.68
Jesus says, I'm
closer than Facebook,
00:32:57.71\00:33:00.18
I'm closer than Facebook.
00:33:00.21\00:33:02.18
I'm a real friend.
00:33:02.21\00:33:04.10
And there are no
degrees of separation
00:33:04.13\00:33:06.39
between you and Me.
00:33:06.42\00:33:07.45
We're just like this.
00:33:07.48\00:33:09.04
I'm the vine you
are the branches,
00:33:09.07\00:33:11.24
no degrees of separation,
00:33:11.27\00:33:12.77
I'm the vine
you are the branches
00:33:12.80\00:33:14.84
there is nothing between us.
00:33:14.87\00:33:17.15
We're like this,
abide in Me and I in you.
00:33:17.18\00:33:22.88
Wow.
00:33:22.91\00:33:23.97
So if a branch is not
connected what happens to Jesus,
00:33:26.59\00:33:29.12
well, look at verse
6, Jesus speaking here,
00:33:29.15\00:33:31.55
"If anyone does not abide in Me"
00:33:31.58\00:33:33.43
oh-oh, "he is cast out as
a branch and is withered,"
00:33:33.46\00:33:36.50
well, it's not like
you are being punished
00:33:36.53\00:33:38.71
you got away from the
vine, you cut yourself off.
00:33:38.74\00:33:41.46
"He is cast away and is withered
00:33:41.49\00:33:42.85
and they gather them and
throw them into the fire,
00:33:42.88\00:33:45.22
and they all burned."
00:33:45.25\00:33:46.83
Now, look, go back to verse 4,
00:33:46.86\00:33:47.89
so Jesus says,
"Abide in Me and I in you.
00:33:47.92\00:33:51.16
As the branch cannot
bear fruit of itself,
00:33:51.19\00:33:53.22
unless it abides in the vine,
00:33:53.25\00:33:55.73
neither can you,
unless you abide in Me.
00:33:55.76\00:33:58.32
'I am the vine,
you are the branches.
00:33:58.35\00:34:01.91
She, he who abides
in Me, and I in him,
00:34:01.94\00:34:06.04
I in her, bears much fruit,
00:34:06.07\00:34:08.35
for without Me
you can do nothing."
00:34:08.38\00:34:13.28
And that, ladies and gentlemen,
00:34:13.31\00:34:14.38
is the explosive
secret of the vine.
00:34:14.41\00:34:17.21
Put that on the screen again.
00:34:17.24\00:34:18.31
"Without Me you can do nothing."
00:34:18.34\00:34:21.85
Not a, no thing, in
fact, John is so intense here
00:34:21.88\00:34:27.12
that he turns this
into a double negative.
00:34:27.15\00:34:29.38
Now Jesus is already you--
00:34:29.41\00:34:30.78
John has already
used a double negative up
00:34:30.81\00:34:32.30
here in the upper room,
00:34:32.33\00:34:33.42
remember when Jesus
came to wash Peter's feet
00:34:33.45\00:34:36.44
and Peter says to
Jesus in the Greek,
00:34:36.47\00:34:38.03
Peter says to Jesus, 'You
shall no not wash my feet'
00:34:38.06\00:34:42.35
same Jesus, same Peter
out here under the moon
00:34:42.38\00:34:44.80
and Jesus grabs
that double negative
00:34:44.83\00:34:46.68
if he were
speaking Greek and He says,
00:34:46.71\00:34:48.92
'Without Me, you can
do no, not anything.'
00:34:48.95\00:34:53.75
Double negative in case
you missed it the first time.
00:34:53.78\00:34:56.91
Not a, nothing, you
can do nothing without Me.
00:34:56.94\00:35:01.36
I mean, like the man said,
00:35:03.70\00:35:04.94
which part of the
'no' do you not understand?
00:35:04.97\00:35:07.24
The 'N' or the 'O'.
00:35:07.27\00:35:10.46
No thing, you can
do no thing without Me,
00:35:10.49\00:35:15.38
double negative no,
not anything without Me.
00:35:15.41\00:35:20.13
So what F.F. Bruce--
00:35:20.16\00:35:21.19
In fact, let's put that
up first before we-- yeah.
00:35:21.22\00:35:23.10
"Without Me, you can
do 'no not anything'".
00:35:23.13\00:35:26.02
That's a Greek.
00:35:26.05\00:35:27.08
So when you have
that in your study guide
00:35:27.11\00:35:28.14
and you're sharing this
teaching with somebody else
00:35:28.17\00:35:29.21
you can just say, oh yeah,
00:35:29.24\00:35:30.27
that's a double
negative, right there.
00:35:30.30\00:35:32.87
F.F. Bruce, the
great New Testament scholar
00:35:32.90\00:35:36.91
describes the
total adequacy of Christ.
00:35:36.94\00:35:41.86
Now put that on the screen,
00:35:41.89\00:35:43.49
"The total adequacy of Christ."
00:35:43.52\00:35:47.82
I've been bruting on that.
Was bruting on it last night.
00:35:47.85\00:35:50.47
He's saying you know,
total adequacy of Christ.
00:35:50.50\00:35:54.26
Keep it, don't turn
your study guide over yet
00:35:54.29\00:35:56.35
because I want you to
write this other line down,
00:35:56.38\00:35:58.45
I think this other line there
00:35:58.48\00:35:59.95
that actually is
a word essentiality.
00:35:59.98\00:36:02.83
'The total essentiality'
would you scribble that down
00:36:02.86\00:36:05.34
or keep it up it's only one L,
00:36:05.37\00:36:06.87
'the total
essentiality of Christ',
00:36:06.90\00:36:10.27
what's that mean?
00:36:10.30\00:36:11.49
He is utterly essential.
00:36:11.52\00:36:14.38
You can not, you can not,
00:36:14.41\00:36:16.27
you cannot not have
him and work and live,
00:36:16.30\00:36:21.05
'the total
essentiality' scribble that down
00:36:21.08\00:36:23.58
while still on the screen,
00:36:23.61\00:36:24.64
'the total
essentiality of Christ'
00:36:24.67\00:36:27.48
that's the truth.
00:36:27.51\00:36:28.54
Without Me you can do nothing,
00:36:28.57\00:36:29.99
no not anything,
00:36:30.02\00:36:31.45
'the total
essentiality of Christ'.
00:36:31.48\00:36:34.64
He is utterly
essential to everything
00:36:34.67\00:36:37.90
that we stand for,
00:36:37.93\00:36:38.96
to salvation, to
everything in life,
00:36:38.99\00:36:41.79
He is utterly essential.
Our only hope is in Jesus.
00:36:41.82\00:36:46.51
At had a seminary come up
to me after my class this week,
00:36:46.54\00:36:48.65
I just started
teaching at the seminary
00:36:48.68\00:36:49.84
as I was due at
this time of year
00:36:49.87\00:36:51.56
to round out the semester
teach a class in preaching.
00:36:51.59\00:36:54.93
The seminarian came to me
00:36:54.96\00:36:56.16
concerned about some
of the guest preachers
00:36:56.19\00:36:58.05
that are being
invited to this campus.
00:36:58.08\00:37:03.09
Not by the university,
not by the Chaplains,
00:37:03.12\00:37:08.40
not by the
Pioneer Memorial Church,
00:37:08.43\00:37:10.85
not by the
Pastors, guest preachers
00:37:10.88\00:37:14.72
that are being invited by
independent student groups.
00:37:14.75\00:37:20.45
He described for me
00:37:20.48\00:37:22.00
some of the
teachings of these guests
00:37:22.03\00:37:24.50
what they are
propagating in the name of God.
00:37:24.53\00:37:27.12
Extreme focus on
personal behavior,
00:37:27.15\00:37:29.41
a repeated
calling for perfection,
00:37:29.44\00:37:32.40
he's gone to
some of those meetings
00:37:32.43\00:37:34.41
and he said "I'm
deeply-- he said pastor,
00:37:34.44\00:37:35.78
I'm deeply concerned
for these undergrad students
00:37:35.81\00:37:37.94
who are innocently
sitting there, wide eyed,
00:37:37.97\00:37:41.57
listening to the human
behavior centered teaching
00:37:41.60\00:37:44.80
despairing of ever
attaining salvation
00:37:44.83\00:37:47.85
by such stringent standards.
00:37:47.88\00:37:51.81
Oh, when I learned
that I'm concerned too.
00:37:51.84\00:37:54.99
The only way that
kind of teaching survives
00:37:55.02\00:37:58.20
the only way you
can preach that way
00:37:58.23\00:38:00.54
is if you
abandoned the gospel of Jesus
00:38:00.57\00:38:03.75
you subvert the
gospel so that you end up
00:38:03.78\00:38:06.56
as the Galatians
did with Judaizers
00:38:06.59\00:38:08.56
who came into their myths
00:38:08.59\00:38:09.93
focusing on what Paul
calls the works of the law.
00:38:09.96\00:38:14.37
Those works of the law
00:38:14.40\00:38:15.59
that will save
you if you do them.
00:38:15.62\00:38:17.88
Jesus is utterly essential
and absolutely clear here
00:38:21.08\00:38:27.11
"Without Me you can do nothing."
00:38:27.14\00:38:29.85
Your salvation has not a
thread of human devising in it.
00:38:29.88\00:38:34.64
And if anybody shows up
00:38:34.67\00:38:36.18
Paul says if even an
angel from heaven comes down
00:38:36.21\00:38:39.09
and teaches that your salvation
00:38:39.12\00:38:40.77
has a thread of
human devising in it,
00:38:40.80\00:38:42.60
let him be accursed.
00:38:42.63\00:38:43.83
The University
ought to be concerned,
00:38:46.39\00:38:49.24
the pastor
ought to be concerned,
00:38:49.27\00:38:51.21
that's not the gospel,
00:38:51.24\00:38:52.34
that's not the
everlasting gospel.
00:38:52.37\00:38:54.40
The everlasting
gospel is without Me,
00:38:54.43\00:38:57.05
I am what it is, I am the vine,
00:38:57.08\00:39:02.03
you are the branches.
00:39:02.06\00:39:03.89
The life is all in Me
00:39:03.92\00:39:05.74
you can't go
through a little routine
00:39:05.77\00:39:07.36
to get the life in you
00:39:07.39\00:39:08.98
apart from Me you are nothing.
00:39:09.01\00:39:11.41
I am the vine,
you are the branches,
00:39:11.44\00:39:16.24
without Me you can do
nothing, no not anything.
00:39:16.27\00:39:21.42
There can be no
degree of separation
00:39:21.45\00:39:23.17
between the branch and the vine,
00:39:23.20\00:39:24.47
the branch doesn't go
off and do a little something
00:39:24.50\00:39:25.85
and then come back,
00:39:25.88\00:39:26.91
no, the branch is
hooked to the vine,
00:39:26.94\00:39:28.73
that's the only
way the branch lives.
00:39:28.76\00:39:30.13
The total adequacy of Christ,
00:39:32.25\00:39:33.73
the total essentiality of Christ
00:39:33.76\00:39:36.12
is the antidote
not only for legalism
00:39:36.15\00:39:38.07
but hold on now, hold
on, not only for legalism
00:39:38.10\00:39:40.75
which would use
the works of the laws
00:39:40.78\00:39:42.16
and method of gaining
God's attention in salvation.
00:39:42.19\00:39:45.26
Not only for legalism,
it is also the antidote
00:39:45.29\00:39:48.29
for cheap grace,
00:39:48.32\00:39:50.21
because cheap
grace is the flipside
00:39:50.24\00:39:52.12
of that errand coin,
00:39:52.15\00:39:54.08
the notion is since my behavior
00:39:54.11\00:39:55.59
is not the basis
for my salvation,
00:39:55.62\00:39:57.57
I can do whatever I please
00:39:57.60\00:39:58.80
no matter what the
prophets of the prophet say.
00:39:58.83\00:40:02.93
Both areas are wrong,
00:40:02.96\00:40:05.10
ditches on both
sides of the road.
00:40:05.13\00:40:08.27
Without Me you can do nothing
00:40:08.30\00:40:11.49
but fall, Paul
will flip it around,
00:40:11.52\00:40:13.32
Philippians 4:13,
00:40:13.35\00:40:14.78
but I can do all
things through Christ
00:40:14.81\00:40:19.31
who strengthens me.
00:40:19.34\00:40:21.20
You see there is a ditch
on either side of the road
00:40:21.23\00:40:24.58
but the total adequacy of Christ
00:40:24.61\00:40:27.52
whenever it's
compromised in public teaching
00:40:27.55\00:40:30.46
it's because the gospel is
not understood by the teacher.
00:40:30.49\00:40:33.08
Now they'll kill you
00:40:37.64\00:40:38.67
for taking a position like that.
00:40:38.70\00:40:41.24
It drove Paul out everywhere.
00:40:41.27\00:40:43.54
Judaizers said no, no, no,
no we need the works of the law.
00:40:43.57\00:40:46.57
No, Jesus said on the
eve of His crucifixion.
00:40:46.60\00:40:49.25
Without Me
nothing, no not anything.
00:40:49.28\00:40:54.33
In fact, Paul put it this way
I like this in Colossians 3:11
00:40:54.36\00:40:57.14
"Christ is all, and in all."
00:40:57.17\00:40:59.47
Talking about the
total essentiality of Christ,
00:40:59.50\00:41:02.47
there it is.
00:41:02.50\00:41:03.73
Christ is all and in all.
00:41:03.76\00:41:06.31
Ladies and
gentlemen, that's the gospel,
00:41:06.34\00:41:10.04
that's the everlasting
gospel, don't be discouraged,
00:41:10.07\00:41:14.85
don't be driven away.
00:41:14.88\00:41:17.42
You can do to Jesus straight
and He will be sufficient.
00:41:17.45\00:41:23.21
Do I stay the way I
am when I get to Him?
00:41:23.24\00:41:24.70
No, you won't stay the way
you are He'll take care of that
00:41:24.73\00:41:27.44
but He will take care of it,
00:41:27.47\00:41:29.07
you connect to the
vine, He'll take care of it.
00:41:29.10\00:41:32.56
His emphasis are on come on,
00:41:32.59\00:41:33.84
concentrate on
how you are behaving
00:41:33.87\00:41:35.00
concentrate,
concentrate, concentrate
00:41:35.03\00:41:36.73
takes your eyes off Jesus
00:41:36.76\00:41:38.10
and then you're
no longer connected
00:41:38.13\00:41:39.30
to the vine that's the danger.
00:41:39.33\00:41:42.43
That's what about
killed the church in Galatia.
00:41:42.46\00:41:44.73
Andrews University
ought to be concerned,
00:41:44.76\00:41:47.42
the pastor of this
church ought to be concerned.
00:41:47.45\00:41:50.01
Without Me, Jesus
says, you can do nothing.
00:41:53.14\00:41:57.87
Let's read "Desire of Ages"
00:42:00.07\00:42:01.19
I love this,
beautiful, "Desire of Ages,
00:42:01.22\00:42:03.40
"The life of the vine
becomes the life of the branch.
00:42:03.43\00:42:07.94
So the soul dead
in trespasses and sins
00:42:07.97\00:42:11.03
receives life through
the connection with Christ.
00:42:11.06\00:42:13.50
By faith in Him as a personal
Savior the union is formed.
00:42:13.53\00:42:17.14
The sinner unites his
weakness to Christ's strength,
00:42:17.17\00:42:19.85
her emptiness to
Christ's fullness,
00:42:19.88\00:42:21.87
his frailty to
Christ's enduring might."
00:42:21.90\00:42:24.66
You know what,
00:42:24.69\00:42:26.66
whenever there is a
moral meltdown in a man,
00:42:26.69\00:42:31.54
in a woman, in a teenager,
00:42:31.57\00:42:33.91
whenever there
is a moral meltdown
00:42:33.94\00:42:36.45
always, not partly,
00:42:36.48\00:42:38.79
always it's because the
branch has become separated,
00:42:38.82\00:42:44.18
degrees of separation
00:42:44.21\00:42:45.92
have removed the
branch from the vine.
00:42:45.95\00:42:48.16
And in that weakened withering
00:42:48.19\00:42:49.76
beginning to wither stage
00:42:49.79\00:42:51.62
that's always
when the enemy strikes.
00:42:51.65\00:42:53.66
When the branch
has been disconnected,
00:42:53.69\00:42:55.50
boom, He moves in.
00:42:55.53\00:42:58.20
And moral meltdowns occur.
00:42:58.23\00:43:01.11
But I want you to know that
00:43:01.14\00:43:02.17
if you're gone
through a moral meltdown
00:43:02.20\00:43:03.90
this promise of Jesus
is very good news for you.
00:43:03.93\00:43:08.43
The broken and withered branch
00:43:08.46\00:43:11.43
can be
re-grafted on to the vine.
00:43:11.46\00:43:14.64
New life can flow
through that branch
00:43:14.67\00:43:16.75
sooner will bear fruit again
00:43:16.78\00:43:18.52
just as it did once upon a time.
00:43:18.55\00:43:20.77
Don't despair
00:43:20.80\00:43:21.83
because your branch was severed.
00:43:21.86\00:43:26.30
By one's thoughtless choice,
00:43:26.33\00:43:28.07
don't despair the
branch can be re-grafted
00:43:28.10\00:43:32.60
don't wait the
branch will wither and die.
00:43:32.63\00:43:36.52
Don't wait, if you
wait, it's too late.
00:43:36.55\00:43:40.19
Come back to the vine.
00:43:40.22\00:43:42.23
He will re-graft you to Himself,
00:43:42.26\00:43:44.39
without Me you can do nothing.
00:43:44.42\00:43:47.46
Well, hope is
there for us sinners,
00:43:47.49\00:43:48.75
ah, keep reading put it
back on the screen, please.
00:43:48.78\00:43:50.77
"The life of the vine
becomes the life of the branch.
00:43:50.80\00:43:54.67
So the soul dead
in trespasses and sins
00:43:54.70\00:43:57.12
receives life through
connection with Christ.
00:43:57.15\00:43:58.82
Look at it's
your own study guide,
00:43:58.85\00:43:59.96
would you circle
Christ in the pronoun
00:43:59.99\00:44:02.14
related to Him and savior
00:44:02.17\00:44:03.36
and all just
circle them, will you?
00:44:03.39\00:44:05.46
So circle Christ there,
the connection is with Christ
00:44:05.49\00:44:08.76
"By faith in Him, circle that,
00:44:08.79\00:44:10.19
as a personal
Savior, circle that,
00:44:10.22\00:44:11.92
the union is formed.
00:44:11.95\00:44:13.23
The sinner unites
his weakness to Christ's,
00:44:13.26\00:44:15.61
circle that, Christ's strength,
00:44:15.64\00:44:17.40
her emptiness to
Christ's, circle that,
00:44:17.43\00:44:20.18
Christ's fullness,
their frailty to Christ's,
00:44:20.21\00:44:23.37
circle that, enduring might."
00:44:23.40\00:44:25.04
Then they have
the mind of Christ.
00:44:25.07\00:44:28.03
The humanity of Christ
has touched our humanity
00:44:28.06\00:44:30.98
and our humanity
has touched divinity.
00:44:31.01\00:44:32.73
That would be Jesus,
00:44:32.76\00:44:33.91
"Thus through the
agency of the Holy Spirit,
00:44:33.94\00:44:35.49
circle that again,
00:44:35.52\00:44:36.90
we become partakers
of the divine nature.
00:44:36.93\00:44:39.03
We are accepted in the
beloved, circle beloved.
00:44:39.06\00:44:41.90
Ladies and gentlemen,
the everlasting gospel
00:44:41.93\00:44:43.85
that's the truth
00:44:43.88\00:44:44.91
you are accepted in the beloved.
00:44:44.94\00:44:46.96
"Without Me you can do nothing."
00:44:46.99\00:44:48.78
It's all Jesus.
00:44:48.81\00:44:50.20
Without Me you can do nothing.
00:44:54.86\00:44:57.87
One more line
from "Desire of Ages"
00:45:04.28\00:45:05.60
put it on the screen for
you, you need to fill this in.
00:45:05.63\00:45:07.69
"No more, said Jesus,
can you live apart from Me.
00:45:07.72\00:45:10.04
Oh, I've circled that.
00:45:10.07\00:45:11.23
The life you've received from Me
00:45:11.26\00:45:13.19
can be preserved only
by, look at this word,
00:45:13.22\00:45:16.47
continual communion."
00:45:16.50\00:45:18.28
Continual communion,
00:45:18.31\00:45:19.40
you know we used
to read that sentence.
00:45:19.43\00:45:20.80
We used to read
that line I mean,
00:45:20.83\00:45:22.05
we just read the words
continual communications
00:45:22.08\00:45:23.97
how we put it today.
00:45:24.00\00:45:25.10
Continual
communication, we used to say,
00:45:25.13\00:45:27.37
it is humanly impossible
00:45:27.40\00:45:29.44
to have continual
communication, right?
00:45:29.47\00:45:32.51
You can't just have
continual communication
00:45:32.54\00:45:34.83
until they
invented the cell phone.
00:45:34.86\00:45:36.23
Now, hey, I went over Thursday
00:45:38.68\00:45:41.15
to hear my friend
Dick Duerksen over
00:45:41.18\00:45:42.89
at the Harvard
Performing Arts Center,
00:45:42.92\00:45:44.67
They'd already
turned the lights off,
00:45:44.70\00:45:45.73
Dick hadn't gotten up here
but they turn the lights off
00:45:45.76\00:45:47.20
so I'm in the dark
trying to find my place
00:45:47.23\00:45:49.08
to a seat it's still open.
00:45:49.11\00:45:51.40
But you know what,
00:45:51.43\00:45:52.53
it suddenly got
very bright in there
00:45:52.56\00:45:53.63
'cause I saw on
every lap a white glow.
00:45:53.66\00:45:57.83
A white glow just all over,
00:45:57.86\00:45:59.35
just like fireflies all
over this dark auditorium,
00:45:59.38\00:46:02.18
what's up?
00:46:02.21\00:46:03.24
It's all the smart
phones catching up on my emails,
00:46:03.27\00:46:05.86
my text
messages and voice mails.
00:46:05.89\00:46:09.88
Don't talk to me about well,
00:46:09.91\00:46:11.36
I just can't do this
concert communication thing.
00:46:11.39\00:46:13.48
Yes, you can, you
do it all the time.
00:46:13.51\00:46:16.28
You can do
concert and communication.
00:46:16.31\00:46:19.28
That's the secret,
continual communication.
00:46:19.31\00:46:22.51
That's the promise
of the Holy Spirit.
00:46:22.54\00:46:23.94
I will keep you
continually abiding
00:46:23.97\00:46:26.36
in communication
with Jesus, the vine.
00:46:26.39\00:46:28.23
I'm gonna put a verse
in that we didn't have,
00:46:28.26\00:46:30.22
when we put the study
guide together Friday morning,
00:46:30.25\00:46:32.46
but it came to me and
I want to share this one
00:46:32.49\00:46:34.49
I want you to
write it in please,
00:46:34.52\00:46:35.80
1st John 3:24,
00:46:35.83\00:46:37.72
how do I abide in Jesus
00:46:37.75\00:46:39.83
because this is a
little many series tucked
00:46:39.86\00:46:41.26
into the series
on the Holy Spirit.
00:46:41.29\00:46:43.03
How do I abide in Jesus?
00:46:43.06\00:46:44.85
John who was there
under the silver moon
00:46:44.88\00:46:47.52
heard Jesus and this
is now end of his life
00:46:47.55\00:46:49.98
and by this we know the He,
00:46:50.01\00:46:51.73
Christ abides
in us by the spirit
00:46:51.76\00:46:54.51
whom He has given us.
00:46:54.54\00:46:56.92
That's how we abide in Jesus.
It's through the Holy Spirit.
00:46:56.95\00:47:00.15
The Holy Spirit
comes in to your mind,
00:47:00.18\00:47:01.36
it comes into your
life and that's how--
00:47:01.39\00:47:03.29
Jesus can't come
to you personally.
00:47:03.32\00:47:04.97
Because if He
came to you personally
00:47:05.00\00:47:06.04
then I won't get Him.
00:47:06.07\00:47:07.56
Jesus stays, He has a body now
00:47:07.59\00:47:09.29
He can be everywhere He wants,
00:47:09.32\00:47:10.48
He has a body now
but He has a friend
00:47:10.51\00:47:12.78
who comes and when the friend
comes the friend never says,
00:47:12.81\00:47:15.33
hey, psst, Dwight,
Holy Spirit's here.
00:47:15.36\00:47:17.89
Friend always comes and says,
psst, Dwight Jesus is here.
00:47:17.92\00:47:21.96
He exudes the
presence of Christ.
00:47:21.99\00:47:23.88
That's why when
you're praying sometimes
00:47:23.91\00:47:25.58
it will feel like Jesus
is right there beside you.
00:47:25.61\00:47:29.84
The Holy Spirit
always draws attention
00:47:29.87\00:47:31.77
to Christ never to Himself,
00:47:31.80\00:47:33.33
you want to abide
in Him, Holy Spirit.
00:47:33.36\00:47:36.80
That's His mission, Holy Spirit.
00:47:36.83\00:47:40.95
Ah, last line on the screen,
00:47:40.98\00:47:43.63
"Abiding in Christ means
00:47:43.66\00:47:45.31
a constant receiving of
His Spirit" see that's it.
00:47:45.34\00:47:48.99
You got to have the Spirit,
00:47:49.02\00:47:50.19
just ask for
the Spirit everyday,
00:47:50.22\00:47:51.50
when you pray
Holy Spirit feel me,
00:47:51.53\00:47:53.39
you know what
you get filled with,
00:47:53.42\00:47:54.45
you get filled with Jesus.
00:47:54.48\00:47:56.22
And if you say,
Jesus, fill me with you,
00:47:56.25\00:47:57.78
He'll fill you
with the Holy Spirit
00:47:57.81\00:47:59.13
because they are-- they are
talking about branch and vine
00:47:59.16\00:48:02.45
they are just like this.
00:48:02.48\00:48:03.51
We'll talk about
the trinity next week,
00:48:03.54\00:48:04.72
they're just like this.
00:48:04.75\00:48:06.82
When you get the Holy
Spirit you always get Jesus.
00:48:06.85\00:48:09.85
"Abiding in Christ means
00:48:09.88\00:48:10.97
a constant
receiving of His Spirit,
00:48:11.00\00:48:12.88
a life of unreserved
surrender to His Service.
00:48:12.91\00:48:15.49
That channel of communication
must be open continually,
00:48:15.52\00:48:19.36
cell phone style,
continually on open
00:48:19.39\00:48:23.27
between us and our God,
00:48:23.30\00:48:25.12
so long, and I
love this, I love this,
00:48:25.15\00:48:28.10
so long as the soul
is united to Christ,
00:48:28.13\00:48:30.77
there is no danger it
will wither or decay."
00:48:30.80\00:48:35.19
If you're broken off,
00:48:35.22\00:48:36.51
if something broke off your life
00:48:36.54\00:48:39.13
from the vine the good
news is get grafted back on
00:48:39.16\00:48:42.60
and as long as you
will stay connected
00:48:42.63\00:48:45.38
this day in and
day out communication,
00:48:45.41\00:48:48.23
as long as you stay
connected you will never wither,
00:48:48.26\00:48:50.62
you will never die.
00:48:50.65\00:48:52.91
Wow, that is an explosive secret
00:48:52.94\00:48:56.48
because without Me
you can do nothing,
00:48:56.51\00:48:57.97
you can do nothing.
00:48:58.00\00:49:00.13
No, not anything, no, no, no, no
00:49:00.16\00:49:02.39
so abide in Me and
let Me abide in you.
00:49:02.42\00:49:05.98
So here's the
question I want to end with.
00:49:06.01\00:49:07.82
What are you doing
to keep daily connected
00:49:07.85\00:49:12.22
with your very best friend?
00:49:12.25\00:49:15.21
What are you doing?
00:49:15.24\00:49:17.56
Let me share a study
that Cornell University
00:49:17.59\00:49:20.24
came out with,
this is fascinating.
00:49:20.27\00:49:23.40
Just few weeks ago,
00:49:23.43\00:49:24.68
'for all there so
called friends on Facebook
00:49:24.71\00:49:27.18
most American's have
fewer closer confidence now
00:49:27.21\00:49:30.50
then they did a generation ago.
00:49:30.53\00:49:32.02
Cornell University sociologists
surveyed 2,000 adults
00:49:32.05\00:49:35.94
and found that on average
they had only two friends
00:49:35.97\00:49:40.06
with whom they could
discuss important matters.
00:49:40.09\00:49:43.56
Just two, that's down by
the way from three in 1985,
00:49:43.59\00:49:48.60
nearly half of the volunteers
listed only one friend
00:49:48.63\00:49:52.18
and four percent
said they had none.'
00:49:52.21\00:49:55.87
Isn't that sad? None.
00:49:55.90\00:49:58.22
A reduce social networking
00:49:58.25\00:49:59.50
now they are
calling Matthew Brashears,
00:49:59.53\00:50:01.26
study author,
00:50:01.29\00:50:02.32
a reduced
social network makes us
00:50:02.35\00:50:04.40
potentially more
vulnerable, he said,
00:50:04.43\00:50:07.71
because talking our troubles
00:50:07.74\00:50:09.40
over with a trusted pal
provides both emotional support
00:50:09.43\00:50:13.43
and ideas for how
to solve problems.
00:50:13.46\00:50:15.76
Brashears says that,
00:50:15.79\00:50:17.62
while we appear to be
just as social as ever
00:50:17.65\00:50:20.06
our friendship
seemed to be shallower
00:50:20.09\00:50:22.65
leaving us with fewer people
00:50:22.68\00:50:24.22
we can call on to lend us money.
00:50:24.25\00:50:26.50
But you think about
it? Where would you go?
00:50:31.85\00:50:34.64
Where would you go?
00:50:34.67\00:50:36.12
'Leaving us fewer people
00:50:36.15\00:50:37.26
we can call on to lend us
money give us a place to stay,
00:50:37.29\00:50:40.92
how do guys show
up, one night late,
00:50:43.21\00:50:46.14
he said, I've just
been kicked out of my house.
00:50:46.17\00:50:48.63
Can I stay here?
00:50:48.66\00:50:52.05
Where would you go?
00:50:52.08\00:50:54.73
Leaving us a fewer people
00:50:54.76\00:50:55.79
we can call on to lend us money,
00:50:55.82\00:50:57.17
give us a place to stay
or simply keep us company
00:50:57.20\00:50:59.92
during a tough time.
00:50:59.95\00:51:01.95
Would you like to
have a friend like that?
00:51:01.98\00:51:04.05
Who's with you in
the toughest of times,
00:51:04.08\00:51:06.13
who will never
leave you or forsake you
00:51:06.16\00:51:08.12
then connect to Jesus.
00:51:08.15\00:51:10.02
Do what Edwina
Humphrey Flynn did.
00:51:10.05\00:51:13.22
Every morning
early connect with Jesus
00:51:13.25\00:51:16.07
and as light
will shine out of you
00:51:16.10\00:51:18.86
wherever you go.
00:51:18.89\00:51:21.16
The secret is every morning
getting connected with Jesus.
00:51:21.19\00:51:28.36
Do that.
00:51:28.39\00:51:31.66
And you'll never have to worry
about your branch withering,
00:51:31.69\00:51:36.03
decaying and dying away.
00:51:36.06\00:51:38.58
You'll be alive in
Christ forever and ever.
00:51:38.61\00:51:42.32
Amen.
00:51:42.35\00:51:44.42
I want you to
take the connect card
00:51:44.45\00:51:45.48
there's in your
bulletin, right now
00:51:45.51\00:51:47.30
I've got mine right here.
00:51:47.33\00:51:49.13
Let's talk about
connecting to Christ
00:51:49.16\00:51:50.81
for these last few
moments before our service ends.
00:51:50.84\00:51:54.25
You see this card,
turn the card over,
00:51:59.01\00:52:00.72
Pastor Jose, just a moment ago
00:52:00.75\00:52:02.39
talked about the
front of the card
00:52:02.42\00:52:03.50
I want to talk
about back of the card.
00:52:03.53\00:52:05.89
There's a little
box here it says,
00:52:05.92\00:52:06.95
my next step today is.
00:52:06.98\00:52:08.94
Hey, how about this
one because you know what,
00:52:08.97\00:52:11.03
you can't hear
teaching like this
00:52:11.06\00:52:12.23
and not take a next step.
00:52:12.26\00:52:13.47
That's the danger we hear
the teaching and we go on.
00:52:13.50\00:52:15.82
No, no, take a step.
00:52:15.85\00:52:17.29
How about this one,
00:52:17.32\00:52:18.35
I want to stay
connected to the vine
00:52:18.38\00:52:20.17
please send me that online book.
00:52:20.20\00:52:22.00
I've got a prayer book
00:52:22.03\00:52:23.15
that I'd love for
you to read every morning
00:52:23.18\00:52:24.30
before we head out of the day,
00:52:24.33\00:52:25.56
I'll send you a
link to that prayer book
00:52:25.59\00:52:26.93
you can read it everyday.
00:52:26.96\00:52:28.72
If you put a
checkmark right there,
00:52:28.75\00:52:29.93
please send me that online book.
00:52:29.96\00:52:31.68
Here's the next box,
00:52:31.71\00:52:32.74
I would like a how to guide
for a fresh new way to pray.
00:52:32.77\00:52:38.07
I'm gonna do that.
00:52:38.10\00:52:40.08
I need to freshen up but,
tell you what my prayer life
00:52:40.11\00:52:43.12
I'd like something fresh,
00:52:43.15\00:52:44.76
you put a checkmark there
our connect team will send you,
00:52:44.79\00:52:47.99
he'll send you a link.
00:52:48.02\00:52:49.53
You'll get away and trust
me I know it works for me.
00:52:49.56\00:52:56.15
You say, but Dwight look
00:52:56.18\00:52:57.21
I've never really
connected to Jesus at all,
00:52:57.24\00:52:59.45
I just kind of
been want into life
00:52:59.48\00:53:00.93
I'm hanging around
a lot of Jesus friends
00:53:00.96\00:53:02.53
but I have not
myself chosen Him.
00:53:02.56\00:53:05.44
See that little
box right beside it,
00:53:05.47\00:53:06.85
I'm interested in beginning
a relationship with Jesus.
00:53:06.88\00:53:10.63
We just launched
this card last week.
00:53:10.66\00:53:13.46
22 people last week said,
00:53:13.49\00:53:15.17
I want to start a
relationship with Jesus.
00:53:15.20\00:53:17.53
22, isn't that something?
00:53:17.56\00:53:20.21
So you put a checkmark,
00:53:20.24\00:53:21.27
you don't have a
relationship with Jesus
00:53:21.30\00:53:22.61
we'll send you something
00:53:22.64\00:53:23.77
that will get you
going in that relationship.
00:53:23.80\00:53:26.93
Here's the next one,
00:53:26.96\00:53:27.99
I'd like information on Baptism.
00:53:28.02\00:53:30.66
Last week 19 people
said, I want to be baptized.
00:53:30.69\00:53:33.35
Isn't that something,
00:53:33.38\00:53:34.41
they are sitting all around you.
00:53:34.44\00:53:35.88
You are one of them, you said,
00:53:35.91\00:53:36.94
I've never been baptized,
let me tell you something,
00:53:36.97\00:53:38.45
my friend, if you
are a student here
00:53:38.48\00:53:40.44
I can't think of a better
way to end the school year
00:53:40.47\00:53:42.49
than to be baptized into Christ.
00:53:42.52\00:53:44.23
Back to that other box,
00:53:44.26\00:53:45.29
I'd like more
information about being baptized
00:53:45.32\00:53:47.14
on Saturday, April 21
or Saturday, April 28.
00:53:47.17\00:53:50.13
Why not? What a gift.
00:53:50.16\00:53:52.56
God to you and you back to Him.
00:53:52.59\00:53:54.58
Put a checkmark that
one information on baptism.
00:53:54.61\00:53:56.81
I want information
in church membership.
00:53:56.84\00:53:58.28
15 people last week said
00:53:58.31\00:53:59.57
I want some information
on that and look at this one.
00:53:59.60\00:54:03.61
Serving on a team,
00:54:03.64\00:54:05.40
we'll send you a
link to a website
00:54:05.43\00:54:06.63
72 people last week said,
00:54:06.66\00:54:08.28
I want to serve on
a team in this church.
00:54:08.31\00:54:10.38
College students can serve,
00:54:10.41\00:54:12.56
we'll send you a
link to a website
00:54:12.59\00:54:13.74
there'll be 12 ministries
you pick the one you want
00:54:13.77\00:54:15.52
and you can start the next day.
00:54:15.55\00:54:16.93
None of this, we
got to get you trained
00:54:16.96\00:54:18.19
for six months you
can start the next day,
00:54:18.22\00:54:20.60
you can serve
Christ immediately.
00:54:20.63\00:54:22.82
I want to learn about the Bible.
00:54:22.85\00:54:24.39
27 people said I want
to have Bible studies,
00:54:24.42\00:54:26.64
teach me about the Bible.
00:54:26.67\00:54:28.12
Isn't that something?
00:54:28.15\00:54:29.90
Fill out that card,
nobody's looking at your card,
00:54:29.93\00:54:32.12
nobody's asking you to stand.
00:54:32.15\00:54:33.98
You do this quietly
and in just a moment
00:54:34.01\00:54:36.41
our ushers are gonna come by
and receive not only the cards
00:54:36.44\00:54:39.64
but our morning
tithes and offerings.
00:54:39.67\00:54:41.99
Now some of you
jumped up last week,
00:54:42.02\00:54:43.06
oh, Dwight's through the sermons
00:54:43.09\00:54:44.12
it's time to go.
00:54:44.15\00:54:45.18
No, no, we got a--
00:54:45.21\00:54:47.45
we have a very
important response to make
00:54:47.48\00:54:50.12
to our Lord who is our vine.
00:54:50.15\00:54:54.47
So I want to pray with
you then the ushers will come.
00:54:54.50\00:54:58.57
Stay seated we're
gonna sing a stanza of a hymn
00:54:58.60\00:55:03.27
that is a perfect hymn
for this teaching on the vine
00:55:03.30\00:55:06.91
"Draw Me Nearer"
we won't jump up.
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We'll stay seated so
that the place keep moving
00:55:10.20\00:55:13.75
and the service will
end with a benediction.
00:55:13.78\00:55:17.05
But let me pray with you before
00:55:17.08\00:55:18.65
you turn the card in, oh, God,
00:55:18.68\00:55:20.74
this is the
moment when we chose ways
00:55:20.77\00:55:25.15
that we wish to
connect with the vine.
00:55:25.18\00:55:27.90
If there's
anybody here who needs you
00:55:27.93\00:55:29.51
for the first time Lord Jesus,
00:55:29.54\00:55:31.49
give him
courage put a checkmark.
00:55:31.52\00:55:36.22
Somebody wants to follow you
in Baptism bless her decision.
00:55:36.25\00:55:40.57
Somebody says I
need to freshen up
00:55:40.60\00:55:42.27
my prayer life, please help me.
00:55:42.30\00:55:44.54
Send me an online prayer book
00:55:44.57\00:55:45.72
whatever the decision
dear God bless every decision
00:55:45.75\00:55:49.81
make it a bold next
step for our forever friend.
00:55:49.84\00:55:56.29
As we turn our
tithes and offerings
00:55:56.32\00:55:59.04
today giving for this
little church on this campus
00:55:59.07\00:56:01.49
so that it can serve
the campus and the world
00:56:01.52\00:56:05.54
take our tithes and offerings.
00:56:05.57\00:56:07.89
It's-- it's just a
gift, we give it back,
00:56:07.92\00:56:10.87
we're connected to the vine
00:56:10.90\00:56:11.93
that's how we got
it in the first place
00:56:11.96\00:56:13.42
so we're happy.
00:56:13.45\00:56:15.23
We're happy to return
to you, well, it's yours.
00:56:15.26\00:56:17.59
And through the Sprit of Jesus
00:56:20.88\00:56:22.24
walk with us the
whole way until He comes.
00:56:22.27\00:56:27.06
Let all the people
say, amen and amen.
00:56:27.09\00:56:30.58
It's been a pleasure to be
able to worship with you today.
00:56:34.02\00:56:36.64
I hope that the Spirit of
Jesus has blessed your time
00:56:36.67\00:56:39.48
with us right here in
the Pioneer Memorial Church
00:56:39.51\00:56:41.29
in the campus of
Andrews University.
00:56:41.32\00:56:43.48
Do you know that
around the world people
00:56:43.51\00:56:44.81
join us every week
for this hour of worship?
00:56:44.84\00:56:46.92
We're looking as a consequence
for new ways to bridge
00:56:46.95\00:56:50.03
somehow to
connect with these people
00:56:50.06\00:56:52.24
who come here to
worship via the telecast.
00:56:52.27\00:56:55.18
One of the areas that
is quickly growing for us
00:56:55.21\00:56:57.41
is our website.
00:56:57.44\00:56:58.49
We had more than a
140,000 visitors last year.
00:56:58.52\00:57:02.52
It's an incredible opportunity
00:57:02.55\00:57:04.40
that God has given us
to expand His kingdom.
00:57:04.43\00:57:07.29
If you'd like to
help partner with us
00:57:07.32\00:57:09.20
as we seek to spread
the everlasting gospel,
00:57:09.23\00:57:12.03
I'd love to have you
call our toll free number
00:57:12.06\00:57:14.57
we got very friendly
operators standing by,
00:57:14.60\00:57:17.07
here's the number 877-HIS-WILL.
00:57:17.10\00:57:20.27
877 and then the
two words HIS WILL,
00:57:20.30\00:57:22.29
one of the operators will be
happy to give you the details
00:57:22.32\00:57:25.64
of how you can partner
with this global ministry.
00:57:25.67\00:57:28.53
If you prefer listen,
you can do it all online
00:57:28.56\00:57:30.84
go to our website
please www.pmchurch.tv.
00:57:30.87\00:57:35.23
I'd be honored to
have the privilege
00:57:35.26\00:57:36.70
of partnering with you
00:57:36.73\00:57:37.76
as we seek to
spread the truth about God
00:57:37.79\00:57:39.86
for this generation we
are living in urgent times,
00:57:39.89\00:57:44.36
not more than ever
we've got to go to the world
00:57:44.39\00:57:47.69
with the good
news entrusted to us.
00:57:47.72\00:57:49.31
So once again here's
that toll free number
00:57:49.34\00:57:51.18
877-HIS-WILL.
00:57:51.21\00:57:53.78
Thank you in
advance for you generosity
00:57:53.81\00:57:56.25
it blesses me and
you grow this ministry
00:57:56.28\00:57:59.37
and pray that
the Spirit of Christ
00:57:59.40\00:58:01.02
will abide with you
every step of the way
00:58:01.05\00:58:03.43
and I'll hope you come
back again next time right here
00:58:03.46\00:58:06.37
as we continue our
worship journey together.
00:58:06.40\00:58:09.30