Psalm 96, "Sing to
the Lord a new song.
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Sing to the Lord all the earth.
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Sing to the
Lord, praise His name,
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proclaim His
salvation, day after day.
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Declare His glory
among the nations,
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His marvelous deeds
among all the peoples.
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For great is the Lord
and most worthy of praise.
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He is to be
feared above all gods.
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For all the gods of
the nations are idols
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but the Lord He
made the heavens,
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splendor and
majesty are before Him,
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strength and glory
are in His sanctuary.
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Ascribe to the Lord
O families of nations,
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ascribe to the
Lord Glory and strength.
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Say among the
nations 'The Lord reigns.'
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The world is firmly
established it cannot be moved.
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He will judge the
peoples with equity.
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Let the heavens rejoice.
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Let the earth be glad.
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Let the sea resound.
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And all that is in it.
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Let the fields be
jubilant and everything in them.
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Then all the trees of the fear
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of the forests
will sing for joy.
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They will sing before
the Lord for He comes,
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He comes to judge the earth.
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He will judge the
world in righteousness
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and the peoples in His truth."
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These are the days of Elijah
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Declaring the Word of the Lord
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And these are the
days of Your servant Moses
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Righteousness being restored
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And though these
are days of great trial
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Of famine and darkness and sword
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Still we are the
voice in the desert crying
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Prepare ye the way of the Lord
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Behold He comes
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Riding on a clouds
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Shining like the sun
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At the trumpet's call
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Lift your voice
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It's the year of jubilee
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And out of Zion's
hill salvation comes!
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And these are
the days of Ezekiel
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The dry bones becoming as flesh
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And these are the
days of Your servant David
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Rebuilding the temple of praise
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And these are the
days of the harvest
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The fields are as
white in your world
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And we are the
laborers in Your vineyard
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Declaring the word of the Lord
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Behold He comes
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Riding on the clouds
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Shining like the sun
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At the trumpet call
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Lift your voice
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It's the year of jubilee
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And out of Zion's
hill salvation comes!
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There's no God like Jehovah!
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There's no God like Jehovah!
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There's no God like Jehovah!
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There's no God like Jehovah!
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There's no God like Jehovah!
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There's no God like Jehovah!
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There's no God like Jehovah!
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There's no God like Jehovah!
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There's no God like Jehovah!
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There's no God like Jehovah!
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Behold He comes
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Riding on a clouds
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Shining like the sun
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At the trumpet's call
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Lift your voice
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It's the year of jubilee
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And out of Zion's
hill salvation comes!
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Behold He comes
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Riding on a cloud
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Shining like the sun
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At the trumpet's call
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Lift your voice
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It's the year of jubilee
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And out of Zion's
hill salvation comes!
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Lift your voice
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It's the year of jubilee
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Out of Zion's
hill salvation comes!
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On that day on the day He comes,
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living water will
flow out from Jerusalem,
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half to the eastern sea
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and half to the western
sea in summer and in winter.
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The Lord will be
king over the whole earth.
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On that day
there will be one Lord
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and His name the only name.
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My Jesus, my Savior
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Lord, there is no one like You
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All of my days, I want to praise
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The wonders of Your mighty love
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My comfort, my shelter
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Tower of refuge and strength
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Let every breath, all that I am
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Never cease to worship You
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Shout to the Lord,
all the earth, let us sing
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Power and majesty,
praise to the King!
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Mountains bow down
and the seas will roar
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At the sound of Your name!
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I sing for joy at
the work of Your hands
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Forever I'll love
you, forever I'll stand
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Nothing compares to
the promise I have in You
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My Jesus, my Savior
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Lord, there is none like You
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All of my days, I want to praise
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The wonders of Your mighty love
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My comfort, my shelter
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Tower of refuge and strength
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Let every breath, all that I am
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Never cease to worship You
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Shout to the Lord,
all the earth, let us sing
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Power and majesty,
praise to the King!
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Mountains bow down
and the seas will roar
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At the sound of Your name!
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I sing for joy at
the work of Your hands
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Forever I'll love
you, forever I'll stand
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Nothing compares
to the promise I have
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Oh, shout to the Lord,
all the earth, let us sing
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Power and majesty,
praise to the King!
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Mountains bow down
and the seas will roar
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At the sound of Your name!
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I sing for joy at
the work of Your hands
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Forever I'll love
you, forever I'll stand
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Nothing compares
to the promise I have
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Oh, nothing compares
to the promise I have
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Oh, nothing compares to
the promise I have in You
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Holy Spirit, rain down
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Rain down
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O, Comforter and Friend
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How we need Your touch again
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Holy Spirit, rain down,
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Rain down
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Let Your power fall
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Let Your voice be heard
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Come and change our hearts
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As we stand on Your Word
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Holy Spirit,
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Rain down
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Holy Spirit, rain down,
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Rain down
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O Comforter and Friend
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How we need Your touch again
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Holy Spirit, rain down,
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Rain down
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Let Your power fall
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Let Your voice be heard
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Come and change our hearts
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As we stand on Your Word
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Holy Spirit,
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Rain down
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No eye has
seen, no ear has heard
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No mind can know
what God has in store
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So open up
Heaven and open it wide
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Over Your church,
and over our lives
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No eye has
seen, no ear has heard
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No mind can know
what God has in store
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So open up
Heaven and open it wide
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Over Your church,
and over our lives
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Holy Spirit, rain down,
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Rain down
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O Comforter and Friend
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How we need Your touch again
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Holy Spirit, rain down,
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Rain down
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Let Your power fall
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Let Your voice be heard
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Come and change our hearts
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As we stand on Your Word
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Holy Spirit,
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Holy Spirit
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Holy Spirit,
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Rain down
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I sing the mighty power of God
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That made the mountains rise
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That spread the
flowing seas abroad
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And built the lofty skies
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I sing the wisdom that ordained
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The sun to rule the day
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The moon shines
full at His command
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And all the stars obey
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I sing the goodness of the Lord
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That filled the earth with food
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He formed the
creatures with His Word
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And then pronounced them good
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Lord, how Thy
wonders are displayed
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Where'er I turn my eye!
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If I survey the ground I tread
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Or gaze upon the sky!
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There's not a
plant or flower below
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But makes Thy glories known
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And clouds
arise, and tempests blow
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By order from Thy throne
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Creatures that
borrow life from Thee
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Are subject to Thy care
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There's not a
place where we can flee
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But God is present there
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Your only Son, no sin to hide
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But you have sent
Him from your side
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To walk upon this guilty sod
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And to become the Lamb of God
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Your gift of love they crucified
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They laughed and
scorned Him as He died
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The humble King
they named a fraud
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And sacrificed the Lamb of God
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O Lamb of God, sweet Lamb of God
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I love the holy Lamb of God
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O wash me in His precious blood
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My Jesus Christ
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The Lamb of God
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I was so lost I should have died
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But You have
brought me to Your side
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To be led by Your staff and rod
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And to be called a Lamb of God
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O Lamb of God, sweet Lamb of God
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I love the holy Lamb of God
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O wash me in His precious blood
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Till I'm just a Lamb of God
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O wash me in
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His precious blood
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My Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God
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O God, its true,
Lamb of God, mercy
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He who is God
goes by both names.
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And our prayer is a
simple and humble one.
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May His Spirit teach us
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about His mercy
right now for His glory,
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we pray in His name, amen.
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Have you see one of these?
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I hold in my hands.
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It's just came
out a few days ago.
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This is the
brand name newly minted
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US gold one dollar coin.
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You read about them? Yeah.
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Americans have had a love-hate
relationship with these coins.
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Don't like using, we
prefer the dollar bills
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but we'll see how
this one turns out.
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The reason I am
the owner of this is
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because of my
friend Dorothy Carscallen
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who dropped these--
drop two by this last week.
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You see, Dorothy
like a good church member
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when she came
to church last week
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she read her bulletin.
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And she pulled out an
insert in the bulletin
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put together by
our stewardship team
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that noted that the
new gold one dollar coin
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does not have on it the words
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that were so familiar
with "In God we trust."
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And it's true.
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If you put the face of
the coin there is it is.
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You look at the
face of the coin,
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you look at the
back of the coin.
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Neither side, no,
"In God we trust."
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what's up with that?
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However, if you
had a magnifying glass
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this charming little coin
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and you turned it
on its side on the edge
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you just got up close enough
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you would see
tiny little letters
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inscribing our national
model in Latin E Pluribus Unum
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and then you would see the words
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"In God we trust"
as well as the year
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that the coin came out.
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But in defense of
this stewardship team
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that's said, it's not on there.
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Just this week, did
you hear, just this week
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somebody or some machine
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made a big boo,
boo in Philadelphia
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where one of the
two national mints is
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and they minted a whole hoard
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of these one dollar
gold coins without the words
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"In God we trust"
chiseled on the edge.
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So if you go on the eBay
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they're going
for $50 of whack now.
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If you come across one of
these collectors take note.
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All right, so if I
owed you one of these,
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if I owed you one of these
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it's not a very big
debt, is it just one.
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If I owed you ten of
these, that's still not.
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They'd got hundred
man, ten thousand wow,
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but what if I
owed you a 156 million
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of these gold coins.
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Do you know how
high that would stack?
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If you took every
one of these coins
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and just stack them
one on top of the other
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that pile would
reach over, a 142 million--
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142 miles into the stratosphere.
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I get so excited
about this dimension.
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Man a 142 million and
take your pass to sun.
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And these would melt
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when they went
pass so forget it.
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Point is once
upon a long ago time
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there was a man whose debt,
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whose debt was a 156
million of these gold coins
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and I have no idea
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how he is gonna
pay it off, good luck.
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Open your Bible please to
the gospel of Saint Matthew.
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The gospel of
Matthew Chapter 18,
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we were there just a
little bit earlier this morning.
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Find Matthew Chapter
18, incredible story.
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If you don't have the Bible
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you've got a pull out
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the pew Bible
right in front of you
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because you don't
want to miss this story.
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This a wapo of a punch line.
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Wait till we get
to the punch line.
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But don't, don't look.
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Make it a surprise, don't look.
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Matthew Chapter 18,
Jesus is gonna tell this story.
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It's a New Kings James Version
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that you'll see on the screen.
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It's a New James
Version in your pew
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and it's what I have
right here the New King James.
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If you have the Pew Bible,
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the page number
would be page number 662.
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So find 662, Matthew
18:21, Matthew 18:21,
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"Then Peter came to Him
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and said 'Lord'" I
have been thinking.
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"How often shall my brother sin
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against me and I forgive him?"
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How about this?
"Up to seven times?"
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Wow, Peter you're
such a magnanimous
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and merciful dude.
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You mean you're willing
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to forgive
somebody in their lifetime,
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somebody in his or her lifetime
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seven times in their
lifetime, have mercy.
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Because you
know what the rabbis,
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its true, time of Jesus,
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based on a faulty
interpretation of Amos 1:3,
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the rabbis concluded,
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you only have to
forgive somebody three times.
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But Peter up saying
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he wants Jesus
glow in commendation.
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He said Lord how about seven?
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Oh, boy, does Jesus
have a surprise for Peter.
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Take a look at this verse 22.
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And Jesus said to Peter
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"I do not say to
you, up to seven times,
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but up to seventy times seven."
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Talking about letting
hot air out of your balloon.
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Jesus upstanding
Himself He trumps Peter seven,
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with seven times
seventy and then to drive
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his astounding point home.
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Jesus tells a story about a debt
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so big even
Donald Trump would blush.
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Take a look at this story.
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Wow, verse 23,
therefore, here we go.
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Here comes the story.
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"Therefore the kingdom of
heaven is like a certain king
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who wanted to settle
accounts with his servants."
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It's time for an internal audit.
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I only want to audit
those who are close to me.
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So guys get all of
books out the auditor scramble
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the accountant goes to
work, they add up the numbers,
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they bring the
report in verse 24.
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"And when he" the king
"had begun to settle accounts,"
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because the work is done
now "one was brought to him
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who owed him ten
thousand talents."
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Now I understand ten
thousand talents means
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absolutely
nothing to you and me.
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So what we need to do here
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is we need to we need to put
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try to put those numbers
into correct perspective.
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I wish you jot
down a few numbers
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to crunch these numbers
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and let's find out
how much it really is.
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In fact, take
out your study guide
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in your worship bulletin today,
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brand new study
guide pull it out
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because we are
gonna crunch the numbers.
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How much are ten
thousand talents.
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Now if you didn't get
your study guide, ushers,
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could we do this
really quickly please?
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Would you make sure
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that everybody
here gets a study guide.
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If you didn't get your
study guide hold your hand up,
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we'll make, make
certain that you have one.
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And while they're
doing that those of you
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who are watching on television
go to our website please.
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Let me put it on
the screen for you,
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www.pmchurch.tv
that's our website.
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You're looking for the
series Mercy Came A Running.
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And the title of
this particular teaching
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is "When the debt
ratio is 600,000 to One."
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When you see that title,
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you'll see study
guide right beside it
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click on to that and you'll
have the identical study guide
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that we are gonna
fill in right now.
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Everybody in the
balcony have one?
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Everyone have one?
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Good, keep your hand
up the ushers are coming
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but we're gonna fly anyway.
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How much is 10,000 talents?
That's the big question.
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We all can understand taxes.
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So let's do it
in terms of taxes.
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Pull your pen
out. See this there.
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"The combined total annual
taxes in the time of Christ
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for Judea,
Idumea, Samaria, Galilee
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and Perea amounted
to only 80 talents."
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Right in the number 80.
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Whoever this fellow is
as run up of bill of, IOU's
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with the king not for 80
talents but for 10,000 talents.
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That's 1,250
time the annual taxes
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of the entire region of
today's Israel and Palestine.
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Now even the
Jewish listeners to Jesus
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they're unable to crunch these
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that these numbers are so big.
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All they know is that it
is an astronomical amount.
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In fact there
keep your pen moving.
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Let's just-- one
talent jot this down.
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This is fascinating.
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"One talent was equal
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to approximately
20 years of labor."
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Took it 20 years to pay
off one talent, all right.
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Keep your pen moving.
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"So 10,000 talents equal"
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write it in
"200,000 years of labor."
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Let's put it.
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Keep your pen moving,
let's put a dollar amount
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of these 10,000 talents
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and so I went on the
web this week to find out
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what the market
price is for silver.
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It's running about $13 an oz.
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Okay, so you see that
in your study guide now
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let's figure it out.
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One talent equals
75 pounds of silver,
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we know that and we know the.
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And we want to the answer
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so that's times 16 oz per pound.
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That's 1,200 oz's
for talent at $13 an oz
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that would be $15,600
worth for just one talent.
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Then we're going
to multiply by 10,000
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it equals write it down.
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A $156,000,000.
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That's stack of coins
which stretch a 150 miles
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almost into the stratosphere.
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Wow, and by the way at $10 in--
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you're making $10 and hour.
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A $10 an hour that would take
you that bill of 156,000,000
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would you take you
7,800 years to pay it off.
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Any way you count it
ladies and gentleman,
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whichever way you wished
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to a slice
7,800 or 200,000 years
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what difference does it make.
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You can't pay it off.
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All right, let's go.
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Verse 24, "And when he" the king
"had begun to settle accounts,
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one was brought to him
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who owed him ten
thousand talents."
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Verse 25 "But as he was
not able to pay, his master"
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the king "commanded
that he" the servant
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"be sold with
his wife and children
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and all that he had,
and that payment be made."
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Because they were
lost in the time of Christ
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and in the orient they provided
for this sort of indemnity.
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You can't pay, all right,
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we're gonna auction
off everything you owe.
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We're going to garnish every
bit of fixed income you have
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and we are going
to throw you jail
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and you're going to be
in jail for 200,000 years
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or until you die
whichever come first.
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That was a deal.
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All right, verse
26, so you gonna--
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you gonna understand
the plight of this servant
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who responds in verse 26.
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"The servant therefore fell
down before the king saying,
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'Master, have patience with me,
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and I will pay you all.'"
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Now ladies and gentlemen, I
want you notice very quickly
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he did not say have mercy on me.
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It's the same language
of the Syrophoenician mother
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just back in
chapter 15 where she falls,
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saying Greek word,
she falls to her knees,
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he does too but he
does not ask for mercy.
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He should have but he didn't.
Do you know what he asked for?
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Give me enough time.
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Just give me some more time.
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If you give me
a little more time
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I am going to be able.
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Oh, your highness I shall be
able to pay you off every penny.
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Do you know, do you know what
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sometimes ladies and gentlemen,
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you and I with God sound like
the very same blubbering servant
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that Jesus
describes here in His story.
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Oh, God, I am so sorry.
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I don't know what got into me.
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I'll never do it again.
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I promise I'll
never do it again.
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I am gonna make
it up to you God,
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so just give me one more
chance. I am begging for time.
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I tell you what God,
I really can't change.
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If you give me enough
time I'll bounce the books.
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I'll come up with the payment
just give me time dear, Lord.
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And we sob before God.
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Hey, I do not wish to
make like of the times
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we sob before God.
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God knows what it
does to our hearts.
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However, however come on think.
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You can understand that we begin
to border to God and behave
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as if we had it in our own power
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to extricate ourselves out
of the horrible pit of sin.
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You can understand
God just I can change,
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I am gonna
change, I am gonna change.
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Trust me, I'll change.
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You understand
that we begin to sound
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like this blithering servant
who is trying to cut a deal.
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Give me some more time.
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All right, boy, how
much time do you need?
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About 200,000 years Your
Highness and I can do it.
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See how, see how dormant he is.
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He can't do it.
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The point is would
you write this down
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please in your study guide.
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"You and I are infinitely,
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indefinitely and
impossibly indebted to God!"
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How tragic and
ridiculous our desperate efforts
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to extricate
ourselves to become our saviors.
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I can get over
this given enough time
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I am surely gonna be
able to pay you off, God.
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What a fool I
am? What a fool I am?
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All right, well,
look at this verse 27.
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"Then the master."
That'll be the king.
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Now "That servant
was moved with compassion
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and released
him, and forgave him"
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I am gonna insert a word
and forgave him the entire,
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the entire "debt." Gone.
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Just like that.
Would you write it down?
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"Just like that
Calvary has canceled our debt!"
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So Calvary did,
okay, keep your pen moving.
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This 2
Corinthians 8:9. Look at it.
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"For you know the grace
of our Lord Jesus Christ
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that though he was rich,
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yet for your sakes"
write it in "He became poor,
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so that through His
poverty you might become rich."
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Write it down.
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You remember the
words of Robert Robinson.
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"O, to grace" fill it in.
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"O, to grace, how
great a what? Say it aloud.
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"O, to grace how great a debtor
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daily I am constrained to be!
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Let thy goodness, like a fetter,
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bind me closer. Lord to thee."
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I'm telling you
what guys, a huge bill,
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huge debt wiped out at Calvary.
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What a grace how great a debtor.
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I wish the story ended there
but unfortunately it doesn't.
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Read on verse 28, but
okay so that's all over now.
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"But that servant went out."
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I'll tell you what,
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he is whistling like he
has never whistled in his life
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before the sky is
bluer, the air is fresher,
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the birds are sweeter, the
grass is greener, I am alive.
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And 200,000 years of hard labor
00:34:38.50\00:34:40.89
just got wiped
out of my account.
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You ought to singing.
00:34:43.00\00:34:44.40
You should be whistling.
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And he is until, until.
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"But the servant
went out" in verse 28
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"and he found one
of his fellow servants
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who owed him a hundred
dinarii and he laid hands on him
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and took him by the
throat, saying, 'Pay me."
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You pay me "what you owe!"
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Ignoring the
astonishing behavior of this
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just forgiven
servant for a moment.
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Let's calculate how much
this fellow servant owes him,
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all right. Get
your pen moving again.
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One talent, jot this down,
one talent equals 6,000 dinarii.
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So we have 10,000
talents of 10,000 times
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6,000 equals 60,000,000 dinarii.
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That's when he got
forgiven by the king.
00:35:31.67\00:35:34.02
This buddy of his owes
him 100 dinarii, jot it down.
00:35:34.05\00:35:37.88
That is a debt ratio of
600,000 to 1. 600,000 to 1
00:35:37.91\00:35:44.80
we can do it another
way, keep your pen moving.
00:35:44.83\00:35:46.90
One talent equals
20 years of labor.
00:35:46.93\00:35:48.71
We have already
established that.
00:35:48.74\00:35:50.75
So 20 years of
labor times 10,000
00:35:50.78\00:35:52.61
that would be those
200,000 years of labor
00:35:52.64\00:35:54.28
that we have been talking
about at 300-days a year.
00:35:54.31\00:35:56.69
So you gonna have holy days
off, come on, holy days off.
00:35:56.72\00:36:00.42
That would total
60,000,000 days of labor.
00:36:00.45\00:36:04.14
That's when he just
got forgiven from the king.
00:36:04.17\00:36:06.60
Now his buddy owes
him 100 days of labor.
00:36:06.63\00:36:09.22
There it is again a
debt ratio of 600,000 to 1.
00:36:09.25\00:36:14.48
I yee, the debt of the
servant who is being throttled--
00:36:14.51\00:36:21.29
he is being throttled by the
guy that's just been forgiven.
00:36:21.32\00:36:23.88
That debt is 1600,000
of the debt of the man
00:36:23.91\00:36:28.79
who just got that
whole debt wiped out.
00:36:28.82\00:36:31.40
I repeat the debt
ratio is 600,000 to 1.
00:36:31.43\00:36:35.85
You can't believe
this. Look at verse 29.
00:36:35.88\00:36:38.21
"So his fellow
servant fell down at his feet
00:36:38.24\00:36:42.15
and begged him, saying,
00:36:42.18\00:36:43.88
'Have patience with me
and I will pay you all.'"
00:36:43.91\00:36:48.62
Ladies and gentlemen,
00:36:48.65\00:36:49.68
please note that
these words are to sound
00:36:49.71\00:36:51.36
more than vaguely familiar
to the servant who is standing,
00:36:51.39\00:36:54.18
towering over his pleading brow.
00:36:54.21\00:36:58.67
You know why,
because Jesus made sure
00:36:58.70\00:37:00.35
when he told the story that
the words of the begging servant
00:37:00.38\00:37:03.37
on the ground are identical
00:37:03.40\00:37:05.83
to the words of the
servant before the king.
00:37:05.86\00:37:08.22
Identical words
"have patience with me,
00:37:08.25\00:37:10.51
I will pay you back."
00:37:10.54\00:37:12.08
Now those words in the throne
room touched a heart of mercy.
00:37:12.11\00:37:16.08
What happens when
these words are spoken here?
00:37:16.11\00:37:22.37
And he would not--
this is so sad verse 30.
00:37:22.40\00:37:25.11
"And he would not,
00:37:25.14\00:37:30.43
but went and
threw him into prison
00:37:30.46\00:37:32.35
till he should pay the debt."
00:37:32.38\00:37:33.41
Verse 31 "So when his fellow
servants saw what had been done,
00:37:33.44\00:37:36.87
they were very grieved,
00:37:36.90\00:37:38.53
and they came and
told their master the king
00:37:38.56\00:37:40.37
all that had been done.
00:37:40.40\00:37:41.63
And then his
master, after he had called
00:37:41.66\00:37:43.60
that servant back to
the throne room said to him,
00:37:43.63\00:37:45.73
'You wicked servant!
00:37:45.76\00:37:48.50
I forgave you all that
debt because you begged me.
00:37:48.53\00:37:52.86
Should you not," verse 33
00:37:52.89\00:37:54.49
"have also had compassion
on your fellow servant
00:37:54.52\00:37:57.36
just as I had pity on you."
00:37:57.39\00:37:59.82
Verse 34 "And
his master was angry,
00:37:59.85\00:38:02.26
and he delivered
him to the torturers
00:38:02.29\00:38:03.86
until he should pay
all that was due him."
00:38:03.89\00:38:06.68
Punch line now.
00:38:06.71\00:38:07.84
Verse 35, "So" Jesus concludes
00:38:07.87\00:38:10.95
"My heavenly Father also
will do to you if each of you,
00:38:10.98\00:38:15.15
from his heart, does
not forgive his" brother
00:38:15.18\00:38:19.69
his "trespasses." The end.
00:38:19.72\00:38:23.89
The end.
00:38:23.92\00:38:25.53
Can you believe that?
00:38:25.56\00:38:29.55
The moral of the
story. Write it down.
00:38:29.58\00:38:32.44
"Freely you have
received, freely give."
00:38:32.47\00:38:38.57
Jesus words in Matthew 10:8.
00:38:40.60\00:38:43.69
Keep your pen moving.
00:38:43.72\00:38:45.09
The words of the
king in the message,
00:38:45.12\00:38:46.46
I like the way
the message renders
00:38:46.49\00:38:48.35
the kings point just a
moment ago inescapably clear.
00:38:48.38\00:38:51.09
Write this down.
00:38:51.12\00:38:52.15
"You evil servant! I
forgave your entire debt
00:38:52.18\00:38:54.70
when you begged me for mercy."
00:38:54.73\00:38:56.34
Write in the word mercy.
00:38:56.37\00:38:57.45
See mercy is
what said issue here.
00:38:57.48\00:39:00.28
"You beg me for mercy shouldn't
you be compelled to be merciful
00:39:00.31\00:39:04.62
to your fellow
servant who ask for mercy?"
00:39:04.65\00:39:09.35
Which being interpreted
means, keep your pen moving.
00:39:09.38\00:39:11.59
"Freely you have
received mercy from God,
00:39:11.62\00:39:15.50
freely, therefore,
give mercy to all."
00:39:15.53\00:39:22.08
Freely you have
received, freely give.
00:39:22.11\00:39:26.84
I happened to know that
some of you here this morning,
00:39:26.87\00:39:31.90
some of you watching
on television right now,
00:39:31.93\00:39:34.68
some of you have
been severely wounded
00:39:34.71\00:39:38.23
at the hands of
another human being.
00:39:38.26\00:39:42.56
The pain you have
suffered is so sharp,
00:39:42.59\00:39:45.26
it is so keen, it is
so close to the surface
00:39:45.29\00:39:49.22
that it literally throbs
00:39:49.25\00:39:50.78
in every waking
activity of your life.
00:39:50.81\00:39:55.65
That pain, and you
don't want to let it go.
00:39:55.68\00:40:01.81
Something deep
inside of you is crying,
00:40:01.84\00:40:03.55
I got to have
vengeance on this one.
00:40:03.58\00:40:08.23
And so you forgive,
you refuse to forgive,
00:40:08.26\00:40:11.26
so hurtful a wound, so
evil a wounder like that.
00:40:11.29\00:40:16.03
My friend, in the name of mercy,
00:40:16.06\00:40:18.44
in the name of mercy let it go
00:40:18.47\00:40:23.93
for you are only
killing yourself.
00:40:23.96\00:40:30.78
Harold Kushner, you
heard of Harold Kushner,
00:40:30.81\00:40:33.73
best selling rabbi author,
00:40:33.76\00:40:36.22
tells in Simon
Wiesenthal book Sunflower
00:40:36.25\00:40:39.24
he writes an essay there.
00:40:39.27\00:40:40.62
And Kushner tells of a time
00:40:40.65\00:40:42.48
when one of his woman
parishioners came to him.
00:40:42.51\00:40:44.93
So I am, that's the moment.
00:40:44.96\00:40:46.12
She is coming to see
her pastor the rabbi.
00:40:46.15\00:40:48.59
He describes it now.
00:40:48.62\00:40:49.65
She is, she is a
single mother, divorced,
00:40:49.68\00:40:53.28
working to support
herself and three young children
00:40:53.31\00:40:56.03
and she says to me.
00:40:56.06\00:40:57.14
Listen to this "Since my
husband walked out on us,
00:40:57.17\00:40:59.94
every month is a
struggle to pay our bills.
00:40:59.97\00:41:02.09
I have to tell my
kids we have no money
00:41:02.12\00:41:04.10
to go to the movies,
00:41:04.13\00:41:05.62
while he's living it up
00:41:05.65\00:41:06.68
with his new
wife in another state.
00:41:06.71\00:41:09.08
How can you tell
me to forgive him?"
00:41:09.11\00:41:12.04
I answer her,
00:41:15.88\00:41:18.37
"I'm not asking
you to forgive him
00:41:18.40\00:41:22.26
because what he
did was acceptable.
00:41:22.29\00:41:25.05
It wasn't; it
was mean and selfish,
00:41:25.08\00:41:27.01
I'm asking you to forgive
00:41:27.04\00:41:28.29
because he doesn't deserve
the power to live in your head
00:41:28.32\00:41:31.57
and turn you into a
bitter, angry woman.
00:41:31.60\00:41:36.65
I'd like to see
him out of your life
00:41:36.68\00:41:37.88
emotionally as completely
00:41:37.91\00:41:39.55
as he is out of
your life physically,
00:41:39.58\00:41:41.29
but you keep holding on to him.
00:41:41.32\00:41:44.14
You're not hurting him
00:41:44.17\00:41:45.20
by holding on
to that resentment,
00:41:45.23\00:41:46.81
but you're hurting yourself."
00:41:46.84\00:41:51.10
Ladies and gentlemen, I
remind you that at Cavalry
00:41:51.13\00:41:54.14
mercy has come
running for all us
00:41:54.17\00:41:56.46
and has forgiven all of
us of all our sins abundant.
00:41:56.49\00:42:01.74
Two hundred thousand
years of hell and hard labor
00:42:01.77\00:42:04.07
have been wiped by
that quivering prayer.
00:42:04.10\00:42:06.67
"Father, forgive all of
them, forgive all of them,
00:42:06.70\00:42:09.83
they don't know
what they are doing."
00:42:09.86\00:42:13.23
For mercy we have
all freely received,
00:42:13.26\00:42:15.24
for mercy therefore we must
all freely give, forgive him.
00:42:15.27\00:42:20.78
Forgive her.
00:42:20.81\00:42:22.46
She did not know
what she was doing to me,
00:42:22.49\00:42:24.16
he did not know.
00:42:24.19\00:42:26.05
Oh God, a pray of
mercy upon the cross
00:42:26.08\00:42:31.96
must become the
prayer on the mercy
00:42:31.99\00:42:35.19
that comes running through You.
00:42:35.22\00:42:37.10
Blessed are the merciful
for they shall obtain mercy.
00:42:37.13\00:42:41.93
Freely you received now,
00:42:41.96\00:42:44.81
now please,
please, please freely give.
00:42:44.84\00:42:47.74
With your
permission here enclosing.
00:42:47.77\00:42:52.21
I like to follow a rather,
unexpected twist in this tale.
00:42:52.24\00:42:58.48
In fact, would you
jot these down please?
00:42:58.51\00:42:59.72
"Freely you have received,
freely give in terms of mercy,
00:42:59.75\00:43:03.51
yes," in terms of mercy.
00:43:03.54\00:43:05.40
But also jot these down.
00:43:05.43\00:43:06.54
"But also in works of mercy."
00:43:06.57\00:43:08.99
Not just the terms of
mercy in works of mercy.
00:43:09.02\00:43:11.68
In the works of
mercy for the poor.
00:43:11.71\00:43:15.14
Two Sundays ago
in my Sunday paper,
00:43:15.17\00:43:16.92
boy, this caught my eye.
00:43:16.95\00:43:19.25
Let me share this with you.
Take a look at this headline.
00:43:19.28\00:43:20.96
You see this, this
is the Sunday paper
00:43:20.99\00:43:23.40
two weeks ago
tomorrow, all right.
00:43:23.43\00:43:25.24
Here's the headline, you see it?
00:43:25.27\00:43:27.76
Record numbers
are in severe poverty.
00:43:27.79\00:43:31.96
Keep your study
guide right there
00:43:31.99\00:43:33.02
because I want to
give you some stats
00:43:33.05\00:43:34.08
and you fill these in.
00:43:34.11\00:43:35.14
Let me just read the preamble.
00:43:35.17\00:43:36.96
"Dateline Washington,
00:43:36.99\00:43:38.02
"The percentage
of poor Americans
00:43:38.05\00:43:39.31
who are living in severe poverty
has reached a 32-year high,
00:43:39.34\00:43:43.19
millions of working
Americans are falling
00:43:43.22\00:43:45.25
closer to the poverty line
00:43:45.28\00:43:46.77
and the gulf
between the nation's 'haves'
00:43:46.80\00:43:48.37
and 'have-nots'
continues to widen."
00:43:48.40\00:43:50.58
Do you understand
that just this week
00:43:50.61\00:43:52.84
a Forbes Magazine has come out
00:43:52.87\00:43:56.03
with a 500 wealthiest
human beings in the world
00:43:56.06\00:43:59.38
and they are only
getting wealthier.
00:43:59.41\00:44:03.70
What this headline is telling us
00:44:03.73\00:44:05.01
is that the poor
in the same world
00:44:05.04\00:44:08.07
and at the same time
are only getting poorer.
00:44:08.10\00:44:14.09
Unless you are a
incorrigible capitalist
00:44:14.12\00:44:19.37
that should bother
you, that should bother you.
00:44:19.40\00:44:24.48
All right, jot it now.
00:44:24.51\00:44:27.15
Now let me read these numbers.
00:44:27.18\00:44:29.12
It's in your study guide.
00:44:29.15\00:44:30.18
"Nearly 16 million Americans,"
00:44:30.21\00:44:31.46
would you write that
numbering nearly 16 million.
00:44:31.49\00:44:34.71
"16 million Americans are living
in deep or severe poverty."
00:44:34.74\00:44:39.19
By the way let me
just hit the pause button.
00:44:39.22\00:44:40.43
You know what that is?
00:44:40.46\00:44:41.73
A family of four
with two children
00:44:41.76\00:44:43.45
and an annual income, get this,
00:44:43.48\00:44:45.00
an annual income
of less than $9,903
00:44:45.03\00:44:48.88
they are
actually Americans living
00:44:48.91\00:44:51.37
on less the $9,903 a year,
family of four, family of four.
00:44:51.40\00:44:58.51
Nearly 16 millions
Americans are living in deep
00:44:58.54\00:45:00.42
or severe poverty.
Keep your pen moving.
00:45:00.45\00:45:02.45
"The share of poor Americans
00:45:02.48\00:45:03.92
the deep poverty
is climbed slowly
00:45:03.95\00:45:05.31
but steadily over
the last three decades
00:45:05.34\00:45:06.83
but since 2000" hold now
"the number of severely poor"
00:45:06.86\00:45:10.91
and this is quoting the American
Journal of Preventive Medicine.
00:45:10.94\00:45:13.26
"The number of
severely poor has grown
00:45:13.29\00:45:15.21
more than any other
segment of the population."
00:45:15.24\00:45:18.40
The fastest growing
demographic slice in America
00:45:18.43\00:45:22.12
are the severely poor,
00:45:22.15\00:45:24.01
not they're marginally
poor the severely poor.
00:45:24.04\00:45:26.20
They're growing
faster than anybody else.
00:45:26.23\00:45:28.07
What does that
tell you about this?
00:45:28.10\00:45:29.23
What does that tell you?
00:45:29.26\00:45:30.72
What does tell you?
00:45:30.75\00:45:34.01
One in three, jot this down.
00:45:34.04\00:45:35.35
"One and three severely
poor people are under 17."
00:45:35.38\00:45:39.95
Isn't that amazing under 17?
00:45:39.98\00:45:42.94
High schoolers or younger
00:45:42.97\00:45:44.31
and nearly two out
of three are female.
00:45:44.34\00:45:46.47
"Female headed families
00:45:46.50\00:45:47.54
with children
account for a large"
00:45:47.57\00:45:49.42
write it in "share
of the severely poor."
00:45:49.45\00:45:52.71
Now come on, come on,
Dwight, come on pastor,
00:45:52.74\00:45:56.09
I don't know any poor people.
00:45:56.12\00:45:58.08
I don't know any
fatherless children.
00:45:58.11\00:45:59.67
I mean, you know, I
got to just live my life.
00:45:59.70\00:46:02.13
What do you mean you
don't know any poor people?
00:46:02.16\00:46:03.87
You know poor people.
00:46:03.90\00:46:05.61
We got them right here
00:46:05.64\00:46:06.82
and we got them 12 miles
up the road in a inner city
00:46:06.85\00:46:09.57
called Benton Harbor, Michigan.
00:46:09.60\00:46:11.67
Ever heard of that place?
00:46:11.70\00:46:13.29
We got the poor
living on our very doorsteps.
00:46:13.32\00:46:18.04
I got an anguished letter
00:46:18.07\00:46:19.49
and I'm not even gonna quote
from this letter, anguished.
00:46:19.52\00:46:22.29
The writer writing to me,
00:46:22.32\00:46:23.35
she is working at a Harbor
of Hope Church a little church
00:46:23.38\00:46:25.52
that we planted up there
and she is writing its 4:30
00:46:25.55\00:46:27.54
in the morning in the Lord has
impressed me to write to you.
00:46:27.57\00:46:32.31
And then she tells me
two pages worth of stories.
00:46:32.34\00:46:35.61
And she is saying "Pastor,
you have to got to plead
00:46:35.64\00:46:39.60
with our home church at Pioneer
and Andrews to help us please."
00:46:39.63\00:46:44.94
And you know what she quotes.
00:46:44.97\00:46:46.46
She quotes, she
quotes the scriptures
00:46:46.49\00:46:48.35
right back in to my face.
00:46:48.38\00:46:49.96
Hosea 6:6 don't you
understand what does means.
00:46:49.99\00:46:53.39
"I delight a
mercy not sacrifice."
00:46:53.42\00:46:57.58
Where was the mercy?
00:46:57.61\00:46:59.47
We are dying up
here without help.
00:46:59.50\00:47:04.44
I have read that
letter and I said to myself
00:47:04.47\00:47:08.03
oh, boy, how can I be
preaching my heart out
00:47:08.06\00:47:11.38
on God's appeal to
have mercy on the human race
00:47:11.41\00:47:14.55
and not--and not for
you and me have a moment
00:47:14.58\00:47:19.11
when we stretch out of our
00:47:19.14\00:47:21.68
terrible
comfortable comfort zone
00:47:21.71\00:47:24.44
and remember that less
than 12 miles up the road
00:47:24.47\00:47:27.38
some other severely, the highest
00:47:27.41\00:47:29.38
the fastest growing
demographic slice in America
00:47:29.41\00:47:31.40
is right up the road
severely poor, severely poor.
00:47:31.43\00:47:34.55
Have you ever gone to
a house in Benton Harbor?
00:47:34.58\00:47:36.66
We got 120 kids who
are going this afternoon
00:47:36.69\00:47:38.60
to a house in Benton Harbor.
00:47:38.63\00:47:39.77
You go sometime,
you look at that home
00:47:39.80\00:47:41.84
and you tell me is
that not severely poor.
00:47:41.87\00:47:43.89
I came across these
words written 100-years ago
00:47:47.88\00:47:49.59
and the classic on
the Sermon on the Mount,
00:47:49.62\00:47:51.43
Thoughts From the
Mount of Blessing.
00:47:51.46\00:47:52.67
You have to fill
into very key words
00:47:52.70\00:47:54.84
take a look at that
in your study guide.
00:47:54.87\00:47:56.66
Very frank appeal, isn't this?
00:47:56.69\00:47:59.19
"So also with the gifts
and blessings of this life,"
00:47:59.22\00:48:01.96
you got them and I do
00:48:01.99\00:48:03.15
"whatever you make
possess above your fellows
00:48:03.18\00:48:07.82
places you in
debt." Write it in.
00:48:07.85\00:48:10.78
whatever you had
that's more than somebody else
00:48:10.81\00:48:12.71
"places you in
debt to that degree,
00:48:12.74\00:48:15.10
to all who are less favored.
00:48:15.13\00:48:18.19
Have we wealth," and all
of us saying in our hearts.
00:48:22.02\00:48:25.62
No, no, no, no, not me.
00:48:25.65\00:48:28.43
I understand that we
are very poor church.
00:48:28.46\00:48:30.47
"Have we wealth." No.
00:48:34.29\00:48:36.54
"Or even the comforts of life."
00:48:36.57\00:48:40.68
How many have a very
comfortable dormitory room.
00:48:40.71\00:48:43.79
Don't put your
hands up, don't put.
00:48:43.82\00:48:46.69
Come on, we got the
comforts the life here.
00:48:46.72\00:48:48.87
I have seen some of
these homes in the community.
00:48:48.90\00:48:51.00
We have got the
comforts of life.
00:48:51.03\00:48:52.78
Andrews's employees
have the comforts of life.
00:48:52.81\00:48:54.44
Trust me, we have
the comforts of life.
00:48:54.47\00:48:57.10
You are not wealthy
I understand nor am I,
00:48:57.13\00:49:00.37
but you have comforts of life.
00:49:00.40\00:49:04.72
"Have we wealth or
even the comforts of life,
00:49:04.75\00:49:06.62
then we are under the
most solemn obligation to care
00:49:06.65\00:49:09.31
for the suffering sick,
00:49:09.34\00:49:10.48
the widow, and the fatherless"
00:49:10.51\00:49:12.01
and here comes the
punch line "exactly,"
00:49:12.04\00:49:14.39
write it in.
00:49:14.42\00:49:15.45
"Exactly as we will
desire them to care for us
00:49:15.48\00:49:18.20
where our conditions
and theirs to be reversed."
00:49:18.23\00:49:20.96
If I am living in Benton Harbor
00:49:20.99\00:49:22.46
and you are living
in Andrew's University
00:49:22.49\00:49:24.34
I would beg in the name of mercy
00:49:24.37\00:49:26.33
for somebody to
come up the street
00:49:26.36\00:49:28.63
because my boyfriend is in jail.
00:49:28.66\00:49:32.31
I had two kids, and
does not anybody care.
00:49:32.34\00:49:38.01
What are you a Christian
college down the roads,
00:49:38.04\00:49:39.54
is that true?
00:49:39.57\00:49:41.73
If our tables were
reversed wouldn't you want me
00:49:41.76\00:49:45.50
to come to you if you
were in Benton Harbor?
00:49:45.53\00:49:48.32
But of course you would.
00:49:48.35\00:49:50.58
You know what I wish.
00:49:53.31\00:49:55.12
Now you're gonna be
mad at me for saying this.
00:49:55.15\00:49:58.95
I wish a hundred of
you would pull up stakes
00:49:58.98\00:50:00.67
in this church
and move up there.
00:50:00.70\00:50:02.51
You are not to move house
00:50:02.54\00:50:03.84
just move your body
on Sabbath up there,
00:50:03.87\00:50:07.30
one hundred of you.
00:50:07.33\00:50:09.72
Oh, it will be tough
it will be rough on you
00:50:09.75\00:50:11.14
and rough on us.
00:50:11.17\00:50:14.19
But God would empower you
there and do you know what,
00:50:14.22\00:50:18.16
He would replace you here.
00:50:18.19\00:50:20.51
Not one of us
is the replaceable.
00:50:20.54\00:50:22.75
He would find somebody else
00:50:22.78\00:50:23.91
if a hundred of these
seats just now went empty
00:50:23.94\00:50:26.23
and you moved up
to start worshipping
00:50:26.26\00:50:27.68
in the little
Harbor of Hope Church,
00:50:27.71\00:50:28.93
number one, they would
rise up and call you blessed.
00:50:28.96\00:50:32.12
They would rise up and call
you blessed you be the most,
00:50:32.15\00:50:34.25
you'd be a hero in
a whole lot of books
00:50:34.28\00:50:36.88
because they are battling alone.
00:50:36.91\00:50:39.13
So number one,
00:50:39.16\00:50:40.48
if they would be so
tickled but number two God,
00:50:40.51\00:50:45.09
through you would
send mercy a running in.
00:50:45.12\00:50:47.34
So come on I know, I
got to have all this.
00:50:47.37\00:50:49.35
I got to have this.
00:50:49.38\00:50:50.83
Yeah, really.
How good is all this?
00:50:50.86\00:50:55.41
If I stay here week after
week after week after week
00:50:55.44\00:50:58.05
at I never let
mercy run through me.
00:50:58.08\00:51:02.91
It's not good at all.
00:51:02.94\00:51:05.48
I was hundred of you,
00:51:05.51\00:51:07.14
I was hundred of
you would pull up
00:51:07.17\00:51:08.47
your stakes and move up there.
00:51:08.50\00:51:10.27
So what can I do in that?
00:51:10.30\00:51:11.41
You know, you
know what you could do.
00:51:11.44\00:51:13.24
They got a kitchen up there
00:51:13.27\00:51:14.38
where they provide food
for those who come on Sabbaths.
00:51:14.41\00:51:16.95
If nothing else you
could help in the kitchen.
00:51:16.98\00:51:20.32
You can meet with my
friend Pastor Frank Yap,
00:51:20.35\00:51:22.98
eight to nine, eight
to nine in the morning
00:51:23.01\00:51:24.66
he is praying the God
will clean up this place
00:51:24.69\00:51:26.59
and make it a
haven a harbor of hope
00:51:26.62\00:51:29.57
for people who have
walked through these doors.
00:51:29.60\00:51:32.54
We got kids who
need a role model
00:51:32.57\00:51:34.89
and an adult that
will not abuse them.
00:51:34.92\00:51:38.79
An adult that will
love them and give them hugs
00:51:38.82\00:51:40.83
and only mean by that hug
I love you as a child of God.
00:51:40.86\00:51:47.60
We got a church in need up
there ladies and gentlemen.
00:51:47.63\00:51:51.99
I am not trying to
make you feel guilty,
00:51:52.02\00:51:54.01
what I am trying to do is--
00:51:54.04\00:51:55.22
I bet you there a hundred
of you here who could rise up
00:51:55.25\00:51:58.29
and go up there
and help us up there.
00:51:58.32\00:52:00.70
Our students are going out
this afternoon at 3 o'clock
00:52:00.73\00:52:02.50
why don't you go up
with then why don't--
00:52:02.53\00:52:03.56
you are student here
go, go on jump on a bus.
00:52:03.59\00:52:06.72
You wont' gonna be
doing anything else anyway.
00:52:06.75\00:52:09.76
Jump on the bus, walk
the streets of Benton Harbor
00:52:09.79\00:52:12.05
that's all you have to do
00:52:12.08\00:52:13.11
looking into one of
those severe poverty homes
00:52:13.14\00:52:14.94
and ask yourself the question
00:52:14.97\00:52:17.16
"I have the comforts of
life what can I be doing.
00:52:17.19\00:52:19.30
I can't give anything
that taking every penny
00:52:19.33\00:52:21.31
I have here at the
university but I can give time.
00:52:21.34\00:52:24.69
And give them myself.
00:52:24.72\00:52:26.75
And give my energy."
00:52:26.78\00:52:29.54
The next years
Sabbath spring break
00:52:29.57\00:52:30.93
take them off don't
come here go up there.
00:52:30.96\00:52:37.05
Check it out.
00:52:37.08\00:52:38.11
Just, just show up in
the Harbor of Hope Church.
00:52:38.14\00:52:41.54
It would be tough to lose you
00:52:41.57\00:52:44.35
but God can replace you here.
00:52:44.38\00:52:47.29
Because you know
what, this is how it works.
00:52:47.32\00:52:49.01
When you empty the
pews here others come.
00:52:49.04\00:52:52.44
That's how the kingdom grows.
00:52:52.47\00:52:53.94
We only grow when
we are seeking to grow.
00:52:53.97\00:52:58.30
We are saying bring on,
bring on give me another one.
00:52:58.33\00:53:00.28
Give me another big
Sabbath here man, I am happy.
00:53:00.31\00:53:02.06
As long as you give
keep giving me this Sabbath
00:53:02.09\00:53:03.64
I will be just fine thank you.
00:53:03.67\00:53:05.09
We'll never grow.
00:53:05.12\00:53:06.72
We'll saturate
and then stagnate.
00:53:06.75\00:53:10.44
It's called the
Dead Sea, principle.
00:53:10.47\00:53:12.64
The water flows into a body
00:53:12.67\00:53:14.77
the water needs
to come back out.
00:53:14.80\00:53:15.88
If the water cannot come out
00:53:15.91\00:53:17.17
the water that
flows into the body
00:53:17.20\00:53:18.37
it will grow stagnant.
00:53:18.40\00:53:19.61
The Dead Sea is the
deadest sea on earth
00:53:19.64\00:53:21.98
because it has no outlet.
00:53:22.01\00:53:23.17
It just keeps
everything it gets.
00:53:23.20\00:53:24.60
It just sucks it up.
00:53:24.63\00:53:27.70
If I am just
sucking it up I'll die.
00:53:27.73\00:53:31.56
Mercy has to come
running through me.
00:53:31.59\00:53:33.78
What do we, what do we
read just in the moment ago
00:53:33.81\00:53:35.68
"Whatever you may posses
above your fellows places
00:53:35.71\00:53:38.12
you in debt that degree,
to all who are less favored.
00:53:38.15\00:53:41.55
Have we wealth, or
even the comforts of life
00:53:41.58\00:53:43.20
then we are under the
most solemn obligation
00:53:43.23\00:53:45.03
to care for the
suffering sick, the widow,
00:53:45.06\00:53:46.93
the fatherless exactly as
00:53:46.96\00:53:48.53
we would desire
than to care for us
00:53:48.56\00:53:50.29
were our condition and
theirs to be reversed."
00:53:50.32\00:53:52.95
You know what, would
you like to experiment
00:53:52.98\00:53:54.39
to just don't go up there
00:53:54.42\00:53:55.51
don't make a
live commitment yet.
00:53:55.54\00:53:58.09
We have a way that we would
love to have you experiments.
00:53:58.12\00:54:00.08
In your bulletin
today "Escaping The Matrix"
00:54:00.11\00:54:03.61
that's the theme of
our evangelistic series
00:54:03.64\00:54:05.12
beginning in three
weeks up in Benton Harbor
00:54:05.15\00:54:06.94
"Escaping The Matrix."
00:54:06.97\00:54:08.55
Would you take
this out and say hey,
00:54:08.58\00:54:09.79
I could do that, I could help.
00:54:09.82\00:54:11.10
Just check it out
try it, just try it.
00:54:11.13\00:54:13.41
Don't make a life commitment
00:54:13.44\00:54:14.82
just come up here
and visit with us try it.
00:54:14.85\00:54:17.87
Say I could help fill
this and give it to me,
00:54:17.90\00:54:19.70
give it to escape give
it to any of our pastors,
00:54:19.73\00:54:21.60
give it to anybody.
00:54:21.63\00:54:22.68
Just say, I'll be willing
to come up after spring break.
00:54:22.71\00:54:25.28
I'll be willing go up
there and help just a little.
00:54:25.31\00:54:28.50
Try it, just try it.
00:54:28.53\00:54:31.09
Oh, Jesus says, I
for I say onto you.
00:54:31.12\00:54:34.04
For I say onto you.
00:54:34.07\00:54:36.77
Freely you receive from me
00:54:36.80\00:54:39.32
now please freely in
my name give to them.
00:54:39.35\00:54:46.31
Please in the name
of mercy give to them.
00:54:46.34\00:54:54.16
Let us stand as we
pray the benediction.
00:54:54.19\00:54:56.53
Holy Father, mercy
came in running to us
00:55:04.61\00:55:07.05
200,000-years of
hard labor wiped out
00:55:07.08\00:55:09.48
with the wave of Calvary's hand,
00:55:09.51\00:55:11.18
Father, forgive them they
don't know what they're doing.
00:55:11.21\00:55:14.29
I beg of You forgive them,
00:55:14.32\00:55:16.67
take my debt and
place it to their account,
00:55:16.70\00:55:20.19
forgive them please.
00:55:20.22\00:55:24.42
We just walked out of
the palace this morning.
00:55:24.45\00:55:27.43
We are walking out of the palace
the sky could not be bluer,
00:55:27.46\00:55:30.79
no one that are
dead has been raised.
00:55:30.82\00:55:33.38
The air couldn't be fresher,
the birds couldn't be sweeter.
00:55:33.41\00:55:35.93
It is so great to be alive
our debt has been forgiven.
00:55:35.96\00:55:41.11
Oh, Father, please
don't let the story Jesus told
00:55:41.14\00:55:46.49
turning into our story too.
00:55:46.52\00:55:48.45
Don't let us
drive by Benton Harbor
00:55:48.48\00:55:51.82
and not respond.
00:55:55.61\00:55:57.93
Don't let us sleep comfortably
00:55:57.96\00:56:00.83
if mercy is bottled up
in our dead seas hearts.
00:56:00.86\00:56:04.69
Please Father, for
the sake of our salvation,
00:56:04.72\00:56:07.81
we got to let it
go that dead water out
00:56:07.84\00:56:11.85
let mercy flow through us.
00:56:11.88\00:56:14.39
I don't know
what you want for him,
00:56:14.42\00:56:15.82
I don't know
what you want for her,
00:56:15.85\00:56:17.54
I know what
You're asking for me.
00:56:17.57\00:56:19.82
And we are standing before You
00:56:19.85\00:56:21.15
and we're humbly asking of You
00:56:21.18\00:56:23.96
that You'll give us the
courage having been forgiven
00:56:23.99\00:56:28.61
that massive debt
please give us the courage.
00:56:28.64\00:56:34.26
Freely receiving as
we have to now freely
00:56:34.29\00:56:39.52
give on behalf of
our Lord Jesus Christ.
00:56:39.55\00:56:43.69
Let all the
people say amen and amen.
00:56:43.72\00:56:48.41
Let me take one
more moment of you time
00:57:00.64\00:57:02.41
to let you know
that one of the blessings
00:57:02.44\00:57:03.80
I've received from this telecast
00:57:03.83\00:57:05.68
is being in touch with viewers
like you all across Michigan
00:57:05.71\00:57:08.65
and our nation and
literally the world.
00:57:08.68\00:57:11.23
I'm humbled and honored
00:57:11.26\00:57:12.29
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00:57:12.32\00:57:13.58
Sometimes it's a Bible question
00:57:13.61\00:57:15.30
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00:57:15.33\00:57:17.70
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00:57:17.73\00:57:19.58
or a prayer request.
00:57:19.61\00:57:21.11
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00:57:21.14\00:57:23.84
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00:57:23.87\00:57:25.50
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00:57:25.53\00:57:29.37
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00:57:29.40\00:57:32.53
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00:57:32.56\00:57:35.11
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00:57:37.79\00:57:42.20
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00:57:46.08\00:57:48.45
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00:57:56.00\00:57:58.01
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00:57:58.04\00:57:59.94
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00:57:59.97\00:58:04.13
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00:58:04.16\00:58:06.65