Give thanks to the Lord
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Our God and King
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His love endures forever
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For He is good
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He is above all things
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His love endures forever
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Sing praise
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Sing praise
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Sing praise
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Sing praise
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Forever God is faithful
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Forever God is strong
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Forever God is with us
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Forever and ever
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With a mighty hand
and an outstretched arm
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His love endures forever
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For the life that's been reborn
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His love endures forever
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Sing praise
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Sing praise
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Sing praise
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Sing praise
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Forever
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Forever God is faithful
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Forever God is strong
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Forever God is with us
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Forever and ever
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From the rising
to the setting sun
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His love endures forever
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And by the grace of God
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We will carry on
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His love endures forever
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Sing praise
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Sing praise
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Hallelujah, sing praise
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Sing praise, sing praise
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Let sing it up forever.
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Forever God is faithful
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Forever God is strong
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Forever God is with us
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Forever and ever
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Forever God is faithful
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Forever God is strong
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Forever God is with us
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Forever and ever, forever
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Hallelujah.
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The church said amen.
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Amen. Amen.
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Because God is faithful to us,
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we say in this next
song "Blessed Be Your Name,"
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for Your steadfast love,
for Your continued mercies.
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Blessed Be Your Name.
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Blessed be Your Name
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In the land that is plentiful
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Where Your
streams of abundance flow
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Blessed be Your name
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Blessed Be Your name
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When I'm found
in the desert place
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Though I walk
through the wilderness
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Blessed Be Your name
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Every blessing
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Every blessing You pour out
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I'll turn back to praise
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Into the darkness.
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When the
darkness closes in, Lord
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Still I will say
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Blessed be the name of the Lord
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Blessed be Your name
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Blessed be the name of the Lord
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Blessed be Your glorious name
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Blessed be Your name
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When the sun's
shining down on me
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When the world's
all as it should be
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Blessed be Your name
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Blessed be Your name
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On the road
marked with suffering
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Though there's
pain in the offering
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Blessed be Your name
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Let's sing it
out every blessing.
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Every blessing You pour out
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I'll turn back to praise
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When the
darkness closes in, Lord,
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Still I will say
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Blessed be the name of the Lord
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Blessed be Your name
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Blessed be the name of the Lord
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Blessed be Your glorious name
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You give and take away.
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You give and take away
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You give and take away
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My heart will choose to stay
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Lord, blessed be Your name
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You give.
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You give and take away
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You give and take away
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My heart will choose to say
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Lord, blessed be Your name
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Blessed be Your name of the Lord
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Blessed be Your name
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Blessed be Your name of the Lord
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Blessed be Your glorious name
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Blessed be the name of the Lord
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Blessed be Your name
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Blessed be the name of the Lord
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Blessed be Your glorious name
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Amen.
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My Jesus, I love
thee. I know thou art mine.
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My Jesus
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I love thee
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I know thou art mine
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For thee
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All the follies
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Of sin
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I resign
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My gracious Redeemer.
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My gracious Redeemer
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My Savior art thou
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If ever
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I loved thee
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My Jesus
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'Tis now
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You may be seated.
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Thank you for the cross, Lord
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Thank you for the price You paid
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Bearing all my sin and shame
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In love You came
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And gave amazing grace
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Thank you for this love, Lord.
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Thank you for this love, Lord
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Thank you for the
nail-pierced hands
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Washed me in Your cleansing flow
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Now all I know
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Your forgiveness and embrace
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Sing together.
Worthy is the Lamb.
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Worthy is the Lamb
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Seated on the throne
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Crown You now with many crowns
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You reign victorious
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High and lifted up
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Jesus, Son of God
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The Darling of heaven crucified
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Worthy is the Lamb
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Worthy is the Lamb
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Sing together. Thank
you for the cross, Lord.
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Thank you for the cross, Lord
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Thank you for the price You paid
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Bearing all my sin and shame
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In love You came
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And gave amazing grace
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Thank you for this love.
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Thank you for this love, Lord
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Thank you for the
nail-pierced hands
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Washed me in Your cleansing flow
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Now all I know
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Your forgiveness and embrace
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Worthy is the Lamb
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Worthy is the Lamb
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Seated on the throne
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Crown You now with many crowns
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You reign victorious
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High and lifted up
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Jesus, Son of God
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The Darling of heaven crucified
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Worthy.
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Worthy is the Lamb
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Worthy is the Lamb
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Worthy is the Lamb
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Worthy is the Lamb
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Worthy is the Lamb.
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Worthy is the Lamb
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Seated on the throne
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Crown You now with many crowns
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You reign victorious
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High and lifted up
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Jesus, Son of God
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Jesus, Son of God
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The Darling of heaven.
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The Darling of heaven crucified
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Hallelujah.
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Worthy is the Lamb
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Worthy is the Lamb
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Worthy is the Lamb
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Worthy is the Lamb
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Worthy.
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Worthy is the Lamb
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Amen.
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O come
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Let us adore Him
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O come
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Let us adore Him
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O come
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Let us adore Him
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Christ
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The Lord
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Sing that again.
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O come
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Let us adore Him
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O come
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Let us adore Him
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O come let us
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Adore Him
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Christ the Lord
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Hallelujah
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Hallelujah
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Hallelujah
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Hallelujah
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What stood will stand
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Though all be fallen
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The good return
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That time has stolen
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Though creatures groan in misery
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Their flesh prefigures liberty
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To end travail
and bring to birth
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Their new
perfection in new earth
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Hallelujah, Hallelujah
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Hallelujah
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Hallelujah, Hallelujah
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Hallelujah
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Hallelujah, Hallelujah
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At word of that enlivening
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Let the trees of
the wood all sing
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And every field rejoice
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Let praise
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Rise up out of
the ground like grass
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Hallelujah, Hallelujah
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Hallelujah
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Hallelujah
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Hallelujah
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Hallelujah
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Hallelujah, Hallelujah
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What stood
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whole in every piecemeal
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Thing that stood
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Will stand though all
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Hallelujah, Hallelujah
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Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
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Hallelujah, Hallelujah
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Fall-field and
wood and all in them
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Rejoin the primal Sabbath's hymn
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Hallelujah
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Hallelujah
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Hallelujah
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Hallelujah
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Hallelujah
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Hallelujah
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Hallelujah, Hallelujah
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Hallelujah, Hallelujah
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Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
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Hallelujah, Hallelujah
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Larry Ulery, one of the
Behavioral Science Faculty
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here at Andrews University,
sent me a test the other day.
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It's called the
hurry sickness test,
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he administers this
test in his class on stress.
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He teaches seminars on stress
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and when he's-- and
it's not a whimsical test,
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it's not you know
something to smile.
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It's just-- it's a serious test
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for type A
behavior kind of people.
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And when I took the test,
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I'm telling you,
I got it right here,
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when I took this test
I flunked it immediately.
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I mean guys, it's embarrassing
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you know, I wonder if we all.
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I-- I just wonder if we
all have hurry sickness,
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I mean do we all and these are--
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these are some of
the characteristic
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that you-- you pick about,
you recognize about yourself.
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Do we all hurry
the speech of others,
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come on, come on,
just hurry people on,
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come on, come on, do we say,
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yes and huh, yes and huh,
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yes and huh, huh, huh....
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We finish people sentences...
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Get on with it,
I got stuff to do.
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I wonder if we all
suffer from hurry sickness.
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He calls it polyphasic
thought or performance.
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Do you do-- do you
do polyphasic thought
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or performance, do you?
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That's when you think or do more
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than one thing simultaneously.
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While listening
you're thinking of tasks,
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while golfing
you're thinking of work,
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while eating you're reading,
and talking, and planning.
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We're always forever in a rush.
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And so Larry said hey, Dwight
my favorite tombstone epitaph.
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All right, you
know the tombstone is,
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you know what an epitaph,
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it's what you put on
there after you're gone.
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My favorite one he said is
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"Got everything
done still died."
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I got it all done. I still died.
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Hey you know what
guys, it doesn't matter
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if you get it all done
or not you're gonna die.
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You're gonna die.
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I think we all got
hurry sickness, don't we?
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It driven, driven,
driven, driven, driven.
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It must be God knew
that we were gonna have
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hurry sickness on this planet
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and so before you and I
were even born God designs this,
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this divine antidote saying
"I'm gonna give these to you,
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I'm going to mainline
it right into your system
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and when you get this antidote
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it will help cure you
of that hurry sickness."
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I am gonna give you
another 24 hour period.
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I've already had six, but
I'm gonna stick one more in
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and the seventh 24 hour period
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is my antidote to
your hurry sickness.
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The Bible calls it the Sabbath,
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but on this Sabbath
and in which we wrap up
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our little
serious call God's Party.
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We're gonna call it
God's Yahoo Day, Yahoo.
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Because ladies and gentleman,
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that is precisely
what the Sabbath is about.
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It is a day of yahoo.
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I want to share
with you a creation story
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we have never shared.
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We have been on two series
together the Sabbath series,
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and then it's book
ending right up with the--
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with God's Party series
that we'll wrap in today.
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We never went to
this creation account,
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so open your Bible
to the Book of Job.
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Just find the Book of Job.
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If you can find the Psalms,
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it will be the
book before the Psalms.
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In fact let me give
you the page number,
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it's page 300 rather,
365 in the Book of Job.
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Here's a creation story,
00:24:34.35\00:24:35.53
this is the creation
account, we never read it.
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You and I have never shared
these words together before,
00:24:38.28\00:24:40.74
but here is the Yahoo.
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This is the yahoo
of all the heaven.
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Okay, these is Job
38 you found it Job 38,
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I'm sorry, I gave
you the page number,
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didn't give the
chapter Job 38, Job 38:4.
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Okay, so Job pour me, pour me,
00:24:59.17\00:25:01.61
Job has finally run
out of his ammunition.
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Why is this happening to me?
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He is finally
through and God says,
00:25:07.72\00:25:09.32
"You're through
boy, take a breath.
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Listen to me, I got
some questions for you now.
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Listen to me son, Verse 4,
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"Where were you,"
Job 38:4 "Where were you
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when I laid the
foundations of the earth, huh?"
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Creation where were you?
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Tell me, if you
have any understanding.
00:25:24.28\00:25:25.75
Who determined its measurements?
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Surely you know!
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Or who stretched
the line upon it?
00:25:28.16\00:25:30.05
To what were its
foundations fastened?
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Or who laid its cornerstone,
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when the morning
stars sang together,
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and all the sons
of God shouted Yahoo!"
00:25:36.86\00:25:42.67
There it is, you know what
00:25:42.70\00:25:45.52
because of home
foreclosures going on right now,
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8000 foreclosures a
month now in the United States.
00:25:48.33\00:25:51.90
Most of you will never have
the joy of moving into a house
00:25:51.93\00:25:55.88
you design and
built from the ground up.
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Those days are over,
00:25:59.31\00:26:00.51
I never moved into
one of those either
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so don't feel bad.
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Huh,
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but people tell me that
when you've built this house
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and you've made the
plans and you've watched it
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go together piece
by, piece by, piece.
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There is a Yahoo moment,
00:26:14.81\00:26:16.86
when you walks through that door
00:26:16.89\00:26:18.30
and say yes, this is ours.
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That's what this is all about.
00:26:21.87\00:26:23.27
God spent six days
constructing a pristine planet
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and then walk through the
door and they all say "Yahoo!"
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they shouted for joy.
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I liked the way the
New Revised Standard
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puts this in Job 38,
00:26:36.02\00:26:38.70
"When the morning
stars sang together..."
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There is NRSV."
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At creation, the
morning stars sang together
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and all the heavenly beings,
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all the heavenly
beings shouted for joy."
00:26:49.16\00:26:52.28
You know what the
word for joy is in Hebrew?
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It's Yahoo! All right.
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What's the
matter after 25 years,
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you don't believe me?
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All right, take
out your study guide,
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let's get that down.
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Now one of the
Sabbath is God's Yahoo day.
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Thank you
ushers, we got the great,
00:27:09.37\00:27:10.94
great, great
ushers of the church
00:27:10.97\00:27:15.03
who are here today just--
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let's get the study
guides out please to anybody
00:27:16.67\00:27:18.47
who needs the study guide,
you'll like this they're five
00:27:18.50\00:27:20.52
very specific strategies for you
00:27:20.55\00:27:22.42
to turn the yahoo
day into full of yahoo.
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Five simple strategies,
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we are gonna end with
those in just a moment.
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Take your study guide, please,
00:27:27.41\00:27:28.73
if you didn't get
one, hold you hand up
00:27:28.76\00:27:30.21
and while
they're passing that out,
00:27:30.24\00:27:31.40
those of you who are
joining us on television,
00:27:31.43\00:27:33.10
we're delighted to have you.
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Let me put it on
the screen for you.
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If you go to our
website www.pmchurch.tv,
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that's our website.
00:27:40.05\00:27:41.26
You go there, you're
looking for the series,
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we're just wrapping it up today,
00:27:42.78\00:27:43.86
it's called God's Party.
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We started out with MySpace,
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and then we went to Facebook,
and then we went to YouTube,
00:27:46.81\00:27:49.01
and then we
went to Green Google,
00:27:49.04\00:27:50.46
and today it's Yahoo.
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You're looking for Yahoo
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and when it says
study guide there,
00:27:53.19\00:27:54.95
you click that
on and you'll have
00:27:54.98\00:27:56.33
the identical
study guide we have.
00:27:56.36\00:27:58.98
All right and by
the way those of you
00:27:59.01\00:28:00.75
who're leaving
now school years up,
00:28:00.78\00:28:02.54
you can keep in touch with us,
00:28:02.57\00:28:04.28
keep in touch with
us at that website,
00:28:04.31\00:28:06.39
you can get the podcast
and you get the video cast,
00:28:06.42\00:28:08.15
you do anything you want,
00:28:08.18\00:28:09.55
we want to keep
in touch with you.
00:28:09.58\00:28:11.58
We'd love to--
we'd love to have you
00:28:11.61\00:28:13.56
of course come back,
we're looking forward to your
00:28:13.59\00:28:14.97
coming back one of these days.
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All right, write it down please
00:28:16.92\00:28:18.01
sentence number one
in that study guide.
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"For a generation
with "hurry sickness,
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" the Sabbath is
God's Yahoo Day."
00:28:21.25\00:28:25.27
Write that down, the
Sabbath is God's Yahoo Day.
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And I am telling you what?
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You can almost here the yahoo
in the ancient Prophet Isaiah.
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This is one of the great
Sabbath passages in the Bible
00:28:32.98\00:28:35.31
we have saved till the
end, this is for yahoo Sabbath.
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Go to Isaiah Chapter 58,
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we'll end on this
passage Isaiah 58,
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Isaiah 58 page 500,
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there is a great
page number for you
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500 in our pew Bible if
you didn't bring your Bible,
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Grab your pew Bible
and read just two lines.
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Isaiah 58 two
line verses 13, and 14,
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Isaiah 58:13 God speaking
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"If you turn away
your foot from the Sabbath,
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and from doing your
pleasure on my holy day,
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hey, if you call
the Sabbath a delight,
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the holy day of the Lord
if you call it honorable,
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and you shall honor
Him, not doing your own ways,
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nor finding your own pleasure,
nor speaking your own words."
00:29:14.69\00:29:16.86
Then God said I
got a deal for you,
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"Then you shall
delight yourself in the Lord,
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and I will cause you to ride
on the high hills of the earth,
00:29:22.84\00:29:25.28
I will feed you with
the heritage of Jacob
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your father for the mouth
of the Lord has spoken it."
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What is God's
promise here? Write it down.
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"I have given you the Sabbath
to be a delight, delight."
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It's my Yahoo, My
Holy Day, My Yahoo Day.
00:29:38.90\00:29:42.51
"How much of a
delight? Hey, listen to this.
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This is kind of embarrassing
00:29:45.02\00:29:46.05
so we are not gonna
look the text up together.
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The same Hebrew word
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that Isaiah uses
here in Chapter 58:13,
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he will use one last time
in his book in Chapter 66:11
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when he describes a
little suckling baby
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at his mother's breast
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and he says "Now
there is delight."
00:30:02.11\00:30:05.10
How many of you
remember those days?
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If you have heard a baby,
have you ever heard a baby,
00:30:09.52\00:30:11.42
a suckling baby, nursing,
come on you have, haven't you?
00:30:11.45\00:30:15.52
I mean it is some sound.
00:30:15.55\00:30:17.00
That is a sound of
delight and hunger both,
00:30:17.03\00:30:19.44
just kind of...
00:30:19.47\00:30:22.32
Isaiah says "That,
that is what I want you,
00:30:22.35\00:30:27.62
I want you to find
in me on the Sabbath,
00:30:27.65\00:30:31.04
just like a nursing
baby on my holy day,
00:30:31.07\00:30:35.07
delight yourself in me."
00:30:35.10\00:30:36.27
Jot it down, will you?
00:30:36.30\00:30:37.33
The Hebrew word Isaiah chooses
00:30:37.36\00:30:38.53
for delight
describes a very person
00:30:38.56\00:30:41.23
it's either mother or
God, person focused joy.
00:30:41.26\00:30:44.62
A person focused joy,
that why keep your pen moving,
00:30:44.65\00:30:47.08
Job can explain back
in the book we were in.
00:30:47.11\00:30:49.35
Job 22:6,
00:30:49.38\00:30:50.73
"Then you will have your
delight in the Lord Almighty."
00:30:50.76\00:30:53.55
Like you were at
your mother's breast,
00:30:53.58\00:30:56.13
that's what you gonna
do, you gonna delight in God.
00:30:56.16\00:30:58.94
Ladies and
gentlemen, God is big.
00:30:58.97\00:31:01.73
God is big on
relationship, isn't He?
00:31:01.76\00:31:05.18
This is an-- this is
a person focused joy.
00:31:05.21\00:31:08.93
A joy that comes
every Sabbath day,
00:31:08.96\00:31:11.71
when we gather in
the presences of our God,
00:31:11.74\00:31:15.50
our forever friend,
our eternal creator, Yahoo!
00:31:15.53\00:31:20.14
Yup, it's back again, yeah.
00:31:20.17\00:31:23.67
So how can we get the most yahoo
00:31:23.70\00:31:24.79
out of God's Yahoo Day?
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Here's the question.
00:31:25.89\00:31:26.93
How can we get the most
yahoo out of the Sabbath?
00:31:26.96\00:31:30.30
Now, you're gonna fill
this in your study guide.
00:31:30.33\00:31:31.72
This is from Isaiah
58:13 from the New Revised,
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I like this "If you
refrain from trampling..."
00:31:35.37\00:31:37.94
Write that down, I
like that wording better,
00:31:37.97\00:31:40.40
"If you refrain from
trampling on the Sabbath."
00:31:40.43\00:31:47.75
The other night
Democratic presidential primary,
00:31:47.78\00:31:50.91
Philadelphia some of
you probably watched it,
00:31:50.94\00:31:54.04
got the report of it afterwards.
00:31:54.07\00:31:56.79
They put a video question
stuck it right into that.
00:31:56.82\00:32:02.09
Call her on video,
00:32:02.12\00:32:03.73
Barack Obama
what's up with that?
00:32:03.76\00:32:05.84
How can you never wear
00:32:05.87\00:32:06.93
the American flag on your lapel?
00:32:06.96\00:32:10.23
Oh, my, I'll tell you
what that, that was a set up.
00:32:10.26\00:32:14.66
Why? You know why?
00:32:14.69\00:32:16.18
What's the big deal?
00:32:16.21\00:32:17.28
Because respect
for you nations flag
00:32:17.31\00:32:19.61
whatever your nationality
we're a hundred nations here.
00:32:19.64\00:32:22.37
Respect for the
flag is considered
00:32:22.40\00:32:23.77
a primary virtue of patriotism,
00:32:23.80\00:32:26.55
if I-- look where is old glory?
00:32:26.58\00:32:28.78
If I took the stars and stripes,
00:32:28.81\00:32:30.50
brought old glory
here, threw it on the ground,
00:32:30.53\00:32:32.64
and then all over
just ground my feet in,
00:32:32.67\00:32:35.62
you would in an instant,
00:32:35.65\00:32:36.72
those of you that
are from this nation.
00:32:36.75\00:32:38.36
You'd sense that, you'd
sense that upfront, why?
00:32:38.39\00:32:42.91
Because a flag
represents a nation,
00:32:42.94\00:32:46.60
it represents-- it's
what the flag represents,
00:32:46.63\00:32:48.57
it represents the people.
00:32:48.60\00:32:50.68
Isaiah's point here
ladies and gentlemen,
00:32:50.71\00:32:52.15
is inescapable write it down,
00:32:52.18\00:32:53.74
"To trample on the
flag of the Sabbath
00:32:53.77\00:32:55.88
is paramount to
insulting the God
00:32:55.91\00:32:59.02
that the day represents."
00:32:59.05\00:33:01.33
When you trample on the Sabbath,
00:33:01.36\00:33:03.06
you are insulting
the one behind the flag
00:33:03.09\00:33:06.15
because remember the Sabbath
00:33:06.18\00:33:07.24
is a very person
center kind of joy,
00:33:07.27\00:33:10.45
a person's center kind of day.
00:33:10.48\00:33:12.10
So what's it mean to
trample on the Sabbath?
00:33:12.13\00:33:14.42
Take a look at those,
we'll put it on the screen here,
00:33:14.45\00:33:16.20
it's in your study guide.
00:33:16.23\00:33:17.27
You'll need to fill it
in, this is Isaiah 58:13.
00:33:17.30\00:33:19.44
Now the entire
verse in New Revised
00:33:19.47\00:33:21.23
"If you refrain from
trampling the Sabbath,
00:33:21.26\00:33:23.60
from pursuing your
own interest on my holy."
00:33:23.63\00:33:27.27
Write that in "On my holy day.
00:33:27.30\00:33:30.18
If you call the
Sabbath a delight
00:33:30.21\00:33:32.76
and the holy day
of the Lord honorable,
00:33:32.79\00:33:35.17
if you honor it,
not going your own ways,
00:33:35.20\00:33:37.35
serving your own interest,
00:33:37.38\00:33:38.42
or pursuing your own affairs..."
00:33:38.45\00:33:41.03
Hit the pause
button right there.
00:33:41.06\00:33:43.35
Hey, listen
what-- so what are we,
00:33:43.38\00:33:45.22
you wrote the word down
twice, what are we gonna do
00:33:45.25\00:33:46.73
with this old fashion word holy.
00:33:46.76\00:33:48.11
I mean who likes the
word holy that's just--
00:33:48.14\00:33:50.68
that is so blasé,,
holy, we even uses it anymore.
00:33:50.71\00:33:55.22
I'm gonna ask you
two questions about holy,
00:33:55.25\00:33:56.77
you tell me the answers.
00:33:56.80\00:33:57.85
You tell me the
answers right now.
00:33:57.88\00:33:59.29
Question number one.
00:33:59.32\00:34:01.42
Can God set aside
space and declare it holy.
00:34:01.45\00:34:05.46
This is where I
show up. Can God do that?
00:34:05.49\00:34:07.61
Does He has the
right to do that?
00:34:07.64\00:34:09.08
Hey, that's a whole story,
00:34:09.11\00:34:10.57
that's a whole story,
the burning bush isn't it?
00:34:10.60\00:34:13.03
I showed up here, hey, Moses,
00:34:13.06\00:34:14.43
take your shoes off,
you are now on holy ground
00:34:14.46\00:34:17.21
just a measly
little shrub before
00:34:17.24\00:34:19.40
but the moment God
infuses it, it's holy.
00:34:19.43\00:34:22.96
I mean come on the Jews,
the Israelites had that--
00:34:22.99\00:34:26.30
that little tent
church tabernacle that
00:34:26.33\00:34:28.90
moved all through the
wilderness for 40 years
00:34:28.93\00:34:31.08
and everywhere
they put it up, boom!
00:34:31.11\00:34:33.53
That is holy ground.
00:34:33.56\00:34:36.10
By the way, teenage
girl, little teenage virgin,
00:34:36.13\00:34:40.00
inside her womb God showed up
00:34:40.03\00:34:43.12
and the angel said "what
you have in your womb sis
00:34:43.15\00:34:46.41
is the holy one of God."
00:34:46.44\00:34:48.38
Can God occupy space and
say now the space is holy?
00:34:48.41\00:34:51.68
Yeah, He did, He
occupied the human being,
00:34:51.71\00:34:54.45
this is now this is holy.
00:34:54.48\00:34:56.80
So if God can occupy
space and declare it holy,
00:34:56.83\00:35:01.62
here's the follow up question.
00:35:01.65\00:35:02.89
Can God occupy time
and call it holy, can He?
00:35:02.92\00:35:08.92
But of course why not?
00:35:08.95\00:35:11.25
That what the Seventh-day
Sabbath is all about,
00:35:11.28\00:35:14.19
I have a whole week,
00:35:14.22\00:35:15.68
but God says
only one of those days
00:35:15.71\00:35:17.19
I personally occupy.
00:35:17.22\00:35:19.01
I set it ablaze
like the burning bush.
00:35:19.04\00:35:22.13
Can God do it?
00:35:22.16\00:35:23.20
You bet He can, in fact,
00:35:23.23\00:35:24.28
let's be clear
about this, jot it down.
00:35:24.31\00:35:25.74
When God
declares something holy,
00:35:25.77\00:35:27.69
there it is in your study guide.
00:35:27.72\00:35:28.91
"When God
declares something holy,
00:35:28.94\00:35:30.48
be it a burning bush,
or the Seventh-day Sabbath,
00:35:30.51\00:35:34.27
it is because he has
infused it with His" what?
00:35:34.30\00:35:38.86
"It's his presence,"
guys. It's not just His thought.
00:35:38.89\00:35:41.75
No, He's personally present
00:35:41.78\00:35:43.49
and that's what
makes something holy.
00:35:43.52\00:35:45.73
It can't be holy
if He's not present.
00:35:45.76\00:35:47.68
He's present in it
and it becomes holy.
00:35:47.71\00:35:52.62
Wow!
00:35:52.65\00:35:54.05
Let's read it again,
Isaiah 58:13-14 New Revised,
00:35:54.08\00:36:01.08
"If you refrain from
trampling the Sabbath,
00:36:01.11\00:36:03.31
from pursuing your own
interests on my holy day;
00:36:03.34\00:36:05.89
if you call the
Sabbath a delight
00:36:05.92\00:36:07.54
and the holy day
of the Lord honorable,
00:36:07.57\00:36:09.12
if you honor it,
not going your own ways,
00:36:09.15\00:36:12.43
serving your own interests,
or pursuing your own affairs,
00:36:12.46\00:36:14.79
then you shall take
delight in the Lord."
00:36:14.82\00:36:17.18
NIV, "Then
you'll find your joy."
00:36:17.21\00:36:20.83
You'll find your joy, Yahoo!
00:36:20.86\00:36:22.59
You will find
your joy in the Lord.
00:36:22.62\00:36:25.02
Why? Oh, this is it.
00:36:25.05\00:36:27.64
Because, write it
down, the joy of the Sabbath
00:36:27.67\00:36:31.01
is the presence
of God, that's why.
00:36:31.04\00:36:34.85
I repeat that,
the joy of the Sabbath
00:36:34.88\00:36:38.22
is the presence of God.
00:36:38.25\00:36:41.30
Oh, He's with me on
Sunday, He's with me on Monday,
00:36:41.33\00:36:43.78
Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
00:36:43.81\00:36:46.04
but when you come
to the seventh day.
00:36:46.07\00:36:47.59
It's like-- it's
like He gets into that
00:36:47.62\00:36:49.64
bush of time and
He sets it ablaze
00:36:49.67\00:36:53.43
in a way none of the other
days is ablaze, the seventh-day.
00:36:53.46\00:37:01.17
By the way, I
can forget that day,
00:37:01.20\00:37:06.08
you can break that day,
but we cannot change that day.
00:37:06.11\00:37:11.77
Uh-huh.
00:37:11.80\00:37:13.88
You can think you
can but you can't,
00:37:13.91\00:37:17.67
set ablaze, fire.
00:37:17.70\00:37:19.90
I'm in that day. So
here's the question.
00:37:19.93\00:37:22.71
How can I keep this
burning bush of a day alive
00:37:22.74\00:37:26.57
with the joy of God's presence?
00:37:26.60\00:37:28.91
I'm gonna leave you now
with five simple strategies.
00:37:28.94\00:37:31.32
Five simple
strategies, jot them down.
00:37:31.35\00:37:33.77
Everyone begins
with the letter G.
00:37:33.80\00:37:35.43
Memorize these, you'll be fine.
00:37:35.46\00:37:37.42
Five simple strategies
00:37:37.45\00:37:39.27
to keep the Yahoo
in God's Yahoo Day.
00:37:39.30\00:37:43.09
Number one. Guard the doors.
00:37:43.12\00:37:46.10
Number one. Guards the door.
00:37:46.13\00:37:47.67
What are you
talking about, Dwight?
00:37:47.70\00:37:48.73
I'll show you, Leviticus 23.32
00:37:48.76\00:37:51.35
it's there in your study
guide, keep your pen moving,
00:37:51.38\00:37:53.07
"From evening to evening
00:37:53.10\00:37:55.49
you shall
celebrate your Sabbath."
00:37:55.52\00:38:00.21
What's going on
here, jot it down.
00:38:00.24\00:38:01.33
"The doors to the
Sabbath are the sun downs
00:38:01.36\00:38:04.18
on Friday evening
and Saturday evening."
00:38:04.21\00:38:06.58
By the way, jot
this down as well,
00:38:06.61\00:38:08.29
that's the way Jesus
Himself celebrated the Sabbath.
00:38:08.32\00:38:11.40
You look at Mark I,
00:38:11.43\00:38:12.46
he celebrated the
Sabbath from sundown to sundown.
00:38:12.49\00:38:15.65
What's the big deal?
00:38:15.68\00:38:16.73
Why would anybody keep
time in that kind of crazy way?
00:38:16.76\00:38:20.77
It's only crazy to us
in the third millennium.
00:38:20.80\00:38:23.10
It was never
crazy in the beginning.
00:38:23.13\00:38:24.87
You know why?
00:38:24.90\00:38:25.93
Jot it down, you
have that right there,
00:38:25.96\00:38:27.81
because that's the way
00:38:27.84\00:38:28.91
God began
time-keeping in the beginning.
00:38:28.94\00:38:30.99
Remember, when God came
to this little hunk of rock
00:38:31.02\00:38:33.30
in the middle of the
space, what was here first?
00:38:33.33\00:38:38.43
Darkness, darkness is here
00:38:38.46\00:38:40.54
and then he says
let there be light
00:38:40.57\00:38:42.07
and from that
moment on and forever more
00:38:42.10\00:38:45.02
God has chosen to mark time
by darkness first then light
00:38:45.05\00:38:48.93
and that's why everyday
in the creation account says
00:38:48.96\00:38:50.97
and the evening and the morning
were the first to second.
00:38:51.00\00:38:54.97
Always evening then morning,
the day starts in the dark.
00:38:55.00\00:38:59.36
So what he's saying, Dwight,
00:38:59.39\00:39:00.55
when he's talking
about guarding the doors,
00:39:00.58\00:39:01.73
oh, what I'm saying
is, meet God at the door,
00:39:01.76\00:39:04.88
when the suns going down.
00:39:04.91\00:39:06.20
You just get to the
door. This is the door time.
00:39:06.23\00:39:08.18
You guard that door.
00:39:08.21\00:39:10.14
Don't you let
another day come crashing in
00:39:10.17\00:39:12.50
because these other
days love to try to get in
00:39:12.53\00:39:15.26
and occupy your mind,
00:39:15.29\00:39:16.32
you guard that door
or what should I do?
00:39:16.35\00:39:19.15
A piece of cake,
you got a good CD,
00:39:19.18\00:39:22.27
you got some
great religious music,
00:39:22.30\00:39:24.76
some of your
favorite gospel music,
00:39:24.79\00:39:26.30
whatever, put a
little bit of music on.
00:39:26.33\00:39:28.65
You got a guitar
in the corner there,
00:39:28.68\00:39:30.44
grab a guitar, you
got an old dusty piano,
00:39:30.47\00:39:32.10
go to the piano,
00:39:32.13\00:39:33.16
you got more people in the house
00:39:33.19\00:39:34.33
than just you, bring them
all together say "Hey guys,
00:39:34.36\00:39:37.50
we're opening the
door now Sabbath is coming
00:39:37.53\00:39:40.33
and guess who's
coming with the Sabbath,
00:39:40.36\00:39:42.40
He's coming in
now, guard the door,
00:39:42.43\00:39:45.02
keep it open and He walks in."
00:39:45.05\00:39:48.03
You sing, you might
want to read Mathew 11:28,
00:39:48.06\00:39:52.88
"Come to me, Jesus
says, and I'll give you rest."
00:39:52.91\00:39:55.31
Oh, Jesus, I got hurry
sickness please give me your--
00:39:55.34\00:39:58.48
give me Your blessing.
00:39:58.51\00:40:00.97
So you might read
a little something.
00:40:01.00\00:40:02.42
Karen and I memorize passages,
just do that for the joy of it.
00:40:02.45\00:40:07.03
You can memorize a song.
00:40:07.06\00:40:08.17
We're working on
John 14 right now.
00:40:08.20\00:40:10.40
Okay, it's not
rocket science guys,
00:40:10.43\00:40:12.00
just do something,
read a little story,
00:40:12.03\00:40:15.49
and then a prayer.
00:40:15.52\00:40:16.60
And what's the
prayer supposed to be?
00:40:16.63\00:40:17.67
God, I just open
the door come on in.
00:40:17.70\00:40:20.67
We've been
waiting for You all week.
00:40:20.70\00:40:21.88
We knew You'd
come, this is Your day.
00:40:21.91\00:40:23.75
I'm guarding that door,
00:40:23.78\00:40:24.83
nobody else gets
in but You, come.
00:40:24.86\00:40:27.92
Hey by the way, let me
say to you young parents,
00:40:27.95\00:40:29.49
young parents listen to me.
00:40:29.52\00:40:32.59
Worship 10 minutes,
00:40:32.62\00:40:36.03
because we've grown up in some--
00:40:36.06\00:40:37.09
some of us have
grown up in homes
00:40:37.12\00:40:38.16
that the
worship went 20 minutes,
00:40:38.19\00:40:39.37
it went 30
minutes, it went 40 minutes.
00:40:39.40\00:40:41.50
Look, unless
you're doing something
00:40:41.53\00:40:43.01
that's really captivating,
you can eventually ruin
00:40:43.04\00:40:46.53
the arrival of the Sabbath.
00:40:46.56\00:40:48.02
Keep it short and simple.
00:40:48.05\00:40:49.71
Keep it upbeat. Keep it happy.
00:40:49.74\00:40:51.24
Sing a great song
that the kids love.
00:40:51.27\00:40:54.14
You all along
bring a few friends over,
00:40:54.17\00:40:55.66
celebrate the Sabbath,
bring your friends over,
00:40:55.69\00:40:57.46
celebrate the
Sabbath, guard the doors.
00:40:57.49\00:40:59.13
And by the way,
00:40:59.16\00:41:00.19
when the Sabbath
goes out that door,
00:41:00.22\00:41:01.95
when the Sabbath goes
out, you guard that door.
00:41:01.98\00:41:03.60
Do a little bit of a
ritual all over again saying God
00:41:03.63\00:41:06.90
what a day, thank You,
now go with us into the week,
00:41:06.93\00:41:10.21
please dear God, go
with us into the week
00:41:10.24\00:41:12.19
make this the best week,
00:41:12.22\00:41:13.65
that we can
possibly live for You.
00:41:13.68\00:41:15.04
I'm telling you what?
00:41:15.07\00:41:16.13
It's just a little
ritual at the beginning,
00:41:16.16\00:41:17.52
you guard the
door at the beginning,
00:41:17.55\00:41:18.58
you guard the door at the end
00:41:18.61\00:41:19.85
that Sabbath observance
will not be some kind of ugh...
00:41:19.88\00:41:24.14
It's going to be a
joy. You guard the doors.
00:41:24.17\00:41:26.68
Number two, get your rest.
00:41:26.71\00:41:32.20
Here's the Chinese sage's
00:41:32.23\00:41:33.32
three word
biography of the west.
00:41:33.35\00:41:35.32
Okay, he's writing
about us, hurry, worry, bury.
00:41:35.35\00:41:39.81
Ain't that great?
00:41:39.84\00:41:40.92
That's us.
That's our life story.
00:41:40.95\00:41:42.09
Hurry, worry, bury.
We got hurry sickness.
00:41:42.12\00:41:45.28
Let me tell you something.
00:41:45.31\00:41:46.36
Who has time to
slow down and rest?
00:41:46.39\00:41:48.13
So we're flying over to
Africa a couple of months ago
00:41:48.16\00:41:50.76
in the British
Airways Magazine I read there,
00:41:50.79\00:41:53.78
that they've
calculated that the average,
00:41:53.81\00:41:55.62
listen the average politician,
the average politician
00:41:55.65\00:41:58.67
in 1995 spoke 50% faster than
he or she did in the 1940's.
00:41:58.70\00:42:04.57
We are just living
faster now, listen to this,
00:42:04.60\00:42:08.11
the Beethoven's Fifth
Symphony takes 20% less time
00:42:08.14\00:42:12.80
to perform now than
when it was first composed.
00:42:12.83\00:42:15.69
I got to get over it, come on,
come on, come on, 20% faster.
00:42:19.90\00:42:24.65
Guys we're sick,
we got hurry sickness.
00:42:24.68\00:42:29.08
Slow down, hey,
hey, hey, get some rest,
00:42:29.11\00:42:32.05
slow down, shh, slow down.
00:42:32.08\00:42:36.26
That's what God is saying.
00:42:36.29\00:42:38.01
I wonder we're worn out,
but the Sabbath is an antidote.
00:42:38.04\00:42:40.84
Hey jot this down, will you?
00:42:40.87\00:42:41.91
Get your Sabbath rest
00:42:41.94\00:42:43.27
in the dark part of the Sabbath.
00:42:43.30\00:42:48.02
Get your Sabbath rest
00:42:48.05\00:42:49.09
in the dark part of the Sabbath.
00:42:49.12\00:42:50.33
Research now
shows, listen carefully,
00:42:50.36\00:42:52.17
research now shows
that the rest gained
00:42:52.20\00:42:54.67
in the darkness
surpasses the value of the rest
00:42:54.70\00:42:57.31
you gain in the daylight.
00:42:57.34\00:43:00.28
So if you want a Sabbath
rest which you're gonna need
00:43:00.31\00:43:02.89
and I want, get
it when it's dark
00:43:02.92\00:43:06.67
because afternoons were not
made for naps on the Sabbath.
00:43:06.70\00:43:10.96
Get your rest when it's dark.
00:43:10.99\00:43:13.10
All right, number three,
00:43:13.13\00:43:15.66
Go to church, we
did this with YouTube,
00:43:15.69\00:43:17.33
so there's no point in spending
a whole lot of time here
00:43:17.36\00:43:19.36
but I came
across this old classic
00:43:19.39\00:43:21.33
that has these words
in it by M. L. Andreasen,
00:43:21.36\00:43:23.50
I like this.
00:43:23.53\00:43:24.96
It's not in your study
guide. Read it on the screen.
00:43:24.99\00:43:26.65
"When God's people
meet in the appointed place
00:43:26.68\00:43:29.48
on the Sabbath to
worship, they're thrice blessed,
00:43:29.51\00:43:33.48
they themselves
are a blessed people."
00:43:33.51\00:43:35.75
Are you blessed? Am I blessed?
00:43:35.78\00:43:37.18
Come on, blessed.
They're a blessed people.
00:43:37.21\00:43:40.35
Number two, the place in
which they worship is blessed
00:43:40.38\00:43:43.44
and number three,
the very time of worship,
00:43:43.47\00:43:46.52
the very day is blessed.
00:43:46.55\00:43:48.06
Blessed three times
over. Now it goes on.
00:43:48.09\00:43:50.55
"A holy people
worship a holy God
00:43:50.58\00:43:53.63
at a holy time in a holy place."
00:43:53.66\00:43:56.39
Wow, surely
under such conditions
00:43:56.42\00:43:58.26
God's richest
blessing maybe expected.
00:43:58.29\00:44:01.26
Ain't that great?
00:44:01.29\00:44:02.60
Wow, so when you go
to church on the Sabbath,
00:44:02.63\00:44:07.70
you are blessed three
times, three times as much.
00:44:07.73\00:44:10.65
You'd say, I do it at home.
00:44:10.68\00:44:11.71
No, you can't do it at
home, you won't get it at home,
00:44:11.74\00:44:13.55
trust me, you will
not get it at home,
00:44:13.58\00:44:15.39
you can't, it's impossible.
00:44:15.42\00:44:17.43
The thrice blessed happens
when this is a part of it.
00:44:17.46\00:44:21.10
All right, number
four, Give of yourself.
00:44:21.13\00:44:24.34
These all begins
with G, just five of them.
00:44:24.37\00:44:26.33
Give of yourself.
00:44:26.36\00:44:27.48
You know what's so
amazing about Isaiah 58
00:44:27.51\00:44:29.70
is that God's Sabbath
appeal is book ended right
00:44:29.73\00:44:32.60
smack dab against
God's call to social action.
00:44:32.63\00:44:36.43
Look at verse 7,
this is Isaiah 58,
00:44:36.46\00:44:38.19
look at verse 7,
00:44:38.22\00:44:40.52
God says, "Hey, you want to know
00:44:40.55\00:44:42.19
is it not when you share
your bread with the hungry,
00:44:46.62\00:44:51.10
and you bring to your house
the poor who were cast out,
00:44:51.13\00:44:53.91
when you see the
naked and you cover them,
00:44:53.94\00:44:56.00
and you do not to hide yourself
from your own flesh and blood."
00:44:56.03\00:44:58.95
Verse 10, look it, God says,
00:44:58.98\00:45:00.48
"If you'll extend
your soul to the hungry,
00:45:00.51\00:45:02.35
if you'll satisfy
the afflicted soul,
00:45:02.38\00:45:04.03
I'm gonna do something for you.
00:45:04.06\00:45:05.24
Your light will
dawn in the darkness
00:45:05.27\00:45:07.72
and your darkness
shall be as the noonday."
00:45:07.75\00:45:12.13
Wow, write it down,
00:45:12.16\00:45:13.19
the Sabbath is God's
day for serving others.
00:45:13.22\00:45:17.53
The socially marginalized,
00:45:17.56\00:45:19.74
the economically disenfranchise,
00:45:19.77\00:45:21.92
the spiritually alienated,
00:45:21.95\00:45:23.69
find those
people and serve them,
00:45:23.72\00:45:26.12
serve them on the Sabbath.
00:45:26.15\00:45:27.26
That why the Sabbath is
yours, give of yourself.
00:45:27.29\00:45:30.86
God says, it will come back so--
00:45:30.89\00:45:32.24
it will come
back in spades to you.
00:45:32.27\00:45:34.24
Give, give,
which is why by the way
00:45:34.27\00:45:37.54
we sent the buses up this
road every Sabbath afternoon
00:45:37.57\00:45:40.45
and what time we meet
at 3 o'clock at Lampson,
00:45:40.48\00:45:42.83
every Sabbath afternoon
the buses go up the road
00:45:42.86\00:45:44.81
to Benton Harbor, Why?
00:45:44.84\00:45:45.91
Because young adults
are at their optimum,
00:45:45.94\00:45:49.74
when they're
giving of themselves,
00:45:49.77\00:45:51.05
we're all by the way,
it's not just college kids,
00:45:51.08\00:45:53.69
it's all of us
need to be giving,
00:45:53.72\00:45:55.74
give of yourself on the Sabbath.
00:45:55.77\00:45:57.69
You'd say, come on,
Dwight, please, wait a minute,
00:45:57.72\00:45:59.91
the Sabbath is to
be day for my rest.
00:45:59.94\00:46:02.54
It's to be a day
for my relaxation,
00:46:02.57\00:46:04.67
so if I go outside after dinner
00:46:04.70\00:46:06.90
and we have a little
game of touch football,
00:46:06.93\00:46:08.48
what's the problem with that?
00:46:08.51\00:46:10.21
I mean if I go down on the beach
00:46:10.24\00:46:11.28
and they're
playing beach volleyball,
00:46:11.31\00:46:12.40
what's the problem if I
joined in just a little bit,
00:46:12.43\00:46:14.58
maybe, I want to go for
a little leisurely swim,
00:46:14.61\00:46:16.91
I need to relax.
00:46:16.94\00:46:19.17
There is no way
for a preacher like me
00:46:28.10\00:46:30.82
to possibly come up with
a list of do's and don'ts
00:46:30.85\00:46:35.82
that will satisfy
and cover the basis.
00:46:35.85\00:46:38.47
I mean I like to just
sit on the Sabbath afternoon
00:46:38.50\00:46:39.97
after having a good--
have had a good dinner
00:46:40.00\00:46:42.47
especially in this season.
00:46:42.50\00:46:43.53
I'd like to talk politics
00:46:43.56\00:46:44.60
and so we get into
the presidential politics
00:46:44.63\00:46:46.35
and we talk about hey,
who's got the edge here.
00:46:46.38\00:46:49.42
Are you serious, my
day, that conversation?
00:46:49.45\00:46:57.00
Huh, you can't be serious.
00:46:57.03\00:47:00.15
Aren't six days
enough for that stuff?
00:47:00.18\00:47:03.85
Take a break.
00:47:03.88\00:47:05.79
Otherwise, Jesus
Himself never attempted
00:47:09.84\00:47:12.27
to set up a long list
of rules do's and don'ts.
00:47:12.30\00:47:15.23
He just said I'm
not touching that,
00:47:15.26\00:47:16.49
you got a bright mind use it!
00:47:16.52\00:47:20.01
Use that mind.
00:47:20.04\00:47:21.67
You delight in Me, Jesus says,
00:47:21.70\00:47:22.87
just delight in Me.
00:47:22.90\00:47:23.97
If I can be a part of it,
00:47:24.00\00:47:25.05
if I can be the
thick of it, do it.
00:47:25.08\00:47:27.02
If can't be in the thick of it
00:47:27.05\00:47:28.24
and it's all
about you, forget it.
00:47:28.27\00:47:30.50
You got six days
for you, I get one.
00:47:30.53\00:47:33.12
Give me that one.
00:47:33.15\00:47:34.92
I got an email
from a friend of mine,
00:47:39.23\00:47:42.95
they said you know something,
00:47:42.98\00:47:44.02
Dwight, I'll tell
you about the Sabbath
00:47:44.05\00:47:45.08
in our community of
faith, you know what it is,
00:47:45.11\00:47:46.55
it's going to
church, you're praying
00:47:46.58\00:47:47.64
and you're gonna get
some kind of a sermon
00:47:47.67\00:47:49.27
that'll feed
you, then you go home,
00:47:49.30\00:47:50.85
you have this huge dinner.
00:47:50.88\00:47:52.16
Then you take a long nap
00:47:52.19\00:47:53.39
and then you're gonna
have a little nature time
00:47:53.42\00:47:54.67
so you go down the
beach, you walk along the beach
00:47:54.70\00:47:56.82
and play a little
bit of volley ball and--
00:47:56.85\00:48:02.28
when does sun go
down around here anyway.
00:48:02.31\00:48:04.26
Man, this day never ends.
00:48:04.29\00:48:08.69
He says, we've got it all wrong.
00:48:08.72\00:48:10.41
He says, why don't we celebrate
the Sabbath like Jesus did?
00:48:10.44\00:48:13.00
Seven of Jesus' great miracles
were reserved for the Sabbath.
00:48:13.03\00:48:18.01
Telling us guess what?
00:48:18.04\00:48:19.19
It is good to do
well toward others.
00:48:19.22\00:48:23.34
Seven of his best miracles
reserve for the Sabbath.
00:48:23.37\00:48:26.61
In fact, jot
this down, will you?
00:48:26.64\00:48:27.74
Mathew Chapter 12:10 in
The New Living, I like this,
00:48:27.77\00:48:30.66
"It is right to do
good on the Sabbath."
00:48:30.69\00:48:32.74
The Sabbath isn't
about serving yourself,
00:48:32.77\00:48:34.50
it's about giving yourself.
00:48:34.53\00:48:36.63
Give, give, give,
you'll be happier.
00:48:36.66\00:48:39.23
Hey, you'll be
happier, you'll be healthier,
00:48:39.26\00:48:42.11
you'll be holier,
happier, healthier, and holier,
00:48:42.14\00:48:46.29
if you give yourself.
00:48:46.32\00:48:47.63
Don't hang on to that stuff,
00:48:47.66\00:48:48.73
that stuff isn't
worth hanging on to, please.
00:48:48.76\00:48:53.42
A century ago, look--
00:48:53.45\00:48:54.50
isn't it some, you
have to fill it in.
00:48:54.53\00:48:55.61
A century ago
this appeal was made
00:48:55.64\00:48:56.95
according to the
fourth commandment,
00:48:56.98\00:48:58.35
see it there in
your study guide.
00:48:58.38\00:48:59.44
"According to the
fourth commandment,
00:48:59.47\00:49:01.02
the Sabbath was dedicated
to rest and religious worship.
00:49:01.05\00:49:04.80
All secular
employment was to be suspended,
00:49:04.83\00:49:06.87
but works of
mercy and benevolence
00:49:06.90\00:49:08.79
were in accordance with
the purpose of the Lord.
00:49:08.82\00:49:10.70
They were not to be
limited to time or place."
00:49:10.73\00:49:13.62
Now isn't this something.
00:49:13.65\00:49:14.68
"To relieve the afflicted,
to comfort the sorrowing,
00:49:14.71\00:49:17.51
is a labor of love that
does honor to God's holy day."
00:49:17.54\00:49:24.63
Hallelujah, finally number five,
00:49:24.66\00:49:27.28
write it down,
Glory in your God.
00:49:27.31\00:49:30.66
That's the yahoo factor.
00:49:30.69\00:49:32.13
The NRV how does it read,
00:49:32.16\00:49:33.26
"Then you will
find joy in your Lord."
00:49:33.29\00:49:36.40
Don't find, come
on, on the Sabbath,
00:49:36.43\00:49:38.36
now seriously on the Sabbath.
00:49:38.39\00:49:39.90
Don't find joy in your gadgets,
00:49:39.93\00:49:41.82
put the toys
down, put the toys down.
00:49:41.85\00:49:44.13
Don't find joy in your gadgets.
00:49:44.16\00:49:45.33
On the Sabbath don't
find joy in your homework,
00:49:45.36\00:49:48.35
don't find joy in your homework,
00:49:48.38\00:49:49.92
don't glory in that.
00:49:49.95\00:49:51.21
On the Sabbath, don't
find joy in your employment,
00:49:51.24\00:49:53.59
what do you want
to talk about it?
00:49:53.62\00:49:54.84
Forget it, just let it go.
00:49:54.87\00:49:56.75
On the Sabbath don't
find joy in shopping.
00:49:56.78\00:49:58.97
Why would you want to
go shopping on the Sabbath?
00:49:59.00\00:50:01.22
We're so crassly
materialistic anyway.
00:50:01.25\00:50:03.51
On the Sabbath let it go,
00:50:03.54\00:50:05.52
don't find joy in entertainment,
00:50:05.55\00:50:07.67
entertaining
yourself, what are you gonna do?
00:50:07.70\00:50:09.10
Go to a sports, do a
little bit of sports,
00:50:09.13\00:50:10.83
check up on the scores.
00:50:10.86\00:50:11.90
Don't find joy in that.
00:50:11.93\00:50:13.45
Let it go, on the
Sabbath delight yourself in me?
00:50:13.48\00:50:17.50
Like a baby at
his mother's breast,
00:50:17.53\00:50:22.99
you come, you
come to me with joy.
00:50:23.02\00:50:28.32
I'll work through you,
00:50:28.35\00:50:29.45
you serve you
give, I work through you.
00:50:29.48\00:50:31.53
I'll make this
world a better place
00:50:31.56\00:50:32.93
because you and I
share this day together.
00:50:32.96\00:50:37.18
Delight yourself
in me, Gods cries out.
00:50:37.21\00:50:40.36
Slow down, please, calm down,
00:50:40.39\00:50:43.00
quiet down, lay them down.
00:50:43.03\00:50:45.50
I like this, Calvin
Miller came up with this,
00:50:45.53\00:50:47.78
lay them down.
00:50:47.81\00:50:48.84
What's He talking about
that last quote, there it is.
00:50:48.87\00:50:51.33
"All watches must be checked."
00:50:51.36\00:50:54.72
Now wouldn't that be
great if on the Sabbath
00:50:54.75\00:50:56.17
we all took our watches off.
00:50:56.20\00:50:58.98
I'd love to do it in church.
00:50:59.01\00:51:00.56
You kill us but I
love to do in church.
00:51:00.59\00:51:03.39
Get rid of all
these clocks, all of them.
00:51:03.42\00:51:09.00
"All watches must be checked
00:51:09.03\00:51:10.07
at the gates of
the throne room."
00:51:10.10\00:51:11.13
Isn't this great.
00:51:11.16\00:51:12.19
"To run in and out of
the presence of royalty
00:51:12.22\00:51:13.92
or try to do--
try to set the limits
00:51:13.95\00:51:15.86
on our conversation
is to forget who we are
00:51:15.89\00:51:18.05
and to whom we are talking.
00:51:18.08\00:51:19.15
God is the King.
00:51:19.18\00:51:20.23
We must lay down all
our appointment books,
00:51:20.26\00:51:23.09
they are not
significant in His presence.
00:51:23.12\00:51:25.71
"Better yet,
let's do this last line,
00:51:25.74\00:51:27.52
you set laying down
on your appointment books
00:51:27.55\00:51:29.08
take your PDA,
take your little laptop,
00:51:29.11\00:51:31.07
outlook express, calendar,
00:51:31.10\00:51:33.02
take your paper
appointment syllabus
00:51:33.05\00:51:39.04
and every seventh-day
draw a circle around it
00:51:39.07\00:51:41.11
with these words "My
appointment with God."
00:51:41.14\00:51:47.47
My appointment with God.
00:51:47.50\00:51:49.93
That's what God is saying,
00:51:49.96\00:51:51.00
"Hey guys, guys,
delight yourself in Me.
00:51:51.03\00:51:53.76
Find your joy in me,
00:51:53.79\00:51:56.03
let your yahoo day, be this day.
00:51:56.06\00:51:59.36
You and me together."
00:51:59.39\00:52:01.18
Now, why, what's the big deal?
00:52:01.21\00:52:02.45
I'll tell you what,
the joy of the Sabbath.
00:52:02.48\00:52:05.44
That's it, that's it.
00:52:05.47\00:52:07.22
The joy of the
Sabbath is the presence of God
00:52:07.25\00:52:11.79
and for that
there's only one word.
00:52:11.82\00:52:14.09
Yahoo! What do you say?
00:52:14.12\00:52:16.59
Amen. Amen.
00:52:16.62\00:52:19.30
Hey, listen, don't
you hurry out of here yet.
00:52:19.33\00:52:26.46
I want to make an appeal.
00:52:26.49\00:52:28.33
We've been in this
subject for quite a while now.
00:52:28.36\00:52:30.38
This is the last time
we're in it for a while.
00:52:30.41\00:52:33.33
I want to make
an appeal right now.
00:52:33.36\00:52:34.99
Would you like to
join me today, right here?
00:52:35.02\00:52:38.92
Look at this hurrying,
I got to hurry somewhere.
00:52:38.95\00:52:40.69
No, no, would you
like to join me today,
00:52:40.72\00:52:44.84
in choosing to
seek the presence of God
00:52:44.87\00:52:51.30
every seventh-day Sabbath.
00:52:51.33\00:52:54.06
Would you like join
me in making that choice?
00:52:54.09\00:52:56.06
By the grace of God,
00:52:56.09\00:52:57.12
I choose to honor God
on the seventh-day Sabbath.
00:52:57.15\00:53:00.98
You know what?
00:53:01.01\00:53:02.04
There's some of
you who've never kept
00:53:02.07\00:53:03.87
the seventh-day
Sabbath in your life.
00:53:03.90\00:53:06.15
You say, Dwight,
is this some kind of--
00:53:06.18\00:53:07.35
is this some kind of
a, you know, you got to go
00:53:07.38\00:53:09.15
through a little
check list kind of thing.
00:53:09.18\00:53:10.39
No, no, no, it's just a choice,
00:53:10.42\00:53:12.35
you choose, you choose.
00:53:12.38\00:53:16.19
I'm gonna spend this
day with the joy of my life.
00:53:16.22\00:53:21.22
I think it'd be a perfect time
00:53:21.25\00:53:22.30
for you to make
that choice right now.
00:53:22.33\00:53:23.91
Even if you've never kept
00:53:23.95\00:53:25.20
the seventh-day
Sabbath in your life
00:53:25.23\00:53:26.54
and you liked it
from this day on,
00:53:26.57\00:53:28.67
have God as the presence of joy
in every Sabbath that you live.
00:53:28.70\00:53:33.51
How about
standing to your feet, huh?
00:53:33.54\00:53:35.44
How about just
standing to your feet,
00:53:35.47\00:53:36.77
don't, don't, don't
just-- don't jump up
00:53:36.80\00:53:38.62
because I am up here.
00:53:38.65\00:53:41.17
The person
beside you is standing
00:53:41.20\00:53:42.40
but no, no by
standing you are saying,
00:53:42.43\00:53:45.14
you know what
God by Your grace--
00:53:45.17\00:53:48.79
by Your grace, by Your grace,
00:53:48.82\00:53:54.89
I want that
yahoo day to be a day
00:53:54.92\00:54:01.09
of Your presence and Your joy.
00:54:01.12\00:54:03.89
It's His gift, it's our choice.
00:54:08.15\00:54:12.15
I'll ask our team
to come back as I--
00:54:12.18\00:54:14.45
I just love that song,
00:54:14.48\00:54:15.53
we're not going to
sing it now for a while,
00:54:15.56\00:54:16.81
but I just love that song
00:54:16.84\00:54:18.29
and I want to
sing it again with you.
00:54:18.32\00:54:20.94
It's Sabbath,
00:54:20.97\00:54:24.35
Justin wrote the
words in this song,
00:54:24.38\00:54:27.15
I like it, it's
Sabbath, it's Sabbath.
00:54:27.18\00:54:31.99
Don't hurry away
please, don't hurry away,
00:54:32.02\00:54:35.07
it's Sabbath, lead us.
00:54:35.10\00:54:39.34
It's Sabbath, and
my rest has arrived
00:54:39.37\00:54:47.24
It's Sabbath
00:54:47.27\00:54:49.46
A day God set aside.
00:54:49.49\00:54:50.90
A day God set aside
00:54:50.93\00:54:54.19
It's Sabbath.
00:54:54.22\00:54:55.41
It's Sabbath
00:54:55.44\00:54:57.80
It's a joy and delight.
00:54:57.83\00:54:59.01
It's a joy and delight
00:54:59.04\00:55:03.05
It's Sabbath
00:55:03.08\00:55:08.29
Sing that again it's Sabbath.
00:55:08.32\00:55:10.69
It's Sabbath, and
my rest has arrived
00:55:10.72\00:55:18.36
It's Sabbath
00:55:18.39\00:55:20.28
A day God set aside.
00:55:20.31\00:55:22.01
A day God set aside
00:55:22.04\00:55:24.97
It's Sabbath.
00:55:25.00\00:55:26.15
It's Sabbath
00:55:26.18\00:55:27.92
It's a joy and delight.
00:55:27.95\00:55:29.62
It's a joy and delight
00:55:29.65\00:55:33.93
It's Sabbath
00:55:33.96\00:55:38.31
And this is our
prayer, Oh, Holy God.
00:55:38.34\00:55:41.02
Oh, Holy God
00:55:41.05\00:55:43.58
This Holy day.
00:55:43.61\00:55:44.88
This Holy day
00:55:44.91\00:55:46.85
Please purify.
00:55:46.88\00:55:48.82
Please purify our lives we pray
00:55:48.85\00:55:54.73
Oh, Holy God.
00:55:54.76\00:55:56.28
Oh, Holy God, this Holy day
00:55:56.31\00:56:03.41
Please purify our lives we pray
00:56:03.44\00:56:11.40
It's Sabbath
00:56:11.43\00:56:14.97
It's a joy and delight
00:56:15.00\00:56:19.65
It's Sabbath
00:56:19.68\00:56:23.51
It's Sabbath
00:56:27.36\00:56:30.99
It's a joy and delight
00:56:31.02\00:56:35.93
It's Sabbath
00:56:35.96\00:56:41.84
And now may the grace
of the Lord Jesus Christ,
00:56:45.36\00:56:49.14
and the love of
God, and the fellowship
00:56:49.17\00:56:52.05
of the Holy Spirit
be with you all, amen.
00:56:52.08\00:56:58.15
I wanted to take
one more moment here
00:56:58.18\00:56:59.70
at the end of the telecast,
00:56:59.73\00:57:00.88
to let you know how grateful
00:57:00.91\00:57:01.95
I am for your journey with us,
00:57:01.98\00:57:04.54
with our New
Perceptions Ministry.
00:57:04.57\00:57:06.38
You may think
that New Perceptions
00:57:06.41\00:57:07.46
is only about television
00:57:07.49\00:57:09.41
but I need to tell
you, we do have a website
00:57:09.44\00:57:11.82
which is more than
just the study guide.
00:57:11.86\00:57:13.80
I know we go to the
study guide every week
00:57:13.83\00:57:15.35
but if you go to our website,
00:57:15.38\00:57:16.45
let me put the
address on the screen again,
00:57:16.48\00:57:18.07
www.pmchurch.tv.
00:57:18.10\00:57:22.51
You'll find at that website,
a blog I write every Wednesday,
00:57:22.54\00:57:25.26
I sit down on my
laptop and write up a blog
00:57:25.29\00:57:27.08
something as
commenting on world events
00:57:27.11\00:57:29.28
something local,
something national,
00:57:29.31\00:57:31.09
you get the blog.
00:57:31.12\00:57:32.38
You want to
archive previous teachings
00:57:32.41\00:57:34.61
from here in the Pioneer Pulpit,
00:57:34.64\00:57:35.81
you go to that
annotated archive,
00:57:35.84\00:57:38.50
you can pick out a
message, it will be sent to you.
00:57:38.53\00:57:41.07
You want to get
into a podcast business,
00:57:41.10\00:57:44.35
I'm not a real
high-techie on this
00:57:44.38\00:57:46.40
but if you click podcast,
00:57:46.43\00:57:47.87
you'll be able
to connect instantly
00:57:47.90\00:57:49.25
with every new teaching that
comes from the Pioneer Pulpit.
00:57:49.28\00:57:51.83
The point is,
we're trying to connect
00:57:51.86\00:57:53.51
with the generation
on the move, on the go.
00:57:53.54\00:57:56.29
Thanks for being a part of it.
00:57:56.32\00:57:57.51
Thanks for you
prayer partnership.
00:57:57.54\00:57:58.71
We've got to
connect with this generation
00:57:58.74\00:58:01.35
at this time in earth's history,
00:58:01.38\00:58:03.40
and I'm grateful you and
I are sharing the mission.
00:58:03.43\00:58:05.73
God bless you until next time.
00:58:05.76\00:58:07.84