Rejoice, the Lord is King!
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Your Lord and King adore!
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Rejoice, give thanks, and sing
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And triumphs evermore
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Lift up your heart
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Lift up your voice!
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Rejoice, again I say, rejoice
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Jesus, the Savior, reigns
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The God of truth and love
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When He had purged our stains
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He took His seat above
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Lift up your heart
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Lift up your voice!
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Rejoice, again I say,
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Rejoice
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Rejoice, in glorious hope!
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Our Lord the judge shall come
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And take His servants up
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To their eternal home
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Lift up your heart
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Lift up your voice!
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Rejoice, again I say,
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Rejoice!
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The God who
invites us to rejoice
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is aware of our joys.
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He's also aware of those times
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that it's
difficult for us to rejoice.
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But His command to
rejoice is also a promise
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that when we recognize
Him as our Lord and Savior,
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as our guardian, as our king.
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We'll be able to rejoice
even amidst the difficulties
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that we journey through.
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Today we're going to
come to this God in prayer.
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And as we do, we are
gonna sing number 691
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''Lead me Lord."
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And if it all be
meaningful to you
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during the time
that we are seeing that
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we invite you to
slip out of the pew
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and join us here in the front
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for a special time of
prayer to our Lord and savior.
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Number 691.
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Lead me, Lord, lead me
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In Thy righteousness
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Make Thy way plain
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Before my face
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For it is Thou, Lord
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Thou, Lord only
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That makest me
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Dwell in safety
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Let's kneel together as we pray.
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Dear, God, we
come into Your presence
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this morning acknowledging
that we need to be lead by You,
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acknowledging that
when we choose You,
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we choose the
best person to follow
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because You've a
plan for our lives
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it is beyond even
what we can imagine.
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And so we are grateful
that we serve that kind of God.
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God, you've been with
us this week through things
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that brought us joy and things
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that sometimes broke our hearts.
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And we know that Your
heart feels the things
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that we do as well
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and to in even
greater capacity than we have,
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You experience
those joys and sorrows.
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God, this week there were times
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when we didn't acknowledged You
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as the leader of our
life and we confess our sins
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and we ask that You create in us
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the desire to love
the things that You love
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and to hate the
things that You hate.
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Thank You for Your
gift of forgiveness.
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God there were
many who don't know you
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as their Lord and Savior,
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and we want to raise them
up to you right now as well
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and ask that
You'll help our powers
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to intersect with theirs
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and that we can
reveal to them Your love
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and that
they'll want to know you
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and have You as
part of their life.
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That we believe that
You are coming in again.
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We believe that
You are great Lord
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and so we say hallelujah.
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And, God, because of that
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that we come and
bring to You our joys
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and our concerns right now,
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so we pause to
lift those to You.
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God, you are the one
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who answers
every need of our heart
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and whether we are
young or whether we are older,
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we indeed have
always seen the way
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that You've cared
for Your children.
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Use us to care for others
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not just with
their physical needs,
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but with the spiritual needs
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that they have to know
You as the Lord and Savior.
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And as Pastor
Dwight shares with us
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Your word today,
that we be transformed
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because we've put
our self in the place
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where we can hear Your word
and incorporate into our lives.
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So thank you God
for what You'll do,
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because we've
come to worship You
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on Your Sabbath day,
in Jesus' name we pray.
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Amen.
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Who will speak the
words for the flower?
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Who will sing the
song for the tree?
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Who will blow the
trumpet for the elephant
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Hunted for his ivory?
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Who will be the
roar for the tiger?
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Who will do the work of the bee?
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For those who have no choice
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We must be the voice
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We must help them to be free
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Yes, it's up to you and me
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Sing a song for nature
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Sing a song for all the earth
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Open you eyes and realize
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How much our planet's worth
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Sing a song for nature
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Sing your whole life through
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If you sing a song for nature
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It will sing one back to you
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Who will be the
shell for the turtle?
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Who will save the chimpanzee?
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Who will tell the tale
of the great blue whale
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Swimming in the great blue sea?
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Yes, it's up to you and me
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Sing a song for nature
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Sing a song for all the earth
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Open your eyes and realize
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How much our planet's worth
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Sing a song for nature
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Sing your whole life through
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If you sing a song for nature
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It will sing one back to you
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Sing a song for nature
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Sing a song for nature
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"He which
testifieth these things saith,
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Surely I come quickly.
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Amen. Even so, come, Lord."
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Join us as we sing
Jesus is coming again.
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Lift up the trumpet
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And loud let it ring
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Jesus is coming again!
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Cheer up, ye pilgrims
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Be joyful and sing
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Jesus is coming again!
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Coming again, coming again
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Jesus is coming again!
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Echo it, hilltops
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Proclaim it ye plains
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Jesus is coming again!
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Coming in glory
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The Lamb that was slain
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Jesus is coming again!
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Coming again, coming again
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Jesus is coming again!
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Nations are angry
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By this we do know
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Jesus is coming again!
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Knowledge increases
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Men run to and fro
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Jesus is coming again!
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Coming again, coming again
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Jesus is coming again!
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The heavens
declare the glory of God, "
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and the skies
proclaim the work of his hands.
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Great is our Lord, amen.
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Please join us as we
sing "Great Are You, Lord.
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"Holy Lord, most Holy Lord.
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You alone are
worthy of my praise
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Holy Lord, most holy Lord
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With all of my heart I sing!
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Great are You, Lord
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Worthy of praise
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Great are You, Lord
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Great are You, Lord
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Most Holy Lord.
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Holy Lord, most Holy Lord.
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You alone are
worthy of my praise
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Holy Lord, most Holy Lord
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With all of my heart I sing!
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Great are You, Lord
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Worthy of praise
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Great are you, Lord
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Great are you, Lord
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most Holy Lord!"
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Joyful, joyful, we adore Thee
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God of glory, Lord of love
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Hearts unfold like
flow'rs before Thee
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Op'ning to the sun above
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Melt the clouds
of sin and sadness
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Drive the dark of doubt away
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Giver of immortal gladness
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Fill us with the light of day
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All Thy works
with joy surround Thee
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Earth and
heaven reflect Thy rays
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Stars and
angels sing around Thee
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Center of unbroken praise
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Field and
forest, vale and mountain
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Flow'ry meadow, flashing sea
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Singing bird
and flowing fountain
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Call us to rejoice in Thee
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Teach me, Lord
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Teach me, Lord
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Teach me to do Your will
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Teach me, Lord
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Teach me, Lord
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Teach me to trust and obey
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I'll listen as You speak
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In Your still small voice
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As You teach me each day
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To make the right choice
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Teach me, Lord
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Teach me, Lord
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Teach me to do Your will
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Teach me, Lord
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Teach me, Lord
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Teach me to trust and obey
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Well, happy
Sabbath, boys and girls,
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on this gray
still rainy Sabbath day,
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but we've got
sunshine in ours I can tell
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because you've
smiles on your faces.
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That's proof enough for me.
Nice to have all of you here.
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Boy, we got a nice group today.
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Thank you choir
members who are here.
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Always nice to have
you in first church.
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Come home back.
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Oh, and look at
those lovely blossoms.
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Are those roses or what?
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Oh, those dogwoods, all right.
Those are dogwoods, beautiful.
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Now, this is the season
for our lovely blooming plants.
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Now, I've something in my pocket
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that is an invention,
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I think a company in
California invented this.
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I've it right here in my pocket.
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Right here, because
they invented a special piece
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that is able to
forecast the weather.
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Wouldn't it be
wonderful if we could just--
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if the weathermen
always got it right,
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you're planning
a picnic on Sabbath
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and they said, it's going
to be sunny then it rains,
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I mean why don't
you get it right?
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Well a company in California,
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has come out
with a new invention.
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You can get it
right with this one,
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I've it right here in my hands.
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Can you see it?
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Oh, this is a
very special ribbon.
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This is not just any old ribbon.
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See all the colors on it?
This is a very special ribbon.
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Can you see the ribbon,
I hold it here in my hands.
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The company says,
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"This ribbon can
forecast the weather."
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Wow! How can that be?
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So I wondered
the same thing what?
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But here is what we do.
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I have the
instructions right here.
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Yup, that's what
this company says.
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Number one, what
you got to do with this?
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Can you see it?
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What you have to do
with this number one,
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is you've to hang
it outside your window.
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So, do you have a
house and apartment?
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So outside the window,
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you can put it
right on the wall.
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Bang it up.
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But make sure that daddy
puts it outside the window.
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It can't be inside, has
to be outside, all right.
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Put it outside the window
and then instruction number 2.
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Check daily.
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Check daily, that
means take a look at it.
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If you go and look at it,
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and here are their instructions.
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If you look at it and you
see that the ribbon is wet,
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it's raining,
that's what it means.
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If it's wet, it's raining.
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If you look out the
window and the ribbon is stiff,
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it means it's
freezing, it's cold out there.
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If you look at the window--
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No, really, truly,
that's how it works.
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If you look out the
window and the ribbon is white,
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all the colors are gone
that means it's snowing.
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If you go out and you look
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and the ribbon
is going like this,
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if the ribbon is
going like this, it's windy.
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How did you know? That's right.
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And if you go out
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and the ribbon is
faded, it's sunny outside.
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But if you go out and
the ribbon is missing,
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it's been ripped off.
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See that's what it
means, somebody stole it.
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You can-- Can you believe that?
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You can predict, you
can forecast the weather,
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any weather with
just a little ribbon,
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so make sure you go
home and ask daddy or mummy
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put that ribbon out
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and let's start
forecasting the weather.
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Oh, don't you wish we could
forecast the future that way?
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Oh, I wish we
could know what's coming.
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Wait a minute, wait
a minute, there's a --
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Do we have this
verse as a memory verse.
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Let me see 2 Chronicles 20:20
"Believe in the Lord your God
00:22:20.23\00:22:26.95
and so shall you
prosper believe in his prophets
00:22:26.98\00:22:33.90
and so shall
you be established."
00:22:33.93\00:22:38.36
Wait a minute there are people
who can know what's coming.
00:22:38.39\00:22:42.34
Oh, the Bible says,
believe, believe, believe
00:22:42.37\00:22:44.68
that little weather,
that little weather invention
00:22:44.71\00:22:47.58
has been placed by
God so that we can know.
00:22:47.61\00:22:51.55
We don't have to be
caught totally by surprise
00:22:51.58\00:22:55.38
that's why there are
prophets in the Bible,
00:22:55.41\00:22:58.07
prophetesses too by the way.
00:22:58.10\00:23:00.32
Yup. Oh-oh!
00:23:00.35\00:23:02.48
I don't want to be
caught by surprise.
00:23:02.51\00:23:04.09
I'm glad Jesus gave us something
00:23:04.12\00:23:06.57
to forecast what's
coming down the road.
00:23:06.60\00:23:08.98
How many want to
say thank you Jesus
00:23:09.01\00:23:10.34
for giving us
something to know the forecast.
00:23:10.37\00:23:13.96
Thank you Jesus for being
the greatest forecaster of all.
00:23:13.99\00:23:18.34
Oh, we are so
thankful. Let's pray to Jesus.
00:23:18.37\00:23:21.12
Jesus, thank You for
not leaving us in the storm.
00:23:21.15\00:23:23.86
Thank You for not leaving
us in the dark all alone.
00:23:23.89\00:23:26.29
We don't know what's coming.
00:23:26.32\00:23:27.64
You gave Your word,
so that we can know.
00:23:27.67\00:23:32.01
Make us all boys and
girls and moms and dads
00:23:32.04\00:23:34.38
those who know
and because we know.
00:23:34.41\00:23:39.21
Give us that sense
of peace in our hearts
00:23:39.24\00:23:44.52
because the
future is in your hands.
00:23:44.55\00:23:47.11
We pray in your name. Amen.
00:23:47.14\00:23:49.74
As you quietly and readily
back to your seats, would you--
00:23:49.77\00:23:52.57
would you say that to
Jesus, oh, thank you Jesus.
00:23:52.60\00:23:55.77
I guess I don't need a ribbon
after all to know what's coming
00:23:55.80\00:23:58.67
because You know
Jesus and You'll lead us.
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Scripture this morning
is found in your bulletin
00:24:07.68\00:24:10.88
on the page sanctuary.
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I'll read the light print,
00:24:13.38\00:24:15.03
and you can read the
dark print along with me.
00:24:15.06\00:24:18.10
This is from Luke 21:25-28
00:24:18.13\00:24:22.30
in Today's New
International Version.
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"There will be signs in
the sun, moon and stars.
00:24:26.87\00:24:31.01
On the earth,
nations will be in anguish
00:24:31.04\00:24:34.07
and perplexity at the
roaring and tossing of the sea.
00:24:34.10\00:24:38.47
People will faint from terror,
00:24:38.50\00:24:41.40
apprehensive of what
is coming on the world,
00:24:41.43\00:24:44.94
for the heavenly
bodies will be shaken.
00:24:44.97\00:24:48.43
At that time they
will see the Son of Man
00:24:48.46\00:24:51.39
coming in a cloud
with great power and glory.
00:24:51.42\00:24:55.91
When these things
begin to take place,
00:24:55.94\00:24:58.83
stand up and lift up your heads,
00:24:58.86\00:25:01.90
because your
redemption is drawing near."
00:25:01.93\00:25:05.68
Thank you.
00:25:05.71\00:25:09.33
Don't you wish
weather forecasting
00:25:09.36\00:25:10.87
could be that simple?
00:25:10.90\00:25:12.79
Tag up a ribbon you can know.
00:25:12.82\00:25:15.21
Don't you wish
forecasting the times
00:25:15.24\00:25:17.75
in which we are living
today could be that simple?
00:25:17.78\00:25:22.38
Maybe, maybe,
00:25:22.41\00:25:27.04
maybe it's not beyond the pale
00:25:27.07\00:25:32.43
of possibility for you and me.
00:25:32.46\00:25:36.41
Let's pray together.
00:25:36.44\00:25:37.61
Oh, God, as we launch our
new journey today teach us,
00:25:37.64\00:25:45.54
teach us we pray
that we might know
00:25:45.57\00:25:50.15
what You would have us to know
00:25:50.18\00:25:53.71
and that in the journey
yet ahead, we might be secure.
00:25:53.74\00:25:59.81
In Jesus' name, Amen.
00:25:59.84\00:26:04.93
Once upon a time
there was an ancient tribe
00:26:04.96\00:26:06.95
that had the uncanny
ability to forecast the times.
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Yep.
00:26:11.77\00:26:14.45
And the more I
ponder their giftedness,
00:26:14.48\00:26:16.01
the more I find
myself longing for God
00:26:16.04\00:26:20.10
to raise up such a
generation in our nation today,
00:26:20.13\00:26:27.02
to raise up such a generation
in our denomination today.
00:26:27.05\00:26:34.66
Generation
entrusted with the gift
00:26:34.69\00:26:38.49
of forecasting the times.
00:26:38.52\00:26:42.21
Open your Bible with me please,
to the first Book of Chronicles
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don't go to that
book very often, do we?
00:26:45.12\00:26:46.67
1 Chronicles 12 as we
launch a new mini series today.
00:26:46.70\00:26:50.15
1 Chronicles 12, let
me give you the setting
00:26:50.18\00:26:52.65
as we are finding it together.
00:26:52.68\00:26:54.50
David has vanquished,
finally vanquished his enemies.
00:26:54.53\00:26:58.62
King Saul is dead and now
in this chapter one by one
00:26:58.65\00:27:04.16
the tribes of Israel
cast their allegiance
00:27:04.19\00:27:07.42
to the new young monarch to be.
00:27:07.45\00:27:11.28
1 Chronicles 12, would be
page 285 in your pew Bible,
00:27:11.31\00:27:17.09
this is a line you can't miss.
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So, if you
didn't bring your Bible,
00:27:18.86\00:27:19.90
grab that pew Bible
in front of you please.
00:27:19.93\00:27:21.75
1 Chronicles 12
finding it with you.
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And let's begin in verse 23.
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1 Chronicles 12:23, Now these,
I'll be in the New King James
00:27:31.06\00:27:34.85
by the way, that's the same
translation as your pew Bible.
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"Now these were the
numbers of the divisions..."
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All right, these are the armies
"that were equipped for war,
00:27:40.64\00:27:43.15
and came to David at Hebron
00:27:43.18\00:27:45.51
to turn over the
kingdom of Saul to him,
00:27:45.54\00:27:47.38
according to the
word of the Lord."
00:27:47.41\00:27:49.97
It's time now the young monarch
to be, is to take office.
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Drop down to verse 38.
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"All these men of
war, who could keep ranks,
00:27:55.75\00:27:58.08
came to Hebron
with a loyal heart,
00:27:58.11\00:28:00.13
to make David
king over all Israel,
00:28:00.16\00:28:01.76
and all the rest of
Israel were of one mind
00:28:01.79\00:28:04.03
to make David king."
00:28:04.06\00:28:05.18
Now between those book
ends, the tribes are all listed.
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One by one by one, I
mean you have Judah there,
00:28:08.40\00:28:10.30
you see Judah
in 24 Simeon in 25,
00:28:10.33\00:28:12.62
Levi, we got Benjamin,
you got Benjamin down in 29
00:28:12.65\00:28:16.39
but one of the
tribes has an id marker
00:28:16.42\00:28:20.70
that distinguishes it
from all the other tribes
00:28:20.73\00:28:22.96
and that's the tribe that
has captured my attention.
00:28:22.99\00:28:26.06
And I wish to
share with you, verse 32.
00:28:26.09\00:28:27.98
And of those tribe of Issachar
00:28:28.01\00:28:30.00
all right, of
the sons of Issachar.
00:28:30.03\00:28:33.41
"Of the sons of Issachar who
had understanding of the times,
00:28:33.44\00:28:36.26
to know what Israel ought to do,
00:28:36.29\00:28:38.15
their chiefs were two hundred,
00:28:38.18\00:28:40.49
and all their brethren
were at their command."
00:28:40.52\00:28:45.45
Did you catch that?
00:28:45.48\00:28:47.05
The tribe of Issachar is
identified by a single marker.
00:28:47.08\00:28:51.73
"They understood the times and
knew what Israel ought to do."
00:28:51.76\00:28:57.16
Let me repeat that.
00:28:57.19\00:28:58.34
They understood the times and
knew what Israel ought to do.
00:28:58.37\00:29:03.29
It's called the Issachar Factor.
00:29:03.32\00:29:07.39
With the God that we had
a generation in this nation,
00:29:07.42\00:29:09.94
a generation in
this denomination gifted
00:29:09.97\00:29:13.20
with the Issachar
Factor divinely equipped
00:29:13.23\00:29:16.84
to read the tea
leaves of our times
00:29:16.87\00:29:21.09
and from that
analytical discernment
00:29:21.12\00:29:22.82
to be divinely enable
00:29:22.85\00:29:24.27
to recommend a
strategic response
00:29:24.30\00:29:26.72
for the community
of faith to the times
00:29:26.75\00:29:28.35
in which we are
living, the Issachar Factor.
00:29:28.38\00:29:31.13
And before some
of you quickly say,
00:29:31.16\00:29:32.62
you know, well, that's
just not my spiritual gift,
00:29:32.65\00:29:34.49
I'll never have that gift.
00:29:34.52\00:29:35.69
I want to put a pause
on that as we will know
00:29:35.72\00:29:38.71
in just a moment, this gift
is available for the asking.
00:29:38.74\00:29:42.26
So don't write it
off. Don't say not me.
00:29:42.29\00:29:44.58
No, you, the Issachar Factor.
00:29:44.61\00:29:48.53
In fact, let's
jot it down right now.
00:29:48.56\00:29:51.13
Ushers would you make
sure that everybody here
00:29:51.16\00:29:53.27
gets that study guide to
begin this new mini series.
00:29:53.30\00:29:56.57
Hold your hand up if you
didn't get a study guide today
00:29:56.60\00:29:58.36
or five of you came
in with one bulletin,
00:29:58.39\00:30:00.34
you want the
study guide as well.
00:30:00.37\00:30:01.74
Hold your hand up all
the way to the balcony.
00:30:01.77\00:30:03.44
Those of you listening on the
radio, watching on television,
00:30:03.47\00:30:06.08
we want you to have
the same study guide.
00:30:06.11\00:30:08.14
Let me give you our website.
Put it on the screen for you.
00:30:08.17\00:30:11.67
You see it there this
is the new mini series,
00:30:11.70\00:30:13.34
the Issachar Factor, you
see beneath that title part 1.
00:30:13.37\00:30:16.17
This is part 1. There
are four parts to this.
00:30:16.20\00:30:19.12
Go to our website
please, www.pmchurch.tv.
00:30:19.15\00:30:25.60
You'll see the Issachar Factor
now advertised on that website
00:30:25.63\00:30:30.28
and you click
on there to part 1,
00:30:30.31\00:30:31.70
it will say study guide.
00:30:31.73\00:30:32.82
You then have the same,
00:30:32.85\00:30:35.23
the identical study
guide we have right now.
00:30:35.26\00:30:37.97
So without any further
ado, let's get into it.
00:30:38.00\00:30:39.72
What is this Issachar Factor?
00:30:39.75\00:30:40.96
Would you jot it down
please in your study guide?
00:30:40.99\00:30:42.94
"To understand the times
and know what we ought to do."
00:30:42.97\00:30:49.89
Make sure please
you get the reference
00:30:49.92\00:30:51.40
because I left it
out of the study guide.
00:30:51.43\00:30:53.50
1 Chronicles 12:32.
00:30:53.53\00:30:56.81
Make sure you jot
that down as well.
00:30:56.84\00:30:59.95
I'll give you little
extra time because it,
00:30:59.98\00:31:02.63
you need to jot that down.
00:31:02.66\00:31:04.65
To understand the times
and know what we ought to do.
00:31:04.68\00:31:08.66
1 Chronicles 12:32.
00:31:08.69\00:31:09.78
Now, here's
another way to express it.
00:31:09.81\00:31:11.01
Jot this one down too.
00:31:11.04\00:31:12.08
"To be divinely
equipped to read the times
00:31:12.11\00:31:16.41
and divinely enabled to
recommend the response."
00:31:16.44\00:31:21.84
Keep it up there please.
00:31:21.87\00:31:23.68
To be divinely
equipped to read the times
00:31:23.71\00:31:25.75
and divinely enabled
to recommend the response.
00:31:25.78\00:31:28.29
It's the Issachar Factor.
00:31:28.32\00:31:30.27
Which by the way is
the identical factor
00:31:30.30\00:31:34.04
Christ himself called for in
those who choose to follow Him.
00:31:34.07\00:31:37.97
I mean, Let's go
to the New Testament.
00:31:38.00\00:31:40.42
Here it is in the New Testament
00:31:40.45\00:31:41.65
from the lips of
our Lord Himself.
00:31:41.68\00:31:43.68
The Gospel of Luke,
St. Luke Chapter 12.
00:31:43.71\00:31:47.39
Let's read
together please, verse 54.
00:31:47.42\00:31:49.53
What's the page
number? Page number 702.
00:31:49.56\00:31:51.86
Luke 12 we will
pick it up in verse 54.
00:31:51.89\00:31:54.47
If you have a red letter
Bible these words are all red.
00:31:54.50\00:31:57.30
Christ is speaking.
Let's take a look at this.
00:31:57.33\00:31:59.74
Luke 12:54, "And
Jesus said to the multitude,
00:31:59.77\00:32:03.33
"Whenever you see a
cloud rising out of the west,
00:32:03.36\00:32:06.83
immediately you say, 'a shower
is coming', and so it is."
00:32:06.86\00:32:09.97
Jesus didn't live in
Michigan but he knew,
00:32:10.00\00:32:12.41
there is a prevailing
west to easterly wind always.
00:32:12.44\00:32:15.09
Almost always.
00:32:15.12\00:32:16.19
You see a cloud
coming from Lake Michigan,
00:32:16.22\00:32:17.57
you know we got rain coming.
00:32:17.60\00:32:19.76
Jesus says, you know this.
00:32:19.79\00:32:20.88
You've lived in
Michigan long enough, you know.
00:32:20.91\00:32:22.72
Oh, and by the way if you
live in California verse 55,
00:32:22.75\00:32:25.38
"And when you see
the south wind blow,
00:32:25.41\00:32:27.73
you say, oh, 'There will
be hot weather' and there is."
00:32:27.76\00:32:31.10
Called the Santa Ana
winds, where my mother lives.
00:32:31.13\00:32:33.74
The Santa Ana
winds, I mean dry and hot.
00:32:33.77\00:32:38.06
You know, it's gonna be hot.
00:32:38.09\00:32:40.47
Ah, Jesus goes on
verse 56, "Hypocrites!
00:32:40.50\00:32:46.24
You can discern the face
of the sky and of the earth,
00:32:46.27\00:32:49.40
but how is it you do
not discern this time."
00:32:49.43\00:32:52.54
I mean come on, I'm so
proud of you Jesus says,
00:32:52.57\00:32:54.85
Greater weather forecasting
why don't you exercise
00:32:54.88\00:32:57.48
the same discerning prowess
for the times in which you live
00:32:57.51\00:32:59.98
Why don't you have
the Issachar Factor?
00:33:00.01\00:33:03.52
Now, I want you to
notice the parallel
00:33:03.55\00:33:05.31
in the synoptic
would be Matthew.
00:33:05.34\00:33:07.62
Go back to Matthew because
there's a slight variation
00:33:07.65\00:33:11.67
that Mathew provides
in Matthew chapter 16,
00:33:11.70\00:33:14.18
so just turn a few
pages back to Matthew 16.
00:33:14.21\00:33:16.55
Pick it up in verse 1,
00:33:16.58\00:33:18.75
"Then the
Pharisees and the Sadducees"
00:33:18.78\00:33:20.60
that will be the two
dominant religious parties
00:33:20.63\00:33:23.64
within the
community of faith then.
00:33:23.67\00:33:25.67
Then this is Matthew 16:1
00:33:25.70\00:33:27.65
"Then the
Pharisees and Sadducees came,
00:33:27.68\00:33:29.95
and testing Jesus asked
00:33:29.98\00:33:31.42
that He would show
them a sign from heaven."
00:33:31.45\00:33:33.29
Jesus said, all
right, you want a sign?
00:33:33.32\00:33:34.48
Verse 2, "He
answered and said to them,
00:33:34.51\00:33:37.00
'When it is evening..."
00:33:37.03\00:33:38.67
Notice the different
meteorological markers
00:33:38.70\00:33:41.85
that the synoptic vary.
00:33:41.88\00:33:44.86
"Jesus says, 'When
it is evening you say,
00:33:44.89\00:33:46.44
'It will be fair
weather, for the sky is red,
00:33:46.47\00:33:49.44
"and in the morning, verse 3,
00:33:49.47\00:33:51.16
you say it will be
foul weather today,
00:33:51.19\00:33:53.41
for the sky is
red and threatening."
00:33:53.44\00:33:55.38
Hey listen, I grew up
my dad thought me that
00:33:55.41\00:33:56.83
from knee high to a grasshopper.
00:33:56.86\00:33:58.89
Red skies at
night, sailor's delight.
00:33:58.92\00:34:02.27
Red skies in the
morning, sailors take warning.
00:34:02.30\00:34:04.91
Jesus says you know that.
00:34:04.94\00:34:06.28
It's been true on the
planet from the beginning.
00:34:06.31\00:34:10.59
"Hypocrites" He
goes on now, notice this.
00:34:10.62\00:34:12.63
"Hypocrites! You know how
to discern the face of the sky,
00:34:12.66\00:34:16.20
but you cannot discern
the signs of the times."
00:34:16.23\00:34:22.87
Greater in the
signs of the skies,
00:34:22.90\00:34:24.72
why can't you read
the signs of the times.
00:34:24.75\00:34:28.44
Oh, my, please now clearly
in both synoptic passages
00:34:28.47\00:34:32.28
Jesus is
calling for the exercise
00:34:32.31\00:34:34.36
of the Issachar Factor.
00:34:34.39\00:34:35.48
Number 1, you
must discern the times
00:34:35.51\00:34:37.29
and number 2 and you
must decide the response.
00:34:37.32\00:34:39.74
Write it down, we can call this
the Jesus factor, I suppose.
00:34:39.77\00:34:42.39
To discern the times
and to decide the response.
00:34:42.42\00:34:47.34
Makes you wonder, doesn't it?
00:34:47.37\00:34:49.82
If the Issachar and Jesus
factor were exercised today.
00:34:49.85\00:34:54.85
What will we
discern about the times?
00:34:54.88\00:34:57.51
I wonder, what we would discern.
00:34:57.54\00:35:00.19
May I suggest to
you, that a proper reading
00:35:00.22\00:35:04.22
of the tea leaves of
these times would indicate
00:35:04.25\00:35:06.99
that we are in the
throes of a global pandemic?
00:35:07.02\00:35:14.10
A pandemic depicted on
the cover of this magazine.
00:35:14.13\00:35:18.20
This is daily two
days yet in the future
00:35:18.23\00:35:21.25
when I hold the current
issue of Newsweek Magazine.
00:35:21.28\00:35:23.59
Can you see it there, get
my hand off it, there we go.
00:35:23.62\00:35:27.05
You see the headline there,
00:35:27.08\00:35:28.47
cover story fear & the
Flu the New Age of Pandemics.
00:35:28.50\00:35:32.69
Now I need to tell
you, that the pandemic
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that Newsweek is
trying to draw our attention
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to is the flu but the pandemic
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I'm trying to draw
your attention to the fear.
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I mean can you believe it?
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This story about the
swine flu H1N1 outbreak
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is a classic manifestation
of the medias almost
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and must ascertain that
words so that I get off the hook
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with anybody who
tries to nail me.
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All most, the media is
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all most unconscionable
over hype of a story.
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You can't believe it.
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Please, 3 weeks ago, you'd
have thought that a human race
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was about to be ravished
from the face of this earth
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by a new strain of
swine avian human flu.
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I mean Mexico goes on red alert.
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The United States, nearly
pushes the hyper panic button
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entire school districts
in our country are shut down.
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Egypt slaughters 300,000 pigs.
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Nobody misses them.
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The world health
organization hastily arranges
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a news
conference to now announce
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that we are at pandemic level 4
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one short of the global level 5.
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I mean the country goes berserk.
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Sales of surgical
masks and rubber gloves
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and thermo flu
medication sore offer what
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as of Wednesday that
as of this Wednesday,
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we-- there have been
3352 conformed cases of H1N1
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and as of Friday that
would be yesterday 4 deaths.
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We are sad for all 4
deaths but do you understand
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that every single
year, every flu season
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36,000 people quietly died
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with out even a
whimper from the news media.
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4 have died we
are on national alert.
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Either they panicked
or they manipulated us
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and our human tendency to panic
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and the headline
went into overdrive.
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I read about a
judge, an Italian judge
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whose cough cleared
a panic in court room
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when he told the lawyers,
I just got back from Mexico.
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Here they're
quoting one of the lawyers.
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"This is 30 attorneys in
Rome told Judge Giovanni Barese
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that they were
boycotting the court
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and adjourning their cases
because of fear of swine flu.
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Now one lawyer said, "The
judge coughed a few times,
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I don't know if
it was from the flu
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or he was just
clearing his throat,
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but then said he had
just come back from Mexico.
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I've never seen
so many lawyers agree
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on anything in
court so quickly."
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Oh, God, by the way the judge,
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the judge is in
quarantine right now.
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Can you believe it?
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Ah, listen my
purpose ladies and gentlemen
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is not to minimize a
serious health threat,
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I understand that.
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I'm married to a nurse.
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Everything has to
be septic in our home.
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When you come,
wear your gloves please.
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So, I understand
the nature of disease
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but please, this
is an overreaction.
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Now, George Friedman
from the Stratfor Organization
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which is a private
organization that does analysis
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of current trends and
provides security analysis
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to those who pay $400 a
year for it and I do not.
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Has written a
piece on the swine flu,
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he says, listen, it's nothing,
but then he makes his point,
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and I suppose we
ought to remember
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it should a disease
arise however in the future,
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that is as
deadly as HIV, all right
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that spreads
through casual contact,
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about which there is
little knowledge this disease
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and for which there is no
cure, the medical capabilities
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of humanity would
be virtually useless."
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You can understand it's the
real thing with the real thing.
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There's nothing we can
do, that's Stratfor's point.
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But my point is the pandemic,
and jot this down please.
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"The pandemic this earth needs
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to fear more than the
swine flu is fear itself.
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Probably there was a president
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in the history
of the United States
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he said the only thing we
had to fear is fear itself.
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Most of us are right.
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Fear, I mean we have
become a civilization
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on the jittery
edge of who knows what?
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I suppose
sociologist and psychologists
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when one day they
do, they do a postmortem
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on this generation
will probably point to
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September 11,
2001 as the trigger.
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Since that way two wars a
handful of natural disasters
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in an uncertain economy
later we are not only a nation,
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we are a world
caught in the grip of fear
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and the deal about fear is this,
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it is a self
fulfilling prophecy.
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It just-- it creates
itself if you think of it.
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Exhibit A, the wild gyrations
of Wall Street's volatility
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are linked to the
single human emotion of fear.
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Exhibit B get this.
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The pew form on
religion and public life
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released a study three
weeks ago, CNN reported
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on the study with this
headline, I'll read it to you.
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"The more often
Americans go to church..."
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Can you believe this?
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"The more often
Americans go to church,
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the more likely
they are to support
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the torture of
suspected terrorists,
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according to a new survey.
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More than half of
people who attend services
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at least once a week
that will be you and me.
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54 percent said the
use of torture against
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suspected terrorists is 'often'
or 'sometimes' justified.
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If you'll make me
safe, go ahead and do it.
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Only 42 percent of
people who 'seldom or never'
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go to services agreed,
according to the Pew Forum.
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Now, catch the next sentence.
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"White evangelical Protestants
were the religious group
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most likely to
say torture is often
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or sometimes justified more
than six in 10 supported it.
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People unaffiliated with
any religious organization
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least likely 4 out of 10.
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Can you believe
that because of fear.
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Church going
America leads the nation
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and say we can
have torture, it's okay.
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The torture people.
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Ladies and gentlemen what
is wrong with this picture?
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Fear, that's what's
wrong. We are afraid.
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To save me, you
can do that to him.
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Isn't that sad? Oh, my...
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What's all this have to
do with Issachar Factor?
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Plenty, plenty.
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Just read what Jesus'
prescient psychoanalysis
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of the generation
just before He returns.
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Cathie read it with
us just a moment ago.
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Let's go back to it.
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We are still in
Matthew right now so,
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last text just look
up, that's be Luke 21
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look at this, Jesus
said, I tell you what
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what the psyche will be
like just before I come.
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Luke 21:25 "And there
will be signs in the sun,
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in the moon, and in the stars,
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and on the earth
distress of nations,
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with perplexity, the
sea and the waves roaring."
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Now, here comes verse 26
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"Men's hearts, peoples'
hearts failing them from fear
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and the expectation of those
things which are coming on the"
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I don't know what it is
but something is coming.
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"For the powers of
heaven will be shaken."
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Would you jot that down please,
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I like the TNIV
rendering of this
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"People will faint from terror.
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People will faint from terror,
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apprehensive of what
is coming on the world."
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Fear of terrorism.
Fear of the flu, pandemics.
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Fear of immigrants.
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Fear of a meltdown economically.
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Fear of my neighbor.
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It's just fear,
pandemic. Jot it down.
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"Christ predicts a
global pandemic of fear
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just before he returns."
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The Issachar and Jesus
Factor quietly admonishes us
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to discern the signs of the
times but not only to discern,
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we must decide based on
what we discern we must,
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we must respond and that's
why Jesus goes on verse 27
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"Then..." See in
this pandemic of fear.
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"Then they will
see the Son of Man
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coming in a cloud with
power and great glory."
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Verse 28, "Now when
these things begin to happen,
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look up and lift up your heads,
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because your
redemption draws near."
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Please note
ladies and gentlemen,
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people who are
discouraged hang their heads.
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People who are
afraid ring their hands.
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This is not the posture
Jesus is describing here,
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He says, come
on, put that chin up,
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hold your chin
up, lift up your eyes.
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Take a posture of confidence
and courage. Jot it down.
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The Issachar Factor teaches
us that the pandemic of fear
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is to be met by
the posture of hope.
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You don't have to be afraid.
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We have hope. We
are hope, please.
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The Issachar and Jesus
Factor is for the people
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who are not only
gifted to discern the times
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but also decide the response.
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So how'd you like the gift?
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How'd you like the
gift of discernment
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that the Issachar
Factor represents?
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Wouldn't you like
to have that gift?
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I'd like to have that gift.
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Let me end now with
seven ways to get the gifts.
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Jot these down, seven.
These are from the scripture.
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Seven of them. Number
1, pray for discernment.
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You can pray for it. You
can actually ask for this gift.
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So I was in prayer last
night, just thinking about today
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and the journey
ahead for all of us,
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I said God, I got
to have to this gift.
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He said, you can't pray
for this. Oh, yes, you can.
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John 16:13 put it
on the screen please,
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"However, when He, the
Sprit of truth has come,
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Jesus says, He will
guide you into all truth."
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Next.
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"For He will not
speak on His own authority,
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but whatever He hears..."
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This is the Holy
Spirit "He will speak..."
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And now notice this line.
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I find great
solace in this line.
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"He will tell
you things to come."
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You'll be told. You'll
be given a discernment.
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There's another verse,
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I didn't put in the study guide,
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so you gonna
need to jot this down,
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but it came to me last
night as I was in prayer,
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Jeremiah 33:3, jot this
down, this is a great text.
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Look at this,
"Call to Me, God says,
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and I will answer you,
and I'll show you great
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and hidden things,
which you do not know."
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God says, you ask me, ask
me for the gift of discernment,
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I'll give it to you.
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I'll tell you
what others do not see.
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I'll give you
the Issachar Factor.
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Number 2, study the
word. Look at this Psalm 119.
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"The entrance of
Your words gives light,
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it gives understanding..."
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By the way, that's the
same word for Issachar.
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They had understanding to know
the times identical Hebrew word
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"Understanding to the simple."
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It's in the word of God.
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You can't just go,
read in the newspaper.
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The newspaper will
not give you discernment.
00:45:41.27\00:45:42.84
Stratfor will not
give you discernment,
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not the kind you need.
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You have to get in the word.
Number 3, jot it down please.
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Believe the
prophets. Believe the prophets.
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There's
something very interesting
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about this tribe of Issachar.
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I want to show you something.
I'll put on the screen for you.
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Judges 5:15 "And the
princes of Issachar..."
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This is previous
to the 1 Chronicles.
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"And the princes of
Issachar were with Deborah..."
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They aligned
themselves with Deborah.
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Do you know who
Deborah was? Who was Deborah?
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She was a prophetess.
She was a prophetess.
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The leaders of Issachar will
have this gift of discernment.
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You align yourself
with the prophetess.
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It would be a sign of
wisdom in an age of darkness
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to align yourself
with the gift of prophecy.
00:46:33.11\00:46:39.71
2 Chronicles 20:20
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quoted with a children
story just a moment ago.
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Can we put it on the
screen, there you go.
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"Believe in the Lord your God,
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and you shall be established,
believe His prophets."
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Believe the prophets
and you will prosper.
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If I were the enemy,
listen to me carefully.
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If I were the enemy,
I'd do all in my power
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to keep people from
believing the prophetess
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or the prophet
Deborah or anybody else.
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Because the story in Judges
5 that some didn't believe
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and they did not
align themselves.
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Those on the sight
are right and like did
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and in the end they are the once
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that won the great
victory over the enemy.
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You have to align
yourself. It's a wise strategy.
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All right, oh, by the way
this is a New Testament point.
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Put it up 2 Peter 1:19 and
so, the New Testament tells us,
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"We have the
prophetic word confirmed,
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which you do well
to heed as a light
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that shines in a dark
place, until the day dawns
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and the morning star
rises in your hearts."
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The Issachar
Factor, the divinely enabled
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ability to discern the
times and decide the response,
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it's predicated on a
trust in God's prophets.
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The journey is much darker
and the deceptions much stronger
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for those who ignore the light
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that God still
shines upon this earth.
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These prescient words
were written a century ago.
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I put them on the screen,
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I think you have
them in your study guide.
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"The present is a time
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of overwhelming
interest to all living.
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Rulers and statesmen,
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men who occupy positions
of trust and authority,
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thinking men and
women of all classes,
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have their attention fixed
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upon the events
taking place about us.
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They are watching the strained,
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restless relations that
exist among the nations.
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They observe the intensity
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that is taking possession
of every earthly element,
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and they recognize
that something great
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and decisive is
about to take place
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that the world is on the
verge of a stupendous crisis."
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Number 4, Avoid
all date-setting.
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Please be careful, Acts 1:7,
let's read that "And He said,
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Jesus said to them,
just before you ascended,
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'It is not for you
to know times or seasons
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which the Father has
put in His own authority."
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Allow me to
just put Mathew 24 up
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real quickly with Matthew 24:42
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"Watch therefore, Jesus
says, for you do not know
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what hour your Lord is coming."
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You do not know.
Avoid all date-setting.
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But as you avoid
that please keep in mind
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this prescient observation,
also from a century ago.
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"Great changes are soon
to take place in our world,
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and the final
movements will be rapid."
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Don't get caught
in the reverse trap.
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Ah, it's going to take long
time for all of this to happen.
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Be very careful.
Number 5 jot it down.
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Maintain a healthy caution.
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I think this is
important in this strategy
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to seek the gift of discernment.
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Avoid dogmatic prognostications
and those who insist on them.
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And I got this
from Ecclesiastes 11:6,
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I like this
principle, "In the morning...
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the wisest man on earth wrote.
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"...sow your seed,
and in the evening do not
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withhold your hand, for you
do not know which will prosper,
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either this or that, or whether
both alike will be good."
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You can't know,
we just can't know,
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is it this way, is that way.
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There's some thing
you just gonna have,
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you must maintain
a healthy caution,
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a healthy skepticism,
a healthy tentativeness.
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I'm amazed at the
dogmatic scenarios
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and apocalyptic predictions
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that are bound in the
internet and flourish.
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I get hard copies sent to me,
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oh, pastor, read
this, I've a new idea.
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I get that all the time.
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Healthy caution, don't bite
every hook that comes along.
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There are some outcomes
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we simply cannot
predict or foresee.
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Number 6, keep your
focus on God. You look to God.
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And finally number
7, testify to your hope.
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I love 1 Peter
3:15, "Always be prepared
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to give an answer to
everyone who asks you
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to give the reason for
the hope that you have.
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But do this with
gentleness and respect."
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Come on, give a
reason. Why? Why? Why?
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Look at Matthew
24:14, one more text.
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"And this gospel of the
kingdom will be preached
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in all the world as a
witness to all the nations,
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and then the end will come."
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I was out in California this
last weekend visiting my mother
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and out there for
the wedding of my nephew,
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my Brother Greg's son
Ivan, who is also a pastor.
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And on my mother's coffee table
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I found Jon
Paulien's new book Armageddon.
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So I read it over the weekend.
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I happened to bump into Jon,
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actually looked
him up on Monday.
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I told him I was gonna buy
the book when I got back here,
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I bought it
yesterday at the APC.
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I want to tell you something.
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Jon has done some
very careful study
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and reflection
on the apocalypse.
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And I found the
book for me impressive
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informative and
for me inspiring.
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John maintains in the
book a healthy tentativeness
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even with his own research
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and conclusions though
his scholarship is solid.
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But one point he reiterates
and this stuck with me.
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One point he
reiterates is that no matter
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how the end game is
deciphered in Revelation,
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Christ makes it clear
that the everlasting gospel
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must go to every
nation, kindred, tribe, tongue,
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and people before the return."
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IE, the Issachar
Factor of discerning
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the times must lead us
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to the Issachar Factor
of determining the response.
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And Jesus is
unequivocal in response
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to the nearness of my
return, I'm telling you,
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I'm commanding you
as Russell's preached us
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to the other day as you see I'm
commanding you go to the world.
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You go now, go to all the world.
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I mean you think about?
This just boggles the mind.
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The surest of all the science
that Jesus is soon to return
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is the one sign the only sign
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that is left in the
hands of Christ followers.
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It's the only one that you and
I have any part in achieving.
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Namely telling the
world, our little worlds,
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the good news about
Jesus, I mean you name for me
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one more calming antidote
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to this
generation of pandemic fear
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than the simple
truth about Jesus.
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He died for me. I
can live without guilt.
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He died for me. I
can live without guilt.
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I don't have to
drink my guilt away.
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I don't have to
drug my guilt away.
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I don't have to
dance my guilt away.
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I now live without
guilt. He's forgiven me.
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Number 1, He died for
me. Number 2, He rose for me.
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You know what that
means? I have nothing to fear.
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If you have conquered death,
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you have conquered
the ultimate human fear.
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What can any man do to me
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that the Son of
Man cannot undo for me?
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He died for me, I
live without guilt.
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He rose for me, I
live without fear.
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And He is coming for
me, I live with hope.
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Not hope in the president.
Not hope in the Congress.
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Not hope in Wall Street.
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Now I live in the
hope of one who says,
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"Behold I'll come again."
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Wow!
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The only one I
know in this universe
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who can have the last word.
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No matter what
happens to this nation,
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No matter what
happens to this world,
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No matter what anyone happens
to say we have hallelujah.
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We have this hope.
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We have this hope that
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Burns within our hearts
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Hope in the coming of the Lord
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We have this faith that
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Christ alone imparts
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Faith in the promise of His Word
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We believe the time is here
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When the nations far and near
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Shall awake, and shout and sing
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Hallelujah! Christ is King
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We have this hope that
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Burns within our hearts
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Hope in the coming of the Lord
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And now to him who has loved us,
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and washed us from
our sins in His blood.
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And has made us kings and
priests to his God and Father
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to him be glory and
dominion for ever and ever.
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Behold, he's coming with clouds
and every eye will see him,
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even so, come Lord Jesus. Amen.
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It's been a pleasure to be
able to worship with you today.
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I hope that the Spirit of Jesus
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Andrews University.
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