Let's sing this together,
"Thank You for the Cross."
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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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Beautiful.
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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 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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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
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Crucified
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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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The Darling of Heaven
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Crucified
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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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Church said, amen. Amen.
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You may be seated.
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How deep the
Father's love for us.
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How vast beyond all measure.
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Is that your testimony today?
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Have we recognized the
depth of the Father's love?
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As join in this song together.
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How deep the
Father's love for us
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How vast beyond all measure
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That He should give His only Son
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To make a wretch His treasure
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How great the
pain of searing loss
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The Father turns His face away
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As wounds which
mar the chosen One
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Bring many sons to glory
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Behold the Man upon a cross
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My sin upon His shoulders
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Ashamed I hear my mocking voice
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Call out among the scoffers
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It was my sin
that left Him there
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Until it was accomplished
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His dying breath
has brought me life
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I know that it is finished
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I will not boast in anything
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No gifts, no power, no wisdom
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But I will boast in Jesus Christ
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His death and resurrection
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Why should I
gain from His reward?
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I cannot give an answer
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But this I know
with all my heart
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His wounds have paid my ransom
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Why should I gain?
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Why should I
gain from His reward?
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I cannot give an answer
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But this I know
with all my heart
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His wounds have paid
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My ransom
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Thank you, Lord. Thank you.
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There is a
fountain filled with blood
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Drawn from Immanuel's veins
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And sinners
plunged beneath that flood
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Lose all their guilty stains
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Lose all their guilty stains
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Lose all their guilty stains
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And sinners
plunged beneath that flood
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Lose all their guilty stains
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The dying thief rejoiced to see
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That fountain in His day
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And there may I
though vile as he
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Washed all my sins away
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Washed all my sins away
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Washed all my sins away
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And there may I
though vile as he
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Washed all my sins away
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E'er since by
faith I saw the stream
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Thy flowing wounds supply
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Redeeming love has been my theme
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And shall be till I die
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And shall be till I die
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And shall be till I die
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Redeeming love has been my theme
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And shall be till I die
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I am crucified with Christ
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Therefore I no longer live
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Jesus Christ now lives in me
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I am crucified with Christ
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Therefore I no longer live
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Jesus Christ now lives in me
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Embrace the cross
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Where Jesus suffered
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Though it will cost
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All you claim as yours
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Your sacrifice will seem small
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Beside the treasure
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Eternity can't measure
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What Jesus holds in store
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Embrace the love
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The cross requires
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Cling to the one
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Whose heart knew every pain
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Receive from Jesus
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Fountains of compassion
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Only He can fashion
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Your heart to move as His
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Oh, wondrous cross
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Our desires rest in you
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Oh, Lord Jesus
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make us bolder
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To face with courage
the shame and disgrace
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You bore
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Upon Your shoulder
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Embrace the life
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That comes from dying
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Come trace the steps
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The Savior walked for you
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An empty tomb
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Concludes Golgotha's sorrow
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Endure then till tomorrow
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Your cross of suffering
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Embrace the cross
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Embrace the cross
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The cross of Jesus
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Amen.
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And so Holy Father,
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we have come to do just
that to embrace the cross.
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Forgive us, we
thought it was nothing
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more than a dusty piece of wood
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that treasures chest of heaven.
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Oh, God, let us
embrace the cross
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through Jesus
Christ our Lord, amen.
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If we can accept
this premise is true,
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the premise if we
can accept it is true
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than based on this premise
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we must conclude that
the most humble person
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who has ever
lived is God himself.
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We'll take
premise in just a moment
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but let me first
share with you a column
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written by the syndicated
columnist George Will.
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His last column
in Newsweek magazine
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is ruminating over
what he calls the years
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most pertinent and
sobering public affairs book.
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He is talking
about Gene Healy's book,
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"The Cult of the Presidency,
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America's Devotion
to Executive Power."
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And Healy's book
explores our pension as a nation
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for "redemption
through presidential politics."
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In other words
we have a tendency
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as Americans to
elevate the presidency
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to almost messianic status.
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Healy's calls it Caesaropapism.
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We combine the rule of Caesar
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and the pope in
the American president.
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Now George Will
writes and I quote will here.
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"An occupational hazard
of the inflated presidency
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is a hazard to
the nation as well.
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It is what Healy borrowing
a term from psychiatry calls
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Acquired
Situational Narcissism."
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Acquired means you
don't have it normally.
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It comes to you,
situational means
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it comes to you in
a certain situation
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and Narcissism of
course is self worship.
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"As repositories of
absurd expectations,
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and surrounded by sycophants,"
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that would be
those who flatter you.
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"Presidents become deranged."
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Now isn't that something?
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Will point,
something happens to the man
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when he is in office.
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Acquired Situational Narcissism.
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When the power of
the office deranges
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and deludes the occupant.
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Just like king Saul, last week,
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just like Absalom two weeks ago.
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And what about God?
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They're almost--
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The reign notion is sacrilegious
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it feels to suggest that somehow
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he is been so
long in that office.
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He is been affected.
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If we accept the premise is true
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and we note the
premise right now.
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If this premise is
true then we must conclude
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that the most humble person
in the universe is God himself.
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Now here's the premise,
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The very antitheses of
Acquired Situational Narcissism.
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If this premise is
true what do you think?
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Here it is.
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Jesus is the
most perfect depiction
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and faithful reflection of God
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we shall ever know in this life.
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True or false?
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But of course He
asserts the premise
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over and over and over again.
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Doesn't He?
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Than the upper room, John 14:9,
put it on the screen for you.
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What did Jesus say?
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"Whoever has
seen Me has seen" who?
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You seen me you
"seen the Father."
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John 10:30 "I and
the Father are one."
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Back to the
upper room, John 14:7,
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"IF you really knew Me,
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you would know
My Father as well.
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And from on you do know
Him and you have seen Him."
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And oh, my, what have they
see tonight in the upper room?
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They have seen the
Man stripped to the waist
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bearing a towel
and a basin of water
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and stoop-- get this, stooping
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at the dirty feet
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of his ASN infected disciples.
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ASN, Acquired
Situational Narcissism.
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The psychiatric
condition of the mind
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where by a sense of power
whether it is real delusional
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deranges the
individual to the place
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he no longer accepts his
humble status in life as real.
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So that in that upper room
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you got 12 men who
are absolutely certain
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they are not gonna be
the ones to lower themselves,
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not even John boy,
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with whom we began the
series a few weeks ago.
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Not even John boy will stoop
down to wash anyone's feet.
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No, way, Jose.
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The only one who
is willing to go lower
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then the 12 is the Master
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who squats at 12
pairs of stinking feet.
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Well, made
Himself of no reputation
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that took upon Him
the form of a slave
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and humbled himself.
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How did Jesus put
it once a Son of Man
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came not to be
served but to serve?
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George Bush last week,
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if you are following the news
you know that he was in Europe.
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In fact, if we could yesterday
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he had an audience
with Pope Benedict XVI.
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I didn't learned about this
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till Wednesday
night at house of prayer
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when somebody told me
hey, go check the web.
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The buzz in Europe.
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Did you know
that the wire services
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were a buzz are a
buzz with the notion
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that President
Bush is about to convert
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to Roman Catholicism.
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In Europe the
word on the street is
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like his good friend Tony Blair
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who after he left
office as prime minister
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of Great Britain
converted to Catholicism
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and announced it to
the world in December
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even so President Bush
will leave the Methodist church
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and do the same.
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So given the buzz on the
street the prayers, the press.
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Oh, my they were
hanging on every--
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in this papal audience.
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Will there be a clue,
will the president indicate
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this is where he is
going and true to form.
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The Pope obviously,
now the grateful payback
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for the imperial
welcome he received
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in the White
House back in April.
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The Pope breaks
protocol and president
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and takes the
president on a personal stroll
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through the
private Vatican gardens.
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Karen and I were
looking on those gardens
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just about five weeks ago.
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Beautiful gardens.
And so the press watched.
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Now what would it happen
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as the cameras were trained
on the Pope and president.
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What would have happened
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if the Pope had
stripped down to his waist,
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kneeled over and wash the
feet of George and Laura Bush
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taking off that white cassock?
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You know, what, it is so bizarre
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you can't even think of it.
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Tell me, please, this is crazy.
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Why?
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Because power and
prestige have their place
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and the greater
never bows to the lesser
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and yet when the supreme
monarch of the universe strips
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to His waist and he squats down
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and he personally
bays the feet of the men
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who should have been lining
up one after my turn next,
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I wash his next, my
turn, my turn, my turn.
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They didn't line up
but they should have.
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Let me hit the
pause button right here.
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Do you know
what, our problem is,
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here's our problem.
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We've have been to
this story in John 13
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that seems so many times
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that it moves our
souls not a wit anymore.
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But of course-- I
mean, come on, divine love,
00:23:27.03\00:23:29.07
what you expect
divine love to do?
00:23:29.10\00:23:30.51
Next come on guys, get
your feet wash by Jesus.
00:23:30.54\00:23:33.98
We only think that way
00:23:37.66\00:23:39.78
because of our sin
darkened imagination
00:23:39.81\00:23:42.41
that cannot possibly
comprehend the resplendent glory
00:23:42.44\00:23:46.15
that once belong to the man
00:23:46.18\00:23:47.93
squatting in
front of our dirty feet.
00:23:47.96\00:23:49.69
That's why we think that way.
00:23:49.72\00:23:50.87
You want to know
who this man this?
00:23:50.90\00:23:53.13
I'm reading a commentary
00:23:53.16\00:23:54.19
through right now in
the book of Revelation.
00:23:54.22\00:23:56.17
There is a scene at
the end of the apocalypse
00:23:56.20\00:23:57.91
that it might be well for
us to just take a peak at.
00:23:57.94\00:24:00.70
Go to the end of the
Bible, the Book of Revelation.
00:24:00.73\00:24:03.12
Go ahead and look
at it in your Bibles.
00:24:03.15\00:24:04.82
Grab the pew Bible
if you didn't bring one.
00:24:04.85\00:24:06.55
It's a last book of the Bible
00:24:06.58\00:24:07.61
you won't have any
problem finding it.
00:24:07.64\00:24:08.94
Revelation Chapter
20, Revelation Chapter 20,
00:24:08.97\00:24:13.94
dramatic reminder of this
00:24:13.97\00:24:15.19
squatting
monarch's rifle elevation.
00:24:15.22\00:24:17.94
Take a look at this--
00:24:17.97\00:24:19.93
oh, I want to be
there on that day.
00:24:19.96\00:24:21.42
I want to tell you
something there's only one place
00:24:21.45\00:24:23.20
I want to be, on that
day I want to be very close
00:24:23.23\00:24:25.85
to where this
moment takes place.
00:24:25.88\00:24:27.92
I don't want to be outside.
00:24:27.95\00:24:30.52
The moment
00:24:30.55\00:24:31.58
it's called the great
white throne judgment.
00:24:31.61\00:24:35.20
You know, when Justin and Justin
00:24:35.23\00:24:37.86
and their singers were
leading us this morning
00:24:37.89\00:24:41.76
and we sang about
00:24:41.79\00:24:42.82
"Worthy is the
Lamb high and lifted up"
00:24:42.85\00:24:46.44
I already knew this was coming
00:24:46.47\00:24:48.00
and I tell you
what my heart just swept
00:24:48.03\00:24:51.05
into that moment
what will it be like
00:24:51.08\00:24:53.95
when He is
lifted higher and higher
00:24:53.98\00:24:55.80
that great white
throne above the human race.
00:24:55.83\00:25:01.97
Ladies and gentlemen,
00:25:02.00\00:25:03.65
we have with our
Spielberg jaded imaginations
00:25:03.68\00:25:08.69
not an eye order of
ability to grasp this picture.
00:25:08.72\00:25:14.79
Look at it Revelation 20:11,
00:25:14.82\00:25:17.11
"Then I saw a great white throne
00:25:17.14\00:25:20.76
and Him who was seated on it,
00:25:20.79\00:25:21.98
from whose face the
earth and the heaven fled away.
00:25:22.01\00:25:25.23
And there was
found no place for them."
00:25:25.26\00:25:26.56
The sky tried to
run, the sky tried to run
00:25:26.59\00:25:30.11
and couldn't find a place to go.
00:25:30.14\00:25:32.38
The earth tried to
run and it could not go.
00:25:32.41\00:25:35.17
It got no place to hide.
00:25:35.20\00:25:36.89
It's going on here verse 12,
00:25:36.92\00:25:37.95
"And I saw the
dead, small and great,
00:25:37.98\00:25:40.14
standing before the God,
and the books were opened.
00:25:40.17\00:25:42.52
And another book was opened,
which is the Book of Life.
00:25:42.55\00:25:45.70
And the dead were judged
according to their works,
00:25:45.73\00:25:49.10
by the things which
were written in the books."
00:25:49.13\00:25:51.75
Now having read that
I want to share with you
00:25:51.78\00:25:54.15
what feels like an
eyewitness account, all right.
00:25:54.18\00:25:56.47
This is from a book
called Great Controversy.
00:25:56.50\00:25:57.88
I put the words on the screen
00:25:57.91\00:25:58.96
so that you can
see them as well.
00:25:58.99\00:26:00.74
"Far above the city,
00:26:00.77\00:26:01.82
upon a foundation
of burnished gold,"
00:26:01.85\00:26:05.71
all right,
foundation of burnished gold,
00:26:05.74\00:26:07.27
"is a throne,
high and lifted up."
00:26:07.30\00:26:09.76
We sang that a moment
ago, high and lifted up.
00:26:09.79\00:26:12.50
That throne is going
higher and higher and higher.
00:26:12.53\00:26:16.89
And watch this "Upon this
throne sits the Son of God,
00:26:16.92\00:26:20.88
and around Him are the
subjects of His kingdom."
00:26:20.91\00:26:23.33
Oh, I want to be in
that circle around Him.
00:26:23.36\00:26:25.65
"The power and
majesty of Christ"
00:26:25.68\00:26:27.64
now get this "no language
can describe, no pen portray.
00:26:27.67\00:26:31.58
The glory of the Eternal
Father is enshrouding His Son.
00:26:31.61\00:26:34.84
The brightness of His
presence fills the City of God,
00:26:34.87\00:26:37.51
and flows out beyond the gates,
00:26:37.54\00:26:39.26
flooding the earth
with its radiance."
00:26:39.29\00:26:41.86
You cannot imagine the glory,
00:26:41.89\00:26:44.09
the resplendent
glory of that moment.
00:26:44.12\00:26:47.25
That, that, right there
is who was washing the feet
00:26:47.28\00:26:52.67
Thursday night in the upper room
00:26:52.70\00:26:54.92
that potentate.
00:26:54.95\00:26:57.24
Not a lonely
president, not a lonely Pope
00:26:57.27\00:26:59.77
but the supreme
potentate of the universe.
00:26:59.80\00:27:02.88
That's who was washing
the feet in the upper room.
00:27:02.91\00:27:07.17
Once upon a time
according to the story
00:27:07.20\00:27:09.91
that supreme ruler
stood up, stripped himself,
00:27:09.94\00:27:15.13
stepped down from the
throne and when I say down
00:27:15.16\00:27:17.53
I mean down, down,
down, all the way down
00:27:17.56\00:27:23.29
until He finally
emerges from some obscure
00:27:23.32\00:27:25.88
peasant girls
womb in a backyard cave
00:27:25.91\00:27:30.85
and is born into this race.
00:27:30.88\00:27:34.24
Why was He born?
00:27:34.27\00:27:35.30
So that 30 odd years
00:27:35.33\00:27:36.69
later on that
hardened forbidding night
00:27:36.72\00:27:40.66
He might humble
himself ever further
00:27:40.69\00:27:43.66
and stoop down
and squat before us
00:27:43.69\00:27:46.75
and wash our feet.
00:27:46.78\00:27:50.07
You know, what
the only humiliation
00:27:50.10\00:27:51.13
it would have been more
humiliating and humbling.
00:27:51.16\00:27:53.87
Would have been
to strip Him naked
00:27:53.90\00:27:55.89
and nailed Him to and tree
00:27:55.92\00:27:57.45
and hang Him front
of the gaping world.
00:27:57.48\00:28:01.28
How did Jesus put it?
00:28:01.31\00:28:04.18
If you are seeing
Me you seen the Father.
00:28:04.21\00:28:08.45
For the Father
and I are like this.
00:28:08.48\00:28:10.48
We're are one.
00:28:10.51\00:28:12.61
If you would have known Me
00:28:12.64\00:28:14.36
you would have
known my Father also
00:28:14.39\00:28:16.50
but that's the problem.
00:28:16.53\00:28:17.56
We really don't know, do
we? Don't know the Father.
00:28:17.59\00:28:22.80
Not this God who Philip
Yancey describes as being shy.
00:28:22.83\00:28:25.71
Have you ever
thought of God who is shy?
00:28:25.74\00:28:28.19
The shy God.
00:28:28.22\00:28:30.49
Have you ever thought
of God who is being humble?
00:28:30.52\00:28:32.72
I'll be honest
with you I have not--
00:28:32.75\00:28:34.08
I had not thought
about God being humble.
00:28:34.11\00:28:35.58
I somehow, you know,
humble is for everybody else
00:28:35.61\00:28:37.86
but not for God, He is your God.
00:28:37.89\00:28:40.98
And then a friend of
mine gave me a paper.
00:28:41.01\00:28:43.03
He is classmate in
college his name is Fred Bishop,
00:28:43.06\00:28:45.07
he is a physician
turned theologian.
00:28:45.10\00:28:47.23
And in this paper he
explores the leadership paradigm
00:28:47.26\00:28:50.16
we see amongst the trinity.
00:28:50.19\00:28:51.37
Let me run this by,
this is fascinating.
00:28:51.40\00:28:53.81
What is leadership like
00:28:53.84\00:28:55.04
among the top
leaders in the universe?
00:28:55.07\00:28:56.51
These are the
three highest, all right.
00:28:56.54\00:28:58.69
The trinity, well,
you have the Father
00:28:58.72\00:29:00.88
the perfect leader
displaying His humility,
00:29:00.91\00:29:04.60
His leadership through humility.
00:29:04.63\00:29:05.73
You know how He does it?
00:29:05.76\00:29:06.79
He does it by His humble service
00:29:06.82\00:29:08.28
to the entire creation.
00:29:08.31\00:29:09.78
If you are alive He
is serving you right now.
00:29:09.81\00:29:13.05
You are alive this moment
00:29:13.08\00:29:14.21
because the
Father is serving you.
00:29:14.24\00:29:15.89
You said, let
Him go. Let Him go.
00:29:15.92\00:29:20.27
He serves His entire creation.
00:29:20.30\00:29:22.09
Then you have the
Son, the perfect follower
00:29:22.12\00:29:24.28
displaying His
leadership through His humility
00:29:24.31\00:29:26.12
humbly submitting Himself
to His Father the leader.
00:29:26.15\00:29:30.22
The Son, just say hey,
00:29:30.25\00:29:31.53
I'm number one here
now I submit to you.
00:29:31.56\00:29:35.11
I submit humbly.
00:29:35.14\00:29:37.20
And then you have the
third person of the God head
00:29:37.23\00:29:39.32
the great enabler.
00:29:39.35\00:29:41.17
This being is so
humble he will never been seen
00:29:41.20\00:29:44.59
in the history of the
universe to be admired.
00:29:44.62\00:29:47.78
Never see.
00:29:47.81\00:29:49.55
You have this round
robin circular humility
00:29:49.58\00:29:53.56
amongst the trinity.
00:29:53.59\00:29:58.31
The humility that climax is
not in that great white throne
00:29:58.34\00:30:02.60
but on that old rugged cross.
00:30:02.63\00:30:05.58
That's the humility climax.
00:30:05.61\00:30:09.32
End with me in
Philippians, will you?
00:30:09.35\00:30:11.30
Not enough to be
in the apocalypse
00:30:11.33\00:30:12.38
that's to come.
00:30:12.41\00:30:13.44
Let's look at
what's already come.
00:30:13.47\00:30:15.20
Philippians Chapter 2,
page 790 in your pew Bible.
00:30:15.23\00:30:19.92
Philippians Chapter
2, end with me here.
00:30:19.95\00:30:23.84
Considered the
oldest Christian hymn extent
00:30:23.87\00:30:28.54
I believe that these
words were actually a hymn--
00:30:28.57\00:30:31.65
these words were sung as a hymn
00:30:31.68\00:30:33.53
in their prayer
services long ago.
00:30:33.56\00:30:36.42
Philippians 2:5,
"Let this mind be in you,
00:30:36.45\00:30:41.01
which was also in Christ Jesus.
00:30:41.04\00:30:44.07
Who, being in the form of God,
00:30:44.10\00:30:47.61
did not consider
robbery to be equal with God,
00:30:47.64\00:30:50.29
but he made
himself of no reputation,
00:30:50.32\00:30:52.80
taking the form of a slave,"
00:30:52.83\00:30:54.72
that's how the
Greek reads "of a slave,
00:30:54.75\00:30:57.17
and coming in the
likeness of men and woman
00:30:57.20\00:30:59.60
and being found in appearance
as a man, he humbled himself,
00:30:59.63\00:31:04.29
and became obedient
to the point of death,
00:31:04.32\00:31:06.43
even the death of the cross."
00:31:06.46\00:31:11.21
It's an old hymn.
00:31:11.24\00:31:12.81
They used to sing those words.
00:31:12.84\00:31:14.85
No humbler, no, humbler,
00:31:19.79\00:31:24.60
no one humbler.
00:31:24.63\00:31:28.44
There's a magazine
that still goes out,
00:31:28.47\00:31:29.82
it's a wonderful
magazine if you can subscribe
00:31:29.85\00:31:31.52
to it be sure and
do as Karen and I do.
00:31:31.55\00:31:33.58
It's called Signs of the Times.
00:31:33.61\00:31:34.95
It's been
around for a long time.
00:31:34.98\00:31:36.24
A 110 ten years ago this
very month on June ninth,
00:31:36.27\00:31:39.78
110 years ago these words
appeared in Signs magazine.
00:31:39.81\00:31:43.43
I'll put them on
the screen for you.
00:31:43.46\00:31:44.58
"What a sight was this
for Heaven to look upon!
00:31:44.61\00:31:48.17
Christ, who knew not the least
taint of sin or defilement,
00:31:48.20\00:31:51.64
took our nature in its
deteriorated condition.
00:31:51.67\00:31:54.60
This was
humiliation greater than finite
00:31:54.63\00:31:56.84
man or woman could
possibly comprehend.
00:31:56.87\00:31:59.18
God was manifest in the
flesh. God humbled Himself.
00:31:59.21\00:32:03.96
What a subject
for thought, for deep,
00:32:03.99\00:32:06.42
earnest contemplation!"
00:32:06.45\00:32:08.14
Can you believe
that God humbled Himself?
00:32:08.17\00:32:11.89
No acquired situational
narcissism with this guy.
00:32:11.92\00:32:17.10
The only protocol he embraces
is the protocol not of a king,
00:32:17.13\00:32:20.15
not of a pope but of a slave.
00:32:20.18\00:32:22.83
It's only understands
is how to be a slave.
00:32:22.86\00:32:28.49
I mean, can you think
of anyone in the universe
00:32:28.52\00:32:31.12
who is more
humble than this God?
00:32:31.15\00:32:34.98
Come on tell me.
Call the name out.
00:32:35.01\00:32:36.56
You name her for me.
00:32:36.59\00:32:37.75
Name her, tell
me who is name is.
00:32:37.78\00:32:40.60
Who is more humble that
you ever met than this God?
00:32:40.63\00:32:42.54
Give me one name.
You cannot name a name.
00:32:42.57\00:32:44.99
I'll leave you here forever
00:32:45.02\00:32:46.52
and you will not
come up with a name.
00:32:46.55\00:32:49.01
There is one humbler.
00:32:49.04\00:32:51.10
No God humbler in this universe.
00:32:51.13\00:32:55.15
And try to think, I
mean, can you think of anybody.
00:32:55.18\00:32:58.28
You would rather be
more like than this God.
00:32:58.31\00:33:04.91
I mean, which I
like to be like Him.
00:33:04.94\00:33:07.51
You not had to backwards.
00:33:07.54\00:33:08.57
We thought that
you will exert yourself
00:33:08.60\00:33:10.11
and to show your
authority around this place
00:33:10.14\00:33:11.71
you got to have a
little bit of power.
00:33:11.74\00:33:13.09
You got to
push, you got to push.
00:33:13.12\00:33:14.78
See other way around.
00:33:14.81\00:33:15.84
We got it all the
devil has infected us all
00:33:15.87\00:33:18.56
we got to backwards,
it's the other way around.
00:33:18.59\00:33:20.96
If you have power you're slave.
00:33:20.99\00:33:23.91
You serve.
00:33:23.94\00:33:26.05
If you have power you give love.
00:33:26.08\00:33:30.81
You've been wrong.
00:33:30.84\00:33:32.77
For an entire
race we've been wrong
00:33:32.80\00:33:35.50
that's why He came.
00:33:35.53\00:33:37.20
So guys, I got to
tell you the kingdom.
00:33:37.23\00:33:39.48
The kingdom is different.
00:33:39.51\00:33:40.91
Apparently we can calm
as humble as the Lord Jesus
00:33:45.51\00:33:51.66
because you know why,
that's precisely why I put,
00:33:51.69\00:33:54.86
why Paul put this here.
00:33:54.89\00:33:56.27
Look at this, go to verse 3.
00:33:56.30\00:33:57.92
Here is the point Paul is making
00:33:57.95\00:33:59.05
when he launches into this hymn.
00:33:59.08\00:34:00.67
Verse 3, "Let nothing be done
00:34:00.70\00:34:02.36
through selfish
ambition or conceit,
00:34:02.39\00:34:05.11
but in humility,
in humility of mind
00:34:05.14\00:34:09.84
let each esteem
others better than himself,
00:34:09.87\00:34:11.68
better than herself.
00:34:11.71\00:34:12.74
Let each one of you look out
not only for his own interests,
00:34:12.77\00:34:15.49
but also for the
interest of others."
00:34:15.52\00:34:17.72
Now "Let this
mind, therefore be in you
00:34:17.75\00:34:21.35
which is also in Christ Jesus."
00:34:21.38\00:34:23.14
You want to be humble
you got to have Jesus mind,
00:34:23.17\00:34:25.29
just ask for His mind.
00:34:25.32\00:34:27.36
You can be as humble as Jesus
00:34:27.39\00:34:29.09
but you have to have His mind.
00:34:29.12\00:34:30.99
You got to have His
heart. Let this mind be in you.
00:34:31.02\00:34:35.44
Apparently the
very contemplation
00:34:35.47\00:34:36.77
of the humility of Jesus
begins to have an affect on me
00:34:36.80\00:34:40.00
and have an
affect on you, oh mercy.
00:34:40.03\00:34:42.52
Look at this Desire of Ages,
put it on the screen for you.
00:34:42.55\00:34:44.37
"Looking upon the
crucified Redeemer,
00:34:44.40\00:34:47.01
we more fully
comprehend the magnitude
00:34:47.04\00:34:49.04
and meaning of the sacrifice
made by the Majesty of heaven.
00:34:49.07\00:34:52.01
The plan of salvation
is glorified before us,
00:34:52.04\00:34:55.24
and the thought of
Calvary" I love this,
00:34:55.27\00:34:57.49
"the thought of
Calvary awakens living
00:34:57.52\00:34:59.49
and sacred
emotions in our hearts.
00:34:59.52\00:35:01.46
Praise to God and the Lamb"
00:35:01.49\00:35:03.44
just as we were
singing just a moment ago
00:35:03.47\00:35:06.50
"Praise to God
and the Lamb will be
00:35:06.53\00:35:08.75
in our hearts and on our lips,"
00:35:08.78\00:35:11.14
and now here's this line.
00:35:11.17\00:35:12.44
This line is so potent for me
00:35:12.47\00:35:15.78
as I got to
struggle with the subject
00:35:15.81\00:35:17.43
that we maneuver
within this short series.
00:35:17.46\00:35:19.10
I struggle with it.
00:35:19.13\00:35:20.89
This line is so potent for me
00:35:20.92\00:35:22.82
that I have written
this line on the page
00:35:22.85\00:35:25.63
that tells the story
in Matthew of the Calvary.
00:35:25.66\00:35:28.34
I've written this line down.
00:35:28.37\00:35:30.12
Isn't this amazing?
00:35:30.15\00:35:31.38
Take a look at it on the screen.
00:35:31.41\00:35:32.68
"Pride and self-worship
cannot flourish in the soul
00:35:32.71\00:35:37.07
that keeps fresh in
memory the scenes of Calvary."
00:35:37.10\00:35:40.42
I mean, I memorize
because I read it every day.
00:35:40.45\00:35:42.96
"Pride and self-worship
cannot flourish in the soul
00:35:42.99\00:35:47.67
that keeps fresh in
memory the scenes of Calvary."
00:35:47.70\00:35:52.67
Ladies and gentlemen,
we have gathered here today
00:35:52.70\00:35:54.30
to take a towel
and some bread in a cup
00:35:54.33\00:35:57.82
the great emblems of Calvary
00:35:57.85\00:36:00.22
so that pride and self-worship
may not flourish today.
00:36:00.25\00:36:05.35
I don't know how it works
00:36:05.38\00:36:06.78
but apparent, it's kind of like,
00:36:06.81\00:36:08.19
when you walk into a room,
hey, here's a question for you.
00:36:08.22\00:36:10.26
When you walk into a room,
00:36:10.29\00:36:11.32
a dark room like
the barn a moment ago,
00:36:11.35\00:36:13.45
when you walk into a
dark room and you turn on,
00:36:13.48\00:36:16.79
you hit the switch
and the light goes on
00:36:16.82\00:36:18.79
where does the darkness go?
00:36:18.82\00:36:20.38
Where does it go?
00:36:20.41\00:36:22.10
Does it go up to a
little corner in the universe
00:36:22.13\00:36:23.84
where it hides and
waits to come back?
00:36:23.87\00:36:25.66
But of course not, it
simply seizes to exist.
00:36:25.69\00:36:28.46
When you step up the
Calvary and the switch is hit
00:36:28.49\00:36:31.67
and the resplendent
glory of that sacrifice
00:36:31.70\00:36:34.09
shines on your heart.
00:36:34.12\00:36:35.43
Where does your
pride and self-worship go?
00:36:35.46\00:36:37.12
You can't be
proud of that moment,
00:36:37.15\00:36:38.70
it is humanely
impossible because it's gone.
00:36:38.73\00:36:41.87
You are at the
foot of the cross,
00:36:41.90\00:36:43.69
do you understand.
00:36:43.72\00:36:44.95
When we go to
the cross the light,
00:36:44.98\00:36:47.60
the floodlight of
divine humility shines on us
00:36:47.63\00:36:51.43
and our pride and
self-worship gone.
00:36:51.46\00:36:53.97
Yeah, but, Dwight,
what about tomorrow?
00:36:54.00\00:36:55.25
Oh, you are right, tomorrow.
00:36:55.28\00:36:57.16
It will define the day
but what about tomorrow,
00:36:57.19\00:36:59.71
and the next day,
00:36:59.74\00:37:00.77
and the next day
and the next day?
00:37:00.80\00:37:02.18
That's why we got to
go to the cross every day.
00:37:02.21\00:37:04.39
I wish you join me every morning
00:37:04.42\00:37:05.74
wherever you live,
00:37:05.77\00:37:07.33
wherever you live on
this planet right now
00:37:07.36\00:37:09.88
I wish you would
join me every morning
00:37:09.91\00:37:11.71
and beginning your day
reading the story of Calvary.
00:37:11.74\00:37:15.73
Then you and I can
go to where the light is
00:37:15.76\00:37:18.95
and trying to self, gone,
00:37:18.98\00:37:21.33
they cannot exist for
the glory of divine humanity
00:37:21.36\00:37:26.85
at Calvary shines on us.
00:37:26.88\00:37:29.49
Go with me every day, you
got your Bible, don't you.
00:37:29.52\00:37:32.45
Open your Bible
every day as you begin it
00:37:32.48\00:37:34.70
with the story of Calvary.
00:37:34.73\00:37:36.49
Okay, where else you
worship just start with Calvary,
00:37:36.52\00:37:38.99
start at the cross.
00:37:39.02\00:37:40.47
Hit the switch.
00:37:40.50\00:37:41.98
"Pride and self-worship
cannot flourish in the soul
00:37:42.01\00:37:44.62
that keeps fresh in
memory the scenes of Calvary."
00:37:44.65\00:37:49.10
No God humbler than
the one on the cross.
00:37:49.13\00:37:53.39
You know, why, for God
is the most humble person
00:37:53.42\00:37:57.86
who has ever lived
00:37:57.89\00:38:00.46
and I for one want
to be just like Him,
00:38:00.49\00:38:04.88
just like Jesus, don't you?
00:38:04.91\00:38:08.26
I mean, come on,
don't you? Of course.
00:38:08.29\00:38:11.96
Oh, God, hit the switch,
00:38:11.99\00:38:16.01
shine the light
there resplendent glory
00:38:16.04\00:38:20.90
of the most humble
person in the universe
00:38:20.93\00:38:26.01
shine it at the cross
00:38:26.04\00:38:29.04
that is the
ultimate humiliation.
00:38:29.07\00:38:32.58
Shine at it Calvary
and destroy the pride
00:38:32.61\00:38:37.69
and self-worship deep within us.
00:38:37.72\00:38:40.59
Do it today and
tomorrow and the next day,
00:38:40.62\00:38:44.57
and the next
day, and the next day,
00:38:44.60\00:38:47.23
until that great white judgment
00:38:47.26\00:38:49.03
and we by the grace of Jesus
00:38:49.06\00:38:51.90
shall be in that
circle about him.
00:38:51.93\00:38:54.03
Oh, God, do it we pray,
00:38:54.06\00:38:57.13
in Christ name, amen.
00:38:57.16\00:39:02.31
Three emblems for His humility.
00:39:02.34\00:39:04.36
A towel, some bread and a cup.
00:39:04.39\00:39:08.58
You get those
three in your hands
00:39:08.61\00:39:10.03
and I'll telling
you, you hit the switch.
00:39:10.06\00:39:12.64
Today we give the
spirit the opportunity
00:39:12.67\00:39:15.40
to hit the switch for us.
00:39:15.43\00:39:17.37
Yes, this is it,
ladies and gentlemen,
00:39:17.40\00:39:19.13
it doesn't get
any better than this.
00:39:19.16\00:39:21.68
This is the greatest
worship we can ever experience
00:39:21.71\00:39:26.60
while we celebrate the cross.
00:39:26.63\00:39:27.85
We come to the Lord's
table, you will be the same,
00:39:27.88\00:39:30.19
you I'll never be the same.
00:39:30.22\00:39:33.00
So join me downstairs.
00:39:33.03\00:39:37.09
Hey, guess what, you
know what you gonna do?
00:39:37.12\00:39:39.55
We're gonna be,
we're gonna be slaves.
00:39:39.58\00:39:41.26
That's what you do.
00:39:41.29\00:39:42.32
When you kneel down
in front of somebody else
00:39:42.35\00:39:43.85
you are saying I accept
that you are greater than I.
00:39:43.88\00:39:46.76
When you kneel down
in front of somebody else
00:39:46.79\00:39:48.22
you are saying I accept
that you are greater than I.
00:39:48.25\00:39:50.65
We will become
slaves just like Jesus
00:39:50.68\00:39:53.24
and we will say,
that's my testimony today.
00:39:53.27\00:39:56.53
Let me serve You.
Let me serve You please.
00:39:56.56\00:40:00.73
You are greater than I.
00:40:00.76\00:40:04.64
Everything is ready
downstairs we got rooms for men,
00:40:04.67\00:40:06.73
we got rooms for women,
00:40:06.76\00:40:07.80
we got all kinds of
family rooms downstairs,
00:40:07.83\00:40:10.06
you can't negotiate the stairs,
00:40:10.09\00:40:11.63
right around that
corner on this level
00:40:11.66\00:40:13.78
everything is ready.
00:40:13.81\00:40:15.05
This is it, I mean,
00:40:15.08\00:40:16.82
this is the joy of
following our Master.
00:40:16.85\00:40:21.45
Don't miss it.
00:40:21.48\00:40:22.51
Don't let your heart miss
out on the example of Christ.
00:40:22.54\00:40:26.49
Let's go, I'll
see you down stairs.
00:40:30.27\00:40:32.39
"Oh, the bitter pain and sorrow
00:40:38.44\00:40:41.00
that a time could ever be
when I proudly said to Jesus,
00:40:41.03\00:40:46.53
'All of self, and none of Thee.'
00:40:46.56\00:40:50.61
Yet He found me,
00:40:50.64\00:40:52.40
I beheld Him
bleeding on th' accursed tree
00:40:52.43\00:40:56.09
and my wistful
heart said, faintly,
00:40:56.12\00:40:59.25
'Some of self,
and some of Thee.'
00:40:59.28\00:41:04.04
Day by day His tender mercy,
00:41:04.07\00:41:05.80
healing, helping, full and free,
00:41:05.83\00:41:10.14
brought me lower
while I whispered,
00:41:10.17\00:41:13.16
'Less of self,
and more of Thee.'
00:41:13.19\00:41:18.40
Higher than the highest heaven,
00:41:18.43\00:41:19.99
deeper than the deepest sea,
00:41:20.02\00:41:22.41
Lord, thy love at
last has conquered
00:41:22.44\00:41:27.27
'None of self,
and all of Thee.'"
00:41:27.30\00:41:32.59
That Thursday night
00:41:32.62\00:41:35.64
when the humble God taught us
00:41:35.67\00:41:41.50
the gift of Calvary
about His supper table
00:41:41.53\00:41:46.14
He gave us emblems so
that we would remember.
00:41:46.17\00:41:50.76
Judy Aitken can read us
00:41:50.79\00:41:51.92
in the reading of
that sacred account.
00:41:51.95\00:41:54.42
Thy communion
reading is in the bulletin,
00:42:01.96\00:42:05.47
I'm reading from
00:42:05.50\00:42:06.67
1 Corinthians 11:23-26 NIV.
00:42:06.70\00:42:13.78
"For I received from the Lord
what I also passed on to you,
00:42:13.81\00:42:18.94
The Lord Jesus, on the night
he was betrayed, took bread,
00:42:18.97\00:42:23.43
and when he had given
thanks, he broke it and said,
00:42:23.46\00:42:27.41
'This is my
body, which is for you,
00:42:27.44\00:42:31.29
do this in remembrance of me.'
00:42:31.32\00:42:34.52
In the same way, after
supper he took the cup, saying,
00:42:34.55\00:42:39.34
'This cup is the new
covenant in my blood, do this,
00:42:39.37\00:42:45.12
whenever you drink
it, in remembrance of me.'
00:42:45.15\00:42:49.09
For whenever you eat
this bread and drink this cup,
00:42:49.12\00:42:53.34
you proclaim the
Lord's death until he comes."
00:42:53.37\00:42:58.23
Let us kneel as Norman Wagness
00:42:58.26\00:43:01.65
ask God's
blessing on the emblems.
00:43:01.68\00:43:04.58
What a privilege it is Father,
00:43:21.62\00:43:24.37
to bow before
You as a living God
00:43:24.40\00:43:26.97
who created us
00:43:27.00\00:43:29.68
and that You have a
desire to the work of your hands
00:43:29.71\00:43:32.79
and that your attention
is turned toward us today
00:43:32.82\00:43:36.82
as we come to You
as your needy children.
00:43:36.85\00:43:41.27
We just want to give You praise
00:43:41.30\00:43:46.26
for the gift of your love to us
00:43:46.29\00:43:50.49
while we were yet
sinners and before we knew You,
00:43:50.52\00:43:54.43
You have loved us.
00:43:54.46\00:43:56.95
And You told us You love
us with an everlasting love.
00:43:56.98\00:44:01.21
You cannot give us up.
00:44:01.24\00:44:04.34
Lord, thank You for reaching out
00:44:04.37\00:44:07.36
to every heart here this morning
00:44:07.39\00:44:10.84
and touching us in
our inner most souls
00:44:10.87\00:44:15.28
and helping us to appreciate
00:44:15.31\00:44:17.35
what Jesus has done for us
in His life, in the living way
00:44:17.38\00:44:25.33
He demonstrated your love to us
00:44:25.36\00:44:29.34
and then in death we're thankful
00:44:29.37\00:44:32.33
that He took upon
himself the sins of the world,
00:44:32.36\00:44:38.43
our sins and we are thankful.
00:44:38.46\00:44:46.24
We cannot earn your love,
00:44:46.27\00:44:48.57
we can never deserve
it, we can just accept it.
00:44:48.60\00:44:52.53
We're thankful for the cleansing
00:44:52.56\00:44:54.38
that has taken place
00:44:54.41\00:44:55.78
and that we've been
privileged to serve one another
00:44:55.81\00:44:59.77
and to wash each others
feet as you instructed us
00:44:59.80\00:45:04.96
and now we reassembled
to partake those emblems
00:45:04.99\00:45:08.93
that You've given to us long ago
00:45:08.96\00:45:13.04
that remind us of the blood
00:45:13.07\00:45:14.97
that was given to
cleanse us all from sin
00:45:15.00\00:45:21.25
and re-acknowledge
our need to You this day
00:45:21.28\00:45:25.93
and we are
thankful for the bread,
00:45:25.96\00:45:29.52
His body that bore our sins
00:45:29.55\00:45:32.85
and that was
beaten and humiliated
00:45:32.88\00:45:36.57
that He did not hold
himself back from suffering.
00:45:36.60\00:45:41.69
And so Father, we
just come in our neediness
00:45:41.72\00:45:47.14
of being
cleansed, renew and knowing
00:45:47.17\00:45:51.18
that you accept us
through your own merits
00:45:51.21\00:45:55.59
because Jesus did
not die for His own sins
00:45:55.62\00:45:58.96
He was without sin
and we are thankful
00:45:58.99\00:46:03.36
that that
perfection is attributed to us
00:46:03.39\00:46:06.74
and for this grace
00:46:06.77\00:46:08.68
and this love and
mercy we thank You.
00:46:08.71\00:46:11.73
Thank You that our
names are in the book of life
00:46:11.76\00:46:14.01
and that we can rejoice
00:46:14.04\00:46:16.30
and we can look
forward to the future
00:46:16.33\00:46:18.12
whatever it holds and knowing
00:46:18.15\00:46:20.78
that you will keep these lives
00:46:20.81\00:46:22.77
that we've committed to you now.
00:46:22.80\00:46:25.48
We come and we give You
00:46:25.51\00:46:27.14
our love and our
worship in Jesus name, amen.
00:46:27.17\00:46:32.17
What wondrous love is this,
00:48:53.53\00:48:58.73
O my soul, O my soul
00:48:58.76\00:49:03.85
What wondrous love is this,
00:49:03.88\00:49:08.72
O my soul!
00:49:08.75\00:49:13.36
What wondrous love is this
00:49:13.39\00:49:18.30
That caused the Lord of bliss
00:49:18.33\00:49:23.70
To bear the dreadful curse
00:49:23.73\00:49:28.59
For my soul, for my soul
00:49:28.62\00:49:34.59
To bear the dreadful curse
00:49:34.62\00:49:39.73
For my soul!
00:49:39.76\00:49:43.46
All like sheep have gone astray
00:50:15.50\00:50:22.93
Gone astray
00:50:22.96\00:50:26.49
We all like sheep
00:50:26.52\00:50:28.18
Have gone astray
00:50:28.21\00:50:34.91
We all like
sheep have gone astray
00:50:34.94\00:50:40.00
Which one turned his own way
00:50:40.03\00:50:45.38
And the Lord has laid on him
00:50:45.41\00:50:50.23
Laid on him, O my soul
00:50:50.26\00:50:56.16
The iniquity of us all
00:50:56.19\00:51:03.66
To God and to the Lamb
00:51:18.82\00:51:23.32
I will sing, I will sing
00:51:23.35\00:51:28.34
To God and to the Lamb
00:51:28.37\00:51:32.94
I will sing
00:51:32.97\00:51:37.55
To God and to the Lamb
00:51:37.58\00:51:42.40
Who is the great I AM
00:51:42.43\00:51:47.72
While millions join the theme
00:51:47.75\00:51:52.64
I will sing, I will sing
00:51:52.67\00:51:58.25
While millions join the theme
00:51:58.28\00:52:04.42
I will sing!
00:52:04.45\00:52:09.69
And so our humble
God says to us, take
00:52:27.85\00:52:31.08
eat and drink these symbols
of My humble love for you.
00:52:31.11\00:52:36.23
Do this in remembrance of Me.
00:52:36.26\00:52:39.50
In the sacred record reeves
00:53:23.21\00:53:24.51
that after they had
sung a hymn they went out.
00:53:24.54\00:53:27.90
We too will sing a hymn of joy
00:53:27.93\00:53:30.46
for confession
hymn 407 in your hymn
00:53:30.49\00:53:32.88
we'll sent forth
by God's blessing.
00:53:32.91\00:53:37.54
The disciples had to assume
00:53:37.57\00:53:38.64
that Judas was
leaving the upper room
00:53:38.67\00:53:41.48
to make an offering to the poor
00:53:41.51\00:53:44.58
we too receive an offering
00:53:44.61\00:53:46.81
on a joyful
Sabbath such as this.
00:53:46.84\00:53:49.30
If God has blessed
you over these last weeks
00:53:49.33\00:53:52.43
and you wish to
extend that blessing freely
00:53:52.46\00:53:55.41
we have received
freely let us give.
00:53:55.44\00:53:58.68
We receive an offering,
00:53:58.71\00:54:00.04
an emergency offering
for those within our family
00:54:00.07\00:54:03.69
as well as within the inner city
00:54:03.72\00:54:05.57
of Benton Harbor
in our mission there.
00:54:05.60\00:54:09.00
Let us with joy confess to Him
00:54:09.03\00:54:11.52
that we go forth
now with His blessing.
00:54:11.55\00:54:14.47
Sent forth by God's blessing
00:54:40.11\00:54:44.01
Our true faith confessing
00:54:44.04\00:54:46.73
The people of God from
00:54:46.76\00:54:49.78
His dwelling take leave
00:54:49.81\00:54:53.41
The supper is ended
00:54:53.44\00:54:56.54
Oh, now be extended
00:54:56.57\00:54:59.30
The fruits of this service
00:54:59.33\00:55:02.79
In all who believe
00:55:02.82\00:55:05.98
The seed of His teaching
00:55:06.01\00:55:09.25
Receptive souls reaching
00:55:09.28\00:55:12.21
Shall blossom in action
00:55:12.24\00:55:15.61
For God and for all
00:55:15.64\00:55:19.04
His grace did invite us
00:55:19.07\00:55:22.69
His love shall unite us
00:55:22.72\00:55:25.39
To work for God's kingdom
00:55:25.42\00:55:28.97
And answer His call
00:55:29.00\00:55:34.37
With praise and thanksgiving
00:55:34.40\00:55:37.76
To God ever living
00:55:37.79\00:55:40.62
The tasks of our everyday
00:55:40.65\00:55:43.29
Life we will face
00:55:43.32\00:55:47.15
Our faith ever sharing
00:55:47.18\00:55:50.51
In love ever caring
00:55:50.54\00:55:53.45
Embracing His children
00:55:53.48\00:55:56.71
Of each tribe and race.
00:55:56.74\00:56:00.17
With Your feast You feed us
00:56:00.20\00:56:03.67
With Your light now lead us
00:56:03.70\00:56:06.91
Unite us as one in this
00:56:06.94\00:56:10.54
Life that we share
00:56:10.57\00:56:13.50
Then may all the living
00:56:13.53\00:56:16.89
With praise and thanksgiving
00:56:16.92\00:56:20.69
Give honor to Christ
and His name that we bear
00:56:20.72\00:56:25.96
And the hymn who was able
to keep you from stumbling
00:56:33.70\00:56:37.62
and to present you faultless
00:56:37.65\00:56:38.81
before the presence of
His glory with exceeding joy.
00:56:38.84\00:56:43.01
To God our humble Savior
00:56:43.04\00:56:45.43
who alone as wise
be glory in majesty,
00:56:45.46\00:56:49.72
dominion in power,
both now and forever, amen.
00:56:49.75\00:56:55.98
I wanted to take one more moment
00:56:57.60\00:56:59.14
here at the end of the telecast
00:56:59.17\00:57:00.46
to let you know how grateful
I'm for your journey with us,
00:57:00.49\00:57:04.10
with our New
Perceptions ministry.
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You may think
that New Perceptions
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is only about television
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but I need to tell
you we do have a website
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which is more than
just a study guide.
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I know we go to the
study guide every week
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but if you go to our website
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let me put the
address on the screen again,
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www.pmchurch.tv,
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you will find at
that website a blog.
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Every Wednesday I
sit down on my laptop
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and write up a blog something
as commenting on world events,
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something local,
something national,
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you get the blog.
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You want to
archive previous teachings
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from here the Pioneer pulpit
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you go to that annotated archive
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you can pick out a
message it will be sent to you.
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You want to get
into the podcast business
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I'm not real
hi-tech here on this
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but if you click
podcast you will be
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able to connect instantly
with every new teaching
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that comes from
the Pioneer pulpit.
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The point is
we're trying to connect
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with the generation
on the move, on the go.
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Thanks for being a part of it.
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Thanks for your
prayer partnership.
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We've got to
connect with this generation
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at this time in earth's history
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and I'm grateful you and
I are sharing the mission.
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God bless you, until next time.
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