The Lord is
blessing us this day.
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Let's read this
next passage responsibly.
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"How great is the
God that we serve?
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Has He not
created man and beast,
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water and air, fish and fowl?
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Does He not keep
the heavens in motion
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and yet also promises to be
near His people when they pray?
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Oh Lord, Creator of
the heavens and the earth,
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we ask you to be near today.
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He has promised
that whatever we ask
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in the name of
Jesus, that He will provide.
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Why, then, do we ask so
little of our mighty God?
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Oh Lord, we ask that
you will teach us to pray
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as your Son,
Jesus Christ, prayed.
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If My people who
are called by My name
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will humble themselves,
and pray and seek My face,
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and turn from their wicked ways,
then I will hear from heaven,
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and will forgive their
sin and heal their land.
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Oh Lord, forgive us of our sins.
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Hear our prayer and bless
your people in this community.
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Make us a community
united in Your name,
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to be a light unto the world."
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I must tell
Jesus all of my trials
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I cannot bear
these burdens alone
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In my distress He
kindly will help me
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He ever loves
and cares for His own
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I must tell
Jesus! I must tell Jesus!
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I cannot bear my burdens alone
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I must tell
Jesus! I must tell Jesus!
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Jesus can help me Jesus alone
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I must tell
Jesus all of my trials
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He is a kind
compassionate Friend
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If I but ask Him He will deliver
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Makes of my
troubles quickly an end
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I must tell
Jesus! I must tell Jesus!
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I cannot bear my burdens alone
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I must tell
Jesus! I must tell Jesus!
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Jesus can help me Jesus alone
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O how the world
to evil allures me!
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O how my heart
is tempted to sin!
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I must tell Jesus
And He will help me
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Over the world
that vict'ry to win
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I must tell
Jesus! I must tell Jesus!
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I cannot bear my burdens alone
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I must tell
Jesus! I must tell Jesus!
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Jesus can help me Jesus alone
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O, my sister and my brother
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All who walk upon this earth
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Fold to your hearts each other
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Where mercy dwells The
peace of the Lord is there
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To live rightly is
to love one another
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Each kindness a gift
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Each deed a prayer
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O, my sister and my brother
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Fold to your hearts each other
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Listen, listen to one another
Listen, listen to one another
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Walk with reverence in the steps
of those who have gone before
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Where forgiveness
and wisdom has stood
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So shall the wide
earth become our temple
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Each life a psalm of gratitude
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Each life a psalm of gratitude
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Listen, listen to one another
Listen, listen to one another
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Listen, listen to one another
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Listen, listen to one another
Listen, listen to one another
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Listen, listen to one another
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Listen, listen to one another
Listen, listen to one another
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Then shall all shackles fall
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The violence of war
over the earth shall cease
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Love shall tread
out the fire of anger
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And in its ashes
plant a tree of peace
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Then shall all shackles fall
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The violence of war
over the earth shall cease
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Love shall tread
out the fire of anger
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And in its ashes
plant a tree of peace`
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And in its ashes
plant a tree of peace
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And in its ashes
plant a tree of peace
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And in its ashes
plant a tree of peace
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Plant a tree of peace
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Plant a tree of peace
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Plant a tree of peace
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Listen, listen to one another
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Listen, listen to one another
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Listen, listen to one another
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Plant a tree of peace
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Oh, God, we are in a war
when will the shackles fall?
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When can we plant
that tree of peace
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or have You already planted it?
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Embarking on
this uncharted journey
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together holy Father,
through the mighty Holy Spirit
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let holy
scripture inform our minds
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and guide our lives we
pray in Christ name, amen.
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This summer I read Eric
Metaxas highly acclaimed
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brand new biography
on Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
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You heard of
Dietrich Bonhoeffer,
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bright, young, Lutheran,
pastor, theologian, writer,
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tragically
executed at the age of 39
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just before the
end of World War II.
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Six hundred pages
long, title of it,
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you would be
blessed, Bonhoeffer.
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I read several biographies
of Bonhoeffer over the years
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but I must tell you that
Metaxas treatment of his life
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does something no
other biography has done.
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In that it draws the
reader into the sea change
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surrounding Adolf
Hitler's political rise
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in Germany in the 1930s.
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And you can't help but wonder
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how could an entire
nation be duped into excoriating
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and seeking to eventually
exterminate a race of people?
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It is utterly
beyond our comprehension
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and yet and I speak
this only as an aside.
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I must tell you
that I worry over the way
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some Americans are
being whipped up into a frenzy
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over the Muslims in our midst.
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To the place I
went just this last week
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there is an American
pastor who on the anniversary
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of September 11 is going
to burn a stack of Qurans.
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How could a peace loving people
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like the Germans be drawn into
such a terrible and tragic war?
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The life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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is a-- is a
response to that tragedy.
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A life snuffed out of the
at hand of hangman's noose
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as I learn through Metaxas.
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Other biographies
have not caught this
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by direct order
of Hitler himself
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three weeks before his
prison campus liberated
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by the allies near
the end of World War II.
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War, we are a generation,
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not the baby boomer generation,
not the GI Generation,
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we are a
generation now steeped in war.
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Iraq, may be Iran,
Afghanistan, Pakistan,
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North and South
Korea, the Sudan, Somalia,
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and the list
goes on and on and on
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and yet nobody did taking
about the most deadly draw
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that is drawn all of
us into its dark vortex.
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The series we
begin together right now
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is book ended by that war.
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So pull out your Bible.
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Open your Bible with me please,
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to what we are
supposed to been a happily
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ever after story of a
new planet and a new race
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and a brand new
divine human venture.
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It was supposed to have
been but then there was war.
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Open your Bible to
the book of beginnings,
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the Book of Genesis.
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If you didn't bring a Bible grab
the pew Bible in front of you.
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You need to track
this one, sir, madam,
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both pull the pew
Bible out in front of you.
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It's an easy page, page two.
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If you are freshmen
and you have received
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your brand new
Andrews study Bible
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I'll give you the
page number there.
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No, you don't
need a page number.
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I hope you bring
your Andrews study Bible,
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every single
piece of this puzzle
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that we put
together this new season.
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Genesis Chapter 3
let's take a look at it.
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Genesis Chapter 3,
you can't believe it,
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here it is in the
book of beginnings.
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We have one line in
Genesis 3 that intrigues us
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but we need to
run on to that line
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so let's pick it up in verse
13, please Genesis Chapter 3.
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This is the New
King James Version,
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Andrews--the brand
new Andrews study Bible
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is the New King James Version.
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Any translation you
have is fine with me,
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I'm just glad you
brought your Bible.
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Let's go.
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Let's pick it up in
verse 13, Genesis 3,
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and the Lord-- this is
right after the meltdown
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at the tree of
knowledge of good and evil,
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all right, the more meltdown.
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"And the Lord God
said to the woman,
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'What is this you have done? '
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And the woman said, 'The
serpent deceived me, and I ate.'
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So the Lord God said
to the serpent" verse 14
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"Because you have done this,
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you are cursed
more than all cattle,
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and more than
every beast of the field,
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and 'On your belly you shall go,
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and you shall eat dust
all the days of your life.'"
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And here comes the line now.
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"And I will put enmity
between you and the woman,
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and between your
seed and her seed.
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He shall bruise your head
and you shall bruise His heel."
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The pre-incarnate Christ is
speaking these words by the way.
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This is Jesus, the one
who would become Jesus.
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And what is He just
done, He just declared war.
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I am declaring
war He pronounces.
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Three paces into
the brand new story
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and we are in war already.
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That point is so critical,
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this business of God
Himself declaring war,
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that I need you to pull
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your worship bulletin
out right now, would you.
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Pull your worship bulletin.
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You're brand new here and say,
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you say why do I need to
go to the worship bulletin
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because inside of the
bulletin is the study guide.
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Pull that study guide
out of your new bulletin.
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You didn't get your study guide
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we got friendly ushers
who are coming your way.
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You want a study guide
for what's on the backside.
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The backside is what's
important on the study guide.
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If you didn't get a
study guide hold your hand up,
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you are in an
overflow hold your hand up,
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in the balcony
hold your hand up.
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Everybody gets a
study guide today
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and we are
delighted to have those of you
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who are joining us on television
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I hope this,
this brand new series
00:16:11.55\00:16:13.68
will stir your soul as well.
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Let me give you our website
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and then you can get the
same study guide that we have.
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Put it on the screen
for you, there it is www--
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you see there at the
bottom, www.pmchurch.tv.
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You're looking for
the brand new series
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The Gift, today's
teaching 40 Days and 40 Nights.
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When you find that you
click on the study guide
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because it will say study
guide right beneath that title
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and you'll get the same
study guide that we have.
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You don't want to miss
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the back side of
that study guide.
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Everybody gets one today.
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In fact, let's
get it right down.
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Let's just read
Genesis 3:15 one more time.
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Be patience here come the ushers
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they will get you
keep your hand up.
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We're gonna read
3:15 one more time.
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God speaking Christ,
the pre-incarnate Christ.
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"And I will put enmity
between you and the woman,"
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o serpent "and between
your seed and her seed,
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and he shall bruise your head
and you shall bruise His heel"
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I love the way Eugene Peterson
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in his rendition
called "The Message"
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I love how he puts it
and you will scribble it down
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now please in your study guide.
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What does God say?
What is the Creator saying?
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"I am declaring war."
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There it is I'm telling you
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book ended
through Holy Scripture.
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"I am declaring war
between you and the woman."
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Look at the way the New
Living Translation renders.
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Jot it down.
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"From now on you and
woman will be enemies."
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Three chapters into this
pristine prime evil story
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and we are already at war.
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The war that will not only draw
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Adolf Hitler and
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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into its blood vertex
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but it has drawn
you and me as well.
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The stream of war will continue
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through the
entire Holy Scriptures.
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In fact, I was
brooding over this message,
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this teaching this last
week and it occurred to me
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that you can sum up
all of sacred history,
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this history of
war you can summit up
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with one little triangle.
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The scholars who deal in
sacred literature tell us
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that these triangles
are actually called chiasm.
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The chiasm is a literary device
to draw the reader's attention
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to what is most important of all
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so that the author
very skillfully sets up
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through parallel thoughts
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until he can get the reader
to the pinnacle, the essence.
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It has no parallel.
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What the-- the summit
will have no parallel.
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So it goes like this,
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let we put it on
the screen for us
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to show how chiasm works.
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Let's put that triangle up.
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So at the bottom on one
side you're gonna have A1
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and there would be an opposite--
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this can be one verse,
this can be an entire chapter,
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it can be an
entire biblical book.
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I'm suggesting
it's the entire Bible.
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Watch this, so
what's at the beginning
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we will have a
parallel at the end
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and you go little
further from the beginning
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then you're gonna have B1,
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it will have a
parallel at the end.
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Go little further
and you're gonna have C1
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and it will have a
parallel at the end
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but the whole
point of this chiasm
00:19:10.51\00:19:12.53
by the writer is to get you
00:19:12.56\00:19:13.91
to focus on D
which is at the top.
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The summit, the apex,
the unparalleled truth.
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It occurred to me this last week
00:19:23.23\00:19:24.63
as I'm brooding
over this passage.
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Wait a minute, the
whole book is a chiasm.
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In fact, you think
about it, Genesis begins--
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the Bible begins in
Genesis with a garden
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and it ends in
Revelation with a garden.
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Isn't that true?
00:19:41.87\00:19:42.90
Genesis 1 and 2 garden,
Revelation 21 and 22 garden.
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Jot it down we will as
well put it on the screen.
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You can go and
fill that, flip it over
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because this is the
back side of your study guide
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which you need.
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Garden, garden in the beginning.
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The chiasm of the
Bible, garden in the beginning,
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garden at the end.
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But immediately after
the garden theme in Genesis
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as we've just noted
00:20:04.72\00:20:06.05
this cosmic war
theme is introduced.
00:20:06.08\00:20:08.29
The question is, would
we find the cosmic war theme
00:20:08.32\00:20:11.11
right behind the
garden in Revelation.
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Let's find out,
let's go to Revelation.
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So you are in the
book of beginnings,
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let's go to the book of endings.
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Our only two books today.
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Let's go to Revelation,
Revelation Chapter 12,
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Revelation Chapter 12.
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Not
surprisingly, yep, there it is,
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before the garden that
end a book there is war.
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Revelation 12:7, it's
page 829 in your pew Bible.
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Revelation 12:7,
And war, there it is.
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"And war broke out in heaven.
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Michael and his angels"
the pre-incarnate Christ
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"fought with the
dragon and the dragon
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and his angels fought," verse 8
00:20:51.73\00:20:53.21
"but they did not" the dragon
and its angels did not "prevail,
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nor was a place found for
them in heaven any longer.
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So the great
dragon was cast out,"
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hey, wait a minute.
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Who is this great
dragon? Keep reading.
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"So the great
dragon was cast out
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that serpent of old,
called the Devil and Satan,"
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serpent there it is,
there is the Genesis serpent.
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"That serpent of old,
called the Devil and Satan,
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who deceives the whole
world, he was cast to the earth,
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and his angels
were cast out with him."
00:21:17.78\00:21:19.56
That's that primordial war.
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But there is a war
at the end of times.
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Just go to the--
go to the last line
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of Revelation 12,
take a look at this.
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Verse 17, this is
the final generation.
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The last chapter verse history.
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"And the dragon was
enraged with the woman,
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and he went to make war
with the rest of her offspring,"
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that's how the
New King James reads.
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The Greek word is sperma.
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You know what a sperm is?
00:21:43.12\00:21:44.15
It's a male reproductive
seed. Sperma means seed.
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You plant sperma in the
ground, it's the same word.
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So it should and the
dragon-- how its going,
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"And the dragon was
enraged with the woman,
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and he went to make war
with the rest of her seed,
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who keep the commandments of God
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and have the
testimony of Jesus Christ."
00:22:01.45\00:22:03.54
There will be a war
straight to the end of time.
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That goes-- put it down.
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Jot it down in your chiasm
on the back of your study guide
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would you fill it out please.
00:22:12.24\00:22:14.33
War, clearly it's put
it up war on both sides.
00:22:14.36\00:22:17.09
No question and
nobody is making this up.
00:22:17.12\00:22:18.97
There it is.
00:22:19.00\00:22:20.05
Parallel thinking
all the way to a us--
00:22:20.08\00:22:22.90
to a thought that stands
00:22:22.93\00:22:24.29
uniquely
unparalleled and unrivaled.
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All right, so now
we know there is war.
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And by the way, it's
not any old sort of war
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it is a cosmic war clearly
00:22:32.63\00:22:34.50
so would you put that
down as the next step up?
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Let's put it down.
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In Genesis you have a
serpent versus the Woman's Seed.
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Write in the
capital "S" by the way.
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You have the serpent
versus the Woman's Seed
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and in sure enough in Revelation
00:22:45.90\00:22:48.24
you have the dragon
versus the woman's seed.
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Little "s."
Parallel, parallel, parallel.
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The garden in the beginning
a garden that leads to war
00:22:57.48\00:23:00.59
between the
serpent and the woman
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at the ending a war
between the dragon and the woman
00:23:02.43\00:23:05.09
that leads back to the garden.
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Everything happens in reverse,
00:23:06.24\00:23:07.46
coming down that
mountain on the other side.
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Anyway you cut it
ladies and gentlemen,
00:23:09.84\00:23:11.21
the simple truth is evident
00:23:11.24\00:23:13.05
for the
inhabitance of this planet
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it is war from beginning to end.
00:23:14.63\00:23:19.08
Doesn't matter
where you come from
00:23:19.11\00:23:21.79
or what your major is,
00:23:21.82\00:23:25.25
don't care who you
are or who your daddy is,
00:23:25.28\00:23:28.76
doesn't matter,
you are in the war
00:23:28.79\00:23:31.63
sucked in like all of us.
00:23:31.66\00:23:33.03
Every your child born in
to this planet is in war.
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I was visiting
with a human being
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the other day
whose been pinned down
00:23:39.52\00:23:42.26
on the bloody
crossfire of this war,
00:23:42.29\00:23:44.86
tears trickling down the cheeks.
00:23:44.89\00:23:47.60
I'll tell you what,
when you are an earth child
00:23:47.63\00:23:49.61
and you have been
morally shut up by the enemy
00:23:49.64\00:23:52.43
it is not a very
pretty picture at all.
00:23:52.46\00:23:56.88
I was visiting
with another human being
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the other day who
is also pinned down
00:24:00.15\00:24:03.10
in the deadly
crossfire of this war.
00:24:03.13\00:24:04.87
Life ebbing away as
the body is wasting away
00:24:04.90\00:24:08.90
all because of an
enemy implanted disease.
00:24:08.93\00:24:14.20
When you are an earth child
00:24:14.23\00:24:15.26
and you are physically
under attack by the enemy
00:24:15.29\00:24:17.23
it is not a very pretty picture
00:24:17.26\00:24:20.03
and if we were all left
00:24:22.94\00:24:24.21
with only these
bloody photographs
00:24:24.24\00:24:26.18
of the morally wounded
and the physically slain
00:24:26.21\00:24:28.69
this decaying garden
will turnout to be a hell
00:24:28.72\00:24:32.61
of unprecedented proportions.
00:24:32.64\00:24:35.99
But hallelujah, hallelujah,
there is more to this triangle.
00:24:36.02\00:24:41.32
There is the apex,
there is the summit
00:24:41.35\00:24:44.88
of unparallel, unrivalled truth
we got to get to that summit.
00:24:44.91\00:24:48.74
We've hurried too, too quickly
through these two passages.
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Let's go back to Genesis and
see it tucked to where there.
00:24:51.14\00:24:53.86
Very cryptically
here but it's tucked away.
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Genesis Chapter 3, go back
to Genesis 3 please verse 15.
00:24:56.13\00:25:00.58
Let's read it
again, the Creator speaking
00:25:00.61\00:25:03.98
"And I will put
enmity between you" serpent
00:25:04.01\00:25:06.26
"And the woman, and
between your seed and her seed.
00:25:06.29\00:25:09.39
He shall bruise your head
and you shall bruise His heel.
00:25:09.42\00:25:15.36
Now ladies and
gentlemen, we need to note this
00:25:15.39\00:25:17.25
that the Creator is announcing,
00:25:17.28\00:25:18.94
when He declares war
profound pronouncement,
00:25:18.97\00:25:23.54
you can't believe this.
00:25:23.57\00:25:24.60
You know, what He is saying,
00:25:24.63\00:25:27.07
I'm going to implant
in every human psyche
00:25:27.10\00:25:30.88
born into this planet,
00:25:30.91\00:25:32.43
every human being
will have implanted
00:25:32.46\00:25:35.53
a hostility, a
bias against evil.
00:25:35.56\00:25:42.83
Everyone of us when we
were born implanted deep within,
00:25:42.86\00:25:50.20
I don't care how
dark, how dark the society
00:25:50.23\00:25:54.48
you may have grown
up in it doesn't matter,
00:25:54.51\00:25:56.83
implanted deep
within an hostility, a bias.
00:25:56.86\00:26:02.57
By the way God did not
plant a bias toward God,
00:26:02.60\00:26:05.32
he could have
but then there were--
00:26:05.35\00:26:08.34
time out you can't do that.
00:26:08.37\00:26:11.57
It's a bias against
evil not a bias toward God.
00:26:11.60\00:26:17.22
That's why no matter
how dark our conscience
00:26:17.25\00:26:18.66
there still beats
within every human heart
00:26:18.69\00:26:20.05
a subliminal sense
of right and wrong.
00:26:20.08\00:26:22.24
You think about that,
00:26:22.27\00:26:23.35
were that hostility
toward evil not implanted
00:26:23.38\00:26:25.99
we would be a irretrievably,
irreparably, irreversibly
00:26:26.02\00:26:29.72
allied with the
forces of darkness
00:26:29.75\00:26:31.44
and we would be irredeemable.
00:26:31.47\00:26:32.79
I cannot save the human
race, he had to do this.
00:26:32.82\00:26:36.32
They didn't have
the advantage you had,
00:26:36.35\00:26:37.67
this is what
I'm planting in them
00:26:37.70\00:26:39.25
a natural hostility to
the premises of your kingdom.
00:26:39.28\00:26:44.04
By the way here's how it works.
Let's make this practical.
00:26:44.07\00:26:49.14
What difference it
will make in my life?
00:26:49.17\00:26:50.87
The next time-- the next time
00:26:50.90\00:26:53.36
that implanted hostility
to evil begins to flash red
00:26:53.39\00:26:56.41
and your conscience do not
smother it obey it, obey it.
00:26:56.44\00:27:01.31
If it's flashing red stop,
00:27:01.34\00:27:04.31
somebody is
telling you something.
00:27:04.34\00:27:06.20
You already have that in you,
00:27:06.23\00:27:07.38
you know what's right
and you know what's wrong
00:27:07.41\00:27:10.89
but here's the other,
the flip side of that coin.
00:27:10.92\00:27:12.70
The next time you're
praying for a loss person
00:27:12.73\00:27:15.31
you can know his conscience
00:27:15.34\00:27:17.38
her conscience is
already on your side
00:27:17.41\00:27:21.07
because of this
implanted hostility to evil.
00:27:21.10\00:27:24.95
Well, that's wonderful.
00:27:24.98\00:27:26.40
You're already a step ahead
when you pray for a lost person.
00:27:26.43\00:27:30.80
She-- he already has
that bias against darkness.
00:27:30.83\00:27:38.29
Read it again "And I
will put enmity" verse 15
00:27:38.32\00:27:44.37
"I will put
between you and the woman,
00:27:44.40\00:27:46.18
and between your
seed and her seed.
00:27:46.21\00:27:48.68
He shall bruise your head
and shall bruise His heel."
00:27:48.71\00:27:54.71
Wait a minute.
00:27:54.74\00:27:55.78
God is not talking about
everybody coming from the woman.
00:27:55.81\00:27:57.92
We are all the
seed of the woman,
00:27:57.95\00:27:59.63
Eve is the mother of us all
00:27:59.66\00:28:01.34
but He is-- the word is singular
00:28:01.37\00:28:03.62
which is why the New King
James Version which you have,
00:28:03.65\00:28:06.76
the New King James
Version capitalizes the "S."
00:28:06.79\00:28:09.86
What's God saying?
00:28:09.89\00:28:11.22
God is saying...
00:28:11.25\00:28:12.28
I am going to send into
the stream of the human race
00:28:15.22\00:28:22.28
one who become just
like you born of a woman.
00:28:22.31\00:28:27.30
And when he comes,
the literal Hebrew reads
00:28:27.33\00:28:30.05
"He will crush your head"
00:28:30.08\00:28:33.03
or set right in
the moral conflict
00:28:33.06\00:28:35.09
"you will crush his heel."
00:28:35.12\00:28:37.94
What's that mean? I'll
tell you what it means.
00:28:37.97\00:28:41.58
While you were gone this summer,
00:28:41.61\00:28:42.98
just before the end
of the summer by the way
00:28:43.01\00:28:45.78
the university
resurfaced beautiful black top
00:28:45.81\00:28:49.39
around this circle
in front of Pioneer.
00:28:49.42\00:28:52.56
It's a lovely
circle, you can drive it
00:28:52.59\00:28:54.08
as many times as you want
00:28:54.11\00:28:55.32
you don't ever have to stop
00:28:55.35\00:28:56.45
you just keep
going around and around.
00:28:56.48\00:28:58.40
Don't forget the speed
bumps always in the same place.
00:28:58.43\00:29:00.47
Beautiful.
00:29:00.50\00:29:02.78
So we saw this coming
00:29:02.81\00:29:04.72
and one day I
drove up just as this--
00:29:04.75\00:29:07.27
have you ever seen one of
these this huge steam roller.
00:29:07.30\00:29:10.59
You ever seen
these steam rollers?
00:29:10.62\00:29:12.84
It is rolling over the steaming
hot fresh tar turning it,
00:29:12.87\00:29:18.51
transforming it into
a solid rocky surface.
00:29:18.54\00:29:23.80
So question, which would
you rather have happened to you
00:29:23.83\00:29:26.91
that steam roller
roll over your heel
00:29:26.94\00:29:31.06
or roll over your head?
00:29:31.09\00:29:32.93
Which would you prefer?
00:29:32.96\00:29:35.23
Answer, I prefer neither,
00:29:35.26\00:29:37.86
of course but
that's God's point.
00:29:37.89\00:29:40.78
I here we put you on notice
00:29:40.81\00:29:42.39
oh, serpent when the
Seed comes born of a woman
00:29:42.42\00:29:45.63
into the human stream and race
00:29:45.66\00:29:46.77
when that seed arrives
he will steam roll your head
00:29:46.80\00:29:50.61
but in the mortal conflict
you will steam roll his heel.
00:29:50.64\00:29:54.95
Precisely, cryptic but precisely
the truth about Calvary.
00:29:54.98\00:30:00.33
Isn't it?
00:30:00.36\00:30:01.39
isn't that the
truth about Calvary?
00:30:01.42\00:30:02.82
When we go to the
flip side of the chiasm
00:30:02.85\00:30:04.71
and we go to Revelation
the apocalypse unlocks
00:30:04.74\00:30:07.44
and says yep, you read it right,
boy, girl, you read it right.
00:30:07.47\00:30:10.49
Go right back one
last time to Revelation 12.
00:30:10.52\00:30:12.46
Take a look at
this, Revelation 12:10,
00:30:15.52\00:30:20.78
"Then I heard a loud
voice" megalofoni in the Greek.
00:30:20.81\00:30:24.66
Loud, megaphone, megaphone.
00:30:24.69\00:30:26.57
"Then I heard a loud
voice saying in heaven,
00:30:26.60\00:30:29.04
'Now'" something
has just happened.
00:30:29.07\00:30:31.60
"Now salvation, and strength,
and the kingdom of our God,
00:30:31.63\00:30:36.95
and the power of
His Christ have come
00:30:36.98\00:30:38.65
for the accuser of
our brothers and sister,
00:30:38.68\00:30:40.69
who is accused them
before our God day and night,
00:30:40.72\00:30:42.72
has been cast down.
00:30:42.75\00:30:44.82
And they" the
followers of Christ
00:30:44.85\00:30:47.09
"they overcame him" the dragon
"by the blood of the Lamb"
00:30:47.12\00:30:50.58
code language in the apocalypse.
00:30:50.61\00:30:52.19
Whenever you run
into blood of the Lamb
00:30:52.22\00:30:53.73
code language for Calvary.
00:30:53.76\00:30:56.19
Because of Calvary
"they over came him
00:30:56.22\00:30:59.58
by the blood of the Lamb and
by the word of their testimony,
00:30:59.61\00:31:02.61
and they did not love
their lives to the death."
00:31:02.64\00:31:08.06
There it is prime
evil mystery unlocked
00:31:08.09\00:31:12.55
other side of the triangle.
00:31:12.58\00:31:14.46
No question,
Calvary is front in center.
00:31:14.49\00:31:18.89
When the Seed crushed the
head of the serpent and warned.
00:31:18.92\00:31:26.89
Look at this
Hebrews 2:14, Hebrews 2,
00:31:26.92\00:31:32.94
"Inasmuch then as the
children have partaken
00:31:32.97\00:31:34.71
of flesh and blood, He" Christ
00:31:34.74\00:31:36.57
"Himself likewise
shared in the same,
00:31:36.60\00:31:39.65
that through
death" all right Calvary
00:31:39.68\00:31:42.04
"through death
He might destroy him
00:31:42.07\00:31:45.19
who had the power of
death, that is, the devil."
00:31:45.22\00:31:49.37
I'm telling you it
is this is the truth.
00:31:49.40\00:31:52.52
That little apocalyptic
classic Great Controversy,
00:31:52.55\00:31:55.32
I love this one line
of Great Controversy.
00:31:55.35\00:31:57.09
Can we put that on
the screen, please?
00:31:57.12\00:31:58.60
"In the Savior's expiring cry,
00:31:58.63\00:32:00.84
'It is finished,'"
it's Calvary clearly.
00:32:00.87\00:32:03.50
"The death knell
of Satan was rung.
00:32:03.53\00:32:06.27
The great
controversy which had been
00:32:06.30\00:32:07.66
so long in
progress was then decided,
00:32:07.69\00:32:10.28
and the final eradication
of evil was made certain."
00:32:10.31\00:32:14.48
Ladies and gentlemen,
there it is the shining summit,
00:32:14.51\00:32:16.70
the unparalleled,
unrivaled truth in the universe.
00:32:16.73\00:32:20.19
Put it at the top please, of
your chiasm write at the top,
00:32:20.22\00:32:25.45
"At the cross,
Christ defeated Satan!"
00:32:25.48\00:32:30.96
That's it, at the
cross, Christ defeated Satan.
00:32:30.99\00:32:36.22
You know, what that means?
00:32:36.25\00:32:37.34
Any claw hold he has in my life
00:32:37.37\00:32:41.03
that claw can be
forcibly withdrawn.
00:32:41.06\00:32:45.98
Any ball and chain that
he has attached to my ankle
00:32:46.01\00:32:49.98
guilt from the past,
sins that I'm convinced
00:32:50.01\00:32:53.45
I could never be forgiven.
00:32:53.48\00:32:54.66
Now I got a letter from a viewer
00:32:54.69\00:32:56.83
who just opened up his heart
00:32:56.86\00:32:58.82
in the middle of nowhere
just reading it yesterday.
00:32:58.85\00:33:03.04
You don't know how I struggle.
00:33:03.07\00:33:05.15
You have no idea how I struggle.
00:33:05.18\00:33:07.87
Is there any hope for me?
00:33:07.90\00:33:09.23
I'm telling you what
my friends, there is hope
00:33:09.26\00:33:11.14
because at
Calvary, at the cross,
00:33:11.17\00:33:13.71
at the cross Christ
defeated past tense,
00:33:13.74\00:33:18.07
He has already defeated Satan
00:33:18.10\00:33:20.78
and guess what,
by defeating Satan
00:33:20.81\00:33:22.75
He has already guarantee
00:33:22.78\00:33:25.63
the outcome of
the war, God wins.
00:33:25.66\00:33:28.51
God wins.
00:33:28.54\00:33:29.61
Put a little cross at
the top of your chiasm.
00:33:29.64\00:33:31.50
Put a little cross.
00:33:31.53\00:33:32.56
You can make it
as big as you wish
00:33:32.59\00:33:34.26
because that's the
unparallel, unrivaled truth
00:33:34.29\00:33:37.54
in all of sacred scripture.
00:33:37.57\00:33:39.06
God wins because
Christ has already
00:33:39.09\00:33:43.36
defeated and
triumphed over the enemy.
00:33:43.39\00:33:46.52
And guess what,
in Him we can too.
00:33:46.55\00:33:49.58
You say how, Dwight?
The same way Jesus did.
00:33:49.61\00:33:53.49
Let's say this is
the gates of the garden.
00:33:53.52\00:33:54.77
By the way they are locked now.
00:33:54.80\00:33:56.13
The garden is locked.
00:33:56.16\00:33:57.99
These are the gates to the
Garden of Eden, right here.
00:33:58.02\00:34:00.38
Guess whose standing there.
00:34:00.41\00:34:01.56
We already know,
you have Christ himself
00:34:01.59\00:34:03.86
and you have the fallen.
00:34:03.89\00:34:05.13
You have the king of
angels standing there
00:34:05.16\00:34:06.84
with the fallen rebel angel.
00:34:06.87\00:34:08.26
Isn't that right?
00:34:08.29\00:34:09.32
Weren't they standing
there together at the gates,
00:34:09.35\00:34:11.33
the locked gates of the garden?
00:34:11.36\00:34:12.60
The next time they
will meet face to face.
00:34:12.63\00:34:15.21
The next time they will meet,
00:34:15.24\00:34:16.62
they will be
standing right here.
00:34:16.65\00:34:19.10
The king of angels has
become a bone of a woman now,
00:34:19.13\00:34:22.19
a seed in here tummy
00:34:22.22\00:34:25.14
and was birthed
into the human race.
00:34:25.17\00:34:27.90
The next time they meet
face to face, hand to hand now.
00:34:27.93\00:34:31.78
It's after 40 days and 40 nights
00:34:31.81\00:34:34.84
of Jesus baptism afterwards
they meet face to face again.
00:34:34.87\00:34:42.41
Only now the tables are turned
00:34:42.44\00:34:49.38
and the angel who has come
00:34:49.41\00:34:50.71
and he knows who
the king of angels is
00:34:50.74\00:34:52.57
the angel who has come
00:34:52.60\00:34:54.13
paces about the emaciated
form of this human being
00:34:54.16\00:34:57.42
and he says, you know who I'm,
00:34:57.45\00:35:03.21
I know who you are I think.
00:35:03.24\00:35:07.94
So tell you what,
00:35:07.97\00:35:10.89
if you are who you
think you are show me,
00:35:10.92\00:35:16.28
turn these stones into bread.
00:35:16.31\00:35:22.54
But it had been a
temptation for Christ
00:35:22.57\00:35:25.76
40 days and 40
nights without food.
00:35:25.79\00:35:28.75
Mahatma Gandhi, the
great peace protestor in India,
00:35:28.78\00:35:32.70
twice in his life
went through a 21 day fast.
00:35:32.73\00:35:36.60
No food, water but no food.
00:35:36.63\00:35:39.15
I went online and found
that the diary entry of a woman
00:35:39.18\00:35:42.98
who has gone 56
days without food.
00:35:43.01\00:35:47.35
Just water and at the end
00:35:47.38\00:35:48.74
a little bit of
diluted carrot juice.
00:35:48.77\00:35:51.76
And as I was reading her
diary entries and thinking
00:35:51.79\00:35:55.66
why would anybody, anybody
endure this for any reason.
00:35:55.69\00:36:02.51
You know, Moses did
40 days and 40 nights.
00:36:02.54\00:36:04.34
Moses did twice.
00:36:04.37\00:36:05.72
Elijah did 40 days and
40 nights just like Jesus.
00:36:05.75\00:36:09.86
So why, why Jesus?
It's going on here.
00:36:09.89\00:36:13.79
Truth be known.
00:36:17.96\00:36:20.31
In that second
showdown right here
00:36:20.34\00:36:22.77
in the wilderness
Jesus has only two weapons.
00:36:22.80\00:36:25.96
Do you understand
that the two weapons
00:36:25.99\00:36:27.13
that Jesus has were
actually given to the human race
00:36:27.16\00:36:29.75
at the gates of the lock--
00:36:29.78\00:36:30.81
at the locked
gates of the garden.
00:36:30.84\00:36:32.81
Only two
weapons, no nuclear power,
00:36:32.84\00:36:39.72
no instant evaporation.
00:36:39.75\00:36:42.94
Just two weapons.
00:36:42.97\00:36:44.00
And when the chance
of the fallen angel,
00:36:47.95\00:36:50.68
or the king of angels is ended.
00:36:50.71\00:36:54.16
Jesus reaches into his
sheath and pulls out one sword.
00:36:54.19\00:37:02.16
It is written, it is written
00:37:02.19\00:37:07.74
"Man shall not
live by bread alone,
00:37:07.77\00:37:13.99
but by every word that
proceeds from the mouth of God."
00:37:14.02\00:37:20.18
You been over that
story so many times
00:37:20.21\00:37:21.50
we know exactly
how it's gonna end.
00:37:21.53\00:37:23.21
But what you
don't know in that story
00:37:23.24\00:37:25.62
He has only the two weapons.
00:37:25.65\00:37:29.70
The two gifts
entrusted to the human race
00:37:29.73\00:37:32.26
outside the locked
gates of the garden.
00:37:32.29\00:37:33.70
In fact, I wish you scribbled
that down right now. Will you?
00:37:33.73\00:37:36.47
Two life-sustaining,
battle-conquering gift weapons
00:37:36.50\00:37:42.40
for a fallen race
that could no longer enjoy
00:37:42.43\00:37:45.17
and endure a face to face
communion with their Creator.
00:37:45.20\00:37:47.41
As Adam and Eve is
sobbing outside that locked gate
00:37:47.44\00:37:51.03
God is looking
into their brook--
00:37:51.06\00:37:53.43
their broken
continuances and He says,
00:37:53.46\00:37:55.84
but you must know
because of your sin
00:37:55.87\00:37:58.09
My glory will become more
and more destructed to you.
00:37:58.12\00:38:01.41
So while I'm locking
the gates to that garden
00:38:01.44\00:38:04.21
you need to know as well I'm not
locking the gates of My kingdom.
00:38:04.24\00:38:06.74
I'm giving you
two gifts right now,
00:38:06.77\00:38:08.73
two gifts exercise these gifts.
00:38:08.76\00:38:12.48
Two gift weapons
against our mortal enemy.
00:38:12.51\00:38:16.10
We share the same enemy.
00:38:16.13\00:38:18.11
What are the two
gifts jot them down.
00:38:18.14\00:38:20.23
Number one, the gift of prayer
00:38:20.26\00:38:25.94
because God would desperately
need to hear from us.
00:38:25.97\00:38:29.82
We think Jesus was doing
for 40 days and 40 nights
00:38:29.85\00:38:31.84
it was a gift of prayer
00:38:31.87\00:38:34.35
but a lot of people don't
know that His second weapon--
00:38:34.38\00:38:38.11
Jesus was actually like
00:38:38.14\00:38:39.19
the Japanese
samurai put out two.
00:38:39.22\00:38:44.45
The only two He has,
the only two you have.
00:38:44.48\00:38:48.36
First gift, the gift of prayer.
00:38:48.39\00:38:49.45
You know, that one was there
00:38:49.48\00:38:50.51
but would you
put this down please,
00:38:50.54\00:38:51.57
the second gift is
the gift of prophecy.
00:38:51.60\00:38:54.64
First gift the prayer
00:38:54.67\00:38:55.87
is because God
would desperately need
00:38:55.90\00:38:57.18
to hear from us and
the gift of prophecy
00:38:57.21\00:38:58.90
because we would desperately
need to hear from God.
00:38:58.94\00:39:01.84
God says listen, I'm gonna
pick a certain man once a while,
00:39:01.87\00:39:04.63
I'm gonna pick a
certain woman once upon time
00:39:04.66\00:39:06.73
and I will
communicate directly to them
00:39:06.76\00:39:08.63
and that human
being will come to you
00:39:08.66\00:39:10.08
and give you messages from Me.
00:39:10.11\00:39:11.64
Listen to the
prophets very carefully
00:39:11.67\00:39:14.13
it's the only way I
can commune with you.
00:39:14.16\00:39:16.93
No more face to
face, no more, no more ever
00:39:16.96\00:39:20.10
until I come back and move in.
00:39:20.13\00:39:23.49
So pull it out
when the enemy is there
00:39:23.52\00:39:28.15
and that's what He did.
00:39:28.18\00:39:29.21
You say come on,
00:39:29.24\00:39:30.41
Jesus didn't pull
out the gift of prophecy
00:39:30.44\00:39:32.09
when He fought
with Lucifer in there--
00:39:32.12\00:39:34.05
Satan let's call him
Satan in the wilderness.
00:39:34.08\00:39:36.87
Oh, yes, He did.
00:39:36.90\00:39:38.42
Who wrote those words,
00:39:38.45\00:39:39.48
"Man shall not
live by bread alone,
00:39:39.51\00:39:40.68
but by every word that
proceeds from the mouth of God."
00:39:40.71\00:39:42.17
Who wrote those words?
00:39:42.20\00:39:43.23
The great prophet, the
greatest of the prophets, Moses.
00:39:43.26\00:39:46.90
Christ memorized Moses as a boy.
00:39:46.93\00:39:49.16
He memorized the prophets.
00:39:49.19\00:39:51.32
He had no score opened up,
00:39:51.35\00:39:52.83
it's all here and He
pulls it out and it's ready.
00:39:52.86\00:40:00.66
Two gifts
reference, gift of prayer
00:40:00.69\00:40:04.76
and the gift of prophecy
00:40:04.79\00:40:06.48
because guess what
we have to have both
00:40:06.51\00:40:10.77
to win in Christ the war.
00:40:10.80\00:40:16.90
Two gifts, gift weapons.
00:40:16.93\00:40:21.34
In fact, would you
jot it down please?
00:40:21.37\00:40:22.53
"Which is why both
gifts, like a drawn sword,
00:40:22.56\00:40:25.08
were wielded by Jesus
in that desert battle."
00:40:25.11\00:40:29.30
And the one before
because I just skipped it.
00:40:32.35\00:40:35.02
As it turns out
"Both gifts are strategic
00:40:35.05\00:40:37.17
in the divine war
plan for the human race.
00:40:37.20\00:40:39.10
You gonna both now, that's it.
00:40:39.13\00:40:43.03
Forty days and forty nights
00:40:43.06\00:40:45.45
He unsheathed both
weapons and He is victorious.
00:40:45.48\00:40:49.32
Forty days and forty nights,
that's a long time to pray
00:40:49.35\00:40:53.72
and yet today
00:40:53.75\00:40:55.40
first time in the 50 year
history of Andrews University
00:40:55.43\00:40:58.01
and the 51 year history
of Pioneer Memorial Church
00:40:58.04\00:41:01.25
today we are joining together
00:41:01.28\00:41:04.35
in a consolidated 40 days
of praying, never before ever.
00:41:04.38\00:41:12.10
What's up with
that? Let me show you.
00:41:12.13\00:41:15.04
Let me hold this
book so you can see it.
00:41:15.07\00:41:17.44
I want you to get this
book. We got it for you.
00:41:17.47\00:41:19.92
We got it-- we
have it for you today.
00:41:19.95\00:41:22.47
We have it for you
back in the dormitory,
00:41:22.50\00:41:24.18
you go to that front desk
00:41:24.21\00:41:26.52
into Lamson, Meier,
Burman we got it for you.
00:41:26.55\00:41:30.79
We got enough for everybody.
00:41:30.82\00:41:32.69
Can you see this
title on the screen 40 Days,
00:41:32.72\00:41:37.05
what's the subtitle?
00:41:37.08\00:41:38.30
Prayer and Devotions to
Prepare for the Second Coming.
00:41:38.33\00:41:43.22
Here's a deal, we're
gonna start these 40 days
00:41:43.25\00:41:45.58
on the same day
together September 1,
00:41:45.61\00:41:48.82
that's just a few
days away that's Wednesday
00:41:48.85\00:41:51.17
and we're gonna pray
for 40 days and 40 nights.
00:41:51.20\00:41:54.16
Dwight, there's no way
00:41:54.19\00:41:55.58
I can pray 40
days and 40 nights.
00:41:55.61\00:41:57.74
Are you crazy?
00:41:57.77\00:41:58.95
No, it's not as
complicated as it sounds.
00:41:58.98\00:42:01.91
Inside this little, this little,
00:42:01.94\00:42:03.84
this little
booklet are 40 readings.
00:42:03.87\00:42:06.66
There are two
pages, 40 readings.
00:42:06.69\00:42:09.82
You read the
reading, it's focusing on
00:42:09.85\00:42:14.57
asking God to be filled
00:42:14.60\00:42:16.44
with the mighty third
person of the God head.
00:42:16.47\00:42:19.18
Because you know what,
that's a truth of the two gifts
00:42:19.21\00:42:20.82
the gift weapons,
they both the Holy Spirit.
00:42:20.85\00:42:23.27
They both in His domain.
00:42:23.30\00:42:25.26
So you want to be victorious?
00:42:25.29\00:42:26.87
You want this New
Year to be unlike any year
00:42:26.90\00:42:28.69
you have ever
lived in your life?
00:42:28.72\00:42:30.65
Then you ask, you ask
00:42:30.68\00:42:33.22
for the fullness
of the Holy Spirit.
00:42:33.25\00:42:36.76
So that's it, there is a--
00:42:36.79\00:42:38.41
you read day one and
then day two and three so on.
00:42:38.44\00:42:41.30
At the end of
every little reading
00:42:41.33\00:42:43.08
there will be a Bible promise
to claim and a suggested prayer.
00:42:43.11\00:42:47.37
You can do it in 10
minutes, its piece of cake
00:42:47.40\00:42:50.38
but there is a little provider
that will make this more
00:42:50.41\00:42:52.30
than just reading a book through
because who wants to read a book
00:42:52.33\00:42:54.36
so you already got
enough books you got to read
00:42:54.39\00:42:55.79
through this semester I believe.
00:42:55.82\00:42:59.19
Here's what you do.
00:42:59.22\00:43:00.67
You pick a friend,
you pick somebody you know
00:43:00.70\00:43:04.59
and say, hey, you, you and me
00:43:04.62\00:43:07.03
will be partners
for these 40 days.
00:43:07.06\00:43:09.01
You don't have to get
together with that friend
00:43:09.04\00:43:10.41
and read it out loud together.
00:43:10.44\00:43:11.50
You may, but the two of you--
00:43:11.53\00:43:16.20
do you have your iPhone 4?
00:43:16.23\00:43:19.52
If you pick a
friend that has an iPhone 4
00:43:19.55\00:43:22.04
then you do this video
thing together the whole time
00:43:22.07\00:43:24.60
and give me yours
when you are tired of it
00:43:29.70\00:43:32.96
because I need one of those.
00:43:32.99\00:43:34.14
I don't.
00:43:35.06\00:43:37.24
So you can do it on the
phone, you can do it what,
00:43:37.27\00:43:40.67
you know, do it over
lunch break whatever.
00:43:40.70\00:43:43.26
But everyday-- here's the deal
00:43:43.29\00:43:44.32
everyday you
connect with that friend
00:43:44.35\00:43:46.27
40 days and 40 nights
00:43:46.30\00:43:48.89
and you claim the
promises together and you ask--
00:43:48.92\00:43:51.95
you will ask God to
fill you with the Holy Spirit
00:43:51.98\00:43:53.90
at the beginning of
this uncharted journey.
00:43:53.93\00:43:55.47
Oh, God, fill me.
00:43:55.50\00:43:56.93
I want to live like Jesus.
00:43:56.96\00:43:58.74
I want to live
on the cutting edge
00:43:58.77\00:44:00.18
with both weapons
drawn in this war.
00:44:00.21\00:44:06.07
Take me to the
tree of peace everyday,
00:44:06.10\00:44:08.03
take me to Calvary, take
me to that tree of peace.
00:44:08.06\00:44:09.73
Take me, take me, take me.
00:44:09.76\00:44:11.60
So that's what this book is for.
00:44:11.63\00:44:12.89
There one another little
suggestion in the praying.
00:44:12.92\00:44:14.84
We're all being
invited to do this.
00:44:14.87\00:44:16.80
We have a prayer partner
00:44:16.83\00:44:17.86
so everybody has
a prayer partner.
00:44:17.89\00:44:18.92
You can have your spouse
or you can have your roommate.
00:44:18.95\00:44:20.56
Please, you are not to
make this hard for yourself,
00:44:20.59\00:44:22.12
make it easy somebody
is close to you, right.
00:44:22.15\00:44:26.06
So everyday we do
this but here's the deal.
00:44:26.09\00:44:29.08
We're all being invited
00:44:29.11\00:44:30.14
to include in our
praying not only ourselves,
00:44:30.17\00:44:32.26
me, me, me, me, me,
no pray for lost people.
00:44:32.29\00:44:35.31
Five lost people, boy,
come one you will come up
00:44:35.34\00:44:37.87
with five lost
people I know you can.
00:44:37.90\00:44:39.37
Five lost people that
you know, five human beings
00:44:39.40\00:44:42.01
who are not in
Christ who need to be saved.
00:44:42.04\00:44:44.16
I don't care who they are.
00:44:44.19\00:44:45.22
It Could be a
father, it could be a mother,
00:44:45.25\00:44:46.69
it could be a child,
it could be a brother,
00:44:46.72\00:44:49.51
it could be a
neighbor, could be a classmate,
00:44:49.54\00:44:51.05
could be your roommate
00:44:51.08\00:44:52.11
doesn't matter
five of them, five.
00:44:52.14\00:44:55.15
You want to have
more you may but five.
00:44:55.18\00:44:58.55
And every single day you
pray for those five, everyday.
00:44:58.58\00:45:05.33
Wouldn't it be
something everyday?
00:45:05.36\00:45:07.88
Look if a 1,000 of us we
got enough books for everybody.
00:45:07.91\00:45:09.74
If a 1,000 of us
had five people a day
00:45:09.77\00:45:13.32
we will pray for that
is 5,000 lost human beings
00:45:13.35\00:45:17.57
that night and
day will be remembered
00:45:17.60\00:45:19.30
before the throne of God.
00:45:19.33\00:45:21.06
I mean, can you imagine
00:45:21.09\00:45:23.21
the impact that
would have on our lives,
00:45:23.24\00:45:25.31
not to mention a 1,000 of us
00:45:25.34\00:45:27.00
living in a same space together
doing the same thing, wow.
00:45:27.03\00:45:31.66
So that's a
deal, pick up your book
00:45:31.69\00:45:33.98
when you leave right here
at all the greeting stations.
00:45:34.01\00:45:37.70
You're under grad you
want to go to the dorm
00:45:37.73\00:45:39.52
you got them right there.
00:45:39.55\00:45:40.58
We've got boxes of
them for you, pick it up.
00:45:40.61\00:45:43.28
You're in the academy you
got them at the front desk.
00:45:43.31\00:45:46.71
You say Dwight,
I'm not in the dorm,
00:45:46.74\00:45:47.79
I'm a university
student. Fine, pick it up here.
00:45:47.82\00:45:50.82
These are for all the
rest of us, pick it up.
00:45:50.85\00:45:53.07
Oh, by the way,
if you would like
00:45:53.10\00:45:54.44
to put a little donation
00:45:54.47\00:45:56.91
put it right there,
00:45:56.94\00:45:57.98
there will be
place to give a donation.
00:45:58.01\00:46:00.01
It's only to cover the cost.
00:46:00.04\00:46:01.07
We had this specially printed
designed for us right here.
00:46:01.10\00:46:06.11
You're gonna be blessed.
00:46:06.14\00:46:07.71
Seventy of us secretly did this
00:46:07.74\00:46:09.39
at the beginning
of this calendar year.
00:46:09.42\00:46:11.30
We didn't make
any fanfare about it,
00:46:11.33\00:46:12.36
didn't tell a soul about it
00:46:12.39\00:46:13.56
but we went through the 40
days and 40 nights together
00:46:13.59\00:46:16.10
and when we sat
in a huddle 70 of us
00:46:16.13\00:46:18.88
and we said, how did it go?
00:46:18.91\00:46:20.47
Hands down the conviction was
00:46:20.50\00:46:21.86
we got to do this
all of us together.
00:46:21.89\00:46:25.66
You will never be the
same again, I promise.
00:46:25.69\00:46:30.27
Forty days and forty nights
00:46:30.30\00:46:33.16
you will be taking
the gift of prophecy
00:46:33.19\00:46:35.26
and holy scripture
and the gift of prayer
00:46:35.29\00:46:39.11
and with two swords
00:46:39.14\00:46:41.37
and the power of
the Lord Jesus Christ
00:46:41.40\00:46:44.41
you will move
straight ahead in victory.
00:46:44.44\00:46:51.70
Forty days, forty nights,
grab your book as you leave.
00:46:51.73\00:46:54.25
Facebook, we'll
have a page on Facebook.
00:46:58.34\00:47:01.50
You got stories to
share go right to Facebook.
00:47:01.53\00:47:02.90
It's already
there waiting for your,
00:47:02.93\00:47:04.11
thank you Richard Parks,
00:47:04.14\00:47:06.18
got that page ready for you.
00:47:06.21\00:47:08.55
We're ready to go, guys.
00:47:08.58\00:47:09.87
We had never done it before.
00:47:09.90\00:47:11.20
Don't you think
that time is about right
00:47:11.23\00:47:13.06
that we join together in prayer?
00:47:13.09\00:47:14.48
I mean, I'm
watching this economy.
00:47:14.51\00:47:16.19
Now the president talk
about the economy in his address
00:47:16.22\00:47:19.06
to the whole campus on Thursday,
00:47:19.09\00:47:21.15
the brightest minds
on earth have no clue
00:47:21.18\00:47:25.23
that whistling in the
dark pass the cemetery.
00:47:25.26\00:47:29.65
Nobody knows,
will it bounce out?
00:47:29.68\00:47:32.43
I don't know.
00:47:32.46\00:47:34.21
But the
unsettledness of the planet,
00:47:34.24\00:47:39.95
some people are-- we are
on the verge of something
00:47:39.98\00:47:43.09
we don't know what it is.
00:47:43.12\00:47:44.35
Guys, this is the time to
pray, 40 days and 40 nights.
00:47:44.38\00:47:48.34
God bless you.
00:47:48.37\00:47:49.43
Oh, by the way September 1,
00:47:49.46\00:47:52.37
right here okay,
we'll start it together.
00:47:52.40\00:47:54.29
September 1, Wednesday
night house of prayer right here
00:47:54.32\00:47:57.58
in the sanctuary everybody come.
00:47:57.61\00:48:00.80
We'll have some
extras here you want more,
00:48:00.83\00:48:02.27
we will have them here.
00:48:02.30\00:48:03.98
September 1, right here
and we will do it together.
00:48:04.01\00:48:07.39
We'll just kind of do
it and see how it feels
00:48:07.42\00:48:09.23
then you can get a better sense.
00:48:09.26\00:48:13.47
Every New Year that we
begin on this campus together
00:48:13.50\00:48:18.11
we end with the most
powerful prayer you can pray.
00:48:18.14\00:48:20.93
It's a prayer
Jesus taught us to pray
00:48:20.96\00:48:23.47
and I can't think of a
better time than right now
00:48:23.50\00:48:25.55
for you and me
to sing this prayer.
00:48:25.58\00:48:28.68
Stephen Zork our choral
director here at the university
00:48:28.71\00:48:31.51
is gonna lead us.
00:48:31.54\00:48:33.45
"Our Father,
which art in heaven,
00:48:33.48\00:48:36.64
Hallowed be Thy name."
00:48:36.67\00:48:40.08
Let's stand together and
pray as we sing together.
00:48:40.11\00:48:43.38
Our Father,
00:48:53.85\00:49:01.85
which art in heaven
00:49:01.88\00:49:08.85
Hallowed be
00:49:12.44\00:49:17.44
Thy name
00:49:20.75\00:49:25.75
Thy kingdom come
00:49:29.68\00:49:37.05
Thy will be done
00:49:37.08\00:49:43.79
On earth as it is in heaven
00:49:43.82\00:49:51.79
Give us this day our daily bread
00:50:13.61\00:50:20.61
And forgive us our debts
00:50:24.25\00:50:29.94
As we forgive our debtors
00:50:29.97\00:50:37.94
And lead us not into temptation
00:50:42.31\00:50:49.14
But deliver us from evil
00:50:49.17\00:50:55.69
For Thine is the kingdom
00:50:55.72\00:51:03.04
And the power
00:51:03.07\00:51:06.26
And the glory
00:51:06.29\00:51:11.45
Forever and ever
00:51:11.48\00:51:17.45
Amen
00:51:20.95\00:51:27.95
It's been a pleasure to be
able to worship with you today.
00:51:49.65\00:51:52.32
I hope that the Spirit of
Jesus has blessed your time
00:51:52.35\00:51:55.06
with us right here in
the Pioneer Memorial Church
00:51:55.09\00:51:56.96
on the campus of
Andrews University.
00:51:56.99\00:51:59.17
Do you know
that around the world
00:51:59.20\00:52:00.23
people join us every
week for this hour of worship?
00:52:00.26\00:52:02.69
We're always
looking as a consequence
00:52:02.72\00:52:04.60
for new ways to bridge,
00:52:04.63\00:52:05.89
somehow to
connect with these people
00:52:05.92\00:52:07.92
who come here to
worship via the telecast.
00:52:07.95\00:52:10.94
One of the areas that is quickly
growing for is our website.
00:52:10.97\00:52:14.13
We had more than a
140,000 visitors last year.
00:52:14.16\00:52:18.23
It's an incredible opportunity
that God has given us
00:52:18.26\00:52:20.85
to expand His kingdom.
00:52:20.88\00:52:22.84
If you'd like to
help partner with us
00:52:22.87\00:52:24.81
as we seek to spread
the everlasting gospel
00:52:24.84\00:52:27.82
I would love to have you
call our toll free number.
00:52:27.85\00:52:30.38
We've got very
friendly operator standing by.
00:52:30.41\00:52:32.78
Here's the number 877-His-Will,
00:52:32.81\00:52:35.89
877 and then the
two words His Will.
00:52:35.92\00:52:37.97
One of the operators
will be happy to give you
00:52:38.00\00:52:40.60
the details of
how you can partner
00:52:40.63\00:52:42.54
with this global ministry.
00:52:42.57\00:52:44.30
If you prefer listen,
you can do it all online.
00:52:44.33\00:52:46.39
Go to our website
please, www.pmchurch.tv.
00:52:46.42\00:52:50.97
I would be honored to have
00:52:51.00\00:52:52.03
the privilege of
partnering with you
00:52:52.06\00:52:53.28
as we seek to spread the truth
about God for this generation.
00:52:53.31\00:52:56.82
We are living in urgent
times now more than never.
00:52:56.85\00:53:00.71
We've got to go to the world
00:53:00.74\00:53:03.33
where the good
news entrusted to us.
00:53:03.36\00:53:05.04
So once again here's that
toll free number 877-His-Will.
00:53:05.07\00:53:09.48
Thank you in
advance for your generosity.
00:53:09.51\00:53:12.12
That blesses me and
you grow this ministry.
00:53:12.15\00:53:15.04
I pray that the Spirit of Christ
00:53:15.07\00:53:16.67
will abide with you
every step of the way
00:53:16.70\00:53:19.01
and I hope you'll
come back again next time
00:53:19.04\00:53:21.20
right here as we continue
our worship journey together.
00:53:21.23\00:53:25.02