I would like to ask
you, is God your best friend?
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That's one the,
the question that
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we learnt to
answer first in our lives.
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Who is your friend?
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Well, the right answer is Jesus.
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But is that true?
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If you haven't tried
it out, I'll invite you.
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Really, He'll be
your best friend.
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He is never late.
He is never early.
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He is fun and He will
even play princess with you.
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Jesus, if you let Him,
will be your best friend.
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Sing with us.
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What a friend we have in Jesus
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All our sins and grief's to bear
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What a privilege to carry
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Everything to God in prayer
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O what peace we often forfeit
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O what needless pain we bear
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All because we do not carry
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Ev'rything to God in prayer
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Have we trails or temptations
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Is there trouble anywhere?
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We should never be discouraged
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Take it to the Lord in prayer
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Can we find a
friend so faithful?
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Who will all our sorrow share?
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Jesus knows our ev'ry weakness
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Take it to the Lord in prayer
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I would like to invite
you, to join us at the front,
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as we approach God
our best friend in prayer.
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So join us at
the front as we pray.
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And join us also as
we sing the last verse.
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Are we weak and heavy laden
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Cumbered with a load of care?
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Precious Savior still our Refuge
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Take it to the Lord in prayer
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Do thy friends
despise, forsake thee?
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Take it to the Lord in prayer
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In His arms He'll
take and shield thee
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Thou wilt find a solace there
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Let us kneel for prayer.
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The Lord declares.
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The Lord who created
you, the Lord who forms you,
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He declares, "Fear
not, I have redeemed you.
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I have called you
by name. You're mine."
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He called by name,
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called by name, called by name.
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It's good to know in this world,
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haggard by sin and death
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and
discouragement and despair that,
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there is someone who
knows, who understands,
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who is called us by name.
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That's why we can stand
firm, because Jesus knows.
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In a world
where things go wrong,
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in a world where
there is death and terror,
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Jesus stands and
He calls us by name.
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And Lord, recall us
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of what's going on in our lives.
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We know that we can come to You.
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We know that we
can lift up our voice.
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And Lord, we pray that
You might speak to us today.
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Lord, as we enter
into worship today,
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we want to hear a
word from on high.
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And so we pray for our pastor,
make him a transparent vessel,
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so that You can use
him to speak to our heart,
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to pierce through the
callus and the covered over.
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We pray that we might hear
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a transforming word today.
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We rejoice Lord,
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in the power and the promise
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that though we
pass through the waters,
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You'll be with us.
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And as we go over the
rivers, they won't overflow us.
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And in the inferno of the fire,
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will be cool and
we won't be burnt,
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because our God reigns.
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And He's able to take
us through the tough times,
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the difficult
times, the times that
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we live in this world
here on the edge of eternity,
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we look to Jesus.
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We thank You.
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We pray this in
Jesus' name. Amen.
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My faithful Father
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Enduring Friend
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Your tender mercy's
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Like a river with no end
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It overwhelms me
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Covers my sin
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Each time I come
into Your presence
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I stand in wonder once again
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Your grace still amazes me
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Your love is still a mystery
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Each day
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I fall on my knees
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'Cause Your
grace still amazes me
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Oh, patient Savior
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You make me whole
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You are the Author
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And the Healer of my soul
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What can I give You
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Lord, what can I say
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I know there's
no way to repay You
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Only to offer You my praise
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Your grace still amazes me
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Your love is still a mystery
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Each day I fall on my knees
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'Cause Your
grace still amazes me
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Your grace still amazes me
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It's deeper, it's wider
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It's stronger, it's higher
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It's deeper, it's wider
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It's stronger, it's higher
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Than anything my eyes can see
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Your grace still amazes me
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Your love is still a mystery
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Each day
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I fall on my knees
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'Cause Your
grace still amazes me
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Your grace still amazes me
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I want to move in
to the Word with you,
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because of God's grace
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we're here to even get
into the Word together.
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God has a teaching
for us this morning.
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All I pray that
it will be clear.
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I-- I join with you
in, earnestly asking God,
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please shine
through Holy Scripture.
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Please shine through.
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I want to pray with
you before we begin.
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O God, what can we say,
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Your grace, Your
grace, still amazes us.
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May we, breathe, our hearts beat
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gifts of that grace.
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You sustain us,
You provide for us,
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not always as miraculously
as You did to Erika,
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we understand that.
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But when these little
stories of grace happen,
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we join together
in applauding You.
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Your eyes are on the sparrow,
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it's on every one of us
as Your earth's children.
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And so we are worshiping You.
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Nothing is changed, in
this little transition.
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Now as we turn
to Holy Scripture,
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O God, draw from our
hearts, not only a response,
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a worship toward You
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but draw from
our minds a response,
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to this life in
which You've called us to.
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In the name of Jesus,
please, keep speaking to us.
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Amen.
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A century ago,
these words were written,
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"The coming of Christ,
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will take place
in the darkest period
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of this earth's history."
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So here's the
question, does it seem to you
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that it's been
getting darker, lately?
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Scientists believe that it is.
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I know you heard of moonshine,
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but have you ever
heard of earthshine?
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Scientists use that
word earthshine to describe,
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what they call the "albedo"
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or the reflectance of the
earth onto the, onto the moon.
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In other words, when the
sun shines down on the earth,
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we absorb most of
that solar energy,
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but there is a
little bit we give up
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and that goes over
to our nearest neighbor,
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the moon, thus
dimly lighting the moon,
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even when it's not
being directly hit by the sun.
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In fact, I want to show
a picture to you right now.
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NASA took this picture.
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What you are about
to see is only possible
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because of earthshine.
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Take a look at this shot.
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You recognize of
course planet earth.
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We all love our home.
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The satellite is coming up
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over the round
curvature of the moon
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and the only
reason we see the moon,
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the sun is not
shining on the moon.
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The only reason we see the
moon is because of earthshine,
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reflecting from
earth over to moon.
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The debate among
of the astronomers
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and scientists is this,
is the earth growing dimmer?
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Because there are some
that believe that in fact,
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because of the
methane gas and the CO2,
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they were capturing
inside our atmosphere,
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global warming,
the greenhouse effect,
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that solar
energy is being kept in.
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And so the earth is
actually growing dimmer.
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There are others who,
who believe that in fact,
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it's the other way around that
the earth is growing brighter
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and there are studies
that confirm both conclusions.
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I've got to tell
you, I'm not a scientist,
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but this much I do know.
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There is a single line in
the apocalypse that declares
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that this earth is
going to explode one last time
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with a moment of
brilliant earthshine.
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At the darkest
hour of earth's history
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an explosion of light,
earthshine at the last sunrise.
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Take a look at this picture.
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Not on the
screen, but in your Bible.
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Open your Bible please.
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Open your Bible please
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to the Bible's last
book, the Apocalypse.
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I want to go to
Revelation Chapter 18 with you.
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Fascinating,
fascinating prophesy.
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Earthshine coming.
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Revelation Chapter 18,
I'll in New King James Version.
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Again as I shared
with you last week,
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when we began
this teaching series
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I am going to stick to the NKJV.
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You stick to whatever Bible
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that is your
favorite study Bible,
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its fine with me,
whatever the translation.
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If you didn't bring a Bible,
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please get into
the Word with us today,
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because we are not
read off the screen,
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we are going to be in the Word
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and there is a pew
Bible, right in front of you.
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Pull that pew Bible out, it
also happens to be the NKJV.
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My friend, Pastor Doug,
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who Friday night is going
to be staying in right here,
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Pastor Doug, is going to
be using the NKJV as well.
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So, if you want to hang on
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through that
translation that's fine.
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But whatever, let me
give the page number here,
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page 832, in
the, in the pew Bible.
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Revelation Chapter 18,
just one verse right now,
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Revelation 18:1,
"After these things I,"
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that is the elderly,
elderly John now the Patmos,
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"After these
things I saw another angel
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coming down from
heaven, having great authority,"
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and notice this, "and the earth
was illuminated by his glory."
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Earthshine, earthshine
one last time, on this planet.
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But here's the question,
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from whence cometh
that explosion of glory?
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Now I know that
your Bible and mine,
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that our Bibles
read an angel came down.
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But you cannot, come on guys;
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you cannot tell me that
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an angel is going to
fill this world with glory
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Impossible. You
know, why I know?
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Because angels
are created beings,
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just like you and I are.
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And there is no
created being on earth
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that has a shred of glory
emanating from him or her.
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In fact, angels and
humans are just like the moon.
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Let me put a picture of moon up.
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We are just like that moon.
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If you turn the sun off,
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how much of the moon
could you possibly see?
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Zero. Nothing.
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The moon is entirely dependent
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on an external source of
power to bring light to itself.
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And that's the
gospel truth about
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angels and human beings.
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If there is anything
good about you sister,
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if there is anything
good about you brother, or me,
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it's because there is,
there is an external source
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that is bringing
its light into us.
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So, it cannot be.
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It cannot be this
Revelation 18:1, angel,
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that's lighting up the earth.
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So from whence
cometh, this glory,
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just before the
return of Christ?
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You say, hey wait a minute.
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Come on Dwight,
what's this about,
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"just before the
return of the Christ."
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How do we know it's
at the end of the world?
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I'll tell you how
we know, we know it
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because of the context.
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Look at the context.
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Revelation 18:1,
we'll read it again.
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"After these
things I saw another angel
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coming down from
heaven, having great authority,
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and the earth was
illuminated with his glory."
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And verse 2, "He cried
mightily with a loud voice,"
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this is the loud cry,
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"he cried mightily
with a loud voice, saying,
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Babylon the great
is fallen, is fallen,
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and has become a
dwelling place of demons,
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a prison for every foul spirit,
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and a cage for every
unclean and hated bird!'"
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Verse 3 "
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For all the nations
have drunk of the wine
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of the wrath of her fornication,
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the kings of the earth have
committed fornication with her,
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and the merchants of the earth
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have become rich through
the abundance of her luxury."
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Finally verse 4
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"And I heard
another voice from heaven,"
00:19:32.73\00:19:34.71
can't be the angel now.
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The angel's loud cry was--
00:19:35.82\00:19:39.11
is what's
describing to verses 2 and 3
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but now verse 4 says,
"And I heard another voice,"
00:19:43.32\00:19:45.59
John says, "I heard another
voice from heaven saying,
00:19:45.62\00:19:48.83
'Come out of her,'"
this is the divine voice.
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"Come out of her my people,
lest you share in her sins,
00:19:50.93\00:19:54.89
and lest you
receive of her" what?
00:19:54.92\00:19:57.72
"Of her plagues."
00:19:57.75\00:19:59.60
Anybody who knows anything
about the Bible knows that
00:19:59.63\00:20:02.23
the Bible speaks of
the seven last plagues
00:20:02.26\00:20:04.19
before the end
of earth's history.
00:20:04.22\00:20:05.44
True or false?
00:20:05.47\00:20:06.54
But of course, so this
is just before the plagues.
00:20:06.57\00:20:10.28
Revelation 18:1 happens
just before the plagues.
00:20:10.31\00:20:13.23
There will be a
burst of earthshine,
00:20:13.26\00:20:18.12
on this blue,
green terrestrial ball.
00:20:18.15\00:20:21.66
So what's happening here?
00:20:21.69\00:20:26.24
Over my sabbatical, they were
four week sabbatical I took.
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Getting ready for this series
00:20:31.49\00:20:32.53
I came across a
fascinating piece of discovery
00:20:32.56\00:20:35.60
that I must share with you.
00:20:35.63\00:20:36.71
And by the way,
I need to say this
00:20:36.74\00:20:37.79
because we did not
share this last Sabbath.
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This series is the
direct result of your responses
00:20:39.46\00:20:43.69
to an open ended survey.
00:20:43.72\00:20:45.10
You remember that for
the end of last semester,
00:20:45.13\00:20:47.17
we took a survey.
00:20:47.20\00:20:48.36
Put down anything you wish,
whatever you want the preacher
00:20:48.39\00:20:51.34
in this Church to preach
about, you just write it down.
00:20:51.37\00:20:53.58
And we got
hundreds, and hundreds,
00:20:53.61\00:20:55.42
and hundreds of responses.
00:20:55.45\00:20:57.44
And it nearly blew
me out of the water.
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Hands down.
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Any way you
want to categorize it
00:21:02.48\00:21:04.75
the vast
majorities of your responses
00:21:04.78\00:21:07.35
were for doctrine
and prophesy please.
00:21:07.38\00:21:11.52
Anyway you categorize it,
00:21:11.55\00:21:13.10
please spend time in
doctrine and prophesy.
00:21:13.13\00:21:16.33
Student, faculty and community.
00:21:16.36\00:21:19.65
So you need to know
that this new pulpit series
00:21:19.68\00:21:24.65
is a prayerful
response to your responses.
00:21:24.68\00:21:27.58
So anyway, I'm
studying over that,
00:21:27.61\00:21:29.87
that little sabbatical.
00:21:29.90\00:21:30.93
And in my study, I came
across a New Testament scholar,
00:21:30.96\00:21:33.75
who observed
that nearly every word
00:21:33.78\00:21:36.29
and phrase, in
the Book of Revelation
00:21:36.32\00:21:38.54
is directly borrowed
from the Old Testament.
00:21:38.57\00:21:42.25
That was brand new to
me. Every word and phrase.
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Which means that if we examine
the Old Testament linkage,
00:21:48.24\00:21:51.46
we're gonna
discover the strategic keys
00:21:51.49\00:21:53.22
that can unlock these
apocalyptic prophecies
00:21:53.25\00:21:55.24
which by the way proves
the great Protestant principle,
00:21:55.27\00:21:58.88
"The Bible must be
interpreted by itself."
00:21:58.91\00:22:04.24
In fact, that principle
is so key for you and me,
00:22:04.27\00:22:06.73
as the third
millennium of journeyers.
00:22:06.76\00:22:09.09
I wish you pull your
study guide out right now,
00:22:09.12\00:22:10.66
and would you jot that
Protestant principle down.
00:22:10.69\00:22:14.00
Great Protestant principle.
Take your study guide.
00:22:14.03\00:22:16.33
It's in your
worship bulletin today.
00:22:16.36\00:22:18.50
If several of you came in
00:22:18.53\00:22:20.80
and you just grabbed
one worship bulletin,
00:22:20.83\00:22:22.88
I've got the best
ushers in the world
00:22:22.91\00:22:24.84
who are gonna
now put a study guide
00:22:24.87\00:22:26.49
because you got to
get the study guide.
00:22:26.52\00:22:27.73
There are some lists
here that you have to have.
00:22:27.76\00:22:30.54
So hold your hand up,
all the way to the back,
00:22:30.57\00:22:32.31
to the back of the balcony,
00:22:32.34\00:22:33.94
we'll make sure that
you, you get the study guide.
00:22:33.97\00:22:35.81
And those of you watching on TV,
00:22:35.84\00:22:37.20
let me take you to our website.
00:22:37.23\00:22:38.45
Let me put it on
the screen for you.
00:22:38.48\00:22:39.53
You get the same study guide,
00:22:39.56\00:22:41.10
there it is on
the screen right now,
00:22:41.13\00:22:42.51
www.pmchurch.tv.
00:22:42.54\00:22:46.89
That's our website.
00:22:46.92\00:22:48.32
You click on this
new teaching series,
00:22:48.35\00:22:49.96
it's called
"Rumors From The East."
00:22:49.99\00:22:52.84
This is part two, so this
is "Rumors From The East 2".
00:22:52.87\00:22:55.05
It's entitled,
"The Last Sonrise."
00:22:55.08\00:22:57.00
You click on to
The Last Sonrise,
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where it says study guide
00:22:59.67\00:23:01.02
and you will have the
identical study guide.
00:23:01.05\00:23:03.49
You can journey
with us, all right.
00:23:03.52\00:23:06.78
Okay so you've
got the study guide,
00:23:06.81\00:23:07.87
you are watching the DVD,
00:23:07.90\00:23:08.96
you've hit the pause,
you've got the study guide.
00:23:08.99\00:23:10.43
Now, now we are
glad to have you back.
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Let's move to these
first lines in the study guide.
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Fill it up.
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Hope you have a
pen there to do that.
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Number one, Revelation 18:1,
00:23:18.82\00:23:22.08
an apocalyptic
snapshot of earthshine.
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Write it down, earthshine.
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One last burst of
earthshine in sacred history.
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Keep your pen moving.
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But, see because we are
following up on a question.
00:23:32.30\00:23:35.26
Whose glory,
write in the word glory.
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Whose glory By the way,
00:23:37.94\00:23:39.15
the Greek word
for glory is "doxa"
00:23:39.18\00:23:41.13
from which comes
our word, "doxology."
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Might be a clue here.
00:23:44.07\00:23:45.29
Whose glory, whose glory
is this that fills the earth
00:23:45.32\00:23:49.77
just before the
return of Christ?
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Keep you pen,
keep your pen moving.
00:23:51.61\00:23:53.63
Remember now, nearly every word
00:23:53.66\00:23:55.98
and phrase in the
book of Revelation
00:23:56.01\00:23:58.08
is directly borrowed
from the Old Testament.
00:23:58.11\00:24:01.95
Do not forget the great
Protestant principle of study,
00:24:01.98\00:24:05.78
jot it down, "The Bible
is its own best interpreter."
00:24:05.81\00:24:11.06
Don't take anybody
else's word for Holy Scripture.
00:24:11.09\00:24:15.49
Not your
professor, not your pastor,
00:24:15.52\00:24:17.52
not a-- not, not nobody.
00:24:17.55\00:24:21.61
You go in, you take that Word.
00:24:21.64\00:24:24.39
So God
entrusted the Word to you.
00:24:24.42\00:24:26.76
No community of faith tells you,
00:24:26.79\00:24:28.46
you take the Word yourself.
00:24:28.49\00:24:30.50
The Bible
interprets itself best.
00:24:30.53\00:24:32.80
It is its own best interpreter.
00:24:32.83\00:24:34.36
By the way, there are
people in trouble today,
00:24:34.39\00:24:36.67
because they've
forgotten this principle.
00:24:36.70\00:24:38.58
There're some
crazy notions out there.
00:24:38.61\00:24:40.26
I am beginning to hear them
00:24:40.29\00:24:41.52
even within our
community of faith,
00:24:41.55\00:24:45.08
crazy notions about Israel
and Iran and Iraq and Islam.
00:24:45.11\00:24:51.29
You're in
trouble, you're in trouble
00:24:51.32\00:24:53.26
the moment you move
away from this principle.
00:24:53.29\00:24:55.92
Let the Bible interpret itself.
00:24:55.95\00:24:58.14
Okay so, if nearly every phrase,
00:24:58.17\00:25:00.10
every word in the apocalypse
00:25:00.13\00:25:02.69
is derived from
the Old Testament,
00:25:02.72\00:25:04.32
what's the key that can
unlock our understanding
00:25:04.35\00:25:08.01
of Revelation 18:1?
00:25:08.04\00:25:10.33
Hands down here it is.
00:25:10.36\00:25:11.55
Go back to the Old
Testament, the Book of Ezekiel.
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Ezekiel.
00:25:14.34\00:25:16.34
Boy, when was the
last time we ever read
00:25:16.37\00:25:18.24
from that dusty Old
Testament prophet Ezekiel?
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Ezekiel Chapter 43.
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Ezekiel 43, oh,
this is page 590.
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Hard to find Ezekiel
in the Old Testament,
00:25:30.03\00:25:32.79
but its there, it's a big book.
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Ezekiel Chapter 43.
Take a look at this.
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The first two
verses of Ezekiel 43.
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Ezekiel 43:1,
"Afterward he," God, okay.
00:25:41.09\00:25:46.33
So this is Ezekiel.
00:25:46.36\00:25:47.39
By the way
Ezekiel is in Babylon.
00:25:47.42\00:25:49.51
He is an exile prophet.
00:25:49.54\00:25:51.88
He is been shown
back to Jerusalem.
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Watch this.
00:25:53.42\00:25:54.47
"Afterward he" God
"brought me to the gate,
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the gate that
faces toward the" what?
00:25:57.58\00:25:59.98
"Toward the East."
00:26:00.01\00:26:01.08
Keyword, we are
going to come back
00:26:01.11\00:26:02.17
to that word, east, east, east.
00:26:02.20\00:26:03.94
Watch this now
verse 2, "And behold,
00:26:03.97\00:26:06.30
the glory of the God of Israel
came from the way of the east.
00:26:06.33\00:26:13.49
His voice was like
the sound of many waters
00:26:13.52\00:26:15.93
and the earth
shone with His glory."
00:26:15.96\00:26:19.53
Ladies and gentlemen,
where have you just heard
00:26:19.56\00:26:22.38
and read those words before?
00:26:22.41\00:26:24.56
Where did you read
them? It's no brainier.
00:26:24.59\00:26:27.20
Revelation 18:1.
00:26:27.23\00:26:28.45
In fact, let me show you,
00:26:28.48\00:26:29.51
we'll put a split
screen up here for you
00:26:29.54\00:26:31.84
so you can see the
two verses side by side.
00:26:31.87\00:26:35.10
Almost identical in phraseology
00:26:35.13\00:26:37.54
and I want you to notice
the punch line to both verses.
00:26:37.57\00:26:40.02
Ezekiel 43:2, the punch line is,
00:26:40.05\00:26:42.06
"And the earth
shone with His glory."
00:26:42.09\00:26:44.40
The God of Israel's glory.
00:26:44.43\00:26:46.00
Punch line of Revelation 18:1,
00:26:46.03\00:26:47.40
"And the earth was
illuminated with his glory."
00:26:47.43\00:26:51.68
When we go to the
Old Testament, key,
00:26:51.71\00:26:54.93
and we let the
Bible-- here is the key,
00:26:54.96\00:26:56.67
we let the Bible
interpret itself.
00:26:56.70\00:26:58.87
Nobody comes along and
says, "I think that angel
00:26:58.90\00:27:00.71
in Revelation 18:1
means phew," forget it.
00:27:00.74\00:27:03.31
What does God
think? What's in the book?
00:27:03.34\00:27:06.11
When we let the
Old Testament key work,
00:27:06.14\00:27:08.32
two clues, jot this clues down.
00:27:08.35\00:27:09.76
We now have two clues
00:27:09.79\00:27:12.19
to an identity of the
event in Revelation 18:1.
00:27:12.22\00:27:14.84
Clue number one, put
it on the screen please.
00:27:14.87\00:27:17.17
Clue number one, the
glory that fills the earth
00:27:17.20\00:27:19.76
is the glory of God himself.
00:27:19.79\00:27:23.29
It's not the angel.
00:27:23.32\00:27:24.35
We already figured that one out.
00:27:24.38\00:27:25.93
But now we know who
that angel represents.
00:27:25.96\00:27:28.12
Whom that angel represents?
It is the glory of God himself.
00:27:28.15\00:27:30.70
And clue number two,
00:27:30.73\00:27:31.88
the glory that fills the
earth comes from the east.
00:27:31.91\00:27:37.53
And east is the keyword
in this new teaching series,
00:27:37.56\00:27:41.25
"Rumors From The East."
00:27:41.28\00:27:42.55
Do you know why? Keep writing.
00:27:42.58\00:27:44.33
"East" is the mysterious clue
00:27:44.36\00:27:47.91
found in the
climax of the longest
00:27:47.94\00:27:49.64
and most comprehensive
prophecy in all the Bible.
00:27:49.67\00:27:53.51
Now last Sabbath you and I
00:27:53.54\00:27:54.61
were in the
introduction to that prophecy.
00:27:54.64\00:27:56.73
There is no longer prophecy
anywhere in Holy Scripture
00:27:56.76\00:27:59.38
because Daniel 10
begins the prophecy
00:27:59.41\00:28:02.02
then it's whoa,
major, big time in Daniel 11
00:28:02.05\00:28:05.72
and Daniel 12 continues it.
00:28:05.75\00:28:07.95
Now when they wrote,
when Daniel wrote in--
00:28:07.98\00:28:10.67
didn't his chapter and
verse all that has been added.
00:28:10.70\00:28:13.86
Suppose to go straight from
10 all the way through the 12.
00:28:13.89\00:28:17.98
East, critical key.
00:28:18.01\00:28:21.28
And I need you to see right now,
00:28:21.31\00:28:23.54
how strategic east is
in the stunning climax
00:28:23.57\00:28:27.04
to earth's darkest hour.
00:28:27.07\00:28:28.98
It doesn't get
any darker than this,
00:28:29.01\00:28:30.60
as it's described in Daniel.
00:28:30.63\00:28:31.87
Now, there is gonna
have to come a Sabbath,
00:28:31.90\00:28:33.14
when you and I and we will wait
00:28:33.17\00:28:34.35
till Doug Batchelor is through
00:28:34.38\00:28:36.25
and then we are gonna
plunge into to Daniel 11.
00:28:36.28\00:28:38.12
But I am gonna
give you a sneak preview
00:28:38.15\00:28:40.10
of why east is absolutely
critical to our understanding.
00:28:40.13\00:28:44.42
So let's go to Daniel 11.
00:28:44.45\00:28:45.92
Let me just, just a smattering
00:28:45.95\00:28:47.58
of verses right near the climax.
00:28:47.61\00:28:49.94
How dark is dark
at the end of time?
00:28:49.97\00:28:53.45
This is how dark,
dark is, all right.
00:28:53.48\00:28:56.27
Daniel Chapter 11.
00:28:56.30\00:28:59.43
We were in Daniel 10
last week, now go to 11.
00:28:59.46\00:29:02.01
We are gonna
move to that climax.
00:29:02.04\00:29:03.77
Can't read it all.
00:29:03.80\00:29:04.83
Some of you are gonna
become drawn into this,
00:29:04.86\00:29:08.45
even by just
this brief encounter.
00:29:08.48\00:29:12.06
And you are gonna
start doing some study
00:29:12.09\00:29:13.28
and that is fine with me.
00:29:13.31\00:29:14.37
Be my guest. Plunge into it.
00:29:14.40\00:29:17.40
Daniel 11, drop down
to the end to verse 40.
00:29:17.43\00:29:24.52
It's a huge chapter.
00:29:24.55\00:29:26.09
Look here, I'm not gonna
unpack a single symbol here,
00:29:26.12\00:29:28.34
but you'll see why,
why we're going to this.
00:29:28.37\00:29:30.54
Daniel 11:40, "At
the time of the end,"
00:29:30.57\00:29:34.16
all right, that's
a little clue for us.
00:29:34.19\00:29:37.12
"At the time of
the end," verse 40,
00:29:37.15\00:29:40.21
"the king of the
South shall attack him"
00:29:40.24\00:29:42.31
that would be the
king of the north,
00:29:42.34\00:29:43.98
"and the king of the
North shall come against him,"
00:29:44.01\00:29:45.82
the king of the south,
"like a whirlwind with chariots
00:29:45.85\00:29:49.36
and horsemen and with many ships
00:29:49.39\00:29:51.40
and he shall
enter the countries,
00:29:51.43\00:29:53.71
overwhelm them,
and pass through."
00:29:53.74\00:29:56.37
Now drop down to verse 43,
00:29:56.40\00:29:58.55
"He shall have power"
this king of the north
00:29:58.58\00:30:00.99
"over the
treasures of gold and silver,
00:30:01.02\00:30:03.68
and over all the
precious things of Egypt
00:30:03.71\00:30:05.43
also the Libyans and Ethiopians
shall follow at his heels."
00:30:05.46\00:30:08.82
And now verse 44,
"But news from the east"
00:30:08.85\00:30:12.99
hold it right
there, those of you
00:30:13.02\00:30:14.80
that have the New
American Standard Version
00:30:14.83\00:30:17.68
it reads "But
rumors from the east,"
00:30:17.71\00:30:21.44
that's where this
teaching series title came from.
00:30:21.47\00:30:24.72
"But rumors from the east
00:30:24.75\00:30:28.07
and the north
shall trouble him,"
00:30:28.10\00:30:30.37
this dark king
"therefore he shall go out
00:30:30.40\00:30:33.08
with great fury to
destroy and annihilate many."
00:30:33.11\00:30:36.56
And verse 45 "And he shall
plant the tents of his palace
00:30:36.59\00:30:39.32
between the seas and
the glorious holy mountain,
00:30:39.35\00:30:42.16
yet he shall come to his
end, and no one will help him."
00:30:42.19\00:30:47.05
And you think it stops there,
00:30:47.08\00:30:48.12
no Daniel didn't even
know anything about chapter 12,
00:30:48.15\00:30:50.54
he just kept writing.
00:30:50.57\00:30:51.66
So we got to go to
the chapter 12, verse 1,
00:30:51.69\00:30:53.24
How dark will dark
gets before Christ comes.
00:30:53.27\00:30:57.07
"And at that time" Daniel 12:1
00:30:57.10\00:30:58.81
"Michael" in last week
found out who Michael was.
00:30:58.84\00:31:02.75
Who is Michael refresh memory?
00:31:02.78\00:31:04.04
Who is Michael?
He is Christ Himself.
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Those of you
watching for the first time
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and say, well,
you can't prove that.
00:31:08.94\00:31:10.07
Oh, yes, we can and
we did it last week.
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Get the study
guide, go to the website
00:31:12.25\00:31:13.82
download that first study,
the study guide would be there.
00:31:13.85\00:31:16.74
You will discover
what Philipp Melanchthon
00:31:16.77\00:31:18.75
the great
Protestant reformer discovered
00:31:18.78\00:31:21.23
that indeed Michael
is an apocalyptic symbol
00:31:21.26\00:31:24.41
for Christ Himself.
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"At that time"
this is Daniel 12:1
00:31:25.93\00:31:27.53
"Michael shall stand up,
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the great
prince who stands watch
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over the sons of your people"
00:31:30.82\00:31:32.62
and now watch "and there
shall be a time of trouble,
00:31:32.65\00:31:35.23
such as never was
since there was a nation,
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even to that time."
00:31:37.85\00:31:39.01
But hallelujah
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"At that time your
people shall be delivered,"
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what do you say to that?
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Nothing to fear.
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I'm telling you what,
these rumors from the east
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they are good news rumors.
00:31:48.88\00:31:51.53
They are good news
rumors. You know why?
00:31:51.56\00:31:53.88
Because clearly
whatever these rumors are
00:31:53.91\00:31:56.37
they bring to an end the dark
reign of this destroying power
00:31:56.40\00:32:00.25
and they bring the
delivery to God's people.
00:32:00.28\00:32:02.39
Whoever this dark and
evil king of the north is
00:32:02.42\00:32:08.98
these rumors enrage him,
00:32:09.01\00:32:10.97
that means it's
good news for us.
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They enrage him and he
turned pivots to destroy
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what threatens his existence.
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I'm telling you guys,
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its good news,
rumors from the east.
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So what we're gonna do
in this teaching series is,
00:32:24.16\00:32:26.47
we are gonna look up
every single reference
00:32:26.50\00:32:28.53
to east in apocalyptic prophecy.
00:32:28.56\00:32:31.04
You say, oh, great,
00:32:31.07\00:32:32.17
now we are gonna
be here for two year.
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Good news, they're
only three of them.
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This is a short
series, they're only three.
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Today is number one.
00:32:40.91\00:32:42.66
In fact, I want you
to write it down please,
00:32:42.69\00:32:43.92
rumor number one,
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we know this is the
rumor from the east,
00:32:49.13\00:32:52.65
we've just shown the
Old Testament unlocks it
00:32:52.68\00:32:55.20
and indeed it's from the east.
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And so the question is
that begged to be asked
00:32:56.81\00:32:58.33
at this juncture is,
what is the significance
00:32:58.36\00:33:01.47
of this first
rumor from the east?
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I'm telling you what guys,
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the answer is
beautifully simply.
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In fact, you can--
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you can answer the
question with a question.
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Question, what happens
in the east every morning
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and has happened every morning
00:33:19.98\00:33:22.07
since the beginning of the time?
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What happens in the east?
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Answer, the sun
comes up, hallelujah.
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Unless you are flying
to Australia, no sunrise.
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It's true, I got
to go to Australia
00:33:32.21\00:33:33.26
in just three or four weeks,
00:33:33.29\00:33:35.73
I'll leave, I'll leave
L.A. at 10'o clock at night,
00:33:35.76\00:33:38.65
I get to Sydney,
Australia Tuesday morning early,
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there will never
be Monday sunrise,
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gone forever in human history.
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How tragic?
00:33:45.62\00:33:46.99
You fly to
Australia, you lose time.
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Again of course coming back.
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No sunrise either if you
live in the polar latitudes,
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as you know in the
winter sun don't come up.
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But we don't worry
about those exceptions.
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Jot it down please, the
good news about the east
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is that it's
where the sun comes up.
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Write it down, in fact,
the Hebrew word for east
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"Mizrah" we just
read in Daniel 11:44
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the rumors from the east.
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The word literally
means the place of sunrise.
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And what so good about this,
00:34:19.49\00:34:20.89
what so good news
about the sunrise?
00:34:20.92\00:34:23.64
One more text we
got to look up together.
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Go to the end of
the Old Testament,
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not the end of the Bible,
the end of the Old Testament,
00:34:27.47\00:34:29.14
the little book of Malachi,
00:34:29.17\00:34:30.80
the last page of
the Old Testament,
00:34:30.83\00:34:33.77
this would be the page 646.
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Take a look at it,
here's why the sunrise,
00:34:36.66\00:34:39.60
predicted at the end of time
00:34:39.63\00:34:40.74
there's
earthshine is so critical.
00:34:40.77\00:34:43.71
Malachi 4:2 God is
speaking, do you have it yet?
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This is the last
page of the Old Testament,
00:34:48.11\00:34:51.10
just before Mathew,
Malachi 4:2 God speaking,
00:34:51.13\00:34:55.05
"But to you who fear My
name the Sun of Righteousness
00:34:55.08\00:35:01.24
shall arise with
healing in His wings."
00:35:01.27\00:35:05.94
Isn't that
beautiful? Fill it in please.
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Make sure you get
it in your study guide.
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"The Sun of Righteousness
00:35:09.32\00:35:12.39
shall arise with
healing in His wings."
00:35:12.42\00:35:16.71
And by the way,
you need to note this
00:35:16.74\00:35:18.24
in verse 1 and
verse 5 it is very clear
00:35:18.27\00:35:20.58
that this event the rising
of the Sun of Righteousness
00:35:20.62\00:35:23.29
will transpire at the
end of the earth's history
00:35:23.32\00:35:25.65
because verse, verse 5 describes
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the great and
dreadful day of the Lord,
00:35:27.48\00:35:29.64
and that means the end,
00:35:29.67\00:35:30.83
the finish of
human civilization.
00:35:30.86\00:35:33.63
So just before then
"the Sun of righteousness
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will arise with
healing in His wings."
00:35:36.71\00:35:39.24
So ladies and
gentlemen, who is capital "S"
00:35:39.27\00:35:43.29
Sun of Righteousness
who has reviving power
00:35:43.32\00:35:47.01
in his
outstretched arms, who is it?
00:35:47.04\00:35:49.55
It is not rocket science,
you don't need NASA for this.
00:35:49.58\00:35:54.79
You know who it is?
00:35:54.82\00:35:55.87
Jot these, jot
it down real quick.
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There's a sequence of verses,
00:35:57.79\00:36:00.33
you just jot down
the missing words.
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In the Gospel
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and again 9:5 of
John, Jesus is quoted
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"I am the" write it in please,
I am the capital L "Light,"
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"I am the Light of the world."
00:36:15.31\00:36:16.60
Jesus' bold claim
in the Gospel of John.
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Paul comes along
couple decades later,
00:36:21.12\00:36:24.64
and Paul scribbles
down 2 Corinthians 4:6.
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Keep your pen
moving. I'm quoting here.
00:36:27.37\00:36:29.00
"God has shone in our
hearts to give the light"
00:36:29.03\00:36:32.81
little "l" light
"of the knowledge
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of the glory to God in
the face of Jesus Christ."
00:36:35.59\00:36:38.91
When the earth is
filled with the glory of God
00:36:38.94\00:36:41.49
where is that
glory gonna come from?
00:36:41.52\00:36:42.72
It has to come from
the face of Jesus Christ.
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Somehow Jesus is critical
to Revelation 18:1 fulfillment.
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One more text,
Revelation Chapter 1,
00:36:53.60\00:36:56.57
last week we
noted this, didn't we?
00:36:56.60\00:36:59.62
Old man John in island of Patmos
00:36:59.65\00:37:02.64
worshiping on the Sabbath,
00:37:02.67\00:37:04.50
and in the
middle of his worship,
00:37:04.53\00:37:06.08
there is this
thunderous explosion
00:37:06.11\00:37:08.76
and John who'll pass out as dead
00:37:08.79\00:37:10.84
before he passes out
catches a glimpse of Christ
00:37:10.87\00:37:14.61
who has personally come
down to be with His friend,
00:37:14.64\00:37:16.47
he catches a glimpse of,
of the ascended Christ face
00:37:16.50\00:37:20.10
and John writes,
fill this in please.
00:37:20.13\00:37:21.96
"And I saw His countenance
and His countenance was like
00:37:21.99\00:37:24.42
the sun S-U-N
shining in its strength."
00:37:24.45\00:37:28.84
By the way the Greek word
strength there is "dunamis"
00:37:28.87\00:37:31.42
from whence comes
our word "dynamite,"
00:37:31.45\00:37:33.32
nuclear,
nuclear power in the sun
00:37:33.35\00:37:36.07
that's what scientist tell us.
00:37:36.10\00:37:37.50
The power of the sun,
00:37:37.53\00:37:39.13
I saw His face
shining like the sun.
00:37:39.16\00:37:41.24
So who is this
Sun of Righteousness
00:37:41.27\00:37:43.29
that will shine upon the earth
00:37:43.32\00:37:44.35
with reviving,
healing, life-giving power
00:37:44.38\00:37:46.71
just before the end of time?
00:37:46.74\00:37:48.33
Answer, fill it
in. The Sun is the Son.
00:37:48.36\00:37:53.13
The Sun is the Son.
00:37:53.16\00:37:57.19
Make sure you
spell them differently.
00:37:57.22\00:38:00.23
According to
Revelation-- keep writing,
00:38:00.26\00:38:01.48
according to Revelation
18:1 and Ezekiel 43:2,
00:38:01.51\00:38:04.88
"It will be the last Sonrise
of God's glory in Christ Jesus
00:38:04.91\00:38:10.50
that will flood the earth even
'as the waters cover the sea.'"
00:38:10.53\00:38:13.60
Habakkuk 2:14. What's the point?
00:38:13.63\00:38:15.58
The point ladies and
gentlemen, Revelation 18:1,
00:38:15.61\00:38:18.44
is in controvertibly
predicting a global revival
00:38:18.47\00:38:21.88
just before the end of the time,
00:38:21.91\00:38:26.67
centered in
Christ Jesus Himself.
00:38:26.70\00:38:31.24
Now can I be a
little bit more personal
00:38:31.27\00:38:32.57
and colloquial
with you right now?
00:38:32.60\00:38:36.98
Not quite 120 years ago,
00:38:37.01\00:38:42.56
two young American men,
00:38:42.59\00:38:45.47
one a physician
named E. J. Waggoner
00:38:45.50\00:38:48.11
and the other a
writer named A.T. Jones,
00:38:48.14\00:38:51.20
discovered in their Bibles
00:38:51.23\00:38:52.47
the glory of the
everlasting gospel.
00:38:52.50\00:38:57.60
Let me share with
you, seven succinct points,
00:38:57.63\00:39:00.78
the glory of the
everlasting gospel,
00:39:00.81\00:39:02.24
you need to keep
your pen moving now.
00:39:02.27\00:39:04.69
Point number one,
what's the everlasting gospel,
00:39:04.72\00:39:06.61
come on Dwight,
pastor what is it?
00:39:06.64\00:39:08.52
Here you go, number one,
00:39:08.55\00:39:10.57
Even the "best" of us
lives with polluted motives,
00:39:10.60\00:39:14.06
self-centered bias
and personal righteousness
00:39:14.09\00:39:16.44
like "filthy rags" Isaiah 64:6.
00:39:16.47\00:39:21.21
The best of us,
00:39:21.24\00:39:22.77
the best we can come
up with is as filthy rags.
00:39:22.80\00:39:26.46
Therefore number two,
00:39:26.49\00:39:27.89
We all "fall short
of the glory of God."
00:39:27.92\00:39:31.37
None of us has that
glory. None, none, none, none.
00:39:31.40\00:39:33.76
We all fall short, Romans 3:23.
00:39:33.79\00:39:36.80
And number three,
00:39:36.83\00:39:37.93
We all deserve to die
eternally, Romans 6:23.
00:39:37.96\00:39:42.80
The wages sin is eternal death.
00:39:42.83\00:39:46.64
But number four,
Because "God so Loved the world"
00:39:46.67\00:39:49.78
of lost sinners, He
sent His only Son to save us.
00:39:49.81\00:39:52.71
Of course you
recognize John 3:16,
00:39:52.74\00:39:54.42
and oh boy do I
love, 1 Timothy 1:15,
00:39:54.45\00:39:57.60
"Christ Jesus came into
the world to save sinners,
00:39:57.63\00:40:00.56
of whom I'm the worst,"
00:40:00.59\00:40:02.26
writes the greatest
saint who ever lived.
00:40:02.29\00:40:04.74
So if you ever meet the
saint who thinks he is a saint,
00:40:04.77\00:40:08.79
trust me he ain't a saint, okay.
00:40:08.82\00:40:16.33
And so number five,
Because God love the world,
00:40:16.36\00:40:19.78
so Jesus, the personification
of the glory of God's
00:40:19.81\00:40:22.81
relentless love
among us, took up the cross
00:40:22.84\00:40:26.51
and there suffered
the death that was ours
00:40:26.54\00:40:30.13
that we might receive
the life that was His.
00:40:30.16\00:40:33.88
Two verse Isaiah 53:6
00:40:33.91\00:40:36.30
and of course, 2
Corinthians 5:21.
00:40:36.33\00:40:40.16
So number six, That
by trusting in Christ
00:40:40.19\00:40:43.02
alone, alone, alone, alone,
00:40:43.05\00:40:46.72
we might exchange our filthy
rags for His spotless robe
00:40:46.75\00:40:50.50
of perfect righteousness,
Romans 4:3 and Isaiah 61:10.
00:40:50.53\00:40:55.30
Finally number seven,
Thus "covered with His life"
00:40:55.33\00:41:00.42
we might humbly walk
with God in this life
00:41:00.45\00:41:03.30
and joyfully dwell with
God in the life to come,
00:41:03.33\00:41:06.46
Revelation 3:20 and 21:3.
00:41:06.49\00:41:09.57
Isn't that amazing?
00:41:09.60\00:41:11.47
His grace still
amazes me, amazing grace.
00:41:11.50\00:41:16.51
It's the everlasting gospel.
00:41:16.54\00:41:19.60
And by the way not
quite 120 years ago a woman,
00:41:19.63\00:41:25.92
who was a Bible student
and Spirit inspired theologian,
00:41:25.95\00:41:31.32
heard the summation of
those two American boys
00:41:31.35\00:41:37.02
and she was
moved nearly to tears
00:41:37.05\00:41:41.82
and she would later write,
00:41:41.85\00:41:43.47
I put the word on
the screen for you.
00:41:43.50\00:41:45.33
"The Lord in His great mercy
sent a most precious message
00:41:45.36\00:41:51.02
to His people
through Waggoner and Jones.
00:41:51.05\00:41:54.27
This message was to
bring more prominently
00:41:54.30\00:41:56.14
before the world
the uplifted Savior,
00:41:56.17\00:41:58.97
the sacrifice for the
sins of the whole world.
00:41:59.00\00:42:02.19
It presented justification,"
what is justification?
00:42:02.22\00:42:04.45
I inserted here "God drops
all charges against human race.
00:42:04.48\00:42:07.79
He drops the charges
that's justification."
00:42:07.82\00:42:09.96
"It presented justification,
through faith in the Surety"
00:42:09.99\00:42:13.07
capital "S" in the one
00:42:13.10\00:42:14.61
we can have
confidence that will be Christ.
00:42:14.64\00:42:16.82
"It invited the
people to receive
00:42:16.85\00:42:18.92
the righteousness of Christ,
00:42:18.95\00:42:20.93
which is made
manifest in obedience
00:42:20.96\00:42:22.65
to all the commandments of God.
00:42:22.68\00:42:25.12
Many had lost sight of Jesus.
00:42:25.15\00:42:27.54
They needed to have their eyes
directed to His divine person,
00:42:27.57\00:42:30.77
His merits, and His changeless
love for the human family."
00:42:30.80\00:42:36.70
Ladies and gentlemen, the
glory of the everlasting gospel,
00:42:36.73\00:42:39.42
I need to tell
you that is the most
00:42:39.45\00:42:40.94
Christ centered message
00:42:40.97\00:42:42.51
ever entrusted to a
community of faith in history
00:42:42.54\00:42:46.27
and that's the gospel truth.
00:42:46.30\00:42:48.73
That's the gospel truth.
00:42:48.76\00:42:52.48
In fact, the same writer
00:42:52.51\00:42:55.16
made this stunning
observation, watch this.
00:42:55.19\00:42:57.56
Now you have this
in your study guide.
00:42:57.59\00:43:01.08
"This is the message that
00:43:01.11\00:43:02.90
God commanded to
be given to the world.
00:43:02.93\00:43:06.12
It is the third angel's message,
00:43:06.15\00:43:07.94
which is to be
proclaimed with a loud voice,
00:43:07.97\00:43:10.51
that's a direct
quotation of Revelation 18:2
00:43:10.54\00:43:14.38
"The Angel that comes
down" in Revelation 18
00:43:14.41\00:43:17.21
that is what happening
here, the writer writes.
00:43:17.24\00:43:21.75
It is the third angel's message,
00:43:21.78\00:43:23.12
which is to be
proclaimed with a loud voice,
00:43:23.15\00:43:25.21
and attended with the outpouring
00:43:25.24\00:43:27.66
of His Spirit in
a large measure."
00:43:27.69\00:43:32.45
Keep your pen moving.
00:43:32.48\00:43:33.65
In other words,
this message of salvation
00:43:33.68\00:43:35.85
and righteousness
through faith in Christ alone
00:43:35.88\00:43:39.20
proclaimed by those two
earnest young men in 1888
00:43:39.23\00:43:41.70
was that 'most precious
message sent by God specifically
00:43:41.73\00:43:45.62
to ignite the final
Christ-centered global revival.
00:43:45.65\00:43:50.23
Write it down "revival."
00:43:50.26\00:43:55.40
Prophesied in Revelation 18:1.
00:43:55.43\00:44:00.36
That's what was to trigger,
00:44:00.39\00:44:04.51
the fulfillment
of Revelation 18:1,
00:44:04.54\00:44:06.34
which being interpreted,
ladies and gentlemen,
00:44:06.37\00:44:07.73
means that the most significant
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and world changing
message ever committed
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to any community
of faith in history,
00:44:11.28\00:44:13.80
has got to be this
one because it is the most
00:44:13.83\00:44:15.85
Christ-centered message
in the history of earth.
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But have we lost
that Christ-centeredness.
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Where come on, where,
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where is our
passion for Jesus anymore?
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Where is that passion?
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Sometime I'm afraid
we don't even get it,
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we don't, we don't get it.
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I want to share
a story with you,
00:44:43.97\00:44:46.48
that I shared with little family
00:44:46.51\00:44:48.17
that was gathering to
celebrating grandmother
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Heise's 100th
birthday, few weeks ago.
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She's a member
in our congregation.
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It's a story
about Roy Whetstine,
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professional jeweler,
gemologist, all right.
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So Whetstine is living
down with his Tucson, Arizona.
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And they are having
this big rock-hound show.
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You know what a
rock-hound is, don't you?
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An amateur rock collector.
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So the professional is walking
through the convention centre,
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he's going, by table, by table
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and he comes a
rock-hound from Idaho.
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Little card table
upfront and on that card table
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is a Tupperware bowl,
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a little piece of
masking tape on the outside
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of the Tupperware bowl says $15.
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So Whetstine the gemologist
dips his trained fingers
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into all that dust and rock
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and feels something a bit
strange and he pulls it out.
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He holds it up in the air,
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it's about the size of a potato,
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it's kind of gray with
little hew of lavender to it.
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And he turns it
before his trained eye
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and then he lowers it
and he looks into the face
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of the rock-hound
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and he says "You
want $15 for this?"
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Rock-hound grabbed that rock,
looked at it for a movement,
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said, "no, no, no,
no, no, no not this one.
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This one has been
here for a long time
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you could have it for 10."
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And Whetstine
reached into his wallet
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dropped a crumple of a
$10 bill and walked away,
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with world's largest
star sapphire ever found,
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1,095 carets.
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The previous record
holder 700 carets less,
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the Black Star from Queensland,
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1948 estimated
value of Whetstine's
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$10 purchase, $ 2.5 million.
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I should have gone
in a rock collecting.
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Ladies and
gentlemen, are we any different
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than that poor
ignorant rock-hound from Idaho
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who had the
fortune of the universe
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in his Tupperware bowl,
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but is living like a pauper
when he is worth a prince?
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I know about this
community of faith that I love.
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I know how we became so enamored
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over our distinctive
theological uniqueness,
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but I am afraid
that in that enamoring
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we have
relegated the star sapphire
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of the Lord Jesus
Christ to the bottom
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of a dusty bowl
of 28 fundamentals,
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it's in the bottom somewhere.
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It's got to be here somewhere.
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It is no wonder, pardon me
for getting excited over this.
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It is no wonder we languish
for the lack of revival.
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For 120 years
we've been entrusted
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with the star
sapphire of all truth,
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but I fear like the Jews,
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who had the
Messiah in their midst
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we're going around
our sacred business,
00:48:05.54\00:48:10.65
without the star sapphire,
and what a tragic mistake.
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Andrew's University and
the Pioneer Memorial Church
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ought to be the
most Christ-centered,
00:48:22.17\00:48:24.86
intellectual and
academic community on earth.
00:48:24.89\00:48:30.25
But, that we might not be,
00:48:30.28\00:48:35.90
would be enough to
break any prophet's heart.
00:48:35.93\00:48:43.58
"After these
things I saw another angel
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coming down from
heaven, having great authority,
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and the earth was
illuminated with his glory."
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My dear friends,
is it not high time
00:48:59.24\00:49:01.71
for the revival of
the last sunrise on earth?
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Is it not high time for
the revival of you and me,
00:49:08.90\00:49:14.75
everyone new
sunrise, making certain that
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we might be alone with
the Sun of Righteousness
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for the quite little
corner, every single day
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the hunger and
thirst for the Lord Jesus?
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I know what you do important.
00:49:31.08\00:49:32.62
I know what you are
studying is second to none.
00:49:32.65\00:49:35.99
But come no guys, if
don't have the star sapphire
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we're zero, we've nothing,
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just a dusty old Tupperware
00:49:44.49\00:49:46.94
bowl of 28 stones.
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I was washing our car
yesterday, late afternoon
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before the
ministry fair the last night
00:50:00.84\00:50:02.29
and just thinking to myself
this is all written by then
00:50:02.32\00:50:05.93
and just kind
of brooding over it
00:50:05.96\00:50:10.41
and realizing, come no, I know,
00:50:10.44\00:50:13.91
there is nothing
a preacher can say
00:50:13.94\00:50:17.70
to awaken a passion
for Jesus in your heart.
00:50:17.73\00:50:19.61
I mean, it is the foolishness
of what gets preached
00:50:19.64\00:50:21.74
and you know what,
it's a-- I know its nothing.
00:50:21.77\00:50:27.23
No preacher can do that to me,
00:50:27.26\00:50:28.69
how could any
preacher do it to you?
00:50:28.72\00:50:32.38
So I'm washing the
fender and just saying God,
00:50:32.41\00:50:36.47
what You are gonna then?
00:50:36.50\00:50:38.53
What will happen to our
little community of faith
00:50:38.56\00:50:42.45
that will create in us
a hunger for Jesus again?
00:50:42.48\00:50:49.12
Pick up that star sapphire
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and realize what
it is, who He is?
00:50:51.18\00:50:55.15
In the John, by the way the John
00:51:04.89\00:51:06.28
who wrote
Revelation 18 is the same John
00:51:06.31\00:51:09.08
who quoted Jesus in John 12,
the Gospel of John Chapter 12
00:51:09.11\00:51:13.70
when Jesus said "And
I, if I be lifted up,
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I will draw all
peoples to Myself."
00:51:19.34\00:51:22.71
You know what folks,
that's our only hope,
00:51:22.74\00:51:27.65
that is our only hope.
00:51:27.68\00:51:29.40
Not for what happens
here on a Sabbath morning,
00:51:29.43\00:51:31.27
come on don't you put
all the eggs in this basket,
00:51:31.30\00:51:33.92
we're dead if you do.
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It has to be what happens
every morning of your life.
00:51:36.12\00:51:40.87
If I am lifted
up in your life boy,
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if I'm lifted up
I'll do the drawing,
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I'll draw you to me first.
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You and I'll be friends
like Abraham and I were.
00:51:47.32\00:51:50.77
I'll draw you to
me. Let me be lifted up.
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You say oh, come on
Dwight, what can I do?
00:51:56.29\00:51:57.48
What can I do, I'm
not theology major,
00:51:57.51\00:51:59.09
I just can't get into this?
00:51:59.12\00:52:00.41
You don't have to get into it.
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Here's all you have to
do, listen very carefully,
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piece of cake one story a day,
00:52:03.54\00:52:07.05
one story from the gospels
of the Lord Jesus Christ,
00:52:07.08\00:52:10.41
Mathew, Mark, Luke
and John, one story a day
00:52:10.44\00:52:13.09
and you meditate on that
story, you just brood over it,
00:52:13.12\00:52:15.66
you read it and
reread it and reread it
00:52:15.69\00:52:17.68
and reread it
and let that story.
00:52:17.71\00:52:19.45
You'll be looking
for the picture of Jesus
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what is this
tell me about Jesus,
00:52:21.04\00:52:22.88
because He said
if I am lifted up
00:52:22.91\00:52:24.03
in your heart boy,
I'll draw you to me,
00:52:24.06\00:52:28.21
and the
earthshine from your life
00:52:28.24\00:52:33.16
will light up this world.
00:52:33.19\00:52:36.32
Come on guys, is that
too hard, one story a day
00:52:36.35\00:52:41.43
from Mathew, Mark,
Luke and John that's it.
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Just one and you meditate on it.
00:52:44.59\00:52:47.80
I'm talking of
professors right now
00:52:47.83\00:52:49.82
who even teach these subjects
00:52:49.85\00:52:52.46
and some struggle to find
even time daily to worship.
00:52:52.49\00:52:58.63
One story a day
just one on Jesus
00:52:58.66\00:53:04.44
and if I be lifted up,
I'll draw all people to Me.
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I'm the Sun of Righteousness,
00:53:09.74\00:53:10.80
when I rise I have
healing in My outstretched arms.
00:53:10.83\00:53:15.67
Do you need healing today?
00:53:15.70\00:53:17.61
You got something deep inside
of you that needs get healed?
00:53:17.64\00:53:21.80
Lift Me up, lift Me up,
00:53:21.83\00:53:25.45
lift Me up, hallelujah.
00:53:25.48\00:53:28.79
Well, I don't have unique
little way to bind this off.
00:53:28.82\00:53:33.75
I just want to tell
you before praying with you
00:53:33.78\00:53:36.90
that I wish with all my
heart that my community of faith
00:53:36.93\00:53:40.79
that I belong to and perhaps
00:53:40.82\00:53:43.11
it's the same one you belong to,
00:53:43.14\00:53:44.62
I wish with all my heart
that the sunrise of Christ
00:53:44.65\00:53:50.57
might take place
again in our midst.
00:53:50.60\00:53:55.85
And the last sunrise
00:53:55.88\00:53:58.22
can set this
earth, ablaze with Christ.
00:53:58.25\00:54:04.33
Oh Jesus,
00:54:04.36\00:54:08.35
You do what you got to do,
00:54:12.82\00:54:15.17
speak to that boy,
speak to that girl,
00:54:15.20\00:54:20.45
speak to that senior citizen,
00:54:20.48\00:54:23.32
speak to that
adult, speak to me.
00:54:23.35\00:54:26.88
Oh Christ,
00:54:26.91\00:54:29.41
what You want?
00:54:29.44\00:54:37.13
And give him and
her and me the grace,
00:54:37.16\00:54:43.52
the grace to have the courage
00:54:43.55\00:54:49.33
to give to you the
time to grow a friendship.
00:54:49.36\00:54:54.93
Three little first graders up
00:54:54.96\00:54:57.11
front teaching
us about friendship,
00:54:57.14\00:55:01.56
spending time with the
one that is Your friend.
00:55:01.59\00:55:06.56
Oh Jesus, please,
00:55:06.59\00:55:09.03
have Your way in all our lives.
00:55:09.06\00:55:14.89
While your head is still bowed
00:55:14.92\00:55:16.73
would you sing it
as a prayer with me?
00:55:16.76\00:55:18.61
Let's sing twice
"Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus."
00:55:18.64\00:55:26.45
"Turn your eyes upon Jesus
00:55:33.07\00:55:40.58
Look full in His wonderful face
00:55:42.53\00:55:49.96
And the things of earth
00:55:52.24\00:55:57.18
Will grow strangely dim
00:55:57.21\00:56:04.15
In the light
00:56:04.18\00:56:07.39
Of His glory and grace
00:56:07.42\00:56:14.60
Turn your eyes upon Jesus
00:56:19.39\00:56:26.45
Look full in His wonderful face
00:56:29.59\00:56:36.80
And the things of earth
00:56:39.72\00:56:44.01
Will grow strangely dim
00:56:44.04\00:56:51.77
In the light
00:56:52.95\00:56:55.67
Of His glory and grace
00:56:55.70\00:57:03.37
Before you go I wanted
to take one more moment
00:57:07.40\00:57:09.35
and let you know
how glad I am you shared
00:57:09.38\00:57:11.23
this hour of worship
and Bible teachings with us.
00:57:11.26\00:57:14.33
Living in the
world that we do now,
00:57:14.36\00:57:15.76
a civilization
surviving on the edge
00:57:15.79\00:57:17.53
of constant upheaval
and change I'm grateful
00:57:17.56\00:57:20.56
that we have the bedrock
hope of Jesus, aren't you?
00:57:20.59\00:57:23.67
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00:57:25.57\00:57:28.05
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