My Jesus, Jesus
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There is none like You.
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There is none like You
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No one else can
touch my heart like You do
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I could search
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I could search
for all eternity long
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And find
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There is none like You
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I could search.
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I could search
for all eternity long
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And find
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There is none like You
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Be Thou my vision
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O Lord of my heart
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Naught be all else
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To me save that Thou art
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Thou my best thought
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By day or by night
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Waking or sleeping
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Thy presence my light
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Be Thou my wisdom
be Thou my true word.
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Be Thou my wisdom
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Be Thou my true word
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I ever with Thee
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And Thou with me, Lord
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Thou my great Father
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I Thy true son
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Thou in me dwelling
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And I with Thee one
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Riches I need
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Not nor man's empty praise
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Thou mine inheritance
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Now and always
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Thou and Thou
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Only first in my heart
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High King of heaven
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My treasure Thou art
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High King of heaven.
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High king of heaven
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My vict'ry is won
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May I reach heaven's joys
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O bright heav'n Sun
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Heart of my own heart
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Whatever befall
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Still be my vision
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O ruler of all
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Still be my vision
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O ruler of all
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Then sings my soul
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My Savior God to Thee
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How great Thou art
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How great Thou art
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Then sings my soul
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My Savior God to Thee
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How great Thou art
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How great Thou art
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You dance over me
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While I am unaware
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And You sing all around
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But I never hear the sound
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Lord, I'm amazed by You
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Lord, I'm amazed by You
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Lord, I'm amazed by You
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How You love me
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Let's try that again.
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You dance over me
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While I am unaware
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And You sing all around
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But I never hear the sound
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Lord, I'm amazed.
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Lord, I'm amazed by You
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Lord, I'm amazed
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Lord, I'm amazed by You
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Lord, I'm amazed by You
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How You love me
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This one you can
all sing with us.
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It goes How wide, How deep,
How great is Your love for me.
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How wide
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How deep
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How great
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Is Your love for me
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Let's try that again. How wide.
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How wide
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How deep
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How great
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Is Your love for me
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Come on sing it now.
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How wide
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How deep
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How great
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Is Your love for me
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Lord, I'm amazed by You
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Lord, I'm amazed.
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Lord, I'm amazed by You
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Lord, I'm amazed by You
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How You love me
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Lord
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Lord, I'm amazed by You
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Lord, I'm amazed by You
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Lord, I'm amazed by You
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How You love me
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Lord, I'm amazed by You
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Lord, I'm amazed by You
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Lord, I'm amazed by You
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How You love me
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Holy Father, we're amazed.
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Why would You choose anybody,
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why would You
choose anyone at all,
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but You have.
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Choose a whole planet to save.
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Lord, we're amazed by You.
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This is Your house,
You've been here waiting,
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counting the moments
still we come right back in.
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We sense You here
that's why the spirit
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has drawn our hearts out
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and we have lifted ourselves up.
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Oh, if we could
just touch Your throne.
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Don't stop dear
Father, what You're doing.
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Don't let this human instrument
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get in Your way,
please I beg of You.
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You have a crucial
teaching to bring to us today,
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may Holy Scripture be clear.
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You know my Father, when,
when we hear what we hear.
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Show us how to go about
making it real in this place,
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on this campus for this time,
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we pray in Christ's name, amen.
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Amen.
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Thank you,
Andrew. Thank you, J.C.
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Our new husband and
wife team, glad to have them.
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For the sake of
illustration let's just pretend
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for a moment
that you are the head
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of a juvenile detention center.
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You know what
those are, don't you?
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Of course you do.
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It's a lockdown facility
where incorrigible kids,
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teens, younger, the
courts just say listen
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mom and dad can't handle
it, the town can't handle it,
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we turning these kids
over to the state or the county
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and bring them
back into productivity,
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make them good citizens again.
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As it so happens we have
a juvenile detention center
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just outside the village here
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and a friend of
mine Terry Martinek
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is the
administrator of that center.
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Let's say you are.
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Now you're the
leader, what is your mission
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as the leader of the
juvenile detention center
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what do you got to do?
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This isn't
rocket science, folks.
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You know that somehow
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you have to
find a way to connect
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with that big center
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filled with the
rudely and rebellious kids.
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Somehow you've got to transform,
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now you're the one,
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we're looking to
you to transform this,
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all these inmates into
productive citizens again.
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So what do you do?
What's the number one strategy?
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You know if you're
a leader you know--
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And by the way
whether you're working
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with a peaceful
group or rebellious group
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the strategy is
always the same in leading
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you have to get close
to someone in that group,
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isn't that true?
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You got to get close to someone,
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one of those boys,
one of those girls,
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one of the teens, you
got to win her competence,
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you have to--
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you have to engage
his loyalty and then--
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because what's
the strategy simple,
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through the one you know
you must reach the whole.
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You have to have one.
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Impossible, if you
set out to reach that
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whole room of screaming mimi's
you will never reach the room,
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you got to find one.
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How do you know if
you got the right one?
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I don't know.
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Something in his eyes.
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Now boys, listen to
me something in the way
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the girl really
does listen to you,
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the whole is mayhem
but she is tuning you in
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and she's holding on to you
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and you're saying
that may be the one.
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So you stop by his room
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and just a
little extra chit-chat.
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You stop by the
table where she's eating,
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you want to begin to build that
confidence engage that loyalty.
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Now I want to
ask you a question.
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Are you playing favorites
right now with that one?
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Are you playing favorites?
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No, you are not. You are not.
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You're simply using that one,
you've got to get close to one
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and so you've
picked one through whom,
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you wish to reach the
whole, isn't that right?
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Absolutely, that's how
juvenile detention centers work.
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Once upon a time there was
a juvenile detention center
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called planet Earth and
it had a leader name God
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and He said how am I get these
boys and girls into my heart?
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I'll find one of
them, that's what I'll do.
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And when He found that
one He called them the chosen.
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Open your Bible with me please
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as we continue our series
thinking, wrestling together.
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What does it
mean to be the chosen?
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Open your Bible, to
the Bible's fifth book,
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this is our theme book.
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Third time now
we've come back to it.
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Book of Deuteronomy,
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the mighty climax
to the Pentateuch.
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It's first five books to
the Bible that Moses wrote.
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We come now to
back to Deuteronomy.
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Now I'm just
guessing we probably picked up
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a few of you worshipers
who haven't been here before
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and so as you're finding
Deuteronomy Chapter 7 go ahead
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and find Deuteronomy
Chapter 7, I need to remind you
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and in case you're new
this is a farewell address.
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It's a longest farewell
address in literature anywhere.
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This man 120
years old has been track
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in this crowd for 40 years,
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40 long burning bitter
years in the wilderness.
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Why's it taking 40
because they maybe waiting
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for mom and dad to die,
get mom and dad out of here
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that generation
rejected me God said
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I will not take them
into the Promise Land
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I'll take the
boys and girls instead.
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Let the babies grow up
and Moses you stay with them.
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You, Caleb and Joshua
are older than the rest,
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I keep the three of
you the rest will be buried
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and until they're
buried we're not going over.
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Took 40 years to
burry an entire generation
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sometimes got asked to give
up on a generation is that just,
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this generation
is not gonna cut it,
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but I'll take the kids.
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This is the farewell address.
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Why is it a farewell
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because just a few days
earlier the leader blew it.
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He let God down in
a major public way.
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And I said it twice before,
I'm gonna say it one more time,
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when you're a leader
the bar is higher for you.
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You can't get by
with the bar down here
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God expects of leaders
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a higher, a higher
loyalty an allegiance.
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And Moses blew it and
God said I'm awfully sorry
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my dear, dear friend, you
are gonna die on that mountain,
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the kids will
cross over without you.
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So this is the farewell address.
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Deuteronomy Chapter 7,
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we've been to these words
before but I got to go back.
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I'm thinking
juvenile detention center now.
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I'm thinking the metaphor.
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Can I understand why
God has chosen at all?
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What does He have the
chosen on this planet?
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Deuteronomy 7:6, by the way
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if you didn't bring a Bible
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grab the pew Bible its page 128.
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You got to follow this
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and we're going to
get out this passage
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into some other reaches
00:19:24.72\00:19:26.46
of Deuteronomy in just a moment.
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So have that Bible ready to go.
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Deuteronomy 7:6,
New King James Version,
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Moses thundering to the people.
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"For you are a holy
people to the Lord your God,
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the Lord your God has chosen
you to be a people for Himself,
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a special treasure
above all the peoples
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on the face of the earth."
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I want to tell you
something Moses said,
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God look down onto--
one day on to this locked
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down planet of a
juvenile detention center,
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saw all these rebels
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and He pick one
of them and use it.
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You're the one He chose.
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By the way did you get chosen
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because there's something
physically superior about you?
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Did you get chosen
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because there's
some financially,
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you're cut above intellectually
are you a cut above?
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Nope, Moses goes on verse 7
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"The Lord did not set is
love on you nor choose you
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because you were more
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in number than any other people,
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for you were the
least of all the peoples."
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You're the least.
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And by the way that is
true, not only numerically,
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not only where they
the least in number,
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they were the
least morally, morally.
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Watch this, so keep
your figure right there
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go to pages over to
Deuteronomy Chapter 9,
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look at Deuteronomy
Chapter 9 Moses is--
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they might not have
caught it at the first time it,
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so he repeats his
point Deuteronomy 9:6
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"Therefore understand
that the Lord your God
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is not giving you
this good land to possess
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because of your righteousness,
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for you are a
stiff-necked people."
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Have you ever woken up
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in the morning
with a stiff neck?
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It is a real pain.
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Moses is thundering,
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you're a pain in
that neck to God.
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You're rebellious,
00:21:09.59\00:21:10.70
you're stubborn,
you're incorrigible.
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The point God is not chosen
you because you are a superstar.
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God does not choose superstars.
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That point is so critical,
00:21:24.27\00:21:25.41
I wish to grab your
study guide right now,
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it's in your worship bulletin,
pull it out write it down.
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God does not choose superstars.
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See that study guide?
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Pull it out ushers, thank you.
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Right now let's get these--
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There have to be
a few people in here
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who got in without
getting a study guide.
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Hold your hand up,
00:21:40.80\00:21:41.88
I want to make
sure everybody gets one.
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There is a stunning
quotation that you'll take home
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if you get the
study guide today.
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Hold your hand up and
while they are doing that
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in the balcony in here,
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I want to say to
those of you watching on TV
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we're delighted to have you.
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You can get the same study guide
00:21:54.40\00:21:55.88
just go to our website let
me put it on the screen for you.
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There it is www.pmchurch.tv.
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You're looking for
the series "The Chosen."
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When you see the--
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you'll see what's
on the screen right now
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that the red cue ball surrounded
00:22:07.26\00:22:08.98
by the white cue balls.
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That's the logo go there,
this is teaching number three
00:22:10.90\00:22:13.76
and it's in
titled "Not a Big Head,
00:22:13.79\00:22:15.50
but a Big Heart."
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Then it will say study
guide, you click on right there,
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you'll have the identical
study guide that we have.
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What's going on in this series
that's a brand new series?
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We're trying to
make the case that
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God has always had it chosen.
00:22:25.36\00:22:27.07
Last Sabbath, if you
are not here last Sabbath,
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last week's teaching may ended
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being the most critical
one in this entire series
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because we noted
that God at the beginning
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a sacred history
He had a movement
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and we noted 15
stunning parallels to a movement
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God will have at the
end of sacred history.
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Fifteen
parallels that link the--
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the divine strategy together.
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You don't have it that website
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you just on the
screen you go to that,
00:22:52.51\00:22:54.80
get a podcast I
was calling somebody
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in an office this last week
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and they say I just
downloaded the podcast
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I'm listening to it right now.
00:23:00.27\00:23:02.24
So you can get the podcast
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in your own leisure, you listen.
00:23:03.50\00:23:06.27
The point is we need to build
a case this morning part three.
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We need to build a
case this morning that
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when God calls the chosen
it's not a call to exclusivity,
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it's a call to inclusivity.
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It's a call to be
inclusive rather than exclusive.
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All right, let's
go, fill it out please
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study guide point number one,
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God's chosen ones
are not superstars.
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Then what are they?
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Keep writing,
they are super loved.
00:23:27.40\00:23:30.51
We just going to word
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you and I together
they are super loved.
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That's point
God's making through
00:23:35.54\00:23:37.12
Moses right here verse 8.
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Okay why did you get chosen?
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Because we're the
least. Why did you get chosen?
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Moses goes on in verse 8
"Because the Lord loves you."
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That's it hit the
pause button right there.
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You know, I was
taking a class year ago
00:23:51.42\00:23:53.17
in a theological seminary here
00:23:53.20\00:23:55.10
at a professor
here brilliant mind,
00:23:55.13\00:23:57.37
his name was Gerhard Housel.
00:23:57.40\00:23:59.14
And he was making
the point to the class.
00:23:59.17\00:24:01.01
He said, hey, guys, I
want to tell you something.
00:24:01.04\00:24:02.56
You don't know this
but the Book at Deuteronomy
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is an epistle of love
00:24:04.65\00:24:06.19
and I had to
myself, yeah, right.
00:24:06.22\00:24:08.32
I have read Deuteronomy
it is not an epistle of love.
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Just this last week years later,
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I said, okay I'm gonna count
the Hebrew word for love their,
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25 times in this
book the only other book
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that has more references to love
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is that would be the Psalm's.
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It is an epistle of love.
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And in fact the Hebrew
word right here is ahab.
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It's the identical word that
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Moses the author of Genesis used
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when he wrote the love
story of Jacob and Rachel.
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You remember that love story?
00:24:37.89\00:24:39.04
So smitten is that boy
with that beautiful girl,
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that what does he do?
00:24:41.24\00:24:42.30
He says, I will
work seven long years
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to win your hand in marriage.
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True or false?
00:24:47.17\00:24:48.55
But of course Moses says,
00:24:48.58\00:24:50.38
hey, I'm telling you
that for 40 long years
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God has been tracking you
00:24:53.97\00:24:55.47
through these
burning sands desperate
00:24:55.50\00:24:57.97
to win your hand in
marriage, 40 years that's seven,
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40 years you been
chosen because He loves you.
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You know what
folks, I tell you what,
00:25:08.08\00:25:09.43
any God who would love
the likes of you and me
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and spent 40 years
trying to prove it to us
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there's only one way to
describe a love like that
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one word G-R-A-C-E,
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grace, grace.
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We buried this last week,
00:25:25.82\00:25:27.85
an old warhorse of a pastor
and preacher, 92-years-old,
00:25:27.88\00:25:32.03
my friend George Renton
had his funeral right here.
00:25:32.06\00:25:35.47
So I'm sitting up here
get ready for the humbly,
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the family is chosen.
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I've heard this hymn--
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I've heard this
hymn a thousand times
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but they invited Karen
Randol to bring her violin
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and in the plaintive melody
of Amazing Grace sitting here
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on the platform
this last Wednesday.
00:25:49.62\00:25:53.19
I look down at
Pastor George's casket
00:25:53.22\00:25:56.58
and I thought to
myself you know what--
00:25:56.61\00:25:58.66
you know what
whether you are a preacher,
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a pastor or a parishioner,
the fact of the matter is that
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when it comes time to cross over
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it'll always be
because of grace.
00:26:07.71\00:26:12.09
Moses says, hey, I
telling you what, guys,
00:26:12.12\00:26:13.57
you are super loved.
00:26:13.60\00:26:15.70
You're not
superstars or nothing about you
00:26:15.73\00:26:17.80
that would make
God want to choose you.
00:26:17.83\00:26:19.10
Nobody else
thought about choosing you.
00:26:19.13\00:26:20.61
But God loved you
just like Jacob love Rachel
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and He chose you.
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And in fact, Moses
is on to this love theme
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you need to drop down to verse--
00:26:28.15\00:26:30.49
this is chapter 7
drop down to verse 13,
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keeps the love theme going.
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And by the way future tense now
00:26:34.94\00:26:36.95
God will keep on
loving you verse 13
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"And He will love
you and bless you"
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the chosen "and multiply you,
00:26:41.19\00:26:43.16
He will also bless
the fruit of your womb
00:26:43.19\00:26:45.20
and the fruit of your land,
00:26:45.23\00:26:46.30
your grain and your
new wine and your oil,
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and the increase of your cattle
and the offspring of your flock
00:26:48.30\00:26:50.60
in the land of which He swore
to your fathers to give you."
00:26:50.63\00:26:52.96
Verse 14, hold on now,
00:26:52.99\00:26:54.76
"You shall be
blessed above all peoples"
00:26:54.79\00:26:58.76
wow "there shall
not be a male or female
00:26:58.79\00:27:01.21
barren among you or
among your livestock."
00:27:01.24\00:27:03.32
And get this verse 15
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"And the Lord will take
away from you all sickness,
00:27:04.80\00:27:07.80
and will afflict
you with none other
00:27:07.83\00:27:09.75
terrible diseases of
Egypt which you have known,"
00:27:09.78\00:27:12.81
have mercy what's going on?
00:27:12.84\00:27:15.45
You know what's going
on, ladies and gentlemen?
00:27:15.48\00:27:17.49
God is saying,
I am going to make
00:27:17.52\00:27:20.11
Israel a showcase to the world.
00:27:20.14\00:27:25.51
They're gonna be tell--
00:27:25.54\00:27:26.58
they're gonna be able to tell it
00:27:26.61\00:27:27.67
by looking at you physically,
00:27:27.70\00:27:29.04
they're gonna be able to tell it
00:27:29.07\00:27:30.39
by studying you
mentally and intellectually,
00:27:30.42\00:27:33.03
they're gonna
study you agriculturally,
00:27:33.06\00:27:34.85
you are gonna come out on top
over and over and over again.
00:27:34.88\00:27:40.34
You the chosen,
I want this for you
00:27:40.37\00:27:44.69
above all people on this planet.
00:27:44.72\00:27:50.18
Why this amazing grace,
this amazing love for Israel?
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I tell you why?
00:27:53.70\00:27:54.80
Moses drops the hints all
the way through Deuteronomy.
00:27:54.83\00:27:57.39
In fact, if you want to go back
00:27:57.42\00:27:58.45
to chapter 4, the hint--
00:27:58.48\00:28:00.88
this is a huge
hint watch this one.
00:28:00.91\00:28:03.38
Just go back a three
chapters Deuteronomy Chapter 4,
00:28:03.41\00:28:06.07
pick it up, please in
verse 5 Deuteronomy 4:5
00:28:06.10\00:28:10.63
Moses speaking,
"Surely I have taught you
00:28:10.66\00:28:12.69
statutes and judgments,
00:28:12.72\00:28:15.39
just as the Lord
my God commanded me,
00:28:15.42\00:28:17.81
that you should act
according to them in the land
00:28:17.84\00:28:19.93
which you go to possess."
00:28:19.96\00:28:21.07
We weren't just
having a little tete a tete
00:28:21.10\00:28:23.04
on top of Mount Sinai.
00:28:23.07\00:28:24.34
Everything that came
down from that mountain
00:28:24.37\00:28:26.04
has been designing for you.
00:28:26.07\00:28:29.15
What's up with
that look at verse 6
00:28:29.18\00:28:30.61
"Therefore" Moses goes on
"Be careful to observe them,"
00:28:30.64\00:28:33.73
the laws, code of ethics,
the code of behavior, the diet,
00:28:33.76\00:28:38.56
"Be careful to observe
them, for this is your wisdom
00:28:38.59\00:28:43.04
and your understanding
in the sight of the peoples
00:28:43.07\00:28:45.13
who will hear
all these statutes,
00:28:45.16\00:28:46.54
and they are gonna say,"
00:28:46.57\00:28:47.66
wow "'Surely this
great nation is a wise
00:28:47.69\00:28:50.22
and understanding people.'"
00:28:50.25\00:28:52.42
Verse 7, "For what
great nation is there
00:28:52.45\00:28:55.38
that has God so near to it,
as the Lord our God is to us,
00:28:55.41\00:28:59.00
for whatever reason
we may call upon Him?"
00:28:59.03\00:29:01.65
The NIV says "What
great nation is there like us
00:29:01.68\00:29:04.24
having a God so close to us
00:29:04.27\00:29:05.67
whenever we pray
He's close to us."
00:29:05.70\00:29:08.62
And then verse 8
00:29:08.65\00:29:09.68
"And what great nation is
there that has such statutes,"
00:29:09.71\00:29:13.53
man whatever the code is that
00:29:13.56\00:29:15.40
these guys live
by it is paying off.
00:29:15.43\00:29:18.11
"What nation is that
they have such statutes
00:29:18.14\00:29:22.07
and righteous judgments
as our in all this law"
00:29:22.10\00:29:25.27
the torah "which I have
set before you this day?"
00:29:25.30\00:29:29.53
Ladies and
gentlemen, mark it down
00:29:29.56\00:29:30.76
this is the first
clue, justice remember this.
00:29:30.79\00:29:33.14
This is the first
clue that when God chooses
00:29:33.17\00:29:35.30
you are chosen for your worth
you are chosen for His work.
00:29:35.33\00:29:39.29
And what is His work?
00:29:39.32\00:29:41.08
God is crystal clear, to
reach the rest at the kids
00:29:41.11\00:29:44.26
in the juvenile
detention center.
00:29:44.29\00:29:46.46
I picked you out
because I need you to help Me
00:29:46.49\00:29:49.10
reach all the rest for
Me so I'm gonna bless you.
00:29:49.13\00:29:54.30
I'm gonna bless you physically,
00:29:54.33\00:29:55.52
mentally,
financially, institutionally.
00:29:55.55\00:29:57.73
I'm gonna bless you so big
00:29:57.76\00:30:00.60
that when they hear
your story they're gonna say,
00:30:00.63\00:30:02.54
wow, who is the
God of this people?
00:30:02.57\00:30:07.29
What is up with
that? They'll say.
00:30:07.32\00:30:14.05
The point is
inescapable, please jot it down.
00:30:14.08\00:30:17.56
When God chooses the chosen,
00:30:17.59\00:30:20.13
they are not
chosen for their worth,
00:30:20.16\00:30:22.58
they are chosen for His work.
00:30:22.61\00:30:25.72
And there's a big difference.
00:30:25.75\00:30:27.76
God doesn't choose superstars,
He chooses the super loved.
00:30:27.79\00:30:32.15
All right, one more
Deuteronomy reference, 28,
00:30:32.18\00:30:34.91
okay, the farewell
address is nearing its end.
00:30:34.94\00:30:37.59
I think when the series ends
00:30:37.62\00:30:38.68
we'll go up
Mount Nebo with Moses,
00:30:38.71\00:30:40.51
we kind a let this
poignant moment not pass us.
00:30:40.54\00:30:43.65
We got to be with
Moses when he dies alone.
00:30:43.68\00:30:47.47
But not now Deuteronomy 28,
00:30:47.50\00:30:49.72
Deuteronomy 28,
take a look at this.
00:30:49.75\00:30:52.69
Boy, is God continue
to make his case or what?
00:30:52.72\00:30:55.37
Verse 1,
00:30:55.40\00:30:57.15
"Now it should come to pass,
00:30:57.18\00:30:58.97
if you diligently obey the
voice of the Lord your God,
00:30:59.00\00:31:01.78
to observe
carefully all His commandments
00:31:01.81\00:31:04.04
which I command you today,
00:31:04.07\00:31:05.75
that the Lord your God
will set you high above
00:31:05.78\00:31:08.68
all nations of the earth."
00:31:08.71\00:31:12.02
Verse 2 "And all these blessings
00:31:12.05\00:31:13.70
shall come upon
you and overtake you,
00:31:13.73\00:31:15.62
because you obey the
voice of the Lord your God."
00:31:15.65\00:31:18.46
And then he start listening--
listing those blessings
00:31:18.49\00:31:20.69
all over again with your cattle,
00:31:20.72\00:31:21.90
with your
livestock, with your produce,
00:31:21.93\00:31:23.36
with your wife,
with your husband,
00:31:23.39\00:31:24.48
with your children,
00:31:24.51\00:31:25.54
the whole land
is gonna be blessed.
00:31:25.57\00:31:27.62
What's up?
00:31:27.65\00:31:29.00
Look dropdown to verse 10, then,
00:31:29.03\00:31:31.56
"Then all peoples
of the earth shall see
00:31:31.59\00:31:35.81
that you are called
by the name of the Lord,
00:31:35.84\00:31:38.89
and they shall
be afraid of you."
00:31:38.92\00:31:42.96
And verse 13 "The
Lord will make you
00:31:42.99\00:31:44.83
the head and not the tail,
00:31:44.86\00:31:45.98
you should be above
only, and not beneath."
00:31:46.01\00:31:48.44
You won't be second,
you'll not be second.
00:31:48.47\00:31:50.58
I'm gonna make you first.
00:31:50.61\00:31:53.48
If, oh, here's the
caviar, here is the--
00:31:53.51\00:31:56.83
here is the
conditional statement
00:31:56.86\00:31:58.37
"If you heed the commandments
of the Lord your God,
00:31:58.40\00:32:01.71
which I command you today,
00:32:01.74\00:32:03.28
and you are
careful to observe them."
00:32:03.31\00:32:05.32
Ladies and
gentlemen, mark it down again
00:32:05.35\00:32:06.97
please in your heart
God is not playing favorites
00:32:07.00\00:32:09.92
by pouring out His blessings.
00:32:09.95\00:32:11.90
He is setting up
the most attractive
00:32:11.93\00:32:13.48
and appealing showcase on earth.
00:32:13.51\00:32:15.29
And verse 10 that ends here
00:32:15.32\00:32:17.07
"And they should
be afraid of you."
00:32:17.10\00:32:18.17
I love the New Living it says
they will stand in all of you.
00:32:18.20\00:32:22.72
They stand in all of you.
00:32:22.75\00:32:25.23
What is up with that campus?
00:32:25.26\00:32:28.74
What is up with that university?
00:32:28.77\00:32:32.76
But that people.
00:32:32.79\00:32:37.18
How does the law
00:32:37.21\00:32:38.27
of the juvenile
detention center go?
00:32:38.30\00:32:40.11
Now you write it,
00:32:40.14\00:32:41.17
we left that out the
top your study guide.
00:32:41.20\00:32:43.09
Now you go back to the
top, please write it down
00:32:43.12\00:32:44.87
the law the
juvenile detention center.
00:32:44.90\00:32:46.44
You must focus
your heart on one,
00:32:46.47\00:32:49.38
so that you might
win the hearts of all.
00:32:49.41\00:32:52.77
That's the divine strategy.
00:32:52.80\00:32:55.64
Focus on one to win
them all, to win them all.
00:32:55.67\00:33:00.38
You got to win
that one teenager,
00:33:00.41\00:33:02.63
win the trust, little
rebel win the loyalty,
00:33:02.66\00:33:06.62
turn that heart around,
turn that heart to love you
00:33:06.65\00:33:10.25
and once you've got that
friendship now infiltrate,
00:33:10.28\00:33:15.79
get the rest of the kids for Me.
00:33:15.82\00:33:19.38
You see, a call
because you're worth it.
00:33:19.41\00:33:22.71
It's a call because of His work.
00:33:22.74\00:33:25.30
Yeah, when God
chooses the chosen,
00:33:25.33\00:33:28.21
yup, not for the
worst, but for their work.
00:33:28.24\00:33:31.20
Derek Kinder, a friend of
mine, he gave me the two-volume,
00:33:31.23\00:33:34.52
it's just a inspirational
two-volume commentary
00:33:34.55\00:33:37.08
of the songs, Derek
Kinder, and he makes this point.
00:33:37.11\00:33:40.16
I put it on the screen for you,
00:33:40.19\00:33:41.23
it's not on the study guide
00:33:41.26\00:33:42.36
but I put it on
the screen for you.
00:33:42.39\00:33:43.74
"God's little
nation was His beachhead,
00:33:43.77\00:33:47.14
not His boundary."
00:33:47.17\00:33:49.85
Isn't that good?
Leave it on the screen.
00:33:49.88\00:33:51.89
leave it on the screen
because you have to look at it.
00:33:51.92\00:33:53.84
God's little
nation was His beachhead,
00:33:53.87\00:33:58.31
and not His Boundary.
00:33:58.34\00:33:59.81
You know what a beachhead is?
00:33:59.84\00:34:01.99
When a war over
in Iraq right now
00:34:02.02\00:34:03.27
I got a son-in-law
living in Baghdad right now.
00:34:03.30\00:34:05.39
He is a medic
with US Army Rangers.
00:34:05.42\00:34:06.68
What's the beachhead?
00:34:06.71\00:34:07.75
A beachhead is
when the troops go in
00:34:07.78\00:34:09.04
and they establish a presence.
00:34:09.07\00:34:10.92
What's the
purpose of the presence?
00:34:10.95\00:34:12.00
So you can continue to expand.
00:34:12.03\00:34:13.89
You don't put your
boundary there the beachhead
00:34:13.92\00:34:15.90
is your first step to
taking the entire whole.
00:34:15.93\00:34:20.23
So Israel isn't God's
bound, this far this--
00:34:20.26\00:34:22.03
These are all the people
on this planet I care about.
00:34:22.06\00:34:23.67
Are you kidding?
00:34:23.70\00:34:24.75
It's a beachhead in
this detention center
00:34:24.78\00:34:26.77
and now I'm going for the rest.
00:34:26.80\00:34:28.97
All right that's
the calling of Israel.
00:34:29.00\00:34:32.05
Case and point, let me share
00:34:32.08\00:34:33.11
and now let's take a
little breather here.
00:34:33.14\00:34:34.48
Let me share a couple
stories with you to prove that,
00:34:34.51\00:34:38.38
that in fact has been God's
strategy from the beginning.
00:34:38.41\00:34:40.49
Tell me who the wisest man
00:34:40.52\00:34:42.91
in the whole world
is outside your father?
00:34:42.94\00:34:45.65
Who's the wisest
man in the whole world?
00:34:45.68\00:34:47.66
What's his name?
00:34:47.69\00:34:49.84
King Solomon, everybody
knows the story of King Solomon.
00:34:49.87\00:34:52.91
You think about King Solomon?
00:34:52.94\00:34:55.85
This is a little
reality check time by the way.
00:34:55.88\00:34:58.43
Was Solomon old man
00:34:58.46\00:35:00.13
when he became
wise or was he young?
00:35:00.16\00:35:05.17
Young, you're absolutely right.
00:35:05.20\00:35:06.90
He was a very
young man that night
00:35:06.93\00:35:08.88
when guy came to the newly
coordinated king in a dream
00:35:08.91\00:35:11.44
and asked him what
do you want from Me?
00:35:11.47\00:35:13.77
You're starting
your leadership here,
00:35:13.80\00:35:15.33
what do you want from Me?
00:35:15.36\00:35:17.40
And you know what
Solomon says to Him?
00:35:17.43\00:35:19.41
He said, I'm but a
child, I'm just a baby.
00:35:19.44\00:35:22.64
I can't-- I don't
know about going out,
00:35:22.67\00:35:23.84
I don't know about coming in,
00:35:23.87\00:35:25.08
but I have this
one request of You,
00:35:25.11\00:35:26.95
oh, God, I wish
that you would give me
00:35:26.98\00:35:28.75
an understanding
heart that I might discern
00:35:28.78\00:35:31.22
the difference
between good and evil.
00:35:31.25\00:35:32.88
Help me to know the difference.
00:35:32.91\00:35:35.26
That's why we need leaders.
00:35:35.29\00:35:36.72
Leaders are supposed to know
00:35:36.75\00:35:38.06
the difference
between good and evil.
00:35:38.09\00:35:39.69
When a leader is not sure
00:35:39.72\00:35:41.04
of the difference
between good and evil,
00:35:41.07\00:35:42.73
the community then
begins to flounder.
00:35:42.76\00:35:45.43
The leader must
know the difference.
00:35:45.46\00:35:47.26
God give me a heart to know
00:35:47.29\00:35:49.88
the difference
between good and evil.
00:35:49.91\00:35:53.33
And God is so
pleased with this kid,
00:35:53.36\00:35:56.26
whose asked for wisdom,
00:35:56.29\00:35:57.49
that God says,
you know what boy,
00:35:57.52\00:35:58.95
I'm not only
gonna give you wisdom,
00:35:58.98\00:36:00.11
I'm gonna give your riches,
00:36:00.14\00:36:01.17
I'm gonna give you a long
life, I'm just gonna bless you.
00:36:01.20\00:36:09.15
And what happens?
00:36:09.18\00:36:10.59
You got to see
this in your Bible.
00:36:10.62\00:36:11.78
Don't read it on the screen,
find it in your Bible, 1 Kings.
00:36:11.81\00:36:14.63
Look at the story of Solomon's
reign as it begins, 1 Kings.
00:36:14.66\00:36:18.72
I know the story ends tragically
00:36:18.75\00:36:20.39
but forget the ending.
00:36:20.42\00:36:21.53
1 Kings Chapter 4, we're
thinking about the beginning.
00:36:21.56\00:36:24.60
When he got it
right 1 Kings Chapter 4,
00:36:24.63\00:36:27.81
what's that page number?
00:36:27.84\00:36:28.93
1 Kings Chapter 4, its
page 235 in your pew Bible,
00:36:28.96\00:36:33.63
1 Kings Chapter 4.
00:36:33.66\00:36:37.62
Okay, take a look
at this 1 Kings 4:30
00:36:37.65\00:36:43.78
"Thus Solomon's wisdom excelled
00:36:43.81\00:36:46.33
the wisdom of all
the men of the East."
00:36:46.36\00:36:48.92
Remember the Magi, the
wise men from the East.
00:36:48.95\00:36:50.84
They are noted on
earth for their brilliance,
00:36:50.87\00:36:53.66
their intellectual acuity.
00:36:53.69\00:36:56.49
"Solomon's wisdom
exceeded all the wisdom
00:36:56.52\00:36:58.16
the men to the east
and all the wisdom Egypt."
00:36:58.19\00:37:00.58
Drop down to verse 32
00:37:00.61\00:37:01.80
"Solomon spoke
three thousand proverbs,
00:37:01.83\00:37:03.92
and his songs were
one thousand and five."
00:37:03.95\00:37:06.09
verse 34 "And
men of all nations,
00:37:06.12\00:37:09.07
from all the kings of the earth
who had heard of his wisdom,
00:37:09.10\00:37:12.27
came to hear the
wisdom of Solomon."
00:37:12.30\00:37:15.81
Boy, I'm gonna bless you so good
00:37:15.84\00:37:19.37
that when a word gets
out there gonna come to you.
00:37:19.40\00:37:22.45
Just remember what to
do when they come to you.
00:37:22.48\00:37:27.43
And all the men it says came,
00:37:27.46\00:37:28.53
and by the way
the women came too.
00:37:28.56\00:37:31.06
A woman in particular.
00:37:31.09\00:37:32.13
Go over here to chapter
10 she's the Queen of Sheba.
00:37:32.16\00:37:34.78
Go over to 1 Kings
Chapter 10, a woman came too.
00:37:34.81\00:37:39.71
Because the word had gone
00:37:39.74\00:37:40.84
all the way down
to the Gulf of Aqaba,
00:37:40.87\00:37:42.71
gotten all the way
down to little Edom,
00:37:42.74\00:37:44.75
I been there as a boy,
tiny little desert Kingdom.
00:37:44.78\00:37:49.91
Verse 10-- this is
verse 1 of 1 Kings 10
00:37:49.94\00:37:52.91
"Now when the queen
00:37:52.94\00:37:54.13
of Sheba heard of
the fame of Solomon"
00:37:54.16\00:37:58.48
and notice this
"Concerning the name of" whom?
00:37:58.51\00:38:01.40
Is it concerning
the name of Solomon?
00:38:01.43\00:38:02.47
No.
00:38:02.50\00:38:03.61
Concerning the tribe of
David-- the literature of David?
00:38:03.64\00:38:04.96
No.
00:38:04.99\00:38:06.07
"Concerning the
name of the Lord."
00:38:06.10\00:38:07.13
I heard about you
00:38:07.16\00:38:08.21
but I heard about
the name of your God.
00:38:08.24\00:38:10.01
When she "heard
the famous Solomon
00:38:10.04\00:38:11.57
concerning the name of the Lord,
00:38:11.60\00:38:12.75
she came to test him."
00:38:12.78\00:38:14.40
I wonder if this university
00:38:14.43\00:38:15.96
is really as bright as they say.
00:38:15.99\00:38:18.82
I'm gonna test you.
00:38:18.85\00:38:20.33
Verse 3 "And so Solomon
answered her all her questions,
00:38:20.36\00:38:24.90
there was nothing so
difficult for the king
00:38:24.93\00:38:26.85
that he could not
explain it to her."
00:38:26.88\00:38:29.01
I'd like to have
that on your transcript.
00:38:29.04\00:38:32.06
Verse 10, no verse 9 rather.
00:38:32.09\00:38:34.03
Verse 9 "Blessed
be the Lord your God,
00:38:34.06\00:38:37.40
who delighted in you,
00:38:37.43\00:38:39.25
setting you on
the throne of Israel!
00:38:39.28\00:38:41.29
Because the Lord" Yahweh
"has loved Israel forever,
00:38:41.32\00:38:44.53
therefore He made you king,
00:38:44.56\00:38:46.08
to do justice
and righteousness."
00:38:46.11\00:38:47.66
That he then queen praises
that God of King Solomon.
00:38:47.69\00:38:52.22
Do you understand,
ladies and gentlemen,
00:38:52.25\00:38:53.30
what has just taken place?
00:38:53.33\00:38:54.49
God says, I'll choose that
boy and through the chosen one,
00:38:54.52\00:38:57.49
through choosing
the king of Israel
00:38:57.52\00:38:59.49
God was gunmen for
the Queen of Sheba.
00:38:59.52\00:39:02.53
He got her because the
chosen was cooperating with Him.
00:39:02.56\00:39:06.38
That's always been the point.
00:39:06.41\00:39:08.61
He chooses not for your
worth, but for His work.
00:39:08.64\00:39:15.65
Wow, let me give
you one other example.
00:39:15.68\00:39:19.08
Only this one is not
a king, he is a captive
00:39:19.11\00:39:22.26
far, far, far
away from his hometown.
00:39:22.29\00:39:26.13
He is just enrolled
in a pagan university.
00:39:26.16\00:39:29.52
And when he discovers
00:39:29.55\00:39:30.58
how the majority on
that campus were living,
00:39:30.61\00:39:34.08
he said to himself
I refuse to live like
00:39:34.11\00:39:37.04
the majority on this campus.
00:39:37.07\00:39:39.92
I don't care what they eat,
I don't care what they drink,
00:39:39.95\00:39:43.01
I don't care where they party,
00:39:43.04\00:39:44.78
I don't care because I have read
00:39:44.81\00:39:46.55
the Book of Deuteronomy
00:39:46.58\00:39:47.93
and I happen to
know, I am chosen to,
00:39:47.96\00:39:50.00
and I'm a part
of the chosen people
00:39:50.03\00:39:51.74
and I shall live
in loyalty to my God.
00:39:51.77\00:39:54.22
And when Daniel
made that choice,
00:39:54.25\00:39:55.70
it was a tough choice by the way
00:39:55.73\00:39:57.08
because riding with the
tide and going with the flow
00:39:57.11\00:40:00.15
is the opposite
direction and he said, no way,
00:40:00.18\00:40:03.22
I purpose in my
heart not to defile myself.
00:40:03.25\00:40:05.39
I'll not put that to
my lips, I will not do it.
00:40:05.42\00:40:10.77
And what happened?
You know the story.
00:40:10.80\00:40:12.91
It's one of favorites, isn't it?
00:40:12.94\00:40:14.78
When it's over
three years later,
00:40:14.81\00:40:16.63
Daniel and his three buddies
00:40:16.66\00:40:18.71
who all four of
them stood together.
00:40:18.74\00:40:20.07
By the way, if you have a friend
00:40:20.10\00:40:21.53
around here on this campus
00:40:21.56\00:40:22.85
who has the same
moral convictions you do,
00:40:22.88\00:40:24.91
hang around with that friend.
00:40:24.94\00:40:26.92
Build, build a critical
mass, that's how God works.
00:40:26.95\00:40:31.37
He don't need 40
He can work with four.
00:40:31.40\00:40:34.56
He can work with four of you.
00:40:34.59\00:40:37.10
I know that the
others are saying,
00:40:37.13\00:40:38.33
that isn't the way we live.
00:40:38.36\00:40:39.88
No, you just, you
stand just the four of you,
00:40:39.91\00:40:42.98
you watch, how God will permeate
00:40:43.01\00:40:45.55
an entire
institution through just four.
00:40:45.58\00:40:48.14
He did it with
the Babylonian Empire,
00:40:48.17\00:40:49.79
He can certainly do it with you.
00:40:49.82\00:40:51.00
Let's put it on the screen.
00:40:51.03\00:40:52.06
Look at the
reaction of the pagan king,
00:40:52.09\00:40:53.96
Daniel 1:20 "And in
all matters of wisdom
00:40:53.99\00:40:56.50
and understanding about
which king" Nebuchadnezzar
00:40:56.53\00:40:58.77
"examined them, he found"
00:40:58.80\00:41:00.28
these boys, these chosen ones
00:41:00.31\00:41:02.39
"he found them ten times
better than all the magicians
00:41:02.42\00:41:05.55
and all the astrologers
who were in his realm."
00:41:05.58\00:41:08.56
Hands down these guys
are at that top of the pack,
00:41:08.59\00:41:11.92
top of the pack.
00:41:11.95\00:41:14.49
In fact, that
boy, Daniel has made
00:41:14.52\00:41:16.96
such a profound
impact on this pagan king.
00:41:16.99\00:41:20.47
Watch this Daniel
Chapter 2, look at the King,
00:41:20.50\00:41:22.91
"The King
answered Daniel, and said,
00:41:22.94\00:41:24.58
Truly your God is the God
of gods the Lord of kings,
00:41:24.61\00:41:29.58
and a revealer of
secrets," since you boy,
00:41:29.61\00:41:33.78
"since you could
reveal the secret to me."
00:41:33.81\00:41:36.65
Do you know what,
ladies and gentlemen,
00:41:36.68\00:41:37.71
let me just remind
you in case you forgotten
00:41:37.74\00:41:40.20
that that boy who graduated
00:41:40.23\00:41:42.59
from the university with honors
00:41:42.62\00:41:44.65
that boy became the
strategic divine instrument
00:41:44.68\00:41:47.83
to convert pagan Nebuchadnezzar
00:41:47.86\00:41:51.06
into a full believing convert
of the Lord God of Israel.
00:41:51.09\00:41:58.55
A pagan, do you know
what that would be like?
00:41:58.58\00:42:00.68
Is what it would be like,
00:42:00.71\00:42:02.01
it would be like you
bumping into Osama bin Laden.
00:42:02.04\00:42:05.65
I'm serious,
Nebuchadnezzar was as ruthless
00:42:05.68\00:42:08.41
a terrorist and ruler.
00:42:08.44\00:42:10.35
It would be like Osama bin Laden
00:42:10.38\00:42:12.52
getting close to you
00:42:12.55\00:42:14.03
and through your
moral witness as the chosen.
00:42:14.06\00:42:17.82
You have such an impact on him
00:42:17.85\00:42:20.36
he chooses the God you worship.
00:42:20.39\00:42:25.36
This is not a
small little story here
00:42:25.39\00:42:28.34
and that's why
Israel was the chosen.
00:42:28.37\00:42:31.34
I wish I knew
who wrote this piece,
00:42:31.37\00:42:33.15
I found it in my
sabbatical a few weeks ago.
00:42:33.18\00:42:37.13
The piece is anonymous,
00:42:37.16\00:42:38.51
I'd love to give
credit to somebody,
00:42:38.54\00:42:39.89
it is the most cogent
piece that I have read
00:42:39.92\00:42:43.80
anywhere
describing God's mission,
00:42:43.83\00:42:46.30
what could have
been God's mission
00:42:46.33\00:42:49.04
and vision for Israel.
00:42:49.07\00:42:50.47
It's found in
the Bible Commentary
00:42:50.50\00:42:51.65
and the reason it's in
the section general articles
00:42:51.68\00:42:54.56
and they're unsigned articles.
00:42:54.59\00:42:55.86
I love to give
credit to somebody.
00:42:55.89\00:42:57.19
It's a two-page article,
00:42:57.22\00:42:58.63
I'm not gonna
give you the two pages.
00:42:58.66\00:43:00.27
There's a
paragraph from that article
00:43:00.30\00:43:02.06
I put it in your study guide.
00:43:02.09\00:43:03.32
This is something else,
00:43:03.35\00:43:05.02
what could have
been with the chosen?
00:43:05.05\00:43:07.98
Look in your study
guide, you see that there
00:43:08.01\00:43:09.93
"The material
advantages that Israel enjoyed
00:43:09.96\00:43:12.97
were designed to
arrest the attention
00:43:13.00\00:43:15.11
and catch the
interest of the heathen,
00:43:15.14\00:43:17.88
for whom the less
obvious spiritual advantages
00:43:17.91\00:43:20.80
had no natural attraction."
00:43:20.83\00:43:22.04
Hold it right there.
00:43:22.07\00:43:23.31
You know what, in a pagan
world were vastly becoming
00:43:23.34\00:43:26.10
as a nation a
very secular nation,
00:43:26.13\00:43:27.44
but you know, you can go around
00:43:27.47\00:43:28.54
and say, hey, I
wish you have what I have
00:43:28.57\00:43:30.05
because I don't
have guilt anymore.
00:43:30.08\00:43:32.03
And you know what your secular
post-modern friend is saying?
00:43:32.06\00:43:34.41
I don't have guilt
either, I never had guilt.
00:43:34.44\00:43:36.39
There's nothing that bothers me.
00:43:36.42\00:43:38.15
So you can offer
these little intangibles.
00:43:38.18\00:43:40.31
You can say, I
have peace of mind now.
00:43:40.34\00:43:42.14
Everybody's got peace of
mind, if you drink enough.
00:43:42.17\00:43:46.35
I got peace I
don't know what you have.
00:43:46.38\00:43:48.46
You know, what the pagans
are saying, where's the beef?
00:43:48.49\00:43:50.89
Show me the
money, show me the money.
00:43:50.92\00:43:53.27
And God said, I
understand that language,
00:43:53.30\00:43:54.81
I'm gonna
materially bless these people,
00:43:54.84\00:43:58.27
so that when they see
the material blessings
00:43:58.30\00:44:00.39
they go for the intangibles.
00:44:00.42\00:44:02.13
Brilliant whoever
this writer is brilliant.
00:44:02.16\00:44:04.40
Keep going here.
00:44:04.43\00:44:05.49
Now he's called
from the Old Testament
00:44:05.52\00:44:07.72
and there are few
verses putting inserted
00:44:07.75\00:44:10.29
into the quotation to
support his conclusions
00:44:10.32\00:44:12.57
"They" the heathen "would
gather themselves together
00:44:12.60\00:44:16.16
and come from far
from the ends of the earth,
00:44:16.19\00:44:18.95
to the light of
truth shining for
00:44:18.98\00:44:21.01
from the mountain of the Lord.
00:44:21.04\00:44:22.75
Nations that had known nothing
00:44:22.78\00:44:24.26
of the true God
would 'run'" Isaiah 55,
00:44:24.29\00:44:26.97
"they would run to Jerusalem
00:44:27.00\00:44:28.59
because the manifest evidence
00:44:28.62\00:44:30.03
of divine blessing
that attended Israel."
00:44:30.06\00:44:32.39
Now hold on, "Ambassadors
from one foreign country
00:44:32.42\00:44:36.08
after another
would come to discover,
00:44:36.11\00:44:38.88
if they might, the great secret
00:44:38.91\00:44:41.28
of Israel's success as a nation,
00:44:41.31\00:44:42.75
and its leaders
would have the opportunity
00:44:42.78\00:44:45.77
up directing the
minds of their visitors
00:44:45.80\00:44:48.11
to the source of
all good things."
00:44:48.14\00:44:49.81
Hit the pause
button right there.
00:44:49.84\00:44:51.16
I got to tell you
a story real quick,
00:44:51.19\00:44:52.32
and I tell you the story.
00:44:52.35\00:44:53.45
Once upon a time
there was a king,
00:44:53.48\00:44:54.86
he is on his deathbed,
he is dying, he so sick.
00:44:54.89\00:44:58.50
And God calls the king's friend,
00:44:58.53\00:45:00.00
the prophet had to be happen
to be a friend of the king.
00:45:00.03\00:45:02.04
And God speaks to the
prophet He says, Isaiah,
00:45:02.07\00:45:04.08
I need you to get to Hezekiah
00:45:04.11\00:45:05.54
and I want you to tell
him he's right, he's dying.
00:45:05.57\00:45:08.21
In fact, you give
the message to Hezekiah,
00:45:08.24\00:45:10.60
put your house in order,
00:45:10.63\00:45:11.77
prepare to meet your
God because it's over.
00:45:11.80\00:45:14.38
So Isaiah slips
into that death chamber,
00:45:14.41\00:45:16.60
there's the king
battling for his life,
00:45:16.63\00:45:18.87
and Isaiah says king,
00:45:18.90\00:45:20.42
put your house in
order, it really is over.
00:45:20.45\00:45:23.12
And Hezekiah bursts into tears.
00:45:23.15\00:45:26.63
It so bad that the
prophet who loves the king,
00:45:26.66\00:45:28.95
he can't handle it,
he has to leave the room.
00:45:28.98\00:45:31.32
Hezekiah when
the prophet is gone,
00:45:31.35\00:45:33.07
weeps he says, God, I
don't understand this,
00:45:33.10\00:45:35.06
I've been a faithful
leader, I've led an revival,
00:45:35.09\00:45:37.39
I've really try
to stay true to You,
00:45:37.42\00:45:39.81
how could You let me
down now, and let me die.
00:45:39.84\00:45:42.53
And he's sobbing and
Isaiah has hardly made it
00:45:42.56\00:45:45.68
to the palace courtyard
00:45:45.71\00:45:47.33
when the Spirit
of God speaks to him
00:45:47.36\00:45:49.12
and says, boy,
stop it right there,
00:45:49.15\00:45:51.16
I got some further
instructions for you,
00:45:51.19\00:45:53.03
I just changed my mind.
00:45:53.06\00:45:56.34
His tears got to me.
00:45:56.37\00:45:58.72
Hezekiah got to
me, you go back to him
00:45:58.75\00:46:01.51
and you tell him 15 more years.
00:46:01.54\00:46:05.13
Oh, Isaiah there
is a skip in his step
00:46:05.16\00:46:07.46
as a whistle on lips,
he go marching back in
00:46:07.49\00:46:10.09
the king sees the guy
smile, what's up with this?
00:46:10.12\00:46:12.47
Oh, king live
forever or at least 15 years,
00:46:12.50\00:46:15.58
God has heard your prayer.
00:46:15.61\00:46:18.25
God has heard your prayer.
00:46:18.28\00:46:22.29
So Isaiah steps out
to put little poultice
00:46:22.32\00:46:24.37
on the boil kind
of, you got to cooperate
00:46:24.40\00:46:26.22
with God natural
remedies, plus a divine healing.
00:46:26.25\00:46:28.45
So he putting his
little thing on the boil
00:46:28.48\00:46:30.00
and Hezekiah is
thinking, hey, hey, hey,
00:46:30.03\00:46:31.56
wait a minute
prophet, how do I know
00:46:31.59\00:46:35.58
that I'm really
gonna have 15 more years?
00:46:35.61\00:46:38.54
Isaiah says, oh
king, you check--
00:46:38.57\00:46:40.61
you choose, you pick
a sign, let's do this.
00:46:40.64\00:46:43.10
You have a sundial out
in front of the palace,
00:46:43.13\00:46:45.51
do you want the shadow
to go forward ten degrees
00:46:45.54\00:46:48.35
or go backwards 10 degrees?
00:46:48.38\00:46:49.91
And the king thinks to himself,
00:46:49.94\00:46:50.97
man oh, sundials go
forward ten degrees,
00:46:51.00\00:46:53.23
I wanted to go backwards
he said and sure enough,
00:46:53.26\00:47:01.17
the sundial
shadow went backwards.
00:47:01.20\00:47:05.76
King is healed.
00:47:05.79\00:47:06.94
I tell you what
a miracle like that
00:47:06.97\00:47:09.10
spreads to the
farthest corner of earth
00:47:09.13\00:47:11.88
and a
Babylonian empire hears it,
00:47:11.91\00:47:13.90
and when they hear that
the King a Judah got healed,
00:47:13.93\00:47:17.06
supernaturally healed
00:47:17.09\00:47:18.83
and even the sun went backwards,
00:47:18.86\00:47:21.41
they are sending an ambassador
00:47:21.44\00:47:23.73
and an envoy and
a whole delegation
00:47:23.76\00:47:26.41
and when they show up in
Jerusalem, are you the king?
00:47:26.44\00:47:29.13
Are you the
king that God healed?
00:47:29.16\00:47:30.31
I am, I am. How did it happen?
00:47:30.34\00:47:34.54
And you know what?
00:47:34.57\00:47:37.24
It is one of the
saddest meltdowns
00:47:37.27\00:47:40.37
in the divine mission of Israel.
00:47:40.40\00:47:43.14
This was a homerun pitch to say
00:47:43.17\00:47:47.41
if you only
worshiped the God I do,
00:47:47.44\00:47:52.67
it could happen to you.
00:47:52.70\00:47:55.46
How did that-- forget it,
00:47:55.49\00:47:56.52
let me show you my
treasures come on guys,
00:47:56.55\00:47:59.24
and he opens up
the treasure house
00:47:59.27\00:48:01.84
of Judah to these ambassadors.
00:48:01.87\00:48:05.29
They went home, not having heard
00:48:05.32\00:48:07.73
a word about Israel's
God but they went home
00:48:07.76\00:48:11.45
with a map to Israel's gold.
00:48:11.48\00:48:17.03
Can you believe it?
00:48:17.06\00:48:20.01
They showed up, saying
what's up with this campus?
00:48:20.04\00:48:24.26
What is up with you people?
00:48:24.29\00:48:28.16
What are we gonna do?
00:48:28.19\00:48:29.24
Show him US News
and world reports?
00:48:29.27\00:48:31.51
What are we gonna do
when they want to know?
00:48:33.51\00:48:36.88
That's what might have been.
00:48:39.11\00:48:41.63
This writer writes,
00:48:41.66\00:48:43.22
"Its leaders would
have the opportunity
00:48:43.25\00:48:44.65
of directing the
minds of their visitors
00:48:44.68\00:48:46.15
to the Source of
all good things."
00:48:46.18\00:48:47.58
One last sentence, you
have to fill this one in.
00:48:47.61\00:48:49.59
"From the visible their
minds were to be directed
00:48:49.62\00:48:51.69
to the invisible, from
the seen to the unseen,
00:48:51.72\00:48:54.33
from the
material to the spiritual,
00:48:54.36\00:48:56.17
from the
temporal to the eternal.
00:48:56.20\00:48:58.19
The house of God in
Jerusalem would eventually
00:48:58.22\00:49:00.61
'be called an house of
prayer for all peoples.'"
00:49:00.64\00:49:04.80
The very words
chisel above the door
00:49:04.83\00:49:07.10
entry to the
Pioneer Memorial Church.
00:49:07.13\00:49:11.19
That was a dream,
ladies and gentlemen,
00:49:11.22\00:49:12.97
that was the passion
of God for the chosen.
00:49:13.00\00:49:15.33
Do you suppose it still is?
00:49:15.36\00:49:17.24
Do you suppose that God
still hopes against hope
00:49:17.27\00:49:22.87
that there might be a
people who by receiving
00:49:22.90\00:49:29.23
the divine blessing
might become a showcase
00:49:29.26\00:49:32.60
to a skeptical
and wondering society?
00:49:32.63\00:49:37.79
I mean, you think about it
00:49:37.82\00:49:38.93
when God wants when He began
in a juvenile detention center,
00:49:39.21\00:49:42.02
and He had to pick a boy,
He picked a boy named Abram
00:49:42.05\00:49:45.10
growing up in a pagan family
00:49:45.13\00:49:46.40
He said, Abram, I'm picking you.
00:49:46.43\00:49:48.07
Do you know why God
picked Abram who became Abraham
00:49:48.10\00:49:49.98
the father of the chosen?
00:49:50.01\00:49:51.44
Jot this down in
your study guide,
00:49:51.47\00:49:53.11
Genesis 12:1-3, God says,
00:49:53.14\00:49:56.87
"I will make you"
Abraham "a great nation,
00:49:56.90\00:49:58.84
I will bless you and
make your name great."
00:49:58.87\00:50:01.27
Why God, why, why,
why have you chosen me?
00:50:01.30\00:50:03.98
So that "You will be a blessing.
00:50:04.01\00:50:06.01
And in you all the families
of the earth will be blessed."
00:50:06.04\00:50:11.88
Ladies and gentlemen, it
is the truth of the chosen.
00:50:12.31\00:50:14.70
Keep your pen moving.
00:50:14.73\00:50:15.77
"The point of the blessings
is to point to the Blesser."
00:50:15.80\00:50:19.61
That's the point,
00:50:20.56\00:50:22.46
so when they walk
into your dormitory room,
00:50:22.49\00:50:24.98
what are they drawn to?
00:50:25.01\00:50:27.38
When they walk into my
house, what are they drawn to?
00:50:27.41\00:50:29.82
When they walk
on to this campus,
00:50:29.85\00:50:31.06
what is it that draws them?
00:50:31.09\00:50:34.99
Has God chosen you
in order to bless you?
00:50:35.02\00:50:37.18
Has God chosen us in
order to bless us? Has He?
00:50:37.21\00:50:41.65
And they walk into your
medical clinic, your hospital,
00:50:41.68\00:50:46.42
when they walk into your office,
00:50:46.45\00:50:48.84
your workplace, when
they walk into your classroom,
00:50:48.87\00:50:51.82
what is the source?
Where does the pointing go?
00:50:51.85\00:50:56.74
You thought you had
this athletic prowess
00:50:56.77\00:51:00.06
because God
needed one more superstar
00:51:00.09\00:51:02.30
a super jock on this planet?
00:51:02.33\00:51:03.62
No, my friend.
00:51:03.65\00:51:04.69
You have athletic
prowess for a reason,
00:51:04.72\00:51:07.30
a divine intention
that through that prowess
00:51:07.33\00:51:10.04
God can reach people
nobody else can reach.
00:51:10.07\00:51:12.62
You have
intellectual brilliance, do you?
00:51:12.65\00:51:15.29
Your scores were high
00:51:15.32\00:51:16.91
and you got into
Andrews on scholarships.
00:51:16.94\00:51:19.48
You think it's so that God can
spread the word of who you are?
00:51:19.51\00:51:22.67
No, it is not you
have brilliance today
00:51:22.73\00:51:25.14
because God says, I
need brilliant minds
00:51:25.17\00:51:27.21
to represent Me
in a skeptical world.
00:51:27.24\00:51:30.45
You are chosen not to glory
and your ability is saying,
00:51:30.48\00:51:35.55
not to glory in
your ability to think.
00:51:35.58\00:51:38.23
You're chosen,
00:51:38.26\00:51:40.29
so that you can point to
the source of your blessings.
00:51:40.32\00:51:45.24
So what are people think about
when they come around here?
00:51:45.27\00:51:48.82
When they refocus
magazine, what is the message?
00:51:48.85\00:51:53.17
When they read
the student movement,
00:51:53.20\00:51:54.49
what is the message?
00:51:54.52\00:51:55.61
When I listen to WASR
Radio, what's the message?
00:51:55.64\00:51:58.44
When they listen to the
Pioneer Memorial Church,
00:51:58.47\00:52:00.23
what's the message?
00:52:00.26\00:52:04.02
The point of the blessings
is to point to the Blesser.
00:52:04.05\00:52:09.17
That's why God had the
chosen in the beginning
00:52:09.20\00:52:12.79
and that is why,
ladies and gentlemen,
00:52:12.82\00:52:15.00
God will have the
chosen at the end.
00:52:15.03\00:52:19.05
It's the point to the Blesser.
00:52:19.08\00:52:21.83
God says, listen, listen,
listen, follow Me, I love you,
00:52:21.86\00:52:27.16
you're nothing, zero,
not a nothing but I love you.
00:52:27.19\00:52:32.29
Follow Me, obey Me,
00:52:32.32\00:52:35.13
those laws about what you
eat and drink, stay true to Me.
00:52:35.16\00:52:39.73
They're going do studies on you
eventually that will establish,
00:52:39.76\00:52:43.30
there is an edge to what I've
given you from the beginning.
00:52:43.33\00:52:47.03
Stay with Me.
00:52:47.06\00:52:49.38
That intellectual
brilliance just like Daniel
00:52:49.41\00:52:53.30
will be traced
to Me, stay with me.
00:52:53.33\00:52:58.38
Financially, I'll lift you.
00:52:58.41\00:53:01.95
Institutionally,
I will raise you,
00:53:01.98\00:53:04.31
not so that the whole world
will rise up and applaud you,
00:53:04.34\00:53:07.12
but so that the world might
know there is a God in Israel
00:53:07.15\00:53:11.77
and He still blesses the chosen.
00:53:11.80\00:53:15.12
I am picked for your worth,
I have picked you from My work,
00:53:15.15\00:53:18.79
I need you to
reach the world for Me.
00:53:18.82\00:53:24.24
So when they come on to
campus and they say what's up?
00:53:24.27\00:53:28.03
You speak up about
Me, not you, not you,
00:53:28.06\00:53:34.87
you speak about Me.
00:53:34.90\00:53:38.69
Don't be so timid.
00:53:38.72\00:53:41.17
Quit being so
politically correct,
00:53:41.20\00:53:43.28
stand-up and speak up for Me
00:53:44.38\00:53:49.56
so I chose you
in the first place.
00:53:49.59\00:53:53.36
When the Blesser of all humanity
00:53:53.39\00:53:54.75
was on his way to the cross,
00:53:54.78\00:53:56.76
Jesus said something mysterious.
00:53:56.79\00:53:58.99
He said, "Many are
called, but few are chosen."
00:53:59.02\00:54:04.87
Makes you wonder doesn't it?
00:54:04.90\00:54:06.47
Could it be the
reason why few are chosen
00:54:06.50\00:54:08.79
is that the many who
are called have forgotten
00:54:08.82\00:54:11.60
that the point of the blessing
is to point to the Blesser.
00:54:11.63\00:54:17.43
That's the point,
00:54:17.46\00:54:19.06
that's the point for the chosen.
00:54:19.09\00:54:23.90
Let us pray.
00:54:23.93\00:54:25.44
Oh, God, many
called but few chosen.
00:54:25.47\00:54:29.99
Holy Father, please
00:54:30.02\00:54:32.92
do not let us live,
00:54:32.95\00:54:36.40
in forgetfulness
of this high calling.
00:54:40.86\00:54:45.81
We're not superstars,
00:54:45.84\00:54:50.27
but because of
You're super abundance love,
00:54:50.30\00:54:52.96
You pick somebody in
the detention center,
00:54:53.84\00:54:56.25
could You be the one
to help me reach the rest?
00:54:56.28\00:55:01.06
Oh, God, look down with mercy
and grace upon this campus,
00:55:01.09\00:55:06.06
upon this church,
upon this community,
00:55:06.09\00:55:09.29
upon this nation
to whom much is given,
00:55:09.32\00:55:14.11
much will be required.
00:55:14.14\00:55:16.25
You want to be
chosen just like Jesus said,
00:55:16.28\00:55:20.10
we wish to be chosen.
00:55:20.13\00:55:22.79
Please, faithful to Him
00:55:22.82\00:55:25.91
let us all live, Amen.
00:55:25.94\00:55:32.03
Before you go I wanted
to take one more moment
00:55:32.06\00:55:34.48
and let you know how glad I am
you shared this hour of worship
00:55:34.51\00:55:37.28
and Bible teaching with us.
00:55:37.31\00:55:38.83
This is the
Pioneer Memorial Church
00:55:38.86\00:55:40.63
and we're on the
campus of Andrew's University
00:55:40.66\00:55:42.53
and the series is "The Chosen."
00:55:42.56\00:55:44.69
This is a series
that has been growing
00:55:44.72\00:55:46.74
and it's burned on my heart
and over the last few weeks
00:55:46.77\00:55:51.28
before this new season began.
00:55:51.31\00:55:53.12
And some
concentrated prayer time
00:55:53.15\00:55:55.21
I believe the Spirit of
God lead me do this series,
00:55:55.24\00:55:57.70
out of the Book of
Deuteronomy for this generation
00:55:57.73\00:56:00.69
within our community of faith
00:56:00.72\00:56:02.03
and outside this
community of faith.
00:56:02.06\00:56:03.78
I believe both, both communities
00:56:03.81\00:56:07.08
need to hear the
compelling Bible truth
00:56:07.11\00:56:11.78
captured in this
series called "The Chosen."
00:56:11.81\00:56:13.30
So thank you for
joining me and all of us
00:56:13.33\00:56:15.71
as we continue our
journey deeper and deeper
00:56:15.74\00:56:18.12
into the heart of this theme.
00:56:18.15\00:56:20.00
Living as you and I do and I'm--
00:56:20.03\00:56:22.48
I know I'm
preaching to the choir now,
00:56:22.51\00:56:24.72
living as we do on
the edge of a civilization
00:56:24.75\00:56:28.00
that is surviving through
constant upheaval and change.
00:56:28.03\00:56:31.40
I am so grateful
and I know you are
00:56:31.43\00:56:34.11
for the bedrock
hope we have in Jesus.
00:56:34.14\00:56:37.71
I'm thankful that
you and I have been given
00:56:37.74\00:56:39.77
the, the
privilege by God to partner,
00:56:39.80\00:56:42.39
to reach this
generation the world over
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through the satellite telecast.
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I don't know how it works,
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I just know that those
satellites drop the signals
00:56:46.77\00:56:49.66
and those
footprints all over the planet
00:56:49.69\00:56:51.88
are helping
disseminate this divine call
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to become a part of the Chosen,
00:56:55.41\00:56:56.93
God's last generation on earth.
00:56:56.96\00:56:58.30
So please, here's
what I want you to know,
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I thank God for
you in a generous way
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you have partnered
with us in the past
00:57:03.28\00:57:05.34
and making New
Perceptions possible globally.
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Your tax-deductible
gifts are being multiplied
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all across the earth I
believe for such a time as this.
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Look, would you like to
order a copy of today's teaching
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you can order DVD, you
get all the PowerPoint,
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everything is there, you
can share with your friends,
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share with your family.
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I want to just insert this here,
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if you go to our website
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and we've been advertising
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and I'm gonna insert it
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go to that website
you get a podcast of this.
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We have people now subscribing
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it's time for this
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Thank you for your partnership
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Call one of our
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to toll-free number,
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You call that number,
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your generosity in God's mission
00:57:56.71\00:57:58.81
to reach this
final generation now.
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Thank you very, very much.
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And be assured, I'm looking
forward to seeing you here,
00:58:02.72\00:58:05.67
right here again
next time as we continue
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our fascinating
journey into The Chosen.
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God bless you.
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