When in our
music God is glorified
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And adoration
leaves no room for pride
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It is as though the
whole creation cried
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Alleluia
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How often, making
music, we have found
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A new dimension
in the world of sound
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As worship moved
us to a more profound
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Alleluia
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Alleluia Alleluia
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Alleluia Alleluia
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Alleluia
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So has the Church,
in liturgy and song
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In faith and love,
through centuries of wrong Borne
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witness to the
truth in every tongue
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Alleluia
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Words of Joy today
are taken Psalm 98.
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I will read the
first of verses in Russian
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and then entire Psalm in
the New King James Version.
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[Speaking in foreign language]
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"O sing to the Lord a new song,
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for he has done
marvelous things,
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his right hand,
and his holy arm,
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had gained him the victory.
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The Lord has made
known his salvation,
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his
righteousness he has revealed
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in the sight of the nations.
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He has remembered his
mercy and his faithfulness
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to the house of Israel.
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All the ends of
the earth have seen
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the salvation of our God.
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Shall joyfully to
the Lord, all the earth
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break-forth into song,
rejoice and sing praises.
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Sing to the Lord with the harp,
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with the harp, and
the sound of the Psalm.
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With trumpets and
the sound of a horn
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shall joyfully
before the Lord the King.
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Let the see roar
in all its fullness,
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the world and
those who dwell in it.
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Let the rivers clap their hands.
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Let the hills be joyful
together before the Lord
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for he is coming
to judge the earth,
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with righteousness
he shall judge the world
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and the people's with equity."
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Please be seated.
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Please note that the hymns
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are also listed as
the numbered hymn numbers
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and you can use the
screens as well if you wish.
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Let's praise God further.
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All things bright and beautiful
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All creatures great and small
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All things wise and wonderful
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The Lord God made them all
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Each little flower that opens
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Each little bird that sings
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He made their glowing colors
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He made their tiny wings
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All things bright and beautiful
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All creatures great and small
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All things wise and wonderful
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The Lord God made them all
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The purple-headed mountain
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The river running by
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The sunset, and the morning
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That brightens up the sky
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All things bright and beautiful
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All creatures great and small
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All things wise and wonderful
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The Lord God made them all
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The cold wind in the winter
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The pleasant summer sun
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The ripe fruits in the garden
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He made them every one
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All things bright and beautiful
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All creatures great and small
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All things wise and wonderful
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The Lord God made them all
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He gave us eyes to see them
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And lips that we might tell
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How great is God Almighty
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Who has made all things well
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All things bright and beautiful
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All creatures great and small
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All things wise and wonderful
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The Lord God made them all
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Fairest Lord Jesus,
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Ruler of all nature
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O Thou of God and man the Son!
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Thee will I cherish
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Thee will I honor
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Thou art my glory, joy and crown
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Fair is the sunshine
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Fairer still the moonlight
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And all the
twinkling, starry host
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Jesus shines brighter
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Jesus shines purer
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Than all the
angels heaven can boast
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Beautiful Savior
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Lord of all the nations
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Son of God and Son of Man!
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Glory and honor,
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Praise, adoration
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Now and forevermore Be Thine!
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Praise to the Lord The Almighty
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The King of creation!
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O my soul, praise Him
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For He is thy
health and salvation!
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All ye who hear,
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Now to His temple draw near
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Join ye in glad adoration!
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Praise to the Lord
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Who o'er all things
So wonderfully reigneth
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Shieldeth thee under His wings
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Yea, so gently sustaineth!
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Hast thou not seen
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How thy desires ever have been
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Granted in what He ordaineth?
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Praise to the
Lord, Ho doth prosper
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Thy work and defend Thee
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Surely His goodness and mercy
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Here daily attend thee
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Ponder anew
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what the Almighty can do
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If with His
love He befriend thee
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Come, let us anew
our journey pursue
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Roll round with the year
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And never stand still
Till the Master appear
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His adorable will
let us gladly fulfill
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And our talents
improve By the patience of hope
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And the labor of love
By the patience of hope
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And the labor of love
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Our life is a dream
Our time, as a stream
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Glide swiftly away
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And the fugitive
moment refuses to stay
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For the arrow is flown
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And the moments are gone
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The millennial year
Rushes on to our view
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And eternity's here
Rushes on to our view
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And eternity's here
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Oh, that each in the
day of His coming may say
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I have fought my way
through I have finished the work
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Thou didst give me to do!
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Oh, that each from his Lord
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may receive the glad word
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Well and faithfully done!
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Enter into my joy,
and sit down on My throne!
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Enter into my joy,
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and sit down on My throne!
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Oh, that each from his
Lord may receive the glad word
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Well and faithfully done!
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Enter into my joy,
and sit down on My throne!
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Enter into my joy,
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and sit down on My throne!
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This last week in
the Wall Street Journal's
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best seller
list for 'nonfiction'
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the number one, entry was
entitled the "Last Lecture."
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Apparently, it is a
custom of some colleges
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to select a
professor from the faculty
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and invite that man
that women to spend an hour
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sharing from the
heart those lessons
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that he or she has
learned matter most.
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Randy Pausch, was a
professor of computer science
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at Carnegie Mellon University
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when the
president of that university
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came to him and said, "Randy,
would you give a last lecture?"
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Neither he nor
the president knew
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when he accepted that invitation
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that in just a few
weeks he would be told
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he would have between
three and six months to live.
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Pausch wrote, "I learned
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I was dying of
pancreatic cancer.
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I knew I could cancel.
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I have three young children,
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I'm married to Jai,
the woman of my dreams,
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and there were so
many things to be done.
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But by speaking, I knew I
could put myself in a bottle
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that would one day
wash upon the beach
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for my children,
Dylan and Logan and Chloe."
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The 76 minute lecture was taped.
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It was placed on
YouTube and as of last week
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it has been viewed
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seven million 840
thousand 276 times.
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Pausch expanded that lecture
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and it has become today's
bestseller, the "Last Lecture."
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Through his suffering he
maintained an online journal.
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The final entry was
posted by an anonymous friend
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July 25th, 2008.
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Randy died this
morning of complications
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from pancreatic cancer.
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He was 47 year old.
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Now look, I understand
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not everybody dies
of pancreatic cancer
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but what has become
clear to me as I grow older
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is that everybody
and I mean everybody
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suffers sometime along the way.
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In fact, suffers
many times along the way.
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And what daunts on you,
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when you read the Book of Acts
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which is our theme book
for this series Primetime
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is that even the
friends of Jesus suffer.
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In fact, truth and
advertising especially
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the friends of Jesus suffer.
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Which is why I
wish, what's up doctor--
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why did you put that
one measly little line in?
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You could have left it out
but oh, no, you stuck it in.
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And because he did
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you who are the
primetime generation
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and I am thinking
especially of you.
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You have been
given a slice of truth
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that I hope you
will never forget.
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Open your Bible with me,
please to the Book of Acts.
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Book of Acts Chapter 14,
if you didn't bring a Bible
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you got to-- you need to read
this one liner for yourself.
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Grab the pew
Bible in front of you.
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Acts Chapter 14,
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I will be Today's New
International Version.
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Take the pew Bible
that's a New King James
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it works page 745 in pew Bible.
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Follow along, just one line.
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We need to run up to that line
so let's pick it up in verse 21.
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Acts 14:21,
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says "They had
preached the gospel"
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That would be Paul and Barnabas.
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Two some partnership.
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"They preached the
gospel in that city
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and won a large
number of disciples.
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Then they returned to
Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,
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" Verse 22,
"Strengthening the disciples
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and encouraging them to
remain true to the faith."
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And this sentence
is attributed to them.
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Here it comes.
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"'We must go
through many hardships
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to enter the
kingdom of God,' they said."
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Can you believe it?
00:21:16.76\00:21:17.79
Write it down. We're real quick.
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Write it down right
down, grab that study guide,
00:21:18.96\00:21:20.56
that's in your
worship bulletin today,
00:21:20.59\00:21:23.49
pull it out and
jot that sentence down.
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And while you're
doing it and I want to say
00:21:26.45\00:21:27.64
those of you watching right now.
00:21:27.67\00:21:29.32
I'd love for you to
have the same study guide.
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We'll put it on the
screen for you our website
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www.pmchurch.tv
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You got to get
this line jot it down
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so you can
brood over it as well.
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You're looking for
the series Primetime
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this is the next to the
last in that series primetime.
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By the way don't
miss the final installment
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towards a
nighttime before a primetime
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and all through the world.
00:21:52.03\00:21:54.15
That's our last one coming up.
00:21:54.18\00:21:56.31
But this one is entitled
00:21:56.34\00:21:57.37
"Nobody said it
was going to be easy."
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So that's what you're
looking for when you see
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"Nobody has said
it's going to be easy"
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says study guide
there you click on
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you'll have the
same study guide.
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All right, fill it in.
Write in the reference.
00:22:05.20\00:22:06.57
You're gonna need to do
that Acts 14:22 jot that down.
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"We must go
through many hardships."
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Many hardships. "To
enter the kingdom of God."
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I ye nobody said it
was going to be easy.
00:22:17.68\00:22:21.95
Actually, we shouldn't be
too hard on Paul and Barnabas
00:22:23.39\00:22:25.46
or on Dr Lupo
including this one liner
00:22:25.49\00:22:28.51
simply because truth be known
00:22:28.54\00:22:30.51
it's the perfect summation
00:22:30.54\00:22:32.58
for the narratives
that it just taken place.
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Six stories,
keep your pen moving.
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Can't tell the stories but
I want you to note the stories
00:22:36.38\00:22:38.78
that lead to this punch line.
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Story number one, you
see it in your study guide
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that's Acts 13:1-12.
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It's a story about
being on the Island of Cyprus.
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They're trying to
reach the Roman pro-council
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that would be the
governor Sergio Paulus.
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He has a counselor a
sorcerer named Bar-Jesus
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and the powers of
darkness at work and Bar-Jesus
00:22:54.92\00:22:57.42
keeps trying to turn
00:22:57.45\00:22:59.38
the governor away
from what Paul is teaching
00:22:59.41\00:23:01.82
until finally Paul
in exasperation strikes
00:23:01.85\00:23:05.33
the sorcerer blind for a season.
00:23:05.36\00:23:07.07
Not for life but for a season.
00:23:07.10\00:23:08.28
Write that down, he
had to strike him blind.
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Crisis right at the beginning.
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Story number two, keep
your pen moving Acts 13:13,
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"The 'primetime' mission
got so tough so quickly that"
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young adult "John Mark"
00:23:19.72\00:23:22.91
He is in his late 20s early 30s
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we've calculated the
age, young adult "John Mark
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quit the mission for Jesus."
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Just up and quit.
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Story number two.
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Story number
three, Acts 13:14-45,
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"The Jews in Pisidian Antioich"
direct quote out of the TNIV
00:23:36.15\00:23:39.61
heaped abuse, "'heaped abuse'
00:23:39.64\00:23:43.08
on Paul after his
sermon in the synagogue."
00:23:43.11\00:23:45.97
Heaped abused.
00:23:46.00\00:23:47.12
Story number
four, Acts 13:46-52,
00:23:47.15\00:23:50.38
"The Jewish leaders then
'stirred up persecution.'"
00:23:50.41\00:23:53.37
Write it in.
00:23:53.40\00:23:54.74
"'Stirred up persecution'
against Paul and Barnabas
00:23:54.77\00:23:56.85
and expelled
them from the region."
00:23:56.88\00:23:59.14
Story number five, Acts 14:1-7,
00:23:59.17\00:24:01.91
"Jewish antagonist in
Iconium hatched a plot to stone
00:24:01.94\00:24:05.56
Paul and Barnabas."
00:24:05.59\00:24:06.68
But they got to win but they
got a whiff of the plot afoot
00:24:06.71\00:24:09.69
and fled the town
before they could be stoned.
00:24:09.72\00:24:12.47
Story number six,
00:24:12.50\00:24:14.88
this time they
didn't get out quick enough.
00:24:14.91\00:24:16.55
Story number six, Acts 14:8-20
00:24:16.58\00:24:19.77
"But in Lystra the crowd thinks
Paul and Barnabas are gods."
00:24:19.80\00:24:24.03
Because they've
healed a lame man.
00:24:24.06\00:24:25.59
And so the crowd
immediately begins to offer
00:24:25.62\00:24:27.54
animal sacrifices to the two men
00:24:27.57\00:24:29.20
both men
desperately seek to a halt,
00:24:29.23\00:24:31.61
re affaire, the Jews
from the previous cities
00:24:31.64\00:24:34.16
arrive at that very
moment and persuade the crowd
00:24:34.19\00:24:37.21
to actually go ahead and stone.
00:24:37.24\00:24:39.48
Write it in, stone Paul.
00:24:39.51\00:24:42.40
In fact that
story is so dramatic
00:24:42.43\00:24:43.70
I need to read the two
lines before what we just read.
00:24:43.73\00:24:46.01
You're Bibles
already opened to Acts 14,
00:24:46.04\00:24:48.85
go back up to verse 19,
00:24:48.88\00:24:50.38
"Then some Jews
came from Antioch
00:24:50.41\00:24:51.91
and Iconium and won the crowd
over and they stoned Paul."
00:24:51.94\00:24:56.07
Never been stoned
in my life, have you?
00:24:56.10\00:24:58.73
And "They stoned Paul
00:24:58.76\00:25:00.33
and dragged them
outside the city,
00:25:00.36\00:25:01.73
thinking he was dead."
00:25:01.76\00:25:02.79
The body is comatose.
00:25:02.82\00:25:04.33
It doesn't even look
like he is breathing.
00:25:04.36\00:25:05.57
He is gone.
00:25:05.60\00:25:06.63
But watch this,
00:25:06.66\00:25:07.88
"But after the disciples
gather around the broken body,
00:25:07.91\00:25:12.67
he got up and
went back into the city
00:25:12.70\00:25:15.76
and the next day he and
Barnabas left for Derbe."
00:25:15.79\00:25:18.44
You can't believe it.
You just can't believe it.
00:25:18.47\00:25:20.81
Six, events of obvious
suffering and tribulation
00:25:20.84\00:25:23.88
Paul and Barnabas
00:25:23.91\00:25:25.57
as they revisit the new
churches after those six events
00:25:25.60\00:25:28.32
its no wonder
they've adopted this maxim.
00:25:28.35\00:25:32.68
And they teach the truth,
00:25:32.71\00:25:33.90
we must go
through many hardships
00:25:33.93\00:25:37.02
to enter the kingdom of God.
00:25:37.05\00:25:39.05
Nobody, said, it
was going to be easy.
00:25:39.08\00:25:43.42
You wonder why
that it is. Me too.
00:25:43.45\00:25:46.76
I'll tell you what why
does God allow us friends,
00:25:46.79\00:25:49.68
who are working hard for Him
00:25:49.71\00:25:51.74
which is what He has
called you to do for Him?
00:25:51.77\00:25:53.50
Why does God allow His friends
who are working hard for Him
00:25:53.53\00:25:55.72
seeking the
witness to their friends,
00:25:55.75\00:25:57.22
witness to the
family, witness my colleagues,
00:25:57.25\00:25:59.19
witness to the neighbors?
00:25:59.22\00:26:00.32
Why when they're
on mission for Jesus
00:26:00.35\00:26:02.70
does God allow
hardships to take place?
00:26:02.73\00:26:06.99
I wasn't with you last Sabbath,
00:26:07.02\00:26:08.54
out on the west coast
00:26:08.57\00:26:09.75
for the memorial service
of a very dear friend of mine,
00:26:09.78\00:26:13.01
a worker for Jesus just
like you have been called to be.
00:26:13.04\00:26:16.71
Why, why is that
maxim of the kingdom
00:26:16.74\00:26:19.94
we must go
through many hardships
00:26:19.97\00:26:21.98
in order to enter
the kingdom of God?
00:26:22.01\00:26:24.64
I'd been brooding
on that obviously,
00:26:24.67\00:26:26.28
now for a bunch of days.
00:26:26.31\00:26:29.20
I am coming with
two plausible reasons.
00:26:29.23\00:26:31.96
I want to running by you
see if you agree with these two.
00:26:31.99\00:26:35.11
Reason number one jot it down.
00:26:35.14\00:26:36.53
"It's the truth of the pearls."
00:26:36.56\00:26:38.82
I was born in Japan,
00:26:40.41\00:26:43.30
one of the greatest nations
on earth for culturing pearls.
00:26:43.33\00:26:46.91
I know, a little
bit as a consequence
00:26:46.94\00:26:48.79
about how pearls are formed.
00:26:48.82\00:26:50.60
Let me put a pearl
on the screen for you.
00:26:50.63\00:26:51.91
Take a look at this beautiful,
00:26:51.94\00:26:53.43
beautiful pearl
that we found online.
00:26:53.46\00:26:55.60
Let me tell you about that
pearl leaving on the screen.
00:26:55.63\00:26:58.81
A natural pearl begins in
the moist heart of an oyster
00:26:58.84\00:27:03.10
when a foreign
object that doesn't belong
00:27:03.13\00:27:06.05
falls into that oyster.
00:27:06.08\00:27:07.80
It could be a
broken part of the shell.
00:27:07.83\00:27:09.52
It can be a parasite.
00:27:09.55\00:27:11.86
It can be
cultured by a grain of sand
00:27:11.89\00:27:14.16
but when that moist body
of the oyster receives it,
00:27:14.19\00:27:17.13
it immediately reacts.
00:27:17.16\00:27:18.72
This does not belong
here and it begins to secrete
00:27:18.75\00:27:22.66
what is called the nacre.
00:27:22.69\00:27:26.65
As it secretes
this slimy substance,
00:27:26.68\00:27:30.76
it's endeavoring to isolate
00:27:30.79\00:27:33.00
the irritant from
the rest of the organism.
00:27:33.03\00:27:35.57
The longer the
organism stays within the oyster
00:27:35.60\00:27:38.39
the more that
substance get secreted.
00:27:38.42\00:27:40.63
Now this substance
consists by the way
00:27:40.66\00:27:42.80
of microscopic
crystals of calcium carbonate.
00:27:42.83\00:27:46.61
They just keep building.
00:27:46.64\00:27:47.79
The longer it stays it
just keeps building it,
00:27:47.82\00:27:50.18
overtime a ball develops.
00:27:50.21\00:27:54.41
A ball by the way where
these microscopic crystals
00:27:54.44\00:27:56.55
of carbonate are aligned
perfectly with one another
00:27:56.58\00:27:59.22
so that the light passing
along the axis of one crystal
00:27:59.25\00:28:02.11
is reflected and
refracted by another
00:28:02.14\00:28:04.41
to produce a
rainbow of light and glory.
00:28:04.44\00:28:08.48
The pearl, the
pearl is born that way.
00:28:08.51\00:28:11.66
Would you jot it down?
00:28:11.69\00:28:13.39
"As long as there is an irritant
00:28:13.42\00:28:16.08
that interrupts the normal
flow of life in the creature,
00:28:16.11\00:28:19.28
the process of
transforming that foreign object
00:28:19.31\00:28:21.77
into a stunning creation of
beauty goes on, and on, and on."
00:28:21.80\00:28:26.41
Are you getting any parallels?
00:28:26.44\00:28:27.50
Are you catching anything here?
00:28:27.53\00:28:29.81
You have to have the irritant
in order to get the pearl.
00:28:29.84\00:28:36.45
In fact jot it
down the more suffering,
00:28:37.45\00:28:40.70
"The more 'suffering,'
the greater the beauty."
00:28:40.73\00:28:45.32
Isn't that some.
00:28:45.35\00:28:46.71
And that classic on
the Sermon on the Mount
00:28:48.71\00:28:50.63
entitled thoughts
from the man of blessing.
00:28:50.66\00:28:52.09
Would you jot this down please?
00:28:52.12\00:28:53.87
"The trials of life."
00:28:53.90\00:28:56.19
Write it in, "The trials
of life are God's workmen,
00:28:56.22\00:28:59.95
to remove the impurities and
roughness from our character."
00:28:59.98\00:29:02.91
There are hewing, they're
squaring, they're chiseling,
00:29:02.94\00:29:05.18
they're
burnishing and polishing,
00:29:05.21\00:29:06.97
is a painful
process but the pearl--
00:29:07.00\00:29:09.49
now I switch the word it
says stone but I put pearl in.
00:29:09.52\00:29:12.22
"But the pearl is brought forth
00:29:12.25\00:29:14.57
prepared to fill its
place in the heavenly temple.
00:29:14.60\00:29:17.48
Upon no useless
material does the Master bestow
00:29:17.51\00:29:20.47
such careful thorough work.
00:29:20.50\00:29:22.31
Only His precious
pearls are polished
00:29:22.34\00:29:25.80
after the
similitude of a palace."
00:29:25.83\00:29:29.39
Do you suppose that's
why Paul's point is true?
00:29:29.42\00:29:32.72
We have to go
through many hardships.
00:29:32.75\00:29:35.35
Daniel the
kingdom of God nobody said
00:29:35.38\00:29:39.31
it was going to be easy.
00:29:39.34\00:29:41.10
It's the lesson of the pearls.
00:29:41.13\00:29:45.28
Number two,
write it down please.
00:29:45.31\00:29:47.23
"It's also the
truth of the powers."
00:29:47.26\00:29:50.14
You'll say what powers?
00:29:52.02\00:29:53.39
Let me tell you something,
00:29:53.42\00:29:54.78
the powers that
surround every young disciple
00:29:54.81\00:29:57.93
or not so young disciple
00:29:57.96\00:29:59.09
who steps out to become
primetime witness for Christ.
00:29:59.12\00:30:02.35
The moment you accept Jesus
and you'll say I am gonna live
00:30:02.38\00:30:05.24
in radical
witness for my Savior.
00:30:05.27\00:30:07.26
In that instant,
00:30:07.29\00:30:09.07
the opposing powers
are marshaled to mute you,
00:30:09.10\00:30:12.76
shut you up or
discourage you, shuts you down.
00:30:12.79\00:30:15.44
We're on a war.
00:30:17.72\00:30:18.75
John Mark is a classic example.
00:30:20.04\00:30:23.69
Young adult John Mark
00:30:23.72\00:30:24.98
who looked at what
was coming and said,
00:30:25.01\00:30:27.15
I am out of here and he quit.
00:30:27.18\00:30:30.08
In fact, just to page
back to verse 13 of chapter 13.
00:30:30.11\00:30:33.33
Just turn one page
back to Acts 13:13.
00:30:33.36\00:30:35.68
"So they leave us." They
leave Cyprus from Paphos.
00:30:35.71\00:30:39.76
"Paul and his companions
sailed to Perga in Pamphylia,
00:30:39.79\00:30:42.99
where John left them
to return to Jerusalem."
00:30:43.02\00:30:48.28
Actually apostles commenting
00:30:50.79\00:30:52.32
on why Mark cuts
and runs these words.
00:30:52.35\00:30:56.67
"It was here that Mark,
00:30:56.70\00:30:58.15
overwhelmed with
fear and discouragement,
00:30:58.18\00:30:59.71
wavered for a
time in his purpose
00:30:59.74\00:31:01.37
to give himself wholeheartedly
to the Lord's work.
00:31:01.40\00:31:04.24
Unused to hardships,
00:31:04.27\00:31:05.74
he was
disheartened by the perils
00:31:05.77\00:31:07.30
and privations of the way.
00:31:07.33\00:31:08.43
He had labored with success
under favorable circumstances,
00:31:08.46\00:31:11.47
but now, amidst the
opposition and perils
00:31:11.50\00:31:14.56
that so often
beset the pioneer worker,
00:31:14.59\00:31:16.77
he failed to endure hardness
as a good soldier of the cross."
00:31:16.80\00:31:21.11
Ladies and gentlemen, there
is no way to paper in it over
00:31:21.14\00:31:23.64
this is a major crash and burn.
00:31:23.67\00:31:26.19
This is total failure.
00:31:26.22\00:31:28.68
John Mark melted down
could not stand the heat
00:31:28.71\00:31:35.13
and got out of the kitchen.
00:31:35.16\00:31:36.47
Sometime later at
the end of chapter 15,
00:31:41.10\00:31:43.71
you're trying this
sometime later Paul says,
00:31:43.74\00:31:45.09
hey Barnabas, you know what,
00:31:45.12\00:31:46.38
we got to go back
and visit these churches
00:31:46.41\00:31:47.90
we planted together.
00:31:47.93\00:31:48.96
And Barnabas
says, great idea Paul,
00:31:48.99\00:31:50.73
how about if I
bring my cousin again?
00:31:50.76\00:31:52.40
Because, John Mark was
the young cousin of Barnabas.
00:31:52.43\00:31:54.90
How about if I bring
my cousin Mark again?
00:31:54.93\00:31:57.81
Paul looked at him and
said, you got to be crazy.
00:31:57.84\00:32:00.63
You're not
bringing up boy with us.
00:32:00.66\00:32:02.09
No, no, no, no at the end
of verse, chapter 15 of Acts,
00:32:02.12\00:32:05.87
they enter into sharp dispute.
00:32:05.90\00:32:09.05
And finally it got so
bad that Barnabas says,
00:32:09.08\00:32:10.65
I will tell you what
00:32:10.68\00:32:11.71
if you're not gonna
let me and Mark come,
00:32:11.74\00:32:12.95
we're out of here.
00:32:12.98\00:32:14.01
And Paul says "adios."
00:32:14.04\00:32:15.68
And Barnabas and his cousin Mark
00:32:17.39\00:32:19.93
go back to Cyprus
because you got to back
00:32:19.96\00:32:22.12
to where you need
to learn your lesson.
00:32:22.15\00:32:23.61
And Paul says, I
got to find somebody.
00:32:23.64\00:32:25.54
He gives a whole of a man
name Cellos and guess what,
00:32:25.57\00:32:28.57
God gets a two for
one out of that deal.
00:32:28.60\00:32:31.35
By the way, make note just
because you're a friend of Jesus
00:32:32.85\00:32:36.75
does it mean you
agree with all His friends.
00:32:36.78\00:32:39.76
And a university
community knows that very well.
00:32:43.58\00:32:45.82
By the way, John Mark
grew from that meltdown.
00:32:49.87\00:32:53.04
Because when he
went back to Jerusalem
00:32:53.07\00:32:54.48
his mother was Mary.
00:32:54.51\00:32:55.54
The upper room was owned by her
00:32:55.57\00:32:57.12
at last supper was all there.
00:32:57.15\00:32:59.45
When John Mark goes
back there's another big man.
00:32:59.48\00:33:03.78
He says "I want that boy."
00:33:03.81\00:33:05.59
And Peter took
John Mark under his wing
00:33:05.62\00:33:09.03
and began to nurture him.
00:33:09.06\00:33:10.88
And in fact, scholar believes
00:33:10.91\00:33:13.18
that John Mark who obviously
came out of that meltdown
00:33:13.21\00:33:16.06
became the great evangelist
who wrote the very first gospel.
00:33:16.09\00:33:18.15
We're convinced.
00:33:18.18\00:33:19.26
Mark was the first of the
four gospels to be written.
00:33:19.29\00:33:21.33
Scholars believe
you really should call
00:33:21.36\00:33:23.16
that the gospel
according to Saint Peter.
00:33:23.19\00:33:25.48
It's Peter story
as recorded by Mark.
00:33:25.51\00:33:29.70
John Mark
recovered from that meltdown.
00:33:29.73\00:33:32.81
Good news, for all of us
who have melted down in fear
00:33:32.84\00:33:35.37
when we were about our
father's business good news.
00:33:35.40\00:33:39.33
God will take you
back again and again.
00:33:39.36\00:33:41.30
In fact by the way number
two, he re-wins Paul's heart.
00:33:41.33\00:33:47.28
And if I leave
him on 23, Paul says,
00:33:47.31\00:33:49.49
"hey I want to tell you
about my co-worker Mark."
00:33:49.52\00:33:52.32
And in his last will
and testament, 2 Timothy
00:33:52.35\00:33:54.50
just before Paul
dies Paul begs Timothy,
00:33:54.53\00:33:56.92
Timothy, bring Mark with you
00:33:56.95\00:33:58.54
because "he is
helpful to me in my ministry."
00:33:58.57\00:34:03.61
You can crash him burned
and learn and get a back up.
00:34:03.64\00:34:08.75
Hallelujah.
00:34:08.78\00:34:09.81
By the way John Mark
tradition tells us went
00:34:10.42\00:34:12.08
on to be the head of
the church in Alexandria.
00:34:12.11\00:34:14.96
Finally the city
rouse up to slay him.
00:34:14.99\00:34:17.88
To martyr John
Mark they dragged him
00:34:17.91\00:34:20.31
through the streets of
Alexandria till he was dead.
00:34:20.34\00:34:22.86
We must enter the Kingdom
of God through many hardships.
00:34:24.72\00:34:31.21
Nobody said it
was going to be easy.
00:34:31.24\00:34:34.84
Don't you cut and run now.
00:34:36.13\00:34:38.94
Nobody said it
was going to be easy.
00:34:38.97\00:34:41.43
It's the truth and lesson
of the pearls it's a truth
00:34:41.46\00:34:44.60
and lesson of the powers.
00:34:44.63\00:34:46.16
Let me, one more line from
Mount of Blessing jot this now.
00:34:46.19\00:34:49.07
"Principalities and
powers and wicked spirits
00:34:49.10\00:34:52.43
in high places are
arrayed against all" All, all,
00:34:52.46\00:34:56.72
all, we're in a war "
00:34:56.75\00:34:59.03
all who yield
obedience to the law of heaven."
00:34:59.06\00:35:01.17
What's the law of heaven?
00:35:01.20\00:35:02.23
Share the good news
with everyone you can.
00:35:02.26\00:35:04.25
Therefore," because
of this opposition "
00:35:06.01\00:35:09.47
so far from causing grief,
opposition should bring joy."
00:35:09.50\00:35:13.69
Write it down "should bring
joy to the disciples of Christ."
00:35:13.72\00:35:16.37
Why should I have
joy over hardship?
00:35:16.40\00:35:18.30
Because it is
evidence that you're following
00:35:18.33\00:35:20.30
in the steps of your Master.
00:35:20.33\00:35:21.76
When you're under
hardship in mission for Christ
00:35:21.79\00:35:24.46
trouble start it's
because somebody knows
00:35:24.49\00:35:27.92
you're on beam for the Savior.
00:35:27.95\00:35:29.61
Don't you back down then,
00:35:29.64\00:35:31.09
you must go
through that hardship.
00:35:31.12\00:35:32.77
Hang in there, stay with it.
00:35:32.80\00:35:35.02
It's a sign you're exactly
where God needs you to be.
00:35:36.74\00:35:40.70
Nobody said it
was going to be easy.
00:35:43.74\00:35:45.46
Besides didn't Jesus promise us,
00:35:45.49\00:35:47.83
Low, I am with you
always even to the very end.
00:35:47.86\00:35:55.14
When I end the story
00:35:55.17\00:35:58.17
that illustrates the truth
00:35:58.20\00:35:59.55
that He is with
us to the very end.
00:35:59.58\00:36:01.96
I found the story two
months ago in the newspaper
00:36:01.99\00:36:03.87
you can understand
why it would catch my eye.
00:36:03.90\00:36:07.20
Story about a pastor,
Caldwell, Idaho, six foot six
00:36:07.23\00:36:12.41
pastor of the Boone
Memorial Presbyterian Church,
00:36:12.44\00:36:16.15
July 30, go striding
into the Wyoming wilderness
00:36:16.18\00:36:20.65
capping the end of a
three months sabbatical.
00:36:20.68\00:36:22.60
He says listen.
00:36:22.63\00:36:23.66
"I need a ten day,
sixty miles solo hike
00:36:23.69\00:36:26.36
across the continental divide.
00:36:26.39\00:36:27.70
Then we will go
family that will come in,
00:36:27.73\00:36:29.14
we have a grand camping
trip to wrap it all up."
00:36:29.17\00:36:32.26
And so on July 30 with
his lab mixed named Andy
00:36:32.29\00:36:38.28
turning his dog
started their adventure,
00:36:38.31\00:36:40.47
hiking into the
Bridger-Teton National Forest.
00:36:40.50\00:36:43.80
He keeps a journal.
00:36:43.83\00:36:45.78
August 2,
00:36:45.81\00:36:46.84
the fourth day of his journey,
00:36:49.21\00:36:50.87
Turner he was
traversing a field of boulders
00:36:50.90\00:36:52.97
along a mountain lake
more than 11, 000 feet high
00:36:53.00\00:36:55.71
and 16 miles from
the nearest trailhead
00:36:55.74\00:36:58.12
when a bolder he
stepped on teetered.
00:36:58.15\00:37:03.24
If you have ever climb on
rocks as I think we all have,
00:37:03.27\00:37:06.22
you know, some rocks
are little bit loose.
00:37:06.25\00:37:08.06
So the bolder
teetered and instinctively
00:37:08.09\00:37:11.93
he jumped to the next one.
00:37:11.96\00:37:13.74
But he slid off.
00:37:13.77\00:37:15.60
And the 800 pound
rock he had just leaped
00:37:15.63\00:37:17.68
from rumbled toward him
00:37:17.71\00:37:19.37
catching him
between the boulders.
00:37:19.40\00:37:21.91
The rock barely touched him.
00:37:23.24\00:37:25.06
But when he tried
to extricate himself
00:37:25.09\00:37:26.77
his legs wouldn't move.
00:37:26.80\00:37:27.84
They weren't
broken, barely even injured
00:37:27.87\00:37:29.64
but his feet were
suspended in the air, midair,
00:37:29.67\00:37:31.90
he couldn't push them
down, he couldn't pull them up.
00:37:31.93\00:37:33.56
The two boulders
had come together
00:37:33.59\00:37:35.52
in the perfect configuration
00:37:35.55\00:37:37.48
to form a pair
of granite shackles.
00:37:37.51\00:37:41.17
He is locked in.
00:37:41.20\00:37:42.27
Through Turner's
journal and physical evidence
00:37:46.29\00:37:47.88
at the scene, it is
clear he fought mightily
00:37:47.91\00:37:50.57
to free himself
and to stay alive.
00:37:50.60\00:37:52.06
He used his tripod
and anything he could lay
00:37:52.09\00:37:53.66
his hands on to try
to force himself free.
00:37:53.69\00:37:55.64
He melted, then drank,
the snow he could reach,
00:37:55.67\00:37:57.66
and used his tent's rain
fly to collect dew and rainfall.
00:37:57.69\00:38:00.18
He tied a water bottle to a rope
00:38:00.21\00:38:01.50
and tried repeatedly to
toss it to the nearby lake.
00:38:01.53\00:38:03.81
But the bottle, too,
got caught between rocks.
00:38:03.84\00:38:06.11
And then Turner's
journal, carefully protected
00:38:06.14\00:38:09.33
in a zip-top plastic
bag, slipped beyond his reach
00:38:09.36\00:38:14.18
after about five
days on the rocks.
00:38:14.21\00:38:17.57
Desperate to maintain
communication with his family,
00:38:17.60\00:38:20.17
he began writing
on the blank pages
00:38:20.20\00:38:21.70
at the beginning
and end of his Bible.
00:38:21.73\00:38:23.34
When those filled,
he wrote in the margins
00:38:23.37\00:38:25.17
of the instruction
sheet for his camp stove.
00:38:25.20\00:38:28.36
And his suffering
continued. Key word "suffering."
00:38:28.39\00:38:31.60
And as it did Tuners mood
turned darker and despairing.
00:38:31.63\00:38:34.43
"God is with me,
but I am angry with Him.
00:38:35.37\00:38:37.80
What is the
purpose of this ordeal?
00:38:37.83\00:38:39.13
Will I ever know, or
continue to be puzzled, angered,
00:38:39.16\00:38:42.22
and feel quite
abandoned by the one I serve?"
00:38:42.25\00:38:44.16
More than a week passed,
Turner's handwriting weakened;
00:38:45.12\00:38:48.51
a mood of acceptance took over.
00:38:48.54\00:38:50.95
And his final
line, his final line
00:38:50.98\00:38:55.88
barely legible
reads with these words
00:38:55.91\00:38:59.34
"I will trust in God
though He will slay me,
00:38:59.37\00:39:04.62
yet will I trust in him."
00:39:04.65\00:39:07.47
Hanging between heaven
and earth slowly dying,
00:39:08.97\00:39:12.49
it sounds like Calvary to me.
00:39:12.52\00:39:14.10
We must go
through many hardships
00:39:15.96\00:39:21.41
in order to enter
the Kingdom of God.
00:39:21.44\00:39:25.01
But we have His promise,
00:39:26.29\00:39:27.54
Lo, I am with you all the
way to your very last breath.
00:39:29.06\00:39:37.06
What gift can we bring
what present, what token?
00:40:36.90\00:40:44.59
What words can convey
it, the joy of this day?
00:40:44.62\00:40:52.59
When grateful we
come, remembering, rejoicing
00:40:52.64\00:41:00.49
What song can we
offer in honor and praise?
00:41:00.52\00:41:08.49
Give thanks for the
past, for those who had vision
00:41:12.90\00:41:20.80
Who planted and watered
so dreams could come true
00:41:20.83\00:41:28.24
Give thanks for the
now, for study, for worship
00:41:28.27\00:41:36.05
For mission that bids
us turn prayer into deed
00:41:36.08\00:41:44.05
Give thanks for
tomorrow, full of surprises
00:42:24.20\00:42:31.51
For knowing
whatever tomorrow may bring
00:42:31.54\00:42:39.21
The Word is our
promise always, forever
00:42:39.24\00:42:45.62
We rest in God's keeping
00:42:45.65\00:42:51.15
and live in God's love
00:42:51.18\00:42:55.59
This gift we now bring,
this present, this token
00:42:59.81\00:43:07.80
These words can convey
it, the joy of this day!
00:43:07.83\00:43:15.80
When grateful we come,
remembering, rejoicing,
00:43:15.84\00:43:23.75
This song we now
offer in honor and praise!
00:43:23.78\00:43:31.24
All praise and thanks to God,
00:44:16.87\00:44:22.11
The Father, now be given,
00:44:22.14\00:44:28.56
The Son, and Him who reigns
00:44:28.59\00:44:33.08
With them in highest heaven,
00:44:33.11\00:44:39.69
The one eternal God
00:44:39.72\00:44:45.15
Whom earth and heaven adore,
00:44:45.18\00:44:50.26
For thus it was, is
now, and shall be evermore"
00:44:50.29\00:44:58.26
Please stand.
00:45:30.35\00:45:31.38
"Praise God, from
whom all blessings flow,
00:46:06.69\00:46:13.79
Praise Him, all
creatures here below
00:46:13.82\00:46:20.74
Praise Him
above, ye heavenly host,
00:46:20.77\00:46:27.66
Praise Father,
Son, and Holy Ghost.
00:46:27.69\00:46:35.66
Amen."
00:46:37.57\00:46:44.57
For all the saints
who from their labors rest
00:47:16.59\00:47:24.59
Who Thee by faith
before the world confess
00:47:28.81\00:47:36.81
Thy name, O
Jesus, be forever blest
00:47:38.90\00:47:46.90
Alleluia! Alleluia!
00:47:53.66\00:48:00.66
Alleluia!
00:48:02.30\00:48:10.30
Thou wast their
Rock, their Fortress,
00:48:20.15\00:48:25.05
and their Might Thou, Lord,
00:48:25.08\00:48:29.97
their Captain in the
well-fought fight Thou,
00:48:30.00\00:48:36.17
in the darkness
drear, their one true Light
00:48:36.20\00:48:43.77
Alleluia! Alleluia!
00:48:43.80\00:48:51.77
Oh, may Thy soldiers,
faithful, true and bold
00:48:53.83\00:49:01.69
Fight as the saints
who nobly fought of old
00:49:01.72\00:49:09.06
And win with them the
victor's crown of gold
00:49:09.09\00:49:17.06
Alleluia! Alleluia!
00:49:17.09\00:49:25.06
And when the fight is
fierce, the warfare long
00:49:26.48\00:49:33.18
Steals on the ear
the distant triumph song
00:49:42.31\00:49:50.31
And hearts are brave
again, and arms are strong
00:49:51.47\00:49:59.47
Alleluia!
00:50:11.81\00:50:19.81
Alleluia!
00:50:21.08\00:50:29.08
Alleluia!
00:50:37.66\00:50:41.68
"From earth's wide bounds,
from ocean's farthest coast,
00:51:32.18\00:51:40.18
Thro' gates of pearl
streams in the countless host,
00:51:40.84\00:51:48.84
Singing to Father,
Son, and Holy Ghost,
00:51:51.11\00:51:59.11
Alleluia! Alleluia!"
00:52:00.86\00:52:08.86
He who testifies
to these things says
00:52:51.72\00:52:54.57
"Yes I am coming soon."
00:52:54.60\00:52:57.10
Amen, come Lord Jesus,
00:52:58.25\00:53:01.68
the grace of the Lord
Jesus be with God's people.
00:53:01.71\00:53:05.85
Amen.
00:53:05.88\00:53:06.91
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