Good morning, church.
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Good morning.
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And it gives me
great joy to wish you
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of course a happy Sabbath
and also a happy New Year
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on this first Sabbath of
2016, I've been practicing.
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I'm gonna invite you to join me
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in reading responsively
the call to worship,
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found on page 8
of your bulletin.
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So we'll begin,
"Gather us into this New Year,
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oh, God of the ages.
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The scattered, the lonely,
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the lost look to
you for your need.
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Bring us together
from far and from near.
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Let us hear the
voice of our Christ
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and we will
rejoice and be satisfied."
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Let's stand for a prayer.
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Holy Father, on the
cusp of this New Year
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in an uncharted
voyage just hours old.
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We gather from across,
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a chilly
landscape to worship You.
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In this time I sustain
You as the best certainty
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such confusing uncertainty.
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Our souls are hungry for hope,
for security, for assurance.
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That's why we sing to You now
the words of that ancient hymn,
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Oh, God our help in ages past,
our hope for years to come,
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our shelter
from the stormy blast
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and our eternal home.
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Hear our prayer,
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receive our worship
through Christ our Savior
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in whom we are
hidden and in whose cross
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we find our hiding place.
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In the name of
Jesus we pray, amen.
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Lift high the cross
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The love of Christ proclaim
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Till all the world adore
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His sacred name
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Come, Christians, follow
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Where our Captain trod
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Our King victorious
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Christ, the Son of God
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Lift high the cross
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The love of Christ proclaim
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Till all the world adore
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His sacred name
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Led on their way by
this triumphant sign
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The hosts of God
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In conqu'ring ranks combine
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Lift high the cross
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The love of Christ proclaim
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Till all the world adore
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His sacred name
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All newborn soldiers
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Of the Crucified
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Bear on their brows
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The seal of Him who died
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Lift high the cross
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The love of Christ proclaim
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Till all the world adore
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His sacred name
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O Lord, once lifted
on the glorious tree
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As Thou has promised
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Draw us all to Thee
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Lift high the cross
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The love of Christ proclaim
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Till all the world adore
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His sacred name
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So shall our song
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Of triumph ever be
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Praise to the Crucified
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For victory!
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Lift high the cross
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The love of Christ proclaim
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Till all the world adore
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His sacred name
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In the morning
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When I rise in the morning
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When I rise in the morning
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When I rise
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Give me Jesus
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I'd rather have Jesus
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Than silver or gold
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I'd rather be His
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Than have riches untold
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I'd rather have Jesus
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Than houses or land
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I'd rather be led
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By His nail pierced hand
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Give me Jesus
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Give me Jesus
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You can have all this world
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Give me
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Jesus
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Just about the break of day
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Just about the break of day
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Just about the break of day
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Give me Jesus
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He's fairer than lilies
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Of rarest bloom
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He's sweeter than honey
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From out the comb
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He's all that my
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Hungering spirit needs
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I'd rather have Jesus
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And let Him lead
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Than to be the king
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Of a vast domain
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Or be held
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In sin's dread sway
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I'd rather have Jesus
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Than anything
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This world affords
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Today
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You can have
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All this world
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Just give me
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Jesus
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Thank you, Ryan.
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Oh, thank you Ryan Clough.
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What a beautiful
New Year's prayer,
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"Give me Jesus,
I'd rather have Jesus".
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Just the prayer to be
praying as we begin a new year.
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Can you believe
this, boys and girls,
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the New Year is here
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but I have a hard
time remembering New Years,
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the number.
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Does anybody know the
number of this New Year?
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Because it's kind
of hard to remember.
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What would the number be?
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2016.
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That's it, you got it.
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Thanks for the
reminder, 2016 already.
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And I got the perfect
story for us from my friend,
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oh, we have to be
quiet, we have to be quiet
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and not wave at each
other during the children story.
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My friend Milke
send me the story.
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This happened
just a few days ago.
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Yup.
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Britain was so
excited, the United Kingdom,
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they finally...
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Oh, what a joyful moment,
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they were sending an astronaut
just last month in December,
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they sent an
astronaut into outer space
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on a Russian
rocket from Kazakhstan.
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His name, Timothy Peake.
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And it was perfectly timed
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because right as the
rocket reached the height,
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it made contact with the
International Space Station,
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ISS where scientists are
living in that space station
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and they are
doing research and test.
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Oh, and he was so excited,
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let's see a
picture of Timothy Peake,
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42 years old.
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Come on, let's
see that famous...
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Oh, there he is.
Doesn't he look happy?
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Look at, he's floating,
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he's just
floating in outer space.
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And you know
what he was, you know,
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I really had him excited though
was that he on Christmas Eve
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just a few days ago, he said,
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"I'm going to call home to
my family and surprise them,
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they don't know this.
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I'm going to call
them on Christmas Eve
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from outer space."
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In that picture he's
traveling five miles a second.
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Every 90 minutes he
goes around the earth
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in that
International Space Station.
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So he said, "Okay."
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Christmas Eve, were
you here for Christmas Eve?
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Were you here
in Berrien Springs?
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You went somewhere,
okay, wherever you were,
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he was farther.
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So he's there,
Christmas Eve, he said, "Okay,
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give me that big space phone."
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So they gave
him the space phone,
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he picked it up,
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he said, "All right, now I
got to dial my home phone."
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I don't know if
there's extra area codes
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when you dial
from outer space but...
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Tuck the number in, ring, ring.
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Who is it? This gonna be it,
they're gonna be so surprised.
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"Hello." It was a woman's voice.
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"Hello."
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He said, "Wait a
minute, that's not my wife."
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"Hello."
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He said, "That's not my mother.
That's not my mother-in-law.
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Who is that?"
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He was so
flustered at that moment.
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He said, the first thing
that came to his mind, he said,
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"Hello, is this planet earth?"
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It was.
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It was a little 79
year old lady in England
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named Beverly Barker,
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who thought, you know what,
this is my neighbors again.
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They've been in the pub.
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They're pulling a little
Christmas Eve trick on me.
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What does he want to
know, is this planet earth?
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I got the right answer
for him so she said to him,
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"No, it is not."
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And then she hung up the phone.
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Poor, embarrassed Timothy Peake.
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He quickly went to his Twitter
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and he said, "I'm gonna
tweet this message to Earth
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and so let's put a
picture of it on the screen
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he tweeted to earth."
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I'd like to
apologize to the lady
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I just called by mistake saying,
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"Hello, is this planet Earth?"
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That was not a prank
call, just a wrong number."
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Hey, listen, if you
guys ever going to space,
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if time should last long enough
and you become an astronaut,
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here's a rule
about calling from space,
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just get this in your mind,
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always remember
your home phone number
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and dial the right one.
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Hey somebody else
lives in outer space.
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Who lives in outer space?
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What's His name?
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Jesus and how do we call Jesus?
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Does anybody have His number?
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I got it for you right here,
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J-E-S-U-S
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and what does that spell?
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Jesus.
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Jesus, when you...
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I have good news for you,
you can get the spelling wrong.
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You can get the number wrong,
but every time you call Jesus.
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Guess, who answers the phone?
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Jesus answers the phone.
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He will never this
New Year hang up on you
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ever, ever, ever.
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What a
wonderful, wonderful Savior.
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Oh, you got to
call Jesus every day,
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call Him every single day,
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He can hardly
wait for you to call.
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He's in outer
space, and you're here
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and He'll hear you just perfect.
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Who would like to thank
Jesus for being that Lord,
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I need somebody near the front.
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Who would like to thank
Jesus for being that Lord
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who can hear us from
outer space any time?
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Cissy, you got picked.
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Let's fold our...
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What's your first name?
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Chrissie.
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Ah, Chrissie, that's
my little girl's name.
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Let's fold our
hands and close our eyes
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as Chrissie thanks Jesus
for being our Savior, Chrissie?
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Dear Jesus, thank You for today,
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thank You for your
wonderful world, amen.
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Amen. Thank you,
Chrissie, the perfect prayer.
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As you go back to your
seats, you say that to Jesus,
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thank You, thank You, thank You.
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J-E-S-U-S,
Happy New Year to you.
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God bless our children.
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I think they're wonderful bunch.
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I thought this is a
holiday week and nobody be here
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but look at them, here they are.
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Thanks for
coming with them today.
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Oh yes, Jesus loves us.
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Chrissie just pray
for us, so let's go.
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Open your Bible with me please.
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I want to connect to the
story just as quickly as I can.
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Open your Bible to 1 John 4.
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1 John 4.
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It may be
familiar to you, maybe not,
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so familiar 1
John 4, I'm in the NIV,
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The New International
Version, works from on earth.
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If you have your
Bible, find 1 John 4,
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if you don't have your
Bible, it's a New King James,
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it's a pew Bible in
front of you and you.
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You can go to
page 820 in that Bible,
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not gonna put the
words on the screen for you.
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Just want to read
these words out loud,
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with you
following along, 1 John 4:9,
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"This is how God
showed His love among us.
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He sent His one and
only Son into the world
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that we might live through Him."
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Now hold on, hold
on, here comes verse 10.
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"This is love." Okay, His love.
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Here comes, "This is
love: not that we love God,
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but that He loved
us and sent His Son
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as an atoning
sacrifice for our sins."
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Thinking of Timothy
Peake, the astronaut,
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I'm just wondering, do you
suppose God ever regrets...
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creating this planet.
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I mean, please,
look at it today.
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This, today, second
day of the New Year,
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look at the mess we're in.
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Do you suppose God
ever said, "Hello, hello,
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is this planet earth?
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The planet
earth that we created,
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is this the same place?
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The whole world, to be honest,
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a whole world breathe a sigh
of relief just a few hours ago,
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when we bade farewell
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adios to 2015.
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Truth of the matter
is the whole world knows
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that we're just like,
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we're just like the
tarmac in the O'Hare Airport,
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the planes are all lined up,
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the crisis in the
2016 are already lined up.
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They're getting
ready to take off,
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and they're all
coming in our direction
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just one right after the
other, the whole world knows it.
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So today, we begin a new series
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perhaps to distract
us from the headlines
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for a few moments
every Sabbath this winter.
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But maybe better yet
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to prepare us for the headlines.
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The title of this
series, I put it on the screen
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for it's beginning right now,
"Charmed into Righteousness",
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"Charmed into Righteousness",
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those who are
watching live streaming,
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that that's what will be
here Sabbath after Sabbath
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through this winter.
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Charmed into Righteousness,
and I must tell you,
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I love that little phrase.
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I can say that because
I didn't come up with it.
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I've been
reading Reinhold Niebuhr,
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who in the 20th century
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was recognized by Time Magazine,
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cover picture,
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America's
theologian Reinhold Niebuhr.
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I've been reading
for the second time,
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his little book,
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"Leaves from the
Notebook of a Tamed Cynic."
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Reinhold Niebuhr was
for 13 years a pastor
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in the Motor
City, Detroit, Michigan.
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So he writes to pastors,
it's a good little book,
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I'm second time through.
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These are his words, I
put it on the screen for you.
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Reinhold
Niebuhr, "On the whole..."
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He's writing, "People do
not achieve great moral heights
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out of a sense of duty.
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You may be able to compel them
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to maintain certain minimum
standards by stressing duty,
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but the highest moral
and spiritual achievements
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depend not upon a
push but upon a pull."
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I like that.
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Now here comes, here comes.
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"People must be
charmed into righteousness."
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Isn't that good?
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"People must be
charmed into righteousness.
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The language of aspiration
rather than that of criticism
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and command is the
proper pulpit language."
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He writes, Charmed
into Righteousness.
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The very word charm is
a charming word, isn't it?
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But I find it charming
because it also triggers
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a memory of its use
by a writer a 100 years
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before, Reinhold
Niebuhr, Her name Ellen White.
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I put her charmed on the
screen for you right now,
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"You cannot..."
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She writes a century ago,
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"You cannot
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but be charmed with
the matchless attractions
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of the Son of God."
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Isn't that good?
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Charm with the matchless
attractions of the Son of God.
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Wow! Charmed.
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Read it again.
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Put the words on the
screen for you now, 1 John 4:9,
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"This is how God
showed His love among us:
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He sent us his one and
only Son into the world
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that we might live through him.
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This is love..."
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Come on, you want
to know, this is it.
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"This is love:
not that we love God,
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but that he loved us
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and sent his Son as
an atoning sacrifice
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for our sins."
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I wish we had the
DVD or the YouTube clip
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of that dream
that Joseph dreamed
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on that night of troubled sleep.
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I mean look at, his fiance,
young married teenage girl,
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she just announced to
him that she is pregnant.
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And when somebody
tells you, "I'm pregnant,
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because the Holy Spirit did it."
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You're going to believe that?
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So he decided,
listen proper thing to do,
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I just was going to quietly...
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We're engaged, the
wedding is not quite yet,
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but I'm gonna, I'm gonna pursue
as they did in those days,
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an act of divorce, just
sever this relationship.
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That night the angel shows up,
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here it is, Matthew 1,
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keep your finger, stay
right here in 1 John 4.
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But we'll put
Matthew 1 in the screen here,
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Matthew 1:20,
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"But after Joseph
he considered this,
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an angel of the Lord appeared
to him in a dream and said..."
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Now hold on.
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"Joseph son of David,
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do not be afraid to
take Mary home as your wife,
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because what is conceived
in her is from the Holy Spirit.
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And she will
give birth to a son,
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and you are to
give him the name Jesus,
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because he will save his
people from their sins."'
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You are to name the baby
J-E-S-U-S, we'd say in English.
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Just before heading
down, flying down to Argentina
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for eight sermons in
that wonderful country.
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Sunday, left on
Monday but Sunday,
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Pioneer had the joy of
hosting, first time in history
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hosting a Messiah Sing Along,
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thanks to our choir
leader Jeannie Pedersen-Smith
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in the Sanctuary choir.
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This place was packed.
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And dominantly
guests and visitors
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from the community.
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Man said, "I've been listening
on the radio South Bend,
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brought my whole family up here
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Roman Catholics,
okay, we can come?"
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Of course, it's okay.
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For me, on every level
it was a moving experience.
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And in that great
oratorio, here you have,
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you have the name Messiah.
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Messiah being announced,
and of course the angels say,
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"Hey, listen,
this is the Messiah.
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You're going to give Him a name.
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You're going to
call Him J-E-S-U-S,
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for He will save His
people from their sins."
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The 19th century, the
great preacher Charles Spurgeon,
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put an exclamation mark
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after the name of
Jesus with this quotation.
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And I want to put it
on the screen for you out,
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this is something.
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Jesus, Spurgeon now,
"Jesus is a song in one word...
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a matchless
oratorio in two syllables...
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and all the hallelujahs
of eternity in five letters."
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How do you spell it?
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J-E-S-U-S.
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You cannot but be charmed
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with the matchless
attractions of the Son of God.
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And so, I had one
prayer for you this New Year.
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University students, I
mean, you're already back,
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community member, faculty staff,
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Livestreamer right now.
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If I had one prayer for you,
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that would be
that every new dawning,
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every new morning this New Year,
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we find you alone for
just a few minutes you,
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you alone with this
Jesus and you take the gospel,
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you pick the gospel.
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You begin
reading it consecutively
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one story at a time.
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And you let
your heart be charmed
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with the matchless
attractions of this Son of God.
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That's what I wish for you.
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Charles Wesley, century
before Charles Spurgeon,
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west of the great
composer of Methodist hymns.
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Wesley once wrote to him,
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and I don't want to
sing it with you right now,
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I want to, I want to...
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I want to read it with
you, so grab your hymn notes,
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250 in your hymn note.
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Come on, I'm not
putting it on the screen,
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so grab the hymn note, 250.
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He captures the life
of Jesus and you will...
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We will read the word
charm embedded in his hymn,
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this beautiful hymn,
you love it, I love it too.
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Oh, for a
thousand tongues to sing,
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my great Redeemer's praise.
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So let's just read it, come on,
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when was the last time
you read it in your hymnal?
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Stanza one, "Oh,
for a thousand tongues
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to sing my great
Redeemer's praise,
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the glories of my God and King,
the triumphs of his grace."
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All the way through
it's just J-E-S-U-S.
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The charm, here's
stanza number two,
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"My gracious Master and my
God, assist me to proclaim,
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to spread through all the
earth abroad this new year,
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the honors of thy name."
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Now here comes, here
comes the word verse 3, Jesus!
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Was Spurgeon's
exclamation mark, "Jesus!
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the name that charms our fears."
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Isn't that beautiful.
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"The name that charms our fears,
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that bids our sorrows cease,
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'Tis music in the sinner's ears,
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'Tis life and health and peace.
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He breaks the
power of canceled sin,
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He sets the prisoner free,
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His blood can
make the foulest clean,
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His blood availed
for me, it covered me."
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Number five.
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"He speaks and
listening to his voice,
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new life the dead
receive the mournful,
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broken hearts rejoice the
humble poor believe Jesus.
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Hear Him, ye deaf, His praise,
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ye dumb, Your
loosened tongues employ,
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Ye blind, behold
your Savior come,
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And leap, ye lame, for joy."
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I mean, it talk about
the matchless attractions
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of Christ is imbedded in
that old, old gospel hymn.
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But the third stanza,
put it on the screen for you.
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"Jesus! the name
that charms our fears."
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That's the name.
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What's the name I dial
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when I'm in
trouble this New Year?
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What's the name I
want to contact every,
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every morning first thing?
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J-E-S-U-S.
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You'll never
get a hang up on it.
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You will never
dial the wrong number.
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Jesus.
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So if I had a New
Year's prayer for you,
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it would be that every morning,
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every single morning,
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you alone with a matchless charm
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is an attraction of Jesus.
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You pick the gospel you,
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you read it at your
leisure but every morning.
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Oh, what's our
harmony text here,
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1 John 4:9,
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"This is how God
showed His love among us:
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He sent his one and
only Son into the world
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that we might live through him."
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Verse 10, "This is
love: not that we found God,
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but that he,"
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that there is rather
not that we love God,
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"But that he loved
us and he sent his Son
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as an atoning
sacrifice for our sins."
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Wow!
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I came across a
powerful depiction
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of the death of
God suffering love
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in a brand new book
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written by one
of our own faculty
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at the Theological Seminary.
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Wow. John Peacham is his name.
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He's a
philosopher and a theologian,
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teaches both
philosophy and theology
00:28:12.89\00:28:14.22
at our seminary here on campus.
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He just wrote the book,
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" The Love of God:
A Canonical Model."
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And I've been
reading through it,
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and I'm going to tell
you as God is my witness,
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it is a most exhaustive
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and scholarly
study of God's love,
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I have ever read
in my short life.
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And by the way I just
learned this couple weeks ago.
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He's being published,
00:28:36.38\00:28:38.05
I knew this by
InterVarsity Press,
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no small press for a professor
00:28:40.45\00:28:43.39
in this little
seminary to get published it.
00:28:43.42\00:28:45.32
InterVarsity Press
Academic, which means up here,
00:28:45.35\00:28:48.46
and guess what?
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Just a few weeks ago, he
was voted Reader's Choice,
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the number one
book for 2015 in IVP.
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Number one
book, Reader's Choice.
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You need to read the
book, that's my point.
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I'll be quoting
from it in this series.
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Anyway, he captures
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the depths of
God's suffering love.
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This one line, these
words are in his book.
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Put it on the screen,
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"The God who is love
must be able to suffer
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and does suffer
beyond all limits
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in the giving up
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of what is most
authentically his..."
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Say, what is His love?
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"He gives up what
is most authentically
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his for the sake of
mortal man and woman."
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That's what love is.
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He gives up that, that's me,
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that's my son that's we are one,
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He gives up what is
most authentically His.
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I mean John says, "Look at,
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this is love: this is
love not that we love God,
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but that he loved
us and sent his Son
00:29:43.28\00:29:44.71
as a sacrifice, atoning
sacrifice for our sins."
00:29:44.75\00:29:47.65
Wow, it doesn't get
any better than that.
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It does not get
any better than that.
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Calvary, Bethlehem, book ends
to the narrative of this God
00:29:53.15\00:29:57.33
who entered into the depths
00:29:57.36\00:29:58.69
of our mortal human
suffering to save us.
00:29:58.73\00:30:03.57
That's a God who says,
00:30:03.63\00:30:04.97
"I want to meet with
you tomorrow morning,
00:30:05.00\00:30:06.33
we'd be there.
00:30:06.37\00:30:07.70
You got my number?"
"I got it, I got it."
00:30:07.74\00:30:09.80
Just call me, I'll be there."
00:30:09.84\00:30:14.14
For that reason scripture
is absolutely unequivocal
00:30:14.18\00:30:16.11
in declaring
00:30:16.14\00:30:17.65
the gospel is exactly
as John just declared it.
00:30:17.68\00:30:20.28
The angel declared it,
John is our harmony text,
00:30:20.32\00:30:22.75
he is declaring it.
00:30:22.78\00:30:24.15
And Paul comes along
and says, "Both are right."
00:30:24.19\00:30:27.36
Put this verse on the screen,
keep your finger in 1 John 4,
00:30:27.42\00:30:29.99
here it is, 1 Timothy 1:15,
00:30:30.03\00:30:31.99
it doesn't get any
more succinct than this,
00:30:32.03\00:30:33.80
"Here is a
trustworthy saying..."
00:30:33.86\00:30:35.16
Paul scribbling,
00:30:35.20\00:30:36.90
"That deserves
full acceptance..."
00:30:36.93\00:30:38.27
Here it comes,
00:30:38.30\00:30:39.63
"Christ Jesus
came into the world
00:30:39.67\00:30:41.00
to save sinners of
whom I am the worst."
00:30:41.04\00:30:43.94
No question, I'm the
worst, that's a gospel.
00:30:43.97\00:30:49.58
The angel says, you
should His call name Jesus,
00:30:49.61\00:30:51.55
He'll save His
people from their sins.
00:30:51.58\00:30:53.21
Well, who are His
people? The whole world.
00:30:53.25\00:30:54.75
Christ Jesus came into the world
00:30:54.78\00:30:56.45
to save sinners of
whom I am the worst.
00:30:56.48\00:30:59.15
You know what?
00:30:59.19\00:31:00.59
For an academic community,
that's not so bad for us
00:31:00.66\00:31:02.49
to just hit the
pause button and hold that,
00:31:02.52\00:31:05.16
keep that on the
screen for a moment.
00:31:05.19\00:31:06.80
There is no question
00:31:09.80\00:31:11.73
that the greatest
intellect Christianity
00:31:11.77\00:31:13.90
has ever burst is the mind,
00:31:13.94\00:31:18.61
heart and soul
of the Apostle Paul.
00:31:18.64\00:31:22.91
He's the one who declares,
00:31:22.94\00:31:24.41
I am the worst,
he's not playacting,
00:31:24.45\00:31:27.28
not little slide of hands
00:31:27.32\00:31:28.65
so you won't' really
make you think I'm a sinner.
00:31:28.68\00:31:30.75
He knows he's the worst.
00:31:30.79\00:31:33.96
Christ Jesus came in
the world to save sinners
00:31:34.02\00:31:37.49
whom I'm the worst,
it's called the gospel.
00:31:37.53\00:31:41.36
Over this Christmas break.
00:31:41.40\00:31:42.73
I've been reading
00:31:42.76\00:31:44.10
from this little
classic chapter a day,
00:31:44.13\00:31:46.20
Steps to Christ.
00:31:46.23\00:31:47.77
All you can do a
lot worse this new year
00:31:47.80\00:31:50.44
and going back
to this little book
00:31:50.47\00:31:51.81
and just reading a
chapter a day for a while,
00:31:51.84\00:31:54.11
so sure you get through
it in a couple of weeks.
00:31:54.14\00:31:57.75
I want to share with you a
line that comes from this book,
00:31:57.78\00:32:00.52
I put the words on the screen,
00:32:00.55\00:32:01.88
and I'm gonna read
00:32:01.92\00:32:03.25
from my little
marked up copy here.
00:32:03.28\00:32:05.32
Steps to Christ, page 35,
00:32:05.35\00:32:08.02
speaking of an
intellectual community
00:32:08.06\00:32:10.73
as we are, listen,
00:32:10.76\00:32:12.33
"Many accept an
intellectual religion."
00:32:12.36\00:32:15.33
All right we got
it all figured out,
00:32:15.36\00:32:16.73
we got it up here, we got it.
00:32:16.77\00:32:18.80
"Many accept an
intellectual religion,
00:32:18.83\00:32:20.80
a form of godliness, when
the heart is not cleansed.
00:32:20.84\00:32:25.07
Let it be your prayer,
00:32:25.11\00:32:26.44
this new year
create in me a clean heart,
00:32:26.47\00:32:28.44
O God, and renew a
right spirit within me."
00:32:28.48\00:32:31.61
Boy at the foot
of the cross what...
00:32:31.65\00:32:33.42
Could there be a greater day
00:32:33.48\00:32:34.82
than today to pray
this prayer together
00:32:34.85\00:32:36.65
at the foot of Calvary
as we will in just a moment.
00:32:36.69\00:32:39.92
Create in me a clean heart.
00:32:39.95\00:32:41.29
God, I don't want
to think about 2015,
00:32:41.32\00:32:43.49
I don't want to
remember, cleanse my memory,
00:32:43.53\00:32:45.73
scrub my soul, God,
00:32:45.76\00:32:47.96
I have to start
this new year clean.
00:32:48.00\00:32:50.20
I can't carry that baggage
00:32:50.23\00:32:52.53
into 2016.
00:32:52.57\00:32:57.84
Why not?
00:32:57.87\00:32:59.77
It's gospel, wash
me, I'll start over.
00:32:59.81\00:33:04.15
Ellen White goes on,
00:33:04.18\00:33:05.51
"Deal truly with your own soul."
00:33:05.55\00:33:08.15
Don't play games,
00:33:08.18\00:33:09.52
you know the
truth and so does God.
00:33:09.55\00:33:11.75
So talk to Him honestly,
00:33:11.79\00:33:13.66
don't put on this
happy face to God,
00:33:13.69\00:33:15.69
here I am again,
00:33:15.72\00:33:17.06
your perfect little boy or girl.
00:33:17.13\00:33:18.63
No, you're not, and
God knows it and so you.
00:33:18.66\00:33:21.70
"Deal truly with your own soul.
00:33:21.73\00:33:23.33
Be as earnest, as persistent,
00:33:23.37\00:33:25.03
as you would be
00:33:25.07\00:33:26.40
if your mortal
life were at stake.
00:33:26.43\00:33:28.27
This is a matter to be settled
between God and your own soul,
00:33:28.30\00:33:31.14
settled for eternity.
00:33:31.17\00:33:34.08
A supposed hope,
00:33:34.14\00:33:35.88
and nothing more,
will prove your ruin."
00:33:35.91\00:33:40.78
You say, hey,
Dwight, oh, time out.
00:33:40.82\00:33:42.48
Wow, you said,
00:33:42.52\00:33:43.85
there's gonna be charmed
by his matchless attractions."
00:33:43.89\00:33:46.22
This is sounding
very negative to me.
00:33:46.25\00:33:48.62
No, time out for
you, time out, time out.
00:33:48.66\00:33:52.19
How can the good news
possibly be good news,
00:33:52.23\00:33:55.40
if I don't know
the bad news first,
00:33:55.43\00:33:57.77
if I don't admit
the bad news first?
00:33:57.80\00:33:59.80
Until I say, "I
am the worst sinner
00:33:59.83\00:34:01.67
on this planet and mean it."
00:34:01.70\00:34:04.91
Jesus Christ came into the world
00:34:04.94\00:34:06.27
to save sinner, so.
00:34:06.31\00:34:08.38
I don't need that.
00:34:08.41\00:34:10.15
You have to
need it, to plead it.
00:34:10.18\00:34:14.35
And when you
plead it, you get it.
00:34:14.38\00:34:18.69
That's the way it works.
00:34:18.72\00:34:21.09
Paul for the rest of his life
pled for God to cover his past.
00:34:21.12\00:34:24.36
Because his past
was a shaming past,
00:34:24.39\00:34:28.30
forgetting those
things which are behind.
00:34:28.33\00:34:30.33
He kept saying, "I got
to forget what's behind,
00:34:30.37\00:34:32.87
but I'm the worst
sinner and he couldn't forget."
00:34:32.90\00:34:38.11
Wow.
00:34:38.14\00:34:42.38
Reminds me of that
sentence by the way,
00:34:42.41\00:34:44.21
on page 30, same chapter.
00:34:44.25\00:34:46.88
I put it on the
screen for you here.
00:34:46.92\00:34:49.52
The drunkard, okay,
00:34:49.55\00:34:51.25
this is the person hooked on
prescription drugs, all right.
00:34:51.29\00:34:54.12
So that she keeps
going to the doctor
00:34:54.16\00:34:55.72
getting more and
more prescriptions,
00:34:55.76\00:34:57.09
she doesn't have
to have this much,
00:34:57.13\00:34:58.46
but she's hooked now.
00:34:58.49\00:35:01.36
Okay, so the drug addict.
00:35:01.40\00:35:02.73
This could be the
junkie in the inner city,
00:35:02.76\00:35:04.27
or could be the
respectable, you know,
00:35:04.30\00:35:06.03
middle class drug addict
00:35:06.07\00:35:07.44
because of prescription medicine
00:35:07.47\00:35:08.80
or could be an alcoholic.
00:35:08.84\00:35:10.17
"The drunkard is despised..."
00:35:10.21\00:35:11.67
Yeah, around here...
00:35:11.71\00:35:13.17
"And is told that her
sin, his sin will exclude him,
00:35:13.21\00:35:16.85
will exclude her from heaven..."
00:35:16.88\00:35:18.48
All the while, watch
this, whoa, brother, "Pride,
00:35:18.51\00:35:21.98
selfishness, and covetousness
too often go unrebuked."
00:35:22.02\00:35:26.42
Not a word, I don't,
I'm not sorry for those,
00:35:26.45\00:35:29.22
because you know
thank God, I'm not like her.
00:35:29.26\00:35:33.53
Too often they go unrebuked
but keep going, keep reading,
00:35:33.60\00:35:37.23
"These are sins
that are especially..."
00:35:37.27\00:35:39.73
Did you get the word especially?
00:35:39.77\00:35:41.17
"Especially
offensive to God, for pride,
00:35:41.20\00:35:44.77
covetousness and selfishness
00:35:44.81\00:35:46.14
are contrary to the
benevolence of His character,
00:35:46.17\00:35:48.48
to that unselfish love
00:35:48.51\00:35:50.31
which is the very
atmosphere of heaven."
00:35:50.35\00:35:54.18
I'm telling you what?
00:35:54.22\00:35:55.65
Just began with
one of those three
00:35:55.68\00:35:57.62
I really have a struggle with.
00:35:57.65\00:35:59.22
Probably with all three
that I don't even know about,
00:35:59.25\00:36:01.56
but at least two of those three.
00:36:01.59\00:36:04.26
No, maybe three.
00:36:04.29\00:36:07.13
What were the
three again by the way?
00:36:07.23\00:36:08.53
Pride,
covetousness, selfishness,
00:36:12.27\00:36:14.17
the selfishness thing, I
really struggled with it.
00:36:14.24\00:36:17.44
I'm a selfish person by nature.
00:36:17.51\00:36:19.37
I found that the Lord
reminded me again this week.
00:36:19.41\00:36:21.81
So we were flying,
we were flying home,
00:36:30.69\00:36:32.35
we had a wonderful
time, that week in Argentina,
00:36:32.39\00:36:35.39
then a week in
Southern California,
00:36:35.42\00:36:37.06
reunion with my
mother, and the whole tribe,
00:36:37.13\00:36:39.46
the Nelson tribe, we
did had a glorious time.
00:36:39.49\00:36:41.26
So Karen and I got
up 3:30 in the morning.
00:36:41.30\00:36:43.97
Left 4:45 raced to L.A.X.
00:36:44.03\00:36:46.40
when the traffic was survivable.
00:36:46.43\00:36:49.00
We had an 8:50 flight, got
right up there to check in,
00:36:49.04\00:36:52.07
and it said canceled.
00:36:52.11\00:36:54.98
It's Wednesday.
00:36:55.01\00:36:56.34
Oh, man.
00:36:56.38\00:36:59.71
Go to the service
counter, have a long line,
00:36:59.75\00:37:02.88
we're halfway back.
00:37:02.92\00:37:04.95
Come to find out when we
got to the front of the line,
00:37:04.99\00:37:06.59
hallelujah, they
provided another plane,
00:37:06.62\00:37:08.76
the Dreamliner
787, to fly the people
00:37:08.79\00:37:11.79
that were stranded
by this canceled flight.
00:37:11.83\00:37:14.60
And so anyway we
have a five hour wait now.
00:37:14.63\00:37:18.40
So we're just
sitting around reading,
00:37:18.43\00:37:19.80
and grab a bite to eat,
00:37:19.83\00:37:21.80
and then I saw
on the monitor, Wow!
00:37:21.84\00:37:24.14
I got upgraded to
business first class.
00:37:24.21\00:37:29.91
Then I said, "No, no,
you know I arrange this trip
00:37:29.94\00:37:32.65
so I fly with
Karen, I'll sit with her."
00:37:32.68\00:37:37.69
I was hoping that
would be kind of...
00:37:37.72\00:37:40.86
because I was going to
enjoy just that brief moment.
00:37:40.89\00:37:44.63
Seriously, so I said,
I'm not gonna worry about,
00:37:44.66\00:37:46.63
somebody else can take my seat.
00:37:46.70\00:37:48.00
I will stick in the
one I'm assigned 22A.
00:37:48.03\00:37:49.76
So we go on to the plane.
00:37:49.80\00:37:51.63
There's this shriveled up
little lady sitting in 22A,
00:37:51.67\00:37:54.84
I say, "Hey, let me see your,
let me see your boarding pass,
00:37:54.87\00:37:57.37
it's 22A."
00:37:57.41\00:37:58.74
I said, "How could that be?"
00:37:58.77\00:38:00.34
So Karen looks at me,
and she says, "You know what?
00:38:00.41\00:38:03.38
Why don't you take
the seat in first class?
00:38:03.41\00:38:06.08
I'll sit back here." Yes.
00:38:06.11\00:38:09.72
Okay, I'll check it out.
00:38:09.75\00:38:11.55
Anyway I went up there,
00:38:11.59\00:38:12.92
the Dreamliner's
the reclining seat,
00:38:12.95\00:38:14.99
I'll take it.
00:38:15.02\00:38:18.36
Now here's
where the Lord got me.
00:38:18.39\00:38:20.96
So when the flight is
over, Karen and I now in O'Hare
00:38:21.00\00:38:23.30
racing to catch
this South Bend flight.
00:38:23.37\00:38:25.80
She says, "You
know, that little lady
00:38:25.83\00:38:27.17
that sat on the plane?"
00:38:27.24\00:38:29.27
She got to the airport
at 5:30 in the morning,
00:38:29.30\00:38:31.61
her family dropped her off.
00:38:31.64\00:38:33.31
She comes and finds out
that it's been canceled,
00:38:33.38\00:38:36.01
she has no money, not a
dollar bill to her name."
00:38:36.04\00:38:39.58
I'm thinking
what family would send
00:38:39.61\00:38:41.15
a little mother
without a dollar bill.
00:38:41.18\00:38:44.82
So she, Karen said, I
offered to buy the woman lunch
00:38:44.85\00:38:46.86
and she said,
"No, no, I don't want,
00:38:46.89\00:38:48.82
I'm okay, I'm okay."
00:38:48.86\00:38:50.23
But when we landed she said,
"You're gonna have some money,
00:38:50.26\00:38:52.26
" and my wife, the
most unselfish person
00:38:52.29\00:38:53.83
I know on this
planet gives cash to her
00:38:53.90\00:38:56.77
and says, "Buy yourself supper."
00:38:56.83\00:38:59.87
And right then, I said,
00:38:59.90\00:39:02.14
"You, if you had offered
00:39:02.17\00:39:07.11
that woman your seat.
00:39:07.14\00:39:09.28
She would have gotten a meal
00:39:09.31\00:39:11.55
with china and silver for free."
00:39:11.58\00:39:16.28
Said you little pig you ate it.
00:39:16.32\00:39:17.95
I'm telling you guys,
I'm not a drunkard, hey,
00:39:22.66\00:39:25.03
I'm not hooked on
prescription drugs.
00:39:25.06\00:39:27.60
I don't even drink
wine. I'm not an alcoholic.
00:39:27.66\00:39:31.97
Yeah, I know God says,
"It's pride, covetousness,
00:39:32.00\00:39:34.60
and selfishness that
I'm worried about with you."
00:39:34.64\00:39:37.21
You see the point.
00:39:37.24\00:39:39.07
An intellectual
community still needs Calvary.
00:39:39.11\00:39:41.54
That's the point.
We need the cross.
00:39:41.58\00:39:45.05
I need the cross.
00:39:45.08\00:39:47.25
I am the worst
sinner, Paul says,
00:39:47.32\00:39:48.78
"Christ Jesus came in
the world to save sinners
00:39:48.82\00:39:50.49
of whom I'm the worst."
00:39:50.52\00:39:51.85
But there's good news
for intellectual sinners.
00:39:51.89\00:39:53.36
Keep reading.
00:39:53.39\00:39:54.79
"As you see the enormity..."
00:39:54.82\00:39:56.93
Get my place here.
00:39:56.96\00:39:58.29
"As you see the enormity of sin,
00:39:58.33\00:39:59.66
as you see yourself
as you really are..."
00:39:59.69\00:40:01.43
Oh, boy, those moments come.
00:40:01.46\00:40:03.26
"Do not give up to despair.
00:40:03.33\00:40:05.07
It was sinners that
Christ Jesus came to save.
00:40:05.10\00:40:07.60
We have not to
reconcile God to us,
00:40:07.64\00:40:09.77
but wondrous, O wondrous love!"
00:40:09.80\00:40:11.97
This is so beautiful.
00:40:12.01\00:40:13.64
"God in Christ is 'reconciling
the world unto Himself.'
00:40:13.68\00:40:16.58
He is wooing by His
tender love the hearts
00:40:16.61\00:40:18.55
of His erring children.
00:40:18.58\00:40:19.91
No earthly parent
could be as patient
00:40:19.98\00:40:22.15
with the faults and
mistakes of his children,
00:40:22.18\00:40:24.42
as is God with
those He seeks to save.
00:40:24.45\00:40:26.76
No one could plead more
tenderly with a transgressor.
00:40:26.82\00:40:29.72
No human lips ever poured
out more tender entreaties
00:40:29.76\00:40:32.96
to the wanderer than does He."
00:40:32.99\00:40:37.00
My mother, God bless
her, 87 years of age,
00:40:37.03\00:40:40.77
in this family and
had the cousins there,
00:40:40.80\00:40:43.07
the siblings, the spouses
00:40:43.10\00:40:45.14
and my momma just sitting here
drinking it all and smiling,
00:40:45.17\00:40:48.11
she is bright mind,
interject now and then.
00:40:48.14\00:40:53.78
Sounds like a mother to me.
00:40:53.85\00:40:56.32
A mother who took me aside
before I left Tuesday night,
00:40:56.35\00:40:59.22
said, "Dwight, I need
to say little something,
00:40:59.25\00:41:00.66
I noticed about you."
00:41:00.69\00:41:02.52
Apparently even at
87 mothers can do this.
00:41:02.56\00:41:05.36
There ought to be a cutoff
00:41:05.39\00:41:06.73
where they just,
just be thankful, I mean.
00:41:06.80\00:41:11.57
No, I receive that,
00:41:11.60\00:41:12.93
I receive that in my
heart is the gift of love.
00:41:12.97\00:41:17.64
And that's God,
He says, it's me.
00:41:17.67\00:41:19.57
I'm not mother of yours.
00:41:19.61\00:41:21.04
I'm not daddy of
yours you never had.
00:41:21.08\00:41:23.21
I'm the father you
always longed to have
00:41:23.24\00:41:25.45
but he gave up on you,
00:41:25.48\00:41:27.58
I have never given up
on you, you are my girl,
00:41:27.62\00:41:29.82
you are my boy.
00:41:29.85\00:41:31.72
I'm pleading with you
come to me this new year,
00:41:31.75\00:41:34.02
I'm begging you,
I'm wooing your heart.
00:41:34.06\00:41:37.39
Look at these scars, J-E-S-U-S,
00:41:37.43\00:41:40.86
come be charmed, come to me.
00:41:40.90\00:41:44.73
What a God that
we've come to worship
00:41:44.77\00:41:48.30
the second day of the
new year, and He's here,
00:41:48.34\00:41:52.11
He's speaking to
your heart right now,
00:41:52.14\00:41:53.91
like you speak into mine
00:41:53.94\00:41:55.28
surprising me
even in my own notes.
00:41:55.31\00:41:58.15
That's the way He is.
00:41:58.18\00:41:59.61
Oh, the last line of
this, of this paragraph,
00:42:02.85\00:42:05.65
I put it on the
screen, just one line.
00:42:05.69\00:42:07.06
"All His promises, His warnings,
00:42:07.09\00:42:09.02
are but the
breathing of unutterable love."
00:42:09.06\00:42:13.09
Don't get any better
than unutterable love,
00:42:13.13\00:42:15.73
that's how much He loves you.
00:42:15.76\00:42:17.13
You say, "Dwight, you
don't know what I did in 2015?"
00:42:17.17\00:42:18.97
I don't care to know, I
already know what I did.
00:42:19.00\00:42:20.84
I'm the worst of sinners.
00:42:20.90\00:42:22.24
So we'll enjoy
this company together.
00:42:22.27\00:42:23.91
The point is an
unutterable love says,
00:42:23.97\00:42:26.34
"I wipe that off, and
I'll start afresh with you,
00:42:26.37\00:42:28.98
but you've got to come to me,
don't run from me, come to me."
00:42:29.01\00:42:35.82
"When Satan comes..."
00:42:35.85\00:42:37.19
Oh, here's the good
news now, I'll end with this.
00:42:37.25\00:42:38.59
"When Satan comes to tell
you that you are a great sinner,
00:42:38.62\00:42:42.76
which we are,
00:42:42.79\00:42:44.13
look up to you're
Redeemer" as we will...
00:42:44.19\00:42:45.53
At Lord's table we're
going to be looking straight up
00:42:45.56\00:42:47.76
in the face of Jesus.
00:42:47.76\00:42:49.10
"Look up to your Redeemer
and talk of His merits."
00:42:49.13\00:42:52.70
That's who counts,
00:42:52.73\00:42:54.07
"That which
will help you to look
00:42:54.10\00:42:55.44
is to look to His light.
00:42:55.47\00:42:56.84
Acknowledge your sin,
at the foot of the cross,
00:42:56.87\00:42:59.14
but tell the enemy..."
00:42:59.17\00:43:00.58
Hey, Yo!
00:43:00.61\00:43:01.94
Devil, you're not
telling me anything new,
00:43:01.98\00:43:04.15
I already knew all that.
00:43:04.18\00:43:06.11
You didn't know I know.
00:43:06.15\00:43:07.55
You think I am a fool.
00:43:07.62\00:43:09.42
I know what you're saying,
but you tell to your enemy.
00:43:09.45\00:43:12.02
"Tell the enemy that
00:43:12.05\00:43:13.39
'Christ Jesus
came into the world
00:43:13.46\00:43:14.79
to save sinners' and
that you may be saved
00:43:14.82\00:43:17.13
by His matchless love."'
00:43:17.16\00:43:20.00
Wow. Wow.
00:43:20.03\00:43:23.63
Wow. I'm gonna end
the quote right there.
00:43:23.67\00:43:28.00
Saved about His matchless love.
00:43:28.04\00:43:31.34
That's why we're
here, ladies and gentlemen,
00:43:31.37\00:43:32.87
brothers and sisters
of the family of God.
00:43:32.91\00:43:36.31
We have come today
00:43:36.34\00:43:38.25
on the second
day of this New Year
00:43:38.28\00:43:41.58
to be saved afresh
by His matchless love.
00:43:41.62\00:43:47.02
It doesn't get any better
than this, it just doesn't.
00:43:47.06\00:43:50.59
When you take the bread
as you will in a moment,
00:43:50.63\00:43:51.96
when you take the cup
as you will in a moment,
00:43:51.99\00:43:53.66
when you take the towel
as you will in a moment.
00:43:53.70\00:43:55.43
Jesus said, "All
three of these are
00:43:55.46\00:43:57.20
to remind you of My matchless,
00:43:57.23\00:43:59.10
My unutterable love,
My matchless attractions.
00:43:59.13\00:44:02.64
I want you to be
charmed in the righteousness.
00:44:02.67\00:44:04.94
I want you to be charmed to Me,
00:44:04.97\00:44:06.68
charmed into My nail
scarred open embrace.
00:44:06.71\00:44:08.81
Charm, come on,
come on, come on.
00:44:08.84\00:44:12.05
Let me love you like
you've never been loved before."
00:44:12.08\00:44:17.22
You can't make Me love
you more than I already do.
00:44:17.29\00:44:20.09
You can't make Me love
you less than I already do.
00:44:20.16\00:44:23.43
Come, come to me.
00:44:23.46\00:44:26.43
Oh, for a
thousand tongues to sing
00:44:26.46\00:44:29.00
my great Redeemer's praise,
00:44:29.03\00:44:32.27
Jesus, the name that charms
00:44:32.30\00:44:36.14
our fears away.
00:44:36.17\00:44:40.34
Let's pray.
00:44:40.38\00:44:41.71
Oh God, charmed and dear out,
00:44:41.74\00:44:46.41
stretched wide open embrace.
00:44:46.45\00:44:48.55
charm to the one who
says with unutterable love
00:44:48.58\00:44:54.12
and infinite
sacrifice, I have loved you.
00:44:54.16\00:44:56.32
Charmed to you.
00:44:56.36\00:45:00.53
What better way
to begin a new year
00:45:00.56\00:45:03.97
than with each other
at the foot of Your cross.
00:45:04.00\00:45:07.17
It doesn't get
any better than this
00:45:07.24\00:45:11.07
for which we thank You,
00:45:11.11\00:45:13.61
in the name that
is above every name,
00:45:13.68\00:45:15.31
the only Savior on earth,
00:45:15.34\00:45:17.65
our Lord Jesus,
00:45:17.68\00:45:19.38
and all the
people say amen and amen.
00:45:19.41\00:45:23.49
This is love:
not that we love God
00:45:27.49\00:45:30.53
but that he loved us
00:45:30.56\00:45:33.19
and sent his Son as
an atoning sacrifice
00:45:33.23\00:45:35.73
for our sins."
00:45:35.76\00:45:37.33
That last quotation
from Steps to Christ
00:45:37.37\00:45:41.74
ends with the words
00:45:41.77\00:45:43.10
that our hearts might be melted
with tenderness and contrition
00:45:43.14\00:45:47.91
and that's what
I've been praying,
00:45:47.94\00:45:49.28
God just take
this moment it's a...
00:45:49.31\00:45:52.21
We're family
now, melt our hearts,
00:45:52.25\00:45:55.68
do something inside of us,
00:45:55.72\00:45:58.02
as we gather here at
the foot of the cross.
00:45:58.05\00:46:00.82
Madeline is going to...
00:46:00.89\00:46:02.22
Madeline
Johnston is going to read
00:46:02.26\00:46:04.79
Matthew sacred
account of that night,
00:46:04.83\00:46:06.96
and then her husband Bob,
00:46:07.03\00:46:08.76
will lead us in our prayer.
00:46:08.80\00:46:10.17
"While they were
eating, Jesus took bread
00:46:19.71\00:46:22.84
and when he had given thanks.
00:46:22.88\00:46:24.95
He broke it and gave it
to His disciples saying,
00:46:24.98\00:46:28.78
"Take and eat, this is my body,
00:46:28.82\00:46:32.52
then he took a cup and
when he had given thanks.
00:46:32.55\00:46:36.62
He gave it to them saying,
"Drink from it all of you.
00:46:36.66\00:46:42.00
This is my
blood of the covenant,
00:46:42.03\00:46:44.97
which is poured out for many
for the forgiveness of sins.
00:46:45.00\00:46:48.94
I tell you, I will not drink
00:46:48.97\00:46:51.41
from this fruit
as a vine from now on
00:46:51.44\00:46:54.64
until that day
when I drink it new
00:46:54.68\00:46:57.45
with you in my
Father's kingdom."
00:46:57.51\00:47:00.98
Let us kneel, as my
husband Bob offers prayer.
00:47:01.02\00:47:06.89
Thank you.
00:47:06.92\00:47:08.26
We thank thee
Father for the bread
00:47:17.00\00:47:20.14
that we're about to receive
00:47:20.17\00:47:23.07
because it represents
the body of thy Son Jesus,
00:47:23.10\00:47:27.51
our Savior which
was given for us.
00:47:27.58\00:47:34.45
And Father, we
thank thee for the wine
00:47:34.48\00:47:36.58
that we are about to drink,
00:47:36.62\00:47:39.85
because it
represents the blood of Jesus,
00:47:39.89\00:47:43.02
which was shed for us.
00:47:43.06\00:47:46.93
We thank thee for
His presence among us.
00:47:47.00\00:47:52.80
And also, for the
life that He gives us.
00:47:52.83\00:47:58.81
But we remember His words
00:47:58.84\00:48:02.18
that He will not partake
of the fruit of the wine again
00:48:02.21\00:48:05.28
until He drinks it new
with us in the kingdom.
00:48:05.31\00:48:09.72
Lord, we pray
00:48:09.75\00:48:11.89
that thou will hasten that day.
00:48:11.92\00:48:17.16
We bless the name of the Father,
00:48:17.19\00:48:20.53
and the Son,
and the Holy Spirit.
00:48:20.56\00:48:23.87
Amen.
00:48:23.90\00:48:25.23
Oh, how sweet to trust
00:49:22.76\00:49:29.53
In Jesus
00:49:29.56\00:49:35.17
Just to trust
00:49:35.20\00:49:39.44
His cleansing blood
00:49:39.47\00:49:44.81
Trust in simple faith
00:50:00.30\00:50:07.14
To plunge me
00:50:07.20\00:50:12.81
'Neath the healing,
00:50:12.84\00:50:17.88
Cleansing flood!
00:50:17.91\00:50:22.98
Yes, 'tis sweet
00:50:40.10\00:50:44.51
to trust in Jesus
00:50:44.54\00:50:50.38
Just from sin and self
00:50:55.68\00:51:03.02
To cease
00:51:03.06\00:51:06.70
Just from Jesus
00:51:11.27\00:51:16.71
Simply taking
00:51:16.77\00:51:21.28
Life and rest
00:51:24.58\00:51:28.92
And joy and peace
00:51:28.95\00:51:35.52
So that we would never
forget the matchless charms
00:53:01.48\00:53:06.38
of His unutterable love,
00:53:06.41\00:53:08.05
Jesus to us also says,
00:53:08.08\00:53:10.99
"Take this bread and eat it.
00:53:11.02\00:53:13.36
This is My body broken for you.
00:53:13.39\00:53:15.49
Do this in remembrance of me."
00:53:15.52\00:53:18.06
So that we might be
charmed into His righteousness,
00:53:48.09\00:53:51.16
He also says to us,
00:53:51.19\00:53:52.53
"Take this cup all of
you and drink from it,
00:53:52.56\00:53:55.10
for this is My blood
that has been shed for you,
00:53:55.13\00:53:58.13
do this in remembrance of me."
00:53:58.17\00:54:00.37
I love this 407,
let's sing it together,
00:54:24.76\00:54:26.83
it's just, it's my favorite,
00:54:26.90\00:54:28.60
sent forth by God's blessings
00:54:28.63\00:54:30.33
into the new
year in the new world
00:54:30.37\00:54:31.70
that awaits us.
00:54:31.73\00:54:33.10
Hymn 407, we'll sing
it as we stand together.
00:54:33.13\00:54:35.67
Sent forth by God's blessing
00:54:56.69\00:55:00.43
Our true faith confessing
00:55:00.46\00:55:03.70
The people of God from
His dwelling take leave
00:55:03.77\00:55:10.01
The supper is ended
00:55:10.04\00:55:13.24
Oh, now be extended
00:55:13.27\00:55:16.54
The fruits of this
service in all who believe
00:55:16.58\00:55:23.42
The seed of His teaching
00:55:23.49\00:55:26.79
Receptive souls reaching
00:55:26.86\00:55:29.86
Shall blossom in
action for God and for all
00:55:29.89\00:55:36.67
His grace did invited us
00:55:36.73\00:55:40.00
His love shall unite us
00:55:40.04\00:55:43.14
To work for God's kingdom
00:55:43.17\00:55:46.47
And answer His call
00:55:46.51\00:55:51.88
With praise and
thanksgiving to God ever living
00:55:51.91\00:55:58.49
The tasks of our
everyday life we will face
00:55:58.52\00:56:05.56
Our faith ever
sharing, in love ever caring
00:56:05.59\00:56:11.70
Embracing His
children of each tribe and race
00:56:11.73\00:56:18.57
With Your feast You feed us
00:56:18.61\00:56:21.74
With Your light now lead us
00:56:21.78\00:56:24.95
Unite us as one in
this life that we share
00:56:24.98\00:56:31.45
Then may all the living
00:56:31.49\00:56:35.16
With praise and thanksgiving
00:56:35.19\00:56:38.96
Give honor to Christ
00:56:38.99\00:56:41.56
And His name that we bear
00:56:41.60\00:56:46.74
And now to Him who
is able to keep you
00:56:51.11\00:56:52.97
from stumbling
and to present you
00:56:53.01\00:56:54.94
before His glorious
presence without fault,
00:56:54.98\00:56:58.45
and with great
joy to the only God,
00:56:58.48\00:57:01.52
our Savior be glory,
00:57:01.55\00:57:03.42
majesty power and
authority through Jesus Christ,
00:57:03.45\00:57:07.49
our Lord before all
ages now and forever more.
00:57:07.52\00:57:13.16
Amen.
00:57:13.19\00:57:16.23
I want to take an
extra moment to let you know
00:57:16.26\00:57:18.00
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00:57:18.03\00:57:20.17
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00:57:20.24\00:57:22.40
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00:57:22.44\00:57:25.04
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