To God be the glory
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Great things He hath done
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So loved He the world
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That He gave us His Son
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Who yielded His
life an atonement for sin
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And opened the life gate
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That all may go in
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Praise the Lord
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Praise the Lord
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Let the earth hear His voice
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Praise the Lord, praise the Lord
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Let the people rejoice
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O come to the Father,
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Through Jesus the Son
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And give Him the glory,
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Great things He hath done
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Great things He hath taught us,
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Great things He hath done
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And great our rejoicing
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Through Jesus the Son
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But purer, and
higher, and greater
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Will be Our
wonder, our transport
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When Jesus we see
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Praise the Lord, praise the Lord
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Let the earth hear His voice
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Praise the Lord, praise the Lord
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Let the people rejoice
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O come to the Father,
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Through Jesus the Son
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And give Him the glory,
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Great things He hath done
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Lord,
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I will lift
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Mine eyes
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To the hills
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Knowing
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My help
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Is coming
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From You
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Your peace
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You give me
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In time
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Of the storm
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You are the
source of my strength
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You are the strength
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Of my life
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I lift my hands in
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Total praise
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To you
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Lord,
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I will lift
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Mine eyes
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To the hills
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Knowing
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My help
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Is coming
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From You
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Your peace
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You give me
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In time
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Of the storm
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You are the
source of my strength
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You are the strength of my life
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I lift my hand in
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Total praise
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To you
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You are the
source of my strength
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You are the strength of my life
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I lift my hands in
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Total praise
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To you
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Amen
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Amen Amen
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Amen
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Amen
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Amen Amen
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Amen
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Amen
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Amen
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Oh, draw me,
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Lord
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Oh, draw me,
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Lord
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Oh, draw me,
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Lord
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And I'll run
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After You
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Oh, draw me,
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Lord
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Oh, draw me,
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Lord
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Oh, draw me,
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Lord
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And I'll run
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After You
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Oh, draw me,
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Lord
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Oh, draw me,
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Lord
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Oh, draw me,
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Lord
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And I'll run
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After You
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Oh, draw me,
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Lord
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Oh, draw me,
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Lord
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Oh, draw me,
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Lord
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And I'll run
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After You
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Jesus, I've forgotten
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The words that You have spoken
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Promises that
burned within my heart
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Have now grown dim
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With a doubting heart I follow
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The paths of earthly wisdom
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Forgive me for my unbelief,
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Renew the fire again
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Lord have mercy,
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Christ have mercy
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Lord have mercy
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On me
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Lord have mercy,
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Christ have mercy
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Lord have mercy
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On me
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I have built an altar
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Where I worship things of men
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I have taken journeys
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That have drawn me far from You
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Now I am returning
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To Your mercies ever flowing
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Pardon my transgressions,
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Help me love You again
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Lord have mercy,
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Christ have mercy
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Lord have mercy
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On me
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Lord have mercy,
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Christ have mercy
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Lord have mercy
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On me
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I have longed to know You
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And all Your tender mercies
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Like a river of forgiveness
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Ever flowing without end
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So I bow my heart before You
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In the goodness of Your presence
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Your grace forever shining
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Like a beacon in the night
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Lord have mercy,
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Christ have mercy
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Lord have mercy
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On me
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Lord have mercy,
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Christ have mercy
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Lord have mercy
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On me
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Lord have mercy,
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Christ have mercy
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Lord have mercy
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On me
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Lord have mercy,
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Christ have mercy
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Lord have mercy
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On me
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Precious Lord,
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Take my hand
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Bring me home
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Through the night
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Through the dark,
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Through the storm,
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To thy light
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I have been
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To the mount
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I have seen
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The Promised Land
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Precious Lord,
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Precious Lord,
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Take my hand
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Precious Lord,
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Take my hand
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Bring thy child
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Home at last
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Where the strife
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And the pain
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All are past
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I have dreamed
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A great dream
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That my Lord
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Shall rule our land
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Precious Lord,
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Precious Lord,
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Take my hand
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Precious Lord,
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Take my hand
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Take thy child unto
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Thee With the dream
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Of a world
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That is free
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For that day
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When all flesh
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Joins the glory
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Thou hast planned
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Precious Lord,
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Precious Lord,
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Take my hand
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Take
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My hand
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Oh, God, could it be true,
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You will take our hands...
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As the choir has just sung
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And you will walk with us.
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How could we ask for more?
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Let this vineyard of you
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Capture our hearts and our minds
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We pray in Jesus' name.
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Amen.
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It's kind of
embarrassing to put it this way
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but I gotta ask the question.
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Forgive me
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but does God have Alzheimer's?
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I hold here in my
hands, can you see it?
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Latest issue of Time magazine,
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this is
actually dated next week.
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The Alzheimer's
pill is the subtitle.
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A radical new drug
could change old age.
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Let me just read
a line or two to you
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just wondering about God.
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Dr Frank Longo
isn't the kind of guy
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who chokes up easily.
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The pre-eminent
neurologist is better known
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for his professional stoicism
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and scholarly
approach to the devastation
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he sees weekly in
his Alzheimer's patients.
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The people who
come to his office
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at the Stanford
University School of Medicine,
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their memory just
a little bit worse
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than the last time he saw them.
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But today, even though
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he's trying to keep it together,
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his throat tightens.
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He's in a small examining room
outside Kansas City, Kansas,
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watching a young man
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do something people do everyday.
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He's swallowing a pill
with a big gulp of water,
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but it's not just any pill,
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it's a new drug that
Longo hopes will prove to be
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an effective
treatment for Alzheimer's
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and when the man swallows,
tears pool in the deep furrows
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around Longo's eyes.
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My biggest frustration is
that we've cured Alzheimer's
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in mice many times,
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why can't we move
the success to people?
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Longo asks.
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He's referring to the
numerous promising compounds
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that have
eliminated the amyloid plaques
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associated with
Alzheimer's in animals.
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If the ongoing human
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trials continue to
progress the way he hopes,
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Longo's drug called LM11A-31
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could be a critical part
of finally making that happen.
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But that's still a big if.
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Listen to these stats, America.
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The stakes couldn't be
higher, not just for Longo
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but also for the world's
ageing population in the US,
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all right, our
country, in the US,
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one third of Americans
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over 85 are already
affected by Alzheimer's.
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Globally nearly
50 million people
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are living with dementia,
00:21:24.81\00:21:26.15
most of which is
caused by Alzheimer's
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and absent effective
drugs or other interventions,
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that number is expected
to double every 20 years.
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With no treatments,
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caring for them
falls to loved ones
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and assisted-living facilities.
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And some of you
here know exactly
00:21:41.83\00:21:43.70
what that
sentence is describing.
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The cost of that
care is skyrocketing.
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Last tine, in three years,
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the global annual burden
could reach over $1 trillion.
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Does God need
the Alzheimer's pill?
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I know it sounds irrelevant
to even ask the question.
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But we have his word on it,
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if we take it and divine amnesia
00:22:11.59\00:22:15.23
may not be out of the question.
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I want you to grab
your Bible right now,
00:22:17.93\00:22:19.27
let's go, let's
cut to the chase.
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Grab your Bible
and your study guide
00:22:21.40\00:22:22.90
at the same time,
you'll need them both.
00:22:22.94\00:22:25.27
A stunning set of verses
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that heavily tilt
to the possibility,
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you check it out for yourself
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and while you're
finding your Bible,
00:22:31.15\00:22:32.48
let's get our friendly ushers
00:22:32.51\00:22:34.12
to put in your hands
today's brand new study guide.
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They're jumping up, I think.
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Well, we don't need
our friendly ushers,
00:22:43.32\00:22:44.66
come on we could
do this ourselves.
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Just reach in your bulletin,
there's your study guide.
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Pull it out.
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You didn't get one
though, hold your hand up
00:22:48.80\00:22:50.13
and they're coming.
00:22:50.17\00:22:51.50
Yeah, they're thinking,
"Where are these study..."
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Oh look it.
00:22:52.90\00:22:54.24
And those of you watching
right now on the screen,
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some of you are streaming,
some of you on television.
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Let me put the
website up for you,
00:23:01.28\00:23:02.61
you can get the
same study guide,
00:23:02.64\00:23:03.98
you're gonna
want this study guide.
00:23:04.01\00:23:05.35
Here's the website,
00:23:05.38\00:23:09.82
www.newperceptions.tv,
00:23:09.85\00:23:13.19
that's our new
website, newperceptions.tv.
00:23:13.22\00:23:15.89
Go to that website,
00:23:15.92\00:23:17.26
you're looking
for the little series
00:23:17.29\00:23:18.63
Charmed into Righteousness.
00:23:18.66\00:23:20.00
Title of today's
teaching, The Greatest Forgiver.
00:23:20.03\00:23:22.83
Click on there,
there'll be a study guide.
00:23:22.86\00:23:24.50
You gotta follow along
with us so, glad you're here,
00:23:24.53\00:23:26.70
grab that study
guide and let's go.
00:23:26.74\00:23:28.97
Now for that stunning set
of verses, you ready for this.
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Start off with
the Book of Isaiah.
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By the way, you go
home this afternoon
00:23:34.51\00:23:35.84
and mark these up in your Bible,
00:23:35.88\00:23:37.21
these are top drawer verses,
00:23:37.25\00:23:38.85
you'll never find
verses more potent than these.
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We're not gonna take time
to look them up right now,
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let's put them on
the screen, Isaiah 43:25,
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God first person,
00:23:47.99\00:23:49.32
"'I, even I, am he
00:23:49.36\00:23:51.23
who blots out
your transgressions,
00:23:51.26\00:23:53.83
for my own sake,
and remembers your sins,
00:23:53.86\00:23:57.47
write it in please, no more."
00:23:57.50\00:24:01.44
'I will remember
your sins no more.
00:24:01.47\00:24:03.81
Divine amnesia, come on,
guys, how can we miss it?
00:24:03.84\00:24:07.08
First person promise,
00:24:07.11\00:24:08.44
I promise to blot
out your transgressions
00:24:08.48\00:24:10.48
and remember your sins no more,
00:24:10.51\00:24:12.61
which begs the
question, how much is no more?
00:24:12.65\00:24:16.22
How much is no more?
00:24:16.25\00:24:17.82
In fact, let's put the words
up in English, you know what?
00:24:17.85\00:24:19.95
You can't make that
any shorter than that.
00:24:19.99\00:24:21.39
No more.
00:24:21.42\00:24:22.86
No, I suppose you
could, you could say "Nomo!"
00:24:22.89\00:24:27.20
So we'll use Nomo.
00:24:27.23\00:24:29.46
God says I will
remember your sins nomo.
00:24:29.50\00:24:33.97
Just to make
sure we get the point,
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Isaiah goes on,
jot this one down,
00:24:35.37\00:24:36.71
Isaiah 38:17,
Isaiah speaking to God,
00:24:36.74\00:24:40.04
"You have put all my
sins behind your back."
00:24:40.08\00:24:45.05
Throws them
away, behind your back.
00:24:45.08\00:24:47.22
No wonder God
can't remember our sins,
00:24:47.25\00:24:48.92
they're no longer
sitting there in front of him.
00:24:48.95\00:24:50.92
The problem is they're sitting
in front of somebody else
00:24:50.95\00:24:52.49
and somebody's
always remembering, right,
00:24:52.52\00:24:53.96
somebody's always remembering
00:24:53.99\00:24:55.59
and if you can't
think of anybody,
00:24:55.62\00:24:56.96
it's the devil.
00:24:56.99\00:24:58.33
The devil never lets you forget
00:24:58.36\00:24:59.69
and that's why you
keep recalling them.
00:24:59.73\00:25:01.33
Come on, this is behind,
too bad, there they are again.
00:25:01.36\00:25:05.00
Isaiah goes on, Isaiah
44, jot this down, verse 22,
00:25:05.03\00:25:08.74
God first person again,
00:25:08.77\00:25:10.11
"'I have swept away
your offenses like a cloud,
00:25:10.14\00:25:13.14
your sins like
the morning mist."
00:25:13.17\00:25:16.14
'And by the way,
that's not the Microsoft Cloud
00:25:16.18\00:25:17.95
or the Apple Cloud,
that's another cloud.
00:25:17.98\00:25:20.38
The white fluffy
thing, how does it happen?
00:25:20.42\00:25:23.02
You're looking at it
and suddenly it vanishes
00:25:23.05\00:25:24.95
in front of your eyes.
00:25:24.99\00:25:26.32
That's what I've done.
00:25:26.35\00:25:27.79
Like the low lying fog in
the St Joseph River Valley,
00:25:27.82\00:25:31.89
gone with the advent of the sun.
00:25:31.93\00:25:34.56
God says, that's what I've done.
00:25:34.60\00:25:36.20
Jeremiah says listen
guys, I hope you're not missing
00:25:36.23\00:25:37.80
what Isaiah is telling you
but in case you have missed it,
00:25:37.83\00:25:40.74
let me add my
voice, Jeremiah 31:34,
00:25:40.77\00:25:43.94
God, first person again,
00:25:43.97\00:25:45.51
"'For I will
forgive their wickedness
00:25:45.54\00:25:47.08
and will remember
their sins no more."
00:25:47.11\00:25:49.84
' There it is again, no more.
00:25:49.88\00:25:52.28
I'm not going to
remember it, I promise you.
00:25:52.31\00:25:56.48
I mean, you
almost get the feeling,
00:25:56.52\00:25:57.85
no, either God
wants us to conclude
00:25:57.89\00:25:59.22
that when it comes to our sins,
00:25:59.25\00:26:00.92
he really does suffer from a
severe case of amnesia, nomo.
00:26:00.96\00:26:06.76
And Micah says, me
too, me too, little Micah,
00:26:08.33\00:26:10.30
said I gotta get into this.
00:26:10.33\00:26:11.67
Let's put Micah on the screen,
Micah 7:18-19, Micah asks,
00:26:11.70\00:26:15.67
"Who is a God like
you, who pardons sin
00:26:15.70\00:26:19.11
and forgives the
transgression of the remnant
00:26:19.14\00:26:21.14
of his inheritance?
00:26:21.18\00:26:22.61
You do not stay angry forever
but you delight to show mercy.
00:26:22.64\00:26:26.31
Boy was that some
singing this morning or what?
00:26:26.35\00:26:29.32
Christ, Lord, have mercy on em,
00:26:29.35\00:26:31.89
you delight us, you
delight to show mercy.
00:26:31.92\00:26:34.69
Now Micah goes on,
00:26:34.72\00:26:36.06
"You will again
have compassion on us,
00:26:36.09\00:26:37.93
you will tread
our sins underfoot
00:26:37.96\00:26:40.06
and hurl our
iniquities into the,
00:26:40.10\00:26:42.00
write it down, the
depths of the sea."
00:26:42.03\00:26:47.60
God says, "I'll
bury your sins at sea."
00:26:47.64\00:26:51.71
That little
mountain lake where I grew up
00:26:51.74\00:26:53.07
as a missionary's kid in Japan,
00:26:53.11\00:26:54.91
there would be drownings,
almost tragically every summer.
00:26:54.94\00:26:59.65
And I'll tell you what,
00:26:59.68\00:27:01.02
when you're a kid four
years old, five years old,
00:27:01.05\00:27:03.52
that stuff is
indelibly imprinted
00:27:03.55\00:27:05.35
on the hard disk
of childhood memories.
00:27:05.39\00:27:07.79
I can still see that little,
that little motor boat chugging
00:27:07.82\00:27:10.63
around the vast
place in the lake
00:27:10.66\00:27:12.36
where they saw the victim.
00:27:12.39\00:27:14.00
I can see those
authorities looking,
00:27:14.03\00:27:15.70
I can see them finally
reaching into that little skiff
00:27:15.73\00:27:18.17
and pulling out grappling
hooks and dropping those hooks
00:27:18.20\00:27:21.97
over the side to drag
on the bottom of that lake
00:27:22.00\00:27:24.67
in hopes of finding that victim.
00:27:24.71\00:27:28.11
Here in Micah, God
promises to bury our sins
00:27:28.14\00:27:31.21
at the bottom of the sea
00:27:31.25\00:27:32.58
and the only way they
could ever again confront us,
00:27:32.61\00:27:36.28
is if we drop the
grappling hooks out
00:27:36.32\00:27:38.65
over the side
ourselves and look for that,
00:27:38.69\00:27:40.89
the corpse of that
sin to pull back up
00:27:40.92\00:27:43.59
and stare at and
mourn over and sob over
00:27:43.63\00:27:48.10
when God says,
what're you doing girl?
00:27:48.13\00:27:50.33
I buried that already.
00:27:50.37\00:27:52.00
The devil does not
want us to get this guys,
00:27:54.24\00:27:56.34
oh, he doesn't,
this will set you free
00:27:56.37\00:27:58.54
if you get this
picture of God today.
00:27:58.57\00:28:00.64
And the devil, he said, "No,
I'm gonna keep it front of you,
00:28:00.68\00:28:02.54
I'm gonna rub your nose in it,
I'm gonna rub your face in it,
00:28:02.58\00:28:04.91
every time you forget
I'm back to remind you."
00:28:04.95\00:28:07.38
Now look, all of
these stunning promises
00:28:10.69\00:28:14.66
are presupposed upon the reality
00:28:14.69\00:28:20.56
that we have
earnestly with broken heart
00:28:20.60\00:28:24.57
taken that sin to
Jesus and given it to him.
00:28:24.60\00:28:27.97
The promise is presupposed
that that's what you've done.
00:28:28.00\00:28:30.07
God can't throw away
what he doesn't have.
00:28:30.11\00:28:32.74
1 John 1:9, come on,
don't you ever forget this,
00:28:32.77\00:28:34.78
the great shining diamond
00:28:34.81\00:28:36.34
in the New
Testament near the end,
00:28:36.38\00:28:37.71
1 John 1:9, let's read
this one out loud together.
00:28:37.75\00:28:40.48
"If we confess our sins,
00:28:40.52\00:28:43.89
he is faithful
and just to forgive us
00:28:43.92\00:28:47.39
our sins and cleanse us,
00:28:47.42\00:28:50.06
purify us from
all unrighteousness."
00:28:50.09\00:28:56.10
Every one of these promises
00:28:56.13\00:28:58.10
the stunning set that
we've just gone through
00:28:58.13\00:29:00.54
is premised on
the simple condition
00:29:00.57\00:29:03.37
that we confess and
repent of our sin before God.
00:29:03.41\00:29:07.44
Bring it to me, bring it to
me and see what I'll do with it.
00:29:07.48\00:29:11.15
Isaiah 1, we
gotta go back to Isaiah,
00:29:11.18\00:29:12.71
jot this down, Isaiah
1:18, "'Come now, God says,
00:29:12.75\00:29:16.08
let us settle the
matter', says the Lord.'
00:29:16.12\00:29:19.19
Though your sins
are like scarlet,
00:29:19.22\00:29:21.42
they shall be as white as...
00:29:21.46\00:29:24.66
Hallelujah, got
melted yesterday.
00:29:24.69\00:29:28.36
Isn't that something?
00:29:28.40\00:29:30.27
Quit laughing so
soon, it'll be back.
00:29:30.30\00:29:32.07
Though your sins
are like scarlet,
00:29:34.57\00:29:36.04
they shall be as white as snow,
00:29:36.07\00:29:37.41
thought they are red as crimson,
00:29:37.44\00:29:38.77
they shall be as wool.
00:29:38.81\00:29:40.81
Jesus says, "Oh, come on
guys, please, I beg of you,
00:29:40.84\00:29:43.98
bring them to
me, bring it to me,
00:29:44.01\00:29:45.58
I don't care what
kind of sin it is,
00:29:45.61\00:29:46.95
I don't care what
color of sin it is.
00:29:46.98\00:29:48.82
I will not only
forgive you, I will wash you,
00:29:48.85\00:29:50.62
I will purify
you, I will cleanse you
00:29:50.65\00:29:52.42
and then I'm
going to bury that sin
00:29:52.45\00:29:53.79
in the depths of the sea,
00:29:53.82\00:29:55.16
I'm going to burn that sin
off like the morning mist."
00:29:55.19\00:29:57.73
Gone, dissipated, vanished,
00:29:57.76\00:30:00.06
I will remember your
sin no more, no more.
00:30:00.10\00:30:05.03
Just give it to
me, let me have it.
00:30:05.07\00:30:08.20
And the New Testament
barely comes to closing
00:30:10.01\00:30:14.64
when they quickly slip in
00:30:14.68\00:30:16.04
what we've just
gotten in the Old Testament,
00:30:16.08\00:30:17.81
the New Testament
says don't miss this,
00:30:17.85\00:30:19.18
two times in the Book
of Hebrews, jot this down.
00:30:19.21\00:30:21.12
Hebrews 10:17,
their, God speaking,
00:30:21.15\00:30:24.19
"Their sins and lawless
acts I will remember no more."
00:30:24.22\00:30:29.42
I ask you again...
00:30:31.19\00:30:32.53
does God have Alzheimer's.
00:30:35.16\00:30:39.13
I mean, what's
up with this, guys?
00:30:39.17\00:30:40.50
What have we just read?
00:30:40.54\00:30:42.00
Severe case of
divine amnesia at best.
00:30:45.74\00:30:49.04
In order to put these
stunning promises to the test,
00:30:51.61\00:30:55.48
we've got to
operationalize this cluster.
00:30:55.52\00:30:59.65
We need to operationalize it
00:30:59.69\00:31:01.06
with a red
blooded human exhibit A,
00:31:01.09\00:31:03.99
all you're going
to need is exhibit A,
00:31:04.03\00:31:05.76
trust me that's all
you're going to need.
00:31:05.79\00:31:08.10
This one perhaps is a
most stunning text of all
00:31:08.13\00:31:10.60
to set us up,
00:31:10.63\00:31:11.97
we need to
consider four questions.
00:31:12.00\00:31:13.34
So here comes
the four questions.
00:31:13.37\00:31:14.70
Question number one,
00:31:14.74\00:31:16.07
is it a sin to
walk on your roof?
00:31:16.10\00:31:18.37
Yes or no? The answer is no.
00:31:18.41\00:31:20.34
Question number two,
00:31:20.38\00:31:21.71
is it a sin to walk over
to the edge of your roof?
00:31:21.74\00:31:23.75
And if you don't
fall off it's not.
00:31:23.78\00:31:25.11
Two.
00:31:25.15\00:31:26.48
Number three, is it a sin
00:31:26.51\00:31:27.85
to look into your
neighbor's backyard?
00:31:27.88\00:31:29.28
The answer is
no, it's not a sin.
00:31:29.32\00:31:31.09
Number four, is it a sin
to watch your neighbor's wife
00:31:31.12\00:31:33.66
taking a bath in her
backyard in the evening?
00:31:33.69\00:31:38.19
Yeah.
00:31:38.23\00:31:39.69
The whole world knows
the story of young king David
00:31:39.73\00:31:42.43
who crossed over the line
00:31:42.46\00:31:43.87
between innocence
and guilt in that moment
00:31:43.90\00:31:46.70
when he should have turned away
his finger was on the mouse,
00:31:46.74\00:31:50.21
an unwanted picture
popped up on a screen
00:31:50.24\00:31:53.01
and all he had to do was click
and it would have been gone.
00:31:53.04\00:31:56.88
But he lingered
and crash and burned.
00:31:56.91\00:32:00.92
Like a fighter jet shut
out of the blue heavens,
00:32:00.95\00:32:03.55
spiraling down,
down, down, crap, pssh.
00:32:03.59\00:32:07.16
It's over.
00:32:07.19\00:32:08.52
It's inevitable.
00:32:08.56\00:32:09.89
Anything you caudal
00:32:09.92\00:32:11.26
you will crash
and burn every time.
00:32:11.29\00:32:15.96
And of course, the rest
is a tragic morality tale of
00:32:16.00\00:32:18.43
warning in king David's life.
00:32:18.47\00:32:21.10
He not only sleeps
with his neighbors wife,
00:32:21.14\00:32:22.90
get this, he impregnates her.
00:32:22.94\00:32:25.24
And so to cover it up,
he brings her husband home
00:32:25.27\00:32:27.41
from the battlefront
where he's been fighting.
00:32:27.44\00:32:29.34
He says, go
sleep with your wife,
00:32:29.38\00:32:30.71
she's been missing you.
00:32:30.75\00:32:32.08
The husband refuses
to sleep with his wife
00:32:32.11\00:32:33.85
because his men are still on
the frontline taking bullets.
00:32:33.88\00:32:37.85
So David accidentally
00:32:39.15\00:32:41.16
executes him by
giving the command
00:32:41.19\00:32:43.79
when he's up at the front
00:32:43.83\00:32:45.16
everybody pull back...
00:32:45.19\00:32:46.53
and it worked.
00:32:47.80\00:32:49.76
David goading over that
00:32:49.80\00:32:51.53
little nifty secret
that only he and she know.
00:32:51.57\00:32:55.90
When Nathan the
prophet storms into that palace
00:32:57.44\00:33:02.78
and with King James English
he cries out, thou art the man.
00:33:02.81\00:33:07.28
And the record reads David
burst into tears and he sobs,
00:33:08.85\00:33:13.42
I have sinned against the Lord.
00:33:13.46\00:33:17.39
And now added to the
annuals of penitential,
00:33:17.43\00:33:20.26
literature is this
great Psalm 51 prayer.
00:33:20.30\00:33:23.03
I need you to
see it in your Bible,
00:33:23.06\00:33:24.40
not on the screen now.
00:33:24.43\00:33:25.77
No, no, you find it Psalm 51.
00:33:25.80\00:33:28.64
Find it on your
phone, doest matter to me.
00:33:28.67\00:33:30.81
Psalm 51, don't have a
Bible, grab the pew Bible
00:33:30.84\00:33:33.41
it'll be page
387, this prayer...
00:33:33.44\00:33:36.41
this prayer, this great prayer,
00:33:37.95\00:33:40.82
David praying
verse 1, Psalm 51:1,
00:33:40.85\00:33:43.55
"Have mercy on me, O God,
00:33:43.59\00:33:45.85
we sang those
words a moment ago.
00:33:45.89\00:33:48.12
Have mercy on me, O God,
00:33:48.16\00:33:49.86
according to
your unfailing love,
00:33:49.89\00:33:52.06
according to your
great compassion blot
00:33:52.09\00:33:54.16
out my transgressions."
00:33:54.20\00:33:55.66
Verse 2, "Wash
away all my iniquity
00:33:55.70\00:33:58.60
and cleanse me from my sin."
00:33:58.63\00:34:00.64
David sobs, did you catch that?
00:34:00.67\00:34:03.61
Come on.
00:34:03.64\00:34:04.97
David is praying
00:34:05.01\00:34:06.34
for what God
has already promised
00:34:06.37\00:34:07.71
in the stunning set of
verses we've already read.
00:34:07.74\00:34:11.08
David please blot
out my transgressions.
00:34:11.11\00:34:13.92
But God has promised,
00:34:13.95\00:34:15.28
I will remember
your sins no more.
00:34:15.32\00:34:17.19
David sobs,
cleanse me from my sin.
00:34:17.22\00:34:19.85
But God promises
though your sins be a scarlet,
00:34:19.89\00:34:22.29
they should be as white as snow.
00:34:22.32\00:34:23.66
God has already made
provision for your prayer
00:34:23.69\00:34:27.66
that sobs these
words already done.
00:34:27.70\00:34:31.70
And how deep was
God's forgiveness to David?
00:34:34.40\00:34:36.30
Consider now the most
stunning of all the verses
00:34:38.47\00:34:40.38
we look at this morning.
00:34:40.41\00:34:42.18
Because David
eventually dies, yes he does.
00:34:42.21\00:34:44.45
And God has to send a
message to the wicked,
00:34:44.48\00:34:46.61
one of David's successors,
wicked and evil king Jeroboam.
00:34:46.65\00:34:51.32
I want you to see
what God sends to Jeroboam.
00:34:51.35\00:34:54.96
Turn back you're
in 51 Psalm, Psalm 51.
00:34:54.99\00:34:57.49
Go back to 1 Kings 14,
00:34:57.53\00:34:59.03
if this verse is not
marked in your Bible,
00:34:59.06\00:35:00.53
today is the day
that you circle it,
00:35:00.56\00:35:02.83
you put stars all
around it, you underline it.
00:35:02.86\00:35:05.30
You bend the page
over if you have to,
00:35:07.00\00:35:09.90
you need to see
this stunning proof
00:35:09.94\00:35:13.64
that the stunning promises
we've read are all true.
00:35:13.68\00:35:16.75
Here we go. 1 Kings
14:8, I'm in the NIV.
00:35:16.78\00:35:20.88
Let's go.
00:35:20.92\00:35:22.25
Verse 8, God speaking,
00:35:22.28\00:35:23.62
"I tore the kingdom
away from the house of David
00:35:23.65\00:35:25.25
and gave it to
you, king Jeroboam.
00:35:25.29\00:35:27.46
But you have not been
like my servant David,
00:35:27.49\00:35:31.06
who kept my
commands and followed me
00:35:31.09\00:35:33.13
with all his heart,
00:35:33.16\00:35:34.50
doing only what
was right in my eyes."
00:35:34.53\00:35:38.10
You cannot fathom the
depth of what God has just said,
00:35:38.13\00:35:41.37
unless we break it down,
so were going to break it down
00:35:41.40\00:35:43.14
right now with your study guide.
00:35:43.17\00:35:44.77
Write it back down, let's go.
00:35:44.81\00:35:47.11
But you Jeroboam
have not been like
00:35:47.14\00:35:50.21
my servant
David, who number one,
00:35:50.25\00:35:51.78
so I've added the numbers.
00:35:51.81\00:35:53.15
Who number one,
kept my commandments.
00:35:53.18\00:35:56.38
Hey oh, God. whoa,
whoa, time out. Come on.
00:35:56.42\00:36:01.42
What are you talking about?
00:36:01.46\00:36:02.79
You broke the
seventh commandment
00:36:02.82\00:36:04.23
by adultery.
00:36:04.26\00:36:05.59
He killed the
husband that would be six,
00:36:05.63\00:36:07.63
he lied, that would be eight.
00:36:07.66\00:36:09.03
He covered it to
start the thing, that's ten.
00:36:09.06\00:36:10.90
He dishonored
his father and mother
00:36:10.93\00:36:12.27
and their spiritual legacy.
00:36:12.30\00:36:13.64
He broke the whole ten,
00:36:13.67\00:36:15.00
what are you saying you
kept all my commandments.
00:36:15.04\00:36:16.81
God says,
couldn't interrupt me boy,
00:36:18.11\00:36:19.67
I have more to say.
00:36:19.71\00:36:21.34
Number two, jot it down.
00:36:21.38\00:36:23.31
Who kept my
commandments and number two,
00:36:25.75\00:36:27.62
followed me with all his heart.
00:36:27.65\00:36:33.15
I had to do this
again, it's just...
00:36:33.19\00:36:34.52
Are we talking
about the same David?
00:36:35.62\00:36:38.16
All his heart he gave to you.
00:36:38.19\00:36:40.30
I don't want to say
this but are you crazy?
00:36:40.33\00:36:43.77
You got Alzheimer's that's, boy,
00:36:43.80\00:36:45.37
that's a big statement
that shouldn't get out.
00:36:45.40\00:36:46.77
God says, I'm not
through yet, I got one more.
00:36:48.77\00:36:50.84
Who kept my
commandments number one and two,
00:36:52.17\00:36:56.04
follow me with all his heart.
00:36:56.08\00:36:57.41
And number three, he did
only what was right in my eyes.
00:36:57.45\00:37:03.42
God, you're sick.
00:37:03.45\00:37:06.69
You lost it.
00:37:08.66\00:37:10.46
You know what he did.
00:37:10.49\00:37:12.36
The whole world
knows it's too late.
00:37:12.39\00:37:14.53
Scribbling on
this page of my Bible.
00:37:18.97\00:37:23.41
I've left these words
00:37:23.44\00:37:24.77
and every Bible that
I can find 1 Kings 14,
00:37:24.81\00:37:27.44
I'll write these
words in that Bible.
00:37:27.48\00:37:29.24
You can do it the same
00:37:29.28\00:37:30.61
because I give it to
you in your study guide,
00:37:30.65\00:37:31.98
Steps to Christ
that little classic.
00:37:32.01\00:37:34.15
Steps to Christ
how to come to Jesus,
00:37:34.18\00:37:35.72
Page 62, oh, this is good.
00:37:35.75\00:37:38.35
Jot it down.
00:37:38.39\00:37:39.72
"If you give yourself to Jesus,
and accept Him as your Savior,
00:37:39.75\00:37:43.56
then, sinful as
your life may have been,
00:37:43.59\00:37:46.19
for His sake you
are accounted righteous.
00:37:46.23\00:37:49.70
Christ's character stands
in place of your character,
00:37:49.73\00:37:52.97
and you are accepted
00:37:53.00\00:37:54.34
before God just as
if you had not sinned."
00:37:54.37\00:37:59.54
Write it down
and never forget it.
00:37:59.57\00:38:03.38
Corroboration that
00:38:03.41\00:38:04.78
the stunning set
of promises is true.
00:38:04.81\00:38:10.29
I will remember
your sin no more.
00:38:10.32\00:38:13.19
I will bury it in
the depths of the sea,
00:38:13.22\00:38:15.02
I will burn it off
like the morning mist,
00:38:15.06\00:38:17.09
I will throw it behind my back.
00:38:17.13\00:38:18.59
I will treat you like
David so that when you die
00:38:18.63\00:38:20.56
or your name comes
up in the judgment.
00:38:20.60\00:38:22.56
When they call
your name I'll say hey,
00:38:22.60\00:38:25.63
I don't remember
a thing about him.
00:38:25.67\00:38:28.24
She did only what was right.
00:38:28.27\00:38:31.01
That's the God we've
just met in this ancient book.
00:38:32.37\00:38:37.48
Wow, I tell you what,
00:38:39.41\00:38:42.22
it simply does not
get any better than that.
00:38:42.25\00:38:44.69
If you're a sinner like me...
00:38:46.32\00:38:47.92
because God is the
greatest forgiver burn on.
00:38:49.49\00:38:53.56
If you're like me,
00:38:53.60\00:38:54.93
you have been
forgiven by some very merciful
00:38:54.96\00:38:57.63
and grace filled
wonderful people in your life,
00:38:57.67\00:39:02.00
trust me I have too.
00:39:02.04\00:39:04.14
But better than them
all is the greatest forgiver
00:39:04.17\00:39:06.47
in the universe who
says, I don't even remember.
00:39:06.51\00:39:09.28
No more, no more.
00:39:10.78\00:39:13.72
Which makes you wonder
00:39:17.65\00:39:20.82
if we really believe
this, come on, come on.
00:39:20.86\00:39:22.62
If we truly believe
00:39:22.66\00:39:23.99
that God is a greatest
forgiver in the universe,
00:39:24.03\00:39:25.59
why wouldn't we
be more open with him
00:39:25.63\00:39:28.16
about what's inside of us.
00:39:28.20\00:39:30.53
Come on why?
00:39:30.57\00:39:32.83
If he's the
greatest forgiver of all,
00:39:32.87\00:39:35.37
why would it we be
more transparent before him?
00:39:35.40\00:39:40.84
Why wouldn't we be more
vulnerable in confessing
00:39:42.21\00:39:45.91
our little dirty secrets to him.
00:39:45.95\00:39:50.95
Come in, please.
00:39:50.99\00:39:52.72
We all play these
silly little games
00:39:52.75\00:39:54.52
with God, don't we?
00:39:54.56\00:39:56.26
But then it didn't
be not quite as needy,
00:39:56.29\00:39:58.06
not quite as desperate
00:39:58.09\00:39:59.43
as our public gonna
sit way back at a church,
00:39:59.46\00:40:01.46
we're in the front of
the church in this case.
00:40:01.50\00:40:03.37
But I thank you
00:40:07.70\00:40:10.61
that I tithe, and I keep
the Sabbath, fast twice a week.
00:40:10.64\00:40:15.94
C.S. Lewis in his
little book Letters to Malcolm:
00:40:21.18\00:40:23.45
Chiefly on Prayer
wisely observes, jot this down.
00:40:23.49\00:40:27.12
Very, very insightful,
00:40:27.16\00:40:29.26
"We must lay
before God what is in us,
00:40:29.29\00:40:34.26
not what ought to be in us."
00:40:34.30\00:40:37.43
We got to tell him,
this is in me now not.
00:40:37.47\00:40:40.47
You see we go to God and
say, I know what he wants.
00:40:40.50\00:40:41.84
I know what he wants.
00:40:41.87\00:40:43.20
Watch this, hey,
God, I'm that way.
00:40:43.24\00:40:45.74
What a foolish game.
00:40:45.77\00:40:47.58
Lewis goes on,
00:40:47.61\00:40:48.94
"The prayer preceding
all prayers is, I like this,
00:40:48.98\00:40:52.41
'May it be the
real I who speaks.
00:40:52.45\00:40:56.48
And may it be the
real Thou that I speak to."
00:40:56.52\00:41:02.59
Who do we think we're fooling
00:41:02.62\00:41:03.96
when the darkest
secrets of our hearts
00:41:03.99\00:41:05.43
we keep them from God.
00:41:05.46\00:41:06.83
I don't want him to see,
I don't want him to know.
00:41:06.86\00:41:09.36
Are you crazy?
00:41:09.40\00:41:11.20
You see God.
00:41:11.23\00:41:12.97
Of course he knows.
00:41:13.00\00:41:16.64
I mean, we're
like the little girl.
00:41:16.67\00:41:19.67
Mother comes in insisting
that she's eating chocolates
00:41:19.71\00:41:21.94
or cookies and she
said, not me, not me mama.
00:41:21.98\00:41:24.41
Chocolate smear
all around the lips
00:41:24.45\00:41:25.78
crumbs all over her
face and not me mama.
00:41:25.81\00:41:28.15
God says, who are you fooling?
I say it's all over you.
00:41:28.18\00:41:32.19
Fess up.
00:41:32.22\00:41:34.52
Philip Yancey,
boy, this is good.
00:41:34.56\00:41:37.99
"Unless I level with God...
00:41:38.03\00:41:40.13
that relationship, my
relationship with him,"
00:41:40.16\00:41:42.76
oh, this is, this you need.
00:41:42.80\00:41:45.57
My relationship
with him will go nowhere
00:41:45.60\00:41:47.64
if I don't level with him.
00:41:47.67\00:41:49.10
I may continue going
to church as I did today.
00:41:49.14\00:41:51.44
I may sing hymns and
praise choruses as we did today.
00:41:51.47\00:41:54.44
I may even address God
politely in formal prayers,
00:41:54.48\00:41:56.88
but I will never break
through the intimacy barrier."
00:41:56.91\00:42:01.82
Did you catch that?
00:42:01.85\00:42:03.62
Because God says, what
are you trying to tell me?
00:42:03.65\00:42:08.49
I know you but you
obviously don't know me
00:42:08.52\00:42:11.33
because you're hiding out of me.
00:42:11.36\00:42:12.69
I know exactly
what you're hiding.
00:42:12.73\00:42:14.06
Why don't you get
this out in the open?
00:42:14.10\00:42:15.43
Why don't you
just deal with this,
00:42:15.46\00:42:16.80
then you and I
can really go deep,
00:42:16.83\00:42:18.20
but I can't go
deep with somebody
00:42:18.23\00:42:19.57
who is always
playing a game with me.
00:42:19.60\00:42:21.44
I'm tired of silly games.
00:42:21.47\00:42:22.90
I'm running out of
time, tell me who you are?
00:42:22.94\00:42:25.31
Tell me what you need
00:42:25.34\00:42:26.68
and ask me to do what
I've already promised to do.
00:42:26.71\00:42:30.11
Don't go around saying,
00:42:30.15\00:42:31.85
I'm not that way
when in fact you are.
00:42:31.88\00:42:36.25
You may fool your
lawyer by the way,
00:42:39.45\00:42:41.46
but you're not
going to fool God.
00:42:41.49\00:42:43.02
It's the only way we can
break this intimacy barrier.
00:42:50.43\00:42:53.20
Look at the Bible says,
James 4:8, "Draw nigh to God,
00:42:53.23\00:42:59.17
and he will draw nigh to you."
00:42:59.21\00:43:02.41
Come close to me.
00:43:02.44\00:43:05.68
Of course I'm
getting closer to you
00:43:05.71\00:43:07.05
because you're
coming closer to me.
00:43:07.08\00:43:08.92
So I will stand enough, I
need you to just step my way.
00:43:08.95\00:43:14.09
You can trust the greatest
forgiver in the universe
00:43:14.12\00:43:16.83
with your deepest
and darkest secrets
00:43:16.86\00:43:18.59
because he
already knows them all
00:43:18.63\00:43:20.66
and loves you with all his
heart in spite of them all.
00:43:20.70\00:43:26.53
Once upon a time there was a God
00:43:26.57\00:43:29.70
who came down to this earth.
00:43:29.74\00:43:32.67
And when it came time
to die for this world,
00:43:32.71\00:43:34.54
he stretched out his arms
00:43:34.58\00:43:36.34
as they nailed him on the cross
and he prayed a single prayer.
00:43:36.38\00:43:40.88
We'll put that prayer
on the screen for you.
00:43:40.92\00:43:43.18
He prayed,
"Father, forgive them...
00:43:43.22\00:43:47.72
they don't know what
they're doing, I beg of you.
00:43:51.43\00:43:56.23
Forgive them please."
00:43:56.26\00:43:59.53
Desire of Ages
writes, put it on the screen.
00:43:59.57\00:44:01.74
"That prayer of Christ for
His enemies embraced the world.
00:44:01.77\00:44:04.17
It took in every
sinner that should live,
00:44:04.21\00:44:07.24
that has lived or should live,
00:44:07.28\00:44:08.74
from the beginning of
the world to the end of time.
00:44:08.78\00:44:10.71
Upon all rests the guilt
of crucifying the Son of God."
00:44:10.75\00:44:14.15
And then here comes the gospel,
00:44:14.18\00:44:15.68
"To all,
forgiveness is freely offered.
00:44:15.72\00:44:20.06
'Whosoever will'
may have peace with God,
00:44:20.09\00:44:22.22
and inherit eternal life."
00:44:22.26\00:44:24.79
Hey, guys, please get this,
00:44:24.83\00:44:28.36
the truth is because of Calvary.
00:44:28.40\00:44:31.70
Listen, the truth is we
have already been forgiven
00:44:31.73\00:44:37.74
2,000 years ago.
00:44:37.77\00:44:41.48
The whole world God forgiven.
00:44:41.51\00:44:43.01
We're pardoned,
charges dropped 2,000 years ago
00:44:43.04\00:44:47.68
which reduces to absurdity.
00:44:47.72\00:44:51.65
Get this, come on.
00:44:51.69\00:44:53.02
Which reduces to
absurdity the suggestion
00:44:53.05\00:44:55.59
that God may not
forgive me this time
00:44:55.62\00:44:58.89
when in fact he has already
forgiven me for next time
00:44:58.93\00:45:03.00
2,000 years ago.
00:45:03.03\00:45:04.70
Amen. Come on.
00:45:04.73\00:45:07.40
No more.
00:45:07.44\00:45:09.67
I'm promising you, no more.
00:45:09.70\00:45:12.24
So why not receive
the gift right now.
00:45:15.91\00:45:19.95
Several years ago Morris Venden,
00:45:19.98\00:45:21.55
the great preacher
00:45:21.58\00:45:23.59
stood right here,
I'll remember this,
00:45:23.62\00:45:27.12
and he announced
that there are four things
00:45:27.16\00:45:29.66
that God does not know.
00:45:29.69\00:45:31.16
One, he does not know
a sin, he does not hate.
00:45:31.19\00:45:36.33
Two, he does not know a
sinner, he doesn't love.
00:45:36.36\00:45:42.77
Three, he does not
know a sin he can't forgive,
00:45:42.80\00:45:46.21
and four, he does not
know a better time than now.
00:45:46.24\00:45:53.11
Pull out that connect
card, will you please?
00:45:53.15\00:45:57.95
Because I want to
give you an opportunity
00:45:57.99\00:45:59.65
to make the decision right now.
00:45:59.69\00:46:01.29
We've played these
silly games long enough,
00:46:01.32\00:46:02.82
today is your day of
deliverance, God is here.
00:46:02.86\00:46:05.43
The devil has been held at
bay for a few more minutes.
00:46:05.46\00:46:10.43
Pull out your connect card,
00:46:10.47\00:46:11.80
I want to go through
that connect card with you,
00:46:11.83\00:46:13.34
get be sure that I have
your email address on the front,
00:46:13.37\00:46:17.67
your name and email
address, that's all I need.
00:46:17.71\00:46:19.71
I want to go to the back
00:46:19.74\00:46:21.08
and it's time
to make a decision.
00:46:21.11\00:46:22.44
My next step today,
some of you this moment
00:46:22.48\00:46:24.01
is going to be a
liberating moment for you,
00:46:24.05\00:46:25.78
and I want to do something
00:46:25.81\00:46:27.15
I've never done with
connect cards before,
00:46:27.18\00:46:28.52
so let me have your ears.
00:46:28.55\00:46:30.79
Let me have your ears.
00:46:30.82\00:46:32.52
My next step today number one,
00:46:32.55\00:46:34.26
I'm grateful God not
only forgives all my sins
00:46:34.29\00:46:38.53
but also remembers them no more.
00:46:38.56\00:46:40.90
Today I confess to
him what he already knows.
00:46:40.93\00:46:44.63
Some of you have
been playing this game
00:46:44.67\00:46:46.03
long, long, long enough
00:46:46.07\00:46:48.00
and it's time for
your heart to be set free.
00:46:48.04\00:46:50.01
Jesus says, "If
the Son sets you free,
00:46:50.04\00:46:51.84
you're free indeed man,
woman, you're free indeed.
00:46:51.87\00:46:55.64
Just let me give it to me
and I'll remember no more."
00:46:55.68\00:46:58.85
But you have to give it to me.
00:46:58.88\00:47:00.35
I want you to give me
what's 30 years behind you.
00:47:00.38\00:47:02.62
I need what's
30 years behind you
00:47:02.65\00:47:04.15
because that
baby keeps coming up,
00:47:04.19\00:47:05.85
and I'm sick and tired of it
00:47:05.89\00:47:07.22
being the wall
between you and me.
00:47:07.26\00:47:08.72
I need you to come clean for me.
00:47:08.76\00:47:10.33
I need you to come clean
right now, just get it out.
00:47:10.36\00:47:13.33
Let's go.
00:47:13.36\00:47:15.13
I want you to put
check mark right there
00:47:15.16\00:47:16.50
and I'm going to give you
an opportunity in a moment,
00:47:16.53\00:47:20.77
to
operationalize that check mark.
00:47:20.80\00:47:24.34
Box number two,
00:47:24.37\00:47:25.71
I would like to
pierce the intimacy barrier
00:47:25.74\00:47:27.84
and daily pray and talk to God
00:47:27.88\00:47:31.98
with vulnerable candor.
00:47:32.01\00:47:35.32
Vulnerable candor,
that's what we're talking about.
00:47:35.35\00:47:39.89
Be honest with him.
00:47:39.92\00:47:41.42
Open your heart up,
00:47:41.46\00:47:43.93
place all your sins in his hands
00:47:43.96\00:47:46.83
if they're
particularly fresh good,
00:47:46.86\00:47:48.80
if they're unusually
distant, hope to get them gone.
00:47:48.83\00:47:55.07
And box number three,
00:47:55.10\00:47:56.44
I would like to bury my
past in the waters of baptism.
00:47:56.47\00:47:59.61
Please be in touch with me.
00:47:59.64\00:48:01.04
That is the most
significant symbol
00:48:01.08\00:48:03.35
that the Bible gives to burying
the past once and for all.
00:48:03.38\00:48:08.28
If you have not been baptizing,
00:48:08.32\00:48:09.65
you're in this
sanctuary right now
00:48:09.68\00:48:11.15
and you're
watching on television,
00:48:11.19\00:48:12.52
you're live streaming right now,
00:48:12.55\00:48:14.29
I need you to know, if
you've not been baptized,
00:48:14.32\00:48:18.73
this is the act in Christ
that will wash your past away.
00:48:18.76\00:48:23.57
Amen.
00:48:23.60\00:48:24.93
You say I'm not
going to be baptized,
00:48:24.97\00:48:26.30
you want to play that
ball and chain, be my guest.
00:48:26.33\00:48:30.34
If you have not be baptized,
put a check mark there,
00:48:30.37\00:48:33.31
nobody is going to rush
you, you take your time,
00:48:33.34\00:48:35.64
but you make the decision today.
00:48:35.68\00:48:37.48
I'm tired of carrying, dragging
this ball and chain in my life.
00:48:37.51\00:48:41.38
I want it gone.
00:48:41.42\00:48:43.28
You put a check mark there
00:48:43.32\00:48:46.39
and that will be an
honor to be in touch with you
00:48:46.42\00:48:48.02
by email, by email.
00:48:48.06\00:48:50.59
You control
everything but make the decision
00:48:50.63\00:48:54.40
because you
control the decision.
00:48:54.43\00:48:55.76
God is saying, that girl why
isn't she making that decision?
00:48:55.80\00:48:58.30
That boy I mean, how many times
00:48:58.33\00:48:59.97
have I asked that
boy to give me his heart
00:49:00.00\00:49:02.00
and to baptize his life
and bury his past in me,
00:49:02.04\00:49:04.67
but he won't, he's
playing this silly little game
00:49:04.71\00:49:06.88
as if there is nothing in
his life he needs right now.
00:49:06.91\00:49:09.21
Everything's hunky-dory,
God, thank you so much.
00:49:09.24\00:49:10.91
Call me again when you need me.
00:49:10.95\00:49:14.48
Give me your life he
says, let me have it.
00:49:14.52\00:49:18.65
And I'll just bury it
and it'll be gone, girl.
00:49:18.69\00:49:22.69
It'll be gone.
00:49:22.72\00:49:24.06
Cuba mission, put
a check mark there.
00:49:27.00\00:49:29.63
So here is what's different.
00:49:29.66\00:49:31.60
If God is calling
you, putting all my hands
00:49:31.63\00:49:34.24
right now everything,
putting all my hands right now,
00:49:34.27\00:49:37.07
I going to ask
you to take this card
00:49:37.11\00:49:38.44
and walk to the front right now.
00:49:38.47\00:49:40.58
Don't have to...
00:49:40.61\00:49:41.94
Choir is singing a lovely hymn.
00:49:41.98\00:49:43.31
No, just take this
card and come to the front
00:49:43.35\00:49:45.35
and by that, saying Dwight,
00:49:45.38\00:49:49.45
pray for me
right now on the spot,
00:49:49.48\00:49:51.05
and I will pray for
you right now on the spot.
00:49:51.09\00:49:53.09
I want couple of
pastors to stand right here
00:49:53.12\00:49:54.86
and receive these cards.
00:49:54.89\00:49:56.46
Not asking for your
tithes and offerings.
00:49:56.49\00:49:58.09
I'm asking for
your connect card,
00:49:58.13\00:49:59.46
if you've made a decision today
that I want to bury that past,
00:49:59.49\00:50:02.56
I'm going to give everything
to you God, everything to you.
00:50:02.60\00:50:06.60
I want you to
come forward please,
00:50:06.63\00:50:08.57
and put a card in one
of these pastor's hands.
00:50:08.60\00:50:12.04
And I want to pray with you.
00:50:12.07\00:50:14.74
And if you're in the balcony,
the very back of the balcony
00:50:14.78\00:50:17.48
and the spirit is
speaking to your heart,
00:50:17.51\00:50:18.85
I want to invite you to
come, make the long trip
00:50:18.88\00:50:20.58
down the stairs and
come here right here.
00:50:20.62\00:50:21.95
You say Dwight, I'm just
going to do it on the card,
00:50:21.98\00:50:23.35
it's real private.
00:50:23.39\00:50:24.72
Of course you may
and you may, and you may,
00:50:24.75\00:50:26.22
but sometimes to
operationalize your choice
00:50:26.25\00:50:29.09
makes all the
difference in the world.
00:50:29.12\00:50:31.39
That has been in
your past so long now,
00:50:31.43\00:50:35.76
it's time to bring it up.
00:50:35.80\00:50:37.13
Amen.
00:50:37.17\00:50:38.50
If you be willing
to place your heart
00:50:42.00\00:50:47.41
and that past in
Jesus' hands right now,
00:50:47.44\00:50:52.01
join these who've
already opened the door for you.
00:50:52.05\00:50:54.25
I'm not rushing
home to dinner, guys,
00:50:58.25\00:51:01.22
the spirit is
right here right now,
00:51:01.26\00:51:03.09
I've been
praying before I got up,
00:51:03.12\00:51:04.46
God keep the devil
outside the double doors,
00:51:04.49\00:51:08.00
just keep him out right now
00:51:08.03\00:51:09.36
because somebody is
going to get free today,
00:51:09.40\00:51:10.73
somebody is going to get
set free today in a lasting way
00:51:10.77\00:51:14.84
because you
operationalize your choice.
00:51:14.87\00:51:18.37
There is no magic in the
card, it's just the choice.
00:51:18.41\00:51:23.85
I will remember
your sins no more.
00:51:23.88\00:51:25.88
Anyone else?
00:51:30.52\00:51:33.99
From the choir?
00:51:34.02\00:51:37.09
From the sanctuary,
00:51:37.13\00:51:38.53
those who are watching right now
00:51:38.56\00:51:40.40
alone somewhere streaming.
00:51:40.43\00:51:43.67
You make the decision too.
00:51:43.70\00:51:46.67
They know where to
walk where you're watching,
00:51:46.70\00:51:48.37
you just raise your
hand to Jesus and say Jesus,
00:51:48.40\00:51:53.34
I'm giving it all to you.
00:51:53.38\00:51:55.74
Why should I carry this?
00:51:55.78\00:51:57.18
I'm not going to prolong this,
00:52:01.78\00:52:05.49
but somebody else needs to make
00:52:05.52\00:52:10.16
the physical response
of walking to the front.
00:52:10.19\00:52:14.86
We do connect cards so
that you never have to do this
00:52:14.90\00:52:16.90
but the Lord said, that's
nice, now Dwight, come on,
00:52:16.93\00:52:19.43
give somebody a chance.
00:52:19.47\00:52:20.84
Amen.
00:52:20.87\00:52:22.20
You never been
baptized before, bring the card.
00:52:22.24\00:52:25.71
Just leave it
right up here to front.
00:52:25.74\00:52:27.48
We'll be in touch with
you, we'll be in touch.
00:52:27.51\00:52:29.98
We'll make the decision.
00:52:30.01\00:52:31.35
God bless you.
00:52:42.92\00:52:44.26
From being back of the sanctuary
00:52:47.86\00:52:49.20
saying, no, I'm
not attached to self,
00:52:49.23\00:52:50.87
you kind of walk that whole
distance what's a point of it?
00:52:50.90\00:52:53.37
The point is Jesus says,
00:52:53.40\00:52:54.94
he who
confesses me before others
00:52:54.97\00:52:56.74
I'll confess before the father.
00:52:56.77\00:52:58.27
He who does not
confess me before others.
00:52:58.31\00:53:00.04
Well, you don't need me.
00:53:00.08\00:53:02.68
What do I say for you?
00:53:02.71\00:53:05.65
You want to put it all
in those nails scared hands.
00:53:05.68\00:53:07.68
That one of his
prayers has already covered you
00:53:10.75\00:53:12.92
to the max, you are covered.
00:53:12.95\00:53:16.22
You may be here to
worship conference and you said,
00:53:16.26\00:53:17.96
no, I'm not,
wasn't planning to be here
00:53:17.99\00:53:19.59
but I'm here and the
spirit is speaking to you
00:53:19.63\00:53:22.36
then come on.
00:53:22.40\00:53:26.43
They're coming.
00:53:26.47\00:53:29.44
Thirty years is a long time
00:53:29.47\00:53:30.81
for carrying
that little secret...
00:53:30.84\00:53:33.17
and if by saying that that
puts too much pressure on you
00:53:35.94\00:53:38.41
to come forward I understand.
00:53:38.45\00:53:41.25
If you have marked this box,
they will pray over your name.
00:53:41.28\00:53:47.52
And if you're too
embarrassed to put your name,
00:53:52.33\00:53:56.50
you just turn it in.
00:53:56.53\00:53:58.87
You just put a little check mark
00:53:58.90\00:54:01.70
that is appropriate to
you and leave your name off.
00:54:01.74\00:54:05.24
We're not
interested in doing anything
00:54:05.27\00:54:06.71
but facilitating this moment
00:54:06.74\00:54:08.58
so that you can
let go what God says,
00:54:08.61\00:54:11.38
it's no more in my
mind, it's not in my heart.
00:54:11.41\00:54:14.78
I got a new journey,
00:54:14.82\00:54:16.15
I got a new
chapter to write for you.
00:54:16.18\00:54:19.12
Let me write it,
just give me permission.
00:54:19.15\00:54:21.69
How many want to say with these
00:54:26.13\00:54:27.53
who come forward no
matter what check mark
00:54:27.56\00:54:30.17
you put here or haven't.
00:54:30.20\00:54:32.47
But how many want to say
you know what Dwight, yeah,
00:54:32.50\00:54:36.40
I want to clean, I
want all the secrets,
00:54:36.44\00:54:39.57
I want him to have it all,
he already knows it all anyway.
00:54:39.61\00:54:43.04
I'm putting my hand up
00:54:43.08\00:54:44.41
and if you would
be willing to say God
00:54:44.45\00:54:45.78
I'm going to give you that,
00:54:45.81\00:54:47.45
because I know exactly
what it is you're asking for.
00:54:47.48\00:54:53.56
Just put your hand
up where you're sitting.
00:54:53.59\00:54:56.16
Just your hand up and say Jesus.
00:54:56.19\00:54:58.66
Now look, you
didn't have to walk,
00:54:58.69\00:55:00.03
so hold your hand,
just hold your hand,
00:55:00.06\00:55:01.40
and don't be
embarrassed, just hold it up.
00:55:01.43\00:55:04.17
You're operationalizing
decision and saying
00:55:04.20\00:55:06.23
Jesus' intimacy barrier
that we have been able to cross
00:55:06.27\00:55:08.87
and how older am I now
good, man, am I that old.
00:55:08.90\00:55:12.81
I want to break that
intimacy barrier with you,
00:55:12.84\00:55:14.98
I want to let you
know that I know, you know,
00:55:15.01\00:55:18.11
and so I'm giving you
everything in my life.
00:55:18.15\00:55:21.18
Oh, marvelous, marvelous grace.
00:55:24.25\00:55:28.89
Oh, God I praise your name
for these who come forward.
00:55:28.92\00:55:34.10
It always takes little
bit of gumption and courage
00:55:34.13\00:55:36.20
to step up in front of everybody
00:55:36.23\00:55:40.20
and but you know what Lord,
00:55:40.24\00:55:41.84
Jesus with a cross
on his back all alone
00:55:41.87\00:55:46.31
dragged it to
the top of Golgotha.
00:55:46.34\00:55:50.91
He did it to
operationalize the prayer,
00:55:50.95\00:55:52.68
Father, forgive
him, forgive her,
00:55:52.71\00:55:54.42
she didn't know
what she was doing.
00:55:54.45\00:55:57.05
Bring it to me
child just bring it to me,
00:55:57.09\00:55:59.79
I will bury it in
the depths of the sea,
00:55:59.82\00:56:01.69
and I will
remember your sin no more.
00:56:01.72\00:56:04.83
It's not between you and me
ever again, I've dropped it.
00:56:04.86\00:56:08.80
I dropped it 2,000 years ago.
00:56:08.83\00:56:11.10
Drop it now please,
00:56:11.13\00:56:12.63
drop it in my
hand, I'll take it.
00:56:12.67\00:56:15.50
And then I'll breath
in you all the power,
00:56:15.54\00:56:18.17
grace and encourage you
need to live boldly for me.
00:56:18.21\00:56:23.08
I know what this means for you,
00:56:23.11\00:56:25.98
but you have me
and I'm with you.
00:56:26.01\00:56:30.39
I'm with you to the end
of the age so stay with me.
00:56:30.42\00:56:35.79
We'll grow together in
that intimacy, you watch,
00:56:35.82\00:56:41.50
it will be there you
and me every morning alone.
00:56:41.53\00:56:45.33
Oh, Father,
take our raised hands
00:56:45.37\00:56:47.74
and these decisions
and see you this moment.
00:56:47.77\00:56:50.87
May this almost too good
to be true picture of you.
00:56:50.91\00:56:54.34
Be what remains in our
hearts until Jesus comes, amen.
00:56:54.38\00:57:00.15
Amen.
00:57:00.18\00:57:01.52
May I take an extra
moment with you and let you know
00:57:04.95\00:57:06.86
how grateful I am that you
joined us in worship today?
00:57:06.89\00:57:09.82
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00:57:09.86\00:57:12.09
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00:57:12.13\00:57:14.83
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