Speak, O Lord, as we come to You
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To receive the
food of Your Holy Word
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Take Your truth,
plant it deep in us
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Shape and fashion us
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In Your likeness
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That the light of
Christ might be seen today
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In our acts of love
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And our deeds of faith
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Speak, O Lord, and fulfill in us
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All Your purposes for Your glory
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I invite you to stand
for us to pray this morning.
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Holy God, we recognize you
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as a supreme being
of all of the universe.
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If there is anyone
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who by virtue of their essence,
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by virtue of
character, authority,
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and power can speak
into our lives, it's You.
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You are the light of the world.
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You are the author of love here.
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You are the master storyteller.
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And so we come to
You this morning, Father,
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to receive the truth
that You have for us.
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The truth that will change us,
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in Jesus, name we pray, amen.
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I'm so excited,
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this is a Sabbath
of many new things.
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We have new freshmen.
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We have new graduate students.
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We have new transfer students.
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I bet you, we have
new faculty and new staff.
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We probably have
some new neighbors here.
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And I want you to take a
moment and just welcome them,
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give them a hearty PMC welcome.
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Everyone that's beside you
and say, welcome to Sabbath,
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welcome to being
with one another.
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Isn't it good to be home?
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For all of those of you
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who are coming
back in here early,
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we welcome you home.
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We're excited that you are here
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and get to worship
with us this morning.
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Our opening song this morning,
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our opening
anthem is Days of Elijah.
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You know the song really well
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and what it says
there is very truth.
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These are
different kind of days.
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And if you listen right
in the middle of the song
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there is a bridge.
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And it says there
is no God like Jehovah.
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You're familiar with it.
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There is no God like Jehovah.
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And here is the picture
that I want you to paint.
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Here's what I
want you to envision
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when you think of
there is no God like Jehovah,
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think that we're in army, right?
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We're happy, noisy army,
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we're glad to be here
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whose general is the
King of the universe, our God.
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And here's what we're doing.
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We're coming after the enemy
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because we're gonna
strike a deathly blow.
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We have Jesus,
Michael the archangel with us.
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And we're
coming from a distance,
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so it's gonna
start off real low.
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There is no God like Jehovah.
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But as we're getting
closer and closer and closer,
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it gets louder
and louder and louder.
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I'm gonna let
you know on the song
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when that part
happens because we are in army
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that's here to serve
the direction of the Lord,
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and we are gonna
take out the enemy
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and we want him to
know we're coming for him.
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Here we go.
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These are the days of Elijah
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Declaring the word of the Lord
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And these are the
days of Your servant
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Moses
Righteousness being restored
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And though these
are days of great trials
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Of famine and darkness and sword
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Still we are the
voice in the desert crying
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Prepare ye the way of the Lord!
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Behold He comes,
riding on the clouds
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Shining like the
sun, at the trumpet's call
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Lift your voice,
it's the year of Jubilee
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Out of Zion's
hill, salvation comes
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We gotta tell
people Jesus is coming.
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And these are
the days of Ezekiel
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The dry bones becoming as flesh
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And these are the
days of Your servant, David
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Rebuilding the temple of praise
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And these are the
days of the harvest
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The fields are as
white in the world
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And we are the
laborers in Your vineyard
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Declaring the Word of the Lord
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Behold He comes,
riding on the clouds
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Shining like the
sun, at the trumpet's call
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Lift your voice,
it's the year of Jubilee
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Out of Zion's
hill, salvation comes
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Here it is. Here it is.
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Real quiet at
first. Real quiet at first.
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Here we go.
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There's no God like Jehovah!
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There's no God like Jehovah!
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There's no God like Jehovah!
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There's no God like Jehovah!
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Little more.
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There's no God like Jehovah!
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There's no God like Jehovah!
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There's no God like Jehovah!
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There's no God like
Jehovah! Now dig deep.
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There's no God like Jehovah!
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There's no God like Jehovah!
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There's no God like Jehovah!
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There's no God like
Jehovah! Cry it out.
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There's no God like Jehovah!
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There's no God like Jehovah!
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There's no God like Jehovah!
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Behold He comes,
riding on the clouds
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Shining like the
sun, at the trumpet's call
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Lift your voice,
it's the year of Jubilee
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Out of Zion's
hill, salvation comes
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Behold He comes,
riding on the clouds
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Shining like the
sun, at the trumpet's call
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Lift your voice,
it's the year of Jubilee
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Out of Zion's
hill, salvation comes
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Lift your voice,
it's the year of Jubilee
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Out of Zion's
hill, salvation comes
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You are holy You are holy
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You are mighty You are mighty
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You are worthy You are worthy
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Worthy of
praise Worthy of praise
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I will follow I will follow
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I will listen I will listen
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I will love you I will love you
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All of my days All of my days
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I will sing to,
You are Lord of lords
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and worship You
are the King of kings
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You are mighty
God, Lord of everything
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I will love You're Emmanuel,
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and adore Him
You're the great I Am
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And I will bow down
You're the prince of Peace,
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before Him Who is the lamb
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I will sing to,
You're the living God,
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and worship
You're my saving grace
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The King You will reign forever,
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who is worthy You
are Ancient of Days
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I will love You
are Alpha, Omega,
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and adore Him Beginning and End
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And I will bow down
You're my Savior, Messiah,
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before Him Redeemer and Friend
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You are my Prince of Peace,
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And I will live my life for You
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That's what she said today,
she says I will live for you.
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You are holy You are holy
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You are mighty You are mighty
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You are worthy You are worthy
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Worthy of
praise Worthy of praise
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And I will follow I will follow
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And I will listen I will listen
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I will love you I will love you
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All of my days All of my days
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I will sing to,
You are Lord of lords
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and worship You
are the King of kings
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You are mighty
God, Lord of everything
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I will love You're Emmanuel,
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and adore Him
You're the great I Am
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And I will bow down
You're the prince of Peace,
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before Him Who is the lamb
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I will sing to,
You're the living God,
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and worship
You're my saving grace
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The King You will reign forever,
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who is worthy You
are Ancient of Days
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I will love You
are Alpha, Omega,
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and adore Him Beginning and End
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And I will bow down
You're my Savior, Messiah,
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before Him Redeemer and Friend
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You are my Prince of Peace,
And I will live my life for You
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You are my Prince of Peace,
And I will live my life for You
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There is none like You
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No one else can
touch My heart like You do
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I could search For
all eternity long and find
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There is none like You
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There is none like You
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No one else can
touch My heart like You do
00:12:04.69\00:12:11.69
I could search For
all eternity long and find
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There is none like You
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There is none like You
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No one else can
touch My heart like You do
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I could search For
all eternity long and find
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There is none like You
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I could search For
all eternity long and find
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There is none like You
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We could spend an
eternity looking in other places
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but why not decide today.
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I'm reminded of the
story of the woman at the well
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who is searching
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and looking and
looking in all the wrong places
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and then she
encounters this carpenter,
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she encounters this Messiah,
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this one that the
scriptures put spoke off
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and this is what He
said to her, He says,
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"Everyone who drinks this
water will be thirsty again."
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He's talking about those places
that don't really satisfy.
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He says, "But
whoever drinks the water,
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I give them will never thirst.
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Indeed the water I give
them will become in them
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a spring of water
welling up to eternal life."
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Don't you want
that kind of water?
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The kind that you
will never thirst again.
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Let's not waste another moment.
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Let's invite Him in and
tell Him to speak to us.
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We're back to
that opening intro.
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I'm gonna invite you to stand
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because we're making a
petition before God right now
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to speak to us all.
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Speak, O Lord, as we come to You
00:14:33.37\00:14:40.14
To receive the food
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Of Your Holy Word
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Take Your truth,
plant it deep in us
00:14:48.62\00:14:55.12
Shape and fashion us
00:14:55.16\00:14:58.99
In Your likeness
00:14:59.03\00:15:04.80
That the light of
Christ might be seen today
00:15:04.83\00:15:11.81
In our acts of love
00:15:11.84\00:15:15.61
And our deeds of faith
00:15:15.64\00:15:22.12
Speak, O Lord, and fulfill in us
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All Your purposes for Your glory
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You may listen, but
you need to act as well.
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Teach us, Lord, full obedience
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Holy reverence, true humility
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Test our
thoughts and our attitudes
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In the radiance
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Of Your purity
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Cause our faith to
rise, cause our eyes to see
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Your majestic love
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And authority
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Words of pow'r
that can never fail
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Let their truth prevail
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Over unbelief
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Some of you are
here this morning
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and you have
several things unresolved.
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You're not financially cleared,
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you aren't done with
registering for your classes.
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Some of you are
here this morning
00:17:00.45\00:17:02.65
and you have aches
and pains and burdens
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that have been
pressing on you all week.
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But here's what I
want to tell you that
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our God is special and unique
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and unlike any
other God because He says,
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"Ask and I will give it to you."
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He says, "Seek
and you will find.
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Knock and the
door will be opened."
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If you have that kind of courage
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to ask a high request of
the King of the universe,
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I want to invite you
to come forward right now
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for our prayer
time this morning.
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And get as close to
the cross, don't be shy.
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Get as close to
the cross as possible.
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We're gonna sing his verse
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and come and make
your petition known
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before our Lord God as
Pastor Rodley prays for us.
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Come forward.
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Speak, O Lord,
and renew our minds
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Help us grasp the
heights of Your plans for us
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Truths unchanged
from the dawn of time
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That will echo down
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Through eternity
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And by grace we'll
stand on Your promises
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And by faith we'll walk
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As You walk with us
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Speak, O Lord, till
Your church is built
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And the earth is
filled with Your glory
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Speak, O Lord, till
Your church is built
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And the earth is
filled with Your glory
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Arise, my soul, arise!
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Stretch forth to things eternal
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And haste thee to the
feet of thy Redeemer God
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Though hid from mortal
eyes He dwells in light supernal
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Yet worship him in
humbleness and own him Lord
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His banquet of
love Awaits thee above
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Behold the marriage
festal of the Lamb is come
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Rejoice, my soul, rejoice
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To heaven lift up thy voice
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Alleluia, alleluia,
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alleluia
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Listen to the harps of heaven
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Hark to the song victorious
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The never-ending anthem
sounding through the sky
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To mortals is not given
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To chant its
strains all-glorious
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Yet sing, my
soul, the praise of him
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Who reigns on high
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Who bought with his Blood
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The ransomed of God
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To him be everlasting power
00:21:07.66\00:21:14.64
And victory
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And let the great
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Let the great
resound through heaven again
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Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia
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Amen.
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Hey, gentlemen,
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just what we needed for
today's singing about the cross,
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blood bought, rejoice, rejoice,
00:21:53.81\00:21:57.61
hallelujah.
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He has bought us with His blood.
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And if you will direct
your attention to that board
00:22:03.02\00:22:05.95
high over head,
00:22:05.99\00:22:07.89
every name on that
board is on that board
00:22:07.92\00:22:11.89
because she, he, they
made a decision last night
00:22:11.93\00:22:17.60
to become more
leaders, to put their lives,
00:22:17.63\00:22:19.83
put their names on the line
00:22:19.87\00:22:22.30
for more
leadership on this campus.
00:22:22.34\00:22:25.14
God knows we need more
leadership in this nation
00:22:25.17\00:22:27.71
as a presidential
election campaign is showing us.
00:22:27.74\00:22:30.95
We need leaders in America,
00:22:30.98\00:22:34.12
and I'm so grateful to God
for those names, praise God.
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By the time you
come next Sabbath,
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back you come to
opening convocation
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that canvas
will be hanging there
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for all the world to see.
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Four years in a row now,
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that's who all these
names are individuals
00:22:52.07\00:22:54.84
who has said, "I'm putting
my name on the line for Christ."
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Good for you.
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Let's pray.
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Oh, God.
00:23:04.08\00:23:05.41
Rejoice, rejoice, hallelujah
00:23:05.45\00:23:09.12
as the men just sang.
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We've been worship
from the moment we walked in
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nothing stopped,
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we're bending our ear,
00:23:19.23\00:23:20.56
we're hoping to hear
from You through Your word,
00:23:20.60\00:23:23.70
don't disappoint us please,
00:23:23.73\00:23:25.07
don't let this frail
voice get in the way of Yours.
00:23:25.10\00:23:31.64
Speak to us in Christ
we pray in His name, amen.
00:23:31.67\00:23:34.28
Amen.
00:23:34.31\00:23:36.28
Once every four years
00:23:36.31\00:23:37.91
the whole world
catches this Olympic bug.
00:23:37.95\00:23:41.88
This quadrennial
celebration of youth,
00:23:41.92\00:23:46.25
where the young of the world
on a stage of earth perform
00:23:46.29\00:23:51.56
and everybody who is old wishes
00:23:51.59\00:23:53.60
I could be young
again just like them.
00:23:53.63\00:23:56.80
Even though the August,
00:23:56.83\00:23:58.67
Wall Street Journal has to get
in on the act this last week.
00:23:58.70\00:24:02.70
I want to share an op-ed
piece written by the Rabbi
00:24:02.74\00:24:06.64
and minister of
Congregation Shearith Israel
00:24:06.68\00:24:09.98
in Manhattan.
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I can share this
00:24:11.38\00:24:12.71
because my friend Don
Wilson tore out of his
00:24:12.75\00:24:15.48
Wall Street
Journal and shared with me.
00:24:15.52\00:24:17.85
The story is straight
out of the summer Olympics,
00:24:17.89\00:24:21.32
not the Olympics in Rio,
but the summer games in Paris.
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1924, two British runners, okay,
00:24:26.93\00:24:31.07
so we got two more
runners on the scene,
00:24:31.10\00:24:32.63
two British runners.
00:24:32.67\00:24:34.00
A Jew named Harold Abrahams
00:24:34.04\00:24:37.21
and the Scot named Eric Liddell,
00:24:37.24\00:24:42.24
a devout Christian.
00:24:42.28\00:24:45.91
The whole world knows this story
00:24:45.95\00:24:48.02
because 35 years
ago this very year,
00:24:48.05\00:24:50.09
that story was immortalized
in the great chariots of fire,
00:24:50.12\00:24:53.79
you remember that.
00:24:53.82\00:24:57.46
All right, well, there they are.
00:24:57.49\00:24:59.59
I'll spare you the soundtrack.
00:24:59.63\00:25:01.70
There they are.
00:25:01.73\00:25:03.53
World knows their story.
00:25:03.57\00:25:04.90
So the rabbi takes
that story and he opines,
00:25:04.93\00:25:08.60
he comments on it.
00:25:08.64\00:25:10.01
And I just want to read a line
or two from his op-ed piece.
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Abrahams as
depicted in the film,
00:25:12.94\00:25:15.81
feels stung by the
latent anti-Semitism
00:25:15.84\00:25:18.85
he encounters in
elite English society.
00:25:18.88\00:25:21.62
Seeing his
Jewishness as a social handicap,
00:25:21.65\00:25:24.09
he runs competitively
to gain acceptance.
00:25:24.12\00:25:27.02
Yet from a Jewish perspective,
Abrahams's life remains tragic.
00:25:27.06\00:25:31.16
As a rabbi, a fellow Jew.
00:25:31.19\00:25:33.40
As a rabbi, I actually draw
00:25:33.43\00:25:35.80
inspiration from the
life of Eric Liddell,
00:25:35.83\00:25:38.77
a devout Christian.
00:25:38.80\00:25:43.00
The Scottish
runner's religious identity
00:25:43.04\00:25:44.97
also motivates his athletics
though in a very different way.
00:25:45.01\00:25:47.84
In the film,
Liddell's father, a missionary.
00:25:47.88\00:25:50.31
By the way a missionary to China
00:25:50.35\00:25:52.41
and Eric was born in China.
00:25:52.45\00:25:54.58
In the film,
father tells his son,
00:25:58.19\00:26:00.09
I'm quoting "You're the
proud possessor of many gifts,
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and it's your sacred
duty to put them to good use."
00:26:02.76\00:26:06.90
The father's point is that
00:26:06.93\00:26:08.26
people of faith
should sanctify the world.
00:26:08.30\00:26:09.63
The rabbi says,
00:26:09.66\00:26:11.00
sanctify the
world, don't reject it.
00:26:11.03\00:26:12.47
Liddell's explanation
for why he runs is the most
00:26:12.50\00:26:14.80
memorable quote from the
film, and you will recall it
00:26:14.84\00:26:18.01
"I believe God
made me for a purpose,
00:26:18.04\00:26:20.68
but He also made me fast,
00:26:20.71\00:26:22.68
and when I run I
feel His pleasure.
00:26:22.71\00:26:27.12
Now the story that we all know.
00:26:30.79\00:26:33.66
While Americans rightly exult
00:26:33.69\00:26:35.26
in the
achievements of U.S. medalists,
00:26:35.29\00:26:36.86
"Chariots of Fire"
also serves as a reminder
00:26:36.89\00:26:39.26
that athletics and even
patriotism only mean so much.
00:26:39.29\00:26:43.60
When Liddell is
informed that a qualifying heat
00:26:43.63\00:26:46.33
takes place on Sunday,
00:26:46.37\00:26:49.54
his Sabbath, this is
Jew writing says, well,
00:26:49.57\00:26:51.77
that's his Sabbath.
00:26:51.81\00:26:55.14
He chooses not to
compete in that race.
00:26:55.18\00:26:59.35
And by the way
it was that decision
00:26:59.38\00:27:02.15
to miss the 100 meter dash
00:27:02.18\00:27:05.85
for which he was considered
a certain gold medalist.
00:27:05.89\00:27:10.63
Instead he tried to
run the 400 meter race
00:27:10.66\00:27:14.13
where everybody is saying,
00:27:14.16\00:27:15.50
he's not going
to be able to do it.
00:27:15.53\00:27:16.87
It was that decision that
catapulted him to global fame.
00:27:16.90\00:27:20.94
In the end Eric
Liddell won the gold
00:27:20.97\00:27:24.71
on the 400 meter race.
00:27:24.74\00:27:26.57
Returned to China,
00:27:30.48\00:27:32.11
now himself a
missionary and 21 years later
00:27:32.15\00:27:35.28
after winning the
gold medal, died in China
00:27:35.32\00:27:38.35
in a Japanese prisoner
war concentration camp,
00:27:38.39\00:27:42.32
just months before
World War II ended.
00:27:42.36\00:27:44.19
I love this
poster that they produced
00:27:47.40\00:27:49.23
for the life testimony
this young man and this athlete,
00:27:49.26\00:27:52.40
put it on the screen please.
00:27:52.43\00:27:53.77
This athlete who
became a missionary.
00:27:53.80\00:27:55.50
You see it there, can
you read the words there,
00:27:55.54\00:27:58.84
"Not for
crowds, not for country,
00:27:58.87\00:28:01.71
not for fame, not for glory,
00:28:01.74\00:28:04.38
he ran for God."
00:28:04.41\00:28:07.52
But that's the
way to live your life.
00:28:07.55\00:28:09.92
You knew start not here,
00:28:09.95\00:28:11.29
that's the way
to live your life.
00:28:11.32\00:28:12.65
Run for God,
00:28:12.69\00:28:14.02
whatever it is
you do, run for Him.
00:28:14.06\00:28:18.09
There is something in the
heart of even a secular world
00:28:18.13\00:28:20.00
as the world has become today.
00:28:20.03\00:28:22.53
There is a deep admiration,
00:28:22.56\00:28:25.70
there is something
that the man of the world,
00:28:25.73\00:28:29.20
the woman of the world
finds extremely appealing
00:28:29.24\00:28:32.64
to see a human being
go deep inside of him,
00:28:32.67\00:28:36.75
deep inside of her for
the sake of conviction.
00:28:36.78\00:28:40.98
The world rises up in awe.
00:28:41.02\00:28:44.75
As we'll see speaking of deep
conviction in today's story.
00:28:44.79\00:28:49.66
Title of today
story, "The Well Digger,
00:28:49.69\00:28:51.13
How to Live Deeply
in a Sun-Scorched Land."
00:28:51.16\00:28:53.09
It's rather
obscure story, I dare say,
00:28:53.13\00:28:55.00
nobody here has
really spend any time on it.
00:28:55.03\00:28:57.57
But perhaps in this
forgotten piece of narrative,
00:28:57.60\00:29:00.44
there is a
secret embedded for us
00:29:00.47\00:29:02.84
third millennials
that we need to get,
00:29:02.87\00:29:04.67
so without any further
ado open your Bible with me
00:29:04.71\00:29:06.71
to book of
beginnings Genesis 26, let's go.
00:29:06.74\00:29:10.55
Genesis 26, bring
your Bible new students,
00:29:10.58\00:29:15.05
every Sabbath I
guarantee you, we will use it.
00:29:15.08\00:29:18.42
Genesis 26,
00:29:18.45\00:29:20.02
I'm in the New
International Version
00:29:20.06\00:29:21.39
whatever translation
you have is find by me,
00:29:21.42\00:29:23.36
you got a device, that's okay.
00:29:23.39\00:29:24.93
You didn't bring anything,
there is a pew Bible, grab it.
00:29:24.96\00:29:27.46
We're going to stay here,
so you want to track the story.
00:29:27.50\00:29:30.13
Genesis 26:1,
00:29:30.17\00:29:32.83
"Now there was a
famine in the land
00:29:32.87\00:29:35.74
besides the previous famine
in Abraham's time and Isaac,
00:29:35.77\00:29:39.24
that's the boy of Abraham,
00:29:39.27\00:29:40.81
went to Abimelek king of
the Philistines in Gerar."
00:29:40.84\00:29:45.95
Now hit the pause
button right there,
00:29:45.98\00:29:47.32
hold it time out.
00:29:47.35\00:29:49.65
Something sounds
very familiar here
00:29:49.68\00:29:52.15
and that's what's happening,
00:29:52.19\00:29:53.52
the writer of Genesis
00:29:53.56\00:29:54.89
who happen to
been Moses has embedded
00:29:54.92\00:29:57.76
in the opening
salvo to this story,
00:29:57.79\00:30:00.76
key words that
will remind the reader
00:30:00.80\00:30:03.30
who's reading
consecutively through Genesis.
00:30:03.33\00:30:05.10
Wait a minute,
00:30:05.13\00:30:06.47
I read a story just
like this a moment ago.
00:30:06.50\00:30:07.84
And yes, you did in
Genesis 20 as a matter of fact.
00:30:07.87\00:30:10.91
Let me show you six parallels
00:30:10.94\00:30:12.27
between Genesis 20
and 26 where we are.
00:30:12.31\00:30:15.51
Parallel number
one, same family tribe,
00:30:15.54\00:30:17.58
we got Abraham, we
got Isaac, same tribe.
00:30:17.61\00:30:20.95
Parallel number two,
00:30:20.98\00:30:22.32
same land in
the dry Negev region
00:30:22.35\00:30:24.35
of South
Philistine, deserty, arid.
00:30:24.39\00:30:27.82
Parallel number
three, same city of Gerar
00:30:27.86\00:30:30.53
which is the seed of
the Philistine fiefdom.
00:30:30.56\00:30:35.06
Parallel number
four, same king Abimelek,
00:30:35.10\00:30:39.23
although scholars
have finally concluded
00:30:39.27\00:30:40.87
based on this two stories.
00:30:40.90\00:30:42.24
You know what?
00:30:42.27\00:30:43.61
Abimelek can't be
his personal name,
00:30:43.64\00:30:44.97
stories wait you can't have that
00:30:45.01\00:30:46.34
same king in the same story,
00:30:46.37\00:30:47.71
in two stories
rather, it's like pharaoh,
00:30:47.74\00:30:49.38
it just means king.
00:30:49.41\00:30:50.75
So we have the
king of the Philistines.
00:30:50.78\00:30:53.01
Parallel number five,
same God shows up in the story.
00:30:53.05\00:30:55.38
Parallel number six,
and so does the same sin.
00:30:55.42\00:30:58.39
Keep reading verse 2.
00:31:01.59\00:31:03.66
"And the Lord
appeared to Isaac and said,
00:31:03.69\00:31:06.29
"Do not go down to Egypt,
00:31:06.33\00:31:08.20
live in the land
where I tell you."
00:31:08.23\00:31:10.07
Verse 3, "Stay in
this land for a while."
00:31:10.10\00:31:14.34
Hit the pause button again.
00:31:14.37\00:31:16.14
I want you to know that
00:31:16.17\00:31:17.51
with every
command of go from God,
00:31:17.54\00:31:20.08
there is a command to stay.
00:31:20.11\00:31:23.28
You see some people
spend their whole life
00:31:23.31\00:31:25.98
chasing after a
dream somewhere else,
00:31:26.01\00:31:29.18
usually over the rainbow.
00:31:29.22\00:31:30.99
But here is the
story to remind us,
00:31:34.16\00:31:38.06
that happy are they who realize
00:31:38.09\00:31:40.66
that a dream is in what
you pursue somewhere else,
00:31:40.70\00:31:43.40
a dream is what you
become where you are.
00:31:43.43\00:31:46.10
Stay where you are Isaac.
00:31:49.50\00:31:55.61
And so those of you
who are new students here,
00:31:55.64\00:31:58.41
I'm going to make
a little prophecy.
00:31:58.45\00:32:00.32
There will be some
moments in your journey
00:32:00.35\00:32:01.98
at Andrews University
00:32:02.02\00:32:03.35
when you're going to
say, I'm out of here.
00:32:03.39\00:32:07.32
And I hope in those moments
00:32:07.36\00:32:09.46
you will hear the quiet
voice of God whisper to you,
00:32:09.49\00:32:13.86
what he whispered to Isaac.
00:32:13.90\00:32:17.47
Verse 3 again,
00:32:17.50\00:32:20.94
"Stay in this land for a while,
00:32:20.97\00:32:24.57
and I will be with
you and I will bless you.
00:32:24.61\00:32:26.57
For to you and your descendants
I will give all these lands
00:32:26.61\00:32:29.24
and will confirm the oath
00:32:29.28\00:32:31.01
I swore to your father Abraham."
00:32:31.05\00:32:32.61
Stay in this land of learning,
because you're going to learn,
00:32:32.65\00:32:35.45
you're going to
learn outside of textbooks,
00:32:35.48\00:32:36.99
you're going to learn
outside of laboratories,
00:32:37.02\00:32:38.92
you're going to learn life,
00:32:38.95\00:32:40.92
and the only way
Isaac will learn the lesson,
00:32:40.96\00:32:43.22
he needs to learn
is to stay right there.
00:32:43.26\00:32:45.36
There are lessons you will learn
00:32:45.39\00:32:46.83
far away from the academics,
00:32:46.86\00:32:49.00
but will take place
right here, stay in the land,
00:32:49.03\00:32:52.77
learn with me.
00:32:52.80\00:32:55.20
Verse 4, "I will
make your descendants
00:32:55.24\00:32:57.31
as numerous as
the stars in the sky,
00:32:57.34\00:32:58.87
like I told you daddy,
00:32:58.91\00:33:00.24
so I'm promising you.
00:33:00.28\00:33:01.61
And I will give
them all these lands,
00:33:01.64\00:33:02.98
and through your offspring
00:33:03.01\00:33:04.35
all nations on
earth will be blessed,"
00:33:04.38\00:33:05.81
because verse 5,
"Abraham obeyed me,
00:33:05.85\00:33:08.48
talking about your papa,
00:33:08.52\00:33:09.85
he did everything
I required of him,
00:33:09.88\00:33:11.45
keeping my commandments, my
decrees and my instructions.
00:33:11.49\00:33:14.72
So Isaac stayed in Gerar."
00:33:14.76\00:33:20.80
And if the story
ended right there wow,
00:33:20.83\00:33:22.90
we got a
beautifully profound promise
00:33:22.93\00:33:25.07
that we can take to the bank.
00:33:25.10\00:33:27.00
But unfortunately the story,
there is more to the story.
00:33:27.04\00:33:31.24
Dr. James Dobson,
00:33:31.27\00:33:33.04
ever heard that
name, Dr. Dobson,
00:33:33.07\00:33:34.78
James Dobson still alive
but no longer around really.
00:33:34.81\00:33:37.88
The fame child psychologist
00:33:37.91\00:33:40.42
of last century
family counselor,
00:33:40.45\00:33:42.42
used to love to tell a
story about a young dad
00:33:42.45\00:33:44.19
who is driving down the road,
00:33:44.22\00:33:45.55
okay young dad
driving down the road,
00:33:45.59\00:33:46.92
his boy right here
beside him the little boy,
00:33:46.96\00:33:48.79
right here beside him.
00:33:48.82\00:33:50.16
And then the dad does
something that men do,
00:33:50.19\00:33:52.09
and men cannot explain this.
00:33:52.13\00:33:53.46
We do not know why we do this,
00:33:53.50\00:33:54.83
but dad hits the button
and he drops the window down
00:33:54.86\00:33:58.97
and then he expectorates.
00:33:59.00\00:34:03.57
You got to get to be a
senior Andrews University
00:34:03.61\00:34:05.47
to know that
expectorate means spit.
00:34:05.51\00:34:09.44
So he.
00:34:09.48\00:34:12.28
Out the window.
00:34:12.31\00:34:13.82
He's bringing his eyes
back to continue driving
00:34:13.85\00:34:16.75
when he hears
the girdling sound,
00:34:16.79\00:34:18.85
the same sound coming
00:34:18.89\00:34:20.22
from a little throat beside him,
00:34:20.26\00:34:22.02
and before the father can
react the boy went all over dad.
00:34:22.06\00:34:28.43
Now Dr. Dobson's point
is like father like son.
00:34:28.46\00:34:32.87
That's exactly what we
have here in Genesis 26,
00:34:32.90\00:34:36.20
you can't believe it.
00:34:36.24\00:34:37.57
Yeah.
00:34:37.61\00:34:38.94
Verse 6 again, "So
Isaac stayed in Gerar.
00:34:38.97\00:34:43.21
And when the men of that
place asked him about his wife,
00:34:43.24\00:34:49.22
he said, "She is my sister."
00:34:49.25\00:34:54.09
Now the reader of
Genesis knows this again,
00:34:54.12\00:34:58.49
this had already happened
twice with father Abraham.
00:34:58.53\00:35:00.33
Once when he went down
to Egypt, she is my sis,
00:35:00.36\00:35:04.03
almost lost his life.
00:35:04.07\00:35:05.60
He did again in Gerar
same place with Abimelek,
00:35:05.63\00:35:09.14
lost his reputation.
00:35:09.17\00:35:12.17
It's possible that
Abraham was just too shamed
00:35:12.21\00:35:15.61
to even tell Isaac about it,
00:35:15.64\00:35:17.48
but whether Isaac ever
heard from his dad or not,
00:35:17.51\00:35:19.88
he follows in
his dad's footsteps.
00:35:19.91\00:35:24.75
Verse 7 again,
00:35:24.79\00:35:26.19
"And when the men of that
place asked him about his wife,
00:35:26.22\00:35:28.42
he said, 'She is my sister'
00:35:28.46\00:35:30.43
because he was afraid
to say, 'She is my wife.'
00:35:30.46\00:35:32.76
He thought, 'The men of
this place might kill me
00:35:32.79\00:35:34.80
on account of Rebekah,
because she is beautiful.'
00:35:34.83\00:35:38.97
" Well there is
a seventh parallel
00:35:39.00\00:35:40.44
that we could add
to these two stories,
00:35:40.47\00:35:41.80
because both men,
00:35:41.84\00:35:43.17
father and son married
00:35:43.20\00:35:45.64
as I've had the good fortune
of doing a beautiful woman.
00:35:45.67\00:35:48.38
And both of them
were scared stiff,
00:35:53.31\00:35:55.48
that the men of their
community would stiff them
00:35:55.52\00:35:58.62
in order to run
off with their girls.
00:35:58.65\00:36:00.26
So they both lied
about their wife's,
00:36:03.32\00:36:05.36
she is my sister.
00:36:05.39\00:36:06.73
Really? Yep.
00:36:06.76\00:36:08.56
Wow, pretty good looking sister.
00:36:08.60\00:36:10.27
Yeah, you should
have seen our mother.
00:36:10.30\00:36:11.73
The truth is it's never
smart or clever or cute to lie,
00:36:15.20\00:36:19.04
the price is too high
and the even sadder truth.
00:36:19.07\00:36:22.98
Now listen up if you ever
going to be a parent one day
00:36:23.01\00:36:25.05
or you're already a parent
00:36:25.08\00:36:26.58
the even sadder
truth is that the sins
00:36:26.61\00:36:29.88
and I whence when I say this,
00:36:29.92\00:36:31.55
the sins of the
parents are often perpetuated
00:36:31.59\00:36:34.62
in their children,
00:36:34.66\00:36:36.29
not by divine decree
but by frail modeling.
00:36:36.32\00:36:42.23
There is a hard disk daddy,
00:36:42.26\00:36:44.23
mommy there is a hard disk
00:36:44.27\00:36:46.13
that is watching
everything you do,
00:36:46.17\00:36:50.04
and recording
every word you say.
00:36:50.07\00:36:55.84
It's on the hard disk.
00:36:55.88\00:36:58.81
Oh, my, it's a
rather somber reminder.
00:36:58.85\00:37:04.09
The price is too high to lie.
00:37:04.12\00:37:07.79
And so Isaac tears a page
00:37:07.82\00:37:09.16
out of his father's
playbook and he lies.
00:37:09.19\00:37:12.76
And then Jacob who is born here,
00:37:12.79\00:37:15.46
is already alive,
00:37:15.50\00:37:16.83
Jacob tears a page out of
his daddy Isaac's playbook
00:37:16.87\00:37:19.83
and he lies to his
daddy when his daddy is old
00:37:19.87\00:37:22.27
and he cheats him
out of that birthright,
00:37:22.30\00:37:24.37
and then when Jacob has boys,
00:37:24.41\00:37:26.61
they all know the story
00:37:26.64\00:37:27.98
and they tear a page
out of daddy's playbook
00:37:28.01\00:37:31.18
and they lie to daddy, you know,
00:37:31.21\00:37:32.68
some animal did this must
have killed your boy Joseph
00:37:32.71\00:37:34.92
when they sold them as a slave.
00:37:34.95\00:37:37.99
Lying embeds itself deeply
within our falling hearts.
00:37:38.02\00:37:41.59
You are still young,
00:37:41.62\00:37:43.76
don't tear a page out
of Genesis playbook please,
00:37:43.79\00:37:47.26
just leave the page there.
00:37:47.30\00:37:50.50
And yet this is a glory.
00:37:50.53\00:37:52.90
And yet what a
God in this story.
00:37:52.93\00:37:56.60
Do you remember
how God described
00:37:56.64\00:37:59.81
Abraham to Abraham's boy Isaac.
00:37:59.84\00:38:02.44
I want you to go back
and look at these words,
00:38:02.48\00:38:03.98
we just blew
through them here, verse 5.
00:38:04.01\00:38:06.78
God is speaking to
Isaac and he said, Isaac,
00:38:06.82\00:38:08.92
let me tell you about your dad.
00:38:08.95\00:38:10.29
"Abraham obeyed me and did
everything I required of him,
00:38:10.32\00:38:14.62
keeping my commandments..."
00:38:14.66\00:38:16.32
Are you talking about
the eight commandment,
00:38:16.36\00:38:17.69
Thou shalt not
bear false witness.
00:38:17.73\00:38:19.26
"Keeping my
commandments my decrees
00:38:19.29\00:38:21.86
and my instructions."
00:38:21.90\00:38:23.93
No matter how
severe the meltdown
00:38:23.97\00:38:26.07
you have been through,
00:38:26.10\00:38:27.54
for the God of the universe,
00:38:27.57\00:38:28.97
all it takes is one
confession and that is washed.
00:38:29.00\00:38:33.51
There is some
celestial book in heaven
00:38:33.54\00:38:35.44
that has recorded that meltdown,
00:38:35.48\00:38:37.95
it is washed from
the divine record.
00:38:37.98\00:38:41.52
What do you say to that?
00:38:41.55\00:38:43.42
Amen, come on, guys,
00:38:43.45\00:38:44.89
this is clearly
the glorious, gospel,
00:38:44.92\00:38:48.36
the everlasting
gospel that begins in Genesis
00:38:48.39\00:38:51.63
and goes all the
way through Revelation.
00:38:51.66\00:38:53.80
You have nothing to fear
from this God who loves you,
00:38:53.83\00:38:56.40
and he will start
over just like that,
00:38:56.43\00:38:59.67
wash the record.
00:38:59.70\00:39:01.60
I mean that's a
gospel prophet Isaiah,
00:39:01.64\00:39:03.24
isn't that what
he said, Isaiah 1:18,
00:39:03.27\00:39:04.87
Though your sins be a
scarlet, they shall be?"
00:39:04.91\00:39:08.34
Yeah, we're going to have that
reminder in just five months
00:39:08.38\00:39:11.81
white as snow."
00:39:11.85\00:39:13.45
Same gospel
prophet chapter 43:25,
00:39:13.48\00:39:16.52
"I will remember
your transgressions
00:39:16.55\00:39:20.12
no more, no more."
00:39:20.16\00:39:22.16
Same gospel
prophet, Isaiah 44:22,
00:39:22.19\00:39:24.96
"I will banish your
sins like the morning mist."
00:39:24.99\00:39:29.53
I mean, I run in every
morning before the sun comes up.
00:39:29.56\00:39:32.40
And I'm telling you,
00:39:32.43\00:39:33.77
these last few weeks
have been so muggy, so humid,
00:39:33.80\00:39:36.74
75 degrees we're
talking about in the dark.
00:39:36.77\00:39:41.14
That they're just,
00:39:41.18\00:39:42.51
they're this low
lying sheets of mist
00:39:42.54\00:39:45.85
that you run
through and sweat even more.
00:39:45.88\00:39:48.32
God says, like the sun
that banishes the mist,
00:39:48.35\00:39:52.75
that's what I'll do
with your sin, the record.
00:39:52.79\00:39:55.12
It's a gospel.
00:39:55.16\00:39:56.49
Paul says, here is the gospel,
00:39:56.52\00:39:58.09
here is a faithful
and trustworthy saying
00:39:58.13\00:40:03.47
Christ Jesus came into the world
00:40:03.50\00:40:05.20
to save sinners of
whom I'm the worst.
00:40:05.23\00:40:08.17
1 Timothy 1:15,
00:40:08.20\00:40:10.71
what a great note by
the way to begin a new year,
00:40:10.74\00:40:12.94
don't you think?
00:40:12.97\00:40:14.31
Good news for you and me.
00:40:14.34\00:40:15.68
Okay, verse 8,
00:40:15.71\00:40:17.05
he's lied here
comes, now verse 8,
00:40:17.08\00:40:18.95
"When Isaac had
been there a long time,
00:40:18.98\00:40:22.55
Abimelek king of the Philistines
00:40:22.58\00:40:24.05
looked down from a window
00:40:24.09\00:40:25.42
and saw Isaac
caressing his wife Rebekah."
00:40:25.45\00:40:28.69
We're not told
00:40:28.72\00:40:30.16
what was happening
during that caressing,
00:40:30.19\00:40:32.29
all we know is that
it would never happen
00:40:32.33\00:40:34.93
between a brother and a sister.
00:40:34.96\00:40:36.36
So verse 9,
00:40:41.70\00:40:43.04
"Abimelek
summoned Isaac and said,
00:40:43.07\00:40:46.27
"She is really your wife!
00:40:46.31\00:40:48.31
Why did you say,
''She is my sister''?'
00:40:48.34\00:40:50.11
Isaac answered him,
00:40:50.15\00:40:51.48
'Because I thought I might
lose my life on account of her.
00:40:51.51\00:40:53.62
Then Abimelek said,
00:40:53.65\00:40:54.98
"What is this
you have done to us?
00:40:55.02\00:40:57.09
One of the men might well
have slept with your wife,
00:40:57.12\00:41:00.79
and you would have
brought guilt upon us."
00:41:00.82\00:41:03.39
So verse 11, "Abimelek
gave orders to all the people:
00:41:03.43\00:41:05.79
'Anyone who harms this man
00:41:05.83\00:41:07.16
or his wife shall
surely be put to death.'
00:41:07.20\00:41:10.07
Isaac went on to
plant crops in that land
00:41:10.10\00:41:12.07
and the same year
reaped a hundredfold,
00:41:12.10\00:41:15.04
because the Lord blessed him."
00:41:15.07\00:41:16.74
Verse 13, "The man became rich,
00:41:16.77\00:41:18.57
and his wealth continued to grow
00:41:18.61\00:41:20.01
until he became very wealthy."
00:41:20.04\00:41:23.04
After public
deceit and public exposure
00:41:23.08\00:41:26.88
God is still willing to
do business with his man.
00:41:26.92\00:41:31.59
That man, that
husband, that father,
00:41:31.62\00:41:34.39
that patriarch of the tribe,
00:41:34.42\00:41:36.49
God keeps His promises.
00:41:36.52\00:41:40.26
He keeps His
promises, I will bless you.
00:41:40.30\00:41:43.73
And by the way don't you dare,
oh, you can't miss next week.
00:41:43.77\00:41:46.97
Next week we're
going to begin a series
00:41:47.00\00:41:48.67
and the title of
the series is #RxF4Now
00:41:48.70\00:41:54.68
that series begins next Sabbath.
00:41:54.71\00:41:57.28
And next Sabbath I
will share with you a secret
00:41:57.31\00:41:59.95
shared with me
by three individuals
00:41:59.98\00:42:02.68
that secret I have found
00:42:02.72\00:42:04.72
and begun
incorporating this summer
00:42:04.75\00:42:06.76
and it has
already changed my life.
00:42:06.79\00:42:09.12
Next Sabbath, the secret that
will change your life forever.
00:42:09.16\00:42:16.06
God keeps His promises
00:42:16.10\00:42:18.70
and blesses
Isaac beyond imagining.
00:42:18.73\00:42:21.97
The very same God by the way
00:42:22.00\00:42:25.84
who this New Year will
bless you in this place.
00:42:25.87\00:42:30.55
He has promised.
00:42:33.92\00:42:37.72
Put the promise on the
screen for I love this promise.
00:42:37.75\00:42:41.92
"Now unto him who is
able to do immeasurably
00:42:41.96\00:42:43.83
more than all we ask or imagine,
00:42:43.86\00:42:46.29
according to the
power that is at work in us.
00:42:46.33\00:42:49.03
You know what?
00:42:49.06\00:42:50.40
Ladies and gentlemen,
00:42:50.43\00:42:53.44
it's very okay to ask God
to bless you intellectually.
00:42:53.47\00:42:59.84
To ask God to
bless you academically,
00:42:59.87\00:43:01.61
it's okay.
00:43:01.64\00:43:03.98
In fact there is a
prayer I pray a lot,
00:43:04.01\00:43:05.71
and imagine my surprise
when I hear Pastor Rodley
00:43:05.75\00:43:07.85
incorporate that prayer
00:43:07.88\00:43:09.45
into his
morning pastoral prayer.
00:43:09.48\00:43:12.69
You heard it just a moment
ago, it's a prayer of Jabez.
00:43:12.72\00:43:15.42
You know what?
00:43:15.46\00:43:16.79
I was praying that
prayer over and over yesterday.
00:43:16.83\00:43:20.10
I'm saying God,
00:43:20.13\00:43:21.46
we're going to be in
this sanctuary together,
00:43:21.50\00:43:23.30
God, expand Your territory,
don't worry about mine.
00:43:23.33\00:43:26.10
Expand your territory,
00:43:26.13\00:43:27.84
we need a whole new generation
of young more leaders.
00:43:27.87\00:43:32.64
And I stand here
today humbly to inform you
00:43:32.67\00:43:35.11
that an answer to that prayer,
you see that in front of you.
00:43:35.14\00:43:40.05
What's that
prayer, Dwight, come on,
00:43:40.08\00:43:41.42
I want to pray it too.
00:43:41.45\00:43:42.78
1 Chronicles 4:10,
00:43:42.82\00:43:44.15
and Jabez prayed,
00:43:44.19\00:43:45.52
here is the
little prayer of Jabez,
00:43:45.55\00:43:46.89
"Oh, God that you
would bless me indeed
00:43:46.92\00:43:50.96
and expand my territory,
00:43:50.99\00:43:53.63
that Your hand would be upon me,
00:43:53.66\00:43:56.00
so that you keep me from evil
so that I may not cause pain"
00:43:56.03\00:44:00.64
and the record reads,
God said, you got it boy.
00:44:00.67\00:44:04.61
You got it.
00:44:04.64\00:44:06.57
Pray the prayer.
00:44:06.61\00:44:07.94
It's okay to ask.
00:44:07.98\00:44:09.38
It's very okay to ask God
to bless you intellectually,
00:44:09.41\00:44:13.62
academically while you're here.
00:44:13.65\00:44:15.28
John Henry Newman,
00:44:15.32\00:44:16.65
one of the great
Christian thinkers of all time
00:44:16.69\00:44:19.79
wrote these words.
00:44:19.82\00:44:21.16
Put it on the screen for you,
00:44:21.19\00:44:22.52
"That perfection
of the Intellect,
00:44:22.56\00:44:25.83
which is the
result of Education,"
00:44:25.86\00:44:27.46
that's why you're here
to perfect the intellect,
00:44:27.50\00:44:31.03
"and its beau"
00:44:31.07\00:44:32.63
that's an old English
word that means attractive.
00:44:32.67\00:44:34.14
"And its attractive ideal,
00:44:34.17\00:44:36.74
to be imparted to individuals
in their respective measures,
00:44:36.77\00:44:39.51
that perfection of the
intellect is the clear,
00:44:39.54\00:44:42.44
calm, accurate vision
00:44:42.48\00:44:44.51
and comprehension of all things
00:44:44.55\00:44:46.78
as far as the finite
mind can embrace them."
00:44:46.82\00:44:51.15
Wow, that's the goal.
00:44:51.19\00:44:53.99
Comprehend as much as
the finite mind can embrace.
00:44:54.02\00:44:57.73
By the way, another
great Christian thinker
00:44:57.76\00:45:00.40
living at the very same
time as John Henry Newman
00:45:00.43\00:45:04.53
also wrote the same point.
00:45:04.57\00:45:06.80
Her name is Ellen White,
00:45:06.84\00:45:08.17
this is in her classic Christ's
Object Lessons, page 333.
00:45:08.20\00:45:11.57
Look at that on the screen.
00:45:11.61\00:45:13.24
"The Lord bids us love
Him with all the heart,
00:45:13.27\00:45:16.64
and with all the soul,
and with all the strength,
00:45:16.68\00:45:18.71
and with all the mind.
00:45:18.75\00:45:23.12
This lays upon us the
obligation of developing
00:45:23.15\00:45:25.95
the intellect to
its fullest capacity,
00:45:25.99\00:45:29.46
that with all the mind
00:45:29.49\00:45:31.23
we may know and
love our Creator."
00:45:31.26\00:45:32.79
Keep reading.
00:45:32.83\00:45:34.16
"The Lord desires us to obtain
all the education possible,
00:45:34.20\00:45:39.23
with the object
in view of imparting
00:45:39.27\00:45:40.80
our knowledge to others."
00:45:40.84\00:45:42.80
Here comes the stinger.
00:45:42.84\00:45:44.17
"We should not let
slip even one opportunity
00:45:44.21\00:45:48.64
of qualifying
ourselves intellectually
00:45:48.68\00:45:51.55
to work for God."
00:45:51.58\00:45:54.22
It's very okay
00:45:54.25\00:45:56.75
to ask God to
bless you intellectually.
00:45:56.79\00:46:01.52
And God will
bless you to the max,
00:46:01.56\00:46:03.86
and when He does
look out, look out.
00:46:03.89\00:46:09.06
Look what
happens here, verse 13,
00:46:09.10\00:46:14.20
"The man Isaiah became rich,
00:46:14.24\00:46:15.57
and his wealth continued to grow
00:46:15.60\00:46:16.94
until he became very wealthy.
00:46:16.97\00:46:18.34
He had so many flocks
and herds and servants
00:46:18.37\00:46:21.64
that the Philistines envied him.
00:46:21.68\00:46:25.05
So all the wells
00:46:25.08\00:46:26.41
that his
father's servants had dug
00:46:26.45\00:46:27.78
in the time of
his father Abraham,
00:46:27.82\00:46:29.18
the Philistines stopped up,
00:46:29.22\00:46:31.79
filling them with earth."
00:46:31.82\00:46:34.59
You see when people envy you,
00:46:34.62\00:46:38.96
and God blesses
you intellectually.
00:46:38.99\00:46:41.70
When people envy you,
do you know what they do?
00:46:41.73\00:46:43.73
They plug up your well.
00:46:43.77\00:46:45.30
That's exactly what they do.
00:46:45.33\00:46:47.67
Truth is there will
always be well pluggers,
00:46:47.70\00:46:52.07
yeah those others too,
00:46:52.11\00:46:53.44
well pluggers around
you wherever you are.
00:46:53.48\00:46:57.95
There's always going to be
somebody throw rocks in there,
00:46:57.98\00:46:59.85
if they're probably
your deep convictions,
00:46:59.88\00:47:01.35
all right, you know like Eric.
00:47:01.38\00:47:04.12
Deep convictions,
00:47:04.15\00:47:05.49
you're willing to
stand up and say yes,
00:47:05.52\00:47:06.86
you're willing
stand up and say no,
00:47:06.89\00:47:08.52
like Joseph,
Daniel and Esther did.
00:47:08.56\00:47:10.73
Come on, somebody like Haman
00:47:10.76\00:47:12.49
is going to be
around to plug up that well.
00:47:12.53\00:47:15.33
They'll throw rocks and sands,
00:47:15.36\00:47:17.07
they'll go after you with nails.
00:47:17.10\00:47:18.73
I'm talking about
well meaning people.
00:47:18.77\00:47:20.47
We're talking about
roommates and classmates,
00:47:20.50\00:47:23.20
friends and colleagues
00:47:23.24\00:47:24.77
who can't stand to
see somebody advancing
00:47:24.81\00:47:28.08
under the
anointing blessing of God.
00:47:28.11\00:47:31.11
There will always be
well pluggers in your life.
00:47:31.15\00:47:34.32
Take a page
advice playbook here.
00:47:34.35\00:47:36.79
What happens if
they plug your well,
00:47:36.82\00:47:38.15
move and dig another one.
00:47:38.19\00:47:39.65
They get you over there,
move and dig another well.
00:47:39.69\00:47:42.02
I'm telling you what,
if you'll move and dig,
00:47:42.06\00:47:44.63
if you move and dig,
00:47:44.66\00:47:45.99
unplug and dig, unplug and dig,
00:47:46.03\00:47:48.46
you will never be
out of water ever,
00:47:48.50\00:47:52.30
and that's the point.
00:47:52.33\00:47:54.20
When you follow
the Lord of Isaac,
00:47:54.24\00:47:56.64
you will never be out of water,
00:47:56.67\00:48:01.34
and it doesn't get
any better than that.
00:48:01.38\00:48:03.75
In a dry and
barren culture and society
00:48:03.78\00:48:07.88
where people are panting,
00:48:07.92\00:48:09.48
trying everything to swallow
00:48:09.52\00:48:12.45
hoping this will
bring satisfaction
00:48:12.49\00:48:14.96
and they get no satisfaction
in a society like ours.
00:48:14.99\00:48:20.70
There will be people,
00:48:20.73\00:48:22.06
young moral leaders
00:48:22.10\00:48:24.90
who will drink deeply
00:48:24.93\00:48:28.17
off a well that
will never run dry.
00:48:28.20\00:48:32.21
I mean, what did Jesus,
00:48:32.24\00:48:33.58
Pastor Hosea read
this a moment ago,
00:48:33.61\00:48:34.94
what did Jesus say to
the women at the well?
00:48:34.98\00:48:36.38
Come on, put it on the
screen. What did He say to her?
00:48:36.41\00:48:38.68
"Jesus answered,
00:48:38.71\00:48:40.38
'Everyone who drinks this water.
00:48:40.42\00:48:42.22
He tells the women,
00:48:42.25\00:48:43.59
'Everyone who drinks this
water will be thirsty again,"
00:48:43.62\00:48:44.95
keep reading,
00:48:44.99\00:48:46.32
"but whoever drinks the water
I give them will never thirst.
00:48:46.35\00:48:48.62
Indeed, the water I give them
00:48:48.66\00:48:50.03
will become in
them a spring of water
00:48:50.06\00:48:51.99
welling up to eternal life.'
00:48:52.03\00:48:53.90
" Do you know what he's saying?
00:48:53.93\00:48:55.26
With Jesus the water
00:48:55.30\00:48:56.87
will never run out
00:48:56.90\00:49:00.44
ever, ever, ever.
00:49:00.47\00:49:01.80
What did He say
to His disciples?
00:49:01.84\00:49:03.17
Look at this, all
in the Book of John.
00:49:03.20\00:49:04.57
Here is John 6,
00:49:04.61\00:49:05.94
what did He say
to his disciples?
00:49:05.97\00:49:07.31
"Then Jesus declared,
'I am the bread of life.
00:49:07.34\00:49:08.68
Whoever comes to me
will never go hungry,
00:49:08.71\00:49:10.08
and whoever believes in
me will never be thirsty.'
00:49:10.11\00:49:12.61
" Because with Jesus the
water will never run out.
00:49:12.65\00:49:15.32
What did He say to
the crowd in John 7?
00:49:15.35\00:49:17.12
Take a look at this,
00:49:17.15\00:49:18.49
"On the last and
greatest day of the festival,
00:49:18.52\00:49:19.99
Jesus stood and
said in a loud voice,
00:49:20.02\00:49:21.52
'Let anyone who is
thirsty come to me and drink.
00:49:21.56\00:49:24.96
Whoever believes in
me, as Scripture has said,
00:49:24.99\00:49:27.76
rivers of living water
will flow from within them.'
00:49:27.80\00:49:31.17
" What's the point?
00:49:31.20\00:49:32.53
With Jesus the
water will never run out.
00:49:32.57\00:49:35.44
What did He say
to the whole world?
00:49:35.47\00:49:37.87
To end the book
of Revelation 22:17,
00:49:37.91\00:49:40.44
here it is.
00:49:40.48\00:49:41.81
"The Spirit and
the bride say, 'Come!'
00:49:41.84\00:49:43.21
And let the one
who hears say, 'Come!'
00:49:43.24\00:49:45.25
Let the one who is thirsty come,
00:49:45.28\00:49:46.65
and let the one who wishes
00:49:46.68\00:49:48.02
take the free gift
of the water of life."
00:49:48.05\00:49:50.25
What's the big point, Dwight?
00:49:50.29\00:49:51.72
With Jesus the
water will never run out.
00:49:51.75\00:49:54.12
Not while you're here
at Andrews University,
00:49:54.16\00:49:55.62
not while you're on this planet.
00:49:55.66\00:49:57.93
The water will never run out.
00:49:57.96\00:49:59.76
They'll plug
your wells, you move.
00:49:59.79\00:50:01.83
They'll plug
your wells, you dig,
00:50:01.86\00:50:03.87
dig hard, work deep,
00:50:03.90\00:50:06.23
go beneath the surface.
00:50:06.27\00:50:07.77
Don't ever be
satisfied with surface work.
00:50:07.80\00:50:10.91
Go deep
00:50:10.94\00:50:13.01
and you'll never ever
00:50:13.04\00:50:15.64
run out of water, ever.
00:50:15.68\00:50:17.58
You say, Dwight,
how do I get this water?
00:50:20.78\00:50:22.45
Sixty seconds,
00:50:22.48\00:50:23.89
I'll give it to
you in sixty seconds.
00:50:23.92\00:50:25.39
Start the watch.
00:50:25.42\00:50:26.79
How do you get the water?
00:50:26.82\00:50:28.16
Then put them on the screen,
just memorize the menu here,
00:50:28.19\00:50:30.06
you'll get it down.
00:50:30.09\00:50:31.43
You want water from Jesus?
00:50:31.46\00:50:32.79
One gospel, you pick the gospel
00:50:32.83\00:50:34.16
but stick with that
gospel till it's over,
00:50:34.20\00:50:35.53
one story per day.
00:50:35.56\00:50:36.90
One story a day
in your dorm room,
00:50:36.93\00:50:38.93
in the community, faculty staff,
00:50:38.97\00:50:40.44
student, doesn't matter.
00:50:40.47\00:50:41.80
Number two, reread
the story to relive it.
00:50:41.84\00:50:44.44
Just go back over it.
00:50:44.47\00:50:45.81
Let the story come
alive in your mind.
00:50:45.84\00:50:47.18
Number three,
00:50:47.21\00:50:48.54
what fresh water
can I drink from Jesus?
00:50:48.58\00:50:50.18
Ask yourself,
where is this water
00:50:50.21\00:50:51.55
in the stories in Jesus' life?
00:50:51.58\00:50:53.05
There is water here.
00:50:53.08\00:50:54.42
Holy Spirit show
me where the water is?
00:50:54.45\00:50:55.78
Once you find water
00:50:55.82\00:50:57.15
write an email to
Jesus, number four.
00:50:57.19\00:50:58.92
You write him an email.
00:50:58.95\00:51:00.29
You just sit down and
you just scribble it out,
00:51:00.32\00:51:01.79
you write it out.
00:51:01.82\00:51:03.43
You just write and
respond to the gift of water
00:51:03.46\00:51:06.06
that you just
sensed from that reading.
00:51:06.09\00:51:08.26
And finally number five,
00:51:08.30\00:51:09.63
you then kneel down
00:51:09.66\00:51:11.00
before the maker and
creator of the universe,
00:51:11.03\00:51:12.93
who is your personal friend
00:51:12.97\00:51:14.57
and you offer your
life for that new day to Him
00:51:14.60\00:51:17.24
and then you're gone.
00:51:17.27\00:51:18.61
Everyday fresh water with Jesus,
00:51:18.64\00:51:20.44
it doesn't get any
better than that, does it?
00:51:20.48\00:51:22.74
Because I remind
you that with Jesus
00:51:22.78\00:51:24.48
the water never stops
00:51:24.51\00:51:26.72
even when they kill him, who?
00:51:26.75\00:51:29.65
Water.
00:51:29.68\00:51:33.05
Even when they kill
him, he never runs out.
00:51:33.09\00:51:37.43
With Jesus the
water never runs out.
00:51:37.46\00:51:40.86
He's thirsty on the cross
00:51:40.90\00:51:43.10
so that we would
never be thirsty again.
00:51:43.13\00:51:47.30
With Jesus the
water never runs out.
00:51:47.34\00:51:51.97
Everybody who
says that's good news,
00:51:52.01\00:51:53.74
say amen with me.
00:51:53.78\00:51:55.64
Amen and amen.
00:51:55.68\00:51:57.18
All right, I want you to stand,
00:51:57.21\00:51:58.55
we're going to
sing a beautiful gospel,
00:51:58.58\00:52:00.15
gospel song.
00:52:00.18\00:52:01.85
I want to sing
this gospel song 493,
00:52:01.88\00:52:04.89
like the woman at the well,
00:52:04.92\00:52:06.25
I was seeking for things
00:52:06.29\00:52:10.66
that do not satisfy.
00:52:10.69\00:52:12.03
Let's sing it together.
00:52:12.06\00:52:13.46
Three stanzas.
00:52:13.50\00:52:14.83
Like the woman at the well,
00:52:27.58\00:52:31.38
I was seeking
00:52:31.41\00:52:34.75
For things that
could not satisfy
00:52:34.78\00:52:41.32
And then I heard
my Savior speaking
00:52:41.36\00:52:48.03
"Draw from My well
00:52:48.06\00:52:51.17
That never shall run dry"
00:52:51.20\00:52:56.84
Fill my cup, Lord,
00:52:56.87\00:53:00.58
I lift it up, Lord!
00:53:00.61\00:53:04.98
Come and quench
this thirsting of my soul
00:53:05.01\00:53:12.92
Bread of heaven,
00:53:12.95\00:53:16.56
Feed me till I want no more
00:53:16.59\00:53:23.20
Fill my cup, fill
it up and make me whole
00:53:23.23\00:53:31.21
There are millions in
this world Who are craving
00:53:33.01\00:53:40.45
The pleasure
earthly things afford
00:53:40.48\00:53:47.46
But none can match
the wondrous treasure
00:53:47.49\00:53:54.76
That I find in
Jesus Christ my Lord
00:53:54.80\00:54:02.77
Fill my cup, Lord,
00:54:03.10\00:54:06.78
I lift it up, Lord!
00:54:06.81\00:54:11.21
Come and quench
this thirsting of my soul
00:54:11.25\00:54:19.22
Bread of heaven,
00:54:19.39\00:54:22.99
Feed me till I want no more
00:54:23.02\00:54:29.83
Fill my cup, fill
it up and make me whole
00:54:29.86\00:54:37.81
We're going to
sing the last stanza,
00:54:40.91\00:54:43.24
when we get to that
course about fill my cup,
00:54:43.28\00:54:45.58
don't be embarrassed,
00:54:45.61\00:54:46.95
this will feel like
junior one Sabbath school.
00:54:46.98\00:54:49.68
But let's put our hands,
shall we just symbolically,
00:54:49.72\00:54:52.29
when we get to that
course fill my cup up, Lord,
00:54:52.32\00:54:54.29
I lift it up
and just lift it up,
00:54:54.32\00:54:55.92
you don't have to
raise it way over your head.
00:54:55.96\00:54:57.63
But just symbolically
let's tell the Lord,
00:54:57.66\00:54:59.66
we're serious, You fill
this, fill us with Your water.
00:54:59.69\00:55:02.90
All right, we'll do
that on the last chorus.
00:55:02.93\00:55:05.57
So, my children, if the
things that this world gave you
00:55:05.60\00:55:13.11
Leave hungers
that won't pass away
00:55:13.14\00:55:20.78
My blessed Lord
will come and save you
00:55:20.82\00:55:28.72
If you kneel to
Him and humbly pray
00:55:28.76\00:55:36.73
Fill my cup, Lord,
00:55:37.50\00:55:41.44
I lift it up, Lord!
00:55:41.47\00:55:46.24
Come and quench
this thirsting of my soul
00:55:46.27\00:55:54.25
Bread of heaven, feed
me till I want no more
00:55:54.98\00:56:02.99
Fill my cup,
00:56:06.63\00:56:09.76
Fill it up and make me whole
00:56:09.80\00:56:17.77
Oh, God, that is our prayer,
00:56:19.57\00:56:20.98
we lift our empty hearts
00:56:21.01\00:56:26.05
and humbly pray
today and today and today
00:56:26.08\00:56:30.52
fill this cup
00:56:30.55\00:56:33.86
with the life giving
water of Christ Jesus,
00:56:33.89\00:56:37.93
our savior and our friend.
00:56:37.96\00:56:44.07
And now may the grace
of the Lord Jesus Christ,
00:56:44.10\00:56:49.50
in the love of God,
00:56:49.54\00:56:51.77
in the fellowship
of the Holy Spirit
00:56:51.81\00:56:54.31
be with you all,
00:56:54.34\00:56:56.81
amen.
00:56:56.85\00:57:00.08
May I take an extra
moment with you and let you know
00:57:00.12\00:57:01.92
how grateful I am
00:57:01.95\00:57:03.28
that you joined
us in worship today?
00:57:03.32\00:57:04.99
I hear from viewers
like you across the nation,
00:57:05.02\00:57:07.12
and literally around
the world, and I'm thankful.
00:57:07.16\00:57:09.92
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00:57:09.96\00:57:11.29
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00:57:11.33\00:57:12.66
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