Dear Father, as you know well,
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not many of us are farmers,
most of us are city slickers,
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which means
we're not that familiar
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with that sweet
little domesticated creature
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you chose for
the rest of forever
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to represent You
and Your sacrifice.
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Nevertheless we come
today to worship the Lamb
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and with that choir
of ten thousand times
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ten thousand and
thousands of thousands,
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we too will sing their anthem,
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"Worthy is the
Lamb, who was slain,
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to receive power and
riches and wisdom and strength
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and honor and
glory and blessing."
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With all our hearts oh, God,
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we joyfully confess
that Christ Jesus is our Lord
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and our Lamb and our
Savior forever and ever.
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Amen. Amen.
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Worthy, worthy is the Lamb
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Worthy, worthy is the Lamb
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Worthy, worthy is the Lamb
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That was slain
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Glory, hallelujah!
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Praise Him, hallelujah!
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Glory, hallelujah
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To the Lamb!
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Savior, let Thy kingdom come
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Now the power of sin consume
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Bring Thy blest millennium
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Holy Lamb
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Glory, hallelujah!
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Praise Him, hallelujah!
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Glory, hallelujah
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To the Lamb!
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Thus may we each moment feel
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Love Him, serve
Him, praise Him still
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Till we all on Zion's hill
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See the Lamb
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Glory, hallelujah!
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Praise Him, hallelujah!
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Glory, hallelujah
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To the Lamb!
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Happy Sabbath church.
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Please join us as
we sing some songs
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to celebrate the
life and death of Jesus
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and His raising from the death.
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I hear the Savior say
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Thy strength indeed is small
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Child of
weakness, watch and pray
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Find in Me thine all in all
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Jesus paid it all
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All to Him I owe
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Sin had left a crimson stain
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He washed it white as snow
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Lord, now indeed I find
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Thy power, and Thine alone
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Can change the leper's spots
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And melt the heart of stone
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Jesus paid it all
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All to Him I owe
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Sin had left a crimson stain
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He washed it white as snow
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And when before the throne
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I stand in Him complete
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Jesus died my soul to save
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My lips shall still repeat
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Jesus paid it all
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All to Him I owe
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Sin had left a crimson stain
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He washed it white as snow
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He washed it white as snow
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Oh, praise the
One who paid my debt
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And raised this
life up from the dead
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Oh, praise the
One who paid my debt
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And raised this
life up from the dead
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Oh, praise the
One who paid my debt
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And raised this
life up from the dead
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Oh, praise the
One who paid my debt
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And raised this
life up from the dead
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Jesus paid it all
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All to Him I owe
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Sin had left a crimson stain
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He washed it white as snow
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Seated above,
enthroned in the Father's love
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Destined to die,
poured out for all mankind
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God's only Son,
perfect and spotless one
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He never sinned but
suffered as if He did
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All authority
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Every victory is Yours
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Power in hand
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Speaking the Father's plan
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You're sending us out,
light in this broken land.
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All authority...
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All authority
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Every victory is Yours
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All authority
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Every victory is Yours
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Savior, worthy
of honor and glory
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Worthy of all our praise
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You overcame
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Jesus, awesome in power forever
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Awesome and great is Your name
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You overcame
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We will overcome by
the blood of the Lamb
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And the word of our testimony
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We will overcome by
the blood of the Lamb
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And the word of our testimony
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We will overcome by
the blood of the Lamb
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And the word of our testimony
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We will overcome by
the blood of the Lamb
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And the word of our testimony
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Savior, worthy
of honor and glory
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Worthy of all our praise
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You overcame
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Jesus, awesome in power forever
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Awesome and great is Your name
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You overcame.
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By his stripes we are healed
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By his nail
pierced hands we're free
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By his blood, we're washed clean
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Now we have the victory
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The power of sin is broken
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Jesus overcame it all
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He has won our freedom
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Jesus has won it all
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Hallelujah
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You have won the victory
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Hallelujah
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You have won it all for me
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Death could not hold you down
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You are the risen king
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Seated in Majesty
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You are the risen king
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Hallelujah, Hallelujah
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You have won the victory
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Hallelujah
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You have won it all for me
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Death could not hold you down
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You are the risen king
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Seated in majesty
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You are the risen king
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Our God is risen
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He is alive
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He's won the victory
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He reigns on high
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Our God is risen
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He is alive
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He's won the victory
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He reigns on high
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Our God is risen
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He is alive
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He's won the victory
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He reigns on high
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Our God is risen
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He is alive
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He's won the victory
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He reigns on high
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Hallelujah
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You have won the victory
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Hallelujah
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You have won it all for me
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Death could not hold you down
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You are the risen king
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Seated in majesty
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You are the risen king.
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One more time.
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Hallelujah
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You have won the victory
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Hallelujah
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You have won it all for me
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Death could not hold you down
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You are the risen king
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Seated in majesty
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You are the risen king
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Beautiful.
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Thank you.
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Hector Flores
and Andrews Academy.
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Symphony,
orchestra that was beautiful.
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What a fellowship,
what a joy and divine,
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leaning on the everlasting arms.
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So we've come to do
today, Stuart, just talk to him
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and let's plunge
into the word together.
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Oh God, it was arms.
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What's that line in
Deuteronomy, underneath,
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underneath are
the everlasting arms,
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we lean on those arms.
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Where will we be?
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Would we even be here were
it not for your strong arms.
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As we do just that
plunge into scripture,
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let the teaching be clear.
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Let us not be
quite the same again
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for having worshipped here
today, we pray in Christ name.
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Amen.
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Would you agree with this?
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Most everybody who lives
on this planet has an address.
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If I were to ask
you where do you live,
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you would respond
in Berrien Springs
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or in LA or in Pretoria.
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Most every human
being has an address.
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But listen, there are
some people, no kidding.
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There are some people who
have two addresses and get this,
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they live in both
addresses simultaneously.
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Go figure.
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Open the pew
Bible to Ephesians 1,
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take a look at
this, Ephesians 1.
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Let's go.
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I'm in the New International
Version this morning.
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Whatever translation you have
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that's as great
that you have one,
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don't have one,
pull out the pew Bible.
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It's page 786 in the pew Bible.
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Ephesians 1:1.
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"Paul, an
apostle of Christ Jesus
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by the will of God,
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to God's holy people in Ephesus,
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the faithful in Christ Jesus."
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Paul is quite clear
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that Christians
that he is writing to
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they live in two places at once,
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in Ephesus and in Christ.
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Every Christian
has both addresses,
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a human address
and a divine address.
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And it's the in Christ address,
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the divine address
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that captures our
attention this morning.
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There's something
compelling about that phrase,
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I would dare to
say that it stands
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among the three most stunning
truths in all of scripture,
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that this truth
is critical for Paul.
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I'll tell you what?
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He uses this
phrase over 200 times,
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this phrase or its
cognates, in Christ, in Him,
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through Christ, through Him,
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and for our little series
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#RxF4Now.
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Have you figured it out yet?
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For our series this is
absolutely a very big deal,
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so without further ado
let's go to our passage
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for this
morning 2 Corinthians 5,
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2 Corinthians 5.
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So you're in Ephesians,
just go back to Galatians
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and then you're into 2
Corinthians, 2 Corinthians.
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2 Corinthians 5.
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Let's pick it up verse 14,
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"For Christ's love compels us,
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because we are
convinced that one died for all,
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and therefore what?
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All died."
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I don't know if you've
read the Steve Green concert
00:24:53.66\00:24:55.39
on Sunday
night, but if you were,
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you know what an experience.
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I mean, that was
worship maxed out.
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And he sang his signature song.
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Calvary's love, Calvary's love
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Priceless gift Christ makes
us worthy of The deepest sin
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can't rise above Calvary's
love Paul is singing right now,
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for the love of
Christ compels us.
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It's very interesting
that little word compels.
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It's one of Dr
Luke's prime words,
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he uses it in Luke and in Acts.
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You remember the story about
the woman with a hemorrhage?
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Woman who's been
bleeding for like 12 years,
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you remember that story?
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And she says, she hears,
00:25:33.26\00:25:34.60
Jesus is coming to
our little village,
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He's coming today.
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So she's going to be out there,
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she's going to
ask Him to heal her
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but when she goes to
where she expects Him,
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there is this massive
crowd swirling around him.
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I'll never get in
audience with Him.
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And so what does she do?
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She's down on her
hands and knees, I picture,
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she's going through the...
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she's going through
the legs, through the legs,
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if I can just touch the what?
00:25:53.48\00:25:55.85
The helm of His garment,
if I can just touch that,
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I'll be healed.
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Now you know the story.
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Jesus stops,
everybody jostles Him
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and Jesus turns around
and He says rather calmly,
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who touched me?
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And Peter only in Luke,
00:26:12.17\00:26:13.80
Peter pipes up
as he always does.
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Okay, Lord, let's find out.
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Eeny, meeny, miny, moe,
okay, who touched Jesus?
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Put your hand up, admit it.
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No, no, no, somebody touched me,
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I felt power go out of me.
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The word to
describe that throttling,
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that choking pressing crowd
is the same word right here.
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For the love of
Christ throttles us,
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for the love of Christ
crushes us, it surrounds us,
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you can't get away.
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It reminds me of the story
of the Marine Corps General
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Chesty Puller, in
the battle of the Bulge.
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Do you ever hear about
the battle of the Bulge?
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That would be World War II.
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His troops, the allied troops
are surrounded by the enemy.
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He gets up to
make the announcement,
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"Soldiers, the
enemy is in front of us.
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The enemy is behind us.
00:26:58.65\00:27:00.78
The enemy is to our right.
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The enemy is to our left.
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I have good news for you,
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they're not gonna get
away from us this time.
00:27:05.69\00:27:10.29
Calvary's love in front of you,
00:27:10.33\00:27:12.29
behind you, to
the right and left,
00:27:12.33\00:27:13.66
you can't get away from
Calvary's love this time.
00:27:13.70\00:27:16.13
Read it again verse 14,
"For Christ's love compels us,
00:27:17.50\00:27:21.40
because we are
convinced that one died for all,
00:27:21.44\00:27:24.47
and therefore all died."
00:27:24.51\00:27:27.11
Did you get that?
00:27:27.14\00:27:28.48
When Jesus died on the
cross, all the entire world,
00:27:28.51\00:27:32.55
all died in Him, in Him.
00:27:32.58\00:27:36.95
One died for all, the entire
human race and all died in Him.
00:27:36.99\00:27:40.96
Christ took every
sin of yours and mine.
00:27:40.99\00:27:43.56
He took every sinner
and all died in Him, in Him.
00:27:43.59\00:27:48.76
Drop down to verse 17.
00:27:48.80\00:27:50.17
You might have read
this verse before, verse 17,
00:27:50.20\00:27:52.17
"Therefore, if anyone is..."
00:27:52.20\00:27:55.04
What are the next two words?
00:27:55.07\00:27:56.67
Over 200 times, Paul
is going to use that.
00:27:56.71\00:27:58.57
This is his key,
numero uno phrase,
00:27:58.61\00:28:00.78
if anyone is in
Christ, any man, any woman,
00:28:00.81\00:28:03.71
any young adult,
any teenager, any child,
00:28:03.75\00:28:05.55
"If anyone is in Christ,
the new creation has come,
00:28:05.58\00:28:10.12
The old has gone,
and the new is here!"
00:28:10.15\00:28:14.96
Whatever this in Christ means,
00:28:14.99\00:28:16.56
it is crystal clear
that when you're in Christ,
00:28:16.59\00:28:19.56
you become a new creation.
00:28:19.59\00:28:23.47
Reminds me of that grand
truth that launched this little
00:28:23.50\00:28:25.53
#RxF4Now series,
00:28:25.57\00:28:28.97
belief.
00:28:29.00\00:28:31.57
When the
creator of the universe,
00:28:31.61\00:28:34.14
when He speaks the word,
His word, get this, His word,
00:28:34.18\00:28:37.48
His word is so omnipotent
00:28:37.51\00:28:39.15
that the moment
He speaks the word,
00:28:39.18\00:28:41.12
the word creates the
reality it describes.
00:28:41.15\00:28:43.65
So when He says,
let there be light.
00:28:43.69\00:28:46.52
In half a
nanosecond, there is light.
00:28:46.55\00:28:50.13
When He speaks the
word, if any man is in Christ,
00:28:50.16\00:28:53.40
if any woman is in Christ,
if when He speaks the words
00:28:53.43\00:28:56.30
behold, behold I
do a new thing, boom.
00:28:56.33\00:29:01.34
A new thing has happened.
00:29:01.37\00:29:03.30
When He speaks
the word, if any man,
00:29:03.34\00:29:05.61
if any woman is in
Christ in that instant.
00:29:05.64\00:29:09.34
I'm telling you.
00:29:09.38\00:29:11.18
This in Christ's phrase
in my humble conviction,
00:29:11.21\00:29:16.48
this is a deal breaker.
00:29:16.52\00:29:17.85
This is a deal
breaker, if you get this one.
00:29:17.89\00:29:22.02
But it gets even
better, drop down to verse 19.
00:29:22.06\00:29:24.33
So Paul is talking about God,
this is verse 19 and he says,
00:29:24.36\00:29:27.46
"That God was reconciling
the world to himself..."
00:29:27.50\00:29:32.13
Here comes again, in
Christ over 200 times.
00:29:32.17\00:29:35.60
"God was in the world
00:29:35.64\00:29:36.97
reconciling to
himself in Christ,
00:29:37.01\00:29:40.64
not counting
people's sins against them."
00:29:40.68\00:29:43.71
Now watch this, watch
this, because most translations
00:29:43.75\00:29:46.92
read this way.
00:29:46.95\00:29:48.28
God was in Christ,
four words in the English.
00:29:48.32\00:29:50.89
In the Greek,
Theis itan en Christo,
00:29:50.92\00:29:54.42
four words in the Greek.
00:29:54.46\00:29:56.06
God was in Christ.
00:29:56.09\00:29:59.59
You know, what's happening here?
00:29:59.63\00:30:01.03
The father is in
the sun, on the cross.
00:30:01.06\00:30:06.94
Oh, it reminds me of
these words of Ellen White,
00:30:06.97\00:30:08.50
got to put them on
the screen for you.
00:30:08.54\00:30:10.77
From that little
classic Desire of Ages.
00:30:10.81\00:30:13.07
You see it on the
screen, "God sacrificed Himself,
00:30:13.11\00:30:16.85
in Christ, for our redemption."
00:30:16.88\00:30:21.38
But here's the stunner,
this is from a little magazine
00:30:21.42\00:30:23.72
called "Signs of the
Times", on the screen as well.
00:30:23.75\00:30:25.85
"God Himself, God Himself
was crucified with Christ,
00:30:25.89\00:30:31.76
Christ was one with the Father."
00:30:31.79\00:30:33.80
The Father
Himself was crucified,
00:30:33.83\00:30:35.30
He was in Christ.
00:30:35.33\00:30:36.67
One more, the
apocalyptic classic
00:30:36.70\00:30:38.33
Great Controversy on the screen.
00:30:38.37\00:30:39.70
"The love of the Father,
00:30:39.73\00:30:41.07
no less than
the love of the Son,
00:30:41.10\00:30:43.57
is the fountain of
salvation for the lost race."
00:30:43.61\00:30:48.44
You know what that means?
00:30:48.48\00:30:49.81
Ladies and gentlemen,
you know what that means?
00:30:49.84\00:30:51.18
When Christ died,
00:30:51.21\00:30:52.55
when Calvary's love
poured out of that broken heart,
00:30:52.58\00:30:55.45
He died, He died as a surrogate.
00:30:55.48\00:30:59.05
Do you know what a surrogate is?
00:30:59.09\00:31:01.12
Anybody know, what's the
definition of a surrogate?
00:31:01.16\00:31:04.06
Well, the dictionary says,
"A surrogate is a substitute
00:31:04.09\00:31:06.09
assigned to stand
in for someone else."
00:31:06.13\00:31:09.50
And as Calvary's
love is being poured out,
00:31:09.53\00:31:11.37
the surrogate
standing in for the father,
00:31:11.40\00:31:13.50
the surrogate is there.
00:31:13.54\00:31:15.04
The surrogate of God.
00:31:15.07\00:31:16.47
Oh, by the way, the surrogate
for the entire human race,
00:31:16.50\00:31:19.17
the surrogate for you
and me on Calvary's cross.
00:31:19.21\00:31:25.71
What kind of love is this?
00:31:25.75\00:31:27.78
Love of Christ compels us.
00:31:27.82\00:31:29.25
I mean, can you understand it?
00:31:29.28\00:31:30.72
And I tell you what,
00:31:30.75\00:31:32.09
the wonder is not so
much that Jesus died for us,
00:31:32.12\00:31:35.39
the wonder is He even wanted to,
00:31:35.42\00:31:40.46
but it gets even better.
00:31:40.50\00:31:41.83
Drop down to verse 21, wow.
00:31:41.86\00:31:45.60
God made him,
that would be Christ.
00:31:45.63\00:31:48.07
"God made Christ who had no sin
to be sin for us, so that..."
00:31:48.10\00:31:53.74
What are the next
two words so with that?
00:31:53.78\00:31:55.44
"In Him."
00:31:55.48\00:31:56.81
There it is again,
there is that phrase.
00:31:56.85\00:31:58.18
"So that in Him we might
become the righteousness,
00:31:58.21\00:32:02.25
the righteousness of God."
00:32:02.28\00:32:03.89
Hey, what's righteousness mean?
00:32:03.92\00:32:06.15
Well, we've been
kind of thinking about
00:32:06.19\00:32:07.52
righteousness this way.
00:32:07.56\00:32:08.89
Righteousness is right doing.
00:32:08.92\00:32:11.86
That's what it is, right doing.
00:32:11.89\00:32:13.50
That's why God is 24/7 righteous
00:32:13.53\00:32:15.26
because He's always doing right.
00:32:15.30\00:32:17.43
Twenty four
seven, I'm righteous.
00:32:17.47\00:32:19.10
He is the only
righteous one in the universe.
00:32:19.13\00:32:21.87
Twenty four
seven, which means...
00:32:21.90\00:32:24.21
Listen, listen to this,
00:32:24.24\00:32:25.57
when we are in
Christ as we just read,
00:32:25.61\00:32:28.21
the filthy rags of
our sins go to Him,
00:32:28.24\00:32:31.48
so that the spotless
robe of His righteousness
00:32:31.51\00:32:34.48
gets wrapped around us.
00:32:34.52\00:32:36.62
I mean, can you believe that?
00:32:36.65\00:32:39.79
He became my sin so that in Him
00:32:39.82\00:32:42.99
I can become His
righteousness by faith.
00:32:43.02\00:32:47.56
Which is why there is this
old dusty phrase that still
00:32:47.60\00:32:50.17
gets used now and
then, righteousness by faith,
00:32:50.20\00:32:54.70
by faith.
00:32:54.74\00:32:56.87
Which means that
when I am in Christ,
00:32:56.91\00:32:59.64
His perfect life
becomes my perfect life.
00:32:59.67\00:33:03.51
Can you believe that?
00:33:03.55\00:33:04.88
When I am in Christ,
00:33:04.91\00:33:06.25
His perfect purity
becomes my perfect purity.
00:33:06.28\00:33:10.29
Amen.
00:33:10.32\00:33:11.65
Listen, when I am in Christ,
His perfect racial unity.
00:33:11.69\00:33:17.03
We have a little
conference going on,
00:33:17.06\00:33:18.39
we're gonna get right
back to this afternoon at two,
00:33:18.43\00:33:20.46
should've been here last night.
00:33:20.50\00:33:21.83
Oh, Michael Nixon, wow.
00:33:21.86\00:33:24.53
You missed that.
00:33:24.57\00:33:25.90
It's in the youth chapel from
two on to the rest of the day.
00:33:25.93\00:33:28.87
It's called repairing the
breach achieving, seeking,
00:33:28.90\00:33:31.91
racial unity within the church.
00:33:31.94\00:33:34.34
When we as a people,
when we are in Christ,
00:33:34.38\00:33:37.08
His perfect unity
becomes our perfect unity.
00:33:37.11\00:33:40.98
When I'm in Christ, His
honesty becomes my honesty.
00:33:41.02\00:33:45.22
His righteousness becomes
my righteousness, by faith.
00:33:45.25\00:33:49.39
You know what that
means? You know what that means?
00:33:49.42\00:33:51.06
Let me put it on
the screen for you.
00:33:51.09\00:33:52.43
I hope this is the one
line to take home today.
00:33:52.46\00:33:55.06
"All that is His
becomes all that is mine,
00:33:55.10\00:33:59.03
when I am in Christ."
00:33:59.07\00:34:02.37
All that is His, you
say, oh, Dwight, come on.
00:34:02.40\00:34:04.81
This is typical,
typical homiletical hyperbole,
00:34:04.84\00:34:07.24
you guys are really something.
00:34:07.28\00:34:08.94
Oh, you think so, huh?
00:34:08.98\00:34:10.65
Let me go back to
the Book of Ephesians,
00:34:10.68\00:34:12.01
stay right where you are.
00:34:12.05\00:34:13.38
Go back to the
Book of Ephesians 1:3,
00:34:13.42\00:34:15.25
we put it on the
screen, little bit of hyperbole?
00:34:15.28\00:34:17.32
I think not, read
this on the screen.
00:34:17.35\00:34:19.35
"Praise be to the God and Father
00:34:19.39\00:34:21.56
of Our Lord Jesus Christ,
00:34:21.59\00:34:22.92
who has blessed us in
the heavenly realms with..."
00:34:22.96\00:34:26.03
What's the next word?
00:34:26.06\00:34:27.93
Come on, call it out to
me. What's the next word?
00:34:27.96\00:34:30.13
"With every spiritual," what?
00:34:30.17\00:34:32.03
Spiritual what?
00:34:32.07\00:34:33.40
"Blessing."
00:34:33.44\00:34:34.77
All that is His,
00:34:34.80\00:34:37.01
when I'm in
Christ all that is His
00:34:37.04\00:34:39.77
becomes all that is
mine, when I'm in Christ.
00:34:39.81\00:34:44.98
Every spiritual blessing.
00:34:45.01\00:34:47.95
How much of every is every?
00:34:47.98\00:34:49.95
Do you know?
00:34:49.98\00:34:52.09
Oh, it's pretty much all, okay.
00:34:52.12\00:34:54.26
Pretty much all.
00:34:54.29\00:34:55.62
Wow.
00:34:56.83\00:34:59.16
All that is His
becomes all that is mine,
00:34:59.19\00:35:02.33
when you are in Christ.
00:35:02.36\00:35:05.20
And by the way.
00:35:05.23\00:35:06.57
Oh, don't let anybody kid you,
00:35:06.60\00:35:07.94
it's already a
done deal, been done.
00:35:07.97\00:35:10.01
It's not like you
and I come to God,
00:35:10.04\00:35:11.37
and God says, oh,
Dwight don't worry,
00:35:11.41\00:35:13.74
oh, you want to be saved.
00:35:13.78\00:35:15.64
Well, let me think.
00:35:15.68\00:35:17.01
Let me think.
00:35:17.05\00:35:18.38
You know what, Dwight,
00:35:18.41\00:35:19.75
I need to kind of
get go over this thing.
00:35:19.78\00:35:21.22
I tell you what,
I'll call you back.
00:35:21.25\00:35:22.58
Don't call me, I'll call you.
00:35:22.62\00:35:23.95
Is it that way
with God? It is not.
00:35:25.12\00:35:27.56
What have we just read?
00:35:27.59\00:35:28.92
If any man is in Christ,
if any woman is in Christ,
00:35:28.96\00:35:32.43
just like that
half a nanosecond,
00:35:32.46\00:35:34.43
you say Jesus, you got it.
00:35:34.46\00:35:37.00
If anyone is in Christ,
00:35:37.03\00:35:39.30
she, he is a new
creation in Christ.
00:35:39.33\00:35:43.00
Old things are gone away,
behold all things become new.
00:35:43.04\00:35:48.24
I tell you what,
Dwight, I don't feel very new.
00:35:48.28\00:35:50.85
I didn't ask
you if you felt new.
00:35:50.88\00:35:52.78
I don't even care
about your feelings
00:35:52.81\00:35:54.15
and neither does God,
the issue is not feelings,
00:35:54.18\00:35:55.62
it's faith, it's faith.
00:35:55.65\00:35:58.15
It's what Jesus
said to the centurion.
00:35:58.19\00:35:59.65
Remember, what
Jesus said the centurion?
00:35:59.69\00:36:01.19
The centurion
comes walking up to Jesus
00:36:01.22\00:36:02.66
and he says,
"Listen, my servant is dying.
00:36:02.69\00:36:04.69
I need you to, I
need you to heal him."
00:36:04.73\00:36:06.70
Oh, I'll go to your house.
No, no, no, stop right there.
00:36:06.73\00:36:09.03
You don't have
to come to my house,
00:36:09.06\00:36:10.43
all you have to
do is say the words.
00:36:10.47\00:36:11.80
Say I got servants.
I know how it works.
00:36:11.83\00:36:13.54
I have soldiers under me.
00:36:13.57\00:36:14.90
I just say the
word go and they go,
00:36:14.94\00:36:16.27
I say come and they come.
00:36:16.30\00:36:17.64
You say the word and my servant
will be healed just like that
00:36:17.67\00:36:21.04
and Jesus goes, wow.
00:36:21.08\00:36:24.68
I've been running
around the saved all my life,
00:36:24.71\00:36:26.48
I have never seen
faith like this pagan.
00:36:26.51\00:36:29.48
Then He says to this pagan.
00:36:31.35\00:36:34.06
He says, let it be done to
you according to your feelings.
00:36:34.09\00:36:38.09
No, He did not.
00:36:38.13\00:36:39.46
Let it be done to you
according to your faith.
00:36:39.49\00:36:43.90
That boy was
healed just like that.
00:36:43.93\00:36:46.47
I'm telling you what,
it's already a done deal.
00:36:46.50\00:36:48.64
You're a new
creation in God's eyes.
00:36:48.67\00:36:51.47
Based on the cross 2000
years ago, done, it is finished.
00:36:51.51\00:36:57.31
I mean, you will be like
you getting a FedEx letter.
00:36:57.35\00:37:00.92
Ever get FedEx letter?
00:37:00.95\00:37:02.38
Yeah, UPS?
00:37:02.42\00:37:04.15
FedEx?
00:37:04.19\00:37:07.39
It's pretty important.
00:37:07.42\00:37:09.46
Right?
00:37:09.49\00:37:10.83
It's like you
getting a FedEx letter
00:37:10.86\00:37:12.93
from an unknown law firm
00:37:12.96\00:37:14.86
that informs you
that your great uncle,
00:37:14.90\00:37:16.50
whom you knew but
never met in your life.
00:37:16.53\00:37:19.47
Your great uncle some
years ago has died childless
00:37:19.50\00:37:24.01
and he has willed to
you his entire estate,
00:37:24.04\00:37:28.18
but only now have
his lawyers located you.
00:37:28.21\00:37:34.32
And if you are willing
00:37:34.35\00:37:36.58
to receive this inheritance.
00:37:36.62\00:37:40.66
If you would just
sign the Fedex receipt.
00:37:40.69\00:37:43.22
Come on, you put your
John Henry there or Mary Henry,
00:37:43.26\00:37:45.49
just put it down there.
00:37:45.53\00:37:47.86
If you are willing
to receive this estate,
00:37:47.90\00:37:52.33
you will be the
inheritor of $3.3 billion.
00:37:52.37\00:37:57.34
Sir, sign online.
00:38:00.34\00:38:03.24
This was done a long time ago.
00:38:03.28\00:38:05.25
You're just finding out
about it now, that's okay.
00:38:05.28\00:38:07.85
It's still valid.
00:38:07.88\00:38:09.35
Two thousand years
ago, ladies and gentlemen,
00:38:09.38\00:38:11.15
on the cross of Calvary,
00:38:11.19\00:38:12.52
God took the entire
treasury of the universe
00:38:12.55\00:38:15.92
and He emptied
it to the last penny
00:38:15.96\00:38:19.13
in the gift of
Christ to the human race.
00:38:19.16\00:38:22.10
Two thousand years
ago it was lock sealed
00:38:22.13\00:38:26.87
and ready as
soon as we locate you,
00:38:26.90\00:38:30.11
sign on this
little FedEx receipt,
00:38:30.14\00:38:31.84
you got it buddy.
00:38:31.87\00:38:34.01
Wow.
00:38:34.04\00:38:35.38
All that is His
00:38:37.05\00:38:39.81
becomes all that is mine.
00:38:39.85\00:38:43.52
When I'm, when
you are in Christ.
00:38:45.49\00:38:51.13
In very practical
terms, Dwight, come on,
00:38:51.16\00:38:52.73
cut to the chase.
00:38:52.76\00:38:54.10
How does this work?
00:38:54.13\00:38:55.46
You want it very practical,
00:38:55.50\00:38:56.83
let me give it
to you very simply.
00:38:56.87\00:38:58.20
The little book
"Steps to Christ,"
00:38:58.23\00:39:00.07
is this something
put it on the screen.
00:39:00.10\00:39:01.84
Steps to Christ, page 62.
00:39:01.87\00:39:03.87
"Christ...
00:39:03.91\00:39:05.24
lived on earth amid
trials and temptations
00:39:05.27\00:39:09.01
such as we have to meet.
00:39:09.04\00:39:11.85
He lived a sinless life."
00:39:11.88\00:39:14.62
Tempted like as we
are yet without sin.
00:39:14.65\00:39:16.69
He was born with our weaknesses,
00:39:16.72\00:39:18.52
thoroughly through him.
00:39:18.55\00:39:19.89
"He died for us, and now
00:39:19.92\00:39:22.92
He offers to take
our sins and give us..."
00:39:22.96\00:39:24.89
There is that 2
Corinthians 5:21 exchange
00:39:24.93\00:39:27.76
and now He offers to give us
00:39:27.80\00:39:29.23
His righteousness,
00:39:29.26\00:39:30.60
if, okay, you got to
sign the FedEx receipt.
00:39:30.63\00:39:33.23
Here it comes.
00:39:33.27\00:39:34.60
"If you give yourself to Him,
00:39:34.64\00:39:37.97
if you accept
Him as your savior."
00:39:38.01\00:39:40.04
Come on, boy, couldn't
wait, just sign the receipt.
00:39:40.08\00:39:42.94
"Sinful as your
life may have been,
00:39:42.98\00:39:45.75
for Christ's sake you
are accounted righteous.
00:39:45.78\00:39:49.32
Here in this gets even
better. Come on, keep reading.
00:39:49.35\00:39:51.19
"Christ's character stands
in place of your character...",
00:39:51.22\00:39:53.79
and hold on to your pew.
00:39:53.82\00:39:55.46
"You are accepted before God
just as if you had not sinned."
00:39:55.49\00:40:00.60
Zero sin in your life.
00:40:00.63\00:40:04.13
Now, can it get
any better than that?
00:40:04.17\00:40:08.00
Help me out.
00:40:08.04\00:40:09.44
Can it get any better than that?
00:40:09.47\00:40:12.47
All that is His is all
that is yours in Christ.
00:40:12.51\00:40:17.21
Over 200 times in
Christ, in Christ, in Christ,
00:40:17.25\00:40:19.28
we get it Paul,
we get it, we get it.
00:40:19.31\00:40:22.82
You know why this is true
00:40:22.85\00:40:24.19
because you have a new address.
00:40:24.22\00:40:26.55
You're not just, you don't
live just in Berrien Springs,
00:40:26.59\00:40:28.62
you live in Christ.
00:40:28.66\00:40:30.66
You have a new address
and that divine address
00:40:30.69\00:40:33.19
declares that when God sees you,
00:40:33.23\00:40:35.50
He sees Jesus.
00:40:35.53\00:40:36.87
He sees Jesus your savior,
He sees Jesus your surrogate,
00:40:36.90\00:40:39.67
He sees Jesus your substitute.
00:40:39.70\00:40:42.54
But there's a little bit of
wrong kind of crazy thinking
00:40:42.57\00:40:45.84
associated with that imagery,
00:40:45.87\00:40:47.44
and so we need to
correct it right now.
00:40:47.48\00:40:49.64
And Cameron
Schofield makes a small
00:40:49.68\00:40:52.85
but very significant
tweaking to that picture
00:40:52.88\00:40:55.68
we've all grown up
with and it's very helpful.
00:40:55.72\00:40:58.59
We'll put Cameron's
words on the screen.
00:40:58.62\00:41:00.56
This is from his book
"Heralding the Loud Cry."
00:41:00.59\00:41:02.66
We often... is
this true or what?
00:41:02.69\00:41:05.63
"We often have a picture
in our mind of Christ standing
00:41:05.66\00:41:07.96
before the Father as our
high priest and advocate."
00:41:08.00\00:41:10.67
And then there's little, old me.
00:41:10.70\00:41:12.67
Christ is about 10, 12 feet tall
00:41:12.70\00:41:14.57
and I'm down here 4 feet tall,
00:41:14.60\00:41:16.14
there is little
old me trembling,
00:41:16.17\00:41:17.71
standing behind Him
00:41:17.74\00:41:20.98
as Jesus the high
priest and advocate
00:41:21.01\00:41:23.18
pleads with the Father.
00:41:23.21\00:41:25.51
He's there supplicating...
00:41:25.55\00:41:26.88
Cameron writing now.
00:41:26.92\00:41:28.25
"He's there
supplicating on my behalf."
00:41:28.28\00:41:30.59
Oh Father, I know, Dwight.
00:41:30.62\00:41:33.12
Oh, fine.
00:41:33.15\00:41:34.86
And forget it, forget it.
00:41:34.89\00:41:36.22
Look at me, look
at me, look at me,
00:41:36.26\00:41:37.59
please don't
worry about him take me.
00:41:37.63\00:41:40.90
We take that.
00:41:40.93\00:41:42.40
And Cameron says,
time out, time out,
00:41:42.43\00:41:44.03
reality check, friends.
00:41:44.07\00:41:45.47
You see that
line there, friends.
00:41:45.50\00:41:47.24
"There is only one
man standing before God.
00:41:47.27\00:41:51.14
Jesus Christ is that man
and we are, where are we?
00:41:51.17\00:41:55.24
"We are in Him."
00:41:55.28\00:41:58.31
You have a divine address.
00:41:58.35\00:41:59.78
You don't have to be up there.
00:41:59.81\00:42:01.15
You don't have to
be standing up there
00:42:01.18\00:42:02.68
in all your little weak
and frail human reality.
00:42:02.72\00:42:06.05
No, we are in Christ.
00:42:06.09\00:42:10.76
And by the way, don't be fooled
00:42:10.79\00:42:13.53
by some aberrant
theology in this thinking
00:42:13.56\00:42:16.87
that Jesus
somehow has to persuade
00:42:16.90\00:42:19.03
the Father to love you.
00:42:19.07\00:42:20.90
We know that's not true.
We just read it in verse 19.
00:42:20.94\00:42:23.97
"God was in
Christ at the cross."
00:42:24.01\00:42:27.84
The Father was there, He
was crucified with His Son.
00:42:27.88\00:42:32.11
Calvary's love,
put it up Romans 5:8,
00:42:32.15\00:42:35.38
Paul says, you need to get this.
00:42:35.42\00:42:36.75
"But God demonstrates
his own love for us in this:
00:42:36.79\00:42:40.29
While we were still
sinners, Christ died for us."
00:42:40.32\00:42:44.36
In Christ, I mean
can you believe it?
00:42:45.69\00:42:49.63
What a glorious piece to this
00:42:49.66\00:42:51.50
#RxF4Now puzzle
00:42:51.53\00:42:56.44
we're putting together.
00:42:56.47\00:42:59.27
Yeah, but, Dwight, come
on, come on, help me out.
00:42:59.31\00:43:02.24
How can I get in
Christ right now?
00:43:02.28\00:43:03.71
I need to get in
Christ right now.
00:43:03.75\00:43:05.61
Oh, Jesus says, I'm very
glad you asked that question.
00:43:05.65\00:43:08.05
Let me answer that myself.
00:43:08.08\00:43:09.45
Jesus answers
this, red letters now,
00:43:09.48\00:43:11.15
you will look this text up.
00:43:11.19\00:43:12.52
John 6, please, John 6.
00:43:12.55\00:43:15.29
Red letters in my Bible.
00:43:15.32\00:43:16.86
Jesus has the answer.
00:43:16.89\00:43:18.23
You want to be in Christ?
00:43:18.26\00:43:19.59
Let me give you the way.
00:43:19.63\00:43:20.96
John 6:56,
bright red in my Bible.
00:43:22.16\00:43:27.00
Jesus speaking,
"Whoever eats my flesh
00:43:27.04\00:43:31.04
and drinks my
blood remains in me..."
00:43:31.07\00:43:36.04
There is that in Christ.
00:43:36.08\00:43:37.41
"Remains in me and I in her,
00:43:37.45\00:43:43.52
and him I in them."
00:43:43.55\00:43:45.52
Jesus says, look it,
you want to be in me?
00:43:48.32\00:43:50.53
Eat my flesh, drink my
blood and that feels so gory
00:43:50.56\00:43:55.06
and the fact that you
have verse 60 indicates,
00:43:55.10\00:43:58.17
we would not be the only
ones who says, that is yuck.
00:43:58.20\00:44:01.17
Look at verse
60, "On hearing it,
00:44:01.20\00:44:03.04
many of His disciples
said, 'This is a hard teaching.
00:44:03.07\00:44:06.34
Who can accept it?'
00:44:06.37\00:44:07.71
Artios senor and they're gone.
00:44:07.74\00:44:10.35
It is gory, if
you missed the point.
00:44:11.95\00:44:14.92
What's she's talking about here?
00:44:14.95\00:44:17.12
Oh, Jesus is referring
to the powerful symbolism
00:44:17.15\00:44:20.32
of the Lord's Supper.
00:44:20.36\00:44:21.79
You see there
is no Lord's Supper
00:44:21.82\00:44:24.69
in the Gospel of John.
00:44:24.73\00:44:26.06
The fourth gospel,
there's no Lord's Supper.
00:44:26.09\00:44:28.36
Matthew Mark Luke,
yep, Lord's Supper.
00:44:28.40\00:44:30.57
John writes it
years after the synoptics.
00:44:30.60\00:44:32.73
And so John comes
along and says you know,
00:44:32.77\00:44:34.10
we've already got three stories.
00:44:34.14\00:44:35.47
Why do you need a fourth story?
00:44:35.50\00:44:36.84
I am gonna take
the Lord's Supper
00:44:36.87\00:44:38.31
and I'm going to embed
its powerful symbolism in my,
00:44:38.34\00:44:42.41
I am the bread of life chapter 6
00:44:42.44\00:44:44.78
and that's
exactly what has happened.
00:44:44.81\00:44:46.45
Look at verse 51.
00:44:46.48\00:44:48.28
Jesus is still speaking,
00:44:48.32\00:44:49.65
"I am the living bread
that came down from heaven.
00:44:49.68\00:44:53.29
Whoever eats this
bread will live forever.
00:44:53.32\00:44:55.96
This bread is my flesh,
00:44:55.99\00:44:57.89
which I will give for
the life of the world."
00:44:57.93\00:45:00.30
You want to be in
me, then eat the bread,
00:45:00.33\00:45:03.53
drink the cup and in that way,
00:45:03.57\00:45:05.53
you will abide in me
and I will abide in you.
00:45:05.57\00:45:09.27
And listen,
ladies and gentlemen,
00:45:09.30\00:45:10.64
when we
celebrate the Lord's Supper
00:45:10.67\00:45:12.61
we physically, we symbolically
become one with the savior.
00:45:12.64\00:45:18.45
We are ingested
in, He is ingested in.
00:45:18.48\00:45:24.15
When you eat the
bread and drink the cup,
00:45:24.19\00:45:26.42
you are invited into Christ
and He is invited into you.
00:45:26.45\00:45:30.16
In fact, right after
he gave the Lord's Supper
00:45:30.19\00:45:31.96
in John's account now.
00:45:31.99\00:45:33.33
No, Lord's Supper
but he does say the words
00:45:33.36\00:45:34.73
right after the Lord's Supper,
00:45:34.76\00:45:36.10
abide in me and I in you.
00:45:36.13\00:45:39.37
That's the whole point.
00:45:39.40\00:45:42.20
You want to be in Christ?
You want to stay in Christ?
00:45:42.24\00:45:47.54
Eat the bread.
00:45:47.58\00:45:50.58
Drink the cup.
00:45:50.61\00:45:53.85
Let Him come in,
you go in to Him.
00:45:53.88\00:45:58.62
And you are never
ever the same again ever.
00:45:58.65\00:46:04.09
Every single time
00:46:04.13\00:46:05.59
you are never the same again.
00:46:05.63\00:46:11.30
When my dad died,
my mother insisted,
00:46:11.33\00:46:16.40
let us boys take
some of his clothes.
00:46:16.44\00:46:20.08
So I chose dad's pilot sweater
00:46:20.11\00:46:22.81
and his flight jumpsuit.
00:46:22.84\00:46:25.81
My dad loved to fly
00:46:25.85\00:46:27.28
and in his retirement
00:46:27.32\00:46:29.35
he was a chaplain
with the Civil Air Patrol.
00:46:29.38\00:46:34.12
I know that today he
is sleeping in Jesus.
00:46:34.16\00:46:38.53
I understand that.
00:46:38.56\00:46:40.36
I know that he is quietly
awaiting the resurrection
00:46:40.40\00:46:44.27
and the life,
00:46:44.30\00:46:46.10
but I have got to tell you,
00:46:46.13\00:46:49.07
when you put on the
clothes of someone you love,
00:46:49.10\00:46:54.78
someone who loved you dearly.
00:46:54.81\00:46:56.75
When you put on the
clothes in a existential way,
00:46:56.78\00:47:02.58
it says if you
could almost smell him.
00:47:02.62\00:47:06.65
He's here. He's here.
00:47:06.69\00:47:09.52
And when we take the bread,
and when we take the cup...
00:47:10.93\00:47:15.63
I know he's not here, I know.
00:47:17.73\00:47:20.64
But in a mysterious sort
of way it says if he's here.
00:47:20.67\00:47:25.37
You could almost smell him.
00:47:25.41\00:47:26.81
The robe goes around you
and you could have sworn,
00:47:26.84\00:47:32.01
that was those were
his arms going around you.
00:47:32.05\00:47:36.38
That's why, you
want to abide in me?
00:47:36.42\00:47:40.86
And you want me to abide in you?
00:47:40.89\00:47:44.19
Eat the bread.
00:47:44.23\00:47:45.56
Drink the cup.
00:47:48.26\00:47:51.50
I in you, and you in me.
00:47:51.53\00:47:56.77
Wow.
00:47:56.81\00:47:58.24
I don't think it gets
any better than that, do you?
00:47:58.27\00:48:01.24
Let's pray.
00:48:01.28\00:48:02.61
Oh, God can you believe it.
00:48:02.64\00:48:07.95
Over 200 times
00:48:07.98\00:48:09.32
and we've missed this in Christ,
00:48:09.35\00:48:12.45
in Christ, in Christ
00:48:12.49\00:48:15.12
all that is His is all
that is mine in Christ.
00:48:15.16\00:48:19.63
Oh, God thank you.
00:48:19.66\00:48:23.06
Calvary's love,
what else can we say?
00:48:23.10\00:48:26.30
Thank you, thank you,
thank you in Jesus' name.
00:48:26.33\00:48:32.67
Amen.
00:48:32.71\00:48:34.04
As Dwayne just
prayed a moment ago.
00:52:47.06\00:52:48.83
He said, God set the
table and make sure there's food
00:52:48.86\00:52:51.43
for everyone and there is.
00:52:51.47\00:52:54.50
Our ushers are making sure that
everybody here receives this.
00:52:54.54\00:52:59.77
And you know it would not...
00:52:59.81\00:53:01.14
It would not be out of place
00:53:01.18\00:53:05.31
had Christ at
that upper room table,
00:53:05.35\00:53:09.98
He returned to His
disciples and He said,
00:53:10.02\00:53:12.95
"Look, this is my body.
00:53:12.99\00:53:16.56
This is my blood.
00:53:16.59\00:53:18.96
If you eat my
flesh and drink my blood,
00:53:18.99\00:53:23.87
I will abide in you
and you will abide in Me."
00:53:23.90\00:53:28.10
Today we do that.
00:53:28.14\00:53:29.77
His body and His blood
00:53:29.80\00:53:32.41
and so we're
going to do it together.
00:53:32.44\00:53:35.34
We'll eat the bread
and drink the cup together.
00:53:35.38\00:53:39.81
And we do it as He
said in remembrance of Me.
00:53:39.85\00:53:45.05
Let us partake.
00:53:45.09\00:53:46.42
And so in Christ
we go forth together,
00:54:13.28\00:54:18.55
in Christ go with joy.
00:54:18.59\00:54:21.42
We're gonna sing a hymn as
they did in the upper room.
00:54:21.46\00:54:23.36
Hymn 407 in the hymnal.
00:54:23.39\00:54:24.99
Now we're gonna stand together,
00:54:25.03\00:54:26.36
as we sing and are sent
forth into the world for Christ.
00:54:26.39\00:54:29.73
Sent forth by God's blessing,
00:54:43.78\00:54:47.18
our true faith confessing
00:54:47.22\00:54:50.35
The people of God from
His dwelling take leave
00:54:50.39\00:54:56.76
The supper is
ended Oh, now be extended
00:54:56.79\00:55:03.16
The fruits of this
service in all who believe
00:55:03.20\00:55:09.57
The seed of His teaching
00:55:09.60\00:55:13.11
Receptive souls reaching
00:55:13.14\00:55:16.14
Shall blossom in
action for God and for all
00:55:16.18\00:55:22.75
His grace did invite us,
00:55:22.78\00:55:25.95
His love shall unite us
00:55:25.99\00:55:28.99
To work for God's kingdom
00:55:29.02\00:55:32.06
and answer His call
00:55:32.09\00:55:37.47
With praise and
thanksgiving to God ever-living
00:55:37.50\00:55:43.77
The tasks of our
everyday life we will face
00:55:43.81\00:55:50.11
Our faith ever sharing,
00:55:50.15\00:55:53.35
in love ever caring
00:55:53.38\00:55:56.55
Embracing His
children of each tribe and race
00:55:56.58\00:56:03.22
With Your feast You feed us,
00:56:03.26\00:56:06.76
with Your light now lead us
00:56:06.80\00:56:09.93
Unite us as one in
this life that we share
00:56:09.96\00:56:16.81
Then may all the living
with praise and thanksgiving
00:56:16.84\00:56:23.38
Give honor to Christ
00:56:23.41\00:56:26.21
and His name that we bear
00:56:26.25\00:56:31.09
And now may the grace
of the Lord Jesus Christ
00:56:36.09\00:56:39.33
and the love of God
00:56:39.36\00:56:41.26
and the
fellowship of the Holy Spirit
00:56:41.30\00:56:43.03
be with you all.
00:56:43.06\00:56:44.93
Amen.
00:56:44.97\00:56:46.30
I want to take an extra
moment with you to tell you
00:57:00.35\00:57:02.02
about something
we're really excited about,
00:57:02.05\00:57:03.89
it's called Hope
trending, a crash course
00:57:03.92\00:57:06.02
on how to live without fear.
00:57:06.05\00:57:08.12
It's a nine night
series of 60 minute programs
00:57:08.16\00:57:10.13
that will be live
streamed to the world,
00:57:10.16\00:57:12.53
October 14th through 22.
00:57:12.56\00:57:15.03
And we want to
connect with your friends,
00:57:15.06\00:57:17.10
friends who
have yet to meet God,
00:57:17.13\00:57:18.47
friends who have yet to discover
00:57:18.50\00:57:19.83
how vital end time truths are
00:57:19.87\00:57:21.30
for this very generation.
00:57:21.34\00:57:23.81
That's why I hope you'll
pass on to them an invitation.
00:57:23.84\00:57:27.31
All the information you
need for that invitation
00:57:27.34\00:57:28.71
is at our website.
00:57:28.74\00:57:30.08
Let me give that website to you.
00:57:30.11\00:57:31.45
Check it out for
yourself, hopetrending.org,
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one word hopetrending.org.
00:57:34.25\00:57:37.15
And would you
please join me in praying
00:57:37.19\00:57:38.65
that this new
innovative strategy
00:57:38.69\00:57:40.49
will open up
fresh doors for Jesus
00:57:40.52\00:57:43.29
across this nation and
literally around the world.
00:57:43.32\00:57:46.86
In the meantime
my prayer is that
00:57:46.90\00:57:48.23
God will continue to bless you
00:57:48.26\00:57:49.93
with His hope, with
His grace, with His peace,
00:57:49.96\00:57:53.00
until we meet again
right here next time.
00:57:53.03\00:57:56.40