God of our fathers
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Whose almighty hand
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Leads forth in beauty
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All the starry band
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Of shining worlds
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In splendor through the skies
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Our grateful songs
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Before Thy throne arise
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Thy love divine
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Hath led us in the past
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In this free land
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By Thee our lot is cast
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Be Thou our ruler
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Guardian, guide, and stay
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Thy word our law
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Thy paths our chosen way
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Refresh Thy people
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On their toilsome way
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Leads us from night
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To neverending day
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Fill all our lives
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With love and grace divine
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And glory, laud
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And praise be ever Thine
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O Lord our Lord.
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O Lord, our Lord how majestic is
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Your name in all the earth
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O Lord, our Lord how majestic is
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Your name in all the earth
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The heavens
declare Your greatness
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The oceans cry out to You
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The mountains they
bow down before You
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So I'll join with the earth
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And I'll give my praise to You
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O Lord our Lord.
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O Lord, our Lord how majestic is
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Your name in all the earth
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O Lord, our Lord how majestic is
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Your name in all the earth
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The heavens
declare Your greatness
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The oceans cry out to You
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The mountains they
bow down before You
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So I'll join with
the earth and I'll sing
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The heavens
declare Your greatness
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The oceans cry out to You
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The mountains they
bow down before You
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So I'll join with the earth
and I'll give my praise to You
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I will worship.
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I will worship You
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I will worship You
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Sing it together, we worship.
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We will worship You
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We will worship You
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The heavens
declare Your greatness
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The oceans cry out to You
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The mountains they
bow down before You
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So I'll join with the earth
and I'll give my praise to You
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Sing together Majesty.
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Majesty worship His majesty
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Unto Jesus
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Be all glory honor and praise
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Majesty kingdom authority
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Flow from His throne
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Unto His own His anthem raise
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So exalt lift up on high
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The name of Jesus
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Magnify come glorify
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Christ Jesus the King
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Majesty worship His majesty
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Jesus who died now glorified
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King of all kings
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Majesty
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Worship His majesty
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Unto Jesus
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Be all glory honor and praise
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Majesty kingdom authority
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Flow from His throne
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Unto His own His anthem raise
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So exalt lift up on high
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The name of Jesus
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Magnify come glorify
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Christ Jesus the King
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Majesty worship His majesty
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Jesus who died now glorified
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King of all kings
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Jesus who died now glorified
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King of all kings
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Amen, amen, you know,
the past couple of weeks,
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if you've been here at
PMC or watching online,
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Pastor Dwight's been covering
an amazing, amazing series
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talking about the Word of God
speaking truth into our heart.
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And that's what
this next time is
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as we come to
the Lord in prayer,
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we lift up His petitions,
we claim His promises,
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and we come to God
asking Him to speak His truth
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and His love and His
grace into our hearts.
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And so today, as
we sing this song,
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as we come into prayer,
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I invite you to
ruminate on the words,
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let those words
resonate with you,
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sometimes we just sing words,
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but today, hear these
words, sing these words
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as we asked God
to speak to us today.
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Speak, O Lord, as we come to You
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To receive the food
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Of Your Holy Word
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Take Your truth
plant in 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
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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
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For Your glory
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Teach us, Lord.
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Teach us, Lord, full obedience
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Holy reverence
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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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And by grace
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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
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With Your Glory
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Amen!
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That's beautiful,
thank you very much.
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Just what we
needed in this Sabbath.
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So without any further
ado, I want to plunge into,
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I'm really excited
about our teaching today.
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I hope it impacts you
the way it has impacted me
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in going through this study.
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I want to pray with you,
then roll the video trailer,
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we are off.
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Dear Father, homecoming Sabbath,
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kind of reminds us
of a homecoming some day
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for the entire human race.
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So we're glad to be a
part of this homecoming
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and the nation is rather...
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In a crazy sort
of way right now,
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we can't quite figure out
what's happening in America.
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May hope be your response
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to our national
collective heart,
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maybe Your
response to our hearts.
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Bless this moment of
teaching make it clear please
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in Jesus name.
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Amen.
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Let's roll that trailer.
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It was a cool Autumn evening
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about this time of year actually
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in the nation's
capital Washington DC,
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friend of mine
and I decided to go
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down to the National Cathedral,
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majestic Gothic architecture
there in DC that evening.
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We were at church headquarters
for meetings during the day.
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Let's just go, come on,
friend of mine Rob Lloyd.
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Let's just go, check it out.
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We slipped into the
Cathedral to find out
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there's a prayer
service going on.
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They gathered and as we sat
in the back pew and listened,
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we discovered
it's a prayer service
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for those suffering from AIDS.
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We sat there
quietly and watched,
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as one after another
came forward to the officiants
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who are standing at the front,
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some alone, some with family,
some with family and friends,
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as the officiants
prayed, prayed for healing.
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I'm sure every heart was
there for a physical healing
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but there are so many
times when your heart also longs
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for emotional healing, it
longs for spiritual healing.
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That day, what it was...
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it was an awesome moment
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just to sit there and watch
and pray with these strangers.
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Not unlike by the way the moment
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when he is
hanging there in mid-air
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suspended from the ceiling
that has been ripped open
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with the whole large
enough to lower a man's through
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there he is.
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We are told he is suffering
from the physical effects
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of a lifestyle he
pursued once upon a time,
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spindly, immobile legs,
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skin taut,
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fallow, yellow, decaying.
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And as he hangs
there in mid-air,
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his friends eagerly
watching from the hole.
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The one over whose head
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the hole had been
rapidly dug looks down.
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This one has a man
face, strong features
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but a tenderness
and a kindness unusual,
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dark eyes of compassion.
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He looks down into
the twitching face.
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If we've ever
seen the face of guilt
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and in my kind of work,
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I see the face now and then.
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The eyes darting
desperate, a twitch,
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the one who looks
down, reads the entire story,
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as man doesn't want
healing for his legs,
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his heart is about to die.
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And in desperation,
he's come through the roof.
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And Jesus speaks.
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And when Jesus
speaks, He activates a law
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that has been
operative in the universe
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as long as there
has been a Creator God.
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We've learned about that
law in this series #RXF4NOW,
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the law goes like this.
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Whenever the
Creator speaks a word,
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no matter what
word it is He speaks,
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the spoken omnipotent word
instantly creates the reality
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that the word describes.
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So when He stood in this
dark spot of the Milky Way
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and He said,
"Let there be light,"
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in half a
nanosecond, there is light.
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Whenever God speaks a word
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that word whether here or here,
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immediately creates
the reality He speaks.
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So the same Creator now
incarnated in human flesh,
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looks down at this shriveled,
00:22:06.55\00:22:10.46
desperate dying heart.
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And He speaks the words,
00:22:15.63\00:22:18.13
the man has
come to hear, "Son...
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your sins are forgiven."
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And in that instant,
00:22:29.64\00:22:32.61
the omnipotence
unleashed with the word
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let there be forgiveness...
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all over the face you see it.
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Desire of Ages
captures this moment,
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like this moment in your heart,
00:22:45.89\00:22:47.23
"Could he really
do this for me too,
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the burden, the paralytic?"
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"The burden of despair
rolls from the sick man's soul,
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the peace of forgiveness
rests upon his spirit
00:22:56.34\00:22:59.77
shines out upon his countenance.
00:22:59.81\00:23:02.08
In simple faith, he
accepted the words of Jesus
00:23:02.11\00:23:04.98
as the boon of new life.
00:23:05.01\00:23:06.35
He urged no further requests."
00:23:06.38\00:23:08.35
He didn't come for the
legs, He came for the heart.
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He urges no further request
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but He lay in blissful
silence too happy for words,
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staring into the face
that smiles down on him.
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"The light of
heaven," I love this,
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"The light of heaven
irradiated his countenance
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and the people looked with awe."
00:23:32.24\00:23:35.41
"Wow, did you see that?"
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Romans 8:1, our text,
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would you find it in your Bible,
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whatever bible you
brought, didn't bring a Bible,
00:23:46.25\00:23:48.06
grab the pew
Bible in front of you.
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You've got your device
there, let's go, Romans 8,
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what has just
happened before our eyes,
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Romans 8:1, "Therefore..."
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And I'm in the NIV.
00:24:01.74\00:24:05.27
"Therefore,
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there is now no condemnation
00:24:08.98\00:24:12.01
for those who
are in Christ Jesus."
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Isn't that amazing?
00:24:16.45\00:24:17.79
There is therefore
now no condemnation
00:24:17.82\00:24:20.19
for those who are what?
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Come on, finish the sentence
for me, for those who are what?
00:24:21.59\00:24:24.73
In Christ Jesus.
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In Christ, that's Paul favorite.
00:24:28.40\00:24:31.23
That has become
Paul's life mission thing.
00:24:31.27\00:24:35.07
He's a champion of in
Christ over 200 times,
00:24:35.10\00:24:37.47
over 200 times in
his scribbled apostles,
00:24:37.51\00:24:40.41
he will use that
phrase or one of its cognates
00:24:40.44\00:24:43.04
in Christ, in him, in Christ,
in him, in Christ, in him, why?
00:24:43.08\00:24:47.22
Because when you're in
Christ, something happens to you
00:24:47.25\00:24:51.62
and you'll never
be the same again.
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There is therefore now
no condemnation to those
00:24:53.49\00:24:56.29
who are in Christ
Jesus, hallelujah.
00:24:56.32\00:25:00.20
And by the way, that is
precisely what the paralytic
00:25:00.23\00:25:03.87
desperately needed to know
and he learned it like that.
00:25:03.90\00:25:08.74
Because you see, just
go backwards into 7:24,
00:25:08.77\00:25:13.07
the cry, the anguished cry
of the paralytic is captured
00:25:13.11\00:25:16.51
here in verse Roman 7:27.
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Verse 24 rather, Roman 7:24,
00:25:19.68\00:25:22.18
"What a wretched man I am!
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Who will rescue me from this
body that is subject to death?"
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There isn't an Andrews on
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that does not know
the truth about that line.
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You may have dodged
it, you may have ducked it,
00:25:39.03\00:25:41.24
you may have tried to forget it,
00:25:41.27\00:25:42.90
you may have even
self medicated yourself
00:25:42.94\00:25:44.71
so that you will
never think of it again
00:25:44.74\00:25:46.88
but that truth is born in
and berthed in every heart
00:25:46.91\00:25:50.38
that longs for something more.
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A wretched man that I am
00:25:54.48\00:25:56.89
who will deliver me
from this body of death
00:25:56.92\00:25:58.49
or wretched woman that I am
00:25:58.52\00:26:00.29
who will deliver me
from this body of death.
00:26:00.32\00:26:02.16
You can be a student
at Andrews University,
00:26:02.19\00:26:03.53
that's your cry.
00:26:03.56\00:26:04.93
You can be faculty member,
00:26:04.96\00:26:06.29
you can be a preacher
at Andrews University,
00:26:06.33\00:26:07.66
that's your cry,
00:26:07.70\00:26:09.03
wretched man that I
am who will deliver me
00:26:09.06\00:26:10.60
from this body of death.
00:26:10.63\00:26:13.37
We are all paralytics,
and the bad news is terrible
00:26:13.40\00:26:17.64
which is why you
need to get the good news,
00:26:17.67\00:26:20.21
which is the very next
verse wretched man that I am
00:26:20.24\00:26:22.68
who will deliver me
from this body of death,
00:26:22.71\00:26:24.15
look at verse 25,
00:26:24.18\00:26:25.51
"But thanks be to
God who delivers me
00:26:25.55\00:26:28.08
through Jesus Christ our Lord."
00:26:28.12\00:26:29.75
Now 8:1, "Therefore, there
is now no condemnation for those
00:26:29.78\00:26:35.46
who are in Christ Jesus."
00:26:35.49\00:26:38.43
No condemnation, wow, in Christ.
00:26:38.46\00:26:43.26
No condemnation.
00:26:43.30\00:26:45.40
Yes, I don't know that's true,
oh, come on, think about it.
00:26:45.43\00:26:49.57
Why would God condemn
someone who's in Christ?
00:26:49.60\00:26:52.64
He'd be condemning himself.
00:26:52.67\00:26:54.51
That would be the craziest
thing in the universe to do.
00:26:54.54\00:26:56.08
Why would I condemn myself?
00:26:56.11\00:26:58.35
If you're in
Christ, no condemnation,
00:26:58.38\00:27:01.22
it's illogical for condemnation
to arise, it's impossible.
00:27:01.25\00:27:04.55
If you're in
Christ, no condemnation.
00:27:04.59\00:27:07.76
Why would I condemn myself?
00:27:07.79\00:27:10.59
There is therefore
now no condemnation
00:27:10.63\00:27:12.26
to those who
are in Christ Jesus.
00:27:12.29\00:27:14.56
It turns out Paul
is trying to set us,
00:27:14.60\00:27:16.63
he's trying to get our
attention with this in Christ
00:27:16.67\00:27:18.60
over 200 times
you use this phrase,
00:27:18.63\00:27:20.57
come on, get it,
get it, get it, get it.
00:27:20.60\00:27:22.40
In fact, I'll tell you this.
00:27:22.44\00:27:24.57
He has already set
us up for Romans 8:1
00:27:24.61\00:27:29.34
and what he did in Romans 5?
00:27:29.38\00:27:30.71
So just turn the page,
just go back to Romans 5,
00:27:30.75\00:27:33.55
everybody knows Romans 5,
at least the first half of it,
00:27:33.58\00:27:35.65
it's the second half we ignore.
00:27:35.68\00:27:37.15
The first half
is, it's just replete
00:27:37.19\00:27:39.12
with this glorious
description of God's love,
00:27:39.15\00:27:41.72
the Father's love,
the son's love for us.
00:27:41.76\00:27:43.66
You remember this Romans 5,
let's pick it up in verse six,
00:27:43.69\00:27:46.23
"You see," just
at the right time,
00:27:46.26\00:27:49.00
"just at the right time
when we were still powerless,
00:27:49.03\00:27:51.57
Christ died for the ungodly."
00:27:51.60\00:27:53.77
Oh, look Paul goes on.
00:27:53.80\00:27:55.14
"Very rarely will anyone
die for a righteous person,
00:27:55.17\00:27:59.91
though for a good person,
00:27:59.94\00:28:01.28
someone might
possibly dare to die."
00:28:01.31\00:28:03.45
But 5:8, God the Father,
00:28:03.48\00:28:07.32
"God demonstrates His
own love for us in this
00:28:07.35\00:28:10.99
while we were still
sinners, Christ died for us."
00:28:11.02\00:28:16.39
You cannot be love
today any more by the God,
00:28:16.42\00:28:20.50
the supreme
being of this universe
00:28:20.53\00:28:23.03
then you already loved.
00:28:23.06\00:28:24.43
Nothing that you can
do to diminish that love,
00:28:24.47\00:28:26.87
nothing you can do to
increase that love, nothing.
00:28:26.90\00:28:29.47
So Paul as
Father, Son, Father, Son,
00:28:33.38\00:28:35.44
come on, come on,
come on, come on, come on
00:28:35.48\00:28:37.05
and then all of a
sudden, Paul says,
00:28:37.08\00:28:38.41
"Hey, you, I want
to talk about Adam."
00:28:38.45\00:28:40.72
"Adam, Paul?
00:28:40.75\00:28:42.08
Why would you bring up Adam now,
00:28:42.12\00:28:43.45
we're having a great time
with a Father and the Son?"
00:28:43.49\00:28:44.82
I'll show you what he
says drop down to verse 12,
00:28:44.85\00:28:47.12
now here we go into territory
nobody ventures in Romans 5,
00:28:47.16\00:28:50.63
come on, there's
something stunning here.
00:28:50.66\00:28:53.53
Watch this,
verse 12, "Therefore,
00:28:53.56\00:28:55.96
just as sin entered the
world to the one man..."
00:28:56.00\00:28:57.97
Who is the father
of the human race?
00:28:58.00\00:28:59.33
Help me out, who is the
father of the human race?
00:28:59.37\00:29:01.34
The Adam.
00:29:01.37\00:29:04.67
"Therefore, just the
sin entered the world
00:29:04.71\00:29:06.71
through one man,"
that would be Adam
00:29:06.74\00:29:08.41
and death through sin,
00:29:08.44\00:29:10.25
"and in this way death came to
all people because all sinned."
00:29:10.28\00:29:15.58
And Paul stops, all your
new translations have a big dash
00:29:15.62\00:29:18.69
and then whitespace
after it, you know why?
00:29:18.72\00:29:20.62
Because he didn't, he
never finished the sentence,
00:29:20.66\00:29:22.76
he never finished the sentence.
00:29:22.79\00:29:25.06
When we see him in
eternity, "Yo, Paul,
00:29:25.09\00:29:26.73
that sentence in Romans
5, what was up with that?
00:29:26.76\00:29:28.66
Why didn't you finish it?"
00:29:28.70\00:29:30.33
Hey, haven't you ever
had it come on alarms,
00:29:30.37\00:29:32.03
didn't you have a
brilliant professor?
00:29:32.07\00:29:33.47
What are your classes,
come on students today,
00:29:33.50\00:29:35.07
the brilliant
professor, the man,
00:29:35.10\00:29:36.97
the woman is waxing
eloquent and all of a sudden,
00:29:37.01\00:29:39.17
she's gone.
00:29:39.21\00:29:40.54
Where did she go?
00:29:40.58\00:29:42.18
We were just talking about this,
00:29:42.21\00:29:43.68
no, we're here, brilliant mind.
00:29:43.71\00:29:49.25
"I thought of something else,"
and he's gone the other way.
00:29:49.28\00:29:52.79
I read John Brown's
commentary two summers ago,
00:29:52.82\00:29:55.19
the Bible application commentary
00:29:55.22\00:29:56.56
in the book of
Romans read it through,
00:29:56.59\00:29:57.99
and I learned from
John that in fact there,
00:29:58.03\00:30:00.00
the language
have a technical word
00:30:00.03\00:30:01.36
for unfinished sentences,
it's called anacoluthon.
00:30:01.40\00:30:04.93
It means a sentence that
never ends the way it should.
00:30:04.97\00:30:08.77
So that's one of
those which is one of those,
00:30:08.80\00:30:11.54
there's no ending to it.
00:30:11.57\00:30:13.68
But the boy, oh,
boy, the passion,
00:30:13.71\00:30:15.64
Paul went on to
take a look at this path
00:30:15.68\00:30:17.88
because you see Paul with
his brilliant Hebrew mind.
00:30:17.91\00:30:21.85
Even he's a Jewish scholar,
Paul knows that in Judaism,
00:30:21.88\00:30:26.59
that in Hebrew thought,
00:30:26.62\00:30:28.92
you don't have like
we have it in the West,
00:30:28.96\00:30:30.83
you and me
individual, individual,
00:30:30.86\00:30:32.39
individual, individual,
individual, individual,
00:30:32.43\00:30:34.16
we're just a
nation of individuals,
00:30:34.20\00:30:35.60
we've lost connectivity,
00:30:35.63\00:30:37.63
we've lost
collective and corporate,
00:30:37.67\00:30:39.47
we're just individuals now.
00:30:39.50\00:30:41.47
In the Hebrew mind,
the many are one person.
00:30:41.50\00:30:46.27
The many are one and the
many have a representative head
00:30:46.31\00:30:51.15
that is the head of the one.
00:30:51.18\00:30:54.72
Thousands are in that one,
00:30:54.75\00:30:57.85
and that's what Paul
is now going to show us.
00:30:57.89\00:31:01.49
We once had a head,
we now have a new head,
00:31:01.52\00:31:08.43
and he set us up
for the in Christ thing,
00:31:08.46\00:31:10.40
watch this, drop
down to a verse 15.
00:31:10.43\00:31:13.64
"But the gift,"
because it's not about
00:31:13.67\00:31:15.30
the Father, Son the
gift Calvary, Calvary,
00:31:15.34\00:31:16.97
"the gift is not like the
trespass," the sin of Adam,
00:31:17.01\00:31:19.47
"for if the many
died, if the many died
00:31:19.51\00:31:22.94
by the trespass of the one man
00:31:22.98\00:31:24.48
how much more to
God's grace in the gift
00:31:24.51\00:31:26.61
that came by the grace
of the one man Jesus Christ
00:31:26.65\00:31:29.35
overflow to the many."
00:31:29.38\00:31:31.09
How much more?
00:31:31.12\00:31:34.19
He said this up, now he
is going to run them biased,
00:31:34.22\00:31:37.06
three parallels,
what if we had a chart?
00:31:37.09\00:31:40.70
The study guide by the way
is in your all the quotations
00:31:40.73\00:31:42.96
that you have them
in your worship book,
00:31:43.00\00:31:44.33
I mean, there's
nothing to filling that,
00:31:44.37\00:31:45.70
but if we had a
chart for here we would go.
00:31:45.73\00:31:47.27
Three parallels, here they come,
00:31:47.30\00:31:48.80
let's pick it up in
verse 17, "For if..."
00:31:48.84\00:31:51.87
put that on the
screen please, there we go.
00:31:51.91\00:31:53.27
"For if, by the
trespass of the one man,"
00:31:53.31\00:31:55.84
that would be Adam,
00:31:55.88\00:31:57.21
"death reigned
through that one man
00:31:57.25\00:31:59.08
how much more
will those who receive
00:31:59.11\00:32:00.45
God's abundant
provision of grace
00:32:00.48\00:32:02.38
and the gift of
righteousness reign in life
00:32:02.42\00:32:05.25
through the one
man, Christ Jesus."
00:32:05.29\00:32:06.86
All right, let's
create other graph,
00:32:06.89\00:32:08.79
we'll have three
lines to this chart,
00:32:08.82\00:32:10.83
I call that chart
instead, Adam equals what?
00:32:10.86\00:32:15.56
Death reigns, yeah,
Adam equals death reign
00:32:15.60\00:32:17.60
and the over here
beside would be Christ
00:32:17.63\00:32:20.34
and what happens
with Christ, life reigns.
00:32:20.37\00:32:23.30
Okay, let's go,
this is verse 18 now,
00:32:23.34\00:32:26.41
"Consequently,"
00:32:26.44\00:32:27.78
three of these
parallels, he's in a fire bias,
00:32:27.81\00:32:29.44
"Consequently, just
as one trespass resulted
00:32:29.48\00:32:32.81
in condemnation for all people,
so also one righteous act
00:32:32.85\00:32:37.79
resulted in
justification and life,"
00:32:37.82\00:32:40.06
for how many
people, for how many people?
00:32:40.09\00:32:41.72
For all, all.
00:32:41.76\00:32:43.46
Okay, second line, come on,
put the chart up real quick,
00:32:43.49\00:32:45.46
second line.
00:32:45.49\00:32:46.83
Adam equals
condemnation for how many?
00:32:46.86\00:32:48.70
All.
00:32:48.73\00:32:50.07
Christ equals justification
or pardon in life for how many?
00:32:50.10\00:32:54.20
For all.
00:32:54.24\00:32:55.97
Paul says, "Do you get this?"
00:32:56.00\00:32:57.34
"How about one more, Paul?"
00:32:57.37\00:32:58.71
He says, "I'll
give you another one."
00:32:58.74\00:33:00.08
Verse 19,
00:33:00.11\00:33:01.44
"For just as
through the disobedience
00:33:01.48\00:33:02.94
of the one man,"
that would be Adam,
00:33:02.98\00:33:04.45
"the many," and by the way,
00:33:04.48\00:33:05.88
when Paul uses many and
all, it's the same thing,
00:33:05.91\00:33:09.62
you're not trying to deal with
numbers, no, many means all.
00:33:09.65\00:33:14.26
Verse 19, "For just as
through the disobedience
00:33:14.29\00:33:15.82
of the one man," Adam,
"the many were made sinners,
00:33:15.86\00:33:18.43
so also through the
obedience of the one man
00:33:18.46\00:33:21.13
the many will
be made righteous."
00:33:21.16\00:33:23.87
Oh, come on, put
that third line up.
00:33:23.90\00:33:25.33
Adam, many made sinners.
00:33:25.37\00:33:27.54
Christ, many made righteous.
00:33:27.57\00:33:31.34
What's going on here?
00:33:31.37\00:33:32.77
Paul is actually,
Paul is borrowing language
00:33:32.81\00:33:35.41
from the greatest
messianic prophecy
00:33:35.44\00:33:37.55
in the Old
Testament, the Isaiah 53.
00:33:37.58\00:33:39.88
He's grabbing the language
and he's weaving it in here.
00:33:39.91\00:33:42.78
Let's put Isaiah 53
on this on the screen
00:33:42.82\00:33:45.09
because Isaiah 53
is about the Messiah,
00:33:45.12\00:33:46.96
the servant of Israel.
00:33:46.99\00:33:48.36
See Israel as one
person, the servant is the head,
00:33:48.39\00:33:51.16
the servant is going
to go through what Israel
00:33:51.19\00:33:53.13
will not have to go through
00:33:53.16\00:33:54.50
because the
servant goes through,
00:33:54.53\00:33:55.90
that's what's
happening in Isaiah 53.
00:33:55.93\00:33:57.63
Take a look at verses 11 and 12,
00:33:57.67\00:33:59.23
"By his knowledge my righteous
servant will justify many,
00:33:59.27\00:34:04.24
he will bear their iniquities."
00:34:04.27\00:34:06.07
Verse 12, "For he
bore the sin of many,
00:34:06.11\00:34:08.64
and he made intercession
for the transgressors."
00:34:08.68\00:34:10.55
Somebody stepping in, I
will represent all of them.
00:34:10.58\00:34:14.78
What are you going to do,
00:34:14.82\00:34:16.15
what are you going
to do by stepping in?
00:34:16.18\00:34:17.79
Go back to verses 5 and
6, "But he," the servant,
00:34:17.82\00:34:21.89
"was pierced for
our transgressions,
00:34:21.92\00:34:24.76
he was crushed
for our iniquities,
00:34:24.79\00:34:27.50
the punishment that
brought us peace was on him,
00:34:27.53\00:34:30.50
and by his
wounds we are healed."
00:34:30.53\00:34:32.63
Keep reading verse six, "All
we like sheep, have gone astray,
00:34:32.67\00:34:36.20
each of us has
turned to our own way
00:34:36.24\00:34:38.44
and the Lord is laid on him."
00:34:38.47\00:34:40.21
The representative of
the entire human race,
00:34:40.24\00:34:43.21
"the Lord is laid on
him the iniquity of us all."
00:34:43.24\00:34:49.62
You were under Adam,
00:34:49.65\00:34:51.15
and what do you get
for being under Adam?
00:34:51.19\00:34:52.95
Death.
00:34:52.99\00:34:54.32
You now can be under Christ
00:34:54.36\00:34:56.16
and what do you get
for being under Christ?
00:34:56.19\00:34:57.93
Life.
00:34:57.96\00:35:01.23
In Adam, condemnation.
00:35:01.26\00:35:03.16
In Christ, pardon and life,
for all by the way, for all.
00:35:03.20\00:35:08.60
I need to ask you this question,
00:35:08.64\00:35:10.04
how much of all is all?
00:35:10.07\00:35:13.94
How much of all is all?
00:35:13.98\00:35:16.04
It's pretty much all, isn't?
00:35:16.08\00:35:18.65
It's pretty much all,
00:35:18.68\00:35:20.65
all pardoned, all have life.
00:35:20.68\00:35:26.86
Well, look at verse 18, it
says do I just making this up,
00:35:26.89\00:35:28.82
come on, verse
18, "Consequently,
00:35:28.86\00:35:30.19
just as one trespass resulted
in condemnation for all people,
00:35:30.23\00:35:34.10
so also one righteous
act resulted in justification
00:35:34.13\00:35:36.56
and life for all people."
00:35:36.60\00:35:38.93
As many people that are
under Adam and in sin and death,
00:35:38.97\00:35:43.00
that same number of
people now in Christ pardoned,
00:35:43.04\00:35:48.14
life.
00:35:48.18\00:35:51.61
A century ago short
little lady named Ellen White
00:35:51.65\00:35:55.52
wrote three stunning sentences,
00:35:55.55\00:35:56.95
these are all in your study
guide, you can take them home,
00:35:56.99\00:35:58.52
let me run these three sentences
00:35:58.55\00:35:59.89
by sentence number one,
she's commenting on the prayer.
00:35:59.92\00:36:02.59
Father forgive them as
he's been nailed to the cross,
00:36:02.62\00:36:04.83
Father forgive them they
don't know what they're doing.
00:36:04.86\00:36:07.10
That prayers are put on
screen now from Desire of Ages,
00:36:07.13\00:36:09.66
"That prayer of Christ for
His enemies embraced the world.
00:36:09.70\00:36:13.30
It took in every sinner
that had lived or should live
00:36:13.34\00:36:15.84
from the beginning of the
world to the end of time."
00:36:15.87\00:36:17.81
Upon how many?
00:36:17.84\00:36:19.41
"Upon all rests the guilt
of crucifying the Son of God."
00:36:19.44\00:36:22.24
To how many?
00:36:22.28\00:36:23.71
"To all,
forgiveness is freely offered.
00:36:23.75\00:36:26.08
'Whosoever will'
may have peace with God
00:36:26.11\00:36:28.05
and inherit eternal life."
00:36:28.08\00:36:30.05
The entire human race
was pardoned, forgiven,
00:36:30.09\00:36:33.19
justified in Christ.
00:36:33.22\00:36:35.06
And here comes
stunning sentence number two
00:36:35.09\00:36:37.03
on the screen.
00:36:37.06\00:36:38.39
"Christ took in
His grasp the world
00:36:38.43\00:36:40.80
over which Satan
claimed to preside
00:36:40.83\00:36:42.63
as his lawful territory,
00:36:42.66\00:36:44.30
and by his wonderful
work in giving his life,
00:36:44.33\00:36:47.54
Christ resort whole
race of man and women
00:36:47.57\00:36:52.21
to favor with God."
00:36:52.24\00:36:56.08
The whole race,
00:36:56.11\00:37:00.38
stunning sentence number three,
I love this one, watch this.
00:37:00.42\00:37:04.59
"Jesus heart of
divine love and sympathy
00:37:04.62\00:37:07.36
is drawn out most
of all for the one
00:37:07.39\00:37:11.19
who is the most
hopelessly entangled
00:37:11.23\00:37:12.76
in the snares of the enemy."
00:37:12.79\00:37:14.73
Hit the pause
button right there,
00:37:14.76\00:37:16.16
there are some of you here,
00:37:16.20\00:37:17.53
that sentences
describing right now.
00:37:17.57\00:37:19.67
You know, you come to
home, you come to a time
00:37:19.70\00:37:21.74
and then reconnecting
with your class and old friends
00:37:21.77\00:37:24.57
and, you know, we
have this little sentence
00:37:24.61\00:37:28.68
on our hard disk that
we just keep repeating,
00:37:28.71\00:37:31.08
"Yo, how are you?"
"Fine, thank you, and you?"
00:37:31.11\00:37:33.18
"Yo, how are you?"
"Fine, thank you, and you?"
00:37:33.21\00:37:35.48
"Yo, fine, thank you, and you?"
00:37:35.52\00:37:37.39
they don't even have to ask
we know, we have the answer.
00:37:37.42\00:37:39.32
Fine, thank you, and you.
00:37:39.35\00:37:41.86
And yet behind that
well manicured alum face
00:37:41.89\00:37:45.03
or that well manicured
and handsome student face,
00:37:45.06\00:37:49.73
something's going on,
your life is in tangled,
00:37:49.76\00:37:53.17
your stomach is in knots.
00:37:53.20\00:37:56.71
You are in such a bind
00:37:56.74\00:38:00.11
that nobody can slice this knot.
00:38:00.14\00:38:06.31
Did you just
notice what we read?
00:38:06.35\00:38:08.18
Jesus is drawn most
to people like that.
00:38:08.22\00:38:13.66
Entangled as you are in
the back row of the balcony,
00:38:13.69\00:38:18.46
strong to you, more than others,
00:38:18.49\00:38:22.23
He's drawn to you
more than drawn to them.
00:38:22.26\00:38:26.37
Wow, "Jesus heart
of divine sympathy,
00:38:26.40\00:38:29.00
divine love and sympathy
is drawn out most of all
00:38:29.04\00:38:31.21
for the one who is
most hopelessly entangled
00:38:31.24\00:38:33.24
in the snares of the enemy."
00:38:33.27\00:38:34.68
Here comes, "With his
own blood he has signed
00:38:34.71\00:38:37.98
the emancipation
papers of the race."
00:38:38.01\00:38:41.32
Ladies and gentlemen,
here's the point please,
00:38:41.35\00:38:43.32
God is not trying to play
hard to get with the human race.
00:38:43.35\00:38:47.32
The door to his heart,
00:38:47.36\00:38:48.69
the door to his
home is wide open today.
00:38:48.72\00:38:51.43
You can come home now.
00:38:51.46\00:38:54.60
No questions
asked, no questions asked.
00:38:54.63\00:38:57.77
Come to me, and I'll give
you rest, just come to me.
00:38:57.80\00:39:02.60
And I'll save you.
00:39:02.64\00:39:03.97
So call the Gospel, all
the charges are dropped.
00:39:07.04\00:39:09.64
In fact, listen to
this, the only way,
00:39:13.28\00:39:16.55
the only way a human
being can possibly be lost is
00:39:16.58\00:39:20.89
if the human chooses to be lost.
00:39:20.92\00:39:24.89
You have to choose to be lost
00:39:24.93\00:39:27.16
because God's
default position is
00:39:27.20\00:39:32.77
a wide-open heart to you.
00:39:32.80\00:39:35.20
A love that will never stop
loving you ever, ever, ever,
00:39:35.24\00:39:38.71
that's His default.
00:39:38.74\00:39:40.61
If you wanted, if
you want to be lost,
00:39:40.64\00:39:43.04
you have to say no to Him.
00:39:43.08\00:39:47.22
Otherwise,
00:39:47.25\00:39:50.39
He says "Come, come on,
00:39:50.42\00:39:53.42
let's go, you and me."
00:39:53.46\00:39:57.99
Wow.
00:39:58.03\00:40:00.13
And by the way this
is not universalism,
00:40:00.16\00:40:03.53
you can say no.
00:40:03.57\00:40:05.90
He's justified and pardoned
00:40:05.93\00:40:07.34
and forgiven the
entire human race,
00:40:07.37\00:40:08.90
you come home right now,
00:40:08.94\00:40:10.47
no questions asked.
00:40:10.51\00:40:11.84
It's not universalism,
00:40:11.87\00:40:13.21
you have the right to say,
"No, I don't want to go home."
00:40:13.24\00:40:14.84
But why anybody would not want
00:40:14.88\00:40:17.11
to come is beyond me?
00:40:17.15\00:40:21.58
He says, "Oh,
Dwight, you have no idea
00:40:21.62\00:40:23.72
how horrible a sinner I am,
00:40:23.75\00:40:26.65
my family does not know,
00:40:26.69\00:40:29.32
my spouse does not know,
00:40:29.36\00:40:33.56
my friends do not know,
00:40:33.60\00:40:36.83
I've been living with this.
00:40:36.87\00:40:39.30
You have no concept."
00:40:39.33\00:40:41.40
You are
absolutely right my friend.
00:40:41.44\00:40:43.81
I do not know
00:40:43.84\00:40:45.17
how horrible it
is in your heart.
00:40:45.21\00:40:48.78
All I know is the darkness
00:40:48.81\00:40:52.01
it dwells too often
deep in my own soul.
00:40:52.05\00:40:58.25
Oh, wretched man, there I am,
00:40:58.29\00:41:02.22
who will deliver me
00:41:02.26\00:41:04.86
from this body of death.
00:41:04.89\00:41:09.40
And this much else I do know
00:41:09.43\00:41:11.70
from the
studying and the reading
00:41:11.73\00:41:14.54
and the praying that I have done
00:41:14.57\00:41:16.74
over this #RXF4NOW.
00:41:16.77\00:41:21.48
This much I do know.
00:41:21.51\00:41:24.71
For every horrible sinner,
00:41:24.75\00:41:29.75
there is one wonderful Savior,
00:41:29.78\00:41:36.32
that much I know.
00:41:36.36\00:41:39.96
No matter how much sin is
in your life and in my life,
00:41:40.00\00:41:44.80
verse 20 in the Old King James
00:41:44.83\00:41:47.04
is absolutely true.
00:41:47.07\00:41:48.40
Put it on the screen please,
00:41:48.44\00:41:50.01
"Where sin abounded,
00:41:50.04\00:41:53.04
grace did much more abound."
00:41:53.07\00:41:57.11
The more sins you have,
the more grace He pours in.
00:41:57.15\00:42:01.45
The more sins you have,
00:42:01.48\00:42:03.62
the more grace He pours in.
00:42:03.65\00:42:05.92
She who does not confess much
00:42:05.95\00:42:08.86
does not receive much.
00:42:08.89\00:42:12.43
Symonds, Symonds,
00:42:12.46\00:42:14.13
the woman is wept over
my feet and washed them,
00:42:14.16\00:42:17.27
and you didn't kiss me,
00:42:17.30\00:42:18.70
you gave me no oil for my
head, you didn't wash my feet.
00:42:18.73\00:42:23.71
She has been forgiven much
00:42:23.74\00:42:26.71
loves deeply.
00:42:26.74\00:42:28.08
Amen.
00:42:28.11\00:42:29.44
Where sin abounds grace,
there's much more abound.
00:42:29.48\00:42:34.18
Wow, and by the way,
00:42:34.22\00:42:37.79
the news is even
better, hold on your pew now
00:42:37.82\00:42:40.72
'cause we're going
to get to the best news,
00:42:40.76\00:42:42.09
it's coming right now.
00:42:42.12\00:42:43.46
So hold on, come on, hold
on, grab that cold wooden pew.
00:42:43.49\00:42:48.96
Because in Christ, it gets,
00:42:49.00\00:42:50.87
come on, come on,
Paul is not through,
00:42:50.90\00:42:53.17
go to chapter 6, watch this,
00:42:53.20\00:42:54.84
you are not
going to believe this.
00:42:54.87\00:42:56.20
Some of you can say, "Oh, boy
typical homiletical hyperbola."
00:42:56.24\00:42:58.64
That's what we get form it,
typical homiletical hyperbola.
00:42:58.67\00:43:00.51
Okay, check it out for yourself,
00:43:00.54\00:43:02.54
Romans 6, come on,
check it out, Romans 6:3,
00:43:02.58\00:43:06.61
Paul says, "Or
don't you know that
00:43:06.65\00:43:07.98
all of us who were
baptized into Christ
00:43:08.02\00:43:09.35
were baptized into His death?"
00:43:09.38\00:43:10.82
Scholars believe that
that baptized into Christ,
00:43:10.85\00:43:13.05
that notion from
the very beginning
00:43:13.09\00:43:14.42
of the Christian faith
00:43:14.46\00:43:15.79
was the seed for Paul
to champion this phrase
00:43:15.82\00:43:19.49
over 200 times in Christ,
00:43:19.53\00:43:20.90
he got it from
the baptismal formula.
00:43:20.93\00:43:22.26
You're baptized into Christ,
00:43:22.30\00:43:23.63
in Christ, in Christ, in Christ.
00:43:23.67\00:43:25.33
Hey, Paul says, "Don't
you know that all of us
00:43:25.37\00:43:27.84
who were baptized into Christ
were baptized into His," what?
00:43:27.87\00:43:31.64
His death was yours,
you were so into Him,
00:43:31.67\00:43:34.08
His death became yours.
00:43:34.11\00:43:35.44
Keep reading verse 4,
00:43:35.48\00:43:36.81
"And we were
therefore buried with him."
00:43:36.85\00:43:38.31
His burial became
yours, keep reading.
00:43:38.35\00:43:40.35
"Buried with him through baptism
00:43:40.38\00:43:42.58
into death in order that,
00:43:42.62\00:43:43.95
just as Christ was
raised from the dead
00:43:43.99\00:43:45.85
to the glory of the Father..."
00:43:45.89\00:43:47.56
Guess what?
00:43:47.59\00:43:48.92
We too came up with him,
00:43:48.96\00:43:51.23
we came up with him
resurrection Sunday, verse 5,
00:43:51.26\00:43:54.16
"For if we have
been united with him
00:43:54.20\00:43:55.96
in a death like his,
00:43:56.00\00:43:57.33
we will certainly
also be united with him
00:43:57.37\00:43:59.23
in a resurrection like his."
00:43:59.27\00:44:02.44
Baam,
00:44:02.47\00:44:04.41
you're really in when you're in.
00:44:04.44\00:44:07.38
You die with Him,
you're buried with Him,
00:44:07.41\00:44:08.84
You rise with
Him and guess what?
00:44:08.88\00:44:10.25
You didn't know this,
you ascended with Him.
00:44:10.28\00:44:12.31
Did you know that
you ascended with Christ?
00:44:12.35\00:44:14.15
Come on, you
ascended with Christ.
00:44:14.18\00:44:17.02
You say, "Now this is where
you're pulling my leg, right?"
00:44:17.05\00:44:18.62
No, no, no, no, no, come on,
00:44:18.65\00:44:20.46
Paul Ephesians 2,
00:44:20.49\00:44:22.99
you got a Bible
turn to Ephesians 2,
00:44:23.02\00:44:25.06
look at this, look at this,
00:44:25.09\00:44:26.70
can you believe
this is in your Bible?
00:44:26.73\00:44:28.70
Ephesians 2,
pick it up in verse 4,
00:44:28.73\00:44:31.60
Ephesians 2:4,
00:44:31.63\00:44:32.97
"But because a
poll is just so enamored
00:44:33.00\00:44:35.17
with the love of God,"
everywhere you are turning,
00:44:35.20\00:44:36.67
you are running into
God's love with Paul,
00:44:36.71\00:44:38.47
"But because of
His great love for us,
00:44:38.51\00:44:41.44
God who is rich in
mercy," verse five,
00:44:41.48\00:44:44.15
"made us alive
together with Christ
00:44:44.18\00:44:45.81
even when we were
dead in transgressions."
00:44:45.85\00:44:48.42
Remember that phrase you read us
00:44:48.45\00:44:50.29
all tangled up in sin,
you don't know what to do,
00:44:50.32\00:44:52.45
remember that phrase?
00:44:52.49\00:44:53.82
Guess what?
00:44:53.86\00:44:55.19
When you're in
the all tangled up
00:44:55.22\00:44:56.56
and dead in sin
phase of your life,
00:44:56.59\00:44:59.73
God has already moved begun
00:44:59.76\00:45:02.53
moving you into in Christ.
00:45:02.56\00:45:05.83
He didn't wait for
changed life to do it.
00:45:05.87\00:45:09.60
He already, he started
while you were still dead
00:45:09.64\00:45:11.51
in transgressions, mercy.
00:45:11.54\00:45:15.94
And oh, boy in verse 6,
00:45:15.98\00:45:18.91
"And God raised
us up with Christ
00:45:18.95\00:45:22.95
and seated us with
him in the heavenly realms
00:45:22.98\00:45:25.55
in Christ Jesus."
00:45:25.59\00:45:27.09
Guess where you are
right now if you're in Christ?
00:45:27.12\00:45:28.66
You're already in heaven,
you are already in heaven,
00:45:28.69\00:45:31.46
do you believe that?
00:45:31.49\00:45:32.83
Because when the Creator says
00:45:32.86\00:45:34.20
you're already in
heaven, if you say amen, it is.
00:45:34.23\00:45:38.37
I just said amen, right,
00:45:38.40\00:45:39.73
but I'm still
having to listen to you,
00:45:39.77\00:45:42.20
why I'm not in heaven?
00:45:42.24\00:45:45.14
You're there in Christ,
00:45:45.17\00:45:49.51
keep reading one more verse.
00:45:49.54\00:45:52.65
Verse 7,
00:45:52.68\00:45:54.02
"In order that
in the coming ages
00:45:54.05\00:45:55.38
God might show the
incomparable riches
00:45:55.42\00:45:56.99
of His grace,
00:45:57.02\00:45:58.35
expressed in
his kindness to us,"
00:45:58.39\00:45:59.82
there it is
again over 200 times,
00:45:59.85\00:46:02.02
"In Christ Jesus."
00:46:02.06\00:46:05.73
That is absolutely unbelievable.
00:46:05.76\00:46:10.57
We guided Him,
We're buried with Him,
00:46:10.60\00:46:11.93
we rose with Him,
we ascended with Him,
00:46:11.97\00:46:13.30
we're sitting on a
throne of the universe
00:46:13.34\00:46:15.84
in Christ Jesus, with Him.
00:46:15.87\00:46:18.81
Now think, think
00:46:18.84\00:46:20.44
when you're sitting on
the throne with Christ,
00:46:20.48\00:46:24.28
how could God ever lose you?
00:46:24.31\00:46:27.62
How could you be lost?
00:46:27.65\00:46:29.52
You're already there,
00:46:29.55\00:46:31.59
you're there, you're secure,
00:46:31.62\00:46:36.16
He can't lose
you unless you say,
00:46:36.19\00:46:39.53
"Get me out of here,
00:46:39.56\00:46:40.90
get me out here, send
me back, send me back."
00:46:40.93\00:46:44.07
We do not understand
00:46:49.00\00:46:50.37
how this in Christ
theme is absolutely huge
00:46:50.41\00:46:54.14
in God's economy of salvation.
00:46:54.18\00:46:56.31
This in Christ
phrase, this in Christ Truth,
00:46:56.34\00:47:00.32
there is no huger
truth which is invented word.
00:47:00.35\00:47:06.05
No huger truth than this one,
00:47:06.09\00:47:09.99
so like Paul devoted his
life now to preach in Christ,
00:47:10.03\00:47:13.29
in Christ.
00:47:13.33\00:47:16.46
And that little old lady,
00:47:16.50\00:47:17.83
we were talking
about a moment ago,
00:47:17.87\00:47:20.74
God bless her,
got it right again.
00:47:20.77\00:47:23.24
When she wrote
these stunning words
00:47:23.27\00:47:25.07
in a letter to someone
who needed to read them
00:47:25.11\00:47:27.84
and that
someone maybe you today.
00:47:27.88\00:47:31.01
I'll put them on
the screen for you,
00:47:31.05\00:47:32.38
you'll take them
home in study guide,
00:47:32.41\00:47:33.75
you didn't get a study guide?
00:47:33.78\00:47:35.12
Ask one of these friendly ushers
00:47:35.15\00:47:36.48
who will be sitting up here
and you can get it from them.
00:47:36.52\00:47:38.52
"The message from
God to me for you,"
00:47:38.55\00:47:42.26
here's your message from God.
00:47:42.29\00:47:45.23
"A message from
God to me for you is,"
00:47:45.26\00:47:47.00
and she's quoting
a red letter words
00:47:47.03\00:47:48.46
in John 6:37,
the words of Jesus,
00:47:48.50\00:47:50.47
"Him that cometh unto me,
I will in no wise cast out."
00:47:50.50\00:47:53.90
By the way, in the Greek
this is very interesting,
00:47:53.94\00:47:55.87
in the Greek look at that line.
00:47:55.90\00:47:57.24
I will in no wise
that's a double negative
00:47:57.27\00:47:59.47
in The Greek.
00:47:59.51\00:48:00.84
I will no, not ever cast out.
00:48:00.88\00:48:03.35
You coming to me?
00:48:03.38\00:48:05.21
In Christ, forever.
00:48:05.25\00:48:08.88
Now she goes on,
watch this, watch this,
00:48:08.92\00:48:10.65
"If you have nothing
else to plead before God
00:48:10.69\00:48:13.69
But this one promise
from your Lord and Savior,
00:48:13.72\00:48:15.96
you have the
assurance that you will never,
00:48:15.99\00:48:19.46
never be turned away."
00:48:19.49\00:48:21.96
I want to tell you
something, I promise you this,
00:48:22.00\00:48:24.93
that little lady had no clue
00:48:24.97\00:48:27.10
that there was a
double negative in John 6:37
00:48:27.14\00:48:30.31
but when she
reacts to the promise,
00:48:30.34\00:48:33.17
what does she put?
00:48:33.21\00:48:34.54
A double
negative in the English,
00:48:34.58\00:48:36.18
you will never, never,
00:48:36.21\00:48:38.58
in case you
missed the first one.
00:48:38.61\00:48:40.28
You will never,
never be turned away.
00:48:40.32\00:48:43.65
Amen!
00:48:43.69\00:48:46.02
Okay, read it as
it gets even better.
00:48:46.05\00:48:47.49
"It may seem to you
that you are hanging upon
00:48:47.52\00:48:49.22
a single promise,
00:48:49.26\00:48:50.59
but appropriate
that one promise,
00:48:50.63\00:48:51.96
and it will open to you
00:48:51.99\00:48:53.33
the whole treasure house
00:48:53.36\00:48:54.70
of the riches of
the grace of Christ.
00:48:54.73\00:48:56.40
Cling to that
promise and you are safe."
00:48:56.43\00:49:00.40
Quote the line
again for us please,
00:49:00.44\00:49:02.24
"'She that cometh to me,
I will in no wise cast out.'
00:49:02.27\00:49:05.17
Present this assurance to Jesus,
00:49:05.21\00:49:07.11
and you are as safe as
though," already I'm adding,
00:49:07.14\00:49:11.08
"inside the City of God."
00:49:11.11\00:49:14.42
I rest my case.
00:49:14.45\00:49:16.45
When you're in
Christ, you're on the throne,
00:49:16.48\00:49:18.62
now you're inside the city.
00:49:18.65\00:49:20.99
Do you understand that?
00:49:21.02\00:49:22.42
You can't get lost
00:49:22.46\00:49:24.49
unless you say,
"Let me out of here,
00:49:24.53\00:49:26.76
let me out, I
don't like this place."
00:49:26.80\00:49:29.90
You're free to go by the way.
00:49:29.93\00:49:32.77
But why would anybody
say, "Let me out here"?
00:49:32.80\00:49:39.07
Wow.
00:49:39.11\00:49:43.95
Christ promise,
Christ grace is so strong,
00:49:43.98\00:49:46.68
so sure that is if
you're already there,
00:49:46.72\00:49:50.02
"Oh, do I?
00:49:50.05\00:49:51.39
Come on then, tell
me, tell me, tell me,
00:49:51.42\00:49:52.75
how can I be in Christ?"
00:49:52.79\00:49:54.12
Okay, here's how.
00:49:54.16\00:49:56.76
I become and tell
me something, no, I am,
00:49:56.79\00:49:58.83
would you know want is this?
00:49:58.86\00:50:00.70
This is what you do,
you want to be in Christ,
00:50:00.73\00:50:03.16
this is what you do.
00:50:03.20\00:50:04.70
This frail
little hand is upturned,
00:50:04.73\00:50:09.40
and you know what the
hand is saying for the heart?
00:50:09.44\00:50:12.81
Amen, amen.
00:50:12.84\00:50:15.91
I'll take it.
00:50:15.94\00:50:17.78
I'll take it please.
00:50:17.81\00:50:20.35
That's all you have to do,
00:50:20.38\00:50:24.39
take it.
00:50:24.42\00:50:27.22
Put your hand down ask Him,
00:50:27.26\00:50:31.46
it's yours, don't walk away,
00:50:31.49\00:50:35.56
put two hands down, that helps.
00:50:35.60\00:50:40.77
Some of you are
saying to yourself,
00:50:40.80\00:50:42.14
I know, I know, this
is what you're saying,
00:50:42.17\00:50:43.51
"Oh, this is so elementary,
00:50:43.54\00:50:46.24
I am so far there
are in my life in this."
00:50:46.27\00:50:51.21
Well, goody for you.
00:50:51.25\00:50:53.05
Sounds to me like a
vagrancy, as praying to God,
00:50:56.22\00:50:58.59
"Oh, God I think
I'm not like that rich
00:50:58.62\00:51:00.56
on the back row with balcony.
00:51:00.59\00:51:02.06
I got my life
together, thank you Jesus."
00:51:02.09\00:51:04.43
Same little lady,
00:51:07.73\00:51:09.83
these words on the screen,
00:51:09.86\00:51:11.20
"All of us need to
humble our own individual hearts
00:51:11.23\00:51:14.30
and be converted," how often,
00:51:14.34\00:51:16.27
what's that
last word, how often?
00:51:16.30\00:51:18.84
"Daily," daily, daily.
00:51:18.87\00:51:23.98
May been a long time
since you ever told Jesus
00:51:24.01\00:51:26.35
I'm in you and you're in me.
00:51:26.38\00:51:29.18
I know you're member
of some church somewhere.
00:51:29.22\00:51:33.22
It's fine, don't
get you anywhere.
00:51:33.25\00:51:37.53
And maybe a long time
since you've told Jesus,
00:51:37.56\00:51:42.13
you can start today,
00:51:42.16\00:51:44.03
tomorrow morning,
the next and the next.
00:51:44.07\00:51:47.94
What do I pray?
00:51:47.97\00:51:49.30
Do I, what did
Jesus say in John 15:5,
00:51:49.34\00:51:51.97
"Abide in me and I in you."
00:51:52.01\00:51:55.24
It's life, you
abide in me, I in you.
00:51:55.28\00:51:57.48
You are in Christ, I am in you.
00:51:57.51\00:51:59.81
So your prayer
everyday could be, "Oh, God,
00:51:59.85\00:52:01.32
today right now
as the day begins,
00:52:01.35\00:52:03.65
I want to be in Christ
and please Jesus in me,
00:52:03.69\00:52:08.42
that's all I am asking."
00:52:08.46\00:52:09.79
Let me be in
Him, may He be in me.
00:52:09.82\00:52:14.06
Every day be converted daily,
00:52:14.10\00:52:16.26
every day in Christ.
00:52:16.30\00:52:18.60
He said, "But why,
00:52:18.63\00:52:19.97
what in the world
this is have to do
00:52:20.00\00:52:21.34
with the
regrets of Oscar Wilde?"
00:52:21.37\00:52:23.24
Oscar Wilde, put his
picture on the screen for you.
00:52:23.27\00:52:26.61
Irish playwright, novelist,
00:52:26.64\00:52:29.48
poet essayist,
00:52:29.51\00:52:31.45
one of the great luminaries
in the world of the arts
00:52:31.48\00:52:33.31
in the 19th centuries,
00:52:33.35\00:52:34.68
his single novel,
00:52:34.72\00:52:36.05
The Picture of Dorian Gray
00:52:36.08\00:52:38.22
widely acclaimed brilliant mind,
00:52:38.25\00:52:40.66
academic honors,
00:52:40.69\00:52:42.02
one author described him
as a scintillating writer.
00:52:42.06\00:52:46.70
Oscar Wilde at the
height of his fame and success
00:52:46.73\00:52:51.53
almost by accident ended
up in court not once but twice
00:52:51.57\00:52:55.20
and it was the second time
that the secrets of his life
00:52:55.24\00:52:59.61
were exposed to the public
00:52:59.64\00:53:01.54
and he was
shamed before the world.
00:53:01.58\00:53:04.68
They gave him a
two-year sentence
00:53:04.71\00:53:06.21
of hard labor.
00:53:06.25\00:53:08.85
And while in prison,
00:53:08.88\00:53:12.55
he reflected on his tragic fall
00:53:12.59\00:53:15.56
and described a
spiritual journey
00:53:15.59\00:53:17.03
in a very long letter
00:53:17.06\00:53:18.39
that has since been titled
00:53:18.43\00:53:21.86
"De Profundis"
00:53:21.90\00:53:27.14
Latin,
00:53:27.17\00:53:30.91
Wilde was released from prison
00:53:30.94\00:53:32.71
after his two-year sentence,
00:53:32.74\00:53:34.84
he died a year
later in Paris destitutes,
00:53:34.88\00:53:39.98
he was 46.
00:53:40.02\00:53:43.15
But from that De Profundis,
00:53:43.18\00:53:46.29
these words of his confession,
on the screen please,
00:53:46.32\00:53:49.89
"The Gods had given
me almost everything.
00:53:49.92\00:53:53.66
But I let myself be lured
into long spells a senseless
00:53:53.70\00:53:57.07
and sensual ease
00:53:57.10\00:53:58.83
tired of being on the heights
00:53:58.87\00:54:00.20
I deliberately
went to the depths
00:54:00.24\00:54:01.70
in search of for new sensation.
00:54:01.74\00:54:04.71
What the paradox was to
me in the sphere of thought,
00:54:04.74\00:54:07.41
perversity became to me
in the sphere of passion...
00:54:07.44\00:54:10.95
I grew careless of
the lives of others.
00:54:10.98\00:54:13.38
I took pleasure
where it pleased me,
00:54:13.42\00:54:15.08
and passed on.
00:54:15.12\00:54:16.45
I forgot that
every little action
00:54:16.48\00:54:17.85
of the common day
makes or unmakes character,
00:54:17.89\00:54:21.32
and that
therefore what one has done
00:54:21.36\00:54:23.46
in the secret chamber,
00:54:23.49\00:54:25.29
one has some day to cry
aloud from the house-top.
00:54:25.33\00:54:31.10
I ceased to be lord over myself.
00:54:31.13\00:54:33.60
I was no longer
captain of my soul,
00:54:33.64\00:54:35.84
and did not know it.
00:54:35.87\00:54:37.21
I allowed
pleasure to dominate me
00:54:37.24\00:54:39.67
and I ended in a
horrible disgrace."
00:54:39.71\00:54:45.81
The regrets of Oscar Wilde.
00:54:45.85\00:54:50.39
What a tragic story,
00:54:50.42\00:54:54.42
what a sad ending
to so much promise
00:54:54.46\00:55:00.96
because nobody's story,
00:55:01.00\00:55:03.60
nobody's story
has to end this way.
00:55:03.63\00:55:06.60
There is therefore now
00:55:06.63\00:55:08.37
no condemnation
00:55:08.40\00:55:11.57
to those who
are in Christ Jesus.
00:55:11.61\00:55:15.74
In fact, Jesus
spoke the very words
00:55:15.78\00:55:17.88
when they threw that
woman taken in adultery
00:55:17.91\00:55:20.72
and heap at His feet,
00:55:20.75\00:55:22.18
Jesus said to her,
00:55:22.22\00:55:24.55
"Woman,
00:55:24.59\00:55:27.96
neither do I condemn you,
00:55:27.99\00:55:30.96
now go in peace,
00:55:30.99\00:55:32.69
leave your life of sin behind."
00:55:32.73\00:55:36.16
No condemnation,
00:55:36.20\00:55:38.70
no regrets
00:55:38.73\00:55:42.10
when you are in Christ
00:55:42.14\00:55:45.64
which you can be
right now, right now.
00:55:45.67\00:55:51.51
You say amen,
00:55:51.55\00:55:54.48
you say amen inside,
00:55:54.52\00:55:59.25
you haven't, believe,
00:55:59.29\00:56:05.59
believe.
00:56:05.63\00:56:08.53
Apparently, you can
even say to get a miracle,
00:56:08.56\00:56:11.53
"Lord, I believe,
help my unbelief."
00:56:11.57\00:56:13.90
You get the miracle anyway,
00:56:13.94\00:56:15.94
just the size seed
of a mustard plant,
00:56:15.97\00:56:21.31
it's all I
need, just believe me.
00:56:21.34\00:56:24.51
He says and you're in Christ,
00:56:24.55\00:56:28.68
amen.
00:56:28.72\00:56:30.89
Oh, God, could the
truth be this simple?
00:56:30.92\00:56:35.39
Could it be this clear?
00:56:35.42\00:56:37.96
Could the news be this glorious?
00:56:37.99\00:56:43.87
Please, my Lord,
00:56:43.90\00:56:46.63
look into our hearts,
00:56:46.67\00:56:48.10
wretched man
00:56:48.14\00:56:51.31
or wretched woman I am.
00:56:51.34\00:56:53.74
Look into our hearts
00:56:53.78\00:56:57.05
and hear the quiet amen
00:56:57.08\00:57:02.98
that we speak to you now.
00:57:03.02\00:57:04.92
Amen.
00:57:13.53\00:57:14.86
I want to take an extra moment
with you to tell you about
00:57:17.53\00:57:19.47
something we're
really excited about,
00:57:19.50\00:57:21.00
it's called "Hope Trending,
00:57:21.04\00:57:22.37
A Crash Course on How
to Live Without Fear".
00:57:22.40\00:57:25.27
It's a 9-night
series of 60-minute programs
00:57:25.31\00:57:27.38
that will be live
streamed to the world,
00:57:27.41\00:57:29.68
October 14 through 22.
00:57:29.71\00:57:32.08
And we want to
connect with your friends,
00:57:32.11\00:57:34.15
friends who
have yet to meet God,
00:57:34.18\00:57:35.52
friends who have yet to discover
00:57:35.55\00:57:36.89
how vital end time truths
are for this very generation.
00:57:36.92\00:57:40.96
That's why I hope you'll
pass on to them an invitation.
00:57:40.99\00:57:44.49
All the information you
need for that invitation
00:57:44.53\00:57:45.89
is at our website.
00:57:45.93\00:57:47.26
Let me give that website to you.
00:57:47.30\00:57:48.63
Check it out for
yourself, hopetrending.org,
00:57:48.66\00:57:51.37
one word hopetrending.org.
00:57:51.40\00:57:54.34
And would you
please join me in praying
00:57:54.37\00:57:55.87
that this new
innovative strategy
00:57:55.90\00:57:57.77
will open up
fresh doors for Jesus
00:57:57.81\00:58:00.58
across this nation and
literally around the world.
00:58:00.61\00:58:03.98
In the meantime,
my prayer is that God
00:58:04.01\00:58:05.41
will continue to bless you
with His hope, with His grace,
00:58:05.45\00:58:08.85
with His peace,
00:58:08.88\00:58:10.22
until we meet again
right here next time.
00:58:10.25\00:58:13.46