>> Well, Happy Sabbath, PMC.
Let's go ahead and start off our
song service set with a word of
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prayer. Let's bow our heads.
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Dear Lord, I ask You
that You be with us now.
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We invite You into our presence
and thank You for getting us
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through another week.
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A lot of times we take that for
granted, and I thank You that
we're in the Sabbath so we can
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worship You. Amen. [
"Whom Shall I Fear" plays ]
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Sing with us.
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[ "When Peace,
Like a River" plays ]
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>> Amen. Amen.
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>> Please stand.
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[ "No Longer Slaves" plays ]
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[ Bell tolls ]
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>> That was beautiful. Thank
you. Thank you, guys. Beautiful.
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What a prayer for today.
Precious Lord, take my hand,
lead me on, help me stand.
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Oh, God, we pray that prayer.
Precious Lord, take our hands.
Lead us on, help us stand.
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In this hour of the storm, we
have nothing to fear. So, with
the few minutes we have
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left, teach us. Through
scripture, make it clear,
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please. Hide me so that you get
through to the max. We pray in
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Jesus' name. Amen. So here's a
question for you. Is the word
"obey" a four-letter word?
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Huh? Come on.
"Dwight, I can count. O-B-E-Y."
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Four-letter word. Yeah, but
in American English -- Come on.
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In American English, when
you call something a four-letter
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word... It's a cuss word.
It's usually a profanity or an
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obscenity. Is that not right?
So is "obey" a bad four-letter
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word? Let me rephrase it.
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What is there about us humans
that creates such a strong
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aversion to this notion
of having to obey somebody?
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Obey anybody.
I'm reading right now
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Jacques Doukhan's brand-new --
I mean brand-new -- commentary
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on the Book of Genesis. Whoa.
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Every morning of this new year,
every morning, every word in
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Genesis, every word in the
commentary, and I tell you what,
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I find it absolutely
embarrassing how quickly
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we humans default, not to
obedience but disobedience.
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I mean, you have Adam and Eve.
Brand-new parents of a not yet
existing human race, and I don't
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know how many hours go by, I
don't know how many days. We
have no sense of the time
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passage, but Adam and Eve, on
the stage of human life, when
they are duped by this cunning
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serpent into bold, defiant
disobedience against their
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maker. Soon as they're thrown
out of the Garden, you got Cain
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and Abel. Guess what? Second
verse, same as the first. Two
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brothers. One of them duped by
the same rebel angel into a bold
and defiant disobedience to his
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maker. And, by the way,
when Cain is banished --
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listen to this. When Cain is
banished from that tiny little
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community, even as mother and
father are burying their boy
beneath the ground...
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And they are now childless...
When Cain is banished, and
Genesis records his lineage,
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never again will the word "God"
be associated or spoken or
written in connection
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with the line of Cain.
High-handed disobedience. What
is there about us humans
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that creates this strong
aversion to anybody, and I mean
anybody, telling me what to do?
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And then you come along to the
very, very first king Israel has
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ever had. We're talking about a
tall, gentle, humble giant named
Saul and he gets picked to be
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the first king? I don't know how
many days he's on the throne.
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It may be a few weeks, it may
be a few months. But before you
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know it, that four-letter word
"obey" is like a burr under his
saddle. And he resists.
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And one day, when he was waiting
for the prophet Sammy to show up
-- "Where is this guy when I
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need him?" Suddenly, impetuous,
impatient Saul decides he will
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be priest and prophet, and he
will go ahead with the
sacrifices of Thanksgiving using
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the animals he
disobeyed God by keeping.
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Animal blood is flowing
everywhere when, at last, Samuel
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shows up. And when
the prophet shows us,
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these words, on the
screen for you, 1 Samuel 15.
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But Samuel replied to Saul,
"Does the Lord delight in burn
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offerings and sacrifices as
much as in -- here comes that
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four-letter word -- as
much as it obeying the Lord?
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To obey, Saul -- To obey is
better than sacrifice, and to
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heed is better
than the fat of rams."
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Keep going. "For rebellion" --
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that would be disobedience.
"For rebellion is like the sin
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of divination and arrogance --
that would be pride -- is like
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the evil of
idolatry," the worship of self.
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Disobedience.
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Can you believe it? Satan has
been dissing obedience from the
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very beginning. And did you
catch that? A huge clue to why
we have this gut reaction to the
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four-letter word "obey." It's
because of another four-letter
word that's spelled
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like this -- S-E-L-F. The
problem is not "obey." The
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problem is "self." That's the
problem. Don't nobody tell me
what to do. Why don't we like to
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obey? Because if you obey, it
means you accept somebody else's
authority over yourself.
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You have to submit to somebody
else whose position, whose
prominence, whose power is
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greater than your own, and you
must submit, whether it's Mommy,
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Daddy, or God. Maybe Bob Dylan
was right. You know who Bob
Dylan is? Come on, do you know
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who Bob Dylan is? We're talking
about the troubadour, the
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prophet poet of the Baby Boomer
generation. Maybe Bob Dylan was
right when he composed this song
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"You're Gonna Have to Serve
Somebody." Mm-hmm, I went and
looked it up. It's a long song.
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I pulled a few lyrics out. It
goes like this -- Here's one of
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them I thought I was
appropriate. ¤ You may be a
preacher with your spiritual
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pride ¤ ¤ You may be a city
councilman taking bribes on the
side ¤ ¤ You may be workin' in a
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barbershop ¤ ¤ You may know
how to cut hair ¤ ¤ You may be
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somebody's mistress ¤ ¤ May be
somebody's heir ¤ ¤ But you're
gonna have to serve
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somebody, yes indeed ¤ ¤ You're
gonna have to serve somebody ¤
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¤ Well, it may be the devil or
it may be the Lord ¤ ¤ But
you're gonna have to serve
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somebody ¤ Mm! I
should have sung that for you!
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[ Laughter ] I don't
know it, I don't know it.
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Please don't write me and tell
me about that song. I don't know
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it. "Well, it may be the devil
or it may be the Lord, but
you're gonna have to serve
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somebody." That's exactly the
point Paul is making here in
this classic chapter of Romans
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6. Come on, find it. Romans
6, New Testament. Romans 6.
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This is it. Bob Dylan is
absolutely right. He must have
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read Romans 6 to compose that
one. Romans 6. If you didn't
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bring a bible, grab the pew
bible in front of you. It's page
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760. Romans 6, let's pick it up
in Verse 16. "You're gonna have
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to serve somebody."
That's Paul's point right now.
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Oh, did I love that song that
they were teaching us today. "No
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longer a slave." The song is
mostly right. Except for where
it's wrong. And that is you'll
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be a slave. You're
gonna have to serve somebody.
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You're gonna be a
slave to somebody.
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You just better decide which
one you want to be a slave to.
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Verse 16 again.
"Don't you know that when you
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offer yourselves to someone as
obedient slaves, you are slaves
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of the one you obey."
There's that four-letter word.
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Verse 17.
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One more verse. Verse 18.
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Because you're
gonna serve somebody.
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It's just the question
of "Whom shall I serve?"
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Grab your study guide. We
got to get this down before
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we lose it. Jot it down.
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You got your study guide in
your worship bulletin? Okay.
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If you didn't get
it, hold your hand up.
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Here come our friendly
ushers. Just hold you hand up.
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Up in the balcony,
the same. All right.
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Everybody gets a study guide.
Didn't get one, hold your hand
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up. I want to
talk to you who are
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joining us live-streaming
today. We're glad you're here.
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And, by the way, José and I just
talked to you a moment ago on
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live streaming. You
know that we are now setting
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out to build an
online community.
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We have people from all over
the planet now that at this hour
00:25:48.11\00:25:50.81
Eastern Time are joining
us. We're glad you're a part of
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them. How to
grow that community?
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We've already
talked to you about it.
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Let's start talking
back and forth to each other.
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And if you're on Facebook Live,
they're putting the little link
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right now for you up there, and
you can connect immediately to
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the study guide.
You're watching on television
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right now. You
see it on the screen.
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www.newperceptions.tv You
go there, and you're looking
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for Storm. That's
the title of this --
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"Storm: Finding Jesus
in the Gathering Dark."
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This is Part 4. There
are only seven of these.
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Three, and they're over.
So go ahead and get that study
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guide, you'll want this
one. Okay, let's fill them out.
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I didn't want you to miss
this. First, the Samuel one.
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So we're gonna go back
to 1 Samuel, jot it down.
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"To obey" --
that four-letter word.
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"To obey is better
than sacrifice," right?
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By the way, you have devices.
You can go to the same place
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with your device. You can do it.
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It's paperless. Paperless!
"To obey is better than
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sacrifice...for rebellion --
that would be disobedience --
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is like the sin of divination."
That's connecting with Lucifer,
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the dark art! Oh,
he's the big "dis" of
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obedience. "...and
arrogance like the evil
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of idolatry," which, of
course, is the worship of self.
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Keep going. "At the
heart of our trouble
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with the four-letter word
"obey" is our trouble with the
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four-letter word
"self." We just made that point.
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Write it down one more time.
After all, doesn't "obey" mean
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you must accept someone
else's authority over your self?
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Yep, that's exactly what it
means, and sure enough, when we
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turn to Romans 6,
Paul makes that point.
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Jot it down now. We
just read these words.
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"You are slaves of the one you
obey, whether you are slaves to
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sin, which leads to death, or
slaves to obedience, which leads
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to righteousness."
You see? Jot it down.
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Bob Dylan is absolutely right.
"You're gonna have to serve
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somebody," so pick
your master carefully.
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You got two
choices. Pick 'em carefully.
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"Yeah, but do I -- Come
on, come on, come on, Dwight.
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Who cares about
this obeying or not?
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I mean, what's the big deal?"
You know that's a very pertinent
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question. It
deserves a very thoughtful
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response. And you
and I will kind of
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conjure up the
response together.
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You remember last
week, I had a coin here.
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Were you here last
week? You remember the coin?
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We talked about a coin toss
because at the Super Bowl, both
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teams' captains will gather
in the center of the field, the
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referee will throw the coin up.
Why are we talking about a coin?
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Because a coin has how
many sides? Three or two?
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A coin can only have two
sides. And so, last week, we
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remembered -- Ahh! --
that the God of this universe,
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when he minted in pure gold
-- This is gold, by the way.
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Last week we had
silver, but now I got gold.
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Well, I guess it's Fool's
Gold, but it's still gold-ish.
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When the God of the universe
minted the exquisitely, most
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expensive coin in the universe,
and he called it salvation,
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we found out that
the coin has two sides.
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The salvation
coin has two sides.
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Let me see if you
were listening last week.
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On one side of the
coin, it's called...?
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"We are in Christ."
All right. Very good.
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"We are in Christ."
So I turn the coin over.
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What's that side?
"Christ is in us."
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The entire coin of salvation can
be summarized in just those two
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sides. There's not a third side,
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there's not a fourth
side. Either we are in Christ
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or Christ is in us.
So when you think about
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the coin of salvation... We
remember the words of Jesus.
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In fact, we looked
at these last week.
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I want you put them down again,
please -- John 15:5, bright red
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letters on the screen.
Would you jot them down?
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How do we know there
are two sides to the coin?
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Listen to this. Jesus says...
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There are the two
sides. You in Me, I in you...
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God's entire gift of salvation
summarized in two sides of the
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salvation coin. There's not a
third side. There are only two.
Now, the moment -- the moment
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you introduce this concept of
abiding in another person and
another person abiding in you,
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you have injected a love story
into the equation. This isn't
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just vines and branches
now. We're talking about a love
00:29:52.65\00:29:55.92
story. Because how would you
ever let somebody abide in you
if you're not in love with that
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person? Why would somebody ever
let you abide in her, abide in
him if you're not in love with
00:29:59.89\00:30:03.73
that person? And when you're
in love with that person, what
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makes that person happy makes
you happy. What makes that
person sad, makes you sad.
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When you abide in each
other, it's just like life comes
00:30:09.87\00:30:12.81
together. A very good friend, a
spouse... That's how it works.
So, the other day, Karen came
00:30:12.81\00:30:20.55
home from her shopping -- one of
her shopping expeditions. And
she comes home with a
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replacement for our clothes
hamper. You know what a clothes
00:30:29.62\00:30:33.36
hamper is? When they're dirty,
you throw them in the hamper.
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That old hamper, finally the
bottom gave out. A lot of dirty
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clothes in our family. I don't
understand that. Two people in
00:30:40.60\00:30:42.94
the family and we've got a
lot of dirty clothes. It's not
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right. But, anyway, so she comes
home. Oh, boy, she's prepared.
She doesn't come home with an
00:30:45.77\00:30:49.71
exact replacement. Are you
kidding? She comes home with a
00:30:49.71\00:30:52.51
super-duper big hamper. With one
very annoying feature that she
thinks is very cool.
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And that is, if you open the
hamper up, there are two nets
hanging inside of it.
00:31:03.56\00:31:08.80
Mm-hmm. Net bags. They're hung
up by Velcro. When she brought
00:31:08.80\00:31:13.57
it home, she says, "Come here,
Dwight. I want to give you a
little free tutorial."
00:31:13.57\00:31:17.11
[ Laughter ] I love these
'cause they're never free.
00:31:17.11\00:31:20.81
"I'm gonna give you a free
tutorial." She says, "Now, look
00:31:20.81\00:31:24.45
here. This one, lights.
This one, darks. All right?
00:31:24.45\00:31:31.19
When you take them off...
Lights. Darks. Is that clear? I
said, "Yeah. Sort of."
00:31:31.19\00:31:40.16
And in a few days, I found out,
what do you when they're not
00:31:40.16\00:31:44.67
light or dark? Leave them
outside? Third pile. Oh, no. You
00:31:44.67\00:31:52.34
got to decide. You got to serve
somebody. So, anyway... You
know, I'm used to dumping
00:31:52.34\00:32:00.68
everything in one big hole. Just
-- Practicing my Chicago Bulls
00:32:00.68\00:32:06.09
hook shot. Now I got
these two holes I got to hit.
00:32:06.09\00:32:10.09
And there are times -- I'll tell
you the truth. There are times
00:32:10.09\00:32:13.56
when my wadded-up sock goes in
the wrong net. Bad. I say, "You
00:32:13.56\00:32:19.77
know what? Who cares? Who
cares?" And just like that -- I
00:32:19.77\00:32:25.54
tell you the truth -- just like
that, there's a little voice
inside of me that whispers,
00:32:25.54\00:32:31.45
"But, Dwight, Karen cares.
And this makes her work a lot
00:32:31.45\00:32:37.35
easier. So if she's asked you to
do this, do it, boy." Jesus
comes along and he says,
00:32:37.35\00:32:44.53
"Hey, hey! Yo, yo! Abide
in me, I in you. Hey, Dwight!
00:32:44.53\00:32:49.90
You're the one that went to the
door and opened it up when I was
knocking on the door and you
00:32:49.90\00:32:54.07
said, 'Come on in, Jesus.
You have my life!' I came in.
00:32:54.07\00:32:57.64
Thank you for inviting me in.
00:32:57.64\00:33:01.08
We're together now.
And, Dwight, you do know that
00:33:01.24\00:33:04.35
when I came in, I began
to clean up what I found.
00:33:04.35\00:33:08.25
The dirt just went away.
And, Dwight, you do know that
00:33:08.25\00:33:12.99
when I came in and I said,
'Dwight, that'll need to leave,'
00:33:12.99\00:33:16.12
I let you take it out."
Oh, yes, Lord, I remember.
00:33:16.12\00:33:19.79
You did let met take it out.
"Yeah, you know why, Dwight?
00:33:19.79\00:33:23.37
Because I am in
you and you are in me.
00:33:23.37\00:33:25.57
And when we're close like
this, what makes you happy
00:33:25.57\00:33:29.74
makes me happy. And
the other side of the coin
00:33:29.74\00:33:33.04
is what makes me
happy, makes you happy.
00:33:33.04\00:33:36.14
Abide in me, stay in
me. Anything I command you.
00:33:36.14\00:33:40.92
It's good news
because we're like this.
00:33:40.92\00:33:43.12
I remind you, Dwight, I didn't
just come in as your protector.
00:33:43.12\00:33:46.42
I didn't just come
in as your defender.
00:33:46.42\00:33:48.62
No, no, no, no. I'm
your BFF, your Best Friend
00:33:48.62\00:33:51.76
Forever, I am
your savior." Yeah.
00:33:51.76\00:33:58.73
Wow. "And, by
the way, Dwight, now
00:33:58.73\00:34:02.74
that I'm in, I kind of hope
that you live by the words of
00:34:02.74\00:34:06.64
John 14:15. "To
quote me," he says...
00:34:06.64\00:34:11.61
I hope you live by those words.
Well, now, you got me curious,
00:34:11.61\00:34:14.62
Lord. I got to check that out.
00:34:14.62\00:34:15.85
John 14:15. Check
it out in your bible.
00:34:15.85\00:34:18.22
See if it feels the same
way in yours as it does it mine.
00:34:18.22\00:34:21.86
John 14 -- Okay, I see it's all
red letters, so Jesus must --
00:34:21.86\00:34:25.19
Oh, this is Jesus the
night before he goes to Calvary.
00:34:25.19\00:34:28.76
This is obviously something
very important on his heart.
00:34:28.76\00:34:31.33
That night, sure enough.
John 14:15. Here's Jesus.
00:34:31.33\00:34:34.77
Red letters.
00:34:34.77\00:34:37.67
Keep my commandments.
Would you jot that down, please?
00:34:41.98\00:34:48.62
What's the word
"keep" mean? It means obey!
00:34:48.62\00:34:50.45
It's another
four-letter word for "obey."
00:34:50.45\00:34:52.59
Keep my commandments.
Because that's the gospel truth!
00:34:52.59\00:34:56.96
Loving and obeying go hand in
hand because if you love
someone, no matter who it is,
00:34:57.13\00:35:01.33
you demonstrate your love by
obeying her, by obeying him.
It's just that way, folks.
00:35:01.33\00:35:05.53
You don't like it, find another
planet. It's the way we live.
00:35:05.53\00:35:11.97
Wow. "Yeah, but, Dwight,
aren't you making this --
00:35:11.97\00:35:16.68
Hey, guys, I don't know what you
did up there, but you just
suddenly have this really amped
00:35:16.68\00:35:21.12
up. Do you mind turning it
down just a little? Thanks.
00:35:21.12\00:35:23.32
It's just we're getting all
kinds of crazy sounds now. All
00:35:23.32\00:35:27.12
right. "Yeah, but, Dwight, come
on. Aren't you making this
"obey" business a little too
00:35:27.12\00:35:31.49
simple? I mean, you know, love,
relationship, and all?" I don't
00:35:31.49\00:35:35.66
think so. Because as is turns
out, the great truth is --
obedience is by faith.
00:35:35.66\00:35:41.64
Did you know that?
Obedience is by faith.
00:35:41.80\00:35:44.51
Jot it down, will you?
Just keep scribblin' there.
00:35:44.51\00:35:47.31
There it is.
00:35:47.31\00:35:49.21
You say, "Oh, Dwight,
you made that up." No.
00:35:55.38\00:35:57.49
Everything up there in yellow,
would you write that down?
00:35:57.49\00:35:59.95
Because this came to me after I
wrote up the study guide, but I
00:35:59.95\00:36:03.06
need you to write Hebrews 11:8
down because what does it say?
00:36:03.06\00:36:08.73
By faith. Obedience is by faith.
It's not something you grit,
00:36:08.73\00:36:13.47
it's not something you grunt.
00:36:13.47\00:36:15.37
It's not something you grin.
It's something you do by faith.
By faith, Abraham obeyed God.
00:36:15.54\00:36:21.81
And, by the way, that's exactly
how Jesus lived. He obeyed by
00:36:21.81\00:36:33.05
faith. I'm gonna share
that line with you again. Whew.
00:36:33.05\00:36:36.86
For some reason -- I'm telling
you the truth -- this line has
gotten embedded in my mind
00:36:36.86\00:36:41.30
through this Storm series. I
know we quoted it in #RxF4Now
last semester, but this is
00:36:41.30\00:36:46.27
really -- It just took this
series for it to get into my
mind, and I have to remind you,
00:36:46.27\00:36:51.74
again, that when the preacher
preaches, he is preaching
loudest to himself.
00:36:51.74\00:36:57.35
She is preaching loudest
to herself. Why? Because I'm
00:36:57.35\00:37:01.48
listening to everything I'm
saying and I'm saying, "Is that
authentic?" Have I integrated
00:37:01.48\00:37:06.35
that into my own life?" And so
I'm telling you, this line has
been popping into my
00:37:06.35\00:37:10.83
brain all day long, all through
my waking hours. Now, I'm not --
00:37:10.83\00:37:14.40
This is nothing great about
Dwight. I'm telling you the
00:37:14.40\00:37:17.93
truth. But in my humble opinion,
here's what's going on. The Holy
Spirit has put Himself
00:37:17.93\00:37:23.94
behind this line and pushes
it in a way he pushes no other
00:37:23.94\00:37:33.05
line. It's the secret to Jesus.
And if you get this secret 24/7,
you will have the faith of
00:37:33.05\00:37:42.39
Jesus, and when you have the
faith of Jesus, you will have
the obedience of Jesus.
00:37:42.39\00:37:46.66
It's the secret wrapped up
in a single line. I never saw it
00:37:46.66\00:37:51.23
before. But now it's just like,
"Whoa." I got to share it with
you. The Book of Hebrews.
00:37:51.23\00:37:55.20
Got to Hebrews, near the end of
the New Testament there. Hebrews
00:37:55.20\00:37:58.71
2. It's very interesting what
the author of Hebrews does. He
puts words in Christ's mouth
00:37:58.71\00:38:03.41
that the gospels do not. Because
in Hebrews, the incarnate God's
00:38:03.41\00:38:07.28
thought processes are revealed
to us. The gospels do not reveal
the thought processes.
00:38:07.28\00:38:11.09
They just tell what he spoke.
But in Hebrews, we see what he's
thinking as he spoke.
00:38:11.09\00:38:16.62
And this is dynamite. You'll
find it all the way through the
00:38:16.62\00:38:19.93
book of Hebrews, little
statements that Jesus makes that
we never read anywhere else.
00:38:19.93\00:38:24.10
This is Hebrews -- I
want you to know that Jesus is
00:38:24.27\00:38:26.84
gonna speak this line, so I
need you to start with Verse 11,
00:38:26.84\00:38:29.24
where Hebrews 2 reads...
00:38:29.24\00:38:33.34
He's talking about Jesus.
Who makes us holy? Jesus does.
00:38:40.45\00:38:43.28
So the one that makes us holy,
and you and me, we're all the
00:38:43.28\00:38:46.59
same family, and
that's why the line goes on...
00:38:46.59\00:38:49.59
"Yo, little
brother! Yo, little sister!"
00:38:51.79\00:38:54.36
That's who He is.
He's our elder brother.
00:38:54.36\00:38:57.03
Now, he says -- You won't
find these words anywhere in the
00:38:57.03\00:38:59.53
gospels. He says,
the incarnate God...
00:38:59.53\00:39:02.74
That's straight out of Psalm
22 and we know it's a messianic
00:39:06.41\00:39:09.18
psalm. "My God,
my God, why have you
00:39:09.18\00:39:10.95
forsaken me?" are
the opening words.
00:39:10.95\00:39:12.88
So we know this
is Jesus, all right?
00:39:12.88\00:39:15.58
So he says...
00:39:15.58\00:39:17.49
One line. Seven words.
Those seven words turn out to be
00:39:27.50\00:39:33.37
the credo of Christ.
From birth to ascension.
00:39:33.37\00:39:39.27
"I will put my trust in
Him." Wow. You know what?
00:39:39.27\00:39:46.28
I get tears in my eyes -- when
in a quiet place, not here --
00:39:46.28\00:39:49.95
but in a quiet place, I turn and
I read those words, and it's as
00:39:49.95\00:39:53.82
if Jesus is speaking. And
what I realized is, He has
00:39:53.82\00:39:58.56
just given me a sentence that
I can speak for the rest of my
00:39:58.56\00:40:02.43
life. And I am
speaking His thoughts
00:40:02.43\00:40:07.00
when I speak this
sentence. Seven words long.
00:40:07.00\00:40:11.87
Jesus said "Hey, yo, yo,
Dwight, Dwight, Dwight...
00:40:11.87\00:40:14.64
This is the way I
lived when I was here."
00:40:14.64\00:40:17.08
No kidding! This is
the one confession that
00:40:17.08\00:40:19.38
carried me
through night and day.
00:40:19.38\00:40:21.25
I kept whispering to myself,
"I will put my trust in Him."
00:40:21.25\00:40:24.19
"I will put my trust in Him."
Three times the enemy of the
00:40:24.19\00:40:27.62
human race came to me, and all
three responses were summarized,
00:40:27.62\00:40:31.76
"I will put my trust in
Him." That's how I made it.
00:40:31.76\00:40:36.10
That's my line. And
I'm giving it to you to be
00:40:36.10\00:40:40.14
your credo, too. "I
will put my trust in Him."
00:40:40.14\00:40:44.51
Come on, little brother.
Come on, my little brother.
00:40:44.51\00:40:47.94
I need you to take hold of this
faith because, you see, when you
00:40:47.94\00:40:53.05
speak those seven words, you
have just possessed the faith of
00:40:53.05\00:40:56.22
Jesus. That's
the faith of Jesus."
00:40:56.22\00:40:58.32
"I will put my trust in Him."
"And when I give you the faith
00:40:58.32\00:41:03.02
of Jesus, you do like
I did with the tempter.
00:41:03.02\00:41:05.66
When he comes to you, Dwight,
you say those seven words to
00:41:05.66\00:41:08.00
him." "I will
put my trust in Him."
00:41:08.00\00:41:10.43
"So how could I do this great
wickedness and sin against God?
00:41:10.43\00:41:13.57
Recognize those words, Dwight?
I gave those words to Joseph.
00:41:13.57\00:41:16.67
He was saying "I
will put my trust in Him."
00:41:16.67\00:41:19.14
And then when Mrs. Potiphar
was standing in front of him, he
00:41:19.14\00:41:22.04
said, "How can I do this
wickedness and sin against God?"
00:41:22.04\00:41:24.85
I gave him my faith.
He had the faith of Jesus.
00:41:24.85\00:41:27.98
You may have that same faith.
You may live by the faith till I
00:41:27.98\00:41:32.05
come. Because if
you have my faith,
00:41:32.05\00:41:34.92
you have my obedience, and if
you have my obedience, you have
00:41:34.92\00:41:38.03
my victory. Do
you understand that?"
00:41:38.03\00:41:41.56
Wow, Jesus. Are you
serious? "I'm serious."
00:41:41.56\00:41:46.17
"I will put my
trust in Him." Live by it.
00:41:46.17\00:41:50.64
I wish you'd jot that
down. That's exactly what it is.
00:41:50.64\00:41:56.98
Which means you have that faith
of Jesus, you have the obedience
00:41:56.98\00:42:01.22
of Jesus, too.
And, oh my, speaking of
00:42:01.22\00:42:03.92
obedience, did He
learn how to obey.
00:42:03.92\00:42:06.49
Merci. "Thank you" in Tagalog.
00:42:06.49\00:42:09.39
Beautiful
language. Reading that.
00:42:09.39\00:42:11.63
Hebrews 5. Just turn the
page. We'll go to the words.
00:42:11.63\00:42:15.53
We just heard in
Tagalog and read in English --
00:42:15.53\00:42:17.97
Hebrews 5. Turn
the page. Look at this.
00:42:17.97\00:42:20.87
This is something else. Verse 7.
00:42:20.87\00:42:24.17
Too long words for one codeword.
Because of his obedience.
00:42:39.09\00:42:43.36
There's that
four-letter word again.
00:42:43.36\00:42:47.03
Not clear? It'll be
clear in a split second.
00:42:47.03\00:42:50.60
That's the result
of Jesus' confession.
00:42:50.60\00:42:52.90
And, by the way, before
the great "By faith" chapter,
00:42:52.90\00:42:57.27
Hebrews 11. Before
they ever talk about the
00:42:57.27\00:43:00.38
faith of humanity, in Hebrews
2, it's quickly established.
00:43:00.38\00:43:03.98
It's the faith of
Jesus that counts.
00:43:03.98\00:43:07.08
By faith, Abraham obeyed, but
where'd he get the faith from?
00:43:07.08\00:43:10.02
He got the faith from one who
would come down and live that
00:43:10.02\00:43:13.79
way. Mm.
00:43:13.79\00:43:16.42
And, by the way,
did you notice this?
00:43:16.42\00:43:19.49
That their loud cries and
tears -- did you catch that?
00:43:19.49\00:43:21.66
Loud cries and tears.
Let me tell you something.
00:43:21.66\00:43:23.63
When you live by the
faith of Jesus, don't be fooled.
00:43:23.63\00:43:25.80
Don't be fooled into thinking
that it's a picnic in the park
00:43:25.80\00:43:28.57
in the land of Satan.
There is no picnic in the land
00:43:28.57\00:43:30.94
of Satan. You live
in the land of Satan.
00:43:30.94\00:43:33.81
We all do. It's
no little breezeway.
00:43:33.81\00:43:39.41
The stronger you hold on to God,
the harder the devil will hit
00:43:39.41\00:43:44.25
you with everything he's got
because in the enemy's land, it
00:43:44.25\00:43:48.39
is inevitable -- this is
basketball season, we got a few
00:43:48.39\00:43:51.83
teams on the campus right now.
It is inevitable that it is a
00:43:51.83\00:43:56.40
full-court press. The
moment you seize the faith
00:43:56.40\00:43:59.83
of Jesus, it's a full-court
press because there's somebody
00:43:59.83\00:44:03.14
that's gonna break --
He's gonna break your knuckles.
00:44:03.14\00:44:05.44
He's gonna crush that
grass. That's his goal.
00:44:05.44\00:44:09.88
Because with the
faith of Jesus, you win.
00:44:09.88\00:44:11.71
You got his obedience and you
have his victory when you have
00:44:11.71\00:44:14.25
his faith. So
hang on to the faith.
00:44:14.25\00:44:17.35
That's the
point. Oh, F.F. Bruce.
00:44:17.35\00:44:21.42
Boy, does he nail it here,
the great New Testament scholar.
00:44:21.42\00:44:25.39
Or as they say in the world of
athletics, "No pain, no gain."
00:44:33.77\00:44:37.74
if you're not
paining, you're not gaining.
00:44:37.74\00:44:40.18
You're just
whimping. You want gain?
00:44:40.18\00:44:43.78
Then you have pain. You
work out till it's killing
00:44:43.78\00:44:46.68
you. Jesus suffered in order to
00:44:46.68\00:44:50.32
learn. To learn what?
00:44:50.32\00:44:51.65
Well, take a look
at this. Verse 7 again.
00:44:51.65\00:44:54.89
Keep reading. Verse 8.
00:45:03.06\00:45:04.97
Hold it right there.
Would you write that in, please?
00:45:08.80\00:45:15.64
Hey, wait a minute. Do
you suppose that's the way we
00:45:15.64\00:45:18.28
learn, as well? Do
we learn the same way?
00:45:18.28\00:45:20.98
I have a feeling we do. I
haven't seen my brother's palm
00:45:20.98\00:45:26.76
in a while. I should
have looked it when we
00:45:26.76\00:45:28.86
were burying our mother with our
sister Carrie just a few weeks
00:45:28.86\00:45:31.76
ago. But when
Greg and I were growing
00:45:31.76\00:45:35.66
up in Japan, we were in a little
house where the oil furnace was
00:45:35.66\00:45:39.70
underneath the floor, all
right? And it would just --
00:45:39.70\00:45:42.80
They don't have,
you know, central air.
00:45:42.80\00:45:44.81
It just forced air from one hole
that covers the whole house.
00:45:44.81\00:45:47.78
There was a metal grate
over where the hot air came up.
00:45:47.78\00:45:52.98
And our parents warned us.
"Boys, never touch that when the
00:45:52.98\00:45:56.82
furnace is on. Don't touch it."
00:45:56.82\00:45:58.82
I don't know what
was happening one day.
00:45:58.82\00:46:01.02
We were playing around, and Greg
was maybe scrambling for a ball
00:46:01.02\00:46:04.26
and he puts his hand down
on that metal grate and there
00:46:04.26\00:46:07.03
was -- [ Hisses ] And a scream!
00:46:07.03\00:46:11.40
And a lesson learned.
Because that's the way we learn.
00:46:11.40\00:46:16.97
No pain, no gain.
F.F. Bruce goes on...
00:46:16.97\00:46:22.31
He learned what it would be like
for you and me. He learned it.
00:46:39.19\00:46:43.43
"I will put my trust in Him"
with loud cries and tears so
00:46:43.43\00:46:46.87
that by having the faith of
Jesus, we will be granted the
00:46:46.87\00:46:50.17
obedience of Jesus. Oh!
I got to end this. Verse 8.
00:46:50.17\00:46:55.51
Oh, here it
comes. Verse 9. Get this.
00:46:57.81\00:47:06.55
Four-letter word.
"You want eternal life?
00:47:06.55\00:47:11.39
Then abide in me, and I in
you. And what I say, you do.
00:47:11.39\00:47:16.67
Not because I hate you, not
because I'm a grump, not because
00:47:16.67\00:47:20.40
I like to see you squirm.
What I say, you do because I'm
00:47:20.40\00:47:24.41
saving you. I'm protecting you.
00:47:24.41\00:47:28.44
That tempter is being
held at bay because of this.
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Do as I do. Say as I say."
"I will put my trust in Him."
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Seven-word credo.
How shall we obey Him?
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That's how. We
obey Him by faith.
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By whose faith? By
the faith of Jesus.
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So that when the tempter comes
to us -- come on -- as he does
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100 times a day... When
the tempter comes to us...
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We learn to live by the faith
of Jesus and we declare to our
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mortal enemy, "No, I will not,
for I will put my trust in Him."
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And, remember, God's word
quoted back to Him is just as
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omnipotent as
when God speaks it.
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So that when you speak
the words "trust," "Him,"
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the moment they're off of your
lips, the words instantly create
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the reality they describe,
and you have trust in Him.
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I've seen it in
the last four weeks.
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It works. That sentence becomes
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operationalized in your very
being in the presence of the
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tempter. Wow.
The faith of Jesus.
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"Yeah, but, Dwight, Dwight,
Dwight, what if I'm tempted to
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eat something I shouldn't eat?
What if I'm tempted to drink
00:48:46.02\00:48:48.52
something I shouldn't
drink? What if I'm tempted to do
00:48:48.52\00:48:50.89
something I shouldn't do?
What if I'm hungry for sex, and
00:48:50.89\00:48:54.13
the tempter stands in
front of me and he says,
00:48:54.13\00:48:57.00
'Indulge yourself.
You've been going so long.'
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What do I do then?" My
friend, you call on the faith
00:49:04.07\00:49:07.64
of Jesus, that's what you do.
"Yeah, but what's that mean?"
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Repeat after me. "I
will put my trust in Him."
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In fact, let's do that out loud.
Maybe you haven't gotten the
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sentence yet. "I
will put my trust in Him."
00:49:16.55\00:49:20.99
Let's do that again. "I
will put my trust in Him."
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One more time. "I
will put my trust in Him."
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And then immediately
leave. Immediately leave.
00:49:31.07\00:49:37.77
Physically take your body away.
Whatever it is, wherever it is.
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"Yeah, but what if the
devil keeps chasing me?"
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Then you just keep saying to him
"You might not have heard it the
00:49:45.05\00:49:47.92
first time, so let me repeat.
I will put my trust in Him."
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I remind you, that when
Jesus went to Calvary with that
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confession of faith and he's
praying in the black darkness as
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the forces of Satan himself come
down to extinguish his life,
00:50:05.63\00:50:10.41
he clings to that line --
"I will put my trust in Him."
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And because he does, the
bloody, crimson obedience
00:50:17.31\00:50:22.92
that he won became the
triumphant victory that he
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gives. It's yours.
00:50:29.16\00:50:32.26
"It is finished!
I got it for Dwight!
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I got it for you. I got it."
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The faith of Jesus. You
get his obedience, you get
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his victory. I'm
telling you, ladies and
00:50:42.37\00:50:44.44
gentlemen, it doesn't
get any better than this.
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I want to end with a
quotation from Desire of Ages.
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I love this. Oh,
this is stunning.
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Oh, by the way,
that's Christ in us.
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He's identifying
with my thoughts.
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Isn't that
amazing? Christ in us.
00:51:02.56\00:51:04.59
He said, "I'll take
your thought, that's me."
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You see how that
works? It's just mutual.
00:51:14.30\00:51:17.51
Here it comes...
00:51:17.51\00:51:19.91
You're not even thinking! You
are living by this. "I will put
00:51:27.02\00:51:31.02
my trust in Him." And when the
moment comes, you're not saying,
"Now, let's see, what is that
00:51:31.02\00:51:34.96
word again? Does the "put" come
before the "trust," or the --
00:51:34.96\00:51:37.96
No! You're not even thinking
now. Because you have given that
00:51:37.96\00:51:42.53
day to Jesus. "I will put my
trust in Him." And when you make
a decision, you think it's your
00:51:42.53\00:51:47.50
decision. You think it's your
decision, but the one who is
abiding in you actually made
00:51:47.50\00:51:52.31
that decision for you. It will
be as if we are carrying out our
00:51:52.31\00:51:56.01
own impulses. I'm not thinking
about Jesus who just made this
decision. He says, "No, Dwight,
00:51:56.01\00:51:59.78
you did. But it's because we're
this. That's why you made the
decision I would have made.
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Good on you, boy. Little
brother, stay with me. Stay with
me, little brother."
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Isn't that something? Wow.
00:52:11.93\00:52:15.56
Oh, can you believe this?
00:52:23.00\00:52:26.21
By faith. Not
gruntin', grittin', and
00:52:29.18\00:52:31.98
grinnin'. Nope. By faith.
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Continual.
00:52:34.92\00:52:37.49
This whole truth
is saturated with Him.
00:52:40.69\00:52:44.53
That was last week's big idea.
Every day, ask for the faith of
00:52:47.86\00:52:51.37
Jesus while you
read the Word of God.
00:52:51.37\00:52:53.37
Every day, ask for the faith
of Jesus while you read the
00:52:53.37\00:52:56.27
Word of God.
Through communion with Him.
00:52:56.27\00:52:59.61
That's it. Sin will become --
00:52:59.61\00:53:01.84
Read that next word to
me. Read that next word to me.
00:53:01.84\00:53:04.18
Sin will become... Hateful!
00:53:04.18\00:53:07.82
Hateful to us. It's
not about "Oh, man! No!"
00:53:07.82\00:53:12.29
No way! Sin will become hateful.
00:53:12.29\00:53:14.96
Isn't that something?
And it's all because he's
00:53:14.96\00:53:17.16
abiding in you and you're
abiding in him, and it's all by
00:53:17.16\00:53:19.76
faith. You get it all by faith.
00:53:19.76\00:53:21.56
Ladies and gentlemen,
you see, the truth remains.
00:53:21.56\00:53:25.23
It is Jesus from
beginning to end.
00:53:25.23\00:53:29.17
It's all Jesus. Jesus'
faith, Jesus' obedience,
00:53:29.17\00:53:33.51
Jesus' victory. It's all Jesus.
00:53:33.51\00:53:35.61
It's all by faith.
And listen, listen.
00:53:35.61\00:53:38.11
It's all yours to
which I want to say "Amen."
00:53:38.11\00:53:42.32
It's all yours. It's all yours.
00:53:42.32\00:53:46.59
Right now. Amen.
00:53:46.59\00:53:50.46
Oh, God. Trust
and obey. That's it.
00:53:50.46\00:53:53.73
The faith of Jesus leads to
obedience of Jesus, leads to the
00:53:53.73\00:53:57.83
victory of Jesus,
leads to eternity with Jesus.
00:53:57.83\00:54:01.24
Could it be more simple?
And could it be more Christ in
00:54:01.24\00:54:05.54
the middle of it all than
what we've just discovered?
00:54:05.54\00:54:09.18
"I will put my trust
in Him." Please. Dear God.
00:54:09.18\00:54:16.45
Insert that seven-word credo
all through the day and night
00:54:16.45\00:54:22.19
for all of us. We
humbly pray in Jesus' name.
00:54:22.19\00:54:26.53
Amen. All right, let's sing that
00:54:26.53\00:54:29.36
beautiful, beautiful
gospel, "Trust and Obey."
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>> Now may the God of Peace, who
through the blood of the eternal
00:56:28.12\00:56:31.12
covenant brought back from
the dead, our Lord, Jesus, that
00:56:31.12\00:56:34.36
great shepherd of the sheep.
May he equip you with everything
00:56:34.36\00:56:39.33
good for doing His will.
And may he work in us what is
00:56:39.33\00:56:43.83
pleasing to Him through
Jesus Christ, to whom be glory
00:56:43.83\00:56:48.04
forever and forever. Amen.
00:56:48.04\00:56:51.24
>> Amen.
00:56:51.24\00:56:51.57
>> I want to take an extra
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