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[ "Holy is the Lord" plays ]
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[ Congregation sings ]
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>> How awesome is it to stand in
the presence of a God who is so
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mighty that we can't help but
fall on our faces and worship
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Him?
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And yet this is the same God
that daily calls us to a
relationship with Him, whose
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heart jumps for joy when we
freely accept His love, allowing
it to transform us from the
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inside out. This is a God that
is worthy of all of our praise.
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So let us sing to Him.
Holy, holy is the Lord Almighty.
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Sing with me.
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Let's sing it again.
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Amen. You all may be seated.
[ "I Give You My Heart" plays ]
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[ "How Great is Our God"
plays ] [ Congregation sings ]
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[ "I Give You My Heart" plays ]
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As we sing our next song, I
invite those of you that have
something on your hearts to come
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forward as we begin our prayer
appeal. [ Speak, O Lord" plays ]
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[ Congregation sings ]
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Let's sing that again.
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>> Speaking of storm,
may I just blurt this out?
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We are living in a
crazy and convoluted time.
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Have you noticed? I
mean, people don't know what
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to think. People
don't know whom to
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believe. We can't
trust our politicians.
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We can't trust the
news. It may be fake news.
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We can't trust each
other for some crazy reason.
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Convoluted confusion. In fact,
of late, I've been saying, you
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know, it feels like -- it feels
like controlled chaos, that
somebody's actually running this
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thing. And all these bloopers
are actually designed to keep us
off sync to throw us off of our
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game. Confusion.
Moral confusion, let alone
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emotional and psychological
confusion or all of the above.
My friend Gordon Bietz, in his
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last editorial before he retired
as president of Southern
Adventist University, in the
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Southern Columns, which is a
little magazine sent to us
Southern grads and alum.
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In the Southern Columns, he
quotes James Hunter. This is so
dynamite, I have got
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to share it with you. James
Hunter, who wrote the book "The
Death of Character: Moral
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Education in an Age Without Good
or Evil," he provocatively
identifies this age in which you
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and I are living. Put the words
on the screen. There's a study
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guide not for fill in, but you
just get to keep it, and it'll
have all these quotes on it.
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Didn't get one, here come our
friend, the ushers, your way,
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but I'm going now. So let's put
Hunter's words on the screen.
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Now hit the pause button right
there. Here's what he's saying.
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I know it's a lot of big words
right there, but hold on. In
order to find strength of
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character -- here's what he's
saying. In order for us to find
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strength of character -- By the
way, the very opposite of the
food fight we're experiencing
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right now with the news media
and presidential politics, all
right, the very opposite of
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that. We're talking about
news, we're talking about social
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media, we're talking about
politicians, we're talking about
entertainers, this business of
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trash-mouth trash talk.
Everybody's gone crazy. You want
moral sanity and moral
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order? This is what Hunter
is saying. If you want moral
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character, we're gonna need
moral creed, we're gonna need
moral codes to -- how did he put
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it here? -- to constrain us,
bind us, obligate us, compel us.
But we're deciding -- apparently
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as a society, we're deciding
that the price is too high to
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pay. No, no, I'm not gonna pay
that high a price. Now he goes
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on. Back on the
screen. Here's us -- 2017.
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Boy, this is good.
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Don't you tell me what I can't
do. I can do anything I want,
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but I also want moral
community. You can't have it.
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Hmm. For such a time as
this, how then shall we live?
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I want you to open your Bible
right now. I want you to see
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this for yourself, one of the
most tantalizing lines in all of
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Holy Scripture. I'm telling you
the truth. Open your Bible. It's
not gonna be hard to find
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this verse because it's in the
Book of Beginnings, the Book of
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Genesis. Go back to Genesis
Chapter 5, please. Didn't bring
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a Bible, grab the pew Bible in
front of you. Easy page to find.
Beginning of Genesis.
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Genesis Chapter 5. Take a look
at this. Let's pick it up in
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verse 21. Verse 23.
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Verse 24.
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There it is. What a
line. Enoch walked with God.
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So tantalizingly simple. So
matter of fact. Enoch walked
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with God. I love going on long
walks with people I like. Right?
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Why? Because we have
time together. I just love it.
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We have time together. What
do we do? You just walk and talk
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together. You just walk and
talk, walk and talk. Doesn't
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matter how long. You're
together. Walk and talk. Walk
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and talk. Sometimes you walk in
silence. You don't say a word
because it's just being in each
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other's presence. That's
all that matters. Walk and talk.
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Enoch walked with God. And you
know what? I know your heart.
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There's something deep inside
all of us that when we read or
hear those words, something just
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kind of leaps and we wonder.
Man, could I do that? Could that
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happen to me? Could I walk and
talk with the Almighty God of
the universe? Why not?
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"Yeah, but, Dwight, I'm just not
-- Yeah, but I'm not sure." How
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would you do it? You're not
gonna believe this. It is
exceedingly simple. The only
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other major passage on Enoch in
the Bible is at the end of the
Bible, Hebrews. So go to the
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Book of Hebrews now. We were in
Genesis. Now we go to Hebrews.
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Let's go the Bible hall of
faith, hall of fame chapter.
This is the hall of fame.
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These are the people exactly
like you and me but became known
because of how they lived.
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This is Hebrews 11. Okay, so you
found Hebrews 11? Drop down to
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verse 5. Enoch walked with God.
How? By faith. Not by sight. No.
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Not by sound. Not by touch. He
walked only by faith. "By faith
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Enoch walked with God."
Plain and simple. By faith.
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And what makes this all so
tantalizing? I mean, come on.
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Let's be honest. What makes this
so tantalizing? I mean, you
think of the life of
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this man, walking with God from
the age of 65 to 365 years.
That's 300 years of walking day
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after day after day after
year after year after year after
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year. Those of us who despair
of walking with God even for one
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day. 300 years? Until one day,
Enoch and God are walking and
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talking together, and this is
the way I kind of imagine it.
God must have said to him, "Yo,
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Enoch, looks like you're closer
to my house than your house. You
want to come home with Me?"
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And with a smile, God throws
wide a door, and Enoch steps
into heaven without dying.
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Without dying. Wow.
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And what's making this so
tantalizing is a single line
written a century ago.
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I got to share this with you.
Unbelievable. This is from the
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classic "Christ's Object
Lessons." Put the words on the
screen. "In every phase of your
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character building" -- I like
that, because character building
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is in phases. It's like growing
flowers. Mr. Roy knew the trick.
You got to just stay through the
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phases. You'll eventually get
this beautiful blossom, but stay
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through the phases. "In every
phase" -- How does it go here?
-- "In every phase of
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your character building" --
Obviously growth is taking place
-- "you are to please
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God," just like Enoch. "This you
may do; for Enoch pleased Him
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though living in a degenerate
age." Yo, Enoch, welcome to
2017. Degenerate age. Come on.
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But here comes the line. The
italics are mine. "And there are
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Enochs in this our day." Did you
catch that? "There are Enochs in
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this our day." Right
now. Maybe right here.
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Don't look
around. Don't look around.
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I've known some
Enochs in my lifetime.
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I've known some men, I've known
some women, I've known some
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young adults on this
campus. I've known some teens.
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I have known human beings in my
lifetime who were Enoch in our
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midst. You know why?
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Because they have
such a walk with God.
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It's written all
over their faces.
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I came to the early morning
prayer meeting this last week.
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7:00 at night, 7:00 in the
morning, 7:00 at night,
Wednesday I went to both, and
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there was this co-ed. She's
praying. I can hardly hear the
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circle. I'm on the opposite end.
But she's praying, and I open my
eyes to look at her, and her
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face is just like she's talking
to God right now. And I'm like,
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"Whoa." "By faith Enoch walked
with God." Question -- Can we
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have that same faith? Answer
-- I do believe we can. I do
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believe we can. You want to be
one of them? In this morally
corrupt and confused and chaotic
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age, would you like to be one of
God's Enochs in this our day? I
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know you would. So I want to
share with you the secret to
Enoch's life. He didn't know it,
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but it's John 15:5. That's
the secret. Take a look at this.
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This has been our theme text for
this entire "Storm" series. We
kept touching base with it,
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touch base with it, go back to
John 15:5. We're doing the same.
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I want you to see it in your own
Bible, bright red letters. Jesus
has left the upper room.
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You'll see at the end of Chapter
14, it says, "Let's get out of
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here." So that's Jesus telling
his 11 now that are left. He
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says, "Let's go." And they go,
and he stops, and the silver
light of the Passover full moon
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-- always full on Passover -- he
stops by a trellis, a vineyard
vine trellis, and he speaks
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these words while he's holding
the fruit. He speaks these
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words. Verse 5.
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Zero. Nada. Nothing. You can't.
And what's very interesting to
me is that this is precisely how
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Jesus himself lived. No kidding.
Let me just run these -- Don't
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even look them up. They're in
John, but just put them on the
screen, please, for
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us. El presto. John
5:19, Jesus speaking.
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There's this little incident,
and he makes this statement. "I
can do nothing by myself."
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Yo, timeout, Jesus. Are you
saying you could not do any
healing by yourself?
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"That's what I'm saying, boy."
Are you saying the teachings
that you came up with, you could
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not do by -- "I'm just telling
you." The people's lives that
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you radically transformed,
you didn't do that by -- "No.
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I could do nothing by myself.
And by the way, I could do
nothing, and neither can you.
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You can do nothing by yourself.
As I needed the Father, you need
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me." Wow. In fact, that point
is so important that before the
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incident is over in John 5:30 --
put it on the screen -- he
repeats it just to make sure we
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got it. "By myself, I can
do nothing, for I seek not to
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please" -- Ooh, isn't that
something? -- "I seek not to
please myself but Him who sent
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me." Looks like Jesus was just
like Enoch. He walked with God
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by faith just like Enoch. He
pleased God by faith just like
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Enoch. Apparently Jesus did not
have some sort of inside track
to the omnipotence of heaven.
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Nope. "I couldn't do a
thing. I could not do a thing."
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[ Scoffs ] Wow. In fact,
he really nails it here in the
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upper room. So they've left the
upper room. They're down by the
vines now. But look at John
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14:10. Put it on the screen
for you. "Don't you believe" --
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Jesus speaking to this disciples
-- "that I am in the Father, and
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that the Father is in me?"
"Look, I'm asking you to be in
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me. I want to be in you.
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But I'm in the
Father. The Father's in me.
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Don't you believe?"
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Lo and behold, what Jesus asks
us to be with him, the Gospel
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truth is, he was
that with the Father.
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"Abide in Me and I in
you. Abide in Me and I in you."
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It's the same.
That's how Jesus walked with
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God. That's how
Enoch walked with
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God. That's how
you and I will walk
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with God. Same way.
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Because the great credo of
Jesus' life was the great credo
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of Enoch's life.
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And it must become the great
credo of your life and my life.
That's only seven words long.
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Here's the other verse that
we've been going back to every
part of this series.
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I'll put it on the screen for
you, and let's read it out loud
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together. Hebrews 2:13 Jesus
said -- Now let's just read the
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words he said. Seven words. I
will live by this. I will put my
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trust in Him. You know what? It
was during this series that God
came to me and said,
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"Dwight, guess what? This
one was for you. I'm asking you,
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Dwight, now for the rest of
your life till I come to live by
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those seven words. It was my
credo when I was here. I give it
to you." I've read these words
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throughout my life, my ministry,
but never as they have sunk into
this tiny, little brain in this
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seven-part series. "I will put
my trust in Him." Which means,
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by the way, that when you walk
by faith, you will be like
Jesus. Because he walked by
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faith, so you'll be like
him when you walk by faith. Does
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that make sense? Yeah, in fact,
let me show you this. Put it on
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the screen. This is amazing. "By
faith Enoch walked with God."
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We just read that in Genesis 5.
What did we read in Hebrews 2?
"By faith Jesus walked with
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God." Here's another one.
"By faith Enoch pleased God."
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Hebrews 11. What did
we just read? John 5:30.
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"By faith Jesus pleased God."
Enoch was like Jesus. Jesus was
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like Enoch. And we've been
called to be like them. In fact,
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2 Corinthians 5:9. Not gonna
put it on the screen for you. 2
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Corinthians 5:9. "We make it our
aim," Paul writes, "to please
Him." That's what we live for.
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We live to please Him. When you
walk by faith, you will be like
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Jesus. And guess what? The
longer you walk with him, the
more you will be like him.
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I love elderly people. I know
what you're thinking. "Yeah, you
ought to love them.
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You're getting close." [
Laughter ] That was really mean
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of you to say, by the way. You
were thinking that. I could see
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that. Just erase that from your
mind. I love elderly people.
Truly, truly, I just love them.
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So when we came as this kid
pastor and a beautiful wife to
this parish, when I wanted to
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start getting acquainted with
the congregation, in the
afternoons, if I was gonna meet
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anybody, I would have to meet
people who were already retired.
They're living at home.
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They're of age now, and they're
living at home. So one afternoon
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-- Oh, this is incredible -- One
afternoon, I'm out here on
Campus Drive, which is this
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circle -- It's the drive that
goes around the campus, okay?
There's a little house there.
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I knock at the door. They come
to the door. I'm talking about
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the residents of this house.
Who are they? They are Alma and
00:35:14.64\00:35:17.91
Victor Campbell. Now, Victor
Campbell, for years, was the
00:35:17.91\00:35:22.62
head of the farm. The
agriculture department at
Andrews University. By the way,
00:35:22.62\00:35:26.72
do you know this? We are one of
the rare universities in the
United States that still has a
00:35:26.72\00:35:33.66
farm and dairy program, okay? So
he was the head of the dairy for
00:35:33.66\00:35:37.43
years. Put their picture on the
screen. He was the head of the
00:35:37.43\00:35:41.17
dairy for years. And that's his
wife, Alma. She taught at
Emmanuel Missionary College --
00:35:41.17\00:35:45.47
Academy. Used to be called --
It's Andrews Academy now. And
then she graduated from
00:35:45.47\00:35:49.94
Academy and she taught English
at Emmanuel Missionary College.
00:35:49.94\00:35:55.65
A lovely couple. So we sat down
together as pastors do when they
make calls. We sat down
00:35:55.65\00:35:59.69
together, and, of course, I
started asking questions like
who the children in those
00:35:59.69\00:36:03.69
pictures and "oh, my, did you
embroider this yourself? Whoa.
It's beautiful." That's what
00:36:03.69\00:36:07.30
pastors do. They just ask
questions. And so then I say,
"Yeah, listen, I need to find
00:36:07.30\00:36:11.37
out about you two. Tell me your
story. How long you been here at
00:36:11.37\00:36:14.30
Andrews University?" Yeah, it
was Andrews University at that
00:36:14.30\00:36:17.74
time. And something began to
happen. I'm noticing an
intriguing pattern, and I could
00:36:17.74\00:36:23.75
not help but smiling inside of
me. I would not smile out loud.
00:36:23.75\00:36:28.72
I smiled inside. And that was
every time I asked her a
question, she would start the
00:36:28.72\00:36:35.26
answer, and he'd butt in and
finish it. [ Laughter ] So I
said, "You're not getting
00:36:35.26\00:36:38.49
this. I'll ask her another one."
[ Snaps fingers ] Same thing.
00:36:38.49\00:36:41.30
I said, "I'll reverse it.
I'll ask him." So I asked him a
00:36:41.30\00:36:44.30
question. He'd start it, pssh,
she'd slip in. She'd slip in and
00:36:44.30\00:36:49.54
answer it. I suddenly realized
what was going on. Here are
00:36:49.54\00:36:52.87
these dear saints. Here are
these dear lovers who have lived
so long together that they
00:36:52.87\00:36:57.21
practically know each other's
mind before the words are even
spoken. And when the words are
00:36:57.21\00:37:01.08
spoken, they can finish them.
That's what we're talking about
00:37:01.08\00:37:06.65
here. Walk and talk and walk and
talk. The time will come when
the more you share life
00:37:06.65\00:37:15.56
together, the more you will
share likeness together. I saw
00:37:15.56\00:37:21.67
it. Which is why when you walk
by faith, you'll be like Jesus.
Because that's how it works.
00:37:21.67\00:37:27.78
In fact, let me tell you really
technically how it works. Great
music, Matt, on a lot of
00:37:27.78\00:37:32.81
this on the Trinity, and I'm so
glad you did that. I want you to
00:37:32.81\00:37:37.72
see this in John 14. We won't go
back there. We'll put it on the
00:37:37.72\00:37:41.16
screen. Jesus makes a very
interesting statement. Watch
00:37:41.16\00:37:43.39
this. He's talking
to the 11 who are left.
00:37:43.39\00:37:45.46
"And I will ask the Father,
and he will give you another
00:37:45.63\00:37:48.26
advocate" -- or comforter
or counselor, depending on your
00:37:48.26\00:37:50.97
translation -- "to help you
and" -- look at this -- "be with
00:37:50.97\00:37:53.80
you forever." Keep reading.
00:37:53.80\00:37:55.27
Who is this? Who is this, Lord?
Ah, he's the spirit of truth.
00:37:55.27\00:37:58.14
He's talking
about the Holy Spirit.
00:37:58.14\00:38:01.31
One more line.
00:38:08.95\00:38:10.95
"He will be me." We're
different. You understand?
00:38:15.49\00:38:22.66
"But I got five fingers on each
hand now, and I can be in only
00:38:22.66\00:38:27.04
place at one time. But I'm not
gonna leave the orphans. I will
00:38:27.04\00:38:31.17
come to you. The Holy Spirit
will be the one who is with you.
The Holy Spirit will be the one
00:38:31.17\00:38:35.18
you will walk with. The Holy
Spirit will be the one you talk
00:38:35.18\00:38:38.58
with. And the Holy Spirit will
only talk about me," because he
says at the end of Chapter 15,
00:38:38.58\00:38:43.05
"he will testify on me." The
Holy Spirit never comes into
your life and says, "Yo-ho!
00:38:43.05\00:38:47.66
Whoo-hoo! I'm here!" Never says
it at all. When he comes in, you
00:38:47.66\00:38:52.06
know what he says?
"Jesus is here. You called.
00:38:52.06\00:38:55.60
You called. I'm here."
And it's always a sense of
00:38:55.60\00:38:59.47
Jesus. And when the Holy Spirit
speaks, ooh, boy, when the Holy
00:38:59.47\00:39:06.74
Spirit speaks the omnipotent
word of the Word made flesh, in
half a nanosecond -- you
00:39:06.74\00:39:11.91
remember how this goes? -- in
half a nanosecond, the God who
says, "Let there be light," in
00:39:11.91\00:39:15.15
half a nanosecond when you read
the beatitude "blessed are the
pure in heart," and there's
00:39:15.15\00:39:18.65
something inside of
you that says, "Amen, God.
00:39:18.65\00:39:20.72
I want to be the pure in
heart. Make me like Jesus.
00:39:20.89\00:39:23.56
Let me be pure in heart."
When you say amen, and then in
00:39:23.56\00:39:26.43
half a nanosecond, God says,
"Let the purity of Christ be in
00:39:26.43\00:39:29.43
her," boom! And you got it.
00:39:29.43\00:39:31.03
"Let the purity
of Christ be in him."
00:39:31.03\00:39:32.57
Boom! You got it.
Almighty, omnipotent word.
00:39:32.57\00:39:38.37
And when He hears you speak
His word back to Him and you say
00:39:38.54\00:39:43.91
"amen," boom! You got it.
Man. "Blessed are the meek."
00:39:43.91\00:39:48.78
Oh, God, I want to be meek.
I want to be humble like Jesus.
00:39:48.78\00:39:52.39
Please. In less than half a
nanosecond, if you say "amen"
when you read the word, "amen,"
00:39:52.39\00:39:56.86
boom! You've got it. If any
woman is in Christ, if any man
is in Christ, she, he is
00:39:56.86\00:40:02.83
a new creation just like that.
Remember, the spirit hovers over
the waters at the beginning of
00:40:02.83\00:40:06.94
creation. Don't kid yourself.
All three were there for that
00:40:06.94\00:40:09.27
creation. The
spirit was there. Boom!
00:40:09.27\00:40:14.94
Wow. "By faith
Enoch walked with God."
00:40:14.94\00:40:22.45
Ellen White back in 1891
described Enoch this way. This
00:40:22.45\00:40:26.79
is just beautiful. You'll take
this home in the study guide.
Put her words on the screen,
00:40:26.79\00:40:31.39
please.
00:40:31.39\00:40:33.40
Yeah, we just read that. "He
made Christ" -- now here you go
-- "He made Christ his
00:40:37.57\00:40:42.27
constant" -- what? what?
-- "companion." Hit the pause
00:40:42.27\00:40:46.37
button right there. Walk and
talk. That's what he's doing.
00:40:46.37\00:40:49.08
Walk and talk.
Walk and talk. By faith.
00:40:49.08\00:40:53.25
He didn't see a face. He didn't
hear a voice. He didn't feel a
00:40:53.25\00:40:57.12
touch. It was all by faith,
exactly as you and me, exactly
as our Lord. "By faith Enoch
00:40:57.12\00:41:05.36
walked with God." And this
is what gets me. "And there are
00:41:05.36\00:41:10.60
Enochs in this our day." Put the
quotation back up. Let's keep
00:41:10.60\00:41:16.00
going. "He" -- Enoch -- "was in
the world, and performed his
duties to the world."
00:41:16.00\00:41:19.21
So he has a job. Look. He's
got to earn a living. He's got a
00:41:19.21\00:41:22.21
job. He's in the world. It's
okay. You can still walk with
God. "But he was ever under the
00:41:22.21\00:41:26.35
influence" -- talking about
driving under the influence.
00:41:26.35\00:41:29.95
There it is. "He was ever
under the influence of Jesus.
00:41:30.12\00:41:33.52
He reflected Christ's
character," like Mr. Roy.
00:41:33.52\00:41:36.69
"His association with Christ day
by day" -- Oh, here it goes --
00:41:42.30\00:41:46.60
"day by day transformed him into
the image of Him with whom he
00:41:46.60\00:41:50.87
was so intimately connected."
00:41:50.87\00:41:53.24
"Abide in Me and I in you." By
faith. You don't feel a thing.
00:41:53.41\00:41:57.68
By faith. I'm there.
You're here. "Abide in Me.
00:41:57.68\00:42:02.62
Walk with Me. Girl, boy,
talk back to Me. Talk to Me.
00:42:02.62\00:42:08.16
I want to hear from you. Are you
listening to Me? I'm talking to
00:42:08.16\00:42:14.00
you." Just like Enoch. Wow.
Because when you walk by faith,
00:42:14.00\00:42:19.63
you'll be like Jesus. People
start seeing it. Well, what's up
00:42:19.63\00:42:25.47
with that? I couldn't tell you
what these plants looked like,
these flowers looked like
00:42:25.47\00:42:28.58
yesterday, but I can tell you
what they look like today. I
don't know how much growth
00:42:28.58\00:42:31.28
took place between yesterday
and today, but they sure are
00:42:31.28\00:42:33.78
beautiful. And it looks like
these petals just continue to
open. You can't see it.
00:42:33.78\00:42:38.99
Only the people that see you and
then come back and see you later
say, "Whoa, something happened
00:42:38.99\00:42:43.93
here." "And there are
Enochs in this our day."
00:42:43.93\00:42:49.33
One more line
from this quotation.
00:42:49.33\00:42:52.93
Do you remember when we used to
wear these little bands that had
00:43:03.01\00:43:05.28
WWJD on it?
00:43:05.28\00:43:06.58
Remember that? WWJD. What'd
it stand for? "What Would Jesus
00:43:06.75\00:43:10.49
Do?" You remember that? It was
a big craze. That's how Enoch
00:43:10.49\00:43:13.96
lived. He would keep asking
this question. Circle it in your
00:43:13.96\00:43:17.63
study guide. Keep it in your
mind. Is this the way of the
Lord? God, God, God, God.
00:43:17.63\00:43:22.43
I'm getting ready to walk into
that boardroom. Is this Your
00:43:22.43\00:43:28.27
mind on this? Am I okay with
this? I'm getting ready to ring
00:43:28.27\00:43:33.11
a doorbell. I'm getting ready to
make a call. God, do I have Your
00:43:33.11\00:43:36.21
mind on this? Is
this the way of the Lord?
00:43:36.21\00:43:38.18
And then the last
line. Oh, this is beautiful.
00:43:38.35\00:43:41.12
He walked with God. He
walked with the Father and he
00:43:52.03\00:43:54.40
walked with the Son, and
he had the Holy Spirit in him.
00:43:54.40\00:43:57.37
The whole Trinity was engaged
in Enoch's life. And by the way,
00:43:57.53\00:44:01.24
the whole Trinity is engaged in
your life. You may be thinking
that you're walking all alone.
00:44:01.24\00:44:05.31
You may be thinking that
nobody's caring about me in
00:44:05.31\00:44:08.84
heaven right now. You got 1/3 of
the Trinity in your heart. You
have the other two are
00:44:08.84\00:44:12.31
connected with you as if there
were no other living human being
00:44:12.31\00:44:16.22
on this planet. God is so able
to focus His mind that He is
only with you, exclusively
00:44:16.22\00:44:22.62
yours. "Talk to Me. Come on.
Talk to Me. What do you want?
00:44:22.62\00:44:27.93
What can I do for you? I'm not
a genie in a bottle. I'm your
00:44:27.93\00:44:33.77
friend. Abide in Me and I in
you." Ladies and gentlemen, it's
00:44:33.77\00:44:43.35
that simple. God is raising up a
generation of Enochs who will
keep the faith of Jesus.
00:44:43.35\00:44:49.55
The storm generation. And I do
believe I can say this with all
the integrity of my
00:44:56.16\00:45:01.96
soul. I do believe He's
calling you. No kidding.
00:45:01.96\00:45:04.73
I do believe He's calling you.
The big question is -- Come on,
00:45:04.73\00:45:08.54
come on. The big question is, do
you hear Him calling you? I know
00:45:08.54\00:45:13.88
He's calling you. Do you hear
Him calling you? I want to end
with a story. It talks about how
00:45:13.88\00:45:22.12
you can hear Him. The
story's preceded by a quotation.
00:45:22.12\00:45:26.25
It's from Mark Labberton, who is
the president of Fuller
Theological Seminary.
00:45:26.25\00:45:30.66
He wrote a piece in the latest
Christianity Today magazine in
which he describes how when he
00:45:30.66\00:45:35.80
believed in no God at all, he
picked up the Bible one day and
said, "I'm gonna read this just
00:45:35.80\00:45:41.00
like a plain, old book." So what
you're gonna hear now is a
first-person testimony, okay?
00:45:41.00\00:45:45.21
Put his words on the screen. "I
started to read the New
Testament just as I was
00:45:45.21\00:45:48.58
about to enter
college," like some of you.
00:45:48.58\00:45:51.88
There's some of you who've
walked into church today. You
weren't here for parts 1, 2,
00:46:14.37\00:46:17.77
3, 4, 5, and 6. You're not even
sure why you're here today, but
00:46:17.77\00:46:20.98
you're here, and there's
something happening inside of
you right now that's saying,
00:46:20.98\00:46:25.41
"Man, this is more than just a
cutesy, little picture. There's
something going on with those
00:46:25.41\00:46:31.72
words, 'And he walked with God
by faith.'" Some of you who are
channel surfing and you just
00:46:31.72\00:46:39.09
happened to land on this moment.
Some of you are at our website.
You're looking for some archived
00:46:39.09\00:46:43.60
video, and you happen to pick
this one, and boom, suddenly the
Eternal is speaking to you.
00:46:43.60\00:46:52.07
What would happen if you picked
up this book and just started
reading it like a book?
00:46:52.07\00:46:56.88
You can start with the Gospels
if you want. You can start with
00:46:56.88\00:46:59.78
Genesis. Be my guest. But what
would happen if you just picked
this up and started
00:46:59.78\00:47:02.82
reading? Could it be that the
Eternal of the universe would
00:47:02.82\00:47:11.16
start whispering to you? Mark
Labberton did that. He describes
00:47:11.16\00:47:15.60
how his reading expanded. Put
his words back up on the screen.
00:47:15.60\00:47:19.97
The kingdom of
God is the antidote.
00:47:23.71\00:47:25.21
It's huge.
00:47:25.21\00:47:27.11
Could it be that God has -- Hit
the pause button there. Could it
be that God is calling
00:47:52.13\00:47:57.64
you out of your smallness right
now? Your life feels small.
00:47:57.64\00:48:01.64
It just doesn't feel like it
has any nobility and destiny and
00:48:01.64\00:48:06.51
purpose to it. Could it be God
is calling you out of your
smallness right now? "Come talk
00:48:06.51\00:48:14.82
to Me. Come on. Let Me talk to
you. And then talk back to Me."
00:48:14.82\00:48:22.83
Mind -- with capital M -- Mind
Intellect -- with capital I --
00:48:22.83\00:48:30.74
Intellect connect. Labberton...
00:48:30.74\00:48:32.64
"By faith Enoch walked with
God." And by the way, he didn't
00:49:01.60\00:49:07.68
have this. All he had was what
was passed from father to child,
00:49:07.68\00:49:11.25
father to child. The maker of
all things loves and wants you.
00:49:11.25\00:49:13.75
That's what I want you to
remember. The father would tell
00:49:13.75\00:49:16.65
his children, "The maker of all
things loves and wants you." And
one day he reached out to
00:49:16.65\00:49:22.02
this maker and
connected. [ Sighs ]
00:49:22.02\00:49:28.40
"However," his
words to end here.
00:49:28.56\00:49:32.30
That's what we've been talking
about -- a life that begins to
00:49:57.09\00:49:58.96
look like the Word made flesh.
00:49:58.96\00:50:00.86
I like this.
00:50:04.63\00:50:06.60
"This is the perspicuity" --
Yeah, I'd never seen that word,
00:50:12.01\00:50:16.14
either. Had to look it up.
00:50:16.14\00:50:17.45
Means transparency.
00:50:17.45\00:50:20.18
In other words,
hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
00:50:28.19\00:50:29.96
Something begins to happen to
you when you pick up this book
00:50:29.96\00:50:36.00
and daily you read the
narratives, you read the poetry,
00:50:36.00\00:50:38.57
you read the prose every day.
00:50:38.57\00:50:41.07
We walk and talk. We walk
and talk. That's it. We walk and
00:50:41.24\00:50:44.87
talk. We walk and talk.
Something is happening. There's
a conversation that's
00:50:44.87\00:50:48.81
developing. There's a
connection that is deepening.
00:50:48.81\00:50:52.88
Labberton's point -- "Can people
read our lives and see the life
00:50:53.05\00:50:58.05
of God in us?" And
then he ends with this
00:50:58.05\00:50:59.79
sentence. "The
clarity of our faithful
00:50:59.79\00:51:02.32
Bible reading is meant to
show up in the clarity of our
00:51:02.32\00:51:06.23
faithful lives." And
as soon as he writes that
00:51:06.23\00:51:09.73
sentence, he tells a story.
And I end with a story right
00:51:09.73\00:51:12.57
here from Christianity Today.
00:51:12.57\00:51:14.40
"I was converted again" -- to
this conviction that we just
read -- "one night in northern
00:51:14.57\00:51:19.57
Uganda." Okay? So he's in
Africa. At that time, the Lord's
00:51:19.57\00:51:23.95
Resistance Army" -- that's some
kind of terrorist army -- "was
still at its evil games, and
00:51:23.95\00:51:30.82
children slept in night commuter
camps to stay alive and to avoid
being captured and tortured into
00:51:30.82\00:51:36.62
becoming child soldiers. This
particular night, as every
night, hundreds of children came
00:51:36.62\00:51:41.93
to sleep together in the rough
of an empty school. Only one
adult was present, a
00:51:41.93\00:51:47.74
middle-aged woman available to
help and comfort any who might
00:51:47.74\00:51:51.54
have need. Her husband and
children were at their home just
00:51:51.54\00:51:55.11
a few blocks away. She explained
that she came each night as a
volunteer to be of help.
00:51:55.11\00:52:00.18
I asked her why she was
doing this. She talked about the
00:52:00.18\00:52:04.02
children's need and her desire
to do what she could under such
difficult circumstances in the
00:52:04.02\00:52:08.92
face of such fears. Still,
wanting to know more, I pressed.
00:52:08.92\00:52:11.73
Yeah, but what motivates
you to care? Why do you do it?
00:52:11.73\00:52:16.46
She looked me up and down and
finally said, 'Well, I am what
you call a Christian.
00:52:16.46\00:52:24.34
I read my Bible every day, and
every week I go to a church
where we eat something called
00:52:24.34\00:52:29.38
The Lord's Supper. I can't
imagine doing those things all
00:52:29.38\00:52:34.12
my life and not coming here.
Where else would it lead?'" The
00:52:34.12\00:52:40.19
lady got it. She got it. "Abide
in Me and I in you, and you will
00:52:40.19\00:52:44.26
bear much fruit." And the world
will be a different place
because of you. When you walk by
00:52:44.26\00:52:51.80
faith in the Word, you will live
by faith in the world. And they
will take note that
00:52:51.80\00:53:00.84
these men, that these women,
that these children had been
00:53:00.84\00:53:05.51
with Jesus. What do you say?
Yeah, no, what do you say? Yeah.
00:53:05.51\00:53:11.25
You know what I wish if I could,
just one prayer for you? One
00:53:11.25\00:53:16.26
prayer. One gift from God to
you. Here's what I wish. I pray
that whoever you are and
00:53:16.26\00:53:26.67
whatever you do and however old
you are or aren't, I pray that
this gift of a walk with God
00:53:26.67\00:53:38.55
will be yours. It's yours for
the asking. You don't have to
00:53:38.55\00:53:45.29
get a letter. It's not
air-mailed to you. Walk and
talk. Walk and talk.
00:53:45.29\00:53:56.10
You'll bear much fruit. There
will be a generation of Enochs
at the end, and the world
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will say, "Whoa. Who are
these people?" Walk and talk.
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That's what I wish more than
anything else for you. In fact,
let me pray with you
00:54:09.78\00:54:16.79
right now. Oh, God, please, for
these dear sons and daughters of
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Yours, You've loved them from
the first day they breathed.
You've never given up on them.
00:54:23.29\00:54:28.06
You have always been tugging at
their hearts, their minds. And
there's somebody here,
00:54:28.06\00:54:32.50
Father, who's saying, "I'm not
sure. I never thought about this
00:54:32.50\00:54:35.97
before," but, Father, for that
heart, the Holy Spirit who's
speaking, assure him, assure her
00:54:35.97\00:54:45.98
it's for real. Mr. Roy
reflected somebody special.
00:54:45.98\00:54:53.19
It works. So call us and
empower us. Encourage us.
00:54:53.19\00:55:02.73
Take us by the hand and walk and
talk, and walk and talk, and
walk and talk until that day
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when You look down with a smile
and say, "Hey, you know what,
00:55:09.24\00:55:14.31
guys? You're closer to My house
than yours. Why don't you come
00:55:14.31\00:55:18.85
home with Me?" And that door
flings open. And we walk in.
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Till then, walk and talk.
We pray in Jesus' name. Amen.
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[ "I Would Be
Like Jesus" plays ]
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[ Congregation sings ]
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And now may the grace of our
Lord Jesus Christ and the love
of the Father and the fellowship
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of the Holy Spirit
be with you all. Amen.
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[ Organ plays ]
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>> I want to take an extra
moment to thank you for joining
us in worship today.
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It's by the continued support
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Today I want to invite you,
though, to share with us how
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Truth is, I get inspiring notes,
e-mails, letters from viewers
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sharing with us how God has
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from you, as well.
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It's not that
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Just visit our
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That's one word.
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And click on the "contact"
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Shoot me that e-mail.
Once again, thank you for being
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with us. Thank you,
by the way, for your
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own support. That
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That kind of generosity that
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here next time,
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In the meantime, God be with
you and bless you real good.
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