I'm alive in You
You're alive in me
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In You I've been set free
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My past is one and I'm moving on
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Into my destiny yeah
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All things are
new this life with You
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You're helping me to
see that all my past is gone
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Nothing compares to Your love
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Nothing compares to Your love
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Nothing compares to
the power of the cross
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Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
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How great is Your love
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I'm alive in You
You're alive in me
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In You I've been set free
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My past is one and I'm moving on
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Into my destiny yeah
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All things are
new this life with You
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You're helping me to see
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that all my past is gone
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Nothing compares to Your love
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Nothing compares to Your love
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Nothing compares to
the power of the cross
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Hallelujah!
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Hallelujah!
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How great is Your love
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All my past is gone
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All my past is gone
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All my past is gone
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All my past is gone
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I believe that
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All my past is gone
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All my past is gone
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I'll never be same
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All my past is gone
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All my past is gone
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All my past is gone
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All my past is gone
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All my past is gone
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All my past is gone
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All my past is gone
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Nothing compares to Your love
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Nothing compares to Your love
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Nothing compares to
the power of the cross
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Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
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Hallelujah!
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Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
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Hallelujah!
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How great is Your love
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Amen.
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The weapon may be formed
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But it won't prosper
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When the darkness falls
I know, it won't prevail
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'Cause the God I serve
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Knows only how to triumph
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My God will never change
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Oh, my God
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will never change
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I'm gonna see a victory
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I'm gonna see a victory
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For the battle belongs to You,
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Lord
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I'm gonna see a victory
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I'm gonna see a victory
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For the battle
belongs to You, Lord
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There's power in the mighty
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Name of Jesus
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Every war He wages
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He will win
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I'm not backing
down from any giant
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I know how this story ends
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Yes, I know how this story ends
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I'm gonna see a victory
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I'm gonna see a victory
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For the battle belongs to You,
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Lord
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I'm gonna see a victory
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I'm gonna see a victory
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For the battle belongs to You,
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Lord
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I'm gonna see a victory
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I'm gonna see a victory
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For the battle
belongs to You, Lord
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I'm gonna see a victory
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I'm gonna see a victory
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For the battle
belongs to You, Lord
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You take what the
enemy meant for evil
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And You turn it for good
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You turn it for good
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You take what the
enemy meant for evil
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And You turn it for good
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You turn it for good
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You take what the
enemy meant for evil
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And You turn it for
good You turn it for good
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You turn it for good
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You take what the
enemy meant for evil
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And You turn it for good
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You turn it for good
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I'm gonna see a victory
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I'm gonna see a victory
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For the battle
belongs to You, Lord
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I'm gonna see a victory
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I'm gonna see a victory
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For the battle
belongs to You, Lord
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I'm gonna see a victory
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I'm gonna see a victory
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For the battle
belongs to You, Lord
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I'm gonna see a victory
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I'm gonna see a victory
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For the battle
belongs to You, Lord
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El Shaddai, El Shaddai,
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El Elyonna Adonai
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Age to age You're still the same
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By the power of the name
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El Shaddai, El Shaddai,
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Erkamkana Adonai
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We will praise and lift You high
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El Shaddai
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El Shaddai, El Shaddai
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El Elyonna Adonai
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Age to age You're still the same
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By the power of the name
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El Shaddai, El Shaddai
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Erkamkana Adonai
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We will praise and lift You high
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El Shaddai
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Through your love
and through the ram
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You saved the son of Abraham
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Through the power of Your hand
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You turned the sea into dry land
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To the outcast on her knees
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You were the God who really sees
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And by Your might
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You set Your children free
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El Shaddai, El Shaddai
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El Elyonna Adonai
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Age to age You're still the same
00:11:06.39\00:11:10.30
By the power of the name
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El Shaddai, El Shaddai
00:11:14.17\00:11:18.17
Erkamkana Adonai
00:11:18.21\00:11:22.08
We will praise and lift You high
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El Shaddai
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Through the
years You made it clear
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That the time of Christ was near
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Though the people couldn't see
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What Messiah ought to be
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Though Your Word
contained the plan
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They just could not understand
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Your most awesome work was done
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In the frailty of Your Son
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El Shaddai, El Shaddai
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El Elyonna Adonai
00:12:07.26\00:12:11.13
Age to age You're still the same
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By the power of the name
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El Shaddai, El Shaddai
00:12:18.87\00:12:22.60
Erkamkana Adonai
00:12:22.64\00:12:26.54
We will praise and lift You high
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El Shaddai
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Happy Sabbath, PMC.
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Our scripture reading
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is from 1 Kings 18:21,
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"Elijah went before
the people and said,
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'How long will you
waver between two opinions?
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If the Lord is God, follow Him,
00:13:07.52\00:13:12.32
but if Baal is God, follow him.'
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But the people said nothing.'"
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There's a place
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Where mercy reigns
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And never dies
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There's a place
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Where streams of grace
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Flow deep and wide
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Where all the love
00:14:06.91\00:14:10.61
I've ever found
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Comes like a flood
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Comes flowing down
00:14:18.02\00:14:20.99
At the cross, at the cross
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I surrender my life
00:14:29.96\00:14:33.70
I'm in awe of You
00:14:33.74\00:14:37.51
I'm in awe of You
00:14:37.54\00:14:41.18
Where Your love ran red
00:14:41.21\00:14:45.15
And my sin washed white
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I owe all to You
00:14:49.05\00:14:52.79
I owe all to You,
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Jesus
00:14:56.69\00:14:59.66
There's a place
00:15:04.00\00:15:07.34
Where sin and shame
00:15:07.37\00:15:10.97
Are powerless
00:15:11.01\00:15:13.98
Where my heart
00:15:18.55\00:15:21.95
Has peace with God
00:15:21.98\00:15:25.35
And forgiveness
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Where all the love
00:15:32.83\00:15:36.20
I've ever found
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Comes like a flood
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Comes flowing down
00:15:43.24\00:15:46.21
At the cross, at the cross
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I surrender my life
00:15:54.18\00:15:57.65
I'm in awe of You
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I'm in awe of You
00:16:01.12\00:16:04.46
Where Your love ran red
00:16:04.49\00:16:08.20
And my sin washed white
00:16:08.23\00:16:11.67
I owe all to You
00:16:11.70\00:16:15.04
I owe all to You
00:16:15.07\00:16:19.54
Here my hope is found
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Here on holy ground
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Here I bow down
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Here I bow down
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Here arms open wide
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Here You saved my life
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Here I bow down
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Here I bow down
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At the cross, at the cross
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I surrender my life
00:16:50.21\00:16:53.64
I'm in awe of You
00:16:53.68\00:16:57.15
I'm in awe of You
00:16:57.18\00:17:00.48
Where Your love ran red
00:17:00.52\00:17:04.05
And my sin washed white
00:17:04.09\00:17:07.46
I owe all to You
00:17:07.49\00:17:10.99
I owe all to You
00:17:11.03\00:17:14.46
At the cross, at the cross
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I surrender my life
00:17:18.03\00:17:21.54
I'm in awe of You
00:17:21.57\00:17:25.01
I'm in awe of You
00:17:25.04\00:17:28.48
Where Your love ran red
00:17:28.51\00:17:32.15
And my sin washed white
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I owe all to You
00:17:35.75\00:17:39.32
I owe all to You
00:17:39.35\00:17:42.72
I owe all to You
00:17:42.76\00:17:46.56
I owe all to You,
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Jesus
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I've been praying
that the Spirit would speak
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to my heart and
that he do the same
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to yours.
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Let's pray.
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Oh God, how true
we owe it all to You.
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We owe it all to our Lord Jesus.
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What does that mean?
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Make it clear, we
humbly pray in Jesus' name.
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Amen.
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All right, here's
the quiz for the day.
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What goes yap,
yap, yap, yap, yap,
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and is brown and red
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with a little bit
of white and black,
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and comes running
through our neighborhood?
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And I saw him once in our yard.
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What would that be?
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Our little granddaughter
spent the week with us
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and their mother.
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They're up from Kettering.
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And so I said, "Hey,
Ella," she said, I said,
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"Ella, Papa's preaching
on animals for animals."
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I bet you can't
guess what the animals are.
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She says, "What?"
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I said, "How about this one?
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Hee-haw, hee-haw, hee-haw?
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"Pop, that's a donkey."
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I said, "Okay,
this is gonna be hard."
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Roar.
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She said, "That is a lion."
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And I knew she was
going to miss this one.
00:19:18.09\00:19:19.79
I said, "What about this one?"
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Yap, yap, yap,
yap, yap, yap, yap?
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She said, "Papa,
that is so obvious."
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You know what? She got it.
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You haven't even gotten it?
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What goes yap,
yap, yap, yap, yap, yap?
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She just gets it
right, of course she's,
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you know, she's a
chip off of her parents.
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Very bright girl
for seven, I might add,
00:19:39.27\00:19:40.98
in case you're asking.
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There it is right there.
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Come on.
00:19:44.31\00:19:45.65
You knew it was
a fox, didn't you?
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Yeah, she did.
00:19:47.05\00:19:48.38
She said, "That's a fox."
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I'm not going to tell you what
the animal is for next week.
00:19:50.89\00:19:54.82
But the sound is baa.
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And you can't get it.
00:19:56.99\00:19:58.33
You are going to
think the rest of this...
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The rest of this week coming.
00:20:02.86\00:20:04.93
Isn't that'd beautiful
fox. We have them here.
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They're all over.
00:20:06.84\00:20:08.17
One day a man came running
up to Jesus and he said, "Lord,
00:20:08.20\00:20:10.34
I want to follow
You wherever You go.
00:20:10.37\00:20:13.11
And Jesus said, "Oh
really?" Guess what?
00:20:13.14\00:20:16.14
Birds have nest
and foxes have dens,
00:20:16.18\00:20:20.02
but the Son of Man has
no, nowhere to lay His head.
00:20:20.05\00:20:25.19
The next time
you're feeling rather poor,
00:20:25.22\00:20:29.12
I want you to
remember that line.
00:20:29.16\00:20:31.29
Whatever you
have, Jesus didn't have.
00:20:31.33\00:20:34.30
Nowhere to lay His head.
00:20:34.33\00:20:36.26
One day the
Pharisees came up to Jesus.
00:20:36.30\00:20:38.13
They said, "Listen, young man,
you need to know that Pharaoh.
00:20:38.17\00:20:41.80
You need to know
that Herod, Rome king.
00:20:41.84\00:20:45.14
You need to know that
Herod is out to kill You."
00:20:45.17\00:20:49.01
You know what Jesus said?
00:20:49.04\00:20:50.38
I wish I had a video of
Jesus' facial expression.
00:20:50.41\00:20:52.81
He said, "You go tell that fox
00:20:52.85\00:20:57.59
that I'll die when
it's time for Me to die
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and not a day too soon.
00:20:59.85\00:21:02.79
Fox is there
everywhere in Scripture.
00:21:02.82\00:21:04.56
You know what the
greatest love song
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in all of Holy Scripture?
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Come on, open your
Bible to the Song of Solomon.
00:21:07.40\00:21:09.63
So, you find the Psalms
in the middle, of course,
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and then there's Proverbs,
00:21:13.67\00:21:15.00
you're moving toward the
end of the Old Testament.
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See if you can
find Song of Solomon.
00:21:16.44\00:21:17.77
It's a bit of a trick.
00:21:17.81\00:21:19.34
But after the
Proverbs will be Ecclesiastes,
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and then you come
to Song of Solomon.
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I want you to see this
right out of this beautiful,
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beautiful love song.
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Here is, Song of Solomon 2:15.
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All right.
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"Catch for us the foxes..."
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This is a husband
and wife singing back
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and forth to each other.
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"Catch for us the foxes,
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the little foxes
that ruin the vineyards."
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The New King James reads,
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"The little foxes
that spoil the vineyards,
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our vineyards
that are in bloom."
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Catch the little foxes.
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That is precisely by the
way how compromise works.
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Just a little compromise here,
just a little compromise there.
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And before you know it,
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the whole thing here is spoiled.
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Moral of the story.
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Watch out for the little foxes.
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Once upon a long ago time,
there was a bright young man
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sitting on his daddy's throne.
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My humble opinion
is, is it tad too early.
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But daddy died
and the throne is his.
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Turns out his mother and father,
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and that, this was
before he was born.
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His mother and
father had been embroiled
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in a tangled and
adulterous imbroglio,
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a scandal in
every sense of the word.
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God is heartbroken
over David and Bathsheba.
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He's ready for a new start.
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We've got to have a new start.
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And so David and Bathsheba
have the first baby died.
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They have a second child
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and they decided to
name him Peaceable Solomon.
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But God said,
"No, no, no, no, no."
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This is the only time he did it.
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He said I have a
nickname for that boy,
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and you're going
to name him Jedidiah,
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the one the Lord loves.
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In fact,
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a few days into his reign...
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But wouldn't you like
to have a dream like this?
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God shows up in a dream.
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God shows up to
young Solomon, Jedidiah.
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And he says, "I have it.
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I have an offer to make.
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Ask me anything you wish.
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And I'll give it to you."
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And in that
dream, this young man,
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he pauses for a moment.
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And then he looks
up to where God is.
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And he says,
"You know what I want?
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I am such a boy.
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I'm not able to
discern good and evil,
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unless You give to me.
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Give me wisdom that I
might govern Your people
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as You would have me do.
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God steps back and
He says, "You know what?
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This is incredible.
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I thought you
might ask for wealth.
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I thought you might ask
for victory over the enemies.
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I thought you
might ask for honor.
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But because you asked
for wisdom, guess what?
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I'm going to give you wisdom
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and I'm going to
give you everything else
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besides the wealth, the
conquering of the enemy.
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You have it all.
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Shoo, He's gone.
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And a few days later,
the Land of Israel found out
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that this boy had
received the gift of wisdom.
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Two prostitutes come
into the throne room.
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The king is just doing
the business of the kingdom.
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These two ladies come in.
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The first lady speaks,
she said, "Long live the King,
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Your Highness."
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This lady and I live together.
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We had babies
about the same time.
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My baby was born
three days ahead her hers.
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And the other night
while I was sound asleep,
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she tiptoed into my
room because inadvertently
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she rolled over on that
infant and she suffocated it.
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It was dead.
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She took the dead baby,
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put it under me
and took my baby.
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When I woke up in the morning,
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I looked into that face,
I do, "This is not my boy."
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The other woman speaks
up, "No, no, no, Your Honor,
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it's the other way around."
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I'm the one that
owns the living baby.
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And the record reads.
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And so they
argued before the King.
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And Solomon stops, he
said, "Yo, give me a sword.
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Guard bring it in.
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All right, here's a deal.
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I want you to cut this baby
in half right down the middle.
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I want you to give
one half to that woman.
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I want you to give
one half to that woman.
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And the woman who
spoke first, "My Lord,
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O, King, live forever."
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No, no, no, no, no, no, no,
you just give the baby to her.
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That's okay.
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Keep the baby alive.
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And the other
one said, "No, King,
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that's brilliant solution.
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Just cut it in half,
we'll each take a half."
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And Solomon says,
"Yo, there's the mother."
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Right?
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Of course, watch this.
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And so it was that, "When
all Israel heard the verdict
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the king and given,
they hailed the king in awe,
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because they saw
that he had wisdom
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from God to administer justice.
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And God gave Solomon, Jedediah,
wisdom and very great insight,
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and a breadth of
understanding as measureless
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as the sand on the seashore.
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Solomon's wisdom was
greater than the wisdom
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of all the people of the East,
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and greater than
all the wisdom of Egypt.
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From all nations people came
to listen to Solomon's wisdom,
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sent by all the
kings of the world,
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who had heard of his wisdom."
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I'm telling you what?
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Just a suggestion, if God ever
shows up in a dream of yours,
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and He asks you,
"What do you want most?
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Just ask Me,
I'll give it to you."
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I wanna tell
you, I'm telling you,
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ask for the giver of wisdom,
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who happens to be
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the third person of the Godhead,
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the Holy Spirit, one gift,
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and you get every
other gift with it.
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I'm telling you the truth.
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Red letter words,
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when Jesus was
here, what did He say?
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"If you then,
though you are evil,
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know how to give good
gifts to your children,
00:27:16.20\00:27:18.43
how much more will
your Father in heaven
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give the Holy Spirit
to those who ask him!"
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That's in the continuous tense,
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to those who
continually ask Him,
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those who ask him
day after day after day.
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You want one gift that
brings every other gift with it.
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Come on, every morning
ask for the Holy Spirit.
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I do.
00:27:35.12\00:27:37.99
You don't have
to be very special.
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Just you and me.
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We can ask, give
me that gift today.
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I want that wisdom.
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While even the Queen of
Sheba shows up, God bless her.
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She's pagan by the way.
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She has heard.
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She has heard about this king,
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and I want you to see
how she heard about it.
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"When the Queen of Sheba heard
about the fame of Solomon,"
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and notice this,
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"and his
relationship to the Lord."
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Wouldn't that be something,
if people where you live,
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or people where
you work, they notice,
00:28:08.88\00:28:10.52
there's
something about this guy.
00:28:10.55\00:28:12.05
There is
something about this woman.
00:28:12.09\00:28:13.69
There is something
about this 20 something.
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Every time this teen,
00:28:18.03\00:28:19.96
every time he shows up, there...
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It's got to be that,
that friendship of his.
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"When the Queen of Sheba
heard about the fame of Solomon
00:28:28.47\00:28:30.47
and his
relationship to the Lord,
00:28:30.51\00:28:31.97
she came to test
Solomon with hard questions."
00:28:32.01\00:28:36.44
Science and
philosophy, poetry and art.
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Oh, she says,
after the grilling,
00:28:41.12\00:28:43.59
"Oh how happy
your people must be!
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How happy your
officials who continually stand
00:28:45.69\00:28:47.82
before you and hear your wisdom!
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Praise be to the Lord your God."
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She's a pagan.
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"Praise be to Yahweh of
Israel who is delighted in you
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and place you on
the throne of Israel.
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Because of the Lord's
eternal love for Israel,
00:28:59.17\00:29:02.00
He has made you
king to maintain justice
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and righteousness."
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But that's the whole point.
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Whenever God gives
a gift, with that gift
00:29:12.08\00:29:16.58
comes the
opportunity to tell people
00:29:16.62\00:29:19.65
where you got the gift,
00:29:19.69\00:29:22.06
whatever your gift is.
00:29:22.09\00:29:23.89
Come on.
00:29:23.93\00:29:25.26
Don't keep it a secret.
00:29:25.29\00:29:26.83
Let your relationship with
Jesus be what people pick up on
00:29:26.86\00:29:30.50
after they quiz you for a while.
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Nearly half a
millennium before Jedediah
00:29:34.20\00:29:37.51
came on the throne.
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The children of
Israel are still wandering
00:29:39.07\00:29:40.68
in the wilderness.
00:29:40.71\00:29:42.04
They're coming on the
brink of the Promised Land.
00:29:42.08\00:29:44.11
And God comes
along and says, "Yo,
00:29:44.15\00:29:46.51
I want to tell you something.
00:29:46.55\00:29:48.32
I hope you never have a king.
00:29:48.35\00:29:50.49
All right, ever.
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You don't need a king.
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I am your king."
00:29:53.25\00:29:54.59
This is what we
call a theocracy.
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You follow me and we
will conquer the world
00:29:56.09\00:29:59.39
for my kingdom.
00:29:59.43\00:30:02.53
But if you do choose a
king, it's amazing to me,
00:30:02.56\00:30:08.37
my friend John Peckham,
you know what he calls that?
00:30:08.40\00:30:10.74
He calls that middle knowledge.
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It's not something that's
going to happen necessarily.
00:30:13.44\00:30:15.74
It's something
that could happen.
00:30:15.78\00:30:17.38
God has all this eventuality.
00:30:17.41\00:30:19.88
If you go this way,
this is going to happen.
00:30:19.91\00:30:21.25
If you go this way,
00:30:21.28\00:30:22.62
I can tell you
this is going to happen,
00:30:22.65\00:30:23.99
middle knowledge.
00:30:24.02\00:30:25.35
But if you should choose a king,
00:30:25.39\00:30:28.02
let me give you three
standards to have a king.
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Here we go.
00:30:30.13\00:30:31.46
This is God
speaking, Deuteronomy 17:14,
00:30:31.49\00:30:33.73
"And when you enter the land,
the Lord your God is giving you
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and you have taken possession
of it and settled in it,
00:30:36.80\00:30:39.17
and you say, 'Let
us set a king over us
00:30:39.20\00:30:42.07
like all the
nations around us.'"
00:30:42.10\00:30:43.77
What is it about whatever
we're in a wider community,
00:30:43.81\00:30:48.14
our tendency, human tendency
00:30:48.18\00:30:50.21
is to try to be like
everybody else around.
00:30:50.25\00:30:52.21
We can't be unique.
We can't just stand out.
00:30:52.25\00:30:54.38
No, we got to fit in.
00:30:54.42\00:30:56.25
Why is that?
00:30:56.28\00:30:57.62
"And you say, 'Let
us set a king over us
00:31:01.66\00:31:04.23
like all the nations around us."
00:31:04.26\00:31:05.73
Okay.
00:31:05.76\00:31:07.50
Then I want you to be sure
to appoint over you a king,
00:31:07.53\00:31:10.00
the Lord your God chooses.
00:31:10.03\00:31:11.37
He must be from among
your fellow Israelites.
00:31:11.40\00:31:13.20
Don't place a
foreigner don't put a pagan
00:31:13.23\00:31:15.04
who rules over you, one
who is not an Israelite.
00:31:15.07\00:31:17.94
"The king,
moreover, must not acquire
00:31:17.97\00:31:20.81
great numbers of
horses for himself
00:31:20.84\00:31:22.98
or make the people return
to Egypt to get more of them."
00:31:23.01\00:31:25.41
Why?
00:31:25.45\00:31:26.78
"For the Lord has told you,
00:31:26.82\00:31:28.15
'You are not to go
back that way again.'"
00:31:28.18\00:31:30.19
You don't need those horses.
00:31:30.22\00:31:32.09
You know why?
00:31:32.12\00:31:33.46
Because horses are tanks.
00:31:33.49\00:31:36.09
Yeah, there were
the tanks of that day.
00:31:36.12\00:31:38.63
And the more tanks you
had, the more powerful you are,
00:31:38.66\00:31:41.63
but I'm your king.
00:31:41.66\00:31:43.00
You don't have to
worry about power.
00:31:43.03\00:31:44.37
I'll have the
power for you. Okay.
00:31:44.40\00:31:45.73
So we don't need many horses.
00:31:45.77\00:31:47.67
God keeps going.
00:31:47.70\00:31:49.04
"You must not take many wives,
00:31:49.07\00:31:52.14
or the king's
heart will be led astray.
00:31:52.17\00:31:54.08
He must not
accumulate, by the way up,
00:31:54.11\00:31:55.78
standard number three,
00:31:55.81\00:31:57.15
large amounts
of silver and gold.
00:31:57.18\00:32:00.92
That's just for the fun of it.
00:32:00.95\00:32:02.28
You and me run
those three standards
00:32:02.32\00:32:03.85
by and see how Solomon fares
00:32:03.89\00:32:06.76
with those three
divine standards for kingship.
00:32:06.79\00:32:10.83
Okay, let's take the first one.
00:32:10.86\00:32:12.19
The first one is horses, okay?
00:32:12.23\00:32:13.96
How did Solomon do with horses?
00:32:14.00\00:32:15.53
Back to 1 Kings Chapter 10,
00:32:15.56\00:32:17.17
"Solomon
accumulated chariots and horses,
00:32:17.20\00:32:19.47
he had fourteen hundred chariots
00:32:19.50\00:32:21.54
and twelve thousand horses,
00:32:21.57\00:32:24.94
which he kept in
the chariot cities
00:32:24.97\00:32:26.34
and also with him in Jerusalem."
00:32:26.37\00:32:27.71
We have a family in this parish
00:32:27.74\00:32:29.48
that has 135 horses.
00:32:29.51\00:32:31.41
And when I heard
that, and I said,
00:32:31.45\00:32:32.78
"You can't, you
got to be kidding me."
00:32:32.81\00:32:34.95
"Twelve thousand, which
he kept in the chariot cities
00:32:34.98\00:32:37.85
and also with him in Jerusalem.
00:32:37.89\00:32:39.32
Solomon's horses
were imported from..."
00:32:39.35\00:32:40.79
What did God say?
00:32:40.82\00:32:42.16
Don't go back
to get your horses.
00:32:42.19\00:32:43.53
What did He say?
Don't go to Egypt.
00:32:43.56\00:32:44.89
That's where he got it.
00:32:44.93\00:32:46.26
"Imported from
Egypt and from Kue.
00:32:46.29\00:32:47.80
The royal
merchants purchased them
00:32:47.83\00:32:49.16
from Kue at the current price."
00:32:49.20\00:32:51.30
But dear
Jedediah, God bless him.
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He decided, you know,
it's not that big a deal.
00:32:58.74\00:33:00.08
I know God said
you're not supposed
00:33:00.11\00:33:01.44
to have a lot of horses.
00:33:01.48\00:33:02.81
But you know what?
I got to have horses.
00:33:02.84\00:33:04.18
It's just a little you
know, it's a compromise.
00:33:04.21\00:33:09.02
Surely, it's not
going to matter in the end.
00:33:09.05\00:33:11.82
There is that
dangerous word, compromise.
00:33:11.85\00:33:15.86
You know what's right.
00:33:15.89\00:33:17.63
But you figure it's
such a little disobedience,
00:33:17.66\00:33:19.93
it surely won't matter.
00:33:19.96\00:33:21.40
Come on, God,
You can't be serious.
00:33:21.43\00:33:24.07
All right, there were
three of these standards.
00:33:24.10\00:33:25.43
Standard number one, horses.
00:33:25.47\00:33:26.80
What's the
second one? Put it up?
00:33:26.84\00:33:28.34
The second one, gold.
00:33:28.37\00:33:29.97
What did God just
say there in Deuteronomy?
00:33:30.01\00:33:31.74
He must not accumulate large
amounts of gold and silver.
00:33:31.77\00:33:35.18
Well, let's see
how it goes here.
00:33:35.21\00:33:37.05
The weight of the gold...
00:33:37.08\00:33:38.41
This is
Solomon's annual revenue.
00:33:38.45\00:33:39.91
All right?
00:33:39.95\00:33:41.28
We got some
economists in this room.
00:33:41.32\00:33:43.95
"The weight of the
gold that Solomon received
00:33:43.99\00:33:46.12
yearly was 666 talents of gold."
00:33:46.15\00:33:50.63
How much is that?
00:33:50.66\00:33:51.99
"Not including the
revenues from the merchants
00:33:52.03\00:33:53.70
and the traders and
from all the Arabian kings
00:33:53.73\00:33:56.16
and the governors
of the territories."
00:33:56.20\00:33:57.63
All right.
00:33:57.67\00:33:59.00
So how much gold is that?
00:33:59.03\00:34:00.37
David Tasker, my friend,
00:34:00.40\00:34:01.74
he used to be a
doctoral student here.
00:34:01.77\00:34:03.34
He's in the South Pacific.
00:34:03.37\00:34:06.57
He writes the
commentary and Andrews,
00:34:06.61\00:34:08.71
the Andrews Bible commentary
00:34:08.74\00:34:10.45
has just come
out a few months ago,
00:34:10.48\00:34:12.25
and they had just
the Old Testament out.
00:34:12.28\00:34:13.88
I got it.
00:34:13.92\00:34:15.25
It's a great commentary.
00:34:15.28\00:34:16.62
New Testament still coming.
00:34:16.65\00:34:17.99
So David Tasker
writes, okay, how much?
00:34:18.02\00:34:19.85
How much is that revenue?
00:34:19.89\00:34:22.29
I'm quoting him now.
00:34:22.32\00:34:24.16
Solomon's annual take on
gold was about 50,000 pounds
00:34:24.19\00:34:29.40
of gold a year.
00:34:29.43\00:34:32.30
Not to mention silver,
ivory and other luxury goods.
00:34:32.33\00:34:36.44
There comes again, that morally
debilitating word compromise.
00:34:36.47\00:34:41.84
You know, it can't be.
00:34:41.88\00:34:45.01
How can this be that big a deal?
00:34:45.05\00:34:47.38
You know what's right,
00:34:47.42\00:34:48.75
but you figure it's
such a little disobedience,
00:34:48.78\00:34:51.09
it won't matter anyway.
00:34:51.12\00:34:53.25
By the way, please notice that
00:34:53.29\00:34:56.39
when compromise
continues to rule,
00:34:56.42\00:34:59.49
every following compromise
00:34:59.53\00:35:02.50
is more egregious
than the previous one.
00:35:02.53\00:35:04.77
It just keeps getting
worse and worse and worse.
00:35:04.80\00:35:07.70
There's one
category we haven't reached.
00:35:07.74\00:35:09.47
What's the other category?
00:35:09.50\00:35:10.87
That we had horses, we had gold.
00:35:10.91\00:35:12.61
What's the third one.
00:35:12.64\00:35:14.34
Huh?
00:35:14.38\00:35:15.78
Wives, so that's right, wives.
00:35:15.81\00:35:17.91
What's that line in Deuteronomy?
00:35:17.95\00:35:19.28
He must not take many wives
00:35:19.31\00:35:20.68
or his heart will be led astray.
00:35:20.72\00:35:22.05
Here we go.
00:35:22.08\00:35:23.42
1 Kings 11:1,
"King Solomon, however,"
00:35:23.45\00:35:26.96
compromise always introduces
a however, I know the rule.
00:35:26.99\00:35:31.46
"However, King Solomon loved
00:35:31.49\00:35:36.43
many foreign women
besides Pharaoh's daughter."
00:35:36.46\00:35:39.27
Song of Solomon was composed,
00:35:39.30\00:35:40.70
these two were
singing to each other.
00:35:40.74\00:35:42.27
It was such a
beautiful love story
00:35:42.30\00:35:43.64
if it had kept that way.
00:35:43.67\00:35:45.01
And by the way, we are told
00:35:45.04\00:35:46.37
she became a
believer of Israel's God.
00:35:46.41\00:35:48.44
So he has
everything going for him.
00:35:48.48\00:35:50.05
The Queen from,
the little princess
00:35:50.08\00:35:51.78
has become a
believer in Israel's God.
00:35:51.81\00:35:53.88
"However, Solomon had
loved many foreign women,
00:35:53.92\00:35:59.69
from the
Moabites, and the Ammonites,
00:35:59.72\00:36:01.86
and the Edomites,
and the Sidonians,
00:36:01.89\00:36:04.33
and the Hittites.
00:36:04.36\00:36:05.69
They were from nations
about which the Lord had told
00:36:05.73\00:36:07.83
the Israelites,"
yo, yo, yo, yo, yo,
00:36:07.86\00:36:09.20
"you must not
intermarry with them, no, no,
00:36:09.23\00:36:11.37
because they will surely turn
your hearts after their gods.
00:36:11.40\00:36:13.90
Nevertheless, Solomon
held fast to them in love."
00:36:13.94\00:36:17.51
Now, I want you to watch this.
00:36:17.54\00:36:18.87
You see these
two words held fast.
00:36:18.91\00:36:20.68
That's the very
same word in Genesis 2:24
00:36:20.71\00:36:23.48
when the Creator blesses
the marriage of Adam and Eve.
00:36:23.51\00:36:26.08
He says, "A man
will leave his parents
00:36:26.11\00:36:28.45
and he will home fast,
00:36:28.48\00:36:30.02
he will cleave,
the Old English word,
00:36:30.05\00:36:32.45
he will cleave to his wife.
00:36:32.49\00:36:34.86
He cleaved.
00:36:34.89\00:36:36.22
In fact, you have the King James
00:36:36.26\00:36:37.59
it says, he clays,
00:36:37.63\00:36:38.96
whoever uses that word,
he held fast to them in love.
00:36:38.99\00:36:42.66
Oh, Dwight, we
got a problem here.
00:36:42.70\00:36:44.53
This is a real love story.
00:36:44.57\00:36:45.90
There are a whole lot of people
00:36:45.93\00:36:47.27
who are telling
real love stories
00:36:47.30\00:36:48.64
that are not the love story
God ever had in mind for you.
00:36:48.67\00:36:51.37
Just listen to me carefully,
that love story that you say
00:36:51.41\00:36:53.78
is so wonderfully put together
by Almighty God Himself.
00:36:53.81\00:36:57.91
You know, it was
not the love story
00:36:57.95\00:37:00.15
God created you for,
00:37:00.18\00:37:02.85
and intended you for.
00:37:02.88\00:37:05.65
But you say, I'm in
love, so it has to be good.
00:37:05.69\00:37:07.69
No, it doesn't.
00:37:07.72\00:37:10.16
There's too much self
delusion that takes place.
00:37:10.19\00:37:13.23
Once you start compromising,
00:37:13.26\00:37:16.06
it just gets worse
and worse and worse.
00:37:16.10\00:37:18.90
Until, oh, my, oh my.
00:37:18.93\00:37:20.84
"He had seven
hundred wives of royal birth
00:37:20.87\00:37:23.97
and three hundred concubines,
and his wives led him astray."
00:37:24.01\00:37:28.44
He has 1000 women.
00:37:28.48\00:37:30.05
Now that's
trouble in anybody's book.
00:37:30.08\00:37:33.08
But he has 300 concubines,
it's like the little kid
00:37:33.11\00:37:35.98
that came back from
church school one day say,
00:37:36.02\00:37:37.62
"Hey, Mommy, we learned
about King Solomon today
00:37:37.65\00:37:39.99
and his 300 porcupines.
00:37:40.02\00:37:42.99
No, that's not what these are.
00:37:43.02\00:37:44.36
These are concubines.
00:37:44.39\00:37:45.73
They're prickly.
00:37:45.76\00:37:47.10
They'll hurt you.
00:37:47.13\00:37:50.13
Three hundred, one thousand.
00:37:50.17\00:37:53.17
What happens?
00:37:53.20\00:37:54.80
Solomon grew
old, his wives turned.
00:37:54.84\00:37:56.87
Ah, that's exactly
what God said would happen.
00:37:56.91\00:37:59.84
"As he grew old, his
wives turned his heart
00:37:59.87\00:38:02.31
after other gods.
00:38:02.34\00:38:03.68
And his heart was not fully
devoted to the Lord his God,"
00:38:03.71\00:38:06.85
this word for fully devoted
is the Hebrew word shalem,
00:38:06.88\00:38:09.52
he has no more peace.
00:38:09.55\00:38:11.95
I'm telling you read my lips.
00:38:11.99\00:38:13.89
When you live a
life of compromise
00:38:13.92\00:38:15.79
and it goes from bad to worse,
00:38:15.82\00:38:19.73
you're going to end up,
00:38:19.76\00:38:21.10
you're going to end
up no peace, no peace.
00:38:21.13\00:38:26.53
"He was not fully
devoted to the Lord his God,
00:38:26.57\00:38:29.97
as the heart of
David his father had been."
00:38:30.01\00:38:34.44
Oh, my.
00:38:34.48\00:38:36.21
I've had men talk to me,
00:38:36.24\00:38:38.68
and they're
trying to justify to me
00:38:38.71\00:38:40.62
the affair that they've had.
00:38:40.65\00:38:43.08
And the divorce and then
the marrying of this woman.
00:38:43.12\00:38:48.12
Yeah, I listen to them.
00:38:48.16\00:38:50.03
And they're telling
me, I'm telling you what
00:38:50.06\00:38:52.69
it is such a
blessed relationship
00:38:52.73\00:38:54.80
with each other and with God,
00:38:54.83\00:38:56.40
and I am saying to myself,
who is fooling whom here?
00:38:56.43\00:39:01.90
Don't you give me this visit?
00:39:01.94\00:39:03.27
Well, I'm closer to God now.
00:39:03.30\00:39:05.14
You aren't.
00:39:05.17\00:39:07.24
You aren't.
00:39:07.28\00:39:08.61
That's the nature of compromise.
00:39:13.42\00:39:15.65
It's called shutdown in May.
00:39:18.95\00:39:21.79
Does it? Can it get worse?
00:39:24.89\00:39:26.23
Oh, please.
00:39:26.26\00:39:27.60
"Solomon who builds
00:39:27.63\00:39:28.96
one of the wonders of the world,
00:39:29.00\00:39:30.33
the mighty Temple in Jerusalem,
on a hill east of Jerusalem
00:39:30.37\00:39:33.20
looking down on the
temple to the God of Israel.
00:39:33.23\00:39:36.30
Solomon built a
high place for Chemosh,
00:39:36.34\00:39:38.87
the detestable god
of Moab, and for Molek."
00:39:38.91\00:39:41.71
This is the child
sacrifice, burning alive for me,
00:39:41.74\00:39:45.15
so that you will have
me blessing your life god,
00:39:45.18\00:39:47.85
the detestable
god of the Ammonites.
00:39:47.88\00:39:49.22
Keep reading.
00:39:49.25\00:39:50.59
"And he did the same
for all his foreign wives
00:39:50.62\00:39:52.15
who burned incense and offered
sacrifices to their gods.
00:39:52.19\00:39:56.93
The Lord became
angry with Solomon."
00:39:56.96\00:39:59.39
Hit the pause
button right there.
00:39:59.43\00:40:00.76
There's some people
who have this picture
00:40:00.80\00:40:02.13
of God's love and mercy.
00:40:02.16\00:40:03.50
And we sang about
God's love and mercy.
00:40:03.53\00:40:04.90
But some people think
that's just the end all.
00:40:04.93\00:40:07.87
There's no room in
some people's understanding
00:40:07.90\00:40:09.60
of God for anger.
00:40:09.64\00:40:12.34
You crazy.
00:40:12.37\00:40:14.84
He's watching what's going,
00:40:14.88\00:40:16.71
He's watching what's going down.
00:40:16.75\00:40:18.61
He's losing an entire nation.
00:40:18.65\00:40:20.52
This nation will
be wrecked at the end.
00:40:20.55\00:40:23.49
He's watching this
and He's losing a soul.
00:40:23.52\00:40:25.59
This is
Jedediah, the man I love.
00:40:25.62\00:40:29.02
You don't think He's angry?
00:40:29.06\00:40:31.26
Listen, if you were a
parent, and somebody was doing
00:40:31.29\00:40:33.93
what you're doing, your child
is doing, what you're doing.
00:40:33.96\00:40:36.93
Would you not be furious?
00:40:36.97\00:40:39.90
Would you still be loving them?
00:40:39.93\00:40:41.40
Of course, you would.
00:40:41.44\00:40:43.77
Would you still
be longing for them?
00:40:43.81\00:40:45.44
You betcha.
00:40:45.47\00:40:47.01
But you would be as
mad as you know what?
00:40:47.04\00:40:51.08
Because that's what
you know what is all about?
00:40:51.11\00:40:54.98
People robbing
children of the Heavenly Father
00:40:55.02\00:40:58.42
and putting them there.
00:40:58.45\00:41:00.32
I got another one.
00:41:00.36\00:41:02.22
There's another one.
00:41:02.26\00:41:04.49
Of course, He's angry.
00:41:04.53\00:41:06.29
You can quit trying to explain
God by talking His anger out.
00:41:06.33\00:41:10.37
There is anger.
00:41:10.40\00:41:11.73
You know why?
00:41:11.77\00:41:13.10
Because He's
watching us, a soul melt down.
00:41:13.13\00:41:15.27
He has loved this
boy from the beginning.
00:41:15.30\00:41:17.44
I will give you
anything you ask, you ask me,
00:41:17.47\00:41:19.27
and the boy prays
the perfect prayer.
00:41:19.31\00:41:21.61
And now it's all gone.
00:41:21.64\00:41:24.08
I can tell you who
have given your parents
00:41:29.15\00:41:32.09
a bit of a heartache
over the course of your life.
00:41:32.12\00:41:35.72
There never was a day
they stopped loving you.
00:41:35.76\00:41:38.49
There never was a day.
00:41:38.53\00:41:40.23
Were they angry with you?
00:41:40.26\00:41:41.60
They were angry, but
they kept loving you.
00:41:41.63\00:41:45.60
"Maybe she'll come back.
00:41:45.63\00:41:47.27
Maybe he'll come back.
00:41:47.30\00:41:48.97
Don't give up, honey.
00:41:49.00\00:41:50.34
We'll keep loving."
00:41:50.37\00:41:52.94
That's God.
00:41:52.97\00:41:54.31
The reason people don't like
the picture of God being angry
00:41:59.08\00:42:01.08
is because nobody wants to admit
00:42:01.12\00:42:02.45
their sins displease God hugely.
00:42:02.48\00:42:04.85
God cannot forever wink
00:42:04.89\00:42:06.79
at your moral
ignorance and disobedience.
00:42:06.82\00:42:08.86
"Oh, you said it.
00:42:08.89\00:42:10.23
It said in the
Bible God winked."
00:42:10.26\00:42:11.59
No, He may wink over
the pagans' ignorance,
00:42:11.63\00:42:13.60
but He will not condone
what the one who knows better,
00:42:13.63\00:42:15.90
knows he or knows
she should be doing
00:42:15.93\00:42:18.13
or should not be doing.
00:42:18.17\00:42:19.50
He's not winking over that.
00:42:19.53\00:42:20.87
Compromise always
starts innocently.
00:42:20.90\00:42:26.01
One little indiscretion,
00:42:26.04\00:42:27.88
one
inconsequential disobeying here,
00:42:27.91\00:42:30.15
and before we know
it, shhh, shot down.
00:42:30.18\00:42:35.05
Mine.
00:42:35.08\00:42:37.89
Prophets and Kings,
00:42:37.92\00:42:39.25
this great retelling
of the story of the kings.
00:42:39.29\00:42:40.82
You've got to read
that book sometime.
00:42:40.86\00:42:42.46
"At first, as
wealth and worldly honor
00:42:42.49\00:42:44.49
came to Solomon,"
Jedidiah, "he remained humble,
00:42:44.53\00:42:48.36
and great was the
extent of his influence..."
00:42:48.40\00:42:50.77
Yeah, we've heard.
00:42:50.80\00:42:52.33
"But after a morning
of great promise his life
00:42:52.37\00:42:55.00
was darkened by apostasy...
00:42:55.04\00:42:57.67
So gradual was
Solomon's apostasy
00:42:57.71\00:43:00.28
that before he was aware of it."
00:43:00.31\00:43:02.14
It's so slow, you can't
even see the train coming.
00:43:02.18\00:43:05.35
It's just, it's a
slow-motion train wreck,
00:43:05.38\00:43:08.25
but you don't see it.
00:43:08.28\00:43:11.52
"So gradual was
Solomon's apostasy
00:43:11.55\00:43:13.32
that before he was aware of it,
he had wandered far from God.
00:43:13.36\00:43:16.73
No.
00:43:16.76\00:43:18.09
Almost imperceptibly he
began to trust less and less
00:43:18.13\00:43:21.76
in divine guidance and blessing,
00:43:21.80\00:43:23.47
and to put
confidence in his own strength.
00:43:23.50\00:43:26.23
Little by little
he with held from God
00:43:26.27\00:43:28.24
that unswerving obedience
00:43:28.27\00:43:30.87
which was to make
Israel a peculiar people,
00:43:30.91\00:43:33.98
and he conformed more and more,
00:43:34.01\00:43:36.58
and more and more
closely to the customs
00:43:36.61\00:43:39.68
of the surrounding nations."
00:43:39.71\00:43:41.45
I could give you chapter
and verse of men and women
00:43:44.79\00:43:49.89
I have watched
gradually descend into apostasy
00:43:49.92\00:43:54.26
or willful disobedience.
00:43:54.30\00:43:56.26
I have visited them.
00:43:56.30\00:43:57.63
I have pleaded in some cases,
00:43:57.67\00:43:59.63
pleaded with them.
00:43:59.67\00:44:04.11
But the compromise they
have made has solidified
00:44:04.14\00:44:07.94
their sad rebellion
against the Spirit of Jesus.
00:44:07.98\00:44:10.21
And they always,
to a man and woman,
00:44:10.25\00:44:12.51
they always tell me
that they're actually doing
00:44:12.55\00:44:15.85
better now with
Jesus than ever before.
00:44:15.88\00:44:20.39
You can't be serious.
00:44:20.42\00:44:21.86
It's the height
of self-deception.
00:44:26.66\00:44:29.30
But let's say
you're not better off.
00:44:29.33\00:44:31.30
Let's say right now
your conscience is saying,
00:44:31.33\00:44:32.67
"You know what?
00:44:32.70\00:44:34.04
You are really not better off.
00:44:34.07\00:44:35.40
This is not going well at all."
00:44:35.44\00:44:38.97
Is there any step you can take
00:44:39.01\00:44:41.54
and turn this around?
00:44:41.58\00:44:45.01
I've got great news for you.
00:44:45.05\00:44:46.45
Same book, a few
paragraphs later.
00:44:46.48\00:44:49.25
But none, oh, I love this.
00:44:49.28\00:44:50.82
"But none who have
fallen need give up to despair.
00:44:50.85\00:44:54.26
Aged men, and I'm adding
and women, once honored of God,
00:44:54.29\00:44:59.03
may have defiled their souls,
00:44:59.06\00:45:00.96
sacrificing virtue
on the altar of lust."
00:45:01.00\00:45:04.10
You know what lust is?
00:45:04.13\00:45:05.53
It's not just sex.
00:45:05.57\00:45:06.90
Lust is
whatever you have to have
00:45:06.94\00:45:08.40
and you have to
have it right now.
00:45:08.44\00:45:09.77
That's lust. "I
have to have it."
00:45:09.80\00:45:11.47
It could be riches.
00:45:11.51\00:45:12.84
It can be a
position professionally.
00:45:12.87\00:45:14.78
It can be a social standing.
00:45:14.81\00:45:17.28
You have to have it,
00:45:17.31\00:45:18.65
and you have to
have it right now.
00:45:18.68\00:45:20.42
"They may have
defiled their souls
00:45:20.45\00:45:23.02
sacrificing virtue
on the altar of lust,"
00:45:23.05\00:45:25.69
but keep reading,
"but if they repent,
00:45:25.72\00:45:28.76
if they forsake their
sin, if they turn to God,
00:45:28.79\00:45:31.73
there is still hope for them."
00:45:31.76\00:45:33.50
Can I get an amen
out of this group?
00:45:33.53\00:45:35.53
"There is still hope for them.
00:45:35.56\00:45:36.97
He who
declares," in Revelation 2,
00:45:37.00\00:45:40.30
"Be thou faithful unto death,
00:45:40.34\00:45:41.67
and I will give
you a crown of life."
00:45:41.70\00:45:43.27
He is the same one who gives
the invitation in Isaiah 55,
00:45:43.30\00:45:46.68
"Let the wicked
forsake their way,
00:45:46.71\00:45:48.71
and the
unrighteous their thoughts.
00:45:48.74\00:45:52.05
God hates sin," the writer pens,
00:45:52.08\00:45:54.68
"but He loves the sinner,"
and that's the gospel truth.
00:45:54.72\00:45:57.79
"'I will heal
their backsliding,'
00:45:57.82\00:46:00.06
He declares, "and I
will love them freely.'"
00:46:00.09\00:46:04.13
Oh, I love that.
I got to put that.
00:46:04.16\00:46:06.13
We got to iso
that on the screen.
00:46:06.16\00:46:08.06
"I will heal their backsliding,
00:46:08.10\00:46:11.53
and I will love them freely."
00:46:11.57\00:46:16.04
You can get back
from where you are.
00:46:16.07\00:46:20.44
What enormous hope God embedded
00:46:20.48\00:46:22.48
in the nickname He gave Solomon.
00:46:22.51\00:46:24.05
"Solomon, every
time you hear your name,
00:46:24.08\00:46:25.65
I want you to know
you're the man I have loved.
00:46:25.68\00:46:30.42
I need you to
never forget that."
00:46:30.45\00:46:33.49
Did God know Solomon's
life was gonna crash and burn?
00:46:33.52\00:46:36.39
Of course He knew.
00:46:36.42\00:46:38.03
But loved of
the Lord was a piece
00:46:38.06\00:46:40.03
of gospel truth embedded
in that young king's mind,
00:46:40.06\00:46:43.16
so that when the
day came and his life
00:46:43.20\00:46:45.90
has crumbled into
ashes, when the day came
00:46:45.93\00:46:50.71
where the king has no way
to go back, he is certain.
00:46:50.74\00:46:54.94
When the day would come
00:46:54.98\00:46:56.51
and he would hear his
nickname called again,
00:46:56.54\00:46:59.41
Jedidiah, the man
who is loved by God,
00:46:59.45\00:47:02.35
God knew that
that gospel planting
00:47:02.38\00:47:07.39
could spring back
into a glorious harvest,
00:47:07.42\00:47:11.26
and a life almost
totally lost at the last minute,
00:47:11.29\00:47:16.70
shooh, gets saved.
00:47:16.73\00:47:21.00
You say, "That's not the case."
00:47:21.04\00:47:22.37
Oh, yes, it is.
00:47:22.40\00:47:24.01
Solomon reversed his
life and wrote Ecclesiastes.
00:47:24.04\00:47:28.14
Read Ecclesiastes sometime.
00:47:28.18\00:47:30.35
It's everything has
turned to ashes on my tongue.
00:47:30.38\00:47:32.31
It's just
emptiness, it's just vanity.
00:47:32.35\00:47:34.32
There's nothing out there.
00:47:34.35\00:47:35.75
I've tried everything!
00:47:35.78\00:47:37.32
And I'm empty!
00:47:37.35\00:47:39.69
But it ends, "Fear
God and give glory to Him
00:47:39.72\00:47:43.83
and keep His commandments,
00:47:43.86\00:47:46.59
for God will bring
every thought into judgment,
00:47:46.63\00:47:49.20
whether it be good or bad."
00:47:49.23\00:47:51.27
The last words,
Solomon says, "I'm back."
00:47:51.30\00:47:55.97
Too late for the family.
00:47:56.00\00:47:57.61
Too late for the nation.
00:47:57.64\00:47:59.17
Too late for the career.
00:47:59.21\00:48:01.24
But not too late for the Savior.
00:48:01.28\00:48:04.15
Oh, "I will heal
their backsliding,
00:48:04.18\00:48:07.65
and I will love them freely."
00:48:07.68\00:48:10.35
Oh, my.
00:48:10.39\00:48:11.72
Look, last line
from Prophets and Kings.
00:48:11.75\00:48:14.32
"Yet the Lord forsook him not...
00:48:14.36\00:48:16.69
For Jedidiah at last
the discipline of suffering
00:48:16.73\00:48:20.83
had accomplished its work."
00:48:20.86\00:48:23.37
It was painful. Are you kidding?
00:48:23.40\00:48:25.80
All salvation
comes through suffering.
00:48:25.83\00:48:27.84
Jesus' suffering and your
suffering and my suffering.
00:48:27.87\00:48:30.74
Some sinners would
love to catch the fact,
00:48:30.77\00:48:32.47
the express elevator
straight into heaven and say,
00:48:32.51\00:48:34.71
"Yo, I'm here!
Look, I said I'm sorry.
00:48:34.74\00:48:37.35
Come on, let's
go!" No, no, no, no, no.
00:48:37.38\00:48:41.02
There is no magic wand in heaven
00:48:41.05\00:48:44.65
that can dispel the harvest
00:48:44.69\00:48:46.72
and the consequences of
those little foxes of compromise
00:48:46.76\00:48:50.09
that have spoiled and
utterly ruined life's vineyard.
00:48:50.13\00:48:55.63
The law is unbreakable.
00:48:55.66\00:48:57.77
It will break you.
00:48:57.80\00:48:59.13
You cannot break it.
00:48:59.17\00:49:00.50
What a man sows,
what a woman sows,
00:49:00.54\00:49:03.51
that shall she also reap.
00:49:03.54\00:49:05.61
You can't break it.
00:49:05.64\00:49:07.11
And nobody says,
"Give him a break.
00:49:07.14\00:49:08.84
Get out of jail free card."
00:49:08.88\00:49:10.88
Nobody comes out.
00:49:10.91\00:49:12.81
What you sow, you reap.
00:49:12.85\00:49:14.52
Solomon reaped in
spades what he sowed.
00:49:14.55\00:49:20.16
But he came to the Savior.
00:49:20.19\00:49:23.56
Oh, yes, nothing can separate us
00:49:23.59\00:49:25.79
from the love of God
00:49:25.83\00:49:27.16
which is in
Christ Jesus our Lord.
00:49:27.20\00:49:28.66
But, ladies and gentlemen,
00:49:28.70\00:49:30.77
separating us
from the love of God
00:49:30.80\00:49:32.77
and separating us
from the sin of our heart
00:49:32.80\00:49:35.14
are two different matters.
00:49:35.17\00:49:37.34
Of course God's
love is relentless.
00:49:37.37\00:49:40.04
He will never quit loving you.
00:49:40.08\00:49:41.54
But our sin must be repented.
00:49:41.58\00:49:43.35
Our sin must be relinquished.
00:49:43.38\00:49:44.71
It must be rejected.
00:49:44.75\00:49:46.15
Calvary is evidence
enough that the end of sin
00:49:46.18\00:49:49.08
is always painful
suffering and crucifixion.
00:49:49.12\00:49:52.95
Now, if you wish,
00:49:52.99\00:49:55.26
and you don't want Jesus to deal
00:49:55.29\00:49:56.62
with your sin, guess what?
00:49:56.66\00:49:57.99
It'll be your death
that will pay the penalty.
00:49:58.03\00:49:59.93
It'll be covered.
00:49:59.96\00:50:01.43
You will pay it.
00:50:01.46\00:50:03.87
But if you are not willing
to pay the ultimate price
00:50:03.90\00:50:07.90
for a life of
compromise and rebellion,
00:50:07.94\00:50:11.24
there is a Savior.
00:50:11.27\00:50:13.51
There is a Savior,
and His name is Jesus.
00:50:13.54\00:50:18.88
Oh, He loves you.
00:50:18.91\00:50:20.82
It doesn't
matter what you've done.
00:50:20.85\00:50:24.09
I'm not talking to
you teenagers up there.
00:50:24.12\00:50:26.42
It does matter what you do.
00:50:26.45\00:50:27.79
Don't you get to thinking,
00:50:27.82\00:50:29.16
"I'll just go
and sow my wild oats,
00:50:29.19\00:50:31.03
and I'll sleep with a girl
here and sleep with a boy there
00:50:31.06\00:50:33.93
and that it'll all be fine."
00:50:33.96\00:50:35.30
Nope. You will
reap what you sow.
00:50:35.33\00:50:37.80
You will reap what you sow.
00:50:37.83\00:50:40.64
But for those who are older,
00:50:40.67\00:50:42.74
embittered, embattled
00:50:42.77\00:50:45.57
and still struggling to hang on,
00:50:45.61\00:50:47.41
I need you to know
that Jesus loves you.
00:50:47.44\00:50:50.28
Jesus died for you.
00:50:50.31\00:50:53.21
The backsliding
that you have lived,
00:50:53.25\00:50:55.75
your life has
been a morality tale.
00:50:55.78\00:50:58.75
The backsliding you have
lived, Jesus saw it coming.
00:50:58.79\00:51:03.56
He made full preparation,
and He died for that sin.
00:51:03.59\00:51:07.63
He died for those compromises.
00:51:07.66\00:51:10.20
And He's saying,
"Boy, come back to Me.
00:51:10.23\00:51:12.10
It's not too late.
00:51:12.13\00:51:13.74
Are you breathing?
00:51:13.77\00:51:15.10
Good.
00:51:15.14\00:51:16.47
Come back to Me."
00:51:16.50\00:51:18.97
Come back.
00:51:19.01\00:51:20.98
Oh, my.
00:51:21.01\00:51:22.98
Next Sabbath we're gonna
come right here to the cross.
00:51:23.01\00:51:24.91
Oh, there'll be no
more beautiful service
00:51:24.95\00:51:26.58
than next Sabbath's.
00:51:26.61\00:51:28.12
We'll come right here
to the foot of the cross.
00:51:28.15\00:51:29.95
But I need to ask you,
00:51:29.98\00:51:31.32
is there something
in your life right now
00:51:31.35\00:51:33.15
that needs to be
given up to Jesus?
00:51:33.19\00:51:34.79
All right, I'm talking to you.
00:51:34.82\00:51:36.16
Don't you look at your wife?
00:51:36.19\00:51:37.53
I'm talking to you.
00:51:37.56\00:51:39.43
Is there something in your life
00:51:39.46\00:51:41.76
that needs to be
given to Jesus right now?
00:51:41.80\00:51:45.47
Those compromises
have to come to an end.
00:51:45.50\00:51:48.40
What are you gonna wait, manana?
00:51:48.44\00:51:49.97
Manana never comes.
00:51:50.01\00:51:51.67
Today's your day.
00:51:51.71\00:51:53.74
You just say in
your heart, "Lord Jesus,
00:51:53.78\00:51:55.94
you know the
story of my compromises.
00:51:55.98\00:51:58.98
I've given them to You.
00:51:59.01\00:52:01.48
I cannot get myself
back, but I'm trusting You.
00:52:01.52\00:52:06.12
I give You.
00:52:06.15\00:52:07.49
I surrender all to You,
everything, everything."
00:52:07.52\00:52:11.86
All to Jesus I surrender
00:52:15.30\00:52:20.07
All to Him I freely give
00:52:20.10\00:52:25.57
I will ever love and trust Him
00:52:25.61\00:52:32.11
In His presence daily live
00:52:32.15\00:52:38.75
I surrender all
00:52:38.79\00:52:45.29
I surrender all
00:52:45.33\00:52:52.03
All to Thee,
00:52:52.07\00:52:54.94
My blessed Savior
00:52:54.97\00:53:00.24
I surrender
00:53:00.28\00:53:04.78
All to Jesus
00:53:39.28\00:53:43.32
I surrender
00:53:43.35\00:53:47.22
All to Him I freely give
00:53:47.26\00:53:54.20
I will ever love
00:53:54.23\00:53:59.60
And trust Him
00:53:59.63\00:54:01.70
In His presence
00:54:01.74\00:54:05.51
Daily live
00:54:05.54\00:54:09.44
I surrender all
00:54:09.48\00:54:13.65
I surrender all
00:54:16.69\00:54:21.12
All to Thee,
00:54:24.13\00:54:27.00
My blessed Savior
00:54:27.03\00:54:32.10
I surrender all
00:54:32.13\00:54:36.60
All to Jesus
00:54:39.64\00:54:43.75
I surrender
00:54:43.78\00:54:47.42
Humbly at His feet
00:54:47.45\00:54:51.89
I bow
00:54:51.92\00:54:54.72
Worldly pleasures
00:54:54.76\00:54:58.69
All forsaken
00:54:58.73\00:55:02.10
Take me, Jesus,
00:55:02.13\00:55:05.90
Take me now
00:55:05.93\00:55:09.74
I surrender all
00:55:09.77\00:55:14.31
I surrender all
00:55:17.35\00:55:22.08
All to Thee,
00:55:25.15\00:55:28.22
My blessed Savior
00:55:28.26\00:55:33.40
I surrender all
00:55:33.43\00:55:36.40
All to Jesus
00:55:41.27\00:55:45.17
I surrender
00:55:45.21\00:55:48.94
Make me, Savior,
00:55:48.98\00:55:52.68
Wholly Thine
00:55:52.71\00:55:56.42
Let me feel Thy
00:55:56.45\00:56:00.26
Holy Spirit
00:56:00.29\00:56:03.66
Truly know that
00:56:03.69\00:56:07.26
Thou art mine
00:56:07.30\00:56:11.83
I surrender all
00:56:11.87\00:56:15.97
I surrender all
00:56:19.04\00:56:23.55
All to Thee,
00:56:26.58\00:56:29.48
My blessed Savior
00:56:29.52\00:56:35.06
I surrender all
00:56:35.09\00:56:39.33
I surrender all
00:56:43.37\00:56:50.01
Think of the last time someone
said, "I'm praying for you."
00:57:08.22\00:57:12.26
Didn't it give
you a sense of peace
00:57:12.29\00:57:14.10
and reassurance that
somebody cares for me?
00:57:14.13\00:57:16.50
I know how I feel
when I get an email
00:57:16.53\00:57:17.87
from one of our
viewers saying, "Yo, Dwight,
00:57:17.90\00:57:19.60
I've been
praying for you lately."
00:57:19.63\00:57:21.14
There's nothing like knowing
someone is praying for you.
00:57:21.17\00:57:23.67
So I want to offer you
an opportunity to partner...
00:57:23.71\00:57:26.31
Let me, let us
partner with you in prayer.
00:57:26.34\00:57:28.74
If you have a
special prayer request
00:57:28.78\00:57:30.38
or a praise of thanksgiving
you'd like to share with us,
00:57:30.41\00:57:32.91
I'm inviting you to contact
one of our friendly chaplains.
00:57:32.95\00:57:35.75
It's simple to do.
00:57:35.78\00:57:37.12
You can call our
toll-free number 877,
00:57:37.15\00:57:39.19
the two words HIS
WILL, 877-HIS-WILL.
00:57:39.22\00:57:43.06
That friendly
voice that answers,
00:57:43.09\00:57:44.56
you tell him, you tell
her what your prayer need is,
00:57:44.59\00:57:47.60
we'll join with
you in that petition.
00:57:47.63\00:57:50.50
May the God who
answers prayer journey with you
00:57:50.53\00:57:52.33
these next few days
00:57:52.37\00:57:53.70
until we're right back
here together again next time.
00:57:53.74\00:57:56.54