In the beginning, the
earth was without form and void.
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Then God said,
"Let there be light."
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And there was light.
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And God divided the
light from the darkness.
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So the evening and the
morning were the first day.
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So the evening and the
morning were the second day.
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Then God said, "Let the waters
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under the heavens be gathered
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together into one place,
and let the dry land appear.
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Let the earth bring
forth grass and herb
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and the fruit
tree that yields fruit
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according to its kind.
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So the evening and the
morning were the third day.
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Then God made two great lights.
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He made the stars
also, so the evening
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and the morning
were the fourth day.
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Then God said,
"Let the waters abound
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with an abundance
of living creatures,
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and let birds fly
above the earth across
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the face of the
firmament of the heavens."
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So the evening and the
morning were the fifth day.
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Then God said, "Let
the earth bring forth
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living creature
according to its kind,
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cattle and creeping
things and beast of the earth.
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Then God said, Let Us
make man in Our image,
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according to Our likeness.
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So the evening and the
morning were the sixth day."
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And on the seventh
day God ended His work
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which He had done and
He rested the seventh day
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from all His work
which He had done.
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Then God blessed the seventh day
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and sanctified it
because in it He had rested
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from all His work which
God had created and made.
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And indeed it was very good.
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Well, it's a real
pleasure to welcome you again
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to our seminar, "Origins,
The First Week of Time."
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And this evening,
we're gonna be taking up
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a very fascinating, but
every night of this seminar,
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I think is my favorite.
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And so I have a hard
time trying to decide,
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but tonight is a
very important one.
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And so as we begin this evening,
let's begin with prayer.
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Holy Father, we just thank you
for the blessings of this day
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and we ask that the
same creative energy,
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Your Holy
Spirit, which was active
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in that first week of creation
will be active here tonight
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and will create in our
minds a fresh encounter
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with Your own
divinity because we ask
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that You will bless a planting
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of Your word
tonight in our hearts.
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We ask this in
Your Holy Name, amen.
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When God creates, He separates.
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And we discover on day one,
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He separated
light from darkness.
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On day two, He
separated water from water.
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And tonight we will discover
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that He is going to be
separating on this third day,
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He's gonna
separate land from water.
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And then with that
land for the first time
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He's gonna take
something He's already made
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and made something else from it.
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And when God
creates, He separates.
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And He is always in
this separating business.
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In fact, when sin
came into our world,
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it separated this
world from its Creator.
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And when sin comes in, it
separates people from people.
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And when the
Creator comes in your life,
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He wants to
separate sin from your life.
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Is that good news? And
He will--He as Creator,
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He is able to do
all these things.
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In fact, the whole Bible
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from Genesis to Revelation
is all about separating.
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He has a "called out people."
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And when the world with
so full of sin in Noah's day,
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He separated those
who would follow Him
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from those who would not.
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And there was a remnant
that survived the flood.
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And after that, when
God's people again got into sin,
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He called His
people out of Egypt.
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And God is always doing
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a separating
business when He is creating.
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And we're gonna
discover that in more detail
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as we continue with this week.
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And so, "All the
earth is the Lord's,
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and He has set
the world in order."
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First Samuel 2 verse 8.
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And you know that little
world as we see it out there
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from outer space as
we take a look at it--
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What is passing through?
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They look
pretty carefully there.
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The Bible says, "He
hung the world on nothing."
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And science comes along
and says, "That's right."
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And in Job, God
asked Job the question.
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"Where were you when I laid
the foundations of the earth?"
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Where were you? Well,
we're gonna look at that
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more carefully
tomorrow night that passage.
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And so when we think about
the foundations of the earth,
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so far we've discovered
in this creation story
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that there are at
least three foundations.
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Sound waves did the creating.
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God spoke and that, when
God speaks, that's not hard air.
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That is a
tremendous release of energy.
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And then they created light.
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And then last
night we discovered
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that He
separated water from water.
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And tonight we'll
discover He will be continuing
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in the separating business.
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When God created
light on day one,
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I would like to
suggest it is said
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a great ball of water spinning.
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It might have looked something
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like this Hurricane
Ike, 900 miles across.
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It filled the whole
Gulf of Mexico as it went in.
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And with our technology today,
you can see where the light
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and the darkness
divide on planet earth.
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And as the light approaches,
the earth takes shape
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like clay passed
beneath the seal.
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It is robed in brilliant colors.
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And so we read, if
you have your Bibles,
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I invite you to turn to Genesis,
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the very first Chapter
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and I hope in your
homework assignment,
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you're reading through Genesis
one and two everyday, right?
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All away through, so we
get a good sweep of this.
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And I'll be reading tonight
from the New King James Version.
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And we will begin
reading tonight with verse 9.
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"And then God said, "Let
the waters under the heavens
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be gathered
together into one place,
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and let dry land
appear." And it was so."
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I want you to notice
that when God said that,
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what came out of it was
dry land, not swamp ooze.
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It says, "It was dry land.
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And He called dry land Earth,
and the gathering together
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of the waters He called Seas.
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And God saw that it was
good." And then God said,
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"Let the earth
bring forth grass,
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the herb that yields
seed, and the fruit tree
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that yields fruit
according to its kind,
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whose seed is in itself,
on the earth," and it was so.
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And the earth brought forth
grass, the herb that yields seed
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according to its kind, and
the tree that yields fruit,
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whose seed is in
itself according to its kind.
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And God saw that it was good.
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So the evening and
morning were the third day."
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And so, water was
the primal substance
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that God used to create land.
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And He separated
land from that water.
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We discovered the human infant
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is created in a
water-filled womb.
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We discovered
that the human body
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actually operates
in a 75% water base.
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We find that water
seems to be the very key
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to life in so many, many ways.
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And by the word of God
the heavens were of old,
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and the earth standing
out of water and in the water,
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by which the world
that then existed perished,
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being flooded with
water, Second Peter 3:5 to 6.
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And so we read in
our scriptures tonight.
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And God called the dry
land Earth. Genesis 1, verse 10.
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Now this dry land was
not muck or swamp ooze.
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This land was very
different from the soil
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that we see in our world today
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because the flood
in Noah's day reshaped
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the whole earth as is recorded
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in the seventh
Chapter of Genesis.
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The earth is like a sponge,
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and the waters under the
earth, Exodus 20 verse 4.
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And we know that the water is
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under the earth is
called the aquifer.
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And this aquifer
is a unique thing.
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And the Bible tells
us in Genesis 2 verse 6,
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"That a mist went up
from the earth and watered
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the whole face of the ground."
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And we find some
remnants of that aquifer
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even in a world
today, in the valley
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that I grew up in Pine
Mountain Valley, Georgia.
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We discovered that the
water that they drink in Georgia
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actually came out of
a spring that originated
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in Pennsylvania, but it came
out in the ground in Georgia.
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And we know that these waters
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and aquifers are
most fascinating.
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There is a spring in
Hornsby, Northern Florida.
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I think that is a remnant one.
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It's underground water systems.
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The spring pours
forth 58 million gallons
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of fresh water a
day at 72 degrees.
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And divers have gone there
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and explored this
underground stream
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and gone eight miles
back in underneath the ground.
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And I think that's a remnant
of that underground water system
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that once
worked on planet earth.
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We discover--we could spend
easily a whole nine hour seminar
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just on the sea, its saltiness.
It is 3 to 4 percent salt.
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In the Mediterranean is
eight to twelve percent salt,
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where it's lowest
is in the polar seas.
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But the sea is not the
same saltiness everywhere.
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And there are
streams in the sea.
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And they flow the
Gulf Stream moves north
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starting at the Gulf 70
miles wide and 3,000 feet deep,
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that's about 1,000
Mississippi Rivers,
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all moving
forward at 86 degrees.
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And that Gulf Stream
moves towards the north.
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At the same time, the
Great Polar Stream also moves
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towards the south
like one giant circle
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of water going up and back.
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One is warm and
the other is cold.
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We have the tides that
sweep in and around our earth
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every 24 hours
twice, they go up or down.
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At St. Maloes, it is 50 feet.
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At the Bay of
Fundy, it's 100 feet.
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The Southern Ocean, it
moves at a 1,000 miles an hour.
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In Germany, it
moves 50 miles an hour.
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And so the ocean, God
said, "Hitherto shalt thou come,
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and no further, shall thy proud
waves be stayed," Job 38:11.
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The gathering together of
the waters He called seas,
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and the Bible says, "And
God saw that it was what, good."
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He called it good.
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And today, three quarters
of the earth surface is sea.
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I would like to suggest
that in the earth made new.
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According to
Revelation 21 verse 1,
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there will be no
longer the great giant seas
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such as we see
in our world today.
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These oceans I believe
came as a result of the flood
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in Noah's day, and
when that water ran off,
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that's where it
went was to the oceans
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and the earth was reshaped.
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The Bible promises a
new heavens and a new earth,
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and there will be no more
giant seas such as we see today.
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And so the scripture
says in Job 12 verse 8,
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"Speak to the earth
and it will teach you."
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And as we take a
look at the earth
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and the soil, 1/7th of
the earth's surface is desert.
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We also find that
1/7th of the earth's surface
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land is frozen
tundra, mountains,
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or tropical rain forests.
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It may come as sort of
a shock to us to realize
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that the real
reality is one-fourth
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of the earth's land
surface is tillable farm land.
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And just think
of it, that one-four
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is what feeds our hungry world.
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Is what fed you
your supper this evening,
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and that what's
feeds you everyday
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is this one-four of
the earth's land surface.
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It has eight chemical
elements, 47% is oxygen,
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27% silicon, 8% aluminum,
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5% iron, 11% calcium, magnesium,
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potassium, sodium, and
7% is made up of 80 other
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odd elements or rare
elements, if you please.
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It comes as we
take a look at earth.
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Sometimes, we think
earth, well it's just dirty.
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You just walk on it.
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But the real truth is
that nearly all the minerals
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of this earth are in
some form of a crystal.
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And every one of those crystals
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obey the law of their design.
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Rubies always have the
design of a ruby crystal.
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Diamonds, the diamond crystal.
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And what's amazing is nearly
all of the precious minerals
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are actually only
so many modifications
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of simply plain old clay.
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Just a slight
variation of the molecules
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and we get
nearly all the elements
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that make up our world today.
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And we read in the
Bible and then God said,
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"Let the earth
bring forth grass,
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the herb that yields
seed, according to its kind,
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whose seed is in
itself on the earth."
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And we will notice
that it specifically
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says the green herb.
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And the green herb
is a fascinating herb
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because it is composed
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of a little
element called chlorophyll.
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Say it with me, chlorophyll.
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You may have never
thought of it this way before,
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but chlorophyll
happens to be that living green
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connecting link
between the inorganic world
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and the organic world.
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And that
connecting link is what makes
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life possible on planet earth.
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It is one of the foundations
of life that the Creator
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created on this third day.
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And it may not come
as a surprise to discover
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that chlorophyll is actually
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only one molecule
different from human blood.
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All you have to do is
change one molecule of magnesium
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for iron and the
whole thing turns red.
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And if I wish to get sick
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and I wanted to help
my body make good blood,
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could you guess what food
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I think we ought to be eating?
It would be eat your greens.
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And I don't have to ask you,
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but in the North
American diet today,
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what element in our
diet is largely missing?
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And you're right, it's greens.
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You can go to a
restaurant and they'll serve you
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a little salad, but to get real
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and honest the goodness greens,
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you got to look
around to get it.
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And so the Bible says,
"According to its kind,
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whose seed is in
itself," Genesis 1 verse 11.
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When we take a look at
the wheat fields that grow,
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those wheat fields
are a living green.
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And probably at
least in North America,
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the green that's probably
most common is the wheat field.
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And when you take a look
at a wheat field very closely,
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you begin to look at some pretty
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incredible miracles and marvels.
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And so as we think
about those wheat fields,
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it's--it's the most famous
of the grass family is wheat.
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Man has carefully cultivated
and studied it for centuries.
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And upon close
investigation we discover,
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it really isn't
very simple for every one
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of those kernels has
the potential of reproducing
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the entire plant
from which it comes.
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And only that,
but it has flowers.
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And when you look real
carefully there you see
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the male part of that
flower on the wheat plant.
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And that male
part that is stamen
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multiplies very rapidly.
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There is the anther part.
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But the female part of
flower is almost never seen.
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And the reason that
it is almost never seen
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is because that
part of the flower
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is only open for 15 minutes.
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That once in a life time
opening at just the right time
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is what makes
wheat plants multiply
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and produce their crops.
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It's only open for 15 minutes.
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If it's not pollinated in that
15 minutes, it never will be,
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and that is what
creates the wheat harvest.
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And so, you know,
time are like seeds.
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Time is potential.
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A seed is not a harvest,
it's a potential harvest
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depending on
what you do with it.
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And our life is sort of
like those wheat kernels.
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We have--we live our
life one moment at a time.
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It's a form of grace that
you didn't earn or deserve.
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You can't hoard it or store it.
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You must spend it at a steady
rate of 24 hours everyday.
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And once they're
spent, they're spent.
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And those flowers,
they're open for 15 minutes,
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that once in a
lifetime happening
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is what makes it possible
for you to eat you toast
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this morning, if it
was made out of bread.
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And time are like
seeds and what we do
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with those moments
are incredibly important.
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If you waste two hours
each evening for 75 years
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and you've wasted 54,750
hours of the time of your life.
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That amount of time, two
hours every night for 75 years
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and you would have earned
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the equivalent of
20 college degrees.
00:20:22.69\00:20:27.00
And so the question
is, what are you doing
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with those two hours of
prime time every evening
00:20:28.96\00:20:32.99
which are about for many people?
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The only two hours you
really have much control over.
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And some people are
getting college degrees
00:20:38.70\00:20:40.93
in the boob tube.
00:20:40.94\00:20:42.36
They're getting college
degrees with their lifetime.
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There are lot of things.
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But my question to
you is simply this.
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Worship the one who
created the law of seeds.
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And on this third
day that yields its fruit
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according to its kind,
whose seed is in itself.
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That great law that came into
existence on this third day,
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which is the foundation to life,
00:21:12.04\00:21:15.08
is the foundation
of the redemption plan
00:21:15.09\00:21:17.98
that simply called
genetics or say with me,
00:21:17.99\00:21:23.20
the law of the harvest.
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We're familiar with it.
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Let's look at it a
little more carefully.
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This law of the harvest.
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In Deuteronomy 30 verse 19,
00:21:32.65\00:21:35.79
God said, "Today, I
am giving you a choice
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between life and death,
between blessings cursings.
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You choose life, by loving the
Lord your God, by obeying Him,
00:21:42.38\00:21:47.53
and committing
yourself firmly to Him.
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This is the key to your life."
00:21:50.32\00:21:54.72
And when you plant the
right seed, dear people,
00:21:54.73\00:21:57.22
you can see the
end from the beginning
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because if you're
planting that seed,
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you know what the
harvest is going to be.
00:22:02.44\00:22:06.04
So in Galatians, the 6 Chapter
verse 7, the Bible tells us
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very clearly, "You
reap what you sow."
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Many people don't believe that.
00:22:15.32\00:22:16.48
And particularly the
younger generation today,
00:22:16.49\00:22:18.34
they believe you can
sow well those in your youth
00:22:18.35\00:22:20.96
and not reap them
when you get older.
00:22:20.97\00:22:23.26
I got a surprise for you.
00:22:23.27\00:22:25.76
It doesn't work that way.
00:22:25.77\00:22:27.51
You sow wild oats,
you reap wild oats.
00:22:27.52\00:22:29.99
But there is good
news about this harvest.
00:22:30.00\00:22:32.19
So don't be deceived.
00:22:32.20\00:22:33.52
God specifically
says, "Don't be fooled.
00:22:33.53\00:22:37.54
Don't let me kid you.
00:22:37.55\00:22:39.20
God is not mocked, for
what we sow, we will reap."
00:22:39.21\00:22:44.09
And the Bible says, "If you sow
to the flesh, you reap death.
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If you sow to the
spirit, you will reap life."
00:22:47.56\00:22:51.30
What I'm about to share
with you is--is one of the most
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fascinating
stories that I have found
00:22:55.94\00:22:59.05
in the world of nature.
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I think it is so fascinating
00:23:00.25\00:23:02.30
that it's gonna
be our next book.
00:23:02.31\00:23:05.28
and that is what I call
00:23:05.29\00:23:07.49
"The Gospel
According to Blackberries."
00:23:07.50\00:23:10.92
How many people
like blackberries?
00:23:10.93\00:23:13.62
And you probably
have eaten blackberries
00:23:13.63\00:23:17.73
and they are very
good to the taste.
00:23:17.74\00:23:21.22
But how many have
ever picked blackberries?
00:23:21.23\00:23:24.32
Is there a
problem with blackberries?
00:23:26.76\00:23:28.62
Yeah, there is.
00:23:29.81\00:23:31.26
And those blackberries
while as very delicious,
00:23:31.27\00:23:35.09
they can also pack a
real wall called pain.
00:23:35.10\00:23:40.04
And so I want you to tell
you a good news story tonight,
00:23:40.05\00:23:43.17
"The Gospel
According to Blackberries."
00:23:43.18\00:23:45.14
And it works like this.
00:23:45.15\00:23:46.21
Luther Burbank
was a plant musician.
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And in 1880, on his 10-acre
farm in Sebastopol, California,
00:23:49.26\00:23:55.12
he wanted to develop
a thornless blackberry.
00:23:55.13\00:23:59.63
Can everybody say amen to that?
00:23:59.64\00:24:01.90
Yes, that's a very good
idea, but the question is,
00:24:01.91\00:24:04.39
how you're gonna
develop a thornless blackberry?
00:24:04.40\00:24:07.81
You know, just how would you go
00:24:07.82\00:24:09.94
about developing
thornless blackberries?
00:24:09.95\00:24:13.12
Well, Luther Burbank
was not a trained man
00:24:13.13\00:24:18.31
of educational universities.
00:24:18.32\00:24:20.64
He had a very simple science.
00:24:20.65\00:24:22.53
And he understood
the law of genetics
00:24:22.54\00:24:26.22
that God created
on this third day.
00:24:26.23\00:24:29.46
Say with me, after its kind.
00:24:29.47\00:24:33.29
Luther Burbank believed that
if you plant the right seed,
00:24:33.30\00:24:36.36
you're gonna get
the right harvest.
00:24:36.37\00:24:37.50
Now that's no brain
or science, isn't it?
00:24:37.51\00:24:39.86
That's real simple.
Anybody can understand that.
00:24:39.87\00:24:42.29
Kids can understand that.
00:24:42.30\00:24:43.84
And so he set out o
develop a thornless blackberry,
00:24:43.85\00:24:49.48
but he had a problem.
00:24:49.49\00:24:50.77
According to Genesis 3,
verse 17 and 18, the Bible says,
00:24:52.00\00:24:56.86
"Cursed is the
ground for your sake,
00:24:56.87\00:24:59.06
and both thorns and
thistles it shall bring forth"
00:24:59.07\00:25:03.73
And so when
Luther Burbank decided
00:25:03.74\00:25:05.93
to take the thorns
out of blackberries,
00:25:05.94\00:25:08.13
what was he really
trying to decide to do?
00:25:08.14\00:25:10.68
Well, he was
trying to decide to take
00:25:10.69\00:25:13.17
the curse of sin
out of blackberries.
00:25:13.18\00:25:16.64
That's a redemption
plan for blackberries, right?
00:25:16.65\00:25:19.94
I mean, I-- I'm
not being facetious,
00:25:19.95\00:25:22.08
I'm trying to be very
scientifically accurate.
00:25:22.09\00:25:24.82
That's true, isn't it?
00:25:24.83\00:25:25.97
He is going to take the curse
of sin out of blackberries.
00:25:25.98\00:25:28.84
Now the question is,
how're you gonna do it?
00:25:28.85\00:25:31.49
Those thorns, anybody
has dealt with blackberries
00:25:32.68\00:25:35.11
in the wild know for well, those
thorns are positively wicked.
00:25:35.12\00:25:41.58
And they can draw blood
00:25:41.59\00:25:43.39
and they're very
difficult to deal with,
00:25:43.40\00:25:46.69
so how're you going to do it?
00:25:46.70\00:25:48.46
Well, Luther
Burbank operated his science
00:25:48.47\00:25:52.31
on two simple principles.
00:25:52.32\00:25:55.02
And I'd like to suggest
if you're thinking tonight
00:25:55.03\00:25:57.57
those two simple
principles are the principles
00:25:57.58\00:26:02.41
of the
redemption plan for mankind.
00:26:02.42\00:26:07.18
But it was also the
redemption plan for blackberries
00:26:07.19\00:26:09.87
as we shall see in a moment.
00:26:09.88\00:26:12.91
Burbank followed
two simple principles.
00:26:12.92\00:26:16.51
Principle number one,
he cultivated the best.
00:26:16.52\00:26:20.26
And number two, he
destroyed the rest.
00:26:20.27\00:26:24.27
It worked like this.
00:26:24.28\00:26:25.80
Luther Burbank looked
around and he discovered
00:26:25.81\00:26:28.51
that there was a
Wachusetts thornless blackberry.
00:26:28.52\00:26:32.04
It really wasn't thornless.
00:26:32.05\00:26:33.71
It just had less
thorns than any other.
00:26:33.72\00:26:36.91
And so he would
plant 1,500 seedlings
00:26:36.92\00:26:40.34
of the Wachusetts
thornless in his blackberry farm
00:26:40.35\00:26:43.36
there in Sebastopol, California.
00:26:43.37\00:26:45.33
He looked them all over
00:26:45.34\00:26:47.62
and he looked
them very carefully
00:26:47.63\00:26:50.08
and the ones
with the least thorns,
00:26:50.09\00:26:55.01
he let them live, put a little
yellow ribbon around them.
00:26:55.02\00:26:58.68
And then, he only had 10 acres
00:26:58.69\00:27:00.45
and so he
destroyed all the rest.
00:27:00.46\00:27:03.05
And he took out all the
rest of the blackberries
00:27:03.06\00:27:05.86
and kept only the
ones with the least thorns.
00:27:05.87\00:27:10.06
What did he believe? If
you plant the right seed,
00:27:10.07\00:27:13.07
you're gonna get
the right harvest.
00:27:13.08\00:27:14.72
And so he
planted 1,500 seedlings,
00:27:14.73\00:27:16.81
looked them all
over, and then he worked,
00:27:16.82\00:27:19.73
cultivate the what? Best.
00:27:19.74\00:27:21.58
And he did what?
He destroyed the rest.
00:27:21.59\00:27:24.67
And that's a
Biblical principle by the way.
00:27:24.68\00:27:27.63
Reckon yourselves
dead indeed to sin
00:27:27.64\00:27:30.64
and alive on through God's word.
00:27:30.65\00:27:33.40
And so that's what he did.
00:27:33.41\00:27:35.34
He cultivated the best
and he destroyed the rest.
00:27:35.35\00:27:37.73
He planted 1,500
seedlings, looked them all over,
00:27:37.74\00:27:40.37
the one with least thorns,
00:27:40.38\00:27:41.42
he let that live and
he destroyed all the rest.
00:27:41.43\00:27:44.33
And then, he took
those seed children
00:27:44.34\00:27:46.14
and he planted them,
1,500 seedlings of them
00:27:46.15\00:27:49.79
and then he looked them all over
00:27:49.80\00:27:51.85
and the ones with
the least he what?
00:27:51.86\00:27:54.07
Cultivated the best
and he destroyed the rest.
00:27:54.08\00:27:58.41
And then he took
those seed children,
00:27:58.42\00:28:00.99
now the third generation
planted 1,500 seedlings of them
00:28:01.00\00:28:05.42
and looked them all over.
00:28:05.43\00:28:06.70
The ones with the least
thorns, he let those live.
00:28:06.71\00:28:09.51
And then he
destroyed or say it with me,
00:28:09.52\00:28:11.86
he cultivated the best
and he destroyed the rest.
00:28:11.87\00:28:17.11
And that was his simple science.
00:28:17.12\00:28:21.26
And you know what happened?
00:28:21.27\00:28:23.77
When he planted
the fourth generation
00:28:23.78\00:28:26.92
of seed children
of those blackberries,
00:28:26.93\00:28:29.48
he got 1,500
seedlings, no thorns.
00:28:29.49\00:28:33.64
Ain't that awesome?
00:28:33.65\00:28:34.70
Now what does God's word
say in the Ten Commandments?
00:28:34.71\00:28:37.94
That the curse
of sin goes to what?
00:28:37.95\00:28:40.28
The third and fourth generation.
00:28:40.29\00:28:43.89
And Burbank proved that he
could take the curse of sin
00:28:43.90\00:28:48.00
out of blackberries
in four generations.
00:28:48.01\00:28:50.45
And I get excited when
science comes on and says,
00:28:50.46\00:28:53.49
"You know what?
This book's right."
00:28:53.50\00:28:56.05
This is absolute clear science
00:28:56.06\00:28:59.25
as was demonstrated in
Burbank's 10-acre farm.
00:28:59.26\00:29:03.36
Now there was
just one small problem.
00:29:03.37\00:29:06.39
Those bushes that were totally
thornless had small nubby,
00:29:08.12\00:29:15.50
tasteless, insipid fruit on it.
00:29:15.51\00:29:19.32
Now what good are thornless
blackberries with yucky fruit?
00:29:19.33\00:29:23.73
Are you with me?
00:29:23.74\00:29:25.06
But he got rid of
the thorns, all right.
00:29:25.07\00:29:27.96
But now he's got yucky fruit.
00:29:27.97\00:29:30.21
Let me ask you a question.
00:29:30.22\00:29:31.66
Have you ever met a
thornless Christian?
00:29:33.65\00:29:36.89
All right, somebody
who said, "You know,
00:29:38.51\00:29:39.71
I--I don't smoke
and I don't dance,
00:29:39.72\00:29:43.96
and I don't run
around, and I don't do this,
00:29:43.97\00:29:45.78
and I don't do that."
00:29:45.79\00:29:47.59
But you'd hate to
live next door to them.
00:29:47.60\00:29:51.08
Do you know what I mean?
00:29:51.09\00:29:52.30
Hear me very carefully.
00:29:52.31\00:29:53.40
Just because you
don't drink, smoke, dance,
00:29:53.41\00:29:55.74
and run around, because
you don't do bad things,
00:29:55.75\00:29:58.62
does that make you righteous?
No, that's not righteousness.
00:29:58.63\00:30:03.18
That's just
badness held in check.
00:30:03.19\00:30:05.31
And people who look at
that, might think you're very,
00:30:05.32\00:30:08.12
very righteous and
even fool yourself and them,
00:30:08.13\00:30:11.73
but that doesn't
make you righteous
00:30:11.74\00:30:13.69
just because got
rid of the thorns.
00:30:13.70\00:30:16.79
What God is looking for is
fruits, fruits of the spirit.
00:30:16.80\00:30:22.65
And that's not
what you don't do.
00:30:22.66\00:30:24.53
I've conducted lot of funerals
00:30:24.54\00:30:26.49
and I stood by the casket and
I've looked in on that casket
00:30:26.50\00:30:29.78
and I'm yet to
see a corpse, smoke,
00:30:29.79\00:30:32.18
drink, dance, or run around.
00:30:32.19\00:30:34.34
And just because
you don't do bad things,
00:30:34.35\00:30:36.42
that doesn't make you really
00:30:36.43\00:30:37.96
any better than a
corpse. Is that right?
00:30:37.97\00:30:42.92
Now, what did Burbank do?
00:30:42.93\00:30:46.12
He got rid of the
thorns. He got yucky fruit.
00:30:46.13\00:30:48.34
Well, he understood
just one simple science.
00:30:48.35\00:30:51.85
He looked around and
he found some blackberries
00:30:51.86\00:30:53.97
that had
luscious, delicious fruit,
00:30:53.98\00:30:56.27
and he crossbred those
into his thornless blackberries,
00:30:56.28\00:30:59.97
and guess what? You're
right, he got his thorns back.
00:30:59.98\00:31:04.23
He got rid of the thorns.
00:31:04.24\00:31:06.12
But now as he began
to crossbreed flavor
00:31:06.13\00:31:09.69
back into those
thornless blackberries,
00:31:09.70\00:31:12.49
he got the thorns
back. Hear me carefully.
00:31:12.50\00:31:16.08
This man believed
the law of genetics.
00:31:16.09\00:31:19.09
Don't be deceived.
He wasn't deceived.
00:31:19.10\00:31:21.78
He labored on year after
year after year after year
00:31:21.79\00:31:27.07
planting 1,500 seedlings,
looking them all over.
00:31:27.08\00:31:29.76
What did he do? He
cultivated the best
00:31:29.77\00:31:32.76
and he destroyed the rest.
00:31:32.77\00:31:35.67
And he did this year
after year after year.
00:31:35.68\00:31:39.45
And this is what he discovered.
00:31:39.46\00:31:40.77
"Every alternate
generation of seeds produced
00:31:40.78\00:31:43.95
only bushes with thorns.
00:31:43.96\00:31:45.99
A characteristic in a
plant which has existed
00:31:46.00\00:31:48.42
for unknown
generations is likely
00:31:48.43\00:31:50.54
to be more difficult to change."
00:31:50.55\00:31:52.69
And he discovered
every other generation
00:31:52.70\00:31:55.09
that he planted was
almost totally thorns,
00:31:55.10\00:31:57.99
but he did not give up.
00:31:58.00\00:32:00.63
The scripture says,
"We're saved by hope."
00:32:00.64\00:32:02.62
And Burbank believed
the law of genetics. Do you?
00:32:02.63\00:32:08.56
He did. He kept
working on year after year
00:32:08.57\00:32:13.98
after year
after year after year.
00:32:13.99\00:32:18.74
How long do you
want me to say that?
00:32:18.75\00:32:20.94
I don't think you want me
to say it as long as he did it.
00:32:20.95\00:32:24.49
This is an amazing
story. A true story of science.
00:32:24.50\00:32:31.71
Burbank labored away
year after year after year.
00:32:31.72\00:32:37.05
And finally, in the
year 1911, hear me carefully,
00:32:37.06\00:32:42.53
30 years later after beginning
00:32:42.54\00:32:47.65
his experiments
with blackberries,
00:32:47.66\00:32:50.72
Burbank had full luscious,
00:32:50.73\00:32:55.77
delicious berries growing
00:32:55.78\00:32:59.80
on totally
thornless bushes. Amen? Amen.
00:32:59.81\00:33:04.39
He worked the law of genetics
all the way back to Genesis 1,
00:33:05.44\00:33:08.70
I would like to suggest.
00:33:08.71\00:33:10.69
And he proved
that you could do this.
00:33:10.70\00:33:13.14
But more than that,
that law, I believe,
00:33:13.15\00:33:15.46
is such exciting
good news for you and me
00:33:15.47\00:33:18.21
because here's the point.
00:33:18.22\00:33:19.61
The same law of genetics
that is our curse under Adam,
00:33:19.62\00:33:24.18
that same law of
genetics is our hope
00:33:24.19\00:33:27.91
when you plant
the seed of the woman,
00:33:27.92\00:33:30.25
the seed of
Abraham, the seed of David
00:33:30.26\00:33:32.69
that seed implanted into
your heart will reproduce itself
00:33:32.70\00:33:37.97
in your heart of
clay just as surely
00:33:37.98\00:33:41.00
and just as certainly,
as did the law of curse
00:33:41.01\00:33:44.63
in the first Adam
reproduced sin after its kind?
00:33:44.64\00:33:47.92
Are you with me?
It's the same law,
00:33:47.93\00:33:50.44
but it's a different seed.
00:33:50.45\00:33:52.19
It's a seed of the
woman, the seed of Abraham,
00:33:52.20\00:33:53.88
the seed of David.
00:33:53.89\00:33:55.03
That seed of righteousness
from the seed catalog,
00:33:55.04\00:33:58.77
his word will
reproduce itself surely
00:33:58.78\00:34:01.81
and accurately in your
life of clay as in mine,
00:34:01.82\00:34:06.66
and the Creator who
created that law of genetics
00:34:06.67\00:34:09.41
knows that that law
is absolutely certain.
00:34:09.42\00:34:12.16
And if you're
cultivating the right seed,
00:34:12.17\00:34:14.91
God can look at you
today as a finished product
00:34:14.92\00:34:18.39
because all it needs is time.
00:34:18.40\00:34:20.72
And through the Creator of
all time, time is meaningless.
00:34:20.73\00:34:24.39
And if you got the right seed
00:34:24.40\00:34:26.36
and you're cultivating the best
00:34:26.37\00:34:27.97
and you're destroying the rest,
00:34:27.98\00:34:29.60
God can look at you
as a finished product
00:34:29.61\00:34:32.26
because the law of
genetics is absolutely certain
00:34:32.27\00:34:37.34
because the
Creator made it that way.
00:34:37.35\00:34:41.35
Is that good news?
00:34:42.39\00:34:43.71
Well, you know,
I--I don't like preachers
00:34:43.72\00:34:46.60
that shout and--but this is
such good news, dear people.
00:34:46.61\00:34:50.01
I have a hard
time containing myself
00:34:50.02\00:34:52.51
because this is such good news.
00:34:52.52\00:34:55.11
The redemption plan was created
00:34:55.12\00:34:56.88
on day three in
the law of genetics.
00:34:56.89\00:35:00.29
And God knows that.
00:35:00.30\00:35:01.50
And Galatians 6:7 and 8 says,
00:35:01.51\00:35:03.93
"Don't be
deceived, God is not mocked
00:35:03.94\00:35:05.76
what a man sows,
that he will also reap.
00:35:05.77\00:35:08.07
He that sows to the Spirit
00:35:08.08\00:35:09.87
will of the Spirit
reap life everlasting,
00:35:09.88\00:35:12.10
and he that sows to the flesh
00:35:12.11\00:35:13.90
will of the
flesh reap corruption."
00:35:13.91\00:35:15.51
Do we have a choice?
00:35:15.52\00:35:17.53
And the harvest is
absolutely certain.
00:35:17.54\00:35:20.85
In fact, in
Second Peter 1 verse 4,
00:35:20.86\00:35:24.24
I just want to read this to you
00:35:24.25\00:35:25.60
because this is God's
word is His seed catalog,
00:35:25.61\00:35:32.11
if you please. You
ever thought of it that way?
00:35:32.12\00:35:34.33
God has a promise for
every problem on planet earth.
00:35:34.34\00:35:38.25
And if you will cultivate the
seeds from this seed catalog,
00:35:38.26\00:35:42.65
the harvest is sure
and this is what it says.
00:35:42.66\00:35:44.93
"By which are
given unto us exceeding
00:35:44.94\00:35:46.85
great and precious promises,
00:35:46.86\00:35:48.50
that through these
you may be a partaker
00:35:48.51\00:35:51.07
of the divine nature,
having escaped the corruption
00:35:51.08\00:35:55.77
that is in the
world through lust."
00:35:55.78\00:35:58.78
Look this great promise up.
00:35:58.79\00:36:00.92
It's the greatest single promise
00:36:00.93\00:36:02.91
in all of Holy Scripture that
I know of Ephesians 3:15 to 21.
00:36:02.92\00:36:08.74
It is so awesome that
you would almost think
00:36:08.75\00:36:11.87
it was blasphemous to read it.
00:36:11.88\00:36:14.94
Now this is the
formula for power, E = MC2.
00:36:14.95\00:36:19.21
This is the formula
for power or energy.
00:36:19.22\00:36:22.41
If matter were
reduced to pure energy,
00:36:22.42\00:36:25.50
it would equal its weight times
the speed of light squared.
00:36:25.51\00:36:30.00
The reverse is
also equally true.
00:36:30.01\00:36:32.61
If you had enough energy,
00:36:32.62\00:36:34.38
you could create
matter from energy itself.
00:36:34.39\00:36:37.63
And that's exactly
what the Word of God says,
00:36:37.64\00:36:41.68
"By the word of the
Lord the heavens were made,
00:36:41.69\00:36:44.00
and all the host of them
by the breath of His mouth."
00:36:44.01\00:36:48.75
God created the law of
genetics with what? Sound waves.
00:36:48.76\00:36:54.63
And those sound
waves is His word.
00:36:54.64\00:36:58.20
In fact, they
have gone on to study.
00:36:58.21\00:37:01.01
And they have studied
the atom and the neutrons
00:37:01.02\00:37:04.89
and the protons
and the electrons,
00:37:04.90\00:37:06.51
and they divided
it on down to quirks
00:37:06.52\00:37:09.09
and then they think
that the thing that keeps
00:37:09.10\00:37:11.12
those apart are
actually sound waves.
00:37:11.13\00:37:14.25
Isn't that amazing?
Now I want to give you
00:37:14.26\00:37:17.65
another formula for power.
00:37:17.66\00:37:19.17
This is so mind boggling.
I want to read it to you.
00:37:19.18\00:37:21.87
I found it in
an old book written
00:37:21.88\00:37:24.06
about 100 years ago
by the title "Education."
00:37:24.07\00:37:28.03
And this is what it says.
00:37:28.04\00:37:30.69
You might want to jot
this down on your notes
00:37:30.70\00:37:33.74
or somewhere and
it's taken from page 126,
00:37:33.75\00:37:37.41
"The creative energy
that called the worlds
00:37:37.42\00:37:40.18
into existence is
in the Word of God."
00:37:40.19\00:37:44.70
Did you get that?
00:37:46.49\00:37:47.81
The same part of the
created world is in this book.
00:37:47.82\00:37:51.13
"And this word imparts power.
00:37:51.14\00:37:54.70
It begets life. Every
command is a promise."
00:37:54.71\00:37:59.02
God never commanded anything.
00:37:59.03\00:38:00.53
He didn't also supply the divine
power with which to do it.
00:38:00.54\00:38:04.04
Isn't that a wonderful plan?
00:38:04.05\00:38:05.49
"And then accepted
by the Will received
00:38:05.50\00:38:08.57
into the Soul
that brings with it,
00:38:08.58\00:38:09.98
the life of the Infinite One.
00:38:09.99\00:38:11.96
That life of the Infinite
One transforms the nature
00:38:11.97\00:38:15.29
and recreates in the
soul the image of God."
00:38:15.30\00:38:19.23
Now there is a formula
for power second to none.
00:38:19.24\00:38:24.22
And you have access
to that in your Bible.
00:38:24.23\00:38:27.81
And God wants us
to take access of it.
00:38:27.82\00:38:31.52
Notice it says, "That yields
fruit according to its kind,
00:38:31.53\00:38:35.27
whose seed is in itself."
00:38:35.28\00:38:37.24
I'd like to suggest
for you that God's word
00:38:37.25\00:38:40.42
is His seed according to
the parable in Luke 8 verse 11,
00:38:40.43\00:38:45.05
when Christ gave that parable,
00:38:45.06\00:38:46.49
He said, "The seed is
what? It's the word of God."
00:38:46.50\00:38:51.97
And it says, "He sold His seed."
00:38:51.98\00:38:55.13
But notice, Psalms 1 verse 2,
00:38:55.14\00:38:57.95
"But his delight is
in the law of the Lord."
00:38:57.96\00:39:00.00
That word law there is Torah.
00:39:00.01\00:39:02.19
It means the first
five books of the Bible.
00:39:02.20\00:39:04.69
"And in His law he
meditates day and night.
00:39:04.70\00:39:10.44
And God's word
is a seed catalog,
00:39:10.45\00:39:13.23
Your word have I
hidden in my heart,
00:39:13.24\00:39:14.97
that I might not
sin against You."
00:39:14.98\00:39:18.57
Have you hidden God's
promises in your heart?
00:39:20.04\00:39:22.30
The promises of this book,
00:39:23.88\00:39:25.68
the same power that created
this world is in this book.
00:39:25.69\00:39:29.97
And when you put those promises
00:39:29.98\00:39:31.85
into your mind by
memorizing and meditating,
00:39:31.86\00:39:35.60
then you have the divine
life that created this world
00:39:35.61\00:39:39.63
that becomes part of
your life. Do we need that?
00:39:39.64\00:39:42.62
Now notice carefully the
little handout that I gave you.
00:39:42.63\00:39:46.26
If you take that little handout,
00:39:46.27\00:39:48.07
I want you to just
look at it with me.
00:39:48.08\00:39:50.70
I want you to take it home.
00:39:50.71\00:39:52.49
But don't just look at it.
I want you to make use of it.
00:39:52.50\00:39:58.66
Seven steps to mind renewal
00:39:58.67\00:40:00.99
by the implanting
of the Word of God.
00:40:01.00\00:40:03.57
And the first in
harmony with the great law
00:40:03.58\00:40:07.73
that strength is
acquired by effort,
00:40:07.74\00:40:09.84
the first step is
to receive the word.
00:40:09.85\00:40:13.09
Hear it, see it or read it.
00:40:13.10\00:40:15.33
And then the second
step is to memorize,
00:40:15.34\00:40:17.64
"Thy word have I hid in my heart
00:40:17.65\00:40:19.51
that I might not
sin against thee."
00:40:19.52\00:40:21.15
The third step is to
understand it intellectually.
00:40:21.16\00:40:24.71
Look it up in a lexicon.
00:40:24.72\00:40:26.47
Find the meaning of that word.
00:40:26.48\00:40:27.55
And then four, visualize
it. Use your imagination.
00:40:27.56\00:40:31.66
Make it come to life.
00:40:31.67\00:40:33.09
And then number
five, personalize it.
00:40:33.10\00:40:36.48
The Creator is
talking to you personally.
00:40:36.49\00:40:39.74
God so loved Terry that if
Terry would believe in Him,
00:40:39.75\00:40:44.94
Terry would not perish,
00:40:44.95\00:40:46.90
but Terry would
have everlasting life.
00:40:46.91\00:40:49.50
God is speaking
to you personally.
00:40:49.51\00:40:52.31
Let Him speak to you
personally. Personalize it.
00:40:52.32\00:40:55.51
And then step six, believe it.
00:40:55.52\00:40:57.84
Dissolve your doubts into belief
00:40:57.85\00:41:00.02
by a decided act of surrender
of the human will to the divine.
00:41:00.03\00:41:05.40
And then act and do
it. Don't be double minded.
00:41:05.41\00:41:09.79
And if you will do that, God's
seed catalog will transform
00:41:09.80\00:41:17.46
your life from the inside out.
00:41:17.47\00:41:21.15
And I want to draw a conclusion
to our message this evening.
00:41:21.16\00:41:25.80
Psalms 1:1 to 3,
David said in his Psalms,
00:41:25.81\00:41:30.00
"They shall be like a
tree." What kind of a tree?
00:41:30.01\00:41:35.74
I want to draw a conclusion
00:41:35.75\00:41:37.07
to this message
tonight on the chalkboard.
00:41:37.08\00:41:40.80
What was it like
to be a tree planted
00:41:42.47\00:41:45.57
by the rivers of water?
00:41:45.58\00:41:48.82
When David said,
00:41:51.00\00:41:52.34
"Those who love my law."
00:41:55.00\00:41:57.07
And the word is
Torah, the Hebrew Torah.
00:41:57.08\00:41:59.33
It means the five books of the--
first five books of the Bible.
00:41:59.34\00:42:03.35
It's the whole thing.
Not just the Ten Commandment.
00:42:03.36\00:42:05.94
Those who love your law and
meditate on it day and night,
00:42:05.95\00:42:10.92
they shall be like tree
00:42:10.93\00:42:13.63
planted by the...
00:42:15.94\00:42:18.80
water.
00:42:22.66\00:42:23.70
Now when it said water,
00:42:23.71\00:42:25.32
what kind of water was
it really talking about?
00:42:25.33\00:42:30.91
Actually if you
look it up in the Hebrew,
00:42:30.92\00:42:33.33
you will discover that
what it was talking about
00:42:33.34\00:42:36.71
was irrigation ditches.
00:42:36.72\00:42:39.99
And he said, "There will
be-- if you will meditate
00:42:45.47\00:42:48.58
on My word day and night,
00:42:48.59\00:42:50.34
you will be like a tree
planted by an irrigation ditch."
00:42:52.09\00:42:56.49
And he said, "If you will
meditate on it day and night."
00:42:59.61\00:43:03.10
And that means you memorize it
00:43:06.32\00:43:07.98
because at night
when you memorize it,
00:43:07.99\00:43:09.74
you can cough it
up and think about it.
00:43:09.75\00:43:12.18
And meditation is sort of
like a cow chewing its cud.
00:43:12.19\00:43:17.04
It will eat
something, grass or whatever.
00:43:18.88\00:43:23.95
And then it chews on it.
00:43:23.96\00:43:27.96
And then it will swallow
and it'll bring up a new one.
00:43:30.66\00:43:32.99
And I discovered the
Word of God as you memorize it
00:43:33.00\00:43:35.55
and meditate upon it,
00:43:35.56\00:43:36.94
it gets older and
then you pick a new one.
00:43:40.52\00:43:46.11
And as you pick a new one,
the life comes back to it again.
00:43:46.12\00:43:50.32
Now these rivers,
00:43:59.39\00:44:02.04
irrigation ditches.
00:44:05.01\00:44:07.37
They actually get their water
00:44:07.38\00:44:11.15
from the mountains.
00:44:14.19\00:44:15.45
And that water--
00:44:19.07\00:44:20.35
and they begin to fill
the streams with this water.
00:44:27.41\00:44:31.93
And wherever that water goes,
00:44:31.94\00:44:33.88
what do we see
happening beside it?
00:44:36.81\00:44:38.77
Trees will begin to grow,
00:44:42.81\00:44:46.32
wherever the water is.
00:44:48.45\00:44:49.92
And those trees
00:44:58.40\00:44:59.95
grow by those rivers of water.
00:45:08.96\00:45:14.22
And David said,
"If you'll meditate
00:45:20.24\00:45:22.02
on my word day and night,
your leaf will not wither."
00:45:22.03\00:45:25.50
And whatever you do and it says,
00:45:33.15\00:45:37.11
"Not only that, but
they will bring forth
00:45:37.12\00:45:39.98
their fruit in its season.
00:45:39.99\00:45:44.51
And we know all about planting
and reaping of a harvest,
00:45:52.08\00:45:56.10
it doesn't all
happen overnight, does it?
00:45:56.11\00:45:58.33
And the picture
00:46:40.91\00:46:42.12
begins to take shape.
00:46:46.23\00:46:47.86
And the tree
00:46:52.99\00:46:54.19
will not wither,
00:46:58.32\00:47:00.27
and whatever it
does will prosper.
00:47:00.28\00:47:04.71
I was talking to a gentleman.
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I went to make a hospital visit.
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I went to visit him.
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We'll call his name Bill.
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That was not his name.
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He said, preacher, I
don't have good news.
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The doctor says, I
have cancer of the liver.
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And he was depressed.
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I sat on beside him
and I began to share
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from the seed catalog
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of God's word, some promises.
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And as I shared
those promises with him,
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in a few minutes, I
shared First John 1:9,
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"If we confess our sins,
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he is faithful and
just to forgive us,
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and cleanse us from
all unrighteousness."
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Then I shared
with him that promise,
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that "He that hath
the Son hath life."
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I shared with him the
promises of the seed catalog
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and he began to accept those.
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And I watched him change
right before my very eyes.
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And as he-- he
only lived a week...
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and I watched him change.
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I was with him
the night he died.
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On the night he died,
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he was laying there in his bed,
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and he was just radiant.
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I see people once in a while,
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their face is just glowing.
He was just glowing away.
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And he was listening to a tape
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that my wife had made
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"When you walk
through the valley."
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And he had his
eyes closed and he says,
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"Wow." He says,
"That's so beautiful."
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Then he looked at me.
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Because he accepted the seed,
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he was a cattle breeder.
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He understood
the law of genetics.
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And I said, when you have
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the seed of God's
word in your heart,
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the seed of the
woman, the seed of Abraham,
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the seed of David that
seed will reproduce itself
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and you'll partake a divinity.
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And on the resurrection morning,
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unless God works a miracle,
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you're gonna go into the grave,
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but on the resurrection morning
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that divine power will respond
to the call of the life giver
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and it will bring
you out of the grave
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just as surely as his ongoing
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commands brings winter
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wheat out of the
ground in the spring.
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And that man caught that vision.
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And that night before
he died, he said, preacher,
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I am happier now
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than I've ever been
in any moment of my life.
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And dear people,
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if He's good enough
for when you're dying,
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don't you think
we ought to try Him
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when we're living.
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And let the power of
that seed catalog transform
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your life from the inside out.
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Well, you know, this
picture develops away,
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but then it seems
like in all of us.
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We can have a
picture that's looking fine.
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And then--
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somebody--
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throws a beer can
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or it could be a drug problem,
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whatever it might
be, it can come in
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and it appears
to ruin the picture.
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And it seems
like there's no hope.
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Stuart Hamblen was such a man.
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And he was a songwriter.
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And one night he
went to visit John Wayne.
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And as he went
to visit John Wayne
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that night and
they were visiting.
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And John Wayne said,
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"Stuart, is it true that
you used to be an alcoholic?"
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And he said, "Yeah, it's true.
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I used to be an alcoholic."
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And he said, "Well, Stuart,
just between you and me."
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He said, "Don't you get a little
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hankering for the
stuff once in a while."
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You know, just a
little bit of a hanker.
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And Stuart Hamblen said,
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"No, John, it's no
secret what God can do.
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Not even a little
tiny itsy-bitsy bit left."
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And so they
visited on that night,
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and as they
visited on that night,
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as they were leaving quite late,
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as they were leaving,
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John Wayne said to
Stuart, "Stuart." He said,
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"You ought to write a
song about that sometime."
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He said, "A song about what?"
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He said, "About what you said,
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'Its No Secret
What God Can Do.'"
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And so Stuart said,
"Well, maybe I will."
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So he got home that night.
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He told his wife to
go on and go to bed.
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And he sat-- he
sat on at his desk
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and he began to write.
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The clock was
chiming out midnight.
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"The chimes of
timing out the news.
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Another day is through.
Someone slipped and fell.
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Or was that someone you?"
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And he wrote. It
seemed like all night.
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And finally had it
all done, words and music.
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And as he
walked down the hallway
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to where his wife
was sleeping, he thought,
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he looked at the
clock on the wall.
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And it was 15
minutes after midnight.
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Words and music in 15 minutes.
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"Its No Secret What God Can Do."
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And dear people,
Abraham was called
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"The Father of the
Faithful." He was called
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"The Father of
the people of Israel.
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And Judah, he was called
"The Father of the people,
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the great community
of the Muslim faith.
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He's called "The Father of
the Faithful of the Christians."
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But Abraham looked for a city
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whose builder and maker was God.
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And by faith, Abraham died.
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He never saw that city
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whose builder and maker was God.
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But if you will
plant the right seed,
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you'll reap the right harvest.
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And God's word
is His seed catalog,
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and He wants us to
have that seed catalog.
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They're gonna start
making that part choice.
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"Choose this day
whom you will serve,
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gods of this world
or the Creator as Lord.
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But as for me and my
house, we will serve the Lord."
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And as we close
tonight, I want to pray.
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I want you to take
time with God's seed catalog
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and allow the
divinity power in this book
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transform your life
from the inside out.
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Oh, God, help us to
take the time of life
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and get a college
degree in Your Holy Word
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that Your word--
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can transform our
lives from the inside out
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as we will partake of
the seed of the woman,
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the seed of
Abraham, the seed of David,
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and that seed will reproduce
its life in our life today.
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Dismiss us with
that powers our prayer
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because we ask it in Jesus name
and all God's people said amen.
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Worship Him
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Worship Him, worship Him
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Worship Him that made heaven
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The heaven, the earth, the sea,
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and the fountains of waters
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Worship him that made
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Worship him,
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worship him
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Fear God Fear God
and give glory to him
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Worship him that made
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Fear God Fear God and give glory
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Give glory to him Glory to him
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The birds
declare the glory of God
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And the firmament
showeth his handiwork
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The earth is a void
and a formless thereof
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The earth is
formed and regions fall
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Worship Him
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Worship Him, worship Him
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Worship Him that made heaven
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The heaven, the earth, the sea,
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and the fountains of waters
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Worship him that made
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Worship Him,
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Worship Him
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Worship Him
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