Our subject is
"Don't Do Me No Favors."
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That's our subject for
this evening and for anyone
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who may be listening
outside of the United States,
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that is good grammar
in the United States.
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"Don't Do Me No Favors."
It is one of the few times
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when a double
negative, works quite well.
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Don't Do Me Any Favors
just does not sound right.
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God said, "Don't Do
Me No Favors" whatsoever.
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I want you to pray in
your hearts, as I speak,
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that the words of my mouth
and the meditations of my heart
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may be acceptable
in the sight of God.
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Some of you asked
me during the day,
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will I rough you up
tonight and the answer is no.
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You never push your luck.
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It just doesn't pay to
put even with God's people
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ask Moses, don't push your luck.
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So, no, I won't
rough you up tonight.
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But the word will, but I won't.
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The Holy Spirit will and I know
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you will not
fight the Holy Spirit.
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You've no fuss, no
quarrel with the Holy Spirit.
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You may have it with
me, and that's appropriate.
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But I do not believe
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you'll have it
with God's Holy Spirit.
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"Don't Do Me No Favors," is
our subject for this evening.
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Let us pray.
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Our loving Father in Heaven,
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we come into
your presence tonight.
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We thank you
Father, we've the freedom,
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the liberty, to come anytime
we choose, 24 hours a day,
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because He whom we serve,
never slumbers and never sleeps.
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And Father as we
gather at Your feet tonight,
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we ask You Lord to shower
Your fatherly love upon us
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for the sake of Jesus Christ.
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Receive us through Him we pray,
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and Father grant us the
comfort of your undying love.
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Your patience, your mercy,
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your tenderness,
your long suffering.
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Open our eyes that we may behold
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wondrous things out of thy law.
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Give us an obedient
heart. Give us a loving heart.
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And give to Your
manservant the words to say.
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You've said in
John 16, verse 13,
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how be it when he, the
Spirit of truth is come
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he will guide
you into all truth.
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Father guide me and
my brothers and sisters
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into truth tonight.
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In Jesus name we pray,
let everyone say with me.
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Amen and amen.
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"Don't Do Me No Favors."
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I was listening to
Sister Griffin this morning,
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as she spoke on a
very, very serious topic,
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and that is all the time
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we dedicate to the
God of entertainment.
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Whether by
television or videogames,
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or whatever else we do,
but all the time we dedicate
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and by allowing
our children to watch
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so many hours of television,
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we actually pass
them through the fires.
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We sacrifice them to the God's
of this world by allowing them
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to sit in front
of a television set
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and allowing that set like
a garden hose to just spray
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its ungodly
contents into their minds.
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I've no children of my
own, so you're probably
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saying that he shouldn't talk.
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No, no I should talk,
as I'm only telling you
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what you'll read in
the writings of Ellen White
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and what you can
dig out of the Bible
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if you study it carefully.
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I want other
people a million times
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wiser than I am, have said.
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So I hope those of
you who attended will take
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what you heard
this morning to heart,
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and share it with your friends.
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We must protect our minds.
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If we would shield our
mind from worldly influences,
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there may be few
occurrences of Adventists saying
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I just can't see
it, I just don't see it,
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I just don't understand.
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Why because the
mind has been polluted
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and we can't see
this or we can't see that.
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She also mentioned
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the importance of
the Sabbath this morning.
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And this evening you heard
your president, Elder Gallimore,
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he also talked about the beauty,
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the sweetness of
the Sabbath fellowship
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that we shall have with God.
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And this evening, I
also want to mention
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a little about the
Sabbath commandment,
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but from a different approach.
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In the Book, Early Writings,
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Ellen White
recounts a vision she had,
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where she was taken up to heaven
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and her tour guide
was Jesus Christ himself.
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And Jesus lead her, He pulled
back the curtain or the veil,
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lead her into
the most Holy place.
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Jesus opened the arc,
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and showed her
the Ten Commandments.
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She writes that
there was a light
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shining around
all Ten Commandments.
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Each commandment was
shining and probably so,
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they reflect the
very character of God.
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The law is as
sacred as God himself.
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So I'm not at all surprised
that there is a Shekinah,
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a light, a luminescence,
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a brilliance around
the Ten Commandments.
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She went on to say that
the first four commandments
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had a brighter
light than the last six.
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Now you can determine the
significance of that to God.
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The first four
had a brighter light
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than the other six.
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Then she said the
fourth commandment
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had the brightest light of all.
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There was a halo around
the Sabbath commandment.
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Now you don't have
to be a Hebrew scholar
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or Greek
scholar or Bible scholar
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or graduate of the
seminary to conclude immediately
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that in the eyes of God,
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the Sabbath commandment is
of great and vast importance.
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If that were not the case,
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it would not have
the brightest light.
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Is that sinking in?
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Let me give you
something else to consider.
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This is not the
law I'm giving you.
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I want you to
consider what I'm about to say.
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See if it means anything to you.
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If the Sabbath commandment
as Ellen White saw it,
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showed to her by Jesus
Christ, shown to her by Christ,
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if it had the
brightest light of all the ten,
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could it possibly be,
and I'm simply asking,
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could it be the deepest wound
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we can cause to God is to
violate the Sabbath commandment.
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The commandment that
has His title, His name,
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the commandment from
which we get his seal
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as we love to say could it be
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the brightest
light suggests to us.
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Could it be.
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That no infraction
of God's law hurts him
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more deeply than
breaking the fourth commandment?
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Could it be that we
ought to be very, very serious
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about expressing our love to God
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through our Sabbath observance?
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Let me pause here abruptly,
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and direct your attention
to the Book of Mark Chapter 15.
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What book did I
say? Book of Mark.
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Well, the book is not
Mark 15, the book is just Mark.
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I asked you what
book did I say? Mark.
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Now what chapter did I say? 15.
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Now we're on the same page.
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We shall begin
reading from verse 42.
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Four and two.
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Mark 15, reading from verse 42
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as we continue with the
subject "Don't Do Me No Favors."
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And now when the event has come,
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because it was the preparation,
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that is, the day
before the Sabbath.
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Joseph of Arimathea,
an honorable counselor,
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which also waited
for the kingdom of God
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came and went in
boldly unto Pilate,
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and craved the body of Jesus.
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Craved the body of Jesus.
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Now people who were
condemned to be crucified,
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no one wanted their bodies.
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Their bodies were left to rot.
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They were left for the
crows and for the vultures.
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It was unusual for someone
to come publicly claiming
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the body of the
crucified person criminals.
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Crucifixion was the
most shameful and painful
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and humiliating and
embarrassing way to die.
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Why would someone
want to claim a body
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that in the eyes of
the Romans was so despised?
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The Romans may
associate you with that corpse.
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When a man or a woman
is in love with Jesus,
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what the world thinks
makes very little difference.
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And so Joseph of Arimathea came
and went in boldly unto Pilate
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and craved the body of
Jesus and Pilate marveled
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if you were already dead
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and calling unto
him the centurion,
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he asked him whether he
had been any while dead.
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And when he knew
it of the centurion,
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verse 45, he gave
the body to Joseph.
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And be bought fine
linen, and took him down,
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and wrapped him in the linen,
and laid him in a sepulcher,
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which was hewn out of a
rock, and rolled a stone
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unto the door of the sepulcher.
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And Mary Magdalene and
Mary the mother of Josses
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beheld where he was laid.
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"Don't Do Me No Favors."
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We've two women named
Mary Magdalene and Mary,
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the mother of
Josses, they beheld.
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They made it their
business to find out
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where the corpse of
their Savior was laid.
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To add delightful details
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and exciting
information to this story,
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let's read the same account,
but from the pen of Luke.
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The doctor Luke Chapter 23,
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we shall begin
reading at verse 50
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as we continue with
"Don't Do Me No Favors."
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Luke Chapter 23,
reading from verse 50.
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I must apologize to you.
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I normally don't give you a
chance to find these verses.
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Am I forgiven? Say yes quickly.
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Yes. All right
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Do you have Luke 23?
Do you have verse 50?
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If you feel like it and you
have the King James Version,
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feel free to
read out loud with me.
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I don't mind.
Worship is participatory.
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Luke 23, verse 50, And, behold,
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there was a man
named Joseph, a counselor,
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and he was a
good man, and a just.
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The same had not consented
onto the counsel indeed of them.
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He was of
Arimathea, a city of the Jews,
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who also himself
waited for the kingdom of God.
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This man went unto Pilate,
and begged the body of Jesus.
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Now this is the same account
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which we read in
the Book of Mark.
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This man went unto Pilate,
and begged the body of Jesus
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and he took it down,
and wrapped it in linen,
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and laid it in a sepulcher,
which was hewn in stone,
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wherein never
man before was laid.
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And that day was
what? The preparation.
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And what happened?
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The Sabbath drew on
now, it is highly significant
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that Mark tells us
it was preparation time
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and the Sabbath was coming on
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because Mark 15:42 says,
now when the even was come,
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Luke says and that
there was the preparation,
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and the Sabbath drawn,
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why is it so
important to inform us
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that the Sabbath was coming on?
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The Bible says,
and the women also,
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which went with him
from Galilee, followed after,
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and beheld the sepulcher,
and how his body was laid.
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Now we read in Mark Chapter
15, that the women beheld
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where he was laid
in Luke Chapter 23,
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they beheld how he was laid
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and so we put the
two accounts together,
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these two items of information
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Mary and Mary
the mother of Josses,
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Mary Magdalene and
Mary the mother of Josses
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they wanted to
know where he was laid
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and how the body was
configured in the sepulcher.
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They needed that physical
information for a reason.
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"Don't Do Me No Favors."
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The Bible says in the
last verse of Luke Chapter 23,
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and they returned and
prepared spices and ointments.
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Now why were they
preparing spices and ointments?
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They earnestly desired to
embalm the body of Jesus Christ.
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They wanted to anoint His body.
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They wanted to do
what has been done
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for 100s of years or had
been done before they lived
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and that was the
art of embalming,
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preserving corpses and they're
in museums around the world.
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Corpses that have
been unbelievably preserved
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through the art of embalming.
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Mary Magdalene,
Mary the mother of Josses
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and other women wanted
to embalm the body of Jesus
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and they were
unafraid to come out publicly
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and they went to
where the grave was.
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They saw where the grave was.
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They saw how He was laid.
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So they had this
picture in mind now.
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They went back,
prepared spices and ointments
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and came back to
the tomb to anoint Him.
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Thank you my sister or brother.
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No let me say it again.
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The last verse of Luke
23, I think that's verse 56,
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and they prepared
spices and ointments first,
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then rested the
Sabbath day, how?
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According to the commandment.
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Now, I want you to
focus on this verse.
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Whom did they want
to anoint? Jesus Christ.
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Who is the Lord of
the Sabbath? Jesus Christ.
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Now is there
anything wrong with anointing
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the body of Jesus
Christ on the Sabbath?
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How, well, yes?
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But before I
incorporate that yes,
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which is correct
into the message,
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let me go back prior to the yes,
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and ask you if you
had been there observing
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Mary Magdalene and
Mary the mother of Josses
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and the other unnamed women
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and you had seen
them anointing Jesus
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after the son had said,
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would you have
condemned them? No.
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How do you bring
someone under condemnation
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for anointing the body
of Jesus on the Sabbath?
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If ever there
was an excuse to do
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something unsabbatical
that must have been it.
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Surely, you
cannot fault a person
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who does such a favor for Jesus.
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He was the one
who said in Mark 2:28,
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the son of man is
Lord also of the Sabbath.
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You're anointing
the Lord of the Sabbath
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on the Sabbath
what's the problem?
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See Jesus doesn't
want us to do Him favors.
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The only favor Jesus
requires of you and me
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is loving obedience to His word,
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no matter what.
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I need a bigger amen.
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Loving obedience to the
word of God, no matter what.
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Now let us take a look at this
woman called Mary Magdalene.
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Who was she?
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How could she be
so cold to turn away
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from the body of Her Lord,
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refuse to anoint Him
until several hours later?
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Go with me to the
Book of Luke, Chapter 7,
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as we continue with
"Don't Do Me No Favors."
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Luke Chapter 7,
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and let us begin
reading at verse 36.
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Do you have Luke? Yes.
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Do you have Chapter 7,
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and are you poised at verse 36?
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All right, the Bible says
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and one of the
Pharisees desired him
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that he would eat with him,
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and he went into
the Pharisee's house
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and sat down to meet.
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And behold, a woman in the city,
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which was a sinner,
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when she knew
that Jesus sat at meet
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in the Pharisee's house brought
an alabaster box of ointment,
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and stood at His
feet behind Him weeping,
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and began to wash
his feet with her tears
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and wiped them with
the hairs of her head
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and kissed His feet and anointed
His feet with the ointment.
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Ellen White writes beautifully
about this experience
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in the Desire
of Ages Chapter 62,
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page 557 is where that begins.
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Read it.
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She combines the version
in Mark, the version in John.
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She combines the
versions together to give us
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a beautiful story of the
relationship between Jesus
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and this woman who
came to anoint His feet,
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Mary the sister
of Lazarus and Martha
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one whom He had
cleansed from severe sin,
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cast out demons, a woman
who was the kind of person
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with whom you
would not associate,
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but through the
blood of Jesus Christ
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or through His forgiveness
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and His love
she was transformed.
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As so she kissed
His feet verse 39,
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now when the Pharisee,
which had bidden him saw it,
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he spake within
himself, saying, this man,
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if he were a
prophet, would have known who
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and what manner of woman
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it is that toucheth
Him for she is a sinner.
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I thank God that
He had a reputation--
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that Jesus had a reputation
for receiving sinners.
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Don't you?
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Because if He didn't
have that reputation,
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I would have been in trouble.
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I thank God that Jesus
receives sinners even today.
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This man Pharisee
said, this is Simon.
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If he were a
prophet would have known who
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and what manner of woman
this is that toucheth Him
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for she is a sinner.
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Next verse, And Jesus
answering said unto him,
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Simon, I have
somewhat to say unto thee.
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And Simon said, Master, say on.
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Whenever I read
that verse, I smile,
00:20:17.34\00:20:18.86
Simon said Jesus
you want to talk, talk.
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I've somewhat to say on to thee.
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There was a certain
creditor, which had two debtors.
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The one owed him 500
pence and the other 50.
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And when they
had nothing to pay,
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he frankly forgave them both.
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Tell me therefore,
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which of them
will love him most?
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Simon answered and
said, I suppose that he,
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to whom he forgave most.
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And he said unto him,
Thou hast rightly judged.
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You see, what Jesus is saying,
the more you are forgiven,
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finish it for me,
the more you love.
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So one has owed 500 pence,
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one has owed 50
pence both are forgiven.
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Jesus is teaching that
it is natural to expect
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that the man forgiven
for the debt of 500 pence
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would love Jesus more
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than he who was
forgiven for just 50 pence.
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And he turned to the
woman, verse 44, of Luke 7,
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and said unto Simon.
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Now this is the same
woman who was at the tomb,
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who prepared
spices and ointments
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and went back home.
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Seest thou this woman?
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I entered into thy house,
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thou gavest me no
water for my feet.
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But she hath
washed my feet with tears,
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and dried them--wiped them
with the hairs of her head.
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Thou gavest me no
kiss, but this woman
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since the time I came in,
hath not ceased to kiss my feet.
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My head with oil
thou didst not anoint,
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but she hath anointed
my feet with ointment.
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Wherefore I say unto
thee, verse 47, her sins,
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which are many, are forgiven
for she loved how much? Much.
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But to whom little is forgiven,
the same loveth little.
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This woman loved
Jesus not this much.
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Not this much, she
loved Jesus this much.
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How much do you love Jesus?
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Show me, come on
show me, show me, show me.
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Don't hit anyone.
00:22:19.10\00:22:20.07
Don't knock
anyone's glasses off.
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How much do you
love Gees? This much?
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Do you wish your
hands were longer? Yes.
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Love Jesus this
much or someone did.
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Got to be careful
with your fingers there.
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This is love
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and Jesus said, but to
whom little is forgiven,
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the same person loveth little.
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She was forgiven much
because He said in verse 47,
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her sins, which are many,
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and so she had an imperishable
love for her Savior.
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He who delivered her from sin,
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go right to the Chapter 8
of the Book of Luke, verse 1.
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And it came to pass afterwards,
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that he went throughout
every city and village preaching
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and shewing the glad
tidings of the kingdom
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and the twelve were
with him, verse 2 Luke 8.
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And certain women,
00:23:13.28\00:23:14.40
which had been healed of
evil spirits and infirmities,
00:23:14.41\00:23:17.35
Mary called Magdalene,
out of whom went seven devils.
00:23:17.36\00:23:21.13
She began
following Jesus around.
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And Joanna the wife
of Chuza Herod's steward,
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and Susanna, and many others,
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which ministered unto
him of their substance,
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she began to
follow Jesus around,
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because of what Jesus had
done for her she loved Him.
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Isn't any wonder in John
Chapter 20 reading for verse 17,
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we find Jesus saying
unto her, touch me not,
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for I have not yet
ascended to my Father.
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She was first at that tomb.
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Now let's go back
to Friday afternoon.
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Mary Magdalene did not walk
away from the body of Christ
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because she didn't love Him.
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She returned,
prepared spices and ointments
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Luke 23, verse 56 and
rested the Sabbath day
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according to the commandment.
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"Don't Do Me No Favors."
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We at Seventh-day Adventist,
00:24:27.60\00:24:29.54
we're skilled in the
art of creative thinking.
00:24:29.55\00:24:36.12
How to get around God's law?
00:24:36.13\00:24:41.92
And we say I see no problem
with skiing on the Sabbath
00:24:41.93\00:24:47.31
because I'm out in
nature or going down
00:24:47.32\00:24:52.37
to the lake for a swim
00:24:52.38\00:24:53.87
because we after all we
promote the health message.
00:24:53.88\00:24:56.96
What's wrong with a
little golf on the Sabbath?
00:24:59.26\00:25:01.88
And we always as I
said two nights ago,
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Nickel and dimming God,
00:25:06.82\00:25:08.03
what's wrong with
this onto Sabbath,
00:25:08.04\00:25:09.60
this onto Sabbath.
00:25:09.61\00:25:10.72
We should view it
the other way around.
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What can I do to be sure?
I don't offend a God I love.
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He died for me. He bled for me.
00:25:19.03\00:25:21.97
He suffered for me.
00:25:21.98\00:25:23.76
Gave His life, took the risk of
never seeing His father again.
00:25:23.77\00:25:27.65
Through His sacrifice,
Ellen White informs us,
00:25:27.66\00:25:30.17
there was a rupture, a tearing,
00:25:30.18\00:25:32.66
a rending in the God head
that will never happen again
00:25:32.67\00:25:36.05
and Jesus calls there
and He did it to save me
00:25:36.06\00:25:39.98
and to save you.
00:25:39.99\00:25:42.84
Jesus didn't look
for ways to get out.
00:25:42.85\00:25:45.75
Yes, He said, if it be possible,
00:25:45.76\00:25:47.51
but He was very
quick to add nevertheless.
00:25:47.52\00:25:50.12
We must look for
ways to honor God,
00:25:53.22\00:25:55.59
not look for ways
to get around God.
00:25:55.60\00:25:57.64
The converted heart
looks for ways to honor God
00:25:58.99\00:26:01.73
and to obey Him and to serve
Him as an expression of love.
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And so they returned and
prepared spices and ointments
00:26:07.24\00:26:10.05
and left the
carcass and the corpse
00:26:10.06\00:26:12.78
and I speak respectfully
of Jesus Christ in that grave.
00:26:12.79\00:26:16.56
Somehow in her
heart, Mary Magdalene knew
00:26:16.57\00:26:19.55
that if Jesus got up at that
very moment for five seconds,
00:26:19.56\00:26:22.57
He would have
said, Mary Magdalene,
00:26:22.58\00:26:23.91
what are you
doing on My holy day?
00:26:23.92\00:26:26.17
Have you forgotten
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I'm the one who
spoken from Sinai,
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go back and keep My Sabbath
00:26:32.15\00:26:35.49
and let the
dead bury their dead.
00:26:35.50\00:26:38.62
Mary, don't do me no favor.
00:26:42.44\00:26:48.55
Just obey me.
00:26:48.56\00:26:50.25
Let me tell you I'm so glad,
the Bible gives us information
00:26:52.13\00:26:56.71
of how much this
woman loved Jesus.
00:26:56.72\00:27:00.16
Because it must be
clear to you and to me by now
00:27:00.17\00:27:03.32
that walking away from the body
of Christ was an act of love.
00:27:03.33\00:27:07.62
The highest expression of love
to God is to do what He says.
00:27:11.52\00:27:19.45
Now I realize we've difficulty
blending love with obedience.
00:27:19.46\00:27:26.25
There's
something about obedience
00:27:26.26\00:27:27.40
to our carnal
nature that is anti love,
00:27:27.41\00:27:30.18
but until someone can
give me some other explanation
00:27:30.19\00:27:33.35
for John 12:15, if
you love me John 14:15,
00:27:33.36\00:27:37.00
if you love Me, finish it--
00:27:37.01\00:27:39.38
Keep My
commandments. Who said that?
00:27:39.39\00:27:42.54
Jesus. To whom?
00:27:42.55\00:27:44.13
Us. Us.
00:27:44.14\00:27:46.22
If you love Me,
keep My commandments.
00:27:46.23\00:27:52.99
Holiness is a life of obedience.
00:27:55.92\00:28:01.60
It is no wonder that God the
Father honored Mary Magdalene
00:28:01.61\00:28:04.70
by allowing her to be the
first human being to see Jesus
00:28:04.71\00:28:07.39
when He came out of that grave
00:28:07.40\00:28:09.02
because she had
been made a holy woman
00:28:09.03\00:28:13.22
with an obedient heart.
00:28:13.23\00:28:17.07
And I'm saying to you and
to me a truly converted person
00:28:17.08\00:28:21.17
finds his or
her greatest delight
00:28:21.18\00:28:23.62
in obeying the
will of the Father.
00:28:23.63\00:28:26.57
What excuse do you
have for not obeying God?
00:28:31.65\00:28:36.78
Do you or do I find ourselves
trying to create excuses
00:28:39.35\00:28:43.98
to get around
God's requirements.
00:28:43.99\00:28:46.50
Do we find ourselves
arguing obedience against love,
00:28:49.84\00:28:55.26
forgetting that the commandments
are these love to God
00:28:55.27\00:28:59.48
and love to your fellowmen?
00:28:59.49\00:29:00.79
We're living in the end of time.
00:29:04.59\00:29:07.59
How many of you
believe that? Quickly.
00:29:07.60\00:29:09.93
We really are.
00:29:09.94\00:29:10.93
Now I realize we
say that all the time
00:29:10.94\00:29:15.19
and we ought to keep saying it.
00:29:15.20\00:29:18.62
Because it was said in the days
of Paul that's 2,000 years ago.
00:29:18.63\00:29:22.59
You don't have to be
a Christian to realize
00:29:22.60\00:29:24.19
and conclude if it
was close in his day
00:29:24.20\00:29:26.77
it is frighteningly close today.
00:29:26.78\00:29:28.90
It is unsettlingly close today.
00:29:30.71\00:29:33.11
Now what I propose
to you is if you believe
00:29:33.12\00:29:38.30
that the coming
of Christ is near
00:29:38.31\00:29:39.97
and Christ isn't coming to save,
00:29:39.98\00:29:41.47
He's coming to execute judgment.
00:29:41.48\00:29:43.05
He's coming to take
the sin out of this world.
00:29:43.06\00:29:46.09
One thousand years
in heaven with Him,
00:29:46.10\00:29:47.41
He comes back and
He gives to the lost
00:29:47.42\00:29:48.86
what they fully deserve.
00:29:48.87\00:29:50.60
If we believe He's coming
soon, our lives must change.
00:29:50.61\00:29:57.80
Our priorities must change.
00:29:57.81\00:30:00.55
We must develop and cultivate
the mindset of Mary Magdalene.
00:30:00.56\00:30:06.07
There's no circumstance.
There's no pretext.
00:30:06.08\00:30:09.70
There's no excuse under
which I will disobey God.
00:30:09.71\00:30:14.61
Not even to
embalm the body of God.
00:30:14.62\00:30:16.95
That's not a good enough
excuse to violate His Sabbath.
00:30:16.96\00:30:20.32
I'll leave His
dead body in the ground.
00:30:20.33\00:30:23.08
Go away, obey
Him, and come back.
00:30:23.09\00:30:26.30
Have you ever heard
of the three Hebrew boys?
00:30:32.91\00:30:35.22
Now it would've been
easy for them to kneel,
00:30:36.85\00:30:39.54
the music plays,
the drums, the whatever.
00:30:42.51\00:30:46.87
Everyone is
mentally dulled by the music
00:30:46.88\00:30:51.01
and they kneel,
and people get up,
00:30:51.02\00:30:52.44
and go on home, they go home
00:30:52.45\00:30:53.48
they say Lord, I'm sorry.
00:30:53.49\00:30:57.85
Case closed.
00:30:57.86\00:30:58.98
But with God, have they gotten
any glory by their kneeling?
00:31:01.29\00:31:04.79
No.
00:31:04.80\00:31:07.23
Daniel, as I told you
last night or the night before,
00:31:07.24\00:31:09.55
could've prayed
with his window closed.
00:31:09.56\00:31:11.65
He could've
avoided the controversy.
00:31:11.66\00:31:15.03
But he didn't do that.
00:31:15.04\00:31:17.89
He prayed as he
had always prayed
00:31:17.90\00:31:20.57
and risked the jaws
of half-starved lions.
00:31:20.58\00:31:27.33
All I'm promoting
this evening is that we,
00:31:27.34\00:31:31.11
in this conference,
must make up our minds.
00:31:31.12\00:31:37.13
And the most important thing
in life to me is to please God.
00:31:37.14\00:31:39.74
Not your spouse,
not your children, God.
00:31:43.41\00:31:50.61
And we will discover
that when we please God first,
00:31:50.62\00:31:54.66
we may end up
pleasing other people more
00:31:54.67\00:31:57.00
than we would had we
tried to put the people first.
00:31:57.01\00:32:01.74
God requires
first place in our life,
00:32:01.75\00:32:05.23
thou shall have no
other gods before me.
00:32:05.24\00:32:09.01
And there is no
set of circumstances
00:32:13.10\00:32:15.06
that can be
accepted as justification
00:32:15.07\00:32:18.30
for violating the
smallest requirement of God.
00:32:18.31\00:32:21.92
Now am I a legalist? No.
00:32:21.93\00:32:23.49
I'm talking, I believe, to
people who are already saved.
00:32:25.60\00:32:30.83
Am I right? Am I right? Yes.
00:32:30.84\00:32:34.19
Now, how does a
saved person live?
00:32:34.20\00:32:37.14
What have you been
saved from? What is sin?
00:32:37.15\00:32:43.18
Then when you're saved from sin,
00:32:43.19\00:32:44.91
what are you saved from?
00:32:44.92\00:32:46.53
Transgression of the law
00:32:46.54\00:32:48.89
and you're saved to
observance of the law.
00:32:48.90\00:32:53.66
Let me say it again
some of you missed it.
00:32:53.67\00:32:57.55
Christ through His
death resurrection saves us
00:32:57.56\00:33:00.58
from disobedience and
saves us into obedience.
00:33:00.59\00:33:06.73
Does not the Bible say,
by the disobedience of one,
00:33:06.74\00:33:10.83
many were made sinners,
00:33:10.84\00:33:12.57
even so by the obedience of one.
00:33:12.58\00:33:19.18
But that obedience has
to come from the heart.
00:33:19.19\00:33:24.63
No Pharisees will be in heaven.
00:33:24.64\00:33:28.22
No hypocrites in
heaven. No legalists in heaven.
00:33:28.23\00:33:33.88
Only those who appreciate
the sacrifice of Christ so much
00:33:33.89\00:33:38.41
that their obedience to
Him is considered by them
00:33:38.42\00:33:41.13
a small expression of thanks.
00:33:41.14\00:33:45.32
And we wish we could do
more to express our thanks.
00:33:45.33\00:33:49.68
You see when
you're saved by Jesus
00:33:49.69\00:33:51.54
and you recognize it,
00:33:51.55\00:33:52.79
the principle of
reciprocity begins
00:33:52.80\00:33:55.61
to move in your breast.
00:33:55.62\00:33:57.49
What is the
principle of reciprocity?
00:33:57.50\00:34:01.17
Let me tell you what it is.
00:34:01.18\00:34:03.75
I've told the
story number of times.
00:34:03.76\00:34:05.11
You may have heard it
before. Well, hear it again.
00:34:05.12\00:34:07.05
Several years
ago, I was driving from
00:34:09.29\00:34:11.18
the University of
Michigan Medical School
00:34:11.19\00:34:12.56
where I was working at the time.
00:34:12.57\00:34:13.61
It was winter.
It was a Wednesday.
00:34:13.62\00:34:15.22
I was on my way
to prayer meeting.
00:34:15.23\00:34:17.74
Now like all good levites,
00:34:17.75\00:34:18.83
you don't distract a
Seventh-day Adventist
00:34:18.84\00:34:21.34
on his way to prayer meeting.
00:34:21.35\00:34:23.38
You just don't do that.
00:34:23.39\00:34:25.20
If you're wounded on
the side of the road,
00:34:25.21\00:34:26.56
pick another day to be
wounded not on a Wednesday.
00:34:26.57\00:34:30.39
So I was driving and
this traffic was slow,
00:34:30.40\00:34:32.79
and snow all over
the place, it's cold,
00:34:32.80\00:34:34.63
and I'm thanking
God for a car with heat.
00:34:34.64\00:34:38.36
And I look to my left,
there's a man in the snow bank
00:34:38.37\00:34:40.98
and he's on the road.
00:34:40.99\00:34:42.98
His car is in the ditch.
00:34:42.99\00:34:45.87
He doesn't really
have a thick coat.
00:34:45.88\00:34:48.71
And I said, well, he
would die and I kept driving.
00:34:48.72\00:34:51.77
Let me tell you something,
00:34:53.79\00:34:56.13
the Spirit of God
spoke to me immediately,
00:34:56.14\00:34:59.39
almost like a slap.
00:34:59.40\00:35:02.99
Turn around, you
hypocrite, in a suit,
00:35:03.00\00:35:06.11
turn around!
00:35:06.12\00:35:09.27
I made a U turn on an icy road.
00:35:09.28\00:35:11.76
There's no need for a
spirit to slap you twice.
00:35:15.35\00:35:17.65
You may not recover
from the second slap.
00:35:17.66\00:35:19.75
So when He slaps
you once, just obey.
00:35:19.76\00:35:22.28
Come on say, amen. Amen.
00:35:22.29\00:35:23.85
I made an illegal U turn.
00:35:23.86\00:35:27.04
I'm glad the Ten
Commandments don't say,
00:35:27.05\00:35:28.32
"Thou shall not make a U turn."
00:35:28.33\00:35:29.65
I made that U
turn and I went back.
00:35:29.66\00:35:33.17
I'm talking about
the law of reciprocity
00:35:33.18\00:35:35.79
and I got out I was cold too.
00:35:35.80\00:35:39.03
And I said to the
man, what's wrong?
00:35:39.04\00:35:40.84
And I got up to
him and I smelled
00:35:40.85\00:35:42.32
the reality of
his drunken condition.
00:35:42.33\00:35:44.47
I said, oh, Lord,
00:35:45.48\00:35:46.60
that's all I need
a drunk man in winter
00:35:46.64\00:35:48.77
on the side of the road.
00:35:48.78\00:35:50.96
He said a truck hit me,
knocked me in the ditch,
00:35:50.97\00:35:52.95
and the guy just kept going.
00:35:52.96\00:35:55.41
I said, all right,
here's what we'll do.
00:35:55.42\00:35:57.39
Get into my car.
00:35:57.40\00:35:58.82
And I'll drive
you to a gas station
00:35:58.83\00:36:00.70
to get a wrecker and come back.
00:36:00.71\00:36:03.71
And for those of you who
don't know what a wrecker is,
00:36:03.72\00:36:05.39
it's a vehicle that
pulls cars out of ditches
00:36:05.40\00:36:09.65
if you're listening in Norway.
00:36:09.66\00:36:12.19
And so he got into
my car and he's cursing,
00:36:12.20\00:36:16.71
using foul
language, not being mean,
00:36:16.72\00:36:18.77
but that's the way he talks.
00:36:18.78\00:36:20.87
He's cursing, wants to
smoke, I said, please no,
00:36:20.88\00:36:23.58
help you and me, don't smoke.
00:36:23.59\00:36:25.12
And he's drunk, but I'm taking
this man to a gas station.
00:36:25.13\00:36:28.62
We got to the gas station.
I explained the situation.
00:36:28.63\00:36:30.84
The wrecker guy said follow me--
00:36:30.85\00:36:32.19
or I'll follow you so I
started back to this place
00:36:32.20\00:36:35.98
of catastrophe and the
wrecker was following me.
00:36:35.99\00:36:38.28
We got there.
00:36:38.29\00:36:39.32
The wrecker jumped
out, did his thing,
00:36:39.33\00:36:41.15
pulled he car out of the ditch.
00:36:41.16\00:36:44.20
The wrecker did up
his bill and gave it to,
00:36:44.21\00:36:47.17
he said who gets this?
00:36:47.18\00:36:48.24
I said he gets it.
00:36:48.25\00:36:49.67
So the man said, I
don't have any money.
00:36:49.68\00:36:52.95
I wish you told me that before.
00:36:55.36\00:36:56.75
That would really have
tested my Christianity.
00:36:58.54\00:37:00.64
He said, I don't have any money.
00:37:00.65\00:37:02.72
So I said okay.
00:37:05.13\00:37:07.18
I reached into my
pocket took care of that,
00:37:07.19\00:37:11.62
gave the money
to the wrecker man
00:37:11.63\00:37:13.18
or the man in the in.
00:37:13.19\00:37:15.54
And the wrecker went on his way.
00:37:15.55\00:37:18.69
And the man was so grateful.
00:37:18.70\00:37:20.83
He hugged me at
the side of the road
00:37:20.84\00:37:23.89
and won't let me go.
00:37:23.90\00:37:27.22
I don't know what to do.
00:37:27.23\00:37:28.20
Here's this man
in public hugging me
00:37:28.21\00:37:29.66
and won't let me go.
00:37:29.67\00:37:31.32
So I answered
its okay, its okay,
00:37:31.33\00:37:33.75
you don't need
to hug me this long.
00:37:33.76\00:37:34.82
It's okay.
00:37:34.83\00:37:37.05
So he said to me, here's
my telephone number call me.
00:37:37.06\00:37:40.52
We're talking about
the law of reciprocity.
00:37:40.53\00:37:42.82
So I said okay. I
called him a few weeks later.
00:37:42.83\00:37:44.68
He said come visit me. I went.
00:37:44.69\00:37:48.08
I walked into the man's
house smelling of smoke.
00:37:48.09\00:37:51.74
And as I sat down, we
exchanged a few pleasantries.
00:37:51.75\00:37:53.95
He took a Bible from
off some shelf somewhere.
00:37:53.96\00:37:56.19
This actually happened.
He handed me the Bible.
00:37:56.20\00:37:59.51
We're talking about
the law of reciprocity.
00:37:59.52\00:38:01.45
He handed me the
Bible and he said
00:38:01.46\00:38:03.22
what do you want me to do?
00:38:03.23\00:38:06.32
Well, I took a deep
breath that allows you
00:38:10.31\00:38:14.11
to take time to recover you see,
00:38:14.12\00:38:15.54
you take a deep breath.
00:38:15.55\00:38:17.17
Look like you're
under control and I said,
00:38:17.18\00:38:19.23
I want you to do
precisely nothing.
00:38:19.24\00:38:22.74
He said no, no,
no, no, no, no, no.
00:38:22.75\00:38:25.81
What do you want me to do?
00:38:25.82\00:38:28.65
And I said after a
second deep breath,
00:38:28.66\00:38:30.85
I want you to do
nothing, he said mm-hmm.
00:38:30.86\00:38:35.26
You tell me what
to do and I'll do it.
00:38:35.27\00:38:40.25
So I said we'll
read chapter this chapter
00:38:40.26\00:38:41.90
that and pray and.
00:38:41.91\00:38:43.91
He said okay.
Never saw him again.
00:38:43.92\00:38:47.73
Why did he insist
tell me what to do?
00:38:47.74\00:38:52.60
What was he experiencing?
00:38:52.61\00:38:55.14
Gratitude and the
force of gratitude drove him
00:38:55.15\00:39:00.00
to offer himself to me.
00:39:00.01\00:39:03.32
What I'm saying
is when we realize
00:39:03.33\00:39:05.23
that Jesus Christ has
pulled us by His shed blood
00:39:05.24\00:39:08.80
from the ditch of sin and death,
00:39:08.81\00:39:11.36
we from our honest
hearts will say Lord,
00:39:11.37\00:39:14.45
what will thou have me to do?
00:39:14.46\00:39:16.20
That's reciprocity.
00:39:20.03\00:39:22.35
You saved me, I want to show You
00:39:22.36\00:39:25.76
how grateful
I'm, here is my life.
00:39:25.77\00:39:29.85
Anything You say, I'll do.
00:39:29.86\00:39:33.20
Anything You ask, I'll respond.
00:39:33.21\00:39:35.70
Anywhere You send, I
will go as an expression
00:39:35.71\00:39:40.78
of an eternal gratitude
for a sacrifice whose benefits
00:39:40.79\00:39:44.75
I shall enjoy eternally.
00:39:44.76\00:39:48.09
Mary Magdalene grateful
for deliverance from sin,
00:39:48.10\00:39:53.87
she looked at the
body of her Savior.
00:39:53.88\00:39:57.54
She looked at
God's commandments,
00:39:57.55\00:39:59.38
and she knew in her
heart that her dead Savior
00:39:59.39\00:40:04.91
would want her to leave His
body and obey His commandment.
00:40:04.92\00:40:08.99
And so Jesus says to
you and to me tonight,
00:40:13.66\00:40:15.41
"Don't Do Me No
Favors, just do what I say.
00:40:15.42\00:40:19.61
Just obey me."
00:40:19.62\00:40:21.79
Holiness is a life of
loving obedience to God.
00:40:21.80\00:40:27.58
And I stress loving obedience
00:40:27.59\00:40:30.47
because we are so
thankful that we've been saved.
00:40:30.48\00:40:35.49
It could be that
many of us really
00:40:35.50\00:40:38.29
we have not yet been converted.
00:40:38.30\00:40:41.22
We have been improved.
00:40:41.23\00:40:45.31
And an improved
person does not understand
00:40:45.32\00:40:49.04
what Jesus did.
00:40:49.05\00:40:50.64
As a matter of fact,
00:40:50.65\00:40:51.65
you don't need Jesus
to experience improvement.
00:40:51.66\00:40:55.18
I have a friend
who used to drink.
00:40:55.19\00:40:59.56
Now he's a Christian.
00:40:59.57\00:41:00.96
And I'm giving
example of some things
00:41:00.97\00:41:02.15
people can do for themselves.
00:41:02.16\00:41:03.34
He used to drink
until one day he got sick
00:41:03.35\00:41:05.29
and tired of
drinking and he said,
00:41:05.30\00:41:06.81
"I'm tired of this."
00:41:06.82\00:41:07.91
And he just
stopped. He just stopped.
00:41:07.92\00:41:12.04
There're many people
who stopped lifelong habits
00:41:12.05\00:41:15.48
because they were
finally sick and tired,
00:41:15.49\00:41:17.71
didn't really cry or pray.
00:41:17.72\00:41:19.35
They aren't
Christians. They just stopped.
00:41:19.36\00:41:22.34
That is not conversion.
00:41:22.35\00:41:25.10
There're many
people who're tired of
00:41:25.11\00:41:26.50
a life of being
crass and uncouth.
00:41:26.51\00:41:30.43
And they've decided
to become more smooth,
00:41:30.44\00:41:32.37
and urbane, and polite,
and courteous, and sociable.
00:41:32.38\00:41:38.82
That's not conversion.
00:41:38.83\00:41:41.05
There are some
people who hear the gospel
00:41:41.06\00:41:43.37
and they listen very carefully
and it makes sense to them.
00:41:43.38\00:41:47.01
It is logical, okay.
00:41:47.02\00:41:48.75
I connect this
point to that point,
00:41:48.76\00:41:50.82
to that point I cannot
produce a competing argument.
00:41:50.83\00:41:54.74
So because I'm a decent
person and I see your logic,
00:41:54.75\00:41:57.88
I will go with your
logic. That's not conversion.
00:41:57.89\00:42:00.42
You're convinced.
You're not converted.
00:42:01.92\00:42:04.46
Let me tell you
about conversion.
00:42:04.47\00:42:06.71
And then I'm done.
00:42:06.72\00:42:08.56
I was conducting
a crusade in Uganda
00:42:08.57\00:42:10.74
in the summer of 2000
in a town called Masaka.
00:42:10.75\00:42:15.47
And the second night, I believe,
00:42:15.48\00:42:18.21
of that first week, a
young man came to the crusade
00:42:18.22\00:42:22.62
and after I was
finished preaching,
00:42:22.63\00:42:23.87
someone came to me
and said Elder Skeete,
00:42:23.88\00:42:25.26
there's a young man
who wants to talk to you.
00:42:25.27\00:42:26.88
So I stepped off the
stage and went to the back.
00:42:26.89\00:42:29.46
It was a structure that had
been built of little tree limbs
00:42:29.47\00:42:33.90
and I went back and here was
this nice looking young fellow.
00:42:33.91\00:42:36.45
He said, "I
need to talk to you."
00:42:36.46\00:42:37.84
" I said, "Fine."
00:42:37.85\00:42:39.74
"I just got out of
prison and I've lived the life.
00:42:39.75\00:42:44.00
I'm sick of a life of crime."
00:42:44.01\00:42:46.14
And I'm trying to
paraphrase what he said.
00:42:46.15\00:42:48.31
Apparently, he
was walking somewhere
00:42:48.32\00:42:49.85
and saw a hand
bell on the ground
00:42:49.86\00:42:52.21
or someone gave him one and
he decided to change his course
00:42:52.22\00:42:55.87
and come to the crusade.
00:42:55.88\00:42:57.32
And whatever he heard convicted
him immediately so he came.
00:42:57.33\00:42:59.89
He said, "I'm
tired of a life of sin,
00:42:59.90\00:43:02.11
a life of being in prison.
00:43:02.12\00:43:03.44
And I want my life to change."
00:43:03.45\00:43:04.67
I said, "Okay, let's pray."
00:43:04.68\00:43:06.14
And I want you to come
every night to the crusade.
00:43:06.15\00:43:07.90
He said, "Okay."
00:43:07.91\00:43:09.33
We prayed, led him in a prayer
of confession, repentance.
00:43:09.34\00:43:12.31
He left, he kept
coming almost every night.
00:43:12.32\00:43:14.80
He'd come back to the
tent, I'd pray for Him.
00:43:14.81\00:43:16.91
Then he said to
me, he said, he said,
00:43:16.92\00:43:18.31
"Pastor, I want to
confess something to you.
00:43:18.32\00:43:21.25
I stole a man's
bicycle. " I said, "All right."
00:43:21.26\00:43:25.79
He said, "And I
want to give it back.
00:43:25.80\00:43:27.95
But I don't know where he is."
00:43:27.96\00:43:30.66
I said, "Well, you keep praying
00:43:30.67\00:43:31.91
and the Lord understands
00:43:31.92\00:43:32.89
it's in your
heart to give it back.
00:43:32.90\00:43:34.30
The Lord won't hold you guilty,
00:43:34.31\00:43:35.56
if you've confessed
because you can't find the man.
00:43:35.57\00:43:37.56
So you keep praying for the man
00:43:37.57\00:43:38.72
that he's not too inconvenienced
by the loss of his vehicle
00:43:38.73\00:43:41.27
and you continue serving God."
00:43:41.28\00:43:43.75
The crusade was
over, I left Uganda.
00:43:43.76\00:43:45.20
I went back the next
year for another crusade,
00:43:45.21\00:43:48.32
two crusades in 2001.
00:43:48.33\00:43:50.25
And between the two crusades,
00:43:50.26\00:43:51.33
I took sometime
to go visit the folk
00:43:51.34\00:43:53.11
who were baptized at
that crusade the year before.
00:43:53.12\00:43:55.94
He was there.
00:43:55.95\00:43:58.55
I'm talking about
conversion and conviction.
00:43:58.56\00:44:02.33
He said, "Pastor, I
want to tell you something."
00:44:02.37\00:44:05.71
I knew exactly what
he was about to say.
00:44:05.72\00:44:09.21
But never steal
a person's thunder.
00:44:09.22\00:44:10.96
So I acted as if I didn't know.
00:44:10.97\00:44:12.07
I said, "What is it?"
00:44:12.08\00:44:13.97
He said, "I found that
man. I apologized to him.
00:44:13.98\00:44:20.41
Gave him back what was his."
00:44:20.42\00:44:22.37
He said, "Pastor, I feel free."
00:44:22.38\00:44:26.74
And really
that's a converted man.
00:44:26.75\00:44:30.04
That's convicted.
00:44:30.05\00:44:31.29
Now he can't
explain 2300 day prophecy.
00:44:31.30\00:44:36.51
He can't explain the similarity
00:44:36.52\00:44:38.46
between the
Angel of Revelation 10
00:44:38.47\00:44:40.05
and the Angel
of Revelation 14:6.
00:44:40.06\00:44:41.80
He can't do it yet.
00:44:41.81\00:44:43.06
But he knew, he needs
to make wrong things right.
00:44:43.07\00:44:46.75
That's
conversion. That's conviction.
00:44:46.76\00:44:49.70
I'm saying it could be
some of us have been improved
00:44:49.71\00:44:53.00
but not convicted or converted.
00:44:53.01\00:44:57.19
A converted person is
uncomfortable with that,
00:44:57.20\00:45:01.33
which makes Christ unhappy.
00:45:01.34\00:45:05.21
And so forget all the favors you
00:45:05.22\00:45:06.47
and I want to do for Jesus.
00:45:06.48\00:45:09.39
Let's stop breaking His heart.
00:45:09.40\00:45:12.14
Let us seek
holiness without which,
00:45:12.15\00:45:17.19
no man can see God, no man.
00:45:17.20\00:45:21.27
Having therefore these
promises, dearly beloved,
00:45:21.28\00:45:23.01
let us cleanse
ourselves of all filthiness
00:45:23.02\00:45:24.97
of the flesh and spirit,
00:45:24.98\00:45:26.79
perfecting
Holiness in the fear of God.
00:45:26.80\00:45:33.01
Can you do it of your
own power? Absolutely not.
00:45:33.02\00:45:36.55
Holiness is a quality of God
00:45:36.56\00:45:39.25
and it comes from
God to us who trust Him
00:45:39.26\00:45:41.72
and serve Him by faith.
00:45:41.73\00:45:44.49
the Bible says,
00:45:44.50\00:45:46.51
For they verily for
a few days chastened us
00:45:46.52\00:45:49.01
after their pleasure,
but he for our profit,
00:45:49.02\00:45:51.46
that we might be
partakers of his what? Holiness.
00:45:51.47\00:45:57.52
Holiness is a life of conformity
to God's expressed will.
00:45:57.53\00:46:04.12
How many of you
want to please Jesus?
00:46:07.64\00:46:09.55
Can I see your hands?
00:46:09.56\00:46:10.78
You want to plea--
and be serious please.
00:46:10.79\00:46:12.75
You want to please
Jesus, can I see your hands?
00:46:12.76\00:46:15.41
Would you stand, follow
your hands to your feet, please.
00:46:15.42\00:46:19.46
You want to please
Jesus Christ, your Savior,
00:46:19.47\00:46:22.65
sharing in His holiness.
00:46:27.75\00:46:29.11
You don't have
that road of Holiness.
00:46:32.11\00:46:33.69
There's no
admission to the pearly gates.
00:46:33.70\00:46:36.02
And you're standing to say,
00:46:39.59\00:46:41.32
"Father in heaven I want my
life to please Jesus Christ."
00:46:41.33\00:46:46.81
Now let me say
something that may sound cold,
00:46:46.82\00:46:48.96
if you stood because
you don't want to stand out
00:46:48.97\00:46:51.15
but you didn't mean
it, you ought to sit down.
00:46:51.16\00:46:52.59
You really ought to sit
down if you didn't mean it.
00:46:59.61\00:47:02.69
But if you meant it,
you stay on your feet.
00:47:02.70\00:47:06.56
This is our last
meeting together.
00:47:06.57\00:47:09.16
But it's not the last
time you'll be blessed.
00:47:09.17\00:47:10.93
This is the last
our meeting together.
00:47:10.94\00:47:12.81
And the Lord will
bring someone else
00:47:12.82\00:47:14.44
to add to what've you heard.
00:47:14.45\00:47:18.08
But you don't know if
you'll be here tomorrow.
00:47:18.09\00:47:19.80
None of us has a
receipt for a long life.
00:47:22.89\00:47:26.18
None of us has it.
00:47:26.19\00:47:28.92
The health message
doesn't guarantee a long life.
00:47:28.93\00:47:31.14
It guarantees a healthy
life for as long as you live.
00:47:31.15\00:47:33.75
All the soy milk in
the world can't keep you
00:47:33.76\00:47:35.46
from getting hit by a bus.
00:47:35.47\00:47:37.28
But it allows us
to live healthy life
00:47:40.06\00:47:42.34
so for the duration of our
lives we are useful to God 100%.
00:47:42.35\00:47:46.49
What I'm saying
is you don't know
00:47:46.50\00:47:48.68
if you'll be
here tomorrow night.
00:47:48.69\00:47:49.86
And I'm not
trying to scare anyone
00:47:49.87\00:47:51.61
because I don't know if I'll
be here tomorrow night either.
00:47:51.62\00:47:55.81
Jesus said, "Today."
00:47:55.82\00:47:59.19
If you will hear his
voice, "Harden not your heart."
00:47:59.20\00:48:06.46
I'll ask you an
unusual question I usually ask.
00:48:06.47\00:48:10.03
Is there someone
here who has been fighting
00:48:10.04\00:48:12.65
the conviction of
the Holy Spirit this week
00:48:12.66\00:48:14.57
and you're hardening your heart?
00:48:14.58\00:48:16.17
If there's someone like that,
00:48:16.18\00:48:17.67
you've been
hardening your heart,
00:48:17.68\00:48:18.97
raise your hand.
00:48:18.98\00:48:20.40
You've been
hardening your heart.
00:48:20.41\00:48:21.75
Come, come.
00:48:21.76\00:48:23.68
You've been hardening
your heart, raise your hand.
00:48:23.69\00:48:26.50
Come, my good brother.
00:48:26.51\00:48:27.55
Someone greet him as
he comes, please. Come.
00:48:27.56\00:48:30.49
If you've
raised your hand, come.
00:48:30.50\00:48:31.80
There's a vast
audience, I can't see everyone.
00:48:31.81\00:48:33.41
You know you've been
hardening your heart.
00:48:33.42\00:48:35.77
Come right upstairs,
come right, come right,
00:48:35.78\00:48:37.03
This way with us,
please. God bless you.
00:48:37.04\00:48:38.75
You know you've been
hardening your heart,
00:48:38.76\00:48:40.35
raise your hand and come.
00:48:40.36\00:48:43.36
In every congregation,
there're people who fight
00:48:43.37\00:48:45.89
and they say, "I
will not go long.
00:48:45.90\00:48:47.37
I will not obey.
I will not do it.
00:48:47.38\00:48:48.83
I will not let the
Spirit soften my heart."
00:48:48.84\00:48:50.76
If you know
you've been doing that
00:48:50.77\00:48:52.73
come with your hard
heart, bring it. Come.
00:48:52.74\00:48:57.22
Raise that hand and
bring that hard heart?
00:48:57.23\00:48:59.16
Jesus will soften it tonight.
00:48:59.17\00:49:02.37
God bless you, my good brother.
00:49:02.38\00:49:03.37
God bless you. Come, come.
00:49:03.38\00:49:05.96
Bring your hard
heart, come, come.
00:49:05.97\00:49:09.47
I'm just calling
the hard hearted.
00:49:09.48\00:49:11.76
Fighting Jesus, fighting
the conviction. You come.
00:49:11.77\00:49:16.62
If you're trialed
and your heart has moved,
00:49:16.63\00:49:18.65
tell your parents,
mother I need to go
00:49:18.66\00:49:21.35
and respond to this call.
00:49:21.36\00:49:22.95
I'm calling the hard of heart.
00:49:22.96\00:49:25.53
But who are
clearly honest in heart.
00:49:25.54\00:49:28.50
Come, let Jesus
soften the heart right now.
00:49:28.51\00:49:31.54
He is the only one who can.
00:49:31.55\00:49:33.16
Anyone else, you've
been hardening your hearts
00:49:33.17\00:49:36.49
because you're not yet
ready to give it all to Christ.
00:49:36.50\00:49:39.31
Bring that hard heart.
00:49:39.32\00:49:40.95
Let Jesus do what He
does best. Anyone else? Come.
00:49:40.96\00:49:47.73
I won't hold you long.
00:49:47.74\00:49:50.12
Come, bring your
hard heart and come.
00:49:50.13\00:49:53.15
Jesus knows how to
soften hard hearts.
00:49:53.16\00:49:55.21
He really does.
00:49:55.22\00:49:56.23
Anyone else I
believe there're others.
00:49:56.24\00:49:58.46
I believe that.
00:49:58.47\00:50:00.61
Few people want to show
publicly their hearts were hard
00:50:00.62\00:50:02.80
but that's the first
step to a soft heart.
00:50:02.81\00:50:04.75
God bless, this man. Who else?
00:50:04.76\00:50:07.89
Maybe right now
you're hardening your heart
00:50:11.37\00:50:12.74
against this call, come.
00:50:12.75\00:50:16.05
Be impetuous, be a reckless,
and you step out and come.
00:50:16.06\00:50:19.83
Bring that heart to Christ.
00:50:19.84\00:50:20.97
I'm just calling
for heard hearts.
00:50:23.11\00:50:27.19
Am I to believe all
the hard hearts are here?
00:50:27.20\00:50:28.93
Anyone else?
00:50:32.77\00:50:34.98
The rest of you
should be praying
00:50:34.99\00:50:35.98
that God will
soften hearts, please.
00:50:35.99\00:50:37.37
Come, my good brother, come.
00:50:40.22\00:50:43.21
Bring the hard hearts to Christ.
00:50:43.22\00:50:44.51
Come my sister, come.
00:50:44.52\00:50:46.44
Bring that hard heart
and give it to Jesus Christ.
00:50:46.45\00:50:51.71
He's happy to take it.
00:50:51.72\00:50:53.19
Come right up, my good brother,
come right up, right up.
00:50:53.20\00:50:55.75
God bless you.
Someone help him out, please.
00:50:55.76\00:50:57.55
Don't let him walk
alone. Bring the hard heart.
00:50:57.56\00:51:02.12
And I pray Father in Heaven,
00:51:02.13\00:51:03.16
give strength to my brothers
and sisters on their feet.
00:51:03.17\00:51:05.21
Give them strength.
00:51:05.22\00:51:06.25
Please on their
feet, please. Come, sister.
00:51:06.26\00:51:10.05
God bless you.
00:51:10.06\00:51:12.24
Will the other hard
hearts, please come?
00:51:12.25\00:51:13.91
Just leave the seat and come.
00:51:16.71\00:51:18.94
Who else has a hard heart?
00:51:21.35\00:51:23.21
Come, don't let anyone stop you.
00:51:23.22\00:51:24.95
Take your hand out of
your spouse's hand and come.
00:51:24.96\00:51:27.58
Selfishness one on
one with Jesus Christ.
00:51:27.59\00:51:29.45
You come.
00:51:29.46\00:51:30.49
Bring that hard
resisting heart and come.
00:51:30.50\00:51:33.80
Come, sister. If
you're coming, come.
00:51:39.19\00:51:42.53
Come, come, come right around.
00:51:42.54\00:51:44.56
Someone go greet her, please.
00:51:44.57\00:51:45.85
Jesus shed His blood
for her, she's precious.
00:51:47.13\00:51:49.08
Bring the hard hearts.
00:51:49.09\00:51:52.30
And I pray God give
you strength as you stand,
00:51:52.31\00:51:54.15
give you strength as you stand.
00:51:54.16\00:51:55.36
Sister, God bless
you. You're fighting God.
00:51:55.37\00:51:58.97
And you're
fighting Him with gloves on.
00:51:58.98\00:52:00.86
And yet He loves you.
Bring that hard heart.
00:52:02.00\00:52:04.80
Not to me, to Jesus. Bring it.
00:52:05.88\00:52:10.10
The rest of the hard hearts,
please come quickly so we--
00:52:10.11\00:52:12.13
I can move to the next appeal.
00:52:12.14\00:52:13.45
Please come.
00:52:13.46\00:52:14.45
And I don't mind begging you
this is life and death. Come.
00:52:15.65\00:52:18.15
The sooner you give
the hard heart to Jesus,
00:52:18.16\00:52:20.06
the less likely
you are to remain hard
00:52:20.07\00:52:21.58
for the rest of your life.
00:52:21.59\00:52:22.79
Who else will come,
bring that hard heart.
00:52:22.80\00:52:24.75
I'm only calling
the hard of heart.
00:52:24.76\00:52:26.84
But I'll tell you what the
fact that they came tells me,
00:52:28.39\00:52:30.99
there're a soft
area in that hard heart.
00:52:31.00\00:52:34.01
Come on and say amen.
00:52:34.02\00:52:35.43
And Jesus just wants
that. He can work on it.
00:52:35.44\00:52:38.18
That's all He needs, one little
soft area in the hard heart.
00:52:38.19\00:52:42.98
A hard heart can be
an honest heart too.
00:52:42.99\00:52:44.48
Come, anyone else? Anyone else?
00:52:44.49\00:52:47.88
Last night, I made
an appeal to baptism,
00:52:50.42\00:52:52.95
some people came forward.
00:52:52.96\00:52:54.04
If you're here,
just raise your hands.
00:52:54.05\00:52:56.08
Those who came forward
for baptism last night,
00:52:56.09\00:52:57.75
raise your hands.
00:52:57.76\00:52:59.22
I want you to slip out
and come right this side.
00:52:59.23\00:53:01.62
Come quickly, come this side.
00:53:01.63\00:53:04.04
You came last
night, come this side.
00:53:04.05\00:53:07.25
Jesus has a way of
calling people twice
00:53:07.26\00:53:08.73
Moses, Moses, Abraham, Abraham,
Simon, Simon, Martha, Martha.
00:53:08.74\00:53:12.67
He's calling you
twice, come right here.
00:53:12.68\00:53:16.24
Come right here.
00:53:16.25\00:53:17.24
Joseph told Pharaoh that
a vision was doubled to him
00:53:19.42\00:53:22.10
that a thing may be
established of the Lord twice.
00:53:22.11\00:53:24.52
Come right here or anyone
who wants to make the decision
00:53:24.53\00:53:27.54
for baptism for the
first time tonight, you come.
00:53:27.55\00:53:30.97
You weren't here last night
or you didn't make the decision,
00:53:30.98\00:53:32.91
you want to make it
tonight, slip out and come.
00:53:32.92\00:53:35.92
We're having a
baptism on Sabbath.
00:53:35.93\00:53:38.12
The happiest times in the
life of a Christian, you come.
00:53:38.13\00:53:40.57
Spoke to a little girl
last night in the office.
00:53:42.57\00:53:44.64
She wants to be baptized
and she told her mother.
00:53:44.65\00:53:46.54
The mother brought her to me.
00:53:46.55\00:53:47.59
I said, "Why do you
want to be baptized?"
00:53:47.60\00:53:49.04
She said, "I want
to be like Jesus."
00:53:49.05\00:53:51.67
Can you say amen? Amen.
00:53:51.68\00:53:53.61
Come, I want to be baptized.
00:53:53.62\00:53:56.89
Who else would make
that decision, you come.
00:53:56.90\00:53:58.35
If you're not
baptized at Sabbath,
00:54:00.49\00:54:02.16
we can set you up
for additional studies.
00:54:02.17\00:54:03.88
You can be baptized
sometime in the future.
00:54:03.89\00:54:05.80
But come, make
the decision and come.
00:54:05.81\00:54:08.54
Now let me close this
appeal and let you go.
00:54:08.55\00:54:11.36
Anyone else?
00:54:12.09\00:54:13.85
I want to be baptized
because Jesus asks me,
00:54:13.86\00:54:18.10
the one who died for me.
00:54:18.11\00:54:19.25
God bless my
sister who's coming.
00:54:19.26\00:54:21.74
Someone go and shake
her hand please, please.
00:54:21.75\00:54:24.79
Okay, someone did it at
the bottom of that ramp.
00:54:24.80\00:54:27.08
Okay, anyone else? Anyone else?
00:54:27.09\00:54:29.14
I want to be baptized
because Jesus wants me.
00:54:29.15\00:54:33.76
The man who pulled me
from that snow bank of sin.
00:54:35.56\00:54:39.79
I will do whatever he says.
00:54:39.80\00:54:42.35
Is there anyone else?
00:54:42.36\00:54:44.16
Let me ask an unusual question
00:54:46.70\00:54:48.22
for a camp meeting of
Seventh-day Adventist.
00:54:48.23\00:54:50.47
Is there someone
listening to me tonight
00:54:50.48\00:54:53.41
who has never
surrendered their life to Jesus?
00:54:53.42\00:54:56.56
Let me see your hand.
You really never have.
00:54:58.91\00:55:01.67
You've never really
surrendered your life to Jesus.
00:55:01.68\00:55:03.76
Can I see your hand, anyone?
00:55:03.77\00:55:06.49
If you see a hand and I
don't see it point it out to me.
00:55:09.55\00:55:12.37
Sister, come, come,
come. Don't be impatient.
00:55:12.38\00:55:16.75
The Lord will strengthen you.
00:55:16.76\00:55:17.77
If you need to sit
for physical reasons,
00:55:17.78\00:55:19.20
do that without
disturbing anyone.
00:55:19.21\00:55:21.04
But come.
00:55:21.05\00:55:23.10
Never really surrendered
their life to Christ, you come.
00:55:23.11\00:55:25.47
I want her right next to me.
00:55:25.48\00:55:27.93
Bring her right next to me.
00:55:27.94\00:55:29.44
Anyone else, you've never really
surrendered your life, come.
00:55:29.45\00:55:33.57
This is very serious.
Please pray in your hearts.
00:55:36.16\00:55:38.00
Please pray in your
hearts. Bring that sister.
00:55:38.01\00:55:40.33
Is there anyone here who is
not a Seventh-day Adventist?
00:55:45.25\00:55:48.48
You're visiting,
let me see your hand.
00:55:48.49\00:55:51.02
You're just
visiting. God bless you.
00:55:51.03\00:55:52.97
You're visiting.
00:55:52.98\00:55:54.03
Are there spouses here
00:55:58.93\00:56:00.64
who are married to
Seventh-day Adventists
00:56:00.65\00:56:02.09
but you're not a
Seventh-day Adventist
00:56:02.10\00:56:03.38
and you want to say,
Lord, I want to study some more.
00:56:03.39\00:56:06.33
I have a good heart.
00:56:06.34\00:56:07.33
Open the way for me to accept
00:56:07.34\00:56:09.01
what my spouse has been
following all these years.
00:56:09.02\00:56:11.08
Let me see your hand.
00:56:11.09\00:56:13.77
Your spouse is an
Adventist, you're not.
00:56:13.78\00:56:15.90
But you're open
to additional study.
00:56:15.91\00:56:17.56
Can I see your hand
if you are here? Okay.
00:56:17.57\00:56:22.14
I thank God for
those who've come.
00:56:23.98\00:56:26.84
Can you say amen? Amen.
00:56:26.85\00:56:29.17
Now I want to pray
for my sister first.
00:56:29.18\00:56:34.53
I'll lead you in a
prayer of confession
00:56:34.54\00:56:37.46
and total acceptance of Christ.
00:56:37.47\00:56:40.28
I want you to
pray in your hearts.
00:56:40.29\00:56:42.51
Do you give me permission
to pray to God for you?
00:56:42.52\00:56:44.52
Yes. Good.
00:56:44.80\00:56:46.22
Do you all agree
I must pray for her?
00:56:46.23\00:56:48.05
Yes. All right,
every head bowed.
00:56:48.09\00:56:50.20
Every eye closed.
00:56:50.21\00:56:51.20
My sister, come
close to the mike.
00:56:51.21\00:56:52.77
I want you to say after
me. Dear Father in Heaven,
00:56:52.78\00:56:55.71
Dear Father in Heaven,
00:56:55.72\00:56:56.83
I come to you
tonight, I come to you tonight,
00:56:56.84\00:56:59.12
To give my heart to
you. To give my heart to you.
00:56:59.13\00:57:01.52
I am a sinner. I am a sinner.
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I give my heart to you
now, I give my heart to you now,
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Because I cannot save myself.
Because I cannot save myself.
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I believe with
all my heart and soul,
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I believe with
all my heart and soul,
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That Jesus is my
Savior. That Jesus is my Savior.
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I accept His shed
blood, I accept His shed blood,
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As payment for my
sins. As payment for my sins.
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I accept His resurrected life,
I accept His resurrected life,
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As the power to
live victoriously.
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As the power to
live victoriously.
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Father, I'm all yours tonight.
Father, I'm all yours tonight.
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Fill me with your spirit,
Fill me with your spirit,
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That I may live
for you day by day.
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That I may live
for you day by day.
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Bless my
family. Bless my family.
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Keep me
faithful. Keep me faithful.
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I thank you for saving
me, I thank you for saving me,
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In Jesus' name. In Jesus' name.
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Amen. Amen.
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What do you say? Amen.
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Sister, what's your name? Angie.
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Sister Angie, let
the church say amen.
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Amen. Yes.
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Okay, sister Angie,
you step right here.
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Those with the
hard hearts come please,
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come, come, please.
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Be patient with Jesus, please.
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Come. God bless you.
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You don't know how
happy I am to see you.
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You really don't.
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Now I don't want to
be skinning and grinning
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to the pulpit, but
you need to understand
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how happy I am
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because few people could
respond to a call like that.
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How many of you will like Jesus
to soften your heart tonight?
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Raise your hands. God bless you.
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How many of you believe
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He can soften it in the moment
in the twinkling of an eye?
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That's what He's about to do.
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Bow your heads.
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I want each of
you to touch someone.
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Link her hand.
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Everyone touch
someone, link hands, link hands.
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Each one of you who
came forward link hands.
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I like all the ministers to
come and surround us please.
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Come and surround us
all those who're here.
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Any minister in
the congregation.
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Any audient elder
come please. Please come.
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Any other minister
here, come, please.
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Please come. I
want everyone praying.
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This is not a spectator
sport. All ministers come.
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Surround God's people.
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The softening
process has already begun.
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They don't know of that. Come.
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