Let's stand now, as we
sing our hymn of praise,
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"Victory in Jesus."
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I heard an old, old story
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How a Savior came from glory
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How He gave His life on Calvary
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To save a wretch like me
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I heard about His groaning
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Of His precious blood's atoning
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Then I repented of my sins
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And won the victory
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O victory in Jesus
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My Savior, forever
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He sought me and bought me
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With His redeeming blood
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He loved me ere I knew Him
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And all my love is due Him
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He plunged me to victory
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Beneath the cleansing flood
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O victory in Jesus
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My Savior, forever
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He sought me and bought me
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With His redeeming blood
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He loved me ere I knew Him
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And all my love is due Him
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He plunged me to victory
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Beneath the cleansing flood
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Father in heaven,
we thank you so much
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for the privilege of
being here this morning,
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to worship You and
to give You praise.
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We ask that You'll
accept our worship,
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that You will come
down upon us with power,
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Your power and that
You will transform us
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into the likeness of Jesus
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and whose name we do pray, amen.
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Please be seated
and good morning.
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Good morning.
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It's good to see
each and every one of you,
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we want to give a
special welcome to our visitors,
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we're so glad that you're here
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and of course to
the personnel from 3ABN.
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We're glad you're here too.
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And, may God bless you as
you go around the country.
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I know that you are a blessing.
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3ABN is a
wonderful, wonderful ministry.
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And we hear Cody Rd
Mens do pray for you.
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We want to take just a movement
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to greet each other
in the name of the Lord.
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Just turn to
somebody next to you,
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and wish them a happy Sabbath.
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Isn't it
wonderful to be here today?
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Yes.
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Join with each other and
to encourage one another.
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It's now time for
our lambs offering
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and then the children's story.
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Good morning, boys and girls.
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Good to see you. Can
you tell what I like?
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Butterflies.
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That's a good guess.
Yes, I love butterflies.
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I love butterflies so much,
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that I made this butterfly box
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and in the summer time,
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I collect a little caterpillars
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and what I do is,
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I grow this plant
called parsley, see this.
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This is called parsley,
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and there is a
certain kind of butterfly,
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that likes parsley and
this is their host plant.
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And then in the summer time
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when I see the little
caterpillars on the parsley,
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they'll be little
and they start eating
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and eating and
eating the parsley
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and then they
get bigger and bigger
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and then you know what I do?
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I go out and I watch the parsley
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when they get real big and fat.
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Then I go and I pick
them off of the parsley
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and then I put them
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inside my butterfly box.
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Yes, this is my
butterfly helper,
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and then I put the caterpillars
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in the box and then I watch,
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I keep feeding them parsley
because they're still hungry.
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And they eat the parsley
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and then when they get
big and fat and they know
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when to stop eating,
they crawl out on the limb
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and then they
turn into a chrysalis.
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And the chrysalis
is hard gel that goes,
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they turn into a
chrysalis and then in nine days,
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and I mark it on my calendar
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because I start
watching for my butterflies.
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And then in nine
days, guess what happens?
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Guess what happens in nine days?
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Yes, it turns into
a beautiful butterfly
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that caterpillar does.
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And then, I gently
put my hand in the box,
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and guess what he does?
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He crawls right up on my hand.
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And, then I don't
touch his wings though,
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I never touch his wings,
and I just let him sit up there
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and sometimes I
put him on a flower,
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and I let him sit
up there till he dries
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and then guess what happens?
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He flies away.
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And last summer I
let 21 butterflies go,
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and it was so much fun.
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You know, what I think about
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when I see the
beautiful butterflies?
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I wonder what
does the butterflies,
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what are they gonna
look like in heaven?
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Are they gonna be sparkly?
Are they gonna be that big?
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I can't wait, can you?
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I cannot wait to see
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the beautiful
butterflies in heaven.
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I want to be there, don't
you? We want to be in heaven.
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And some day when Jesus
comes, we'll get to go to heaven
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and see the
beautiful butterflies.
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And you know what
I have for you today?
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I've got a butterfly
for you to take home.
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And Miss Samantes going
to give you each a butterfly
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and when you look
at that butterfly,
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I want you to think about
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the butterflies in heaven, okay?
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Okay.
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You can get a butterfly
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and then go back to
your seats, thank you.
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Remember, "Sparse sowing,
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sparse reaping, sow bountifully,
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and you will reap bountifully.
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Each person should give as
he has decided for himself.
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Each person should
therefore rely totally on God.
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Make no sense for compulsion,
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there should be no reluctance.
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God loves a cheerful giver.
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The pathfinder will now stand
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for our morning
tithes and offerings.
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Father, we thank you
for this opportunity.
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And we ask God that these gifts
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that we receive will
go for the furtherance
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of thy cause and
hasten thy soon coming,
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for we ask it in
Jesus' name, amen.
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Sometimes my load gets heavy
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With the things I carry
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This world puts upon my back
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But all I have to do is think
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Where I'm headed to
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And I find no
reason to turn back!
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When you look for me
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Look around the throne
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I'll be singing
with the angels there!
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Singing glory to His name
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That forever I've been changed
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So look for me
around the throne!
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The half has not
been told of the sights
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I shall behold
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When I get to my new home
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But the one I long to see
is the one who set me free
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So look for me around the throne
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On this road to
Glory, telling my new story
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I can feel His hand in mine!
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He is leading me
along to my brand new home
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What a jubilation time!
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When you look for me,
look around the throne
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I'll be singing
with the angels there!
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Singing glory to His name
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That forever I've been changed
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So look for me
around the throne!
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When you look for me
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Look around the throne
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I'll be singing
with the angels there!
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Singing glory to His name
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That forever I've been changed
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So look for me
around the throne!
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So look for me
around the throne!
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So look for me
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Around the throne!
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In the dark of the midnight
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Have I oft hid my face
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While the storm howls above me
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And there's no hiding place
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'Mid the crash of the thunder
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Precious Lord, hear my cry
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Keep me safe
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Till the storm
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Passes by
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Till the storm passes over
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Till the thunder sounds no more
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Till the clouds
roll forever from the sky
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Hold me fast, let me stand
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In the hollow of Thy hand
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Keep me safe till
the storm passes by
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When the long night has ended
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And the storms come no more
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Let me stand in Thy presence
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On the bright peaceful shore
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In that land where the tempest
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Never comes
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Lord, may I dwell with Thee
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Till the storm passes by
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Till the storm passes over
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Till the thunder sounds no more
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Till the clouds
roll forever from the sky
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Hold me fast, let me stand
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In the hollow of Thy hand
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Keep me safe
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Till the storm passes by
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We stand as we
sing our last songs.
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Let there be glory,
and honor, and praises
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Glory and honor to Jesus
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Glory and honor
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Glory and honor to Him
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Thank you, be seated please.
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It's now time for
our family prayer time.
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We'd like to invite and
we have a prayer thoughts.
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The elders will now
come and receive them.
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Surely the presence of the Lord
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Is in this place
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I can feel his mighty power
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And his grace
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I can hear the
brush of angel's wings
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I see glory on each face
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Surely the presence of the Lord
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Is in this place
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We'd invite the congregation
to kneel as we seek the Lord.
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Our father and our God,
how great it is to be known
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and loved by You.
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But, God, we take this
time out to praise Your name,
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for You truly
are worthy of praise.
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God, you sit
high and you look low,
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but our concerns are
just as important to You,
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as all the
galaxies in the universe.
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And, Lord, when we stop
and reflect on that greatness
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and Your concern for us, we
sit beside the road and say,
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"truly is great to
be in Your presence."
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Lord, we ask that
you would now send
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your Holy Spirit
to baptize us a new
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and refresh our minds
that we will always have
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words of praise for You.
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We ask that You be
with our national leaders,
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be with our local leaders,
Lord, as they make decisions
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that somehow will
affect our future.
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But we're so glad God,
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that you Have the final decision
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and we ask God
that You will also be
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with our sick
and shut-in members.
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Those that are
just hurting mentally,
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those that are
hurting physically,
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that God you would
wave Your hand of healing
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upon their lives, and
bring them a refreshing,
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that they will recognize
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that refreshing
came only from You.
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We ask also God, that
you be with our pastor,
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as he breaks the
bread of life that our souls
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who have been
hungering and thirsting all week
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would be satisfied and filled.
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And, Lord, when
we leave this place,
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may our hearts and mind be
filled with praises for You,
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for we know that we
have been in Your presence.
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Thank You for hearing
and answering this prayer,
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for we ask it in the
precious name of Jesus, amen.
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I hear the Savior say
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"Thy strength indeed is small
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Child of
weakness, watch and pray
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Find in me thine all in all."
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Jesus paid it all
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Jesus paid it all
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All to Him I owe
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Sin had left a crimson stain
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He washed it white as snow
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For nothing good have I
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Whereby Thy grace to claim
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I'll wash my garments white
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In the blood of Calvary's Lamb
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And when before the throne
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I stand in Him complete
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Jesus died my soul to save
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My lips shall still repeat
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Jesus paid it all
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All to Him I owe
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Sin had left a crimson stain
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He washed it
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White as snow
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I love to hear
those men sing, don't you?
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Yes.
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All of them, and
Mr. and Mr. Mellow,
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I really,
really love to hear it.
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Shall we pray?
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Lord, our father in heaven,
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we have come
here to worship You,
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the great King.
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And, Lord, I pray that
You'll use these words of mine
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to transforms our lives
into the likeness of Christ.
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Lord, bless us
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in Jesus' name, amen.
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For our younger
people in the audience,
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if you'd like to get
from your mom and dad
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that pencil and paper.
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The word that I want
you to mark down today
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is the word "power."
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Every time I
mention the word power,
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I want you to
just make a little mark
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and then at the
end of the service,
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I want you to come to me
and tell me how many times
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I use that word.
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Now, I'm going to
have to have a referee,
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so Miss Christy, get
your pencil and paper,
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and you tell me
and I'll find out
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if you're right or not.
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Power, how many times
have I used it already?
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Three times, okay.
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He was used to
running things his way.
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Yes, he was. He
was a man of action.
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He was a king of Israel
and now he and his country
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are threatened by enemies.
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Enemies that seek to destroy
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the very way that they live.
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He was a fighting
man, he was a wise man
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and the Bible tells us
that he was a good king
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there in I Kings Chapter
15, and he had a Godly father
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and he wanted to
emulate his example.
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He developed a
system of religious
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teaching for the people
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and you find that
in 2 Chronicles 17.
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And he commanded
the judges to be just,
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and now this good king
whose name is King Jehoshaphat
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gathers his people
around him, he needs council.
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They need to get together
and decide what ins to be done.
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He needed plans,
programs and above all,
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he needed decisiveness.
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Let the words of
the German martyr
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
describe the scene for us.
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He does it in
such a wonderful way.
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And so, Jehoshaphat
speaks to the people
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and then something
happened which seemed peculiar
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and yet it is so very biblical.
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His plans and
programs melt away.
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His programs become
prayer, his decisiveness
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becomes despair and humility.
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And so, he then concludes
his speech with these words
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from 2 Chronicles 20:12,
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"For we have no power
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to face this vast
army that is attacking us."
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We do not know what to do?
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But our eyes
are fixed upon Thee.
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Aren't those wonderful words?
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I'm not really sure
that I would feel comfortable
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if the president of our
nation came forward and said,
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"We are being attacked,
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and we just
don't know what to do."
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We like plans and
programs, we like decisiveness.
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We like people that
know what they're doing.
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We have no power
to face this vast army
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that is attacking us.
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We do not know what to do
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but our eyes are
fastened upon you,
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upon the King of kings,
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the king realized
their helplessness,
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but he knew where
to focus his eyes.
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Is that true of
you today, my friends?
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Oh, there's such a
need for prayer today.
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There is such a need for prayer.
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Jesus is our example.
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I like what it
says in Hebrews 5:7,
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our example the Lord Jesus,
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were told that
"He offered up prayers
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and petitions with
loud cries and tears."
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When was the last time
you and I prayed like that
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with loud cries and with tears?
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When was the last time
that we got down upon our knees
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or upon our stomachs
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and cried out to
the Lord to preserve us,
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to help us in that situation
there at the job place?
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When was the last time
that we cried out with tears?
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Oh, God, bless my church.
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Bless our people that we
may indeed glorify Your name
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and do what You want us to do.
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You remember the
story of Genelle Guzman?
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She was the last person
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to be taken out of
the World Tower alive.
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She was up on the 60th floor
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and she begin to
make her way down,
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down, down, down and
she got to the 13th floor
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and it was like an explosion.
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And she began to fall
amidst terrible noise,
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and she awoke and
she was pinned down,
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faced down, she
couldn't move her head.
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She could barely move one
arm and barely another leg.
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Pinned flat,
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and she laid there for 27 hours.
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And she describes how she began
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to cry out to the Lord, her God.
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And finally, 27 hours later,
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she is removed from the rubble
of that terrible disaster.
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My friends, we need to become
serious about our praying.
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We are in the end of time.
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We need to cry out with
loud cries and with tears.
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Oh, God, enable
us to do Your will.
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There is a
counterpart to that scripture,
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and it's found in Hebrews 12:2,
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where it says, "Let us
fix our eyes upon Jesus."
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Oh, my dear, dear
friends, my dear friends,
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you and I, no matter
what our circumstances may be,
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no matter how good they may be,
no matter how bad they may be,
00:33:23.47\00:33:27.70
you and I, our total
existence is to be an existence
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in which we are constantly
focusing our eyes upon Jesus.
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He is the one
that it is to guide
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and to direct us.
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A wise lady once
said and I quote,
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"Our intellect and
other gifts have been given
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to be used for
God's greater glory,
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but sometimes they
become the very god for us.
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We are losing our
balance when this happens.
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We must free
ourselves to be filled by God."
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Even our best to be successful
must be in the will of God,
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must have the moving
of God's power upon it.
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Do you believe that this morning
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that we can only be successful
if God is moving amongst us.
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If God's power is
visible and acting within us.
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We must realize
certain things are not God.
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Personal opinions are not God.
00:34:52.95\00:34:58.09
Growing
congregations are not God.
00:34:58.13\00:35:02.73
Charismatic pastors
00:35:02.76\00:35:05.33
and winsome worship
leaders are not God.
00:35:05.37\00:35:11.11
Worship forms and
musical styles are not God.
00:35:11.14\00:35:16.38
Numbers are not God.
00:35:16.41\00:35:17.81
Educational programs or not God.
00:35:17.85\00:35:20.42
Community service
projects are not God,
00:35:20.45\00:35:22.95
nor our women's
groups, youth groups,
00:35:22.98\00:35:25.75
church committees,
stewardship programs,
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they're not God.
00:35:30.03\00:35:32.46
And the only real
purpose for their existence
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is to give praise,
honor and glory to God.
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And when these ministries,
these things loose their reason
00:35:44.31\00:35:49.81
for existing to glorify
God, then my dear friends,
00:35:49.84\00:35:55.68
it becomes idolatry,
it become self worship.
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And it's easy to
fall into those things.
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To count on the program
more than we're counting
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upon God's spirit.
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Just to have these ministries
operating does not guarantee
00:36:19.07\00:36:24.21
that our church is healthy.
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It is not
automatically mean that
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God's going to give success.
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Now, some of
you maybe wondering,
00:36:35.26\00:36:36.59
what is he getting at?
00:36:36.62\00:36:38.19
Let me explain.
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Methods ministries
will never be successful
00:36:42.66\00:36:47.57
until we realize and understand
our great dependence upon God.
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We need to have a
great understanding
00:36:54.41\00:36:58.31
that we are
powerless without Him.
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And that no
matter what the program
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may be in the church,
00:37:04.32\00:37:06.45
unless it's
bathed in earnest prayer
00:37:06.49\00:37:09.62
and being moved
by the spirit of God,
00:37:09.66\00:37:12.49
it's just busy work.
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That's all it is.
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It appears to me
that we very often seem
00:37:21.74\00:37:28.54
to be depending
upon our intelligence.
00:37:28.58\00:37:34.45
It seems to me
that we very often
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seem to be
depending upon our creativity.
00:37:36.55\00:37:42.82
Our formulas for success
00:37:42.86\00:37:47.00
and yet as good
as all this may be,
00:37:47.03\00:37:50.60
it is only the
power, let me say it again,
00:37:50.63\00:37:54.40
it is only the power of God
that will revive us as a people
00:37:54.44\00:38:00.04
and convert the
lost to Jesus Christ.
00:38:00.08\00:38:05.25
Only His power can do that.
00:38:05.28\00:38:10.99
If the power of God is
not moving in these things,
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it's counterproductive.
00:38:14.42\00:38:17.39
It is a counterfeit.
00:38:17.43\00:38:19.76
It is like a bright shiny apple.
00:38:19.79\00:38:22.90
You know, you're
walking out there
00:38:22.93\00:38:24.27
and maybe in an orchard
00:38:24.30\00:38:25.87
or maybe you're at
Wal-Mart, I don't know.
00:38:25.90\00:38:27.90
But, you see that
apple, I want that one.
00:38:27.94\00:38:31.57
You pick it off that tree,
00:38:31.61\00:38:34.61
it feels firm
and you bite into it.
00:38:34.64\00:38:37.61
And it's just rotten mush.
00:38:37.65\00:38:40.92
You ever had that experience?
00:38:40.95\00:38:43.59
Oh, that's what
our programs are like
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if God's not moving upon them,
00:38:46.35\00:38:50.59
if God is not in them.
00:38:50.63\00:38:54.16
And my next text is then found
00:38:54.20\00:38:56.73
in Zechariah 4:6,
00:38:56.77\00:39:02.40
"This is the word of
the Lord to Zerubbabel:
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Not by might, nor by power,
00:39:08.88\00:39:13.25
but by my
Spirit, saith the Lord."
00:39:13.28\00:39:17.39
Not by might nor by
power, but by My Spirit,
00:39:17.42\00:39:20.76
says the Lord, All Mighty.
00:39:20.79\00:39:23.86
You and I must understand
that we can never depend,
00:39:23.89\00:39:29.76
we can never
rely, we can never trust
00:39:29.80\00:39:33.74
on how hard we
work or the programs
00:39:33.77\00:39:36.81
that are existing in our church.
00:39:36.84\00:39:39.87
We must work hard of course,
00:39:39.91\00:39:43.21
and programs can be a blessing.
00:39:43.24\00:39:47.55
But we need to understand
00:39:47.58\00:39:50.79
that only God's power
really changes things.
00:39:50.82\00:39:56.66
It is only the
Holy Spirit's power
00:39:56.69\00:40:00.20
that enables our programs to do
00:40:00.23\00:40:03.53
what the spirit of God
intense for them to do.
00:40:03.57\00:40:08.60
And it's so easy
to fall into these
00:40:08.64\00:40:12.81
self-congratulatory modes
00:40:12.84\00:40:17.38
or it all
depends on me attitude.
00:40:17.41\00:40:23.72
My, friends, it's easy to forget
00:40:23.75\00:40:25.52
that you and I must
rely on the power of God.
00:40:25.55\00:40:31.59
And so, often times
in the church today,
00:40:33.60\00:40:37.17
I find that
there are those that,
00:40:37.20\00:40:40.17
you know, they
play the blame game
00:40:40.20\00:40:43.44
or there are those that have
the pour me frame of reference.
00:40:43.47\00:40:50.21
If we had just done
this, or if we would do this
00:40:50.25\00:40:56.75
everything would be just
right not necessarily so.
00:40:56.79\00:41:03.63
We must pray not only
that God will use our programs,
00:41:03.66\00:41:08.06
I'm absolutely convinced,
00:41:08.10\00:41:10.13
we need to have more prayer
00:41:10.17\00:41:12.37
about what kind of programs
God wants in the first place.
00:41:12.40\00:41:19.21
Too often, we dream up a program
00:41:19.24\00:41:22.88
and then we ask
God's blessing upon it.
00:41:22.91\00:41:26.35
We need to be asking, Lord,
00:41:26.38\00:41:28.48
what kind of
program do you want?
00:41:28.52\00:41:32.05
What is it that
we should do here?
00:41:32.09\00:41:35.36
We need to be able to
admit, we don't know what to do
00:41:35.39\00:41:38.96
but our eyes are fixed upon you.
00:41:38.99\00:41:45.37
You know, my friends,
00:41:51.04\00:41:55.84
our basic fundamental problem
00:41:55.88\00:42:00.42
is not lack of money,
00:42:00.45\00:42:03.35
not lack of programs,
not lack of influence,
00:42:03.39\00:42:09.16
that's not our basic problem.
00:42:09.19\00:42:11.93
Our basic problem is
that we are sin sick.
00:42:11.96\00:42:18.40
We are sin sick, we
don't need more money,
00:42:19.80\00:42:24.67
we don't need more hospitals,
schools, etcetera, etcetera.
00:42:24.71\00:42:30.25
But what we really truly
need is to confess our sins,
00:42:30.28\00:42:36.08
we need to rely on and
walk in the power of God.
00:42:36.12\00:42:41.52
Too often we romanticize
00:42:43.63\00:42:45.83
the early
church of the apostles.
00:42:45.86\00:42:48.83
Oh, if we can just be like them,
00:42:48.86\00:42:50.63
you know, they didn't
seem to have any problems.
00:42:50.67\00:42:54.47
Well, read your New Testament,
there was plenty of problems,
00:42:54.50\00:42:59.11
outside the
church, inside the church.
00:42:59.14\00:43:04.51
And you know what?
00:43:04.55\00:43:06.45
They reached the
then known world,
00:43:06.48\00:43:10.05
they shook the
culture of their time
00:43:10.09\00:43:14.39
and they didn't
have technology to do it,
00:43:14.42\00:43:17.76
they didn't have
printing presses to do it,
00:43:17.79\00:43:20.50
but they had
God's hand upon them.
00:43:20.53\00:43:24.20
They had the power
of the living Christ
00:43:24.23\00:43:27.54
dwelling within them.
00:43:27.57\00:43:29.50
That's what they had,
00:43:29.54\00:43:32.97
that's what we need.
00:43:33.01\00:43:39.51
What does a
power of God look like?
00:43:39.55\00:43:43.59
I'd like to tell
you, what the power of God
00:43:43.62\00:43:45.69
looks like at
least in part today.
00:43:45.72\00:43:50.53
I believe that the power of God,
00:43:50.56\00:43:53.80
when we see the Holy
Spirit moving upon individuals,
00:43:53.83\00:43:58.97
when we see God's power
working upon the church.
00:43:59.00\00:44:03.10
We will see individuals praying,
00:44:03.14\00:44:07.51
down on their knees,
confessing their sins,
00:44:07.54\00:44:11.65
pleading with God to
indwell them with the Spirit,
00:44:11.68\00:44:15.58
so that they can live lives
that will honor and glorify
00:44:15.62\00:44:20.62
their Redeemer
and their Creator.
00:44:20.66\00:44:25.73
You will see
people in earnest prayer
00:44:25.76\00:44:30.17
and when you see God's
power moving upon the church
00:44:30.20\00:44:34.54
and upon individuals,
00:44:34.57\00:44:36.40
you will see them
reading God's word.
00:44:36.44\00:44:42.11
They'll be opening up that word
00:44:42.14\00:44:44.41
and they are
thoroughly convinced that
00:44:44.45\00:44:46.98
what they read
in that word is true
00:44:47.02\00:44:50.45
and filled with
transforming power.
00:44:50.49\00:44:54.66
And you will see people
that will try their best,
00:45:00.53\00:45:06.20
combined with the power of God
00:45:06.23\00:45:08.94
to live the
principles of that word
00:45:08.97\00:45:13.14
before their families
and before their neighbors
00:45:13.17\00:45:17.25
and in the work place,
that's what you'll see.
00:45:17.28\00:45:23.59
And you will see people
when God's power is poured out,
00:45:23.62\00:45:28.62
you're going to
see people reaching out
00:45:28.66\00:45:31.96
in kindness to their neighbors,
00:45:31.99\00:45:36.36
having a true and honest concern
00:45:36.40\00:45:39.40
for those people
that live close to them.
00:45:39.43\00:45:42.47
You know, it takes
time to be a good neighbor.
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It takes time to
understand who they are.
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It takes time to
drop off a sack of apples
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and say, "Here enjoy."
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It takes time to
have them over for lunch.
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But when God's power
is moving upon the church,
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you're going to see
people reaching out in kindness.
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There's something else
that we would see in the church.
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And it's something we
don't even like to talk about
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much in the church today.
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But when God's power
is moving upon a church,
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we're going to
see accountability.
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We need to hold
each other accountable,
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for when the
church fails to do this.
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Hear me, my friends,
when the church fails
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to hold itself
accountable to each other,
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the church loses the respect
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and the loyalty of its neighbors
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and it certainly does so
for the members of the church,
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even the world
when they see that
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we do not hold
each other accountable,
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for the way that
we're supposed live,
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they have no respect for us.
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But neither do the
members, neither do the members.
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One more thing
about accountability,
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when there's no accountability,
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we let people
wallow in their sins
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and in their hopelessness
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without the benefit of our help,
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without the benefit
of our encouragement
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to break with sin
and to turn the God.
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We hold each other accountable,
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so that we can be an
encouragement to one another,
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so that we can
assist one another,
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so that we can help
people break with whatever sin
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or burden that
they are carrying.
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That's why we hold
each other accountable,
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so that we can help each
other become more like Jesus.
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When God is moving on
His church with power,
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you will see people
that will bear fruit.
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That's right fruit.
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In Colossians 1:10 it
says, "We pray this in order
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that you may live a
life worthy of the Lord
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and may please him in every way:
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bearing fruit
in every good work,
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growing in the
knowledge of God."
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We need to be bearing fruit.
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We need to be concerned
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about our spiritual lives.
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My little granddaughter Morgan,
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when she was
attending kindergarten,
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she came home
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and she was very frustrated.
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She talked to her
mama about the fact
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that she was the
smallest one in kindergarten.
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She talked to her nana,
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I'm the smallest one.
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She also fretted over the fact
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that all the
other kindergarteners
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were losing
teeth and she wasn't.
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How I wish that we
were more concerned
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about our spiritual growth.
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I wish we were as
concerned as much about
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our spiritual growth
as my little granddaughter
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was about her physical growth.
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We must be serious, my friends,
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this is a serious time
to which God has called us.
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Fruitfulness in
fact, let me say it again,
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fruitfulness is
the only evidence
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that's someone is
a genuine Christian.
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The Bible says
in Matthew 7:16-20,
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let me read this to you,
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"By their fruit you
will recognize them.
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Do people pick
grapes from thorn bushes,
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or figs from thistles?
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Likewise, every good
tree bears good fruit,
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but a bad tree bears bad fruit.
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A good tree
cannot bear bad fruit,
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and a bad tree bear good fruit.
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Every tree that does not
bear good fruit is cut down
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and thrown into the fire."
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We're to bear fruit.
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And the reason we're to bear it,
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is because
people will recognize,
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we belong to Jesus.
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We're to bear fruit,
so that we look like Him.
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In Galatians 5:22 and 23,
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"But the fruit of
the Spirit is love,
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joy, peace, patients, kindness,
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goodness, faithfulness,
gentleness and self-control."
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That's the fruit of the spirit.
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Are other people seeing
the fruit of the spirit,
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the power of God's fruit?
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Is it alive within us?
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We need to bear fruit.
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We need a
transformation in the church.
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We need a transformation
in you and you and me.
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We need to be transformed
by the Holy Spirit's power.
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We need to be
transformed from the inside out.
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We need to be morphing
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into the likeness
of our Lord Jesus.
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My friends, our goal
is to become like Jesus.
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I want to be
like Jesus, don't you?
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I want to be gentle
and loving and kind.
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I want to be just like Jesus.
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We need radical discipleship.
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Now, I know
that the word radical
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is come upon hard
times, but it's a good word,
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and I checked myself
out in the dictionary
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just this past week.
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The roots of the
word radical goes to this,
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going to the
foundation, going to the source,
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fundamental, basic,
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I think that
describes genuine discipleship,
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we need radical discipleship
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that will go back
to the foundation.
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We need radical discipleship
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that will go back to the source.
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We need radical
discipleship that will get back
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to the fundamentals, the basics.
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We need people whose
eyes are fastened upon Jesus.
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People who are
praying and reading the word.
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People who are
reaching out to their neighbors,
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people who other
people see within them
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the power of the living
Christ, that's what we need.
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We need soldiers of Christ,
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who are totally committed.
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We need soldiers of Christ
that are totally dedicated.
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Where?
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Where are the
heroes of God today?
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They're around, trust me,
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they're everywhere,
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and their numbers are growing.
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Let's make sure that
we're a part of them,
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standing for
the honor of Christ.
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Don't live a
meaningless life young people,
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live for Jesus
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and you'll have
meaning to your life.
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We need people
that will serve Him
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and praise Him and someone
to turn off that fire alarm.
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Well, 3ABN you're the experts,
do I go on or do I wait?
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Keep going? All
right, let's keep going.
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Recognize everyday of your life,
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that our great God,
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has thrown open wide
the gates of salvation.
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He has open wide
the gates to paradise.
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You and I are on the
borders of the Promised Land.
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You and I are on the
borders of the heavenly Canaan.
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You and I are soon to see Jesus
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in all of His
majesty coming forth.
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And I just can't wait, can you?
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Can you imagine it all?
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You and I are
about to experience
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that final deliverance.
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You and I are about to
see Jesus face to face.
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Can you imagine it?
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Use your imagination,
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stand up on the tiptoes
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of your imagination
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and look into the future
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that God has for you.
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It's a wonderful future.
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Can you see it? Can you see it?
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Let us pray.
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Lord God, King of the universe
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come down upon
us with Your power.
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Oh, God, do not consume us.
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May Your will be
accomplished through us,
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that we may glorify Your name
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and enjoy You forever.
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Amen.
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