Happy Sabbath everyone,
and welcome to North Florida
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Camp Meeting at Camp Kulaqua.
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We're privileged and happy to be
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with each and
every one of you today.
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David says,
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"I will sing a new song
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unto thee, O
God, upon a psaltery
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and an instrument of ten strings
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I will sing praise unto thee".
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Join with us as we sing
praise to Him this evening.
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Come, Thou Fount
of every blessing,
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Tune my heart to sing Thy grace,
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Streams of mercy, never ceasing,
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Call for songs
of loudest praise.
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Teach me ever to adore thee.
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May I still Thy goodness prove.
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While the hope of endless glory.
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Fills my heart
with joy and love,
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O to grace how great a debtor
Daily I'm constrained to be!
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Let Thy goodness, like a fetter,
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Bind me closer still to thee.
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Prone to
wander, Lord, I feel it,
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Prone to leave the God I love,
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Here's my heart,
O take and seal it,
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Seal it for thy courts above.
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How many times do we
feel, the Lord shield about us
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and just know
that He is with us.
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That's why we're
singing about tonight
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"A shield about
me". Join with us.
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You, O Lord, Are
a shield about me,
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You're my glory,
you're the lifter of my head.
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You, O Lord are
a shield about me,
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You're my glory,
you're the lifter of my head.
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Hallelujah, Hallelujah,
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Hallelujah, You're
the lifter of my head
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You, O Lord, Are
a shield about me,
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You're my glory,
You're the lifter of my head.
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You, O Lord, Are
a shield about me,
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You're my glory,
You're the lifter of my head.
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Hallelujah, Hallelujah,
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Hallelujah, You're
the lifter of my head
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Hallelujah, Hallelujah,
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Hallelujah, You're
the lifter of my head.
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I'm a college student.
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And I have written a
schedule for my classes,
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that's easy for me to know,
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what time I need to get the bus
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and what time I
need to go to class.
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But it's a week schedule
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and on Sabbath of
course I have no class.
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And I wrote on
that calendar date,
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O day of rest and
gladness, sing with us.
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O day of rest and gladness,
O day of joy and light,
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O Balm of care and sadness.
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Most beautiful, most bright,
On Thee the high and lowly
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Who bend before the throne
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Sing holy, holy,
holy To the Eternal One.
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Thou art a port protected,
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From storms that round us rise,
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A garden intersected,
With streams from paradise,
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Thou art a cooling fountain
In life's dry, dreary sand,
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From thee, like
Pisgah's mountain,
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We view our Promised
Land, A day of sweet reflection,
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Thou art, a day of love,
A day to raise affection,
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From earth to things
above New graces ever gaining,
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From this our day of rest
We seek the rest remaining,
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In mansions of the blest
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Would you be free
from the burden of sin?
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There's pow'r in the
blood, pow'r in the blood,
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Would you o'er
evil a victory win?
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There's wonderful
power in the blood.
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There is pow'r,
pow'r wonder working pow'r.
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In the blood of the lamb,
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There is pow'r,
pow'r wonder working pow'r.
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In the precious
blood of the lamb.
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Would you be free from
your passion and pride?
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There's pow'r in the
blood pow'r in the blood,
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Come for a
cleansing to Calvary's tide?
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There's wonderful
pow'r in the blood.
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There is pow'r,
pow'r wonder working pow'r.
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In the blood of the lamb,
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There is pow'r,
pow'r wonder working pow'r.
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In the precious
blood of the lamb.
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Would you do
service for Jesus your king?
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There's pow'r in the
blood, pow'r in the blood,
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Would you live
daily His praises to sing?
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There's wonderful
power in the blood.
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There is pow'r,
pow'r wonder working pow'r.
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In the blood of the lamb,
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There is pow'r,
pow'r wonder working pow'r.
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In the precious
blood of the lamb.
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There is pow'r,
pow'r wonder working pow'r.
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In the blood of the lamb,
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There is pow'r,
pow'r wonder working pow'r.
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In the precious
blood of the lamb.
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I would like to
invite all of you to stand.
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We would like to introduce,
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the theme song for our
camp meeting this weekend,
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"Open our eyes
Lord, let us see Jesus".
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Open our eyes, Lord,
we want to see Jesus,
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To reach out and touch
Him, And say that we love Him.
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Open our ears, Lord,
and help us to listen,
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Open our eyes, Lord,
we want to see Jesus.
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Open our eyes, Lord,
we want to see Jesus.
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To reach out and touch
Him, And say that we love Him.
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Open our ears, Lord,
and help us to listen,
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Open our eyes, Lord,
we want to see Jesus.
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You may be seated.
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I want to welcome
everyone this evening
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to North Florida Camp Meeting
held here at Camp Kulaqua.
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We appreciate everyone coming
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and as seats
continue to fill up.
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We know that God is just gonna
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continue to bless here tonight.
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We have a speaker James Refferty
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that will be up here.
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We want to
thank the Gainesville,
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praise and worship
team for coming over
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and sharing with us
this evening, amen. Amen.
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The Lord has really blessed.
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We want to start out
toning with the word of prayer,
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let us bow our heads.
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You are heavenly father
are great and wonderful,
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majesty beyond compared.
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Lord, this weekend
as we focus upon heaven,
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that place where once again,
we'll been reunited with you.
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I ask that you
would bless everyone here,
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that you would open up
their hearts to receive you in
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that we would
see you more clearly,
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because what's
happen to us this weekend.
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We asks in Your
name and for Your sake
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and may all glory honor
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and praise go to
you in Jesus name, amen.
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I want to thank
all of our viewers,
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that are
joining us via satellite
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all around the world.
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We thank you for
being here tonight
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and we look forward to
spending more time with you
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as the weekend continues.
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Great is Thy
faithfulness, O God my Father,
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There is no shadow
of turning with thee,
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Thou changest not, thy
compassions, they fail not
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As thou hast been
thou forever will be.
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Summer and winter, and
springtime and harvest,
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Sun, moon and stars
in their courses above,
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Join with all
nature in manifold witness
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To thy great
faithfulness, mercy and love.
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Great is Thy faithfulness!
Great is Thy faithfulness!
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Morning by
morning new mercies I see,
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All I have needed
Thy hand hath provided
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Great is Thy
faithfulness, Lord, unto me!
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Pardon for sin and
a peace that endureth,
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Thy own dear presence
to cheer and to guide,
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Strength for today and
bright hope for tomorrow,
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Blessings all mine,
with ten thousand beside!
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Great is Thy faithfulness!
Great is Thy faithfulness!
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Morning by
morning new mercies I see,
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All I have needed
Thy hand hath provided
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Great is Thy
faithfulness, Lord, unto me!
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Great is Thy faithfulness!
Great is Thy faithfulness!
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Morning by
morning new mercies I see,
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All I have needed
Thy hand hath provided
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Great is Thy faithfulness,
Great is Thy faithfulness,
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Great is Thy
faithfulness, Lord unto me!
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Good evening, how you
are doing this evening?
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Good! Good, I'm
so glad to be here,
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it is a divine appointment.
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And now I'll tell
you more about that,
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as the weekend goes on,
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but I like you to open your
Bibles with me this evening.
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To Hebrews Chapter 12 our
theme here at Camp Kulaqua,
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I've to look at that
to say it, it's two fold.
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The first one, focus on heaven
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and the second one,
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bound or bonded by the spirit.
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And I can think
of a more appropriate
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section of scripture than
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this one in Hebrews Chapter 12.
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This is one of my
favorite sections of the Bible
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and it's been a long
time since I've looked at it
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and recently my
mind was impressed
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to focus on Hebrews 12.
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And amazingly this is
part of what our Sabbath school
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quarterly is going to be
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about this
weekend, this Sabbath.
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So I'm thankful,
that this is the theme
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that God has impressed me
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to share with you
tonight and tomorrow.
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Hebrews Chapter 12
beginning with verse 1 says,
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this, "Wherefore seeing
we also are compassed about
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with so great a
cloud of witnesses,
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let us lay aside every weight,
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and the sin that
doth so easily beset us,
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and let us run with patience
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the race that is set before us,
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Looking unto Jesus the author
and finisher of our faith,
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who for the joy that was set
before him endured the cross,
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despising the
shame, and is set down
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at the right hand
of the throne of God.
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For consider him that endured
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such contradiction of
sinners against himself,
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lest ye be wearied
and faint in your minds.
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For Ye have not yet
resisted unto blood,
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striving against sin"
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Some powerful scriptures there,
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wouldn't you say? Amen.
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There are few points
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that I think we
should focus on this evening
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from these scriptures.
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The first one is
found right here in verse 1,
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it says because
we are uncompressed
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or surrounded by so
great cloud of witnesses,
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that's Hebrews 11.
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And all the faithful of the past
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who have gone before
us, who have paved the way,
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who have left us examples
and encouragement and hope.
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Since we're surrounded
by all these witnesses,
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we should lay
aside every weight.
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And that sin, you know
what that sin is, don't you?
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That sin, you know, our
eyes kind of shift the other way
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when we get little uncomfortable
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but all of us have that sin,
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that one that so
easily entangle us,
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so easily overcomes
us, so easily besets us.
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We should lay it aside
and all the weights too,
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just lay them all aside.
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Well, that's quite
a statement, isn't it?
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What do you think of
that statement tonight?
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Do you believe it?
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It's a statement of faith
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and really when
you think about it,
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we find in this verse both
our solution and our problem.
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The solution is, in the context.
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That we should do
it run with patience
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the race that is
set before us by what?
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Verse 2, looking unto Jesus,
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that's how, really
that's the only way, isn't it?
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By looking unto Jesus,
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here is the
solution and the problem.
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Solution we can
overcome every sin,
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we can lay aside
all of those weights,
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by looking unto Jesus.
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You are awful
quite tonight? Amen.
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Amen, amen, see once we respond
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to the spoken word of Gods,
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we open our hearts and our minds
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for the power that word
to enter in and transform us.
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We can overcome every sin
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and lay aside every weight
by looking unto Jesus, amen.
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Solution, problem, we
don't look unto Jesus.
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We look everywhere else.
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We get
distracted in side tracked,
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we focus, we
don't look unto Jesus.
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And I really
like this second verse
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because it says, that we
know not only have the solution,
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but we have the author
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and the finisher of our faith.
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Tonight I like to talk
to you about the finisher.
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That's the title of our
sermon tonight, the finisher.
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I would like to ask you
just a pause for moment with me
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and let's pray once
more for God to be with us.
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Father in heaven,
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I just want to thank
you for this opportunity
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to open Your word
to take in the promises
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that You have given to us
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and to understand in
this particular Chapter
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in the book of Hebrews,
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the solution we
have to the sin problem.
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I pray tonight Father
that You would give me words
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and thoughts and
utterance that you would speak
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not only to those
who are gathered here,
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but our entire
television audience
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each one out
there listening tonight
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that you would
touch their hearts
00:25:26.67\00:25:28.27
and their minds
and draw them to Jesus,
00:25:28.28\00:25:30.88
the author and the finisher
00:25:30.89\00:25:34.08
and let all the
peoples say, amen.
00:25:34.09\00:25:37.11
The finisher, I
really like that.
00:25:37.12\00:25:39.72
Jesus is not the
author of our faith.
00:25:39.73\00:25:44.60
Jesus is not the
author of our faith.
00:25:44.61\00:25:48.14
Jesus is the
author and the finisher.
00:25:48.15\00:25:52.75
Do you like that? Amen.
00:25:52.76\00:25:54.82
That is so key, because you see
00:25:54.83\00:25:57.33
if Jesus is not the
finisher of our faith,
00:25:57.34\00:26:02.62
He's not the author.
00:26:02.63\00:26:05.59
If Jesus is not the
finisher of our faith,
00:26:05.60\00:26:09.22
He's not the
author of our faith,
00:26:09.23\00:26:10.83
because Jesus
doesn't author any faith
00:26:10.84\00:26:12.87
that He doesn't finish.
00:26:12.88\00:26:15.23
Now there are lot
of faiths out there,
00:26:15.24\00:26:18.27
that are being authored.
00:26:18.28\00:26:20.58
Supposedly some of them
have been authored by Jesus,
00:26:20.59\00:26:23.63
but none of them are actually
00:26:23.64\00:26:26.12
genuinely the faith of Jesus,
00:26:26.13\00:26:29.74
unless Jesus is
also the finisher.
00:26:29.75\00:26:32.98
Amen. Amen.
00:26:32.99\00:26:34.60
Now the reason I
like this so much is
00:26:34.61\00:26:37.20
because each one
of us are tempted
00:26:37.21\00:26:40.20
in our Christian experience
00:26:40.21\00:26:42.54
to look to Christ
to author our faith,
00:26:42.55\00:26:44.76
to begin our journey,
00:26:44.77\00:26:46.31
to set us on our way
and then as time goes on,
00:26:46.32\00:26:51.65
as we grow in experience
and strength and grace.
00:26:51.66\00:26:55.09
As we learn more
about biblical truth.
00:26:55.10\00:26:57.89
As we become habitual
Christians going to church
00:26:57.90\00:27:01.00
and paying our tithe
00:27:01.01\00:27:02.09
and doing the things
we're supposed to do.
00:27:02.10\00:27:03.92
There is a
temptation even an unconscious,
00:27:03.93\00:27:08.69
temptation for us to
become our own finisher,
00:27:08.70\00:27:12.77
to finish our own faith.
00:27:12.78\00:27:15.41
Jesus authored it, but we
somehow want to finish it,
00:27:15.42\00:27:18.43
you don't think this is true.
00:27:18.44\00:27:19.48
Just slip back a few Chapters,
00:27:19.49\00:27:21.93
a few books to
the book of Galatians.
00:27:21.94\00:27:25.00
The Galatians
had the same problem.
00:27:25.01\00:27:26.98
Paul spokes of them quite boldly
00:27:26.99\00:27:28.58
in Galatians Chapter 3.
00:27:28.59\00:27:30.20
He actually called them a name,
00:27:30.21\00:27:33.25
foolish, Galatians 3 verse 1.
00:27:33.26\00:27:38.03
Paul here is
speaking to a church
00:27:38.04\00:27:40.40
that began with
Jesus as the author.
00:27:40.41\00:27:43.67
These people were Christians.
00:27:43.68\00:27:45.45
They followed the
Lord just like us.
00:27:45.46\00:27:48.95
Do you think there is the danger
00:27:48.96\00:27:49.99
that this could happen to us?
00:27:50.00\00:27:51.95
Oh, listen
carefully, O foolish Galatians,
00:27:51.96\00:27:54.29
who has bewitched you,
00:27:54.30\00:27:56.75
that you should not
obey what, the truth.
00:27:56.76\00:28:00.91
What is the truth?
00:28:00.92\00:28:02.28
Well, tonight the truth is
00:28:02.29\00:28:04.90
that Jesus is the
finisher as well as the author,
00:28:04.91\00:28:08.36
that's the truth tonight.
00:28:08.37\00:28:10.54
And so tonight the book
of Galatians is telling us
00:28:10.55\00:28:13.44
to be careful
not to be bewitched.
00:28:13.45\00:28:17.12
You know,
there's a lot of people
00:28:17.13\00:28:18.10
out there being bewitched,
you know that, don't you?
00:28:18.11\00:28:22.13
I was on a plane from
00:28:22.14\00:28:24.43
Salt Lake City
to Orlando yesterday
00:28:24.44\00:28:27.73
and on these planes
00:28:27.74\00:28:28.71
this longer
flights they have movies.
00:28:28.72\00:28:31.64
And this particular
movie was all about witchcraft,
00:28:31.65\00:28:35.68
Harry Potter and
some something like this.
00:28:35.69\00:28:39.31
And there are people
especially young people
00:28:39.32\00:28:41.95
who are going crazy for
this and we can look at that
00:28:41.96\00:28:45.44
and we can say aah, I
would never get involved
00:28:45.45\00:28:48.90
or let my children get involved
00:28:48.91\00:28:50.75
in anything like that.
00:28:50.76\00:28:52.57
However, there is
another kind of bewitching
00:28:52.58\00:28:55.65
that can take place in
our Christian experience.
00:28:55.66\00:28:59.65
We can stay away from all
that other kind of bewitching
00:28:59.66\00:29:01.88
and yet be
bewitched by something else.
00:29:01.89\00:29:04.27
Paul says in
Galatians Chapter 3,
00:29:04.28\00:29:06.46
who hath bewitched you,
00:29:06.47\00:29:09.05
who hath bewitched you that
you should not obey the truth
00:29:09.06\00:29:13.61
before whose eyes
00:29:13.62\00:29:15.09
Jesus Christ has
been evidently set forth,
00:29:15.10\00:29:17.32
crucified among you?
00:29:17.33\00:29:19.95
This only what I learn of you,
00:29:19.96\00:29:21.41
you receive the spirit what,
00:29:21.42\00:29:23.17
by the works of law or
by the hearing of faith,
00:29:23.18\00:29:25.78
which one was it?
00:29:25.79\00:29:29.23
By faith! Are you so foolish
having begun in the Spirit
00:29:29.24\00:29:34.53
that you are now
made perfect by the flesh?
00:29:34.54\00:29:38.35
The Galatians had
begun in the Spirit,
00:29:38.36\00:29:40.53
they begun with the author,
00:29:40.54\00:29:41.95
they had move forward fervently.
00:29:41.96\00:29:44.08
And now they were
seeking to finish themselves.
00:29:44.09\00:29:48.35
They were becoming the finishers
00:29:48.36\00:29:51.48
of their own faith.
00:29:51.49\00:29:53.29
You think, it can happen to us?
00:29:53.30\00:29:55.24
Oh, it can happen to us
00:29:55.25\00:29:57.00
and so Hebrews
tells us in Chapter 12.
00:29:57.01\00:30:00.26
You can actually
lay aside every weight
00:30:00.27\00:30:04.79
and the sin that
so easily beset you.
00:30:04.80\00:30:09.02
If you want to know
00:30:09.03\00:30:10.69
whether Jesus Christ is
the finisher of your faith,
00:30:10.70\00:30:14.67
all you need to
understand in your heart
00:30:14.68\00:30:16.92
and mind is whether or not,
00:30:16.93\00:30:18.97
this promise is something that
00:30:18.98\00:30:22.07
you believe in your heart.
00:30:22.08\00:30:25.47
Sometimes and Satan does this,
00:30:25.48\00:30:29.15
there is this extreme that we go
00:30:29.16\00:30:32.49
to on a Christian experience
00:30:32.50\00:30:33.83
and in fact Satan
tries to get us two extremes,
00:30:33.84\00:30:36.89
formalism on the one hand
or fanaticism on the other.
00:30:36.90\00:30:40.26
And in relation to this
idea of overcoming every sin,
00:30:40.27\00:30:43.64
there are these two extremes.
00:30:43.65\00:30:45.20
The one extreme is, you know,
00:30:45.21\00:30:46.48
I've tried that so many times
00:30:46.49\00:30:47.90
and I've just given up.
00:30:47.91\00:30:49.79
That extreme, we sometimes
call up the liberal extreme
00:30:49.80\00:30:53.69
or the new theology extreme.
00:30:53.70\00:30:56.26
That extreme to some degree
is based upon our experience.
00:30:56.27\00:31:01.03
We just don't seem
to be able to do it.
00:31:01.04\00:31:05.72
And finally we get to the place
00:31:05.73\00:31:07.01
where we can become complacent.
00:31:07.02\00:31:09.87
We just say well,
00:31:09.88\00:31:11.19
I'm just gonna do
the best I can and I,
00:31:11.20\00:31:13.77
I don't know, want
to see what happens.
00:31:13.78\00:31:16.07
And then there's
the other extreme.
00:31:16.08\00:31:19.15
The other extreme
doesn't deny the promise.
00:31:19.16\00:31:22.70
The other
extreme does believe that
00:31:22.71\00:31:24.44
we can overcome sin
every single one of them.
00:31:24.45\00:31:27.67
But it's so busy
pointing, looking at,
00:31:27.68\00:31:32.72
focusing on the
problems of the Church
00:31:32.73\00:31:35.39
criticizing everyone else,
00:31:35.40\00:31:37.49
that it never gets
around to actually doing it,
00:31:37.50\00:31:40.94
that is overcoming sin.
00:31:40.95\00:31:43.31
Because really when
the rubber meets the road,
00:31:43.32\00:31:45.07
when we get right
down to the nitty-gritty,
00:31:45.08\00:31:47.13
sin is the absence of love
00:31:47.14\00:31:51.54
and the presence of selfishness.
00:31:51.55\00:31:55.96
God is love, and
He longs to restore us
00:31:55.97\00:32:03.34
to the image in
which we were created.
00:32:03.35\00:32:06.47
He longs to have flow
from our hearts and minds,
00:32:06.48\00:32:10.74
this never ceasing,
00:32:10.75\00:32:11.80
never ending
natural tendency to love.
00:32:11.81\00:32:15.44
And we can't do it ourselves,
00:32:15.45\00:32:16.73
we can't love others
by trying to love others
00:32:16.74\00:32:18.94
and that's why this first
point says to Jesus Christ.
00:32:18.95\00:32:22.62
That's why this verse says,
00:32:22.63\00:32:23.75
He is the author and He
is the what, the finisher.
00:32:23.76\00:32:27.19
He is going to finish,
00:32:27.20\00:32:28.17
he begun it, He is
going to finish it.
00:32:28.18\00:32:29.46
He'd begun a good work
and He will also finish it,
00:32:29.47\00:32:31.91
He will perform it.
00:32:31.92\00:32:34.11
He will perform it right up
00:32:34.12\00:32:35.43
until the point when He comes.
00:32:35.44\00:32:36.91
And when Jesus
comes in the clouds
00:32:36.92\00:32:38.27
and we see Him and
we lift up our heads
00:32:38.28\00:32:40.12
and everyone cries,
who will be able to stand,
00:32:40.13\00:32:42.07
Jesus will say to us,
00:32:42.08\00:32:43.41
My grace is
sufficient for you. Amen.
00:32:43.42\00:32:47.94
He is the finisher
and so we can trust
00:32:47.95\00:32:51.95
the He will
fulfilled His promise.
00:32:51.96\00:32:53.46
So sometimes we
don't see it, I know.
00:32:53.47\00:32:55.79
But don't depend on
yourself, don't get discouraged.
00:32:55.80\00:33:01.29
It says in verse 3,
00:33:01.30\00:33:03.33
"Consider him that endured
00:33:03.34\00:33:06.47
such contradiction of
sinners against himself,
00:33:06.48\00:33:09.98
lest ye be wearied and
faint, lest ye be loose heart
00:33:09.99\00:33:13.35
and you become discouraged.
00:33:13.36\00:33:15.12
Don't consider yourself,
00:33:15.13\00:33:17.64
don't look at your
weaknesses at your faults,
00:33:17.65\00:33:20.00
at your failures, don't do it.
00:33:20.01\00:33:22.20
Keep your focus on Jesus. Amen.
00:33:22.21\00:33:27.31
And He will see you through.
00:33:27.32\00:33:31.41
I like this
because it reminds me
00:33:31.42\00:33:34.87
of what He went through
for us in verse 2 it says,
00:33:34.88\00:33:38.51
"He endured the cross,
00:33:38.52\00:33:39.53
despising the
shame, I like that.
00:33:39.54\00:33:43.45
Last week, last weekend,
00:33:43.46\00:33:45.23
I was in South Carolina,
00:33:45.24\00:33:46.89
I was doing some meetings there
00:33:46.90\00:33:48.15
in a church in Westminster.
00:33:48.16\00:33:50.99
It was a real blessing
00:33:51.00\00:33:52.09
and as I I was
engaging in these meetings,
00:33:52.10\00:33:55.87
I felt something going on,
00:33:55.88\00:33:58.50
some kind of transformation
taking place in my lips.
00:33:58.51\00:34:05.25
I know it sounds kind
of funny, but it's true.
00:34:05.26\00:34:07.60
The first night I was there,
00:34:07.61\00:34:09.64
my lips began to dry
out and kind of tingle.
00:34:09.65\00:34:14.05
Now I'm a speaker
00:34:14.06\00:34:15.03
and so that's
significant for me,
00:34:15.04\00:34:16.86
I've to be really
aware of something like that,
00:34:16.87\00:34:19.17
so immediately I
went in the plan,
00:34:19.18\00:34:20.89
plan A, first thing
to do get some chaps,
00:34:20.90\00:34:23.55
so I can start
putting chapstick on,
00:34:23.56\00:34:24.63
that's why I was doing
drinking lots of water.
00:34:24.64\00:34:26.74
The next morning my
lips were kind of red
00:34:26.75\00:34:29.20
and just kind of
a little swollen,
00:34:29.21\00:34:31.81
but I continue
to do the meetings,
00:34:31.82\00:34:33.07
I had a morning
a Sabbath worship
00:34:33.08\00:34:35.56
and then I had
afternoon meeting with the break
00:34:35.57\00:34:37.29
and then another
afternoon meeting
00:34:37.30\00:34:38.57
and then I had a
question answers time
00:34:38.58\00:34:40.11
and people want to talk
00:34:40.12\00:34:41.69
and things got
going into the night 9:30,
00:34:41.70\00:34:45.01
10 o'clock I was going to bed
00:34:45.02\00:34:46.24
and my lips were getting worst.
00:34:46.25\00:34:48.44
I woke up the next morning
00:34:48.45\00:34:50.43
and my lips were
swollen and growing.
00:34:50.44\00:34:55.13
I didn't know what to do,
00:34:55.14\00:34:56.11
I didn't know what was going on,
00:34:56.12\00:34:57.93
I had to catch a
plane that morning,
00:34:57.94\00:35:00.52
I had to make two connections,
00:35:00.53\00:35:02.03
so I was going to
three different airports,
00:35:02.04\00:35:03.47
the first airport was okay,
00:35:03.48\00:35:04.79
there weren't
lot of people there
00:35:04.80\00:35:05.91
and I felt kind
of uncomfortable,
00:35:05.92\00:35:08.50
you know, like
people might look at me
00:35:08.51\00:35:09.74
and so my lips were so large
00:35:09.75\00:35:12.05
that the best thing for me
to do was to smile like this
00:35:12.06\00:35:15.33
and now that would
kind of cut them in half.
00:35:15.34\00:35:17.53
So I would smile, you
know going through the airport,
00:35:17.54\00:35:22.64
but by the time I
got to the next airport
00:35:22.65\00:35:24.59
which was Chicago,
00:35:24.60\00:35:27.19
there are lot more people around
00:35:27.20\00:35:28.56
and my lips
were actually larger.
00:35:28.57\00:35:32.42
I had no idea what was going on,
00:35:32.43\00:35:33.85
but they looked
really bad, they were all red
00:35:33.86\00:35:36.35
and they were just growing
00:35:36.36\00:35:37.33
and it was getting very hard
for me to smile all the time,
00:35:37.34\00:35:40.56
because I didn't
feel like smiling
00:35:40.57\00:35:42.20
and no one was
smiling back at me.
00:35:42.21\00:35:45.16
People were looking at me.
00:35:45.17\00:35:48.59
I learned a
valuable lesson from this.
00:35:48.60\00:35:50.73
I learned that when I
see people who are disfigured
00:35:50.74\00:35:53.55
or deformed or
look different from me,
00:35:53.56\00:35:55.71
I'm gonna remember that
00:35:55.72\00:35:57.10
maybe all they need is
for me to smile at them,
00:35:57.11\00:35:59.80
because I was just
longing for me to smile at me.
00:35:59.81\00:36:05.21
By the time I got to Portland,
00:36:05.22\00:36:08.21
my next stop
before I got to Eugene,
00:36:08.22\00:36:10.55
I was hiding
around the corner waiting
00:36:10.56\00:36:12.32
for them to call my plane,
00:36:12.33\00:36:13.32
I didn't want anyone to see me.
00:36:13.33\00:36:14.96
I was just a recluse,
it was so embarrassing.
00:36:14.97\00:36:21.02
I got home and I
immediately called Joe
00:36:21.03\00:36:24.71
and I said listen Joe,
I say I'm not gonna sure
00:36:24.72\00:36:26.61
I may be able to
make it out there
00:36:26.62\00:36:28.42
and I'm nervous about
this I've got problem.
00:36:28.43\00:36:31.78
Actually I call Ty, my associate
00:36:31.79\00:36:34.00
and I said Ty, can
you feel in for me,
00:36:34.01\00:36:36.15
if I can't make
it because I can't,
00:36:36.16\00:36:38.59
I can't even do
meetings never mind
00:36:38.60\00:36:40.33
get on television with
my lips the way they are.
00:36:40.34\00:36:44.76
And in that moment I
remembered the experience
00:36:44.77\00:36:49.62
I had gone through just
a couple of weeks before,
00:36:49.63\00:36:51.94
see we live in a area now,
00:36:51.95\00:36:53.72
we've been there for very long
00:36:53.73\00:36:54.93
and my hair was
getting kind of long
00:36:54.94\00:36:57.21
and I decided to
visit my local barber
00:36:57.22\00:36:59.09
and well it's a new
barber, I've never really,
00:36:59.10\00:37:01.83
you know, been to him before,
00:37:01.84\00:37:02.98
so I went there
to get a haircut.
00:37:02.99\00:37:05.68
The guy that was leaving
right when I went in was,
00:37:05.69\00:37:08.26
in the military,
he had a military cut,
00:37:08.27\00:37:12.31
I didn't want a military
cut but I got a military cut.
00:37:12.32\00:37:16.85
And I'm telling you
what, I was so worried,
00:37:16.86\00:37:20.39
I've got a
meeting on TV in two weeks
00:37:20.40\00:37:23.21
and look at my hair,
00:37:23.22\00:37:24.52
is it gonna grow back or what.
00:37:24.53\00:37:27.99
And now, my lips
and at that point,
00:37:28.00\00:37:34.05
I didn't care
about my hair anymore,
00:37:34.06\00:37:36.47
I wasn't even, I
wasn't even concerned about
00:37:36.48\00:37:38.33
what I was going to say,
00:37:38.34\00:37:39.41
I wasn't even
nervous or anything,
00:37:39.42\00:37:40.83
I just wanted to be able
to come to these meetings,
00:37:40.84\00:37:43.32
that's all I wanted.
00:37:43.33\00:37:45.13
And the Lord in
that moment reminded me,
00:37:45.14\00:37:47.58
you know James, I
hung up on the cross naked,
00:37:47.59\00:37:52.72
for the whole
world to stare at me,
00:37:52.73\00:37:54.89
I was humiliated and I
did all of that for you.
00:37:54.90\00:37:59.53
Consider me, focus on
me, don't worry about,
00:37:59.54\00:38:02.98
get your mind off yourself.
00:38:02.99\00:38:07.67
Well, you can
see my lips healed.
00:38:07.68\00:38:10.18
But I'm so
thankful for the experience,
00:38:10.19\00:38:12.05
because it reminded me
to look to Jesus. Amen.
00:38:12.06\00:38:16.37
We've got a lot of pride,
00:38:16.38\00:38:17.35
don't we as
humans beings, we do.
00:38:17.36\00:38:20.52
And that's why we
get nervous up here.
00:38:20.53\00:38:24.05
I know because we're
thinking about ourselves,
00:38:24.06\00:38:26.53
but when we get
our focus on Christ,
00:38:26.54\00:38:28.42
when we get our focus on Jesus.
00:38:28.43\00:38:31.25
When you look at him who endured
00:38:31.26\00:38:33.62
such
contradiction against himself,
00:38:33.63\00:38:37.01
so far we lost
sight off and our hearts
00:38:37.02\00:38:40.09
and our minds
will be encouraged.
00:38:40.10\00:38:42.59
Verse 4 says, "If you
have not resisted unto blood,
00:38:42.60\00:38:45.01
striving against sin".
00:38:45.02\00:38:46.18
Now that is a challenging verse.
00:38:46.19\00:38:49.65
I mean most of us
haven't even broken a sweat,
00:38:49.66\00:38:53.53
never mind resisted unto blood.
00:38:53.54\00:38:56.57
What is that mean?
00:38:56.58\00:38:59.70
Please tell me,
00:38:59.71\00:39:01.26
there is only one place
in the Bible that I know of,
00:39:01.27\00:39:04.11
that talks about this
kind of an experience,
00:39:04.12\00:39:07.86
and that's in relation to
Gethsemane and Jesus Christ,
00:39:07.87\00:39:14.04
you remember don't you?
00:39:14.05\00:39:15.39
What happen there as he
went to the Father three times.
00:39:15.40\00:39:18.81
It says that he sweat as
it were great drops of blood.
00:39:18.82\00:39:26.75
That's the account
in the Gospel Luke.
00:39:26.76\00:39:28.05
I want to share with you
00:39:28.06\00:39:29.03
or I want you to
open your Bibles with me
00:39:29.04\00:39:30.90
to the account found
in Matthew Chapter 26,
00:39:30.91\00:39:34.74
Matthew 26 because I believe
00:39:34.75\00:39:38.68
that what it means to resist
unto blood is very practical,
00:39:38.69\00:39:46.56
not necessarily
literal, it was for Christ.
00:39:46.57\00:39:49.22
But there is something to
the whole experience there
00:39:49.23\00:39:51.51
that Christ went through
00:39:51.52\00:39:52.65
that is very
practical for us tonight.
00:39:52.66\00:39:55.37
Who need our finisher,
the one who author our faith,
00:39:55.38\00:40:01.24
to give us that victory
00:40:01.25\00:40:04.29
that we so desperately
long for that seems to elude us.
00:40:04.30\00:40:10.64
Matthew 23, you know, the story,
00:40:10.65\00:40:13.35
Jesus is preparing
to go to the cross.
00:40:13.36\00:40:17.34
He is going to
begin this journey
00:40:17.35\00:40:20.07
with the sins of the world
00:40:20.08\00:40:21.19
weighted upon Him in Gethsemane.
00:40:21.20\00:40:24.91
He knows exactly what's coming
00:40:24.92\00:40:27.30
and so the first
thing that he does,
00:40:27.31\00:40:29.16
verse 30 of
Matthew 26 is he sings.
00:40:29.17\00:40:33.70
He sings a hymn
with His disciples,
00:40:33.71\00:40:35.69
I like that, don't you?
00:40:35.70\00:40:37.96
Jesus is telling us,
00:40:37.97\00:40:40.58
that if you want to
prepare to resist unto blood,
00:40:40.59\00:40:45.92
you need to incorporate song,
00:40:45.93\00:40:49.65
music into your
Christian experience,
00:40:49.66\00:40:52.97
you need to do that.
00:40:52.98\00:40:55.04
Extreme religion will
tell you that music is bad,
00:40:55.05\00:40:57.40
it's sinful, it's wrong,
no, provoked music is wrong,
00:40:57.41\00:41:00.38
but music is a weapon
and we need to use it. Amen.
00:41:00.39\00:41:04.33
Music is a
power, didn't you feel,
00:41:04.34\00:41:07.19
didn't you sense that
00:41:07.20\00:41:09.04
this evening as
we sung those words
00:41:09.05\00:41:11.41
and those hymns and those songs
00:41:11.42\00:41:13.58
and entered into praise the God.
00:41:13.59\00:41:15.64
You see it all
through the scriptures.
00:41:15.65\00:41:17.63
In fact in the
book of Revelation,
00:41:17.64\00:41:19.55
note this with me,
because it is so powerful.
00:41:19.56\00:41:22.32
In the book of Revelation,
the book of prophecy,
00:41:22.33\00:41:25.34
a book that delineates
the history of nations
00:41:25.35\00:41:28.12
and moves us from history past,
00:41:28.13\00:41:30.33
present all the way
down to the end of time.
00:41:30.34\00:41:32.58
In this book that is
jam packed with prophecy
00:41:32.59\00:41:35.32
over and over and over again,
00:41:35.33\00:41:37.66
you find divine
interruptions filling our hearts
00:41:37.67\00:41:42.09
and minds and
directing us to music.
00:41:42.10\00:41:45.55
One of them is found right here
00:41:45.56\00:41:46.53
in Revelation Chapter 5.
00:41:46.54\00:41:48.89
The seal book has just
been taken by Jesus Christ,
00:41:48.90\00:41:52.45
He's about ready
to break the seals
00:41:52.46\00:41:54.17
and let for those
horsemen of Revelation 6.
00:41:54.18\00:41:57.20
But befor he does that,
00:41:57.21\00:41:59.12
before we get into
that prophetic picture,
00:41:59.13\00:42:02.82
we find here in Revelation
5 verse 11 that John sees
00:42:02.83\00:42:06.87
and he hears the
voice of many angels
00:42:06.88\00:42:08.96
round about the
throne and beasts
00:42:08.97\00:42:10.40
and elders and
the number of them was
00:42:10.41\00:42:12.66
ten thousand times ten thousand,
00:42:12.67\00:42:17.70
ten thousands times
ten thousand, what's that.
00:42:17.71\00:42:21.81
One hundred million,
00:42:21.82\00:42:26.95
that's a lot angles, isn't it?
00:42:26.96\00:42:29.67
And thousand of
thousands, one hundred million
00:42:29.68\00:42:35.07
and thousands of
thousands are gathered
00:42:35.08\00:42:37.34
around the throne,
what are they there for?
00:42:37.35\00:42:39.74
They are there to sing verse 12
00:42:39.75\00:42:41.85
saying with what kind of voice,
00:42:41.86\00:42:43.75
a loud voice. Amen.
00:42:43.76\00:42:45.76
Are you here tonight,
00:42:45.77\00:42:47.15
is there anyone out
there yes a loud voice
00:42:47.16\00:42:50.27
and what are they singing?
00:42:50.28\00:42:52.52
Worthy is the
lamb, that was slain,
00:42:52.53\00:42:55.87
to receive power
and riches and wisdom,
00:42:55.88\00:42:57.80
and strength and honor
and glorycand blessing",
00:42:57.81\00:42:59.91
Verse 13 here it
is this is our cue,
00:42:59.92\00:43:01.83
this is when we step in,
so far it's a hundred million
00:43:01.84\00:43:04.62
and thousand of
thousands in heaven.
00:43:04.63\00:43:06.22
But here we go right here.
00:43:06.23\00:43:07.20
Revelation 5:13 "And every
creature which is in heaven,
00:43:07.21\00:43:10.92
and on the earth", that's us,
00:43:10.93\00:43:15.56
that's us and what kind of voice
00:43:15.57\00:43:17.11
we're suppose
to praise God with?
00:43:17.12\00:43:18.93
A loud one. Amen.
00:43:18.94\00:43:21.14
Amen. Amen.
00:43:21.15\00:43:23.40
I've got a mic,
so I'm little higher
00:43:23.41\00:43:26.63
but I think that me with the mic
00:43:26.64\00:43:29.81
surely can't out
do you without one
00:43:29.82\00:43:32.91
because there are
lot of you out there,
00:43:32.92\00:43:34.83
shall we try, shall we see.
00:43:34.84\00:43:37.35
I'll say amen first, and
then you say amen second.
00:43:37.36\00:43:41.70
Amen. Amen.
00:43:41.71\00:43:44.45
You got it hands
down, now let me just,
00:43:44.46\00:43:48.92
just put a little bit
of, I've got some extra time
00:43:48.93\00:43:51.47
and so I want to put a
little point just one thing
00:43:51.48\00:43:53.68
and why can't we do
that all the time. Amen.
00:43:53.69\00:43:59.32
You see we occult
00:43:59.33\00:44:03.20
by the example of
the book of Revelation
00:44:03.21\00:44:04.94
all through
Revelation over and over again,
00:44:04.95\00:44:06.58
there is this
heavenly interruptions,
00:44:06.59\00:44:07.82
Revelation 7 of this
great crowded is gather around
00:44:07.83\00:44:10.83
the throne there in
Revelation 7 verse 9,
00:44:10.84\00:44:14.00
"They stood before the throne
00:44:14.01\00:44:15.07
and before lamb
a great multitude
00:44:15.08\00:44:16.47
that no man could number
00:44:16.48\00:44:18.03
yet there is the
hundred million angles
00:44:18.04\00:44:19.21
and thousands
times and thousands
00:44:19.22\00:44:20.77
but there is so
many of the redeem
00:44:20.78\00:44:22.40
you can't count them all.
00:44:22.41\00:44:23.76
They are all
gather around the throne
00:44:23.77\00:44:25.06
and notice what it e
says here in verse 10,
00:44:25.07\00:44:27.32
it says, "And they
cried out with a loud voice".
00:44:27.33\00:44:31.61
Salvation to our
God, because He is the,
00:44:31.62\00:44:36.64
author and
finisher, He is the finisher,
00:44:36.65\00:44:38.61
He is the author and He
is the finisher of our faith
00:44:38.62\00:44:43.51
and so they are excited.
00:44:43.52\00:44:46.38
Friends if Jesus is the author
00:44:46.39\00:44:50.61
and the author
only, I can understand,
00:44:50.62\00:44:53.91
why there would be silence,
but if Jesus is the author
00:44:53.92\00:44:58.25
and he is the
finisher, common. Amen.
00:44:58.26\00:45:03.13
Praise God, because
00:45:03.14\00:45:06.07
that's what this
group of people are doing,
00:45:06.08\00:45:08.67
the once that can't be numbered,
00:45:08.68\00:45:10.15
they are praising God
with a what kind of voice?
00:45:10.16\00:45:12.76
Loud. Loud voice.
00:45:12.77\00:45:15.79
Oh! This is all
through scripture
00:45:15.80\00:45:17.70
and it is a power that Jesus
used in Matthew Chapter 26.
00:45:17.71\00:45:22.70
Let's go back
there to Matthew 26,
00:45:22.71\00:45:24.34
because there are number
of other beautiful insights
00:45:24.35\00:45:27.41
that God give us here
00:45:27.42\00:45:28.56
that will help us
resist unto blood.
00:45:28.57\00:45:31.65
Jesus is preparing
to go to Gethsemane
00:45:31.66\00:45:33.81
where He resisted unto blood.
00:45:33.82\00:45:36.03
What was it that
strengthened Him,
00:45:36.04\00:45:37.31
well, first and
foremost it was song,
00:45:37.32\00:45:40.04
it was praise and
secondly it was hope.
00:45:40.05\00:45:45.75
He had hope, He knew verse 31
00:45:45.76\00:45:50.18
that his disciples
who all be offended Him
00:45:50.19\00:45:51.74
and forsake Him, he knew that,
00:45:51.75\00:45:53.90
that they be scattered abroad.
00:45:53.91\00:45:55.63
He knew He was going to
the cross to the crucified.
00:45:55.64\00:45:58.35
But he said verse 32,
"After I am resin again".
00:45:58.36\00:46:03.38
Praise God, He had hope.
00:46:06.72\00:46:10.68
Do you have hope tonight?
00:46:10.69\00:46:14.51
Are you ever in a
situation like Jesus was?
00:46:14.52\00:46:19.38
Where you feel totally forsaken
00:46:19.39\00:46:20.89
and alone where there
is no one and nothing,
00:46:20.90\00:46:25.71
because if you
do, if you ever do,
00:46:25.72\00:46:28.84
I want you to know
tonight that you have hope,
00:46:28.85\00:46:31.68
you have hope.
00:46:31.69\00:46:33.49
God wants to you
know that you have hope,
00:46:33.50\00:46:36.01
because you have a
finisher, you have a finisher.
00:46:36.02\00:46:39.99
Jesus had hope
00:46:40.00\00:46:42.38
and this helped Him
to resist unto blood.
00:46:42.39\00:46:46.09
He also verse 33 had the truth.
00:46:46.10\00:46:50.19
And, you know,
sometimes the truth hurts.
00:46:50.20\00:46:52.84
Peter most off all,
His disciple was kind of,
00:46:52.85\00:46:56.24
well, he was hard
headed, to say the least.
00:46:56.25\00:47:02.49
And he felt like there
is no way that I'm gonna do
00:47:02.50\00:47:05.37
what all those other
guys are going to do.
00:47:05.38\00:47:06.77
There is no way
that I'm gonna deny you,
00:47:06.78\00:47:08.51
they might, but I won't,
00:47:08.52\00:47:10.19
because I get up
earlier and I pray longer
00:47:10.20\00:47:12.09
and I study harder and I right.
00:47:12.10\00:47:15.87
What was he doing?
00:47:15.88\00:47:16.98
He was looking at them,
00:47:16.99\00:47:18.64
he got his eyes
off the finisher.
00:47:18.65\00:47:22.24
He got his eyes off Jesus.
00:47:22.25\00:47:24.56
And Jesus said, I'm sorry Peter,
00:47:24.57\00:47:27.30
I hate to tell you this,
but I've to tell you this.
00:47:27.31\00:47:29.46
See if we're going to be fake,
00:47:29.47\00:47:31.52
if we're gonna be
phony, if we're gonna pretend,
00:47:31.53\00:47:33.64
if we're gonna cover it up
00:47:33.65\00:47:35.00
and not be honest with people,
00:47:35.01\00:47:37.47
it's not gonna help
us to resist unto blood.
00:47:37.48\00:47:40.23
Our conscience is not
going to be pure and undefiled.
00:47:40.24\00:47:44.03
Sometimes we've
to tell like it is.
00:47:44.04\00:47:47.24
Make sure we're filled
with the Spirit of Christ.
00:47:47.25\00:47:48.81
Make sure the love
of God is on our hearts,
00:47:48.82\00:47:50.63
but let's be
honest let's be honest.
00:47:50.64\00:47:55.00
The eternal
salvation of souls is at stake.
00:47:55.01\00:47:58.47
Jesus was honest,
00:47:58.48\00:47:59.89
He was honest
with His disciples,
00:47:59.90\00:48:01.68
to the very end He was honest
00:48:01.69\00:48:03.32
and this helped Him
to resist unto blood.
00:48:03.33\00:48:07.11
I've made mistakes in that area
00:48:07.12\00:48:08.43
so many times not being honest,
00:48:08.44\00:48:10.28
being scared, I
hurt someone's feelings.
00:48:10.29\00:48:13.07
I don't want to make
those mistakes anymore,
00:48:13.08\00:48:14.66
it doesn't help, it doesn't,
00:48:14.67\00:48:15.88
it doesn't
really in the long run,
00:48:15.89\00:48:19.13
it doesn't really help.
00:48:19.14\00:48:20.79
It's best to the honest.
00:48:20.80\00:48:24.13
What was the next
thing that Jesus did?
00:48:24.14\00:48:26.45
Number 4 verse 36, He prayed,
00:48:26.46\00:48:33.07
he went to the
place called Gethsemane
00:48:33.08\00:48:36.83
and He prayed, He prayed.
00:48:36.84\00:48:40.34
We need to pray, don't we?
00:48:40.35\00:48:42.24
We do, if we're
gonna resist unto blood,
00:48:42.25\00:48:45.08
we need to be in prayer.
00:48:45.09\00:48:47.48
Number 5, Jesus sought help,
00:48:47.49\00:48:53.16
verse 37, He ask
Peter and sons of Zebedee,
00:48:53.17\00:48:57.46
help Me, pray
with Me, comfort Me.
00:48:57.47\00:49:01.31
We need help friends. Amen.
00:49:01.32\00:49:03.11
We need brothers and sisters
00:49:03.12\00:49:05.26
who will intercede
for us and with us,
00:49:05.27\00:49:06.91
will lift up our hands,
who will ask us how we do it,
00:49:06.92\00:49:09.25
we need to help one and other
00:49:09.26\00:49:11.37
if we're going
resist unto blood. Amen.
00:49:11.38\00:49:13.67
That's the reason
why we haven't overcome,
00:49:13.68\00:49:15.28
that's the reason why we
can't lay aside every weight
00:49:15.29\00:49:17.22
because we haven't
been helping one another.
00:49:17.23\00:49:19.53
We've been pointing fingers and,
00:49:19.54\00:49:21.04
and giving a
checklist etcetera, etcetera.
00:49:21.05\00:49:22.82
We need to help each
other, lift each other up.
00:49:22.83\00:49:27.98
And then the next one,
00:49:27.99\00:49:31.03
Jesus the pure
faultless son of God,
00:49:31.04\00:49:35.41
confessed His weaknesses.
00:49:35.42\00:49:38.19
Father, I don't want to do this,
00:49:38.20\00:49:42.13
I don't want to
go and drink the cup.
00:49:42.14\00:49:46.40
We're so reluctant,
00:49:46.41\00:49:47.38
aren't we to
confess our weaknesses.
00:49:47.39\00:49:48.99
We want to look good, right.
00:49:49.00\00:49:50.62
We don't want anyone to
see our faults, no not us.
00:49:50.63\00:49:53.78
But Jesus was willing to
put it all out there. Amen.
00:49:53.79\00:49:57.52
And then finally
what He did he say,
00:49:57.53\00:50:00.53
number 7 "Not My
will, He submitted to God".
00:50:00.54\00:50:05.21
And friends tonight,
God is encouraging us,
00:50:05.22\00:50:11.23
do you want what
Hebrews Chapter 12 is offering.
00:50:11.24\00:50:16.22
Do you want it with
all your hearts. Amen.
00:50:16.23\00:50:19.56
Here is the way you can have it.
00:50:19.57\00:50:21.53
Here is the way you can
have it give it all to me,
00:50:21.54\00:50:24.88
I'm not just the
author, I'm the finisher.
00:50:24.89\00:50:28.45
Let's do that tonight shall we.
00:50:28.46\00:50:30.23
When peace like a
river attendeth my way
00:50:45.34\00:50:54.25
When sorrows
like sea billows roll
00:50:54.26\00:51:03.34
Whatever my lot
thou has taught me to say
00:51:03.35\00:51:11.98
It is well it is
well with my soul
00:51:11.99\00:51:21.08
It is well with my soul
00:51:21.09\00:51:30.09
It is well it is
well with my soul
00:51:30.10\00:51:39.02
My sin oh the joy of
this glorious thought
00:51:44.44\00:51:53.42
My sin not in part but the whole
00:51:53.43\00:52:02.49
Is nailed to the
cross and I bear it no more
00:52:02.50\00:52:11.01
Praise the Lord,
praise the Lord, O my soul
00:52:11.02\00:52:20.19
It is well with my soul
00:52:20.20\00:52:29.24
It is well, it
is well with my soul
00:52:29.25\00:52:40.72
And Lord haste the day
when my faith shall be sight
00:52:52.61\00:53:01.67
The clouds be
rolled back as a scroll
00:53:01.68\00:53:09.51
And the trump shall resound
and the Lord shall descend
00:53:09.52\00:53:19.32
Even so it is well with my soul
00:53:19.33\00:53:28.28
It is well, with my soul
00:53:28.29\00:53:37.55
It is well, it
is well with my soul
00:53:37.56\00:53:46.63
It is well with my
soul It is well with my soul
00:53:46.64\00:54:04.82
It is well, it
is well with my soul
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It is well with my soul
It is well with my soul.
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Thank you Jason,
praise the Lord, amen. Amen.
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I just want to thank James
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for the beautiful
message this evening.
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How many would people
like to raise their hand
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and say praise God
that He is the author
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and finisher of our faith, amen.
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Amen! God is just too good.
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Let us bow our heads for prayer.
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Our Father in heaven,
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we come before
Your throne once again,
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because You are the author
and finisher of our faith.
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And Lord, it can
truly be well with our soul
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because we realized how
great and might You are.
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Father I ask tonight as
we're here at Camp Kulaqua.
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There are many
viewers around the world
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that Lord we would set
everything aside knowing
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how great You truly
are in Jesus name, amen.
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I appreciate
everyone being here tonight.
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I especially appreciate
our audience around the world.
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God has blessed us here tonight.
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I hope that each and
every one of you here
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plan on coming
back tomorrow morning.
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And also all you viewers
that are around the world
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that you are looking
forward to being here tomorrow,
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God has planned many
things for us this weekend.
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We're looking forward
to get into heaven, amen.
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Amen! We're looking forward
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to being bounded by the spirit
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or bound by the spirit, amen.
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Amen! God has
started a great work
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in each and
every one of our lives.
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And we're promised in His word
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that He will finish
the work that He starts.
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And so I challenge
each and every one of you
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to take what
James has said tonight.
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Apply it to your life
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and allow God to
make the difference.
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