I am blessed. Amen.
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I am richly blessed to be here
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especially when you consider,
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that I didn't major in theology.
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I am not an ordained
Seventh-day Adventist minister.
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I don't know or there
is to know about the Bible.
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But what I do know is that
I am a sinner saved by Grace.
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And what I do know is
that I am God's chosen vessel
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for such a time as this.
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I am just a willing
servant that has been broken,
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so that I can spread
the news of a Risen Savior,
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who through grace has
brought me here today.
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Now, well I am
excited about the word
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God has prepared for today.
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He gave me a
ministry some seven years ago,
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that He told me
before I speak a word,
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that I engage the
audience in this ministry.
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What's more amazing to me is
that He has taken this ministry
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to an entire another
level, a level I didn't expect.
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In fact six
months ago, He told me
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if I didn't do
something with it,
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He was going to
give it somebody else.
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I woke up I'm telling you,
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because I want to tell
you what it is and well,
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how God has worked in my life.
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For about seven years ago,
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and many of you would be
able to identify with this,
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about seven years ago
my son became an individual
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I did not know.
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He was in college and I was
stunned to make matters worse
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my daughter then
became a young lady
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I did not know, and
I was double stunned.
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And in an effort as most
controlling mothers try to do,
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I desperately tried to
get them back in my control
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and when I was planning
my attack to recapture them,
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the Lord came to me and said,
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"Pray for your
children. Just pray for them."
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What was so amazing
about it is that all my life,
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I've heard the older
people in church say,
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"I pray for my
children all the time."
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And I used to
wonder, how in the world
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can you pray for your
children all the time.
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And now I want you to know,
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I pray for my
children all the time.
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As I proceeded on
this, I get before audiences
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and God would say to me
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as the audience to
pray for your children.
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So I put it out to the audience
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and the changes that were
happening I was just amazed.
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And then God said,
"Okay, enough about you.
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Now turn it to the audiences.
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Ask the audience to
pray for their children."
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So here's the
ministry, simple but powerful.
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In a moment I am going
to ask you to literally
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call your children's
names aloud in a minute.
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Afterwards we are going
to go into an individual
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but audible
prayer for our children.
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Now if you don't
have any children,
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pray for
somebody else's children.
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If you don't know
children that you can pray for,
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I'll give you mine,
Eugene and Tanya, all right.
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So it's important
for us to understand
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that every one of us is here,
because somebody prayed for us.
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So let's go ahead
and watch God work.
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Call your
children's names out loud.
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Eugene, Tanya, Rihanna, Trey.
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Now pray, pray
aloud for your children.
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Kind Father, thank you so much
for the opportunity of prayer.
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Lord, we want to
start by thanking you
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for the children
that You've given us.
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We thank You for the blessings
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that they have
brought in our lives.
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And Father, even
though it's difficult,
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we thank You for the challenges,
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because we know that
means that You are shaping them,
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readying them for the kingdom.
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And right now
some of our children
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are out of the ark of safety.
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Right now, Lord,
some of our children
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are doing things they
have no business in doing.
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Right now, Lord,
some of our children
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have moved far from you.
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And even some,
Father, have decided
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they would never
walk with You again.
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Some of them are behind bars.
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Some of them are in
places and doing things
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that just run counter to Your,
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the life that you
would have us to live
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and still they are those
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who are doing everything
according to their will.
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But, Lord, we know that the
devil is out to attack them.
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We know the devil is
out to get them and, Lord,
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we ask you right
now to come down,
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be with our children Jesus.
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Put Your arms of
protection around them.
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Block out the devil.
Don't let him hit home.
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Keep their hearts close to You.
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Lord, we know that You
will save our children,
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if we would but ask.
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Lord, help us to understand,
that we have the biggest web,
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the best weapon available to us.
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Pray if we would but use it.
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I thank you, Father.
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And now, let the
words of my mouth
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and the meditation of my heart
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be acceptable in thy sight,
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as we consider thy
word for the day, amen.
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By the way it is so powerful
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what God is doing
with this ministry.
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If you don't feel the difference
of praying with your children,
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just keep doing it.
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He has turned it into a ministry
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now where it's going worldwide,
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a prayer ribbon
reminding people to pray.
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The first--are out of
every month reminding people
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to come together and
pray for their children,
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but even more
powerfully call to ministers
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and speakers across the world,
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that before they break the word,
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pray for our
children. And now the word.
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If you would turn
with me in your Bibles,
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and by the way if you
haven't heard me speak before.
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I am a very, very
enthusiastic speaker. Why?
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Because I get excited
about what God is doing
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and what He's going to do.
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I know where the end is,
because He has given it to me.
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So I need for you to just
help me be excited for a moment.
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But let's go to the word.
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We are going to base our message
of this evening on John 8:2-12.
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Then I will read
and you're hearing.
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And once again John 8:2-12.
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"And early in the morning
he came again into the temple,
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and all the
people came unto him,
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and He sat down,
and taught them."
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I want you to hang on to
that word, that's important.
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"And the scribes and Pharisees
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brought unto him a
woman taken in adultery,
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and when they had
set her in the midst.
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They said unto him, Master,
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this woman was taken in
adultery, in the very act.
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Now Moses in the
law commanded us,
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that such should be
stoned, but what sayest thou?
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This they said, tempting him,
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that they might
have to accuse him."
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Oh, listen listen.
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"That they may
have to accuse him.
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But Jesus stooped down,
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and with his finger
wrote on the ground,
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as though he heard them not."
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Now, I want you
to hang on to it,
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it's good. Listen here.
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"As though he heard them not.
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So when they
continued asking him,
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He lifted himself,
and said unto them,
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He that is
without sin among you,
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let him cast the
first stone at her.
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And again he stooped
down, and wrote on the ground.
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And they which heard it,
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being convicted by
their own conscience,
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being convicted by
their own conscience,
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went out one by one,
beginning at the eldest,
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even unto the last
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and Jesus was left alone,
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and the woman
standing in the midst.
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When Jesus had
lifted up himself,
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and saw none but the woman,
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he said unto her, Woman,
where are those thine accusers?
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hath no man condemned thee?
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She said, No man, Lord.
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And Jesus said unto her,
Neither do I condemn thee
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go, and sin no more."
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But wait, wait, it
gets good verse 12.
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Here he says, "Then spake
Jesus again unto them, saying,
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I am the light of the world
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he that followeth me
shall not walk in darkness."
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You ought to hear that
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"He that followeth me
shall not walk in darkness,
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but shall have
the light of life.''
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Now that is a story that
many of us have heard for years.
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And we have heard
many variations on it.
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But as I was struggling
to pull together this topic
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that Cynthia gave me,
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"What's So Amazing About Grace."
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God led me to this chapter.
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He led me there because
He wanted us to understand
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that grace is a
system of instruction.
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It's a system of
love, mercy, fear, goodwill,
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restoration,
direction and forgive.
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Well, somebody
ought to shout out,
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because I'm telling
you, I'm telling you saints,
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just hearing that
just gets me exciting.
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Mere words cannot capture grace.
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And why it's so
amazing, you know I studied,
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I did a total study on
grace trying to understand it,
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trying to bring
meaning and definition to it
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and I just couldn't do it.
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The more I read, the
more confusing I got.
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And I said, I
just said, you know,
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what Lord just minister to me.
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Tell me what it is
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and so He let me know
through this that grace,
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grace cannot be discovered
with your typical explanation.
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Grace cannot be
explained by words
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that just fill your emotion.
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The hundreds of
scriptures that are available
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to prove grace is in
existence just won't do.
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It's just grace.
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Can you say, it's just
grace, this thing is good.
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It's mission, it's fullness,
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it's salvation,
it's power in our lives.
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He wanted us to understand
the progression of grace.
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Now I am going to tell you.
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I'm going through
this and I'm like okay.
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Okay, this sounds, this
really makes sense, Lord,
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but I wonder if the theologians
out there would agree with it.
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And I wonder if the
Bible scholars out there
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would think that it's
strange twist on the story
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that they've been
preaching on for years
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and the Lord reminded me.
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I am the
theologian. He reminded me--
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He reminded me that He
wrote the Holy Scriptures.
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And He reminded me
that He made me, you see.
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And He reminded me that He
has used me over and over again
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and today would be no different.
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All I needed to do is open
my mouth and let Him speak.
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Oh, God is good saints.
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I'm getting ready
to shout up in the air,
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but anyway, let's go
over, let's go over, and see.
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Let me tell you what he said
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and I want you
to follow with me,
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because this is powerful.
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We gonna start with verse 2.
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"First of all grace
initiates through instruction.
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He initiates
through instruction.
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I want you to think about this.
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Christ comes,
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sits among us and teaches us.
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Do you hear that?
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That alone is grace.
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Can you imagine the
omnipotent God Himself,
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teaching us, that's grace says,
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that's absolute grace.
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And if you don't understand
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then I want you just
to reflect on your life.
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When has God come to you,
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to teach you something
that you needed to learn.
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Why is He wasting His time
trying to teach us anything?
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That's grace.
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Oh, that's good,
that's good, that's good,
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but let's go further.
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In verse 3 and 4,
grace is tolerant.
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First of all,
let's look at this.
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The Scribes and
Pharisee had the nerve
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to bring a woman
taken in adultery.
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Now, first I am
glad that I am not God,
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because if I would
have known the background
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of the Scribes and
Pharisees as did Jesus.
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If I see them have the nerve
to bring somebody before me,
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I go blink out of here.
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How dare you, but that's grace.
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Do you
understand what I am saying?
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That's grace,
that's good, that's good.
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Grace is tolerant.
Tolerant of our foolishness.
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God is so good.
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But He goes on and He
says in verse 5 and 6,
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or He doesn't
say, He demonstrates,
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that grace goes
beyond insult, beyond insult.
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I want you all to
get that, that's deep,
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that's deep, because here it is.
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The Scribe and Pharisee
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first of all had
the audacity to say,
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Moses in the law commanded us.
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You all get that. Yeah.
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Moses in the law commanded us,
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and if Moses says it...
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and who are you?
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They were seeking to tempt him.
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Do you all get that?
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Just going flat stand up
and insult Jesus in His face
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and He...the yawn
won't get me start.
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It's extremely,
extremely important
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to understand
that this great insult
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was tolerated through grace.
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This great insult was
tolerated through grace.
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I'm trying so hard not to
go to the end of this message,
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because I know
where the Lord is going
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to leak us this
proverb, but let's look at this.
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I love verse 6.
They--sorry, yes, verse 6.
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"When they said
'But Jesus stooped down
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with his finger and
wrote on the ground,
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as though he heard them not."
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You know what that was?
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Grace at work.
Grace is not loud.
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Grace does not
tell you what it is.
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Do you
understand what I am saying?
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Grace is a quiet spirit.
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It works on you and you
don't even know it's working.
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So He stooped down as if,
as if He did not hear them.
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And as He was
stooped, grace was at work.
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All grace you bear. I love it.
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Grace was at work.
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But on to verse 7,
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The Pharisees
ignored grace at work.
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Do you know why?
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It says, they
continued asking Him.
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When you don't understand that
God is working in your life,
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you continue to ask Him.
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Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord.
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you all know where
I'm going, don't you?
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I'm just trying to get
through the instruction,
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so we can get to the shouting,
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but anyway here we go,
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God, was working.
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Grace was working, but
the Pharisees ignored grace.
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So grace is something
that is often ignored,
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because we don't understand,
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but then here comes verse 8,
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He stooped down,
again, do you love it,
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he stooped again and
he wrote in the sand,
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he was becoming or grace was
becoming a persistent surgery.
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What do I mean?
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See some of us
have to be cut open.
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Some of us, it takes a little
more time for God to get to us.
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Some of us just don't
get it until God starts
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really slicing us and
helping us to understand
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that it's
important for us to realize
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that when grace
is at work, shut up.
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Be still, and
know that I am God.
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Oh, that's powerful.
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That's powerful, because you see
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if you don't get
it the first time,
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He'll keep working with you,
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but here's the powerful
thing, He's the powerful--
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In verse 9, grace
convicts their own conscience,
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convicted them,
their own conscience.
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He didn't have to say a word,
that's grace, that's grace.
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Because I'm gonna
tell you something.
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If he had to say something,
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can you imagine
this, yeah, Johnny, yeah.
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No, I won't call you out, okay.
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And the young people you'd say,
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you know, don't put
me on the blast you know.
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If I had to tell you,
what you're problem is,
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I'm making you, I'm
exposing you to everybody else.
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Grace even protected
you, sinner, you accuser.
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Grace just convicted
you with a quite spirit
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and so they left one by one.
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Then grace went into
his work of restoration.
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I love it, I love it.
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First of all he
changed the circumstances,
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he changed the surroundings.
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She was in the
midst, you heard it.
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But guess what?
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In verse 10, it says,
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"She was left alone with Jesus."
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Ever been alone with Jesus.
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I'm telling you saints.
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Sometimes it takes
moving all of the barriers,
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so that you can
be alone with God.
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And that's when
God through the grace
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begins to comfort
you and privilege you.
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Here this woman, a sinner
brought as a result of her sin,
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to be stoned and God takes this,
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Jesus takes this
woman and He lifts her up,
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puts her in His presence
alone. This thing is good.
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But then what He does is,
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He begins to talk
with her, a sinner.
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Talk with her and then when He,
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as He is talking to her,
He begins to do something,
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that many of us don't realize.
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Verse 11 says, "He forgives
her, He condemns her not."
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Have you ever been
condemned about something?
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And when Christ freeze you,
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is there something
that comes over you.
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And you just want to shout,
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you just want to
just tell somebody
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how good God has been.
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Well, that's what
happened with this lady,
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I can just see her now.
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Full of praise, looking to
Jesus in absolute amazement.
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The Son of God set her
free and condemned her not.
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That's the freedom and
the forgiveness of grace.
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Absolutely nothing,
nothing can do that, but grace.
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I love it, I love
it. Last but not least.
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Verse 11, grace redirects.
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He told her to
go and sin no more.
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Go and sin no more.
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He did all of this to
pick her up and restore her.
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If He had not
given her a redirection,
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where would she know
to go and He said to her,
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"Go and sin no more."
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And then with that
going and sin no more,
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He gives her a promise.
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He said, you will
not walk in darkness.
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You will not
walk in, that's grace.
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What's so amazing about grace?
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It's just amazing.
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I'm telling you,
it's absolutely amazing,
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complete restoration system.
00:24:04.64\00:24:08.68
Now I want to bring it home.
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That's the instruction.
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Now let's expound
on the instruction.
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Because it's
going to bring it home
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to each and every one of us.
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God taught me
the way I should go,
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experiences shaped
me, experiences lead me
00:24:27.03\00:24:33.50
to do what God
would want me to do.
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He taught me about the
power of grace and mercy.
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You know, how He taught me?
00:24:42.28\00:24:43.91
Because He had to
apply some of it in my life.
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I've heard people talk
about this intellectual debates
00:24:47.35\00:24:51.15
between the difference
between grace and mercy.
00:24:51.19\00:24:55.16
And I always chuckle and say,
if you got to have that debate,
00:24:55.19\00:24:58.76
obviously grace and mercy
00:24:58.79\00:25:00.83
has not been
applied in your life.
00:25:00.86\00:25:03.67
I'm telling you saints.
00:25:03.70\00:25:05.07
When you know that God
has had to do something. Yeah.
00:25:05.10\00:25:09.07
To change your life. Yeah.
00:25:09.10\00:25:10.81
When you know how God
has worked in your life.
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You don't worry whether
or not it's grace or mercy.
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You're just thankful.
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Amen. Thankful.
00:25:19.95\00:25:24.55
But here is what's so
fun, so amazing about it to me.
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Even in His working with me,
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He's had to
tolerate my foolishness.
00:25:30.86\00:25:33.09
Yes. My doubts, my questions.
00:25:33.13\00:25:37.30
I have been in places
where God has literally
00:25:37.33\00:25:40.24
had to bring food to my table.
00:25:40.27\00:25:43.81
And I still
questioned whether or not
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He can bring me through this.
00:25:45.97\00:25:47.64
And whether or not He
can bring me through that.
00:25:47.68\00:25:50.18
You see, God
told me a longtime ago
00:25:50.21\00:25:52.65
that my big problem is control.
00:25:52.68\00:25:55.22
And He's trying to
work with me on that control
00:25:55.25\00:25:58.79
and I was laughing with
one of my sisters earlier,
00:25:58.82\00:26:01.16
because that's the serious
thing for a lot of women.
00:26:01.19\00:26:04.29
We're so used to
managing everything.
00:26:04.33\00:26:07.93
Trying to make sure these needs
and that needs and these needs.
00:26:07.96\00:26:10.67
And we don't
realize in that process,
00:26:10.70\00:26:13.00
we become controlled freaks.
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And you know what happens?
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It boils over into
our relationship with God.
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Yeah. You know why?
00:26:20.58\00:26:21.94
God tells us to do something.
00:26:21.98\00:26:23.35
And we go, well, I
think we have to do it
00:26:23.38\00:26:24.91
this way and
this way and this way.
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God says go.
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But yet through His
grace He tolerates us,
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I love Him, He tolerates us.
00:26:34.56\00:26:37.23
He's patient with us.
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What if, what if Lord,
what if, what if, what if.
00:26:39.49\00:26:43.50
He's continuing to work with
me by not answering my prayer.
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Are you dealing with
anything right now in your life
00:26:48.40\00:26:52.34
that you don't understand
why God hasn't answered?
00:26:52.37\00:26:59.05
Is that
surgery, is that surgery,
00:26:59.08\00:27:02.48
he's not answering
because grace is at work.
00:27:02.52\00:27:06.35
He isn't answering
because grace is at work.
00:27:06.39\00:27:09.06
When grace is at work
be still, close your mouth,
00:27:09.09\00:27:15.30
listen to God almighty
00:27:15.33\00:27:16.83
because He's trying
to tell you something.
00:27:16.87\00:27:19.83
He's trying to prepare
you for a special work.
00:27:19.87\00:27:22.54
He's trying to take
you to a special place
00:27:22.57\00:27:25.04
and the more you talk,
the more you get in the way.
00:27:25.07\00:27:31.88
A lot of us
ignore grace at work.
00:27:31.91\00:27:35.75
We continue to
plead Lord, fix this.
00:27:35.78\00:27:38.82
Lord, fix that I'm
listening to you Lord, fix this.
00:27:38.85\00:27:42.09
You see right now in my life,
I'm not happy with something
00:27:42.12\00:27:45.39
the Lord isn't
working out for me.
00:27:45.43\00:27:48.20
I want Him to
work it out yesterday.
00:27:48.23\00:27:51.63
He's telling me,
there's still something
00:27:51.67\00:27:53.23
I'm trying to work out in you.
00:27:53.27\00:27:55.07
And I can't work out
what you want to work out
00:27:55.10\00:27:57.84
till I work out what's in you.
00:27:57.87\00:27:59.47
Yeah. But I'm not alone.
00:27:59.51\00:28:03.18
I'm not alone and the one thing
I want us to understand here.
00:28:03.21\00:28:06.25
When grace is at
work, when grace is at work
00:28:06.28\00:28:11.69
and we're not
getting the answers
00:28:11.72\00:28:13.46
that we think we should have.
00:28:13.49\00:28:15.26
It could be because
we are ignoring grace
00:28:15.29\00:28:18.26
and we're continuing to
plead with God for things
00:28:18.29\00:28:21.40
that He's trying to
work through just be quite.
00:28:21.43\00:28:24.77
And let grace work.
00:28:24.80\00:28:26.30
I love it, I love it,
let me tell you what He says.
00:28:26.33\00:28:28.44
He persist in spite of me.
00:28:28.47\00:28:33.21
He persist, isn't
that beautiful? Yes.
00:28:33.24\00:28:35.44
Isn't that beautiful,
He insist, in spite of me,
00:28:35.48\00:28:38.61
in spite of me,
in fact I'm so moved
00:28:38.65\00:28:44.45
that God in His
process of grace in my life,
00:28:44.49\00:28:48.56
convicts me daily of my mess.
00:28:48.59\00:28:52.46
Now I know, I know, I know
00:28:52.49\00:28:54.80
most of us are
ready to sprout wings.
00:28:54.83\00:28:56.77
I understand that. I
really do understand that.
00:28:56.80\00:29:04.71
Well, the only reason we
have not sprout wings yet
00:29:04.74\00:29:07.28
is because we're not ready.
00:29:07.31\00:29:09.98
He's trying to convict us.
00:29:10.01\00:29:12.51
He wants us to
understand where He's taking us.
00:29:12.55\00:29:15.42
What He wants us to do?
00:29:15.45\00:29:17.25
God called me years
ago into a ministry.
00:29:17.29\00:29:23.49
And I'm not talking about
praying for children ministry.
00:29:23.53\00:29:25.49
I am just talking
about a speaking ministry.
00:29:25.53\00:29:28.53
First I had to
bargain with Christ.
00:29:28.56\00:29:31.13
Then I had to
give Him a timeframe.
00:29:31.17\00:29:33.64
Then I had to tell Him,
what if this and what if this.
00:29:33.67\00:29:36.17
And then I said, let me
get my kids out of school.
00:29:36.20\00:29:38.37
Then I said let me do this,
you know, what God told me.
00:29:38.41\00:29:40.68
After while He says,
00:29:40.71\00:29:42.08
"Okay, I have done
everything you've asked.
00:29:42.11\00:29:43.48
Everything you've asked,
00:29:43.51\00:29:44.88
its time to show
up, come on, show up.
00:29:44.91\00:29:47.15
And I'll, "Okay, Lord,
well if you would just--" No.
00:29:47.18\00:29:50.99
And I'm going to tell
you what happened to me.
00:29:51.02\00:29:53.56
Every morning when
I would open my Bible.
00:29:53.59\00:29:57.13
It would flip open to Isaiah 61.
00:29:57.16\00:30:01.36
And it would say to me,
00:30:01.40\00:30:03.23
and I get full
every time I do it,
00:30:03.26\00:30:04.93
because it's nobody but the
Lord continuing to work with me.
00:30:04.97\00:30:07.70
He says "The Spirit of
the Lord God is upon me,
00:30:07.74\00:30:12.17
because He has anointed me
00:30:12.21\00:30:13.84
to preach good
tidings unto the meek.
00:30:13.88\00:30:16.78
He has sent me to
bind up the brokenhearted,
00:30:16.81\00:30:19.75
to proclaim
liberty to the captives
00:30:19.78\00:30:22.22
and opening of the
prison to them that are bound,
00:30:22.25\00:30:24.92
and to proclaim the
acceptable year of the Lord,
00:30:24.95\00:30:27.76
and the day of
vengeance unto our God,
00:30:27.79\00:30:30.59
to comfort all that mourn,
00:30:30.63\00:30:33.36
to appoint unto
them that mourn in Zion,
00:30:33.40\00:30:35.66
to give unto
them beauty for ashes,
00:30:35.70\00:30:38.27
the oil of joy for mourning."
00:30:38.30\00:30:41.60
That's what God was
telling me day in and day out
00:30:41.64\00:30:46.47
and I did not want
to respond to His call.
00:30:46.51\00:30:51.65
For years I thought He was
calling me to pulpit ministry
00:30:51.68\00:30:54.78
and I'd say, "Lord, I
don't want to be a minister."
00:30:54.82\00:30:58.52
I don't want to be a pulpit--
00:30:58.55\00:31:01.66
a minister in the
Seventh-day Adventist church.
00:31:01.69\00:31:04.49
I'm telling you the truth.
But God kept working with me.
00:31:04.53\00:31:08.30
And grace kept
being applied in my life.
00:31:08.33\00:31:11.13
And He kept saying to me,
00:31:11.17\00:31:12.60
this is what I'm
designing you to do.
00:31:12.63\00:31:16.81
And I'm like, okay
Lord, okay Lord, okay Lord.
00:31:16.84\00:31:19.54
But then when He
revealed the whole story.
00:31:19.57\00:31:22.01
He says, "It's not pulpit,
00:31:22.04\00:31:24.01
it's just speaking to
people all over the world.
00:31:24.05\00:31:27.15
Letting them know how good I'm,
00:31:27.18\00:31:28.82
but more importantly
letting them understand
00:31:28.85\00:31:31.62
that grace, grace is sufficient.
00:31:31.65\00:31:35.72
Yeah. Yeah.
00:31:35.76\00:31:37.13
It doesn't matter
from when you come.
00:31:37.16\00:31:39.26
It doesn't matter what
you bring to the table.
00:31:39.29\00:31:41.56
It doesn't matter
how bad you've been.
00:31:41.60\00:31:43.67
It doesn't matter if
you've been caught in adultery.
00:31:43.70\00:31:45.90
It doesn't matter if you lie.
00:31:45.93\00:31:47.47
It doesn't matter if you steal,
00:31:47.50\00:31:49.10
if you would just give
your heart to me-- Amen.
00:31:49.14\00:31:53.24
Grace will take care
of all the rest. Amen.
00:31:53.27\00:31:56.14
And everything
will be all right.
00:31:56.18\00:32:00.15
The one thing
I've learned in my life
00:32:00.18\00:32:01.88
if I haven't
learned anything else.
00:32:01.92\00:32:03.89
Then I am not the only one
whose door God is knocking on.
00:32:03.92\00:32:07.29
I'm not the only
one that God says,
00:32:07.32\00:32:09.29
I have a work for you to do.
00:32:09.32\00:32:10.89
You see, if we would
really answer to His call,
00:32:10.93\00:32:14.00
we would be home now.
00:32:14.03\00:32:15.66
Amen Yeah that's right.
00:32:15.70\00:32:17.10
But we're all about
well, uh, if uh, uh, uh uh.
00:32:17.13\00:32:24.07
So you know what He did.
00:32:29.54\00:32:31.28
He started
changing my surroundings.
00:32:31.31\00:32:34.05
He started making me
spend time by myself.
00:32:34.08\00:32:37.35
Now I grew up in a
family of nine children.
00:32:37.39\00:32:39.85
Nine children, I
was the third oldest.
00:32:39.89\00:32:41.62
So I'm always used
to being around people.
00:32:41.66\00:32:44.66
And I need people. I'll
be honest. I need people.
00:32:44.69\00:32:47.93
I like the
interaction of people.
00:32:47.96\00:32:50.20
And I like talking to people
00:32:50.23\00:32:51.83
and doing all
these things with people.
00:32:51.87\00:32:53.94
And God started taking me away
00:32:53.97\00:32:56.60
from the surroundings of people.
00:32:56.64\00:32:58.71
Putting me in
the mist by myself.
00:32:58.74\00:33:01.61
So he could talk to me.
00:33:01.64\00:33:03.31
I'm going somewhere
and I want you to get it,
00:33:03.35\00:33:05.15
because God is
preaching to me right now.
00:33:05.18\00:33:07.35
Here it is.
00:33:07.38\00:33:08.75
Sometimes we are such
in the midst of people
00:33:08.78\00:33:12.15
that we cannot hear God. Amen.
00:33:12.19\00:33:16.73
Sometimes we are
running our mouths so much
00:33:16.76\00:33:19.59
that we cannot hear God. Amen.
00:33:19.63\00:33:23.73
When we cannot hear
God, it is difficult for us
00:33:23.77\00:33:28.47
to understand what
it is He wants us to do.
00:33:28.50\00:33:31.81
Grace, grace,
gives us that time.
00:33:31.84\00:33:37.08
I'm going to tell
you what He did to me.
00:33:37.11\00:33:38.48
He's being doing to me.
00:33:38.51\00:33:39.88
Every year since I turned 50,
00:33:39.91\00:33:41.95
I have been
going to the mountains
00:33:41.98\00:33:43.99
by myself whole week and
all I do is hike mountains.
00:33:44.02\00:33:50.09
That's all I do.
00:33:50.13\00:33:51.49
I feel like Moses
going up the mountains
00:33:51.53\00:33:53.76
with my staff in hand,
00:33:53.80\00:33:55.76
waiting for what
Lord would have me to do.
00:33:55.80\00:33:58.07
And as I'm climbing those
mountains He is talking to me.
00:33:58.10\00:34:01.14
He's trying to tell
me what He wants me to do
00:34:01.17\00:34:03.17
and where He
wants me to go next.
00:34:03.20\00:34:05.11
And He's trying
to explain to me that
00:34:05.14\00:34:06.81
when this happened in my life
00:34:06.84\00:34:08.24
I was trying to
shape you for this.
00:34:08.28\00:34:10.18
And when this
happened in your life,
00:34:10.21\00:34:11.58
I was trying to
shape you for that.
00:34:11.61\00:34:12.98
Now last year I didn't
get to go to the mountains,
00:34:13.01\00:34:14.78
because we were in
the process of moving.
00:34:14.82\00:34:16.72
And I'm telling
you I've missed it.
00:34:16.75\00:34:18.95
This year I'm
going to the mountains.
00:34:18.99\00:34:21.72
I am going because I
need that alone time with God.
00:34:21.76\00:34:25.66
And every one us in here
needs that alone time with God.
00:34:25.69\00:34:30.67
He is a jealous God.
00:34:30.70\00:34:32.43
He is a God that
wants our attention.
00:34:32.47\00:34:34.84
He doesn't want us to split it
or share it with anybody else.
00:34:34.87\00:34:38.01
We're so consumed
with our children.
00:34:38.04\00:34:40.24
We're so consumed with our jobs.
00:34:40.28\00:34:42.21
We're so
consumed with our spouses.
00:34:42.24\00:34:44.45
That we don't give God
the time that He needs.
00:34:44.48\00:34:49.88
Now many people, when
I say that they'll go,
00:34:49.92\00:34:52.02
"Well, you know, I read the word
00:34:52.05\00:34:54.96
and in it every
time in the heart.
00:34:54.99\00:34:57.89
Some times and Lord
help me, help me Lord.
00:35:02.90\00:35:06.17
Sometimes we need to take all
we've read and just sit. Amen.
00:35:06.20\00:35:13.44
And be quite just
to hear God talk to us.
00:35:13.48\00:35:18.11
Have you ever awakened
in the middle of the night,
00:35:18.15\00:35:21.48
2, 3 o' clock in the morning?
00:35:21.52\00:35:23.52
And you can't go to sleep. Yes.
00:35:23.55\00:35:25.55
And God starts talking to you.
00:35:25.59\00:35:27.79
And He said, "Did you
understand why I did that?"
00:35:27.82\00:35:31.46
I know people
might think I'm staying
00:35:31.49\00:35:33.19
in this lady's home
and I said to myself,
00:35:33.23\00:35:35.70
boy, she must think I'm crazy.
00:35:35.73\00:35:37.10
Because sometimes I'll
just get up and I'll just talk,
00:35:37.13\00:35:39.00
just talk to Him.
00:35:39.03\00:35:41.00
That's when God is working,
that's when grace is at its best
00:35:41.04\00:35:46.01
because He's allowing
us to be in His presence.
00:35:46.04\00:35:49.41
Oh, isn't that good?
00:35:49.44\00:35:50.81
He's allowing us
to be in His presence
00:35:50.85\00:35:53.21
and there is nothing,
absolutely nothing more powerful
00:35:53.25\00:35:57.42
then being in the
presence of God. Amen.
00:35:57.45\00:36:00.79
But then the thing
that's most important.
00:36:00.82\00:36:02.92
He freeze me. He
offers me salvation.
00:36:02.96\00:36:08.60
He forgives me of my sin.
00:36:08.63\00:36:12.00
And what's so
beautiful about it.
00:36:12.03\00:36:14.20
He not only works with
me, He works with my children.
00:36:14.24\00:36:18.64
He works with my spouse.
00:36:18.67\00:36:20.41
He works with my
grandchildren. Why?
00:36:20.44\00:36:23.31
Because through me, through me,
00:36:23.35\00:36:28.22
He seeks to bless
them as well. Amen.
00:36:28.25\00:36:30.85
Do you understand what
I'm saying and vice versa.
00:36:30.89\00:36:34.96
My children have been through
a lot in the last few years.
00:36:34.99\00:36:39.16
But if you could see what
God has done in their lives.
00:36:39.19\00:36:43.10
If you could see how
they're raising their children
00:36:43.13\00:36:46.03
to be in the admonition of Lord.
00:36:46.07\00:36:47.90
If you could here
my little granddaughter
00:36:47.94\00:36:49.94
give me a consort
about how good God is.
00:36:49.97\00:36:52.77
She is three old. Oh,
she is a feisty something.
00:36:52.81\00:36:55.74
But I want you to know
00:36:55.78\00:36:57.15
that she is on fire for
God at such a little age. Amen.
00:36:57.18\00:37:03.39
Does my daughter deserve
00:37:03.42\00:37:05.45
to have that kind
of majesty in her home?
00:37:05.49\00:37:11.79
Do I deserve to have
such a blessed grandchild?
00:37:11.83\00:37:17.33
Do I deserve to
even have the love
00:37:17.37\00:37:21.20
and the hug of
these grandchildren?
00:37:21.24\00:37:22.80
No, but that's grace. Amen.
00:37:22.84\00:37:26.81
And I'm telling
you it freeze me.
00:37:26.84\00:37:28.84
It freeze me
every time I see them.
00:37:28.88\00:37:31.11
I just-- thank you
Jesus. Thank You, Jesus.
00:37:31.15\00:37:35.45
Jesus could take a mess
and turn it into a miracle.
00:37:35.48\00:37:39.65
Yes. Nothing like it.
00:37:39.69\00:37:44.69
Absolutely, nothing like it.
00:37:44.73\00:37:48.70
And I look at God and I say,
00:37:48.73\00:37:50.57
"How Jesus, do you
take these things in my life
00:37:50.60\00:37:55.00
and turn them into good?"
00:37:55.04\00:37:56.91
How do you do it, Jesus?
00:37:56.94\00:37:58.41
And you know what
His answer is? Grace.
00:37:58.44\00:38:02.51
Grace, He says. Grace.
00:38:02.54\00:38:04.55
What is so amazing about grace?
00:38:04.58\00:38:08.98
It's just
amazing. It's just amazing.
00:38:09.02\00:38:12.55
The words don't-- there
aren't words to explain.
00:38:12.59\00:38:20.06
It's just what
God has done for you.
00:38:20.10\00:38:26.67
God take you out
of sin, clean you up,
00:38:26.70\00:38:32.24
say you are mine, you are mine,
00:38:32.27\00:38:35.81
turns you around
sends you on your way,
00:38:35.84\00:38:38.51
tells you to go and sin no more.
00:38:38.55\00:38:41.48
And before you can get to
your car in the parking lot
00:38:41.52\00:38:44.72
or walk down the
street you're messed up again.
00:38:44.75\00:38:48.89
And I'm going to
share something with you
00:38:48.92\00:38:50.29
that I have shared with
people many many times before.
00:38:50.33\00:38:53.19
But I want you to understand
00:38:53.23\00:38:55.03
that it's a
message straight from God.
00:38:55.06\00:38:58.47
That is a story that
I heard sometime ago.
00:38:58.50\00:39:05.17
A young man lived way
out, kind of like out here.
00:39:05.21\00:39:11.25
And he'd a
particularly difficult day.
00:39:11.28\00:39:14.38
And this day he
wasn't paying attention.
00:39:14.42\00:39:17.42
So as he was driving home,
00:39:17.45\00:39:19.55
he hit the
neighbor's dog and killed it.
00:39:19.59\00:39:24.19
He was devastated
00:39:24.23\00:39:26.49
because this little old
lady that was her best friend.
00:39:26.53\00:39:32.57
So she takes the
dog and she goes,
00:39:32.60\00:39:35.54
he goes to his neighbor
and he says, I'm so sorry.
00:39:35.57\00:39:40.94
I didn't mean to do it.
00:39:40.98\00:39:42.34
I wasn't paying
attention and I'm just so sorry.
00:39:42.38\00:39:45.61
And his neighbor says,
oh don't worry about it.
00:39:45.65\00:39:48.15
I told that dog to
stay out of the street.
00:39:48.18\00:39:51.45
Just keeps
running cars and its okay
00:39:51.49\00:39:54.89
but will you help me bury it?
00:39:54.92\00:39:57.86
So he says, "Sure."
00:39:57.89\00:39:59.56
So they go out to
the edge of the property
00:39:59.59\00:40:03.00
and they dig a hole
and they bury the dog.
00:40:03.03\00:40:05.97
And they go to
their separate homes.
00:40:06.00\00:40:08.37
When the gentleman gets home,
he's sitting in his easy chair
00:40:08.40\00:40:11.41
and he goes, for some
reason I really don't think
00:40:11.44\00:40:15.41
she understands
what has happened.
00:40:15.44\00:40:17.68
I think she's stunned,
I think she is delirious.
00:40:17.71\00:40:20.52
I need to make her
understand what I have done.
00:40:20.55\00:40:23.49
Is this horrible
thing I have done?
00:40:23.52\00:40:25.45
So he goes out to
the edge of the property
00:40:25.49\00:40:27.52
and he digs up the dog.
00:40:27.56\00:40:30.36
And he takes the dog to
his neighbor and he says,
00:40:30.39\00:40:32.89
do you
understand what I have done?
00:40:32.93\00:40:35.46
And the neighbor says to
him, "Yes, yes, it's okay,
00:40:35.50\00:40:38.30
I mean it's all
right, don't worry about it."
00:40:38.33\00:40:40.30
So they go and they
put the dog in the hole.
00:40:40.34\00:40:42.74
So he goes to sleep.
00:40:42.77\00:40:44.41
The next morning he wakes
up he says, she doesn't get it.
00:40:44.44\00:40:49.74
So what I'm going
to do is make sure
00:40:49.78\00:40:52.01
she understands
what I'm talking about.
00:40:52.05\00:40:54.62
So you know what he does.
00:40:54.65\00:40:56.02
He goes out and he
digs up the dead dog.
00:40:56.05\00:40:59.22
And he takes the dead
dog to the neighbor again
00:40:59.25\00:41:01.72
and he says, do you
understand what I have done?
00:41:01.76\00:41:05.99
And the neighbor
says, "Oh, sure I do,
00:41:06.03\00:41:09.93
I told you it was okay, please."
so they bury the dog again.
00:41:09.96\00:41:17.07
This went on
for about two weeks.
00:41:17.11\00:41:22.01
Now that sounds
ridiculous, doesn't it?
00:41:22.04\00:41:24.51
But it's exactly what we
do to God every single day.
00:41:24.55\00:41:28.05
He tells us if
we confess our sins,
00:41:28.08\00:41:30.99
He would bury them in the
ocean and remember them no more.
00:41:31.02\00:41:34.99
No more and what will we do?
00:41:35.02\00:41:37.09
We'll go out and we'll
dig it up and we'll say,
00:41:37.13\00:41:38.99
"Lord but do you
understand what I have done?"
00:41:39.03\00:41:41.46
And He says, "I understand,
I don't even remember it."
00:41:41.50\00:41:47.80
Let the dead dogs stay buried.
00:41:47.84\00:41:51.97
There is absolutely nothing.
00:41:52.01\00:41:54.84
Absolutely
nothing that you have done
00:41:54.88\00:42:00.82
that God can't forgive you for,
00:42:00.85\00:42:04.22
other than blaspheming
and you understand that.
00:42:04.25\00:42:07.22
But there's absolutely nothing.
00:42:07.26\00:42:09.22
And the beauty of it is,
we're coming back to grace.
00:42:09.26\00:42:12.53
The beauty of
it is, He buries it
00:42:12.56\00:42:15.53
and remembers it no more. Amen.
00:42:15.56\00:42:19.27
Now see, I struggle
with that for years.
00:42:19.30\00:42:22.97
How is Jesus
who knows everything
00:42:23.00\00:42:25.57
going to not remember my sins?
00:42:25.61\00:42:28.08
See, that's the
analytical mind going. Okay.
00:42:28.11\00:42:29.91
Now that
doesn't make sense Lord,
00:42:29.94\00:42:31.98
so maybe You need to define
it better for me, all right.
00:42:32.01\00:42:36.02
He says, "I don't remember it."
00:42:36.05\00:42:40.26
You all didn't get it.
00:42:40.29\00:42:41.96
He says, "I don't remember it."
00:42:41.99\00:42:47.46
He says, "I don't remember it."
00:42:47.50\00:42:50.80
What is that? That's grace.
00:42:50.83\00:42:53.67
Now you got it.
That's grace, amazing grace.
00:42:53.70\00:42:59.37
But then He redirects us.
00:42:59.41\00:43:01.44
After He sets us
free, He redirects us.
00:43:01.48\00:43:04.88
He tells us to
go and sin no more.
00:43:04.91\00:43:09.75
Even if we fall,
He takes us back.
00:43:09.78\00:43:13.32
He tells us to go and
with that He gives us strength.
00:43:13.36\00:43:19.13
He tells us, He's
going to be with us always.
00:43:19.16\00:43:22.40
I want you to turn with
me if you have your Bible
00:43:22.43\00:43:24.73
to chapter 43 of Isaiah,
00:43:24.77\00:43:28.77
because I want
to share with you,
00:43:28.80\00:43:30.17
how He gives you the strength.
00:43:30.21\00:43:32.54
And I was telling a young
lady in one of the sessions
00:43:32.57\00:43:35.01
who gave a testimony
that her testimony inspired
00:43:35.04\00:43:38.85
this particular scripture
at this point in the message.
00:43:38.88\00:43:41.78
Here it is, "But
now, though, thus--"
00:43:41.82\00:43:45.19
Isaiah 43:1 and through that.
00:43:45.22\00:43:48.89
"But now thus saith the
Lord that created thee, O Jacob,
00:43:48.92\00:43:53.53
and he that formed
thee, O Israel, Fear not,
00:43:53.56\00:43:58.33
for I have redeemed thee, I
have called thee by thy name
00:43:58.37\00:44:03.34
thou art mine." Amen.
00:44:03.37\00:44:07.48
That's deep, that is deep.
00:44:07.51\00:44:11.55
He knows us by our
name. He calls us by our name.
00:44:11.58\00:44:18.55
He knows the very
hairs on our head.
00:44:18.59\00:44:21.76
Does this excite anybody but me?
00:44:21.79\00:44:24.96
We're talking about Jesus.
00:44:24.99\00:44:27.60
I'm amazed, I'm amazed,
00:44:27.63\00:44:30.70
but look at what He
promises us as He sets us free.
00:44:30.73\00:44:33.50
This is so good.
00:44:33.54\00:44:34.90
He says in verse 2, "When
thy passes through the waters,
00:44:34.94\00:44:40.01
I will be with thee
and through the rivers,
00:44:40.04\00:44:45.01
they shall not overflow thee."
00:44:45.05\00:44:48.28
Oh, they shall
not overflow thee.
00:44:48.32\00:44:52.49
You all don't know
what that did for me.
00:44:52.52\00:44:54.79
Because sometimes in my life
00:44:54.82\00:44:56.62
and I'm brining
that to you as well.
00:44:56.66\00:44:58.73
I'm so consumed with all
that seemingly going wrong.
00:44:58.76\00:45:03.80
And I feel so overwhelmed
00:45:03.83\00:45:06.53
and I feel though
I can't move forward.
00:45:06.57\00:45:09.14
But he tells me
right there in Isaiah 43.
00:45:09.17\00:45:11.67
The rivers will
not overflow thee.
00:45:11.71\00:45:14.21
I often hear leaders who
put on meetings like this
00:45:14.24\00:45:18.55
and then
something in particular,
00:45:18.58\00:45:20.22
so you be so concerned
about all that "goes arrive."
00:45:20.25\00:45:25.25
And I have learned
that when it's a mess
00:45:25.29\00:45:28.62
or when it's the lot
of things going wrong,
00:45:28.66\00:45:31.19
that's because God is
trying to do something
00:45:31.23\00:45:33.29
and Satan is not
going to let it go.
00:45:33.33\00:45:35.80
And so we have to learn
how to stand, strong in grace,
00:45:35.83\00:45:39.90
because He is saying,
"I'm with you and you will not.
00:45:39.93\00:45:44.71
The rivers will
not overflow thee."
00:45:44.74\00:45:46.17
Now look at this, He says,
00:45:46.21\00:45:47.58
"When thou walk
us through the fire,
00:45:47.61\00:45:50.11
thou shall not be burned,
00:45:50.15\00:45:52.28
neither shall the
flame kindle upon thee."
00:45:52.31\00:45:55.25
One of the most
powerful messages I ever heard
00:45:55.28\00:45:57.62
was from a little short man
from New York City, R.C. Connor.
00:45:57.65\00:46:01.62
And I was a young
lady about 20, in my 20,
00:46:01.66\00:46:05.29
I don't remember the exact date,
00:46:05.33\00:46:06.70
but I had been
going through so much.
00:46:06.73\00:46:10.43
And he stood up
there and he said,
00:46:10.47\00:46:12.50
"God will be with you
Just like Jesus was in the fire
00:46:12.53\00:46:19.34
with Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abednego.
00:46:19.37\00:46:23.14
He will be in the fire with you.
00:46:23.18\00:46:25.18
He'll be in the fire with you.
00:46:25.21\00:46:26.78
Now let me tell
you what it did to me.
00:46:26.82\00:46:28.38
All of my life there
was this little lady,
00:46:28.42\00:46:31.45
Sister Lomack, I
love her to death.
00:46:31.49\00:46:33.56
She is no longer living,
but let me tell you something.
00:46:33.59\00:46:35.52
This little lady
was full of the spirit
00:46:35.56\00:46:37.36
and every Sabbath my friends
and I would sit on the back pew
00:46:37.39\00:46:40.60
waiting for
Sister Lomack to get up
00:46:40.63\00:46:42.16
and run around the church.
00:46:42.20\00:46:44.33
We were so excited just to
see her run around the church.
00:46:44.37\00:46:46.90
But we didn't understand
00:46:46.94\00:46:48.30
what was going on in
Sister Lomack's life.
00:46:48.34\00:46:49.84
But let me tell you something.
00:46:49.87\00:46:51.31
When God came to my life
00:46:51.34\00:46:53.54
and he had to stand
in the fire with me.
00:46:53.58\00:46:56.64
I'm telling you something.
00:46:56.68\00:46:58.05
When that man starting
talking about being in the fire.
00:46:58.08\00:47:00.28
When I came to myself I had
run around the church saying,
00:47:00.32\00:47:02.95
in the fire, in
the fire, in the fire.
00:47:02.98\00:47:06.09
Do you
understand what I'm saying?
00:47:06.12\00:47:07.76
You cannot contain yourself,
00:47:07.79\00:47:12.06
when God has done
something for you. Amen.
00:47:12.09\00:47:14.96
Now I'm a wall bouncer.
00:47:15.00\00:47:16.36
I'll jump down the whole flight
00:47:16.40\00:47:17.77
of bleachers at
a basketball game.
00:47:17.80\00:47:19.93
So in church it would be
absolutely out of character
00:47:19.97\00:47:23.67
for me to sit like,
totally out of character.
00:47:23.71\00:47:31.68
Now I have sister-in-law
who I love to death.
00:47:31.71\00:47:35.12
She is not a wall bouncer.
00:47:35.15\00:47:36.72
But when the
spirit is moving on her,
00:47:36.75\00:47:38.99
you can see it all in her face.
00:47:39.02\00:47:41.06
You might see a
trickle come down.
00:47:41.09\00:47:43.12
She may not say anything,
but you know she is full.
00:47:43.16\00:47:45.79
But what concerns me
00:47:45.83\00:47:47.23
our people who come to
church Sabbath after Sabbath
00:47:47.26\00:47:50.77
and they look like a
bunch of dried up prunes,
00:47:50.80\00:47:54.64
waiting for the next harvest.
00:47:54.67\00:48:02.41
And what I'm saying is until
we learn how to praise the Lord.
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Amen. Praise Him
for His goodness.
00:48:07.02\00:48:10.49
We're going to move
slow on this journey.
00:48:10.52\00:48:13.46
It is praise that makes
the difference in our life.
00:48:13.49\00:48:16.42
This is a conference
about praise, spiritual praise.
00:48:16.46\00:48:20.56
We have to understand
that praise pleases God.
00:48:20.60\00:48:26.23
It pleases Him and if we but--
00:48:26.27\00:48:29.10
if we would but stretch
our arms in praise to Him.
00:48:29.14\00:48:33.17
What a difference it would make.
00:48:33.21\00:48:34.84
I don't know who
came up with the idea
00:48:34.88\00:48:38.08
that in our churches
we cannot be expressive.
00:48:38.11\00:48:44.52
Well, if that's the case
00:48:44.55\00:48:45.92
I'm certainly in
the wrong church.
00:48:45.95\00:48:50.43
But what I have learned is this
God is working with His people.
00:48:50.46\00:48:55.30
It's coming saints,
it's coming out more and more
00:48:55.33\00:48:57.83
when I go at churches, I
see people they're trying
00:48:57.87\00:49:01.80
and before, thank you Lord.
00:49:01.84\00:49:07.84
I'm telling you its like
fire shut up in your bones.
00:49:07.88\00:49:10.95
And you have to say something.
00:49:10.98\00:49:13.05
Your have to--your
burn-- your burst wide open.
00:49:13.08\00:49:15.45
let me go on, anyway.
00:49:15.48\00:49:17.02
But let me finish what
he says here in verse 3.
00:49:17.05\00:49:19.92
He says, "For
I'm the Lord thy God,
00:49:19.95\00:49:24.36
the holy one of
Israel, thy Savior,
00:49:24.39\00:49:28.53
I gave Egypt for thy ransom.
00:49:28.56\00:49:31.00
Listen to that, I
gave Egypt for thy ransom.
00:49:31.03\00:49:34.44
Ethiopia and Seba for thee.
00:49:34.47\00:49:37.81
Since thou was
precious in my sight.
00:49:37.84\00:49:41.88
Thou has been honorable,
and I have loved thee."
00:49:41.91\00:49:48.48
Amen. Oh, man.
00:49:48.52\00:49:52.29
Doesn't that do
something to you?
00:49:52.32\00:49:54.62
Did you hear what He said?
00:49:54.66\00:49:56.59
Since he says, "since you
were precious in my sight,
00:49:56.62\00:50:01.96
you have been honorable."
00:50:02.00\00:50:07.04
Me, you all are missing it.
00:50:07.07\00:50:11.57
You're missing it you
know why you're missing it,
00:50:11.61\00:50:13.68
because, honorable,
00:50:13.71\00:50:18.95
Me, honorable, that's grace.
00:50:18.98\00:50:23.95
That's grace,
you can't explain it.
00:50:23.99\00:50:26.86
Oh, honorable, oh,
that's grace saints,
00:50:26.89\00:50:30.03
that's grace and it's good
because God has promised us.
00:50:30.06\00:50:34.16
That He is going to be
with us no matter what.
00:50:34.20\00:50:39.80
No matter what. What's
so amazing about grace?
00:50:39.83\00:50:45.44
Me. Amen.
00:50:45.47\00:50:48.24
That's what so
amazing about grace.
00:50:48.28\00:50:50.58
What so amazing about grace?
00:50:50.61\00:50:52.75
You. Amen.
00:50:52.78\00:50:54.72
That's what so
amazing about grace.
00:50:54.75\00:50:59.82
What's so amazing about grace?
It convicts and it restores.
00:50:59.85\00:51:06.46
It tears down. Yes.
00:51:06.49\00:51:08.70
And it builds you up. Yes.
00:51:08.73\00:51:11.03
It cleans up the mess. Yes.
00:51:11.07\00:51:14.64
And tosses out your
mess. It's just amazing.
00:51:14.67\00:51:22.41
It's just absolutely
amazing. What God will do?
00:51:22.44\00:51:27.12
What He can do in our lives?
I have a question for you.
00:51:27.15\00:51:32.99
When is the last time God
has done something for you?
00:51:33.02\00:51:38.03
We take for granted
that we wake up every morning
00:51:38.06\00:51:42.60
We take for
granted that we walk daily.
00:51:42.63\00:51:48.80
We take for granted that.
00:51:48.84\00:51:51.84
We take for
granted that we breathe.
00:51:51.87\00:51:54.78
But I got to tell
you this little story.
00:51:54.81\00:51:57.61
That will bring us into
our music for this evening,
00:51:57.65\00:52:00.92
but let me just
share it with you.
00:52:00.95\00:52:02.38
It's a powerful
story, it take a bit.
00:52:02.42\00:52:04.72
So but my mother
is a woman of faith.
00:52:04.75\00:52:11.13
She is strong.
00:52:11.16\00:52:13.09
She was the wife
of a military man.
00:52:13.13\00:52:15.10
So she had to
raise nine children
00:52:15.13\00:52:18.07
a lot times by
herself, excuse me.
00:52:18.10\00:52:22.14
But at 52 years old, my mother
had her first heart attack.
00:52:22.17\00:52:27.71
It took out
two-thirds of her heart.
00:52:27.74\00:52:32.61
They told us that she
wasn't going to make it.
00:52:32.65\00:52:36.92
And I can still see the day
where she was lying in the bed,
00:52:36.95\00:52:43.46
we gathered
around her bed, tearful.
00:52:43.49\00:52:47.50
And she looked up at us
and said, "Why are you crying?"
00:52:47.53\00:52:50.90
And we said to her,
"Mom, well, we're sad.
00:52:50.93\00:52:56.17
It doesn't look good."
00:52:56.20\00:52:58.54
She said, "Well you
better dry up your tears,
00:52:58.57\00:53:00.48
I'm not going anywhere
yet." She is still here.
00:53:00.51\00:53:08.12
Three years ago surely
we thought this was it.
00:53:08.15\00:53:13.89
She ended up
back in the hospital
00:53:13.92\00:53:15.62
where her already damaged heart
00:53:15.66\00:53:17.96
went into congestive heart
failure, fluid building up.
00:53:17.99\00:53:23.40
What she did was she
tried-- I mean, sorry,
00:53:23.43\00:53:27.50
she went to the
doctor and they kept trying
00:53:27.54\00:53:29.24
to get fluid off her
and get fluid off of her.
00:53:29.27\00:53:32.57
And they were
not being successful.
00:53:32.61\00:53:35.64
They finally had
to intubate her--
00:53:35.68\00:53:37.58
put a tube down
her to help her breath.
00:53:37.61\00:53:41.52
They called us to her bedside
00:53:41.55\00:53:44.49
six times to
tell us that was it.
00:53:44.52\00:53:51.39
From October to May
she was in the hospital.
00:53:51.43\00:53:56.67
She at times barely
knew what was going on.
00:53:56.70\00:54:01.04
But I'm telling
something about this woman.
00:54:01.07\00:54:03.91
Through grace she
fought death with faith.
00:54:03.94\00:54:09.04
She coded on us two times.
00:54:09.08\00:54:12.18
The last time she
coded was on a Thursday.
00:54:12.21\00:54:15.38
I was sitting in her room
00:54:15.42\00:54:17.29
and by the way there are
eight of us still living.
00:54:17.32\00:54:19.85
So we took shifts every week.
00:54:19.89\00:54:21.86
Somebody had a new shift
00:54:21.89\00:54:23.39
and I'm considered the
emotional one of the family,
00:54:23.43\00:54:25.56
so why she would have to
code on me, I don't know.
00:54:25.59\00:54:28.03
But anyway, let me tell you.
00:54:28.06\00:54:30.40
That Thursday she was sitting,
00:54:30.43\00:54:33.10
I mean, sorry, she
was lying in the bed
00:54:33.13\00:54:34.94
and I was sitting
there next to here.
00:54:34.97\00:54:37.04
The next thing I knew
there was a crash card in there.
00:54:37.07\00:54:40.48
Things were
flying, people were moving
00:54:40.51\00:54:42.31
and I'm just
thinking what, what?
00:54:42.34\00:54:43.95
And momma had coded
and I didn't know it.
00:54:43.98\00:54:47.62
So I'm just standing back
stunned, completely stunned
00:54:47.65\00:54:53.19
after they brought her
back and everything was okay.
00:54:53.22\00:54:55.56
I looked at the doctor
and I said, "What do I do?"
00:54:55.59\00:54:59.89
He said to me, "I think
you need to call the family in.
00:54:59.93\00:55:03.00
Your mother is not going to
pull through." I said, okay.
00:55:03.03\00:55:07.77
I went to the hall and I called
00:55:07.80\00:55:09.97
every one of my
brothers and sisters
00:55:10.01\00:55:11.67
just as calmly as
I'm talking to you now.
00:55:11.71\00:55:14.28
And every one
of them said to me.
00:55:14.31\00:55:16.04
You know what, you were calm
00:55:16.08\00:55:19.91
that lets us know
something is really wrong.
00:55:19.95\00:55:24.29
The doctor said he wanted
to talk to us on that Saturday.
00:55:24.32\00:55:26.65
So by Saturday
everybody was there.
00:55:26.69\00:55:28.79
He pulled us into the room
00:55:28.82\00:55:30.29
and we are a big family
when we all get together
00:55:30.33\00:55:33.26
and he said to us that
your mother's quality of life
00:55:33.29\00:55:37.07
is going to be so poor
00:55:37.10\00:55:39.27
that she really isn't
going to do very well.
00:55:39.30\00:55:41.90
And I don't think
she's going to want to live
00:55:41.94\00:55:43.87
with this tube or breathing
assist for the rest of her life.
00:55:43.91\00:55:47.14
And we want to
know what we should do
00:55:47.18\00:55:50.51
if she should code again.
00:55:50.55\00:55:53.08
Do you want us
to resuscitate her?
00:55:53.11\00:55:54.65
And we said to them,
"Well, you know what,
00:55:54.68\00:55:57.59
she is still--
go in and ask her."
00:55:57.62\00:56:01.22
So they thought they
were ahead of the game, right?
00:56:01.26\00:56:03.79
So they said,
"Well, we already asked her
00:56:03.83\00:56:05.19
and she said she just doesn't
want to go back on the tube."
00:56:05.23\00:56:10.03
And we were like,
"okay." Now here is the point.
00:56:10.07\00:56:14.60
When they talk to us,
momma could only stay off
00:56:14.64\00:56:19.11
the breathing
machine for eight minute
00:56:19.14\00:56:22.74
before she would
get into trouble.
00:56:22.78\00:56:24.78
Eight minutes, so
after it was over,
00:56:24.81\00:56:28.25
we went, or I and my
sister went to the room.
00:56:28.28\00:56:31.12
And mom, she is
about 4 ft 11 inch,
00:56:31.15\00:56:33.89
she is kind of small and
she's crunched in the bed.
00:56:33.92\00:56:36.76
And we said-- she said to us,
00:56:36.79\00:56:38.69
"What did that
doctor say to you?"
00:56:38.73\00:56:40.63
Because her throat
was raspy from the tube.
00:56:40.66\00:56:42.90
What did that doctor say to you?
00:56:42.93\00:56:44.83
And we said, "Well
he was just talking
00:56:44.87\00:56:46.57
with us about
things and where you are."
00:56:46.60\00:56:48.84
And she looked
over and she said,
00:56:48.87\00:56:50.41
"Is that doctor given up on me?
00:56:50.44\00:56:53.41
And I said, "Mom,
It's not important
00:56:53.44\00:56:56.75
that the doctor
is giving up on you.
00:56:56.78\00:56:59.11
Are you giving up on yourself
that's what we want to know?
00:56:59.15\00:57:02.25
She flipped her head
over and she said, "No."
00:57:02.28\00:57:07.52
God didn't told me
its time to go yet.
00:57:07.56\00:57:10.39
I still have a
lot of kick in me.
00:57:10.43\00:57:13.13
That's what she
said. That's what she said.
00:57:13.16\00:57:16.13
We went, okay.
00:57:16.16\00:57:17.93
That afternoon, they tried
to take the tube out again.
00:57:17.97\00:57:22.04
They asked us to
stay in the back,
00:57:22.07\00:57:24.04
because they wanted to make sure
00:57:24.07\00:57:25.74
that she would not panic
when she start to go in--
00:57:25.77\00:57:28.81
And when we go
in and check on her.
00:57:28.84\00:57:31.01
And mom would be in the middle
of the bed like this, rocking.
00:57:31.05\00:57:33.82
and just talking, just talking,
00:57:33.85\00:57:35.45
she stayed off of the tube for--
00:57:35.48\00:57:36.92
the breathing
machine for four hours.
00:57:36.95\00:57:39.69
Eight minutes to four hours.
00:57:39.72\00:57:41.82
By Tuesday she was completely
off of the breathing machine.
00:57:41.86\00:57:46.23
And every time we would go
in there she would be walking.
00:57:46.26\00:57:48.20
She would be
rocking. She would be rocking.
00:57:48.23\00:57:50.27
And she would be
telling just saying these words.
00:57:50.30\00:57:52.27
And we didn't know
what she was saying.
00:57:52.30\00:57:53.67
So finally I said to her,
"Momma, what are you saying?"
00:57:53.70\00:57:58.87
You know what she said?
00:57:58.91\00:58:00.58
She said, "Work Jesus,
work Jesus, work Jesus,
00:58:00.61\00:58:05.55
that's all she was saying."
00:58:05.58\00:58:07.15
Let me tell you
how powerful that is.
00:58:07.18\00:58:08.85
And how that brings us to
the point where we need to be.
00:58:08.88\00:58:11.05
Here is the power behind it.
00:58:11.09\00:58:12.82
That women fought death,
00:58:12.85\00:58:15.06
with faith.
00:58:15.09\00:58:18.09
And God's grace was
applied in her life.
00:58:18.13\00:58:22.96
She is up about on her own
00:58:23.00\00:58:25.93
out of the hospital
without breathing machines.
00:58:25.97\00:58:29.00
Does she have challenges?
Yes, she has challenges.
00:58:29.04\00:58:31.57
But she is a walking miracle.
00:58:31.61\00:58:33.91
But more importantly she is
an example of the grace of God.
00:58:33.94\00:58:38.21
God says when you lean on
Me, I will take care of you.
00:58:38.25\00:58:44.12
You don't have to worry
about what anybody else says.
00:58:44.15\00:58:47.76
Grace is
sufficient, God loves us.
00:58:47.79\00:58:52.19
He wants to save
each and every one of us.
00:58:52.23\00:58:54.96
And all He's asking you today
is to give your life to Him.
00:58:55.00\00:58:59.60
His grace will take you
from instruction to restoration.
00:58:59.63\00:59:06.88
Grace, so amazing.
00:59:06.91\00:59:08.51