The fame that I might
want and all the things
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that seem so dear I'd
rather have Him than any
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praise That men may
give to me I want Him
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to have control And be
the breath of life in me
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I'd rather have Jesus
I'd rather have Him than
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anything As I go on
through life with Him
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There can be no
other way I want Jesus
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more than anything,
more than anything. Amen.
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That was absolutely incredible
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and I don't want the
quire to go anywhere.
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We're gonna ask
you to minister another
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song for us, and as
soon as they're finished
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ministering. We're
going to have pastor
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C.A. Murray come
and share our morning
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worship service,
but right now I would
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like to introduce to
you Girvan Coley, and he's a
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gentlemen that I
met out in the lobby a
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little earlier
and he had the most
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incredible testimony.
Tell us a little about
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your testimony
Girvan. Well at first,
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the first I'm about
this 12 feet satellite dish.
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I didn't buy with
no intention of being
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a Christian; I
bought because I wanted
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to listen my Jamaican
Reggae music and stuff
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like that. Where were
you living at the time,
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when you bought?
Still living Lauderhill
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here, but I was. You
were here in Lauderhill
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and you bought one of
those big 12 foot dish.
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Big dish 12 feet dish,
and it's so unfortunate
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that I'm, this
radio station came off the
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air, because they
couldn't support it,
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I'm just running
down the satellite this
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Sunday evening saw
Donny was interviewing
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somebody and I
said what and because I
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wasn't an
Adventist, my mother was and
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some of my family
but I wasn't into church,
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I was always
playing disco Satan playing
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music, and running
down the disc and I saw
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this station and I said
God, this is so you know
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it was
interesting and beginning to
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listen to views and
then I get stuck to it.
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People get stuck
on 3ABN quite often,
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we're addictive.
And by watching it,
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I begin to
realize that you know more
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about I get more
serious and then I
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started to come to
church. What church did you
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start coming to? This
Lauderhill church here.
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Okay. And by
coming to church, when the
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elder who come to
give me Bible study I told
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I was ready he
didn't have to, because I
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already get both
from 3ABN and bought
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what I know that
when I was smaller. So I
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said to myself this
got to be the church and
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God has blessed me
that since I've been
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here, now I've
become a deacon. Praise God.
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And I'm happy, it's
only pity that I wasn't in
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here from the day I
was born. Amen, amen.
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And coming here I tell
the people in Lauderhill
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about 3ABN.
Alright, thank you. I'm so
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fortunate so many of
us get stuck to 3ABN.
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And we are so
happy that 3ABN is here
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today. Amen. Thank
you very much Girvan,
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thank you God bless you. We want
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everyone of you to get
stuck on 3ABN don't we.
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You know the most
incredible thing happens
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I told you this a
little earlier, when you get
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3ABN in your community
or in your life, a change
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starts taking
place. Girvan was speaking
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of it, when he came
to church, of course
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the pastor wants to
give you, your Bible studies,
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but he said I'm
ready, why was he ready
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because he had
been learning these
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teachings, these
truths that are so
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important to us,
by some of the best
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Bible teachers in
the Seventh-Day Adventist
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church by watching
Three Angels Broadcasting
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Network. We get
this testimony from
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all over the world,
people say, the pastors
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will write and tell us
people just walk-in off
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the street ready for
baptism. I believe this
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is my confidence
that Three Angels
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Broadcasting Network
is one of the greatest
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evangelistic tools
in the world today.
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Amen. We just ask
that you keep us in your
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prayers. Well that
wonderful choir now
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is gonna to come
back and minister and
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then pastor C.A.
Murray. He is just, we have
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known him, he
has been in 3ABN now
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for two years,
when he first came we
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didn't know what we
were gonna to do with him.
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Now we don't
know what we would do
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with out him. We
have found such a
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servant's heart
in him, and a man
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that's really
after God's own heart. So
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after the choir Pastor C.A. will
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come and minister the morning
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service, God
bless you all. Amen.
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He's Worthy,
God's Worthy, almighty
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Creator, alpha,
Omega, Beginning And The End.
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Holy, Holy, Lord
God Almighty, which Was
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And Is, and Is To
Come. He's Worthy,
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God's Worthy,
almighty Creator, alpha, Omega,
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Beginning And
The End. Holy, Holy,
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Lord God
Almighty, which Was And Is,
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and Is To Come.
Hallelujah, hallelujah,
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hallelujah,
hallelujah. Blessing And Glory,
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Wisdom And
Power, God Of My Rock,
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In Him Will I
Trust. My Strong Tower And
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My Refuge,
Savior, Deliverer And Soon
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Coming King.
Hallelujah, hallelujah,
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hallelujah,
hallelujah. The King Will Come
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In The Clouds With
Great Power And Glory
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With Him. Oh, But No
Man Knows The Day Nor
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The Hour, But We
Await His Soon Return.
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Hallelujah, glory,
Glory, hallelujah, praise
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His Name.
Hallelujah, glory, Glory,
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hallelujah, praise His
Name. Hallelujah, glory,
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Glory, hallelujah,
praise His Name. Hallelujah,
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glory, Glory,
hallelujah, praise His Name.
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Hallelujah,
glory, Glory, hallelujah,
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praise His Name.
Hallelujah, glory,
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Glory,
hallelujah, praise His Name.
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Hallelujah,
glory, Glory, hallelujah,
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praise His Name.
Hallelujah, glory, Glory,
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hallelujah, praise
His Name. Hallelujah,
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glory, Glory,
hallelujah, praise His
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Name, Hallelujah, glory, Glory,
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hallelujah, praise His Name.
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Amen. Thank you choir, thank you
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so very much, thank you Mollie,
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thank you Emily,
thank you Melody.
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Do you not feel
the presence of a Lord
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in this place? God
is so very, very good.
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Our time is far
spend, and I was thinking
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about doing
something seasonal but I have a
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burden that I want
to sort of lay on you
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today. During
this time of year when
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everyone is
celebrating the birth of Christ
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it is a season of
the soul. This is a time
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of year, when
the hearts of secular
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people are open
to the Gospel. Amen.
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And so I want to
come from that mind set,
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that framework as we
deal with the subject,
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somebody must be
Martha. I ask you
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to turn with me,
if you will to the
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gospel as written by
Dr. Luke. Chapter 10,
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and we shall
consider as our platform text,
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verses 38 through
42, Luke chapter 10
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verses 38 through
42, now I'm gonna to
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ask the sound
man, John turn me down
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just a little cause
I'm starting to get loud
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here in a few
minutes and I don't want to
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scream in anyone
ears, not too much.
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Luke chapter 10, thanks John 38
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through 42, the
word of God says now it
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happened as they
went that He entered a
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certain village; and
a certain woman named
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Martha welcomed
Him into her house.
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And she had a
sister called Mary, who
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also sat at Jesus'
feet, not a bad place
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to be, and heard
His word, but Martha was
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distracted with
much serving, and she
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approached Him and
said, "Lord, do You
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not care that my
sister has left me to
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serve alone?
Therefore tell her to help me."
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And Jesus
answered and said to her,
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"Martha, Martha,
you are worried and
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troubled about
many things. But one
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thing is needed,
and Mary has chosen that
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good part, which
will not be taken
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away from her."
Amen. Somebody must
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be Martha. Father
God, open our ears
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and our hearts to
hear a word from the Lord,
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because we need to
see Jesus. It's all about
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and always has
been about Jesus. And so
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now in this place at
this time, around this
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globe that you
created, give us Jesus
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and we thank you
in his name, amen.
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This is the second
sermon in a series of
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sermons that I've
written about this
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family I've studied
this family thoroughly.
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And I've really come
to love them I think I
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might have read a
book if I ever get time,
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and I put all of
these messages in a book
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the first sermon is
identified by disease
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the case of Simon
the Leper. The second
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somebody must be
Martha, the third she
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have done what she
could that's Mary's
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story. Lazarus story
is called up he popped,
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out he hopped dead
man walking alive again.
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Amen. And the last
in the series born to
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raise a fuss, the
Judas in us. So I've
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studied this family
thoroughly I feel I know
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them and I have
found that one of the
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most exciting and
interesting ways to
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study the word
of God is study the
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stories in the
Bible. Amen. To study the
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interplay, the
characters in the Bible,
00:15:14.24\00:15:16.18
because when you
study the Bible that
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way the characters
come alive. And you
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see merit in your
life and in their life the
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same experiences,
you find yourself going
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through the same
things and the same
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experiences and
you see as you watch
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interaction, the interplay, the
00:15:32.25\00:15:34.53
interposition of
God and their lives you
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see that the same
God who was patient
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and loving and
long suffering with them
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is patient and loving
and long suffering with
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you. Amen. And
you are forced to the
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conclusion that
God is good. Amen
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Now you don't
understand me. Yes.
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Because God is
not just good. God is
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insistently good.
God is incessantly good.
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God is consistently good. God is
00:16:04.69\00:16:07.71
intransigently
good. Amen! God is good
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yesterday. God is good today.
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God is good
tomorrow. God is inexorably
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good. God is
implacably good. God is just,
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he is just, he is
just good. And every time
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you read about
God and how He treats
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His children you
are forced to the
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realization that God
is so very, very good.
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This I must admit
is my favorite family
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in the Bible. We
meet them fully grown,
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we've got Lazarus
who is the oldest. We've
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got Martha who is
the middle child and Mary
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is the baby. By
the way psychologist
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say there is
interesting dynamic that happens
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when you have
three or more children
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in a family.
Psychologist will tell
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you that usually
the oldest of the child
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tends to be a little
authoritarian and bossy.
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That's because the
oldest child usually
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gets over
parented. You know that's the
00:17:08.08\00:17:11.82
experiment child,
that's the one you really
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worried about. My
sister is a great example,
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she is a nurse.
Bossy, one day I came home
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and she had a dent
in the front of the car.
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I said Donna what
happened he wouldn't
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move out of the
way. Type A Choleric
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personality, that's
the first born. Then you
00:17:29.34\00:17:31.38
have the baby.
Psychologist tell you
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that, they will tell
you that the baby of the
00:17:33.42\00:17:35.25
family tends to be a
little spoiled, a little
00:17:35.28\00:17:38.34
self-centered, a
little self-willed because
00:17:38.37\00:17:40.73
they're under
parented. You see by the
00:17:40.76\00:17:42.74
time you've had three,
four, five, six children
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you're so tired of
saying clean up your
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room and wash the
dishes and you know
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the baby's case
and those of you who
00:17:48.57\00:17:50.77
are older children
know that that last one
00:17:50.80\00:17:54.11
didn't get the same
kind of parenting you got.
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True, then you just
wore your parents out so
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that, that last
that baby sort of escapes
00:18:00.78\00:18:03.06
a little bit. He
gets by with murder,
00:18:03.09\00:18:05.30
but hardly enough
the doctor I mean the
00:18:05.33\00:18:08.31
psychologist says
that it is the baby who
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usually are the
entrepreneurs, the
00:18:12.04\00:18:14.91
inventors and the
ones who take risks,
00:18:14.94\00:18:17.16
who will step out
and do things that
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the other two will
not do, Danny Shelton
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is the baby of the
boys in the family.
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And a baby is
the one that usually
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sets out and does
wonderful things, then
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you've got the
middle child. The middle
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child that I could
say can be a little
00:18:33.82\00:18:36.01
schizophrenic,
because he is not quite
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sure what's
going on. Sometimes he
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gets parented,
sometimes he gets neglected,
00:18:42.52\00:18:44.51
sometimes he is in
charge of the family,
00:18:44.54\00:18:45.92
sometimes he's
treat like the baby,
00:18:45.95\00:18:47.38
but interestingly
enough, the doctor says
00:18:47.41\00:18:51.91
that genius tends to
reside in that middle
00:18:51.94\00:18:57.87
child, and I
should know because I'm a
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middle child. So
we've got Mary, Martha
00:19:05.67\00:19:12.01
and Lazarus and
they lived in the city of
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Bethany. We have no
record of their parents,
00:19:14.45\00:19:17.00
their lineage. I found
out just recently in my
00:19:17.03\00:19:20.92
research that Simon
the Leper was their uncle
00:19:20.95\00:19:24.96
and that's very,
very interesting. We don't
00:19:24.99\00:19:27.48
have time to go into
all of that today, but with
00:19:27.51\00:19:32.17
Lazarus, it was love
and faith in Jesus at
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first sight.
Lazarus greatly loved Jesus,
00:19:37.51\00:19:42.96
and the Bible says
Jesus greatly loved
00:19:42.99\00:19:47.47
Lazarus. There
were two men who just
00:19:47.50\00:19:50.13
bounded to each
other and who loved each
00:19:50.16\00:19:52.56
other. I believe
that Lazarus was Christ's
00:19:52.59\00:19:55.32
closest friend on
Earth. They loved each
00:19:55.35\00:19:59.45
other, they cared
about each other. Lazarus
00:19:59.48\00:20:02.88
was closer than even
the disciples. He was
00:20:02.91\00:20:06.67
Christ's closest
buddy on earth. What would
00:20:06.70\00:20:09.61
it be like us some
one could say to you,
00:20:09.64\00:20:11.13
Jesus and you are
best friends? You talk
00:20:11.16\00:20:15.46
about dropping in
what do you know well
00:20:15.49\00:20:16.98
I know President
Bush, who you know, Jesus.
00:20:17.01\00:20:20.91
Best friend on earth
they loved each other
00:20:26.93\00:20:29.07
I mean Lazarus
respected Jesus as Lord
00:20:29.10\00:20:32.04
and Savior, but more
than that he just loved
00:20:32.07\00:20:34.76
him as a friend, close
were Lazarus and Jesus.
00:20:34.79\00:20:40.12
And so Ellen
White says he was often
00:20:40.15\00:20:42.71
at their house, he
liked to go to this
00:20:42.74\00:20:44.86
particular house
to relax. He could be
00:20:44.89\00:20:47.68
himself at this
house, he could as it were
00:20:47.71\00:20:50.42
let us head down at
his house. You know,
00:20:50.45\00:20:53.38
you know you like
to go places where you
00:20:53.41\00:20:55.18
can relax. Where
you're not challenged,
00:20:55.21\00:20:57.50
I remember as a young
pastor go into a house,
00:20:57.53\00:20:59.42
visited a house and
a lady had 100 cuckoo
00:20:59.45\00:21:02.83
clocks in her house.
She had collected cuckoo
00:21:02.86\00:21:05.08
clocks from all over
the world. Every hour on
00:21:05.11\00:21:08.22
the hour, 100
cuckoo clocks went off
00:21:08.25\00:21:10.72
cuckooing. You talk
about bed now, but the
00:21:10.75\00:21:16.30
reason I remember the
house is because while
00:21:16.33\00:21:18.22
we were waiting for
dinner to come, she had
00:21:18.25\00:21:21.04
there on the coffee
table a large golden or
00:21:21.07\00:21:24.71
bronze locust. I
never seen something like
00:21:24.74\00:21:27.76
that in my life,
and it was anatomically
00:21:27.79\00:21:31.01
collect, it had
the wings and the head
00:21:31.04\00:21:32.95
and the thorax and
the abdomen and all the
00:21:32.98\00:21:34.43
legs and these
eyes bugging out and it
00:21:34.46\00:21:36.34
sit there waiting
for dinner this locust is
00:21:36.37\00:21:37.87
staring at me. And
so, we were talking about
00:21:37.90\00:21:42.93
it and I was closest
one, I wanted to feel
00:21:42.96\00:21:44.46
if it was solid or
hallow, so I picked it
00:21:44.49\00:21:47.51
up and I felt it
was heavy she had got
00:21:47.54\00:21:49.56
it from Morocco or
some trip to North Africa,
00:21:49.59\00:21:51.57
but when I put it
down I put the locust
00:21:51.60\00:21:54.45
down facing away
from me. And when
00:21:54.48\00:21:58.90
the lady came
into call us to dinner,
00:21:58.93\00:22:00.60
I notice her eyes
went right to that locust,
00:22:00.63\00:22:02.33
and then her eyes
went to me. And then
00:22:02.36\00:22:07.71
she walked over,
she picked up her golden
00:22:07.74\00:22:10.97
locust and then she
planted it back down
00:22:11.00\00:22:13.88
on the table just
like it was before.
00:22:13.91\00:22:15.41
See she gave me a
message, and I got the
00:22:15.44\00:22:19.64
message. The
message was keep your
00:22:19.67\00:22:22.37
cotton picking
hands off my locust. So I,
00:22:22.40\00:22:24.57
but from then on I
felt uncomfortable you know
00:22:24.60\00:22:26.93
you can't relax
and I felt very, very
00:22:26.96\00:22:28.96
uncomfortable. Now
I'm watching my step and
00:22:28.99\00:22:31.28
watching what I do,
my point is Jesus like
00:22:31.31\00:22:33.96
to come to this house,
because he could relax,
00:22:33.99\00:22:36.09
he could be
himself, he wasn't challenge,
00:22:36.12\00:22:38.51
he wasn't
threatened, he was believed in
00:22:38.54\00:22:41.14
this house and he was
received in this house
00:22:41.17\00:22:43.48
and they loved him in
this house what must it
00:22:43.51\00:22:46.42
have been like to
have been Jesus. Never
00:22:46.45\00:22:50.53
get any peace, never
get any rest, never get
00:22:50.56\00:22:53.63
any down time,
never have time when you
00:22:53.66\00:22:55.82
can just be
yourself. Pharisees looking at
00:22:55.85\00:22:58.85
your heels,
Sadducees trying to trip you
00:22:58.88\00:23:00.85
up with your words,
Scribes writing every
00:23:00.88\00:23:03.49
thing down not
because they want to take it
00:23:03.52\00:23:05.18
home and study it,
but they want to have
00:23:05.21\00:23:06.75
something to accuse
you of, so they could put
00:23:06.78\00:23:09.06
you to death. And
so Jesus liked to come
00:23:09.09\00:23:16.17
to this house. Hey,
what if Jesus pulled a
00:23:16.20\00:23:19.67
Zacchaeus on your
right now and said
00:23:19.70\00:23:21.49
I'm coming to your
house right now. Would
00:23:21.52\00:23:24.86
you have to say
Jesus give me about just
00:23:24.89\00:23:26.21
half hour head
start. So I could go home
00:23:26.24\00:23:29.49
and clean out my
refrigerator or my CD
00:23:29.52\00:23:33.49
rack or my video
rack. Hmm, or maybe you are
00:23:33.52\00:23:44.01
saying because your
house is not in the best
00:23:44.04\00:23:46.00
part of town. Well
let me disabuse you
00:23:46.03\00:23:49.53
of that fear, because
Jesus is not concerned
00:23:49.56\00:23:52.49
about your house.
Amen. Jesus is far to busy
00:23:52.52\00:23:56.81
trying to get
inside your heart. Amen.
00:23:56.84\00:23:59.87
And if your heart is
clean you don't worry
00:23:59.90\00:24:03.00
about your house.
He was born in a stable
00:24:03.03\00:24:05.76
and grow up in
Nazareth so He is not fussy
00:24:05.79\00:24:08.12
about a accommodations,
he is trying to get
00:24:08.15\00:24:10.32
inside your heart
and if your heart open
00:24:10.35\00:24:12.31
he would be glad to
come to your house. Amen.
00:24:12.34\00:24:14.96
And so Christ liked
to come to his house,
00:24:14.99\00:24:17.54
because he was
believed in this house
00:24:17.57\00:24:19.27
and received in this
house and they follow
00:24:19.30\00:24:22.66
him and they listen.
We know about Lazarus
00:24:22.69\00:24:25.48
and his love for
Jesus. And Mary's love
00:24:25.51\00:24:29.82
was equal to that of
her brother. Mary had
00:24:29.85\00:24:33.73
been so blessed by
Jesus that when he came she
00:24:33.76\00:24:37.76
sat at his feet and
hung on his every word.
00:24:37.79\00:24:41.20
Well why not, he
had freed her from sin,
00:24:41.23\00:24:45.35
he had lifted her
up, so she is transfix,
00:24:45.38\00:24:49.77
she is in froze,
she is in ruptured,
00:24:49.80\00:24:51.87
every word is like dew
in the morning from the
00:24:51.90\00:24:55.33
lips of Jesus. I
know the kind of girl that
00:24:55.36\00:24:57.88
Mary was. I've
studied her thoroughly.
00:24:57.91\00:25:01.05
Mary is kind of soft
and dazzle and perhaps
00:25:01.08\00:25:05.87
easily led and
maybe even a little naive,
00:25:05.90\00:25:09.09
but she is a kind of
girl that puts her whole
00:25:09.12\00:25:12.08
heart into
everything she does. She is a
00:25:12.11\00:25:15.69
kind of girl pastor make
a great Christian, because
00:25:15.72\00:25:18.58
she doesn't do
anything half way. She doesn't
00:25:18.61\00:25:21.04
have to when she puts
herself into something;
00:25:21.07\00:25:23.16
she puts it in all
the way. She gives her
00:25:23.19\00:25:26.30
all that's the kind
of girl she is but sadly,
00:25:26.33\00:25:29.46
she has also the kind
of girl that makes fairly
00:25:29.49\00:25:32.82
easy prey for a slick
talking pair of pants.
00:25:32.85\00:25:37.24
And she met a slick
talking pair of pants.
00:25:41.37\00:25:44.18
You know where she
met Him, in church.
00:25:44.21\00:25:48.70
You know who he
was, her pastor. He was
00:25:48.73\00:26:00.41
also her uncle.
His name was Simon,
00:26:00.44\00:26:04.51
he is known as Simon
of Bethany, Simon the
00:26:04.54\00:26:10.54
Pharisee, Simon the
leper. You see, ladies
00:26:10.57\00:26:17.33
and gentlemen I
cannot stress too strongly
00:26:17.36\00:26:19.86
you've got
predators even in the church.
00:26:19.89\00:26:22.97
That is why, that
is why, that is why
00:26:23.00\00:26:27.35
you've got to keep
your eyes on Jesus.
00:26:27.38\00:26:31.15
Amen! You can
lean too heavenly on
00:26:31.18\00:26:35.73
your pastor, on the
elder, on the conference
00:26:35.76\00:26:40.29
president, on
Danny Shelton, on your
00:26:40.32\00:26:44.18
humble servant or
anybody else. You've
00:26:44.21\00:26:48.83
got to keep your
eyes fixed on Jesus, Amen!
00:26:48.86\00:26:51.35
because there are
predators even in a
00:26:51.38\00:26:52.90
church. You got one
church that is spent
00:26:52.93\00:26:55.16
$772 million trying
to clean up pastor mal
00:26:55.19\00:26:59.60
fees. You know
Ellen White says that one
00:26:59.63\00:27:03.80
out of every three
in the church today is a
00:27:03.83\00:27:07.63
predator and
unconverted and not ready
00:27:07.66\00:27:09.98
for Jesus to
come, one out of three.
00:27:10.01\00:27:12.02
Now do me a quick
favor, glance at the
00:27:12.05\00:27:14.05
person on either
side of you. Don't stair
00:27:14.08\00:27:17.30
that's impolite,
just glance. Now if you
00:27:17.33\00:27:20.24
didn't see a
predator or other side.
00:27:20.27\00:27:21.83
Ellen White says
in her monumental book
00:27:32.38\00:27:34.02
the Desire of Ages,
Simon led her into sin,
00:27:34.05\00:27:37.57
her uncle, her
pastor led her into sin.
00:27:37.60\00:27:41.81
Now Ellen White
does not elaborate
00:27:41.84\00:27:44.50
on the precise
nature of the relationship
00:27:44.53\00:27:46.64
between Simon and
Mary, and I believe
00:27:46.67\00:27:51.24
that to the digest
of your pure minds,
00:27:51.27\00:27:53.45
I will not
speculate, safe to say. Whatever
00:27:53.48\00:27:58.40
the assignations
were between Simon and
00:27:58.43\00:28:01.65
his niece, he did
have an inappropriate
00:28:01.68\00:28:05.91
relationship with
her and whatever kind
00:28:05.94\00:28:09.94
of shenanigans
and older authority
00:28:09.97\00:28:13.41
figure can get into with a young
00:28:13.44\00:28:15.60
impressionable girl
Simon evidently got into
00:28:15.63\00:28:19.97
with Mary and Ellen
White says he did her
00:28:20.00\00:28:24.78
a great wrong, a
great wrong. You see I
00:28:24.81\00:28:38.02
know the kind of
girl Mary was. Mary is a
00:28:38.05\00:28:41.81
type of soft girl
that if a fellow begins to
00:28:41.84\00:28:44.40
disabuse himself on
a day, she would say
00:28:44.43\00:28:46.97
don't touch me
don't, don't, don't, don't
00:28:47.00\00:28:48.38
put your hands on
me don't, don't, don't
00:28:48.41\00:28:49.87
touch me don't do
that, don't do that,
00:28:49.90\00:28:51.22
don't do that,
but Martha's a little
00:28:51.25\00:28:52.80
different. You see
somebody must me Martha.
00:28:52.83\00:28:55.63
Ellen White in
describing Martha says
00:28:58.93\00:29:00.71
she was naturally
positive and assertive
00:29:00.74\00:29:04.42
in personality.
Amen. Naturally positive
00:29:04.45\00:29:08.95
and assertive. In
other words, she stood
00:29:08.98\00:29:12.59
up for herself.
Martha didn't back down
00:29:12.62\00:29:15.41
from anybody.
Where as Mary was shy
00:29:15.44\00:29:18.08
and retiring and
kind of dulcet and kind of
00:29:18.11\00:29:19.98
sweet, didn't want
to break a nail, Martha
00:29:20.01\00:29:22.30
would break your
neck. You see, again if a
00:29:22.33\00:29:28.09
man begins to
do disabuse himself
00:29:28.12\00:29:29.57
on a day, Mary
would say please don't
00:29:29.60\00:29:31.02
touch me, don't do
that, don't, don't touch me,
00:29:31.05\00:29:33.32
don't handle me, don't,
let's just read a Bible,
00:29:33.35\00:29:34.94
let's have our Bible
study, let's be nice,
00:29:34.97\00:29:36.29
don't touch me but
Martha will straighten
00:29:36.32\00:29:37.54
you out. See my words say unless
00:29:37.57\00:29:40.15
you what that I'm
broken you need to
00:29:40.18\00:29:43.41
put your hand in
your pocket. Amen!
00:29:43.44\00:29:45.62
She's positive she
stands up for herself,
00:29:49.52\00:29:51.41
in other words
Simon would have never
00:29:51.44\00:29:54.89
done to Martha what
he did to Mary because
00:29:54.92\00:29:59.03
Martha wasn't that type of girl.
00:29:59.06\00:30:00.86
Martha would not
allow any guy to abuse her
00:30:01.08\00:30:05.33
or to do that
kind of thing. You see,
00:30:05.36\00:30:07.13
you push up on Martha
you're gonna to get your
00:30:07.16\00:30:09.53
feelings hurt and
your skull fractured.
00:30:09.56\00:30:12.06
Somebody must be
Martha. We get some insight
00:30:17.46\00:30:21.33
into their respective
characters at the death
00:30:21.36\00:30:23.35
of their brother
Lazarus. Mary and Martha
00:30:23.38\00:30:27.99
both Bible says accosted Jesus.
00:30:28.02\00:30:30.61
Mary met him in town
outside of the house,
00:30:31.42\00:30:35.76
but to show you that
kind of person Martha was,
00:30:36.81\00:30:39.11
the Bible says
Ellen White backs us up,
00:30:39.14\00:30:41.31
Martha met him on the
road, Martha left town,
00:30:41.34\00:30:44.44
didn't let him get
into town she met him
00:30:44.47\00:30:46.49
on the road. No
greetings as you look
00:30:46.52\00:30:49.50
at John 11:21, no how
you doing, how this happen,
00:30:49.53\00:30:52.41
how are things
going and in describing
00:30:52.44\00:30:55.69
Martha's state of
mind, Ellen White says
00:30:55.72\00:30:59.85
she met Jesus and
the words she uses
00:30:59.88\00:31:02.55
is agitated, when
Martha went out on the road
00:31:02.58\00:31:07.37
she met Jesus
agitated. Now there's agitated
00:31:07.40\00:31:11.64
and there's
agitated. Parenthetically
00:31:11.67\00:31:16.63
I need to say this;
Martha is as converted as
00:31:16.66\00:31:24.07
Mary and Lazarus. I
need to put a pin there,
00:31:24.10\00:31:28.53
there is some
theology that tribes to pin her
00:31:29.47\00:31:31.68
as some Godless loose
cannon, it is not true.
00:31:31.71\00:31:34.45
Martha is as
converted as Lazarus and Mary,
00:31:35.52\00:31:40.23
but she is a
different personality
00:31:41.77\00:31:43.99
and her brother is
dead. This is a very close
00:31:44.02\00:31:50.60
family and the
leader of the family,
00:31:50.63\00:31:55.10
the oldest boy is
now dead, and the one man
00:31:55.13\00:31:58.83
who could have
healed him, when he gets
00:31:58.86\00:32:02.27
the telegram,
delays his leaving,
00:32:02.30\00:32:06.84
Bethany is two miles
from Jerusalem, stops
00:32:08.35\00:32:14.72
and heals other
people along the way
00:32:14.75\00:32:17.75
and then strolls into
Bethany four days late.
00:32:18.56\00:32:23.03
Well, excuse me Martha
is just a little ticked off.
00:32:23.06\00:32:28.97
And her anguish
coalesces around one
00:32:32.82\00:32:38.08
repeating phrase, if
you would have been here.
00:32:38.11\00:32:45.44
He wouldn't be dead.
Jesus delay was purposeful.
00:32:47.26\00:32:55.96
You see the Lord does
not cause pain unnecessarily,
00:32:55.99\00:33:00.66
Jesus had a plan.
There was a lesson
00:33:01.52\00:33:05.49
he was trying to
teach and the truth
00:33:05.52\00:33:08.70
is you sometimes can
learn lessons in pain
00:33:08.73\00:33:14.53
that you cannot
learn in pleasure.
00:33:15.30\00:33:17.64
You know you tell
your child don't touch
00:33:18.88\00:33:20.62
the stove it's hot,
don't touch the stove it's hot,
00:33:20.65\00:33:22.25
don't touch the stove it's hot,
00:33:22.28\00:33:23.25
you wear your
lungs out telling him
00:33:23.26\00:33:25.12
don't touch the stove it's hot,
00:33:25.15\00:33:26.71
he touches the stove one time.
00:33:26.74\00:33:28.77
You don't have
to tell him anymore.
00:33:28.80\00:33:30.27
Pain is a great
insulator, I to this day,
00:33:33.33\00:33:37.33
I have a burn on my
chest I was ready to take
00:33:37.36\00:33:39.83
my shirt off
and show my muscles,
00:33:39.86\00:33:42.84
because when I
was three years old,
00:33:44.66\00:33:46.13
my mother cooked
us a pot of hot soup,
00:33:46.16\00:33:49.57
and my cousin was
over there and he decided
00:33:50.52\00:33:54.76
at 5 we got to
have some soup now.
00:33:54.79\00:33:56.63
So I pulled a pot
of bowling hot soup
00:33:57.96\00:34:00.18
down on me, and six months and
00:34:00.21\00:34:03.77
several thousands
dollars worth of skin
00:34:03.80\00:34:05.12
grafting later I
left the hospital,
00:34:05.15\00:34:06.72
so now I have no
time taste talent
00:34:06.75\00:34:09.78
inclination to
be in the kitchen,
00:34:09.81\00:34:11.24
I hate the
kitchen. Can't cooking
00:34:11.27\00:34:14.21
and don't want to learn?
My wife cooks, Irma cooks,
00:34:14.24\00:34:17.66
I wash the dishes and
I'm a very good dishwasher
00:34:17.69\00:34:20.13
she'll tell you. In
fact, I rather wash them myself
00:34:20.16\00:34:24.05
than used the dishwasher,
we have a running battle
00:34:24.08\00:34:26.00
about that she says
put it in the dishwasher
00:34:26.03\00:34:27.68
and no I rather do it myself,
00:34:27.71\00:34:28.72
cause I'm so good
at it, can't cook.
00:34:28.75\00:34:30.92
So pain is a great
insulator it teaches us
00:34:33.44\00:34:36.57
lessons, but right now
Martha is not concerned
00:34:36.60\00:34:38.86
learning any lesson.
She is not concerned about
00:34:38.89\00:34:41.46
learning any lesson.
All she knows is that
00:34:41.49\00:34:44.44
in that cold tomb
is the rotting corpse
00:34:44.47\00:34:46.97
of what used to be
her beloved brother
00:34:47.00\00:34:49.27
and her pain is
crystallized and coalesces
00:34:49.30\00:34:52.75
around one repeating
phrase, if you would have
00:34:52.78\00:34:57.88
been here, wouldn't be dead,
00:34:57.91\00:35:02.30
he wouldn't be dead.
And then, Jesus response
00:35:02.33\00:35:09.08
in the shortest text
in the Bible you know
00:35:10.64\00:35:12.47
it all John 11:35
two words, Jesus wept.
00:35:12.50\00:35:16.65
Now there are those
who are watching who said
00:35:19.13\00:35:21.45
look at Jesus
crying, he must be crying
00:35:22.47\00:35:26.95
because Martha turned
that sarcastic, sardonic,
00:35:27.86\00:35:31.74
ebonic, bionic,
tongue loose on him,
00:35:31.77\00:35:33.98
and he is crying for
that, but I submit to you today
00:35:35.11\00:35:39.00
that's not why Christ is crying.
00:35:39.03\00:35:40.62
There were people
plotting to take his life,
00:35:41.38\00:35:43.14
there were people
plotting to kill him,
00:35:43.91\00:35:45.79
a few harsh words
don't bother Jesus.
00:35:45.82\00:35:49.52
Yes, let's me tell you
something parenthetically,
00:35:49.55\00:35:51.88
you can go to
Jesus mad, you can,
00:35:54.12\00:35:58.92
you can go mad
yeah. You won't stay
00:36:00.02\00:36:05.46
that mad long,
because you can't stay mad
00:36:05.49\00:36:08.43
in the presence of
Jesus, you will go angry,
00:36:08.46\00:36:11.87
you know sometimes
we go through things
00:36:11.90\00:36:14.61
through life
that just bother us,
00:36:14.64\00:36:17.04
you can say Lord it's
not that I don't believe you,
00:36:17.07\00:36:20.86
it's not that I
don't love, it's not that
00:36:20.89\00:36:22.86
I don't trust you, it' not that
00:36:22.89\00:36:24.09
I don't want to follow
you, but I'm going through
00:36:24.12\00:36:25.93
some awful times
here Lord and I just
00:36:25.96\00:36:28.28
want to know why.
That is not so thin skin
00:36:28.31\00:36:33.27
that upsets him,
because he's got the answer.
00:36:33.30\00:36:36.77
He knows, I mean
just because we don't know
00:36:38.15\00:36:43.79
doesn't mean he doesn't know.
00:36:43.82\00:36:46.98
So you can go to
him upset. It's alright;
00:36:48.69\00:36:51.93
you won't stay upset
long. So he wasn't crying
00:36:51.96\00:36:55.59
because Martha was
upset. Some were saying,
00:36:55.62\00:36:59.86
he is crying because
his best friend is dead,
00:37:00.94\00:37:05.72
and I reject that
theory, because when you can
00:37:07.77\00:37:13.22
dunk death like a basketball,
00:37:13.25\00:37:17.13
when you can kick
death like a football,
00:37:18.33\00:37:21.71
when you can
tell death where to go
00:37:22.62\00:37:25.30
and how far to
go and when to stop
00:37:25.33\00:37:27.83
and when to leave,
when death is your slave,
00:37:27.86\00:37:32.56
death is nothing to
cry about. Jesus knew
00:37:32.59\00:37:37.82
what he was about to
do, so he wasn't crying
00:37:37.85\00:37:41.19
for the dead, Christ
was crying for the living,
00:37:41.22\00:37:45.52
and so Jesus says
roll away the stone,
00:37:45.55\00:37:50.08
and Martha true to her nature.
00:37:50.11\00:37:52.40
You know she has
always got to speak up,
00:37:52.43\00:37:54.35
roll away the stone?
He's been in there four days,
00:37:54.38\00:37:58.24
do you know what
that smells like?
00:37:58.27\00:38:00.65
But the stone is
indeed rolled away.
00:38:04.07\00:38:05.98
And Jesus turns
to Martha and says,
00:38:07.78\00:38:10.84
you are going to
see your brother again
00:38:12.50\00:38:19.60
and Martha she
can't contain herself,
00:38:22.89\00:38:25.40
because she is Martha.
Somebody must be Martha.
00:38:26.59\00:38:31.06
You don't think I know about the
00:38:33.77\00:38:35.23
resurrection Jesus, I
know about the resurrection,
00:38:35.26\00:38:39.93
I know all about
the resurrection.
00:38:41.02\00:38:42.90
I preach the
resurrection, I teach
00:38:43.72\00:38:46.48
the resurrection, I
know the soteriology
00:38:46.51\00:38:49.10
of the resurrection,
I know the ecclesiology
00:38:49.13\00:38:51.57
of the resurrection,
I know the theology
00:38:51.60\00:38:53.79
of the
resurrection, I know all about
00:38:53.82\00:38:55.29
resurrection, I live
in the blessed home of
00:38:55.32\00:38:58.07
the resurrection.
There is nothing anybody
00:38:58.10\00:38:59.73
could tell me
about the resurrection.
00:38:59.76\00:39:01.52
I know and
understand the resurrection
00:39:01.55\00:39:03.95
and Jesus had to
stop her and midst
00:39:03.98\00:39:06.36
and say yes Martha
what you will understand
00:39:06.39\00:39:09.45
is I am the
resurrection and the life,
00:39:09.48\00:39:16.59
he that believes in
me though he were dead
00:39:16.62\00:39:19.06
yet shall he live.
Amen! The resurrection
00:39:19.09\00:39:22.05
is more than a dry theology.
00:39:22.08\00:39:24.31
The resurrection is
living and breathing
00:39:24.72\00:39:27.18
and walking and talking,
this is the resurrection
00:39:27.21\00:39:30.06
standing right in front of you.
00:39:30.09\00:39:31.33
It's the resurrection
that's eating your food
00:39:31.36\00:39:33.24
and sleeping in your
bed and walking these
00:39:33.27\00:39:35.33
dusty streets,
is the resurrection.
00:39:35.36\00:39:37.47
I am the
incarnation of the resurrection.
00:39:37.50\00:39:40.15
You want to know
what the resurrection
00:39:40.18\00:39:41.85
is all about, look at
me. You've been giving me
00:39:41.88\00:39:47.54
the theology of
the resurrection.
00:39:47.57\00:39:50.49
Now I want you to
understand the Dunamis,
00:39:50.52\00:39:53.85
the power of the resurrection.
00:39:53.88\00:39:56.18
Lazarus, get up out of that tomb
00:39:56.21\00:40:01.29
and up he walk
and out he hopped,
00:40:01.32\00:40:03.52
still wrapped in
his grave clothes
00:40:03.55\00:40:05.92
and Jesus said loose
him and let him go. Amen
00:40:05.95\00:40:11.16
It's the power
of the God we serve.
00:40:13.66\00:40:16.54
So we understand a
little bit more now
00:40:18.19\00:40:20.75
about Martha,
she's not a bad girl.
00:40:20.78\00:40:24.47
She just needs to
know, like we need to know.
00:40:25.97\00:40:34.60
She is a servant, and
if the church is to do
00:40:36.03\00:40:42.61
the will of God,
we need to serve,
00:40:42.64\00:40:45.99
we need to
serve, we need to serve.
00:40:47.64\00:40:51.31
Remember this, deeds of
kindness tear down walls
00:40:51.34\00:40:59.74
of separation and open
up avenues for salvation,
00:40:59.77\00:41:05.05
are you hearing
me. Deeds of kindness
00:41:05.97\00:41:09.16
break down walls of separation,
00:41:09.19\00:41:12.69
open up avenues for salvation.
00:41:14.18\00:41:16.67
Now allow me to get iconoclastic
00:41:16.70\00:41:19.25
for just a moment,
Because my thesis is this,
00:41:19.28\00:41:22.46
the Seventh-Day
Adventist Church has been Mary
00:41:24.18\00:41:29.16
far too long. We've
been married for 175 years.
00:41:29.95\00:41:39.03
Somebody must be Martha. Amen.
00:41:41.69\00:41:45.61
There is nothing
wrong, ladies and gentlemen,
00:41:45.64\00:41:48.58
with sitting at the feet
of Jesus. You got to sit,
00:41:48.61\00:41:53.92
you got to have before you go,
00:41:53.95\00:41:57.10
but our problem is
brothers and sisters
00:41:57.94\00:42:00.55
we've been sitting too long.
00:42:00.58\00:42:03.21
Everybody wants to be
Mary, we want to spend
00:42:03.98\00:42:08.11
all our time sitting
at the feet of Jesus,
00:42:08.14\00:42:10.71
but if the works gonna be done,
00:42:10.74\00:42:12.95
if lives are gonna be saved,
00:42:12.98\00:42:15.86
if the world is gonna
be lightened with the power
00:42:15.89\00:42:19.07
of the glory of God,
somebody must be Martha,
00:42:19.10\00:42:22.79
been Mary too long.
Mary is, and always been,
00:42:25.30\00:42:29.55
has always been
the Diva of distinction
00:42:29.58\00:42:31.45
in the New Testament.
We've lauded and applauded
00:42:31.48\00:42:33.64
her for sitting
at the feet of Jesus,
00:42:33.67\00:42:35.28
oh yes, we need to
sit at the feet of Jesus,
00:42:35.31\00:42:37.44
but once you sat,
you've got to get up and get.
00:42:37.47\00:42:40.48
Forgive my pejorative English,
00:42:43.42\00:42:45.44
you need to raise
yourself from your seat
00:42:45.47\00:42:48.83
and move into the
street, because you are not
00:42:49.63\00:42:53.91
gonna save the world
in here, if indeed all
00:42:53.94\00:42:57.79
we do is come and
sit and sing and pray
00:42:57.82\00:42:59.91
and say oh how I
love Jesus while thousands
00:42:59.94\00:43:03.34
are dying and going
to Christ-less graves
00:43:03.37\00:43:05.77
we do ourselves and our God
00:43:05.80\00:43:07.49
an egregious
disservice. Look at the story,
00:43:07.52\00:43:10.14
look at the story Mary
is sitting, Mary is sitting
00:43:10.17\00:43:12.63
and Martha is
running back and forth,
00:43:12.66\00:43:13.83
back and forth, back
and forth, back and forth,
00:43:13.86\00:43:15.56
and every time she
passes that living room,
00:43:15.59\00:43:17.41
there's her sister
sitting at the feet of Jesus
00:43:20.03\00:43:25.51
and the pots are
boiling and so is Martha,
00:43:26.43\00:43:31.42
and so it's like an
Isle of Lucy comedy,
00:43:32.89\00:43:35.55
she filters her
angst through Jesus.
00:43:35.58\00:43:38.61
Now that's her
sister, she could have said
00:43:38.64\00:43:40.25
sis get up and give me a hand,
00:43:40.28\00:43:41.55
but she's trying
to drive the nail in
00:43:42.32\00:43:44.28
so she says
Jesus, tell my sister,
00:43:44.31\00:43:48.06
she was sitting
right there. Jesus tell her
00:43:50.42\00:43:54.77
to get in here and
help me. Now I want you
00:43:54.80\00:43:59.75
to lock down on
what Jesus does not say,
00:43:59.78\00:44:03.85
its very interesting,
His rebuke of Martha
00:44:05.09\00:44:08.53
is incredibly mild. In
fact, it is not a rebuke,
00:44:08.56\00:44:12.21
it is not, look at
what He does not say,
00:44:12.98\00:44:16.92
He didn't say
Martha, you need to put those
00:44:16.95\00:44:21.56
pots down and
get in here yourself
00:44:21.59\00:44:24.09
did you notice
that, he didn't say that,
00:44:24.12\00:44:26.78
he didn't say Martha
one thing thou lackest,
00:44:26.81\00:44:30.43
he didn't say Martha,
you must be born again,
00:44:31.69\00:44:34.78
he didn't say
Martha sell all you have
00:44:35.60\00:44:38.06
and follow me, it was
an incredibly mild rebuke.
00:44:38.09\00:44:42.62
What Christ basically
said was, Mary needs this,
00:44:42.65\00:44:49.14
and for her this is
better, I am not gonna
00:44:50.58\00:44:55.64
take it away from
her. You see Martha
00:44:55.67\00:44:58.95
didn't need it,
because Martha already
00:44:58.98\00:45:02.01
had a connection with Jesus,
00:45:02.04\00:45:03.47
Martha was already strong willed
00:45:03.50\00:45:05.90
and firm in the faith,
but Mary had been abused
00:45:05.93\00:45:09.73
by her uncle,
and treated as dirt
00:45:09.76\00:45:13.01
and so Mary needed
what Christ had to give,
00:45:13.04\00:45:16.85
Mary needed what
Martha already had,
00:45:16.88\00:45:20.11
and so Mary had to
stay at the feet of Jesus,
00:45:20.14\00:45:23.61
Martha already had
that, there's nothing wrong
00:45:23.64\00:45:26.54
with serving people,
there's nothing wrong
00:45:26.57\00:45:28.93
with hustling pots and
pans and making your house
00:45:28.96\00:45:31.63
nice for people.
First, you got to sit
00:45:31.66\00:45:35.31
at the feet of Jesus,
but after you've gotten
00:45:35.34\00:45:37.55
what God has to give
you, you got to get up
00:45:37.58\00:45:39.92
and share it with the world.
00:45:39.95\00:45:41.62
You got to set the
table. We here in the
00:45:42.87\00:45:45.17
Seventh-Day
Adventist Church are eating
00:45:45.20\00:45:46.67
a seven course gourmet meal
00:45:46.70\00:45:49.26
and the world is
eating potato chips,
00:45:49.29\00:45:51.25
and we got to
tell them Jesus saves.
00:45:52.70\00:45:55.05
Now, let me tell
you something in just
00:45:55.08\00:45:57.29
a last few minutes,
this comes from testimonies
00:45:57.32\00:46:00.78
volume 6, page
118 listen to this,
00:46:00.81\00:46:04.57
all who wok for God
should have the Martha
00:46:06.43\00:46:11.87
and Mary attributes blended.
00:46:11.90\00:46:14.20
You got to have some
Mary and some Martha,
00:46:16.10\00:46:18.76
one, a willingness to
minister that's Martha.
00:46:20.28\00:46:24.47
Hey somebody must be
Martha, and a sincere love
00:46:25.20\00:46:30.97
of the truth that's
Mary, you got to love the truth
00:46:31.00\00:46:35.23
then you got to be
willing to take the truth.
00:46:35.26\00:46:38.56
Mary and Martha
blended together,
00:46:38.59\00:46:40.85
listen to this,
self and selfishness
00:46:40.88\00:46:45.81
must be put out of sight. Amen.
00:46:45.84\00:46:48.38
If you're gonna
for work for Jesus
00:46:49.40\00:46:50.74
you got to
forget about yourself.
00:46:50.77\00:46:52.16
Self and selfishness
must be put out of sight.
00:46:52.19\00:46:55.95
God calls for
earnest women workers,
00:46:56.73\00:47:00.98
workers who are
prudent, warmhearted, tender
00:47:01.01\00:47:06.84
and true to
principle. As men and women,
00:47:06.87\00:47:10.31
he calls for
persevering women as Martha,
00:47:10.34\00:47:14.51
who will take
their minds from self
00:47:14.54\00:47:17.59
and their personal conveniences
00:47:17.62\00:47:20.25
and will center them on Christ.
00:47:20.28\00:47:23.22
You see Ellen White says it,
00:47:24.17\00:47:25.69
over and over and over
again there is no limit
00:47:25.72\00:47:28.87
to the usefulness
of one who put himself
00:47:28.90\00:47:31.27
aside opens up
their heart for Jesus
00:47:31.30\00:47:33.51
and lives a life wholly
dedicated to the master.
00:47:33.54\00:47:36.65
No limit to the one,
when Danny started this thing
00:47:36.68\00:47:40.40
back in 1984. Let's let me just,
00:47:40.43\00:47:42.49
let me allow me this digression,
00:47:42.52\00:47:44.40
its just a some ecclesiological
00:47:45.29\00:47:47.29
obiter dictum,
some eschatological
00:47:47.32\00:47:49.58
gastroenteritis,
not in my notes,
00:47:49.61\00:47:51.13
just thought about this. 1984,
00:47:51.16\00:47:55.53
the Lord spoke
to Danny and said,
00:47:55.56\00:47:58.01
build a television
station that reaches
00:47:58.04\00:48:00.20
the world, carpenter,
high school education,
00:48:00.23\00:48:03.08
no money. So
you're either insane
00:48:03.11\00:48:10.29
or you know
Jesus. In early 1800's,
00:48:11.70\00:48:19.48
the Lord spoke to a
seventeen year old girl
00:48:19.51\00:48:22.14
and said start a Church
and she began immediately
00:48:22.17\00:48:29.69
to preach, insane
or you know Jesus huh.
00:48:29.72\00:48:36.66
You know, when I
came to 3ABN I've spent
00:48:36.69\00:48:40.38
30 years in New York,
pastor of a 2000 member
00:48:40.41\00:48:44.32
church, worked in
a conference office.
00:48:44.35\00:48:45.62
Now I'm going to
Thompsonville, Illinois,
00:48:45.65\00:48:47.77
what I can't even
find on a map. Amen.
00:48:47.80\00:48:50.63
And I walk in for a
prayer and praise day,
00:48:53.39\00:48:56.06
we start everyday
up, Mollie will tell you
00:48:56.09\00:48:57.60
with prayer and
praise, and Danny gets up
00:48:57.63\00:49:00.32
and says, we're
broke, and somebody says
00:49:00.35\00:49:06.91
glory to God. We
don't have any money,
00:49:06.94\00:49:13.85
praise the Lord,
put it over my shoulder.
00:49:13.88\00:49:16.38
So I'm trying to
see, he didn't say hope,
00:49:16.41\00:49:23.61
he didn't say
rope, he didn't say soap,
00:49:24.61\00:49:28.56
he said broke. We
don't have any money,
00:49:29.62\00:49:33.47
glory to God. So I'm
figuring, maybe it's like
00:49:33.50\00:49:39.94
the Church, because the
pastor will tell you that
00:49:39.97\00:49:42.51
the Seventh-Day
Adventist Church never spends
00:49:42.54\00:49:43.95
every dime, never
does, from general conference
00:49:43.98\00:49:47.24
on down, you spend 95 percent,
00:49:47.27\00:49:49.31
you budget 95 percent.
So when the church says
00:49:49.34\00:49:51.75
we're broke that
means we got five percent
00:49:51.78\00:49:54.13
we're not willing
to touch. So I figured,
00:49:54.16\00:49:57.06
Danny's got five
percent someplace,
00:49:57.86\00:49:59.94
he's not willing to
touch, and he said no
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we're broke, have any money
00:50:03.27\00:50:06.55
and they've been
broke for 22 years.
00:50:07.77\00:50:09.81
Praise the Lord,
amen, amen, amen.
00:50:11.32\00:50:14.27
World wide ministry, flat broke,
00:50:14.30\00:50:17.82
and everybody gets
paid. Amen, amen, amen.
00:50:17.85\00:50:22.51
And everything is new. Yes.
00:50:22.54\00:50:25.12
I got a brand
new laptop computer.
00:50:25.15\00:50:27.05
Mollie just got a
brand new lap top computer.
00:50:27.08\00:50:29.36
She was playing
with it last week,
00:50:29.39\00:50:30.69
Edward got brand new cameras,
00:50:30.72\00:50:32.34
brand new state of
the art equipment. Amen.
00:50:32.37\00:50:35.35
Worldwide ministry, just
put up a station in Papua,
00:50:35.38\00:50:40.84
New Guinea.
Listen, listen, the station
00:50:40.87\00:50:44.28
went on air on Tuesday. Sabbath,
00:50:44.31\00:50:48.98
people started walking in the
00:50:49.01\00:50:50.22
Seventh-Day
Adventist churches, Wednesday,
00:50:50.25\00:50:52.46
Thursday, Friday, Sabbath. Amen.
00:50:52.49\00:50:54.18
Four days walking in
the Seventh-Day Adventist
00:50:54.21\00:50:57.68
broke, we don't have
any money, but got vision.
00:50:57.71\00:51:02.91
Yes. Let me finish
this. We have to center
00:51:03.73\00:51:08.16
on Christ, speaking
the words of truth praying
00:51:08.19\00:51:10.14
with the persons with
whom they can obtain access,
00:51:10.17\00:51:13.97
laboring for the
conversion of souls.
00:51:14.00\00:51:16.01
Somebody must be
Martha, see Martha is not
00:51:16.04\00:51:19.38
generic men can be
Martha. Danny is a Martha.
00:51:19.41\00:51:21.96
I went to 3ABN,
because God said get out
00:51:25.43\00:51:28.61
of New York, and get
out to the cornfields
00:51:28.64\00:51:32.86
and serve me there
and I wanted to be where
00:51:34.76\00:51:37.93
the blessings are, because I saw
00:51:37.96\00:51:40.12
the blessings of
God on 3ABN. Amen.
00:51:40.15\00:51:43.33
On 3ABN, I am gonna
depart from my sermon
00:51:43.41\00:51:46.34
for just a minute
to tell you something.
00:51:46.37\00:51:47.34
Listen, it's
such a powerful story.
00:51:47.37\00:51:50.48
You got a fellow
in the Western Indies,
00:51:50.51\00:51:53.21
in Jamaica,
sitting in a bathroom,
00:51:53.24\00:52:02.02
getting ready to
kill himself, gun in hand,
00:52:02.05\00:52:05.40
getting ready to take his life.
00:52:06.38\00:52:08.14
He even got the door
locked. Can't get in,
00:52:09.68\00:52:12.86
and he comes out for
some reason and he turns up
00:52:17.78\00:52:21.34
the stereo because
he doesn't want anybody
00:52:21.37\00:52:22.82
to hear the gunshot
now he's getting ready
00:52:22.85\00:52:24.12
to kill himself but
he's being consider.
00:52:24.15\00:52:25.50
So he turns up the
stereo, so nobody can hear it.
00:52:25.53\00:52:27.90
Walking through the
living room in the dark,
00:52:30.63\00:52:33.99
he knocks over
the remote control,
00:52:35.95\00:52:39.07
he knocks over
the remote control.
00:52:45.58\00:52:50.08
Now all of you from
Jamaica, even I've been
00:52:50.11\00:52:51.77
to Jamaica 15 times I
know all about Jamaica,
00:52:51.80\00:52:54.26
3ABN is all over
Jamaica. Amen! So in the dark,
00:52:54.29\00:53:00.24
gun in hand, he knocks
over the remote control
00:53:00.27\00:53:03.46
and bless your soul what's on.
00:53:03.49\00:53:05.88
3ABN. Amen! Praise the Lord.
00:53:05.91\00:53:09.41
Mark Finley is there,
Mark Finley is there. Amen.
00:53:09.75\00:53:12.94
And at that time Mark
Finley just happens to be
00:53:12.97\00:53:16.77
saying if you're
thinking about taking your life
00:53:16.80\00:53:20.33
don't do it. And
to punctuate the thing
00:53:20.36\00:53:27.64
one of our big
studio lights explodes boom,
00:53:27.67\00:53:30.37
and a gun drops
to the ground. Amen.
00:53:31.27\00:53:34.82
The gun drops to
the ground. Amen.
00:53:34.85\00:53:39.62
Hey all, the gun
drops to the ground,
00:53:40.13\00:53:45.25
and he drops to his knees. Amen.
00:53:47.77\00:53:51.32
And when he gets
up from his knees,
00:53:52.06\00:53:54.39
he calls and he gets
our pastoral department.
00:53:54.42\00:54:04.16
I can't even tell you
no I have to tell you.
00:54:07.64\00:54:10.32
He's a theology
student today. Amen!
00:54:13.30\00:54:16.78
He is studying for the ministry.
00:54:16.81\00:54:18.84
Studying ladies and gentlemen
00:54:19.91\00:54:21.78
for the ministry,
not only did he not take
00:54:21.81\00:54:25.00
his own life, he is
studying to save lives.
00:54:25.03\00:54:28.74
That's the power
of this ministry.
00:54:30.38\00:54:32.31
Now I'm gonna tell
you something else,
00:54:32.34\00:54:33.31
it's not in my notes forgive me,
00:54:33.32\00:54:34.55
but it is true
I'm convicted of this.
00:54:34.58\00:54:36.55
In 1984, when
God spoke to Danny,
00:54:37.95\00:54:42.76
the Adventist Church
stepped into a new age.
00:54:44.11\00:54:49.12
Amen. Listen to
me, I'm very serious
00:54:50.10\00:54:52.04
about this I was
convicted about this last night.
00:54:52.07\00:54:53.78
When my wife was
kicking me in the bed,
00:54:53.81\00:54:55.69
she has, she has
restless legs syndrome,
00:54:57.25\00:54:59.87
she does and every night again
00:55:00.72\00:55:01.75
she will have a
night when she's just
00:55:01.78\00:55:02.83
she's kicking and she
didn't really sleep well
00:55:02.86\00:55:05.24
last night. And I've
got news I used to hate it
00:55:05.27\00:55:07.62
but now I kind of
look forward to the kicks.
00:55:07.65\00:55:09.19
But since I was
awake my mind began to turn
00:55:10.95\00:55:13.85
and this occurred
to me that when 3ABN
00:55:13.88\00:55:17.83
went into international
satellite television,
00:55:17.86\00:55:21.06
the church entered a new age.
00:55:21.09\00:55:23.93
You see, you see
don't God always uses
00:55:23.96\00:55:26.77
the most
improbable. He used William Foy,
00:55:26.80\00:55:29.95
Hazen Foss, Ellen
White, Danny Shelton. Amen.
00:55:30.81\00:55:36.94
Now, you're saying
Danny Shelton equal to
00:55:36.97\00:55:39.08
Ellen White. I'm
saying God picks his people.
00:55:39.11\00:55:42.99
He didn't pick him
because they're perfect.
00:55:43.66\00:55:45.10
He doesn't pick them
because they're sinless,
00:55:45.13\00:55:47.47
he picks him
because they're just
00:55:47.50\00:55:48.98
foolish enough to
put the full weight
00:55:49.01\00:55:51.01
of their faith on
Him. Amen! Praise the Lord.
00:55:51.04\00:55:53.68
So in 1984, Danny
called, God called Danny Shelton
00:55:53.71\00:55:58.15
and a new era of
television began.
00:55:58.18\00:56:00.76
See I know that
because I was working
00:56:00.79\00:56:02.53
with the church at that time,
00:56:02.56\00:56:03.59
I was listening to
the discussions about ACN,
00:56:04.30\00:56:07.61
I was listen to the discussions
00:56:07.64\00:56:09.60
about first Wednesday,
I was listening to the
00:56:09.63\00:56:12.03
discussions about ATN,
I was in the committees
00:56:12.06\00:56:16.86
discussing how is
the church gonna move
00:56:16.89\00:56:20.59
into the most
powerful medium ever created
00:56:20.62\00:56:23.49
for the influencing of
the hearts and minds of men
00:56:23.52\00:56:26.61
and women and that is television
00:56:26.64\00:56:27.98
and while we were
in committing meetings
00:56:28.01\00:56:30.37
Danny Shelton was
putting 3ABN on. Amen.
00:56:30.40\00:56:36.15
And then 11 years later
I was on a production crew
00:56:36.72\00:56:42.14
of Net 95 and
Net96 and Net98 and Net99
00:56:42.17\00:56:48.73
by Net95 3ABN
was the 11 years old.
00:56:48.76\00:56:53.64
Lives had been
changed for 11 solid years.
00:56:55.38\00:56:59.78
I am saying that
God picks His people.
00:56:59.81\00:57:02.91
He picks His
time. He picks His place
00:57:03.84\00:57:06.76
and when God builds that up
00:57:06.79\00:57:08.66
no one can tear it
down. No one can destroy it,
00:57:08.69\00:57:11.93
there and there
will be those will try
00:57:11.96\00:57:14.18
what enterprise has
God ever tried to erect
00:57:14.21\00:57:17.00
on planet earth that
some devil filled person
00:57:17.03\00:57:20.87
didn't try to destroy,
we're not worried about
00:57:20.90\00:57:23.95
that for greater
is He that is in us
00:57:23.98\00:57:26.56
then he that is the world. Amen.
00:57:26.59\00:57:30.63
And if we're gonna to
do what God has called us
00:57:30.66\00:57:33.01
to do, if we're
gonna to spread this gospel
00:57:33.04\00:57:35.40
to the ends of the
earth, if we're gonna go further
00:57:35.43\00:57:38.01
and faster than ever
before time to stop being
00:57:38.04\00:57:41.53
Mary, somebody, somebody,
somebody must be Martha.
00:57:41.56\00:57:50.04