I'd like to invite you
to bow your heads with me
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as I kneel before the Lord
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and ask Him to
lead in His message.
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Let's pray.
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Our Father God, in
heaven, we thank You
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that You are all supreme,
and that in every situation
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Your purpose is
going to be accomplished.
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We pray even now
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that as our hearts are wondering
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what this
message really is about,
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that our hearts
also can be made supple,
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that they could absorb the words
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that Christ will communicate
to each life in each situation.
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Speak to us, Lord,
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that Your will
may be accomplished,
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and that we can go
forth from this place
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reflecting the glory of God
with hope and encouragement,
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and these things we ask to honor
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and glorify Your holy name.
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In Jesus name we pray.
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Amen.
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If you have your
Bibles, you can open it
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to the book of
Luke chapter eight.
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What book did I say? Luke.
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Luke is a doctor,
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for those of you
who don't know it,
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and Luke has some
wonderful insights
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that sometimes Matthew,
and Mark, and John may miss.
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Luke is the guy
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that if you study
the history of Luke,
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he's always for the underdog,
the person who's falling
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behind in the crowd,
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the person who's
often overlooked.
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Luke pays special attention
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that often
brings stories to life
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in ways that Matthew,
Mark, and John often don't.
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But in this account, Matthew,
Mark, and John also registered
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their views about
this particular situation
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that I entitle "The
women with an issue."
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Now I was raised
in New York City,
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and when I say that
people feel quite differently,
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it depends on
where you were raised,
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if you were
raised in California,
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you can understand
that to some degree
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mindful of the fact
that if you were raise in LA,
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you may have a
better understanding
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of when I say New
York City is huge.
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If you are Colorado,
maybe Denver, Colorado,
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or Chicago,
Illinois, or any major city,
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Miami, Florida, and
now the growing Orlando,
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Florida area,
any major packed city
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you can have an understanding
what I mean when I say
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I was raised in a crowed
city called New York City.
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My wife and I,
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when we go back to
New York sometimes,
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we go back to Times Square,
and we like to amaze people
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by taking them
down to Times Square
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at about 11 o'clock at night.
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Now in most cases,
nothing is happening
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in any city at
11 o'clock at night.
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But in New York City
at 11 o'clock at night,
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they're just waking up.
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I mean, there are
people everywhere,
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you are rubbing shoulders,
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you are bumping
into individuals,
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you're still playing
dodge at 11 o'clock at night.
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I remember one
instance when we were...
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I think it was
around Christmas time,
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forgot the year,
not too long ago.
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But my wife and
I were on Broadway.
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We went to visit New York
City, went to visit my dad.
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And it was almost midnight
and I saw this long line
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about three blocks long,
wrapping around the corner,
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and I wondered what on
earth could people be lining up
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for at 10 minutes to
midnight in New York City?
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It could be anything.
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Then I discovered that
Toys R Us was opening up
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at midnight to debut
the brand new Xbox 360.
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And people were
standing in line for hours,
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some had come the day
before, just to get this
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brand new gaming
system, the Xbox 360.
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And I thought to myself,
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"Were to God that
we would stand in line
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like that to get to the church?"
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Just recently, I
think last Christmas,
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there was almost a
fight that broke out
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at the Best Buy in
Carbondale, Illinois.
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They announced
that they only had 36
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of these new
gaming systems available,
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when the doors
opened, pandemonium broke out.
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People jostled
and wrestled they said
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that there was even a
fistfight at the counter
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as two men,
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who should have been sleeping
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so they can go to
work for next day,
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two men fought over
this new gaming system
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saying they had to have it.
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And one guy
took pride in saying,
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"Every gaming system
that ever came out, I got it.
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I always stand in the
crowds, I always make sure
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I get it as soon
as it comes out."
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Crowds, people often gather
in crowds for the wrong reason.
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My wife and I never
forget that in New York City
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when the New York
Yankees won the World Series,
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I forget what year it was,
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but the most recent
world series they won,
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we were there north of
the World Trade Center,
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right on Broadway, and
there was so many people
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packed on that Broadway
street that we couldn't fall
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and hit the
ground if we wanted to.
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I mean, I had to
hold on to my wife's hand
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and literally, I'm
gonna use the word,
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extricate her through the crowd.
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I had to rescue her.
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There was a tussling and a task
just holding on to her hands.
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All these people
packed just to celebrate
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the winning of the
World Series in New York City.
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Then I'll never
forget, every morning
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when I went to
work in New York City,
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I worked at the
World Trade Center,
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I worked on the Wall Street`
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I worked at Downtown Manhattan.
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And when rush hour
came, it was serious.
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It was not like rush
hour here in Thompsonville.
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See, rush hour in
Thompsonville means
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you have to wait
two minutes for one car
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or another
truck in front of you.
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Not in New York City.
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It's kind of like Tokyo, Japan.
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Have you seen those
where the subway attendants
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have white gloves
and they literally
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sardine can the
people into the trains,
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such is the case
of New York City.
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Some mornings gone to work,
you could sleep standing up
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and not have to
worry about falling.
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The only thing you
have to keep your eye open
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for is pickpockets
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'cause when you wake up,
what you have may be gone.
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So when I read in Luke
8:42 that the Bible said that,
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"Multitudes thronged Jesus..."
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They crowed around Him.
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I can envision what
that must have been like.
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I can imagine how
people can just come
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for all the right and
sometimes wrong reasons
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to surround Jesus,
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seeing what Jesus
has in store for them.
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The Bible says in verse 42,
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"Speaking about disappointment
that Jesus had..."
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By the way, Jairus was begging
Jesus to come to his house,
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Jesus was on His
way to Jairus' house
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to heal his daughter,
his daughter near death.
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And the Bible says in verse 42,
"For he had one only daughter,
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about 12 years of
age, and she was a dying.
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But as He..."
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that is Jesus "Went the
multitude thronged Him."
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They surrounded Him.
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In the midst of this
mission that Jesus was on,
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a woman stopped Jesus.
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I said long ago on
Sabbath, a woman stopped Jesus.
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Jairus wanted
Jesus to go to his home
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and save his daughters
life, but a woman stopped Jesus.
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Have you had an
emergency that you wanted Jesus
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to take it right away?
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And somebody else
came up with an issue?
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Have you ever had those moments
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where you really didn't
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care about anybody else's issue?
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Come on now, talk to me.
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Where yours was
number one on the list,
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where you had one
of these moments like,
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"Jesus, I asked You first."
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Jairus was standing still
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as a woman came out of the crowd
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and the Bible
introduces her in verse 43.
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The Bible says,
and I am reading this
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from the King James Version,
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this is in fact a
King James Version sermon.
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Now I've got a New King James
Version right in front of me,
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but I have King James Version
written down on the paper
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because in order to me
to get my sermon title,
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I couldn't get it in
any other translation,
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they became too modern for me.
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But in the King James
Version, the Bible talks about
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this woman introducing
her in the midst of this crowd
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with these words, verse 43,
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"And a woman
having an issue of blood,
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12 years, which has spent
all her living upon physicians,
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neither could be healed of any."
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Now you know I
got my sermon title
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from a woman having an issue.
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Now I want to say this.
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Lady, I beat up
the man yesterday
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and I want to say this,
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please don't
throw anything at me,
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but it's hard to find
a woman without an issue.
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I'm married to a
woman that I love very much,
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but there are
sometimes when I think
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I have her figured out,
she come up with something
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I haven't seen in 24 years.
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Am I telling the truth?
Husbands, come on say it.
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Be nice when you say it.
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I mean, women,
like somebody once said,
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"For those who think
they can figure out a woman,
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they don't know math
and they don't know women."
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It's never 50-50.
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You can't say to women,
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"Do your part,
I'm doing my part"
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because she'll
always come back guys
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with something
that kind of level you
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and you'll have no answer for.
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Jesus in the
midst of His emergency
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is stopped by a
woman with an issue.
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And over the excitement
of the pressing multitude,
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Jesus has the nerve to
ask a ridiculous question,
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kind of like me asking
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in the crowded
streets of New York City,
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"Who touched me?"
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Can you imagine
how ridiculous that is
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in a Yankee stadium
or in a shopping mall
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or standing there on 42,
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waiting for Xbox to be released,
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"Who touched me?"
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Rushing to the restroom in
a crowded baseball stadium,
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"Who touched me?"
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Reaching for that last
drink just before you went back
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to your seat to
see the last quarter
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in a basket ball game,
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"Who touched me?"
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Jesus asked what seems
to be a ridiculous question,
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"Who touched Me?"
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How can anyone in
a pressing multitude
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ask such a
misplaced question like,
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"Who touched Me?"
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As I read that and I
began to let that soak in,
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I'm becoming more
and more convinced
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that who we are
and who we become
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can be determined
by something as simple
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and yet as
life-changing as a touch.
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I read an article
about a young girl
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who is in the hospital,
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and the doctors
and nurses did not know
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what to do with her condition.
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I mean, they diagnosed
her, physiatrists were there,
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family practitioners were there,
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child physiologists
were called to the situation.
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People that were
experts in their field
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were brought to the situation
and they could not figure out
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what was wrong with
this eight-year-old girl.
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But a very humble nurse
was assigned to tend her bed
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and make sure
that she was changed
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and she had all
the food she needed.
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And that nurse took
a particular interest
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in this young girl.
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And every now and then
when she'd hear a sound,
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she'd cradle her and
say, "Don't worry about it.
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It's okay."
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And she noticed
that day after day,
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after just cradling
this eight-year-old girl,
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leaning her up on the bed
as she positioned her pillow
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that the girl began
to respond to her touch.
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And then she did
her own experiment.
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She decided to hold this
child and start to talk to her
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comfortably and softly.
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And after three days,
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she was able to call the doctor
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and say, "You know what?
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I understand, doctor,
you're really over me.
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But I think the
problem with this child
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is she's suffering
from a lack of touch."
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On that suggestion,
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they followed the
nurse's recommendation
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and they discovered
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that this girl
was living in a home
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where her mother
never touched her,
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never hugged her,
never said she loved her.
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She was always ostracized
and pushed off to the side.
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She was suffering
from a lack of touch.
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I am convinced that who we are
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and what we are becoming
can sometimes be determined
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by something as simple
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and yet as
life-changing as a touch.
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Can you say amen to that? Amen.
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Touch is so important.
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I mean, God gave us
one of those senses,
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can you imagine
that sense becomes
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undeveloped if it is ignored.
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And I also want to say
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even though this woman
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met Jesus in a crowd
where he asked the question,
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"Who touched Me?"
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how you meet Jesus...
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If you want to
write this down, you can.
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I didn't give
you an outline today,
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but how you meet
Jesus is not as important
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as that you meet Jesus.
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There's some people
that say, "You know what?
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I was at the bar
drinking my last drink
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before I decided
to commit suicide,
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and I heard a voice,
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and I think it was Jesus."
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And somebody else will
say, "Jesus is not in the bar!"
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Now, brothers and sisters,
let me tell you something
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Jesus will chase you anywhere
if He wants to save your life.
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He may not go in
there and drink with you,
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but Jesus is just as
concerned about the drunk,
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and about the person
who is on his last dime,
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and the person
who is taking drugs
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and trying to overdose,
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and the person
standing on the chair
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trying to take their lives.
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Jesus meets you
in the oddest places,
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but every time He meets
you is for your salvation.
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Amen.
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So no matter how you meet
Jesus it is never by accident.
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I don't believe that Jesus
has ever anywhere by accident.
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I don't believe that Jesus
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ever had a
coincidental rendezvous.
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I don't believe that Jesus
shows up in your life by luck.
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I always tell Christians,
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"Please don't ever
say to me good luck.
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You know what
'cause my life is not luck,
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my life is not
the roll of a dice,
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my life is a divine plan."
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What do you say? Amen.
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Before I came out
of my mother's womb,
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I believe, that all my
days were ordained before me
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before any one of
them came to pass.
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That's the only
reason I can come up
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with the idea
that when I was help up
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at gun point
twice in New York City
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that I didn't get shot
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because God had a
plan for me to be here
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preaching this message today.
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Can you say glory to God?
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So God is not an
accident or a coincidental God,
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He doesn't just meet
you because you happen to be
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where He is, any
place that Jesus is,
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He shows up when
we need Him the most.
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He is closest to us
when we are farthest away
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from Him spiritually,
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and He never
let's our circumstances,
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I like this part, He
never lets our circumstances
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have the final
word about our destiny.
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Let that sink in.
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Lot of people say, "I'm broke.
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What am I gonna do?"
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Get that right, you
are not a broke person,
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you are a person who's broke.
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Jesus always sees the person.
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Can you say amen?
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He doesn't see your money first.
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He sees you first.
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You are not a sick person,
you are a person who is sick.
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You are not a lost person.
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In Jesus' eyes,
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He sees that
you're a person at first.
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You're a person
who needs direction.
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Oftentimes we see broke
people, when Jesus see people
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who just are
temporarily strapped.
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As one person once
said, "I'm not broke.
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I'm just
financially disposed right now."
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Brethren, Mark 5:25 gives
us another view of this woman.
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Jesus always sees us
first and not our situation.
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He doesn't see wealthy
people and poor people,
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He sees people with
money and people without money.
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He's not coming back
for our bank account,
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He's coming back for us.
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Look at Mark's
view of this woman,
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verse 25 of Mark chapter 5,
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"And a certain woman,"
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he says, once
again King James Version,
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"which had an
issue of blood, 12 years,
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and had suffered many
things of many physicians."
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Luke talked about physicians.
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Mark also notices physicians
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and had spent how
much that she had?
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How much did she spend?
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"All that she had
and was nothing better
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but rather grew worst."
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Have you seen
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the cost of medical care?
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It's not going
down, it's what? Going up.
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I remember one of the pastors
in California, Filipino doctor,
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one of our Filipino pastors,
he showed us his doctor's bill
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for a surgery he
had for a heart bypass.
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Now he was only about 5'6,
but he stood on a high chair
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and he held his hands
up and rolled out his bill
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and he still
wasn't high enough up,
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and the bill just kept
rolling out along the rostrum.
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This woman was
kind of like that.
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She had years of doctor bills
but nothing to show for it,
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circumstance after circumstance,
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yet there was no
remedy to her situation.
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Ellen White says in
Desire of Ages, Page 343,
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listen to this, "She
had spent all her means
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upon physicians
and their remedies
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only to be pronounced incurable.
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But her hopes revived
when she heard of the cures
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that Christ perform."
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Amen for Jesus,
the master physician.
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She felt assured
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that if she
could only go to Him,
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she would be healed.
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Twelve years of doctor
bills, nothing to show for it,
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appointment after
appointment, no progress.
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Prescriptions were prescribed,
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medications were
embibed, no change.
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That's why when I meet
people that have problems,
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that want to tell
everybody about their problems,
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I say, "Tell us
only to ask for prayer,
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but if you just tell
us about your problems,
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we can't do anything.
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Take it to the Lord in prayer."
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And I discovered in
my difficulty of life
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that when I come to
Jesus with my problems,
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He doesn't say, "I'm on the line
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with somebody else."
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He always has time to listen
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to the
pleadings of His children.
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What do you say?
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Always has time.
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This woman just could
not get any responses.
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She was under the
investigative minds
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of physiatrists,
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the skillful hands
of family practitioners,
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nothing, absolutely nothing.
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Twelve long years
compelled her to this moment.
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You know what I believe?
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You got to get to the
place in life sometimes
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where you are tired
of your way of living.
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I meet some people that are like
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they've been smoking
since they were 16 years old,
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and here they are 48, I
went to the hospital down
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in Marian the other day.
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And outside of the hospital,
00:20:26.69\00:20:28.19
you know, you
can't smoke inside,
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but I saw in the exterior foyer,
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a lady sitting on a wheelchair,
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big oxygen bottle on
wheels and she was smoking
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with the tubes
of the oxygen bottle
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in her mouth.
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And I saw this big No Flame sign
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on the green oxygen bottle.
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I'm thinking, "Man,
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if there's an explosion outside,
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I know exactly who it is."
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But there are some
people that are hopelessly...
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It appears they
are hopelessly bound
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to their circumstances
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and physiatrists and AA, AAA,
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and AAAA have no answer.
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But I know that Jesus
always has the answer.
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Can you say? Amen.
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See, the woman spent her life
trying to remedy her situation,
00:21:07.36\00:21:12.33
trying to recover her respect,
trying to stop being ostracized
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from crowds
because I tell you what,
00:21:18.34\00:21:19.87
if you're bleeding all the time,
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you know, people don't
really want you around,
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especially in those days.
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There were laws,
in the Levitical law
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that if a woman was bleeding,
she was considered impure,
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she could not be
in general assemblies.
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Can you imagine?
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Happened to go to church
and you have your own chair
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far away from everybody else,
00:21:42.46\00:21:47.00
and people say,
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"Yeah, she's here again."
00:21:48.40\00:21:49.74
"Why is she so far?"
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"She's been
bleeding for nine years."
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The pastor's
preaching his heart out
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and she goes
home still bleeding.
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I believe that
people had to come to church
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and find answers
to their dilemma.
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Amen?
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Nine years had
passed, ten years had passed,
00:22:02.25\00:22:04.65
struggling and finally
she's at her journey's end,
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which takes me to the
point that I'm excited about.
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Brothers and sisters,
00:22:10.96\00:22:12.29
when your
journey is about to end,
00:22:12.33\00:22:16.03
Jesus has a journey for
you that's about to begin.
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Amen. You didn't get that one?
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Some people got that.
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When you're at
the end of your rope,
00:22:24.87\00:22:27.18
you'll hold on, when you
get to the end of your rope,
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Jesus is right there.
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Amen? Amen.
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He's always got
something better for us
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at the end of our journey.
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I've seen people
that come to Jesus
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after 25 years of drug
abuse and alcoholic abuse.
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New York City is
filled with people like that.
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Some people come to church
00:22:42.26\00:22:43.59
after the world has drained them
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and they look like
they're 75 when they're only 32.
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There's some people that are 75,
00:22:49.93\00:22:51.27
they look better than them.
00:22:51.30\00:22:52.80
Some people that are
90 look better than them.
00:22:52.83\00:22:54.74
The world has really
walked all over them.
00:22:54.77\00:22:57.41
They don't have
teeth, they're strung out,
00:22:57.44\00:23:00.18
they look emaciated, they
don't even look unhealthy.
00:23:00.21\00:23:02.51
They just look like
their lives are over.
00:23:02.54\00:23:04.25
But amazing what Jesus
can do in just one year,
00:23:04.28\00:23:08.58
when He turns your lives around.
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I know that about my mother.
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When my mother met
Jesus, she was barely 98 pounds.
00:23:11.82\00:23:17.29
If she was size
one, that was large.
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She had walked the streets
00:23:20.53\00:23:24.17
not as a prostitute,
00:23:24.20\00:23:26.27
not as a woman of the night,
but her mind was messed up.
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And there in the
small town of French town
00:23:31.51\00:23:33.91
in the Virgin Island,
00:23:33.94\00:23:35.28
she walked the
streets, unstable life.
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Why?
00:23:37.18\00:23:38.51
Because she
abandoned her children,
00:23:38.55\00:23:39.88
left them somewhere.
00:23:39.91\00:23:41.25
You never know
what the circumstances
00:23:41.28\00:23:42.62
of the life are that
get people where they are,
00:23:42.65\00:23:44.49
but no matter where they are,
00:23:44.52\00:23:45.85
Jesus can find
them where they are.
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Amen.
00:23:47.46\00:23:49.19
When the Lord
came into her life,
00:23:49.22\00:23:51.69
my mother's
life, it's in my book,
00:23:51.73\00:23:53.70
you ought to read the story,
00:23:53.73\00:23:55.06
when the Lord
came into her life,
00:23:55.10\00:23:58.27
she went from a
size zero to a size ten.
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And she told me, she
said, "Now you know what?
00:24:03.34\00:24:05.37
I prayed, I asked
God to deliver me."
00:24:05.41\00:24:09.14
And the day that she
prayed to be delivered
00:24:09.18\00:24:11.21
form alcohol and cigarettes,
from that day forward,
00:24:11.25\00:24:15.18
she never even had a desire.
00:24:15.22\00:24:17.05
Is that Jesus or what? Amen.
00:24:17.09\00:24:19.35
So Jesus doesn't need the...
00:24:19.39\00:24:22.12
He doesn't need
the council of a doctor
00:24:22.16\00:24:25.53
to remedy a situation,
00:24:25.56\00:24:28.33
there's nothing
wrong with physicians.
00:24:28.36\00:24:29.76
God bless them.
00:24:29.80\00:24:31.47
But when all the
doctors are no more,
00:24:31.50\00:24:32.83
there's still Jesus.
00:24:32.87\00:24:34.20
Amen.
00:24:34.24\00:24:36.24
This woman got to the place
00:24:36.27\00:24:37.61
where her
journey was about to end
00:24:37.64\00:24:39.07
and Jesus was waiting for her.
00:24:39.11\00:24:40.78
And Mark in verse 28 says,
here's what she proclaimed.
00:24:40.81\00:24:43.81
Here's what she said, verse 28,
00:24:43.85\00:24:48.88
"If only I could touch
the hem of His garment,
00:24:48.92\00:24:55.36
I'll be made well."
00:24:55.39\00:24:56.73
She didn't ask for
a whole lot, did she?
00:24:59.83\00:25:03.97
If I could only...
00:25:04.00\00:25:05.33
You know what I
like about that text?
00:25:08.57\00:25:10.77
Jesus makes recovery and
revival and renewal simple.
00:25:10.81\00:25:15.11
Oftentimes we make
salvation cumbersome.
00:25:18.75\00:25:22.98
Jesus makes it simple.
00:25:23.02\00:25:26.59
"Just get in touch with Me
and you will be all right."
00:25:26.62\00:25:29.19
Come on, let's say amen. Amen.
00:25:29.22\00:25:31.39
Just reach out to
Jesus and you'll be changed.
00:25:31.43\00:25:35.06
Somebody will say,
00:25:35.10\00:25:36.43
"What do I need
to do to be saved?"
00:25:36.46\00:25:38.20
Just reach out to Jesus.
00:25:38.23\00:25:40.27
All the 28
fundamentals, they're good,
00:25:40.30\00:25:42.17
there need to be some guidelines
00:25:42.20\00:25:43.91
to the way we live.
00:25:43.94\00:25:45.27
But have you noticed
that when Jesus called
00:25:45.31\00:25:46.98
the children of
Israel out of Egypt,
00:25:47.01\00:25:49.24
He gave them no prerequisites.
00:25:49.28\00:25:52.25
He said, "Come on
out, and as you journey,
00:25:52.28\00:25:54.35
I'll teach along the way."
00:25:54.38\00:25:58.62
She says, "If I
can only touch Jesus."
00:25:58.65\00:26:01.62
Now we run back
to Dr. Luke 8:45,
00:26:01.66\00:26:04.56
Luke says it this way and
she said, after Jesus said,
00:26:04.59\00:26:07.66
"Who touched Me?"
00:26:07.70\00:26:09.03
When all denied, Peter
and those with him said,
00:26:09.06\00:26:12.27
"Master, the
multitude thronging You
00:26:12.30\00:26:14.67
and pressing You, and
ask, who touched you?"
00:26:14.70\00:26:21.11
But, brothers, I would
say sometimes you got to be
00:26:21.14\00:26:24.58
intentional about
wanting to meet Jesus
00:26:24.61\00:26:28.02
because this
was no casual touch,
00:26:28.05\00:26:30.59
this was a touch of intent.
00:26:30.62\00:26:33.15
This woman
intended to touch Jesus.
00:26:33.19\00:26:37.03
That was all she came
there to do was to touch Jesus.
00:26:37.06\00:26:41.56
And she did not
disrespect this person,
00:26:41.60\00:26:43.73
she just simply
touched His garment,
00:26:43.77\00:26:46.30
she touched the
hem of His garment.
00:26:46.33\00:26:51.31
By the way, if you
look at the Levitical law,
00:26:51.34\00:26:53.11
around the hem of the garment,
there were tassels there
00:26:53.14\00:26:55.24
that represented the law of God.
00:26:55.28\00:26:57.35
She got in touch with
not only with the Lord
00:26:57.38\00:26:59.41
but with the law of the Lord.
00:26:59.45\00:27:01.92
She got in touch with
everything that she needed,
00:27:01.95\00:27:04.55
and she went from a who
to a somebody in one touch.
00:27:04.59\00:27:08.36
Look at Luke 8:46,
00:27:08.39\00:27:11.26
Peter said,
"Lord, why do you ask,
00:27:11.29\00:27:13.66
'Who touched me?'
00:27:13.70\00:27:15.03
" But look at Jesus,
dignity already restored.
00:27:15.06\00:27:17.50
Look at this, verse
46, "But Jesus said,
00:27:17.53\00:27:20.87
'Somebody touched me
00:27:20.90\00:27:22.34
for I perceive
power going out from Me.'
00:27:22.37\00:27:26.78
" I'm so glad to know
that Jesus has enough power
00:27:31.28\00:27:33.85
for every one of us.
00:27:33.88\00:27:36.38
I remember when we
got on line the other day,
00:27:36.42\00:27:38.52
we had an
employee appreciation day
00:27:38.55\00:27:41.69
here at 3ABN,
and it was held over
00:27:41.72\00:27:43.79
at the gymnasium,
there was a lot of food.
00:27:43.83\00:27:46.96
But you know what?
00:27:47.00\00:27:48.33
When there's a lot of
food, do you want to be on the
00:27:48.36\00:27:50.90
back of the line or
the front of the line?
00:27:50.93\00:27:53.84
Come on, tell me the truth.
00:27:53.87\00:27:55.54
You want to be on the
front of the line, you know why?
00:27:55.57\00:27:57.21
Because you want the best.
00:27:57.24\00:27:59.01
And you know that the
first is always the best,
00:27:59.04\00:28:01.28
you have more choice.
00:28:01.31\00:28:02.91
Now, my brothers and my sisters,
00:28:02.94\00:28:04.51
whether you're in
the back of the line
00:28:04.55\00:28:06.45
or the front of the line,
00:28:06.48\00:28:07.82
the power of Jesus
is never diminished.
00:28:07.85\00:28:10.12
Can you say amen?
00:28:10.15\00:28:11.49
He's got enough
power for the entire world.
00:28:11.52\00:28:13.36
He does not say, "Oh, wait,
00:28:13.39\00:28:14.79
I'm gonna have a power
overload or a power outage."
00:28:14.82\00:28:17.19
He had enough power to
heal the entire multitude
00:28:17.23\00:28:21.56
had they had the
desire to touch Jesus.
00:28:21.60\00:28:24.57
But a woman came there
with intentions in her mind,
00:28:24.60\00:28:26.53
she didn't come
there to mess around like
00:28:26.57\00:28:28.57
the people in the multitude did,
00:28:28.60\00:28:29.94
she didn't come
there just to see Jesus,
00:28:29.97\00:28:31.74
she came there for
an encounter with Jesus.
00:28:31.77\00:28:35.74
The Bible tells us in
verse 44, "When she came
00:28:35.78\00:28:38.78
from behind and touched Jesus,
00:28:38.81\00:28:41.82
immediately her issues ceased."
00:28:41.85\00:28:44.99
Immediately all the
problems she had came to an end,
00:28:49.29\00:28:55.66
immediately the
issue of her blood stopped.
00:28:55.70\00:29:00.74
Immediately she
needed no more doctors.
00:29:00.77\00:29:05.37
From that moment
on, she was accepted.
00:29:05.41\00:29:09.41
Are you following me?
00:29:09.44\00:29:10.78
From that moment on, she
was no longer ostracized.
00:29:10.81\00:29:14.12
From that moment on,
00:29:14.15\00:29:15.48
she was not
labeled as that woman.
00:29:15.52\00:29:17.49
She was labeled as...
00:29:17.52\00:29:18.85
Everybody, she's in
the congregation now.
00:29:18.89\00:29:20.46
Can we say amen?
00:29:20.49\00:29:22.02
She's accepted now.
00:29:22.06\00:29:23.43
Her dignity is restored.
00:29:23.46\00:29:25.49
She's no longer an outcast.
00:29:25.53\00:29:27.16
God does not change you
and leave you on the outside.
00:29:27.20\00:29:29.73
When he changes you, He
brings you on the inside.
00:29:29.76\00:29:34.90
She was not singled
out, she was now included
00:29:34.94\00:29:40.34
because she had a
desire to find Jesus,
00:29:40.38\00:29:43.04
to follow Jesus,
00:29:43.08\00:29:44.68
and to have an
encounter with Jesus,
00:29:44.71\00:29:48.65
which brings me to my
point, my third point,
00:29:48.68\00:29:51.65
and then my forth point.
00:29:51.69\00:29:55.59
We've got a lot of institutions
00:29:55.62\00:29:56.96
in Seventh-day Adventist Church,
00:29:56.99\00:29:58.33
you know that?
00:29:58.36\00:29:59.69
Got a lot of institutions,
got a lot of schools,
00:29:59.73\00:30:01.33
lot of
hospitals, lot of churches,
00:30:01.36\00:30:03.26
lot of conference offices,
lot of leaders and followers.
00:30:03.30\00:30:06.84
But I want to say
that there is more power
00:30:06.87\00:30:08.60
in the hem of Jesus'
garment than there is
00:30:08.64\00:30:11.67
in all the
institutions of the world.
00:30:11.71\00:30:15.74
We don't need
another institution,
00:30:15.78\00:30:19.01
but what we need
is a greater desire
00:30:19.05\00:30:21.88
to get in touch with Jesus.
00:30:21.92\00:30:23.99
We don't need
another theological debate,
00:30:24.02\00:30:26.76
what we need is a desire
to get in touch with Jesus.
00:30:26.79\00:30:30.33
We don't need
some new view on 1844.
00:30:30.36\00:30:33.03
We need to take care of 2007
00:30:33.06\00:30:36.00
'cause what they
failed to do then,
00:30:36.03\00:30:37.40
we can still do now.
00:30:37.43\00:30:39.07
That's why I've never
bought one of those books.
00:30:39.10\00:30:40.97
Reinvestigating of 1844.
00:30:41.00\00:30:42.90
If I've got my
Bible, I can investigate
00:30:42.94\00:30:44.81
God's righteousness today.
00:30:44.84\00:30:47.04
I'm not concerned
about what they rejected,
00:30:50.68\00:30:52.58
but what I have the
chance to accept still today.
00:30:52.61\00:30:54.85
That's why our rendezvous
with Jesus is not based on us
00:31:01.06\00:31:04.79
pursuing Him
but Him pursuing us.
00:31:04.83\00:31:09.60
I like to know
that wherever I am,
00:31:09.63\00:31:11.13
Jesus is
concerned about where I am.
00:31:11.17\00:31:14.97
He comes after us.
00:31:15.00\00:31:16.44
He's that...
00:31:16.47\00:31:17.81
As somebody once
respectfully said,
00:31:17.84\00:31:19.41
"He's like the hound of heaven.
00:31:19.44\00:31:21.58
He pursues us.
00:31:21.61\00:31:23.41
And the faster we go,
the faster Jesus goes."
00:31:23.45\00:31:27.75
He can always catch
us. Can you say amen?
00:31:27.78\00:31:29.98
That's how it is.
00:31:30.02\00:31:31.35
Salvation is not complicated.
00:31:31.39\00:31:34.32
It's not as hard as it may seem.
00:31:34.36\00:31:38.03
In the Garden of Eden
when Adam and Eve fell,
00:31:38.06\00:31:40.50
Jesus came looking for them.
00:31:40.53\00:31:42.90
They didn't go
looking for Jesus.
00:31:42.93\00:31:45.80
But the problem nowadays
00:31:45.83\00:31:47.17
is sometimes we
get lost in the crowd
00:31:47.20\00:31:49.07
with the obvious meanings.
00:31:49.10\00:31:50.87
But I would say
that in every message
00:31:50.91\00:31:53.04
that Jesus preaches,
00:31:53.07\00:31:54.68
there is an obvious message
and there is a subtle message.
00:31:54.71\00:31:59.35
Sometimes we get so
obsessed by the obvious
00:31:59.38\00:32:03.18
that the spiritual
message remains obscure.
00:32:03.22\00:32:06.49
We don't see what
Jesus really is saying.
00:32:06.52\00:32:08.49
And I don't believe
that this was just a sermon
00:32:08.52\00:32:10.36
about a woman who was bleeding.
00:32:10.39\00:32:11.73
I believe that
there is another meaning
00:32:16.67\00:32:18.40
behind this message
00:32:18.43\00:32:19.77
about this woman in Luke's life,
00:32:19.80\00:32:23.07
in Matthew's
life, in Mark's life.
00:32:23.10\00:32:25.74
I believe that
there is a hidden meaning
00:32:25.77\00:32:28.04
behind this.
00:32:28.08\00:32:30.18
And that's why,
before I transition,
00:32:30.21\00:32:31.71
I'm going to say this,
00:32:31.75\00:32:33.08
"It doesn't
matter what anyone thinks
00:32:33.11\00:32:34.88
about any of us
because, in the eyes of Jesus,
00:32:34.92\00:32:38.72
everybody is somebody."
00:32:38.75\00:32:40.69
No racial barriers,
no financial barriers,
00:32:43.96\00:32:47.86
no neighborhood barriers.
00:32:47.90\00:32:50.40
You can have a gated community
or a not-gated community,
00:32:50.43\00:32:52.93
Jesus can find
His way in anyway.
00:32:52.97\00:32:55.97
In the eyes of Jesus,
everybody is somebody.
00:32:56.00\00:32:58.64
And when you get
in touch with Jesus,
00:32:58.67\00:33:00.78
He is not just the
restorer of health,
00:33:00.81\00:33:03.14
but He is the
restorer of dignity.
00:33:03.18\00:33:07.98
Quite different altogether,
00:33:08.02\00:33:09.35
health and dignity
are quite different.
00:33:09.38\00:33:13.29
When Jesus
touched this woman's life,
00:33:13.32\00:33:15.82
not only did her issues cease.
00:33:15.86\00:33:19.83
But she began to
testify about the goodness
00:33:19.86\00:33:23.53
of being touched by Jesus.
00:33:23.57\00:33:24.90
Look at verse 47,
"Now when the woman saw
00:33:24.93\00:33:27.57
that she was not hidden..."
00:33:27.60\00:33:28.97
When the Lord changes your life,
00:33:29.00\00:33:31.27
He doesn't hide you.
00:33:31.31\00:33:32.64
Amen.
00:33:32.67\00:33:34.01
He makes you public, why?
00:33:34.04\00:33:35.44
Not to boast about
what happened to you
00:33:35.48\00:33:37.38
but boast about the
one who changed your life.
00:33:37.41\00:33:40.05
"When she saw that
she was not hidden,"
00:33:40.08\00:33:41.75
the Bible says,
00:33:41.78\00:33:43.12
"She came trembling and
falling down before Him."
00:33:43.15\00:33:45.52
Luke 8:47, "She declared to Him
00:33:45.55\00:33:48.39
in the presence
of all the people
00:33:48.42\00:33:51.96
the reason that
she had touched Him
00:33:51.99\00:33:54.43
and how she was
healed immediately."
00:33:54.46\00:33:57.10
Mark says she told
Him the whole truth,
00:33:57.13\00:34:02.57
she became a witness.
00:34:02.60\00:34:04.04
Brethren, we cannot
become an experienced
00:34:04.07\00:34:06.54
and a qualified
witness unless we,
00:34:06.57\00:34:08.58
first, are touched by Jesus.
00:34:08.61\00:34:10.01
Can somebody say amen?
00:34:10.05\00:34:11.98
Now I'm not talking
about a touch on a shoulder.
00:34:12.01\00:34:15.15
But the reason why I think
00:34:15.18\00:34:16.62
that so many people
are ineffective witnesses
00:34:16.65\00:34:18.75
is because they read His
word, but they don't know
00:34:18.79\00:34:20.86
the God of the word.
00:34:20.89\00:34:23.02
They go to His churches,
but they don't know yet
00:34:23.06\00:34:25.99
the God of the church.
00:34:26.03\00:34:28.66
The people in
the crowd were there
00:34:28.70\00:34:30.37
for a different
reason than this woman.
00:34:30.40\00:34:32.57
They came to see Jesus.
00:34:32.60\00:34:33.94
She came to have an
encounter with Jesus.
00:34:33.97\00:34:35.70
They came to listen,
she came to receive power.
00:34:35.74\00:34:38.37
They came to observe,
00:34:38.41\00:34:39.74
she came to be changed by Jesus.
00:34:39.77\00:34:44.85
So why did you
come to camp meeting?
00:34:44.88\00:34:46.65
To observe? To listen?
00:34:46.68\00:34:48.92
Did you come to meet Jesus?
00:34:54.86\00:34:57.06
Did you come to get
the power available?
00:34:57.09\00:34:59.29
Did you come to be changed?
00:34:59.33\00:35:00.96
Because, brothers and
sisters, if that's the reason
00:35:01.00\00:35:02.80
why you are here,
the Lord is qualified
00:35:02.83\00:35:05.50
and more than able to change
00:35:05.53\00:35:07.24
any one of us by a simple touch.
00:35:07.27\00:35:09.04
Can you say amen?
00:35:09.07\00:35:11.37
Camp meetings are
great, but why you're here
00:35:11.41\00:35:14.14
is all the reason
why you can go home
00:35:14.18\00:35:16.54
just as spiritually
hydrated or dehydrated,
00:35:16.58\00:35:20.95
I should say, as you came here.
00:35:20.98\00:35:24.89
Ellen White says,
"Every camp meeting
00:35:24.92\00:35:26.39
ought to be a place
where the gospel is preached,
00:35:26.42\00:35:28.92
where revival is focused on,
00:35:28.96\00:35:30.53
where people leave thirsting
for a relationship with Jesus
00:35:30.56\00:35:34.43
and a touch with Jesus."
00:35:34.46\00:35:35.83
And I believe that when
you come for right reason,
00:35:35.86\00:35:38.73
when you come
looking for something
00:35:38.77\00:35:40.10
that only Christ can
give, you'll always find it
00:35:40.14\00:35:42.47
because Jesus never disappoints.
00:35:42.50\00:35:44.57
He always delivers. Amen.
00:35:44.61\00:35:48.64
"Desire of Ages" page
347, Ellen White says,
00:35:48.68\00:35:52.58
"So also in spiritual
things as in physical things."
00:35:52.61\00:35:55.58
Listen to this,
00:35:55.62\00:35:56.95
"To talk of
religion in a casual way,
00:35:56.99\00:35:59.22
to pray without soul
hunger and living faith
00:35:59.25\00:36:02.62
avails absolutely nothing."
00:36:02.66\00:36:04.86
I put the word absolutely there,
00:36:04.89\00:36:06.49
"Avails nothing a
nominal faith in Christ,
00:36:06.53\00:36:10.97
which accepts Him merely
as the Savior of the world
00:36:11.00\00:36:13.54
can never bring
healing to the soul."
00:36:13.57\00:36:16.00
It is not enough to
believe about Christ,
00:36:16.04\00:36:18.54
we must believe in Christ.
00:36:18.57\00:36:23.61
I know Jesus exist.
00:36:23.65\00:36:24.98
I don't need a degree for that.
00:36:25.01\00:36:28.38
But when Jesus
changed this woman,
00:36:28.42\00:36:30.02
he sent her off
and gave her a mission.
00:36:30.05\00:36:34.29
Now, brethren, here
I'm gonna transition
00:36:34.32\00:36:35.99
for my next few
minutes before I close.
00:36:36.02\00:36:38.69
That's the obvious
message in the sermon.
00:36:38.73\00:36:41.43
Jesus healed the woman
who was bleeding for 12 years
00:36:41.46\00:36:44.30
and the church said...
00:36:44.33\00:36:45.67
Amen.
00:36:45.70\00:36:47.04
He can do that anytime.
00:36:47.07\00:36:48.40
But there is
another message here because
00:36:48.44\00:36:51.57
this is not an isolated woman.
00:36:51.61\00:36:54.44
In the Bible, the
woman is used in symbol
00:36:54.48\00:36:58.95
to give a picture of the church.
00:36:58.98\00:37:02.48
The number of years
that she was bleeding
00:37:02.52\00:37:04.79
represents the kingdom number.
00:37:04.82\00:37:07.86
Twelve tribes,
twelve foundations,
00:37:07.89\00:37:13.06
twelve gates.
00:37:13.09\00:37:15.90
It's all kingdom symbolism.
00:37:15.93\00:37:20.04
Old Testament and New Testament,
00:37:20.07\00:37:21.90
woman with 12
stars around her head.
00:37:21.94\00:37:25.34
There's a hidden message
here that Christ is saying
00:37:25.37\00:37:27.81
to the church of
2007, the woman had an issue
00:37:27.84\00:37:31.11
but also the church in 2007
is still fighting over issues.
00:37:31.15\00:37:37.99
And the reason
00:37:38.02\00:37:39.35
why her blood
is being poured out
00:37:39.39\00:37:40.92
and the reason why
she appears to be lifeless
00:37:40.96\00:37:43.06
is she is spending more times
00:37:43.09\00:37:44.49
in trying to find a
physician with a remedy
00:37:44.53\00:37:46.83
than trying to find Jesus.
00:37:46.86\00:37:49.66
The woman's got an issue.
00:37:49.70\00:37:51.40
I suggest to you
today that the predicament
00:37:51.43\00:37:56.07
of the woman in this
story represents the predicament
00:37:56.10\00:37:59.31
of last day church.
00:37:59.34\00:38:00.74
Revelation says,
"That the last day church
00:38:00.78\00:38:03.08
is worse off than she was."
00:38:03.11\00:38:05.95
We are wretched, miserable,
poor, blind, and naked.
00:38:05.98\00:38:12.05
She knew she was
bleeding, but, church, he says,
00:38:12.09\00:38:15.66
they don't even know it.
00:38:15.69\00:38:18.19
The conditioned had worsened.
00:38:18.23\00:38:20.33
And the life blood
today of the church...
00:38:20.36\00:38:22.70
I also suggest to
you that the doctors
00:38:22.73\00:38:25.23
that the woman sought
represents the substitutes
00:38:25.27\00:38:30.14
that the church
continues to adopt.
00:38:30.17\00:38:34.01
The reason why the
church seems lifeless today
00:38:34.04\00:38:37.78
is because she has accepted
the prescriptions of doctors
00:38:37.81\00:38:41.48
rather than the touch of Jesus.
00:38:41.52\00:38:44.39
Amen.
00:38:44.42\00:38:46.25
I also suggest to you
00:38:46.29\00:38:47.66
that the church of the last days
00:38:51.33\00:38:53.60
is a woman with an issue.
00:38:53.63\00:38:56.70
Here are some of the issues.
00:38:59.90\00:39:01.64
Here are some of the
physicians that she went to see.
00:39:01.67\00:39:04.37
Here are some of the physicians
that the last day church,
00:39:04.41\00:39:07.11
a lot of
churches included in this,
00:39:07.14\00:39:08.74
but I'm particularly concerned
00:39:08.78\00:39:10.35
about the
Seventh-day Adventist church
00:39:10.38\00:39:11.71
because this is the woman
that God wants to be healthy
00:39:11.75\00:39:14.22
so that everybody
else can be healthy.
00:39:14.25\00:39:15.82
Amen.
00:39:15.85\00:39:17.89
Here's one of the physicians
that this woman went to see.
00:39:17.92\00:39:20.79
It began a long time
ago in the Garden of Eden.
00:39:20.82\00:39:24.43
The first
encountered that she had
00:39:24.46\00:39:26.56
with the wrong
physician was a physician
00:39:26.59\00:39:28.96
by the name of Satan,
a deceptive physician.
00:39:29.00\00:39:33.64
He led her to
disbelieve the Word of God.
00:39:33.67\00:39:37.61
There are people nowadays
00:39:37.64\00:39:40.04
that are still
trying to figure out
00:39:40.08\00:39:41.88
which translation
is the safest one.
00:39:41.91\00:39:44.31
Now, my brother and my
sister, it ain't the translation
00:39:44.35\00:39:47.08
that's your problem,
it's your heart's condition.
00:39:47.12\00:39:48.95
Come on and say amen.
00:39:48.98\00:39:50.45
Somebody said,
"Oh, I got the NIV now.
00:39:50.49\00:39:51.82
I'm gonna be saved."
00:39:51.85\00:39:53.19
I got the King
James, I'm gonna be saved."
00:39:53.22\00:39:54.62
And so this is
battle, all this paperwork,
00:39:54.66\00:39:56.66
and spending money on
don't buy that translation,
00:39:56.69\00:39:58.96
buy this one.
00:39:58.99\00:40:00.33
If you use that
one, you'll be in dark,
00:40:00.36\00:40:01.70
use this one,
you'll be in light.
00:40:01.73\00:40:03.06
You get me now?
00:40:03.10\00:40:04.43
Lot of issues
over the translation.
00:40:04.47\00:40:05.97
The translation of the
Bible is not the issue,
00:40:06.00\00:40:08.27
the translation of
your heart is the issue.
00:40:08.30\00:40:13.48
The church is
torn by all the doctors
00:40:13.51\00:40:15.08
that are questioning
the integrity of God's word.
00:40:15.11\00:40:18.38
Read Time
magazine, Newsweek magazine,
00:40:18.41\00:40:21.65
archeological magazines.
00:40:21.68\00:40:23.02
They're all
trying to figure out,
00:40:23.05\00:40:24.39
"Do we have enough evidence
00:40:24.42\00:40:25.95
to accept the fact
that we enough of proof
00:40:25.99\00:40:29.56
that the Word of God is true?"
00:40:29.59\00:40:31.03
Somebody said on
CNN, "If you had proof
00:40:31.06\00:40:33.13
that the Word of God is true,
you'll no longer need faith."
00:40:33.16\00:40:37.17
CNN.
00:40:37.20\00:40:39.63
Brethren, we are saved
by grace through faith.
00:40:39.67\00:40:41.44
What do you say?
I don't need proof.
00:40:41.47\00:40:43.34
The proof is my life is
not the way it used to be.
00:40:43.37\00:40:45.77
Come on and say amen.
00:40:45.81\00:40:47.34
That's the proof we need.
00:40:47.38\00:40:48.71
And the issue is not
the integrity of God's word,
00:40:48.74\00:40:52.01
it is the lack of integrity
in those who are handling
00:40:52.05\00:40:55.65
and
misrepresenting the Word of God.
00:40:55.68\00:40:57.95
He says, "When my word goes out,
00:40:57.99\00:40:59.65
it will not return to
me void, it will accomplish
00:40:59.69\00:41:02.66
what I've designed
for it to accomplish."
00:41:02.69\00:41:04.89
So God's word is safe.
00:41:04.93\00:41:06.63
Amen. Amen.
00:41:06.66\00:41:09.03
They are those who don't know
00:41:09.06\00:41:10.40
whether or not the
Word of God is necessary.
00:41:10.43\00:41:12.27
People come to
church without their Bibles.
00:41:12.30\00:41:14.90
Sabbath morning, I see people
coming to church and I say,
00:41:14.94\00:41:17.11
"This is not a fashion show.
00:41:17.14\00:41:18.47
This is a place to worship God."
00:41:18.51\00:41:19.97
Amen.
00:41:20.01\00:41:21.34
How are you gonna go out
in a battle without a sword?
00:41:21.38\00:41:24.81
We're in a battle.
00:41:24.85\00:41:26.41
The devil is...
00:41:26.45\00:41:27.78
Matter of fact,
think about this,
00:41:27.82\00:41:29.15
imagine going to Iraq.
00:41:29.18\00:41:30.65
You got your whole uniform on.
00:41:30.69\00:41:33.46
You see where I'm
heading with this?
00:41:33.49\00:41:35.49
And you see an enemy brigade
00:41:35.52\00:41:37.09
approaching you
and you go, "Get back!
00:41:37.13\00:41:39.43
Get back!"
00:41:39.46\00:41:41.16
And then look for
you weapon and they stand
00:41:41.20\00:41:43.40
and laugh at you
because you have no weapon.
00:41:43.43\00:41:46.20
I am suggesting to
you that the only way
00:41:46.23\00:41:49.24
that we can be
safe in these last days
00:41:49.27\00:41:51.37
is learn how to use
the sword of the spirit,
00:41:51.41\00:41:54.74
which is the Word of God.
00:41:54.78\00:41:57.71
The remedy is right here.
00:41:57.75\00:41:59.08
Here is the prescription.
00:41:59.11\00:42:01.28
The Word of God
never returns to Him void.
00:42:01.32\00:42:05.12
That's the deceptive physician.
00:42:05.15\00:42:07.22
But then there is
the worldly physician.
00:42:07.26\00:42:09.82
You see, the woman
went to doctors all her life
00:42:09.86\00:42:12.16
and they couldn't
give her the answer.
00:42:12.19\00:42:13.53
Now there's the
worldly physician.
00:42:13.56\00:42:15.06
You know, when Eve fell
in the Garden of Eden...
00:42:15.10\00:42:17.47
You got to
follow me on this one.
00:42:17.50\00:42:19.37
When Eve fell in
the Garden of Eden,
00:42:19.40\00:42:21.84
she replaced the glory of God
00:42:21.87\00:42:24.87
with an apron
made of fig leaves.
00:42:24.91\00:42:27.14
Don't go there
before I get there.
00:42:30.78\00:42:33.82
Today, I will suggest
to you that when you go
00:42:33.85\00:42:36.69
to some Adventist churches,
the way that women dress,
00:42:36.72\00:42:41.32
it looks more like
the Eve after the fall
00:42:41.36\00:42:43.86
than the Eve before the fall.
00:42:43.89\00:42:45.69
Amen.
00:42:45.73\00:42:47.06
Am I telling the truth?
00:42:47.10\00:42:48.43
Yes.
00:42:48.46\00:42:49.80
Yes.
00:42:49.83\00:42:51.17
It's a spiritual indication
00:42:51.20\00:42:52.80
that there's something wrong
00:42:58.77\00:43:00.21
with the woman.
00:43:00.24\00:43:01.58
She's got an issue about
God's standards of dress.
00:43:01.61\00:43:05.95
I will suggest to you
that there was an era that,
00:43:05.98\00:43:10.49
when it really did
matter how you looked
00:43:10.52\00:43:13.09
when you came to church.
00:43:13.12\00:43:15.02
Some women say,
00:43:15.06\00:43:16.39
"I don't like the
way men look at me."
00:43:16.42\00:43:18.83
And the men say, "I
don't like the way they dress."
00:43:18.86\00:43:20.96
I will say the
problem is in both camps.
00:43:21.00\00:43:23.03
Amen.
00:43:23.06\00:43:24.40
But we ought to come
00:43:24.43\00:43:25.77
into God's
house as Timothy said,
00:43:25.80\00:43:27.60
"The issue is not
God's method of adornment,
00:43:27.64\00:43:31.04
the issue is the
method of dress prescribed
00:43:31.07\00:43:35.51
by the doctors of fashion."
00:43:35.54\00:43:37.71
So women come to church
00:43:44.09\00:43:45.42
with tattoos all over the place,
00:43:45.45\00:43:46.79
and they wanna show it.
00:43:46.82\00:43:48.76
Bellies showing.
00:43:48.79\00:43:51.69
Make sure the back of the
dress is as low to the hip
00:43:51.73\00:43:54.06
as it possibly can be.
00:43:54.10\00:43:56.53
Make sure the top is as far down
00:43:56.56\00:43:57.97
so that they can't
see the tattoo here.
00:43:58.00\00:44:00.64
There's got to
be something wrong.
00:44:00.67\00:44:02.10
The woman's got an issue.
00:44:02.14\00:44:03.51
And if that woman
who has an issue with
00:44:03.54\00:44:05.47
God's reform and dress
00:44:05.51\00:44:07.08
doesn't get in touch with Jesus,
00:44:07.11\00:44:09.14
there will be no change.
00:44:09.18\00:44:11.21
But I'm
suggesting that God has come
00:44:11.25\00:44:13.42
not to change our theology alone
00:44:13.45\00:44:15.35
but the way out
life's are lived.
00:44:15.38\00:44:17.39
What do you say?
00:44:17.42\00:44:19.89
Paul says to Timothy
that, "There ought to be a way
00:44:19.92\00:44:25.19
that women
professing Godliness dresses."
00:44:25.23\00:44:30.37
And we ought not follow
the fashions of the world.
00:44:30.40\00:44:32.40
What do you say church?
00:44:32.43\00:44:33.77
Amen.
00:44:33.80\00:44:35.14
So there's an issue there.
00:44:35.17\00:44:37.31
The integrity of God's Word.
00:44:37.34\00:44:39.47
The fashions of the world.
00:44:39.51\00:44:41.04
And the woman is
looking for all the issues.
00:44:41.08\00:44:42.54
She figured, "If
I can dress right,
00:44:42.58\00:44:43.91
then I'll be acceptable."
00:44:43.95\00:44:45.28
Brethren, what we
need is not the garments
00:44:45.31\00:44:46.95
Eve had after the
fall, we need the garment
00:44:46.98\00:44:49.55
she said before the fall,
the righteousness of Christ.
00:44:49.58\00:44:53.25
There's another issue,
there's another problem there,
00:44:53.29\00:44:55.32
another issue.
00:44:55.36\00:44:56.69
I call this one the
disguised physician.
00:44:56.73\00:45:00.10
He looks like a physician.
00:45:00.13\00:45:01.46
But He's not really a physician.
00:45:01.50\00:45:02.83
You know why?
00:45:02.86\00:45:04.20
Because this
physician has prescribed
00:45:04.23\00:45:05.67
that if you get rid of
the gift of inspiration,
00:45:05.70\00:45:08.14
you'll be better off.
00:45:08.17\00:45:10.21
Are you following me?
00:45:10.24\00:45:12.54
See we tell it
like it is here at 3ABN.
00:45:12.57\00:45:14.54
Can you handle that?
00:45:14.58\00:45:16.38
This physician is saying
that the inspirational gift
00:45:16.41\00:45:19.85
is not necessary.
00:45:19.88\00:45:21.25
So you go to some churches,
some Adventist churches,
00:45:21.28\00:45:23.79
where they are
throwing out Ellen White,
00:45:23.82\00:45:26.62
where they will make the...
00:45:26.65\00:45:27.99
They'll do it like
they're gaining something.
00:45:28.02\00:45:30.26
They'll just drop her
books in the garbage can
00:45:30.29\00:45:32.29
and that's why some places
you go are getting darker,
00:45:32.33\00:45:35.40
not brighter.
00:45:35.43\00:45:38.33
But I'm saying to you
today, the issue is not
00:45:38.37\00:45:41.24
Ellen White's inspiration
but the lack of inspiration
00:45:41.27\00:45:44.31
in those who reject
God's gift of prophecy.
00:45:44.34\00:45:49.68
Believe in the Lord your God
00:45:49.71\00:45:51.08
and so shall you be established.
00:45:51.11\00:45:53.28
Believe in His prophets
and so shall you prosper.
00:45:53.31\00:45:58.35
I don't throw her writings out.
00:45:58.39\00:45:59.72
Matter of fact, I
want to say today,
00:45:59.75\00:46:01.09
when I couldn't read
the Bible, I opened the book
00:46:01.12\00:46:02.59
"The Great Controversy,"
00:46:02.62\00:46:03.96
and it lead me
back to the Bible.
00:46:03.99\00:46:05.33
Amen. Amen.
00:46:05.36\00:46:06.70
She does not need
a degree in Greek,
00:46:06.73\00:46:08.30
God understands Greek.
00:46:08.33\00:46:10.03
He can tell her what it
means when she writes it down.
00:46:10.07\00:46:12.30
All these
doctors of theology think
00:46:12.33\00:46:14.34
that they're
smarter than Ellen White.
00:46:14.37\00:46:16.20
Well, my brother the
spirit that was in her life
00:46:16.24\00:46:18.37
could be in there's too.
00:46:18.41\00:46:19.74
But the lack of
integrity and handling that God
00:46:19.77\00:46:22.78
has given is the
reason why the church
00:46:22.81\00:46:24.68
is losing blood even today.
00:46:24.71\00:46:26.98
That's right. Amen.
00:46:27.02\00:46:28.92
There's one more physician.
00:46:28.95\00:46:30.35
There's so many more.
00:46:30.39\00:46:32.19
The music physician.
00:46:32.22\00:46:35.19
Amen.
00:46:35.22\00:46:37.66
He says, "You need more
music to be acceptable to God."
00:46:37.69\00:46:43.33
The reason the
Seventh-day Adventist church
00:46:43.37\00:46:45.13
is veering off
course is that the doctors
00:46:45.17\00:46:47.54
have given the women a
prescription for more music,
00:46:47.57\00:46:51.11
and they have been
told that if you have...
00:46:51.14\00:46:54.04
She's been told that
00:46:54.08\00:46:55.41
if you have more
musical instruments,
00:46:55.44\00:46:56.78
then your worship
becomes more acceptable.
00:46:56.81\00:46:59.15
How can I make my
worship more appropriate?
00:47:10.59\00:47:13.56
Get more musical
instruments, get more music,
00:47:13.60\00:47:17.63
some places you
get 10-minute sermon,
00:47:17.67\00:47:19.63
which is in fact a sermonette
and 55 minutes of music.
00:47:19.67\00:47:23.00
Right.
00:47:23.04\00:47:24.41
Music is good.
00:47:24.44\00:47:25.97
It's designed to glorify God.
00:47:26.01\00:47:27.81
Can you say amen? Amen.
00:47:27.84\00:47:29.18
But a revival has never
been sustained by music,
00:47:29.21\00:47:33.25
only by the Word of God.
00:47:33.28\00:47:35.05
Amen.
00:47:35.08\00:47:36.42
Jesus didn't give the people
00:47:36.45\00:47:37.79
that were hungry a song to sing.
00:47:37.82\00:47:39.15
He gave them something to eat.
00:47:39.19\00:47:42.29
Eat this.
00:47:42.32\00:47:43.66
When the women...
00:47:43.69\00:47:45.03
When Jairus's
daughter was raised,
00:47:45.06\00:47:46.39
He didn't say,
"Here's a song to hum."
00:47:46.43\00:47:47.76
He said, "Give
her something to eat."
00:47:47.80\00:47:49.73
When the multitude
00:47:49.76\00:47:51.10
was languishing
in the wilderness,
00:47:51.13\00:47:52.53
He said to His disciples,
"Give them something to eat."
00:47:52.57\00:47:55.77
Brethren, revival
will only be sustained
00:47:55.80\00:47:58.14
if we can get
in touch with Jesus
00:47:58.17\00:48:00.31
and give them something to eat.
00:48:00.34\00:48:02.91
Amen.
00:48:02.94\00:48:04.28
The Word of God.
00:48:04.31\00:48:05.65
Some people say,
"Now is that instrument
00:48:05.68\00:48:07.12
inappropriate or appropriate?"
00:48:07.15\00:48:08.55
Brethren, the problem is
not the inanimate instrument.
00:48:08.58\00:48:12.12
The problem is the
animate one. That's right.
00:48:12.15\00:48:14.92
It's not what
instrument you use.
00:48:14.96\00:48:17.26
It's the one who's
using the instrument.
00:48:17.29\00:48:19.93
David the Psalmist
said, "Let everything
00:48:24.93\00:48:26.27
that has breath
praise the Lord."
00:48:26.30\00:48:27.64
Can you say praise the Lord?
00:48:27.67\00:48:29.04
Psalms 150:6, and I'm gonna wind
00:48:29.07\00:48:31.17
the other ones up very quickly,
00:48:31.21\00:48:32.54
"You got the doctors of diet.
00:48:32.57\00:48:34.08
They prescribe clean colons
and ignore corrupt hearts."
00:48:34.11\00:48:37.88
You got the
doctors of offshoots,
00:48:37.91\00:48:39.91
they prescribe the
breakup of the church
00:48:39.95\00:48:41.98
will make it more sound.
00:48:42.02\00:48:43.82
You got the
doctors of education.
00:48:43.85\00:48:45.35
They prescribe higher
learning and lower standards.
00:48:45.39\00:48:48.96
You got the doctors of politics.
00:48:48.99\00:48:50.53
They divided the church
00:48:50.56\00:48:51.89
into conservatives and liberals.
00:48:51.93\00:48:53.70
I've never found that
word in the Bible anywhere.
00:48:53.73\00:48:56.06
And I always try my
best to kill that terminology
00:48:56.10\00:48:59.83
because it has no
place in God's house.
00:48:59.87\00:49:01.74
It is outside in the world.
00:49:01.77\00:49:03.47
Not in the God's church.
00:49:03.51\00:49:04.84
Amen. Amen.
00:49:04.87\00:49:06.21
That's why when
election time comes,
00:49:06.24\00:49:07.58
we fight with each other.
00:49:07.61\00:49:09.34
What are you, a
conservative or liberal?
00:49:09.38\00:49:10.71
Brethren, you
don't conserve prayers.
00:49:10.75\00:49:12.45
You make your prayers liberal.
00:49:12.48\00:49:15.28
And when come
time paying offering,
00:49:15.32\00:49:16.95
make it liberal.
00:49:16.99\00:49:18.45
Amen.
00:49:18.49\00:49:19.82
When it comes to
doing work for God,
00:49:19.85\00:49:21.19
be a liberal.
00:49:21.22\00:49:23.63
Give liberally.
00:49:23.66\00:49:25.39
God's not looking for
people to conserve anything.
00:49:25.43\00:49:27.33
Conserving energy?
00:49:27.36\00:49:28.70
No, you don't rest till you get
to heaven unless you die first.
00:49:28.73\00:49:33.10
Then there's the
doctors of control.
00:49:33.13\00:49:35.00
Those who think that they
can make something happen.
00:49:35.04\00:49:37.91
They forgot that
God is in control.
00:49:37.94\00:49:39.64
What do you say?
00:49:39.67\00:49:41.04
So, let me ask the
questions as I close.
00:49:41.08\00:49:43.91
Are you sick and tired
of being sick and tired?
00:49:43.95\00:49:47.82
Then reach out to Jesus.
00:49:47.85\00:49:49.58
If you're tired of
00:49:49.62\00:49:50.95
all the
substitutes for Christianity,
00:49:50.99\00:49:54.02
it's time to reach out to Jesus.
00:49:54.06\00:49:56.12
Can you say amen?
00:49:56.16\00:49:57.49
If you are ready to be a
strong thriving Christian,
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not an insipid bleeding
one, it's time to do what?
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Reach out to Jesus.
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If you no longer want
to be known as a woman
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with an issue but
a woman with a cure,
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reach out to Jesus.
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As I sing this
song, my brethren,
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I'll end with this
point, there is a difference
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between death and
life, and that issue
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and that
difference is not your songs,
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your theology, what
you wear, where you go.
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The difference between death
and life is first receiving
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a touch from Jesus.
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I pray that as you
listen to this song,
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the Lord can inspire
you today to reach out
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and get in touch with Jesus.
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Are you shackled
by a heavy burden?
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Living beneath a load of guilt
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And shame
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Let the hand of Jesus touch you
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And you'll no longer be the same
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Let's sing that
song. Are you ready?
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Here we go.
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He touched me
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O He touched me
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And oh the joy
that floods my soul
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Something happened
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And now I know
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He touched me and made me whole
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If the change
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since I met this blessed Savior
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And since He cleansed
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And made me whole
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Now I will never cease
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To praise Him
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I'll shout it
while eternity rolls
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Are you ready?
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Let's sing that
again to God's glory.
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He touched me
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Oh He touched me
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And oh the joy
that floods my soul
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For something happened
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And now I know Listen,
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Something happened
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And now I know
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Something happened
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And now I know
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He touched me
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Oh Jesus touched me
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And oh the joy
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Now floods my soul
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For something wonderful happen
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And now I know
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Jesus touched me
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And He's made me whole
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Amen.
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I believe the hour has come
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where the church
needs to reach out
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and touch Jesus.
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I believe we've
been known as a church
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that has issues for too long.
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And I believe when Jesus
comes, they are gonna be those
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that are gonna be saved
because they took the time
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to stand out from the
crowd, to not be comfortable
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with the flow of the crowd
but to dare to touch Jesus.
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I believe there's
somebody here today.
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See I came to camp meeting
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so I can get a touch from Jesus.
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And I want to leave
here different than I came,
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I want to go back
fighting with all the issues
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of the church
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whether or not we're
gonna be there or here,
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whether or not we're
in control here or that.
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I want to go back
knowing that the only one
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that is making a
difference in my life is Jesus.
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If you're that person, if
you want to be that person
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that goes home whole,
and somebody asked you,
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"What happened to you?"
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"I got a touch from Jesus."
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If you want to be in that crowd,
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the crowd of people that
are going to be made whole,
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just stand with me as we pray
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and ask God,
those of you at home
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that have joined
the program by satellite
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or by television or
by internet or by radio,
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I'm gonna pray right now
that God can change our lives
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and all of us can be made
whole by the touch of Jesus.
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Father God, in heaven,
only You have the remedy
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for the last day
church, help us to buy that
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eyesalve that we may see,
help us to get on your garments
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that the shame of our
nakedness will not appear,
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help us to respond
to the knocking of Jesus
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that we can open the door
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and the Great
Physician can come in
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and change us.
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Lord, thank You for
the fact that this church
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is Your supreme object of
love and You're gonna change us
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and save us.
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But, Lord, give us
the gumption to reach out
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and touch Jesus.
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And when we do that,
Father, we will praise You
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and honor You
and give You glory.
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In Jesus name we pray.
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Amen.
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