I'm gonna ask the
pastor to come out,
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because we share the same name.
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I'm C.A. Murray.
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Pastor Murray, good to see you.
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Good to see you, Pastor Murray.
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Good to be in your
church, Pastor Murray.
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Good to have you, Pastor Murray.
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You're looking
good, Pastor Murray.
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Well, so are you, Pastor Murray.
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I appreciate
that, Pastor Murray.
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Thank you, Pastor Murray.
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You're wonderful
fellow, Pastor Murray.
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So are you, Pastor Murray.
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I appreciate that.
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Now I'm just Pastor Murray.
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This is famous Murray.
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So, I need to ask you.
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I know what it
feels like to be a Murray.
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How does it feel to be famous?
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Pastor Murray, it
feels wonderful to be famous.
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I don't know how long
we've known each other,
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it's been little,
a good little while.
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Yeah, quite a few years.
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Yeah, quite a few years.
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Both Oakwood college grads.
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Yes, yes, we are.
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Yeah, I dare say, I think
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I got there a
year or two before you.
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Well probably
about four or five years.
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Yeah, no a year or two.
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But I must say, I got
there very, very young.
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Praise the Lord.
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Pastor, how long
have you been here?
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I've been here
about two years now.
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Uh-huh, so you're
still on the honeymoon.
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Praise the Lord. Oh, yes, yes.
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That honeymoon will continue...
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Amen. Are folks
treating you good?
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Oh, they're so
wonderful congregation here.
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Praise the Lord. Wonderful.
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Tell us a little
bit about the church,
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some of the community needs.
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What are you doing to meet
the needs of the community?
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Just tell us a
little bit about that?
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I'm grateful that
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this church is very much
involved in the community.
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When I came here this
church has a feeding program,
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we spend thousands
of dollars every year
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to make sure that children
and underprivileged families
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have food on their tables.
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We spend money also
in helping individuals
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with various
needs rent, utility,
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you name it, we are involved.
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And of course,
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our community service department
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feeds over thousands
of individuals every year.
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So we are very much involved.
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Amen, that's what I like
here about urban churches
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that are meeting the
needs of the communities
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that surround their church,
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that means you are
fulfilling the mission.
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Yes, yes we are.
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And in addition to that,
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we have very strong health
and temperance department,
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who is involved in addressing
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the physical
need of the individual
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do a lot of scanning,
testing and what have you.
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So that we can
address some of the problems
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that we are
facing in the urban area
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and especially
with the black community
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some of those medical
issues that we are noted for.
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Now, I'm gonna
ask you the truth,
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I want you to be honest to me,
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just me and you,
nobody is gonna know.
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Okay.
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'Cause you're not, you're not
a native of Chicago, are you?
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No, I'm not a native of Chicago,
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however, I did live in
Gary quite a few years.
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As a matter of fact,
that's where the Lord
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led me to this
truth in Gary, Indiana.
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All right, so then
this, the cold of Chicago
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is not a great shock to you.
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Well, let's put it in this way.
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I've been out of this
whether about 30 years.
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So to come back into it, I
had to make some adjustments
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but
nevertheless, the Lord is able.
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Amen. Praise the Lord.
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You got a wonderful church
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and we gonna have a
wonderful time this evening.
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Pastor, God
bless you. Thank you.
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We'll talk a little bit more.
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Okay, Pastor Murray.
All right. God bless.
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We were in the
back just a little ago
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and someone said,
hey Pastor Murray.
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We both whipped around
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and I suspect we
gonna have that problem
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through out the
course of the weekend,
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I thank Pastor Murray.
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My Famous name
sake for allowing us
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to be here in the Shiloh Church,
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it's a wonderful church.
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Next up is the youth
director of the conference,
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we are calling him out,
this is Pastor Leon George,
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the director of Youth
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for the Great
Lake Region Conference.
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Pastor, good to have you here!
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Thank you.
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Have you brought
your fans with you?
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Praise the Lord.
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Couple of things,
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how long have you been
serving as youth director?
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I have been
serving as a youth director
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for three month now.
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Oh, still a baby in the office.
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That's right.
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Let me ask this.
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As you look at
the challenge of youth
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in this large
metropolitan areas,
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Chicago in particular.
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What do you see as
a number one problem
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facing youth in
our church today?
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Well, the number
one problem will be
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drugs, alcohol and gangs.
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Drugs, alcohol and gangs,
I think we can say those are
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pretty much universal
on all of our large cities.
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Indeed.
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You just got in.
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You're just
getting your feet wet,
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but what kinds of
programs are you visioning
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and envisioning to try
to meet those challenges?
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Well, some of the programs
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that we are thinking
about is support groups,
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where young people face a
lot of stress for moments.
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And if they have people
that they could turn to,
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it will be an
alternative to turn into gangs,
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turn into drugs and alcohol.
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So that's one of the
major things we're looking at.
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Do you have good youth leaders
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around the conference
people to support your program?
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Oh, yes, most definitely
and though we have Gordon,
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we still have
ongoing training program
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through the
master guide program.
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And that continuously
train leaders every year.
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We invest master guides.
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Praise God. Praise God.
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So you got a great
deal of work ahead of you.
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But our God is able, doesn't He?
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Definitely.
Definitely. Praise the Lord.
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Let's get the meeting
started right with prayer.
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Pastor, would you
pray for us please?
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Sure.
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Almighty Father, we
thank You this evening
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for bringing us
here amidst the rain
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to the Shiloh
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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We thank You for Your presence.
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We pray that Your Holy Spirit
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will now move among
this people present.
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And those who will be looking
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at this program
around the world,
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we pray a special
blessing this evening
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upon Your word
as it is delivered.
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Father we pray that
hearts will be moved and touched
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and decisions will be
made for time and for eternity.
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Continues to bless and guide
into proceeding this evening,
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we pray in Jesus' name, amen.
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Amen. Praise the Lord.
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Pastor, thank you so much.
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It's a pleasure. God bless you.
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We have some music now,
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coming from
Sister Shawna Campbell
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and she is going to be singing.
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"He Touched Me."
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He touched me Oh,
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He touched me
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And oh the joy
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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
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And made
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Me whole
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Shackled by
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A heavy burden
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'Neath a load of guilt
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And shame
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Then the hand of Jesus
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Touched me
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And now I am no longer
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The same
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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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That floods my soul
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Something happened
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And now I know
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Jesus touched me
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And made
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Me whole
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Since I met this
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Blessed Savior
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Since He cleansed
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And made me whole
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I will never cease
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To praise Him
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I'll shout it
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While eternity
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Rolls
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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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That floods my soul
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Something happened
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And now
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I know
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Jesus touched me
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And made
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Me
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Whole
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Very well done.
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The pastor said that
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he had a wealth of
talent in this church,
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and I believe that is true.
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We've got some more
music coming right now.
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And we got testimonies,
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you're going to hear
this stuff all night long,
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you got to forgive me
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'Cause we're just
full of this stuff
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of what God is
doing and God's goodness.
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Let's see we
got "His Messengers"
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they gonna be singing
wonderful words of life,
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and I'm told this is
a fine sounding quartet.
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Good looking bunch of brethren.
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Gentlemen, good
to have you here.
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We gonna have you do one
song then I got to interview,
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then we'll bring
you back, all right.
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Very good, sing for Jesus.
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Sing them over again to
me Wonderful words of life
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Let me more of their beauty
see Wonderful words of life
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Words of life and
beauty Teach me faith and duty
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Beautiful words, wonderful words
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Wonderful words of life
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Beautiful words, wonderful words
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Wonderful words of life
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Sweetly echo the Gospel
call Wonderful words of life
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Offer pardon and peace to
all Wonderful words of life
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Jesus, only Savior
Sanctify us forever
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Beautiful words, wonderful words
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Wonderful words of life
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Beautiful words, wonderful words
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Wonderful words of life
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Beautiful words, wonderful words
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Wonderful words
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Of life
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Our subject for this evening
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is by many or by few
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subtitled any person,
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any weapon, any situation.
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I ask you to turn
with me in the word of God
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to 1 Samuel Chapter 13.
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1 Samuel Chapter 13
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and we'll read just
couple of verses there
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and move to 1
Samuel Chapter 14...
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and finish this story.
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1 Samuel 13:22 and 23,
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then the first several
verses of the ensuing chapter.
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The word of God
says, "And so it came about
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on the day of battle
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that there was
neither sword nor spear
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found in the hand
of any of the people
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who were with Saul and Jonathan.
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But they were found with
Saul and Jonathan his son.
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And the garrison
of the Philistines
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went out to the
pass out at Michmash."
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Chapter 14:1, "Now
it happened one day
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that Jonathan the son of Saul
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said to the young
man who bore his armor,
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"Come, let us go over to
the Philistines' garrison
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that is on the other side."
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But he did not tell his father."
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I'm reading from 1 Samuel 14:2,
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"And Saul was sitting
in the outskirts of Gibeah
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under a pomegranate
tree which is in Migron.
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The people who were with
him were about six hundred men.
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Ahijah the son of
Ahitub, Ichabod's brother,
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the son of
Phinehas, the son of Eli,
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the priest in
Shiloh, was wearing an ephod.
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But the people did not
know that Jonathan had gone.
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Between the passes,
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by which
Jonathan sought to go over
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to the Philistines' garrison,
there was a sharp rock..."
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It simply means that
there were two cliffs,
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Philistines were on one mountain
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sharp cliff
valley in the middle,
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Israeli forces on
the other mountain.
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"The name of one was
Bozez, the other was Seneh.
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The front of one face
northward opposite Michmash,
00:17:24.14\00:17:28.24
the other
southward opposite Gibeah."
00:17:28.28\00:17:30.61
So, you've got one
mountain facing north,
00:17:30.65\00:17:32.58
one mountain facing south,
00:17:32.61\00:17:34.02
two armies are
posing on each mountain,
00:17:34.05\00:17:35.98
nobody in the middle.
00:17:36.02\00:17:38.65
"Then Jonathan
said to the young man
00:17:38.69\00:17:40.16
who bore his armor,
00:17:40.19\00:17:41.52
"Come, let us go over
00:17:41.56\00:17:42.89
to the garrison of
these uncircumcised,
00:17:42.92\00:17:44.89
term of disrespect,
00:17:44.93\00:17:47.23
it may be that the
Lord will work for us.
00:17:47.26\00:17:50.70
For nothing restrains the Lord
00:17:50.73\00:17:53.00
from saving by many or by few."
00:17:53.03\00:17:58.37
Father God,
00:18:00.08\00:18:01.98
speak to our
hearts even this night.
00:18:02.01\00:18:05.25
Give us a word from the Lord
00:18:05.28\00:18:08.75
and we thank You
in Jesus' name, amen.
00:18:08.78\00:18:14.32
In the year 1995
I've paid my second visit
00:18:14.36\00:18:18.36
to the city of London,
England to preach there.
00:18:18.39\00:18:22.90
And it was a very memorable
visit for number of reasons.
00:18:22.93\00:18:27.74
One, I embarrassed
myself by trying to preach
00:18:27.77\00:18:30.54
on the same day that I
flew, forgot all about jetlag.
00:18:30.57\00:18:34.41
Sat on the pulpit even
as they were announcing
00:18:34.44\00:18:36.54
that I was getting up to
speak and promptly felt asleep.
00:18:36.58\00:18:42.92
But I also remember the
visit because as we were driving
00:18:42.95\00:18:47.42
through the city
of London on the bus,
00:18:47.46\00:18:51.43
I noticed something
that I had never seen before
00:18:51.46\00:18:54.43
or at least I hadn't noticed
it before when I was in London
00:18:54.46\00:18:56.70
and that was all
over the city of London,
00:18:56.73\00:19:00.50
I saw the word
courage all over London,
00:19:00.54\00:19:05.77
on billboards, on placards,
on walls, on storefronts,
00:19:05.81\00:19:09.24
everywhere I
looked, I saw courage,
00:19:09.28\00:19:10.75
courage, courage, courage.
00:19:10.78\00:19:12.18
And, you know, as I'm
thinking about the word courage,
00:19:12.21\00:19:14.15
I need to encourage you
00:19:14.18\00:19:15.52
may be looking
for Danny Shelton,
00:19:15.55\00:19:16.89
he will be here
all day tomorrow.
00:19:16.92\00:19:19.25
He has worked
quite a lot this week
00:19:19.29\00:19:21.72
and when I think about courage,
00:19:21.76\00:19:23.09
I've got to think
about our boss Danny Shelton
00:19:23.12\00:19:25.39
who is the man of courage.
00:19:25.43\00:19:27.56
So he will be with
us all day on tomorrow
00:19:27.60\00:19:29.50
and ask me to tender
to him to you for him
00:19:29.53\00:19:33.74
his love and he will be here,
00:19:33.77\00:19:36.00
his heart is
here even this night.
00:19:36.04\00:19:38.37
But everywhere I looked,
00:19:38.41\00:19:39.74
I saw courage, courage, courage,
00:19:39.77\00:19:41.51
in red and
white and red and gold
00:19:41.54\00:19:43.31
and blue and gold
00:19:43.35\00:19:44.68
all over there
was this word courage.
00:19:44.71\00:19:46.82
And I thought to
myself, you know,
00:19:46.85\00:19:48.18
what a nice motto to put up
00:19:48.22\00:19:50.15
before the people
this word courage.
00:19:50.19\00:19:53.29
It seems so very
nice as I thought about
00:19:53.32\00:19:55.32
the history of that
rather small island England
00:19:55.36\00:19:58.59
and the long
history of courageous acts
00:19:58.63\00:20:01.43
that have been done
by the British people.
00:20:01.46\00:20:04.57
I said what a nice motto to
put up all over the country.
00:20:04.60\00:20:08.30
I thought about
the history of England,
00:20:08.34\00:20:09.67
Winston Churchill during
the height of World War II,
00:20:09.70\00:20:11.87
when the Germans were bombing
00:20:11.91\00:20:13.27
the city of
London every single day.
00:20:13.31\00:20:15.34
Winston
Churchill got on the radio
00:20:15.38\00:20:17.05
to try to rally
his people and he said,
00:20:17.08\00:20:21.22
"We will fight in the
land, we will fight on the sea,
00:20:21.25\00:20:23.45
we will fight in the
streets, we will never give up,
00:20:23.49\00:20:25.95
he said, this is
indeed our finest hour."
00:20:25.99\00:20:29.82
Further back, I thought
about the Spanish Armada.
00:20:29.86\00:20:32.46
You heard when Spain
sent all of those ships
00:20:32.49\00:20:35.36
up to England to
try of capture it
00:20:35.40\00:20:37.13
and this small British fleet
00:20:37.17\00:20:39.10
defeated this
large Spanish fleet,
00:20:39.13\00:20:41.60
there was and there is this long
00:20:41.64\00:20:44.07
and courageous list of
acts done by the British people
00:20:44.11\00:20:48.98
that prove that
they are courageous.
00:20:49.01\00:20:52.61
Back in the mid of '90s,
00:20:52.65\00:20:55.82
things were not
going that well in England.
00:20:55.85\00:21:01.22
Diana was still
alive, Charles was alive
00:21:01.26\00:21:04.96
but rumors had got now
that the marriage was dying.
00:21:04.99\00:21:10.00
We began to hear the
name Camilla Parker Bowles
00:21:10.03\00:21:13.10
in the headlines.
00:21:13.13\00:21:15.40
Then Fergie was
having some problems
00:21:15.44\00:21:17.54
and Margaret Thatcher
was slipping from power
00:21:17.57\00:21:20.48
and it occurred to me that
this putting up of the word
00:21:20.51\00:21:23.81
courage all over town was a
way of the British people saying
00:21:23.85\00:21:27.55
that even though
we are having problems
00:21:27.58\00:21:30.25
with Diana and
Charles and Fergie
00:21:30.29\00:21:32.39
and things are not as
glorious as they once were.
00:21:32.42\00:21:35.79
Let's keeps our heads
up, let's keep our chins up
00:21:35.82\00:21:38.43
you know, pip pip, cheerio
and all that sort of stuff.
00:21:38.46\00:21:43.33
And I thought about
that, I said, you know,
00:21:43.37\00:21:44.73
that's something we
ought to do in United States.
00:21:44.77\00:21:46.50
We ought to put up
signs like that all over.
00:21:46.53\00:21:48.94
Churches ought to do that,
00:21:48.97\00:21:50.31
put up signs like
courage and faith and hope.
00:21:50.34\00:21:53.58
In fact, we did a little of that
00:21:53.61\00:21:54.94
in the Northeastern Conference
there in New York City.
00:21:54.98\00:21:57.91
You know, but truth
is a terrible thing.
00:21:57.95\00:22:01.35
Because I got off of the
bus and I got little closer
00:22:01.38\00:22:04.89
to some of those
signs and as I got closer,
00:22:04.92\00:22:08.22
I found out that
courage was a not a synonym
00:22:08.26\00:22:11.36
for a stout heart
and a stiff upper lip.
00:22:11.39\00:22:15.56
No, no, no, no, courage
was the synonym for Coors.
00:22:15.60\00:22:22.07
You all know what Coors is?
00:22:22.10\00:22:24.97
If you don't know what Coors is,
00:22:25.01\00:22:26.34
then think of it
this way, Bud-wei-ser.
00:22:26.37\00:22:33.05
Courage was the
thick brown foamy liquid
00:22:33.08\00:22:35.62
that the British down
by the court every night
00:22:35.65\00:22:37.82
before they
stumbled home from work.
00:22:37.85\00:22:40.56
The reason the
word courage pastors
00:22:40.59\00:22:42.32
on so many billboards
and so many walls is because
00:22:42.36\00:22:45.46
if you've been to
the city of London,
00:22:45.49\00:22:46.86
you can attest that
for a city of its size,
00:22:46.90\00:22:50.17
I don't think there is any
city that has more beer halls
00:22:50.20\00:22:53.00
or taverns or bars
or liquor establishments
00:22:53.03\00:22:56.34
or place to buy alcohol
than the city of London.
00:22:56.37\00:23:00.11
Everywhere you turn,
there's the place to get drunk
00:23:00.14\00:23:03.51
and on every other corner
00:23:03.55\00:23:04.88
there seems to be a
bakery or sweetshop.
00:23:04.91\00:23:06.48
I don't think
I've ever seen the town
00:23:06.51\00:23:08.55
with more beer
halls and bakeries
00:23:08.58\00:23:11.52
than the city of London.
00:23:11.55\00:23:14.12
Now, Praise God as a
Seventh-day Adventist pastor,
00:23:14.16\00:23:16.73
I had no time,
taste, talent or inclination
00:23:16.76\00:23:18.83
to visit any of
those beer halls,
00:23:18.86\00:23:20.76
but I did tried to hit
as many of those bakeries
00:23:20.80\00:23:22.60
as I thought I could.
00:23:22.63\00:23:25.73
It is amazing to me
that the people from England
00:23:25.77\00:23:28.24
don't have cirrhosis of
the liver and or diabetes.
00:23:28.27\00:23:33.64
So now, when I hear about
00:23:33.68\00:23:35.01
being fortified
with British courage,
00:23:35.04\00:23:37.51
I'm not as
impressed I used to be.
00:23:37.55\00:23:43.69
For truly the
jolly old Englanders
00:23:43.72\00:23:47.16
are full of courage.
00:23:47.19\00:23:51.39
But you will forgive
my pejorative English,
00:23:51.43\00:23:53.26
it ain't nothing to
be particularly proud of.
00:23:53.29\00:23:57.90
And if the truth been known
00:23:57.93\00:23:59.60
what passes itself of as
courage in our world today
00:23:59.63\00:24:03.87
is also nothing to be
particularly proud of.
00:24:03.91\00:24:09.64
Let me say
something obiter dictum,
00:24:09.68\00:24:11.01
it's not in my notes,
00:24:11.05\00:24:12.38
it's just a
passage occurs to me.
00:24:12.41\00:24:14.98
You know, we
Seventh-day Adventists
00:24:15.02\00:24:16.35
have nothing to be ashamed off.
00:24:16.38\00:24:17.95
Do you know that?
00:24:17.99\00:24:19.55
We have nothing
to be ashamed of.
00:24:19.59\00:24:20.92
We live in a world where
everybody is out of a closet.
00:24:20.96\00:24:23.49
Nobody is ashamed of nothing.
00:24:26.93\00:24:32.40
God's people?
00:24:32.43\00:24:34.77
Nothing to be ashamed
of, ladies and gentlemen.
00:24:34.80\00:24:37.71
Nothing to be ashamed of.
00:24:37.74\00:24:39.51
And what passes itself off
as courage in our world today,
00:24:39.54\00:24:42.21
nothing to be ashamed of.
00:24:42.24\00:24:43.58
If a congressmen vote a tax hike
00:24:43.61\00:24:45.01
in an elections year,
we call him courageous.
00:24:45.05\00:24:48.52
If a football or
basketball player,
00:24:48.55\00:24:50.39
some making 10, 20, 30
million dollars a year,
00:24:50.42\00:24:53.39
sprains his ankle
and plays in a big game,
00:24:53.42\00:24:55.56
we want to call him courageous.
00:24:55.59\00:24:56.93
Well, you are
making a million dollars.
00:24:56.96\00:25:01.50
Some 45 years ago,
00:25:01.53\00:25:03.26
a famous Hollywood actress
00:25:03.30\00:25:04.87
did the very first
nude scene in a movie
00:25:04.90\00:25:07.84
and she was universally praised
00:25:07.87\00:25:10.21
for having the courage
00:25:10.24\00:25:11.77
to take off her
clothes in public.
00:25:11.81\00:25:13.68
Several years ago
00:25:19.05\00:25:20.38
I was at the Phil
Donahue show in New York,
00:25:20.42\00:25:22.75
and it was the show
about men who beat their wives.
00:25:22.78\00:25:26.52
And at the end of the show,
00:25:26.55\00:25:27.89
they were applauded
for having the courage
00:25:27.92\00:25:29.62
to stand up in
public and tell the world
00:25:29.66\00:25:32.06
that they beat their wives.
00:25:32.09\00:25:35.73
In fact, one
courageous fellow said
00:25:35.76\00:25:37.40
"You know I give my
wife a beating every year,
00:25:37.43\00:25:38.97
I don't care
how good a woman is.
00:25:39.00\00:25:40.34
Every woman needs a
beating once a year."
00:25:40.37\00:25:45.07
And they were
those who applauded him.
00:25:45.11\00:25:50.78
My mother told me early on,
00:25:50.81\00:25:52.35
any man who hits
a woman is a coward.
00:25:52.38\00:25:58.59
And I know enough
about Spanish women
00:25:58.62\00:26:01.56
that any man
hits a Spanish woman
00:26:01.59\00:26:04.06
ought never go to sleep.
00:26:04.09\00:26:05.43
But anything passes off
itself for courage today.
00:26:11.30\00:26:17.17
We are so hero starved,
we are so role model starved,
00:26:17.21\00:26:20.61
we are so hungry
for somebody to imitate,
00:26:20.64\00:26:23.14
to emulate that anything
passes itself off for courage.
00:26:23.18\00:26:27.22
If anybody does
anything, we want to deify them
00:26:27.25\00:26:30.79
and make them a hero.
00:26:30.82\00:26:32.15
You got a fellow
now down in Florida,
00:26:32.19\00:26:33.92
calls himself Jesus Christ.
00:26:33.96\00:26:36.22
He's got a following.
00:26:36.26\00:26:38.29
People are listening to him.
00:26:38.33\00:26:40.46
We are so starved
for people to look up to
00:26:40.50\00:26:42.96
that anybody
stands up for anything
00:26:43.00\00:26:44.80
no matter how twisted or banal,
00:26:44.83\00:26:46.94
or sick or
degraded, they will get hailed
00:26:46.97\00:26:49.80
for having the
courage of their convictions.
00:26:49.84\00:26:54.08
And if the truth be known,
00:26:54.11\00:26:55.44
there is precious little courage
00:26:55.48\00:26:56.81
in our world today.
00:26:56.85\00:26:58.18
Most people don't
want to stand out.
00:26:58.21\00:26:59.95
Even some Adventists
are ashamed of their faith.
00:26:59.98\00:27:04.99
Thank God,
00:27:05.02\00:27:06.35
it wasn't that way in
this scripture lesson.
00:27:06.39\00:27:07.92
They realize that
courage is something that exists
00:27:07.96\00:27:09.99
and after doing a conversation
doesn't come in a bottle.
00:27:10.03\00:27:14.00
No, no, courage in 1
Samuel is shown in sweat, tears,
00:27:14.03\00:27:18.53
blood, toil, risk
taking and maybe even death.
00:27:18.57\00:27:21.50
You see if you want
to know about courage,
00:27:21.54\00:27:24.01
you don't ask
somebody like Michael Jordan,
00:27:24.04\00:27:26.34
you ask Nelson Mandela.
00:27:26.37\00:27:29.71
Ask somebody that has
to sacrifice something
00:27:29.74\00:27:31.95
for their belief.
00:27:31.98\00:27:33.31
As great as he is,
00:27:33.35\00:27:34.68
you don't ask Tiger
Woods about courage,
00:27:34.72\00:27:36.95
you ask Lech Walesa
or a Martin Luther King,
00:27:36.99\00:27:39.75
ask somebody who shed some blood
00:27:39.79\00:27:42.16
for what they believe.
00:27:42.19\00:27:45.59
I've heard people say,
00:27:45.63\00:27:46.96
well, I don't, you
know, I go to work,
00:27:47.00\00:27:48.33
and I don't tell
anybody about my faith,
00:27:48.36\00:27:50.10
I just try to live for Jesus,
00:27:50.13\00:27:51.73
I don't say
anything, you are chicken.
00:27:51.77\00:27:53.44
The word of God says
00:27:56.30\00:27:57.64
let the redeemed
of a Lord say so.
00:27:57.67\00:28:01.44
It was evident,
00:28:05.38\00:28:06.95
that there was
very little courage
00:28:06.98\00:28:08.78
in Israel during the days
of 1 Samuel Chapter 13 and 14.
00:28:08.82\00:28:14.26
Now Israel had recently
elected a young, handsome king
00:28:14.29\00:28:20.83
who had won a minor
battle with the Amalekites.
00:28:20.86\00:28:25.20
His name was Saul.
00:28:25.23\00:28:27.70
In fact Saul was
bigger and stronger
00:28:27.74\00:28:31.41
and better looking
than everybody else.
00:28:31.44\00:28:35.71
The election of Saul was
ostensibly a beauty contest.
00:28:35.74\00:28:41.05
It's pretty promptly tells us,
00:28:41.08\00:28:42.42
when the men and the women
saw this tall, gorgeous man
00:28:42.45\00:28:46.92
who is head and
shoulders above everybody else,
00:28:46.96\00:28:49.39
it was the women
who told their husbands
00:28:49.42\00:28:51.53
anybody who looks that
good has got to be the king.
00:28:51.56\00:28:54.93
Now what was true,
00:29:00.07\00:29:01.40
Saul did have this kind
of Arnold Schwarzenegger,
00:29:01.44\00:29:05.54
Steven Seagal,
Denzel Washington,
00:29:05.57\00:29:08.11
Wesley Snipes
kind of thing going
00:29:08.14\00:29:10.78
but the problem was with Saul,
00:29:10.81\00:29:13.11
it was all
patina, it was all veneer,
00:29:13.15\00:29:16.32
it was all facade,
inside Saul had no heart.
00:29:16.35\00:29:22.92
Now the Philistines are coming,
00:29:22.96\00:29:25.39
and the Philistines
are not the Amalekites.
00:29:25.43\00:29:28.66
Amalekites were a militia,
the Philistines were an army.
00:29:28.70\00:29:33.34
The Philistines
could walk the walk,
00:29:33.37\00:29:35.27
and talk the talk.
00:29:35.30\00:29:37.67
You remember when
Saul was rejected,
00:29:37.71\00:29:39.37
and the Lord went to find David,
00:29:39.41\00:29:41.11
he said "Man looketh
on the outward appearance,
00:29:41.14\00:29:43.58
but God looketh on the heart.
00:29:43.61\00:29:48.75
The Philistines
knew how to fight.
00:29:48.78\00:29:51.02
And in Chapter 13:5 of
the same Book of 1 Samuel,
00:29:51.05\00:29:54.66
the Bible says the Philistines
had 3,000 chariots, 3000.
00:29:54.69\00:30:00.56
The Philistine war
chariot carried two men,
00:30:00.60\00:30:02.66
a driver and a archer.
00:30:02.70\00:30:06.33
So that's 6,000 men.
00:30:06.37\00:30:09.90
Then there are
another 6,000 horsemen,
00:30:09.94\00:30:13.38
so that's 12,000 men.
00:30:13.41\00:30:16.31
Then they had
30,000 foot soldiers.
00:30:16.34\00:30:20.62
And then the Bible says
00:30:20.65\00:30:21.98
they had men as
the sand of the sea.
00:30:22.02\00:30:24.72
Now that's a interesting little
hormoneative thing that we do
00:30:24.75\00:30:26.86
when time is of essence
and we got to move fast.
00:30:26.89\00:30:28.79
When you have a known number
followed by an unknown number,
00:30:28.82\00:30:31.39
you simply
double the known number
00:30:31.43\00:30:33.06
and it gives you general
idea of what the unknown is.
00:30:33.09\00:30:35.70
So, if you got
6,000 chariot persons,
00:30:35.73\00:30:39.33
you got 6,000
horsemen that's 12,000,
00:30:39.37\00:30:42.74
then you got 30,000
footmen that's 42,000.
00:30:42.77\00:30:48.04
Now you got a number
unknown as the sands of the sea,
00:30:48.08\00:30:51.38
so you just double a number,
00:30:51.41\00:30:52.75
you got 42,000
times two is 84,000.
00:30:52.78\00:30:56.42
So you got at
least 84,000 Philistines,
00:30:56.45\00:30:59.52
I want you to get this,
you got 84,000 Philistines,
00:30:59.55\00:31:02.86
who knew how to walk
the walk, and talk the talk.
00:31:02.89\00:31:07.20
And to appose this
massive mechanized army,
00:31:07.23\00:31:10.70
you read in your
Bible, 2 Samuel 14:2,
00:31:10.73\00:31:14.10
Saul had had an army of 600 men.
00:31:14.14\00:31:19.57
Now wrap your brain around that.
00:31:19.61\00:31:22.48
You got 84,000 men minimum
00:31:22.51\00:31:28.35
and we got 600.
00:31:28.38\00:31:33.02
And the Bible says even though
600 followed him trembling
00:31:33.05\00:31:37.49
with good reason
00:31:37.53\00:31:39.53
because nobody had
anything to fight with.
00:31:39.56\00:31:45.00
They got 84,000 guys
with chariots, horses, swords,
00:31:45.03\00:31:51.87
spears, daggers,
javelins, bows, arrows,
00:31:51.91\00:31:56.18
we got 600 guys with nothing.
00:31:56.21\00:32:00.42
So what are you supposed to do?
00:32:05.95\00:32:08.89
Throw stones at the Philistines,
00:32:08.92\00:32:11.29
spit on them, bite them?
00:32:11.33\00:32:14.36
You see, there is no
equal in the English language
00:32:14.40\00:32:16.93
for what that is?
00:32:16.97\00:32:19.37
If I come to battle you,
00:32:19.40\00:32:22.60
and you've got a baseball bat,
00:32:22.64\00:32:26.68
and I've got a stick,
00:32:26.71\00:32:30.78
that's an unfair
fight, it's unfair.
00:32:30.81\00:32:34.78
You got a club, I got a stick,
00:32:34.82\00:32:36.55
but if I'm brave,
and I move pretty good,
00:32:36.58\00:32:40.16
I may stand a shot.
00:32:40.19\00:32:43.39
But if you got 84,000 guys
00:32:43.43\00:32:50.00
and I got 600,
00:32:50.03\00:32:52.93
there is no
name, there is no word
00:32:52.97\00:32:55.00
in English
language for what that is.
00:32:55.04\00:32:58.37
We don't have a word for that
00:32:58.41\00:33:00.68
except may be suicide.
00:33:00.71\00:33:07.62
Did you know that
an army of 600 people
00:33:07.65\00:33:11.05
can hide inside an
army of 84,000 people?
00:33:11.09\00:33:15.92
Those 600 people
can run inside that army
00:33:15.96\00:33:17.73
and they never find them.
00:33:17.76\00:33:21.40
Logistically pastor,
00:33:21.43\00:33:24.73
physically 84,000
people cannot fight 600.
00:33:24.77\00:33:30.41
The numbers are too small.
00:33:30.44\00:33:32.94
If 84,000 guys drew their swords
00:33:32.97\00:33:37.08
and attack 600 people,
00:33:37.11\00:33:40.78
they would kill
10,000 of their own men.
00:33:40.82\00:33:46.52
That's like trying to killing
a roach with hand granite,
00:33:46.55\00:33:50.06
you may get him, and
you probably kill yourself.
00:33:50.09\00:33:53.23
I mean let's think about this.
00:33:58.33\00:34:04.51
Even God doesn't
want us to be stupid.
00:34:04.54\00:34:09.74
I mean tender
your apologetic to me,
00:34:09.78\00:34:11.41
where in a holy
rite do you get punch
00:34:11.45\00:34:13.98
of the almighty
for being a fool.
00:34:14.02\00:34:17.59
They got 84,000, we got 600.
00:34:17.62\00:34:23.16
Maybe serving Jesus
00:34:23.19\00:34:24.73
is not what it's
cracked up to be.
00:34:24.76\00:34:28.63
Maybe when God says
go, He doesn't mean go now.
00:34:28.66\00:34:32.83
Maybe following the Lord
only gets us in the trouble,
00:34:32.87\00:34:36.00
so let's not be so hasty.
00:34:36.04\00:34:39.67
Maybe when God says
go, He means wait a minute
00:34:39.71\00:34:42.31
or wait an hour or
wait a couple of days
00:34:42.34\00:34:44.31
or maybe a week or a
month or a couple of years.
00:34:44.35\00:34:46.65
Maybe the
Philippines will just get tired.
00:34:46.68\00:34:48.32
Maybe they will
forget we are here.
00:34:48.35\00:34:49.68
Maybe they will go away.
00:34:49.72\00:34:51.09
We just can't do it now.
00:34:51.12\00:34:53.89
How many times you
have heard that excuse?
00:34:53.92\00:34:58.59
All the excuses in the world
why we cannot serve the Lord
00:34:58.63\00:35:03.83
and the truth is when it
comes to serving the Lord,
00:35:03.87\00:35:07.24
there is no excuse.
00:35:07.27\00:35:09.80
Well, I can't
get the Sabbath off,
00:35:09.84\00:35:11.87
I lose my job and I got to eat.
00:35:11.91\00:35:15.38
Well, God knows you got to eat.
00:35:15.41\00:35:19.58
It's not about
eating, it's about courage.
00:35:19.61\00:35:22.88
It's about having the
courage of your convictions.
00:35:22.92\00:35:29.66
You know it's funny,
00:35:29.69\00:35:31.26
and I see my time's
gonna run away from me.
00:35:31.29\00:35:33.93
When I came to 3ABN,
they told me 3ABN was broke,
00:35:33.96\00:35:37.60
I thought it was
denominationally broke.
00:35:37.63\00:35:39.93
Ray, pastor, you
know denomination,
00:35:39.97\00:35:41.64
we never spend all the money.
00:35:41.67\00:35:43.34
You always save 5 percent.
00:35:43.37\00:35:44.71
Even in church,
00:35:44.74\00:35:46.07
you don't budget at 100 percent,
00:35:46.11\00:35:47.44
you save some.
00:35:47.48\00:35:48.81
So when you get to
95 you say, we broke.
00:35:48.84\00:35:50.65
You got 5 percent
which you don't spend it.
00:35:50.68\00:35:53.82
Not at 3ABN.
00:35:53.85\00:35:55.72
When Danny say
broke, he mean broke.
00:35:55.75\00:35:59.95
Went to a meeting
my very first day,
00:35:59.99\00:36:01.32
Danny got up and said, we broke.
00:36:01.36\00:36:02.82
Somebody said, Praise the Lord.
00:36:02.86\00:36:07.43
I looked, you know,
00:36:07.46\00:36:10.53
he doesn't have any
money, give glory to God.
00:36:10.57\00:36:15.90
Every dime we get we spend.
00:36:15.94\00:36:18.24
Save nothing and
trust God to supply more.
00:36:18.27\00:36:22.61
After 22 years
see this equipment,
00:36:22.64\00:36:26.08
big truck outside paid for,
00:36:26.11\00:36:28.78
owe nobody, nothing.
00:36:28.82\00:36:33.62
So either, he is insane
00:36:33.66\00:36:39.13
or he knows Jesus.
00:36:39.16\00:36:42.53
According to your
faith, so be it on to you.
00:36:42.56\00:36:48.37
All the excuses in the
world why we can't trust God
00:36:48.40\00:36:51.07
and yet the truth is
00:36:51.11\00:36:52.44
there is no excuse
for not trusting God.
00:36:52.47\00:36:56.98
Fellow, and I don't have
the statistics to show now,
00:36:57.01\00:36:59.65
but the fellow in
Texas is still in courts,
00:36:59.68\00:37:02.68
been in courts since
1995, own three Texaco stations.
00:37:02.72\00:37:06.39
Three, doing well and
the Texaco said listen,
00:37:06.42\00:37:10.73
you need to
close those things down
00:37:10.76\00:37:12.09
because your contract
says seven days a week.
00:37:12.13\00:37:14.56
He took out his figures,
00:37:14.60\00:37:15.93
he said, I'm a
Seventh Adventist,
00:37:15.96\00:37:17.33
I'm making more in six days
00:37:17.37\00:37:18.97
than every other Texaco
station is making in seven days.
00:37:19.00\00:37:23.24
And Texaco said we don't care.
00:37:23.27\00:37:27.24
Your agreement
says seven days a week,
00:37:27.28\00:37:30.25
and if you don't open up
we're gonna close you down.
00:37:30.28\00:37:32.68
He didn't open up and they
did and they took it to court.
00:37:32.71\00:37:36.69
He went from
being very, very wealthy
00:37:36.72\00:37:38.59
and doing really well
00:37:38.62\00:37:40.29
to spending all
his moneys on lawyers.
00:37:40.32\00:37:43.36
But you know what?
00:37:43.39\00:37:45.16
He doesn't have
the wealth he had,
00:37:45.19\00:37:47.60
but he got Jesus.
00:37:47.63\00:37:49.30
He's got piece at night,
he's got a good paying job,
00:37:49.33\00:37:53.70
and he's got bank in heaven.
00:37:53.74\00:37:56.00
Amen. Amen.
00:37:56.04\00:37:57.44
See it's about
courage, ladies and gentlemen,
00:37:57.47\00:37:59.47
it's about courage,
00:37:59.51\00:38:00.84
it's about standing up for Jesus
00:38:00.88\00:38:02.41
and Jesus says, if
you'll stand up for me,
00:38:02.44\00:38:05.25
I will stand up for you.
00:38:05.28\00:38:08.78
But no, no Saul is
a pragmatist you see.
00:38:08.82\00:38:10.82
Saul is sitting under a
pomegranate tree in Migron,
00:38:10.85\00:38:13.86
Saul wasn't gonna be
anybody's kamikaze pilot,
00:38:13.89\00:38:17.56
didn't plan on
running any suicide mission.
00:38:17.59\00:38:19.56
No, no Saul like life too much.
00:38:19.59\00:38:22.03
You see the object of
war as Saul saw was for you
00:38:22.06\00:38:25.63
not to die for your country.
00:38:25.67\00:38:27.84
The object of war in Saul's mind
00:38:27.87\00:38:29.84
was to get the other
guy to die for his country.
00:38:29.87\00:38:32.84
And when you got
odds of 84,000 to 600,
00:38:32.87\00:38:36.64
there is a
distinct possibility that,
00:38:36.68\00:38:38.41
that is not gonna happen.
00:38:38.45\00:38:40.25
And so the Bible says,
00:38:40.28\00:38:41.62
Saul sat under a pomegranate
tree to think things out.
00:38:41.65\00:38:44.09
I need to hustle along.
00:38:44.12\00:38:45.45
Ladies and gentlemen, I
submit to you this evening
00:38:45.49\00:38:47.86
that there are times
00:38:47.89\00:38:49.22
when you get a
clear thus saith the Lord.
00:38:49.26\00:38:52.99
You listening to me?
00:38:53.03\00:38:54.36
When you got a
clear thus saith the Lord
00:38:54.40\00:38:56.50
that hesitation, vacillation,
00:38:56.53\00:38:59.53
equivocation, any
amount of stumbling,
00:38:59.57\00:39:02.30
stammering, backing up,
00:39:02.34\00:39:03.67
turning your
back, bowing your knee,
00:39:03.71\00:39:05.27
bending your neck
is not only cowardly,
00:39:05.31\00:39:08.14
it's not only
disloyal, it's sin.
00:39:08.18\00:39:10.95
When God says get up and
go, you got to get up and go!
00:39:10.98\00:39:17.09
Over and over and
over and over, over,
00:39:17.12\00:39:18.79
if there is one
theme in a Bible,
00:39:18.82\00:39:20.16
one thing in a word of
God is the theme to decide.
00:39:20.19\00:39:23.02
Choose you this
day whom you'll serve.
00:39:23.06\00:39:25.63
Choose you this day,
00:39:25.66\00:39:27.00
why halt you
between two opinions,
00:39:27.03\00:39:28.43
you cannot serve to masters.
00:39:28.46\00:39:29.80
I would that
you're hot and cold.
00:39:29.83\00:39:31.40
Over and over and over
00:39:31.43\00:39:32.90
and over and
over God says decide.
00:39:32.93\00:39:35.97
Write this down
00:39:36.00\00:39:37.34
third volume of the Testimonies,
00:39:37.37\00:39:38.71
page 497 Ellen White says,
00:39:38.74\00:39:40.61
"Even a wrong decision
00:39:40.64\00:39:45.61
is better than
no decision at all."
00:39:45.65\00:39:48.82
Did you hear me?
00:39:48.85\00:39:50.65
Even a wrong decision, listen,
00:39:50.69\00:39:53.66
we are miller made
several wrong decisions
00:39:53.69\00:39:56.83
but the Lord forgave him
00:39:56.86\00:39:58.29
because he didn't sit
back on his good intentions,
00:39:58.33\00:40:00.86
he got up and he acted.
00:40:00.90\00:40:02.73
Even a wrong decision is better
00:40:02.76\00:40:05.23
than sitting by
the dock of the bay
00:40:05.27\00:40:08.07
watching the tide
roll away and wasting time.
00:40:08.10\00:40:12.04
Praise God, Saul
had a son name Jonathan,
00:40:16.28\00:40:19.75
but Jonathan
didn't know any of this
00:40:19.78\00:40:21.38
like father like son nonsense.
00:40:21.42\00:40:24.19
And praise God, you know,
00:40:24.22\00:40:25.55
our salvation is not held
hostage to anybody or anything.
00:40:25.59\00:40:28.72
You're not to be
what your parents were
00:40:28.76\00:40:30.86
or your cousins or
your aunty or your siblings
00:40:30.89\00:40:32.59
or the
neighborhood you grow up in,
00:40:32.63\00:40:34.33
all you got to
do is be like Jesus.
00:40:34.36\00:40:36.36
Saul always played the odds,
00:40:41.24\00:40:45.17
Jonathan trusted the Lord.
00:40:45.21\00:40:48.68
The only person you got to
imitate to emulate is Jesus
00:40:48.71\00:40:51.51
and day after day
Jonathan would hear
00:40:51.55\00:40:53.62
this barrage of curses
00:40:53.65\00:40:55.72
coming from the
Philistine mountain.
00:40:55.75\00:40:57.92
He'd hear this, just listening,
he'd listen to this tones
00:40:57.95\00:41:01.12
and these jeers and
these Philistine curses
00:41:01.16\00:41:03.66
coming against
his God and his people
00:41:03.69\00:41:05.59
and something began
to swell in his heart.
00:41:05.63\00:41:07.73
To put it in modern parlance,
00:41:07.76\00:41:09.93
Jonathan got tired of hearing
the Philistine's talk trash.
00:41:09.96\00:41:14.50
Unlike Saul,
Jonathan believed God.
00:41:14.54\00:41:17.91
Where Saul always wanted
00:41:17.94\00:41:19.34
to play the odds
and the percentages,
00:41:19.37\00:41:21.78
Jonathan put the whole
weight of his trust on his God.
00:41:21.81\00:41:25.48
You see Jonathan
believe that the God of Abraham,
00:41:25.51\00:41:29.22
Isaac and Jacob was all
too willing to be his God.
00:41:29.25\00:41:35.02
You see the God in here
is not gonna do you any good
00:41:35.06\00:41:40.13
until the God in
here gets in here
00:41:40.16\00:41:44.53
and is acted out in your life.
00:41:44.57\00:41:48.00
Courage and faith come
00:41:48.04\00:41:51.11
when you'll take God at His word
00:41:51.14\00:41:53.68
and step out on the
faith that you got assure
00:41:53.71\00:41:59.25
that God's gonna give
you more of what you need,
00:41:59.28\00:42:03.18
when you need it
as long as you need it
00:42:03.22\00:42:06.72
every place, every time
and everywhere you need it.
00:42:06.76\00:42:09.62
Odds don't mean anything to God.
00:42:09.66\00:42:11.86
Never have, never will.
00:42:11.89\00:42:13.73
In fact God many
times, you know this yourself,
00:42:13.76\00:42:16.26
will set up the
odds against you.
00:42:16.30\00:42:18.73
So that when you get
over on the other side,
00:42:18.77\00:42:21.50
you have no doubt in your mind
00:42:21.54\00:42:23.51
that it was God
who got you there.
00:42:23.54\00:42:26.68
You don't take any
credit for yourself
00:42:26.71\00:42:28.88
because from your
eyes it was impossible.
00:42:28.91\00:42:32.11
But all things
are possible with God.
00:42:32.15\00:42:35.85
Victory is not
in us, it is in God.
00:42:35.88\00:42:38.05
Jonathan remembered a theme
00:42:38.09\00:42:39.45
throughout that
of Jewish history,
00:42:39.49\00:42:41.12
a theme not of fighting ability,
00:42:41.16\00:42:42.82
a theme not of faith
or strategy or tactics
00:42:42.86\00:42:45.99
but rather a theme of
pure child like faith,
00:42:46.03\00:42:49.13
faith in the God who
could use any person,
00:42:49.16\00:42:52.53
any weapon, any situation
00:42:52.57\00:42:55.57
to bring about
victory to His cause,
00:42:55.60\00:42:57.57
salvation to His
people and glory to His name,
00:42:57.61\00:43:00.18
ladies and gentleman.
00:43:00.21\00:43:01.78
Sure the task is big,
but Matthew 9:29 says to me,
00:43:01.81\00:43:06.92
"According to your
faith, so be it unto you."
00:43:06.95\00:43:12.05
We serve a God who can
use any person, any weapon,
00:43:12.09\00:43:16.83
any situation to bring
about victory to His cause,
00:43:16.86\00:43:20.13
glory to His name and
salvation to His people.
00:43:20.16\00:43:24.20
God used Moses to bring
down pharaoh, didn't he?
00:43:24.23\00:43:26.97
He surely did, God used Esther
to bring down Haman, didn't he?
00:43:27.00\00:43:30.54
God used David to bring
down Goliath, didn't he?
00:43:30.57\00:43:33.17
God used Lincoln and
Douglas to bring down slavery
00:43:33.21\00:43:36.04
in this country along
with Martin Luther King
00:43:36.08\00:43:38.28
who brought down
legalized prejudice.
00:43:38.31\00:43:42.92
He used Lech Walesa to
bring down Polish communism.
00:43:42.95\00:43:46.25
Perestroika and
Glasnost almost forgotten man
00:43:46.29\00:43:49.06
by the name of Gorbachev
00:43:49.09\00:43:51.69
to bring down
communism in a Soviet Union.
00:43:51.73\00:43:53.80
And they don't always have
to be willing participants.
00:43:53.83\00:43:57.10
God used Nebuchadnezzar.
00:43:57.13\00:43:59.83
God used Darius the Mede,
God used Ram in a Thicket,
00:43:59.87\00:44:03.54
God used two she bears,
God used a talking donkey,
00:44:03.57\00:44:06.84
God used the herd of swine,
00:44:06.88\00:44:08.44
God used the piece of
sheep's wool, didn't he?
00:44:08.48\00:44:11.81
God used a bag of
flower and a cruse of oil.
00:44:11.85\00:44:14.35
God used dry bones in a valley.
00:44:14.38\00:44:16.18
God used two she bears.
God used five smooth stones.
00:44:16.22\00:44:19.82
God used crazy
glue on a lion's jaw.
00:44:19.85\00:44:22.86
God used a scarlet coat.
God used a city with no walls.
00:44:22.89\00:44:26.59
God used the
deep Samaritan well.
00:44:26.63\00:44:28.30
God used the woman
with seven husbands.
00:44:28.33\00:44:30.00
God used the mouth of a fish.
00:44:30.03\00:44:31.60
God used the hem
of His own garment.
00:44:31.63\00:44:33.23
God used the cattle
toller and Noah quadrahedron.
00:44:33.27\00:44:35.54
God used a rich young ruler,
00:44:35.57\00:44:37.01
God used a poor old
widow with two mice.
00:44:37.04\00:44:38.97
God used the
tricks to name Laban.
00:44:39.01\00:44:40.58
God used the broader name Esau.
00:44:40.61\00:44:42.28
God used the
deceiver name Jacob.
00:44:42.31\00:44:44.05
God used the
dreamer name Joseph.
00:44:44.08\00:44:45.68
God used the murderer name Joab.
00:44:45.71\00:44:47.42
God used an
adulterer name David.
00:44:47.45\00:44:49.15
God used a an arrogant Herod,
00:44:49.18\00:44:51.25
God used the
humble John the Baptist.
00:44:51.29\00:44:53.02
God used the
fickle punches Pilate.
00:44:53.05\00:44:54.69
God used the timid Nicodemus.
God used the dead Lazarus.
00:44:54.72\00:44:57.86
God used a leper Simon.
God used the hotheaded James.
00:44:57.89\00:45:00.70
God used the cursing Peter.
God used the Doubting Thomas.
00:45:00.73\00:45:03.50
God used the busy Martha.
God used a lonely Cornelius.
00:45:03.53\00:45:06.40
God used the too young Timothy.
God used the too old John.
00:45:06.43\00:45:09.50
God used a
Christian killing Saul.
00:45:09.54\00:45:11.21
God used an
ex-prostitute name Mary.
00:45:11.24\00:45:13.24
God used an
assassin name Barabbas.
00:45:13.27\00:45:15.11
God used a thief on a cross.
00:45:15.14\00:45:16.58
God used a
tax-collector name Zacchaeus.
00:45:16.61\00:45:18.88
God can use any person,
00:45:18.91\00:45:21.95
any weapon or any situation
00:45:21.98\00:45:26.02
to bring about
victory to His cause,
00:45:26.05\00:45:28.36
glory to His name, and
salvation to His people.
00:45:28.39\00:45:31.69
And I submit to you
tonight that God can use
00:45:31.73\00:45:35.13
and is willing to
use anybody in this room.
00:45:35.16\00:45:40.64
All you got to do is be willing.
00:45:40.67\00:45:46.01
Don't have to be
black, don't have to be white,
00:45:46.04\00:45:49.84
don't have to be
rich, don't have to be poor,
00:45:49.88\00:45:53.08
don't have to be fat,
don't have to be thin,
00:45:53.11\00:45:56.15
don't have to be gorgeous,
00:45:56.18\00:46:00.26
all you got to be is willing.
00:46:00.29\00:46:05.93
God will use any person,
any weapon, any situation
00:46:05.96\00:46:09.46
to bring about
victory to His cause,
00:46:09.50\00:46:11.67
salvation to His
people, glory to His name.
00:46:11.70\00:46:15.47
God can use whoever He chooses.
00:46:15.50\00:46:17.97
In fact, let it be known,
00:46:18.01\00:46:20.44
God can use people
we don't even like.
00:46:20.48\00:46:26.31
It is just because
you have no use for him,
00:46:26.35\00:46:28.28
it doesn't mean
God can't use him.
00:46:28.32\00:46:30.95
Just because you don't love him,
00:46:30.99\00:46:33.05
doesn't mean
they're not loved in heaven.
00:46:33.09\00:46:37.36
God can use a Louis Farrakhan,
00:46:37.39\00:46:43.26
He can.
00:46:43.30\00:46:45.40
If He can use
Darius, He can use Louis.
00:46:45.43\00:46:50.64
God can use a Colin Powell.
00:46:50.67\00:46:55.14
You think God
can use O.J. Simpson,
00:46:55.18\00:46:57.71
Bill Clinton,
00:47:00.25\00:47:02.68
dare I say Hillary,
00:47:02.72\00:47:05.52
Barack.
00:47:08.66\00:47:10.43
All God needs is one,
doesn't need a multitude,
00:47:15.03\00:47:20.34
doesn't need a church board,
00:47:20.37\00:47:21.70
doesn't need a pastor,
elder or deacon, needs one.
00:47:27.48\00:47:34.22
1645, Oliver Cromwell,
00:47:34.25\00:47:37.72
won control of the
British parliament,
00:47:37.75\00:47:40.32
know his margin of victory.
00:47:40.36\00:47:42.46
One vote.
00:47:42.49\00:47:44.79
King Charles was beheaded
00:47:44.83\00:47:47.53
by a vote of the
judges in England
00:47:47.56\00:47:49.26
several years later 68 to 67,
00:47:49.30\00:47:55.00
one vote lost his
head over one vote.
00:47:55.04\00:48:00.81
France changed from a
monarchy to a republic in 1875
00:48:00.84\00:48:05.61
by a vote of the
deputies 353 to 352.
00:48:05.65\00:48:10.72
Fate of a nation
hung on one vote.
00:48:10.75\00:48:15.72
During the American Revolution,
00:48:15.76\00:48:18.63
a bill actually went
to the floor of congress
00:48:18.66\00:48:21.26
to have the official
language of United States
00:48:21.30\00:48:24.47
changed to German.
00:48:24.50\00:48:27.67
Sprechen sie Deutsch.
00:48:27.70\00:48:30.57
It lost, one vote.
00:48:30.61\00:48:35.24
In 1845, the Senate voted
to admit Texas to the union,
00:48:35.28\00:48:39.31
Texas, the great city
of Texas got in, one vote.
00:48:39.35\00:48:44.85
President Andrew Johnson
escaped impeachment in 1868,
00:48:44.89\00:48:49.72
one vote.
00:48:49.76\00:48:51.09
Rutherford Hayes was
elected president 1876,
00:48:51.13\00:48:54.86
one electoral vote.
00:48:54.90\00:48:57.27
On November 8th 1923,
00:48:57.30\00:48:59.83
the Nazi party
gathered in a Munich tavern.
00:48:59.87\00:49:03.00
They elected
Adolf Hitler chairman
00:49:03.04\00:49:06.11
of the Nazi party,
00:49:06.14\00:49:08.48
his margin of victory,
00:49:08.51\00:49:10.75
one vote.
00:49:12.85\00:49:14.32
There is a statement so powerful
00:49:15.92\00:49:17.85
that it appears
eight separate places
00:49:17.89\00:49:20.02
in the writings
of Ellen G. White.
00:49:20.06\00:49:22.02
Eight times she
writes this statement.
00:49:22.06\00:49:25.56
She says, "There is no limit
00:49:25.59\00:49:29.73
to the usefulness of one
00:49:29.76\00:49:35.20
who putting self aside
makes room for the working
00:49:35.24\00:49:38.11
of the Holy
Spirit upon his heart
00:49:38.14\00:49:39.84
and lives a life
holy consecrated to God."
00:49:39.87\00:49:44.81
God doesn't need the
both, He only needs one,
00:49:44.85\00:49:51.22
for nothing hinders
the Lord from saving
00:49:51.25\00:49:54.82
by many or by few,
00:49:54.86\00:49:59.56
or by one.
00:49:59.59\00:50:00.93
You know, I find
myself respecting
00:50:01.96\00:50:03.43
that armor-bearer
as much as anybody,
00:50:03.47\00:50:06.87
because remember and
I need to run this fast,
00:50:06.90\00:50:08.50
remember only
Jonathan had a sword.
00:50:08.54\00:50:11.71
Jonathan says,
00:50:11.74\00:50:13.07
"Come let us go over to
the philistine garrison."
00:50:13.11\00:50:14.98
He is talking about
him and the armor-bearer.
00:50:15.01\00:50:17.35
Now, you got 84,000 people,
00:50:17.38\00:50:19.41
if 600 are afraid to go,
00:50:19.45\00:50:21.85
what is one gonna do?
00:50:21.88\00:50:27.66
And the armor-bearer
doesn't have anything
00:50:27.69\00:50:29.52
and the armor-bearer says,
00:50:29.56\00:50:30.89
"Okay man, you want to go,
00:50:30.93\00:50:32.33
I got your back,
I'm going with you."
00:50:32.36\00:50:34.96
Now, that's strange
to me, that's strange,
00:50:35.00\00:50:37.90
because as much as Famous
and I share the same name,
00:50:37.93\00:50:42.04
if he would have
stepped out of his mind
00:50:42.07\00:50:44.37
and call me when I'll say,
00:50:44.41\00:50:45.74
"Hey Murray,
come on up to Chicago,
00:50:45.77\00:50:47.88
God has called me
to go over to Iraq
00:50:47.91\00:50:53.62
and find Sheik Abu, Sabu, Gabu
00:50:53.65\00:50:58.09
whoever and take him out."
00:50:58.12\00:51:02.49
Now, the whole American
army is looking for this guy
00:51:02.52\00:51:06.36
and they can't find him
00:51:06.39\00:51:08.36
and a couple of
Adventist preachers
00:51:08.40\00:51:09.80
don't go over
there and find him.
00:51:09.83\00:51:14.80
See, as much as he is
the brother in Christ,
00:51:14.84\00:51:19.91
my response is click,
00:51:19.94\00:51:26.31
because here is my reasoning.
00:51:26.35\00:51:28.28
My reasoning is if
God told you to go,
00:51:28.32\00:51:34.36
what you calling me for
00:51:34.39\00:51:38.06
'cause while
you're up talking to God,
00:51:38.09\00:51:40.83
I was sleep, I didn't
hear any voice of God.
00:51:40.86\00:51:44.80
So here is what
we're going to do.
00:51:44.83\00:51:47.00
I will drive you to the airport,
00:51:47.04\00:51:50.34
I'm gonna put you on a plane,
00:51:50.37\00:51:52.51
and I'm gonna pray for you,
00:51:52.54\00:51:54.74
and then I will come home
00:51:54.78\00:51:56.11
and talk to the
congress president
00:51:56.14\00:51:58.05
and make sure your
wife is taken care of,
00:51:58.08\00:52:01.15
'cause when you go,
you ain't coming back.
00:52:01.18\00:52:05.35
You know, think it yourself.
00:52:05.39\00:52:06.72
If you read a newspaper and
say and they woke up and said,
00:52:06.76\00:52:09.22
"Two Adventist preachers
00:52:09.26\00:52:10.89
got shot as they
step off the plane."
00:52:10.93\00:52:13.29
You would cry then you'll say,
00:52:13.33\00:52:15.80
"You know, serves
his right." Wouldn't you?
00:52:15.83\00:52:19.80
What are you all going to do?
00:52:19.83\00:52:21.77
The army can't do
it, the navy can't do it,
00:52:21.80\00:52:23.84
the Murrays can't do it,
00:52:23.87\00:52:25.21
you got two Adventist preachers
00:52:25.24\00:52:26.57
never in their
life ever held a gun.
00:52:26.61\00:52:29.91
I'm from New York
City, I've never shot a gun.
00:52:29.94\00:52:31.85
Can I tell you a secret?
00:52:31.88\00:52:33.21
Since I got to 3ABN
00:52:33.25\00:52:34.92
that somebody had to
go and give me a gun.
00:52:34.95\00:52:37.82
They said, you
know Pastor Murray,
00:52:37.85\00:52:39.19
I love your preaching,
I want to give you a gun.
00:52:39.22\00:52:44.96
Then I said,
00:52:44.99\00:52:46.49
"What about money?"
00:52:46.53\00:52:49.00
You know or a present.
00:52:53.30\00:52:55.77
I love your preaching, I
want to give you a Bible.
00:52:55.80\00:52:59.47
No, I want to give you a gun.
00:52:59.51\00:53:02.88
Shot a gun first time this year,
00:53:02.91\00:53:04.25
shotski during
Memorial Day, it's okay,
00:53:04.28\00:53:06.01
but I'm not like a big gun guy.
00:53:06.05\00:53:10.42
So the armor-bearer is saying,
00:53:10.45\00:53:11.79
"Jonathan you go
and I'll go with you."
00:53:11.82\00:53:15.62
That's faith.
00:53:15.66\00:53:17.16
You see,
obviously the armor-bearer
00:53:17.19\00:53:20.63
saw something in
Jonathan that he could trust.
00:53:20.66\00:53:23.40
Ladies and
gentlemen, there are people
00:53:23.43\00:53:24.77
who will never step
foot in this church.
00:53:24.80\00:53:26.50
The only Jesus they will
see is the Jesus they see in you
00:53:26.53\00:53:29.00
and if they
don't see Jesus in you,
00:53:29.04\00:53:30.37
they ain't gonna
see Jesus at all.
00:53:30.41\00:53:34.04
Everyday people are
looking to see Jesus in us.
00:53:34.08\00:53:36.95
What are we showing them?
00:53:36.98\00:53:39.11
Obviously,
Jonathan believed in God
00:53:39.15\00:53:42.35
that armor-bearer believed
Jonathan believed in God,
00:53:42.38\00:53:45.85
so he believed in
Jonathan and so they went down.
00:53:45.89\00:53:49.36
Now, listen to me,
00:53:49.39\00:53:50.73
you got two guys
fighting 84,000 now.
00:53:50.76\00:53:54.53
You see, to my mind
it would've been better
00:53:54.56\00:53:55.90
and more
intelligent for Jonathan
00:53:55.93\00:53:57.27
just to jump off the
mountain and kill himself
00:53:57.30\00:53:58.73
rather than climb down a
mountain, cross a valley,
00:53:58.77\00:54:00.50
climb up the other side of mount
00:54:00.54\00:54:01.87
and have 84,000 men
throw him off the mount.
00:54:01.90\00:54:04.21
But according to your
faith, so be it unto you.
00:54:08.74\00:54:15.12
Now, I got two
minutes on that clock.
00:54:15.15\00:54:17.69
Jonathan
climbed down a mountain.
00:54:17.72\00:54:19.82
Read this when you get home.
00:54:19.85\00:54:22.22
Jonathan waded into that army
00:54:22.26\00:54:26.19
by himself.
00:54:26.23\00:54:28.36
The Bible says he slew 20.
00:54:28.40\00:54:31.97
Now 20 out of 84,000
00:54:32.00\00:54:33.34
is like moving a
deck sheet on a Titanic,
00:54:33.37\00:54:34.74
that ain't a
whole lot of people.
00:54:34.77\00:54:36.44
He slew 20 and then
his armor-bearer slew some,
00:54:36.47\00:54:40.08
I don't know
how, but he slew some,
00:54:40.11\00:54:44.51
and then God send an earthquake.
00:54:44.55\00:54:47.08
Did you hear me?
00:54:47.12\00:54:48.82
God sent an earthquake,
00:54:48.85\00:54:50.92
but let's look
at the time lapse.
00:54:50.95\00:54:53.32
Earthquake didn't come
00:54:53.36\00:54:55.36
until Jonathan
exercised his faith.
00:54:55.39\00:54:59.63
Had Jonathan not
gone across that mountain,
00:54:59.66\00:55:02.30
the earthquake
would have not come.
00:55:02.33\00:55:04.87
We got a church full of
people waiting for God to move.
00:55:04.90\00:55:08.24
God is waiting for you to move.
00:55:08.27\00:55:11.11
God is waiting for us
to exercise our faith.
00:55:11.14\00:55:14.34
According to your
faith so it be done to you.
00:55:14.38\00:55:18.65
And when you move, He'll move,
00:55:18.68\00:55:22.12
and when you need, He'll supply,
00:55:22.15\00:55:24.99
and when you
call, He will answer,
00:55:25.02\00:55:28.39
because nothing, nothing,
00:55:28.42\00:55:32.96
nothing, hinders our Lord
00:55:32.99\00:55:36.67
from saving by many or by few,
00:55:36.70\00:55:42.10
and our God will use
any weapon, any person,
00:55:42.14\00:55:48.04
any situation to bring
about victory to His cause,
00:55:48.08\00:55:54.22
glory to His name, and
salvation to His people.
00:55:54.25\00:56:00.62
Shall we pray, Heavenly Father,
00:56:00.66\00:56:03.96
help us not to be timid anymore,
00:56:03.99\00:56:08.26
for we serve a great
God, truly greater is he
00:56:08.30\00:56:13.03
that is in us than
he that is in the world.
00:56:13.07\00:56:16.77