You know, when I
sing for Ron as I have,
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as I have in his
churches, in his crusades around
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the country, its always
easy to know what to sing
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about because he
always preaches about Jesus.
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A couple of months
ago, I was singing for
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Mark Finley in Melbourne,
Australia and I asked him
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what's your subject
tonight, he goes 666.
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Yes, that's a little
hard one to match but
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you know I want to tell
you something I don't care
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what Ron is preaching
about 666, stay the dead
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whatever, he always
is preaching about Jesus.
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And so folks I hope
that this will be an emphasis
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in a message to us
tonight that everything that
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we should do in
life, whether its plumbing
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or driving a truck or
farming, people should
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look at us and
always be able to tell that
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we are about Jesus, our
theme of, in life is Jesus.
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A little boy is
crying for affection.
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A little girl
needs a hand to hold.
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And oh, how he loves
those little children
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How he longs to be a
friend to young and old.
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His tender spirit
welcomes all who seek Him.
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His giving heart
asks little in return.
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And I have found
his promises faithful.
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I seek to live my
life that I may learn
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To be like
Jesus, To be like Jesus.
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To be the one I
was created to be.
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To be like
Jesus, To be like Jesus.
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May all who see my
life find Him in me.
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When I received
His supreme salvation
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His perfect love
filled my earthly soul.
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And I became a new creation.
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My brokenness He
made completely whole.
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And through the darkness of this
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world I've been commissioned
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To be a light that
shines for Him alone.
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Surrounded by
His infinite mercy,
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May my life always be known
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To be like
Jesus, To be like Jesus.
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To be the one I
was created to be.
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To be like
Jesus, To be like Jesus.
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My only earthly goals fulfilled
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When I'm centered in His will.
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May all who see my
heart find Him in me.
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Amen. Amen.
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Behind every great
son is a great mother
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I know his mother
and, a beautiful woman,
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lovely son, he was
one of our students at
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South Western while I
was Pastor at that church
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and he blessed my
life but when God moves
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in spontaneously
when it just comes that's
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when you hear great
music and that's when you hear
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great sermons when
it comes from the heart,
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Jesus unique son of
God. Let's bow our heads
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in a word of prayer
as we seek his presence.
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Gracious Father,
who art in Heaven,
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I thank you for the
possibilities of what
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you want to do
for us here tonight.
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People have come
expectantly hoping,
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but you will move
in someway in their own
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personal lives, that
you'll move in in someway
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in their own personal
needs, that you'll touch
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them in the area
they need to be touched,
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that you'll heal them
in the ill area they need
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to be healed that
you'll save them for the
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kingdom of God. And so tonight,
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we wanna focus on
you, we wanna be brought
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again into your
presence, we want a snapshot
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of Jesus Christ,
in his name, Amen.
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Have you ever
wished that you had a
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snapshot of Jesus, to
be carried your wallet.
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I mean someone com
up and say well Jesus,
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I never and he say oh,
oh let me introduce you,
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pull it out and it's
like me with my grand kids.
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I will have it on
the cell phone my four
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grand kids looking at
me. But, wouldn't it be nice
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just to take a
snapshot of Jesus and be able
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to show someone what
he was like and to see
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his features, to
see who he really was
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and I got stirred in
that direction some months ago
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and I wrote a series
on that snapshots of the
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Savior and we did a
Hope Channel special of eight
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meetings on the snapshots.
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I wanna incorporate
some of those into what
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we were talking
about this camp meeting.
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Especially,
about the uniqueness of
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Jesus Christ, you
know today we find a
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culture in crises.
We find a culture in
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search of meaning, a
culture tottering on the
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brink of disaster, I
mean like a great ship
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adrift in a stormy
sea without a rudder.
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Post modern man,
all kids of questions,
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few answers. Post
modern man all kids of needs,
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no solutions, a
culture in need of a destiny,
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a culture in need of purpose.
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A culture in need of Christ.
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It's like the prophetic
word of God said because
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that when they knew
God that glorified him
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not as God. Neither gave thanks,
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but became vain
in their reasoning
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and in their foolish
hearts was dark in professing
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themselves wise,
they became foolish.
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Romans 1:21 through
23 that's our culture.
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Post modern man is
trying desperately to
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avoid an encounter with
Jesus Christ of history.
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But, it's amazing isn't
it? I mean millions upon
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millions upon
millions of people everywhere
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around the world
they're still talking about
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Jesus Christ even in
post modern Christian era.
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In spite of
secularism, humanism, modernism,
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determinism,
atheism, agnosticism
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and other isms
we're still taking
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about Jesus Christ.
There are still many
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who respect him
and honor him and
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who love him, amazing
isn't it? Jesus Christ
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is still the
center of this world.
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The center of our
universe, bookstores
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are libraries
auditoriums are galleries
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and rims of music
are all written about
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Jesus Christ to
give honor, to give glory
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to Jesus Christ.
We talk about him,
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we sing about him, we honor him.
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Television
programs, whole stations,
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like our own
3ABN, about Jesus Christ
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24 hours a day, 7 days a week,
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I mean at this very
moment somewhere in this world,
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someone is talking
about Jesus besides
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Ron Halvorsen at the
Oklahoma Camp Meeting.
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Now, what other
figure in history has been
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so honored as
Jesus Christ the Savior?
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I mean what figure
in history has been
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so revered,
philosophies, political schemes,
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religious movements have
been arrayed against him.
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Have tried to defeat
him, enemies have tried
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to defeat him.
But, Jesus still remains
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unvanquished, undefeated,
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he is unconquerable,
amen. There is no one
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anywhere that's
foolish enough to say that
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he does not impact
our culture even today.
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He is real Jesus
Christ, he is the
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Messiah Jesus Christ,
and in spite of all this,
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there is still a misconception
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about Jesus. There are
still myths being written
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about him, surrounding
him. I mean he's been
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attacked on every
hand, in every possible way,
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the skeptic says Jesus Christ is
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wishful thinking, he
is a myth. Some try to say
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that he is an iconoclastic Jew.
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Who lived in time
pass, some have even said
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that he's a revolutionary,
I mean even to say
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he was just a human
being, an attack not only
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on the person of Christ
but on the supernatural,
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on the power of
this Jesus that he
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become incarnate,
that, that was a miracle
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that Mary
received the seed of God,
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when she bore forth
this son Jesus Christ.
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So, we need to look
at him, we need to get
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a snapshot of him, of
the real Jesus Christ.
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Jesus Christ is
the unique son of God.
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There is the
historical Jesus and there is
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the biblical Jesus. And
if ever a culture needed
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Christ it's this
culture now, can you say amen?
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Amen, no question
Jesus was real, not like
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the artists try to
portray him, not like
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the sculpture, I mean
has tried to portray him,
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like that particular
sculpture, there on that
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mountain a mile and
half above the city of
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Rio de Janeiro,
Christ Redeemer statue.
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One thousand
three hundred tones,
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its positioned on
a mountain, a mile
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and half above the city.
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The famous Christ
Redeemer statue it's not
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like that
though. Looking closer,
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see this statue with
Jesus with blind eyes.
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But, you say Ron Halvorsen,
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all sculptures,
all art has blind eyes.
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But, you see the
artist intended them
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to be blind. He
didn't even put pupils
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there to suggest this statue,
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that this Jesus
Christ had eyes to see,
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blind eyes, a Savior
with blind eyes who never
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sees this falling,
hurting people at his feet.
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Sinning, hurting,
dying human beings.
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But, secondly if you
notice that great statue,
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there's a
Valentine's heart on the outside
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of the cloak, a stony
heart trying to portray
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Jesus with blind
eyes, trying to portray
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Jesus Christ with a stony heart,
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a Valentine's stony
heart on the outside
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of the cloak.
What kind of redeemer,
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what kind of Jesus is
this? Heart made of stone,
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held together not with
passion and compassion,
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but held together
with concrete and mortar,
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what kind of redeemer
is this, with blind eyes
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and a stony heart
that's not the Christ
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of the scripture.
That's not the Christ
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of the Bible. Listen
to me this bronze Galilean
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who had been
officiated or authenticated
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by the eyewitnesses,
Peter the fisherman,
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Matthew the tax collector,
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Luke the doctor,
Mark the teenager.
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In fact they write
with pens dipped in the red
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blood ink of Calvary.
The pens of inspiration
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and write the words of
the life of Jesus Christ.
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Biographies about
Jesus written a few years
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after the resurrection
confirm the fact that
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historically he
lived, historically he walked
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the face of the
earth, historically he died
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on the Roman cross
and rose from Joseph
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of Arimathea's grave.
Three send out the gospels
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and the gospel of John,
Paul writing his letters
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proceed the
gospels with eyewitnesses
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to Damascus and
the road encounter.
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At least seven
secular sources substantiate
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that Jesus was
real, that he lived
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and he walked
the hills of Galilee.
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That he was real,
he touched lame legs
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and men walked.
That he was real,
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he touched blind
eyes and men saw.
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That this Jesus had
power as no one else
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in history. That
Jesus Christ was unique
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in history. Amen.
But, he was also unique
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in his duty, he was
Jesus the unique son of God.
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If you have your
Bibles I want you to turn
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with me to Second
Corinthians and let's read
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the word of God together tonight
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and see the
uniqueness of this Jesus.
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That's Second Corinthians
and I want you to notice
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here in the 4th
chapter and verses 4 through 6.
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That's the 4th chapter
and verses 4 through 6,
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whose minds that God
of this age has blinded,
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who do not believe,
lest the light of the Gospel
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of the glory of Christ,
who is the image of God,
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should shine unto
them. For we do not preach
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ourselves, but
Jesus Christ, the Lord,
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and ourselves
your bondservants for
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Jesus sake. For it is
the God who commanded light
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to shine out of
darkness, who has shone
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in our hearts to give
the light of the knowledge
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of the glory of God
in the face of Christ.
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And then we read
later on we read in the book
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of Philippians I
want you to notice here
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in the book of Philippians
the word of God notice
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what the Bible says in
the book of Philippians
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chapter 2 and
verses and 9 and 10,
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it's
substantiates this unique Jesus,
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it substantiates
the unique Christ.
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Notice here in verse 9
and 10 of the 2nd chapter
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of the epistle to Philippians,
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notice what he says.
Therefore God also has
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highly exalted Him
and given Him a name
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which is above every
name, that at the name
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of Jesus every knee should bow,
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of those in heaven,
and of those on earth,
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and of those under the earth,
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and that every
tongue should confess
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Jesus Christ is
Lord to the glory of
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God the Father." Amen.
Bible tells us Jesus Christ
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is unique son of
God. He was more than just
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a good man, he
was more than just a
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religious leader,
he was more than just a
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historical person,
he was more than just
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a son of Mary. He
was more than just a
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Jewish leader, he
was the son of God,
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now this unique,
there's four ways in which
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he was unique, he was
unique in his origin Jesus.
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He was unique in his name Jesus,
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he was unique in
his salvation Jesus,
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and he was
unique in his promise.
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First of all, he is
unique in his origin,
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there never was
another in history.
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Then never was
another was a human child
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but at the same
time a divine son never.
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Then there was
another who was wounded
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by Satan yet at
the same time crushed
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Satan under his
heal never, there never
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was another who
walked the earth before
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he was born, never.
There never was another
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who wrote the law
with his own finger
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and yet 2000 years
later would come under
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the dictates of
that holy law never.
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There never was
another who saved himself,
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who could not save
but could not save others
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but could not
save himself, never.
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There never was
another who was King of glory
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and yet wore no
earthly crown, but a crown
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of thorns never.
Then never was another
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who was the Lord of
the Sabbath yet at the
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same time was
called and accused as being
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a Sabbath breaker,
never. There never was another
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who was called the
truth and yet at the same
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time called the liar,
a hypocrite, an imposter,
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never. Jesus is
unique, who was as old as
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his heavenly
Father, ages older then his
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earthly mother,
never. Then never was another
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for he was the
Creator, he was the creature
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and the servant and the Savior,
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there was never
one like Jesus Christ.
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Amen. He is unique
in his origin Jesus.
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Colossians tells us,
for by him are all things
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created that were
created. Ephesians 3:9
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speaking of this
Jesus says, that he created
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all things, or
all things, excuse me,
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were created by Jesus Christ.
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It is from him
Jesus who poured forth
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all the seas and the
lakes and the rivers out
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of the crystal
chalice of eternity and yet
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on a cross he tries I
thirst. Jesus uniquely
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the living water.
Cries out I thirst,
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it was Jesus who
spoke and the green grass
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sprout and the
little flowers blossomed
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and the pine tree
pointed finger to the sky
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and the oaks spread out his arms
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and lakes curdled
down in the hurdles
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of the ground and
rivers ran down to the sea.
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It was Jesus
Christ the unique Creator.
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That we have all
things that we enjoy,
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he is inclusive,
inclusive in his origin.
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And because of the unique origin
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brother and sister, he
is the sum and solution
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of all man kind's
paradoxes, because
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of his unique
origin. He is the end of all
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mystery Jesus
Christ, because of His
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unique origin, he
is the reason and the
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explanation of
all man's uniqueness.
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He is the only one from eternity
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who was
incarnated, born of a virgin.
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His birth place with dictated by
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imperial senses. His
birth place was predicted
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by the divine prophecy.
Jesus, He is truly unique,
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He is unique in
His origin, Jesus.
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His origin is
different then anyone else.
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You can talk all you
want about being like
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Christ but you'll
never be like Christ.
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You will always
have an earthly daddy.
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He is unique in his
origin. But secondly,
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this Jesus Christ
is unique in his name.
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Jesus name hold forever
beauty, the name of Jesus.
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I mean it holds
variety, it holds proportion,
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it holds
perfection, it holds power.
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Emmanuel, God with us.
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From the incarnation
when Christ came through
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the back door of
eternity and came down
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into this world and
was born in Bethlehem's
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manger and lay in
Bethlehem's manger.
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For that moment on,
the poor could never say
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God you don't
understand poverty,
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from that moment on
the sick could never say
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to God you don't
understand sickness.
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From that day on the
dying could never say
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to God you don't
understand dying,
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because he suffered
for us, he became poor
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for us and he died
for us, hallelujah. Amen.
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Jesus is unique,
he is the Emmanuel,
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God is no longer distant,
he is not a God confined
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with temple or to a
church. He is here with us,
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and wherever we
walk he is there with us.
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Jesus is unique by
the way he's with you
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when you walk and he's
with you when you fall.
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Never forgot that,
heard someone reprimanding
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her son, told him you
better not go there son
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because Jesus won't go with you.
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Why don't you teach
them to love Jesus so much
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he's not gonna wanna go there.
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But, my Bible says if
I, if I make my bed in hell
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thou art there,
if I ascend to heaven
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thou art there. You
can never hide from him.
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He is the omnipresent
you know as a teenager
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when I came to
Christ people didn't have
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to preach to me
about this what you wear,
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what you do, I mean
it was natural because
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you see I wanted, I
didn't wanna bring Jesus
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there. But, he
would have followed me
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into the gates of hell.
A girl came to my office
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when I was a pastor
at a college church,
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I knew she was
having a tough time,
00:23:49.38\00:23:50.91
she must have broke
up with her boyfriend,
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I figured that
out. And she was trying
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and telling how
terrible it was and I was
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thanking God
because I knew the boy.
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And she said, my
prayers don't go beyond
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the ceiling. And so
what do you think God's
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confined above the ceiling.
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Crawl under your
bed, he will crawl under
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with you. If I
make my bed in hell,
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thou, he is unique
with us, he is omnipresent
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with us. He is
everywhere with us,
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when I go out
boating, my fishing,
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he is there with
me. I took my boy when
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he was little,
fishing. And if you have a son,
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you got to do that
father listen to me.
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I have two children
they're both preachers,
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my boy Ronnie and my girl Diane,
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I know how that will
set with some of you,
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but that's alright.
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Take them fishing and I
took my grandson fishing
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we weren't catching anything,
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my son he is a
pastor of a large church,
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one of the largest
churches in America
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and kind of you know
very spiritual person,
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very deep
theologian, very deep thinking
00:24:55.52\00:24:58.23
person, was sitting
in a boat and my little
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grandson his little
lips quivering, he wants to
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catch a fishy, he is
not catching, he has this
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bobber out there and
pappies is the number
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one fisherman one
that river, now I'm saying
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that humbly. It's
true when I go out my boat
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they follow me, but
anyway I say well lets
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pray about it. My
son looked at me with
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that theological look
dad, like God must have more
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important things to do,
I said I don't think so,
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I think this is important to God
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for this little boy,
and I said lets pray,
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so my grandson he
always listens his
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pappies and so
he bows his head and
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we're praying, I said
Lord, help Ronnie to catch
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his fish and we
opened our eyes just
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then a bobble went
down, a big fish jumped
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out of the water
and I looked at my son.
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I got more pleasure
from that fish looking
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at my son.
Omnipresent in the boat,
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omnipresent at
work, omnipresent when
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you're hurting
at home all alone,
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omnipresent when
you've gone through that
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terrible divorce
and you're hurting deep.
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God's omnipresent,
Emmanuel, God with us.
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He is unique in his
name, I mean he is God's
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eternal purpose consummated,
00:26:17.11\00:26:19.49
he is love's
eternal dream dramatized.
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He is justice married to mercy.
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He is creator
wedded to his creation.
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Then is none, he
is always the unlike
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Jesus Christ. Even the
name Emmanuel describes
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it the unlikeness
and so I went to the
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alphabet to try
to find his name.
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I look for his name
in his office it was
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everywhere, he is
the Alpha and the Adam
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and the
advocate and the anointed
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and the author of
faith and he is the A man
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of salvation and he
is the ancient of days.
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I went to the
alphabet to find his name,
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because it's his name he says,
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and I went to alphabet
and I found the beginning
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and the begotten and
beloved and the branch
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and the bridegroom,
the brighten morning star
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and the bread of
life. I went to the alphabet
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to find his name
Jesus, he was everywhere,
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for he is the
creator, the counselor,
00:27:08.25\00:27:10.86
the comforter, the
child, he is the cornerstone,
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he is the
deliverer and the day star
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and the desire of
nations and he is the
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divine son of
God, can you say amen
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in Oklahoma? Amen.
00:27:21.22\00:27:22.69
I went to alphabet
to find his name Jesus,
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he was everywhere this Jesus.
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He is the faithful, he
is the Emmanuel the elect,
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the eternal,
the everlasting one.
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He is the
faithful and the father
00:27:33.86\00:27:35.81
and the friend and he
is the faithful witness.
00:27:35.82\00:27:38.17
I went to the
alphabet to find his name,
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he is the good
shepherd and governor
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and the guide and
the glorious Lord.
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He is the
husband man and the help
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and the holy one,
home of salvation,
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end of all
things. He is our heavenly
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high priest, amen.
I went to the alphabet
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to find his name
Jesus He is everywhere,
00:27:54.09\00:27:56.05
for He is the immortal
one, the invincible one,
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the invisible one. He
is the judge and the just
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and the Jesus and Jehovah.
00:28:01.16\00:28:02.72
He is the King of
glory and the King of Israel.
00:28:02.73\00:28:05.16
He is the King
of kings and he is.
00:28:05.17\00:28:07.67
I went to the
alphabet to find his name
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He is everywhere
Jesus, He is the light
00:28:09.33\00:28:11.87
and the life and love
and the lion and the lamb.
00:28:11.88\00:28:14.26
And the law giver, amen.
00:28:14.27\00:28:16.58
He is the
mediator and the master,
00:28:20.24\00:28:24.03
and the mighty God and
he is our Messiah. Amen.
00:28:25.81\00:28:31.70
I went to the
alphabet to find his name,
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he is
everywhere, he is the omega,
00:28:33.51\00:28:36.11
the only begotten,
the offering, the offerer,
00:28:36.12\00:28:39.09
the Passover, the
potentate, the prophet,
00:28:39.10\00:28:41.43
the propitiation.
He is the priest and
00:28:41.44\00:28:43.85
he is the
physician, he is to all people
00:28:43.86\00:28:46.26
all things Jesus.
He is the righteousness
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and the Rabbi and
the ransom and the rest
00:28:48.49\00:28:50.32
and root of Jesse
and the rose of Sharon
00:28:50.33\00:28:52.94
and the
resurrection in a life. Amen.
00:28:52.95\00:28:55.70
I went to the
alphabet to find his name,
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he is the ruler and
redeemer and he is the
00:28:58.98\00:29:02.71
rock of ages. He is
the stone and the shepherd
00:29:02.72\00:29:06.18
and the son of
God and the savior.
00:29:06.19\00:29:07.57
He is the truth
in the tabernacle
00:29:07.58\00:29:09.49
and the
testator. He is the witness
00:29:09.50\00:29:11.59
and the word and the way,
00:29:11.60\00:29:12.88
he is the wisdom of God
and he is the wonderful.
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He is all the way forever, amen.
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Oh! You people here, I
have at least five days
00:29:19.91\00:29:23.22
this week to stir your heart.
00:29:23.23\00:29:25.03
Get you moving
saying amen once in a while,
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get excited. Someone came to me,
00:29:30.85\00:29:34.48
he said I knew you 30
years ago, you still seen
00:29:34.49\00:29:37.38
to have that enthusiasm,
I say I'm still saved.
00:29:37.39\00:29:39.62
Hasn't changed, and
by the way let me set
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you in with a clue.
I'm not more saved now,
00:29:45.19\00:29:48.08
then I was as a gang
banger at 17 years old
00:29:50.12\00:29:52.62
when I first gave my
life to Christ. Amen.
00:29:52.63\00:29:55.01
Now I'm living a
little better, but I'm not
00:29:55.08\00:29:58.82
more saved.
Friend, don't you see that,
00:29:58.83\00:30:02.55
salvation is a free
gift. And by the way you don't
00:30:04.43\00:30:07.66
have to pay the
payments, just enjoy the house.
00:30:07.73\00:30:11.58
And I've enjoyed it
for these 50 some years.
00:30:13.02\00:30:15.79
And listen to me I told
to my wife the other day
00:30:16.84\00:30:19.09
I said honey if I
die before the Lord come,
00:30:19.10\00:30:20.94
I want you to put a
pulpit in the casket
00:30:20.95\00:30:22.91
because I'm coming up
preaching, I'm coming up
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preaching. The
name above every name,
00:30:27.37\00:30:33.01
he was the perfect son of God.
00:30:34.69\00:30:36.10
We humans born in sin
so much bad in the best
00:30:38.06\00:30:41.09
of us and so much
good in the worst of us.
00:30:41.10\00:30:43.25
It behoves any of us
to judge the rest of us.
00:30:43.26\00:30:45.80
History show us
how short we've fallen,
00:30:48.28\00:30:49.95
for 1000 of years
man has tried perfect,
00:30:51.38\00:30:53.61
being perfectible,
we tried to go con God
00:30:55.42\00:30:58.59
with our with, and our
charm, and our culture,
00:30:59.38\00:31:01.58
and our religion, and
our rules, and our standards
00:31:01.59\00:31:03.45
and by the way it's
whoever you're talking to.
00:31:03.46\00:31:05.60
Some think if the
dress isn't long enough
00:31:06.75\00:31:08.56
you're not going to
heaven, some think well
00:31:08.57\00:31:09.96
if it's short
enough you're not what.
00:31:09.97\00:31:11.39
We play a
religious game, we pray and
00:31:15.85\00:31:19.02
we promised him.
We pleaded with him,
00:31:19.03\00:31:20.97
we prostrate
ourselves before him but
00:31:20.98\00:31:23.43
we failed him.
History has shown our failure,
00:31:23.44\00:31:28.33
even the holiest of our heroes,
00:31:28.73\00:31:30.45
I mean the
prophets, and the priests,
00:31:30.46\00:31:32.19
and the
patriarchs and the apostles,
00:31:32.20\00:31:33.54
they have failed
us. Some of the stories
00:31:33.55\00:31:37.95
from the Holy Scriptures
are more like adventures
00:31:39.33\00:31:41.54
from Sinbad the
sailor come on now,
00:31:41.55\00:31:43.36
be honest. In fact
I wanna talk about the
00:31:44.89\00:31:47.61
somethings the
prophets called out and
00:31:47.62\00:31:49.51
cried out to God.
Their doubts, and our God
00:31:49.52\00:31:53.30
handled it. But, they failed us,
00:31:53.31\00:31:58.03
Adam look at him,
adorned in fig leaves,
00:31:59.47\00:32:03.67
stained lips,
hiding behind the tree.
00:32:05.06\00:32:08.49
Not so perfect, I
mean there's Noah,
00:32:08.85\00:32:12.13
master boat builder
but not a master of his
00:32:12.14\00:32:14.90
own habits, lies
drunken naked before his son.
00:32:14.91\00:32:17.63
As it was in the days of Noah,
00:32:17.64\00:32:18.88
so shall it be in the
coming of the Son of Man.
00:32:18.89\00:32:21.29
If you're looking
for perfect people
00:32:21.30\00:32:23.46
when he comes wake
up and smell the roses.
00:32:23.47\00:32:25.79
Work in the inner
cities where I work,
00:32:25.80\00:32:28.14
take yourself out of
your little comfortable,
00:32:28.15\00:32:30.28
comfort zones come
down into the cities
00:32:30.57\00:32:33.07
and work where I
work and given myself
00:32:33.08\00:32:34.97
as a missionary for
these 50 years to Christ
00:32:34.98\00:32:38.05
in the cities of
America. Let's so poke in our
00:32:38.06\00:32:42.33
heroes Moses, hey
when the Jews talk about
00:32:42.34\00:32:44.98
perfection they
pointed to Moses. Moses?
00:32:44.99\00:32:46.89
Throwing down his
staff in a temper tantrum,
00:32:47.23\00:32:49.55
receiver of the
law, breaker of the law.
00:32:50.37\00:32:54.07
Saw God's back and
by the way he did a few
00:32:55.42\00:32:58.14
things behind
God's back, come on now
00:32:58.15\00:33:00.08
that's Moses.
And there was Aaron,
00:33:00.09\00:33:06.63
he was the right
hand man of Moses
00:33:07.34\00:33:09.25
remember Aaron? If
he's so perfect what
00:33:09.26\00:33:13.62
he is doing, aerobics
before the golden calf
00:33:13.63\00:33:17.30
at the foot of
Mount Sinai, not so holy,
00:33:17.31\00:33:20.56
not so perfect.
In need of a Savior,
00:33:20.57\00:33:24.32
in need of a God,
in need of salvation.
00:33:25.66\00:33:29.47
Look around you, look at
these pages of scripture,
00:33:30.97\00:33:33.66
David, a man
after God's own heart,
00:33:33.67\00:33:36.47
giant slayer, songwriter, poet.
00:33:37.00\00:33:40.81
But, there's
disgrace, he did a few things
00:33:44.01\00:33:46.90
behind God's back. Listen to me,
00:33:50.29\00:33:53.93
we talk about these
things and sweet little
00:33:56.81\00:33:59.05
air conditioned
churches where little people
00:33:59.06\00:34:02.40
talk about big
theology. Suddenly your Sally
00:34:02.41\00:34:06.68
theologians who sit
around blowing bubbles
00:34:06.69\00:34:09.24
about nothing. Hey,
when it comes right down
00:34:09.25\00:34:12.16
to it I'm gonna tell
you what it's all about.
00:34:12.17\00:34:13.87
Jesus loves me this I
know, for the Bible tells
00:34:13.88\00:34:18.22
me so. That's what
it's about, making mountains
00:34:18.23\00:34:23.37
out of mold hills.
Samson, swooning on
00:34:23.38\00:34:26.90
Delilah's couch,
drunk with wine perfume
00:34:26.91\00:34:29.41
so he's thinking if
she leaves the room.
00:34:29.42\00:34:31.36
Oh she's getting
into something more
00:34:31.37\00:34:33.32
comfortable, she is
saying where did I put
00:34:33.33\00:34:35.10
those scissors. He
was a judge in Israel,
00:34:35.11\00:34:40.00
not so perfect. You
see this book is not for
00:34:42.07\00:34:45.76
perfect people, this
book is about hurting people.
00:34:45.77\00:34:48.30
This book is for
people who are hurting inside,
00:34:48.31\00:34:50.62
people who are
falling, people who are making
00:34:50.63\00:34:53.22
a mess, people
who need to be covered
00:34:53.23\00:34:55.78
and loved and cared for and.
00:34:55.79\00:34:58.29
You see they were
to their generation
00:35:05.39\00:35:06.69
what you and I
are to our generation.
00:35:06.70\00:35:08.54
The Old
Testament ends in failure,
00:35:10.28\00:35:11.75
prophets can't save the people,
00:35:13.01\00:35:14.39
Moses can't for sure.
00:35:15.20\00:35:16.73
A priest cannot
minister the sacrifice to save
00:35:21.48\00:35:24.17
the people. The patriarchs
can get out of bondage
00:35:24.18\00:35:26.80
of slavery, but
they cannot get us out of
00:35:26.81\00:35:28.39
bondage of sin, you
see then he enters Jesus,
00:35:28.40\00:35:31.28
he comes, there's
uniqueness in his origin.
00:35:31.29\00:35:33.74
There's uniqueness in his name,
00:35:33.75\00:35:34.87
there's
uniqueness in his salvation.
00:35:34.88\00:35:36.82
They must be a crib
before there's a cross,
00:35:40.68\00:35:44.58
the only way he could save us,
00:35:46.71\00:35:48.49
was to come close to
us. He could not save us
00:35:49.95\00:35:53.94
from the far reaches of heaven.
00:35:53.95\00:35:55.35
He could not relate
to that, he had to come
00:35:55.36\00:35:58.00
into the world as we
came into this world.
00:35:58.01\00:36:00.74
He had to be
tempted as we're tempted.
00:36:00.75\00:36:02.76
He had to feel
pain as we feel pain,
00:36:02.77\00:36:05.18
he has to suffer and be killed.
00:36:05.19\00:36:07.15
As we the sons of
Adam have, for generation.
00:36:10.48\00:36:14.22
He comes not because
we are worthy of his love
00:36:16.29\00:36:19.87
or his care. But,
because we need it,
00:36:19.88\00:36:22.94
that's why he comes
not because I deserve it.
00:36:24.54\00:36:28.02
But Lord I've done
all these things and make
00:36:30.01\00:36:31.72
you a list, check it
twice like he's Santa Claus.
00:36:31.73\00:36:35.52
God is not Santa Claus.
00:36:38.11\00:36:39.67
Comes to planet
rebellion, he comes to
00:36:43.92\00:36:46.86
wicked hearts, he
comes to cool minds wherever
00:36:46.87\00:36:49.47
you are in your
life he comes to you,
00:36:49.48\00:36:51.10
whether you're on
the hills of East Texas
00:36:51.11\00:36:54.44
or whether
you're here in Oklahoma,
00:36:54.45\00:36:57.77
Oklahoma is just a
suburb of Texas isn't
00:36:57.78\00:37:00.06
or is it the other way around,
00:37:00.07\00:37:01.04
I've been trying
to get that straight.
00:37:01.05\00:37:02.67
It's the other way around okay.
00:37:05.84\00:37:07.13
He enters into our rebellion,
00:37:10.82\00:37:12.32
I mean even after
a generation stripped
00:37:12.33\00:37:14.20
him naked, he
enters to save us to die,
00:37:14.21\00:37:16.64
he enters and what
are we do? We strip him
00:37:16.65\00:37:19.02
naked and then we lacerated the
00:37:19.03\00:37:20.64
incarnated flesh.
And we place a crown of
00:37:20.65\00:37:22.97
thorns on his, you
say I didn't do that,
00:37:22.98\00:37:25.21
you did every sin
present on the hill that
00:37:25.22\00:37:27.43
day is present here
in Oklahoma camp meeting.
00:37:27.44\00:37:30.84
It's my sin that put him there,
00:37:42.34\00:37:43.58
It was my sin that he died for.
00:37:45.23\00:37:47.01
And your sin he died for.
00:37:49.30\00:37:50.66
And when ever I think of that,
00:37:51.87\00:37:52.84
if I was the only
sin in the world or I had
00:37:53.47\00:37:55.21
committed the only
sin in the world he would
00:37:55.22\00:37:56.87
have come and died,
I can't fathom that,
00:37:56.88\00:37:58.69
I've spent all my life trying to
00:37:58.70\00:38:00.16
understand that for me.
00:38:00.29\00:38:01.47
I tried to understand that for,
00:38:08.53\00:38:10.25
he places his live around us,
00:38:11.03\00:38:13.01
he places his heart
around us, to protect us,
00:38:14.20\00:38:16.73
even in the judgment.
J.C. Massee I don't know
00:38:17.30\00:38:21.09
if you've ever heard
about him but he was one
00:38:21.10\00:38:22.67
of those great
southern preachers,
00:38:22.68\00:38:24.30
you know in the old
days they used to preach.
00:38:24.31\00:38:25.71
Come on in, may I
make a suggestion,
00:38:26.02\00:38:28.36
come on
nowadays. Sounds like a pop
00:38:28.37\00:38:31.43
psychology class,
come on. You're good,
00:38:31.44\00:38:34.81
I'm good, you
know we like bubbling
00:38:34.82\00:38:36.22
brooks happy
little, but some of the days
00:38:36.23\00:38:40.64
they scorched the
earth when they preached.
00:38:40.65\00:38:42.33
Put up the big tents
and preach in the big tents
00:38:43.84\00:38:46.66
I used to do that,
shows how old I am.
00:38:46.67\00:38:49.13
I had saw dust in my
veins. I'm going back
00:38:49.79\00:38:54.21
to Brooklyn, this
sermon preaching in a big
00:38:54.29\00:38:56.27
tent in Brooklyn. I
made the full circle from
00:38:56.28\00:39:00.84
Brooklyn to Brooklyn.
Anyway he used to preach
00:39:00.85\00:39:05.38
in those big
tents and they come out
00:39:05.39\00:39:08.52
and hear him preach
and they used to love
00:39:08.53\00:39:10.01
to hear him
preach and J.C. Massee.
00:39:10.02\00:39:12.40
His mother used to
come and she was so proud
00:39:12.41\00:39:14.34
of her preacher son. By the way,
00:39:14.35\00:39:15.98
I remember the first
time I heard my boy preach,
00:39:16.35\00:39:18.11
that was in Lincoln,
Nebraska, I was up in the
00:39:18.46\00:39:20.06
balcony of church and
he was preaching my boy.
00:39:20.07\00:39:22.35
And I almost fell
out of the balcony.
00:39:22.98\00:39:25.09
Come on, I mean there
is a holy pride I mean
00:39:25.78\00:39:29.14
you know that's
my sin I'm sorry but.
00:39:29.15\00:39:31.52
Then I would hear
my daughter preach,
00:39:34.41\00:39:36.06
that's quite another thing too,
00:39:36.07\00:39:37.60
she has a little
fire of her daddy in her.
00:39:38.27\00:39:40.27
But, I was so proud,
Sister Massee is so proud
00:39:41.89\00:39:44.44
of her son he is
preaching caught up
00:39:44.45\00:39:45.89
in the spirit one
day and he says my mother
00:39:45.90\00:39:47.91
has a sin, oh
and everybody looks
00:39:47.92\00:39:50.10
and isn't it amazing?
I mean if you talk about
00:39:50.11\00:39:56.04
something good
about someone known,
00:39:56.05\00:39:57.72
the moment you
find something bad
00:39:58.45\00:40:00.27
you think
something bad, you stop
00:40:00.28\00:40:01.88
and they're all
looking at her and
00:40:03.38\00:40:04.43
she's flipped out in
her seat and she looks up
00:40:04.44\00:40:06.33
at the son and she
says yeah, my mother
00:40:06.34\00:40:07.70
had a sin, pride,
pride that time she's under
00:40:07.71\00:40:11.44
the chair. And
everybody's Sister
00:40:11.45\00:40:14.90
Massee sweet little
southern belle, pride.
00:40:14.91\00:40:19.58
And then he laughed,
he said my momma had pride
00:40:20.54\00:40:24.12
that she had the
whitest sheets in South Georgia.
00:40:24.45\00:40:27.55
And said in fact
there was law in our house
00:40:29.44\00:40:31.66
that said you never
went to the feather bed
00:40:31.67\00:40:34.35
with the whitest
sheets in South Georgia
00:40:34.36\00:40:36.56
till you had a bath
and wearing clean pajamas
00:40:36.57\00:40:39.01
that was the law of
the Medes and Persians
00:40:39.02\00:40:40.36
in that house. One
day JC was playing out
00:40:40.37\00:40:44.91
by the barn you
know where the eves
00:40:44.92\00:40:46.45
of barn and it
was raining and water
00:40:46.46\00:40:49.12
and mother was
milking the cow, I don't know
00:40:49.13\00:40:51.76
how they do it,
but I get mine in the
00:40:51.77\00:40:54.35
grocery store. I
thought chocolate
00:40:54.36\00:40:57.40
milk for years came
from chocolate cows,
00:40:57.41\00:40:59.24
I mean I didn't
know the difference.
00:40:59.25\00:41:00.99
First time I saw a
cow in the rough was
00:41:01.00\00:41:03.32
I was 17 years
old. So, you know what
00:41:03.33\00:41:06.08
I know about it, and
so JC said he was playing
00:41:06.09\00:41:09.95
in a mud puddle,
isn't it that what kids
00:41:09.96\00:41:11.72
come on now, especially
with that new sneakers.
00:41:12.26\00:41:15.24
I mean they find
every mud puddle in the
00:41:16.78\00:41:18.16
neighborhood.
These playing in a mud
00:41:18.17\00:41:21.21
and splashing over
and he goes in the barn
00:41:21.22\00:41:23.86
and he says mom I
have to go to house to do
00:41:23.87\00:41:25.25
what little boys
have to do when they go
00:41:25.26\00:41:26.37
to house and she said,
you go JC but you remember
00:41:26.38\00:41:29.03
you come right back.
And he knew what that meant,
00:41:29.04\00:41:34.65
no such thing as a time
out, I give you a break.
00:41:35.82\00:41:38.68
Time out son as
he rips a wall off
00:41:39.60\00:41:42.29
or calls 911 on you.
00:41:42.30\00:41:43.78
So, JC took care of
what he had to take care
00:41:49.48\00:41:53.01
in the house and he's walking by
00:41:53.02\00:41:54.10
and there in the
bedroom was the big
00:41:54.11\00:41:56.50
feathered bed,
the white sheets in
00:41:56.51\00:41:59.61
South Georgia. A
voice comes says JC,
00:41:59.62\00:42:03.22
wouldn't it be nice
to climb up on the bed
00:42:04.46\00:42:07.36
and take a dive
into the feather bed.
00:42:07.37\00:42:09.19
You know what voice
that is, come on now.
00:42:09.79\00:42:11.57
come on, you don't
have to a theologian
00:42:12.02\00:42:14.67
or a rocket scientist.
Then the other voice came
00:42:14.68\00:42:18.03
back said naughty,
naughty JC remember
00:42:18.04\00:42:20.03
what mama said.
And so we went by
00:42:20.04\00:42:22.40
and got as far as
the back door and reached
00:42:22.61\00:42:25.24
for the door knob
and the voice kept just
00:42:25.25\00:42:26.48
one little dive,
boy ran back as fast
00:42:26.49\00:42:29.75
and he could got,
got up on the bed stead,
00:42:29.76\00:42:31.99
he took a dive,
mud flying everywhere.
00:42:32.00\00:42:36.31
Isn't it the way it happens,
00:42:38.45\00:42:39.54
come on remember
before you knew Jesus,
00:42:40.07\00:42:42.27
you went from one
dive to another dive,
00:42:42.89\00:42:44.90
to another dive come on.
00:42:44.91\00:42:45.88
Just one dive so comes back,
00:42:47.24\00:42:48.35
he does a back dive.
And he's having fun man,
00:42:48.36\00:42:51.29
don't let anybody
tell you sin is not fun
00:42:51.30\00:42:53.80
for a while. Come
on, it's true even the
00:42:53.81\00:42:57.30
Bible tells you
that. And he's splashing
00:42:57.31\00:43:01.91
and he's diving
and he's tumbling
00:43:01.92\00:43:03.82
and just then he
looks and momma's standing
00:43:03.83\00:43:06.94
in the door
way. The fun is over,
00:43:06.95\00:43:11.94
she has the look in
the eye, did your mother
00:43:13.48\00:43:15.24
have that look in the eye?
00:43:15.25\00:43:16.22
My momma had the
look. And she had a switch
00:43:16.97\00:43:23.38
in her hand and
judgment in her eye.
00:43:23.39\00:43:26.89
White sheets dirty,
muddy, whitest sheets
00:43:28.04\00:43:31.06
in South Georgia and
so he does the first thing
00:43:31.07\00:43:34.72
he tries to cover it.
00:43:34.73\00:43:35.84
No way, can't cover it,
00:43:38.92\00:43:42.30
so he does the second
best thing he builds up
00:43:43.84\00:43:46.32
the tears, did you do
that when you were a kid?
00:43:46.33\00:43:48.18
My boy was great at it.
When he was a little boy
00:43:48.60\00:43:52.00
he would cry
harder before he got it.
00:43:52.73\00:43:55.99
Don't hit me,
everybody in the neighborhood
00:43:57.02\00:43:59.03
thought I was a child abuser,
00:43:59.04\00:44:00.51
don't hit me
daddy, don't, please dad,
00:44:00.87\00:44:03.12
you know come on,
tears burst like a dam.
00:44:04.40\00:44:10.09
So, he's having the
tears flowing just then
00:44:13.13\00:44:15.06
he hears the
noise at the window,
00:44:15.07\00:44:16.62
he looks and his
big brother is sitting
00:44:16.63\00:44:18.76
on a horse
looking in the window.
00:44:18.77\00:44:20.45
And the big brother
sees mom with the switch
00:44:22.41\00:44:24.02
and she sees and he
sees the muddy sheets
00:44:24.03\00:44:26.85
he throws open with window
00:44:29.49\00:44:30.46
and he says wait
mom, stop, don't do it.
00:44:30.47\00:44:32.29
He crawls off
wet and coming back
00:44:32.91\00:44:35.51
from the
irritation, he's sopping wet,
00:44:35.52\00:44:38.78
he crawls through the
window into the bedroom.
00:44:38.79\00:44:40.76
He runs over to JC
and he lays over JC.
00:44:43.13\00:44:46.07
JC scrunch now,
there is no word scrunch
00:44:48.26\00:44:51.06
there should be.
He's scrunch under
00:44:51.07\00:44:55.29
his big brother, he
waited for the switch.
00:44:55.95\00:44:59.95
Nothing happened,
he then looked out from
00:45:04.12\00:45:08.35
under his big
brother he notice momma
00:45:08.36\00:45:10.13
was standing there
with the switch at her side
00:45:10.14\00:45:13.56
and the tear in her
eye. She said to him,
00:45:13.57\00:45:16.94
you big lug, get
him and get out of here.
00:45:16.95\00:45:19.30
He said he, my big
bother picked me up,
00:45:19.85\00:45:22.10
he didn't run for
the door, he ran for the
00:45:22.11\00:45:23.94
window, on the
horse, boom to the barn.
00:45:23.95\00:45:29.89
We all dirtied the
sheets in one way or another.
00:45:30.83\00:45:35.12
For all have
sinned and come short of
00:45:36.38\00:45:39.44
the glory of God.
Amen. But, God so loved
00:45:39.45\00:45:43.97
the world that
he gave his son that
00:45:43.98\00:45:48.02
whosoever believes
in Him should not perish
00:45:48.03\00:45:50.82
but have everlasting,
He gave himself fully
00:45:50.83\00:45:54.14
and the value of the
gift is always in the love
00:45:56.47\00:46:00.00
of the giver. No one
cares for us like Jesus,
00:46:00.01\00:46:05.34
no one else cared quite like Him
00:46:07.96\00:46:11.52
and so he's
unique in His salvation.
00:46:14.01\00:46:15.66
But, also Jesus Christ
is unique in His promise,
00:46:18.60\00:46:23.18
He is unique in His
promise. I'm with you,
00:46:25.42\00:46:30.00
I'm with you as
long as you do right.
00:46:32.43\00:46:34.28
Come on I'm with
you, I'm with you only
00:46:36.52\00:46:40.29
when you dress
like you should do,
00:46:40.30\00:46:42.79
no I'm with you always, always.
00:46:42.80\00:46:45.55
When Moses said,
here I am, send Aaron.
00:46:48.77\00:46:53.23
When Samson
whispered to Delilah,
00:46:57.87\00:46:59.69
when Saul rode against
David, when David schemed
00:46:59.70\00:47:03.10
against Uriah,
God didn't give up.
00:47:03.11\00:47:05.40
When Peter denied
him, and John and James
00:47:05.41\00:47:07.69
fought for a
position, when Judas kissed
00:47:07.70\00:47:09.85
the kiss of death,
when Pilate washed it,
00:47:09.86\00:47:11.80
God did not give up.
You see listen carefully,
00:47:11.81\00:47:14.38
forget everything, listen now.
00:47:14.39\00:47:15.90
He would give up
on his own son before
00:47:16.33\00:47:19.05
he'd give up on you. Amen.
00:47:19.06\00:47:21.39
For God so loved the world,
00:47:23.12\00:47:24.50
he gave and the value
of the gift is in the love
00:47:29.15\00:47:36.33
of the giver. When
I was living at Keene,
00:47:36.34\00:47:39.87
well before Keene, I
was pastoring a church
00:47:41.45\00:47:46.60
and my little girl she was just,
00:47:46.61\00:47:48.30
she's 6 foot now she
was, my boy is 6' 7" now
00:47:49.54\00:47:53.05
so you know, but
anyway they were just
00:47:53.11\00:47:55.44
little ones, we have
the law in our house,
00:47:55.45\00:47:57.03
it was for our
Medes and Persians,
00:47:57.04\00:47:58.39
when daddy is in his
office studying the word
00:47:58.61\00:48:00.44
of God you're not to come there,
00:48:00.45\00:48:01.57
you're not to
disturb him as to law.
00:48:01.58\00:48:03.75
He will play with
you when he comes out,
00:48:05.13\00:48:06.45
he will spend all
the time you need.
00:48:06.77\00:48:08.07
But, when he is in his office,
00:48:09.71\00:48:11.32
writing, studying,
praying. One day I left the
00:48:12.27\00:48:15.86
door open just a
crack and I heard a noise
00:48:15.87\00:48:18.02
of door and I looke
and there was my little
00:48:18.03\00:48:19.29
Diane looking in
through the crack in the door.
00:48:19.30\00:48:21.52
Beautiful blue eyes
sparkling and beautiful
00:48:21.97\00:48:24.99
blonde hair
freckled in the sunlight
00:48:25.00\00:48:28.95
and these little
things have such a look
00:48:28.96\00:48:33.07
on a face. I said
Diane, and she remembered
00:48:33.08\00:48:38.66
the law, so she started to run,
00:48:38.67\00:48:41.05
I said stop and she
stop and in those days
00:48:41.75\00:48:43.83
they stopped. Now
you read books on it,
00:48:43.84\00:48:49.56
you can't stop them,
even throw a book at them
00:48:49.57\00:48:51.81
they don't stop. I
mean the book you're
00:48:51.82\00:48:54.31
reading about it, I
said honey, come here,
00:48:54.32\00:48:57.32
she came as far as the door.
00:48:57.33\00:48:58.49
She remembered
the law, law said,
00:48:58.50\00:49:00.21
she pushed opened the door.
00:49:02.22\00:49:03.20
And there was
that invisible line,
00:49:03.78\00:49:05.27
I said honey, come in,
you see what sin had bond,
00:49:06.60\00:49:08.56
grace did much more to bond,
00:49:08.57\00:49:10.15
she bonded in, amen.
And she stood before me
00:49:10.16\00:49:13.60
she says daddy, I
have gift for you, a gift,
00:49:13.61\00:49:16.00
hey now the law
went out of the window
00:49:16.31\00:49:18.11
come on now. I said
a gift honey? She says,
00:49:18.12\00:49:21.69
yeah daddy, I
have a gift for you,
00:49:21.70\00:49:23.84
I said, oh tell me what is it.
00:49:23.85\00:49:25.53
And she said guess, guess.
00:49:26.32\00:49:31.37
So, she wanted to play the game,
00:49:31.92\00:49:33.50
I could play the
game. I said honey,
00:49:33.51\00:49:35.01
is it a new boat and
she laughed and giggled
00:49:35.02\00:49:36.88
and her eyes sparkled, no daddy.
00:49:36.89\00:49:38.95
So, I guessed the
normal things I would like
00:49:38.96\00:49:40.81
to have and I couldn't have.
00:49:40.82\00:49:41.79
And she laughed
and played the game,
00:49:42.49\00:49:44.07
but I was getting
impatient and finally
00:49:44.08\00:49:45.52
I said, no, I can't
stand, give me the gift.
00:49:45.53\00:49:47.75
You know how you talk to kids,
00:49:48.07\00:49:49.34
you have another language.
00:49:49.35\00:49:50.32
Come on, you don't
speak in tongues to your kids,
00:49:54.13\00:49:57.96
it's another
language. And she said,
00:50:00.70\00:50:04.60
and she took it out
and it was a lamp made
00:50:07.41\00:50:12.06
of noodles, a
noodle lamp. I took my best
00:50:12.07\00:50:17.90
Kmart painting off
the wall and I put up a
00:50:17.91\00:50:22.57
noodle lamp.
People come in my office
00:50:24.53\00:50:27.95
and look at the noodle lamp.
00:50:27.96\00:50:29.02
The value of the gift is
in the love of the giver.
00:50:32.70\00:50:40.53
God so loved the world,
00:50:42.24\00:50:48.47
God would give
up on his only Son,
00:50:50.68\00:50:52.28
I have good
news for you tonight.
00:50:54.92\00:50:56.38
God would give up
on His only Son before
00:50:58.02\00:51:02.36
He would give up on you, or me.
00:51:02.37\00:51:05.80
And he made a
promise, He made a promise,
00:51:08.73\00:51:12.46
think of the
majesty of that miracle.
00:51:14.35\00:51:16.01
The first Adam was
wounded in the side
00:51:18.56\00:51:20.26
and there came
forth eve His bride,
00:51:21.58\00:51:24.38
the second Adam was
wounded in his sided
00:51:26.01\00:51:27.96
at Calvary and there
come forth a new Eve,
00:51:27.97\00:51:30.39
the church of
Jesus Christ. Amen.
00:51:30.40\00:51:33.82
I'm with you
always, I'm with you always.
00:51:37.57\00:51:43.86
It turns his embryo
in a womb of a woman.
00:51:48.72\00:51:52.23
He is dead now, but he's
alive, he's alive, alive.
00:51:54.69\00:52:05.03
I was holding a
meeting in San Bernardino,
00:52:06.75\00:52:08.69
California just a few
years ago. Lord poured
00:52:08.70\00:52:11.67
out his spirit
there in San Bernardino.
00:52:11.68\00:52:13.30
San Bernardino is
one of the toughest
00:52:13.64\00:52:14.98
cites in America.
Crime rate per capita
00:52:14.99\00:52:17.25
is the worst in that
city. The worst gangs ever
00:52:17.26\00:52:19.92
came out of there, hells
angels came out of there,
00:52:19.93\00:52:22.04
it was born in
San Bernardino and
00:52:22.05\00:52:23.86
and Satan worship by the way.
00:52:23.87\00:52:26.73
Center of Satan
worship started there in
00:52:26.74\00:52:28.56
San Bernardino, California.
So, God sent me there
00:52:28.57\00:52:31.59
in San Bernardino
just a few years ago,
00:52:31.60\00:52:34.71
of course all the
ministers were skeptical,
00:52:36.80\00:52:38.73
I had to go almost
a year trying to prove
00:52:38.74\00:52:40.19
to the Adventist
ministers you could hold
00:52:40.20\00:52:41.58
evangelism still,
that's amazing isn't it?
00:52:41.59\00:52:43.62
You can't do that
here brother Ron Halvorsen
00:52:45.67\00:52:47.41
we're in post modern
age. You know we're trying
00:52:48.84\00:52:51.53
to figure out
the post modernism.
00:52:51.54\00:52:52.84
We're trying to
figure out the problem
00:52:53.17\00:52:54.79
when Jesus has the solution.
00:52:54.80\00:52:56.52
They spent more
time on trying to find
00:52:58.42\00:53:00.16
a program to
reach them by that time
00:53:00.17\00:53:02.11
they're lost.
They go to their graves
00:53:02.12\00:53:05.02
without Christ, I'm
amazed at that stupidity.
00:53:05.03\00:53:08.54
So I, we went to
orange, the orange center
00:53:09.43\00:53:15.13
there in San
Bernardino and the Lord blessed
00:53:15.14\00:53:19.22
the opening night,
we had over 3900 people.
00:53:19.23\00:53:21.28
We baptized in that
meeting over 300 people,
00:53:22.66\00:53:25.74
but anyway I was
preaching one night,
00:53:28.02\00:53:30.33
I shared the conversion
from the gangs to Jesus
00:53:30.34\00:53:32.73
and there were two
gangs there that night
00:53:32.74\00:53:34.99
and it was amazing what God did,
00:53:35.00\00:53:36.83
we baptized lawyers
and doctors and we baptized
00:53:36.84\00:53:39.70
gang bangers and the
homeless and they all come
00:53:39.74\00:53:41.97
to the same pool, I
baptized them in the
00:53:41.98\00:53:44.03
Loma Linda swimming
pool on Saturday afternoon,
00:53:44.04\00:53:46.28
that was a new day.
And this gang banger
00:53:46.29\00:53:51.30
came down, he was
27 years old he spend
00:53:51.31\00:53:55.13
14 years
incarcerated of his 27 years.
00:53:55.14\00:53:59.25
He had all the
gang tattoos you know
00:54:00.45\00:54:02.19
and you see what's
happening today the
00:54:02.20\00:54:04.42
music is trying to
ghettoize our children.
00:54:04.43\00:54:06.28
I thankful to God
when he got me out
00:54:07.60\00:54:09.36
of the ghetto, they're
trying to bring them back
00:54:09.37\00:54:11.12
to the ghetto.
All this tattooing,
00:54:11.13\00:54:14.22
all this stuff to try
to imprison their mind
00:54:14.23\00:54:16.88
and their soul,
anyway this kid come down,
00:54:16.89\00:54:20.82
not a kid he's 27 years old and
00:54:20.83\00:54:22.93
he cried on my
shoulder, people are leaving
00:54:24.64\00:54:27.79
the auditorium,
they didn't know what God
00:54:27.80\00:54:29.12
was doing that
night you never know what
00:54:29.13\00:54:30.86
God is doing. If
you only knew what God
00:54:30.87\00:54:34.69
was doing some
times in those meetings,
00:54:34.70\00:54:37.27
he's weeping on my shoulder.
00:54:37.96\00:54:39.49
I led him to Christ
there by that platform
00:54:40.27\00:54:43.48
that night. Came back
every night, every night.
00:54:43.49\00:54:47.13
Scars, tattoos, every
night. I was sure glad
00:54:49.10\00:54:54.97
some saint didn't
sit next to him there at
00:54:54.98\00:54:57.12
that meeting. I will
tell you. It's amazing
00:54:57.68\00:55:02.29
what they say and
what they do in the
00:55:04.95\00:55:07.46
name of Christ,
a gang banger came.
00:55:07.47\00:55:11.79
So, he came to my Bible
class, my baptism class,
00:55:12.37\00:55:15.43
we were planning on
baptizing them in the pool
00:55:15.44\00:55:17.39
with the others on Saturday.
00:55:17.40\00:55:20.01
On Thursday night he
was standing on the porch,
00:55:21.96\00:55:26.09
by the way I was
gonna have a wedding
00:55:26.10\00:55:27.87
on Friday night and a
baptism on Saturday night.
00:55:27.88\00:55:30.67
You have to do
that a lot nowadays,
00:55:30.68\00:55:32.57
have the wedding
and then the baptism.
00:55:33.24\00:55:35.20
We had the wedding all
planned, he had the little
00:55:35.78\00:55:37.77
18-month-old baby.
She was standing on one
00:55:37.78\00:55:41.62
side of porch, he was
on the other and car came
00:55:41.63\00:55:43.99
around the corner
boom, blew him away,
00:55:44.00\00:55:45.83
killed him right
there. I got word that
00:55:46.16\00:55:50.34
Friday night and I
stood up and told the people
00:55:50.35\00:55:53.80
about this young
gang banger and his plans
00:55:53.81\00:55:56.64
to be baptized
and now he's dead.
00:55:56.65\00:55:58.63
I took up an
offering that night to bury
00:56:00.41\00:56:02.09
the young man and
got $ 5000 to bury him
00:56:02.10\00:56:06.21
that night. I buried him
in the sweetest, prettiest
00:56:06.22\00:56:10.64
cemetery in Loma
Linda. Because when
00:56:11.14\00:56:14.01
he comes up in a
resurrection I want the
00:56:14.02\00:56:16.05
saints to see what
a sinner looks like
00:56:16.06\00:56:18.12
transformed by the
grace of God. Amen.
00:56:18.46\00:56:20.75
You people I don't
know, I hope I didn't
00:56:22.29\00:56:24.39
waste my time.
00:56:24.40\00:56:25.38
You know what a
miraculous thing that is?
00:56:29.02\00:56:30.71
Do you know what
a changed life is?
00:56:31.48\00:56:33.44
Do you know what
that is for that boy,
00:56:35.00\00:56:36.68
the only hope he
ever had, I am with you.
00:56:37.71\00:56:42.99
I shed tears for
him. I let him know before
00:56:47.53\00:56:52.23
he died, before
that night he was killed,
00:56:52.24\00:56:55.55
I let him know that
God lived in the hood,
00:56:55.56\00:56:57.99
that God roams the
street of the hood.
00:56:59.43\00:57:01.11
That God died for gang bangers,
00:57:02.55\00:57:04.19
and he received Christ
and he'll be received again.
00:57:06.78\00:57:11.58
I'm with you always.
Listen to me carefully
00:57:14.93\00:57:18.59
when times get hard and
they will, look to Jesus.
00:57:18.60\00:57:23.39
He'd listen to me,
when people don't listen
00:57:25.50\00:57:28.70
to you and don't
really care, look to Jesus.
00:57:28.71\00:57:34.62
When tears come and
won't stop, look to Jesus.
00:57:36.61\00:57:41.71
When you fall down and
you fail and you mess up,
00:57:45.03\00:57:50.10
look to Jesus.
'Cause He does not have
00:57:52.66\00:57:56.01
blind eyes, but does
he have a stony heart.
00:57:56.02\00:58:00.74
Father, which art
in heaven, I thank you
00:58:02.30\00:58:03.82
for that truth tonight.
00:58:03.83\00:58:04.82
Oh! God, be real
to everyone here,
00:58:10.69\00:58:12.17
may they feel your softness.
00:58:14.79\00:58:16.53
May they see your
smile, may they know
00:58:18.82\00:58:22.72
your tenderness
and your forgiveness.
00:58:22.73\00:58:26.42
And may they love you more,
00:58:29.25\00:58:30.43
now then they ever did before,
00:58:31.56\00:58:33.42
everyday you get sweeter, amen.
00:58:35.95\00:58:42.48
Remember you
leave this place but
00:58:44.27\00:58:46.98
you never leave
the presence of God.
00:58:46.99\00:58:48.26