Let's bow our heads
in a word of prayer.
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Our kind Father,
we humbly, graciously
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bow on your side,
we're totally aware of
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the love that you
show us, the love that
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you have for us
here. It's good to come
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before you forgiven
under the grace of God.
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It's good for us to
be able to come apart
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and listen to
your word and learn of
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your marvelous
grace, your marvelous love.
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I pray tonight that
you'll speak through
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your word, that we'll
get a picture of Jesus
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that we perhaps
have not had before,
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that we'll see Him
as our helper in our bad
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times in Christ name, amen.
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It was a cold January evening
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in New York, Long Island.
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A young man was
jogging along the
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high school track,
doing his exercise,
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getting ready for
a Triathlon, he was a
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triathlon runner
and he was getting ready
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for the next event
and he told his wife when
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he left for the
track he said I'll just be
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an hour or so and
I'll be back before dark.
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He didn't show up at
home at dark his wife
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got worried about
him and she jumped in the
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car with the little
one and the dog and drove
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out to the track and,
in the growing darkness
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she could see
someone laying on the track.
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She pulled the car
over and jumped out
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and ran over and Jimmy
was lying in pool of blood.
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Someone had come by while he was
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jogging and shot
him, killed him in cold
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blood, when they
finally caught the
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person, who brutally killed him.
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They asked the young
man why did you do this?
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Did you know him? No.
Then why did you do this?
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He said well I wanted
to feel what it felt like
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to kill someone,
I went to the movies
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the night before and
I saw this movie called
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Natural Born
Killers and it was about a
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thrill kill and I wanted
to feel what it felt like and.
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Jimmy was my
nephew, he left a little
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baby girl and his
wife two weeks later bore
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twins, but Jimmy will
never see until the kingdom.
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I thought as I was
confronted with that
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terrible tragedy,
is there any hope for
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the future of this young woman,
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and her three little babies.
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Is there any
answer, why is God silent
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when we ask important questions,
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why is life so hard
even for Christians.
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Now everyone of us
here have those days
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you know those bad
those kind of days,
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those days you wish
you hadn't got out of bed.
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I mean, look at
poor Chippy, you heard
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about Chippy
didn't you, the parakeet.
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Poor Chippy the
parakeet was sitting in
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his cage doing
what parakeets do,
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peacefully
perched, the next he was
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sucked up,
washed up, blown over,
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the problem
begin when Chippy owner
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decided to clean the
cage, she thought she
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don't want to make
a mess and so she used
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the vacuum
cleaner. So she took the
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vacuum cleaner
pot and she stuck the
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vacuum cleaner into
the cage just then the
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phone ring, and she
reached for the phone
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and there was a, and
she turned around and
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poor Chippy wasn't there,
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she began to panic
and so she did what
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any good parakeet
owner would do she
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dropped the phone
and she ran to the
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vacuum and she
turned it off and then
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she fumbled to try
to get it open, when she
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got it open there
poor Chippy was standing,
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trembling
covered in dust and dirt.
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And so being
such a kind and loving
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parakeet keeper she
did the next best thing
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she took Chippy and
she ran for the faucet.
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She turned on the cold water.
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Now poor Chippy
shivering and then
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she realized what
she had done so being a
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wonderful
parakeet owner and one that
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loved a parakeet she
ran for the hair dryer.
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Poor Chippy. Few
days later after the
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trauma, the reporter
that had reported it in
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the newspaper
called back to find out how
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poor Chippy was doing.
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Well she replied
Chippy doesn't sing
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much anymore, he
just sits and stares,
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it's not hard to see why is it.
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Sucked in, washed
up, I mean blown over,
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that's enough to
steal the song from anyone.
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Can you relate to
Chippy? Come on now.
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I mean most of us
can and we had days like
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Chippy days haven't
we? I mean life it seems to
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us all of a sudden
everything goes wrong,
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you try to
loose a little weight,
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but it never seems to happen.
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You think of making
a shift in your career,
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maybe even
serving God but you can
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never actually get
to it, perhaps some of
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you even made the
jump but it doesn't
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pan out the way you
expect it and so you're
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right back on the
run again, you try to
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recover something
in your marriage and
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your spouse looks at
you with a glance and
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says nice try,
isn't it a little late
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and an argument breaks
out in front of the kids.
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And yes we have
faith, but even there it
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seems to fall
short of a promise,
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I mean life never
seems to turn out the
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way we want at
least a 100 percent
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or 90 percent, one
minute we're seen in
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a familiar
territory with a song on our
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lips and a pink
slip comes or bad news
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from the doctor or the
divorce is final or the
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check bounces
at the bank and the
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policeman knocks at the door.
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The life that is
so calm is now so
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stormy; the life
that you thought you had
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security is gone.
The life that when
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along without a
glitch now is full of
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surprises, from
calm to storming moments.
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When I read the
story, I tried to find the
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lesson that God
had for me about Chippy
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and my Chippy
days, maybe it says bad
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things happen to
good birds I don't know,
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or the world is good
and the world is bad,
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I don't know if
that explains it.
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If it can
happen, it will happen,
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or wait a little
longer and life will change,
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life will change.
I have learned from
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life and from
living as a believer as a
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Christian even,
I've learned that there
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is a cycle of goodness
and there is a cycle of
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badness and there's
a cycle of redemption
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and it applies for everything,
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everyone in this
universe hope vanishes,
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if God is so big and
so concerned and caring
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why is my life such a bummer.
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Now that's the
question behind most
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questions, that's
the reason why men and
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women don't believe
or serve God many times,
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why is it? Such devastation you
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know, such violence
and crime and terror
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why do believers
have more questions then
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they do answers I
mean if God is good
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then why do bad
things happen to His
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people I mean to good people.
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Now I can
understand if bad things happen
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to bad people, they deserve it,
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but why does it happen to me,
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I don't think I
deserve it and you don't think
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you deserve it. If
God loves me eternally,
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unconditionally
then why aren't I happier
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and why doesn't it
turn out better for me,
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if God is pleased
with me why doesn't I,
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why don't I experience more
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pleasure in my
life, I mean more peace
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in my life, if
I'm suppose to receive
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the peace that
passeth understanding, why is
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my life in such turmoil.
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Now these
questions put God on trial,
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your experience
puts God on trial.
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There is one here,
there is no one here
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that has not faced a
devastating tragedy in
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his or her life
that puts God on trial,
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consider how many
times your life has
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taken a
devastating turn for the worst,
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think about it
for just a moment,
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when I wrote my book on prayer,
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prayer warrior, it
came out in January,
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in January my
nephew was, as I just
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told you the story
was viciously murdered,
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a few months later
my father dropped dead
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suddenly from an
aneurysm in his brain,
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I thought he was
gone. That same month
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I found that, they
found a growth on my
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throat and the
doctor said, then he said,
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well Mr. Halvorsen
this is very dangerous,
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this is, you may not be
able to speak after this,
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I said not speak?
I said what do you
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do to a preacher
that can't speak,
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it's like a horse
break your leg you shoot him,
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I mean that's all I do is speak.
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I'm still speaking,
amen, but the tragedy
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came, a month
later I was diagnosed
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with Colon cancer
and only by a miracle
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of God I am here today preaching
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because it was
the worst kind in the
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worst place I was
awaken in the middle
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of the night and a voice came an
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impression came and said get a
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colonoscopy, can
you imagine that in the
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middle of the
night, I thought I was in
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digestion, I
rolled over, went back to
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sleep, two nights
later the same thing happen
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I called my doctor
and I said I need a
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colonoscopy, he
said why do you have this
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symptom? You have
this, I didn't have any
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symptom, in fact I
told my wife and said
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honey, I'm jumping
fences. I said honey they say
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when you really feel
great you're gonna die,
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I said if that's the
case I should be dropping
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dead I mean I feel
good I said no he said
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but why I said
because God told me,
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he said would you
have another reason
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I said not a better reason,
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and so they did
a colonoscopy they
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found an aggressive
cancer way up on the
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right side and he
said to me he said
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Mr. Halvorsen 99
percent of people that
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get their cancer
there by the time they get
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the symptoms it's
too late it's broken
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through the wall,
it's out into their body.
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I went to the, what
is it, this person that
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does the radiation and chemo,
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what are they called?
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You've got the point, anyway.
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He examined me, he
looked at the test,
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he looked at
the operation and he
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came back he said
Mr. Halvorsen, you're
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a lucky man I said
no, not a lucky man he
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said 99 percent of
people that get cancer
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in this place and
die, he said but you don't
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even need chemo or radiation,
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come on, thank God.
I mean but the amazing
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thing about it,
here's the amazing thing
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about it the
doctor that questioned
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whether I should
have a colonoscopy or not
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was an
Adventist doctor, my other
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doctor said oh I
believe in miracles,
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listen to me there
is a miraculous God,
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doesn't matter what
you know about surgery,
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doesn't matter
what you know about
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medicine, God is
the great physician.
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Amen. Just
poured out on me and my
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family, let me tell
you bad things happen to
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good people, devastating things
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happen in an
instant to people, but God
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has an answer and
there's a resounding
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yes that life can be beautiful.
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When stars fall from heaven,
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when mountains fall
into the sea, when evil
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triumphs over
good, when Satan seems to
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have the upper hand,
when death still stings
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and tears still flow,
there is one splendid,
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one shining, one
glorious hope and that
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hope is a person of
the Lord Jesus Christ,
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can you say amen here?
The person of Jesus Christ,
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He is our glorious
hope, but still there
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are the hunting
questions, by the way
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that are not only
your problem. Listen to me
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the prophets of old
asked the same questions.
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A prophet looked
to heaven, beating
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heaven with his
prayers he said, God,
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why are you
silent? One prophet looking
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out over the city
and there were the,
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the enemy coming
into his city he knew
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that they would
rape his women and they
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would take his people
into captivity he said
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God why don't you do something?
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And then back it
out of that experience,
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out of that pain,
out of that captivity,
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he was able to say
that just shall live by
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his and her
faith, but still it hurts
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and still is God
holding out on us.
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Christ you know has
been trying to answer
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this question and
nail it down since
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the dawn of time.
Goodness, now we all
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know the world is
good, I mean there is
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goodness in this world I mean,
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after each act of
creation He states this
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and it was good and
it was good and it was
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very good look around you nature
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proclaims it. Some weeks ago
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I was having a
revival meeting in Georgia
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and, on the way to
the church, on the way to
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the hospital I was
having devotions in
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the morning at
the hospital and then
00:16:07.80\00:16:09.27
revival at the
church in evening on the way
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to hospital I saw a
flock of, I guess there
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are flock I don't
know I'm from Brooklyn,
00:16:15.51\00:16:16.99
but a flock of turkeys,
do they call them a flock.
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Okay that's
close enough, they were
00:16:20.53\00:16:23.21
flocked around
anyway, beautiful and
00:16:23.22\00:16:28.51
that afternoon one
of the doctors took me
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out to play golf,
I only play golf for
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my exercise you
know it's good I walk
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in the woods a lot
and I noticed a beautiful
00:16:34.96\00:16:39.53
dove making her way
quietly through the woods.
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I look out in the
faces wherever I preach and
00:16:48.10\00:16:50.22
I say beautiful
people and beautiful faces,
00:16:50.23\00:16:54.02
I see the faces of
little children like say God
00:16:54.60\00:16:57.49
this world is good,
I mean everywhere we
00:16:57.80\00:17:00.33
can see,
everywhere we can see this
00:17:00.34\00:17:02.46
goodness, this is
the goodness of God,
00:17:02.47\00:17:04.62
we see it everywhere,
kindness and love and
00:17:04.91\00:17:08.53
we see acts of
caring and acts of love,
00:17:08.72\00:17:10.69
even outside there,
outside of the church
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and sometimes we see it even
00:17:13.60\00:17:14.95
more outside then we do inside.
00:17:14.96\00:17:16.77
But I'm not
diluted about goodness,
00:17:19.28\00:17:21.42
not to recognize
there's evil in our world,
00:17:22.62\00:17:24.84
there is human
evil. People go homeless,
00:17:26.16\00:17:28.50
not for lack of
resources but for lack
00:17:28.75\00:17:30.99
of love, I mean
food is abundant and yet
00:17:31.00\00:17:33.65
people starve to
death in our world,
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all this is good
things are perverted, that has
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been the underlying
truth from this book
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from the very
beginning at the fall
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of man, a lie
walks the truth, gluttony
00:17:42.53\00:17:46.26
abuses food and
drink and a parasite evil
00:17:46.27\00:17:49.16
must feed off good,
and has no ability to
00:17:49.46\00:17:53.34
create anything
new. Thinking about poor
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Chippy, there are
some things that we
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left undone. The
movie Grand Canyon
00:18:00.54\00:18:03.99
articulates the
theological fact and
00:18:04.85\00:18:06.95
truth, a spiritual
truth, Danny Glover playing
00:18:06.96\00:18:11.98
a tow truck driver,
who is threatened by
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five troublemakers
as he attempts to rescue
00:18:15.74\00:18:18.57
a terrified
family, a motorist who had
00:18:18.58\00:18:21.21
broken down on a
highway and seeing
00:18:21.22\00:18:24.92
these five
ruffians trying to cause
00:18:24.93\00:18:27.56
trouble, he says
man the world ain't
00:18:27.57\00:18:30.02
suppose to work like
this and they keep it
00:18:30.03\00:18:35.49
up and he says it
again, he says man
00:18:35.50\00:18:37.59
the world ain't
suppose to work like,
00:18:37.98\00:18:39.75
and we look
around and we say God,
00:18:39.99\00:18:42.18
the world ain't
supposed to work like this.
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Whatever we humans
touch can go wrong.
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In more optimistic
times Christians had
00:18:54.45\00:18:57.37
to struggle to make
the case for the fallen
00:18:57.38\00:18:59.62
world, we don't have
to do that today do we?
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I mean look
around you turn on CNN,
00:19:02.48\00:19:04.43
I mean open
your newspaper I mean
00:19:04.60\00:19:06.45
it jumps out at
you, it pours out at you
00:19:06.63\00:19:08.55
from every page
tragedy or comedy
00:19:08.56\00:19:11.69
can happen in a
split moment of time.
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Whatever we touch,
you see what the tow
00:19:16.29\00:19:19.99
driver, tow truck
driver absorbed we
00:19:20.00\00:19:24.48
know to be a fact,
man the world ain't
00:19:24.49\00:19:27.75
suppose to be like this.
00:19:27.76\00:19:31.26
If indeed a good God
created a good world,
00:19:32.90\00:19:35.03
something has gone
rye. Now the problem
00:19:35.04\00:19:39.64
goes right back
to the beginning,
00:19:39.65\00:19:40.79
I want to talk to
you about this why?
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A good God in a bad
world? Why human suffering?
00:19:43.95\00:19:46.72
How does Jesus
become the helper?
00:19:47.17\00:19:49.31
You see the problem
goes right back to one
00:19:50.69\00:19:54.28
bad choice and
then another bad choice
00:19:54.29\00:19:58.23
and then another bad choice.
00:19:59.14\00:20:01.05
You see the day
started optimistically,
00:20:01.80\00:20:06.47
the day ended
badly, her name is Eve,
00:20:07.81\00:20:12.96
one choice led to
another crazy thing
00:20:14.09\00:20:18.48
about it, they tried
for years to help fix it and
00:20:18.49\00:20:21.47
it keeps getting worse.
00:20:21.48\00:20:23.14
When everything breaks down in a
00:20:27.81\00:20:28.78
house my wife
don't ask me to fix it,
00:20:28.79\00:20:30.55
I'm terrible at it believe me,
00:20:32.22\00:20:34.27
took me a whole week
to fix the irrigation
00:20:35.46\00:20:39.35
in my backyard and
I put all the pipes
00:20:41.20\00:20:44.15
together and put
the glue around and
00:20:44.16\00:20:46.97
well it looks
beautiful flipped the switch
00:20:47.36\00:20:50.88
when the water
came through with power,
00:20:50.89\00:20:52.51
boom it throw
everything all over the yard,
00:20:53.09\00:20:55.05
she don't ask
me to fix anything.
00:20:57.43\00:20:58.77
I mean, we try to fix
it keeps breaking down
00:21:02.31\00:21:08.19
the car gets to a
certain age right,
00:21:09.49\00:21:11.06
come on now no
matter what you do to it,
00:21:11.07\00:21:13.27
it keeps breaking down.
00:21:13.28\00:21:14.46
Humanity keeps
breaking technology
00:21:16.52\00:21:18.75
repeats that cycle doesn't it.
00:21:18.76\00:21:20.38
I mean we master
the Adam and we nearly
00:21:20.75\00:21:23.04
obliterate a
universe, we learned the secrets
00:21:23.05\00:21:28.52
of life only to
develop techniques to destroy
00:21:28.53\00:21:31.12
the unborn and the aging.
00:21:31.31\00:21:33.36
We unlocked the
genetic code and we
00:21:35.16\00:21:36.72
opened Pandora's
box of ethics, we tamed
00:21:36.73\00:21:40.11
the great plains
and with agriculture and
00:21:40.12\00:21:42.47
cause a dust
bowl, we try to fix the
00:21:42.48\00:21:44.70
environment and
harvest the rainforest
00:21:44.71\00:21:47.21
and create floods
and harness internal
00:21:47.22\00:21:49.46
combustion engines
and we melt the ice cap.
00:21:49.47\00:21:52.50
We link our world
to the Internet only to
00:21:56.36\00:22:00.05
find the most
devastating thing is
00:22:00.06\00:22:02.21
the thing that's
most downloaded on the
00:22:02.22\00:22:04.32
Internet today is pornography.
00:22:04.33\00:22:06.25
Every advance introduces us to
00:22:08.59\00:22:10.21
another fall, every
attempt to clean the
00:22:10.22\00:22:12.90
bird cage we get
deeper and we get the
00:22:12.91\00:22:15.51
bird deeper and
deeper into trouble, why?
00:22:15.52\00:22:18.32
Because the good God
did not create robots,
00:22:18.33\00:22:21.40
but humans with free will.
00:22:23.29\00:22:26.56
When I was a
little boy many years ago,
00:22:29.52\00:22:32.11
many many many
years ago I used to
00:22:32.12\00:22:34.79
like to play
toy soldiers, my mom
00:22:34.80\00:22:38.24
would get me those
plastic toy soldiers
00:22:38.25\00:22:39.97
and I like to play
them, I set them up in the
00:22:39.98\00:22:42.90
living room and
hide them behind the
00:22:42.91\00:22:44.49
piddles on the
couch and put them in
00:22:44.50\00:22:46.30
strategic places
there were the enemy,
00:22:46.59\00:22:48.71
you could always
tell them, and they were
00:22:48.72\00:22:51.07
the good soldiers, my soldiers,
00:22:51.08\00:22:53.29
and they'd fight
the war every now and
00:22:54.45\00:22:55.84
then and knock over a
good soldier but we'll
00:22:55.85\00:22:57.80
knock over three bad
soldiers finally I got
00:22:57.81\00:23:00.33
tied of that and
knock them all over, we won.
00:23:00.34\00:23:03.35
I noticed that as
only I control the
00:23:05.42\00:23:07.43
the soldiers, we
won, but what if those
00:23:07.44\00:23:12.36
soldiers could come alive,
00:23:12.37\00:23:13.86
become bigger than
I. It would no longer be
00:23:17.78\00:23:21.25
a fun game would
it. I mean you're the
00:23:21.26\00:23:26.54
biggest so
therefore you make them obey
00:23:26.55\00:23:28.31
and that happens even
in your own personal life,
00:23:28.58\00:23:30.39
even with your own children,
00:23:30.40\00:23:31.69
as long as they're
little they obey you,
00:23:31.70\00:23:33.62
they get up on Sabbath, they get
00:23:33.63\00:23:35.13
dressed on Sabbath,
they go to, they brush
00:23:35.14\00:23:36.95
their teeth, they
go to church, they come
00:23:36.96\00:23:38.38
home but when they get big,
00:23:38.39\00:23:40.34
if I were to take
a survey here tonight
00:23:42.46\00:23:44.11
perhaps the most
shocking thing would
00:23:45.65\00:23:46.91
be how many of our big children
00:23:46.92\00:23:49.06
are brushing their
teeth to go to church
00:23:50.22\00:23:53.28
and to worship
God and to carry this
00:23:54.52\00:23:57.71
kingdom, this gospel
of the kingdom to the
00:23:57.72\00:24:02.63
world perishing. I mean, we even
00:24:02.64\00:24:08.27
act like as cold
control freaks even in
00:24:08.28\00:24:10.69
our own church,
and so therefore we set
00:24:10.70\00:24:14.48
our rules and we
set our standards and we
00:24:14.49\00:24:16.37
write the law and we
tell out the benefits of
00:24:16.62\00:24:19.69
it and we tell how
that we need to do it
00:24:19.70\00:24:21.66
and then it get
longer and longer and longer
00:24:22.15\00:24:25.19
and the kids just
getting blown away,
00:24:25.62\00:24:27.50
they can't ever live up to it,
00:24:27.51\00:24:30.07
by the way I
can't live up to it.
00:24:31.60\00:24:33.47
God made us in such a
way that we could choose.
00:24:41.13\00:24:45.82
And I believe there
are three kinds of will,
00:24:49.28\00:24:50.85
people say we need to
be in God's will let's
00:24:53.46\00:24:55.16
look at it tonight
there was the intentional
00:24:55.17\00:24:58.94
will of God, if
we're gonna understand
00:24:58.95\00:25:01.04
why we suffer
hurt even good people.
00:25:02.69\00:25:06.58
There is the intentional
will of God, there is a
00:25:08.05\00:25:10.17
circumstantial will
of God and there is what
00:25:10.18\00:25:12.72
I call The Ultimate Will of God.
00:25:12.73\00:25:14.64
God's intentional
will, if we read the first
00:25:16.87\00:25:20.46
two chapters of the
Bible we discover that
00:25:20.47\00:25:24.37
the intentional will
of God what it was about
00:25:24.38\00:25:26.38
first of all you
would have life abundantly,
00:25:26.71\00:25:29.28
it was to be joyous,
I mean life abundantly
00:25:29.75\00:25:32.79
productive, your life
forever, forever life.
00:25:32.80\00:25:37.25
In fact on that
Friday God created sexuality,
00:25:39.00\00:25:41.66
so that you could
create the family and
00:25:41.67\00:25:43.55
the family could
create the family and
00:25:43.56\00:25:45.39
the family could
create the family
00:25:45.40\00:25:47.31
and they would be one family.
00:25:47.32\00:25:49.00
And the next day
he creates a Sabbath,
00:25:51.90\00:25:53.63
the worship and
that's why the Seventh-day
00:25:54.01\00:25:56.42
was so meaningful
because God wanted
00:25:56.43\00:25:58.48
us to bring that
to the nations and God
00:25:58.49\00:26:01.66
wanted that to be
apart of our existence and.
00:26:01.67\00:26:04.88
And God did
everything with an intention,
00:26:07.16\00:26:09.31
everything he creates
is in order, everything
00:26:10.13\00:26:12.52
he creates with intention.
You see he doesn't create,
00:26:12.53\00:26:15.26
he doesn't create
birds and try to create a sky
00:26:15.61\00:26:18.24
to put them in, he
creates the sky and
00:26:18.25\00:26:20.36
then the birds, he
doesn't create fish and
00:26:20.37\00:26:22.68
run around looking for water,
00:26:22.69\00:26:24.50
he creates the
water, then the fish,
00:26:24.65\00:26:26.28
everything is done in order.
00:26:26.58\00:26:27.74
He comes to the worship day, he
00:26:28.02\00:26:29.55
doesn't create the
worship day on the first day,
00:26:29.56\00:26:31.60
he creates it on
the Seventh day why?
00:26:31.89\00:26:33.53
Because on the sixth day
he creates the worshiper.
00:26:33.84\00:26:36.49
He intended it that
way and it was good.
00:26:41.64\00:26:45.82
Read Genesis chapter
1, it's good, it's good
00:26:47.40\00:26:50.38
I mean there is
no hunger, it's good,
00:26:50.55\00:26:53.06
there is no hatred,
its good, there is no pain,
00:26:53.07\00:26:56.23
there is no
suffering, there is no sickness,
00:26:56.24\00:26:57.73
there is no
crime, I mean there is no
00:26:57.74\00:26:59.35
violence, there is
no anger in the home.
00:26:59.36\00:27:01.91
There is no two
people fighting and
00:27:08.84\00:27:10.25
warning until the
inevitable is a divorce.
00:27:10.26\00:27:13.78
They are never separated in that
00:27:15.67\00:27:18.31
garden, until the
day they chose to be
00:27:18.32\00:27:21.20
separated, its called free will.
00:27:21.21\00:27:24.44
When my boy was
growing up Ronnie he
00:27:26.02\00:27:27.88
was just a little
boy. I have two children
00:27:27.89\00:27:30.91
I have Ronnie and I have Dianne,
00:27:30.92\00:27:32.17
Ronnie is the
oldest, when Ronnie was just
00:27:33.65\00:27:36.94
little and Dianne
was just in the crib,
00:27:36.95\00:27:39.26
my wife would some
times take Dianne and
00:27:40.88\00:27:42.87
have to go to store
she would take Dianne
00:27:43.68\00:27:45.33
and she leave
Ronnie for me to watch.
00:27:45.34\00:27:47.20
And I had a sandbox
in the front of our yard,
00:27:49.00\00:27:52.91
we lived on a
Cul-de-sac and there was a
00:27:52.92\00:27:55.04
little sandbox and so
I got a brainy idea that
00:27:55.05\00:27:58.65
perhaps I could
let him play in that
00:27:59.02\00:28:00.55
sandbox while I was studied.
00:28:00.72\00:28:02.16
You understand who
has the brains in my
00:28:04.72\00:28:06.30
family, my wife
didn't think it was a good
00:28:06.31\00:28:09.61
idea but she was
gone, so I thought
00:28:09.62\00:28:11.36
wow I can
experiment and so I put enough
00:28:11.37\00:28:16.78
toys and things
to play with in the
00:28:16.79\00:28:19.44
sandbox, put
Ronnie in the midst of it,
00:28:19.45\00:28:22.49
said son play in the
sandbox don't go near
00:28:22.50\00:28:25.66
the road and I gave
him a look, you know
00:28:25.67\00:28:30.80
the parental look,
when in the house and
00:28:30.81\00:28:34.52
down the stairs
and I was studying,
00:28:34.81\00:28:36.21
thinking about
Ronnie, a chip off the
00:28:36.52\00:28:38.00
old block, ran up
the stairs looked out the
00:28:38.01\00:28:43.04
picture window
and there Ronnie was
00:28:43.05\00:28:44.46
standing by the road
00:28:44.79\00:28:45.96
throwing pebbles in the road.
00:28:45.97\00:28:47.51
I open the door and
I said Ronnie he heard
00:28:50.68\00:28:52.73
my voice, he ran
right back to the sandbox,
00:28:52.74\00:28:56.96
I said young
man, don't you go near
00:28:59.43\00:29:03.12
that road, why?
Was I trying to keep
00:29:03.13\00:29:05.65
something him, no I
was trying to protect him.
00:29:05.66\00:29:07.97
I said I love you I
want to protect you,
00:29:09.79\00:29:11.44
there's danger don't
go near the road or else
00:29:11.45\00:29:13.80
you're gonna have
to come into the house,
00:29:13.81\00:29:14.78
no more do you
leave this sandbox.
00:29:15.33\00:29:19.32
Gave him that
look, when I was studying
00:29:21.91\00:29:25.34
five minutes
later I thought about
00:29:27.15\00:29:29.85
Ronnie and the
road, I ran upstairs and
00:29:29.86\00:29:35.81
looked out the window and there
00:29:36.88\00:29:37.86
Ronnie was standing
with two feet in the
00:29:37.87\00:29:40.43
road throwing
pebbles, I open the
00:29:40.44\00:29:45.26
door I said
Ronnie come here and he
00:29:45.27\00:29:47.52
grabbed you know
and he started backing.
00:29:47.53\00:29:51.74
Yeah that's right, we used it,
00:29:54.14\00:29:57.25
this time out
stuff, give me a break.
00:29:58.91\00:30:01.07
Time out, yeah
only one who takes the
00:30:03.09\00:30:06.22
time out is you
to keep the time.
00:30:06.23\00:30:08.43
Now I could have
solved the problem
00:30:11.05\00:30:12.32
of the road, I
could have, people you see
00:30:12.33\00:30:13.95
they come to me
and they talk to me and
00:30:14.66\00:30:16.47
they say well God, he
could have solved this problem.
00:30:16.48\00:30:18.46
He was a big God,
He could have control
00:30:18.47\00:30:20.54
the situation, that's
right I couldn't control
00:30:20.55\00:30:22.44
the situation. I
could have taken Ronnie
00:30:22.45\00:30:24.50
and thrown him in the
closet and locked the door.
00:30:24.51\00:30:27.01
I'll solve the
problem. Well I'll be a good
00:30:29.82\00:30:32.91
father and kind of
cut a hole in the door and
00:30:32.92\00:30:35.56
so I could feed
him every now and then,
00:30:36.00\00:30:37.38
but you know I've solved,
00:30:37.39\00:30:38.55
wouldn't it solve the problem.
00:30:38.56\00:30:40.06
But love doesn't work that way,
00:30:45.87\00:30:47.30
love doesn't work that way.
00:30:49.02\00:30:50.30
You see I could
put hold him in my arms
00:30:51.98\00:30:53.46
and tell him
Ronnie, I love you so much,
00:30:53.47\00:30:55.10
there is danger in
the road and I could do
00:30:55.11\00:30:57.09
everything that
I could to show him
00:30:57.10\00:30:58.81
that love. To try
to show him what the
00:30:58.82\00:31:00.96
danger was. But some day
I would have to leave him.
00:31:00.97\00:31:04.80
And now my children are on many
00:31:08.58\00:31:09.55
dangerous roads,
yours are too aren't they?
00:31:09.56\00:31:11.80
This very moment
we pray for them and
00:31:11.81\00:31:13.70
think about them.
You see that's what it
00:31:13.71\00:31:17.00
was, it began with the
intentional will of God,
00:31:17.01\00:31:19.71
if you don't believe
that. Will you turn with me
00:31:19.72\00:31:21.52
to Genesis the third chapter.
00:31:21.53\00:31:24.10
And I want you to
notice here, Genesis chapter 3,
00:31:25.40\00:31:28.91
and let's look at
verses 1 through 4,
00:31:31.09\00:31:34.64
that's Genesis
chapter 3 verses 1 through 4.
00:31:35.95\00:31:44.40
The Bible says
this, And now the serpent
00:31:46.03\00:31:48.63
was more stubble
or cunning then any
00:31:48.64\00:31:51.07
beast of the field
the LORD God had made.
00:31:51.08\00:31:53.86
And he said unto
the woman, has God
00:31:54.89\00:31:56.12
indeed said, ye
shall not eat of every tree
00:31:56.88\00:31:58.89
of the garden?
And the woman said
00:31:58.90\00:32:00.18
to the serpent, We
may eat of the fruit of
00:32:00.19\00:32:02.11
the trees of the
garden: But of the fruit of the
00:32:02.12\00:32:03.83
tree which is in
the midst of the garden,
00:32:03.84\00:32:05.23
God hath said, Ye
shall not eat of it,
00:32:05.24\00:32:07.26
neither shall ye
touch it, lest ye what? Die.
00:32:07.27\00:32:11.07
Now notice this,
then the serpent said,
00:32:11.85\00:32:13.54
you will not surely
die and next verse your
00:32:15.07\00:32:18.57
eyes will be open
and you will be like God.
00:32:18.58\00:32:23.16
Look at verse 31
and they heard verse 8,
00:32:23.33\00:32:27.41
And they heard
the sound of the LORD
00:32:27.42\00:32:29.01
God walking in the
garden, in the cool of
00:32:29.02\00:32:30.72
the day, and the
Adam and his wife
00:32:30.73\00:32:32.51
hid themselves
from the presence of the
00:32:32.52\00:32:34.86
LORD God among the
trees of the garden.
00:32:34.87\00:32:36.65
And then the Lord
God called to Adam
00:32:37.44\00:32:38.94
and said to him where are you?
00:32:38.95\00:32:42.14
Where are you?
Good, the intention of
00:32:43.99\00:32:50.16
God was for
goodness, perfect family.
00:32:50.17\00:32:53.59
Every parent that
ever creates a child,
00:32:54.98\00:32:57.05
has the best
dreams and hopes for that
00:32:57.06\00:32:58.67
child to come on right. Amen.
00:32:58.68\00:33:00.84
I've never met a
person yet, a parent yet,
00:33:02.99\00:33:05.06
that said in that
moment that kid was born,
00:33:06.08\00:33:08.13
I was hoping bad
things would happen to him.
00:33:08.14\00:33:10.22
So, the heavens
declared the glory of
00:33:13.57\00:33:15.11
God and the earth
He created with living
00:33:15.12\00:33:18.15
things, so that man would
00:33:18.16\00:33:20.61
enjoy the food of his hands.
00:33:20.62\00:33:22.33
And man has created
in the image of God.
00:33:23.31\00:33:24.86
His plan is an
everlasting happiness,
00:33:26.45\00:33:28.24
His plan is everlasting
life, it's full of life and
00:33:28.25\00:33:30.54
joy and that is
the intention of God.
00:33:30.55\00:33:32.91
That's intentional
will and every parent has
00:33:32.92\00:33:35.71
that intention,
but a problem arises.
00:33:35.72\00:33:38.74
Not in the heart of the parent,
00:33:39.47\00:33:40.92
but in the
heart of the children.
00:33:42.76\00:33:43.90
I always tell parents
that lost their children
00:33:46.77\00:33:48.47
to the world for a
time, that God made a
00:33:49.06\00:33:51.76
round world and by
the way its simple,
00:33:51.77\00:33:55.04
scientific, spiritual lesson.
00:33:55.05\00:33:57.49
Why did he create a
round world, because
00:33:58.33\00:34:00.80
the further you
go away from home,
00:34:00.81\00:34:02.39
the closer you
will comeback to home?
00:34:05.48\00:34:07.48
Freewill
choices, now comes a twist
00:34:10.76\00:34:16.04
intrusion it's a
paradise. Intrusion, I mean a
00:34:16.05\00:34:19.00
covenant is broken,
sin enters the world
00:34:19.01\00:34:21.60
from Genesis 3 to
Revelation chapter 21.
00:34:21.61\00:34:24.11
I mean in 22 the
world is taken by sin,
00:34:24.49\00:34:26.63
pain comes to
the world, suffering
00:34:26.93\00:34:28.82
comes to the world,
death comes to the world.
00:34:28.83\00:34:30.90
Romans 5:12 notice
what it says Romans
00:34:31.22\00:34:34.16
the fifth chapter
and verse 12, it tell us
00:34:34.17\00:34:36.61
why this is, he gives us an
00:34:36.77\00:34:38.99
explanation of simple truth.
00:34:39.00\00:34:40.72
He says here in the
fifth chapter and verse
00:34:41.02\00:34:43.13
12 these words,
Therefore, just as
00:34:43.14\00:34:45.43
through one man sin
entered into the world,
00:34:45.44\00:34:47.07
and death through
sin, and thus death spread
00:34:47.44\00:34:49.86
to all men,
because all have sinned.
00:34:49.87\00:34:53.07
You said why did Eve do that,
00:34:53.08\00:34:54.61
if you were Eve, you would have.
00:34:54.78\00:34:56.56
If you were Adam, you are
the Adam of this generation;
00:34:59.85\00:35:02.64
you are the Eve
of this generation,
00:35:02.86\00:35:04.45
what are you doing?
00:35:04.66\00:35:05.63
I hope you're not
like the woman who came
00:35:09.48\00:35:10.45
and saw me
recently at a camp meeting
00:35:10.50\00:35:12.31
and she says
pastor in a virtuous way
00:35:12.50\00:35:14.58
I haven't sinned in six months.
00:35:14.81\00:35:16.66
I said, oh you just did,
the Bible says if you say
00:35:17.62\00:35:20.33
you have not sinned
you're a liar and the truth
00:35:20.52\00:35:22.25
is not in you
excuse me and I took off.
00:35:22.46\00:35:25.24
You see the
intentional will of God is soft,
00:35:32.83\00:35:35.36
the intentional will
of God is, is affected
00:35:35.56\00:35:37.50
by man's sin and so, there comes
00:35:37.69\00:35:39.47
the circumstantial
will since the fall,
00:35:39.67\00:35:41.81
the rules have changed.
00:35:42.03\00:35:44.33
Evil conditions exist
just because evil exists.
00:35:44.55\00:35:47.29
God must salvage
good out of the evil.
00:35:47.49\00:35:49.76
You see did God will
that Moses and Daniel
00:35:49.97\00:35:52.08
and Jeremiah and
Paul moulder in prison?
00:35:52.28\00:35:54.49
No, but he took that
experience and he used it
00:35:54.68\00:35:57.28
to the glory of God and
the building of the kingdom
00:35:57.48\00:35:59.55
of Christ and the deliverance
of God's people. Amen.
00:35:59.74\00:36:02.61
Despite of evil circumstances
00:36:04.20\00:36:05.99
they triumphed
over the circumstance.
00:36:06.20\00:36:07.98
Joseph triumph,
Daniel experience
00:36:08.18\00:36:10.65
supernatural
deliverance, Paul formulated
00:36:10.88\00:36:13.32
much of his
theology while in prison.
00:36:13.53\00:36:15.25
We created this
world, we molded it
00:36:19.81\00:36:21.74
and now we're
being molded by it,
00:36:21.96\00:36:24.30
that's why Jesus
says to the Apostle.
00:36:24.50\00:36:26.02
He says hate not this world.
00:36:26.24\00:36:28.18
God is trying to work good
00:36:34.83\00:36:36.05
out of evil
that's what going on now.
00:36:36.24\00:36:38.49
He touches the ruin life
and he heals it. Amen, amen.
00:36:38.71\00:36:43.82
He touches the waste of
life and he restores it. Amen.
00:36:44.03\00:36:46.95
He comes to a lost
person, a lonely person
00:36:47.59\00:36:49.85
and He brings
fulfillment, He renews it.
00:36:50.05\00:36:52.61
I mean this is God
working the circumstance.
00:36:52.82\00:36:55.21
He is working
through the circumstances;
00:36:55.41\00:36:56.84
He is touching the
ruin life to heal it,
00:36:57.06\00:36:59.08
the wasted life to renew it.
00:36:59.27\00:37:00.79
He comes and makes a difference,
00:37:00.99\00:37:02.27
that's why the incarnation,
00:37:02.48\00:37:04.10
that's why Jesus
came into this world,
00:37:04.31\00:37:06.08
incarnated so He
might touch us and love us
00:37:06.28\00:37:08.86
and in the circumstances
that we are surrounded
00:37:09.06\00:37:11.72
with that He might say
all things are possible
00:37:11.92\00:37:14.38
to those who believe. Amen.
00:37:14.58\00:37:17.40
That's why God
impacted us and was touched
00:37:21.51\00:37:25.22
with the feelings
of our infirmities.
00:37:25.42\00:37:27.00
Try to change it into good.
00:37:29.79\00:37:31.60
And that leads us
to the ultimate will.
00:37:34.87\00:37:36.59
Thy will be done on
earth as it is in heaven.
00:37:39.20\00:37:47.17
Now God promises
to those who trust Him
00:37:48.56\00:37:51.21
to use every
circumstance to serve Him
00:37:51.43\00:37:53.51
that the ultimate
will, will be done,
00:37:53.72\00:37:56.19
that He will get us
through the circumstance,
00:37:56.40\00:37:58.47
He will get us through
this planet and rebellion,
00:37:58.68\00:38:01.42
He will redeem us
from this corruptible
00:38:01.62\00:38:03.47
and He will
give us incorruption,
00:38:03.69\00:38:05.49
He will redeem
us from this mortal,
00:38:05.69\00:38:07.44
this dying and
give us immortality,
00:38:07.63\00:38:09.75
He will redeem us for
the corruptional world
00:38:09.95\00:38:12.12
and give us a new world.
00:38:12.32\00:38:13.54
There is nothing better than
00:38:16.32\00:38:17.39
something new come on. Amen.
00:38:17.58\00:38:19.39
You like new things don't you?
00:38:19.62\00:38:21.14
I was a little boy in Brooklyn.
00:38:21.34\00:38:23.37
There were five
little boys in Brooklyn
00:38:23.99\00:38:25.24
and my daddy
was hardworking man,
00:38:25.44\00:38:28.96
but we were quite poor,
00:38:29.16\00:38:30.65
we lived in a
tenement co-word a flat,
00:38:30.84\00:38:32.10
cold in the winter
and warm in the summer.
00:38:33.09\00:38:34.83
And my momma use to
scrimp and save she called it.
00:38:36.42\00:38:39.08
And she would
save up all year long
00:38:40.66\00:38:45.37
and then once in a year
buy one of the boys a suit.
00:38:46.69\00:38:49.17
She came to me one time,
she says son it's your turn.
00:38:52.49\00:38:55.07
Oh I tell you
whip me, I was excited.
00:38:55.32\00:38:58.91
Momma said we
going to Manhattan.
00:38:59.59\00:39:02.51
Do you want to come along?
00:39:03.68\00:39:04.65
I wanted to go, got on subway
00:39:04.66\00:39:07.05
sat all the way
to the 34th street.
00:39:07.26\00:39:09.19
Got off we
walked right by Macy's
00:39:09.92\00:39:12.15
because that was
more expensive store.
00:39:12.37\00:39:13.73
We turned the corner to Gimbels.
00:39:13.95\00:39:15.46
Momma brought me
up into a big room,
00:39:18.86\00:39:21.61
I mean big as this
filled with all kinds of suits.
00:39:21.81\00:39:24.79
She then took me over
into the sale section.
00:39:26.81\00:39:29.20
My momma said, pick out a suit,
00:39:31.42\00:39:34.58
I was walking and
looking and touching,
00:39:36.04\00:39:38.27
I knew nothing about suits.
00:39:38.47\00:39:40.06
But I was touching
feeling these suits.
00:39:40.27\00:39:42.80
A salesman came along
and said, may I help you,
00:39:42.99\00:39:44.48
he wanted to rush this event.
00:39:45.49\00:39:46.81
I mean I had to
wait five, six more years
00:39:48.69\00:39:50.98
before another one,
whether is he joking me.
00:39:51.20\00:39:53.14
No, I've got this under control.
00:39:53.90\00:39:55.25
Then I saw it, pale
blue suit, pale blue.
00:39:56.86\00:40:04.19
I said momma, she said son,
00:40:04.88\00:40:07.00
you sure you want a pale blue,
00:40:07.24\00:40:09.98
all she could think
about was Coney Island
00:40:10.17\00:40:12.25
and the suit and dummy,
00:40:12.45\00:40:13.79
oh mamma I want this suit.
00:40:18.04\00:40:19.76
So she took the
suit, went to the counter
00:40:20.86\00:40:24.20
to paid 6 bucks or whatever.
00:40:24.39\00:40:27.98
Now you can't buy
the buttons for a suit.
00:40:29.39\00:40:31.53
You can't buy
sneakings for a suit.
00:40:32.89\00:40:35.03
The woman said
should I put it in a bag
00:40:38.97\00:40:40.55
or you want a
box, a bag or a box
00:40:40.74\00:40:42.82
what is this woman
joking, I want a box.
00:40:43.04\00:40:45.75
You know those big
boxes with a wooden handle.
00:40:46.65\00:40:48.91
I dragged my box
right down to the subway
00:40:49.78\00:40:53.39
and got on the
subway and Coney Island.
00:40:53.59\00:40:58.32
That Easter Sunday
morning I was in that
00:40:58.89\00:41:01.45
Lutheran church in the
front row, didn't go much,
00:41:01.64\00:41:04.06
but boy I was there then,
00:41:04.25\00:41:05.84
sitting in my pale
blue suit, did it feel good.
00:41:06.06\00:41:11.82
And that's why God says
I will make all things new,
00:41:13.46\00:41:19.66
that is the
ultimate will of God.
00:41:20.63\00:41:26.43
Right now circumstantially
we are put in harms way,
00:41:27.66\00:41:32.84
buildings collapse,
tectonic plates shift,
00:41:33.70\00:41:39.20
viruses proliferate, evil
people resort to violence,
00:41:40.80\00:41:45.42
but none of these
things reflect the intentional
00:41:46.63\00:41:49.50
will or force the
ultimate will of God,
00:41:49.71\00:41:52.78
Thy kingdom come on
earth as it is in heaven. Amen.
00:41:52.99\00:41:57.64
Through creation
God works though matter,
00:41:58.27\00:42:01.39
in redemption He
works through personality.
00:42:01.63\00:42:04.51
You see through
tragedy I can respond
00:42:04.74\00:42:06.45
either blaming
God or turning to God,
00:42:06.68\00:42:09.57
going against God
or going towards God.
00:42:09.82\00:42:12.92
You see I have the choice,
I have the responsibility,
00:42:13.18\00:42:16.30
I can make the choice.
00:42:16.56\00:42:17.89
Our freewill has a part to play.
00:42:24.30\00:42:25.85
We have sinned, we
have fallen, we have brought
00:42:28.53\00:42:34.76
disgrace on ourselves
and we are free to choose.
00:42:34.98\00:42:39.98
I believe there are
four reasonable explanations
00:42:40.25\00:42:43.39
for human suffering,
sickness, pain, death
00:42:43.60\00:42:46.05
and all the
tragedies that happen to us.
00:42:46.26\00:42:47.68
First of all Satan is
the instigator of evil,
00:42:49.62\00:42:52.02
and he is in direct
rebellion against God
00:42:54.17\00:42:56.56
and misery likes
company, come on now, amen.
00:42:56.78\00:43:00.89
You don't believe that?
00:43:01.50\00:43:02.47
I talk to
teenagers all the time,
00:43:05.19\00:43:07.32
they'd give up
everything for a friend,
00:43:08.02\00:43:10.10
even if that friend
isn't really a friend.
00:43:11.53\00:43:15.13
When I was
working in the cities,
00:43:17.72\00:43:19.92
in the city in New York I
was visiting late at night.
00:43:20.11\00:43:23.42
It was almost 9
O'clock I was in Holland
00:43:23.61\00:43:25.15
and I wanted to get out
of there as fast as possible.
00:43:25.39\00:43:28.02
I wanted to even get
out of there but anyway.
00:43:28.22\00:43:29.72
I turned on the staircase
going up on my last visit
00:43:30.52\00:43:33.22
and I found a
little 8-year-old boy,
00:43:33.95\00:43:34.92
he was laying there. He
had a needle in his arm,
00:43:34.93\00:43:37.15
an 8-year-old boy, his
friend; his brother turned
00:43:37.37\00:43:45.57
him on the drugs and
turned him off the life,
00:43:45.75\00:43:47.41
he died in my arms.
Satan is the instigator.
00:43:47.61\00:43:54.23
He causes tragedy
so that, that tragedy,
00:43:54.66\00:43:57.94
that people will blame
God they point their fingers
00:43:58.12\00:44:00.88
at God when in reality
they should point it at Satan,
00:44:01.06\00:44:03.34
Satan has done this to us.
00:44:03.52\00:44:05.38
Job had to learn that truth,
00:44:07.83\00:44:09.34
and you and I will
have to learn that truth,
00:44:11.28\00:44:13.40
and so when it comes
on here which it will,
00:44:15.05\00:44:17.95
when it ruins your day,
remember who's behind it.
00:44:19.65\00:44:25.33
He is the instigator of evil.
00:44:26.90\00:44:28.60
Secondly, innocent
people suffer for the violation
00:44:30.22\00:44:36.38
of others
against the law of God.
00:44:36.61\00:44:38.05
Do you hear me?
00:44:38.68\00:44:39.77
Adolf Eichmann's
mother created a baby,
00:44:42.83\00:44:45.07
an innocent child, he became
00:44:45.90\00:44:47.75
Adolf Eichmann the murderer.
00:44:47.95\00:44:49.72
He repudiated
God's law, he took a,
00:44:53.39\00:44:56.28
made a choice
somewhere along in his life
00:44:56.52\00:44:58.80
and he created
the hate, the malice,
00:44:59.03\00:45:02.08
the violence and the
death of over a million Jews,
00:45:02.31\00:45:06.72
but he was
created an innocent child.
00:45:08.25\00:45:10.58
Thirdly, God
sometimes uses suffering to
00:45:13.04\00:45:17.14
soften and
perfect our character.
00:45:17.15\00:45:19.44
He maketh me to lie
down then I'm looking up.
00:45:20.47\00:45:26.37
There are some things
in my life, the suffering
00:45:28.30\00:45:33.05
and pain in my life
that drew me closer to God,
00:45:33.26\00:45:37.42
so God was my Balm in Gilead.
00:45:38.55\00:45:41.04
God was the inoculation,
00:45:42.52\00:45:44.20
His grace was the inoculation
that killed the pain.
00:45:44.82\00:45:49.24
That God softens us in
our pain and in our suffering.
00:45:50.79\00:45:55.17
Have you ever met
anyone in your life
00:45:55.83\00:45:58.91
that because of some tragedy.
00:45:59.13\00:46:03.00
They rose to a higher
place in love and serving God.
00:46:04.79\00:46:11.73
You have and you know you have.
00:46:11.96\00:46:13.70
Falsely people suffer
for the violation of the law,
00:46:17.07\00:46:19.91
Galatians 6:7 tells
us that, man smokes,
00:46:21.06\00:46:24.21
he drinks, he uses
drugs, promiscuous,
00:46:26.73\00:46:31.38
he burns the
candle at both ends,
00:46:31.62\00:46:32.91
by the way its
amazing to me how Christians
00:46:33.18\00:46:34.98
are always
condemning those who smoke,
00:46:35.25\00:46:37.08
drink and use drugs
and eat meat or whatever,
00:46:37.33\00:46:39.95
but they work 15 hours a day.
00:46:40.19\00:46:42.92
Day in and day out and
they ruin their families,
00:46:45.55\00:46:46.52
they ruin everything
that's important and they think
00:46:46.53\00:46:47.73
they're perfect and the
others are going to hell,
00:46:47.95\00:46:49.63
give me a break, amen.
00:46:49.84\00:46:51.78
A man smokes and
they find cancer lungs,
00:46:55.55\00:46:59.55
he says oh God why
did you do this to me.
00:46:59.76\00:47:01.86
God didn't have
anything to do with it.
00:47:02.08\00:47:04.07
Man drinks, drugs,
cirrhosis of the liver.
00:47:06.57\00:47:10.81
HIV, man burns the candle
at both ends, heart attack.
00:47:13.21\00:47:20.15
God, why did you do this to me?
00:47:20.41\00:47:22.28
God had nothing to do
with it, you had to do with it.
00:47:25.15\00:47:28.84
Why did you do this?
God runs a universe on order
00:47:30.90\00:47:35.02
and on the principles
of natural and moral law.
00:47:35.25\00:47:38.93
And laws obeyed protect,
00:47:39.20\00:47:43.63
disobeyed harm,
it's that simple.
00:47:43.89\00:47:46.81
All of our roars, our
sorrows, our heartache,
00:47:47.04\00:47:49.46
our tragedy is the result
of a rebellion against God.
00:47:49.68\00:47:52.32
Look at Romans
8 and he finalizes
00:47:53.00\00:47:55.87
the truth with these words.
00:47:56.14\00:47:57.98
Romans chapter 8 and notice,
00:47:58.23\00:48:01.21
I want you to notice verse 28,
00:48:01.98\00:48:04.24
that's Romans 8 and verse 28,
00:48:05.73\00:48:09.70
And we know that
all things work together
00:48:10.72\00:48:12.87
for good to those who love God,
00:48:13.08\00:48:14.54
that never says
that all things are good,
00:48:14.77\00:48:17.98
didn't say that did it.
00:48:18.90\00:48:20.44
It said all
things, cancer is not good,
00:48:21.10\00:48:23.94
let me vouch for that.
00:48:24.16\00:48:25.47
Stroke is not good,
let me vouch for that.
00:48:30.49\00:48:34.45
Leukemia is not good,
let me vouch for that.
00:48:36.72\00:48:39.30
Death is not good.
00:48:39.52\00:48:41.01
It's the last enemy
that God will put down,
00:48:42.77\00:48:45.12
but listen to what he says.
00:48:46.87\00:48:48.74
He can take this adversely,
He can take this pain,
00:48:50.35\00:48:53.04
He can take this death
and good will come out of it.
00:48:53.61\00:48:55.65
Notice He says, to
those who are called according
00:48:55.88\00:48:58.36
to his purpose, that His purpose
00:48:58.58\00:49:00.28
and then in verse 35
listen as He goes on,
00:49:01.75\00:49:04.34
who shall separate us
from the love of Christ?
00:49:04.55\00:49:06.83
Shall tribulation,
shall distress, persecution,
00:49:07.06\00:49:10.02
famine, nakedness,
peril, sword, as it's written,
00:49:10.27\00:49:13.40
For Your sake we
are killed all day long;
00:49:13.63\00:49:15.54
we're accounted as
sheep for slaughter.
00:49:15.78\00:49:17.60
Yet in all these
things we are more than
00:49:17.85\00:49:19.61
conquerors
through Him who loved us.
00:49:19.82\00:49:21.11
For I am persuaded
that neither death nor life,
00:49:21.35\00:49:23.96
nor angels nor
principalities nor powers,
00:49:24.18\00:49:26.75
nor things present
nor things to come,
00:49:26.98\00:49:28.66
nor height nor depth,
nor any other created thing
00:49:28.91\00:49:31.74
shall be able to separate
us from the love of God,
00:49:32.67\00:49:35.08
which is in Christ Jesus. Amen.
00:49:35.86\00:49:40.60
His name was brother Larson.
00:49:41.32\00:49:42.46
He had crippling arthritis,
38 years, he lay in a bed,
00:49:44.59\00:49:49.71
and I used to go to
visit him to cheer him up
00:49:51.16\00:49:54.46
and he cheered me up,
00:49:55.38\00:49:57.21
whenever I walked
in that little room,
00:49:57.94\00:49:59.77
he was in that
hospital bed in his home,
00:50:02.29\00:50:03.92
he would smile and say Pastor.
00:50:05.33\00:50:07.83
Thirty eight years
crippling arthritis.
00:50:08.62\00:50:11.29
Thirty eight years,
his hands no, 38 years,
00:50:11.54\00:50:15.52
one day I finally said
we've become such close friends,
00:50:15.77\00:50:19.42
we prayed
together so many times.
00:50:19.98\00:50:21.85
I said brother
Larson, I said why is it,
00:50:22.60\00:50:26.81
what is it about
I come to see you
00:50:27.03\00:50:29.03
and 38 years and you're smiling,
00:50:29.25\00:50:31.76
I come to bring you
joy and you have joy,
00:50:32.38\00:50:36.00
I mean you
always seem to be happy,
00:50:36.23\00:50:39.84
I said how? Why?
Tell me the secret.
00:50:40.77\00:50:43.40
He looked up with
a twinkle in his eye,
00:50:44.19\00:50:46.02
he said well this isn't
gonna last forever, amen.
00:50:46.82\00:50:49.46
Thirty eight years on
his bed, his hospital bed,
00:50:49.72\00:50:54.68
he started a radio
program of devotions
00:50:55.32\00:50:57.70
and for some 28
years he has preached
00:50:58.56\00:51:02.75
from his bed with
crippling arthritis.
00:51:04.04\00:51:08.34
This won't last forever, wow!
00:51:08.59\00:51:16.23
Yea, though I walk
through the valley.
00:51:18.93\00:51:23.59
It never says that we
will not go to the valley.
00:51:24.99\00:51:28.67
He never promises us that we
00:51:29.75\00:51:33.17
wouldn't go
through deep valleys.
00:51:33.41\00:51:34.92
Someone said to me I would like
00:51:36.40\00:51:37.57
to always be on the
mountain top, I said
00:51:37.79\00:51:39.71
if you're always on a
mountain top, it's a plateau.
00:51:39.91\00:51:42.26
The higher the
mountain experience,
00:51:44.39\00:51:46.26
the lower the valley,
read the words of the Prophets,
00:51:46.50\00:51:49.87
read the story of the
Apostles, I mean they were
00:51:50.10\00:51:52.40
yea in the valley
of the shadow of death,
00:51:52.64\00:51:54.61
they were skin
ripped off their bones
00:51:54.85\00:51:56.94
and they were
plunged through with spear
00:51:57.18\00:51:58.93
and crucified upside
down, but they walk through.
00:51:59.17\00:52:05.10
Stephen was stoned;
00:52:07.54\00:52:09.51
they walk through
the valley of the shadow.
00:52:11.57\00:52:17.35
I was a young evangelist
in Morganton, North Carolina,
00:52:18.92\00:52:22.92
I think its
North maybe its South,
00:52:23.17\00:52:24.52
but I think its North.
00:52:24.77\00:52:25.74
Morganton, North
Carolina anybody know?
00:52:25.75\00:52:27.15
North Carolina, and I
was preaching in Morganton
00:52:27.99\00:52:31.70
I had a name to visit a family
00:52:31.95\00:52:33.14
and so I drove out
with the preacher and,
00:52:33.87\00:52:35.43
and got to the house
and when I got to the house
00:52:36.24\00:52:39.57
I knocked on the
door and a little child
00:52:39.78\00:52:41.84
answered the door
and she was crying.
00:52:42.07\00:52:44.33
And so I said
honey, is your momma here?
00:52:46.43\00:52:48.76
And she says no momma
is down at the cemetery.
00:52:49.34\00:52:51.28
Baby sister died last
week and now I'm crying,
00:52:51.88\00:52:55.70
and I said honey
where, where is the little,
00:52:57.45\00:53:00.30
where is the cemetery
and she says well it's down
00:53:00.52\00:53:02.94
the road behind the
little Baptist church.
00:53:03.16\00:53:05.44
Now I wanna say
something to you people,
00:53:06.02\00:53:08.04
don't wonder why it's
so hard for them to break.
00:53:08.84\00:53:11.92
They have deep roots
in some Baptist cemeteries
00:53:13.24\00:53:18.62
and some Methodist
cemeteries and some.
00:53:19.73\00:53:22.55
So, I got in the car
and the preacher said,
00:53:24.18\00:53:27.01
we should visit another time.
00:53:27.23\00:53:28.20
I said, no, this is the time.
00:53:28.21\00:53:29.18
Drove and found the
little Baptist church
00:53:29.81\00:53:31.63
and parked the car and
got out and I walked around
00:53:32.33\00:53:34.38
and I noticed way in
the back of the cemetery
00:53:34.61\00:53:35.96
was a woman
kneeling by a new dug grave
00:53:36.18\00:53:37.86
and her body was
just moving in agony
00:53:38.07\00:53:44.37
you could see she was sobbing.
00:53:44.59\00:53:45.92
I noticed as I was
getting closer that,
00:53:47.25\00:53:49.50
there was a
little white picket fence
00:53:49.74\00:53:51.10
it was knocked over
and then plastic flowers
00:53:51.36\00:53:53.39
have been scattered
somebody come through,
00:53:53.62\00:53:55.13
boys or girls or whatever
and thought they were funny,
00:53:55.34\00:53:59.66
and she was trying to
make something of the grave.
00:54:01.27\00:54:03.61
Listen to me friend;
you can't make anything
00:54:03.76\00:54:05.71
of a grave without
Jesus Christ, amen.
00:54:05.93\00:54:08.60
So I walked up and
she looked up at me
00:54:09.40\00:54:11.87
and I said don't be
frighten, I'm Ron Halvorsen,
00:54:12.12\00:54:14.55
I'm an evangelist and
I'm, I'm just visiting,
00:54:14.77\00:54:16.76
I want to come, let me help you.
00:54:16.99\00:54:18.17
And so I knelt down beside
her and I tried to help her
00:54:19.77\00:54:22.22
put together the little
fence and the little flowers.
00:54:22.43\00:54:27.37
And she looked up
at me and she says,
00:54:28.49\00:54:31.79
preacher, my life is over.
00:54:32.96\00:54:34.72
I said oh no, your
life is about to begin.
00:54:36.39\00:54:41.11
Someday Jesus is gonna
place that baby back in you.
00:54:42.20\00:54:45.98
It's not a time to
give her a funeral service
00:54:46.19\00:54:49.34
on the state of the dead.
00:54:49.58\00:54:50.82
Whoa! Job says it's
time to give her hope.
00:54:51.49\00:54:59.23
And so I said oh
Jesus is gonna, and
00:55:01.66\00:55:04.68
she said oh I wish
I could believe that,
00:55:04.91\00:55:06.20
I said oh you can,
because he's promised
00:55:06.43\00:55:08.52
and he has never
broken a promise.
00:55:08.76\00:55:09.93
And I told her about
my meetings I said oh
00:55:11.12\00:55:13.95
if you could only
come to the meeting you,
00:55:14.15\00:55:15.39
I know God could
bring you the hope you need.
00:55:15.61\00:55:17.99
I remember she said
well I work at night.
00:55:18.91\00:55:21.23
I said well, do you
have a lunch hour, don't you?
00:55:21.88\00:55:25.15
She said yes,
it's about 8 O'clock.
00:55:25.38\00:55:26.63
I said well your
factory where you work
00:55:26.85\00:55:28.52
is just around the
corner from the church,
00:55:28.72\00:55:29.89
you come over during your break.
00:55:30.11\00:55:31.49
Sure enough first
night she was there
00:55:32.80\00:55:34.43
in the back row
in her work clothes,
00:55:34.64\00:55:35.97
I'm glad some of the
saints didn't see her that way,
00:55:36.34\00:55:38.80
you know and maybe go up
00:55:39.03\00:55:40.35
and try to
straighten her out about it,
00:55:40.57\00:55:41.76
but you don't think that
happens, oh that happens?
00:55:42.04\00:55:46.99
You be an evangelist
long enough you will see
00:55:48.49\00:55:50.25
it happen, but
she came every night
00:55:50.46\00:55:55.00
and I wish you would
see what God did for her,
00:55:55.76\00:55:58.52
I wish you could see the
change of her complexion,
00:55:58.74\00:56:01.19
the change, I mean
I wish you could see
00:56:01.42\00:56:03.00
God working on her heart,
00:56:03.25\00:56:04.48
I wish you could
have seen the rosy cheeks,
00:56:04.72\00:56:07.07
I wish you could have
seen the smile on her face
00:56:07.31\00:56:09.62
when she went down in
the watery grave in Baptism
00:56:09.86\00:56:11.83
and came up in
the marvelous faith
00:56:12.08\00:56:14.03
of the resurrected Lord. Amen.
00:56:14.25\00:56:16.43
The end of the
meeting she said Pastor,
00:56:17.17\00:56:19.62
I wanna speak to
you and so I said
00:56:19.84\00:56:22.37
fine everybody had gone
and I came down the front
00:56:22.59\00:56:24.97
and sat beside
her, and she said Pastor
00:56:25.19\00:56:28.53
she said when we get to heaven,
00:56:28.76\00:56:30.70
I wanna
introduce you to my baby.
00:56:30.92\00:56:34.37
I said you better, you
look for the tall ugly guy
00:56:34.60\00:56:38.61
on the right hand of the
throne of God. That's me.
00:56:38.82\00:56:40.51
And we have an appointment,
00:56:42.51\00:56:44.18
so nothing can
shake me out of my faith.
00:56:46.18\00:56:48.29
I have an
appointment with a little woman
00:56:49.07\00:56:52.54
from Morganton, North Carolina,
00:56:52.76\00:56:54.89
and the little baby
that I haven't seen yet.
00:56:56.21\00:56:59.70
That's God's
ultimate will for her life
00:57:00.44\00:57:08.91
and that is God's ultimate
will for your life, amen.
00:57:09.65\00:57:15.47
Father which art in heaven,
00:57:16.57\00:57:17.61
I thank you so much
for the grace of Christ.
00:57:17.82\00:57:19.65
We know that you
intended for us goodness
00:57:22.69\00:57:25.33
and life and enjoy
and family forever.
00:57:25.57\00:57:28.44
We know that these circumstances
00:57:30.31\00:57:31.80
right now seem
to be overbearing,
00:57:32.04\00:57:33.78
these circumstances
seem to rob us of our joy,
00:57:34.00\00:57:36.93
but Father, may
we get through it,
00:57:37.19\00:57:39.05
to see with our eyes
and to feel with our hands
00:57:40.69\00:57:43.76
and to see with our
heart, your ultimate will.
00:57:43.98\00:57:47.04
We might see your
finger wipe away the tears
00:57:49.25\00:57:52.13
from our eyes, and
your heart touch our heart,
00:57:52.38\00:57:58.10
and your hand touch our hand
00:58:00.03\00:58:02.93
so that we might
be restored forever.
00:58:03.56\00:58:09.07
Thy will be done on earth.
00:58:09.31\00:58:12.42
In Jesus name. Amen and amen.
00:58:13.31\00:58:17.47