I'm privileged
and honored to be able
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to be here this
evening to share with you
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this great camp
meeting experience.
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It's been good so
far hasn't it? Amen.
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I know it's been
good because my friend
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Ron Halverson has been here.
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And I know he's always good.
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I know you've had a good time,
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because God has been here. Amen.
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And that's what
is most important,
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can you say amen?
Amen. I want to thank
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the officers of your
conference for inviting
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me to come. This is
my first time in Oklahoma
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camp meeting. I
think I've driven through
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Oklahoma twice, but
I don't know a whole
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lot about Oklahoma
but I'm glad to be here.
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And what I've seen
so far has been great.
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Your camp meeting,
your camp, your campus
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is beautiful and I
was just, I was just awed
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as I drove in this
evening and saw the horses
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just grazing on
either side of the road.
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Its just the great
good feeling and then I saw
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the tents and man
that's old camp meeting
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you know. It's good;
it's good to have air
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conditioning too,
because I remember those
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old hot tents,
where we would fan and
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it be 90 degrees
outside, but it's good
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to be able, able to
be here and to share
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with you from the
word of God for the
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next few evenings.
Your theme is proclaiming
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the truth, reviving
the hope. And I want
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to share with you
for the next few days
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some very practical
truth, very practical
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Christian living. I
believe we are living
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in a day and a time
when it's time to talk tough.
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Amen. And so I'll be doing some
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tough talking. All I
ask is you don't throw
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things at me. And I
ask you that because
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we're going to be on
TV, so you don't wanna be
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seen to be having
things thrown at you.
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Let's bow our
heads, talk to the Lord.
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Our Father, we thank
you for the blessings
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that you've already given to us.
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We thank you for
your word, for your truth,
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for this
encampment, for the leadership
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of this great
conference. Now as we open your
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word, you know
what we need and you
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promised to supply our needs,
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and so we claim that
promise tonight in Jesus
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name, amen. I would
like to draw your attention
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to the Book of
Matthew. Matthew chapter 16
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and I should like
to reading your hearing
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beginning with verse
1. Matthew 16 verse 1,
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I'm reading from the
New King James version
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of the scriptures.
Matthew 16 verse 1,
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Then the Pharisees
and Sadducees came,
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and testing Him
asked that He would show
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them a sign from
heaven. He answered
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and said unto
them, when it is evening
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you say, it
will be fair weather,
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for the sky is
red. And in the morning,
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it will be foul
weather today for the sky
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is red and
threatening. Hypocrites!
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You know how to
discern the face of the sky,
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but you cannot
discern the signs of times.
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A wicked and
adulterous generation seeks
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after a sign, and
no sign shall be given
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to it except the
sign of the prophet Jonah.
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There are some people
who live in this world,
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who are blind to
time. To be blind means
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you cannot see.
To be blind means
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you loose some of
sight stimulation.
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You cannot see a
sunset. You cannot see
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green grass or see
the beautiful fall colors.
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You loose a sense of cemetery.
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To be blind is difficult,
but to be blind to time
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is a serious
situation. There are some
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folks who are never on time.
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There are some folk
who are always too late.
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They are seldom
early. You and I have met
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folk who are always slow.
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They are always late.
They're never apologetic
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for their
lateness. Blind to time.
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In scripture there
are two words for time.
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One is Kairos, I'm sorry Kronos.
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Kronos is
chronological time and then
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there is Kairos
which is ontological or
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God's time. Kronos
means that 1 O'clock always
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follows 12 O'clock.
Airplanes are supposed
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to run on Kronos.
You go to work on Kronos.
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You clock in at 8,
you clock out at five.
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Schools run on
Kronos. Even our human bodies
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run on a clock. If you
go to a foreign country
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and your clock gets
off it's hard for you
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to sleep, it's
hard for you to live.
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Kronos is predictable time.
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Kairos is no
particular point in time.
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It's God's time, so
its on time all the time.
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When a woman thinks
that she may be pregnant.
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She goes to the
doctor and the doctor asks
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her a series of
questions. And based upon
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the answers the
doctor gives her a
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Kronos answer. The
doctor says your child
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will be born August the 1st.
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But most babies come on Kairos.
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Amen. There are few
that come when the doctor
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said they're supposed to come.
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They come early
or they come late.
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Parties start and end on Kairos.
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The invitation may
say Kronos 7 O'clock
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the party starts,
but only nerds show up
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at 7 O'clock.
Some churches operate
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on Kronos. They
must start at 11 O'clock
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on the dot and they
must end at 12 O'clock
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on the dot. I've
never understood that.
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I was at a church
recently and it was about
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five minutes after
11 and the folks were
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rushing said
we're late, we're late,
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we're late and I
said alright, let's go,
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let's go and then
they said now we got
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to finish at 12. And
I said what's going to
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happen after 12?
We're going to have lunch.
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What's gonna happen
after that? They looked
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at me and I said
so then why do we have
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to end at 12.
There are some churches
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who begin on
Kronos and somewhere
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in the service they
switch from Kronos to Kairos
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and they end
when they want to end.
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Amen. The people in
our text today know Kronos.
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They know
predictable chronological time.
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They know clock
time. They have studied
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the prophecies, but
they do not know life time,
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they do not know God's time.
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They can tell
you about the moment,
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but not the
meaning of the moment.
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They can discuss
Kronos, but they have no
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idea about God's
time. They are time blind.
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These two groups
of people, Pharisees
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and Sadducees
represent a certain element
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of Christianity
in the last days.
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They are two
extremes. The Pharisees were the
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traditionalists.
They were conservative in
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their theology.
They accepted all of the
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Hebrew Scriptures,
but they adding to the
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scriptures their own teachings.
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They believed in
spirits, they believed in angels
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and miracles
and the Holy Spirit.
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They care little for
politics, but was looking
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for a political
military messiah to overthrow
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the Roman presage.
The Pharisees of today
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are traditionalists,
conservatives who get
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caught up in
discussions about whether
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it's right or
wrong to wear jewelry.
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They get caught up in
discussions about dress.
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They get caught up
in discussions about the
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proper music for
worship. They get caught up
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in discussions
about the proper diet
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and they make music
salvation, they make music
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the diet. They get,
they have business meetings
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and board meetings
about what do you lay
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on the communion
table. Is anybody out there?
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Yeah. Hello. They
have long theological
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discussions They
are, they love intense
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prophetic studies. They
love the deep theological
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discussions. Ellen
White says the Pharisees
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were great
debaters. They were those
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who were involved in
the letter of the law.
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They did a whole lot of talking,
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but not a lot of
doing. In fact she says
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if it were for the
Sadducees perhaps Jesus
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would on the human
circumstances would
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not have been
crucified, the Pharisees
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would have talked him to death.
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But then that are
the Sadducees of the day.
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Their religion was
based upon a personal ethical
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code involving moral
principles established
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from within. They
were the rationalists
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of the day. They did
not believe in angels
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and in miracles.
They were the wealthy
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ruling class. They
had no Messianic Hope.
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Their only
interest was in maintaining
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the status quo and
they saw Jesus as a
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threat to their
liberal positions.
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Today Sadducees
are the ones who define
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their own moral standards.
Whatever the Pharisees
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says is wrong, the
Sadducees say is alright.
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So the Pharisees
talk about short skirts
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and the Sadducees
say you can wear whatever
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you want to wear.
Are you out there?
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Amen. The Pharisees
say that you have get
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off of this and get
off of that and get off
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of that and get off
of that if you wanna make
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it heaven. The
Sadducees say a little wine
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for the stomach
sake won't hurt anybody.
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The Sadducees saw the
Pharisees as fanatical
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hicks who are out
of step with the time.
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The Pharisees saw
the Sadducees as corrupt
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wealthy plutocrats
who had surrendered
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to worldliness. They
joined forces against
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Jesus, because Jesus
is neither a Pharisees
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nor a Sadducees.
Amen. Jesus says I've a got
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a new thing. It's
not what you think,
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it's not what you
think, it's all about coming
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to the foot of the
Master and saying all
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to Jesus I
surrender. Amen. They ask for
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a sign. They say
Jesus, prove to us that
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you are the
Messiah. They the last thing
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they wanted was for
Jesus to give them a sign.
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The Pharisees,
their request was show us
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a sign from
heaven. The Pharisees,
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they didn't believe in heaven.
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The Sadducees knew
that Jesus did not work
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miracles on demand.
So they ask the question
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that neither
wanted an answer for.
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Both of them, the Pharisees and
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the Sadducees operated on Kronos
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and operated on a
faithless human based
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mental religion. Did
you hear what I said?
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Both of them operated
on a religion of the mind
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and not a religion of the heart.
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Jesus comes along
and Jesus says if you
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love me, keep my commandments.
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Amen. Not keep my
commandment because
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you're afraid of hell,
not keep my commandments,
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because you wanna
look holy and pleasing in
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men's sight, but he
said I only want to you keep
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my commandments if you love me.
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He said both of you are wrong.
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They were blind, but
they were not only blind,
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they were willingly
blind. From Matthew chapter 1,
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"An angel comes to
Joseph and says your
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fiancee is with child
of the Holy Ghost going
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to call his name
Jesus" In Matthew 2,
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"Wise man arrived in
town saying where is he,
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an astrological
phenomena, a new star
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led us here." In
Matthew 3, "He is
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baptized in Jordan
by John as he comes up
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out of the
water. A dove descends
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and a voice says
this is my beloved son
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in whom I am well
pleased and the church folk
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said we want a
sign." In Matthew 4,
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"He is in Galilee
healing all kinds of diseases.
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The possessed are free,
the epileptic are combed,
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the paralyze
moved, the lame walk,
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the blind see, but
the church folk said
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we want you to give us
a sign." In Matthew 5:7
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"He speaks like no
one has ever spoken before
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in the sermon on the
mount." In Matthew 8,
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"He cures a man
with leprosy, he cures a
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centurion's servant.
He heals Peter and Peter's
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mother-in-law, he
calms the angry seas,
00:17:20.68\00:17:23.58
but the church
folks say we want a sign."
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In Matthew 9, "He
give the word a paraplegic
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picks up his bed
and walks. Jairus' dead
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daughter is raised,
a woman makes her way
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through the crowd and
touches the hem of his
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garment and is
healed, but the church folks
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say prove to us
you are the Messiah.
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In Matthew 10:12 "He
commissions 12 apostles
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and ordains them
with Holy Ghost power.
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In Matthew 13
"He gives parables."
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In Matthew 14 "He feeds 5000
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and walks on the
water." In Matthew 15,
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"He cast out
devils and feed 4000 more.
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Now in Matthew 16
they say "Prove to us that
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you are the
Messiah " Not just blind,
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but would not see,
refuse to see truth,
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the problem the
Bible says is they came not
00:18:21.65\00:18:25.01
to trust him, but
they came to test him.
00:18:25.04\00:18:29.45
They were looking for
a reason not to believe.
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They understand Kronos,
but had no comprehension
00:18:36.05\00:18:40.90
of Kairos. I would
suggest you tonight that
00:18:40.93\00:18:46.66
it is a serious offense
to continue to doubt God
00:18:46.69\00:18:51.89
in the face of
overwhelming evidence.
00:18:52.45\00:18:57.11
There is a fine line
between the thirst for
00:18:58.73\00:19:04.33
truth and the
gaining of knowledge for
00:19:04.36\00:19:10.06
argument sake. And
I'm afraid there are some
00:19:10.09\00:19:15.10
of us who study,
study, study, study,
00:19:15.13\00:19:19.48
so we can argue,
argue, argue, argue,
00:19:20.22\00:19:23.82
but the word of God
has not had an affect
00:19:24.97\00:19:29.35
on our lives. We have
it here, but we don't have
00:19:29.38\00:19:34.51
it here. George
Knight, that great author says
00:19:34.54\00:19:42.02
unfortunately
sometimes it's easier to be a
00:19:42.05\00:19:47.88
Seventh-day
Adventist than it is to be
00:19:47.91\00:19:50.95
a Christian. Because
we know it, we have it,
00:19:50.98\00:19:58.78
we've studied it. Some
of you remember years ago
00:19:59.72\00:20:04.35
when we had the old
Bible studies where you had
00:20:05.46\00:20:10.60
them the Dukane
Projector. You remember that?
00:20:10.63\00:20:15.05
And you study for
weeks and weeks and weeks
00:20:16.61\00:20:20.63
and weeks. Every
Tuesday night for an hour,
00:20:20.66\00:20:23.76
somebody will
come to your house,
00:20:23.79\00:20:25.25
set up a screen,
set up a projector
00:20:25.28\00:20:27.70
and every time it go
beep, you move it one
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time and you read
the little script for 30
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it was 32, 36 lessons.
And when we got finished,
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we will be able
to explain 250 days.
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We knew Daniel 2,
we knew Revelation 13,
00:20:40.94\00:20:44.19
we knew Revelation
14, we knew it all,
00:20:44.22\00:20:46.79
but sometimes we
only knew the doctrines,
00:20:46.82\00:20:49.98
but did not know
Jesus. Amen. We had it up here
00:20:50.01\00:20:55.52
and not in here. It's
about time my brothers
00:20:55.55\00:20:59.74
and my sisters
that we understand that
00:20:59.77\00:21:02.98
this BIBLE is no
good unless what's in it
00:21:03.01\00:21:07.76
is to transfer it
from here to here.
00:21:07.79\00:21:10.25
Amen. Brad Rotter
says that these Pharisees
00:21:10.74\00:21:17.35
and Sadducees did
not need intellectual
00:21:17.38\00:21:20.61
enlightenment,
they needed spiritual
00:21:20.64\00:21:23.29
renovation. And I'm
afraid that church folk
00:21:23.32\00:21:29.00
haven't changed much,
that in this year 2007
00:21:29.03\00:21:34.25
that we are still
time blind with signs of
00:21:36.01\00:21:40.59
Christ coming at the
end of the world all around
00:21:40.62\00:21:42.91
us there are some of
us who still won't see.
00:21:42.94\00:21:46.39
I said won't
seat, not can't see.
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There are some who
are still trying to find
00:21:51.57\00:21:54.69
a reason not to obey
the word of the Lord.
00:21:54.72\00:21:59.33
They are some who say
the church is too narrow,
00:22:00.28\00:22:02.66
and that's true in some places.
00:22:03.32\00:22:05.10
There are some who
say that the people
00:22:05.86\00:22:08.43
are hypocritical,
and that's true in
00:22:08.46\00:22:11.29
some places.
There are those who say
00:22:11.32\00:22:13.92
there is
corruption in the church, that
00:22:13.95\00:22:16.43
there is
prejudice in the church,
00:22:16.46\00:22:18.32
that the church
is old fashioned,
00:22:18.35\00:22:20.44
but my brothers and
my sisters in these last
00:22:20.47\00:22:23.58
days we must
divorce our attitude about
00:22:23.61\00:22:27.31
God's earthly
church from our attitude
00:22:27.34\00:22:29.92
about God's true church. Amen.
00:22:29.95\00:22:32.37
This church is defective.
It's defective because
00:22:32.77\00:22:38.43
you and I are still
in it. And I don't care
00:22:38.46\00:22:44.46
how long you have
been in the church.
00:22:44.49\00:22:45.99
I don't care how
long your Adventist
00:22:46.34\00:22:49.37
roots are, we are
still sinners saved by grace.
00:22:49.40\00:22:53.68
Say amen out there. Amen.
00:22:53.71\00:22:55.19
This church is
corrupt because we are
00:22:55.22\00:22:57.27
corrupted. But God's
church is a victorious
00:22:57.30\00:23:05.16
church; God's
church is where our eyes
00:23:05.19\00:23:09.08
ought to be set on not on men,
00:23:09.11\00:23:11.18
but on God. I got a
new theology some disagree,
00:23:11.21\00:23:20.25
but I still believe
it. We've said for years
00:23:21.46\00:23:25.55
the church is a
hospital. How many of you
00:23:26.24\00:23:29.53
heard that? I
disagree. You know why, because
00:23:29.56\00:23:35.74
no one goes to
the hospital and stays
00:23:35.77\00:23:38.83
for years. There
are only three ways to
00:23:38.86\00:23:47.61
get out of a
hospital. One is you get well
00:23:47.64\00:23:51.28
and leave. Two is they
declare there is nothing
00:23:51.31\00:23:55.76
more they can do for
you and the third way
00:23:55.79\00:23:58.35
is you die and they
roll you out. Am I right?
00:23:58.38\00:24:01.80
Yes. If the church, if
the church is a hospital
00:24:02.17\00:24:08.22
and we are still in
it, that means either
00:24:09.70\00:24:14.11
we're dead, or we are
dying. I heard someone
00:24:14.14\00:24:22.20
say the other day
that instead of a church
00:24:22.23\00:24:26.36
be like an hospital it
ought to be like a bar.
00:24:26.39\00:24:29.05
Oh! I shocked some Adventists.
00:24:34.30\00:24:35.38
You know why
because in a bar when
00:24:39.20\00:24:42.99
you run out of
money somebody will buy
00:24:43.02\00:24:45.25
you a drink. In a
bar if you are lonely
00:24:45.28\00:24:54.10
and need someone to
talk to, someone will
00:24:54.43\00:24:57.04
talk to you in a bar.
Hello, in a bar if you get
00:24:57.07\00:25:03.06
so drunk you fall off
the stool or fall off out
00:25:03.09\00:25:06.87
of the chair,
someone will pick you up.
00:25:06.90\00:25:09.74
In the church if
you fall off the.
00:25:13.39\00:25:15.04
Somebody want to
call a business meeting.
00:25:21.65\00:25:23.18
Am I right? Come
on now. In a bar,
00:25:23.97\00:25:29.43
if you get so drunk
in a responsible bar
00:25:31.94\00:25:35.03
whatever it is. If
you get so drunk that
00:25:35.06\00:25:39.94
you cannot drive
yourself home some
00:25:39.97\00:25:42.30
stranger will put you
in their car and take you
00:25:42.33\00:25:46.36
to your door step.
The church of God needs
00:25:46.39\00:25:53.09
to be more loving,
more kind, more reaching out
00:25:53.12\00:25:58.79
one to another
instead of sitting up
00:25:58.82\00:26:01.69
in our white
hospital cloth acting like
00:26:01.72\00:26:05.34
we're doctors with
stethoscopes around
00:26:05.37\00:26:07.65
our necks walking
around trying to see
00:26:07.68\00:26:10.07
who is eating the
right thing and doing
00:26:10.48\00:26:12.64
the right thing. Amen.
When I understand Kairos,
00:26:12.67\00:26:19.57
I understand it's
about time for me to start
00:26:21.25\00:26:25.66
walking differently. I
walk with an assurance.
00:26:25.94\00:26:31.19
I walk with a holy boldness.
00:26:31.22\00:26:34.26
I not only know who
I'm, but I know whose I'm.
00:26:34.29\00:26:39.80
I'm the child of the
all mighty God himself.
00:26:40.36\00:26:46.00
Amen. I'm somebody,
because I'm God's child.
00:26:46.59\00:26:51.60
Amen. Not only do
I know who I'm and
00:26:51.99\00:27:00.53
whose I'm, but I
know where the power is.
00:27:00.56\00:27:03.69
You see there are
too many of us who still
00:27:04.59\00:27:07.19
try to run on our own power,
00:27:07.22\00:27:09.32
but when I
understand Kairos I understand
00:27:10.24\00:27:14.27
God's doing; I
understand that all the power
00:27:14.30\00:27:18.00
is in his hands.
Amen. When I was a boy
00:27:18.24\00:27:24.36
on Friday, on
Thursday, my mother would send
00:27:27.50\00:27:32.38
me to the bakery
to buy day old bread.
00:27:32.41\00:27:37.20
You don't know
about that I'm sure.
00:27:38.09\00:27:39.53
But we live around
the corner and down
00:27:42.02\00:27:44.93
the street from a
bakery and when they bring the,
00:27:44.96\00:27:49.26
you know the trucks
would bring the bread
00:27:50.07\00:27:51.62
back, it be day old
we go around and get it
00:27:51.85\00:27:54.93
at half price. And
every Thursday mom would send
00:27:54.96\00:27:57.74
me down there to
get several loaves,
00:27:57.77\00:28:01.17
to last us for the
week of day old bread.
00:28:01.20\00:28:03.34
And I would go
down the street around
00:28:05.69\00:28:09.04
the corner over the
railroad tracks down the
00:28:09.07\00:28:13.67
street to the bakery.
Over the railroad tracks
00:28:13.70\00:28:17.80
just on the other
side of the tracks lived
00:28:17.83\00:28:20.85
a bully. And that
bully knew that I would run
00:28:21.62\00:28:28.94
from a fight. I was
not the fighting kind.
00:28:29.43\00:28:33.52
Sometimes I go way
round the other way,
00:28:34.23\00:28:38.92
so I wouldn't
have to face the bully.
00:28:39.86\00:28:42.42
But sometimes mom
would give me a time
00:28:43.14\00:28:45.24
limit and so all I
have to get and as all over
00:28:45.27\00:28:48.44
the railroad tracks,
I kind of go over slow
00:28:48.63\00:28:50.92
and look and run past his house.
00:28:50.95\00:28:55.09
But inevitably he
run off, sometimes I ride
00:28:55.66\00:28:59.53
my bike and as I
cross the railroad track
00:28:59.56\00:29:02.10
I peddle as hard as
I could, but he'd step
00:29:02.13\00:29:04.74
in the middle of the
sidewalk and just stop
00:29:04.77\00:29:06.50
my bike. And I
stand there and tremble.
00:29:06.53\00:29:09.60
While he said
anything he want to say to me.
00:29:09.89\00:29:12.50
Well one
Thursday I had two cousins
00:29:13.19\00:29:17.96
who were visiting me.
I would run from a fight,
00:29:17.99\00:29:22.25
they run to a fight.
And mom said its time
00:29:22.97\00:29:28.27
to go to the bakery
and I said can you guys
00:29:28.30\00:29:31.16
go with me. Yes, we
walked down the street,
00:29:31.19\00:29:33.10
around the corner,
over the railroad track
00:29:33.95\00:29:37.11
and there he was
I can see him today.
00:29:37.38\00:29:39.25
I have been about 10-years-old,
00:29:39.28\00:29:40.61
I can see him today
which was about three
00:29:40.64\00:29:42.48
years ago but anyway.
00:29:42.51\00:29:43.48
Over the railroad
tracks and there he was
00:29:49.03\00:29:51.00
standing in the
sidewalk waiting.
00:29:51.61\00:29:55.44
I walked right up to
him, right about that
00:29:57.25\00:30:00.47
close to him. And I
said if you don't get out
00:30:00.50\00:30:04.56
of my way I'm going
to and I have gave him
00:30:04.59\00:30:08.01
some unconverted
language. His eyes
00:30:08.04\00:30:12.78
bucked and he
jumped out of the way and
00:30:12.81\00:30:17.17
after that I never
had any more trouble
00:30:17.20\00:30:20.68
with him. I had
bravery because my cousins
00:30:20.72\00:30:28.62
were standing
behind me. I knew that if
00:30:28.65\00:30:34.90
he battered and I
brawl the wrong way
00:30:34.93\00:30:38.26
my cousins would tear him apart.
00:30:38.29\00:30:42.13
All my brother and my
sister, when the bullies
00:30:42.16\00:30:45.62
of life face us,
we need to understand
00:30:45.65\00:30:48.90
that there is a
power that is there
00:30:48.93\00:30:51.94
who can deal with
anything and anybody
00:30:52.13\00:30:55.22
at any time, all we
have got to do is be able
00:30:55.25\00:30:59.06
to stand and say I
serve a risen savior,
00:30:59.09\00:31:03.37
and all power is
in his hands. Amen.
00:31:03.40\00:31:06.63
I walk differently
when I understand Kairos.
00:31:09.51\00:31:13.12
I have a discerning attitude.
00:31:13.67\00:31:16.13
I see what other folk can't see.
00:31:16.57\00:31:18.54
Some see The Da
Vinci Code as a book
00:31:18.92\00:31:22.26
or a movie. We
see it as an attack
00:31:22.29\00:31:24.82
on the divinity of
Christ. If Christ is
00:31:24.85\00:31:27.77
not divine, if
Christ is just a man,
00:31:27.80\00:31:31.00
we don't have to believe in him,
00:31:31.13\00:31:33.61
we don't have to believe him.
00:31:33.64\00:31:36.11
We have a discerning attitude.
00:31:38.72\00:31:40.73
Some see the
latest books and movies
00:31:40.93\00:31:43.81
on demonism and
spiritualism simply as
00:31:43.84\00:31:47.31
entertainment, but
we see the move of Satan
00:31:47.34\00:31:50.42
establishing the
superiority of demonic
00:31:50.45\00:31:53.92
power. Some see
child abuse and school
00:31:53.95\00:31:57.75
shootings and lawlessness
and same sex marriages
00:31:57.78\00:32:01.83
and abortion issues
simply as a breakdown
00:32:01.86\00:32:05.77
of a sociological
society or an enlightened
00:32:05.80\00:32:09.51
post modern man, but
we see the fulfillment
00:32:09.54\00:32:13.50
of Second Timothy 3:1 to 5.
00:32:13.53\00:32:16.39
When I understand
Kairos, I know that its
00:32:18.93\00:32:24.97
time for me to start
preparing differently.
00:32:25.00\00:32:28.76
I have a closer
examination of myself.
00:32:29.57\00:32:34.29
It's me, it's me,
it's me oh Lord standing
00:32:35.13\00:32:41.41
in the need of
prayer. I look at me,
00:32:41.66\00:32:45.61
I don't have time to
look at you. I don't have
00:32:45.91\00:32:50.33
time to figure
out if you go making
00:32:50.36\00:32:52.86
into the kingdom or
not. I have got to make
00:32:52.89\00:32:55.15
sure I get into
the kingdom. Amen.
00:32:55.18\00:32:58.29
I will start praying
more, so that my prayer
00:33:00.34\00:33:04.73
life is not a
service of ritualism,
00:33:04.76\00:33:10.88
but is a life
exercise. If some of us talk
00:33:11.63\00:33:16.42
to one another,
the way we talk to God,
00:33:16.45\00:33:19.32
we think we were
crazy. If I got up every
00:33:19.77\00:33:27.12
morning and say to
my wife good morning
00:33:27.15\00:33:30.54
dear I'm glad you
slept well last night.
00:33:30.57\00:33:33.34
I'll see you at
noontime. At noontime I say
00:33:33.82\00:33:37.11
afternoon dear
thank you for the lunch,
00:33:37.37\00:33:40.26
I'll see you at
supper time. At supper time
00:33:40.93\00:33:43.65
I say thank you
dear for the supper
00:33:43.68\00:33:46.23
I'll see you at bed
time. When I got to bed
00:33:46.57\00:33:50.39
time I'd say thank
you dear for having
00:33:50.42\00:33:53.02
a great day I hope
that you have a good
00:33:53.05\00:33:55.27
night and then we
go to sleep and wake up
00:33:55.30\00:33:57.60
in the morning and I
say good morning dear,
00:33:57.63\00:33:59.34
I hope you had a good night.
00:33:59.37\00:34:00.37
And yet that's the way
some of us talk to God.
00:34:01.65\00:34:03.90
Am I right or
wrong? We say the same
00:34:04.39\00:34:07.41
things over and
over and over again
00:34:07.44\00:34:11.29
and the reason is
if you have someone
00:34:11.32\00:34:14.99
who you don't have
a relationship with,
00:34:15.02\00:34:17.77
you have nothing to talk about,
00:34:17.80\00:34:20.32
except when you get in trouble.
00:34:25.60\00:34:28.38
I have three
children, and you have children,
00:34:31.73\00:34:33.51
three of them are
different don't you.
00:34:33.54\00:34:34.99
I have a son who
is quiet, he doesn't
00:34:36.59\00:34:40.84
talk much. He gives
you one syllable answer.
00:34:40.87\00:34:46.28
How was your day?
Good. How was your night?
00:34:47.43\00:34:50.97
Great. How is your
job? Fine. Just the way
00:34:51.41\00:34:56.36
he talks. But
when he was younger
00:34:56.39\00:34:59.88
and he got in
trouble, that brother could
00:35:00.64\00:35:03.16
talk man. You know,
you just look at him.
00:35:03.19\00:35:08.20
Dad, let me
explain, man he go on and on
00:35:08.23\00:35:11.10
on and on, dad
here's what I need,
00:35:11.13\00:35:12.90
if he needed some sneakers,
00:35:13.97\00:35:15.15
dad look at
these sneakers and say
00:35:15.18\00:35:17.02
so on so on so on or even jeans,
00:35:17.05\00:35:18.75
dad I've got to have
this, I got to have this.
00:35:18.78\00:35:20.82
That brother could
talk, some of us relate
00:35:20.85\00:35:24.01
to God like that.
We can bend his ear
00:35:24.04\00:35:27.54
when we get in
trouble, but when times
00:35:27.57\00:35:31.02
are good, we give
him one word answers.
00:35:31.05\00:35:33.78
When I understand
Kairos, I talk to him all
00:35:36.32\00:35:41.56
the time. When I
understand Kairos,
00:35:41.59\00:35:45.29
I praise more. And
there is a theology,
00:35:45.78\00:35:51.67
in some of us that
says in church we ought
00:35:52.25\00:35:57.22
not praise. There
are some who say that
00:35:57.25\00:36:01.65
my culture is not
a praised culture,
00:36:01.68\00:36:04.38
but that ain't true.
All of us praise something.
00:36:04.92\00:36:09.86
All of us are
moved by something.
00:36:11.12\00:36:14.77
Some of you who would
not, who would make sure
00:36:16.17\00:36:20.41
that your hands and
your feet were still
00:36:20.44\00:36:23.59
on gospel music. If
someone began to sing
00:36:25.63\00:36:30.42
the Hallelujah chorus
you would be like back,
00:36:30.45\00:36:32.97
your foot be
patting, your hand be moving,
00:36:35.98\00:36:38.46
you can get off
on hallelujah chorus.
00:36:38.49\00:36:40.16
Some folks sit in
church am I getting too close?
00:36:44.75\00:36:47.67
Some folks sit in
church and if somebody
00:36:50.22\00:36:53.44
in the back says
amen, suddenly your head
00:36:53.47\00:36:56.67
become a bubble, you
can spin all the way.
00:36:56.70\00:36:59.21
And you wonder
what are they doing
00:37:01.69\00:37:03.04
and yet you can sit
in your living rooms
00:37:03.07\00:37:06.59
or your family room
before this huge box
00:37:06.62\00:37:10.93
thing and someone
that make a home run
00:37:10.96\00:37:13.56
or someone make a
touchdown and you up
00:37:13.59\00:37:16.53
say yeah, yeah, yeah go, go, go.
00:37:16.56\00:37:18.60
But I wanna
suggest to you tonight that
00:37:20.80\00:37:23.33
if we can praise the
player on the home run,
00:37:23.36\00:37:26.56
we ought to able
to praise God because
00:37:26.59\00:37:28.85
he woke us up this
morning. You don't have
00:37:28.88\00:37:34.22
to praise him
the way I praise him,
00:37:34.25\00:37:36.32
but you got to praise him. Amen.
00:37:37.21\00:37:39.41
I was coming down the road today
00:37:40.82\00:37:42.09
and I heard him,
you know when your drive
00:37:43.39\00:37:48.68
the long ways you got
to get your music together,
00:37:48.71\00:37:50.69
and so I had my music together.
00:37:52.09\00:37:55.04
My wife likes the
Brooklyn Tabernacle choir.
00:37:56.65\00:38:00.20
Have you heard
Brooklyn Tabernacle choir yeah.
00:38:00.23\00:38:02.37
Well she likes him to
the point where in her car
00:38:03.50\00:38:06.23
that's all she
plays, that's all she plays
00:38:06.26\00:38:09.14
and when I say
don't play, she says
00:38:09.17\00:38:10.72
it's my car. I will
play what I want to play,
00:38:10.75\00:38:14.14
you play in your
car, well I was away,
00:38:14.35\00:38:16.85
her car was in the
shop she was driving my car,
00:38:17.40\00:38:19.73
so I'm coming down
the road, I reached back
00:38:20.18\00:38:22.90
you know I got
my little case there
00:38:22.93\00:38:24.61
and I feeling I
got and put my hand on
00:38:24.64\00:38:27.56
a CD and just put it
in the V, and it starts
00:38:27.59\00:38:31.39
playing and it's
the Brooklyn Tabernacle
00:38:31.42\00:38:34.29
choir. But then they
start singing this song
00:38:34.32\00:38:37.71
this is your house,
a holy house of prayer.
00:38:37.74\00:38:41.97
And I said I have
never heard this song
00:38:42.27\00:38:44.10
before and as they
sing it, the song begins
00:38:44.13\00:38:46.96
to move me and I'm
going down the road
00:38:46.99\00:38:48.80
saying yes Jesus,
thank you Lord. Folks must
00:38:48.83\00:38:52.38
have thought I was
crazy, but I was praising
00:38:52.41\00:38:54.57
him because I
understand when we come into
00:38:54.60\00:38:57.59
the house of the
Lord it is his house.
00:38:57.62\00:38:59.99
It is a holy house of prayer.
00:39:00.35\00:39:02.34
It's where we meet
him and I'm always glad
00:39:02.37\00:39:06.01
to meet him. Amen.
We praise him more,
00:39:06.04\00:39:10.39
when we understand
Kairos, we forgive more.
00:39:11.92\00:39:18.57
Your Union
Secretary Samuel Green,
00:39:22.55\00:39:27.81
his wife and my
wife and other couples,
00:39:29.38\00:39:32.70
we just had a
vacation together just got home
00:39:33.79\00:39:37.35
Monday night. We
took a crew to Alaska.
00:39:37.38\00:39:41.46
We had a great time,
but you know our wives
00:39:42.88\00:39:47.15
made us promise
that we would not talk
00:39:47.18\00:39:50.96
sharp, but preachers
can't help but preach.
00:39:50.99\00:39:55.94
You know, so he
said to say Drake.
00:39:56.79\00:39:59.63
He says I heard
something I think
00:40:01.04\00:40:02.43
you like. I said
alright. He said it's about
00:40:02.46\00:40:06.74
forgiveness. I said
alright, what is it?
00:40:06.77\00:40:09.79
He said forgiveness
is letting go of the hope
00:40:10.22\00:40:15.49
that tomorrow will
take care of what happened
00:40:16.57\00:40:20.22
in the past.
Isn't that profound,
00:40:20.51\00:40:27.22
how many folks are
still sitting up someone
00:40:28.78\00:40:33.35
who did wrong in
1944 and you're saying
00:40:33.38\00:40:37.58
the Lord go and get
him. I know the Lord
00:40:37.61\00:40:43.20
is going to take care
of it, but true forgiveness
00:40:43.23\00:40:46.34
is giving up the hope
that something is going
00:40:47.77\00:40:51.43
to repair what
happened in the past.
00:40:51.46\00:40:53.85
Jesus says when I forgive you,
00:40:53.88\00:40:56.79
I do a miracle in my own mind.
00:40:56.82\00:40:59.44
I wipe the sin away
so that I don't even
00:40:59.47\00:41:03.82
remember that you have sin.
00:41:03.85\00:41:05.69
When we understand
Kairos and understand
00:41:05.72\00:41:10.87
that we are
living on God's time,
00:41:10.90\00:41:13.61
we don't have time
to worry about what
00:41:13.64\00:41:18.91
someone did in 1944. I
would hate to go to hell,
00:41:18.94\00:41:27.71
because I'm harboring
something you did to me
00:41:29.21\00:41:32.16
in 1944 when I wasn't born.
00:41:33.18\00:41:35.52
I truly wasn't born.
Wouldn't it be terrible
00:41:37.85\00:41:43.57
if you did something
to me in 44. You went to
00:41:44.78\00:41:51.19
God ask
forgiveness, God forgave you.
00:41:51.22\00:41:54.87
I held it against
you and you go to heaven,
00:41:55.17\00:41:58.19
I don't. Wouldn't
that be the ultimate hell,
00:41:58.27\00:42:03.80
wouldn't it. And
yet there are some of us
00:42:04.89\00:42:08.06
are still
harboring demons of the past
00:42:08.46\00:42:11.43
and it come out in
nominating community time.
00:42:11.98\00:42:15.67
I'm going to
leave it right there.
00:42:21.79\00:42:22.76
When I understand
Kairos my vision becomes
00:42:26.46\00:42:31.27
binocular. I see
earth, but I view heaven.
00:42:32.21\00:42:37.52
I see Kronos, but
I comprehend Kairos.
00:42:39.67\00:42:43.99
I understand that
earth is not my home.
00:42:45.40\00:42:49.35
The trials won't
last forever, that
00:42:50.28\00:42:54.26
disappointments will
vanish, the power plays
00:42:54.29\00:42:57.66
will be over I'm
not worried about
00:42:57.69\00:43:00.52
what's happening
in Washington DC.
00:43:00.55\00:43:02.68
I only think that
this earth is a temporary
00:43:03.05\00:43:07.12
place and the only
thing that's going to escape
00:43:07.15\00:43:10.35
it is a child
whose mind is made up
00:43:10.63\00:43:13.38
and stayed on
Jesus Christ. Amen.
00:43:13.41\00:43:16.36
I, one of my hobbies
is eagle. I love eagle
00:43:19.70\00:43:24.37
and I collect eagle
figurines and anytime
00:43:25.29\00:43:28.54
I get a chance to
see eagle I go and,
00:43:28.57\00:43:30.42
as was one of my
great thrills in Alaska
00:43:30.82\00:43:32.63
was to see an eagle.
I got real close to one
00:43:32.66\00:43:34.27
this time. But eagle
have eyes that are binocular
00:43:34.30\00:43:42.21
and eagle each eye
operates independently.
00:43:43.98\00:43:47.89
So that an eagle can
be soaring in the sky
00:43:50.12\00:43:52.52
and can look down
and see something on the
00:43:54.31\00:43:57.43
ground. At the same
time that eagle can see
00:43:57.46\00:44:02.28
another eagle that
sees the same thing he sees.
00:44:02.31\00:44:05.72
That eagle can
watch what's swimming
00:44:07.27\00:44:11.11
or moving on the
ground. Watch the eagle
00:44:11.14\00:44:15.24
that's flying,
adjust his speed and rate
00:44:15.27\00:44:19.25
of decline to make
sure that he gets there
00:44:19.85\00:44:23.39
before he gets there.
He can watch what's moving
00:44:23.42\00:44:28.14
and watch what's
attacking at the same
00:44:28.17\00:44:31.05
time. When I
understand Kairos I understand
00:44:31.08\00:44:37.34
that they gonna be
some people in this world
00:44:37.37\00:44:39.64
that's gonna go
out of their minds.
00:44:39.96\00:44:41.94
But I'm not gonna
mess with them going out
00:44:42.33\00:44:45.94
of their minds.
I'm looking for Jesus
00:44:45.97\00:44:49.34
to come. Amen. I'm not
going to get up hung up
00:44:49.37\00:44:52.41
and caught up. You
know one of the things
00:44:52.90\00:44:56.79
that's good about
getting older not old,
00:44:57.70\00:45:01.85
but older is that
experience teaches you
00:45:01.88\00:45:06.92
there are some
arguments not worth arguing.
00:45:06.95\00:45:09.79
And now when
people come to me and say
00:45:12.29\00:45:14.62
preacher prove to
me the Seventh-day
00:45:15.07\00:45:18.83
is the Sabbath. Do
you know what I do?
00:45:18.86\00:45:20.60
I say prove to
me it's not. Amen.
00:45:21.48\00:45:23.63
I don't go to my Bible,
I don't start in Exodus,
00:45:25.34\00:45:28.57
I don't start in
creation. I say you prove
00:45:28.60\00:45:31.54
to me that it's not
and you prove to me that
00:45:31.57\00:45:33.96
it's not I will
go worship where you.
00:45:33.99\00:45:35.56
I don't have
time to argue. Amen.
00:45:35.59\00:45:38.26
I'm on my way to the
kingdom and I don't have
00:45:38.76\00:45:41.74
time to be your
pharisaical. Well they ask
00:45:41.77\00:45:48.90
for sign. Jesus said
I will give you no sign
00:45:48.93\00:45:54.24
except the sign
of the prophet Jonah.
00:45:55.31\00:45:59.29
Ellen White says
that represents the death,
00:46:00.15\00:46:03.21
burial and resurrection
of our Lord Jesus Christ.
00:46:03.46\00:46:07.52
It is a sign of a
sinner transformed.
00:46:08.65\00:46:12.89
Then the Bible says
that after he said to them.
00:46:16.40\00:46:20.93
I'll give you no
sign except this sign.
00:46:22.49\00:46:24.22
The Bible says he
left them and departed.
00:46:25.12\00:46:29.30
One writer says that
he let them understand
00:46:30.35\00:46:34.91
you have made the
choice, you Pharisees
00:46:36.26\00:46:42.07
on the left, you
Sadducees on the right.
00:46:43.20\00:46:48.42
You who say that to
get to heaven you got
00:46:49.61\00:46:54.20
to give up
sitting in middle chair.
00:46:54.23\00:46:56.89
You who say you can
get to heaven any kind
00:46:57.65\00:47:01.82
of way you want to,
Jesus says I will show
00:47:01.85\00:47:06.27
you a better way. I
will show you a relationship
00:47:06.30\00:47:12.34
way. I say to you
both of you are blind
00:47:12.37\00:47:17.64
and it's about
time that you open your
00:47:18.04\00:47:22.19
spiritually blind
eyes and take a glance at
00:47:22.41\00:47:28.17
Jesus Christ the
love of our soul.
00:47:28.20\00:47:32.14
You make the choice.
He says I can help you,
00:47:33.38\00:47:38.18
if you just ask
me. I can help you.
00:47:40.14\00:47:43.70
There are some of
you here tonight that
00:47:44.00\00:47:46.24
Jesus says you make the choice.
00:47:46.27\00:47:50.20
Now you have
heard your President say
00:47:52.32\00:47:53.89
I'm a third generation
Seventh-day Adventist.
00:47:53.92\00:47:56.09
I have seen some
things that people call
00:47:57.04\00:48:00.44
salvation. I remember
when folks said we only
00:48:00.47\00:48:06.81
want to eat raw peanut butter.
00:48:06.84\00:48:09.44
I remember when
ladies could not come in the
00:48:12.66\00:48:16.06
church without a hat
on. Hello. I remember when
00:48:16.09\00:48:23.06
ladies could not sit
on the pulpit, in my home
00:48:23.09\00:48:26.30
church they built a
lower pulpit for ladies
00:48:26.33\00:48:29.14
to sit on, 'cause
ladies couldn't sit on the big
00:48:29.17\00:48:31.76
pulpit. I remember
as a Pastor I was in a
00:48:31.79\00:48:38.62
business meeting
one evening and I had a
00:48:38.65\00:48:40.96
bunch of papers in
my hand and it was too
00:48:40.99\00:48:44.27
many and I turned
around and I put them on
00:48:44.30\00:48:47.02
the communion table and
I never sure shall forget
00:48:47.05\00:48:49.45
the lady, who was
sitting in the back that
00:48:49.48\00:48:51.55
shock fledged on her
face and she jumped up
00:48:51.58\00:48:54.24
and ran down the isle
and gathered up all my
00:48:54.27\00:48:57.55
papers and said
Pastor, you can't put anything
00:48:57.58\00:49:00.99
on that it's sacred.
Oh! You're laughing but
00:49:01.02\00:49:08.74
there are some of you
who have sacred things
00:49:08.77\00:49:10.93
and you think if
you do enough of it,
00:49:12.37\00:49:15.22
you'll get into
the kingdom. Sabbath
00:49:16.64\00:49:19.90
keeping won't put
you in the kingdom.
00:49:19.93\00:49:21.89
Sabbath keeping won't
put you in the kingdom.
00:49:25.43\00:49:29.66
Coming to camp
meeting, won't put you in
00:49:33.52\00:49:37.32
the kingdom. If
you come every night
00:49:37.35\00:49:40.47
and listen to all of
the sermons. If you come
00:49:40.73\00:49:43.98
everyday, if you
make every meeting,
00:49:44.01\00:49:46.31
every seminar and go
home the way you came,
00:49:46.34\00:49:49.60
you're a Pharisee or a Sadducee.
00:49:53.95\00:49:57.26
Jesus says I have got
a new way and these are
00:49:58.74\00:50:03.72
word you're say
every night that new way
00:50:03.75\00:50:06.74
is surrendering
for Pharisaism and your
00:50:07.83\00:50:12.87
Sadducism. Surrendering
them and finding Jesus
00:50:12.90\00:50:20.09
and saying to
Jesus I surrender all.
00:50:20.75\00:50:26.34
Last night we were
having worship with our
00:50:28.03\00:50:32.56
grandchildren.
And I have a one of my
00:50:32.59\00:50:36.75
grandchildren
seven-years-old and
00:50:36.78\00:50:40.41
he wants to be
baptized. As I said I want
00:50:41.93\00:50:47.14
to be baptized and so
I explained to him that
00:50:47.17\00:50:52.22
when you are baptized.
Before you are baptized
00:50:52.25\00:50:54.89
you got to give
your heart to Jesus.
00:50:56.12\00:50:59.47
And his sister who is
five-year-old looked at
00:51:01.18\00:51:04.25
me with big eyes and
said you mean you're going
00:51:04.28\00:51:07.70
to cut my heart out.
What will I do without
00:51:07.73\00:51:12.24
a heart and it dawned
on me, that that's what
00:51:12.27\00:51:18.17
it is. Its surgery,
Jesus comes and he takes
00:51:18.20\00:51:24.42
the hardness out.
Jesus comes and he takes
00:51:24.45\00:51:29.42
the coldness out.
Jesus comes and he takes our
00:51:29.45\00:51:34.41
resistance out. He
takes our preconceive ideas
00:51:34.44\00:51:38.19
out. And he says
here is a new way, love me
00:51:38.22\00:51:42.80
and your eyes will be
open, and you can live
00:51:44.31\00:51:47.98
happy in Jesus. You
can live with no money
00:51:49.50\00:51:53.74
in the bank and happy.
You can live with praise
00:51:53.77\00:51:57.78
of his spouse and
happy. You can live with
00:51:57.81\00:52:01.19
children going over
foot hills and happy.
00:52:01.22\00:52:04.00
You can walk away
from your boss when
00:52:04.31\00:52:06.42
he says you're
fired and happy because
00:52:06.45\00:52:08.50
you understand that
Jesus has a new way of doing
00:52:08.53\00:52:12.99
things and everything
he allows to happen to me
00:52:13.02\00:52:16.62
is for my own
good. Amen. And so what
00:52:16.84\00:52:25.60
do I do. I
surrender, I give him my all.
00:52:25.63\00:52:34.31
I say Jesus you take
me and you tell me what
00:52:35.76\00:52:42.19
you want me to do and
if I surrender he will
00:52:42.22\00:52:46.76
come he says if you
will I will. He won't come
00:52:46.79\00:52:51.65
beat you over the
head. He won't knock you down
00:52:51.68\00:52:54.43
and drag you into the
kingdom. He simply stands
00:52:54.46\00:52:57.81
with his hand
open and says come.
00:52:58.46\00:53:01.48
Do you see him
tonight, come my brother,
00:53:03.15\00:53:06.73
come my sister. You
who has been Adventist
00:53:08.17\00:53:12.75
for 100 years come,
come and I will give you
00:53:13.04\00:53:19.75
a joy and that you never had
00:53:19.78\00:53:22.95
before. I'm not
afraid of dying, not afraid
00:53:23.74\00:53:30.42
of dying. If tomorrow
evening your President
00:53:30.45\00:53:33.55
stands and says Drake
died in his room last night
00:53:33.58\00:53:37.94
don't be sorry,
because everyday, every moment
00:53:38.65\00:53:42.67
of the day I surrender
over and over and over,
00:53:42.70\00:53:45.46
am I perfect? No. He
knows I'm not perfect but
00:53:45.49\00:53:48.88
his blood will shed
for me. I know I have the
00:53:48.91\00:53:53.65
assurance of
knowing that if I die I have
00:53:53.68\00:53:57.75
surrendered, so that
when my eyes are awaken
00:53:57.78\00:54:00.63
again I expect to see
him coming in the clouds
00:54:00.66\00:54:06.26
of blooming. Oh!
What peace, oh what hope
00:54:06.29\00:54:13.08
to see Jesus
coming. All it takes is just
00:54:14.92\00:54:21.19
surrender. Let's pray.
Our Father, we come to you
00:54:22.53\00:54:33.53
tonight as sinful men and women.
00:54:33.56\00:54:38.96
Always struggling,
we're trying our best
00:54:40.99\00:54:44.53
and sometimes we
get little a confused
00:54:46.28\00:54:49.15
as the how we need
it, what we need to do to
00:54:49.18\00:54:52.44
make into the
kingdom. Sometimes we act like
00:54:52.47\00:54:57.14
Pharisees and
sometimes we act like Sadducees.
00:54:57.17\00:55:01.31
It is so easy to have
a check off list I don't
00:55:02.90\00:55:05.10
do this, I don't do
that, I don't give that.
00:55:05.13\00:55:07.77
Tonight you've told us
that our eyes need to be
00:55:08.25\00:55:12.25
open and we need to
see you and not the stuff
00:55:12.28\00:55:17.46
that we think is
gonna prepare us for
00:55:18.97\00:55:20.66
your kingdom. You
are our hope, you are our
00:55:20.69\00:55:27.07
future, you are the
genesis, is the genesis
00:55:27.10\00:55:32.13
of our hope and our
joy. Tonight help us to
00:55:32.98\00:55:39.87
surrender again. Help
us to yell to you again.
00:55:39.90\00:55:46.90
We open our hearts
and say do surgery on us
00:55:48.13\00:55:51.83
oh God. Take out the
storminess, take out the
00:55:51.86\00:55:54.97
prejudiceness against
truth, help us to see you
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and to obey you.
Now we will pray that as
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we leave this place. We
go out to different places
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of a boat, give us a
good night's rest. Help us to
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rest in the assurance
that you're gonna come soon.
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If it is your will,
touch us in the morning.
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Give us a new day and
new blessings and we will
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praise your name for we
ask it in that precious,
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holy name of Jesus and
the church say it, amen.
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