You know, it's a
blessing to be here tonight.
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How about you? Amen.
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And to see
something that has happened
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because of faith.
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Listen, less than a year ago
this wasn't even a conception.
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And since then, we have printed
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well over 300,000 Bibles.
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We received probably
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over 15,000 used Bibles
which probably represents,
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I don't know, 5 or 6,
7, 8, 9, 10,000 people
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that have got involved,
in not just United States,
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we've got people from Norway,
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from Australia, from
New Zealand, from Germany,
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you name it,
people have got involved.
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You know why?
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Because they believe
it's time to be involved,
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don't you?
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It's time for you
now to get involve.
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We can't just sit
back on the tracks
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and wait for somebody
else to do the job for us.
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And it doesn't
matter if you're 5 years old
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or if you're 85 years old,
as long as you can breathe,
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you can play a part.
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We've had young
children that have...
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In a primary class,
they saw the DVD, they said,
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"I want to be a part of this,"
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and they got other
children in their class
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to give used
Bibles and donations.
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You know, and it's not about
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the money for
me, or for Remnant,
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or anyone
'cause it's not for me,
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it's not for
them, it's for people
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that need the truth, amen.
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And I just want to thank
each and every one of you
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that have played a part in this
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and continue to
play a part in this.
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I do also want to mention
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before I start that
I've been over to Africa
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now three times in the last,
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probably, seven or eight months,
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I'm leaving with my
brother here in another week.
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And so it'll be four
times in less than a year.
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I had never been
there before in my life.
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I've been to almost
every place else in the world
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but I had never
been over to Africa,
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and it just amazed me
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that the people
that are hungering
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and thirsting
for the Word of God.
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And so we have a
satellite office over there.
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And Philip is a
printer, he's a businessman,
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and he loves the Lord,
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and we heard about this on 3ABN.
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When we went over
there, he said, you know,
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"I would like to
help anyway that I can,"
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and he's going full time
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into this Bible for
Africa project over there.
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So he's our eyes and our ears,
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and I just want to thank him too
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because I'm sure
he's watching right now
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all the way over in Africa.
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And everyone like I
said is playing a part.
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3ABN also has
played a tremendous part
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because if it
wasn't for the satellites
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beaming the signals down,
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people wouldn't know about this.
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How in the world...
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You know, my mom always
said that I had a loud mouth
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and so did my
teachers when I was growing up,
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but as loud as my
mouth is, I don't think that
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I could yell loud
enough to get around the world.
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But with
technology that we have today,
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we can use it
for the glory of God.
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Amen. Amen.
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Amen.
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Before we start, I
would just like to kneel,
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I'm inviting you to
kneel with me if you'd like.
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I enjoy kneeling when I pray
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because it
continues to let me know
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that I am a created
being and I give glory to God.
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So if you like to
kneel with me before I start,
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I'd appreciate that.
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Father in heaven, oh,
Father, I feel so blessed
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to be here this evening.
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And yet, Father, frightful
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because without You I
can do absolutely nothing.
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You give me my very breath,
You've given me my wisdom.
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And so Father, please
the scary part is that
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I would get off
into my own tangent,
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my own thinking,
and I don't want that.
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So right now,
Father, I pray that
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You will take my
lips and anoint them.
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And, Father, these words that
I speak will not be my words
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or nothing to glorify myself
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but, Father, You
would be glorified.
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And then, Father, I pray
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that You will push
the evil angels away.
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We've had bad
weather come through
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and yet, Father,
it's not raining now.
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Father, we've had
lightning that comes in here,
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that came in here
just a little while ago
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and knocked the leg
out of electricity here
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and yet, the consumers were here
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and fixed it in time.
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Father, You are the God
of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
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Father, You are forever future,
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not just forever
history, and You see every need.
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Father, I know that
You're glorified by this work.
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And so, Father, I pray right now
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that You'll
touch people's hearts
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that they will be open,
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that You'll send Your
Holy Spirit upon each one.
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And, Father, I thank
You for hearing this prayer
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because I prayed in faith
and in the name of Jesus, amen.
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Knock, Knock. Who's There?
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Another title that I
have, an older title is,
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"Quiet. Do You Hear Something?"
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If you turn in to
your Bibles right now,
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I want to get
started in the Bible.
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Turn into the
last book, Revelation,
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so last book of the Bible.
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And I just would like to
start out by reading something.
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It's, you know, in Revelation,
there are seven churches,
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and I'm going to read
about the last church,
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just a little phrase that
will start this off about,
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"Knock, Knock. Who's There?"
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So Revelation 3:20.
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I love to hear the
pages turn to the Bible
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'cause it's not my
words but it's God's Word.
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And that's why we're
trying to get these Bibles
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over to South Africa
and all of Africa actually.
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And we've
actually had phone calls
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from Papua New Guinea,
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from South America, from
Mexico, people are saying,
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"We've heard about
this, can you please help us
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get Bibles in
our language also?"
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And so it's the Word of
God that changes people.
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And so that's why we want
to read from the Word of God.
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Amen.
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Okay, Revelation 3:20, it says,
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"Behold, I stand at
the door and," do what?
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"Knock." "Knock."
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"Behold, I stand
at the door and knock.
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If anyone hears My
voice and opens the door.
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I will," what? "Come in."
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"I will come in to
him and dine with him,
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and he with Me."
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So there are some
things here that takes place.
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Number one, who's the
one knocking on the door?
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Jesus. Jesus.
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Now do we have
to open our doors?
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No. It's our choice.
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God has always loved us so much
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that He allows us to
make free will choice.
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I am so thankful
because I've always said,
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if I went to heaven no
matter how blissful it was,
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if I thought that the
Lord was making me a robot,
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I wouldn't want to be there.
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I just wouldn't
want to be there.
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I wouldn't be Dwight.
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You know, and
sometimes I thought,
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can you imagine every one,
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every time they
got up in the morning,
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you know, and they
walked out of there,
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dwelling or whatever,
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and every one
just all of a sudden...
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You know, I think about...
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I share this sometimes
that if that was the case,
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I can just
imagine my guardian angel
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when I make it to heaven,
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my guardian angel said, "Dwight,
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before you do anything,
I've got to do something."
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I said, "Well,
what you've got to do?"
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"Well, just here, sit down."
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And all of a
sudden as I sit down,
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he's standing at back of
me and he's doing something
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to the top of my head.
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And so I feel all of a sudden,
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I feel the top
of my head come off,
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you know, and he's
got like a screwdriver
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and he's tweaking me,
and all of a sudden gone...
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See, I couldn't stand that.
I don't want to be a robot.
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And God loves us so much,
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not only did He
send His Son Jesus,
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but He's allowing us to
love Him by our own free hearts.
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That's the God I
want to serve, don't you?
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And so each one of us
have that opportunity.
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Number one, number one,
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we need to hear
the knock, right?
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And number two, we
need to let him come in.
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And He said...
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He says this, which is so
neat, and this is what I want.
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I can't wait till this happens,
He says, "I will come in."
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He says, "If
anyone hears my voice,"
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you know, and
there's an if there,
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"If anyone hears my
voice and opens the door,"
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and opens that
door, takes action,
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"I will come in to Him,
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and dine with
Him and he with Me."
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Do you know that
God is ever sending
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messages to you
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through the Holy
Spirit, constantly?
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He's sending message...
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Do you hear Him speak to
you through the Holy Spirit?
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I know that when I was younger,
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I wanted to
hear God speak to me.
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But there was
something, there was a problem,
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I just wasn't hearing.
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And then if I thought
it might be God, I wonder,
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"Is this God or is
this just me thinking?"
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And I don't know about you
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but sometimes I
get kind of confused.
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Have you ever been confused?
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Have you ever said,
"Is this me thinking this,
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or is this the devil
putting a temptation in me,
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or is this the
Holy Spirit speaking?"
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Any of you... Hands out there.
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I hope so because
it's happened to me before.
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And I've had people
come up to me and say,
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"Dwight, how do you know
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when God truly
is speaking to me?"
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Number one is, God
impresses the mind,
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the conscience, right
up here, He impresses us.
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But, you know,
impressions alone are dangerous.
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Did you know that? I've
had people tell me this.
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You know, these
things are kind of funny
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but they aren't, but
they're little humorous,
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but probably they shouldn't be.
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But I've had people tell me,
you know, Dwight, I was praying
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that if God wanted
me to have a new car
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or used car, I
had this old clunker,
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and so I believe that God
wanted me to have this car.
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And so I prayed this morning,
I got on my knees and I said,
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"Lord, if it's Your will
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and You want me
to have this car,"
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in fact, I really
like the color red,
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"So if you want me to
have this nice red car,
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I'm going to drive down this...
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Our city this morning.
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And if I see a red
car on the car lot,
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then it's Your will I
should have that car."
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I've had people tell me that.
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Now do you think just
because they see that car,
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it's God's will?
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No.
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That's why we
always have to test,
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we always have to test
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by the Word of
God those impressions
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because Satan can tempt.
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Did he not tempt Jesus?
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Absolutely, if he tempted
Him, he certainly can tempt us.
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And we must learn to say,
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get thee, what,
behind me, Satan.
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And so we need to
know that's still smaller.
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We need to know
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when it's the
Lord speaking to us.
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You know, I know
that many of us have said,
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I've said it, if
only God would speak to me
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in clear black
and white language,
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I would do whatever He wanted.
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I've said that so many times.
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"Lord, just tell me what
you want and I'll do it."
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And yet, I
believe that God truly is
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trying to tell us what He wants.
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But sometimes we
don't hear. And why is that?
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I like you to turn
into Kings, 1 Kings 19.
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I like to share a
little bit, an example of that.
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1 Kings 19:11, 12,
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1 Kings 19 in the Old Testament,
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there's a 1
Kings, there's 2 Kings.
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And this is a
story about Elijah.
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So it's 1 Kings,
what did I say, Chapter...
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Good, you're
listening chapter 19:11, 12.
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Are you there yet? Good.
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Okay, verse 11.
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It says, "Then He said, 'Go out,
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and stand on the
mountain before the Lord.'"
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Now who's the
one, who is the He?
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"Then He said," who is
the He? That was the Lord.
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So you could say,
"Then the Lord said,
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'Go out and
stand on the mountain
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before the Lord.'
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And behold, the Lord passed by,
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and a great and strong
wind tore into the mountains,"
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It just didn't
blow by the mountain,
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it says this wind
tore by the mountain.
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Pretty good graphic words.
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It says, "Into the mountains
and broke the rocks in pieces,"
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now I don't know about you,
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but I lived out in
Montana for seven years,
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and right out of our window,
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you could see
the Rocky Mountains,
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10,000 foot peaks.
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And, you know,
you see the tree line
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at about 8,000,
and then you get about
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2,000 feet of
nothing but solid rock.
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Now I don't know,
I've been out there,
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I've climbed
some of those peaks,
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and it would take
an awfully strong wind
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to knock some of
those mountain peaks off
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and tear the rocks into.
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Wouldn't it?
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So now here's
Elijah, picture it now,
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Elijah goes out
and stands, it says...
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It says, "And these
rocks were broke off in pieces
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before the Lord,
but the Lord was,"
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what, you've got that?
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What does it say? But
the Lord wasn't there.
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Well, I think that
was kind of the Lord.
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It says, "Before the Lord,
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but the Lord
was not in the wind.
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And after the
wind an earthquake,
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but the Lord was
not in the earthquake.
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And after the earthquake a fire,
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but the Lord
was not in the fire,
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and after the fire," a what?
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"A still small
voice." "A still small voice."
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You know, I've often
said, "Lord, just shout to me.
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I want to hear You."
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But the Lord
speaks to our conscience
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in a still small voice.
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And this translation,
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if you look it up in the Hebrew,
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I don't know Hebrew by
the way, but I can look it up
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and it tells me
the exact translation.
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It's a delicate
whispering voice.
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Delicate.
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"Dwight, you should do this."
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And if we're not
quite, we can't hear.
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This was my
problem, you know why,
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because Dwight
Hall is a big dreamer,
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and that's a good
thing, that's a good talent,
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but it's also a weakness if
I don't give it to the Lord.
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And so I can get myself so
busy even doing good things
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that I fail to listen
to that still small voice.
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Even at Remnant
Publications with all the good
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that's going on, there are times
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when I've gotten so
busy doing God's work,
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I'm not listening and
I get myself in trouble.
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We all can't, it doesn't
matter if you have a ministry,
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it doesn't
matter about anything,
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we need to learn to listen
to that still small voice.
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I like to share an example.
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I call it my birthright.
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I know some of you
have heard it before
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but it's the best I
ever can come up with.
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I dedicated my heart
to Lord back in 1984.
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And I mentioned last
night that I took this Bible,
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it's the same Bible I bought it.
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It's been rebound,
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it's all marked up. I bought it.
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I said, "Lord, I'm
going to study this book,
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even if it's the most
boringest book I've ever read."
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Now there are some good stories,
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Moses, David and Goliath,
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some of the
stories here in Jesus,
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you know, the water into
wine, all these miracles,
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there are some neat things,
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but a lot of I
just couldn't get.
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But I said, "Lord, I will taste
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'cause you said,
'Taste and see that I'm good.'
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I will read this. I
will make it my study.
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I will understand...
I will memorize it."
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And so I did.
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And I started
tithing my time now.
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You know what the
word "Tithe" means?
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It means 10%.
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We always use it for
money because we want to give
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10% of our income to
God, but it just means 10%.
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So I thought when I
wake up in the morning,
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I'm going to give the
first part of my day to God.
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So how many hours is that?
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That's 2.5
close, 2.4, 2.5 hours.
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And I would get
up in the morning,
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I would get on my
knees, and I would pray,
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and I would ask God to
help me to understand this,
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and I would get in this Bible,
and I would start reading,
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and I would start studying.
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And I did it,
and I was so on fire
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for the Lord that I was
learning a lot of things.
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But as I was learning,
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because I'm an
aggressive person,
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I'm Type A, people know me,
so I would go into our church
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and I would go in
and I would try to...
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I would come right
up to them and say,
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"Hey, do you know, we
ought to be doing this?
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And, you know...
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Did you know we
should be doing this?"
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And pretty soon
when I would come in,
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if the people didn't
think that I saw them,
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they would turn
their backs and walk away.
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And I saw that
sometimes and it hurt me
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'cause I was
honest, but you see,
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I was trying to tell them things
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that may be I
wasn't living myself.
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Well, this one
particular morning,
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this was after
probably a year or so,
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I got up very
early, and I was starting,
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and I was asked to do our
prayer meeting that night,
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it was a Wednesday evening.
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And so I got up and I said,
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"Lord, what can I talk to the
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dear saints about
a church tonight?"
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And so as I was
praying, and as I was studying,
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I thought I'm going
to talk about probation
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that Jesus is coming soon.
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Probation will close,
like it says in the Bible,
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"And the righteous
will be righteous still,
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and wicked will
be wicked still,"
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and we have got
to make a decision
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either for God or for not.
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I don't care if
you go to church.
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Are you going to
make a decision for God?
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So as I got up that morning,
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I was late for
our family worship,
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we always had morning worship,
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we ate breakfast together.
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And so I got up a little
late and so I really rushed
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to worship with the family,
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and then Deb had
made a nice breakfast.
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And I said, "Honey, I'm
not going to able to eat."
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I got to get to work.
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And I said,
"But, you know what,"
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I said, "I'll be
home for dinner."
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And you know what she did to me,
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this is a terrible thing
for a woman to do this to guys,
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at least to me, she
did this, she went...
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She rolled her eyes
at me. I don't like that.
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And so I said, "You
just don't understand."
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And she said, "Apparently, not."
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I said, "You got
this nice beautiful house,
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you got three
beautiful children,
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you know, I'm working
all the time for you."
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And I said, "You'll see,
I'll be home for dinner."
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You know what she did,
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I would think that
she'd had sense enough
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not to do this
again, but she went...
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And I like proving people wrong,
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so I make sure that I am
going to be home for dinner.
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And so it came
to about 12 o'clock.
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And just at the time I was going
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to get out of my office
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and head for home,
the secretary bust me.
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She said,
"Dwight, you've got a guest
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that just came in that
I think you need to see."
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And I said,
"Listen," I said, "not now."
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I said, "stall
him, I got to go home."
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And she got off the line
and came back and she said,
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"But this person isn't
going to take very long,
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and so I really think you
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probably ought to see
him, they are passing through."
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And so I thought, "Oh, boy,
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why does these
things happen to me?"
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So I get on the phone and go...
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You know, how the
phone goes in ring.
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And my wife said,
"Hello. Hi, honey."
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You know what her first
words out of her mouth was,
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"You're not going to be
home for dinner, are you?"
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How do they know these things?
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I said, "Well," I
said, "You don't understand."
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She said,
"You're right, I don't."
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And I said, "But listen,
I'll be home for supper."
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And I said, you know,
I'm going to be speaking
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so I said, "Make sure that
my clothes are around my suit,
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my Bible, and everything."
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And I said, "I'll come
home, we'll go together."
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So we hung up the phone,
and I was busy at work again,
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and just about the
time I should be going home,
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I had another interruption.
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I had to call her again.
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"Hello. Hi, honey.
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I know, you want
me to get your clothes
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and you want me to
bring them into the office.
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Thank you, sweet
heart, you've got to be nice."
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So she came in with the kids
and they sat down in the chair,
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I'll never
forget, I was at my desk,
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and I was doing some busy work
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'cause I had to get it
done, just one last thing.
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And I said, "Honey,
how was your day today?"
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And she started telling
me but I wasn't listening
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'cause I was too busy,
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'cause I was doing
something much more important.
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And my wife could see
that, so she trailed off.
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And about that time,
one of the children said,
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"Dad, guess what I did today?"
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"Not right now.
I don't have time."
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And so they were quiet.
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I kept working
making one last phone call,
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my wife was looking at
the clock and she said,
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"Dwight, you know what's time,
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it's 20 after 7,
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and prayer
meeting is in 10 minutes."
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"Don't you know that
I know how to tell time?
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I know what time it is.
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It's right up there on
the wall, it's 20 after 7."
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And so she didn't say anything.
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And about two
minutes later, I said,
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"Deb, get the
kids out in the vehicle
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'cause I don't
want to have to wait."
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And so she got up
and she start going out.
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And so I took my
clothes off in the office,
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I was putting my
shoes and my pants,
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and put my tie on.
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And you know what, I
started reach for the belt,
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I couldn't find my
belt. She forgot my belt.
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How could my
wife forget my belt?
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There's only like seven
things, like my shoes, my socks,
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my pants, my shirt, my
tie, my jacket, and my belt.
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Seven things, I mean,
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what did she have
to do all day, anyway?
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She only has three
kids, I mean, come on.
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Now as bad as this seems,
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I've had a lot of
people come up to me
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afterwards and
say, you know, "Dwight,
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you and I have a lot in common."
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And so I ran out,
jumped in the vehicle,
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started it up and I said,
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"Deb, how could
you forget my belt?
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I can't believe.
What did you do all day?"
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By that time, I
ripped out of the drive
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and I'm going a little
fast, it's only about a mile
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and a half or so to
the church from our office.
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And she said,
"Dwight, don't you think
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you're going
just a little fast?"
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"Don't you think
I know how to drive?
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I see the
speedometer right in front.
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You want to drive?"
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By then, one of my kids
said, "Dad, guess what I did?"
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"Sit back and be quite.
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I'm trying to think
what I'm going to say
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to our saints at
the church tonight."
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And so I went
there, and we parked,
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I jumped out of the
vehicle, left my kids behind
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and my wife behind, and
I'm walking in the church,
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and I'm shaking, "Oh, we're good
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for being here,
thank you so much.
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We're gonna have a great time.
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And I talked
about probation closing,
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I shared my heart.
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And when we got done,
as we were going home,
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my wife was sitting
there quietly with my kids.
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And I all of a sudden said,
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"Honey, if these
people don't change,
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they're not
going to ever make it."
00:24:29.13\00:24:32.37
And the Holy Spirit
spoke to me and I heard Him.
00:24:32.40\00:24:35.10
The Spirit said,
"Dwight, if you don't change,
00:24:35.14\00:24:37.31
then you will be lost."
00:24:37.34\00:24:40.18
You see, friends,
we've got to learn to listen.
00:24:40.21\00:24:45.11
And if we're so busy
that we don't hear God,
00:24:45.15\00:24:48.85
I don't care
what religion we are
00:24:48.88\00:24:50.89
because religion and a church
00:24:50.92\00:24:53.36
will never ever save us, ever.
00:24:53.39\00:24:58.26
It's our
relationship with Christ
00:24:58.29\00:25:00.46
and it's just not a
relationship that says,
00:25:00.50\00:25:02.13
"I know Jesus, I love Jesus."
00:25:02.16\00:25:04.93
Because in Matthew
7:21 it says, Lord, Lord,
00:25:04.97\00:25:06.84
look at all these
things I've done in your name.
00:25:06.87\00:25:09.27
And Lord said, "What?
00:25:09.30\00:25:10.64
Depart from me
because I never knew you."
00:25:10.67\00:25:16.64
Do you hear that
still small voice tonight
00:25:16.68\00:25:20.22
speaking to you?
00:25:20.25\00:25:24.02
I know that night I went
home, and I got on my knees,
00:25:24.05\00:25:26.55
and I said, "Lord,
save me or I'll perish."
00:25:26.59\00:25:30.03
I mean, I'm studying
your Word 2.5 hours every...
00:25:30.06\00:25:33.26
I'm memorizing Bible
text, we sing scripture songs,
00:25:33.29\00:25:37.63
you know, we've been
teaching our children,
00:25:37.67\00:25:39.00
I mean, "Lord, why in the
world don't I have more power
00:25:39.03\00:25:43.17
because I'm learning this Word."
00:25:43.20\00:25:47.64
And the Lord said,
00:25:47.68\00:25:49.11
"Be still and
know that I am God."
00:25:49.14\00:25:53.65
Are we too busy?
00:25:53.68\00:25:55.72
I know I get way
too busy at times.
00:25:55.75\00:25:58.92
Do you hear that
00:25:58.95\00:26:00.29
still small voice
speaking to your heart?
00:26:00.32\00:26:03.83
And you know what
the sad part about it is,
00:26:03.86\00:26:06.96
there are many so
called "Christians."
00:26:07.00\00:26:10.67
They go to church they
are still living carnally,
00:26:10.70\00:26:15.67
is that true or false?
00:26:15.70\00:26:17.64
Okay, right.
00:26:17.67\00:26:19.84
There's probably
people here right now.
00:26:19.87\00:26:21.68
I don't know they
are living carnally.
00:26:21.71\00:26:24.21
You know what it
says in Galatians 5,
00:26:24.25\00:26:25.68
let's look it up real quick.
00:26:25.71\00:26:27.05
The fruits of the
Spirit, Galatians 5,
00:26:27.08\00:26:32.25
and the Lord brought me to
this because you see, I had a...
00:26:32.29\00:26:36.89
We have a scripture song,
I certainly won't sing it,
00:26:36.93\00:26:39.29
you wouldn't want me to.
00:26:39.33\00:26:42.43
But the fruits of the
spirit, and we sang that
00:26:42.46\00:26:45.23
as a scripture
song to our children.
00:26:45.27\00:26:50.54
But, you know, I fail sometimes
to read the other part of it.
00:26:50.57\00:26:54.28
Galatians 5:19
00:26:54.31\00:26:59.71
and I'll read through 26, okay?
00:26:59.75\00:27:02.38
Are you there? Okay, amen.
00:27:02.42\00:27:04.72
It says, "Now the works
of the flesh are evident,
00:27:04.75\00:27:07.69
which are,
adultery, fornication,
00:27:07.72\00:27:09.86
uncleanness, licentiousness,
idolatry, sorcery, hatred,
00:27:09.89\00:27:13.50
contentions,
jealousies, outbursts of wrath,
00:27:13.53\00:27:16.40
selfish ambitions,
dissensions, and heresies."
00:27:16.43\00:27:21.84
Boy, I don't know, I don't know
if I could name anything else.
00:27:21.87\00:27:26.04
I don't know about you,
but I've had some problems
00:27:26.07\00:27:28.21
with some of these.
00:27:28.24\00:27:29.58
Have you?
00:27:29.61\00:27:31.15
And that's when
we're carnally minded.
00:27:31.18\00:27:32.81
But listen to this, it says...
00:27:32.85\00:27:34.72
And it goes on, it
says, "Envy, murders,
00:27:34.75\00:27:36.45
drunkenness,
revelries, and the like,
00:27:36.48\00:27:38.45
of which I tell you beforehand,
00:27:38.49\00:27:39.99
just as I also
told you in time past,
00:27:40.02\00:27:42.26
that those who practice
such things will," what?
00:27:42.29\00:27:46.23
"Not inherit
the kingdom of God."
00:27:46.26\00:27:49.30
I didn't say it, the Bible did.
00:27:49.33\00:27:50.80
And when I read
that, I thought wow!
00:27:50.83\00:27:53.07
Even though I
know all scriptures...
00:27:53.10\00:27:54.74
What does it say
in 1 Corinthians 13,
00:27:54.77\00:27:56.64
that's the love chapter,
even though I know all things,
00:27:56.67\00:27:58.51
you can prophesy, and
have all these things,
00:27:58.54\00:28:00.64
if I have not," what? "Love."
00:28:00.68\00:28:04.71
It availeth nothing.
00:28:04.75\00:28:06.18
And some times,
take 1 Corinthians 13
00:28:06.21\00:28:08.75
and instead of the love there,
00:28:08.78\00:28:10.12
put Christ 'cause
God is what? Love.
00:28:10.15\00:28:13.96
So if I have not Christ
00:28:13.99\00:28:15.49
because we're supposed
to represent Jesus Christ.
00:28:15.52\00:28:20.10
But this is what every one of us
00:28:20.13\00:28:21.46
as Christians
should desire, pray for,
00:28:21.50\00:28:23.97
and strive for right here.
00:28:24.00\00:28:26.20
"But the fruit
of the Spirit is,"
00:28:26.23\00:28:27.67
what? "Love, joy, peace,
00:28:27.70\00:28:30.97
long suffering, kindness,
goodness, faithfulness,
00:28:31.01\00:28:34.71
gentleness,
self-control against," what?
00:28:34.74\00:28:37.98
"Such there is no law."
00:28:38.01\00:28:40.65
Isn't that what
you want tonight?
00:28:40.68\00:28:42.02
I do. I do.
00:28:42.05\00:28:44.29
I long for that
every day of my life.
00:28:44.32\00:28:46.05
And you know why?
Because your religion
00:28:46.09\00:28:49.66
is not what church you go to,
00:28:49.69\00:28:52.69
your religion is
your everyday life.
00:28:52.73\00:28:55.26
That's the
religion that most people
00:28:55.30\00:28:57.63
when you meet them
in the grocery store,
00:28:57.67\00:28:59.90
when you meet them
at a lumber company,
00:28:59.93\00:29:01.54
when you meet them
00:29:01.57\00:29:02.90
at a car
dealership, wherever you go.
00:29:02.94\00:29:04.61
The religion that many people
will only see is a religion
00:29:04.64\00:29:07.81
that you have within your heart.
00:29:07.84\00:29:10.88
How many times,
say someone pulled out
00:29:10.91\00:29:12.35
in front of you and
you want to give them
00:29:12.38\00:29:14.25
some obscene gesture
00:29:14.28\00:29:15.62
and scream at the
top of your lungs,
00:29:15.65\00:29:17.22
which they can't
hear you anyways.
00:29:17.25\00:29:20.39
And probably
they didn't even know
00:29:20.42\00:29:21.76
they pulled out in front of you.
00:29:21.79\00:29:24.36
Is that the fruits of the Spirit
00:29:24.39\00:29:27.20
or the fruits of the devil
when you yell and get upset?
00:29:27.23\00:29:32.90
I've done it many a times.
00:29:32.93\00:29:35.04
God wants us to hear
that still small voice.
00:29:35.07\00:29:40.38
As I started listening
to that still small voice,
00:29:44.98\00:29:51.29
I had trials, I struggled.
00:29:51.32\00:29:56.56
I'll never forget
one time that we were...
00:29:56.59\00:30:01.16
I call it my
Ryder truck experience.
00:30:01.20\00:30:04.40
I was up in
Montana and I know that
00:30:04.43\00:30:07.00
my family, Uncle
Rene, Aunt Barbara,
00:30:07.04\00:30:08.64
and my father and my
mother, and my brothers,
00:30:08.67\00:30:12.61
some that have been up
there, 50 miles of gravel road,
00:30:12.64\00:30:16.04
bumpy and dusty in the summer.
00:30:16.08\00:30:17.98
And I had this big
truck, and it was a Ryder truck,
00:30:18.01\00:30:21.48
it was a big 24
foot in case Ryder truck
00:30:21.52\00:30:25.15
that we had loaded our stuff up
00:30:25.19\00:30:26.52
when we went from
Michigan to Montana to live.
00:30:26.55\00:30:28.96
And when I got
there, took the box off,
00:30:28.99\00:30:30.79
and made a flat bed out of it
00:30:30.83\00:30:32.16
so I could haul
lumber and whatever else.
00:30:32.19\00:30:33.60
But it needs quite
a load for the springs
00:30:33.63\00:30:35.53
to ride halfway decent.
00:30:35.56\00:30:37.50
And so I went down
and picked up these doors,
00:30:37.53\00:30:39.97
they stained them
and varnished them,
00:30:40.00\00:30:41.34
they were nice six panel doors,
00:30:41.37\00:30:42.77
and I strapped
them onto that wagon,
00:30:42.80\00:30:45.27
at the back of the truck bed.
00:30:45.31\00:30:47.98
And as I was going, I prayed,
00:30:48.01\00:30:49.68
"Lord, please let
these doors ride well,
00:30:49.71\00:30:51.81
I've gotten
strapped down tight."
00:30:51.85\00:30:53.68
And so as I was
driving down that road,
00:30:53.72\00:30:56.58
the old truck
is bouncing around,
00:30:56.62\00:30:58.19
and I got my wife
sitting next to me
00:30:58.22\00:30:59.85
and my three children,
they were pretty small,
00:30:59.89\00:31:01.76
they're sitting over
here in this one seat.
00:31:01.79\00:31:03.63
There's a window that's in back,
00:31:03.66\00:31:05.09
it like an oval
window that you could see,
00:31:05.13\00:31:06.46
and I could see the
doors, if not I could see them
00:31:06.49\00:31:08.20
in the big rearview mirrors.
00:31:08.23\00:31:12.33
Well, it wasn't
long before those doors
00:31:12.37\00:31:14.34
were kind of bouncing around.
00:31:14.37\00:31:15.77
The straps loosened up.
00:31:15.80\00:31:17.24
My wife could see a
little bit of stress in me.
00:31:17.27\00:31:19.57
She knows how to figure me out.
00:31:19.61\00:31:22.08
We're married over 30
years now, praise God.
00:31:22.11\00:31:25.31
You know, people, when I get
through some of these messages,
00:31:25.35\00:31:27.15
you know what they say,
they say, "You know, Dwight,
00:31:27.18\00:31:29.95
I appreciate the
honesty of your messages
00:31:29.98\00:31:31.89
because you give me hope,
00:31:31.92\00:31:33.72
and that's why I
share my messages
00:31:33.76\00:31:36.32
'cause I don't want you
to think that I'm up here,
00:31:36.36\00:31:37.93
and I've got it made.
00:31:37.96\00:31:39.29
I only have it made
when I humble my heart
00:31:39.33\00:31:40.93
every single moment
of the hour of the day.
00:31:40.96\00:31:44.57
And when I share
some of these things,
00:31:44.60\00:31:46.40
the reason I'm
sharing because you can say,
00:31:46.43\00:31:48.34
"If Dwight did all
that, I certainly have hope."
00:31:48.37\00:31:51.87
So we'll have people come up
00:31:51.91\00:31:53.24
and, Deb and I would be together
00:31:53.27\00:31:54.61
and they'll say,
"You know, Dwight,
00:31:54.64\00:31:55.98
I appreciate your
honesty and bearing your soul.
00:31:56.01\00:31:59.11
And, Deb, I don't
know how you could live
00:31:59.15\00:32:01.35
with such a jerk
for all these years."
00:32:01.38\00:32:04.19
And I'm glad that she has.
00:32:04.22\00:32:06.12
And here's what
she says to them,
00:32:06.15\00:32:07.49
"I knew that he would
grew up and mature someday."
00:32:07.52\00:32:10.49
She had faith in
me, praise God, amen.
00:32:10.53\00:32:13.50
I'm thankful for
that. And so now, I...
00:32:13.53\00:32:17.13
She said, "Dwight,
it'll will be okay."
00:32:17.17\00:32:19.13
And the kids even were
saying, "Daddy, it'll be okay."
00:32:19.17\00:32:21.74
I said, "I know, it'll be okay."
00:32:21.77\00:32:23.51
And so I stopped the truck
out and I strapped those down
00:32:23.54\00:32:25.81
even harder and it's tight.
00:32:25.84\00:32:27.18
I said there's no way
they're going to loosen up.
00:32:27.21\00:32:28.94
Growing up in construction,
00:32:28.98\00:32:30.31
I know how to tie
knots, and pull straps,
00:32:30.35\00:32:31.85
and make things
so they don't move,
00:32:31.88\00:32:33.21
I mean, it's not like, you know,
00:32:33.25\00:32:34.68
I've never done this before.
00:32:34.72\00:32:36.18
And so I strapped it
down, I jumped in the truck
00:32:36.22\00:32:37.95
and stepped on the gas,
00:32:37.99\00:32:39.32
but I'm only going
maybe 30 miles an hour.
00:32:39.35\00:32:41.82
Now for me, that's pretty slow.
00:32:41.86\00:32:43.69
But the road is
bumpy and those doors are,
00:32:43.73\00:32:46.56
right away within a two miles
they started bouncing again,
00:32:46.59\00:32:49.70
and top one is
moving, and I'm thinking,
00:32:49.73\00:32:51.67
these are furnished, and I mean,
00:32:51.70\00:32:53.03
I've spent all this money,
00:32:53.07\00:32:54.40
and so I'm getting
little more stressed out,
00:32:54.44\00:32:55.77
and my wife is feeling
it, you know, and she says,
00:32:55.80\00:32:58.17
"It'll be okay."
00:32:58.21\00:32:59.54
I said, "I don't
want to be okay."
00:32:59.57\00:33:02.08
And the kids say,
"It'll be okay, Dad."
00:33:02.11\00:33:04.18
So I stopped
and I went back out,
00:33:04.21\00:33:05.55
and I said, "Lord, you know,
you need to give me patience.
00:33:05.58\00:33:07.62
Now I need patience."
00:33:07.65\00:33:09.95
And so I strapped
those doors down again,
00:33:09.98\00:33:11.79
and I jumped in the
truck, and I took off again,
00:33:11.82\00:33:13.72
and it wasn't three
miles and those doors
00:33:13.76\00:33:15.92
are bouncing around again.
00:33:15.96\00:33:17.29
And at that time I lost it.
00:33:17.33\00:33:20.50
Now the spirit is
whatever whispering in my ear,
00:33:20.53\00:33:23.13
Isaiah 30 says that
the word would speak,
00:33:23.16\00:33:26.27
what, does anyone know that?
00:33:26.30\00:33:29.27
Let's look that up right now.
I want to just take a pause.
00:33:29.30\00:33:31.37
Look that up,
Isaiah 30, chapter 30.
00:33:31.41\00:33:34.11
You have to know
that God speaks to us,
00:33:34.14\00:33:37.95
we got to learn to listen.
00:33:37.98\00:33:39.31
Isaiah 30, I
think it's verse 21.
00:33:39.35\00:33:45.65
Isaiah 30, about
the middle of the Bible.
00:33:45.69\00:33:48.46
Isaiah 30:21, it says,
00:33:48.49\00:33:53.46
"Your ears shall hear a
word behind you, saying,
00:33:53.50\00:33:56.13
'This is the
way,'" what? "Walk in it."
00:33:56.16\00:34:00.24
And the Lord was
speaking to my heart,
00:34:00.27\00:34:01.70
"Dwight, please
give your heart to me."
00:34:01.74\00:34:05.94
But you see, I was so
concerned about the doors
00:34:05.97\00:34:10.81
that I was not listening to God.
00:34:10.85\00:34:14.52
So, you know, instead
of stopping the truck,
00:34:14.55\00:34:18.09
taking a breath,
praying to the Lord,
00:34:18.12\00:34:19.95
if I had to just
stopped and said,
00:34:19.99\00:34:21.32
"Kids, just ask the...
00:34:21.36\00:34:23.09
Kids, would you
pray for your Dad?
00:34:23.12\00:34:24.46
He's struggling right now."
No, I'm dad, I can handle it.
00:34:24.49\00:34:29.30
So, you know what I
did instead of stopping,
00:34:29.33\00:34:30.67
I just stepped on the gas.
00:34:30.70\00:34:33.54
I don't care as the
logs are flopping around,
00:34:33.57\00:34:34.90
and I ruined them anyways,
00:34:34.94\00:34:36.64
maybe if I go faster
it won't be so bumpy.
00:34:36.67\00:34:38.81
Those doors were just
flopping all over the place.
00:34:38.84\00:34:42.34
Finally, I just
jammed on the brakes,
00:34:42.38\00:34:45.28
I jumped out,
00:34:45.31\00:34:47.25
I jumped in the
back of that truck,
00:34:47.28\00:34:50.02
I grabbed the very first
door, and I picked it up,
00:34:50.05\00:34:51.65
and I just threw it.
00:34:51.69\00:34:53.02
I was so upset.
00:34:53.05\00:34:55.06
And I went down
for that second door,
00:34:55.09\00:34:56.49
just like this, and
you know what I saw,
00:34:56.52\00:35:00.26
have you ever
been to zoo before?
00:35:00.30\00:35:02.50
I mean, my kids and
my wife that oval window,
00:35:02.53\00:35:05.87
they had their nose
plastered up against the window,
00:35:05.90\00:35:10.24
and they were just...
00:35:10.27\00:35:11.61
My kids, they were wide
eyed, and I felt like, you know,
00:35:11.64\00:35:15.34
you ever watch the gorilla
and they throw things around.
00:35:15.38\00:35:17.15
I felt like I was in
the cage, I was the gorilla
00:35:17.18\00:35:20.28
and they were
outside watching their dad,
00:35:20.32\00:35:22.22
their gorilla dad.
00:35:22.25\00:35:24.82
Pastor Corey mentioned today
00:35:24.85\00:35:26.19
about the beast in us.
00:35:26.22\00:35:27.56
Well, believe me, I
had the beast in me.
00:35:27.59\00:35:30.83
And as I was down there
with those, that next door,
00:35:30.86\00:35:34.13
my wife with her nose plastered
against that, she just went...
00:35:34.16\00:35:39.40
Like, I can't believe this.
00:35:39.43\00:35:41.67
And at that time,
that little pause,
00:35:41.70\00:35:46.17
God said, "Dwight,
won't you give this to me?
00:35:46.21\00:35:52.21
It's not about your doors.
00:35:52.25\00:35:54.82
This is your
situation, this is your...
00:35:54.85\00:35:57.55
Will you please give it to
me? That's what I'm here for.
00:35:57.59\00:36:00.19
There's power if
you'll surrender.
00:36:00.22\00:36:06.70
Dwight, just...
00:36:06.73\00:36:08.06
Just look out,
it's a beautiful day,
00:36:08.10\00:36:09.46
look at the snow
capped mountains."
00:36:09.50\00:36:11.17
And believe me,
we've had people come up
00:36:11.20\00:36:12.60
to our place up
there and people said,
00:36:12.63\00:36:14.54
"I've only seen
this on a postcard."
00:36:14.57\00:36:18.67
But I didn't care about a tent,
00:36:18.71\00:36:20.61
I didn't even
care about my doors,
00:36:20.64\00:36:22.14
I only cared
about me, myself, and I.
00:36:22.18\00:36:25.95
Lord said, "Please,
00:36:25.98\00:36:28.55
don't you want to walk with me?"
00:36:28.58\00:36:31.49
I paused.
00:36:31.52\00:36:33.89
I looked out there
00:36:33.92\00:36:35.26
and saw those
beautiful mountains.
00:36:35.29\00:36:36.69
I said, "Lord, please I
need your strength right now."
00:36:36.73\00:36:40.33
Thankful to say
that I stood there,
00:36:46.74\00:36:49.30
the Lord just
impressed me to stay there
00:36:49.34\00:36:51.77
till I calmed myself.
00:36:51.81\00:36:55.71
As I'm standing there...
"Have you ever got upset?"
00:36:55.74\00:36:58.08
And when it's all
over, you feel like
00:36:58.11\00:36:59.45
you're the
stupidest fool in the world.
00:36:59.48\00:37:01.82
Has that ever happened to you?
00:37:01.85\00:37:04.62
I mean, my kids
are still staring,
00:37:04.65\00:37:06.55
I'm thinking "Ah, what
kind of a father am I?"
00:37:06.59\00:37:11.43
I'm so glad I
got loving children
00:37:11.46\00:37:13.03
that forgive their
dad, and a loving wife.
00:37:13.06\00:37:15.20
Amen.
00:37:15.23\00:37:17.43
I got out, picked that
other door up, put it back up,
00:37:17.47\00:37:22.84
I prayed, "Lord,
please I don't care
00:37:22.87\00:37:25.34
about the doors anymore, I
just want to walk with you."
00:37:25.37\00:37:28.94
Strapped them down,
00:37:28.98\00:37:30.35
doors never moved
the rest of the way home.
00:37:30.38\00:37:33.75
See when we ask for patience,
00:37:33.78\00:37:37.05
don't expect
nothing to come our way.
00:37:37.09\00:37:41.12
When you ask the Lord to
help you in your finances,
00:37:41.16\00:37:43.36
don't think that the
Lord is going to give you
00:37:43.39\00:37:45.46
a bunch of money, He's not.
00:37:45.49\00:37:50.40
The Lord is
trying to get you and I
00:37:50.43\00:37:53.03
into the heavenly
kingdom, it's a choice.
00:37:53.07\00:37:56.44
And that really,
really, only reason we're here
00:37:56.47\00:37:58.47
is because we are developing
a character like Jesus.
00:37:58.51\00:38:03.21
Amen.
00:38:03.24\00:38:04.58
And once we're
starting with that on that road,
00:38:04.61\00:38:07.55
then we can
share that with others.
00:38:07.58\00:38:10.99
And so when you learn that,
it's not that big of a deal,
00:38:11.02\00:38:13.76
but believe me, it's
tough, it's a struggle,
00:38:13.79\00:38:15.59
it's been a struggle for me.
00:38:15.62\00:38:17.19
I tell people I got my
temper honestly from my father,
00:38:17.23\00:38:20.30
"Hi, Dad."
00:38:20.33\00:38:22.76
I tell people, it
takes 30 some years
00:38:22.80\00:38:25.30
to get a
professional temper like that.
00:38:25.33\00:38:27.94
I worked on it all
years, all 34 years.
00:38:27.97\00:38:33.07
But the Bible says,
00:38:33.11\00:38:35.41
"Can a leopard
change its spots?"
00:38:35.44\00:38:36.95
But through Jesus Christ
how many things are possible?
00:38:36.98\00:38:39.71
All things are possible.
00:38:39.75\00:38:42.25
And by God's grace, that
old man that's inside me,
00:38:42.28\00:38:47.02
I have been learning day-by-day,
00:38:47.06\00:38:49.39
month-by-month,
00:38:49.42\00:38:50.76
and year-by-year
to keep it put down
00:38:50.79\00:38:53.19
because Christ is reigning
in my heart and in my soul.
00:38:53.23\00:38:57.87
Amen. Isn't that what you want?
00:38:57.90\00:39:03.20
Sometimes we have to
take a step backwards
00:39:03.24\00:39:06.31
to take two feet forward.
00:39:06.34\00:39:09.64
Sometimes we
have to realize that
00:39:09.68\00:39:11.35
just because
we're doing good things
00:39:11.38\00:39:13.18
doesn't always necessarily
mean that we're doing the best
00:39:13.21\00:39:16.38
because you see the
enemy of best is good.
00:39:16.42\00:39:20.16
When I hear people
say, "That's good enough"
00:39:20.19\00:39:21.69
that bothers me
00:39:21.72\00:39:24.59
because the
enemy of best is good.
00:39:24.63\00:39:26.83
We need to do what,
the best for our Master.
00:39:26.86\00:39:30.67
And so I like you
to turn into scriptures
00:39:30.70\00:39:32.83
and I'll share an example.
00:39:32.87\00:39:34.60
If you turn to 1
Samuel 18... What did I say?
00:39:34.64\00:39:40.71
1 Samuel 18.
00:39:40.74\00:39:42.08
Okay, good.
00:39:42.11\00:39:43.45
1 Samuel 'cause there's
two Samuels in the Bible,
00:39:43.48\00:39:44.91
1 and 2. So it's 1 Samuel 18.
00:39:44.95\00:39:49.22
I think it's kind of neat.
00:39:49.25\00:39:50.59
That's why as you
start reading the scriptures
00:39:50.62\00:39:52.15
and apply it to your life,
these scriptures will jump out.
00:39:52.19\00:39:54.79
They're not that difficult
with a Holy Spirit to teach you
00:39:54.82\00:39:57.69
how to understand these things
00:39:57.73\00:39:59.06
and put them very
practical in your everyday life.
00:39:59.09\00:40:01.66
Okay, so 1 Samuel chapter, what?
00:40:01.70\00:40:05.53
18. You're listening.
00:40:05.57\00:40:07.00
Praise God.
00:40:07.04\00:40:08.44
Samuel 18:6-9.
00:40:08.47\00:40:14.51
Are you there? Yes.
00:40:18.51\00:40:20.32
Okay.
00:40:20.35\00:40:21.68
It says, "Now it happened
as they were coming home,
00:40:21.72\00:40:24.05
when David was returning
00:40:24.09\00:40:25.42
from the
slaughter of the Philistine,
00:40:25.45\00:40:27.66
that the women had come out
00:40:27.69\00:40:29.42
of all the cities of
Israel, singing and dancing,
00:40:29.46\00:40:32.29
to meet King Saul,
with tambourines, with joy,
00:40:32.33\00:40:35.33
and with musical instruments."
00:40:35.36\00:40:37.20
Now picture that.
00:40:37.23\00:40:38.80
All the cities along the way
00:40:38.83\00:40:40.17
as he was coming
back from battle,
00:40:40.20\00:40:41.67
here's King Saul with his army,
and these women are coming out
00:40:41.70\00:40:46.21
because it's the women,
'cause the men are fighting.
00:40:46.24\00:40:48.31
And the women are coming
out with their tambourines,
00:40:48.34\00:40:50.01
they're dancing in the Lord,
and here's what's going on,
00:40:50.05\00:40:52.75
picture this, it says,
00:40:52.78\00:40:54.42
"So the women
sang as they danced,
00:40:54.45\00:40:56.08
and said, 'Saul has slain his,'"
00:40:56.12\00:40:58.85
What?
00:40:58.89\00:41:00.36
"Thousands, but
David has slain,"
00:41:00.39\00:41:02.69
What? "Tens of thousands."
00:41:02.72\00:41:05.06
And here's what it says,
"Then Saul was very angry,
00:41:05.09\00:41:08.30
and the saying
displeased him, and he said,
00:41:08.33\00:41:12.00
'They have ascribed
to David ten thousands,
00:41:12.03\00:41:13.94
and to me they have
ascribed only thousands.
00:41:13.97\00:41:18.34
Now what more can he
have but the kingdom?'
00:41:18.37\00:41:22.54
So Saul eyed David
from that day forward."
00:41:22.58\00:41:25.98
Do you know what
gave David the strength
00:41:26.01\00:41:29.08
and the power to
slay as tens of thousands?
00:41:29.12\00:41:31.69
Do you know what he
was doing before that?
00:41:31.72\00:41:34.86
What was David? What was his...
00:41:34.89\00:41:37.46
He was a shepherd.
00:41:37.49\00:41:40.06
And I keep going
to the story about,
00:41:40.10\00:41:43.00
when he slayed
Goliath and he went there
00:41:43.03\00:41:44.53
and his brothers said,
"What are you doing here?
00:41:44.57\00:41:48.67
Why aren't you
back with the sheep
00:41:48.70\00:41:50.07
where you belong?"
00:41:50.11\00:41:51.44
And he'd been out there.
00:41:51.47\00:41:52.81
You know what,
he'd sling that sling,
00:41:52.84\00:41:54.48
and he'd swing it around,
and he'd aim it to trees,
00:41:54.51\00:41:57.38
he probably put a
bullseye on there,
00:41:57.41\00:41:59.05
he probably
would do all kinds of,
00:41:59.08\00:42:00.92
he got so good with that sling.
00:42:00.95\00:42:03.49
And he would go out
there he would sing songs
00:42:03.52\00:42:06.86
because you see that
wilderness experience for him
00:42:06.89\00:42:10.23
was training him
to be the next king.
00:42:10.26\00:42:11.86
Now King Saul,
on the other hand,
00:42:11.89\00:42:14.03
had done many great things.
00:42:14.06\00:42:15.83
Hadn't Saul won
a lot of battles?
00:42:15.86\00:42:17.87
I mean this is a
battle they had won.
00:42:17.90\00:42:19.93
He won a lot of...
He was doing God's work.
00:42:19.97\00:42:21.74
He was fighting
for the Israelites,
00:42:21.77\00:42:23.10
Israelites was the church.
00:42:23.14\00:42:24.47
He was going out there
fighting those battles,
00:42:24.51\00:42:26.07
he was winning those battles,
00:42:26.11\00:42:27.51
but Saul was
losing touch with who?
00:42:27.54\00:42:30.58
God. Read it.
00:42:30.61\00:42:32.25
After a while, he actually goes
00:42:32.28\00:42:33.85
to the Witch of
Endor to spiritualism.
00:42:33.88\00:42:39.35
And here at one time,
he was a great king, why?
00:42:39.39\00:42:42.36
Because he forgot to take time
00:42:42.39\00:42:47.10
to commune with God.
00:42:47.13\00:42:51.10
Are you forgetting
to commune with God?
00:42:51.13\00:42:53.03
Would you make
that right decision?
00:42:53.07\00:42:56.94
I like to share with
you a last story that,
00:42:56.97\00:43:00.71
it's kind of graphic.
00:43:00.74\00:43:03.65
But when we
listen to that voice,
00:43:03.68\00:43:05.01
we need to obey.
00:43:05.05\00:43:06.38
And sometimes we ask for things
00:43:06.41\00:43:08.55
and God shares
these things with us.
00:43:08.58\00:43:10.95
He gives such an illustration
that I will never forget,
00:43:10.99\00:43:15.42
I've had many of them.
00:43:15.46\00:43:20.10
I don't know about
you but I believe that
00:43:20.13\00:43:21.46
every one of you
want to walk with God.
00:43:21.50\00:43:23.30
Amen. Amen.
00:43:23.33\00:43:25.80
I want to be in
the heavenly kingdom.
00:43:25.83\00:43:28.60
At the end of my days,
00:43:28.64\00:43:30.74
whether I live
to be of an old age
00:43:30.77\00:43:32.77
and I do not believe
that's going to happen,
00:43:32.81\00:43:35.31
maybe I'll get
in a car accident,
00:43:35.34\00:43:36.68
who knows maybe tonight.
00:43:36.71\00:43:38.05
I don't have a hold
on the future, do you?
00:43:38.08\00:43:41.95
But I know one thing,
I want to be submitted
00:43:41.98\00:43:44.82
and committed to Jesus Christ
every single moment of the day.
00:43:44.85\00:43:49.22
And so in my quiet time,
I was asking Him to bring up
00:43:52.46\00:43:56.80
anything in my heart
that He needs to bring up.
00:43:56.83\00:43:59.53
And one thing, as a man,
00:43:59.57\00:44:01.27
I've always
concerned myself with.
00:44:01.30\00:44:02.64
I think I'm just a normal
average guy that, you know...
00:44:02.67\00:44:06.74
God created us this
way but because of sin,
00:44:06.78\00:44:09.61
Satan has perverted it.
00:44:09.64\00:44:11.25
And, you know, man
was always supposed
00:44:11.28\00:44:12.88
to be the
aggressor not the woman.
00:44:12.91\00:44:15.02
And man was
supposed to look woman...
00:44:15.05\00:44:17.29
Women are beautiful.
00:44:17.32\00:44:18.72
And so God created it that way.
00:44:18.75\00:44:21.29
And so, you know, but
because of perversion and sin,
00:44:21.32\00:44:23.89
it's messed up, there's
rapes, there's all kinds of
00:44:23.93\00:44:26.73
perversions out
there, it's terrible.
00:44:26.76\00:44:28.96
I want to go home, don't you?
00:44:29.00\00:44:30.87
And so I said, Lord,
you know, what would happen
00:44:30.90\00:44:33.07
if someone is
trying to tempt me,
00:44:33.10\00:44:34.94
and maybe they
threw me in prison,
00:44:34.97\00:44:37.21
and all of a
sudden they brought in
00:44:37.24\00:44:39.21
three or four beautiful
women scantily dressed.
00:44:39.24\00:44:43.21
Would I be able to stand firm?
00:44:43.24\00:44:46.31
Would I be able to keep
my eyes focused on my Savior
00:44:46.35\00:44:49.72
no matter what?
00:44:49.75\00:44:53.42
Maybe, men, you've never
asked that question to women.
00:44:53.46\00:44:56.39
Maybe you've never
asked that question,
00:44:56.42\00:44:57.76
but I'm an honest person,
and I don't try to hide sin.
00:44:57.79\00:45:00.83
I want to say,
"Lord, I want you to show me
00:45:00.86\00:45:03.40
where I need to
grow in my life."
00:45:03.43\00:45:07.60
And so as I was
asking the Lord that,
00:45:07.64\00:45:11.11
the Lord just impressed me.
00:45:11.14\00:45:12.47
"If you will
keep your eyes on Me,
00:45:12.51\00:45:15.44
you won't have to
worry about that."
00:45:15.48\00:45:16.81
Well, it was
probably a few months later,
00:45:16.85\00:45:18.45
I was over in
Europe speaking over there
00:45:18.48\00:45:20.58
with a good
couple friends of mine,
00:45:20.62\00:45:22.48
and I was in that room,
00:45:22.52\00:45:23.85
and I got up very early in
the morning, and I walked out,
00:45:23.89\00:45:25.99
I didn't want to wake them
up, and it was it like a...
00:45:26.02\00:45:28.36
it was like a big mansion,
00:45:28.39\00:45:31.03
and they had rooms in
there where people were staying.
00:45:31.06\00:45:33.03
And so I walked out,
00:45:33.06\00:45:34.66
and there was some
night lights in the hallway,
00:45:34.70\00:45:36.80
and there was this couch.
00:45:36.83\00:45:38.87
And so I went there and
I knelt right by that couch
00:45:38.90\00:45:41.97
and I must have been
praying for about half an hour,
00:45:42.00\00:45:43.34
"Lord, please show
me my need of a Savior.
00:45:43.37\00:45:46.24
Please help me keep my
eyes focused on you today."
00:45:46.27\00:45:49.44
If there's anything in my
life, "Please teach me, Lord,
00:45:49.48\00:45:51.68
what I need to know
today right at this minute."
00:45:51.71\00:45:56.08
And so I got up, and of
course, I always ask the Lord
00:45:56.12\00:45:58.49
to give me a
heart of understanding
00:45:58.52\00:46:00.66
to send the Holy
Spirit upon my heart.
00:46:00.69\00:46:02.29
And so I got up, I
just opened my Bible,
00:46:02.32\00:46:06.63
and just kind of got
comfortable on that couch,
00:46:06.66\00:46:08.50
and all of a
sudden across the hall,
00:46:08.53\00:46:11.00
it was probably five
or six feet at least,
00:46:11.03\00:46:13.30
I heard a door latch.
00:46:13.34\00:46:17.81
And as it unlatched, obviously,
you know, what would you do?
00:46:17.84\00:46:21.48
If you've got your...
00:46:21.51\00:46:22.84
If you're reading,
what are you going to do
00:46:22.88\00:46:24.21
if there's a
door that unlatches,
00:46:24.25\00:46:25.58
and it's like 5
o'clock in the morning,
00:46:25.61\00:46:26.95
nobody's up, what would you do?
00:46:26.98\00:46:29.32
Would you look up
and wonder who that is.
00:46:29.35\00:46:31.52
And so I looked up
00:46:31.55\00:46:33.09
and this lady, I
don't know her name,
00:46:33.12\00:46:36.69
didn't see her after
that, probably 85, 90, very old.
00:46:36.73\00:46:41.03
And she walked out, and
she had no clothes on her.
00:46:41.06\00:46:45.30
Now I don't know about you,
but that ruins a quiet time.
00:46:45.33\00:46:50.14
And I'm not usually
a speechless person,
00:46:50.17\00:46:53.34
ask my folks, ask
my wife, or my kids,
00:46:53.38\00:46:56.04
but I just want to know,
00:46:56.08\00:46:59.25
if there was a picture
taken, I was probably like...
00:46:59.28\00:47:03.18
I mean, it shocked me.
00:47:03.22\00:47:05.52
And so I thought
this lady would see me
00:47:05.55\00:47:08.76
and she would turn
around but she was,
00:47:08.79\00:47:11.33
you know, I don't know
if she was in a right mind,
00:47:11.36\00:47:13.03
she could have
been sleepwalking,
00:47:13.06\00:47:15.33
I don't know, I didn't ask her.
00:47:15.36\00:47:17.90
But she just kind of shuffled
00:47:17.93\00:47:19.43
and she had a
worst shrug in her hand.
00:47:19.47\00:47:21.07
She was kind of shy and
she was walking right for me.
00:47:21.10\00:47:24.14
Now that bench was
at the back of the wall,
00:47:24.17\00:47:28.28
you know, I want to
hide, I want to go somewhere,
00:47:28.31\00:47:30.15
but I mean you're
only five or six feet
00:47:30.18\00:47:32.01
and she keeps coming right up,
00:47:32.05\00:47:33.38
until she's
standing right next to me,
00:47:33.42\00:47:35.32
never said a
word, and neither did I.
00:47:35.35\00:47:38.15
And I didn't know
what to do, you know.
00:47:38.19\00:47:40.92
And I was so shocked,
I never put my eyes back,
00:47:40.96\00:47:44.16
I'm just looking.
00:47:44.19\00:47:45.53
And I want you to know
something, I did not lost,
00:47:45.56\00:47:48.30
I'm almost 52 years old,
00:47:48.33\00:47:51.13
and I can tell you
that because of sin,
00:47:51.17\00:47:54.60
as we grow older,
our flesh grows older.
00:47:54.64\00:47:57.41
It gets more wrinkly, you know.
00:47:57.44\00:47:59.77
And I can tell you that
00:47:59.81\00:48:02.04
I was not lusting in
the least little bit.
00:48:02.08\00:48:05.85
I just didn't know what to do.
00:48:05.88\00:48:07.65
And she walked right up
to me, and she turned around,
00:48:07.68\00:48:12.62
and shuffled back into
her room and shut the door.
00:48:12.65\00:48:15.52
That was it.
00:48:20.66\00:48:22.00
I mean, I closed my Bible,
and I ran back to my room.
00:48:22.03\00:48:27.97
And I thought, "Man,
I hope I don't ever...
00:48:28.00\00:48:30.71
I hope she didn't recognize me,
00:48:30.74\00:48:32.54
I hope that I
don't see her again."
00:48:32.57\00:48:34.41
And I got on my knees
'cause it's still quite.
00:48:34.44\00:48:36.14
I said, "Lord, why?
00:48:36.18\00:48:39.71
I got up, I had a
nice beautiful prayer,
00:48:39.75\00:48:43.02
I want to have quiet
time, I want to learn...
00:48:43.05\00:48:44.95
Why did you do this?
00:48:44.99\00:48:46.32
You could have
kept her in that room,
00:48:46.35\00:48:48.39
You could have put
me on another bench,
00:48:48.42\00:48:50.13
You could have
kept me somewhere else.
00:48:50.16\00:48:51.79
Why at this exact
time did You do this to me?
00:48:51.83\00:48:55.86
And you know what, in
the quietness of my soul,
00:48:55.90\00:49:01.07
the Lord said,
"You see that flesh,
00:49:01.10\00:49:04.34
that's what all
sinful flesh will look like
00:49:04.37\00:49:06.34
if it grows old enough."
00:49:06.37\00:49:08.28
Dwight, you've been talking,
you've been praying to me about
00:49:08.31\00:49:11.01
would I sin,
would I commit adultery?
00:49:11.05\00:49:14.65
Dwight,
00:49:14.68\00:49:18.99
is it worth that?
00:49:19.02\00:49:22.22
Is it worth it?
00:49:25.36\00:49:26.96
Will you sell your
soul for a bowl of stew?
00:49:27.00\00:49:33.50
You remember in Old Testament,
00:49:33.54\00:49:36.57
where Esau was very hungry,
there was Jacob and Esau,
00:49:36.60\00:49:39.61
do you remember the story?
00:49:39.64\00:49:42.58
And Esau was the eldest,
and he held the birthright,
00:49:42.61\00:49:45.81
and that birthright was
not only for the physical
00:49:45.85\00:49:48.72
to get all the
money and all the land,
00:49:48.75\00:49:50.39
that birthright was
also a spiritual birthright.
00:49:50.42\00:49:52.72
He was to be the priest,
he was to be the patriarch,
00:49:52.75\00:49:55.32
he was to take the torch,
00:49:55.36\00:49:56.69
he was to hold
that torch up high,
00:49:56.73\00:49:58.09
and say, "I am a patriarch.
00:49:58.13\00:49:59.46
I am a man that
loves the Lord, God.
00:49:59.49\00:50:05.53
And I will teach
my children after me."
00:50:05.57\00:50:07.07
But he allowed
himself on emotions,
00:50:07.10\00:50:10.81
and he went in there,
00:50:10.84\00:50:12.17
and Jacob by deceit,
he wanted the birthright
00:50:12.21\00:50:14.21
because, you know, first of all,
00:50:14.24\00:50:16.21
his mother kind of
messed Jacob up a little bit,
00:50:16.24\00:50:19.35
and she was a little deceitful.
00:50:19.38\00:50:20.72
But here's the
point, Jacob really longed
00:50:20.75\00:50:23.28
not so much for the physical,
00:50:23.32\00:50:25.55
he knew that Esau
didn't really care,
00:50:25.59\00:50:27.59
and he wanted that
spiritual birthright
00:50:27.62\00:50:30.73
'cause he loved Jesus.
00:50:30.76\00:50:32.09
And so now here comes Esau,
and he comes home and says,
00:50:32.13\00:50:34.06
"I'm hungry.
00:50:34.10\00:50:35.43
Jacob, you've got some
stew, and I want that now."
00:50:35.46\00:50:37.37
And Jacob
thought "Here's my time.
00:50:37.40\00:50:39.03
I know my brother, we're twins.
00:50:39.07\00:50:41.30
You know, guess
what, Esau, you know what,
00:50:41.34\00:50:43.17
I'll consider it,
00:50:43.20\00:50:44.54
but I want you to
give me birthright."
00:50:44.57\00:50:45.91
And what did Esau say, he
said, "What good is a birthright
00:50:45.94\00:50:47.84
when you're hungry?
00:50:47.88\00:50:50.05
Just give it to
me, you've got it,
00:50:50.08\00:50:51.48
I don't need it anyways."
00:50:51.51\00:50:53.45
And so that's what took place.
00:50:53.48\00:50:55.48
Now if you go back in Hebrews,
00:50:55.52\00:50:57.09
let's go to
Hebrews real quick here.
00:50:57.12\00:50:59.75
Hebrews 12, Hebrew 12.
00:50:59.79\00:51:05.49
Hebrews chapter what?
00:51:11.90\00:51:13.34
12. Good for you.
00:51:13.37\00:51:14.80
Hebrews 12, that's almost
00:51:14.84\00:51:17.54
in the last of
the New Testament.
00:51:17.57\00:51:19.44
Hebrews 12:16, 17.
00:51:19.47\00:51:23.41
Here's what happened,
00:51:23.45\00:51:25.08
you know, way
down the line here,
00:51:25.11\00:51:26.61
what it says, it says...
00:51:26.65\00:51:28.98
What did I say? Did I say...
00:51:33.32\00:51:35.02
I might have
made a mistake there.
00:51:35.06\00:51:37.76
Yeah, chapter 12,
yep, 16 and 17, thank you.
00:51:37.79\00:51:40.40
Keep me straight.
00:51:40.43\00:51:41.90
It says, "Lest
there be any fornicator
00:51:41.93\00:51:44.03
or profane person like," who?
00:51:44.07\00:51:46.20
"Esau."
00:51:46.23\00:51:47.57
"like Esau, who for one," what?
00:51:47.60\00:51:52.57
"morsel..."
00:51:52.61\00:51:53.94
I mean, do you know
what the word "morsel" means?
00:51:53.98\00:51:57.48
I don't know about
you, but I couldn't live
00:51:57.51\00:51:58.85
on a morsel of food.
00:51:58.88\00:52:01.65
But Esau, it said,
00:52:01.68\00:52:05.45
"Who for one morsel of
food sold his birthright."
00:52:05.49\00:52:10.03
Now this is the sorry thing.
00:52:10.06\00:52:11.73
It says, "For you
know that afterward,
00:52:11.76\00:52:13.56
when he wanted to
inherit the blessing,"
00:52:13.60\00:52:15.53
did not he want to inherit it?
00:52:15.56\00:52:17.07
Yes, he did.
00:52:17.10\00:52:18.43
It says, "when he
wanted to inherit it," it said,
00:52:18.47\00:52:21.30
"he was rejected,
00:52:21.34\00:52:22.70
for he found no
place for repentance,
00:52:22.74\00:52:24.64
though he sought it
diligently with tears."
00:52:24.67\00:52:28.24
One day, brothers and
sisters, it will be too late.
00:52:32.01\00:52:35.45
Is the Lord knocking on
your heart this evening?
00:52:39.12\00:52:43.93
Don't you want to hear
that still small voice?
00:52:43.96\00:52:47.33
Don't you want to start
learning to obey the Lord
00:52:47.36\00:52:50.17
because you love Him?
00:52:50.20\00:52:51.73
Doesn't matter
what anyone else says.
00:52:51.77\00:52:53.34
Take time.
00:52:53.37\00:52:54.70
Have a wilderness
experience which means that
00:52:54.74\00:52:56.44
take time with God
wherever you're at.
00:52:56.47\00:53:00.28
Learn to walk with God.
00:53:00.31\00:53:02.91
He loves you so much.
00:53:02.94\00:53:04.68
He has paid more
than the penalty.
00:53:04.71\00:53:09.88
He's asking for your heart.
00:53:09.92\00:53:14.36
Don't sell your soul
for a lousy piece of flesh,
00:53:14.39\00:53:20.30
or a morsel of food
00:53:20.33\00:53:22.66
because it's a blink of the eye
00:53:22.70\00:53:25.80
of what we're living here.
00:53:25.83\00:53:27.97
It's not worth
it. It's not worth it.
00:53:28.00\00:53:33.61
Would you kneel
with me as we close?
00:53:33.64\00:53:35.48
Father in heaven, oh,
Father, my heart is burdened
00:53:42.98\00:53:46.65
for Your precious people here.
00:53:46.69\00:53:49.26
Father, I pray that
You'll touch their hearts,
00:53:49.29\00:53:50.83
I pray that they
will make a decision now
00:53:50.86\00:53:53.09
this moment.
00:53:53.13\00:53:54.46
Father, please guide them,
direct them, encourage them.
00:53:54.50\00:53:58.23
I know there are people
here that are discouraged,
00:53:58.27\00:54:01.44
but Father, the very
point that they're discouraged
00:54:01.47\00:54:04.24
gives you the chance of working
a mighty miracle in their life.
00:54:04.27\00:54:07.74
Father, please help
them to keep their eyes
00:54:07.78\00:54:09.54
focused upon You.
00:54:09.58\00:54:11.18
I pray, Father, that You
might continue to encourage us,
00:54:11.21\00:54:14.68
let each one tonight,
right now in the knees,
00:54:14.72\00:54:16.82
Let them know how much,
Father, that you love them.
00:54:16.85\00:54:19.75
Now Father, I thank You
for this opportunity to be here
00:54:19.79\00:54:23.89
and for these
dear souls to be here.
00:54:23.93\00:54:25.79
I know it's been Your timing.
00:54:25.83\00:54:28.56
And so, Father,
I pray these things
00:54:28.60\00:54:30.77
in the precious and
holy name of Jesus, amen.
00:54:30.80\00:54:34.37