Hello, friends, and welcome
to Thompsonville, Illinois,
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the largest
little city in the world.
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Where the world is
being impacted by the axle
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that God has set up
here in Southern Illinois
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and truly the lights
of the Lord Jesus Christ
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are going out in all directions
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like a spoke on a bicycle wheel.
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And we thank you
for tuning here tonight
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to receive of God's
grace and of God's kitchen
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the bread of life that
He's baked for you tonight,
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so join us as we
began our meetings
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another night of
"Where Are All His Miracles."
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Let's sing our theme
song 111, "It Took A Miracle."
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Let's all stand together
as we sing our theme song
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My Father is omnipotent
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And that you can't deny
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A God of might and miracles
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'Tis written in the sky
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It took a miracle
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To put the stars in place
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It took a miracle
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To hang the world in space
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But when He saved my soul
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Cleansed and made me whole
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It took a miracle
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Of love and grace
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Though here His glory
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Has been shown
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We still can't fully see
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The wonders of His might
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His throne 'twill take eternity
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It took a miracle
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To put the stars in place
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It took a miracle
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To hang the world in space
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But when He saved my soul
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Cleansed and made me whole
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It took a miracle
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Of love and grace
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The Bible tells us of His power
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And wisdom all way through
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And every little bird and flower
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Are testimonies too
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It took a miracle
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To put the stars in place
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It took a miracle
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To hang the world in space
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What's the greatest miracle?
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But when He saved my soul
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Cleansed and made me whole
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It took a miracle
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Of love and grace
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Amen.
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Let's bow our heads for prayer.
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My gracious Father in heaven,
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what a blessing it
is tonight to know that
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we are all miracles in
the hand of a loving God
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who sent His Son to die for us
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and by that death and
resurrection to give to us
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not only the
blessing of a new life
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but the miracle of
His love and His grace,
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living that
spirit filled life now,
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living that life where
Jesus is seen and then Father
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when this life is
over, when Jesus comes
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we'll all have the
joy of eternal life.
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We pray Your blessing again
tonight on Your man servant
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as You've chosen
to be the instrument
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through which
heaven speaks to our hearts
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and those who are watching
and listening to this program,
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Lord, may they also
find in Your written word
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and in the power
of your Holy Spirit
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the miracle that can
happen in their lives
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and what we shall
receive we thank You
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and we give You the glory
in Jesus' name we pray, amen.
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You maybe seated.
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Once again we like
to thank those of you
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who are joining us,
whatever medium you use,
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whether internet
or television or radio
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or however you're
listening even by a CD
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if that is in fact or DVD,
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however you've
received a copy of this message.
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We thank you for
taking the time to tune in
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to listen to
God's voice and tonight,
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we have a wonderful line up,
we've been blessed every night.
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Can you say amen? Amen.
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Last night Pastor Hal
Steenson lit the pulpit on fire,
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I could still smell the smoke.
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And but we had been
so on fire by the Lord,
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thanking God for His blessings.
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Each night we've had presenters
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that have come to this pulpit
filled by the spirit of God
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and we have not
been disappointed.
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And tonight we're
gonna thank the Lord
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not only for the
instrument He's chosen
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but for the growth that
we've seen and our elder,
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Elder J.D Quinn who is
the husband of Shelley Quinn.
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J.D Quinn is a part of our
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pastoral
department here at 3ABN.
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I must say he
has a pastor's heart.
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Amen.
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I mean, I've met a lot of people
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that may even have the position
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but he's got a pastor's heart.
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One who has life that is easy
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and one who is easy to approach
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and one, if you
ever need prayer,
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he's one that would
love to pray for you.
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So if you ever call our
pastoral department at 3ABN,
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you are allowed to
get Pastor Hal Steenson
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and also J.D Quinn
and Pastor Richard Pinero
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and Pastor Jose
Medina and others
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who will fill
in and let you know
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that the Lord loves
you and cares for you.
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But tonight we'll
have our scripture reading
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by Donnie Shelton
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who is a member
of the Thompsonville
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Seventh-day Adventist church,
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I said Donnie, not Danny Shelton
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and he's a an evangelist also.
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Up until a few years ago
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the only place he
knew was Southern Illinois,
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but now God has
taken him around the world
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blessing his life.
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After him we'll have
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a wonderful
musical piano selection
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by Michael Settle
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and the song he'll play is
entitled "Something Beautiful,"
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and after him God's
man servant Elder J.D Quinn
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will bring to us
tonight the bread of life.
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Donnie, come and
bless us right now.
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Well, good evening,
brothers and sisters.
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Anybody need a miracle tonight?
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Well, you came to
the right place, amen.
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You know, God's
universe is full of miracles
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but the good news is there's
always room for one more.
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And this might be the miracle
that you need tonight, amen.
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Let's turn our scriptures
if you are writing this down,
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we're gonna be
in Romans 12:1, 2,
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Romans 12:1, 2, it says here,
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" I beseech you
therefore, brethren,
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by the mercies of God,
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that you present your
bodies a living sacrifice,
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holy, acceptable to God,
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which is your
reasonable service."
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And verse 2 says,
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"And be not
conformed to this world,
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but you transform by
the renewing of your minds
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that you may
prove what is that good
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and acceptable and
perfect will of God."
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Amen.
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And He made
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Something beautiful
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Something good
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All of my confusion
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He understood
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All I had to offer Him
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Was brokenness and strength
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Yet He made something
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Beautiful out of my life
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He made something beautiful
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If there ever were dreams
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That were lofty and noble
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They were dreams at the starts
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And the hopes for life's best
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Were the hopes that I harbored
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Down deep in my heart
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But my dreams turned to ashes
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My castles are crumbled
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My fortune turned to loss
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So I wrapped it all
in the rags up my life
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And I laid it at the cross
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Something beautiful
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Something good
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All of my confusion
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He understood
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All I had to offer him
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Was brokenness and strength
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Yet He made something
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Beautiful of my life
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Yes He made something
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Beautiful of my life
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Amen. Praise God.
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Thank you so much, Michael.
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You know that's what
we're talking about tonight
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something
beautiful transformation.
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Well, first of all I just want
to thank the Lord Jesus Christ
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that I'm here.
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Everybody here
has a story to tell.
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Hello precious people,
you were here last night.
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We're all miracles and
we're gonna go in tonight,
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we're gonna just kind of
get an idea of how that works.
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I want to welcome first of all
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my local brothers
and sisters in Christ.
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I love each one of you
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and what's absolutely fantastic
is that I know you love me too.
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Amen.
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And so consequently if
that's what God is all about,
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you know, because I'm sure that
there's people that are lonely.
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Because they don't know
that there's somebody out there
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that's bigger and
better than everybody.
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Somebody that won't let you down
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and that's who we're
gonna be talking about tonight.
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Also I want to
welcome the people
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that have
televisions is watching us,
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that have radios is watching us
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and having streaming internet.
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Welcome.
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Amen.
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Where Are All The Miracles?
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That's what we're talking about.
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I know that Hal
has talked about it,
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Shelley has talked about it,
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Johnny has talked about it,
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C.A has talked about it
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and Cheri Peters
have talked about it.
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And we've got Jim
Gilley is gonna talk about it.
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And Danny Shelton is
gonna talk about miracles.
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And I have no
doubt that anybody here
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sitting in here could be
up here talking about miracles
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because we are a miracle.
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Have you witnessed a
miracle in your life time?
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I know that I have
because I witness them daily.
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I have the distinct
pleasure and it's an honor
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that I work into
3ABN pastoral staff.
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Amen.
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We have people that call in
everyday all over the world,
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all over the world
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and they have issues
that they're dealing with.
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It is our responsibility to
do the very best that we can do
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using the talent
that God has given us
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to lift them up
as an encouragement.
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Some people after
sharing what their issues are
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can't wait to call
back in a couple of days
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with a success story.
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Success story
could be something small
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like having their rent paid,
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to we've had people
just called from Africa
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and I want you to listen to this
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that have been cured from AIDS.
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Doctors don't seem
to be able to do it.
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But Jehovah Rapha can, amen.
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But that's not what I
want to talk about tonight.
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What we're gonna be
talking about tonight
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is the power of God
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and how He changes each
one of us into a new creation.
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So we're gonna talk about
a miracle of transformation.
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We all do this.
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We didn't
accidentally become born again.
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There is a way
of going about it.
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Now if you are lucky and
this is where I messed up,
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you start life, you are
good little boys and girls.
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If you're fortunate enough
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to be bought up
into a good family,
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you learn about God
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but man there's
some place in there
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that you kind of go left
when you should have gone right.
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What I did wrong was that
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I took a wrong turn
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and it took me a long time
to find my way back on to--
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to find my back on
where I was supposed to be.
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But anyway I want to go with
the definition of a miracle.
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"It's an effect or
an extraordinary event
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that surpasses all
known human or natural powers.
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As God manifesting
His supernatural power,
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it happens when God enters
to the scene or circumstances
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and exerts his divine
power overruling suspending
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or modifying the
ordinary course of nature."
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And I like one right here,
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"It's a priority
service gift from God
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that comes in
different packages."
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Now as I was saying while ago
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what I was hoping that
would happen to J.D Quinn,
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I wanted to shortcut,
most people want the shortcut,
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we want that
Damascus road experience.
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I didn't read the small print
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that after Paul
was blinded nearly
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had that thought in his
side for the rest of his life
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that he went and
spent three years studying,
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I didn't say that part.
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I just went
okay, Lord, here I am,
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if you are real
just get it done with,
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knock me off my
feet, I'm a believer.
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Very few people
have the opportunity
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of having that
particular road to follow.
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Most of us do it
the old fashion way.
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The old fashion way is
that it's a progression, okay.
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Let's talk about transformation.
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Transformation is to
be radically changed,
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radically changed.
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Radically
changed, it means this.
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You are going in this
particular direction here
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and radically
you're turned around
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going the other way.
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Now that's what
radically changed me,
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because lots of
times wherever I said
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I was took a
short left or a right
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whenever I should have
gone the designated way.
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You know, you kind of skew off
00:17:37.40\00:17:40.29
and you kind of like it
00:17:40.32\00:17:41.76
because you are
thinking for yourself.
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But the thing about is
you are not following the path
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that God has destined for you.
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Amen.
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You know, anyway
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for us to be transformed
into the image of Jesus,
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we must experience
God's power in our life.
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And that's why
it's called a miracle.
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Amen.
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No human power
could achieve this.
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Transformation of the
sin nature being recreated,
00:18:05.06\00:18:07.73
a new creation in
Christ is a miraculous event
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that takes place
in people's life daily
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around the world.
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So bottom-line is,
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God is still in the
miracle working business.
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Transformation of the sin nature
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to the nature of Christ.
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It isn't like we were
just talking about while ago
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we're on the spot
lightning fast transformation
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but it is
developmental, step by step.
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And it happens as we
set the feet of Jesus
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learning from
Him, receiving His love
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allowing Him to cloth it
with a robe of righteousness
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and then going out
to share our testimony
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of His mercy, love, grace.
00:18:52.79\00:18:55.26
In other words
His power to change.
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That's when the
rewards are really present
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whenever you can take
the gift that He gave you
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and you incorporated into your
own heart and your own mind.
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And then you are excited
to pass it on to someone else.
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Amen.
00:19:17.34\00:19:18.47
Oh, now you talk about it,
00:19:18.50\00:19:20.38
we can sit and we
can talk about cocaine,
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we can talk about meth,
00:19:22.63\00:19:23.71
we can talk about all the
supposedly highs of the world.
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But those are downers.
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The greatest high in the world
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is whenever you can take
what the Lord has given you
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and if you haven't
been there don't knock it
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because I'll tell you,
00:19:38.10\00:19:39.43
it'll take you some places
that you've never been before.
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Amen.
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And it gives-- it's a passion
00:19:43.18\00:19:46.73
and you really want to
get out there and I mean,
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I know people out
here that are evangelist.
00:19:48.89\00:19:51.32
I know there's people out here
00:19:51.35\00:19:52.66
that don't
thank their evangelist
00:19:52.69\00:19:53.98
but they evangelize
everyday in their own backyards.
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And so anytime that you do
something that's wonderful,
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you'll be blessed by it
00:20:03.96\00:20:05.71
but not only will
you be blessed by it
00:20:05.74\00:20:07.63
but someone else
will be blessed by it.
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Go back to Romans 12:1 and 2.
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I don't know, I'd like for you,
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I know lots of
people take notes.
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I've got lots of
scripture here tonight,
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so we're gonna fly
through a lot of scripture.
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But this where we
need to begin right here.
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Thank you Brother
Donnie for sharing this.
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"I beseech you
therefore, brethren,
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by the mercies of God,
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that you present your bodies
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a living sacrifice,
holy, acceptable unto God,
00:20:36.03\00:20:38.60
which is your
reasonable service.
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And do not be
conformed to this world,
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but be transformed by
the renewing of your mind,
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that you may
prove what is that good,
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and acceptable, and
perfect will of God."
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So we're gonna be transformed
by the renewing of our mind.
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Boy, is that supernatural?
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Because I mean each one of us,
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everybody has a mind
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and you don't know
what's going on up there,
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but boy, I'll tell you,
00:21:05.44\00:21:07.18
once you are
infused and you are renewed.
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Somebody here's the
new sheriff in town,
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and boy with that
new sheriff in town,
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you get lots of respect.
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If people don't respect you
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the most important
person in the world respects you
00:21:23.30\00:21:25.51
and that's God
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and number 2 is your own self
00:21:26.76\00:21:28.96
because you knew
where you came from.
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Nobody knew you when
you were down in the gutter.
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But, boy, when you
were pulled up you know,
00:21:35.37\00:21:37.49
now you feel good
about feeling good
00:21:37.52\00:21:39.64
because you know
the trip that you took.
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And nobody else
can appreciate that.
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How can Satan tells
stories that just frightened me.
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Our roads went different
whenever we were young men.
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And, boy, I'll tell you
those pills couldn't get him
00:21:51.85\00:21:56.20
and I mean this is...
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Mark would like to get a
hold and see what he did there,
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you know, I mean
taking all these pills
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and everything and
still walking good.
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But anyway the word transformed
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in the Greek
language is metamorphoo,
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metamorphoo which
means to be radically change
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for us to live according to
God's will in a sinful world.
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We need a
complete metamorphosis,
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a radical change in our mind,
00:22:21.38\00:22:23.86
in our nature, in our character.
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We need a total
renewing of our mind
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by the power of God's
word and the Holy Spirit.
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We need a
miraculous metamorphosis,
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the miracle of transformation
that only God can achieve,
00:22:34.99\00:22:39.97
only God can
achieve, not mankind,
00:22:40.00\00:22:43.16
not the newest drug
that's on the market, only God.
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It's a change,
it's an alteration,
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it's a conversion.
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What is metamorphosis?
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Here again, you're gonna know
00:22:55.24\00:22:57.50
by the time you
leave here this evening
00:22:57.53\00:22:59.66
that a metamorphosis
is the transformation.
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Transformation is
the development process
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involving the conspicuous
and relatively abrupt changes.
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It proceeds in distinct stages.
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A moth change in
appearance, character,
00:23:12.58\00:23:14.68
condition and function
and in the physical realm
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normally we think of what
00:23:19.08\00:23:20.92
when we talk
about metamorphosis.
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We think of butterflies,
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one of the best courses I ever
took in college was entomology.
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One of those classes you
know that I was just taking
00:23:34.62\00:23:36.99
because it look like it was fun.
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I want to just take just--
00:23:38.89\00:23:40.46
I wanted it just to because
00:23:40.49\00:23:41.66
I could just see
myself just running through
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you know my little net,
00:23:43.83\00:23:45.73
with my little net,
catching butterflies and bugs
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and whatever.
00:23:48.11\00:23:49.80
You know but boy, I
learned names like Carabidae,
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Scarabaeidae,
Lampyridae, you know,
00:23:52.03\00:23:54.53
Muscidae what is
your ordinary housefly
00:23:54.56\00:23:57.83
but I learned all this stuff.
00:23:57.86\00:24:00.21
But what I really
like was the butterfly
00:24:00.24\00:24:04.04
and what we're going
to talk about tonight
00:24:04.07\00:24:07.05
is the monarch butterfly.
00:24:07.08\00:24:09.45
Beautiful bright orange you know
00:24:09.48\00:24:11.88
with all the black
streaking through it.
00:24:11.91\00:24:13.74
Everybody knows a
monarch butterfly.
00:24:13.77\00:24:17.77
What I want to attempt to do
00:24:17.80\00:24:20.88
by the grace of
God it'll be done
00:24:20.91\00:24:23.48
is take the developmental
stage of that monarch butterfly
00:24:23.51\00:24:28.13
and draw an analogy of
us in our metamorphosis.
00:24:28.16\00:24:34.92
Okay, so we're coming
from two different sides
00:24:34.95\00:24:38.84
but we're coming in the
middle because God had a plan.
00:24:38.87\00:24:42.95
He has systems and
it all makes sense,
00:24:42.98\00:24:47.14
if you can look
at the big picture.
00:24:47.17\00:24:53.17
Monarch
butterflies the female butter,
00:24:53.20\00:24:57.54
the female monarch is very picky
00:24:57.57\00:25:02.03
about where she lays her eggs.
00:25:02.06\00:25:04.43
This is a miracle right here
00:25:04.46\00:25:06.19
because the monarch
butterfly can only lay eggs
00:25:06.22\00:25:11.27
underneath a milkweed leaf.
00:25:11.30\00:25:16.26
Now if it laid an
egg under an oak leaf,
00:25:16.29\00:25:20.92
poor little monarch,
he's not gonna make it.
00:25:20.95\00:25:24.95
But there's a
miracle in itself to me.
00:25:24.98\00:25:27.41
I mean if somebody
had to be in charge of,
00:25:27.44\00:25:28.77
you just didn't
evolve into, you know,
00:25:28.80\00:25:30.56
I mean there is
trillion milkweeds
00:25:30.59\00:25:34.51
and they finally
found an egg that lived.
00:25:34.54\00:25:37.12
Doesn't work like that.
00:25:37.15\00:25:38.18
I mean He knew
from the very beginning,
00:25:38.21\00:25:39.83
He mean God.
00:25:39.86\00:25:42.61
The eggs are laid singly
00:25:42.64\00:25:43.83
and germinating on the
underside of the leaves
00:25:43.86\00:25:45.22
are small about the size
of a period on your typewriter
00:25:45.25\00:25:48.58
you know, and then from
the egg comes a caterpillar,
00:25:48.61\00:25:52.34
so small at first
that it can barely be seen.
00:25:52.37\00:25:58.82
Now I'm miracle, we
just saw the monarch,
00:25:58.85\00:26:02.25
our miracle is
yours and my miracle
00:26:02.28\00:26:04.61
transformation begins
when we are born again,
00:26:04.64\00:26:07.48
by the power of His spirit
00:26:07.51\00:26:08.75
and by the word of God.
00:26:08.78\00:26:09.97
John 3:5 Jesus answered,
00:26:10.00\00:26:12.57
"Most assuredly I say to you
00:26:12.60\00:26:15.18
unless one is born
of water and the spirit,
00:26:15.21\00:26:17.04
he cannot enter
the kingdom of God."
00:26:17.07\00:26:20.02
Found in 1 Peter 1:23
00:26:20.05\00:26:23.48
I like that 1, 2, 3
00:26:23.51\00:26:25.04
these are easier
for me to remember 123,
00:26:25.07\00:26:27.97
"Having been born
again, not of corruptible seed,
00:26:28.00\00:26:30.69
but incorruptible,
through the word of God,
00:26:30.72\00:26:33.15
which lives and abides forever."
00:26:33.18\00:26:35.24
So you are not exchanging
bad seed for bad seed.
00:26:35.27\00:26:38.20
He's taken you from
the corruptible seed
00:26:38.23\00:26:41.30
which we were and
perhaps are, you know,
00:26:41.33\00:26:47.44
and He just put
some good seediness oil.
00:26:47.47\00:26:53.63
Now the caterpillar
only has one responsibility,
00:26:53.66\00:26:59.00
eat, eat, inch along, eat,
inch along, eat, inch along,
00:26:59.03\00:27:06.00
that's his responsibility.
00:27:06.03\00:27:09.73
It would seem to me that
when we're first born again,
00:27:09.76\00:27:13.72
we're all feed to because
00:27:13.75\00:27:15.82
that caterpillar
has 8 legs 16 feet
00:27:15.85\00:27:22.52
and they are really clumsy too.
00:27:22.55\00:27:25.73
But here we are now you know,
00:27:25.76\00:27:28.36
I think that... you bet
00:27:28.39\00:27:30.97
so weird little baby Christians,
00:27:31.00\00:27:33.84
we're clumsy, we're curious
00:27:33.87\00:27:36.16
and our job is to eat, eat, eat.
00:27:36.19\00:27:41.22
And we start off by
feeding on the milk of the word
00:27:41.25\00:27:45.00
as we just inch along.
00:27:45.03\00:27:47.31
1 Peter 2:2, "As newborn babes,
00:27:47.34\00:27:50.48
desire the pure
milk of the word,
00:27:50.51\00:27:53.91
that you may grow thereby."
00:27:53.94\00:27:56.06
Mathew 4:4, "Man shall
not live by bread alone,
00:27:56.09\00:27:58.96
but by every word that
proceeds from the mouth of God."
00:27:58.99\00:28:02.18
So what does this mean?
00:28:02.21\00:28:03.59
It means that we're learning
who we are in Jesus Christ.
00:28:03.62\00:28:06.65
We are learning, who we?
00:28:06.68\00:28:08.50
Do we have a
identify crisis or not,
00:28:08.53\00:28:10.89
that's what we're learning
00:28:10.92\00:28:12.07
as we're starting
of as baby Christians.
00:28:12.10\00:28:14.26
Is there something to this?
00:28:14.29\00:28:16.38
I mean there's
people, I remember, boy,
00:28:16.41\00:28:18.55
when I first
read, my first Luke,
00:28:18.58\00:28:20.58
my first King James.
00:28:20.61\00:28:21.83
I read through there
00:28:21.86\00:28:23.52
without inviting the Holy Spirit
00:28:23.55\00:28:24.87
to come in and be my God,
00:28:24.90\00:28:26.19
to be my comforter,
to be my intelligence.
00:28:26.22\00:28:30.11
I couldn't understand it.
00:28:30.14\00:28:33.09
So I mean but I
sure do understand today.
00:28:33.12\00:28:37.86
But I'll tell you
what I'm no longer on milk,
00:28:37.89\00:28:40.01
I'm eating meat.
00:28:40.04\00:28:41.68
Amen, but it was a
developmental process,
00:28:41.71\00:28:46.05
just didn't jump in
there one day and start,
00:28:46.08\00:28:47.87
oh, I want a
T-bone of word to God.
00:28:47.90\00:28:51.29
Now certainly I started
with that little old milk, okay.
00:28:51.32\00:28:56.73
2 Corinthians 5:15,
00:28:56.76\00:28:58.18
"Therefore if
anyone is in Christ,
00:28:58.21\00:28:59.88
he is a new creature,
old things have passed away;
00:28:59.91\00:29:02.88
behold, all things
have become new..."
00:29:02.91\00:29:06.24
Part of my
transformations from--
00:29:06.27\00:29:09.04
from drinking
milk to progression
00:29:09.07\00:29:14.31
was Shelley Quinn
my little precious wife
00:29:14.34\00:29:17.97
wrote a book
called Exalting His Word.
00:29:18.00\00:29:20.08
On page 136 it says,
00:29:20.11\00:29:22.33
it's got a new creation
in Christ relates to past.
00:29:22.36\00:29:25.12
Now this is an affirmation,
00:29:25.15\00:29:26.42
she took three scriptures
and gave her affirmation.
00:29:26.45\00:29:30.44
But then you pray this
over your life and listen here,
00:29:30.47\00:29:34.98
I'm a new
creation in Christ Jesus.
00:29:35.01\00:29:38.33
I do not dwell, J.D
does not dwell on the past
00:29:38.36\00:29:41.68
for God is doing
a new thing in J.D.
00:29:41.71\00:29:44.26
I released J.D's
past and I press forward.
00:29:44.29\00:29:47.28
J.D's all nature has vanished.
00:29:47.31\00:29:50.05
And now only my J.D Quinn's
new Christ like nature exists.
00:29:50.08\00:29:55.71
Everyone of us ought
to be saying that out loud
00:29:55.74\00:29:58.58
because you know
00:29:58.61\00:29:59.64
the power of life and
death is in the tongue
00:29:59.67\00:30:02.52
and so we've got
good stuff is going in,
00:30:02.55\00:30:06.27
then there's good
stuff is going to come out.
00:30:06.30\00:30:08.40
But if you're gonna
sit here and say poor me,
00:30:08.43\00:30:10.42
well, I don't deserve
this, I don't deserve that,
00:30:10.45\00:30:12.96
you know I had--
00:30:12.99\00:30:14.13
I got whipped too many
times when I was a kid,
00:30:14.16\00:30:16.14
you know, I mean this
is programming your mind.
00:30:16.17\00:30:20.09
You need to find out
00:30:20.12\00:30:21.15
that you're a new
creation in Christ.
00:30:21.18\00:30:22.90
Then hold on because
you're gonna go on trail, okay.
00:30:22.93\00:30:26.65
The caterpillar faces
a challenge as it grows,
00:30:26.68\00:30:29.34
their skin
cannot grow with them.
00:30:29.37\00:30:32.51
So their progression remember,
00:30:32.54\00:30:37.27
they're eating, eating, eating
00:30:37.30\00:30:39.16
so the outside skin
gets to be too small
00:30:39.19\00:30:41.56
but miraculously
God has set things up
00:30:41.59\00:30:45.31
so that underneath the
old skin there's new skin
00:30:45.34\00:30:48.45
that's a little bit bigger.
00:30:48.48\00:30:50.41
And so what
happens is as he goes along
00:30:50.44\00:30:53.13
he ditches that--
00:30:53.16\00:30:54.19
he ditches that the
old skin and a new skin.
00:30:54.22\00:30:57.84
He does this five times,
00:30:57.87\00:31:00.44
so I mean this
little dude's eating
00:31:00.47\00:31:03.76
and then by the time
that he gets through eaten.
00:31:03.79\00:31:05.50
There's a caterpillar
now he go went from a dot
00:31:05.53\00:31:09.19
that can barely be
seen, he's two inches long.
00:31:09.22\00:31:13.92
It took 9 to 14 days to
get that two inches long.
00:31:13.95\00:31:18.15
As Christians we undergo
00:31:18.18\00:31:19.31
a similar molting
process as we grow,
00:31:19.34\00:31:21.81
we're admonished to put off
the old, put on the new, amen.
00:31:21.84\00:31:28.03
Ephesians 4:22-24,
00:31:28.06\00:31:32.40
Ephesians 4:22-24, okay,
00:31:32.43\00:31:36.47
"That you put off,
concerning your former conduct,
00:31:36.50\00:31:38.61
the old man which grows corrupt
00:31:38.64\00:31:40.02
according to
the deceitful lusts,
00:31:40.05\00:31:41.75
and be renewed in
the spirit of your mind,
00:31:41.78\00:31:43.86
that you put on the new man
00:31:43.89\00:31:46.38
which was
created according to God,
00:31:46.41\00:31:48.02
in true
righteousness and holiness."
00:31:48.05\00:31:50.71
So your spiritual destiny
00:31:50.74\00:31:55.67
is the death of the
old life in the flesh
00:31:55.70\00:31:57.82
and the beginning of a
new life in the spirit.
00:31:57.85\00:32:00.95
Amen, developmental
one step at a time,
00:32:00.98\00:32:04.14
process, process
going milk, eat--
00:32:04.17\00:32:07.60
drink more milk,
00:32:07.63\00:32:09.38
you know drink more
milk of the word, amen, amen.
00:32:09.41\00:32:15.21
Let's get this
straight. Thank you, Shelley.
00:32:15.24\00:32:21.08
Now when the
caterpillar becomes full grown,
00:32:21.11\00:32:24.88
he leaves the milkweed,
plant and he finds a safe place,
00:32:24.91\00:32:29.23
oh, what a word the pupate.
00:32:29.26\00:32:33.34
I didn't make that word up,
00:32:33.37\00:32:37.13
forgive me if I
am saying it wrong
00:32:37.16\00:32:39.82
but it's called pupate.
00:32:39.85\00:32:43.32
The pupate is that's
the development stage
00:32:43.35\00:32:45.63
between the last larvae
form and the adult form.
00:32:45.66\00:32:48.83
So anywhere some place
in there, there is a pupae,
00:32:48.86\00:32:52.64
okay, so unlike
moths who have cocoons
00:32:52.67\00:32:57.34
and there's a sermon in
itself because we've been told
00:32:57.37\00:33:02.47
that we're not
supposed to stay in that cocoon.
00:33:02.50\00:33:05.68
We're supposed to get
out and fulfill our destiny
00:33:05.71\00:33:08.43
as men and
women of Jesus Christ.
00:33:08.46\00:33:12.78
So what happens now is
that it makes a silk like mat
00:33:12.81\00:33:16.54
and then it
attaches its last two legs,
00:33:16.57\00:33:18.86
Remember it had eight legs.
00:33:18.89\00:33:20.56
Now this is an
insect, insects have six legs,
00:33:20.59\00:33:23.31
well, now all of a
sudden it makes sense
00:33:23.34\00:33:24.71
for those other two legs limp.
00:33:24.74\00:33:26.34
He's attaching
those to that little mat
00:33:26.37\00:33:29.37
and then he just
hangs down there.
00:33:29.40\00:33:32.04
Well, now lot of people think
that he's taking a vacation,
00:33:32.07\00:33:36.26
well, he's hanging there
but he's not lots of stuff
00:33:36.29\00:33:38.54
that's going on right there.
00:33:38.57\00:33:40.33
And they called
this the chrysalis
00:33:40.36\00:33:43.31
and they're
about an inch longer.
00:33:43.34\00:33:44.87
Chrysalis is a casing.
00:33:44.90\00:33:49.30
And inside this
chrysalis the caterpillar
00:33:49.33\00:33:52.86
is undergoing major changes.
00:33:52.89\00:33:56.81
He's growing, he's being
transformed from that pupae,
00:33:56.84\00:34:04.26
from that egg
into that caterpillar
00:34:04.29\00:34:11.02
and to a
beautiful butterfly, amen.
00:34:11.05\00:34:16.35
What a miracle, what a miracle.
00:34:16.38\00:34:19.59
And God designed that
00:34:19.62\00:34:21.51
so that we could
just look and enjoy that.
00:34:21.54\00:34:24.04
But at the same
time, He's working on us.
00:34:24.07\00:34:28.10
So the chrysalis
age for the Christian is
00:34:28.13\00:34:30.12
when we really
learn to die to self, amen
00:34:30.15\00:34:35.33
and acknowledge
that our real life
00:34:35.36\00:34:36.96
is hidden with Christ in God,
00:34:36.99\00:34:39.53
Colossians 3:2, 3,
00:34:39.56\00:34:41.07
"Set your mind on things above,
00:34:41.10\00:34:42.54
not on things on the earth.
00:34:42.57\00:34:44.03
For you died."
00:34:44.06\00:34:45.31
The old man
died and you're live,
00:34:45.34\00:34:48.32
your real life is
hidden in Christ Jesus.
00:34:48.35\00:34:53.02
So we need to learn
to be still and to know
00:34:53.05\00:34:57.09
that God is indeed in charge.
00:34:57.12\00:35:01.17
We need to know
that we can trust Him.
00:35:01.20\00:35:03.80
We need to know
that He equips us
00:35:03.83\00:35:06.69
with everything that we need.
00:35:06.72\00:35:08.35
I want to say that again
because this is humongous.
00:35:08.38\00:35:13.32
We have to learn to be
still and to know that He's God
00:35:13.35\00:35:17.68
and that we can
trust big word right there
00:35:17.71\00:35:21.40
because nobody
can trust anybody,
00:35:21.43\00:35:24.03
but we can trust Him to equip us
00:35:24.06\00:35:29.24
with everything that we need.
00:35:29.27\00:35:31.77
Wait a minute here,
00:35:31.80\00:35:34.05
you mean that I
show up and I listen,
00:35:34.08\00:35:39.36
and I know through
faith that your God,
00:35:39.39\00:35:42.36
and I place my trust in you
00:35:42.39\00:35:44.42
and that you're
going to take care of me.
00:35:44.45\00:35:47.23
You're going to enable
me to take the next step.
00:35:47.26\00:35:51.24
I didn't say it, this
is what the Bible says.
00:35:51.27\00:35:55.61
This is what inspired man said
00:35:55.64\00:35:58.69
they got their
inspiration from God Himself.
00:35:58.72\00:36:02.63
Hebrews 13:20, 21
"Now may the God of peace
00:36:02.66\00:36:05.93
who brought up our
Lord Jesus from the dead,
00:36:05.96\00:36:07.55
that great
Shepherd of the sheep,
00:36:07.58\00:36:09.51
through the blood of
the everlasting covenant,
00:36:09.54\00:36:11.08
make you complete in
every good work to do His will."
00:36:11.11\00:36:14.86
To align our will with His will.
00:36:14.89\00:36:19.01
You know, we pray about
this all the time in pastoral.
00:36:19.04\00:36:22.25
Brothers, let's
get on the same page
00:36:22.28\00:36:23.89
because for something to happen,
00:36:23.92\00:36:26.05
we've got to align
your will with His will,
00:36:26.08\00:36:28.85
otherwise you know
we can just sit here
00:36:28.88\00:36:31.05
and pray till the cows come,
00:36:31.08\00:36:33.18
because you are
not on the same page.
00:36:33.21\00:36:35.76
So here it's
saying you know that by us
00:36:35.79\00:36:38.86
cooperating with Him
that the wills become as one.
00:36:38.89\00:36:43.51
Amen. Amen.
00:36:43.54\00:36:46.68
So it's a wonderful
comfort to our faith.
00:36:46.71\00:36:50.92
Lots of faith, lots of comfort.
00:36:50.95\00:36:54.35
Little faith, little comfort.
00:36:54.38\00:36:58.34
Philippians 2:13,
00:36:58.37\00:37:00.12
"For it is God who
works in you both to will
00:37:00.15\00:37:03.35
and to do for
His good pleasure."
00:37:03.38\00:37:06.76
It's consequently not
your brothers and sisters,
00:37:06.79\00:37:09.07
it's not by ourselves.
00:37:09.10\00:37:11.75
We give Him permission
00:37:11.78\00:37:15.58
so people that are
looking for miracles,
00:37:15.61\00:37:19.91
you just got a glimpse of it.
00:37:19.94\00:37:22.81
Turn it over to Him.
00:37:22.84\00:37:25.10
It's said up here if
we learn to be still know
00:37:25.13\00:37:27.25
that He's God
trust Him and everything
00:37:27.28\00:37:29.61
we need will be
there and but the great--
00:37:29.64\00:37:32.24
the great news is,
00:37:32.27\00:37:33.74
is that we don't have
to do this by ourselves
00:37:33.77\00:37:36.31
because we can't
do it by ourselves,
00:37:36.34\00:37:38.17
we're just little old babies.
00:37:38.20\00:37:41.29
So he turns around,
00:37:41.32\00:37:42.51
he takes over
and then we blossom.
00:37:42.54\00:37:47.12
And then as we share our faith
with other people they blossom.
00:37:47.15\00:37:51.93
Amen. Amen.
00:37:51.96\00:37:55.49
So we have to cooperate
rely totally upon God's power.
00:37:55.52\00:37:59.11
The power of His
word and the spirit
00:37:59.14\00:38:00.84
to get us to the next stage
00:38:00.87\00:38:02.05
of our Christian
development growth.
00:38:02.08\00:38:05.17
Now step five dramatic changes
00:38:05.20\00:38:08.05
occur inside the
chrysalis, the case.
00:38:08.08\00:38:12.56
Remember, chomp, chomp, chomp,
00:38:12.59\00:38:14.14
chomp, chomp, chomp.
00:38:14.17\00:38:15.48
Well, wait a minute
00:38:15.51\00:38:16.85
as he's flying around
as a little butterfly.
00:38:16.88\00:38:19.99
He's not out there chomp,
chomp, chomp, chomp, chomping,
00:38:20.02\00:38:22.33
he's going to flower to flower
so something's got to happen.
00:38:22.36\00:38:26.52
He's got to create a beak
that he can suck that juice,
00:38:26.55\00:38:32.17
so this is what happens there.
00:38:32.20\00:38:34.88
This is what happens
inside that chrysalis.
00:38:34.91\00:38:38.27
I mean these are just things
00:38:38.30\00:38:39.38
that who would think about this?
00:38:39.41\00:38:41.46
I mean, I don't think
about stuff like that,
00:38:41.49\00:38:44.45
I've never in my life thought
about chomp, chomp, chomp,
00:38:44.48\00:38:47.13
then all of a sudden, you know,
00:38:47.16\00:38:48.20
you turn around and
here's a beautiful butterfly
00:38:48.23\00:38:50.00
over here sucking
nectar out of the flower.
00:38:50.03\00:38:54.23
Hence 9 to 14
days transformation
00:38:54.26\00:38:56.48
from caterpillar to
butterfly is complete
00:38:56.51\00:38:58.87
and that little
old baby creepy insect
00:38:58.90\00:39:01.68
that we saw before now becomes
a beautiful flying insect.
00:39:01.71\00:39:05.79
Miracle?
00:39:05.82\00:39:06.85
Yes.
00:39:06.88\00:39:07.95
Did it happen that fast?
00:39:07.98\00:39:09.33
No, developmental, step by step.
00:39:09.36\00:39:14.65
As we are hidden
with Christ in God,
00:39:14.68\00:39:16.48
His ways become our ways.
00:39:16.51\00:39:19.50
We begin to graduate
from the milk of the word
00:39:19.53\00:39:22.57
and by the power
of the Holy Spirit,
00:39:22.60\00:39:23.94
we're trained by
practice get that,
00:39:23.97\00:39:28.07
you don't just grab it
and then you sit on it.
00:39:28.10\00:39:32.09
We got to
practice, so we get what we--
00:39:32.12\00:39:35.29
we absorb what we got
00:39:35.32\00:39:37.08
and then we go out in practicing
00:39:37.11\00:39:39.32
and I know that if you
are on the fire for the Lord,
00:39:39.35\00:39:42.21
you can't wait to do that.
00:39:42.24\00:39:44.30
Now you don't know everything.
00:39:44.33\00:39:46.89
But your passion, it'll make
up the difference for the things
00:39:46.92\00:39:52.13
that you don't
know and you'll find out
00:39:52.16\00:39:54.23
because then you become
very honest with yourself
00:39:54.26\00:39:56.43
because you don't want
to disappoint you savior.
00:39:56.46\00:39:58.97
I don't know that answer
00:39:59.00\00:40:00.14
but I'll sure find
out 'cause I want to know
00:40:00.17\00:40:03.37
and so then
there's that development
00:40:03.40\00:40:05.47
so you know you could
just see how you just grow.
00:40:05.50\00:40:11.70
Psalms 34:8,
00:40:11.73\00:40:16.58
I like this
because it threw me off,
00:40:16.61\00:40:18.99
"Oh, taste and see
that the Lord is good."
00:40:19.02\00:40:21.49
Taste food, so
that's where my mind went
00:40:21.52\00:40:26.34
but He's talking about
taste here means no J.D,
00:40:26.37\00:40:30.05
you got to experience
it, so taste here means,
00:40:30.08\00:40:33.40
oh, experience and
see that the Lord is good.
00:40:33.43\00:40:38.44
"Blessed is the
man who trust in Him."
00:40:38.47\00:40:42.89
My goodness I
know that I'm blessed
00:40:42.92\00:40:48.97
and I know that I'm blessed
with beyond my wildest dreams
00:40:49.00\00:40:54.50
because I guess that
my faith must be wild,
00:40:54.53\00:40:57.98
made beyond my wildest dreams
you know and I'm still a baby.
00:40:58.01\00:41:02.56
So this is gonna be exciting
by the time this is over.
00:41:02.59\00:41:06.17
And if I'm a baby,
00:41:06.20\00:41:07.32
there's people out
there that are babies too.
00:41:07.35\00:41:11.12
But you got to jump on the
wagon sometime or the other
00:41:11.15\00:41:14.83
because the secret of this is,
00:41:14.86\00:41:16.98
is that you don't
have to do it by yourself.
00:41:17.01\00:41:20.27
Even if you had to
do this by yourself,
00:41:20.30\00:41:22.24
I don't know if I
could carry all that load.
00:41:22.27\00:41:25.06
Even as a young man I
couldn't carry the load.
00:41:25.09\00:41:29.41
Philippians 1:6, "Being
confident of this very thing,
00:41:29.44\00:41:32.67
that He who has
begun a good work in you
00:41:32.70\00:41:36.81
will complete it until
the day of Jesus Christ."
00:41:36.84\00:41:41.42
What a promise.
00:41:41.45\00:41:43.80
I started my walk and
I'm not gonna be dumped.
00:41:43.83\00:41:50.47
He's the Author,
He's the Finisher.
00:41:50.50\00:41:53.44
So you know we're a
team, we're partners.
00:41:53.47\00:41:57.53
I'm getting excited
because this is about Him,
00:41:57.56\00:42:02.02
He's the pilot you know
00:42:02.05\00:42:04.06
I remember whenever I was young,
00:42:04.09\00:42:06.54
is God your co-pilot?
00:42:06.57\00:42:09.31
Well, we sure dumped that.
00:42:09.34\00:42:12.76
You are the co-pilot,
00:42:12.79\00:42:13.93
He's the pilot and it
went right over my head,
00:42:13.96\00:42:19.58
I thought well, I'm
glad that He's my co-pilot.
00:42:19.61\00:42:23.92
You know but that when
you're on the milk, see.
00:42:23.95\00:42:29.21
The chrysalis
suddenly cracks open
00:42:29.24\00:42:34.60
and out crawls
the monarch butterfly.
00:42:34.63\00:42:40.51
His little wings are tiny.
00:42:40.54\00:42:42.63
They are crumpled, they are wet.
00:42:42.66\00:42:44.94
They're extremely
vulnerable to predators
00:42:44.97\00:42:46.89
because they're
not yet able to fly.
00:42:46.92\00:42:50.49
So he is clinging to that
empty chrysalis as his pumps,
00:42:50.52\00:42:57.03
what they call
hemolymph through his body
00:42:57.06\00:43:00.16
and that is insect blood.
00:43:00.19\00:43:02.63
But--
00:43:02.66\00:43:03.69
And then as that goes through
00:43:03.72\00:43:04.93
and it feels a
monarch's body wings
00:43:04.96\00:43:06.85
they began to get larger
00:43:06.88\00:43:10.63
and then after about an hour
00:43:10.66\00:43:14.67
after he comes
out of that chrysalis,
00:43:14.70\00:43:16.85
the monarch
wings are full size dry
00:43:16.88\00:43:19.47
and ready for flying.
00:43:19.50\00:43:22.33
Wow, in our lives...
00:43:22.36\00:43:26.66
as the miracle of spiritual
transformation is in process,
00:43:26.69\00:43:29.89
we're also
vulnerable to a predator.
00:43:29.92\00:43:33.77
I'll tell you who
that predator is...
00:43:33.80\00:43:36.16
Satan.
00:43:36.19\00:43:38.73
Some people take the easy
way out calling to evil one.
00:43:38.76\00:43:43.81
He's bad, he's a bad dude.
00:43:43.84\00:43:46.42
He takes no prisoners.
00:43:46.45\00:43:50.06
1 Peter 5:8-10 "Be sober"
00:43:50.09\00:43:53.31
didn't know what sober meant,
00:43:53.34\00:43:55.76
I thought well no booze,
00:43:55.79\00:43:59.54
that's where the milk is,
00:43:59.57\00:44:01.37
okay "be sober" that
meant be well balanced.
00:44:01.40\00:44:06.90
Boy, I do believe in balance.
00:44:06.93\00:44:09.06
Be well balanced
J.D, "be vigilant;
00:44:09.09\00:44:11.73
because your adversary the devil
00:44:11.76\00:44:13.27
walks about like a roaring lion,
00:44:13.30\00:44:15.16
seeking whom he may devour.
00:44:15.19\00:44:17.03
Resist him,
steadfast in the faith,
00:44:17.06\00:44:20.30
knowing that the same sufferings
00:44:20.33\00:44:21.52
are experienced by your
brotherhood in the world.
00:44:21.55\00:44:24.52
But may the God of all grace,
00:44:24.55\00:44:26.78
who called us to His
eternal glory by Christ Jesus,
00:44:26.81\00:44:30.09
after you have
suffered for a while."
00:44:30.12\00:44:32.94
Oh, oh, it's not a
free ride, not a free ride.
00:44:32.97\00:44:39.39
You've to suffer a
little bit but that's all right
00:44:39.42\00:44:42.25
because then it will
be perfect established
00:44:42.28\00:44:44.82
strength and settle you.
00:44:44.85\00:44:47.06
Amen.
00:44:47.09\00:44:48.56
The blood that
gives Christians wings
00:44:51.79\00:44:53.54
to fly is the blood of Jesus.
00:44:53.57\00:44:58.46
It's not hemolymph,
it's the blood of Jesus.
00:44:58.49\00:45:03.33
We were purchased by His blood.
00:45:03.36\00:45:05.63
We were redeemed by
the blood of the lamb.
00:45:05.66\00:45:09.18
1 Peter 1:15-19.
00:45:09.21\00:45:14.23
"He who called you holy,
00:45:14.26\00:45:16.15
you also be holy
in all your conduct,
00:45:16.18\00:45:19.30
because it is written,
00:45:19.33\00:45:22.56
'Be holy, J.D, for I am holy.'
00:45:22.59\00:45:27.36
And if you call on the Father,
00:45:27.39\00:45:28.77
who without partiality judges
according to each one's work."
00:45:28.80\00:45:33.82
To me that's
fair enough, you know,
00:45:33.85\00:45:37.28
I can't be judged
on what Shelley does,
00:45:37.31\00:45:39.71
Hal does, Donnie
does, the pastor does,
00:45:39.74\00:45:42.87
I can't be
judged on what they did.
00:45:42.90\00:45:45.97
No, I mean, this
is mine, this is me.
00:45:46.00\00:45:52.68
"Conduct
yourselves throughout the time
00:45:52.71\00:45:54.25
of your stay here in fear,
00:45:54.28\00:45:56.13
knowing that you
were not redeemed
00:45:56.16\00:45:58.11
with corruptible things,
00:45:58.14\00:45:59.37
like silver or
gold, from your aimless
00:45:59.40\00:46:01.38
conduct received by
tradition from your fathers,
00:46:01.41\00:46:06.13
but with the
precious blood of Christ,
00:46:06.16\00:46:09.49
as of a lamb without
blemish and without spot."
00:46:09.52\00:46:13.73
Amen.
00:46:13.76\00:46:15.67
And of course we can
all go different places
00:46:15.70\00:46:17.95
we know that silver and gold.
00:46:17.98\00:46:20.17
They feel good in your pocket
00:46:20.20\00:46:22.29
but after a while
you may not have pockets
00:46:22.32\00:46:25.78
to even put 'em in.
00:46:25.81\00:46:27.46
So consequently you
know it's the blood of Jesus.
00:46:27.49\00:46:32.07
He washes away
our sins by His blood.
00:46:32.10\00:46:35.37
Revelation 15:1, 5-6,
00:46:35.40\00:46:40.19
"From Jesus Christ,
the faithful witness,
00:46:40.22\00:46:42.20
the firstborn from the dead,
00:46:42.23\00:46:45.08
and the ruler over
the kings of the earth.
00:46:45.11\00:46:46.47
To Him who
loved us and washed us
00:46:46.50\00:46:48.20
from our sins in His own blood,
00:46:48.23\00:46:49.89
and has made us
kings and priests
00:46:49.92\00:46:52.66
to His God and Father,
00:46:52.69\00:46:53.95
to Him be glory and
dominion forever and ever."
00:46:53.98\00:46:58.17
And then it ends it amen, amen.
00:46:58.20\00:47:02.46
His blood
cleanses our conscience
00:47:02.49\00:47:04.97
from dead works as He takes us
00:47:05.00\00:47:06.62
through the
transformation process
00:47:06.65\00:47:08.88
and I want someone out there
to listen to this because, men,
00:47:08.91\00:47:11.68
when we talk about consciences,
our conscience can kill us.
00:47:11.71\00:47:16.91
And then here is something
00:47:16.94\00:47:18.41
I think that I'm gonna learn
00:47:18.44\00:47:19.74
through this
transformation process
00:47:19.77\00:47:21.89
that someone can get
me a clear conscience.
00:47:21.92\00:47:25.30
Oh, I do I want that.
00:47:25.33\00:47:27.68
Boy, do I want
comfort. Boy, do I want peace.
00:47:27.71\00:47:32.00
Boy, do I want confidence
and, boy, do I want quietness.
00:47:32.03\00:47:37.67
And I'll guarantee you
00:47:37.70\00:47:38.89
Shelley and I've been into
business for over many years
00:47:38.92\00:47:41.39
and boy there for awhile
we were broke, broke, broke.
00:47:41.42\00:47:44.71
We put it all on the line.
We went red, it went black.
00:47:44.74\00:47:48.14
That's the joke but
anyway it didn't go our way.
00:47:48.17\00:47:52.80
So, you know,
we hated every time
00:47:52.83\00:47:59.12
the phone called every time--
00:47:59.15\00:48:01.50
and you know we as human beings
00:48:01.53\00:48:04.52
because we have a conscience
00:48:04.55\00:48:07.50
that we went left when
we should have gone right,
00:48:07.53\00:48:10.62
in fact we're just
fearful all the time
00:48:10.65\00:48:14.13
because we're scared
but there is a way out.
00:48:14.16\00:48:17.97
Amen.
00:48:18.00\00:48:19.11
There is a way out.
00:48:19.14\00:48:20.43
Amen.
00:48:20.46\00:48:21.81
'Cause I know in
my particular case
00:48:21.84\00:48:24.94
I like that quietness that means
00:48:24.97\00:48:27.59
that I'm settled that
means that bring it on.
00:48:27.62\00:48:32.80
"Greater is He that is in
me than that is in the world."
00:48:32.83\00:48:35.41
And if you're still on milk
you can understand that words
00:48:35.44\00:48:38.86
but you don't really
understand the dynamics of that
00:48:38.89\00:48:43.11
because, boy, when
you know the greater
00:48:43.14\00:48:44.73
He is in you and
that's Jesus Christ in you
00:48:44.76\00:48:48.69
because we've all read
the end of the book the Bible.
00:48:48.72\00:48:52.95
We know that He's going
to prepare a place for us.
00:48:52.98\00:48:57.58
And if He went to
prepare a place for us
00:48:57.61\00:48:59.32
that means He's
going to come back
00:48:59.35\00:49:01.48
and that means
it Hal and Mollie,
00:49:01.51\00:49:03.46
Shelley and I, Pastor and Angie,
00:49:03.49\00:49:05.53
you know everyone of us in here
00:49:05.56\00:49:08.35
is going to have our own home.
00:49:08.38\00:49:10.71
And we're gonna get
to build our own home.
00:49:10.74\00:49:13.58
Wow, this could be fun.
00:49:13.61\00:49:15.69
Don't have to worry about loan.
00:49:15.72\00:49:19.33
You know, the money is there.
00:49:19.36\00:49:23.13
Hebrews 9:14,
00:49:23.16\00:49:24.40
"How much more shall
the blood of Jesus Christ,
00:49:24.43\00:49:26.88
who through the
eternal Spirit offered Himself
00:49:26.91\00:49:28.87
without spot to God,
00:49:28.90\00:49:30.32
cleanse your
conscience from dead works
00:49:30.35\00:49:32.91
to serve the living God?"
00:49:32.94\00:49:34.39
For you out there
that have a conscience
00:49:34.42\00:49:36.20
that's eaten you up.
00:49:36.23\00:49:37.62
Hebrews 9:14,
00:49:37.65\00:49:40.38
put that one in your back pocket
00:49:40.41\00:49:42.47
because you don't
need to be out here
00:49:42.50\00:49:44.43
with all that
weight on your shoulders.
00:49:44.46\00:49:47.11
There's a miracle
working God out there.
00:49:47.14\00:49:49.83
That's waiting to
transform each one of us.
00:49:49.86\00:49:53.17
He's ready to take that
old nasty dead conscience
00:49:53.20\00:49:56.34
and He's ready to throw it
on the ground and stomp on it.
00:49:56.37\00:50:00.64
Revelation 12:11,
00:50:00.67\00:50:01.92
"And they overcame him
by the blood of the Lamb
00:50:01.95\00:50:03.68
and by the word
of their testimony."
00:50:03.71\00:50:05.62
Amen.
00:50:05.65\00:50:07.25
I love that word
of the testimony.
00:50:07.28\00:50:09.27
Didn't
understand what that meant
00:50:09.30\00:50:11.78
when I was on milk
00:50:11.81\00:50:14.53
but that mean
what that means is that
00:50:14.56\00:50:17.21
as each one of us
go from our larva,
00:50:17.24\00:50:21.18
caterpillar larva,
the pupae, the caterpillar
00:50:21.21\00:50:28.74
and we come out
like a butterfly.
00:50:28.77\00:50:31.38
That means that
we have a testimony.
00:50:31.41\00:50:35.41
Let me tell you
what the Lord did for me
00:50:35.44\00:50:37.98
I was talking with
Lenny here while ago.
00:50:38.01\00:50:40.67
We had a good
time the other night,
00:50:40.70\00:50:42.44
the last night and that
we heard some real miracles.
00:50:42.47\00:50:46.22
Tell us some miracles J.D
because we all want to know,
00:50:46.25\00:50:49.89
we all want to know
that God is alive and well.
00:50:49.92\00:50:52.59
We want to know that He's still
in a miracle working business.
00:50:52.62\00:50:56.06
We all want to know
that miracles exist today.
00:50:56.09\00:50:59.39
I'm a miracle? Yes.
00:50:59.42\00:51:01.46
Boy, I know that I'm a miracle.
00:51:01.49\00:51:03.92
And I'm gonna
fast track right now
00:51:03.95\00:51:06.62
and I thank Jesus for
putting me on that fast track.
00:51:06.65\00:51:09.67
And I'll guarantee you
00:51:09.70\00:51:10.74
sometimes you feel
like choking on the milk
00:51:10.77\00:51:13.20
'cause it's coming down so fast
00:51:13.23\00:51:15.20
but then you know
that you don't know
00:51:15.23\00:51:16.94
when the next train
is going to come by.
00:51:16.97\00:51:19.66
And so you
don't want to sit here
00:51:19.69\00:51:21.06
and just disappoint
the person that wired you.
00:51:21.09\00:51:25.42
The person that created you
because we all have a destiny,
00:51:25.45\00:51:30.09
we don't know
what that destiny is,
00:51:30.12\00:51:31.69
until it's all said and done.
00:51:31.72\00:51:33.49
And whenever we're
sitting across the table
00:51:33.52\00:51:35.09
from our Lord Jesus Christ,
00:51:35.12\00:51:36.25
can you explain
what my destiny was,
00:51:36.28\00:51:39.09
and I'll tell you
please young people don't go
00:51:39.12\00:51:43.97
and throw this
stuff away, this is real.
00:51:44.00\00:51:46.60
If you get into
the milk of the word
00:51:46.63\00:51:49.43
and if you will stay
with it and you can't do it.
00:51:49.46\00:51:52.92
Don't have to do it,
00:51:52.95\00:51:54.14
He says hey I'll come
in there and I'll help you.
00:51:54.17\00:51:56.58
I'll help you understand
what this is all about
00:51:56.61\00:51:59.23
'cause I got a
plan for your life.
00:51:59.26\00:52:01.42
I want to take you
out of that message
00:52:01.45\00:52:03.37
you're in right now, amen.
00:52:03.40\00:52:06.04
They unto have to
exercise our faith muscles
00:52:06.07\00:52:08.97
before we can fly, we
have to walk in obedience.
00:52:09.00\00:52:12.44
May be really
dried out and everything
00:52:12.47\00:52:14.81
but we got to have our wings too
00:52:14.84\00:52:16.94
and our wings is by obeying.
00:52:16.97\00:52:19.45
It feels good to obey.
00:52:19.48\00:52:21.83
You know it feels good
00:52:21.86\00:52:22.93
to be able to
look over your shoulder
00:52:22.96\00:52:24.71
and the booker man is
not there whatever that is...
00:52:24.74\00:52:29.45
you know, it may be
somebody looking for some money,
00:52:29.48\00:52:34.26
you know may be
you stole from somebody
00:52:34.29\00:52:37.31
and you're
looking over your shelf.
00:52:37.34\00:52:39.78
It may be that you
got yourself in a message
00:52:39.81\00:52:41.59
that you never
meant to get there,
00:52:41.62\00:52:43.90
but there is a way out.
00:52:43.93\00:52:45.75
'Cause, boy, there's
nothing better than quietness
00:52:45.78\00:52:48.62
that you can
sleep good at night.
00:52:48.65\00:52:52.80
1 John 5:3-4, "For
this is the love of God,
00:52:52.83\00:52:56.42
that we keep His commandments,
00:52:56.45\00:52:57.53
and His
commandments are not burdensome.
00:52:57.56\00:52:59.37
For whatever is born of
God overcomes the world,
00:52:59.40\00:53:01.59
and this is the victory
00:53:01.62\00:53:02.65
that has overcome
the world, our faith."
00:53:02.68\00:53:07.48
Our faith.
00:53:07.51\00:53:10.84
After the monarch
butterfly takes flight
00:53:10.87\00:53:13.36
that now uses its strong
like tongue to sip the nectar
00:53:13.39\00:53:18.43
from all the beautiful flowers.
00:53:18.46\00:53:20.71
For us says in 2
Corinthians 1:20,
00:53:20.74\00:53:24.49
this is when we learned
00:53:24.52\00:53:25.58
that all of His
promises are ours in Christ.
00:53:25.61\00:53:29.37
So we're going out there
00:53:29.40\00:53:30.56
and we're drinking the
nectar from His promises.
00:53:30.59\00:53:33.30
We're getting stronger
and then we're drinking deep
00:53:33.33\00:53:38.25
from the wells of salvation.
00:53:38.28\00:53:40.20
Amen. Amen.
00:53:40.23\00:53:43.20
Four to six days after emerging,
00:53:43.23\00:53:45.32
the monarch is
old enough to mate.
00:53:45.35\00:53:48.41
The monarch butterfly
takes flight to pursue
00:53:48.44\00:53:50.53
its main adult activities
00:53:50.56\00:53:51.83
and that is
mating and reproduction.
00:53:51.86\00:53:54.74
It has no time to
waste because its adult life
00:53:54.77\00:53:58.12
will last no longer than
2 to 6 weeks before it dies.
00:53:58.15\00:54:03.99
Likewise J.D you
have no time to waste.
00:54:04.02\00:54:11.16
Brothers and sisters,
we have no time to waste.
00:54:11.19\00:54:15.37
We need to pursue our
main activity of going out
00:54:15.40\00:54:17.92
and making
disciples for the Lord.
00:54:17.95\00:54:19.48
Yes. Amen.
00:54:19.51\00:54:21.47
We have all
received the great commission
00:54:21.50\00:54:25.17
and I know here at 3ABN,
00:54:25.20\00:54:27.06
we know what our
great commission is,
00:54:27.09\00:54:29.57
but I'm just gonna
share Matthew 28:19-20,
00:54:29.60\00:54:33.50
" Go therefore and make
disciples of all the nations,
00:54:33.53\00:54:36.29
baptizing them in
the name of the Father
00:54:36.32\00:54:38.13
and of the Son and
of the Holy Spirit,
00:54:38.16\00:54:41.38
teaching them to
observe all things
00:54:41.41\00:54:43.31
that I have commanded you,
00:54:43.34\00:54:44.98
and lo," J.D,
"I'm with you always."
00:54:45.01\00:54:50.94
J.D, "I am with you,
even to the end of the age."
00:54:50.97\00:54:55.68
Wow, it's exactly right
00:54:55.71\00:54:58.17
'cause I'm not
in this by myself.
00:54:58.20\00:55:01.90
I'm sitting over in
the co-pilot seat you know.
00:55:01.93\00:55:06.74
My responsibility is to--
00:55:06.77\00:55:09.39
and I've given the
Lord permission to do this.
00:55:09.42\00:55:11.31
Lord Holy Spirit,
00:55:11.34\00:55:13.43
if I go left when I
should go the right,
00:55:13.46\00:55:15.09
I give you
permission to grow my ears.
00:55:15.12\00:55:17.76
If you don't make my ears
bigger till they are falling,
00:55:17.79\00:55:19.64
I still I'm not listening,
00:55:19.67\00:55:20.99
I give you
permission to get out that stick
00:55:21.02\00:55:22.69
and hit me over the head.
00:55:22.72\00:55:23.94
I'm tired of going
left when I should go right.
00:55:23.97\00:55:27.41
Just tired of it,
00:55:27.44\00:55:28.99
and if you start
getting some gray hairs,
00:55:29.02\00:55:32.74
then all of a sudden you know
00:55:32.77\00:55:34.07
that you just find out that
you just don't like hassles.
00:55:34.10\00:55:39.32
You know I'm tired of hassles
00:55:39.35\00:55:41.65
and so, boy, whenever red lights
00:55:41.68\00:55:43.27
are read light I stop,
00:55:43.30\00:55:45.47
I used to run through them
when they were only yellow.
00:55:45.50\00:55:48.67
I knew it was like a game.
00:55:48.70\00:55:50.91
But I'm tired of
hassles, you know.
00:55:50.94\00:55:53.75
But I don't
have to sit and worry
00:55:53.78\00:55:55.31
about little
things like that anyway.
00:55:55.34\00:55:58.93
The butterfly, monarch
butterfly lives 60 days,
00:56:04.46\00:56:07.79
70 days, 70 days, 3
score and 10, 70 years.
00:56:07.82\00:56:13.24
So there is how it
all fits in together.
00:56:13.27\00:56:16.38
There is no doubt
that of a transformation
00:56:16.41\00:56:18.10
from the sin nature to
divine nature of Christ
00:56:18.13\00:56:20.17
is a miraculous work of God.
00:56:20.20\00:56:22.60
We know that.
00:56:22.63\00:56:24.69
Miracle of transformation
by God's divine power,
00:56:24.72\00:56:29.20
we gonna make new
creations in Christ.
00:56:29.23\00:56:31.53
A miracle we must all
experience in our lives
00:56:31.56\00:56:34.18
to be fit for eternal
life in the kingdom of God.
00:56:34.21\00:56:39.98
You'll never regret it.
00:56:40.01\00:56:41.75
I know that God
loves each one of us here.
00:56:45.77\00:56:48.49
I know that God loves
each one of you out there.
00:56:48.52\00:56:51.75
This is about Him,
it's not about you.
00:56:51.78\00:56:55.63
If nothing else, remember
00:56:55.66\00:56:56.84
that you don't have
to do it by yourself.
00:56:56.87\00:56:59.30
He's your best friend, amen.
00:56:59.33\00:57:02.86
Love each one of you.
00:57:02.89\00:57:04.31
God bless you.
00:57:04.34\00:57:05.83